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BOOK  REVIEW  DIGEST 

NINETEENTH  ANNUAL  CUMULATION 


REVIEWS  OF  1923  BOOKS 


EDITED  BY 

MARION   A.    KNIGHT 

AND 

MERTICE   M.  JAMES 


NEW  YORK 

THE  H.  W.  WILSON  COMPANY 

1924 


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THE  BOOK  REVIEW  DIGEST 


Vol.  XIX 


February,  1924 


Annual  number 


PUBLISHED    MONTHLY    BY 

THE  H.  W.  WILSON  COMPANY 
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English  and  American  publishers  have 
counted  1913  as  their  record  year.  The  total 
number  of  books  published  during  that  year 
in  Great  Britain  was  12,379.  In  the  United 
States  it  was  10,300.  In  both  cases  these  totals 
were  the  greatest  for  any  one  year  in  the  his- 
tory of  publishing.  Since  1913  the  number  of 
books  published  annually  has  steadily  declined 
until  1918,  when  the  lowest  ebb  was  reached. 
From  that  date  onward  there  has  been  an 
equally  steady  upward  curve  which  in  1923,  in 
Great  Britain,  reached  the  total  of  12,274 
books,  almost  equal  to  the  record  of  1913. 
The  United  States,  with  its  total  of  7,500  for 
the  same  year,  is  still  some  distance  behind  its 
1913  record.  In  the  English  publishing  output 
fiction  still  holds  the  first  place,  with  books  on 
religion  next  in  number.  The  modern  gener- 
ation can  scarcely  be  called  religious  but  the 
figures  seem  to  show  that  people  have  a 
larger  interest  in  religion  than  their  church- 
going  habits  would  indicate.  Science  has 
fallen  from  third  place  ten  years  ago  to  sev- 
enth  in    1923. 

One-fourth  of  the  English  publishing  total 
consists  of  new  editions  of  older  books,  which 
shows  that  many  readers  are  turning  from  the 
popular  writers  of  the  moment  to  modern 
writers  who  have  become  standard  or  to  those 
whose  work  had  won  little  recognition  a  decade 
ago. 

Among  the  new  editions  of  standard  mod- 
ern authors  published  during  the  last  year 
are  the  works  of  W.  H.  Hudson  in  twenty- 
four  volumes.  The  growing  appreciation  of 
this  at  first  little  recognized  author  is  one  of 
the  most  encouraging  signs  in  the  English 
reading  world.     His  first  romance,  "The  Pur- 


ple Land,"  was  published  almost  forty  years 
ago  but  the  real  recognition  of  his  work  has 
come  within  the  last  ten  years.  American 
readers  are  among  his  warmest  admirers  and 
have  given  impetus  to  the  sale  of  his  books. 
The  simplicity  of  his  style  is  one  of  the 
secrets  of  his  charm.  Only  the  great  writer 
would  dare  to  be  so  simple.  He  is  thoroughly 
at  one  with  the  nature  he  observes  so  min- 
utely and  lovingly.  And  his  oneness  with 
nature  gives  him  a  serenity  which  imparts  it- 
self to  all  that  he  writes  and  in  turn  to  the 
reader.  "His  work,"  says  John  Galsworthy, 
"is  a  vision  of  natural  beauty  and  human  life 
as  it  might  be,  quickened  and  sweetened  by  the 
sun  and  the  wind  and  the  rain,  and  by  fel- 
lowship with  all  the  other  forms  of  life — the 
truest  vision  now  being  given  to  us,  who  are 
more  in  want  of  it  than  any  generation  has 
ever  been.  A  very  great  writer;  and — to  my 
thinking — the  most  valuable  our  Age  pos- 
sesses." 

In  a  review  of  Michael  Pupin's  "From  Im- 
migrant to  Inventor"  Edwin  E.  Slosson  writes: 
"There  would  be  no  better  way  of  inculcating 
the  spirit  of  true  Americanism  among  the  re- 
cent arrivals  that  have  not  yet  gained  it  and 
among  the  old  settlers  that  have  lost  it  than 
for  some  philanthropist  to  get  out  a  cheap 
edition  of  this  book  and  circulate  it  broadcast 
throughout  the  country.  The  banner  of  patri- 
otism, which  seems  to  be  dropping  from  the 
nerveless  hands  of  Americans  of  the  old  stock, 
is  being  picked  up  and  carried  forward  again 
by  the  immigrants.  The  education  of  Henry 
Adams  was  a  discouraging  process.  The  edu- 
cation of  Jacob  Riis,  Edward  Bok,  Edward  Al- 
fred Steiner,  and  Michael  Pupin  inspires  con- 
fidence in  the  power  and  permanency  of  the 
principles    of    1776." 

In  the  Digest  list  of  periodicals  from  which 
excerpts  are  made  gains  have  been  balanced 
by  losses  during  the  past  year,  so  that  the 
nurnber  remains  the  same.  It  may  have  been 
noticed  that  quotations  from  the  Nation  and 
Athenaeum  have  been  lacking  for  a  part  of 
the  year.  We  have  considerable  difficulty, 
especially  with  some  of  the  English  reviews  on 
our  list,  in  securing  the  regular  receipt  of  the 
two  copies  of  each  number  which  are  neces- 
sary for  our  uses.  And  when  the  review  is 
one  which  is  also  on  the  list  of  one  of  our 
periodical  indexes  it  seems  almost  impossible 
to  make  it  clear  that  one  copy  is  not  suffi- 
cient for  all  purposes  of  the  H.  W.  Wilson 
Company.  The  Nation  and  Athenaeum  is  now- 
coming  regularly  and  its  reviews  will  again 
haye  place  among  those  from  which  our  quo- 
tations are  made. 


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Administration — Administration.     $5.     Ronald  Press  Company,   20  Vesey  St.,   New  York. 

Am   Econ   R — American  Economic  Review.     $5.     Ameiican   Economic  Association,   New   Haven, 

Conn. 
Am  Hist  R — American   Historical   Review.     $5.     Macmillan  Company.    66   Fifth   Av.,   New   York. 
Am   J    Soc — American    Journal    of    Sociology.      f3.     Univeisity  of   Chicago  Press,   Chicago,    111. 
Am  Pol   Sci   R — American   Political   Science   Review      $4.     Frederic  A.   Ogg,    University  of  Wis- 
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EXPLANATIONS 
The  descriptive   note  is   separated   from   critical   notices  of  a   book   bv  a  dash. 

\^S  "i^-  f        muius  signs  preceding  the   names  of  the  magazine  indicate   the   degree  of   favor 
tZ     "'S'3.vor  of  the   entire   review. 

th«''fifT<fJ^*^1  *°*v.^  magazine,  the  first  number  refers  to  the  volume,   the   next  to  the  page 
me   letters   to   the   date   and   the   last   figures  to  the  number  of  words   in   the   review. 


Book  Review  Digest 

Devoted  to  the  Valuation  of  Cunent  Literature 
Reviews  of   1923  books 


A.    E.,   pseud.      See   Russell,    G:    W: 

ABBOTT,  ELEANOR  HALLOWELL  (MRS 
FORDYCE  COBURN).  Silver  Moon.  264p  $2 
Dutton 

23-14567 
A  rich  spinster  invites  the  eldest  child  of 
each  of  six  men  who  had  paid  her  court  during 
their  college  days,  to  a  house  party.  As  luck 
would  have  it  there  are  three  girls  and  three 
men.  Their  hostess  is  suddenly  taken  ill  and 
rather  than  disappoint  every  one,  she  pays  a 
chaperon  to  look  after  things.  Needless  to  say 
the  yovmg  people  make  many  speculations  as 
to  the  why  and  wherefore  of  such  a  gather- 
ing and  interest  centers  on  Mary  Smith,  called 
Silver  Moon  bj'  some  of  her  admirers.  She  is  tho 
heroine  of  the  romantic  love  affair  which  is  the 
obvious  outcome  of  the  party,  tho  who  the  hero 
is  to  be  keeps  one  guessing  thru  many  chap- 
ters. 


"  'Silver  Moon'  has  more  substance  than  have 
most  of  Eleanor  Hallowell  Abbott's  books,  and 
though  it  is  light  and  romantic  in  tone,  it  is 
very  pleasant  and  entertaining  reading."  D.  L. 
M. 

-) Boston   Transcript  pi  N  10  '23   lOOOw 

"The  chief  charm  of  this  grown-up  fairy-tale 
lies  in  the  frankness  and  spontaneity  of  the 
conversation."     E.    M.    Corby 

+   Int  Bk  R  pl53  Ja  '24  380w 

"It's  all  moonshine,  which  is  as  it  should  be. 
Alas  for  that  obscuring  cloud  of  unnecessary 
words.  There  are  so  many  it  is  impossible  to 
keep  them  from  qualifying  the  praise  one  sin- 
cerely desires  to  give  to  this  gay  excursion  into 
the  undiscovered  land."  Isabel  Paterson 
h   N  Y   Tribune   p22   N   11    '23   600w 


ABBOTT,  FRANK  FROST.  Roman  politics. 
fOur  debt  to  Greece  and  Rome)  177p  $1.50 
Marshall  Jones 

343.37  Rome — Politics  and  government 

23-10319 
From  the  wide  range  of  Rome's  political  ex- 
perience, thru  her  many  changes  of  govern- 
ment and  development  from  a  city-state  to  a 
world-wide  empire,  the  author  draws  lessons  to 
apnly  to  the  political  and  social  questions  of 
today.  He  shows  the  identity  of  our  prob- 
lems with  those  of  Rome  and  also  the  theories 
and  principles  which  we  have  inherited  from 
her. 


"The  necessary  brevity  of  the  essay  has  en- 
couraged looseness  of  statement,  but  it  has 
also  permitted  suggestiveness  and  stimulation." 

H Am  Pol  Sci   R  17:690  N  '23  200w 

Booklist    20:16    O    '23 

"The  book  is  full  of  information  adequately 
and  interestingly  presented,  and  deserves 
thorough  study  in  schools  as  well  as  in  private 
circles  where  present-day  conditions  are  a 
matter  of  concern.  Every  legislator  should  be 
obliged  by  his  constituents  to  pass  an  examina- 


tion   on    its    contents.      It    has    one    fault,    there 
is    no    index."      N.    H.    D.  • 

-) Boston   Transcript  p6  Ag  1  '23  1950w 

Cleveland  p72  S  '23 
New   Repub  37:48   D   5   '23   50w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p734    N 
1   '23   lOOw 

ABBOTT,     MRS     JANE     LUDLOW     (DRAKE). 

Minglestreams.   320p  51.75  Lippincott 

23-7993 

Hester  Browning  and  Jill  Girard,  a  year  after 
graduation  from  college,  both  turned  rebel 
against  social  and  family  traditions  and  took 
over  Appletree  Inn,  in  the  wilds  of  the  Adiron- 
dacks,  as  an  experiment  in  independence. 
They  rescue  a  man  in  the  woods  who  has  lost 
his  memory  and  both  fall  in  love  with  him.  Jill 
is  his  choice  and  when  memory  returns,  under 
stress  of  circumstances,  it  turns  out  that  John 
is  the  very  person — a  promising  young  diplomat 
fresh  from  Paris — whom  her  grandmother  had 
picked  out  as  a  suitable  husband  for  her.  Hes- 
ter, the  backbone  and  leading  spirit  of  the 
Appletree  Inn  enterprise,  is  not  so  fortunate  for 
her  fate  drags  her  back  to  a  dutiful  middle- 
class  existence. 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  6  '23  540w 
"Its  setting  and  theme  are  a  little  unusual, 
and  its  atmosphere  (this  for  parents  and  guar- 
dians) is  decidedly  what  is  known  as  'whole- 
some.' Except  in  the  last  chapters,  sentiment- 
ality— the  pitfall  of  the  typical  book  for  girls- 
is  escaped.  The  language,  too,  is  usually  simple 
and   straightforward." 

+  Lit    R   p916   Ag  18   '23   330w 
"This   is   a   charming   story   of   young   people, 
written  with  a  freshness  of  outlook  and  a  sym- 
pathy in  the  affairs  of  the  characters  that  can- 
not fail  to  meet  with  response  from  the  readers 
for  whom  it   is   intended."   Edith  Leighton 
+  N  Y  Tribune  p20  Je  10  '23  600w 
"Despite  the  fact  that  one  will  in  all  probabil- 
ity   guess    the    outcome    of    this    romance    long 
before   the  last   page,   there   is  a  certain   potent 
spell     about     Mrs.      Abbott's     characterizations 
which  holds  one  fairly  interested  until  the  last 
close-up.      It    is    good,    light    reading."        Ruth 
Snyder 

..j NY  World  p9e  My  6  '23  SOOw 

Wis   Lib   Bui    19:443   O  '23 

ACKERMAN,    PHYLLIS.      Wallpaper:    its    his- 
tory, design  and  use.  268p  il  $3.50  Stokes 

745     Wall  paper  23-4797 

"This  book  is  a  consideration  of  the  decora- 
tive qualities  of  wallpaper  ilrst  as  revealed  in 
its  historical  development,  second  as  limited  by 
its  present  mechanical  production,  third  as  de- 
termined by  the  requirements  of  good  design, 
and  fourth  as  realized  in  its  appropriate  use.' 
(Introd.)  The  author  holds  that  wallpaper  Is 
one  of  the  most  important  means  of  education 
in   design   and    that    it   can   do  more   than   any 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


ACKERMAN,    PHYLLIS Continued 

other    decorative    art    either    to    stultify    or    to 
stimulate  taste.     Appendix,  bibliography,  index. 

Booklist  19:214  Ap  '23 
"Hers    is    a    most    interesting    and    valuable 
study." 

4-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  25  '23  650w 
New  Statesman  22:186  N  17  "23  800w 
"We  are  assured  that  Miss  Ackerman's  book 
is  alone  in  its  class.  If  it  shall  prove  effective 
in  proportion  to  its  alluring  make-up,  it  will 
be  incalculably  useful  to  the  cause  in  which  it 
is  published." 

N  Y  World  p9e  Mr  18  '23  GOOw 
"Miss  Ackerman  has  produced  a  most  inter- 
esting and  helpful  work  on  the  'history,  design, 
and  use'  of  this  form  of  mural  decoration.  It 
is  full  of  sound  sense  and  good  ideas,  and  any- 
one who  is  engaged  on  the  task  of  decorating 
a  new  house  or  even  of  redecorating  a  single 
room,  should  find  tlrat  time  and  money  are 
saved  and  beauty  is  enhanced  by  a  careful  pe- 
rusal of  its  pages." 

+  Sat  R  136:470  O  27  '23  750w 
"Phyllis  Ackerman  treats  the  subject  in  so 
extensive  a  manner  as  to  interest  both  the 
antiquarian  and  the  craftsman  and,  perhaps, 
even  the  layman,  whose  only  thought  of  wall 
paper  is  when  a  room  in  the  house  needs  'doing 
over."  " 

-I-  Springf  d   Republican  p7a  N  4  '23  750w 
The  Times    [London]    Lit  Sup  p589   S  6 
•23  lOOw 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:131  My  '23 

ACOSTA,   MERCEDES   DE.     Streets  and  shad- 
ows.    51p   $1.25  Moffat 

811  22-10315 

"  'Streets  and  Shadows'  is  the  expression  of  a 
simple,  direct,  and  forceful  personality  reacting 
to  city  life.  Without  hurry  or  loss  of  time, 
without  straining  after  effect,  with  an  almost 
terrible  economy  of  words  Mercedes  de  Acosta 
gives  thumbnail  impressions  as  pointed  as  a 
church  steeple  in  rhythms  as  broken  as  the  sky 
line  of  New  York." — Bookm 


"Evidently  a  disciple  of  Whitman,  she  has  man- 
aged to  evade  the  prolixity  that  so  often  ruined 
that  master's  efforts  at  self-realization.  When 
she  tries  rhyme  she  is  not  herself  and  manages 
to  be  ridiculous." 

-] Bookm  57:97  Mr  '23  160w 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  O  28  '22  1450w 

"Almost  all  in  vers  libre,  almost  all  in  jerky 
phrases,  these  artless,  direct  items  bristle  with 
the  self-assertiveness  that  foreigners  character- 
ize as  American.  Somehow  the  scattered  frag- 
ments of  which  each  picture  is  pieced  together 
give  the  fragmentary  impression  that  our  great 
uncoordinated  city  gives.  It  is  an  unlovely  im- 
pression, and  one  cannot  yet  say  whether  it  is 
or  is  not  a  significant  one." 

Lit  R  p476  F  17  '23  190w 

ADAMS,  BERTRAM  MARTIN  (BILL  ADAMS, 
pseud.).  Fencele.ss  meadows;  tales  of  the  sea. 
394p   $2   Stokes 

23-14112 
Tales  of  the  sea  and  of  sailors  by  one  who 
followed  the  sea  till  it  broke  him  and  who  loves 
the  memories  it  holds  for  him.  Contents:  Tak- 
ing departure;  The  lure;  The  ballad  of  the 
Ivanhoe;  A  debt  at  sea;  Wanderer;  Way  for  a 
.sailor!  Flower  of  the  morning;  The  bosun  of 
the  Goldenhorn's  yarn;  Stowaway;  Twinkle- 
Bright;  "I've  been  dreamin'";  Time  comes; 
Peg-legr's  fiddle;  Amos  Tregenna;  Shore  roads 
of  April;  The  helmsman  of  the  star;  Flower 
child;  Mother  Carey's  barn  dance;  The  packet 
rat;  The  petrels;  The  stain;  Old  Ramble-Away; 
Ship's  company;  The  fenceless  meadows;  The 
homeward   hound    (Landfall). 


horn's   Yarn'    and    'Time    Comes.'    One   of   these 
is  already   a  sea-classic." 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p3  N  3  '23  550w 
"It  would  be  easy  to  become  so  enthusiastic 
over  this  sailor  and  his  tales  as  to  do  him 
injury.  He  is  good,  most  excellently  good;  one 
wonders  where  he  found  his  haunting  direct- 
ness of  style.  His  stories  are  simple,  as  great 
things    are."    Fletcher   Allen 

-f   N  Y  Tribune  p23  N  25  '23  650w 
"A   good    book,    a    rare    book,    a    book   for   all 
who   would    taste   on   their   lips   the   salt   of   sea 
adventure." 

+  Outlook  136:116  Ja  16  '24  150w 

ADAMS,    BILL,   pseud.    See   Adams,   B.   M. 

ADAMS,   FRANKLIN    PIERCE.     So  there!   124p 

11.50  Doubleday 

811  23-26232 

The  book  is  a  collection  of  rhymes  and  dit- 
ties, parodies.  Odes  of  Horace  in  the  vernacular 
and  other  humorous  poetry  taken  from  the  au- 
thor's column.  The  conning  tower,  in  the  New 
York  World. 


"Several  of  these  stories  have  appeared  in 
various  magazines.  All  however  will  bear  re- 
reading. Grimly  compelling  as  is  each  one,  there 
are  four  which  are  notably  so:  'The  I^ure.' 
'Way   for  a  sailor,'    'The   Bosun   of  the  Golden- 


Booklist  19:245  My  '23 
"Here    is    wit    in    abundance — smiling    satire, 
rollicking  humor,  and  excellent  fooling  of  many 
sorts."   D:   Morton 

+   Bookm  57:461  Je  '23  160w 
"F.     P.     A.,     as    usual    is  keeping    up    to    his 
normally     excellent     standard.        No     breakfast 
table   should    be   without    his   humor.      No    fire- 
side without  these  excellent  selections." 

+   Boston   Transcript  p4   Ap  18   '23   300w 
Cleveland  p36  My  '23 
"F.   P.    A.    is   an   artist.   Neat   and   finished   in 
execution,    he    knows    all    the    tricks,    but    runs 
none  of  them  to  death.     For  so  prolific  a  writer, 
the    variety    and    freshness    of    his    metres    and 
methods  are  quite  remarkable."     A.  P.  Herbert 
+  Lit  R  p735  Je  2  '23  950w 
"We   share    with   a   good   many  other   readers 
the  conviction  that  it  is  in  his  writing  of  verse 
that   F.    P.    A.   reaches   his  peak  of  accomplish- 
ment,   and    'So    There!'    seems    to    us    to    be    a 
rather   particularly   satisfactory   exhibit   in   that 
line.     It  is  gratefully  rich  in  those  cheery  adap- 
tations  from   Horace   which   fit    so   happily   into 
anybody's    lack    of   an    education    in    the    higher 
classics."     E.   W.   O. 

-f  N  Y  World  p7e  Mr  11  '23  350w 
"  "So  There'  does  not  assay  a  very  high  degree 
of  humorous  invention  or  verbal  dexterity 
save  in  a  few  of  the  translations  from  Horace; 
and  in  many  of  these  'F.  P.  A.'  is  somewhat 
less  ingenious  and  graceful  than  his  best.  .  . 
The  entirely  original  poems  too  frequently 
illustrate  the  difference  between  quantity  pro- 
duction  and   facility." 

—   Springf'd     Republican     p7a    Mr    25    '23 
380w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:410  Jl  '23 

ADAMS,  JAMES  TRUSLOW.  Revolutionary 
New  England,  1691-1776.  469p  il  $5  Atlantic 
monthly 

974   New  England — History  23-15926 

The  first  volume  of  this  series,  "The  found- 
ing of  New  England"  (Book  Review  Digest. 
1921)  was  chiefiy  concerned  with  the  origins  of 
colonial  life.  In  the  present  volume  the  story 
is  carried  from  1691  to  the  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence and  the  ending  of  the  colonial 
status  of  the  New  England  settlements.  Mr 
Adams  terms  this  whole  period  revolutionary 
and  looks  back  to  its  earlier  decades  to  find 
the  origin  of  grievances,  the  slow  growth  of 
revolutionary  sentiment,  and  the  rise  of  a  radi- 
cal party.  He  traces  the  growing  divergence 
between  the  political  philosophy  of  England 
and  her  colonies  and  the  inevitable  movement 
toward  revolution,  studying  this  movement 
not  in  the  narrow  sense  of  a  quarrel  between 
empire  and  colonies  but  as  a  phase  of  the 
world's   advance   during   this  period. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


"He  has  given  us  a  hook  which  will  long  be 
indispensable  to  serious  students  of  New  Eng- 
land and  of  the  American  Revolution."  E.  B. 
Greene 

+  Am    Hist    R   29:343   Ja  '24   680w 

"With  the  same  integrity  of  purpose,  felicity 
of  expression,  and  appreciation  of  scholarship 
that  characterized  his  earlier  volume,  Mr.  Adams 
now  comes  forward  with  a  further  installment 
of  his  story,  presenting  with  insight,  imagina- 
tion, and  an  ever  broadening  vision  those  phases 
of  New  England's  history  that  presaged  the 
coming  storm  of  revolt  and  accompanied  the 
actual  outbreak  of  hostilities."  C:  M.  Andrews 
-|-  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  D  '23  600w 
Booklist   20:93   D   "23 

"It  is  written  with  no  effort  to  accentuate 
and  It  goes  very  deeply  indeed  into  the  unrest 
and  the  temperamental  factors  from  which 
were  largely  evolved  the  events  which  brought 
about  a  separation  which  human  nature  made 
inevitable.  At  the  outset  Mr.  Adams  warns  us 
that  the  statements  contained  here  must  be 
read  with  an  understanding  that  they  concern 
acts  which  were  never  maintained  by  a  unan- 
imous opinion."     S.    L.    Cook 

+  Boston   Transcript  p3  O   6  '23   2000w 

"No  writer  has  summed  up  so  comprehen- 
sively and  skilfully  as  Mr.  Adams  the  very  large 
ainount  of  special  investigation  whose  results 
have  been  published  or  otherwise  been  made 
available  or  given  the  story  a  setting  which  en- 
forces so  convincingly  the  long-time  develop- 
ment of  the  revolutionary  movement.  Broadly 
speaking,  Mr  Adams's  work  has  no  new  thesis 
to  propound  or  defend,  but  the  thesis  which  he 
develops  was,  nevertheless,  greatly  in  need  of 
better  definition  and  more  all-round  buttress- 
ing." W:  MacDonald 

-h   Lit   R  p281   N  24  '23  1400w 

"The  new  volume  gives  the  reader  the  im- 
pression of  abundant  reserves  of  knowledge,  ef- 
fective choice  and  arrangement  of  material, 
impartiality  of  judgment  and  charm  of  presen- 
tation. It  is  impossible  to  think  of  any  future 
scholarly  treatment  of  the  history  of  New  Eng- 
land that  does  not  follow  essentially  the  evo- 
lutionary lines  traced  by  Mr.  Adams."  D:  S. 
Muzzey 

-I-  New  Repub  37:181  Ja  9  '24  1650w 

"Mr.  Adams  leans  toward  the  economic  in- 
terpretation of  history;  and  his  book  challeng- 
es a  number  of  popular  illusions."  N: 
Roosevelt 

N    Y   Times   pi   O    21    '23    1650w 

Reviewed  by  L.:  Weitzenkorn 

N    Y   World   p7e  D   30   '23   2000w 

"Naturally,  his  conclusions  do  not  always 
square  with  the  preconceptions  of  those  of  us 
who  were  brought  up  on  the  school  histories  of 
a  bygone  day,  but  most  of  them,  we  believe, 
will  be  accepted  by  those  students  of  New  Eng- 
land history  who  are  most  competent  to  form 
and  hold   opinions." 

+   R  of  Rs  68:558  N  '23  240w 

"Sustains  the  reputation  of  the  author  for 
vivid,  spirited,  independent  portrayal  and  in- 
terpretation of  the  life  of  our  ancestors  in  the 
New  England  colonies.  It  abounds  in  details — 
graphic,  revealing  details,  many  of  them  un- 
familiar. It  is  zestfully  readable  and  challeng- 
Ingly   informing." 

4-  Sprlngf'd      Republican      p7      O      21      '23 
1700W 

ADAMS,   JOSEPH    (CORRIGEEN,   pseud.).   Sal- 
mon and  trout  angling:    its  theory,   and  prac- 
tice   on    southern    stream,    torrent    river,    and 
mountain  loch;   with  a  foreword  by  the  Mar- 
quess   of   Hartington.    2S8p    il    $6    Dutton    [16s 
Hutchinson] 
799      Fishing 
_  An    English  authority  on   angling  gives   prac- 
tical  advice  on  amateur  rod -making,   fly  dress- 
ing, tackle  and  methods.    With  this  information 
he  combines  a  reminiscent  account  of  his  fishing 
experiences  in  Scotland,  Ireland,  and  Canada. 


"The  author  is  severely  practical  in  the  in- 
formation he  is  so  well  qualified  to  impart.  He 
writes  well,  but,  speaking  generally,  does  not 
visualize  the  scenes  of  his  adventures,  or  at 
least  their  environment,  with  all  the  sympathy 
one  looks   for   in   a  book  like  this." 

H Sat   R   135:776  Je  9   '23  550w 

The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p367  My 
31    '23    780w 

ADAMS,    JOSEPH    QUINCY.      Life    of   William 
Shakespeare.  561p  il  $7.50     Houghton 
822.33     Shakespeare,    William — Biography 

23-9804 
Prof.  Adams's  researches  in  connection  with 
the  writing  of  "Shakespearean  Playhouses" 
have  furnished  him  with  a  complete  background 
of  contemporary  theatrical  life  against  which  to 
picture  the  dramatist.  The  book  is  therefore 
not  only  a  clear  and  full  biography  of  Shakes- 
peare but  a  history  of  the  theater  of  the  day 
and  of  his  relations  with  it  as  actor,  playwright 
and  theater  proprietor.  The  author  has  pur- 
posely omitted  aesthetic  criticism  and  argu- 
ments on  controversial  points.  The  illustra- 
tions are  many  and  admirable,  including  por- 
traits, facsimile  title-pages,  etc. 


N    Y   Tribune   p22   O   28   '23   120w 
N  Y  World  p6e  N  4  '23  240w 


"It  is  something  more  than  merely  authorita- 
tive. Possessing  that  indispensable  merit,  it  is 
also  preeminently  readable — a  fascinating  book 
in   and  of   itself."    J:    Bakeless 

+  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  S  '23  500w 
Booklist   20:12  O    '23 

"Mr.  Adams  has  been  true  to  his  purpose,  in 
addition  to  which  he  has  presented  his  col- 
lected information  in  a  delightfully  pleasing 
fashion." 

+   Bookm    58:89   S   '23   250w 

"A  book  that  makes  Shakespeare  understand- 
ably lifelike,  removing  him  from  the  realm  of 
near-myth."   L.   L.  Goodnow 

Detroit    News   pl2  Jl   1   '23   500w 

"Professor  Adams's  excellent  biography  shows 
scholarship  and  imagination  reinforcing  and 
clarifying  each  other.  Under  his  hands  the  poet 
ceases  to  be  a  mystery,  a  divine  accident,  and 
takes  on  the  proportions  and  contours  of  a 
familiar   mortal."    Robert    Hillyer 

+   Freeman    7:501   Ag  1   '23   1250w 

"It  is  in  homage  to  the  tercentenary  that 
Professor  Adams  has  completed  this  new  Life, 
distinguished  by  both  scholarship  and  clarity, 
by  accuracy  in  detail  and  devotion  to  the  mem- 
ory of  Shakespeare."  A.  H.  Thorndike 
+   Int    Bk    R   p25   S   '23   3000w 

"May  be  thought,  on  the  whole,  the  most 
trustworthy  and  best  proportioned  Shakespeare 
biography."    R.    M.    Alden 

+   Lit    R   p41   S   15  '23   1300w 

"Professor  Adams,  I  believe,  has  come  near- 
est to  a  legitimate  and  authentic  portrait.  He 
makes  ample  acknowledgment  to  his  colleagues 
for  what  they  have  done  to  provide  him  with 
material,  but  the  effectiveness  of  the  book  is 
due  to  his  own  judgment  and  skill."  W:  A. 
Neilson 

-f  Nation    117:271    S    12    '23    750w 

"Mr.  Adams's  Life  of  William  Shakespeare  is 
a  fine  achievement,  a  book  which  every  lover 
of  Shakespeare  will  wish  to  possess.  Thorough- 
ly abreast  of  the  latest  and  best  scholarship, 
distinguished  by  sane  and  logical  reasoning,  it 
will  stimulate  by  its  wealth  of  ingenious  and 
original  views  as  well  as  delight  by  the  admir- 
able clarity  and  simplicity  with  which  it  is 
written."      J:    M.     Manly 

-I-  New   Repub   36:supl   S  26  '23   2200w 
New   Statesman   22:248  D  1  '23  llOOw 

"The  author  has  given  us  a  book  which  l9 
engaging  from  first  to  last,  and  one  that  is 
surprisingly  human,  when  one  realizes  that  the 
bulk  of  the  material  is  drawn  from  documents 
of  various  kinds,  most  of  them  literary  and 
many  of  them  legal." 

+  N  Y  Times  p9  Je  17  '23  2300w 

"Like  all  biographies,  this  one  is  tinged.  If 
ever  so  slightly,  with  the  colors  of  the  writer's 
mind.  Professor  Adams,  like  all  the  rest  of  us. 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


ADAMS,    JOSEPH    QUINCY — Continued 
had    his    own    notion    as    to    what    Shakespeare 
was  like,   and  he  cannot  be  blamed  very  much 
if  he  finds  that  most  of  the  evidence  conforms 
to  his  preconceptions.     The  book  is  not  the  less 
interesting   on   that   account."     Burton   Rascoe 
+  N   Y  Tribune  pl7  Je  10  '23  1250w 
"Reading  this  volume  one  is  convinced  that  no 
fact    is    stated   without    substantiation,    that    no 
nrobabilitv   is  pointed  out   without   justification, 
yet   the   whole    reads  as   smoothly   and   as   con- 
vincinelv    as    a    romance." 
vincinbiy^   Y  World  p8e  Jl  22  '23  700w 

R  of  Rs  68:222  Ag  "23  150w 
"This  new  book  is  an  independent  and  in- 
teresting summary  of  all  that  is  known  and 
a  great  deal  that  is  inferred,  about  the  elusive 
•min  of  Stratford.'  It  is  based  on  a  wide  ad 
deep  study  of  all  that  has  been  published  up 
to  the  present  time  bearing  on  the  biography 
of   Shakespeare." 

-I-  Sat   R   136:278  S  8  '23  llOOw 

"In    the    publication    of    Prof    Adams's    book 

American    scholarship    makes     its     timely    ana 

praise-deserving    contribution _  to    an    important 

Shakespearean   event."     C.   D'E.  m     .oo 

+  Springfd     Republican     p7a     Ag     19      -23 

1900W 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p573   Ag 
30   '23   40w 
"Admirable    and   useful   book." 

+  The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p907    D 
27   '23  2050W 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:409    Jl    '23 

ADCOCK,  ARTHUR  ST  JOHN.  Gods  of 
modern  Grub  street;  impressions  of  contem- 
porary authors.  326p  il  $2.50  Stokes  [7s  6d 
Low] 

820.4    Authors,    English  23-13132 

Biographical  and  critical  sketches  of  contem- 
porary English  authors,  with  portraits  after 
photographs  by  E.  O.  Hoppe.  Contents: 
Thomas  Hardy;  Hilaire  Belloc;  Arnold  Ben- 
nett; J-  D.  Beresford;  John  Buchan;  Donn 
Byrne;  W:  H:  Davies;  Walter  de  la  Mare;  Sir 
A  C.  Doyle;  John  Drinkwater;  Jeffery  Farnol; 
John  Galsworthy;  Sir  A.  H.  Hawkins;  A.  fa. 
M.  Hutchinson:  Sheila  Kaye-Smith;  Rudyard 
Kipling-  W:  J:  Locke;  Stephen  McKenna; 
Compto'n  Mackenzie;  A.  E:  W.  Mason;  W:  S. 
Maugham;  W:  B.  Maxwell;  Leonard  Merrick; 
A  A.  Milne;  Alfred  Noyes;  E.  Phillips  Oppen- 
heim;  May  Sinclair;  Frank  Swinnerton;  Hugh 
Walpole;    H.    G:    Wells;    Israel    ZangwiU;    Index. 

Booklist   20:136   Ja   "24 
Boston    Transcript   plO    N    14    '23   1150w 
"Mr  Adcock  furnishes  the  bones  of  biography, 
with   some    timid   comments.    His   writing   lacks 
personality."  _,„  ^^^ 

—  Dial  75:509  N  '23  180w 

"The  sense  of  proportion,  the  judicial  temper, 
are  merely  not  among  Mr.  Mais's  critical  vir- 
tues but  he  would  probably  despise  them  as 
part'  of  that  body  of  'old  beliefs'  which  he  is 
anxious  to  see  die.  'We  can  make  something  ot 
life  once  the  old  beliefs  are  dead,'  he  says,  in 
writing  of  one  of  his  particular  heroes,  Mr 
Sherwood  Anderson,  in  whose  writings  he  finds 
'a  clarion  call  to  a  new  sweet  philosophy,'  the 
successor  of  Walt  'Whitman,  'a  literature  of 
vitality,'  which  'means  something.'  Presumably 
all  the  great  literature  of  the  past  meant  noth- 
ing, and  'old  beliefs'  are  for  the  scrapheap." 
R:    Le   Gallienne 

—  Int    Bk    R   pl9    N  '23   1850w 
Lit    R   p312   D   1   '23   200w 

"If  Mr.  St  John  Adcock  has  little  new  to  say 
about  contemporary  poets  and  novelists,  he 
contrives  to  say  it  in  decent,  straightforward 
prose  and  with  touches  of  lightness  and  urbani- 
ty." 

1_   New  Statesman   22:sup28  O  13  '23  360w 

"His  book  loses  by  the  fact  that  it  is  so 
patently  written  on  bended  knees,  a  position 
that  has  ever  been  dangerous  to  clear  judg- 
ments."    H.    J.    Mankiewicz 

1-   N    Y   Times  plO  N   25  '23  llOw 


"Short      journeyman       personality       sketches. 
The   book  is  of  value   because  of  the  portraits, 
which    are    excellent."       Burton    Rascoe 
-f   N    Y    Tribune   p25   O   14   '23    60w 

"Within  his  limits  of  universal  praise  Mr. 
Adcock  is  able  to  show  some  discrimination, 
and  he  keeps  our  attention  by  his  lively  style. 
It  ia  a  book  of  the  kind  we  read  with  interest 
and  feel   ashamed  of  reading." 

H Spec    131:430    S    29    '23    150w 

"These  are  all  workmanlike  chapters,  agree- 
able and  interestingly  written,  but  choosing 
those  aspects  of  an  author  about  which  some- 
thing pleasant  may  be  said,  or  at  least  making 
such  estimates  and  criticisms  as  he  himself 
would  not  be  likely  to  resent." 

-1 Springfd    Republican    p6   O   13   '23    400w 

"The  'gods'  are  well  chosen  for  the  most 
part,  though  one  or  two  are  more  fervently 
worshippea  in  garden  suburbs  than  in  Grub- 
street.  The  essays  combine  anecdote  with 
criticism  in  a  quite  informing  way  but  some- 
times with  the  effect  of  recklessness." 

-I The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p622    S 

20    '23    150w 

ADCOCK,    ARTHUR   ST   JOHN.     With   the   gilt 
off.   296p  $2  Putnam   [7s  6d  Philpot] 

23-14806 
Stories  of  low  life  in  London  streets.  Con- 
tents: The  soul  of  Penelope  Sanders;  The  seal 
of  repentance;  Jenny  chooses;  A  cash  account; 
On  the  way  back;  The  last  chapter;  Of  two 
evils;  A  blooming  plant;  Don  Juan  of  Haggers- 
ton;  A  spoilt  idyll;  The  fugitive;  An  interrupted 
romance;  Charity;  The  spectre  of  a  sin;  Tilly's 
sister;  Helen  of  Bow;  An  extra  turn;  The  wed- 
ding day. 


Lit  R  p372  D  15  '23  280w 
"These  streets  are  far  away  from  Burke's 
Limehouse.  They  are  cockney,  with  the  salt 
left  out.  If  the  stories  were  handled  with  any 
charm  at  all — either  of  line  or  color — or  any 
subtle  human  understanding,  'With  the  Gilt  Off' 
might   justify    its   publication." 

—  NY    Times    p9    N    4    '23    280w 
"The   realism   rings  truest   in   the   longer   sto- 
ries;  the  shorter  are  magazine  stuff." 

-\ Spec   131:164  Ag  4    '23  80w 

"Mr.  Adcock  gives  what  appear  to  be  accurate 
reproductions  of  Cockney  manners  on  the  level 
which  he  has  chosen,  but  conveys  nothing  of 
his  own  reaction  to  what  he  relates.  We  do  not 
feel  that  he  is  sympathetic,  ironical,  amused, 
or  even  particularly  curious  or  interested; 
sometimes,  indeed,  it  is  difficult  not  to  suspect 
him  of  being  bored." 

h  The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p341   My 

17   '23  150w 

ADDINGTON,     SARAH.       Great    adventure    of 
Mrs  Santa   Glaus.   108p  il   $1.75   Little 

W23-28 
A  Christmas  story  that  tells  of  the  Assistant 
Toymakers,  of  the  hunt  for  the  red-headed 
doll  which  results  in  a  broken  leg  for  Santa 
Claus,  and  of  plucky  Mrs  Santa  Claus  who  im- 
per.sonates  him  on  Christmas  Eve.  Her  ad- 
ventures end  when  she  visits  the  little  gypsy 
boy  who  had  never  before  heard  of  Christmas. 


Reviewed  by  M.  G.   Bonner 

Int   Bk   R  p77  O  '23  90w 
"A   fine    story   it   is,    one    that    should    delight 
the    child    who    receives   it."      Everett    McNeil 
+   N  Y  Times  p4  O  14  '23  200w 
"Sarah   Addington  writes  engagingly  of  some 
well-known    and    popular    personages."     M.     A. 
McLean 

+   N  Y  Tribune  p31  O  14  '23  80w 

ADDINGTON,  SARAH.  Pied  piper  in  Pudding 
Lane;  being  the  truth  about  the  Pied  piper, 
as  Santa,  oldest  son  of  Mr  and  Mrs  Claus, 
discovered  it  before  ever  he  left  Pudding 
Lane.       97p       il       $2       Atlantic    monthly 

23-13422 
When   Santa   Claus  was   a  little  boy  he  lived 

in   Pudding  Lane,    that   fascinating   realm   ruled 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


by  old  King  Cole.  When  the  story  opens  the 
king  was  anything  but  a  merry  old  soul,  for 
the  Pied  piper  had  absolutely  refused  to  return 
the  children  of  Hamelin.  The  edict  had  gone 
forth  that  the  Piper  must  be  found  and  pun- 
ished, but  try  as  they  would,  no  one  could  find 
him.  One  day  Santa  and  Judy,  one  of  the 
children  of  the  old  woman  who  lived  in  a  shoe, 
met  the  Piper.  He  showed  them  the  Cave  of 
Dehght  where  he  lived  with  the  children  of 
Hamelin,  and  a  great  collection  of  beggars  and 
orphans.  They  were  fed  by  a  stream  called 
the  milk  of  human  kindness  which  grew  greater 
when  the  people  of  earth  were  kind.  Santa 
and  Judy  went  home  and  all  that  summer  were 
so  kind  and  thoughtful  that  when  autumn  came 
the  children  of  Hamelin  returned,  riding  on  the 
stream   of   the   milk   of  human   kindness. 


The  legumes;  Securing  sods;  Live  stock;  Mois- 
ture; Tillage;  Commercial  fertilizers;  Practical 
suggestions;   Securing  dividends. 


Booklist  20:143  Ja  '24 
"A  gay  book  for  small  children.  But  I  can 
not  help  wishing  that  the  author  would  turn 
her  attention  to  new  characters,  for  she  writes 
with  apparent  ease  and  she  has  imagination. 
There  is  something  a  little  confusing  about  all 
these  old  characters  brought  into  new  sur- 
roundings and  mingling  together  with  so  much 
community   spirit."    M.    G.    Bonner 

-I Int  Bk   R  p62  N    '23  60w 

"What   small    child   would     not    be     delighted 
with  a  book  like  this?"    Everett  McNeil 
+   N    Y    Times   p4   O    14   '23   780w 

ADES,    ALBERT,    and    JOSIPOVICI,    ALBERT. 

2  Goha  the  fool;  with  a  preface  by  Octave  Mir- 
beau;  auth.  translation  by  Morris  Colman. 
347p     $2.50     Lieber  &  Lewis 

23-1806C 
"A  tale  of  18th  century  Cairo — a  collection  of 
coherent  episodes,  progressively  developing  the 
life  of  this  poor  natural  as  he  bumps  against 
the  rough  sharp  corners  of  Oriental  life  until 
a  rich  widow.  Orientally  ardent,  moved  by  hi.s 
physical  attractions,  takes  him  as  husband." — 
Springf'd   Republican 


"The  book  offers  so  much  along  the  way,  a 
swarm  of  vivid,  firmly  painted  flgiu-es;  the  con- 
viction of  reality  stamps  the  whole  work;  and 
we  had  better  not  concern  ourselves  with  petty 
probabilities."   C.   C. 

4-   Freeman   8:407   Ja   2   '24   300w 
"The   book  of   Goha   is   filled  to  a   remarkable 
extent    with    the    odors    and     street     noises     of 
Cairo,    and    Goha    himself    is    a    character    not 
unworthy  of   'The   Arabian   Nights.'  " 
Lit    R    pl68    O    20    '23    300w 
Reviewed  by  Leo  Markun 

N    Y   Tribune   p25   O   21   '23   1350w 
"  'Some  books,'  says  Octave  Mirbeau,  'achieve 
the    miracle    of   gripping    the    mind    despite    the 
clamor  of  contemporary  events.    'Goha  the  Fool' 
is   one   of   these;    it    achieves   the   miracle.'  " 

+  Springf'd   Republican   p7a  D  30  '23  300w 

ADMIRE,   HARRY   F.     Progressive  typewriting. 
2    207p       il      $2.20      Macmillan 

652     Typewriting  23-9203 

"Attempts,    through    the    exercises    given,    to 

teach  the  use    of  commercial   terms,    as  well   as 

the    correct    form    of    all    business    records    and 

correspondence."— Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 


Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui   28:532   D  '23 

AGEE,    ALVA.      First   steps  in   farming.    186p  il 
$1.50  Harper 

630      Agriculture  23-4527 

The  book  comes  under  the  Harper's  Hand- 
books series  edited  by  W.  C.  O'Kane.  Its 
purpose  is  to  help  would-be  farmers  to  decide 
whether  they  shall  take  up  farming  as  a  career, 
to  understand  the  various  phases  of  their 
undertaking,  to  find  a  market  for  their  product, 
and  to  secure  returns  on  their  investment.  Con- 
tents: Counting  the  cost;  Finding  the  right 
farm;    What   the   farm   tells   us;    Crop   rotation; 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  27  '23  200w 
"A  good  book  for  city  people  who  are  con- 
sidering taking  up  farming.  Also  useful  for 
vocational  reading  in  high  schools  and  colleges. 
The  appealing  style  and  simplicity  of  treat- 
ment  are   commendable." 

+  Wis    Lib    Bui    19:157   Je   '23 

AGRESTI,  OLIVIA  ROSSETTl.  David  Lubin: 
a  siudy  in  practical  idealism.  372p  $3.50  Little 
B  or  92  Lubin,  David.  International  in- 
stitute of  agriculture  22-23075 
David  Lubin,  1849-1919,  came  to  America  a 
poor  emigianL  boy  fiom  I'oland,  and  alter  some 
drifting  esuiblishtd  himself  as  a  prosperous 
merchant  in  Caliiornia.  His  experiences  de- 
veloped in  him  a  burning  desire  to  help  his 
fellow  men  and  he  became  the  prophet  ot  a 
democracy  based  on  the  recognition  of  the  eco- 
nomic and  political  importance  of  the  small 
land  holding  farmer.  His  ideals  for  interna- 
tional crop  reporting,  cooperative  systems  of 
rural  credit,  stabilization  of  ocean  freight  rates 
and  promotion  of  direct  marketing  found  ex- 
pression thru  the  International  institute  of 
agriculture  in  Home  to  the  permanent  com- 
mittee of  which  he  was  appointed  a  delegate 
in  1906.  The  writer  of  this  biography  was  Mr 
Lubin's  secretary  and  was  closely  associated 
with    him   in    organizing   the   Institute. 


Booklist  19:249  M>  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p8  N  18  '22  I200w 
"In  spite  of  blemishes,  Signoi-a  Agresti's 
sketch  of  the  man  and  his  work  is  fairly 
thorough  and  competent,  and  she  has  capped 
her  services  to  him  as  secretary  and  interpreter 
in  a  manner  that  is  not  without  distinction. 
The  reader  of  her  pages  will  find  entertainment 
in  a  hundred  human  sidelights  which  have 
necessarily  been  toned  out  of  this  crude,  black- 
and-white  summary  of  David  Lubin's  life." 
L:    Mumford 

h  Freeman    6:570    F    21    '23    2300w 

"The  purity  oi  Signora  Agresti's  Knglish  and 
the  simplicity  with  which  she  writes  of  eco- 
nomics are  a  constant  pleasure.  In  every 
mental  and  physical  aspect  this  is  a  book  one 
wants    to    own."       Ernestine    Noa 

+   Lit    R    p413    Ja    27    '23    1150w 
"Few  more  fascinating  stories  have  appeared 
in  recent  biography  than   this."     L:    Browne 
-|-  Nation   116:603  My  23  "23  700w 
Reviewed   by   S.    A.    Coblentz 

N    Y    Tribune    p21    F   18    '23    700w 
Outlook    132:624    D    6    '22    60w 
R    of    Rs    67:223    F    '23    50w 
"A     long,     carefully    written    book,     not    light 
reading,    but    profitable    for    serious    readers." 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:23    Ja    '23 


Pilgrimage     of 


AIKEN,     CONRAD     POTTER. 

Festus.    75p    $1.75   Knopf 

811  23-11507 

The  poet  conducts  Festus  on  an  imaginary 
pilgrimage  in  the  world  of  himself,  thru  the 
recesses  of  his  own  mind,  in  an  effort  to  under- 
stand the  world  and  its  riddles.  From  his  ex- 
plorations Festus  brings  nothing  conclusive,  no 
definite  answers  to  his  questions,  but  a  re- 
newed happiness  in  the  beauty  and  youth  of 
the  world.  He  is  content  to  let  his  questions 
lie  unanswered,   but  his  quest  goes  on. 


"It 


Booklist   20:12  O   '23 
moves     to     a     dreainlike     and     beautiful 


melody  and,  although  it  is  never  surprisingly 
beautiful,  it  holds  to  a  certain  high  evenness 
of  distinguished  phrases.  It  is  essentially  at- 
mospheric poetry,  always  creating  a  world  of 
its  own  for  the  reader,  a  world  of  dim  forests 
and  twilight  and  moonlight.  One  of  its  failings 
is    that    it    grows    tiresome    after    a    time;    the 


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AIKEN,     CONRAD     POTTER— Continued 

reader  wearies  with  the  eternal  melancholy  fall 
of    the    syllables."    H.    S.    Gvinian 
-\ Bookm   58:332   N  '23   500w 

Reviewed  by  N.   H.  Dole 

Boston    Transcript    p7    N    14    '23    1550w 

"We  read  on  and  on,  our  sensibilities  are 
titillated,  but  we  reach  no  conclusion  about 
life,  because  the  author  is  unable  to  draw  any 
conclusion.  "We  are  still  waiting-  for  Mr.  Aiken 
to  make  use  of  his  considerable  talents  in  the 
construction  of  a  poem  not  dependent  on  as- 
sociations of  the  sentimental  order,  but  in  which 
the  associations  are  related  in  an  intellectual 
proportion  to  each  other,  coinciding  towards  a 
mentally-fixed  conclusion."  J:  G.  Fletcher 
—  +  Freeman    8:356    D    19    '23    300w 

Reviewed  by  C.   H.  Grant 

Lit   R  p84  S  29   '23   650w 

"In  this  most  ambitious  of  all  Mr.  Aiken's 
poems  music  is  still  the  medium  through  which 
the  poet  speaks  and  sees.  Music,  here  as  be- 
fore, is  more  than  an  inspiration  for  his  rhythm; 
it  is  the  creator  of  his  diction,  the  very  source 
of  his  thought.  Mr.  Aiken  has  rendered  'Faust' 
in  terms  of  abstract  harmony.  For  his  Festus 
is  a  kind  of  Faust."  Mark  Van  Doren 
+   Nation    117:271    S    12   '23    lOSOw 

"The  most  summary  judgment  to  make  of 
the  Pilgrimage  of  Festus  is  in  fact  that  it 
does  not  say  much  and  what  it  does  say  is 
not  said  with  the  greatest  possible  clarity;  but 
that  there  are  decorations  of  beauty  along  the 
way  which  make  the  journey  worth  taking." 
H.    P.    Putnam 

-I New   Repub  37:supl8   D  5  '23  980w 

"Once  more,  with  a  new  perfection  of  elfin, 
unworldly  inusic,  Conrad  Aiken  has  recorded 
the  futility  of  man's  eternal  quest.  The  dis- 
covery is  not  particularly  novel,  indeed.  But  in 
achieving  it  he  has  given  us  a  book  packed 
with  a  rich  and  memorable  beauty,  which  will 
go  far  toward  proving  him,  if  further  proof 
is  needed,  one  of  the  most  gifted  and  in- 
dividual of  American  poets."  Ted  Olson 
+   N    Y  Tribune  pl9  S  2   '23   1500w 

"Mr.  Aiken  has  a  real  and  powerful  imagina- 
tion. He  walks  with  sure  steps  among  self- 
shaped  fancies  of  staggering  size  and  difficulty. 
He  takes  Festus,  as  he  once  took  Lenlin, 
through  a  gamut  of  philosophies  and  creeds, 
searching  for  that  which  will  satisfy.  His 
conclusion  is  the  old  one — that  the  search  is 
worth  while  for  its  own  sake.  This  final  optim- 
ism is  a  bit  false.  'Festus'  should  have 
ended,  at  least,  in  tragedy."  Maxwell  Ander- 
son 

H NY   World   p7e  Ag  19   '23   2300w 

AIKEN,    MRS    EDNAH    (ROBINSON).      Hinges 

of  custom.   385p  $2  Dodd 

23-4139 

"Wade  Graeme,  the  hero,  is  exactly  the  same 
sort  of  shy,  inarticulate,  unappreciated  young 
man  as  Mark  Sabre.  He  too  is  unhappily  mar- 
ried, though  in  his  case  the  author  offers  a 
more  or  less  plausible  excuse.  He  was  deliber- 
ately trapped  into  the  marriage.  The  dis- 
covery of  his  wife's  atrocious  treachery,  which 
dated  back  to  before  the  wedding,  gave  him 
strength  to  break  the  galling  bond.  Inciden- 
tally, he  was  in  love  with  another  woman, 
equally  ill-matched  to  a  coarse,  possessive 
brute.  Many  complications  ensued.  The  war 
offered  him  a  way  out.  The  author  intimates 
that  he  came  back  and  built  up  a  new  life  with 
his  new  love." — N  Y  Tribune 


Boston  Transcript  p3  Mr  3  '23  720w 
"Its  style  has  the  Jerky,  truncate  effusiveness 
cultivated  at  times  by  May  Sinclair  and  at  all 
times  by  the  author  of  'If  Winter  Comes*;  and 
the  general  effect  of  the  story  is,  if  you  can 
Imagine  it,  a  sort  of  Sinclair-Hutchinson  blend 
of  revolt  and   sentimentality."     H.   W.   Boynton 

Ind  110:232  Mr  31  '23  280w 

Int   Bk   R   p48   Ag  '23   250w 
"I    think    'The    Hinges    of    Custom'    is    a    shy 
snowdrop  in   the  wake  of   Hutchinson's  winter. 


Style  and  subject  matter  are  palely  reminis- 
cent throughout.  Perhaps  those  who  liked  the 
original  will  like  the  copy." 

N   Y  Tribune  p22  Mr  11  '23  230w 
Reviewed  by  E.   W.   Osborn 

N   Y  World  p8e  F   18  '23  330w 
"  'The    Hinges    of   Custom'    contains   no   word 
of  moralizing,    nor   preachment,    though   it  does 
plumb  the  depths  of  despair." 

Springf'd     Republican     pSa    Mr    11    '23 
3G0w 

AIKEN,    MRS    EDNAH    (ROBINSON).    If   today 

be  sweet.  272p  $2  Dodd 

23-15160 

This  story  deals  with  the  present  nation-wide 
problem  of  prohibition  enforcement.  Beginning 
with  the  wets'  last  stand  in  the  California  legis- 
lature, it  portrays  the  bitter  struggle,  after  the 
enactment  of  the  law,  between  the  wine-mak- 
ers, the  corrupt  whiskey  ring,  and  the  enforce- 
rnent  officers.  Tho  the  latter  be  earnest,  they 
are  helpless  in  the  hands  of  the  unknown  but 
powerful  whiskey  "bosses,  who  even  plan 
their  raids  for  them.  George  Roedel.  heretofore 
an  advocate  of  light  wines,  continues  his  ex- 
tensive wine-making  till  a  conspiracy  to  ex- 
pose him  unjustly  decides  his  course.  And  as 
his  millions  of  gallons  of  wine  are  being  emptied 
into  the  sea,  he  feels  he  has  passed  the  test: 
the  test  of  a  man's  citizenship  in  the  way  he 
treats  a  law  he  does  not  like.  The  author  also 
gives  an  impartial  view  of  the  dry  law  as  seen 
by  the  foreign  grape-pickers  who  rove  up  and 
down    California   with    the   harvests. 


"This  book  is  one  of  the  less  interesting,   less 
amusing    and    less    intelligent    products    of    the 
.young  generation  that  are  issuing  from  the  co- 
educational colleges  of  the  West." 
—  Lit    R  p265   N   17  '2s   210w 

"There  can  be  no  doubt  of  [Mrs]  Aiken's 
abilit.y  to  write  well,  for  it  is  very  evident  that 
she  takes  a  deal  of  care  in  her  descriptions  and 
character  analysis.  But  the  book  is  faulty  and 
the  chief  reason  appears  to  be  because  it  is  not 
thoroughlv  integrated.  It  falls  apart  too  easily." 
h  N  Y  Times  p9  N   11  '23   450w 

AIKMAN.    HENRY    G.,    pseud.      See   Armstrong, 
H:    H. 

AINSLIE,    DOUGLAS.     Adventures:    social   and 
literary.    291p    il    $7    Dutton    [21s    Unwin] 

B  or  92  [23-7140] 

"Douglas  Ainslie  has  always  been  a  bit  of 
a  cosmopolitan,  pleased  to  think  that  he  is  by 
birth  a  Parisian,  though  of  mixed  Scottish  and 
Welsh  blood.  His  surname  by  rights,  we  are 
reminded,  should  have  been  Grant  Duff — Sir 
Mountstuart  Elphinstone  Grant  Duff,  Indian 
administrator  and  social  diarist,  was  his  uncle — 
but  his  father  took  the  name  of  Ainslie  Doug- 
las Ainslie  on  succeeding  to  Delgaty  Castle, 
Aberdeen,  and  Bleuie  in  Morayshire.  Delgaty 
Castle  comes  after  Paris  in  Mr.  Ainslie's  rem- 
iniscences, and  the  Delgaty  ghosts  (strongly 
attested)  provide  an  eerie  page  or  two.  Then 
by  Eton  we  come  to  Oxford,  to  myths  of  the 
Jowett  cycle,  and  the  true  tale  of  the  founding 
of  the  O.U.D.S.  Literary  society  has  always 
been  Mr.  Ainslie's  favourite  recreation,  and  a 
chapter  on  'Swinburne,  Wilde,  and  Pater' 
gives  among  other  anecdotes  a  tale  of  Wilde 
in  his  last  ruined  years  at  Paris.  Mr.  Ainslie 
saw  diplomatic  service  at  Athens,  The  Hague, 
and  Paris,  and  has  a  tale  to  tell  of  his  chief 
at  Athens,  Sir  Edwin  Egerton."— The  Times 
[London]    Lit    Sup 


"Mr.  Ainslie's  adventures  are  always  read- 
able and  often  entertaining.  Of  everyone  he  met 
he  has  some  scrap  of  conversation  or  some 
personal  detail  to  record.  Though  attached 
to  numerous  embassies,  he  steers  clear  of  poli- 
tics,    distilling.     In    his    desultory    wanderings 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


from  capital  to  capital,  the  pure  nectar  of  per- 
sonal encounters." 

+  New  Statesman  20:386  D  30  '22  500w 
N  Y  World  pile  O  21  '23  780w 
"Mr  Douglas  Ainslie  lets  you  know  at  once 
that  his  aim  is  principally  to  amuse  you.  We 
do  not  read  much  here  of  the  serious  business 
of  diplomacy;  it  is  plain  that  belles  lettres 
were  Mr  Ainslie's  real  passion  until  in  these 
latter  days  he  began  as  Croce's  disciple  and 
translator,  to  scale  the  severer  slopes  of  meta- 
physics." 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p836    D 
14    '22    850w 

AIRLIE,  MABELL  FRANCES  ELIZABETH 
(GORE)  OGILVY,  countess  of.  Lady  Palmer- 
ston    and   her    times.    2v   $7.50   Doran 

B  or  92  Palmerston,  Emily  Mary  (Lamb) 
viscountess.  Great  Britain — History — lOLh 
century  23-11770 

"Lady  Palmerston  was  the  sister  of  one 
Prime  Minister  and  the  wife  of  another.  .  .  But 
the  book  is  really  more  personal  than  political. 
Great  issues  come  into  it,  of  course;  the  Reform 
Bill,  the  Corn  Laws,  and  Palmerston' s  foreign 
policy.  But  there  are  no  political  discoveries  in 
It  and  no  important  political  letters.  The  book 
is  not  politics;  it  is  a  different  thing,  a  picture 
Of  the  lives  and  characters,  the  ambitions  and 
pleasures,  of  certain  political  persons.  The 
heroine  must  herself  be  called  that.  For  though 
it  does  not  appear  that  she  had  any  political 
views  of  importance  she  was  evidently  a  woman 
who  was  born  to  e.xercise  all  the  forms  of  fem- 
inine influence  except  those  which  an  honour- 
able woman  disdains;  and  she  evidently  knew 
it  and  enjoyed  using  them,  first,  so  far  as  she 
could,  for  Melbourne,  and  then,  supremely  and 
triumphantly,  for  Palmerston." — The  rimes 
[lyondon]   Lit  Sup 


AKELEY,    CARL    ETHAN.    In   brightest  Africa. 

-    284p    il    $5    Loubleday 

916.7  Africa,  Kast.  Hunting— Africa.  Go- 
rillas 23-174U'J 
Mr.  Akeley,  who  is  connected  with  the  Ameri- 
can museum  of  natural  history,  New  York  city, 
and  who  has  done  valuable  work  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  art  of  taxidermy,  has  made  sev- 
eral trips  to  Africa  for  the  study  and  collection 
of  big  game.  "In  brightest  Africa"  tells  of  his 
experiences  there  and  especially  of  his  last  trip 
which  was  undertaken  for  the  purpose  of  study- 
ing the  gorilla,  securing  specimens  for  the  nm- 
seum,  and  arranging  scenic  backgrounds  for  the 
gorilla  group.  The  book  tells  also  of  his  train- 
ing as  a  taxidermist  and  sculptor  and  its  closing 
chapter  describes  his  conception  of  a  great 
African  hall  in  the  museum  "to  perpetuate  the 
animal  life,  the  native  customs  and  the  scenic 
beauties   of   Africa." 


"A  charming  picture  of  English  life  and  so- 
ciety in  the  early  half  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury."  E.  J.   C. 

+  Boston  Transcript  pi  My  12  '23  lOOOw 
Cleveland  p62  Jl  '23 
"Pedigrees  here  are  not  a  tree  but  a  forest, 
and  as  a  devout  and  mature  lady  of  Queen 
Mary's  Court,  Mabell,  Countess  of  Airlie,  to 
whom  we  owe  these  careful  volumes,  supplies 
a  footnote  to  identify  every  twig.  She  is  dis- 
cretion itself,  and  not  a  line  issued  under  her 
editorship,  will  shock  the  susceptibilities  of 
M-iiesty.  But  between  the  line.s  there  lurk  the 
satires  of  Thackeray."   P.   W.   Wilson 

-1-  N  Y  Times  p4  My  13  '23  245aw 
"It  is  a  difficult  feat  to  summon  up  a  vanished 
society  and  to  reconstruct  the  triumphs  of  the 
drawing  room,  and  it  cannot  be  said  that 
Lady  Airlie  has  been  entirely  successful  in  her 
attempt  to  accomplish  it."  Esther  Murphy 
—  NY  Tribune  pl8  Jl  8  '23  1400w 
"Lady  Airlie  carries  the  reticence  of  the 
biographer  to  its  farthest  limits.  She  never 
gets  between  us  and  her  subjects.  Above  all, 
there  is  no  foolish  singing  of  the  praises  of  the 
great  days  of  old  or  depreciation  of  the  little 
days  of  the  new  age.  And  so  we  get  an  easv, 
well-proportioned  book.  Lady  Palmerston  had 
no  literary  pretensions,  and  obviously  had  no 
notion  of  what  an  excellent  letter  writer  she 
was.  She  wrote,  not  to  show  off  her  talent, 
but  to  please  herself  and  her  correspondents — 
wrote,  that  is,  about  things  for  which  she  cared 
and  therefore  always  with  vividness  and 
charm."   J.   St  L.   Strachev 

+  Spec   129:923   D    16   '22   2100w 

"A    very    pleasant    and    readable.    thouKh    not 

very  important,   book.  .  .  Lady  Airlie  is  her.self 

the  author  of  a  great  deal  of  it.   and   oertainlv 

not  of  the  worst  part.     Her  Introduction,  on  the 

parallel    and    the    contrast    between    the    world 

that  was   trying  to   recover  from   the  war  with 

Napoleon  and  our  world  which  is  trying  a  .■'till 

more    difficult    recovery    to-day.    is    interestine- 

and   indeed   admirable.      And   the   last   words   of 

all.  which  tell  of  her  grent-erandmother's  death. 

will  show  how  simply  and  how  well  she  writes." 

4-  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p793  D  7 

'22  1750W 


"We  have  never  read  of  a  more  stirring  story 
of  narrow  escapes  from  death  than  the  en- 
counters with  an  infuriated  elephant  and  a 
leopard  which  the  author  details.  Likewise, 
there  are  few  accoimts  of  African  game-hunt- 
ing that  bring  out  the  purely  human  side  of 
both  hunter  and  game  with  equal  satisfaction. 
By  description  and  by  illustrations  the  author 
gives  the  public  what  appears  to  be  a  faithful 
account   of   his    skill."     F.    P.    H. 

+   Boston    Transcript   p4    N    17   '23    llOOw 

"The  volume  has  much  entertaining  reminis- 
cence of  the  author's  various  trips  into  the 
African  wilderness.  There  are  thrilling  accounts 
of  a  bare-handed  fight  with  a  leopard,  of  the 
charge  of  an  infiu-iated  elephant,  of  a  breath- 
less contest  with  a  grass  fire,  and  many  other 
adventures,  while  many  pages  tell  of  less  dan- 
gerous but  hardly  less  interesting  experiences." 
+   N    Y   Times  p2    N   18  '23  660w 

AKINS,  ZOE.    D6class6e;  Daddy's  gone  a-hunt- 
2    ing;  and  Greatness — a  comedy.    304p    $2    Boni 

&  Liveright 

812  23-14253 

The  first  two  plays  are  tragedies,  the  one  a 
society  drama,  the  other  a  study  of  contrasted 
temperaments.  "Greatness"  is  a  comedy,  pro- 
duced in  New  York  as  "The  Texas  night- 
ingale." 


Booklist  20:129  Ja  '24 
"Miss  Zoe  Akins  has  an  indifference  to  the 
conventional  structure  of  successful  playmaking 
which  is  at  once  her  bulwark  and  her  undoing. 
She  never  bends  completely  to  the  demands  of 
her  plots,  and  still  she  lacks  the  courage  to 
flaunt  them  entirely.  The  result  is  something 
between  pure  comedy  and  pure  literature." 
L.  B. 

Freeman    8:215    N    7   '23   220w 

ALDER,  WILLIAM  FISHER.     Men  of  the  inner 

jungle.    296p    il   $2.50   Century 

919.11        Borneo — Description      and      travel. 
Dyaks  23-7135 

The  natives  described  in  this  account  of  an 
expedition  into  the  interior  of  Borneo,  are  not 
cannibals  like  the  New  Guinea  natives  in  the 
author's  "Isle  of  vanishing  men."  The  Dyaks 
are  head-hunters,  yet  kindly;  trustworthy  after 
their  confidence  is  once  gained,  but  revengeful 
when  wronged.  The  travellers  were  hospitably 
entertained  in  their  long-houses  and  allowed  to 
take  part  in  their  feasts  and  orgies.  The  book 
describes  in  detail  their  daily  round   of  life. 


"The  reason  why  'Men  of  the  Inner  Jungle' 
seems  to  us  a  successful  book  is  because  the 
reader  too  gets  into  the  strange,  beautiful,  bru- 
tal jungle  of  Borneo." 

4-   Bookm  57:566  Jl  '23  80w 
Reviewed  by  I:  Anderson 

Int  Bk  R  p42  Je  '23  120w 
"The   hook   is  a   spirited   narrative   of  a   very 
interesting  experience." 

-f  N   Y  Times  plO  Ap  22   '23  400w 
Reviewed   by   Edwin    Clark 

N  Y  Tribune  p25  S  9  '23  520w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


ALDER,    W:       F. — Continued 

"The  book  abounds  in  descriptive  writing,  but 
adds  little  to  our  store  of  knowledge." 
—  +   N    Y   World  p8e  Ap  1    '23   40w 
"He   has   recorded   in    racy   language   the   sur- 
vivals of  many  ancient  customs  which  he  wit- 
nessed *' 

+  Spec   131:562   O   20   '23   70w 
"A    particularly    unfortunate    example    of    the 
misuse  of  rich  material." 

—  Springf  d  Republican  p6  Je  11  '23  200w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p601  S  13 
•23    llOOw 

ALEXANDER,  CHARLES.     Fang  in  the  forest. 

244p       il      $2      Dodd 

23-15296 

The  life  story  of  a  dog,  taken  when  a  puppy 
to  live  among  the  Oregon  forests.  Black  Buck's 
master  was  a  miner,  and  all  the  dog's  loyalty 
went  out  to  him.  When  a  treacherous  pros- 
pector killed  the  miner  and  shot  Black  Buck 
in  the  nose,  paralyzing  his  sense  of  smell,  the 
dog  had  to  forage  for  himself.  By  his  superior 
intelligence  he  managed  to  outwit  the  other  ani- 
mals in  the  forest  and  became  a  great  and 
successful  hunter,  leader  of  a  pack  of  wolves 
and  feared  by  the  few  human  beings  who  came 
in  contact  with  him.  At  various  times  in  his 
career  he  was  temporarily  deflected  from  his 
loneliness  to  be  loyal  to  some  human  who  had 
chanced  to  stray  into  his  forest.  The  experi- 
ence he  enjoyed  most  was  the  summer  he  be- 
friended a  little  boy  who  had  been  kidnapped 
and  brought  to  the  forest.  Black  Buck  was 
instrumental  in  saving  the  boy  and  tho  his 
heart  went  with  the  lad  he  would  not  follow 
him  when  he  was  rescued.  So  we  leave  Black 
Buck,  huge,  unconquerable,  and  sagacious, 
roaming     the    forests. 


"This  is  one  of  the  best  dog  stories  we  have 
ever  read.  Mr.  Alexander  deserves  to  be  placed 
side  by  side  with  the  creator  of  Mowgli  and 
the  Jungle  books.  This  is  high  praise.  But  it 
is  not  too  much  praise.  The  author  of  'Fang 
in  the  Forest'  has  blended  a  love  of  forests 
and  mountains  with  a  warm  sympathy  for  the 
four-footed  friends,  and  even  enemies,  of  man. 
He  writes  his  story  with  such  a  rush  of  vitality, 
with  such  emotional  appeal  that  he  wins  his 
readers    before    the    tenth    page." 

+   Boston    Transcript   p4   N    7   '23   420w 

"The    author    knows    the    Pacific    wilds    and 
knows    animals.        He    has    produced    an    out- 
standing   dog   story."     Daniel    Henderson 
Lit    R   p233   N    10   '23   120w 

"All  grown-ups,  as  well  as  boys,  who  enjoy 
reading  of  dogs,  where  a  human  being  inter- 
prets, or  pretends  to  interpret,  their  innermost 
thoughts  and  feelings  will  find  in  this  tale  just 
the  kind  of  a  story  they  like.  In  addition,  the 
adventures  of  Black  Biick  are  sufficiently  ex- 
citmg  to  awaken  and  hold  the  interest  of  almost 
any   boy."     Everett   McNeil 

-h   N    Y   Tribune   p24   N   4   '23   lOOw 

Sprlngf'd   Republican  p9a  D  16  '23  220w 

ALEXANDER,    DE    ALVA    STANWOOD.      Four 

famous    New    Yorkers.      488p    $4      Holt 

974.7     New  York    (state)— Politics  and  gov- 
ernment.   Cleveland,     Grover.     Plait.     Tlionias 
Collier.      Hill,      David     Bennett.     Roosevelt, 
Theodore  23-9922 

Forming  volume  four  of  the  author's  "Polit- 
ical history  of  the  state  of  New  York,"  this 
book  deals  almost  exclusively  with  the  political 
careers  of  Grover  Cleveland,  Thomas  C.  Piatt 
David  B.  Hill,  and  Theodore  Roosevelt  The 
political  activities  of  these  four  men  really 
begiin  in  1883,  when  Cleveland  and  Roosevelt 
cooperated  to  secure  reform  legislation  and  Hill 
;iml  Piatt  began  building  political  machines 
which  controlled  New  York  State  politics  for 
nearly  a _  quarter  of  a  century.  During  these 
years  this  state  furnished  three  presidents  of 
the  United  States. 


tions  and  in  its  wealth  of  political  anecdotes. 
This  material  might  be  used  in  a  scientific 
analysis  of  political  groupings  in  the  state.  It 
IS  to  be  regretted  that  Mr.  Alexander  has  not 
attempted  to  interpret  the  events  about  which 
he  has  written  in  the  light  of  recent  advances 
that  have  been  made  in  the  social  sciences." 
H.    F.    Gosnell 

H Am    Pol    Sci    R    17:670    N    '23   800w 

"It  is  a  detailed  but  orderly  record,  abound- 
ing in  concise  characterizations  of  men,  mea- 
sures, and  events,  and  enlivened  by  apt  bits  of 
quotation  and  unhackneyed  anecdotes."  R.  J. 
Davis 

-I-   Lit    R    pl48    O   20    '23    820w 

"The  book   is   full   of  drama.     It  contains   all 
the    raw    material    except    the   love    interest   for 
the  Great  American  Novel."   Silas  Bent 
+   N   Y  Times  pll  Jl  1  '23  1750w 

"Dr.  Alexander's  work  will  constitute  a 
valuable  record  of  how  things  went  with  the 
Empire  State  during  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury of  exceptionally  absorbing  struggles  in  the 
political  arena." 

H NY  World  pl9  Jl  15   '23  500w 

"Mr.  Alexander  is  at  his  best  in  the  portrai- 
ture of  these  great  leaders,  while  at  the  same 
time  he  gives  a  clear  and  intelligent  account 
of  their  activities  in  both  State  and  national 
affairs,  and  traces  the  effects  upon  the  for- 
tunes  of   their   followers." 

+   R  of   Rs   68:222  Ag  '23  180w 


ALEXANDER,  HARTLEY  BURR.  Nature  and 
human  nature;  essays  metaphysical  and  his- 
torical.     529p     $3      Open  ct. 

104     Philosophy  23-11340 

A  collection  of  philosophical  essays  reprinted 
from  the  Hibbert  journal,  the  International  jour- 
nal of  ethics,  the  Journal  of  philosophy,  the 
Monist  and  other  journals.  The  essays  are 
idealistic  in  tone,  reflecting  a  humanistic  phi- 
losophy in  search  of  "that  truth  which  is  knowl- 
edge of  man's  best  self  and  of  that  wisdom 
which  can  make  of  this  truth  a  spiritual  helms- 
man." Contents:  Of  philosophy;  Religion  and 
race  progress;  The  evolution  of  ideals;  Truth 
and  nature;  The  goodness  and  beauty  of  truth; 
Beauty  and  pain;  Epilogue:  Wrath  and  Ruth; 
Human  personality;  The  Socratic  Bergson;  The 
definition  of  number;  Plato's  conception  of  the 
cosmos;  Music  and  poeti-y;  The  philosophy  of 
tragedy;  Art  and  democracy;  Hebraism  as  a 
mode  of  philosophy;  Apologia  pro  fide;   Index. 


"The  essays  are  for  the  most   part  not  tech- 
nical   and    seem    well    adapted,    if    not    actually 
intended,    for    the    intelligent    layman." 
+   Bookm    58:337    N    '23   120w 

"A  life-time  of  thinking  has  gone  into  all 
of  them,  the  material  utilized  has  been  drawn 
from  well-nigh  every  department  of  human 
knowledge,  and  the  outcoine  is  a  volume  which 
will  take  high  rank  for  its  stimulus  to  the 
reasoning  faculty,  its  insight  into  the  profound- 
est  problems  of  man  and  the  universe,  and  its 
inculcation   of  advanced   moral   and    intellectual 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  S  19  '23  550w 
Reviewed   by   C.   E.    Ayres 

New   Repub  37:72  D  12  '23  1200w 
"Well     considered     and     beautifully     written 
thoughts."     W.    C. 

+  N   Y   Tribune  pl8   O  21   '23  lOOw 

ALEXANDER,     JEROME.     Glue     and     gelatin. 

(Am.     chemical     soc.     monographs)     230p     $3 

Chemical  catalog  co. 

668.3     Glue.   Gelatin  23-5294 

"Considerable  attention  to  theory.  A  briefer 
treatment  than  R!  H.  Bogue's  'Chemistry  and 
technology  of  gelatin  and  glue.'  " — Pittsburgh 
Mo  Bui 


"The  value  of  this  book  lies   in   its  vivid  de- 
scriptions  of  national   and   state   party  conven- 


Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui  28:294  Je  '23 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


ALLCUT,  EDGAR  ALFRED,  and  KING, 
CHARLES  J.  Engineering  inspection.  187p 
il  $5  Van  Nostrand  [15s  Routledge] 

621    Engineering    inspection  [22-17959] 

"A  description  of  the  various  principles  In- 
volved in  the  inspection  of  an  engineering  job 
from  the  raw  material  to  the  finished  article.  .  . 
Mechanical  engineering  operations  only  are  de- 
scribed."— Preface 


Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:293  Je  '23 

ALLEN,  HENRY  TUREMAN.  My  Rhineland 
journal.    593p   il   $6   Houghton 

940.48   Germany — Occupation   by   allies,    1918. 

United  States — Army.  Reconstruction  (Euro; 

pean   war)  23-17485 

General  Allen  was  in  command  of  the  Am- 
erican armv  of  occupation  in  the  Rhineland 
from  July,  1919.  to  February,  1923.  His  journal 
is  an  intimate  diary  of  events,  not  strictly  con- 
fined to  his  activities  in  Coblenz.  He  made  fre- 
quent visits  to  the  different  embassies,  took 
part  in  many  conferences  and  interviews,  and 
his  pages  are  full  of  frank  comments  on  men 
and  matters  of  state.  The  book  contributes  to 
an  understanding  of  the  events  now  taking 
place  in  the  Ruhr  and  the  development  of 
British,  French  and  German  policies  now  in 
action. 


Booklist   20:132   Ja   '24 

"His  book  will  not  set  men's  hearts  on  fire, 
but  its  580  well -indexed  pages,  without  notes — 
thank  goodness  I — together  with  what  may  be 
read  between  the  lines,  are  consistently  tonic. 
They  should  serve  as  a  corrective  for  those 
who  are  conscious  of  a  certain  astigmatism  in 
their  views,  however  detailed,  of  matters  in 
Europe.  General  Allen  offers  no  patent  medi- 
cine and  no  crystal-gazing  prophecies,  but 
honest,  intelligent,  first-hand,  well-rounded 
opinions  couched  in  plain  language."  R.  H. 
Allen 

4-   Boston  Transcript  p3  N  10  '23  1200w 

Reviewed   by    Ferdinand   Schevill 

New   Repub   37:179   Ja   9    '24    1750w 

"Breezy,  cheerful,   cordial  diary." 

4-   N  Y  Times  pi  N   18  '23  2000w 
Reviewed   by  D.    C.    Seitz 

N  Y   World   p9e   N   18   '23   850w 
"An   American  army   officer's  work  possessing 
unusual    freshness,    cultivation    and    charm,    at 
once    preserving   sensitive    impressions    and    re- 
cording   facts    of    historical   interest." 

+   Springf'Q    Republican    p8   N   10   '23   450w 

ALLEN,    JAMES     LANE.      Alabaster    box.      64p 
2    $1.25     Harper 

"A  brief  allegorical  tale  relating  the  currents 
of  thought  and  conversation  that  accompany 
the  funeral  procession  bearing  the  body  of  a 
certain  kindly  old  southern  gentleman  to  its 
last  resting  place.  The  narrative  progresses 
as  the  somber  procession  passes,  beginning  with 
the  indifferent  driver  of  the  hearse  and  record- 
ing the  moods  and  comments  of  the  occupants 
of  each  succeeding  coach  and  carriage  as  in- 
spired by  the  funeral  sermon  preached  by  the 
new  minister  in  town,  who  had  spoken  upon 
the  theme  of  the  alabaster  box  of  precious 
ointment.  Thus  in  many  colors,  from  varied 
points  of  view,  a  philosophical  character  sketch 
Is  drawn.  While  the  dead  man  had  always 
been  gentle  and  considerate  of  others,  he  seems 
to  have  been  actually  mourned  by  only  three 
of  his  fellow  townsmen.  Some  thought  his  good- 
ness was  a  sham.  Others,  including  his  family, 
wei-e  apparently  bored  by  his  virtue.  A  cynic 
argued  that  one  spectacular  good  deed  by  a 
wilful  waster  is  more  deeply  appreciated  by 
one's  fellow  men  than  the  habitually  virtuous 
conduct  of  the  constantly  faithful." — Springf'd 
Republican 


ALLINGHAM,    MARGERY.    Black' erchief    Dick. 
302p   $1.90   Doubleday 

[23-13492] 

This  tale  of  love  and  piracy  and  rum-smug- 
gling in  seventeenth-century  England  is  written 
by  an  eighteen-year-old  girl  and  has  a  lauda- 
tory introduction  by  William  McFee.  The  scene 
is  the  old  Ship  Tavern  on  Mersea  island.  Dick 
Delfazio,  know  as  Black'erchief  Dick,  a  Spani- 
ard, is  uncannily  skilful  with  his  long,  thin- 
bladed  knife  which  before  the  story  opens  has 
already  accounted  for  many  lives.  It  takes 
many  more  lives  during  the  course  of  the  story, 
but  he  uses  it  once  too  often  when  he  kills 
little  Anny  Farran,  bar  tender  at  the  Ship.  A 
few  seconds  later,  the  same  knife  in  the  hands 
of  Anny's  friend  kills  him.  With  the  bodies 
buried  and  the  pirate  ship  gone,  the  island  life 
goes  on  as  before. 


Int   Bk   R    pl58  Ja   '24   390w 

"It  is  onlv  when  one  comes  to  examine  the 
book,  the  style  and  atmosphere  of  which  is  so 
similar  to  Stevenson's  great  romance,  that  one 
discovers  that  the  plot  itself  is  little  or  noth- 
ing, being  in  reality  a  sort  of  character  study 
of  Dick  Delfazio,  the  Spanish  smuggler  with 
the  mysterious  knife,  and  of  that  this  style 
can  tell  us  nothing.  Nevertheless,  as  it  stands, 
'Black'erchief  Dick'  is  a  good  story  and  well 
told." 

H Lit    R    p266    N    17    '23    410w 

"Margery  Allingham  with  her  first  book  has 
earned  for  herself  no  mean  place  in  the  ranks 
of  the  writers  of  romantic  adventure.  Such 
weaknesses  as  she  displays  are  clearly  those 
of  inexperience,  and  after  taking  account  of 
them  large  measure  of  credit  remains  due  her, 
even  in  view  of  the  fact  that  she  comes  of  a 
writing    family." 

+   N    Y    Times   p9   N    11    '23   250w 

"It  is  [a  story]  to  please  a  young  rather 
than  a  grown-up  public  and  so  the  review 
of  one  young  reader  may  be  quoted — 'it  is 
jolly  exciting — all  about  smugglers  and  buxom 
wenches.'  That  is  on  the  whole  a  very  fair 
description." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p590    S 
6  '23  250w 


ALLINSON,  ANNE  CROSBY  (EMERY)  (MRS 
FRANCIS  GREENLEAF  ALLINSON).  Chil- 
dren   of   the   way.     193p     $1.75     Harcourt 

23-12871 

"The  nine  sketches  which  make  up  this  vol- 
ume of  fiction  are  all  concerned  with  the  early 
Roman  converts  to  Christianity,  in  the  days 
before  the  new  faith  had  begun  to  attract  the 
attention  and  incur  the  antagonism  of  those  in 
power.  Its  incidents  all  take  place  about  the 
middle  of  the  first  century  of  the  Christian 
era.  Paul  is  a  prisoner  in  Rome,  but  the  little 
bands  of  his  fellow-believers  are  free  to  meet 
unmolested  in  one  another's  homes  and  to  tell 
their  friends  about  the  'new  way'  which  their 
feet  have  found.  The  author  has  been  rather 
skillful  in  linking  the  stories  together,  carrying 
the  central  people  of  one  sketch  on  into  sub- 
ordinate roles  in  another  and  bringing  the  in- 
cidents of  one  story  to  result  naturally  from 
those    of    a    preceding   one." — N    Y    Times 


"Well  written    as  this   story  essay  is,   it   fails 
to   carry   any   particular  degree   of  conviction." 

H NY   Times   p9   N   25   '23   550w 

Springf'd   Republican  p9a  D  16  '23  250w 


"Throughout  these  stories  we  remain  cold, 
although  in  'Not  to  the  Flesh,'  Mrs.  Allinson 
almost  makes  us  feel  the  significance  of  her 
nar.ative."    D.   F.  G. 

h    Boston  Transcript  p5  O  13  '23  600w 

"It  is  a  rare  pleasure  to  come  upon  fiction 
dealing  with  the  ancient  world  that  is  at  least 
free  from  surface  anachronisms.  The  setting 
and  background  of  Mrs.  Allinson's  tales  of  first 
century  Rome  are  altogether  charming,  and  one 
feels  the  accuracy  as  well  as  the  brilliance  of 
the    coloring." 

+   Lit    R    p73    S    22    '23    300w 
N   Y   Times   p7   S   30  '23   350w 


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AMERICAN      INSTITUTE     OF     ARCHITECTS. 

Significance  of  the   fine  arts.    483p  il  textbook 
ed  $3.50;  library  ed  $7.50  Jones,  Marshall 

709      Architecture.      Art  23-26051 

Ten  essays  on  the  arts  written  for  the  college 
student  and  the  general  reader  and  published 
under  the  direction  of  the  Committee  on  educa- 
tion of  the  American  institiite  of  architects,  in 
their  campaign  for  a  better  understanding  and 
appreciation  of  the  fine  arts.  Each  essay  has  its 
bibliography  and  there  are  128  illustrations. 
Contents:  Classical  architecture,  by  C.  H.  Walk- 
er; The  architecture  of  the  middle  ages,  by  R. 
A.  Cram;  The  renaissance,  by  H.  Van  B.  Ma- 
gonigle;  Modern  architecture,  by  P.  P.  Cret: 
Sculpture,  by  Lorado  Taft;  Painting,  by  Bryson 
Burroughs;  Landscape  design,  by  F.  L.  Olmsted; 
City  planning,  by  E.  H.  Bennett;  The  industrial 
arts,  by  Huger  Elliott;  Music,  by  T:  W.  Surette. 


charm  and  deep  appreciation  he  sketches  the 
life,  the  character,  the  talent,  the  ideas  of  thi.s 
prophet   of  a  new  society. 


"Told  in  the  simplest  fashion,  with  liberal  re- 
sort to  history  and  anecdote,  and  with  lavish  em- 
ployment of  illustration,  the  nariative  at  once 
informs  and  fascinates.  It  is  the  story  of  the 
romance  as  well  as  of  the  significance  of  the  fine 
arts,  and  a  widespread  demand  for  it  by  the 
public  may  be  predicted  for  it  in  advance." 
B.   N. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p5  F  10  '23  720w 

Cleveland  p59  Jl  "23 
"A  book  that  may  be  read  with  profit  by 
persons  deeply  versed  in  the  arts  as  a  remark- 
able expression  of  the  best  trained  American 
opinion.  How  far  the  book  will  do  its  mission- 
ary work  in  clubs  and  schools  remains  to  be 
proved." 

H Lit   R  p915  Ag  IS  '23  300w 

"The  present  volume  at  its  best  is  an  abstract 
exhortation  to  choose  the  Beautifvil,  and  at  its 
worst  is  an  attempt  to  build  up  a  public,  from 
among  the  middle  and  upper  classes,  for  certain 
National  Brands  in  the  Fine  Arts  line.  Neither 
at  its  best  nor  at  its  worst  does  it  give  a  fresh 
breath  of  thought  or  a  deeper  level  of  insight." 
L:   Mumford 

—  New  Repub  34:supl4  Ap  11  '2.3  2200w 
"It  is  distinctly  helpful  and  inspiring,  the  work 
of    well-informed  specialists    who  know  how    to 
put  their  thoughts  in  untechnical  language." 
+  Outlook  133:411  F  28  '23  llOw 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:248   My  '23 

AMES,       JOSEPH       BUSHNELL.       Man       from 
Painted    Post.       336p       $1.75       Century 

23-12968 
Dirk  Drummond,  cowboy,  inherits  a  legacy 
which  opens  his  way  to  buying  a  ranch  and 
winning  his  girl.  But  Jed  Hanby,  a  ranchei- 
with  an  unsavoury  past  and  an  unscrupulous 
present,  seeks  the  same  ends  and  is  helped 
in  his  frame-ups  of  Dirk  by  numerous  followers. 
Except  during  short  intervals,  Dirk  is  continu- 
ally pursued  either  by  Hanby's  men  or  the 
sheriff,  but  manages  to  outwit  them  both  in 
brains  and  gun-play.  While  Mrs  Foulkes,  a 
shrewd  old  ranchwoman,  is  completing  final  ar- 
rangements for  the  sale  of  a  ranch  just  before 
Dirk's  option  on  it  expires,  he  is  rescuing  the 
girl  from  Hanby  in  the  nick  of  time.  With  his 
enemies  dead  or  successfully  cowed.  Dirk  is 
ready  to  start  life  with  his  girl  and  his  ranch. 


"This  is  an  entertaining  novel.  The  charac- 
ter drawing  is  not  good.  But  in  the  wide 
open  spaces  who   cares  about   nuances." 

H Boston   Transcript  p4  D  1  '23  300w 

"It  is  a  most  interesting  story,  one  of  the 
best    Mr.     Ames    has    written." 

+   Lit    R    pl32    O    13    '23    llOw 

N    Y    Times    p24    D    16    '23    330w 

AMIEL,  HENRI  FREDERIC.  Jean  Jacques 
Rousseau;  tr.  by  Van  Wyck  Brooks.  94p  $1 
Huebsch 

B   or   92     Rousseau,   Jean   Jacques         23-816 
The  author  of  the  "Journal  intime"   delivered 
this   discourse  on  the  occasion  of  the  commem- 
oration   of    the    one-hundredth    anniversary    o( 
Rousseau's  death.     With   brevity,   with   literary 


Booklist  19:220  Ap  '23 
Bookm    57:224   Ap   '23   120w 
Boston  Transcript  p6  Ja  6  '23  320w 
"Amiel's   'enumeration   of  the   positive  claims 
of  the  Genevese  philosopher'   has  a  very  timely 
interest." 

+  Dial  74:313  Mr  '23  160w 
+  Nation  116:703  Je  13  '23  130w 
"As  a  study  of  the  career  of  Rousseau,  the 
influence  of  his  ideas  in  subsequent  philosophic 
thought  and  the  relation  of  those  ideas  to 
modern  intellectual  life,  the  essay  is  exceed- 
ingly  valuable." 

+  Outlook  133:630  Ap  4  '23  150w 
"Mr.    Brooks    has    made    it    an    English    essay 
of  literary  charm." 

+   Survey   50:458  Jl   15   '23   60w 

AMINOFF,       LEONIE,       baroness.       Ambition. 
310p  $2   Dutton 

23-17722 

"Third  in  the  'Torchlight'  series  of  Napole- 
onic romances,  'Ambition'  begins  where  'Love' 
left  off,  with  the  marriage  of  Napoleon  and 
Josephine.  The  period  it  covers  is  that  of  the 
few  months  intervening  between  this  event 
and  the  day  she  joined  him  at  Milan,  which 
he  had  entered  a  conqueror.  We  see  him  making 
ardent  love  to  the  somewhat  bored  Josephine, 
writing  lengthy  and  frequent  letters  to  her  and 
impatiently  awaiting  the  answers,  which  came 
so  very  seldom.  See  him,  too,  visiting  his  mother 
at  her  home  in  Marseilles  and  get  glimpses  of 
him  as  he  turned  the  'Army  of  Italy'  into  a 
genuine  fighting  force,  supervising  everything, 
attending  to  everything,  sampling  the  soldiers' 
food,  bringing  order  out  of  chaos,  and  some  de- 
gree of  comfort  to  the  much -tried  troops,  Junot 
and  Murat,  'yellow-coated'  Tallien  and  beauti- 
ful Madame  Tallien,  Talleyrand  and  many  other 
historical  figures  appear  at  various  times  and 
for   various   lengths  of  time." — N  Y   Times 


"L^onie  Aminoff  has  her  own  individual  way 
of  telling  her  story.  There  are  times  when  we 
think  this  way  is  distinctly  mannered.  There 
is  danger  in  her  manner  just  as  there  is  dan- 
ger in  any  too  noticeable  style.  It  will  serve 
her  ill  in  the  long  run  if  she  allows  it  to  ob- 
struct her  story,  for  it  is  well  at  all  times  for 
the  novelist  to  remember  that  in  very  truth 
the  story  is  the  thing.  A  certain  amount  of 
reality  is  obtained  by  the  richness  of  her  fabric, 
but  this  is  most  easily  overdone.  There  are 
moments  when  she  comes  close  to  overdoing 
it  in  thi.s  story,  when  in  her  discursiveness  she 
wanders  very  far  from  her  theme."  D.  L.  M. 
—  +   Boston    Transcript   p2   Ag  11   '23   llOOw 

"One  wonders  if  the  laay  has  been  eating 
hasheesh.  And  one  hesitates  to  descend  to  such 
trivial  criticism.  We  venture  to  predict  that  if 
the  series  of  Napoleonic  romances  is  continued 
in  the  same  vein,  the  volumes  will  be  read  with 
eagerness — to  see  what  the  Baroness  will  say 
next!"  D:  S.   Muzzey 

—  Lit   R  p923  Ag  25  '23  850w 
"Unfortunately,    the    book    is    greatly    injured 

by  the  author's  delight  in  anecdotes  which  have 
nothing  to  do  with  the  story.  All  of  which, 
though  the  author  seems  to  regard  it  as  a 
display  of  cleverness,  is  very  dull,  very  tedious, 
and  draws  the  book  out  to  an  unconscionable 
length." 

—  NY   Times   pl7   Ag  5   '23   480w 
"Positively,    this    is    too   bad.      It's    like   being 

shown  over  a  historic  palace  by  an  obtrusive, 
giggling  guide  who  wants  you  to  admire  her 
new  hat  or  listen  to  the  latest  cute  saying  of 
her  infant  prodigy,  just  when  you  are  recaptur- 
ing an  evasive  illusion  of  bygone  splendors, 
l.sabcl   Paterson 

—  NY   Tribune  p22   Ag  5   '23   750w 
N   Y  World   p8e  Jl  29  '23  550w 


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"The  author  seems  much  more  interested  in 
her  own  ideas  than  she  is  in  anything  else,  and 
her  book  is  unimportant  and  tedious." 

—  Springf'd    Republican   p9a   S   9   '23   150w 

ANDERSON,  ADELAIDE  MARY.  Women  in 
the  factory;  an  administrative  adventure, 
1893   to   1921.    316p   $3   Button    [7s    6d   Murray] 

331.4  Woman — Employment 
"This  book  tells  the  story  of  the  woman 
inspectorate  of  factories  and  workshops  from 
its  beginning  in  1893,  when  the  first  women  in- 
spectors .  .  .  made  their  first  inspection,  until 
the  year  1921,  when  thirty  women  inspectors 
saw  the  fruits  of  the  work  of  their  branch,  not 
only  in  greatly  developed  protection  for  the 
woman  worker,  but  also  in  her  own  increased 
capacity  to  help  herself." — Foreword  by  Vis- 
count Cave 


"She  writes  optimistically  of  the  gain  to  in- 
dustrial women  from  wartime  experience.  It 
may  be  regretted  that  the  author,  who  gives 
a  clear  exposition  of  the  advantages  gained  for 
industrial  women  by  the  various  amendments 
of  the  Factory  and  Truck  Acts,  does  not  com- 
plete her  work  by  a  final  chapter  stating  where 
the  present  code  falls  short,  in  her  opinion,  of 
the  desirable  minimum."   M.  W. 

New  Statesman  20:364  D  23  '22  400w 

Reviewed  by  R.  C.  Feld 

N  Y  Times  p8  Mr  4  '23  720w 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:285  Je  '23 

Reviewed  by  Mary   La  Dame 

Survey  49:806  Mr  15  .'23  500w 


ANDERSON,  NELS.  The  hobo;  the  sociology 
of  the  homeless  man;  a  study  prepared  for 
the  Chicago  council  of  social  agencies  under 
the  direction  of  the  Committee  on  homeless 
men.  302p  $2.50  Univ.  of  Chicago  press  [12s 
6d  Cambridge  univ.  press] 
339     Tramps.     Chicago — Social  conditions 

23-10481 
The  book  is  a  study  of  the  homeless  men  and 
migratory  workers  of  Chicago.  They  are  shown 
in  their  own  habitat,  among  the  social  sur- 
roundings which  they  have  created  for  them- 
selves and  with  their  own  economic,  social  and 
political  institutions.  The  districts  where  they 
concentrate  are  described,  their  camp>s  or 
jungles  on  the  outskirts  of  the  city,  their 
restaurants  and  stores,  their  ways  of  "getting 
by,"  the  reasons  why  they  leave  home,  the 
occupations  they  seek,  their  health  conditions, 
reading,  and  social  and  welfare  organizations. 
There  is  a  chapter  on  their  songs  and  ballads 
and   one   on   the   personalities   of    "Hobohemia." 


"It  is  written  in  a  direct,  straightforward 
style  that  gives  an  impression  of  sincerity  and 
authority."   A.    J.   Todd 

+   Am  J   Soc  29:238  S  '23  600w 
Booklist  20:38  N  '23 
"The  book  is  the  product  of  a  well   balanced 
observation — a     splendid     sequel     to     the     work 
started  by  Carleton  Parker." 

+  Bookm  57:649  Ag  '23  250w 
Cleveland  p69  S  '23 
"Though  his  book  is  rather  badly  done  from 
a  literary  point  of  view,  he  has  been  accurate 
as  well  as  fair  and  sympathetic  in  his  presen- 
tation of  the  life  of  the  tramp  and  the  tramp's 
point   of   view."      Harry   Kemp 

H New    Repub    35:364   Ag   22   '23    1650w 

"A  dispassionate  but  sympathetically  under- 
standing survey  of  the  homeless  man.  Mr. 
Anderson's  own  attitude  toward  his  subject  is 
humane  and  tolerant,  even  sympathetic,  but 
he  is  never  emotional,  never  anything  but  the 
scientist  studying  the  characteristics  of  a 
species." 

+   N    Y   Times   p21   Je   24   '23   320w 

Springf'd  Republican  pl4  Je  29  '23  650w 


ANDERSON,    SHERWOOD.      Horses   and   men. 

347p       $2       Huebsch 

Of  these  "tales,  long  and  short,  from  our 
American  life,"  three  at  least  are  short  novels. 
The  appreciation  of  Theodore  Dreiser  forms 
the  book's  dedication.  "I'm  a  fool"  and  "The 
man  who  became  a  woman"  are  stories  of  the 
turf.  "Unused"  reveals  the  psychological  ef- 
fect upon  a  young  girl  of  an  unfortunate  sex 
experience.  "The  sad  horn  blowers"  is  a  tale 
of  the  loneliness  of  a  young  boy  who  had  gone 
away  from  home  to  work  in  a  factory.  The 
other  stories  are:  The  triumph  of  a  modern; 
A  Chicago  Hamlet;  Milk  bottles;  The  man's 
story;    An    Ohio    pagan. 


Boston  Transcript  p4  D  19  '23  410w 
"Mr.  Anderson  is  attempting — more  or  less 
unconsciously,  no  doubt — to  fill  the  role  of  a 
kind  of  bardic  poet;  to  put  into  simple  and 
beautiful  forms  the  vague  and  troubling  pains 
of  a  bewildered  people,  lo  personalize  a  rather 
mechanical  life,  to  give  new  values  to  a  world 
that  has  discarded  its  old  ones  as  invalid.  And 
that,  as  the  teller  of  'The  Man's  Story'  says, 
'is  I  suppose  what  poetry  is  all  about.'  " 
Newton    Arvin 

+  Freeman  8:307  D  5  '23  1500w 
"Mr.  Anderson  is  a  master  of  words,  and  he 
is  a  music  master  as  well,  for  he  can  make 
words  hum  and  sing.  I  never  read  him  with- 
out being  reminded  of  Walter  Pater.  Scarcely 
could  two  writers  be  more  unlike,  but  they  both 
succeed  in  making  their  prose  flow  to  a 
murmurous  melody  like  that  of  a  rippling 
brook.  In  none  of  his  other  books  has  Mr. 
Anderson  shown  such  consummate  mastery  of 
the  inevitable  word  as  in  these  tales,  long  and 
short,  from  our  American  life;  and  in  none 
has  he  so  successfully  displayed  his  musical 
prose."    Joseph  Collins 

+  Int  Bk  R  p42  D  "23  750w 
"One  is  forced  to  admit  in  closing  this  vol- 
ume that  the  stories  are  if  anything  below 
the  level  of  those  included  in  his  two  former 
collections.  One  still  awaits  from  this  interest- 
ing author  that  complete  and  perfect  story 
which  his  potentialities  are  constantly  suggest- 
ing yet  which  never  seems  quite  to  materialize." 
Alyse     Gregory 

h   Lit    R   p333   D   8   '23   900w 

"There  is  nothing  in  Horses  and  Men  half- 
way as  good  as  I  Want  to  Know  Why  or 
The  Triumph  of  the  Egg,  yet  these  stories 
are  a  partial  recovery  from  the  heavy,  fum- 
bling agony  of  Many  Marriages.  Mr.  Anderson 
continues,  with  crude  instruments  and  painful 
zeal,  to  work  at  his  unreclaimed  land,  a  fas- 
cinating, mysterious  place,  but  a  marsh  none 
the    less."     Robert    Littell 

—  New  Repub  37:99  D  19  '23  470w 
"The  prim,  the  pretty,  the  idyllic,  is  not  Mr. 
Anderson's  province.  His  narratives  are  told 
by  unlettered  men  in  unfettered  language. 
They  are  cross  sections  through  a  life  that  can 
be  a  very  ugly  and  a  very  terrible  affair." 
N  Y  Times  p7  N  25  '23  1450w 
"The  book  contains  Anderson's  work  at  his 
best,  or  next  best,  and  at  his  worst,  his  earlier 
and  his  maturer  work.  It  indicates  his  limita- 
tions— limitations  of  form  and  clarity  which  it 
seems  he  will  never  transcend,  and  it  indicates 
his  power,  which  is  certainly  that  of  intuitive 
genius,  the  like  of  which  is  not  to  be  found 
among  any  of  the  contemporary  writers." 
Burton    Rascoe 

^ NY    Tribune    p20    N    25    '23    200w 


ANDERSON,     SHERWOOD. 

264p      $2      Huebsch 


Many    marriages. 
23-7319 


"There  was  a  man  named  Webster.  .  . 
The  incidents  in  the  story  are  few.  This 
Webster,  a  respectable  manufacturer,  in  a 
small  industrial  town,  on  the  threshold  of 
middle-age,  with  a  sudden  about-face  changes 
his  entire  life,  makes  love  to  his  secretary 
and  goes  away  with  her,  turning  his  back 
upon  his  business  and,  before  his  departure, 
elaborately  staging  an  extraordinary  parting 
from    his    wife    and    daughter.       The    whole    is 


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ANDERSON,     SHERWOOD— Continwed 

symbolic  ot  needed  changes  in  our  social  struc- 
ture-—  "the  tearing  down  of  walls  and  the  tak- 
ing- ot  people  out  of  prisons" — of  the  living 
death  of  most  people:  of  the  body  as  the  house 
of  life  within  which  is  a  deep  well  full  of  dark 
and  hidden  things  held  down  by  a  heavy  iron  lid 
that  must  be  torn  open.  Webster's  cogitations 
fill  the  book  and  the  author  forestalls  the 
verdict  of  the  conventional  reader  by  allowing 
his    hero    frequently    to    doubt    his    own    sanity. 


"It  is  all  neatly  told.  There  is  meaning  to 
it — good  psychological  probing — and  a  sustained 
story  interest.  He  has  turned  a  searching  eye 
into  a  bit  of  puritanism  that  should  be  des- 
troyed. It  may  shock  some,  but  we  feel  cer- 
tain that  you  will  enjoy  it  immensely."  P.  N. 
Stone 

+  Bookm   57:210  Ap  '23  400w 

"A  crudely  conceived,  a  crudely  constructed, 
crudely  written  story.  It  has  not  even  the 
redeeming  feature  of  a  style  that  might  make  it 
readable.  Its  author  is  neither  original  nor 
successfully  imitative." 

—  Boston    Transcript   p6   Mr   7   '23   230w 
"For    all    the    feebleness,    even    flabbiness,    of 

the  texture  of  Many  Marriages  it  is  not  wholly 
devoid  of  the  strange  impressiveness  which  one 
feels  in  all  Mr  Anderson's  work."  Edmund  Wil- 
son, Jr. 

H  Dial  74:400  Ap  '23  llOOw 

"Without  being  at  all  pornographic  or 
obscene,  it  is  the  most  clearly  and  completely 
immoral  book  that  one  can  well  imagine.  I  use 
the  word  'immoral'  with  the  conventional  re- 
striction of  its  sense  to  a  deviation  from  the 
commonly  accepted  code  governing  relations  be- 
tween the  sexes."     G.  W.  J. 

Greensboro   (N.C.)    Daily   News   p24  My 
13  '23  780w 

Reviewed  by  H.  W.  Boynton 

ind  110:232  Mr  31  '23  600w 

"It  is  a  rather  terrible  story,  sordid  in  some 
of  its  details,  almost  unbearably  literal  in  more, 
shocking  also,  though  the  mystic  fervor  of  the 
writer  makes  a  charge  ot  indecency  irrelevant. 
.  .  A  remarkable  novel.  It  is  remarkable  as 
mere  story,  if  it  is  possible  to  consider  the 
story  alone  in  a  book  under  which  Hows  a 
broad  stream  of  reverie  and  mystical  interpreta- 
tion. It  is  remarkable  for  its  style,  which 
has  the  simplicity  of  great  writing,  and  is 
beautiful  in  its  plainness."  II:  S.  Oanby 
-H    Lit    R    p483    F   24    '23    1750w 

"The  anguish  and  intensity  behind  the  book 
have  warped  the  story.  Mr.  Anderson  has 
sought  to  make  his  fable  at  once  real  and 
symbolical.  But,  like  Dreiser,  he  has  no  fe- 
licity of  vision  or  of  touch.  He  lapses  into 
needless  excesses  of  speech  and  episode.  His 
symbols  are  grotesque,  unconsciously  grotesque. 
They  have  no  inevitable  fitness  and  so  no 
carrying  power.  It  is  only  the  author's  terrible 
earnestness  that  saves  the  strange  and  con- 
fused things  from  utter  absurdity  and  futility." 

'  —  +  Nation  116:368  Mr  28  '23  950w 
"It  isn't  a  novel,  it  isn't  much  concerned  with 
people,  or  things,  and  the  complex  combination 
of  the  two  that  make  life,  but  with  one  thing 
only,  the  truth  about  sex.  It  is  not  a  chase 
after  truth  in  the  open,  hounds  after  hare.  It 
is  a  crawling  after  truth  in  caverns,  tunnels 
and  mine  chambers,  a  slow,  stooping,  agonizing 
search  in  all  but  darkness."     Robert  I^ittell 

New  Repub  34:.sup6  Ap  11  '23  2600w 
N  Y  Times  plO  F  25  '23  880w 
"  'Many  Marriages'  is  a  soliloquy;  and  it  is 
the  very  soliloquizing  that  gets  Mr.  Anderson 
into  difficulties  as  an  artist.  The  sermonizing 
of  this  story  is  too  patent.  The  story  is  one 
on  which  Mr.  Anderson  has  rung  probably  too 
many  changes,  i.e.,  one  about  a  man  who  leaves 
his   wife    for  another   woman."      Burton    Rascoe 

—  NY   Tribune   pl7    F   25    '23    1200w 

"A  stirring,  beautiful  and  muddled  book. 
There    is     a    certain     futility    in     the     book    in 


spite  of  its  brave  honesty.     The  chief  character 
remains    a    little    aloof."       Heywood    Broun 

-1 NY    World    p6e    F    25    '2'i    GGUw 

"Of  course,  Mr.  Anderson  has  an  idea.  He 
wants  to  express  something  about  freedom, 
companionship,  the  beauty  and  mystery  of  the 
human  body  as  the  vehicle  and  expression  of 
love.  But  these  are  simple  things,  and  you 
cannot  express  simplicity  by  being  afraid  to 
be   simple."    Gerald   Gould 

—  Sat    R   136:281   S  8  '23   470w 

"The  essential  ugliness  oi  the  conception  is 
imparced  to  the  style;  the  writing  for  the  most 
part  is  angular  and  uninspired.  It  is  perhaps 
well  for  Mr  Anderson  to  have  divested  his  mind 
of  this  great  burden  of  abnormality.  Hereafter 
he  may  return  to  life.  If  he  does  not,  he  will 
soon  be  writing  only  for  the  population  of  mad- 
houses." 

—  Springf  d  Republican  p8a  Mr  11  '23  180w 

ANDERTON,    BASIL.     Sketches  from  a  library 

window.    182p   $3   Appleton 

824      Literature  [23-8906] 

With  the  exception  of  In  Northumbrian  sun- 
shine, which  is  a  description  of  English  scenery, 
this  collection  ot  scholarly  essays  presents  some 
quaint  excursions  into  the  held  of  literature. 
The  first  two  concern  themselves  with  Justus 
Liipsius,  a  stoic  of  the  sixteenth  century,  giv- 
ing a  translation  of  a  portion  of  one  of  his 
books,  "De  constantia,"  some  account  of  his 
life,  an  outline  of  his  manual  on  stoicism  and 
of  his  attitude  towards  Seneca.  The  other 
essays  are:  The  lure  of  translation;  A  gour- 
mand's breviary;  A  Newcastle  seaman  100  years 
ago:  Nature  and  human  nature  (a  study  of 
Wordsworth);    Sir   Thomas    Browne;    Index. 


Boston   Transcript  p5  Je  2  '23   260w 
'■This   book   is   varied   in   its   contents.    .    .    the 
work   of  a  taster  who   has  a  refined  palate   for 
the  good   things  of  literature." 

-I-  New  Statesman  20:184  N  11  '22  600w 
"A  book  of  papers  which  are  at  once  readable 
and  highly  scholarly.  Anderton  displays  all  the 
erudition,  especially  in  the  classics,  which  one 
expects  of  the  holder  of  the  master's  degree 
from   an    English    university." 

-f  N  Y  Times  p9  Ap  29  '23  140w 
"Mr.  Anderton  is  at  his  best  in  recounting  his 
discoveries  in  the  by-ways  of  literature.  When 
he  takes  to  literary  criticism  he  is  not  success- 
ful; the  essay  on  W^ords worth  is  commonplace, 
and  that  on  Sir  Thomas  Browne  overloaded 
with  not  very  competent   technical  analysis." 

-I Spec   129:565   O   21   '22   180w 

"These  eight  essays  are  worthy  and  charac- 
teristic of   a  scholarly  librarian." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p618    S 
28   '22   150w 

ANDREIEFF,  LEONID  NIKOLAEVICH. 

Anathema;   a   tragedy  in   seven   scenes;   auth. 

tr.    by    Herman    Bernstein.    211p    $1.50    Mac- 

millan 
891.72 

In  this  dramatic  allegory  the  spirit  of  inquiry 
is  represented  as  the  Evil  one,  Anathema.  He 
assails  the  silent  guardian  of  the  gates  of 
eternity  behind  which  dwells  the  beginning  of 
everything,  the  supreme  wisdom  of  the  uni- 
verse. He  tries  by  every  possible  means  to 
induce  the  guardian  to  afford  him  a  glimpse  of 
eternity;  failing  to  move  him  he  casts  dice  for 
a  human  being  to  use  as  a  tool  to  attain  his 
ends.  The  choice  falls  upon  David  Leizer,  a 
poor  foolish  old  Jew,  whose  own  extreme  need 
and  boundless  love  for  suffering  humanity  he 
uses  to  elicit  a  sign  from  the  nameless  power. 
In  the  end  a  cryptic  answer  from  the  guardian 
assures  Anathema  of  the  hopelessness  of  his 
quest  and  the  curtain  falls  upon  his  diabolic 
laughter. 


"Whatever  he  wrote  he  deemed  equally  ex- 
cellent. Like  Midas,  he  transformed  into  gold 
whatever  he  touched— but  the  gold  was  of  very 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


13 


inferior  quality.     This  is  why  his  work  fades  so 
rapidly — half  of  what  he  wrote  sounds  childish 
now,   almost  like   a  parody."     Isadore  Lhevinne 
—  Lit    R   p622   Ap  21   '23   1200w 

ANDREWS,   WILLIAM,   and    LANG,    ELSIE    M. 

Old    English   towns.       438p      il      $4-50      Stokes 

[18s    T.    W.    Laurie] 
914.2  England — Description  and  travel 

"In  this  group  of  forty-three  sketches,  part 
written  by  Mr.  Andrews,  part  by  Miss  Lang, 
a  comprehensive  survey  is  made  of  various 
important  towns  of  England.  The  story  of 
each  town  is  given  from  its  earliest  known 
origin.  Its  buildings  are  described.  And  many 
an  anecdote  is  told  re-vivifying  certain  pic- 
turesque phases  of  the  old-time  social  life  of 
each,  as  it  was  developed  through  the  cen- 
turies under  the  protection  of  castle,  cathedral, 
monastic  house  and  royal  patronage.  These 
anecdotes — flashlights  of  history — reveal  per- 
sons and  periods  in  the  same  relative  way  as 
at  the  Tercentenary  pageants  in  Plymouth  of 
New    England." — Boston    Transcript 


Boston  Transcript  p3  N  10  '23  300w 
"Any  writer  will  feel  handicapped  if  he  tries 
to  indicate  the  whole  story  in  each  case.  He 
must  either  treat  a  few  aspects  so  that  they 
form  a  coherent  picture,  or  tell  of  many 
things,  and  so  continually  bombard  the  imagina- 
tion with  individual  facts.  Mr.  Andrews,  in 
the  first  part  of  the  book,  leans  to  the  latter 
course.  It  is  not  without  compensation,  allow- 
ing the  introduction  of  a  variet.v  of  items 
which  have  an  appeal  for  their  sidelight  on 
the  history  of  human  quaintness;  nevertheless, 
it  makes  transitions  awkward  and  does  not 
lend  to  an  easy  and  light  reading.  Miss  Lang, 
in  the  second  part,  works  more  successfully 
and  weaves  many  threads  neatly  into  her 
smoothly-knitted    narrative."    P.    V.    Morley 

H Lit    R    p237    N    10    '23    420w 

"Those  who  are  interested  in  gossip  about 
the  past  will  undoubtedly  find  some  interest- 
ing accounts  of  local  custom  and  tradition 
scattered  through  these  four  hundred  pages, 
but  the  manner  in  which  this  knowledge  is 
imparted    is   commonplace." 

—  +  New    Statesman    21:504    Ag    4    '23    650w 

ANGELL,     NORMAN,     pseud.     (RALPH     NOR- 
MAN  ANGELL   LANE).  If    Britain  is    to  live. 
175p      $1.50      Putnam      [2s    6d    Nisbet[ 
327  International    law    and  relations.    Great 
Britain — B^oreign  relations.   Economic  policy 

23-5G06 
Applying  principles  similar  to  those  which  he 
has  outlined  in  previous  books,  the  author  warns 
Britain  that  if  she  is  to  live  and  maintain  her 
population,  she  must  set  herself  to  correct  cer- 
tain inistakes  of  the  past  and  must  take  her 
share  of  the  cost  and  risk  of  placing  international 
relations  on  a  new  and  secure  basis.  The  chief 
obstacles  to  be  overcome,  political  frontiers,  cus- 
toms barriers,  cotnpeting  armaments  and  the 
like,  are  the  inevitable  outcome  of  the  national- 
ist organization  of  Europe.  The  discussion  is 
chiefly  concerned  with  the  probleiri  of  economics 
and  the  author  urges  a  foreign  policy  which  shall 
substitute  for  the  haphazard  system  of  the  past 
one  based  upon  the  principles  of  economic  inter- 
nationalism. 


Reviewed    by   E.    M.    Patterson 

Ann    Am   Acad   108:226  Jl  '23   550w 
"A  book  that  should  be  read  by  everyone  who 
desires    a    clear,    concise,    thoughtful,    and    acute 
statement   of   the   problems   confronting   Europe 
today." 

+    Bookm    57:466   Je   '23   ISOw 

Boston  Transcript  p2  Ap  14  '23  1250w 
Cleveland  p44  Je  '23 
Reviewed   by   M.    A.   White 

Int   Bk   R  p61  Ag  '23  70w 
"Little  books  like  this  should  not  be  bound  in 
cloth   as  if  intended   for   library   shelves.      They 
should  be    paper-covered,    sold  at  a    quarter    at 
most,  on  the  railwav  news-stands."  L.   S.  G. 
Nation   116:sup444  Ap  11   '23   350w 


"The  situation  of  Europe  is  serious.  But  no 
good  is  done  by  announcing  more  wolves  than 
there  are.  This  book  is  written  to  the  British. 
It  is  called  a  'challenge  to  complacency.'  In 
reality  it  reads  like  a  sermon  to  the  converted." 
P.  W.  Wilson 

N  Y  Times  p4  Ap  1  '23  2050w 
Reviewed  by  S.  A.  Coblentz 

N   Y  Tribune  p30  My  13   '23  650w 
"Mr.    Angell    errs,    as   do   so   many,    in    under- 
valuing the  effect  of  mental  and  spiritual  forces 
even   upon   commerce  and  economics."   J.   L.   H. 
—  NY  World  p6e  My  27  '23  720w 
"Mr.  Angell's  new  book    was  written    for  the 
Briti.sh  public  without  thought  of  American  pub- 
lication.    American  readers  will  find  in  it,  how- 
ever,  an   impressive  statement  of  the  argument 
against    national    isolation.      While    the    author 
does  not  appeal  directly    to  America,   he    offers 
facts  which  sooner  or  later  must  be  taken   into 
account  by  America  in  reaching  her  own  deci- 
sions as  to  national  action." 

R  of  Rs  67:446  Ap  '23  130w 
"A  clear,  forcible  and  attractive  exposition  of 
the  international    situation    as  it  conlronts    this 
country  to-day.    We  recommend  it  both  for  the 
pleasuie    its  witty    pages    can   give  and  for    its 
clear  display  of  the  needs  of  the  hour." 
+  Spec  130:410  Mr  10  '23  720w 
"As    always,    Mr.    Angell    presents    his    argu- 
ments  clearly    and    interestingly." 

+  Survey    50:supl02    My    1    '23    130w 

The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p63  Ja  25 
'23  60w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:407   Jl   '23 

ARCHER,  WILLIAM.     Old  drama  and  the  new; 
an  essay  in  re -valuation.  396p  $3  Small 

822.09  English  drama — History  and  criti- 
cism 23-5545 
"Mr.  Archer's  thesis  is  that  we  are  living  in 
the  midst  of  a  great  period  of  English  dramatic 
authorship,  a  period  that  has  been  rendered 
illustrious  by  the  creative  compositions  of  such 
dramatists  as  Pinero,  Jones,  Barrie,  Shaw, 
Barker,  Galsworthy,  and  several  others,  and 
that  this  period  has  already  produced  a  truer 
and  a  finer  contribution  to  dramatic  art  than 
any  previous  period  in  the  history  of  the  Eng- 
lish theatre,  not  excepting  the  Restoration,  nor 
even  the  Elizabethan  age.  .  .  He  stoutly  and 
relentlesslv  attacks  the  most  highly  reputed  of 
the  Elizabethan  dramatists— Webster  and  Ford 
and  Fletcher  and  Tourneur  and  Middleton  and 
Jonson — and  intelligently  argues  that  the  best 
of  them  was  not  worthy  to  tie  the  shoe  strmgs 
of  Sir  Arthur  Pinero." — Lit  R 


Dial  75:99  Jl  '23  200w 
"These  lectures  make  stimulating  reading, 
since  they  challenge  accepted  judgments  and  in- 
vite controversy.  For  my  part.  I  rejoice  ui  Mj;; 
Archer's  assaults  upon  'The  Duchess  of  Malfi 
and  the  rest  of  that  tribe  of  dull  and  dreary 
dramas.  But  I  am  not  so  sure  that  he  is  not 
wasting    ammunition    on    straw    men.       W.     f. 

^  °'V  Freeman  7:355  Je  20  '23  1300w 
"Not  only  the  best  of  his  books  but  the  most 
important  study  of  the  development  of  the 
English  drama  vet  undertaken  by  anybody,  it 
is  the  whole  story  which  Mr.  Archer  has  now 
told  succinctly  from  the  predecessors  of  Shake- 
speare to  the  rise  and  fall  of  the  Irish  theater. 
Brander  Matthews 

+  Int  Bk  R  p36  Ap  '23  2500w 
"Mr  Archer's  book  is  sane  and  scholarly,  and 
his  argument  is  intelligent,  disinterested,  and 
dispassionate;  but  his  dialectics  are  ]ust  as 
destructive  to  long  established  critical  opinions 
as  Huxley's  sweetly  reasonable  Preachments 
were  destructive  to  the  long-established  re- 
ligious dogmas  that  were  still  current  in  his 
time."    Clayton   Hamilton 

+    Lit   R  p643  Ap  28  '23  1750w 

Reviewed  by  Stark  Young  m^n^r 

New    Repub    35:78    Je    13    '23    1050w 

"Mr.  Archer  finishes  his  book  with  an  exor- 
dium not  to  jeer  at  living  lions  while  we  bow 
down   and    worship    dead    dogs.      lS.ow.    theie   is 


14 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


ARCHER,  WILLIAM — Continued 
no  reason  on  earth  why  Mr.  Archer  should  not 
enjoy  his  contemporaries  to  this  extent,  nor 
yet  why  he  should  not  hate  so  many  beautiful 
and  amusing  things.  It  is  a  little  unjust  of 
him,  perhaps  to  suggest  that  those  of  us  who 
love  the  earlier  dramatists  do  so  merely  out 
of  an  affection  for  filth,  but  even  that  would 
pass.  What  one  does  not  like  is  the  thought 
of  those  teachers.  Are  they  going  to  pass  all 
this  on   to  their  pupils?"    R.  W. 

—  New  Statesman  22:52  O  20  '23  1300w 

"  'The  Old  Drama  and  the  New'  is  one  of  the 
most  delightful  books  on  drama  that  may  be 
read  (it  is  compact  with  quaint  twists  of 
thought  and  a  most  felicitous  style)."  H.  S. 
Gorman 

+  N   Y  Times  p8  Mr  18  "23  1500w 

"Why  spare  a  man  who  writes  a  first-rate 
melodrama  such  as  'The  Green  Goddess'  to 
compile  such  a  tiresome  tome?  This  book  is 
published  in  uniformity  with  Mr.  Archer's  ex- 
cellent 'Play-Making'  but  it  is  not  worthy  of  a 
place  on  the  same  shelf.  The  only  things  in 
the  book  that  make  it  valuable  for  the  student 
are  the  discussions  of  the  Knglish  dramatists 
who  wrote  bad  plays  in  the  interval  between 
Sheridan  and  Pinero,  and  they  are  for  the  blue- 
stocking of  the  closet  drama  and  not  for  those 
keenly  alive  to  the  theatre  of  to-day."   L.  S. 

h   N    Y   World   p8e  Mr  18  "23   420w 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:301   Je   '23 

"His  series  of  lectures  simply  develops  the 
sound,  well-reasoned  synopsis  of  the  theatre 
which  one  would  expect  them  to  contain.  In 
essentials,  and  excluding  the  detailed  examina- 
tion (mostly  destructive)  of  a  large  number  of 
scenes  from  secondary  playwrights  of  the  vari- 
ous periods,  the  book  is  read  before  it  is  opened, 
but  it  is  none  the  worse  for  that." 
H Sat  R  135:774  Je  9  '23  620w 

"William  Archer  devotes  the  greater  part  of 
his  space  to  telling  us  what  he  doesn't  like  in 
the  old  drama.  There  is  then  little  opportunity 
left  for  showing  what  he  does  like  in  the  new. 
These  lectures  are  more  valuable  as  controversy 
than  as  history  or  criticism,  but  they  supply 
not  a  little  material  for  those  who  desire  to 
argue  about  the  Elizabethan  or  Restoration 
drama." 

h  Sprlngf  d     Republican     pl4     Ap     6      23 

880w 

"Mr.  Archer  is  the  champion  of  the  realistic 
drama,  and  no  one  will  quarrel  with  him  for 
that:  the  trouble  is  that  he  feels  bound  to  prove 
his  loyalty  by  trying  to  overthrow  other  kinds 
of  play.  .  .  His  book  is  instructive  even  when 
least  "convincing,  by  the  sharpness  and  force 
with  which  it  defines  the  issues." 

—  ^_  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p383   Je 
7    '23    loOOw 
Theatre    Arts    M    7:348   O   '23   220w 

ARDEN,   CLIVE.     Sinners  in  heaven.      352p     $2 
Bobb.s    [7s    6d    L.    Parsons] 

23-13010 

"The  romance  of  a  stranded  English  youth 
and  maid  who  find  impulses  of  love  stealing 
upon  their  solitude  for  two  into  which  they 
have  fallen,  in  Australian  desert  places  with 
the  wreck  of  a  voyaging  air-plane.  The  story 
involves  a  wedding  in  the  sight  of  God,  a 
pretty  scandal  when  Barbara  Stockley  is  res- 
cued from  wild  men  and  other  perils  and  re- 
turns to  grimly  Puritan  Darbury  and  the  dis- 
comfiture of  young  Hugh  Rochdale,  to  whom 
Barbara  has  been  engaged  before  her  fateful 
flight  with   Alan   Croft."— N   Y  World 


"The  story  is  agreeably  and  competently  writ- 
ten, though  without  any  particular  distinction 
or  insight.  The  scenes  of  English  village  life 
are  a  good  deal  better  than  those  laid  on  the 
Pacific  island.  As  far  as  mere  craftsmanship 
is  concerned  it  is  a  creditable  first  novel." 
H Boston    Transcript    p5    O   20    '23    260w 

"Through  all  the  indisputable  nonsense  of  this 
book  the  writer  seems  to  be  grasping  sincerely 
enough  at  an  idea.  It  is  an  excellent  idea.  But 
that  doesn't  alter  the  fact  that  the  present 
materialization  of  it  is  pretty  bad,   because  in 


working  it  out  the  writer  has  found  nothing 
better  to  do  than  to  fall  back  on  the  old  fa- 
miliar desert   island   stuff." 

1-   Lit    R    pll4   O   6   '23   300w 

Reviewed  by  Raymond  Mortimer 

New  Statesman  21:144  My  12  '23  340w 
"On  the  whole,  the  novel  is  creditably  written. 
It  maintains  the  interest  from  beginning  to 
end;  it  depicts  the  atmosphere  of  the  English 
small  town  with  reality,  and  that  of  the  island 
with    vividness." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl6  D  9  '23  SOOw 
"The  narrative  could  be  read  with  complete 
enjoyment  by  persons  not  at  all  interested  in 
either  ethical  or  literary  problems.  It  is  not, 
in  fact,  an  ultra-literary  product;  there  are  no 
Conradian  overtones  and  nuances,  no  subtleties 
of  diction  or  character  drawing.  There  is  a 
crudely  lush  quality  in  some  of  the  love  scenes 
which  probably  betokens  the  'prentice  hand. 
But  the  viewpoint  is  fresh  and  the  zeal  of  the 
author  never  flags."     Isabel   Paterson 

+   N   Y   Tribune  p22  O  7  '23   llOOw 
Reviewed  by  E.   W.   Osborn 

N   Y  World  plOe  O  7  '23  120w 
"It    is    an    agreeable    if    rather    commonplace 
piece    of    story-telling,    unmarked    by   any    par- 
ticular originality." 

-+-   —  The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p305  My 
3  '23  250w 

ARLEN,   MICHAEL,  pseud.    See  Kuyumjian,  D. 

ARMSTRONG,  HAROLD  HUNTER  (HENRY 
G.  AIKMAN,  pseud.).  Red-blood.  479p  ?2 
Harper 

23-12450 
The  dominant  trait  in  Wellington  Dennison 
McNicol  was  his  will  to  power,  spurred  on 
by  the  taint  of  illegitimacy.  Born  in  a  small 
Canadian  village  and  having  achieved  a  medi- 
cal education  by  dint  of  his  mother's  small 
savings  and  self-denials,  he  resolves  to  marry 
the  richest  and  prettiest  girl  in  town  and  to 
become  a  great  man.  His  partial  success  with 
both  resolutions  is  recorded  in  the  story.  He 
does  not  marry  Jenny  Gough  but  her  weaker 
reflection,  her  sister  Lessie.  His  road  to  em- 
inence is  an  arduous  one.  Achieving  great 
riches  after  years  of  struggle,  without  the 
greatness  that  he  craves,  he  goes  into  politics. 
There  too  after  a  term  as  mayor  of  the  city 
of  Detroit,  his  star  of  greatness  wanes.  His 
domestic  life  is  without  glamor  and  his  child- 
ren are  a  disappointment  to  him.  His  end  is 
a  lonely  and  pathetic  one.  This  mixture  of 
failure  and  success  is  shown  to  grow  out  of 
a  duality  in  his  nature.  Underneath  his  ruth- 
less selfishness  is  the  softer  strain  of  the  senti- 
mental Celt.  Puritanical  ideals,  intrinsic 
honesty,  something  soft  deep  down,  contradict- 
ing the  hardness  of  his  actions,  interfere  with 
the    ultimate    goal    of   his   ambitions. 


"It  reminds  one  of  Dreiser  and  of  Sinclair 
Lewis.  Not  so  well  written  as  'Babbitt,'  not  so 
largely  conceived  as  'The  Financier,'  the  book 
yet  represents  solid  achievement  in  American 
fiction  writing."   J.    F. 

-j Bookm  58:321  N  '23  220w 

"A  remarkably  well  written  bit  of  fictitious 
biography.  Of  an  interesting  character  in  a 
changeful  period  Mr.  Armstrong  has  made  an 
absorbing  story."     S.   L.  R. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p4  S  15  '23  550w 

Reviewed   by   H.    W.    Boynton 

Ind    111:172   O   13    '23   llOOw 

"Mr.  Armstrong's  pictui-e  is  so  harsh  that 
some  strokes  suggest  caricature.  As  a  con- 
sequence, the  novel  lacks  integration."  Allan 
Nevins 

h   Lit    R   P279   N    24   '23   650w 

"As  in  Mr  Armstrong's  earlier  novel,  Zell,  we 
are  chiefly  conscious  of  the  mass  of  raw  mate- 
rial, of  real  experience.  But  the  leading  char- 
acter does  not  integrate  it.  The  magnate 
whose  financial,  social  and  political  adventures 
we  follow  in   the  last  half  of  the  book  is  not 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


15 


the  young  doctor  wh6m  we   know  In   the   first 
half." 

—   New    Repub   36:188   O   10   "23   150w 

"Skillfully  wrought  character  study.  In  his 
central  character,  Mr.  Armstrong  has  made  a 
figure   of  genuine  appeal." 

-i-   N    Y   Times   pl4   S   9   '23   660w 

"Mr.  Armstrong  seems  more  conscious  of  his 
obligation  to  his  central  character  than  to  his 
reader.  Detail  after  detail  is  set  down  with 
a  painstaking  effort  to  be  honest  in  his  char- 
acterization. In  the  end  the  book  wins  the 
reader  by  the  power  and  flow  of  its  theme, 
but  the  reader  is  ignored  completely.  The 
veteran  novel  reader,  who  likes  them  long  and 
filled  with  characters,  can  find  sanctuary  from 
the  sophisticates  in  this  book."  Laurence 
Stallings 

+   N   Y   World  p9  N   19   '23  820w 

ARMSTRONG,    MARTIN.      Puppet    show.    153p 

$2    Brentano's 

"This  is  a  collection  of  little  sketches.  Each 
is  concerned  with  some  particular  trait  of  char- 
acter or  phase  of  life." — N  Y  Tribune 

Dial  75:301  S  '23  80w 

"It  seems  to  me  the  most  interesting  first 
book  of  fiction  that  has  appeared  for  a  long 
time."    M.    L.    Franklin 

+   Ind   111:141   S  29   '23  400w 

"Written  with  a  firm  touch,  an  able  command 
of  the  sul)ject-matter,  and  a  fluent  and  dis- 
tinguished style  that  at  times  is  admirably 
succinct  and  at  times  is  jewelled  with  beauti- 
ful and  picturesque  expressions." 
+   Lit   R   p8S4   Ag  4  '23  240w 

"In  'The  Puppet  Show'  Mr.  Martin  Arm- 
strong, already  known  to  the  discriminating 
as  a  considerable  poet,  reveals  himself  as  a 
writer  of  excellent  prose.  Some  of  the  satires 
strike  us  as  a  little  mechanical;  others  as  neat 
gestures  and  nothing  more." 

H New    Statesman    19:330    Je    24    '22    280w 

"Deftly  and  neatly  written,  with  a  particular 
knack  of  clear  characterization.  But  that  does 
not  obviate  the  fact  that  the  sketches  are  sin- 
gularly colorless.  It  is  all  very  clever,  but  when 
you  have  once  closed  the  book  you  cannot,  for 
the  life  of  you,  remember  one  sketch  from  the 
other."     E.    L. 

-1 NY   Tribune  p20  Je  24  '23   220w 

"This  little  bundle  of  snapshots  and  pastels 
and  squibs  is  not  sufficient  evidence  of  what 
the  author's  full  powers  may  be;  but  he  cer- 
tainly has  wit,  craftsmanship  and  imagination, 
and  we  shall  be  curious  to  see  his  future  devel- 
opment." 

+  Sat   R   133:660  Je   24   '22   160w 

"It  possesses  the  indefinable  quality  of  charm. 
Here  and  there,  unfortunately,  is  a  little  care- 
lessness in  diction.  Is  It  this  occasional  slack- 
ness and  the  aforesaid  charm  that  somehow 
unite  to  blind  us.  to  the  remarkable  cleverness 
and  virtuosity  of  the  book?" 

H Spec  129:247  Ag  19  '22  900w 

"There  is  only  one  touch  of  true  bad  taste 
in  all  this  mischievous  book;  and  that  is  where 
Mr.  Armstrong  jolts  us  out  of  one  very  good 
kind  of  fun  into  another  inappropriate  and  less 
amusing  kind  of  fun  by  a  silly  joke  about  mys- 
tic cycles  and  bicycles.  He  has  stores  of  wis- 
dom— which  we  call  instinctive  or  spiritual,  be- 
cause they  cannot  come  from  experience — out 
of  which  fine  prose  and  poetry  are  made.  And 
yet  he  is  as  mischievous  as  anv  bov  of  ten." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup  p362   Je 

1    '23    lOOOw 

ARNOLD,  MATTHEW.  Unpublished  letters  of 
Matthew  Arnold;  ed.  by  Arnold  Whitridge. 
(Amasa  Stone  Mather  memorial  publication 
fund)       70p       $1.50       Yale    univ.    press 

B  or  92  23-12573 

Many  of  the  letters  in  this  little  volume 
written  by  Matthew  Arnold  between  1849  and 
1884.  are  intimate  family  letters  and  most  of 
these  are  addressed  to  his  sister,  Mrs  Forster 
whose  sympathy  and  opinion  he  sought  on  every 
venture  literary  or  otherwise.     The  letters  con- 


tain frank  comment  on  his  own  work  and  that 
of  his  contemporaries  and  things  in  general. 
Two  long  letters  to  Arnold  from  Cardinal  New- 
man are  included,   with  Arnold's  replies. 


"Delightful  touches  of  his  family  life,  his  al- 
together naive  exuberance  in  being  a  member 
of  the  Athenaeum,  and  the  confession  of  his 
own  limitations  outweigh  any  very  slight  ex- 
amples of  a  polemical  dogmatism  elsewhere  ap- 
parent. After  all,  a  man  whose  ruling  ideas 
came  from  Goethe,  Wordsworth,  Sainte-Beuve 
and  Newman  had  something  to  be  dogmatic 
about." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  O  17  '23  300w 

"It  seems  absurd  to  say  that  the  Matthew 
Arnold  of  this  sheaf  of  sixty-seven  pages  was 
the  Matthew  Arnold  we  were  searching  for  in 
the  earlier  letters  in  vain.  Nevertheless,  like 
many  absurd  things,  it  is  true.  It  is  as  if  we 
spent  an  entire  afternoon  with  a  preoccupied 
friend,  wondering  if  this  were  really  he  whom 
we  had  known.  Then,  days  later,  in  five  min- 
utes' conversation  (to  wit,  this  tiny  collection 
of  letters)  we  behold  the  old  gesture  and  smile, 
those  of  the  creator  of  certain  favorite  things 
of  ours  in  prose  and  verse.  That  the  new 
letters  revive  the  charm  of  Matthew  Arnold  is 
perhaps  all  that  need  be  said  for  the  collec- 
tion."    S.    T.    Williams 

+  Lit   R   p207    N   3  '23   550w 

ARNOLD,    WILLIAM     HARRIS.        Ventures    in 
book    collecting.      356p      il      $3.50      Scribner 

010     Book  collecting  23-13796 

An  enthusiastic  book  collector  tells  how  he 
became  one  and  how  some  of  his  choicest 
treasures  were  secured.  He  began  by  gather- 
ing books  at  random  but  gradually  concentrated 
his  attention  on  Tennyson  and  Stevenson,  with 
the  result  that  his  collection  of  Tennysoniana 
has  become  famous  on  both  sides  of  the  At- 
lantic. He  was  also  interested  in  collecting 
autographed  manuscripts,  letters,  etc.  and  one 
of  his  chapters  is  devoted  to  letters  of  notable 
women.  There  are  numerous  illustrations  and 
facsimile  title-pages.  Contents:  The  making 
of  a  book-collector;  A  book-hunter's  garner; 
Luck  of  a  book-collector;  Some  eighteenth - 
century  books  and  letters;  Some  Victorian  books 
and  letters;  My  Tennysons;  My  Stevensons; 
Letters  of  notable  women;   Index. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  N  17  '23  650w 

"His  book  is  engagingly  chatty  and  tells  the 
tales  of  his  adventures  with  a  simple  directness 
and  a  naivete  of  delight  that  appeal  and  dis- 
arm criticism.  Collectors  will  find  much  in  this 
book  to  take  to  heart,  and  also  much  to  bear 
In   mind."     T.    S. 

+   Freeman    8:263  N   21    '23   380w 

"Mr.  Arnold  may  have  been  primarily  a  col- 
lector of  letters  and  first  editions,  but  the 
motive  force  behind  his  zeal  was  that  of  a  genu- 
ine lover  of  literature.  He  kindles  the  ardor,  not 
alone  of  the  connoisseur,  but  that  of  the  mere 
student  of  literary  history  as  well.  His  selection 
of  topics  is  catholic,  and  he  has  brought  to 
them  a  background  of  culture  which  makes  a 
personal  hobby  doubly  fascinating." 
+   Nation    117:531   N   7   '23   90w 

"It  is  the  feature  of  intrinsic  human  interest 
which  seems  always  to  have  appealed  so  much 
to  the  author  in  his  collecting  of  books,  auto- 
graphs and  letters  that  makes  his  volume  one 
of    unusual    charm." 

-I-   N    Y    Times   p24    O    28   '23   600w 

"It  is  not  nearly  so  entertaining  a  work  as 
Mr.  Newton's  'Amenities  of  Book  Collecting,' 
but  it  is  interesting,  and  on  the  bibliographical 
side  it  is  valuable."    Vincent   Starrett 

H NY    Tribune    pt8    O    21    '23    900w 

"Will  delight  those  who  follow  that  agreeable 
pastime  and  tempt  others  to  begin  its  pursuit." 
-f-   N    Y   Wcrld   p9   O  14  '23  120w 

"There  are  a  number  of  previously  unpub- 
lished letters  and  fragments  which  make  enter- 
taining reading  and  give  the  book  a  permanent 
value." 

-f-  Sat    R   136:475   O   27   '23   180w 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


ARTHUR,  SIR  GEORGE  COMPTON  ARCHI- 
BALD. Sarah  Bernhardt.  178p  $2  Double- 
day       [6s    Heinemann] 

B  or  92  Bernhardt,  Sarah  [23-14390] 

The  writer  was  for  many  years  a  friend  of 
Sarah  Bernhardt.  His  book  is  not  a  connected 
biography  but  a  sketch  recalling  impressions  of 
her  personality  which  have  stayed  in  his  mem- 
ory, and  describing  her  principal  roles  and  the 
means  which  he  has  seen  her  use  on  various 
occasions  to  secure  her  effects  on  the  stage. 
Many  anecdotes  are  included  and  some  of  her 
letters. 


Bookm  58:586  Ja  '24  190w 
"Sir  George  Arthur  recalls  in  a  deprecating 
■way  Matthew  Arnold's  verdict  on  Bernhardt: 
'Something  is  wanting.  That  something  is  high 
intellectual  power.'  It  may  be  that  this  was 
a  thoroughly  unjust  charge,  but  the  one  thing 
lacking  in  Sir  George  Arthur's  book,  for  all  its 
charm  of  portraiture,  is  evidence  to  refute  the 
accusation." 

+  —  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p467    Jl 
12  '23   850w 

AS  thev  are;  French  political  portraits;  tr.  from 
s    the    French    by    Winifred    Katzin.    217p    $2.50 
Knopf 

923.2     Statesmen,   French.      France — Biogra- 
phy.   France — Politics    and   government 

23-16308 

Sharply  etched  portraits  of  twenty-six  con- 
temporary Frenchmen  who  control  directly  or 
indirectly  the  political  policy  of  France.  Con- 
tents: Avant-propos:  Georges  Clemenceau; 
Joseph  Caillaux;  Henry  Cheron;  Maurice  Colrat; 
Paul  Doumer;  Pierre  Forgeot;  Edouard  Herriot; 
Charles  Jonnart;  Andre  Lefevre;  Louis  Lou- 
cheur;  Georges  Mandel;  Alexandre  Millerand; 
Paul  Painleve;  Raoul  Peret;  Andr6  Tardieu; 
Anatole  de  Monzie;  Maurice  Bokanowski;  Rene 
Viviani;  Aristide  Briand;  Raymond  Poincar€; 
Louis  Barthou;  L4on  Berard;  Henry  Berenger; 
Andr6  Berthelot;  Marshall  Foch;  Maurice  Mau- 
noury. 


Reviewed  bv  L:    S.   Gannett 

Nation   117:666   D  5   '23    600w 

ASHBEE,  CHARLES  ROBERT.    Palestine  note- 
=    hook.   1918-1923.      27Sp     $3.50     Doubleday    [12s 

6d     Heinemann] 

915.69       Palestine.       Zionism  23-17929 

The  "Palestine  notebook"  is  a  commentary  on 
the  British  administration  of  Palestine,  1918- 
1923,  during  which  time  as  civic  adviser  of  the 
city  of  Jerusalem,  the  author  helped  in  the  new 
plans  for  the  reconstruction  of  the  city.  In 
the  course  of  his  investigations  connected  with 
the  city  survey  he  gathered  notes  for  recon- 
struction and  talked  with  British  officials  and 
Jews,  drawing  his  conclusions  along  the  way. 
He  has  much  to  say  on  the  subject  of  Zionism 
and  he  includes  personal  portraits  of  General 
Allenby.  Herbert  Samuel,  Lord  Milner  and 
others. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  N  24  '23  880w 
"The  effect  of  his  literary  method  of  being 
confusing  is  really  enlightening,  for  there  is 
apparently  no  effort  to  'write'  a  great  addition 
to  the  world's  literature.  Whether  his  con- 
clusions be  favorably  or  unfavorably  received, 
one  can  not  but  accord  him  the  credit  of  being 
honest,  vigorous,  and  effective  in  his  descrip- 
tions. To  one  interested  in  the  future  of  Pales- 
tine this  attractive  volume  is  sure  to  be  of 
beneficial    interest." 

H Detroit   News   p23  D  9   '23   190w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p886    D 
20  '23  900w 

ASHBY,       PHILIP.        Mad      rani;      and      other 

sketches    of    Indian    life    and    thought.        239p 

$3    Dutton    [7s   6d   Routledge] 

The     stories    and     sketches    in     this    volume, 

drawn     from    the    author's    twenty-five    years' 

experience   in    India,    strike   into   the   unfamiliar 

mind  of  the  Indian  people  and  show  how  dif- 


ferent is  this  mind  from  that  of  the  West. 
Contents:  Twice-hanged:  Indian  hysterics; 
The  hysterical  father;  The  butchers'  strike; 
The  honour  of  caste;  The  mad  rani;  The  re- 
luctant adoption;  The  6  down  express;  The 
plague  riots;  The  gate  of  bathing;  Rehoboam's 
revenge;  The  postmaster's  daughter;  Water; 
An  amateur  parson;  A  religion  of  brotherly 
unity;  Indigo;  Retribution;  The  lady-doctor; 
"The  successor  to  the  prophet";  "Quantum 
mutatus  ab  illo  Hectorel"  The  trident;  A  new 
Abraham;  Satti;  Strophanthin;  The  girl  of 
great  price;  A  victim  of  politics;  the  Sarju- 
bridge;    Two   women. 


"Mr.  Ashby's  sketches  stand  on  their  own 
merits.  He  needs  no  college  course  in  fiction 
to  give  us  what  we  want.  We  can  readily  con- 
ceive of  this  wealth  of  material  being  care- 
fully husbanded,  tricked  out  in  the  frills  and 
furbelows  of  magazine  fiction  and  expanded  to 
thrice  its  length.  But  now  and  then  we  prefer 
our  stories  'straight,'  and  in  an  age  of  prohi- 
bition and  dilution  they  are  increasingly  diffi- 
cult to  come  by." 

+   N    Y   Times    pl7   N   11   '23   780w 

"Mr.  Ashby  in  these  sketches  of  Indian  life 
and  mentality,  has  struck  a  new  note.  In  none 
of  the  stories  does  he  attempt  a  climax,  nor 
does  he  on  any  occasion  avail  himself  of  the 
legitimate  means  for  achieving  the  atmos- 
pheric effect  we  are  accustomed  to  appreciate 
in  all  writings  about  the  East.  His  method  is 
really  extraordinarily  successful;  and  this 
lack  of  garniture  has  the  unexpected  double 
effect  of  emphasizing  the  strangeness  of  the 
Indian  mind  at  work  and,  at  the  same  time, 
of  putting  us  in  sympathy  with  the  justice  of 
motives  and  actions  that,  described  by  any 
other  writer  (except  Mr.  Edmund  Candler,  per- 
haps), would  seem  to  us  wholly  repulsive  and 
incomprehensible." 

+  Spec    131:228   Ag   18    '23   160w 

"It  is  noticeable  in  this  collection  of  sketches 
that  those  which  one  continues  to  think  about 
longest  are  not  those  in  which  Mr.  Ashby  has 
been  at  pains  to  develop  a  coherent  plot.  He 
is  most  interesting  where  he  has  followed  his 
natural  bent^when  he  has  not  sought  to  add 
the  strangeness  of  ordered  drama  to  isolated 
actions  which  are  strange  to  us  because  they 
spring  from  ways  of  thought  that  are  not  ours. 
What  he  succeeds  in  doing  is  to  tell  his  stories 
so  that  while  we  continue  to  think  that  these 
Indians  are  acting  strangely  we  recognize  that 
there  may  be  a  point  of  view  from  which  they 
are    acting    naturally." 

+  The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup  p338  My 
17    '23    650w 

ASQUITH,  LADY  CYNTHIA  MARY  EVELYN 
(CHARTERIS).  Child  at  home.  278p  $1.50 
Scribner 

173     Children — Management    and    training 

23-12121 
This  is  no  serious  manual  on  the  rearing  of 
children  but  a  book  in  which  a  mother,  draw- 
ing from  the  memories  of  an  evidently  happy 
childhood,  advises  other  mothers  how  to  make 
of  childhood  a  joyous  thing.  She  dwells  on 
the  lighter  side  of  parenthood,  on  the  fun  that 
mother  and  children  may  have  together,  on 
such  things  as  reading  aloud,  going  for  a  walk, 
pets,  the  first  experience  of  the  theater,  a  trip 
to  the  zoo,  shopping,  dressing  up,  being  photo- 
graphed, etc.  There  are  some  more  serious 
chapters  on  choosing  a  nurse,  manners  at 
table,  the  family  doctor  and  the  children's 
relations   to   the    grandparents. 

Booklist   20:81   D  '23 

"Almost  the  only  virtue  in  Lady  Cynthia 
\squith's  book,  'The  Child  at  Home,'  is  that 
it  intimates,  rather  between  the  lines  than  in 
them,  that  a  child  and  its  mother  can  have  a 
really  good  time  together,  if  they  don't  overdo 
it."   Ruth  Hale 

h    Bookm    58:329   N   '23   70w 

"It  is  a  thoroughly  sensible  book,  and  one 
which  undoubtedly  would  be  valuable  for  the 
parents   of   some   American    children.      Common 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


17 


sense    rather   than    innovation    seems    the    key- 
note  of   most    of   her   talks." 

+   Boston   Transcript  p3  D  29  '23  200w 
Dial    75:614    D    '23    80w 
"The    essays    are    unpretentious    and    by    no 
means   unreadable." 

H Ind    111:141    S   29    '23    lOOw 

"Though  in  no  sense  a  'Mothers'  Manual,' 
Lady  Cynthia  Asquith's  book  does  provide,  in- 
directly, many  useful  hints  to  the  better  un- 
derstanding of  children  and,  incidentally,  some 
delightful  reading  about  childhood.  Her  book 
is  entirely  free  from  mawkish  sentiment;  and 
this  is  rare  in  the  case  of  books  about  chil- 
dren." 

+   New   Statesman    22:90   O   27    '23   210w 

N  Y  Times  p24  D  23  '23  llOOw 
"Lady  Cynthia  Asquith,  who  is  the  wife  of 
a  son  of  former  Premier  Asquith,  makes  a 
very  able  and  sympathetic  attorney  for  child- 
hood. Her  angle  is,  delightfully,  that  of  a 
grown-up  child  gifted  with  adult  vision  who 
remembers  just  how  she  felt  about  everything, 
rather  than  that  of  a  grown-up,  pure  and 
simple,  regarding  children  objectively,  as  a 
species." 

+  Outlook   135:150   S   26   '23   400w 
"Full    of   that    best    sort   of   wisdom   which    is 
derived  from  an  obviously  happy  childhood  not 
forgotten." 

-f  Sat  R  136:251  S  1  '23  300w 
Spec  131:323  S  8  '23  300w 
"She  writes  pleasantly,  informally,  and  very 
evidently  from  her  own  personal  experience. 
She  gives  much  valuable  advice  to  mothers; 
sound  common  sense  advice,  dictated  by  a 
sympathetic  imagination,  a  sense  of  humor  and 
the  keen  insight  shown  in  all  her  dealings 
with   children." 

-j-  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  O   7    '23   550w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p505    Jl 
26    '23    lOOw 

ASQUITH,     HERBERT     HENRY.       Genesis     of 

the   war.    405p   $6   Doran 

940.311     European     war,     1914-1919 — Causes. 
Great     Britain — Foreign     relations 

23-16306 

Mr.  Asquith  was  prime  minister  of  England 
for  six  years  before  the  war  and  two  years 
after  it  began.  His  purpose  is  to  trace  its 
genesis  thru  all  the  antecedent  stages  up  to 
its  actual  outbreak  with  special  reference  to 
the  policy  pursued  by  Great  Britain  during  the 
ten  years  preceding.  He  considers  such  topics 
as  the  alleged  "enciiclement"  of  Germany,  the 
development  of  the  Entente  and  Great  Britain's 
participation  in  it,  the  naval  expansion  of  Ger- 
many and  Great  Britain,  the  pre-war  prepara- 
tions, and  the  mediatoiy  negotiations  of  Sir 
Edward   Grey   for   peace. 


"Mr.  Asquith  does  not  favor  us  with  startl- 
ing revelations,  but  he  illuminates  known  facts 
by  presenting  them  in  explanatory  settings.  .  . 
This  Dook  has  a  certain  distinction  in  its  sober 
balancing  of  reticence  and  revelation,  in  what 
it  refrains  from  telling  as  well  as  in  what  it 
tells."    V:    P.    Clark 

+  Atlantic's    Bookshelf    N    '23    760w 

Reviewed  by  C:  Seymour 

Bookm    58:479   D  '23   lOOOw 

"A  book  of  plain  statements  told  in  sober, 
and  even  scholarly,  fashion  by  a  man  who 
commands  a  precise  but  not  precious  English." 
C.    A.    Plaver 

+   Detroit    News   p23    D   9    '23   360w 

"Obviously  ISIr.  Asquith's  liook,  like  that  of 
the  Kaiser,  will  be  of  interest  to  the  student 
of  political  psychology  rather  than  to  the  his- 
torian. Books  like  Mr.  Asquith's,  however, 
are  not  wholly  without  value.  Under  critical 
examination  they  afford  for  the  common  man 
a  glimpse  of  the  sorry  lies  for  which  he  is 
hoaxed  into  offering  himself  as  a  sacrifice." 
Harold    Kellock 

—  Freeman    8:378    D    26    '23    2500w 

Reviewed   by  C:    Seymour 

Lit    R   p423   Ja   5   '24   300w 


Reviewed  by  H.   W.   Horwill 

Nation    117:745    D    26    '23    750w 

"There  are  three  chapters  in  this  book — and 
only  three — which  tell  us  something  really  new. 
.  .  Mr.  Asquith  puts  us  back  in  the  murky 
atmosphere  of  war  propaganda.  He  writes  as 
a  politician  seeking  to  make  a  case,  not  as 
a  historian  searching  to  know  the  truth.  He 
who  would  know  the  real  genesis  of  the  war 
will  not  find  it  in  Mr.  Asquith's  pages."  S.  B. 
Fay 

—  New   Repub   37:154   Ja  2  '23   1500w 

"Mr.  Asquith's  book,  as  we  have  said,  is 
'history.'  It  is  a  record,  not  a  defence.  It  is  so 
unromantic  that  it  is  almost  dull.  Indeed,  it  is 
only  not  dull  because  it  is  so  brief  and  so 
precise.  It  reveals  with  even  tempered  and  un- 
mistakable exactitude  what  the  rulers  of  Eng- 
land thought  and  did  in  the  fateful  years  that 
preceded    the    great    catastrophe." 

+   New    Statesman    21:622    S    8    '23    2000w 

"Mr.  Asquith  has  written  what  the  critic  him- 
self must  call  a  perfect  book.  In  a  few  hours 
one  had  read  it  and  one  rose  refreshed.  Here 
is  the  hard,  the  good  writing  which  means 
easy   reading."     P.   W.   Wilson 

4-   N    Y   Times   plO    N    18   '23   2100w 
Sat  R  136:305  S  15  '23  1250w 
Spec   131:319    S   8   '23   1900w 

"This  book  contains  no  gossip,  no  triviali- 
ties and  no  vanity.  It  is  in  every  sense  a  public 
document  dealing  with  public  affairs,  and  deal- 
ing with  them  from  a  public,  not  from  a  pri- 
vate or  personal,  point  of  view.  .  .  Mr.  Asquith 
is  before  all  things  a  practical  man  and  a  law- 
yer. He  has  here  the  greatest  happiness  which 
can  come  to  a  lawyer,  that  of  having  a  very 
strong  brief,  a  cause  in  w^hich  he  believes,  and 
a  client  whom  he  adm.ires  and  loves." 

+  The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p595    S 
13    '23    2100W 

ASTON,    FRANCIS   WILLIAM.    Isotopes.    152p   il 

$3  Longmans  [9s  Arnold] 

541.2     Isotopes  [22-13210] 

"A  consideration  of  substances  with  identical 
chemical  and  spectroscopic  properties  but  differ- 
ing in  atomic  weight."  (Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui) 
"He  has  continued  the  investigation  begun  by 
Sir  J.  J.  Thomson  in  1912,  improved  and  extend- 
ed its  methods,  greatly  enlarged  our  ideas  of  the 
elements,  and  made  a  very  handsome  contribu- 
tion to  knowledge."    (Chem  Age   [London],  1922) 


Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui  28:58  F  '23 

ASTOR,  NANCY  WITCHER  (LANGHORNE) 
viscountess.  My  two  countries.  117p  $1.25 
Doubleday 

304      Women    in    politics  23-7474 

This  little  book  contains  nine  of  Lady  Astor's 
addresses  delivered  in  the  United  States  during 
her  recent  visit,  in  Canada  and  in  Plymouth, 
England,  on  her  return.  Her  themes  are  politics 
and  especially  women  in  politics,  England  and 
her  ideals,  the  bond  between  America  and  Great 
Britain,  peace  and  the  League  of  nations. 


"In  their  entirety  they  are  even  more  impress- 
ing than  they  were  in  a  condensed  form.  There 
is  no  attempt  to  startle;  no  desire  to  make  a 
big  blaze  in  the  heavens.  There  is  nothing  but 
common  sense  and  good  taste.  America  and 
England  should  both  be  proud  of  her  restraint.' 
+   Bookm   57:339  My  '23  160w 

Boston   Transcript   p4  My   26   '23   260w 

"The  nine  speeches  here  reproduced  are  well 
worth  reading.  In  the  first  place  they  are  full 
of  hard  common  sense  decorated  and  lightened 
by  manv  striking  phrases.  They  are,  in  ad- 
dition very  simple  'homely'  talks  of  an  Ameri- 
can girl  of  the  best  type  who  has  done  things 
worth  while  but  who  is  chiefly  unfeignedly  glad 
to  be  back  at  home.  And  lastly,  they  are  so 
full  of  the  charming  personality  of  their  auth- 
or that  the  reader  can  readily  understand  how 
she  happened  to  be  the  first  woman  to  sit  in 
the    Mother    of    Parliaments." 

-f-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p7    Ap 
1    '23    450w 


18 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


ASTOR,    NANCY    WITCHER — Continued 

"Every  page  of  the  book  is  frank,  direct, 
simple,  and  quite  without  the  highfalutin  which 
many  of  the  male  M.  P.'s  and  Congressmen 
seem  to  think  is  essential  in  a  speech."  E.  L. 
Pearson 

+  ind   110:231   Mr  31    '23    60w 
"A  reasonable  and  better  hope  for  civilization 
is    given     in     this    little    book.       Lady    Astor's 
speeches    radiate    her    fearlessness,    her    humor 
and  her  tact." 

+   N    Y   Times   p22   Mr  25   '23   450w 

"Here    is    Lady    Astor    at    her    best,    pleading 

for    a    better    understanding    between    the    two 

kindred  nations,  praising  each  to  the  other  and 

each    to    itself    for   its    sterling    qualities,    while 

deploring  the   existence   of   types  of  people  and 

types  of  mind  that  fall  far  short  of  perfection." 

+  Springf'd    Republican   p8  Ap  2   "23   300w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p443   Je 

28  '23  50w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:406  Jl   '23 

ATKIN,     GRACE     IVIURRAY.       That     which     is 
passed.       334p    $1.75    Crowell 

23-13452 

The  scene  of  this  story  is  laid  in  Paris  but 
the  main  characters  are  English.  Believing 
himself  an  orphan  Peter  Magdalen  accepts  his 
usual  good  luck  and  regular  allowances  with 
boyish  cheerfulness,  not  troubling  himself  to 
inquire  into  their  source.  He  meets  P6re  For- 
mol  who  has  grown  old  and  bitter  in  his 
realization  of  the  failure  of  his  art.  Thru  him 
he  gains  the  acquaintance  of  Lady  Gilchrist 
who  attracts  him  to  the  point  of  adora- 
tion. WTien  the  cynical  old  man  reveals  to 
Peter  his  claim  as  father,  Peter's  vision  of 
his  dream-mother  also  suffers,  for  he  cannot 
connect  his  mother  with  P6re  Formol  in  his 
present  pitiable  condition.  The  death  of  the 
latter  brings  discovery  of  his  mother — Lady 
Gilchrist.  Her  romantic  early  marriage  to 
Peter's  father  and  its  sudden  annullment  ac- 
counted for  the  secrecy  surrounding  the  boy's 
birth.  When  her  husband  enters  upon  the 
scene  wnth  the  assertion  that  he  has  known 
everything  beforehand,  his  ready  forgiveness 
creates  a  place  for  Peter  in  the  home  of  his 
mother,  but  it  is  a  Peter  more  mature  and 
with  the  awakening  of  love  in  his  heart. 


"Miss  Atkin,  curiously  enough,  expends  too 
much  emotional  ammunition  upon  common- 
places. The  moments  when  she  ought  to  make 
us  weep  are  tearless,  because  she  has  called 
upon  our  sympathies  too  frequently.  On  the 
other  hand.  Lady  Gilchrist's  character  is  mag- 
nificently   studied."      D.    F.    G. 

'r  Boston    Transcript    p4    N    10    '23    600w 

"An  able  writer  might  have  done  this  book 
in  fifteen  hundred  words  and  being  so  much 
less  prolix,  attained  power;  but  Miss  Atkin  in 
her  anxiety  to  preserve  restraint  at  any  cost 
has  defeated  her  own  ends." 

—  NY  Times  p22  N  4  "23  300w 

ATKINS.     ELIZABETH.        Poet's    poet.        361p 

$2.50    Marshall   Jones 

821       Poets.       English    poetry  23-105 

"Essays  on  the  character  and  mission  of  the 
poet  as  interpreted  in  English  verse  during  the 
last  one  hundred  and  fifty  years."  (Subtitle) 
The  author  reviews  the  poetry  of  this  period 
botli  in  England  and  America  to  discover  what 
unity  there  is  in  the  ideas  of  many  poets  about 
themselves.  Among  the  different  phases  of  the 
subject  which  her  study  covers,  are  the  poet's 
egotism,  the  physical  in  his  nature,  the  poet 
as  a  lover  and  as  prophet  and  reformer,  his 
morality  and  religion,  and  the  mystery  of  his  in- 
spiration. The  analysis  is  not  confined  to  the 
major   poets. 


the  very  necessary  sense  of  the  humorous,  as 
well  as  an  immense  multifarious  reading,  to  her 
task."  R:  Le  Gallienne 

-f  N  Y  Times  p7  Mr  14  '23  2050w 

Springf'd    Republican    p8   Ja   6   '23    120w 

ATWOOD.  MILLARD  VAN  MARTER.  Country 
newspaper.  (National  social  science  ser.) 
137p    $1    McClurg 

070    Newspapers  23-7702 

"The  author,  who  was  himself  editor  of  a 
country  newspaper  for  twelve  years,  shows  such 
a  paper's  diflficulties  and  possibilities  and  its 
importance  to  a  small  town  and  rural  com- 
munity. Gives  some  interesting  statistics  and 
the   country  editor's   creed." — Cleveland 


Am  Pol  Scl  R  17:521  Ag  '23  70w 
Booklist  20:5  O  '23 
"Few  of  the  many  thousands  of  persons  who 
receive  their  daily  or  weekly  newspaper  have 
any  considerable  idea  of  how  it  is  planned  and 
arranged  for,  week  by  week,  or  of  the  difflculties 
in  production.  This  little  book  will  supply 
much  interesting  information  along  that  line 
thus  enablng  subscribers  the  better  to  appreci- 
ate the  enterprises  which  give  them  so  much 
enjoyment." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  27  '23  300w 
Cleveland  p52  Jl  '23 
"As  a  handbook  it  is  useful  because  it  is 
terse  and  simple,  giving  in  small  compass,  yet 
in  sufficiently  ample  detail,  the  main  facts 
about  the  production  of  a  country  newspaper. 
As  an  essay  it  appeals  because  it  reflects  a 
keen  insight  into  small-town  newspaper  pro- 
duction as  a  human  problem."  L.   G. 

+  Greensboro  (N.  C.)   Daily  News  p8  S  23 

'23   600w 

"This  is  an  attempt  to  assay  the  value  of  the 

country    newspaper,    and    it    has   many   valuable 

suggestions  and  facts,  but  very  little  criticism." 

O.    G.   Villard 

H Nation  117:270  S  12  '23  300w 

Reviewed    by   Ellery    Rand 

N  Y   Times   pl5   S   2   '23   750w 
N   Y  Tribune  pl8  My  13  '23  130w 
"Will  prove  a  book  of  practical  helpfulness  to 
small-town    publishers    and    newspaper    workers 
quite  aside  from  its  discussion  of  the  social  im- 
portance  of  the  country  press." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p8  Ag  17  '23  420w 

"It  is  sentimental  more  often  than  racy,   and 

it  does  not  rise  much  above  the  presentation  of 

a   present-day   situation,    but   it   does   carry   the 

feel  of  country  journalism."    G.    S. 

\-  Survey    51:353    D    15    '23    80w 

AUER,     LEOPOLD.      My    long    life    in    music. 

377p    il    $5    Stokes 

B    or    92    Musicians  23-13535 

Leopold  Auer  left  Russia  in  1917,  at  the  out- 
break of  the  revolution,  after  having  lived 
nearly  half  a  century  in  St  Petersburg.  He 
had  lost  everything.  AH  that  he  could  take 
away  with  him  were  his  memories  of  the  musi- 
cal life  of  Russia  from  1868  when  he  was  called 
to  St  Petersburg  to  become  a  professor  in 
the  Conservatoire.  He  describes  musical  life 
there  and  at  the  Russian  courts,  his  experiences 
as  orchestral  director,  concert  performer  and 
violin  teacher.  He  knew  all  the  great  musi- 
cians of  his  time  and  writes  of  them  intimately, 
always  in  a  manner  mellow  and  sympathetic 
and  anecdotal.  The  last  chapters  are  given  to 
the  succession  of  talented  young  violinists  who 
came  to  St  Petersburg  to  study  with  him,  and 
to   his    musical    life    and   teaching   in    America. 


"A  fascinating  book,  which  is  the  most  com- 
plete and  searching  analysis  of  the  poet's  na- 
ture and  the  most  convincing  presentation  of 
his  significance  in  the  social  order  that  I  have 
come  across.  No  aspect  of  the  poet  as  he  ap- 
pears to  himself,  and  as  he  appears  to  his  fel- 
low-men,   is  overlooked,   and  Dr.   Atkins  brings 


Booklist    20:97    D    '23 
"His    book    is    not    merely    entertaining,    it    is 
far    more:    it    is    stimulating    and    inspiring    as 
well."   N.  H.  D. 

-I-   Boston  Transcript  p3  D  22  "23  1050w 

"It  is  a  wonderful  book!"     G.  W.  J. 

-|-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    plO    N 
18  '23  1950W 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


19 


Reviewed  by  M.   E.   Opdycke 

New  Repub  37:102  D  19  '23  500w 

"As  a  memoir  it  is  unique,  royal  with  its  air 
of  Old  World  courts,  revolutionary  with  its 
flight  from  Russia's  last  convulsion,  always 
and  everywhere  conciliatory  and  wisely  re- 
served. For  here  is  a  vital,  venerable  man, 
who,  when  he  turns  his  strong,  trained  bow- 
arm  to  human  marksmanship,  hits  the  mark 
squarely,  and  when  he  turns  to  penmanship, 
writes  with  ripe  sympathy,  sagacity  and  hu- 
mor."    W.   B.   Chase 

+  N    Y   Times  pi   O  14  '23  2300W 

AUERBACH,    JOSEPH     SMITH.        Essays    and 
miscellanies,    v    3     340p    $2.50    Harper 

814 
Some  of  the  papers  in  this  volume  have 
previously  been  printed  in  separate  form  or 
published  in  magazines.  The  first.  Mum's  boy, 
records  the  comings  and  goings,  the  sayings 
and  doings,  of  the  author's  little  son.  Letter 
to  a  neighbor.  Commencement  day  address, 
and  Our  welcome  to  the  soldier  have  the  war 
for  their  underlying  theme.  Several  of  the 
papers  are  addresses  before  the  court  in  the 
author's  capacity  of  la.wyer,  one  of  which,  Oral 
argument  against  the  suppression  of  "The 
genius,"  is  a  plea  for  freedom  of  thought  and 
expression.  This  same  theme,  including  literary 
appreciation  in  a  larger  sense,  is  discussed  in 
the  essay.  Athenaeum  club.  A  collection  of 
poems    ends    the    volume. 


"Joseph  Auerbach  has  written  with  a  nice 
sense  for  word  values  of  subjects  whose  time- 
liness was  but  no  longer  is.  Two  of  the  papers, 
however,    escape    this    criticism." 

h   Bookm   57:344   My  *23   120w 

Boston    Transcript    p3    Ja    27    '23    600w 
Lit    R    p446    F    17    '23    900w 

"His  style,  both  in  his  courtroom  arguments 
and  in  his  general  essays,  shows  signs  of  the 
spurious  rhetoric  which  his  profession  incul- 
cates. As  to  the  author's  verse,  his  apology  for 
having  written  it  is  unnecessary.  What  need 
he  had.  though,  to  publish  it  is  not  clear." 
—  Nation    116:703   Je   13    '23   150w 

"One  derives  from  the  pages  something  of 
the  same  sort  of  pleasure  one  derives  from 
reading  Sumner.  Dr.  Auerbach  avoids  the 
floridnesses  which  abound  in  the  Senator's  en- 
comium on  Massachusetts,  and  properly,  as 
being  out  of  date  in  our  present  era.  But  there 
is  much  quiet  embellishment  of  his  lines,  em- 
bellishments frequently  drawn  from  the  poets 
with  whom  Dr.  Auerbach  has  a  wide  acquaint- 
ance." 

4-  N    Y    Times    p9    F    4    '23    820w 

"The  book  is  decidedly  mediocre,  and  in  places 
worse  than  mediocre.  The  first  essay,  'Mum's 
Boy,'  is  indeed  a  creditable  piece  of  work;  it  is 
a  well-written,  sincere,  but  somewhat  long- 
drawn-out  essay  on  a  small  boy  and  is  worth 
more  than  the  rest  of  the  book  combined."  S.  A. 
Coblentz 

h   N  Y  Tribune  p23  Mr  11  '23  520w 

"The  finished  workmanship  of  poems  and  es- 
says alike  makes  one  rejoice  that  a  man  so 
engrossingly  busy  over  the  tasks  of  his  pro- 
fession, as  Mr  Auerbach  assuredly  is,  can  find 
time  to  make  so  valuable  contributions  to  the 
totally   different   field   of   letters." 

-f  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  17  '23  420w 

AUIMONIER,    STACY.       Miss    Bracegirdle,    and 
others.  332p  $2  Doubleday  [7s  6d  Hutchinson] 

23-16040 
A  collection  of  thirteen  short  stories.  The 
title-story  is  of  a  prim  and  decorous  English 
lady  from  a  sleepy  cathedral  town  who  came 
reluctantly  to  Paris  to  meet  a  relative  and  in 
one  short  night  in  a  hotel  lived  thru  an  intensely 
dramatic  experience.  Contents:  Miss  Brace- 
girdle  does  her  duty;  Where  was  Wych  street? 
The  octave  of  jealousy;  The  funny  man's  day; 
The  beautiful,  merciless  lady;  The  accident  of 
crime;  "Old  fags";  The  angel  of  accomplish- 
ment; The  match;  Mrs  Beelbrow's  lions;  A  man 
of  letters;  "Face";  The  brown  wallet. 


"The  book,  as  a  whole,  gives  the  impression 
of  being  practically  without  weak  spots.  The 
author's  technique  is  admirably  adapted  to  the 
type  of  story  he   tells  so  well." 

-f   Lit    R    p373    D    15    '23    300w 
"Mr.    Aumonier    has    a    way    of    making    his 
readers  at   one   with  his   characters." 
+   N   \   Times   p8   N   4  '23   650w 
Reviewed  by  Ruth  Snyder 

N  Y  World  plOm  Ja  6  '24  290w 
"Mr.  Aumonier  is  a  writer  who  always  makes 
the  best  of  whatever  material  he  lays  hands 
on,  but  in  the  present  volume  he  seems  to  have 
accumulated  a  good  many  rather  shoddy  and 
intractable  characters.  Generally  the  charac- 
ters suffer  from  having  to  play  their  part  in  a 
short  story,  and  the  author's  skill  never  quite 
reaches  that  point  at  which  it  becomes  life- 
giving.  Mr.  Aumonier  is  a  puppet-mastei-,  and 
his  show  is  chiefly  entertaining  for  the  bright 
colouring  of  its  fantastic  little  figures." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p389    Je 

7   '23   200w 

AUSTEN,  JANE.  The  Watsons;  concluded  by 
L.  Oulton.  211p  $1.75  Appleton  [7s  6d  Hutchin- 
son] 

23-6147 
The  original  manuscript  of  "The  Watsons" 
was  left  by  the  author  an  unnamed  fragment, 
not  even  divided  into  chapters.  From  these 
notes  Miss  Oulton  has  worked  out  her  con- 
tinuation. It  has  a  studied  simplicity,  but  little 
of  the  charm  and  humor  of  Miss  Austen's 
finished  work.  The  Watsons  are  a  small  pro- 
vincial family  and  the  plot  centers  about  the 
love  affairs  of  one  of  the  daughters,  Emma. 


Cleveland   p50   Jl  '23 

"Miss  L.  Oulton,  who  completed  the  book, 
undertook  the  impossible,  and  although  she 
does,  in  some  manner,  catch  the  style  of  the 
author,  she  has  committed  one  or  two  grave 
incongruities."  Marjorie  Avery 

1-  Detroit   News  pl2  Ag  12  "23  700w 

"Miss  Oulton  does  not  delay  to  sink.  It  would 
be  absurd  to  blame  her  seriously  for  not  suc- 
ceeding, as  not  even  a  great  artist  could  com- 
plete a  great  artist's  work;  but  it  does  seem  to 
me  that  she  has  left  the  future  a  little  more 
glaring  than  it  need  have  been  bv  abandoning 
not  perhaps  the  style  of  her  author,  but  the 
characteristic  features  of  her  technique.  Her 
continuation  is  interesting  because  it  heightens 
our  sense  of  what  Miss  Austen's  method  actually 
was."  Edmund  Wilson,  Jr. 
1-   Dial   74:621  Je  '23   960w 

Reviewed  bv  Alyse   Gregorv 

Freeman   7:188  My  2  '23  750w 

"  'The  Watsons'  shows  little  of  the  spirit, 
little  of  the  irony  and  the  wit,  which  belong  to 
her  finished  work.  But  it  is  valuable  as  show- 
ing how  very  much  her  novels  must  have  owed 
to  careful  polishing,  the  taking  of  infinite 
pains." 

h   Int   Bk  R  p21  Jl  '23  850w 

"Miss  Oulton's  continuation  of  'The  Watsons' 
is  a  valiant  effort,  but  the  chief  impression  left 
by  it  upon  the  reader  is  of  the  chasm  that 
yawns  between  the  engaging  simplicity  of  Miss 
Austen's  work  and  the  careful  pretence  at  sim- 
plicity achieved  by  her  imitator." 
1-   Lit  R  p535  Mr  17  '23  720w 

"Miss  Oulton  is  abrupt  where  Miss  Austen 
would  have  been  natural;  she  is  brisk  where 
she  should  have  been  neat;  crude  instead  of 
subtle,  outspokenly  tender  instead  of  reserved, 
sentimental  where  she  should  be  slyly  amused; 
worst  of  all,  she  is  not  quiet!  The  indictment 
against  Miss  Oulton,  therefore,  is  long;  yet  she 
has  done  no  disservice  to  Jane  Austen." 
Dorothy  Graffe 

\-  Nation  115:576  My  16  '23  650w 

"Jane  Austen  for  some  reason  thought  her 
story  not  worth  finishing.  Miss  Oulton  has  fin- 
ished it  for  her.  The  two  sections  are  dovetailed 
imperceptibly  together,  so  that  if  anyone  wi.shes 
to  test  his  taste  here  is  an  excellent  opportunity. 
The  Watsons  is  not  one  of  Miss  Austen's  mas- 
terpieces."   V.  W. 

New  Statesman  20:662  Mr  10  '23   1800w 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


AUSTEN,    JANE — Continued 

"Miss  L.  Oulton  has  done  her  work  well, 
catching  the  style  of  the  great  novelist  not  as 
it  appears  in  her  completed  work,  but  as  it 
shows  itself  in  this  rough  draft  of  a  story.  For 
it  remains  distinctly  the  framework  of  a  tale 
we  have  here,  the  form  of  a  plot,  hints  for  the 
characters,  with  only  a  semi-occasional  touch 
of  the  wit,  the  deft  phrasing,  the  sense  of 
individuality,  the  appreciation  of  the  irony  and 
humor  of  the  human  comedy  which  we  find  in 
its  author's  finished  books." 

+   N    Y   Times   pll  Mr    18  '23   1150w 

"Although    the    fragment    of     'The    Watsons' 
which  Jane  Austen  wrote  is  not  by  any  means 
in  her  best  vein,  it  is,  nevertheless,  a  very  char- 
acteristic   performance."    Esther   Murphy 
H NY    Tribune    p27    Ap    29    '23    llOOw 

"Miss  Oulton's  conclusion  of  The  Watsons 
throws  into  vivid  relief  Jane  Austen's  excel- 
lence, for  soon  after  she  has  taken  up  the  tale, 
we  become  aware  that  all  the  rich  reality  has 
faded  out  of  it  and  from  being,  as  it  were,  a 
perfect  little  Dresden  group,  it  has  shrunk  to 
a  two-dimensional  drawing." 

1-  Spec   130:369    Mr  3   '23  540w 

"Miss  Oulton's  continuation  will  find  defend- 
ers and  assailants.  Some  will  be  glad  to  have 
more  of  the  admired  Jane  given  to  the  world 
under  circumstances  that  cannot  fail  to  awaken 
new  interest  in  her  writings.  Others  will  object 
to  what  they  will  term  'desecration'  of  the  orig- 
inal text.  However,  the  balance  of  argument 
lies  between  these  points.  'The  Watsons'  can- 
not be  denied  an  interest  of  its  own.  Its  dialog 
is   lively  and  delicately   satirical." 

-f  —  Springf  d  Republican  pl2  My  9  '23  650w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:413  Jl  '23 

AUSTIN,       FREDERICK       BRITTEN.      On     the 

borderland.     279p     .$1.75     Doubleday 

23-17475 

The  borderland  of  these  stories  is  the  dim 
region  of  the  subconscious  mind.  In  the  first 
story  a  young  girl  reveals  by  automatic  writing 
the  location  of  a  buried  treasure.  Another  is 
the  story  of  a  madman  pursued  in  his  imagina- 
tion by  a  white  dog,  the  symbol  of  his  doom. 
Still  another  is  a  case  of  dissociation  of  per- 
sonality in  a  soldier  reported  killed  in  the 
Argonne.  Contents:  Buried  treasure;  A  prob- 
lem in  reprisals;  Secret  service;  The  strange 
case  of  Mr  Todmorden;  Through  the  gate  of 
horn;  The  white  dog;  A  point  of  ethics;  The 
lovers;  Held  in  bondage;  She  who  came  back; 
From  the  depths;    Yellow  magic. 


of  Amerindian  songs,  and  a  group  of  her  own 
poems  in  native  American  rhythm." — Publish- 
er's  note 


Booklist   20:138   Ja   '24 

"The  author's  style  is  even,  terse  and  con- 
ventional. Its  quality  of  compactness  admir- 
ably  suits   the   subject   matter." 

+    Lit    R    pl34    O    13   '23    450w 

"Mr.  Austin  takes  you  right  up  to  the  border- 
land, and  there  you  stay.  The  sentences  march 
in  a  procession  of  words  carefully  arranged. 
The  plots  lack  distinction,  and  you  are  conscious 
of  their  mediocrity  only  because  the  words  do 
not  evoke  a  mood  of  terror.  The  whole  per- 
formance is  quite  nice  and  very  nicely  got  up, 
but  your  hair  retains  its  color  and  even  its 
parting,  you  do  not  shiver,  you  do  not  thrill." 
1-   N    Y   Tribune   p23   O  21   '23 

AUSTIN,    MRS    MARY    (HUNTER).      American 

rhythm.   155p  $1.60  Harcourt 

811      American    poetry.      Indians    of    North 
America— Poetry  23-6369 

"In  this  book  Mrs.  Austin  presents  the  results 
of  many  years  of  research  into  the  beginnings 
of  poetry,  and  especially  into  the  effect  of  the 
American  environment.  She  gives  her  conclu- 
sions about  the  psychological  and  organic  origin 
of  rhythm  and  accent  in  verse,  following  the 
poetic  process  back  as  far  as  It  has  been 
possible  to  follow  it  among  the  Amerind  tribes 
of  the  United  States.  Her  studies  show  that 
the  characteristic  movements  of  average  Amer- 
ican life  are  in  the  modern  poetry,  just  as  the 
Indian  songs  and  dances  took  their  rhythms 
from  the  environment  which  produced  them. 
There  are  also  translations  of  more  than  a  score 


"Mrs.  Austin  hais  not  given  us  very  many 
poems;  other  poets,  however,  have  found  the 
same  treasure  trove,  and  we  may  expect,  if 
the  work  of  reinterpretation  is  well  done,  the 
salvaging  of  a  most  beautiful  and  significant 
body  of  pure  poetry."  Llewellvn  Jones 
h   Bookm    57:647    Ag    '23    600w 

"Mrs.  Austin's  book  is  a  very  interesting  docu- 
ment. It  goes  deeper  into  the  matter  than 
many  readers  of  poetry  will  be  willing  to  go, 
but  she  presents  many  fascinating  new  ideas." 
B.   L.  M. 

-f   Boston   Transcript  p3  My  12  '23   860w 
Cleveland   p35    My    '23 

"Mrs.  Austin  does  not  lack  courage,  nor  does 
she  lack  knowledge  and  sympathy  with  her 
special  subject,  which  is  the  American  Indian; 
but  what  she  does  lack  is  a  sense  of  proportion, 
or,  as  others  might  call  it,  a  sense  of  humour." 
J:   G.    Fletcher 

H Freeman   7:621   S   5   '23   450w 

"There  may  be  more  in  Mrs.  Austin's  theo- 
ries than  she  has  taken  time  to  make  clear, 
and,  even  if  there  is  nothing  in  them  at  all, 
there  is  a  wealth  of  suggestiveness  in  her 
studies  of  that  difficult  realm  where  primitive 
life,  religion,  and  poetry  meet  to  make  us  wish 
that  she  may  return  to  them  again  and  again." 
R.    M.   Alden 

1-   Lit    R   p204   N   3   '23   1450w 

"Mary  Austin  is  a  true  mystic  when  it  comes 
to  American  poetry.  She  is  thorough.  She  is 
ready  to  sacrifice  all  that  we  have  for  the  sake 
of  something  that  we  might  have  if  we  saw 
poetry  and  America  as  she  sees  them.  Her 
essay,  together  with  her  'Amerindian  Songs' 
and  her  'Songs  in  the  American  Manner,'  is  an 
attempt  to  translate  her  vision  into  words. 
Though  it  is  not  wholly  successful — the  vision 
is  difficult,  and  words  never  were  Mrs.  Austin's 
forte — it  is  impressive,  and  though  it  is  not 
convincing  it  is  great."  Mark  Van  Doren 
H •  Nation   116:472  Ap  18   '23   lOOOw 

"In  her  interest  in  the  communal  environment 
of  poetry,  in  her  appreciation  of  literature, 
music  and  the  dance  as  essential  to  the  well- 
being  of  men,  Mrs.  Austin's  work  is  as  im- 
portant as  it  is  vigorous  and  wise — and  it  is 
very  vigorous  and  wise.  The  first  weakness  is 
that  it  is  easier  to  accept  Mrs.  Austin's  general 
thesis  than  it  is  to  follow  her  particular  illus- 
trations. And  when  Mrs.  Austin  finds  the 
rhythm  of  the  woodland  stride  and  the  swing- 
ing ax  in  Lincoln's  Gettysburg  speech  it  seems 
to  me,  frankly,  that  she  is  letting  her  imagina- 
tion   run  away  with  her."     L:   Mumford 

j^ New    Repub    35:23   My   30   '23   2400w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:409    Jl    '23 

AUSTIN,  WILLIAM  E.  Principles  and  practice 
of  fur  dressing  and  fur  dyeing.  191p  il  $4  Van 
Nostrand 

675    Fur  22-15981 

"Contains   hrief   descriptions   of   various    furs, 

but    the    methods    of    dressing    and    dyeing    are 

treated    in    a    general    way,    not    for    individual 

furs."— Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:111   Mr   '23 

AUTOLYCUS,    pseud.      See   Bacon,   L. 

AYRES,  RUBY  MILDRED  (MRS  REGINALD 
WILLIAM  POCOCK).  Romance  of  a  rogue. 
257p    $1.75    Doran    [7s   6d   Hodder   &   S.] 

23-16269 
"Bruce  Lowry  has  just  been  released  after 
serving  six  years'  imprisonment  for  a  man- 
slaughter which  was  certainly  provoked.  He 
is  filled  with  bitterness  against  his  sweetheart, 
who  cast  him  off  in  his  trouble.  He  obtauis 
shelter  from  an  old  musician  who  provides  the 
orchestra  for  a  dancing  hall,  and  then  learns 
from  his  .solicitor  that  one  of  his  investments 
has  turned  out  well  and  will  provide  him  with 
at  least  an  independence.     In  the  meantime  he 


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has  found  that  his  former  sweetheart  has  fall- 
en on  evil  times  and  is  herself  playing  in  the 
orchestra.  The  kernel  of  the  story  is  the  re- 
conciliation of  the  lovers." — The  Times  [Lon- 
don]   Lit    Sup 


"Now  the  great  fault  of  a  novel  of  this  type 
is  its  misrepresentation  of  human  motives.  The 
author  has  really  the  material  for  an  interest- 
ing- story.  She  completely  fails  to  utilize  it." 
D.    F.    G. 

—  +  Boston  Transcript  p8  N  24  '23  420w 
"The  author  has  worked  out  her  theme  quite 
carefully  and  with  a  good  deal  of  skill  and 
ingenuity  in  devising  turns  and  twists  and 
obstacles  in  the  development  of  events  and  in 
keeping  the  reader  in  suspense  as  to  how, 
after  all  the  story  will  turn  out.  .  .  There  is 
overmuch  sentimentality  in  the  telling  of  the 
tale  and  the  author's  style  is  strongly  marked 
with  conventionality  and  an  excess  of  emo- 
tional  tension." 

4 NY   Times  pl9   N  4  '23  400w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p773    N 
15    '23    lOOw 

AYSCOUGH,         JOHN,  pseud.  (FRANCIS 

BROWNING  DREW  BICKERSTAFFE- 

DREW).      Dobachi.    284p   $2   Macmillan    [7s   6d 
Chapman  &  Dodd] 

23-7284 

It  is  the  purpose  of  the  story  to  contrast  an 
emasculated  Protestantism  with  a  warm  and 
vital  Catholicism.  A  tiny  fishing  village  on  the 
bleakest  spot  of  the  Now  England  coast,  settled 
in  pilgrim  days  by  a  religious  sect  from  Corn- 
wall, is  a  fitting  environment  for  the  bleakness 
of  a  religion  that  retains  but  a  feeble  hold  upon 
the  descendants  of  tlie  original  "Marchers  to 
Zion."  The  title  character,  Dobachi,  is  the  last 
descendant  of  the  founders  and  is  lovingly  and 
carefully  reared  by  her  parents  and  a  doting 
old  sea  captain.  Rony  Trogg,  shy  and  sullen 
offspring  of  a  drunken  father,  early  has  thrust 
upon  him  the  role  of  bl.ack  sheep  In  the  com- 
munity. Aided  by  the  old  captain  a  romance 
between  the  young  people  is  slowly  coming  to 
maturity  when  Rony's  conversion  to  Catholicism 
adds  the  last  touch  to  the  humanizing  of  a  stern 
character  and  the  unfolding  of  a  soul. 


"Unquestionably  'Dobachi'  is  Mr.  Bickerstaffe- 
Drew's  masterpiece  so  far.  It  puts  him  on  a 
plane,  or  rather,  a  plateau,  far  above  tlie 
pleasant  valleys  where  he  has  been  used  to 
meander."    I.   W.   I>. 

+   Boston    Transcript   p4   Je    9   '23   600w 

Cleveland  p50  Jl  '23 
"The  nairative,   with  its  setting  a  New  Eng- 
land  village   of  Cornish   puritans,    fails  to  come 
to  life   under  the  prodding  of  a  laborious  pen." 
—  Dial   75:507   N   '23  160w 
"A    bright,    readable   novel — or  should   we   say 
novelette? — a  little  marred  perhaps  by  religious 
propaganda." 

H Lit    R    p773    Je    16    '23    400w 

"The  hackgroimd  is  apparently  portrayed  with 
accuracy  and  the  situations  are  natural  and  un- 
forced, and  while  the  book  is  marred  by  oc- 
casional lapses  of  style,  it  has  the  vitality  and 
the  unaffected  strength  that  often  attaches  to 
the   commonplace   things   of   life." 

-] NY    Times    p24    Ap    15    '23    600w 

"The  story  is  pleasantly  told,  with  a  good 
deal  of  quiet  humor.  There  is,  however,  one 
little  trick  of  the  author's  which  occasionally 
becomes  annoying.  That  is  his  habit  of  putting 
as  many  as  six  or  seven  parentheses  on  a 
page."    Leo    Markun 

H NY  Tribune  p23  Jl  29  '23  700w 


B 


Norcrosse,  had  pledged  their  love.  When  the 
war  comes  Norcrosse,  who  is  a  strong  believer 
in  the  Union,  joins  the  northern  army.  Ann 
Leuin's  people  are  all  Confederates.  The  feeling 
for  Lincoln  is  divided  and  there  is  much  dislike 
of  him  even  among  federalists.  As  the  war  pro- 
ceeds the  two  lovers  lose  touch  and  after  her 
period  of  nursing  southern  soldiers  is  over  Ann 
begins  her  quest  for  Norcrosse.  The  latter  is 
now  in  the  secret  service  at  Washington,  has 
met  Lincoln  and  conceived  a  great  admiration 
for  him.  Ann  also  meets  Lincoln  and  experi- 
ences a  change  of  heart  as  do  all  people  to 
whom  he  reveals  his  soul.  The  day  is  set  for 
Lincoln  to  reunite  the  lovers  when  his  assassina- 
tion takes  place.  This  event  is  minutely  de- 
scribed in  the  story.  The  finding  of  Ann  by 
both  her  father  and  Norcrosse  at  the  same  time 
becomes  symbolic  of  the  wiping  out  of  scores 
between   North   and   South. 


Booklist  20:55  N  '23 
"While  the  plot  is  entirely  conventional  and 
is  provided  with  the  conventional  happy  ending, 
yet  the  author  writes  with  an  appealing 
warmth  that  holds  the  reader's  interest  until 
the   end."   S.    A.   Coblentz 

H Lit  R  p799  Je  30  '23  650w 

"By  this  book  and  her  previous  novel,  'The 
Soul  of  Ann  Rutledge.'  Mrs.  Babcock  has 
taken  an  honorable  place  among  the  interpret- 
ers of  Lincoln's  character.  And  she  has  em- 
bodied in  this  book  a  moving  and  appealing 
story  of  the  Civil  War  wherein  she  keeps  an 
admirable  balance  of  sympathy  and  interest 
between  its  Southern  and  its  Northern  char- 
acters. It  is  especially  well  worth  reading  for 
its  vivid  and  thrilling  and  historically  accurate 
portrayal   of  war   times  and   events." 

+  N  Y  Times  p28  Je  10  '23  lOSOw 
"The  tale  is  full  of  action  and  is  placed  amid 
rapidly  changing  scenes.  Apparently  Mrs. 
Babcock  has  studied  her  history  of  the  open- 
ing sixties  with  care.  Her  two  romances  cen- 
tring about  the  acts  and  personality  of  Lincoln 
should  take  high  place  in  the  literature  of 
emancipation  "    E.    W.    Osborn 

+   N   Y   World   pl9  Je   17   '23   190w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p879    D 
13   '23    130w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:443    O    '23 


BABCOCK,     EDWINA    STANTON.       Under    the 
law.        359p      $1.75      Penn 

23-1302 

"Youth  and  restraint,  not  always  bosom 
friends,  are  completely  estranged  in  Edwina 
Stanton  Babcock's  new  book.  It  is  a  story 
of  the  younger  generation's  revolt  against  ex- 
isting social  laws  and  comprises  such  delicious 
bits  as  sprightly  liquor  parties,  questionable 
roadhouse  dances  and  other  tempestuous  amuse- 
ments of  the  present  age.  Sard  Bogart,  a 
judge's  daughter,  the  principal  character  in 
the  story,  seeing  the  undesirableness  of  free- 
dom and  license,  plans  her  life  along  different 
lines,  only  to  be  caught  under  the  law  in  quite 
as  iiksome  a  fashion  as  her  more  boisterous 
playmates.  She  falls  in  love,  seemingly  with 
the  wrong  man,  and  her  difficulties,  while 
eventually  reaching  a  logical  conclusion,  are 
many." — Springf'd    Republican 


BABCOCK.    MRS    BERNIE    (SMADE).     Soul    of 

Abe    Lincoln.    328p    $2    Lippincott 

23-11081 

On   the  very  eve  of  the   Civil  war  two  young 
people  of  the  South,  Ann  Leuin  Laury  and  Del 


"  'Under  the  Law'  is  one  of  the  more  serious 
discussions  of  the  problems  of  the  young  peo- 
ple. It  has,  moreover,  a  thoroughly  good  story 
running  along  with  its  discussion  of  ideals. 
In  fact  it  has  mystery  and  romance  and  a 
frank  discussion  of  ideas — three  thoroughly 
good   qualities   to   find    in   a   new    novel." 

-j-    Boston    Transcript    p4    F    21    '23    300w 

"The  chief  value  of  this  sort  of  novel,  which 
has  small  artistic  merit,  lies  in  the  real  feeling 
behind  the  machinery;  the  realization  that 
something  is  apparently  wrong  with  our  society, 
and  that  something  new  ought  to  be  done  about 
it." 

Lit    R    p473    F    17    '23    220w 

"Trite    and    tedious    noveL" 
—  +  N    Y   Times   p22   Ja   28    "23   SOOw 


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BABCOCK,    EDWINA   STANTON — Continued 

"A  negligible  book  is  at  once  the  best  and 
the  worst  that  can  be  said  for  it."  Isabel 
Paterson 

—  NY   Tribune  p22   F  18   '23  520w 
"Tlie  story,   while  possessing  little  besides  its 
extremes    to    distinguish    it    from    other    sensa- 
tional portrayals  ot  the  jazz  age,   arouses   some 
interest    with    its    mystery    and    romance." 

H Springf'd    Republican  p7a  F  18  '23  190w 

BACHELLER,   IRVING  ADDISON.     The  Scud- 
ders,   a  story  of  to-day.  201p  $1.50  Macmillan 

23-8184 
The  story,  told  in  the  first  person,  relates  the 
experiences  a  prominent  lawyer  of  a  Con- 
necticut town  is  supposed  to  have  had  with  the 
family  of  one  of  his  clients.  This  family  sym- 
bolises the  commercial  age,  the  decay  of  home 
life  and  all  the  follies  of  present  day  society 
at  its  worst.  The  lawyer,  having  known  both 
man  and  wife  before  their  marriage,  follows 
their  fortunes  from  moderate  means  to  im- 
mense wealth,  counsels  both  parents — always 
separately — as  to  the  course  to  be  pursued  with 
the  children  and  sees  them  both  spoiled  and 
brought-  to  ruin,  thru  the  mother's  foolish  pride 
in  them.  He  is  unable  to  prevent  the  estrange- 
ment between  man  and  wife  and  the  downward 
crash  of  a  fortune  the  building  up  of  which  had 
corroded  every  thought  and  every  heart-beat 
of  his  friend  Mose  Scudder. 


Booklist   19:317   Jl   '23 

Boston   Transcript   p4   My   29   '23   1050w 

"Mr.  Bacheller  is  a  literary  surgeon  who  uses 
his  scalpel  and  lancet  as  a  well-trained  sur- 
geon ought  to  do — mercifully;  he  is  an  artist; 
he  knows  the  technique  of  his  profession,  he 
sees  his  current  of  life  clearly;  and  consequent- 
ly he  has  written  a  novel  worth  reading."  M.  F. 
Egan 

-I-   Int   Bk   R  p28  Ag  '23  lOOOw 

"The  book  has  no  literary  excellence,  nor  do 
we  believe  it  was  intended  to  have  any  other 
than  a  requisite  simplicity.  How  much  more 
enjoyable  and  profitable  the  Hon.  Sock  Potter 
would  have  been  if  only  he  had  devoted  his 
gift  of  pleasant  narration  to  a  shrewd  display 
of  wit  and  humor  instead  of  to  didacticism!" 
Eva    Goldbeck 

h   Lit   R   p747   Je  9   '23   640w 

"The  thing  has  been  done  so  often,  and  to  so 
little  purpose,  that  it  no  longer  has  any  mean- 
ing." 

—  Nation   117:247  S  5   '23  lOOw 
"Unquestionably  there  is  a  good  deal  of  truth 

In  what  Mr.  Bacheller  has  to  say  about  present- 
day  conditions,  taut  he  does  not  say  it  well.  His 
characters  are  puppets,  not  human  beings;  they 
behave  as  he  wants  them  to  do  in  order  to  illus- 
trate his  thesis.  There  is  too  much  of  a  rather 
cheap  spread-eagleism  in   the  book." 

—  NY  Times  pll  My  6  '23  700w 
Reviewed   by   Edwin    Clark 

—  NY  Tribune  plS  .Te  17  '23  300w 
Reviewed   by  E.    W.    Osborn 

N  Y  World  pSe  My  6  '23  200w 
"The   book  is  both  pointed  and   amusing." 
-f-  Outlook  134:48  My  23  '23  40w 

Springf'd     Republican     p7a    My    27    '23 
600w 

Wis   Lib  Bui  19:443  O  '23 

BACON,    CHARLOTTE.      The    Grays.     369p    $2 

Putnam   [7s  6d  J.   Cape] 

23-6290 

We  meet  the  Grays  first  in  their  family 
circle  in  which  the  father'.'?  exacting  invalidism 
and  his  wife's  intense  loyalty  have  created  an 
unnecessarily  strained  and  mirthless  atmos- 
phere. As  a  result  the  youngest  daughter,  in 
frank  selfishness,  breaks  away  and  goes  on  the 
stage;  Hewan.  the  son,  throws  up  the  business 
career  planned  for  him,  to  seek  his  fortunes  as 
a  writer;  while  only  Theodora,  the  oldest,  sup- 
presses her  own  desires  and  remains  the  main- 
stay of  her  parents.  Hewan  has  all  his  father's 
exacting  egotism  which  he  fondly  nurses  as 
artistic  temperament  until   it  wrecks  his  mar- 


riage with  a  richly  endowed  but  entirely  un- 
formed girl.  Thru  his  deeply  loving  and  under- 
standing sister,  Theodora,  his  eyes  are  opened 
to  a  realization  of  his  own  conduct  and  the 
way  is  paved  for  a  reconstruction  of  his  life 
with  his  wife,  June.  The  fortunes  and  inner 
struggles  of  other  lives  than  those  of  Hewan 
an^d  June  enter  into  the  fabric  of  the  story. 

"This  thoughtful  and  carefully  planned  story 
of  a  familiar  phase  of  English  life  would  com- 
mand respect  if  only  for  its  manifest  sincerity, 
its  colorful  prose,  and  because  it  marks  the  ap- 
pearance, always  welcome,  of  a  new  author  in 
communion  with  nature."  J.   F.   S. 

+   Boston   Transcript   p4   My   19    '23    650w 
Cleveland    p66    S    '23 
"Nothing    very    original     in     conception,     but 
something    very    human,    very    true,    and    very 
faithfully   and  skillfully    depicted."    S.    S.    A. 

4-  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  plO  O 
21  '23  340w 
"She  writes  with  appealing  earnestness,  and 
there  is  much  that  is  thoughtful  and  not  a 
little  that  is  beautiful  about  her  work.  The 
most  serious  fault  to  be  urged  against  her  is 
that  she  has  not  learned  economy  of  method." 
S.    A.    Coblentz 

-j Lit    R   p619   Ap  21   '23  600w 

"Capable  and  interesting  in  its  craftsman- 
ship, rich  and  varied  in  its  knowledge  of  hu- 
man nature  and  delicately  sure  in  its  portrayal 
of  the  interactions  between  temperaments  and 
Detween   character  and   life." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl8  Mr  25  '23  450w 
"As  a  novel  of  character  this  book  has  some 
excellent  features.  It  has  made  the  people  of 
the  story  so  real  that  one  wants  to  argue 
about  them  and  that  alone  is  an  elementary 
test.  .  .  There  are  certain  discrepancies  which 
are  surprising  to  find  in  a  writer  of  Mrs. 
Bacon's    ability."    Edith    Leighton 

H NY   Tribune   p20   Ap   22  '23   650w 

"  'The  Gray.=:'  is  the  product  of  a  cultured 
mind.  The  soul  of  the  author  lives  in  the  story. 
There  are  many  passages  which  can  be  read 
over  and  over  again.  'They  are  passages  with 
lessons    behind    them."    Ruth    Snyder 

H NY   World  p7e  Ag  12   '23  700w 

"It  would  be  dull  if  the  writing  were  not  so 
good.  Even  as  it  is,  I  am  not  quite  sure  that 
at  the  end  I  am  convinced — the  imagination 
seems  to  get  a  little  less  fine  in  quality.  But 
the  sole  solid  defect  of  an  otherwise  admirable 
book  is  the  tendency  of  the  characters  to  be 
crudely  arch  in  their  lighter  conversation." 
Gerald  Gould 

H Sat  R  134:290  Ag  19  '22  400w 

"If,  as  the  title-page  seems  to  indicate,  this 
book  is  a  first  novel,  it  is  a  very  promising 
piece  of  work.  Its  faults  are  the  faults  of 
youth — for  the  author  takes  life  with  almost 
pompous  seriousness.  Also,  she  seems  to  have 
extremely  little  sense  of  humour.  On  the  other 
hand,  her  character  drawing  is  very  clearly 
defined." 

-^ Spec  129:216  Ag  12  '22   220w 

Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Ap     1     '23 
480w 
"Rather  long  and  carefully-written  novel." 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p461  Jl  13 
'22  130w 

BACON,  JOSEPHINE  DODGE  (DASKAM) 
(MRS  SELDEN  BACON).  Blind  Cupid.  353p 
$2  Appleton 

23-4901 
The  theme  of  this  collection  of  short  stories 
Is  the  strange  ways  of  love,  how  unexpectedly 
and,  from  a  conventional  point  of  view,  in- 
congruously people  fall  in  love.  In  the  title 
story  the  son  of  an  aristocratic  and  wealthy 
New  England  family,  unromantic  by  inheritance 
and  long  a  widower,  falls  in  love  with  a  gifted 
girl  without  "family"  and  marries  her.  He  ex- 
pects her  to  share  his  staid,  prosaic  life  and 
she  becomes  matronly  beyond  her  years.  On 
the  first  suspicion  that  she  has  yielded  to 
another  attraction,  the  husband,  like  a  young 
romantic  lover,  seeks  and  finds  his  death. 
Other    instances    of    Cupid's    blindness    are    a 


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highly  connected  young  girl  who  marries  an 
ex-convict,  another  who  marries  a  chauffeur,  a 
banker's  son  a  chorus-girl,  etc.  Contents: 
Blind  Cupid;  Nor  iron  bars  a  cage;  The  new 
Liochinvar;  Crossed  wires;  The  islanders;  Peter 
and  the  stage  door;  In  September. 


the    ways    of   bureaucracy    and     the     births     of 
Messianic    legends." — N    Y    Times 


"There  is  a  sophistication  in  Mrs.  Bacon's 
style  which  is  delightful.  Her  few  digressions 
are  always  interesting.  She  has  that  rare  gift 
of  the  story-teller  of  making  us  leel  she  could 
make  things  even  more  interesting  if  she 
wanted  to." 

-|-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  14  '23  230w 
"It  is  an  entirely  delightful  book  for  reading 
at  odd  moments." 

-h   N   Y  Times   pl4  F  4  '23  506w 
N   Y   Tribune  p26  Ap  8  '23   750w 
"If     you     like     to     read     Josephine     Daskam 
Bacon's    stories    at    all    you    are    going    to    like 
these  stories.    We   confess  we   do,    at    the    same 
time    patting    ourselves    on    the    back    for    our 
keen    judgment    in    this    matter.      We    like    our 
author's    breezy,    narrative    style.      We    like    her 
because  she  talks  to  us.    She  asks  our  opinion. 
That    includes   us   in    the    story."    Ruth    Synder 
-I-   N    Y   World   p9e  Mr  18   '23   550w 

Springf'd      Republican     p7a     Ap     8     '23 
220w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:159   Je   '23 

BACON,       JOSEPHINE        DODGE        (DASKAM) 

(MRS    SELDEN     BACON).    Truth    o'    woinen; 

last    words    from    ladies    long    vanished.    137p 

$1.50   Appleton 

811  23-13431 

"Truth  o'  Women"  is  made  up  of  short 
poems  in  which  women  of  all  sorts,  of  all 
ages,  speak  from  their  graves — much  in  the 
manner  of  the  "Spoon  River  Anthology."  What 
they  say  is  frank  as  no  words  could  have  been 
in  their  lifetime.  They  speak  of  the  men  they 
have  loved,  of  the  men  who  loved  them,  of 
what  life  meant  to  them,  and  what  it  brought 
them.  The  briefer  epitaphs  are  followed  by  a 
series  of  drainatic  monologues  spoken  by  the 
mother  of  Joan  of  Arc,  Lincoln's  mother,  Mil- 
ton's daughters  and  the  wives  of  Shakespeare, 
Pilate,    Caesar,    Adam,    Dante    and    others. 


"Some  of  the  verses  have  a  truly  poetic  con- 
ception and  a  few  are  touched  with  a  depth 
of  feeling  that  makes  them  really  beautiful." 
+  Bookm  58:581  Ja  '24  180w 
"Mrs.  Bacon  knows  a  great  deal  about  the 
human  heart.  She  has  a  profound  insight  Into 
the  souls  of  her  own  sex.  In  each  poem  she 
tells  a  story.  It  may  not  be  the  whole  story; 
and  at  best  it  is  a  sad  and  moving  story.  But 
all  women,  and  a  few  men,  who  read  her 
poems  will  recognize  her  rare  penetration 
coupled  with  her  ability  for  fusing  her  poetic 
gift  into  a  series  of  dramatic  revelations."  D. 
F.  G. 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p5  N  17  '23  650w 
"Some  of  the  poems  are  poignant,  some  sub- 
tle and  suggestive.  As  character  sketches 
many  are  vivid  and  interesting,  but  as  poems 
they  lack  emotional  intensity  and  melody. 
None  of  them  contains  the  true  lyric  note,  or 
any  real  lift  of  poetic  feeling.  For  the  most 
part  they  are  little  prose  descriptions  written 
in   rhythm." 

-I Springf'd      Republican     plO     D     11      '23 

450w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p839    N 
29  '23  40w 

BACON,      LEONARD      (AUTOLYCUS,     pseud.). 
'    Ulug   Beg.      292p      $2.50      Knopf 

811  23-1S404 

"  'Ulug  Beg'  is  a  long  epic  poem,  designed 
to  be,  says  its  'Autolycus'  author,  'the  history 
of  the  origin,  progress  and  explosion  of  a  super- 
stition.' In  the  course  of  his  seven  cantos, 
however,  more  than  one  superstition  is  deftly 
turned  and  exposed  to  the  withering  light  of 
irony.       Among    the    subjects    of    his    scorn    are 


"The  character-drawing  is  excellent,  and  thfe 
atmosphere  is  highly  seasoned  with  harems, 
and  caravans,  and  Usbegs,  and  whatnot.  The 
story  itself  is  profitless.  Only  the  satire  and 
the  clever  handling  make  it  worth  reading,  and 
only  those  who  have  plenty  of  time  will  wish 
to  read  it.  And  for  the  curious,  there  is  the 
question,   why  was  it  written?" 

-j-  —  Boston   Transcript  p5  Ja  5   '24  500w 

"The  ballad  stanzas  are  well  handled  by  the 
anonymous  author,  but  his  courageous  attempt 
merely  proves  anew  that  the  epic  poem,  as  a 
vehicle  for  social  satire,  died  a  deserved  death 
in  a  world  of  hurried  readers  and  the  sporadic 
revivals  are  at  best  to  be  regarded  as  tours  de 
force."    H.    J.    Mankiewicz 

_] NY  Times  p9  Ja  13  "24  130w 

BACOURT,  PIERRE  DAREUTIERE  DE,  and 
CUNLIFFE,  JOHN  WILLIAM.  French  litera- 
ture during  the  last  liall-century.  407p  $2.50 
Macmillan 

840.9  French  literature— History  and  criti- 
cism 23-10720 
A  survey  of  contemporary  French  literature 
since  1870,  by  two  Columbia  professors.  In 
the  earlier  part  of  the  period  only  those  au- 
thors are  discu.^sed  whose  work  has  been  shown 
by  the  test  of  time  to  be  of  first-rate  impor- 
tance, either  for  its  artistic  value  or  for  its 
effect  on  subsequent  literary  development,  in 
Fiance  and  elsewhere.  In  the  latter  part  of 
the  book  the  endeavor  has  been  to  select  those 
authors  of  the  last  quarter-century  who  repre- 
sent prevailing  currents  of  literary  interest  and 
give  promise  for  the  future.  Excellent  bibli- 
ographies are  provided.  Contents:  Introductory; 
Emile  Zola;  Guy  de  Maupassant;  Alphonse 
Daudet;  Pierre  Eoti;  Anatole  France;  Paul 
Bourget;  Maurice  Barrfes;  Charles  Maurras;  Ro- 
main  Holland ;  Eug&ne  Brieux;  Edmond  Rostand; 
Maurice  Maeterlinck;  The  symbolist  movement; 
Contemporary  poetry;  Contemporary  drama; 
The  new  novel;  Index. 


Booklist    20:12   O    '23 
Bookm  58:338  N  '23  150w 
Cleveland  p77  S  '23 
"The  puzzle  is  why  they  should  have  written 
a  history  of  literature,   concealing  in  it  all  sign 
of   enthusiasm   for   literature   as   such      Perhaps 
their  twin  passions  for  accuracy,  and  for  I<  ranee 
rieiit    or    wrong,    have    swallowed    up    all    their 
other  capacities  and  given  the  child  of  their  co- 
operative   conception    such    a    bleak    look,      i'or 
bleak  it  is."     E.   M. 

_  Freeman  8:167  O  24  '23  600w 
"Very    interesting    and    promises    to    be    ex- 
ceedingly   useful,    not    only    to    university    stu- 
dents but  also   to  every  one  who  has  a  genuine 
interest    in    literature."  ^  ^    ^    .,      ^,  »    a   oq 

-I-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily   News  p&   S   23 
•23    750w 
"This    textbook   approaches    the    great   figures 
of  modern  French  literature  with  a  good  deal  of 
tolerance    even    though    it    is    occasionally    lack- 
ing in  understanding.     The  biographies  are  com- 
prehensive,   if    primary,    and    the    criticism    in- 
telligent,   if    stodgy."  ^    „„  ,„„ 
+  —  Nation  117:273  S  12  '23  lOOw 
"\Ithough    to    secure    space    for    biographical 
and'  critical    matter    for   the   familiar   Vv-riters   of 
the    older    schools,    the    discussion    of    contem- 
porary work  is  reduced  almost  to  an  annotated 
list,    the    book    is    a    useful    sur\'ey,    with   valu- 
able  detailed    bibliographies."      E.    R. 

New    Repub    36:160    O    3    '23    130w 
"Enjoys    the    happy    advantage    of    presenting 
scholarly  niateiial  in  a  scholarly  manner,   with- 
out  the    didactic   tedium    of   dry   fact    and   foot- 
note too  often  ascribed  to  volumes  of  informa- 

*^°""    -|_   N    Y   Times  p2   Ag  12  '23   600w 

"Unlike  the  recent  history  of  French  litera- 
ture by  Profe.=!sors  Nitze  and  Dargan,  of  Chi- 
cago University,  this  less  pretentious  volume 
really  achieves  its  purpose  and  justifies  its  ex- 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BACOURT,   P.   D.    DE — Continued 
istence  as   a,n  addition    to   the   many   handbooks 
on   French  literature.   The   bibliographies  are  as 
complete    as    is    necessary."    Ernest    Boyd 

+  N  Y  Tribune  pl9  O  28  '23  1150w 
"On  the  whole  the  book  is  not  for  the  initiate, 
but  is  at  least  a  very  sound  introduction  to 
the  literature  of  modern  France  for.  English 
readers.  No  aspects  are  neglected,  and  a  very 
fair    standard    of    proportion    is    reached." 

+  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p783  N  22 
•23    880w 

BAER,  LAURA.  Retail  selling  methods: 
everyday  sales  problems  and  their  solution. 
250p    $2    McGraw 

658    Retail    trade  23-10480 

"The    problems    discussed    deal    largely    with 

selling      dry-goods,       clothing,      and      shoes." — 

Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui 


Booklist   20:124   Ja   '24 
Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui  28:421  O  '23 

BAERLEIN,       HENRY        PHILIP        BERNARD. 

House  of  the  fighting  cocks.  306p  $2  Harcourt 

[7s  6d  L..  Parsons] 

23-9947 

The  story  is  told  in  the  first  person  by  a  Mex- 
ican boy,  Juan,  son  of  a  breeder  of  fighting- 
cocks — an  irrelevant  fact  useful  as  a  back- 
ground. A  wandering  Spanish  scholar,  Don 
Eugenio  Gil,  comes  to  the  house  and  Juan  is 
entrusted  to  his  keeping  to  be  educated.  To- 
gether they  journey  away  to  the  house  of  a 
wealthy,  half-mad  hermit,  the  Noahcite,  whose 
pet  obsession  is  that  all  wisdom  and  knowledge 
resided  in  the  head  of  Noah  and  tha,t  by  ascer- 
taining precisely  what  is  in  the  earth  one  may 
learn  what  lay  in  Noah's  head.  This  com- 
mitted him  to  the  pursuit  of  g;eology  as  the 
greatest  of  all  sciences.  The  time  being  the 
turbulent  reign  of  Maximilian,  the  adventures 
of  Juan  and  his  tutor  are  wildly  exciting  and 
beautiful  Indian  girls  for  love-making  are  fortli- 
coming.  The  gist  of  the  tale  lies  in  Don 
Eugenio's  instructive  talks  with  Juan,  full  of 
mellow  and  comfortable  wisdom,  both  religious 
and  mundane,  and  in  his  conversations  with  the 
Noahcite,  ranging  from  religion,  philosophy  and 
politics  to  alchemy  and  modern  science  and 
disguising  their  humor  and  satire  behind  a 
serious  pose. 


Boston    Transcript    p5   Ap   14    '23    200w 

"A  book  of  somber  and  embittered  irony, 
shot  through  with  a  sort  of  anguished  tender- 
ness. The  slight  but  well  rounded  action  is 
adorned  with  an  extraordinary  gloss  of  re- 
condite learning  and  fantastic  philosophizing." 
H.    W.    Boynton 

+   Ind    110:232   Mr   31    '23   220w 

"The  author's  style  is  lucid,  flowing,  gener- 
ous— smacking  rather  of  another  age,  and,  so, 
appropriate  to  the  time  and  the  country.  Its 
humor  is  ubiquitous  though  never  boisterous, 
appearing  as  an  undercurrent,  and  more  in 
situations  than  in  anecdote  and  sprightly  con- 
verse."   Drake   De   Kay 

+    Lit    R   p799   Je   30   '23   850w 

"His  novel  is  good.  Its  humor,  its  erudition, 
its  humanity,  its  romance,  and  the  charm  of 
its  style,  mark  it  as  a  book  to  be  bought  and 
treasured,  not  borrowed  from  a  library,  and 
certainly  it  is  a  book  to  be  re-read."  Forrest 
Reid 

-f-  Nation  and  Ath  31:688  Ag  19  "22  450w 

"If  it  be  in  some  sort  subduing,  when  the 
erudition  appals,  the  humor  lightens.  For  Don 
Eugenio  has  a  wicked  wit.  His  profound  irony 
spares  no  helpful  platitude.  In  the  last  part 
of  the  book,  however,  his  elucidations  are  too 
long,  the  speeches  too  glaringly  beyond  belief 
for  a  novel  by  Juanito,  even  for  a  novel  sui 
generis,  as  is  this  one.  Yet  the  spell  cast  by 
Don  Eugenio  over  every  person  of  the  story 
falls  upon  the  reader.  Let  him  talk  on,  in  the 
face  of  death,  starvation  and  exile!  His  in- 
domitable suavity  ennobles  life."  Marian  Storm 
-i New   Repub   36:107   S   19   '23   llOOw 


Reviewed  by  Rebecca  West 

New  Statesman  19:588  S  2  '22  150w 
"It  is  never  slack  in  interest  and  quite  often 
it  sparkles  and  ripples  with  a  malicious  himior 
and  observation  that  is  nuich  more  Latin  than 
Anglo-Saxon.  Just  who  Henry  Baerlein  is 
remains  a  secret  so  far,  but  he  is  quite  evi- 
dently a  writer  with  a  well-developed  gift  of 
satire  and  gentle  humor,  a  man  who  has  thor- 
oughly imbibed  the  spirit  of  Spanish  letters  and 
yet  who  can  write  English  in  the  most  facile 
fashion." 

+  N   Y  Times  pl4  Mr  11  '23  700w 
Reviewed   by  Isabel  Paterson 

N  Y  Tribune  p22  Ap  29  '23  260w 
"The  atmosphere  is  perfect:  the  characteri- 
zation, though  remote,  is  utterly  convincing: 
but  the  story  does  not  move  fast  enough.  His 
book  is  like  no  other  that  one  has  ever  read  or 
even,  wildly,  dreamt  about.  He  is,  for  all  the 
reminders  in  his  manner,  himself."  Gerald  Gould 

H Sat    R    134:321   Ag   2G   '22   350w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p478    Jl 
20    '22    200w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:159   Je    '23 

BAIKIE,  JAMES.     Bible  story;  a  connected  nar- 
-     rative    retold    from    Holy    Scripture.      472p     il 

$5    Macmillan 
220.9      Bible,    Whole— History  23-13305 

"In  retelling  the  Biblical  narrative,  not  for 
young  readers  only,  but  for  all  readers  in  our 
day  who  wish  to  get  a  connected  presentation 
of  the  scriptural  record.  Dr.  Baikie  has  avoided 
language  of  an  archaic  character  and  yet  has 
pieserved  to  a  great  degree  the  stateliness  of 
diction  which  graced  the  King  James  version. 
The  story  is  given  in  its  true  historical  order, 
with  the  omission  of  details  unessential  to  the 
narrative  itself.  This  method  is  pursued  for 
both  the  Old  and  the  New  Testament,  and  the 
author  has  added  a  section  in  which  the  course 
of  history  between  the  closing  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment story  and  the  opening  of  that  of  the  New 
Testament  is  briefly  traced.  There  are  fifty 
full-page  illustrations  in  color  by  J.  H.  Hartley, 
who  recently  made  a  special  journey  to  the 
Holy  Land  for  the  purpose  of  inaking  these 
sketches." — R  of  Rs 

"Quite    apart    from    the    spiritual    meaning    of 
the  Biblical  narrative,   the  stories  that  compose 
it  have  an  vnirivalled  literary  charm." 
-1-   R  of   Rs  69:112  Ja  '24  220w 

"In  the  matter  of  language  the  author  has 
made  an  effort  to  maintain  a  form  which,  while 
'avoiding  the  archaic  and  unintelligible,  avoids 
also  the  familiar  and  modern.'  In  this  the 
author  succeeds  well.  The  50  full-page  colored 
plates   by   J.    H.    Hartley   are   beautiful   and   re- 

+  Springf'd   Republican  plO  D  27  "23  150w 

BAIKIE,  JAMES.  Life  of  the  ancient  East,  be- 
ing some  chapters  of  the  romance  of  mod- 
ern  excavation.    463p   il   $4   Macmillan 

913      Egypt — Antiquities.       Greece — Antiqui- 
ties.      Mesopotamia — Antiquities.       Archeol- 
ogy 23-16679 
The  book  recounts  the  story  of  modern  exca- 
vations    in     Egypt,     Mesopotamia     and    Greece. 
The    sites    chosen    are    Abydos,    Tell-el-Amarna, 
Thebes,   the  Valley  of  the  Kings,   Lagash,  Bab- 
ylon,    Nineveh,     Troy,     Mycense,     Knossus    and 
Gezer.      The    story    of    the    excavation    on    each 
site    is   told    with    some   detail   and   the   work  of 
the    archeologists    chiefly    connected    with    the 
excavations      is      summarized,      also      the      new 
knowledge  which   their  discoveries  have  opened 
up  to  us   of  the  life  of  ancient  peoples. 

"This  volume  is  indisputably  one  of  the  most 
informative  of  recent  years  on  the  work  of  the 
enthusiastic  excavator  in  revealing  priceless 
relics  of  antiquity  and  in  outlining  the  new 
knowledge  and  how  the  great  pioneer  peoples 
of  the  ancient  East  lived,  thought,  beUeved  and 
died."     F.   P.   H. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p2    D    22    '23    950w 
N   Y   World   pSe   N   18  '23  120w 


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"The  ability  to  make  such  things  really  at- 
tractive reading  with  nothing  of  the  lesson 
about  them  is  rare,  and  this  book  shows  that 
Mr.    Baikie   has   it." 

+  Outlook    136:116   Ja   16    '23    200w 
"His    account    is    clear    and    straightforward, 
without    any    of    the    fashionable    effervescence, 
and  he  lets  the  principal  actors  speak  for  them- 
selves." 

+  Sat  R  136:598  D  1  '23  160w 
"As  a  popular  account  of  excavations,  the 
estimate  which  the  author  gives  of  the  differ- 
ent results  is  fair  and  well-balanced,  and  to 
those  who  do  not  care  to  spend  the  time  to 
obtain  first-hand  knowledge  of  the  different 
explorations  the  book  will  have  considerable 
value." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p772   N 
15    '23    280w 

BAILEY,   LIBERTY    HYDE.     Seven   stars.    165p 

$1.50  Macmillan 

170    Conduct   of   life  23-9805 

In  the  person  of  Questor  the  author  depicts 
a  mature  young  man  at  the  end  of  his  college 
career,  reviewing  life  as  he  knows  it,  inquiring 
into  its  meaning,  its  motives,  its  end.  In  his 
attempt  to  see  everything  with  new  eyes,  he 
wanders  forth  in  thought  over  city  and  village, 
becomes  in  turn  the  man  from  Mars  and  Rip 
van  Winkle  and  observes  the  garishness  and 
ugliness  of  our  civilization.  He  communes  with 
nature  and  the  stars  and  puts  his  doubts  and 
queries  into  letters  to  a  friend.  With  the  help 
of  the  answers  he  receives  his  conclusions  be- 
come practical  and  his  grip  on  the  economic 
necessities  is  strengthened.  The  gist  of  his 
conclusions  is  that  we  must  accept  the  condi- 
tions of  life  as  we  find  them,  not  rejecting 
creature  comforts  and  amenities;  never  let 
money  be  the  prime  consideration;  never  lose 
sight  of  our  aspirations;  and  keep  as  our  chief 
aim  the  artistic  expression  of  life. 


Booklist    20:81    D    '23 

"All  parts  of  the  book  are  appropriate  and 
well  wrought  out.  It  makes  the  reader  feel 
that  while  he  must  necessarily  have  a  part  in 
material  things,  he  does  not  need  to  be  governed 
by  them." 

4-   Boston  Transcript  p5   Ag  4   '23  200w 
Lit   R    p816   Jl   7   '23 

"With  its  singling  out  of  the  deepest  values 
in  life,  the  little  book  is  a  significant  addition 
to  the  increasing  number  of  volumes  that  are 
trying  to  find  and  reveal  spiritual  currents  and 
guidances  in  our  troubled  and  materialistic 
time.  There  could  be  no  better  graduation 
present  for  any  thoughtful  young  person  look- 
ing forward  just  now  to  embarking  on  the 
voyage  of  life.  And  many  an  older  one  will 
find  in  its  pages  much  clarifying  of  modern 
problems  in  a  way  to  make  the  real  and  last- 
ing satisfactions  and  the  important  ideals  of 
life  stand  out  from  their  obscuring  surround- 
ings." 

-f  N   Y  Times  p26  Jl  8  '23   600w 

BAILEY,    TEMPLE.      Dim    lantern.     344p    il    $2 

Penn 

23-1444 

"To  Evans  FoUette,  a  returned  soldier  who 
has  lost  his  grip,  Jane  is  a  'dim  lantern,'  shin- 
ing through  the  fog  of  his  despair,  and  to  a 
jaded  middle-aged  millionaire  she  is  the  spirit 
of  youth.  How  she  chooses  between  these  two, 
together  with  the  love  affair  of  her  brother 
and  the  millionaire's  runaway  niece,  make 
pleasant  reading.  The  scene  is  Washington, 
D.C."— Cleveland 


"A  wholesome  little  story  which   will   have  a 
popular  appeal." 

-f-    Booklist  19:189  Mr  '23 
Cleveland  pl8  Mr  '23 
N   Y  Times  p24  Ja  28  '23  330w 
"A  pleasant  little  story  which  I  should   think 
any    young    girl    would    like    and    get    no    harm 
from."     T.«aV>eI   Peterson 

+  N  y  Tribune  p20  F  11  '23  400w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:212  My  '23 


"The  action  of  the  story  and  the  character 
drawing  are  commonplace,  and  the  feminine 
element    given    to    extravagance." 

—  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    My    20     '23 
250w 

The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p325   My 
10    '23    40w 

BAITSELL,  GEORGE  ALFRED,  ed.     Evolution 
of  man.   202p  il  $3  Yale  univ.  press 

575     Evolution  22-21928 

"This  book  embodies  a  series  of  lectures  de- 
livered before  the  Yale  chapter  of  Sigma  Xi  by 
a  number  of  eminent  biologists  and  psychol- 
ogists. Professor  Lull  of  Yale  gives  the  pale- 
ontological  evidence  for  the  evolution  of  man. 
Professor  Ferris  of  the  same  university  deals 
with  the  evidence  for  evolution  found  in  the 
development  and  structure  of  present-day  man. 
Professor  Parker  of  Harvard  and  President 
Angell  of  Yale  have  articles  dealing  with  the 
evolution  of  the  nervous  system  of  man  and  of 
the  development  of  intelligence.  Professor  Kel- 
ler of  Yale  presents  the  question  of  evolution 
from  the  point  of  view  of  human  society  and, 
finally.  Professor  Conklin  of  Princeton  discusses 
the   trend   or  future  of  evolution." — N  Y  Times 


"It  is  a  clearly  written,  objective  and  alto- 
gether unbiassed  effort,  sure  to  have  its  success 
affirmed  by  wide  reading,  to  set  forth  the 
deliverances  of  science  on  the  subject  of  man's 
evolution  from  lower  forms  of  life."  B.  N. 
+  Boston  Transcript  p7  N  18  '22  1300w 

"The  addresses  are  somewhat  unequal,  but 
they  contain  much  information  and  thought, 
and  may  be  commended  to  the  attention  of  the 
scholar,  though  they  are  hardly  likely  to  attract 
or  hold  the  general  reader." 

H Cath   World  117:426  Je  '23  400w 

"Professor  Ferris's  contribution  is  much  the 
most  substantial;  and  it  is  interesting  to  note 
how  definitely,  in  contradiction  to  the  hyper- 
sceptical  attitude  of  some  modern  writers 
whose  interests  lie  in  other  than  morphological 
lines,  he  accepts  the  law  of  recapitulation  in 
the  interpretation  of  embryonic  development. 
There  is  only  one  criticism  to  be  made  of  the 
author's  deft  and  often  masterly  exposition: 
he  fairly  swamps  his  readers  with  detail.  On 
the  whole,  the  volume  merits  a  warm  welcome 
as  a  serious  attempt  at  legitimate  populariza- 
tion."    R.   H.   Lowie 

H Freeman   7:284   My  30   '23   950w 

Reviewed    by    B:    Harrow 

N   Y  Times  p9  F  18  '23   1900w 

BALD,  MARJORY  AMELIA.  Women-writers 
of  the  nineteenth  century.  288p  $4.20  Macmil- 
lan  [10s  6d  Cambridge   univ.   press] 

820.4    Authors,    English.    Women   as    authors 

[23-11954] 

"This  volume  does  not  examine  the  contribu- 
tion made  by  women  to  nineteenth-century 
literature;  it  is  simply  a  number  of  studies  of 
the  outstanding  women  writers,  Jane  Austen, 
the  Brontes,  Mrs.  Gaskell,  George  Eliot,  Mrs. 
Browning,  and  Christina  Rossetti.  Miss  Bald's 
critical  method  is  what  might  be  called  the 
•personality'  method,  the  object  of  which  is  to 
explain  the  personality  of  a  writer  by  means 
of  his  or  her  work.  The  result  in  this  instance 
is  of  particular  importance,  because  the  critic 
is  a  woman  dealing  with  women  writers." — Spec 

Booklist    20:129    Ja    '24 

"A  most  painstaking  piece  of  work.  But,  her 
book  lacks  the  originality,  the  reach  of  thought, 
the  flashes  of  insight  and  sympathy  that  lend 
essays  in  literary  appreciation  distinction  and 
delight." 

(-   Lit   R  P804  Je  30  '23  220w 

"She  has  not  extracted  from  her  material  a 
criticism  that  satisfies.  Her  writing,  for  one 
thing,    is   often   awkward   and  wandering." 

—  New  Statesman  20:784  Ap  7  '23  260w 

"Although  her  subjects  are  all  women,  the 
author  takes  pain  to  explain,  what  her  readers 
will  quickly  discover,  that  the  book  is  in  no 
sense  a  feminist  treatise,  that  she  h&s  no  ae- 


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BALD,  MARJORY  AMELIA — Continued 
sire  even  to  seem  to  be  engaged  in  feminist 
propaganda.  Her  work  is  far  above  that  level 
and  deserves  to  be  ranked  with  critical  literary 
discussions  of  consequence,  whether  of  men  or 
women   authors." 

-I-  N  Y  Times  p20  Je  3  '23  700w 
"We  have  certainly  not  discovered  a  suc- 
cessor to  Arnold  or  Pater  or  Mr.  Lytton 
Strachey.  What  we  have  found  is  a  book  ot 
criticism  that  is  sufficiently  good  to  be  disap- 
pointing that  it  is  not  better.  The  book,  how- 
ever, is  written  with  care  and  knowledge  if 
without  any  deep  appreciation  of  literature  con- 
sidered as  an  art.  We  hope  that  the  section 
devoted  to  Mrs.  Gaskell  may  do  something  to 
revive  the  memory  of  a  tender  and  charming 
writer,    now    too    often    forgotten." 

H Sat    R   135:438   Mr  31   '23   500w 

"It  is  a  very  painstaking  and  thorough  piece 
of  criticism,  the  work  of  a  mind  at  once  acute 
and  sensitive.  The  studies  are  not  all  of 
equal  value.  The  one  on  Jane  Austen  is  rather 
short,  and  as  it  happens  that  so  many  critics 
of  the  first  rank  have  written  about  her.  Miss 
Bald's  study  strikes  one  as  being  somewhat 
below  the  level  of  the  rest  of  the  volume." 

H Spec   130:892  My  26   '23  250w 

"Miss  Bald  has  not  quite  made  up  her  mind 
about  her  point  of  attack,  with  the  conse- 
quence that  she  wastes  much  valuable  time  in 
fruitless  deployments.  Some  of  her  best  sparks 
are  struck  out,  one  might  say,  when  she  is 
least  engrossed.  Much  as  we  can  appreciate 
the  care  and  good  sense  with  which,  for  in- 
stance, she  follows  out  the  character  and  de- 
velopment of  Charlotte  Bronte  or  the  mental 
phases  of  George  Eliot,  we  find  more  illumina- 
tion of  either  author  in  chance  remarks  which 
belong,  in  point  of  place,  to  the  study  of  the 
other. ' ' 

-j •  The   Times   [London]    Lit  Sup   pl73  Mr 

15    '23    1500W 

BALDUS,  SIMON  ALEXANDER.  New  capi- 
talism. 48yp  $3.85  O'Donnell  press,  621  Ply- 
mouth  court,    Chicago 

331   Capitalism  23-7900 

The  author  confines  himself  to  analysing  the 
economic  conditions  in  the  United  States  and 
in  his  examination  of  the  merits  of  the  various 
terms  applied  to  class  divisions — such  as  upper, 
naiddle  and  lower  class — discards  them  all  and 
divides  society  into  the  investor  and  the  non- 
invesLor  group.  He  then  goes  on  in  Part  1  of 
the  book.  The  established  order,  to  describe  the 
present  day  mammonistic  capitalism  and  to 
demonstrate  how  under  it  a  few  thousand  per- 
sons control  the  entire  economic  and  industrial 
system  of  the  country.  in  Part  II,  The  new 
order,  he  develops  a  scheme  of  organization 
by    which    labor    can    provide    its    own    capital. 


of  beneficial  and  injurious  nabits.  The  un- 
usually beautiful  illustrations  in  color  are  by 
Robert  Bruce  Horsfall,  painter  of  backgrounds 
in  habitat  groups,  American  museum  of  natural 
history.   New  York  city. 


"Fluent  in  phraseology,  vigorous  in  its  in- 
vestigation of  modern  industrial  methods,  start- 
ling in  its  proposals,  yet  conservative  in  eco- 
nomic principle,  this  book  occupies  a  classifica- 
tion  that  is  largely  its  own." 

+  Cath   World    117:707   Ag  '23   480w 
"Mr.    Baldus's    500    huge    pages    bristle    with 
ostensibly  documented  charges  against  the  pres- 
ent   capitalism,    some   of    them   quite   justified." 
J:    Corbin 

1-   N   Y  Times  pl3  Je  19  '23  280w 

N   Y  World  pl9  Je  17  '23  580w 

BALDWIN,   FAITH.     See  Cuthrell,  F. 

BALL,    ALICE   ELIZA.     Bird  biographies.   295p 

il  $5   Dodd 

598.2      Birds  23-6424 

In  this  guide-book  for  beginners  150  of  the 
common  birds  of  the  eastern  United  States  are 
described  and  made  easy  of  identification.  Each 
is  given  a  one-page  description  in  brief — gen- 
eral appearance,  note,  habitat  and  range.  This 
is  followed  by  a  fuller  description  of  charac- 
teristics arui  behavior,  with  frequent  quotations 
from   other    bird  observers,   and  a  summing-up 


"A  book  to  be  owned   by  all  those  who  'long 
to  know  birds  intimately  and  intelligently,   and 
who    wish    to    belong    to   the   great   company   of 
bird   students   who  are   doing  their  bit    to  con- 
serve the  Life-saving  Army  of  our  forests.'  " 
+   Boston  Transcript  p3  Mr  31  '23  450w 
Cleveland    p73    S    '23 
Reviewed   by  A.    D.    Douglas 

Int    Bk    R    p42    My    '23    lOOw 

BALLANTINE,  STUART.  Radio  telephony  for 
amateurs.  2d  ed  296p  il  J2  McKay  [7s  6d  Chap- 
man   &    H.] 

654.6    Radio    telephone  [22-15574] 

The  book  addresses  itself  to  the  non-tech- 
nical amateur  whose  enthusiasm  overbalances 
his  theoretical  knowledge,  and  claims  not  to 
enter  into  competition  with  elementary  treat- 
ments of  the  theory  of  radio  communication  on 
the  one  hand  and  with  systematic  engineering 
texts  on  the  other.  Its  aim  is  to  furnish  a 
maximum  amount  of  practical  information  with 
an  elementary  theoretical  web  for  this  informa- 
tion and  reasons  for  the  suggestions  and  recom- 
mendations that  have  been  made.  Diagrams. 
Index. 

BALLARD,  GEORGE  ALEXANDER.  America 
and   the  Atlantic.   351p  $5     Dutton 

970        America — History.        Atlantic      ocean. 
Sea    power  23-7838 

The  book  studies  the  influence  of  the  Atlantic 
ocean  on  the  course  of  American  history,  show- 
ing how  this  history  was  affected  from  time  to 
time  thru  changes  in  the  maritime  ascendancy 
of  the  Atlantic  powers  during  the  period  in 
which  America  was  receiving  and  raising  the 
earlier  generations  of  her  peoples  of  European 
blood.  The  author  shows  the  successive  effects 
of  the  decline  of  Spanish  naval  power,  of  the 
rise  of  British  naval  supremacy,  of  the  com- 
petition of  France  for  a  time  and,  on  a  minor 
scale,  of  Holland,  and,  finally,  how  the  control- 
ling effects  of  sea  power  began  to  lessen  when 
a  domestic   quarrel  split   the  Anglo-Saxon  race. 


Nation  117:531  N  7  '23  230w 
"He  is  right  in  claiming  that  the  subject  is 
magnificent,  worthy  of  the  pen  of  a  Gibbon. 
His  own  pen  is  modest  enough  but  he  is  some- 
thing better  than  a  mere  Admiralty  annalist, 
being,  indeed,  an  open-minded  and  thoughtful 
historian." 

+   New  Statesman  21:400  Jl  7  '23  300w 
Reviewed   by   N:    Roosevelt 

N  Y  Times  p5  N  4  '23  lOOOw 
Outlook  134:240  Je  20  '23  200w 
"Admiral  Ballard's  study  will  be  found  in 
the  highest  degree  stimulating;  it  is  fresh  in 
thought  and  informed  by  the  large  practical 
experience  of  an  officer.  Even  where  the  au- 
thor does  not  completely  convince,  he  musters 
his  arguments  well  and  can  show  a  strong 
case." 

+  ~  Sat  R  135:839  Je  23  '23  llOOw 
"He  does  not  always  write  gracefully  nor 
need  we  accept  all  his  readings  of  political 
causes  or  intentions,  but  he  has  traced  a 
fascinating  thread  of  history  through  four 
centuries." 

H Spec  131:230  S  18  '23  150w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p463   Jl 
12  '23  550w 

BALMER,    EDWIN.     Keeban.    295p   ?1.75   Little 

23-7832 
One  of  a  pair  of  twins,  who  at  the  age  of 
two  had  wandered  off,  is  found  and  adopted  by 
a  rich  Chicago  family  and  brought  up  with 
their  son  of  the  same  age.  Little  Jerry  becomes 
close  brother  to  Steve  Fanneal  but  prattles 
much  about  one  "Keeban"— evidently  his  com- 


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panion  of  former  days.  Some  occurrences  in 
their  college  days  make  it  appear  that  Jerry 
has  a  double.  Then  suddenly  one  day  Jerry's 
fiancee  is  carried  off  and  robbed  of  her  jewels 
apparently  by  Jerry  himself.  He  is  arrested, 
but  escapes,  and  while  in  hiding,  makes  it  his 
business  to  find  and  bring  to  book  this  double 
who  he  feels  sure  is  "Keeban"  and  his  twin. 
Steve  assists  him  and  together  they  go  thru 
the  most  wonderful  underworld  experiences 
with  crime  of  every  description,  including 
counterfeiting  and  murder.  The  brothers  win 
out,  Keeban  is  killed,  and  Steve  secures  a  bride. 


leave  them  together  superintending  the  building 
of  their  home  on  a  spacious  hillside  near  Twin 
Bridges. 


"It  is  one  of  the  most  baffling  and  ingenious 
crook  stories  which  it  has  been  our  good  fortune 
to  read  for  many  a  long  day.  .  .  It  is  full  of 
ingenuity,  surprise,  and  its  English  is  well 
turned  and  effective.  Of  its  kind  it  is  a  really 
exemplary  story."     S.    L.  C. 

+   Boston   Transcript   p4   My  5  '23   650w 
"The  plot  has  all   the  twists  of  a  contortion- 
ist.    It   uses  the  old  device  of  mistaken  identi- 
ties,  brought  up  to  date  with  modern  improve- 
ments." 

—  Lit   R   p755   Je   9   '23   230w 
"Mr.  Balmer  has  written  'Keeban'  for  the  avid 
readers  of  mystery  stories  to  whom  the  es.sen- 
tial  thing  is  a   swiftly  moving  narrative,   piling 
complication  on  complication." 

-f-  N    Y   Times  p25  Ap   29   '23  420w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p692  O  18 
•23    lOOw 

BALZAC,    HONORE    DE.      Wisdom    of    Balzac; 

comp.  by  Harry  Rickel.  352p  il  $3.50  Putnam 
843  23-8817 

"His  philosophy,  wit,  epigrams  and  reflec- 
tions drawn  from  the  'Human  Comedy'  and 
other  writings  of  the  great  novelist."  (Sub- 
title) Of  this  compilation  Michael  Monohan 
says  in  his  preface  that  nothing  of  its  ampli- 
tude and  scope  has  heretofore  been  published 
in  French  or  English:  that  it  will  carry  to  the 
general  reader  a  new  and  impressive  idea  of 
Balzac's  intellectual  powers  and  that  it  is  a 
treasury  of  wisdom,  a  deep-hearted,  all-inclu- 
sive commentary  on  life. 

Booklist  20:12  O  '23 
"This  book,  which  consists  of  a  collection  of 
aphorisms,  witty  sayings,  and  philosophic  ob- 
servations, is  interesting  as  showing  'the  depth 
and  breadth  and  height'  that  the  great  novel- 
ist's mind  could  reach — the  extent  of  his 
knowledge,  the  range  of  his  experience,  the 
scope  of  his  interests  and  the  freedom  of  his 
thought."    S.    A.    Coblentz 

-f-  N    Y  Times  pl4  Je  3   '23   1900w 
"This  is  a   compendium   to  stand   among  the 
great    crystallizations    of     human     experience." 
Burton    Kascoe 

-f-  N    Y   Tribune   plS   Je  3   '23   230w 
"The    book    is    monstrously    complete."    Lau- 
rence   Stallings 

-f  N  Y  World  p9e  Je  3  '23  1150w 

BANNING,     MARGARET     CULKIN.       Country 

club  people.   308p  ?2  Doran 

23-8187 

The  story  concerns  the  frequenters  of  a  newly 
built  country  club  house  in  a  middle  western 
town  and  their  various  attitudes  towards  the 
standard  of  living  which  it  connotes.  Ruth 
DriscoU,  daughter  of  the  millionaire  backer  of 
the  club  house,  views  it  and  the  small  town  life 
about  it  with  scornful  detachment.  She  has 
traveled  much,  imbibed  radical  ideas,  and  is 
well  read  in  the  modern  sex  novel.  Marrying 
and  settling  down  in  Twin  Bridges  is  not  to  be 
thought  of,  yet  she  is  exceedingly  curious  about 
life's  most  intimate  revelations  and  dallies  with 
the  thought  of  experimenting.  Always  her 
middle-class  conscience  and  bringing-up  bar 
her  from  taking  the  last  step.  Finally  she 
compromises  by  marrying  in  secret  a  man  to 
whom  she  is  strongly  attracted,  and  on  the  con- 
dition that  she  may  live  her  own  life  away 
from  him  and  divorce  him  whenever  she  likes. 
After  some  misunderstanding  and  several 
months  of  probation  apart,  both  husband  and 
wife    decide    that    love    is    everything,    and    we 


"Mrs.  Banning  has  very  clearly  taken  the 
stuff  of  her  stories  from  life  itself,  and  the 
remarkable  part  of  her  achievement  is  that 
without  twisting  or  straining  it  out  of  shape, 
she  has  found  justification  and  understanding 
for  her  people  and  the  ideas  under  which  they 
live.  Mrs.  Banning's  ideas  and  hei  people  have 
always  been  intei-esting,  and  in  this  book  she 
has  very  clearly  gained  in  power."  D.  L.  M. 
+   Boston    Transcript   p4   My   23   '23    1300w 

"Unquestionably    an    honest    attempt    to    por- 
tray   a    certain    phase    of    American    social    life. 
As    a    story    to    be    read    for    entertainment    or 
literary    pleasure,    the    book    is    a    failure." 
h  Cath   World   117:862   S   '23   70w 

"Such  bourgeois  people,  usually  uninterest- 
ing to  meet,  should  be  highly  interesting  to  a 
novelist.  But  they  haven't  been  made  that  way 
by  the  author.  The  book  is  written  badly,  too." 
Howard  Weeks 

—  Detroit    News  pl2  Ag  12  '23   240w 
"Photographs  it  undoubtedly  contains,   other- 
wise   it   would   not    be   human   history.    So,    too, 
it   may   be   made   a   channel   for  propaganda.    It 
is   an   interesting  and   readable   story." 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Dally  News  p8  Ag 
5  '23  300w 
"Miss  Banning's  book  proves  nothing,  one 
way  or  the  other,  as  to  the  attitude  of  young 
people  towards  the  complexities  of  modern  life. 
It  fails,  moreover,  to  present  convincing  char- 
acters. The  reader  seems  to  be  wandering  in  a 
maze  of  abnormality  in  which  the  reactions  of 
the  characters  to  any  given  situation  can 
never  be  counted  upon.  The  only  person  who 
even  makes  an  attempt  to  escape  from  the  tri- 
vial life  she  is  leading  makes  of  it  merely  a 
futile  gesture." 

—  Lit  R  p819  Jl  7  '23  350w 

"Such  ideas  as  she  gives  to  her  leading  char- 
acter— the  intellectual  modern  girl — are  rather 
hackneyed;  certainly  they  do  not  exert  anything 
like  a  predominant  influence  on  the  novel.  For 
this  reason.  Ruth,  the  girl  of  intellect,  lack? 
vital  reality.  What  we  receive  in  the  place  ot 
character  delineation  is  melodrama.  Nor  is  it 
the  result  of  plot;  it  accrues  from  hasty  and 
shoddy  craftsmanship.  A  good  story,  a  real 
theme,  has  been  obliterated  by  faulty  execu- 
tion. Margaret  Culkin  Banning  hovers  between 
Harold  BeU  Wright  and  Elinor  Glyn." 
1-   N   Y  Times  pl9  Ap  29  '23  780w 

"Mrs.  Banning  has  a  very  deft  pen;  her 
people  are  consistent  and  credible.  She  has  so 
nearly  done  what  she  set  out  to  do  that  she 
may  feel  a  just  pride  and  satisfaction.  It  is  a 
clever  book,  and  barely  misses  being  more  than 
clever."    Isabel    Paterson 

-I NY  Tribune  p22  Ap  29  '23  850w 

Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  8  '23  330w 

BARETTO      DE      SOUZA,     JOSEPH      MICHAEL 

THOMAS.      Bipmentarv   equitation;   principles 
of  horsebackriding.   338p  il  $3.50  Dutton 

798      Horsemanship  22-24932 

The  object  of  the  book  is  to  give  simple  and 
elementary  instruction  in  horsemanship,  follow- 
ine  the  same  progression  that  the  author  ob- 
serves with  pupils  who  want  to  learn  how  to 
ride  merelv  to  be  able  to  appear  in  the  park. 
This  includes  some  technical  knowledge  of  the 
handling  of  the  horse's  mouth,  and  therefore, 
some  practical  advice  as  to  the  means  of  im- 
proving a  ridor's  hands.  The  numerous  draw- 
ings are  made  by  Victor  Nickol  under  the 
author's    directions. 

"Manv  books  have  been  written  to  instruct 
the  novice  in  riding.  But  there  has  been  none 
that  so  clearly,  so  logically  with  so  much  pre- 
cision and  so  much  detail  inculcates  correct 
principles  as  this  one,  by  a  great  master  of  the 

-t-   N  Y  Times  p20  D  24  '22  780w 

BARGONE,  CHARLES.  See  Farr6re,   C,  pseud. 


28 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BARING,  MAURICE.  His  Majesty's  embassy, 
and  other  plays.  222p  $2.50  Little  [7s  6d 
Heinemann] 

822  23-14820 

The  title-play  is  a  comedy  satirizing  the  offi- 
cial life  and  social  intrigues  of  a  British  em- 
bassy staff  in  an  un-named  capital,  while  war 
is  hanging  in  the  balance.  The  second  play. 
Manfroy  of  Athens,  is  a  tragedy  the  action  of 
which  takes  place  in  and  about  Athens  and  in 
Cyprus  "during  the  period  of  the  French  or 
Italian  domination,  as  fantastically  described  by 
Boccaccio."  The  third  play,  June — and  after, 
is  a  comedy  about  a  man  never  out  of  love 
who,  having  missed  marrying  June  and,  eight- 
een years  afterward,  June's  daughter,  returns 
to  June  when  her  widowhood  makes  her  once 
more  available. 


Booklist  20:90  D  '23 

New   Statesman    21:474   Jl    28   '23    1050w 

"  'His  Majesty's  Embassy'  might  be  called 
the  "Loom  of  Youth'  of  diplomacy.  It  is  an 
astonishingly  vivid,  and,  one  imagines,  ac- 
curate account  of  singularly  little.  The 
reader,  however  humbly  bred,  lays  it  down 
feeling  that  he.  too,  has  been  in  the  carrifere. 
The  plot  is  so  fine  that  vocal  utterance  even  in 
the  chair  would  destroy  it.  The  drama  is  now 
not  in  the  whitening  coals  nor  on  the  mantel- 
piece, but  in  the  reader's  mind.  Much  the  same 
might  be  said  of  'June  and  After,'  except  that 
it  is  really  a  novel  with  the  descriptions  (which 
might  easily  be  boring)  left  out." 
H Sat    R    136:249    S   1   '23    230w 

"It  is  impossible  to  do  more  than  guess,  with- 
out seeing  them  acted,  at  the  stage  quality  of 
Mr.  Maurice  Baring's  His  Majesty's  Embassy 
and  Manfroy,  but  from  reading  them  I  should 
say  that  they  were  not  very  high.  I  doubt  if 
His  Majesty's  Embassy,  with  its  perfect  re- 
production of  the  atmosphere  of  the  diplomatic 
world,  would  be  as  good  acted  as  read." 
1-  Spec  130:803   My  12   "23   800w 

"His  Majesty's  Embassy,  we  should  guess.  Is 
one  of  those  plays  which  yield  up  their  content 
more  readily  in  the  study  than  in  the  theatre. 
The  first  act  is,  at  any  rate,  admirable  fun  in 
the   reading." 

-\ The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p299   My 

3    '23    900w 

BARKER,       HARLEY       GRANVILLE.         Secret 
hfe;    a    play    in    three    acts.    125p    $1.50    Little 
822  23-12808 

"  'The  Secret  Life,'  a  play  of  present-day 
England,  may  perhaps  best  be  described  in 
the  words  of  one  of  its  characters,  as  the  de- 
lineation of  'the  conflict  between  the  inner  life 
of  the  soul  —the  generation  of  the  spirit,  which 
withholds  so  much— and  the  generation  of  the 
flesh  that  dies  to  know  it  serves  a  greater  end 
than  its  own.'  In  this  play  there  is  the  con- 
flict of  the  politician  who  devotes  his  life  to 
his  country's  interests:  the  conflict  of  the  fi- 
nancier who,  despite  his  inner  ideals,  makes 
more  and  more  money;  the  conflict  of  the  lov- 
ers who  deep  within  themselves  realize  the 
fleeting  futility  of  the  emotions  that  drive 
them." — Publisher's    note 


It  is  vigorous,  witty,  elusive,  richly  and 
humanly  intellectual,  and  genuinely  profound. 
Because  of  its  profundity  the  play  is  not 
easily    understood."      Martin    Armstrong 

-f  Spec  131:742  N  17  '23  250w 
"Without  committing  ourselves  to  the  word 
poetry,  we  may  recognize  in  this  strange  and 
challenging  play  a  rarity  and  a  movement 
that  are  far  from  prosaic.  There  is  no  conclu- 
sion, in  idea  or  in  incident.  The  drama  lies 
in   the   shimmering  inter-play  of  the  elements." 

-f-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p615    S 

BARNES,    DJUNA.       A    book.       220p       il       $2.50 

Boni   &  Liveright 

23-14379 

In    "A    night    among    the    horses"    John,    the 
stable    boy,    is    desired    by    his    mistress    as    a 


husband.  He  feels  keenly  the  position  in  which 
her  whim  places  him,  and,  from  a  social  eve- 
ning during  which  by  some  break  he  has  shown 
his  commonness,  he  rushes  away  to  his  horses 
who,  he  feels,  accept  him  as  he  is — but  they 
do  not  recognize  him  in  evening  dress  and 
trample  upon  him.  The  other  stories  in  the 
volume  are  similar  in  that  they  portray  a 
single  incident  of  life.  Interspersed  with  the 
stories  are  short  plays,  poems  and  drawings, 
all   from   the   hand   of  the   author. 


Bookm    58:582   Ja    '24    140w 

"If  it  were  only  as  'austere'  and  cleverly  ugly 
as  the  six  drawings  by  the  author  herself  it  would 
be  a  pleasure  to  recommend  it;  but  who  will 
want  to  read  such  things,  except  out  of  morbid 
curiosity?" 

—  Boston  Transcript  p5  D  12  '23  500w 

"The  whole  book,  when  one  has  ceased  to 
ponder  its  unintelligibilities,  leaves  a  sense  of 
the  writer's  deep  temperamental  sympathy  with 
the  simple  and  mindless  lives  of  the  beasts:  it 
is  in  dealing  with  these  lives,  and  with  the  lives 
of  men  and  women  in  moods  which  approach 
such  simplicity  and  mindlessness,  that  she  at- 
tains a  momentary  but  genuine  i>ower."  Floyd 
Dell 

Nation   118:14   Ja   2   '24   480w 
N   Y  Times  pl4  Ja  6  '24  800w 

"In  escaping  the  commonplace,  the  platitude, 
the  clich6  and  the  formula  Miss  Barnes  has 
retreated  so  far  into  ironic  and  disillusioned  dis- 
dain that  she  has  seemingly  nothing  left  but  a 
will  for  acrid  observations  and  grim  absurdities. 
Her  book  is  one  of  the  curiosities  of  modern 
American  letters,  and  it  has  unusual  qualities 
which  make  it  something  more  than  a  curiosity. 
For  one  thing  it  is  intelligently  entertaining." 
Burton   Rascoe 

1-   N    Y   Tribune  p25  O   14    '23   700w 

"  'A  Book'  is  not  a  comfortable  or  pleasant 
volume.  It  is  exotic,  hectic  and  full  of  pose. 
Most  of  Miss  Barnes's  characters  are  Russian, 
with  not  a  few  Jewish  types,  one  and  all  being 
the  embodiment  of  something  evil  or  ugly,  and 
often  both.  Miss  Barnes  has,  however,  the  trick 
of  making  her  characters  seem  detached  from  ex- 
istence as  if  they  were  able  to  step  out  of 
themselves  and   watch  the   passing   show." 

1-   Springf'd   Republican  p7a  O  28  '23  300w 

BARNES,    ELEANOR    C.      See   Yarrow,    E.    C. 

BARNES,    GERALD.        Swimming    and    diving. 

140p     il     $1.50     Scribner 

796      Swimming.      Diving  22-23177 

"Learning  to  swim  is  an  individual  problem. 
The  instructor  who  clamps  a  steel-ribbed  sys- 
tem on  every  personality  under  him  is  as  in- 
competent as  the  kindergartener  who  has  but 
one  inflexible  method  for  all  children.  .  .  There 
is  much  psychology  in  learning  to  swim,  and 
the  teacher  or  pupil  who  fails  to  take  it  into 
account,  loses  a  valuable  ally.  .  .  For  the 
beginner  the  best  prescription  is  hard  work 
and  courage."  (Chapter  II)  Constant  attention 
is  called  to  the  danger  of  forming  bad  habits, 
and  some  instruction  is  given  in  life-saving 
and  resuscitation  and  in  managing  a  swimming 
meet. 


Booklist   19:150   F   '23 
"Mr.    Barnes    has    been    swimming    instructor 
in  universities.  Such  practical  instruction  makes 
his  book  careful,  clear  and  concise,   his  analyses 
detailed   and   lucid."      R.    D.    W. 

-I-    Boston    Transcript    p7    D    2    '22    600w 
Ind    111:118    S   15    '23    llOw 
Reviewed  bv  A.    D.   Douglas 

Int    Bk   R   p46   My  '23   340w 
"To    a    person    soinewhat    familiar    with    the 
sport  the  book  is  intelligible  enough;   to  others, 
it    is    to    be    feared,    it    will    appear    too    sketchy 
and    seem    to    take    too    much    for    granted.      In 
other   words,    it   is    scarcely   satisfactory." 
—  Lit    R    p475   F  17   '23    280w 
"Will  prove  helpful  alike  to  the  beginner,  the 
advanced    swimmer   and    the    coach." 

-1-  Springrd     Republican     p7a     Ag    19     '23 
120w 


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29 


BARNES,    JAMES.      Drake   and  his   yeomen;    a 
true   accounting  of  the   character  and   adven- 
tures   of    Sir    Francis    Drake    as    told    by    Sir 
Matthew    Maunsell,    his    friend    and    follower; 
wherein  also  is  set   forth  much  of  the  narra- 
tor's  private    history.    415p    il    $2    Macmillan 
"Matthew     was     an     Englishman,     son     of     a 
Spanish    lady,    who    witnessed    life    in    Spanish 
palaces,  saw  some  of  the  horrors  of  the  Spanish 
Inquisition,    fled    away    to    Prance,    and    finally, 
coming  once  more  to  his  native  land,  set  forth 
with    Sir    Francis   Drake   upon   an   adventure   in 
Nombre    Dios    Bay.      They    went    for    treasure, 
and  got   it,   and   fought   the   Spaniards  joyously. 
Returning    home,    they    were    in    time    for    the 
Armada,     and    many     things     besides." — Boston 
Transcript 


"He  who  loves  life  on  the  bounding  billows, 
with  the  romance  of  the  sea  and  the  lure  of 
pirating  in  the  Caribbean,  he  who  revels  in 
tales  of  historical  adventures,  or  "who  likes  a 
tale  of  true  love  well  told,  should  read  this." 
I.    W.    L. 

-f-   Boston   Transcript   p3   Jo   30    '23   600w 
"This    is  historical   romance,   as   it   should   be, 
bolstered    with    much    ripe    learning.      The    pic- 
tures too  have  their  story  to  tell." 
+   Lit    R   p916  Ag  18   '23   220w 
"James    Barnes    has    hitherto    proved    himself 
an    expert    in    stories   of    naval    daring.      A   new 
book    from    his    pen    'Drake    and    His    Yeomen,' 
will   enhance   this   reputation." 

+   Springf'd     Republican     p7a    My     13     '23 
240w 

BARNETT,  LIONEL  DAVID.  Hindu  gods  and 
heroes;  studies  in  the  history  of  the  religion 
of   India.    120p  $1.50   Dutton    [3s   6d   Murray] 

294  Hinduism.  Mythology,  Hindu  22-22915 
The  book  comes  under  the  Wisdom  of  the 
East  series  edited  by  L.  Cranmer-Byng  and 
S.  A.  Kapadia.  It  is  a  condensed  history  of 
Hindu  religion  including  the  Vedic  age  with 
its  Rig- Veda  and  chief  god  Vishnu;  the  age 
of  the  Brahmanas  with  its  Upanishads  and 
Krishna;  the  epics  and  later  religious  develop- 
ments. The  purpose  is  to  show  the  growth  of 
the  people's  spiritual  experience  moulded  by 
the   character  of  its   religious   teachers. 


Boston   Transcript   p4  Ja  27   '23   300w 
"The   Bible    student   will   find   more   than    one 
valuable    comparison     between    Old    Testament 
stories  and  those  which  have  come  down   to  us 
from  the  epics  known  as  the  Bhagavad-Gita." 

N  Y  Times  p26  Ja  28  '23  580w 
"It  is  the  merit  of  Dr.  Barnett's  small  book 
that  he  has  constantly  remembered  the  diffi- 
culties and  thereby  avoided  the  presentation  of 
Hinduism  as  solid,  definite,  closely  accordant 
with  its  prime  theories.  He  has  understood, 
though  he  does  not  put  it  so,  that  Hinduism 
is  extraordinarily  wasteful,  both  in  the  appar- 
ently superfluous  development  of  certain  ideas 
and  in  the  retention  through  the  ages  of  con- 
cepts never  utilized." 

+  Sat    R   134:927  D   16  '22   350w 

BARNOUW,    ADRIAAN    JACOB.    Holland    under 

Queen      Wilhelmina :      with     a      foreword      by 

Edward  W.  Bok.  321p  il  $3  Scribner 

949.2       Netherlands — History.       Wilhelmina, 

queen  of  the  Netherlands  23-12156 

The  book  tells  the  quarter-of-a-century  story 

of    the    kingdom    of    the    Netherlands    under   the 

enlightened    rule     of    Queen    Wilhelmina.      Her 

name    occurs    seldom    on    its   pages,    for,    in    the 

author's   words,    "hers   is   the   self-effacing  task 

of   a    constitutional    monarch,"    but    there    is    no 

phase  in  the  development  recorded  in  which  she 

has  not   taken   an   influential,   tho  inconspicuous 

part.     The  book  is  chiefly  a  review  of  domestic 

and    foreign    policies    since    1898,    with    a    brief 

survey    of    Dutch    literature,     art    and    science 

during  this  period. 


no  way  overstates  the  significant  achievements 
of  his  native  land."     H:   S.  Lucas 

-t-  Am  Hist  R  29:374  Ja  '24  370w 
Booklist  20:94  D  '23 
"Dr  Barnouw  gives  us  a  most  comprehensive 
review  of  Holland's  troubles  from  the  moment 
the  queen  ascended  the  throne  before  approach- 
ing the  problems  that  developed  the  moment 
that  Germany  invaded  Belgium.  He  must  have 
been  in  possession  of  extensive  Government 
documents  to  present  the  story  in  such  detail 
and   with   such   clearness."      F.    P.   H. 

-I-    Boston  Transcript  p4  O  6  '23  900w 
"Dr.    Barnouw    goes    fully    and    carefully    into 
the  political  aspect  of  affairs,   treats  freely,  and 
yet    fairly,    the    parties   and    the    problems    that 
are  alive  in  the  low  country."  J.   D.  Haag 
+   Detroit    News   pl9   O   7   "23    480w 
"Here   is  a   solid  and  serious,   but  very   read- 
able,   hook  treating  of  Holland   from  the  inside. 
Here    is   the    latest   chapter,    eloquently   told,    in 
the    history    of    a    small    people    that    has    ever 
been   a   great   nation.    .   .   The   insight  and   sym- 
pathies,  judicial   poise   and  thoroughness   of  the 
author  make   his   book   a   masterpiece."     W:   E. 
Griffis 

-I-   Lit   R  p85  S  29  '23  llOOw 
Nation  117:614  N  28  '23  lOOw 
"A  valuable  and   illuminating  contribution." 
+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p758    N 
15    '23    1500w 

BAROJA    Y    NESSI,    PIO.    Weeds;    tr.    from   the 
Spanish   by   Isaac   Goldberg.   344p   $2.50   Knopf 

23-17477 
This  is  the  second  volume  of  the  trilogy, 
"The  struggle  for  life"  of  which  "The  quest" 
has  already  appeared.  It  is  a  continuation  of 
the  first  book,  and  carries  the  adventures  of 
Manuel  into  other  scenes  of  the  lower  life  of 
Madrid.  In  contrast  to  the  weak-willed  drift- 
ing characters  with  whom  Manuel  is  thrown 
for  the  most  part,  the  author  introduces  an 
Englishman,  Robert  Hastings,  drawn  from  an 
incident  in  real  life  which  created  a  great  stir 
in   Spain  some  years  ago. 


"Students  of  contemporary  European  history 
will  be  pleased  with  this  admirable  statement. 
He  has  accurate  knowledge  of  the  subject  and  in 


"It  is  true  that  the  reader  sees  with  Pio 
Baroja's  eyes.  Things  are  narrated  with  a 
clearness  possibly  beyond  Manuel's  faculties, 
did  he  live  to  be  a  hundred  years  old.  Shud- 
dering impressions  of  color  in  a  building,  a 
horizon  and  a  bit  of  sky  are  described,  which 
it  is  rather  likely  Manuel  was  inarticulately 
aware  of,  if  at  all.  But  the  feel  of  the  pave- 
ments, the  expressions  of  people's  faces,  the 
cold  of  the  hours  before  dawn,  all  that  is  Man- 
uel's experience,  the  reader  is  not  allowed. to 
forget    for   an    instant."    R.    H.    A. 

-f-   Boston    Transcript   p4    N    24    '23    720w 

"This  book  represents,  in  the  opinion  of  the 
great  majority  of  critics,  Baroja's  high-water 
mark  as  a  realist.  It  suffers,  nevertheless, 
from  the  same  defects  of  technique  from  which 
the  majority  of  the  works  of  Baroja  suffer.  It 
lacks  a  consistent,  well-defined  unity.  But 
this  defect  is  less  grave  than  it  at  first  ap- 
pears to  be,  since  life,  as  Baroja  sees  it,  can- 
not be  subjected  to  the  strait-jacket  of  a  plot." 
Eliseo  Vivas 

H Lit    R   p302   D   1   '23   600w 

"As  a  record  these  books  are  immensely  valu- 
able and  perhaps  there  is  more  than  that  to 
thern.  There  is  dignity  and  restraint  in  the 
writing,  a  quietly  distilled  poetic  energy  that 
is  very  hard  to  describe."  J:  Dos  Passos 
-t-   Nation    118:36   Ja   9   '24   760w 

"In  sensitive  and  profound  understanding  of 
his  people  and  times,  in  loveliness  of  style  and 
full  realization  of  material,  in  deftness  of  tech- 
nique and  unity  of  organization,  Baroja  is 
comparable  only  to  the  late  Louis  Couperus. 
'Weeds'  is  almost  a  perfect  novel." 
+   N  Y  Times  p9  N  18  '23  500w 

BARRINGTON,  E.,  pseud.  Chaste  Diana.  325p 
*2  Dodd  23-7992 

The  story  revolves  about  the  first  production 

of    "The    beggar's    opera,"    in    London    in    1728. 


30 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BARRINGTON,  E.,  pseud. — Continved 
The  heroine  is  Diana  Beswick,  who  played  Polly 
Peachum,  creating  a  great  sensation.  The  con- 
ditions of  the  theatre  at  that  time  were  such 
that  the  enchanting  Diana  was  much  pursued 
by  men,  among  them  Lord  Baltimore.  She 
comes  under  the  protection  of  the  Duchess  of 
Queensbury  and  thru  her  meets  the  Duke  of 
Bolton  who,  altho  a  married  man,  lives  the  life 
of  a  bachelor.  He  becomes  deeply  enamored  of 
Diana.  In  the  course  of  the  story,  which  por- 
trays the  courtly  life  of  the  period  and  the- 
atrical intrigues  connected  with  Diana,  Bolton's 
love  becomes  known  both  to  Diana  and  the 
duchess.  The  latter  resolves  to  promote  and 
sponser  publicly  a  free  union  between  the  two 
to  take  the  place  of  a  legal  marriage.  A  social 
affair  is  made  the  occasion  for  the  announce- 
ment, in  the  presence  of  Swift,  Pope,  John  Gay 
and  other  notables. 


Booklist  19:.317  Jl  '23 
"The  story  runs  smoothly  and  lightly  its  des- 
tined way,  sometimes  delightful  in  its  resem- 
blance to  the  best  in  its  model,  sometimes 
alack  reflecting  the  worst,  and  in  a  persistent 
use  of  si.Tch  phrases  as  'have  gave.'  If  the 
story  has  not  all  the  substance  we  might  wish, 
at  least  it  has  plausibility  and  charm,  deli- 
cacy and   appreciation."    S'.    L.    C 

-I Boston    Transcript   p4    My   26    '23   1250w 

"Its  style  is,  from  a  scholarly  point  of  view, 
well  thought  out  and  studied.  Unfortunately, 
however,  as  much  cannot  be  said  for  the  plot, 
which,  from  an  excellent  beginning,  degenerates 
into  the  conventionality  of  commonplace  melo- 
drama." 

h  Lit   R  p835  Jl  14  '23  350w 

"It  is  all  very  far  from  what  may  be  the  his- 
torical value  of  the  century,  but  the  illusion 
does  not  entirely  miss  convincing.  With  all  its 
artifice,  the  book  has  a  certain  pleasing  vitality. 
It  is  nowhere  deliberately  squeamish;  the  out- 
spokenness of  the  age  is  indicated." 

-{-NY  Times  pl4  My  13  '23  780w 
Reviewed    bv   Leo   Markun 

N   Y  Tribune  p23  My  6  '23  900w 
Wis   Lib   Bui  19:160  Je  '23 

BARRY,  FLORENCE  VALENTINE.  Century 
of  children's  books.  257p  $2  Doran  [7s  6d  Me- 
thuen] 

028.5    Children's    literature  23-12678 

The  age  of  children's  books  began  in  the 
eighteenth  century  and  the  present  volume  is 
an  account  of  the  output  of  that  century,  show- 
ing how  the  first  wild  growth  of  the  chap-book 
and  the  ballad  gave  way  to  the  cultivated 
garden  of  the  teacher  and  the  moralist,  before 
the  real  needs  of  child  nature  came  to  be  recog- 
nized. Contents:  Chap-books  and  ballads:  Fairy 
tales  and  eastern  stories;  The  Lilliputian  li- 
brary; Rousseau  and  the  moral  tale;  The  Eng- 
lish school  of  Rousseau;  Devices  of  the  moral- 
ist; Some  great  writers  of  little  books;  Miss 
Edgeworth's  tales  for  children;  The  old-fash- 
ioned  garden   of  verses.     Appendix. 


Booklist  20:80  D  '23 

"Her  appreciation  of  the  subject  in  its  rela- 
tion to  children  and  childhood  is  fresh  and  un- 
studied. It  is  a  pity  the  footnotes  and  paren- 
theses which  so  persistently  pursue  the  text 
were  not  relegated  to  the  back  of  the  book." 
A.    C.    Moore 

J Bookm    57:358    My   '23    80w 

"She    has    brought    humor   and    sympathv,    as 
well   as   scholarship,    to   the   task,   and   her 'find- 
ings make  an  enjoyable  study."  M.   L.  Franklin 
+    Ind    111:141    S   29    '23    660w 

"The  author  has  obviously  studied  her  sub- 
ject, and  the  result  is  a  book  which  will  both 
help  and  delight  any  one  interested  in  litera- 
ture for  children.  It  seems  imusually  smooth 
and  finished,  too,  in  its  writing,  and  never 
does  one  have  the  sensation  of  jumping  from 
one  bit  of  information  to  another  as  is  often 
the  case  with  such  works."  M.  G.  Bonner 
+  Int   Bk   R  p54  O  '23   lOOw 


"Miss  Barry  has  told  her  story  with  possibly 
too  much  detail  and  unfortunately  has  omit- 
ted an  index,  but  it  is  a  valuable  record  of 
various  theories  of  education  and  their  effects 
on  juvenile  literature.  She  does  not,  however, 
clear  up  the  mystery  of  Mother  Goose,  and  un- 
til that  is  done  the  last,  last  word  will  not 
have  been  said  on  the  subject."  Dorothy  Graff e 
h  Nation   117:560  N   14  '23   250w 

"So  many  volumes  attract  her  attention  that 
the  landmarks  and  main  influences  are  partial- 
ly obscured  in  a  clutter  of  names  and  titles, 
many  of  which  need  only  have  been  listed  in 
the  Appendix.  But  no  one  who  knows  a  child 
or  who  remembers  sympathetically  his  own 
first  literary  adventures  will  be  deterred  by  this 
untidiness,  for  no  book  for  children  is  wholly 
dull,  and  Miss  Barry  has  an  anecdotal  way 
with  her  that  triumphs  even  over  the  prosiest." 
-1 New   Statesman    20:636   Mr  3   '23   llODw 

"A  piece  of  real  scholarship  that  evidences 
widely  ranging  and  thoroughgoing  research, 
keen  and  fruitful  reading  and  never-fiagging 
Interest.  Students  of  literature  will  find  it  a 
fresh  and  suggestive  survey  that,  as  a  phase 
and  an  important  one,  has  very  little  atten- 
tion." 

+   N  Y  Times  plO  S  9   '23   660w 

Reviewed  by  "Will  Cuppy 

N   Y  Tribune  pl8  N  11  '23  1550w 

BARRY,   FRANK    RUSSELL.    Christianity    and 
^    psychology;   lectures   towards  on  introduction. 

195p       .$1.50       Doran       [5s     Student     Christian 

movement] 
201     Religion — Psychology.     Psychology 

[A23-2130] 

A  study  of  psychology  as  it  affects  religion. 
It  opens  with  a  brief  and  clear  summary  of  the 
leading  theories  with  which  psychology  is  to- 
day concerned,  the  new  light  that  has  been 
thrown  on  instinct,  the  unconscious,  sugges- 
tion and  will.  The  rest  of  the  book  is  a  dis- 
cussion of  the  practical  application  of  the  new 
psychological  discoveries  to  the  development  of 
the  Christian  life.  The  author  believes  that 
Christianity,  more  fully  than  any  other  religion, 
meets  the  facts  that  psychology  has  presented 
to   us. 


"There  are,  no  doubt,  some  logical  gaps  in  his 
argument.  In  so  brief  a  treatment  of  so  large 
a  subject,  that  is  perhaps  inevitable.  But  all 
the  same  we  can  think  of  no  better  introduc- 
tion to  the  subject.  Nobody  could  read  it  with- 
out  profit." 

-f  Sat    R   136:309   S  15   '23   500w 
"Students  of  the  psychology  of  religion  should 
take  care  to  read  this  excellent  book." 

-f-  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p307  My 
3  '23  350w 

BARRY,    IRIS.       Splashing    into    society.       149p 
$2   Dutton    [4s  6d  Constable] 

23-13654 

This  little  book  relating  the  experiences  of 
Harold  Withersquash  and  his  Sella  is  a  satire 
on  London's  Bohemia,  after  the  manner  and 
spelling  of  Daisy  Ashford.  Harold,  having  been 
left  a  large  sum  of  money  by  his  uncle,  decides 
to  break  into  society  and  have  a  run  for  his 
money.  He  and  Sella  have  an  unbroken  series 
of  successes.  They  consort  with  poets  and 
artists,  are  "sycoanalyzed"  and  are  even  invited 
to  tea  at  Buckingham  Palace.  "We  take  leave 
of  Harold  and  Sella  "surrounded  by  royalty  and 
the  flower  of  England's  socierty,  he  the  Head 
Poet    and    she    the   Queen    of    Sport." 


Boston  Transcript  p4  D  9  '23  280w 
"Ko   doubt   many  people   will   think   this  little 
book   amusing." 

—  NY  Times  p9  O  21  '23  310w 
"Whether    we    are    to    condemn    the    book    as 
snobbish   or  not,    we   must   admit   that   in   spots 
it   is  very  funny."     Leo  Markun 

h  N  Y  Tribune  pl8  D  2  '23  200w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


31 


"Is  a  very  amusing  satire  on  modern  May- 
fair,  written  by  a  super-civilized  and  sophis- 
ticated adult  in  the  manner  of  The  Young 
Visiters." 

-f-  -^  Spec    131:198    Ag    11    '23    lOOw 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p489   Jl 
19   '23    220w 

BARTLETT,    F.    C.    Psychology    and    primitive 
^    culture.     294p    $2.75     Macmillan     [8s  6d  Cam- 
bridge  univ.    press] 

301  Social  psychology 
"Director  Bartlett's  main  aim  in  this  im- 
portant work  is  to  show  that  the  psychological 
study  of  primitive  culture  forms  may  be  used 
and  should  be  used,  as  an  introduction  to  the 
psychology  of  contemporary  social  life.  He  be- 
gins by  particulttrizing  the  most  important  and 
most  fundamental  tendencies,  both  active  and 
effective,  which  find  expression  in  human  be- 
havior; his  next  care  is  to  consider  how  such 
tendencies  act  and  react  upon  one  another,  set- 
ting forth  which  of  them  are  dominant  at  cer- 
tain stages  of  development,  and  also  taking 
into  account  how  they  may  be  affected  by  the 
external  environment  within  which  they  are 
called  upon  to  work.  And  having  surveyed  the 
main  determining  conditions  of  behavior  in  a 
primitive  group  he  goes  on  to  indicate  the  ways 
in  which  such  conditions  lead  to  the  develop- 
ment of  customs,  institutions  and  social  struc- 
ture."— Boston  Transcript 


Boston  Transcript  p4  D  22  '23  360w 
"His   book   is   tightly  packed  with  new  ideas, 
some    faintly    delineated,    some    merely    hinted 
at,    and    a    great   deal   will   have   to   be   done   to 
render    them    more   precise.    The    first   maps   of 
a  new  district  are  bound  to  be  sketchy,  and  the 
merit    of    this    book    lies    in    the    extraordinary 
number  of  outlines,   marking  new  fields  fur  in- 
vestigation, which  it  contains."     W.  J.  H.  S. 
-H   New  Statesman  22:343  D  22  '23  1050w 
"This   is   an   industrious  book   about   the   psy- 
chological   traits    at    work    in    early    as    in    ad- 
vanced society,  but  it  is  a  saddening  one.     Still, 
the  story  of  the  diffusion  of  culture  and   of  its 
elaboration  is  diligently  set  forth,  and  the  book 
in  general  may  be  safely  recommended  to   stu- 
dents   at    seats    of    learning,    whose    duty    it    is 
for   purposes    of   their   degree,    to   approach   the 
study  of  man   from  this  academic  angle." 
i-  Spec  131:808  N  24  '23  180w 

BARTLEY,     IV1RS    NALBRO     ISADORAH.        Up 

and    coming.     364p    $1.90    Putnam 

23-4006 

When  Jones  Bynight — third  of  the  name 
under  which  his  penniless  grandfather 
came  to  America — had  achieved  an  education 
and  unusual  success,  with  the  aid  of  a  self-sacri- 
ficing mother;  had  surrounded  her  with  every 
comiort  wealth  could  buy  and  had  helped  both 
his  sisters  to  the  kind  of  happiness  each  was 
fitted  for,  he  was  on  the  point  of  becoming  an 
eccentric  old  bachelor  who  had  missed  that 
essential  of  human  contentment — personal  lib- 
erty. Always  weighed  down  with  a  sense  of  his 
obligations  to  others  and  vaguely  resentful  of 
his  fetters,  it  remained  for  the  girl  of  his 
dreams — when  she  at  last  turned  up — to  hold 
up  the  mirror  to  him  and  show  him  his  variety 
of  moral  cowardice.  During  a  nervous  break- 
down which  followed,  his  watching  mother  also 
had  a  revelation.  She  saw  that  the  time  had 
come  for  her  to  step  aside — her  last  act  of 
heroism. 


Reviewed  by  D.  L.  Mann 

Boston    Transcript    p5    F    17    '23    llOOw 
"It  is  a  story  of  American  life  which  carries 
some    conviction,    a    study    of    character    with 
power  and   insight." 

H Lit    R   p668   My   5    '23   300w 

"An  extremely  readable  book,  important  in 
subject  matter,  but  not  too  important  to  be 
easy    light   reading." 

-H   N    Y    Times    pl9    F    11    '23    220w 
"In    spite    of    her    frequently    impossible    sen- 
tence   structure,    her   curious    spellings,    her   ec- 
centric  changes   from   realism   to  romance   and 


from  romance  to  naturalism,  Nalbro  Hartley 
in  her  last  novel  manages  to  present  a  con- 
siderable phase  of  American  life  in  a  manner 
both  superficial  and  trenchantly  vigorous.  If 
this  statement  is  paradox,  so  is  'Up  and 
Coming.'  It  is  one  of  the  worst  treatments  of 
a  gooa  subject  in  the  season's  offering  of  genre 
novels."    Kenneth   i?  uessle 

1-  N    Y    Tribune   p20   Mr   11   '23   llOOw 

Springf'd     Republican     p7a     F     25     '23 
260w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p405   Je 
14   '23   150w 

BASSETT,     SARA     WARE.       Walter    and    the 

wireless.  256p  il  $1.65  Little 

23-5969 

"Walter,  the  hero,  who  really  wanted  to  go 
on  a  fishing  cruise  to  the  Grand  Banks,  takes 
instead  a  position  to  look  after  some  very  valu- 
able dogs  of  a  New  Yorker  who  spends  his 
summer  at  Lovell's  Harbor  because  that  posi- 
tion offers  better  money  than  the  fishing  cruise, 
and  his  mother  needs  the  money.  Things  turn 
out  better  than  hero  or  reader  expect.  An 
interesting  detective  story  follows,  in  which  a 
small  dog  is  the  lost  heroine,  and  Walter's 
knowledge  of  wireless  the  power  that  finally 
untangles  the  mystery,  and  establishes  Walter 
in  the  Crowninshield  family's  estimation  as  a 
fine  operator,  and  makes  of  the  influential  New 
York  people  good  friends  for  himself  and  his 
mother." — Boston  Transcript 


"To  be  able  to  keep  abreast  of  the  times  and 
while  doing  so  turn  out  a  book  that  boys  and 
girls  [will  like]  ...  is  something  of  an  art. 
Sara  Ware  Bassett,  in  her  invention  series  is 
such  an  artist." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  Ap  7  '23  200w 
"Will   interest   radio   enthusiasts,   the  it  does 
not   require  a   technical   knowledge   of  wireless 
to  enjoy  the  tale."  M.  G.   Bonner 
-I-   Int   Bk  R  p36  Ag  '23  30w 
"The     fourth     in     Miss     Bassett's     Invention 
Series,   this  radio  story  is  not  told  as  convinc- 
ingly as  its  predecessors,  which  had  to  do  with 
the   printing  press,    the  steam    engine  and   the 
telephone." 

—  Lit    R   p612   Ap   14   '23   lOOw 
"A  capably  handled  story."    M.   G.   Bonner 
-h   N   Y  Times  pll  Je  24  '23  60w 

BATTERSEA,    CONSTANCE,    lady.      Reminis- 
cences.    470p  il  $7.50   (21s)   Macmillan 

B  or  92 
"The  daughter  of  Anthony  Rothschild  and 
his  cousin  Louisa  Montefiore,  Constance,  the 
present  Lady  Battersea,  belongs  to  two  eminent 
Jewish  families,  and  if  only  because  her  book 
is  in  its  earlier  pages  a  serious  attempt  to 
record  the  characteristics  of  her  many  dis- 
tinguished relations,  it  would  possess  a  value 
for  the  historian  of  social  life  in  the  Victorian 
era.  .  .  With  such  friends  from  childhood  or 
girlhood  and  such  others  as  her  husband's 
charm  brought  her  and  her  own  admirable 
work  and  talent  as  a  hostess  won,  Lady  Bat- 
tersea has  no  lack  of  personal  material.  The 
Ishmaelites  and  Bohemians  are  missing,  but 
almost  all  the  other  chief  Victorian  figures  are 
in  the  book." — Sat  R 


"Lady  Battersea's  memoirs  are  very  good 
memoirs  indeed,  all  the  more  so  because  of  their 
good  nature  and  total  lack  of  any  pretension  to 
cleverness."  C:   L.  Moore 

+   Lit  R  p703  My  19  '23  780w 

Reviewed  by  M.  F.  Egan 

N  Y  Times  pi  Ja  14  '23  2300w 

"Lady  Battersea  writes  unpretentiously, 
pleasantly,  with  some  skill  in  describing  the 
appearance  of  the  celebrities  she  recalls,  and 
the  leisure  and  spaciousness  of  the  life  recorded 
are  agreeable  to  contemplate." 

+  Sat  R  134:886  D  9  '22  450w 

"Her  backward  look  over  a  past  century  ia 
so  bland  and  cheerful  that  she  keeps  the  reader 
going,  even  when  the  language  of  her  chron- 
icle is  less  vivid  than  no  doubt  her  vision  was. 


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BOOK    REVIEVv^    DIGEST 


BATTERSEA,    CONSTANCE — Continued 
It  is  honest  material,  set  down  honestly,  which 
illustrates  an   age  and  a  point  of  view — an  age 
of  large  country  houses  and  leisurely  entertain- 
ments." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p773  N  30 
■22   llOOw 


BAU,  MINGCHIEN  JOSHUA.  Open  door  doc- 
trine in  relation  to  China.  245p  $2.50  Mac- 
millan 

327     Eastern   question   (Far  East).     China — 
Foreign    relations  23-10566 

The  material  of  the  book  Is  drawn  mainly 
from  United  States  government  publications 
and  British  state  papers.  It  explains  the  origin, 
history,  meaning,  and  application  of  the  open 
door  doctrine  and  points  out  its  relation  to  the 
integrity  of  China,  spheres  of  influence,  the 
Chinese  railways,  Japan's  special  interests  and 
the  new  international  banking  consortium.  The 
appendix  gives  the  important  documents  re- 
lating  to  the  doctrine.     Bibliography.     Index. 


Am    Hist    R    29:376    Ja   '24    420w 
Reviewed  by  G.  N.   Steiger 

Am    Pol    Sol    R    17:662    N    '23    300w 
Booklist   20:94    D   '23 
-I-    Boston    Transcript    p6    S    3    '23    lOOw 
Cleveland   p72   S   '23 
"Dr.  Bau's  clear  and  admirably  judicial  work 
is   as   interesting  and   readable   as   it  is  histori- 
cally accurate   and   fair-minded.     A  copious  in- 
dex, a  bibliography  and  several  appendices  con- 
taining   texts    of    treaties    and    other    govern- 
mental documents  add  to  the  value  of  the  book 
which    not    only   historical    students    and   others 
especially  interested  in  its  subject   but  all  read- 
ers who  wish  to  form  intelligent  opinions  about 
our  national  and  international  policies  will  find 
very  inuch  worth  while." 

+   N  Y  Times  p20  Ag  5  '23  720w 

Springf'd    Republican    p6   D   26   "23   450w 

BAUSMAN,  FREDERICK.  I^et  France  explain. 
2nd  ed  264p  $2.85  Beyer's  bookstore,  207  Ful- 
ton  St.,    New   York    [8s   6d  Allen    &   U.] 

940.311      European    war,     1914-1919 — Causes. 
European   war,    1914-1919 — France 

[22-14062] 

"In  this  book  Mr.  Frederick  Bausman,  who 
was  formerly  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  State  of  Washington,  has  drawn  an  in- 
dictment against  France,  who,  he  alleges,  was 
the  real  instigator  of  the  War.  He  is  deeply 
impressed  by  the  secret  treaties  between 
France  and  Russia,  which  the  Bolsheviks  pub- 
lished after  the  revolution.  .  .  His  general  con- 
clusions are  that  the  Alliance  of  France  and 
Russia  was  unnecessary  to  the  safety  of  France 
and  was  hostile  to  the  peace  of  Europe;  that 
France  deliberately  encouraged  Russia  to  be 
aggressive  against  Germany;  that  German  ar- 
maments were  rendered  necessary  by  the  wan- 
ton increase  of  Russian  armaments;  that  Rus- 
sia had  no  motive  in  Serbia  except  to  extend 
her  Empire  in  the  Balkans;  that  Germany, 
after  discovering  that  Russia  actually  would 
go  to  war  as  a  result  of  the  Serbian  affair, 
did  everything  possible  to  avert  war;  that  the 
Russians  when  they  thought  war  likely  to  be 
avoided,  hurriedly  mobilized  in  order  to  make 
war  inevitable;  and  that  France,  in  the  few 
days  preceding  the  War,  did  nothing  to  pre- 
vent  the  catastrophe." — Spec 


"That  the  author,  being  a  lawyer  by  profes- 
sion, should  have  given  his  book  a  closely 
argumentative  form  is  comprehensible.  But  in 
the  ardour  of  the  battle  he  often  goes  too  far, 
and  runs  the  risk  of  producing  a  revulsion  in 
the  reader  who  has  a  liking  for  a  little  more 
elbow-room  in  forming  his  conclusions.  Yet 
when  all  is  said,  the  American  public  will  find 
here  an  excellent  corrective  of  its  particular 
war-bias."    Ferdinand    Schevill 

1-  Freeman    7:406    Jl    4    '23    700w 


"Mr.  Bausman's  findings  are  precise,  and 
here  and  there  they  are  stated  in  the  tone 
and  language  of  rhetoric.  But  his  case  is 
closely  documented,  and,  if  we  are  not  mis- 
taken, he  has  put  his  finger  on  the  questions 
that  must  for  years  to  come  disquiet  the  con- 
science of  Europe,  until  an  answer  of  equity 
has  been  found  to  them.  .  .  Mr.  Bausman's 
remarkable  book  has  suffered  a  little  from 
haste  in  production,  and  we  shall  look  to  a 
second  edition  for  the  correction  of  some  me- 
chanical errors  in  the  text  and  in  the  quota- 
tions from  French  documents." 

H Nation  and  Ath  131:443  Je  24  '22  1350w 

"An  indictment  of  France  so  savage — and  in 
part  so  inaccurate — that  it  will  repel  as  many 
as  it  may  convert.  .  .  All  this  reads  like  Ger- 
man propaganda,  and  Mr.  Bausman  does  well 
to  state  that  'no  German  suggested  this  book' 
or  'ever  saw  the  written  page.'  It  is  written 
in  the  spirit  of  propaganda,  in  spite  of  the 
documentary  evidence  adduced  to  support  many 
of  the  contentions.  Mr.  Bausman  has  been  so 
astonished  and  disgusted  by  his  researches  that 
his  indignation  has  overtoppled  his  balance." 
B.  E.  Schmitt 

—  New   Repub  33:255  Ja  31  '23  lOOOw 
"No   one   has   the    slightest   chance   of   finding 

his  way  in  the  twilight  of  diplomatic  history 
unless  he  has  first  stripped  the  scales  of  every 
prejudice  from  his  eyes.  Mr.  Bausman  is  so 
blind  with  prejudices  that  he  could  not  cross  a 
historical  high  road  in  broad  daylight  with 
any  kind  of  certainty  or  safety.  It  must  be 
confessed  that  this  fact  gives  to  his  book  a 
kind   of  pathological   interest."     L.   W. 

—  New  Statesman   19:470  Jl  29  '22  550w 
"He  is,  of  course,  trained  in  judicial  methods, 

but  we  cannot  honestly  say  that  he  observes 
them  in  this  work,  for  we  find  a  good  deal 
more  rhetoric  than  judgment.  .  .  Although  this 
book  is  a  misreading  of  history  in  the  solemn 
garb  of  moral  indignation,  it  would  be  just  as 
well    that    the    French   should    take   note   of  it." 

—  Spec    129:113    Jl    22    '22   lOOOw 

"It  would  be  well  if  the  author  acquainted 
himself  before  he  set  to  work  to  instruct  his 
own  country.  When  we  come  to  the  outbreak 
of  the  war,  he  believes  everything  that  the 
German  apologists  tell  us,  but  in  the  true  Teu- 
tonic style  dismisses  with  contempt  the  evi- 
dence of  any  writer  of  whatever  nationality 
which  tells  against  Germany.  .  .  Mr.  Bausman 
shows  some  real  understanding  and  insight  into 
the  position  and  policy  of  this  country;  he  has, 
however,  completely  failed  to  use  the  same  dis- 
cernment in  his  interpretation  of  French 
policy." 

h  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p431  Je 

29   '22  350w 


BAX,  CLIFFORD.  Up-stream;  a  drama  in 
three  acts.  (British  drama  league  library  of 
modern  drama)  85p  $1.25  Brentano's  [3s  6d 
Blackwell] 

822  2.M8020 

"  'Up  Stream'  is  a  play  the  scene  of  which 
is  laid  in  the  forests  of  Bolivia.  George  Gil- 
lespie is  the  chief  engineer  of  an  expedition 
which  is  building  a  railway  into  the  jungle. 
He  is  rapacious,  cruel  and  totally  lacking  in 
any  moral  feeling.  He  has  caused  the  death  of 
an  assistant  engineer  who  opposed  him,  ana 
is  planning  the  death  of  a  scientist  attached  to 
the  expedition,  being  actuated  b.v  the  fear  that 
the  scientist,  on  his  return  to  the  States,  will 
reveal  the  murder.  The  scientist,  Wyatt,  is 
leaving  at  dawn,  but  Gillespie  does  not  know 
whether  he  plans  to  walk  down  the  railroad 
line  to  where  the  steamer  is  lying  in  the  river, 
or  whether  he  will  go  by  canoe.  In  order  to 
find  out  he  sends  his  ward  to  seduce  Wyatt 
and  find  out.  The  girl,  who  is  truly  in  love 
with  the  scientist,  informs  on  her  father.  But 
Wyatt  does  not  trust  her,  and  tells  her  that 
he  is  going  by  canoe  when  his  intention  is  to 
walk  down  the  line.  The  girl,  trusting  Wyatt, 
in  order  to  save  him  gives  the  opposite  version 
to  what  he  told  her,  with  the  result  that  he  is 
murdered    by    the    assassin     sent    out    by    her 


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father.  In  a  word,  the  girl  becomes  unwit- 
tingly, the  cause  of  her  lover's  death." — N  Y 
Times 


Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  15  '23  250w 
"The    play     is    well     knit,     the    action    moves 
swiftly  and  the  dialogue  is  generally  sharp  and 
crisp.      But    the    impression   of   the   drama   as   a 
whole   is    one    of   crudeness." 

^ -NY   Times  p7   My  20  '23   600w 

BAXTER,      GEORGE      OWEN.      Donnegan;     a 
western  story.     320p     $1.75     Chelsea  house 

23-1647 

"Into  a  little  mining  town  on  the  edge  of  the 
desert  there  drifts  a  hobo  endowed  with  an 
agility  almost  superhuman.  He  falls  foul  of 
the  local  gang  of  bad  men  at  once  and  has  a 
series  of  hair-raising  adventures  before  he  suc- 
ceeds in  rescuing  The  Girl  from  their  clutches." 
— N   Y   Tribune 

"Those  readers  who  want  'something  exciting 
and  plenty  of  it,'  and  are  not  particular  about 
verisimilitude,   will    enjoy  this  lurid  tale."   F.  B. 

—  Boston    Transcript  pi   Je   23   '23   600w 
"For  the  most  part  the  book  is  shaped  along 

well-ordered  lines,  lines  that  have  proved  safe 
in  the  past  and  presumably  will  have  their 
public   for   many  years   to  come." 

—  NY    Times   p24   Mr   14   '23   330w 
N   Y  Tribune  p22  Mr  25   '23  40w 

BEACH,  REX  ELLINGWOOD.  Big  brother, 
2    and    other    stories.      367p      $2     Harper 

23-14204 
The  scene  of  the  first  of  these  short  stories. 
Big  Brother,  is  laid  in  New  York  city.  Jimmy 
Donovan,  leader  of  the  toughs  known  as  the 
Car  Barn  gang  of  the  lower  East  side,  is  en- 
trusted with  the  care  of  Midge  Murray,  the 
little  brother  of  a  gangster  who  was  killed.  In 
order  to  bring  him  up  to  be  straight  Jimmy 
puts  up  a  stiff  fight,  and  wins  not  only  the 
right  to  bring  up  Midge  but  also  the  hand  ot 
the  charming  Kitty  Costello.  The  other  stories 
are:  "The  white  brant";  Recoil;  The  obvious 
thing;  The  talking  vase;   Too  fat  to  fight. 


"As  reading  matter  the  book  provides  the 
lightest  kind  of  diversion  for  a  credulous  mood. 
Wliatever  interest  it  holds  is  due  principally  to 
Mr.  Beach's  very  real  and  not  to  be  undervalued 
ability  for  putting  a  certain  dramatic  quality 
into  even  his  slightest  work.  Let  the  material 
be  ever  so  banal  and  false  and  he  still  con- 
trives to  get  action,  movement,  a  semblance  of 
life  into  its  development.  In  short,  he  is  an 
excellent    craftsman." 

+  —  N    Y   Times   pl6   N   25  '23  550w 

Springf  d   Republican  p7a  D  30  '23  180w 

BEALS,     CARLETON.      Rome     or    death;     the 
story  of   Fascism.      347p     il     $2.50     Century 

945    Italy— Fascisti  movement  23-13033 

An  account  of  the  rise  to  power  of  Mussolini 
and  his  Black  Shirts  by  an  eye-witness  of  many 
of  the  events  described.  The  background  and 
origins  of  Fascism  are  sketched,  the  develop- 
ment and  triumphs  of  the  movement,  the  leaders 
it  has  produced,  its  program,  both  internal  and 
international,  and  the  larger  ends  toward  which 
it  is   working. 


"His  story  of  the  rise  and  development  of 
the  Fascisti  movement  is  vivid  and  full  of  color. 
He  does  not  ignore  the  many  acts  of  violence 
and  intimidation  committed  by  roving  bands  of 
the  Fascisti,  but  takes  pains  to  point  out  how 
the  movement  from  its  inception  has  been  es- 
sentially a  revolutionary  and  extra-legal  one." 
O.   McK.,   jr. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p4   O  31  '23  420w 

"Prof.  Carleton  Beals's  study  is  calm,  reason- 
able and  exceptionally  well  informed." 
-H  N   Y  World  p9  O  14  '23  450w 


BEAUMONT,   ISABEL,  pseud.    See  Smith,  C.  I. 

BECK,  JAMES  MONTGOMERY.  Constitution 
of  the  United  States.  280p  $2  Doran  [7s 
6d    Hodder    &    S.] 

342.73  United  States— Constitution  23-2414 
"A  course  of  three  lectures  delivered  by  the 
distinguished  American  lawyer  in  Gray's  Inn 
Hall  in  June  on  the  invitation  of  the  University 
of  London;  with,  besides  Lord  Balfour's  pre- 
face, an  introduction  by  Sir  John  Simon."  (The 
Times  [London]  Lit  Sup)  "A  brief  study  of 
the  genesis,  formulation  and  political  philo.sophy 
of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States."  (Sub- 
title) 


Am    Pol    Sci    R   17:344   My   '23    150w 
Bookm    56:772    F    '23    160w 
Boston    Transcript    p4   Ap    4    '23    400vv 
Reviewed  by   R   G.    Fuller 

Int  Bk  R  p42  N  '23  2450w 
"Mr.  Beck  is  a  stylist  of  no  mean  order,  and 
the  narrative  of  the  events  leading  up  to  the 
Convention  of  1787,  as  well  as  of  the  course  of 
discussion  in  that  famous  assembly,  is,  con- 
sidering its  brevity,  surprisingly  full  of  atmos- 
phere. The  lecture  on  'The  Political  Philosophy 
of  the  (Constitution'  evinces  the  same  graces, 
but  for  all  that  does  not  avoid  throwing  down 
a  challenge  to  opinion  on  certain  points."  E: 
S.    (Corwin 

+    Lit    R    p549    Mr    24    '23    570w 
Reviewed    by    BoyquS    Jean 

Nation   116:sup436  Ap   11  '23   1350w 
Reviewed    by    J:    R.    Powell 

New    Repub    33:297    F   7   '23    850w 
"The    book    is    replete    with    the    scholarship 
and    instinct    with    the    graceful    style    that    the 
American    bar    has    long    recognized    as    charac- 
teristic   of   Mr.    Beck."    Abraham    Benedict 
+   H    y   Times   p2   Ap    29    '23    2250w 
Reviewed  by  S.   A.  Coblentz 

N  Y  Tribune  pl9  Ap  15  '23  250w 
"One  cf  the  best  brief  expositions  of  the 
American  Constitution  in  words  such  as  the 
layman  can  understand.  .  .  A  good  deal  of 
it  is  necessarily  controversial — a  view  and  not 
a    Papal    Encyclical." 

+  Spec    130:21    Ja    6    '23    950w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p635    O 
5    '22     40w 


BECK,    JOHN    OSCAR.        Windows    in    Diagon 

Town.  81  p  .$3  Brimmer 
811 

"The  author  of  'Windows  in  Dragon  Town' 
begs  in  a  foreword  the  question  whether  the 
contents  of  his  book  are  prose  or  verse  by  say- 
ing that  he  has  tried  to  tell  stories  in  the 
manner  that  seemed  to  him  most  effective  with- 
out bothering  very  much  what  the  manner 
might  be  called."  (Boston  Transcript  S  29  '23) 
"With  two  exceptions,  Mr.  Beck's  poems  are 
in  the  form  of  veis  libre,  with  short  lines  of  a 
word  or  two  and  others  as  long  as  an  Old 
Testament  paragraph."  (Boston  Transcript  Ag 
29   '23) 


"Mr.  Beck  shows  a  good  deal  of  originality, 
and  there  is  good  excuse  for  his  pessimism, 
for  it  is  not  unredeemed  by  rays  of  light  and 
beauty." 

H Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  29  '23   220w 

"In  most  of  the  poems  there  is  a  timely 
note  that  is  not  exactly  journalistic,  but  rather 
significant  of  a  man  who  is  busy  with  the 
present,  alive  to  its  possibilities,  and  not  too 
busy  to  think  about  it  playfully,  musically,  sol- 
emnly, or  passionately  as  the  mood  strikes  him. 
G     H     C 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  S  29  '23  400w 

"His   construction    strikes   me    as    chaotic;    he 
seems  to  have  little  instinct  for  finality  of  form, 
little  sense  of  selection  of  detail."     W:  R.  Benet 
—  Lit   R   p680   My   12   '23   llOw 


34 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BECK,    L.    ADAMS.    Perfume    of    the    rainbow, 
^^   and  other  stories.     324p     $2      Dodd 

23-17381 
This  collection  of  tales  of  the  Orient  covers 
a  wide  range,  from  excerpts  from  the  Day  book 
of  a  court  lady  of  old  Japan  to  some  of  the 
old  ghost  plays  of  the  same  land.  Dreams  and 
tales  of  romance  are  included,  tales  of  the 
sensualities  of  dead  imperial  courts,  of  the  pur- 
ity of  the  Himalayan  heights,  the  secrets  of 
Oriental  thought  and  the  mysteries  of  ancient 
faiths.  India,  Burma,  Java,  China  and  Japan 
have  all  been  covered  by  the  author  in  his 
search  for  this  material.  Contents:  The  man 
and  the  lesser  gods;  Juana;  The  courtesan  of 
Vaisali;  The  flute  of  Krishna;  The  emperor  and 
the  silk  goddess;  The  loveliest  lady  of  China; 
The  ghost  plays  of  Japan;  The  marvels  of 
Xanadu;  From  the  ape  to  the  Buddha;  The  sor- 
row of  the  queen;  The  perfect  one;  The  way 
of  attainment;  The  day  book  of  a  court  lady 
of  old  Japan;  The  courtesan  princess;  The  happy 
solitudes;    The   desolate    city. 


Boston    Transcript    p4    D   22    '23    900w 
"The  author  has  approached  the  immemorial 
fountain  of  romance  with  scholarship,  sympathy 
and  reverence.     He  can  hardly  fail  to  stimulate 
the  same  attitude  on  the  part  of  his  audience." 
+   N    Y   Times   p8   D   2   '23    660w 
"Tales  of  court  intrigue  and  kingdoms  which 
have    a    surprising    modernity    and    naturalness, 
yet   the   author  gets  much   of  the  gorgeousness 
of    these    old    courts    into    his    descriptions." 
-f  N   Y   World  p7e  D  16  '23  300w 

BEER,  GEORGE  LOUIS.  African  questions  at 
'  the  Paris  peace  conference;  with  papers  on 
Egypt,  Mesopotamia,  and  the  colonial  settle- 
ment; ed.  with  introd.,  annexes,  and  addi- 
tional notes  by  Louis  Herbert  Gray.  628p 
$6    Macmillan 

940.314  Africa — Colonization.  European  war, 
1914-1919 — Territorial  questions.  Germany 
— Colonies.  Peace  conference,  1919  23-15285 
The  author  was  chief  of  the  Colonial  divi.sion 
of  the  American  delegation  to  negotiate  peace 
and  member  of  the  commission  on  mandates. 
His  studies  in  connection  with  this  work  are 
here  collected.  The  subjects  covered  are  the 
German  colonies  in  Africa  before  and  during  the 
war  and  their  disposition;  the  problem  of  mid- 
dle Africa,  in  its  economic  aspects  as  a  source 
of  supply  and  as  a  market  for  the  western 
world;  Egyptian  questions  at  the  Peace  con- 
ference; the  future  of  Mesopotamia.  Among 
his  recommendations  is  included  the  suggestion 
for  the  idea  of  international  control  which  was 
later  embodied  in  the  mandate  article  of  the 
Covenant  of  the  League  of  nations.  There  are 
six   maps   and   an   index. 


Boston   Transcript   p4   D  12  '23  700w 
R   of   Rs  69:108  Ja  '24   lOOw 

BEER,    THOMAS.    Stephen    Crane;    a    study   in 
American   letters.    248p   $2.50   Knopf 

B  or  92  Crane,  Stephen  23-17713 

The  deep  friendship  of  Stephen  Crane  and 
Joseph  Conrad,  two  kindred  spirits,  is  delight- 
fully set  forth  by  Conrad  in  the  lengthy  in- 
troduction which  prefaces  this  study  of  the 
writer  of  the  "Red  Badge  of  Courage."  The 
primary  object  of  the  book  would  seem  to  be 
an  attempt  to  create  a  revival  of  interest  in 
Crane's  work.  The  author  gives  a  detailed  ac- 
count of  the  career  of  Crane  and  refutes  many 
of  the  slanders  which  attacked  the  good  name 
of  the  young  writer. 


"Thomas  Beer  pays  tribute  to  the  art  of 
Stephen  Crane  and  excoriates  the  literary  spirit 
of  the  generation  in  which  he  lived  and  wrote. 
This  is  a  study  in  American  letters  of  singular 
Interest  and  importance."  R.  D.  Paine 
4-   Bookm  58:470  D  '23  920w 

"If  Mr.  Beer  is  fortunate  in  a  subject,  Mr. 
Crane  is  equally  fortunate  in  his  biographer. 
Mr.  Beer's  book  proves  that  no  better  man 
could  have  been  selected  to  write  it.    He  under- 


stands Mr.  Crane  and  his  work.  He  has  affec- 
tionate insight  and  imagination.  We  have  no 
apologies  to  offer  for  the  use  of  the  latter  word. 
Imagination  in  biography  is  not  invention.  It 
is  that  quality  which  evolves  truth  from  bare 
facts,  which  puts  warm  flesh  upon  dry  bones, 
and  Mr.  Beer  uses  it  neither  luxuriantly  nor 
frugally,  but  in  the  exact  proportion  which  gives 
life  to  his  subject."     S.   L.   Cook 

+  Boston   Transcript  p5   D  1   '23   1350w 

"The  truth  which  Mr.  Beer  now  tells,  like 
the  truth  which  Crane  as  an  artist  always 
insisted  upon  the  right  to  tell,  is  more  fas- 
cinating than  most  fiction.  If  the  book  is 
indeed  a  novel,  and  it  reads  like  one  from  the 
first  page  to  the  last,  it  is  the  sort  which 
Crane  might  have  written  about  himself  had 
he  had  the  inclination  and  had  he  known  as 
much  about  himself  as  his  biographer  does." 
Mark  Van  Doren 

+  Nation   118:66   Ja   16   '24   780w 

"Mr.  Beer,  in  spite  of  some  defects  of  style, 
has  written  an  incredibly  entertaining  book 
about  one  of  the  most  unpromising  of  periods." 
Edmund  Wilson 

H New   Repub  37:153   Ja   2   '24   2000w 

"While  containing  high  praise  for  the  author 
of  'The  Red  Badge,'  the  volume  is  not  written 
in  unduly  glowing  terms  nor  with  the  air  of 
the   idol-worshiper."     S.   A.  Coblentz 

-I-  N  Y  Times  p8  D  30  '23  llOOw 

"Perhaps  the  author  will  excuse  me  if  1  take 
the  liberty  of  tr\'ing  to  assi^^t  in  the  revival 
of  Crane.  T  feel  tha;  Beer  has  written  a  suc- 
cessful book.  It  is  dramatic  and  imaginative 
narrative  and  does  not  concern  itstlf  wiih  le- 
printing  documents  that  lull  the  soul  of  the 
reader.  His  staunch,  and  for  me,  loyal  defense 
of  Crane  against  calumny  somewhat  weakens 
his  work.  Perhaps  I  am  unmoral.  I  could  ap- 
preciate Crane  as  an  artist  even  if  he  had 
swallowed  all  the  dope  claimed  to  have  been 
seized  by  the  New  York  Police  Department." 
J NY  World  p8e  N  18  '23  ISOOw 

BEERBOHM,  MAX.  Things  new  and  old.  57p  il 
^  $6  Doubleday  [25s  Heinemann] 
741  Caricatures  and  cartoons 
"The  present  volume  is  made  up  of  the  cari- 
catures which  were  exhibited  last  summer  at 
the  Leicester  Galleries  in  London,  minus  most 
of  those  dealing  with  the  royal  family." — N  Y 
World 


"There  will  be  other  cartoonists,  but  it  is 
doubtful  whether  there  can  be  another  with 
that  profound  sense  of  happy  devastation  which 
is  Max's.  He  is  the  master  of  the  ironic,  the 
civilized;  the  fearfully  knowing  method  of  mak- 
ing certain  people  wish  they  had  never  been 
born.  .  .  The-  urbanity  of  it  all!  The  delicate 
manner  in  which  the  thin  blade  of  the  satire 
finds  the  chink  in  the  armor!"  Rollin  Kirby 
4-  N  Y  World  p6e  D  16  '23  1200w 
"Humour  is  a  great  antiseptic  against  the 
ravages  of  time,  and  this  quality  Max  possesses 
abundantly."     H.   Strachey 

4-  Spec  131:845  D  1  '23  1150w 

The   Times  [London]    Lit   Sup  p730  N  1 

•23  lOOw 

"One    wants    to    say    of   nearly    every    cartoon 

that  this,   positively,  is  the  best  of  all  the  lot." 

+  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p803  N  29 

'23  520w 

BEERBOHM,      MAX.        Yet     again.  *  306p     $2.50 
2    Knopf 

824  [22-16726] 

This  collection  of  essays  first  appeared  in 
London  in  1909  and  shortly  went  out  of  print. 
It  has  never  before  been  published  in  America. 
The  longer  essays  are  followed  by  a  group  of 
word  pictures  of  paintings.  (.Contents:  The  fire; 
Seeing  people  off;  A  memory  of  a  midnight  ex- 
press; Porro  unum;  A  club  in  ruins;  '273';  A 
study  in  dejection:  A  pathetic  imposture;  The 
decline  of  the  graces;  Whistler's  writing:  Icha- 
bod;  General  elections;  A  parallel;  A  Morris  for 


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May-day;  The  House  of  commons  manner; 
Sympat;  The  naming  of  streets;  On  Shakes- 
peare's birthday;  A  homecoming;  'The  ragged 
regiment";  The  humour  of  the  public;  Dulcedo 
judiciorum;   Words  for  pictures. 

BEGBIE,     HAROLD.       More     twice-born     men 
(Eng  title  Life  changers) ;  narratives  of  a  re- 
cent movement   in   the   spirit   of   personal   re- 
ligion.     164p    $2.50     Putnam     [5s   Mills  &   B.] 
248     Conversion  23-13878 

Like  the  author's  "Twice-born  men,"  this 
volume  is  a  record  of  religious  experiences  and 
testifies  to  the  power  of  religion  to  change 
men's  lives.  But  unlike  the  earlier  volume,  in 
which  the  men  converted  were  from  the  under- 
world of  London  and  hardened  in  crime,  the 
cases  of  conversion  here  described  are  young 
men  mostly  from  the  universities  whose  spir- 
itual growth  has  been  impeded  by  some  secret 
sin,  disturbing  to  peace,  happiness  and  power. 
Binding  the  narratives  together  and  giving  unity 
to  the  book  is  the  personality  of  the  "soul  sur- 
geon," an  American  and  a  friend  of  the  author, 
who  is  able  to  unlock  the  hearts  of  these 
young  men,  get  their  sins  into  the  open,  and 
perform  what  Mr  Begbie  calls  "miracles  of 
conversion." 


"This  is  an  unpleasant  little  book,  and  with- 
out impugning  the  good  intentions  of  the  au- 
thor,  we   regret  its  publication." 

—  Sat  R  135:602  My  5  '23  320w 
Spec  130:1012  Je  16  '23  150w 
"Mr.  Begbie  has  found  a  new  theme  exactly 
suited  to  his  faculty  in  expounding  practical 
religious  experiences  with  a  ready  diffuseness. 
They  are  tales  narrated  in  his  best  optimistic 
religious   vein." 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p251  Ap 
12  '23  250w 

BEITH,      JOHN      HAY      (IAN      HAY,      pseud.). 
Lucky  number.    355p  $2  Houghton 

23-6499 
Of  these  thirteen  short  stories  some  have 
already  appeared  in  magazine  form  and  others 
are  published  for  the  first  time.  The  first  and 
longest  is  the  story  of  an  old  man  who  has 
established  a  reputation  for  scholarship  and 
every  night  entertains  his  neighbors  with 
"readings"  and  discourses  from  his  library — 
when  in  reality  he  can  neither  read  nor  write. 
A  remarkable  memory  enables  him  to  repeat 
long  extracts  which  had  been  read  aloud  to 
him.  Scally  is  a  dog  story,  and  there  are  three 
war  or  post-war  stories.  Contents:  "The  liber- 
ry";  Natural  causes:  "Scally";  Ocean  air;  Petit- 
.Jean;  The  cure;  The  side-step;  Our  pirate; 
Locum  tenens;  "Bill  Bailey";  A  wire  entangle- 
ment;  A  sporting  college;   Fowl  play. 


"The  sheer  joy  of  a  volume  from  the  pen  of 
Major  Beith  is  one  of  the  events  of  a  year.  The 
present  book  is  even  more  varied  than  usual 
because  it  is  a  collection  of  short  stories,  all 
containing  folk  so  typically  part  of  the  fabric 
of  English  life  that  one  would  feel  perfectly 
comfortable  at  having  them  all  together  in  one 
story."     I.   W.   Lawrence 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  31  '23  1350w 
"On  the  whole  the  collection  is  entertaining. 
But  one  comes  back  to  'The  Liberry.'  It  alone  is 
outstanding;  it  will  be  remembered  long  after  the 
rest  have  yellowed  in  the  dusty  stack  of  yester- 
year's  popular   magazines." 

+  Int    Bk    R    p58    My   '23    350w 
"Major  Beith's  humor  is  always  genuine,  and 
when    he    satirizes     the     foibles     of     the     long- 
suffering    English    middle    classes    he    still    con- 
trives to   show   them   in   a   sympathetic  light." 

+  Lit  R  p666  My  5  '23  450w 
"A  collection  of  amusing  magazine  stories  of 
the  higher  grade.  They  are  workmanlike  pieces 
of  fiction  of  this  marked  type.  The  one  ex- 
ception is  the  story  of  endangered  domestic 
bliss,  which  rises  ambitiously  above  the  level 
of  its  companions." 

+  N   Y  Times  pl4  Ap  8  '23  820w 


Reviewed  by   R.   D.    Townsend 

Outlook  133:720  Ap  18   '23  20w 
Spec   130:934    Je    2   '23    20w 
"The    stories   were    written    at   various    times 
since  1905,  and  will  add  nothing  to  the  major's 
literary    reputation.      In    most    of    the    stories, 
Maj.    Beith    finds    opportunity    to    give    rein    to 
his   humor;    but   It   is   no   disparagement   to  say 
that  the  short  story  is  not  his  best  medium.  ' 
—  +  Springf  d     Republican     p7a    Ap     15    '23 
200w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:160   Je   '23 

BELL,     AUBREY     FITZ     GERALD.       Spanish 

Galicia.     200p     il     ?2.50     Duflield  [7s  6d  Lane] 

914.61     Galicia,  Spain  [23-1533] 

Notes    of    travel    in    this    ancient    province    of 

northwestern    Spain.       Country   and    people    are 

described  and  special   attention  is  given  to  the 

almost    unknown    towns,    villages    and    scenery 

of    the    remoter    parts.       Translations    of    some 

old  Galician   songs  and  of  some   modern   poems 

and   quatrains   are    given    in    the   appendices   as 

well  as  several  songs  in  musical  setting.     There 

is   a   bibliography  and  a  vocabulary.      Index. 


"For  such  a  land  of  poetry  we  would  have 
wished  not  a  greater  lover,  but  a  more  able 
commentator,  for  Mr.  Bell  has  so  choked  his 
narrative  with  a  constant  stream  of  redundant 
detail  that  the  outhnes  fail  to  clarify  themselves 
in  the  general  heterogeneous  maze  of  impres- 
sion."    C.  T.  C. 

h  Boston  Transcript  p4  D  15  '23  520w 

Nation   and   Ath   31:660  Ag  12   '22    500w 
"An  excellent  handbook.     It  gives  a  vivid  idea 
of   the   charm    and    interest   of   a    country    still 
little  known  to    tourists." 

4-  New   Statesman  19:336  Je  24  '22  20w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bul    28:193   Ap  '23 
"Charming    little    book    by    an    accomplished 
Spanish    scholar   and    traveller   which   fulfils    its 
purpose   by    making   the    reader   desire    eagerly 
to  visit  Galicia." 

+  Spec  128:791  Je  24  '22  180w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p311  My 
11    '22    250w 

BELL,    CLIVE.     On    British    freedom.    86p   $1.35 

Harcourt  [3s  6d  Chatto  &  W.] 
323.44     Liberty 

"It  is  personal  and  not  political  freedom  which 
Mr  Bell  sets  out  to  save,  and  he  does  not  ex- 
aggerate the  state  of  childish  obedience  in 
which  this  renowned  nation  has  sunk.  England 
is  a  gigantic  nursery  where  already  nearly  all 
our  toys  are  put  away  at  ten  o'clock,  and  some 
of  them  long  before  that."  (Spec)  "Here  is  Mr. 
Bell  telling  us,  to  our  confusion,  that  Great 
Britain  is  one  of  the  least  free  countries  in  the 
world.  More  than  that  the  Englishman  to-day 
is  at  least  as  much  a  slave  as  he  was  under 
Cromwell  and  his  generals.  More  still;  he  is 
less  free  than  a  slave  was  in  the  time  of 
Hadrian.  For  the  Roman  slave  might  read,  or 
hear,  the  unexpurgated  classics."  (The  Times 
[London]    Lit   Sup) 

"In  this  volume,  as  in  his  art  criticism,  he 
trumpets  tolerance,  and  his  style,  which  con- 
tains pleasing  learned  allusions,  winds  in  and 
out  and  moves  like  a  bicycle  on  a  cobbled  street, 
taking  all  the  bumps  of  the  difiBcult  road  off 
onto  its  pneumatic  wheels."     J.  W.  L. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  N  17   '23   400w 

"It  is  indeed  a  brilliant  piece  of  writing— but 
it  is  somewhat  overcharged  with  venom  against 
police-women  and  other  moralist  crusaders  and 
it  lacks  the  nobility  and  depth  of  thought  that 
one  finds  in  any  one  of  Mill's  great  arguments. 
However,  for  the  young  intellectual  it  is  the 
ideal  Christmas  present." 

-] Ind  111:285  D  8  '23  150w 

"Although  I  disagree  upon  points  too  numer- 
ous to  deal  with,  I  believe  that  the  book  will 
prove    beneficial.      Mr.    Bell's    pamphlet    is    the 


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most     spirited,     swift,     admirably     written     on- 
slaught I  have  read  since  I  read  one  of  Shaw's 

+  New   Statesman   21:329   Je  23   "23   1850w 
N  Y  Times  p3  O  14  '23  500w 

"Such    bracing-    attacks    as    this    of    Mr.    Bell 
should    fall   on    us    more    frequently." 
+  Spec   131:226   Ag   IS   '23   650w 

"Mr.  Bell  is  a  defender  of  enjoyment.  It  is 
as  good  a  theme  for  a  pamphlet  as  many,  but 
what  is  a  little  astonishing  is  to  find  that  this 
one,  with  all  its  vivacity,  has  an  intense 
seriousness  which  somehow  works  mischief  with 
the  proportions.  .  .  Mr.  Bell's  analysis  of  the 
sort  of  reforming  mind  which  he  dislikes  is  the 
liveliest  part  of  his  book;  shrewd  grains  of 
truth  drop  out  from  it,  as  well  as  remarks  which 
might  have  been  omitted.  But  one's  general 
impression  is  that  he  has  taken  the  part  for 
the  whole." 

-| The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p449    Jl 

5  '23  1050W 

BELL,    HAROLD    SILL.       American   petroleum 

refining.    456p    il   $5   Van   Nostrand 

665.5      Petroleum  23-6404 

"Covers  refinery  plant  and  practice  in  con- 
siderable detail,  and  includes  storage  and  trans- 
portation of  oil  and  manufacture  of  containers. 
Much  of  the  information  should  be  of  value  to 
chemical  engineers  not  definitely  interested  in 
oil  refining." — -Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


war  experiences.  Contents:  The  last  of  the 
line;  The  neophyte;  Bonfires  and  elms,  1919; 
Malebolge,  1920;  The  garden  of  Epicurus,  1921; 
The  day,  1922;  Scapa  flow;  "Some  dropped  by 
the  wayside,"  1919;  Flotsam;  The  swashbuckler; 
The   Odyssey   of  Percival   Fiske. 


Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:363  Jl  '23 

BELL,     JOHN      KEBLE      (KEBLE      HOWARD, 
pseud.).     King  of  the  castle.   296p  $1.90  Small 

23-3890 
"The  story  is  based  upon  the  unusual  require- 
ment in  a  rich  man's  will  that  unless  the  widow 
should  remarry  within  two  years  the  whole 
estate  would  go  to  the  next  of  kin.  How  to 
transform  a  marriage  of  convenience  into  a  love 
match  is  the  problem  that  troubles  the  princi- 
pals and  their  lawyer,  while  the  opposition  is 
concerned  with  preventing  the  eleventh  hour 
marriage  or  proving  it  illegal.  The  story  is 
laid  in  London  with  Lady  Oxborrow's  castle  far 
up-country  and  Capt  O'Farrall's  'castle'  on  the 
south  coast  as  auxiliary  settings.  The  prin- 
cipals are  decidedly  in  love  with  each  other,  but 
each  supposes  the  other  to  be  acting  only  on  a 
business  basis  to  save  the  lady's  money,  so  that 
strained  relations  continue  to  near  the  end." — 
Springf'd  Republican 

"Mr.  Howard's  wholly  charming  romance 
leaves  the  reader  untroubled,  and  undefiled.  It 
is  in  his  minor  characters  that  Mr.  Howard 
shows  real  skill,  and  they  lift  the  book  a  little 
above  the  average  love  story." 

+   Lit   R   p491   F  24  '23  160w 

"In  'King  of  the  Castle,"  the  creation  of 
Ezekiel  is  probably  Mr.  Howard's  most  notable 
achievement.  But  it  is  not  his  only  achieve- 
ment. He  has  written  a  book  that  braves  all 
the  modern  conventions.  He  is  not  afraid  to 
shape  his  phrases  with  care." 

-}-  N  Y  Times  p27  F  11  '23  650w 

"An  entertaining  love  story.  There  are  fre- 
quent touches  in  the  author's  style  reminiscent 
of  Dickens,  which  add  to  the  general  charm  of 
the  story." 

-f-  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Mr  4  '23  180w 

BELLAH,    JAMES   WARNER.      Sketch   book   of 
==    a  cadet  from  Gascony.    148p   $1.50   Knopf 

23-16464 
This  book  containing  eleven  stories  and  sket- 
ches has  received  the  third  annual  Knopf  award 
for  the  best  book  of  the  year  bv  a  Columbia 
undergraduate.  Five  of  the  sketches  deal  with 
college  life.  Wesleyan,  not  Columbia  forms  the 
background  of  these.     There  are  also  stories  of 


"The  fault  of  the  book,  we  can  see  now,  lies 
in  the  touted  fact  that  it  was  written  in  nine- 
teen hours.  In  the  same  number  of  months, 
with  revisions,  with  many  a  cut  and  substitu- 
tion, with  elimination  of  at  least  five  of  the 
eleven  sketches,  the  book  might  have  been  quite 
worth  while.  But  when  you  must  have  a  manu- 
script in  the  hands  of  a  publisher  before  mid- 
night of  a  certain  date.!"     C.   B.   O. 

—  -i-   Boston    Transcript    p5    D    15    '23    360w 

"These  boys  are  more  the  real  thing  than 
many  met  hitherto  in  the  frat  houses  and  col- 
lege yards  of  fiction.  'The  Neophyte,'  dealing 
with  neither  war  nor  student  days,  is  the  surest 
and   the  strongest." 

+   N   Y  Times  p22  N  18  '23  500w 

BELLAMANN,      HENRY,        Cups      of      illusion. 

123p    $1.50    Houghton 

811  23-12023 

"  'Cups  of  Illusion'  is  that  rather  rare  thing — 
a  book  of  verse  with  a  personality.  "Throughout 
it  all  speaks  the  musician,  the  man  with  a  de- 
sire to  build  up,  through  the  suggestion  of 
words,  images  of  beauty,  sense  impressions 
of  sound  and  color.  Like  Lanier,  Bellamann 
has  a  faith  in  the  untold  possibilities  which 
music  holds  for  one  who  would  write  poetry. 
Unlike  Lanier,  this  South  Carolina  poet  keeps 
almost  entirely  to  free  verse  forms." — Greens- 
boro   (N.C.)    Daily    News 


"There  is  a  very  delicate  fancy  running 
through  these  poems;  color  and  finely  touched 
harmonics  of  interpretation  are  here.  These 
are  poems  for  poets,  slight  at  times,  but  never 
unpoetic." 

-I-   Bookm   58:339   N   '23   120w 
Reviewed   by  J:   G.    Fletcher 

Freeman  8:356  D  19  '23  70w 
"In  this  book  of  poems,  the  reader  will  find 
free  verse  with  a  purpose  behind  it,  much 
beauty  of  imagery,  the  music  of  elfin  pipes, 
and  a  suggestiveness  which  feeds  the  flames 
of  fantasy.  And  this  is  much  for  a  single  vol- 
ume of  verse   in   these  days."     C.   A.   H. 

-|-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p8    O 
14    "23    720w 
"This  is  a  collection  of  poeme,   for  the  most 
part   in    the    freer    forms,    which    show    a    lively 
sensitiveness   to   color   and  sound  and   the   sub- 
tle movements  of  the  mind." 

-f  Outlook    135:281    O    17    '23    llOw 

BELLOC,  HI  LAI  RE.  Modern  traveller;  with 
pictures  by  B.  T.  B.  80p  il  $1.50  Knopf  [3s  6d 
E.    Arnold] 

827 
This   satire    in   nonsense-verse    describing   the 

adventures  of  a   trio   of  explorers   in    the   heart 

of  Africa   is   in   the   form   of  an   interview   with 

the  only  survivor  of  the  party. 


"The  lines  have  a  sting  to  them,  and  the  en- 
tire expedition  is  a  gay  absurdity  in  verse  of 
quick  tempo  and  deft  rhvming." 
Dial  75:400  O  "23  60w 
"The  tone  of  this  small  but  most  lively  book 
recalls  "W.  S.  Gilbert.  The  illustrations  fitly 
embellish  the  text.  Certain  references  would 
seem  to  date  the  volume  as  of  decidedly  pre- 
war vintage.  But,  for  all  that,  it  is  amusing 
enough  at  the  present  date."" 

+   Lit   R  pll  S  1  '23  220w 

+   N   Y  Times  p22  Jl  22   '23  320w 

BELLOC,   HILAIRE.     On.   253p  $2  Doran 

824  23-5777 

In  this  collection  of  papers  the  author  dis- 
courses on  a  variety  of  things  with  good- 
natured  satire  and  whimsical  fancies.     The  sub- 


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jects  comprise  the  whole  gamut  of  human 
affairs  and  interests.  Partial  contents:  On  an 
educational  reform;  On  mumbo-jumbo  (mean- 
ing all  the  over-awing  pretensions  to  which 
humans  become  willing  slaves);  On  footnotes; 
On  the  Cathedral  of  Seville  and  "The  Mis- 
anthi'ope";  On  titles;  On  bad  verse;  On  inac- 
curacy; On  the  accursed  climate;  On  accent;  On 
sailing  the  seas;  On  a  piece  of  rope;  On  the 
last    infirmity. 


Booklist  19:245  My  '23 

"Always  he  writes  with  Keen  humour,  ram- 
bling ease,  and  a  quaint  individuality  of  man- 
ner that  keeps  the  reader  always  in  a  pleasant 
state  of  uncertainty." 

+   Bookm    58:89   S    '23    120w 

"A  collection  of  thirty -one  short  essays  that 
possess  less  individuality  than  diversity,  and 
rather  more  suavity  than  the  urbanity  of  actual 
charm." 

h  Dial    74:522   My    '23    60w 

Reviewed  by  Theodore  Maynard 

Freeman    7:186    My    2    '23    2750w 

"In  order  to  come  to  the  full  enjoyment  of 
Mr.  Belloc  one  must  cease  to  take  hiin  very 
seriously  as  a  guide  to  history  or  social  sci- 
ence, but  take  him  cordially  by  the  hand  when- 
ever he  sets  out  travelling  on  foot.  In  many 
of  the  casual  papers  of  this  latest  collection 
he  has  permitted  his  haste  lo  tempt  him  into 
flippancy  and  smartness,  but  that  is  no  habit 
of  his  style,  which  is  one  of  the  soundest  of 
styles.  In  almost  any  essay  where  Mr.  Belloc 
becomes  dogmatic  or  argumentative,  the  pic- 
ture seems  to  spring  up  of  a  very  active  young 
person  throwing  sticks  at  his  elders.  The  mo- 
tions are  graceful,  the  aim  too  ambitious,  and 
as  to  the  justice  and  discretion  of  it,  the  less 
said  the  better."     A.  W.  Colton 

H Lit   R   p565  Mr  31   '23   1250w 

Reviewed  by  H.   I.  Young 

Nation    117:530    N    7   '23    150w 

"I  should  not  like  to  say  that  Mr.  Belloc's 
newest  book  of  essays  is  equal  to  the  best  books 
Mr.  Belloc  has  written.  I  had  rather  exaggerate, 
however,  and  say  that  it  is  as  good  as  his  best 
than  that  it  is  worse.  One  does  not  feel  like 
being  sparing  of  enthusiasm  when  a  man  of 
genius,  who  seemed  for  years  to  be  lost  in  a 
wilderness  of  war  maps  and  politics,  suddenly 
emerges  again  into  the  green  places."  Robert 
Lynd 

New  Statesman  20:776  Ap  7  '23  1700w 

"Belloc  is  more  than  ordinarily  engaging  as 
a  writer,  and  "On'  is  far  from  being  the  least  of 
his  books." 

+  N  Y  Times  p6  Mr  11  "23  1450w 

"He   has   a   cold   logic   as   cutting  as   a   steel 
blade  and  a  hilarious  joy  like  a  rousing  chorus. 
And  a  majesty  of  style."  R.  C.  Holliday 
-I-   N   Y  Tribune  p23  Mr  4  '23  1150w 

"Mr.  Belloc  has  the  gentle  rippling  manner 
of  the  man  capable  of  any  sort  of  practical 
joke.  And  as  a  writer  of  short  prose  pieces 
there  are  few  who  can  compete  with  him  on 
equal  terms."   L.   S. 

+  N  Y  World  pGe  Mr  4  '23  550w 

"The  intrepidity  of  Mr.  Belloc's  mind  is  ex- 
emplified in  his  choice  of  several  themes,  about 
which  it  is  not  to  be  admitted  that  he  speaks 
with  any  authority.  But  on  all  of  them  he 
speaks  with  confidence  and  high  spirits,  and 
on  most  he  would,  we  feel,  accept  contradiction 
w^ith  a  hurst  of  merriment.  Unfortunately,  Mr. 
'Belloc  is  not  always  so  human  and  genial  as 
this.  He  has  his  harsh,  fanatical  moods,  in 
which    he    harks   or   vaps    like   a   sea-lion." 

^ Sat    R   135:372   Mr  17   '23   600w 

Spec  130:765  My  5  '23  30w 
"There  is  hardly  anything  finer  in  this  mainly 
satirical  group  of  miscellaneous  essays,  than 
Mr.  Belloc's  appreciation  of  'The  Misanthrope." 
One  almost  wishes  that  Mr.  Belloc  had  given  us 
more  literary  criticism." 

Springf  d   Republican  plO  F  27  '23  780w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   pl95   Mr 
22   '23   lOOOw 


BEMAN,  LAMAR  TANEY,  comp.  Selected 
articles  on  current  problems  in  municipal 
government.  (Handbook  ser.)  542p  $2.40  Wil- 
son,   H.    W. 

352     Municipal   government  23-10923 

Part  one  presents  general  considerations  on 
municipal  government,  its  evolution,  the  evils 
which  have  developed  and  their  causes. 
Each  of  the  remaining  three  parts  of  the 
book  deals  with  one  of  the  remedies 
proposed:  municipal  home  rule;  the  com- 
mission plan;  the  city  manager  plan.  In 
each  part  selections  are  reproduced  from 
the  best  that  has  been  written  on  the  subject 
and  a  classified  bibliography  points  the  way 
to  a  wider  field  of  literature.  In  the  parts 
where  a  controversial  question  is  presented,  a 
debaters'    brief  is  given. 


"This    volume    should   be   helpful   not    only   as 
a  reference   book   but   also   for  discussion  clubs, 
in  preparing  debates,  and  in  many  other  ways." 
-h  Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:692  N  '23  220w 
Booklist  20:6   O   '23 
"The  reader  gets  a  rich  variety  of  viewpoints 
on   the   various   matters   under   discussion." 
+  Survey   51:235    N   15   '23   80w 

SEMIS,  SAMUEL  FLAGG.  Jays  treaty;  a 
study  in  commerce  and  diplomacy.  388p  $3.25 
Macmillan 

973.43  Jay's  treaty,  1794.  United  States- 
History — Constitutional  period,  1789-1809. 
United  States — Foreign  relations — Great 
Britain.  Great  Britain — Foreign  relations — 
United  States  23-7277 

A  study  of  the  negotiations  between  the 
United  States  and  Great  Britain  in  the  years 
between  the  treaty  of  peace,  1783,  and  the 
ratification  of  Jay's  treaty,  1795,  and  of  the 
vital  national  and  international  questions  in- 
volved. The  two  chief  factors  with  which 
Anglo-American  diplomatic  history  of  this 
period  is  concerned  are  the  complications  aris- 
ing from  the  surrender  tay  the  British  of  the 
frontier  posts  on  our  northern  border  and  the 
navigation  regulations  bearing  upon  commerce 
between  Great  Britain  and  the  United  States. 
Both  these  questions  are  fully  treated,  as  well 
as  the  negotiations  leading  up  to  the  treaty. 
The  text  of  the  treaty  is  given  in  an  appendix. 
Bibliography.     Index. 


Am    Hist    R   29:345   Ja   '24   850w 
Am    Pol    Sci    R    17:691    N    '23    180w 

"An  historical  treatise  written  with  great 
clarity,  profound  understanding  and  extensive 
research.  .  .  Professor  Bemis  is  clear-eyed  and 
temperate,  his  writing  carries  conviction  and 
its  every  page  is  interesting  and  revealing.  His 
book  is  worth  much  as  a  history  of  this  par- 
ticular treaty.  It  is  worth  .still  more  as  an  ex- 
ample of  the  doubts  and  difficulties  which  beset 
a  weak  but  courageous  nation  at  a  time  when 
it  was  hardly  out  of  its  colonial  swaddling 
clothes."   S.   L.  Cook 

-I-   Boston   Transcript  p3  My  5  '23  1900w 

"Aptitude,  industry,  talent,  and  training  have 
combined  to  produce  a  historical  study  which 
is  a  model   of  its  kind." 

-f  Cath    World    117:848    S   '23   800w 

"It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  laudable  stimulus 
to  historical  publications  by  the  Knights  of 
Columbus  which  this  monograph  represents  will 
result  in  the  same  high  level  of  achievement 
in  the  future.  In  any  event,  students  of  Amer- 
ican history  will  be  grateful  for  the  present  ser- 
vice."    H.   E.  Barnes 

-f    New  Repub  36:27  Ag  29  '23  300w 

"The    book    exhibits    a    high    standard    of    re- 
seorch.     The  story  as  told  is  compact,  yet  clear; 
judicial,    yet    vivid   in    many    portions;    smoothly 
flowing  and  interesting  from  beginning  to  end. 
+   N   Y  Times  p5  Jl  1  "23  2000w 

"Dr.  Bemis  has  produced  an  admirable  book 
upon  this  subject,  quite  the  best  available. 
Gaillard  Hunt  does  not  exaggerate  in  calling  it 
'a  masterpiece  of  American  historical  writ- 
ing.' "  J:  L.  Heaton  ,„,„ 
4-  N    Y  World  p9e  My  13  '23  1850w 


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BEMIS,    SAMUEL    FLAGG— Continued 

"The  author  has  done  an  exceptionally  able 
and  scholarly  piece  of  work.  Delivering  his 
facts  to  a  large  extent  from  little-used  papers 
in  the  archives  of  Canada,  Great  Britain  and 
the  United  States,  he  has  handled  them  with 
unusual   skill   and   objectivity." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  pl2  JI  13  '23  650w 

BENAVENTE  Y  MARTINEZ,  JACINTO.  Plays; 
third  series;  tr.  from  the  Spanish,  with  an 
introd.  by  John  Garrett  Underbill.  219p  $2.50 
Scribner 

862  23-6267 

Four  plays  are  contained  in  the  Spanish 
dramatist's  third  series  of  dramas.  The  first, 
"The  prince  who  learned  everything  out  of 
books,"  is  an  allegorical  fantasy  and  satire — 
the  story  of  a  prince  who  goes  out  into  the 
world  with  the  illusions  of  youth  and  little 
other  knowledge.  "Saturday  night"  is  a  pag- 
eant in  five  tableaux  of  life  at  a  Riviera  winter 
resort.  "In  the  clouds"  is  a  two-act  comedy  of 
middle-class  life  in  modern  Madrid,  and  "The 
truth"   is  a   brief  dialog. 


"Bonavente  has  a  fluent  pen  and  a  shallow 
intelligence;  he  can  write  a  pl.ny  in  any  genre 
without  enriching  it.  .  .  Saturday  Night  is  an 
elaborate  cheat.  We  puzzle  through  a  slack 
labyrinth  of  noise,  colour,  epigram,  and  violence 
to  arrive  at  the  sub-structure — which  turns  out 
to  be  a  .stal3  allegory  of  Ambition,  Youth,  and 
Imagination.  Indubitably,  a  very  properly  gilded 
brick  for  Drama  Leaguers." 

—  Dial    7,5:97    Jl    '23    150w 
Reviewed    by   Stark   Young 

New  Repub  35:25  My  30  '23  800w 
Reviewed  by  P.    A.   Hutchison 

N    Y   Times  p8  Ap   1   '23  3500w 
N   Y   World  p9e  Ap  S  '23  600w 
Reviewed    by   W.ilter   Starkie 

Spec  131:503  O  13  '23  1250w 
"Jacinto  Benavenle  is  a  great  dramatist,  not, 
howevei',  because  he  has  invented  a  new  way 
of  dramatizing  truth  but  because  of  the 
deep  descent  he  has  made  into  the  hidden  caves 
of  truth,  where  it  waits  in  patience  for  the 
discoveier."      Willard    Thorpe 

+  Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Je     24     '23 
900w 

"The  artist's  power  to  transform  life  by  giv- 
ing it  significance  is  very  clear  in  these  plays. 
A  common  situation  strikes  down  to  the  nether 
springs  or  soars  out  of  sight;  and  this  with 
no  sacrifice  of  the  common  humanity  of  the 
characters  and  the  comparative  inarticulateness 
of   middle-cJass   people." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p352  My 
24    '23    1250W 

BENET,    STEPHEN    VINCENT.      Jean    Hugue- 
not.   292p    $2    Holt 

23-13372 
Unlike  her  tradition -bound  Southern  ances- 
tors, Jean  Huguenot,  the  last  of  her  line,  has 
a  vivid  imagination  and  an  intense  love  of  life. 
Boy-girl  flirtations  and  a  short  but  ardent  love 
affair  leave  her  with  a  sense  of  unfulfllment. 
iiaffled  by  life's  perplexities,  she  marries  Shaw 
Ashley.  There  is  no  love  between  them,  but 
on  her  side  a  craving  for  companionship  and 
on  his  a  desire  for  possession  of  her  beauty. 
The  death  of  her  child  brings  about  utter  cold- 
ness between  them.  In  France,  she  leaves 
Shaw  for  Hugues  Parette,  who  arouses  in  her 
all  the  depths  of  love.  Jean  is  infinitely  happy. 
With  the  death  of  Hugues  in  the  war,  she  is 
once  more  set  adrift  and  she  sells  herself  to 
earn  money  for  the  care  of  Hugues'  child  by 
a  peasant  girl.  We  leave  her  reinstated  to 
respectability,  her  fire  of  youth  gone,  but 
calmly   happy   with  Hugues's  child. 


For  sheer  spirit,  charm,  and  impetuosity 
you  will  find  few  characters  this  season  to 
match    wild    Jean    Huguenot." 

+  Bookm   58:201   O  '23   ISOw 


"Mr.  Benet  has  done  a  very  able  piece  of 
writing.  This  is  a  better  novel  than  either 
'The  Beginning  of  Wisdom'  or  'Young  People's 
Pride.'  "     F.  A.  Goell 

-j-  Boston   Transcript  p4  O  20   '23   1700w 

Reviewed   by  H.    W.   Boynton 

Ind   111:287   D   8    '23   410w 

"He  has  made  a  poignant  and  convincing 
study  of  a  woman's  values,  and  when  we  speak 
of  his  technical  cleverness  we  do  not  mean 
something  apart  from  the  'story,'  but  simply 
that  he  achieves  something  which  the  novelist 
who  despises  technique — The  writer  of  the 
Dreiserian  school — misses:  he  presents  to  us 
beyond  peradventure  what  the  others  have  to 
ask  us  to  accept  on  their  mere  word."  Lle- 
wellyn  Jones 

+  Lit    R   p256   N    17   '23   700w 

"Parts   of   the    novel   are    written   in   a   poetic 
style    which    is    occasionally    very    lovely." 
4-  N    y   Times   p9   O   14    '23   330w 

"There  is  somethng  fatiguing  in  the  present 
tense  in  which  her  adventures  are  mainly  set 
forth.  Mr.  Benet's  style  makes  concentration 
difficult  because  he  strives  too  hard  to  fix  at- 
tention. He  gets  his  effect  by  a  series  of  pic- 
tures, sometimes  clear-cut,  generally  pretty, 
but  not  sufficiently  continuous."  Isabel  Pater- 
son 

1-  N    Y    Tribune   p34   O   14    '23   720w 

BENNETT,  ARNOLD,     How  to  make  the  best 
of  life.   224p  $2   Doran 

170      Conduct   of   life  23-8428 

The  novelist  of  the  commonplace  here  appears 
as  moralist  in  the  same  domain.  In  these 
homilies  he  discusses  temperament  and  habits; 
establishing  good  humor;  the  business  of  edu- 
cation; falling  in  love;  marriage;  children; 
middle-age;  being  interested  in  the  community. 


Booklist  19:298  Jl  '23 
Bookm  58:82  S  '23  200w 
"Especially  to  be  recommended,  in  these  days 
of  fast-growing  difficulties  in  married  life,  is 
the  chapter  on  Continuation  of  Alarriage.' 
People  who  have  trouble  in  bringing  up  children 
will  doubtless  find  many  beneficial  hints  in  a 
chapter  devoted  to  that  subject,  for  Mr.  Bennett 
speaks,  it  would  appear,  from  a  wealth  of 
experience  or  observation." 

-f-  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  19  '23  450w 
"When  'How  to  Make  the  Best  of  Life'  has 
been  given  its  full  measure  of  praise  for  what 
it  is,  namely,  a  useful  and  not  unentertaining 
collection  of  curtain  talks  on  the  art  of  living, 
a  question  remains.  Has  the  book  distinction? 
And  there  is  but  one  answer — it  has  not." 

H NY  Times  pl4  My  13  '23  720w 

"Mr.  Bennett  is  often  trite  and  seldom  subtle, 
but  he  is  never  silly,  and  not  being  silly  in  a 
wilderness  of  advice  to  the  young  is  a  dis- 
tinguished accomplishment.  Indeed,  in  the  con- 
struction of  redoubtable  commonplaces  Mr. 
Bennett  may  come  off  the  victor  against  the 
more  ingenious  who  surround  their  emptiness 
with  a  crackle  of  burnished  epigrams."  A.  D. 
Douglas 

-\ NY  Tribune  p20  My  13  '23  800w 

"Probably  no  other  writer  but  Mr.  Bennett 
could  have  covered  so  much  ground  in  one  vol- 
ume without  setting  down  something  absolutely 
sillv;  whereas  here  there  is  nothing  absolutely 
silly.  But  again,  probably  no  other  writer,  of 
anything  like  the  same  standing,  but  Mr.  Ben- 
nett could  have  written  such  a  book  without 
giving  us  something  at  once  memorable  and 
wise,  a  flash  of  light  in  the  darkness;  whereas 
here,  again,  there  is  nothing  memorable  and 
wise,   no  flash   of  light." 

-\ Spec  130:927  Je  2  '23  1350w 

"It  is  in  the  application  of  old  formulas  to 
the  modern  version  of  the  problem  that  Mr. 
Bennett  earns  the  gratitude  of  those  who  seek 
to  be  shown  the  narrow  path  to  successful  liv- 
ing. His  real  task  is  in  the  pointing  out  of 
certain  dangerous  corners  where  the  claims  of 
different  personalities  are  likely  to  be  in  con- 
flict. His  solution  is  not  one  to  entice  the 
lotus-eater,  for  it  is,  In  short,  to  put  more  work 


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tnto  the  Job,   and  to  control  events  by  under- 
standing: their  causes." 

+  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup   p337  My 
17   '23   850w 

BENNETT,  ARNOLD.     Riceyman  Steps.  386p  $2 

Doran 

The  setting:  a  small  book  shop  on  a  shabby 
London  square  and  the  living  quarters  over  the 
shop.  The  characters:  the  middle-aged  book- 
seller, Henry  Earlforward;  the  widow,  Violet 
Arb  whom  he  marries  early  in  the  course  of  the 
story;  the  young  charwoman,  Elsie,  and  her 
lover,  a  shell-shocked  ex-soldier.  The  book  is 
a  study  of  miserliness  amounting  to  a  passion 
almost  dramatic  on  the  part  of  the  husband. 
Both  the  husband  and  wife,  despite  their  un- 
attractive penuriousness,  remain  thruout  the 
book  slightly  pathetic  figures.  Both  die  as  the 
result  of  undernutrition  and  the  tragedy,  un- 
accented, is  genuine.  Elsie,  their  servant,  un- 
selfish and  responsible,  is  the  pivot  on  which 
the  family  life  revolves.  Though  forced  to  steal 
food  from  the  cupboard  to  appease  her  normal 
hunger,  she  feels  no  resentment.  After  the 
death  of  her  master  and  mistress,  she  marries 
her  handicapped  soldier  and  assumes  responsi- 
bility for  his  welfare. 


Booklist  20:138  Ja  '24 

"It  is  not  a  gay  story;  yet  it  is  filled  with 
humor,  both  fantastic  and  grim.  I  think  that 
if  you  like  a  skilful  novel  of  character  you  will 
find  this  last  book  of  Arnold  Bennett's 
thoroughly   enjoyable."     J.    F. 

Bookm   58:566  Ja  '24  200w 

"Grim  as  the  story  is  in  many  of  its  details, 
and  in  its  conclusion,  it  is  pervaded  by  a  humor 
that  even  at  times  arises  from  the  procedure 
and  circumstances  of  the  unfortunate  Earlfor- 
ward household."   E.    F.    Edgett 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  D  1  '23  ISOOw 

"If  there  is  too  much  of  Mr.  Bennett's  obnox- 
ious habit  of  giving  his  characters  his  left  hand 
while  he  stabs  them  with  his  right,  theie  is 
nevertheless  a  great  deal  of  genuine  humour, 
irony  and   pathos."     E.   S. 

Freeman  8:359  D  19  '23  270w 

Reviewed  by  Mrs  Cecil  Chesterton 
Ind    111:316  D   22  '23   270w 

Reviewed  bv  Rebecca  West 

Int  Bk  R  pl09  Ja  '24  1450w 

"To  compare  'Riceyman  Steps'  with  'The  Old 
Wives'  Tale'  is  to  go  too  far,  as  it  would  be 
to  compare  with  that  masterpiece  any  but  two 
or  three  English  novels  of  the  century.  But 
it  is  fair  to  say  that  Mr.  Bennett  in  his  latest 
novel  appears  at  all  but  his  very  best — shrewd, 
kind,  readable,  the  least  distorted  mirror  of 
the  modern  British  bourgeoisie."  Carl  Van 
Doren 

I Lit    R   p387  D   22   '23  950w 

"An  excellent  novel  and  quite  the  best  which 
its  author  has  written  in  some  years."  J.  W. 
Krutch 

+  Nation   117:717  D   19  '23   750w 

"It  is  the  most  serious  novel  Mr.  Bennett  has 
written,  without  the  least  surrender  to  popular 
taste."     Raymond    Mortimer 

4-  New  Statesman  22:146  N  10  '23  600w 

"I  wish  the  book  and  its  spirit  could  be  really 
appreciated  by  some  of  the  younger  school  of 
novelists;  it  would  be  a  wonderful  lesson  to 
them  in  treatment.  For  the  few  characters  in 
the  book  are  all  sordid,  not  to  say  squalid,  and 
the  opportunities  for  plunging  into  a  kind  of 
realism  that  is  popular  with  writers  of  the 
moment — the  realism  of  the  ca^talogue  and  the 
photograph — are  unlimited.  But  the  book  is  full 
of  an  atmosphere  of  spiritual  charm  and  even 
beauty.  I  will  not  say  that  it  is  free  from  senti- 
mentalitv,  becau.^e  it  is  not."  Filson  Young 
-I NY  Times  p7  N  18  '23  500w 

"In  his  latest  novel  Mr.  Arnold  Bennett  has 
seen  life  steadily  and  nearly  whole.  He  has 
seen  life  steadily  by  recognizing  the  tremendous 
importance  of  trifles,  by  inflating  molehills  to 
the    size    of    mountains.      In    a    style    no    more 


ornate  than  the  neighborhood  it  portrays  Mr. 
Bennett  unfolds  the  unlovely  story  of  his  three 
chief  characters." 

-f   N   Y  Times  p6  D  2  '23  1900w 

"The  material  of  the  book  is  brutally  chosen, 
yet  of  very  common,  and  very  dry  clay,  a  work 
of  art  has  been  molded.  Not  quite  so  convinc- 
ing in  its  finality  as  'The  Old  Wives  Tale.'  the 
new  novel  is  the  book  of  the  year  to  date." 
-^   N   Y  Tribune  pl8   N   25   '23   150w 

"It  is  a  serious,  a  solid,  piece  of  work.  It 
has  almost  all  the  old  Bennett  dexterity  of 
manipulation,  it  has  even  flashes  of  the  old 
Bennett  poetry.  It  is  so  good  that  our  excite- 
ment over  what  its  author  will  give  us  next  be- 
comes a  positive  fever.  It  may  be — it  may  be — 
that  Mr.  Bennett  is  coming  back  after  all.  But  I 
cannot  think  that  he  has  come."  Gerald  Gould 
H Sat    R    136:525   N   10   '23   800w 

"Mr.  Bennett  the  novelist  here  joins  hands 
with  the  common-sense  sociologist.  Both  are 
aware  of  the  connexion  between  comfort  and 
happiness  and  that  gives  the  zest  of  curiosity 
to  his  studv  of  this  couple  who  sacrifice  their 
comfort  and  yet  enjoy  a  sort  of  happiness.  And 
because  he  does  not  quite  understand  such  con- 
duct he  has  rather  overdrawn  his  characters, 
and  the  catastrophe  looks  more  like  the  re- 
venge of  the  author  than  the  judgment  of  natu- 
ral   law^." 

h  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p726   N   1 

'23    650w 

BENNETT,    ARNOLD.      Things    that    have    in- 
terested me;  second  series.  2C4p  $2.50  Doran 

824  23-5774 

The  things  that  interest  the  authoi-  take  in 
the  whole  range  of  human  affairs:  the  theatre 
and  opera,  actors  and  playwrights,  legal  pro- 
ceedings, critics,  health,  dress  and  customs, 
dancing,  sex  and  marriage,  games,  autobio- 
graphical reflections  and  reminiscences  of 
southern  France.  To  each  topic  he  devotes  a 
short  sketch  or  essay. 


"The  pleasant  hours  that  went  into  the  mak- 
ing of  the  book  are  as  nothing  compared  to  the 
pleasant  hours  that  will  be  spent  in  reading 
it." 

+   Bookm   57:653  Ag  '23  150w 
"Mr.    Bennett's    book    is    absolutely    readable 
and  remarkably  varied."   S.    Ij.  C. 

-I-   Boston  Transcript  p6  Mr  7  '23  1200w 
Dial   74:522   My  '23   150w 
Lit    R    p630   Ap   21    '23    210p 
"The   best   pages  are   those  which   record   Mr. 
Bennett's    impressions    during    a    little    tour    In 
Southern  France  and  a  visit  to  Portugal.  These 
read   like   admirable   letters;    they   are   informal, 
vivid,   precise   and  informative." 

-f  New  Statesman  21:20  Ap  14  '23  1150w 
"What  impresses  one  in  the  present  volume 
is  the  author's  zest  in  observing.  Observation 
is  his  delight.  He  is  the  ever-questing  natural- 
ist; but.  unlike  the  naturalist,  he  insists  that 
everything  shall  be  brought  into  relation  with 
human  life.  In  this  his  power  lies.  This  is 
why  he  succeeds  in  his  book  with  its  irritating 
title." 

-f   N  Y  Times  p9  F  25  '23  1450w 
Reviewed  by  Burton  Rascoe 

N  Y  Tribune  p26  F  IS  '23  520w 
"There  isn't  a  thing  in  this  entire  book  that 
is  new,  startling  or  very  far  away  from  the 
tune  of  a  good,  libera!  editorial  page.  This 
second  series  of  things  that  have  interested  Mr. 
Bennett  will  however,  interest  most  of  his  ad- 
mirers."  L:   Weitzenkorn 

H NY   World   p6e  F  25  '23   BOOw 

BENNETT,      GEORGE      EDWARD.       Advanced 

accounting.    661p   $4    McGraw 

657   Accounting  22-23899 

"Based  on  the  course  in  advanced  accounting 
given  in  the  College  of  business  administration 
at  Syracuse  University.  Gives  a  brief  review 
of  fundamental  principles,  considerable  detail  on 


40 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BENNETT,    GEORGE    EDWARD — Continued 
the     principles     of    corporate     accounting,     and 
several    chapters    on     statement    analysis    and 
fiduciary   work." — Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 


Booklist   19:303   Jl   '23 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:67  F  '23 

BENNETT,  IDA  DANDRIDGE.  Vegetable  gar- 
den; rev.  and  enl.,  by  Adolph  Kruhm.  (Ama- 
teur's book  of  the  garden  ser.)  231p  $1.75 
Doubleday 

635    Vegetable    gardening  23-7979 

"A  practical  well  illustrated  guide,  including 
information  on  planting,  fertilizers,  tools,  con- 
struction of  hotbeds,  extermination  of  garden 
pests,  and  the  culture  of  such  individual  crops 
as  can  be  grown  in  a  back-yard  garden." — 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


"The  whole  book  is  simple  and  enlightening. 
Even  an  academic  amateur  seeking  light  on 
"turnip  green  plants'  will  be  able  to  understand 
it.  And  the  most  experienced  gardener  will  find 
plenty  of  profitable  information  in  it."  J.  G. 
de   R.    H. 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p7    Ap 
1   '23   1150w 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:419   O   '23 

BENSON,    ALLAN    LOUIS.      New   Henry   Ford; 

an  authentic  biography.   360p  il   $2   Funk 
B  or  92  Ford,   Henry  23-12061 

Another  attempt  to  interpret  the  personality 
and  genius  of  Henry  Ford  from  close-ups 
gained  during  daily  conversations  between  him 
and  his  biographer.  Mr  Benson  believes  he  has 
discovered  a  new  Henry  Ford,  of  quite  differ- 
ent stature  than  the  Ford  of  1914,  one  who  has 
broadened  the  scope  of  his  interests  and  who 
desires  to  use  his  talent  for  order  in  an  effort 
to  reduce  waste  and  disorder  thruout  the  na- 
tion and  the  world.  The  author  sketches  his 
life,  transcribes  his  opinions  on  economics, 
manufacturing  and  farming,  on  health  and  long 
life.  He  also  gives  statistics  of  the  extent  of 
his  fortune  and  of  the  holdings  of  original 
stockholders  in  the  business.  The  last  chapter 
is  devoted  to  Ford  and  the  presidency. 


Bookm  58:339  N  '23  180w 
Boston  Transcript  p5  S  19  '23  550w 
"The  reader  who  is  hungry  to  know  all  about 
the  boyhood  and  early  manhood  of  one  of  Ameri- 
ca's most  unique  characters  will  be  disap- 
pointed with  the  result.  Mr.  Benson  ought 
to  have  done  better.  Nobody  has  ever  had 
so  free  a  hand  in  getting  material  or  been 
given  so  much  of  Mr.  Ford's  time,  and  a  better 
result  might  have  been  expected.  .  .  And  scat- 
tered all  through  the  book  are  fine  anecdotes. 
Incidents,  and  quotations  which-  lend  value  to 
it."      J.    G.    de    R.    H. 

h  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    plO    O 

28   '23   lOOOw 
"Merely  as  a  story  of  achievement  and  as  a 
pen-picture   of  a   striking  personality   this  book 
can   give  a  good  account  of  itself."   E.   L.   Shu- 
man 

+   Int   Bk   R  p42   S   '23   2800w 
"He  deals  in  excited  picture  and  eulogy,   and 
is    eager    to    present    his    hero    as    the    greatest 
benefactor  to  the  race." 

—  New   Statesman    21:690   S   22   '23   200w 
N  Y  Tribune  p34  O  14  '23  130w 

"The  work  is  unquestionably  designed,  both 
by  writer  and  publisher  to  make  as  much 
money  as  possible.  Benson  has  made  no  effort 
to  write  a  literary  or  even  a  psychological  bi- 
ography of  Ford."      L:   "Weitzenkorn 

—  NY   World   p7e  Ag  26   '23   1250w 

Survey   51:185   N   1   '23   1050w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p621    S 
20  '23  200w 


BENSON,    EDWARD    FREDERIC.      Colin.    334p 

$2    Doran    [7s    6d    Hutchinson] 

23-12674 

The  legend  of  an  English  noble  family  whose 
founder,  Colin  Stanier,  had  made  a  bargain  with 
the  devil  in  return  for  wealth  and  power  Is 
shown  in  all  its  sinister  working  in  the  story 
of  his  namesake  three  hundred  years  later.  The 
great  house  of  Stanier  had  grown  in  wealth 
and  pride  with  each  generation  but  the  taint 
transmitted  by  the  first  Colin  left  its  mark  on 
each  succeeding  earl  of  Yardley.  It  showed 
itself  in  a  peculiar  hardness  of  heart,  a  cruelty 
which  blighted  those  who  came  within  its  close 
range,  especially  the  women  who  one  after 
another  were  chosen  to  preside  over  the  splen- 
dors of  Stanier.  The  present  Colin  closely  re- 
sembled the  outwardly  charming  youth  whom 
Queen  Elizabeth  had  singled  out  for  her  special 
favors.  In  him  the  taint  took  the  form  of  a 
vindictive  and  relentless  hate  for  his  twin 
brother  whose  half  hour's  start  of  Colin  into 
the  world  made  him  the  heir  of  Stanier.  The 
theme  of  the  story  is  the  working  out  of  this 
bitter  hate.  The  author  promises  a  second  in- 
stallment which  will  tell  the  final  fading  of  the 
legend. 


Reviewed    by   E.    F.    Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p4  S  29  '23  1500w 

"In  this  book  one  meets  none  but  hateful  and 
nasty  people,  people,  in  fact,  of  the  most  as- 
tounding and  brazen  immorality;  yet  the  story 
holds."      C.    P. 

h  Cath    World   118:424  D   '23   500w 

Lit   R  p267   N   17  '23   400w 

"In  the  hands  of  a  less  skillful  writer  the 
tale  of  so  unparalleled  a  villain  might  easily  be 
fumbled  and  go  against  the  grain.  If  even  Mr. 
Benson  cannot  make  his  hero  a  lovable  figure, 
he  has  given  him  a  flair,  told  his  story  with 
so  much  zest,  a,nd  built  it  up  so  adroitly  that 
once  having  started  with  Colin  on  his  career  we 
are  loath  to  leave  him  until  the  end." 
N   Y  Times  p4  S  30  '23  720w 

"Mr.  Benson  makes  his  hero-villain's  wicked- 
ness crudely  and  grossly  apparent.  He  gives 
him  an  impossible  accumulation  of  beauty, 
chann,  wealth,  success.  He  dowers  him  with 
the  glamour  of  an  old  family  legend.  He  em- 
broiders a  facile  tapestry  of  cruelty  and  deceit. 
And  he  fails  to  achieve  unity,  though  certainly 
not  to  achieve  interest,  because  you  cannot 
weave  into  this  trivial  texture  the  substance  of 
darkness  and  sin." 

1-  Sat   R   135:604  My  5  '23  350w 

"Although  the  method  of  life  of  the  Earls  of 
Yardley  in  the  mansion  which  is  known  by  their 
own  family  name  of  'Stanier'  is  so  mediaeval  as 
to  be  impossible,  Mr.  Benson  gives  us  such  a 
vivid  picture  that  it  almost  convinces  us  of  its 
truth.  Certainly  the  principal  character  in  the 
present  story,  a  modern  Colin,  is  so  wicked 
that  he  appears  still  to  have  given  himself  to 
the  powers  of  darkness,  and  it  is  difficult  to 
see  how,  if  the  fate  of  this  character  is  to  be 
'continued  in  our  next,'  the  final  result  can  be, 
as  Mr.  Benson  promises,  the  fading  of  the 
legend." 

+  Spec  130:1047  Je  23   '23   150w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit  Sup    p266   Ap 
19   '23   450w 


BENSON,     STELLA.        Poor    man.        253p        $2 
(6s)    Macmillan 

23-2977 

The  author  employs  a  staccato  style,  chopping 
out  her  information  in  short  sentences  rather 
than  narrating.  Her  unheroic  hero  is  a  com- 
plete failure  of  a  man.  Deaf,  morbid,  half- 
hearted in  everything  and  never  successful, 
pitying  himself  and  courting  pity  from  others, 
he  is  without  dignity  or  sense  of  honor  in  ac- 
cepting or  using  other  people's  money,  and  has 
a  weakness  for  drink.  In  very  helplessness  he 
throws  himself  upon  a  girl  expecting  to  be 
propped  by  her  love  and,  from  lack  of  any  other 
purpose   in  life,    shows  persistence  in   pursuing 


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41 


her.  The  chapters  are  preluded  by  poetry  and 
all  the  characters  are  more  or  less  out  of  the 
normal. 


"The  story  is  well  written,  as  are  all  Miss 
Benson's  novels,  and  there  is  a  modern  lack  of 
reticence  that  may  help  it  to  become  a  'best 
seller,'  but  which  is  disappointing  in  Miss  Ben- 
son who  has  been  endowed  with  an  unusually 
gracious  gift.  We  do  not  like  to  see  her  barter 
it  for  the  pottage  of  this  epoch's  popularity." 
L.  H.  G. 

H Boston  Transcript  p5  Mr  3  '23  450w 

"If  a  .-series  of  not  very  interesting  psycho- 
pathological  case  histories,  with  an  occasional 
interpolated  poem,  comment,  or  travel  impres- 
sion,   is   a   novel,    the   book   is   classical." 

—  Int    Bk   R   p67   O   '23   220w 

"In  'The  Poor  Man'  her  cleverness  is  too 
twisted   in   the   grain."     W:   R.   Benet 

—  Lit  R  p675  My  12  '23  1250w 
"There  is  this  about  The  Poor  Man.  You  can- 
not be  satisfied  to  speak  only  of  its  defects  though 
these  are  far  more  conspicuous  than  its  merits. 
For  when  you  think  you  have  resolved  upon 
its  position  in  your  memory  you  become  aware 
of  a  difference,  a  faint  suggestion  of  new  color 
which  enters  where  a  direct  appraisal  of  the 
book  itself  could  never  hope  to  go.  Then  you 
are  willing  to  be  certain  that  the  thing  from 
which  this  color  emanates  can  be  no  inconsider- 
able   quality   of   life."      Raymond   Holden 

(-  New  Repub  36:81  S  12  '23  750w 

"Miss   Benson   has   the  gift  of  telling  a  story. 
Her    characters     live     and     her     action     moves 
briskly  and    naturally.      She   is   witty,    epigram- 
matic,   at    times   sparkling."       Joseph    Collins 
+   N    Y    Times    p7    Ja    28    '23    2850w 
Reviewed  by  Will  Cuppy 

N   Y  Tribune  p23  Mr  18  '23  1800w 
"It    is   a   crammed   book,    rich   from    so   many 
points    of   view    that    emphasis    on    one    or    two 
of  them  is  an  iniustice  to  the  whole." 
+  Spec   129:839   D  2  '22  950w 
"It   is  a  strange  piece  of  work,    as  her  other 
work   has   been   strange;   but   it   is   firmer,    it   is 
better  controlled,  it  is  more  lucid  than  hitherto, 
and    it    proves    at    length    that    Miss    Benson    is 
finding    her    way    towards    the    mastery    of    her 
singular  talent." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p686  O  26 
'22   700w 

BENSON.    WILLIAIVI     SHEPHERD.       Merchant 

marine.  183p  $1.75     Macmillan 

387     Merchant   marine — United   States 

23-8602 

Admiral  Benson's  book,  which  emphasizes 
thruout  the  need  for  a  merchant  marine  under 
our  own  flag,  opens  with  a  brief  survey  of 
water-borne  commerce  in  earliest  times  and 
the  early  activities  of  Great  Britain  in  the 
development  of  a  merchant  marine.  Then  in 
successive  chapters  he  treats  the  colonial  period 
in  American  shipping,  the  whaling  industry, 
packets  and  clipper  ships,  and  steam  naviga- 
tion. There  f^re  three  chapters  on  government 
aid  and  the  book  concludes  with  an  account  of 
the  United  States  shipping  board. 


Am   Pol  Sci   R  17:693  N  '23  200w 
Booklist   20:122   Ja   '24 
"Straight -forward,  clearly  reasoned  and  writ- 
ten   with    the    simplicity    to    be    expected    of    a 
competent  naval  ofl^cer." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  S  5  '23  150w 
"While  the  appearance  of  a  new  book  on 
shipping  is  an  event,  an  event  can  sometimes 
be  disappointing.  In  it  there  is  much  chaff 
among  the  wheat.  There  is  little  interest  and 
no  profit  in  starting  a  book  supposed  to  be  deal- 
ing with  our  present  shipping  problem  by  ref- 
erence to  the  Phoenicians  and  Carthaginians." 
E.    S.    Gregg 

—  Lit    R    p22    S    8    '23    1300w 
Reviewed   by   N:   Roosevelt 

N    Y    Times    p.5    N    4    '23    250w 

R    of    Rs    68:224   Ag   '23   70w 

Springf'd   Republican  pl2  O  31  '23  200w 


BERCOVICI,    KONRAD.      Murdo.    228p   ?2   Boni 

&  Liveright 

23-6947 

This  collection  of  gypsy  stories  is  from  the 
pen  of  one  who  knows  them,  their  lives  and 
their  psychology.  Murdo  is  a  chief  of  unusual 
wisdom  of  which  the  title  story  gives  proof. 
He  knows  nature,  the  power  of  music,  the  ways 
of  the  world  and  the  ways  of  women  with  men. 
His  death,  described  in  the  last  story,  is  heroic. 
Having  no  son  worthy  to  succeed  him  as  chief 
and  feeling  that  he  must  choose  some  one 
before  he  dies  whom  the  tribe  can  believe 
greater  than  he  was,  he  invents  a  private  witch 
for  himself  whose  incantations  he  proclaims  are 
more  potent  than  those  of  the  tribal  witch. 
The  tribal  witch's  son  is  his  choice  of  a  suc- 
cessor. He  arranges  a  duel  with  him,  then 
secretly  extracts  the  bullet  from  his  own  pistol 
to  prove  by  his  own  death  that  the  other  is 
the   better   man. 


Booklist    19:317    Jl   '23 
Cleveland   p51    Jl   '23 
Int  Bk  R  pl58  Ja  '24  390w 
"It  is  unfortunate  that  nobody  has  thought  to 
film    these    stories,    for    they    are    packed    with 
quick   and   intelligible   action,    and   despite   their 
sameness    are    extremely    interesting    to    read. 
Not  literature  but  the  moving  pictures  are  the 
true   field    for   exoticism." 

i-   Lit    R    pl94    O    27    '23    200w 

"In  the  Gipsy  sagas  which  he  relates  is  the 
breath  of  freedom,  and  the  rhythm  of  poetry, 
and  the  sense  of  intimacy  that  proves  the  close 
imaginative  relationship  between  the  author 
and  his  wild  creations.  .  .  Yet  it  is  just  as 
certain  that  the  book  will  not  enhance  Mr.  Ber- 
covici's  reputation.  For  'Murdo,'  valuable  and 
interesting  in  itself,  adds  nothing  to  the  stature 
of  the  author  of  'Ghitza' ;  it  is  an  enlargement, 
not  a  growth."  J.  J.  Smertenko 

-i Nation  117:43  Jl  11  '23  250w 

"By  the  big  public  that  prefers,  or  must  re- 
main content  with,  its  romance  and  its  passion 
by  proxy,  'Murdo'  will  find  a  welcome.  For 
poetry,  romance  and  passion  form  its  very  es- 
sence '' 

-t-  N  Y  Times  pl9  Ap  1  '23  600w 
"Stories  of  vivid  fancy,  based  on  sound  In- 
formation, and  colored  with  irony  which  is 
nicely  felt  but  not  so  nicely  employed.  The 
story  of  Ileana  is  a  fair  example.  It  is  a  good 
story,  but  it  ought  to  be  better."  Charlotte 
Dean 

H NY   Tribune   p24   Ap   29   '23   850w 

"  'Murdo'  carries  the  very  essence  of  dramatic 

quality    through    its    every    division.      It    throbs 

with  life,  abounds  in  color,  seems  to  pass  vividly 

before  the  reader  in  forms  of  ceaseless  action." 

+  N    Y   World   p8e  Ap   1   '23   420w 

Wis    Lib   Bui   20:443   O  '23 


BERESFORD,   JOHN    DAVYS.      Love's  pilgrim. 

313p   $2   Bobbs    [7s   6d  Collins] 

23-13487 

"There  are  two  parts  of  the  present  story, 
which  is  simply  the  account  by  Foster  Innes, 
a  sensitive,  congenitally  lame  heir  to  a  barony, 
of  the  emotional  experiences  which  led  to  his 
finding  the  wife  not  only  of  his  heart  but  of 
his  fancy.  The  first  part — and  this  division  is 
ours  alone— deals  with  the  unsuccessful  ex- 
periments and  the  young  man's  reactions  to 
them;  the  second  part  recounts  the  finding  of 
Claire,  the  predestined  mate,  who  is  unfor- 
tunately daughter  of  a  man  quite  recently  and 
doubtfully  acquitted  of  murdering  his  wife, 
and  the  struggle  against  mother  and  family 
tic  which  determination  to  marry  her  in- 
volved."— The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup 


Booklist  20:100  D  '23 
"Beresford's  realism  is  that  of  insinuation 
rather  than  of  microspection;  his  complexities 
are  presented,  but  not  explained,  and  his  char- 
acters develop  by  fleeting  glimpses  of  word 
and    action.       'Love's    Pilgrim,'    if    it    does    not 


42 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BERESFORD,    JOHN    DAVIS — Continued 
qualify    as    a    novel,    at    least    passes    the    mark 
as  an  adroit  study  of  a  unique  character."    Irene 
ElUs 

h   Detroit    News  pl9  O   7   '23   400w 

"Despite  its  obvious  faults,  Mr.  Beresford's 
book  is  one  of  far  more  than  usual  merit.  At 
its  best  it  is  excellent,  with  an  excellence  that 
derives  from  an  interpretative  intelligence  and 
a  literary  art  of  real  distinction.  It  is  at  once 
searching  and  finely  discriminating  in  its  psy- 
chological analysis,  is  wrought  with  sincerity, 
and  even  in  its  most  intense  moments  is  han- 
dled with  nice  restraint.  It  will  well  repay  the 
reading."     Amy  Loveman 

H Lit    R   p59   S   22  '23   800w 

"It  is  not,  like  most  of  his  earlier  books,  close 
packed  with  that  detail  of  the  familiar  human 
adventure  which  in  the  hands  of  a  master  be- 
comes more  exciting  than  the  most  highly 
colored  romantic  melodrama.  It  is  a  quiet  and, 
it  seems  to  me,  a  very  personal  book,  in  which 
the  pain  of  life  and  love  has  become  tran- 
quillized by  reflection  into  a  serene  beauty." 
Floyd  Dell 

-H   N  Y  Tribune  pl8  O  14  "23  720w 
Sat    R    135:572   Ap   28   '23    450w 

"Mr.  J.  D.  Beresford  is  hardly  as  successful 
in  describing  the  amatory  passions  as  in  deal- 
ing in  a  prophetic  vein  with  Revolution  in 
England.  It  is  diflicult  to  believe  in  the  early 
sentimental  and  matrimonial  adventures  of  Fos- 
ter Innes,  and  'Tertia'  and  'Grace,'  as  well 
as  the  fleeting  vision  of  'Nita,'  do  not  impress 
us  as  real  flesh-and-blood  women.  .  .  The  in- 
terest of  the  book  is  intended  to  lie  in  the 
hero's  introspective  view  of  his  own  personal- 
ity. This  is  so  overlaid  and  obstructed  by  his 
sensitiveness  as  to  be  entirely  abnormal." 
—  Spec   130:1047   Je   23   '23   500w 

"It  is  very  diflicult  to  couch  an  appreciation 
of  this  author  in  just  words,  for  his  merits  are 
not  those  which  call  out  spontaneously  the  rap- 
turous words  of  praise  that  follow,  all  too 
easily,  certain  more  obvious  appeals  to  our 
aesthetic  emotions;  and  while  one  praises  his 
sensitive  intelligence,  his  care,  his  dignified 
simplicity  of  style  and  his  grasp  of  individual 
psychoses — to  use  a  word  which  Mr.  Beres- 
ford never  obtrudes  into  his  art — one  is  con- 
scious of  niaking  certain  reservations  on  the 
other  side  which  give  the  verdict  rather  a  dif- 
fident  and   bloodless  character." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p286   Ap 

26    '23   750w 


BERGENGREN,    ROY   F.     Cooperative  banking; 

a  credit  union  book.  398p  il  |3  (14s)  Macmillan 
334.2  Building  and  loan  associations.  Banks 
and    banking.    Cooperative.    Credit    unions 

23-8231 

The  book  explains  certain  phases  of  coopera- 
tive banking  as  exemplified  by  the  credit  union 
and  some  other  types  of  cooperative  banks. 
The  present  extent  of  credit  unions  in  the 
United  States  is  shown  and  its  two  types  of 
development,  the  industrial  and  the  rural,  are 
described.  The  book  considers  also  the  bear- 
ing of  the  credit  union  on  thrift  promotion,  on 
the  problem  of  usury,  and  on  the  annual  waste 
thru  "wild  cat"  speculation.  Some  suggestions 
are  made  which  have  to  do  with  supplement- 
ing the  banking  system  by  the  extension  of 
various  systems  of  cooperative  banking.  The 
appendix  provides  a  tentative  draft  of  a  credit 
union  law. 


Cleveland  ti71  S  '23 
"Reading  the  book,  one  is  at  every  page  im- 
pressed by  the  fact  that  it  was  undoubtedly 
writton  as  a  labor  of  love.  To  label  its  author 
an  enthusiast  would  be  using  too  mild  a  term. 
Credit  unions  are  his  passion.  From  this  at- 
titude of  the  author  no  doubt  springs  much  of 
the  charm  as  well  a.=;  much  of  the  weakness 
of   the   book."      C.    T.    M. 

-I Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   p20   Ag 

26   '23   600w 


"Mr.  Bergengren's  book  is  written  in  popular 
style  and  is  quite  readable,  but  it  is  somewhat 
given  to  repetition.  It  contains,  too,  a  great 
deal  of  platitude  on  the  value  of  thrift  and  on 
allied  themes  that  can  have  little  interest  for 
the  reader  who  does  not  need  to  be  convinced 
along  these  lines  and  who  would  prefer  a  little 
more  information  on  the  subject  of  cooperative 
banking." 

H Lit    R  p915  Ag  18   '23  350w 

Reviewed  by  L.   D.   Woodworth 

Management   &    Adm    6:783   D   '23    900w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p534   Ag 
9    '23    30w 

BERGUER,    GEORGES.      Some    aspects    of    the 

2    life     of    Jesus     from     the     psychological     and 

psycho-analytic  point  of  view;   tr.   by  Eleanor 

Stimson  Brooks  and  Van  Wyck  Brooks.     332p 

$3.50  Harcourt  [15s  Williams  &  H.] 

232     Jesus  Christ  23-12901 

"Introductory  chapters  on  methods  and 
sources,  footnotes,  an  appendix,  an  eight-page 
bibliography,  and  a  full  index,  all  combine  to 
reveal  the  author  as  a  trained  scholar,  engaged 
in  the  task  of  presenting  a  work  of  careful 
original    research." — Nation 


"His  distinction  between  spiritual  truth  and 
the  degeneration  of  such  truth  into  material 
fictions,  and  his  examination  into  the  laws  un- 
derlying such  degeneration  no  doubt  call  for 
an  enormous  amount  of  skill,  so  that  the  book, 
while  it  contains  bits  of  subtle  exegesis,  does 
not  suffer  from  vagueness  and  shiftiness  of 
approach." 

+   Dial    75:613    D    '23    120w 

"The    book   is   fascinating   reading,    thanks   in 
part    to    an    admirable    translation    by    Eleanor 
and    Van    Wyck    Brooks."      J:    H.    Holmes 
-I-   Nation   117:664  D  5   '23   550w 

"This  mode  of  approach  is  new,  and  to  be 
reckoned  with.  That  it  is  liable  to  abuse  in  in- 
competent hands  is  obvious;  and  the  charge  of 
one-sidedness  brought  against  its  inductions  is 
not  to  be  dismissed  summarily;  the  meta- 
physical que.stion  remains.  But,  when  all  has 
been  said  and  done,  there  is  enough  to  serve 
as  a  real  foundation:  these  methods  have  passed 
out  of  the  stage  of  conjecture  and  hypothesis; 
the  results  with  which  they  present  us  supply 
the  material  of  solid  knowledge,  though  this 
material  requires  to  be  chiselled,  and  even  hewn 
into  shape,  by  the  action  of  the  mind.  To 
have  taken  a  real  step  in  this  direction,  in  so 
far  as  concerns  religion,  is  the  achievement  of 
M.  Berguer'.s  book."  .Mfred  Fawkes 
-I Spec  131:506  O  13  '23  BOOw 

"His  book  is  scholarly  in  treatment  and 
unique." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  plO  D  11  '23  700w 

"The    book    before    us    is,    we    believe,    of    ex- 
ceptional   importance.      It    is    rare    that    a    new 
theological  work   can  be  described  as  strikingly 
original,   but  M.    Berguer  breaks  new  ground." 
-I-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p664    O 
11   '23   2100W 

BERRIDGE,  WALTER  SYDNEY.  Animal 
curiosities.  252p  il  $2  Small  [7s  6d  T.  Butter- 
worth] 

591.5  Animals — Habits  and  behavior  23-7175 
The  book  is  made  up  of  papers  describing  in 
popular  style  the  peculiar  habits  and  structure 
of  some  queer  and  little  known  animals,  birds, 
and  reptiles.  Chapters  on  animal  voices,  on 
animals  that  change  color,  and  on  lummous 
animals  are  included. 


Booklist  19:303  Jl  '23 
"It  has  splendid  photographs,  and  any  one  in- 
terested in  animal  life  will  welcome  this  book. 
It  is  singularly  well  adapted  to  the  'lay'  reader, 
yet  is  filled  with  data  only  a  zoologist  could 
give."    M.   G.    Bonner 

4-    Int   Bk   R  p36  Ag  '23  40w 

N    Y   Times   p4   Ap   29   '23   330w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


43 


"This  book  is  popular  rather  than  scientific 
in  its  appeal,  and  is  decidedly  interesting  in 
its  presentation  of  information  gathered  in 
various  sources  about  remarkable  birds  and 
animals.  The  photographs  are  unusually  good." 
+  Outlook  133:901  My  16  '23  30w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:80    Mr    '23 

BERRIDGE,  WILLIAM  ARTHUR.  Cycles  of 
unemployment  in  the  United  States,  1903-1922. 
(Publications  of  the  Pollak  foundation  for 
economic  research)  88p  $1.25  Houghton 

331.8      Unemployment  23-10536 

A  statistical  study  of  the  volume  and  distri- 
bution of  unemployment  during  tiie  last  twenty 
years  and  the  relation  of  cycles  of  unemploy- 
ment to  fluctuations  of  production,  prices,  and 
other  variable  elements.  The  first  chapter  con- 
siders the  use  of  an  employment  index  and  the 
methods  of  constructing  one. 

Reviewed   by  A.   H.   Hansen 

Am  Econ  R  13:739  D  '23  ISOOw 
Am  Pol  Sol  R  17:695  N  '23  150w 
"The  book  is  the  most  comprehensive  presen- 
tation of  the  current  statistics  of  employment 
which  the  writer  of  this  review  has  seen.  Some 
of  the  work  goes  over  ground  which  has  already 
previously  been  covered.  Dr.  Berridge's  treat- 
ment of  the  available  data  in  terms  of  devia- 
tions from  trend  is  new,  however,  and  his 
bringing  together  of  all  the  data  within  the 
compass  of  a  single  essay  is  valuable."  W.  R. 
Burgess 

+  Management  &  Adm   6:372  S  '23  1150w 
Reviewed    by    H;    R.    Mussey 

Nation    117:744    D    26    '23    ]60w 
"Some    time    it    may    be    expected    actual    ac- 
counting  will   be   kept   of   employment   and   un- 
employment,   and   estimates  arrived   at    by   long 
mathematical     detours    will    then     be    obsolete. 
But   until   the    facts   are    obtained    the    Berridge 
calculations    should    prove    highly    useful.      Cer- 
tainly   no    better    information     concerning    the 
state  of  the  labor  market   is  available." 
+   N   Y  Times  pl5  Jl  29   '23  330w 
Reviewed  by  H.    Feldman 

Pol  Sci  Q  38:523  S  '23  750w 
R  of  Rs  68:335  S  '23  40w 

BESSON.      FRANK     SCHAFFER.       City     pave- 
2    ments.     421p     il     $5     McGraw 

625.8     Pavements  23-10013 

"Discusses  at  some  length  the  organization 
and  administration  of  a  city  bureau  of  high- 
ways, giving  suggestions  regarding  street  sys- 
tems, street  zoning,  and  weight  and  volume  of 
traflSc.  The  section  on  paving  materials  and 
paving  construction  takes  up  concrete,  bitu- 
minous, and  block  paving,  in  each  case  con- 
sidering materials  and  tests,  design  of  mixture, 
and  construction  plants  and  methods.  The 
author  is  a  major  in  the  engineering  corps  of 
the   United    States   Army." — Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 

Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:528  D  '23 

BESTON,    HENRY    B.      Starlight   wonder   book. 

263p    il    $3   Atlantic   monthly 

23-13421 

*'A  dozen  fairy  tales  relating  the  picturesque 
happenings  that  befell  the  grave  grenadier  who 
slew  the  dreadful  hippodrac  to  win  a  princess, 
the  young  minstrel  who  wandered  over  the 
world  in  search  of  the  notes  of  a  marvelous 
tune,  of  the  enchanted  prince  who  was  invisible 
until  the  Master  Thief  of  the  Adamant  Moun- 
tains restored  the  all-powerful  spell-dispeller, 
and  others." — N  Y  Tribune 


"Is  just  as  alluring  as  its  title  indicates. 
Every  story  is  a  gleaming,  merrily  twinkling 
wonder  tale."  M.   G.   Bonner 

+   Int    Bk    R   p62    N    '23    50w 
Reviewed    by    Constance    Naar 

New  Repub  36:315  N  14  '23  20w 
"These  are  real  stories  and  will  delight 
those  children  who  want  their  fairy  tales  filled 
with  marvelous  and  daring  adventures,  with 
weird  and  mystical  beings  in  the  wonderful 
realms  of  fairyland.  Henry  B.  Beston  has  an 
unusually  poetic  imagination  and  these  tales 
are  rich  in  gorgeous  and  poetic  descriptions 
that  will  delight  the  imaginative  child."  Ever- 
ett   McNeal 

+   N    y   Times   p4   O   14   '23   llOw 
Reviewed  by  M.   A.    MacLean 

N  Y  Tribune  p31  O  14  '23  70w 
"Mr.  Beston  has  the  rare  gift  of  a  poetic 
imagination,  and  in  these  stories  he  has  allowed 
his  fancy  to  paint  gorgeous  and  beautiful  pic- 
tures that  will  long  linger  in  a  child's  mind 
and  add  beauty  to  his  waking  and  sleeping 
dreams."      Everett    McNeil 

+    N    Y   Tribune   p20   N   25   '23   130w 

Springf'd    Republican   p7a  D   2   '23   llOw 

BIBESCO,  MARTHE  LUCIE  (LAHOVARY) 
(PRINCESS  G.  V.  BIBESCO).  Eight  para- 
dises; travel  pictures  in  Persia,  Asia  Minor, 
and    Constantinople.    261p    $2.50    Dutton 

915.5    Asia    Minor — Description    and    travel. 
Persia — Description    and    travel.    Constanti- 
nople—Description 23-16779 
The   eight    paradises   of   these   travel    pictures 
are  Resht,   Teheran,   Khoum   the  Holy,   Kashan, 
Ispahan.     Lenkoran.    Trebizond    and    Constanti- 
nople.   'The    sketches     are     impressionistic    and 
concerned    wholly    with     the    writer's    esthetic 
enjoyment     of     these     cities     and     the     sensa- 
tions   aroused    by    their    beauty.    With    the    pic- 
tures    of     gardens     and     palaces,    bazaars    and 
mosques,    caravans    and    deserts,    are    combined 
native  legends  and  bits  of  Eastern  verse. 


Booklist   20:62   N   '23 
"Henry   B.    Beston    has    dipped    his   pen    in   a 
well   of  pure  English   to  write  another   book   of 
his  romantic  out  of  door  tales."     A.  C.  Moore 
-f  Bookm    58:189    O    '23    150w 

"It    is    better    than    the    enchanted    carpet    of 
the    ancients."      D.    Jp.    G. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p8  O  6  '23  400w 


"The  Princess  has  made  of  'The  Eight  Para- 
dises' an  atmospheric  book;  a  succession,  so  to 
speak,  of  states  of  mind  induced  by  these  an- 
cient cities  and  their  gardens,  by  the  desert, 
bv  the  art  of  ancient  poets  and  the  visible  life 
of  people  who  seem  still  to  be  part  and  parcel 
of  their  verse  and  philosophy.  Such  absorption 
in  the  literature  and  esthetics  of  the  East  may 
seem  somewhat  odd  and  unreal  to  most  of  us 
who  inhabit  the  West.  Readers  who  respond 
least  to  this  atmosphere  will  not  get  far;  those 
who  respond  most  will  heartily  approve  the 
French  Academy  in  the  affair  of  the  crown." 
Ralph    Bergengren 

-I Boston   Transcript  p3  N  17  '23   1500w 

"Her  book  is  redolent  with  the  perfume  of 
the    East." 

-f   N   Y  Times  pll  Ja  13  '24  1450w 

"In  comparison  with  the  bold  and  heavy  out- 
line drawing  of  many  booKs  of  travel,  'The 
Eight  PaT'adises'  frequently  has  the  effect  ol 
dainty   and   fanciful    etching." 

+  Springf'd    Republican   pl4   D   7   '23   120w 

BIBLE.    NEW  TESTAMENT.    New  Testament; 
an   American   translation,    by  Edgar  J.    Good- 
speed.     481p     $2.50     Univ.  of  Chicago  press 
225.5     Bible.      New   Testament — Versions 

23-15842 

"The  New  Testament  was  written  not  in  clas- 
sical Greek,  nor  in  the  'biblical'  Greek  of  the 
Greek  version  of  the  Old  Testament,  nor  even 
in  the  literary  Greek  of  its  own  day,  but  in 
the  common  language  of  everyday  life.  It  fol- 
lows that  the  most  appropriate  English  form 
for  the  New  Testament  is  the  simple,  straight- 
forward English  of  everyday  expression."  (Pref- 
ace) Such  a  text  is  provided  in  Professor 
Goodspeed's  American  translation.  Chapter  and 
verse  divisions  have  been  omitted  so  that  each 
book  may  be  read  as  a  unit. 


Reviewed   by  J.    F.    Newton 

Bookm   58:471  D  '23  400w 


44 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BIBLE.     NEW    TESTAMENT — Continued 

"The  modern  translators  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment are  doing  a  distinct  disservice  when  they 
try  to  break  down  the  rich  religious  terminology 
which  has  been  evolved  by  the  English-speaking 
peoples.  .  .  The  present  translator  has  gone 
beyond  any  modern  translator  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment in  destroying  this  rich  language  of  rev- 
erence."    F.   W.   Collin 

—  Boston    Transcript   p2   N    3   '23   1500w 

"We  have  here  a  rendering  of  the  Greek  New 
Testament  into  the  language  of  modern  Amer- 
ican literature,  the  translator  having  taken  as 
much  liberty  as  he  wished.  To  expect  from 
any  modern  scholar  a  better  rendering  than  that 
adopted  by  scholars  such  as  Lightfoot  and  Hort 
is  quite  another  matter."  B:  W.  Bacon 
-i Lit   R   p335  D   8   '23  900w 

"Professor  Goodspeed  ha.s  achieved  a  texture 
of  present-day  English  which  is  not  only  clear 
and  simple,  but  which  is  so  clear  and  so  simple 
that  it  deserves  to  take  its  place  as  a  standard 
of  English  prose  as  we  speak  it  today."  P.  L. 
-I-   New  Repub  37:21  N  28  '23  1600w 

"By  modernizing  the  form  in  which  the  New 
Testament  is  printed;  the  translator  has  suc- 
ceeded in  making  a  very  readable  volume.  The 
work  is  too  dignified  in  tone  and  too  close  to 
the  original  in  its  reference  to  be  a  populariza- 
tion. On  the  whole  it  will  riot  address  itself 
widely  to  those  who  have  not  the  historical 
and  literary  background  for  appreciating  the 
King  James  version  and  those  having  such 
background  will  naturally  cling  to  the  form 
around  which  so  much  of  their  religious  senti- 
ment gathers." 

H Survey    51:240   N   15   '23   300w 

"Opinion  will  perhaps  continue  to  differ  on 
the  point  whether  anything  is  gained  in  lucidity 
by  writing  (e.g.)  'Now  these  are  the  circum- 
stances of  the  birth  of  Jesus  Christ'  for  'Now 
the  birth  of  Jesus  Christ  was  in  this  wise'; 
or  'In  the  beginning  the  Word  existed'  for  'In 
the  beginning  was  the  Word.'  But  there  can 
be  no  doubt  of  the  great  pains  that  Professor 
Goodspeed    has    taken    over    his    translation." 

-| The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p695    O 

18    '23    lOOw 

BIBLE.  NEW  TESTAMENT.  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son Bible;  arranged  by  Thomas  Jefferson;  tr. 
by  R.  F.  Weymouth;  ed.  by  Henry  E.  Jack- 
son.   333p     $2.50     Boni   &   Liveright 

225        Jesus    Christ — Teaching.        Jefferson, 
Thomas  23-13672 

Thomas  Jefferson  was  a  profound  student  of 
the  teachings  of  Jesus  and  compiled  for  his 
own  satisfaction  a  digest  of  Christ's  principles 
"selecting  those  only  whose  style  and  spirit 
proved  them  genuine,  and  his  own."  Later, 
he  made  a  more  careful  digest,  and  in  four 
languages,  Greek,  Latin,  French  and  English. 
This  book  he  entitled  "The  Morals  of  Jesus" 
and  had  bound  in  leather.  It  was  prepared  for 
his  own  private  use  and  he  withheld  it  from 
publication.  Seventy-five  years  later  it  was 
discovered  and  in  1904  was  published  as  a  gov- 
ernment document.  Since  its  publication  it  has 
become  known  as  the  "Jefferson  Bible."  It  is 
here  reprinted  with  a  130-page  introduction  and 
interpretation  by  the   editor. 


"Dr.  Jackson  has  done  a  public  service  in 
preparing  this  volume.  It  has  its  chief  value  in 
emphasizing  certain  neglected  or  misunderstood 
aspects  r.f  the  character  of  the  author  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence." 

+   Lit    R    p323    D    1    '23    300w 

Sprlngf'd    Republican    p8    Ja   8   '24    700w 

BIBLE.     NEW    TESTAMENT.      Riverside    New 
=    Testament.     449p     $3      Houghton 

225.5      Bible.     New   Testament — Versions 

23-9311 
"A   translation    from    the    original    Greek    into 
the   English   of   today,   by  William   Gay   Ballan- 
tme."— Subtitle 


"Simple  but  not  cheap,  popular  but  not  col- 
loquial, achieving  literary  beauty  without  aca- 
demic stiffness,  making  the  most  modern  of 
books  real  and  vivid  in  the  living  language  of 
living    men."     J.    F.    Newton 

+   Bookm   58:471   D   '23   1300w 

"This  translation,  like  all  other  individual  at- 
tempts, will  fail  to  replace  the  great  English 
versions,  bvit  it  will  be  of  great  value  to  all 
lovers  of  the  New  Testament.  In  .some  re- 
spects such  a  translation  is  the  best  kind  of 
commentary."      F.    W.    C. 

Boston    Transcript   p5   Je   30   '23    800w 

"On  the  whole  the  translation  is  dignified  and 
clear,  although  not  strikingly  original  or  dra- 
matic. At  many  points,  however,  it  contributes 
to  the  ultimate  twentieth  century  translation 
of   the   New    Testament." 

H Lit   R    p378   D   15   '23    400w 

"He  commits  the  egregiou.s  error  of  retrans- 
lating the  Lord's  Prayer,  and  with  an  awkward- 
ness well-nigh  unforgivable.  Save  for  this, 
however,  the  translation  shows  exemplary  taste 
and  intelligence  in  his  renditions."  L:  Browne 
H Nation    118:38    Ja    9    '24    350w 

"We  find  pages  after  pages  which  might  be 
read  aloud  to  us  without  giving  us  the  sus- 
picion that  a  reviser  had  been  aliroad  with 
sharp  linguistic  shears  and  shapers.  Mr.  Bal- 
lantine's  researches  into  the  original  Greek  haye 
not  moved  him  to  any  wholesale  departure  from 
the  rhythms  and  cadences  of  the  book  our 
fathers   knew."    E.  W.  Osborn 

N    Y  World  pl9  Je  17  '23  lOOOw 

BICKERSTAFF-DREW,      FRANCIS      BROWN- 
ING  DREW.    See  Ayscough,  J:,   pseud. 

BICKNELL.    PERCY    FAVOR.      Human    side    of 

fabre.     340p   il     $2.50     Century 

B    or    92      Fabre,    Jean    Henri    Casimir 

23-12943 

Largely  in  his  own  words  is  here  told  the 
story  of  the  long  and  busy  life  of  the  French 
naturalist  whose  insect  studies  have  been  so 
widely  read  liy  old  and  young.  He  imparted 
human  interest  to  his  descriptions  of  his  be- 
loved insects  and  thru  them  inade  many  self- 
revelations  showing  his  own  warm  human  na- 
ture. It  is  therefore  to  Fabre's  "Souvenirs 
Entomologiques"  that  the  author  turns  for  much 
of  the  material  in  this  biography. 


"Scholarly     and      significant      work."      W.     L. 
Sperry 

-|-  Atlantic's   Bookshelf  D  '23  330w 


Booklist    20:97    D    '23 
"Falire,    his    work,    his    interests,    his   person- 
ality, are  delightfully  portrayed  for  us,  and  with 
easy   continuity." 

-f-  Bookm  58:487  D  '23  120w 
"To  read  Mr.  Bicknell's  book  is  to  get  a 
vivid  picture  of  thi.s  unique  man  and  a  desire 
to  enter  at  once,  through  the  magic  pages  of 
Fabre's  own  books  the  magic  world  of  little 
creatures  that  he  has  given  us  in  epic  form." 
L.    H.    G. 

-f-  Boston    Transcript    p5    N    10    '23    550w 
Freeman    8:239   N   14   '23   220w 
Reviewed    bv   E.    E.    Slosson 

New  Repub  37:101  D  19  '23  lOOOw 
"A  great  deal  of  Mr.  Bicknell's  text  consists 
of  quotations  from  Fabre's  works.  This  gives 
the  volume  a  pleasing  flavor  of  autobiography 
and  also  furnishes  a  little  library  of  Fabre's 
own  words — far  too  brief,  of  course,  even  in 
this  good-sized  book,  for  the  real  lover  of  na- 
ture."    W.  C. 

-f   N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  14  '23  130w 

BIGELOW,    POULTNEY.      Japan    and    her   col- 
'    onies;    being    extracts    from      a     diary    made 

whilst  visiting  Formosa,  Manchuria,  Shantung, 

Korea    and    Saghalin    in    the    year    1921.     276p 

il   $5   Longmans    [15s   Arnold] 

915.2     Japan — Description  and  travel.  Japan 
— Colonies 

Since  1876  Mr  Bigelow  has  made  five  trips  to 
Japan.  His  last  visit  was  for  the  special  pur- 
pose of  studying  Japan's  colonial  administration 
and  most  of  the  book  is  concerned  with  the 
work   of   Japan   in    her    newly   acquired   posses- 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


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slons,  Formosa,  Manchuria,  Shantung,  Korea 
and  Sakhalin.  He  has  brought  away  a  very 
favorable  opinion  of  Japan  and  her  achieve- 
ments in  colonization  which  he  likens  to  those 
of  Great   Britain  in  India. 


Boston  Transcript   p2  D  15  '23  980w 
"Mr.    Bigelow    has    made   a   valuable    and    in- 
teresting book.      His   trenchant  style   and   plain 
speaking   add   value   to   his   lucid   observations." 
-I-  Spec  131:912  D  8  '23  300w 


BIGHAM,   CLIVE.     Chief  ministers  of  England. 

422p     il     $8      [21s  Murray] 

923.2      Prime   ministers  [23-13497] 

The  book  gives  an  epitome  of  the  lives  of 
twenty-seven  chief  ministers  of  England — be- 
fore the  evolution  of  the  Prime  Minister — whose 
power  depended  on  the  personal  choice  and 
favor  of  the  king.  The  period  covers  eight 
hundred  years  from  King  Edward  the  Elder, 
son  of  Alfred  the  Great,  to  Queen  Anne,  whose 
reign  marks  the  transition  from  the  rule  by  the 
Sovereign  to  the  rule  by  Parliament.  Illustra- 
tions; chronological  list  of  chief  ministers;  bib- 
liography.  Index. 


"A  scholarly,  interesting  and  intensely  human 
account." 

-I-   Am    Pol    Sci    R    17:677   N    '23    350w 

"The  author  has  exhibited  great  industry  of 
research  and  ripened  historical  gifts,  and  in 
this  companion  volume  to  his  'Prime  Ministers 
of  Britain,'  completes  a  survey  that  is  in  every 
way  admirable,  and  gives  one  a  wide  historic 
grasp  which  proves  how  far  biography  becomes 
the  essence   of  history."   S.  L.  Cook 

-I-   Boston    Transcript    p3   Ag   11    '23   1900w 

"Written  in  a  pleasant  scholarly  style.  From 
the  viewpoint  of  a  layman,  it  seems  at  first  as 
though  Mr.  Bigham  were  a  little  too  undiscrim- 
inating  in  the  analyses  he  makes  of  individ- 
ual characters,  for  he  is  always  ready  to  see 
constructive  good  in  the  worst  of  men.  But 
this  tendency  is,  on  second  thought,  necessary 
to  the  development  and  unity  of  his  book  and 
so  may  be  readily  forgiven  him."     J:  F.  Carter, 

H Lit    R    p62    S    22    '23    850w 

"Clearly,  in  its  centuries  of  beginnings,  Eng- 
land grew  quite  as  often  in  spite  of  its  niin- 
isters  as  by  aid  of  them.  As  a  piece  of  popular 
exposition,  however,  Mr.  Bigham' s  work  has 
been  commendably  done.  He  knows  his  au- 
thorities and  uses  them,  his  judgments  are 
sympathetic  as  well  as  scholarly,  and  his  style 
is  always  readable."  W:  MacDonald 
-I-   Nation    118:14    Ja   2    '23    500w 

Reviewed   by   H:    L.    Stuart 

N    Y   Times   pl8  Ja  6   '24  2800w 

"Mr.  Bigham  is  to  be  congratulated  on  the 
skillful  way  in  which  he  has  disinterred  the 
facts  of  their  lives  and  services  from  dry  and 
dusty  historical  source  books  and  woven  them 
into  pleasing  narrative  form.  His  book  should 
find  many  readers,  and  they  in  turn  will  find 
it  both  entertaining  and  profitable  reading." 
-f   N    Y    Tribune   p26   O   7    '23    920w 

"Prodigal,  wasteful  times;  picturesque  to 
read  about;  who  would  wish  them  back  again? 
Yet.  to  understand  the  present,  it  is  well  a  little 
while  now  and  then  to  read  of  the  past.  The 
Hon.  Clive  Bigham  is  a  good  guide  through  the 
old  days."   J.   C.   H. 

-f   N   Y   World  p7e  Ag  19  '23   780w 

"Mr.  Bigham  has  spared  no  pains,  but  the 
skilful  presentation  of  his  industry  has  none  of 
the  i'-ritating  affectation  of  erudite  superiority; 
and  the  attached  bibliography,  which  is  a  list  of 
neai'ly  two  hundred  works  to  which  reference 
is  made  in  the  text,  gives  the  reader  comfor- 
table confidence  that  statements  of  facts  can 
be  relied   upon." 

+   Sat   R   135:873  Je  30  '23   600w 

The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p363   My 
31  '23   650w 


BILBY,   JULIAN    W.   Among  unknown   Eskimo. 

2SUp     il    $5     Lippincott 
919.8     Arctic  regions.     Eskimos         [23-8916] 

Baffin  Land,  oi-  Batiin  Island — the  country 
with  which  this  book  has  to  do — is  an  inn- 
mense  portion  of  the  Canadian  arctic  archipel- 
ago. It  seems  now  to  be  established  that  it 
is  one  great  island,  the  third  largest  in  the 
world,  'i'he  author  is  concerned  with  the  pure 
and  unmixed  Eskimo  stock  of  the  island,  their 
life  and  customs  and  beliefs  as  uninfluenced  by 
the  forces  of  trade  and  civilization.  He  de- 
scribes the  activities  of  a  day  in  an  Eskimo 
encampment,  both  the  men's  share  and  the 
women's,  their  family  and  tribal  life,  their 
language,  legends,  rites  and  ceremonies,  their 
sport  and  hunting.    Map.     Index. 


"Himself  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Geographical 
Society  and  a  member  of  the  Folk  l^ore  So- 
ciety, Mr.  Bilby  has  made  a  notable  addition 
to  the  literature  of  each  in  this  keen,  yet  sym- 
pathetic analysis  and  interpretation  of  a  uniquely 
childlike  peoples  exhibiting  today  many  of  the 
characteristics  of  the  childhood  of  the  human 
race."     F.    B. 

-I-   Boston    Transcript   pi   Ap   7   '23    llOOw 

"We  have  rarely  met  with  a  inore   intelligent 

and   sympathetic  account   of   a   strange   people." 

+   New   Statesman    20:732   Mr  24   '23   210w 

BINDLOSS,      HAROLD.        Bush-rancher.      316p 

$1.75   Stokes 

23-5364 

"The  story  of  Bob  Caverhill  and  of  the 
country  north  of  Vancouver.  Bob  has  a  ranch 
inherited  from  a  pioneer  father.  He  has  also, 
but  this  in  his  level  head,  a  scheme  of  water 
power  development  which  he  holds  will  make  a 
great  town  of  Helensville  and  carry  many  be- 
sides himself  along  the  road  to  prosperity  un- 
bounded. Counter-schemes  crop  up  and  ene- 
mies reveal  themselves.  Bob  has  a  hard  road 
to  travel  and  sees  himself  once  booked,  ap- 
parently, for  a  crushing  failure.  But  he  gets 
his  water  rights,  wins  back  the  most  weakly 
wavering  investors  in  Helensville.  and  has  for 
his  leward  the  heart  of  a  girl  who  having  come 
to  prey,  remains  to  love." — N  Y  World 


Booklist    19:251    My   '23 
"The  substance  of   the  present  volume  is  not 
so  bad  as  the  style." 

h   Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  18  '23  450w 

Cleveland  p42  Je  '23 
"The  novel  truly  voices  the  spirit  that  trans- 
forms the  wilderness  into  bus.v  cities,  but  it 
must  be  said  that  Mr.  Bindloss  has  lost  some 
of  the  vitality  that  informed  his  earlier  stories 
and  Che  deftne.ss  with  which  they  were  written. 
The  movement  of  the  tale,  the  characters  and 
the  method  of  telling  all  begin  to  show  a  de- 
plorable  stiffness   and   angularity." 

f-   N   Y  Times  p22  Mr  11  '23  380w 

"Mr.  Bindloss  has  found  the  vein  growing 
thin  and  has  jazzed  the  pattern;  it  is  growing, 
with  his  approach  to  his  twenty-fifth  or  so 
novel,  more  complex,  even  to  the  extent  of 
literary.  This,  however,  .should  not  disturb  his 
clientele,  for  he  still  writes  a  rapid-moving  yarn 
of  the  Great  Open  West."      E.  W.   Clark 

1-  N    Y  Tribune  p25  Mr  18  '23  680w 

Reviewed  by  E.  W.  Osborn 

N  Y  World  p6e  Mr  11  '23  180w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:276  Je  '23 
"Mr  Bindloss,  who  is  an  Englishman,  is  not 
impressive  «s  an  interpreter  of  Canadians  or 
Canadian  life.  .  .  As  is  his  custom,  he  con- 
ceives a  strong  plot  but  his  dreary  narrative 
style  robs  it  of  much  of  its  inherent  action 
and  thrills.  The  author's  gift  for  description 
is,   however,    effectively  employed." 

1-  Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Ag     12     '23 

300w 

Wis   Lib    Bui   19:160  Je  '23 

BINDLOSS,        HAROLD.        Wilderness        patrol. 

330p     $1.90     Stokes 

A  story  of  the  Canadian  Northwest  mounted 
police.  Constable  Fothergill  was  sent  to  patrol 
a   territory   where   Lafarge,    a   noted   fur   thief, 


46 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


BINDLOSS,  HAROLD— Continued 
was  operating.  Clues  were  few  and  Fothergill 
had  almost  despaired  of  getting  his  man,  when 
his  best  friend  on  the  force  was  killed  by  the 
thief.  This  determined  Fothergill  to  fight  to 
the  finish  and  altho  he  almost  lost  his  life,  he 
got   his  man,    and  won  promotion. 

"If  the  sweep  of  the  narrative  be  not  unflag- 
ging, and  the  careful  attention  to  detail  at 
times  a  bit  wearisome,  the  wonder  is,  not  that 
it  is  so,  but  that  it  is  not  more  so.  For  this  is 
the  fortieth  novel  of  its  kind  by  which  Mr. 
Bindloss;  has  given  generous  pleasure  to  lovers 
of  adventure  stories.  Even  Dumas  repeats 
himself." 

H Boston  Transcript  p4  O  24  '23  200w 

The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p692  O  18 
•23  80w 

BINGHAM.  EUGENE  COOK.  Fluidity  and 
pla.sticity.  (International  chemical  ser.)  440p 
il     $4     McGraw 

539.6  Matter— Properties.  Viscosity  22-8140 
"The  author  has  brought  together  and  at- 
tempted to  co-ordinate  the  vast  amount  of 
information  on  the  flow  of  materials  under 
shearing  stress  which  has  hitherto  been  scattered 
through  the  journals;  and  the  resulting  voiume 
is  valuable  and  welcome.  The  subject  matter 
falls  into  two  categories — namely,  instruments 
and  methods  for  measuring  rates  of  flow,  to- 
gether with  the  necessary  mathematical  theory; 
and  the  relations  of  the  results  of  such  measure- 
ments to  the  physical  and  chemical  properties 
of  the  various  fluid  or  semi-fluid  materials  in 
question.  (Chem  and  Metallurgical  Engineering 
1922)"— Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:166   Ap   '23 

BINYON,     LAURENCE.       Arthur;     a     tragedy. 

127p  ?1.50  Small   [6s  Heinemann] 
822  23-8046 

"The  book  is  drawn  from  Malory,  and  it  is  a 
very  skilful  dramatization  of  the  events  lead- 
ing up  to  the  ruin  of  the  Round  Table  Fellow- 
ship. The  guilty  passion  of  Launcelot  and 
Guenevere  is  the  acid  which  dissolves  all 
Arthur's  endeavour  to  consolidate  the  kingdom. 
Mr.  Binyon  does  not  succeed  in  removing  that 
taint  of  priggishness  which  has  hung  over 
Arthur   since    Victorian    times." — Spec 


Booklist   20:48   N  '23 

Lit    R    p899   Ag      11   '23   350w 

"Any  reader  who  takes  pleasure  in  poetry  and 
in  the  poetic  drama  will  find  much  to  delight 
him  in  L.aurence  Binyon's  'Arthur.'  Laurence 
Binyon  is  to  be  thanked  for  bringing  before  us 
in  new  guise  these  ancient  tales  that  are  half 
legend    and  wholly  true." 

-f  N    Y  Times   p5   My   6   '23   850w 
N   Y  Tribune  pl9  Ag  5  '23  30w 

"Mr.  Binyon  holds  his  pen  firmly  in  hand  and 
takes  his  heroes  unwinking  to  their  doom,  with 
all  the  risk  that  comes  of  trying  to  better  the 
best.  The  work  is  interesting  and  neatly  done, 
but  does  not  imperil  the  fame  of  the  late 
laureate." 

H NY  World   p9e  My  13  '23  lOOw 

"His  verse  is  always  adequate  to  the  occa- 
sion, and  if  it  at  no  time  soars  to  great  heights, 
it  keeps  a  level  which  is  only  one  step  below 
poetry," 

+  Spec  130:675  Ap  21  '23  80w 

"It  is  very  interesting  to  see  the  rambling 
medieval  manner  of  the  old  tale  changed  into 
the  tenseness  of  conflicting  desires  and  action. 
The  characters,  however,  lack  force  and  con- 
viction. They  are  a  bit  wooden  and  their  long 
speeches  are  sometimes  rather  set  and  color- 
less." 

H Springf  d  Republican  p6  S  4  '23  250w 

"If  the  story  of  Arthur  is  taken  on  the  level 
that  Mr.  Binyon  has  chosen,  the  weak  spot  in 
it  must  always  be  Arthur.  Arthur  was  not  a 
poor  creature.  He  was  one  of  the  world's  great 
seers  and  saints,  a  mighty  doer.  Mr.  Binyon, 
by  choosing  to  tell  the  story  on  the  tragic  level, 
has   forgone   the   chance    of  showing  Arthur  as 


he  was.  And  no  care  in  structure,  no  consider- 
ation for  the  stage,  no  variety  in  the  poetry 
of  the  dialogue,  can  make  up  for  the  funda- 
mental lack." 

1-  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p229  Ap 

5  '23  1050W 

BIRMINGHAM,  GEORGE  A.,   pseud.     See  Han- 
nay,   J.    O. 

BIRON,   SIR   CHARTRES.   Pious  opinions.    2&4p 
13.50  Brentano's   [10s  6d  Duckworth] 

824 
"Group  of  essays  largely  reprinted  from  tht 
Fortnightly  and  National  Keviews  of  London 
The  writer's  tastes  are  catholic  and  his  enthu- 
siasms contagious;  he  ranges  from  'Clarissa 
Harlowe'  through  St.  Simon,  Psalmanazar  and 
Captain  Marryat  to  Wilkie  Collins,  Anthony 
TroUope  and   Dickens." — Boston   Transcript 


"Sir  Chartres  Biron's  topics  are  as  inviting  as 
his  style  is  agreeable.  There  is  not  one  oi 
these  essays  which  is  not  easily  readable,  a 
tempting  excursion  into  the  richly  stored 
realms  of  a  cultivated  mind  gifted  with  the 
power  of  expressing  well-considered  thought  in 
the  happiest  of  fluent  Englisn."   F.   A.   G. 

+   Boston   Transcript   p5   N   3   '23   900w 

"His  opinions,  though  neither  particularly 
pious  nor  impious,  are  pleasant  reading  for 
those  who  care  to  range  lightly  over  the 
eighteenth  and  nineteenth  centuries.  If  the 
scholar  finds  nothing  to  arrest  his  attention  the 
layman  is  not  made  to  feel  that  the  enjoyment 
of  literary  history  is  only  for  the  elect.  For  the 
reader  who  is  glutted  with  contemporary  lit- 
erature and  wants  a  mild  stimulus  from  the 
past  we  recommend  these  'Pious  Opinions.' 
They  assume  neither  more  nor  less  than  a 
gentlemanly  familiarity  with  the  books  our 
grandfathers  enjoyed."  Arnold  Whitridge 
H Lit    R   pl84   O   27   '23   650w 

"The  author  has  no  thesis  to  expound.  He 
merely  desires  to  acquaint  his  readers  with 
those  aspects  of  literature  which  have  most 
delighted  him.  .  .  Sir  Chartres  Biron's  success  is 
contained  in  his  skill  in  communicating  to  his 
readers  his  own  affection  or  interest  toward  the 
literary  figures  and  writers  that  appear  in  his 
essays.  "The  reader  gazes  through  the  writer's 
eyes  and  shares  that  delight  which  the  writer 
so   honestly  possesses." 

-f  N  Y   Times   p6   N   11   '23   1550w 

"Sir  Chartres  Biron's  literary  studies  suggest 
the  genial  raconteur  rather  than  the  original 
critic.  The  last  essay  on  'Clarissa  Harlowe,' 
reveals  him  at  his  best.  It  is  the  one  piece  of 
real  creative  criticism  in  a  book  which,  for  all 
its  athor's  justice  of  mind  and  competent  learn- 
ing,   is  somewhat   tame." 

—  +  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p484    Jl 
19    '23    700w 

BIRRELL,  AUGUSTINE.     Collected  essays  and 
addresses,     1880-1920.  3v  $10    Scribner  [31s    6d 
Dent] 
824 
"Mr.   Birrell  has  collected  in   these  three  vol- 
umes all  the  papers  contained  in  his  six  books 
of  essays,  of  which  the  first,  'Obiter  Dicta,'  ap- 
peared in   1884,    and   the  last,    'In   the   Name  of 
the   Bodleian,'    in    1905.     Five   pieces   are   added 
which   have   before   appeared   in    no   collection." 
—The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup 


Booklist    19:327   .11   '23 
Bookm   57:469  Je  '23   210w 

"From  page  to  page  of  each  of  these  three 
volumes  the  reader  may  follow  Mr.  Birrell's 
literary  course.  Each  essay  is  carefully  dated 
with  the  year  of  its  first  appearance  in  print 
and  their  entire  sum  and  substance  furnishes 
an  excellent  consnectus  of  English  literary  and 
social    essays."      E.    F.    Edgett 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  17  '23  1550w 

"These  collected  writings  of  Mr.  Birrell,  in 
their  range  of  subject-matter,  sympathies  and 
understanding,  as  also  by  virtue  of  their  sound 
and  fascinating  style,  their  unexpected  turns 
of  whimsical   fancy,    their   rich  humanity,    their 


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deep  and  thrilling-  insight  into  things  both 
'human  and  divine,"  proclaim  him  as  incontest- 
ably,  by  long  odds,  the  best  critic,  the  most 
engaging  essayist,  and  the  broadest  and  best- 
equipped  'publicist'  now  alive  and  writing  ir 
the  English  tongue."  R:  Le  Gallienne 
4-   int    Bk   R   p25  Jl  '23  700vv 

"Mr.  Birrell  is  chiefly  distinguished  by  shrewd 
commonsense.  There  is  something  engagingly 
downright  about  him;  he  never  loses  nis  head 
or  his  sensa  of  humour;  and  he  cannot  be  fooled 
by  prevailing  cant  or  solemn  platitudes.  There 
is  always  a  not  unpleasant  pugnacity,  a  whim- 
sical aggressiveness,  in  the  way  he  lets  us 
know  his  opinions  of  books  and  authors.  He 
does  not  prostrate  himself  before  authors,  not 
even  the  greatest,  but  measures  them  with  a 
shrewd  eye." 

4-  Spec  130:292  F  17  '23  680w 

"When  all  is  said  the  salt  that  keeps  these 
essays  from  decay  is  just  their  humour." 

1-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p25   Ja 

11  '23  1350W 

BISCH,     LOUIS     EDWARD.    Conquest    of    self. 

326p   $2   Doubleday 

170  Conduct   of  life  23-13138 

Discussions  of  the  principles  governing  right 
living  and  the  more  important  everyday  rela- 
tionships, in  the  light  of  a  simple  directive  psy- 
chology. The  talks  are  grouped  under  work, 
home,  and  personal  problems.  Among  the 
questions  discussed  are  how  to  develop  your 
personality,  how  to  become  a  progressive  em- 
ployer, standards  of  success,  how  to  excel  as 
father  or  as  mother,  how  to  be  a  good  citizen, 
how  to  overcome  handicaps,  danger  signals  of 
temperai.ient,    etc. 


"This  is  a  collection  of  the  usual  bromidic 
maxinns  by  which  the  failure  can  become  a 
success,  the  poor  rich.  It  is  one  of  Arnold 
Bennett's  pocket  philosophies,  written  without 
any  of  his  technique,  but  with  some  psycho- 
analytic  overtones." 

—  Lit    R    p376    D    15    '23    150w 

"Instructive     and     interesting,     without     any 
trace  of  sugar-coating  or  preaching."     E.   M.   L. 
+   N  Y  Tribune  p25  O  7   '23  280w 

BISHOP,      AVARD      LONGLEV.        Outlines      of 
American  foreign  commerce.   321p  $3  Ginn 
382       United     States — Commerce.        Foreign 
trade  23-8519 

The  author,  who  is  professor  of  business  ad- 
ministration in  Yale  university,  has  written  this 
book  for  mature  beginners  in  the  study  of 
foreign  commerce  and  for  business  men  whose 
interests  lie  in  the  foreign  field.  An  outline  of 
the  principles  of  trade  is  followed  by  a  survey 
of  our  industries  and  resources,  chapters  on  the 
relation  between  foreign  and  domestic  trade, 
between  import  and  export  trade  and  on  bal- 
ance of  trade.  The  remaining  chapters  are 
concerned  with  important  features  of  our  for- 
eign trade,  such  as  pertain  to  transportation, 
marine  insurance  and  finance.  A  discussion  of 
commercial  policy  concludes  the  volume. 


"A  distinctly   useful   book." 

■•r  Am   Pol   Scl    R   17:522  Ag  '23  90w 

"Particularly  interesting  at  the  present  time 
is  Pr.ofessor  Bishop's  description  of  the  post- 
war plans  of  Great  Britain,  France  and  Ger- 
many for  the  development  of  an  organization 
that  will  win  for  each  of  them  a  large  share 
of  the  foreign  trade  of  the  world.  These  plans 
are  sufficiently  comprehensive  to  make  it  ad- 
visable that  our  business  man  devise  ways  and 
means   of   meeting  this   competition." 

-|-   Boston    Transcript  p5   Ag  18   '23   350w 

BJORKMAN,    EDWIN    AUGUST.      Gates  of  life. 

384p    $2.50    Knopf   . 

23-26336 

A  continuation  of  the  ston,'  of  Keith  Well- 
ander,  as  begun  in  "The  soul  of  a  child,"  (Book 
Review  Digest.  1922)  to  his  twenty-fifth  vear. 
As  a  small  child  Keith  "formed  a  picture  of 
life    as   a    continuous    passage    through   an   end- 


less succession  of  walls,"  each  one  promising 
to  be  the  last  one,  beyond  which  lay  the  open 
country.  Loneliness,  parental  restraint,  re- 
ligious questionings,  irksome  work,  stirrings  of 
sex — these  were  the  walls  which  one  after  an- 
other Keith  faced.  Always  he  found  a  gate 
and  some  kind  of  a  key  to  unlock  it,  but  never 
the  open  country  beyond,  onlv  a  different  sort 
of  restraint.  His  youth  rebounded  from  each 
new  disappointment  but  he  seemed  to  gather 
little  strength  or  experience  for  the  next  en- 
counter. Finally  the  gate  of  America  opened 
to  him,  with  new  horizons,  and  doubtless  new 
obstacles. 


"This  is  a  disconcerting  book  because,  with- 
out being  great,  it  has  most  of  the  primary 
attributable  qualities  of  greatness.  It  is  real. 
We  do  not  find  imagination  in  'Gates  of  Life. 
It  lacks  freshness  of  perception.  It  is  a  storr 
written  about  a  boy,  not  by  him.  We  do  not 
mean,  of  course,  that  it  should  be  written  in 
the  first  person.  There  is  not  enough  linger- 
ing over  scenes  and  emotions;  their  possibilities 
are  seldom  exhausted  as  they  might  be  either 
in  a  dozen  lines  or  a  hundred  pages."    W.  A.  X 

-\ Boston    Transcript    p2    Mr   31    '23    lOOOw 

Cleveland   p42  Je   '23 
"Gates    of    Life    reveals    once    more    the    fine 
perception,    the  artistic   restraint,    and   the  nar- 
rative  skill   which   distinguished   The   Soul   of  a 
Child.      Mr  Bjorkman   sustains  his   theme  with- 
out  racing  up  bypaths  in   search   of  climax;  he 
writes    with    a    refreshing    freedom    from    either 
sentimentality  or  swagger." 
-h   Dial  75:97  Jl  '23  lOOw 
"In    developing    one     individual     so     fully,     so 
truthfully    and    so    unpretentiously,    Mr.    Bjork- 
man   has    deepened    our     understanding     of    all 
youth."     E.    G. 

+  Freeman  7:214  My  9  '23  250w 
"  'Gates  of  Life'  is  a  novel  appealing  both  ir. 
subject  and  in  treatment;  sane  and  honest. 
Superlatives  would  do  it  injustice,  for  they  have 
become  lifeless — and  this  is  a  novel  too  vivid 
to  warrant  such  detracting  criticism." 
-f  Int  Bk  R  p59  Je  '23  480w 
"Although  Mr.  Bjorkman  communicates  with 
remarkable  felicity  his  intimate  knowledge  of 
Keith  and  his  boon  companions,  it  is,  signifi- 
cantly enough,  in  depicting  the  home  of  his  hero 
that  he  rises  to  great  beauty  of  conception  and 
delicacy  of  treatment.  The  parents  of  Keith 
keep  the  faith  with  society,  with  its  laws  nn  I 
ideals,  even  with  its  verdict  that  'the  Wellanders 
are  going.'  Their  unshaken  integrity  is  the 
only  heroic  note  in  the  novel;  their  innate  no- 
bility the  only  token  and  justification  for  the 
success  which— in  the  next  book — Keith  may 
find  in  the  new  world." 

+  Lit  R  p620  Ap  21  '23  600w 
"Although  the  story  is  not  without  an  oc- 
casional gleam  of  humor,  the  author  is  at  alP 
times  serious,  serious  in  his  psychologizing  of 
the  central  character,  serious  in  his  outlook 
upon  life;  and  the  novel  represents  a  studious, 
interesting  and  by  no  means  unsuccessful  at- 
tempt to  describe  the  fundamental  forces,  ex- 
periences and  mental  processes  that  dominate 
the  life  and  determine  the  career  of  the  adoles- 
cent  boy." 

-I-   N    Y   Times    p22    Ap   1    '23    650w 
"A    hard    seriousness    invests    the    book    as    a 
whole,  but  there  are  infrequent  flashes  of  humor 
that   are  as  delightful  as  the.v  are  rare."   Char- 
lotte Dean 

-I NY   Tribune   p22   Mr   18    '23    1300w 

BLACK,      ALEXANDER.      Jo      Ellen.      325p      ?2 

Harper 

23-13102 

"She  who  gives  title  to  Mr.  Black's  latest 
romnnce  is  a  girl  living  up  Inwood  way  and 
familiar  with  all  the  paths  to  the  riverside  and 
to  the  Palisades.  The  fine  daughter  of  a  house- 
hold measuiaiily  strange,  Jo  Ellen  grows  up 
through  much  girlish  adventure  into  a  young 
womanhood  keenly  marked  by  circumstances  of 
love,  pursuit  and  the  wrong  marriage.  Local 
color,  the  reign  of  jazz  and  the  revolt  against 
the  straitlace  are  strong  in  Mr.  Black's 
pages.     'Jo  Ellen'   is  a  lively  story  from  which 


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BLACK,    A\-EXANDER— Continued 

readers  may  draw  text  and  sermon  as  they  will, 
with  neither  aid  nor  hindrance  from  the  author. 
When  the  tale  is  told,  we  are  a  trifle  shady  as 
to  the  future  of  its  heroine,  who  has  still  her 
advantages  of  youth,  beautv  and  appreciation 
of   the  joy   of   life."— N  Y  World 


"It  is  Mr.  Black's  liking  for  the  girl  Jo  Ellen, 
his  desire  to  spare  her  any  real  suffering, 
which  puts  the  protective  screen  about  her 
every  time.  The  result,  so  far  as  we  are  con- 
cerned, is  that  for  us,  too,  the  tragedy  of  the 
book  is  distinctly  muted.  It  is  not  nearly  so 
big  a  book  as  it  might  have  been,  had  not 
Mr.  Black  spared  our  emotions  as  well  as  those 
of   Jo   Ellen."     U.    L.    Mann 

—  Boston    Transcript    p6    D    1    '23    1150w 

Reviewed    by    H.    W.    Boynton 

Ind    111:256    N    24    '23    620w 

"What  Mr.  Black  does  give  us  is  a  fine, 
tmderstanding  study  of  a  girl  who  faces  life 
quietly  and  honestly,  and  with  a  sense  of 
humor."     Maxwell  Aley 

+   Int    Bk   R   p45   D   '23   1600w 

"One   feels   that   the   story,    while    it   is   worth 
telling,    could    be    told    with    greater    effect     in 
a  more   condensed   form.      Mr.    Black  inclines   to 
the    periphrastic."      Drake    de    Kay 
h   Lit    R    p333    D    8    '23    540w 

"Rewritten    and    cut    down    by    at    least    one- 
half,   Alexander  Black's  new   story  of  'Jo  Ellen' 
might  be  made  into  a  fairly  entertaining  novel. 
As  it  stands  it   is  very   much  too  wordy." 
^    N  Y   Times   p8   O    21    '23    350w 

Reviewed    bv    Bruce    Gould 

N    Y    Tribune    p23    N    25    '23    850w 

"Thpre  is  no  doubt  that  the  story  has  served 
for  us  the  first-aid  purpose  of  entertainment, 
and  we  do  not  choose  to  care  that  it  has  left 
for  us  little  burden  of  the  atterthought."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

-I NY    World    p8   O    14   "23    300w 

"There  are  one  or  two  well-drawn  characters, 
but  viewed  as  a  whole,  the  narrative  is  long 
drawn  out  and  rather  unavailing." 

h  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p9a  D  23  '23  380w 

BLAIR,  WILFRID.  Life  and  death  of  Mrs  Tid- 
muss;  an  epic  of  insignificance.  69p  $1  Apple- 
ton 

811  23-9961 

"In  Mr.  Blair's  poem  we  have  a  straight, 
unaffected  narrative  outlining  the  life  of  a 
woman  whose  entire  existence  is  the  small  petty 
round  of  meagre  girlhood,  marriage,  childbear- 
ing,  poverty,  and  death.  The  shy,  ignorant, 
rabbit-like  Mrs.  Tidmuss,  going  so  helplessly 
through  her  daily  tasks  with  now  and  then  a 
half  fiightened  and  barely  coherent  dream  of 
greater  things  gradually  unfolds  until  she  seems 
to  be  vaster  than  herself.  She  becomes  a 
symbol,  a  symbol  of  that  patient,  submerged 
type  of  woman  who  carries  the  ends  of  the 
earth  upon  her  toil-bowed  shoulders.  They  live 
their  little  days  in  little  houses,  cooking,  clean- 
ing, and,  as  the  years  pass  on,  suffering  the 
ironic  insults  of  time.  Their  children  make 
nations   and   carry  on   wars." — Lit   R 


"The  real  significance  in  Mr.  Blair's  achieve- 
ment is  the  fact  that  without  any  particular 
dexterity  in  the  technique  of  verse  he  has 
managed  to  convey  an  indubitable  atmosphere 
of  poignancy  and  beauty  to  the  reader.  .  .  Its 
prime  virtue  is  a  spirit  of  social  sympathy  and 
undeniable  love  for  those  shy  souls  that  are 
so  maltreated  by  time."  H.  S.  Gorman 
H Lit    R   p65   S   22   '23   660w 

"We  cannot  have  too  many  of  these  por- 
traits. The  more  we  have  of  them,  the  sooner 
will  the  new  day  be  ushered  in.  If  life  is  like 
that,  cry  all  generous  spirits,  then  by  the  eter- 
nal gods  it  shall  be  changed!  So  it  is  that  a 
work  like  this  is  an  integral  part  of  the  hope 
of   the   world."      Mary    Siegrist 

+   N    Y    Times    pl2   Ag   12    '23    2000w 

Reviewed   by   W^eir   Vernon 

N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  21  '23  220w 


"Although  the  verse  is  marred  on  occasion 
by  incongruous  archaisms  and  verbal  infelici- 
ties, on  the  whole  it  is  competent  workman- 
ship." 

-I Outlook   135:506   N   21   '23   170w 

"The  proportion  of  dreariness  is  too  high;  and 
the  art  by  which  the  author  introduces  the 
richer  qualities  is  frequently  abrupt.  Neverthe- 
less, there  is  many  a  beauty  in  this  curious 
epic   to  distinguish  him." 

h  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl83   Mr 

15   '23  aoow 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:442  O   '23 

BLAND,   MILES  CARLISLE.  Handbook  of  steel 

erection.     241p  il  $2.50  McGraw 

691.7       Steel    construction  23-4550 

"A  very  useful  little  book  on  a  subject  on 
which  little  has  been  written.  Considers  meth- 
ods and  equipment  for  erection  of  various 
structures  and  includes  both  theory  and  prac- 
tice."— Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:288    Je    '23 

BLASCO  IBANEZ,  VICENTE.  Temptress  (La 
tierra  de  todos);  auth.  tr.  by  Leo  Ongley. 
405p  $2   Button 

23-26840 
Elena,  wife  of  the  Marquis  de  Torre  Bianca, 
them  off  to  the  Argentine  where  he  was  en- 
tirely mercenary.  After  she  had  drained  her 
husband  of  his  last  cent  as  well  as  of  his 
strength  and  driven  her  paramour  to  suicide, 
a  former  classmate  of  the  marquis  rescued  the 
couple  from  their  Paris  debacle  and  carried 
them  off  to  the  Argentine  where  he  was  en- 
gaged on  an  extensive  irrigation  project.  In 
the  construction  settlement  she  became  the 
"Gualicho,"  the  evil  demon  of  the  place.  She 
made  fools  of  the  various  engineers  and  con- 
tractors, sowed  dissension  among  them,  ending 
in  crime  and  murder,  and  became  an  object  of 
abhorrence  among  the  laborers.  One  of  her 
dupes  fled  with  her  to  Paris  where  she  finally 
ended  her  career  as  a  common   prostitute. 


Booklist     20:55     N     '23 
Boston    Transcript    p4    Ja   9    '24    450w 
Reviewed   by   H.    W.    Boynton 
ind   111:171   O   13  '23  700w 

"A  rapid,  a  tense,  an  interesting  book."  Ar- 
thur  Livingston 

-f   Int   Bk   R  plO  S  '23  3750w 

"We  recommend  the  book  to  those  who  want 
nothing  more  than  a  story  of  rattling  pace, 
high  colors,  and  florid  sentiment.  The  crafts- 
manship is  satisfactory.  In  conception  and 
style  the  novel  is  several  cuts  above  the  best 
American  thrillers.  To  those  who  demand  sub- 
tlety, artistry,  intellectual  stimulation — well, 
they  have  probably  learned  by  this  time  not  to 
knock  at  Blasco  Ibdfie%'s  door."  Allan  Nevins 
-f  —  Lit   R   p589  Jl  28  '23  420w 

"Take  it  as  you  will,  'The  Temptress'  is  an 
entertaining  novel,  apart  from  the  questions 
which  it  may  or  may  not  arouse  within  the 
reader's    mind." 

4 NY  Times  p]9  Jl  29  '23  1450w 

"The  only  flaw  in  the  book  is  what  in  other 
circumstances  would  be  a  merit.  tVhen  it 
comes  to  landscapes  and  humble  folks,  Ibanez 
has  a  knack  of  simple  and  unforced  realism 
which  makes  his  more  spectacular  personage 
seem  tawdry  and  hollow."  Isabel  Paterson 
H NY  Tribune   p22   Ag  5  '23   lOOOw 

"'The  Temptress'  has  been  heralded  as  'Ibanez 
at  his  best.'  We  cannot  agree.  Nevertheless, 
there  is  much  to  be  said  for  the  vivid  quality 
of  this  new  attempt  of  an  Ibanez  whose  name 
seems  to  be  sufficient  advertisement  for 
A.merican  readers."   Ruth  Snyder 

h  N   Y  World  p6e  Ag  5  '23  850w 

"The  South  American  background  of  the  story 
is  unusual  and  well  brought  out.  The  novel 
is  decidedly  one  of  the  author's  best  books, 
and  from  the  standpoint  of  literary  execution 
it  is   inferior  to  none  of  them,   not  even   to  his 


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great    success,    'The    Four   Horsemen.'  "     R.    D. 
'fownsend 

H Outlook    134:676    Ag   29    "23   270w 

BLATHWAYT,    RAYMOND.      Tapestry    of    life. 
2    391p  f3.50  Dutton 

B  or  92  23-15705 

The  author  of  these  recollections  is  a  clergy- 
man of  the  Church  of  England,  who  has  travel- 
led all  over  the  world  as  a  journalist  and  who 
now,  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight,  is  rounding  oul 
his  experiences  as  a  movie-actor  at  Hollywood. 
His  book  is  a  discursive  commentary  on  a 
varied,  colorful  and  much  enjoyed  life,  en- 
livened with  many  anecdotes  and  glimpses  of 
celebrities. 


"It  is  confused,  trivial  and  poorly  conceived. 
To  have  associated  with  people  of  consequence 
may  be  interesting.  It  requires  talent  to  con- 
vey one's  experiences  so  that  they  subjugate 
those  who  are  unaccustomed  to  the  charms  of 
such  society.  In  this  case  the  enterprise  is 
present  but  the  talent  is  lacking." 

—  Boston  Transcript  p4  D  12  '23  350w 
"He    has    been    everywhere    and    seen     most 
things,  and  his  remarks  are  startling  and  enjoy- 
able."    W.    C. 

+   N  Y  Tribune  p27  N  25  '23  200w 
"The  book  is  exceedingly  well  written  and  is 
commendable    not   only    for   its    method    but    for 
its  manner." 

+  Outlook   135:642  D  12  '23  40w 

Sprlngf'd   Republican   p6  D  30  '23  40iw 


BLOOMFIELD,    DANIEL,    comp.     Financial    in- 
centives   for   employees    and    executives;    with 
an  introd.   by  Meyer  Bloomfleld.     (Modern  ex- 
ecutive's lib. J    2v  325:407p  $4.80    Wilson,  H.  W. 
331.2     "Wages.      Employment       management. 
Bonus  system 

"The  mterest  in  all  forms  of  financial  incen- 
tives for  employees  and  executives  is  a  growing 
one,  and  with  such  interest  has  come  the  wide- 
spread need  for  a  handy  reference  book  de- 
scribing incentives  in  detail.  Better  systems  of 
reward  for  effort  of  employees  are  being  devised 
constantly  and  the  present  work  brings  together 
the  best  of  them,  with  suggestions  for  adapta- 
tion to  the  individual  organization.  The  ex- 
ecutive will  find  in  this  compilation  a  wealth 
of  material  gathered  from  a  large  number  of 
publications  and  reports,  and  by  original  investi- 
gations of  the  Bloomfleld  organization,  cover- 
ing over  one  thousand  concerns  and  plans.  The 
volume  discusses  ti  pes  of  wage  systems,  piece, 
day  and  week  work,  bonus  systems,  thrift 
plans,  profit  sharing,  stock  participation  plans, 
mutual  benefit  associations  and  pension  sys- 
tems, and  methods  of  compensation  for  retail 
stores,  salesmen,  office  workers,  foremen  and 
executives." — Publisher's    note 


"The  author  discusses  every  possible  phase  of 
the  incentive  idea  which  has  been  tried  out, 
showing  its  applicability  under  certain  condi- 
tions and  its  lesser  utility  under  others.  The 
book  is  a  mine  of  information,  and  any  employer 
is  likely  to  find  in  it  a  plan  which,  with  some 
modifications,  will  accord  with  the  particular 
conditions  obtaining  in  his  plant."  R.  M  Binder 
+   Management   &   Adm   6:511   O   '23   1450w 

"It  serves  a  most  useful  purpose  not  hitherto 
met  in  anything  like  as  comprehensive  a  way 
It  IS  true,  a  mere  comparison  of  all  these  themes 
will  not  enable  an  employer  to  arrive  at  a 
workable  or  desirable  method  to  meet  his  par- 
ticular needs.  Nor  can  the  book  be  considered 
altogether  exhaustive  in  its  enumeration  of  pos- 
sible plans.  Of  course,  the  authors  have  dealt 
with  some  of  these  considerations  in  other 
books,  and,  even  as  it  is,  the  present  work  is 
very  large.  But  we  should  have  liked  to  see 
more  of  a  suggestion  that  before  embarking 
upon  any  of  the  methods  described  here  an 
employer  would  do  well  to  canvass  a  larger 
field   of   possibilities." 

H Survey  50:458  Jl  15  '23  200w 


BLOOMFIELD,  DANIEL,  comp.  and  ed.  Prob- 
lems in  personnel  management;  introd.  by 
Meyer  Bloomfield.  (Modern  executive's  lib.) 
557p    ?3.50    V.^ilson,    H.W. 

658.7  Employment  management  23-13351 
"From  a  large  mass  of  scattered  papers,  arti- 
cles, and  addresses  which  have  made  the  litera- 
ture of  management  in  its  human  relations 
phases  a  source  of  interest  and  practical  benefit 
these  ten  years  past  the  present  volume  is  com- 
piled. The  editor's  experience  and  contributions 
m  this  new  and  important  field  assure  the  judg- 
ment needed  to  make  such  a  compilation  valu- 
able. .  .  There  is  little  new,  now,  to  say  about 
personnel  management — the  administration  of 
human  relationships  in  organization.  This  type 
of  service  has  been  recognized,  approved,  and 
made  part  of  modern  management.  Hundreds 
of  first  rate  executives  are  conducting  person- 
nel departments.  The  present  volume  gives 
little  space  to  theories  in  personnel  work — it 
confines  itself  to  the  practical  realities  which 
make  the  work  what  it  is,  and  give  it  promise 
of  further  development."- — Introd. 


Am    Econ    R   13:695   D  '23  40w 
Booklist    20:83    D    '23 

BLUNDEN,  EDMUND  CHARLES.  Bon- 
adventure:  a  random  journal  of  an  Atlantic 
holiday.     245p  $2  Putnam 

910.4    Voyages    and    travels.    Ocean    travel 

23-7448 
The  book  is  a  poet's  record,  in  prose,  of  a 
round  trip  on  a  cargo  ship,  from  England  to 
South  America,  as  one  of  the  crew.  H.  M. 
Tonilinson,  in  his  introduction,  says  of  it: 
"a  reader  is  as  likely  to  get  from  it  the  grit 
from  the  funnel  as  the  full  moon  on  the  billows 
of  the  North-East  trades.  .  .  Blunden  rep- 
resents here  that  world  where  seamen  are  at 
home,  a  world  which  is  full  of  romantic  possi- 
bilities to  us  because  we  do  not  know  it  and 
cannot  enter  it.  He  compels  a  simple  faith  in 
the  veracity  of  his  imaginative  record.  We  feel 
we  know  the  Bonadventure  and  her  men  and 
her    circumstances." 


"Mr.    Blunden    fails   to   put   any  glow   or  color 
into  his  narrative;  he  describes  his  experiences 
in    a    way    that    may    be   vastly   entertaining   to 
himself,    but    that    leaves   the    reader   cold." 
—  Bookm    57:558   Jl   '23    180w 

"Because  it  was  an  entirely  leisurely  voyage, 
it  also  makes  an  entirely  leisurely  book.  It 
is  not  a  book  to  keep  one  awake,  even,  to 
make  one  long  to  take  one  like  it.  But  it  is 
delightfully  human,  and  that  has  been  the 
first  requirement  of  literature  since  the  stone 
age  gentlemen  wrote  their  e.sploits  on  the  low 
walls   of  their  caves."     I.    W.    L. 

4-   Boston    Transcript   p4   Je    2   '23   590w 

"There  will  be  no  doubt  of  [one's]  enjoyment 
of  Mr.   Blunden's  'log.'  " 

+  Lit   R  p6  S  1  '23  220w 

-j-   Nation    117:122   Ag   1    '23    160w 

"Probably  much  is  to  be  forgiven  a  man  re- 
covering from  the  effects  of  chlorine  gas,  and 
it  must  be  said  that  'The  Bonadventure'  cannot 
pass  without  some  forgiveness.  True,  the  jour- 
nal is  written  in  a  companionable  way,  the 
sentences  are  cadenced  and  the  author's  ac- 
counts of  his  relations  with  officers  and  crew 
give  a  human  touch  to  the  pages  which  renders 
them  pleasant  reading.  But  the  book  as  a  whole 
is  an  opportunity  missed." 

h  N   Y  Times  p6  My  20  '23   720w 

"He  pictures  some  interesting  sea  types  in 
the  officers  of  the  craft,  its  seamen  and  stokers, 
and  embellishes  the  rather  humdrum  routine 
of  life  on  shipboard  with  much  humor  and 
philosophy." 

-f   N    Y   World   p8e   Ap   22   '23   180w 

"Here  and  there  come  evidences  of  hasty 
writing  and  here  and  there  small  vices  of  style — 
artificialities  and  archaisms.  But  on  the  whole 
the  book  shows  him  as  witty,  quick-sighted, 
and  of  engaging  honesty;  his  prose  is  flexible 
and  sound;  he  will  give  no  handle  to  those  who 
still  believe  that  poets  are  nincompoops." 
-I Spec   130:758   My  5   '23   llOOw 


50 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BLUNDEN,    E.   C: — Continued 

"Blessed  are  they  who  have  the  gift  of  being 
readable;  and  therefore  blessed  is  Edmund 
Blunden.  There  was  not  an  episode  out  of  the 
ordinary  on  the  voyage;  and  yet  one  can  turn 
the  pages  of  his  book  on  and  on  with  satisfac- 
tion." 

+  Springf  d  Republican  pl2  Ap  25  '23  180w 

BLUNT,     WILFRID     SCAWEN.       Poems.     237p 

$2.50  Knopf 
821  23-7952 

The  selection  of  poems  in  this  volume  was 
made,  with  the  author's  approval,  by  Floyd 
Dell.  They  are  chiefly  interesting  today  as  the 
expression  in  verse  of  that  passion  for  freedom 
in  every  aspect  of  life  which  was  the  inspira- 
tion of  this  gallant  anti-imperialist.  Of  his 
poetry  Floyd  Dell  writes:  "A  rebel  in  literature 
as  in  life,  he  brought  with  his  poetry  the  breath 
of  a  new  candor  to  the  Victorian  age.  Incap- 
able of  ever  becoming  'classics'  in  the  dull 
schoolroom  sense,  these  poems  have  a  classic 
simplicity,  sincerity  and  power  that  make  them 
enduring  achievements  in  English  literature." 


as  president  and  condemns  some  of  the  trivial 
and    unjust    criticism   of   him. 


Booklist   20:48    N   '23 
Reviewed  by  D:   Morton 

Bookm   57:460  Je  '23  250w 
"His    work    is    so    good    that    we    cannot   help 
regretting    that    he    did    not    test    and    prune    it 
by    a   better   technique."     N.    H.    Dole 

H Boston    Transcript    p5    My    5    '23    1500w 

Cleveland  p37  My  '23 
"Blunt's  disregard  for  form,  his  refusal  to 
polish  or  revise,  makes  a  good  deal  of  his 
poetry  incoherent  and  uncouth,  and  even,  it 
must  be  said,  dull  and  tiresome  to  the  reader. 
So  far  from  striving  for  the  final  and  inevitable 
expression  of  his  emotion,  he  seemed  to  be  con- 
tent with  any  expression  that  recorded  it  at 
all,  if  that  expression  had  the  virtue  of  vehe- 
mence."  Newton   Arvin 

—  Freeman    7:70   Mr   28    '23    1050w 
"The   beauty  and   emotion   of   this   series  has 
never  received -the  praise  that  has  been  rightly 
its  due.      Blunt   was   unequal  as  a  poet   but  he 
did  touch  a  far  height  at  times."     H.  S.  Gorman 
+   Int   Bk   R  p24  Je  '23  620w 
"No  collection  of  recent  British  poetry  would 
be  complete  without  the  inclusion  of  the  poetry 
of   Wilfrid    Scawen    Blunt,    despite   all   criticism 
that  may  be  offered.     One  of  the  greatest  spirits 
of  recent  times  strains  at  its  earthly  bonds  in 
these  pages."     W:  R.  Benet 

Lit   R  p680  My  12  '23  350w 
"The  selection  could  hardly  be  bettered."     S: 
C.  Chew 

-f   Nation   116:636  My  30   '23  400w 

New  Statesman   22:272  D   8   '23   230w 
Reviewed   by   F.    L.    Lucas 

New  Statesman  22:341  D  22  '23  880w 
"The  poetry  is  too  diffused,  the  workmanship 
is  often  careless,  we  feel  that  the  poet  has  not 
taken  enough  pains.  There  is  a  feeling  of 
artistic  formlessness,  and  true  poetic  energy 
always  results  in  form.  .  .  Mr.  Blunt  had  the 
old-fashioned,  well-bred  modesty  of  a  poet  who 
was  also  a  great  gentleman,  to  be  which  was 
not  the  least  of  his  distinctions."  R:  Le 
Gallienne 

-I NY  Times  p7  F  11  '23  2300w 

"Mr.  Blunt  is  often  like  a  Swinburne  with- 
out Swmburne's  genius  of  style,  and  without 
his  imaginative  sense  of  the  universal.  He 
never  writes  badly,  but  greatness  is  out  of  his 
reach." 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p687    O 
18  '23    llOOw 


BLYTHE,   SAMUEL   GEORGE.   Calm   review  of 
a  calm  man.    47p  75c   Cosmopolitan   bk. 

B  or  92  Harding,  Warren  Gamaliel     23-12063 

In    this    article    reprinted    from    the    Saturday 

Evening    Post    a    political    observer    makes    an 

appraisal  of  Mr.  Harding's  qualities  as  man  and 


Booklist  20:52  N  '23 

"The  book  has  a  striking  merit.  It  was  writ- 
ten before  there  was  any  thought  of  the  Presi- 
dent's fatal  illness.  It  thus  has  the  good  for- 
tune to  escape  being  classified  as  a  part  of  the 
emotional  outburst  which  followed  upon  that 
unfortunate  event.  For  that  reason,  perhaps,  it 
is  more  impressive  than  it  deserves  to  be." 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   plO    N 
26  '23  800w 

"Had  it  not  been  for  the  fact  that  Mrs  Hard- 
ing was  reading  Samuel  G.  Blythe's  'A  Calm 
Review  of  a  Calm  Man'  to  her  husband  just  be- 
fore his  death,  it  would  probably  never  have 
received  more  attention  than  thousands  of  other 
such  articles.  Certainly,  it  would  not  have 
found  its  way  into  book  form,  for  when 
divorced  from  an  unavoidably  sympathetic 
background,  the  review  does  not  in  any  sense 
stand  out  as  an  exceptional  piece  of  work.  It 
ia  within  its  limits,  interesting  and  enlighten- 
ing as  Mr.  Blythe's  political  dissertations  al- 
ways are." 

1-  Springf d    Republican   plO   N   7    '23   280w 

BODENHEIM,    MAXWELL.       Blackguard.     215p 

$2     Covici-McGee 

23-6500 

"In  'Blackguard'  Mr.  Bodenheim  records  ob- 
viously his  own  unsaLisfactoi'y  contact  with 
workaday  life.  Even  in  his  depiction  of  the 
physical  outlines  of  Carl  Feldman,  the  hero  of 
the  novel,  we  have  what  passes  for  an  acute 
description  of  Mr.  Bodenheim  himself.  And  it 
is  not  difficult  to  recognize  under  their  thin 
disguises  the  poets,  editors,  sculptors,  critics 
and  newspaper  men  in  Chicago  and  New  York 
with  whom  Mr.  Bodenheim  has  come  into  con- 
tact. 'Blackguard'  contains  a  love  idyll  truth- 
fully and  poetically  conceived  and  set  forth  with 
beauty  and  poignancy — a  love  affair  wherein 
an  illiterate  girl  senses  in  the  poet  something 
higher,  finer  than  her  own  physical  need  for 
him,  and  in  so  sensing  shows  herself  to  be 
in  the  ultimate  higher  and  finer  than  the  poet 
himself.  For  the  rest  the  book  is  a  record  of 
rebuffs,  disconcerting,  disillusioning,  painful  and 
mellowing.  It  traverses  a  series  of  episodes 
which  result  in  ironical  retrospection  and  ends 
upon  a  deft  and  strange  note  of  mysticism 
wherein  a  vagabond  poet  who  was  'born  to  be 
a  monk'  enters  upon  a  platonic  relationship 
with  a  prostitute  who  was  'born  to  be  a  nun.'  " 
— N   Y  Tribune 


"The  novel  is  rich  in  excellent  epigram  and 
has  a  few  entertaining  portraits,  but  is  chiefly 
important  as  something  for  Maxwell  Bodenheim 
to  put  behind  him." 

1-  Dial   74:632  Je   '23  140w 

"There  is  the  spirit  of  a  healthy  revolt  in 
these  pages,  and  many  flashes  of  fine  passion- 
ate writing,  but  there  are  other  times  when 
the  story  should  be  allowed  to  tell  itself — with- 
out the  aid  of  a  verbal  monkey-wrench  thrown 
into   the   machinery."      L.   B. 

f-   Freeman   7:623  S  5  '23  220w 

"He  knows  how  to  write.  From  the  first  page 
to  the. last  his  novel  is  written.  The  central 
theme,  the  familiar  conflict  of  a  poetic  dreamer 
with  a  hard  prosaic  world,  is  interesting  enough, 
but  less  interesting  than  the  details  of  the 
dream,  the  emotional  adventures  by  the  way, 
and  the  subtlety  and  sincerity  of  the  expres- 
sion. Sometimes  Mr.  Bodenheim's  adjectives 
and  adverbs  flourish  too  abundantly  and  he  is 
over-literary."     J:    Macy 

4-   Lit    R    p563    Mr    31    '23    lOOOw 

"Mr.  Bodenheim  belongs  with  the  poets  whose 
discontent  goes  deeper  than  a  mere  discon- 
tent with  the  present  state  of  culture.  Like 
all  absolute  idealists  he  beats  against  the  limi- 
tations of  the  human  animal  itself,  seeking 
for  that  absolute  beauty  and  absolute  freedom 
of  which  any  attainable  beauty  or  attainable 
freedom  seems  only  an  unsubstantial  shadow." 
J.  W.   Krutch 

Nation    116:496   Ap   25    '23    1450w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


51 


"There  is  in  this  novel  much  of  the  peculiar 
phrasal  brilliancy  of  Mr.  Bodenheim's  poetry, 
a  poetry  in  which  emotion  is  constantly  held  in 
balance  by  intelligence,  a  unique  sort  of  poetry 
wherein  sentiment  is  guided  in  its  loftiest  flight 
by  the  sagacious  covmsel  of  irony  and  humor." 
Burton    Rascoe 

+   N    Y    Tribune    p26   Ap   1   '23    1300w 

"The  poet  is  not  always  easy  in  his  new 
medium.  He  tries,  occasionally,  to  make  his 
prose  jingle  too  much.  Phrases  fascinate  him 
inordinately.  And  some  of  them  are  cheap. 
But  to  our  taste  'Blackguard'  is  a  better  book 
than  'Erik  Dorn'  or  'Gargoyles.'  There  is  fully 
as  much  surface  brilliance  and  rather  more 
emotion.  As  a  sophisticate  Mr.  Bodenheim  does 
nicely,  but  it  is  in  his  more  naive  moods  that 
he  is  sometimes  magnificent."  Heywood  Broun 
H NY    World   p8e   Mr -25   '23    550w 

BODENHEIM,    MAXWELL.     Sardonic  arm.    58p 

13.50    Covici-McGee 
811  23-7491 

"The  aim  of  Mr.  Bodenheim's  last  poem  is  to 
dissolve  the  flesh  of  appearances  and  discover 
the  small,  insoluble  deposit  of  thought  beneath 
— the  fine,  silver  wire  of  irony  that  eats  like 
a  worm  at  the  center.  E>ven  then  there  is  disil- 
lusion. Surfaces  bore  him;  so  does  the  space 
within.  Outwardly  life  is  dull;  inwardly  it  is 
meaningless.  The  world  is  a  heap  of  rubbish 
for  his  wit  to  penetrate  and  refine.  Nothing 
will  result,  of  course,  but  his  mind  is  restless, 
and  this  will  have  been  something  for  it  to 
do." — Nation 


"There  is  in  the  preface  to  the  book  consider- 
able angered  sorrow  expressed  over  various 
misfortunes  which  have  befallen  subtlety,  style, 
delicate  fantasy  and  irony.  One  searches  hope- 
fully and,  later,  hopelessly  through  the  verses 
in  this  book  for  these  four  qualities.  Alas, 
Mr.  Bodenheim  has  fashioned  words  into  com- 
positions which  topple  before  the  criticism 
which  precedes  them.  No  one  who  loves  those 
who  love  themselves  should  miss  the  foreword, 
nor  should  those  who  enjoy  the  spectacle  of 
self-deceit." 

—  Bookm   58:83  3  "23  300w 

"The  Sardonic  Arm  by  Maxwell  Bodenheim 
is  written  according  to  the  formula  of  his  other 
volumes:,  words  tossed  rashly  about  and  some- 
times hitting  their  mark,  fantasy  and  fantastic 
irony,  a  mob  of  excited  metaphors.  Boden- 
heim's work  is  sometimes  careless  and  some- 
times exhilarating:  it  is  never  mediocre." 
h   Dial   75:202  Ag  '23   lOOw 

"Mr.  Bodenheim  must  be  content  to  address  a 
very  small  band.  But  they  will  call  him  excel- 
lent, and  they  will  be  right.  He  has  learned 
to  put  all  his  brains,  and  he  has  many,  into 
each  line.  He  has  developed  a  subtle  and  brit- 
tle rhythm:  he  has  chastened  his  style  until  its 
accuracy  is  uncanny — perhaps  unreal.  "Wrenched 
as  his  diction  sounds  at  first,  it  has  a  way  of 
sticking  in  the  memory,  as  gargoyles  do."  Mark 
Van  Doren 

+   Nation    116:668   Je   6   '23    1050w 

The  Tltnes  [London]  Lit  Sup  p491  Jl  19 
'23   lOOw 

Reviewed  by  W:  R.   Ben^t 

Yale  R  n  s  13:162  O  '23  200w 

BOECKEL,    RICHARD.        Labor's    money.    181p 

$1.30     Harcourt 

334.2     Banks   and   banking.    Trade   union 

23-13058 

The  labor  bank  is  a  movement  of  the  workers 
to  assume  control  of  their  own  money  for  use 
in  their  own  interest.  The  first  labor  bank  in 
the  United  States,  organized  and  operated  under 
the  dirpotion  of  a  trade  union,  was  opened 
in  Washington  in  1920.  Three  years  after,  a 
dozen  labor  banks  with  combined  resources  of 
over  $30,000,000  were  in  operation  in  widely 
scattered  American  cities  and  others  were  in 
process  of  organization.  The  book  sketches  the 
history  of  these  banks  and  tells  how  they  are 
being  used. 


Reviewed  by  H.  A.  Millis 

Am  J  See  29:368  N  '23  lOOw 

"Mr.  Boeckel's  book  comes  at  a  strategic 
time.  If  widely  read  it  will  doubtless  be  very 
instrumental  in  spreading  an  intelligent  under- 
standing of  the  new  unionism,  not  only  among 
unionists  themselves,  but  also  among  that  in- 
creasingly large  group  of  the  amphorous  'gen- 
eral public'  who  see  in  the  labor  movement  the 
hope  of  a  sorely  vexed  society."  D:  E.  Lilien- 
thal 

+   Nation    117:466  O   24   '23   900w 
"This   little   book   is   of  profound   significance. 
Here   at   last   we   have   leaders   seeing  economic 
facts    as    they    are    and    dealing   with    them    as 
such."    T:    Corbin 

+  N  Y  Times  p5  O  21  '23  1250w 

"Mr.  Boeckel's  book  will  serve  a  valuable 
purpose  if  the  facts  it  sets  forth  will  call  to 
public  attention  the  essential  and  difficult  char- 
acter of  the  banking  function  in  modem  so- 
ciety."     Ordway  Tead 

Survey    51:228    N    15    '23    600w 

BOGAN,  LOUISE.  Body  of  this  death.  30p  $1.50 
McBride 

811  23-18294 

This  little  volume  contains  only  twenty-seven 
poems,  but  these  are  wrought  with  the  utmost 
care    and    charged    with    intense    emotion. 

"Her  poetry  is  not  convincingly  good,  but  it 
deserves  the  attention  of  any  one  interested  in 
the  art  of  putting  words  together  to  convey 
meaning.  We  believe  that  'Body  of  This  Death' 
speaks  the  highest  praise  for  Miss  Bogan's 
poetic  equipment  and  the  highest  praise  for 
her  future,  for  the  next  book,  or  perhaps  the 
book  after  the  next,  that  she  will  write;  but 
we  believe  it  says  only  moderate  things  for  it- 
self. It  is  beautifully  fugitive."  Fillmore  Hvde 
H Lit    R   p259   N   17    '23   600w 

"The  thirty  pages  which  they  cover  are 
packed  as  tightly  with  pure  poetry  as  any  thir- 
ty pages  have  been  for  a  generation.  The  poet 
would  be  rare  at  any  time  who  could  achieve 
so  much  concentration  and  so  unquestionably 
sustain  it.  Practicall.v  every  one  of  these  bare, 
stricken  lines  is  suggestive  of  riches;  the  words 
dig  deep,  bringing  up  odors  of  earth  and  life 
that  will  live  a.  long  time  in  the  memory.  There 
is  no  rhetoric — hardly  a  phrase  could  be  reduced 
by  a  word — but  there  is  the  sheer  eloquence 
of  passion.  Miss  Bogan  has  spoken  always 
with  intensity  and  intelligent  skill;  she 
has  not  always  spoken  clearly.  Now  and  then 
her  poetry  comes  too  immediately  from  a  per- 
sonal source  to  mean  very  much  to  others. 
Nevertheless,  this  first  volume  places  her  near 
the  lead  of  those  poets  today— Anna  Wickham, 
Charlotte  Mev^^  Genevieve  Taggard,  and  others 
— who  are  passionately  exploring  the  endless, 
narrow  paths  of  woman's  (and  man's)  experi- 
ence."   Mark   Van    Doren 

+   Nation   117:494  O   31   '23   880w 

"In  lines  as  haunting  in  their  graven  beauty 
as  they  are  appalling  in  their  implications,  the 
poems  unroll  a  screen  of  intense  and  unforget- 
table   appearances."    A.    D.    Douglas 

4-  New   Repub   37:sup20   D   5   '23   1200w 

"There  is  no  plentitude  in  her,  no  promise  of 
luxurious  growth  or  completer  ripening,  but 
authentic  stuff,  all  of  it,  cut  from  the  rock." 
Maxwell  Anderson 

-f-   N   Y   World   p7e  D  30  '23  630w 

BOGGS,  THEODORE  HARDING.  International 
trade  balance  in  theory  and  practice.  221p 
$2    Macmill^n 

382  Commerce.  Foreign  exchange  22-24680 
"This  book  is  an  attempt  to  set  forth,  with 
a  reasonable  measure  of  fullness,  the  principles 
underlying  the  theory  of  the  balance  of  trade, 
and  their  practical  application  as  revealed  in 
the  trade  balances  of  various  countries.  In 
order  to  facilitate  a  comparison  of  the  results 
obtained,  the  writer  has  estimated  these  bal- 
ances, for  the  several  countries  considered,  for 
the  same  period,  namely,  the  years  1911-13. 
The  closely  related  question  of  foreign  ex- 
changes   has    necessarily    also    received    a   con- 


52 


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BOGGS,  THEODORE  HARDING — Continued 
siderable  measuie  of  attention."  (Preface;  The 
opening:  chapter  explains  the  intimate  relation- 
ship that  exists  between  foreign  trade  and  the 
International  ebb  and  flow  of  capital.  The  rest 
of  the  book  is  devoted  to  the  trade  balances 
of  the  United  States,  the  United  Kingdom. 
Canada,  India,  Australia,  New  Zealand  and 
South    Africa. 


"The  hook  is  useful  chiefly  for  a  general 
sui'vey  of  the  subject." 

Am   Pol   Sci   R  17:522  Ag  '23  50w 

Cleveland   p44  Je  '23 
St    Louis    21:98    My   '23 

BOILEAU,    ETHEL.     Box  of  spikenard.   263p  $2 
Doran      [7s   6d  Hutchinson] 

23-7016 

"The  story  of  Feo  Clonshannon's  great  love 
for  Rory  Sarrel,  a  love  that  hoped  and  endured, 
that  held  fast  through  all  trials,  and  did  not 
die  with  the  death  of  illusion.  The  relations 
of  these  two,  the  man  who  took,  and  the 
woman  who  gave,  are  vividly  drawn,  and  the 
author  has  not  made  the  mistake  of  indicat- 
ing, for  the  sake  of  a  happy  ending,  an  entire 
change  in  Rory  Barrel's  point  of  view.  An 
egoist  to  the  core,  he  could  not,  at  his  age. 
alter  his  whole  nature,  even  though  he  had 
learned  a  lesson  which  undoubtedly  modified  it 
for  the  better.  He  could  never  love  as  Feo 
did:  always  the  great  gift  she  gave  must  be 
more  or  less  wasted  on  a  hard  man  who,  in 
spite  of  his  many  good  qualities,  really  cared 
for  only  one  person  in  the  world — himself." — 
N  Y  Times 


Cleveland  p67  S  '23 
"The  book  is  well  written,  and  the  characters 
are   all    clearly   individualized." 

+   N  Y  Times  p22  Je  24  '23  490w 
"Distinctly  a  drawing   room   novel,   I   imagine 
there   are    plenty   of   women    who   would    like   it 
very    well    and    with    reason    enough.      It    reads 
smoothly  ind   e.-isilv."     Tsnbel  Pater.con 
!-  N   Y  Tribune  p20  Je  24  '23  230w 

BOJER.  JOHAN.  Last  of  the  vikings:  tr.  from 
the  Norwegian  by  .lessie  Mui^.  302p  il  $2  Cen- 
tury 

23-8605 
The  latest  novel  by  this  Norwegian  author  is 
an  epic  of  the  lives  of  the  Lofoten  fishermen. 
Kristflver  Myran.  the  "last  of  the  vikings" 
spent  the  greater  part  of  his  days  on  the  sea, 
chaining  his  wife  with  her  six  children  to  a 
life  of  bitter  anxiety  during  the  months  of  his 
absence.  In  this  narrative  Krist^ver  has  taken 
his  oldest  son  Lars  on  a  long  anticipated  first 
fishing  trip  and  we  follow  the  intrepid  fishermen 
on  the  sea  and  in  the  fishing  station  on  Lofoten 
island  which  was  the  headquarters  of  the  crew 
during  the  season.  It  is  a  life  of  almost  unimag- 
inable rigor  and  hardship,  bravely  borne  and 
described  with  the  utmost  simplicity.  When 
Krist^ver  is  one  day  brought  home  to  his  wife 
in  his  coffin,  she  turns  her  back  on  the  sea  and 
its  memories  and  moves  inland  with  her  family, 
away  from  wind  and  w^ave. 


Booklist  19:317  Jl  '23 
Boston   Transcript   p4   Je   23   '23   470w 
Cleveland  p42  Je  '23 
"It   is   a   novel    for  those   who   do   not   respect 
literature  less  because  they  love  life  more;  and 
whether  or  not  it  punctuates  a  period  in  letters, 
it   celebrates    the    end    of   an    epoch    in    civiliza- 
tion."    L.   C.   M. 

Freeman    7:71    S    26    '23    180w 
Reviewed  by  H.  W.   Boynton 

Ind    110:352    My    26    '23    350w 
Reviewed    by   I:    Anderson 

Int  Bk  R  p54  Je  '23  880w 
"Two  great  characters  stand  out  conspicu- 
ously in  modern  Norwegian  fiction — Isac,  of 
Knut  Hamsun's  'The  Growth  of  the  Soil,'  and 
Krista,ver  Myran  of  Bojer's  last  work.  It  is 
4ifRcult   to   say  which   of  these   is   the  greatest. 


As  'The  Growth  of  the  Soil'  wrote  Itself  down  as 
an   epic   of   the   cultivator's   labor,    so   assuredly 
'The   Last  of   the  Vikings'   must  be   assigned  a 
place  as  an  epic  of  the  sea."  Julius  Moritzen 
-F   N    Y   Times  p7  Ap  29   '23  3000w 

"  'The  Last  of  the  Vikings'  is  rather  a  failure 
as  a  novel,  and  is  rather  a  record  of  opportun- 
ity lost.  His  story  lacks  any  focal  center.  In 
consequence  it  is  aimless — both  confusing  and 
confused.  And  this  is  not  because  he  had  no 
material  for  a  story.  There  was  a  richness  of 
material,  but  it  lay  unutilized."  T:  C.  Chubb 
f-  N    Y  Tribune   pl8   Je   10  '23   1350w 

"  'The  Last  of  the  Vikings'  is  going  to  impel 
us  to  read  more  Scandinavian  literature  here- 
after. "We  think  we  are  doomed  to  disappoint- 
ment. "^Ve  doubt  whether  Norway  can  boast 
of  any  other  books  as  fine  as  this  of  Mr. 
Bojer'.s.  As  a  matter  of  fact  we  don't  think 
there  are  so  very  many  in  the  literature  of  all 
nations  that  can  excel  it."  F:  F.  Van  de  Water 
-f  N  Y  Tribune  pl9  Jl  22  '23  1250w 

"A  work  of  genius  bulwarked  by  simplicity. 
It  has  real  literary  power.  It  compels  both 
sympathy  and  admiration."  C.  S. 

-f   N  Y  World  p9e  My  6  '23  600w 
"A   sound    piece   of   writing   and   an    obviously 
true  seascape  drawn  from  natvire  is  this  power- 
ful   romance    of    the    Lofoten    Islands."        R.    D. 
Townsend 

+  Outlook  135:33  S  5  '23  600w 
"Probably  no  better  example  of  the  new  Nor- 
wegian  fiction,   aiming  at  portrayal  and  reality, 
could  be  named   than   Bojer's  books,   and  speci- 
fically  'The   Last   of   the   Vikings.'  " 

+  Springf'd    Republican    p9a   S   2   '23    900w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p534   Ag 
9    '23    210w 

Wis  Lib   Bui   19:150  Je  '23 


BOK,    EDWARD    WILLIAIVI.     Man    from   Maine. 

278p    il    $3     Scribner 

B  or  92    Curtis,  Cvrus  Hermann  Kotzschmar 

23-7402 

The  "Man  from  Maine"  is  Cyrus  H.  K.  Curtis, 
head  of  the  Curtis  Publishing  Company  of 
Philadelphia,  with  the  first  of  wliose  great  pub- 
lishing enterprises,  the  Ladies'  Home  .Journal, 
Mr  Bok  was  connected  as  editor  for  thirty  years. 
Of  Mr  Curtis's  career  from  his  first  boyhood 
venture  in  selling  newspapers  thru  the  building 
up  of  his  o\vn  papers,  with  their  immense  cir- 
culations, the  author  makes  a  romance  of  busi- 
ness, a  great  adventure  thru  which  shines  a 
character  of  singular  courage,  simplicity  and 
single-mindedness. 


"A      triumphant,      dream-compelling      book." 
Gamaliel   Bradford 

+  Atlantic's  Booksehlf  S  '23  330w 
Booklist  19:315  Jl  '23 
"In  spite  of  Mr.  Bok's  very  evident  desire 
to  throw  roses  from  the  wings,  he  has  at  least 
given  the  world  a  conventional  picture  of  a 
man  in  whom  many  people  are  very  likely  In- 
terested " 

Bookm   57:563  Jl  '23  150w 
Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  13  '23  720w 
"It  is  of  the  sort  that  will  satisfy  the  whole 
being  of  the  admirer  of  individual  achievement 
against  heavy  odds,   and,   as  it  satisfies,   it  will 
whet   the  appetite   for  more  like  it." 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p8    My 

27  '23  1850w 

"I    won't    say    that    we    know    nothing    about 

Mr.     Curtis    when    we    have    finished,    but    we 

don't — at    lea.st    I    don't — know    much,"      M.    L, 

Franklin 

—  Ind  110:348  My  26  '23  800w 
"One  misses  in  this  book  the  picture  of  an 
inside  view  of  the  struggles  in  those  magazine 
offices,  the  gossip  and  anecdotes  of  men  and 
women  and  of  national  events  surging  about 
them.  One  misses  an  intimate  picture  of  the 
man  within,  his  thoughts  his  speculations  apart 
from  business  affairs.  There  must  be  more  to 
Mr.  Curtis  than  the  business  decisions  he  made 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


53 


with  so  much  sagacity,  which  Mr.  Bok  de- 
scribes with  some  dramatic  power."  C:  M. 
Pucltette 

—  Lit   R  p677  My  12  '23  750w 

"Mr.  Bok  borrows  Fielding's  trick  of  inter- 
spersing his  thrills  with  chapters  that  have 
nothing  to  do  with  the  case.  One  such  chapter 
is  entitled  'Is  there  dishonesty  in  business?"  Of 
course,  the  author  proves  that  there  is  not, 
which  is  in  entire  accord  with  the  philosophy 
of  life  set  forth  in  the  Ladies'  Home  Journal. 
The  only  trouble  with  these  stray  chapters  is 
that  there  are  no  red  lights  in  the  channel  of 
discourse  to  warn  you  that  you  are  approach- 
ing them  and  .should  steer  clear  of  danger." 
A.  W.  Douglas 

-I Management  &  Adm   6:107  Jl  '23  llOOw 

"  'A  Man  from  Maine'  has  no  more  value  as 
a  biography  than  Judge  Gary's  account  of  a 
steel  strike  would  have  as  history."  Eugenia 
Ketterlinus 

—  Nation    117:302   S   19  '23   250w 

"The  well  known  facts  in  Mr.  Curtis's  career 
are  all  recited  duly  and  properly;  but  the  great 
secret,  whatever  it  is,  eludes  the  author."  B. 
B. 

—  New   Repub   35:335   Ag  16   '23   1450w 

"  'A  Man  From  Maine'  i.s  the  same  sort  of 
racing  narrative  as  'The  Americanization  of 
Edward  Bok,"  having  the  same  glow,  the  same 
human  touch,  that  led  the  late  Lord  North- 
cliffe  to  call  the  latter  "book  the  best  autobiog- 
raphy of  the  time.  Nevertheless,  it  is  a  sermon, 
with  Cyrus  Curtis  for  the  text  and  the  example; 
and  if  this  be  borne  in  mind  when  reading, 
the  volume  will  acquire  a  degree  of  dignity 
and  a  degree  of  romantic  beauty  which  might 
otherwise    be   missed." 

+   N    Y    Times    p8    Ap    8    '23    2550w 

Reviewed  by  Hymen  Rose 

N  Y  Tribune  pl8  Je  24  '23  1200w 

"It  has  the  same  qualities  of  freshness,  direct- 
ness, Dutch  gumption  transplanted  into  Yankee- 
ism.  It  swims  at  high  tide  of  the  current 
fashion   of  stories   by  men   about   men   in   busi- 

+   N   Y  World  pile  Ap  15  '23  950w 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:303  Je  '23 
R  of  Rs  67:670  Je  '23  130w 
"Some    may    feel    that    Mr    Bok    has    written 
his  book  too  little  as  a  record  of  a  picturesque 
career    and    too    much    as    a    sermon    on    thrift 
and    resolution    to    American    boys.      He    Insists 
everywhere  on  Mr  Curtis's  ambition." 

—  +  Springf'd     Republican    pl4    My    11     '23 
660w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:159  Je  "23 


BONE,    DAVID    WILLIAM.      Lookoutman.    220p 
il   $2.50     Harcourt    [7s   6d   J.   Cape] 

6^3.8     Ships  23-26841 

"Capt  Bone's  new  book  is  about  ships — vari- 
ous classes  of  ship.s — and  he  imparts  to  his  de- 
scriptive chapters  not  merely  knowledge  but 
a  sense  of  reality.  .  .  Mail  liners,  cargo  liners, 
tramp  steamers,  oil  tankers,  steam  yachts  and 
cross-channel  steamers,  coasters,  fishing  craft, 
pleasure  steamers,  dredgers,  and  tugs  and  port- 
service  vessels  are  all  described  as  well  as  the 
superliners.  Capt  Bone  is  more  concerned  with 
boats  and  their  varied  individualities  than  with 
the  science  of  navigation." — Springf'd  Repub- 
lican 


Biooklist  20:42  N  '23 
Reviewed   by  W:   McFee 

Bookm   58:322   N  '23   2750w 
Boston    Transcript    p5    O    13    '23    800w 
Reviewed   by  H.    M.    Tomlinson 

Lit  R  p283  N  24  '23  lOOOw 
"The  new  book  is  considerably  more  than 
the  survey  which  it  purports  to  be  of  the  prin- 
cipal types  of  craft  now  afloat;  it  is  a  descrip- 
tion beguilingly  briny  with  salt  air  yet  temp- 
ered witli  the  restraint  of  professional  knowl- 
edge and  experience."  Arthur  Warner 
+  Nation   117:558   N  14   '23   800w 


"It  is  a  very  interesting  book,  well  written, 
as  one  would  expect  from  Mr.  Bone  and  well 
printed.  And  an  excellent  present  for  a  boy  at 
any  time,  or  for  oneself  if  one  were  going  for 
a  voyage  or  were  holiday -making  near  a  port. 
Mr.  Bone,  however,  should  be  doing  the  much 
more  difficult  job  of  telling  us  of  the  real  life 
of  the  sea,  and  leaving  pleasant  chatter  about 
funnel-markings  and  the  distinctive  features 
of  various  types  of  ships  to  those  with  no  eye 
for   human   nature." 

-J New   Statesman  21:748   O  6  '23   250w 

Spec  131:762  N  17  '23  250w 

"Capt  Bone  shows  the  master  mariner's  re- 
straint. While  revealing  the  journalist's  knack 
of  selection  and  arrangement,  he  is  faithful  to 
what  actually  happens  and  what  he  actually 
sees  and  feels.  For  the  art  of  handling  a  vessel, 
and  the  responsibility  that  goes  with  it  impose 
a  certain  discipline  that  may  be  absent  from 
the  work  of  a  man  whose  seafaring  is  mainly 
literary.  Yet  he  embodies  his  observations  in 
nervous  and  sensitive  English,  gracefully  ela- 
borated, emotionally  modulated  and  not  un- 
touched with  humor.  He  imparts  to  his  de- 
scriptive chapters  not  merely  knowledge,  but  a 
sense   of   reality." 

-|^  Springf'd   Republican  p9a  S  2   '23  1800w 

"It  is  one  of  many  services  rendered  by  this 
book  that  it  should  enable  the  passenger  to 
answer  a  number  of  his  own  questions  for  him- 
self, and,  if  that  is  his  bent,  to  pose  as  an  au- 
thority. Properly  constituted  boys  know  some- 
thing of  flags  and  funnels,  for  those  who  cater 
for  them  supply  tables  in  which  they  are  set 
forth.  Mr.  Bone  is  not  much  concerned  with 
these  mechanical  aids;  he  points  out  how  a 
ship  may  be  put  in  her  class  without  the  help 
of  a  crib." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p613  S  20 
'23  850w 

BOOTH,    EDWARD    CHARLES.      Tree    of    the 
garden.    392p   $2   Appleton 

23-3441 

Mrs  Openshaw,  an  overfond  mother,  guards 
her  son  Guy  with  jealous  love  and  shields  him 
from  every  contact  with  the  hard  facts  of  life. 
Sent  to  a  farm  in  Yorkshire  for  his  health  in 
his  early  teens,  his  appearance  works  a  trans- 
formation in  the  life  of  a  dirty,  unkempt  waif 
of  a  girl  living  with  her  drunken  grandfather 
on  a  neighboring  farm.  On  a  second  visit  some 
years  later,  Guy  finds  Thursday  Hardrip  a 
comely,  clean  and  hard-working  young  woman 
and  they  fall  in  love.  To  have  Thursday  edu- 
cated and  marry  her  is  his  innocent  plan.  But 
before  he  can  confide  in  his  mother  she  hears 
of  the  affair  and  takes  steps  to  separate  the 
two.  When  Guy  rediscovers  Thursday  she 
is  outside  the  social  pale  and  as  a  result  of  their 
meeting  Guy  faces  his  mother  as  one  who  has 
tasted  of  "the  tree  of  the  garden."  Stung  by 
remorse  and  overwhelmed  by  her  love  for  her 
son,  Mrs  Openshaw  now  rises  to  the  occasion 
and  befriends  Thursday. 

"Scene,  plot,  characters,  alike  hold  the  rapt 
attention  of  the  reader.  It  is  a  beautiful  love 
story,  and  it  is  also  a  faithful  chronicle  of  the 
Yorkshire  country  side.  It  places  Mr.  Booth 
high  among  contemporary  English  novelists,  as 
a  writer  who  knows  life,  who  can  see  it  whole, 
and  who  can  make  his  Action  both  a  record 
of  and  a  commentary  upon  human  nature."  E. 
F.   Edgett 

+  Boston  Transcript  plO  Mr  24  '23  1550w 

Cleveland   p66   S  '23 
•'Here   is   one   of  those   rare  books  which   rise 
head  and  shoulders  above  the  mass  of  medioc- 
rity.     It    is   excellent    enough    to    establish    the 
rank  of  its  author  as  a  master,   to   put  him   in 
the   front  rank   of  contemporary  English   novel- 
ists."    S.   S.  A.  ,„    ^, 
+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   plO    K 
18    '23    640w 
"What  might  have  been  a  very  commonplace 
thesis  story  becomes,   if  not  a  great  novel,   at 
least  a  very  interesting  and  rather  mellow  one. 
There   is  humanity  in  it." 

-f-  Ult  R  p739  Je  2  '23  210w 


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BOOTH,    E:    C: — Continued 

"The  author's  main  concern  is  not  with  the 
story  but  with  the  setting.  His  evocations  of 
atmosphere  are  brilliant  and  sometimes  beauti- 
ful; his  panegyrics  on  love  feeble  and  frequently 
ludicrous.  The  essay  or  prose  poem,  rather 
than  the  novel,  would  seem  to  be  Mr.  Booth's 
forte."     Eva   Goldbeck 

\-   Nation   116:522  My  2  '23  250w 

N   Y  Times  pl6  F  11  '23  450w 
"A  fair  enough  yarn,  in  which  sentimentality 
is    often    mated    with    sound    obser\'ation,    and 
which  is  something  of  a  lullaby  for  adults  and 
adolescents."   Burton   Rascoe 

^ NY  Tribune  pl7  F  25  '23  1200w 

"It  is  not  a  pretty  story,  though  some  pas- 
sages of  it  are  written  rather  well,  and  we  can- 
not see  that  it  is  likely  to  be  a  particularly 
useful  one."  E.  W.  Osborn 

1-   N    Y  World  p6e  F  25  '23  350w 

"Hackneyed  as  the  plot  sounds,  stated  in 
outline,  it  comes  fresh  and  real  in  all  of  a 
very  long  book  except  the  ending.  Character 
and  background  belong  to  one  another,  and  are 
alike  conceived  in  the  spirit  of  high  tragedy, 
not  unrelieved  with  simple  comedy.  The  rich, 
deep  quality  of  the  writing  is  apt  to  the  de- 
sign; rich  and  deep  is  the  soul  of  the  girl 
whose  simplicity  and  suffering  make  the  tragic 
theme."     Gerald  Gould 

-] Sat  R  134:596  O  21  '22  250w 

"Powerful  and  beautiful  novel." 

-j-  Springf  d  Republican  p8a  Mr  11  '23  550w 
"The  ending  Is  disappointing  and  shows  a  list- 
lessness    for    which    the    zest    and   irony   of    the 
whole  book  has  not  prepared  us." 

4-  —  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p669    O 
19   '22  300w 

BORDEN-TURNER,    MARY    (BRIDGET    MAC- 
LAGEN,    pseud.).       Jane — our    stranger.    353p 

^-'■'^   ^"^^^^  23-13337 

The  story  of  an  international  mesalliance. 
Ftom  the  simple  western  town  of  St  Mary's 
Plains  where  she  had  been  brought  up  by  her 
puritan  aunt,  Jane  Carpenter  is  transplanteO 
to  Paris  by  her  mother,  a  rich  and  ambitious 
expatriate,  to  unite  her  millions  with  the  title 
of  the  impoverished  and  decadent  Philibert, 
marquis  de  Joigny.  In  marrying  Philibert  Jane 
marries  the  whole  family,  who  align  themselves 
as  her  enemies.  Jane  is  from  the  first  an  alien 
element  disdained  by  the  aristocratic  Joignys 
and  made  to  suffer  every  refinement  of  cruelty 
from  her  husband.  Her  innnate  morality  re- 
coils from  his  faithlessness  and  the  rottenness 
of  the  society  into  which  she  is  plunged,  but 
her  soul  is  never  conquered.  She  achieves  a 
high  place  in  society  and  for  years  keeps  up 
her  proud  pretense.  When  her  daughter  grows 
up  a  true  Joigny  and  is  turned  over  by  her 
father  to  a  degenerate,  Jane  goes  back  to  her 
plains  of  St  Mary  as  to  a  place  of  refuge. 


Booklist  20:100  D  '23 

Boston  Transcript  p4  N  24  '23  780w 
Reviewed  by  Roger  Thomas 

Detroit  News  pl7  O  21  '23  520w 
"The  effect  of  the  novel  is  that  of  a  painting 
in  flat  colours  done  by  a  hand  that  knows  how 
to  give  design  to  unusual  flexibilities  of  style 
and  to  convey  an  impression  of  substance  by 
outlines." 

Dial  75:611  D  '23  80w 
"The  story  proceeds  like  a  corkscrew,  ap- 
parently turning  futilely  in  continuous  spirals, 
but  really  penetrating  more  and  more  deeply 
into  the  core  of  the  matter,  until  at  last  it  is 
extracted  and  we  see  it  in  its  entirety.  Cir- 
cuitous and  slow  in  approach  at  first,  the  nar- 
ration becomes  constantly  more  direct,  more 
intense  and  immediate,  so  that  the  climax 
almost  coincides  with  the  end.  .  .  The  novel 
has  a  strange  shape,  formed  with  freedom  and 
imaginative  knowledge  to  give  a  complex  story 
pliant    expression.      Its    voice,    sounding    on    an 


intricate   minor   chord,    rings   slightly   deadened, 
true,  and  haunting."     Eva  Goldbeck 

H Lit    R   pl23   O   13    '23   850w 

New  Statesman   22:274  D  8  '23  50w 

BORGESE,  GIUSEPPE  ANTONIO.  Rubft;  auth. 

tr.    by    Isaac    Goldberg.    (European    lib.)    394p 

$2   Harcourt 

23-3445 

Filippo  RubS,  the  subject  of  this  Italian  novel, 
was  a  born  neurasthenic  given  to  paralyzing 
introspections  that  marked  him  for  failure.  We 
meet  him  first  at  the  age  of  thirty,  a  lawyer 
by  profession,  with  a  logical  nnind  capable  of 
splitting  a  hair  into  four,  an  oratorical  gift 
and  a  faith  that  he  could  do  great  things. 
Without  success  in  his  practice  and  without 
zest  in  life  he  welcomes  the  excitement  of  the 
World  war  and  volunteers  at  once  with  some 
swagger.  At  the  first  sign  of  real  danger  he 
collapses  in  a  panic  of  tear  and  ever  after, 
in  his  introspective  orgies,  alternately  denounces 
himself  for  a  craven  and  deludes  himself  into  a 
heroic  pose.  His  standards  of  life  become  en- 
tirely confused  and  his  career  resolves  itself 
into  a  series  of  impossible  situations  with  his 
state  of  mind  in  a  perpetual  delirium  except 
for  an  occasional  scathing  lucidity  of  percep- 
tion. 


"  'Rub§'    is    an    uncommonly    powerful    novel, 
and  we  easily  believe  that  it  has  made  a  noise 
in  Europe.     The  vast  merit  of  the  performance 
lies,   as  always  with   the   big  novel,   in   the  cre- 
ator's   successful    expression    of    his    theme    in 
human   terms.     You  believe  without  effort — you 
can't  help  believing — in  the  reality  of  RubS  and 
his  whole  human  entourage."    H.  W.  Boynton 
+   Bookm    57:208    Ap   '23    300w 
Dial  74:521  My  '23  80w 
"It    is    a    book    which,    unmistakably    for    its 
quality   as   well  as  for   its   timeliness,    has  made 
an   uncommon   stir   abroad.      As   a   piece   of  art 
it    would    be    the    better    for    some    compression 
and    even    excision."       H.    W.    Boynton 

H Ind    110:196    Mr    17    '23    540w 

"A    remarkable    novel.      Not    even    the    so-so 
translation    of    Isaac    Goldberg    is    a    sufficient 
bushel  to  hide  its  light."    Edwin  Seaver 
4-   Lit    R   p626   Ap   21   '23   550w 
Nation  116:525  My  2  '23  20w 
"One   of   those   rarely   successful   combinations 
that    both    sums    up    an    epoch    and    portrays    a 
man.       The    period    of    the    war    and    the    years 
immediately  after  are  so  ably  drawn  the  reader 
is  filled  with  astonishment  that  any  writer  who 
has  lived  through  them  should  be  able  to  detach 
himself   sufl^iciently    for   such   amazingly    search- 
ing   study."       H:    J.    Forman 

+   N    Y    Times    p8    F    11    '23    1750w 
Reviewed   by   Ernest  Boyd 

N   Y  Tribune  p25   Mr  11  '23   1700w 
"The  book  is  remarkable — ^full,   various,   pain- 
ful.    From  the  restless  start  to  the  barren  close, 
every    incident    is    told    with    power.      What    Is 
lacking   is   beauty."      Gerald    Gould 

H Sat  R  136:409  O  13  '23  550w 

"Though  we  cannot  believe  in  Rub&  as  Tur- 
genev  or  Dostoievsky  would  have  made  us  be- 
lieve in  him,  Signer  Borgese's  novel  is  a  fine 
work  ardently  written  and  with  a  range  of 
experience  and  observation  rare  in  modern  fic- 
tion. If  it  is  not  always  easy  to  read,  the  fault 
is  not  wholly  the  author's.  Uncomfortable 
words  like  'inorganicity,'  'improrogable'  and  'ir- 
remissively'  disfigure  a  translation  which  is  usu- 
ally excellent  but  is  happier,  oddly  enough,  in 
a  coloured  than  in  a  plain  style."     L.  P.  Hartley 

H Spec  131:521  O  13  '23   850w 

The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p590    S 
6   '23  20w 

BORN,    MAX.      Constitution    of   matter;    modern 
2    atomic    and    electron    theories;    tr.    from    the 

2d  rev.  German  cd.   by  E.  W.  Blair,  and  T.   S. 

WTieeler.    80p   il    $2.50    Button    [6s   Methuen] 
541      Matter — Constitution  23-14246 

The  three  essays  in  this  volume  deal  with  one 
subject,  the  physical  theory  of  atoms,  from 
different  points  of  view.     Contents:     The  atom; 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


55 


From  mechanical  ether  to  electrical  matter;  The 
fusion  of  chemistry  and  physics. 


"Although  written  in  simple  form  and  with- 
out mathematical  details,  it  pre-supposes  a 
knowledge  on  the  part  of  the  reader  oi  Liie  ele- 
ments of  physics  and  chemistry.  The  book  is 
to  be  especially  commended  for  the  beautilul 
illustrations  which   it  contains." 

4-   Lit    R   p432  Ja  5   '24   50Uw 

New  Statesman   22:sup24  O  13  '23  170w 
"An    interesting    translation    of    Max    Born's 
valuable   summary   of  recent   work   on    the  con- 
stitution of  matter."     Amethe  McEwen 
+  Spec  131:426   S  29   '23   6Uw 

BOTTOME,     PHYLLIS     (MRS     FORBES     DEN- 
NIS). Victim;  and  The  worm.  2y2p  $1.75  Doran 

23-8183 

In  the  first  story  the  father  of  two  daughters 
chooses  to  become  the  victim  of  his  own  sa- 
gacity rather  than  witness  the  wrecking  of  his 
younger  daughter's  happiness  at  the  hands  of 
the  elder.  The  older,  Hermione,  an  artful,  sel- 
fish creature  who,  by  posing  as  a  saint  and  a 
martyr,  uses  her  excessive  nervous  energy  for 
mischief-making,  has  in.sinuated  herself  between 
htr  newly  wedded  young  sister  and  her  husband. 
The  result  promises  to  be  disastrous  and  the 
watching  father  who  sees  in  Hermione  the 
counterpart  of  her  mother,  under  whose  rule  he 
has  suffered,  finds  ways  and  means  to  induce 
Hermione  to  leave  England  and  go  with  him 
to  Paris.  The  second  story  describes  with  much 
humor  the  involuntary  triumph  of  the  least  of 
her  pupils — whose  squirming  shyness  had  earned 
her  the  nickname  of  the  "worm" — over  Miss 
Onoria  Strickland,  the  music  teacher,  who  ruled 
her  small  world  by  tolerating  no  nonsense  in 
herself  or  others  and  always  did  what  was  "the 
most  sensible  thing  to  do." 


tive  qualities.  As  such  it  deserves  high  praise, 
and  only  a  pedant  would  seriously  chide  the 
author  for  the  lack  of  accuracy  which  has  oc- 
casionally crept  into  the  bibliography,  the  foot- 
notes, and  alas!  the  grammar."  K.  W.  BigelQW 
-^ New    Repub    36:209    O   17    '23    2200w 

"Professor  Boucke  proves  his  point.  But  he 
devotes  s-o  much  space  to  it  that  he  is  forced 
to  be  entirely  inadequate  in  dealing  with  the 
problem  which  is  by  far  the  most  important 
at  present:  i.  e.,  what  kind  of  economics  is 
to  take  the  place  of  marginalism?  As  an  icono- 
clast Thorstein  Vebien  still  reigns  supreme — 
the  builder  of  the  new  economics  is  yet  to 
come."      Boris    Stern 

1-  Survey   50:354   Je  15   '23   SOOw 

"The  average  seeker  after  light  and  guidance 
will  not,  we  fear,  find  in  this  volume  that  pre- 
cision of  statement  and  lucidity  of  exposition 
which  he  rightly  demands  from  teachers  o£ 
economics.  Professor  Boucke's  method  of  ex- 
position is  cloudy,  and  he  deals  with  many  other 
sciences  than  his  own."  ,    .  .      „  „r,o    * 

—  The   Times    ILondon]    Lit   Sup   p272  Ap 
19     '23     130w 

BOURN,    MARY.     The    geese    fly    south.      254p 
$1.75      Doubleday  ^3-9228 

"When  the  story  opens,  Jean's  uncle  had  left 
her  miles  and  miles  of  redwood  forest  lands. 
The  will  carried  a  codicil,  so  dear  to  uncles  anrt 
aunts  of  rtction,  asking  her  to  find  and  marry 
her  uncle's  favorite  goason  and  to  live  tor  tnree 
months  in  the  lodge  in  the  forest.  Jean  goes 
to  the  forest  and  there  comes  in  contact  witn 
Peter  Balder,  who,  it  is  said,  loves  the  redwood 
trees,  and  Thorndike,  who  w  ishes  to  win  by  tair 
means  or  foul  the  right  to  cut  down  Jeans 
forest  to  feed  his  mills.  It  is  not  dirticult  tor 
the  reader  to  guess  which  influence  finally  tri- 
umphs with  Jean."— N   Y  Times 


"  'The    Victim'    is    a    very    skillfully    written 
story.      It   has   its    touches   of   humor,    it    is   full 
of  the  author's  keen  appreciation   of  the  foibles 
of   human    nature,    and    it    ends    with    a    strong 
note  of  pathos.  For  so  brief  a  story  the  impres- 
sion it   leaves  is  excellently  vivid."     D.   L.    M. 
+   Boston    Transcript    p5    Jl    7     23    luOOw 
Cleveland  p43  Je  '23 
Dial   75:398  O  '23  15Cw 
"  'The   Victim*    especially   we   could   not   spare 
from    any    shell    of   piesent-day    literary    tiduiis. 
This,    on   second    thought,    is    too    inconsiderable 
a  term     for  so  delightful  a  little  story.     Full  of 
spice  and   condiment,   it   is   written   also  with   a 
large   measure  of   reflection,   and  its  satire  goes 
much  deeper  than  mere  wiity  piquancy."    M.  C. 
Dodd 

+   Lit  R  p747  Je  9  '23   660w 

N  Y  Times  p22  My  6  '23  750w 
"These  two  stories  make  an  entertaining  vol- 
ume of  light  fiction.  The  author  has  a  deft 
touch  and  a  fresh  i  oini  of  view  that  are  par- 
ticularly welcomi'  in  -unimer  reiding,  and  these, 
being  .studies  cf  cb-Trticter,  have  a  somewhat 
more  permanent  value  as  well."  Edith  Leigh- 
ton 

+   N    Y   Tribune   p22   Jl   22   '23    600w 

BOUCKE,   OSWALD    FRED.     Critique  of  econ- 
2    omics,  doctrinal  and  methodological.     305p    $2 

(9s)      Macmillan 
330.1  Economics  22-20966 

"Professor  Boucke's  purpose  has  been  nothing 
less  than  an  exhaustive  examination  of  the  pres- 
ent position  of  economics  as  a  science,  with  an 
eye  to  determining  what  its  value  now  is  and 
how  that  value  may  be  increased.  For  an  un- 
derstanding of  the  present  position  of  econom- 
ics. Professor  Boucke  goes  back  to  its  founders 
and  finds  the  key  to  the  problem  in  their  notions 
of  science  and  particularly  of  psychology." — New 
Kepub 


"Professor  Boucke  specifically  avows  the  ten- 
tative character  [of  the  book]  and  it  should  be 
Judged,  not  as  dogma,  but  from  the  point  of 
view  of  its  suggestive,   clarifying,  and  stimula- 


"This  book  shows  how  a  hackneyed  plot  may 
be  utilized  to  advantage.  The  simplicity  ot 
the  book  supports  its  weakness;  its  unpreten- 
tiousness    makes    it    likable." 

-\ Lit    R   p867   Jl   28   '23   220w 

"A  sufficiently  good  title  to  be  backed  up  with 
afiner_bo^ok^"^.^^^   pl5   Je   17   '23   290w 

"The  story  is  a  rather  trite  one,  but  one 
that  is  sure  to  have  a  certain  appeal  for  that 
very  certain  type  of  fiction  lovers  who  never 
tire  of  reading  of  the  forest,  of  love  of  adven- 
ture and  of  ihe  sweet  things  of  life  that  he 
nearest  to  nature.'  ,„    .oo    oon^ 

-I NY    World    p7e    Ag    12    '23    330w 

"A    tale    that    is    seemingly    improbable    and 
borders    much    on    the    melodramatic   at   timt^s. 
Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  17    23  nuw 

BOUSFIELD,       EDWARD       GEORGE       PAUL. 

Omnipotent  self.  183p  $2  Button  [5s  K.  Paul]. 
130  Psychoanalysis.  Mental  suggestion  Self- 
interest  23-1U4U4 

The  book  deals  with  psychoanalysis  in  some 
of  its  non-sexual  aspects.  In  particular  it  is 
concerned  with  the  various  manifestations  of 
Narcissism  or  the  tendency  toward  self-interest, 
self-importance,  self-worship.  The  book  ex- 
amines the  development  of  this  characteristic, 
which  is  possessed  to  some  degree  by  every- 
body, and  the  ways  in  which  it  gets  beyond 
control  or  associates  itself  with  other  instincts 
and  works  to  our  undoing.  A  method  of  seit- 
analysis  and  self-assistance  is  outlined,  by 
which  to  overcome  extreme  manifestations  ot 
selfishness  and  to  displace  phantasy  by  reality 
and  directive  thinking. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  Je  9  '23  320w 
"Simple  largely  free  from  technicalities,  and 
full  of  useful  information  and  much  sound 
practical  advice:  indeed,  the  criticism  which 
we  have  to  make  of  Dr.  Bousfleld  s  book  is 
that  it  is  too  severely  and  narrowly  practical. 
+  _  Spec   130:414  Mr  10  '23   160w 


56 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BOVET.      PIERRE.     Fighting     instinct;     auth. 

English   tr.    by   J.    Y.    T.    Greig.    252p   $4   Dodd 

[10s  6d  Allen  &  U.] 

158     Instinct.    Pugnacity.   War 

Published  in  France  in  1917,  this  book  is 
based  on  a  course  in  moral  psychology  given 
in  the  Jean  Jacques  Rousseau  Institute  at 
Geneva  by  the  author,  who  is  its  director.  He 
examines  the  question  whether  war  is  inevit- 
able among  civilized  people  and  while  believing 
that  it  is  man's  instinct  to  flght,  concludes  that 
there  is  in  the  nature  of  things  no  everlasting 
necessity  to  direct  this  instinct  to  the  whole- 
sale slaughter  of  his  fellows.  The  book  com- 
prises first,  an  analysis  of  the  fighting  instinct 
in  the  child,  taking  for  its  starting-point  some 
extracts  from  narratives  written  by  schoolboys, 
describing  tussles  in  which  they  or  their  ac- 
quaintances were  involved;  second,  a  study  of 
the  way  in  which  the  fighting  instinct  evolves 
and  alters  under  the  pressure  of  social  needs; 
third,  some  reflections  on  the  practical  con- 
clusions educationists  may  draw  from  such 
facts. 


Reviewed   by  E.   J.   D.   Radclyffe 
Spec    131:802    N   24    *23    80w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p639    S 
27   '23   80w 
"The  book  is  not  a  long  one,   but  it  covers  a 
large   amount   of   ground  and    raises   interesting 
questions,    psychological  and  political.    It   is   not 
particularly   easy   to   read,    being  discursive  and 
often    repetitive.    These   are    but    the   defects   of 
its  quality,  which  is  that  of  a  work  of  prepara- 
tion   and    suggestion    rather    than    a    systematic 
body   of   conclusions." 

H The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p719    N 

1  "23   1400W 

BOWEN,    MARJORIE,    pseud.     Stinging  nettles. 

382p    ?2      Small 

23-13314 

"Ever  since  'This  Freedom'  proved  such  a 
notable  success  various  writers  have  been  en- 
deavoring to  echo  its  profitable  repetition  of 
the  old  anti-suffrage  slogan,  'Woman's  place  is 
the  home.'  Lucie  Uden  had  had  a  worthless 
father  and  a  useless  mother;  she  married  a 
Sicilian,  Pio  Simonetti,  without  being  in  the 
least  in  love  with  him.  He  proved  a  diseased 
wastrel.  Lucie  nursed  him  while  he  was  slowly 
dying  of  some  especially  loathsome  form  of 
tuberculosis  in  an  Italian  villa  where  nurses 
and  good  doctors  were  unprocurable.  Before 
he  finally  expired,  however,  Lucie  had  met  Carlo 
Ghisleri,  with  whom  she  fell  in  love,  while  he 
adored  her.  But  when  her  husband's  death  at 
last  set  her  free,  Ghisleri,  who,  like  Pio,  was 
an  Italian,  developed  some  unnamed  disease 
and  refused  to  permit  her  to  sacrifice  herself 
by  becoming  his  wife,  whereupon  she  promptly 
marries  an  estimable  young  Englishman  and 
devotes  herself  to  her  husband,  her  two  chil- 
dren and  letters  to  Ghisleri."— N  Y  Times 


"Miss  Bowen's  conclusions  are  admirable  for 
the  particular  situation  she  pictures,  but  they 
seem  to  us  far  from  representative  in  regard 
to  situation  or  in  regard  to  characters." 
D.   L.   M. 

-I Boston    Transcript   p4    S   19   '23   llOOw 

"Excessively  long  and  exceedingly  dull  novel." 
—  NY  Times  p22  S  16  '23  470w 

Reviewed  by  B.  F.  Wilson 

N    Y    Tribune    p6    S   23   '23   650w 

"There  is  a  crude  sincerity  about  the  char- 
acter drawing  which  makes  it  convincing.  The 
author  loves  her  heroine  and  does  not  care 
whether  the  reader  loves  her  or  not.  We  feel 
we  have  been  looking  at  a  fine  portrait  of  a 
detestable  face  drawn  with  sympathy.  Herein 
lies  the  sting  of  the  story — and  its  merit." 
Spec  131:359   S  15  '23  150w 

"We  have  to  acknowledge  that  as  a  counter- 
revolutionary document  on  feminism  a  con- 
siderable portion  of  her  book  deals  with  events 
that  lack  bearing  on  the  argument  and  might 
indeed  be  used  in  confutation  of  it — the  long- 
sustained  account  of  Lucie's  unloving  self-de- 
votion to  her  half-mad  and  dying  husband  and 


her  love  for  Dr  Ghisleri.  The  great  antifem- 
inist   novel    remains   yet    to    be   written." 

—  Springf'd    Republican   pl2  S  28  '23   780w 
"Miss  Bowen  puts  a  great  deal  of  energy  into 

her  first  novel  of  modern  life  without  achiev- 
ing any  very  attractive  result  or  quite  convinc- 
ing us  of  the  truth  of  her  observation.  She  has 
got  together  a  number  of  drearj'  people,  mostly 
women,  of  the  pseudo-artistic  kind,  whom  she 
seems  to  dislike  very  much — not  without  rea- 
son. They  are  vulgar,  selfish,  and  ineffectually 
vicious,  and  with  the  exception  of  the  heroine, 
have  scarcely  a  single  good  quality  among 
them.  The  resulting  picture  is  very  depressing 
and    not    very    convincing." 

—  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p489    Jl 
19    '23    280w 

BOWEN,  WILBUR  PARDON,  and  MITCHELL, 
ELMER  D.  Practice  of  organized  play;  play 
activities  classified  and  described.  (Theory  and 
practice  of  organized  play)  218p  il  $2  Barnes, 
A.    S.   &  CO. 

790   Play.    Games  23-7210 

"Hero  we  have  exercises  in  the  very  simplest 
form  of  play,  which,  if  followed,  will  train  the 
young  mind  and  body  to  be  alert  and  eager  for 
more  elaborate  dramatizations  later  on.  There 
are  first  simple  imitation  games,  like  following 
'The  Wee  Bogna  Man,'  then  Story  Plays,  a  trip 
to  the  orchard,  building  a  bonfire,  running  away 
from  the  incoming  little  waves  on  the  beach, 
going  for  the  Christmas  Tree,  or  building  the 
snow  man.  More  delightful,  and  more  true  to 
primitive  traditions,  are  the  rhythmic  plays, 
'Did  .vou  ever  see  a  lassie  do  this  way,  and  that 
wa.v?'  'Heigh,  oh,  for  Rowley  oh,  the  Farmer 
in  the  Dell' ;  and  the  even  more  historically  valu- 
able 'Adam  did  have  seven  sons.'  There  are 
also  instructions,  advice,  and  charts  of  accom- 
plishments for  contests  between  individuals, 
group  contests,  and  all  sorts  of  games,  which 
are  really  group  contests;  goal  games,  tag 
games,    and    team    games" — Boston    Transcript 


"There    are    excellent    bibliographies." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  Je  2  '23  380w 
"In    the    preface    the    authors    say    that    their 
book    is    primarily    a    textbook   to    serve    normal 
school  and  college  students.     It  is  technical  and 
not  popular  in  its  presentation." 

N  Y   Times  p20   Ap   1   '23   280w 
Survey   50:supl97   My    1    '23   60w 
"Valuable  handbook  for  playground  directors. 
Also  a  useful  book  for  any  school  or  public  li- 
brary." 

+  Wis  Lib  Bui  19:409  Jl  '23 

BOWER,  B.  M.,  pseud.  (BERTHA  [MUZZY] 
SINCLAIR-COWAN).  Parowan  Bonanza.  305p 
$1.75    Little 

23-11706 

"  'Hopeful  Bill'  Dale  is  a  cheery  sort  of  young 
miner.  He  carries  about  with  him  a  travel- 
ing menagerie  of  a  parrot,  a  turtle  and  an 
Airedale.  When  he  'strikes  it  rich'  at  last  he 
rejoices  out  loud  to  the  parrot  Luella,  and  the 
parrot  in  turn  repeats  his  glowing  phrases  in 
the  main  street  of  Goldfield.  The  result  is  that 
no  sooner  has  Hopeful  Bill  returned  to  his  dig- 
gings than  the  crooks  come  panting  on  his 
trail.  The  incorporation  of  the  Parowan  Bon- 
anza and  the  tremendous  sale  of  its  stock,  the 
rise  and  fall  of  the  boom  town  of  Parowan,  the 
crushing  of  Hopeful  Bill's  dreams  through  the 
treachery  of  the  piratical  associates  who  In- 
sinuate themselves  into  his  confidence — all  these 
follow  upon  the  careless  chatter  of  Luella. 
Other  things  happen  as  well,  for  romance  rus- 
tles in  the  attractive  person  of  Doris  Hunter." 
— N   Y  Times 


Booklist  20:102  D  '23 
"A  stunning  story  of  real  life  in  Nevada  now, 
full  of  humor  and  unexpected  sidelights  of  hu- 
man nature.  The  author  never  allows  herself 
to  be  led  down  the  tempted  bypaths  of  sensa- 
tionalism, so  frequent  in  Nevada."  I.  W.  L. 
+  Boston   Transcript   p4   S   15    '23   750w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


d7 


"It  is  simply  a  smooth-running,  well-told  tale 
that  works  itself  out  naturally  and  leaves  the 
reader  with  a  comfortable  sense  of  having  seen 
the  desert  country  at  close  range,  of  having 
known  its  mysterious,  starlit  nights  and  burn- 
ing days,  and  ot  having  participated  for  a  time 
in  all  the  surge  and  rush  of  a  minmg  town  in 
its  making  and  in  its  debacle." 

-f   N   Y  Times  pl9  S  16   '23  500w 
Reviewed   by   Wells   Root 

N    Y    World   p7e   S   2    '23   230w 
Springf'd    Republican   p7a   D  2   '23   120w 

BOWER,  B.  M.,  pseud.  (MRS  BERTHA 
LMUZ2YJ  SINCLAIR).  Voice  at  Johnny- 
water.     3U0p  $1.75  Little 

23-3439 
Patricia  Connolly  bought  a  ranch  at  Johnny- 
water  Canon,  a  desolate,  out-of-the-way  region 
in  JSIevada,  m  the  hope  of  luring  her  lover, 
Uarj  Marshall,  the  handsome  movie-actor,  into 
a  more  manly  occupation.  He  goes  to  inspect 
the  ranch  without  informing  her.  He  finds  it 
an  uncanny  place,  apparently  haunted  by  a 
ghost,  with  a  weird  mysterious  voice  wailing 
from  the  mountains  and  a  psychic  cat  on  the 
premises.  He  also  finds  traces  of  gold  and 
goes  prospecting.  On  his  tours  he  locates  the 
voice,  lays  the  ghost  and  is  himself  imprisoned 
in  a  cave  by  a  cave-in.  His  neighbor,  fearing 
foul  play,  summons  Pat.  She  too  hears  a  voice 
but  this  time  it  is  the  voice  of  the  half-star\ed 
Gary  in  his  hole  in  the  ground. 


Booklist  19:254  My  '23 
"A  fast-moving  mystery  story.  There  is  a 
likable  spontaneousness  about  the  telling,  and 
the  sequence  is  good.  There  is  also  huinor  here 
and  there.  The  writing  itself  is  not  above  the 
average,  and  the  climaxes  have  not  always  been 
used  to  their  fullest  advantage.  Yet,  in  spite 
of  this,  the  book  has  sustained  interest  and  a 
plausible  plot." 

-I Int   Bk   R   p55  Mr  '23  250w 

"A  moderately  entertaining  story.  The  book 
has  occasional  mildly  amusing  passages,  and  on 
the  whole  is  neither  more  nor  less  meritorious 
than  scores  of  Western  novels  that  annually 
issue  from  our  press." 

■i Lit  R  p507  Mr  3  '23  160w 

N  Y  Times  pl6  F  18  '23  380w 
"The  author  writes  pleasantly,  even  charm- 
ingly, for  sentences  at  a  time.  Her  eyes  notice 
amusing  bits  of  human  nature  which  she  records 
in  worthwhile  fashion.  But  undeniably  let  us 
say  clearly  this  book  i.s  hardly  more  than  a  bag 
of   tricks."    Bruce   Gould 

h   N    Y    Tribune   p25    Ap   29   '23   550w 

Reviewed    hv   E.    W.    Osborn 

N   Y   World  p7e  Mr  11  '23  SOOw 
Pratt   p38   spring   '23 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p622    S 
20    '23    140w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:84    Mr   '23 

BOYCE,       NEITH       (MRS       HUTCHINS       HAP- 
GOOD).     Harry;   a  portrait.   144p  $2  Seltzer 

B  or  92 
A  mother's  portrait  of  her  son  who  died  in 
the  influenza  epidemic  of  1918.  It  is  the  period 
of  his  life  from  his  seventeenth  to  his  eigh- 
teenth year  of  which  she  writes,  when  he  was 
constantly  with  her  and  she  was  learning  in 
her  wisdom  and  sympathy  to  understand  him 
and  the  urge  of  his  unnusual  nature.  He  was 
a  straight,  manly  boy  but  one  who  did  not  fit 
into  the  ordinary  scheme  of  things,  and  who 
presented  many  problems  to  his  parents.  He 
hated  study  and  the  schools  had  not  been  able 
to  do  anything  for  him.  Active  in  body  and 
restless  in  mind  he  desired  to  go  out  west  to 
work  on  a  ranch.  His  parents  gave  their  per- 
mis.sion  and  he  went,  never  to  return.  His 
mother  tells  the  story  with  dignity  and  re- 
straint. 


who  have  never  really  understood  and  assimi- 
lated it;  who  view  the  country  people  as  the 
"summer  boarder'  sees  them,  failing  to  grasp 
their  aloofness  and  their  confidences.  The  final 
chapter  is  remarkably  well  written,  but  the 
chief  value  of  the  book  is  in  the  relief  it  gives 
to  the  feelings  of  the  stricken  mother." 

—  +   Boston    Transcript    p8    N    21    '23    320w 

"A  simple,  dignified  story  told  in  simple  dig- 
nified  English."      Ruth   Snyder 

-|-   N    Y   World   p6e   N   25   '23   250w 

"The  author  is  preeminently  a  mother,  but 
she  is  also  an  artist,  who  has  been  able  to 
maintain   a   fine  balance   between  her  roles." 

i-   Springf'd    Republican   p9a  D  23   '23  320w 

BOYCE,  NEITH    (MRS  HUTCHINS  HAPGOOD). 

Proud     lady.      316p     $2.50     Knopf 

23-2881 

A  stoi-y  of  opposing  temperaments  Viith  a 
background  of  small-town  life  in  the  Aliddle 
West  in  the  years  innnediately  following  the 
Civil  war.  At  the  end  Mary  Carlin,  faced  with 
the  prospect  of  her  husband's  death,  comes  to 
realize  how  far  her  seif- righteousness  and  lack 
ol  symi^athetic  understanding  has  been  respon- 
sible   foi-    the    failure    of    their   marriage. 


"As  for  the   pictures  of  New   England  life — it 
is  such  a  picture  as  can  be  drawn  only  by  those 


Cleveland  p26  Ap  '23 
"This  is  the  first  novel  Keith  Boyce  has  given 
us  in  fifteen  years.  The  moral  of  its  artistic 
e.xcellence  might  be  worth  the  consideration  of 
some  of  our  book-a-year  performers."  H.  W. 
Bovnton 

-I-  Ind  110:163  Mr  3  '23  600w 
"There  is  nothing  wrong  in  the  development 
of  the  plot,  the  exposition  of  character,  the 
naturalness  of  the  dialog,  the  trim  and  ordered 
style.  There  is  no  accent  of  greatness,  and 
never  the  heart  of  life  beating  in  troubled  and 
passionate  unrest.  In  so  many  or  even  so  few 
woids  you  can't  say  that  anything  is  wrong 
with  the  novel.  It  is  just  a  mean  between  the 
extreme  of  greatness  and  the  extreme  of  rub- 
bish, but  it  is  not  a  golden  mean."  A.  D. 
Douglas 

h   Int    Bk    R    p44    Jl    '23    350w 

"One  is  struck  throughout  the  book  with  the 
excellence  of  the  writing  and  the  author's  keen 
sense  of  the  background  of  her  story.  But  all 
the  vividness  of  the  setting,  the  touches  which 
make  the  people  so  sure  a  part  of  their  sur- 
roundings, are  secondary  to  the  tragic  figure  of 
the  proud  lady  and  the  victims  of  her  pride." 
Rebecca   Lowrie 

-I-  Lit  R  p531  Mr  17  '23  420w 
"Neith  Boyce  has  written  a  gentle  novel  in 
a  day  of  boisterous  fiction  brawls  and  strident 
jeers,  a  novel  often  pretty  with  its  quaint 
descriptions,  at  times  beautiful  in  its  treatment 
of   home    life.      Occasionally    it    seems   verbose." 

-I NY    Times    pl4    Ja    28    '23    880w 

Reviewed    hv    Isabel    Paterson 

N  Y  Tribune  pl9  F  4  '23  1400w 
Spec  131:<'08  D  8  '23  ISOw 
"The  work  is  free  from  the  meretricious  ex- 
citement of  the  realistic  method  as  practiced 
today,  and  it  gains  thereby  in  fidelity  to  what 
most  of  us  know  as  normal  American  life.  The 
work  breathes  the  solid  calm  and  reveals  the 
penetration  of  the   Howells  method." 

4-   Springf'd    Republican   p7a  F  18  '23  270w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p709    O 
25    '23    150w 

Wis    Lib   Bui   19:83   Mr  '23 

BOYD,  THOMAS.  Through  the  wheat.  266p  $1.75 
Scribner 

23-8058 

"  'Through  the  Wheat"  records  the  experiences 
of  William  Hicks  of  the  marines,  who  never 
distinguished  himself,  but  who  never  flinched, 
who  never  fled  from  action  or  responsibility  and 
who  never  cultivated  glory  and  bravado  for 
their  own  sakes.  Heroism  was  incidental  and 
unavoidable.  .  .  Throughout  the  novel  Hicks  is 
never  far  from  the  front  line.  The  ugly  business 
of  war  consumes  all  his  strength.  He  does  not 
cut  loose  and  end  up  in  the  guardhouse.  And 
although  he  never  quite  forgets  himself,  never 
deliberately    merges    his    own    individuality    in 


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BOYD,    THOMAS— Contuived 

the  whole  affair  or  loses  himself  entirely  in  a 
great  cause,  neither  does  he  think  only  of  him- 
self or  become  neurotic.  In  the  end,  in  the  most 
furious  attack  of  his  experience.  Hicks  became 
acclimated.  The  effect  of  attack  after  attack, 
numberless  tragedies  day  after  day,  unceasing 
danger,  was  to  deaden  his  senses  completely. 
His  companions  concluded,  not  without  reason, 
that  he  was  mad.  He  wandered  about  under 
fire  with  perfect  composure — not  because  he 
was  more  brave  than  his  fellows,  but  because 
he  was  psychologically  dead." — N  Y  Times 


Booklist    19:317    Jl    '23 

"As  a  picture  of  the  war  it  is  far  better 
than  Dos  Passos's  'Three  Soldiers,'  and  far  more 
terrible  because  it  is  well  rounded.  It  is  less 
a  novel  than  'Three  Soldiers'  because  it  lacks 
the  passionate  drive  and  purpose  of  that  one- 
sided picture;  it  lacks  the  incident  and  color. 
Yet  there  is  superb  characterization  in  'Through 
the  Wheat,'  and  there  is  beauty  because  there 
is   such   noble   truth."      J.    F. 

-1 Bookm    57:658   Ag   '23    400w 

"It  is  a  rough  book,  as  is  entirely  proper,  the 
language  exact  and  scarcely  poetic.  Again  a 
welcome  change  from  introspectve  analyses  of 
man^'  another  war  volume.  Others  could  have 
written  the  equivalent — others  did  for  that  mat- 
ter— but  as  an  objective  account  it  satisfies,  as 
vet  another   first-hand   iinpression." 

4-   Boston  Transcript  p4  My  25  '23  llOw 
Cleveland  p50  Jl  '23 

"This  is  probably  the  only  candid  account 
on  record  of  what  it  meant  to  be  a  hero  in  the 
Marines,  and  a  valuable  document  on  the  or- 
dinary human  virtues  in  reaction  to  the  condi- 
tions of  modern  warfare."  Edmund  Wilson 
-f-   Dial    75:93   Jl    '23    1300w 

"Take  now  your  copy  of  'The  Red  Badge  of 
Courage,'  remove  it  respectfully  from  your  11- 
brai-y  shelves,  and  bestow  it  in  the  attic.  For 
it  is  obsolete.  It  is  superseded.  It  must  give 
place,  after  a  generation  of  unquestioned  su- 
premacy in  its  line,  to  a  better  book.  In  its 
loom  insert  'Through  the  Wheat,"  the  mighti- 
est story  of  arms  and  the  man  this  century 
has  produced."    G.   W.   J. 

-f  Greensboro   (N.C.)    Daily   News  p6  Jl  15 
'23    llOOw 

Reviewed   bv   M.   L.   Franklin 

Ind    il0:378    Je    9    '23    lOOw 

"It  is  an  exceptionally  graphic,  well-balanced 
account  of  the  war  as  it  seemed  to  a  private 
soldier."     I^.   M.  Field 

-f  Int   Bk   R  p38  Ag  '23   600w 

"There  is  a  fine  unity  about  it  all  which  only 
becomes  fully  apparent  when  this  note  is  struck. 
The  effect  is  cumulative  in  the  sheerest  sense; 
there  are  no  skies  and  stars  and  dawns  pointed 
out  to  give  significance  to  the  insignificant  or 
to  Imply  a  connection  where  there  is  no  connec- 
tion. The  whole  book  is  written  in  the  light  of 
one  sharp  emotion  and  hence  it  is  as  a  work 
of  art  rather  than  as  a  textbook  for  patrioteer 
or  pacifist  that  the  book  is  arresting."  F.  S. 
Fitzgerald 

+    Lit   R  p715  My  26   '23   880w 

"Mr.  Boyd  falters  at  the  end.  Hicks  is  a 
little  undefined  and  his  spiritual  disintegration 
is  thereby  rendered  less  poignant.  The  author 
seems  to  hesitate  between  a  finality  and  a 
progression  and  achieves  neither.  'Through  the 
Wheat'  is  neverlheless  a  remarkable  fir.st 
novel."     J:    W.    Crawford 

-1 Nation   117:66  Jl   18  '23   650w 

"It  has  remained  for  Thomas  Bo.vd  to  write 
the  least  partisan  and  the  most  brilliant  of 
doughboy  reminiscences.  Mr.  Boyd  has  recorded 
as  nearly  as  he  can  recall  it,  and  without 
grinding  an  axe  or  proving  a  thesis,  the  physical 
and  spiritual  progress  (or  is  it  retrogression?) 
of  a  normal  youth,  an  enlisted  man  in  the 
marines,  neither  holier  nor  viler  than  the  run 
of  his   comrades." 

4-   N   Y  Times  pl4  Ap  29  '23  900w 

"We  like  this  novel  better  than  'Three  Sol- 
diers,' for  the  reason  that  it  is  organically  more 
sound  and  because  there  is  more  about  the 
actual    fighting    man's    war    in    It    than    in    the 


Dos  Passos  story.  Besides,  although  marred 
with  jejune  fretting  here  and  there,  it  suffers 
less  from  that  quality  than  did  the  earlier  book. 
"Three  Soldiers'  dealt  too  definitely  with  odd 
fish.  Hicks,  the  protagonist  of  this  novel,  lives 
in  many  places  on  this  earth.  Therefore,  his 
tragedy  has  a  wider  significance  for  us,  if  we 
take  this  book  as  a  novel  of  purpose.  .  .  In 
the  main  it  sets  down  the  truth  about  war  in 
the  unforgettable  manner  of  passionate  sober- 
ness. The  scene  is  splashed  in  whole,  and  then 
sharpened  with  accurate  bits  of  action,  brought 
into  relief  with  vehement  description,  and  given 
the  lasting  color  of  conviction."  Bruce  Gould 
-f  N  Y  Tribune  p20  My  6  '23  1200w 
"A  remarkable  book  young  Mr.  Boyd  has 
written.  It  will  be  much  read,  much  and  perhaps 
fiercely  debated.  It  should  not  be  without  ef- 
fect."  J.   L.   H. 

(NY   World  p8e  My  6  '23   650w 
Reviewed    by   Gerald   Gould 

Sat    R   136:390    O    6    '23    200w 
■\-   Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  24  '23  550w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p621    S 
20    '23    250w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:414  Jl  '23 

BOYD,       WOODWARD       (MRS      THOMAS      A. 
BOYD).      Lazy   laughter.      295p     $2     Scribner 

23-15583 

Dagmar  Hallowell  came  honestly  by  her  lazi- 
ness. Her  grandfather  had  built  his  beautiful 
house  close  to  the  street  so  that  he  would  have 
only  a  few  steps  to  walk  from  his  carriage  to 
the  door.  He  had  accumulated  some  wealth, 
but  more  thru  luck  than  industry.  His  daughter, 
Margaret,  has  two  children,  and  it  is  with  her 
first-born,  Dagmar,  that  most  of  the  story  deals. 
Dagmar  has  ambitions.  First  the  stage,  then 
journali.sm,  and  finally  a  post  with  the  School 
Liovers'  l^eague  claim  her  attention.  In  all  her 
attempts  at  a  career  she  fails  thru  sheer  lazi- 
ness. Even  in  her  love  life  Dagmar  cannot 
rouse  herself  from  her  self  indulgence  enough 
to  marry  her  poor  but  ambitious  lover,  but 
takes  the  easier  way  of  accepting  a  middle- 
aged  millionaire.  However,  this  decision  is  not 
prompted  purely  by  selfishness,  since  it  con- 
tains also  the  higher  motive  of  a  desire  to 
provide   for  her   mother  and   wastrel   brother. 

Boston   Transcript  p8  N  21   '23  lOSOw 

"Without  verbosity,  without  the  slightest 
mannerism,  with  professional  simplicity  and 
ease.  Woodward  Boyd  presents  her  enfant  ter- 
rible. .  .  The  farce  and  the  melodrama  of  the 
latter  half  of  the  novel  would  be  all  very  well 
in  their  place,  but  they  are  exhibits  of  the  popu- 
lar sort,  very  much  in  demand  and  marketable 
at  a  high  figure  in  standard  magazines,  that 
are  in  most  painful  discord  with  the  achieve- 
ment of  earlier  chapters — an  achievement  that 
pointed  towards  success  of  a  very  different  order 
as  long  as  its  mood  held,  its  cool  scruples 
guided."     E:    T.    Booth 

-I Lit    R  p229   N   10   '23  800w 

"The  characters  in  'L,azy  Laughter'  are  un- 
usually well  drawn.  On  the  whole  'Lazy  Laugh- 
ter' is  a  very  creditable  piece  of  work  and  a 
distinct  advance  on  Mrs.  Boyd's  earlier  novel, 
"The   Love    Legend.'  " 

-) NY  Times  p8  N  4  '23  720w 

"  'Lazy  Laughter'  holds  more  of  promise  than 
of  performance;  but  it  is  distinctly  interesting 
in   both   ways."     Isabel   Paterson 

-I-  —  N   Y  Tribune  p22  N  25  '23  llOOw 

"Woodward  Boyd  has  written  her  story  in  a 
very  nice  way,  but  we  must  admit  that  we 
cannot  understand  the  why  and  wherefore  of 
Dagmar's  career.  We  enjoyed  reading  of  the 
heroine's  amusing  experiences.  We  enjoyed  the 
subordinated  and  briefly-sketched  associates. 
But  we  failed  to  find  for  our  author  any  deep 
and    underlying    motive." 

H NY   World  p9e  N  18  '23  430w 

BOYLE,  CONSTANCE  ANTONINA.     Out  of  the 

frying  pan.  383p  $2  Seltzer 

23-7545 

It  was  Ma  isle  Pleydell's  fate  to  jump  from  the 
frying  pan   into   the   Are  whenever  she  changed 


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59 


her  environment.  After  her  bringing  up  in  a 
"high-class  educational  establishment,"  with  a 
mythical  mother  in  the  background,  she  sud- 
denly wakes  up  to  find  herself  alone  and  pen- 
niless in  the  world.  Her  efforts  at  self-support 
bring  her  into  questionable  surroundings  from 
which  the  discovery  of  her  mother  seems  a 
happy  escape.  Then  gradually  it  dawns  upon 
her  guileless  mind  that  she  is  living  in  a  gam- 
bling establishment  and  worse.  On  the  death 
of  her  mother  she  learns  that  her  supposedly 
dead  father  is  still  alive  and  goes  to  him.  But 
as  he  is  a  criminal  and  resorts  with  criminals 
Maisie  only  escapes  from  one  scorching  to 
rush  into  another.  Mysteries,  sordidness  and 
crime,  with  some  dashes  of  kindly  human  na- 
ture, are  the  elements  of  this  story. 


Boston  Transcript  p4    Mr  28  '23  400w 
"This  is  an  ingenious  and  readable  story  of  a 
familiar  species." 

Lit    R   p633  Ap  21  '23  160w 
"One  is  aware  of  an  undertone  of  suppressed 
laughter    following    Maisie    into    the    most    ter- 
rifying   cul-de-sacs    of    villainy.       The    slightly 
ironic    treatment    touching    off    Maisie's    serious 
young    naJvete    is    a   delicious   stroke.      It   is   an 
entertaining   and    diverting    tale,    glorifying    the 
English    young   gentlewoman."    J:    W.    Crawford 
-1-   Nation    116:396    Ap    4    '23    250w 
"  'Out   of   the   Frying   Pan'    offers   a   world   of 
movement  and  mystery.      Threads  are   logically 
followed,   clues  are   put  to  good  use.      Surely   it 
will    appeal    to    those    who    like    intrigue    for    its 
o^vn   S3,kG  ** 

-i-   N  Y  Times  pl2  P  25  '23  440w 

BOYLE,  JOHN    D.     Reactionism;  the  science  of 

you.   232p  $2     Putnam 

150  Psychology.  Psychology,  Applied  23-10956 

The  author  is  not  a  trained  psychologist  but 
an  expert  advertising  man  who  has  made  a 
lifelong  study  of  human  beings.  In  this  book 
he  formulates  his  system  of  universal  law  to 
which  he  gives  the  name  reactionism.  The 
book  is  divided  into  two  parts,  in  the  first  of 
which  he  studies  the  science  of  you — yourself, 
your  mind,  your  future  life,  your  reactions, 
character,  will,  instincts,  emotions,  and  power 
of  suggestion.  In  the  second  part  he  makes  an 
application  to  the  self  of  the  principles  he  has 
formulated,  in  the  shape  of  a  daily  method  of 
self-development  by  means  of  which  he  con- 
centrates attention  each  day  on  some  one  fac- 
ulty or  emotion. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  Ag  18  '23   lOOw 
N   Y  Times  p28  Je  19   '23  220w 
"The  serious   depths  of  Mr.    Boyle's   thoughts 
and    the      sincerity    of   his      convictions    can    be 
doubted   by   no  one." 

4-  N  Y  World  p9e  Ag  5  '23  280w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p623  S  20 
•23    80w 

BOYNTON.  PERCY  HOLMES.  American  liter- 
ature; a  textbook  for  secondary  schools.  462o 
11    $1.60    Ginn 

810.9        American      literature — History      and 
criticism  23-7699 

As  the  book  is  intended  for  students  of  high- 
school  age  "the  attempt  has  been  made  to  sug- 
gest such  reading  as  students  can  understand, 
to  deal  with  such  phases  of  it  as  they  can 
grasp  and  to  discuss  these  In  language  that  will 
not  require  the  use  of  a  dictionary."  (Preface) 
There  are  footnotes  for  technical  literary  terms, 
outlines  at  the  heads  of  chapters,  questions  to 
keep  in  mind  as  the  student  reads  the  literature 
and  review  questions  at  the  end  of  chapters. 
Contemporary  poetry  and  drama  are  Included, 
but  not   the   most   modern   fiction. 


"Professor  Boynton  has  provided  an  excellent 
ground  plan  for  the  use  of  a  competent  teacher, 
but  with  all  its  excellence,  not  a  work  for  the 
indiscriminate   use  of  students." 

H Cath    World    118:281    N   '23    180w 

"The  volume  is  substantially  and  attractively 
made."     W.   H.   Dunn 

4-   Educ   R  67:55  Ja  '24  300w 

"Those  high-school  teachers  who  are  already 
acquainted  with  Boynton's  History  of  American 
Literature  will  need  little  introduction  to  his 
new  book  for  use  In  secondary  schools.  The 
main  body  of  the  text  is  the  same,  with  some 
simplification  of  diction  and  some  abridgments. 
Lesson  helps,  illustrations,  chronological  charts, 
and  literary  maps  are  added.  Like  the  college 
text,  this  book  Is  a  comprehensive,  scholarly, 
and  authoritative  body  of  literary  fact  and  criti- 
cism in  biographical  and  historical  setting." 
Gladys  CRmpbell 

-f  School   R  31:469  Je  '23   600w 

BRADFORD,  GAMALIEL.     Damaged  souls.  285p 
$3     Houghton 

920      United    States— Biography  23-9082 

Under  the  above  arresting  title,  Mr  Bradford 
h.ns  brought  together  these  biographical  studies 
of  "a  group  of  somewhnt  discredited  figures" 
in  Americin  history.  He  has  tried,  without 
whitewashing  their  characters,  to  bring  out 
their  renl  humanity  and  the  elements  of  their 
.strength  and  weakness,  and  at  the  same  time 
to  ."Show  how  the  spiritual  damage  their  souls 
had  suffered  was  sufficient  to  explain  the 
.'^tigma  attaching  to  their  names.  An  introduc- 
tory chapter  explaining  the  principle  on  which 
he  groups  them  is  followed  by  studies  of 
Benedict  Arnold,  Thomas  Paine,  Aaron  Burr, 
John  Randolph  of  Roanoke,  John  Brown,  P.  T. 
Barnum   and   B.   F.   Butler. 


Booklist  20:90  D  '23 
"Mr.  Boynton's  book  offers  an  excellent  sum- 
mary of  our  literature  from  the  earliest  times  to 
the  present  day.  It  contains  valualile  historical 
tables  and  many  illustrations  from  drawings." 
E.   F.    E. 

-f  Boston   Transcript   p5   Ap   18    '23   700w 


"The  Introductory  essay,  unembarrassed  by  a 
biographical  Intention,  is  wholly  delightful.  If 
Mr.  Bradford  would  only  adopt  a  sounder  tech- 
nique, abandon  formula,  and  give  himself  to 
rhythm,  what  a  delightful  biographer  he  might 
be."      N.   W.   S. 

f-   Am    Hist   R   29:180   O   '23   600w 

Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:688  N  '23  230w 
"His  sketches  are  not  biographies;  they  are 
spiritual  silhouettes— psychographs,  as  he  cor- 
rectly insists  on  calling  them.  The  more  one 
knows  of  the  character  depicted,  the  deeper 
is  apt  to  be  the  appreciation;  but  every  imagi- 
native and  cultivated  reader  is  able,  through 
Mr.  Bradford's  fidelity,  to  enter  into  Intimate 
companlon.ship  with  the  most  notable  Ameri- 
cans."   A.    W.    Vernon 

+  Atlantic's    Bookshelf  Jl  '23   450w 
Booklist  19:315  Jl  '23 
"  'Damaged    Soul.s'    Is   a   good    book,    one    that 
will    add    to    the    enjoyment    of    the    intelligent 
reader,   and  to  the  author's  reputation."   W:   L. 
Phelps 

4-  Bookm  57:548  Jl  '23  1200w 
"Probably  no  biographer  has  ever  combined 
more  successfully  the  elements  of  keenness  and 
kindliness  with  that  quality  of  imagination 
which  such  writing  must  pos.sess.  Call  It  soul, 
heart,  nature,  what  you  will.  Mr.  Bradford 
penetrates  it  and.  with  a  sympathy  for  the 
human  animal  that  is  unfeigned,  he  draws  por- 
traits with  an  exceptional  appeal.  With  each 
sketch  he  seems  to  rescue  another  individual 
from  the  cold  limbo  of  hare  history  and  add 
him  to  the  human  family."   S.   L.   Cook 

+   Boston    Transcript    p5   My   19   '23   3100w 

Dial    75:613   D   '23   80w 
Freeman   7:358   Je  20  '23   ISOOw 
"One    is    staggered    by    the    audacity    of    the 
coup — and    then    amused    by    its    success.     For 
successful  it  Is,  beyond  peradventure.'    G.   W.  J. 
4-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    plO    Jl 
8    '23    850w 
Reviewed  by  M.   L.   Franklin 

Ind    110:426    Jl    7    '23    350w 
"In   these   seven    essays   in    psychography  Mr. 
Bradford    has    made    a    substantial    contribution 
to    American    biography,    to    American    history, 


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BRADFORD,  GAMALIEL — Continued 
and  to  American  literature.  The  volume  which 
contains  them  confirms  Mr.  Bradford's  position 
as  one  of  the  foremost  of  our  contemporary  men 
of  letters.  The  book  is  well  planned  and  well 
executed  and  well  written.  Mr.  Bradford  con- 
structs with  an  admirably  architectural  skill; 
and  he  writes  with  clarity  and  with  charm.  He 
has  humor  and  he  has  wit;  and  he  uses  both 
these  tools  of  the  trade  without  calling  our 
attention  to  the  chips  of  his  workshop."  Bran- 
der  Matthews 

+   Int    Bk    R    pl3    Jl    '23    2250w 

Reviewed  bv  H.   L.   Mencken 

Lit  R  p746  Je  9  '23  750w 

"The  first  five  subjects  of  his  inquiry  are 
worthy  of  his  deft  sympathy;  the  last  two — 
Phineas  Taylor  Barnum  and  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin Butler — are  hardly  subjects  for  such  nice 
treatment,  for  Barnum's  was  not  the  sort  of 
soul  that  could  sustain  serious  damage  and 
Butler's  was  too  much  patched  and  mauled  to 
make  the  effort  of  repair  worth  while.  But 
the  portraitist's  finest  art  has  gone  into  the 
other   studies."      S:    C.    Chew 

H Nation   117:196  Ag  22   '23  750w 

Revewed   bv   P.    H.    Boynton 

New   Repub   36:184   O   10  '23   lOOQw 

"Perhaps  it  is  due  to  his  New  England  an- 
cestry that  Mr.  Bradford  is  so  scrupulous  in 
apportioning  praise  and  blame,  so  ready  to 
qualify;  but  whatever  the  reason,  the  results 
are  good,  for  it  encourages  one  to  believe  in 
him  as  essentially  fair  in  mind — as  indeed  it  is 
intended.  .  .  The  little  book  of  historicaJi 
sketches  has  great  merit  and  will  be  appreci- 
ated bv  candid  minds."     C:  de  Kay 

4-  N    Y   Times  p4   My  20   '23   1450w 

"In  this  book  particularly,  and  in  most  of  Mr 
Bradford's  other  books  as  well,  he  has  elected 
to  write  in  an  all  too  decorous  manner  about 
men  and  women  whose  lives  were  far  from 
decorous.  .  .  Forgetting  for  the  moment  his  un- 
fortunate timidity  his  biographical  method  is 
the  most  nearly  perfect,  the  most  thoroughly 
honest  one  conceivable.  He  tries,  in  so  far  as 
possil)Ie.  to  get  inside  his  subject's  ego,  feel 
his  emotions,  share  his  motives,  think  with  his 
intellect,  act  with  his  intelligence.  He  does  for 
a  historical  figure  exactly  what  a  novelist  of 
the  caliber  of  Hai'dy  or  Conrad  does  with  a 
character  he  creates."     Burton  Rascoe 

-I-   N    Y  Tribune   pl7   My  13   '23   3200w 

"Mr.  Bradford  has  done  what  we  think  is  a 
tremendous  and  arresting  book."  F;  F.  Van 
de  Water 

-+-  N    Y   Tribune   pl9   My   27   "23   1500w 
N  Y  World  p7e  My  27  '23  600w 

"Mr.  Bradford  has  done  an  excellent  piece 
of  work,  and  his  judgments  and  conclusions 
are   generally  sound."     L.    F.    Abbott 

+  Outlook    134:334    Jl    4    '23    2800w 
R   of    Rs   67:671   Je   '23   170w 
Spec   131:910   D  8   '23    250w 
Sprlngf'd     Republican     p7a  My     20     '23 
1650W 

"Mr.  Bradford's  analyses  are  subtle  and  sym- 
pathetic, agreealjly  free  from  sentimentality  and 
its  other  extreme,  cynicism.  He  has  composed 
from  the  black  portraits  of  enemies  and  the 
over-cleaned  records  of  friends  seven  very 
pleasing  studies   in  silver-greys." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p666  O  11 
•23  500w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:443  O  '23 

BRADLEY,    H.    DENNIS.     Eternal   masquerade. 

268p  $2  Boni  &  Liveright  [7s  6d  T.  W.  Laurie] 
391     Clothing  and  dress  [23-128] 

With  many  brilliant,  witty  and  cynical  sallies 
into  philosophy,  art,  morals  and  customs,  his- 
tory and  politics,  the  book  discourses  on  clothes, 
from  earliest  times  to  the  present.  In  his  own 
words  the  author  has  hung  his  philosophy  on  a 
clothes-peg  and  has  given  his  readers  "a  new 
vision  of  the  perennial  masquerade  ...  a  review 
of  the  fantasy  of  life  and  the  farce  of  history." 


"His  book,  except  for  its  pacifist  propaganda, 
is  a  saucy,  delightful,  and,  assumedly,  authorita- 
tive  account." 

+   Lit    R   p690   My   12   "23    400w 

Nation   117:200  Ag  22  '23  160w 
"Always  sprightly  and  epigrammatic  in  style, 
always   satiric   in   tendency,   philosophic   in   out- 
look, crisp  and  pleasing  in  manner." 
+  N  Y  Times  p8  Mr  4  '23  550w 
Reviewed   bv   Hunter   Stagg 

N  Y  Tribune  p23  My  13  '23  980w 
"  'The  Eternal  Masquerade'  is  a  good  title  for 
this  not  so  thoughtful  but  avidly  written  brief 
on  the  clothing  of  the  English  race.  The 
book  catchQs  our  fancy  as  a  piece  of  entertain- 
ing poppycock,  written  by  a  Petronlus  so  vastly 
pleased  with  his  own  conceptions  that  he 
charms  us  into  believing  himself  to  be  a  first 
class  sartorial   wit."   Laurence   Stallings 

-j NY  World  p9e  F  18  '23  llGOw 

"The  fashion  parade  reveals  the  author  as 
thoroughly  conversant  with  the  styles  of  a  mil- 
lennium, and  he  sets  them  forth  seriously,  flip- 
pantly, impudently  by  turns.  He  has  an  ex- 
planation for  many  of  the  whimsical  turns  of 
fashion  in  hats,  hosiery  and  all  between;  and 
one  gets  much  entertainment  from  the  display 
under  the  amusing  talk  of  the  showman  who  is 
a  philosopher  as  well,  albeit  a  member  of  the 
school    in    which    Diogenes    flourished." 

Springf'd   Republican  p8  My  28  '23  320w 
"It  is  all  very  entertaining  and  sprightly." 
-j-  The   Times    [London")    Lit   Sup   p398   Je 
15   '22   420w 

BRADLEY,    MRS    MARY    (HASTINGS).      On    (he 

gorilla     trail.      270p    il     $.S     Appleton 

916.7    Africa,    East — Description    and    travel. 
Gorillas  22-25825 

An  account  of  an  e.xpeclition  into  the  Eastern 
Congo  made  by  the  author  in  company  with 
her  husband,  her  five-year-old  daughter,  IMr. 
Akeley  of  the  American  Museum  of  natural 
history  of  New  York  and  others.  Their  ob- 
ject was  to  study  the  gorilla  in  his  native 
havmts  in  oi'der  to  bring  back  materi.Tl  for  a 
museum  group  and  photographic  and  scien- 
tific records.  Not  only  was  this  object  ac- 
complished but  the  gorilla  hunts  were  sup- 
plemented with  a  thiilling  lion  and  elephant 
hunt.  Instead  of  the  Dark  Continent  of  un- 
known horrors  the  party  found  "Africa  the 
beautiful,  a  land  of  wonder  and  delight,  of 
wide  plains  and  mighty  forests  and  glacier- 
peaked  mountains,  a  world  of  tropic  splendors 
roamed  by  primitive  peoples  and  magnificent 
beasts."  There  is  a  final  chapter  on  equip- 
ments and  an  index. 


.Bookm   57:342   My  '23  loOw 


Booklist  19:187  Mr  '23 
Bookm  57:342  My  '23  120w 
"This  book  is  a  thrilling  tale  of  travel  into 
the  very  heart  of  the  African  Continent,  and 
of  happenings  there,  a  tale  which  holds  the 
attention  with  so  strong  a  grip  that  one  finds 
it  exceedingly  difficult  to  lay  down  the  book 
even    for   a    moment."      E.    J.    C. 

-I-   Boston    Transcript    p3    Ja    20    '23    1150w 
Reviewed  bv  I:   Anderson 

Int    Bk    R   p44   Je   '23    90w 
Reviewed  bv  Isabel  Paterson 

N  Y  Tribune  p23  Mr  4  '23  llOOw 
Outlook    133:370   F  21   '23    60w 
"This    is    a    first    class    volume    of    exploration 
with     the     added     novelty     of     being    presented 
through    a    woman's    eyes    and    with    the    pen 
of    an    experienced    writer." 

4-   Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  28  '23  550w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:55   F  '23 

BRAILSFORD,  HENRY  NOEL.  After  the  peace: 
specially  rev.  for  the  American  edition.  15Sp 
$1.50   Seltzer 

940.5        Reconstruction      (European      war) — 

Europe.      Europe— Politics  22-21778 

The    author    draws    a    gloomy    picture    of    the 

present  plight  of  Europe  and  of  civilization  and 

blames  capitalist   imperialism  both   for  the  war 


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61 


and  the  peace  settlements.  Concerned  with 
profits,  not  production,  capitalism  has  proved 
that  it  cannot  produce  the  goods  which  mankind 
demands  to  feed  the  populations  of  Europe. 
The  alternative  may  be  revolution  or  a  defeated 
civilization.  With  little  hope  of  success  he 
suggests  some  guiding  ideas  for  the  international 
policy  of  the  labor  party  thru  which  Europe 
might  be  saved. 


"Inextricably  tangled  are  the  innumerable 
threads  of  causes  and  probable  results.  In  this 
notable  book  Mr.  Brailsford  gives  them  as  he 
sees  them — and  he  sees  far."  B.  U.  B. 
+  Freeman  5:262  My  24  '22  350w 
Int  Bk  R  p67  Ap  '23  700w 
"Mr.  H.  N.  Brailsford  is  the  modern  successor 
of  the  Pamphleteers.  His  latest  effusion,  'After 
the  Peace,'  is  filled  with  appeal  to  those  in 
whose  veins  flow  'hot  and  rebellious  liquors.'  It 
is  to  be  regretted  that  an  author  possessing 
such  a  thought  compelling  style — such  a  master 
of  economic  epigrams  and  statistical  bon  mots 
— should  not  occasionally  curb  his  own  verve 
in  the  interest  of  good  feeling.  Mr.  Brailsford 
gives  the  impression  of  consciously  striving  to 
be  irritating.  Aside  from  his  .'sermonizing  tone, 
however,  all  that  Mr.  Brailsford  has  to  tell  us 
about  the  present  state  of  world  affairs  is  well 
worthy    of    consideration."     W.    P.     Cresson 

■ h    Lit    R   p644   Ap    28   '23    350w 

Nation  116:604  My  23  '23  160w 
N  Y  Times  p24  Ja  7  '23  llOw 
"It  is  a  picture  of  conditions  at  the  end  of 
1920  and  therefore  somewhat  out  of  date  as 
to  statistics,  but  not  by  any  means  to  be  over- 
looked as  a  brilliant  and  pertinent  attack  upon 
conditions  which  are,  according  even  to  the  op- 
timists, not  on  the  highroad  to  normalcy.  And 
the  present  interest  of  the  book  is  attested  by 
the  forecast  of  the  Ruhr  invasion  made  two 
years  before  the  event  but  detailed  as  part 
of  a  policy  which  is  unfolding  before  the  eyes 
of   mankind." 

+  Springf'd    Republican   pG  Jl  30   '23    600w 

BRALLIAR,    FLOYD    BURTON.     Knowing  birds 

through   stories.     340p   il   $2    Funk 

598.2      Birds  22-25403 

One  or  more  widely  known  birds  are  chosen 
from  each  of  the  important  families  as  sub- 
jects for  the  stories.  The  collection  is  not 
intended  to  be  a  complete  guide  to  the  birds 
of  America  but  is  chosen  in  such  a  way  as 
to  enable  any  child  to  learn  to  what  order  the 
bird  he  sees  may  belong.  The  stories  are 
either  connected  with  some  personal  experience 
of  the  author's  or  are  presented  with  fictional 
incidents.  The  general  key  to  the  orders  of 
North  American  birds  in  the  beginning  of  the 
book  is  supplemented  at  intervals  with  special 
keys  to  the  various  families.  Illustrations  in 
color  and  in  black  and  white. 


"A  worthy  addition  to  the  books  which  intro- 
duce us  to  bird  life." 

-f-  Bookm  57:222  Ap  '23  70w 
"Most  ornithologists  refrain  from  ascribing 
human  motives  and  emotions  to  the  birds  they 
are  describing;  and  this  approach  to  an  under- 
standing of  nature  seems,  if  I  may  borrow  from 
the  language  of  Mr.  Bralliar's  feathered  friends, 
just  a  little  cheep." 

—  Lit   R   p836  Jl  14   '23   220w 

N   Y  Tribune  pl8  N  11  '23  70w 
Springf'd   Republican   p8  Ja  24  '23   220w 

BRAMAH,  ERNEST.  Kal  Lung's  golden  hours:- 
with  a  preface  by  Hilaire  Belloc.  333p  $2.50 
Doran   [7s  6d  G.  Richards] 

23-7122 
"We  are  set  in  China,  a  fantastic,  conven- 
tional, bogus  China,  where  people  are  all  mild- 
mannered,  soft-spoken,  ceremonious,  ironic  and 
heartless.  Kai  Lung,  professional  tale-teller,  in 
the  heat  of  the  day  is  resting  in  a  small  wood. 
He  is  awakened  from  slumber  by  the  laughter 
of  Hwa-mei,  a  maiden  of  extreme  beauty.  By 
exchange  of    courtesies   they    reveal    their    im- 


mediate love;  Hwa-mei,  hearing  the  noise  of 
pursuing  feet,  is  impelled  to  sudden  flight.  Her 
pursuer  is  Ming-shu,  keeper  of  the  spoken  word 
to  the  Mandarin  of  Yu-ping.  Kai  Lung  is 
haled  off  to  prison,  and  brought  for  judgment 
daily  before  the  Mandarin  on  some  new  and 
well-attested  accusation  of  monstrous  crime. 
Partly  by  the  readiness  of  his  wits  and  partly 
by  the  information  that  Hwa-mei  is  able  to  give 
him,  he  distracts  the  attention  of  the  Mandarin 
each  day  by  some  apposite  story  and  protracts 
the  trial.  At  last,  having  detected  both  the 
Mandarin  and  Ming-shu  in  an  unpardonable 
breach  of  custom,  he  discredits  Ming-shu,  gains 
his  liberty,  and  carries  off  stores  of  wealth 
under  the  threat  of  revealing  his  secret." — Spec 


"The  whole  book  is  fascinating  because  of  its 
difference  from  anything  we  have  read.  It 
seems  to  belong  to  the  day  of  older  and  more 
permanent  things,  when  books  were  read  and 
reread    with    increasing    delight."     D.    L.    M. 

-f   Boston   Transcript  p4   Ap   11   '23   1200w 
Cleveland  p51  Jl  '23 

"Ernest  Bramah  is  a  writer  of  unquestioned 
individuality;  his  style  is  graceful  and  composed, 
and  the  topics  with  which  he  is  concerned  are 
those  that  share  the  mood  in  whch  they  liave 
been   created."     L.    B. 

-I-   Freeman    7:311   Je   6   '23   230w 

"There  will  probably  be  many  who  do  not 
care  for  Kai-Lung  and  his  adventures,  and  to 
whom  the  delightful  humor  and  fantasy  in 
which  these  are  swathed  will  not  be  apparent. 
This  must  necessarily  be  so  with  any  work  of 
art,  so  individual  and  original  as  the  book 
Bramah  has  written.  This  very  fact  will  witness 
on  the  other  side,  however.  "Those  who  love  it 
will  also  be  numerous,  and  they  will  love  it 
mightily."      H.   H. 

-r   Int    Bk    R    pGO    S   '23    S50w 

"This  is  a  flrst-rate  piece  of  finished  irony 
and  elegant  extravagance." 

-I-   New  Statesman  20:supxiv  D  2  '22  50w 
New  Statesman  20:382  D  30  '22  1700w 

"This  book  is  a  fine,  seasoned  utterance — an 
artistic  achievement.  Great  art  is  here.  It  is 
a  genial,  sensitive,  rarely  beautiful  book,  superb 
in  its  satire — unlike  any  other  book  that  I  have 
ever  seen."  Mary  Siegrist 

-f   N   Y  Times  p9  Mr  18  '23  2100w 

Reviewed    by   Laurence    Stallings 

N  ,Y   World   p7e  D  30  "23   370w 

"His  proverbs  and  ironic  phrases  are  delight- 
ful, and  in  some  of  the  tales,  where  Mr. 
Bramah  has  written  with  full  vigour  through- 
out, they  are  not  so  frequent  or  so  apparent  as 
to  induce  tedium  or  even  the  faint  uneasiness 
of  a  remembered  turn  of  speech.  It  is  un- 
necessary to  attempt  to  decide  where  Mr. 
Bramah  will  stand  in  fifty  years:  it  is  sufficient 
to  recognize  that  he  has  given  us  an  enjoyable 
book." 

-I-  Spec  130:150  Ja  27  '23  1050w 

"Not  only  are  these  stories  Chinese  in  their 
setting,  they  are  also  delightfully  Chinese  in 
style  and  diction." 

+  Springf'd    Republican   p8   O   3   '23   ISOw 

BRAMAH,    ERNEST.  Wallet  of  Kai   Lung.   313p 
=    $2.50     Doran 

23-26923 
A  collection  of  Chinese  tales,  strung  together 
on  the  thread  of  adventures  of  Kai  Lung,  vaga- 
bond, philosopher  and  accomplished  story-teller. 
With  the  first  story,  "The  transmutation  of 
Ling"  he  wins  his  freedom  from  the  brigands 
who  had  captured  him.  Other  stories:  Story  of 
Yung  Chang;  Probation  of  Sen  Heng;  Experi- 
ment of  the  Mandarin  Chan  Hung;  Confession  of 
Kai  Lung;  Vengeance  of  Tung  Fel;  Career  of 
the  charitable  Quen-K.l-Tong;  Vision  of  Yin,  the 
son  of  Ya.t  Huang;  Ill-regulated  destiny  of  Kin 
Yen,  the  picture  maker. 

Booklist  20:100  D  '23 
"It    would    be    easy   to   compile    a   booklet   of 
the  quotable  sayings  of  the  wise  and  wily  Kai 
Lung.     It  would,  on  the  other  hand,  be  regret- 
table  to   do   anything  which   v/ould   prevent   as 


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BRAMAH,   ERNEST— Continued 
many    people   as   possible   meeting   the   Chinese 
Ulysses    in    person    and    discovering    how    dex- 
terous   a    man    can    be    in    extricating    himself 
from    difficult    positions!"      D.    L.    M. 

+  Boston  Transcript  pG  D  26  '23  980w 
"There  is  a  great  deal  of  color  in  this  story — 
and  an  equal  apportionment  of  Oriental  calm. 
If  these  elements  coincide  with  one's  tempera- 
ment, Ernest  Bramah  will  be  quite  to  the  taste; 
otherwise  he  is  inclined  to  be  insidiously  sopori- 
fic." 

-i Nation   118:40  Ja  9   '24  70w 

BRAND,   MAX.     Alcatraz.     325p     $1.90    Putnam 

23-2886 
One  a  horse  and  one  a  man,  but  kindred 
spirits.  They  were  Alcatraz,  the  chestnut  stal- 
lion, and  Red  Perris,  the  cow-puncher.  Alcatraz, 
underfed  and  abused  from  foalhood,  had  es- 
caped from  his  cruel  master  and  was  roaming  the 
wilds — a  king  among  his  kind.  Red  Perris' 
admiration  for  him  grew  into  a  passionate  de- 
termination to  tame  him.  How  Perris,  him- 
self a  hunted  man.  did  it,  makes  a  dramatic 
tale  in  which  the  supposed  ratiocinations  of 
the    horse    enlist    the    reader's    sympathies. 


"It  is  easy  enough  to  believe  that  some  ani- 
mals are  swayed  by  fear  and  hate  and  love 
and  gratitude,  but  when  an  author  attempts 
to  describe  the  play  of  these  emotions  with 
the  same  attention  to  detail  that  he  would  use 
in  writing  of  a  man  or  a  woman,  there  is 
always  danger  that  the  illusion  of  reality  may 
be  lost.  In  'Alcatraz,'  Max  Brand  almost  spoils 
a    very    good    Western    story    by    making    this 

h   Int    Bk    R    p57    F    '23    250w 

Reviewed   by  H.   V.   C.   Ogden 

Lit  R  p579  Ap  7  '23  40w 
"The  story  is  notable  for  the  knowledge  it 
displays  of  the  qualities,  abilities  and  charac- 
teristics of  the  horse  of  Western  range  and 
ranch  and  mountain,  the  horse  that  is  still 
half  wild.  One  may  suspect  that  the  author 
has  read  too  much  human  psychology  into  the 
mind   of   his   horse." 

-I NY    Times    p26    F   4    '23    550w 

Reviewed    by    A.    D.    Douglas 

N    Y    Tribune    p30    Ja    28    '23    280w 
Outlook   133:454   Mr  7  '23   60w 
"The  narrative  is  vigorous  and  exciting  and 
if   real  horses  have  a  tithe  of  the   intelligence 
credited  to  Alcatraz  a  good  film  might  be  made 
of  the  book." 

-I Spec  131:92  Jl  21  '23  80w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p324  My 
10   '23   350w 

BRANDER,   A.   A.    DUNBAR.     Wild  animals  in 
'    in     Central     India.     296p     f6     Longmans     [18s 
Arnold] 

599  Natural  history — India.  Animals — Ha- 
bits and  behavior 
The  book  is  neither  a  narrative  of  hunting 
adventures  nor  a  treatise  for  the  museum  na- 
turalist but  a  description,  for  the  field  natural- 
ist and  sportsman,  of  the  habits  and  characters 
of  the  more  important  wild  animals  of  India's 
central  provinces.  Beyond  describing  the  gen- 
eral principles  of  hunting  and  killing,  the 
sportsman  is  left  to  pursue  the  animal  as  best 
he  can,  basing  his  methods  on  his  knowledge 
of  the  character  of  the  animal  as  described  by 
the  author. 


"Yet  while  the  sportsman  Is  well  served  by 
the  author's  account  of  hunting  conditions  in 
Central  India,  both  naturalists  and  biologists 
will  also  welcome  his  chapters  on  the  peculiar- 
ities,  habits  and   'behavior'   of  animals." 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p6  Ja  2  '24  520w 
Reviewed  by  C.  H:  Warren 

Spec  131:752  N  17  '23  220w 
The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p762  N  15 
•23  350w 


BRANDES,  GEORG  MORRIS  COHEN.  Creative 
spirits  of  the  nineteenth  century;  tr.  by  Ras- 
mus   B.    Anderson.    478p    $3    Crowell 

928  Biography.  Authors 
These  studies  of  "creative  spirits"  who  have 
left  their  impress  on  the  life  of  the  last  century 
are  mostly  literary  portraits.  The  mode  of 
treatment  is  varied  and  so  chosen  as  to  bring 
out  the  most  important  features  of  the  author's 
life  and  words.  Some  of  the  essays  present 
the  individuality  or  person  of  the  author,  some 
are  psychological  studies,  some  are  purely  his- 
torical and  biographical.  Contents:  Hans  Chris- 
tian Andersen;  Paul  Heyse;  Esaias  Teener; 
John  Stuart  Mill;  Ernest  Renan;  Gustave  Flau- 
bert; Frederick  Paludan-Miiller,  Bjornstjerne 
Bjornson;  Henrik  Ibsen;  Algernon  Charles 
Swinburne;  Giuseppe  Garibaldi;  Napoleon  Bona- 
parte. 


Booklist   19:327  Jl   '23 
Reviewed  by  Robert  Littell 

Bookm  57:558  Jl  '23  420w 
Cleveland  p73  S  '23 
"The  thoroughness  of  Brandes  is  extraor- 
dinary: he  marches  around  and  around  his  sub- 
ject, viewing  it  from  all  angles — technical,  bio- 
graphical, historical,  and  philosophical.  One  is 
wearied,  however,  by  the  slowness  of  his  step 
and  the  lack  of  style  in  his  gait,  both  ac- 
centuated by  his  clumsy  translator." 

H Dial   75:98  Jl  '23  120w 

Reviewed    by    Arnold    Whitridge 

Lit  R  p811  Jl  7  '23  1500w 
"Should  'Creative  Spirits  of  the  Nineteenth 
Century'  prove  to  be  Brandes's  final  work,  it 
will  be  a  fitting  monument  to  his  genius,  for  it 
is  one  of  the  lasting  achievements  of  man's 
critical   faculty." 

-I-   N  Y  Times  p9  Ap  29  '23  1450w 
Reviewed  by  Burton   Rascoe 

N  Y  Tribune  pl8  Je  3  '23  180w 
"He  never  skims,  and  ploughing  is  not  the 
exact  word  to  describe  his  literary  locomotion. 
He  goes  along  like  a  stately  craft  witVi  too 
much  cargo.  He  is  too  far  down  in  the  water 
for  our  taste.  We  are  not  disputing  Brandes's 
right  thinking.  There  is  a  lot  of  it  in  this  hook, 
and  his  chapter  on  John  Stuart  Mill,  which  is 
more  of  a  portrait  than  a  criticism,  is  a  fasci- 
nating   sketch."     L:    Weitzenkorn 

H NY   World   p6e  My   20   '23   660w 

"Dr.  Brandes  is  undoubtedly  one  of  the  most 
careful  and  judicious  critical  writers  of  our 
time." 

+  Outlook  133:854  My  9  '23  llOw 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:159   Je   '23 

BRAY,   JEAN.     How  to  play  mah  jong.   112p  11 

$1.50     Putnam 

794   Mah   jong  23-4529 

"Clear  directions  for  playing  a  fascinating 
ancient  Chinese  game,  recently  introduced  into 
the  United  States.  It  is  played  with  one 
hundred  and  forty-four  beautifully  decorated 
tiles,  the  size  of  dominoes.  Score  keeping  is 
intricate   and  diflicult." — Booklist 


Booklist    19:215    Ap    '23 
"The  principles  of  the  game  and  the  methods 
of    playing    it    are    clearly    and    concisely    stated 
in  this  compact  volume." 

+  Lit  R  p526  Mr  10  '23  200w 
N  Y  World  p8e  F  18  '23  120w 
"Jean  Bray  has  provided  all  information 
necessary  to  the  player.  The  little  book  likewise 
•is  copiously  illustrated  so  that  one  cannot  go 
very  far  wrong  in  learning  and  playing  the 
game." 

+  Sprlngf  d  Republican  p7a  Mr  18  '23  120w 

BREARLEY,      HARRY     CHASE.       Symbol     of 
safety.    290p    11   $2.50   Doubleday 

614.84        Fire        protection.        Underwriters' 
laboratories.    Inc.  23-9349 

A  history  of  the  work  of  Underwriters'  Labor- 
atories, Inc.  in  the  field  of  fire  prevention  de- 
vices.    An    outgrowth    of   the   World's   Fair   of 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


63 


1893,  the  association  was  incorporated  in  1901  to 
establish  and  maintain  laboratories  for  the 
listing  of  fire-flghting  equipment  and  now  has 
offices  all  over  the  country.  An  important  ex- 
tension of  its  work  was  the  inauguration  of  a 
label  service  for  the  purpose  of  certifying  ap- 
paratus and  matarials.  The  book  considers  in 
succession  the  work  of  the  various  depart- 
ments of  the  association  and  appendices  give 
many  details  concerning  its  label  service. 

Boston   Transcript   p4   Je   27   '23   400w 
"While  it  is  not  a  scientific  book,  it  describes 
the  achievements  of  science.   It  is  well  written, 
extremely    interesting    and   full    of   valuable    in- 
formation."  W.  J.   M. 

-|-   Greensboro    (N.C.)     Daily    News    p8    Je 
24   '23  500w 
Reviewed    by   L.    M.    Giddings 

Ind    111:143    S    29    '23    350w 
Outlook    134:234    O    10    '23    200w 

BREARLEY,   MARY,  Monte  Felis.  287p  |2  Little 

23-13374 
"Rachel  Cassilis,  who  has  seemed  middle- 
aged  and  unattractive,  in  dowdy  black  and  deep 
depression  while  visiting  at  the  English  con- 
valescent hospital,  and  therefore  possible  to  ask 
to  accompany  Captain  Bannister  and  his  de- 
voted servant  in  his  search  for  health,  blooms 
forth  into  an  agreeable  and  rdther  alluring  per- 
son when  set  free  from  the  vexations  of  her 
immediate  surroundings.  She  is  fortified  by 
the  knowledge  that  she  is  accomplishing  much 
in  helping  the  invalid  toward  the  health  which 
should  restore  his  sight  and  in  tilling  his  days 
to  the  forgetting  of  the  girl  who  had  broken 
her  engagement  at  the  first  knowledge  of  his 
misfortune.  The  consolation  is  so  effectual  that 
presently  Rachel  finds  herself  the  beloved  and 
also  the  lover,  a  dilemma  inasmuch  as  her 
husband,  long  confined  in  a  sanitarium,  is  about 
to  be  freed  and  is  demanding  her  presence.  If 
the  tale  of  her  return  and  her  subsequent  trials 
borders  on  the  luridly  melodramatic,  it  is  none 
the  less  capable  of  gripping  the  attention  and 
convincing  the  reader  that  'Monte  Felis'  is  a 
capital  story." — Boston  Transcript 

"Excellent  character  drawing  distinguishes 
Miss  Brearley's  first  novel  and  her  style  is 
fluent  and  easy." 

-f   Boston  Transcript  p4  O  10  '23  300w 
"The  characters  are  well  drawn  and  the  situa- 
tions  are   sketched  with  a  sureness  and  an   in- 
herent   urbanity    that    gives    no    place    to   melo- 
drama." 

+   N   Y  Times  p22  N  18  '23  350w 

The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p622  S  20 
■23   150w 

BRENN,  GEORGE  J.  Voices.   317p  $1.75  Century 

23-12432 
"Warren  Willmer,  one  of  a  triumvirate  of 
New  York  financiers,  is  haunted  by  voices  which 
come  to  him  over  the  telephone.  They  come  at 
all  hours  of  the  day  or  night,  and  they  reach 
him  at  his  office,  his  home,  his  club — wherever 
he  may  be.  The  voice  is  seldom,  twice  the 
same.  Mysterious  threats  are  made,  the  na- 
ture of  which  Willmer  refuses  to  divulge.  He 
complains  to  the  telephone  company,  and 
Charlie  Fenwick  is  sent  for.  From  the  very 
beginning  the  latter  finds  that  not  only  Willmer 
but  his  two  partners,  Otis  King  and  Pendleton 
Kirke,  are  holding  back  information  which 
might  be  useful  in  solving  the  mystery.  The 
situation  is  further  complicated  by  the  sudden 
and  mysterious  death  of  Pendleton  Kirke.  Fen- 
wick, who  knows  how  Kirke  died,  keeps  his 
own  counsel  until  he  is  ready  to  reveal  the  so- 
lution of  both  mysteries." — N  Y  Times 


garding   which   the   author    seems  to   possess  a 
vast   fund  of   information.      'Voices'    is   a  detec- 
tive  story  quite   out  of  the  ordinary   run." 
-h   N    Y   Times  pl5   S  9   '23   500w 
N   Y  World  p6e  S  16  '23  200w 

BRENNER,  HENRY.  Messages  of  music;  mood 
stories  of  the  great  masterpieces.  424p  $5 
Stratford 

780     Music  23-9581 

This  volume  consists  of  explanations,  in  popu- 
lar story  form,  of  three  hundred  of  the  more 
familiar  musical  compositions.  "Mood-stories" 
the  author  calls  them  and  they  are  meant  to 
be  used  as  helps  to  the  interpretation  of  the 
mood  contained  in  the  music.  The  Appendix 
contains  explanatory  notes  of  the  same  compo- 
sitions, in  which  they  are  treated  in  less  detail 
and   more  critically. 


"Not  particularly  well  written.  It  overflows 
with  hackneyed  synonyms.  The  appendix  is 
even  more  valuable  than  the  body  of  the  book, 
for  it  is  more  critical  and  useful  as  a  source 
book  to  inusicians  themselves,  but  not  too  in- 
volved for  the  lay  reader  to  understand." 
H Boston    Transcript  p3  Jl  14  '23  260w 

"The  stories  are  written  in  popular  form, 
couched  in  simple  language.  They  cover  the 
whole  field  of  music,  though  not  exhausting  it, 
and  aim  to  blaze  the  way  for  the  accomplish- 
ment of  much  greater  things  along  these  lines." 
F      T     K 

'  +"Cath   World   118:142  O   '23    400w 

BREWSTER,    EDWIN    TENNEY.      Understand- 
ing of  religion.   133p  il  $1.50     Houghton 

210  Religion  23-5138 

The  author,  who  is  instructor  in  astronomy 
and  geology  at  Phillips  Andover  academy,  treats 
religion  as  a  branch  of  natural  history  and  uses 
the  methods  of  science  to  come  to  an  under- 
standing of  religious  phenomena.  Astronomy, 
in  particular,  is  made  the  way  of  approach, 
since  to  understand  a  man's  religion  the  au- 
thor believes  we  must  know  his  world-view  as 
it  is  revealed  in  his  astronomy.  Contents:  What 
is  religion?  The  three  parts  of  a  religion:  Re- 
ligion and  world-view;  The  astronomy  of  the 
Bible;  The  cosmology  of  the  creeds;  Our  four 
sources  of  opinion:  Science  and  things-in-them- 
selves;  Primitive  souls  and  ghosts;  The  problem 
of  survival;    "The   new  reformation." 


"All  who  like  thrillers  and  hair-raising  de- 
scriptions   will    be    held    enthralled." 

-f   Boston    Transcript   p4    O    24    '23    130w 

"In  following  the  investigations  of  the  phonic 
criminologist  the  reader  will  not  only  be  agree- 
ably entertained  but  he  will  learn  something  of 
the    intricacies    of    the    telephone    business,    re- 


Booklist  20:81  D  '23 
"The  volume  is  quite  as  brilliant  as  the  pre- 
face   leads    one    to    expect." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  Jl  14  '23  550w 
"Mr.  Brewster's  little  book  should  be  looked 
into.  He  writes  like  a  gentleman.  He  resists 
the  temptation  to  make  facetious  phrases  to 
sneer.  He  lacks  intellectual  humility  but  so 
do  the  great  majority  of  us.  One  sighs  over 
him  far  more  heavily  than  one  might  sigh 
over  a  man  who  is  tone  deaf  or  color  blind 
because  Mr.  Brewster,  with  all  his  fineness  of 
mind,  has  no  more  understanding  of  religion 
than  if  he  were  a  cat  or  Heinrich  Heine.  His 
book  is  only  a  running  commentary — remark- 
ably well  done — on  the  history  of  man's  ideas 
of    the    supernatural."      Alexander    Harvey 

h    Lit    R   p846   Jl   21   '23   1300w 

N   Y  Times  plO  Ap  15  '23  880w 
"Here  is  a  teacher  of  astronomy  and  geology 
who  writes  of  religion  with  complete  disregard 
of    theology,    and    with    a    candor   and    freedom 
exceedingly  rare  among  laymen  in  America,  also 
with    a    great    deal    of   humor    and    sympathetic 
understanding    of    human    motives    which    take 
the     sting     from     any     comment     which,      ex- 
pressed in  academic  form,  might  be  offensive." 
-h  Survey  50:457  Jl  15   '23  130w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:406  Jl  '23 

BRIDGES,   HORACE  JAMES.    As  I  was  saying; 

a   sheaf  of  essays  and  discourses.     268p  $2.50 

Marshall  Jones 

824  23-7488 

Discvirsive  essays  on  a  wide  variety  of  sub- 
jects ranging  from  a  chapter  on  worry  to  a 
criticism    of    James  Harvey    Robinson's    "Mind 


64 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BRIDGES,    H.    J. — Continued 

in  the  making"  and  including  several  biographi- 
cal essays.  Contents:  Worry:  its  cause  and 
cure;  The  pessimism  of  Mark  Twain;  Samuel 
Butler,  the  master  satirist;  George  Eliot:  a  cen- 
tenary tribute;  The  religion  of  George  Tyrrell; 
A  Browne  study;  The  revival  of  spiritualism: 
Military  duty  and  the  conscientious  objector; 
The  Lambeth  conference  and  Christian  reunion: 
The  tyranny  of  books;  Are  we  wiser  or  better 
than    our    fathers? 


Booklist   20:13    O   '23 
Bookm   57:561   Jl   '23    170w 
"A  wide  range  of  topics  of  interest  to  thought- 
ful readers — presented  with  a  clarity  and  grace 
of  style   rare    in   any   age."     C:    De   Kay 
+   Lit    R   p800   Je   30   '23   300w 
"A  collection   of  random   essays  in  which  the 
charm  of  writing  is  coupled  with  that  of  inter- 
esting thought." 

-h  Springf  d   Republican  p6  Ag  27  '23  270w 

BRIERLEY,  MRS  SUSAN  SUTHERLAND.  In- 
troduction to  psychology.  152p  $2  Dodd  [5s 
Methuen] 

150    Psychology  [22-15314] 

"This  book  has  been  written  to  meet  the  first 
needs  of  non-professional  students  of  psychol- 
ogy. Its  structure  is  the  outcome  of  several 
years'  discussion  with  such  students.  I  have 
not  attempted  to  make  an  outline  survey  of 
the  subject.  My  aim  has  been  to  present  a 
consistent  point  of  view  with  regard  to  some 
of  the  outstanding  controversies  which  tend  to 
bewilder  the  beginning  student, — a  point  of  view 
in  harmony  with  a  biological  outlook." — Preface 


Booklist  20:81  D  '23 
"Miss  Brierly's  book,  though  practical  in  aim, 
is  in  parts  needlessly  theoretical  and  even  con- 
troversial at  some  points.  Though  she  does 
not  seem  to  be  aware  of  the  deeper  issues  in 
psychology  and  is  altogether  too  ready  to  take 
the  cue  from  others,  she  is  a  capable  expositor." 
A.   A.    Roback 

-\ Lit    R   pl90   O   27    '23   750w 

N    Y   Tribune   p22  Jl   29   "23   60w 

BRIGHAM,  CARL  CAMPBELL.  Study  of 
American  intelligence;  a  foreword  by  Robert 
M.   Yerkes.   210p  11  $3.50  Princeton  univ.   press 

150  Mental  tests 
"Mr.  Brigham  has  presented  clearly  and  for 
a  wide  audience  data  of  social  significance  that 
were  lost  before  in  the  half-million  words  that 
make  up  the  official  report  of  the  intelligence 
examinations  of  the  army  recruits.  In  this 
study  he  is  primarily  interested  in  the  problem 
of  the  intelligence  of  foreign-born  recruits  in 
relation    to    immigration." — New    Repub 


"The  entire  volume  is  written  with  unusual 
clarity,  and  is  profusely  illustrated  with  per- 
fectly intelligible  tables  and  graphs."  C:  L. 
Stone 

Am    Econ    R   13:523    S   '23   250w 
Booklist  19:235  My  '23 

Reviewed    by    Joseph    Collins 

Int   Bk    R  pl6  Je   '23  2250w 

"The  first  seventy-one  pages  of  this  book  con- 
stitute the  neatest,  clearest,  and  best  illustrated 
explanation  of  the  army  mental  tests  that  has 
come  within  the  observation  of  the  reviewer. 
The  facts  are  here.  They  are  well  explained. 
The  material  is  sufficiently  and  conveniently 
illustrated."  Capt.  Elbridge  Colby 
4-  Lit   R   p702  My  19  '23  600w 

Reviewed   by  Kimball    Voung 

Nation  117:330  S  26  '23  500w 

"There  can  be  no  doubt  that  Mr.  Brigham 
has  done  us  a  service.  With  his  book  in  hand 
one  can  no  longer  be  doubtful  as  to  what  the 
foreign -born  recruits  did  in  the  army  tests  of 
intelligence.  It  seems  to  me,  however,  that  a 
reasonable  doubt  arises  when  Mr.  Brigham 
starts  to  reason  from  the  particulars  of  his 
recruits    to    the    universals    of    immigrants   and 


races.     Here,   I   think,   the   thoughtful   reader  is 
likely   to   refuse    to   follow   him."      E.   G.    Boring 

H New   Repub   34:245  Ap  25   '23  2100w 

"For  the  most  part  Professor  Brigham  is  con- 
servative and  his  book  as  a  whole  is  a  scientific 
contribution  of  great  value  to  the  subject  of 
race  differences  and  American  population."  R. 
G.    Fuller 

+  N    Y  Times  pl8  Mr  '23  2100w 
Reviewed    by   Will    Cuppy 

N    Y   Tribune   p25   F   18   '23   ISOOw 
Reviewed   by  F.    N.   Freeman 

School    R    31:627    O    '23    880w 
St  Louis  21:95  My  '23 
The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p275   Ap 
19  '23  250w 

BRIGHOUSE,    HAROLD.     Wrong  shadow.    307p 

$2   McBride 

23-9853 

"If  Mr.  Wyler  had  not  drunk  too  heavily  upon 
a  certain  afternoon,  had  not  Hung  his  chem- 
ical, formula — on  which  he  had  been  tirelessly 
laboring — aside  as  incorrect,  had  not  disap- 
peared utterly  from  the  ken  of  his  partner  in  a 
patent  medicine  business  that  had  not  yet 
begun,  then  Mr.  George  Bassett  would  not 
have  been  haunted  throughout  his  increasingly 
successful  years  by  the  ghost  of  a  man  who 
had  not  died,  nor  would  his  every  action  have 
been  limited  by  aT  respect  for  the  rights  of  his 
vanished  friend.  But  Mr.  Wyler  did  behave  in 
this  manner,  and  Mr.  Bassett  was  so  haunted. 
Then,  too,  there  is  the  interwoven  story  of 
George  Bassett's  love  for  Audrey  Evelow  and 
her  hesitation  between  her  worthy  admirer  and 
a  more  impetuous  red-haired  playwright." — 
Publisher's  note 


"Mr.  Brighouse  writes  exceedingly  well  as 
his  successful  plays  and  his  novel  Hepplestall's 
have  already  shown.  The  Wrong  Shadow  with 
its  ironic  comedy  is  fresh  proof  of  his  fine  story 
telling    ability."      D.    L.    M. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p2  Je  9  '23  1050w 

"At  times  the  conversations  are  most  apt 
and  entertaining.  There  is  practically  no  de- 
scriiJtion  in  the  book.  One  seldom  sees  so 
complete  a  lack,  of  it.  It  would  be  restful  occa- 
sionally to  get  away  from  the  perpetual  di- 
alog and  obtain  a  clearer  idea  of  where  all  this 
talking    is    taking    place." 

-i Int   Bk  R  p61  S  '23  200w 

"We  can  assure  the  searcher  for  light  read- 
ing that  he  will  find  amusement,  and  that  of  a 
type  rather  above  the  average,  in  the  volume 
under  consideration." 

+   Lit    R    pll2    O    6    '23    280w 

Reviewed   by  J:    W.   Crawford 

Nation  117:42  Jl  11  '23  150w 

"Mr.  Brighouse  has  a  keen  eye  for  the  foibles, 
the  extravagances,  the  little  quirks  of  human 
nature  and  a  very  clever  pen  in  neatly  phrased 
depiction  of  them." 

-4-  N   Y  Times  p22  My  20  '23  660w 

Reviewed    by    Leo   Markun 

N   Y  Tribune  p24  Je  24  '23  700w 

"Culture  clamours  at  us  from  his  pages;  it 
interrupts  his  narrative;  it  drenches  his  readers 
with  the  spray  of  allusion  and  implication.  He 
has  an  exquisite  theme  (if  one  overlooks  the 
banality  of  patent-medicine  vending)."  Gerald 
Gould 

h  Sat   R   135:439   Mr  31  '23   300w 

"One  does  not  feel  that  Mr.  Brighouse  in- 
tended very  much  notice  to  be  taken  of  the 
story  in  itself.  The  comedy  of  situation  and 
character  is  where  his  talent  shows  itself,  but 
a  number  of  extremely  amusing  passages  are 
not  sufficient  excuse  for  having  written  a  play 
in    the   form   of  a   novel." 

H Spec  130:715  Ap  29  '23  lOOw 

"The  situation  is  genuine  but  gentle  comedy 
throughout,  and  Bassett  is  handled  with  a  sym- 
pathetic under.standing  that  is  tender  with  him 
even  while  showing  him  ridiculous — an  excel- 
lently skilful  character  portrayal.  The  other 
characters  and  the  by-play  of  the  story  are  as 
pleasing.    Light,     but    not    too    light,    and    not 


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65 


insubstantial— a  likable  story  well  done  for  ap- 
preciative   readers." 

+  Springfd    Republican   p7a  Jl  1   '23  450w 

BRIMMER,    FRANK    EVERETT.    Autocamping. 

256p  il  $2  Stewart  Kidd 
796  Camping.  Automobile  touring  23-9797 

The  book  is  devoted  almost  exclusively  to 
autocamping  equipment,  many  of  the  articles 
being  mentioned  by  their  trade  name.  Tent, 
bed,  clothing,  stove,  camp  cookery  and  uten- 
sils, furniture  and  lighting,  hunting  and  fishing 
equipment — nothing  is  omitted  from  the  catalog 
of  essentials  to  comfort.  There  are  chapters  also 
on  autocamp  pictures  and  camera,  camp  hy- 
giene, the  packing  of  luggage  and  the  ethics 
of  autocamping. 


Reviewed   by  T.   R.    Coward 

Bookm    57:644   Ag   '23   4nw 

"It  would  be  difficult  to  imagine  a  more  prac- 
tical or  condensed  work  of  information  on  this 
subject." 

+   Lit   R  p836  Jl  14  '23  lOOw 

"The  book  is  copiously  Illustrated  from  photo- 
graphs by  the  author,  most  of  the  pictures  serv- 
ing to  illustrate  the  advice  given  in  the  text. 
For  this  purpose,  however,  it  is  unfortunate 
that  the  author  did  not  have  them  enlarged,  as 
they  are  so  small  as  to  be  of  little  use  in  giving 
a  clear  conception  of  the  matters  illustrated." 
^ NY   Times   p26    Je   24   "23   300w 

"Mr.  Brimmer  answers  scores  of  questions 
that  are  bound  to  arise  in  every  family  which 
adventures  autocamping  for  the  first  time.  He 
gives  useful  and  practical  information  based  on 
abundant  experience." 

-f-   R   of    Rs  68:112  Jl   '23   30w 

BRIMMER,  FRANK  EVERETT.  Motor  camp- 
craft.  (Outing  handbooks)  224p  il  $1.75  Mac- 
millan 

796  Camping.   Automobile  touring  23-9423 

A  practical  little  book  covering  the  whole  field 
of  motor  camping  equipment — shelter,  sleeping 
arrangements,  cooking  appliances,  clothing  and 
various  camping  conveniences.  There  is  a  chap- 
ter of  advice  on  where  to  make  camp  and  one 
on  highways  and  routes. 


Booklist  19:307  Jl  '23 
Reviewed    by    T.    R.    Coward 

Bookm    57:644    Ag    '23    40w 
"The   work   is   carefully   indexed   and    is   illus- 
trated  with    twenty-five   attractive    photographs 
of  automobile  camp  life.  One  closes  the  volume 
with  the  fixed  determination  to  go  motor  camp- 
ing at  the  first  possible  opportunity." 
-I-   Lit    R    p804   Je   30   '23    250w 
N    Y  Times  p6  My  27  '23  400w 
"A  handy  book  of  counsel  and  direction  based 
upon    the  actual   experience  of  the  author." 
-I-   N    Y    World    pl9e   Jl   1  '23   30w 

BROAD,  CHARLIE  DUNBAR.  Scientific  thought. 
(Int.    lib.    of    psychology,    philosophy    and    sci- 
entific method)  555p  $5  Harcourt  [16s  K.  Paul] 
501    Science — Philosophy.    Physics  23-8854 

"Professor  Broad's  purpose  is  to  show  that 
most  of  the  apparent  paradox  of  the  Theory  of 
Relativity  is  due  to  the  fact  that  it  disappoints 
our  simple-minded  expectation  that  the  geo- 
chronometry  of  physical  Space-Time  shall  be 
exactly  like  that  of  a  single  idealized  sense-his- 
tory. .  .  The  book  falls  into  two  parts.  The  first 
is  designed  to  show  how,  by  a  necessity  of  their 
own  development,  the  traditional  concepts  of 
mathematics  and  physics — space  and  time, 
matter  and  movements — have  had  to  be  modi- 
fied. The  second  is  designed  to  show  how  all  sci- 
entific concepts  ultimately  depend  on  sense  ex- 
perience."—The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup 


"This  is  an  excellent  book,   though  a  difl^cult 
book,  perhaps  needlessly  so."     H.  C.   Brown 
-I J    Philos  20:689  D  6  '23   1350w 

"Profe.'isor  Broad's  book  is  an  exceedingly  valu- 
able  contribution   to   Critical   Philosophy   and   it 
is    a    pleasure    to    note    that    he    estimates    his 
achievement  modestly."     C.    J.    Keyser 
+   Lit   R  p424  Ja  5  '24  1650w 

"The  author  brings  to  his  task  both  a  knowl- 
edge of  mathematics  and  physics  and  an  ap- 
preciation of  the  efforts  of  philosophers  in  the 
'peculiarly  obstinate  attempt  to  think  clearly," 
which  constitutes  their  chief  task.  Moreover,  un- 
like many  philosophers  and  men  of  science,  he 
expresses  himself  clearly,  so  that  any  one  who 
reads  his  book  will  discover  at  least  one  philo- 
sopher who  does  not  'tell  us  what  everyone 
knows  in  language  that  no  one  can  under- 
stand.' "    A.    D.    R.      , 

+   Nature   111:872  Je    30   '23   800w 

"The  book  should  be  very  useful  to  intelligent 
people  who  want  to  know  what  philosophers  are 
discussing,  for  Dr.  Broad  justly  claims  the 
'humble  (yet  useful)  power  of  stating  difficult 
things  clearly  and  not   too  superficially." 

-I-   New  Statesman  21:210  My  26  '23  500w 

"With  this  minutely  detailed,  closely  reasoned 
and  mathematically  oriented  piece  of  critical 
philosophy  the  ordinary  book  reviewer  is  power- 
less to  deal.  He  suggests  that  a  professional 
mathematician  make  the  book  the  basis  of 
several  lectures  which  he  can  use  for  the  benefit 
of  his  classes,  and  thus  be  repaid  for  the  great 
amount  of  time  and  thought  he  must  spend  In 
the  reading  of  this  profound  and  lengthy  vol- 
ume." 

N  Y  Times  p20  Jl  1  '23  230w 

"Deeply  thoughtful  treatise.  While  the  book 
is  not  intended  for  the  general  reader.  Profes- 
sor Broad's  cogent  style  and  happy  gift  of  illus- 
tration make  it  as  easy  reading  for  a  student  as 
any  such  treatise  can  reasonably  be  expected 
to  be." 

+  Sat  R  135:373  Mr  17  '23  140w 

"Prof.  Broad's  work  is  a  flower  of  achieve- 
ment and  a  serious  contribution  to  the  philo- 
sophy of  science." 

+  Spec  130:713  Ap  29  '23  400w 

"This  closely-reasoned  and  particularly  lucid 
book  is  certain  to  take  3,  chief  place  in  the  dis- 
cussions of  the  philosophical  problem  which  at 
the  present  time  is  of  central  interest — that  of 
the  nature  and  import  of  the  new  concepts  of 
the  physical  universe  which  are  being  adopted 
in  science  as  the  result  of  recent  experimental 
work    devised    by    mathematicians    and    physi- 

-1-  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl72    Mr 
15  '23  3300W 


BROOKS.  CYRUS  HARRY,  and  CHARLES, 
ERNEST.  Christianity  and  autosuggestion. 
158p  $1.25  Dodd   [3s  6d  Allen   &  U.] 

265.8        Faith      cure.        Mental      suggestion. 
Prayer  23-9378 

The  theory  and  practice  of  M.  Cou6  are  ex- 
amined in  the  light  of  Christ's  teaching  and 
healing  and  found  to  be  in  essential  harmony 
with  it.  The  authors  discuss  the  question,  how 
far  the  discovery  of  the  powers  of  autosugges- 
tion affects  Christian  thought  and  practice  and 
how  far  the  teaching  and  principles  of  Christ 
deepen  and  enhance  autosuggestion  so  that  it 
can  be  applied  to  the  strengthening  and  de- 
velopment of  the  Christian  life. 


Booklist  20:43   N  '23 

Boston   Transcript  p2  Je  2  '23  700w 


"It  will  prove  enlightening  and  helpful  to 
those  who  seek  to  make  their  religion  real  in 
the   practical   affairs   of  life." 

-(-   Boston  Transcript  p4  D  1  '23  330w 
N   Y  Tribune  p20  Jl  29  '23  50w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p327  My 
10  .'23   200w 

Vy^is  Lib  Bui  19:405  Jl  '23 


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BROOKS,  SAMUEL  STEVENS.  Improving 
schools  by  standardized  tests;  under  the  edi- 
torship oi  B.  R.  Buckingham.  278p  il  $1.75 
iloughton 

371  Educational  measurements.  Mental  tests 

22-20692 
A  school  superintendent  writes  this  book, 
which  is  divided  into  two  parts.  The  first  part 
tells  of  two  years'  use  of  standardized  tests 
and  scales  thruout  a  school  district,  and  how 
the  results  of  the  tests  were  put  to  prac^'cal 
use  in  classifying  pupils  into  grades,  measuring 
their  progress  as  a  basis  for  promotion,  rating 
the  efficiency  of  teachers  and  methods,  and 
giving  a  motive  to  the  work  of  both  teachers 
and  pupils.  The  second  part  relates  to  the 
changes  in  methods  of  teaching  brought  about 
thru  the  knowledge  gained  from  the  tests, 
especially  methods  of  teaching  reading  and  of 
teaching  children  how  to  study. 

BROSTER,  DOROTHY  KATHLEEN.    Wounded 

name.   403p  $1.90    Doubleday 

23-9172 

The  time  of  the  story  is  the  post- revolu- 
tionary period  in  France  between  the  restora- 
tion of  the  monarchy  and  Napoleon's  return 
from  Elba.  A  gallant  and  audacious  young 
royalist,  having  won  a  name  for  himself  and 
the  adoration  of  his  men,  finds  himself  suddenly 
under  a  suspicion  of  treason,  of  having  lured 
his  company  into  a  deadly  ambush.  He  is  shot 
and  nearly  killed  by  the  survivors.  In  his  dark- 
est hour  he  finds  a  friend  who  never  loses  faith 
in  him,  stands  by  him  while  he  shields  the 
woman  for  whose  safety  the  hero  had  run  im- 
possible risks  and  helps  him  to  vindicate  his 
good  name.  In  the  end  it  turns  out  that  the 
whole  mess  had  been  caused  by  a  practical 
joke.  The  power  of  friendship  is  the  pivotal 
point  of  the  story. 


"A  story  of  superb  heroism  and  beautiful 
friendship." 

+  . Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  p8  Je 
17  '23  520w 
"  'The  Wounded  Name'  is  an  excellent  novel 
of  adventure,  with  plenty  of  action  and  a  theme 
that  really  holds  up  because  of  its  integral 
merit,  and  not  because  it  is  harnessed  to  a 
number    of    historical    characters." 

-I-  N  Y  Times  p22  My  6  '23  600w 

BROUN,    HEYWOOD   CAMPBELL.      Sun   field. 

204p      $2     Putnam 

23-14479 

Judith  Winthrop,  a  Vassar  graduate  of  May- 
flower antecedents,  and  an  intellectual,  puts  to 
the  test  her  modem  theories  of  life  by  falling 
in  love  with  and  marrying  "Tiny"  Tyler,  a  base- 
ball player  to  whom  .she  has  been  attracted  by 
his  physical  strength  and  beauty.  The  story  of 
their  marriaere  and  its  problems  during  the  in- 
evitable period  of  adjustment,  is  told  by  a 
friend,  George  Wallace,  who  had  hoped  to  win 
Judith   for  himself. 


Booklist    20:138    Ja    '24 

"Seldom  do  we  find  a  book  so  emphatically 
just  right  as  a  medium  to  carry  the  ideas  he 
wishes  to  express.  It  is  a  short  novel,  iust  ex- 
actly long  enough  for  the  theme.  it  could 
easily  have  become  labored,  but  if  it  fills  a 
comparatively  .short  afternoon,  it  fills  it  com- 
pletely  and    exactly."    S.  L,.  C. 

-I-   Boston   Transcript    p4    O    24    '23   800w 

"He  actually  achieves  dulness,  chieflv  because 
hi.«  interest  in  players  and  in  pedants  never 
quite  becomes  creative." 

—  Dial   75:612  D  '23   150w 

"'The  Sun  Field'  would  be  a  brilliant  satire. 
If  Jt  were  altogether  satirical,  but  it  is  clouded 
here  and  there  by  touches  of  unmistakable  sin- 
cerity; it  would  be  great  humor  were  it  not 
devoted  mainly  to  the  presentation  of  a  serious 
social  theory  which  it  argues  shrewdly,  con- 
sistently and  persi.stentlv;  it  would  be  a  fool 
book  which  one  could  afford  to  ignore  were  it 
not  on  occasion  profoundly  wise  and  always 
strangely  charming.  What  do  you  get  out  of 
that  summary— nothing  but  an  irritating  con- 
tusion of  contradictory  impressions?    Very  well 


then.  You  have  a  fair  conception  of  what 
'The  Sun  Field'  is  like.  However,  this  reviewer 
claims  the  privilege  of  adding  that  so  far  as 
he  is  concerned  he  would  rather  have  this  one 
short  novel  than  13  tons  of  realistic  fiction 
and  several  hundredweight  of  prime  romance." 
G.   W.   L.. 

-|-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   plO   O 
21   '23    1200w 

Int  Bk  R  p74  J>  '23  650w 

"Much  of  the  casually  handled  material  la 
simply  rather  clever  journalism,  without  any 
pretence  of  novelization.  The  book  is  short, 
lively,  and  interesting,  and  if  it  doesn't  add 
measurably  to  the  author's  reputation,  neither 
does  it  do  it  any  violence.  Coming  after  'The 
Boy  Grew  Older,'  is  seems  more  the  process 
of  treading  water  until  the  swimmer  strikes 
out  a  new  course."  J:  Anderson 
H Lit   R   p220   N   10   '23    660w 

"His  novels  are  studied  attempts.  Without 
ever  losing  the  virtues  that  make  his  column 
delightful,  he  fails  to  transform  himself  into  a 
novelist."     B.    R.    Redmatt 

h  Nation    118:39   Ja   9   '24   780w 

"In  the  hands  of  any  one  but  Heywood  Broun 
this  might  easily  have  become  that  deadly 
thing,  a  problem  novel.  The  problem  is  there 
right  enough,  but  Mr.  Broun's  touch  is  too 
light  to  permit  of  its  being  taken  seriously. 
And  somehow  one  does  not  associate  profes- 
sional baseball  players  with  the  graver  prob- 
lems of  life.  Perhaps  that  is  why  Mr.  Broun 
chose  a  ball  player  for  his  hero." 

N    Y   Times   p8   O   2]    '23    550w 

"Advanced  thinkers  will  be  revolted  by  the 
general  trend  of  the  implied  argument,  which 
shows  that  marriage  is  essentially  indissoluble, 
even  between  a  baseball  player  and  a  Vassar 
graduate.  But  the  right-minded  majority,  who 
know  a  wholesome  book  when  they  see  it,  can 
only  applaud  the  exquisite  closing  tableau." 
Isabel   Paterson 

H NY    Tribune   p22    O   21   '23   1550w 

"It  is  novel,  diverting,  and  rich  in  possibilities. 
'The  Sun  Field'  is  his  best.  And  the  best  is 
yet    to    come."     Laurence    Stallings 

-H   N   Y  World  pl3  O  12  '23  850w 

Springf'd  Republican  p8  N  24  '23  650w 

BROWN,    ALICE.    Ellen    Prior.    178p   $1.50   Mac- 

millan 

811  23-12330 

In  a  long  narrative  poem  with  a  background 
of  New  England  woods  in  springtime  is  told 
the  story  of  young  Ellen  Prior,  her  love  and  its 
tragic  end.  Innocent  and  gentle,  she  knew 
nothing  of  men  till  she  met  Robert  Wayne 
and  in  a  month  had  married  him.  He  loved  her 
but  he  loved  also  her  land  and  lumber  lot,  her 
farm  and  pasture.  No  sooner  had  they  married 
than  the  thrifty,  ambitious  Robert  set  her  and 
her  blind  mother  to  hard  labor  from  morning 
till  night,  and  Ellen,  in  her  eagerness  to  please 
him,  flew  willingly  from  task  to  task.  Then  a 
rival  came  to  Windom,  a  beautiful  movie  queen, 
who  infatuated  Robert.  The  story  ends  on  a 
note  of  melodrama  with  Ellen's  drowning  and 
Robert's   bitter   repentance. 


"  'Ellen  Prior'  is  as  significant  a  piece  of 
work  as  ever  came  from  Alice  Brown's  pen. 
In  this  we  include  all  her  work,  poetry,  prose 
and  drama.  Its  significance  lies  not  only  in  its 
beauty  of  utterance  or  its  dramatic  intensity, 
but  also  in  a  larger  sense  because  she  has  writ- 
ten something  which  eloquently  expresses  the 
spirit  of  New  England.  We  seem  to  feel  the 
land  in  all  its  beauty  of  wood  and  hill,  in  all 
the  glory  and  pathos  and  tragedy  of  its  people, 
speaking  to  us,  and  it  is  Alice  Brown  who  has 
given  it  voice."  D.  L.  Mann 

+   Boston   Transcript  p5  O  6   '23   1300w 

"One  has  to  admit  Miss  Brown  has  written 
a  melodrama  soused  in  a  pastoral  mist.  Some 
people  will  find  in  this  poem,  however,  a 
wealth  of  heartfelt  and  true  nature  poetry,  but 
others  who  persevere  as  lovers  of  good  narra- 
tive verse  will  be  disappointed  in  melodrama 
with  a  highly  moralized   implication.     I   read  to 


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the  very  end  and  then  re-read  parts  of  this 
poem,  hoping  that  some  sudden  turning  of 
the  page  would  bring  living  words  and  the 
fresh  pace  of  beauty,  but  I  was  only  allowed  to 
plod."      H:    Ohapin 

h   Lit  R  pl28  O  13  "23  780w 

"Pathetic    but   prolix,   and   very   lamely   versi- 
fied." 

—  Nation   117:614   N   28   '23   20w 
"There  is  great  originality  of  plot,  and  if  some 
crudenesses   in  handling  are  to  be  found,   they 
are  amply  atoned  for." 

-) NY  Times  p6  N  18   '23  650w 

Reviewed    by    Weir    Vernon 

N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  21  '23  250w 
"The  poem  contains  some  beautiful  lyric  pas- 
sages of  a  high,  even  ecstatic,  poetic  intensity, 
where  the  passion  is  remote  and  ideal.  These 
are  instances  of  fine  accomplishment,  to  be 
sure;  but  their  very  success  interferes  with  the 
realization  of  the  story  as  a  human  chapter  and 
of  the  characters  as  human  beings." 

H •  Outlook  135:552  N  28  '23  150w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  25  '23  350w 

BROWN,    BERNICE.      Shining   road.    284p    $1.75 
Putnam 

23-4008 

When  eleven  years  old  Stephen  Douglas,  a 
boy  from  an  orphan  asylum  is  placed  out  on 
a  farm  in  Iowa.  Hephzibah  Preston,  the  farm- 
er's wife,  grows  to  love  the  boy  as  her  own 
son.  She  protects  him  thru  many  a  stormy 
time  and  she  is  able  to  send  him  to  college 
where  he  gladly  goes,  for  the  farm  and  the 
irascible  old  Zeke  Preston  are  the  terrors  of  his 
life.  College  makes  a  man  of  him  and  we  fol- 
low him  thru  to  his  lawyer  days.  His  life  is 
full  of  the  joys  and  disappointments  of  the 
average  young  man  striving  towards  success 
and  when  all  seems  darkest  the  love  of  the 
beautiful  Constance  comes  to  his  rescue. 


Int    Bk   R   p59   Mr   '23   150w 
"The  structure  of  the  novel  has  been  learned 
and   vviitten   hy  rote:   each  chapter  has  its  mild 
beginning,     its    struggle,     climax,     surprise,    and 
happy   end."      Eva   Goldbeck 

—  Nation  116:635  My  30  '23  140w 
N  Y  Times  pl9  F  11  '23  180w 
"The  book  is  earnest  and  simple  and  sincere; 
and  all  of  the  characters  are  set  in  rigid  copy- 
right. Isn't  it  almost  time  for  novels  about 
youth  to  abandon  this  discredited  ancient  legend 
of  the  shining  road  as  pleasant  and  fair  and 
sweet,  but  about  as  true  as  any  other  fairy 
tale?"     A.   D.   Douglas 

H NY  Tribune  p20  Mr  4  '23  550w 

"Miss  Brown  has  been  known  heretofore  as  a 
writer    of     short     stories.       It    seems     that     her 
ability  to  make  good   in  more  ambitious  efforts 
has  been  well  proven."     E.  W.   Osborn 
+  N   Y  World  p6e  F  25  '23   120w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p389    Je 
7  '23   150w 

BROWN.    DAVID    LESLIE.     Export  advertising. 

342p    $4    Ronald 
659   Advertising.    Export   trade  23-5475 

The  object  of  the  book  is  to  serve  the  Am- 
erican manufacturers  and  exporters  who  are 
striving  to  advertise  abroad  by  answering  such 
questions  as:  "How  are  we  to  overcome  the 
difflculty  of  clearly  understanding  conditions 
abroad  from  this  distance?  How  determine 
just  what  problems  govern  sales?  How  sup- 
plement our  meager  information  regarding  the 
rates  of  foreign  publications  and  their  cir- 
culations? How  solve  the  problem  of  good 
translations?  How  much  shall  we  spend  to 
develop  foreign  business  tlirovisli  adv^ertising? 
How  .shall  we  'place'  the  copy  in  publications? 
Is  outdoor  advertising  practicable  abroad?  How 
shall  we  co-ordinate  sales  promotion  and  mer- 
chandising plans?  What  is  the  effect  of  ad- 
vertising on  distribution?"  (Preface)  Appendix, 
index. 


"Mr.  Brown  has  done  his  work  exceedingly 
well,  and  business  men  will  be  pleased  to  see 
how  seriously  he  takes  the  proposition  of  der 
veloping  North  American  business.  When  he 
discusses  the  psychological  aspect  of  the  ques- 
tion, Mr.  Brown  is  equally  compelling." 
4-  N    Y  Times  p6  Ap  1   '23  550w 

Sprlngt'd    Republican    p8    .11    5    '23    60w 

BROWN,  DEMETRA  (VAKA)  MRS  KEN- 
NETH BROWN).  Unveiled  ladies  of  Stam- 
boul.    26lp   il  $4    Houghton 

914.96     Constantinople — Description.    Women 
in    Turkey  23-7055 

Born  in  Constantinople,  of  Greek  descent,  the 
author  writes  her  impressions  of  her  native 
land  after  an  absence  of  twenty  years.  She 
unfolds  a  sad  picture  of  social  and  political 
upheaval  and  disintegration,  of  smoldering  and 
active  resentments,  of  intrigue  and  conspiracies 
against  Europe  and  Christianity.  The  women 
too  are  transformed.  "The  old  system  was 
broken  to  bits — gone  never  to  return;  and  I  .  .  . 
had  come  back  to  the  new  system  with  elec- 
tricity instead  of  candlelight  and  the  mvsteri- 
ous  figures  of  Stamboul  replaced  by  unveiled 
daughters  of  the  true  faith;  to  women  who  sat 
behind  desks,  took  down  dictation  on  the  type- 
writers from  men  they  called  infidels  and 
sold  goods  behind  counters."  But  aesthetically 
there  was  a  loss,  for  much  that  was  attractive 
and   romantic   in    the   old   life   was  gone   too. 


Booklist   19:303   Jl   '23 

Boston    Transcript   p3   Mr   17   '23    llOOw 


Bookm  57:564  Jl  '23  150w 
"Such  lights  on  the  Turkish  situation  give  a 
fair  understanding  of  the  stress  of  the  disturbed 
country.  Mrs.  Brown  observes  with  the  eye  ot 
a  writer,  and  of  a  friend  of  Turkey.  From  her 
view-point  the  presence  and  efforts  of  the  con- 
cession-seekers of  Europe  and  America  are 
detrimental  to  the  uplift  of  a  new  and  bettei 
Turkey."    J.    S.    B. 

Boston    Transcript    p3    Ap    28    '23    720w 
Int    Bk   R   p35  O  '23   300w 
"She    would    have    preferred    to    have    told    a 
much    more    agreeable    story,    but    her    book    is 
honest    enough    not    to    dispute    the    facts    and 
will  well  repay  a  reading  in  America." 
+   Lit  R  p900  Ag  11  '23  400w 
"  'The    Unveiled    Ladies    of    Stamboul'    makes 
no   pretensions   to  literary   distinction.    There   is 
in    it   little    of    the   conscious   artistry   of   words, 
but  it  has  a  warmth,   a  vigor  and  a  convincing 
sincerity    that    are    utterly    disarming    to    criti- 
cism." 

H NY  Times  pll  Ap  29  '23  820w 

"A  book  of  faith,  hope  and  charity.  It  is 
written  in  a  sprightly  and  sparkling  style." 
Isabel    Paterson 

-t-  N  Y  Tribune  pl8  My  6  '23  800w 
"A  book  of  enlightenment  as  to  the  Turkey 
of  to-day.  It  catches  the  reader  with  instant 
interest.  Manifestly  it  neither  gives  nor  could 
give  a  last  word  on  Turkish  destinies."  E. 
W.    O. 

N    Y    World   p8e   Ap    8    '23    850w 
"Her  chapters  are  lively,   full  of  new  light  on 
the  subject,   and  decidedly  entertaining." 
+  Outlook  133:854  My  9  '23  120w 
"If  the  suggestions  are  impracticable  the  book 
itself  is  a  contribution  of  real   importance.     Its 
factual    material    is   worth    knowing  about." 
-jl  _  Springf'd  Republican  pG  Je  4  '23  620w 
Wis  Lib   Bui  19:413  Jl  '23 

BROWN,  GEORGE  ROTHWELL.  Leadership  of 

Congress.   311p  $2.50  Bobbs 

328.73      United    States— Congress         22-21406 

"The  book  is  principally  the  inside  story  of 
the  rising  importance  of  the  speakership,  from 
continental  germs  to  the  insurrection  in  1910 
against  Cannon,  and  the  growth  of  the  new 
system  of  parliamentary  and  party  leadership. 
In  connection  with  this  history  of  leadership 
the  growing  dominance  of  the  lower  house  is 
shown,  in  contrast  to  the  lessening  preponder- 
ance of  the  senate  since  senators  lost  their 
ambassadorial  status  to  become  vote-hustlers 
under  the  direct  election  amendment.  The  book 
is    written    by    the    well-known    feature    writer 


6S 


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BROWN,    G:    R. — Continued 

for  the  Washington  Post,  who  for  many  years 
has  been  a  close  student  of  national  politics." 
— Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News 

Booklist  19:203  Ap  '23 
"The  book  has  a  pungent  flavor  of  authentic- 
ity that  compensates  for  its  protraction:  and  it 
helps   one    to   arrive   at   his   own   conclusions." 

-{ Bookm    57:340   My    '23    130w 

"Mr.  Brown  has  written  a  remarkably  read- 
able and  interesting-  work  upon  this  subject. 
He  appreciates  the  various  vicissitudes  through 
which  the  legislative  branch  has  passed  and 
writes  of  it  in  an  interesting  and  restrained 
and  appreciative  way." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  S  5  '23  360w 
"It  has  the  faults  inherent  in  a  compilation, 
for  it  is  evidently  a  gathering-  together  of  more 
fugitive  writings  of  the  author.  It  is  slightly 
diffuse  and  redundant.  It  is,  however,  not  far 
from  scientific  as  a  treatise  on  American  poli- 
tics. And  the  writer  has  not  only  a  profound 
practical  understanding  of  politics,  but  he 
also  has  an  analytical  appreciation  of  public 
and  individual  and  legislative  psychology." 
S.    S.    A. 

+  —  Greensboro     (N.C.)     Daily    News    p2    F 

4  '23  600w 
■'One  can  only  say  that  Mr.  Brown's  analysis 
of  the  present  rules  and  the  way  they  work 
is  as  clear  and  brilliant  as  the  historical 
part  of  his  book,  and  can  leave  no  reader  with- 
out a  fuller  comprehension  than  he  ever  had 
before  of  the  Government  of  the  United  States." 
C:    W.    Thompson 

+  Int  Bk  R  p36  O  '23  3000w 
"It  is  not  well  written  nor  is  the  material 
always  well  organized,  but  as  the  only  book 
covering  the  ground  it  is  highly  useful  and  its 
faults  of  presentation  by  no  means  spoil  a  very 
interesting    story." 

+  —  Lit  R  p591  Ap  7  '23  140w 
Reviewed    by   Phillips    Bradley 

Nation    117:356   O   3   '23    450w 
Reviewed   by  J:    Corbin 

N   Y  Times  p3  Mr  18  '23  3100w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:157   Je    '23 

BROWN,     KENNETH.       Putter    Perkins.     126p 

$1.50   Houghton 

23-4981 

Humorous  tale  of  an  ardent  but  unsuccessful 
golfer  who,  by  using  science  to  improve  his 
game,  suddenly  found  himself  the  champion  of 
two  continents. 


Booklist  19:251  My  '23 
"It  is  a  very  hard  thing  to  be  satisfactorily 
funny  over  golf.  The  topic  is  worn,  its  mirth- 
ful possibilities  have  been  fairly  well  exploited. 
This  story  is  labored  in  style  and  decidedly 
forced  in  climax.  The  combination  of  golf  with 
wireless  torpedoes  does  seem  a  far  cry." 

—  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  4  *23  250w 
Reviewed  by  A.   D.   Douglas 

Int   Bk  R  p61  My  '23  150w 
Wis   Lib  Bui  19:160  Je  '23 

BROWN,  PHILIP  MARSHALL.  International 
society;  its  nature  and  interests.  173p  $1.50 
Macmillan 

341  International  law  and  relations  23-3901 
A  study,  by  the  professor  of  international 
law  at  Princeton  university,  of  the  nature 
and  interests  of  international  society.  He  dis- 
cusses tlie  rise  of  nationalism  and  its  danger- 
ous tendencies,  the  nature  of  the  State  and 
noan's  relation  to  it,  national  interests,  diplo- 
macy and  international  intercourse  in  its  va- 
rious aspects.  This  leads  him  to  a  discussion 
of  the  League  of  nations  as  a  unifying  agency, 
and,  finally,  to  religion,  as  the  "greatest  com- 
mon denominator  in  international  society  to 
enable  men  to  understand  each  other  and  real- 
ize  their   common    brotherhood." 


stimulating  discussion  of  the  hard  facts  of 
international  life  and  the  possibilities  of  im- 
provement. The  merits  of  his  suggestive  study 
far  outweigh  its  defects,  and  there  may  be 
many  who  will  agree  with  him  on  all  points." 
C.   G.   Fenwick 

-I Am    Pol   Sci    R   17:498   Ag  '23   700w 

Booklist  20:38  N  '23 
"His  work  in  this  book  will  be  found  to  be 
clear,  thorough,  judicial  and  as  comprehensive 
as  possible  within  tlie  limits  the  author  set 
for  himself.  He  claims  no  infallibility,  and 
some  will  not  agree  with  his  views  concerning 
the  League  of  Nations,  but  as  his  purpose  is 
to  stir  up  thought  rather  than  to  be  dogmatic, 
his  opinions — and  certainly  they  are  valuable 
ones — must  be  considered  for  what  they  are 
worth." 

-|-  Boston  Transcript  p5  .Te  2  '23  200w 
"Dr.  Brown  has  written  a  book  that  is  pri- 
marily for  the  student  or  the  specialist  in  inter- 
national law.  At  the  same  time  he  has  made 
an  analysis  of  the  relations  of  one  country  to 
another  that  makes  interesting  reading  for 
any  thinking  person.  He  is  not  always  tolerant. 
He  has  definite  ideas  that  are  plainly  expressed 
in  each  succeeding  chapter.  But  he  always 
has  cogent  arguments  to  back  his  affirma- 
tions." 

A NY    Times  p23    Ap   1    '23    1450w 

R  of  Rs  68:109  Jl  '23  llOw 
"A  decade  as  minister  to  various  countries 
fits  him  to  speak  with  authority.  And  to  that 
authority  and  knowledge  he  adds  graceful  fe- 
licity of  expression  and  thoughtful  reflection  on 
the  momentous  problems  of  present  international 
relations." 

+   Springfd     Republican     pl8     My     18     '23 
750w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p535   Ag 
9    '23    40w 

BROWNE.   SUSANNA   SHANKLIN.      Plain  sail- 
ing   cook    book.      156p    $1.25     Scribner 

641  Cookery  22-23163 

A  cook  book  intended  for  persons  who  have 
no  previous  knowledge  of  cooking.  The  recipes, 
which  are  usually  designed  to  serve  two  peo- 
ple, are  for  the  simpler  dishes  that  make  up 
the  menu  of  the  average  family.  Every  step  in 
the  preparation  of  these  dishes  is  described, 
the  kinds  and  amounts  of  materials  required 
are  specified  as  well  as  the  utensils  necessary 
thruout  the  process.  A  glossary  of  cookery 
terms    is    included    in    the    introduction. 


"Clearly  expressed,  arranged  systematically, 
the  book  stands  out  for  these  qualities,  often 
absent  from   other  cook  books." 

4-   Boston  Transcript  p6  D  9  '22  70w 
Cleveland   p58   Jl   '23 
Lit   R   p508  Mr  3   '23   llOw 
Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui  28:111  Mr  '23 

BROWNE,    WALDO    RALPH,    ed.    Joys    of    the 
road.    104p   75c   Atlantic    monthly 

824  Walking 
"  'A  little  anthology  in  praise  of  walking.' 
Contains  four  essays:  Hazlett's  On  going  a  jour- 
ney; Stevenson's  Walkin.g  tours;  Thoreau's 
Walking,  and  John  Burroughs'  The  exhilarations 
of  the  road;  also  five  poems." — Wis  Lib  Bui 


"Professor  Brown  is  at  once  a  realist  and  an 
idealist.  To  differ  with  him  on  minor,  or  even 
major   points,    is   not    to  deny   the   value   of  his 


Bookm    57:650  Ag  '23   80w 
"It   is   a  pleasant   and   inexpensive   little    book 
to  slip   into   ones   pocket   for   a   walking   trip,    if 
vou   care    for   such    small    scraps    of   selections." 
+   Lit    R   p816    Jl   7   '23    250w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:409   Jl   '23 

BROWNING,  OSCAR.    Memories  of  later  years. 

223p      $4      Appleton 
B  or  92  23-11133 

The  memories  which  range  over  twenty-five 
years  of  the  author's  life  preceding  his  eighty- 
sixth  birthday  comprise  reminiscences  of  the 
various  countries  of  Europe  and  Asia  in  which 
he  has  travelled  and  sojourned;  of  the  famous 
people  he  met  at  home  and  abroad;  of  the  Boer 


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wan  during  which  he  staunchly  held  to  his  pro- 
Boer  sentiments;  and  of  his  life  in  Rome  where 
he    is    spending    his    last    days.    Index. 

Booklist   20:18   O   '23 

"The  style  of  these  memoirs  is  decidedly 
rambling  and  their  charm  lies  In  a  gossipmg 
informality."      D.    L.    M. 

+    Boston    Transcript    pi    Ag   18    '23    1300w 

"His  memories  are  meaty  and  they  are  em- 
bodied in  short,  rapid  sentences  which  lend  the 
flavor  of  a  packed  and  pungent  summary  of 
events  to  his  ever  incisive  style."  Howard  De- 
vree 

-f-   Lit   R   p768  Je   16   '23  820w 

"In  this  book  he  is  gleaning  a  field  he  has 
reaped  before,  and  the  second  harvest  is  thin; 
buL  Memories  of  Later  Years  is  full  of  that 
pleasant,  frank  egotism  which  is  characteristic 
of  Mr.  Browning  when  he  writes  his  reminis- 
cences. The  company  of  a  garrulous,  apprecia- 
tive, happy  man  who  has  m.ade  the  most  of  his 
time  and  opportunities,  and  diffused  genially 
and  wastefully  remarkable  powers,  is  always 
agreeable." 

_| New   Statesman   21:92   Ap   28   '23   120w 

Reviewed   by  P.   W.   Wilson 

N   Y  Times  p4  Jl  22  '23  2200w 
Outlook    134:240    Je    20    '23    130w 
Sat   R  136:195  Ag  18   '23  300w 
"His   wricing,    if   never  distinguished,   is  never 
bad.      He    cannot    reproduce   vividly    and   visibly 
what    he    has    seen,    nor,    among    the    crowd    of 
persons     (many     of     them     enormously     distin- 
guished)   whom    he    mentions   does    he   ever   pre- 
sent a  living  personality;  but  he  has  a  capacity 
for    contentment    and    enjoyment    and    some    of 
this   he   tran.smits    to   his   reader." 
-I-  —  Spec    130:852   My   19   '23   600w 

"One  of  the  most  companionable  books  of  the 
summer,  lending  itself  especially  to  leisurely 
reading  in  the  hammock  or  on  seashore  piazzas, 
for  it  is  a  book  that  one  wants  to  'talk  over' 
with  a  friend,  or  a  group  of  booklovers  and 
European  habitues."  Lilian  Whiting 

+  Springf'd      Republican     p7a     Je     17     '23 

2700W 

"It    introduces   us   cursorily   to   a   great   many 

well-known    places    and    people,    hut    the    scene 

often  shifts  before  we  have  time  to  realize  how 

Heeting  the  glimpse  has  been." 

f-  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p305   My 

3    '23    220w 

BRUCE,    CHARLES    GRANVILLE,    and    others. 

Assault   on   Mount   Everest,    1922.    339p   il    $7.50 

Longmans 

915.4     Everest,    Mount.      Mountaineering 

The  exploration  preliminary  to  the  ascent  was 
the  subject  of  a  previous  volimie.  Col.  Howard- 
Bury's  "Mount  Everest;  the  reconnaissance." 
(Book  Review  Digest,  1922)  The  present  volume 
contains  the  narrative  of  the  climbs  by  which 
the  height  of  27,000  feet  was  reached,  thus 
eclipsing  all  previous  records.  The  expedition 
was  perfectly  organized  and  the  use  of  oxygen 
apparatus,  seriously  tested  for  the  first  time, 
produced  results  of  great  scientific  importance. 
Three  climbs  were  attempted,  the  last  being 
interrupted  by  a  terrible  avalanche  soon  after 
the  start.  The  arrangements  for  the  success- 
ful conduct  of  the  expedition,  the  negotiations 
with  the  Tibetan  authorities,  the  obstacles  sur- 
mounted, etc.,  are  described  by  the  leader  of 
the  expedition.  Notes  on  scientific  observations 
and  on  natural  history  are  included.  The  photo- 
graphs are  of  unusual  beauty. 


Greek,  games,  for  he  shows  delightfully  the  ab- 
sorption by  all  members  of  the  party  m  the 
maintenance  of  their  bodily  fitness."     R:  Church 

-t-  Spec    131:750   N    17    '23    ISOOw 
"Mr.   Mallory   has   the   gift   for   describing  ex- 
periences   on    mountains — those    of    anticipation 
and    retrospection    as    well    as    those    of    action. 
What    they   did   is  admirably   told." 

-f   The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p661  O  11 
'23  1600w 

BRUCE,  WILLIAM  CABELL.  John  Randolph 
of  Roanoke,  1773-1833;  a  biography  based 
largely  on  new  material.  2v  661;S01p  il  $10 
Putnam 

B    or    92      Randolph,    John  23-1760 

The  author  finds  all  the  biographies  of  John 
Randolph,  so  far  issued,  inadequate,  with  the 
exception  of  the  Life  by  Hugh  A.  Garland. 
Since  then  a  great  mass  of  new  material  re- 
hiting  to  Ranaolfh  has  come  to  light  and  has 
been  freely  used  in  the  present  work.  Among 
this  material  are  the  diary  and  other  journals 
of  Randolpli,  and  numerous,  previously  un- 
known letters.  Appendix,  notes  and  index  with 
second    volume. 


N  Y  World  p6e  N  25  '23  400w 
"What  immediately  strikes  one  about  the  au- 
thors of  this  book  is  the  classical  spirit  in 
which  they  write  of  their  adventure.  Their 
eagerness,  the  receptivity  of  their  versatile 
minds,  are  truly  of  the  Great  Age.  We  feel  this 
particularly  about  Mr.  Leigh-Mallory,  whose 
prose  is  .something  to  be  enjoyed  for  its  dignity 
and  beauty  of  phrase.  One  feels,  while  reading 
his    narrative,    a    sense    as    of    the    watching   of 


"Mr.  Bruce  has  had  the  benefit  of  much  new 
matter  not  at  the  dispr  il  of  Randolph's  earlier 
biographers,  including  i  e  diaries  of  his  sub- 
ject and  many  letters  to  intimates.  ^  He  has 
pioduced  a  really  fine  piece  of  work."  S.  L. 
Cook 

+   Boston    Transcript    p3    Ja    27    '23    2050w 

"Mr  Bruce  does  not  preach.  Pie  has  no 
thesis  to  expound,  no  doctrine  to  nail  on  the 
door.  With  a  rare  sense  of  the  proprieties  of 
the  case,  the  author  allows  Randolph  to  reveal 
himself  and  others  to  reveal  him.  We  accept 
their  dicta;  there  is  no  pressure  to  accept  any 
from  Mr.  Bruce,  although  he  does  not  with- 
hold his  judgment  when  necessary."  A.  S.  Will 
+   N    Y    Times    p4    P    11    '23    2300w 

BRYAN,   GEORGE  SANDS.  Yankee  notions.   72p 

$1.25   Yale  univ.   press 

811  22-20555 

■George  S.  Brvan  is  the  G.S.B.  who  so  fre- 
quently adds  flavor  to  F.P.A.'s  'Conning  Tow- 
er.' Scattered  through  the  versed  stories  in  the 
Down  East  dialect  are  bits  that  are  extremely 
different.  They  are  poems  of  a  New  England 
into  which  no  Yankee  farmer  intrudes.  They 
are  children  born  of  an  adoration  of  this,  for 
America,  old  section.  The  hills,  the  trees,  the 
weather — all  the  things  that  have  for  ages 
inspired  songs  to  nature  win  a  happy  re- 
sponse."— Bookm 

Bookm  57:215  Ap  '23  180w 
"For  the  lover  of  the  gracefully  attuned 
lyric  this  book  has  little  to  offer.  'The  author 
does  not  revel  in  the  glory  of  sunsets  nor  grow 
ecstatic  over  skylarks,  rainbows  or  clouds. 
Rather  his  ver.se  is  of  a  coldly  intellectual 
type — intellectual  not  in  the  sense  of  being  pro- 
found, but  of  being  governed  by  the  mind 
rather    than    by    the    emotions." 

Lit  R  p251  N  25  '22  270w 
"  'Yankee  Notions'  grows  a  trifle  monotonous 
after  a  while.  The  poems  are  New  England 
to  the  core,  written  with  a  humor  and  sagacity 
that  carry  out  the  author's  intentions."  Milton 
Raison 

-^ -NY    Tribune    p29    D    3    '22    130w 

"A  diverting  volume,  rich  in  humor,  and 
paiticularly  faithful  in  its  rendering  of  the  color 
and  characteristics  of  New  England  village  life." 
+  Outlook  133:900  My  16  '23  300w 
"Mr  Bryan's  poems  are  neatly  written,  and 
the  production  of  the  book  is  thoroughly  com- 
mendable." 

-L   Springf'd   Republican   plO   F  14  '23  120w 

BRYANT,  LORINDA  (MUNSON)  (MRS 

CHARLES   W.    BRYANT).    Children  s   book  of 
celebrated   sculpture.    104p   il   $2.50    Century 

730  Sculpture  23-12936 

The  book  contains  reproductions  of  fifty  cele- 
brated pieces  of  sculpture  ranging  from  an  ivory 


70 


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BRYANT,   LORINDA — Continued 
statuette  of  Cheops,  about  4000  B.C.,   to  Gutzon 
Borglum's    statue    of   Lincoln.      Each    is   accom- 
panied by  a  page  of  description. 

Booklist  20:62  N  '23 
Lit  R  p354  D  8  '23  llOw 
"The  booit  is  easily  adapted  to  juvenile  read- 
ers. A  page  of  description  faces  a  full  page 
reproduction.  Modern  sculpture  fraternizes  with 
the  classic.  Miss  Bryant  does  not  attempt  to 
give  a  critical  analysis  of  these  sculptures. 
Instead  she  gives  anecdotes  in  the  life  of  the 
artist  and  bits  ot  mythology  and  history  related 
to  the  subject." 

-|-   Springf'd    Republican   p7a   N   4   '23    lOOw 

BRYANT,   LOUISE   (MRS  JOHN    REED).     Mir- 
rors of  Moscow.     209p   il   $2.50   Seltzer 
923.2     Russia — Biography.        Russia — -History 
—Revolution,    1917-  23-26129 

"In  this  book  I  have  tried  to  show  the  leaders 
of  the  revolution  as  they  really  are,  as  I  know 
them  in  their  homes,  where  the  red  glare  does 
not  penetrate  and  they  live  as  other  men." 
(Author's  foreword)  Contents:  Lenin  and  his 
subordinates;  Jacob  Peters,  Fedore  S.  Dzerzhin- 
sky  and  the  extraordinary  commission;  Anatol 
Vassilievitch  Lunacharsky  and  Russian  culture; 
Michael  Ivanovitch  Kalinin  and  the  peasants; 
Madame  Alexandra  KoUontai  and  the  woman's 
movement;  Leon  Trotsky,  soviet  war  lord; 
Enver  Pasha  and  the  Mohammedans;  Tikon  and 
the  Russian  church;  Tchicherin,  commissar  for 
foreign  affairs,  and  his  subordinates;  Maxim 
Litvinov,  assistant  commissar,  Leonid  Krassin 
and  subordinates.  The  illustrations  are  portrait- 
caricatures  by  C^sare. 


Am    Pol    Scl    R    17:515   Ag   '23   lOOw 
Booklist  19:220  Ap  '23 

"They  are  cut  and  dried  sketches,  journalis- 
tically written,  that  have  the  pi-ecision  of  a 
textbook.  One  would  be  willing  to  take  a  Bible 
oath  that  every  word  in  them  is  rigidly  truth- 
ful; for  this  very  reason,  they  are  not  so  in- 
teresting as  they  might   be." 

h   Bookm  57:464  Je  '23  lOOw 

Freeman   7:237    My   16   '23   300w 

"Louise  Bryant's  book  will  cause  the  reader 
at  least,  to  pause  and  reconsider  and  herein 
is  its  great  value.  The  style  is  attractive;  the 
movement  never  lags,  and  one  can  get  much 
pleasure  from  reading  it,  even  one  who  dis- 
agrees entirely  with  its  conclusions.  C^esare's 
Illustrations  are  as  usual  incomparable.  The 
best  perhaps   is  Trotsky."   W.   E.   C. 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   plO   Ap 
22  '23   1400w 

"The  time  has  scarcely  come  for  writing  a 
'mirror'  book  about  Moscow  in  the  sense  that 
such  a  book  may  be  written  about  Downing 
Street  or  Washington.  The  scene  is  too  shift- 
ing, the  psychology  too  changing,  and  too  few 
of  the  personages  in  sight  rise  above  mediocrity 
as  human  beings  when  detached  from  the 
events  into  which  chance  and  the  revolution 
have  flung  them.  Miss  Bryant  has  done  a  use- 
ful, service,  nevertheless,  in  clearing  up  the 
origins  and  some  of  the  vita!  facts  about  a  few 
of  those  who  have  emerged  from  the  Russian 
cataclysm  nnd  for  the  moment  hold  the  stage." 
Arthur  Ruhl 

1-   Lit   R  p565  Mr  31  '23  1150w 

"Miss  Bryant's  book,  without  being  deeply 
significant,  is  very  useful  because  it  gives  an 
authentic  picture  of  Soviet  Russia  and  visual- 
izes and  humanizes  for  us  the  men  whom  most 
AiTiericans  now  see  as  either  monsters  of  cruelty 
and  lust  or  as  gods  of  enlightenment  and  pro- 
phets of  a  new  Paradise.  The  book  is  jour- 
nalism at  its  best  and  something  more."  K.  S. 
Angell 

-f    Nation    116:548   My   9   '23   1050w 

"Miss  Bryant  is  strongly  pro-Bolshevist  in  her 
sympathies,  yet  she  manages  somehow  not  to 
let  this  bias  interfere  too  much  with  the  ob- 
.lectivity  of  her  observations.  Nor  does  she  let 
it  cast  too  rosy  a  hue  over  the  Bolshevist  lead- 
ers whom  she  portrays.     After  all,   it   is   in   the 


personal  touches  that  she  excels,  and  in  these 
she  'lets  herself  go'  completely,  without  relying 
for  her  effects  on  any  admiration  which  she 
may    feel    for    the    personages    with    whom    she 

'+  N  Y  Times  p3  Mr  11  '23  1450w 
"Though  she  seldom  achieves  brilliance  in 
style,  she  is  a  competent  journalist  also,  in 
spite  of  treating  her  characters  almost  super- 
ficially, most  of  the  brief  sketches  give  actual 
impressions.  A  chief  criticism  is  that  the 
author  is  a  trifle  too  stire  that  her  readers  are 
already  acquainted  with  the  Russians  she  deals 
with;  with  a  few  exceptions  this  cannot  be 
generall.v  true — and  as  a  result  the  piling  up  of 
strange  names  is  confusing."  Kenneth  Fuessle 

-i NY  Tribune  p23  Ap  1  '23  650w 

"The  book  is  of  interest  and  value.  Its 
author  has  the  golden  gift  of  terseness  and  a 
prettv  taste  in  similes."  J.  L.  H. 

-f-  N  Y  World  p8e  Ap  1  '23  650w 
Survey  50:107  Ap  15  '23  300w 
"It  is  clear  that  the  only  mirror  in  which  she 
has  seen  her  Bolshevist  heroes  and  heroines  is 
that  of  her  own  enthusiasm;  but  enthusiasm 
without  a  historical  background  or  the  ability 
to  form  an  independent  judgment,  even  on 
things  that  lie  imder  one's  eyes,  is  not  likely 
to  present  accurate  reflections." 

—  The  Times   [London]   Lit   Sup  p279  Ap 
26  '23  1050W 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:159   Je  '23 

BRYANT,  RALPH  CLEMENT.  Lumber:  its 
manufacture  and  distribution.  539p  $4.50 
Wiley 

674    Lumber  22-17619 

"Deals  with  the  entire  lumber  industry,  in- 
cluding seasoning  and  marketing  of  lumber. 
Gives  more  information  than  has  hitherto  been 
available  on  sawmill  equipment." — Pittsburgh 
Mo    Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:173    Ap    '23 

BRYCE,    JAMES    BRYCE.    viscount.      Memories 

of    travel.       300p    $2.50    Macmillan 

910      Voyages    and   travels  23-2777 

These  memories  cover  travel  experiences  of 
.eome  fifty  years  and  a  great  variety  of  climates, 
scenerv  and  peoples.  Following  impressions  of 
travel  in  Iceland  in  1872  are  chapters  on  the 
mountains  of  Poland  and  of  Hungary;  on  the 
Alnine  campaign  imdertaken  by  the  Russian 
general  Suvaroff.  in  1709;  on  Palestine  in  1914: 
on  the  isles  of  the  southern  Pacific;  on  North 
American  scenery;  and  on  a  trip  across  Siberia 
in    1913. 


Booklist  19:219  Ap  '23 

"Even  though  incomplete  and  fragmentary, 
this  no.=?thumous  book  is  of  no  little  importance. 
Nothing  human  or  otherwise  in  the  world  seems 
to  have  been  alien  to  Lord  Bryce.  and  he  gives 
force  and  feeling  to  this  catholic  view  of  life 
in    everv   word   he   writes."      E.    F.    Edgett 

4-"  Boston    Transcript    p4    F    10    '23    1600w 
Freeman    7:407    Jl    4    '23    300w 

"The  book  deserves  to  be  read,  though  it 
is  neither  verv  rich  in  content  nor  vivid  in 
stvle.  The  fact  is  that  Lord  Bryce,  remark- 
able as  he  was  as  man  and  as  political  philos- 
opher, had  no  special  talent  for  description  or 
narration.  He  was  an  industrious  and  accurate 
observer,  but  he  did  not  see  a  great  deal.  He 
lacked  gusto."   H:   W.   Bunn 

h  Ind   111:20  Jl  21  '23  250w 

Reviewed  by  C.  K.   Zorian 

Lit    R   p585  Ap   7  '23   820w 

"The  gem  of  the  book  is  the   initial  chapter, 
'Impressions  of  Iceland.'  These  forty  pages  will 
surelv  find   a  permanent  place  among  the  clas- 
sics of  travel  literature."     H.  W.  Horwill 
-f  Nation  116:435  Ap  11  '23  1500w 

"Slight  as  most  of  the  chapters  are,  they 
were  well  worth  publication.  Lord  Bryce  was 
a  careful  observer  of  Nature  and  had  interests 
so  wide  and  a  taste  in  scenery  so  catholic  that 
every  land  seems  vivid  before  the  reader's  eye. 


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71 


His  charm  of  style  and  ease  of  description  make 
one  overloolc  the  occasional  weakness  in  his 
geological  explanations." 

i Nature  111:770  Je  9  "23  220w 

New  Statesman  20:755  Mr  31  '23  550w 
N  Y  Times  p6  F  11  '23  1750w 
"It  is  interesting,  it  is  informing,  it  is  pleas- 
ant reading.  Altogether,  it  contains  more  his- 
tory and  description  than  narrative.  But  it  is 
an  admirable  record  of  travels  throughout  half 
a  century  through  half  the  world."  N:  Roose- 
velt 

4-  N  Y  Tribune  p27  Mr  25  '23  800w 
N   Y    World   p9e   F  18   '23   400w 
Outlool<  133:813  My  2  '23  220w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:258   My   '23 
R    of    Rs    67:335    Mr    '23    160w 
"Lord  Bryce  was  avid  of  information  and  he 
imparts   it   with   zest.      His   travels   are   not   in- 
tended  for  the  most  frivolous  class  of  readers, 
and   they  are   carefully   unsensational,   but   they 
are  picturesque  and  vivid.     Perhaps  their  chief 
merit   is   the    fresh   light   which    they   throw   on 
one  of  the  most  intelligent  and  energetic  figures 
of  our  time." 

-I-  Sat   R   135:291   Mr  3   '23   550w 
Spec  130:555  Mr  31  '23  500w 
Springf  d  Republican  p8a  Mr  11  '23  60w 
"Their     well -nourished     studiousness     in     the 
place    of    a    possible    riot    of    impressions    and 
frenzy  of  colorful  phrase-making  will  assist  the 
prospective   tourist   to  look   for   the   points  best 
worth    seeing;    but    for   the    excitements   of   im- 
pressionistic writing  one  must  turn  elsewhere." 
-|-  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    My    27    '23 
llOOw 

BUCHAN,  JOHN.    Book  of  escapes  and  hurried 
journeys.  304p  il  $2  Houghton   [5s  Nelson] 

904  Escapes  A23-949 

These  are  true  stories  ranging  in  time  from 
the  escape  of  King  Charles  after  Worcester,  iti 
1651,  to  the  4000 -mile  air  flight  of  Lieutenants 
Parer  and  M'Intosh  in  1920;  and  in  variety, 
from  the  ride  of  the  obscure  Dick  King  in  South 
Africa,  which  involved  the  fate  of  the  little 
colony  of  Natal,  to  the  flight  of  Marie  Antoi- 
nette to  Varennes.  Contents:  The  flight  to 
Varennes;  The  railway  raid  in  Georgia;  The 
escape  of  King  Charles  after  Worcester;  From 
Pretoria  to  the  sea;  The  escape  of  Prince 
Charles  Edward;  Two  African  journeys;  Tlie 
great  Montrose;  The  flight  of  Lieutenants  Parer 
and  M'Intosh  across  the  world;  Lord  Nithsdale's 
escape;  Sir  Robert  Cary's  ride  to  Edinburgh: 
The  escape  of  Princess  Clementina;  On  the  roof 
of  the  world. 


a   life-time   in    the   grocery   business   cannot   kill 
the    capacity    for    heroism. 


"It    is   a   superb   book.      There   is    romance    in 
it,    and    humor,    too.    There    is    skilled    writing 
in   it,    which  gives   the    reader  the   sensation    of 
perilously    close    calls    and    breathless    moments 
without  any  feeling  of  something  so  hurried  as 
to    be    incomplete."      M.    G.    Bonner 
-f   Int    Bk    R    p37    Jl    "23    500w 
N  Y  Times  p5  Mr  25  '23  650w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:416    Jl    '23 

BUCHAN,      JOHN.        Huntingtower.       316p      $2 

Doran    [7s   6d   Hodder  &   S] 

22-23567 

In  one  of  its  aspects  the  story  is  a  eulogy 
of  the  British  middle-class.  Dickson  McCunn, 
a  retired  grocer,  at  the  end  of  middle  life, 
something  of  a  reader  and  lover  of  nature,  be- 
gins his  new  life  as  a  man  of  leisure  with  a 
holiday  tramp  into  the  country.  He  falls  in 
with  a  young  poet  and  an  encampment  of  a 
handful  of  Glasgow  slum  urchins — imofficial  Box- 
scouts.  The  lot  of  them  are  plunged  into  the 
most  thrilling  adventures  and  romance,  which 
involves  the  rescue  of  a  Russian  princess  and 
crown  jewels  from  a  band  of  plotting  criminals. 
the  storming  of  an  old  huntingtower  and  an 
abandoned  house  and  divers  bloody  fights.  The 
laddies  display  wonderful  strategic  resourceful- 
ness and   bravery  and   Mr  McCunn   proves   that 


Booklist  19:189  Mr  '23 
"It  is  an  honest  tale  with  good  measure  of 
incident  and  some  delightful  characterization. 
It  has  no  claim  to  be  a  consistent,  probable 
narrative,  but  it  has  full-fibred  virtues  none 
the   less." 

-I-   Boston    Transcript   p3   Ja  27   '23   400w 

Cleveland  p26  Ap  '23 
"The  events  of  'Huntingtower'  fall  together 
like  the  design  for  a  mosaic,  but  so  simply  is 
it  worked  out,  with  such  lack  of  pretense  to 
the  incitement  of  emotion  and  climactic  situa- 
tions, that  the  mosaic  is  not  perceived  until 
the  story  is  ended.  Mr.  Buchan  draws  wildly 
romantic  scenes  with  a  realistic  stroke,  and 
convinces  of  the  veracity  of  his  fiction  by  the 
very  presentation  of  it.  Surely  one  of  the 
subtlest  of  triumphs  for  a  story-teller!" 
-I-  Int  Bk  R  p53  Mr  '23  350w 
"What  lifts  the  book  out  of  the  ordinary  is 
the  undercurrent  of  whimsical  humor  that  runs 
through  it.  Mr.  Buchan  has  a  concise  and  vig- 
orous style,  and  at  the  telling  of  a  good  tale  is 
a  practiced  hand." 

+   Lit   R   p631   Ap  21   '23  320w 
"Fascinating   tale   of   humor   and   adventure." 

+  Nation  and   Ath   31:801  S  16  '22  130w 
"It  is  hard   to  conceive  of  any  reader   finish- 
ing   the    tale    without    a    joyous    sense    of    time 
well    spent." 

+   N    Y    Times    pl7    Ja    28    '23    580w 

Reviewed    by   A.    L.   Hill 

N   Y  Tribune  p25  Ap  8  '23  550w 
N    Y    World    p9e    F    18    '23    270w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:212  My  '23 
"The  book   provides  a  whiff  of  the  authentic 
atmosphere  of  romance  and  will  afford  its  read- 
ers plenty  of  thrilling  moments. 

-I-  Spec   129:311   S  2  '22   220w 
"A    delightful    blending    of    vagabondage,    ro- 
mance and  adventure." 

-I-  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  1  '23  220w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p520  Ag 
10  '22  650w 

BUCHAN,    JOHN.      Midwinter.     333p    $2    Doran 

23-12113 
"It  is  the  '45.  Prince  Charlie  has  crossed 
the  border,  and  is  marching  south  to  Derby; 
Walpole,  Pelham,  and  the  Whig  Ministry  spm 
their  plots  in  London;  the  West's  awake  and 
George  of  Hanover  must  fight  for  his  throne; 
and  Miss  Claudia  Grevel,  in  whose  family 
Samuel  Johnson  is  employed  as  tutor,  has  eloped 
with  Sir  John  Norreys.  Capt.  Alastair  Mac- 
Lean,  a  Scotch  gentleman  of  the  Royal  Ecos- 
sais,  has  gone  on  a  rather  delicate  mission  to 
my  Lord  Cornbury,  but  turns  to  ride  north  with 
Johnson  (who  is  a  monstrous  bad  rider,  but  a 
hearty  trencherman)  to  find  the  lady  and  brmg 
news  of  import  to  the  Stuart  Prince.  All  Eng- 
land is  riding,  marching,  waiting  the  result, 
and  the  result  hangs  upon  a  thread.  It  is  John- 
son who  motivates  the  denouement  by  forcmg 
MacLean  to  choose  between  saving  the  soul  of 
Sir  John  and  saving  the  Stuart  cause.  MacLean 
makes  the  hard  choice,  which  leaves  him  strip- 
ped and  naked  to  the  end,  face  to  face  with 
himself  at  last,  and  with  no  need  to  lower  his 
eyes." — I^it    R 

Booklist    20:55    N    '23 
"If    there    is    any    criticism    at    all    of    'Mid- 
winter' it  is  that  the  story  gives  the  impression 
of    gre  It    rapidity    of    writing— and    is    a    trifle 
complicated.      But   it    will    give   you   a    gorgeous 

evenins:."      J.    F.  

+  Bookm  58:319  N  '23  380w 
"Thp  fart  that  Mr.  Buchan  has  lavished 
much  artistrv  on  this  romance  sets  it  above  much 
ordinarv  stoVy  telling,  yet  its  first  ami  great 
claim  upon  us  is  that  it  is  a  story  worth  telling 
and  worth  reading."  S.   L.  C. 

4-  Boston  Transcript  p4   S  19  '23  8o0w 


72 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BUCHAN,    JOHN— 'Conthiued 

"Over  it  all  Mr.  Buchan  casts  a  glamour  that 
cannot  be  conveyed  save  by  reading  the  book. 
'Midwinter'  is  again  one  of  his  splendid  chases, 
one  man  matching  his  wits  against  many,  with 
great  affairs  in  the  event,  all  beneath  the  naked 
sky,  with  doublings,  and  ruses,  and  captures 
and  escapes.  It  is  a  theme  as  old  as  mankind, 
as  clean  and  elemental  as  the  ancient  songs  and 
the  old,  old  things  the  sense  of  which  broods 
over  all  of  Mr.  Buchan's  work."  J:  F.  Carter,  Jr. 
+  Lit  R  p4  S  1  '23  540w 
"It  is  a  story  that  has  many  merits  and  few 
faults,  the  greatest  of  which  is  that  it  tells  too 
little  abovit   INIidwinter." 

H NY    Times   pl7    S    16    '23    720w 

N  Y  Tribune  p24  N  25  '23  150w 
"A   fascinating  yarn   well   told,    with   material 
in    it    for    pretty    quarreling    between    Johnson- 
ians."    Malcolm  Ross 

+   N   Y  World  pSe  N  18  '23  G80w 
"As   usual   Ml'   Buchan   tells  a   spirited   though 
undistinguished    tale,    which   blends   history   and 
fiction,    romance    and    adventure." 

+   —  Springf d    Republican    p5a   S   23   '23   480w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p618  S   20 
'23    650w 

BUCHANAN,     SIR     GEORGE     WILLIAM.     My 

mission     to     Russia,     and     other     diplomatic 
memories.  2v  253;280p  il  $8  Little  [30s  Casselll 
947        Russia — History— Revolution,         1917-. 
Great    Britain — Foreign    relations — Russia 

23-12797 
The  writer  of  these  memoirs  was  the  last 
British  ambassador  to  Russia,  1910-1918,  and 
for  the  five  years  previous  he  filled  the  post 
of  minister  to  Bulgaria.  In  Russia,  with  which 
the  greater  part  of  his  book  is  concerned,  he 
witnessed  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  tlie  over- 
throw of  the  empire,  the  rise  and  fall  of  the 
provisional  government  and  the  Bol.«hevist 
revolution.  He  belongs  to  the  old  school  of 
diplomacy  and  the  views  he  expresses  are 
founded  on  the  official  reports  written  while 
he  was  at  Petrograd.  His  book  is  in  the  main 
an  apology  for  the  British  foreign  office  in  it.s 
relations   with   Russia. 


Booklist   20:94   D   '23 

"Undoubtedly    the    most    straightforward,    re- 
velatory,   altogether   readable   account    we   have 
had     of      the      conditions       which       contributed 
most    to   the   downfall   of   Russia's   old    order  " 
-i-   Bookm    58:339    N   '23    120w 

"Sir  George  is  an  admirable  writer  of  recollec- 
tions. He  has  the  power  to  make  the  reader 
.=ee  things.  His  clear  style,  unencumbered  with 
rhetorical  redundancy  and  without  bursts  of 
protestation,  gives  the  reader  that  most  satis- 
factory of  all  sensations,  the  confidence  in  the 
book's   simple   verncity."      S.    T>.   Cook 

+    Boston   Transcript  p3   S  29   '23   1650w 

"The  two  volumes  before  us  add  little  to  our 
knowledge  of  the  events  of  the  last  nine  years. 
Their  chief  contributions  are  on  minor  mat- 
ters. The  interest  of  the  bcok  is  in  the  char- 
acter of  Sir  George  Buchanan  himself  and  his 
opinions.  It  is  just  because  Sir  George  is  so 
resolute  in  pursuit  of  his  main  subject,  in  his 
memoirs  as  in  his  life,  that  he  is  valuable  as 
a   type."     R.    M.    Lovett 

H New/    Repub    36:supl0    S    26    '23    1600w 

"W<?  welcome  the  appearance  of  Sir  George 
Buchanan's  memoirs,  and  would  advise  all  who 
are  even  remotely  interested  in  the  fate  of 
Europe  to  read  them  with  the  attention  they 
deserve.  For  here  we  are  given  not  only  a 
lucid  and  authoritative  account  of  diplomacy 
and  war,  but  also  an  insight  into  the  work- 
ings of  a  comparatively  able  and  very  influ- 
ential diplomatist's  mind.  It  is  a  disconcerting 
revelation.  On  the  state  of  Russia  in  general 
he  has  little  that  is  new  to  say.  As  a  whole 
the  book  challenges  appreciation  as  a  semi- 
official apologia  rather  than  as  historv  and 
we  cannot  say  that  we  find  it  altogether  con- 
vincing." 

1-    New    Statesman    21:626    S    8    '23    SOOw 


"Neither  in  facts,  substance  nor  implication 
is  there  anything  sensational  in  these  obviously 
official  parts  of  the  book,  and  students  who 
are  familiar  with  the  White  and  Orange  Pa- 
pers and  the  Blue  Books  dealing  with  the 
episodes  will  find  little  that  is  new  in  them. 
The  author,  taking  the  high  lights  of  diplomatic 
correspondence  and  conversations,  has  suc- 
ceeded in  popularizing  them.  That  is  all.  The 
British  case  may  thus  be  read  in  an  enter- 
taining manner  by  him  who  runs.  Some  read- 
ers may  seriously  regret  the  intervention  of 
Downing  Street.  Rightly  or  wrongly,  they  will 
believe  that  the  autobiography  of  an  interest- 
ing diplomat  has  thus  been  officially  foreshort- 
ened to  meet  the  exigencies  of  imperial  in- 
terests." 

H NY  Times  pi  S  2  '23  3500w 

"An  invaluable  record  of  certain  events  and 
developments  as  to  which  its  author  is  the  chief 
possible  witness"     Owen  Langdon 

-f   N   Y  World  p9e  S  9  '23  1250w 
Sat    R    136:45    Jl    14    '23    660w 
Spec   131:87   Jl   21   '23   1350w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p410   Je 
21    '23    1050w 

BUCK,   CHARLES   NEVILLE.   Alias   Red   Ryan. 

298p  $1.75  Doubleday 

23-9171 

"The  only  excuse  Mr  Buck  could  have  for 
beginning  his  story  with  a  murder  by  fur  thieves 
during  the  crime  wave  in  New  York  was  to  ex- 
cite interest  in  his  tale.  Then  the  author  plunges 
into  the  story  of  Red  Ryan,  pickpocket  and  thief, 
who  turns  detective,  and  Barbour  Sevens,  col- 
lege football  player  and  later  employee  in  the 
fur  house  that  is  robbed.  His  is  an  interesting 
yarn  of  crooks  led  by  a  master  mind,  with  the 
pair  working  at  cross  purposes  against  them, 
but  joining  hands  in  the  end  to  solve  the  prob- 
lem and  punish  the  criminals  in  a  clever  plot." — 
Lit  R 


Booklist  20:55  N  '23 
"The  factiousness  of  the  story's  hard  char- 
acter is  facetious.  The  author's  style  is  crisp 
and  vigorous.  The  love  element  is  slight.  Al- 
together a  very  satis.'uctory  book  of  its  kind." 
R.   C.   Holliday 

+   Int    Bk    R    p5S    O    '23    400w 
"It    is    not   as    deep    as    a    well    or    wide    as    a 
church    door,    but    it    will    serve    to    while    away 
an  hour  or  two." 

h   Lit  R  p819  Jl  7  '23  150w 

"Suspense  keeps  the  story  moving  at  a  fair 
pace;  but  every  now  and  then  a  slough  of  senti- 
mentality  impedes   it." 

1-   N  Y  Times  p22  Je  17  '23  350w 

Reviewed  by  A.   D.  Douglas 

N  Y  Tribune  p20  My  20  '23  340w 

BUDGE,   SIR    ERNEST     ALFRED     THOMPSON 
WALLIS.    Tutankhamen;    Amenism,    Atenism, 
and    Egyptian    monotheism.    160p    il  $3    Dodd 
[IDs  6d  Hopkinson] 
299.32       Tut-ankh-amen.       Egypt— Religion. 
Egypt— Antiquities  [23-26842] 

"Sir  Wallis  Budge  has  deferred  to  fashion  in 
calling  his  book  Tutankhamen,  for  its  contents 
deal  very  cursorily  with  that  insignificant 
monarch,  whose  name,  at  the  caprice  of  Time, 
has  been  so  undeservedly  familiar  in  the 
mouths  of  modern  nations.  Tutankhamen  is 
really  only  the  lay  figure  on  which  have  been 
hung  the  richest  robes  of  Egyptian  culture. 
The  author  is  content  to  leave  this  inanimate 
figure  and  to  give  his  attention  to  the  two 
preceding  Pharaohs,  Amenhetep  III.,  and 
Amenhetep  IV.  The  latter,  particularly,  he 
makes  the  subject  of  his  thesis.  We  feel  that 
he  has  something  more  than  an  impersonal 
attitude  towards  that  interesting  character, 
and  also  against  the  journalists  and  scholars 
of  to-day  who  have  set  up  this  Pharaoh  as  the 
first  individualist  and  monotheist,  as  a.  phi- 
losopher and  pacifist." — New  Statesman 


Booklist  20:50  N  '23 


BOOK    REVTFAV    DIGEST 


73 


"There  are  some  repetitions  not  strange  in 
a  book  written  evidently  in  some  haste.  .  .  The 
book  will  be  welcomed  by  all  who  have  fol- 
lowed with  much  intense  interest  the  recent 
explorations   in    Egypt."      N.    H.    D. 

H Boston    Transcript    p6    Ag   22   '23    llOOw 

"Sir  Wallis  Budge's  book  is  deeply  interest- 
ing becau.se  it  awakens  in  the  reader  more 
than    a    mere   antiquarian    interest."    R.    C. 

+  New  Statesman  21:33G  Je  23  '23  lOOOw 
Reviewed  by  C:  De  Kay 

N  Y  Times  pll  S  2  '23  1900w 
"As  a  summary  of  what  was  already  known, 
and  as  a  corrective  to  some  of  the  high-flown 
idealism  that  is  too  popular,  this  work  will  fill 
a  useful  place  although  opinions  may  differ  as 
to  some  details." 

Sat   R    135:842  Je  28  '23   380w 
"An    excellent    little    sketch." 

-f-  The    Times    [LondonJ    Lit    Sup    p405   Je 
14    '23    150w 

BULL,  PERCIVAL  GEORGE.  Chemistry  of 
to-day.  311p  il  .$2.75  Lippincott  t8s  6d  Seeley, 
Service] 

540  Chemistry  [23-5472] 

"This  book  is  not  in  any  sense  a  textbook, 
but  is  an  al  tempt  to  give  some  account  of  the 
les.s  abstruse  facts  of  tnodein  chemistry  in 
poi)ulai-  language  and  free  entii'ely  from  all 
technical  terms,  so  that  it  may  be  understood 
by  all."  (Introd.)  Begiiuiiug  with  a  description 
of  alchemy  as  the  dawn  of  chemistry  all  the 
well-established  facts  of  chemistry  along  with 
the  results  of  modern  research  are  carefully 
explained  and  the  more  important  applications 
In  daily  life  .-uid  in  industry  are  set  forth. 
Diagrams  and   index. 


"The  book  has  a  good  index,  and  its  uii- 
technical  language  and  clear  illustrations  should 
make    it    welcome." 

-f-   New    Statesman    20:120    O    28    '22    170\v 

BUNBURY,    HUGH    MILLS.     Destructive  distil- 
-    lation   of   wood.    340p  $8.50   Van   Nostrand    [35s 

Benn   bros.] 
668     Wood   distillation  [23-11662] 

"Valuable  for  the  Information  on  destructive 
distillation  in  general,  and  of  special  interest 
to  chemists  and  technologists  engaged  directly 
in  the  wood-distillation  industry." — Pittsburgh 
Mo   Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:535    D    '23 

BUNIN,  IVAN  ALEXEIVICH.  Dreams  of 
Chang,  and  other  stories;  auth.  tr.  from  the 
Russi.nn,  liy  Bernard  Guilbert  Guerney.  313p 
$2.50   Knopf 

23-13889 
Fifteen  short  stories  by  a  Russian  realist 
which,  with  the  exception  of  The  gentleman 
from  San  Francisco,  The  son  and  Light  breath- 
ing, appear  in  English  for  the  first  time  in  this 
collection.  Contents:  The  drenms  of  Chang;  A 
compatriot;  Brethren;  Gautami;  The  son;  Light 
breathing;  An  evening  in  spring;  The  sacrifice; 
Aglaia;  The  grammar  of  love;  A  night  conversa- 
tion: A  goodly  life;  T  say  nothing';  Death;  The 
gentleman   from  San  Francisco. 


"  'The  Dreams  of  Chang'  is  a  skilful  picture 
of  soulless  humanity  suggested  through  the 
eyes  of  an  animal  soul.  It  is  the  sort  of  thing 
that  must  be  done  superlatively  well  if  it  is  not 
to  degener.'Uf  into  a  species  of  fictional  metem- 
psychosis. Bunin  escapes  the  pitfall.  The  rare 
quality  of  the  man  is  this:  he  manages  to  sym- 
bolize existence  without  lapsing  into  a  sterile 
allegory,  without  depriving  his  men  and  women 
of  their  flesh-and-blood  reality.  Tt  is  one  of 
the  severest  tests  to  which  creative  artistry  in 
fiction  may  be  put.  To  pass  it  reveals  the 
master."     I.  G. 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p6  D  1  '23  lOOOw 


"With  an  inferior  writer  the  dominant  mood 
in  Ivan  Bunin's  'The  Dreams  of  Chang'  might 
have  degenerated  into  sentimentality;  in  Bunin 
it   is   ironic  pathos."     L..   C.   M. 

Freeman   8:407  Ja  2  '24  150w 

"Like  most  of  the  greater  Russians  who  pre- 
ceded him,  he  is  a  realist  in  the  fullest  sense  of 
the  word,  a  craftsman  who  fashions  the  inci- 
dents in  his  narratives  with  that  adjusted  ease 
that  adds  so  much  to  the  lifelike  qualities  of  his 
characters.  And,  again  like  most  Russian 
writers,  a  somewhat  sombre  symbolism  threads 
his  stories." 

+   N  y  Times  p9  O  28  '23  700w 

BUNIN,  IVAN  ALEXEIVICH.  Gentleman  from 
San  Francisco,  and  other  stories.  135p  $1.50 
Seltzer   [4s  L.   &  V.  Woolf] 

23-32101 

The  stories  are  translated  from  the  Russian 
by  D.  H.  Lawrence,  Leonard  Woolf  and  S.  S. 
Kotelianskv.  In  the  title  story  a  business  man 
from  San  Franci.sco,  having  amassed  wealth,  is 
on  his  wav  to  the  old  world  with  his  wife  and 
daughter,  "to  begin  to  live  and  enjoy  himself. 
The  ocean  voyage  on  a  steamer  de  luxe  is 
described  in  detail,  as  also  the  arrival  in  Italy 
with  its  first  discomforts.  As  he  waits  in  the 
hotel  for  his  wife  and  daughter  to  join  him, 
carefully  dressed  for  dinner  and  feeling  that  now 
his  new  life  is  in  full  swing,  a  sudden  stroke 
ends  his  life.  His  body  is  carried  back  to  San 
Francisco  in  the  hold  of  the  same  steamer  de 
luxe  on  which  he  had  come.  The  other  stories 
are:  Gentle  breathing;  Kasimir  Stanislavovitch; 
Son. 

Booklist   20:100  D  '23 
"Is  work  of  the  first  order,  and  has  evidently 
been  lucky  in  its  translators." 
+  Dial   74:413   Ap  '23  90w 
"Allowing   for    the    false    completeness    of   his 
work,     which    excludes    it    definitely    from    the 
realm   of   serious   art,    he   has   enormous    virtues 
as    a    craftsman;    qualities    which    will    delight 
everyone  who  cnn  appreciate  the  difficulties  and 
the  subtleties  of  writing.     The  translations  are 
probably  the  best  that  have  been  made  in  Eng- 
lish  from   the  Russian  tongue."     Edwin  Muir 

^ Freeman   7:309   Je   6   '23   760w 

"This  is  a  big  thing,  an  enormous  thing. 
•The  Gentleman  from  San  Francisco'  is  a  piece 
of  mocking  deviltry,  hard,  bitter  and  brilliant 
beyond  description.  The  last  word  at  modernity, 
as  far  as  its  setting  is  concerned,  it  is  yet  as 
ancient  as  grief."  ,„  „  „, 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  plO  F  25 
'23  300w 
"Mr.  Bunin  is  recognized  as  the  greatest  liv- 
ing master  of  the  Russian  language.  His  words 
seem  to  separate  from  the  paper  and  stand 
before  your  eyes  in  their  unsurpassed  wealth 
of  colors  and  .shapes.  And  with  this  he  bom- 
bines  an  equally  great  sense  of  esthetic  pro- 
portions: you  enjoy  and  absorb  every  little 
detail  of  his  strange  stories,  in  which  you  never 
find  anything  that  hurts  your  feeling  for  great 
art."      A.    T.    Nazaroff 

-f  Int   Bk   R  p54  Ap  '23  700w 
"These    four    short    stories    will    prove    to    the 
American  short -story  lovers  that  with  Chekhoff 
the  Russian  short  story  did  not  die.     Bunin  has 
the    sadness    and    poetic   enchantment   of   Chek- 
hoff's  best  writings;  he  is  more  aristocratic  and 
less   national,    both   in   the   best    and   the   noblest 
sense  of  the  word.     Before  all.  he  was  an  artist. 
The  stories  are  excellently  translated,  in  a  man- 
ner that   does  not    fail  to  render  all   the  pathos 
and    Ivric   suggestiveness   of   Bunin.      They   bear 
amnle  witness  to  his  genius."     Tsadore  Lhcvinne 
+    Lit  R  p483  F  24  '23  700w 
Reviewed  bv  J.  W.   Krutch 

Nation  115:100  Jl  26  '22  250w 

"Bunin's  story  was  at  once  swift  and  majestic, 

penetrating   and    powerful;    not    a    scrap,    but    a 

finished  .nnd  ordered  work  of  art."     J.  M.  Murry 

+    Nation   and  Ath  131:444  .Te  24  '22  1450w 

"The  nuantitv  of  praise  that  has  been  heaped 

iipon    'The    Gentleman    from    San    Francisco'    is 

not  without  reason.     Using  the  simplest  of  im- 


74 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BUNIN,    I.    A. — Continued 

plements,  the  author  has  etched  an  epoch.  .  . 
The  book  is  a  small  one,  but  it  is  one  of  the 
most  satisfying  that  has  appeared  this  season." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl4  Ja  28  '23  850w 
•'  'The  Gentleman  from  San  Francisco'  is  done 
with  such  consummate  art,  such  economy  of 
materials  and  such  power  of  suggestion  that  it 
is,  judged  by  any  standards,  one  of  the  very 
finest  short  stories  ever  written."  Burton 
Rascoe 

+  N    Y   Tribune  p26   F   18   '23   270w 
"M.   Bunin's  story  of  the  travelling  American 
family  is  an  almost  perfect  example  of  the  sym- 
bolic    Russian    short    story    and    is    admirably 
translated." 

+  Spec  129:86  Jl  15  '22  600w 

•BUNIN,  IVAN  ALEXEIVICH.  The  village; 
auth.  tr.  from  the  Russian  by  Isabel  F.  Hap- 
good.  291p  $2.50  Knopf 

23-9538 
One  of  the  characters  in  this  novel  says 
somewhere,  "All  Russia  is  a  village;  get  that 
firmly  fixed  in  your  noddle."  It  is  this  village 
aspect  of  Russia  that  is  pictured  with  a  brutal 
realism  in  this  almost  plotless  novel.  Such  plot 
as  there  is  centers  about  the  careers  of  two 
brothers,  Tikhon  Hitch  and  Kuzma,  the  one  a 
small  landed  proprietor,  the  other  a  petty 
townsman  who  had  dreamed  all  his  life  of  be- 
conung  a  writer.  Kuzma  had  knocked  around 
tor  years,  succeeding  at  nothing,  and  finally 
came  to  Durnovka,  at  his  brother's  request,  to 
become  manager  of  Tikhon  Hitch's  manor. 
All  the  inhabitants  of  the  village  are  the  char,- 
acters  and  they  are  shown  in  the  petty  round  of 
their  life  with  no  attempt  to  lighten  its  sordid- 
ne.ss  and  apparent   futility. 


It  is  a  work  of  silent,  implacable  power; 
It  rises  sheer,  gray,  sphinx-like  for  all  the  hol- 
low chatter  that  echoes  through  its  pages— the 
color  and  the  firmness  of  a  rock.  The  man 
•who  wrote  it  can  no  longer  remain  a  stranger 
to  intellectual   America."  I:  Goldberg 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  Je  IC  '23  950w 
"Read  it  in  Russian  or  in  English— the 
rhythmic  cadence  of  that  truly  Chateaubriand- 
esque  prose  lulls  you  into  an  ecstatic  medita- 
tiveness  such  as  seizes  hold  of  you  when  you 
hear  Debussy's  'Afternoon  of  a  Fawn  *  or 
Charpentier's  'Italian  Impressions.'  I  am  truly 
mortified  at  not  being  able  to  quote  page  after 
page  of  this  remarkable  symphony  in  grav  " 
Tsadore    Lhevinne  &  "^j- 

-I-   Lit   R   p875  Ag  4   '23  900w 
Reviewed    by    J:    J.    Smertenko 

Nation    117:358   O  3   '23   400w 
Reviewed    by    J.    K:    Singleton 

New  Repub  36:52  S  5  '23  700w 
Reviewed    by    Raymond    Mortimer 

New  Statesman   22:82  O   27   '23   llOvv 

^»!1^®  1.^*^  •^°'^"  -^.^^  ^°''^t=  there  are  moments 
^rrihio  V^^'k"  vil'a&e  .life  seems  almost  too 
terrible  to  bear.  Yet  it  all  rings  true.  It  is 
realism  of  an  uncompromising  sort,  a  deliber- 
ate placing  before  the  reader  of  a  state  of  af- 
the^eff'ects^"  ^"^  attempts  to  color  or  lighten 
+   N  Y  Times  pl3  Je  3  '23  900w 

th'yjl^/^^^  ^^""'t  its  merit,  which  is  chiefly 
the  kind  of  power  which  resides  in  ruthlessness 
One  cannot  like  it.  Knowing  and  nerhans 
sharing  the  amiable  weakness  of  the  general 
reader  for  some  touch  of  kindliness  in  litera- 
In^rfh  o"?  T"'^  hesitate  before  recommending 
!ffl-  f'^^^^.?^'  ""'^'^^  to  a  dangerous  optimist 
^^r^^**  VJ  unseemly  levity.  One  chapter 
daily  would  convert  a  Pollyanna  into  a  Scho- 
penhauer."  Isabel  Paterson 

—  NY    Tribune    p21   Jl    22   '23   1050w 

orush.  He  has  produced  a  picture  objectivelv 
.r.y.f^^'^'^T''^-  ^"t  through  and  beneath  the 
sober  shades  one  perceives  a  subjective  com- 
prehension which  is  almost  like  a  touch^f 
sympathy."    E.   \V.    Osborn 

+   N  Y  World  p6e  Ag  5  '23  150w 


"A  most  baffling  book,  its  action  confused,  its 
squalor    unrelieved,    its   characters    sunk    so   far 
below    the    average    of    intelligence    as    to    be 
scarcely  human."     L.  P.  Hartley 
—  Spec  131:861  D  1  '23  560w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p706   O 
25    '23    lOOOw 

BURDETTE,  ROBERT  JONES.  Robert  J. 
Burdette;  his  message;  ed.  from  his  writings 
by   his   wife.    460p   il   $3.50   Winston 

B   or    92  23-2364 

"Robert  J.  Burdette  was  best  known  in  his 
day,  and  in  the  East  is  best  remembered  for  his 
witticisms  which,  originally  appearing  in  the 
Hawk- Eye,  [a  Burlington,  Iowa,  newspaper] 
were  copied  by  newspapers  from  one  ocean  to 
the  other  across  the  wide  expense  of  our 
country."  (Springf'd  Republican)  "Four  trips 
abroad  with  his  son,  his  wife  and  his  stepson, 
and  the  closing  years  of  his  life,  when  he 
preached  as  a  Baptist  to  crowded  audiences  in 
Los  Angeles  Temple,  fill  the  last  five  chapters, 
which  end,  with  his  death,  in  1914.  The  open- 
ing chapters  describe  his  life  in  the  Civil  War, 
his  newspaper  days  and  'Fnding  Himself.'  In 
Chapter  V,  he  is  described  as  on  the  lecture 
platform;  and  that  and  the  three  chapters  which 
follow  contain  many  amusing  experiences  of  his 
various  trips,  and  accounts  of  his  friendships 
with  Riley,  Nye  and  other  humorists  and  lec- 
turers."   (NY   Times) 


"Very  full  of  good  things  is  this  story.  It 
bubbles  even  as  did  his  own  wit,  written  as  it 
is  by  one  whose  personal  appreciation  of  the 
man  is  so  apparent  in  every  page  and  line.  This 
is  no  perfunctory  biography,  but  a  life  story 
which  rings  and  sings."     E.  J.   C. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p4    Mr   3   '23   800w 
N   Y   Times   p20  Mr  4   '23   400w 

"Mrs  Burdette  has  succeeded  admirably  in 
her  literary  portraiture  of  this  genial  genius  of 
platform  and  pulpit  fame.  It  will  be  best  ap- 
preciated, as  Mr  Burdette  was  by  his  readers 
and  hearers,  if  taken  at  intervals  and  not  at- 
tempted as  a  stunt  of  continuous  reading.  Thus 
will  his  personality  make  a  deeper  and  richer 
impress,   as   it  ought." 

-I-  Springf'd    Republican  pl6  O  19  '23  900w 

BURDICK,     CHARLES     KELLOGG.         Law     of 

the  American  constitution;   its  origin  and  de- 
velopment.    687p    $6    Putnam 

342.73        United    States— Constitutional    law 

22-22447 
The  first  three  chapters  give  a  clear  picture 
of  the  making  of  the  constitution,  of  the 
nature  of  the  federal  system  which  was  sei 
up  and  of  the  principles  which  underly  the 
amending  power.  Part  second  deals  with  the 
national  government  in  its  executive,  judicial 
and  legislative  departments,  discussing  the 
powers  which  are  granted  to  each  of  them, 
and  the  limitations  which  are  placed  upon 
their  activities.  In  part  three  are  considered 
the  restrictions  placed  upon  the  States,  and 
the  extent  of  the  powers  which  may  still  be 
exercised  by  them.  No  attempt  has  been 
made  to  treat  of  the  powers  of  the  States  under 
their  individual  constitutions.  The  book  deals 
very  largely  with  that  body  of  "unwritten" 
constitutional  law  developed  by  judicial  in- 
terpretation making  clear  the  nature  and  ex- 
tent of  that  development.  The  first  two  chap- 
ters of  the  book  are  by  Francis  M.  Burdick. 
Appendix,    table    of    cases,    index. 


"In  this  excellent  volume  Professor  Burdick 
has  produced  a  compact  and  readable  hand- 
book and  text  upon  the  federal  constitution. 
.  .  In  the  writer's  opinion  it  is  the  best  text 
for  class  room  use  now  available,  and  will 
be  invaluable  to  social  scientists  as  a  con- 
venient and  reliable  handbook  on  the  constitu- 
tion."      A.    B.    Hall 

+  Am    Pol    Sci    R    17:127    F    '23    700w 
Boston   Transcript  p3  Mr  3  '23  260w 
Reviewed   by   E.    S.    Corwin 

ind   111:143   S   29   "23   950w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


/5 


"In  the  restricted  but  difficult  task  which 
Mr.  Burdick  has  set  for  himself  he  has  achieved 
a  success  which  makes  his  volume  supplant 
all  predecessors  in  its  particular  function." 
T:    R.    Powell 

+   New    Repub    33:298    F    7    '23    680w 

"Professor  Burdick  ranges  himself  on  the  side 
of  liberal  opinion  in  his  criticism  of  some  of 
the  provisions  of  the  espionage  act,  and  in  gen- 
eral his  views  are  enlightened  and  in  accord 
with  the  best  thought  of  the  day."  Abraham 
Benedict 

+  N   Y  Times  pl6  Je  17  '23  880w 

"This  is  a  clear,  impartial,  comprehensive 
statement." 

+  Sprlngf'd    Republican   plO   D  6  *22   800w 

BURDICK,  RUPERT  LEE.  Advertising  to  re- 
tailers; specialized  means  and  methods  for 
developing  trade  distribution.  308p  $3.50 
Ronald 

659     Advertising  23-7190 

"Based  on  study  of  trade  relations  between 
manufacturer  and  retail  dealer.  Contains  prac- 
tical suggestions  on  preparation  of  text  and 
illustration  for  advertising  copy  addressed  to 
distributors,  and  gives  an  analysis  of  advertis- 
ing copy  addressed  to  distributors,  and  gives  an 
analysis  of  advertising  mediums." — Pittsburgh 
Mo  Bui 


"Mr.  Burdick's  workmanlike  volume  is  aimed 
directly  at  manufacturers  who  market  their 
goods  through  the  ordinary  trade  channels  of 
distribution.  In  'Advertising  to  Retailers'  he 
brings  together  for  the  first  time  in  organized 
form  the  basic  principles  and  successful  practice 
of  advertising  in  this  field." 

+  Management  &  Adm  6:383  S  '23  480w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:478  N  '23 

BURGESS,    GELETT.     Have   you   an   educated 

heart?  58p  $1   Boni   &  Liveright 
177      Kindness.    Giving  23-6493 

In  this  little  book  on  the  art  of  being  kind 
Mr  Burgess  discusses  with  humorous  under- 
standing what  he  calls  "style  In  kindness."  He 
brings  up  many  examples  of  the  half-giver  who 
withholds  himself  from  his  gift  or  whose  act  of 
kindness  is  lacking  in  the  tact  and  delicacy 
which  make  it  worthwhile. 


Boston  Transcript  p3  Je  9  '23  170w 
Cleveland    p55   Jl   '23 
"As   it  is   written  by  Mr.   Burgess,    It  is  not 
bromidic."     E.  L.  Pearson 

-f  Ind  110:195  Mr  17  '23  lOOw 
Lit   R   p867  Jl  28   '23   280w 
"A    booklet    containing    some    humor    and    a 
great  deal  of  homely  wisdom." 

-f  N  Y  World  p8e  Ap  1  '23  60w 
"Perhaps   the  most  diverting  of  these   papers 
are  those  which  expatiate  on  the  technic  of  the 
world   in   the   matter   of   gifts,    both   giving   and 
receiving." 

+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  Mr  25  '23  210w 
Survey  50:supl98  My  1  '23  lOOw 

BURGESS,   JOHN    WILLIAM.     Recent  changes 
*    in    American    constitutional    theory.     115p    %2 

Columbia   univ.    press 

342.73     United  States— Constitution     23-11519 

"A  decade  after  his  retirement  from  active 
teaching,  Mr.  Burgess  surveys  the  recent 
changes  in  American  constitutional  theory  and 
practice  in  a  small  volume  designed  especially, 
as  he  says,  for  the  more  than  ten  thousand 
students  whom  he  has  been  privileged  to  in- 
struct, as  a  'maybe,  final  word  from  their  old 
teacher.'  .  .  Mr.  Burgess  derives  his  principles 
of  'sound  political  science'  from  some  funda- 
mental concepts  reached  by  a  priori  reasoning 
and  validated,  he  believes,  by  experience.  Of 
these  the  primary  one  is  the  separation  of 
government  from  the  supreme  power  in  a 
state." — Nation 


Freeman   8:403  Ja  2  '24   350w 


Reviewed  by  T:   R.   Powell 

Nation    117:656    D    5    '23    llOOw 

"If  Prof  Burgess  had  confined  his  criticism  to 
unjust  or  arbitrary  restriction  of  the  citizen's 
'constitutional  intmunities,'  his  book  would  have 
had  more  weight  as  contribution  to  political 
thought.  But  unfortunately  he  writes  as  one 
aii-ing  prejudices  rather  than  as  an  interpreter 
of  constitutional   law." 

—  Springfd    Republican  plO  O  12  '23   600w 

BURGESS,      THORNTON      WALDO.       Burgess 
flower  book  for  children.   350p  il  $3  Little 

580       Botany.      Flowers  23-8557 

"Flowers  are  in  bloom  everywhere,  in  the 
fields  and  woods,  and  by  the  roadside.  But 
many  people  never  notice  them  or  else  pass 
them  by  without  finding  out  their  names  or  the 
interesting  facts  connected  with  each  one.  Peter 
Rabbit  was  like  that.  He  never  paid  attention 
to  flowers  until  one  spring  when  the  Merry 
Breezes  said  to  him,  'Use  your  eyes,  Peter.' 
When  Peter  began  to  'use  his  eyes,'  he  dis- 
covered many  wonderful  things  about 
flowers  that  he  had  never  looked  at  before.  .  . 
The  flowers  are  chosen  from  all  parts  of  the 
country  and  are  of  the  commonest  American 
flora.  The  descriptions  are  scientifically 
correct  and  at  the  same  time  simple  enough  for 
any  child  to  understand  and  remember." — 
Springfd  Republican 

Booklist    19:323    Jl    '23 
Bookm    57:651    Ag    '23    80w 
"A    beautiful    book    with    splendid    big    print 
[containing]    one    hundred    and    three    illustra- 
tions,   most   of    them    colored    so   perfectly   that 
they  look  like  the  flowers  themselves."  F.  M.  W. 
-|-  Boston   Transcript   p2   Je   16  '23   430w 
"This    will    be    a    welcome    companion    to    the 
child  who   loves   the    fields   and   the   wodds.    Mr. 
Buigess    deserves    much    praise    for    translating 
botanical  science  so  ably  for  his  devoted  young 
readers.     The    book    is    splendidly    illustrated." 
M.   G.    Bonner 

+   int   Bk    R  p38  Jl  '23  70w 
Lit    R    p836    Jl    14    '23    250w 
"Children    will    undoubtedly    enjoy    the    story 
of   Peter's   adventures    among   the    flowers,    and 
if   they   read    it,    or   it   is   read   to   them,    in   the 
country  where  they  can  follow  Peter's  trail  with 
their    own    little    feet    and    keen    young    eyes    it 
ought  to  start  them  on   the  way  to  one  of  the 
very  great  and  very  satisfying  pleasures  of  life 
— knowledge  and  love  for  the  out  of  doors." 
4-   N  Y  Times  p20  My  20  '23  270w 
"An     authoritative     guide     to     our    American 
wild   flowers,   more  than  a  hundred  varieties  in 
all  described  in  simple  language  such  as  a  child 
can  understand  and  beautifully  illustrated  from 
photographs."  ,„  .^„  „„ 

-(_  N  Y  Tribune  pl9  Je  10  '23  90w 
"The  botany  is  extremely  well  done.  The 
foundation  has  been  laid  with  extreme  care 
as  is  evidenced  by  the  list  of  distmguished 
botanists  who  have  helped  Mr  Burgess  get 
out  the  book.  On  this  sound  foundation  the 
author  has  built  a  simple  structure  of  fact  that 
ought  to  prove  most  valuable  to  the  youngster 
J      M 

■+  N   Y  Tribune   p31   O  14  '23   250w 

N  Y  World  p8e  Je  3  '23  90w 
Outlook  134:99  My  30  '23  lOOw 
"The  story  woven  with  information  is  told 
in  Mr  Burgess's  usual  style,  so  popular  with 
children.  It  cannot  help  cultivating  an  interest 
in  flowers,  which  may  be  supplemented  by  ac- 
curate and  valuable  knowledge." 

+  Springfd   Republican  plO  Je  6  '23  210w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:416    Jl    '23 

BURGIN     GEORGE    BROWN.    Many   memories. 

288p   $5    Dutton    [16s    HutchiiisonJ 

B   or  92  23-5921 

The  author  apologizes  in  the  prologue  for 
thi'?  third  volume  of  memories  by  quoting  a 
friend  as  complaining  that  the  previous  books 
gave  no  "real  glimpse  of  Mr.   Burgin,  the   man. 


76 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BURGIN,   G:    B. — Continued 

his  hopes  and  aspirations,  his  outlook  upon 
lite."  The  first  two  parts  of  the  present  volume 
are,  accordingly,  autobiographical.  The  other 
two  contain  anecdotes,  estimates  of  himself  by 
interviewers,  reminiscences  of  living  and  dead 
theatrical    critics,    and    other    matter. 


gathering  much  interesting  material  about 
native  customs  and  industries.  The  last  chap- 
ters relate  to  Borneo.  There  are  many  and 
excellent   illustrations  and  a  map. 


"A  Dook  that  is  as  chaotic  as  it  is  enter- 
taining, and  that  is  filled  with  anecdotes  and 
pen  portraits  of  many  men  and  Avomen.  .  . 
Sometimes  Mr.  Burgin  allows  his  sense  of 
humor  to  run  away  with  him,  and  his  efforts 
to    be    waggish    are    strained    and    feeble." 

H Boston    Transcript    p4    Ja    20    '23    1700w 

■"Mr.  Burgin  is  carrying  on,  but  in  not  quite 
so  spontaneous  a  fashion  as  at  first.  But  his 
is,   none  the   less,   a  most  entertaining  volume." 

H Lit    R    p490    F    24    '23    230\v 

Nation   and   Ath  32:165  O  28  '22   180w 

"Mr.  Burgin's  Many  Memories  does  not  flow 
so  easily.  He  does  not  take  us  among  the  reali- 
ties of  his  life,  but  talks  to  us  from  behind  a 
mask.  It  is  as  though  he  were  facetiously  pre- 
tending to  be  a  rather  different  man  from  what 
he  is,  or,  at  least,  as  though  he  were  putting 
up  defences  of  facetiousness  against  our  really 
getting  to  know  him.  Nor  does  he  make  other 
people  real  to  us."     R.  L. 

—  New   Statesman   20:17  O  7  '22   lOOw 
"This   third   volume  of  Mr.   Burgin's   memoirs 

lacks  the  flavor  of  a  significant  personality.  It 
is  a  prolonged,  but  pleasant  and  cultured,  con- 
versation. Like  after-dinner  talk,  it  is  actuated 
not  so  much  by  a  desire  for  expression  as  by 
a   sense   of  obUgation."      Eva   Goldbeck 

h   N    Y   Tribune   p29  Mr  25  '23   160w 

Outlook  133:455  Mr  7  '23  60w 
"To  some  tastes  they  will  appear  belated. 
Humour  has  its  fashions,  which  come  and  go 
in  cycles.  No  doubt  Mr.  Burgin  knows  where 
to  find  the  "gentle  reader'  to  whom  these  jests 
appeal,  and  who  will  regard  his  flow  of  anecdote 
as   brilliantly   new   and   consummately  wlcty." 

—  Sat   R  134:843  D  2  '22  180w 
Spec  130:518  Mr  24  '23  550w 

BURLINGAME,  EUGENE  WATSON,  tr.  Grate- 
ful elephant,  and  other  stories:  tr.  from  the 
Pali.    172p  il  ?3   Yale  univ.   press 

23-16075 
"There  are  twenty-si.\  tales  contained  in  Mr. 
Burlingame's  "The  Grateful  Elephant.'  They 
carry  the  thoughts  and  imaginations  of  their 
readers  back  into  the  dim,  vague  past  of 
twenty-five  centuries  ago  and  the  beginnings 
of  the  Buddhist  religion.  Most  of  them  aie 
believed  to  have  been  told  by  Gotama  Buddha 
himself  to  his  followers,  and  among  them  are 
the  source  tales,  or  variants,  or  parallels  of 
stories  and  parables  and  fables  to  be  found  now- 
all  over  the  world." — X  Y   Times 


"They  will  suit  children  of  quiet  and  thought- 
ful mind,  for  their  tendencv  is  decidedly  moral." 

Lit  R  p353  D  8  '23  llOw 
"The  exceptional  child  may  turn  from  his 
more  familiar  folk  and  fairy  tales  to  these 
parables  of  Buddha  which  appear  as  the  root 
of  some  of  Aesop's  Fables  and  stories  from 
Grimm.  But  for  most  children,  the  original  text 
of  the  Pali,  so  closely  followed  by  Mr.  Burling- 
ame.  presents  difficulties  not  wholly  obliterated 
bv   the  Introduction."   Constance  Naar 

New   Repub  36:315  N  14  "23  60w 

"A  very   unusual   book   for  young  people." 
-f  N   Y  Times  p4  X  11  '23  700w 

BURNETT,    FRANK.      Summer    isles    of    Eden. 

213p  il   S6.50  Putnam   [21s  Sifton,    Praed] 
919  South  Sea  islands.  Borneo  [23-11795] 

The  author  spent  twenty-five  years  of  his  life 
voyaging  thru  the  South  Pacific  and  making  a 
unique  collection  of  the  handiwork  of  the  is- 
landers. His  weakness  for  collecting  gave  im- 
petus to  his  travels  and  led  him  into  imusual 
adventures.  In  many  trips  and  wide  wander- 
ings he  visited  the  Society.  Tongan,  Samoan, 
Fijian,    Solomon,    Gilbert   and   Caroline    islands. 


"The  book  is  valuable  for  the  multiplicity  of 
descriptive  passages  concerning  South  Sea  Is- 
land life  and  people.  The  illustrations,  evi- 
dently from  carefully  made  photographs,  are 
excessively  profuse  and  very  beautiful." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  18  '23  500w 
"There  is  a  refreshing  absence  of  any  attempt 
at  fine   writing,    but  the  book  is  crammed  with 
plainly  expressed   facts." 

+  Sat  R  135:538  Ap  21  '23  130w 
"Xeivher   bald   science   nor   popular   clap-trap, 
but    simple,    kindlv    observation." 

-f-  Spec    131:260    Ag    25    '23    80w 

BURNHAM,    ALTON     CYREL.      Building     your 

own  business.  2S2p  $2.75  Ronald 
658  Business  23-6690 

"Suggestions  and  encouragement  for  the 
man  with  limited  capital  who  wants  to  organize 
an  independent  business.  Discusses  choice  of 
business,  financing,  and  operation.  Includes 
numerous  statements  outlining  the  experience 
of  men  who  have  successfully  launched  small 
business  enterprises.  These  statements,  while 
frequently  expressed  in  faulty  English,  are 
suggestive    and    helpful."^ — Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 


"Mr.  Burnhani's  generous  number  of  illustra- 
tive cases  are  well  selected,  intrinsically  inter- 
esting, and  soundly  generalized  upon  in  each 
instance.  For  every  man  who  sees  the  present 
wealth  of  opportiniities  for  small  business  con- 
cerns, this  book  comes  very  close  to  being  in- 
dispensable."    C:    Blauvelt 

-|-   Management    &    Adm    6:102   Jl    '23    650w 
Pittsburgh     Mo    Bui    28:360    Jl    '23 

BURNS,  CECIL  DELISLE.  Contact  between 
minds;  a  metaphxsical  h\pothesis.  138p  $2.40 
Macniillan 

120  Knowledge.  Social  psychology 
"It  is  not  vfith  the  problem  of  intercourse,  but 
rather  with  the  problem  of  the  nature  of  our 
knowledge  of  other  minds,  which  is  the  condi- 
tion of  intei  course,  that  Mi'.  Burns  is  immedi- 
ately concerned,  and  for  this  in  his  book  he 
offers  us  a  metaphxsical  h>pothesis  as  a  solu- 
tion."— The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup 

Boston   Transcript  p6  Jl  3  '23  400w 

"Able  and  closely  argued  essay.  .  .  Full  of 
peitinent  ciiticisms  and  illuminated  by  schol- 
astic  learning."      T.    P.    Xunn 

-I-   Int  J   Ethics  34:88  O  '23  lOOOw 
Reviewed  by  M.   W.   Calkins 

J  Phllos  20:629  X  8  '23  1500w 
"Mr.  Burns  has  produced  a  very  clear  argu- 
ment. It  avoids  the  epistemological  problem  of 
inteicourse,  and  the  psychological  problem  of 
genesis  of  knowledge,  and  nariows  itself  to  the 
discussion  of  the  natiue  of  our  knowledge  of 
other  minds.  It  is  a  thoughtful  essay  on  a 
problem   of  deep  interest." 

+   Nature   112:236   Ag   18   '23    150w 

New  Statesman  21:684  S  22  '23  900w 
"Mr.  Burns  has  no  difficulty  in  criticizing  the 
traditional  view  that  our  knowledge  of  the  exis- 
tence of  other  minds  is  arrived  at  by  a  process 
of  reasoning.  When  he  comes  to  his  own  con- 
structive theory  he  is  hesitating  and  sometimes 
obscure.  Nevertheless  Mr.  Burns  does,  in  work- 
ing out  his  hypothesis,  develop  some  very  strik- 
ing ideas." 

-i_  _  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p382    Je 
7   '23  1400W 

BURR,  AMELIA  JOSEPHINE.     Little  houses;  a 

book   of  poems.   120p  $1.75   Doran 

811  23-16491 

A  book  of  poems  showing  the  influence  of  the 
author's  recent  visit  to  the  Far  East.  They 
are  mostly  poems  of  sentiment  in  which  the 
personal  note  is  often  struck. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


11 


"It  is  undeniable  that  taken  as  a  whole  this 
book  achieves  a  higher  spiritual  note  than  any 
to  be  found  in  Miss  Burr's  earlier  books.  She 
has  become  more  consistently  serious  in  her 
relation  toward  life.  Only  once  or  twice,  as  in 
'Warning'  we  catch  a  glimpse  of  the  elfin 
whimsy  which  mocks  behind  some  of  her  earlier 
verse,  where  we  feel  her  purposely  hiding  her- 
self behind  her  own  imagery."  D.  L.  M. 
+   Beaton  Transcript  p4  D  8  '23  lOOOw 

"This  book  is  a  pretty  collection  of  minor 
poems  by  an  intelligent  and  skilful  writer  and 
will  in  all  probability  enjoy  the  patronage  of 
whoever  likes  to  read  a  pleasant  book  of  sin- 
cere verse.  The  author  has  worked  well 
throughout  the  book  and  permitted  herself  but 
few  relapses  into  sentimentality." 
-I Lit  R  p323  D  1  '23  270w 

"This  is  a  collection  of  lyrics  almost  totally 
devoid  of  distinction  in  thought,  feeling,  and 
treatment.  In  all  these  particulars  it  is  the 
obvious  and  commonplace  that  the  author  offers. 
Persistent  sentimentality  robs  the  poems  of 
dignity." 

—  Outlook  135:552  N   28  '23   llOw 

BURR,      MRS      ANNA      ROBESON      (BROWN). 

Wrong    move;    a    romance.    368p    J2    Macmillan 

23-5949 

Kate's  husband,  a  British  army  officer,  sud- 
denly leaves  her  and  the  reason  of  his  going 
form's  the  basis  for  a  story  of  thrills  intrigue 
and  romance.  He  tells  her  to  call  on  a  certain 
man  who  in  his  turn  sends  her  to  an  address 
where  she  finds  a  murdered  woman  and  a  cry- 
ing baby.  The  child  she  takes  and  passes  off 
as  her  own.  She  changes  her  name  and  embarks 
on  an  all  round  career  of  deception  which, 
until  a  fortune  is  involved,  has  an  innocent 
motive.  The  scene  of  the  story  is  mostly 
London   and   Melstead    Priory   in    the  Cotswold.s. 


Booklist  19:318  Jl  '23 
"The  plot  itself  seems  to  the  casual  reader 
a  tissue  of  improbabilities.  Oppenheim's  mys- 
tery tales  may  be  exactly  as  improbable  as 
Mrs.  Burr's.  Nevertheless  he  is  moie  skilful 
in    hypnotiziiig   his    readers."    D.    F.    G. 

—  Boston     Transcript    pi    Ap    7     '23     450w 
Cleveland  p42  Je  '23 

"  "The  Wrong  Move'  will  appeal  to  any  novel 
reader  who  seeks  a  good  story,  excellently 
written.  It  will  enrapture  the  devotees  of  mys- 
tery stories,  who  like  their  reading  to  be  punc- 
tuated  with   sharp   action." 

4-  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Dally  News  p20  Ag 
26  '23  300w 
"She  is  capable  of  something  better  than  the 
novel  of  intrigue  and  mystery,  for  her  character 
drawing  is  above  the  average,  and  the  texture 
of  her  style  is  good.  One  feels  that  she  has 
forced  herself  out  of  her  natural  path  in  stress- 
ing the  intricacies  of  plot." 

H   Lit   R   p633   Ap   21   '23   250w 

"This  is  a  stirring  tale  and  is  well  told." 
-+-   Lit    R   p804   Je   30    '23   200w 
Nation  117:67  Jl  18  '23  90w 
"Though     an     entertaining,     swiftly     moving, 
ingenious  and  at  times  well  written  story.  Anna 
Robeson    Burr's    new  and    romantic   thriller   has 
numerous   and   noticeable   defects.    It   is   not,    to 
begin    with,    well    constructed." 

1-   N    Y    Times    pl4    Mr   25    '23    500w 

"Still  and  all,  this  is  a  thoroughly  readable 
piece  of  nonsense.  It  affords  a  complete  relax- 
ation and  rest  for  the  reader's  logical  faculty." 
Isabel    Paterson 

—  NY    Tribune   p20    Mr   25    '23    450w 

"A  shining  example  of  how  the  mystery  tale 
can  be  raised  to  extraordinary  heights  bv  a 
writer's  own  manner  of  telling  it.  Evervtliing 
goes  with  a  thrill  in  this  book  but  nothing 
goes  with  a  scream.  The  work  is  to  be  com- 
mended both  to  readers  seeking  absorption  and 
to  students  interested  in  fine  specimens  of 
literary    form."    E.    W.    Osborn 

-f   N    Y   World   pSe   Ap   1  '23   300w 


Outlook   133:810  My  2  '23  70w 
Springf'd     Republican     p7a    My    20     '23 

120w 

BURR,  CLINTON  STODDARD.  America's  race 
heritage;  an  account  of  the  diffusion  of 
ancestral  stocks  in  the  United  States  during 
three  centuries  of  national  expansion  and  a 
discussion  of  its  signticance.  337p  il  buck  14.20 
National  hist.  soc. 

325.7     Immigration  22-18227 

"Mr.  Burr  has  collected  a  great,  mass  of  in- 
formation on  the  history,  composition,  and  dis- 
tribution of  the  population  of  the  United  States. 
The  book  is  written  from  a  very  definite  stand- 
point— the  writer's  conviction  that  America 
must  see  to  it  that  she  gets  only  the  best  class 
of  immigrants,  including  only  those  whom  she 
can  employ  to  advantage,  and  must  employ 
strong  restrictive  measures  against  an  influx 
from  Southern  and  Eastern  Europe.  He  dwells 
at  length  on  the  debt  owed  by  America  to  the 
peoples  of  Western  and  Northern  Europe." — 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 


"Immigration,  studied  in  the  light  of  what 
may  well  be  called  the  'Nordic'  school  of  an- 
thropology, is  the  theme.  Assuming  as  proved 
a  Nordic  superiority,  responsible  for  all  the 
achievements  of  the  white  race  since  the  battle 
of  Marathon,  the  book  goes  on  merrily  to  show 
the  general  acceptability  of  most  of  our  immi- 
gration before  1S80  and  the  undesirability  of 
most  of  it  since.  The  book  is  full  of  historical 
facts  and  dates  and  tables,  some  of  which  bear 
on  the  point  at  issue." 

Bookm  57:221  Ap  '23  130w 
N   Y  Times  pl4  Ja  7  '23  720w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p730  N  9 
'22   60w 

BURRITT.  MAURICE  CHASE.  County  agent 
and  the  farm  bureau.  (F'armer's  bookshelf) 
269p    il    $1.50     Harcourt 

630.7     Agricultural  education.   Farm  bureaus 

22-20725 
The  Smith-Lever  act,  passed  in  1914,  opened 
up  a  new  chapter  in  agricultural  extension 
service.  The  county  agent  became  the  clearing 
house  of  information  between  the  working 
farmer  and  the  educational  institutions  and. 
as  the  work  of  the  coimty  farm  bureaus  de- 
veloped, one  of  the  most  helpftil  leaders  in 
rural  affairs.  The  author,  who  has  been  a 
supervisor  of  county  agents  and  is  now  vice- 
director  of  extension  in  the  New  York  State 
college  of  agriculture,  shows  the  county  agent 
at  work  and  the  evolution  of  the  farm  bureau 
movement. 


Boston    Transcript    p3    D    30    '22    200w 
"This   is   more   a   reierence   book   than   a   book 
for  the  casual   reader.     Contains  much  compact 
fact    material." 

Wis    Lib     Bui     19:22    Ja    '23 

BURROUGHS,   EDGAR   RICE.     Girl  from  Holly- 
wood.  320p   $1.90     Macaulay 

23-11827 
Side  by  side  with  descriptions  of  the  carefree, 
outdoor  life  of  the  Penningtons  on  the  Rancho 
del  Granado,  runs  a  version  of  the  degrading  in- 
Boston  Transcript  p5  O  27  '23  220w 
"This  is  hectic  melodrama,  of  course,  but  it 
is  not  too  wild  to  be  crediV:)le,  and  there  is  an 
undercurrent  of  righteous  indignation  on  the 
part  of  the  author  which  gives  some  dignity  to 
the  book.  The  plot  is  a  complex  but  com- 
petently handled  affair.  The  accounts  of  de- 
fluences  brought  to  bear  upon  girl  novices  at 
Hollywood.  Wilson  Crumb,  the  unscrupulous 
villain,  entangles  most  of  the  young  people.  The 
drug  traiflc,  murders,  even  a  bootleg  mystery 
are  interwoven  with  the  love  story  of  Custer 
Pennington  and  Shannon  Burke,  a  one-time 
drug  addict,  who  unknowingly  complicates  mat- 
ters. In  due  time  the  villain  is  killed,  the  cloud 
on  the  Pennington  name  is  removed,  and  several 
minor  mysteries  solved. 


78 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


BURROUGHS,    E.    R. — Continued 
bauchery    and    crime    are    not    much    overdone, 
and  sometimes  the  book,  even  succeeds  in  being 
impressive  in  spite  of  its  crudities." 

(-   Lit   R   pl67   O  20  '23   300w 

N    Y   Times  pl5  S   9  '23  330w 


BURTON,    THEODORE   ELIJAH.     Constitution 
'■i    of    the    United    States.      51p     $1     Yale    univ. 

press 

342.73     United  States— Constitution   23-12646 

A  lecture  on  the  origin  and  distinctive  fea- 
tures of  the  Constitution,  delivered  on  the 
Cutler  foundation  at  the  University  of  Ro- 
chester. 


BURY,  JOHN  BAGNELL.  History  of  the  later 
Roman  empire,  new  ed  2v  471  ;494p  $14  (ea  42s) 
Macmillan 

937    Rome— History  [23-8497] 

"The  present  work  is  an  intensive  and  de- 
tailed study  of  the  Germanic  invasions  and  the 
period  of  Justinian.  .  .  In  the  first  volume  the 
author  surveys  once  more  the  perennially  ab- 
sorbing subject  of  the  infiltration  of  the  'bar- 
barians' into  the  Roman  Empire,  on  the  basis 
of  the  most  critical  use  of  the  original  sources. 
His  conclusions  are  completely  disruptive  of 
the  old  myth  of  a  cataclysmic  swarming  of 
myriad  Germanic  hosts.  .  .  The  Germans  came 
in  slowly,  were  few  in  numbers,  created  rela- 
tively little  additional  confusion,  and  preserved 
for  a  considerable  time  the  old  imperial  fic- 
tions. The  second  volume  is  devoted  chiefly  to 
the  exploits  and  reforms  of  Justinian,  and  the 
author  justly  claims  that  this  is  not  only  the 
most  recent  but  also  the  most  thorough  treat- 
ment of  the  reign  of  Justinian  to  be  found  in 
any    historical    work." — Nation 


"Magnificent  and  learned  work."    R.  P.  Blake 
+  Am    Pol    Sci    R   17:658    N    '23   560w 

"Dr.  Bury  has  shirked  no  controversies,  nor 
contented  himself  with  nebulous  results.  In 
consequence,  we  have  here  not  only  a  store- 
house of  material,  but  an  eminently  readable 
book.  Along  with  careful  examination  of  gen- 
eral causes,  he  gives  us  pieces  of  picturesque 
narrative  (translated  from  original  sources), 
and  a  great  many  suggestive  remarks  both  as 
to  the  objects  or  policies  of  individuals  and  the 
changes  in  ideas  and  culture."  Alice  Gardner 
+   Eng   Hist   R   38:428  Jl  '23  2200w 

"The  book  is  a  model  of  patient  research,  dis- 
tinsui.shed  alike  for  a  mastery  of  original  sour- 
ces and  acquaintance  with  recent  monographs. 
It  i.s,  however,  strictly  political  and  military 
history,  embracing  little  social,  economic,  or 
cultural  material,  and  making  no  extensive  at- 
tempt at  an  interpretation  of  events.  In  fact, 
no  other  historian  known  to  the  reviewer  pos- 
sesses the  dualistic  capacity  of  Mr.  Bury  to 
display  conspicuous  talent  for  achievement  in 
cultural  and  interpretative  history  along  with 
remarkable  patience  in  grinding  out  conven- 
tional compendiums  of  intensive  narrative  and 
episodical   history."    H.    E.    Barnes 

+   Nation    117-21    Jl    4    '23    400w 

New   Statesman    20:634   Mr  3    '23    2150w 

"A  work  which  is  learned  and  readable.  Profes- 
sor Bury  is  not  so  very  much  of  a  writer,  but  is 
gifted  with  a  creditable  talent  for  leaving  out 
trivialities  and  synthesizing  a  vast  amount  of 
material  into  an  intelligible  narrative."  Elmer 
Davis 

+   N  Y  Times  pi  Ap  1  '23  3500w 

"One  might  have  doubted  in  advance  whether 
the  work  was  worth  doing  again,  but  no  one 
who  carefully  peruses  Professor  Bury's  lumi- 
nous pages  can  retain  any  misgivings  on  this 
head.  .  .  Professor  Bury's  account  of  the  reign 
of  Justinian  is  a  truly  admirable  piece  of  his- 
torical work,  lucid,  learned  and  comprehensive, 
and  withal  extremely  readable — a  virtue  without 
which  there  is  none  that  shall  be  saved." 
+  Sat  R  135:372  Mr  17  '23  680w 


"Professor  Bury  has  written  a  book  of  great 
interest  and  importance." 

+  Spec  130:554  Mr  31  "23  1400w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p398  Je  14 
'23   1500W 

BUTLER,   DOM   EDWARD  CUTHBERT.  West- 
ern mysticism.  344p  |5  Button  [18s  Constable] 
242       Mysticism.       Bernard      of      Clairvaux, 
Saint.  Augustine,  Saint.  Gregory  I  (Gregory 
the  Great)  pope  of  Rome 
The    purpose    of    the    book    is    to    study    the 
particular    phase    of    mysticism    represented    by 
three    great     mystics    of    the    western    church, 
Bernard    of    Clairvaux,     Saint    Augustine,     and 
Gregory    the    Great;    to    set    forth     the    record 
which   they  have  left  concerning  their  religious 
experience    and   the   intimate   relations   of    their 
souls  with  God  and  the  doctrines  on  which  they 
based  their  teaching  regarding  the  contemplative 
life.    In    a    concluding    chapter    the    author    ex- 
amines the  validity  of  their   claims  and  in   the 
Appendix  cites  some  authentic  cases  of  nature 
ecstasy. 


Boston  Transcript  p3  S  15  '23  650w 
"Everyone   will    praise   him   that  he   has  done 
so  much  with  his  limited  material  and  that  he 
h;i.s   done    it   so    logically    and    practically." 
-f-  Cath  World  118:269  N  '23  850w 
"The  aim   of  the   author   is   the    improvement 
or   increase  of  religious  experience  as  embodied 
in  Catholicism;  but  the  book  may  be  valuable  to 
any  student  of  religion."  C.   D.   Burns 
+   Int  J   Ethics  33:331  Ap  '23  800w 
"As  a  contribution  to  modern  psychology  even 
more    than    it    is    to    religion.    Father    Butler's 
volume    is   entitled   to   a   very   high   place."      T: 
Ij.   Masson 

-f  N  Y  Times  p7  Ag  26  '23  1950w 
N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  21  '23  llOw 
"To  all  who  are  interested  in  the  subject. 
Father  Butler's  book  will  be  of  great  assistance. 
It  is  a  work  of  devotion  soundly  established  in 
knowledge.  Particularly  valuable  is  the  chapter 
which  traces  the  influence  of  Plotinus  and  the 
mysticism  of  the  neo-Platonists  on  St.  Augus- 
tine, whose  teaching  directed  the  Christian  faith 
for  some  centuries." 

+  Spec  129:1006  D  30  '22  1750w 
"This  book  deserves  a  very  warm  welcome.  It 
is    in    some    ways    the    best    work   on    mysticism 
that  has  yet  appeared  in   English." 

-i-  The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p853   D 
21  '22  850w 

BUTLER,     ELIZABETH,     lady.     An     autobiog- 
raphy.     336p    il    $5    Houghton    [18s    Constable] 
B  or  92  23-26235 

"Lady  Butler  is  best  known  as  a  painter  of 
military  subjects.  Her  'Roll  Call,'  the  picture 
which  made  her  famous  was  exhibited  at  the 
Royal  Academy  in  1874.  The  artist  was  then 
Elizabeth  Thompson.  She  afterward  married 
Major  William  F.  Butler,  a  hero  of  the  Ashanti 
War.  Marriage  did  not  interfere  with  Eliza- 
beth Butler's  career.  She  continued  to  paint 
and  to  exhibit  up  to  and  including  the  time  of 
the  World  War.  Born  at  Lausanne,  Switzer- 
land, and  educated  by  her  father,  who  spent 
much  of  his  time  in  travel,  taking  his  family 
with  him,  she  began  at  an  early  age  to  sketch 
and  keep  a  diary.  In  this  way  she  preserved 
her  impressions  of  people  and  places  which  she 
has  set  down  in  her  'Autobiography.'  The  book 
is  filled  with  reminiscences  of  famous  people, 
including  Millais,  Alma-Tadema,  Tenniel,  Du 
Maurier.  Cruikshank,  Ruskin,  Dickens,  Tenny- 
son, Lord  Kitchener,  Lord  Roberts,  General 
Buller,  Queen  Victoria,  Edward  VII.,  the  Em- 
press Eugenie,  Pius  IX.,  Leo  XIII.,  Pius  X.  and 
many   others." — N  Y  Times 


Booklist   19:249   My   '23 
"Throughout    it    is    filled    with    delightful    pic- 
tures   made    by    pen    and    pencil    alike.      To    all 
who    enjoy    glimpses    of    men    and    women    of 
varied   degrees    of   eminence,    of    family    life,    of 


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79 


public  events  and  ceremonials,  of  foreign  scenes 
and  customs   Lady  Butler's   autobiography  will 
have  a  genuine  and  potent  appeal."     S.  L.  Cook 
+   Boston  Transcript  p3  Je  2  '23  ISOOw 
Reviewed  by  E.  L.  Pearson 

Ind  110:195  Mr  17  '23  50w 
New  Statesman  20:610  F  24  '23  350w 
"Lady  Butler's  book  is  illustrated  with  spirited 
sketches,  many  of  them  evidently  preliminary 
studies  of  details  afterward  used  in  her  paint- 
ings. They  reveal  more  than  anything  a  grasp 
of  motion,  the  power  to  make  the  beholder  be- 
lieve that  these  horses  and  figures  are  actually 
moving." 

H NY  Times  pl3  Mr  11  '23   2450w 

"A    record    of    purely    artistic    ambition    and 
effort,    written    in   a   buoyant   spirit    of   aesthetic 
detachment.    Lady  Butler  wields  the  pen  almost 
as  deftly  as  the  pencil,  and  her  frank  and  un- 
affected   storv    will    be   read    with    pleasure." 
-f  Sat  R   135:150  F  3  '23  llOOw 
"Lady  Butler's  writing  is  unstudied,  but  it  is 
forcible,    and    there    is    not    much    difference    of 
quality   between    the    extracts    from    old   diaries 
which    she    freely    quotes    and    the    pages    newly 
written   for   this  biography.     The   text,   then,    is 
good    (we    expect    it    from    the    sister    of    Alice 
Meynell).   but   the  illustrations  are  still  better." 
4-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p40    Ja 
18  '23  1250W 

BUTLER.  ELLIS  PARKER.  Jibby  Jones;  a 
story  of  Mississippi  River  adventure  for  boys. 
266p      il      $2      Houghton 

23-12783 

Jibby  Jones  was  so  called  because  his  huge 
nose  looked  like  the  jib  of  a  sailboat.  When 
he  first  came  to  spend  the  summer  on  Birch 
island  in  the  Mississippi,  the  friends  Tad, 
Skippy,  George  and  Wampus,  decided  he  was 
stupid.  But  this  opinion  did  not  last  long. 
After  Jibby  had  fixed  the  motor-boat,  won  the 
fishing  prize  and  established  the  worm  mine, 
they  just  had  to  admit  that  he  was  not  so 
stupid  as  he  looked.  Furthermore,  it  was 
Jibby  who  thought  up  the  most  exciting  things. 
If  it  had  not  been  for  his  collection  of  grains 
of  sand  from  all  over  the  world  they  never  would 
have  found  the  green  sand  and  the  treasure  of 
old  Murrell.  In  the  end  the  boys  had  to  admit 
that  Uncle  Oscar  was  right  when  he  said  that 
a  big  nose  was  not  so  bad  if  you  had  a  brain 
to  go    with  it. 


"The  various  adventures  of  the  gang  are  of 
a  sort  to  catch  the  interest  of  any  boy  and  most 
men.  There  is  nothing  remarkable  about  them; 
they  are  all  of  a  sort  entirely  probable.  They 
are  exciting  in  a  natural,  normal  way  and  the 
account  is  shot  through  with  a  rich  vein  of 
Mr.  Butler's  whimsical  humor.  He  knows  his 
background  and  he  knows  boys,  and  he  has 
written  here  a  boy's  book  which  is  quite  the 
best  thing   which  has  appeared   for  years." 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   p8   O   7 
'23    750w 

"Here  is  a  man  who,  having  won  an  adult 
generation  with  his  humor,  captures  with  the 
same  ease  the  men  of  tomorrow.  Even  the 
inevitable  search  for  buried  treasure  is  done 
with  a  quiet  humor  that  is  a  refreshing  contrast 
to  the  usually  over-wrought  treasure  hunt.'^ 
Daniel   Henderson 

+  Lit   R  p233  N  10  '23  80w 

Reviewed    bv    Edith    Leighton 

N    Y  Tribune   p22  N  11   '23   850w 

BUTLER,  HOWARD  RUSSELL.  Painter  and 
space;  or.  The  third  dimension  in  graphic 
art.    178p    il    $4    Scribner 

750     Painting — Technique.     Perspective 

23-8596 
"Preliminary  to  study  in  detail  in  succeed- 
ing chapters  is  an  historical  review  of  pictorial 
efforts  from  the- earliest  times,  as  far  back  as 
the  outline  drawings  on  the  walls  and  ceilings 
of  cavern  dwellings.  Pictorial  beauty  achieved 
by  the  Primitives  without  knowledge  of  the 
laws  of  perspective  and  'tier  perspective'  are 
fully    considered    before    reaching   pictorial    ex- 


emplifications of  recent  days.  With  these  we 
reach  the  most  interesting  portion  of  the  trea- 
tise. This  ia  the  consideration  of  painting  ef- 
fects, phases  of  nature  when  the  effect  to  \>e 
depicted  lasts  but  a  few  minutes.  .  .  In  several 
chapters  the  author  exhaustively  discusses 
geometric,  monocular,  and  binocular  perspec- 
tive, supplemented  by  reproductions  of  well- 
known  pictures,  figure  subjects  chiefly,  and 
cites  scientific  authorities.  .  .  The  concluding 
chapter  in  the  book  contains  the  author's  in- 
teresting experiences  when  he  observed  the 
total  solar  eclipse  at  Baker,  Oregon,  in  1918, 
and  a  record  of  his  methods  in  painting  a  pic- 
ture of  it." — Ind 


"Mr  Butler's  writing  is  a  confusion  of  pedan- 
tries. His  thesis  is  so  heavily  encumbered  with 
solemn  nonsense,  so  highly  saturated  with  aca- 
demic ink,  that  the  modern  painter  with  a  sense 
of  humour  might  get  a  laugh  out  of  it,  were  it 
not  for  the  fact  that  it  adds  another  cloud  to 
the  critical  obscurity  lying  between  the  public 
and  the  creative  artist."  T:  Craven 
—  Dial  75:192  Ag  '23  2150w 

"It  may  almost  be  said  that  he  who  runs 
may  read,  so  clear  is  his  analysis  and  so  under- 
standingly  expressed  are  his  conclusions.  .  . 
Throughout  the  book  numerous  illustrations, 
both  in  color  and  black  and  white,  lend  value  to 
the  treatise,  and  the  work  as  a  whole  displays 
an  able  grasp  of  a  subject  that  is  perplexing  to 
all  but  a  limited  number  of  people."  W:  A. 
Coffin 

+   Ind    110:429   JI    7    '23   1500w 

BUTLER,    NICHOLAS    MURRAY.      Building  the 

American    nation;    an    essay   of   interpretation. 

375p  il  $2,50  Scribner  [10s  6d  Cambridge  univ. 

press] 

973  United  States— History.  United  States 
— Politics  and  government.  United  States- 
Biography  23-12382 

In  these  lectures  delivered  in  England  in  1923 
on  the  Sir  George  Watson  foundation  Dr  Butler 
Interprets  the  origin  and  development  of  the 
American  nation  largely  thru  the  personalities 
of  its  chief  builders  and  the  ideas  they  stood 
for.  Contents:  Forerunners  of  the  nation: 
Samuel  Adams  and  Benjamin  Franklin;  Father  of 
his  country:  George  Washington;  Master-builders 
of  the  nation;  Alexander  Hamilton  and  James 
Madison;  Spokesman  of  the  democratic  spirit: 
Thomas  Jefferson;  Welders  of  the  nation  in 
law  and  in  public  opinion:  John  Marshall,  Daniel 
Webster,  and  Andrew  Jackson;  Defender  and 
preserver  of  the  nation's  unity  and  power: 
Abraham  Lincoln:  Fifty  years  of  growth  and 
change;    Appendix.      Index. 


"F>om  the  standpoint  of  American  readers, 
the  reviewer  is  inclined  to  believe  that  the 
author  would  have  rendered  a  greater  service 
had  he  published  some  impressions  and  syrn- 
pathetic  interpretations  of  his  English  friends 
and   observ-ations."     C.    S.    Boucher 

—  Am    Hist    R    29:378  Ja   '24   420w 
Booklist    20:94   D   '23 
"One    vearns,    as   one    reads   on    in    these    lec- 
tures    for    simpler,    more   spontaneous,    not   less 
opinionated    but    more    truly    imaginative    and 
fair   minded    utterances." 

h   Bookm    58:341    N  '23   120w 

Revievv'ed    bv    F.    P.    Hull 

Boston    Transcript  p5    S   22   '23   1300w 
"If   the   book   adds   nothing   to   American   his- 
tory,   at    any    rate    the    review    of    the    facts    is 
clearlv  and   earnestly  performed." 
-f-  —  Dial   75:614  D  '23   120w 
"On   the   whole,    the    interpretation    is   as   well 
balanced  perhaps  as  one  might  expect  from  the 
use  of  a  method  inviting  distortion.     Novelty  in 
method  of  treatment  and  exceptionally  high  lit- 
erary quality  give  to  the  book  an   interest,  im- 
pressiveness.    and    value     to     the     student    and 
general    reader   of  American   history.       A.  R.  H. 

^ Greensboro   (N.C.)    Dally  News  p5  D  23 

•23  1250W 


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BUTLER,    NICHOLAS    MURRAY — Continued 

"President  Butler  says  the  well-known  things 
thfit  a  lecturer  in  his  position  is  usually  ex- 
pected to  say,  with  the  addition  of  enough 
comiTvent  and  generalization  to  make  it  clear 
that  there  has  actually  been  some  develop- 
ment. That  is  all."  W:  MacDonald 
—  Nation   117:528   N  7   '23   520w 

New  Statesman  22:sup24  O  13  '23  420w 
"Perhaps  the  scholar  is  an  id'eal  ambassador 
of  friendship.  One  is  inclined  to  think  that  this 
is  true  after  reading  Dr.  Butler's  lectures.  His 
plan  of  interpreting  America  through  its  men 
has  much   to  commend   it.' 

-h   N   Y   Times  p7   S  16   '23  2200w 
Spec  131:356  S   15  '23  290w 

BYNNER,      WITTER      (EMANUEL      MORGAN, 
pseud.).     Book  of  plays.     255p   $2.50   Knopf 

812  23-895 

The  time  of  the  one-act  play  "The  little  king" 
is  the  Terror  and  it  shows  the  boy-king  of 
France,  Louis  XVII,  with  his  jailors — brutal 
people  who  have  been  bribed  to  rescue  him. 
Everything  has  been  arranged  and  a  little  boy, 
like  the  king  in  appearance,  is  ready  to  act  as 
a  decoy  to  cover  the  king's  escape.  At  the. 
last  moment  the  child-king,  thinking  of  the  con- 
sequences of  his  act  to  Robert,  his  playmate, 
refuses  to  go  and  submits,  with  kingly  courage, 
to  the  brutality  of  his  jailors  and  to  death  in  a 
dark  and  airless  dungeon.  The  other  plays  are: 
A  night  wind — a  play  of  Greenwich  Village; 
Tiger — a  play  of  the  Tenderloin;  Cycle — a  play 
of  war;  Iphigenia  in  Tauris — an  English  version 
from   Euripides. 


Booklist  19:183  Mr  '23 
"Mr  Bynner  submits  himself  to  an  intelligenrce 
test  provided  by  Aristotle,  and  quite  convinc- 
ingly shows  that  one  may  be  a  successful 
lyricist  upon  a  minimum  of  intelligence.  For 
of  Plot,  Character,  Thought— all  the  work  of 
the  intellect — there  is  tiny  evidence  in  his 
plays.  Either  the  emotions  exceed  the  facts, 
or  vice  versa,  thus  locating  Mr.  Bynner  in 
sentimental   melodrama." 

—  Dial  74:315  Mr  '23  120w 

"These  plays  are,  severally  and  also  taken  as 
a  book,  exceedingly  poor."  T:  C.  Chubb 

—  NY  Tribune  p31   Ja   28  '23   320w 

BYRNE,  DONN  (BRIAN  OSWALD  DONN- 
BYRNE).  Changeling,  and  other  stories. 
418p     $2     Century 

23-13454 
The  themes  and  the  settings  of  these  thir- 
teen short  stories  are  various  but  whether  it 
is  a  bridge  the  author  writes  about,  or  a  woman 
new  born,  or  a  strike  at  the  mills,  one  element 
the  tales  have  in  common  and  that  is  the 
romantic.  Contents:  Changeling;  The  Barnacle 
goose;  Belfasters:  The  keeper  of  the  bridge;  In 
praise  of  Lady  Margery  Kyteler;  Reynardine: 
Dramatis  personae;  Wisdom  buildeth  her  house; 
The  parliament  at  Thebes;  Delilah,  now  it 
was  dusk;  A  quatrain  of  Ling  Tal  Fu's;  "Irish"; 
By  ordeal  of  justice. 


Booklist  20:138  Ja  '24 

"Mr.  Byrne  has  earned  the  right  to  take  his 
place  in  the  front  rank  of  short  story  writers. 
One  is  carried  away  by  the  power  of  his  prose 
and  enchanted  by  its  beauty." 

-t-   Boston    Transcript    p5    N    3   '23    330w 

"The  stories  are  good  enough  stories,  but  the 
'atmosphere'    that    clogs    them   is,    to    my    mind, 
all    to    the    bad."     M.    L.    Franklin 
h   Ind    111:254    N    24    '23    480w 

"His  outstanding  quality  is  his  power  of 
creating  atmosphere,  of  investing  with  realitv 
the  illusions  of  imaginative  sentiment."  W:  R. 
Langfeld 

+   Int    Bk    R    pl56    Ja    "24    350w 

"Mr.  Byrne  has  done  beautiful  work,  but 
here  he  is  not  at  his  best.  Of  the  thirteen 
stories  in  this  collection  the  majority  are  merely 
=)dequate,  magazinable  fiction,  to  be  read  and 
forgotten.  They  are  competent  of  their  sort— 
a  couple   are   even    'big'    in   the   trade   sense   ot 


the  term — but  they  might  have  been  written 
by  any  one  of  half  a  dozen  successful,  neg- 
ligible, short-story  writers.  Mr.  Byrne  has  won 
the  right  to  be  compared  to  certain  masters 
of  the  romantic  craft — and  by  that  comparison 
too  much  of  this  present  volume  appears  hol- 
low  and    unsatisfactory." 

H Lit   R  pl93  O  27  '23  400w 

"Drunk  with  life  and  drunk  with  wdrds,  he 
rushes  along  so  exuberantly  and  joyfully  that 
we  can  only  stop  in  amazed  gratification  to 
find  that  a  soul  so  genuinely  naive  can  inhabit 
the  body  of  a  modern  writer  and  invest  rather 
foolish  stories  with  such  glamor.  He  and  some 
of  his  fellow-Irishmen  have  a  flavor  which  is 
unique  in  modern  literature."  J.  W.  Krutch 
+  Nation    117:656   D   5    '23   350w 

"The  beautiful  style  for  which  Mr.  Donn 
Byrne  is  especially  noted  gives  charm  and  a 
certain  distinction  to  all  the  short  stories  col- 
lected   in    this    volume." 

-j-  N    Y   Times  p9  O  14  '23  450w 
Outlook  135:416   N  7  '23  lOOw 


CADBY,        WILL,        and        CADBY,        CARINE. 

Switzerland  in  summer;  discursive  informa- 
tion for  visitors;  pt.  1,  The  Bernese  Oberland. 
124p  il  $2  Dutton   [5s  Mills  &  B.] 

914.94  Switzerland — Description  and  travel 
A  handy  guide  to  the  most  famous  Swiss 
resorts,  for  people  who  visit  Switzerland  in 
summer.  The  book  contains  excellent  advice 
on  all  the  necessary  details  of  travel,  includ- 
ing how  much  luggage  to  carry,  how  to  send 
it,  hotel  accomodations,  excursions  with  guides, 
proper  amount  in  tipping,  as  well  as  pictur- 
esque descriptions  of  places,  and  the  different 
varieties  of  Alpine  flowers.  Especial  attention 
is  given  to  walks  that  may  be  taken  without 
guides.  The  resorts  included  in  this  volume 
are:  Thun,  Interlaken,  Lauterbrunnen,  Muer- 
ren,  Wengen,  Grindelwald,  Spiez,  Adelboden, 
Kandersteg  and  Simmental. 


Booklist  20:52  N  '23 
"Not  many  guidebooks  succeed  in  being:  as 
lively  and  entertaining  as  this  handy  little 
volume  which  intending  tourists  to  Switzer- 
land will  find  a  satisfactory  addition  to  their 
regulation   guides." 

+    N    Y    Times   p21   Je   17   "23   290w 

CAHALANE,    CORNELIUS    FRANCIS.     Police- 
man.   354p    $3    Dutton 

352.2    Police  23-8885 

An  earlier  book  by  the  same  author  was 
written  for  the  information  of  the  New  York 
police  department.  The  present  volume  deals 
with  rules  of  conduct  for  policemen,  regard- 
less of  locality  and  applicable  in  all  cities  and 
towns  of  the  United  States  and  Canada.  The 
ground  covered  includes  patrol  and  observa- 
tion; arrests,  street  conditions  and  traffic;  de- 
tective methods;  criminals  and  suspicious  per- 
sons and  places:  court  procedure;  the  handling 
of  children;  policewomen;  prostitution;  narcot- 
ics: fingerprints;  meetings,  parades,  riots  and 
strikes;  first  aid  to  the  injured. 


Booklist  20:39  N  '23 
Cleveland  p72  S  '23 
"In  his  foreword.  Inspector  Cahalane  explains 
that  while  'Police  Practice  and  Procedure.' 
was  written  primarily  for  the  instruction  of 
patrolmen  and  detectives  of  New  York  City, 
'The  Policeman'  is  designed  to  meet  the  text- 
book needs  of  peace  officers  throughout  the 
country,  in  village,  town  and  city.  He  might 
have  added,  journalists,  social  workers,  school 
and  religious  teachers,  property  owners  in  city 
and  country,  clergymen,  criminologists.  and 
sociologists.  All  such  persons  not  only  will  find 
his  book  of  interest,  but  also  of  educational 
value." 

-f  N    Y   Times   plO   My   20   '23   lOOOw 


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81 


CAIULAUX,  JOSEPH.  Whither  France? 
Whither  Europe?  tr.  by  Helen  Byrne  Arm- 
strong.     184p    $2.50    Knopf 

330.94  Europe — Economic  conditions  23-8259 
In  this  book  of  eight  chapters  the  first  seven 
are  devoted  to  a  detailed  account  of  the 
economic  chaos  now  prevailing  in  Europe,  with 
its  portent  of  death  and  destruction  and  a 
return  of  barbarism.  In  the  last  chapter  the 
conditions  of  a  new  order,  thru  which  recon- 
struction is  possible,  are  indicated.  In  view  of 
tiie  fact  that  economically  the  continent  of 
Europe  is  one  and  interdependent,  the  author 
proposes  a  separation  of  political  and  of  eco- 
nomic and  financial  organizations.  All  the  eco- 
nomic states  thus  formed  within  the  political 
states  are  to  be  federated  to  insure  the  inter- 
nationally   harmonious   working   of    industry. 

"Caillaux  is  a  master  draftsman,  whose  sure- 
ness    of   line    enables   him    to   dispense   with    all 
but   the  simplest  accessories."     V:   S.   Clark 
+  Atlantic's    Bookshelf  Jl  '23   430w 
Reviewed  by  F.   E.  Willis 

Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:500  Ag  '23  650w 
"Though  the  remedy  suggested  by  M.  Caillaux 
is  perhaps  one  to  frighten  the  timid,  yet  he 
makes  out  an  excellent  case  and  has  written  a 
book  that  every  thoughtful  student  of  present 
day  affairs   will   want   to   read." 

-f   Bookm   57:558  Jl   '23   130w 

Boston    Transcript  p4   My  2   '23   550w 
Cleveland   p72   S  '23 
Reviewed  by  Ferdinand  Schevill 

Freeman    7:405   Jl   4   '23   820w 
Reviewed    by    I:    Anderson 

Int  Bk  R  p30  Ap  '23  3000w 
"One  cannot  but  feel  that  M.  Caillaux  could 
have  made  a  real  contribution  towards  the  ad- 
mirable role  which  he  foresees  for  France  were 
he  only  more  ambitious  for  France  and  less 
ambitious  for  himself.  As  it  is,  he  has  written 
an  interesting  book,  a  challenging  book,  but  one 
which  will  probably  have  small  influence  out- 
side of  French  political  circles."     J:  F.  Dulles 

-1 Lit  R  p678  My  12  '23  620w 

Nation  117:22  Jl  4  '23  50Gw 
"The  translation  of  the  present  volume  hap- 
pens to  be  drab.  But  Caillaux's  staccato  jour- 
nalese comes  to  the  top  despite  it.  In  para- 
graphs short  and  out  of  breath  he  sketches  the 
perils  that  menace  Europe.  How  to  avert  the 
crash  is  the  pi'oblem  of  the  statesman.  M.  Cail- 
laux is  alert  but  somewhat  hazy."     C.   M. 

H New   Repub  34:352  My  23  '23   950w 

"M.  Caillaux  is  an  expert  financier  and  a 
well-read  economist.  His  account  of  the  dis- 
tressing state  of  Europe  is  interesting,  but 
hardly  novel."  Elmer  Davis 

H NY  Times  p3  Ap  15  '23  1400w 

"It  is  based  on  European  conditions  and  as- 
pects in  1921,  and  for  that  reason  is  hardly  con- 
temporaneous any  longer.  It  accepts  largely  the 
exaggerated  economic  pessimism  of  Keynes  and 
Nitti.  .  .  M.  Caillaux  talks  the  jargon  of 
Keynes,  but  less  effectively."  W:  McPherson 
—  NY  Tribune  pl9  My  6  '23  650w 
"Written  in  a  style  that  is  at  times  suggestive 
of  a  weighty  political  speech,  with  many  rhe- 
torical questions  and  exclamations.  M.  Cail- 
laux's hook  is  intended  primarily,  it  appears,  as 
a  prophetic  effort  to  call  his  own  country  to  a 
heroic  acceptance  of  his  belief  that  France  is 
'entrusted  with  the  highest  of  all  possible  mis- 
sions, .  .  .  the  task  of  reconstructing  Europe.' 
At  the  same  time,  with  all  the  nations  of  the 
world  directly  or  indirectly  concerned  in  the 
problems  of  reconstruction,  the  volume  may  be 
viewed   as   a    universal    challenge." 

Springf'd  Republican  p8  My  7  '23  500w 
Survey  50:supl92  My  1  '23  150w 
"If  there  is  in  the  book  nmcli  of  the  natural 
disappointment  of  a  politician  who  has  been  de- 
feated and  disgraced,  there  is  in  it  more  than 
this.  It  is  the  work  of  a  man  who  attempts  to 
probe  problems  to  the  bottom,  one  who  does 
not  content  himself  with  a  merely  superficial 
and  partisan  treatment.  .  .  The  kernel  of  the 
book    is    the    polemic    against    the    attempt    not 


only  in  France  but  throughout  the  Continent  to 
build   up   production   on   a   national   basis." 

-t-  The   Times   [LondonJ    Lit   Sup   p311   My 
10    '23    lOOOw 

Yale    R   n   s   13:412   Ja   '24   200w 


CAINE,   SIR    HALL.      Woman  of  Knockaloe;   a 
parable.      187p     $1.75     Dodd 

23-15161 

This  story  of  love  "strong  as  death"  seeks 
to  arouse  a  feeling  of  international  brother- 
hood, particularly  between  England  and  Ger- 
many. The  scene  is  an  internment  camp  for 
alien  civilians  on  the  Isle  of  Man,  which  Mona 
Craine  and  her  father  are  commissioned  to  sup- 
ply with  provisions  from  their  farm,  Knockaloe. 
Mona's  hatred  of  the  Germans  is  gradually 
tempered  when  she  realizes  that  they  too  have 
human  sufferings.  To  her  own  dismay,  and  the 
contempt  of  her  neighbors,  she  finds  she  loves 
Oskar,  a  despised  German.  Because  of  her 
apparent  treason,  they  cannot  stay  in  Knocka- 
loe; Oskar's  English  employer  refuses  to  rein- 
state him  when  the  camp  is  abandoned  and 
his  German  mother  likewise  denies  them  shelter. 
As  a  last  resort  they  turn  to  America,  but  in 
vain — they  have  no  money.  Tortured  beyond 
reason,  they  choose  love  in  death  rather  than 
face   separation. 


Booklist  20:100  D  '23 
"His  latest  story  proclaims  itself  a  pacifist 
tract  from  cover  to  cover.  It  is  as  hard,  as 
forced,  and  as  mechanical  a  piece  of  propaganda 
as  has  ever  been  written  by  him,  and  to  say 
that   much  is   to   say  a  great   deal."     E.    F.   E. 

—  Boston   Transcript  p4  O  27  '23  300w 
"The    failure   of   the   novel   is   a   pity;    for   we 

do  need  just  such  a  theme  as  this  in  our  books 
of  to-day.  We  need  it  badly.  But  Sir  Hall 
Caine  is  quite  evidently  not  the  man  to  handle 
it."     C.    P. 

—  Cath   World   118:572   Ja  '24   620w 

Int  Bk  R  p27  N  '23  lOOOw 

"The  style  has  the  cheap  meretrlciousness 
that  we  associate  with  Hall  Caine,  though 
there  is  little  of  the  florid  description  of  his 
earlier  books.  He  indicates  emotional  changes 
with  devices  as  hackneyed  as  those  of  the  cin- 
ema. The  thesis  of  the  book  is  sound,  and 
what  influence  its  wide  circulation  will  give  it 
is   salutary."     Allan    Nevins 

1-    Lit    R    p203    N   3   '23   820w 

"Sir  Hall  Caine  is  an  old  propagandist  and 
The  Woman  of  Knockaloe  is  a  tract  in  favour 
of  a  peaceable  and  forgiving  spirit.  Sir  Hall 
Caine' s  novels  are  said  to  appeal  to  a  class 
of  the  community  which  reads  little  other  fic- 
tion, a  class  that  does  not  use  libraries  and 
is  satisfied  with  buying,  perhaps,  two  books  in 
a  year.  To  criticise  The  Woman  of  Knockaloe 
as  a  work  of  art  would  be  an  impertinence, 
but  it  has  its  importance.  The  best-seller  is 
the  book  which  puts  into  concrete  form  the 
vague  feelings  of  which  a  large  public  is  be- 
ginning to  be  conscious.  Sir  Hall  Caine  holds 
a  distinguished  place  among  the  writers  of  such 
books."     Raymond    Mortimer 

-1-   New  Statesman   22:supl8  O  13  '23  150w 

"This  is  a  tragic  love  story  told  with  the 
starkness  of  an  Old  Testament  epic.  But  it  i.s 
also  a  parable.  Indeed,  Sir  Hall  Caine  has 
chosen  to  underscore  the  hidden  message  in  his 
latest  novel  by  frankly  calling  it  a  parable  on 
the  title  page,  and  the  publishers  have  further 
emphasized  this  aspect  of  the  book  in  an  in- 
troductory note.  As  a  story,  however,  it  is 
very    well    able    to    stand    alone." 

4-   N    Y    Times    p8    O   21   '23    550w 

Reviewed   by  W^ill    Cuppy 

N    Y    Tribune    p22    O   28   '23   1550w 

Reviewed   by   Gerald    Gould 

Sat   R   136:390   O   6   '23   240w 

"It  will  be  seen  that  Sir  Hall  Caine  spares 
nothing  to  make  race  hatred  appear  horrible. 
But  it  is  the  fate  of  all  melodrama  that,  with 
the  mere  piling  up  of  horror,  there  comes  a 
point    at    which    suddenly    the    whole    structure 


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CAINE,    HALL — Continued 

topples    on    the    brink    of    laughter.       Earnestly 

and   simply   as   Sir   Hall   Caine   has   written   the 

tale,    that    point   is   reached   before    it   is   done." 

—  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p634    S 

27    '23    550w 

CALDER,  JOHN.  Capital's  duty  to  the  wage- 
earner;  a  manual  of  principles  and  practice 
on  handling  the  human  factors  in  industry. 
326p  $2.25   (10s  6d)    Longmans 

331.1  Labor  and  capital.  Employment  man- 
agement. Industrial  relations  23-4535 
"This  book  is  a  study  of  the  major  indus- 
trial problems  based  upon  a  continuous  experi- 
ence in  industry  extending  over  nearly  forty 
years.  It  is  a  manual  of  principles  and  prac- 
tice for  employers  and  executives  and  for 
teachers  and  students  of  management  and 
the  public  on  the  handling  of  the  human 
factors  in  industry,  to  which  much  intelligent 
attention  must  be  given  henceforth.  It  appeals 
to  the  able  organizers  of  our  present  material 
prosperity,  to  the  financial  supporters  of  in- 
dustry, and  to  the  employers  of  the  United 
States,  their  executives  of  every  rank,  and 
those  fitting  themselves  for  management  and 
social  service  to  glimpse  a  worthier  capitalism 
and  to  substitute  statesmanship  for  skilful 
opportunism,  economic  strategy  and  militancy. 
It  advocates  the  adoption  of  a  true  philosophy 
of  labor  relations  and  of  a  practice  according 
with  fact  and  with  science  which  will  be  cred- 
itable to  the  genius  and  opportunities  of  the 
American    people." — Preface 


Reviewed   by  C.    W.    Doten 

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The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p291   Ap 
26    '23    200w 

CALDWELL,  OTIS  WILLIAM,  and  SLOSSON, 
EDWIN  EMERY,  eds.  Science  remaking  the 
world.    292p    il    $2.50    Doubleday 

604      Science  23-26924 

The  si.xteen  chapters  by  specialists  in  various 
fields  deal  popularly,  along  the  average  person's 
lines  of  interest,  with  such  subjects  as  gasolene, 
coal  tar,  electrons,  the  influenza  epidemic,  inter- 
national public  health,  etc.  Contents:  Achieve- 
ments and  obligations  of  modern  science,  by  O. 
W.  Caldwell;  Gasolene  as  a  world  power,  by 
E.  E.  Slosson;  The  influence  of  coal-tar  on 
civilization,  by  E.  E.  Slosson;  Electrons  and 
how  we  use  them,  by  J:  Mills;  An  investigation 
on  epidemic  influenza,  by  P.  K.  Olitsky  and 
F:  L.  Gates;  Our  present  knowledge  of  tuber- 
culosis, by  L.  R.  Williams:  Louis  Pasteur,  and 
lengthened  human  life,  by  O.  W.  Caldwell; 
International  public  health,  by  G:  E.  Vincent; 
Educational  value  of  modern  botanical  gardens, 
by  G:  T.  Moore;  The  meaning  of  evolution,  by 
J:  M.  Coulter;  Our  fight  against  insects,  by  L. 
O.  Howard;  Insect  sociology,  by  V.  Kellogg; 
How  the  forests  feed  the  clouds,  by  R.  Zon; 
The  modern  potato  problem,  by  C:  O.  Apple- 
man;  Chemistry  and  economy  of  food,  by  H.  C. 
Sherman;  Our  daily  bread  and  vitamins,  by 
W.    H.    Eddy. 


Boston  Transcript  p6  D  8  '23  500w 
"The  promise   inherent   in   such   a  venture  by 
a    decidedly    hand-picked    group    of    authorities 
is   large,   and   is   excellently   well    fulfilled   in   the 
space  of  some  300  pages."     Will  Cuppy 

-f  N   Y  Tribune  pl9  N  25  '23  1550w 

CAMBRIDGE    ancient    history:    8v;    v    1,    Egypt 

2    and    Babylonia    to    1580    B.C.;    ed    by    J.    B. 

Bury,    S.    A.    Cook,    and   P.    E.    Adcock.      72(;p 

il      $8.50      Macmillan       [35s     Cambridge   univ. 

press] 

930     History,   Ancient  [23-11667] 

Contents:    Primitive    man    in    geological    time. 

Neolithic   and    bronze   age     cultures,     by     J:    L. 


Myres;  Exploration  and  excavation,  by  R.  A.  S. 
Macalister;  Chronology,  by  S.  A.  Cook,  H.  R. 
Hall,  and  A.  J.  B.  Wace;  The  Semites,  by 
S.  A.  Cook;  Egypt:  the  predynastic  period,  by 
T.  E.  Peet;  The  union  of  Egypt  and  the  Old 
kingdom,  The  Middle  kingdom  and  the  Hyksos 
conquest,  by  H.  R.  Hall;  Life  and  thought  in 
Egypt  under  the  Old  and  Middle  kingdoms,  by 
T.  E.  Peet;  Early  Babylonia  and  .its  cities, 
The  dynasties  of  Akkad  and  Lagash',  The  Su- 
merian  revival.  The  Empire  of  Ur,  by  S.  H. 
Langdon;  Isin,  Larsa,  and  Babylon,  by  R.  C. 
Thompson;  The  golden  age  of  Hammurabi,  by 
K.  C.  Thompson;  The  art  of  early  Egypt  and 
Babylonia,  by  H.  R.  Hall;  Early  Aegean  civili- 
zation,   by    A.    J.    B.    Wace. 


"It  is  as  useful  a  book  as  it  is  big.  I  should 
like  to  call  it  a  great  book,  but  1  dare  not. 
For  reference  it  will  be  always  in  frequent 
demand,  but  it  is  almost  wholly  bereft  of  style 
and  its  tediousness  over  great  areas  is  depress- 
ing."    R.   W.    Rogers 

-I Am    Hist   R   29:316  Ja  '24   1350w 

"This  volume,  and  no  doubt  those  which  are 
to  succeed  it,  must  find  a  place  in  every  library 
of  any  importance,  public  or  private."  B.  C. 
A.  W. 

+  Cath    World    118:416    D    '23    lOOOw 

"However  much  work  the  writers  have  put 
into  this  book,  they  have  been  crippled  by  the 
editors  not  allowing  illustrations.  The  ideal 
of  the  publication  is  far  too  literary."  W.  M. 
F.   P. 

\-  Nature   112:569   O  20   '23   850w 

"The  one  purpose  of  the  scholars  who  have 
planned  this  series  has  been  to  know  the  truth, 
to  learn  the  veritable  facts  of  the  case,  and 
to  enrich  the  mind  of  the  English-speaking 
world  through  an  ordered  statement  of  what 
they  have  found.  It  is  a  tribute  to  the  com- 
manding power  of  intellectual  interests  that  a 
great  undertaking  of  this  kind  can  still  be  set 
on   foot."     W:   MacDonald 

-I-   N    Y  Times    p8  Ja  13  '24  1750w 

CAMP,        CHARLES        WADSWORTH.        Com- 
municating door.   297p  il  $1.75  Doubleday 

23-9229 
Seven  mystery  stories.  Contents:  Communicat- 
ing  door;    Hate;    Dangerous    tavern;    Haunted 
house;  Defiance;  Open  evidence;  Obscure  move. 


"Mr.  Camp  is  the  author  of  a  goodly  number 
of  detective  and  ghost  stories,  and  his  facile 
technique  is  in  evidence  in  this  latest  collection. 
He  does  succeed  in  getting  an  atmosphere  of 
dread,  even  though  he  employs  rather  obvious 
expedients,  and  his  tales  of  crime  and  its  detec- 
tion are  quickly  moving  and  surprising." 
-I Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  18  '23  320w 

"No  accustomed  reader  will  have  any  difficulty 
in  divining  the  end  of  'The  Obscure  Move'  quite 
early  in  the  game.  But  with  this  single  excep- 
tion the  tales  keep  one  guessing  until  they  reach 
a  conclusion,  which  is  usually  both  satisfactory 
and  convincing.  That  means  that  they  are  very 
good  stories  of  their  kind." 

H NY  Times  p22  My  20  '23  450w 

"It  isn't  the  best  mystery  volume  of  the  year, 
but  it  has  the  advantage  of  all  short-story 
collections  in  being  available  for  odd  hours 
without  requiring  sustained  or  suspended  in- 
terest." 

-|-  —  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  D  9   '23   160w 

CANDLER,   MARTHA.     Drama  in  religious  ser- 
vice.   259p   il   $2  Century 

264    Religious    drama  22-23935 

"A  practical  and  suggestive  discussion  of  the 
pcssiliilities  of  the  drama  as  a  form  oi  religious 
worship,  containing  full  directions  for  play 
producing  in  the  church  basement,  parish  house 
or  body  of  the  church.  Illustrations  are  pho- 
tographs of  actual  productions  and  appendixes 
contain  bibliographies  and  lists  of  music  and 
plays." — Booklist 

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"The  book  has  value.  It  will  be  an  aid  to 
those  who  wish  to  use  drama  or  pageantry  in 
the  church's  educational  work  wherein  lies  its 
greatest  potency.  They  will  be  told  how  to 
start  and  there  are  directions  for  producing  and 
costuming.  Good  clear  photographs  illustrate 
the   book." 

+   Boston    Transcript   p2   Ap   7    '23    360w 

"The  subjects  of  costuming,  lighting,  staging 
are  suggestively  treated.  Though  somewhat 
haphazard  in  style  and  presentation  of  ma- 
terial, much  useful  information  has  been 
brought  together  by  the  author  in  this  volume." 
+   Lit    R    p402    Ja    20    '23    360w 

"Too  many  typographical  errors  will  annoy 
the  finical  reader,  but  the  book  is  greater  than 
the  proofreader  and  is  a  timely  contribution 
to  a  new  and  growing  phase  of  modem  church 
work." 

-\ Springf'd    Republican    p6   Ja   9   '23    300w 

"Teachers  and  amateur  producers  should  use 
the  book  for  its  technical  advice  and  ministers 
should  read  it  that  they  may  become  alive  to 
the  social  and  spiritual  power  in  the  use  of 
drama  in  the  churches."  A.  H.  Ware 
Survey  50:353  Je  15  '23  240w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:51    F    '23 

CAN  NAN,    GILBERT.      Annette    and    Bennett. 

315p  $2  Seltzer 

23-8359 

"In  'Annette  and  Bennett'  we  have  the  mar- 
ried life  of  a  young  couple,  who  married  in  the 
previous  novel  of  the  series,  'Around  the 
Corner.'  It  is  really  a  group  study.  As  in  life, 
the  family  relations  are  exceedingly  complex. 
We  have  Bennett  much  in  love  with  his  wife, 
yet  absolutely  ruled  in  all  his  decisions  by  his 
mother  who  dominates  all  but  Annette  and  her 
husband,  James  Lawrie.  Annette  opposed 
Catherine,  and  the  philosophical  Jamie  ignores 
her.  And  between  the  conflict  of  family  and 
the  strange  conflict  in  the  soul  of  Bennett  .  .  . 
he  is  soon  involved  in  distressing  financial  diffl- 
culties.  From  these  he  is  rescued  by  his  father 
and  his  maiden  aunt,  Mary  Lawrie.  It  is  Jamie 
who  is  triumphant,  above  all  derision,  who 
finally  brings  the  family  together,  drives  home 
the  absurdity  of  stupid  conventionalities,  and 
dies,  leaving  a  family  which  is  coming  upon  a 
richer  view  of  life  through  his  efforts." — N  Y 
Times 


Booklist   20:138   Ja   '24 
Dial   75:299    S   '23   120w 
"One  wishes  that  Mr.  Cannan  might  purge  his 
writing   of   a   certain    heavy   dross    of   grandilo- 
quence, and  extend  and  amplify  those  authentic 
moments  of  penetration  that  carry  one  acquies- 
cently   through    his    books,    often    charmed    and 
nearly  always  without  ennui."  Alyse  Gregory 
4-  Freeman    7:570   Ag  22   '23   600v/ 
Reviewed  by  H.  W.  Boynton 

Ind    110:406   Je   23    '23  f.OOw 
Reviewed    by    P.    A.    Hutchison 

Int  Bk  R  pl5  Jl  '23  2100w 
"The  portraiture  and  the  satire  are  vigorously 
skilful,  the  characters  vivid  and  original  in 
personality.  The  action  is  almost  imperceptible, 
but  it  envelopes  one  with  cool  stealth.  The 
opening  pages  are  rather  obvious  in  their  at- 
tempt at  witticism  and  give  no  idea  of  the 
charming  development  to  follow." 
-1-  Lit  R  p31  S  8  '23  200w 
"Mr.  Cannan  has  written  very  impersonally. 
He  hovers  over  these  two  families,  examining 
their  motives  with  insight,  aloof  to  the  con- 
flict. There  is  the  clear  vision  of  passing  years 
ELS  shown  in  'The  Forsyte  Saga';  yet  there  is  a 
greater  warmth  than  in  the  impassiveness  of 
Galsworthy.  Though  Galsworthy  is  the  superior 
artist,  Gilbert  Cannan  makes  more  lively  read- 
ing." 

+  N    Y   Times   p9   My   20   '23   900w 
Reviewed    by   Will    Cuppy 

N   Y  Tribune  p20  Jl  1  '23  700w 
Reviewed  bv  R.  D.   Townsend 

Outlook    134:287    Je    27    '23    140w 
"Mr.   Cannan   is  in   a  perpetual   state  of  pro- 
test and  revolt  against  nineteenth-century  com- 


mercialism and  industrialism.  Of  the  great  era 
associated  with  respectability  and  Mi.  Gla.  - 
stone,  he  has  an  intimate  knowledge:  but  his 
picture  of  it  is  almost  demonstratively  partial. 
He  pats  himself  on  the  back  for  jolting  the 
industrial  North  in  the  ribs.  Self-righteousness 
Is  the  enemy  he  attacks:  but  has  he  not  gone 
over  to  the  enemy?"  Gerald  Gould 
Sat  R  134:596  O  21  '22  400w 
"Mr  Cannan  has  fallen  a  victim  to  the  most 
distressing  and  worthless  conflict  a  creative 
artist  can  have — the  conflict  between  self- 
hatred  and  self-esteem.  It  shows,  literally  and 
symbolically,  in  almost  every  page  of  his  new 
novel.  .  .  It  is  worth  while  to  criticise  Mr. 
Cannan  severely.  He  has  already  done  excel- 
lent work — Sembal,  for  example — and  it  is  de- 
plorable to  see  him  turn  Timon.  At  the  worst. 
Annette     and     Bennett     is     better     than     Pink 

ROSGS  ** 

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Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  10  '23  150w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:443  O  '23 

CAPE,     MRS     EMILY     PALMER.       Lester     F. 

Ward;    a    personal    sketch.    208p    il    $1.75    (9s) 

Putnam 

B  or  92    Ward.  Lester  Frank  22-7851 

"Lester  F.  Ward  will  be  remembered  by 
many  people  as  Professor  of  Sociology  at  Brown 
University  for  a  number  of  years.  This  book 
is  written  by  an  intimate  associate  and  secre- 
tary of  Professor  Ward.  It  is  limited  in  matter, 
Mrs.  Cape  explains,  because  a  number  of  letters 
and  diaries  which  Professor  "W^ard  intended 
should  be  turned  over  to  her  were  unfortunately 
destroyed.  Several  of  the  chapters  outline  Pro- 
fessor Ward's  system  of  philosophy,  and  should 
throw  new  light  on  his  achievement,  particu- 
larly for  the  benefit  of  other  sociologists.  The 
book  is,  in  no  sense  of  the  word,  a  biography, 
and  there  is  still  place  for  such  an  undertak- 
ing."— N  Y  Times 

"On  the  whole  one  is  inclined  to  regard  this 
as  an  episode,  more  particularly  a  postlude, 
which  will  add  nothing  to  Ward's  fame  as  a 
thinker,  and  which  tells  very  little  about  the 
overt  activities  of  his  rather  long  career.  In 
this  respect  the  title  of  the  book  is  commend- 
ably  accurate  in  designating  it  as  'a  personal 
sketch.'  "  C.  M.  Case 

[.   Am   J  Soc  28:479  Ja  '23  600w 

"Mrs.  Cape,  having  been  thrown  into  close 
association  with  Dr.  Ward,  seems  to  have  made 
a  careful  and  sympathetic  study  of  his  char- 
acter and  to  have  imbibed  an  enthusiastic 
appreciation  of  his  many  excellent  social  and 
intellectual  qualities  so  that  she  was  quite 
capable  of  becoming,  in  a  sense,  his  Boswell." 
+  Boston  Transcript  p7  Ap  26  '22  280w 
Reviewed  by  R.   H.  Lowie 

Freeman   5:595  Ag  30  '22  GOOw 
"The  present  book,   while   giving  a  summary 
of  Dr.    Ward's   thought,    is   mainly  a  sketch   of 
his  personality,   which  must  have  been  a  most 
attractive  one." 

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N   Y  Times  pl3  Ag  13  '22  300w 
The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p601  S  21 
'22  60w 

CAPEK,  KAREL.  R.  IL  R.  (Rossum's  uni- 
versal robots);  a  fantastic  melodrama  in  three 
acts;  tr.  by  Paul  Selver.  187p  il  $1.50  Double- 

*^Y91.8G  23-26130 

A  scientific  genius  has  invented  the  robot, 
a  mechanical  man  with  all  the  deftness  and 
intelligence  of  a  human  being  minus  feeling 
—he  can  experience  neither  pleasure  nor  pain. 
The  scene  of  the  play  is  an  island  with  an 
immense  factory  from  which  thousands  of 
robots  are  shipped  to  all  parts  of  the  world. 
In  the  course  of  time  the  robots  greatly  out- 
number humans  who  stop  reproducing  their 
kind  and  so  find  it  necessary  to  employ  the 
robots  to  carry  on  their  wars.  Being  intelligent 
machines  in  the  possession  of  arms  the  robots 
face    about    and    exterminate    their    masters— 


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CAPEK,    KAREL — Continued 

all  but  one.  He  not  being  a  scientist,  cannot 
make  robots  and  the  formula  is  burnt.  In 
his  last  despair  he  discovers,  in  the  newest 
pair  of  robots  made  after  the  most  perfected 
model,  an  embryonic  soul,  the  dawn  of  human 
sentiments — laughter,  curiosity,  fear.  They  are 
the   new    Adam   and   the   new  Eve. 


Booklist  19:215  Ap  '23 
"  'K.  U.  R.'  is  certainly  a  better  bit  of  dram- 
atic construction  than  'The  World  We  Live  In.' 
It  has  more  dramatic  content;  it  is  more  pro- 
vocative of  thought;  it  is  arresting  satire.  Mr. 
Capek  does  not  reveal  the  genius  of  the  true 
satirist- — the  power  of  continually  shocking  and 
surprising  the  reader  or  the  spectator,  the 
genius  of  relentless  revelation  of  human  weak- 
ness and  stupidity.  The  author  of  'R.  U.  R.' 
gives  his  point  away  too  soon.  And  so  he  is 
forced  to  p.atch  out  his  evening,  first  with 
melodrama  and  finally  with  pathos."  R.  A. 
Parker 

f-   Ind    109:321    N    25    '22    720w 

"An    interesting    drama,    worth    reading    and 
worth   seeing."      Charlotte    Dean 

+   N    Y    Tribune    p26    Mr   4    '23    450w 
N    Y    World    p6e    F    11    '23    660w 
Springf'd     Republican     p7a     My     20     '23 
180w 

Wis  Lib   Bui  19:82  Mr  '23 


CARB,  DAVID,  and  EATON,  WALTER  PRICH- 
=    ARD.     Queen   Victoria;    a   play   in    seven    epi- 
sodes.     213p      $2      Dutton 

812  Victoria,  queen  of  England — Drama 
"Although  no  acknowledgment  is  made  on  the 
programme  to  Lytton  Strachey,  the  play  is 
practically  a  good  dramatization  in  seven  scenes 
of  his  well-known  biography  of  England's  fa- 
mous Queen.  The  dramatists  have  selected  and 
arranged  their  episodes  so  that,  in  spite  of 
lapses  of  time,  they  rise  in  easy,  natural  pro- 
gression from  the  first  moment  when  Victoria, 
a  sleepy  but  excited  girl  in  a  blue  peignoir, 
learns  that  she  is  Queen,  to  the  last  tableau, 
when,  feeble  and  leaning  on  the  arm  of  her 
son  Edward,  she  ascends  the  throne,  and, 
standing  there  in  the  majesty  of  her  royal 
robes  and  her  own  stiff  dignity,  she  says  to 
the  statesmen  assembled  for  her  Jubilee:  'I 
have    tried    to    be    a    good    queen.'  " — Outlook 


"The  early  scenes  of  the  historical  drama 
possess  qualities  of  delineation  and  discernment 
which  render  them  genuinely  dramatic.  Later, 
when  the  dramatic  texture  is  stretched  to  take 
in  empire-building,  they  have  not  been  able 
to  avoid  occasional  passages  of  stilted  and 
somewhat     undramatic     style."      L.  B. 

-I Freeman   8:455  Ja  16  '23  160w 

Outlook   135:666   D   19    '23    900w 

CARLYLE,     ANTHONY.       Children     of    chance. 

295p    $2    Houghton 

23-6497 

"Binny  Clay,  a  struggling  chorus  girl  in  Lon- 
don, has  been  amazed  at  her  seemingly  mira- 
culous resemblance  to  Lola  Arnaut,  a  musical 
comedy  star  of  the  moment.  Her  wonder  ceases 
when  the  deathbed  story  of  an  old  companion 
reveals  the  fact  that  she  and  Lola  are  children 
of  the  same  mother.  On  an  eventful  night 
Binny  witnesses  by  chance  the  murder  of  her 
half-sister  in  a  hansom  cab.  Obeying  a  mad 
impulse,  she  changes  clothes  and  identities  with 
Lola,  succeeds  tremendously  in  a  new  musical 
piece,  and  walks  unknowingly  the  trail  that 
leads  to  a  great  love  and  an  unsuspected 
father."— N   Y   World 


most  interesting  details,  and  is  never  tedious. 
Perhaps  that  is  all  that  one  should  ask  of  a 
light   romance." 

H Int  Bk  R  p76  O  '23  180w 

"Mildly    interesting,    but    well   suited    to   sum- 
mer consumption." 

—  -I-  Lit  R  p631  Ap  21  '23  70w 
"The  devices  in  this  book  are  often  violent. 
There  is  a  deal  of  melodrama  and  it  will  be 
difficult  for  the  thinking  reader  to  swallow 
some  of  the  episodes  without  a  dubious  feeling 
as  to  their  reasonability.  In  other  words  the 
probabilities  are  mightily  strained  and  there 
is  not  enough  acute  characterization  to  carry 
the   impossible   theme." 

—  NY  Times  pl6  Mr  18  '23  470w 
"While  certain  familiar  circumstances  are  at 
the  base  of  Mr.  Carlyle's  plot,  the  story  he 
develops  is  in  many  ways  original  and  in  all 
ways  diverting.  His  book  will  fill  surely  a  place 
on  the  lists  of  any  follower  of  reading  purely 
for  the  reading's   sake."   B.    W.   Osborn 

H NY    World    pSeMr   18    '23    220w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p325    My 
10   '23    SOW 

CARLYLE,  THOMAS.  Letters  to  John  Stuart 
Mill,  John  Sterling  and  Robert  Browning;  ed. 
by  Alexander  Carlyle.  312p  il  $6  Stokes  [25s 
Unwin] 

B  or  92     Mill,   John  Stuart.     Sterling,   John. 

Browning,  Robert 
Carlyle  was  for  many  years  on  terms  of 
closest  friendship  with  John  Stuart  Mill,  John 
Sterling  and  Robert  Browning.  The  letters  to 
Mill,  nearly  eighty  in  number  fill  more  than 
half  the  volume.  The  letters  to  John  Sterling, 
whom  Carlyle  met  thru  Mill  and  whose  biogra- 
phy he  afterward  wrote,  are  thirty-three  in 
number.  The  letters  to  Browning  are  not 
many,  for  the  poet  lived  within  easy  reach  of 
Cheyne  Row  and  there  was  not  the  necessity 
of  letters  between  the  two  friends.  Portraits 
of  Carlyle  and  his  three  correspondents  are 
included. 


"In  the  greater  part  of  this  one-sided  cor- 
respondence we  are  admitted  not  only  into  the 
innermost  chambers  of  Carlyle's  thoughts,  but 
into  the  workshop  of  his  creative  genius.  .  . 
This  remarkable  correspondence,  when  read 
carefully,  as  it  deserves  to  be,  if  read  at  all, 
throws  more  light  upon  Carlyle's  chief  charac- 
teristics than  is  to  be  found  in  most  other 
places."    Augustine    Birrell 

-I-   New   Statesman    22:181    N   17   '23    ]900w 

"This  is  a  rich  volume." 

-f  The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p724   N   1 
'23  1550W 


CARPENTER,    FRANK    GEORGE.      Alaska,    our 

northern    wonderland.    319p    il    $4   Doubleday 
917.98    Alaska — Description    and    travel 

23-26131 
"In  the  third  volume  of  his  travel  series  the 
author  gives  his  readers  a  thoroughgoing  ac- 
count of  his  trip  to  our  last  great  Territory. 
He  visited  all  of  the  towns  of  any  size  and 
the  main   points   of  interest." — N   Y  World 


"Nowhere  is  the  story  distinguished.  But 
it  is  ingenious,  so  ingenious  that  we  wish  we 
were  unsophisticated  enough  to  make  it  seem 
plausible." 

h   Boston    Transcript    p4    Ap    11    '23    320w 

"  'Children  of  Chance'  whips  along  at  an 
alarming    pace,     with    emphasis    on    only    the 


Booklist    19:219    Ap    '23 
Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  7  '23  350w 
Cleveland  p48  Je  '23 
Reviewed   bv   I:   Anderson 

int   Bk   R  p39  Je  '23  220w 
"With  enthusiasm,  if  not  with  eloquence,  Mr. 
Carpenter    sings    the    praises    of    our    northern 
possession,    which   he    thinks   we    fail    to   appre- 
ciate.      Encyclopaedic    in    its    ability    to    inform, 
his  work  also  reflects  some  of  the  romantic  fire 
that  London  and  Service  and  many  other  writers 
have   evoked    from    that   frontier  of  adventure." 
+   Lit   R   p670  My   5  '23   220w 
"Mr.    Carpenter's    narrative,    of    course,    does 
little  more  than  skim  the  surface  of  his  subject. 
But    it    is   evident    that    he    has    been    at    great 
pains    to    make    his    record    faithful     and    his 


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facts   accurate.    And    it    is    only    merest    justice 
to   say   that   his   narrative   is   very  fascinating." 
+   N    Y    Times    p8    F    18    '23    1250w 
N    Y    World    p8e   F   18    '23    150w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:260   My   "23 
"One  might  quote  marvelous  tales  from  every 
chapter,   some  of  them  not  altogether   provoca- 
tive to  would-be  tourists,  but  for  the  most  part 
stimulating    the    wanderlust    in    the    reader    to 
add   Alaska   to  his   itinerary  as   soon   as  oppor- 
tunity beckons." 

-|-  Springf'd     Republican     p8a     Mr    11     '23 
450w 

CARPENTER,   FRANK  GEORGE.     Cairo  to  Ki- 

sumu.    (Carpenter's    world    travels)    313p    il    $4 

Doubleday 

916.2  Egypt — Description  and   travel.    Sudan, 

Egyptian  23-26432 

This   book    on   Egypt   takes   in,    together   with 

upper    Egypt    and    the    thoroughly    modernized 

cities     of     Alexandria     and     Cairo,     Nubia,     the 

Sudan  and   Kenya  Colony.     It  is  corfipiled  from 

notes  made   by  the  author  during  several  trips 

and  under  all  sorts  of  conditions  and  describes 

what  he  saw  on  a  background  of  the  past,  from 

the  city  with  all   modern  improvements  to  Ka- 

vironda   where   men   and   women   still  go  naked. 

Bibliography.      Index. 


Booklist  19:313  Jl  "23 
"By  means  of  his  vivid  descriptions  and  the 
many  excellent  photographic  illustrations  with 
which  his  book  is  embellished,  he  gives  a  very 
clear  idea  of  the  countries,  their  people  and 
their  natural  resources." 

+   Int  Bk  R  p34  O  '23  450w 
"The  text  is  written  in  an  easy  conversational 
style  and  the  illustrations,   nearly  a  hundred  in 
each  volume,   are  very   clear."     E.   M.   L. 
4-   N   Y  Tribune  pl8  My  20  '23   90w 
"Mr.   Carpenter's  observations  are  always  in- 
teresting  and    informing." 

+   N    Y    World   pile   Ap    15    '23    160w 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:306  Je  '23 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:413  Jl  '23 

CARPENTER,     FRANK    GEORGE.       France    to 

-    Scandinavia.      273p     il     $4     Doubleday 

914  Belgium — Description  and  travel.  France 
—Description  and  travel.  Netherlands — De- 
scription and  travel.  Norway — Description 
and  travel.    Sweden — Description  and  travel 

23-17546 
Mr  Carpenter's  world  travels  take  him  in  this 

book    to    France,    Belgium,    Holland,    Denmark, 

Norway  and  Sweden. 


Booklist  20:134  Ja  '24 
"The  view  of  France  is  recent  and  covers 
the  recuperation  that  has  been  going  on  since 
the  close  of  the  war.  City  and  country  alike 
are  considered,  the  chapters  on  Paris  being  full 
of  everyday  detail  rather  than  rhapsody,  and 
the  same  will  apply  to  the  author's  studies  of 
the  farm.  The  good  qualities  of  the  French 
I>eople   shine    in   his   pages." 

-f  N    Y    World    p8e    N    18    '23    240w 

CARPENTER,  FRANK  GEORGE.  From  Tangier 
to  Tripoli.  (Carpenter's  world  travels)  277p 
il    $3    Doubleday 

916.1     Africa,  North — Description  and  travel. 
Sahara    desert  23-2190 

The  book  is  the  second  volume  of  Carpenter's 
world  travels.  It  describes  trips  thru  Morocco, 
Algeria,  Tunisia,  Tripoli  and  the  Saliara,  in 
the  form  of  open-air  talks  from  notes  taken 
on  the  spot,  "on  the  streets  of  city  or  village, 
while  riding  camel-back  over  the  desert,  or 
passing  thru  the  mountains  and  valleys  on 
foot    or    in    automobiles."       Bibliography,    index. 

Booklist  19:213  Jl  '23 
"Frank    G.    Carpenter,     the    well-known    and 
much     read     globe-trotter,     has     admirably     de- 
scribed  these    'wonder   lands.'  " 

-I-  Cath    World    117:278    My   '23    500w 


"The  volume  is  rather  less  interesting  than 
the  one  on  Alaska,  chiefly  because  the  journey 
on  which  it  is  based  was  not  taken  recently, 
and  the  picture  it  gives  of  conditions  and  of 
people  is  somewhat  out  of  date.  Its  inter- 
views are  with  people  who  were  of  consequence 
in  the  news  of  the  day  fifteen  years  ago,  but 
are  now  forgotten.  But,  while  this  is  a  serious 
drawback,  the  picture  of  the  unchanging  back- 
ground of  scene  and  of  native  life  and  of  his- 
torical interests  is  there,  portrayed  in  graphic 
colors  and  with  a  singular  sense  of  movement, 
of    spirit    and    of    life." 

H NY    Times    p8    F   18    '23    720w 

"Mr.  Carpenter  is  a  veteran  globe  trotter 
and  has  the  advantage  of  the  average  mem- 
ber of  the  tribe  in  having  official  credentials 
that  open  for  him  many  doors.  Another  ad- 
vantage is  his  habit  of  taking  copious  notes 
as  he  goes  along  and  writing  out  his  story 
while  it  is  fresh  in  mind.  If  it  lacks  a  trifle 
of  literary  polish  as  compared  with  some  travel 
lectures  ^\Tought  out  in  the  quiet  of  one's  home 
it  gains  in  vividness  by  being  struck  off  at 
white    heat." 

+  —  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ja  28  '23  360w 

CARPENTER,  FRANK  GEORGE.  Java  and 
the  East  Indies.  (Carpenter's  world  travels) 
295p      il      $4      Doubleday 

919.1      Java — Description   and   travel.   Malay 
peninsula — Description     and     travel.     Dutch 
East  Indies — Description  and  travel  23-13278 
"Another    of   the    Carpenter    travelogues    con- 
taining picturesque  descriptions  and    entertain- 
ing     incidents     of     travel     in     Java,     Sumatra, 
Celebes,  the  Moluccas.  New  Guinea,  Borneo  and 
the   Malay  peninsula." — Booklist. 


Booklist   20:52   N  '23 

"Mr.  Carpenter  is  a  shrewd  and  careful  ob- 
server and  a  most  interesting  writer.  He  has 
shown  us  in  this  volume  many  unusual  people, 
many  strange  customs,  much  beautiful  scenery 
and  much  quaint  and  remarkable  architecture. 
His  illustrations,  mostly  from  photographs  made 
by  himself,  are  admirable.  He  has  long  been 
in  the  habit  of  writing  exemplary  books  of  their 
kind  and  this  volume  is  fully  up  to  his  stand- 
ard." 

+   Boston    Transcript   p4   O  17  '23   250w 

"This  book,  like  all  the  other  books  in  the 
series,  is  a  book  of  realism.  It  was  written  on 
the  spot.  As  an  example  of  how  Mr.  Carpenter 
works  on  these  volumes  I  need  only  to  quote 
what  he  says  of  his  note  taking  when  visiting 
the  volcano  of  Tengger.  '.  .  .  they  were  writ- 
ten right  on  the  ground,  part  of  them  wnth  a 
handkerchief  over  my  mouth  to  keep  out  the 
brimstone  fumes  which  were  coming  up  from  the 
hell   pit   below.'  "    Roy   Chanslor 

N  Y  Tribune  p7  S  23  '23  400w 

"Less  familiar  than  the  countries  hitherto 
portrayed,  the  scene  of  Mr  Carpenter's  latest 
pilgrimage    is    full    of   interest." 

+   N  Y  World  p8  O  14  '23  150w 

Springf'd    Republican   plO   D   4   '23   450w 

CARPENTER,  FRANK  GEORGE.  Tail  of  the 
hemisphere:  Chile  and  Argentina.  (Carpenter's 
world  travels)   298p  il  $4  Doubleday 

918.3  Chile — Description  and  travel.  Argen- 
tina— Description  and  travel  23-8000 
The  book  is  based  on  two  journeys  made 
around  the  South  American  continent,  by  boat, 
by  rail  and  by  automobile.  It  describes  the 
ports  and  cities,  the  farming  regions,  the 
deserts  and  the  mountains;  also  the  fauna  and 
flora  of  the  two  countries,  their  population,  in- 
dustries and  governments.     Bibliography.  Index. 


Booklist    19:314    Jl    '23 
"Interesting  and  informative."   I:  Anderson 

-I-  Int   Bk  R  p39  Je  '23  120w 

"It  is  not  a  travel  narrative  to  be  read  at  a 

sitting,  but  a  book  for  the  library  shelves,  well 

illustrated,    indexed,    and   containing  good   brief 

bibliographies  fpr  those  who  wish  to  seek  further 


86 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


CARPENTER,    FRANK    GEORGE — Continued 
information   about  the   two  southernmost  coun- 
tries of  the  Americas." 

Lit  R  p918  Ag  18  '23  160w 
"Will  delight  the  stay-at-homes  who  love  to 
let    their    imagination    roam."    E.    M.    L. 
-f  N  Y  Tribune  plS  My  20  '23  90w 
"He  gives  a  well  told  account  of  travel  under 
agreeable  circumstances." 

+  N    Y   World  p8e  Ap  1  '23  120w 
"Facts    about    Chile    and    Argentina    are    re- 
corded   in    this    book    in   a    thorough   and   pains- 
taking  way    that   leaves   little   to   be   desired    in 
the  way  of  information.     The  book  is  the  work 
of  an   experienced   traveler  and  newspaper  cor- 
respondent,  and   shows   its  author's  training  as 
a  practical  information-gatherer  on  fevery  page." 
+  Outlook  133:854   My   9  '23  60w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:306  Je  '23 
Sprlngf  d  Republican  plO  Ag  1  '23  420w 
Wis   Lib  Bui  19:159  Je  '23 

CARPENTER,  GEORGE  HERBERT.  Insect 
transformation.  282p  il  $5  Dodd  [12s  6d  Meth- 
uen] 

595.7   Insects— Development  [Agr22-5] 

The  subject  of  the  book  is  the  transformations 
which  insects  undergo  during  their  growth  from 
the  newly  hatched  young  to  the  adult  form,— 
the  caterpillar  into  the  butterfly,  the  maggot 
into  the  bottle  fly,  etc.  In  order  to  present  these 
changes  the  more  clearly  the  author  gives  an 
account  of  the  anatomy  of  insects  and  an  out- 
line of  their  classification.  He  studies  the  two 
methods  of  developing  into  winged  creatures, 
the  open  and  the  hidden  type  of  wing  growth. 
He  also  studies  insect  transformation  from  the 
point  of  view  of  environment  and  the  light 
thrown  by  some  of  the  problems  of  metamor- 
phosis on  the  process  of  evolution  in  general. 


"Dr.  Carpenter  gives  useful  hints  on  the  sub- 
ject  of  insect   ravages.   His  book  is  a   valuable 
addition  to  the  literature  of  nature  study." 
-f  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  4  '23  400w 

"While  every  page  of  Mr.  Carpenter's  book 
is  interesting,  its  concluding  chapter  on  the 
problems  of  transformation  may  be  the  one 
turned  to  with  greatest  anticipation  by  the  gen- 
eral reader."    B.  W.   Kunkel 

+   Lit  R  p909  Ag  18  '23  950w 

CARROLL,    MOLLIE   RAY.     I^abor  and  politics; 

the    attitude    of    the    American    federation    of 

labor    toward    legislation    and    politics.       206p 

$2      Houghton 

331.87      Labor   and   laboring   classes — United 
States.       American    federation    of   labor 

23-258 

The  book  is  one  of  the  Hart,  Schaffner  and 
Marx  prize  essays  in  economics.  In  analysing 
the  program  of  the  American  federation  of 
labor  with  reference  to  its  legislative  and  po- 
litical activity  the  author  was  necessarily  lim- 
ited to  ascertaining  the  Federation's  official 
attitude.  The  inciuiry,  which  is  both  historical 
and  critical,  shows  that  the  primary  interests 
of  the  Federation  lie  in  collective  bargaining 
and  that  the  political  and  legislative  machinery 
is  resorted  to  only  where  problems  cannot  be 
solved  thru' direct  economic  measures.  To  give 
the  reasons  for  this  is  one  of  the  objects  of 
the  book  and  to  suggest  on  what  points  a 
more  constructive  method  may  be  desirable  to 
the  negative  policies  so  far  employed.  Selected 
bibliography,    index. 


Reviewed  by  D.   A.    McCabe 

Am    Econ    R   13:702  D  '23  400w 

"Labor  and  Politics  is  a  well-planned,  con- 
cise and  sympathetic  survey.  It  is  a  helpful 
handbook  for  the  special  student  as  well  as  an 
easily  read  and  illuminating  aid  to  the  gen- 
eral reader,  in  reaching  an  understanding  of 
important  forces  that  have  a  bearing  upon  so- 
cial  progress." 

+  Ann  Am   Acad  109:315  S  '23  lOOOw 

Booklist  19:238  My  '23 


"The  subject  is  treated  on  broad  lines  with 
a  happy  choice  of  material.  As  its  text  is 
not  over-burdened  with  details  it  makes  a  very 
readable  book."     M.   E.   P. 

-|-   Boston    Transcript   p6    F   3   '23    1550w 
Cleveland  p44  Je  '23 
"The    book   is  objective,    informed,    fair,   se- 
verely and  even  dryly  scientific,  yet  sympathetic 
and  intelligently  critical.  Small  wonder,  perhaps, 
that  it  has  already  called  down  upon  itself  vit- 
riolic    condemnation     in     the     columns     of     the 
American   Federationist  as  another  bit  of  med- 
dling  outside    interference."    H:    R.    Mussey 
-f  Nation    117:167   Ag   15   '23   1400w 
"Miss   Carroll   has   packed  a  good  deal   of  in- 
formation  in   her   book   gleaned   from   the  offlcal 
organs   of  the   American   Federation   of  Labor." 
R.    C.    Feld 

-f-   N   Y   Times  p8   F  4   '23   330w 
R    of   Rs   67:448  Ap   '23   80w 

CARTER,    HOWARD,   and   MACE,   ARTHUR   C. 
*    Tomb  of  •Tut-ankh-amen.     334p    11    $5    Doran 

[31s    6d    Cassell] 
913.32     Egypt— Antiquities.     Tut-ankh-amen 

Mr.  Carter's  popular  narrative  of  the  discov- 
ery of  the  tomb  of  Tut-ankh-amen,  written  in 
collaboration  with  A.  C.  Mace  of  the  Metropol- 
itan museum  of  art.  New  York,  is  merely  pre- 
liminary to  the  scientific  record  which  cannot 
be  made  until  the  investigation  of  the  tomb 
and  its  vast  material  has  been  completed.  This 
book  deals  mostly  with  the  actual  finding  of 
the  tomb,  the  survey  and  clearing  of  the  ante- 
chamber, the  work  in  the  laboratory  and  fin- 
ally, the  opening  of  the  sealed  door.  The  book 
is  prefaced  by  a  biographical  sketch  of  Lord 
Carnarvon,  by  his  sister,  and  an  appendix  con- 
tains descriptions  of  the  treasures  found.  There 
are  104  illustrations  from  photographs  by  Harry 
Burton,  also  of  the  Metropolitan  museum  of 
art. 


"Mr.  Carter's  is  a  calm,  unimpassioned  nar- 
rative, as  exhaustive  as  it  can  be  made  at 
this  stage  of  the  proceedings,  and  admirably 
illustrated  by  Mr  Burton's  well-known  photo- 
graphs." 

-f   New  Statesman  22:310  D  15  '23  420w 

"Mr.  Howard  Carter's  preliminary  volume  Is 
more  thrilling  to  read  than  the  most  exciting 
novel." 

-I-  Spec    131:860    D    1    "23    1350w 

"It  is  a  book  which  deserves  high  praise  In 
every  way;  the  photographs  are  admirable;  and 
the  story  is  so  written  that  it  leads  the  reader 
on  from  one  discovery  to  another  in  a  cres- 
cendo of  excitement.  A  word,  too,  must  be  said 
for  the  delicate  pathos  of  Lady  Burghclere'3 
sketch  of  her  brother's  life;  it  is  a  fitting  re- 
quiem   for   a   devoted    .nrchseologist." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p764   N 
15  '23  1300W 

CARTER,    WINIFRED.     Lass   o'   laughter.    309p 
$1.75  Scribner   [3s  6d  T.   Butterworth] 

23-4809 
"The  story  as  written  from  the  play  of  the 
same  name,  by  Miss  Carter  and  Miss  Marriott- 
Watson.  It  tells  how  'Lass,'  brought  up  in  the 
•Glesca'  slums — a  veritable  Cinderella— is  as 
miraculously  and  as  abruptly  lifted  out  of  her 
squalid  environment,  and  as  the  heiress  of  the 
late  Earl  of  Maxwell,  laughs  her  way  into  the 
hearts  of  the  dwellers  in  Maxwell  Towers.  Al- 
though of  the  outcome  of  final  testing  of  the 
pure  gold  of  the  girl's  character,  one  is  never 
for  an  instant  in  doubt,  one  feels  a  bit  relieved 
when  it  is  over,  and  Lass  rides  away  happily  to 
her  wedding  with  'the  Prince,'  in  the  traditional 
'Pumpkin  coach.'  Only  it  is  a  limousine.  They 
are  made  that  way  today."— Boston  Transcript 


"The  plot  is  not  original,  nor  its  weaving, 
nor  its  outcome.  And  at  times  the  character- 
ization is  overdrawn.  And  yet  so  wholesome  is 
its  atmosphere,  and  so  altogether  lovable  is 
Lass  that  the  reader  follows  the  example  of 
the    true    'gentlefolk'    of    Maxwell    Towers    and 


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rejoices   with    the   happiness  which   comes   into 
the   girl's   transformed   life." 

-i Boston    Transcript   p5  Mr  17   '23  260w 

Int  Bl<  R  p49  Ag  '23  280w 
Lit  R  p590  Ap  7  '23  22Uw 
"The  book  is  Lass,  and  Lass  is  the  book; 
every  page  offers  fresh  proof  of  her  courage, 
her  charm,  her  generosity,  her  utterly  unblem- 
ished perfection.  The  fact  is  that  she  is  not  a 
girl  at  ail,  but  a  prize  package  of  all  the 
known   virtues,  entirely  too  good  to  be  true." 

-\ NY  Times  pl8  Mr  11  '23  250w 

"One  expects  exuberance  in  such  a  tale,  as 
this.  And  gets  it.  But  we,  for  one,  are  not 
going  to  pass  Miss  Carter's  romance  by  because 
it  happens  to  be  both  exuberant  and  of  that 
old-fashioned  brand  which  delighted  the  readers 
of  the  blessed  fireside  weekly."  E.  W.  Osborn 
+   N  Y  World  p7e  Mr  11  '23  280w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p633    O 
5   '22   30w 

CASE,    CLARENCE    MARSH.      Non-violent   co- 
ercion; a  study  in  methods  of  social  pressure. 
423p       13       Century 
301   Nonresistance.    Social  psychology.    Social 
problems  23-4034 

The  author  has  chosen  the  expression  "non- 
violeni  coercion"  rather  than  passive  resistance, 
for  those  social  attitudes  know  as  non-resist- 
ance, passive  resistance,  pacifism,  conscientious 
objection,  the  strike,  boycott  and  non-coopera- 
tion, to  indicate  the  necessity  of  collective 
pressure  for  the  success  and  effectiveness  of 
non-violent  resistance.  Tiie  book  is  neither 
controversial  nor  partisan  but  applies  the  sci- 
entific, inductive  method  in  a  philosophical 
spirit  to  social  phenomena  that  are  command- 
ing increasing  attention.  After  treating  the 
subject  historically  from  the  earliest  manifesta- 
tions of  non-violence  in  the  oriental  world,  by 
the  followers  of  Confucius,  Lao  Tse  and  Buddha, 
to  the  teachings  of  Christ  and  such  Christian 
seels  as  the  Bohemian  Brethren,  the  Mennon- 
ites,  Quakers,  Dunkers,  etc.,  the  author  pro- 
ceeds to  the  modern  forms  of  conscientious 
objection,  pacifism,  strikes,  boycotts  and  non- 
cooperation  as  practiced  by  Gandhi  and  his 
followers    in    India. 


"Professor  Case  is  inclined  in  places  to  preach, 
but  that  does  not  lessen  the  value  of  his  con- 
tribution in  collecting  the  evidence  for  the  first 
time  in  a  field  which  so  often  seems  to  be 
contrary  to  nature,  for  control  by  some  ulterior 
motive  either  religious  or  practical  is  necessary 
when  good  is  returned  for  evil."  H.  A.   Miller 

H Am   J    Sec   29:235    S    '23   520w 

Booklist  19:238  My  '23 
Boston    Transcript    p5    F    17    '23    800w 
Cleveland   p69   S   '23 
"The   student   of  social   science   is   greatly   in 
debt  to  Dr.  Case  for  this  book."  G.  O.  M 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  p6  Jl  15 
•23  1200W 
"What  Professor  Case  has  given  us  is  a  care- 
ful, scholarly,  well-rounded  study  of  what  is 
commonly  known  as  non-resistance,  but  what 
he  chooses,  for  excellent  reasons  to  term  'non- 
violent coercion.'  He  presents  this  subject  in 
its  historical,  ethical,  and  social  phases  with 
impartiality,  dignity,  and  an  authority  based  on 
long-continued  and  thorough  scientific  research 
The  result  is  a  volume  for  which  there  has 
long  been  an  empty  space  on  our  library 
shelves."  J:  H.  Holmes 

4-  Lit  R  pSll  Jl  7  '23  700w 
"Professor  Case  is  particularly  successful  In 
his  careful  definitions  and  in  his  explanation  of 
the  varying  limits  to  which  religious  leaders 
have  pushed  their  disbelief  in  violence.  The 
least  satisfactory  chapter  in  the  book  is  its 
record  of  Gandhi's  movement."  Norman  Thomas 

H Nation   116:635  My  30   '23   660w 

"Dr.  Case  has  done  something  not  easy  at 
all.  He  has  written  true  exposition.  His  book 
IS   informing."     F.    H.    Giddings 

-f   N    Y   Times   pl6   Je   17   '23   1550w 
R    of    Rs   67:334    Mr    '23    llOw 


«nH^^t^  y^  waited  ong  for  so  dispassionate 
and  altogether  satisfying  an  account  of  a  social 
t?I%lu^^,  power  of  which  is  only  beginning  to 
be  felt  the  world  around.  Its  appearance  is  a 
mark  of  progress  in  American  thought  and  writ- 
ing, ihe  doubter  who  reads  it  may  not  remain 
to  pray  he  will  not  fail  to  gain  some  new  con- 
cepts of    the   power  of   ideas   in   the   world  " 

+  Sprmgf'd  Republican  p6  Mr  12  '23  lOOOw 

Reviewed  by  Albert  De  Silver 

Survey   50:108   Ap   15   "23    650w 

"He  has  taken  great  pains  to  find  out  why 
various  kinds  of  objectives  act  as  they  do,  and 
lollows  witia  a  historian's  disinterestedness  the 
elfects  of  their  attitude  upon  themselves  and 
upon  society,  his  aim  being  to  discover  what 
r,?  ;,y  h'*;"^  methods  really  mean  and  amount 
nf  ,to  f etermine  their  power  and  the  limitations 
of  their  power.  His  title  is,  of  itself,  a  contri- 
bution to  the  subject."  <-"Jitn 

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Wis    Lib    Bui    19:79   Mr    '23 

^^^^^'    ^°^^.^\   J-        Lost    kingdom    of   Bur- 
gundy.   399p   il    $4     Century 

944.4     Burgundy  23-1381T 

The  lost  kingdom  of  Burgundy,  established 
by  Teutonic  invaders  in  406,  is  now  partitioned 
among  Switzerland,  Germany,  Belgium  France 
and  Italy,  but  the  days  of  its  glory  live  in  his- 
tory and  legend  and  romance.  This  book  is  a 
combination  of  these  elements.  It  calls  up  the 
memories  which  gather  about  such  names  as 
Charles  the  Bold,  Margaret  of  Austria,  Tartarin 
of  rarascon,  Ren6  of  Provence,  and  Aucassin  and 
Nicolette,  and  such  storied  places  as  Chalon- 
sur-Sa5ne,  capital  of  the  first  Burgundian  kings 
Dijon,  city  of  the  dukes,  and  Aries  with  its 
Roman    remains. 


Booklist  20:96  D  '23 
"Very  diligent  has  been  Mr.  Casey  in  collect- 
ing these  curious,  beautiful,  sometimes  shudder- 
ing, stories  of  aforetime  places  and  people- 
and  these  descriptive  passages  in  which  the 
tales  have  their  setting  are  equally  attractive." 

Hi.     J.      C 

4-  Boston  Transcript  p8  N  14  '23  lOOOw 
"Legends  of  Old  Burgundy  and  the  present- 
day  aspects  of  the  surviving  cities  of  that  lost 
kingdom  are  here  pleasantly  intermingled  by 
the  author  in  a  flowing  narrative  that  will  lure 
many  a  reader  to  wish  to  repeat  his  leisurely 
wanderings.  The  photographic  illustrations  are 
exceptionally  attractive  and  well  printed  " 
+  Outlook  135:281  O   17  '23   40w 

Springf'd    Republican    p6    D    3    '23    310w 

CASSERLY,    GORDON.     Algeria  to-day.    262p   il 

$4   Stokes    [16s  T.   W.  Laurie] 
916.5      Algeria — Description    and    travel 

[23-12191] 

The  author  of  this  account  of  Algeria  and 
Its  people  is  a  warm  admirer  of  French  colon- 
izing methods  in  northern  Africa  and  has  much 
to  say  of  the  French  regime.  He  describes 
the  old  and  the  new  Algiers  and  sketches  the 
history  of  north  Africa.  There  are  chapters  on 
Blida  and  Boghari,  on  Kabylia  and  the  Kabyles 
on  saints  and  secret  societies,  on  the  Sahara' 
and  on  that  mysterious  race,  the  Touareg,  who 
robbed  and  raided  from  the  Algerian  frontier  to 
the  Soudan  and  gave  the  French  so  much 
trouble    in    repressing   them. 


Booklist  21:134  Ja  '24 
Boston  Transcript  p4  O  20  '23  1050w 
"This  is  a  comprehensive  but  rather  undis- 
tinguished account  of  Algeria  and  its  people 
Lt.-Col.  Casserly  has  obviously  a  genuine  in- 
terest in  the  country,  but  he  records  his  im- 
pressions and  opinions  in  the  painfully  orthodox 
phraseology   of  a   lantern   lecturer." 

H New  Statesman  21:248  Je  2  '23  160w 

"Colonel  Casserly's  account  of  modern  Algeria 
is  a  conscientious  and  informative  piece  of  writ- 
ing rather  of  the  order  of  the  guide-book  than 


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CASSERLY,   GORDON — Continued 
of  a  personal  narrative.     It  includes  a  good  ac- 
count of  the  work  done  by  France  in  organizing 
and  civilizing  the   country." 

+  Sat   R   138:808  Je  IG  '23  60w 
"It  is  remarkable   how  much  varied  informa- 
tion he  has  presented  in  a  small  volume  in  en- 
tertaining  form."  ,    .  .      „  o.^   i,T 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p346  My 
24    '23    1200W 

CASSERLY,    GORDON.     Red   marshal.     314p     $2 
Clode 

23-2975 

In  times  past  a  gallant,  red-haired  Irishman 
had  come  to  Carlonia,  a  small  east-European 
state  that  had  lost  its  independence  to  Austria, 
and  became  its  leader  and  liberator.  He  came 
down  to  fame  as  the  Red  marshal— his  real 
name  was  Brian  O'Rourke — married  the  grand 
duke's  daughter  and  in  due  time  was  canonized. 
This  is  the  legendary  background  of  the  prin- 
cess Helene  whom  another  Brian  O'Rourke, 
comte  de  Brefni,  meets  at  the  court  of  T^ouis 
XVI  in  Versailles.  He  arrouses  the  jealousy  of 
Comte  d'Artois,  the  king's  younger  brother  and 
becomes  the  object  of  his  persecutions.  Gay 
court  festivals,  intrigues,  duels,  miraculous  es- 
capes, romance,  all  enter  into  the  plot  of  the 
storv.  The  legendary  O'Rourke  turns  out  to 
have  been  a  distant  relative  of  our  hero  and 
to  resemble  him.  At  the  end  of  the  eventful 
narrative  there  is  another  revolution  in  Car- 
lonia, the  Red  marshall  has  come  to  life  again, 
again  he  frees  the  duchy  from  Austria,  and 
again   he   marries   the   duke's   daughter. 


"A   good   story,   and   well    told." 

4-  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  23  '23  700w 
"An  unusually  good  semi-historical  back- 
ground, and  a  smooth,  simple  style  make  this 
considerably  better  than  the  swashbuckling  ad- 
ventuie  novel  of  the  near-Anthony  Hope  type 
is  apt  to  be." 

-f    Lit   R  p633  Ap  21  '23   ISOw 

GATHER,     WILLA     SIBERT.     April     twilights, 
and  other  poems.    66p  $2.50     Knopf 

811  23-8338 

Miss  Gather's  first  published  work  was  a  vol- 
ume of  verse  entitled  "April  twilight.s,"  which 
has  been  out  of  print  for  some  years.  This  new 
volume  brings  together  Miss  Cather's  selections 
from  the  original  volume,  as  well  as  all  her 
later  verse  which  has  appeared  from  time  to 
time  in  periodicals  and  a  number  of  poems 
which   have    never   before   been   published. 

"Chiefly     interesting     for    its     communication 
of  delicate  feeling."  D:  Morton 
+  Bookm  58:76  S  '23  250w 

"Nowhere  does  Miss  Gather  sacrifice  to  mod- 
ern cheapness  of  thought  or  disdain  of  the  laws 
thru  the  fulfiling  of  which  only  can  beautiful 
things  be  created.  Every  line  in  this  slender 
volume  bears  the  mark  of  the  craftsman  who 
will  be  satisfied  with  nothing  less  than  perfec- 
tion and  of  the  artist  whose  gift  is  very  great. 
4-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  20  '23  220w 
Dial    75:400    O    '23    90w 

"The  main  bulk  of  her  book  is  simply  pretty 
sentiment;  very  neat,  very  light,  very  slight 
and  occasional  poetry.  Miss  Gather  s  book  con- 
tains as  far  as  I  am  able  to  judge,  but  one  good 
noem  This  is  'Macon  Prairie,'  a  work  whose 
almost  infantile  simplicity  of  technique  is  re- 
deemed by  an  absolute  fidelity  to  visioni. 
T-  G  Fletcher 
'^^  +  _  Freeman  7:452  Jl  18  '23  120w 

Reviewed  by  W:   R.   Benet 

Lit  R  p860  Jl  28  '23  700w 

"The  abundant  poetry  is  .not  here.  It  seems 
perfectly  obvious  that  Miss  Gather  was  wise 
in  abandoning  verse  for  fiction.  .  .  Miss  Gather 
nould  hardlv  write  a  book  that  was  not  di.s- 
Unguished,  and  'April  Twilights'  is  distingui.shed 
bv  feeling  and  observation."  Mark  Van  Doren 
^_  +  Nation   116:753  Je  27  '23  190w 

Reviewed  bv  P.  A.  Hutchi.son 

NY  Times  p7  My  13  '23  650w 


N    Y   World   pl9e  Je   24  '23   40w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:410  Jl  '23 

GATHER,     WILLA     SIBERT.     Lost     lady.     174p 
$1.75    Knopf 

23-13012 

"Thirty  or  forty  years  ago,  in  one  of  those 
grey  towns  along  the  Burlington  railroad, 
which  are  so  much  greyer  today  than  they 
were  then,  there  wa"s  a  house  well  known  for 
its  hospitality  and  for  a  certain  charm  of  at- 
mosphere." This  house,  the  home  of  Captain 
Forrester,  railroad  builder,  and  his  wife  Mari- 
an is  the  scene  of  Miss  Gather's  perfectly 
wrought  story.  Captain  Forrester  was  a  bluff, 
but  chivalrous  gentleman  who  in  his  strength 
and  dignity  looked  like  the  pictures  of  Grover 
Cleveland,  and  as  for  Marian  Forrester,  there 
was  never  any  one  like  her  in  her  best  days.  She 
is  pictured  thru  the  eyes  of  a  young  man  to 
whom  she  was  all  charm  and  romance  and 
who,  when  he  lost  his  ideal  of  her,  lost  the  most 
beautiful  thing  that  life  had  thus  far  held  for 
him.  She  passed  out  of  his  life  entirely  but 
years  afterward,  when  one  of  the  Sweet  Water 
boys  brought  him  a  message  from  his  lost  lady, 
she  returned  to  him  a  "bright  impersonal  memo- 
ry." 


"A  Lost  Lady  is  Miss  Cather's  version  of  the 
loveliness  whose  appointed  task  it  is  to  include 
virtue  as  the  whole  includes  the  parts,  and 
whose  failure  to  be  born  with  the  strength  for 
this  high  destiny  is  the  supreme  tragedy."  Wil- 
son Follett 

+  Atlantic   Bookshelf  N   '23  500w 

Booklist  20:55  N   '23 
"As  brilliant  as  a  summer  dawn,  as  clear,   as 
beautiful." 

+   Bookm   58:200   O   '23   300w 
"Well   written    in   a   somewhat    highly    colored 
style,  with  occasional  exaggerative  infelicities." 
F     F     E 
'  4-"_  Boston  Transcript  p4  S  22  '23  600w 
"Miss  Gather  does  not  preach.     Perhaps  that 
is   why   in    the   end   the   reader   pauses  over   the 
'lost    lady'    of    her    story    with    pity,    with    the 
sorrowful  sense  of  something  beautiful  drawing 
strength    and    vitality    from   rotten    soil."    How- 
3.  r  d   W^  G  G  k  s 

+  Detroit  News  pl2  O  14  '23  800w 
"It  is  neither  'novelette'  nor  full-length 
novel.  It  is  a  complete  and  significant  action 
distilled  so  that  the  whole  of  its  sparkling 
potency  may  brim  without  over-flowing  the 
small  crystal  vessel  of  its  form."  H.  W.  Boyn- 
ton 

-f  Ind  111:198  O  27  '23  2050w 
"Books  with  substance  to  them  or  endowed 
with  haunting  beauty  set  you  thinking  of  other 
attempts  to  grasp  the  elusive  mysteries  of  liv- 
ing, those  dooms  and  perplexities  and  sur- 
prises which  sink  deeper  and  deeper  into  the 
consciousness  as  one  grows  older.  'A  Lost 
Lady,'  for  all  its  simplicity,  has  this  power. 
Its  story  means  more  on  each  recall.  It  is  to 
the  eye  and  perhaps  to  the  first  impression 
the  slenderest  of  Miss  Gather's  novels;  it  is 
also,  I  think,  the  most  perfect."  H:  S.  Canby 
-f  Lit  R  p59  S  22  "23  800w 
"She  has  constantly  struggled  to  achieve  that 
synthesis  of  qualities  which  alone  can  make 
a  novel  really  fine,  and  in  'A  Lost  Lady,'  short 
and  slight  as  it  is,  she  has  achieved  it.  There 
would  be  no  excuse  for  calling  it  a  great  novel 

it    is    not    that;    but    there    would    be    equally 

little    excuse    for   not    recognizing   the   fact    that 
it    is    that    very    rare    thing    in    contemporary 
literature,  a  nearly  perfect  one."     J.  \V^  Krutch 
+  Nation    117:610    N   28   '23    920w 
"Brief  but  charming  little  opus.     It  is  hardly 
a   novel    and   yet   it   is   too   full   and   good   for   a 
short   story.     It  is  simply  a  little  work  of  art." 
+   N  Y  Times  p4  S  30  '23  lOOOw 
"Miss    Gather    has    written    her    story    of    the 
modern     Gytherean,     and     she     has    written     it 
more    beautifully    than    any    one    before    her." 
Burton    Rascoe 

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"Willa  Gather  is  back  from  the  war  safe  and 
sound.  She  has  never  done  a  better  novel  than 
'A  Lost  Lady,'  nor  is  she  likely  to.  But  then 
neither  is  any  other  wTiter  of  our  day.  This 
seems  to  us  truly  a  great  book.  .  .  There  is 
ample  opportunity  in  this  story  of  a  passionate 
woman  for  her  friend,  the  author,  to  moralize 
and  deplore.  Such  temptations  are  rigorously 
resisted.  At  no  point  are  we  asked  to  applaud 
or  denounce.  The  reader  is  reduced  to  his 
proper  function  of  being  allowed  to  watch  and 
observe  and  keep  his  mouth  shut.  .  .  To  know 
Capt.  Forrester  and  Marian  Forrester  i^  to 
have  an  understanding  of  an  age  and  a  class 
in   America."   Heywood  Broun 

+  N   Y   World  p9   S  28  '23   1600w 

"Only  as  we  close  the  pages  of  'A  Lost  Lady' 
do  we  become  aware  how  faithfully  and  unfor- 
gettably the  very  self  of  its  fair  and  frail 
heroine  has  been  stamped  upon  our  mind.  As 
she  fills  the  book  before  us  she  is  further 
created  proof  of  the  rarity  and  completeness  of 
her  author's  great  gift  in  writing."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

+    N    Y   World   plOe   O   7   '23    550w 

CATT,  MRS  CARRIE  CHAPMAN,  and  SHU- 
LER,  NETTIE  ROGERS.  Woman  suffrage 
and  politics;  the  inner  story  of  the  suffrage 
movement.    504p   $3    Scribner 

324.3     Woman  suffrage  23-7305 

The  inner  story  of  the  woman  suffrage  strug- 
gle in  America  from  the  first  woman's  rights 
convention  in  1848  to  the  passage  of  the  federal 
suffrage  amendment  in  1920  is  told  from  tne 
experience  of  the  author's  thirty  years'  con- 
nection with  the  movement.  The  book  is 
specially  concerned  with  the  bearing  of  Ameri- 
can politics  upon  the  question  of  woman  suf- 
frage, with  the  combines  and  interests  that 
systematically  fought  suffrage  and  caused  the 
long  delay  which  made  America  the  twenty- 
seventh  country  to  give  the  vote  to  women  when 
she  ought  by  rights  to  have  been  the  first.  The 
length  of  the  struggle  is  shown  to  have  been 
due  not  to  antagonistic  or  uneducated  public 
sentiment  but  to  the  "trading  and  trickery, 
the  buying  and  selling  of  American   politics." 


Reviewed    by    K. 
Yale    R   n 


B.    Davis 
s   13:392  Ja 


'24    630w 


Am   Pol   Sci    R  17:509  Ag  '23  220w 

Booklist  19:299  Jl  '23 
"The    book    abounds    in    thrills   that   ought    to 
satisfy  the   most  insatiate  motion  picture  flend. . 
It  wili  give  hope  to  the  oppressed  of  every  land." 

Boston   Transcript   p2   Je   3   '23    90w 

Cleveland  p72  S  '23 
"The  chapters  are  by  no  means  uninstructive. 
With  a  general  conclusion  of  the  book,  however, 
one  may  take  issue."     M.   L.   F. 

1-   Ind  110:319  My  12  '23  550w 

"I  only  know  that  as  a  piece  of  historical 
writing — with  the  defects  I  have  hinted  at  and 
some  others  I  might  mention — this  is  a  mighty 
good  book,  and  one  which  in  the  future  can 
not  easily  be  separated  from  the  historical  de- 
velopment of  our  country.  It  has  quality,  tem- 
perament, a  certain  kind  of  feminine  philosoph- 
ical charm,  and  a  courage  in  the  writing  which 
is  highly  to  be   commended."     T:    L.    Masson 

H Int   Bk   R   pl25   Ja  '24   1550w 

"The  partisanship  of  this  book,  like  that  of 
Mrs.  Irwin's  calls  for  still  another  history." 
C:   W.  Thompson 

—  NY  Times  p3  My  13  '23  2350w 
Reviewed    by    Emma    Bugbee 

N  Y  Tribune  pl7  Je  17  '23  llOOw 
"Admitting  that  the  job  of  getting  out  such 
a  volume  of  testimony  as  this  in  hand  has  been 
well  and  thoroughly  done,  we  confess  at  the 
same  instant  to  an  inability  to  see  the  essen- 
tial reason  for  doing  it.  .  .  We  fear  that  the 
impression  will  grow  upon  the  still  unrecon- 
structed opponents  of  the  cause  for  which  our 
authors  fought  so  efficiently  that  the  victors  in 
the  late  national  fray  have  turned  from  their 
processional  triumph  to  make  faces  at  their 
vanquished  foes."     E.  W.  O. 

H NY  World  p8e  Ap  22  '23  450w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:157  Je  '23 


CAVE,      ESTELLA      (PENFOLD)      viscountess. 

Memories   of  old   Richmond;    with   some   side- 
lights on  English  history.   326p  il  ?5   Appleton 
[16s   Murray] 
942        Great      Britain — History.      Richmond 
palace  23-9878 

For  four  centuries,  from  the  time  of  Edward  I 
to  the  reign  of  James  II,  Richmond  palace 
was  one  of  the  favorite  residences  of  the  kings 
and  queens  of  England  and  their  courts.  It 
was  at  its  zenith  in  the  days  of  Elizabeth,  but 
its  history  is  interwoven  with  the  lives  of  all 
its  royal  residents,  so  that  the  book  is  more 
than  anything  else  the  personal  history  of  the 
monarchs,  their  wives  and  favorites.  The  de- 
scription of  the  buildings  is  reserved  for  the 
last  pages.  The  illustrations  include  sketches 
and  a  plan  by  George  A.  Brandram.  Bibliog- 
raphy. Index. 


Booklist    20:50    N   '23 
Lit  R  p395  D  22  '23  240w 
New  Statesman   20:88  O  21  '22  250w 
"Lady  Cave  has  been  fortunately  inspired   to 
make    a   delightful   book.      The   great   charm   of 
the  volume  now  before  us  is  its  unfailing  llveli- 

'   +  Sat  R  134:552  O  14  '22  400w 

"The  reader  is  apologetically  warned  by  the 
author  not  to  take  her  history  too  seriously. 
Such  a  book  needs  no  such  apology.  It  is 
enough  that  it  is  charming  and  picturesque  and 
full  of  contemporary  quotation." 

+  Spec  129:503  O  14  '22  350w 

CHAMBERLAIN,    GEORGE    AGNEW.      African 

hunting    among    the      Thongas.      286p     il     $5 
Harper 

799  Hunting— Africa.  Thonga  tribe  23-8951 
Narrative  of  a  big-game  hunting  trip  in  Por- 
tuguese East  Africa,  or  Mozambique,  duringr 
which  wildebeest,  waterbuck,  antelope,  inyala. 
kudu,  eland,  lion  and  elephant  were  taken.  All 
the  preparations  for  the  trip  are  described  and 
the  appendix  gives  details  of  outfitting.  Illus- 
trated with  photographa 


Booklist   20:46   N  '23 
"There  is  in  the  style  of  the  narrative  a  flu- 
ency not  often  found  in  books  of  its  class,  which 
lends  to  it  a  wonderful  charm."     E.  J.  C. 

+  Boston   Transcript   p5   Je  9   '23   lOOOw 
"The   book   is   full   of  the  particular  brand  of 
facetiousness  which  renders  the  conversation  of 
amateur    sportsmen    so    insupportable    to   sensi- 
tive and  intelligent  people."     Llewelyn  Powys 
—  Lit  R  p734  Je  2  '23  580w 
"Chamberlain     is    much    more    than    a    lusty 
sportsman  and  an  easy,  entertaining  narrator  of 
jungle    yarns — he    is    a    most    excellent    gossip. 
There  is  no  obvious  effort  to  convince  or  thrill 
the  reader;  the  story  is  as  informal  as  the  latest 
divorce    proceedings    overheard     in    the    locker 
room     of    your     favorite     golf     club."       Horace 
Gregory 

-f-   N  Y  Tribune  p20  Ag  19  '23  600w 

CHAMBERLAIN,        GEORGE       AGNEW.        Lip 

Malvy's   wife.    307p   $2   Harper 

23-131Q0 

"The  gentleman  who  gives  occasion  for  the 
title  of  this  book  had  been  mislaid  in  a  very 
dark  corner  of  Africa,  'the  Forest  of  Bull  Ele- 
phants Too  Big  for  a  Bullet,'  so  Mrs.  Malvy  felt 
it  necessary  to  go  hunting  him.  She  carries  along 
the  real  hero,  one  Bruce  Liscomb.  They  find 
sufficiently  gruesome  facts  of  the  late  lamented 
Malvy's  deparature  and  are  thus  free  to  do 
adventuring  on  their  own  account,  emerging 
safely  to  live  happily  ever  after." — Lit  R 


"The  description  of  the  journey  into  the 
jungle  is  vivid  and  interesting.  On  the  whole 
Mr.   Chamberlain  has  been   exceeding  lavish  of 


90 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


CHAMBERLAIN,   G:   A.— Continued 
plot   and   by  no   means  niggardly   in   his   embel- 
lishment of  it."' 

-1 Boston   Transcript   p4   N   10   '23   280w 

"There  are  some  hectic  scenes,  some  fairly 
good  melodrama,  but  the  book  hardly  rises 
above   screen   level." 

f-   Lit  R   p216  N  3  '23   llOw 

N    Y   Times  p22  D  23  '23  280w 
"This    story   has   been    told    many    times   and, 
on    the    average,    more    skillfully,    more    impres- 
sively,   than   by   Mr.    Chamberlain."   J.    N.    Rob- 
inson 

—  NY  Tribune  p22  N  11  '23  600w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  13  '24  220w 

CHAMBERLIN,         FREDERICK        CARLETON. 

2    Sayings  of  Queen  Elizabeth.     324p     $4     Dodd 

[16s  Lane] 
B   or   92     Elizabeth,    queen   of   England 

In  his  exhaustive  study  of  the  character  and 
career  of  the  great  queen,  which  has  already 
borne  fruit  in  liis  "Private  character  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,"  the  author  became  so  impressed 
with  the  pungency  and  force  of  her  words  and 
their  value  as  a  revelation  of  herself  that  he 
began  to  catolog  them.  His  collection  of  quota- 
tions from  her  letters  and  speeches  has  grown 
for  more  than  ten  years  till  it  fills  this  book, 
in  which  the  sayings  are  grouped  under  about 
twenty-five  headings.  In  each  case  the  cir- 
cumstance of  the  sa.ying  is  explained  and, 
wherever  possible,  the  person  to  whom  the 
words  were  addressed  is  named.  The  book  has 
a  long  and  controversial  introduction  calling 
the  historian  Froude  to  task  for  his  misrepre- 
sentation of  the  queen  and  the  unreliability  of 
his   quotations   from   contemporary   documents. 


people.  The  correct  accompaniments  and  gar- 
nishes for  each  soup  are  given  and  there  Is 
a  chapter  on  the  preparation  of  these  acces- 
sories. 


"Excellent  reading.  Mr.  Chamberlin's  dili- 
gence and  careful  and  thorough  study  are  serv- 
ing to  open  up  a  line  of  historical  thought  and 
study  of  the  widest  interest.  The  volumes 
to  follow  will  be  awaited  with  eager  interest." 
E.    J.    Carpenter 

4-   Boston    Transcript   p4   Ja   12   '24   800w 

"This  text  is  interesting.  Froude  invented, 
doctored  and  suppressed  any  evidence  which 
he  chose  to  make  more  conformable  to  his  pre- 
judices. Though,  as  Mr.  Chamberlin  modestly 
admits,  the  wrong  which  Froude  did  the  Queen's 
memory  will  have  to  be  set  right  by  some  one 
with  a  style  as  glib  as  Froude's  combined  with 
a  sense  of  truth  and  scholarship  as  nice  as 
Mr.  Chamberlin's  own,  he  has  at  least  cleared 
away  most  of  the  debris  and  left  the  way  open 
to  future  historians.  I  am  not  sure,  indeed, 
that  he  has  not  performed  the  task  already, 
for  in  letting  the  Queen  herself  speak  he  has 
set  against  Froude,  and  all  of  similar  mind,  a 
voice,  a  prose  style  even,  which  is  to  their  ut- 
terances as  a  full  orchestra  to  a  harmonica." 
Robert  Hillyer 

+   Freeman    8:450    Ja    16    '24    3000w 

New  Statesman  22:supl6  D  8  '23  40w 
Sat  R  136:660  D  15  '23  220w 

"He  has  industriously  assembled  a  large  col- 
lection of  Elizabeth's  comments  and  remarks 
and  has  grouped  them  with  some  ingenuity. 
One  criticism  may  be  made  of  his  editing.  He 
has  too  rarely  given  his  authorities  or  assigned 
precise  dates  to  his  quotations,  though  he  In- 
dicates the  periods  of  the  Queen's  life  to 
which  they  belong  and  the  episodes  to  which 
most   of   them    refer." 

H The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p847    D 

6    '23    lOOOw 

CHAMBERS,  MRS  MARY  DAVOREN 

'     (MOLONY).      Book    of    unusual    soups.      162p 

$1.50      Little 

641      Soup  23-13555 

After  a  description  of  the  standard  varieties 
of  soups  and  their  bases,  the  book  gives  re- 
cipes for  many  different  kinds  and  combina- 
tions in  which  unusual  ingredients  are  intro- 
duced. Fruit  soups  are  included  and  "soups- 
plus"  as  the  author  terms  them— that  is,  hearty 
dishes    which    suffice    for    the    dinner    of    some 


"This   is   a   truly  valuable   and   practical   sup- 
plement to  the  regular  cook  book."     L.  H.  G. 
+   Boston  Transcript  p8  N  21  '23  400w 
J    Home   Econ  15:722  D  '23   20w 
N  Y  World  p9e  N  18  '23  50w 

CHAMBERS,   ROBERT  WILLIAM.  Eris.  323p  $2 

Ddran 

23-13125 

"Eris  Odell  is  born  in  1900  in,  place  of  the  boy 
who  has  been  expected  for  twenty  years  by  her 
hard-fisted  father,  Elmer  Odell  of  Whitewaters 
Farm.  Her  dying  mother  gives  her  tlie  name  of 
the  Greek  Goddess  of  Discord.  But  it  is  only  the 
old  family  doctor  who,  in  the  house  of  birth  and 
death,  appreciates  the  ironic  jest.  Mr.  Chambers 
understands  all  about  it,  of  course,  and  in  his 
book  the  disturbing  influence  of  Eris  runs 
through  many  chapters  of  aspiration,  jealousy, 
love  and  doubt,  with  a  timely  case  of  mutual 
murder  marking  the  climax  of  the  tale.  Eris 
runs  away  from  the  farm  to  the  great  city. 
At  one  period  in  her  career  she  sleeps  on  the 
grass  in  Central  Park.  Later  on  she  is  the  per- 
fect queen  of  the  movies.  At  all  stages  she  is 
the  unmistakable  creation  of  Mr.  Chambers." — 
N    Y  "World 


"Now  we  know  that  to  be  obsolete  is  to  admit 
floundering  in  a  depth  of  virtue  more  degrading 
than  the  mid-"Victorian,  but  we  do  not  care  and 
we  are  profoundly  grateful  to  Mr.  Chambers  for 
this  fine  and  finished  story."   L.  H.  Guyol 

-f-   Boston   Transcript   p5  Jl  28   '23  1300w 
Int    Bk    R    p65    O    '23    250w 
Reviewed   by  A.   D.    Douglas 
Lit    R   pll    S   1   '23   300w 
Nation   117:444   O  17  '23  130w 
—  New   Repub  35:362  Ag  22   '23   1600w 
"In  a  sense,   'Eris'   is  merely  another  story  in 
the    long  list  of  Chambers  tales  that   spring  up 
as  if  over-night,   like  cottages  in  a  Long  Island 
suburb,  all  bearing  evidence  of  the  hand  of  one 
contractor.    Yet    the    charge     of    self-repetition 
can    never    in    entire     truth    be    made    of    Mr. 
Chambers.    His    journalistic    quality    saves    him 
from  that." 

h   N  Y  Times  pl4  Jl  22  '23  450w 

N   Y  Tribune   p23   Jl  29  '23   500w 
Reviewed  by  E.  "W.  Osborn 

N  Y  World  p9e  Jl  22  '23   330w 
The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p853  D  6 
•23  180w 

CHAMBERS,    ROBERT   WILLIAM.   The   talkers. 
201p     $1.75     Doran 

23-5521 

Sadoul  is  a  genius  of  sorts  and  among  his 
specialties  are  hypnotism  and  psychic  research. 
He  falls  in  love  with  his  secretary,  Gilda  Green - 
way,  and,  failing  of  response,  acquires  hypnotic 
power  over  her  compelling  her  while  under  his 
influence  to  contract  a  civil  marriage  with  him. 
Siie  refuses  to  live  with  him  and  he  trails  her 
steps  with  jealous  determination.  The  out- 
standing points  of  his  persecution  are:  he 
kills  her  instantly  by  a  stab  into  the  nymphalic 
gland:  while  a  gland  specialist  is  getting  ready 
to  revive  her  by  grafting  a  new  healthy  nym- 
phalic in  its  place  Sadoul,  with  his  psychic 
powers,  endeavors  to  inject  a  new  ego  into 
her  in  place  of  her  slowly  departing  soul.  He 
succeeds,  however,  only  in  giving  her  two  per- 
sonalities that  alternately  fight  for  control. 
Thus  a  gross,  sensual  Gilda,  on  occasions,  dis- 
places the  real  spiritual  one  and  renders  the 
romance  between  her  and  young  Sutton  a 
stormy    and    distressing   one. 


"From  the   flrst  to  the  last  line  of  his  latest 
novel  there  is  not  a  surplus  word."     L.  H.  G. 
-f  Boston  Transcript  p2  Mr  3  '23  320w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


91 


"Behind     291     pages     of     rasping    satire,    one 
glimpses  a  bitter  and  weary  writer  whose  ideas, 
whose    style,    whose    book-structure,    are    liniced 
chainlike    to    the    fatal    facility    of    his    never- 
ending    commercial    productions.        Finishing    it, 
the    reader    has    no    more    sensation    of    reality 
or  gripping  borrow  of  fantasy  than  the  dreamer, 
awake,    who   has    forgotten    his    dream." 
Int    Bk     R    p53    Mr    '23    250w 
Lit   R  p835   Jl  14   '23   300w 
N    Y    Times    p24    F    18    '23    250w 
Reviewed    by    Ruth    Snyder 

N    Y    World    p6e    F    25    '23    720w 
Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  1  '23  300w 

CHANCELLOR,  EDWIN  BERESFORD.  Lon- 
don of  Thackeray.  263p  il  $6  Doran  [15s  G. 
Richards] 

914.21        London — Description.       Thackeray, 
"William   Makepeace  [23-14989] 

"This  new  book  by  the  author  of  so  many 
excellent  books  on  London  concerns  itself  en- 
tirely with  the  topography  of  Thackeray's 
novels,  and  does  not  describe  the  novelist's 
own  haunts,  which  have  already  been  dealt 
with  elsewhere.  Here  we  have  the  London  of 
Thackeray's  characters,  and  it  necessarily  fol- 
lows that  what  we  really  get  is  not  just  one 
London  but  several:  from  Esmond  to  The  New- 
comes,  that  is,  from  the  time  of  Queen  Anne 
to  that  of  Queen  Victoria,  there  is  an  interval 
of  nearly  a  century  and  a  half,  years  enough 
to  change  the  face  of  most  cities  almost  beyond 
recognition.  Mr.  Chancellor's  method  is  to 
take  eaiCh  novel  and,  setting  aside  the  parts 
that  fall  outside  the  range  of  the  metropolis — 
and  they  are  really  surprisingly  few — to  trace 
the  topography  as  the  story  develops.  Where 
it  has  been  necessary  he  has  indicated  the 
course  of  the  story,  and  in  not  a  few  places 
he  has  enriched  his  text  with  some  particu- 
larly well-chosen  extracts  from  Thackeray  him- 
self. Mr.  Chancellor  spares  no  pains  to  try 
and  find  originals  for  all  the  more  important 
thoroughfares  and  buildings  that  Thackeray 
mentions. ' ' — Spec 


"Well  chosen  illustrations  add  to  the  interest 
of  the  book,  which,  however,  is  a  reference 
work  rather  than  a  volume  for  casual  read- 
ing." 

Bookm  58:337  N  '23  150w 
N  Y  Times  p5  S  9  '23  2150w 
"Mr.  Beresford  Chancellor  has  done  his  work 
tastefully  and  with  such  genial  scholarship  as 
recalls  Mr.  G.  S.  Street's  'Ghost  of  Piccadilly.' 
than  which  there  can  be  no  higher  compliment 
in   this   class   of  writing." 

-I-  Sat  R  136:138  Ag  4  '23  650w 
"Here,  charmingly  illustrated  by  a  number  of 
old  prints,  is  the  'London  known  to  the  New- 
comes  and  Pendennis.'  And  the  effect  of  it  all 
upon  at  least  one  reader  of  this  volume  has  been 
to  make  him  want  to  sit  down  immediately  and 
read   Thackeray  all  over  again." 

-f  Spec  131:164  Ag  4  '23  380w 
4-  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p298  My 
3  '23  1050W 

CHAPMAN,    MARIAN.     Poor     Pinney.     303p     $2 

Boni  &  Liveright 

23-4983 

Here  is  one  answer  to  the  ever  recurring- 
question  in  your  mind  regarding  the  people  who 
travel  back  and  forth  in  the  same  train  with 
you,  or  who  surge  thru  any  station  day  in  and 
day  out.  W^hat  is  back  of  these  empty  faces? 
Can  life  have  significance  as  seen  thru  such 
dreary  eyes?  Does  any  home  wait  with  wel- 
coming affection  for  such  as  these?  "Yes,"  says 
poor  Pinney.  "I  am  not  mere  cartoon  stuff. 
I  am  an  integral  part  of  a  human  group. 
Whether  my  family  prospers  or  goes  shabby  is 
a  vital  issue.  My  gravity  may  register-  empti- 
ness and  my  gayety  be  that  of  a  clown,  but 
life  is  after  all  a  very  absorbing  business." 


in  the  story.  Nor  has  it  even  that  redeeming 
trait,  dramatic  interest.  You  cannot  write  a 
novel  merely  by  watching  your  neighbors  and 
recording  their  activities  in  a  note  book  until 
you  have  written  ninety  thousand  words!"  D. 
F     C 

—  Boston   Transcript  p5  Ap  21  '23  350w 
Cleveland  p26  Ap  '23 

•'  'Poor  Pinney'  is  a  valuable  document.  The 
ending  is  unsatisfactory;  it  is  too  rosy.  But 
nevertheless  'Poor  Pinney'  deserves  a  place  on 
the  shelves  with  'Babbitt,'  'Alice  Adams,'  and 
'Miss   Lulu    Bett.'  "    Clark   Kinnaird 

-I Detroit   News  pl2  Ap  8  '23  480w 

"This  is  a  rather  commonplace  novel,  deal- 
ing with  i-ather  commonplace  people  under 
rather  commonplace  surroundings.  The  booli 
has  many  amusing  passages  and  offers  a  fair 
amount  in  the  way  of  entertainment,  but  it  has 
little  distinction  either  of  method  or  of  theme." 
[-   Lit  R  p539  Mr  17  '23  150w 

"Mr.  Pinney  is  fairly  real,  fairly  well  pic- 
tured at  times,  and  so  are  most  of  the  prin- 
cipal characters  in  the  hook;  fairly  well,  but 
not  well  enough.  For  a  novel  of  this  type,  prac- 
tically plotless,  and  treating  of  the  least  inter- 
esting variety  of  the  commonplace,  requires  to 
be  extremely  good  in  order  not  to  be  a  bore." 
_  J|_  N  Y  Times  pl9  Mr  11  '23  400w 

"  'Poor  Pinney'  is  a  remarkable  first  novel. 
It  has  a  quaint  appeal  of  the  kind  one  finds  in 
Thackeray,  brightly  patterned  as  it  is  with 
humor  of  the  subtlest  sort.  The  vitality  of  its 
characters  is  unusual;  its  comedy  is  brilliantly 
acid  and  its  epigrams  are  fascinating."  B.  S. 
Wagstaff 

-f-  N  Y  Tribune  pl8  Mr  18  '23  180w 

"  'Poor  Pinney'  is  squalid  fiction.  But  it  is 
carried  with  clever  continuity  along  its  straight 
path   of  indigence."     E.   W.   Osbom 

[-   N   Y  World  p6e  Mr  11  '23  300w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  29  '23  150w 
Survey  50:supl98  My  1  '23  20w 

CHAPPELL,  GEORGE  SHEPARD  (WALTER 
E.  TRAPROCK,  pseud.).  Sarah  of  the  Sahara. 
224p  il   $2.50  Putnam 

23-14252 

Captain  Traprock's  third  venture  is  a  bur- 
lesque on  the  desert  school  of  fiction.  At  Cannes 
while  idly  cruising  in  the  Kawa  and  resting 
after  his  "northern  exposure"  he  first  sees  and 
loves  and  loses  his  desert  mate.  Lady  Sarah 
Wimpole.  Three  days  later  their  paths  cross 
again  at  Monte  Carlo.  He  loses  her  a  second 
time  but  she  had  left  a  message  bidding  him  to 
meet  her  in  the  desert.  So  as  sheik  of  the 
Moplah  Bedouins  he  seeks  her  over  the  sands 
of  the  Sahara  and  finds  her.  They  have  a  lion 
hunt  together  and  he  rescues  her  from  Azad 
the  Terrible  and  his  assassins.  While  he  is 
absent  from  her  for  a  few  days  exploring  the 
tomb  of  the  first  of  the  pharaohs  she  is  snatched 
back  by  her  late  over-lord  and  again  lost  to 
him. 


"The    novel    is    tiresome,    commonplace    and 
badly  written.     There  is  not  a  particle  of  taste 


Bookm  58:481  D  '23  150w 

"If  you  have  cruised  with  Traprock  through 
the  South  Seas  aboard  the  Kawa,  or  suffered 
the  agonies  of  his  northern  exposure  you  wrll 
want  to  share  with  him  the  thrills  engendered 
by  Sarah  of  the  Sahara,  and  you  will  enjoy  rt 
every  word,  for  there  is  as  much  of  keen  satrre 
as  of  broad  humor  in  these  parodies  of  the 
super-adventurous    school    of   fiction." 

+   Boston   Transcript   p4   O  10   '23   260w 

"Now  in  this  new  book  of  Dr.  Traprock's, 
which  I  hasten  to  say  is  quite  enjoyable,  I  am 
going  to  be  frank  enough  also  to  say  that  the 
illustrations  (over  which  the  author  has  un- 
doubtedly labored)  detract  from  the  grand  re- 
sult aimed  at.  They  fall  flat,  and  help  to  des- 
troy an  illusion  that  we  want  to  keep  up  almost 
parallel  with  what  sense  of  humor  we  have  to 
enjoy  the  burlesque.  I  say  this  because  I  have 
a  sincere  admiration  for  the  author's  gifts  and 
•want  him  to  improve  instead  of  falling  away 
from  the  high  standard  that  he  set  in  his  first 
book,  'The  Cruise  of  the  Kawa.'  "  T.  L.  M. 
-^ Int   Bk   R  p56  N   '23   700w 


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Reviewed  by   Lawton  Mackall 
Lit  R  p334  D  8  '23  600w 
N  Y  Tribune  pl8  O  14  '23  520w 

CHARNWOOD,  GODFREY  RATHBONE  BEN- 
SON, 1st  baron.  Theodore  Roosevelt.  232p 
$2.50   Atlantic  monthly 

B  or  92  Roosevelt,  Theodore  23-26925 

While  Lord  Charnwood  begins  his  book  with 
an  avowal  of  a  hero-worship  for  Theodore 
Roosevelt  dating  from  boyhood,  he  is  in  the 
main  dispassionate  in  his  judgment.  He  does 
not  blink  at  his  hero's  faults  but  he  treats  them 
lightly  in  the  perspective  he  draws  of  the  whole 
man.  The  book  closes  with  a  facsimile  repro- 
duction of  a  long  letter  from  Theodore  Roose- 
velt to  Lady  Delamere.  which  is  believed  never 
to  have   been   published   before. 


"The  fact  that  the  book  is  written  by  an  edu- 
cated and  cultivated  Englishman  of  great  liter- 
ary gifts  and  of  much  political  experience  adds 
greatly  to  its  value;  nor  is  this  diminished  by 
the  fact  that  he  never  knew  the  subject  of  his 
book."   C:   G.   Washburn 

4-  Atlantic's    Bookshelf  N   '23  750w 

Booklist  20:98  D  '23 

"In  some  measure  a  disappointment.  Written 
in  beautiful,  measured  prose,  with  an  English- 
man's appreciation  of  a  robust  American  figure 
and  an  Englishman's  perspective  on  political 
problems,  it  just  lacks  the  fire  and  the  eager- 
ness which,  for  me,  should  mark  any  essay  on 
this  man  who  is  a  hero  to  many  and  a  sym;bol 
of  hate  to  others."     J.  F. 

H Bookm    58:460   D   '23   400w 

"It  is  of  a  good  length,  and  well-proportioned. 
It  is  never  dull;  it  tells  its  story  swiftly  and 
well,  and  while  the  hero's  faults  are  perhaps 
too  lightly  passed  over,  still  the  praise  is  never 
fulsome." 

-^ Ind  111:285  D  8  '23  480w 

"An  uncommonly  good  biographer  has  wasted 
an  uncommonly  good  subject.  .  .  Lord  Charn- 
wood, having  elected  to  simplify  a  varied  and  a 
rich  life  by  treating  it  as  mostly  an  affair  of 
moral  choices,  simplifies  it  still  more  by  treat- 
ing all  the  choices  Roosevelt  actually  made  as 
invariably  right.  The  result  is  an  impoverish- 
ment of  the  book  and  a  reduction  of  its  hero  to 
less  than  life  size.  Colonel  Roosevelt  w^ould 
look  larger  and  more  interesting  and  more 
stimulating,  I  can't  help  believing,  from  the 
naturalist's  than  from  the  moralist's  point  of 
view.  Worth  all  the  rest  of  this  book  and 
more,  is  the  extraordinarily  interesting  letter 
with  which  it  closes,  written  by  Roosevelt  in 
March,    1911,   and  until   now  unpublished."   P.  L. 

—  New   Repub  36:285   N  7  '23   1500w 
"The  book  is  highly  succinct,  yet  contrives  to 

combine  the  specific  with  the  broadly  general- 
ized; and  it  is  careful  and  cautious,  as  befits 
the  outsider  treading  amid  alien  concerns.  It 
is  essentially  a  study,  a  considered  judgment; 
not  a  eulogy."   H:   B.    Fuller 

-I-   N  Y  Times   p3  O   28   '23   2500w 
"One  can  risk  being  patriotic  in  literature  for 
once,  and  say  that  Americans  have  written  the 
great      things      about      the      great      Roosevelt." 
Laurence  Stallings 

—  NY  World  pl3  O  24  '23  lOOOw 

"Like  his  memorable  'Life  of  Lincoln,'  his 
study  of  Roosevelt  is  sober,  calm,  and  impar- 
tial, although  penetrating  and  sympathetic. 
There  are  even  occasional  flashes  of  well-re- 
strained but  deep  feeling  in  it.  Lord  Charn- 
wood does  not  pretend  to  write  a  book  of  knowl- 
edge, but  literally  a  book  of  opinion."  L.  F. 
Abbott 

+   Outlook  135:348  O  31  '23  2450w 

"Dispassionate,  subtle,  urbane  in  expression, 
it  represents  a  sober  intellectual  effort  to  com- 
press the  diverse  facts  and  attitudes  of  Roose- 
velt's career  into  a  single  logical  scheme  and  to 
explain  away  seeming  inconsistencies  by  refer- 
ence to  an  underlying  imifled  purpose.  While 
T.iord  Charnwood  endeavors  with  praiseworthy 
historical  aim  to  trace  the  political  and  econom- 


ic background  against  which  his  hero's  career 
was  set,  he  has  simplified  unduly  both  the 
background  and   the  career." 

H Springf'd    Republican  pl6   N  9  '23   lOOOw 

"Lord  Charnwood  must  be  sincerely  congratu- 
lated on  having  found  It  possible  to  write  this 
study  of  Theodore  Roosevelt  in  a  manner  which 
lifts  the  subject  at  once  into  history." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p717    N 
1  '23  1450W 

CHASE,  MRS  AGNES.  First  book  of  grasses: 
the  structure  of  grasses  explained  for  begin- 
ners. (Rural  text-book  ser.)  121p  il  $1.25  Mac- 
millan 

584.9     Grasses  22-23267 

"Excellent  amateur  guide  to  the  commoner 
grasses  of  the  United  States.  So  simple  that  it 
may  be  vised  by  those  with  no  previous  knowl- 
edge of  botany.  Well  illustrated  by  drawings." 
— Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:173  Ap  '23 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p423    Je 

21    '23    30w 

CHASE.    BEATRICE,    pseud.      See    Parr.    O.    K. 

CHASE,     DANIEL.      Middle   passage.      273p      $2 

Macmillan 

23-14560 

"This  story  of  a  New  England  seaport  and 
the  fate  of  the  Jardines  has  the  flavor  of  the 
days  of  clipper  ships  and  the  China  trade.  The 
love  of  E)hen  Pinneo,  master  of  the  Juno,  for 
Leda  Prentiss,  and  the  trick  by  which  Jardine, 
the  rich  shipowner,  won  her  only  to  lose  her 
again  through  his  own  perfidy,  the  sinister  voy- 
age of  the  Juno,  her  shipwreck  and  its  disas- 
trous effect  on  many  lives,  are  all  told  with  pic- 
turesque  detail." — Publisher's   note 


Boston  Transcript  p6  D  22  '23  480w 
"It  has  ease  and  flow,  movement,  variety  and 
plausibility.  If  the  author's  manner,  both  tech- 
nically and  stylistically,  leaves  much  to  be  de- 
sired, the  same  may  be  said  of  some  of  the 
greatest  writers." 

-I NY  Times  p8  O  14  '23  600w 

"A   well-written    and   tense   tale." 
+  Outlook   135:416   N   7   '23   llOw 

Springf'd    Republican   p7a   N   4   '23   420w 

CHATBURN,    GEORGE    RICHARD.      Highways 
and  highway  transportation.  472p  il  $3  Crowell 
625.7     Transportation.  Roads  23-8091 

After  an  introductory  chapter  on  transpor- 
tation as  a  measure  of  civilization  the  author 
takes  up  his  main  subject,  transj)ortation  and 
highway  development  in  the  United  States.  He 
gives  an  account  of  early  trails  and  roads  and 
of  the  growth  of  the  different  transportation 
systems — waterways  and  canals,  railroads  and 
automotive  transportation,  and  of  the  planning 
and  financing  of  highway  systems.  "The  last 
three  chapters  deal  with  highway  accidents  and 
their  prevention,  highway  esthetics,  and  some 
aids  and  attractions  to  traffic  and  travel.  Se- 
lected references  at  the  end  of  each  chapter. 
Index. 


Reviewed  bv  I:  Lippincott 

Am    Econ   R   13:681  D   '23   550w 
Booklist   20:10  O   '23 

"Here  is  a  simply  written,  highly  informing 
and  remarkably  accurate  treatise  on  the  sub- 
ject of  highway  transportation,  the  work  of  a 
trained  technician,  and  as  likely  to  be  in  de- 
mand by  the  business  head  seeking  guidance  in 
this  field  as  by  the  man  in  the  street  eager  to 
know  all  about  the  rise  and  development  of 
travel    conveniences." 

-|-   Boston   Transcript  p7  Je  2  '23  800w 

"The  author  has  tried  to  cover  a  tremendous 
amount  of  territory  in  a  comparatively  small 
space.  There  is  much  that  would  interest  the 
general  reader,  but  the  technical  subjects  which 
he  has  touched  on  briefly  in  various  chapters 
offer  little  that  is  new  to  the  expert  in  these 
matters.      His    volume    should    be    an    excellent 


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text-book  for  the  young  citizen  who  wishes  to 
inform  himself  on  the  importance  of  the  high- 
ways and  their  relation  to  Federal,  State,  and 
civic  affairs." 

+   Lit    R   pl73   O   20    '23   350w 
"We  have  here  a  practical  manual  by  an  au- 
thority    on     highway     engineering,     containing' 
valuable  suggestions  to  motorists. 

+  R  of  Rs  67:672  Je  '23  90w 
"It  is  not,  strange  to  say,  a  subject  about 
which  many  books  of  this  character,  presenting 
both  the  economic  and  engineering  phases  of 
highway  transportation,  have  been  written.  To 
that  extent,  it  possesses  a  good  deal  of  prac- 
tical interest.  But  it  also  looks  at  the  prac- 
tical value." 

+   Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Ae     26     '23 
1200W 

CHATTERTON,    EDWARD    KEBLE.   Mercantile 
marine.    254p  il   $5   Little    [18s   6d   Heinemann] 
387  Merchant  marine  [23-11631] 

The  book  follows  the  history  of  the  merchant 
service  from  the  earliest  sailing  ships  to  the 
modern  monster  liners  and  shows  how  essential 
this  service  is  to  civilization,  trade  and  very  ex- 
istence. Beginning  with  an  account  of  the 
Mediterranean  mercantile  marine  of  the  Middle 
ages  and  of  the  maritime  law  of  that  day, 
the  author  passes  on  to  the  merchant  ships  of 
the  North  sea,  the  English  merchant  marine, 
the  East  Indiamen,  and  the  post-office  packet 
service.  This  brings  him  to  the  middle  years 
of  the  nineteenth  century,  the  period  when  the 
glories  of  the  sea,  both  as  to  ships  and  sailors, 
were  unsurpassed  and  the  success  of  the  steam- 
ship was  finally  established.  The  rest  of  the 
volume  is  given  to  the  development  of  the 
modern  big  ship.  The  book  is  the  result  of 
many  years  of  research,  travel  and  ship  study 
and  many  of  the  illustrations  are  reproduced 
from   rare   prints   and    engravings. 


"Although  this  volume  is  a  careful  and  well 
written  commentary  on  the  growth  and  progress 
of  commercial  sea-faring,  it  Is  far  from  being  a 
technical  book.  It  has  the  tang  of  the  sea  about 
It." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p8  D  5  '23  400w 
"The   book   is  distinguished    by   well-balanced 
judgment   based   on   facts  and   fairmindedness." 
E.   S.   Gregg 

+  Lit   R  pl24  O  13   '23   1400w 
Reviewed    by    N:    Roosevelt 

N   Y  Times  p5  N  4  '23  500w 
Springf'd    Republican    pl2  O  31   '23   780w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p297  My 
3    '23   2000w 

CHEKHOV,  ANTON  PAVLOVICH.  Love,  and 
other  stories;  from  the  Russian  by  Constance 
Garnett.  (Tales  of  Chekhov)  306p  $2  Mac- 
millan   [5s  Chatto] 

23-4007 
The  thirteenth  and  final  volume  in  Mrs  Gar- 
nett's  translations  of  Chekhov's  tales  contains 
twenty-four  stories  varying  in  length  from  fifty 
pages  to  three.  Tho  some  of  them  are  the 
merest  trifles,  their  realism  and  pointedness 
never  fail.  Contents:  Love;  Lights;  A  story 
without  an  end;  Mari  D'Elle;  A  living  chattel; 
The  doctor;  Too  early;  The  Cossack:  Aborigines; 
An  inquiry;  Martyrs;  The  lion  and  the  sun;  A 
daughter  of  Albion;  Choristers;  Nerves;  A  work 
of  art;  A  joke;  A  country  cottage;  A  blunder; 
Fat  and  thin;  The  death  of  a  government  clerk; 
A  pink  stocking;  At  a  summer  villa.  Index  of 
titles. 


Cleveland   p43   Je   '23   30w 
Dial    75:96   Jl   '23    60w 
Freeman    7:430    Jl    11    '23    220w 
"It   can   be   easily  understood   that   without   a 
translator    like    Mrs.     Garnett,     who,     like    few 
translators   from  the   Russian,   knows  her  Eng- 
lish, the  entire  work  would  lose  its  significance. 
She  has  rendered  these  stories  with  earnestness, 
with   love   of  Chekhov."     Nathan   Asch 
+  Nation   116:601  My  23  '23  950w 


"Mrs.  Garnett  has  done  a  notable  work  in  the 
translation:     she     has     re-created     Chekhov     in 
English,    and    has    written    a    supple,    unpreten- 
tious   prose    which    expresses    him   faithfully." 
-1-   N   Y  Times  pll  Mr  4  '23  1400w 
Outlook  133:588  Mr  28  '23  60w 
Springf'd    Republican   p7a  Jl  22  '23   60w 

CHELEY,    FRANK    HOBART.     Job   of  being  a 
2    dad.  338p  11  $1.75  Wilde' 

173     Fathers.     Boys  23-18837 

"This  book  is  written  by  the  president  of  the 
Father  and  Son  Society,  a  man  who  knows  boys, 
and  evidently  knows  fathers  and  gives  them 
many  things  to  think  about.  He  does  not 
preach,  but  as  man  to  man,  earnestly,  some- 
times with  a  humorous  touch,  discusses  the 
numerous  problems  that  must  be  solved  by  each 
dad  for  his  own  boy."  (Boston  Transcript)  Con- 
tents: The  boy  himself;  The  job  of  being  a  dad; 
The  home  and  the  boy;  Developing  a  good 
animal;  Cultivating  what  lies  above  the  ears; 
Directing  energy  through  gang  life;  Rooting 
character;  An  epilogue. 


"All  phases  of  the  boy  are  worthily  discussed, 
and  the  book  cannot  but  wake  the  father  who 
will  carefully  read  it  to  a  fuller  realization  of 
his  responsibilities." 

-f   Boston   Transcript  p2  N   14   '23   400w 
"His  book  is  engagingly  written  and  holds  a 
great  deal  of  sound  and  useful  truth." 
-f   Lit   R  P376  D  15  '23  150w 

CHERRY-GARRARD,  APSLEY  GEORGE  BEN- 
ET.  Worst,  journey  in  the  world.  2v  il 
$15    Doran    [£3    3s    Constable] 

919.9     Antarctic  regions  23-2981 

"These  two  volumes  give  an  account  of 
Scott's  Expedition  to  the  South  Pole,  and  the 
various  movements  connected  with  it;  but  the 
superlative  of  the  title  does  not  refer  to  the 
main  expedition  itself — it  has  a  particular  rer- 
erence  to  the  journey  of  three  people  during  an 
Antarctic  winter  to  obtain  the  eggs  of  the  em- 
peror penguin.  Of  the  three  who  made  the 
'worst  journey,'  Wilson  and  Bowers  died  with 
Scott;  the  only  survivor.  Cherry- Garrard,  now 
tells  us  the  thrilling  story  in  full." — The  Times 
[London]    Lit    Sup 


"His  book  is  a  complete,  intimate  and  skil- 
fully told  story  of  the  entire  expedition,  a  frank, 
unaffected,  and  at  times  superbly  descriptive 
chronicle.  It  adds  an  enormous  amount  of  in- 
formation about  the  Antarctic  region,  and 
makes  clear  the  character  of  the  men  who  ex- 
plored it."     Hamlin  Garland 

+   Int  Bk  R  pl2  Mr  '23  3000w 

"As  a  general  account  of  Scott's  last  expedi- 
tion Mr.  Cherry-Garrard's  book  surpasses  all 
the  others.  Mr.  Cherry-Garrard  has  given  us  a 
true  epic  of  exploration.  His  emotion  was 
strong  and  his  recollection  is  sardonically  calm. 
The  description  of  the  "worst  journey  in  the 
world'  from  Cape  Evans  to  Cape  Crozier  in 
winter  darkness  to  obtain  eggs  of  the  Emperor 
penguin  is  the  most  vivid  and  moving  we  have 
met  with  in  polar  annals.  .  .  The  description 
of  the  main  southern  journey  and  of  the  ascent 
and  descent  of  the  Beardmore  Glacier  is  a 
most  valuable  piece  of  first-hand  narrative." 
H.    R.    Mill 

+  Nature   111:386  Mr  24   '23  2050w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p833    D 
14   '22  2000W 

CHESTERTON,  GILBERT  KEITH.  Ballad  of 
St  Barbara,  and  other  verses.  85p  $2.50  Put- 
nam [7s  6d  C.  Palmer] 

g2i  23-6272 

Saint  Barbara  of  the  title-poem  is  the  "patron 
saint  of  artillery  and  of  those  in  danger  of 
sudden  death."  Not  all  the  poems  are  war 
poems,  but  the  greater  part  of  them,  both  in 
their  subjects  and  in  their  ringing  and  spirited 
meters  are  suggestive  of  battle  and  high 
adventure. 

Booklist  19:309  Jl  '23 


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CHESTERTON,    G.     K. — Continued 

"Here  is  good,  thumping,  virile  verse."  D: 
Morton 

+  Bookm  57:461  Je  '23  200w 

"This  collection  of  verse  is  not  great  poetry — 
even  when  attached  to  a  great  name!  It  is, 
however,  an  interesting  book,  at  times  a  sur- 
prising book."     D.  L.  Mann 

i-  Boston  Transcript  p5  Ap  28  '23  1450w 

Cath  World   117:277  My  '23  250w 

"Melody,  indeed,  he  has  mastered,  but  he 
has  none  of  the  magic  of  the  Muse;  something 
prosaic  and  sodden  weighs  down  the  very  spirit 
of   his    book." 

—  Dial  75:508  N  '23  SQw 

"Almost  alone  among  British  poets  of  our 
time,  Mr.  G.  K.  Chesterton  has  succeeded 
in  making  poetry  out  of  sheer  high  spirits.  It 
is  no  accident  that  his  verse-pattern  and  themes 
are  frequently  Macaulayan,  or  that  his  verse- 
pattern  and  rhymes  are  as  frequently  high- 
Gilbertian.  His  sense  of  the  joy  of  conflict  is 
as  keen  as  Macaulay's,  and  his  spirit  of  satire 
is  as  robust  and  as  deadly  as  Gilbert's."  N.  A. 
+  Freeman  7:166  Ap  25  "23  280w 

Reviewed  by  W:  R.   Benet 

Lit    R   p907   Ag  18   '23   780w 

"One  could  fill  a  page  with  the  highly  allitera- 
tive, fizzing,  crackling  lines  that  Mr.  Chesterton 
perhaps  ought  not  to  have  written;  but  the  good 
and  sound  parts  of  the  book  are  so  good  that 
much  of  the  chaff  burns  with  a  clear  steady 
flame,  and  is  consumed  under  the  heat  of  the 
good."     H.   E.  P. 

-I New  Statesman  20:334  D  16  '22  1300w 

"Many  of  these  poems  would  stand  out  from 
the  pages  of  any  ordinary  book  of  verse,  but 
they  are  so  overshadowed  by  the  terrible  splen- 
dors of  the  title-piece  that  they  pale  in  com- 
parison. A  few  of  the  poems  are  in  a  light 
vein  of  flashing  satire." 

N  Y  Times  p6  Mr  25  '23  1150w 

"Picture  a  locomotive  clattering  along  the 
rails,  chugging,  tooting,  beating  on  its  way. 
That  is  the  way  Chesterton's  verse  strikes  me. 
It  has  the  same  lengthy  rhythms,  the  same 
sounding  noises,  words  that  he  trots  out  to  hurl 
against  an  erring  world,  the  same  inanity  of 
purpose — that  is  as  far  as  the  clattering  goes, 
for  a  locomotive  is  commonly  on  its  way  some- 
where."    Milton    Raison 

N   Y  Tribune  p23  Ap  1   '23   250w 

"This  book  of  ringing  and  ballad-like  verses 
Is  a  sometimes  openly  combative  and  sometimes 
slyly  satirical  attack  on  the  meanness  and  gray- 
ness  and  spiritual  sickness  of  the  modern  world. 
Here  Mr.  Chesterton  rides  upon  the  stage  as  a 
champion  and  crusader  of  fine  things  that  the 
world  has  turned  Its  back  upon." 

-f-  Outlook  134:288  Je  27  '23  220w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:301    Je    '23 

"Mr.  Chesterton  has  never  before  sung  so 
clearly  and  defiantly  his  conviction  that  among 
the  blistered  ruins  of  our  own  age  that  are 
cracking  about  our  feet  and  heads,  more  and 
more  triumphantly  the  dead  men  of  the  Middle 
Ages  gather  about  us  with  prophecy  of  their 
ultimate  return.  We  cannot  commend  to  our 
readers  any  poetry  written  to-day  more  excit- 
ing in  its  choice  of  words  or  the  pulse  of  Its 
music  than  the  'Ballad  of  St.  Barbara,'  or  any 
crisper  with  the  breath  of  morning  despite  its 
hankerings  after  irrevocable  night." 
+  Sat  R  134:876  D  9  '22  800w 

"Some  of  the  poems  will  compare  in  coloured 
grandeur  of  language  with  anything  Mr. 
Chesterton  has  yet  written." 

Spec  129:974  D  23  '22  lOOw 

"The  volume  contains  other  poems,  some  of 
them  of  beauty  and  others  keen  in  their  sa- 
tire, but  the  title,  piece  overshadows  them  with 
Its  grandeur  as  the  cathedral  towers  over- 
shadow the  houses  of  Bourges  or  of  Beauvais." 
+  Springf'd   Republican  plO  Ag  8  '23  750w 

"The  best  of  the  qualities  we  have  ascribed 
to  him  are  to  be  found,  in  generous  measure, 
in  'The  Ballad  of  Saint  Barbara  and  other 
Verses.'  In  some  of  these  poems  he  reaches  the 
high-water    mark    of    his    literary    achievement, 


and  this  is  no  small  thing  to  say  ot  a  poet  wiio 
had  already  written  'O  God  of  Earth  and  Altar.' 
More  skilfully,  because  more  passionately,  than 
almost  any  other  modern  author,  he  can  use 
that  old-fashioned  weapon,  rhetoric.  He  can 
write  at  once  with  pomp  and  with   dignity." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p779    N 
30   '22    950w 

CHESTERTON,     GILBERT     KEITH.       Fancies 

versus  fads.  274p  $2  Dodd 

824  23-12907 

The  subjects  of  these  rather  brief  essays, 
written  in  Chesterton's  lighter  vein,  range  from 
lady  barristers  to  cave-men,  and  from  psycho- 
analysis to  free  verse.  Contents:.  The  romance 
of  rhyme;  Hamlet  and  the  psycho-analyst;  The 
meaning  of  mock  turkey;  Shakespeare  and  the 
legal  lady;  On  being  an  old  bean;  The  fear  of 
the  film;  Wings  and  the  housemaid;  The  slavery 
of  free  verse;  Prohibition  and  the  press;  The 
mercy  of  Mr.  Arnold  Bennett;  A  defence  of 
dramatic  unities;  The  boredom  of  butterflies; 
The  terror  of  a  toy;  False  theory  and  the  thea- 
tre; The  secret  society  of  mankind;  The  senti- 
mentalism  of  divorce;  Street  cars  and  stretch- 
ing the  law;  Why  reforms  go  wrong;  The  In- 
nocence of  the  criminal;  The  prudery  of  the 
feminists;  How  mad  laws  are  made;  The  pagoda 
of  progress;  The  myth  of  the  "Mayflower"; 
Much  too  modern  history;  The  evolution  of 
slaves;  Is  Darwin  dead?  Turning  inside  out; 
Strikes  and  the  spirit  of  wonder;  A  note  on  old 
nonsense;    Milton    and    merry   England. 


Booklist    20:48    N    '23 

Reviewed   by  Ralph    Bergengren 

Boston   Transcript   p5   S   29   '23   1950w 
Cath   World   118:419  D   '23   440w 

"The  habit  of  fifteen-hundred-word  articles 
has  set  firmly  upon  him;  there  have  been  too 
many  tremendous  trifles;  he  rarely  has  the 
chance  to  say  all  that  he  would  like  to  say 
about  his  subject.  .  .  He  has  not  written,  and 
now  will  never  write,  a  book  quite  worthy  of 
his  extraordinary  genius.  He  will,  I  suppose, 
continue  to  swat  flies  with  his  battle-axe;  to 
hunt  fleas  with  the  same  high  courage  with 
which  other  men  hunt  tigers;  to  argTje  inter- 
minably with  cranks;  and  to  enjoy  himself 
hugely.  But  he  will  never  give  the  world  an 
opportunity  of  discovering  how  great  a  man 
he   is."      Theodore    Maynard 

-^ Freeman   8:187   O   31   '23   2400w 

Reviewed   by   L:    Mumford 

New   Repub  37:129  D   26  '23   llOOw 

"Despite  the  startling  lapses,  Fancies  versus 
Fads  is  well  worth  inclusion  in  the  Chesterton 
canon.  G.  K.  C.  Is  still  the  super-journalist, 
still  capable  of  raising  a  laugh  and  instantly 
arresting  the  attention  with  the  very  first  sen- 
tence of  an  essay."     G.  B. 

-1 New  Statesman  22:188  N  17  '23  700w 

Reviewed  by  R:   Le  Gallienne 

N  Y  Times  p4  O  28  '23  1500w 

"If  we  are  capable  of  adjusting  ourselves  to 
Mr.  Chesterton's  half-truths,  if  we  can  refrain 
from  throwing  his  book  into  the  fire  because 
he  expresses  views  with  which  we  disagree,  we 
are  likely  to  grow  in  mental  stature  through 
the  reading  of  his  essays.  'Fancies  "Versus  Fads' 
is  not  the  most  substantial  piece  of  work  Ches- 
terton has  done,  nor  the  best,  but  it  is  typical 
and — here  I  can  only  speak  for  myself — enjoy- 
able."    Leo  Markim 

h   N  Y  Tribune  p7  S  23  '23  1200w 

"This  is  a  book  of  characteristic  essays;  the 
observations  of  one  of  the  few  conservatives 
who  are  witty.  The  radicals  are  biting  or  iron- 
ical; they  are  seldom  witty  and  never  humor- 
ous." 

-f   Outlook  135:368  O  31  '23  200w 

"The  only  differences  worth  noting  between 
this  new  volume  and  the  earlier  collections  of 
short  essays  are,  first,  that  this  present  book 
consists  entirely  of  controversial  matter,  the 
more  personal  note  being  absent;  and,  secondly, 
that  the  style,  though  the  same  in  its  essentials, 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


95 


Is  not  quite  so  good  as  it  used  to  be;  it  is  more 
fixed  and  more  wordy."    J.  B.  Priestley 

H Spec   131:559   O   20   '23   260w 

Springf'd  Republican  p6  N  5  '23  450w 
"These    papers    are    mixed    in    subject.      But 
they  are  mixed  in  a  more   deadly  sense,   mixed 
in    purpose   and    mixed    in    argument;    and    that 
seems  sad  in  a  boolv  by  Mr.  Chesterton." 

—  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p581   S   6 
'23   llOOw 

CHETTY,    D.   GOPAUL.  New  light  upon  Indian 
philosophy;    or    Swedenborg    and    Saiva    Sidd- 
hanta:  with  a.  foreword  by  L.  B.  de  Beaumont. 
218p  $1.50  Dutton   [3s  6d  Dent] 
289.4     Swedenborg,     Emanuel.     Saiva     Sldd- 
hanta.    Philosophy,    Tamil 
Saiva   Siddhanta  is  the   religion   of  the  Tamil 
people    who    number    about    twenty    million    in 
South   India.      There   is   a   striking   resemblance 
between    this    religious    system    and    the    teach- 
ings of  Swedenborg  and  it  is  the  autnor's  attempt 
to    explain    the    Saiva    Siddhanta    to    the    people 
of  India   in   the   light  of  Swedenborg's  spiritual 
teaching. 


New  Statesman  21:748  O  6  '23  lOOw 
"Learned     work     by    a    distinguished    Indian 
scholar  of   Saiva   Siddhanta." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p474  Jl  12 
•23   150w 

CHEVRILLON,  ANDRE.  Three  studies  in  Eng- 
lish literature:  Kipling,  Galsworthy,  Shakes- 
peare; tr.  by  Florence  Simonds.  262p  $2.50 
Doubleday   [8s   6d  Heinemann] 

820.4    Kipling,    Rudyard.    Galsworthy,    John. 
Shakespeare,   William  23-11867 

"Chevrillon's  three  essays  in  criticism  were 
written  quite  independently  with  no  thought  of 
combining  them  into  a  volume.  At  first  impres- 
sion there  appears  to  be  little  in  common  be- 
tween Rudyard  Kipling,  John  Galsworthy,  and 
William  Shakespeare  that,  when  the  Studies 
were  collected  together,  could  produce  a  well- 
defined  and  unified  volume.  Yet  the  unity  of  the 
book  is  to  be  sought  in  Chevrillon's  visualization 
of  the  two  contrasting  sides  of  the  Englishman: 
realism  and  mysticism." — Nation 


Booklist  20:91  D  '23 

"M.  Chevrillon  has  written  the  most  com- 
prehensive treatment  of  Mr.  Kipling's  poetry 
since  the  day  of  Mr.  Hopkins,  couching  his 
analysis  in  a  style  less  familiar  and  in  a  manner 
more  critical  than  the  earlier  writer.  He  brings 
to  his  work  the  logical  method  and  the  cultured 
interests  of  a  Frenchman."  W.  L.  S. 

4-   Boston    Transcript    p3    Jl    21    '23    2300w 
Cleveland  p79  S  '23 

"His  greatest  success  is  with  Mr.  Kipling. 
This  essay  smacks  far  too  much  of  imperialism, 
of  the  piopaganda  of  a  more  secure  Entente,  to 
be  very  pleasurable  reading  in  1923;  and  in  the 
essay  on  Mr.  Galsworthy,  M.  Chevrillon  con- 
veniently dodges  many  of  the  implications  of 
that  writer's  work,  in  order  to  concentrate  on 
his  treatment  of  the  British  type.  Within  these 
limits,  however,  M.  Chevrillon  is  a  critic  of  true 
French   perspicacity."    N.    A. 

H Freeman  7:71  S  26  '23  280w 

"I  am  tempted  to  recommend  M.  Chevrillon's 
Studies  heartily  and  without  reservation.  .  .  The 
book  holds  together  admirably,  because  it  is 
founded  upon  clearly  reasoned  and  lucidly  for- 
mulated principles  of  criticism  and  upon  a 
knowledge  of  English  literature  and  character 
that  is,  I  believe,  unrivaled  in  France."  S:  C. 
Chew 

+  Nation  117:65  Jl  18  '23  700w 

"M.  Chevrillon  presents  his  readers  with  quite 
the  best  compact  understanding  and  analysis 
of  Rudyard  Kipling  that  has  appeared  in  any 
language.  It  was  evidently  a  labor  of  love,  and 
this  warm  intimacy  between  the  critic  and  his 
subject  is  to  be  observed  In  every  paragraph. 
In  a  lesser  degree  this  is  true  of  the  article  on 


John  Galsworthy  and  in  a  still  fainter,  although 
well-reasoned  manner,  of  Shakespeare."  H.  S 
Gorman 

+  N  Y  Times  p5  My  13  '23  1300w 
Reviewed  by  Laurence  Stallings 

N  Y  World  pl9e  Jl  8  '23  700w 
"The  Kipling  and  Galsworthy  are  admirable 
examples  of  the  technical  criticism  which  the 
French  have  reduced  almost  to  an  exact  science, 
and  at  the  same  time  more  fully  reveal  the  in- 
tentions of  these  writers.  His  essay  on  Shakes- 
peare is  shorter  and  necessarily  of  a  different 
kmd,  aimmg  rather  to  separate  the  essential 
genms  of  the  two  nations." 

Spec  130:892  My  26  '23  160w 

30   '23^2100'r"    ^'-""^•'"^    ■-'*    ^"P  ^'''  ^^ 

CHEYNEY,    EDWARD   GHEEN.     Scott  Burton 
logger.   254p  il  $1.75   (6s)   Appleton  ' 

23-7523 
''Scott  Burton,  possessed  of  little  financial 
backing  in  his  own  name,  but  with  plenty  of 
confidence  in  his  own  knowledge  of  timber  and 
with  practical  training  as  a  forester,  goes  up 
against  Old  Fuzzy'  Festus  in  logging  rivalry 
during  a  northern  New  England  winter  'Old 
b  uzzy,  more  popularly  known  in  lumber  circles 
as  King  of  the  North,'  first  seeks  to  play  with 
his  youthful  rival,  finds  he  has  met  more  than 
his  match  and  then  resorts  to  the  unscrupulous 
methods  for  which  he  is  famous  and  which 
have  resulted  in  the  downfall  and  financial  ruin 
of  rivals  in  the  past.  How  Burton  'plays  the 
game  straight,'  and  outwits  his  older  and  crafty 
rival  makes  an  interesting  narrative."— 
Springf  d  Republican 


,^"l^    *,S    ^®'^    *<*'<i    ^"d    moves    swiftly   along," 
M.  G.  Bonner 

+  Int    Bk    R   p36   Ag  '23   20w 
"A   wholesome  story  of  the   New   Hampshire 
lumber    camps,    interesting    and    of    undoubted 
interest    to   those   with   a   weakness   for  adven- 
ture  in   the   open." 

+  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    Je     17     '2.^ 
150w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p406  Je 
14   '23   80w 

^*1il^°^'   WILFRED   ROWLAND.     Gothic  rose. 

79p  $1.25   Appleton   [5s   Blackwell] 
821 

A  book  of  ballads  and  lyrics  by  a  young  Ox- 
ford poet  who  draws  his  inspiration  from  the 
Middle  ages  and  his  symbols  from  a  mystic 
faith.  The  poems  are  carefully  wrought  and 
some  of  them  have  the  color  of  a  painted  pic- 
ture. 


Booklist  20:48   N  '23 

"This   little    volume   will   be   helpful   to   those 
who  long  occasionally  to  forget  themselves  in  a 
place  of  beauty  and  enchantment."  T.  H.  D. 
-I-   Boston   Transcript  p3  Jl  21  '23  550w 

"Here  is  a  singer  who  sings  with  a  full  soul 
in  a  rich  authentic  voice — a  virile  male  voice 
well  trained,  beautifully  placed  and  modulated; 
a  poet  who  knows  life  and  loves  it  and  has  art 
and  red  blood  and  gusto  enough  to  celebrate  it 
with  joy  and  vigor.  Even  the  title  of  his  book 
is   an   inspiration." 

4-  Cath  World  117:845  S  '23  450w 

"However  out  of  its  time  and  place,  I  think 
highly  of  this  poetry.  It  is  packed  with  beauti- 
ful phrase.  It  is  work  as  careful  and  as  sin- 
cerely worshipful  as  the  work  of  mediseval 
guildsmen."   W:   R.    Benet 

-f   Lit   R  p40  S  15  '23  lOOOw 

"It  is  a  queer  and  charming  book.  Many  of 
the  poems  (which  include  some  in  sonnet  form) 
are  adroitly  chiselled,  but  there  is  a  too  lavish 
display  of  gold,  blue,  silver,  lily-white,  and 
crimson.  If  you  enjoy  reading  Elroy  Flecker, 
or  Mr.  G.  K.  Chesterton  (in  his  very  chastened 
and  infrequent  finnicking  moments),  or  the 
pre-Raphaelites,  then  in  Mr.  Childe's  book,  you 
will  find  several  things  which  will  give  you 
great   pleasure." 

H New  Statesman   20:576  F  17  '23  600w 


96 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


CHILDE,  WILFRED   ROWLAND — Continued 

"  'The  Gothic  Rose'  is  one  of  those  rare  books 
which  come  but  seldom.  A  lambent  flame  plays 
across  the  fourscore  lyrics  and  short  idyls;  the 
lines  pulsate  with  spiritual  emotion;  the  words 
speak  a  mystic  language."  P.  A.  Hutchison 
+  N  Y  Times  p20  My  13  '23  300w 

"Mr.  Childe  has  already  made  poetry  as  rich 
as  a  stained-glass  window.  The  Gothic  Rose  is 
deeply  tinged  with  the  fervour  and  ceremonial 
mediaevalism  of  a  Pre-Raphaelite.  Sometimes 
Mr.  Childe's  verse  has  marked  sensuous  expres- 
siveness, and  we  might  readily  believe  him  to 
be  the  coming  poet  of  Romanism  had  he  not 
told  the  rollicking  story  of  'How  Robin  Dick 
Prayed  to  Saint  Anthony'  so  wickedly  well." 
+  Spec   129:974   D  23   '22   llOw 

"The  attention  to  material  detail  is  medieval. 
There  is  delight  in  colors — strong,  rich,  vital 
colors;  not  pastel  shades — that  is  characteristic 
of  the  illuminations  of  old  manuscripts  and  of 
the  glass  of  the  period." 

+  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  Je  3  '23  480w 

"Mr.  W.  R.  Childe  is  a  poet  of  a  delicate 
medieval  inspiration.  This  volume  as  a  whole 
has  the  sound  of  a  regretful  sigh  for  the  lost 
ages  of  faith;  but  the  regret  is  never  petulant 
or  vindictive.  .  .  To  those  who  have  a  taste 
for  religious  poetry  this  little  book  should  pro- 
duce many  moments  of  tranquil  and  meditative 
pleasure." 

+  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p863  D  21 
'22    300w 

CHINA  to-day  through  Chinese  eyes;  by  T.  T. 
»    Lew,   Hu   Shih,   Y.   Y.   Tsu,   Cheng  Ching  Yi. 

144p    $1.25    Doran    [23    6d    Student    Christian 

movement] 
915.1      China— Religion.      China — Intellectual 
life  [23-13465] 

Four  leaders  of  religious  and  Intellectual 
thought  in  China  analyze  the  renaissance  move- 
ment which  is  sweeping  over  China  today,  the 
forces  that  are  back  of  it,  the  activities  it  is 
taking  on,  and  what  it  is  accomplishing.  Con- 
tents: China  to-day;  China's  renaissance,  by  T. 
T.  Lew;  The  literary  revolution  in  China,  by 
Hu  Shih;  The  Confucian  god-idea,  by  Y.  Y. 
Tsu;  Present  tendencies  in  Chinese  Buddhism, 
by  Y.  Y.  Tsu;  The  impression  of  Christianity 
made  upon  the  Chinese  people  through  contact 
with  the  Christian  nations  of  the  West;  The 
Chinese  church,  by  Cheng  Ching  Yi. 


"Those  who  would  understand  the  intellectual, 
religious  and  economic  forces  which  are  mould- 
ing Chinese  life  and  thought  at  this  time  should 
read  this  book." 

Boston  Transcript  pi  N  17  '23  60w 

"To  read  it  is  to  see  China  in  a  new  light, 
as  a  people  about  to  throw  off  the  shackles  of 
tradition  and  take  its  place  among  the  demo- 
cratic nations  of  the  earth." 

N  Y  Times  p25  S  9  '23  300w 

CHRISTIE,    AGATHA.        Murder    on    the    links. 

298p  $1.75   Dodd 

23-6380 

A  South  American  millionaire  after  sending 
an  urgent  summons  to  the  Belgian  detective 
Hercule  Poirot,  it  mysteriously  murdered  be- 
fore Poirot  is  able  to  reach  his  villa  in  France. 
There  are  some  probable  bits  of  evidence  and 
the  murdered  man's  wife  tells  of  masked  men 
and  their  demands.  The  part  played  by  an 
adventuress  and  her  daughter,  who  is  in  love 
with  the  victim's  son,  add  zest  to  the  mystery 
which  is  complicated  by  the  discovery  of  an- 
other dead  body,  when  all  seems  likely  to  be 
unravelled.  Poirot's  clever  work  finally  brings 
the  criminal  to  justice. 


"The  plot  is  really  clever;  its  suspense  is  well 
kept  up  and  the  solution  is  fair  enough.     What 
more   need   one   ask   of  a   detective   yarn?" 
+   Lit    R   p610   Ap   14   '23    150w 
Reviewed  by  Raymond  Mortimer 

New  Statesman  21:332  Je  23  '23  30w 
"A    remarkably    good    detective     story    which 
can    be    warmly   commended    to    those    who   like 
that  kind  of  fiction." 

4-  N   Y  Times  pl4  Mr  25  '23  550w 


Reviewed   by   E.    W.    Osborn 

N  Y  World  p8e  Mr  25  '23  150w 
Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  180w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p389  Je  7 
•23   130w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:133  My  '23 

CHRISTIE,  ROBERT  STUART.  House  of  the 
beautiful  hope.  389p  $2  Seltzer  [7s  6d  C. 
Palmer] 

23-4295 
"Laid  in  London  and  Portugal,  the  action 
centres  about  three  people  and  their  self-ful- 
fillment in  life.  There  is  Michael,  the  young 
artist,  full  of  his  beautiful  dreams.  There  is 
Blanche,  Michael's  wife,  a  hard-headed,  design- 
ing woman,  not  at  all  the  charming  creature 
that  Michael  imagines.  And  there  is  Pepita,  the 
Portuguese  girl,  who  comes  into  Michael's  life 
after  Blanche,  and  who  is  one  of  the  most 
charming  and  diverting  characterizations  of  the 
season.  Blanche,  through  her  extravagance, 
almost  ruins  Michael  and  eventually  there  is 
nothing  for  Michael  to  do  but  to  go  on  a  busi- 
ness trip  to  Portugal.  And  there  he  disappears, 
apparently  killed  in  a  mountain  storm.  Then 
follows  the  idyllic  love  affair  of  Pepita  and 
Raphael,  who  comes  apparently  from  nowhere. 
It  should  not  be  hard  for  the  reader  to  guess 
who  Raphael   is." — N   Y  Times 


"The  last  part  of  the  story  is  very  Iberian, 
very  exquisite,   and  very  fantastic." 

-f   Boston    Transcript    p3    Mr   10   '23   400w 

"The  best  thing  in  the  story  Is  the  sketch  of 
old  Simpkin.  He  stands  out  among  the  other 
somewhat  eccentric  characters,  a  valid  human 
being.  There  is  enough  in  him,  and  in  the  best 
of  the  remainder  of  the  book,  to  mark  the  au- 
thor as  a  novelist  of  much  more  than  the  aver- 
age capacity — if  he  can  acquire  the  habit  of 
severe  self-criticism  and  greater  restraint." 
-^ Lit   R  p666  My  5  '23  400w 

"That  portion  of  the  book  laid  in  England 
arouses  a  moderate  interest  in  the  unfolding  of 
three  strong  and  well-drawn  characters.  But 
the  House  of  the  Beautiful  Hope  in  Portugal 
is  a  gaudy  pasteboard  house:  the  romance  is 
as    unconvincing    as    grand    opera."    Eva    Gold- 

h  Nation   116:522  My  2  '23   150w 

"Sheer  romance  from  beginning  to  end,  but 
it  is  handled  with  such  a  delicate  orginality 
and  fantastic  color  that  the  reader  pays  no  at- 
tention to  questions  of  plausibility.  It  is  the 
sort  of  book  that  seizes  the  imagination, 
-f  N  Y  Times  pll  F  18  '23  410w 
"Delicate  handling  of  a  delicate  situation  al- 
most makes  a  fantastic  idyll  out  of  'The  House 
of  the  Beautiful  Hope.'  " 

+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p8a  Mr  11  '23  120w 

CHRISTIE,    ROBERT    STUART.    Little    David. 

316p  $2   Seltzer   [7s   6d  C.   Palmer] 

23-16662 

"The  author's  two  central  characters  are 
absurdly  lovable,  and  as  the  reader  follows 
them  through  the  various  adventures  that  be- 
fall them  the  affection  intensifies.  First  of  all, 
there  is  John  Henry  Millman,  a  bashful,  for- 
getful, kindly  souled  author  who  eventually 
places  a  novel,  much  to  his  own  consternation, 
and  becomes  famous.  But  before  this  happens 
he  experiences  a  perplexing  series  of  adven- 
tures through  his  protection  of  Little  David, 
the  mysterious  boy  whom  he  takes  from  the 
Dainty  Brute  in  a  London  street.  The  strange 
companionship  brings  John  Henry  into  touch 
with  a  lot  of  odd  figures  .  .  .  stirred  up  in 
a  plot  that  is  always  merry,  even  during  its 
moments  of  serious  suspense.  One  never 
doubts  but  that  everything  will  come  out  all 
right,  that  the  secret  of  Little  David  will  be 
solved  to  John  Henry's  satisfaction,  and  that 
the  last  chapter  will  end  in  a  series  of  mar- 
riages."— N    Y    Times 

Boston   Transcript  p8   D  5  '23   450w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


97 


"This  is  an  old  story,  an  amusing  story  and 
a  thoroughly  good  story,  one  that  warms  the 
heart  and  causes  chuckles  of  delight  and  little 
gasps  of  pleased  surprise  to  come  from  its 
charmed  reader.  Its  style  and  its  method  are 
all    its   own." 

+    Lit    R    p373    D    15    '23    350w 

"Now  and  then  a  novel  comes  along  that 
is  utterly  charming  from  beginning  to  end, 
that  is  filled  with  whimsical  unworldly  charac- 
ters, with  not  a  villain  among  them,  and  that 
Is  narrated  in  a  light,  sparkling  manner  that 
is  wholly  indescribable.  Such  a  book  is  'Little 
David.'" 

+   N   Y  Times  p8  N  25  '23  550w 

CHURCH,     ALEXANDER     HAMILTON.       Mak- 
ing  of   an   executive.    457p   $3.50   Appleton 
658.7     Business     management.       Executives 

23-6820 
Beginning  with  a  statement  of  the  personal 
qualifications  and  special  knowledge  required 
by  the  executive,  the  book  passes  on  to  a  con- 
sideration of  the  fundamentals  of  business  or- 
ganization and  routine  and  personnel  manage- 
ment. Attention  is  also  given  to  financial 
management  and  the  interpretation  of  finan- 
cial   reports. 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:421    O    '23 

CHURCHILL,  WINSTON  LEONARD  SPEN- 
CER.  World  crisis.  2v.  578;589p  ea  $6.50 
Scribner 

940.45  European  war,  1914-1919 — Great  Brit- 
ain. European  war,  1914-1919 — Naval  opera- 
tions (23-7252) 
From  1911  to  1915  Winston  Churchill  was 
First  lord  of  the  admiralty,  and  his  book  carries 
Great  Britain  thru  the  first  phase  of  the  naval 
war.  This  period  comprised  the  final  stage  in 
the  preparation  against  a  war  with  Germany; 
the  mobilization  of  the  fleet  before  the  out- 
break; the  organization  of  the  blockade;  the 
clearance  from  the  seas  of  the  German  cruisers 
and  destroyers;  the  first  German  submarine  at- 
tack; the  initiation  of  the  Dardanelles  enter- 
prise. WTiile  binding  himself  to  the  strict  rule 
of  making  no  statement  of  fact  about  naval 
operations  or  admiralty  business  without  docu- 
mentary evidence,  the  author's  vigorous  style 
prevents  the  book  from  becoming  a  tedious 
official  history.  The  letters,  telegrams,  orders 
and  memoranda  published  give  an  inside  view 
of  the  ministry  in  time  of  crisis  and  contain 
many  revelations  of  the  chief  actors  in  the 
story. 


"The  layman,  especially  the  admirer  of  Mr. 
Churchhill's  career,  will  find  it  a  very  readable 
book;  but  the  professional  historian,  and  par- 
ticularly the  professional  sailor,  will  harbor  a 
different    opinion."    E:    Breck 

h  Am    Hist    R   20:137  O  '23  IBOOw 

Am    Pol   Scl    R   17:679   N  '23  380w   (Re- 
view of  V  1) 

Booklist  20:132  Ja  '24  (Review  of  v  2) 
Reviewed  by  C:   Seymour 

Bookm    57:643    Ag   '23    200w 
"It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  Mr.  Churchill's 
book    rings    true.      His    respectful    consideration 
of  the  attitude  of  his  colleagues  is  notable  and 
I'efreshing."     S.    I...    Cook 

+   Boston  Transcript  p3  Ap  21  '23  2700w 
Cleveland  p62  .71  '23 
"It    is    hoped    that    every    American    will    read 
this    book,    not    only    because    of    the    insight    it 
gives  into  European  diplomacy  and  internation- 
al dealings  generally  but  because  it  may  enable 
the    American    reader    to    imbibe    some    of    that 
splendid  love  of  country  which  so  strongly  dom- 
inates  the   writer."   W.    S.    Benson 
+   Int   Bk  R  p8  S  '23  3200w 
"Always   he    Is   brilliant   and   plausible.     As   a 
writer  he  has  a  style  spacious  and  grand,  what 
may    be    termed    the    Marlborough    manner    In 
prose."     H.  E.  Armstrong 

H Int  Bk  R  pl29  Ja  '24  4S00w  (Review  of 

V  2) 

"Because    this    book    comes    from    the    pen    of 
the  administrator  instead  of  the  fighter  it  has 


great  value  as  a  contribution  to  an  understand- 
ing of  the  record  made  by  the  British  Navy. 
It  is  interesting  to  see  how  the  intricate  sys- 
tem of  wheels  went  round — and  why.  And  it  is 
refreshing  to  come  upon  a  narration  written 
with  the  vigor  and  picturesqueness  of  the 
•World  Crisis.'  "     W:  O.  Stevens 

+   Lit   R   p646  Ap  28   '23   1400w 

"Merits  special  attention,  for  at  least  three 
reasons.  In  the  first  place,  it  possesses  real 
literary  distinction.  Secondly,  its  subject-mat- 
ter is  important.  Its  final  and  chief  value  lies 
in  its  amazing  revelation  of  the  mind  of  Win- 
ston Spencer  Churchill.  .  .  One  fact  about  this 
important  book  transcends  all  others:  it  be- 
speaks the  mind  of  a  militarist,  and  militarists 
are  as  dangerous  now  as  they  were  from  1911 
to    1914."     C.    J.    H.    Hayes 

-f   New    Repub   35:48   Je   6  '23   1650w 

Reviewed  by  W.  P.  Crozier 

New   Repub  37:70  D  12  '23  2350w   (Re- 
view of  V  2) 

"Incomparably  the  best  'War  book'  that  has 
yet  appeared,  certainly  in  Engli.sh  and  probably 
in  any  language." 

+  New  Statesman  21:18  Ap  14  '23  1350w 
"In  one  respect  at  any  rate  Mr.  Churchill's 
second  volume  is  the  equal  of  his  first — it  is  as 
well  written.  Now  that  Lord  Morley  is  dead 
Mr.  ChurchiU  has  amongst  British  statesmen  no 
literary  peer;  he  is  in  a  class  by  himself.  He 
knows  not  only  how  to  write  a  sentence  and  a 
paragraph,  but  how  to  make  a  book.  Thus  he 
prejudices  the  reader  in  his  favour  and  gains 
for  his  case  a  perhaps  adventitious  but  by  no 
means  Illegitimate  advantage." 

H New  Statesman   22:182   N   17   '23  1650w 

(Review  of  v  2) 
"Amid  the  multitude  of  ill-devised  reminis- 
cences which  weary  the  reviewer,  here  at  least 
we  have  the  literature  which — apart  from  some 
too  technical  pages — is  worth  reading  for  its 
own    sake."      P.    W.    Wilson 

+  N  Y  Times  pi  Ap  8  '23  3200w 
Reviewed  bv  Elmer  Davis 

N   Y  Times  pi  N*  4  '23  3300w   (Review 
of  V  2) 

"Mr.  Winston  Churchill's  book  is  a  perfor- 
mance on  a  very  grand  scale  indeed.  It  may 
be  said  that  he  has  a  keen  appreciation  of  his 
own  qualities;  he  particularly  fancies  himself 
as  a  military  strategist,  a  statesman  and  a  his- 
torian. He  has  very  good  ground  for  doing  so. 
If  it  were  not  for  a  slight  lack  of  balance  I 
should  say  that  Mr.  Churchill's  brain  was  the 
best  all-round  brain  in  English  public  life  to- 
day."     Filson    Young 

-I-  N  Y  Times  p7  N  18  '23  650w  (Review  of 
v  2) 
"Mr.  Churchill's  hook  is  a  first  class  contri- 
bution to  the  literature  of  the  war.  His  next 
volume,  on  the  Dardanelles,  will  revive  some 
of  the  sharpest  controversies  of  the  war.  and 
will  be  awaited  with  the  liveliest  interest."  W: 
C.    McPherson 

-f   N  Y  Tribune  pl7  My  20  '23  2100w   (Re- 
view of  V  1) 
"Valuable    as    a    chronicle    of    a    considerable 
share  of  the  great  event   in   the   late  war,    'The 
World    Crisis'    does   not   abound   in    such    sensa- 
tions or  indiscretions  as  might  have  been  looked 
for  from  so  vigorous  a   personality."    D.   C.   S. 
-I-   N    Y    World    plOe   Ap   15   '23    1150w 
Reviewed  bv  E.   H.   Abbott 

Outlook  136:114  Ja  16  '24  2150w  (Review 
of  v  1  and  2) 

R  of  Rs  69:108  Ja  '24  400w  (Review  of 
V  2) 
"Mr.  Churchill's  book  is  of  a  very  rare  kind. 
It  is  the  work  of  a  jiian  who  has  taken  a  com- 
manding part  in  tremendous  events  and  is  him- 
self a  practised  writer.  Beyond  question  it  is 
a  great  achievement.  Its  story  is  nobly  told, 
and  every  page  of  it  can  be  read  by  the  British 
nation  with  pride." 

4-  Sat   R   135:497  Ap   14   '23   1850w 

"The  second  volume  of  Mr.  Churchill's  Apologia 
pro  vita  sua  is  an  even  finer  piece  of  work  than 
the  first,  which  is  giving  it  the  highest  praise. 
Its   interest   is   extraordinary;   and  its  vigour  of 


98 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


CHURCHILL,   W.    L.   S. — Continued 
narration  places  its  author  among  the  greatest 
writers  of   our  day.      He   has  in  a  singular  de- 
gree   the    dramatic    sense    and    the    gift    of   elo- 
quence." 

+  Sat    R    136:496    N    3    '23    2000w    (Review 
of  V   2) 

"Mr.  Churchill's  volume  thrills  us  as  it  no 
doubt  thrilled  him  to  write  it.  It  will  endure. 
But  when  we  have  praised  its  great  skill  as  it 
deserves  we  are  left  with  a  regret.  After  all, 
Mr.  Churchill's  characteristic  spirit  is  not  the 
best  in  which  to  write  of  such  an  agony.  His 
exhilaration  on  the  whole  approaches  too  nearly 
to  a  revelling  in  the  great  play  of  forces  to  be 
acceptable  in  a  statesman  who  bore  responsi- 
bilities for  humanity  that  were  terrible  even 
though   they  were   stimulating." 

H Spec  130:627  Ap  14   '23   2150w 

"His  first  volume  left  us  thanking  God  that 
he  had  been  at  the  Admiralty  to  prepare  the 
Navy  for  war  and  to  have  our  ships  in  time 
at  their  posts.  This  second  volume  leaves  us 
thanking  God  that  he  ceased  to  have  anything 
to  do  with  the  conduct  of  war  before  he  had 
brought    us    to   perdition."     F.    Maurice 

—  Spec    131:657    N    3    '23    1750w    (Review 
of  V  2) 
"It    is    an    even    better,    more    valuable    and 
ntore    readable    book    than    the    first    and    upon 
the  same  grounds." 

-f-  Springf  d  Republican  p8a  D  16  '23  1900w 
(Review  of  v  2) 
"Mr.  Churchill's  book  is  one  of  extraordinary 
interest,  and  the  interest  is  three-fold.  It  lies, 
first,  in  his  vivid  and  skilfully  constructed  nar- 
rative; secondly,  in  the  reasoning  he  employs 
to  defend  his  political,  strategical  and  adminis- 
trative work  against  the  many  attacks  that 
have  been  made  upon  it;  and  lastly  in  his  por- 
trait of  himself.  .  .  Whether  we  agree  or  dis- 
agree with  Mr.  Churchill's  views,  or  are  con- 
vinced or  unconvinced  by  his  advocacy,  we  have 
no  doubt  of  the  value  and  importance  of  his 
book." 

4-  The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p239   Ap 
12   '23  3200w 
"A   broad   and    vigorous    survey   of   the    world 
forces    moving    towards    Armageddon." 

+  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p739   N  8 
23   ISOOw   (Review  of  v   2) 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:412  Jl  '23 
Reviewed   by  "W.   C.    Abbott 

Yale    R   n   s   13:412   Ja   '24   200w 

CLAGHORN,    KATE    HOLLADAY.    Immigrant's 

day    in    court.    546p    $2.50    Harper 

325.7   Courts — United    States.    Immigrants   in 
the  United  States.  Americanization      23-4538 

The  book  belongs  to  the  series  of  Americani- 
zation studies  of  which  Allen  T.  Burns  is  di- 
rector. "It  is  the  purpose  of  this  to  follow  the 
immigrant  from  the  port  of  entry,  through  some 
of  the  troubles  that  call  for  the  intervention  of 
the  law,  to  see  to  what  extent  the  law  reaches 
his  troubles,  how  far  the  administration  of  law 
secures  for  him  the  substantial  justice  aimed 
at  in  any  legal  system,  what  is  done  by  various 
agencies  to  adjust  him  to  our  laws  and  legal 
procedure,  and  what  are  his  reactions  in  the 
way  of  satisfaction  with  the  country  and  friend- 
liness to  it."    (Introd.)   Index. 


Reviewed    by    E.    S.    Bogardus 

Am  J  Soc  29:105  Jl  '23  220w 
Booklist    19:238    My    '23 

"It  is  a  comprehensive  presentation,  excel- 
lently balanced  in  attitude  as  well  as  in  ap- 
portionment of  material.  Suggestions  for  the 
betterment  of  conditions  are  made  but  not  press- 
ed. The  book  is  a  clear  and  judicious  exposi- 
tion of  an  important  phase  in  the  problem  of 
Americanization." 

+   Bookm  57:344  My  '23  160w 

"The  method  of  the  book  is  to  be  commended. 
It  bears  all  the  earmarks  of  an  honest,  con- 
scientious statement  of  the  situations  in  which 
the   Inunlgrant   finds   himself.    Conclusions,    de- 


ductions,  interpretation,   are  left   to  the   reader. 
Nor   will   the   reader   fail   to   make   them." 
+  Cath   World   117:567  Jl  '23   280w 
Cleveland  p70  S  '23 
Reviewed    by   H:   P.   Fairchild 

Lit    R   p737   Je   2    '23    620w 
Reviewed  by    H.    A.    Miller 

Nation  117:21  Jl  4  '23  1050w 
"The  fundamental  thing  is  forcibly  to  bring 
and  keep  bringing  before  the  public  the  neces- 
sity of  enthusiastic  and  increased  support  to 
that  branch  of  welfare  work  which  cares  for  the 
poor  man  and  the  stranger  in  the  courts.  "To 
this  Miss  Claghorn's  book  makes  a  substantial 
contribution."  J:   M.  Maguire 

New  Repub  34:218  Ap  18  '23  1650w 
"It  would   be   difficult  to   mention  a  more   in- 
teresting book  on  this  subject." 

+  N  Y  Times  p26  Mr  18  '23  280w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:223  My  '23 
"The  volume  is  a  distinct  and  valuable  con- 
tribution to  our  immigration  literature  and 
should  be  familiar  to  all  who  are  interested  in 
the  constructive  assimilation  of  our  immigrant 
population."  D.  D.  Lescohier 

+  Pol  Sci  Q  38:518  S  '23  700w 
R   of  Rs  67:447  Ap   '23   130w 
"Miss    Claghorn    has    added    not    only    to    our 
understanding  of  but  to  our  equipment  for  the 
solution  of  a  very  real  problem  of  both  legal  and 
social  significance."  Phillips   Bradley 

+  Spnngf'd   Republican   p9a  S  9  '23  1500w 

CLANCEY,  JAMES  HANNIBAL.  Law  and  its 
sorrows;  an  exoteric  of  our  legal  wrongs.  317p 
$1.50   Bentham   inst.,    Detroit,    Mich. 

340  Law  reform  22-24055 

The  book  is  offered  as  a  text-book  for  the 
layman  for  the  purpose  of  eventually  reforming 
the  law  thru  an  aroused  public  opinion.  It 
aims  at  honest,  hostile  criticism  of  a  construc- 
tive character.  It  concerns  itself  chiefly  with 
three  propositions:  the  abolition  of  pleadings 
as  a  cumbersome,  misleading,  senseless  and 
worthless  farce  in  the  scheme  of  justice;  the 
denial  of  the  power  of  judges  of  declaring  leg- 
islative matter  unconstitutional;  the  practice 
of  the  courts  of  favoring  organized  wealth. 
Part  One  aims  at  presenting,  in  simple  lan- 
guage, the  situation  of  the  law.  Part  Two  gives 
a  group  of  cases  to  serve  as  objBct  lessons. 
Appendix,    index. 


"One  has  a-  feeling  that  when  Mr.  Clancey 
is  through,  he  has  not,  with  all  his  cuts  and 
thrusts,  done  much  damage  to  the  monster  he 
is  attacking."     Max  Radin 

—  Freeman    7:381    Je   27   '23   900w 

"Most  informed  readers  will  admit  that,  while 
he  has  done  it  ineptly,  Mr.  Clancey  has  not  over- 
stated his  case  on  the  facts.  The  book  is  an 
earnest,  ever  fiery  polemic,  and  however  much 
the  economist  and  jurist  may  disagree  with 
some  of  the  conclusions  drawn  there  is  assured- 
ly some  value  in  calling  attention,  even  in- 
temperately,  to  recognized  abuses." 
1-  Lit   R  p689  My  12   '23   470w 

"The  book  will  undoubtedly  interest  many 
lawyers,  but  the  author  hopes  to  enlist  the 
support  of  the  laity  also  in  his  crusade.  Ap- 
parently it  is  not  to  his  own  profession  that 
the  author  looks  for  his  most  substantial  back- 
ing." 

R  of   Rs  67:222  F  '23  120w 

Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Ag  26  '23  660w 

CLARK,  HARTLEY.  Bokhara.  Turkoman  and 
Afghan  rugs.  130p  il  $12  Dutton  [31s  6d 
Lane] 

745  Rugs,  Oriental  [23-7184] 

This  monograph  deals  mainly  with  the  car- 
pets and  rugs  made  by  the  Turkoman  tribes 
of  central  Asia  and  adjacent  nationalities — an 
interesting  group  of  rugs  on  which  there  is  little 
existing  information  in  print.  After  several  in- 
troductory chapters  on  the  points  that  deter- 
mine the  value  of  a  rug,  on  the  process  of 
weaving,  and  on  material  and  designs,  the  book 
passes  on  to  a  detailed  description  of  the  dif- 


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ferent  types  of  rugs  belonging  to  the  group, 
illustrated  with  seventeen  color  plates  and 
numerous    illustrations    in    blaoit    and    white. 

CLARKE,    ISABEL  CONSTANCE.      Viola  Hud- 

-    son.      487p      $2      Benziger 

23-12067 

The  plot  of  the  novel  turns  upon  difference 
of  religious  faith  as  a  barrier  to  marriage.  The 
heroine,  a  devout  Catholic,  wlien  but  eighteen 
years  old  is  lured  into  a  mock  marriage  with 
a  Pi'Otestant.  Later,  in  a  penitent  mood,  he 
offers  her  real  marriage  if  she  will  promise  to 
bring  their  child  up  a  Protestant.  This  she 
indignantly  refuses,  choosing  rather  that  the 
child  shall  be  fatherless.  In  India,  where  Viola 
goes  with  her  young  daughter.  Sir  Garth  Ben- 
net  offers  to  marry  her  on  condition  that  she 
renounce  her  child.  Again  an  indignant  refusal. 
For  the  third  time  a  critical  choice  must  be 
made,  when  Sir  Garth's  son  sets  his  heart  on 
marrying  Hilary  and  finds  her  branded  as  il- 
legitimate. This  time  Sir  Garth's  sen.se  of 
justice  conquers,  and  he  allows  the  marriage, 
with   his   blessing  on    both   the   young   people. 


"A  fascinating  romance,  attractive  alike  for 
its  excellent  character  drawing  and  for  its 
beautiful  descriptions  of  Ceylon  and  the  Italian 
lake    country."     B.    L,.    C. 

-1-  Cath  World  118:569  Ja  '24  150w 
"Miss  Clarke  wi'ites  fluently  and  her  dramatic 
construction    is    good    although    she    uses    coin- 
cidence rather   freely." 

-j-   Lit    R    p317   D   1   '23   320w 
"A  reader  who  can  manage  to  identify    him- 
self with   the  author's   apergu   will   be   rewarded 
by    a    thoughtful,    efficient,    and    not    unmoving 
story." 

-\ The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p768    N 

15   '23   520w 

CLARKSON,  GROSVENOR  B.  Industrial  Amer- 
ica in  the  World  war;  the  strategy  behind  the 
lines,  1917-191S;  witii  an  introd.  by  Georges 
Clemenceau.     573p     il     $6     Houghton 

940.373  European  war,  1914-1919— United 
States.  United  States — War  industries 
board 
A  full  and  detailed  account  of  the  organiza- 
tion of  American  industries  for  war  purposes 
and,  in  particular,  of  the  work  of  the  War  in- 
dustries board.  Mr  Clarkson  was  director  of 
the  Council  of  national  defense  which  effected 
the  preliminary  industrial  mobilization  and  from 
which  the  War  industries  board  emerged.  In 
addition  to  the  official  records,  all  of  which  were 
at  his  disposal,  he  has  secured  statements  while 
their  memories  were  still  fresh  from  the  men 
who  bore  the  most  active  and  responsible  parts 
in  the  work.  He  describes  not  only  the  general 
work  of  coordination  in  the  matter  of  produc- 
tion, priority  and  distribution,  but  also  the  more 
technical  aspects  of  the  steel  supply,  nitrates, 
explosives  and  chemicals  and  other  specialized 
industries  drawn  upon.  The  vast  accomplish- 
ments of  an  agency  which  developed  and  func- 
tioned so  quietly  as  to  be  little  known  and  un- 
derstood, are  put  on  record  and  tribute  is  paid 
to  the  men  who  conducted  the  work,  especially 
to  Bernard  M.  Baruch,  chairman  of  the  board. 
An  appendix  gives  the  personnel  of  the  board 
and  its  divisions. 


"The  style  of  the  book  is  breezy,  in  some 
cases  running  into  exhuberance,  marked,  for 
example,  by  rather  overdrawn  figures  of  speech. 
A  certain  lack  of  organization  is  evident  and 
a  decided  tendency  to  repetition.  The  work  is 
plainly  not  that  of  a  critical  historian.  The 
writer  has,  however,  not  merely  rendered  a 
valuable  historical  service,  but  has  preserved 
in  popular  form  the  lessons  taught  by  our  late 
experience  as  to  the  overwhelming  importance 
of  industry  in   warfare." 

H Am    Hist    R   29:361   Ja  '24   llOOw 

Booklist   20:6    O   '23 

"Here,  at  last,  is  the  story,  an  epic  in  its 
way,  with  the  high  lights  k&pt  on  it  through- 
out and  none  of  its  many  dramatic  episodes 
neglected,    of   how   America   mobilized   her   eco- 


nomic resources  for  the  great  war,  told  au- 
thoritatively by  one  who  was  'on  the  inside' 
and  in  command  of  information  much  of  which 
may    be    called    exclusive."      Edmund    Noble 

-1-   Boston   Transcript   p3   Je   9   '23    1300w 
Cleveland  p70  S  '23 
Reviewed    by    G:    Soule 

Nation    116:221   Ag   29   '23   750w 
"A  book  of  first  rank  and  a  history  that   can 
never  be  superseded."    Albert   Shaw 

+   N   Y  Times  p3  Je  3  '23  2300w 
"VVith    unfaltering   purpose   Mr.    Clarkson  has 
related    the    historical    facts    surrounding    that 
amazing    extralegal    body— the    War    Industries 
Board.   He  has  done  much  more  than  that.   He 
has  written  here  and  there  through  his  ambiti- 
ous   volume    material    for   a   new    sort   of    text- 
book  in   economics.  '     F:    A.   VanderHp 
-f  N  Y  Tribune  pl7  Jl  8  '23  1200w 
N    Y   World   p6e  Ag   19   '23  1400w 
R  of  Rs  68:109  Jl  '23  500w 

CLAYTON,  WILLIAM.  Theory  of  emulsions 
and  emulsification;  foreword  by  F.  G  Don- 
nan.  (Text-books  of  chemical  research  and 
engineering)  400p  il  $3  Blakiston  [9s  6d 
Churchill] 

541.8     Emulsions  [23-9266] 

Attempts  "to  collect  and  review  the  work 
of  the  many  investigators  in  this  field.  .  To  a 
certain  extent  the  treatment  has  followed  his- 
torical lines  .  .  .  but  tbe  chief  aim  has  been  to 
follow  a  logical  hne  of  development  based  on 
modern  physico-chemical  principles.  Techni- 
cal applications  of  emulsions  have  only  been 
introduced  either  as  illustrating  some  particu- 
lar laboratory  method  on  a  large  scale,  or  be- 
cause some  important  theoretical  point  Is  In- 
volved."   (Preface) 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:472    N   '23 

CLEMEN,    RUDOLPH    ALEXANDER.       Ameri- 
2    can    livestock    and    the    meat    industry.       872d 

il      $6      Ronald 

664.9       Meat    industry   and   trade  23-7795 

"A  comprehensive  survey  of  meat  packing 
and  livestock  marketing,  with  special  emphasis 
on  the  economics  of  the  industry.  Contains 
considerable  historical  data,  and  pays  some  at- 
tention   to   technology." — Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 

Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui    28:535   D  '23 

CLEMENS,  SAMUEL  LANGHORNE  (MARK 
TWAIN,  pseud.).  Europe  and  elsewhere;  with 
an  appreciation  by  Brander  Matthews  and  an 
introd.  by  Albert  Bigelow  Paine.  406p  il  $2.25 
Harper 

814  23-12090 

A  collection  of  miscellaneous  articles  and 
travel  sketches  some  of  which  have  never  be- 
fore been  published.  The  volume  opens  with  a 
chapter-  from  a  book  about  England  which  Mark 
Twain  planned  but  never  wrote.  This  is 
a  description  of  a  visit  to  Westminster  Abbey 
at  midnight.  'Down  the  Rhone'  is  a  chapter 
from  another  book  that  was  never  completed. 
O'Shah  is  a  series  of  news  letters  describing 
the  visit  of  the  Shah  of  Persia  to  England.  Not 
all  the  articles  are  humorous.  Three  are  con- 
cerned with  the  interference  of  one  nation  with 
another  on  matters  of  religion  and  government. 
One  is  on  lynch  law,  another  on  Marjorie  Flem- 
ing and  still  another  on  Bible  teaching  and  re- 
ligious practice. 


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"Although  parts  of  the  book  are  as  delight- 
fully comic  as  one  could  anticipate.  Twain 
shows  himself  largely  in  his  more  serious 
aspect." 

Bookm    58:484   D   '23    120w 

"A  distinction  between  permanence  and  im- 
permanence  in  literature  is  perhaps  inherent 
in  the  fact  that  'Europe  and  Elsewhere,'  opened 
here  and  there,  usually  provides  something 
that    catches    the    attention    and    interests    the 


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CLEMENS,    S:    L. — Continued 

reader    though    the    original    timeliness    of    the 

topic   lias    gone    past."      Ralph    Bergengren 

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CLEMENS,  SAMUEL  LANGHORNE  (MARK 
TWAIN,  pseud.)-  Mark  Twain's  speeches; 
with  an  introd.  by  Albert  Bigelow  Paine  and 
an  appreciation  by  William  Dean  Howells. 
396p     $2.25     Harper 

817  23-10411 

Mark  Twain's  biographer,  Albert  Bigelow 
Paine,  has  made  this  collection  of  his  most  fa- 
mous speeches  and  lectures  from  the  first  of 
these  which  has  been  preserved,  the  lecture  on 
the  Sandwich  islands,  in  1866,  to  the  last  Lotos 
Club  speech,  in  1908.  There  is  an  introduction 
by  the  editor,  giving  some  account  of  Mark 
Twain's  speech-making  career  and  his  methods 
of  preparation  and   delivery. 


Bookm    57:657    Ag    '23    120w 
"There     are     many     charming     and     delicate 
things  in  the  volume."   S.  L.   Cook 

4-  Boston  Transcript  p3  Je  16  '23  1350w 
"Nothing  is  gained  for  Mark  Twain's  repute 
by  the  publication  of  this  collection  of  his 
speeches.  They  lack,  inevitably,  the  glow  of 
the  occasion  and  of  the  spoken  word.  True, 
there  are  some  flashes  of  Twain's  humor  in 
them,    but    few    and    far    between."     C.  P. 

h  Cath   World   118:421   D   '23  370w 

Cleveland  p77  S  '23 
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Int   Bk   R  p23  Ag  '23  2250w 
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N   Y   Times  p8  Je  10  '23  2250w 

N    Y    World    p7e  My  27   '23   240w 

"A   good  deal  of  the  sparkle  of  the   humor  is 

lost  in  the  stolid  printed  page.    Yet  there  is  good 

browsing  in  the  book,   and  there   is  what  Mark 

Twain  loved  to  call  'horse  sense'  as  well  as  fun." 

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Springf'd  Republican  pl6  Je  22  '23  260w 

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CLEMENTS,  COLIN   CAMPBELL,  comp.     Book 
of    prayers    for    boys.     16Gp    $1.40    Harcourt 

248     Prayers  22-17799 

The  compiler,  one  of  the  inasters  of  the 
Lawrenceville  school  for  boys,  has  gathered 
these  prayers  from  a  wide  I'ange  of  time  and 
writers,  from  St  Chrysostom  thru  the  cen- 
turies to  Angelo  Patri  and  Harry  Emerson 
Fosdick. 


Booklist    19:34    N    '22 

"Admirable  for  boys  of  school  age  and  even 
older." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p6a  D  3  '22  60w 
"A  most   dignified,    deeply    spiritual    collection 
of  prayers." 

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CLEMENTS,    COLIN    CAMPBELL.       Plays    for 
2    a  folding  theatre.     135p    $2     Stewart  Kidd 

812  23-12393 

Three  of  these  are  Pierrot-Columbine  plays, 
three  are  of  the  East,  and  one  of  the  sea. 
All  of  them  are  planned  for  production  on  small 
stages  and  for  several  of  the  plays  Mr  Clements 
has  designed  sets.  Contents:  Pierrot  in  Paris; 
Columbine:  The  return  of  Harlequin;  Three 
lepers  of  Suk-el-Garab;  The  desert;  The  siege; 
Moon   tide. 


ingless  melodrama,  it  is  no  sign  that  he  has 
not  something  to  say  and  at  times  speaks 
well."     W.  E.  H. 

+  —  Boston  Transcript  p2  S  15  '23  360w 
"  'Moontide'  alone  would  make  this  volume 
memorable.  The  three  or  four  other  plays 
which  almost  attain  to  a  like  beauty  show 
clearly  that  this  work  is  not  a  happy  accident 
but  a  milestone  in  the  career  of  an  artist." 
¥L    S    H 

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CLEWS,   HENRY,  jr.     Mumbo  jumbo.  276p  $2.50 
Boni    &    Liveright    [7s    6d    G.    RichardsJ 

812  23-7741 

"Mumbo  Jumbo"  is  a  play  in  four  acts  with 
a  long  introduction,  after  the  manner  of  George 
Bernard  Shaw,  and  lengthy  descriptions  of  the 
types  that  constitute  the  characters.  The  whole 
is  a  virulent  satire  against  civilization,  a  de- 
nunciation of  everything  modern — deinocracy, 
science,  the  machine,  art  and  social  life.  In  a 
voluble  tirade  this  age  is  represented  as  hav- 
ing sunk  "to  a  depth  of  vulgarity,  viciousness, 
brutality,  dishonesty,  amorality,  trickery,  and 
utter  disreg.ard  of  consideration  for  others, 
never  before  reached  except  by  the  most  savage 
and  cruel  tribes,  and  by  civilizations  in  the  last 
stages  of  decadence."  (Page  82)  In  the  play  it- 
self the  author  vents  his  ire  especially  on  the 
commercialized  faddism  of  modern  art.  Two 
New  York  art  dealers  boost  the  childish  daubs 
of  a  half-witted  young  man  as  the  works  of  a 
genius — highly  spiritualized,  sixth-sense  sym- 
bolism for  which  the  name  Mamasism  is  in- 
vented— and  reap  a  golden  harvest.  The  poor 
victim  lands  in  a  lunatic  asylum  but  the  busi- 
ness end  of  the  farce  goes  merrily  on. 


Booklist    20:91    D    '23 
"If  Mr.   Clements  carves   ideas  from  the  con- 
ventionalized   in    plot    and    character;    if,    as    in 
'The   Desert,'   he   works   with    weak   and   mean- 


Dial    75:302    S   '23   70w 
"His   'explosion   and  onslaughts'    on   American 
civilization  read  like  the  smoking-room  talk  of 
an  Anglo-maniac."  H.  W.  Van  Loon 

—  Lit    R   p732  .Je   2   '23   850w 

"Mr.  Henry  Clews,  Jr.,  is  the  most  ludicrously 
terrifying  writer  we  have  met  for  a  long  time. 
He  is  armed  to  the  teeth  and  has  no  patience 
with  anything."     H.  M. 

—  New  Statesman  20:698  Mr  17  '23  500w 
"  'Mumbo  Jumbo'  is  an  uncompromising  ex- 
posure of  the  shams  and  the  hypocrisy  that 
vitiate  much  of  modern  life.  The  reading  o< 
it  will  make  for  clearer  and  saner  thinking. 
And  the  reader  is  assured  of  a  mighty  good  time 
while  he  reads  it." 

-f  N  Y  Times  p8  Ap  22  '23  2150w 
"During  my  many  years  of  reading  I  recall 
no  work  so  silly  and  sophomoric,  vulgar  and 
illogical,  cheap,  strident  and  idiotic.  Mr.  Clews 
is  not  only  incapable  of  developing  an  idea 
from  premise  to  conclusion:  he  is  hardly  cap- 
able of  developing  a  sentence  from  subject  to 
predicate."     Burton  Rascoe 

—  NY   Tribune   pl7    Ap   15   '23   1150w 
"Young  Mr.    Clews   is  incensed  with   a  great 

many  people;  so  many,  in  fact,  that  one  begins 
to  suspect  Mr.  Clews  is  incensed  with  himself. 
He  is  a  brick  thrower  par  excellence."  Laurence 
Stallings 

N    Y    World    pile   Ap   15    '23    1750w 

"His  play  occupies  barely  more  than  half  his 
volume.  "The  exaggeration  is  not  so  gross  as 
to  make  the  satire  pointless,  but  all  the  same 
the  play  only  succeeds  in  saying  rather  less  ef- 
fectively what  has  already  been  said,  over  and 
over  again,  with  tremendous  gusto  and  flam- 
boyancy,  in  the  perfectly  enormous  preface." 
h  Sat    R   135:776  Je   9   '23   800w 

"He  attacks  all  that  may  be  symbolized  by 
jazz,  and  regrets  the  old  days  of  quiet  refine- 
ment in  the  most  uproariously  vulgar  prose  that 
we  have  ever  read.  It  is  all  preposterously  im- 
possible and  very  amusing." 

—  Spec    130:852  My   19    '23    320w 

"If  imitation  is  the  sincerest  form  of  detesta 
tion,  Mr  Clews  must  particularly  dislike  Sha-\\ , 
for  the  makeup  of  the  book,  or  rather  play,  is 
on  the  approved  Shavian  plan.  The  dialog  is 
far  from  paradoxical,  however,  as  the  author 
uses   a    sledge    hammer    rather    than    a    rapier. 

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CLOMAN,    SYDNEY    AMOS.   Myself  and   a   few 

Moros.   180p   il   $3   Doubleday 

919.1    Tawi-Tawi    islands.    Moros        23-16676 

Under  the  treaty  with  Spain  which  ended 
the  Spanish-American  war.  Col.  Cloman  was 
sent  to  the  Tawi-Tawi  islands  to  relieve  the 
Spanish  garrison  there,  as  a  part  of  the  Amer- 
ican occupation  of  the  Philippines.  His  book 
is  an  account  of  his  dealings  with  the  natives 
and  his  experiences  in  this  part  of  the  do- 
main of  the  Sultan  of  the  Sulus.  The  island 
Moros  are  a  fierce  and  reckless  people,  de- 
scendants of  Malay  pirates  who  long  infested 
the  surrounding  seas.  Col.  Cloman' s  account 
of  the  way  he  enforced  authority  over  them  Is 
told  with  humor  and  vivacity. 

"Colonel  Cloman  has  written  an  amusing  and 
most   likable   account."     W.    C. 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p21  O  28  '23  250w 
'This    is   one    of   the    most   entertaining   books 
that    American     occupation    of    the     Philippine 
Islands    has    produced." 

+  Outlook   135:506   N   21   '23  llOw 

CLOUSTON,     JOSEPH     STORER.       Lunatic    at 
large  again.  278p  $2  Button  [7s  6d  Nash  &  G.] 

A23-2166 
"Somebody  has  commented  upon  the  courage 
of  an  author  who  selects,  of  all  men,  a  cer- 
tified lunatic  as  the  central  figure  in  a  series 
of  episodes  designed  to  tickle  a  sense  of  hi- 
larious humor.  Mr.  Clouston  has  that  courage 
— has  had  it  now  to  the  extent  of  two  book- 
lengths.  Never  mind  how  Mr.  Essington  gets 
out  of  Dr.  Jenkinson's  presumably  well-guarded 
Retreat  for  the  purposes  of  the  present  story. 
He  does  it  after  the  methodic  fashion  tradi- 
tional to  certain  forms  of  madness.  .  .  Besides 
promoting  the  merriment  of  readers,  Mr.  Es- 
sington thwarts  an  amazing  combination  in 
villainy  and  assists  the  true  love  of  young  Mr. 
Philip  Ridley  and  the  still  younger  Miss  Bea- 
trix Staynes  in  finding  its  way  to  a  course  of 
smooth  running.  We  tremble  to  think  upon 
the  consequences  to  passionate  youth  had  our 
hero  failed  to  get  out  of  the  Retreat  and  to 
retain  after  his  escape  the  sweet  resourceful- 
ness  of   his   madness." — N   Y  World 


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think  it  an  absolutely  probable  yarn;  we  can- 
not say  we  believe  that  it  all  even  happened. 
But  we  have  no  time  to  argue  the  matter  with 
you,  none  even,  as  we  should  so  like  to  do,  to 
sit  down  and  quote  whole  pages  of  it.  We  really 
must  sit  down  and  read  it  all  over  again."  I.  W. 
L. 

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Cleveland  p67  S  '23 
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Lit   R  p875  Ag  4  '23  450w 
"There    is    a    fine    restraint    and    artistry    in 
Mr.    Clouston's    humor.     One    is    never    able    to 
foresee   what   the   escaped  and  gallivanting  pa- 
tient is  going  to  do  next;  and  when  he  does  it, 
one   is   as   well   .surprised  as  are   the  victims   of 
his    drolleries.      May    the    lunatic    be    at    large 
again    and    again.      He    is    a    welcome    antidote 
for  the   long-faced   supersanity  of   the   hour." 
+   N  Y  Times  pl9  Jl  29  '23  800w 
Reviewed  by  Kathryn   Liebman 

N  Y  Tribune  p22  S  9  '23  450w 
Reviewed   by  E.    W.   Osborn 

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COATSWORTH,   ELIZABETH  JANE.  Fox  foot- 
prints.    79p    $1.50    Knopf 

811  23-7944 

These  lyrics  of  the  Orient,  done  in  the  manner 
of  the  Japanese  poet,  are  little  pictures  reflect- 
ing, usually  in  a  moonlight  atmosphere,  the  color 
and  mood  of  the  East. 


"A  book  of  frail  but  for  the  most  part  ex- 
quisite verse  that  may  well  be  precious  to  any 
lover   of   poetry." 

+   Bookm    57:562   Jl   '23   200w 
"Miss  Coatsworth  now  takes  her  place  among 
the   makers  of  Oriental   verse,   and   the  place  is 
well   toward   the   front."     C.   K.    H. 

+  Boston    Transcript    p3    Je    9    '23    700w 
Cleveland  p35  My  '23 
Dial   75:400  O  '23  70w 
Lit    R    p899    Ag   11    '23    250w 
"Altogether,  I  think  'Fox  Footprints'  deserves 
the  attention  of  a  wide  audience."  Milton  Raison 
+   N   Y  Tribune  pl9  Jl  8  '23  250w 
"Delicately    done." 

+  N  Y  World  pl9e  Je  24  '23  80w 
"The  effect  of  these  verses  is  as  deftly  and 
surely  realized  as  a  drypoint.  .  .  The  rhythm, 
like  the  pictures,  is  sharp  and  insistent.  Gen- 
erally these  foot-prints  have  been  made  'with  a 
firm,  elastic  and  buoyant  tread,  and  are  out- 
lined  with   sharp   decision." 

-f-  Springf'd  Republican  pl6  Ap  27  '23  300w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:410    Jl    '23 

COBB,  BERTHA  BROWNING  (MRS  ERNEST 
COBB),  and  COBB,  ERNEST.  Pathways  of 
European    peoples.      492p   il   $2   Putnam 

940     Europe— History  [22-24098] 

The  purpose  of  the  book  is  to  give  "an  out- 
line story  of  European  nations  that  form  the 
chief  background  of  American  civilization." 
(Subtitle)  It  aims  to  avoid  details,  dates, 
names,  places,  battles,  and  minor  events  of 
all  sorts,  setting  down  the  most  important 
causes  and  results  of  all  great  movements 
which  have  made  Greece,  Italy,  France,  and 
Germany  what  they  are  today,  thus  giving  a 
panoramic  view  of  the  history  of  continental 
Europe. 


"An  excellent  example  of  success  in  popular- 
izing a  subject  for  minds  not  yet  fully  de- 
veloped yet  capable  of  being  quickened  to  In- 
terest by  the  lighter  and  more  picturesque 
aspects  of  serious  themes." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  1  '23  320w 
"History  is  retold  for  children  in  brief  and 
intriguing  chapters.  Adults,  however,  hardly 
can  scorn  the  bird's-eye  view  which  this  at- 
tractive little  book  affords  of  the  past  out  of 
which  our  present  is  compounded." 

+  Detroit  News  pl2  Jl  8  '23  lOOw 
"The  narrative  is  simple  and  straightforward, 
the  incidents  are  well  chosen,  and  there  is 
a  refreshing  absence  of  any  attempt  to  in- 
troduce myth  and  legend  as  if  they  were  his- 
tory." 

+   Lit   R  pl2  S  1  '23  llOw 

N   Y  World  pl9e  Jl   8  '23  30w 

COBB,       IRVIN       SHREWSBURY.       A   laugh    a 
2    day    keeps     the     doctor     away.       246p       $2.50 

Doran 

817  23-26927 

There  is  an  anecdote  for  every  day  in  the 
year  in  this  collection  of  Irvin  Cobb's  favorite 
funny  stories.      They   are   indexed   by    topic. 


Booklist  20:91  D  '23 
Nation  117:562  N  14  '23  50w 
"Mr.  Cobb  in  his  collection  demonstrates  that 
it  pays  to  acquire  a  reputation  as  a  humorist. 
Here  he  is  collecting  royalties  for  retelling- 
other  people's  funny  stories,  evidently  on  the 
principle  that  'it  isn't  what  he  says;  it's  the 
way   he    says   it.'  "    Leo   Markun 

—  NY  Tribune  pl8   D  2  '23  lOOw 

COBB,    IRVIN    SHREWSBURY.     Snake   doctor, 
and  other  stories.   343p  $2     Doran 

23-10904 

A  collection  of  short  stories  of  which  the 
first,  "Snake  doctor,"  won  the  O.  Henry  mem- 
orial award  for  1922.  Contents:  Snake  doctor; 
One    block    from    Fifth    Avenue;    " — That    shall 


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COBB,    I.    S. — Continued 

he  also  reap";  Red-handed;  Otherwise  Sweet 
William;  His  mother's  apron  strings;  This  hero 
business;  The  eminent  Dr.  Deeves;  The  second 
coming  of  a  first  husband. 


Booklist    20:20   O    '23 

Reviewed    by    E.    F.    Edgett 

Boston    Transcript    p4   Jl   28   '23    950w 
Cleveland  p68  S  '23 

"They  are  good,  readable  stories,  such  as 
one  would  expect  from  his  pen;  upon  the  frame- 
work of  his  plots,  sometimes  ingenious,  some- 
times only  slightly  varied  from  familiar  themes, 
he  hangs  the  Cobb  style  of  narration,  rich, 
vigorous,  picturesque  and  above  all,  natively 
American." 

+   Lit   R   pll   S  1   '23  150w 

"Mr.  Cobb  when  dealing  with  Southern 
darkies  and  'pore  white  trash'  knows  their 
manners  and  customs;  he  knows  their  hopes 
and  fears.  And,  not  least  important,  he  is  a 
master  of  their  dialect — which,  however,  he 
uses  sparingly,  for  a  savoring  and  not  as  a 
diet." 

4-   N    Y   Times    pl4   Jl   22  '23    880w 

"A  chart  showing  the  excellence  of  Mr.  Cobb's 
collected  offering  would,  we  think,  look  like 
nothing  so  much  as  a  profile  map  of  Switzer- 
land. While  reading  'Snake  Doctor'  you  are 
either  on  the  verge  of  closing  the  book  per- 
manently or  else  pushing  ahead  with  a  new- 
born enthusiasm  doomed  to  almost  immediate 
discouragement.  Some  of  the  plots  are  vivid 
and  startling.  Others  practically  aren't.  At 
his  best,  we  don't  believe  there  is  another 
writer  in  America  who  can  handle  certain 
themes  in  Mr.  Cobb's  masterly  fashion.  At 
his  worst  he  reminds  us  of  nothing  so  much  as 
a  rewrite  man  blowing  a  story  of  paragraph 
news  value  up  into  a  column  and  a  half  for 
the  home  edition."     F:   F.   Van   de  Water 

j-   N    Y    Tribune    p20   Jl    29   '23   1300w 

"There  is  no  need  for  Mr.  Cobb  to  ever  do 
another  humorous  story  when  he  can  still, 
after  all  his  years  of  magazine  writing,  do  a 
story  of  the  very  first  rank.  'Snake  Doctor'  is 
as  fine  as  anything  he  has  ever  done."  Laur- 
ence Stallings 

+   N    Y   World   p9e  Jl   29   '23   650w 

COBB,  IRVIN  SHREWSBURY.  Stickfuls;  com- 
positions of  a  newspaper  minion.  355p  $2 
Doran 

070  Reporters  and  reporting  23-7099 

"  'Stickfuls'  is  a  semiautobiography.  Mr.  Cobb 
in  the  first  part  of  the  book  offers  an  entertain- 
ing narrative  in  three  'sticks'  or  episodes,  which 
gives,  apparently  for  the  first  time,  a  complete 
account  of  how  he  made  his  start  in  the  news- 
paper 'game.'  The  rest  of  the  volume  is  made 
up  of  several  articles  on  the  experiences  of  Mr 
Cobb  and  other  correspondents  while  'covering' 
the  World  war  and  reporting  famous  court 
trials." — Springf'd  Republican 


Booklist    19:234    My    '23 

"If  the  general  pviblic  do  not  find  it  out,  they 
will  miss  a  rare  treat;  for  it  is  as  human,  as 
genial,  as  entertaining  a  bit  of  autobiography 
as    one    could    wish."     J.    F. 

-f-   Bookm    57:328    My    '23    250w 

"There  is  much  of  great  interest  in  'Stickfuls.' 
Replete  with  Mr.  Cobb's  picturesque  expressive- 
ness, which  loses  nothing  of  clarity  and  force, 
and  therefore  places  him  apart  from  some 
writers  who  revel  in  their  picturesqueness,  this 
book  has  demonstrated  Mr.  Cobb's  right  to  use 
these  words  as  a  title  to  one  of  his  chapters: 
*I  Admit  I  Am  a  Good  Reporter."  "  S.  L.  C. 
+  Boston  Transcript  p5  My  12  '23  lOOOw 

"  'Stickfuls'  deserves  reading  by  every  one 
who  wants  to  get  an  understanding  of  the  news- 
paper business  given  brightly  but  very  earn- 
estly."    C:   W.    Thompson 

-I-   Int    Bk   R   p26   My   "23   2450w 

"There  are  in  'Stickfuls'  no  pictures  save 
those  formed  by  the  author's  own  words.     These 


we   regard  as  being  sufficient.     This  is   part  of 
the  proof  that   Mr.   Cobb  is  a  good   reporter  " 
-I-   N   Y  World  p7e  Mr  11  '23  350w 

Springf'd  Republican  pl2  Ap  10  '23  240w 
Wis  Lib   Bui  19:159  Je  '23 

COBLENTZ,    STANTON    A.      The   thinker,    and 
other   poems.    112p   $1.50   White,    J.    T. 

811  23-7701 

"An  introduction  indicates  that  the  author  is 
conscious  that  his  verses  are  of  a  type  fallen 
into  disrepute;  he  aims  'to  subject  the  truth  to 
the  vivid  light  of  poetry.'  Much  of  the  book  is 
made  up  of  long  blank  verse  soliloquies  of 
which  'More  Worlds  to  Conquer  (Alexander  the 
Great  on  his  Death  bed)'  and  'Spinoza  on  his 
Excommunication'  are  typical." — Bookm 


Bookm    57:103   Mr  '23  120w 
Dial   74:633  Je  '23   80w 
Lit    R   p478  F  17   '23  350w 
Reviewed    by    Clement    Wood 

Nation    116:273   Mr   7    '23   150w 
"The   gentle  humor  of   the  poet  crops  out  on 
many    pages    of    the    volume,    which,    all    con- 
sidered,   despite    some    faults   of   didacticism,    is 
a    very    readable    littie    book." 

H NY   Times  p6  Ja  7  '23  500w 

"An  interesting  collection.  The  verse  is  im- 
mature and  very  often  obvious,  but  has  a  cer- 
tain soundness.  Coblentz  is  at  his  best  with 
soimets.  He  has  a  compactness  about  his  style 
that  fits  well  into  an  octave  and  sestet."  Milton 
Raison 

H NY  Tribune  pl9  Ja  7  '23  200w 

CODMAN,  JOHN  STURGIS.  Unemployment  and 
our  revenue  problem.  64p  $1  Huebsch 
336.22        Unemployment.        Land — Taxation. 
Single  tax  23-10540 

In  this  little  book  the  close  connection  be- 
tween unemployment  and  our  revenue  problem 
is  shown.  Unemployment  is  treated  as  an  un- 
natural and  preventable  condition,  certain  to 
exist  if  private  possession  of  the  land  is  per- 
mitted without  adequate  compensation  to  the 
community  for  the  privilege.  Under  the  present 
system  the  practice  of  withholding  land  from 
industry  for  speculative  purposes  is  directly  en- 
couraged, while  its  use  in  industry  is  heavily 
penalized  by  high  taxes.  To  this  cause  the 
author  attributes  recurring  business  depression 
and  unemployment,  with  the  indirect  results  of 
poverty,  disease  and  crime.  He  holds  that  taxes 
on  land  should  be  increased  while  taxes  on 
buildings  and  improvements  should  be  dimin- 
ished. 


"A  skillfully  written  tract  in  support  of  the 
single    tax    theory." 

-f   N  Y  Times  pl5  Jl  29  '23  220w 
R  of  Rs  68:336  S  '23  lOw 

COFFIN,     JOSEPH      HERSCHEL.       Personality 
2    in    the    making.    314p    $2.50    Houghton 

126     Personality.     Life.      Social     psychology 

23-17894 

Taking  the  view  that  "personality  is  the 
biggest  fact  in  the  universe,"  and  that  it  is 
something  to  be  achieved  by  purpose  and  effort 
and  built  up  by  constant  striving  thruout  one's 
life,  the  author  sets  out  to  discuss  three  funda- 
mental questions:  (1)  What  native  capacities 
or  functions  are  essential  to  personality  and 
how  do  they  grow  and  become  unified?  (2)  How 
far  and  in  what  manner  is  the  growth  of  per- 
sonality conditioned  by  social  contacts  and  what 
is  therefore  required  of  society  on  behalf  of 
personality?  (3)  To  what  extent  is  the  indi- 
vidual himself  responsible  for  his  personal  de- 
velopment? 


"As  yet  psychology  is  not  an  exact  science. 
For  at  the  present  time  of  writing,  students 
of  the  subject  try  to  reach  for  something  that 
cannot  be  grasped  without  delicacy  of  percep- 
tion   and    intuition.      This    book    on    the    other 


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hand    is   interesting   as   a   revelation   of   earnest 
effort  and  intelligent  deduction." 

H Boston  Transcript  p5  D  22  '23  300w 

N  Y  Times  p28  D  23  '23  550w 

COGSWELL,  A.  IVI.  Ermytage  and  the  curate. 
304p  $2.50  Longmans  [7s  bd  Arnold] 
This  is  a  war  story  and  not,  as  the  title  might 
imply,  an  English  parish  comedy.  Ermytage, 
the  schoolmaster,  and  Seymour,  the  curate,  aie 
comrades  in  hospital  and  convalescent  camp 
and  then  at  the  English  labor  base  at  Boulogne, 
both  being  kept  by  shell  shock  from  service  at 
the  front.  Tho  told  with  considerable  humor, 
the  story  is  an  indictment  of  war,  its  stupidities 
and  inefficiencies  especially  behind  the  line,  and 
the  gross  abuses  which  are  unnecessary  and 
avoidable  even  in  a  state  of  war.  In  the  back- 
ground are  the  slightly  sketched  love  affairs  of 
the   two   men. 


"We  are  once  more  interested  in  war  books, 
as  we  were  bound  to  be  after  the  ennui  follow- 
ing the  signing  of  the  armistice  had  spent  it- 
self, and  here  is  a  graphic  tale  of  those  tragic 
times  well  told  and  well  worth  the  reading." 
-|-  Boston    Transcript  p3   Mr  3   '23   280w 

"Cynicism  makes  no  converts  here,  for  Mr. 
Cogswell  has  a  genial  tolerance  and  unquench- 
able optimism.  It  is  these  qualities,  combined 
with  felicity  of  expression,  that  will  doubtless 
evoke  well  merited  popularity  for  this  tale  of 
life  behind   the  lines." 

+   Lit  R  p667  My  5  '23  450w 

"Mr.  Cogswell  has  a  noisome  dose  of  reality 
to  administer  to  stay-at-home  patriots.  But  he 
sugars  his  pill  with  the  customary  English 
coating  of  humour,  and  even  if  this  sometimes 
heightens  his  effects,  it  may  sometimes  mask 
his  irony  too  effectively  to  the  reader  without 
first-hand  knowledge." 

Nev/  Statesman  20:524  F  3  '23  300w 
N    Y   Times   pll   F  11   '23   600w 

"The  book,  despite  many  faults,  has  the  great 
merit  of  being  somehow  real — real  despite  the 
fact  that  the  writing  is  often  extremely  bad, 
that  the  characters  are  superficial,  two-dimen- 
sional types  and  not  flesh-and-blood  personal- 
ities, and  that  the  treatment,  which  is  for  the 
most  part  purely  realistic,  occasionally  wabbles 
over  into  farce  and  into  the  romantic  melodrama 
of  the   shilling  shocker." 

1-  Spec   130:333    F   24   '23    450w 

"It  does  not  fail  as  literature,  because  it  is 
quietly  and  sincerely  written  but  it  is  impos- 
sible to  think  of  it  as  literature  or  even  as  any- 
thing so  heartless  as  a  document.  But  some- 
where between  the  two,  in  the  scantily  filled 
section  devoted  to  the  machinery  which,  crack- 
ing beneath  the  strain  and  little  honoured, 
nourished  so  efficiently  the  fighting  line,  it  fills 
a  space  for  which  there  are  not  likely  to  be 
ever  many  candidates." 

4-  The  Times  [London]    Lit   Sup  p726  N  9 
'22  450w 

COHEN,  OCTAVUS  ROY.  Dark  davs  and  black 

knights.   335p  $2  Dodd 

23-12787 

Another  collection  of  humorous  stories  of 
Negro  life  in  Birmingham,  Alabama.  The  first 
is  about  Prof.  Roscoe  Griggers  who  played  the 
fairly  lucrative  game  of  pretending  to  be  the 
"world's  greatest  cullud  cornet  player."  Con- 
tents: Music  hath  charms:  Presto  change:  The 
widow's  bite;  The  B.  V.  Demon;  Focus  pokus; 
His  bitter  half;  Far  better  than  worse;  Com- 
pletely done   in  oils. 

Booklist  20:100  D  '23 
"Mr.  Cohen  can  build  plots  according  to  pat- 
tern, he  ha.s  a.  considerable  ability  in  the  use 
of  journalistic  language,  and  he  has  evolved  a 
dialect  for  his  characters,  which,  while  growing 
somewh.'it  stereotyped  by  now.  is  still  amusing. 
His  stories  are  written  very  franklv  to  amuse. 
Thev  make  no  pretense  of  being  otherwise  than 
farcical,  and  .'?o  long  as  one  accepts  that  view- 
point, there  is  left  little  to  find  fault  with." 
H Lit  R  p72  S  22  '23  220w 


"These  colored  people  are  individualized  and 
self-sufficing.  The  rich  and  rollicking  humor 
grows  out  of  their  changing  relations  to  each 
other  and  to  organic  social  situations,  and  is 
not  inconsistent  with  patches  of  the  pathetic, 
ironic  insight  and  the  flavor  of  romance.  'This 
is  the  broad  essential  difference  between  Cohen 
and  a  whole  raft  of  writers  who  have  used  the 
Negro  as  humorous  material."  Hubert  Harrison 
-h   N    Y   World   p7e   O   28   '23   620w 

COHEN,  OCTAVUS  ROY.     Jim  Hanvey,  detect- 
=    ive.      283p     $2     Dodd 

23-13656 
These  exploits  of  Jim  Hanvey  are  amusing 
tales  of  the  detection  of  crime  by  a  seemingly 
brainless  and  half  asleep  man  who  is  in  reality 
a  detective  of  unusual  cleverness,  with  a  deep 
knowledge. of  the  strength  and  weakness  of  the 
master  criminal.  The  stories  keep  one  puzzled 
because  no  matter  what  one's  solution  it  will 
not  be  Jim  Hanvey's  way.  Contents:  Fish  eyes; 
Homespun  silk;  Common  stock;  Helen  of  Troy, 
N.  Y. ;  Caveat  emptor;  The  knight's  gambit; 
Pink    bait. 


Booklist  20:138  Ja  '24 
"When  a  volume  is  contemplated,  it  would 
be  a  relief  to  the  reader  if  the  stories  could 
be  edited  in  some  slight  degree  to  avoid  using 
'vain  repetitions  as  the  heathen  do.'  Aside 
from  this  blemish  caused  by  the  double  pub- 
lishing system,  the  book  is  delightful  in  its 
portrayal  of  a  new  kind  of  Sherlock  Holmes." 
-{ Springf  d    Republican    p7   O   21   '23   ISOw 

COLE,  GEORGE  DOUGLAS  HOWARD.  Out  of 
work;  an  introduction  to  the  study  of  unem- 
ployment.   96p    $1    Knopf    [2s  6d  Labour  pub. 

CO.] 

331.8  Unemployment  23-11145 

This  little  book  discusses  the  economic  causes 
of  unemployment,  the  restriction  of  output,'  un- 
der-production, the  relation  of  unemployment  to 
the  trade  cycle,  and  the  various  means  of  preven- 
tion and  relief  in  practice.  The  author's  con- 
clusion is  that  no  full  solution  of  the  problem 
is  possible  so  long  as  capitalism  exists. 


"This  little  book  should  be  very  useful  for 
the  purpose  indicated  in  its  sub-title — as  an  in- 
troduction to  the  study  of  unemployment.  The 
more  tranquil-minded  student  will,  we  hope,  find 
it  not  only  useful  but  wholesomely  irritating." 
+  New  Statesman  21:280  Je  9  '23  400w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p389  Je  7 
'23    130w 

COLE.  WILLIS  VERNON.  Abelard  and  Heloise. 

Slip  $1  Universal  good  pub.   corp.,  730  5th  av., 

N.Y. 

812  23-9332 

The  old  love   story  of  Abelard  and  Heloise  is 
told  in  a  four-act  drama  in  blank  verse. 


"In  spirit  and  technique  there  is  a  decided 
echo  of  the  Elizabethans.  Mr.  Cole  moves  a 
trifle  unsteadily  among  the  Olympians,  and, 
now  and  then,  falls  from  the  lofty  classical 
idiom  into  language  that  savors  more  of  the 
racy  twentieth  century.  Nor  does  the  material 
at  hand  seem  worked  to  the  best  advantage  for 
creative  purposes;  stuff  well  suited  to  the  mak- 
ing of  effective  speeches  is  left  untouched." 
Edwin  Clark 

f-  N   Y  Times  pl4  Je  24  '23  580w 

"The  poetry  is  the  poetry  of  the  Elizabethan 
dramatic  pattern,  and  of  uneven  excellence. 
Some  of  the  passages  possess  a  degree  of  literary 
merit,  but  there  is  little  of  the  dramatic  quality 
in  the  writing.  The  best  poetry  in  the  play  is 
to  he  found  in  the  occasional  songs  and  in  some 
of  the  dialogues  between  Abelard  and  Heloise." 
h  Outlook  135:368  O  31  '23  lOOw 

COLEAN,     IVIILES     LANIER.        Quest.    284p    $2 
Dutton 

23-12003 

■■A  storv  of  Illinois  in  the  '70s  and  '80s.  David 
Bullard,  the  hero,  is  obses.sed  by  the  fear  that 
he  will   become  a   failure  like  his  father,  under 


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COLEAN,  MILES  LANIER — Continued 
whose  mismanagement  the  BuUard  farm,  hewed 
out  of  the  wilderness  by  David's  grandfather,  has 
been  sold  piece  by  piece  until  nothing  remains. 
At  the  age  of  30  David  finds  himself  in  danger 
of  settling  into  a  rut.  Then  he  meets  Edith 
Warren  and  his  vague  ambitions  take  definite 
form.  He  conceives  the  idea  of  a  farm  tractor 
better  than  the  one  his  company  is  manufactur- 
ing and  works  day  and  night  to  perfect  the 
design.  This  passion  for  accomplishment  domi- 
nates his  whole  life,  both  before  and  after  his 
marriage.  It  is  not  money  he  wants;  it  is  the 
doing  of  the  task  he  has  set  for  himself  and 
the  rehabilitation  of  the  Bullard  name.  Edith 
does  not  understand  him,  but  the  love  of  Edith 
for  David  and  of  David  for  Edith  survives  all 
their  misunderstandings  and  continues  to  the 
end.  And  when  disaster  overtakes  David,  Edith 
is  by  his  side  to  comfort  him  and  give  him 
courage  to  begin  anew." — N  Y   Times 


"It  is  simply  and  therefore  well  written.  There 
are  certain  passages  of  descriptive  beauty.  Mr. 
Colean  draws  his  characters  with  a  sure  hand, 
but  they  are  characters  of  which  there  are 
many  carbon   copies."    C.    B.    O. 

-f Boston  Transcript  p6   O   6  '23   450w 

"The  author  has  a  tale  to  tell,  and  goes  about 
It  in  his  own  way.  His  style  lacks  grace,  is 
even  a  little  cumbersome;  but  it  has  rarer 
qualities,  for  our  time— namely,  consistency 
and  dignity.  His  mood  is  melancholy:  but  he 
nmakes  no  fetish  of  unpleasantness.  His  larger 
theme  has  been  often  and  diversely  treated  by 
other  novelists.  It  is  nothing  less  than  the 
spirit  and  body  of  the  Middle  West  in  its 
secondary  phases  of  development.  But  this 
interpreter's  method  is  intensive  and  personal; 
he  identifies  the  broader  theme  with  the  life- 
experience  of  two  people,  and  we  are  hardly 
aware,  till  the  story  is  all  over,  that  there 
really  is  a  broader  theme."  H.  W.  Boynton 
+  Ind    111:116    S    15    "23    1050w 

"The    author,    we    understand,    is    young:    we 
welcome   his   voice   for  the   clear   and    rich   note 
which   it  adds   to   the   somewhat   shrill   and   un- 
certain chorus  of  his  generation." 
-f   Lit   R  pl93  O  27   '23  420p 

"It  is  an  earnest  piece  of  work  that  Mr. 
Colean  has  done  and  it  shows  an  understanding 
of  the  hearts  and  minds  of  men  and  women 
that  promises  well  for  future  work  from  the 
same   pen." 

-f-   N    Y    Times   pl4    S    9    '23    550w 

Reviewed   by  Donald   Douglas 

N    Y   Tribune   p24   N   25   '23   200w 

"A  grave  and  earnest  but  by  no  means  heavy 
study  of  the  man."     E.   W.   Osborn 
-^ NY   World    p6e    N   4    '23   160w 

"There  is  a  somberness  about  the  writing 
that  calls  to  mind  endless  stretches  of  drab, 
flat  country,  but  the  story  preserves  a  roman- 
tic vein,  lacking  the  pessimism  so  often  pres- 
ent   in    current    middle    western    writing." 

_| .  Springfd    Republican   p7a   O   7   '23   220w 

COLLINS,  ARCHIE  FREDERICK.  Boy  astrono- 
mer.   246p   il    $1.50     Lothrop 

523      Astronomy.      Constellations  23-9598 

Much  information  about  astronomy  and  es- 
pecially about  the  constellations  is  contained  in 
this  clear  and  readable  book  for  readers  of 
twelve  years  and  upward.  Beginning  with  an 
historical  sketch  of  astronomy  the  author  de- 
scribes how  to  make  and  use  star-finders,  the 
construction  and  working  of  telescopes,  and 
how  tc  know  the  stars,  the  planets  and  their 
moons.  The  myths  connected  with  the  con- 
stellations are  told,  and  the  whole  is  illustrated 
with  175  diagrams. 


he  gives  his   instructions  is  especially   fitted   for 

very    little    folk." 

h   Boston    Transcript   p6   S   29   '23   130w 

"The     youngster     with     a    slight     mechanical 

bent    should    be    pleased    with    a    copy    of    this 

book."  W.  C. 

-I-   N    Y   Tribune   p31   O   14   '23   130w 

COLLINS,  DALE.  Sea-tracks  of  the  Speejacks 
round  the  world;  with  an  introd.  by  Jeanne 
Bouchet   Gowen.    286p   il    $5    Doubleday 

910.4    Voyages    and    travels  23-12181 

"The  circumnavigation  of  the  globe  in  a  64- 
ton  gasoline  cruiser,  98  feet  over-all,  accom- 
plished by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  Y.  Gowen  of 
Chicago  and  their  guests  received  wide  notice 
through  the  newspapers.  It  was  the  achieve- 
ment itself  that  was  emphasized  in  the  hither- 
to published  reports,  and  now  the  adventure 
of  this  35,000-mile  trip  in  a  motor  boat  is  told 
in  a  manner  that  will  hold  all  lovers  of  travel 
tales."  (N  Y  Times)  "Her  route  out  from  New 
York  runs:  Jamaica,  Panama,  Paumotus, 
Tahiti,  Fiji,  Samoa,  Noumea,  Australia,  New 
Guinea,  the  Solomons,  New  Britain,  the  Ad- 
miralty and  Hermit  Islands,  the  Spice  Islands. 
Celebes,  Java,  Singapore,  Seychelles,  the  Suez 
Canal  and  through  the  Mediterranean  back  to 
New  York."   (The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup) 


"He  gives  innumerable  tables,  with  accurate 
data,  and  an  interesting  history  of  the  teles- 
cope. Occasionally,  however,  the  diagrams 
are  somewhat  misleading,  the  one  especially  of 
meteors  radiating  from  the  constellation  Leo 
being  utterly  absurd.  Mr.  Collins  has  written 
down   to    his   audience.    The   language   in   which 


Booklist  20:96  D  '23 
"Mr.  Collins  has  a  buoyant  style  that  is  too 
effervescent  at  times,  and  again  lingeringly 
sentimental  as  are  most  narrators  of  the  trop- 
ics. But  he  is  always  acutely  sensitive  to 
beauty."   E.   S.   G. 

-f   Boston   Transcript   p3   S  1   '23   720w 
"Mr.   Collins  has  a  first  rate  adventure  story 
to  tell  and  tells  it  well." 

+   Lit    R    p355   D    8   '23    400w 
"The    narrative    is    easy-going    and    generally 
frivolous,  but  many  of  the  hundred  photographs 
are    uniquely    interesting." 

-\ New    Statesman    22:90    O    27    '23    170w 

N    Y   Times  pl8   Ag   26   '23   780w 
Reviewed    by    Roy    Chanslor 

N  Y  Tribune  p7  S  23  '23  450w 
"It  was  a  real  adventure — the  first  motor- 
boat  voyage  round  the  world — and  a  real  lark; 
and  the  perils  and  discomforts  of  the  adven- 
ture— there  is  no  belittling  them — and  the  fun 
of  the  lark  were  all  taken  with  a  frolic  wel- 
come by  all  hands  except  the  cook.  All,  too, 
nre  admirably  told  by  the  writer,  Mr.  Dale 
Collins.  He  is  given  a  great  theme,  but  so 
great  that  it  might  easily  prove  unmanage- 
able." 

4-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p583    S 
6    '23    1050w 

COLLINS,        FRANCIS        ARNOLD.        Mountain 

climbing.     314  il  $2  Century 

796   Mountaineering  23-13812 

The  book  is  devoted  to  mountain  climbing 
in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Beginning  with  an 
account  of  the  first  mountain  climbers  the 
author  goes  on  to  describe  recent  developments 
in  snowcraft  and  mountaineering,  the  training 
necessary  for  a  mountaineer  and  the  dress  and 
equipment  required.  The  rest  of  the  book  is 
given  to  an  account  of  the  conquest  of  high 
mountains  and  difficult  a.scents  thruout  the 
world,  with  a  chapter  on  some  mountain  trag- 
edies. A  bibliography  is  included  and  a  list 
of  the  Associated  mountaineering  clubs  of 
North   America. 

Booklist  20:126  Ja  '24 
"\s   a   record   and   manual   of  purely  physical 
achievement    it    may    even    interest    tho.se    who 
think    the    climbing    of    intellectual    and    moral 
heights   more    important    than    scaling   mundane 
mountain    top.s — and    coming    down    again." 
Bookm    58:583   Ja   '24   120w 
"\dmirable    little    volume." 

4-  Lit   R  p376  D  15  '23  lOOw 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


105 


"Here  is  a  book  not  to  be  missed  by  him 
whose  motto  is  'Excelsior.'  And,  like  all  works 
on  high  adventure,  it  will  probably  be  rel- 
ished just  as  much  by  those  whose  terra  cog- 
nita  is  perfectly  flat  and  supposedly  safer." 
W.    C. 

+   N    Y   Tribune   p25   N   11   '23   130w 
R  of  Rs  68:559  N  '23  150w 
"The    photographs,    while    not    extraordinary, 
give    an    appreciable    idea    of    the    monumental 
size    of    some    of    the    larger    peaks,     and    are 
frequently  of  distinct   beauty." 

-|-  Springf'd    Republican    p6   D   24   '23    200w 

COLLINS,      FREDERICK      LEWIS.     This     king 

business.    220p    il    $2    Century 
923.1      Royal   houses.     Kings   and   rulers 

23-9611 

The  first  three  chapters  are  devoted  to  the 
Russian  exiles  of  royal  blood  scattered  over 
Europe,  especially  those  seeking  lucrative  em- 
ployment in  Paris  in  dressmaking  establish- 
ments, as  designers  and  as  dancers  in  the 
Folies  Berg&re.  The  rest  of  the  book  char- 
acterizes the  occupants  of  the  various  Euro- 
pean thrones,  their  families  and  their  prospects 
for  the  future.  The  author  holds  that  mon- 
archy is  not  yet  dead  or  even  dying,  and  that 
the  failure  of  the  post-war  governments  in  the 
three  great  empires  has  stayed  the  republican 
movement.  British  royalty,  too,  is  still  a  going 
concern   and   performs  a   necessary   function. 


Booklist   20:53   N   '23 
Boston   Transcript   p4   Je   16   '23   720w 
"Mr.   Collins's  book   is  journalese   unashamed; 
good   Sunday  supplement  stuff  of  the  type  that 
the    supplement    editors   would   call    breezy    and 
thoroughly   American."    Howard   Devree 
Lit    R    p832    Jl    14    '23    400w 
"Collins   rises   above   the  mediocre   in   his   ac- 
counts   of    the    Russian    refugees,    his    story    of 
Marie     of     Rumania     and     of     the    unfortunate 
Queen  Zita  of  Austria.    In  the  account  of  Queen 
Zita    there    is    that    insight    into    character   and 
appreciation    of   the    influence    of   character   and 
temperament    on    the    affairs    of    nations    which 
alone  gives  value  to  a  book  of  the  type  Collins 
has    attempted." 

+  N  Y  Times  p5  Je  17  '23  430w 
"A  breezy  survey  of  the  status  of  royalty  in 
Europe  since  the  end  of  the  World  War.  We 
fear,  however,  that  much  of  his  material  is 
second-hand  when  it  comes  to  real  royalties, 
though    his    text    has   a   first   person   vivacity." 

H NY  World  p9e  Je  3  '23  320w 

Springf'd    Republican   plO  S  26  '23  900w 

COLLINS,  JOSEPH.  The  doctor  looks  at  litera- 
ture; psychological  studies  of  life  and  letters. 
317p   il   $3   Doran 

804  Literature — History  and  criticism.  Psy- 
chological novels.  English  fiction  23-9645 
The  author,  a  practising  neurologist  and 
writer  on  nervous  diseases,  looks  at  literature 
to  discover  the  effects  upon  it  of  the  new  psy- 
chology and  the  attempt  of  the  realistic  novel- 
ist to  interpret  the  influence  of  the  subconscious 
mind.  In  particular  he  studies  this  tendency 
as  it  is  shown  in  the  writings  of  some  of  the 
younger  English  novelists:  James  Joyce,  D.  H. 
Lawrence,  Dorothy  Richardson,  Katherine 
Mansfield,  Rebecca  West,  Stella  Benson  and 
Virginia  Woolf.  There  are  chapters  also  on 
Dostoievsky,  Marcel  Proust,  W.  N.  T.  Barbel - 
lion,  Henri  Fr^d^ric  Amiel  and  Georges  Du- 
hamel.  In  the  concluding  chapter,  on  magazine 
insanity,  Dr  Collins  deals  with  some  written 
experiences  of  insanity  in  recent  periodical  lit- 
erature. 


"Had  the  doctor  been  content  to  examine  the 
patient,  from  his  private  conclusions  and  then 
quietly  depart,  there  would  have  been  no  great 
professional  animosity  toward  the  man.  But 
he  lacked  professional  manners.  He  might  have 
lessened  the  breach  had  he  revealed  his  find- 
ings before  some  clinic  in  this  or  that  dining 
room  or  club;  but  he  was  tactless  in  his  reve- 
lation."     Laurence    Stallings 

— >  Bookm    58:210   O   '23   900w 


"All  things  considered,  his  book  is  a  cheering 
contribution   to  criticism."   Ralph   Bergengren 
+   Boston    Transcript   p5   Je    23   '23   490w 
Cleveland  p79  S  '23 
"However    much    you    may    quarrel    with    the 
opinions    of    Dr.    Collins,    you    will    not    fail    to 
find   his    book    stimulating,    or   leave    it   without 
renewed    interest    in    the    most-talked-of    books 
of  the  day."     D.   K.    Laub 

H Detroit    News   pl2   JI   1    '23   950w 

Reviewed  by  M.   M.   Colum 

Freeman  7:549  Ag  15  "23  2600w 
"Dr.  Joseph  Collins  proves  that  a  distin- 
guished neurologist  and  psychiatrist  inay  apply 
the  wisdom  of  his  experience  to  a  criticism 
of  life  and  letters,  and  do  it  all  without  leaving 
an  odor  of  disinfectants  behind  him."  M.  L. 
Franklin 

+  ind  111:66  Ag  18  '23  lOOOw 
"This  is  a  refreshing  book.  At  a  time  when 
nearly  every  novelist  is  praising  nearly  every 
other  novelist,  and  the  Immortals  come  not  as 
spies,  but  in  battalions,  there  is  delight — per- 
haps Dr.  Collins  will  explain  the  motive  of  this 
cruel  'urge' — in  discovering  a  man  who  snipes 
with  deadly  precision  the  most  blatant  in  the 
ranks  of  the  Sophisticates."  M.  F.  Egan 
+  Int  Bk  R  pll  Jl  '23  2800w 
"All  in  all,  this  collection  of  essays  is  as 
irritating  as  a  hair  shirt;  but  it  is  more  ser- 
viceable. The  author's  reach  has  exceeded  his 
grasp.  Much  is  left  to  heaven  or  some  succes- 
sor. Yet  he  has  grasped  enough  to  give  weight 
and  value  to  his  work."  G:  B.  Dutton 

-^ Lit   R  p906  Ag  18  '23  850w 

"The  closer  one  gets  to  fundamentals  the 
more  confused  and  confusing  does  Dr.  Collins 
become.  He  starts  out  most  excellently."  Lud- 
wfg  Lewisohn 

h  Nation    116:724  Je   20   '23   900w 

"Equipped  with  no  critical  criteria  other  than 
some  knowledge  of  psycopathology  and  a  moral 
hyperesthesia,  the  doctor  bangs  upon  his  desk 
and  thunders  forth  his  judgments  with  many  a 
sonorous  period  and  jawbreaking  phrase.  But 
his  audience  soon  grows  weary,  and  while 
the  doctor  looks  myopically  and  somewhat  a- 
skance  at  literature,  looks  elsewhere  for  enter- 
tainment."     J.    E.    Li. 

—  New  Repub  36:162  O  3  '23  70w 
N  Y  Times  plO  My  27  '23  2100w 
"Though  he  has  many  of  the  desirable  quali- 
fications of  a  critic  of  literature.  Dr.  Collins  is 
not  scientific  at  all:  he  makes  too  many  flat 
assertions,  too  many  open  generalizations,  to  be 
credited  with  the  scientific  temper  which  is 
cautious,  skeptical,  averse  to  making  state- 
ments as  fact  which  are  dubious  or  which  can- 
not be   proved."    Burton   Rascoe 

h  N    Y   Tribune   pl7  Je   3   '23   llOOw 

"The  doctor  is  a  formidable  addition  to  the 
ranks  of  criticism.  He  is  at  home  equally  in 
the  library  and  in  the  laboratory."  Laurence 
Stallings 

-f  N  Y  World  pl8  Je  10  '23  1350w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p911    D 
27    '23    lOOw 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:441    O   '23 

COLTON,     JOHN,     and     RANDOLPH       CLEM- 

=     ENCE.     Rain:    a   play  in   three   acts.    236p  $2 
Boni   &   Liveright 

812  24-381 

The  play  is  adapted  from  a  story  in  a  collec- 
tion of  South  Sea  Island  tales  by  W.  Somerset 
Maugham,  entitled  "The  trembling  of  a  leaf." 
The  story  has  also  appeared  under  the  title, 
Mitj  Thompson. 


"Of  the  verv  successful  plays  in  the  American 
theater  of  the  last  decade — none  is  so  worthy 
of  the  dignity  of  print  as  'Rain.'  " 

+  Detroit  News  p23  D  9  '23  180w 

"Needs  the  embodiment  of  the  theatre^  for 
its  full  expression;  its  power  dwindles  in  pnnt." 

^'        _  Freeman  8:455  Ja  16  '24  120w 


106 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


COLUM,    PADRAIC.      Castle   Conquer.    376p   $2 
Macmillan 

23-9942 

"  'Castle  Conquer'  is  a  romance — a  romance 
of  Irish  life  at  a  time  when  the  political  aspira- 
tion of  the  people  was  still  romantic  and  the 
folli-life  was  poetic  and  humorous.  It  is  an 
idyll,  this  story  of  the  love  of  Francis  Gil- 
lick,  the  young  student  from  Spain,  and  the 
country  girl,  Brighid  Moynagh;  an  idyll  that 
has  for  its  bacltground  Castle  Conquer,  the 
decaying  memorial  of  conquest  and  domina- 
tion. There  is  in  the  book  not  merely  a  group 
of  characters,  but  a  whole  countryside;  farm- 
ers, land -owners,  magistrates,  priests,  tramps, 
political  idealists — all  are  in  this  crowded  story 
that  keeps  winding  around  a  part  of  Irish 
history  that  only  now  has  had  its  conclusion." 
— Publisher's   note 


Booklist  20:20  O  "23 
"You  may  not  like  the  ending  of  the  story, 
and  you  may.  Howbeit,  we  enjoyed  every 
word  of  it.s  telling,  and  though  we  have  never 
been  in  Ireland,  we  feel  now  as  though  we  had, 
and  there  comes  a  poignant  homesickness  for 
the  golden  bloom  of  the  whin  bushes,  beneath 
which  we  first  saw  Brighid  Moynag  'her  head 
an  oriflame.'  "   L:   H.  Guyol 

+   Boston    Transcript    p5   Jl    7    '23   1300w 

"He  has  written  an  Irish  novel  of  the  worth- 
while sort;  that  is,  with  the  impartiality  of 
the  true  artist  he  has  re-created  Ireland  for 
us  on  the  printed  page,  revealing  its  people 
and  their  life  in  an  authentic  and  highly  in- 
teresting   form."      C    P. 

+  Cath    World    118:280    N    '23    280w 
Cleveland   p66  S   '23 

"Mr.  Padraic  Colum  has  stamped  the  pages 
of  'Castle  Conquer'  with  unforgettable  traces  of 
his  own  chaste  and  simple  genius."  Llewelyn 
Powys 

+   Freeman   8:44   S  19  '23  1500w 

"  'Castle  Conquer'  is  an  interpretation  of  the 
Irish  dream  and  the  Irish  character.  Upon 
Irish  quaintness  it  lays  as  little  stress  as  pos- 
sible. Its  dialogue  is  free  from  the  grotesquerie 
which  some  Irish  story  tellers  have  helped 
fasten  on  our  conception  of  Irish  speech.  There 
is  no  bejabering  here  or  conventional  distortion 
of  syntax."     H.  W.  Boynton 

+   Lit    R   p827  Jl  14  '23  1200w 

"One  l.iys  down  a  book  of  this  caliber  with 
a  regret  for  all  the  cheap  sentimentalities  and 
trivial  humor  which  make  up  the  usual  popular 
novel  of  Irish  life,  against  which  one  wishes 
to  set  a  'Castle  Conquer.'  The  manner  of  the 
telling  is  a  delight  in  itself,  a  style  full  of  poetry 
and  teiMlerness  and  color,  touched  with  lavighter 
which  does  not  depend  upon  verbal  caricature." 
Ernest    Boyd 

+   Nation   117:299  S  19  '23  800w 

Reviewed   by  Raymond  Mortimer 

New    Statesman    22:82    O    27    '23    210w 

"It  is  a  pleasure  to  come  on  anything  so 
refreshing  in  its  simplicity.  But  it  is  a  not- 
able addition  to  the  gallery  of  Irish  word- 
paintings;  a  canvas  of  many  figures — a  locale — 
painted  against  the  background  of  the  old 
feudnl  castle  which  stands  for  a  dark  symbol 
of  the  agony  of  many  generations  and  points 
a  moial  in  the  brighter  dawn  of  a  more  cheer- 
ful day." 

-t-  N    Y  Times   pl6  Je  24  '23   1400w 

"A    very    old    story,    worn    smooth    and    color- 
less  with   repetition,   but   fine."   Isabel   Paterson 
4-  N    Y    Tribune    p20   Je    24    '23    660w 
Reviewed   by  E.   W.    Osborn 

N    Y   World   pl9e  Je  24   '23   390w 
"The  big  scene  is  in  its  externals  hackneyed. 
But    it    is    not    hackneyed    in    the    telling:    it    is 
.splendid.       The    narrative    rises    to    it    with    an 
effortless  beauty  and   force."     Gerald  Gould 

H Sat  R  136:499  N  3  '23  120w 

"Over  all  is  a  fine  quality  won,  it  would  seem, 
from  the  soft  Irish  air,  neither  rich  nor  austere, 
but  a  mingling  of  elements  to  procure  a  sim- 
plicity that  is  poetry,  a  grace  that  is  firm  and 
wise." 

-1-  Spec  131:906  D  8  '23  320w 


The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p706  O  25 
'23    500w 

Wis   Lib    Bui   19:443   O  '23 

COLVIN,  FRED  HERBERT,  and  STANLEY, 
FRANK  ARTHUR.  Machine  tools  and  their 
operation.  (Lib.  of  machine  shop  practice)  2v 
341;409p  il  ea  $4  McGraw 

621.9    Machine    tools  22-24805 

"A  practical  work  going  into  considerable 
detail  in  explanation  of  use  and  care  of  ma- 
chine-tools."— Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:290   Je    '23 

COLVIN,     IAN     DUNCAN.       Life    of    Jameson. 

2v  314;352p  $10  Doubleday  [32s  Arnold] 
B  or  92     Jameson,  Leander  Starr 

[22-22711] 

"This  is  the  story  of  the  celebrated  'Dr.  Jim' 
of  Johannesburg,  colleague  of  Cecil  Rhodes  and 
as  the  two  volumes  reveal,  the  active  force  in 
the  expansion  of  English  control  in  South 
Africa.  Leander  Starr  Jameson  was  Edinburgh 
born.  Graduating  at  the  University  College  in 
London,  he  served  for  a  time  in  its  hospital 
and  then,  lured  by  the  call  of  a  brother  who 
had  settled  in  South  Africa,  he  journeyed  to 
Kimberley,  the  diamond  city,  in  1878  and  there 
set  himself  up  as  a  practising  physician.  Here 
in  this  rough  community,  his  light  heart  and 
professional  skill  soon  made  him  popular  and 
a  person  of  influence.  Meanwhile  that  budding 
giant  Cecil  Rhodes  had  been  accomplishing  the 
amalgamation  of  the  diamond  claims,  at  first 
held  by  many  small  owners,  into  one  great 
monopoly  both  to  render  the  actual  operation 
of  the  mines  practical  and  to  establish  price 
control  for  the  industry.  His  success  at  this 
made  him  the  first  figure  in  South  Africa  and 
gave  him  the  means  to  carry  forward  his  great 
aim— the  expansion  of  British  rule  on  the  Dark 
Continent."— N   Y   World 


"Skilful  pleader  as  he  is,  Mr.  Colvin  in  these 
volumes  does  not  add  much  to  Jameson's  po- 
litical reputation.  But  he  does  succeed  in  mak- 
ing the  man  himself  a  human  and  fascinating 
figure."      J.    W.    G. 

4 New  Statesman  20:462  Ja  20  '23   800w 

"Ian  Colvin's  biography — one  of  breathless 
interest — does  not  give  us  much  hint  of  how 
far  the  materialistic  doctor  went  with  his 
visionary  comrade  either  in  his  dreams  of 
world  dominion  or  in  his  queer  religion  of 
Anglo-Saxonism."      C:    W.    Thompson 

N   Y  Times  plO  Je  3  '23  1400w 

"Mr.  Colvin  is  Jameson's  ideal  apologist.  It 
takes  a  Scot  to  understand  any  Scot,  but  it 
needed  a  rare  insight  to  draw  so  living  and 
fair  a  portrait  of  this  least  self-revealing  of 
men."      Winifred    Katzin 

-f   N   Y  Tribune  p21  Jl  29  '23  lOSOw 

"Mr.    Colvin   gives   us   a   fine   view  of   Rhodes. 

He    was   calm,    persistent,    patient    and,    despite 

his  dream  of  empire,  liked  the  Africander  Boers 

and  got  on  well  with  the  natives."     D.  C.   Seitz 

-f-  N    Y   World    p8e   Ap   8   '23   lOOOw 

"Mr.  Colvin  has  given  us  not  only  a  brilliant 
essay  in  biography  but  a  valuable  contribution 
to  the  hi.^^tory  of  the  Empire." 

+  Sat   R  134:679   N  4  '22  800w 

"Mr.  Colvin  is  no  hero-worshipper.  He  right- 
ly believes  that  the  best  service  he  can  do  to 
Jameson's  memory  is  to  tell  his  story  fully 
and  fairly,  without  glossing  over  his  few  mis- 
takes. The  dispassionate  reader  who  follows 
'Mr  Colvin's  narrative  to  the  end  will,  we 
think  agree  with  him  that  Jameson  was  a 
great  man,  who  did  good  service  to  his  adopted 
country.  ^^^^    i30:sup482    Mr    24    '23    1300w 

"Mr     Colvin's    main    achievement    is    that    he 

has    succeeded     in     reproducing    much    of    that 

singular  charm  which  clung  about  Jameson  like 

an  atmosphere."  -,    .  ,^    -  uti   n 

A-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p673    O 

26   '22   3100W 


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107 


COMFORT,  WILL  LEVINGTON.  Public  square. 
320p      $2      Appleton 

23-8243 

"A  powerful  story  of  the  struggle  of  a  young 
woman,  Pidge  Musser,  to  find  and  to  fulfil 
herself  in  the  world.  She  asks  and  will  receive 
no  favors  until  the  battle  has  been  fought 
and  won.  Her  first  attempt  at  novel-writing 
is  a  failure.  Through  the  people  with  whom 
she  is  associated  she  is  drawn  into  contact 
with  a  liberal  journal  of  opinion  .  .  .  and 
with  Richard  Cobden,  assistant  to  the  editor 
and  chief  financial  backer  of  the  publication. 
Cobden's  love  she  refuses  because  of  a  veil 
which  seems  to  hang  between  them  and  she 
finds  temporary  happiness  with  a  gallant  scape- 
grace, Rufus  Melton,  who  before  long  proves 
unfaithful.  Cobden  travels  widely  in  the  world, 
sees  somewhat  of  the  white  man's  burden  in 
Africa,  is  drawn  into  the  maelstrom  of  war- 
time Paris,  follows  Gandhi  in  India  and  is  an 
eye-witness  of  the  Amritsar  horror.  He  re- 
turns filled  with  what  he  has  seen  to  find 
America  uninterested.  Yet  he  also  returns  to 
find  his  happiness  at  last  with  Pidge." — Greens- 
boro (N.C.)    Daily  News 

"Mr.  Comfort's  novels  always  promise  still- 
ness and  'The  Public  Square'  fulfils  the  promise. 
It  is  the  stillness  born  of  a  novel  written  by 
a  man  who  has  forgotten  all  he  knew  about 
technique  but  who  has  not  forgotten  that  the 
normal  men  and  women  of  today  are  capable 
of  high  ideals,  deep  feelings  and  straight  liv- 
ing, many  modern  novelists  to  the  contrary 
notwithstanding."      L.    H.    Guyol 

4-  Boston   Transcript   p5   Je   9   '23   1200w 
Cleveland    p67    S    '23 
"The  book   is  rather  an  exotic  in  our  domes- 
tic  fiction   market   since   it  discusses   with   sim- 
plicity   and    sincerity    the    eternal    problem    of 
how    mankind    may   free    itself    from    the    thral- 
dom  of   its   own   desires.      'The   Public    Square.' 
In    fact,    not    only    tells    a    story,    but    in    it    the 
author   also    offers    an    answer   to   the    problems 
raised    by    a    civilization    which    still    trusts    to 
competition    and    violence."      Russell    Gore 
+   Detroit   News  pl2  Ag  26  '23  600w 
"As  a  fine  picture  of  two  young  people  who 
look   life   squarely  in  the   face  and   try  to  solve 
their  problems  in  clear-headed  fashion  in  these 
troublous  days   the  book  excels." 

4-  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  p8  Je  17 
'23  290w 
"However  the  reader  may  feel  about  the 
protest-and-propaganda  elements  in  this  book, 
he  will  not  fail  to  respond  to  the  sincerity 
and  high  intention  of  the  author."  H.  W. 
Boynton 

H Ind    110:428    Jl    7    '23    1200w 

Reviewed    by    R.    C.    Holliday 

Int    Bk    R    pGO    O    '23    150w 
N    Y   Times   p24    Ap  29    '23    700w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  11  '23  650w 
Wis   Lib    Bui    19:160   Je   *23 

COMISH,     NEWEL     ROWLAND.       Standard    of 

living.   340p  $2     Macmillan 

330      Consumption    (economics).      Cost    and 
standard    of    living  23-8468 

The  first  part  deals  with  standards  of  living 
and  the  factors  affecting  them,  and  under  this 
head  Mr  Comish  discusses  the  economic  laws, 
aims,  and  standards  of  consumption,  the  mini- 
mum quantity  budget  necessary  for  a  worker's 
family  of  five,  and  the  effects  of  advertising, 
habits  and  fashions,  consumptive  statutes  and 
other  factors  that  influence  consumption.  The 
second  part,  on  the  sources  of  consumptive 
goods  and  the  means  of  acquiring  them,  in- 
cludes chapters  on  buying  directly  from  farm- 
ers, buying  from  middlemen  and  buying  co- 
oi)eratively,  a  chapter  on  credit,  and  two  im- 
portant   chapters    on    savings    and    investments. 


"This  book  should  have  a  wide  reading,  not 
so  much  by  students  of  economics  as  by  that 
wide  group  of  persons  who  have  not  the  time  to 
address  themselves  to  a  comprehensive  study 
of  the  problems  of  economics  and  of  the  stand- 
ards of  living,  but  who  are  desirous  neverthe- 
less of  being  intelligent  about  the  elements  of 
these  problems  as  affecting  individual,  national 
and  world-wide  well-being."     B.   B.  Burritt 

-\-   Management  &  Adm  6:374  S  '23  800w 

"Mr.  Comi.-3h  writes  with  admirable  clarity 
and  practical  effect.  He  treats  his  theme  in 
simple,  every-day  fashion  with  very  little  ref- 
erence to  theoretical  economic  laws  and  with 
no  parade  of  technical  terms.  In  addition  to 
a  number  of  illustrations  that  elucidate  the 
text  the  work  is  richly  supplied  with  analytical 
tables,  procured  by  inquiry  as  to  living  condi- 
tions and  motives  for  buying  among  a  good 
many   people." 

-I-   N    Y   Times   p21   Je   17   '23   650w 

"An  unusual  book  in  its  field." 

+    R    of    Rs    68:336    S    '23    120w 

"This  is  rather  a  mixture,  but  an  interesting 
and    suggestive    one.      Woven    in    with    general 
definitions   in   the  usual   college  text  book  style 
we  find  the  results  of  original  work." 
4-  Survey   50:549   Ag  15   '23   250w 

COMSTOCK,        MRS        HARRIETT       THERESA 
(SMITH).     Tenth  woman.    341p  $1.75   Double- 

^"^  23-9077 

The  story  presents  a  picture  of  the  set  New 
England  small-town  life  as  it  has  crystallized 
out  of  its  puritanical  past.  It  shows  us  the 
autocratic  husband  and  the  dutifully  submissive 
wife.  Rose-Ann's  mother  had  been  such  an 
one  She  awoke  to  a  realization  of  her  sup- 
pressed life  when  it  was  too  late  to  profit  her- 
self by  her  knowledge  and  there  was  only  time 
enough  to  warn  her  daughter  of  the  dangers 
ahead  of  her.  The  warning  did  not  save  Rose- 
Ann  from  disillusionment  and  from  being  almost 
.'=^hip-w recked  against  the  rocks  of  her  hus- 
band's traditions,  but,  in  conjunction  with  her 
natural  temperament,  it  helped  her  to  become 
that  one  woman  out  of  ten  that  would  not  be 
dominated  and  submerged. 


Booklist   20:39   N   '23 
Cath  World  118:282  N  '23  150w 
Reviewed    by    M.    H.    Abel 

J   Home  Econ  15:452  Ag  '23  500w 


Cleveland   p50  Jl   "23 

"The  plot  is  unconvincing  and  the  characters 
are  never  fle.sh-and-blood  persons.  The  book 
is  written  in  a  vein  of  .sweetness,  and  with 
sugar  at  its  present  price  we  marvel  at  the 
author's    saccharin    extravagance." 

—  Int    Bk    R    p47    Ag    "23    210w 

"There  is  a  suspicion  of  Mrs.  Comstock's 
weakening  toward  Rose-Ann.  She  seems  to 
hesitate  about  letting  Rose-Ann  suffer  the 
full  consequences.  Rose-Ann  is  a  charming 
person.  Many  of  the  minor  characters  and 
their  conflicts  are  exceptionally  well  portrayed: 
they  contribute  to  the  tangibihty  of  Rose-Ann  s 
background."  ,      „„  ,„„  „„„ 

N   Y  Times  pl7  My  20  '23  700w 

Reviewed  bv  Harriet  Hershoff 

N    Y  Tribune  p22  Jl   22  '23   650w 

"A  book,  like  a  human  being,  needs  person- 
ality to  distinguish  it  from  the  blur  of  the 
general  Personality  springs  from  the  soul 
within.  We  tried  to  find  the  soul  of  'The  Tenth 
Woman'  and  we  found  only  the  scant  skeleton 
created  by  the  facile  pen  of  Harriet  T.  Com- 
stock."     Ruth    Snyder 

^  N  Y  World  p7e  My  27  '23  720w 

CONANT,  LAWRENCE  WICKES.  Tackling 
tech;  suggestions  for  the  undergraduate  in 
technicar  school  or  college.  197p  11  $1.50 
Ronald 

607  Technical  education  22-20369 

"The  serious  technical  student  will  find  this 
hook  very  helpful  in  getting  the  most  out  of 
his  college  course.  It  begins  with  the  prepara- 
tion for  college,  but  deals  particularly  with 
systematizing  the  work  of  the  college  years. 
Not  confined  to  study  and  class  room  woriv, 
but    considers    student    activities,    physical    ex- 


108 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


CONANT,    LAWRENCE    WICKES — Continued 
ercise,  vacation  work,  and  financing  of  the  col- 
lege  course." — Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:288   Je  '23 

CONANT,    LUTHER.       Critical    analysis    of    in- 
dustrial pension  systems.  262p  $1.75  Macmillan 
331.25      Pensions,    Industrial  22-20369 

The  material  upon  which  this  book  is  based 
was  gathered  in  the  course  of  an  investigation 
of  the  pension  problem  made  for  an  industrial 
concern.  Beginning  with  a  statement  of  the 
purposes  of  pension  systems  the  author  analyzes 
the  various  types  and  their  costs.  In  an  ap- 
pendix tables  are  provided  giving  a  brief  analy- 
sis of  important  features  of  pension  plans  of 
industrial  establishments  assembled  in  the 
course   of   the   study. 


"Mr.  Conant's  book  is  lucid,  comprehensive, 
and  analytical;  at  the  same  time  brief,  read- 
able, and  not  encumbered  with  the  usual  weight- 
ings of  statistical  tables  which  generally  serve 
to  make  books  of  this  character  heavy  rather 
than  illuminating.  Altogether  it  is  the  best 
handbook  on  American  industrial  pension  sys- 
tems yet  published."  H:  Bruere 

+  Administration  5:741  Je  '23  820w 
Booklist   19:238   My   '23 
Cleveland  p44  Je  '23 
"Thorough  and  exhaustive  study  of  industrial 
pension  systems." 

-f  N  Y  Times  p6  F  18  '23  50w 
"The  book  goes  far  towards  providing  for 
interested  employers  a  source  of  practical  in- 
formation in  rea.dily  accessible  form.  Arguments 
on  both  sides  of  debatable  issues  are  fairly 
presented;  dangerous  practices  and  false  hopes 
are  foreseen  and  explained.  From  a  scientific 
standpoint  one  might  wish  that  conflicting  ar- 
guments had  been  more  completely  analyzed 
in  respect  to  their  relative  weight  and  import- 
ance and  that  greater  space  had  been  devoted 
to  the  more  fundamental  issues  involved.  On 
the  whole,  however,  the  book  will  fulfill  its 
ostensible    purpose."      J:    B.    Andrews 

-\ Pol  Sci  Q  38:503  S  '23  520w 

R  of  Rs  67:448  Ap  '23  90w 
Spec  130:674  Ap  21  '23  80w 
"It    is    a    thoughtful    study,    and    the    conclu- 
sions drawn  are  stated  courageously." 

-f  Survey  50:supl96  My  1   '23   lOOw 

CONNELL,    NORREYS,    pseud.      See   O'Riordan, 
C.    O'C. 

CONNETT,        EUGENE        VIRGINIUS.        Wing 
shooting    and    angling.     226p    il    12.50    Scribner 
799      Fishing.      Shooting.      Game   birds 

23-138 
The  author,  a  sportsman  of  long  experience, 
divides  his  book  almost  equally  between  shoot- 
ing and  fishing.  In  the  first  part  he  describes 
the  choice  and  handling  of  guns,  bird  dogs 
and  their  training  and  the  favorite  game  birds. 
In  the  angling  chapters  he  discusses  the  trout 
fishing  outfit,  fly  casting,  the  use  of  wet  and 
dry   flies,    and   also   bass   fishing. 


"A    practical    book    for    the    boy    from    twelve 

up   who    is    interested    in    hunting   and    fishing." 

Booklist    19:150    F    '23 

Boston    Transcript    p6    D    13    '22    250w 

"The  volume  is  rich   in   practical  suggestions. 

While  it  is  not  a  hand  book  of  either  hunting  or 

fishing  it  is  a  fine  supplement  to  one  and  It  will 

prove  a  most  welcome  addition  to  the  library  of 

the  devotee  of  either  sport.     No  better  book  can 

be  placed  in   the  hands  of  the  boy  who  is  just 

beginning   to  catch    the   fascination   of   shooting 

or  fishing.     It  is  as   sound  in  field  morals  as  It 

is  In  common  sense." 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   plO    F 
25   '23  180w 
Reviewed  by  A.   D.   Douglas 

Int   Bk   R  p42  My  '23  250w 


CONNOR,  RALPH,  pseud.  (CHARLES  WIL- 
LIAM GORDON).  Gaspards  of  Pine  Croft; 
a  romance  of  the  Windermere.   318p  $2  Doran 

23-16463 
A  romance  of  the  Windermere  valley  of  Brit- 
ish Columbia.  It  tells  the  story  of  the  life 
and  moulding  of  Paul  Gaspard,  a  man  in  whom 
two  strains  of  inheritance  fight  for  mastery. 
From  his  father  comes  his  artistic  tempera- 
ment, from  his  Calvinistic  mother  his  strong 
sense  of  duty  and  realization  of  God's  presence 
in  his  life.  At  fourteen  he  is  left  an  orphan 
and  is  obliged  to  take  upon  himself  as  the  ex- 
pense of  his  father's  folly  a  staggering  burden 
of  debt  and  responsibility.  It  is  a  stern  test 
of  character  but   faith   and  loyalty  win. 


Boston  Transcript  p8  N  21  '23  llOOw 
"To  my  ear  Connor's  sentiment  always  rings 
false.  To  very  many  ears  it  evidently  rings 
true.  So  that  where  I  find,  in  this  book, 
strained  situations,  hectic  incident,  and  totally 
unnatural  speech,  the  more  sympathetic  (or  less 
exacting)  ear  of  other  listeneis  may  find  sweet 
and   intelligible   music."     H.   W.    Boynton 

h   Ind  112:24  Ja  5  '24  llOw 

"Mr.  Connor's  many  readers  will  not  be  dis- 
appointed. They  will  find  the  hero,  the  story, 
and  the  tears  which  they  expect."  C.  L..  Skinner 

h   Lit  R  p419  Ja  5  '24  500w 

N  Y  Times  p8  N  4  '23  450w 
"A  more  than  typical  Ralph  Connor  novel, 
compounded  of  eight-tenths  melodrama,  one- 
tenth  railway  folder  scenery,  a  touch  of  young 
love  and  'about  as  much  religion  as  my  Wil- 
liam likes.'  The  whole  will  not  disappoint  the 
high  expectations  of  Mr.  Connor's  numerous 
and  grateful  readers."  Isabel  Paterson 
—  NY  Tribune  p21  N  11  "23  1250w 

Springf  d   Republican  p7a  Ja  13  '24  240w 
The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p838  N  29 
'23   160W 

CONQUEST,     JOAN.       Zarah,     the     cruel.     320p 

?1.90  Macaulay   [7s  6d  Cassell] 

23-11825 

"The  usual  sultry  beauty  of  the  Arab  com- 
bined with  a  charm  inherited  fromi  a  white 
mother,  brings  to  Zarah's  feet  suitors  from  all 
tribes.  She  will  have  none  of  them,  however, 
and  sets  her  heart  on  winning  an  Englishman 
whose  glances  of  love  are  only  for  a  girl  of  his 
own  people.  Infuriated  with  disappointment, 
Zarah  lures  to  her  tribal  home  the  unsuspect- 
ing English  girl  and  her  lover,  there  to  infiict 
terrible  cruelties  in  an  unsuccessful  effort  to 
win  the  man's  promise  of  marriage." — 
Springf'd    Republican 


"Miss  Conquest's  book  is  a  fantastic  farrago 
of  absurdities,  but  is  rather  more  like  the 
primitive  imaginings  of  a  bloodthirsty  child 
than  the  more  poisonous  fancies  of  the  usual 
'desert  stuff."  Indeed,  it  is  not  without  a  cer- 
tain   crude    picturesqueness." 

[-Lit    R    pl68    O    20    '23    180w 

"Those  who  like  desert  stuff,  with  its  burn- 
ing love,  its  scorching  hate  and  its  cruel  re- 
venge, will  find  the  story  suited  to  their  taste. 
Others  will  scarcely  read  beyond  the  first 
chapter." 

fl   N    Y    Times   p21    S   9    '23    400w 

Springf'd   Republican  p5a  S  23  '23  llOw 

CONRAD,    JESSIE     (MRS    JOSEPH    CONRAD). 

Handbook  of  cookery  for  a  small  house:  with 

a    preface    by    Joseph    Conrad.      142p    $1.75 

Doubleday 
641   Cookery  23-7769 

"The  book,  according  to  the  author,  is  'the 
A  B  C  of  cookery.'  It  is  an  excellent  little 
handbook.  Its  191  recipes  are  reinforced  by 
various  general  directions  which  will  prove  use- 
ful to  housekeepers,  particularly  inexperienced 
ones.  The  recipes  are  adapted,  as  the  title  in- 
dicates, for  small  families,  and  they  are  mainly 
for    very    simple    and    substantial    dishes.      In 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


109 


respect    to    these    two   things   it   is   particularly 
practicable."— Greensboro     (N.C.)     Daily     News 


Greensboro   (N.C.)    Daily  News  plO  Ap 
8    '23    350w 
Reviewed  by  E.  L.  Pearson 

Ind    110:231   Mr  31   '23  500w 
"This   little   volume   will  be  a  useful   supple- 
ment   to   the   housewife    who    tries    to    devise    a 
varied  daily  menu  with  the  object,  not  merely 
of  satisfying  the  hunger,  but  also  of  intei'esting 

+  New  Statesman  21:152  My  12  '23  130w 
"Mrs.    Conrad's    recipes   are   good.      They   are 
designed    for    families    of    four    and    one    con- 
tribution   to    knowledge    which    she    gives    has 
great  value — the    art  of    conducting    a    kitchen 
without    flooding    the    house    with    smells.    She 
even   curbs  bacon   and  the  succulent  onion." 
-f-  N   Y  World  p9e  Mr  18  '23  330w 
Sat   R   135:701   My  26  '23   450w 
Spec    130:1049    Je    23    '23    40w 
"The    author    gets    at    things    in    a   common- 
sense  way,   with  her  general   remarks,   and  the 
recipes     look     to     be     elementary     enough     for 
a    mere    man    to    understand    and    interesting 
enough    for   his    wife    to   express    her    academic 
approval    before    actually   putting   them    to   the 
test.      Once    more    the    world    is    debtor    to    the 
Conrad    family." 

+  Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  300w 
"Mrs.  Conrad's  book  has  a  peculiar  fresh- 
ness about  it,  being  in  fact  more  of  the  nature 
of  a  traveller's  tale  than  of  a  treatise  by  an  ex- 
pert. She  has  made  an  excursion  into  the 
kitchen  realm,  has  dwelt  there  for  some  years, 
and  returned  with  the  ivory  and  peacocks  of 
her  own  discoveries  and  devisings.  Her  ex- 
perience,   therefore,    is   limited." 

+  The   Times    [Londonl    Lit    Sjp   p272   Ap 
lu    '23    500w 

CONRAD,  JOSEPH.  The  rover.  286p  $2  Double- 
day 

24-632 
"The  scenes  are  laid  in  the  Mediterranean 
during  the  period  of  the  Napoleonic  wars.  Pey- 
rol,  the  rover,  has  left  the  lawless  sea  to  end 
his  days  in  peace  in  the  quiet  village  of  his 
birth.  But  even  that  obscure  section  of  the 
French  coast  has  felt  the  pressure  of  Napo- 
leon's naval  wars  with  England.  Swiftly  but 
reluctantly,  Peyrol  is  involved  in  a  romance 
and  a  secret  operation  which  rises  to  the 
great  adventure  of  his  life,  eclipsing  in  dramat- 
ic force  all  the  anxious  contents  of  his  roving 
career." — Publisher's    note 


"In  'The  Rover'  we  have  exactly  what  any- 
one who  knows  Conrad  of  old  would  expect 
from  him.  It  is  a  good  story  very  badly  told, 
and  that  seems  to  us  to  be  worse  than  a  bad 
story    well    told."      E.    F.    Edgett 

h    Boston    Transcript    p4    D    8    '23    ISOOw 

"The  unusual  feature  of  the  book  is  the  re- 
sult of  well-nigh  faultless  craftsmanship.  Mr. 
Conrad  does  not  lay  bare  the  souls  of  his  people; 
he  lets  them  do  that  for  themselves,  but  only 
so  far  as  people  are  likely  to  do  so  in  real  life." 
-|-  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  plO  D 
30  '23  820w 

"There  is  less  of  description  in  'The  Rover' — 
at  least,  there  is  less  of  massed  description — 
than  the  Conrad  reader  is  accustomed  to;  and 
he  is  likely  to  feel  this  as  a  lack.  But  there  are 
innumerable  descriptive  lines  such  as  only  Con- 
rad can  write:  and  he  sees  the  Mediterranean 
as  only  one  who  is  both  master-seaman  and 
master-craftsman  could  see  it."  P.  A.  Hutchi- 
son 

H Int   Bk   R  p31   D   '23   1900w 

Lit   R  p387  D  22  '23  1150w 

New   Repub  37:124  D  26  '23  ISOOw 

"The  values  are  too  like  Kipling's  for  most 
of  Mr.  Conrad's  juniors  to  find  them  sympa- 
thetic, though  the  greater  part  given  to  Fate 
renders  them  more  acceptable.  Any  opinion  on 
The  Rover,  I  conclude,  will  be,  even  more  than 
is    usually   the   case,   a   matter   of   taste;    but   all 


except  Mr.  Conrad's  fondest  devotees  may  be 
recommended  to  put  it  on  one  side,  and  to  re- 
read Youth  and  Within  the  Tides."  Raymond 
Mortimer 

h   New    Statesman    22:306    D   15    '23    1300w 

"He  has  stripped  his  style  of  many  a  cus- 
tomary ornament.  His  old  profusion  and  riot 
of  imagery  and  color  is  severely  restrained.  .  . 
The  point  is  that  some  taking  pains  to  please 
a  popular  audience  (now  that  he  has  become 
popular  in  spite  of  himself)  has  not  been  able 
to  put  out  the  shining  light  of  Mr.  Conrad's 
genius.  Only  the  glass — a  more  or  less  com- 
mercial product,  perhaps— behind  which  it 
burns  in  'The  Rover'  does  a  little  dim  the 
blaze  of  it.  Or  so  it  seems."  H.  I.  Brock 
-I NY  Times  p6  D  2   '23   lOOOw 

"No  one  has  ever  discriminated  more  accur- 
ately and  convincingly  between  elementary 
appetites  and  sublimated  emotions.  The  love 
scenes  in  'The  Rover'  are  at  once  delicate  and 
powerful;  they  are  poetic,  according  to  the 
classic  definition  of  poetry  as  being  'simple, 
sensuous  and  passionate,'  He  knows  and  can 
convey  the  fateful  significance  of  the  certain 
phrase  uttered  in  a  certain  manner,  which 
pierces  to  the  quick."  Isabel  Paterson 
4-   N  Y  Tribune  pl7  D  2  '23  2350w 

"A  great  story,  gaining  power  as  it  goes  on." 
R.  D.  Townsend 

+  Outlook   136:69  Ja  9   '24  720w 

"In  Mr.  Conrad's  best  vein  of  implied  and 
restrained  irony:    it  is  superb." 

4-  Sat    R   136:626   D   8   '23   700w 

"The  Rover  is  a  very  typical  Conrad  novel, 
and,  though  it  is  not  Mr.  Conrad's  finest  book, 
it  holds  a  respectable  place  among  his  other 
works.  It  displays  markedly  those  characteris- 
tics which  emerge  from  the  body  of  his  writ- 
ings as  belonging  so  uniquely  to  Mr.  Conrad 
that  any  passage  in  which  they  occur  is  patently 
and  unmistakably  his.  Here,  again,  we  find 
his  old  detachment,  a  detachment  which  does 
not  exclude  admiration,  scorn,  and  (most  of 
all)  pity,  but  which  loves  to  exhibit  his  charac- 
ters to  you  as  though  you  and  he  were  watch- 
ing them  from  some  celestial  balcony."  Martin 
Armstrong 

+  Spec   131:960  D   15    '23   1500w 

"Mr.  Conrad,  certainly,  has  written  greater 
things  than  this,  but  among  his  recent  books 
It  stands  out  for  the  speed  of  movement,  and 
not  less  for  the  impress  of  its  truth  to  human 
nature." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p849   D 
6  '23  980w 

COOK,   ALLAN    BEBRENDS.  Financing  exports 

and    imports.    218p   $2.50    Ronald 

382     Foreign  trade  23-4035 

"Many  works  on  foreign  trade  financing  or 
on  foreign  exchange  tend  to  treat  these  sub- 
jects either  as  wholly  a  mercantile  problem  or 
wholly  a  banking  problem.  This  volume  con- 
siders both  the  mercantile  and  the  banking 
phases  of  foreign  trade  and  seeks  to  be  of 
service  to  banker  and  merchant  alike." — Pref- 
ace 


"Mr.  Cook's  treatment  of  the  subject  seems 
to  be  more  evenly  balanced  than  most  of  the 
others.  He  covers  the  different  phases  of  our 
foreign  financial  relations  comprehensively  but 
compactly.  The  orderly  arrangement  of  the 
topics  and  the  clear  simplified  method  of  pre- 
senting them  makes  the  work  available  as  a 
textbook  for  students  as  well  as  for  the  gen- 
eral information  of  bankers  and  merchants." 
M.   E.    P. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p5  Je  30  '23  650w 

"The  qualities  of  a  practical  business  man 
and  those  of  a  successful  university  professor 
have  enabled  Mr.  Cook  to  prepare  a  volume 
which  is  both  simple  and  clear  and  which  con- 
tains an  analytical  and  suggestive  treatment  of 
a  subject  which  is  almost  always  handled  in  a 
confused  and  technical   manner."     I.   B.   Cross 

-f   Management  &   Adm   6:244  Ag  '23   600w 
Springf'd    Republican   p8   Jl   5   '23   60w 


110 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


COOK,  JAMES  H.     Fifty  years  on  the  old  fron- 
tier. 291p  il  $4     Yale  univ.  press 

B  or   92     Frontier  and  pioneer  life.   West^ 
History  23-15924 

Captain  Jim  Cooli,  veteran  scout  and  plains- 
man, is  one  of  the  few  left  to  tell  the  story  of 
the  famous  company  of  scouts,  including 
Kit  Carson  and  Buffalo  Bill,  who  cleared 
the  way  for  the  western  pioneers  and 
guarded  their  lives  and  property.  In  his  re- 
miniscences he  tells  his  experiences  on 
the  Texas  cattle  ranges  during  the  70's, 
hunting  big  game  in  "Wyoming  Territory, 
helping  in  the  suppression  of  the  Apacne  upris- 
ing under  Geronimo  in  1885  and  of  his  friend- 
ship with  Red  Cloud.  Tne  last  chapter  gives  an 
account  of  the  Agate  Springs  fossil  quarries 
which  were  louno  on  Capt  Cook's  ranch  in 
Nebraska  and  which  have  afforded  such  ricn 
yields  to  paleontologists. 

"Altogether  Captain  Jim's  story  is  of  the 
deepest,  most  abiding  interest  and  well  worthy 
of  preservation  in  the  dignified  form  which  it 
has  here  assumed."     E.  J.   C. 

-f-  Boston  Transcript  p2  O  27  '23  650w 
"Written  in  a  simple  and  unpretentious  style, 
richly  human  in  its  interest  and  always  kindly, 
just  and  gentle  in  its  judgments,  "Fifty  Years 
on  the  Old  Frontier'  covers  a  wonderful  space 
of  development  in  both  the  region  involved  and 
the  man  who  writes  about  it.  The  book  will 
well  repay  the  reading  of  any  one  who  cares 
about  the  events  of  that  time  and  region,  either 
as  humanly  interesting  affairs  or  as  a  part  of 
the  nation's  history." 

-h   N   Y  Times  p22  O  21  '23  llOOw 

COOLIDGE,    DANE.       Lost    wagons.       256p       $2 

Dutton 

23-2803 

"Death  Valley  Slim,  the  central  figure,  spends 
all  his  time  trying  to  avenge  himself  on  a 
stock  promoter  who  tricks  him  on  a  mine  deal. 
First,  he  tells  a  ponderous,  unconvincing  lie, 
which  the  promoter  accepts  as  true,  and  then 
the  promoter  tells  a  ponderous,  unconvincing 
lie  which  Slim  in  his  turn  accepts.  They  keep 
this  up  until  the  last  chapter,  when  Slim  by 
some  miracle  emerges  as  victor,  and  his  op- 
ponent   slinks   away    in   silence." — N   Y    Times 


"There  is  comparatively  little  action  In  this 
novel  of  the  deserts  of  California;  but  the  au- 
thor's style  is  good,  his  characters  are  well 
drawn,  aiTd  his  narrative  abounds  in  amusing 
passages." 

+  Lit   R     p544  Mr  24  '23  120w 
_    "There   is  an   unconquerable   duhness   pervad- 
ing the  book  which  keeps  our  blood  from  boiling 
and    fails    to    enlist   our    sympathies." 

—  NY    Times    pl6    F    4    '23    280w 

"The  narrative  style  is  as  harsh  and  meagre 
as  the  pounding  vocabularies  of  the  miners. 
'Lost  Wagons'  is  another  instructive  legend  of 
the  golden-tinted  West."    A.   D.    Douglas 

—  NY  Tribune  p22  F  4  '23  500w 
Outlook   133:454   Mr   7   '23   40w 

COOPER,      CLAYTON       SEDGWICK.       Under- 
standing   Italy.      306p      il      $3      Century 
914.5     Italy— Industries.      Italv— Politics    and 
government  23-82'77 

The  book  deals  with  the  Italy  of  the  last  half- 
century,  particularly  from  the  viewpoint  of  her 
remarkable  industrial  development,  and  with  the 
wave  of  nationalism  which  has  been  fiowing  so 
stronglv  in  Italy  since  the  Armistice  and  which 
has  become  organized  in  the  Fascisti  movement. 

Booklist    19:314   Jl    '23 
Boston  Transcript  p3  My  26  '23  1050w 
Cleveland    p48   Je    '23 
"The    style    is   lively   and   agreeable." 
-f  Outlook   134:48   My   23   '23    50w 
R    of    Rs    67:671    Je   '23    60w 
Sat   R   136:621  D  8  '23  240w 
"The  reader  will  probably  find  'Understanding 
Italy"     the    most    inclusive,    well-informed    and 
up-to-the-hour  account  of  the  ItaJv  of  to-day." 
-I Springf'd   Republican  p6  Jl  23  "23  750w 


Survey  50:643  S  15  '23  120w 
The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p882  D  13 
•23  40w 

COOPER,  COURTNEY  RYLEY.     Under  the  big 
'    top.   238p  il  $2.50     Little 

791  Circus.  Animals,  Training  of  23-13811 
The  writer,  who  has  spent  the  greater  part 
of  his  life  with  tent  shows,  tells  about  the  in- 
side life  of  the  circus,  the  many  things  that  go 
on  under  the  big  top  and  behind  the  scenes. 
He  follows  the  circus  from  the  first  moment  of 
preparing  to  come  to  town,  the  work  of  the 
men  who  travel  ahead  of  the  show,  the  activ- 
ities of  the  press  agent,  and  the  parade.  But 
most  of  the  book  is  given  to  the  menagerie,  the 
ways  of  the  animals,  their  training,  the  times 
when  they  escape  or  go  on  the  rampage.  There 
Is  a  chapter  also  on  that  best  friend  of  the 
circus,  the  boy,  and  one  on  the  circus  baby. 


"The    spirit    of   the    circus,    the    courage   and 

teamwork  of  those  who  belong  in  it  are  made  so 

vivid  that  one  forgives  the  lack  of  coordination 

in  the  incidents  and  the  quality  of  the  writing." 

H Bookm  58:584  Ja  '24  80w 

"Mr.  Cooper  writes  as  if  he  were  still  press 
agent,  glorifying  the  tented  world  just  as  its 
managers  would  have  done,  but  not  always 
with  entire  regard  for  actualities.  A  circus  is 
always  expected  to  exaggerate;  perhaps  the 
literature  of  the  circus  may  be  pardoned  If  it, 
too,  is  written  with  superlatives.  At  any  rate, 
Mr.  Cooper's  book  ought  to  interest  the  wide 
range  of  readers  of  all  ages  who  patronize  the 
big  shows." 

-| Boston  Transcript  p2  O  27   '23  200w 

COOPER,  LANE.  Two  views  of  education,  with 
other  papers  chiefly  on  the  study  of  litera- 
ture. 321p  $2.50  Yale  univ.  press  [12s  6d 
Milford] 

370.4     Education  22-18445 

"Under  the  title  'Two  Views  of  Education,' 
Mr.  Cooper  has  republished  in  book-form  a  num- 
ber of  papers  and  pamphlets.  The  title  is  taken 
from  the  fourteenth  article,  which  treats  of 
Calvin  and  Rousseau.  The  papers  as  a  whole 
support  the  view  of  education,  namely:  that  a 
general  education  consists  in  the  assimilation 
of  the  ideas  of  antiquity  and  the  Middle  Ages; 
of  antiquity  and  the  Middle  Ages,  because  the 
Renaissance  and  modern  times  have  only  dif- 
fused ideas,  not  added  to  the  general  stock  of 
them." — Freeman 


"In  the  papers  which  make  up  this  volume 
one  finds  one's  faith  in  the  foundation  of  life 
strengthened.  One  of  the  best  of  these  papers 
is  that  on  improving  university  scholarship. 
There  is  nothing  better  in  the  book.  It  is  full 
of  wisdom,  and  worthy  of  all  acceptation  by 
those  who  are  trying  to  guide  our  universities 
and  colleges."     F.  W.  C. 

-I-   Boston   Transcript   p8   S   9   '22  800w 

"Admirable  in  substance,  but  annoying  in 
manner.  If  the  book  is  not  notable  for  the 
novelty  of  its  ideas,  it  is  worth  reading  for  the 
energy  with  which  they  are  expressed."  C.  V. 
Boyer 

H  Freeman  6:476  Ja  24  '23   1250w 

"There  is  in  this  book  so  much  that  is  ex- 
cellent that  one  hopes  Mr.  Cooper  will  some- 
time give  us  a  thoroughly  humanistic  volume, 
such  as  appears  once  in  a  while  in  Britain, 
wholly  dissociated  from  academic  restrictions. 
If  he  does,  he  will  not  fail  of  readers."  J:  E. 
Jacoby 

+  New  Repub  32:sup24  O  25  '22  1050w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p749    N 
16  '22  120w 

COPPARD,  A.  E.  Black  Dog.  294p  $2.50,  Knopf 
Eighteen  short  stories  the  background  of 
which  is  for  the  most  part  the  English  country- 
side. Whatever  the  note  struck — romance,  fan- 
tasy, irony,  the  theme  is  original  and  the  treat- 
ment imaginative.  The  title-story  tells  how  the 
Honorable    Gerald    Loughlin    fell    in    love    with 


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111 


Orianda  Crabbe,  daughter  of  a  rustic  innkeeper. 
He  went  to  visit  her  at  the  "Black  Dog"  and 
each  day  she  grew  more  alluring,  but  she  also 
revealed  a  looseness  of  chai-acter  from  which 
his  inborn  integrity  recoiled.  One  morning  he 
packed  his  bag  and  departed  for  London  and 
tho  he  thought  lie  would  one  day  see  her  again 
or  write  her  he  never  did  so.  Contents:  The 
Black  Dog;  Alas,  poor  Bollington!  The  ballet 
girl;  Simple  Simon;  The  tiger;  Mordecai  and 
Cocking;  The  man  from  Kilsheelan;  Tribute; 
The  handsome  lady;  The  fancy  dress  ball;  The 
cat,  the  dog,  and  the  bad  old  dame;  The  wife  of 
Ted  Wickham;  Tanil;  Tlie  devil  in  the  church- 
yard; Huxley  Rustein;  Big  game;  The  poor  man; 
Luxury. 

Reviewed    bv    Raymond    Mortimer 

New  Statesman   21:394  Jl  7   '23  lOw 

"Though  the  tales  iiave  a  simple  frankness 
unknown  to  early  romanticism,  they  are  filled 
with  the  old  romantic  homesickness — a  groping 
for  reality  beneatli  the  symbols,  and  poor  mor- 
tals who  are  always  confusing  the  two. 
Strangeness  is  here,  added  to  beauty,  an  exotic 
touch  in  the  lives  of  homely  people.  .  .  In  style 
'The  Black  Dog'  is  like  its  predecessor,  but  is 
a  firmer  piece  of  work.  It  touches  earth  more 
closely,  and  trifles  less  with  unearthly  things; 
it  has  a  wider  reach  than  the  earlier  volume 
and  more  courageous  insight  into  human  af- 
fairs." 

-f   N  Y  Times  p8  O  21  '23  450w 

"The  essential  reason  why  one  feels  that  Mr. 
Coppard  is  arriving,  that  he  matters,  is  that 
he  is  so  richly,  tragically,  humorously  himself. 
There  is  no  room  for  the  suspicion  that  he 
writes  from  anything  but  an  overpowering  im- 
pulse, not  merely  to  write  but  to  write  just  so. 
His  style  is  curious  and,  in  an  age  which  might 
seem  to  have  exhausted  experiment,  new.  It 
tumbles  over  itself:  it  is  rapid,  genial,  like  the 
talk  of  a  man  whimsical,  eloquent  and  earnest. 
.  .  Style,  knowledge  of  character,  originality  of 
theme  and  method — Mr  Coppard  has  them  all. 
A  remarkable  writer."  Gerald  Gould 
+  Sat   R  136:20  Jl  7  '23  700w 

"The  greater  part  of  the  book  testifies  to  a 
personality  which  is  at  the  same  time  sensitive 
and  robust.  Mr.  Coppard  gives  a  vitality  to 
country  life  which  is  strange  to  our  usual  vision 
of  it.  It  is  the  strangeness  which  comes  from 
suddenly  seeing  with  people  one  has  long  been 
merely  looking  at.  This  gift  of  vision  is  inter- 
mittent, of  coiuse,  but  it  is  sure  to  appear 
whenever  Mr.  Coppard  is  writing  of  the  coun- 
try, and  it  i.=;  steadiest  when  his  stories  are  in 
the  open  air." 

+  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p438  Je  28 
'23    700w 

CORNISH.   VAUGHAN.    Great   capitals.    296p   $5 

Doran   [12s  6d  Methuen] 

911     Geography,  Historical.  Capitals  fcities) 

23-13496 

The  book  is  a  study  of  the  relative  natural 
advantages  possessed  by  particular  geographi- 
cal sites  during  decisive  epochs  of  history  and 
of  the  geographical  and  historical  factors  which 
have  determined  the  importance  of  the  great 
capitals  of  ancient  and  modern  times.  The 
author's  thesis  is  that  the  characteristic  site 
of  the  imperial  capital  is  in  or  adjacent  to  that 
storehouse  of  the  dominant  community  of  the 
empire  which  is  nearest  to  the  principal  foreign 
neighbour.  This  argument  he  maintains 
thiii  a  survey  of  both  ancient  and  modern 
history.  Contents:  Imperial  capitals  in  China, 
Mongolia,  and  Manchuria;  Imperial  capitals  of 
India,  and  of  Persia  with  Mesopotamia;  Im- 
perial capitals  in  Italy;  Capitals  of  France; 
Imperial  capitals  in  Germany;  Imperial  capi- 
tal.s  in  Holland,  Denmark,  Russia,  and  the 
Spanish  peninsula:  Imperial  capitals  in  Great 
Britain;  Imperial  capitals  in  the  United  States 
and  South  America;  Imperial  capitals  in  Japan. 
Appendix.      Index.    Maps. 


"A  lucid  and  suggestive  survey  of  both  an- 
cient and  modern  history." 

-f-  The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p378   Je 
7   '23    900w 

CORNYN,    JOHN     HUBERT.    When    the    camp 

fire  burns.  223p  il  $1.50  Little 

23-5960 

More  Indian  folk  tales  told  for  children,  in  the 
vein  of  "Around  the  wigwam  fire."  (Book  Re- 
view Digest,  1921)  Contents:  The  wigwam; 
When  Glooskap  smokes  his  pipe;  Wuchosen  the 
wind- blower;  The  magic  waters;  The  quest  of 
the  magic  bow;  Otter  Heart  of  the  enchanted 
forest;  The  magic  of  Glooskap;  Little  Thunder's 
wedding  journey;  Why  animals  do  not  talk;  The 
last  great  council  fire;  How  the  mosquitoes 
came;  Six-in-one. 


"Dr.  Cornish  has  made  a  notable  contribution 
to  the  subject.  It  is  trap  that  his  thesis  is 
sometimes   academic." 

-\ New  Statesman  21:60  Ap  21  '23  330w 


"Told   with    the    spirit   and    the    magic   of  the 
great  woods  behind  them."  M.  G.  Bonner 
+   Int   Bk   R  p50   S  '23  300w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:416   Jl   '23 

CORRIGEEN,  pseud.  See  Adams,  J. 

CORTISSOZ,  ROYAL.     American  artists.  363p  II 
'    13  Scribner 

759.1     Art,   American.   Artists,   American 

23-17234 

A  collection  of  articles  reprinted  mostly  from 
the  pages  of  the  New  York  Tribune.  In  the 
opening  chapter  the  critic  defines  his  point  of 
view.  He  is  a  conservative  who  believes  that 
thru  the  centuries  and  all  the  changes  of  schools 
and  traditions,  art  has  been  governed  by  cer- 
tain fundamental  laws.  He  decries  modernism 
and  the  invasion  of  the  United  States  by  aliens, 
holding  them  responsible  for  what  he  names 
"Ellis  Island  art."  The  rigidity  of  his  doctrine 
leads  to  the  exclusion  of  some  of  the  younger 
artists  and   innovators  from  his  pages. 

"This  book  by  Mr.  Cortissoz  is  exceedingly 
useful,  for  in  it  he  has  summed  up  his  impres- 
sions of  the  most  significant  figures  in  American 

pa  n    ^g^g^^^  Transcript  p4  D  29  '23  130w 

Reviewed   bv   A.    H.    Boughton 

New   Repub  37:184  Ja  9   '24  7.50w 

"I  like  the  simplicity  of  this  hook.  It  con- 
tains no  theories  about  art,  it  applies  no  rules. 
It  is  a  collection  of  articles,  reprinted,  for  the 
most  part,  from  these  pages.  They  have  no 
obvious  connection,  one  with  the  other.  Yet  the 
book  has  unity.  It  records  predilections  of  a 
great  lover  of  .\merican  art."  Guy  Eglington 
+   N  Y  Tribune  p21  N  25  '23  600w 

"There  is  a  tonic  quality  In  this  book  that 
stirs  and  exhilarates.  Its  judgments  are  re- 
corded without  fear  or  favor  and  in  a  style  that 
makes  easy  reading." 

+  Outlook  135:642  D  12  '23  60w 

COTTERILL,  HENRY  BERNARD.  History  of 
art-  2v  V  1.  Down  to  the  age  of  Raphael.  442p 
il  $10  Stokes   [42s  Harrap] 

709  Art — History 
"Mr.  Cotterill  presents,  in  an  attractive  vol- 
ume, the  history  of  art  from  the  lieginnings  of 
dynastic  Egypt  to  the  close  of  the  Quattrocento, 
excluding  prehistoric  art  at  one  end  and 
Raphael  at  the  other,  and  reserving  Oriental 
art  for  a  supplement  to  the  second  volume, 
which  is  shortly  to  follow.  Among  the  318 
plates  (generally  excellent)  which  were  allowed 
him  he  has  included  practically  no  subjects 
which  are  superfltious  and  omitted  few  that 
would  seem  worthy  of  selection  in  view  of  their 
outstanding  artistic  importance."— The  Times 
[London]    Lit    Sup 

"Th<^re  is  little  that  is  stimulating-  in  Mr. 
Cotterill's  thought  and  nothing  distinguished 
about  his  stvle.  His  work,  however,  is  one  of 
downright  honesty  and  industry — a  good  and 
faithful  product  of  its  kind.  The  volume  is 
handsomely  printed  and  is  intelligently  and 
tastefullv  illustrated  by  some  three  hundred 
half-tones."      H:    B.    Puller 

-^ Freeman  7:523  Ag  8  '23  850w 


112 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


COTTERILL,    H:    B. — Continued 

"Early  Christian  art  is  treated  in  some  detail 
with  a  lucidity  that  is  highly  praiseworthy. 
The  RomanesQue  era  is  given  ample  attention 
in  so  far  as  its  architecture  is  concerned.  The 
Gothic  era  is,  of  course,  entirely  of  its  archi- 
tecture, and  the  treatment  of  it  is  the  clearest 
and  least  technical  we  can  remember."  Temple 
Scott 

+   Nation   116:396   Ap   4   '23    900w 

"Very  comprehensive  and  elaborate.  The 
book  is  profusely  illustrated  in  half  tone,  poorly 
executed  for  the  most  part,  but  perhaps  as  good 
as  the  photo  engravers  of  the  present  day  will 
condescend  to  produce.  It  is  a  pity  that  such 
painstaking  work  could  not  be  better  gar- 
nished." 

H NY   World    p9e   My   13    '23    260w 

"Mr.  Cotterill    has  made    his  selection    of  ex- 
amples with  excellent  taste."  W.  E.  G.  Fisher 
-f-  Sat  R  134:795  N  25  '22  250w 

"The  whole   work  has  been  so  well  done  that 
vve  await  with  interest  the  concluding  volume." 
-f-   Spec    130:65    Ja    13    '23    560w 

"Mr.  Cotterill's  judgments  in  artistic  matters, 
if  not  specially  original,  are  always  independent 
and  never  extravagant;  and  these  are  merits 
which  should  not  be  underrated  especially  in  a 
book  which  is  likely  to  fulfill  an  educational 
function.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  it  will  awaken 
tn  many  readers  a' desire  to  make  more  direct 
acquaintance  with  the  handiwork  of  the  great 
creative  artists." 

H The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p830  D  14 

'22  780w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:158  Je   '23 

COTTON,  CHARLES.  Poems;  ed.  with  an  in- 
==    trod,    and    notes    by    .John    Beresford.    400p    $4 

Boni  <^  Liveright  [15s  R.  Cobden -Sanderson] 
821 

"Charles  Cotton  died  in  1687.  He  was  born  in 
1630,  just  fourteen  years  after  Shakespeare's 
death.  Two  years  after  his  death  a  very  un- 
satisfactory pirated  edition  of  his  poems  was 
published.     For  235  years  his  poetical  genius  has 

flowed   dully   in    occasional   books  of   selections 
oday   we   have   the    first   real   collected   edition 
of  his   poems." — Boston   Transcript 


"As  a  picture  of  seventeenth  century  life  and 
as  a  human  document  of  great  freshness  and 
origmality  Cotton's  verse  has  earned  doubly 
the  affectionate  regard  of  modern  readers  to 
which  its  sheer  poetical  merit  alone  entitles  it." 
D.    R. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p4   D   22   '23   1450w 

"He  writes  descriptive  poetry  that  has  the 
clearness  and  swiftness  of  flowing  water,  or 
the  firmness  of  frozen  water  with  his  own 
satisfaction  singing  pebblelike  along  the  sur- 
face."     J:    Freeman 

-I-  Spec    131:426   S   29   '25   llOOw 

"That  his  poetry,  an  antidote  to  the  megrims, 
'purging  sunlight,'  should  now  be  accessible  is 
due  to  a  capital  collaboration  of  editor  and 
publisher.  Mr.  Beresford  has  affinities  with  the 
beloved  scholars  of  the  last  century.  His  notes 
and  arrangement  are  proofs  of  strong  devotion 
to  a  task   which  demanded   much." 

4-  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p543   Ag 
16     '23     2050w 

COTTON,  EDWARD  HOWE.  Ideals  of  Theo- 
dore Roosevelt;  foreword  bv  Corinne  Roose- 
velt   Robinson.    330p   $2.50    (10s   6d)    Appleton 

B   or   92   Roosevelt,    Theodore  23-7841 

His  purpose  being  to  emphasize  Roosevelt's 
ability  to  create  ideals  and  then  to  realize 
them"  the  author  confines  him.self  to  those  as- 
pects of  Roosevelt's  life  in  which  he  discovers 
the  idealist— his  efforts  for  social  reform,  his 
religious  devotion,  his  moral  enthusiasm,  his 
vigorous    Americanism,    his    warm    friendships. 


man  Roosevelt  and  has  added  a  useful  and 
valuable  feature  to  the  Roosevelt  literature." 
E.    J.    C. 

H Boston  Transcript  p2  Je  2  '23   500w 

"The   book   is   written   wholly  in   the   spirit  of 
eulogy.     It  is  evident  that  Mr.  Cotton  is  one  of 
Roosevelt's  most  ardent  admirers,  and  his  feel- 
ing glows  steadily  and  brightly  on  every  page." 
-[-NY   Tim€s  pl8   My   20  '23   420w 
"A  pleasing  and  attractive  study." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p357   My 
24   '23  80 w 

COUE,  EIVIILE.  How  to  practice  suggestion 
and  autosuggestion.  128p  il  $1.25  Am.  li- 
brary service 

615.851    Mental   suggestion  23-4990 

The  book  has  a  preface  by  Charles  Baudouin 
giving  a  biographical  and  character  sketch  of 
Cou6.  The  text  consists  of  the  full  report  of 
a  clinic  conducted  by  Cou6;  an  exposition  of 
the  principle  of  suggestion  and  its  dependence 
on  the  imagination  rather  than  on  the  will;  ad- 
vice about  how  to  make  both  general  and  spe- 
cial suggestion;  and  a  verbatim  report  of  the 
lectures  delivered   by   Coue  in   America. 


"This  little  book  gives  one  the  essence  of 
Coueism." 

-I-   Boston    Transcript   p4   My   16   '23   130w 
Reviewed  by  Joseph  Collins 

Int   Bk   R   pl7  My  '23   1750w 
Reviewed   by  Will   Cuppy 

N    Y   Tribune   p22   My   13   '23   130w 

CODE-,    EMILE.     My   method;   including  Ameri- 
can impressions.     201p     $1.75     Doubleday 

615.851     Mental    suggestion  23-6510 

The  book  is  a  clear  exposition  of  the  author's 
theory  and  method  of  autosuggestion,  empha- 
sizing the  essential  points  to  be  observed  in  the 
practice  and  the  mistakes  to  be  avoided.  He 
shows  that  its  scope  is  not  limited  to  physical 
ailments  but  has  great  possibilities  in  combat- 
ing criminal  tendencies  and  in  the  education  of 
children.  The  second  part  of  the  volume  is 
confined  to  the  author's  impressions  of  America. 
Alfred  M.  Murray,  by  way  of  introduction,  gives 
some  of   the   facts   of  Coup's  life. 

COX,  HARDING  EDWARD  DE  FONBLANQUE. 

Sportsman  at  large.  310p  $6  Doran  [16s  Hutch- 
inson] 

799    Hunting.    Fishing  [23-9921] 

The  present  volume  is  a  companion  to  the 
author's  "Chasing  and  Racing"  (Book  Review 
Digest,  1922)  and  concerns  itself  rather  more 
with  shooting,  fishing,  coursing,  etc.  than  with 
hounds  and  horses.  Beginning  with  his  early 
childhood  days,  his  love  of  nature  and  all  living 
things,  and  his  first  fishing  experience,  the  book 
is  an  autobiographical  commentary  on  the  var- 
ious sports  that  have  engrossed  him  all  his  life. 


"Mr.  Cotton  sometimes,  in  his  eagerness  to 
show  the  uncompromising  character  of  Mr. 
Roo.sevelt.  uses  the  names  of  others  quite  too 
freely.  However,  he  gives  an  entertaining  and 
probably  on  the  whole  a  truthful  picture  of  the 


"He  is  a  most  excellent  story-teller.  He 
is  far  more  breezy  than  is  Izaak  Walton,  .less 
classical  and  literary,  but  he  affords  very  good 
reading  to  him  who  will  follow  the  record  of 
his   adventures."      E.    J.    C. 

-|-   Boston    Transcript    p3    O    6    '23    650w 
New  Statesman  20:702  Mr  17  '23  500w 

"Probably  most  readers  will  chiefly  be  attract- 
ed by  the  shooting  and  fishing  chapters.  'Uncle 
Cocky'  as  he  encourages  us  to  call  him,  has  a 
style  all  his  own.  If  its  exuberant  jocosity  is 
sometimes  a  little  daunting,  he  has  at  any  rate 
both  amused  and  interested  one  reader,  particu- 
larly in  the  earlier  and  later  parts  of  the  book. 
Undoubtedly,  too,  he  is  a  master  of  his  many 
sublccts  ** 

^ 'Sat  R  135:189  F  10  '23  550w 

COX,  HAROLD.     Problem  of    population.     244p 

$2.50  Putnam  [6s  J.  Cape] 
312    Population.    Birth   control  23-3003 

A  discussion  of  the  problem  of  population  from 
the  economic  and  moral  viewpoints.  Beginning 
with  a  chapter  on  the  arithmetic  of  the  growth 
of  population  the  book  proceeds  to  discuss  the 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


113 


problem  as  it  affects  the  health  and  happiness 
of  individual  families,  the  prosperity  and  social 
progress  of  nations  and  the  peace  of  the  world. 
A  concluding  chapter  is  devoted  to  the  ethics  of 
birth  control.   Bibliography.  Index. 


"Mr.  Cox  argues  masterfully.  With  lucid 
simplicity  he  manipulates  an  array  of  carefully 
interpreted  statistics,  illuminated  by  anecdote 
and  simile  such  as  to  interest  and  convince 
the  general  reader.  More  thoughtful  minds  may 
be  offended  by  his  protesting  too  much  and  too 
confidently,  even  if  they  can't  and  don't  want 
to  refute   his  reasoning." 

H Bookm   57:466   Je   '23   120w 

Boston    Transcript   p3   Je   23   '23    580w 
Cath    World    117:560   Jl   '23    180w 
Cleveland   p45   Je   '23 
Reviewed   by   Kavmond   Pearl 

Lit   R   p533  Mr  17  '23   1500w 
N    Y   World  p9e  Ap  22   '23   650w 
"A    very    real    and    valuable    contribution." 

+  Sat  R  135:153  F  3  '23  500w 
"It  is  not  unusual,  after  reading  an  able  book 
advocating  some  special  reform,  to  feel  for  an 
hour  or  two  that  here  we  have  the  solution  for 
almost  every  social  problem.  After  reading  Mr. 
Harold  Cox's  book  this  feeling  does  not,  as  in 
many  cases,  wear  off.  The  conviction  that  what 
he  is  advocating  is  the  cure  for  a  great  many 
problems  intensifies  and  persists." 
+  Spec  130:186  F  3  '23  1450w 

Springf'd  Republican  pl2  My  2  '23  600w 
Survey   51:112   O   15   '23   380w 

COX,  JOHN  CHARLES.  English  church  fit- 
tings, furniture  and  accessories;  with  an 
introd.  by  Aymer  Vallance.  320p  11  $7.50  Put- 
nam   [21s    Batsford] 

247  Church  furniture 
The  book  deals  with  the  interiors  and  sur- 
roundings of  churches,  churchyards,  and  those 
details  known  as  fittings  which  form  no  part 
of  the  actual  fabric  of  the  church.  Monuments 
within  the  church  are  included,  towers  and 
bells,  armor,  chained  books  and  church  librar- 
ies, mural  paintings,  and  other  accessories. 
There  are  274  illustrations. 


"Dr.  Cox  did  not  correct  his  proofs  and  there 
are  some  slight  errors.  But  as  a  rule  he  is  a 
very  clear  and  elegant  writer.  The  book  is 
illustrated  with  274  beautiful  reproductions 
mainly  of  photographs.  It  will  be  invaluable 
to  architects  and  other  church-designers  and 
to  antiquarians,  but  no  less  interesting  to  the 
general  reader."     N.  H.  D. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p6   Jl   25    '23    950w 
Reviewed    by   C:    De    Kay 

N  Y  Times  p23  S  9  '23  llOOw 
"A  most  attractive  general  account  of  the 
immense  store  of  artistic  treasure  contained 
in  parish  churches.  It  is  pre-eminently  a  book 
for  the  general  reader  rather  than  the  special- 
ist.     As   such   we   welcome   it." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p421    Je 
21   '23   1300W 

COXON,  MURIEL  (HINE)  (MRS  SIDNEY 
COXON).  The  flight.  357p  ?2  Dodd  [7s  6d 
Lane] 

23-5620 
Clodagh  Laidlaw  was  a  dependent  orphan  to 
be  married  off  at  the  first  opportunity.  In  con- 
trast to  the  other  men  she  was  supposed  to 
like.  Sir  Ian  Strangway  appealed  to  her  ideal  of 
masculinity.  In  spite  of  her  strong-mindedness 
the  primitively  feminine  in  her  was  conquered 
by  his  masterful  ways.  This  masterfulness  as- 
serted itself  after  marriage  and  broke  Clodagh's 
health  and  spirit.  When  she  accidentally  dis- 
covered that  Ian  had  succumbed  to  the  wiles  of 
her  cousin  Margot,  she  fled  to  Italy — her  health 
a  pretext — leaving  Margot  in  possession.  On  a 
small  island  near  Naples  she  forms  a  close 
friendship  with  two  English  recluses,  both  ex- 
amples of  heroic  renunciation,  discovers  her 
soul-affinity  with  the  younger,  a  musician,   and 


regains  her  lost  voice.  The  affair  with  Margot 
having  ended  in  disillusionment  and  an  almost 
fatal  accident  for  Ian,  Clodagh  returns  to  Eng- 
land where  she  devotes  herself  to  Ian  with 
rnaternal  solicitude  and  flg:hts  for  her  personal 
liberty  against   his  possessive   instinct. 

"Mrs.  Hine  writes  with  feeling.  Her  conver- 
sations are  never  too  clever  to  be  unnatural. 
Still  they  have  a  spontaneity  and  sophistication 
which  make  them  effective  in  characterization. 
'The  Flight'  i.s  a  strong,  noteworthy  book,  well, 
if  not  brilliantly,  written  by  a  novelist  whose 
power  lies  in  her  knowledge  of  men  and  women 
as  well  as  in  her  ability  to  describe  them."  D. 
F.   G. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p2   Ap    7    '23    550w 
Cleveland  p68  S  '23 
"  'The  Flight'  fails  to  fulfil  the  promise  shown 
in  Miss  Hine's  earlier  novel,   'Torquil's  Success.' 
But   there   is   real   charm   in   the  second   half  of 
*he    book." 

(-   lot    Bk    R   p69   O   '23   200w 

"Miss  Hine's  workmanship  is  tolerably  good 
and  there  are  some  excellent  incidental  descrip- 
tions." 

h   Lit   R   p571   Mr  31   '23   150w 

"The  book  is  interesting,  well  and  smoothly 
written.  Its  author  has  a  story  to  tell  as  well 
as  certain  people  and  places  to  set  before  us, 
and  accomplishes  her  purpose  without  any  ap- 
parent strain  or  difficulty." 

H-  N   Y  Times  pl7  Mr  18  '23  650w 
Outlook    133:854    My    9    '23    llOw 
"Miss   Hine    is   apt    to    overdo    her   spasmodic 
treatment  of  people  and  events.     But  once  hav- 
ing  decided   which    is   the   essential   personality, 
she  fills  it   in  with  clever  strokes." 

-I The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p780    N 

30   '22   450w 

COXON,      MURIEL      (HINE)       (MRS      SIDNEY 
COXON).    Spell   of   Siris.    334p   $2   Dodd 

23-17384 
"The  story  has  its  setting  on  the  Island  of 
Siris,  off  the  coast  of  Italy,  varied  by  a  few 
scenes  in  Rome  and  one  in  Florence.  It  is 
divided  into  three  sections,  each  representing 
a  segment  of  the  life  of  Clodagh  Strangway 
and  her  love  for  one  Nigel  Wier,  a  musician 
and  disabled  soldier.  The  first  section,  'Emanci- 
pation,' tells  of  the  death  of  the  heroine's  hus- 
band and  her  return  to  the  Island  of  Siris  to 
be  again  with  friends  she  has  known  in  years 
past.  She  once  more  meets  with  Wier  and  real- 
izes that  she  loves  him.  But,  since  her  love 
for  Lord  Strangway  has  disappointed  her,  she 
believes  that  marriage  is  fatal  to  love.  She 
leaves  Wier  for  Rome  and  starts  to  study  music 
and  singing  preparatory  to  an  operatic  career. 
The  second  section,  'Resistance,'  describes  her 
fight  against  the  love  of  Wier,  and  paints  a 
rather  vivid  picture  of  the  artistic  and  tourist 
social  functions  in  Rome.  The  third  and  last 
section,  'Experiment,'  makes  love  triumphant." 
— N  Y    Times 


"It  is  of  course  a  very  old  situation  but  Muriel 
Hine   has   used    it   cleverly,    making  us   like   her 
people  genuinely  and  enjoy  to  the   full   the  un- 
derlying humor  of  her  situations."   D.  L.    M. 
+  Boston    Transcript   p8    D   15    '23    800w 

"The  author  is  apparently  conversant  with 
the  Italian  language,  and  rarely  misses  an 
opportunity  to  run  in  a  phrase  or  word.  This 
ultimately  palls  on  the  reader,  but  her  appar- 
ently intimate  knowledge  of  the  peasant  and 
his  every  day  life  is  a  source  of  joy." 
h   N  Y  Times  p9  N  25  '23  500w 

"There  is  a  good  deal  of  amiable  discussion 
about  wives  and  mothers  and  women  workers, 
but  nothing  challenging  or  new.  One  does  not 
complain  of  the  fact;  what  novelty  can  any 
one  impart  to  such  a  w^ell-worn  topic?  Misa 
Hine  is  a  bit  smug  in  her  reflections  on  the 
unlucky  husbands  or  wives  whose  unsuitable 
partners  don't  know  when  to  die,  and  she  re- 
gards the  lower  classes,  one  gathers,  as  having 
no  right  to  marital  difficulties  at  all."  Isabel 
Paterson 

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COXON,     MURIEL — Continued 

"The  author  has  written  a  well  constructed 
novel,  with  many  fine  characterizations.  The 
chief  fault  of  her  book  lies  in  her  failure  to 
prove   her  premises."    Ruth  Snyder 

H NY    World   p6e   N   25   '23    650w 

"The  book  is  pleasing  both  in  its  character  de- 
piction and  in  its  description." 

+  Outlook    135:690    D    19    '23    lOOw 

Springf  d   Republican  p7a  Ja  6  '24  200w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p880  D.  13 
'23    280w 

COYLE,      KATHLEEN.        Piccadilly.      250p      $2 

Dutton  [7s  6d  J.  Cape] 

23-11970 

An  impressionistic  novel  picturing  a  few  days 
in  a  young  girl's  life  in  a  succession  of  dissolv- 
ing views.  Desolate  and  out  of  work,  almost 
on  the  brink  of  suicide,  Carinthia  Leicester  is 
discovered  by  young  Pelham  Wace  as  she  sits 
on  the  Embankment  in  London.  He  asks  to 
paint  her  and  takes  her  to  Patrick  Temple's 
studio.  There  she  is  injected  into  the  midst  of 
a  circle  of  artists  and  without  clue  or  explana- 
tion is  swept  into  the  current  of  their  lives. 
The  characters  in  the  draina  are  Temple,  the 
well  known  artist;  Mary,  his  wife,  the  gracious 
presence  to  whom  all  look  for  sympathy  and 
understanding;  Pelham  Wace,  his  pupil;  and 
the  Ijeautiful  Laura,  whotn  Pelhajn  loves.  In 
one  scene  after  another,  of  which  Carinthia  is 
an  involuntary  witness,  she  sees  the  drama  de- 
velop and  at  the  end  of  four  short  days  is 
herself  an  active  participant. 

"She  has  something  to  say  about  life  as  sh,e 
sees  it,  and  a  simple,  tragic  stoiy  to  tell  with- 
out any  hint  of  eroticism.  Unfortunately,  she 
is  not  conte.1t  to  tell  the  simpler  story  simply." 
J.  P.  S. 

-i Boston    Transcript    p2    N    14    '23    400w 

Reviewed    by    H.    W.    Boynton 

Ind    111:256    N    24    '23    250w 

"There  is  a  good  deal  of  cleverness,  as  well 
as  a  good  deal  of  subtlety,  in  Kathleen  Coyle's 
new  novel.  There  are  moments  when  it  shows 
a  situation,  an  environment  or  a  mood  with 
clear  sharpness,  occasional  flashes  of  insight 
regarding  character  or  motive.  But  the  clever- 
ness and  the  subtlety  are  of  too  determined 
a  quality;  one  feels  that  they  are  the  result 
of  an  effort  which  is  an  all  but  perpetual 
strain." 

H NY  Times   p22   O   14   '23   440w 

':Though  there  are  occasional  moments  when 
the  verbal  pyrotechnics  become  irksome,  the 
originality  of  Miss  Coyle's  prose  is  not  to  be 
denied.  Still,  one  cannot  gaze  at  the  sun  di- 
rectly for  more  than  a  brief  moment  at  a 
time.  The  stars  have  a  beauty  of  their  own, 
though  less  effulgent.  Too,  they  have  a  defin- 
ite  system."      Hugo    Sonnenschein 

H NY   Tribune   p20   O  28   '23   720w 

"The  plot  is  worked  out  with  a  breadth,  a 
contemporaneous  attention  to  the  different 
threads  of  the  narrative,  that  is  highly  ad- 
mirable. As  for  the  style,  it  is,  by  its  very 
ideals,  difficult.  Miss  Coyle  has  the  rare  knack 
of  evolving  lucidity  by  the  nice  correlation  of 
obscurities.  Therefore  anyone  who  tries  to  skip 
when  reading  'Piccadilly'  deserves  all  the  confu- 
sion he  gets." 

+  Spec   130:852   My   19    '23   350w 

CRAM,     MILDRED.     Stranger     things.     314p     $2 

Dodd   [7s   6d   Cassell] 

23-15251 

The  first  of  the  stories  in  this  volume 
was  included  in  the  O.  Henry  Memorial  award 
prize  stories  of  1921.  Contents:  Stranger  things; 
The  yellow  one;  The  drvad;  Anna;  The  amulet; 
The  gaudy  little  fish;  The  bridge;  The  lotus  at 
Mitchell  house;  Exhibit  B;  Odell;  and  The 
precious  certitude. 


in  the  Conradian  tradition,  one  marked  differ- 
ence being  that,  while  she  may  verge  on  the 
ironical,  she  is  too  downright  for  irony,  at- 
taining her  effects  rather  by  penetrating  anal- 
ysis   and    exposure    of    her    characters'    weak- 

+  —  N  Y  Times  pl7  N  18  '23  500w 
"Miss  Cram  has  the  gift  of  clear  character- 
ization and  a  strong  sense  of  dramatic  values, 
and  these  stories  promise  even  better  things 
for  the  future.  Her  most  obvious  fault  is  a 
slight  straining  after  effect  and  self-conscious- 
ness that  she  tries  too  hard  to  overcome,  but  as 
entertainment  'Stranger  Things'  leaves  nothing 
to  be  desired."     Edith  Leighton 

-j NY    Tribune    p22    N    25    '23    360w 

"She  has  considerable  power  and  insight.  Her 
themes  are  original  and  her  ability  to  suggest 
the  occult  and  mysterious  is  striking.  The  open- 
ing story,  from  which  the  volume  takes  its 
name,  is  an  excellent  specimen  of  her  powers 
and  would  be  even  more  attractive  if  it  stood 
by  itself." 

-I The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p324   My 

10    '23    lOOw 

CRAVEN,   THOMAS.      Paint.     229p  $2   Harcourt 

23-3893 
"  'Paint'  is  a  novel  that  its  central  character, 
Carlock,  might  have  written  had  he  sold  him- 
self to  lilerature  instead  of  art.  It  is  a  story — 
a  history — of  achievement,  of  suffering,  of  soul 
misery;  of  an  artist's  ten-year  struggle  in  un- 
sesthetic  New  York — never  beautiful  except  in 
its  stark  power.  It  has  the  surge  of  a  will  to 
create  beaten  and  forced  to  its  utter  limits,  and 
to  oblivion.  Carlock  is  incessantly  present,  at 
one  with  his  medium,  paint.  A  figure  with  the 
desires  of  a  Cowperwood  and  the  madness  of  a 
Raskolnikoff,  yet  precisely  reminiscent  of 
neither." — Lit   R 


Reviewed  by  R.  I.   Goodnow 

Detroit    News   p23   D   9   '23    90w 
"Although    Miss   Cram    is    no    second    Conrad, 
her  work   may  be  described   fairly   as   following 


"The  remarkable  part  of  Mr.  Craven's  work 
is  that  never  from  first  to  last  do  we  doubt  the 
truth  of  his  portrait,  ugly  and  sordid  and  de- 
pressing as  it  is.  It  is  a  grim  arraignment  of 
American  taste,  which  exalts  commercial  art  at 
the  expense  of  real  art,  and  steadfastly  denies 
the  artist  his  right  to  a  hearing.  It  is  far  from 
a  pleasant  story,  but  there  is  strength  and  ruth- 
lessness  in  it  and  a  passion  for  truth."'  D. 
L.    M. 

-f-   Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  14  '23  1050w 

"As  art  Mr  Craven's  book  cannot  be  consid- 
ered. It  is  too  obviously  a  treatise  where  in- 
tellect has  been  harnessed  hurriedly  to  anger 
and  the  guiding  rein  of  a  really  imaginative 
conception   is   entirelv   lacking."     Alyse   Gregory 

—  Dial    74:511    My    '23    950w 

"The  crowning  difficulty  with  this  kind  of 
story  is  that  we  have  to  take  the  author's  word 
for  the  fact  without  which  it  is  simply  a  mal- 
odorous chronicle  of  uncomely  egotism — the  fact 
of  genius.  When  history  testifies  that  the  su- 
preme genius  of  the  past  has  been  built  upon 
personal  and  spiritual  squalor,  there  will  be 
more  valid  excuse  for  tliese  squalid  pictures  of 
genius-to-date."      H.    W.    Boynton 

—  Ind    110:263   Ap   14   '23   420w 

"It  is  intense  beyond  bearing.  It  reeks  with 
the  sour  brutality  of  truth.  It  is  a  novel  thaf 
will  be  decried,  sneered  at,  ignored,  censured  by 
the  puritanic;  but  its  bitter  honesty  lives  in 
every  page.  To  read  it  is  to  experience  the 
grinding  thrill  of  creation,  to  have  one's  every 
sensibility  rasped."  Kenneth  Fuessle 
Lit  R  p531  Mr  17  '23  500w 

"This  novel  is  crudely  written  in  parts,  and 
hastily  molded  in  others,  but  it  holds  a  vicious 
strength  and  concentration."  Maxwell  Boden- 
heim 

\-   Nation  116:369  Mr  28  '23  400w 

"Paint   has   all    the   concisene.ss   and    pith    and 
intelligence    of    Mr.    Craven's    reviews;    in    addi- 
tion,   it   has   a   good    share   of  the   qualities   that 
make  a  first  rate  piece  of  fiction."  L:  Mumford 
4-   New   Repub  34:169  Ap   4   '23   1400w 

"  'Paint'  is  indubitably  a  realistic  novel  in  the 
full  sense  of  the  word;  it  is  unlovely  where  it 
is   logical    to    be   so,    and    it   is  thoroughly   con- 


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sistent.     It   moves  with  a  resistless  speed   that 
urges  the  reader  to  consume  it  at  one  sitting." 

N  Y  Times  pll  Mr  4  '23  750w 
"It  is  a  stark,  simple  and  savage  recital  of 
an  entirely  appalling  life,  and  if  the  author 
meant  it  as  a  blasting  denunciation  of  the 
modernists  he  has  assuredly  done  a  good  job." 
Isabel  Paterson 

—  NY  Tribune  p22  Mr  18  '23  8.50w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  22  '23  450w 

CRAWFORD,   DANIEL.  Back  to  the  long  grass; 

my   link    with    Livingstone.    373p    il    $4    Doran 

[16s  Hodder  &  S.] 

916.7        Africa,      Central — Description      and 
travel.    Livingstone,    David  23-26337 

The  author,  who  has  lived  many  years  among 
the  natives  as  a  missionary,  follows  the  trail 
of  Livingstone  on  his  last  pioneering  journey  to 
the  historic  tree  where  his  heart  lies  buried. 
Mr  Crawford  bases  his  chronicle  on  Liv- 
ingstone's note-books  and  diaries,  commenting 
all  along  the  way  on  the  country  and  natives 
from   his    many   years'    knowledge   of   them. 


Reviewed  by  I:  Anderson 

Int  Bk  R  p44  Je  '23  140w 
"A  book  that,  although  filled  with  a  mass  of 
fact  information,  is  of  a  genuine  and  spon- 
taneous stupidity,  and  written  with  an  inordi- 
nate degree  of  pedantic  self-.^atisfaction  and 
self-righteousnes.s."    Achmed   Abdullah 

—  NY   Tribune   p29   My   13   '23   920w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:306   Je    '23 

CRESSON.   WILLIAM    PENN.     Diplomatic  por- 
2    traits;    Europe   and   the    Monroe   doctrine    one 

hundred  years  ago.  371p  il  .$4  Houghton 

940.28    Monroe   Doctrine.    Diplomacy.    Europe 
—History  23-17760 

The  group  of  world  statesmen  who  appear  in 
these  pages  belongs  to  the  period  of  interna- 
tional adjustment  which  followed  the  Napole- 
onic wars.  This  period  shows  a  marked  like- 
ness to  the  present  day  which  has  offered  a 
similar  opportunity  for  a  reasonably  combined 
international  policy.  Mr  Cresson  in  his  series 
of  sketches  attempts  to  show  the  significance 
of  certain  individuals  in  relation  to  the  events 
of  their  time  rather  than  to  define  personalities. 
In  revievving  the  lives  of  these  men  he  de- 
velopes  at  the  same  time  the  story  of  an  im- 
portant movement  in  world  diplomacy. 


"Dr.  Cresson's  work  stands  out  among  the 
fast-growing  literature  about  the  Monroe  Doc- 
trine as  marked  by  originality  in  treatment, 
thoroughness  in  research  and  a  vivid  style  that 
holds  the  reader's  interest.  The  light  from 
Russian  sources  that  is  thrown  upon  the  whole 
state  of  affairs  which  gave  rise  to  the  Doctrine 
is  invaluable."     A.  S.  Will 

+   N   Y  Times  pi  D  16  '23  1400w 
Outlook    135:690   D    19    '23    60w 
"Mr.    Cresson   writes   with    sympathy   and   in- 
telligence   concerning    the    European    diplomacy 
of   that   period   and    America's   relation   to   it." 
-f   R    of    Rs    69:111   Ja   '24   llOw 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  D  30  '23  180w 

CRESSY,  EDWARD.  Discoveries  and  inven- 
tions of  the  twentieth  century.  2d  ed  rev  and 
enl  458p  il  $5  Dutton 

609  Inventions 
The  great  activity  in  discovery  and  inven- 
tion during  the  four  years  of  the  war,  has 
rpade  necessary  much  revision  and  entire  re- 
writing, in  parts,  of  the  second  edition  of  a 
book  first  published  in  1914.  Contents:  The 
revival  of  water  power;  Coal,  gas.  and  petrol- 
eimi;  Steam  power;  Gas,  petrol  and  oil  engines; 
Generation  and  transmission  of  electricity; 
Electric  lighting  and  heating;  Speed  and 
economy  in  factory  and  workshop;  Foundry  and 
forge;  "The  electric  furnace  and  its  applications; 
The  artificial  production  of  cold  and  its  ap- 
plications; Soil  and  crops;  The  borderland  of 
modern  chemistry;  Railways;  Electric  traction; 
Motor-cars;  Modern  ships;  The  conquest  of  the 
air;    Wireless   telegraphy    and    telephony;    Some 


applications  of  photography;  Radium,  electricity, 
and  matter;  Index. 

"This  carefully  prepared  volume  is  vastly 
useful   and   of   great    interest   to   many." 

+   Boston    Transcript    p4    My    12    '23    180w 
"Mr.  Cressy  is  clear  and  his  book  throughout 
is    well     above    the    average    style    of    popular 
exposition." 

-I-    New    Statesman    20:786    Ap    7    '23    280w 

"The  book   is  profoundly  interesting  and  well 

may   be   as   deeply    useful.     It   is  thoroughly   11- 

-f   N   Y  World  p8e  Ap  1  '23  130w 
Outlook  133:854  My  9  '23  70w 

CRICHTON,    CHARLES    H.      Lure   of   old   Paris. 

188p   il   $2   Little 

914.436      Paris— Description  [23-8493] 

The  author  gives  an  original  turn  to  this  ac- 
count of  his  rambles  thru  the  older  parts  of 
Paris  by  the  device  of  having  himself  conducted 
by  three  different  guides,  an  old  rou6  and 
boulevardier,  a  ragpicker,  and  a  beautiful  lady. 
The  first  shows  him  the  gay  Paris  of  the 
boulevards,  of  cafes  and  cocottes,  of  Long- 
champs  and  Montmarte.  The  second  takes  him 
thru  the  old  historic  Paris.  The  third  shows 
him  her  Paris— the  Paris  of  Diane  de  Poitiers, 
of  Madame  Roland,  of  Abelard  and  Heloise,  and 
of  the  Bastille.  The  whole  is  strung  to- 
gether on  a  running  thread  of  story  and  con- 
versation. 

"Interesting  book,  very  interesting  book,  but — 
it  is  like  a  tapestry  whereof  the  strands  have 
raveled.  Before  we  see  the  pattern  we  must 
weave  it  together  again." 

h   Boston  Transcript  p4  O  31  '23  360w 

"This  book  is  altogether  charming.  It  is  fused 
together  by  the  slenderest,  but  most  pleasant, 
of  plots— a  hint  of  a  love  story,  a  quarrel,  a 
possible  duel,  which  may  or  may  not  be  alle- 
gorical, depending  on  the  reader's  taste. 
Throughout  there  is  a  sense  of  Old  World  ele- 
gance, leisure,  good  manners^  and  delicacy.  The 
writer  knows  and  loves  Paris;  that  alone  is 
enough  to  commend  him  and  his  book  to  the 
friendship  of  other  gentlemen." 

-f  Lit  R  p214  N  3  '23  280w 
"jVIajor  Crichton  has  written  for  the  traveler 
a  guide  to  Paris  and  for  the  reader  of  travel 
tales  a  pretty  narrative  of  adventure  along  un- 
beaten paths  just  off  the  broad  highway.  His 
book  will  relieve  the  tedium  of  the  Baedeker 
and    supplement    it    as    well." 

+  N  Y  Times  p25  Ja  6  '24  480w 
"He  seldom  strays  from  the  beaten  paths 
familiar  to  tourists  and  despite  his  effort  to 
describe  them  in  a  manner  all  his  own  the  book 
differs  little  from  a  score  of  predecessors.  lo 
me  this  exclamatory,  emotional  style,  tinged 
with  British  sentimentalism,  seems  ill  adapted 
to   his   subject."     W.    N.    C.   Carlton 

—  NY  Tribune  p21  O   28  '23  260w 

CROFT,  TERRELL  WILLIAMS,  ed.  Machinery 
foundations  and  erection.  (Power  plant  ser.) 
691p  il  $5   McGraw 

621.7  Machinery— Erecting  23-2989 

"The    most    thorough    treatise    now    available. 

Well   illustrated."— Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 

Booklist  19:303  Jl  '23 
"In  general,  this  book  handles  quite  satis- 
factorily a  subject  on  which  very  little  tho- 
rough analysis  has  been  attempted  until  now. 
It  is  specific  and  simple  enough  to  be  practical, 
and  yet  provides  the  necessary  theoretical  treat- 
ment  as   a   groundwork   for   intelligent   design. 

^'    ^'    ^Mlnagement  &  Adm  6:372  S  '23  880w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:177   Ap   '23 

CROFT,  TERRELL  WILLIAMS,  ed.  Steam-tur- 
bine principles  and  practice.  (Power  plant 
ser.)    347p    il    $3    McGraw 

621.165  Steam  turbines  23-6670 

"A  practical  work  on  construction,  installa- 
tion, and  operation  of  turbines  and  auxiliary 
equipment.     Does   not   consider  design,    and.   m 


116 


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CROFT,   T.    W.,    ed. — Continued 
presentation  of  fundamental  principles,  presup- 
poses    no    mathematics     beyond    arithmetic." — 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh   iVIo  Bui  28:357  Jl  "23 

CROFT,  TERRELL  WILLIAMS,  and  others, 
eds.  Practical  heat.  (Power  plant  ser.)  659p 
il    $5    McGraw 

536     Heat  23-8772 

"Provides  the  student  with  the  fundament- 
al theories  of  heat  necessary  for  practical  ap- 
plication, and  discusses  power-plants,  heating 
of  buildings,  refrigeration,  and  instruments  for 
measuring  and  recording  temperature,  pressure, 
and   humidity." — Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:406   O   "23 

CROTHERS,     SAMUEL      MCCHORD.     Cheerful 

giver.   242p   $2   Houghton 

814  23-15499 

The  point  and  irony  of  these  essays  are  not 
concealed  uhder  their  mellow  manner  and 
bubbling  wit.  Dr  Crothers's  humor  and  good 
sense  play  around  and  illumine  such  subjects 
as  leisure  while  you  wait,  a  constitutional  gov- 
ernment for  one's  own  mind,  the  new  school  of 
biographers  and  poets,  listening  in  on  the  Irish 
question,  the  conservatism  of  guide-posts  and 
our  mother  tongue.  Included  in  the  volume  is  a 
parable  for  the  time  written  just  before  the 
Armistice   and   entitled   The   end   of  the   deluge. 


"Dr.  Crothers  writes  in  a  manner  both  quiet 
and  intimate;  and  his  pages  are  fired  with  a 
rare  enthusiasm.  There  is  a  twinkle  in  his  eye 
as  he  takes  a  poke  at  some  of  our  revolutionists 
in  literature  and  in  ethics,  and  a  great  deal  of 
honest  wit  often  tempers  incipient  irony. 
Nothing  in  the  book  is  quite  so  delightful  as  the 
essay  on  'New  Poets  and  Poets  Not  So  New.'  " 
D.   T.  W.  McC. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  N  10  '23  850w 
"They  are  not  as  witty  as  Holmes,  but  witty 
like  Holmes,  and  make  pleasantly  unexpected 
points.  They  are  ethical,  sensible,  entertaining, 
optimistic,  sententious,  and  fertile  of  illustra- 
tion."     Arthur  Colton 

+   Lit   R   p364   D   15  '23   690w 
Nation    118:40   Ja   9    '24   80w 
N   Y  Times  p5  N  25  '23  1650w 
"Pleasant   though   pointed   papers." 
+   N   Y  World   p7e  O  28  '23  240w 

CROWELL,      THOMAS      Y.,      firm,      publishers. 

Crowell's   dictionary   of    Inisiness   and    finance. 

608p  $3:  indexed  $3.50  Crowell 
658    Business — Dictionaries    and    cyclopedias 

23-12120 

"The  first  part  of  the  book,  comprising  up- 
ward of  five  hundred  pages,  is  devoted  to 
definitions  of  business  and  financial  term.s,  with 
abundant  cross  references.  The  second  part, 
comprising  nearly  one  hundred  pages,  describes 
in  detail  the  monetary  system  of  the  United 
States;  tables  of  foreign  coins  valued  in  ITnited 
States  money;  and  tables  of  monetary  units, 
fineness  and  intrinsic  equivalents  in  United 
States  money;  weight  and  fineness  of  gold  coins 
and   other  similar  matters." — Boston  "Transcript 

Booklist   20:43    N    '23 
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Cath    World    118:281    N   '23   50w 
R  of   Rs  68:223  Ag  '23  40w 

CROWTHER,  JAMES  ARNOLD.  Principles  of 
radiography.  145p  il  $2  Van  Nostrand  r7s  6d 
Churchill] 

537.5     Radiography  [SG22-140] 

"Written  to  give  a  non-mathematical  account 
of  the  physical  principles  involved  in  the  pro- 
duction of  a  radiogram,  and  in  the  construction 
and  use  of  the  apparatus  employed  for  the 
purpose." — Preface 


CROWTHER,   MARY  OWENS.     Book  of  letters. 

272p  $2  Doubleday 

808.6     Letter-writing  22-24694 

The  book  covers  both  personal  and  business 
letters  and  in  illustration  of  its  directions  gives 
an  unusual  number  of  concrete  examples.  Chil- 
dren's letters,  a  subject  not  often  treated,  is 
given  a  chapter,  as  is  also  the  subject  of  tele- 
grams. There  is  a  chapter  on  the  cost  of  letters 
and  another  on  stationery,  crests  and  mono- 
grams. 


Booklist   19:152    F  '23 
"She     has     worked     conscientiously     and     if 
harried    letter- writers-to-be    want    a    book    of 
good  taste  and  with  a  pleasant  manner  of  pre- 
senting   it,    the    volume    will    amply    repay    the 
purchase  price.     If  the  harried  ones  are  greatly 
distressed,  our  private  opinion  is  that  there  are 
many  letters   which    could   be   copied   outright." 
+  Boston   Transcript  p4  D  20  '22  300w 
"Mrs.     Crowther     has     compiled     a     valuable 
handbook    concerning    what    E.    V.    Lucas    calls 
'the   gentle   art.'  " 

+   N    Y  Times  pl2  Mr  4  '23   250w 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui    28:57   F   '23 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:80  Mr  '23 

CROY,     HOMER.      West    of    the    water    tower. 

368p  $2   Harper 

23-7983 

Junction  City,  Missouri,  is  the  scene  of  this 
small  town  story.  Guy  Plummer.  the  preacher's 
son,  and  Bee  Chew,  daughter  of  the  local  mag- 
nate, are  high  school  lovers,  who  snatch  at 
their  happiness  prematurely  and  in  all  inno- 
cence, as  the  author  would  have  us  believe.  To 
one  misadventure  Guy  adds  another,  the  theft 
of  two  hundred  dollars  to  send  Bee  to  Chicago 
without  her  father's  knowledge.  She  comes 
back  with  her  child  and  odium  settles  upon 
Guy.  Then  his  theft  is  discovered  and  he  is 
sent  to  jail.  He  comes  back  when  his  term  is 
up  but  only  inferior  work  is  open  to  him.  When 
Junction  City  needs  a  man  to  represent  it  be- 
fore the  commissioners  for  an  automobile  high- 
way, Guy's  reputation  as  a  boy  orator  proves 
his  opportunity  and  the  story  closes  with  a 
chance  for  him  to  make  good  and  to  rejoin 
Bee.  Thruout,  the  most  moving  figure  of  the 
story  is  Guy's  father  upon  whom  his  son's  dis- 
grace falls  most  heavily  but  whose  Integrity  and 
faith  endure. 


Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui  28:166  Ap  '23 


"As  for  the  style,  it  is  that  curiously  dry 
and  unilluminated  method  of  reporting  that 
passes  for  fine  writing  under  the  name  of  mod- 
ern realism.  There  is  no  memorable  line.  There 
is  no  face  raised  to  beauty.  There  is  no  great 
description  because  there  is  no  penetration  be- 
neath  the   surface  of  things."     J.   F. 

f-   Bookm    57:658    Ag    '23    220w 

Boston   Transcript    p4   My   5   '23   lOOOw 
Cleveland    p42    Je    '23 

"The  book  has  no  style,  apart  from  the  man- 
ner of  thought  of  the  characters.  It  has  no 
attempt  at  cleverness  or  satire,  and  no  brilli- 
ance of  phrase.  It  does  not  connive  at  situ- 
ations. It  wrings  no  crass  melodrama  from 
its  story,  which  has  been  the  basis  of  many 
melodramas.  Its  orange-colored  binding  does 
not  belong  to  it.  The  jacket  should  have  been 
p^ray — the  gray  shadow  of  the  water  tower  that 
loomed    over   the    town." 

—  Int    Bk    R   p60   Je  '23   220w 

"The  book  reaches  the  right  climax  without 
the  help  of  artifice.  It  might  be  better  written, 
though  it  is  well  constructed  and  correct  in 
style;  it  might  gain  some  of  its  effects  with 
more  subtlety.  But  as  a  character  study  and  a 
study  of  a  community  it  has  highly  unusual 
merit."     Allan  Nevins 

H Lit    R    p659   My   5   '23   1200w 

"The  end  of  the  novel  has  the  earmarks, 
from  the  inner  glow  of  Guy  to  the  external 
blare  of  brass  trumpets,  of  a  Cohanesque  cli- 
max to  a  simple  and  moving  tragedy  of  life." 
J:    W.    Crawford 

Nation    116:669    Je    6    '23    270w 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


117 


"The  story  starts  under  its  own  power.  Ex- 
pectation runs  high.  But  the  engine  begins 
to  miss  and  pound.  The  wheels  turn  more 
slowly.  The  author  is  no  longer  steering  but 
pushing  from  behind.  It  is  obviously  a  trial 
trip,  and  at  least  we  get  back  to  the  starting 
point." 

—  New    Repub    36:188    O    10    '23  •60w 

"Whatever  faults  the  book  has  are  of  a  minor 
sort.  The  author  has  written  an  American 
novel  to  be  proud  of." 

+   N  Y  Times  pll  Ap  22  '23  1200w 

"This  author  had  done  the  amazing  thing,  and 
he  had  done  it  superbly.  Not  once  had  he 
funked  a  fence  or  dodged  round  a.  hurdle.  My 
hat  is  off  to  him  for  facing  all  the  consequences 
Junction  City  had  to  give.  .  .  Many  years  ago, 
at  least  thirty,  we  had  'The  Story  of  a  Coun- 
try Town,'  by  E.  W.  Howe,  a  big  story  of  a 
little  town  that  caused  a  sensation  in  its  day. 
In  my  own  opinion  nothing  so  good,  of  its  par- 
ticular genre,  has  come  between  Mr  Howe's 
story  and   this."     H.   L.   Wilson 

+  N   Y  Tribune  pl7  Ap  22   '23   2750w 

"About  the  novel  there  are  touches  of  Main 
Street,  but  not  of  a  Main  Street  known  to 
Sinclair  Lewis.  Sentimentally  this  author  is 
miles  removed  from  the  sphere  of  the  common- 
place as  it  is  contemplated  by  Mr.  Lewis.  He 
is  actuated  rather  by  love  of  his  people  than 
by  the  intention  merely  of  putting  them  on 
exhibition.  .  .  'West  of  the  Water  Tower'  is 
a  crude,  an  amateurish,  a  realistic  and  a  truly 
likable  piece  of  work."  E.  W.  Osborn 
H NY  World  p8e  Ap  22  '23  550w 

"It  is  photographic  rather  than  analytical,  a 
manner  best  suited,  perhaps,  to  the  material- 
ism, pseudo-culture,  narrowness,  pettiness,  vul- 
gar 'boosting'  and  superior  social  morality  of 
American  'Main  streets.'  It  strikes  one,  how- 
ever, that  the  author  has  lived  close  to  the 
people,  conditions  and  society  he  portrays,  for 
this  is  no  second-hand  picture;  it  is  dramati- 
cally real." 

-f  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    My     13     '23 
600w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:161    Je    '23 

CRUESS,  WILLIAM  VERE,  and  CHRISTIE, 
ARTHUR  WILLIAM.  Laboratory  manual  of 
fruit  and  vegetable  products.  (Agricultural 
publications)      109p    il    $1.50    McGraw 

664.8     Canning  and  preserving  22-17956 

"Guide  to  manufacture,  preservation,  and 
examination  of  many  canned  and  dried  food 
products.  Includes  some  very  special  subjects 
such  as  candied  fruits  and  essential  oils,  and 
has  a  chapter  on  preparation  of  museum  speci- 
mens."— Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:68   F   '23 

CUBBERLEY,  ELLWOOD  PATTERSON.  Prin- 
cipal and  his  school:  the  organization,  admin- 
istration, and  supervision  of  instruction  in  an 
elementary  school.  (Riverside  textbooks  in 
education)    571p    $2.40   Houghton 

371.2    School    management   and    organization 

23-9260 
"An  attempt  has  been  made  in  this  volume  to 
do  what  in  the  industrial  world  is  commonly 
spoken  of  as  'job  analysis."  The  problem  set  has 
been  an  analysis  of  the  work  of  a  principal  or 
supervising  principal  in  the  organization,  ad- 
ministration, and  supervision  of  instruction  in 
an  elementary  school  in  a  city,  town,  or  county- 
unit  school  system,  or  of  a  supervising  princi- 
pal for  a  small  group  of  closely  related  ele- 
mentary schools.  In  addition,  at  the  beginning 
of  the  volume,  there  is  a  statement  as  to  the 
importance  and  opporttmities  and  possibilities 
of  the  principalship  as  it  is  possible  to  make  it 
in  our  American  school  systems,  and  at  the  close 
attention  is  called  to  the  constantly  growing 
outside  relation.ships  of  the  school  of  which  a 
principal  must  to-day  take  cognizance." — Pref- 
ace 


tration.  Although  it  is  designed  primarily  for  the 
principal  of  the  elementary  school,  the  book 
has  valuable  material  for  principals  of  all  types 
of  schools.  For  the  group  of  principals,  the  book 
is  indispensable;  and  to  all  others  who  desire 
a  broader  view  of  the  field  of  education,  it 
should  make  a  strong  appeal.  The  book  Is 
slightly  tedious  in  places,  and  the  English  is 
frequently  a  little  loose.  Nevertheless,  it  is  an 
outstanding  recent  contribution  to  educational 
literature."  W.  G.  Reeder 

i El  School  J  24:152  O  '23  440w 

"Systematic  treatment  of  the  topic  in  hand  is 
the  outstanding  feature  of  the  book  and  con- 
stitutes its  greatest  value.  .  .  The  book  will  be 
of  value  as  a  text  for  courses  in  education 
where  the  work  of  the  elementary- school  prin- 
cipal is  the  main  topic  of  study.  It  will  also  be 
very  helpful  to  the  practical  school  principal  in 
organizing  his  own  activities  and  in  properly  em- 
phasizing the  most  Important  features  of  his 
work."  L.  W.   Smith 

-f-  School   R   31:707  N  '23  650w 

CULLUM,  RIDGWELL.  Luck  of  the  Kid.  365p  $2 
Putnam    [7s   6d   C.    Palmer] 

23-10226 
A  frontier  story  of  the  Yukon-Alaska  gold 
trail.  A  mysterious  band  known  as  the  Euralians 
is  ruining  the  fur  trade  and  murdering  and 
robbing  the  Eskimos  and  whites  of  the  far  north. 
Fifteen  years  after  the  murder  of  a  missionary 
who  had  made  a  big  gold  strike  Bill  Wilder 
heads  a  band  of  Canada  police  to  rid  the  coun- 
try of  the  pest  and  to  rediscover  the  mis- 
sionary's gold  strike,  also,  incidentally,  to 
trace  the  latter" s  orphan  daughter.  After  several 
years  of  trailing  and  petty  warfare  with  the 
Euralians,  he  discovers  the  headquarters  of 
the  Euralians,  the  lost  white  girl,  known  as  the 
Kid,  the  Indian  servant  who  had  mothered  her. 
the  Kid's  foster-mother,  the  lost  gold  strike  and, 
lastly,   romance. 


The  Luck  of  the  Kid'  is  a  stirring  tale  of 
mystery  and  adventure  in  Mr.  CuUum's  best 
manner." 

-I-   Boston  Transcript  p4  O  10  '23  280w 
"Another  book  of  the   Northwest  which,   pro- 
videntially,   is    a    little    different.      It    must    be 
admitted  that,  in  spite  of  considerable  unreality 
and    improbability,    it    is    interesting." 

-f  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    plO    S 
16   '23   350w  P  "    o 

Lit  R  pl69  O  20  '23  180w 
N  Y  Times  p24  S  2  '23  220w 
"When  two  or  three  such  characters  are 
gathered  together  in  the  name  of  Action  and 
against  the  background  of  Alaskan  mountains 
a  good  yarn  is  almost  bound  to  evolve  for  the 
uncritical."     Wells  Root 

H NY   World   p7e   S   2   '23   350w 

"It  has  an  ingenious  plot,  and  is  full  of  dra- 
matic   incidents    and    strong    characters." 

+  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    Ag    19     '23 
240w 

CUMMINGS,    EDWARD    ESTLIN.      Tulips    and 

chimneys.    125p  $2  Seltzer 
811 

Readers  of  the  Dial  are  already  familiar  with 
Mr  Cummings's  poems,  their  peculiarities  of 
typography  and  punctuation,  their  pursuit  of 
the  eccentric  and  bizarre.  Many  of  the  poems 
are  frankly  sensuous.  One  of  the  longest  and 
least  unconventional  "Puella  mea,"  sings  with 
much  gusto  the  beauties  of  his  lady's  body. 
There  is  a  charm  in  his  Chansons  innocentes,  a 
child's  spring  song,  which  is  heightened  by 
the  peculiarities  of  spelling  and  line  arrange- 
ment. 


"I'nquestionably,  Cubberley  has  given  us  some 
of  our  best  books  in  the  field  of  school  adminis- 


Boston  Transcript  p2  D  15  '23  680w 
"Mr.  Cummlngs  is  a  poet.  One  deduces  that 
from  his  language,  his  observation,  and  an  oc- 
casional idea  that  struggles  across  his  pages. 
But  he  Is  also  a  pedant.  His  typography  is  so 
perverse    that   the   reader   is   scared   off   before 


118 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


CUMMINGS,    E:    E. — Continued 
he  has  gone  very  far.     The  puzzle  of  his  punc- 
tuation is  not  even  an  amusing-  one;  it  certainly 
is  not  worth   solving'." 

—  Nation  117:614  N"  28  "23  60w 

"In  spite  of  his  modernity  and  leadership  of 
the  so-called  Left  wing  of  American  poets  Mr. 
Cummings  is  immensely  derivative  in  a  large 
part  of  his  work.  Elizabethan  echoes  are  fre- 
quent; the  long  'P>uella  Mea'  is  labored  through- 
out (there  is  hardly  a  line  in  it  that  is  not  a 
conscious  imitation  of  a  past  era  in  poetry). 
Mr.  Cummings  is  essentially  an  esthete,  an 
eager  gatherer  of  rich  beauty."  H.  S.  Gorman 
N  Y  Times  p5  D  9  '23  1150w 

"Cummings  is  a  fertile  and  irreverent  fellow; 
out  of  his  great  insolence  and  enthusiasm  he  is 
prone  to  try  his  'stunts'  in  public,  nay,  in  holy 
places.  His  penchant  for  sheer  invention  leads 
him  into  such  fine,  skillful  mischief."  Matthew 
Josephson 

+   N    Y   Tribune  p21   N  25   '23   1450w 

"  'Puella  Mea'  is  to  my  mind  perhaps  the 
most  beautiful  poem  in  the  long  and  lovely 
book,  but  'Chansons  Innocentes'  is  one  of  the 
quaintest  and  most  wholly  charming."  R.  L. 
Wolf 

+  N   Y  World  p9e  N  18  '23  500w 

CUNNINGHAM.   WILLIAM   JAMES.     American 
railroads:  government  control  and  reconstruc- 
tion   policies.    409p   $3      Shaw 
385     Railroads   and   state — United   States 

23-256 
"This  work  is  primarily  an  account  of  our 
experience  with  government  operation  of  rail- 
roads during  the  World  War,  though  it  in- 
cludes also  a  concise  account  of  the  activities 
of  the  Railroads'  War  board  in  1917,  and  re- 
views briefly  the  events  which  have  occurred 
since  the  passage  of  the  Transportation  Act 
and  the  restoration  of  the  railroads  to  private 
control.  By  virtue  of  his  position  on  the  staff 
of  Director  General  of  Railroads,  first  as  Man- 
ager of  the  Operating  Statistics  Section  and 
then  as  Assistant  Director  of  Operation,  Pro- 
fessor Cunningham  had  an  excellent  opportun- 
ity to  observe  all  phases  of  the  experiment  of 
Federal  management  of  the  railroads." — Ann 
Am  Acad 


"The  statements  of  fact  are  accurate.  The 
conclusions  are  stated  with  clearness,  and  with- 
out prejudice.  It  is  an  authoritative  work 
on  the  operating  features  of  the  period  of  gov- 
ernmental control."  E.  J.  Rich 

+  Am    Econ   R  13:487  S  '23  llOOw 

"His  practical  experience  as  an  operating 
ofPicer,  his  participation  in  the  administration 
of  war-time  operation,  his  grasp  of  railway 
problems — the  fruit  of  his  long  experience,  his 
sane  and  courageous  judgment,  all  combine  to 
equip  him  ideally  for  his  task.  It  is  a  safe 
prophecy  that  for  a  brief  treatment  of  the  ex- 
perience of  the  government  with  railroad  man- 
agement this  book  will  be  recognized  as  the 
authority."     F.   H.   Dixon 

+  Am    Pol    Sci    R   17:325  My   '23   200w 

"His  thorough  knowledge  of  railroad  trans- 
portation has  permitted  him  to  approach  con- 
trover.sial  topics  with  the  impartial  spirit  of  the 
scholar.  As  might  be  expected,  his  work  Is 
clear,  logical  and  well-balanced,  and  his  con- 
clusions are  sound  and  trustworthy."  T.  W. 
Van   Metre 

-I-  Ann    Am    Acad    107:321    My   '23    1050w 
Booklist    20:39    N    '23 

"Professor  Cunningham  has  made  a  note- 
worthy and  valuable  contribution  not  only  to 
the  history  of  American  railroading  but  to  the 
dat.-i  which  thoughtful  men  will  be  wise  to 
consider  in  attempting  to  find  a  solution  to  our 
railroad  problem.  He  possesses  the  talent,  all 
too  rare  among  either  scholars  or  men  of 
affairs,  of  setting  out  plain  thoughts  in  plain 
words."      A.   P.   Maher 

+  Lit   R  p813  Jl  7  '23  900w 

"The  author  of  'American  Railroads'  possesses 
unusual  qualifications;  he  has  been  'through  the 
mill'.   .   .   He  tells  the  story  comprehensively  of 


the  United  States  Railroads  during  and  follow- 
ing the  period  of  the  World  War  and,  not  with- 
standing the  all-inclusive  title  of  the  book,  hews 
closely  to  his  text."     J.  A.  Droege 

+  Management  &.  Adm  6:101  Jl  '23  1650 
"His  view  is  intimate  and  authoritative,  but 
not  partisan.  Throughout  his  tone  is  Judicious, 
both  in  'praise  and  blame,  sufficiently  sympa- 
thetic with  the  railways  and  yet  giving  credit 
where  it  was  due  to  the  administration  of 
which  he  Was  a  part."     E.   A.   Bradford 

^-  N  Y  Times  p9  Mr  4  '23  850w 
"The  book  is  the  most  authoritative  and  ex- 
pert appraisal  of  government  control  that  has 
been  written;  it  is  indispensable  alike  to  the 
student  of  railway  management  and  the  pub- 
licist or  other  citizen  who  desires  to  under- 
stand an  important  phase  in  American  war 
and  post-war  policy  about  which  there  is  wide 
misunderstanding  and  considerable   feeling." 

+  Sprjngf'd    Republican   p6  Ja  15  '23  780w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:406  Jl   '23 

CURIE,  MARIE  SKLODOWSKA  (MME 
PIERRE  CURIE).  Pierre  Curie;  tr.  by 
Charlotte  and  Vernon  Kellogg;  with  an  introd. 
by  Mrs.  William  Brown  Meloney.  242p  il 
?2.25      Macmillan 

B  or  92  Curie,  Pierre  23-17302 

An  eloquently  simple  life^  of  Pierre  Curie  by 
his  wife  and  the  discoverer,  with  him,  of  the 
element  radium.  From  this  account  of  his  life 
and  scientific  work  an  image  is  formed  of  a 
man  of  genius  and  nobility  of  character,  de- 
voted to  the  service  of  his  ideals.  Mme  Curie 
has  added  some  modest  autobiographical  notes 
including  an  account  of  her  recent  visit  to 
America. 


"The  translators  of  this  fascinating  book  have 
done  their  work  admirably,  adding  a  literary 
flavor  to  it  that  must  attract  many  a  non-sci- 
entific reader."     B:    Harrow 

-I-   N  Y  Times  p20  Ja  6  '24  2200w 

Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  D  2  '23   1200w 

"Marie  Curie  is  interested,  beyond  everything 
else  in  heaven  or  earth,  in  science,  but  there  was 
also  one  being  for  whom  she  cared  supremely, 
perhaps  because  he  came  so  close  to  realizing 
the  scientific  ideal.  When,  in  writing  her  hus- 
band's life,  she  reaches  a  point  where  it  is  ap- 
propriate to  describe  the  methods  or  results 
of  his  researches  you  can  almost  feel  her  draw 
a  breath  of  relief  and  go  on  at  heightened  speed. 
But  Madame  Curie  is  not  a  pure  intellect  de- 
void of  feeling:  her  intimate  relationships, 
though  few,  are  strong  and  tender  and  profound; 
and  she  writes  throughout  the  book  with  sim- 
plicity and  sincerity."  M.  L.  Farrand 
+  Survey  51:supl84  N  1  '23  llOOw 

CURLE,  RICHARD.  Into  the  east;  notes  on 
Burma  and  Malaya.  224p  $3.50  (lOs  6d)  Mac- 
millan 

915.9      Burma.    Malay   peninsula  23-8877 

"Mr.  Curie's  'notes'  are  a  little  more  than 
guide-books  and  less  than  essays:  they  repre- 
sent an  attempt  to  enunciate  the  impressions 
made  on  his  sensibilities  by  the  places  he  has 
visited:  in  this  case,  Burmah  and  Malaya.  He 
does  not,  as  a  traveller,  wander  much  off  the 
beaten  track:  there  is  little  of  the  marvellous 
in  his  material  per  se:  it  is  really  in  the  record 
of  the  impression  it  makes  upon  him  that  the 
interest  of  the  book  depends.  Mr.  Conrad 
contributes  a  short  introduction,  which  takes 
the  form  of  an  essay  on  travel-books  in  gen- 
eral, with  occasional  compliments  to  this  travel- 
book  in  particular." — Spec 


Booklist  20:134  Ja  '24 
"Mr    Curie's  book  of  impressions  is  one  to  be 
read    thankfully.      One   whose    every    re-reading 
must   bring   a   fresh    delight   caught   from   some 
new  point  of  view  of  an  inward  vision,   needed 
by  so  many  of  us,  possessed  by  so  few.  '  F-  B. 
+   Boston    Transcript   p6   Jl   18   '23   llOOw 
Nature  112:129  Jl  28  '23  220w 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


119 


"In  this  volume  of  penetrating  observations 
of  Burma  and  Malaya  he  has  rather  carefully- 
analyzed  his  experiences,  so  that  the  lush 
tropic  scene,  the  myriads  of  brown  men  and 
women,  chaffering  or  worshipping,  the  glimp- 
ses of  white  men  and  women  at  work  or  at 
play,  appear  in  an  orderly  kaleidoscope  fof 
Mr.   Curie's  fastidious  devising." 

+  N    Y   Times   pl5   Je   3   "23   850w 

"Often,  and  as  a  rule  admirably,  he  is  sim- 
ply the  traveller  with  eyes  for  form  and  colour 
and  the  inovements  of  crowds,  and  his  book 
may  be  read  purely  for  entertainment.  Sim- 
ply as  a  piece  of  writing,  the  chapter  on  his 
journey  up  the  Irrawaddy,  culminating  in  the 
paragraphs  which  give  us  the  sensations  ex- 
cited by  being  on  the  frontier,  where  one  lives 
on  rumour,  would  be  difficult  to  match  in  the 
recent   literature    of    travel." 

+  Sat   R   135:467  Ap  7   '23   680w 
Spec   130:809   My  12   '23   130w 

"The  value  of  this  individualist's  book  does 
not  lie  in  the  information  to  be  obtained  from 
it  about  the  external  appearance  of  the  places 
visited  but  in  what  it  tells  us  abovit  a  certain 
type  of  human  mind  and  its  reactions  to  the 
unfamiliar." 

+  The    Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p208   Mr 
29    '23   950w 

CURRAN,     HENRY     HASTINGS.       Van    Tassel 

and   Big  Bill.   Slip   $1.75    Scribner 

23-13317 

"Henry  H.  Curran's  stories  of  Alderman 
Jimmy  van  Tassel  and  the  local  politics  of 
New  York  City,  first  made  known  in  Scribner's 
Magazine,  have  been  published  in  a  volume 
called  'Van  Tassel  and  Big  Bill.'  "  (NY 
World)  Contents:  "Hey,  Toolan's  marchin'!" 
The  chanty  that  settled  it;  Callahan  of  Carmine 
street;  Garry's  Christmas;  Thomas;  Big  Bill 
speaks  his  mind;  Flanagan's  getaway;  The 
stolen  band;  The  imperturbability  of  Pick;  "Cas- 
sidy — is   that   the  name?"    "Uffs";    "Heads  up!" 


him  in  the  struggle  of  the  Virginia  miners 
against  the  abuses  of  the  absentee  landlord 
system,  with  which  much  of  the  story  is  con- 
cerned. Chance  also  brings  him  into  successful 
rivalry  with  his  deadly  enemy  for  the  hand  and 
love  of  the  daughter  of  the  richest  resident 
mine-owner. 


"Anyone  who  likes  a  whole  varied  collection 
of  love  stories,  or  who  likes  politics  with  and 
without  gloves,  or  who  likes  policemen,  or  jolly 
small  newsboys  or  any  of  the  other  flotsam  of 
a  big  city,  will  enjoy  this.  Moreover,  such  is 
the  care  and  detail  in  the  rally  writing,  anyone 
reading  it  intelligently  can  speedily  learn  how 
to  be  an  alderman,   too."     I.  W.   L. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  N  10  '23  520w 

"Mr.    Curran    writes    often    with    charm    and 
always    in   a   sincere    manner,    but   one    feels  he 
has  not  quite  yet  found  his  literary  legs." 
H Lit   R  pl67  O  20  '23  350w 

"Although  they  are  copiously  supplied  with 
what  should  be  tense  moments  they  somehow 
fail  to  thrill.  The  humor  is  of  the  gentle  and 
mild  sort  and  the  love  interest,  though  sustained 
throughout  the  series,  is  exceedingly  slight.  An 
unnatural  and  artificial  glow  of  rosy  senti- 
mentalism  permeates  the  whole." 
-\ NY  Times  pl9  D  16  '23  350w 

"There  are  twelve  of  these  tales,  each  of 
them  decidedly  well  worth  telling,  and  they 
make  a  book  of  genuine  interest." 

-t-   N    Y    World    p7e    S    16    '23    llOw 

Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Ag  26  '23  80w 

"Told  most  charmingly  by  Mr  Curran,  who 
knows  something  from  personal  experience 
about   practical   politics   in   New  York." 

-f  Springf'd    Republican    p7   O   21   '23   250w 

CURTIN,     DANIEL     THOMAS.       Tyranny     of 

power.    377p  $2  Little 

23-5948 

The  hero  of  the  story  is  an  ex-convict  who, 
having  served  a  term  in  prison,  is  jailed  on 
another  charge,  but  makes  his  escape  and  en- 
lists in  the  war.  Still  pursued  by  a  relentless 
enemy,  he  makes  several  other  sensational 
escapes  and  rehabilitates  himself  under  a  false 
name,  in  the  West  Virginia  mining  district. 
There,  after  a  final  tremendous  fight  in  the 
open,  which  is  at  the  same  time  a  political 
campaign,  he  wins  against  his  persecutor  and 
Is  cleared  of  all  charges.     Chance  has  involved 


"Mr.  Curtin  writes  straightforwardly  and  in- 
terestingly without  claiming  to  be  a  stylist.  .  . 
'The  Tyranny  of  Power'  is  an  intelligently  con- 
ceived and  well-told  narrative."   S.  L.  C. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  18  '23  580w 

"As  a  novel,  this  is  good  sentimental  melo- 
drama, slow  in  its  opening  pages,  rising  gradu- 
ally to  machine-gun  speed  as  the  climax  of  a 
political  campaign  is  reached,  and  dropping 
softly  to  the  feather-bed  of  a  romantic  denoue- 
ment. Mr.  Curtin  knows  the  tricks  of  his  craft 
so  well  that  most  of  them  aie  paraded  too  obvi- 
ously. On  the  other  hand  there  are  informative 
passages  almost  unequaled  for  their  liberality 
and  inclusiveness,  concerning  coal-mining  con- 
ditions in  West  Virginia." 

-^ Int  Bk  R  p95  D  '23  180w 

"Considered    as   an    expos6   of   the   intolerable 
conditions    existing    in    the    West   Virginia    coal 
fields,  the  book  is  interesting  and  often  forceful, 
but  it   is  without  distinction  of  style." 
H Lit    R    pl33    O    13    '23    370w 

"Mr.  Curtin  handles  [his  theme]  rather  deftly 
and   effectively,    and   he  is  also  very  successful 
in  his  manner  of  leading  up  to  dramatic  situ- 
ations, of  which  there  are   many  in  the  story." 
•     -)-  N  Y  Times  pl9  Mr  14  '23  600w 

"Let  us  admit  at  the  very  beginning  that  D. 
Thomas  Curtin's  new  story  is  theatrical  to  the 
last  letter.  The  statement  does  no  injustice 
to  Mr.  Curtin  and  the  fact  will,  for  a  great 
many  readers,  add  to  the  power  and  pull  of 
his  book.  .  .  Readers  who  care  to  think  while 
they  read  will  find  work  for  their  minds  in  'The 
Tyranny  of  Power.'  Those  whose  main  concern 
is  for  the  narrative  thrill  will  find  also  much  of 
their  desire  in  this  book."  E.  W.  Osborn 
-(-NY  World  plOe  Ap  15  '23  250w 
Outlook  133:810  My  2  '23  50w 

"\  well-told  and  sometimes  dramatic  story. 
It  is  apparent  that  Mr  Curtin  has  given  the 
subject  much  study,  but  he  tells  his  story  with- 

-f-  Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Ap  22  '23  420w 
Survey  50:369  Je  15  '23  60w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p470   Jl 
12    '23    250w 

Wis   Lib   Bui  19:133  My  '23 

CURTIN,    JEREMIAH,     comp.      Seneca    Indian 

myths.      516p  $5   Dutton 

398      Indians     of    North   America— Legends 
Seneca  Indians  23-40J1 

These  myths,  dictated  to  Mr  Curtin  by  aged 
Indians  of  the  Seneca  people,  were  gathered  by 
him  while  he  was  acting  as  an  agent  of  the 
Bureau  of  ethnology.  The  old  Indians  alone 
possessed  any  knowledge  of  these  traditions, 
which  were  on  the  point  of  vani.shing.  and  are 
preserved  only  in  these  records  left  behind  by 
Mr  Curtin.  

Booklist  19:327  Jl  '23 
"It  has  great  value  both  as  the  ground   work 
of   native   primitive   beliefs   and   as   a   contribu- 
tion to  Amerindian  ethnology." 

-f-  Boston   Transcript  p4  My   5    23   SZOw 
"This    work    will    be    an    invaluable    addition 
to  the  library  of  sny  ethnologist  " 

-1-  Oath    World    117:855    S    '23    450w 
Reviewed  by  R.  H.   Lowie 

Freeman  7:380  Je  27  '23  480w 
"This    posthumous    volume    of    Seneca   Indian 
myths    deserves   attention   not  only  as   Curtin  s 
last  effort,  but  probably  the  last  important  con- 
tribution   of    the    vanishing    New    York    tribe. 
Mary  Austin 

-f-  Nation  116:606  Je   6  '23  280tv 
N   Y  Times  p20  Mr  4  '23  300w 


120 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


CURTIN,  J.,  comp. — Continued 

"They  are  all  simply  but  entertainingly  told. 
In  these  stories  are  many  touching  the  spiritual 
and  bringing  the  people  into  contact  through 
special  agencies  with  the  higher  power.  Above 
all,  they  are  respectful  myths,  involving  men 
of  strength  and  honor.  He  who  looks  for  the 
absurd  in  them  will  be  disappointed." 
+  N  Y  World  p7e  Mr  4  '23  200w 

"The  stories  read  well  and  have  wit  as  well 
as   tribal   wisdom." 

+  Outlook  133:630  Ap  4  '23  150w 

CURWOOD,    JAMES    OLIVER.      Alaskan.    326p 

11  $2  Cosmopolitan  bk. 

23-11260 

"The  story  opens  on  board  a  steamer  en 
route  from  Seattle  to  Nome.  Amone  the  pas- 
sengers is  Mary  Standish,  who  nas  come 
aboard  just  as  the  ship  was  about  to  sail.  She 
admits  to  the  Captain  that  she  is  fleeing 
from  something,  but  she  will  tell  him  no  more. 
Another  passenger  is  Alan  Holt,  on  his  way 
home  after  a  trip  to  the  States,  where  he  has 
been  pleading  for  fair  treatment  for  Alaska 
and  trying  to  counteract  the  influence  of  a 
powerful  group  of  financiers.  The  leader  of 
this  group  is  John  Graham,  who  has  ruined 
Holt's  father.  An  agent  of  Graham's  named 
Rossland  is  also  on  board.  It  develops  that 
Rossland  knows  Mary  Standish  and  that  she 
fears  him.  Then  comes  Mary's  mysterious 
disappearance  and  Alan  Holt's  sudden  reali- 
zation that  he  loves  her.  The  scene  shifts 
from  the  steamer  to  Holt's  reindeer  range,  in 
Northern  Alaska,  and  the  story  comes  to  a 
dramatic  finish  with  a  thrilling  pitched  bat- 
tle."— N   Y   Times 


waterfalls  of  the  world,  and  a  chapter  on  sing- 
ing sands.  There  is  also  a  group  of  sketches  of 
the  humors  of  travel. 


Booklist   20:20   O   '23 

"Mr.  Curwood  has  done  more  than  write  a 
good,  exciting  tale,  convincing  beyond  most  of 
its  kind.  He  has  pleaded  the  cause  of  Alaska 
better  than  it  has  usually  been  pleaded  and 
because  he  has  written  his  plea  in  a  book  that 
IS  worth  reading  as  a  story  alone,  because  he 
has  not  gone  outside  his  story  to  preach,  but 
has  made  his  plea  part  of  his  ingrained  concep- 
tion, he  may  make  more  Americans  see  the 
necessity  of  stopping  the  over-exploitation  of 
certain  of  her  resources  and  the  under-de- 
velopment  of  others,  than  will  the  best  oratory 
of  her  political  friends."  S.   L.  Cook 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  4  '23   llOOw 

"Both  in  his  characters  and  in  his  setting, 
Mr.  Curwood  creates  the  illusion  of  reality 
In  a  way  that  makes  his  undoubted  popularity 
readily  understandable." 

+   Int  Bk  R  p66  O  '23  350w 

"Mr.  Curwood  is  just  old-fashioned  enough 
to  see  to  it  that  no  one  Is  killed  who  cannot 
well  be  spared,  or  whose  passing  will  not  hast- 
en rather  than  delay  the  happy  ending.  But 
his  readers  will  not  quarrel  with  him  for  that, 
nor  will  those  who  later  on  see  the  screen  ver- 
sion of  his  book." 

4-   N    Y   Times  pl7  Ag  5  '23   450w 

'■Besides  telling  his  good  story  in  this  book, 
and  besides  supplying  his  thrills  for  readers 
who  live  on  such  things,  Mr.  Curwood  puts  in 
pages  of  propaganda  for  the  Alaska  which 
apparently,  he  loves  not  less  than  do  the  hero 
and  heroine  of  his  tale."  E.  W.  Osborn 
+   N    Y    World   p6e   Ag  5   '23    600w 

CURZON        of        Kedleston,  GEORGE        NA- 

THANIEL CURZON,    1st   marquess.     Tales  of 
travel.    405p  11  $7.50   Doran 

910     Voyages  and  travels  23-17406 

Before  entering  on  his  political  and  diplomatic 
career,  Lord  Curzon  found  the  chief  zest  of 
life  in  travel.  In  this  book  he  has  brought 
together  tales  of  his  travels  as  a  young  man. 
They  relate  to  many  parts  of  the  world,  but 
chiefly  to  the  Orient,  for  he  is  attracted  to 
strange  and  distant  places.  The  first  essay  is 
a  description  of  the  dance  of  the  dervishes  at 
Kairwan  and  another,  of  his  visit  to  the  Amir 
of  Afghanistan.  Still  another  is  devoted  to  the 
colossus  of  Memnon  and  its  mysterious  vocal 
powers.      There    are    two    essays    on    the    great 


"For  many  things  Lord  Curzon's  book  is 
worth  keeping  as  a  book  of  reference.  Yet  the 
main  interest  lies  HOt  in  the  research  and  the 
curiosities  displayed  but  in  the  reflection  of  an 
unusual  personality  in  a  mirror  of  the  world." 
Stephen  Crane 

+  Lit  R  p336  D  8  '23  1200w 
"This  new  book  of  Lord  Curzon's  shows  him 
almost  invariably  in  the  unbending  mood.  There 
are,  I  believe,  people  to  whom  this  spectacle  is 
unpleasing;  the  present  reviewer  must  confess 
he  gets  as  much,  or  even  more,  entertainment 
out  of  Lord  Curzon's  measured  and  discreet 
frivolities  as  did  our  original  parents  from 
those  primitive  gambollings."     E.  R. 

-t-  New  Statesman   22:154  N   10  '23   1050w 
Reviewed  by  Filson  Young 

N   Y  Times  p8   D  2   '23  520w 
N  Y  World  p6e  D  2  '23  570w 
"Of    the    many    other    tales,    none    is    without 
interest,  but  we  are  told  too  little  of  the  places 
visited   and   a   good   deal   of   what   Lord   Curzon 
did  or  said  when  he  got  there." 

H Sat  R  136:497  N  3  '23  480w 

"As  literature,  the  IJook  suffers  from  the  de- 
fects of  its  qualities.  The  style  is  rounded  and 
equable.  It  rarely  surprises  by  great  moments. 
It  can  rise  to  a  stately  rhetoric,  but  it  is  too 
industriously  full  often  to  be  vivid,  or  to  crys- 
tallize fact  into  pure  and  perfect  significance." 
H.    I'A.    Pausset 

h  Spec  131:801   N  24  '23  750w 

Springf'd    Republican   p8   D  25   '23   800w 
"Lord  Curzon  describes  his  experiences  in  de- 
tail and  with  vivacity." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p681  O  18 
'23    1750W 

CUTHRELL,  FAITH   (BALDWIN)    (MRS  HUGH 
2    HAMLIN     CUTHRELL).        Laurel    of    Stony- 
stream.   334p  $2   Small 

23-13315 
"A  tale  of  love  and  youth  and  flapperdom  en- 
tirely modern  in  its  setting,  a  small  Berkshire 
town,  quiet  in  winter,  much  summer  hoteled 
the  rest  of  the  year,  yet  very  cheerfully  old- 
fashioned  in  that  the  young  people  maintain 
in  their  relations  one  with  the  other  a  certain 
dignity  which  we  find  usually  among  our  own 
young  friends  in  real  life,  but  never  among 
those  in  our  new  books.  Of  course  there  is  the 
threadbare  accident  by  which  Laurel,  who 
always  wrote  love  letters  to  Robin  and  put  them 
secretly  into  an  apple  tree — Robin  was  engaged 
to  her  cousin — flnally  mailed  the  wrong  one." — 
Boston  Transcript 


"It  is  pleasant,  with  several  interesting  char- 
acters of  a  fresh,  west  Massachusetts  variety." 
+   Boston   Transcript   p2  D   15   '23  320w 
"Much   the   best   things    in   this   book   are    the 
author's  small  poems  used  as  chapter  headings; 
no  loud  pipings,  but  a  true  and  pleasant  voice." 
Lit   R   p319  D  1   '23  lOOw 
"  'Laurel    of    Stonystream'     is    not    a    daring 
'modern'   novel.     It  is  neither  startling  nor  un- 
usual, but  there  is  a  flavor  of  originality  in  the 
frank    presentation    of    a    theme    in    which    the 
heroine  is  a  homely  woman." 

-+-   N  Y  Times  p9  N  4  '23  300w 

CUTLER,     ROBERT.     Speckled     bird.   422p     $2 

Macmillan 

23-3438 

This  Is  the  story  of  Abigail  Vane,  an  orphan 
from  birth.  Her  father  had  come  from  one  of 
the  oldest  and  richest  New  England  families. 
Her  mother  had  been  the  daughter  of  an  ignor- 
ant New  York  plutocrat.  She  is  brought  up  under 
the  austere  eyes  of  her  spinster  aunt.  Clemency 
Vane,  and  at  intervals  is  spoiled  to  his  heart's 
desire  by  her  grandfather.  The  result  is  a  beau- 
tiful, restless  young  woman,  addicted  to  social 
excitements,  trifling  with  life,  even  with  love. 
When     Philip     Chester,     in  his     disappointment 


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121 


marries  another  woman,  Abigail  begins  to  regret 
her  philandering.  When  later,  in  France,  her 
ministrations  to  the  wounded  Philip  restore  him 
to  health  and  their  love  becomes  passionate, 
Abigail's  better  nature  asserts  itself,  altho  she 
now  faces  the  world  alone  with  her  fortune  in 
ruin. 


Bookhst   19:318  Jl   '23 

"The  audacity  with  which  Mr.  Cutler  intro- 
duces real  people  into  his  story  is  what  strikes 
the  reader  first.  They  are  dead  celebrities  to  be 
sure,  and  his  treatment  of  them  is  in  the  man- 
ner thoroughly  sanctioned  by  tradition.  The  ef- 
fect, however,  is  to  give  permanence  and  reality 
to  his  story.  It  conveys  the  impression  that  thi.'s 
is  biography  rather  than  novel."  D.  L.  M. 

-I-    Boston   Transcript   p4  F  21  '23  1150w 

"There  is  nothing  novel  about  the  plot  of 
the  book;  but  about  the  method  of  treatment 
there  is  much  that  is  unique.  The  author  is 
possessed  of  that  rare  gift  a  distinctive  style — ■ 
a  style  vitalized  and  electrified  by  a  person- 
ality." 

-I-   Lit    R   p626    Ap  21   '23   600w 

Reviewed   by  Glenway  Westcott 

New    Repub   35:158  Jl   14   '23   220w 

"Mr.  Cutler  writes  well.  His  style  has  a  pic- 
turesque quality,  and  though  many  of  the  people 
who  move  through  his  pages  are  somewhat 
stereotyped  he  has  contrived  to  make  several  of 
them  real  and  interesting.  His  novel,  considered 
as  a  whole,  has  more  than  a  touch  of  distinc- 
tion." 

-I NY  Times  pl6  F  18  '23  900w 

"Mr.  Cutler  has  told  what  is  in  great  part 
a  family  story,  but  on  the  whole  a  broadly 
human  story.  He  has  told  it  exceedingly  well, 
and  he  has  carried  through  it  an  interest  that 
endures  w^ithout  apparent  strain  several  lapses 
into  an  author's  own  rhapsodies  of  meditation." 
E.  W.  Osborn 

-f    N    Y   World   p6e   Mr   11   '23   600w 
Outlook  133:498  Mr  14  '23  120w 


D 


DAFOE,  JOHN  WESTLEY.  Laurier;  a  study  in 
Canadian  politics.  182p  $1.25  Thomas  Allen, 
Toronto,    Canada 

B  or  92  Laurier,  Sir  Wilfrid.  Canada — Pol- 
itics and  government  23-10112 
Pour  articles  originally  published  in  the  Mani- 
toba Free  Press  are  here  brought  together. 
They  are  a  study  of  Sir  Wilfrid  Laurier,  Ca- 
nadian statesman  and  Liberal  leader,  his  fif- 
teen years'  premiership  and  his  contribution 
toward  the  solution  of  the  question  of  Cana- 
da's relationship  to  the  empire. 


"The  biography  is  in  a  clear  and  pleasant,  if 
rather  rigid,  style,  and  is  an  excellent  piece 
of  work.  Unfortunately,  however,  Mr.  Skel- 
ton  sees  events  wholly  from  Laurier's  point  of 
view  and  forgets  the  historian  in  the  par- 
tizan."      G:    M.    Wrong 

H Am    Hist.R  28:570  Ap   '23   1750w 

"It  is  written  in  a  clear  and  graceful  style 
and  with  the  touch  of  authority  which  wide 
information  and  experience  give  to  the  expres- 
sion of  editorial  opinion.  There  is,  moreover, 
internal  evidence  that  Mr.  Dafoe  possesses  per- 
sonal knowledge  of  certain  passages  in  the  final 
outcome  of  the  Laurier  leadership  not  fully  un- 
derstood by  the  general  public,  and  was  him- 
self more  than  a  spectator  of  the  drama.  As 
a  contribution  to  recent  political  history,  the 
book,  therefore,  is  of  permanent  value.  .  . 
Within  the  compass  of  a  small  book  a  skil- 
ful hand  has  presented  with  insight  and  accur- 
acy first  the  development,  and  then  the  culmi- 
nation, of  a  remarkable  career."  A.  H.  U. 
Colquhoun 

-|-  Canadian    Hist    R    4:181    Je    "23    800w 


"For  anyone  who  desires  a  rapid  and  con- 
densed survey  of  Canadian  politics  since  the 
'eighties,  Mr  Dafoe's  little  volume  is  admirable. 
Certainly  no  Canadian  journalist  is  better  fitted 
for  the  task  than  Mr.  Dafoe,  who  was  so  close- 
ly associated  with  the  great  Liberal  leader  and 
who  has  been  so  intimately  connected  w^ith 
many   of   the   events   described." 

+  Spec   131:226    S    18    '23    450w 

DALLETT,    MORRIS.    Star   of   earth.    183p   $1.50 

Knopf 

23-2885 

Star  of  earth  is  the  sailor's  will-o'-the-wisp, 
beckoning  thru  the  long  tropical  nights  and 
stirring  vague  dreams  of  romance.  Max  Lan- 
tern, second  mate  on  the  American  freighter. 
Delilah,  altho  early  disillusioned  of  his  boyish 
hope  of  adventure  at  sea  is  still  aware  of  an  un- 
quenched  dream  spark,  which,  tho  it  makes 
him  no  more  articulate  than  his  fellows,  keeps 
alive  in  him  a  sense  of  difference.  Thru  the 
irresponsibility  of  his  captain,  the  young  man  is 
thrust  suddenly  into  the  drama  of  a  South 
American  revolution  and  for  several  fevered 
days  plays  a  leading  r61e  in  the  attempt  to 
rescue  a  girl  from  the  fate  which  has  overtaken 
her  family.  An  absorbing  story  is  contrived, 
the  hero  remaining  thru  all  his  violent  activity 
in  a  half-dream  from  which  the  reader  would 
not  have  him  awaken. 


Booklist  19:251  My  '23 

Cleveland  p26  Ap  '23 
"One  feels  that  Mr.  Dallett  has  often  sacri- 
ficed the  romantic  and  picturesque  for  a  real- 
ism which  he  has  not  quite  achieved.  If  it  be 
permissible  to  consider  style  and  content 
separately  one  may  say  that  the  narration  is 
well  above  the  average,  but  the  story  itself 
is  lacking  in  distinction.  However,  as  a  first 
novel  it  is  creditable." 

-I Lit   R  p610  Ap  14  '23   450w 

Nation   116:525  My  2  '23  30w 

"There  is  fatigue  in  his  detachment.  His 
people,  nearly  all  of  them,  seem  to  share  his 
detachment.  So  do  I.  Yet  one  of  these  days  if 
iust  the  right  story  occurs  to  Mr.  Dallett,  his 
bored  manner  will  set  off  his  events,  and  wise 
guys  will  buy  several  copies  apiece  of  his  first 
edition." 

h   New   Repub  35:241  Jl  25  '23  250w 

Reviewed  by  Raymond  Mortimer 

New  Statesman  21:448  Jl  21  '23  140w 
N  Y  Times  p26  F  4  '23  520w 
"The  story  is  as  finely  woven  as  a  web. 
Around  and  around  and  around  it  goes  till  the 
finish,  and  there  you  have  a  perfect  piece  of 
work.  Unless  Dallett  loses  himself  too  much  in 
vagueness  and  unconcern  to  the  extent  of  be- 
coming icy,  he  should  do  remarkable  work  with 
the  start  he  has  made."  Milton  Raison 

+   N    Y    Tribune    p25    Ap    1    '23    900w 

Springf'd   Republican  p8a  Mr  11 '23  130w 
"It    is   an    achievement    which    is    remarkable 
not   only   as   a   first   novel,    but   as   a   very   suc- 
cessful   attempt    to    bring    intractible    material 
under   artistic   discipline." 

4-  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p438   Je 
28    '23    420w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:84  Mr  '23 

DALTON,    HUGH.    Capital   levy    explained.    96p 
$1   Knopf    [2s   6d  Labour   pub.    co.] 
336.2  '];axation — Great  Britain.  Debts.  Public 

23-11078 
The  capital  levy,  which  came  suddenly  into 
prominence  as  a  first-class  political  Issue  in 
England  in  the  general  election  of  November, 
1922,  has  for  its  object  the  quick  payment,  by 
a  special  emergency  effort,  of  a  large  proportion 
of  the  war  debt.  This  levy,  as  proposed  by  the 
Labour  party  is  to  be  imposed,  not  annually  like 
the  income  tax,  but  once  and  for  all,  upon  all  in- 
dividuals owning'  more  than  a  certain  amount 
of  wealth.  The  author  of  this  little  book,  who 
holds    that   the  principle  of   the   levy  is   sound. 


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presents     it     as     a     practical     proposition     and 

answers  the  chief  objections  to  it. 


"The  interesting  and  valuable  feature  of  his 
handy  little  book  is  that  he  does  not  discuss 
the  problem  in  a  partisan  way.  In  impartial 
spirit  he  explains  the  purpose  and  nature  of 
the  proposed  measure,  examines  the  objections 
to  it  and  shows  how  it  would  work." 
+  N  Y  Times  p20  Jl  22  '23  480w 

DALTON,   HUGH.    Principles  of  public  finance. 

208p   $2.50   Knopf    [5s   Routledge] 

336    Finance  [23-5127] 

The  book  aims  to  set  out  without  undue 
elaboration,  the  general  principles  which  are 
applicable  to  the  public  finance  of  a  modern 
community.  It  does  not  advocate  any  detailed 
practical  policy  but  confines  itself  to  general 
considerations  upon  which  any  sound  policy 
inust  be  based.  To  show  how  economic 
damage  to  the  world  can  be  caused  by  ignor- 
ance and  neglect,  the  author  occasionally 
criticises  certain  current  opinions  on  questions 
of  taxation,  public  expenditure  and  public 
debts. 


Reviewed  by  T.  R.  Snavely 

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"It  is  excellently  written,  and  he  contrives  to 
make  interesting  what  is  apt  to  be  a  dull  sub- 
ject. Dr.  Dalton  has  a  sense  of  humour — a  sly 
and  subtle  sense;  and  he  enjoys,  and  makes 
his  reader  enjoy,  his  cleverness  in  definition 
and,  still  more,  in  the  demolition  of  theories  of 
which  he  does  not  approve." 

+   New   Statesman    20:726   Mr  24   '23    600w 
"The  writer  is  sufficiently  emphatic  to  be  in- 
teresting  without    being   so    dogmatic    as    to    be 
tiresome." 

+  Spec    130:sup492   Mr   24    '23   120w 

DAMON,  SAMUEL  FOSTER,  and  HILLYER, 
ROBERT  SILLIMAN,  eds.  Eight  more 
Harvard  poets;  with  an  introd.  bv  Dorian 
Abbott.  (Harvard  poetry  soc.  ser.)  i30p  $1.50 
Brentano's 

811.08      American    poetrv — Collections 

23-2672 
"  'Eight  More  Harvard  Poets'  is  the  eighth 
anthology  of  Harvard  verse  since  'Verses  from 
the  Harvard  Advocate'  was  published  at  Cam- 
bridge in  1876."  (Nation)  Contains  verse  by 
Norman  Cabot,  Grant  Code,  IMalcolm  Cowley, 
Jack  Merten,  Joel  T.  Rogers,  R.  Cameron  Rog- 
ers. Royall  Snow,  and  John  Brooks  Wheel- 
wright. 


"Many  of  these  young  men  show  real  prom- 
ise, and  isolated  poems  by  almost  anv  are  up 
to  magazine  standards.  But  a  thorough  reading 
of  the  book  brings  a  feeling  that  if  these  men 
continue  as  poet-s  there  will  come  a  time  when 
they  will  regret  the  publication  of  most  of  the 
pages   of  this   book." 

-I Bookm   57:221   Ap  '23   250w 

"A  volume  which,  with  one  brilliant  excep- 
tion, falls  greatly  below  the  earlier  Harvard 
anthology.  It  is  Malcolm  Cowley  who  will  run 
ahead    of    his    ticket." 

h   Dial    71:314    Mr    '23    160w 

"Throughout  the  volume,  the  technical 
adroitness  and  originality  of  these  college  poets 
is  extraordinary;  it  is  only  the  monotonous  in- 
sistence of  the  one  note  that  seems  a  defect. 
Hopelessness,  agony,  despair — these  are  too 
eternal  things  to  lose  their  validity  for  the  poet; 
but  pluckmg  on  that  sole  string  is  not  the  only 
way  in  which  Apollo  makes  manifest  his  music 
and   his  might."   N.    A. 

-j Freeman    7:100    My   2   '23    450w 

Reviewed    hv   W:    R.    Benct 

Lit    R    p516    Mr    10   '23    660w 

';it  is  very  much  of  our  time,  and  most  of 
It  IS  admirable,  though  of  course  young."  Mark 
Van   Doren 

+  Nation    116:246    F    28    '23    ISOw 


Reviewed  by  G.  B.  Munson 

New  Repub  36:160  O  3  "23  650w 
N    Y    Times    p2    Ja    28    '23    400w 
"The   verse   is   good,    but   it   is   deliberate   and 
intellectual — a   crime   in   young  singing."    Milton 
Raison 

H NY   Tribune   p22   Ja   28  '23   600w 

"A  readable  but  scarcely  Important  collec- 
tion." 

-i The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup    p250  Ap 

12   '23   300W 

DAMROSCH,   WALTER   JOHANNES.     My   mu- 
sical life.   376p  il  $4  Scribner 

B   or   92     Music— United   States  23-14574 

This  unusually  readable  book  of  musical  re- 
collections begins  with  the  author's  childhood  in 
Germany.  He  was  nine  years  old  when  his 
father,  Dr  I..eopold  Damrosch,  came  to  America 
to  become  the  conductor  of  the  Arion  society 
and  from  that  time  Walter  Damrosch  has  been 
closely  connected  with  the  musical  life  of 
America.  His  father  was  the  founder  of  Ger- 
man opera  at  the  Metropolitan  and  when  he 
suddenly  died,  before  the  completion  of  a  busy 
season,  Walter  Damrosch,  then  a  very  young 
man,  filled  out  his  father's  term  as  conductor. 
He  later  organized  the  Damrosch  opera  com- 
pany which  he  directed  for  five  years,  giving 
German  opera  in  the  principal  cities  of  the 
United  States.  His  name  is  chiefly  connected 
with  the  New  York  symphony  orchestra,  which 
he  has  conducted  for  many  years. 


Booklist  20:98  D  '23 
"On  the  whole  this  book  is  decidedly  enter- 
taining. Mr.  Damrosch  is  a  first-class  after- 
dinner  speaker  and  there  are  some  who  enjoy 
his  lecture  recitals  more  than  the  concerts  con- 
ducted by  him.  He  is  a  good  writer,  too,  and 
knows  how  to  leaven  his  pages  with  jokes  and 
anecdotes."      H:    T.    Finck 

-f   Lit   R  p208  N  3  '23  720w 

DARK,    SIDNEY,   and    GREY,    ROWLAND.      W. 

S.    Gilbert;    his    life    and    letters.    269p    il    $5 

Doran   [15s  Methuen] 

B  or  92     Gilbert,   William  Schwenk 

W.  S.  Gilbert,  1836-1911,  was  the  author  of 
the  "Bab  Ballads"  and  of  the  libretti  of  the 
Gilbert  and  Sullivan  operas.  When  Gilbert  and 
Sullivan  began  to  collaborate,  English  comic 
opera  had  practically  ceased  to  exist.  They 
brought  it  back  to  life  and  gaiety,  they  "re- 
stored the  literary  self-respect  of  the  English 
stage."  Gilbert  was  stage  manager  for  the 
Savoy  opera  and  the  biography  contains  much 
interesting  matter  about  the  production  of  the 
different  operas  and  the  artists  who  took  part. 
Many  of  his  letters  are  included.  They  show 
the  warmth  of  his  friendships  and  his  distinc- 
tive humor.  There  are  eight  full-page  plates 
and  numerous  reproductions  of  Gilbert's 
sketches. 


"It   is  almost   needless   to   say  that  this  is  a 
most  entertaining  book,   for  a  considerable  part 
of  it  consists  of  extracts  from   the  writings,   in 
prose    and    verse,    of    one    of    the    most    original 
humorists  and  delightful  satirists  of  his  own  or, 
it  might  almost  be  added,  of  arty  other  genera- 
tion.     And   it   is   also   a   good   biography,    for   it 
furnishes  all  the  essential  facts  in   the  develop- 
ment  of  a   remarkable  career."     J.    R.   Towse 
+   Lit   R  p388  D  22  '23  2150w 
"An     extremely     rich     and     amusing     volume 
which,    besides  being  the  first  adequate  biogra- 
phy of  Gilbert,  is  a  rather  keen  critical  evalua- 
tion   of    the    librettist    and    playwright's    work." 
-f  N  Y  Times  p5  D  16  '23  2350w 
Spec  131:910  D  8  '23  120w 
"Twelve    years    have    passed    since    Gilbert's 
death,  and  they  might,  we  cannot  but  feel,  have 
matured  a  better  biography.     The  result  is  not 
a  particularly  well-proportioned  book." 

—  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p747  N  8 
'23  2300W 


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DARROW,    FLOYD   LAVERN.    Boys'    own   book 
^    of  science.  331p  il  $2.50  Macmillan 

507  Science — Laboratory  manuals  23-13330 
A  guide  to  experimental  work  in  the  home 
laboratory.  It  describes  the  laboratory  appara- 
tus and  its  care  and  various  simple  experiments. 
Short  sketches  of  some  great  scientists  and  ex- 
perimenters are  included. 


Booklist  20:144  Ja  '24 
"For  a  boy  who  loves  to  experiment,  to  try 
out  and  prove  things  for  himself,  to  do  real  la- 
boratory work  'The  Boys'  Own  Book  of  Science' 
will  be  a  book  that  will  delight  and  inspire." 
Everett  McNeil 

-f  N  Y  Tribune  p20  N  11  '23  300w 
"It    is   an    exceedingly    valuable    book   written 
in  a  captivating  style." 

-f  Springf'd   Republican  p6  D  24   '23   120w 

DAS,    TARAKNATH.      India    in    world    politics. 

135p  $1.25  Huebsch 

327.54       Great     Britain — Foreign     relations. 
India — Foreign   relations  23-8734 

The  book  maintains,  largely  thru  citations 
from  British  authorities,  that  India  is  the  pivot 
of  the  British  Empire,  that  Britain's  jealously 
guarded  possession  of  India  determines  her  en- 
tire foreign  policy — her  relations  with  Turkey, 
Persia,  Russia,  Japan  and  China,  that  it  forced 
her  hand  against  Egypt,  arraigned  her  against 
Germany  thru  fear  of  the  Bagdad  route,  is  re- 
sponsible for  her  militarism  and,  as  the  root  of 
modern  imperialism,  threatens  the  peace  of 
the  whole  world,  "rhe  author  urges  India  to 
persist  in  her  present  policy  of  non-cooperation 
with  Britain  and  to  cultivate  foreign  relations 
of  her  own.  The  book  has  an  introduction  by 
Robert  Morss  Lovett,  and  an  appendix  bearing 
upon  the  Anglo-French  discord  in  the  Near 
East  and  India. 


Am   Econ   R  13:477  S  '23  70w 
Reviewed  by  Blanche  Watson 

Nation  117:22  Jl  4  '23  550w 
"Mr.  Das  has  written  a  serviceable  and  in 
some  respects  a  painstaking  book.  On  the 
whole  for  all  its  lack  of  imagination,  it  does  set 
forth  the  essential  conflict  between  the  British 
Empire  as  a  whole  and  its  unwilling  central 
part,  which  is  slowly  but  steadily  acquiring  a 
desire  for  separateness  and  nationhood  which 
fully  keeps  up  with  the  concessions  British 
Governments  from  time  to  time  attentively 
make."     G.  H.   Harding 

-^ NY  Times  p4   My  6   '23  IDOOw 

Springf'd   Republican   p7a  S  30  '23  180w 

Survey  50:supl92  My  1  '23  120w 

DAVENPORT.      EUGENE.       Vacation     on     the 

trail;     personal     exneriences     in     the     higher 

mountain   trails   with   complete    directions   for 

the     outfitting     of     inexpensive     expeditions. 

(Open  country  books)   lOlp  il  $1.50  Macmillan 

796     Camping.      Mountaineering  23-8777 

This    little    hook    describes    the    es.=entials    of 

camping  in  the  higher  mountain  trails.     It  tells 

how    to    get    the    utmost    enjoyment    out    of    a 

month's  tramp  thru   the  Rockies,  and  describes 

the   practical   details   of   outfitting   for   the   trip. 


Booklist  19:308  Jl  '23 
Reviewed  by  T.  R.  Coward 

Bookm   57:644   Ag   "23    20w 
Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  11  '23  130w 
"The    prospective    follower    of    the    trail    can 
obtain    Information    worth   while    from    one   who 
has  repeatedly  tested  it  all  out   for  himself." 

-f  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   plO   Je 
10  '23   560w 

'*Easy  it  is  to  believe  that  as  a  medicine  for 
tired  mind  and  exhausted  spirit  such  an  exper- 
ience as  this  is  beyond  compare!"  M.  L.  Frank- 
lin 

-I-   Ind   110:378  Je  9   '23   260w 
Lit   R  p820  Jl  7  '23  280w 


"There  is  about  everything  in  the  book  that 
the  camper  needs  to  know.  Any  one  con- 
templating such  a  vacation  as  the  author  de- 
scribes will  find  this  volume  a  valuable  hand- 
book." 

-f   N    Y   Times   p6   My   27    '23   450w 

Beginning  with  the  requisite  food  and  cloth- 
ing for  the  tramper  and  concluding  with  the 
burro,  the  pack  and  the  diamond  hitch,  he 
omits  no  practical  detail  that  the  tyro  would 
otherwise  have  to  learn  from  an  experienced 
guide." 

-f   N   Y   Tribune   pl8   Je  24   '23  220w 

R  of  Rs  68:223  Ag  '23  60w 

DAVID,    DONALD    KIRK.      Retail    store    man- 
agement   problems.    lO.'^fip   $6.75   Shaw,    A.    W. 

658     Retail  trade.     Department   stores 

22-2747 

"This  most  complete  text  on  retail  stores 
management  represents  a  stupendous  amount  of 
searching  throughout  the  business  community 
for  problems  of  retail  stores  management  and 
a  compilation  of  these  problems  in  unified, 
orderly  fashion.  The  problems  incident  to  retail 
store  operation  are  logically  developed  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  case  method  under  group 
headings  such  as  Accounting,  Organization, 
Merchandising  and  Buying,  which  serve  to  give 
the  reader  contact  with  all  phases  of  the  retail 
manager's  work.  The  text  is  profusely  illus- 
trated with  charts  of  forms.  It  would  seem  that 
the  book  would  have  been  an  impossible  ac- 
complishment without  the  aid  of  the  large 
number  of  concrete  management  problems  avail- 
able to  the  author  through  the  Harvard  Bureau 
of  Business  Research,  under  Professor  Melvin 
T.   Copeland.". — Ann  Am  Acad 


"It  is  difficult  to  imagine  a  more  complete 
and  thorough-going  attempt  to  set  forth  in  one 
volume  all  of  the  problems  of  the  retail  execu- 
tive. The  book  will  become  standard  as  a  ref- 
erence text  for  retail  stores  management."  R. 
H.   Lansburgh 

+  Ann    Am   Acad   102:209   Jl   '22   250w 

"It  will  be  a  convenient  reference  for  the 
general  business  man." 

Booklist  19:180  Mr  '23 

"The  size  of  the  volume  under  this  title,  and 
the  breadth  of  the  subject  need  not  discourage 
the  busy  man  from  reading  it.  Actual  dif- 
ficulties experienced  by  various  firms  [are 
described]  and  since  these  firms  cover  prac- 
tically the  entire  field  of  retailing,  from  groceries 
to  jewelry,  the  reader  can  pick  out  the  par- 
ticular instances  which  most  nearly  fit  his  own 
case,  and  find  his  troubles  discussed."  Hilary 
Rogers 

-f-   Dally  News   Rec  p9  Je  13  '22  750w 

Springf'd    Republican  p8  Mr  11  '22  180w 

DAVIES,   MARY  CAROLYN.     Outdoors  and  us. 

70p  il  $2.50  Penn 

811  22-23931 

A  collection  of  simple  verses  for  very  young 
children.  "The  dream  of  'When  I'm  Grown  Up 
and  President,'  rudely  interrupted  by  mother's 
call  to  come  and  fill  the  woodhox,  is  one  of  the 
most  amusing  verses  and  among  the  other  at- 
tractive things  are  'Our  Constant  Cat,'  faithful 
when  all  grown  folks  fail;  the  Soap  Bubble  Pipe, 
maker  of  so  much  magic;  the  Chipmunk  Nests 
and  manv  exquisite  garden  thoughts,  as  well 
as  the  love  the  children  feel  for  their  plain 
Cousin  Jane." — Boston  Transcript 


"Delightful  verses  that  have  the  finish  of  all 
Miss  Davies'  wark,  and  the  spirit  that  will  de- 
light  small    girls   and   boys."      L.    H.    G. 

-f-   Boston    Transcript   p4    F    21    '23    400w 

"Miss  Davies's  verses,  while  for  the  most  part 
mediocre  as  poetry,  have  a  pretty  fancifulness 
and  a  frolicsome  humor  that  lend  them  charm, 
while  the  pictures,  in  color  and  in  black  and 
white,  that  accompany  them  have  a  daintiness 
that  sits  well  upon  their  portrayal  of  youthful 
activities.     The  book,  for  all  its  sumptuous  in- 


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DAVIES,    M.    C. — Continued 

terior,  is  sensibly  bound  in  a  sturdy  brown  cloth 

well   fitted   to  withstand   the   rough   handling  of 

children." 

+  Lit  R  p475  F  17  '23  lOOw 
"Although  the  verses  belong  to  a  rather  low 
plane  of  literature,  they  are  usually  felicitous. 
One  has  the  uneasy  feeling  that  Miss  Davies 
dashed  them  off  in  a  hurry,  committing  just 
the  offense  in  child  literature  which  should  not 
be  committed." 

h   N    Y  Times  p8  Mr  11  '23  400w 

DAVIES,    RANDALL    ROBERT    HENRY.    Chats 
2    on  old  Engli.'^h  drawings.   (Collectors  ser.)  220p 

11  $4   Stokes   [9s  Unwln] 
741      Drawings.      English 

"With  the  exception  of  Holbein  the  period 
covered  by  the  author  begins  with  the  seven- 
teenth century  with  Inigo  Jones,  and  the  great 
majority  of  his  artists  belong  to  the  latter  half 
of  the  eighteenth  century.  Mr.  Davies  has  set 
the  other  limit  roughly  at  1820,  and  following 
Horace  Walpole  he  includes  foreign  artists  who 
settled  in  England.  There  are  fort.v-five  illus- 
trations, one  in  colour." — The  Times  [London] 
Lit  Sup  S  6   '23 


"There  is  little  illuminating  criticism  in  the 
book,  but  much  record  of  the  whereabouts  of 
drawings  and  a  few  hints  on  methods  of  col- 
lecting, forgeries,  and  mounts.  Yet  one  is  in- 
clined to  be  thankful  for  any  book  that  draws 
attention  to  this  specialty  in  appreciation  and 
collecting." 

+  Lit  R  p430  Ja  5  '24  200w 
"The  true  collector's  spirit  breathes  from  the 
pages  of  Mr.  Randall  Davies's  little  volume, 
and  a  perusal  of  it  can  hardly  fail  to  inspire 
anyone  who  is  at  all  of  a  similar  frame  of 
mind  with  an  irrepressible  desire  to  start  forth- 
with on  a  quest  among  the  dusty  portfolios  of 
the  ubiquitous  little  dealer  in  old  prints  and 
drawings." 

+  Sat  R  136:307  S  15  '23  400w 
"The  present  volume  is  an  excellent  addi- 
tion to  a  well-known  series.  It  contains  a  great 
deal  of  information  that  would  be  valuable  to 
many  readers  who  might  consider  themselves 
too  well-versed  to  derive  benefit  from  a  'Chat' 
on   the   subject." 

+  Spec  131:361   S  15  '23   90w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p589  S 
6  '23  50w 
"This  is  a  pleasant,  sensible  book,  dealing 
with  a  subject  on  which  the  author  has  special 
claims  for  a  hearing.  It  is  well  and  freely 
illustrated,  light  to  handle,  and  by  no  means 
heavv   in    digestion." 

■  _|_  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p629    S 
27    '23    1050W 

DAVIES,    WILLIAM    HENRY.    Collected   poems; 

second  series.   157p  $2  Harper    [6s   J.    Cape] 
821 

The  second  selection  from  the  recent  books 
of  verse  of  the  "tramp  poet"  includes  rather 
more  than  a  hundred  poems.  Joy  in  nature,  in 
love  and  in  mere  living  fill  these  poems,  and 
they  have  the  spontaneity  and  fresh  fancy  which 
have   marked   his   work  from  the  beginning. 


"It  may  seem  absurd  to  say  of  a  poet  as  firmly 
established  as  Mr.  Davies  that  his  work  shows 
less  performance  than  promise.  In  a  rather  un- 
distinguished age  his  verse  ranks  high:  and  yet 
the  basis  of  his  reputation  is  not  metrical  subtle- 
ty, or  distinction  of  style,  or  profoundity  of 
thought.  .  .  AVhence,  then,  Mr  Davies'  reputa- 
tion: and  his  real  promise?  It  is,  partly,  that  he 
has  an  extraordinarily  happy,  though  fickle, 
fancy,  and  the  mob  of  his  more  superficially  ac- 
complished contemporaries  have  not.  The  other 
thing  about  Mr.  Davies  is  the  genuine  spon- 
taneity of  his  feelings  which,  except  occasionally, 
is    above     suspicion."     Frank     Lucas 

^ New  Statesman  21:114  My  5  '23  1300w 

"One  of  the  chief  merits  of  Mr.  Davies's  poet- 
ry is  that  it  is  extremely  difficult  to  say  any- 
thing  whatever   about   it,    for   the   same    reason 


that  it  is  extremely  difficult  to  say  anything 
about  the  song  of  a  thrush.  We  become  aware, 
in  face  of  a  thing  so  spontaneous  and  pure,  of 
the  inappropriateness  of  the  intellectual  as  a 
method  of  evaluation.  .  .  There  is,  of  course, 
much  enjoyable  poetry  in  which  we  have,  at 
first,  to  work  somewhat  hard  for  our  reward; 
but  Mr.  Davies  thrusts  enjoyment  upon  us,  and 
when  we  read  his  poems  we  are  inclined  simply 
to  thank  heaven  and  refrain  even  from  good 
words."  Martin  Armstrong 

-I-  Spec  130:805  My  12  '23  lOOOw 
"Mr.  Davies  has  been  able  to  choose  from  his 
recent  books  rather  more  than  a  hundred  poems, 
which,  at  large,  are  as  fresh  and  green,  as  de- 
finite in  their  characteristics,  as  their  predeces- 
sors." 

+  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p245  Ap  12 
'23  lOSOw 

DAVIS,       ELMER       HOLMES.         Times      have 

changed.    300p   $2   McBride 

23-8059 

/'Mark  O'Rell  departed  from  the  beaten  track 
only  a  step  or  two.  He  meant  no  harm  and 
did  none.  But  when  his  wife  looked  for  him 
in  the  accustomed  place,  he  wasn't  there.  And 
when  she  found  him  again  he  was  with  a  chorus 
lady  and  a  sweet  girl  graduate  of  the  high 
school  whereof  Mark  was  principal.  And  they 
had  all  been  to  a  masked  ball.  He  was  also 
being  followed  by  a  couple  of  thugs,  with  fel- 
onious intent;  and  he  was  himself  a  fugitive 
from  the  law,  having  assaulted  and  escaped 
from  a  police  officer.  One  step  at  a  time  did 
it;  and  he  never  meant  any  harm.  It  was  only 
that  people  did  not  understand;  they  wanted 
explanations  of  everything  which,  when  he  was 
among  friends,  would  have  been  taken  for 
granted." — N    Y    Tribune 


Booklist  20:56  N  '23 
"It   is   a   rollicking   story   which   Elmer   Davis 
has  w^ritten." 

+  Boston   Transcript  p%  My  9   '23   250w 

Cleveland   p67   S  '23 
"  'Times    Have    Changed'    is    so    very    much 
better   than    most   of   the    mystery   tales   turned 
out,    and    the    characterization    shows    so    much 
genuine  talent,   that  it  seems  almost  a  pity  Mr. 
Davis  is  not  willing  to  spend  more  of  his  time 
and  labor  in  producing  books  that  might  easily 
become   very  finished   products."    T:   L.   Masson 
H-  Int   Bk   R    p56  My  '23   350w 
"He     is    a    raconteur    par    excellence    of    the 
extraordinary,   the  unexpected,   the   unusual;   at 
his   hands  the   fantastic  assumes   the   nature  of 
the  inevitable.     It  is  a  merry  book." 
+   Lit  R  p650  Ap  28  '23  400w 
Nation    117:144   Ag   8   '23   150w 
"Mr.    Davis    has    written    his    story    in    short, 
breathless    chapters    well    suited    to    the    briskly 
moving  tempo  of  his  tale.     Those  who  may  lack 
the   initiative   or  the   resourcefulness  of  a  Mark 
O'Rell.  and  so  must  take  adventure  vicariously, 
will  get  it  a-plenty  in  Mr.  Davis's  amusing  book. 
'Times    Have    Changed'    may    be    safely    recom- 
mended   as    an    admirable    Spring    tonic." 
+   N    Y   Times   p9   Ap   8   '23    660w 
"If  he   is   a  beginner,   he  is  a  very  promising 
one.    He  has  a  faculty  for  extracting  the  latent 
humor  from   everyday  life,   giving  the  common- 
place   iust    that    little   nudge    nece.ssary    to   send 
it    over   the    border   line    into    the    realm    of   the 
preposterous."      Isabel    Paterson 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p21  Ap  15  '23  520w 
"Mr.  Davis  does  not  quite  believe  or  pretend 
to  believe  everything  that  happens  in  his  yarn. 
It  goes  to  fantastic  extremes.  But,  curiously 
enough,  the  reader's  doubt  is  apt  to  dissipate 
as  the  story  moves  ahead.  Pace  conquers  all 
.  .  .  'Times  Have  Changed'  is  delightful  spoof- 
ing. Of  course,  one  of  the  reasons  is  nothing 
more  than  the  fact  that  it  is  so  conspicuously 
well    written."      Heywood    Broun 

+   N   Y  World  p6e  My  27  '23  540w 
"A  story  breezily  told,  and  worth  the  telling." 
+  Sprlngf'd     Republican    p7a    My    27    '23 
300w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


125 


DAVIS,    OWEN.    Icebound:    a    play.    116p    $1.50 

Little 

812  23-10497 

The  play  depicts  the  lives  of  farmer  folk  in 
a  village  of  northM-n  Maine,  icebound  by  their 
bleak  countryside  and  their  loveless  hearts.  The 
immediate  scene  is  the  Jordan  homestead  which 
by  the  will  of  the  aged  mother  of  the  family 
comes  into  possession  of  a  second  cousin,  Jane 
Crosby,  who  had  lived  with  Mrs  Jordan  for  sev- 
eral years  and  served  her  faithfully.  Hate  flames 
up  in  the  hearts  of  the  disappointed  heirs  and 
makes  life  difficult  for  Jane.  Then  it  develops 
that  the  estate  was  not  left  her  for  her  own 
use  but  in  trust  for  the  black  sheep  son  of  the 
family,  who  the  mother  hoped  would  marry 
Jane  and  by  her  be  redeemed.  Ben  Jordan  is  a 
little  slow  to  discover  this  purpose  and  the 
strength  of  Jane's  love  for  him,  but  in  the  end 
light  dawns  on  him.  The  play  was  awarded  the 
Pulitzer  prize  for  the  best  American  play  of  1922. 


Booklist  20:13   O  '23 

"The  theme  may  be  sordid,  but  it  is  pre- 
sented in  such  natural  dialogue,  with  occasional 
flashes  of  ironic  comedy,  that  it  is  altogether 
enjoyable.  Here  is  an  honest  piece  of  dramatic 
writing — a  fine  play,  pungent  in  its  observation 
of  human  nature,  characterization  without  com- 
promise, a  sound  and  tolerant  view  of  life.  It 
is  full  of  vitality,  of  reality."   F.  H.  K. 

-I-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News  p20   Ag 
12   '23    650w 

"This  play,  if  it  does  not  deserve  all  the 
high  laudation  which  has  been  bestowed  upon 
it,  must  certainly  be  accounted  among  the 
more  notable  theatrical  successes  of  the  past 
New  York  season."  J.  R.  Towse 
+   Lit    R   p38   S   15   '23   360w 

"Perhaps  the  play  acts  better  than  it  reads. 
The  first  act  is  interminable.  The  second  and 
third  acts  go  better  as  far  as  holding  attention 
are  concerned.  But  Jane,  who  in  the  beginning 
bids  fair  to  be  a  character  of  character,  de- 
scends into  a  pit  of  sirupy  sentimentalism  when 
she  consents  to  stay  with  Ben." 

—  Springf'd    Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  600w 

Wis    Lib   Bui   19:442  O   '23 

DAVIS,  WILLIAM  STEARNS.  Life  on  a  mediae- 
val barony:  a  picture  of  a  typical  feudal 
community  in  the  thirteenth  century.  414p  il 
$3.50  Harper 

394  Middle  ages.  Feudalism  23-13031 

The  book  describes  a  typical  medieval  sei- 
gneury  in  northern  France  in  the  year  1220, 
which  represents  the  epoch  when  the  spirit  of 
the  Middle  ages  had  reached  its  full  development. 
Descriptions  are  given  of  the  castle  itself  and  the 
household  of  the  seigneur,  its  customs  and 
hospitality,  the  training  of  knights  and  nobles, 
tourneys  and  feudal  battles.  An  account  of  the 
peasant  villages  roundabout  is  included,  also 
of  the  abbey  and  monastery  and  the  cathedral 
seat  of  the  bishop. 


Reviewed   by   F.    Duncalf 

Am    Hist    R    29:368   Ja   '24   460w 

"This  volume,  showing  forth  a  vast  amount  of 
research,  of  study  and  of  learning,  in  a  line 
decidedly  unusual,  is  adorned  Avith  a  large  num- 
ber of  illustrations,  some  full  page  cuts,  but  the 
majority  carefully  made  drawings  in  the  text." 
E.   J.   C. 

4-   Boston  Transcript  p4  S  15  '23   780w 

'"The  book  is  much  more  interesting  than 
Luchaire's  somewhat  larger  one  and  should  be 
attractive  to  the  many  lovers  of  mediaeval  tales. 
It  may  be  heartily  recommended  to  both  readers 
and  writers.  It  was  well  worth  doing,  and  it  has 
been  well   done."   G:   B.   Adams 

4-   Lit    R   pl82  O   27  '23   700w 

"In  a  most  agreeable  and  readable  fashion, 
under  his  thin  fiction  of  St.  Aliquis,  Professor 
Davis  makes  u.s  see  the  Middle  Ages  as  they 
neared  their  end.  It  is  a  fine  bit  of  work  worth- 
ily  done."     C.    W.    Thompson 

-h  N   Y  Times  pl9  Ja  6  '24  2400w 


"The  whole  book  is  a  compact  and  well 
ordered  mass  of  fascinating  detail,  which  leaves 
one  at  a  loss  to  choose  the  most  interesting.  It 
is  the  homelier  domestic  items  of  information 
which  lend  the  greatest  charm  to  this  excellent- 
ly WTitten  record."   Isabel  Paterson 

+   N    Y   Tribune   p6    S   23    '23    980w 
"In  this   fascinating,   semi-fictitious   narrative 
Professor  Davis  reconstructs  and  vivifies  for  the 
modern  reader  the  actual  daily  life  of  the  feud- 
al   ages." 

+  Outlook  135:194  O  3  '23  150w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  D  30  '23  550w 


DAWES,  CHARLES  GATES.     First  year  of  the 
budget   of  the   United  States.    437p  |6  Harper 
351.72   Budget— United   States  23-5389 

Gen.  Dawes,  who  was  appointed  by  President 
Harding  director  of  the  Bureau  of  the  budget, 
had  the  task  of  inaugurating  a  system  of  co- 
ordinating business  control  over  the  various 
departments  and  independent  establishments  of 
the  government  which  have  been  heretofore 
almost  completely  decentralized.  The  present 
volume  is  composed  of  the  notes  which  he  made 
from  day  to  day  on  the  progress  of  the  work, 
together  with  his  official  orders  and  statements. 
The  book  outlines  two  accomplishments:  first, 
the  institution  of  the  budget  system  of  expendi- 
ture; second,  the  coordination  of  the  various 
government  departments  by  the  Bureau  of  the 
budget. 


"A  clear  and  straightforward  account  of  the 
procedure  and  policies  which  were  involved,  the 
problems  confronted,  and  the  results  achieved 
during  the  formative  period  of  the  new  national 
budget  system.  One  conclusion  stands  out 
above  all  others  from  a  reading  of  this  volume; 
namely,  the  urgent  necessity  for  a  thorough- 
going reorganization  and  coordination  of  the 
national    administrative    departments." 

+  Am  Pol  Sci   R  17:348  My  '23  200w 
Booklist  19:299  Jl  '23 
Reviewed  by  M.  E.  Pierce 

Boston    Transcript   p2   My   12   '23   2400w 

Cleveland  p71  S  '23 

"It  is  both  novel  and  instructive.  It  is  vital. 
Made  up  of  the  kind  of  things  which  would 
find  their  way  into  a  folder  in  the  flies  of  a 
busy  man's  office,  in  it  we  see  the  genius  of 
an  extraordinary  personality."  F:  A.  Cleveland 
+   Lit   R  p734   Je  2  '23   1700w 

"Making  all  deductions,  the  book  has  value  as 
a  record  of  activities  rather  than  ideas,  as  a 
picture  of  an  active  business  man  of  a  type 
unfortunately  not  too  rare,  and  as  a  collection 
of  documents,  largely  unimportant  ones,  deal- 
ing with  the  installation  of  a  more  business-like 
svstem  of  handling  the  affairs  of  the  Federal 
G"overnment,  but  chiefly  as  a  flrst-aid  package 
to  those  who  have  forgotten  how  to  smile  in 
a  world  of  income  taxes  and  business-political 
'bunk.'  "   H:   R.   Mussey 

—   Nation   117:302  S  19  '23  500w 

"There  is  no  doubt  that  the  worthy  General 
did  achieve  some  economies  through  his  liaison 
purchasing  committees  in  which  all  departments 
cooperated.  The  exact  total  in  dollars  and 
cents  can  never  be  calculated,  but  it  could 
hardlv  reach  a  tenth  of  the  'savings'  set  forth. 
The  other  nine  tenths  falls  under  the  head  of 
wit,  humor  and  bull."   Stuart  Chase 

_  New   Repub   34:350  My   23  '23  1400w 

"It  may  be  hard  to  make  a  budget  interesting, 
but  this  'fiery  diary  of  a  fighter  accomplishes  it 
on  every  page.  In  addition  to  his  public  serv- 
ices. General  Dawes  can  make  |ven  figures 
snap  and  pop.  and  that  is  the  kind  of  book  he 

hn«  written  "   C-  W.  Thompson 

has  ^-^"en.^   k..^^^  ^^^  ^^  ^  ,^^  ^^^^^ 

"If  General  Dawes  was  direct  and  forceful 
and  careless  of  convention  in  his  activities  as  a 
public  ofllcial,  the  same  qualities  persist  in  the 
manner  of  presenting  his  case  in  cold  type.  He 
his  written  for  business  men  a  book  concerning 
the  biggest  business  in  the  world— that  of  the 
TTiiitpd  States  Government. 
^•"^^  ^-  R   of  Rs   67:446  Ap  '23  400w 


126 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


DAWES,    C:    G. — Continued 

"The  chief  value  of  the  book  is  that  it  gives 
an  interesting-  and  personal  picture,  from  a 
single  viewpoint  of  the  development  of  the  new 
budget  system.  .  .  Unfortunately  one  tends  to 
discount  various  conclusions  made  by  Dawes 
as  to  his  own  effectiveness  and  that  of  Presi- 
dent Harding  because  of  his  sentimentality — his 
bathos,  even — in  some  comments.  The  book 
frequently  reads  like  a  campaign  document, 
with  its  lavish  and  indiscriminate  praise  of  the 
members  of  the  Harding  administration  and 
its  implied  slurs  on  their  predecessors."  J:  M. 
Gaus 

\-  Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Je  24  '23  400w 

Survey   51:237   N   15   '23   220w 

DAY,   HOLMAN    FRANCIS.     Leadbetter's  Luck. 

263p  il  $1.75     Duffield 

23-14920 

"Leadbetter's  Luck  is  the  new  name  given 
by  Leadbetter  to  the  township  of  Misery  Gore, 
in  the  Maine  lumber  region,  where  his  tiinber- 
holdings  develop  into  valuable  property  after 
he  has  met  various  disappointments  and  de- 
feats in  his  attempts  to  log  them  off.  Lead- 
better's  partner  is  a  young  specialist  in  forestry, 
not  long  out  of  Yale,  who  joins  him  after  being 
thwarted  in  efforts  at  conservation  as  an  em- 
ploye of  an  old-time  sla.sh-and-ruin  company. 
The  crookedness  of  this  company's  field-man- 
ager and  its  opposition  to  the  young  conservator 
and  to  the  new  company,  supply  most  of  the 
plot  and  action." — Springf'd  Republican 


"Holman  Day  is  at  home  in  this  kind  of 
novel,  and  a  boy  will  find  in  the  hook  a  lively 
industry  and  the  need  of  methods  that  will 
avoid  turning  lordly  forests  into  tracts  of  tree 
stumps  without  provision  for  futvire  growth." 
Daniel   Henderson 

-I-   Lit   R   p233    N   10    '23    50w 

Reviewed    by    Everett    McNeil 

N    Y    Tribune    p24    N    4    '23    130w 

"The  juveniles  who  are  especially  pleased 
with  it  will  be  rather  mature,  whereas  there 
will  be  plenty  of  readers  who  in  years  don't 
rank  as  boys,  yet  will  find  the  story  attrac- 
tive." 

-|-  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  N   4   '23   180w 

DAY,     HOLMAN     FRANCIS.       The     loving   are 

the  daring.     422p  $2  Harper 

23-13099 

The  background  of  this  tale  of  love  and  ad- 
venture is  laid  in  Canada  and  Maine.  .Tean 
Verdon,  the  hero,  is  the  boldest  of  the  bold, 
and  risks  his  life  to  save  a  girl  who  proves 
to  be  "drowning"  for  a  moving  picture.  How- 
ever, this  adventure  leads  Jean  to  the  paths 
of  romance  and  he  finally  wins  the  girl  of 
his  heart,  tho  he  becomes  enmeshed  in  the 
toils  of  tricky  land  grabbers  who  are  trying 
to  get  the  control  of  the  water-power  rights 
bordering    on    an    American    state. 


DE   KOVEN,  ANNA  (FARWELL)    (MRS   REGI- 
NALD   DE    KOVEN).    Primer    of    citizenship. 
201p  $1.50  Dutton 
342.73    Citizenship.     United     States — Politics 
and  government  23-10522 

This  primer  contains  simple  readings  in 
American  history,  on  patriotism  and  citizenship, 
on  politics,  government  and  law.  Contents:  The 
new  world;  The  beginnings  of  free  government; 
The  birth  of  our  nation;  Love  of  country;  The 
good  citizen;  Our  United  States;  Rural  govern- 
ments; The  city;  The  states;  The  central  or 
national  government;  The  Constitution;  The 
citizen's  part  in  the  government;  Political 
parties;  Nomination  of  candidates  for  office;  The 
law;  How  the  national  government  watches  over 
the  people;  Dangers  to  the  permanency  of  our 
government;  What  is  a  republic? 


"It  sets  forth  in  a  clear,  interesting  and 
simple  manner  the  story  of  the  founding  of 
America." 

+  Am  Pol  Scl  R  17:689  N  '23  150w 
Booklist  20:122  Ja  '24 
"Throughout  the  volume  runs  a  thread  of  his- 
tory written  in  a  manner  that  should  thrill  the 
young  student  of  American  citizenship,  whether 
he  be  a  child  in  the  grammar  grades  or  an  im- 
migrant stumbling  through  his  first  reading  in 
English." 

4-  N  Y  Times  p21  Je  19  '23  500w 
Reviewed    by   S.    A.    Coblentz 

N   Y  Tribune  p20  O  21  '23  40w 

DE     LA     MARE,    WALTER    JOHN.      A    child's 

day.   87p   il  $1.75  Holt 
821  A23-1027 

Verses  about  the  happy  things  which  made 
up  Elizabeth  Ann's  long,  long  day  with  only 
herself  to  play  with — getting  washed  and 
dressed,  playing  in  the  green  wood,  dabbling 
her  feet  in  a  rush-bordered  pool,  wreathing  a 
daisy  chain,  eating  her  good  dinner,  looking 
at  picture  books,  rummaging  in  old  wardrobes, 
and  finally,  going  to   bed  and  dreaming. 


Booklist    19:323   Jl    '23 
"The  book  bids  fair  to  find  its   place  quickly 
with   American   children."    A.    C.    Moore 
+  Bookm  57:358  My  '23  120w 

Boston  Transcript  p2  Jl  7  '23  800w 
Reviewed  by  L:   St  J:  Power 

Int  Bk  R  pl3  Je  '23  450w 
"It  is  a  book  which  achieves  without  ap- 
parent effort,  but  with  rounded  and  smooth- 
phrased  completeness,  the  crowded,  imaginary 
hours  of  a  child's  long  summer  day — the  chron- 
icle, perhaps,  of  one's  own  Golden  Age."  J.  L. 
McL. 

New   Repub  36:82  S  12  '23  400w 
Reviewed  by  M.   G.   Bonner 

N   Y  Times  pll  Je  24  '23  200w 
"The  poetry  is  simple  without  being  silly,  and 
delicate    without   being   thin." 

4-  Outlook  135:34  S  5  '23  150w 


Booklist  20:138  Ja  '24 

"The  story  is  something  of  a  departure  for  its 
author,  but  it  is  certainly  a  step  in  the  right 
direction.  The  lives  of  simple  people  who 
greatly  dare  are  always  a  thrill  and  an  inspira- 
tion." 

-|-   Boston   Transcript  p4   D  19   '23  260w 

"The  novel  is  entirely  conventional  in  theme 
and  workmanship;  it  is  the  typical  tale  of  love 
and  adventure  in  a  primitive  environment  and 
is  about  as  interesting  as  the  average  story 
of  its  type  and  about  as  melodramatic  and 
mechanical   in    construction." 

—  Lit    R    p318    D    1    '23    150w 

N  Y  Times  pl4  N  11  '23  150w 
"It    is    below    Holman    Day's    average    stand- 
ard, particularly  in  default  of  the  broad  humor, 
satire     and      character-drawing     distinguishing 
some    of   his    other    books." 

—  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  O  28  '23  180w 


DE   LA   MARE,  WALTER. JOHN,  comp.     Come 
=    hither.      696p     il     $6     Knopf 

821.08     Children's  poetry.     English  poetry — 

Collections 
From  many  and  unusual  sources  ranging  from 
Chaucer  to  our  own  day  Mr  De  la  Mare  has 
gathered  this  collection  of  500  "lyrical  and 
im;^ginative  poems  intended  for  the  consump- 
tion of  the  young  of  all  ages."  Many  of  these 
poems  have  rarely  found  their  way  into  the 
ordinary  anthologies.  Some  familiar  poems  have 
been  left  out  because  they  may  be  easily  found 
elsewhere.  There  is  an  introductory  Story  of 
this  book  transporting  the  reader  into  the 
"other  world"  which  is  the  fit  setting  for  the 
poems,  nnd  after  the  poems  come  180  pages  of 
notes  which  lead  the  imagination  farther  afield 
and  which  mav  be  read  with  delight  without 
reference  to  the  poems  they  annotate.  The 
book  is  embellished  with  woodcuts  by  Alec 
Buckels. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


127 


"In  form,  Mr.  De  la  Mare's  book  is  a  portly 
octavo,  well  arranged,  well  printed  and  ser- 
viceably  bound,  but  embellished  here  and  there 
with  designs  by  Alec  Buckels  that  are  alto- 
gether too  funereal  in  their  aspect."     E.   F.   E. 

-\ Boston    Transcript    p6   D   29    '23    650w 

"It  is  a  book  for  the  family  library,  and 
may  well  be  in  all  hands  at  once.  If  parents 
buy  'Come  Hither,"  parents  will  read  it.  They 
will  likewise  look  at  Alec  Buckels's  decorations 
and  will  see  a  rare  genius  and  beautiful  work- 
manship in  the  woodcuts."  P.  V.  Morley 
+   Lit    R    p404   D   29   '23    950w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p799    N 
29    '23 

DE  LA  MARE,  WALTER  JOHN.  Riddle,  and 
other  tales.  290p  $2.50  Knopf  [7s  6d  Selwyn  & 
B.j 

23-9575 

"Mr.  de  la  Mare  has  chosen  to  be  the  in- 
terpreter, in  prose  and  poetry,  of  unearthliness. 
For  him  those  who  are,  in  popular  speech, 
'queer,'  even  if  unpleasantly  so,  are  those  who 
see  and  hear  the  crowd  of  hidden  things  which 
hedge  us  about  in  our  blindness.  He  does  not 
blench  from  them  when  they  are  horrible,  as 
witness  the  story  of  'Seaton's  Aunt,'  the  mon- 
strous old  woman,  with  her  huge  appetite  and 
her  sinister  irony,  who  simply  haunted  her 
heir  and  nephew  to  his  death;  or  'Out  of  the 
Deep,'  in  which  a  lonely  man,  precariously  liv- 
ing in  the  gaunt  house  full  of  relics  and  memo- 
ries of  his  uncle,  summons  by  night  strange 
visitors  from  a  haunted  basement  and  finally 
is  found  strangled  with  a  cord  in  the  attic  .  .  . 
or  the  wonderful  story  of  Lispet,  Lispett  and 
Vaine,  the  prehistoric  firm  of  incomparable 
mercers,  who  fell  into  decay  because  Antony 
Lispett  lost  his  heart  to  a  fairy  and  would  only 
make  things  to  fit  her  diminutive  proportions." 
(The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup)  Contents:  The 
almona  tree;  The  count's  courtship;  The  look- 
ing-glass; Miss  Duveen;  Selina's  parable; 
Seaton's  aunt;  The  bird  of  travel;  The  bowl; 
The  three  friends;  Lispet,  Lispett  &  Vaine;  The 
tree;  Out  of  the  deep;  The  creatures;  The 
riddle;    The   vats. 


"It  is  hardly  necessary  to  add  that  this  whole 
remarkable  volume  is  written  in  the  concentrat- 
ed and  eclectic  prose  style  we  have  learned  to 
expect  from  Mr.  de  la  Mare,  with  the  rare  beau- 
ty which  can  come  to  us  only  through  a 
sensuous  ear  attuned  to  'the  stir  of  the  frost,' 
and  an  imagination  that  hears  the  faintest  tap 
"on  the  walls  of  the  mind.'  "  Helen  McAfee 
+  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  S  '23  400w 
Booklist   20:56   N  '23 

"The  only  real,  sane  thing  in  the  book  is  the 
'Vats,'  of  the  effects  of  old  architecture  on  the 
transient  mind  of  man.  But  the  whole  volume 
is  not  un  to  his  average  average — one  could 
not  credit  Mr.  De  la  Mare  with  an  unvariable 
average — and  we  do  hope  he  won't  do  it  again." 
I.    W.    L. 

h   Boston    Transcript    p6    Jl    18    '23    llOOw 

Cleveland  p51  Jl  '23 
"His  genius  is  unmistakable,  although  it  has 
been  half-smothered  under  the  weight  of  a  be- 
lated Victorianism;  but  one  feels  that  in  hap- 
pier circumstances  it  might  have  made  him  a 
writer  of  the  rank  of  Poe."  Edwin  Muir 
H Freeman  7:620  S  5  '23  1200w 

"The  style  in  which  these  stories  are  told  is 
beautiful  and  distinctive.  Just  what  we  are  to 
imply  is  sometimes  too  delicately  hinted,  too 
tinily  murmured;  but  the  tales  repay  rereading." 
W:    R.    Benet 

+  Lit    R   pl9   S   8   '23   720w 

New   Repub   36:52   S   5    '23    300w 

"The  brain  is  delicate,  the  imagination  sensi- 
tive, the  eye  miraculously  fine,  and  the  craft 
astonishing.  The  wizardry  works,  and  must 
be  recognised,  saluted,  and  enjoyed  accord- 
ingly. At  the  same  time  I  pray  against  all 
attempts  to  imitate   it."    Raymond  Mortimer 

-h   New  Statesman  21:201  My  26  '23  1400w 

"There  is  high  beauty,  eery  charm,  even  a 
sense  of  terror,  in  these  tales.  The  finish  and 
ease    with     which    De    La     Mare    secures     his 


effects  are  at  their  best  in  these  stories.     Here 
is    a    smooth,    delicately    woven,    haunted    prose 
of    strange    poetic    quality,    a    medium    that    is 
absolutely    adapted    to    the    unworldly    themes 
that  make  up   most  of  the  tales."  Jean  Wright 
-f-   N   Y  Times  pl2  Je  3  '23  1700w 
"Reading  it,  one  is  inclined  to  believe  that  it 
would  lead  a  list  of  a  hundred  such  collections. 
Of  all  prose  artists  who  dip  their  pens  into  fanci- 
ful ink,  Mr.  de  la  Mare  is  easily  the  best  of  the 
Englishmen    to-day."    Laurence    StalHngs 
4-   N    Y   World    p9e   Jl  29   '23   480w 
"There  is  frequent  richness,  brilliance,  charm; 
but  it  is  all  scattered,  casual,  careless.     It  does 
not,  I  repeat,  make  a  book."  Gerald  Gould 

1-  Sat  R  135:742  Je  2  '23  680w 

"The  Riddle  is  a  book  which  every  lover  of 
poetry  and  every  student  of  style  must  make 
it  his  business  (as  it  will  certainly  be  his  plea- 
sure) to  read;  it  has  a  quality  unique  in  con- 
temporary  fiction." 

4-  Spec   130:930   Je   2   '23   1400w 
Spec   130:1084  Je   30  '23   70w 
Springf'd   Republican   p7a  Jl  1  '23  580w 
"Only  those  who  feel  an  indescribable  longing 
at  times  to  get  away  from  the  present  and  the 
dwarfish     presumption     of     what     most     people 
mean    by     life    will    realize     its    whole    appeal. 
Others   will    admire    Mr.    de    la   Mare's   mastery 
of   language,    but    they   will   be    a   trifle   cold    to 
his  message  and  his  convictions." 

+  The   Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p337  My 
17  '23  lOOOw 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:443  O   '23 

DE  LA  PASTURE,  EDMEE  ELIZABETH 
MONICA  (E.  M.  DELAFIELD,  pseud.).  Re- 
version  to   type.    395p  $2.50   Macmillan 

23-13191 
From  earliest  childhood  Cecil  Aviolet's  habit 
of  untruthfulness  was  almost  a  disease  The 
Aviolets  attributed  it  to  the  base  strain  of 
his  mother's  blood  in  Cecil's  veins,  for  they 
counted  Jim  Aviolet's  marriage  to  Rose  Smith 
the  crowning  act  of  folly  of  his  brief  and 
checkered  career.  When  Jim  died  of  drink 
Rose  brought  her  seven-year-old  boy  from 
Ceylon  to  his  father's  people  in  England  and 
the  contest  which  ensued  between  the  aristo- 
cratic but  effete  Aviolets  and  the  vital,  if  un- 
cultured Rose  for  the  possession  of  her  boy's 
soul  forms  the  groundwork  of  the  story.  Ce- 
cil's persistent  habit  culminates  in  an  act  of 
dishonor  which  brings  disgrace  to  the  Aviolet 
name.  Rose  is  almost  persuaded  that  her  blood 
is  lo  blame,  but  Dr  Lucian,  her  friend  thruout, 
her  husband  now,  convinces  her  that  the  de- 
cadence comes  from  the  Aviolets  and  that 
it  is  the  vital  spark  she  has  given  her  son 
which    will    one    day    pull    him    thru. 


"This  is  Miss  Delafield's  best  book."  D 
F.  G. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p4  O  24   '23  1050w 

"Thi.s  is  the  book  Miss  Delafield  has  made  an 
awful  botch  of  writing.  It  is  a  book  she  has 
not  enough  sense  of  humor  to  attempt  success- 
fully. It  deals  with  a  situation — -with  the  conflict 
of  personalities  of  different  social  classes — which 
she  has  not  enough  sense  of  humor  ever  to  see 
to  the  bottom  of,"  Fillmore  Hyde 
—  Lit    R   p301    D   1    '23    850w 

Reviewed   by   R.    M.    Lovett 

New    Repub   36:234   O   24   '23   900w 

"Miss  Delafield's  new  book  has  comparatively 
little  of  the  acidity  which  makes  her  othei 
novels  more  readable  than  the  most  second- 
rate  fiction.  The  psychology  seems  good,  and 
Miss  Delafield  has  contrived  to  make  it  lucid 
without  the  use  of  scientific  terms.  But  most 
of  the  characters  are  rather  more  obvious  types 
than  those  that  she  usually  describes."  Ray- 
mond  Mortimer 

H New   Statesman   21:501   Ag  4   '23   120w 

"Miss  Delafield's  story  preserves  a  flavor  that 
is  pleasing.  That  the  work  lacks  intensity  in 
the  first  part  is  no  doubt  due  to  the  fact  that 
too  much  is  given  over  to  recounting  preju- 
dices and  preparing  an  atmosphere  for  the  sub- 


128 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


DE    LA    PASTURE,    E.    E.    M. — Continued 
sequent    reception    of    pity.      Twice    Miss    Dela- 
field    rises    to    real    power;    but    the    beauty    of 
these  moments   is,    alas,   all   too   shortlived." 

H NY   Times   p25      O   21   '23  550w 

Reviewed  by  R.   D.   Townsend 

Outlook  135:642  D  12  '23  220w 
"The    bare    tale,    stripped    of    its    theories.    Is 
admirable — vivid,    touching,    and   in   places   even 
thrillingly  exciting."     Gerald   Gould 

H Sat  R  136:196  Ag  18  '23  750w 

"One  almost  wishes  that  Miss  Delafleld  had 
not  made  the  boy  possess  such  a  very  ab- 
normal character.  He  is  little  more  than  a  ma- 
chine for  telling  lies.  The  study  of  actions  and 
reactions  between  that  ignorant,  vulgar,  at- 
tractive termagant  Rose,  and  perfectly  stiff,  per- 
fectly Tory,  extremely  kind  parents-in-law  and 
their  priggish  elder  son  is  so  good  that  it  pro- 
vides ample  material  for  the  book.  The  situa- 
tion is  worked  out  with  utmost  fairness." 

H Spec    131:291    S    1    '23    480w 

"The  story  is  told  with  Miss  Delafleld's  quiet 
truthfulness,  which  is  always  restrained,  yet 
never  spares  the  reader  any  essential  signifi- 
cance. But  as  a  whole  the  story  is  never  quite 
lifted    into    emotional    interest." 

H Sprlngf  d    Republican   p7   O   21    '23   360w 

"There  is  generally  some  faculty  which  stands 
out  more  clearly  than  the  rest  in  the  composi- 
tion of  a  novel,  and  in  E.  M.  Delafleld's  latest 
story  it  is  that  of  understanding.  Without 
abnegating  the  right  to  criticize  her  own  char- 
acters she  yet  presents  the  worst  of  them  with 
such  sympathy  that  pity  tempers  judgment 
-f  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p532  Ag 
9   '23   600w 

DE    LA    ROCHE,    MAZO.     Possession.     289p     $2 
Macmillan  23-6419 

Thru  the  death  of  his  uncle  Derek  Vale,  a 
young  architect,  comes  into  possession  of  a 
Canadian  fruit  farm.  At  Grimstone  he  finds 
himself  in  the  midst  of  human  as  well  as  farm 
problems— a  domineering  housekeeper,  a  group 
of  irresponsible  Indian  helpers,  an  abundance 
of  fruit,  poor  cattle,  and  the  care  of  all  resting 
upon  his  inexperienced  self.  Two  girls  further 
complicate  things,  Grace  Jerrold,  the  daughter 
of  a  neighboring  landowner,  and  Fawnte,  an 
Indian.  Loving  Grace,  he  is  forced  into  mar- 
riage with  Fawnie.  House  and  farm  run  down, 
and  Derek  with  them.  When  at  the  close  of 
the  story  he  takes  account  of  himself  and  his 
possessions,  he  realizes  that  he  is  more  pos- 
sessed by  than  possessing.  Grimstone  and  he 
are  one  and  in  the  making.  Even  little  Fawnie 
is  his  own,   to  be  cared  for  and   protected. 

Boston   Transcript   p4  My   16   '23   llOOw 

Cleveland   p66   S  '23 
Reviewed  by  H.  W.  Boynton 

Ind  110:379  Je  9  '23  320w 

Lit  R  p631  Ap  21  '23  550w 
"Though  the  theme  itself  is  one  that  will 
undoubtedly  hold  the  reader  to  the  very  end 
not  so  much  because  of  its  uniqueness  but  be- 
cause of  its  high  sense  of  reality,  the  apex  of 
'Pos.session'  is  reached  in  the  characterization. 
Few  novels  this  year  include  such  a  large  group 
of  indubitably  living   people." 

+  N  Y  Times  p9  Mr  25  '23  820w 
"The  characters  are  subsidiary,  necessary  to 
atmosphere  and  incident,  but  not  strong  enough 
to  establish  and  maintain  the  continuity  and 
interest  of  a  book.  The  author  has  studied  a 
.setting  for  her  ideas,  but  not  the  medium 
for  their  expression.  The  local  color  drifts 
about  insubstantial  names,  instead  of  empha- 
sizing the  lives  of  tangible  people."    Eva  Gold- 

1-  N  Y  Tribune  p20  Ap  15  '23  680w 

"The  novel  is  unusual  in  subject  and  treat- 
ment, and  is  sincerely  handled."  R.  D.  Town- 
send 

+  Outlook  133:720   Ap  18  '23   150w 
"  'Possession'    is    in    the    best    sense    homely. 
Its  very   simplicity  intrigues.     All  the  quarrels, 
excitements,    hesitations    of    the    young    farmer 


whose  fortunes  we  follow  have  the  double 
quality  oi  life — the  littleness  of  temporal  flux, 
the  eternity  of  consequence.  .  .  In  its  sane, 
quiet,  satisfactory  way,  the  book  is  beautiful." 
Gerald  Gould 

+  Sat   R   135:670  My  19  '23  190w 

"The  first  few  chapters  of  Possession  convince 
one  that  the  book  has  the  elements  of  a  novel 
of  genius:  a  strong  theme,  craftsmanship,  a 
background  intimately  revealed,  and  characters 
who  from  the  moment  they  enter  live  and 
absorb  one's  interest.  Yet  'Possession'  just 
falls  short  of  triumphant  achievement.  The 
reader  experiences  a  sense  of  frustration  as 
the  story  draws  to  a  close;  the  dynamic  force 
that  lay  behind  it  has  not,  he  feels,  found  ade- 
quate   expression    in    action." 

-\ Spec  130:971  Je  9  '23   420w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  6  '23  270w 

"Keen  insight,  deep  feeling,  ample  and  cer- 
tain powers  of  description  carry  the  story  to 
its  tragic  and  uncertain  end.  Characterization 
and  atmosphere  also  demand  notice." 

+  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p317  My 
10  '23   430w 

DELBOS,  J.  M.  Historic  Cambridge;  with  a 
foreword  by  L.  F.  Salzman.  $2  Appleton  [4s 
6d    Heffer] 

378.42    Cambridge    university 
Pencil    sketches   of  the   colleges  of  Cambridge 
university,   each  accompanied  by  a  page  of  de- 
scription. 


'"They  are  exquisite  pencil  sketches  and  they 
bring  to  the  eye  all  the  old-world  charm  of 
the  town  whence  came  the  name  for  the  seat 
of  one  of  the  leading  American  universities." 
E.    F.    E. 

-1-  Boston  Transcript  p6  N  3  '23  800w 
"Exquisite  little  sketches  of  the  Cambridge 
Colleges  will  gladden  the  hearts  of  Cambridge 
men  as  they  look  at  the  veritable  presentment 
of  some  familiar  scenes  in  their  old  colleges. 
Mr.  Delbos  is  to  be  congratulated  on  the  tend- 
erness and  vividness  of  his  work,  an  unusual 
combination." 

-f  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p605    S 
13    '23   210w 

DELEDDA,  MME  GRAZIA.  The  mother;  tr. 
from  the  Italian  by  Maxy  G.  Steegmann  (Eng 
title  The  woman  and  the  priest).  239p  $2  Mac- 
millan 

23-16660 
The  setting  of  the  story  is  a  remote  hill  vil- 
lage in  Sardinia  and  the  action  takes  place 
within  the  space  of  two  days.  It  is  a  drama 
of  mental  and  spiritual  conflict  in  the  souls  of 
three  people;  Paul,  the  young  parish  priest  of 
Aar,  his  devoted  mother,  and  Agnes,  the  wom- 
an whom  Paul  loved,  to  his  undoing.  The 
mother  suffers  most  of  all  for  she  is  torn  in 
pieces  by  so  many  conflicting  emotions — ambi- 
tion for  Paul,  jealousy  for  his  honor,  faith  in 
the  church  and  its  laws,  and  a  love  for  her  son 
so  strong  that  she  begins  to  question  whether 
the  church  has  any  right  to  impose  upon  him 
such  a  denial  as  that  of  his  love  for  Agnes. 
In  the  end  the  struggle  proves  too  much  for 
her  and  she  dies  in  church  while  her  son  Is 
saying   mass. 

"The  skill  with  which  the  characters  are 
made  to  live  is  the  same  that  makes  the 
novel,  as  a  whole,  a  masterpiece  of  artistic 
economy,  and  it  is  so  fine  that  one  begins  to 
realize  it  only  after  the  enthusiasm  that  the 
book  inspires  is  subjected  to  afterthought  and 
the  dubious  supererogation  of  analysis."  E:  T. 
Booth 

-f-   Lit    R    p403    D   29   '23    GOOw 

"Insight  and  interpretation  have  been 
worked  so  skillfully  into  the  actual  narrative 
that  the  unfolding  of  the  little  drama  moves  on 
with  an  unchecked  precision.  By  exquisite 
workmanship  and  a  fine  clarity  of  purpose 
Mme.  Deledda  has  given  to  'The  Mother'  an 
almost   epic   air   of   inevitability." 

-f   N   Y   Times  p8  D  2   '23   720w 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


129 


"The  subject  is  tragic,  the  emotion  aroused 
is  poignant  (a  much-abused  word  but  precise- 
ly correct  here),  and  the  soundness  of  the  psy- 
chology and  the  intensity  of  human  passion 
and  despair  nialce  the  story  a  little  master- 
piece."     R.    D.    Townsend 

+  Outlook  135:642  D  12  '23  llOw 

DELL,  ETHEL  MAY.  Tetherstones.  376p  $2  Put- 
nam  [7s  6d  Hutchinson] 

23-13943 

"The  very  disagreeable  bishop  to  whom  we 
are  introduced  at  the  opening  as  the  bullying 
task-master  of  his  secretary — the  heroine, 
Frances  Thorold— is  not  to  play  a  prominent  part 
in  the  story.  It  soon  shifts  to  a  solitary  moor 
farm,  where  Frances  is  hospitably  received.  The 
atmosphere  of  tragedy  hangs  gloomily  about  it 
and  over  the  moor,  and  [over]  the  brutal  Arthur 
Dermot,  who  is  the  tyrant  of  the  farm  house- 
hold. The  threads  of  the  plot  are  well  conceived 
and  intertwined.  Arthur's  rival,  an  artist  whose 
selfish  love  for  Frances  makes  a  good  contrast  to 
the  passionate  depths  of  Arthur's  nature;  the 
strange  and  terrible  part  played  by  the  schol- 
arly old  grandfather,  with  his  failing  reason; 
and  the  concentration  of  the  tragedy  round  the 
'Stones  of  Sacrifice'  on  the  moor." — The  Times 
[London]  Lit  Sup 


"  'Tetherstones'  is  Miss  Dell's  seventeenth 
novel,  and  without  a  doubt  all  those  who  have 
enjoyed  the  previous  sixteen  will  take  equal  de- 
light in  this  newest  product  of  a  fiction  which, 
while  pleasantly  readable,  has  no  relation  to  the 
facts  or  fancies  of  life  as  lived  today."  F.  A.  G. 

h    Boston  Transcript  p6  S  29  '23  650w 

Int  Bk  R  pl56  Ja  '24  250w 
"Miss  Dell  finds  abundant  material  for  the 
kind  of  exuberant  drama  in  which  she  delights. 
Miss  Dell's  fault  is  the  excessive  fluency  and 
copiousness  with  which  she  writes  up  her  situa- 
tions, her  overheated  emotion,  and  the  hack- 
neyed phrases  of  melodrama  which  are  always  at 
her  command." 

—  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p692  O  18 
•23   200w 


DENDY,    ARTHUR,    ed.      Problems    of    modern 
science.    237p   $3.50    Holt    [10s    6d   Harrap] 
504    Science  [23-5469] 

These  addresses  were  delivered  as  a  course 
of  public  lectures  at  King's  college.  University 
of  London,  in  1921,  by  members  of  the  science 
faculty.  The  purpose  of  the  course  was  to  take 
stock  of  the  present  position  of  science  in 
some  of  its  main  branches,  and  to  show  the 
directions  in  which  progress  is  being  made  or 
may  be  hoped  for  in  the  future.  Contents: 
Mathematics,  by  .1.  W.  Nicholson;  Astronomy. 
l>y  J.  B.  Dale;  Physics,  by  O.  W.  Richardson; 
Organic  chemistry,  by  S.  Smiles;  Biology,  by 
Arthur  Dendy;  Botany,  by  R.  Ruggles  Gates: 
Physiology,  by  W.  D.  Halliburton;  Anatomy, 
by   E.    Barclay-Smith. 


Booklist    19:304    Jl    '23 

"Though  the  reader  may  bump  up  against  a 
snag  once  in  a  while,  he  will  find  it  for  the 
most  part  smooth  sailing  and  a  fascinating 
voyage  of  discovery.  For  in  every  chapter  he 
will  see  something  new  and  startling  while  the 
very  strangeness  of  the  tei-ms  will  impress  him 
with  the  fact  that  every  one  of  the  several  sci- 
ences is  undergoing  a  revolution  in  its  funda- 
mental   principles."    E.    E.    Slosson 

+  New   Repub  35:130  .le   27    '23  1450w 

"It  must  be  confessed  that  the  authors  have 
carried  out  their  work  but  moderately  well, 
for  the  essays,  as  a  whole,  are  neither  suffi- 
ciently popular  nor  are  they  sufficiently  co- 
ordinated to  make  them  of  especial  value  to 
the  layman."   B:   Harrow 

1-   N   Y   Times   plO  My  13  '23  2350w 


DENNETT,  TYLER.  Americans  in  eastern 
Asia;  a  critical  study  of  the  policy  of  the 
United  States  with  reference  to  China,  Japan 
and  Korea  in  the  19th  century.  725p  $5  Mac- 
millan 

327.73  United  States— Foreign  relations. 
China — Foreign  relations.  Japan— Foreign 
relations.  Korea — Foreign  relations.  East- 
ern question  (Far  East)  22-25822 
For   descriptive   note    see   Annual   for   1922. 

Reviewed   by   F.    W.   'Williams 

Am    Hist    R    28:563    Ap    '23    llOOw 
"For  those  who   seek  truth,   this  is  the  book. 
It  is  unique  in  its  fulness  and  fairness."    W:  E. 
Griffls 

+   Lit   R  p749  Je   9  '23   llOOw 
"There  is  a  foundation  for  much  thought,  deep 
meditation,   as  well  as  a  treasure  of  facts  new 
to  most  of  us  in  this  volume."   M.  F.  Bgan 
-f   N    Y    Times    p5    F    18    '23    1900w 
"The  work   represents   an   entirely   fresh   sur- 
vey of   the  subject,   and   is   'the  first   book  ever 
attempting  to  cover   the   entire  field.'     The  au- 
thor has   fulfilled   his  task  with  great  care  and 
thoroughness."     S.   A.   C. 

-f  N    Y   Tribune   p23  Mr   4   "23   90w 
"A    comprehensive,     authoritative     and     non- 
partisan review  of  American  policy  towards  the 
Far  East  to  the  end  of  the  nineteenth  century." 
+  Survey   50:123   Ap   15   '23   90w 

DENNY,     GRACE     GOLDENA.       Fabrics     and 

how   to   know   them.      146p   il   $1.50   Lipplncott 

677  Textile  industry  and  fabrics  23-6406 

"Definitions  of  fabrics,   practical  textile  tests, 

classification    of    fabrics." — Subtitle 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:474    N   '23 

DERIEUX,    SAMUEL    ARTHUR.      Animal    per- 
sonalities.     298p    il    $2    Doubleday 

23-13935 

The  writer  of  these  stories  of  dogs  and 
other  animals  had  loved  and  understood  and 
watched  animals  from  his  boyhood  in  a  small 
southern  town  and  on  his  grandfather's  planta- 
tion long  before  he  began  writing  the  stories 
which  have  become  so  well  known  in  the  pages 
of  the  American  Magazine  and  in  book  form. 
He  wrote  not  only  from  long  experience  and 
observation  but  from  the  heart,  and  when  he 
put  his  dogs  into  fiction  he  made  real  person- 
alities of  them.  One  of  his  sketches  deals  with 
the  marvels  of  ant  life  and  the  last  five  stories 
are  based  on  visits  to  the  New  York  Zoo 
where  most  of  the  photographs  were  snapped. 
Contents:  My  friends  of  the  field:  "Hie  on!" 
"Steady,"  Old  Mac  and  young  Doc,  Bird  dogs 
I  have  known.  Champion  Mary  Montrose,  The 
thoroughbred;  Around  the  house  and  the  barn: 
Human  traits  in  the  farmyard,  "Mister  Crow." 
Marvels  of  ant  life;  Visits  to  the  park:  Silver 
king  and  the  Gopher  gang.  The  most  intelligent 
animals.  Animal  brainstorms.  In  nature's  side 
show.    Queer   birds. 

Booklist   20:85   D   '23 

"No  one  is  more  qualified  by  nature  and  by 
experience  to  analyze  this  animal  personality 
than  Mr  Derieux.  Surely  a  book  like  this 
should  make  everyone  who  reads  it  more  sym- 
patheMc  and  humane  in  the  treatment  of  our 
animal    'little   brothers.'  "  , 

-t-   Boston  Transcript  p4  O  3    23  600w 

"Delightfully  done,  they  tend  to  increase  the 
regret  that  their  gifted  author  might  not  have 
had  a  longer  span  of  years  in  which  to  paint 
and  interpret  his  many  animal  friends  to  a 
steadily   growing   and    increasingly   sympathetic 

"""•^'^ +^Greensboro   (N.C.)    Daily   News  p8  O  7 
•23   850w 

New   Statesman    22:.sup7    D    8    '23   260w 

"\ny   man   who  has   ever  made  a  companion 

of    an    intelligent    dog    will    maintain    that    his 

friend    could    understand    everything    that    was 

said  to  him.     These  stories  of  dogs  and  other 


130 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


DERIEUX,    S:    A. — Continued 

animals    will    help   to    prove    the    truth    of   such 

assertions."    E.  M.  L. 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p20  O  14  *23  130w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  O  28   '23  180w 

DESMOND,   SHAW.     Drama  of  Sinn  Fein.   494p 

$4      Scribner 
941.5     Ireland — History — Sinn  Fein  rebellion, 
1916  23-8369 

The  story  of  the  struggle  of  Sinn  Fein  with 
England,  from  the  Easter  uprising  of  1916  to 
the  signing  of  the  Free  State  treaty.  Shaw 
Desmond  is  a  fervid  Irishman  and  republican 
whose  gifts  as  a  novelist  are  brought  to  the 
service  of  his  narrative  and  his  portrayal  of  the 
chief  actors  in  the  drama.  His  conclusion  is 
that  "the  Free  State,  monstrous  birth  of  a 
mutilated  Ireland,  changed  nothing.  .  .  No  Free 
State  could  change  the  unconscious  soul  of 
Ireland,  that  soul  which  is  the  determinative  ir- 
revocable factor  in  the  relations  between  Ireland 
and   England." 


Bookm  57:651  Ag  '23  250w 
"It  might  not  be  extravagant  to  say  that  of 
all  the  well  recognized  publications  seeking  to 
define  the  Irish  situation  in  the  last  few  months, 
or  to  tell  the  story  of  the  establishment  of  the 
Free  State  Government,  none  has  touched  us 
quite  so  deeply  on  the  human  side  or  has  car- 
ried quite  the  conviction  of  honesty  and  fair- 
mindedness    as    this."    F.    P.    H. 

+  Boston    Transcript    p5    Je    9   '23    llOOw 
Reviewed    by   G.    L.    Harding 
Lit  R  p20  S  8  '23  1600w 
"The  reader  with  an  open  mind  will  find  this 
story    of    Ireland    fascinating,    and    to   a   certain 
degree    informative.      Mr.    Shaw    Desmond    is    a 
poet    by    nature    and    a    journalist    by    training. 
His  book  reveals  both  of  these  possessions.     He 
states  facts  in  an  alluring  and  even  convincing 
way,    but    they    are    not    documented."    Joseph 
Collins 

H NY  Times  p3  My  20   '23   2300w 

"The  most  vivid  and  dramatic  story  yet  told 
in  type  of  the  seven  years'  struggle  in  Ireland. 
That  it  is  'the  fairest  and  most  balanced  ac- 
count' of  that  struggle,  is  a  matter  to  be  taken 
with  the  reservations  appertaining  to  a  fervid 
partisanship."      E.    W.    Osborn 

H NY   World    p7e   My  20   '23   1150w 

Spec  131:293  S  1  '23  230w 
"There  is  a  strained  dramatic  quality  of 
writing  which  is  often  vivid  and  arresting.  Too 
often,  however,  it  overrides  its  mark  and  tum- 
bles into  bathos  or  loose  generalizations — and 
comes  a  cropper.  In  brief,  the  book  is  a  col- 
lection of  materials,  some  useful  but  poorly 
assembled  and  ill  related,  which  will  whet  one's 
appetite  for  more  knowledge  of  modern  Ire- 
land but  will  hardly  satisfy  one's  desire  for  a 
coherent    and   authoritative    study." 

h  Springf'd    Republican    p6   Jl   30  "23   350w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p426   Je 
21    '23    350w 

DEUTSCH.  BABETTE,  and  YARMOLINSKY. 
ABRAHAM,  eds.  Contemporary  German  poe- 
try; an  anthology.  (European  lib.)  201p  $1.75 
Harcourt 

Sill.OS  German  poetry — Collections  23- I14S 
The  poems  included  belong  approximatelv  to 
the  last  four  decades.  They  are  chosen  for  their 
aesthetic  worth  and  are  intended  to  mirror  the 
trend  ol  culture  and  the  temper  of  the  period 
covered.  The  book  falls  into  two  parts:  Mas- 
ters and  The  younger  group:  the  first  contain- 
mg  authors  of  definite  artistic  achievement  and 
the  second  the  younger  poets  whose  "fevered 
experimentation  and  passionate  subjectivity" 
are  expressive  of  times  which  are  out  of  joint. 
There  is  a  critical  introduction  by  the  transla- 
tors and  compilers,  a  Who's  who  in  German 
poetry  and  an  index  of  authors 


Booklist    19:246    My    '23 


"They  are  translations  exhibiting  the  skill  of 
an  able  linguist  and  the  inspiration  of  a  fine 
poet."     W:   R.   Benet 

+  Bookm   57:554  Jl  '23  80w 

Boston    Transcript    p2    Ap    7    "23    1450w 
Reviewed  by  H.    S.   Gorman 

Int  Bk  R  p26  Je  '23  120w 
"The  volume  is  a  genuine  contribution.  One  is 
grateful  for  the  pioneer  spirit  that  moved  the 
translators  to  furnish  us  with  an  introduc- 
tion, obtainable  nowhere  else,  to  some  of  the 
finest  of  contemporary  German  poetry."  J.  J. 
Smertenko 

4-   Lit    R    p700    My    19    '23    1200w 
Reviewed    by    H.    S.    Gorman 

N   Y  Times  p5  Ap  1  '23  1500w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:131   My   '23 

DEWAR,     GEORGE      ALBERMARLE      BERTIE, 
and      BORASTON,      JOHN      HERBERT.        Sir 

Douglas  Haig's  command;  December  19, 
1915.  to  November  11,  1918.  2v  414;375p  $10 
Houghton    [42s   Constable] 

940.41  European  war,  1914-1919 — Great 
Britain.  European  war,  1914-1919 — Cam- 
paigns and  battles.  Haig,  Douglas  Haig,  1st 
earl  23-4018 

The  book  is  a  narrative  of  the  movements  ot 
the  British  army  during  the  period  in  which 
Sir  Douglas  Haig  was  in  command.  The  chap- 
ters describing  the  various  military  operations 
are  contributed  by  Lieut. -Col.  J.  H.  Boraston, 
once  private  secretary  to  the  commander-in- 
chief.  The  chapters  by  Mr  Dewar  are  concerned 
largely  with  matters  of  controversy — the  ques- 
tion of  unified  command,  alleged  interference 
with  Lord  Haig  by  the  home  government,  how 
Foch  came  into  the  supreme  command,  etc.  The 
book  is  thruout  a  defence  of  the  commander- 
in-chief. 


"The  author  of  Sir  Douglas  Haig's  Command 
was  evidently  so  close  to  the  British  command- 
er-in-chief that  his  book  might  be  regarded  as 
a  memoir;  but  unfortunately  he  has  permitted 
himself  to  go  so  far  on  the  road  to  adulation 
as  to  weaken  the  strongest  claim  to  glory  that 
might    be   made   for   his  hero." 

—  Am   Hist  R  29:143  O  '23  1700w 
Booklist  19:248  My  '23 

Reviewed  by  E.  J.  Carpenter 

Boston   Transcript  p3  Ja  13  '23   1700w 
Cleveland  p62   Jl  "23 
Reviewed  hv  H:   \V.   Bunn 

Ind  112:25  Ja  5  '24  lOOOw 
"Without  questioning  the  author's  authority, 
the  liook  must  he  classed  as  an  opening 
argument  rather  than  as  an  established  case. 
At  the  same  time,  such  evidence  as  is  avail- 
able from  other  sources  goes  to  show  that  Its 
main  points  rest  on  a  substantial  basis  of 
fact,  and  merely  by  the  points  it  has  raised 
for  discussion  the  book  will  mark  a  new  phase 
in  our  understanding  of  the  war."  T.  H. 
Thomas 

Lit    R   p926   Ag  25   '23   1650w 
"Earl  Haig  has  not  been   well  served  by   the 
publication  of  this  book." 

—  New   Repub  34:74  Mr  14  "23  1650w 

"If  the  method  of  this  personal  contribution 
to  the  history  of  the  war  brings  out  the  plain 
truth  about  the  operations,  and  about  the 
soldiers  who  figured  in  them  and  the  statesmen 
who  sometimes  intervened,  the  venture  to  dis- 
perse the  mists  from  Field  Marshall  Haig's  rec- 
ord of  achievement  will  not  have  been  in  vain." 
N  Y  Times  pi  Ja  21  '23  3500w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:307    Je    "23 

"If  only  1he  authors  of  the  present  volume, 
in  the  midst  of  their  eagerness  to  obtain  justice 
for  their  own  hero,  had  found  time  for  a  sin- 
gle sonerou.s  word  for  anybody  el.se,  if  in  claim- 
ing so  much  they  had  been  prepared  to  concede 
ever  so  little,  it  would  have  been  easier  to  ac- 
cept some  of  their  conclusions  and  less  diffi- 
cult to  escape  a  sense  of  weariness  and  per- 
haps a  little  resentment  at  their  tone."  F.  H. 
Simonds 

—  Pol  Sci  Q  38:327  Je  '23  ISOOw 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


131 


"Mr.  Dewar's  pretentious  account  of  the 
British  campaign  in  Fr£.nce  seems  to  be  based 
on  an  exaggerated  sense  of  his  own  knowledge, 
coupled  with  an  imperfect  realization  of  the  re- 
sponsibilities of  the  historian.  His  own  share 
in  this  book  is  indeed  not  so  much  a  history  as 
a  polemical  pamphlet,  apparently  designed  to 
enhance  Lord  Haig's  reputation  at  the  expense 
of  the  British  Government  and  the  French 
Army." 

—  Sat  R  134:875  D  9  '22  800w 

"We  shall  not  know  the  whole  truth  till  Lord 
Haig's  own  papers  are  published,  but  we  here 
get  a  large  instalment  of  it  and  one  which 
places  the  British  Army  and  the  British  Com- 
mander-in-Chief upon  the  pedestals  which  they 
should  long  ago  have  occupied."  F:  Maurice 
-f-  Spec  129:969  D  23  '22  1300w 

"A  much-discussed  book  in  England." 

Springf'd    Republican    p8  Ja   6   '23   120w 
Springf'd    Republican   p6  Ap   9   '23   720w 

"We  gravely  doubt  if  the  publication  of  the 
book  by  these  eager  partisans  of  Lord  Haig 
will  do  him  any  good  in  the  eyes  of  the  public. 
Fortunately,  its  publication  is  unlikely  to  do 
him  any  harm.  But,  like  another  war  book 
dealing  with  an  early  period,  it  were  better 
that  it  had  never  been  penned,  or,  if  penned, 
then  long  withheld." 

—  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p790  D  7 
'22   1150w 

DE    WINDT,    HARRY.    My   note-book   at   home 
and  abroad.   288p  il   ?5   Dutton    [12s   6d  Chap- 
man &  H.] 
B   or   92 
Mr  De   Windt    has    spent    almost    a    lifetime 
travelling  over  the   world,   has  covered,   accord- 
ing to  his  own   statement,   a   million   miles,   and 
has     met     all     sorts     £ind     conditions     of     men. 
Wherever  he  went  he  seemed  to  have  the  faculty 
of  running  up  against   some   notable,   or  inject- 
ing himself  into  some    adventure,    which   he  al- 
ways describes  with  keen  relish.  His  recollections 
have    little    continuity.    They    whisk    from    Ger- 
many   to    Algiers,    to    .Japan,    to    Petrograd,    to 
Paris,    to    Washington,    to   Hollywood,    and   they 
are  always   full   of   anecdote   and  incident. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  D  12  '23  680w 
"It  is  an  entertaining  book." 

+  New  Statesman  21:506  Ag  4  '23  200w 
Outlook    135:506    N    21    '23    90w 
Sat   R  135:809  Je  16   '23  120w 
"His    notebook    is    hurried;    his    comments    on 
his    experiences    are    childisli;    but    the    variety 
and     vigour    of    his    life    make     the     narrative 
astounding." 

H Spec   131:94   Jl  21   '23   150w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p391  Je  7 
■23   250w 

DEXTER,  GEORGE   BLAKE.    Lure  of  amateur 
collecting.  189p  il  $3  Little 

730  Collectors  and  collecting  23-13541 

The  author  writes  of  his  own  experiences  in 
collecting,  a  hobby  which  he  has  pursued  from 
boyhood.  Thru  years  of  travel  in  many  coun- 
tries he  has  gathered  a  rare  collection  of  fur- 
niture, porcelains,  gems,  plate,  autographs 
and  souvenirs.  Each  article  was  secured  as 
the  result  of  some  interesting  encounter  or 
experience  and  the  book  tells  how  he  acquired 
these  various  art  objects.  Some  of  the  souve- 
nirs  are  from   royalty. 


Booklist  20:89  D  '23 
"The  book  is  composed  of  stories  and  inci- 
dents gathered  during  a  life  of  collecting  and 
travel.  Some  are  vei-y  interesting,  all  are 
clearly  and  pleasantly  told;  but  the  reader  is 
inclined  to  fear  that  even  as  does  the  book, 
so  this  occupation  must  grow  rather  dull  oc- 
casionally." 

-1 Bookm    58:486   D  '23    150w 

"A  most  fascinating  account  of  his  varied  ex- 
periences   as    a    collector."      G.    H.    S. 

+  Boston   Transcript   p4  N   3   '23   800w 


"Mr.  Dexter  has  many  such  romantic  inci- 
dents to  record,  making  the  book  an  altogether 
delightful   volume." 

+  Lit  R  p217  N  3  '23  420w 
"It  is  a  very  entertaining  book  and  is  likely 
to  set  its  readers  off  on  the  collector's  trail 
inspired  quite  as  much  by  the  hope  of  inter- 
esting adventure  as  by  the  desire  to  emulate, 
in  some  degree,  the  author's  wonderful  suc- 
cess in  getting  together  a  unique  and  valuable 
collection." 

-f  N    Y   Times  p22  O   21   '23   500w 
N   Y  World  plOe  O  21  '23  70w 
Outlook   135:507   N   21   '23   70w 
"Mr   Dexter    tells   a    story   very   well    and   his 
book    with    its    fine    illustrations    will    entertain 
even   those  who  have  never  heard  him  narrate 
his   adventures." 

-r  Springf'd    Republican    plO   O   4   '23   300w 

DIBBLE,    ROY    FLOYD.    Strenuous   Americans. 

370p   il   $3   Boni   &   Liveright 

920  United  States— Biography  23-17386 

It  is  a  rather  startling  combination  of  Amer- 
icans whom  the  author  associates  in  these  sev- 
en biographical  sketches,  but  each  one  of  them 
deserves  to  be  characterized  by  the  adjective 
of  the  title  and  each  one  represents  some  dis- 
tinction and  significant  trait  of  his  time.  Con- 
tents: Jesse  James;  Admiral  Dewey;  Brigham 
Young;  Frances  E.  Willard;  James  J.  Hill;  P. 
T.    Barnum;    Mark   Hanna. 


"Mr.  Dibble  is  most  successful  in  his  por- 
traits of  Admiral  Dewey  and  Frances  Willard, 
because  the  one  seemed  to  interest  him  most 
and  the  other  to  irritate  him  most.  But  in  the 
picture  of  Frances  Willard  which  he  gives,  his 
irritation  mars  his  effect.  He  gets  angry,  and 
his  anger  is  inevitably  fatal  to  his  irony,  turn- 
ing it  instead  to  sour  moralizing."  M.  R. 
Werner 

h   New    Repub    37:211    Ja   16    '24    590w 

"Mr.  Diljble's  biographical  studies  are  well 
articulated,  straightforward  and  convincing. 
He  writes  as  a  novelist  might,  making  us  see 
character  in  action,  and  is  obviously  less  con- 
cerned with  conveying  information  than  with 
telling  a  story  interestingly  and  entertainingly, 
and  with  such  art  as  he  can  summon."  Lloyd 
Morris 

+   N  Y  Times  pi  D  9  '23  2100w 

"There  is  excellent  gusto  in  his  telling,  and 
some  merit  in  his  style.  Occasionally  he  uses 
the  trite  phrase  satirically  when  he  might  bet- 
ter have  made  a  new  one.  His  tongue  is 
sharp  and  there  is  a  contagious  enthusiasm 
about  his  manner.  The  book  is,  altogether, 
amusing  and  delightful.  It  should  hardly  be 
read   at    one    sitting."     C.    E.    H. 

_| NY    World    p8e    N   18    '23    850w 

"Discriminating    readers    will    find    entertain- 
ment   in    the    somewhat    diffuse    details    of    the 
lives    of    the    Americans    here    written    about. 
-I Outlook   135:397   D   5    '23    llOw 

DICKEY,   MARCUS.     Maturity  of  James  Whit- 
comb  Riley.     427p  il  $4  Bobbs 

B  or  92  Riley,  James  Whitcomb  22-20551 
"\  companion  volume  to  'The  Youth  of  James 
Whitcomb  Riley.'  It  is  a  very  understanding 
tribute  to  the  Hoosier  poet,  giving,  as  well  as 
an  outline  of  the  facts  of  his  life,  a  great  deal 
of  the  spirit  of  his  personality  by  frequent 
quotation  from  his  poems,  his  letters,  and  his 
interviews  with  friends.  From  the  early,  dis- 
heartening days  of  many  failures,  we  follow  his 
career  to  the  time  when  he  was  a  national 
figure,  and  encounter  many  of  the  famous  men 
that    were    his    friends." — Bookm 

Booklist  19:188  Mr  '23 
"The  biographer's  desire  to  show  the  esteem 
in  which  he  was  held  reduces  several  chapters 
to  a  digest  of  opinion  (always  favorable)  on 
his  merits.  On  the  whole,  however,  it  is  a 
thorough  and  conscientious  account  and  should 
be  of  great  interest  to  the  many  admirers  of 
the   poet." 

-\ Bookm  56:775   F  '23   150w 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


DICKEY,    MARCUS — Continued 
Reviewed  by  E.  F.  Ed&ett 

Boston  Transcript  p4   N  11  '22  1050w 
"It  is   a  thoroughly  American   story,   a  happy 
story,  and  it  is  told  most  sympathetically,  with 
a    full    recognition    of    its    inherent    drama    and 
strong    human    value."      Hildegarde    Hawthorne 
+   Int   Bk   R  p36  D  '22  50w 
"The    book    would    interest    us    more    vitally 
had  Mr.   Dickey  given  more  of  Riley's  self  and 
fewer  of   his  maturity's  almost  mechanical    de- 
tails.    As  it   is,   we  have  a  conscious  book,  and 
a  true  book,  but  our  affection  for  Riley  has  been 
but   little    stimulated.      Indeed,    we   only    admire 
where   we   might   well   love." 

1-  N   Y  Times  pl8  D  24  '22   900w 

"Marcus  Dickey,  the  author,  was  the  poet's 
secretai-y  and  manager  for  several  years  as  well 
as  an  old  friend.  No  other  biographer  could 
have  assembled  this  vast  amount  of  informa- 
tion." 

-f  Sprlngfd     Republican     p7a     Mr    25    '23 
lOOOw 
"Satisfactory    as    a    biography,    but    not    as    a 
critical    estimate.      Lacks    some    of    the    pictur- 
esqueness  and  charm  of  the  earlier  book." 
-^ Wis    Lib    Bui    19:55   F   '23 

DICKIE,     FRANCIS.       Master     breed.     272p     $2 

Doran 

23-10098 

"Bill  Kane,  a  young  Californian  millionaire, 
is  one  of  the  'master  breed' — his  ancestors 
had  been  of  the  'doer  kind'  and  he  himself  is 
'big  of  frame,  healthy,  strong,  the  blood  of 
doers  in  his  veins.'  But  he  finds  no  chance 
of  showing  his  qualities  of  leadership,  'and 
believes  that  romance  is  dead,  until  an  ac- 
cident leads  to  his  being  shanghaied  on  one  of 
his  own  whaling  ships.  Here  he  meets  with 
another  of  the  master  breed  in  the  person  of 
the  captain  of  the  ship  and  they  fight  it  out 
on  more  than  one  occasion.  A  raid  on  a  whal- 
ing ship  owned  by  a  Norwegian  girl  brings 
him  into  the  life  of  the  female  of  the  breed, 
who  expounds  to  him  the  philosophy  of  the 
strong  quite  in  the  Jack  London  style.  Many 
exciting  adventures  follow." — The  Times  [Lon- 
don]   Lit   Sup 


"An  always  virile  and  at  times  exciting  plot." 
+  1^  Y  Times  p24  Jl  8  '23  600w 

N   Y   Tribune   p22  Ag   19   '23  500w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p521   Ag 
2  '23  150w 


DICKINSON,   GOLDSWORTHY    LOWES.    War: 
its  nature,   cause  and  cure.    155p    $1.50    Mac- 
millan      [4s    6d    Allen    &    U.] 
172.4     War.     International  law  and  relations 

[23-11727] 
The  author  puts  his  theme  in  one  sentence: 
"If  mankind  does  not  end  war,  war  will  end 
mankind."  He  explains  what  war  really  is  and 
that  it  is  not  inevitable,  as  so  many  people  be- 
lieve; that  its  real  cause  is  the  desire  of  all 
states  to  hold  what  they  have  and  to  take  what 
belongs  to  others;  that  the  armaments  pro- 
duced by  this  situation  become  a  further  cause 
of  war.  He  then  reviews  the  larger  and  deeper 
causes  of  the  Great  war  and  sums  up  the  prin- 
ciples of  international  policy  which  must  be 
adopted  by  all  states  if  there  is  to  be  peace 
in  the  world.  His  program  would  make  a 
League  of  nations,  including  all  states,  the  sole 
channel  for  the  conduct  of  international  affairs. 


Booklist   20:39   N   '23 
Boston   Transcript   p6   Jl  3   '23  300w 
Freeman   7:477  Jl  25   '23   500w 
"It    is    cause    for    soirow    that    Mr.    Dickinson 
found    it    necessary    to    begin    this    competent, 
admirable  book   with  a   sentence  reminiscent  of 
the  Sunday  supplements:     'If  mankind  does  not 
end    war,    war    will    end    mankind,'  "    T:    Boyd 
-I Lit  R  pl06  O  6  '23  650w 


"Not  even  the  editorials  of  Arthur  Brisbaild 
are  more  vigorous  or  easier  to  comprehend. 
We  have  here,  indeed,  an  example  of  the  most 
effective  kind  of  pamphleteering."  H.  W.  Hor- 
will 

-f  Nation  117:167  Ag  15  '23  650w 
"It  is  no  impossible  chimera  that  men  of 
science  should  refuse  to  help  in  applying  their 
special  knowledge  to  the  prosecution  of  war, 
and  should  let  it  be  known  that  if  war  is 
to  continue  it  must  be  waged  without  their  as- 
sistance. Mr.  Dickinson  will  be  satisfied  if 
they  will  read  his  book,  reflect  honestly  and 
plainly  on  the  implications  of  what  he  has  to 
say,  and  bring  to  their  conclusions  the  same 
independence  and  clarity  that  they  apply  to 
their  daily  work.  It  is  difficult  to  believe  that 
there  will  be  many  who  after  doing  this  will 
still   be   on   the   side  of  war."     A.   E.    B. 

-I-   Nature   112:51  Jl  14  "23  250w 
"This   is   a    most   courageous   book." 

-i-   N    Y    Times   plU   Je    17    '23    950w 
"Mr.  Lowes  Dickinson's  book  with  its  nervous 
provocative  style,   its  clear  and  vivid  presenta- 
tion   of   facts,    is    a    contribution    for    which    we 
owe   him   gratitude." 

+  Spec  130:710  Ap  29  '23  SOOw 
"Mr  Dickinson  is  always  worth  reading  for 
the  lucidity  and  charm  of  his  style  as  well 
as  for  his  thought;  this  latest  of  his  prole- 
gomena will  well  repay  the  thoughtful  reader's 
two    hour.s    in    persuing    it." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p9a  D  23  '23  360w 
"There  is  perhaps  in  this  little  book  nothing 
that  has  not  been  said  before;  but  nowhere  will 
the  reader  find  the  case  against  war  stated  with 
more  cogency  and  more  sincerity:  nowhere  will 
be  found  more  trenchant  exposure  of  the  in- 
consistencies and  insincerities  of  modern 
thought:  nowhere  is  the  contrast  between  war 
propaganda  and  peace  performance  stated  with 
such  forcible  simplicity." 

-f-  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   pl66  Mr 
15    '23    550w 

DICKINSON,    THOMAS    HERBERT.    New   Old- 
world.    167p    $2.50      Dutton 

940.5        Reconstruction      (European      war) — 
Europe.      Europe— Economic   conditions 

23-8490 
A  survey  of  conditions  in  the  new  states  of 
central  Europe  and  of  the  forces  which  are  at 
work  to  form  the  character  of  the  coming 
generations.  The  book  is  a  graphic  picture  of 
the  disorganization  of  social  life  over  large 
areas,  of  peoples  in  migration,  of  regions  off 
the  main  line  of  communication  where  the  in- 
struments of  civilization  no  longer  protect  and 
where  men  have  reverted  to  the  primitive  laws 
of  the  desert  and  the  jungle.  In  particular, 
Mr  Dickinson  studies  economic  and  health  con- 
ditions, intellectual  life,  the  internal  organiza- 
tion of  the  new  states  and  some  attempts  at 
cooperation    across    boundary    lines. 


Booklist    20:39    N   '23 
Boston  Transcript  p2  My  19  '23  450w 
Reviewed  by  N:   Roosevelt 

N  Y  Times  plO  My  20  '23  llOw 

DICKINSON,     THOMAS     HERBERT.         United 
States    and    the    League.    151p   $2     Dutton 

341.1      League   of   nations  23-7657 

The  writer,  who  regards  the  building  up  of 
the  League  of  nations  as  the  "one  outstanding 
task  of  the  present  era"  reviews  the  relation  of 
the  United  States  to  it  and  shows  how  behind 
the  Senate  contest  over  the  League  loomed 
another  great  struggle,  the  struggle  between 
the  legislative  and  executive  branches  of  the 
government  for  control  of  our  foreign  affairs. 
He  shows  the  League  as  a  going  concern,  out- 
lines its  positive  accomplishments  and  what  it 
stands  for  in  the  future,  and  its  need  of  the 
United  States  as  a  participant. 

Ann    Am    Acad   110:229    N   '23    80w 
Reviewed   by   N:    Roosevelt 

N    Y    Times    plO    My   20    '23    180\v 


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133 


"There  is  reassurance  for  friends  of  the 
League  in  Mr.  Dickinson's  pages;  for  those  who 
have  failed  to  understand  the  idea  and  the 
aims  and  the  working  effects  of  the  League, 
there  is  light.  We  commend  the  book  to  the 
study  even  of  those  who  think  they  are  enemies 
of   the    League." 

+   N    Y   World   plOe  Ap  29   '23   430w 

DILLON,  EMILE  JOSEPH.  President  Obreg6n 
—a  world  reformer.  350p  $3  Small  [21s 
Hutchinson] 

B   or  92  Obreg6n.  Alvaro  23-6906 

"Dr.  Dillon  is  an  authority  on  Mexico  and 
an  intimate  friend  of  his  hero,  and  his  book, 
despite  its  discursiveness,  is  interesting.  But, 
to  be  candid,  we  find  it  hard  to  swallow  a  great 
deal  of  what  he  would  have  us  believe.  Obreg6n 
is,  in  his  opinion,  "the  most  attractive  figure 
on  the  world-scene  to-day.'  And  when  all  the 
details  of  his  personal  and  domestic  virtues 
have  been  filled  in  (and  Dr.  Dillon  omits  noth- 
ing), we  are  bound  to  conclude  that  President 
Obreg6n  is  nothing  less  than  a  new  Messiah! 
His  mission,  we  are  told,  is  'to  build  up  a  new 
world-organism  on  the  basis  of  morality  and 
for  the  pursuit  of  the  highest  aims  of  human- 
ity.' " — New    Statesman 


Booklist  19:316  Jl  '23 
"One  may  find  in  this  book  an  international 
treatise  and  a  romantic  biography.  The  reader 
who  does  not  care  for  the  one  may  still  find 
the  other  interesting  and  thrilling.  Fi-om  two 
points  of  view,  then,  this  volume  has  in  it 
much  that  will   repay   perusal."    S.   L.   C. 

-f-   Boston    Transcript   p4   Je   13   '23   850w 
Reviewed    by    Ernest    Gruening 

Nation    117:492   O   31   '23   230iv 
Reviewed   by   E:    A.    Ross 

New    Repub   36:80    S    12    '23   700w 

h   New  Statesman  20:640  Mr  3  '23   300w 

N  Y  Times  p3  My  2  '23  2400w 
"A  friendly  effort  by  an  accomplished  jour- 
nalist to  give  us  an  exposition  of  the  manner 
of  man  he  finds  in  the  present  ruler  of  Mexico. 
Dr.  Dillon  discovers  almost  too  many  perfec- 
tions in  his  hero,  for  such  he  becomes  as  the 
pages   grow."     D.    C.    S. 

H NY    World    p9e    Ap    22    '23    660w 

Reviewed  by  Gregory  Mason 

Outlook    135:728    D    26    '23    360w 

DIVER,     MAUD.       Lonely    furrow.       433p    $2.50 

Houghton 

23-10552 

The  subject  of  the  story  is  the  tragedy  of 
an  uncongenial  marriage  in  which  the  differ- 
ence of  temperament  and  character  have  be- 
come over-emphasized  by  long  separation.  Ian 
Challoner,  in  the  Indian  civil  service,  is  a  shy, 
withdrawn  nature,  keenly  sensitive  to  the  ro- 
mantic appeal  of  India.  Edyth,  his  wife,  also 
inaccessilile  in  her  finished,  taut  way,  spends 
all  her  emotional  capacity  on  her  children, 
whom  she  is  comfortably  bringing  up  in  Eng- 
land. She  hates  India.  After  a  separation  of 
six  years  she  reluctantly  yields  to  lan's  urgent 
request  to  join  hirn.  The  reunion  is  a  failure. 
Neither  of  them  can  come  out  of  their  respec- 
tive shells,  and  Ian  has  found  in  Vanessa  Vane 
a  woman  after  his  own  heart,  to  contrast  with 
his  wife.  ^Vhile  he  is  struggling  with  an  ap- 
proaching illness,  a  slight  excuse  serves  Edyth 
to  depart  for  England.  Vanessa  steps  in  to 
purse  the  stricken  man  and  Edyth,  recalled 
by  a  wire,  finds  him  dead  in  the  arms  of  a 
more   satisfying  love   than   herself. 


Booklist  20:20  O  '23 
"One    of    the    most    admirable    novels    of    the 
year  is  Maud  Diver's  'Lonely  Furrow.'     It  is  a 
first-rate    bit    of    craftsmanship."      J.    F     S 

+   Boston    Transcript    p6   Jl    25    '23   SOOw 
Cleveland   p68   S   '23 
"It   is  a   sincere  book,   stating  a  problem,   too 
often    treated    with    levity    or    crudeness,    in    a 
beautiful  way.     And  if  no  so-called  'satisfactory 


solution'  is  offered  we  are  the  more  grateful, 
aware  that  solutions  may  be  expected  of  arith- 
metical problems,  but  the  human  ones  are 
never  in  the  truest  sense  solved;  they  present 
so  many  alternatives  only  a  shallow  casuistrv 
u-ill  contend  that  even  the  best  is  flawless." 
Drake    de    Kay 

+   Lit    R    p5S9  Jl   28   '23   850w 

New   Repub   37:155   Ja  2   '24  200w 
"Very    well    handled,    indeed." 

+   N    Y  Times   p21   Jl  15   '23   950w 
Reviewed   by   E.    W.   Osborn 

f  N  Y  World  pl9e  Jl  8  '23  600w 
"The  book  is  long  and  intricate,  with  plenty 
of  detail,  of  action,  of  excitement.  The  two 
antagonistic  personalities  are  understood  with- 
out partisanship.  Here  is  sympathy,  which 
is  cre-^tion.  The  colonel  might  so  easily  have 
been  'done'  as  a  psychological  study  in  repres- 
sion; Mrs.  Diver  prefers  to  'do'  him  as  a  hu- 
man being,  and  it  is  the  better  way."  Gerald 
Gould 

+   Sat    R    136:86    Jl    21    '23    350w 
Spec    131:325    S   8   '23    40w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p441    Je 
28    '23    210w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:443   O   '23 

DIX,  WILLIAM  FREDERICK,  and  SALIS- 
BURY, RANDALL.  Man  and  the  two  worlds 
17. p      $1.50      Harper 

2U      God  22-23922 

The  two  authors,  friends  from  childhood,  have 
so  thoroughly  discus.sed  together  the  ideas  ex- 
pressed in  this  little  book  that  it  is  offered  as 
the  nroduct  of  one  mind.  The  chie*'  interests 
are  the  idea  of  God  and  the  problem  of  evil. 
Their  speculations  lead  them  to  the  conclusion 
that  God,  while  all-powerful  in  the  spiritual 
world,  is  without  power  or  authoritv  over  the 
material  world  except  as  he  can  reach  it  thru 
the  soul  of  man.  God  is  therefore  not  respon- 
sible   for    conditions    in    the    natural    world. 


Boston  Transcript  p3  Ja  13  '23  400w 
—  Cath  World  117:139  Ap  '23  400w 
"No  doubt  the  philosopher  will  think  this  vol- 
ume contemptible,  but  puzzled  Christian  laymen 
should  find  in  it  an  intelligible  and  reverent 
esctpe  from  some  of  the  perplexity  and  con- 
fusion  of   traditional   beliefs." 

-f   Lit    R    p724    My    26   '23   170w 
"The   book    is   conceived   in    a   reverent   spirit. 
The    writer    i.«    not    an    atheist    or   a    disbeliever. 
He  writes  clearl.v  and  with   force,   but  at  points 
lacks    logical    coherence."      A.     E.    Palmer 
H NY   Times   plO  Ja  28   '23   1250w 

DIXON.    ROLAND    BURRAGE.      Racial    history 

of  man.     583p   il  $6  Scribner 

572     Ethnology  23-5903 

A  comprehensive  treatment,  by  the  professor 
of  anthropology  at  Harvard,  of  the  whole  ques- 
tion of  race,  applying  a  new  method  of  analysis 
to  the  physical  characteristics  of  races.  The 
criteria  of  classification  are  based  upon  measure- 
ments— the  cranial  or  cephalic  index,  the  altitu- 
dinal  or  length-height  index  and  the  nasal  in- 
dex. The  people  of  the  world  are  analyzed  on 
the  basis  of  eight  primary  types  and  the  broad 
outlines  of  the  racial  history  of  each  continent 
are  sketched.  There  is  a  forty-page  bibliog- 
raphy and  an   index. 


"It  would  be  unjust  to  claim  that  all  the 
results  arrived  at  by  Dr.  Dixon  are  at  variance 
with  reality  as  seen  by  other  workers.  There 
are  here  and  there  good  points.  The  method 
has  without  doubt  a  certain  degree  of  applica- 
bility: but  to  use  it  for  more  than  the  limited 
results  it  can  give  must  inevitably  lead  to  dis- 
aster— and  Dr.  Dixon's  book  is  a  disaster." 
Ales    Hrdlicka 

\-  Am    Hist    R    28:723    Jl   '23    1700w 

Bookm    57:465   Je    '23    250w 


134 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


DIXON,    R.    B. — Continued 

"Here  is  a  remarkable  effort,  buttressed  in 
far-reaching  studies  and  aided  by  many  illus- 
trations, noaps  and  tables,  to  reduce  to  some- 
thing like  order  the  welter  of  deliverances  we 
have  had  in  the  last  quarter  of  a  century  on 
the  subject  of  race."    Edmund   Noble 

+   Boston    Transcript   p3    Mr   31    '23    1450w 

"He  has  produced  what  is,  in  our  opinion, 
the  most  important  work  in  physical  anthropol- 
ogy which  has  appeared  since  that  of  Ripley. 
No  doubt  it  will  receive  much  criticism,  espe- 
cially with  regard  to  the  plan  and  the  nomen- 
clature, which  is  undoubtedly  puzzling,  since 
words  such  as  'Mediterranean'  and  'Alpine'  are 
used  in  a  different  sense  to  that  ordinarily 
held  by  ethnologists.  Still,  when  the  system 
is  mastered — and  that  is  an  easy  task — it  is 
quite  simple  for  the  expert  to  follow  the 
writer's  arguments."  B.   C.   A.   "W. 

+  Cath   World  118:130  O  '23  800w 

"The  book  in  which  Professor  Dixon  sets  forth 
his  ideas  is  a  remarkable  example  of  what  can 
be  done  by  taking  a  single  idea  and  working 
it  out  with  absolute  logic  to  its  ultimate  con- 
clusions."     Ellsworth   Himtington 

+    Lit   R  p921  Ag  25  '23  3000w 

"Unfortunately  the  basic  procedure  on  which 
the  book  as  a  whole  rests  is  in  the  highest 
degree  questionable.  .  .  Yet  after  making  every 
qualification  it  is  impossible  not  to  admire  the 
independence  and  learning  that  mark  the  vol- 
ume. It  disregards  the  conventional  barriers 
respected  by  investigators,  it  certainly  aids 
in  establishing  some  interesting  facts  of  geo- 
graphical distribution,  and  it  may  and  should 
.stimulate  correspondingly  broad  essays  in  syn- 
thesis in  this  age  of  narrowness  and  over-spe- 
cialization."    R.    H.   Lowie 

h   Nation   116:698   Je   13  '23   1200w 

Reviewed   by  Arthur   Keith 

Nature  112:855  D  15  '23  600w 

"Professor  Dixon  assures  us  again  and  again 
that  the  extreme  forms  which  he  discusse'i  are 
to  be  considered  only  as  arbitrarily  selected 
types  and  not  as  races.  He  lets  us  wait  imtil 
the  conclusion  of  his  book  for  proof  of  their 
significance.  To  my  mind,  the  attempt  at  this 
proof  is  entirelv  unconvincing."  Franz  Boas 
—  NY   Times  pl3  Ap  1   '23   1600w 

Reviewed  by  J:   L.   Henlon 

N  Y  World  p9e  Mr  18  '23  1400w 
Outlook  134:676  Ag  29  '23  280w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:286  Je  '23 

"His  hypothesis  needs  further,  in  its  working 
out,  the  support  of  a  vastly  more  extensive 
statistical  basis:  that  he  has  not  been  able  to 
supply  the  necessary  data  is  no  reflection  on 
the  author's  learning,  still  less  on  his  impar- 
tiality. .  .  Professor  Dixon  may  be  well  con- 
tent if,  as  seems  probable,  he  is  the  inventor 
of  a  new  and  fruitful  method  of  studying  human 
history  and  of  a  means  of  producing  nobler 
human   tvpes. " 

4-   Sat    R   135:569   Ap   28   '23   ISOOw 

"Professor  Dixon  must  be  credited  with  hav- 
ing strvick  out  an  entirely  fresh  line  of  his 
own.  His  results  are  somewhat  paradoxical, 
but  work  so  thorough  and  fair-minded  stimu- 
lates  even   when   it  fails   to   convince." 

h  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p386   Je 

14    '23    1700w 

DOBSON,    AUSTIN.      Anthology    of    prose    and 

verse.  174p  $2  Dutton   [6s  Dent] 

828  23-4635 

This  collection  of  extracts  and  poems  from 
the  works  of  Austin  Dobson,  made  by  his  son, 
is  furnished  with  a  biographical  note  and  a 
foreword  by  Edmund  Gosse  who  refers  to  the 
present  volume  as  "a  bouquet  out  of  one  of 
the  most  carefully  arranged  and  exquisitely 
tended  gardens  in  the  whole  of  English  liter- 
ature."   Bibliography. 


was  a  happy  thought  to  end  with  the  lines  on 
Sat  est  scripsisse.  For  it  is  a  very  great  author 
in  these  days  or  a  very  foolish  one  whom  that 
motto  discontents.  'It  is  enough  to  have  writ- 
ten'— for  those  indeed  who  can  write  so  well." 
F.  L.  L,. 

+  _  New  Statesman  20:306  D  9  '22  350w 
"We  extend  the  heartiest  welcome  to  the  new 
anthology  from  Dobson' s  prose  and  verse  which 
his  son  has  so  ably  compiled." 

+  Sat  R  134:639  O  28  '22  330w 
"Mr.  Alban  Dobson  has  done  his  work  well 
and  given  us  a  very  pleasant  little  selection  of 
verses  and  short  passages  of  prose  from  his 
father's  work,  which  was  by  no  means  limited 
in  quantity,  notwithstanding  its  narrow  range." 
+  Spec  130:108  Ja  20  '23  250w 

Springf'd  Republican  plO  O  28  '22  280w 
Springf'd  Republican  p6  F  23  '23  850w 
"His  work  has  not  aged  as  that  of  so  many 
of  his  contemporaries.  Its  spirit  is  limited,  it 
is  never  provincial.  That  spirit  is  to  be  found 
shining  with  as  clear  and  constant  a  light 
throughout  his  prose  as  in  his  ^^erse,  and  his 
son  has  been  wise,  in  the  admirable  selection 
which  he  has  made  from  his  father's  writings, 
to  quote  so  liberally  from  the  former." 

-I-  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p661  O  19 
'22  850w 

DODD,  LEE  WILSON.  Girl  next  door;  being 
the  crabbed  chronicle  of  a  misanthrope.  224p 
$2  Dutton 

23-7998 
The  girl  next  door — a  vulgar  creature,  typical 
of,  American  womanhood  at  its  crudest — is,  for 
the  purposes  of  the  story  only  the  deus  ex 
machina.  who  builded  better  than  she  knew.  It 
is  thru  her  plotting  and  malice  that  a  mystery 
is  cleared  up  which  involves  the  lives  of  the 
three  principal  personages  of  the  story:  the 
crabbed  misanthrope  who  writes  the  chronicle; 
the  boy  who,  unknown  to  himself  is  his  son; 
and  the  lady  who  loves  them  both  and  is  be- 
loved by  them.  Thru  the  girl's  machinations 
but  contrary  to  her  expectations,  the  three 
are  brought  together  in  a  happy  union.  An 
unfortunate  too  early  marriage  and  separation, 
a  childish  mother's  deceitfulness  and  way-ward- 
ness  that  warped  and  mystified  the  sensitive 
spirit  of  her  child,  and  a  romance  between  two 
people  no  longer  young  are  among  the  ingredi- 
ents of  the  story. 


Cleveland   p36   My   '23 
"The  only  pity  is  that  the  selected  pieces  are 
not  better  arranged;  they  have  the  air  of  having 
been   jumbled  in  a  hat  for  precedence.     But  it 


"We  tremble  for  authors  when  they  begin 
to  wander  hither  and  yon  in  digressions  as  to 
their  characters  and  settings.  It  sometimes 
means  that  there  isn't  much  of  a  story  to  be 
told.  Or,  a  reason  much  less  disgraceful,  it 
means  that  the  writer  fancies  his  own  sense 
of  humor.  Whatever  the  reason  for  this  story's 
dullness  we  find  it  very  hard  going,  though  we 
regret  having  to  say  so."    D.   F.   G. 

—  Boston    Transcript   p2   Mr  24   "23   580w 
Cleveland   p26  Ap  '23 

"  'The  Girl  Next  Door'  is  not  a  finished  piece 
of  work.  Its  oddity  of  effect  is  due  largely  to 
a  sort  of  amateurishness.  .  .  To  tell  the  truth 
none  of  the  people  in  the  book,  not  even  the 
girl  next  door,  get  beyond  the  kind  of  life- 
likeness  that  suffices  for  a  descriptive  sketch 
in  contrast  with  a  completed  portrait."  H.  W. 
Boynton 

—  Ind   110:263    Ap    14   '23   220w 

"His  humor,  possessing  something  of  the 
flavor  of  James  Lane  Allen  in  'The  Kentucky 
Cardinal'  is  never  curdled.  He  can  even  be  a 
little  amused  at  the  gt-otesquerie  in  the  tragic 
muddle.  Here  in  brief,  is  a  gentleman 
transacting  life  and  losing  none  of  his 
integrity,  and.  not  once,  his  manners.  There's 
something  invigorating,  wholesome,  in  hearing 
him  tell  his  story,  and  his  story  is  life." 
-f-   Int    Bk    R   p44   Ag  '23  350w 

"This  new  novel  is  altogether  a  slighter  and 
more  theatrical  piece  of  work  than  'Lilia  Cheno- 
worth'  and  hence  something  of  a  disappoint- 
ment. It  will  undoubtedly  pass  in  the  circulat- 
ing libraries  as  a  lively  and  entertaining  piece 
of   fiction,    and    it   has    indeed   one   excellent   bit 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


135 


of  characterization,  but  it  suffers,  as  did  Mr. 
Dodd's  previous  novel,  from  his  divided  alle- 
Kiance."     J.   W.  Krutch 

h    Lit    R   p547   Mr   24   "23   900w 

h   Nation    116:525    My   2    '23    lOw 

"Merely  as  a  story  it  has  much  interest,  but 
in  addition  one  finds  in  it  the  charm  and  the 
entertainment  of  the  author's  ability  in  char- 
acter depiction,  his  whimsicality  and  his  re- 
fusal to  exploit  the  obvious." 

4-   N   Y  Times  p22  Mr  11  '23  410w 

"If  we  may  assume  that  the  author  is  talk- 
ing through  his  hero,  Mr.  Dodd  proclaims  him- 
self in  this  story  an  unashamed  highbrow  and 
aesthete,  one  who  turns  his  face  from  the  pro- 
letariat. His  book,  then  is  to  be  judged  as  a 
candidate  not  for  best-selling  but  for  literary 
honors.  It  consequently  becomes  necessary  to 
point  out  that  the  fable  is  rrielodramatic  and 
somewhat  silly,  and  that  there  is  no  character 
really  well  deve'oped  in  his  story."  Leo  Markum 
1-  N    Y  Tribune   pl8  Ap  15  '23   650w 

"  'The  Girl  Next  Door'  is  neither  a  long  story 
nor  a  complicated  one.  It  owes  its  strength 
and  its  holding  power  to  Mr.  Dodd's  surpassing 
ability  to  bring  his  storj'  people  up  to  his  read- 
ers." E.  \V.  Osbom 

-f-  N  Y  World  p6e  Mr  4  '23  ISOw 

DODD,  WALTER  FAIRLEIGH,  and  DODD, 
SUE  (HUTCHISON)  (MRS  WALTER  FAIR- 
LEIGH  DODD).  Government  in  Illinois.  479p 
il  $3  Univ.  of  Chicago  press  [15s  Cambridge 
univ.   press] 

353  Illinois — Politics  and  government.    State 
governments  23-8785 

This  account  of  government  as  it  operates  in 
Illinois  gives  the  information  which  every  other 
voter  should  have  regarding  the  activities  of 
national,  state,  and  local  government  in  the 
state  of  Illinois.  These  various  governments 
are  treated  as  parts  of  a  single  organizaton, 
their  relationships  are  shown,  and  the  relation- 
ship of  the  citizen  to  each  part  of  the  complex 
governmental  machinery  is  emphasized.  Among 
the  questions  dealt  with  are  how  to  vote  and 
mark  the  ballot,  how  laws  are  made  and  en- 
forced, how  government  raises  and  spends  its 
money,    how   the  schools  are   managed. 

"The  authors  of  '(government  in  Illinois*  have 
written  a  careful  and  particular  treatise  on  the 
government  of  that  State.  It  is  primarily  for 
students  within  the  State  itself,  but  is  enliven- 
ing reading  for  all  who  are  interested  in  the 
comparative  systems.  The  plans  which  accom- 
pany the  text  are  illuminating  and  through 
them  one  can  obtain  a  correct  understanding  of 
the  functioning  of  State,  county,  and  local  gov- 
ernment, in  one  of  the  most  important  and 
vigorous   states   in   the   Union." 

-(-    Boston   Transcript  p5   Ag  23   '23   190w 
Lit    R   pl71   O   20   '23    80w 

"A  first-rate  account,  detailed,  comprehen- 
sive, and  up  to  date,  of  the  elaborate  and  com- 
plicated political  machinery  that  Illinois  has 
installed.  .  .  We  recommend  this  book  to  II- 
linoians  as  a  convincing  picture  of  the  political 
quagmire  from  which  they,  in  common  with 
their  fellows  in  many  another  State,  need  to 
be    extricated."     W:    MacDonald 

+  Nation    117:245   S   5   '23   3150w 

"It  is  critical  as  well  as  descriptive  and 
should  be  of  value  to  the  increasing  number 
of  indi\iduals  and  organizations  throughout  the 
country  who  recognize  the  antiquated  nature  of 
much  of  our  machinery  of  state  government 
and  want  to  know  how  to  improve  it." 
+  Survey   51:113   O   15   '23   lOOw 

DOMVILLE-FIFE,  CHARLES  WILLIAM.  Real 
South  America.  299p  il  $5  Dutton  [12s  6d 
Routledge] 

918     South  America — Description  and  travel 

23-26132 

The  civilized  and  developed  coastline  with  its 
thriving  cities  known  to  commerce  is  the 
.-smallest  part  of  South  .America,  while  the  vast 
and  wild  interior  is  .still  virtually  unknown.  It 
is    this    unknown    part,    the   author    holds,    that 


is  the  basis  of  its  present  prosperity  and  future 
possibilities  and  it  is  the  lure  of  adventure, 
rather  than  commercial  and  industrial  enter- 
prise, that  is  responsible  for  its  past  and  pres- 
ent yield  of  wealth  and  will  be  responsible  for 
the  future  development  of  the  country.  The 
author  occupies  himself  with  the  developed 
coastal  belt  only  in  passing  it  to  reach  the  wild 
interior  with  its  grandeur  of  mountains  and 
forests,  its  ancient  ruins,  mystery  and  romance, 
its  vast  natural  resources,  its  civilized  and 
barbarous  areas.  Index. 


Booklist    19:219    Ap    '23 

"He  knows  his  South  America  so  well  that 
he  is  able  to  write  of  it  as  a  whole.  He  does 
not  burden  his  text  with  guide-book  matter, 
but  he  does  give  to  his  readers  a  graphic  idea 
of  the  beauties,  the  wonders  and  the  mysteries 
of  the  continent  to  the  south  of  us.  What  he 
does,  and  does  well,  is  to  describe  first  what  is 
best  known  and  then  devote  himselt  to  the  less 
known  and  the  yet  to  be  known." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p3  Mr  10  '23  1500w 

"This    is   an    irritating,    often    incoherent,    but 
moderatelv   interesting   book."     A.    P.    McMahon 
f-   Nation    116:370    Mr    28    '23    400w 

"For  him  the  real  South  America  is  those 
millions  of  square  miles  of  forest,  pampas,  and 
sierra  in  the  interior  which,  except  to  the  ex- 
plorer, still  remain  a  terra  incognita  To  this 
wild,  strange  region,  into  which  the  frontiers 
of  civilisation  are  but  slowly  extending  from 
the  coasts,  the  reader  could  ask  for  no  better 
guide."   W.   B.   W. 

4-   New  Statesman  20:181  N  11  '22  180w 

"A  frisky  narrative  of  travel,  marred  by  sun- 
dry inaccuracies  but  entertaining  and  informing 
withal." 

H NY   World   p6e   Mr  11   '23   420w 

"An   excellent  book." 

-1-  Spec  130:295   F  17  '23  120w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p678   O 
26   '22   600w 

DOSTOEVSKII,         FEDOR         Ml  KH  Al  LOVICH. 

Dostoevsk.v;     letters    and     reminiscences;     tr. 

from    the    Russian    by    S.    S.    Koteliansky   and 

J.   Middleton  Murry.   2S6p  $2.50     Knopf   [7s  6d 

Chatto  &   W.] 

B    or  92  23-11383 

The  letters  here  contained  include  a  long  and 
moving  one  written  on  the  day  Dostoevsky 
was  sentenced  to  death,  to  his  brother  Milhail: 
eight  hitherto  unpublished  letters  to  his  friend 
A.  N  Maikov  outlining  political  views  and 
literarv'  judgments;  a  series  of  letters  to  his 
wife  on  the  Russian  celebration;  and  a  group 
of  letters  to  another  friend,  Konstantin  Po- 
biedonoszev.  There  are  added  fifty  pages  of 
reminiscences  by  his  wife,  of  Dostoevsky's  life 
in    Russia   after   a   four   years'    absence   abroad. 


Booklist  20:53  N  '23 
"One  closes  the  book  with  the  wish  to  forget 
it.    and    to    remember    only    the    author    of    the 
Karamazovs."    Alexander    Kaun 

—  Bookm    58:80    S    '23    800w 
"Remarkable   book."     E.    N. 

-1-   Boston  Transcript  pi  JI  14  '23  890w 
Cleveland   p80   S   '23 
Reviewed    by    Alyse   Gregory 

Dial    75:605    D    '23    1350w 
Freeman  7:502  Ag  1  '23  1500w 
Reviewed   by   Stephen  Graham 

Lit   R  p907  Ag  18  '23  1450w 
Reviewed   by    H.    J.    Seligmann 

Nation  116:220  Ag  29  '23  560w 
"The  book  has  all  the  earmarks  of  having 
been  hastilv  thrown  together.  The  selection 
which  the  editors  have  made  from  the  recent 
Dostoevskiana  is  not  unexceptionable."  Av- 
rahani    Yarniolinski  „     ,„ 

—  New   Repub  36:25  Ag  29  '23  750w 
New  Statesman  21:682  S  22  '23  1400w 


136 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


DOSTOEVSKI  I,    F.    M. —Continued 

"Every  document  referring  to  him,  every  page 
of  reminiscences  adding  to  his  characteristics, 
is  of  a  great  interest  and  importance.  All  the 
more  is  this  statement  true  of  the  volume  just 
published."      A.    I.    Nazaroff 

+  N   Y  Times  p5  Jl  15  '23  1950w 

"The  'Letters  of  Fiodor  Dostoevsky,'  with  at- 
tached 'Reminiscences'  by  his  wife,  are  authen- 
tic portraits,  more  authentic,  indeed,  than  if 
the  translators  had  written  a  long  biographical 
note  with  'artistic  interpretation.'  "  L.:  Weit- 
zenkorn 

4-  N    Y   World   p9e   Jl   29   "23   950w 

"The  letters  are  all  of  the  greatest  value. 
They  continue  and  fill  in  the  portrait  already 
clear  enough  in  the  earlier  volume  of  letters, 
and  make  more  than  ever  unmistakable  the  fact 
that  in  Dostoevsky  we  are  dealing  with  a 
'possessed'  type  of  literary  genius  of  the  most 
fascinating   sort." 

+  Spec  130:1045  Je  23  '23  1050w 

DOUGHTY,  CHARLES   MONTAGU.    Travels  in 
2    Arabia    deserta;    with    an    introd.    by    T.    E. 

Lawrence.    2v    1312p    $17.50    Boni    &    Liveright 

[  £3  3s  J.   Cape.] 
915.3      Arabia — Description    and    travel 

"An  Englishman,  ambitious  but  comparatively 
unsuccessful  as  a  poet,  a  half  century  ago 
ventured  into  the  unknown  'vast  mountainous 
labyrinthine  solitude  of  rainless  valleys'  of 
Aj-abia  in  a  camel  caravan  of  fanatical  Moslem 
pilgrims,  Mecca  bound.  Sick,  protected  only  by 
strength  of  presence  and  a  profound  and  sym- 
pathetic understanding  of  the  nomad's  mind, 
for  two  years  he  studied  this  almost  unknown 
people  and  their  country.  So  significant  and 
authoritative  was  this  lore  of  superstitions, 
saws,  customs,  and  passions,  as  well  as  the 
structure  and  archaeology  of  the  land,  that  it 
became  the  guidebook  to  Englishmen  engaged 
during  the  war  with  the  establishment  of  the 
kingdom  of  the  Hejaz."  (Lit  R)  "Until  now 
Mr.  Doughty's  masterpiece  has  been  either  un- 
obtainable in  the  original  English  edition  of 
1888  or  too  expensive  in  the  facsimile  of  1920." 
(Nation) 


"Each  page,  and  there  are  some  1,300  of  them, 
contains  something  of  interest.  It  has  been 
called  one  of  the  greatest  travel  books  of  any 
time,  and  that  is  not  too  high  praise."  1: 
Anderson 

+  Int    Bk   R   pll2   Ja  '24    1800w 

"A  classic  of  English  literature  in  its  stern 
magnitude  of  conception  and  magnificence  of 
presentation."     G.    H.    McMurry 

-f   Lit   R   p280   N   24   '23   lOOOw 

"The  new  reprint,  introduced  by  Colonel 
Lawrence,  perhaps  the  only  living  man  worthy 
of  the  privilege,  brings  one  of  the  great  travel 
books  of  all  time  within  reach  of  such  readers 
as  care  a  great  deal  for  Arabia  and  in  addi- 
tion care  everything  for  poetry."  Mark  Van 
Doren 

+   Nation   117:648  D  5  '23   1400w 

"One's  experience  in  reading  the  book  must 
in  many  ways  be  very  like  that  of  any  dis- 
coverer in  a  fresh  country.  In  the  beginning 
the  people  and  scenes  are  so  imfamiliar  that 
all  appear  alike.  It  is  only  slowly,  as  one 
reads  on  and  on,  that  tribe  begins  to  stand  out 
from  tribe  and  man  to  stand  out  from  man. 
The  vision  is  so  sure,  so  unsentimental,  the 
adventure  it.self  of  this  one  Christian  in  a 
desert  of  fanatical  Mohammedans  is  so  thrill- 
ing, the  people  themselves  are  so  unlike  what 
one  would  expect  them  to  be  and  yet  in  their 
gnarled  way  so  obviously  human,  that  the 
further  one  reads  the  more  certain  one  becomes 
of   finishing   the   book."     R.    W. 

+   New   Statesman   22:245   D  1   '23   1550w 

"The  publishers  deserve  well  of  literature  for 
making  this  masterpiece  more  easily  obtain- 
able by  those  to  whom  it  is  a  privation  to 
forego  one  of  the  great  classics  of  English 
letters."     H:    J.    Forman 

-H  N    Y   Times   pi   D   2   '23   2500w 
Sat    R   136:475   O   27   '23   ISOw 


"The  curious  antique  style  in  which  the  book 
is  written — a  style  which  Mr.  Doughty  has  so 
wonderfully  wrought  into  a  hving  and  indi- 
vidual means  of  expression — will  not  baffle  the 
least  learned  reader  after  a  page  or  two  has 
accustomed  him  to  its  strangeness.  Its  great 
cumulative  effect  does  not  rely  at  all  upon  fine 
passages  and  short  flights  of  eloquence,  and 
so  it  is  never  possible  to  represent  by  quota- 
tion the  power  and  beauty  of  the  whole." 
Martin    Armstrong 

+  Spec   131:644  N   3  '23  900w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p804    N 
29    '23    600w 

DOUGLAS,      NORIVIAN.        Together.        255p      il 
$2.50  McBride   [12s  6d  Chapman  &  H.] 

914.94    Switzerland — Description    and    travel 

23-18943 
"The  book  is  a  series  of  sketches  made  dur- 
ing a  holiday  in  the  Alps,  a  holiday  which  was 
a  return,  too,  to  the  home  of  Mr.  Douglas's 
childhood  and  therefore  provoked  from  step  to 
step  a  chain  of  whimsical  memories,  a  ghostly 
fashion  of  autobiography.  His  companion,  a 
young  Mr.  R.  intent  on  learning  English  and 
seeing  the  sights  of  the  place,  provides  some 
of  the  comic  relief,  whether  by  his  indiffer- 
ence to  inflections,  his  sentiment  for  an  inn- 
keeper's daughter,  or  his  facetiousness  at  the 
expense  of  his  tutor's  hat.  He  enables  Mr. 
Douglas  also  to  affect,  with  exquisite  inappro- 
priateness,  the  manners  of  a  middle-aged  men- 
tor. But  the  charm  of  the  book  lies,  of  course, 
in  its  pure  and  varied  revelation  of  Mr.  Doug- 
las's genius — a  genius  uniquely  observant, 
richly  experienced,  and  never  dominated  for 
long   by   an   exclusive   view   of  life." — Spec 


"Mr.  Douglas  is  a  good,  if  sometimes  care- 
less, writer.  He  can  describe  you  a  person  or 
a  scene  or  himself  so  that  you  enjoy  reading 
about  it  for  the  writing's  sake.  He  can  also 
write  sometimes  in  a  way  that  makes  you  wish 
he  would  cut  about  half  of  his  words  away." 
R.   W. 

-I New    Statesman    22:122    N    3    '23    1200w 

"Mr.  Douglas's  prose  is  always  a  varied,  ex- 
quisitely handled  medium  that  is  threaded  with 
a   quaint,   dry   humor." 

+  N  Y  Times  p8  D  16  "23  1500w 
"Douglas  is  a  bad  optimist.  His  new  work 
is  optimistically  sentimental  and  the  bite  of 
his  epigram  is  gone."  L:  Weitzenkorn 
—  NY  World  p6e  D  16  '23  390w 
"The  amorous  adventures  of  a  young  French 
gentleman  named  'Mr.  R.'  give  a  delightful  con- 
tinuity to  these  reminiscences  and  revisitings; 
and  they  receive  the  pleasant  sort  of  epilogue 
we  have  grown  to  expect  to  Mr.  Douglas's 
books,  an  index,  to  wit,  that  makes  as  whimsi- 
cal reading  as  any  page  in  the  text.  That, 
perhaps,  is  the  measure  of  Mr.  Douglas's 
achievement;  to  clothe  even  the  dull  bones  of 
an  index  with  the  flesh  and  blood,  the  lights 
and  shadows  of  fine  literature." 

-f  Sat  R  136:404  O  13  '23  780w 
"Mr.  Douglas  gazes  down  on  the  spectacle 
of  life  with  a  detachment  too  ripe  Indeed  for 
indifference  and  too  sly  for  sophistry,  but  too 
joyously  serene  from  either  petulance  or  dog- 
matism. To  preserve  always  your  perspective, 
and  yet  to  be  playful  withal — that  is  his  ideal 
and  his  achievement."  H.  I' A.  Fausset 
+  Spec   131:518   O   13   '23    900w 

The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p662    O 
11    '23    850w 

DOYLE,   SIR   ARTHUR  CONAN.  Our  American 
adventure.     190t>    $1.50      Doran 

917.3  Spiritualism.  United  States — Descrip- 
tion and  travel  23-8246 
The  book  contains  a  full  description  of  the 
author's  American  tour,  in  1922.  undertaken  as 
a  mission  to  expoimd  nnd  demonstrate  the 
truths  of  spiritualism  as  he  sees  them,  which 
he  feels  will  revivify  and  spiritualize  religion 
and  sooner  or  later  alter  the  whole  world.  He 
visited  the  principal   cities  as  far  west  as  Chi- 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


137 


cago,    g-iving   his    impressions    of    American    life 
and  of   the   reception   accorded  his  lectures. 


Bookm    57:649    Ag   '23    220w 
"It  is  an   interesting  story  of  his  visit  among 
us  which    Sir   Arthur   tells   and   one   well   worth 
the  reading."     E.  J.  C. 

+   Boston    Transcript   pi   My   19   '23   lOOOw 
Reviewed  by  Horace  Green 

N  Y  Times  p3  My  6  '23  2800w 
"A  lively  account  of  the  author's  recent  tour 
in  America.  He  had  most  trouble  with  the  in- 
terviewers, and  some  of  his  sltirmishes  with  them 
conducted  in  a  friendly  manner  on  both  sides, 
are  rather  entertaining.  He  notes,  with  amused 
resentment,  how  he  was  made  responsible  for 
all  kinds  of  wild  statements.  The  reader  of 
this  volume  who  is  not  a  sympathizer  will  prob- 
ably come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  Press  had 
no  easy  time  in  trying  to  exaggerate  the 
writer's   views." 

f-  Spec  130:974   Je  9  '23   340w 

"His  disciples  will  read  it  with  pleasure;  we 
need  only  say  that  he  writes  with  his  usual 
brightness    and    lucidity." 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p251   Ap 
12   '23   60w 

DREISER,   THEODORE.     Color  of  a  great  city. 
'    287p  il  $3.50  Boni  &  I^iveright 

917.471      New   York    (city) — Description 

23-18232 
It  is  the  color  and  flavor  of  an  older  day 
that  is  recaptured  in  these  sketches  of  New 
York  city  between  1900  and  1915.  Some  of  the 
phases  described  are  now  fast  vanishing  or  are 
no  more.  The  sketches  are  written  by  a  real 
lover  of  the  city  and  its  many  colored  life. 
Partial  contents:  The  city  of  my  dreams;  The 
waterfront;  The  log  of  a  harbor  pilot;  Bums; 
The  fire;  "The  car  yard;  Six  o'clock;  The  track 
walker;  The  pushcart  man;  A  vanished  seaside 
resort;  The  bread-line;  When  the  sails  are 
furled;  Characters;  The  beauty  of  life;  A  way- 
place  of  the  fallen;  Hell's  kitchen;  The  Bowery 
mission;  The  cradle  of  tears;  The  sandwich 
man;  -The  love  affairs  of  little  Italy;  Christmas 
in  the  tenements;  The  rivers  of  the  nameless 
dead. 


This  is  followed  by  chapters  on  the  sacred 
books  of  the  East,  Greek  myth  and  the  poets, 
Greece  and  Rome,  the  Middle  ages,  and  the 
renaissance.  There  are  nearly  500  illustrations, 
some  of  them  in  color. 


"Painted  with  swift,  clear  vigor,  with  a  com- 
prehension that  the  artist  need  not,  should  not, 
embroider  his  material.  The  quiet,  almost  re- 
ticent style  which  Mr.  Dreiser  uses  to  depict  hia 
multicolored  scene  is  far  more  effective." 
S.   L.  C. 

4-   Boston  Transcript  p4  Ja  9   '24  900w 

"It  may  be  that  many  readers — since  the  book 
is  a  picture  and  not  a  tract — will  feel  that  the 
author  concerns  himself  too  much  with  the 
bread  line,  the  unemployed,  the  pushcart  ped- 
dlers, the  frequenters  of  the  park  benches.  But 
it  is  a  book  that  makes  excellent  reading;  and 
it  is  immensely  humane.  And  the  illustrations 
by  C.   B.   Palls  are  excellent." 

H NY  Times  p7  D  23  '23  950w 

"New  York  City  changes  so  rapidly  that 
sketches  dealing  with  its  life  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury ago  seem  like  ancient  history.  But  to  persons 
whose  memory  goes  back  so  far.  Mr.  Dreiser's 
accounts  of  that  old  life  are  full  of  charm." 
+  Outlook  136:70  Ja  9  '24  120w 

DRINKWATER,  JOHN.  ed.  Outhne  of  litera- 
ture; a  plain  story  simply  told.  3v  v  1  295n 
il    $4.50   Putnam 

809     Ijiterature — History  and   criticism 

(23-10548) 
The  first  volume  of  a  three-volume  work 
constructed  on  the  plan  of  the  "Outline  of  sci- 
ence" the  aim  of  which  is  to  provide  a  sum- 
mary of  the  history  of  literature  and  to  show 
the  continuity  of  our  literary  heritage.  Be- 
ginning with  an  account  of  the  earliest  in- 
scription.s  and  papyri,  and  following  with  a 
sketch  of  the  Homeric  poems,  the  book  devotes 
its   central   portion    to   the   story   of   the  Bible. 


"The  Outline  of  Literature — if  an  entire  work 
may  be  judged  by  its  first  volume — may  be  de- 
scribed as  a  book  that  would  arouse  the  en- 
thusiasm of  a  youth  who  wished  to  get  his 
bearings  in  the  general  field  of  letters.  It  tries 
to  do  what  M.  Emile  Faguet  attempted  years 
ago  in  his  Initiation  into  Literature;  but  it 
is,  if  not  a  sounder,  at  least  a  more  attractive 
guide."     R.    M.    Gay 

-f-  Atlantic's    Bookshelf   O   '23   500w 
Booklist  20:13  O  '23 

"Excellent  bibliographies  accompany  each 
chapter  for  further  study  of  its  subject  matter. 
The  writers  appear  to  have  used  some  of  the 
books  listed,  but  not  always  skilfully,  annd  they 
occasionally  betray  a  curious  choice  in  the 
authorities  selected  for  reference  or  quotation." 
W.   N.   C.   Carlton 

—  +  Bookm  58:330  N  '23  750w 

Reviewed  by  E.   F.   Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  25  '23  1350w 
Oath   World   118:423  D  '23  330w 
Cleveland    p77    S    '23 

"The  task  which  Mr.  Drinkwater  has  been 
asked  to  essay  is  impossible  of  fulfillment.  That 
it  should  ever  have  been  conceived  is  a  symp- 
tom of  the  tendency  in  the  present  age  to  seek 
short-cuts  where  none  exist.  Yet  this  is  not 
to  say  that  'The  Outline  of  Literature'  is  with- 
out a  function.  It  is  fundamentally  'A  Guide 
to  Literature,'  and  should  have  been  so  labelled 
and  conceived.  There  is  room  for  a  work,  in 
several  volumes,  simply  and  attractively  writ- 
ten, that  supplies  the  background  of  knowledge 
required  for  a  moderate  understanding  of  the 
great  books  of  the  world,  especially  the  great 
books  of  the  English  world,  and  that  persua- 
sively leads  the  reader  from  itself  to  the  great 
books  themselves."     Norman   Foerster 

h   Freeman   8:283   N   28   '23    1350w 

"The  Outline  is  beautifully  and  helpfully  il- 
lustrated. Perhaps  the  reproduction  of  more 
paintings  by  other  than  British  artists  would 
have  been  wise,  since  the  illustrations  are  a 
great  aid  in  understanding  the  civilization  which 
produced  the  literature,  and  more  variety  in  the 
type  of  painting  would  have  stimulated  "the  im- 
agination to  more  varied  sympathies.  But  this 
is  only  a  passing  reflection  on  what  has  been, 
all   things   considered,   admirably   done."   J:    Er- 

H ^  Int   Bk  R  p32  O  '23  2000w 

"  'The  Outline  of  Literature'  is  simply  and 
competently  written  and  seems  an  indispensable 
handbook  for  those  who,  in  this  hurried  and  un- 
classical  age,  wish  to  'know  something'  of  our 
great  precursors  in  letters."  H:  L.  Stuart 
-\ Lit   R  pl87  O   27  '23  800w 

"However  sympathetic  one  may  feel  toward 
the  well-intentioned  aims  of  the  projectors  of 
this  'Outline  of  Literature,'  the  chances  of  its 
accomplishing  them  will  to  some  of  us  seem 
doubtful.  Obviously  it  is  not  meant  for  'the 
learned.'  For  these  it  will  be,  in  the  main, 
too  rudimentary,  and  for  those  whom  it  is  nec- 
essEiry  to  'teach,'  for  example,  the  Greek  my- 
thology, it  may  well  be  an  introduction  to  a 
world  which  they  are  incapable  or  undesirous 
of  entering."      R:   Le   Gallienne 

h   N    Y   Times   p4  JI   29   '23   3000w 

"With  the  exception  of  the  chapter  on  the 
Bible,  written  by  E.  W.  Barnes,  canon  of  West- 
minster, this  first  volume  of  a  general  survey 
of  world  literature  shows  every  evidence  of 
haste  and  clearness.  It  is,  in  parts,  a  rough 
and  commonplace  condensation  of  chapters  from 
the  encyclopedia — ;i  condensation  -which  leaves 
little  but  the  husks."  Burton  Rascoe 
h   N  Y  Tribune  pl7  Ag  19  '23  1800w 

"It  will  serve  most  admirably  either  to  point 
the  way  for  readers'  further  study  or  to  furnish 
to  casual  seekers  of  basic  knowledge  of  how 
letters  were  born  and  have  grown." 

-I-  N   Y  World  pl9e  Jl  8  '23  420w 


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DRINKWATER,    J:,    ed. — Continued 

"But  if  the  reader  be  somewhat  inclined  to- 
ward books  this  'Outline'  furnishes  the  best  of 
bait.  If  he  must  be  content  with  brief  and 
sketchy  information,  it  offers,  not  a  full  meal, 
but  an  excellent  light  luncheon.'"  E.  L.  Pearson 

-] Outlook    135:70    S    12    '23    2200w 

R   of    Rs    68:223   Ag  '23    lOOw 
Wis   Lib   Bui  19:409  Jl  '23 

DRINKWATER,  JOHN.    Preludes,  1921-1922.  61p 
$1.25     Hougrhton 

821  23-6862 

Of  the  eight  poems  in  this  little  volume  three 
are  narrative  or  dramatic,  two  of  these  based 
on  Old  Testament  stones  and  the  third  nar- 
rates a  drama  of  love  and  fate  among  the 
Sussex  downs.  The  rest  of  the  poems  are  re- 
llective.  Contents:  Prelude;  David  and  Jona- 
than: The  maid  of  Xaaman's  wife;  Lake  winter; 
Gold;    Burning    bush;    To   my   son;    Interlude. 


Booklist  19:310  Jl  '23 
"There  is  some  trace  of  effort  not  entirelv 
inspired,  but  beauty  and  a  dramatic  instinct 
are  present  in  a  high  degree,  especiallv  in  the 
hriet  lyrics  and  the  longer  Biblical  narrative, 
•The   Maid    of   Naaman's   \Vife.'  " 

H Bookm   57:566   Jl  '23   60w 

"One  uses  the  words  melody  and  sonata  un- 
con.sciously,  for  the  poetry  is  full  of  that  quality 
so  rare  in  verse  today.  It  is  frankly,  sonorously 
musicial,  full  of  a  lilt  and  swing  delightful.  Also 
it  contains  the  age  old  wisdom  of  which  we 
saw  evidences  in  the  historical  dramas.  .Mr. 
Drinkwater  is  a  poet,  quite  as  much  as  he  is  a 
dramatist,  though  perhaps  it  is  all  one  and  the 
same  thing."     I.   W.   L. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p3  Ag  25  '23  520w 
"Mr  Drinkwater  writes  with  feeling  and  at 
times  almost  with  passion,  vet  his  poetry  is 
noticeably  uneven  in  qualitv;  it  is  annoyingly 
mterspersed  with  passages  of  prose,  and  gives 
somewhat  the  effect  of  a  green  landscape  dotted 
with    boulders." 

i-    Dial    75:202    Ag    '23    90w 

"Mr.  Drinkwater' s  verse  is  like  a  brook  which 
makes  the  same  murmuring  sound  over  no  mat- 
ter what  bed  it  goes;  it  is  undistinguished  al- 
most undistinguisable,  although  never  unpleas- 
tng. 

h    Lit   R  p896  Ag  11  '23  210w 

"Their  earnestness  is  impressive:  though  a 
oertam  virtuoso  unctuousness  in  their  everv 
line  must  save  them  from  a  place  among  sheer 
unassuming  classics."   Mark  Van  Doren 

H Nation    116:602   My  23    '23  50w 

■•Like  his  earlier  poems,  they  are  instinct 
with  beauty.  It  is  a  sober  offering,  hut  not 
a  meagre  one.  If,  perhaps  because  of  their 
subject  matter— several  of  them  are  well-worn 
i.ihlical  themes— they  seem  not  to  have  the  same 
emotional  intensity,  they  have  a  rich  and  pas- 
sionate  humanity." 

-f   N    Y   Times  p7  Ap  22   '23   1600w 
Reviewed   by   Edwin   Clark 

N  Y  Tribune  p22  Jl  29  '23  800w 
';The  narratives  bear  the  imprint  of  Mr 
Drinkwater  s  peculiar  character  as  a  poet:  con- 
tained intellectuality,  with  the  light  and  heat 
ot  ppetic  feeling  upon  it.  'David  and  Jona- 
than is  plain  and  low-pulsed  writing,  for  the 
most  part,  and  can  claim  little  in  the  wav  of 
distinction." 

-4 Outlook  134:288  Je  27  '23  240w 

ioI?^f  Pf^'il^^'ater  is  never  incompetent,  but. 
n-fL^°vf*""''^1-'''  ''*^  ''"  '^e'^O'"  inspired.  Too 
nettn.r  ^^''■'"'''  ^"''■^"es  .ft  level  path  of  com- 
petence,   it    IS    workmanlike,    but    no    more" 

Sat    R    l.'?4:e8n   N   4    '22    500w 

>/"^^.c?"not    satisfy    ourselves,    in    regard    to 

ha'.  ^^cel^H*^'""  dramatic  enlargement  That  he 
has  excelled,  or  equalled,  or  approached  the 
rua.n  tale  of  the  Old  Testament  in  poetic  power 

th^n^'i^I"  ""i  ^Vu"'°''^"^^*^'>'-  '^  "lore  apparent 
han    actual.      The   words    may   be   chosen    from 

=  ^ff^""*^'^'  -"^liV  '^"t  '"  their  juxtaposition  there 
's  orten  a  problem  of  meaning;  more  often  they 


are  these  luckless  candidates  that  once  came 
under  Pope's  notice,  ten  dull  words  (or  nine, 
or  eight)   creeping  in   one  dull  line." 

—  +  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p722  N  9 
'22  llOOw 

Wis    Lib   Bui    19:411   Jl   '23 


DRINKWATER,  JOHN.  Robert  E.  Lee;  a  play. 

128p  ?1.50   Houghton   [3s  6d  Sidgwick   &  J.] 
822  Lee.  Robert  Edward— Drama         23-11991 

The  play  is  a  drama  of  the  Civil  war  built 
around  the  personality  of  Gen.  Lee  and  opening 
with  his  momentous  choice  between  the  com- 
mand of  the  Union  and  the  rebel  forces.  The 
dialog  brings  out  clearly  the  grounds  on  which 
the  two  sides  rested  their  cause  and  the  idea 
of  war  as  discussed  by  three  young  Southerners. 
To  one  of  these  young  men  Gen.  Lee  defines  war 
as  the  •'anger  of  bewildered  people  in  front  of 
questions  they  can't  answer."  The  play  follows 
Lee's  heroic  campaign  to  the  surrender  of  Rich- 
mond and  his   farewell  to  his   soldiers. 


Booklist   20:91  D   '23 

"John  Drinkwater's  new  historical  play  is 
an  earnest  attempt  to  duplicate  the  same  au- 
thor's successful  'Abraham  Lincoln.'  This.  Mr. 
Drinkwater  has  not  been  able  to  do."  R.  J. 
McLaughlin 

h   Detroit    News   pl2   Ag  26   '23   600w 

"Recreates  the  atmosphere  of  the  southern 
side  of  the  Civil  War  very  charmingly.  He  has 
not  been  so  successful  with  the  southern  idiom, 
which,  in  this  play,  is  undeniably  British  in 
certain  details." 

H Dial  75:612  D  '23  200w 

Freeman  8:191  O  31  '23  450w 

"The  student  of  Loe  and  the  civil  war  south 
will  take  up  this  book  with  lively  anticipations 
which  are  doomed  to  profound  disappointment. 
He  will  put  it  down  not  only  with  disappoint- 
ment, but  with  disgust  mingled  with  consider- 
able amusement.  As  a  picture  of  Lee  it  is  a 
about  as  real,  characteristic  and  con\incing  as 
the  one  drawn  by  Thomas  Dixon  in  'The  Gray 
Man.'  As  an  interpretation  of  the  south  of  the 
period,   it  is  quite  as  weak."  J.  G.   de  R.   H. 

—  Greensboro   (N,C,)   Daily  News  p8  S  23 
•23   1350W 

"Drinkwater  has  called  him  'the  grand  figure 
of  the  Civil  War.'  But  in  this  play  he  has  made 
Lee  a  wooden  tragedian  who  never  hoped  for 
victory,  stalking  fatefully  beneath  the  cloud  of 
impending  disaster.  Altho  he  slurs  incompre- 
hensibly Lee's  reasons  for  espousing  the  cause 
of  the  South,  altho  he  never  shows  him  as  a 
great  commander  in  the  moment  of  triumph,  at 
least  Drinkwater  makes  Lee  a  noble  character — 
which  is  surely  little  enough  to  say."  Archibald 
Henderson 

h   Int    Bk    R    p46    N    '23    1650w 

"Considering  the  difficulties,  Mr.  Drinkwater 
has  been  admirably  successful  in  the  delinea- 
tion of  Lee  himself.  As  a  character  he  holds  his 
own  in  the  play  against  the  picturesqueness  of 
Stuart  and  the  rugged  quaintness  of  Jackson, 
holds  his  own,  and  even  dominates  them 
completely;  and  for  a  hero  handicapped  by  si- 
lence this  is  something  of  an  achievement." 
Gamaliel    Bradford 

-f    Lit    R   p21-  S   8   '23   1050w 

N   Y  Times  pl5  Ag  26  '23  1900w 

"Where  the  play  is  thrillingly  successful  is 
in  the  picture  and  narrative  of  an  old,  heroic, 
and  beautiful  civilization  shaken  to  its  founda- 
tions and  collapsing  before  the  amazed  and  sor- 
rowful gaze  of  its  products  and  defenders."  D: 
Morton 

-f   Outlook  135:233  O  10  '23  llOOw 

"I  like  Mr.  Drinkwater's  new  American  Civil 
"^Var  n\uy  very  much  better  than  his  Cromwell. 
He  calls  Robert  E.  Lee  a  comnanion  piece  to 
his  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  although  it  is  in 
every  way  independent  of  that  niece,  yet  thi.s 
writing  of  two  plays  on  one  subject  has  given 
Mr.  Drinkwater  himself  a  sense  of  elbow-room. 
His   wistful,    well-intentioned    conception   of  life 


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139 


demands  space,  and  he  never  abuses  the  exten- 
siveness  of  his  work  by  being  tedious." 
+  Spec  130:1082  Je  30  '23  lOOOw 
"As  a  play,  'Robert  E.  Lee'  is  more  direct 
than  'Abraham  Lincoln.'  The  action  is  unen- 
cumbered by  interludes  of  poetry  between 
scenes.  The  emotional  reaction  of  the  audience 
is  derived  legitimately  from  the  dramatic  move- 
ment and  characterization.  As  a  book,  it  may  be 
read  with  pleasure.  The  form  of  its  message  does 
not   depend    upon    the    identity   of   its   historical 

-f  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  S  16  '23  480w 
"We  feel  that  he  made  himself  write  this 
play.  In  all  Mr.  Drinkwater's  plays  some  peo- 
ple find  an  air  of  the  task  set  and  consci- 
entiously performed;  but  in  Robert  E.  Lee,  a 
gentle,  mournful  play,  for  all  that  it  deals  with 
a  great  and  dreadful  war,  the  demanded  scope 
is  not  so  great,  as  in  plays  dealing  with  such 
mighty,  rugged  men  as  Cromwell  or  Lincoln; 
and  the  task  is  efficiently,  even  beautifully,  per- 
formed." 

1-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p429    Je 

28  '23  3400W 
"Lee's  reasoning  seems  in  one  place  a  little 
beneath  so  fine  a  figure,  and  there  are  a  few 
speeches  by  others  that  are  a  little  too  conven- 
tional for  Drinkwater.  But  the  play  mounts  un- 
mistakably to  a  spiritual  climax  which  wrings 
the  heart.  The  catastrophe  of  the  rebellion 
and  the  breaking  of  a  noble  ambition  hold  the 
true  stuff  of  pathos." 

H Theatre  Arts   M   7:349  O  '23  260w 

DRUCKER,  SAUL,  and  HEXTER,  MAURICE 
BECK.  Children  astray;  introd.  by  Richard 
C.  Cabot.  421p  $3.50  Harvard  univ.  press 
[16s   Milford] 

364      Juvenile   delinquency  23-8321 

"In  presenting  these  twenty-four  character 
sketches  of  delinquent  and  intractable  children 
who  came  under  the  notice  of  the  authors, 
who  are  respectively  the  superintendent  of  the 
Boston  Home  for  Jewish  Children  and  the  Ex- 
ecutive Director  of  the  Boston  Federated  Jewish 
Charities,  the  aim  has  been  twofold.  In  the 
first  place  the  authors  believe  that  social  work 
can  best  be  elucidated  for  prospective  workers 
through  the  study  of  cases,  and  secondly  they 
wish  by  this  means  to  demonstrate  the  possi- 
bilities of  using  orphanages  for  special  cases 
rather  than  only  for  normal  children." — The 
Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 


Booklist  20:40  N  '23 

Boston    Transcript    p5    Je    2    '23    650w 
Cleveland  p70  S  '23 
J   Religion  3:559  S  '23  50w 
"The    abundant    use    of    dialogue    to    reveal    a 
case   imparts  a  certain   readability   and   literary 
flow,    but    robs    the    discussion    of    a    thorough- 
going veridicality  which  the  more  scientific  and 
thoughtful    reader    will    demand    in    anything   so 
exacting   as   a   case   study   written    for   teaching 
purposes.    In   fulfilling  its   second  aim,    however, 
the    book    renders    a    valuable    service." 

H Lit    R   p918   Ag   IS    '23    500w 

"This  delightful  volume  fulfils  to  an  unusual 
degree  the  aims  set  forth  by  its  authors  in  the 
preface.  The  value  of  such  a  volume  obviously 
depends  primarily  upon  the  candor  of  the  writers 
and  the  literary  quality  of  the  narrative.  Both 
are  here  in  a  degree  new  to  the  experience 
of  this    reviewer."     Florence   Kelley 

+  Nation  117:272  S  12  '23  650w 
"Any  addition  to  the  stock  of  published  case 
material  is  more  than  acceptable.  "When  that 
case  material  has  the  merits  of  a  clear,  orderly, 
and  interesting  presentation,  an  illuminating 
introduction  and  a  selection  of  twenty-four 
cases  which  illustrate  the  possibilities  of  a  form 
of  treatment.  It  come^  as  an  even  more  wel- 
come contribution." 

-f  Survey    51:supl91    N    1    '23    480w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p475    Jl 
12    '23    90w 

Wis  Lib   Bui  19:406  Jl  '23 


DRUMMOND,    FLORENCE.       Betrothal   of  Fe- 
licity. 324p  $2   (7s  6d)   Longmans 

23-8579 
"Set  in  a  bewildering  array  of  English  coun- 
try estates,  'The  Betrothal  of  Felicity'  slips  in 
and  out  among  the  rose  gardens  playing  hide 
and  seek  with  sentimentality.  It  centres  about 
the  spiritual  influence  of  a  young  woman  who 
has  been  dead  for  many  years  before  the 
story  began.  It  contains  no  modern  conjuring 
up  of  spirits,  and  no  seances  or  ouija  boards. 
Rosemary  is  with  them  merely  in  essence.  It 
all  starts  very  urbanely  with  the  chitter  chat- 
ter of  guests  at  a  garden  party.  And  then  it 
begins  to  be  serious,  very  serious  in  fact,  for 
one  does  not  ordinarily  expect  tragedy  on  the 
announcement  of  an  engagement.  But  it  all 
ends  very  obligingly  and  quite  in  the  approved 
manner  in  a  burst  of  sentimental  mysticism 
that  is  as  bewildering  as  the  denouement  of 
most   mystery  plays." — Boston   Transcript 


"  'The  Betrothal  of  Felicity'  is  obscure  and 
nervously  exotic.  Miss  Drummond  tumbles 
her  ideas  together  in  her  attempt  to  explain 
herself,  with  at  times  an  obscure  result.  Yet 
it    is   an    interesting   fictional   outburst." 

\-   Boston    Transcript   p5   Ag   4    '23   250w 

"The  style  and  surface  finish  of  this  tale  are 
well  above  the  average,  and  there  is  some  in- 
genuity in  the  construction  of  its  very  intricate 
plot,  but  the  thing  as  a  whole  flies  so  high  m 
its  mysticism  and  sublimated  sentiment  that  it 
gets  lost  in  the  clouds  of  its  own  creation." 
H Lit  R  pll2  O  6  '23  280w 

"The  author  seems  almost  incapable  of  mak- 
ing a  clear  and  simple  statement.  There  are 
verv  many  characters  in  the  book,  none  of 
whom  are  interesting,  and  a  great  deal  of 
sermonizing.  'The  Betrothal  of  Felicity'  is 
extremely  long,  very  dull,  and  very  old-fash- 
ioned." 

—  NY  Times  p24  Jl  8  '23  360w 
"Effusive    in    its    sentimentality    and    growing 

more   and    more   edifying  and   religious   in   tone 
as   it   proceeds."  .  .     „  ,or    -r 

—  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p425   Je 
21    '23    20w 

DUFFUS,   ROBERT   LUTHER.     Coast  of  Eden. 
281P  $2  Macmillan  ^^^^^^^ 

Kenneth  Ballantine  arriving  in  Monterey  on 
his  return  to  college  from  a  vacation  surveying 
trip  in  the  mountains,  suddenly  remembers  with 
a  laugh  that  this  is  his  twenty-first  birthday. 
The  hours  which  he  spends  in  the  sleepy,  beau- 
tiful California  town  are  so  described  as  to  give 
not  only  background  and  atmosphere  but  a 
sympathetic  understanding  of  his  character.  His 
responsiveness  to  impression  has  still  the 
delicate  adolescent  balance.  He  needs  to  ma- 
ture slowly  and  independently  and  in  this  need 
lie  the  elements  of  disaster.  He  is  forced  by 
circumstances  to  make  decisions  while  yet  all 
unready.  He  chooses  the  wrong  career,  marries 
the  wrong  girl,  and  makes  a  sorry  mess  of  his 
life  generally.  He  is  still  under  thirty  when  the 
war  comes.  With  all  its  devastating  effects,  it 
restores  to  Kenneth  some  of  life's  lost  values, 
and  the  end  of  the  book  promises  a  new  begin- 
ning. 

"The  attraction  of  Mr.  Duff  us' s  work  lies  in 
his  choice  of  material.  His  problems  are  not 
of  today  alone,  but  the  universal  problems,  and 
his  people  are  the  ones  we  might  all  of  us 
know,  for  we  find  their  prototypes  all  about  us. 
He  mirrors  an  unrest  which  is  intensely  human. 
It  is  the  human  quality  which  makes  his  work 
so  satisfying."  D.  L.  M.  „  ,„«  ,,«« 

-1-   Boston  Transcript  p6  Mr  7    23  llOOw 

"There  isn't  one  bit  of  claptrap  between  the 
covers  of  this  book,  and  in  this  advertising  day 
of  ours  a  book  that  is  modestly  sincere  is  worth 
something!  The  New  England  field  is  always  a 
sure  one  for  Mr.  Duff  us.  Amid  these  old  traits 
and  ways  he  is  thoroughly  fresh  and  m9dern— 
and  so  is  the  book  in  the  main— and  his  New 
England  characters  are  always  excellent. 
Marion   Ponsonby 

-f  Lit    R  p579   Ap  7   '23  1200w 


140 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


DUFFUS,    R.    L. — Continued 

"Although  Mr.  Duffus's  latest  took  is  free 
from  certain  crudities  of  style  that  marred  his 
first  novel,  yet  it  is  lacking  in  the  vitality  and 
the  emotional   intensity  of  his  earlier  work." 

f-   Nation    116:474    Ap    18    "23    150w 

"A  word  should  be  spoken  for  the  unforced 
prose  of  the  book.  There  is  no  fine  writing  or 
experimenting  with  new  methods  of  construc- 
tion. But  there  is  a  clear  sense  of  develop- 
ment, a  simple  narrative  style  that  carries  the 
reader  easily  along  the  road  of  Kenneth's  de- 
velopment, disillusionment  and  eventual 
awakening." 

-t-  N  Y  Times  pl4  Mr  11  '23  660w 
Reviewed  bv  E.  W.  Osborn 

N  Y  World  p8e  F  18  '23  500w 
"This    story    is    well    written    and    deals    with 
life     problems      intelligently.        The     individual 
characters  stand  out  saliently." 

+  Outlook  133:498   Mr   11  '23  lOOw 

Springfd   Republican  p7a  S  30  '23  360w 

DUNBABIN.  THOMAS.  Making  of  Australasia: 
a  brief  history  of  the  origin  and  development 
of  the  British  dominions  in  the  south  Pacific, 
f Making  of  the  British  emnire  ser.)  258p  il 
$4   Macmillan    [10s    6d   Black] 

094  Australia — Historv.  Australasia — His- 
tory [23-4020] 
"  'This  book,'  as  described  in  the  introduc- 
tion, 'is  an  effort  to  give  a  brief  but  accurate 
account  of  the  winning  and  making  of  Aus- 
tralasia. It  may  seem  that  a  disproportionate 
amount  of  space  has  been  given  to  the  earlier 
history  of  Australia.  For  this  there  are  several 
good  reasons.  .  .  AMiat  may  be  called  the  mid- 
dle period  of  Australian  history  is  comparatively 
featureless  except  to  the  specialist.'  Thus,  of 
the  254  pages,  148  are  devoted  to  a  brief  ac- 
count of  the  discovery  and  occupation  of  the 
continent  to  1850,  fifty-three  pages  carry  the 
story  to  1914,  twenty-eight  are  given  to  Xew 
Zealand,  and  twenty-two  pages  cover  the  par- 
ticipation of  Australia  in  the  Great  War." — Am 
Hist  R 

"As  the  book  is  designed  for  the  general  read- 
er, it  contain.s  neither  bibliography  nor  cita- 
tions. The  style  is  pleasing,  but  aside  from 
the  ch.npter  on  the  Great  War  the  work  cannot 
supersede  the  existing  brief  histories  of  Jenks 
and  Scott.  Although  a  corrigenda  slip  has  been 
inserted,  it  does  not  include  all  the  typographi- 
cal errors,  while  one  of  the  corrections  is  itself 
wronglv  located."      P.   J.   T. 

h  Am    Hist    R   28:581   Ap  '23   480w 

"A  concise,  straightforward,  and  clear  nar- 
rative." 

+   Am    Pol    Sci    R  17:344  My  '23   50w 

Booklist  19:248  My  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p8  X  22  '22  550w 
"Offers  a  clear,  comprehensive,  and  readable 
account.  It  is  vmfortunate  that  the  volume 
contains  no  such  bibliography  as  would  make 
it  doubly  useful  to  the  reader  and  the  student 
of  the   subject." 

H ^   Lit    R   p591    Ap  7   '23   330w 

"Admirably   written." 

+   New  Statesman  20:150  N  4  '22  350w 
"A   verv   readable    sketch." 

-f  Spec   129:701    N   11    '22   150w 

Springfd  Republican  p8  Ja  24  '23  220w 
"It  is  open  to  the  criticism  that  in  matter 
of  space  preferential  treatment  has  been  given 
to  Australia  over  Xew  Zealand,  but  otherwise, 
taken  as  a  whole  it  is  highly  to  be  commended. 
Mr.  Dunbabin  must  be  credited  with  no  small 
achievement  in  having  written  a  thoroughly  in- 
teresting as  well  as  in  the  main  an  accurate 
book." 

-f  —  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p641    O 
12  '22  ISOOw 

DUNS^NY.  EDWARD  JOHN  MORETON 
DRAX  PLUNKETT,  18th  baron.  Plays  of 
near   and    far.    245p    $1.75      Putnam 

822  23-9073 

The  plays  in  this  volume  are:  The  compro- 
mise of  the  King  of  the  Golden  Isles;  The  flight 


of  the  Queen;  Cheezo;  A  good  bargain;  If 
Shakespeare  lived  to-day;  Fame  and  the  poet. 
All  have  been  acted  before  they  were  printed, 
except  The  Flight  of  the  Queen.  This  is  the 
stoi'y  of  the  Queen  bee  and  her  court.  In  the 
first  scene  in  the  Hall  of  the  Hundred  Princes, 
the  dro.'ies  are  repiesented  by  the  princes  sit- 
ting aljout  a  festive  board  enjoying  their  idle 
hours  with  half  disguised  weariness.  They  are 
discus.sing  the  queen  and  her  destiny  and  the 
love  that  beckons  from  Aeiher  Mountain.  At 
last  t'ney  all  obey  the  impulse  to  fly  thither. 
In  the  second  scene  the  queen  is  warned  by 
her  lady-in-waiting  against  the  temptation  of 
going  to  Aether  Mountain  in  q.uest  of  love. 
Scene  three  is  the  pilgrimage  to  the  Mountain 
with  the  princes  all  falling  by  the  way,  all 
but  one.  Prince  Zoon.  In  scene  four,  after 
much  discussion  between  the  prince  and  the 
queen  of  the  unreality  of  the  earth  and  the 
eternity  of  love,  she  kills  him  with  her  own 
hands. 


Booklist  20:13  O  '23 

"Shows  the  author  a  little  less  inclined  than 
usual  to  wander  to  dim  palaces  beyond  the 
svmset  and  to  enter  'faery  land  forlorn.'  While 
the  fantastic  elements  are  not  lacking,  and  one 
may  fi.nd  much  of  the  gloss  and  shimmer  with 
which  Dunsany  usually  decorates  his  work,  yet 
he  succeeds  at  times  in  coming  down  almost 
to  earth;  and  he  is  as  skilful  in  producing  an 
atmosphere  of  reality  in  one  or  two  of  his 
plays  as  he  is  in  creating  an  effect  of  beautiful 
urireality    in    the    others." 

+   Dial   75:201   Ag  '23   80w 

"He  never  strikes  out  a  vigorous  phrase;  he 
never  comes  to  grips  with  his  subject;  he  is 
never  enthrallingly  interesting  nor  intensely 
dull.  ■V\Tiat  he  habitually  achieves  is  a  sort  of 
feebleness  not  without  grace.  One  would  not 
dream  of  reading  him  a  second  time.  But  he  is 
sentimental,  on  the  whole,  without  great  offence; 
and  that,  perhaps,  is  the  one  virtue  that  shines 
out  of  the  mediocrity  of  a  very  much  over- 
praised   talent."    E.    M. 

—  +  Freeman  7:599  Ag  29  '23  250w 

"He  writes  always  with  scrupulosity  in  pur- 
suit of  an  entirely  individual  ideal  of  style.  He 
is,  after  all  is  said,  sui  generis.  You  either  enjoy 
his  kind  of  thing  extraordinarily  or  it  bores 
vou."    W:    R.    Benet 

Lit    R   p82   S   29   '23   500w 

Reviewed    by    Ludwig  Lewisohn 

Nation    117:95    Jl    25    '23    700vv 

New   Statesman    21:276  Je   9   '23   400w 

"The  present  book  of  plays  departs  from  the 
more  widely  known  phases  of  his  work.  It  is 
not  that  they  are  scarcely  as  fine  and  inter- 
esting as  his  plays  of  Gods  and  Men,  but  that 
they  are  different.  Here  he  is  concentrating 
on  the  nuances  of  life.  And  instead  of  im- 
pressions of  vast  new  lands,  we  get  exquisite 
illuminating  trifles.  There  is  much  that  is  an 
indirect  criticism  of  modern  life,  though  that 
is  not  true  of  all.  Some  seem  as  foreign  to 
anything  modern  as  any  of  the  past.  And 
Lord  Dunsany  still  protests  that  allegory  is 
something  not  to  be  found  in  his  writing." 
Edwin    Clark 

N    Y   Times   pi 4   Je   24   '23   780w 

"In  his  latest  collection  of  dreams  it  must 
be  admitted  that  the  Inspiration  of  Lord  Dun- 
sanv  has  thinned  to  a  meager,  lucid  stream 
upon  the  dustv  sands.  'The  King  of  the  Golden 
Isles'  and  'The  Flight  of  the  Queen'  possess 
the  old  magic  without  quite  the  old  genius; 
but  the  remaining  four  plays  hardly  bear  com- 
parison with  'Five  Plays'  or  the  republished 
'Plays  of  Gods  and  Men.'  "  A.  D.  Douglas 
_  _;-   N   Y  Tribune  p20  Ag  5  '23   800w 

DURAND,    HERBERT.       Taming    the    wildings. 

380p      il      $3.50      Putnam 
581.97  Flowers  23-18033 

"A  book  of  cultural  information  for  lovers 
of  our  wild  flowers,  wild  bushes,  and  ferns, 
who  desire  to  grow  them  for  landscape  and 
garden  effects,  or  for  planting  in  congenial  anrt 
sheltered  retreats  where  they  can  be  protected 
from  their  foes."     (Subtitle)     The  twenty-three 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


141 


plates  and  140  other  illustrations  are  from 
photographs  taken  in  the  wild  and  showing 
the  plants  as  they  grow  in  their  natural 
haunts. 


"A  most  worthy  and  useful  book,  strongly 
indorsed  by  Dr.  Edgar  T.  Wherry  of  the  Bu- 
reau of  Plant  Industry  in  his  foreword." 

+   Boston    Transcript    p6    N    24    "23   200w 

"The  text  description  and  the  many  illustra- 
tions, including  some  notably  beautiful  ones  in 
color,  with  directions  for  proper  location  and 
successful  cultivation,  should  encourage  any 
owner  or  park  director  who  understands  the 
values  of  our  native  plants  to  adopt  the  prin- 
ciples emphasized  in  Mr.  Durand's  work,  in 
landscape  treatment  of  t,heir  properties."  R.  H. 
Torrey 

+   Lit   R  p340  D  8   '23  700w 

DURYEA,  ANNE  STURGES.  American  nerves 
and  the  secret  of  suggestion.  256p  $1.75  Cen- 
tury 

616.8      Nervous      system — Diseases.      Mental 
suggestion.     Psychoanalysis  23-5440 

The  purpose  of  the  book  is  to  lead  nervous 
people  to  a  better  understanding  of  their  con- 
dition and  needs,  to  point  out  the  ways  to  self- 
help  and  to  help  from  the  right  kind  of  coopera- 
tion. It  is  shown  that  the  benefit  in  either 
case  comes  thru  suggestion  and  that  the  sug- 
gestive procedure  may  be  standardized  into  a 
technique  or  method  which  constitutes  a  thera- 
peutic education.  The  fact  that  American 
nerves  are  different  from  French  or  English 
nerves  accounts  for  the  lesser  success  of  Cou6's 
method  among  Americans.  Considerable  space 
is  therefore  given  to  an  explanation  of  the  psy- 
chological principles  underlying  suggestion. 


"Explanations  of  the  Hardy  doctrine,  self- 
hypnosis,  psychoanalysis,  and  numberless  other 
aspects  of  this  subject  are  set  down,  clearly, 
concisely,   and   without   bias." 

■j-   Bookm   57:464  Je  "23  140w 
"Mrs.    Duryea's    book    is    strong    in    point    of 
references    to   actual    experiences   of   its    author 
and  of  other  persons.     It  is,  so  to  speak,  illus- 
trated   from    life." 

-I-   N   Y  World  p7e  Mr  4  '23  800w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:157   Je   '23 

DURYEA,  MINGA  POPE.  Gardens  in  and 
about  town:  with  a  foreword  by  Richardson 
Wright.    183p  il  $5  Dutton 

716  Gardens  23-9660 

A  new  kind  of  garden  book  devoted  to  the 
construction,  preparation  and  planting  of  city 
gardens.  For  the  remodeled  town  house  which 
turns  its  back  to  the  street  and  its  face  to  a 
gaiden,  the  author  suggests  various  possibilities 
in  the  way  of  utilizing  this  small  garden  space. 
She  describes  gardens  that  are  actually  wells 
formed  by  the  sides  of  high  buildings;  com- 
mimity  gardens,  in  which  private  owners  pool 
their  garden  interests  by  removing  fences  and 
making  an  open  space  which  all  may  share; 
hanging  gardens,  roof  and  window  gardens. 
There  is  a  chapter  on  devices  for  screening  ob- 
iectionahle  features  and  one  on  garden  furni- 
ture.    The  illustrations  are  many  and  excellent. 


Booklist  20:126  Ja  '24 
"Mrs.  Duryea  has  prepared  a  charmingly  print- 
ed and  illustrated  book,  full  of  practical  sug- 
gestions; she  not  only  puts  forth  attractive 
ideas  for  town  gardens,  but  she  tells  how  to  ac- 
complish  the    lovely   effects   described." 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p6  JI  25  '23  300w 
Lit  R  p864  Jl  28  '23  400w 
"A  very  fascinating  book,  as  well  as  an  en- 
tirely practical  one.  although  one  has  doubts 
about  the  pools  and  fountains  which  she  ad- 
vises, and  wonders  how  she  is  going  to  avoid 
a  crop  of  mosquitos.  The  volume  is  made  still 
more  interesting  by  the  many  beautiful  full- 
page  illustrations  of  city  gardens  in  this  coun- 
try and  in  England,  which  are  also  described  in 
the    text." 

+   N   Y  Times  pl4  Je   17  '23   1600w 


"Mrs.  Duryea's  book  is  announced  as  the  first 
of  its  kind  to  be  published  in  America.  A 
frontispiece  picture  of  her  own  garden  in  New 
York  affords  evidence  that  she  is  writing  where- 
of she  knows." 

+   N   Y  World  pl9  Je  17  '23  170w 

DUTTON,  CHARLES  JUDSON.  Shadow  on  the 
glass.   251p  11.75  Dodd 

23-1445 

Frank  Rice,  millionaire  and  collector  of  rare 
books,  is  found  murdered  in  his  library  on  his 
daughter's  wedding  day.  There  are  two  arti- 
cles missing  which  point  to  two  possible  mur- 
derers; a  mahogany  box  containing  $5000  in  gold 
pieces  has  disappeared  from  the  wedding  pres- 
ents, and  a  rare  old  book  worth  $30,000  has  been 
taken  from  the  safe.  A  nephew  who  has 
threatened  to  give  them  all  a  shock  on  the 
wedding  day,  disappears,  and  it  is  suspected 
that  he  took  the  gold  and  murdered  his  uncle. 
But  suspicion  also  rests  on  James  Kent,  collec- 
tor of  rare  books,  who  has  been  seen  to  make  a 
hasty  exit  from  the  Rice  mansion  on  the  night 
of  the  murder.  When  these  suspects  are  cleared 
there  remains  absolutely  no  apparent  clue  to 
the  murderer.  With  rare  patience  John  Bartley, 
a  famous  detective,  finds  a  clue  and  the  mur- 
derer   is    apprehended. 


Int  Bk  R  p58  F  '23  150w 
"The  book  does  not  belong  to  that  best  type 
of  detective  story  in  which  the  results  are  ob- 
tained by  close  reasoning,  and  its  machinery  i.s 
at  times  a  little  too  evident,  but  it  is  enter- 
taining,   ingenious    and    swift-moving." 

H NY    Times    pl9    Ja    21    '23    330w 

Reviewed    by    Isabel    Paterson 

N     Y    Tribune    p23    Ja    28    '23    160w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ja  28  '23  280w 

DUTTON,  LOUISE  ELIZABETH  (MRS 

PARKER    HOYSTED    FILLMORE).   Going  to- 
gether.     Slip     $1.90    Bobbs 

23-5360 
"Sally  Belle,  who  attains  the  age  of  fifteen, 
has  the  devotion  of  Pig,  a  nice  boy.  She  man- 
ages to  complicate  the  idyllic  process  of  'going 
together'  with  passing  infatuations,  now  for 
the  'boy  from  away,'  again  for  the  star  of  the 
stock  company.  But  Pig  is  ever  faithful.  They 
are  for  a  time  disturbed  by  the  prevalence  of 
'spooning'  (an  archaic  term  for  'petting') 
among  their  friends,  but  decide  to  defy  con- 
vention and  stay  sweet." — Lit  R 


"Those  who  have  read  in  the  magazines  any 
or  all  of  Miss  Dutton's  charming  chronicles  of 
Sally  Belle  will  be  delighted  to  see  them  in 
collected  form,  while  those  not  so  fortunate 
have  a  rare  treat  in  store.  For  it  is  a  very 
charming  and  delightful  liook  written  with  the 
clear  understanding  and  clever  touch  of  one 
who    knows    youth." 

-|-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p8   Ag 
5  '23  220w 

"If  there  is  one  object  more  pathetic  in  or- 
ganized society  than  the  divergent  person,  it 
is  the  divergent  adolescent.  In  'Going  To- 
gether' Louise  Dutton  effectively  presents  such 
a  type — and  accomplishes  her  purpose  with  un- 
usual delicacy  and  charm.  The  hook  is  slight, 
rather  optimistic  and  sentimental  in  tone — but 
saved  by  unexpected  deft  satire  and  whispered 
irony." 

-f  Int    Bk    R    p58    My    '23    280w 

"The  saccharine  quality  of  this  book  is  char- 
acteristic of  that  type  of  provincially  domestic 
magazine  for  which  it  was  written  two  years 
ago." 

—  Lit    R    p633    Ap    21    '23    220w 

Reviewed    by    E.    W.    Osborn 

N    Y    World    p7e    Mr   11    '23    240w 

DYER,    ELIZABETH.      Textile    fabrics;    with    a 
>    foreword    by    W.    W.    Charters.    352p    il    $1.75 

Houghton 

677     Textile  industry  and  fabrics  23-6512 

The  purpose  of  the  book  is  to  teach  the  stu- 
dent of  retail  selling  how  to  buy  or  sell  fabrics 
or  garments  made   of   fabrics.     Since  the   same 


142 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


DYER,  ELIZABETH — Continued 
Information  is  needed  by  both  the  consumer 
and  the  salesman,  merchandise  is  here  studied 
from  the  consumer's  point  of  view.  The  facts 
in  the  book  were  obtained  by  collecting  ques- 
tions asked  by  customers  when  buying;  by  find- 
ing out  the  points  which  household  economics 
departments  stress  in  teaching  how  to  select 
materials;  by  getting  selling  points  and  reasons 
for  differences  of  prices  in  fabrics  from  manu- 
facturers, buyers  and  expert  salesmen;  by  learn- 
ing from  cleansers  and  dyers  what  fabrics  are 
not  satisfactory  for  dry-cleaning  and  dyeing. 


"Aside  from  the  very  interesting  method  of 
presentation  which  the  author  has  given  us  in 
'Textile  Fabrics'  and  its  many  original  features, 
the  book  recommends  itself  on  several  other 
counts.  It  is  rich  in  practical  suggestions  and 
makes  abundant  use  of  concrete  example."  H. 
R.    Norton 

4-  J  Home  Econ  16:37  Ja  '24  600w 
"The  historical  material  given  Is  exceedingly 
brief  though  rather  interestingly  written.  The 
greatest  contribution  of  this  book  to  public- 
school  or  private- school  teaching  is  to  be  found 
in  its  technical  information  concerning  the 
manufacture,  qualities,  and  identification  of 
textiles."     Hazel  Schultz 

+  School   R  31:790  D  "23  400w 


"The  story  of  this  great  politico-economic 
undertaking  Professor  Earle  has  told  with  a 
wealth  of  information  so  exhaustive,  a  temper 
so  impartial,  and  a  style  on  the  whole  so  read- 
able as  to  call  only  for  hearty  praise.  The 
book  is  one  of  those  definitive  pieces  of  work 
which  it  is  always  a  pleasure  to  welcome.  It  is 
one  of  the  most  valuable  contributions  to  the 
political  history  of  Europe  and  the  Near  East 
that  has  been  published  since  the  war."  W: 
McDonald 

N  Y  Times  p6  N  4  '23  2300w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p902   D 
27  '23  1250W 

EAST,    EDWARD    MURRAY.      Mankind    at   the 

crossroads.      360p   $3.50   Scribner 

312   Population.      Food   supply  23-13779 

The  author's  aim  is  "to  present  a  picture  of 
the  present  world  situation  as  regards  the  popu- 
lation and  food  supply  and  to  submit  a  fore- 
cast cf  the  probable  tendency  of  the  future." 
The  question  is  how  to  fit  the  birth-rate  to  the 
rapidly  diminishing  food  reserve.  Growth  can 
be  maintained  only  at  a  rate  corresponding 
to  the  increase  of  crop  yields  by  a  more  sys- 
tematic agriculture.  If  the  human  race  really 
desires  to  progress,  the  birth-rate  must  come 
down.  Moreover  it  must  be  reduced  thruout 
the  whole  population  and  not,  as  is  now  its  ten- 
dency, in  the  section  which  furnishes  the  most 
promising  material.  To  accomplish  this, 
parenthood  must  be  made  voluntary  instead 
of  accidental. 


EAGLE,    SOLOMON,    pseud.      See   Squire,   J:  ,C. 

EARLE,  EDWARD  MEAD.  Turkey,  the  great 
powers,  and  the  Bagdad  railway:  a  study  in 
imperialism.  364p  $2.2.5  Macmillan 

949.6    Turkey.    Bagdad    railway  23-11389 

"Mr.  Earle's  book  brings  out  the  importance 
of  the  Bagdad  Railway  as  a  central  and  co- 
ordinating influence  in  the  pre-war  imperialistic 
scramble  for  the  wealth  of  Turkey.  He  has  care- 
fully examined  a  great  mass,  it  must  be  nearly 
all,  of  the  available  printed  material,  and  in 
addition  he  has  obtained,  from  persons  'inti- 
mately associated  with  the  Bagdad  Railway.' 
many  records  and  documents  not  hitherto  avail- 
able. He  seems  to  have  mastered  the  material 
well  enough  to  handle  it  with  ease." — Nation 


Booklist  20:94  D  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p6  N  17  '23  2200w 
"In  no  other  place  known  to  the  reviewer  can 
one  find  so  convincing  an  illustration  of  the 
way  in  which  the  economic  rivalries  of  great 
powers  in  an  industrial  age  serve  as  the  breeders 
of  modern  wars.  No  one  who  is  concerned  about 
international  peace  can  afford  to  ignore  this 
book."   S.   M.   C. 

-I-  Com  on  Church  &  Soc  Sen.  Inf  ser  p3  O 
20  '23  80nw 
"A  really  valuable  work.  It  treats  of  one  of 
those  complicated  questions,  that,  bv  reason  of 
political,  economic  and  strategic  importance, 
bedeviled  European  diplomacy  prior  to  the  war, 
dictated  military  policies  during  the  war  and 
explain  many  of  the  confusing  manoeuvers  of 
Eiirooean  diplomats  since  the  signing  of  the 
treaties  of  peace.  To  an  unusual  degree  this 
work  combines  the  virtues  of  a  sound  histori- 
cal method  with  the  attractive  features  of  the 
ordinary  'hot  stuff  on  live  subiects'  that  so 
often  falls  into  the  hands  of  the  general 
reader."     C.   P.    H. 

J-   Grpensboro   (N.C.)    Daily   News  p8  O  14 
'23   850w 

"Without  emotion  or  notable  bias,  but  clearlv 
without  any  belief  in  the  realitv  of  the  white 
man's  burden,  he  has  told  his  storv  in  a  clear, 
straightforward,  and  readable  manner.  The 
result  is  a  reliable  and  an  admirable  studv  in 
contemporary  imperialism — the  be.«rt  account, 
so  far  as  I  know,  of  the  Bagdad  Railway  and 
its  nolitical  and  economic  implications."  Carl 
Becker 

+   Nation  117:556  N  14  '23   1500w 


Bookm  58:583  Ja  '24  180w 
Boston  Transcript  p3  O  27  '23  lOSOw 
"This  Is  a  brilliant  book.  It  deserves  to  be, 
and  will  be,  widely  read.  It  would  not  seem 
possible  that  any  intelligent  person  could  differ 
from  its  main  conclusions.  Its  defects  are 
mainly  of  manner  rather  than  matter."  Ray- 
mond Pearl 

H Lit  R  p389  D  22  '23  1700w 

"On  the  question,  the  relation  between  popu- 
lation and  food  supply,  the  facts  and  statistics 
that  are  adduced  and  brought  into  systematic 
and  logical  order  are  of  wide  and  full  scope — • 
quite  the  most  comprehensive,  complete  and 
up  to  date  to  be  found  in  any  recent  pviblica- 
tion.  The  argument  is  sound  and  most  sug- 
gestive, and  the  book  is  bound  to  attract  wide 
attention." 

+   N   Y   Times  pl8  O  14   '23   llOOw 
N  Y  Tribune  p27  O  28  '23  120w 
Outlook   135:645   D   12   '23   220w 
The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p735  N  1 
'23  60w 


EASTON,      DOROTHY.       Tantalus.     297p     $2.50 

Knopf  [7s  6d  Heinemann] 

23-27433 

"Miss  Easton  has  taken  the  life  of  an  en- 
ergetic, sincere,  rather  bustling  country  clergy- 
man of  middle  age.  .  .  She  takes  him  through 
what  to  such  a  man  are  very  deep  waters. 
He  is  a  husband  of  many  years'  standing  and 
the  father  of  grown-up  children,  as  well  as 
the  vicar  of  a  parish  in  which  he  is  held  in  un- 
questioning esteem,  when  he  stumbles  into 
love  with  a  young  French  governess  who  hap- 
pens to  be  staying  in  his  house;  and  Miss 
Easton  is  able  to  convince  us  that  this  ex- 
perience of  his  is  natural  and  probable,  given 
the  circumstances,  without  at  all  weakening 
our  previous  view  of  him  as  a  creditable  mem- 
ber of  his  calling,  perfectly  loyal,  up  to  this 
point,  to  its  standards.  And  even  when  we 
leave  him,  after  he  has  lapsed  very  far,  and 
has  only  narrowly  escaped  complete  disaster, 
we  feel  that  he  is  still  essentially  the  man  we 
saw  at  the  beginning,  however  shaken  and 
chastened  by  what  he  has  gone  through." — 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup 


Booklist  20:139  Ja  '24 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


143 


"It  is  a  very  excellent  piece  of  work,  deserv- 
ing: of  the  appreciation  of  that  small  if  dis- 
criminating' group  in  the  American  public  who 
know  talent  when  they  see  it."  D.   F.   G. 

4-  Boston  Tr\anscript  p4  O  10  '23  900w 
Dial  75:611  D  '23  90w 
"There  is  a  wistful  quality  about  'Tantalus,' 
an  imderstanding  and  appreciation  of  human 
foibles  that  never  lapses  into  sentimentality. 
Miss  Elaston's  novel  impresses  one  as  the  work 
of  an  author  who  has  the  intellectual  freedom 
required  to  see  all  sides  of  an  ethical  problem." 
Drake  de  Kay 

+   Lit    R  pl23  O   13   '23   750w 
"Tantalus   is   a   first   novel   and  a   remarkably 
promising  one.     To  be  commended  to  those  who 
care    for    English    fiction — and    the    essentially 
English    thing   in    fiction."    R.    M.    Lovett 
+  New  Repub  36:234  O  24  '23  350w 
"There    are    individual    scenes   w-hich   are    ex- 
cellent, but  the  novel  drags  more  than  a  little." 

-i NY   Times  p24  O  14  '23   450w 

Sat  R  136:364  S  29  '23  430w 
*'  'Tantalus'  is  not  inerely  an  interesting  ex- 
periment by  a  writer  whose  real  gift  is  for 
another  form.  It  reveals  Miss  Easton  clearly 
as  a  novelist  of  many  excellencies.  So  far  as 
we  can  detect.  Miss  Easton  evades  none  of  the 
issues  raised  and  falls  back  upon  some  of  the 
excuses  of  the  sentimentalist;  and  we  see  the 
affair,  in  consequence,  as  a  real  spiritual  ex- 
perience   in    the    vicar's    life." 

-f  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p602    S 
13    '23    700w 

EASTWICK,  BEATRICE  HINKLE  (MRS 
PHILIP        GARRETT        EASTWICK).  See 

Hmkle,    B. 

EBERLEIN,  HAROLD  DONALDSON.  Villas  of 
Florence  and  Tuscany.  411p  il  buck  $15 
(63s)    Lippincott 

728.8  Architecture,  Domestic — Italy  23-956 
It  is  chiefly  the  smaller  and  less  pretentious 
country  houses  of  Tuscany  and  a  few  of  the 
larger  and  more  famous  places  with  which  the 
author  deals  in  this  quarto  voluine  with  its  279 
plates.  There  is  an  introductory  sketch  of  these 
Tuscan  villas  of  the  sixteenth  and  se%-entecnth 
centuries  and  earlier,  their  decoration,  furnish- 
ing and  gardens.  Notes  are  also  included  con- 
cerning the  noble  families  who  occupied  the 
villas. 


agriculture     and     industrialism;      between     de- 
mocracy  and   aristrocracy." 


"While  the  book  will   be  of  greatest   value   to 
the    architect,    its    sheer    beauty    will    appeal    to 
many  others  as  well."  I:   Anderson 
+   Int    Bk    R   p42   Je  '23   80w 

"A  charming  record  and  compilation.  The 
text  is  agreeably  written,  and  in  all  ways  the 
author  has  cultivated  an  interpretive  vein 
equally  available  for  the  student  of  architecture 
and  the   mere  person   of  taste." 

+  Lit   R  p792  Je  23  '23  160w 

"This  handsome  book  will  delight  alike  the 
architect,  the  lover  of  Italy,  and  the  reader  who 
appreciates  good  photography  and  good  print- 
ing." 

+   Outlook   133:412  F   28   '23   llOw 


ECKENRODE,  HAMILTON  JAMES.  Jeffer- 
son Davis,  president  of  the  South.  371p  |2.50 
Macmillan 

B   or   92   United   States — History— Civil   war. 
Davis,     Jefferson  23-12012 

The  book  is  not  only  a  biography  and  char- 
acterization of  Jefferson  Davis,  but  a  political 
and  military  history  of  the  Confederacy  and  an 
interpretation  of  relations  between  the  North 
and  the  South  previous  to  the  war.  The 
author  shows  no  partisanship.  His  conclusions 
are  reached  largely  without  reference  to  polit- 
ical and  constitutional  ideas  but  follow  from 
the  theory  underlying  his  book,  which  is  that 
the  Civil  war  was  essentially  a  "conflict  be- 
tween Nordic  and  Jion-Nordic  principles;  be- 
tween  individualism    and   communism;   between 


"The  book  is  too  'literary'  in  that  popular  but 
unfortunate  meaning  of  the  word,  biographically 
speaking,  which  permits  a  writer  to  dominate 
his  subject-matter  by  a  fonnula.  Here,  in  the 
attempt  to  make  a  Davis  that  will  always  be 
In  harmony  with  himself,  the  author  misses 
that  element  of  the  incalculable  and  the  surpris- 
ing which  is  in  all  men,  and  especially  in  all 
men  of  genius."     N.   \V.   Stephenson 

—  Am   Hist   R  29:356  Ja  '24  950w 
Booklist  20:137  Ja  '24 

"A  hard-headed  analysis  at  times  superbly 
cynical  but  written  with  the  obvious  desire  to 
do  justice  to  Davis's  virtues  and  defects.  .  . 
This  book  is  as  much  without  effort  to  conciliate 
as  it  is  possible  for  a  book  to  be.  Neither 
friend  nor  foe  of  Jefferson  Davis  will  fail  to  be 
affronted,  somewhere,  somehow.  But  it  is  writ- 
ten with  consummate  ability,  and  is  hardly 
ever  specious  in  sustaining  the  author's  con- 
ceptions, nor  does  it  resort  to  special  pleadiJig. 
It  is  far  and  away  the  ablest  American  biogra- 
phy that  has  appeared  for  many  months."  S. 
L.   Cook 

-f-   Boston  Transcript  p3   S  15   '23  1950w 

"A  study  quite  perspicacious  in  its  immediate 
judgments,  and  yet  it  is  so  marred  by  a  perva- 
sive sentimentality  that  the  final  effect  is  dis- 
tasteful."    L:  M.  Hacker 

1-   Freeman   8:427  Ja  9  '23  2600w 

"Dr.  Eckenrode  has  evidently  given  to  his 
task  close  and  exhaustive  study  and  long  reflec- 
tion. The  book  as  a  whole  is  one  of  the  most 
scathing  indictments  of  Davis  on  the  ground  of 
general  unfitness  for  his  task  that  has  yet  been 
written.  Possibly  it  is  the  correct  judgment. 
Possibly  DavLs  with  all  his  great  talents  and 
his  spotless  character  was  nevertheless  unfit 
for  the  almost  superhuman  ta.sk  which  he  rather 
unwillingly  undertook,  but  still  one  is  uncon- 
vinced that  this  study  of  him  represents  the 
final  judgment  of  history."     J.  G.  de  R.  H. 

H  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    plO    N 

11  '23  1650W 

"This  is  a  work  which  embodies  much  shrewd 
analysis  of  the  political  and  military  policies  of 
Mr.  Davis,  erected  on  a  theoretical  substructure 
of  the  most  grotesque  nonsense,  growing  out  of 
the  effort  to  interpret  the  Civil  War  on  the 
basis  of  Madison  Grant's  Nordic  mythology." 
H.  E.  B. 

—  New  Repub  36:264  O  31  '23  200w 

Reviewed   by  L.    F.    Abbott 

Outlook    135:259   O    17   '23    680w 

"Trenchant    and    interesting    study." 
+   R  of  Rs  68:558  N  '23  150w 

EDDAS.       Poetic   Edda;   ancient   lays   of  north- 
^    ern  gods  and  heroes;  tr.  bv  Henry  A.  Bellows. 
(Scandinavian    classics)    624p    $4    Am. -Scandi- 
navian foundation 

839.6 
"This  is  the  first  adequate  English  version 
of  the  Icelandic  sagas,  for  the  rendering  pub- 
lished by  Thorpe  about  half  a  century  ago  and 
the  extracts  by  Vigfusson  and  Powell  were  un- 
satisfactory. The  translator  has  resisted  the 
temptation  to  make  use  of  obsolete  Anglo-Saxon 
words,  and  his  verse-rendering,  preserving  the 
forms  of  the  original  as  far  as  is  consistent 
with  a  language  lacking  accidence,  conveys 
much  of  the  poetry."  (New  Statesman)  "The 
book  is  the  bible  of  Northern  mythology,  mor- 
ality, and  literature.  Its  leading  mythological 
poem,  'Voluspo,'  a  sort  of  Genesis  and  Apoca- 
lypse combined,  is  an  imaginative  conception  of 
the  creation  and  ultimate  destruction  of  the 
world.  The  'Hovninol'  a  collection  of  shrewd 
saws,  gives  a  picture  of  the  ethical  conceptions 
of  the  Vikings.  The  Lay  of  Thrym  is  a  ballad. 
In  the  poems  of  Sigurd  and  Brynhild  we  get  the 
Norse  version  of  the  Lay  of  the  Nibelungs." 
(Springf'd   Republican) 


"Primitive   and   vast   in    conception,    yet   terse 
and  inlaid  with  imagery." 

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EDDAS — Continueil 

"The  book  is  a  variorum  edition  as  valuable 
to  the  scholar  as  to  the  general  reader."  P.  A. 
Hutchison 

4-   N   Y  Times  p2  D  16  '23  3500w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  S  30  '23  120w 

EDIE,  LIONEL  DANFORTH,  ed.  Stabilization 
of  business,  by  Wesley  C.  Mitchell,  Irving 
Fisher,  Frank  Haigh  Dixon  and  others;  with 
an  introd.  by  Herbert  Hoover.  400p  $2.50 
Macmillan 

330.4     Business  conditions.     United  States — 
Economic  conditions  23-6647 

Economists  and  business  men  have  main- 
tained that  the  ebb  and  flow  of  the  business 
cycle  is  inevitable,  that  it  cannot  from  tne 
natvire  of  things  be  regulated.  The  object  of 
this  book,  which  consists  of  nine  chapters  con- 
tributed by  as  many  special  writers,  is  to 
study  how  far  it  is  possible  and  desirable  to 
control  the  business  cycle  and  to  devise  some 
soimd  means  of  steadying-  price  levels  and  the 
purchasing  power  of  money,  preventing  unem- 
ployment, coordinating  production  and  market- 
ing, etc.  Contents:  The  problem  of  controlling 
business  cycle.s,  by  Wesley  C.  Mitchell;  Stab- 
ilizing the  dollar,  by  Irving  Fisher;  Transpor- 
tation and  the  business  cycle,  by  Frank  Dixon; 
Unemployment — prevention  and  insurance,  by 
John  R.  Commons;  The  coordination  of  pro- 
duction and  marketing,  by  Lionel  D.  Edie; 
International  problems  in  business  stability,  by 
Edwin  R.  A.  Seligman;  Public  works  as  an 
agency  of  control,  by  John  B.  Andrews;  The 
psychological  factors  in  stabilization,  by  Walter 
Dili  Scott;  The  applied  technique  of  stabiliza- 
tion, by  Henry  S.   Dennison. 


Am    Econ    R   13:499   S   '23    lOOw 
Booklist  20:43  N  '23 

Boston   Transcript  p4  My  26  '23   600w 
Cleveland   p45   Je   '23 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:282  Je  '23 
"Although  each  contributor  is  responsible  only 
for    the    views    expressed    in    hi.s    own    chapter 
there    is    a    remarkable    community    of    thought 
throughout  the  volume.  The  book  marks  a  dis- 
tinct   advance    in    thought    on    business    cycles, 
from    the    stage   of   analysis   of   the    causes   and 
characteristics    of    such    cycles    to    the    stage   of 
planning  definite   policies   for   their  control." 
+   R  of  Rs  68:111  Jl  '23  80w 
"Much  of  his  information  is  interesting." 

-I-  The   Times   [Londonl    Lit   Sup   p324   My 
10    '23    200w 

EDWARDS,  AGNES,   pseud.  See  Rothery,  A.  E. 

EDWARDS,     GEORGE     WHARTON.         London. 

395p  il  $7.50   Penn 

914.21     London — Description  22-22648 

"George  Wharton  Edwards  has  done  much  for 
the  lover  of  London.  He  has  sifted  the  sights 
of  the  old  English  town,  sifted  them  carefully 
and  well.  The  sights  that  stayed  in  his  sieve 
he  has  thrown  aside  with  a  casual  phrase  or 
two,  but  those  bits  of  the  rambling  capital 
which  leaked  through  he  has  saved  for  the 
renders  of  his  'London.'  Throughout  the  vol- 
ume appear  water  color  and  crayon  sketches 
of  here,  there,  and  everywhere  in  the  town. 
They,  too,  are  Mr.  Edward's  work,  almost  on 
the  plane  of  merit  won  by  the  prose.  Take 
away  from  London  everything  Baedeker  has 
foimd,  and  there  will  be  still  the  crannies  that 
delighted  this  observer." — Bookm 


"Even  the  American  who  is  somewhat  cold  to 
the  attractions  of  London  must  warm  into  ad- 
miration under  the  skillful  guidance  of  Mr. 
Edwards." 

+  Outlook  133:498  Mr  14  '23  llOw 
R  of  Rs  66:672  D  '22  200w 
"Mr  Edwards  very  wisely  places  more  de- 
pendence upon  his  drawing  pencil  than  his  pen. 
Nor  does  he  atteziipt  to  describe  too  much,  or 
confuse  the  mind  and  weary  the  eye  with  an 
over-abundance    of    illustrations." 

Springf'd    Republican   p7a  D  3   '22  420w 

EGERTON,  HUGH  EDWARD.  Causes  and 
character  of  the  American  revolution.  (His- 
tories of  the  nations  ser.)  208p  $2.85  Oxford 
[8s    6d    Milford] 

973.3  United  States — History^Revolution 
"Mr.  Bgerton,  long  the  accomplished  professor 
of  Colonial  History  at  Oxford  .  .  .  has  set  him- 
self in  the  lectures  of  whose  substance  he  has 
made  a  book,  to  examine,  with  the  critical  im- 
partiality of  a  historian,  the  causes  of  a  revolt 
which,  in  making  the  United  States  a  nation, 
went  far  toward  putting  an  end  to  what  he 
calls  the  old  British  Empire.  .  .  His  study  of 
the  documentary  sources,  some  of  the  most 
important  of  which  he  has  himself  had  a  part 
in  editing,  leads  him  to  the  conclusion  that 
the  American  Revolution  was  primarily  the 
result  of  the  faulty  relations  which  existed  from 
the  beginning  between  the  Colonies  and  the 
mother  country,  and  which  no  intelligent  and 
genuinely  honest  attempt  was  ever  made  to  im- 
prove so  far  as  Great  Britain  was  concerned. 
For  proof  of  the  soundness  of  this  contention 
Mr.  Egerton  proceeds  to  examine  pretty  much 
the  whole  history  of  the  relations  between  the 
Colonies  and  home  Government,  but  particularly, 
of  course,  the  period  subsequent  to  1763." — 
N    Y    Times 


"So  many  persons  have  filled  so  many  vol- 
innes  with  descriptions  of  this  old  place  that 
it  is  incredible  a  new  explorer  could  bring  such 
an  alluring  freshness  to  such  a  big  guidebook. 
But  Mr.  Edwards  has  taken  the  tiny  corners 
and  adorned  them  with  pressing  invitation." 
-\-  Bookm   57:97  Mr  '23  200w 


Reviewed  by  Carl  Becker 

Am    Hist   R  29:344  Ja  '24   660w 
Booklist    20:50    N    '23 
"Temperate     and     well     thought     out     book." 
S    L    C 

'  +"  Boston    Transcript  p6  Ag  22   '23   650w 

New    Repub   37:212  Ja  16   '24   200w 
"His  little  book  is  extremely  well  packed.   .   . 
No  American  reader,   we   think,  could  find  fault 
with   Mr.    Egerton's    attitude    or   temper." 

-I-  New   Statesman   21:428  Jl   14  '23   lOOw 
"This  examination   of  the  question  of  Ameri- 
can   independence    is    scholarly    and    his    temper 
unbiased."   W:   MacDonald 

4-  N  Y  Times  pl6  Ag  5  '23  1800w 
"This  excellent  little  book  ought  to  be  widely 
read  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.  There  is  no 
trace  of  passion  or  prejudice  in  Professor  Eger- 
ton's work,  which  ought  to  dispose  of  the  catas- 
trophic theory  of  the  separation  of  the  colonies 
from   the  mother-country." 

-I-  Spec  131:199  Ag  11  '23  300w 
"While  the  book  was  written  for  the  benefit 
of  Englishmen,  the  clean-cut  presentation  of 
fundamental  issues  makes  it  a  useful  work 
of  information  for  any  American  reader  unfa- 
miliar   with    the    views    of   scholars." 

4-  Springf'd    Republican   pl4   N  2  '23   760w 
"It  is  a  book  which  all  those  interested  in  the 
problems    of    the    Empire    should    read:    and    it 
has  the  merit  of  being  eminently  readable." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p479  Jl  19 
'23  2250W 

EINSTEIN,    ALBERT.        Sidelights    on    relativ- 
»    ity;    tr.    from    the   German    by   G.    B.    Jeffery 

and    W.    Perrett.    56p    $1.50    Dutton 

530.1   Einstein   theory  [23-9720] 

"The  two  addresses  published  here  together 
were  delivered  by  the  author  of  the  relativity 
theory  in  1920  and  1921.  Both  are  in  popular 
form  without  mathematical  details,  and  readily 
comprehensible  to  the  reader  who  has  had  no 
mathematical  training.  The  first  essay,  entitled 
•Ether  and  the  Theory  of  Relativity  considers 
briefly  the  development  of  the  ether  theory 
and  the  modifications  in  it  which  have  been  ne- 


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cessitated  by  the  concept  of  relativity.  In  the 
second  essay,  on  'Geometry  and  Experience," 
Professor  Einstein  gives  a  very  vivid  picture 
of  the  geometrical  significance  of  curved  space 
and  the  concept  of  a  finite  but  unbounded  uni- 
verse."— Lit   R 


Reviewed  by  Leigh  Page 

Lit   R   p426  Ja  5   "24   420w 

"To  all  lovers  of  logical  and  exact  thought 
who  are  interested  in  the  developments  that 
have  arisen  in  the  wake  of  the  theory  of  rel- 
ativity, this  book  can  be  warmly  recommended. 
The  work  of  translation  has  been  admirably 
done,  and  much  of  the  finesse  of  expression 
characteristic  of  Einstein's  writings  has  been 
retained." 

+  Nature  112:319  S  1  '23  650w 

ELEY,  CHARLES.  Gardening  for  the  twen- 
tieth century.  270p  il  $7  Dutton  [16s 
Murray] 

716     Gardening  [Agr23-1430] 

"The  title  gives  no  hint  of  the  rather  revo- 
lutionary proposal  contained  in  the  book,  which 
is  largely  to  replace  the  customary  flower  gar- 
den, with  its  familiar  herbaceous  and  annual 
plants,  by  the  growing  of  trees  and  shrubs. 
The  lists  of  varieties  are  accompanied  by  notes 
on  cultivation,  and  it  will  not  be  the  fault  of 
the  book  if  the  amateur  who  reads  it  should 
try  to  grow  Eucryphia  north  of  Trent,  or  to 
plant  grafted  brooms  except  on  the  chalk.  There 
are  many  good  photographs  of  specimens  de- 
scribed in  the  text." — The  Times  [London]  Lit 
Sup 


"Mr.   Eley's  book  is  not  only  a  practical  help 
to    the    beginner    in    garden -making;    it    is    fine 
in    spirit    and    inspiration,    a   distinct    contribu- 
tion   to    the    literature    of   horticulture."     L.    N. 
-I-  Boston    Transcript   p6    N    24   '23   lOOOw 

"This  may  well  be  the  all-beginners'  book 
on  landscape  gardening,  their  primer  of  spe- 
cialisation on  trees  and  flowering  shrubs.  But 
a  book  on  'gardening' — unless  this  is  Indeed 
the  truncated  thing  that  the  gardening  of  the 
last  three-quarters  of  the  twentieth  century 
is   to   become — it  can   never  be." 

h   New   Statesman   21:553   Ag  18   '23   350w 

"Mr.  EJley's  book  announces  its  own  value,  be- 
cause all  the  earlier  chapters,  in  title  as  in 
substance,  deal  with  the  essential  skeleton  of 
the  garden.  They  indicate  with  rare  anatomical 
biological  skill  how  the  framework  may  be 
built  that  shall  thereafter  be  dressed  with  the 
externals  of  beauty.  An  advanced  specialist 
in  horticulture  may,  perhaps,  find  .some  of  the 
chapters  a  little  elementary,  with  a  tendency 
to  stop  at  the  point  where  he  most  wishes 
for   knowledge." 

H Sat   R   136:139   Ag  4   '23   300w 

"As  a  guide  to  the  tree  and  shrub-planter 
the  work  is  excellent,  full  of  first-hand  knowl- 
edge of  the  provenance,  the  characters,  likes 
and  dislikes  of  genera  and  species,  as  well 
as  of   their   proper   charms." 

+  The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p390  Je 
7   '23   180w 


ELIOT,  CHARLES  WILLI AlVI.     Harvard   mem- 
ories.     142p      il      $2      Harvard   univ.    press 

378.73      Harvard   university  23-13804 

"The  text  consists  of  the  reports  of  three 
addresses  delivered  in  recent  years  by  Presi- 
dent Eliot  in  Cambridge.  The  first,  on  'The 
Traditions  of  Harvard  College,'  was  made  at 
a  meeting  of  foreign  students  in  Phillips  Brooks 
House;  the  second,  on  'The  Function  of  a 
University,'  at  a  luncheon  of  the  Harvard  Lib- 
eral Club;  the  third,  on  'The  Harvard  Yard  and 
Its  Buildings,'  before  the  students  in  the  Har- 
vard   Schools    of    Architecture    and    Landscape 


"A  book  of  facts  and  ideas  no  less  rich  in 
its  progiessive  outlook  than  in  its  inspiring 
memories."     B.    P.    Edgett 

-f  Boston  Transcript  pi  S  22  '23  2800w 
"It  is  from  bits  of  reminiscence  that  the  book 
derives  much  of  its  value.  Its  significance  is 
more  than  local  and  personal  by  reason  of 
the  light,  sometimes  merely  a  sidelight,  which 
it  throws  upon  the  progress  of  American  edu- 
cation during  the  past  seventy  years.  It  is 
thus  a  document  of  evidence,  hardly  of  primary 
importance,  but  surely  not  to  be  overlooked  by 
a  student  or  amateur  of  the  subject."  M.  A. 
De  W.   Howe 

+   Lit    R    p367    D   15   '23   750w 
Reviewed    by    T.    S.    Bosworth 

N    Y    Times    plO    O    28    '23    llOOw 
Sprlngf'd  Republican  pl4  D  21  '23  480w 

ELIOT,  THOiVIAS   STEARNS.     Waste  land.   64p 

$2   Boni   &   Liveright 

811  23-1936 

This  long  poem,  which  first  appeared  in  the 
November  number  of  the  Dial,  won  the  Dial's 
award  for  poetry  for  the  year  1922.  "The  power 
of  suggesting  intolerable  tragedy  at  the  heart 
of  the  trivial  or  the  sordid  is  used  with  a  skill 
little  less  than  miraculous  in  The  Waste  Land, 
and  the  power  is  the  more  moving  because 
of  the  attendant  conviction  that  this  terrible 
resembling  contrast  between  nobility  and  base- 
ness is  an  agony  in  the  mind  of  Mr  Eliot  of 
which  only  a  portion  is  transferred  to  that 
of   the   reader."    (Lit   R) 


Architecture." — Lit    R 


Bookm    5i 


D    '23    50w 


Cleveland  p35  My  '23 

"As  an  echo  of  contemporary  despair,  as  a 
picture  of  dissolution,  of  the  breaking  down 
of  the  very  structures  on  which  life  has  modelled 
itself,  'The  Waste  Land'  has  a  definite  au- 
thenticity. But  even  the  process  of  disintegra- 
tion must  be  held  within  a  pattern.  This  pat- 
tern is  distorted  and  broken  by  Mr.  Eliot's 
jumble  of  narratives,  nur.sery-rhymes,  criti- 
cism, jazz-rhythms.  Dictionary  of  Favorite 
Phrases  and  a  few  lyrical  moments."  L:  Un- 
termeyer 

—  -I-   Freeman    6:453    Ja    17    '23    1200w 

"What  really  matters  is  whether  or  not  'The 
Waste  Land'  itself  arouses  a  troubled,  twisted 
ecstasy  in  the  reader,  a  regret  that  is  like  a 
sob  in  the  throat  beneath  its  glittering  surface 
of  ironic  nuances.  The  fact  that  it  would  seem 
to  do  so  in  not  a  small  number  of  undeniably 
intelligent  minds  may  not  be  proof  of  its  au- 
thenticity as  a  poem,  but  it  is  a  proof  of  some- 
thing, and  perhaps  that  larger  group  of  admit- 
tedly intelligent  minds  which  seem  to  find  noth- 
ing in  the  poem  will  tell  us  what  it  is.  For  my 
own  part,  'The  Waste  Land'  is  an  unusual 
poem,  for  it  shook  me  violently."  H.  S.  Gorman 
Int   Bk   R   p46  Ap  '23   2750w 

"If  this  is  a  trick,  it  is  an  inspired  one. 
I  do  not  believe  that  it  is  a  trick:  I  think 
that  Mr.  Eliot  conceived  'The  Waste  Land'  out 
of  an  extremity  of  tragic  emotion  and  expressed 
it  in  his  own  voice  and  in  the  voices  of  other 
unhappy  men  not  carefully  and  elaborately 
trained  in  close  harmony,  but  coming  as  a 
confused  and  frightening  and  beautiful  murmur 
out  of  the  bowels  of  the  earth."  Elinor  Wylie 
+   Lit    R   p396  Ja  20  '23   1400w 

Reviewed  by  Gilbert  Seldes 

Nation   115:sup614  D  6  '22  3500w 

"When  our  reservations  have  all  been  made, 
we  accept  The  Waste  Land  as  one  of  the  most 
moving  and  original  poems  of -our  time.  It 
captures    us."       Conrad    Aiken 

+   New    Repub    33:294    F    7    '23    2800vv 

"In  brief,  in  The  Waste  Land  Mr.  Eliot  has 
shown  that  he  can  at  moments  write  real  blank 
verse;  but  that  is  all.  For  the  rest  he  has  quoted 
a  great  deal,  he  has  parodied  and  imitated. 
But  the  parodies  are  cheap  and  the  Imitations 
Inferior."    F.    L.   Lucas 

h  New  Statesman  22:116  N  3  '23  1750w 

"The  poem  contains  enough  sheer  verbal  love- 
liness, enough  ecstasy,  enough  psychological 
verisimilitude,    and    enough    even    of    a    readily 


146 


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ELIOT,  T:  S. — Continued 

understandable  etching  of  modern  life,  to  justify 
Mr.  Eliot  in  his  idiosyncrasies.  He  may,  and 
1  think  he  does,  even  play  practical  jokes  on 
his  readers;  but  that  is  in  character  with  the 
curious,  variable  mood  of  this  fine  poem."  Bur- 
ton   Rascoe 

+  N   Y  Tribune  p8  N  5  *22  480w 

Reviewed    by    F:    F.    Van    de    Water 

N    Y    Tribune   pl9   Ja    28    '23    1250w 

"Mr.  Eliot,  always  evasive  of  the  grand  man- 
ner, has  reached  a  stage  at  which  he  can  no 
longer  refuse  to  recognize  the  limitations  of 
his  medium;  he  is  sometimes  walking  very  near 
the  limits  of  coherency.  But  it  is  the  finest 
horses  which  have  the  most  tender  mouths,  and 
some  unsympathetic  tug  has  sent  Mr.  Eliot's 
gift  awry.  When  he  recovers  control  we  shall 
expect  his  poetry  to  have  gained  in  variety 
and  strength   from   this  ambitious   experiment." 

1-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p616    S 

20   '23   1050w 

"I  found  it  deeply  emotional  underneath  all 
attitudinizing,  it  moved  me  (for  all  its  eccen- 
tricity), and  its  oddity  fascinated."  W:  R. 
Benet 

-I-  Yale    R   n  s  13:161   O  '23   400w 

ELLIOT,     HUGH     SAMUEL     ROGER.     Human 
character.     272p  $2.50  (7s  6d)  Longmans 

150     Character.     Psychology  22-21785 

The  study  of  character  is  not  a  science,  the 
author  maintains,  and  cannot  become  so  until 
we  begin  to  explain  the  variations  in  character 
by  reference  to  variations  of  the  nervous  sys- 
tem. The  most  obvious  conclusion  reached  ik 
that  the  bulk  of  human  activities  are  blind  and 
unreasoning,  born  of  instinct  and  emotion,  not 
of  intellect.  Some  of  the  observations  are  on 
egoism,  love,  jealousy,  religion,  thought,  action, 
suggestion,  obsessions,  genius,  vice  and  crime, 
heredity  and  environment. 


"Not  only  makes  interesting  reading,  but  is 
likely  to  be  ot  considerable  practical  value  to 
the  writer  of  fiction,  inasmuch  as  it  analyzes, 
so  far  as  is  now  possible,  the  rules  which  govern 
conduct  and  the  probable  results  on  given  types 
of  character  of  particular  trains  of  circumstance 
or   emotion." 

Bookm  57:100  Mr  '23  lOOw 
"The  int-ention  of  making  the  book  readable, 
even  at  the  expense  of  obtaining  serious  sci- 
entific consideration,  has  been  most  successful. 
It  is  an  excellent  brief  of  an  argument  which 
interests  the  reader,  even  if  he  does  not  accept 
the   conclusion." 

+  Lit  R  p476  F  17  '23  250w 

Nature  111:174  F  10  "23  1500w 
"Mr.  Elliot's  soundings  are  often  shrewd;  his 
conjectures  sometimes  cautious,  sometimes  rash. 
His  book  is  packed  with  interest  for  the  ordi- 
nary man.  Much  of  it  is  problematical,  but  all 
of  it  is  worth   reading."     D.   M. 

-1-  New  Statesman  20:208  N  18  '22  1550w 
"A   fine,    suggestive,    jargonless   study   in   hu- 
man   behavior — a    book    which    in    many    ways 
reminds    one    a    good    deal    of   William    James's 
popular  lectures." 

-}-  N    Y   Times   p2  Mr  4  '23   llOOw 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p750    N 
16   '22   150w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   pl69   Mr 
15  '23  lOOOw 

ELLIOTT,  BENJAMIN  GEORGE.  Automobile 
chassis:  a  text  and  reference  book  on  the 
modern  gasoline  automobile  chassis.  233p  il 
$2.50     (12s  6d)     McGraw 

629.2      Automobiles— Chassis  23-8064 

"Clear,    elementary    treatment     of    details     of 

construction,    with    some     attention     to     proper 

care." — Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 


ELLIOTT,    BLANCHE    B.       Jersey;    an   isle   of 

romance.    260p   il    $3.50    Appleton 
914.234   Jersey,    island  23-26433 

The  picturesque  survivals  in  language,  laws, 
and  nationality  of  peoples  that  have  elsewhere 
become  extinct  or  been  merged  into  other  races 
make  of  the  little  channel  island  of  Jersey  an 
anachronism  which,  combined  with  charms  of 
climate  and  nature,  exerts  a  strong  appeal.  The 
book  describes  the  geology,  history,  politics 
and  social  life  of  the  island,  not  neglecting  its 
picturesque  side.  It  is  illustrated  with  etchings 
by  H.  V.  Edge  and  a  frontispiece  by  Edmund 
Blampied.     Index. 


Booklist  19:314  Jl  '23 
Boston  Transcript  pi  Jl  7  '23  800w 
"Visitors  will  find  this  book  useful.  It  has 
the  merit  of  not  overpraising  the  scenery  or 
climate,  and  it  gives  all  the  topographical  and 
historical  information  that  the  inquiring  visitor 
is  likely  to  require.  A  chapter  is  devoted  to 
golf;  but  no  reference  is  made  to  another 
sport,  swimming,  for  which  the  islanders  are 
justly   famous." 

+  New   Statesman    20:756   Mr  31   '23   250w 
N    Y   Times  plO   My   13   "23   840w 
"It    will    be    for   most    readers   almost    an    en- 
cyclopaedia of  facts  topographical  and  historical, 
set  down  with  the  enthusiasm  of  a  lover  of  the 
quaint   people   and    institutions    of  Jersey." 
+  Outlook   134:48    My   23    '23    50w 
"A  book  most  useful  to  the  tourist,  but  mildly 
readable  in  itself." 

H Spec    130:809    My   12    '23    70w 

"A  hundred  guide-books  have  been  published 
about  Jersey,  but  this  short  study,  written 
with  insight  and  good  taste,  is  a  guide  and 
something  more.  Here  an  attempt  is  made  by 
a  sympathetic  outlander  to  do  justice  to  the 
inner  Jersey  no  less  than  to  the  Jersey  of  a 
summer  visitor." 

-|-  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl91   Mr 
22  '23  880w 

ELLIOTT,  JULIA  EARICKSON.  Business  li- 
brary classification  with  index.  226p  $5  In- 
dexers   press,    5526   S.   Park  av.,   Chicago 

025.4      Classification.    Business    libraries 

23-4122 
This  classification  is  capable  of  adaptation  to 
any  type  of  business  library.  In  its  nine  main 
classes  provision  is  made  for  general  reference 
books,  business  books  concerned  with  organ- 
ization and  administration,  technical  books  re- 
lating to  the  particular  business  or  industry, 
books  on  the  economics  of  production  and  dis- 
tribution, and  miscellaneous  classes  of  books 
depending  largely  upon  the  character  of  the 
business  and  the  variety  of  its  departments. 
The  200's  and  300's  of  the  classification  are  re- 
served for  the  specific  industry,  to  be  filled 
out  at  will  to  fit  its  special  requirements,  and 
throughout  the  scheme  vacant  divisions  have 
been  left  to  allow  for  expansion  of  some  topic 
of  particular  importance  to  the  business  in 
question.  The  class  numbers  are  limited  to 
three  figures,  no  decimals  being  used  in  this 
edition.  Alphabetical  tables,  on  the  order  of 
the  Cutter-Sanborn  author  tables,  are  provided 
for  certein   sections. 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:419    O    '23 


Booklist  19:234  My  '23 
Cleveland   p53   Jl  '23 

ELLIOTT,  MAUD  (HOWE)  (MRS  JOHN 
ELLIOTT).  Three  generations.  418p  il  $4 
Little 

B   or    92  23-15949 

Mrs.  Elliott  is  the  youngest  of  the  four 
daughters  of  Mrs  Julia  Ward  Howe  and  the 
pages  of  her  book  are  filled  with  the  names  of 
distinguished  people  who  paid  homage  to  her 
mother  and  enjoyed  the  hospitality  of  the  Howe 
house  in  Boston.  Her  earliest  memories  arc  of 
John  Brown  and  Charles  Sumner  and  they 
reach,  in  this  record,  to  the  formation  of  the 
Progressive  party  and  compaigning  for  Roose- 
velt   in    1912.      Memories    of    travels    in    Rome, 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


147 


Egypt,  Palestine  and  Greece  are  included,  re- 
collections of  Boston  in  the  80's,  London  in  the 
90's  and  of  artist  life  in  Rome,  which  became 
her  home  after  her  marriage. 


Booklist  20:98  D   '23 
Reviewed  by  D.    L..   Mann 

Boston  Transcript  p5  N  3  '23  ISOOw 

Reviewed  by  Amy  Loveman 

Lit   R  p337  D  8  '23  850w 
"A    book    of    unusual    interest.      Truly    Mrs. 
Elliott  describes  three  remarkable  generations." 
D    C    Seitz 

'  +   N  Y   World   p6e   N   4   '23   750w 
"The   book  is   international   in  its  scope   and 
Is  one  of  the  most  readable  American  works  of 
its  kind  published  recently." 

-f  Outlook  135:642  D  12  '23  220w 
"Every  word  of  'Three  Generations'  holds  the 
attention,  not  only  of  those  to  whom  the  whole 
narration  is  new,  but  particularly  of  those  who 
already  know  their  Boston  and  Chicago  and 
Rome   well."  „  .^,. 

+   Sprlngf'd   Republican  p6  N  12  '23   I400w 

ELLIS,  CARLETON.  Synthetic  resins  and  their 
'    plastics.   514p   il   $2   Chemical   catalog  co. 

668.4    Gums    and    resins  23-7652 

"Collects  and  collates  the  scattered  Informa- 
tion on  this  development  in  applied  chemistry. 
Treats  fully  not  only  the  resins  of  the  'Bakelite' 
and  coumaron  type,  but  also  the  newer  and  less 
well  known  products.  A  valuable  section  of  the 
book  is  that  dealing  with  the  technology  of 
plastic  molding."— Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 

Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:525  D  '23 

ELLIS,  CARLETON,  and  MACLEOD,  ANNA 
LOUISE.  Vital  factors  of  foods:  vitamins  and 
nutrition.    500p   il   $5   Van   Nostrand 

612.39  Nutrition.  Vitamins 
"Comprehensive  and  exhaustive  history  of  the 
progress  made  in  developing  the  technique  of 
nutrition  studies.  .  .  This  volume  may  be  con- 
sidered in  the  light  of  an  encyclopedia  of  the 
vitamins.  (Am  Food  J,  1922)"— Pittsburgh  Mo 
Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:176   Ap   '23 

ELLIS,  DON  CARLOS,  and  THORNBOROUGH, 
LAURA.  Motion  pictures  in  education;  a 
practical  handbook  for  users  of  visual  aids. 
284p  il  $2.50  Crowell 

371.33   Moving   pictures  in   education 

23-10285 
The  book  provides  a  history  of  visual  educa- 
tion; an  account  of  the  origin  and  growth  of 
motion  pictures  and  their  use  in  education;  a 
critical  discussion  of  their  value  and  of  differ- 
ent methods  of  using  them;  directions  for  in- 
stalling apparatus;  a  guide  to  the  films  now 
available,  with  suggestions  about  the  time, 
place  and  methods  of  using  them.  Introduc- 
tion  by   P.    P.    Clpjcton.      Index. 


"The  unfortunate  lack  of  other  studies  in  the 
eame  field  makes  it  difficult  to  evaluate  this 
work  as  a  whole.  There  can  be  no  doubt,  how- 
ever, that  its  many  and  somewhat  detailed 
facts  will  be  of  practical  value  to  teachers  who 
are  willing  to  adopt  new  methods  in  the  school." 
Donald    Young 

Ann   Am   Acad   111:379  Ja  '24  250w 
Booklist  20:46  N  '23 
Bookm    58:214   O   '23   40w 
"The  need   for   such  a  book   is   obvious.     The 
most    effective    application     of    new    principles 
must    be    based    on    the    accurate   knowledge    of 
needs    and    opportunities.      This    book    presents 
both  adequately."   M.  E.  L. 

4-  Cath    World    118:278    N    '23    180w 
Cleveland   p74   S  '23 
"The  book  contains  a  large  amount  of  infor- 
mation which  will  be  helpful  to  the  teacher  or 
supervisor  who  wishes   to   make   use   of  motion 
pictures.     The  information  might  be  of  greater 
service     if    it     had     been     organized     somewhat 
more    carefully."      F.    N.    Freeman 
-\ El  School  J  24:150  O  '23  500w 


"The  sanity  of  Mr.  Ellis  and  Miss  Thorn- 
borough  is  particularly  to  be  praised  because 
of  the  extravagant  estimates  which  have  been 
made  by  other  prophets  of  the  future  import- 
ance of  motion  pictures  as  an  instrument  of 
education."     Clayton  Hamilton 

+   Lit    R    p889   Ag   11   '23   1050w 

"So  much  nonsense  has  been  written  about 
one  of  these  schemes,  that  of  using  the  film 
for  educational  purposes,  that  a  good  many 
people  have  begun  to  feel  that  it  may  prove 
to  be  almost  as  harmful  in  the  end  as  the 
purely  theatrical  movie.  All  such  doubters  will 
find  welcome  reassurance  in  this  sane,  prac- 
tical,  informed  volume." 

+   N  Y  Times  p22  Jl  15  '23  600w 

"Offers  counsel  and  gives  directions  of  the 
most  practical  sort  as  to  the  use  of  films  in 
the  schools.  It  is  perhaps  the  first  complete 
work   on   this   subject." 

-f   N    Y    World    p6e   Ag   5   '23   120w 

"The  book  Is  inclusive,  quite  impartial,  and 
highly   commendable." 

-f-  Outlook  135:553   N   28  '23    370w 
R    of    Rs    68:224   Ag   '23    200w 

"The  largest  contribution  which  this  book 
makes  is  not  through  its  discussion  of  issues: 
for  a  final  solution  of  the  problem  of  the  value 
of  educational  films,  we  must  await  the  verdict 
of  scientific  experimentation  and  measured  re- 
sults. In  the  meantime,  those  many  schools 
which  are  now  regularly  employing  motion  pic- 
tures as  instructional  aids  will  be  grateful  to 
these  authors  for  their  practical  suggestions  in 
the  later  chapters.  It  is  in  such  matters  that 
the  book  will  render  its  greatest  service."  W:  A. 
Brownell 

+  School  R  31:630  O  '23  550w 
Survey  51:198  N  '23  230w 

ELLIS,    HAVELOCK.     Dance    of    life.     377p     $4 
Houghton 
110     Life.     Art.     Dancing.     Civilization 

23-9889 

Havelock  Ellis,  who  has  found  his  life-work 
elsewhere  than  in  the  field  of  technical  phi- 
losophy, here  sums  up  his  personal  speculations 
about  the  philosophy  of  existence.  These  spec- 
ulations are  not  set  forth  as  settled  dogmas 
nor  does  he  claim  for  them  any  general  val- 
idity. Life  he  conceives  as  an  art  and  the 
dance  as  its  symbol,  signifying  the  rhythm  which 
marks,  not  life  only,  but  the  universe  itself. 
Then,  having  considered  the  function  of  dancing 
in  life,  he  goes  on  to  discuss  the  art  of  think- 
ing and  of  writing,  the  art  of  religion  and  of 
morals,  and  how  they  may  contribute  to  that 
harmony  with  the  essence  of  the  universe 
which   he   is   seeking. 


"This  is  a  book  for  those  who  have  some 
knowledge  and  little  wisdom, — and  that  is  most 
of  us  — for  the  author  has  much  of  both.  It 
is  the  latest,  the  most  comprehensive  utterance 
of  a  great  humanist  of  our  time."  C:  R.  Walker 
+  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  S  '23  600w 
Booklist  20:13  O  '23 

"This  book  has  all  the  qualities  which  have 
distinguished  the  other  writings  of  the  author: 
a  widl  learning  which  he  has  assimilated  into 
the  substance  of  his  own  thought,  a  profound 
and  tolerant  understanding  of  human  nature 
in  its  manifold  and  changing  expressions,  a 
sanity  and  balance  such  as  only  nature  or  art 
at  its  best  achieves.  To  read  it  is  to_  refresh 
oneself  at  the  springs  of  humanism.  C:  A. 
Bennett  „   ,„„   ,... 

+  Bookm    58:68   S   '23   1400w 

"The  'Dance  of  Life"  will  give  to  every  reader 
a  new  angle  or  so  from  which  to  view  the 
problem  of  life,  and  serve  to  set  his  thovights 
off  upon  novel  tangents.  This,  without  doubt, 
is  exactly  what  Mr.  Ellis  would  most  wish  his 
book  to  accomplish."  S.  L    R. 

Boston    Transcript    p4    JI    7     23    60Uw 

"Men  may  grow  weary  of  strenuous  futility; 
the  ideal  of  'efficiency'  may  lose  its  aPPeaJ- 
If  so,   what   is  most  needed  is  to  set  forth  per- 


148 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


ELLIS,  HAVELOCK — Continued 
suasively  the  conception  of  life  as  an  art.  The 
Dance  of  Life  does  this  with  great  charm; 
every  page  is  interesting,  and  the  author  has 
our  sympathy  throughout.  May  his  words,  and 
those  of  men  who  feel  as  he  does,  prove  potent 
beyond  our  expectation."  Bertrand  Russell 
+   Dial   75:487   N  '23   1650w 

Reviewed    by   J:    G.    Fletcher 

Freeman    8:162   O   24   '23   2200w 

Reviewed  by  Howard  Devree 

Lit   R   p908  Ag  18  '23   1200w 

"The  seven  essays  which  comprise  this  book 
are  rich  in  the  gold  of  suggestive  thought  and 
fulfilled  of  the  power  of  expression.  With  a 
sanity  of  mind  that  is  rare  among  his  contem- 
porary adventurers  in  the  fields  of  philosophy, 
Mr.  Havelock  Ellis  tells  us  of  his  own  attitude 
toward  life,  and  in  the  telling  invites  us  to 
take  our  stand  with  him.  So  lucid  is  the  ex- 
position and  so  appealing  is  the  invitation  that 
the  impression  is  left  on  us  of  a  book  which  the 
world  will  not  lightly  pass  by."  Temple  Scott 
+   Nation   117:19   Jl   4  '23   1200w 

"  'The  Dance  of  Life'  is  a  very  stinnulating 
and,  indeed,  challenging  book,  in  itself  a  work 
of  no  mean  art.  Though  in  appearance  roughly 
flung  together,  its  several  chapters  have  a  single 
thread  of  thought — the  view  to  which  allusion 
has  been  made — running  through  them  all." 
^ Nature    112:721    N    17    '23    280w 

"It  must  be  stated  that  the  least  satisfactory 
chapter  of  the  book  is  on  the  art  of  writing, 
and  in  general  we  could  wish  that  Mr.  Ellis 
had  exhibited  more  of  the  rhythm  and  balance, 
the  freedom  and  control  of  the  dance  in  the 
movement  of  his  own  sentences.  But  it  is  a 
dangerous  thing  to  make  an  aesthetic  principle 
the  basis  of  a  philosophy.  It  is  only  the  most 
merciful  critic  who  will  spare  the  retort,  'Show 
me  thy   faith   by  thy  works.'  "      R.    M.   Lovett 

H New    Repub    35:305    Ag   8    '23    2200w 

N    Y    Times   plO   Je   24   '23   2700w 

"A  prose  poem  wherein  what  is  to  ine  the 
most  interesting  mind  in  England  distills  the 
essence  of  his  vast  and  studious  inquiries  and 
speculations    on    life."      Burton    Roscoe 

-t-   N    Y   Tribune   pl8   Je   24   '23    920w 

"  'The  Dance  of  Life'  finds  Havelock  Ellis 
writing  of  everything  he  has  written  on  before, 
bringing  frojn  the  wonderful  storehouse  of  his 
mind  many  marvellous  things  and  offering  the 
essence  of  them  in  one  fine  volume  in  which 
he  sums  up  life."    Laurence  Stallings 

+  N    Y   World   pl9e   Je  24   '23   1200w 

"That  it  is  helpful  not  one  who  has  read  the 
book  can  deny.  It  is  a  bracing  and  obviously 
useful  book,  yet  unlike  the  ordinary  'uplift 
book'  or  'tonic  talk'  it  reveals  itself  in  every 
line  as  the  work  of  a  mature  and  elaborately 
cultivated   mind." 

H Spec    131:654   N   3   '23   600w 

"A  work  of  eminent  freshness,  moderation 
and   insight." 

-|-  Springf'd      Republican     p7a     Je     24     '23 
1050W 

"Mr.  Ellis,  especially  in  the  chapter  on  Re- 
ligion, says  many  things  in  which  only  a  small 
minority  of  thoughtful  readers  are  likely  to 
agree,  yet  we  can  recall  no  other  book  of  the 
year  so  stimulating,  constructive  and,  on  the 
whole,  right  in  interpreting  the  general  spiritual 
trend   of   our  time." 

+  Survey   50:636    S   15   '23   450w 

"The  vigour  and  originality  of  Mr.  Ellis's 
views  and  the  account  of  his  personal  experi- 
ences make  the  most  interesting  section  of  his 
book.  And  his  frankness  is  the  more  impres- 
sive since  he  is  understanding  rather  than  over- 
stating." 

-f-  The  Times  [Londoni]    Lit  Sup  p614  S  20 
'23   llOOw 

ELLISON,    GRACE.      Englishwoman   in   Angora. 
344p  il   $6  Dutton    [18s   Hutchinson] 

949.6    Angora,  Turkey.     Turkey — Nationalist 
movement 
The    author    announces    that    at    the    time    of 
writing    she    was    the    only    Englishwoman    who 


had  been  in  Angora  since  the  nationalist  move- 
ment began.  Thruout  the  book  she  advocates 
the  cause  of  Turkey  and  contends  that  the  new 
Turk  is  entirely  reasonable  in  his  demands. 
She  observed  the  Turkish  nationalist  movement 
at  its  capital,  sat  in  the  nationalist  assembly, 
interviewed  its  president,  Mustapha  Kemal 
Pasha,  and  members  of  his  cabinet.  She  also 
Interviewed  the  feminist  leader,  Halide  Hanoum. 
The  author's  personal  experiences  are  related 
with  much  detail. 


"However  greatly  are  Miss  Ellison's  ideas 
of  Turkey  and  the  Turks,  at  variance  with  the 
generally  accepted  ideas  of  that  country  and 
those  people,  she  certainly  has  produced  an 
Intensely  interesting  book,  and  she  has  won  her 
right  to  a  hearing."   E.  J.  C. 

h   Boston   Transcript   p2   D   8   "23   950w 

"The  author's  accounts  of  her  interviews  with 
the  new  President  of  the  Republic  of  Turkey 
are  decidedly  interesting.  Her  point  of  view, 
however,  is  too  much  that  of  an  apologist  for 
the  Turks  to  make  the  book  palatable  for 
readers  with  good  memories  as  to  Turkish  mis- 
deeds. ' ' 

H Outlook   135:506   N  21   '23   llOw 

"To  have  expected  an  impartial  account  of 
Angora  and  the  Turks  from  an  English  lady 
who  was  allowed  all  the  privileges  of  that  city 
at  the  time  when  Turkish  hostility  towards 
Britain  was  at  its  strongest  would  have  been 
expecting  too  much.  It  was  obvious  from  the 
beginning  that  we  should  have  to  suffer  from 
the  defects  of  Miss  Ellison's  qualities.  It  is  a 
blindness  which  illustrates  her  incapacity  to 
treat  these  complex  places  and  peoples  with 
anything  but  a  superficial  volubility.  Within 
these  limits  her  picture  of  Angora  and  its 
astute  diplomatists  is  not  without  humor." 
h  Sat    R   136:308   S   15    '23    460w 

"She  enjoyed  her  adventure,  and  describes  it 
in  a  lively  way.  She  seems  to  have  been  made 
much  of  by  all  the  most  important  people  in 
Angora,  and  she  furnishes  an  account  of  them 
which  they  will  read  with  pleasure.  The  most 
valuable  parts  of  the  book  are  the  passages  in 
which  she  dwells  on  the  strong  points  in  the 
Turkish    case." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p413   Je 
21  '23  1250W 

ELLWOOD,  CHARLES  ABRAM.  Christianity 
and  social  science;  a  challenge  to  the  church. 
220p  $1.75    Macmillan 

261     Sociology,   Christian  23-12637 

The  book  is  a  further  development  of  certain 
ideas  in  the  author's  "Reconstruction  of  re- 
ligion" (Book  Review  Digest,  1922),  in  which 
he  showed  how  the  social  sciences  may  help 
religion  to  build  a  better  world.  He  denies  the 
doctrine  that  "human  nature  never  changes" 
and  maintains  that  it  can  be  made  as  pliable 
and  modifiable  as  the  customs  and  conditions 
on  which  it  rests.  He  shows  the  principles  of 
socialization,  service,  love  and  reconciliation 
working  out  toward  the  solution  of  human  prob- 
lems and  the  force  of  religious  education  and 
leadership. 

"Timely  and  suitable  to  its  purpose.     As  the 
chapters   were    written    for    delivery    before    the 
Yale    University    Divinity    School,     the    form    is 
more  direct  and  personal."     A.  W.   Small 
+  Am   J   Soc  29:363  K  '23   400w 

"While  it  is  possible  to  disagree  on  such 
points  as  the  absoluteness  and  universality  of 
moral  principles  and  the  assertion  that  the 
whole  tradition  or  custom  of  primitive  society 
was  religious,  yet  the  substance  and  the  spirit 
of  the  book  are  sound.  It  is  an  interestmg 
translation  of  current  sociology  into  the  service 
of  progressive  religious  education.  The  tone 
is  distinctly  conservative  and  constantly  re- 
minds the  reader  of  the  difficulty  of  the  job 
even  while  holding  it  theoretically  possible. 
A.  J.  Todd 

-j Survey  51:353  D  15  '23  350w 


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149 


ELTON,  GODFREY.  Revolutionary  idea  in 
France.  1789-1871.  191p  $3.50  Longmans  [lOs 
6d  E.   J.   Arnold] 

944        France — History.        France — History — 
Revolution 

The  author  develops  a  new  theory  of  the  es- 
sential character  of  the  French  revolution  and 
of  the  succeeding  outbreaks  of  1830,  1848  and 
1871.  He  believes  that  the  real  character  of 
the  French  revolution  has  been  obscured  be- 
cause historians  have  treated  it  as  tho  it  were 
the  complete  history  of  France  during  its  period 
instead  of  a  movement  whose  essence  it  is  pos- 
sible to  separate  from  the  general  history  of 
the  time.  He  sums  up  in  brief  compass  what 
the  French  revolution  and  the  successive  revo- 
lutionary movements  were  aiming  toward,  what 
they  actually  accomplished  and  the  conditions 
essential  to  the  success  of  revolutions  in  gen- 
eral. 


"The  author  develops  his  theory  ably  and 
lucidly.  He  has  thrown  much  light  on  the  es- 
sential character  of  the  French  Revolution,  and 
his  distinction  between  the  earlier  and  the  later 
movements  seems  to  the  present  reviewer  a 
valid  one."     O.  McK.,  Jr. 

-f-   Boston  Transcript  pi  N  17  '23  980w 

"It  seems  rather  a  pity  that  a   book  so  essen- 
tially  moderate   in   tone   should   be  marred  here 
and  there   by  astonishingly   dogmatic   and   curi- 
ously unsubstantiated  statements." 
H Spec  131:758  N  17  '23  550w 

"Mr.  Elton's  justification  for  adding  yet 
another  work  to  the  vast  literature  of  the  Revo- 
lution is  that  to  this  selection  and  over-em- 
phasis he  supplies  the  antidote.  He  does  so,  in 
a  marvellously  short  compass,  by  eliminating 
the  really  irrelevant.  This  is  both  sound  and 
timely,  and  the  book  can  be  cordially  recom- 
mended to  those  who  wish  to  know  the  true 
meaning  of  the  French  Revolution." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p644    O 
4    '23    1550W 

ENDERS,  MRS  ELIZABETH  CRUMP.  Swing- 
ing lanterns.  359p  il  $2.50  (10s  6d)  Appleton 
915.1  China— Description  and  travel  23-8256 
A  narrative  of  a  year's  travel  and  residence 
in  China.  A  most  enthusiastic  traveler,  and 
often  under  the  experienced  guidance  of  a 
Chinese  friend,  Mrs.  Enders  seems  to  have  pene- 
trated to  an  unusual  degree  the  life  and  ways 
of  the  people,  observing  them  in  the  streets 
and  byways.  With  Peking  as  headquarters  and 
place  of  residence  she  visited  Soochow,  the  an- 
cient walled  city,  the  cosmopolitan  Shanghai, 
Hangchow,  described  by  Marco  Polo,  and  Puto- 
shan,  the  sacred  isle  of  China.  The  book  is  well 
illustrated  and  there  is  an  index. 


Booklist   20:17   O   '23 

"A  book  on  China  which  offers  no  solutions 
of  political  problems,  or  any  yearnings  for  its 
immediate  Christianizing,  is  refreshing.  When 
it  is  also  a  rather  delightful  description  of  the 
experiences  of  unusual  people,  who  liked  to  do 
out-of-the-way  things,  it  is  sure  of  its  appeal." 
I.  W.   L. 

+   Boston    Transcript   p5   Ag   4    '23    800w 

"Personally,  we  prefer  a  bit  more  style  and 
a  bit  less  China,  but  to  those  who  want  their 
travelogues  without  literary  interference  we 
bend  the  knee  and  metaphorically  present  this 
book.  The  narrative  is  generously,  if  ineffect- 
ually, supported  by  the  patient  but  spiritless 
camera."      S:    Hoffenstein 

h  N    Y   Tribune   p21   Je   10   '23   120w 

"Happily    Mrs.    Enders    is    content    to    tell    us 
only    what    she    saw.    and    does    not    attempt    to 
settle    the   destiny   of   the    nation    or   to   wrestle 
with   any    form    of    the   Yellow    Peril." 
-1-   N   Y  World  p6e  My  20  '23  70w 

"An  American  woman's  year  in  China  is  vi- 
vaciously described  in  this  pleasantly  written 
book." 

+  Outlook  134:48  My  23  '23   llOw 


R   of   Rs  68:223  Ag  '23   30w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p427    Je 
21    '23    160w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:413   Jl    '23 

ENFIELD,  D.  E.     Lady  of  the  salons.  158p  $1.75 

Scribner   [6s  J.   Cape] 

B  or  92     Colet,    Mme  Louise    (Revoil) 

[22-22426] 

"A  book  of  literary,  social,  and  political 
gossip,  which  gives  an  entertaining  account  of 
the  life  and  activities  of  Louise  Colet.  Mme. 
Colet  was  the  original  of  Flaubert's  Madame 
Bovary,  a  crinolined  disciple  of  Garibaldi,  one 
of  those  literary  Sapphos  of  the  hectic  Second 
Empire  whose  lives,  if  irregular,  were  never 
monotonous." — Bookm 


"A  sprightly  book." 

+  Bookm  57:469  Je  '23  120w 

"Mr.  D.  E.  EHfleld  has,  in  'A  Lady  of  the 
Salons,'  brought  to  our  attention,  with  just  that 
flourish  of  the  hand  and  ironical  lift  of  the 
eyebrows  which  are  indicative  of  this  later 
method,  the  eccentricities  and  weaknesses  of 
Madame  Louise  Colet.  He  has  not,  perhaps, 
the  reconnoitring  intelligence  that  pursues  with 
nervous  and  indefatigable  craft  those  evasive 
subconscious  motives  which  prove  to  be,  when 
captured,  the  exact  and  lucid  answers  to  so 
many  capricious  acts.  His  work  is  rather  a 
tour  de  force,  entertaining  and  dexterous,  never 
dull,  seldom  infelicitous,  always  vivacious  and 
always  scintillating."  Alyse  Gregory 
+   Freeman   7:500  Ag  1   '23   1400w 

"The  full-length  portrait  he  presents  of 
Louise  Colet  is  one  of  the  most  entertaining 
passages  in  recent  literature.  One  wishes  he 
had  sometimes  been  a  little  more  careful,  a 
little  more  fastidious,  in  his  literary  technique, 
but  he  is  very  skillful  in  his  visualizing  of  Mme. 
Colet  from  the  material  afforded  by  her  own 
and  others'  writings,  and  he  is  always  charm- 
ingly light  of  touch  and  vivacious  of  spirit." 

H NY  Times  p20  Ap  15  '23  llOOw 

Reviewed   by  Burton   Rascoe 

N  Y  Tribune  pl7  Ap  8  '23  3500w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:303    Je    '23 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  29  '23  600w 

ENO,  HENRY  LANE.     Maid  of  Gloucester.  102p 

$1.25  DufHeld 

811  23-7261 

Poems  of  sentiment  and  emotion.  While  ex- 
pressing an  outreaching  spirit,  they  do  not 
always  attain  the  magic  melodies  which  the 
author  in  his  first  poem  calls  upon  the  "Eternal 
Spheres"   to  lend  him. 


"A  curiously  unequal  group,  they  are  poems 
without  surface  antics,  made  from  the  heart. 
One  feels  in  them  the  sensitive  upreach  of  the 
spirit,  even  if  one  fails  to  find  their  outer  rai- 
ment satisfying.  Their  attitude  is  not  trivial 
or  negligible  and  they  do  not  hammer  away  at 
the  doctrine  of  futility.  And  yet,  judged  by  the 
exacting  measure  of  poetry,  one  i.s  at  a  loss  as 
to  just  what  to  say  about  them."  Mary  Siegrlst 
1-   N  Y  Times  plO  My  6  '23  800w 

"Mr.  Eno  is  obviously  sincere,   obviously  feels 
deeply,    and    he    succeeds    in    producing    nothing 
but  platitudinous  doggerel."    Rex  Hunter 
—  NY  Tribune  p28  My  13  '23  lOOw 

ENRIQUEZ,  C.   M.     Burmese  Arcady.   2S2p  il  $5 

Lippincott 

915.02     Burma.     Kachins 

An  account  of  the  hill  people  of  upper  Burma, 
in  particular  the  Kachins,  who  occupy  the 
northeast  frontier  bordering  on  China.  Major 
Enriquez's  knowledge  of  the  people  comes  from 
his  experience  as  a  recruiting  officer  in  the 
World  war,  when  he  assembled  a  battalion  of 
Kachins  for  service  on  the  Mesopotamian  front. 
He  tells  of  this  recruiting  work,  of  the  charac- 
teristics of  the  people,  their  qualities  as  soldiers, 
their  manners,  customs,  legends,  sanitary  con- 
ditions,  etc. 


150 


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ENRIQUEZ,  C.  M. — Continued 

"A  Burmese  Arcady  is  an  excellent  book, 
workmanlike  and  sincere.  In  spite  of  a  certain 
ethnological  and  ornithological  severity,  it  has 
an  air  of  intention  and  conviction,  almost  an 
air  of  propaganda." 

+   New    Statesman    20:730   Mr   24   '23    250w 

"Very  little  of  Arcady  is  visible  in  the  volume, 
but  we  get  a  rare  glimpse  of  an  unusual  people. 
Major  Enriquez  gladdens  his  readers  with  a 
clear,  sympathetic  narrative." 

+   N   Y  World  p8e  Mr  25  '23  300w 

"Though  he  tends  to  allow  his  professional 
interests  to  take  up  too  much  space  his  account 
is  very  thorough,  and  if  not  very  picturesque, 
at  least  of  unusual  interest  to  the  student  of 
Eastern  life  and  eminently  readable  for  every- 
body." 

H Spec  130:37  Mr  3  '23  120w 

ERIKSEN,  RICHARD.  Consciousness,  life  and 
the  fourth  dimension;  a  study  in  natural 
philosophy.  213p  $3.50  Knopf  [IDs  6d  Gylden- 
dal] 

121  Relativity.  Consciousness.  Fourth  di- 
mension. Space  and  time  23-12148 
"In  physics  a  revolution  seems  to  be  going 
on  caused  by  the  theories  of  relativity  formu- 
lated by  Einstein.  There  is  a  tendency  to  re- 
ject old-established  conceptions  such  as  the 
absoluteness  of  space  and  time.  .  .  In  place  of 
all  this  we  have  a  four-dimensional  world  or 
continuum,  or  rather  a  mathematical  scheme  as 
a  means  of  interpreting  and  determining  physi- 
cal processes."  The  book  is  an  attempt  to 
explain  the  psychic  world  on  the  four-dimen- 
sional plan  as  an  inversion  of  the  relation  be- 
twee  space  and  time — a  time-energy  or  energy 
of  succession  in  contra-distinction  to  space- 
energy  or  energy  of  motion. 


ature  depends  on  something  more  than  moral 
convictions,  emotional  prejudices  or  fashion; 
that  it  is  an  inner  sense  of  decorum  which 
successfully  gages  the  amount  of  descriptive 
detail  that  is  art.  Contents:  Decency  in  liter- 
ature; Originality  in  literature;  The  cult  of  the 
natural;  The  cult  of  the  contemporary;  The 
characters  proper  to  literature. 


Boston   Transcript  p5   Ag  18   '23   600w 
New    Repub   36:162   O   3   '23   150w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p42d    Je 
21    '23    sow 

ERSKINE,  BEATRICE  (MRS  STEUART  ERS- 
KINE).  Madrid,  past  and  present.  295p  il 
$3  Dutton   [7s  6d  Lane] 

914.6  Madrid 
The  book  contains  notes  on  the  life,  the  art 
and  the  amusements  of  Madrid  and  on  some  of 
the  places  of  interest  not  mentioned  in  the 
guide-books.  A  chapter  on  Francesco  Goya  is 
included  and  one  on  Spain's  greatest  woman 
novelist,   Emilia  Pardo  Baz&n. 


"In  each  chapter  she  studies  some  charac- 
teristic of  the  historic  city — physical  or  ethical. 
Each  is  in  itself  complete.  Together,  they 
make  a  picture  in  mosaic  of  this  city  so  little 
known  to  outlanders,  as  brilliant  in  color  and 
as  clear  in  outline  as  those  which  to  lovers  of 
art  have  made  the  name  Ravenna  synonymous 
with   the    word    'mosaic'  "      F.    B. 

+   Boston    Transcript  p6   Jl   11   '23   1300w 

"Mrs.  Erskine's  book  on  Madrid  is  written 
with  so  much  sympathetic  appreciation  of  the 
story  of  Madrid  and  of  the  qualities  and  achieve- 
ments of  the  Spanish  race  that  any  intending 
traveler  to  Spain  will  do  well  to  take  it  along 
as  supplementary  reading  for  the  regulation 
guide    hook." 

+   N   Y  Times  pl2  Je  17  '23   450w 
N   Y  World  p6e  My  27  '23   90w 

"The   book   will   interest   both   the   prospective 
tourist   and   the   lover  of   'fireside   travels.'  " 
-f  Outlook  134:140  Je  6  '23  60w 

ERSKINE,     JOHN.       Literary    discipline.     231p 

$1.50  Duffleld 

801      Literature — History    and    criticism 

23-8332 

The  essays  are  studies  in  literary  esthetics 
and  in  the  discipline  which  literature  imposes 
on  those  who  cviltivate  it  as  an  art:  that  inward 
art  of  writing  that  knows  what  can  be  said  in 
words  and  what  effect  it  viill  have  on  the 
readers.     Thus  he  shows  that  decency  in  liter- 


"A  sound,  thoughtful  analysis  of  literary  prob- 
lems, much  debated  but  in  large  part  debated 
with  unthinking  prejudice,  must  surely  be  of 
marked  value  as  a  contribution  to  the  literary 
criticism  of  its   own  day."     C:   B.   Hawes 

H .  Atlantic's    Bookshelf    S    '23    300w 

Booklist  20:130  Ja  '24 
"Professor  Erskine's  book  is  an  able  presen- 
tation of  truths  that  are  obvious  but  seldom 
stated,  with  an  occasional  note  of  bitterness 
concerning  present  day  eccentricities  in  litera- 
ture." 

-f  Bookm  57:545  Jl  '23  380w 
Cleveland  p78  S  '23 
"He  conducts  his  discussion  on  a  level  of 
intelligence  from  which  he  never  descends;  and 
he  holds  his  dogmas  liberally,  without  a  touch 
of  thaf  pedantry  which  dogmatism  so  generally 
involves."      E.    M. 

+   Freeman  8:S5  O  3   '23  300w 

"For  all  his  catholicity  and  breadth  of  view 
there  is  something  formal  and  confined  about 
him,  something  that  reminds  one  of  the  packed 
class  room  or  the  academic  gathering.  .  .  A 
tang  of  that  coldness  and  dreariness  which  is 
in  the  connotation  of  the  word  'aesthetics'  forces 
itself  into  his  most  eloquent  passage,  his  ablest 
judgment,  his  sharpest  discrimination."  Leonard 
Bacon 

H Lit    R    p784    Je    23    "23    360w 

Reviewed  by  J.  W.   Krutch 

Nation    117:168  Ag  15   '23   800w 

"  'The  Literary  Discipline'  is  one  of  the  most 
stimulating  contributions  which  have  recently 
been  made  to  the  discussion  of  esthetic  theory. 
It  lies  within  the  tradition  of  the  little  enduring 
criticism  that  has  been  produced  in  the  United 
States  and  it  belongs  with  the  best  of  that,  with 
such  books  as  those  of  George  Santayana  and 
George  Edward  Woodberry,  which  seem  to  hold 
a  durable  and  vital  content  of  artistic  wisdom." 
Lloyd  Morris 

-t-   N    Y   Times  p9   My  6   '23   3100w 

"It  is  appealing  because  it  evokes  for  the 
reader  a  conception  of  letters  as  an  art  that 
involves  exacting  self-cultivation  in  intellect 
and  taste;  it  is  provocative  because  it  implies  a 
challenge  to  the  view  that  literature  and 
thought  can  reach  their  fullest  potentialities 
and  be  adequately  appraised  without  reference 
to  the  past." 

-\-  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  Jl  1  '23  llOOw 

ERSKINE,  LAURIE  YORKE.  River  trail;  ro- 
mance of  the  Royal  mounted.  339p  $1.75 
Appleton 

23-11976 
"A  romance  of  the  Canadian  Northwest 
Mounted  Police.  It  is  true  that  the  policeman 
protagonist  is  in  plain  clothes  through  six  parts 
out  of  the  nine.  But  in  the  seventh  part  he 
steps  into  his  character  and  from  that  point  is 
a  crimson-coated  figure  in  the  midst  of  a  titanic 
struggle  with  three  gunmen  from  the  gutters 
of  civilization  with  a  forest  fire  as  his  back- 
ground and  a  forest  maid  with  6,000  acres  in 
timber   and   oil   as   his   incentive." — N   Y   World 


Booklist  20:56  N  '23 
"The  characters  are  well  drawn,  and  the 
story  moves  at  an  interesting  pace  throughout, 
although  at  times  the  attempts  to  Indicate  the 
thoughts  and  mental  processes  of  Geoffrian  are 
monotonous  and  add  nothing  to  the  strength  of 
the   story." 

H Boston  Transcript  p8  D  15  '23  300 

"At  last  we  have  a  novel  about  the  Cana- 
dian Northwest  which  is  authentic.  The  .set- 
ting of  Mr.  Erskine's  story  is  veraciously  de- 
picted   and    his    characters    are    really    the    sort 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


151 


of  people  who  choose  that  part  of  the  world  as 
a  background  for  their  lives.  .  .  His  is  not  a 
great  novel,  but  a  lively  tale  welcome  for  its 
sincerity." 

H Lit   R  pll3  O  6   '23  280w 

"Mr.  Erskine  writes  from  much  personal 
knowledge  and  his  graphic  and  always  interest- 
ing local  color  is  convincing  in  itself,  aside  from 
the  fact  that  it  is  the  result  of  his  own  experi- 
ence and  observation.  The  readers  who  enjoyed 
'Renfrew  of  the  Royal  Mounted'  will  find  in 
Mr.  Erskine's  new  novel  a  tale  equally  good 
and    quite   as   much   to   their    liking." 

+   N  Y  Times  pl9  Je  19   '23  500w 

"Mr.  Erskine  is  a  man  of  extremes  and  most 
of  the  time  he  is  extremely  bad.  But  now  and 
then  a.  ragged  flash  of  true  word-beauty  breaks 
through  his  thundercloud  swept  style.  Either 
he  writes  with  reckless  rapidity  or  he  is  an  un- 
wary critic  of  his  own  worst  weaknesses.  Ac- 
cordingly his  novel  is  eighth  rate  literature.  As 
an  example  of  obvious  fictional  excitement  it 
rates   rather  higher."     Wells  Root 

—  NY    World    p7e    S    2    '23    400w 

"One  might  hazard  a  guess  that  the  author  is 
a  student  of  Mr.  Conrad.  Not  that  his  writing 
is  in  any  sense  a  copy  of  the  masters,  but  his 
characters  have  something  of  the  same  energy 
of  thought  and  action  and  that  trick  of  examin- 
ing their  emotions  from  all  points  of  view.  Mr. 
Erskine  carries  the  reader  swiftly  along  to  the 
climax." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p709  O  25 
•23    150w 

ERTZ,  SUSAN.    Madame  Claire.  342p  ?2  Apple- 
ton 

23-7524 
Madame  Claire  of  the  story — so  called  by  her 
devoted  grandchildren — is  an  old  lady  of  nearly 
eighty.,  She  personifies  serene  and  wise  old 
age  that  has  triumphed  over  all  of  life's  serious 
disappointments,  retaining  a  humorous,  open- 
minded  outlook  over  past  and  present  experi- 
ences. She  had  been  kept  from  marrying  the 
man  she  loved,  had  been  disappointed  in  her 
daughters  and  she  sees  her  entirely  satisfac- 
tory and  beloved  son,  Eric,  unhappy  in  his 
married  life.  But  her  grandchildren,  Judy  and 
Noel,  are  the  delight  of  her  heart.  She  is  their 
confidante,  the  sharer  of  their  joys  and  sorrows, 
their  helper  and  adviser.  She  helps  Judy  to  find 
and  live  her  romance  and  at  last  succeeds  in 
improving  the  family  life  of  her  son.  Her 
letters  to  her  old  friend,  Stephen  de  Lisle — the 
man  she  had  truly  loved  but  not  married — are 
scattered  thruout  the  book.  They  are  full  of 
her  mellow  wisdom  and  cheerful  acceptance  of 
old  age  and  serve  to  gather  together  the  loose 
threads  of  the  story. 


Booklist    20:20   O    '23 
"On    the  whole,    'Madame  Claire'    is  an   inter- 
esting novel,  and  its  frank  and  distinctly  mod- 
ern attitude  towards  life  makes  it  entertaining 
reading." 

-j Boston    Transcript    p4    Je    6    '23    300w 

Cleveland  p66  S  '23 
Lit  R  p755  Je  9  '23  120w 
"The  characters  of  this  novel  exist,  and  it  is 
a  real,  if  restricted.  London  that  is  set  forth. 
Whoever  makes  friends  with  Judy  and  Noel 
and  Claire  and  the  others  will  not  regret  the 
hours  spent  with  them." 

H NY  Times   pl4  Ap  15  '23  800w 

"In  every  way  'Madame  Claire'  is  a  delightful 
book.  We  commend  it  unreservedly  to  readers 
who  do  not  demand  that  their  fiction  shall  be 
served  to  them  with  the  vehemence  of  the  al- 
ternating current."     E.    W.    Osborn 

-f-  N  Y  World  pl9  Je  17  '23  300w 
"Surely  no  one  but  the  author  of  a  first  novel 
would  be  so  rash  as  to  take  a  woman  of  nearly 
eighty  as  the  heroine  of  a  story.  The  book, 
which  deals  with  eve''yday  life,  has  a  certain 
merit,  though  it  suffers  from  faults  of  con- 
struction." 

H Spec  130:631  Ap  14  '23  50w 

Sprlngfd  Republican  p9a  D  23  '23  300w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:444  O  '23 


ERVINE,  ST  JOHN  GREER.  Mary,  Mary 
quite  contrary:  a  light  comedy  in  four  acts. 
130p   $1.25  Macmillan 

822  23-6523 

The  action  is  laid  in  the  home  of  a  country 
vicar.  Canon  Peter  Considine.  His  son,  a  young 
playwright,  is  to  have  his  first  play  produced 
and  a  celebrated  actress  is  coming  from  London 
with  her  manager  to  make  the  necessary 
arrangements.  The  mere  prospect  arouses  the 
jealousy  of  Sheila,  Geoffrey  Considine's  cousin, 
who  is  much  in  love  with  him.  The  actress, 
Mary  Westlake,  throws  the  whole  household 
into  turmoil  by  her  whims  and  eccentricities 
and  scandalizes  everyone  by  her  escapade  with 
Sir  Henry,  the  vicar's  brother.  She  becomes 
engaged  to  Geoffrey  and  Sir  Henry  at  the  same 
time  and  then,  to  help  Sheila,  extricates  herself 
from  the  tangle  by  accepting  the  offer  of 
another  playwright  to  produce  his  play  first. 
The  situations  are  extravagantly  funny. 


Booklist  19:310  Jl  '23 
"So  far  as  its  general  scheme  and  incident 
are  concerned  it  is  almost  wholly  farcical,  but 
the  dialogue,  always  freshly  and  characteristi- 
cally humorous,  and  spiced  with  flashes  of  sa- 
tirical wit,  is  of  a  superior  quality  that  raises 
the  trifle  far  above  the  intellectual  level  of  the 
extravagant  nonsense  to  which  that  label  is 
commonly  afflxed  in  the  contemporaneous 
theatre." 

+   Lit   R  p49   S   15   '23   330w 

"For  readable  as  well  as  actable  comedy, 
'Mary,  Mar.v,  Quite  Contrary,'  is  one  of  the 
best  light  pieces  in   years." 

-f   N  Y  Times  p5  Ap  8  '23  1200w 
"It   is  not  so  brilliant  as  Shaw,   but  it   has  a 
more  human   sort   of  humor   and   the   lines   and 
situations  are  cleverly  devised  for  stage  effect." 
-h  N  Y  World  p8e  Jl  22  '23  80w 
Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui   28:302  Je  '23 
"It  is  neatly  enough  constructed  and  without 
one  spark  of  genuine  interest." 

h  Spec    130:804    My    12    '23    120w 

"When  one  remembers  the  clear,  sharp 
beauty  of  'John  Ferguson,'  that  its  author,  who 
therein  touches  the  wellspring  of  emotion,  could 
compose  a  play  of  this  kind  seems  as  incom- 
prehensible as  if  J.  M.  Synge  had  tried  to  write 
a  vaudeville   skit." 

h  Springfd  Republican  p6  Ap  30  '23  350w 

Wis  Lib   Bui  19:442  O  '23 

ESHER,    WILLIAM    BALIOL    BRETT,    1st   vis- 
'    count.    Romance    of    the    nineteenth    century, 

comp.   by  C.   H.   Dudley  Ward.   312p   il  $4  Ap- 

pleton   [15s  Murray] 
B  or  92 

"This  old-fashioned  love  story  of  real  life 
is  based  on  a  packet  of  letters  discovered  by 
Colonel  Dudley  Ward.  They  were  written  by 
his  grandfather,  the  first  Lord  Esher,  to  his 
grandmother,  and  by  filling  in  the  contemporary 
background  the  author  stages  a  most  attractive 
idyll.  Contemporary  remarks  on  the  novels  of 
Thackeray  and  Dickens  and  glimpses  of  the 
Duke  of  Wellington  and  Bulwer  Lytton  vary 
agreeably  the  emotional  interest  of  the  book." — 
Spec 


"Not  only  is  the  story  itself  interesting  and 
told  with  charm,  but  it  offers  close,  informal 
views  of  famous  personages  of  the  great  and 
little  Napoleonic  periods." 

+   Bookm    58:482   D   '23    40w 

Boston    Transcript    p6    N    10    '23    1750w 
New   Statesman    21:649    S    15    '23    1300w 
Spec   131:431   S    20   '23    50w 
"Such  a  tale  of  the  19th  century  is  interesting 
to   persons   of   the   same   class  in   the   20th  cen- 
tury: it  never  becomes  sublime,  or  all  absorbing, 
but  it  is  never  completely  dull,  or  uninteresting." 
4-  Springfd   Republican  p6   S  24   '23   270w 


152 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


EUCKEN,  RUDOLF  CHRISTOF.  Spiritual  out- 
looli  of  Europe  to-day.  96p  $1.40  Moreliouse 
pub.   CO.    [3s   6d   Faitli  press] 

201     Religion  [22-18829] 

Prot'esso^  Eucken's  essay  is  a  protest  against 
the  exclusion  of  religion  from  our  modern  civili- 
zation and  a  defense  of  the  Christian  religion 
against  the  claims  of  positivism,  materialism, 
and  some  of  the  eastern  religions.  His  conclu- 
sion is:  "There  is  before  us  a  great  decision— a 
decision  from  which  no  man  can  relieve  us. 
Should  we  remain  content  with  a  humanity 
which  has  no  thought  beyond  its  own  self- 
pleasing,  our  whole  estate  is  lost." 


emotional,   and  in  their  kind  they  show  spirit.'" 
—  The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup 


"Taken  as  a  whole  it  is  an  eloquent  protest." 
+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    pl5    Ja 
5   "22   140w 

The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p52    Ja 

26  '22   850w 


EVARTS,    HAL    GEORGE.      Tumbleweeds.    297p 

$1.75    Little 

23-1201 

The  story  g-ives  a  dramatic  account  of  the 
opening  up  oi  the  Cherokee  strip^a  tract  of 
land  serving  as  insulation  between  hostile 
whites  and  Indians,  upon  which  the  white  man 
was  forbidden  to  settle.  It  involves  the  passing 
of  the  old  open  cattle  range  with  its  riders  of 
the  roving  instinct — the  tumbleweeds  of  the 
story.  A  description  of  the  final  round-up 
precedes  that  of  the  stampede  of  thousands 
of  families,  known  to  history  as  the  Cherokee 
Run,  and  of  the  period  of  lawlessness  that  fol- 
lowed. It  is  also  the  romance  of  Donald  Carver 
— one  of  the  tumbleweeds — and  Molly  Lassiter, 
yearning   for   a   home   and   settled   conditions. 


Booklist  19:189  Mr  '23 
"The  scene  is  clearly  described  and  the  whole 
story    i.s    well    put    together   and    interesting.     It 
is  one  of  the   'Western'   stories,   but  in  new   en- 
vironment." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Ja  24  '23  450w 
Cleveland  p68  S  '23 
"In  spite  of  its  technical  faults,  'Tumble- 
weeds'  has  one  charming  characteristic:  it  is 
romantically  suggestive  to  those  who  have 
known  the  frontier  ranch  life,  making  their 
memories  the  more  precious.  Such  readers  will 
find  it  refreshing  for  its  spirit  and  atmosphere." 

H Int    Bk    R   p52   O   '23   350w 

"Mr.    Evarts    is    not    the    raconteur    that    Mr. 

Grey   is,    but   his   book   is   worth   reading   if  onlv 

for  a  picture  of  the  old  West  bv  one  who  lived 

in  it  and  knows  it  thoroughlv."    H.  V.  C.  Ogden 

-f-    Lit    R    p579   Ap   7    '23    200w 

N  Y  Times  pl9  Ja  7  '23  500w 
"The  spectacle  of  the  homesteaders  pouring 
across  the  Cherokee  Strip  offered  Mr.  Evarts 
an  epical  drama  which,  under  process  of  genius, 
might  have  been  invested  with  heroic  dignitv. 
Mr.  Evarts  thought  it  best  to  pollute  his  story 
with  the  old  stage  tricks  of  feuds,  good  women, 
.«;hot.<j  at  night  and  facetious  cowbovs."  A  D 
Douglas 

—   NY    Tribune    p30    .Ta    28    '23    580w 
Outlook  133:45.'i  Mr  7  '23  40w 
Sprlngfd   Republican   p7a  F  25   '23  lOOw 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p673  O  11 
'23    llOw 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:84    Mr    '23 

EVERETT.       LEOLYN       LOUISE.        Fauns      at 

prayer.    107p    $1.50   Brentano's 
811 

"Silver  and  gold,  the  moon  and  the  rose 
tairy  folk,  and  'A  faint  nostalgia  for  old,  old 
countries'  are  among  the  recurring  types  in 
these  verses.  Numerous  as  the  pieces  are,  they 
vary  considerably  in  form.  They  are,  as  their 
general  title  would  hint,  rather  decorative  than 


"Attractively  bound  book  of  poems  with  a  de- 
lightful page,  but,  unfortunately,  the  verse  is 
thin,  the  lyricism  rather  tinkly."  W:  R.  Benel 
—  +  Lit  R  p516  Mr  10  '23  120w 
"Miss  Everett  writes  lyrics  the  dominant  note 
of  which  is  their  singing  quality.  Her  lines- 
have  a  lilt  which  is  seldom  found  outside  Irish 
verse,  although  there  is  nothing  else  Irish  about 
them.  On  the  contrary.  Miss  Everett  goes  to 
Italy  for  much  of  her  inspiration  and  for  the 
high  coloring  of  which  she  is  inordinately 
fond." 

+  N  Y  Times  p2  Ja  28  '23  330w 
"Only  in  a  very  few  lines  did  I  find  that 
magical  combination  of  words  which  we  know 
as  poetry.  And  even  they  were  dressed  up  in 
stiff  collars  and  starched  and  respectable.  The 
whole  tone  of  the  book  is  cultured."  Milton 
Raison 

—  NY    Tribune   p22   Ja    28    '23    300w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p787  N  3(} 
'22   SOW 

EVERSLEY,  GEORGE  JOHN  SHAW-LEFEV- 
RE,  1st  baron,  and  CHIROL,  SIR  VALEN- 
TINE. Turkish  empire  from  1288  to  1914,  b> 
Lord  Everslev  and  from  1914  to  1922,  by  Sii 
Valentine  Chirol.   2d  ed  456p  $5  Dodd 

949.6     Turkey— History  [23-4367] 

This  new  and  revised  edition  of  a  book  pub- 
lished some  years  ago  (Book  Review  Digest, 
1917)  is  provided  with  four  chapters  by  Sir 
Valentine  Chirol,  an  authority  on  Middle  East- 
ern questions,  to  cover  events  in  Turkey  since 
the  outbreak  of  the  war. 


"Both  authors  are  experts  in  the  field  covered, 
and  both  came  to  their  subject  after  extended 
travel  and  sojourn  in  the  near-East  and  ad- 
jacent countries.  The  story  of  neither  will  be 
pleasant  to  the  Turks,  for  the  book  turns  what 
might  else  have  been  an  epic  of  national  ad- 
venture into  an  indictment  and  warning  o< 
world-wide   significance."     E.   N. 

-f   Boston   Transcript    p4   Mr   21   '23    llOOw 
"The  authors  of  this  book  have  succeeded  in 
making    a     readable    history    out    of    dull    and 
monotonous    records." 

+    Lit    R    p723    My    26   '23    450w 

New    Statesman    20:732   Mr   24    '23   lOOw 
R    of    Rs    67:447   Ap    "23    150w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p50    Ja 
25  '23  1050w 


EWER.  BERNARD  CAPEN.      AppUed  psycholo- 
»    gy.    480p   $2.25   Macmillan 

150   Psychology,   Applied  23-11342 

"The  author  undertakes  'to  present  in  read- 
able form  the  principles,  methods,  and  results 
of  scientific  psychology  as  applied  to  problems 
of  every  day  life'  and  he  succeeds  in  producing 
a  work  that  is  relatively  free  from  bothersome 
technical  terms  and  full  of  practical  interest. 
While  the  arrangement  of  its  contents  has  all 
the  customary  characteristics  of  a  college  text- 
book showing  that  the  volume  is  designed  prim- 
arily for  classroom  use  it  contains,  at  the 
same  time,  many  elements  of  anpeal  to  students 
of  psychological  problems  in  the  school  of  ex- 
perience."— Sprlngfd   Republican 


"In  clear,  untechnical  English,  with  an  ever- 
human  point  of  view,  the  author  surveys  the 
aims  of  applied  psychology  and  the  particular 
confent  of  three  important  fields  of  application, 
the  educational,  medical,  and  industrial.  These 
four  parts  of  the  book  are  excellently  integrated 
and  no  one  can  criticize  the  work  as  a  com- 
pendium of  scattered  data.  The  emphasis  on  ex- 
planation, however,  is  rather  at  the  expense  of 
material  deserving  inclusion."  C:  L:  Stone 
H Am    Econ    R    13:725    D    "23    200w 

"Professor  Ewer's  book  covers  the  whole  field 
of   application,    and    is   also   rich    in    the    setting 


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153 


forth  of  principles.  He  is  especially  successful 
in  bringing  out  the  bearings  of  psychology  on 
education,  psycliotherapy  and  industry,  and  he 
performs  this  service  with  the  aid  of  illustra- 
tions drawn  from  many  other  departments  of 
human    activity."    10.    N. 

+    Boston   Transcript  pS   S  29  '23  450w 
Springf  d    Republican  plO  O  30  '23   360w 


EYLES,  MRS  IVIARGARET  LEONORA  (PIT- 
CAIRN).  Hidden  lives.  344p  $2.50  Boni  & 
Liiveright    [7s    Gd    HeinemannJ 

23-12747 

With  many  excursions  into  Freudian  and 
social  psychology  the  story  sets  forth  the 
trials  of  a  woman  surgeon  of  staunch  character 
in  her  attempts  to  live  her  own  life  in  the  face 
of  a  hostile  and  conventional  world — the  slum 
district  of  an  English  pit-town.  She  builds 
with  her  own  money  a  bath-house  and  social 
center  in  the  very  heart  of  the  slums  and  be- 
comes interested  in  a  young  curate  with  a 
fanatical  craze  for  subduing  the  flesh.  In  a 
moment  of  emotional  abandon  and  to  cure  him 
of  his  complex,  she  gives  herself  to  him.  The 
knowledge  of  her  pregnancy,  of  the  hopeless 
insanity  of  her  child's  father,  of  the  incendiary 
destruction  of  her  social  work,  with  accom- 
panying financial  ruin,  all  overwhelm  her  at 
the  same  time.  Social  ostracism  follows.  Her 
child  is  murdered  by  an  insane  outcast.  She 
is  deprived  of  her  medical  status.  Bravely  she 
carries  on  thru  her  own  discouragements,  even 
to  taking  off  her  brass  door-plate  and  sub- 
stituting a  card  as  certified  midwife.  In  the 
end  she  derives  much  moral  strength  and  cor- 
roboiation  of  her  practical  Christianity  from 
the  jumble  of  Bible  quotations  left  her,  as 
his  "message,"  by  the  dying  curate. 


"The  author  of  this  novel  has  expended  a 
great  deal  of  sincere  effort,  and  maintained  a 
good  average  of  workmanship,  but  the  story  is 
such  a  pile  of  woe  that  it  outbalances  all  other 

+  —  Nation    117:sup410   O   10   '23    90w 
N   Y    Times  p22   S   2  '23  550w 

"This  is  one  of  those  books,  of  which  there 
is  not  too  large  a  number,  that  one  may  read 
with  considerable  profit  to  one's  spirit  and  -with 
even  more  pleasure.  Unfortunately,  we  must 
set  down  our  opinion  that  this  book  falls  several 
miles  short  of  being  a  great  book,  even  a  great 
book  of  the  year.  But  assuredly  it  is  a  book 
of  consequence."     Bruce   Gould 

H NY  Tribune  p20  S  2  '23  800w 

"Her  plot  is  of  the  kind  which  used  to  be 
called  'daring;'  but  nobody  could  suspect  her 
of  having  been  driven  to  it  by  anything  short 
of  a  high  moral  enthusiasm.  A  ghastly,  start- 
ling, havmting  book,  full  of  deliberate  and  ex- 
plicit statement  about  those  evils  in  life  which 
are  most  generally  left  unstated:  full  of  pro- 
test, too,  and  judgment,  which  may  for  those 
who  judge  differently  mar  the  effect  of  the 
whole:  but  rich,  beyond  question,  in  literary 
merit  and  spiritual  exaltation."  Gerald  Gould 
-f  Sat    R   134:995   D   30    '22  550w 

"The  book  is  a  well-drawn  description  of  a 
phase  of  modern  life,  and  although  Helen  Cle- 
vion  herself  is  better  realized  than  the  rest  of 
the  dramatis  personae,  many  of  these,  though 
they  are  only  sketches,  are  lifelike  sketches." 
H Spec    130:334   F   24    '23    300w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ag  26  '23  700w 

"F-rom  its  opening  description  'Hidden  Lives' 
takes  hold  of  the  reader,  gripping  him  fast 
even  at  moments  when  he  would  be  glad  if 
he  could  close  the  book  and  forget  the  pic- 
tures It  has  shown  him.  The  title  is,  no  doubt, 
appropriate  enough  in  its  own'  sense;  but  be- 
sides the  lives  that  have  a  jnystic  hiddenness, 
the  author  treats  of  lives  from  which  she  ruth- 
les.sly  strips  the  veils  with  which  society  for 
Its  ease  of  conscience  would  gladly  curtain 
them." 

+  The    Times    CLondon]    Lit    Sup    p840    D 
14    '22    550w 


EYRE-TODD,      GEORGE.      Highland     clans     of 
-    Scotland;   with   an   introd.   by   A.    M.   Mackin- 
tosh.   2v    259;261-523p    il    $17.50    Appleton     l7Us 
Heath,    Cranton] 

929.2    Clans    and    clan    system.     Scotland- 
History 

A  collection  of  histories  of  the  clans  of  Scot- 
land, the  material  for  which  has  been  gathered 
together  from  widely  scattered  sources.  The 
stories  of  the  clans  include  not  only  the  genea- 
logical records  and  narratives  of  the  martial 
adventures  of  the  members  of  the  clan  from 
generation  to  generation,  but  a  record  of  the 
historic  events  m  which  they  have  figured.  Lists 
of  the  septs  of  each  clan  are  also  given.  There 
are  122  illustrations  including  reproductions  in 
color  of  M'lan's  celebrated  paintings  of  the 
costumes   of   the   clans. 


"Mr.  Eyre-Todd  has  displayed  rare  diligence 
in  the  collection  of  his  material  for  these  stories 
of  the  clans  as  well  as  a  rare  enthusiasm."  E.  J. 
C. 

4-  Boston    Transcript   p6  D   26   '23   1350w 
"A  magnificent   book  whicii  will  be  especially 
a   joy    to   everyone   who   claims   even   a    drop   of 
Highland  blood  in  his  veins." 

-I-  Greensboro   (N.C.)    Daily   News  plO  D  9 
'23  180w 


FABIAN,     WARNER,     pseud.        I'laming    youth. 

336p    $2    Boni    &    Liveright 

23-3136 

The  twentieth  century  woman  of  the  luxury 
class  is  the  tlieme  of  this  novel.  The  story 
describes  the  social  environment  of  a  wealthy 
suburb  and  especially  of  one  of  its  leading 
families  whose  three  daughters  have  grown  up 
under  unusual  freedom  from  parental  restraint 
and  also  from  mental  discipline.  Patricia,  the 
youngest,  with  nothing  upon  whicli  to  feed 
her  active  mind  and  satisfy  her  eager  curiosity 
about  life  but  the  petting  parties  and  incessant 
round  of  gaities  of  her  set,  with  their  liot- 
ho'use  forcing  of  the  senses,  becomes  preco- 
ciously wise  in  matters  of  sex,  almost  morbidly 
inleiested  in  herself,  discontented  and  restless, 
and  is  only  saved  from  emotional  ruin  by  her 
underlying  sanity  and  instinct  for  honest  deal- 
ing. A  married  man,  much  older  than  herself, 
starts  with  noble  intentions  of  filling  the  place 
of  friend  and  advisor  but  becomes  her  lover 
and,  after  Pat's  skiff  has  barely  escaped  ship- 
wreck upon  several  more  dangerous  reefs,  her 
safe    haven. 


"Emphatically  the  message  which  "Warner 
Fabian — from  his  intimate  knowledge  of  the 
youth  of  today — holds  out  is  that  at  heart  they 
are  serious,  that  they  are  fighting  through 
to  a  knowledge  of  themselves  and  of  life,  and 
that  through  fi'eedom  comes  the  opportunity  to 
accept  a  standard  of  living — not  because  it  is 
inherited  but  because  it  has  been  tested  and 
found    personally    satisfactory."      D.    L.    M. 

Boston    Transcript   o3   Mr   3   '23   1050W 
Dial   74:520  My  '23   80w 

"The    construction    of    the    story    as    a    novel 
is    somewhat     amateurish    and    awkward.        Its 
style    is    good    enough,    with    occasional    flashe.« 
of    neatly    himiorous    characterization." 
h   Lit    R    p473    F    17    '23    250v 

"Hot    stuff." 

—  NY   Times    p24   .Ta    28    '23   550w 
"This  is  a  book   that   is   unworthy  of  serious 

criticism,  and  may  not  be  reviewed  from  mere 
distnste.  One  can  just  believe  that  the  author 
thought  he  was  writing  a  'powerful  indictment 
of  modern  society,'  or  a  'scathing  rebuke  to 
the  younger  generation.'  or  something  of  that 
sort.  One  can  also  inform  him  that  he  is 
mistaken."       Isabel    Paterson 

—  NY   Tribune  p20   F  11   '23   720w 


154 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


FABIAN,    WARNER,    pseud. — Continued 

■The  author  who  signs  himself  Warner  Fa- 
bian seems  to  be  in  a  position  corresponding 
to  that  of  a  man  who  reaches  the  given  point 
just  after  the  procession  has  passed.  His  book 
is  of  the  order  of  'The  Beautiful  and  Damned' 
and  of  'Dancers  in  the  Dark,'  but  it  comes 
marching  on  when  these  forerunners  of  it.s 
school  have  had  their  place  with  the  best  sellers 
and  have  vanished  from  the  monthly  compila- 
tions. We  guess  there  is  no  doubt  that  our 
author  tells  the  worst  he  has  found  out.  But 
after  Fitzgerald,  he  finds  nothing  new."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

—  NY    World    pGe    F    11    '23    520w 
"Artistically  it  is  negligible,  but  not  offensive." 

h  Spec    131:661    N    3    '23    250w 

"A  good  story  of  its  sort,  and  it  really  offers 
some  mteipretation  of  contemporary  youth  as 
contemporary  youth  is  for  fiction  purposes 
supposed    to    be." 

-}-  Springf'd    Republican  p7a   F  IS  '23   200w 
"A  superficial,   highly  spiced  novel." 

—  Survey   49:819   Mr   15   '23   20w 

The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p605  S  13 
'23    250w 

FABRE,   JEAN    HENRI    CASIMIR.      Life   of   the 

scorpion.    344p   $2.50   Dodd 

595.4      Scorpions  23-11027 

This  is  the  fourteenth  volume  of  Les  sou- 
venirs entomologiques.  It  is  translated  from 
the  French  by  Alexander  Teixeira  de  Mattos 
and  Bernard  Miall.  Besides  the  life  history  of 
the  Lanquedocian  scorpion  it  contains  a  section 
on  plant  lice  including  the  pentatomae,  the 
masked  bug,  the  terebinth  louse,  the  dorthesia 
and  the  kermes  of  the  oak.     Index. 


Booklist   20:10   O   '23 
Reviewed   by   W:    Beebe 

Bookm  58:203  O  '23  1350w 
"No  naturalist  before  him  or  smce  his  death 
ever  succeeded  in  imparting  so  much  human 
interest  to  these  lowly  denizens  of  field  and 
forest,  nor  are  his  records  of  them,  actual  eye 
observation  being  his  method  of  study,  ever 
likely  to   be   superseded."     E.    N. 

-|-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  18  "23  700w 
"In  the  face  of  the  long  and  e.xtremely  care- 
ful observations  of  Fabre  it  seems  almost  paltry 
to  call  attention  to  anything  that  detracts  from 
his  conclusions,  and  yet  it  must  be  noted  that 
in  the  explanations  of  certain  of  his  discoveries 
he  is  prone  to  resort  to  a  kind  of  mysticism 
which  is  jarring." 

-I Lit   R  p52   S   15   '23  550w 

Reviewed  by  Will  Cuppy 

N   Y   Tribune  pl9  Jl   29    '23   1800w 
"The  scientist  and  the  general  reader  find   it 
equally    interesting,    and    the    apprentice    writer 
can    have    no    better    example    of    accurate    and 
simple   description    and   exposition." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p8  Ag  24  '23  180w 
The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p825  N  29 
'23    280w 

FABRE,  JEAN  HENRI  CASIMIR.  This  earth 
of  ours;  talks  about  mountains  and  rivers, 
volcanoes,  eaithquakes  and  geysers  and  other 
things;  ti-.  from  the  French  by  Percy  F 
Bicknell.    339p   il    ,$2.50   Century 

551.4      Physical    geography  23-12502 

Thru  a  series  of  familiar,  anecdotal  talks  in 
a  .style  suited  to  young  people,  the  French  sci- 
entist pre.sents  the  main  facts  of  physical  geog- 
raphy. 


Booklist    20:105    D    '23 
Freeman  8:166  O  24   '23  240w 
New    Repub    37:50    D    5    '23    200w 
'"In  these  little  essays,  as  in  his  other  books, 
Fabre  never  once  commits  the  one  unpardonable 
sin,    the   sin   of  dulness   and   solemnity."     A.    D 
Douglas 

-j-   N   Y  Tribune  p27   S  9   '23  360w 


"This  is  an  addition  to  Fabre's  series  of 
books  for  young  people  on  the  wonders  of  na- 
ture and  science.  Many  a  grown-up  also  finds 
in  them  all  manner  of  information  which  he  is 
glad   to  get   in   so   delightful   a   form." 

+  Springf'd    Republican    pl2    S    19    '23   70w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p825  N  29 
•23    120w 

FAGIN,     NATHAN     BRYLLION.        Short    story 
•    writing;  an  art  or  a  trade?  139p  $1.50   Seltzer 
808.3    Short    story  23-16321 

The  author,  a  teacher  of  short  story  writing, 
looks  at  our  output  in  this  line  and  analyzes 
the  standards  of  magazine  and  popular  taste 
which  determine  its  quality.  He  finds  that  the 
moving  pictures  influence  the  bulk  of  our  maga- 
zine and  even  book  fiction,  and  that  the  popular 
periodical  with  public  opinion  and  millions  of 
dollars  behind  it  sets  the  standard.  He  goes  on 
to  enumerate  the  taboos  and  prejudices  which 
the  short-story  writer  has  to  reckon  with. 


"A  great  many  of  the  things  which  Professor 
Fagin  says  are  true.  In  fact,  they  are  truisms. 
But  merely  being  sad  about  them  will  not 
contribute  to  their  solution,  and  it  seems  that 
the  author  has  nothing  else  to  offer.  Instead 
of  washing  his  hands,  he  wrings  them.  He  is, 
perhaps,  a  little  too  impressed  with  the  pos- 
sibilities  of  the    classroom."   L.    B. 

—  Freeman   8:359   D   19  '23   220w 

"This  book  should  prove  a  decidedly  profitable 
bit  of  reading,  not  only  to  the  millions  of  would- 
be  authors,  but  to  teachers  of  the  subject  and — 
dare  it  be  said? — to  editors  of  our  popular  mag- 
azines." Carl  Holliday 

-f-   Lit    R   p340   D   8   '23   660w 

"The  book  is  cleverly  written,  and  whether  or 
not  one  disagrees  with  some,  or  even  many,  of 
Mr.  Fagin's  ideas  and  convictions,  he  is  always 
stimulating  and  suggestive." 

_| NY   Times   p20  D   23   '23   550w 

FALES,      MRS     WINNIFRED      (SHAW).     Easy 
housekeeping  book.   211p   il    $1.75   Small 

640     Home    economics  23-5942 

"The  book  covers  home  planning,  practical 
economy — with  a  discussion  of  the  budget 
scheme,  the  renovation  of  floors  and  woodwork, 
home  furnishing.  At  the  end  of  each  chapter 
is  a  list  of  reference  questions,  which  feature 
might  make  the  book  of  use  in  club  discus- 
sions."— Lit    R 


"Every  housewife,  however  experienced,  will 
find   in    this    book   something   of  value." 

+   Boston  Transcrfpt  p6  N  24  '23  140w 
Cleveland   p59  Jl  '23 

"As  a  guide  post,  this  book  could  hardly  be 
bettered,  for  it  says  to  the  housewife:  Stop, 
think,  look  around  you— then  decide  if  you  are 
doing  every  task  as  efficiently  as  you  can,  or  if, 
instead,  you  are  going  through  old,  obsolete  mo- 
tions which  are  instinctive  rather  than  rea- 
sonable." 

-I-    Lit   R   pl35    O   13   '23   220w 

"Full  of  practical  advice  to  homemakers  and 
homekeepers.  The  preliminary  step  in  the  pro- 
cess is  starting  the  budget.  This  is  explained 
with    a    good   deal    of   originality   in    the    second 

+'  N   Y  Times  p22  Mr  25  '23  400w 

FARBRIDGE,    MAURICE   H.       Studies  in  Bibli- 
=    cal  and  Semitic  symbolism  (Triibner's  orient- 
al  ser.)    288p  $4.50  Dutton    [10s   6d  K.   Paul] 

246  Symbolism 
Beginning  with  a  sketch  of  the  development 
of  Biblical  and  "Semitic  symbolism,  the  book 
takes  up  in  succession  the  symbolism  of  trees, 
plants,  flowers,  and  of  animals,  the  symbolism 
of  numbers,  symbolical  representations  of  the 
Babylonian-Assyrian  pantheon,  burial  and 
mourning  customs,  and  miscellaneous  symbol- 
isms. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


155 


"Mr.  Farbridge's  scholarly  work  is  a  valu- 
able addition  to  the  library  of  the  working  an- 
thropologist, while  its  attractive  style  commends 
it   to   the   lay   public." 

+  New    Statesman    22:60   O   20    '23    310w 

"As  there  is  no  well-marked  thesis  in  the 
book  to  bind  its  parts  together  and  give  it 
form  and  coherence,  it  does  not  provide  very 
attractive  reading  for  the  layman.  On  the  other 
hand  experts  in  ethnology  will  welcome  this 
new   piece   of   Semitic   research." 

H Spec   131:565   O   20    '23   150w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p684  O  18 
'23    250w 

FARINGTON,  JOSEPH.  Farington  diary;  ed.  by 
James  Greig.  2v  v  1,  July  13,  1705  to  August 
24,  1802;  v  2,  August  28,  1802  to  September  13, 
1804.  398;332p  il  ea  $7.50  Doran  [21s  Hutchin- 
son] 

B  or  92 
"Joseph  Farington,  the  artist  (1747-1821)  was 
a  man  who  'knew  everybody';  he  comes  before 
us  in  this  newly  discovered  diary  as  one  of  the 
first  order  of  social  diarists."  (The  Times 
[London]  Lit  Sup)  Farington  was  above  all  a 
Royal  Academy  man  and  many  of  his  entries 
relate  to  art  and  artists.  But  the  diary  is  by 
no  means  confined  to  these.  A  great  crowd  of 
people  pass  thru  his  pages  and  many  memories 
are  stirred.  The  first  volume  covers  the  period 
from  July  13,  1795  to  August  24.  1802.  The 
second  extends   to   September  13,    1804. 


Booklist  20:18  O  '23 

"A  not  inconsiderable  portion  of  the  Diary 
consists  of  decidedly  empty  information — empty 
to  anyone  except,  perhaps.  English  genealo- 
gists. But  Farington  did  have  a  vast  amount 
of  curiosity,  and  a  very  observant  eye  for  de- 
tail, and  an  almost  unparalleled  acquaintance. 
And  he  carried  on  his  remarkable  work  as  pri- 
vate intimate  reporter  for  posterity  for  over 
thirtv  years."     R.  C.  Holliday 

^ Bookm  57:452  Je  '23  lOOOw 

Cleveland   p61  Jl  '23 

"Of  the  value  of  this  contemporary  record  of 
individuals  and  events  there  cannot  be  the 
smallest  doubt.  Farington  knew  almost  every 
eminent  man  and  woman  of  the  time:  and  very 
little  escaped  him.  There  is  something  in  his 
jottings  for  every  one  to  browse  upon.  .  .  Far- 
ington's  diary  is  essentially  a  book  worth  buy- 
ing, worth  reading,  and  worth  keeping."  H.  E. 
A.    Cotton 

+  Freeman   7:402   Jl   4   '23   2800w 

"Altho  his  method  does  not,  like  the  methods 
of  Pepys  and  Boswell,  breathe  life  into  lifeless 
history,  it  reveals  hitherto  unrecorded  facts  with 
sincerity  and  candor,  adding  to  the  bulk  of  his- 
tory, if  not  to  its  liveliness."  R.  S.  Hillyer 
-I Int    Bk    R    p33    My   '23    2250w 

"The  types  used  at  the  Chapel  River  Press 
are  by  no  means  of  an  .\ldine  elegance,  and 
the  pages  were  apparently  modelled  after  speci- 
mens set  up  by  the  apprentices.  The  reader 
may  be  glad  that  the  book  was  not  printed  in 
America.  How  our  British  cousins  would  have 
admonished  us  had  we  put  forth  so  paltry  a 
volume!  One  cannot  but  wonder  what  Joseph 
Farington,  artist  and  friend  of  Horace  Walpole. 
would  have  thought  of  the  volume  in  which 
Mr.  Greig  has  chosen  to  present  him  to  poster- 
ity."   C.    B.    Tinker 

—  Lit    R   p845   Jl  21    '23    1200w 

"Pepys  and  Evelyn  .^tand  self-revealed  in  their 
diaries  and  are  in  truth  the  most  interesting 
figures  in  them,  but  Joseph  Farington  escapes 
our  grasp.  In  a  book  unity  of  some  sort  is 
demanded,  and  if  unity  of  design  is  impossible, 
we  expect  to  find  some  other  unity,  either  in 
the  character  of  the  chronicler  or  in  the  phi- 
losophy of  his  life,  or.  it  may  be.  in  the  nature 
of  his  opinions.  But  here  no  unity  of  any  kind 
is    discernible."      Augustine   Birrell 

—  New   Statesman    20:433  Ja   13  '23   1450w 
"This     diary     of     Joseph     Farington      is     not 

obviously    an    attractive    book    to    the    general 
reader.     It  is  an  accumulated  hea,p  of  recorded 


facts  about  a  crowd  of  people  just  as  the  facts 
came  to  the  knowledge  of  the  diarist,  who  sets 
down  what  reaches  his  ears,  without  much 
comment.  Of  malice  (that  pleasant  ingredient) 
there  is  hardly  a  trace,  and  of  humor  there  is 
even  less.  The  diarist  seems  to  us  to  have  been 
a  colourless  man,  with  a  huge  love  of  detail 
and  of  the  small  facts  of  life,  coupled  with  a 
rare  power  of  accurate  and  even  intense  exter- 
nal ob.servation.  Consequently  when  he  de- 
scribes a  scene  or  a  face  he  conveys  the  im- 
pression of  being  a  trustworthy,  because  un- 
romantic    witness."    Augustine    Birrell 

^ New   Statesman   21:648   S  15   '23   lOOOw 

Reviewed  by  M.  F.  Egan 

N  Y  Times  p4  Mr  4  '23  2250w 
"His    information    is    exceedingly    interesting, 
in  spite  of  his  extraordinarily  uninspired  method 
of   presenting   it."      Esther  Murphy 

-] NY   Tribune  plS  My   13   '23  1350w 

Reviewed    by    Esther    Murphy  

N  Y  Tribune  pl7  D  30  '23  2100w  (Re- 
view of  v2) 
"What  marvellous  opportunities  Joseph  Far- 
ington had  to  do  a  really  great  diary  and  how 
far  short  of  the  marvellous  mark  he  has  fallen. 
Mr.  James  Greig,  who  has  written  lives  of 
Gainsborough  and  Raeburn,  edits  the  diary  with 
a  saving  grace,  and  for  once  a  book  has  notes 
that  lure  the  reader's  eye  from  the  text." 
Laurence  Stallings 

[-   N    Y   World   p9e   Mr  18   '23   IGOOw 

Sat  R  136:306  S  15  '23  900w 
"Farington's  Diary  in  book  form  proves  to  be 
more,  not  less,  interesting  and  exciting  than  in 
the  daily  rations  of  the   Morning  Post.     For  its 
publication    lovers    of    English    history,    English 
art,   and  English  literature  ought  to  be  exceed- 
ingly grateful   to  the  newspaper  which  made  so 
sporting  a   journalistic   speculation." 
-I-  Spec   130:60   Ja  13    '23  1550w 
Spec  131:256  Ag  25  '23  150w 
The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p861  D  21 
•22  30w 
"What    is    the    interest?      It    is    not    literary. 
Farington   cannot  write.     He  has   no  style,   and 
frequently  uses   illiterate   expressions  like   'who 
for    'whom.'      His    diary    is    not    a    book.      The 
entries  are  often  a  mere  series  of  jottings.     And 
vet    Farington's    book    certainly    is    interesting, 
especially  for  people  who  know  the  main  roads 
of  that  pleasant   period,   have  been    inside  some 
of    its    principal    houses,    and    would    like    to    go 
into  them  again  and  Into  some  of  their  smaller 
neighbours   too."  ,    .  .^    _  ^n    t 

J The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    pl9    Ja 

11   '23  2300W 
"Everybody   will   welcome    another  volume   of 
this    interesting    Diary;    and    the    second    is,    on 
the   whole,    an   improvement   on    the   first.      For 
one  thing,   it  is  better  edited.      The  diarist  and 
his    editor    have    combined    to    give    a    very    in- 
teresting   picture    of    life    as    it    was    lived    in 
London     a    hundred     and   twenty  years   ago  by 
artists   who  were   in   frequent   touch   with   other 
notable    people    beside    those    of   their  own    pro- 
fession       And   the   publisher  has   done   his   part 
bv   providing   some   very   pleasant   illustrations." 
_|_  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p569   Ag 
30  '23  2100w  (Review  of  v  2) 

FARIS,    JOHN    THOMSON.      Seeing   the   middle 

West.    2o4p    il    $5    Lippincott 

917.7   West — Description   and   travel   23-26848 

The  book  comes  under  the  author's  Travel 
series  de  luxe.  It  is  profusely  illustrated— fron- 
tispiece in  color— and,  besides  describing  the 
natural  scenery  and  beauty  spots  of  the  middle 
western  region,  is  full  of  historical  references. 
It  takes  the  reader  around  the  Great  Lakes, 
thru  Minnesota,  the  Dakotas,  Kansas,  Okla- 
homa, Missouri,  Iowa,  Michigan,  Wisconsin,  Il- 
linois and  Indiana  and  down  the  principal  water 
courses.     Index. 


Booklist    20:52    N    '23 
Bookm    58:483    D   '23    220w 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


PARIS,  J:  T.- — Continued 

"It  is  a  truly  wonderful  story  which  is  here 
told,  and  it  will  serve  to  convince  those  who 
nod  in  sleep  as  the  parlor-car  passes  through 
these  regions,  that  there  are  more  things  in 
our  own  country  than  have  ever  yet  been 
dreamed    of."      E.    J.    C. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p4    Ag    25    '23    800w 

Lit  R  pl37  O  13  '23  300w 
"His  book  is  packed  full  from  cover  to  cover 
with  interesting  matter  clothed  in  attractive, 
interesting  style.  There  is  in  it,  indeed,  an 
amazing  amount  of  information,  historic,  geo- 
graphic, scenic,  industrial,  geologic,  commercial, 
general,  all  of  it  well  organized,  presented  in 
orderly  manner  and  so  embellished  with  anecdote 
and  allusion  as  to  make  it  always  entertaining. 
The  illustrations,  of  which  there  are  almost  a 
hundred,  deserve  their  own  separate  word  of 
mention  and  praise  because  of  their  variety, 
excellence    and    beauty." 

-h   N  Y  Times  plO  S  2  '23  2500w 
"The    book    is    engaging    though    hurried    and 
well   illustrated.    Mr   Faris   does   not  attempt   to 
analyze    the    characteristics    of   the    States.      He 
tells   only  what   the   eye   reveals." 
-I NY  World  p7e  60w 

Outlook    135:195    O    3    '23    50w 

R   of    Rs    68:560   N   '23    70w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:442    O    '23 

FARJEON,     ELEANOR.        Soul    of    Kol    Nikon. 

256p   $2.50   Stokes    [7s    6d   Collins] 

23-13122 

Like  "Martin  Pippin  of  the  apple  orchard" 
this  is  a  fairy  fantasy  for  grown-ups.  Kol 
Nikon  is  a  changeling  child  whose  mother 
would  have  none  of  him.  He  is  hungry  for  his 
mother's  love  but  despairs  of  winning  it,  so 
he  creeps  away  into  the  woods.  He  becomes  a 
playmate  of  the  children.  He  turns  his  thoughts 
into  the  music  of  his  fiddle.  Then  he  makes 
up  his  mind  that  to  get  a  soft  look  from  his 
mother  he  must  win  for  himself  a  soul.  Later 
he  decides  that  in  order  to  possess  a  soul  he 
must  love.  So  Kol  Nikon's  search  for  a  soul 
becomes  identified  with  his  search  for  human 
love. 


alizes  that  she  loves  him  and  once  again  she 
uses  her  wits  and  charm  to  bring  him  back 
to  her. 


Booklist   20:139   Ja  '24 

Boston  Transcript  p5  O  20  '23  ISOw 
"  'Martin  Pippin  in  the  Apple  Orchard'  put 
Eleanor  Farjeon  promptly  and  permanently  into 
the  class  of  writers  of  fairy  fantasy  from  whom 
we  are  bovmd  to  expect  further  good.  In  her 
new  book  she  justifies  expectation.  This  story 
lacks  something  of  the  unique  charm  of  its 
predecessor.  This  is  because  Kol  himself  lacks 
the  merry  qualities  of  Martin;  because  he  is  a 
fellow  made  gloomy  and  filled  with  moods  by 
the  failure  of  his  own  mother  to  recognize  him 
and  give  him  the  love  his  spirit  craves."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

-^ NY   World   plOe   O   21    '23    250w 

Reviewed  bv  Gerald  Gould 

Sat   R  136:474  O  27  '23   480w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p728  N   1 
'23    400w 

FARNOL,    JEFFERY.       Sir   John    Dering.      358p 

$2     Little 

23-15820 

Sir  John  Dering,  unjustly  famed  as  wicked 
and  heartless,  wearies  of  the  strain  of  living 
up  to  a  reputation  which  involves  him  in  so 
many  duels.  Lady  Herminia  Barrasdaile  whose 
enmity  has  caused  all  his  notoriety,  seeks  to 
humble  him  completely.  Disguising  herself  as 
a  pretty  country  wench,  she  accompanies  him 
to  England,  and  playing  her  part  well,  sees  him 
succumb  to  her  sweet  innocence.  Once  at  home 
again,  Sir  John  is  occupied  with  helping  the 
old  folks,  aiding  the  smugglers  against  the 
king's  men.  and  fighting  tyrannical  lords.  Even 
a  horned  ghost  adds  zest  to  his  night  activities. 
Finally  Lady  Herminia  sees  her  great  oppor- 
tunity to  humble  Sir  John  by  bringing  him  to 
her  feet  and  then   refusing  him.      Then  she  re- 


Bookllst  20:139  Ja  '24 

Boston    Transcript    p4    N    7    '23    720w 

Reviewed  by  L.  M.  Sill 

Int  Bk  R  p70  D  '23  390w 

"The  facility  with  which  Mr.  Farnol  produces 
such  genuinely  readable  books  as  this  one  sug- 
gests a  power  to  transcend  his  well-earned 
popularity  at  a  venture  and  to  produce  some- 
thing more  ambitious  than  volubility,  be  it 
never  so  well  dressed."  J:  F.  Carter,  jr. 
-I Lit    R    pl46    O    20    '23    680w 

"Among  the  numerous  writers  of  fairy 
tales  for  grown  people  there  are  few  who 
can  weave  more  charm  into  their  narra- 
tives than  does  Jeffery  Farnol.  The  fairy 
tale  way  of  looking  at  things  would  seem 
to  be  his  natural  point  of  view.  Whether 
he  writes  of  dukes  or  tinkers,  fair  ladies 
or  bold  buccaneers,  of  times  long  gone 
by  or  of  the  present  day,  of  New  York  City 
or  of  the  Spanish  Main,  it  is  always  in  truth 
a  romance  of  fairyland  that  he  has  to  tell  us." 
-1-  N   Y  Times  p8  O  21  '23  500w 

"The  most  pertinent  remark  that  can  be  made 
in  connection  with  'Sir  John  Dering'  is  that 
it  is  as  good  as  anything  he  has  ever  done 
and  better  than  some  of  his  previous  works, 
judged  by  the  same  standard.  .  .  There  is 
some  excess  of  emphasis  in  the  handling  of 
minor  incidents,  but  the  whole  narrative  is 
closely  knit  and  consistent  in  its  gorgeous  im- 
possibilities. The  pace  is  breathless  for  350 
pages;  color  is  splashed  about  with  a  lavish 
hand;  action  is  provided  in  full  measure,  pressed 
down  and  running  over.  Those  who  happen  to 
like  Farnol  will  love  'Sir  John  Dering.'  " 

-f   N    Y    Tribune    p22    O    21    '23    800w 

"This  new  story  is  not  up  to  even  the  cloak- 
and-suit  requireinents,  let  alone  the  costume 
novel."    Laurence    Stallings 

—  NY  World  pile  O  21  '23  620w 
"The  quality  which  seems  to  constitute  Mr. 
Farnol's  personal  contribution  to  the  making 
of  this,  the  comed.v  not  of  manners  but  of 
mannerisms,  is  his  own  gleeful  and  rather  in- 
fectious enjoyment  of  it." 

-I-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    pG72    O 
11   '23   210w 

FARNSWORTH,  SIDNEY.  Illumination  and 
its  development  in  the  present  day.  267p  il 
$7.50     Doran     [24s    Hutchinson] 

745   Illumination    of   books   and   manuscripts 

23-4800 

"This  is  based  on  a  series  of  articles  which 
appeared  in  Drawing  and  Design.  It  is  more 
comprehensive  in  scope  than  its  title  would 
suggest;  it  includes  chapters  on  the  develop- 
ment of  writing,  and  on  lettering  generally  in 
different  ages  and  countries,  methods  of  repro- 
duction, commercial  lettering,  Christmas  cards, 
posters,  &c.  It  is  copiously  illustrated,  and 
there  is  a  chapter  at  the  end  on  books  on  the 
subject." — The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup 

"Mr.    Farnsworth's    book    surely    will    be    the 
means    of    fostering    increased    interest    in    the 
art   of   illumination."     M.    C.   Weaks 
Lit    R    p399    .Ta    20    '23    650w 
Pittsburgh   Mo    Bul   28:184  Ap  '23 
Spec  129:560  O  21  '22  650w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p633    O 
5   '22   70w 

FARRERE,  CLAUDE,  pseud.  (CHARLES  BAR- 
GONE).  House  of  the  secret  (La  maison  des 
hommes  vivants):  auth.  tr.  by  Arthur  Liv- 
ins^ston.      234p      $3.50     Dutton 

23-6379 

"  'The  House  of  the  Secret'  belongs  to  the 
order  of  vampire  narrative.  Its  vampires  are 
ultra-scientific,  heartless  and  imscrupulous.  de- 
voted to  the  one  purpose  of  pre.serving  in  them- 
selves the  vital  spark  which  the  oldest  of  the 
three  has  by  his  own  word  carried  undiminished 


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well  along  into  a  second  century.  Grandfather, 
son  and  grandson,  they  stand  a  marvellous  and 
menacing  trio  beiore  the  young  French  oflicer 
who  has  been  luicd  to  their  secret  haunt  in 
the  hills,  beyond  Beaulieu.  It  is  this  young 
officer  who,  in  the  lost  hours  left  to  him  after 
his  fatal  meeting  with  them  writes  out  in  full 
detail  the  story  of  his  misadventure.  Tragedy 
and  romance,  both,  are  in  the  tMle.  Capt.  Andre 
has  met  and  loved  the  beautiful  Madeleine  long 
before  malignant  chance  has  thrown  him  in 
the  way  of  his  grim  captors,  and  it  is  a  part 
of  his  agony  that  he  finds  his  lady  ahead  of 
him  in  the  grip  of  the  holders  of  the  Secret." 
— N    Y   ^Vorld 


Booklist  19:317  Jl  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p4  My  9  '23  400w 
"This,  like  any  romantic  tale  of  mystery, 
should  only  be  read  provided  one  accepts  all 
the  premises  without  reserve,  and  if  one  is  on 
this  point  receptive.  'The  Hovise  of  the  Secret' 
will  prove  an  excellent  investment  for  an  even- 
ing's   entertainment." 

+  Lit  R  p590  Ap  7  '23  300w 
"Not  only  is  it  a  clever,  inventive  plot,  but 
a  keen  mterplay  of  criticism  of  life  is  bound 
up  with  the  moving  story.  It  is  a  many-sided 
book;  significant  to  numerous  and  various  ap- 
peals of  diverse  tastes.  There  is  a  woof  of 
reality  under  this  fantastic  tale  that  soars  to 
zenith  and  plumbs  the  depths.  Mocking  irony 
whips  at  you  as  the  story  moves  with  an  even 
pace   to   its    full    close." 

+  N    Y   Times  p27   Ap  8   '23   330w 
"Ten    per   cent   Edgar   Allan    Poe,    5    per   cent 
Dumas    the    elder,    85    per    cent   aqua    pura,    en- 
tirely  harmless    and   inert." 

N   Y  Tribune  p27  My  13  '23  400w 
Reviewed    bv    E.   W.    Osborn 

N  Y  World  p8e  Mr  25  '23  450w 
"I  like  Algernon  Blackwood's  gentle  psychism 
in  fiction  better  than  M.  Farr&re's  strange  and 
fenrful  human  ghouls,  but  tastes  in  'psychics' 
differ,  and  certainly  this  is  an  admirably  ex- 
ecuted piece  of  work  in  its  own  genre."  R.  D. 
Town  send 

-\ Outlook    133:720    Ap   18   '23    160w 

FAURE,  ELIE.  History  of  art:  v  3  Renaissance 
art:  tr.  from  the  French  by  Walter  Pach.  401p 
il  $7.50  Harper 

709    Art.  Renaissance  (21-21073) 

The  third  volume  of  this  four-volume  history 
Of  art  is  devoted  to  renaissance  art — the  Flor- 
entine, Umbrian  and  Venetian  schools,  the 
Franco-Flemish  cycle,  French  renaissance 
architecture,  and  Germany  and  the  reformation. 


Booklist   20:46   N    '23 
"The    translation    by    Mr.    Pach    is    admirably 
done    and    the    very    profuse    illustrations    add 
greatly  to  the  value  and  interest  of  the  work." 
E.   J.   C. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p7   N   14   '23   850w 

FAUSSET,     HUGH     I'ANSON.      Tennyson.    309p 

$3     Appleton 

B    or    92      Tennyson,    Alfred    Tennyson,    Isl 
baron 

The  author  calls  his  biographical  study  of 
Tennyson  "a  modern  portrait."  His  aim  is  to 
create  a  living  portrait  of  the  man  and  the 
poet  "to  disengage  the  man's  reality  from  his 
appearance,  his  spiritual  significance  from  the 
sentimental  picture  before  which  for  so  long 
men  and  women  prostrated  themselves."  From 
his  long  and  intimate  study  of  the  man  he 
judges  the  poet  and  searches  the  poems  for 
their  revelations  of  the  man.  He  gives  him  all 
praise  for  his  craftsmanship,  for  what  he  wrote 
as  a  pure  artist,  but  rebels  against  his  "false 
handling  of  life"  his  timidity  in  the  face  of  it 
and   his   inability  to   speak   for  all   mankind. 


Bookm    57:656    Ag    '23    200w 
Reviewed   bv  W:   A.    Norrls 

Boston    Transcript   p5    My   26   '23   2800w 


"This     is    an     interesting,     well-written,     and 
unimportant    book."        W:    L.     Phelps 
-h  —  Lit    R    p862    Jl    28    '23    1200w 

"The  manner  of  this  portrait  is  very  attraC' 
five.  Biography  and  criticism  are  artfully  and 
suggestively  blended,  and  the  influence  of  Ten- 
nyson's environment  throughout  his  life  on  the 
development  of  his  character  and  his  poetry  i.s 
vividly  and  for  the  most  part  convincingly  il- 
luminated."     R:    Le    Gallienne 

-|-   N   Y  Times  p8  My  27   '23  3150w 

"The  monograph  of  Mr.  Fausset  is  careful 
and  sincere.  .  .  The  misfortune  of  Mr.  Fausset 
seems  to  be  that  he  does  not  perceive  poetry 
to  be  an  art.  He  writes  as  though  the  poet 
should  be  above  all  else  a  teacher  and  a  guide 
to  public  opinion.  We  have  only  to  extend 
this  idea  to  the  literature  of  past  ages  to  see 
what  a   fallacy  it  is." 

h  Sat    R    135:734    Je    2    '23    360w 

"Mr.  Fausset  arraigns  Tennyson  as  (1)  an 
unthinking  Jingo,  (2)  as  a  middle-class  aristo- 
crat who  neither  knew  nor  cared  how  the 
poor  lived.  v3)  as  a  man  who  did  much  to 
damage  the  position  of  women  and  to  retard 
their  emancipation.  In  a  great  measure  the 
reader  will  probably  agree  that  Mr.  Fausset 
proves  his  case.  There  is  something  fine  in  the 
way  Mr.  Fausset  speaks  of  this  man,  the  most 
adulated  and  worshipped  figure  of  his  age,  and 
tries  to  prove  to  us,  not  that  he  had  his  faults 
but  rather  that  he  was  not  a  complete  failure." 
-f  Spec   130:628  Ap  14   '23   llOOw 

"Having  little  sympathy  with  Tennyson  and 
only  an  occasional  pleasure  in  his  poetry,  he 
fills  three-quarters  of  his  three  hundred  pages 
with  cheap  sneers,  false  innuendoes,  and  weari- 
some depreciation." 

-  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p237   Ap 
7  2    '23    1400W 

Wis    Lib    Bul    19:443    O    '23 

FAVaRY,  ETH  ELBERT.  Motor  vehicle  engi- 
neering—the  chassis.    468p    il    $5    McGraw 

629.2      Automobiles  22-21413 

"\n  excellent  presentation  of  theoretical  prin 

ciples,    primarily   for   the   designer."— Pittsburgh 

Mo    Bul 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bul    28:65    F   '23 

FAY,  CHARLES  NORMAN.  Too  much  govern- 
ment too  much  taxation.  416p  $2.50  Double- 
day 

353  Government  regulation  of  industry. 
Taxation— United  States.  United  States- 
Politics  and  government  23-7926 
The  author  is  strongly  opposed  to  government 
meddling  with  big  bu.siness,  has  a  profound  ad- 
miration for  the  efficiency  of  the  great  cor- 
porate industries  and  appeals  to  the  creators 
of  these  corporations  "to  educate  the  rest  of 
\)s."  He  maintains  that  the  government  attack 
on  the  trusts  was  not  only  unnecessary  but  that 
it  has  proved  futile  and  harmful  to  commerce. 
He  is  also  opposed  to  our  methods  of  taxation 
which  conceal  from  the  taxpayer  a  knowledge 
of  the  real  amount  of  the  taxes  he  pays.  He 
advocates  what  he  calls  "visibility"  of  taxation 
and  specifically  he  urges  a  federal  sales  tax  for 
all   purposes. 

"His  book  has  in  it  much  that  Is  good,  much 
to  which  the  reader  will  agree  in  substance. 
Unfortunatelv,  Mr.  Fay  is  too  denunciatory  to 
be  authoritative,  too  intolerantly  positive  to  be 
convincing,  and  too  colloquial  to  be  even  amus- 
ing  to   most   students   of   the    subject   covered. 

^'  h  +   Boston   Transcript   p4   Ap   21   '23   700w 

"Mr  Fav's  book  is  as  slipshod  as  possible  as 
to  manner  incoherent  as  possible  as  to  arrange- 
ment, without  an  index  when  an  index  is  hadiy 
needed— but  amazingly  full  of  'meat.  ^  There 
is  plenty  to  chew  in  it.  It  is  downright:  the 
statistics,  as  far  as  one  can  judge  by  rather 
cursory  comparisons,  are  correct,  and  the  state- 
ments, although  they  appear  to  be  exaggerated, 
owing  to  Mr.  Fay's  epileptic  manner,  will  bear 
close  examination." 

-I NY  Times  p4   Ap  22  '23   1200w 


158 


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FEDERATED  AMERICAN  ENGINEERING  SO- 
CIETIES. Twelve-hour  shift  in  industry; 
with  a  foreword  by  Warren  G.  Harding.  302p 
$3.50  Dutton 

331.81     Hours  of  labor  23-2904 

The  book  is  the  result  of  an  organized  study, 
begun  in  1920  by  the  engineering  profession,  of 
the  twelve-hour  shift  or  long  day  in  the  opera- 
tion of  continuous-process  industries.  The 
purpose  of  the  investigation  was  to  ascertain: 
the  extent  of  continuous  work  in  American  in- 
dustry: the  alternatives  to  the  twelve-hour 
mhift;  the  technical  difliculties  and  factors  to  be 
considered  in  changing  from  two  to  three-shift 
operation;  the  effect  on  the  workers,  on  the 
quantity  and  quality  of  production,  on  absentee- 
ism, labor-turnover  and  industrial  accidents; 
the  effect  on  the  wage-rates:  the  general  opinion 
of  managers  concerning  the  change;  the  use 
made  by  employees  of  the  increased  hours  of 
leisure;  the  extent  to  which  plants  have  re- 
verted to  two-shift  operation  after  the  change. 
Index. 


Reviewed   bv  J.   H.   Hollander 

Int   Bk   R  p50  Ap  '23  1700w 
Reviewed  by  H:  R.   Seager 

Lit  R  p485  P  24  '23  1700w 
Reviewed  by  R.  C.  Feld 

N  Y  Times  p8  Mr  4  '23  880w 
"Being  composed  of  two  reports  and  a  sum- 
mary, the  work  presented  involves  much  repeti- 
tion of  data  and  conclusions.  This  form  of  pres- 
entation well  adapts  itself,  however,  both  to 
the  needs  of  general  students  of  sociology  and 
economics  and  of  industrial  engineers." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  pl2  F  28  '23  700w 

FEINSTEIN,      MARTIN.      In     memoriam,      and 

other  poems.     62p  $1.25  Seltzer 

811  22-23146 

The  title  poem  was  awarded  The  Nation's 
poetry  prize  for  1922.  It  is  a  poem  of  the  war. 
Most  of  the  longer  poems  are  in  free  verse,  but 
there  are  some  lyrics. 


Bookm  57:104  Mr  '23  80w 
Dial  74:514  Mr  '23  80w 
"Melodious  and  harsh  by  turns,   ghastly,   ob- 
scene, full  of  meaning,  yet  not  free  of  thought- 
less posing,  these  poems  are  of  and  for  our  age 
and  its   intellectual  ferment." 

-\ Lit  R  p478  F  17  '23  llOw 

"At  times  he  is  utterly  charming,  as  in  Bac- 
chanalia; oftener  he  rings  the  gamut  of  many 
moods  with  much  ability,  not  yet  out  into  a 
definite  mood  with  a  real  word  to  say."  Clement 
Wood 

4-  -J-  Nation  116:273  Mr  7  '23  50w 
"It    is   inspired,    unconventional,    strong  verse. 
Feinstein  is  a  poet  with  a  lyric  soul  and  power- 
ful vocal  cords."     Milton  Raison 

+  N   Y  Tribune  pl9  Ja  7  '23  260w 

FELSTEAD,  SIDNEY  THEODORE.  Under- 
world of  London.  301p  $3  Dutton  [7s  6d  Mur- 
ray] 

364     Crime     and    criminals.     London — Crime 
and    criminals  23-9701 

The  London  of  which  this  book  treats  is  a 
world  inhabited  by  men  and  women  whose  ex- 
istence depends  more  or  less  on  crime.  The 
stories  told  of  thieves  and  confidence  men, 
shoplifters,  pawnbrokers,  and  dope  smugglers 
are  all  sketched  from  real  life.  One  chapter  is 
devoted  to  the  work  of  Scotland  Yard  and  its 
Flying  squadron,  a  special  detachment  of 
highly  trained  detectives  who  are  on  duty 
night  and  day  and  ready  to  rush  out  in  an 
emergency  in  motor  car  or  on  motorcycle. 


"The  nearest  approach  to  a  human  docu- 
ment is  a  chapter  in  which  a  pawnbroker 
tells  at  some  length  the  many  incidents  which 
come  within  his  knowledge  and  the  wide  ar- 
ray of  characters  with  whom  he  does  business. 
Here,  indeed,  is  pathos  and  humor  blended. 
More  of  it  would  make  the  volume  far  more 
Interesting    reading." 

-^ NY  Times  p2  Jl  15  '23  SOOw 


"Comprehensive   and   thoroughly   interesting." 

'  +  N  Y  Tribune  p25  S  9  '23  310w 
"We  must  confess  to  being  somewhat  disap- 
pointed by  the  underworld  that  Mr.  Felstead 
shows  us  in  this  new  book  of  his.  Mr.  Thomas 
Burke,  of  Limehouse  fame,  and  others  had 
led  us  to  expect  something  at  once  more  ter- 
rible and  glamorous  than  this;  but  Mr.  Fel- 
stead is  simply  a  reporter.  It  is  only  fair  to 
admit,  however,  that  the  latter  tries  hard  to 
make  the   best  of  his  material." 

H Spec    130:1046   Je    23    '23    600w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup  p275   Ap 
19    '23    90w 

FERGUSSON,   HARVEY.     Capitol  Hill;  a  novel 
of    Washington    life.      309p     $2.50     Knopf 

23-7732 
"In  a  certain  degree  the  book  does  for  Wash- 
ington what  'Main  Street'  did  for  the  small 
mid-Western  town  and  what  'Babbitt'  did  for 
the  hustling  young  city.  Taken  in  its  entirety 
it  is  not  a  pleasant  picture  .  .  .  but  the  book 
so  smacks  of  reality,  of  intimate  knowledge 
and  sureness  of  facts,  that  the  conviction  per- 
sists that  'Capitol  Hill'  is  in  nowise  greatly 
distorted.  The  book  primarily  is  the  Odyssey 
of  the  career  of  Ralph  Dolan,  but  the  adven- 
tures— emphatically  materialistic — of  this  typ- 
ical young  American  are  set  against  the  fluctu- 
ating, disillusioning  background  of  Washington 
life,  official  and  private,  stretching  from  the 
last  year  of  the  "Taft  administration  and  com- 
ing down  to  the  after-war  period.  Ralph  is 
offered  as  a  fair  example  of  the  young  man 
who  takes  to  Washington  intrigue  and  material- 
ism as  a  duck  does  to  water,  and  who  conse- 
quentlv  makes  an  obvious  success  of  his  life." 
—Int   Bk    R 


"Its  method  is  that  of  an  honest  realism 
rather  than  of  a  self-conscious  naturalism,  and 
no  mature  reader  who  is  familiar  with  the  mod- 
ern art  of  fiction  is  likely  to  find  it  offensive." 
H.   W.    Boynton 

-t-  Ind   110:320   My  12   '23    950w 

"The  book  as  a  whole  is  unpleasant,  for  it 
is  written  with  an  absolute  disregard  for  senti- 
mental values.  Here  are  characters  unlovely, 
small,  mean  and  pitiful,  but  who  yet  possess 
certain  admirable  traits.  These  traits  merely 
emphasize  the  lark  of  ideals  as  a  whole  in 
their  possessors.  The  brisk  style  of  Mr.  Fergus- 
son,  unassuming  and  never  attempting  fire- 
works,   is   a   nlea.'jure." 

Int   Bk   R  p52  My  '23  llOOw 

"He  lets  one  into  the  very  stuff  of  his  novel, 
through  the  spare,  almost  athletic  texture  of 
his  language.  His  is  an  able,  ribald,  merciless 
picture  of  Washington  In  its  war-fever."  J:  W. 
Crawford 

+   Lit   R   p768   Je   16  '23   400w 

FERRERO,  GINA  (LOMBROSO)  (MRS  GUG- 
LI  ELMO  FERRERO).  Soul  of  woman  (L'an- 
ima  della  donna) ;  reflections  on  life.  269p 
$2.50   Dutton 

396  Woman  23-10393 

The  author,  daughter  of  the  famous  Italian 
criminologist,  Cesare  Lombroso,  offers  this 
book  not  as  a  scientific  study  of  woman,  but 
as  the  expression  of  her  intuitions  and  per- 
sonal reflections  about  woman's  soul  and 
nature.  Her  anti-feminist  and  anti -suffragist 
attitude  colors  her  view,  btit  her  detailed 
analysis  of  woman's  aptitudes,  aspirations, 
qualities  and  defects  bears  the  imprint  of  the 
utmost  sincerity  and  the  book  bristles  with 
provocative  opinions.  Tho  woman  is  her  sub- 
ject, man's  psychology  is  also  set  forth  in  con- 
trast. It  is  Dr  Lombroso's  hope  that  she  may 
help  to  make  the  one  better  understood  by  the 
other. 


"Nothing  could  take  from  'The  Soul  of  Wo- 
man' the  blight  of  faulty  thinking  which  makes 
it  halt  and  stumble  through  its  interminable 
length."   Ruth   Hale 

•^  Bookm  58:77  S  '23  520w 


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159 


"Dr.  Lombroso  is  a  Doctor  of  Laws  and  ol 
Medicine.  She  is  iierself  a  trained  scientist 
with  a  gilt  of  keen  analysis.  The  book  is  writ- 
ten with  the  avowed  purpose  of  assisting  men 
to  understand  women  and  women  to  compre- 
hend themselves.  Whether  or  not  the  reader 
will  find  himself  in  accord  with  her  conclu- 
sions, he  will  find  them  set  forth  with  clarity, 
logic  and  sincerity  and  the  book  as  a  whole  a 
most  stimulating  exposition  of  the  feminine 
psychology."   S.    Li.   K. 

Boston   Transcript  p5  Ag  18  '23  850w 

Cleveland  p69  S  '23 

J    Home    Econ    15:667    N    "23    40w 
Reviewed  by  Alyse  Gregory 

New  Repub  37:25  N  28  '23  280w 
"  'The  Soul  of  Woman'  would  be  a  strangely 
incomprehensible  book  did  one  not  realize  that 
it  is  a  voice  out  of  the  Old  World  with  its 
peculiarly  unchanged  social  structure  and  tra- 
ditions, that  it  is  essentially  the  product  of  a 
Latin  temperament,  of  an  Italian  heart  and 
brain.  The  sincere  harvesting  of  a  gifted 
woman's  experience,  study,  observation  and 
reflections,  it  presents  a  body  of  knowledge 
that  is  not  negligible.  From  the  viewpoint  of 
psychology  and  philosophy  it  is  significant. 
Whether  we  accept  its  conclusions  or  whether 
we  regard  some  of  them  as  preposterous,  we 
must  admit  that  it  is  a  book  rich  in  thought 
and    feeling."    Mary    Siegrist 

h   N   Y  Times  pll  Jl  29  '23  3600w 

Reviewed  by  Isabel  Paterson 

—  NY  Tribune  p20  Jl  8  '23  1600w 
"The  most  successful  attempt  we  have  ever 
read.  It  is  a  book  created  in  thought  and 
nourished  with  wisdom.  It  is  a  book  that 
should  help  men  and  women  to  an  understand- 
ing of  woman,  complex  through  she  be.  It  is 
a  book  bubbling  and  boiling  over  with  ideas." 
Ruth  Snyder 

-I NY    World   pl9e  Jl   8   '23   lOSOw 

FIELD,    LOUISE    MAUNSELL,      Love   and   life. 

286p      $2      Dutton 

23-13101 

From  the  old  white  house  among  the  New 
England  hills  where  she  had  lived  a  secluded 
life  with  her  archseologist  father,  Lynneth 
Frear  is  transplanted,  on  her  father's  death, 
into  the  fashionable  home  of  her  aunt  in  New 
York.  Lynneth  had  resolved  to  earn  her  own 
living  but  she  yielded  for  a  time  to  her  aunt's 
determination  to  give  her  a  conventional  in- 
troduction to  society.  Her  taste  of  the  diver- 
sions of  the  younger  set  strengthens  her  in 
her  resolve  to  become  independent  and  she  finds 
work  in  a  bookshop.  Love  comes  to  her  swiftly 
and  is  as  swiftly  snatched  away  when  her 
aviator-husband  is  killed,  but  she  continues  to 
face  the  world  bravely,  holding  on  to  every 
memory  of  her  happiness  and  striving  to  make 
it    a    creative    force    in    her   life. 


"Lynneth  is  too  concerned  with  the  tangible, 
worded  belief  in  the  enduring  quality  of  love, 
and  not  so  much  with  the  reality  of  the  en- 
during influence  of  love  on  one's  life.  As  the 
book  becomes  less  a  story  than  the  expression 
of  a  belief,  it  becomes  a  less  enduring  and  vital 
piece  of  work.  The  novel  has  atmosphere,  and 
its  word-pictures  of  various  parts  of  New  York 
are  the  work  of  one  who  knows  the  city  well. 
Dignity  and  poise,  conservative  qualities,  are 
maintained  throughout."  E.  S.  Taber 
-I Int    Bk    R    p68    N    '23    450w 

"The  sincerity  and  the  sympathy  of  'Love 
and  Life'  recommend  this  novel  to  that  con- 
siderable portion  of  the  fiction  reading  public 
that  is  fed  up  with  psychiatry  and  plain  devil- 
ishness.  .  .  A  sweet  and  wholesome  heroine  is 
Lynneth   in   these   jazzful   days." 

N    Y   Times  p8  O  14  '23  450w 
N  Y  Tribune  p20  O  21  '23  30w 

"The  idyl  of  young  love  is  simply  and  beauti- 
fully told.  .  .  Some  persons  will  consider  'Love 
and  Life'  oversentimentalized,  but  the  sentiment 
seems  to  us  the  most  interesting  part  of  it. 
The  plot  is  negligible,  and  the  characters  suffer 
from  overdrawing."  M.  M.  Marshall 
H   N    Y   World   p6e   O   28   '23   llOOw 


"Miss  Field  shows  ability  in  delineating  her 
women  characters,  making  them  absolutely  true 
to  type  and  at  the  same  time  distinct  individu- 
als." 

+  Springf  d   Republican  p7a  N  18  '23  450w 

FIELDING-HALL,     HAROLD.        Love's    legend. 

325p   $a   13utton    [7s    Gd   Constable] 

A  beautiful  English  girl,  young  and  completely 
inexperienced,  has  come  out  alone  to  India, 
to  marry  there  one  of  the  government's  resi- 
dent officials.  He  has  held  various  positions 
of  authority,  is  widely  known  among  both  na- 
tives and  English,  and  he  has  imbibed,  along 
with  a  deep  realization  of  the  physical  beauty 
and  significaijce  of  the  country,  a  philosophy 
thoroughly  oriental.  He  has  planned  that  their 
honeymoon  shall  be  spent  on  a  raft  floating 
down  the  magnificent  river  which  has  long 
been  to  him  familiar  friend,  solace  and  inspira- 
tion. In  this  atmosphere  of  glamorous  beauty 
he  builds  up  his  legend  of  love,  by  which  he 
hopes  to  interpret  for  his  bride  his  conception 
of  marriage. 


Boston   Transcript  p5  Mr  31   '23  720w 
Int    Bk    R    p58    Mr    '23    220w 
"  'How    to    be    happy    though    married'    might 
be   chosen    as   an   alternative    title   to   the    book, 
but  Love's  Legend,    so  brimful  of  sentiment,    if 
not  a  significant  title,  could  hardly  be  bettered." 
—  New    Statesman    20:88    O   21    '22   420w 
"H.    Fielding    Hall    displays    a    fair    degree   of 
facility    in    writing   smoothly   flowing   prose.    .    . 
A  prime  defect  in  the  book  is  the  lack  of  char- 
acterization   given    (or    rather    not    given)    the 
various  puppets.     They  are  but  pegs  upon  which 
the  author  drapes  his  rather  foggy  and  general- 
izing  theories." 

f-  N   Y   Times   pl6   Ja  14   '23   800w 

"The  author's  conclusions  add  nothing  colos- 
sally  important  to  the  world's  belief  that  the 
way  to  get  along  is  to  get  along.  I'erhaps 
his  best  assistance  is  in  showing  by  this  book 
that  a  judicious  admixture  of  sentiment,  ex- 
perience, and  intelligence  is  not  a  bad  recipe 
either  for  a  novel  or  for  a  honeymoon."  R.  D 
Townsend 

+  Outlook    133:411    F    28    '23    160w 

FINCK,  HENRY  THEOPHILUS.  Girth  con- 
trol; for  womanly  beauty,  manly  strength, 
health  and  a  long  life  for  everybody.  342d 
$1.75   Harper 

613.2     Diet.     Corpulence  23-10271 

A  most  encouraging  book  for  overweights 
which  promises  health,  strength  and  a  long  life 
to  those  who  will  follow  its  guidance.  Its 
method  of  girth  control  calls  for  no  self-denial 
but  allows  eating  anything  and  as  much  as 
you  please.  The  cardinal  point  of  this  method 
is  to  eat  with  the  nose  as  well  as  with  the 
mouth,  that  is,  to  exhale  thru  the  nose  while  eat- 
ing and  thus  take  advantage  of  the  sense  of 
smell,  which  Mr  Finck  believes  is  as  important 
gastronomically  as  the  sense  of  taste.  He  an- 
alyzes the  different  foods  as  to  their  effect  on 
weight  and  thruout  the  volume  the  mental  side 
of  the  art  of  reducing,  "the  will  to  reduce," 
is  emphasized.  His  method  applies  to  under- 
weights as  well.  An  appendix  by  Mrs  Finck 
gives  some  recipes  for  making  vegetables  ap- 
petizing. 


Booklist    20:10    O    '23 
"The   subject   can   be   far  more   self-indulgent 
under  Mr.    Finck's   rules   than   under  those   laid 
down    by    many    other    writers    on    the    subject. 
Mr.    Finck    has    found    them    feasible,    and    our 
fat   friends   ought   to   find   it  worth  trying." 
-\-  Boston   Transcript  p4  Jl  21   '23   220w 
"He    elucidates    with    great    clearness    and    so 
amusingly    that    any    one    who   begins    the   book 
will    be    fairly    sure    to    read    every    page    of    it, 
even     under     the     unlikely    contingency    of    not 
needing    the    advice    given."     Hildegarde    Haw- 
thorne 

-1-   Int    Bk    R   p46   S    '23  2300w 


160 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


FINCK,  H:  T. — Continued 

"Neither  meticulously  accurate  in  its  scien- 
tific statements  nor  especially  dangerous  for 
healthy  persons  in  its  practical  suggestions; 
emphasizes  the  importance  of  fresh  air  and 
exercise  as  well  as  diet;  admittedly  influenced 
by  Chittenden,  Fletcher,  and  Kellogg,  and  also 
by  the  author's  own  theories  on  food  and 
Havor." 

+  J    Home    Econ    15:667    N   '23    50w 

Reviewed  by  M.   S.   Rose 

J   Home  Econ  16:34  Ja  '24  560w 

"Read  for  yourself  if  you  want  to  be  mightily 
amused  and  benefited  at  the  same  time.  'Laugh 
and  grow  thin'  is  another  reversed  adage. 
You  can  do  it.  laughing  over  'Girth  Control,' 
if  you  practice  the  jokes — not  merely  sit  still 
and  chuckle  over  them."  A.  L,  Pierce 
+   Lit   R   p910  Ag  18   '23   650w 

"The  book  is  written  in  a  genial,  good-na- 
tured vein.  Mr.  Finck's  conclusions  would  per- 
haps be  more  impressive  if  he  were  less  con- 
temptuous of  some  of  the  recent  investigations 
of  eminent  authorities  in  food  chemistry  and 
also  if  he  were  less  inclined  to  be  absolutely 
sure  of  the  universal  value  of  methods  and 
articles  of  nutrition  which  he  has  found  good 
for  himself." 

H NY   Times   p22   Jl   1   '23  320w 

"Mr  Finck  has  written  so  much  good  stuff 
in  such  alluring  fashion.  He  has  made  his  sub- 
ject his  own  and  has  bothered  but  little  with 
the  books  of  familiar  dietetic  quotations.  When 
doctors  disagree  he  doesn't  care."  E.  W.  Os- 
born 

+  N    Y    World  pl9e  Jl   1   '23   llOOw 

"The  book  contains  too  much  good  sense  to 
be  truly  facetious  and  too  many  loose  state- 
ments   and    actual    untruths    to    be    altogether 

rGSDGCtGd  ' ' 

—  +  Springf  d  Republican  plO  Ag  31  '23  240w 

FINCK,    HENRY    THEOPHILUS.    Musical    pro- 
^    gress;    a    series    of    practical    discussions   lof 

present  day  problems  in   the  tone  world.   422p 

$2  Presser 

780.4   Music  23-11410 

"There  are  thirty-three  essays,  and  they  all 
point  the  way  to  success  in  music.  They  range 
over  pretty  much  the  whole  field,  from  'How 
to  Begin  with  Children'  to  'Save  Beethoven  from 
His  P'riends,'  and  from  'Richard  Wagner  as  a 
Teacher'  to  'Futurism  and  the  Noble  Contempt 
for  Melody.'  "— Int   Bk   R 


"Certainly  any  student  teacher  or  lover  of 
music  who  reads  Mr.  Finck's  book  will  be 
thankful  that  this  veteran  critic  has  not  yet 
been  abolished.  The  title,  'Musical  Progress,' 
sounds  dry  and  technical,  like  the  'sewing 
machine  method*  of  piano  playing,  which  Mr. 
Finck  denounces  in  picturesque  language;  but 
any  one  who  lets  the  title  fool  him  into  leaving 
the  book  unread  will  miss  some  of  the  season's 
most  engaging  and  stimulating  essays."  E.  L. 
Shuman 

4-  Int  Bk  R  pl33  Ja  '24  1800w 
"It  is  a  mind  that  is  conspicuously  fresh, 
vigorous,  alert;  but  above  all,  it  is  courageous. 
Mr.  Finck  is  less  hampered  by  cliches  and 
fetiches,  less  awed  by  the  Sacred  Cows  of  musi- 
cal respectability,  than  almost  any  critic  now 
writing.  There  are  many  pages  in  his  new  book 
that  must  have  required  courage  in  the  writing 
— even  for  a  critic  of  his  position."  Lawrence 
Oilman 

4-    Lit    R    p406    D    29    '23    1250w 

FINNEY,   JOHN    MILLER  TURPIN.     The   phy- 
sician.   (Vocational   ser.)    173p    $1.25    Scribner 
610  Physicians.   Medicine  23-5908 

An  outline  of  the  career  of  medicine  for  the 
help  of  those  who  are  considering  it  as  a  pro- 
fession. The  little  book  describes  the  great 
opportunities  it  offers  as  a  calling,  its  difficul- 
ties and  hardships,  the  characteristics  that  fit 
.1  man  for  success,  the  training  required,  and 
the    eihics    of    the    profession. 


"The  book   is  of  such  excellence  that  the  au- 
thor's hopes  are  sure  to  be  realized." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  S  5  '23  130w 
"That  young  man  or  woman  who  is  earnest- 
ly seeking  to  decide  the  all-important  question 
as  to  what  shall  be  his  or  her  life's  work  would 
do  well  to  read  this  book  carefully  before  de- 
ciding for  or  against  the  profession  of  medi- 
cine." 

+   N   Y  Times  p20  Ap  1  '23  250w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:289  Je   '23 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:407    Jl    '23 

FISH,  HELEN  DEAN,  comp.  Boy's  book  of 
verse;  a  treasury  of  old  and  new  poems.  406p 
$2    Stokes 

821.08  English  poetry — Collections.  Ameri- 
can poetry — Collections  23-13288 
One  nundred  and  fifty  poems  for  boys  be- 
tween the  ages  of  twelve  to  eighteen.  They 
are  classed  as  Outdoor  poems;  Poems  of  peace 
and  war;  Story  poems  and  Songs  of  life.  Many 
of  the  poems  have  short  explanatory  notes 
about  author  or  subject  matter,  given  directly, 
in  connection  with  the  poem  itself.  There  is 
an  introduction  by  Franklin  K.  Mathiews,  chief 
scout   librarian    of   the   Boy   scouts   of   America. 


Booklist  20:62  N  '23 

"The  book  as  a  whole  is  a  valuable  and  in- 
spiring contribution  to  juvenile  literature." 
Daniel    Henderson 

H Lit  R  p233  N  10  '23  320w 

"Boys  in  the  mass  are  said  not  to  appre- 
ciate poetry  even  when,  as  at  present  it  is 
fullest  of  the  great  open  spaces.  But  how  the 
most  scornful  sunburned  of  them  could  re- 
sist deeper  and  deeper  dips  into  so  guilefully 
arranged  a  collection  as  'The  Boys'  Book  of 
Verse'  is  hard  to  see.  Inveigled  by  the  introduc- 
tory indorsement  of  a  good  scoutmaster  li- 
brarian, they  may  travel  straight  from  the  ring- 
ing plains  of  Troy,  with  many  a  rhythmic 
battle  shout,  right  into  the  opal  waters  of  the 
Spanish  Main,  aflutter  with  the  banners  of  the 
buccaneers." 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p22  O  28   '23  200w 
+    N    Y   World  p9  O  14  '23  70w 

FISH,    HORACE    FRANCIS    XAVIER.      Terassa 
of    Spain.    35Gp    $2.50    Kennerley 

23-9242 
This  collection  of  short  stories  all  clusters 
jibout  Terassa,  a  little  mountain  town  of  the 
Pyi-enees,  dominated  by  the  church  oi  Padre 
Pedro.  Here  a  benign  and  large-hearted  priest 
has  a,  family  of  thirty  little  orphan  boys  whom 
he  is  bringing  up  to  be  good  and  useful  men. 
The  stories  are  episodes  from  the  life  of  the 
village,  showing  how  the  padre  works  to  calm 
the  human  passions  that  stir  his  flock  and  to 
right  erring  footsteps.  In  Esposito  he  has  just 
married  his  favorite  foster  son,  Antonito,  to 
Violeta,  the  most  beautiful  girl  of  the  village. 
Their  married  life  promises  to  be  one  of  pros- 
perity and  love  but  within  a  year  Margarita 
is  tempting  Antonito  to  infidelity.  At  a  great 
sacrifice  the  padre  saves  the  young  couple's 
happiness.  Later  on,  in  one  of  the  most  im- 
passioned of  the  stories,  he  reclaims  the  err- 
ing Margarita.  The  other  stories  are:  Des- 
perado; Fuego:  Simp4tica :  Sub  rosa;  Apasio- 
nada;  Spanishing  Hans;  The  horns  of  El  Di- 
lemma;   Instrumento;    The  fighting   iris. 


Booklist   19:304   Jl   '23 


Booklist  20:20  O  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  11  '23  190w 
"The  stories  themselves  are  likely  to  be  sec- 
ondary in  interest  to  the  skill  with  which  Mr. 
Fish  has  contrived  to  present  the  countryside 
at  work,  at  play,  and  in  love,  with  variegated 
realism." 

+   Lit    R    p49    S    15   '23    400w 
"The    realm    this    writer's    mind    inhabits    is 
neither    modern    America    nor    dusty    and    sun- 
baked Spain.   .  .  But  it  is  not  Spain,  it  is  fiction 
one   encounters  here,   suited   in   phrasing  some- 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


161 


times    heavily    ornate    to    its    romantic    content 
in    sharp   contrast   with    the   incisive   literalness 
of  a   James   Joyce    in    'Dubliners,'    for  example, 
or  even  of  Proust."     H.  J.   Seligmann 
H Nation   117:43  Jl  11   "23   220w 

"Mr.  Fish's  style  is  at  times  a  little  sugar- 
frosted,  but  that  is  a  minor  detail  in  a  matured 
and  engaging-  synthesis  of  life  as,  perhaps,  it 
might  well  be  lived." 

-)-  —  N    Y  Times  p24  Je  3  '23  220w 

"Here  is  meticulous  method  for  the  con- 
noisseur in  narrative  handling — but  in  an  age 
too  hurried  to  enjoy  the  method  of  Hawthorne, 
how  shall  we  expect  a  writer  whose  persons 
lack  reality  and  whose  manner  is  more  re- 
tarded, shall  arouse  enthusiasm?  'Terassa'  will 
test  the  reader's  catholicity  and  the  adaptabil- 
ity of  his  appreciation." 

-\-  Sprjngf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  15  '23  200w 

FISH,  JOHN  CHARLES  LOUNSBURY.  En- 
gineering economics,  first  principles.  2d  ed 
ailp     il     $3     McGraw 

620     Engineering  23-2396 

"The  second  edition  is  an  entirely  new  book, 
based  on  the  idea  that  the  fundamental  ijrob- 
lem  of  engineering  economics  is  not  choice  of 
structure,  but  choice  of  investment.  The  work 
presented  is,  therefore,  largely  analysis  of  in- 
vestment, in  the  attempt  to  show  that  engi- 
neering knowledge  can  be  converted  into  com- 
munity service  only  through  the  medium  of 
business." — Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:290   Je   '23 

FISHER,  DOROTHEA  FRANCES  (CANFIELD) 
(MRS  JOHN  REDWOOD  FISHER).  Raw  ma- 
terial.   302p    $2      Harcourt 

23-12004 
In  this  collection  of  sketches,  which  the  au- 
thor calls  an  unrelated,  unorganized  bundle  of 
facts,  the  sort  of  thing  from  which  a  novelist 
makes  principal  or  secondary  characters  or  epi- 
sodes in  a  novel,  she  has  attempted  to  describe 
men  and  women,  odds  and  ends  of  observation 
with  complete  objectivity,  avoiding  as  much  as 
possible  all  meditations  and  moralizings.  The 
intention  is  to  demonstrate  that  it  is  within 
the  power  of  everybody  to  get  first-hand  im- 
pressions of  life  and  find  in  them  a  vividness 
and  purity  that  is  lost  in  a  literary  production. 


Booklist  20:56  N  '23 

"  'Old  Man  Warner'  is  as  prefect  a  picture 
of  Vermont  life  as  'The  Death  of  the  Hired 
Man.'  It  is  like  Frost's  poem  in  its  complete- 
ness— this  sketch  is  a  work  of  art.  I  don't 
see    ho\V    it    could    be    better!" 

-I-   Bookm    58:201   O  '23   280w 

"Now  and  then  we  find  sketches  which  are 
infinitely  better  than  the  finished  painting,  by 
virtue  of  their  mystery,  their  delicate  texture, 
and  their  spontaneity.  They  are  self-sufl^cient." 
C.  B.  O. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p2  S  1  '23  llOOw 
"The  author  states  with  smooth  coyness  her 
rather  smug  hope  that  these  episodes  will  pro- 
voke original  thought:  but  the  conclusion  of 
each  is  implicitly  obvious  in  its  beginning, 
and  the  desired  meditations  are  suggested  with 
all  the  energetic  and  unequivocal  innuendo  of 
a  sermon.  The  author's  manner,  which  seeks 
effusively  to  enlarge  the  importance  of  her  sub- 
jects, completely  neutralizes  it.  The  sketches 
have  neither  the  spareness  and  elasticity  of  an 
outhne  nor  the  elaborated  warmth  of  a  fully 
developed  short  story." 

—  Dial    75:401    O   "23    90w 

"Perhaps  Dorothy  Canfield  really  believed 
that  she  was  giving  us  raw  material,  but  this 
reviewer,  for  one,  is  very  glad  indeed  that  she 
was  mistaken,  and  that  she  has  turned  out  in- 
stead one  of  the  best-written  and  most  in- 
teresting books   of   the   vear." 

+23^ 7oTw''°'^°   (N.C.)   Dally  News  plO  O  28 

Reviewed    by    H.    W.    Bovnton 

Ind   111:114   S   15   '23    lOSOw 


"The  sketch  has  not  been  a  much-used  form 
in  America,  tho  France  has  long  understood  its 
distinctive  value.  If  this  book  should  serve  to 
popularize  this  medium  to  American  writers, 
it  would  have  served  well.  But  it  serves  well 
in  any  case.  For  it  is  the  work  not  only  of  a 
master-observer  but  of  a  master-participator  in 
all  that  moves  the  human  heart."  Zona  Gale 
+  Int  Bk  R  p44  O  '23  800w 
"This  is  not  a  work  of  a  new  kind,  a  sort  of 
storehouse  of  material  for  creative  readers,  but 
a  collection  of  readable  and  characteristic  tales 
and  sketches  by  one  of  our  most  accomplished 
and    popular   story-tellers." 

+  Lit  R  p60  S  22  '23  600w 
Nation  117:331  S  26  "23  160w 
"Only  a  very  sensitive  palate  will  find  flavor 
in  'Raw  Material.'  Dorothy  Canfield  has  some- 
times been  led  by  her  easy  masterv  of  the 
gas  range  to  cook  before  too  quick  a  fire.  But 
she  should  not  avoid  heat  altogether.  We 
recommend    the    fireless   cooker." 

—  New  Repub  36:188  O  10  '23  lOOw 
"Although  she  insists,  rather  over-loudlv,  that 
the  reader  will  derive  an  especial  pleasure 
from  taking  her  'raw  material'  and  exercising 
his  own  creative  imagination  thereon,  the  reader 
is  unlikely  to  be  misled  by  the  ruse.  On  the 
other  hand,  this  is  not  to  deny  that  there  is  a 
great  deal  in  the  book  that  will  repay  the 
reader.  Miss  Canfield  cannot  lose  altogethei 
her  natural  felicities  of  style— proof  that  ma- 
terial cannot  be  handed  over  entirely  in  the 
'raw' — nor  can  she  fail  to  evoke  human  inter- 
est." 

h  N   Y  Times  pl5  Ag  26   '23   1200w 

"They  are  very  carefully  drawn  vignettes, 
done  with  that  finish  and  skill  which  becomes 
second  nature  to  so  experienced  a  craftsman." 
Isabel    Paterson 

-f-  N  Y  Tribune  p20  S  2  '23  550w 
"A  good  book  despite  the  occasional  lapse  of 
interest.  Mrs.  Canfield  may  have  determined 
to  hang  her  harp  upon  the  willows,  but  her 
right  hand  hasn't  forgot  its  cunning."  Laurence 
Stallings 

H NY    World    p9    O    8    '23    720w 

Outlook    135:115    S    19    '23    220w 
Springfd    Republican   p7a  O   7  '23   240w 
Wis    Lib    Bu!    19:443   O   '23 

FISHER,    IRVING.      League  or  war?  268p   il   $2 
Harper 

341.1     League   of   nations.    War  23-8469 

A  dispassionate  review  of  our  American  atti- 
tude toward  world  affairs  since  the  war  and  of 
the  question  of  the  entrance  of  the  United 
States  into  the  Leagoie  of  nations.  After  some 
introductory  chapters  on  the  birth  of  the 
League  and  the  essential  reasons  for  our  join- 
ing. Professor  Fisher  outlines  its  purposes, 
methods  and  mechanism  and  answers  the  chief 
objections  to  it.  He  shows  how  America  dif- 
fered in  its  action  on  the  Leagne  from  the 
fifty-two  countries  which  have  entered,  and 
how  it  was  defeated  here  by  a  deadlocked 
government  and  by  the  clouding  of  partisan 
politics.  The  accomplishments  of  the  League 
to  date  are  recited  and  some  alternatives  to  it 
are  considered.  He  sums  up  the  results  of  our 
absence  from  the  League's  council  table  and 
the  isolation  this  absence  forces  upon  us,  clos- 
ing with  a  survey  of  present  economic  condi- 
tions in  Europe.   Bibliography.     Index. 

Am   Pol   Sci   R    17:506   Ag  '23  150w 
Ann   Am    Acad   110:228   N   '23   50w 
"Professor  Fisher  presents  the  case  with   the 
utmost  simplicity  and  clearness."     A.    S.    Pier 
-f-  Atlantic's    Bookshelf    O    '23    550w 
Booklist    19:300    Jl    '23 
"Few    abler    or    more    indefatigable    pleaders 
for  America's  entrance  into  the  League  of  Na- 
tions have  taken  the  field  than  Professor  Irving 
Fisher.      Through   the  press   and   public   forums 
he  has   pleaded   his  cause  before   a  large  audi- 
ence,   and    if    the    American    people    have    not 
chosen,   in  the  exercise  of  their  sovereign  will, 


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FISHER,    IRVING — Continued 

to  enter   the  Geneva  League,   it   is  not  because 

Professor  Fisher  and  other  enthusiasts  have  been 

remiss    in    their    missionary    work."      O.    McK., 

jr. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  27  '23  1650w 
"His  book,  despite  its  controversial  aspect, 
carries  the  weight  of  conviction.  To  less  warm 
partisans  than  Professor  Fisher  this  concep- 
tion of  the  League  as  the  all-powerful,  all- 
embracing,  only-begotten  healer  of  the  world's 
troubles   will   be   irritating."      N:    Roosevelt 

N   Y  Times  plO  My  20  '23  1550w 

R  of  Rs  67:671  Je  '23  140w 

Springf'd   Republican  p9a  D  23  '23  480w 

FISHER,  IRVING.  Making  of  index  numbers; 
a  study  of  their  varieties,  tests,  and  relia- 
bility. (Publications  for  the  PoUak  founda- 
tion for  economic  research)  526p  $7.50  Hough- 
ton 

330.1  Index  numbers  (economics)  23-544 
"The  author  tests  all  the  formulae  for  index 
numbers  ...  by  means  of  actual  calculations, 
extensive  and  painstaking,  ba.sed  on  actual  sta- 
tistical records.  He  proves  that  several  of  the 
methods  of  constructing  index  numbers  now 
in  common  use  are  grossly  inaccurate;  he 
makes  clear  why  some  formulae  are  precise 
and  others  far  from  it;  he  points  out  how 
to  save  time  in  the  work  of  calculation;  and 
he  shows  how  to  test  the  results.  Thus  he 
provides  us  with  methods  of  measuring  such 
illusive  things  as  fluctuations  in  real  wages, 
in  exchange  rates,  in  volume  of  trade;  in  the 
cost  of  living,  and  in  the  purchasing  power 
of  the  dollar.  Finally,  he  points  out  that,  once 
a  good  method  of  constructing  index  numbers 
has  been  generally  accepted,  the  usefulness  of 
the  instrument  will  be  vastly  increased,  and 
will  then  be  extended  to  many  other  fields 
where  precise  measurement  is  greatly  needed." 
(Prefatory    note) 


"We  have  no  doubt  that  the  work  of  Pro- 
fessor Fisher  as  set  forth  in  this  volume  will 
prove  of  no  little  service  to  the  professional 
student  of  index  numbers.  Its  practical  value 
must  necessarily  be  restricted.  This  in  no  way 
detracts  from  the  abstract  or  scientific  value 
of  Professor  Fisher's  work  even  though  it  per- 
haps marks  the  latter  as  ahead  of  its  time." 
H.   P.   "Willis 

+  Administration   5:484   Ap  '23   1400w 

"Professor  Fisher's  new  book  is  an  important 
addition  to  the  existing  literature  on  statistical 
method.  It  is  a  thorough  discussion  and  critical 
analysis  of  index  numbers,  based  on  actual 
computations  and  comparative  tests,  presented 
in  such  a  manner  as  to  make  it  available  to  the 
general  reader  as  well  as  to  the  specialist." 
Maurice   Leven 

4-  Survey  50:107  Ap  15  '23   450w 

FISHMAN,  JOSEPH  F.  Crucibles  of  crime;  the 
shocking  story  of  the  American  jail.  320p  $2 
Cosmopolis  press 

365    Prisons— United    States  23-7752 

Mr  Fishman  writes  from  a  wide  experience  of 
many  years  as  an  inspector  for  the  Department 
of  justice  whose  special  duty  it  was  to  survey 
jails  for  the  purpose  of  finding  out  whether 
they  were  fit  places  for  federal  prisoners.  His 
conclusions  are  gathered  up  in  his  definition  of 
a  jail  offered  at  the  beginning  of  the  book:  "An 
unbelievably  filthy  institution  in  which  are  con- 
fined m-n  and  women  serving  sentence  for  mis- 
demeanors and  crimes,  and  men  and  women  not 
under  sentence  who  are  simply  awaiting  trial. 
With  few  exceptions,  having  no  segregation  of 
the  convicted  from  the  unconvicted,  the  well 
from  the  diseased,  the  youngest  and  most  im- 
pressionable from  the  most  degraded  and  hard- 
ened. .  .  A  melting  pot  in  which  the  worse 
elements  of  the  raw  material  in  the  criminal 
world  are  brought  forth,  blended,  and  turned 
out  In  absolute  perfection."  Having  made  this 
indictment  Mr  Fishman  proceeds  to  back  it  up 
with  facts. 

Booklist  20:40  N  '23 


Bookm    57:558    Jl    '23    250w 
Cleveland   p70   S   '23 

"As  a  book  'Crucibles  of  Crime'  has  little 
literary  merit  and  is  filled  with  more  annoying 
typographical  errors  than  any  book  the 
reviewer  has  seen  in  years.  Its  purpose  is  to 
give  the  facts,  and  this  it  does  authoritatively 
and  interestingly."  H.  A.  Littledale 
H Lit    R   p75I   Je   9   '23   650w 

Reviewed   by  Spencer  Miller 

Nation  117:662  D  5  '23  650w 

"There  can  be  no  question  as  to  the  author's 
competence  for  the  task  he  has  performed. 
With  keen  powers  of  observation  and  reportor- 
ial  skill  he  combines  a  unique  experience,  that 
of  federal  inspector  of  prisons  for  fourteen 
years."     G:    W.    Kirchwey 

+  New   Repub   36:185    O    10   '23   880w 

Reviewed   by   S.    A.    Coblentz 

N  Y  Tribune  p25  My  6  '23  850w 

Reviewed   by    Heywood   Broun 

N    Y    World    plOe   Ap   29   '23   700w 

"It  is  unpleasant  reading,  and  we  do  not 
like  to  think  that  such  things  can  go  on  in 
this  country,  but  until  the  great  public  is 
roused  by  a  knowledge  of  the  facts  we  cannot 
hope  for  any  general  improvement.  Such  books 
as  this  are  necessary  and  indeed  essential  to 
any    real    reform." 

-f-  R    of    Rs    67:672    Je    '23    150w 

"The  work  is  obviously  constructive,  rather 
than  for  the  purpose  of  sensationalism — a  show- 
ing up  of  conditions  noted  in  this  branch  of 
the  country's  penal  policy  in  an  attempt  to 
bring  about  remedial  action." 

-f  Springf'd     Republican     plO     My     16     '23 
1300W 

"The  facts  that  he  tells  are  not  over-stated. 
Mr.  Fishman  gives  a  very  fair  and  accurate 
idea  of  what  county  jails  are  like.  The  book 
is  not  pleasant  reading,  but  neither  is  a  true 
account  of  a  bloody  battle-scene.  Mr.  Fish- 
man gives  little  of  the  setting  of  jails  in  our 
penological  system.  He  is  not  a  criminologist; 
he  has  little  grasp,  apparently,  of  the  psycho- 
logical principles  underlying  the  treatment  of 
offenders.  For  that  reason  his  efforts  at  con- 
structive suggestions  are  not  very  valuable. 
But  this  is  unnecessary  to  a  realization  of 
what  county  jails  are  like.  The  only  requisite 
for  that  is  a  pair  of  good  eyes."  "W.  D.  Lane 
Survey    50:638    S    15    '23    750w 

FISK,  EUGENE  LYMAN.  Health  building  and 
life  extension;  a  discussion  of  the  means  by 
which  the  health  span,  the  work  span  and  the 
life  span  of  man  can  be  extended.  521p  il  |3.50 
Macmillan 

614     Hygiene,  Public  23-7549 

"The  Life  Extension  Institute,  founded  10 
years  ago  by  Harold  A.  Ley  of  Springfield,  pre- 
sents the  results  of  a  decade  of  its  experience 
in  a  volume  entitled  'Health  Building  and  Life 
Extension.'  The  book,  written  by  Dr  Eugene 
Lyman  Fisk,  medical  director  of  the  Institute, 
in  collaboration  with  the  Federated  American 
Engineering  societies,  is  announced  as  'the  out- 
come of  a  survey  of  health  conditions  in  indus- 
tr.v.'  It  emphasizes  the  menace  of  physical  de- 
ficiencies in  modern  civilized  society  as  revealed 
in  the  wholesale  physical  examinations  during 
the  World  war,  in  insurance  statistics  and  in 
the  work  of  the  Life  Extension  institute,  con- 
cluding with  an  urgent  appeal  for  the  further 
development  of  federal,  state,  municipal  and  in- 
dustrial preventive  and  constructive  measures 
for  the  general  improvement  of  health  condi- 
tions."— Springf'd   Republican 

"The  caption  of  the  cartograms^  is  not  clear 
enough.  These  violations  of  graphic  principles, 
however,  appear  to  be  the  work  of  Dr.  Fisk's 
collaborators.  They  in  no  way  detract  from  the 
value  of  the  text.  The  book  i.s  a  real  contribu- 
tion to  the  literature  of  public  and  personal 
health  with  a  vital  messaere,  based  on  science, 
and    dispassionatelv    stated."    F.    H.    StreightofC 

H Am   Econ   R  13:722  D  '23  950w 

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"Its  numerous  statistical  tables  are  of  ines- 
timable value  to  the  student  and  its  general 
conclusions,  and  plans  for  human  betterment 
should    be   understood   by  all." 

+   Boston   Transcript   p5    Je   27   "23   300w 

"The  book  is  commended  to  those  interested 
in  matters  of  health,  particularly  to  those  deal- 
ing with  groups  of  individuals  in  communities, 
factories,  or  elsewhere,  and  will  act  both  as  an 
inspiration  to  create  higher  health  standards  as 
well  as  offering  a  valuable  book  of  reference  on 
many  health  subjects."   R.   S.    Quinby,   M.D. 

4-  Management  &   Adm   6:241  Ag  '23   650w 

"From  the  physical  standpoint  it  is  very  good, 
but  there  is  little  about  the  mental  causes  of 
ill-health." 

-I Nation   116:222  Ag  29   '23   150w 

"In  a  general  way,  'Health  Building  and  Life 
Extension'  presents  a  wide  range  of  important 
data  on  personal  and  social  hygiene  that  should 
be  of  special  service  in  promoting  health,  edu- 
cation   and    preventive    medical    practice." 

-f  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  Jl   1   '23   780w 

Reviewed    by   J.    A.    Tobey 

Survey    51:112    O   15   '23    350w 

FISK,     MAY     ISABEL.       Silent    sex.    279p    $1.90 

Harper 
817     Monologs  23-6418 

Feminine  moods  and  idiosyncrasies  are  shown 
up  in  a  dozen  humorous  monologs.  Contents: 
Dressing  for  the  play;  The  village  dressmaker; 
The  woman  investor;  An  English  lady  market- 
ing; The  way  out;  Calling  on  the  doctor;  Mrs 
Meekey  explains  the  "higher  thought";  Buying 
a  hat;  The  journey;  Her  "night-thoughts";  A 
busy  woman;  Shopping. 

"They  are  all,  save  for  one  exception,  lightly 
amusing  sketches,  as  appetizing  if  about  as 
substantial    as    lemon    soufTlg." 

+   Boston    Transcript    p4    My   23    '23    260w 

Cleveland    p77    S    '23 

"The  volume  is  one  which  is  more  enjoyable 

if    read    here    and    there    and    now    and    then, 

rather    than    if    perused    at    a    sitting."      A.    L. 

Hill 

H NY   Tribune    p22   Ag   19   '23   400w 

"These  chatty,  vivacious,  logically  feminine 
monologues  are  written  snappily  and  saucily." 
Ruth  Snyder 

+  N    Y   World   pile  Ap   29   "23   400w 

FITZGERALD,     FRANCIS    SCOTT     KEY.      The 

vegetable;  or  From  president  to  postman.  145p 

$1.50     Scribner 

812  23-8175 

"  'The  Vegetable'  is  a  satire  on  the  current 
form  of  democracy  where  all  men,  because  they 
are  created  free  and  equal,  seek  to  push  ahead, 
and,  if  possible,  to  become  president,  instead 
of  holding  down  the  jobs  they  are  really  fitted 
for.  Jerry  Frost  was  such  a  man.  He  was  a 
'good  egg'  and  had  it  in  him  to  be  a  good  post- 
man, an  excellent  servant  of  the  public  in  a 
humble  capacity.  ^But  he  was  made  president 
and  conducted  the  affairs  of  the  nation  with 
the  intelligence  that  God  had  allotted  him  to 
use  as  a  postman." — Springf'd  Republican 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  27  '23  300w 
"His  failure  to  be  guided  by  this  principle 
weakens  Mr.  Fitzgerald  when  he  attempts  a 
satirical  comedy  in  'The  Vegetable.'  The  op- 
portunity for  an  adroit  thrust  wa.s  in  his  grasp, 
but  it  is  evident  that  the  author  rather  looks 
down  upon  the  dramatic  form  in  which  he  has 
chosen  to  work.  He  patronizes  it,  and  he  pa- 
tronizes the  reader  the  moment  he  feels  that 
the  scene  is  becoming  the  least  bit  credible.  As 
a  consequence,'  the  characters  have  about  as 
much  vitality  as  wax  figures;  his  comedy  be- 
comes a  comic  strip,  and  the  irony  vanishes  in 
thin   air."     L.    B. 

—  Freeman  7:430  Jl  11  '23  150w 

"When    I   accuse   Mr.    Fitzgerald   of   vulgarity 

in  'The  Vegetable'  I  do  not  mean  merely  that 

it  is  written  about  vulgar  people  and  that  their 

langruage  and  Idiom  and  environment  are  vulgar. 


I  mean  that  the  conception,  treatment,  and 
technique  are  distinctly  cheap.  I  mean  that  the 
play  is  devoid  of  ideas  and  beauty;  that  it  lacks 
sincerity,  simplicity,  and  intellectual  rugged- 
ness."  J:   F.   Carter,   jr. 

—  Lit  R  p782  Je  23  '23  500w 
"According  to  rumor,  several  Broadway  pro- 
ducers saw  this  play  in  manuscript  form  and 
turned  their  managerial  thumbs  down.  But  in 
book  form  'The  Vegetable'  makes  merry  read- 
ing." 

-f-  N   Y  Times  pl7  My  13  '23  700w 
Reviewed  by  E.   W.  Osborn 

N    Y    World   p8e   My   6   '23   330w 

"Even  the  flapper,  whose  popularity  has  been 

very  largely  due  to  this  apostle  of  the  'younger 

generation'    cannot    fail    to    be    disappointed    at 

Mr   Fitzgerald's   attempt   at   dramatic   writing." 

—  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    My    20     '23 
350w 

FITZPATRICK,       KATHLEEN.      Lady       Henry 
Somerset.    263p   il   $4   Little    [10s   6d   Cape] 
B   or   92    Somerset,    Isabella   Caroline    (Som- 
ers-Cocksj    (Lady   Henry   Somerset^.     Tem- 
perance 26-16101 
The  biography  and  letters  of  an  English  aris- 
tocrat   of    Victorian    days    who    sought    escape 
thru    philanthropic    work    from    the    tragedy    of 
an    unhappy    marriage    and    subsequent    separa- 
tion.     In    particular   she   devoted   herself  to   the 
cause   of   temperance   and    became    head    of   the 
British     women's     temperance     association.     In 
1891  she  came  to  America  to  study  the  methods 
of  the   W.    C.    T.    U.     From  this   visit   a   lasting 
friendship    with    Frances    Willard    and    her    fel- 
low   workers   resulted   and    Lady   Henry   Somer- 
set grew  to  be  known  and  loved  in  America. 


"Miss  Fitzpatrick  has  made  a  readable  and 
sometimes  pathetic  picture  of  a  woman  who 
had  to  bear  much  and  carried  herself  with  true 
dignity  and  gave  all  that  was  best  and  strong- 
est in  her  to  helping  her  fellow  men."  S.  L.  C. 
+   Boston     Transcript    p4    N    3    '23    700w 

"Lady  Henry  Somerset  is  fortunate  in  her 
literary  executor.  Kathleen  Fitzpatrick  tells 
attractively  and  vivaciously  the  story  of  the 
tragic  and  useful  life  Lady  Henry  lived.  She 
yields  to  no  partisan  enthusiasm  for  the  Cause." 
G.  H.  Carson 

-I-   Lit    R    p390    D    22    '23    780w 

"Miss  Fitzpatrick  has  hardly  done  justice 
to  her  subject.  She  is  to  be  commended  for 
writing  a  short  memoir,  and  she  is  admirably 
free  from  sentimentality.  But  she  has  printed 
many  pages  of  childish  correspondence  and  later 
diaries  instead  of  filling  in  the  picture  of  Lady 
Henry  Somerset's  remarkable  public  work." 
—  +  New  Statesman  22:158  N  10  '23  260w 
N  Y  World  p7e  D  30  '23  440w 

"Her  literary  executrix  has  a  fine  sense  of 
selection,  and  has  chosen  from  the  mass  of 
material,  letters,  diaries  and  journals,  with 
judicious  discrimination;  and  shows  in  her  ex- 
cellent recital  of  the  melancholy  but  interest- 
ing story  that  she  is  not  without  a  share  of 
the  irrepressible  humour  of  her  subject." 
+  Sat  R  136:498  N  3  '23  430w 
Spec    131:662    N   3    '23    210w 

"Her  biographer  shows  both  subtlety  and  in- 
sight in  treating  a  career  of  which  the  im- 
portance lay  as  much  in  the  inner  as  in  the 
outer  realm;  and  her  work  is  not  less  attrac- 
tive for  its  touches  of  quiet  humour.  These 
are  most  felicitous  in  her  account  of  the  primly 
regulated  childhood  of  her  heroine,  and  in  her 
description  of  the  foibles  of  some  of  Lady 
Henry's  American  comrades-in-arrhs  during  her 
temperance  campaigns." 

-I-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p691    O 
18  '23  380w 

FITZSIMONS,     FREDERICK     WILLIAM.     Nat- 
2    ural    history   of   South    Africa:    birds.    2v    288; 

323p  il  ea  $4   (ea  12s  6d)   Longmans 
598.2   Birds — South   Africa 

The  first  of  these  two  volumes  on  the  birds 
of  South  Africa  deals  with  the  economic  value 


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FITZSIMONS,  F:  W. — Continued 
of  birds  as  allies  in  the  fight  against  the  dep- 
redations of  insects.  The  second  volume 
contains  a  list  of  South  African  birds  and  their 
diet;  descriptions  of  the  species  selected  for 
illustration,  about  150;  and  a  full  systematic 
list  of  species  and  sub-species.  The  many  illus- 
trations   include    ten    colored    plates. 


"Both  volumes  are  admirably  illustrated  with 
a  large  number  of  photographs.  The  absence 
of  an  index  should  be  rectified  in  subsequent 
editions." 

^ New  Statesman  22:316  D  15  '23  300w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p794  N  22 
•23  500w 

FLACCUS,   pseud.   See  Levy,   N. 

FLAMMARION,  CAMILLE.  Death  and  its 
mystery;    after    death.    393p    $3      Century 

134  Death.  Psychical  research 
The  present  volume  is  the  last  in  the  author's 
trilogy,  Death  and  its  mystery,  in  which  he 
attempts  to  prove  that  scientific  observation 
has  succeeded  in  establishing,  beyond  a  doubt, 
that  the  soul  is  independent  of  the  material 
organism  and  continues  to  live  after  death;  that 
the  dead  can  manifest  themselves  to  the  living 
in  various  ways;  that  these  manifestations  are 
exceptional  and  spontaneous  phenomena  which 
can  be  witnessed  but  not  deliberately  produced 
and  are  most  frequent  immediately  after  dis- 
solution. He  also  holds  that  the  theory  of 
tran.smigration  is  probable  and  may  some  day 
submit    to   scientific    proof. 

Booklist  19:235  My  '23 
Reviewed   by   O.    F.    Hevener 

Int  Bk  R  pl2  Ag  '23  1600w 
"His  work  is  very  scholarly  and  impressive. 
.  .  There  is  a  minimum  of  abstract  discussion 
and  a  maximum  of  evidence.  The  latter  will 
have  to  be  met  by  other  than  the  traditional 
objections."     English   Bagby 

+  Lit    R   p752   Je   9    '23   390w 
"As    an    argument    skeptics    will    find    'After 
Death'    the   least   satisfactory   of   the   three   vol- 
umes."     Horace    Green 

—  NY  Times  plO  Ap  29   '23  2700w 

"The  testimony  offered  is  of  a  kind  which 
simply  does  not  lend  itself  to  any  scientific 
certainty,  not  even  of  negation.  It  is  plausible; 
that   is  all."      Burton   Rascoe 

—  NY  Tr'ibune  pl8  Jl  1  '23  650w 
N    Y   World   p9e  Ap  1   "23   210w 

"M.  Flammarion  has  all  the  qualities  neces- 
sary for  his  task  save  one,  the  most  important. 
He    lacks    the    faculty    of    scientific    inquisitive- 

'  —  Sat   R   136:17  Jl   7  '23  800w 

FLAMMARION,  CAMILLE.  Dreams  of  an 
astronomer;  tr.  from  the  French  by  E.  E. 
Fournier    D'Albe.       223p       $3.50      Appleton 

520.4    Astronomy  [23-26849] 

Known  astronomical  facts  and  bold  flights  of 
fancy  blend  in  this  volume.  The  author  be- 
speaks our  company  on  a  voyage  to  the  moon, 
to  Mars,  to  Saturn  and  to  Neptune  telling  us 
what  he  knows  and  what  he  believes  of  these 
planets.  Then  his  flight  takes  him  to  other 
planetary  systems,  to  universe  after  universe 
beyond  the  ken  of  terrestrial  telescopes,  un- 
folding to  our  eyes  a  panorama  of  infinity  and 
eternity.  These  flights  are  Interspersed  with 
speculations  on  religion,  on  higher  states  of  in- 
tellectual development  in  other  worlds,  on  the 
habitability  of  other  planets  and  on  the  rela- 
tivity  of   time   as   compared    with   space.    Index. 


"M.  Flammarion's  new  book,  excellently  trans- 
lated by  Mr.  E.  E.  Fournier  d'Albe,  has  much 
in  common  with  the  charming  pages  of  'Lumen,' 
a  book  puljlished  more  than  one  generation  ago 
which  revealed  in  this  French  astronomer  the 
somewhat  unusual  combination  of  a  poetical 
fancy  with  deep  scientific  knowledge.  In  the 
present  volume  he  gives  us  many  of  the  no- 
tions which  have  flickered  across  his  mind  in 
the  intervals  of  star-gazing  at  Juvisy,  for  which 
no  place  could  be  found  in  the  rather  solemn 
pages  of  the  'Comptes  Rendus.'  " 
+  Sat   R   136:251   S  1   '23  300w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p451  Jl  5 
'23  850w 

FLANDRAU,    GRACE    HODGSON.       Being    re- 
spectable.     336p    $2    Harcourt 

23-3443 
A  little  more  moneyed  than  Babbitt  circles, 
decidedly  more  snobbish  and  very  proud  of  its 
respectability  is  the  society  of  the  Middle  "West 
city  here  pictured.  The  story  centers  in  the 
lite  of  one  family  which  is  firmly  established 
in  its  aristocracy  thru  the  wealth  and  leally 
substantial  qualities  of  the  head  of  the  house, 
old  Darius  Carpenter.  He  is  a  lonely  man, 
vaguely  ill  at  ease  with  his  family — a  smart 
married  daughter,  a  shallow  son,  and  a  tenderly 
loved  younger  daughter  who  has  all  the  forms 
of  unrest  affecting  the  rising  generation.  This 
family  and  the  background  of  American  life 
against  which  they  move  are  drawn  satirically 
but  not  unkindly,  and  with  a  detachment  and 
a  lack  of  exaggeration  which  make  for  effective- 
ness. 


Booklist  20:44  N  '23 
Boston    Transcript  pi    S   8   '23   lOOOw 
Reviewed  by  Carl  Snyder 

Lit    R    p422   Ja    5    '24    850w 
"Flammarion's  volume,   will  not  achieve  Main 
Street   popularity.     None   the   less,    it    is   fascin- 
ating."    Horace   Green 

+  N    Y    Times    p7    Jl   22    '23    '>30'^w 


Booklist  19:223   Ap   '23 
"She    has,    we    feel,     written    a    story    to    be 
ranked    along    with    'Main    Street'    as    a    signifi- 
cant  exposition    of   American    private   and   civic 
ideals."       D.    L.    M. 

+   Boston    Transcript    pi    F    3    '23    1250w 
Cleveland    p39    My    '23 
Dial  74:414  Ap  '23  150w 
"In   the  main,   this  is  a  well-considered  work 
with  more  than  the  usual  percentage  of  prom- 
ise."   L.   B. 

-f-  Freeman    7:262   My   23   '23    140w 
"Clever,    thoughtful,    depressing,    unsatisfying 
book!"     S.    S.   A. 

1-  Greensboro   (N.C.)   Daily  News  p7  Ap  1 

■23  550w 
Reviewed    by    H.    W.    Boynton 

Ind  110:163  Mr  3  '23  400w 
"Grace  Flandrau's  'Being  Respectable' — the 
book  of  the  winter  and  in  all  probability  of  the 
spring,  too — is  superior  to  Sinclair  Lewis's 
'Babbitt'  in  many  ways,  but  InferTor  in  that 
it  deals  with  too  many  characters.  The  char- 
acters are  complete  and  excellently  motivated 
in  themselves,  but  there  is  no  one  Babbitt  .  .  . 
to    draw    together    the    entire    novel." 

H Int    Bk    R    p35    Mr    '23 

"It  is  in  the  field  of  character  analysis  that 
the  author  achieves  her  greatest  success.  The 
book  has  little  plot,  and  what  there  is  of  a 
story  is  discursive,  disorganized,  even  chaotic; 
it  has  no  distinction  of  style  and  tends  towards 
those  conversational  commonplaces  of  diction 
that  are  popular  with  American  novelists  just 
at  present;  but  the  characters  are  living, 
breathing  things,  and  we  can  see  not  only 
the  polished  exterior  but  the  distorted,  unoiled 
or  out-of-date  machinery  in  operation  beneath." 
S.    A.    Coblentz 

-I Lit    R    p447    F    10    '23    600w 

"  'Being  Respectable'  is  well  constructed,  it 
moves  within  a  rounded  form,  yet  it  never  fails 
to  give  a  sense  of  continuity,  of  life  spreading 
beyond  the  front  and  back  covers  of  the  book. 
Some  of  the  characterizations  are  admirable. 
The  people  drawn  within  the  circle  of  that 
narrow  life  are  alive  and  real,  but  where  the 
novel  fails  to  become  really  momentous  is  in 
the  portrayal  of  those  who  revolt  from  the 
bleakness  of  such  an  existence."  K.   S.   Angell 

H Nation   117:66  Jl   18   '23   400w 

"A     novel    of    admirable     workmanship." 
-j-   N    Y    Times    p25    F   11    '23    650w 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


165 


"A  very  unusually  good  and  interesting  novel. 
It  is  not  only  worthy  of  serious  attention;  it 
provides  many  pages  of  sheer  delight,  for  its 
wit,  its  clarity,  its  essential  if  incomplete 
truthfulness."      Isabel   Paterson 

+  N  Y  Tribune  pl9  Ja  28  '23  ISOOw 
Outlook  133:454  Mr  7  '23  20w 
"The  author's  local  colour  is  certainly  aston- 
ishingly coherent  and  complete — one  could  go 
further,  and  affirm  that  'colour'  is  not  the  word 
at  all,  since  what  she  conveys  is  the  mood, 
the  atmosphere,  the  very  feeling  and  life's  blood 
of  the  community — but  even  more  important  is 
her  power  of  universalizing.  Her  technique  is 
thorough,  but  unapparent.  Every  point  of  sym- 
pathy, of  emotion,  of  desire,  is  right,"  Gerald 
Gould 

+  Sat  R  136:86  Jl  21  '23  180w 
"She  also  produces  an  exceedingly  readable 
story,  and  her  characterization  is  extremely 
well  done.  The  reader's  attention  will  be  held 
right  up  to  the  rather  inconclusive  end  of  the 
book." 

+  Spec  131:228  S  18  '23  250w 
"While  the  book  tends  to  become  merely  a 
well-spiced  portrayal  of  the  'smart  set'  of  a 
smaller  metropolis,  it  has  fundamental  obser- 
vation and  understanding,  which,  if  more 
seriously  employed,  would  make  a  more  sig- 
nificant,   thoupli    possiblv    less    clever    novel." 

H Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  28  '23  600w 

"It  is  surprising  that  the  book  should  compel 
the  attention  so  strongly;  for  it  does  not  go 
beyond  the  normal  life  of  the  plutocratic  set 
of  a  Middle-Western  town  for  its  material. 
There    is    no   plot    in    a   strict   sense." 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p470  Jl  12 
'23    220w 

Wis   Lib   Bui  19:84  Mr  '23 

FLATTELY,  FREDERIC  WILLIAM,  and  WAL- 
TON,   CHARLES    LIVESLY.      Biology    of    the 
seashore;   with  an  introd.  by  J.  Arthur  Thom- 
son.    336p  il  $5  Macmillan  [16s  Sidgwick  &  J.] 
591.92     Marine  biology  [22-18634] 

An  exhaustive  study  of  the  seashore  and  its 
inhabitants,  plant  and  animal,  their  relations  to 
each  other  and  to  their  environment.  "The 
authors  deal  systematically  with  the  main  bio- 
logical prolilems  of  the  sea-shore  such  as  the 
incessant  change  that  is  going  on,  the  continual 
warfare  between  animals,  their  movements, 
their  respiratory  methods  and,  to  conclude,  the 
economic  aspects  of  the  shore." — Spec 


Booklist  19:180  Mr  '23 
"The  work  is  somewhat  too  technical  for  the 
general  reader,  but  to  the  biologist  it  is  a  veri- 
table mine  of  facts  relating  to  the  special  fit- 
nesses of  animals  of  the  sea-shore."  Beverly 
Kunkel 

+  Lit  R  p852  Ag  5  '22  880w 
"The  illustrations  are  good  and  adequate,  and 
the  advice  given  on  the  methods  of  ecological 
research  should  be  most  useful  to  students. 
The  book  bristles  with  suggestions  for  research 
and  further  inquiry,  and  in  this  respect  is  most 
stimulating." 

-t-   Nature  110:540  O  21  '22  220w 
"Very    interesting    and    not    unduly    technical 
account  of  the   plants   and  animals   of  the   sea- 
shore." 

-f  Sat  R  133:525  My  20  '22  600w 
"Sober  holiday-makers  who  take  this  ably 
written  and  well  illustrated  book  with  them  to 
the  sea  will  find  that  it  reveals  a  new  world 
teeming  with  life  on  the  sand  and  rocks.  A 
competent  treatise  on  an  interesting  subject." 
+  Spec  129:217  Ag  12  '22  lOOw 

The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p389    Je 
15  '22  1400W 

FLEMING,  RACHEL  MARY.  Stories  from  the 
early  world:  with  an  appendix  by  H.  J.  Fleure. 
162p  $2.50  Seltzer 

398     Folklore  23-16589 

A  second   collection  of  folktales  dealing  with 

the     early    world,     similar     to    Miss     Fleming's 


"Ancient  tales  from  many  lands,"  and  intended 
like  that  book  to  be  used  in  the  teaching  of 
geography  and  history.  These  stories,  which 
cover  a  wide  area,  illustrate  the  development 
of  civilization  in  many  lands.  Several  of  the 
tales  suggest  the  beginnings  of  trade  and 
others,  the  social  value  of  craftsmanship  on  the 
earlier  development  of  settled  life.  The  stories 
are  gathered  from  the  folklore  of  twenty-four 
peoples.  The  new  world  is  represented  by 
stories  of  the  Tlingit  Indians  of  Alaska  and  the 
Zuni  of  New  Mexico. 


"The  book,  as  a  whole,  is  interesting  and  sug- 
gestive, and  supplies  excellent  reading  for  chil- 
dren." 

-f-   Nature  111:284  Mr  3  '23  200w 
Reviewed  bv  Kenne  Beck 

N  Y  World  p7e  IST  11  '23  120w 
"An    unusual    book.      While    intelligent    young 
people  will  enjoy  it,   it  is  of  value  and  interest 
to  their  elders." 

-f  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  D  2  '23  250w 

FLETCHER,   JOSEPH    SMITH.      Charing   Cross 

mystery.     353p  $2  Putnam 

23-4005 

A  young  barrister  returning  after  midnight  to 
his  bachelor  chambers  in  the  Temple  encounters 
in  a  smoking  compartment  of  the  last  train  two 
men  who  rouse  his  curiosity.  As  the  train 
pulls  up  at  Charing  Cross  the  older  of  the  two 
men  drops  dead,  without  warning.  The  next 
day  the  other  man  is  found  dead  in  his  bed  in 
a  squalid  tenement.  Young  Hetherwick  helped 
by  his  friend  Matherfleld,  the  police  inspector, 
takes  upon  himself  the  solution  of  the  mystery. 
This  involves  a  highly  mystifying  series  of  com- 
plications which  finally  fit  into  a  simple  and 
logical  pattern. 


Booklist  19:223  Ap  '23 
Reviewed  by  E.   F.   Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  16  '23  230w 
N  Y  Times  p24  F  18  '23  330w 
"This  Fletcher  mystery  story  is  not  quite  up 
to  standard.  An  intangible  something  is  lack- 
ing. It  is  built  strictly  according  to  specifica- 
tions, has  a  neat,  workmanlike  finish,  but  it  is 
like  an  assembled  motor,  it  has  no  genuine  dis- 
tinction."    Isabel  Paterson 

h   N   Y  Tribune  pl9  Mr  25  '23  450w 

"This  mystery  tale  is  simple  in  its  construc- 
tion and  does  not  follow  the  tiresome  plan  of 
luring  the  reader  into  one  false  path  of  evidence 
after  another.  It  is  built  up  in  a  workmanlike 
way.  and  its  surprises  are  not  so  startling  as  to 
make  the  reader  put  it  down  with  a  feeling 
that  he  has  been  fooled  or  tricked." 

+  Outlook   133:547   Mr   21   '23    60w 
Spec   130:557   Mr   31    '23    60w 

FLETCHER,     JOSEPH     SMITH.      Copper    box. 

222p   $1.75   Doran    [5s   Hodder   &    S.] 

23-9235 

The  story  is  something  of  a  variation  on  the 
usual  Fletcher  mystery  tale.  There  is  no  mur- 
der or  violence  in  it.  The  plot  revolves  around 
a  little  copper  box  engraven  with  a  coat-of- 
arms.  About  the  box  and  its  owner,  an  ec- 
centric antiquary,  mystery  hangs  and  intrigues 
are  woven.  From  the  first  page  to  the  last, 
when  its  mystery  is  disclosed,  it  holds  the 
center  of  the   stage. 


Reviewed   by  E.    F.    Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  16  '23  230w 

Cleveland  p50  Jl  '23 
N   Y  Times  pl4  My  27  '23   600w 
Reviewed  by  A.   D.   Douglas 

N   Y   Tribune  p20  Je   17   '23  200w 
Reviewed  bv  B.  W.  Osborn 

N  Y  World  p8e  Je  3  '23  210w 
"The  present  tale   is  light,   contains   no  hor- 
rible  murder  and   no   detective  worth   speaking 
of,  but  it  has  a  queer  little  mystery  which  holds 
the  reader's  attention  steadily  to  the  end.    Few 


166 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


FLETCHER,  J.  S. — Continued 

mystery   stories  have   so  pleasant   a   tone  or  so 

much  quiet  humor." 

+  Outlook  134:99  My  30  '23  70w 
"A   would-be    sensational   story    in   which    the 
mystery   is   thin." 

—  Spec    130:893    Mr   26    '23    lOw 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  pl81   Mr 
15   '23    220w 

FLETCHER,  JOSEPH   SIVllTH.    Exterior  to  the 
evidence.     287p   $2   Knopf 

23-8756 

Early  one  morning  Sir  Cheville  Stanbury  was 
found  dead  on  a  lonely  stretch  of  the  moors 
not  far  from  Lithersdale  Grange,  his  home.  He 
was  known  to  have  been  returning  at  mid- 
night from  his  club  and  he  might  easily  have 
made  a  misstep  on  the  narrow  footpath  that 
leads  by  the  edge  of  Black  Scar  at  the  foot  of 
which  his  body  was  found.  So  some  people 
thought,  but  the  police  believed  it  was  murder. 
Weathershaw,  the  famous  detective,  was  sum- 
moned from  Manchester  and  it  was  by  facts 
"exterior  to  the  evidence"  that  he  finally  solved 
the  mystery. 

"The    various    threads    of    evidence    are    skil- 
fully   untangled    and    the    climax    comes    as    a 
surprise.     Characteristic   Fletcher  story." 
+   Booklist   19:318  Jl  '23 

Reviewed  by  E.    F.    Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  16  '23  230w 
"For  all  its  atmosphere  of  well-bred  people  in 
an  English  countryside,  in  this  story  of  a 
cause  ceU'bie  there  is  no  lack  of  the  holdmg 
power  of  a  skilfully  contrived  mystery  tale. 
The  puzzle  steadily  becomes  more  complicated, 
and  the  secret  is  kept  until  the  end."  R.  C. 
Holliday 

+   Int   Bk   R   p58  O   '23  170w 
"This  new  story  shows  evidence  of  haste  and 
carelessness,   both  in  the  way  it  is  written  and 
in  the  way  it  has  been  put  together.  .  .  It  does 
not  stand  with  the  author's  best  work." 

[-  N    Y    Times   p22    My    27    '23    550w 

"Mr.  Fletcher  is  entitled  to  yet  another  red 
mark  on  the  long  list  of  his  triumphs  in  mys- 
tery   spinning."     E.    W.    Osborn 

-j-  N  Y  World  p8e  Je  3  '23  120w 
"It  is  one  of  those  novels  which  one  who 
cares  for  a  certain  sort  of  somewhat  elementary 
excitement  will  read  with  a  good  deal  of  satis- 
faction and  will  certainly  not  throw  aside  until 
the  end  is  reached.  Is  not  this  sufficient  praise 
for  a  detective   story?" 

+  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    Ag     19      23 
350w 
"Not   up   to   the   author's   usual    standard,    but 
will    interest   his   admirers." 

—  Wis    Lib    Bui   19:415   Jl   '23 

FLETCHER,        JOSEPH        SMITH.         Lost     Mr 
Linthwaite.      305p     $2     Knopf 

There  was  neither  clue  nor  motive  to  the 
strange  disappearance  of  Mr  Linthwaite.  A 
respectable  retired  solicitor,  with  an  antiquarian 
bent,  he  had  gone  to  Selchester  to  study  some 
interesting  ruins.  On  a  Tuesday  morning  he 
left  his  hotel  for  a  tour  of  these  ruins,  and 
vanished.  The      Selchester      police      inspector 

thought  it  was  murder.  Young  Brixey,  Mr 
Linthwaite's  energetic  nephew  and  a  news- 
paper man  with  some  scoops  to  his  credit  in 
Fleet  Street,  thought  otherwise.  He  personally 
conducted  the  investigations  and  in  solving 
the  mystery,  unwound  a  tangled  web  of  human 
lives    and    motives. 


way  through,  and  therefore  much  to  be  desired 
by   lovers   of  the   mystery  yarn." 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   p8   Mr 
4    '23    200w 
"An    excellent     tale,     well     constructed,     well 
written,    plausible   ana    perplexing,    with   a   lika- 
ble,   intelligent   hero,   and   a   mystery    that   really 
mystifies." 

+   Int    Bk    R    p56    F    '23    420w 
"A  complicated  a,nd  interesting  tale,  which  no 
wise    reader   should    begin    until    he    has    several 
clear    hours    in    front    of    hiin." 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl6  Ja  14  '23  380w 
"He  has  an  extraordinary  talent  for  weaving 
together  the  strands  of  various  human  lives 
just  as  life  might,  tightening  them  to  a  knot, 
and  then  exquisitely,  bit  by  bit,  picking  the 
knot   apart."      Isabel   Paterson 

-f   N    Y   Tribune   p23   Ja   28   "23   300vv 
Reviewed    by    F:    F.    Van    de   Water 

N    Y    Tribune   pl9   F    4    '23    360w 
"The   story   moves   speedily  and   is   both   light 
and    entertaining." 

4-  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  28  '23  120w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:56  F  '23 

FLETCHER,    JOSEPH     SMITH.        Markenmore 
mystery.    320p    $2    Knopf    [7s    6d    H.    Jenkins] 

23-13336 
"  'The  Markenmore  Mystery'  tells  of  the 
murder,  in  his  own  ancestral  grounds,  of  the 
heir  to  the  Markenmore  title  and  estates,  a 
man  still  young,  who  has  returned  after  an  ab- 
sence and  a  silence  of  six  yeai-s  expressly  to 
repudiate  the  wealth  he  does  not  need.  It  takes 
Blick,  of  London,  a  long  time  to  find  out  the 
w^hy  and  the  who  of  this  case  and  to  show  that 
for  once  it  is  not  necessary  to  find  the  woman." 
— N    Y  World 


Booklist  20:100   D  '23 
"  'The   Markenmore  Mystery'   seems   to  me  to 
be  the  best  of  recent  Fletcher  stories.     As  usual 
it    is    dry,    precise,    carefully    plotted,    and    cun- 
ningly woven   to  its   precise  end."     J.    F. 
+  Bookm  58:319  N  '23  280w 
Int  Bk  R  p70  N  '23  550w 
"Mr.   netcher  has  contributed  another  to  his 
ample   list   of   lively   narratives,    soundly   plotted 
and  adroitly  unraveled." 

+  Nation   117:562  N  14  '23  70w 
"The  tale  is  ingenious,  complicated,  and  much 
better     written     than     the     average     detective 
story." 

+   N    Y   Times   p5   S   30   '23   500w 
N  Y  World  p6e  S  16  '23  120w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ja  6  '24  200w 

FLETCHER.      JOSEPH      SMITH.      Mystery     of 
=    Lynne  Court;   with  an  introd.  by  Lee  Thayer. 
322p    $2    Norman,    Remington   co. 

23-14272 

Taking  its  start  from  a  near-murder,  the 
beautiful  victim  of  which  instantly  engages  the 
special  interest  of  the  hastily  summoned  doctor, 
the  story  develops  into  a  complicated  network 
of  crime,  including  two  real  murders.  Hextall, 
the  doctor  and  self-constituted  investigator, 
after  working  industriously  with  professional 
detectives  and  following  up  every  available  clue, 
is  beaten  to  the  grim  solution  of  the  rnystery 
by  a  newcomer  in  the  game;  a  private  inquiry 
agent  who  shifts  the  guilt  for  the  murders  to  a 
most   unsuspected  source. 


Booklist  19:190  Mr  '23 
Reviewed   by   E.    F.    Edgett 

Boston   Transcript   p4   Je   16   '23   300w 

Cleveland   p39  My  '23 
"The   heautv  of  the   story   is   its   intrinsic   im- 
probability.     It    is    a    reasonable    story    all    the 


"Written  with  a  cool  intellectuality  which 
becomes  a  detective  story.  It  is  logical  to  the 
point  of  mathematical  precision.  It  la  also 
tremendously  interesting." 

+   N   Y  Times  p9  D  9    23  250w 
"Mr    Fletcher's  style   is   as   calm  and   certain 
as    a   bank   stILment   and   much    less   romantic 
in    its    implications."    A.    D     Douglas 

N  Y  Tribune  p24  N  25  '23  320w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


167 


FLETCHER,  JOSEPH   SMITH.     Rippling  Ruby. 
325p  $2  Putnam 

23-14116 

James  Cranage,  out  of  a  job  and  short  of 
cash,  seizes  the  opportunity  to  earn  a  sovereign 
by  carrying  a  message  to  an  obscure  shop  in 
Portsmouth.  This  leads  eventually  to  his  em- 
ployment as  private  secretary  by  Lady  Renards- 
mere,  an  eccentric  woman  of  wealth  and  ownei 
of  a  horse.  Rippling  Ruby,  that  is  in  train- 
ing for  the  Derby.  it  also  involves  him  in 
several  murders  instigated  by  a  Chinaman  in 
search  of  a  famous  ruby  which  he  has  stolen 
from  its  owner.  Lady  Renardsmere,  who  had 
purchased  the  ruby  refuses  to  surrender  it  on 
being  informed  of  the  danger  it  will  bring,  and 
on  the  day  of  the  race  fastens  the  ruby  around 
the  horse's  neck  for  good  luck.  As  the  race  is 
nearly  ended,  the  Chinaman  slays  the  horse  and 
regains  the  jewel. 


"An  excellent  specimen  of  the  crime  puzzle 
yarn." 

-f  Lit   R  pl67  O  20   '23  220w 

"In  'Rippling  Ruby*  he  has  again  kept  faith 
with  his  public.  Also,  his  workmanship  entitles 
him  to  popularity  with  those  who  ordinarily 
shun  the  average  crime  and  detective  yarn. 
He  may  be  relied  upon  for  English  and  a  style 
that  needs  no  apologies." 

4-  N  Y  Times  p9  N  11  '23  220w 

"The  crime  mystery  is  handled  with  all  the 
usual  skill  and  easy  narrative  of  the  author,  but 
the  ending  is  too  explosive  and  has  too  much 
of  a  madhouse  tinge." 

H Outlook  135:506  N  21  '23  50w 

FLEXNER,   ABRAHAM.  A  modern  college,  and 
'    a  modern  school.   142p  $1  Doubleday 

370.1    Education.    Colleges    and    universities 

23-16672 
The  first  and  longer  paper  is  a  criticism  of 
the  modern  college,  the  too  great  dispersion  of 
its  studies,  its  aimlessness,  and  its  failure  to 
direct  the  training  of  students  preliminary  to 
the  professional  school.  The  second  paper  was 
the  occasion,  some  years  ago,  of  some  spirited 
discussion  in  educational  circles,  of  which  the 
Lincoln  school  of  Teachers  college  was  the  out- 
come. This  school  has  been  in  operation  six 
years  as  an  experiment  in  the  field  of  primary 
and   secondary   education   of   modern   type. 


Booklist   20:122   Ja    '24 
"Certain  statements  in  this  small  volume  are 
sensible.    On    the    other    hand    there    is    a    good 
deal  of  padding  in  its  one  hundred  and   thirty- 
five  pages." 

-j Boston     Transcript    p4     D    22    '23    320w 

Survey    51:198    N    1    '23    220w 

FLINT,  CHARLES  RANLETT.  Memories  of 
an  active  life:  men  and  ships  and  sealing 
wax.    349p    il    $5    Putnam 

B  or  92  23-17759 

The  writer  of  this  autobiography  is  a  mer- 
chant and  banker,  descendant  of  Yankee  skip- 
pers who  traded  in  ships  and  cargoes  and  has 
himself  dealt  with  ships,  munitions,  explosives 
and  speculative  inventions.  He  was  a  pioneer 
in  the  promotion  of  the  automobile  and  air- 
plane and  had  a  hand  in  the  early  develop- 
ment of  the  subni-'rine.  He  was  the  confiden- 
tial agent  of  the  United  States  in  negotiating 
for  war  vessels  in  1898,  sold  the  Russian  gov- 
ernment submarines  and  toipedo  boats  and  was 
the  organizer  of  numerous  industrial  corpora- 
tions. He  is  known  as  the  "father  of  trusts," 
from  having  formed  the  first  great  industrial 
combination  in  this  country.  In  the  multitude 
of  bis  .ictivities  he  has  found  time  for  big  game 
hTuiting.  fishing,  camping,  yachting  and,  ahnve 
all.  for  making  friends.  These  and  manv  other 
mterests    and    dealings    his    memories    relate. 

Freeman    8:335    D    12    '23    440vv 
"It    Is  a  bnhbling  book,    the   book   of  a  jovous 
man."    C:   W.    Thompson 

-I-   N  Y   Times  p7   D   9   '23   1600w 


"A  lively  book  by  a  live  man!"  D.   C.   S. 

-f-  N  Y  World  p7e  N  11  '23  750w 
"Mr.  Flint  shows  in  this  volume  that  an  ac- 
tive man  of  affairs  can  tell  about  those  affairs 
in  a  terse,  vigorous,  and  interesting  way.  He 
has  made  one  of  the  most  readable  of  recent 
books  of  biography." 

+  Outlook  135:506   N   21   '23   50w 

FLOWER,  WALTER  NEWMAN.  George  Frid- 
eric  Handel:  his  personality  and  his  times. 
378p    il    $7.50    Houghton    [21s    Cassell] 

B  or  92  Handel,  Georg  Friedrich  [23-12792] 
A  very  full  biography  of  Handel  sketched 
against  the  background  of  his  times  and  the 
people  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  The 
book  is  the  result  of  long  research  among 
Handel  records  which  have  revealed  new  facts 
aliout  the  composer  and  some  interesting  de- 
tails concerning  his  Italian  journey.  Much 
information  is  given  about  his  compositions 
and  their  early  performance.  There  are  over 
fifty  illustrations,  in  color  and  in  black  and 
white,  and  a  full  bibliography  has  been  pro- 
vided.    Index. 


Reviewed  by  H.   T.   Finck 

Lit   R   p407  D  29   '23  360w 

"It  is  not  necessary  to  be  versed  in  music  to 
enjoy,  or  even  to  appraise,  this  vivid,  enter- 
taining book."  R:  Le  Gallienne 

+  N  Y  Times  pl2  D  23  '23  3000w 

"The  author  of  this  sumptuous  volume  is  the 
possessor  of  one  of  the  most  valuable  col- 
lections of  Handel  relics  existing  in  private 
hands.  His  pages  show  him  to  be  something 
more  than  the  enthusiastic  collector  of  manu- 
scripts and  portraits;  a  student  who  has  made 
a  close  study  of  Handel's  environment,  has 
traced  out  the  life  of  his  subject  from  the 
early  days  at  Halle  to  the  last  days  in  London 
of  the  mid-eighteenth  century,  has  formed  for 
himself  a  clearly  defined  picture  of  Handel's 
mind  and  what  he  stood  for  in  the  life  of  his 
time,  and  can  recount  it  with  a  vivid  though 
over-exuberant  pen.  The  book  does  not  pro- 
fess  to   be   a   study   of   Handel's   music." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p399    Je 
14    '22   850w 

FOERSTER,  NORMAN.  Nature  in  American 
literature:  studies  in  the  modern  view  of  na- 
ture.     324p   $1.75   Macmillan 

810.4  Nature  in  literature.  American  litera- 
ture 23-5206 
Studies  tracing  the  development  of  the 
naturalistic  movement  in  American  literature 
from  Bryant  to  Burroughs  and  showing  the  love 
and  knowledge  of  nature  displayed  by  these 
poets  and  prose  writers  in  their  work.  Con- 
tents: Bryant;  MTiittier;  Emerson;  Thoreau; 
Lowell;  Whitman;  Lanier;  Muir;  Burroughs; 
Index. 


"Professor  Foerster  has  succeeded  in  putting 
into  his  very  able  book  a  refreshing  and  rather 
unusual  out  of  door  quality.  It  is  almost  as 
though  we  were  out  in  the  country  having  talks 
illustrated  bv  the  things  of  nature  themselves." 
+   Bookm    57:466    Je    '23    80w 

Boston    Transcript  pll   Mr  24   '23   1650w 
Cleveland    p78    S    '23 

"The  defect  of  the  author's  method  is  that 
it  permits  a  too  facile  estimate  of  many  creative 
writers  on  the  ground  simply  of  their  intellec- 
tual assent  to  the  moral  law.  The  effect  of  the 
method  upon  Professor  Foerster's  criticism,  de- 
spite its  sensitiveness  and  magnanimity,  is  the 
effect  predictable  of  any  excessive  intellectual- 
ism:  the  creative  artist  emerges  only  too  seldom 
as  anything  more  than  in  the  narrow  sense,  a 
'thinker.'  "  N.   A. 

H Freeman   7:382   Je   27   '23   300w 

"As  Foerster  ably  shows,  nature,  and  par- 
ticularly v.\\d  nature,  has  been  for  a  century  a 
living  flame  in  America  from  which  ■writer  after 
writer  has  lit  his  torch.  It  is  an  impressive 
fact,  the  implications  of  which  for  American 
social  and  intellectual  life  are  great.  Before 
they  are  to  be  studied  such  a  book  as  this  was 


168 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


FOERSTER,  NORM  AN— Contmwed 
necessary;  and  in  his  admirable  study  of 
Thoreau  in  Chapter  IV,  the  best  on  the  whole 
that  has  appeared  in  American  criticism,  Mr. 
Foerster  shows  how  the  thing  can  be  done,  for 
there  Thoreau's  absorption  in  nature  is  made 
the  key  which  unlocks  the  spiritual  history  of 
minds  like  his  in  a  country  like  America."  H: 
S.    Canby 

+  Lit  R  p674  My  12  '23  1200w 
Nation  116:474  Ap  18  '23  30w 
"There  is  something-  peculiarly  exasperating 
in  criticism  by  statistics.  However,  this  horrid 
Infection  is  only  sporadic  in  Prof.  Foerster's 
book  of  essays.  For  the  most  part  they  are 
written  with  ease  and  sympathy,  and  cover  the 
appointed  fields  with  sound,  if  not  startling, 
commentary." 

H New   Statesman    21:530   Ag  11    '23    250w 

Reviewed   by  Robert  Greenhill 

N    Y   Times   p7  Mr  18  '23   3150w 
"People  who  prefer  predigested  literary  foods 
will  like  Prof.   Foerster's   book." 

h   N   Y  World  p9e  Ag  5  '23  180w 

"The  author  has  studied  his  subjects  care- 
fully, and  his  work  shows  the  insight  that 
comes  with  a  sympathetic  approach  to  both 
nature    and    literature." 

+  Outlook  133:668  Ap  11  '23  50w 
"WTiile  a  different  method  would  have  yielded 
a  more  compact  and  more  graphic  study,  he 
always  infuses  his  data  with  critical  thought 
and,  in  the  main,  produces  a  vigorous  and  pene- 
trating interpretation  of  what  Nature  meant  to 
each  of  the  authors  considered.  The  work  mav 
not  augment  our  esteem  for  standard  American 
literature,  but  so  painstaking  and  so  eager  an 
analysis  can  hardly  fail  to  enlarge  our  under- 
standing of  it." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Mr  25  '23 
2000w 
"Mr.  Foerster's  book  strikes  us  as  unequal. 
He  is  admirable  on  Thoreau,  whom  he  admires 
and  loves:  he  is  a  great  deal  less  than  adequate 
upon  Whitman.  He  cannot  get  the  man  within 
his  focus." 

-I The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p300  My 

3  '23  2100W 

Wis   Lib  Bui  19:409  Jl  '23 

FONHUS,  MIKKJEL.  Trail  of  the  elk;  from 
the  Norwegian.  234p  il  $2  Century  [6s 
J.    Cape] 

23-9245 
One  of  the  superstitious  beliefs  of  the  peas- 
antry in  the  desolate  mountain  regions  of  Nor- 
way is  that  humans  after  death  are  sometimes 
changed  into  beasts.  In  this  tale  the  trans- 
migration has  been  of  a  mad  Swede  into  a 
giant  elk,  Rauten,  roaming  mountains  and  val- 
ley in  defiance  of  all  hunters.  One  intrepid 
hunter,  Gaupa,  and  his  dog  Bjonn  are  equally 
obsessed  with  the  thought  of  slaying  him.  It 
is  a  weird  tale  of  persistence,  lone  trails,  sick- 
ness, battles  and  defeats;  of  the  tragic  death 
of  Bjonn,  and  of  a  final  fantastic  encounter 
between  the  crazed  Gaupa  and  the  wizard 
Rauten. 


Booklist   20:56   N   '23 

"The  book  is  unusual,  very  different  from  the 
average  animal  story.  Apparently  the  author 
is  himself  saturated  with  the  sights  and  sounds 
he  depicts;  there  is  no  sense  of  effort  any- 
where, or  of  strain.  This  very  simplicity  of 
acceptance  has  a  restfulness  which  is  more 
than  a  little  soothing  in  its  contrast  to  the 
all  but  feverish  unrest  of  so  many  of  our 
modern   novels." 

+  N    Y   Times  pl9   S   2   '23  780w 

"In  'The  Trail  of  the  Elk'  Fonhus,  like  many 
of  his  countrymen,  displays  a  style  of  such 
conscious  simplicity  that  at  times  it  grows 
into  an  irritating  mannerism.  He  creates  at- 
mosphere, suspense  and  a  sustainment  of  drama, 
but  it  is  doubtful  (even  judging  him  by  his 
translator)  if  he  has  written  an  enduring  clas- 
sic-  The  story  isn't  really  for  children;  but 
neither   is   it   entirely   for   grown-ups.     There    is 


almost  too  much  atmosphere  and  not  enough 
substance.  None  the  less  the  tale  is  a  fine 
one  and  calculated  to  inspire  an  authentic 
thrill."     A.    D.    Douglas 

H NY  Tribune  p25   S  9  '23   320w 

"A  bit  of  vivid  and  beautiful  descriptive 
writing  that  will  appeal  to  discriminating  read- 

+  Wis    Lib    Bui    19:444    O    '23 

FOOTE,  JOHN  TAINTOR.    Song  of  the  dragon; 

and    other    stories.     311p     $2     Appleton 

23-2884 

In  the  title  story  a  very  young  actress,  car- 
ried away  by  patriotic  enthusiasm  during  the 
war,  allows  herself  to  be  engaged  by  the  U.  S. 
secret  service,  to  get  hold  of  some  private 
papers  giving  away  a  German  plot  to  destroy 
the  American  munition  factories.  She  sucqeeds, 
and  later,  by  the  force  of  her  beauty  and 
personality,  likewise  succeeds  in  overcoming  the 
prejudice  of  her  would-be  parents-in-law  against 
the  unpleasant  publicity  into  which  her  first 
act  had  brought  her.  The  other  stories  are: 
Economic  independence;  The  white  grouse; 
Spirit  dope;  Soft  craws;  Cherries;  Shame  on 
you. 


Boston   Transcript  p5  Mr  10  '23   780w 
"They    are    clever,    well    built,    and    according 
to    standard    specifications,    with    an    occasional 
emphasis  of  the   smart,   slangy  type." 
-f   Lit    R    p538    Mr   17    '23    70w 
"The   tales '  are   pleasant,    conventional   maga- 
zine  stories,   but   there   is   enough   of   variety   in 
their    subjects    to    enable    them     to    appeal    to 
several   tastes.     They   are  agreeably   written,    if 
somewhat  too  long  drawn  out,  and  will  no  doubt 
serve   their  purpose  of   passing  an    idle  hour  or 
two    sufllcientlv    well." 

H NY   Times   p22   Ja   28    '23    600w 

FOOTNER,      HULBERT.      Ramshackle      house. 
Slip   $2   Doran 

23-11087 

"It  concerns  pre-eminently  a  certain  Miss 
Pendleton  Broome,  chatelaine  of  Ramshackle 
House.  Miss  Broome,  true  to  the  good  old 
Southern  style,  has  nothing  much  when  the 
story  opens  except  ancestors.  Nothing  in  a 
material  sense,  that  is.  Apart  from  that,  all 
that  a  heroine  could  ever  crave  was  hers. 
Abundant  good  looks,  breeding,  poise,  a  sense 
of  humor,  radiant  good  health,  and  a  logical 
mind.  But,  alas!  Broome's  Point  was  such  an 
out-of-the-way  place  that  she  was  wasting 
her  sweetness  on  the  desert  air.  Of  course, 
the  inevitable  happened.  But  the  trouble  was 
that  a  great  deal  more  happened  also.  Out  of 
the  clear,  untroubled  Southern  sky  there  came 
a  ghastly  murder  charge.  How  she  hid  the 
suspected  murderer  in  the  tangled,  overgrown 
vastnesses  of  her  ancestral  acres,  and  in  the 
rambling  interior  of  Ramshackle  House  itself; 
how  she  undertook  to  unravel  the  mystery  that 
baffled  the  whole  country;  how  she  kept  at  bay 
a  prospective  husband  in  the  person  of  the 
world's  wealthiest;  how  the  strange  and 
crowded  events  brought  her  into  a  working 
alliance  with  New  York's  underworld;  and 
finally,  how  she  brought  the  real  culprit  to  a 
deserved  and  ignominious  end — all  this  Mr. 
Footner    tells,    and    more." — N    Y    Times 


"Turning  aside  from  the  particular  virtues 
and  errors  of  'Ramshackle  House,'  we  can  say 
of  it,  while  it  runs  the  even  tenor  of  its 
nverage  way.  that  it  is  an  entertaining  tale 
furnishing-  plenty   of   excitement." 

H Boston    Transcript   p4    Jl    28    '23    250w 

"The  thing  holds  the  attention  closely;  a 
mystery  yarn  above  the  average." 
+  Lit  R  p72  S  22  '23  300w 
"A  thoroiighly  engaging  as  well  as  a  thor- 
oughly exciting  tale.  It  has  plenty  of  dash  and 
spirit  and  speeds  easily  along  to  its  perfectly 
satisfactory   conclusion." 

-I-   n"  Y  Times  p27   Jl   1   "23   750w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p880  D  13 
'23    190w 


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169 


FORBES,        MRS       JOAN        ROSITA       (TORR). 

Quest;    the    storv    of    Anne,    three    men,    and 

some   Arabs.     302p   $2   Holt 

Impressions,  in  novel  form,  of  the  Near  East 
in  1920,  giving  pictures  of  Damascus,  Cairo, 
Beyrout,  Jerusalem  and  the  surrounding 
country.  Anne  Clevedon,  a  beautiful  English 
woman  whose  husband  had  been  killed  in  the 
war.  goes  to  the  Near  East  for  a  complete 
change  of  scene.  She  is  much  interested  in 
conditions  as  she  finds  them  and  consents  to 
do  some  secret  service  work.  After  passing 
thru  some  rather  trying  ordeals,  Anne  is  ready 
and  willing  to  take  up  life  and  love  once  more. 


"If  she  omitted  the  'Dell-isms'  in  her  book, 
and  economized  in  local  color,  she  might  do 
very   excellent    work." 

1-   Boston  Transcript  p8  N  21  '23  300w 

"This  is  not  sensationalism,  although  it  is 
a  high  stepping  story  of  adventure,  with  an 
allowance  of  'thrills'  for  Rosita  Forbes  knows 
the  Near  East,  and  she  is  really  more  con- 
cerned here  with  its  politics  and  social  con- 
ditions than  with  the  romance  of  her  hero- 
ine. .  .  The  style  of  the  book  is  good  and  on 
the  whole  it  is  well  planned,  though  the  socio- 
political elements  are  a  little  out  of  propor- 
tion to  the  rest.  But  tlie  story  moves.  A  very 
good  piece  of  sound  literary  workmanship." 
H Lit    R   pl67   O   20   '23   280w 

"Fiction  written  round  the  author's  observa- 
tion of  Oriental  nations  and  customs.  Local 
colour;    well    documented." 

-f  New   Statesman    20:supxii   D    2    '22    2Cv.' 

"The  book  contains  a  great  many  interest- 
ing descriptions  both  of  places  and  customs, 
besides  its  political  arguments.  Those  who 
wish  to  learn  something  about  this  particular 
portion  of  the  East  will  find  'Quest'  well  worth 
reading." 

+   N  Y  Times  p9  O  14  '23  330w 

Reviewed  by  E.  W.   Osborn 

N    Y  World  p6e  N  4  '23   330w 

"This  book  is  interesting,  not  as  a  novel, 
but  as  a  record  of  the  opinion  of  a  woman 
traveller  in  Syria  who  is  interested  in  the  pol- 
itics of  that  country.  It  must  be  owned  that 
the  sentimental  story  of  Anne  is  not  either 
interesting  or  original.  The  book,  however,  is 
worth  reading  from  the  political  standpoint." 
H Spec  129:1013  D  30  '22  180w 

"Vivid  as  are  its  de.scription.'?,  the  book 
strikes  one  as  too  closely  packed,  and  there 
are  bits  of  historical  information  that  need  re- 
vising." 

-I-  —  The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p729    N 
9    '22    280w 

FORD,  JAMES   LAUREN.     Hot  Corn   Ike.     300p 

$2   Button 

23-389R 

"The  central  character,  from  whom  the  novel 
takes  its  title,  is  a  down-at-heels  fellow  who 
has  for  many  years  sold  hot  corn  from  a  pot 
boiling  on  a  street  corner  in  'de  Ate'  during  the 
green  corn  season;  during  the  rest  of  the  year 
he  has  given  precious  service  to  the  leader  of 
the  district.  Michael  Grogan,  saloon  keeper  and 
political  boss.  A  'silk-stocking'  reformer,  sent 
into  the  district  by  an  uptown  club  bent  on 
doing  good,  invokes  an  ordinance  against  street 
encumbrances  and  drives  Hot  Corn  Ike  off  the 
corner  where  he  had  done  a  flourishing  busi- 
ness for  twenty  years.  But  Hot  Corn  is  an 
astute  person.  He  has  learned  much  about 
politics  during  the  years  he  has  rounded  up 
votes  for  Grogan,  and  he  takes  an  important 
part  in  the  scheme,  gradually  concocted,  bv 
which  the  result  of  a  presidential  campaign  Is 
decided."— N  Y  Times 


"Here  is  a  book  which  no  follower  or  prac- 
titioner or  student  of  practical  politics  can  af- 
ford to  be  without  and  no  lover  of  good  tales 
should   miss."     \V.   E.   C. 

+   Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   plO  Ap 
29  '23   620w 

"Mr.  Ford's  story  owes  its  principal  appeal 
to  its  accurate  and  vivid  local  color.  .  .  The 
book  is  not  a  first-rate  novel,  but  it  is  a  good 
presentation,  half  fictional,  half  historical,  of 
certain  phases  of  old  New  York  life."  Allan 
Nevins 

h   Lit    R   p604   Ap   14    '23   600w 

"No  one  is  better  fitted  than  James  L.  Ford 
for  such  a  realistic  picture  of  New  York  City's 
past,  as  he  abundantly  proved  in  his  book  of 
reminiscence,  'Forty-Odd  Years  in  the  Literary 
Shop.'  The  semblance  of  fiction  wit"h  which  he 
has  clothed  his  social  and  political  memories 
in  this  new  book  is  sufficiently  interesting  to 
give  added  entartainment  in  its  depiction  of 
character." 

-f-   N  Y  Times  pll  F  11  '23  720w 

"From  the  deep  wells  of  the  mysterious  past 
Mr.  Ford  has  dredged  little  save  a  mud  bottom 
and  from  the  stored  splendor  of  his  memory 
little  save  the  oppressive  jangle  of  that  memory 
going  round  and  round  on  a  perpetual  fiber 
nickel."      A.   D.   Douglas 

—  NY  Tribune   p20  Mr  4   '23   850w 

"Mr.  Ford  has  so  determinedly  worked  to 
keep  his  chapters  on  the  fictional  side  that  he 
has  destroyed  most  of  the  sense  of  environ- 
ment. But  if  Mr.  Ford  is  inscrutable  in  his 
way,  he  is  also  clever.  It  is  because  he  sug- 
gests so  much  more  than  he  tells  that  he  brings 
us,  as  we  have  said,  to  regret."     E.   W.   Osborn 

h   N    Y   World   p6e  F  11  '23   330w 

Survey   50:123   Ap   15   '23   40w 

FORM  AN,    HENRY   JAMES.   Enchanted  garden. 
311p   $2  Little 

23-11804 

"Roderic,  the  hero,  has  fled  his  New  England 
home  to  disprove  a  girl's  statement  that  he  was 
nothing  but  a  boy.  On  the  sailing  vessel  he 
meets  Alene,  whoin  he  finally  marries  after 
being  shipwrecked  on  a  South  Pacific  island, 
w^here  she  lives  with  her  crabbed  father,  a  sort 
of  Prospero  trading  in  copra.  When  the  old 
man  dies  Roderic  becomes  master  of  the  island. 
For  a  time  he  lives  in  peace.  Eventually,  how- 
ever, a  nostalgia  for  his  New  England  home 
possesses  his  spirit.  At  last  he  tears  himself 
away  from  his  island  and  rushes  back  by  boat 
and  train  to  his  father's  house — only  to  find  it 
and  all  the  old  life  a  thing  of  ruin.  And  from 
his  position  in  the  past  he  perceives  the  worth 
of  his  present  life.  With  that  understanding 
he  hurries  back  to  his  island,  his  wife  and  his 
accustomed   life." — N  Y   Tribune 


"Readers  of  that  delightful  book  'Forty-Odd 
Years  in  the  Literary  Shop'  became  aware  that 
Mr.  Ford  knows  New  York  as  Thackerav  knew 
London,  and  that  he  views  it  with  a  similar 
combination  of  humor,  affection  and  good-na- 
tured cynicism.  'Hot  Corn  Ike'  puts  a  little  of 
his  knowledge  into  the  form  of  fiction."  E.  L  P 
+  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  23  '23  760w 
Cleveland   p39  My  '23 


Booklist  20:101  D  '23 
"In  whichever  way  we  look  at  it  'The  En- 
chanted garden'  is  a  very  pleasant  story.  If 
it  gives  us  an  inkling  that  Mr.  Foi-man  is  cap- 
able of  bigger  work  than  he  has  as  yet  under- 
taken, we  should  not  quarrel  with  him  for 
that."      D.    L.    M. 

-f   Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  22  '23  1200w 
Int    Bk   R   p71   N   '23   320w 
Lit    R   p319   D   1    '23    160w 
New    Repub   36:188    O    10    '23    70w 
N   Y  Times  pl8  S  2  '23   450w 
"The    perception,    the    discrimination    and    the 
ease  with  which  Mr.   Forman  moves  in  and  out 
ainong  his  characters  makes  one   believe   in   his 
future    as    a    novelist.      And,    of   course,    he   has 
alreadv  an   a,grpeable  present."   Bruce  Gould 
+    N    Y    Tribune    p21    S    9    '23    700w 
"The    book    is    altoe-ether    fascinating    in    its 
stories  of  the  sea.  Evidently,  Henry  James  For- 
man  is  writing  about   a  subiect   with  which   he 
is    most    familiar.    The    smell    of    the    sea    per- 
meates the  leaves  of  the  book.  The  nautical  con- 
versation is  refre.=hingly  salty." 

-f  N  Y  World  p9e  N  18  '23  500w 


170 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


FORM  AN,  H:  J. — Continued 

"The  first  part  of  this  novel  is  undoubtedly 
the  best,  for  the  author  is  more  at  home  in 
handling  action  and  adventure  than  in  his  not 
very  convincing  character  analysis  and  in  his 
rather    wordy    philosophizing." 

-| The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p654    O 

4    '23    200w 

FORSTER,       EDWARD       MORGAN.       Celestial 
omnibus,   and  other  stories.      163p     $2     Knopf 

A23-2167 
The  scene  of  these  fantasies  is  the  realm  of 
the  great  god  Pan  and  a  joyous  spirit  of  pagan- 
ism runs  thru  them  all.  In  the  first,  "The  story 
of  a  panic"  a  disagreeable  boy  at  a  picnic 
makes  a  whistle,  the  first  pipe  of  which  throws 
the  picnickers  into  a  panic,  but  releases  the 
pent-up  spirit  of  the  boy  and  makes  him  kin 
with  stars  and  trees  and  water.  In  the  title 
story,  a  small  boy  buys  a  return  ticket  on  the 
Sunrise  and  Sunset  omnibus  and  rides  into 
heaven  over  a  bridge  of  rainbows.  Contents: 
The  story  of  a  panic;  The  other  side  of  the 
hedge;  The  celestial  omnibus;  The  other  king- 
dom; The  curate's  friend;  The  road  from 
Colonus. 


Booklist  20:56   N   '23 

Boston    Transcript    p4    Ag    11    "23    720w 
Cleveland  p69  S  '23 
"  'Wildly    and    strangely    beautiful.'     Rebecca 
West  has  said  of  Forster's  novels.     The  phrase 
applies     here.       Philosophical     subtlety,     humor, 
and  fantasy  are  combined  in  the  Forster  blend. 
We  have  rarely  so  enjoyed  a  book  of  tales." 
+   Lit   R  p83   S  29   '23   330w 
"If    there    is    any    antidote    for    the    sluggish 
poisons    of    materialism,    it    is    to    be    found    in 
such  writing  as  this.   The  possessor  of  an   alert 
intelligence    and    an    unerring    sense    of    beauty, 
Mr.    Forster    is    interested    in    literature    for    its 
quickening    values:    his    work    has     gaiety    and 
philosophic    charm." 

+  Nation  117:247  S  5  '23  80w 
"Here  is  a  collection  of  six  short  stories  of 
a  flavor  so  vmusual  and  delectable  that  whoever 
first  meets  the  author  in  them  will  surely  hasten 
to  read  his  previous  books,  to  repeat  the  pleas- 
ure afforded   bv  this  one." 

+  N   Y  Times  pl7  Ag  5  '23   650w 
Reviewed   by   Laurence   Stallings 

-f   N    Y    World    p9e    Jl   29    "23   190w 

FORSTER,    EDWARD    MORGAN.      Pharos    and 
Pharillon.  119p  $1..50  Knopf  [5s  Hogarth  press] 
962.1  Alexandria,    Egypt  23-11609 

In  a  series  of  historical  sketches  Mr  Forster 
recreates  some  episodes  in  the  life  of  Alexan- 
dria from  earliest  times  till  today.  Under 
Pharos  he  has  grouped  a  few  antique  events; 
under  Pharillon  some  modern  events  and  per- 
sonal impressions.  "He  writes  about  everything 
in  the  unparagoned  history  of  Alexandria  which 
interest.?  him  ...  of  Pharos  the  great  light- 
house, of  the  accession  to  the  throne  of 
Ptolemy  Epiphanes.  of  a  Jewi.^h  deputation  to 
Caligula,  of  an  eighteenth  century  missionarv 
lady  v/ho  visited  Egypt,  of  the  coming  of 
Spring  to  the  .skirts  of  the  Desert  or  of  a 
fashions  hie  street  in  the  modern  Levantine 
city.  He  uses  irony,  but  so  delicately  you 
would  hardly  know  it:  and  behind  his  scepti- 
cism one  is  just  aware  of  an  ardent  and  almost 
mysticfil  quality  of  mind.  The  last  essay  is 
devoted  to  the  poetry  of  a  Greek  dweller  in 
modern  Alexandria,  Mr.  C.  P.  Cavafy."  (New 
Statesman) 


"The  book,  though  written  with  subtlety  and 
wit,    is   scantv   literarx-    fare." 

h   Bookm   5S:335  N   '23  80w 

"The  varied  and  colorful  history  of  an  ancient 
city!  It  sounds  like  a  solemn  undertaking.  Mr. 
Forster  makes  it  one  of  sparkle  and  delight." 
I.  W.  L. 

-1-  Boston  Transcript  p5  S  22  '23  950w 
Reviewed   bv    G.    L.   Dickinson 

Lit    R   pSOO   Je  30   '23   900w 


"Pharos  and  Pharillon — except  for  one  essay 
which  recalls  Mr.  Lytton  Strachey — is  wholly 
peculiar  and  wholly  good.  Therefore  we  con- 
clude that  in  Alexandria  Mr.  Forster  found 
his    spiritual    home."    J:    M.    Murry 

+  New    Repub   35:293   Ag  8   '23  1700w 

"In  'Pharos  and  Pharillon'  Mr.  Forster  has 
taken  most  beguiling  themes,  and  made  of 
them  as  distinguished  a  book  as  this  year  is 
likely  to  produce.  An  artist  of  exceptional 
sympathy,  humour,  intellect,  and  individuality, 
he  refuses  to  be  defined.  But  his  classic  pudor 
is  infinitely  more  intriguing  than  the  personal 
candours  of  others,  and  having  raked  unsuc- 
cessfully, though  with  the  intensest  enjoyment, 
his  Alexandrian  sketches,  we  await  his  next 
book  with  impatient  and  heightened  curios- 
ity."  R.    M. 

-h  New   Statesman   21:302   Je   16   '23   1500w 

"It  is  with  an  art  so  simple  as  to  seem  almost 
naive   that   E.    M.    Forster   pictures   ancient  and 
modern    Alexandria    in    thirteen    short    essays." 
+   N   Y  Times  pl5   S  2   '23  ISOOw 

"If,  as  he  says,  the  history  of  Alexandria  is 
yet  to  be  written,  surely  he  is  the  man  to  do 
it,  even  if  we  must  thereby  renounce  a  suc- 
cessor to  'Howard's  End'  and  'The  Room  with 
a    View.'  " 

-I-  Spec    130:1089    Je    30    '23    lOOw 
"Mr.    Forster    is    at    the    centre    of    his    sub- 
ject,   and    at    the    centre    of    himself." 

+  The     Times     [London]     Lit     Sup     p369 
My   31    '23    1500W 


FORT,      CHARLES.     New     lands;     introd.       by 
Booth    Tarkington.    249p   $3    Boni    &    Liveright 
521  Astronomy  23-17622 

In  this  book  the  author  challenges  with  con- 
siderable violence  some  accepted  astronomical 
theories  and  present  in  exchange  some  hypo- 
theses of  his  own.  These  are;  first,  that  the 
earth  neither  revolves  on  its  axis  nor  moves  in 
an  orbit  but  is  stationary;  second,  that  the 
stars,  instead  of  being  luminous  bodies,  are 
openings  in  a  shell -like  revolving  composition 
which  surrounds  the  earth;  third,  that  not 
only  are  the  planets  much  nearer  to  us  than 
scientists  suppose,  but  that  new  ones  lie  close 
at  hand,  so  near  in  fact  that  beings  on  them 
have  made  repeated  attempts  to  communicate 
with  us,  by  means  of  manifestations  which 
simple  folk  have  seen  and  interpreted  as 
spiritual    phenomena. 


"An  amazingly  interesting  book,  whether  Mr. 
Fort  be  regarded  as  a  marvel  or  as  a  madman." 
Boston    Transcript    p6    D    26   '23    280w 
Reviewed  bv  R.   H.  Wollstein 

N  Y   Times   p2  N   25   '23   500w 
Reviewed    bv    Will    Cuppv 

N  Y  Tribune  p21  N  4  '23  ISBOw 
"  'New  Lands'  may  be  said  to  be  a  diverting 
if  unavailing  fusion  of  fact,  fancy  and  philoso- 
phy. The  large  element  of  fancy  may  not  impress 
the  average  reader  ss  w^ell  calculated  to  con- 
tribute strength  or  durability  to  the  resulting 
literary    alloy." 

Springf  d   Republican  p8  Ja  2  '24  920w 

FOSBROKE,  GERALD  ELTON.  Character 
qualities  outlined  and  related.  166p  il  $2.50 
Putnam 

138     Character.     Physiognomy  23-2927 

The  book  purports  to  be  a  summing  up  of  the 
evidence  of  individual  qualities  and  tendencies 
as  shown  by  the  reactions  of  the  mind  and 
body  on  the  face,  and  depends  for  its  clarity  to 
the  student  of  character  analysis  on  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  structures  and  vocabulary  de- 
scribed in  the  author's  previous  books.  Its  pur- 
pose is  to  assist  in  doing  away  with  mechanical 
work  in  character  analy.sis  and  in  developing 
a  broader  observation.  It  discusses  first  the 
importance  of  health  and  vitality  in  the  develop- 
ment of  character,  and  then  takes  up  in  turn 
the  positive  or  success  making  qualities  and 
the  negative  or  destructive  qualities.  The  illus- 
trations   were    selected    and   reproduced    from    a 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


171 


book    on    physiognomy    by    Lavater,    written    in 
the  seventeenth   century.     Index. 


"It  should  be  said  at  the  outset  that  a  book 
like  this  comes  within  the  limits  of  recognized 
science  only  so  far  as  it  deals  with  biological 
and  physiological  facts.  The  author  offers 
enough  within  the  scope  of  those  facts  to  make 
his    study    both    interesting    and    profitable." 

-| Boston   Transcript  p4   F  7   '23   450vv 

N  Y   Times  p6  F  25  '23  1750w 
St   Louis  21:95  My  '23 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p426   Je 
21  '23  50w 

FOSTER.     HARRY     LA    TOURETTE.       Beach- 
comber   in    the    Orient.     395p     il     $3     Dodd 
915  East   (Far  East; — Description  and  travel 

23-5765 
The  "tropical  tramp"  continues  his  adven- 
tures, striking  out  this  time  for  the  East.  As 
in  his  South  American  wanderings,  he  follows 
\inconventional  routes  and  earns  his  way  as 
he  goes.  Setting  out  from  Saigon,  in  French 
Indo-China,  he  goes  thru  Caml)odia  and  Siam 
to  Singapore,  where  he  finds  a  job  playing  rag- 
time in  Kwong  Bee's  water- fiont  saloon,  and 
thence  by  cargo  boat  to  the  Philippines.  At 
Manila  an  awaiting  check  fi'om  a  magazine 
editor  raises  him  to  temporary  affluence  and 
he  embarks  in  more  conventional  style  for  Japan 
and  China.  All  along  the  way  it  is  the  human 
and    the    picturesque    that   he    records. 


a  long  poem  to  the  sea,  a  short  sequence  on 
the  Rumanian  sculptor,  Constantin  Brancusi, 
and  some  vers  libre. 


Booklist   19:248  My   '23 
Bookm    57:328    My    '23    130w 
Boston    Transcript   p4  Je   2   '23   3G0w 
"He    saw    the    East,    so    to    speak,    from    the 
under  side,   and  he  writes  entertainingly   of  his 
experiences."     I:  Anderson 

-f  Int  Bk  R  p42  Je  '23  290w 
"Mr.  Foster's  books  are  frankly  journalistic. 
They  are  not  without  a  smack  of  Philistinism. 
They  are  copy;  but  the  kind  of  copy  one  de- 
lights to  read.  It  is  entertaining  as  travel  is 
entertaining,  and  instructive  as  travel  itself 
is  instructive — travel  far  from  the  beaten  path 
where  the  only  guide  is  the  open  road  and  the 
traveller's  innate  faculties  of  observation  and 
reflection."    J:   P.   Rice 

-f  Lit  R  p647  Ap  28  "23  280w 
"Although  a  certain  narrative  interest  per- 
vades the  book,  its  chief  value  is  in  its  de- 
scriptions of  strange  lands  and  their  people,  in 
its  humorous  anecdotes  of  outlandish  characters, 
and  in  its  portrayal  of  the  customs  of  various 
Oriental   races." 

-f  N  Y  Times  p2  My  6  '23  1150w 
"He  has  the  eye  of  a  newspaper  reporter  for 
gathering  details.  His  description  is  colorful 
and  vivid.  He  brings  a  glamour  of  romance 
over  these  little  kingdoms  nestling  in  the  Ori- 
ent. In  spite  of  Foster's  insistence  throughout 
the  book  that  he  is  not  a  writer,  he  brings 
1*^  these  unique  sights  a  freshness  and  wonder 
that  communicate  themselves  to  his  pen." 
Milton  Raison 

-t-  N    Y   Tribune   pl8   Mr  18  '23    980w 
"The   book   is   a   queer  jumble  in   some  ways, 
but    it    is   assuredly   readable,    and   abundant   il- 
lustration  adds  to  the  pleasure." 

H Outlook  133:588  Mr  28   '23  llOw 

"An  unusual  experience  which  is  narrated 
with  light-hearted  gaiety  and  apparent  veracity. 
It  is  quite  worth  reading.  Mr.  Foster  has  a 
pleasant  and  unobtrusive  sense  of  humour,  and 
the  faculty  of  giving  a  cinematographic  sense 
of  movement  and  colour  to  his  descriptions." 
-t-  Sat    R   135:808   Je   16    '23    90w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p315   My 
10   '23   1050W 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:132    My   '23 

FOSTER,  MRS  JEANNE  ROBERT  (OLIVER). 

Rock-flower.    118p   $1.75    Boni    &    Liveright 
811  23-5967 

A  book  of  poems  lyric  in  quality  and  deli- 
cate in  feeling  and  imagery.  They  include  a 
group  of  love  poems,  verses  for  Japanese  prints. 


"The  pattern  of  the  book  could  not  have 
been  better.  But  the  verse  is  immature,  un- 
forceful  and  pretty.  As  a  first  volume  this 
would  have  been  promising,  for  the  author  has 
a  lyric  quality,  a  variety  of  poetic  subjects  that 
are  not  ordinary.  Yet  her  work  is  interesting 
without    being    compelling." 

h   Bookm  57:469  Je  '23  lOOw 

"The  book  as  a  whole  is  full  of  echoes,  but 
it  possesses  a  sort  of  vigorous  and  unsubtle 
charm,  without  surprises." 

Dial   75:202  Ag  '23   70w 

"She  can  turn  out  excellent  lyrics,  but  the 
freer  forms  were  never  meant  for  her.  The 
content  should  shape  the  form,  and  there  is 
not  one  of  Miss  Foster's  poems  that  would  not 
have  been  much  improved  by  regular  meter. 
The  conservative  forms  she  does  include  show 
how  well  she  can  handle  them."  H.  S.  Gorman 
H Int    Bk    R    p26    Je    '23    120w 

"Much    of    Mrs.     Foster's    poetry    has    vague 
beauty,    some    of    it    a    delicate    melodiousness, 
none  of  it   moves   me   greatly."    W:    R.    Benet 
1-   Lit    R    pG80    My    12    '23    llOw 

"There   is   individuality  and   serious   power  in 
her  verses.     The  book  is  of  uneven  excellence." 
-I-    N    Y   Tribune  pl9  Jl  8  '23  50w 
N    Y    World    pl9e   Je   24    '23    40w 

"Poetry  extraordinarily  dowered  with  a  rich 
and  sane  imaginative  quality,  genuine  emotional 
content,  and  the  tang  of  life  is  to  be  found  in 
this  volume,  which  is  Mrs.  Foster's  third  book. 
What  one  regrets  is  that  selection  of  material 
sometimes  went  wide  of  these  things  to  include 
the  now-familiar  phenomenon  of  short  vers  libre, 
in  which  thought  and  emotion  are  grown  acutely 
self-conscious  and  self-observant,  with  the  usual 
result  of  nreciosity." 

H Outlook   133:900  My   16  '23   220w 

FOSTER,  ORLINE   D.  Stimulating  the  organiza- 
2    tion.  414p  il  $4  Harper 

658    Employment    management  23-8919 

"A  discussion  of  methods  for  securing  maxi- 
mum service  and  efficiency  from  the  employees. 
Emphasis  is  laid  on  careful  placing  and  train- 
ing of  the  worker,  giving  him  proper  incentives 
and  keeping  him  physically  fit.  Also  discusses 
bonus  and  profit  sharing  plans,  house  organs, 
conventions,  etc.  Index." — Booklist 


Booklist  20:44  N  '23 
"To  whatever  phase  one  may  look  up  in 
either  index  or  chapter  tabulation  of  contents, 
one  is  reasonably  sure  of  finding  tempered, 
reasoned  ideas.  Reflectively  one  may  picture, 
for  a  change,  the  downtrodden  employer,  but 
how  refreshing!" 

-1-  Boston  Transcript  p2  D  8  '23  200w 
"If  we  could  live  on  the  theories  so  eloquently 
and  logically  expounded  by  Mr.  Foster  this  would 
really  be  a  pleasant  planet  on  which  to  live,  and 
we  recommend  most  heartily  the  wide-spread 
perusal   of  his  book." 

N   Y  Times   p20  Jl  29  '23  450w 

FOSTER.  WILLIAM  TRUFANT,  and  CATCH- 
INGS,  WADDILL.  Money.  (Publications  of 
the  Pollak  foundation  for  economic  research) 
409p   $3.50   Houghton 

332.4     Money  23-9824 

The  book  is  a  study  of  money  as  the  core  of 
economic  theory,  the  foundation  upon  which 
modern  economic  life  rests.  It  analyzes  the 
ways  in  which  money  helps  and  hinders  all  the 
processes  of  production  and  distribution  and  the 
characteristics  of  monetary  economy  which 
must  be  taken  into  account  in  order  to  keep 
the  machinery  going.  After  a  chapter  given 
to  definition  of  terms  the  book  discusses  money 
in  all  its  bearings— as  a  medium  of  exchange 
and  standard  of  value,  inflation,  rate  of  interest, 
price-level,  circuit  flow  of  money,  etc.  The 
study  having  led  to  the  conclusion  that  the 
most    important   element  in  the  money  problem 


172 


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FOSTER,   W:   T.— Continued 

is   its    instability   of   value,    the   authors   offer  a 

plan  for  stabilizing  its  purchasing  power. 

"This  book  is  an  important  and  timely  pub- 
lication. It  is  a  lucid  expo.sition  of  complex 
subjects  about  which  everybody  possesses  opin- 
ions as  a  convenient  substitute  for  facts."  O.  T. 
Mallery 

+  Ann    Am   Acad   110:222   N   '23   650w 
Booklist    20:40   N    '23 
Boston    Transcript   p4   Ag   18    '23   400w 

"A  book  that  deals  with  the  difficult  subject 
of  money  in  its  theoretical  and  practical  as- 
pects is,  despite  that  fact,  absorbingly  interest- 
ing. This  would  seem  to  be  glory  enough.  But 
Mr.  Foster -has  accomplished  much  more  than 
the  making  of  his  subject  attiactive.  It  is 
also  a  triumph   of  reason."]'  C    T.   M. 

-|-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Dally   News  p8  O  14 
•23   600w 

"No  dry-as-dust  treatise,  but  a  practical, 
readable  and  quite  up-to-the-minute  book.  .  . 
In  sum,  this  book  represents  the  best  and 
soundest  economic  thought  of  the  present  day, 
and  is  an  admirable  popular  exposition  of  the 
fundamental  ideas  and  aims  of  the  new  National 
Monet.Trv    Association."    Carl    Snvder 

+   Management  &  Adm   6:239  Ag  '23  IGOOw 

"It  is  not  impossible  that  some  of  their  prac- 
tical deductions  are  laid  open  to  attack.  Never- 
theless the  book  deals  with  a  fundamental  prob- 
lem of  social  well-being  in  a  manner  uncom- 
monly stimulating  and  suggestive.  It  is  highly 
realistic,  well  thought  out,  and  clearly  pre- 
sented. The  best  service  of  a  reviewer  in  such 
cases  is  perhaps  simply  to  urge  everyone  to 
read,  mark,  and  inwardly  digest."  H:  R. 
Mussey 

H Nation    117:465    O    24    '23   1450w 

"A  popular  book  on  economics  which  con- 
tains more  sense  than  nonsense  and  is  not 
only  entertaining  but  in  pai-ts  witty — that  is  an 
achievement   indeed."   G:   Soule 

+   New    Repub    36:236    O    24    '23    1500w 

FOX,     DAVID.     Doom     dealer;     an     exploit     of 
The    Shadowers,    Inc.    343p    $1.75    McBride 

23-9852 
The  Shadowers,  Incorporated,  was  an  as- 
sociation of  clever  crooks  who  undertook  to 
shadow  criminals  and  force  them  to  disgorge 
their  loot.  Their  objective  in  the  present  In- 
stance is  the  doctor  of  a  sanatorium  for  ner- 
vous invalids  who  makes  it  his  business  to  ar- 
range, a  fake  death  for  people  whose  disap- 
pearance from  the  ken  of  their  world  is  de- 
sirable. At  the  instigation  of  a  rich  maiden 
lady  whose  lover  has  thus  died  at  the  foot  of 
the  altar,  in  the  very  act  of  being  married  to 
her,  and  who  has  also  been  robbed  of  valu- 
able heirloom  jewels,  the  shadowers  are  in- 
vestigating both  the  robbery  and  the  death  of 
Ogden  Ronalds.  The  tracing  of  their  various 
clues  to  the  final  disclosure  of  an  intricate 
plot  and  the  unmasking  of  the  criminal  doc- 
tor   is    a    tale    replete    with    sensational    detail. 


"If  he  takes  his  readers  through  many  pages 
of  bald  and  sometimes  very  dull  exposition  of 
the  courtroom  (juestion  <and  answer  variety, 
Mr.  Fox  al.so  rewards  them  with  a  'close 
packed'  mystery  that  has  its  quota  of  the  re- 
quired thrills.  But  bevond  that  one  can  sav 
little   for    'The   Doom    Dealer!"    W.    E.   H. 

h    Boston    Transcript    p4    Jl    7    '23    390w 

"The    yarn    is    lightly    and    amusingly    told." 
-I-   Lit    R   pll3  O   6   '23    170w 

"It  is  of  more  than  ordinary  interest,  and 
readers  will  be  Vmund  to  watch  for  further 
work  by  David  Fox.  The  prose  is  decidedly 
facile,  and  with  none  of  those  hurried  lapses 
that  more  often  than  not  disfigure  this  type 
of    fiction    and    pain    the    purist." 

-f-   N    Y   Times   pl9   .11    8   '23   600w 

"David  Fox  puts  his  clever  book  creations 
through  another  series  of  detective  .<-.I:ai-p 
practices."  T3.  W.  Osborn 

-h   N    Y    World    pl9o   Je   24   '23   llOw 


FRANCE,  ANATOLE,  pseud.  (JACQUES  ANA- 
TOLE  THIBAULT).  Bloom  of  life:  tr.  by 
J.    I>ewi.s    May.     296p     $2.50     Dodd 

23-6362 
"This  book  is  a  sequel  to  Little  Pierre,  which 
appeared  two  years  ago,  and  it  brings  my  friend 
to  the  eve  of  his  entry  into  the  big  world. 
These  two  volumes,  whereto  may  be  added  My 
Friend's  Book  and  Pierre  NoziSre,  recount — 
although  some  names  are  altered  and  some 
circumstances  feigned — the  memories  of  my 
early  years.  .  .  The  pages  are  filled  with  little 
things  portrayed  with  great  exactitude,  and 
I  am  assured  that,  for  all  their  slightness, 
these  trifles,  emanating  from  a  true  heart  may 
yet    have   power    to    please." — Preface 


Reviewed  by  F.   W.   Garrison 

Nation    116:sup430    Ap    11    '23    1650w 

"He  has  given  us  perhaps  the  most  charming 
and  beautiful  autobiography  of  youth  that  has 
ever  been  written.  'There  is  no  finer  art  than 
France's  very  formlessness;  and  his  mingled 
memories  and  philosophic  digressions,  lit  with 
sly  and  delicious  humor  and  abounding  in  the 
pathos  and  beauty  of  life,  form  a  treasure  for 
people  of  sympathy  and  taste."  Burton  Rascoe 
+   N    Y    Tribune    pl7    Mr    18    '23    1750w 

FRANCK,    HARRY    ALVERSON.    Wandering  in 
northern    China.    502p    il   $5   Century 
915.1   China — Description   and   travel 

23-16480 
"Harry  A.  Franck's  latest  book  is  the  result 
of  two  years'  first-hand  observation  of  Korea. 
Manchuria,  Mongolia  and  China  proper,  and 
treats  of  the  lives  of  the  people  and  their  social 
and   political  conditions." — Springf'd   Republican 


Booklist  20:134  Ja  '24 

"His  book  is  as  interesting  as  the  story  of 
Marco  Polo  who  travelled  in  China  nearly  seven 
hundred  years  ago.  I.,ike  the  great  Venetian 
traveller,  Mr.  Franck  goes  among  the  people 
and  notes  their  manners,  their  habits  and  their 
customs.  His  ability  at  observation  has  grown 
with  its  use,  he  writes  simply  and  well  and  he 
has  deservedly  won  for  himself  a  reputation 
as  the  author  of  some  of  the  best  books  of 
travel  that  have  come  from  the  modern  press." 
J:    Cutler 

-I-    Boston    Transcript    p3    N    3    '23    1750w 
Freeman   8:334   D  12  '23    170w 

"Amid  the  tiresome  deluge  of  books  on  var- 
ious more  or  less  strange  lands  Mr.  Franck's 
never  fail  to  interest  and  amuse.  The  author's 
views  on  most  of  the  baffling  problems  China 
presents  are  shrewd  and  unbiassed,  but  for  the 
most  part  he  leaves  it  to  the  reader  to  form 
his  own  conclusions  from  his  accurate  and  inti- 
mate descriptions  of  life  in  the  interior.  His 
book  has  a  freshness  of  impression  which  no 
old  resident  in  China  could  give,  but  it  was 
written  onlv  after  the  author  had  spent  months 
in  picking  up  the  rudiments  of  Chinese  and 
after  he  had  walked  and  ridden  hundreds  of 
miles  over  impossible  trails  in  the  heart  of  the 
country."   Cass  Canfleld 

+   Lit    R   p258   N   17  '23   llOOw 

"It  is  regrettable  that  he  did  not  by  adding 
an  index  make  'Wandering  in  Northern  China' 
a  valuable  reference  book  as  well  as  an  inform- 
ing and  amusing  companion  of  the  fireside  travel- 
er Its  five  hundred  pages  full  of  useful  informa- 
tion do  not  deserve  the  neglect  into  which  such 
an  oversight  will  inevitably  throw  them.  Clar- 
issa_^R_i_na^ker^^   117:744   D  26   '23   920w 

"Mr  Franck's  residence  in  Peking  affords 
quite  the  most  delightful  part  of  his  interest- 
ing narrative.  The  accuracy  of  our  author  s  ob- 
servations is  self-evident.  He  holds  no  brief 
for  China,  nor  is  he  enj-mored  of  her.  The  ex- 
cellent people  are  wretchedly  governed,  and  he 
could  find  little  outlook  for  a  better  state  of 
t  li  i  n  cs  *  * 

-   4-   NY   World   p9e  N  18  '23   300w 


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"His  thoroug-hness,  judicial  quality,  clear- 
ness of  style,  and  eye  for  the  picturesque  are 
evidenced  on   every   page." 

+  Outlook   135:506   N  21   '23   llOw 
Springf'd    Republican   p6   N    19   '23 

FRANK,    GLENN.    An    American    looks    at    his 
2    world.    364p   $3   Univ.    of  Del.    press,    Newark. 

Del. 

814  23-13342 

Some  of  the  essays  in  this  volume  are  chosen 
from  among  Mr  Frank's  editorials  which  ap- 
pear monthly  in  the  Century  magazine  under 
the  above  title.  Others  are  lectures  delivered 
before  the  faculty  and  students  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Delaware.  There  are  thirty  papers  each 
of  which  deals  with  some  thought  or  problem 
of  the  day.  Among  the  subjects  discussed  are 
how  best  to  dispose  of  a  great  fortune,  Mr 
Bok's  gospel  of  retirement,  the  present-day  lec- 
ture platform,  a  health  service  for  the  nation, 
unionization  of  teachers,  the  function  of  sena- 
tors,   class    journalism,    etc. 


"Cluster  of  essays,  all  exceedingly  readable — 
save  now   and   then,   one   in   which   he   flounders 
somewhat — but    all    provocative   of   thought   &nd 
affording   food    for  discussion."    E.    J.    C. 
-j-  —  Boston  Transcript  pi  N  17  '23  700w 

"Mr.  Frank's  essay  style  is  interesting  without 
being  tempting  and  this  book  of  comment  on 
the  times  is  likeable  for  its  air  of  sound  sane 
thoughtfulness  and  rightness,  rather  than  as 
the  expre'ision  of  a  nersonality."  M  W.  H. 
-] Survey   51:S54  D   15    '23   70w 

FRANK,  TENNEY.     History  of  Rome.     (Amer- 
ican historical  ser.)   613p  $4.50  Holt 

937     Rome— History  23-2349 

With  an  eye  to  the  needs  of  college  classes, 
the  book  is  intended  primarily  for  general  read- 
ers who  are  interested  in  the  political  and  cul- 
tural fortunes  of  the  ancient  republic,  and  there- 
fore aims  rather  to  tell  a  consecutive  story  than 
to  compile  a  reference  book  of  paragraphed 
facts.  The  author  holds  that  the  histories  ema- 
nating from  Europe  are  more  interested  in  the 
imperialistic  problems  of  Rome,  in  the  govern- 
ment of  widely  scattered  provinces  and  in  the 
survival  of  late  Roman  institutions  while  we 
are  naturally  more  concerned  with  Rome's 
earlier  attempts  at  developing  an  effective  gov- 
ernment with  democratic  institutions.  The 
period  of  Cicero  is  treated  with  greater  detail 
than  other  periods  because  Cicero's  correspond- 
ence furnishes  material  from  which  to  picture 
accurately  Rome's  everyday  political  and  social 
life.      Maps,   bibliography,    index. 


"It  is  inevitable  that  in  a  comprehensive  work 
of  this  type  opinions  will  be  found  which  are 
bovmd  to  meet  with  disagreement  from  othei' 
scholars,  but  these  will  not  prevent  its  being 
Avelcomed  as  a  thoughtful  and  scholarly,  as  well 
as  a  very  readable,  work."  A.  E.  R.  Beak 
+  Am  Hist  R  28:730  Jl  '23  900w 
Booklist    20:94    D    '23 

"Though    we    may    seriously    differ    with    Mr. 
Frank    in   some  points   of  importance,   this   is   a 
fine  and   stimulating  book."     W.    S.   Milner 
H Class    Philol    18:85    Ja    '23    3000w 

"Though  evidently  somewhat  rapidly  com- 
posed, the  volume  is  clearly  written,  the  needs 
of  the  general  reader  being  kept  in  mind 
throughout.  On  the  whole,  few  competent  crit- 
ics will  be  likely  to  question  the  a.<?sertion  that 
for  a  combination  of  modernity  of  viewpoint, 
clear  exposition,  reliability,  and  proportion  the 
book  is  not  equaled  by  another  of  its  general 
type  in  the  English  language."  H.  E.  Barnes 
-j Nation    117:20    Jl    4    '23    650w 

"The  work  is  capably  done  on  its  historical 
side  and  is  made  so  interesting  that  both  the 
layman  for  whom  it  is  primarily  written  and 
the  college  classes  into  whose  hands  it  will 
probably  be  put  will  find  it  stimulating  and 
suggestive." 

-f  N  Y  Times  p8  F  25  '23  950w 


Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:307  Je  '23 
The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p342  My 
17   '23    llOw 


FRANK,    WALDO    DAVID.      Holiday.      233p      $2 

Boni    &    Liveright 

23-12748 

In  his  impressionistic  manner  the  author  deals 
with  the  race  problem  in  the  South.  The  town 
is  Nazareth  on  the  gulf — white  Nazareth  and 
Niggertown.  Two  figures  stand  out,  John  Cloud, 
the  tall  young  negro  with  the  zest  for  life  and 
for  the  beauties  of  the  world  about  him,  but 
the  blight  of  race  hatred  upon  him;  and  Vir- 
ginia Hade,  the  white  girl  with  the  under- 
standing soul  and  the  pitying  heart.  Virginia 
surprises  the  fine  clean  limbed  negro  at  his 
swim  in  the  bay  and  they  afterwards  meet  in 
perfect  sympathy  and  understanding.  While 
John  remains  nnaster  of  himself  under  the  emo- 
tional strain,  Virginia's  kindly  nature  is  per- 
verted into  cold-bloodedly  staging  the  usual 
southern   horror. 


"I  do  not  of  course  refer  to  any  superficial 
difference  in  the  language  used,  in  the  use  of 
dialect.  I  refer  to  a  psychological  break,  a  too 
obvious  duality  of  origin  which  suspends  one 
between  the  desire  to  accept  Cloud  as  a 
southern  Negro,  and  the  desire  to  accept  him 
as  a  character  created  by  Frank  for  the  spe- 
cific purposes  of  his  design.  This  break  is  the 
one  serious  interior  defect  that  I  find  in  Holi- 
day. It  does  not,  however,  impair  the  struc- 
tural finish  of  this  novel.  Technically,  it  is 
solid  and  tight.  And  as  an  art  form  it  is 
clean,  superb.  Holiday  therefore  sustains  Wal- 
do Frank's  high  achievement  as  a  literary  ar- 
tist."    Jean   Toomer 

+   Dial  75:386  O  '23  1050w 

"Curiously  into  this  too  extravagant  burlesque 
of  Jabberwocky  he  has  introduced  ome  clear, 
hard  and  definite  perception.  That  is  his  start- 
lingly  accurate  interpretation  of  the  spirit  of  the 
lynching-party.  This  single  fact,  plus  a  bar- 
baric gorgeousness  of  coloring,  gives  the  book 
such  value  as  it  has.  Otherwise  it  is  not  even 
good  extravaganza  because  it  is  not  enticing, 
nor   merry." 

1-  Greensboro  (NX.)  Dally  News  plO  N  11 

'23    500w 

Reviewed   by  J.   J.    Smertenko 

Nation   117:585  N  21  '23  320w 

"Waldo  Frank  has  a  purpose.  It  is  a  fine,  a 
sincere,  a  noble  purpose.  But  a  noble  purpose, 
like  a  blind  man,  should  not  be  allowed  to 
stray  out  into  the  world  alone.  Its  most  valu- 
able companion  is  a  sense  of  humor.  And  I 
have  never  caught  that  and  Waldo  Frank's 
purpose,  or  his  sincerity,  or  his  imagination, 
hand  in  hand."     Robert  Littell 

j_   New    Repub    36:supl2    S    26   '23    1500w 

N  Y  Times  p6  D  16  '23  1200w 
"Despite  our  discomfort,  we  can't  help  be- 
lieving that  any  one  who  writes  in  this  fashion 
is  either  lazy  or  trying  to  show  off.  or  both. 
We  realize,  of  course,  that  this  is  the  era  of 
artistic  insurrection,  when  standards  and  con- 
ventions and  laws  are  to  be  cast  aside  by  bold, 
free  spirits.  Nevertheless,  it  seems  to  us  that 
the  person  who  cannot  say  what  he  means  in 
intelligible  English  hasn't  got  very  far  toward 
insurrection  or  anything  else."  F:  F.  Van  de 
Water 

—  NY  Tribune  pl9  Ag  19  '23  1350w 

"It  is  not  offensive  as  'Rahab'  was  offensive, 
through  strained,  vague,  mystical  idealization 
of  animalism,  and  yet  not  free  of  that  same 
taint,  and  from  one  point  of  view  more  of- 
fensive through  having  in  mind  sexual  contact 
between   white  and   Negro." 

—  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ag  26  '23  220w 

"His  achievement  lies  in  the  opening  the 
doors  of  a  cramping  tradition  for  all  who  may 
to  escape  to  fresh  experiment.  This  he  has 
done,  in  the  present  case,  with  a  work  of 
convincing  beauty." 

H Survey    51:supl90    N    1    '23    2000w 


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FRANKAU,    GILBERT.    Woman    of    the    hori- 
zon. 352p  $2  Century  [6s  Chatto  &  W.] 

23-9459 
Francis  Gordon  is  a  rich  and  self-indulgent 
Englishman  with  literary  gifts.  He  had  had 
many  affairs  with  women,  had  married  young, 
and  at  twenty-seven  finds  himself  a  widower. 
All  his  enjoyment  of  the  good  things  of  life 
Is  accompanied  by  an  undercurrent  of  dis- 
satisfaction and  uneasy  quest.  He  sets  out 
on  an  extensive,  aimless  tour  thru  India,  China, 
and  the  tropics  of  both  hemispheres.  He 
meets  more  women  in  various  walks  of  life  and 
he  is  several  times  on  the  point  of  surrender 
and  re-marriage.  But  at  Agra  in  India,  before 
the  Taj  Mahal,  he  has  a  vision  of  the  one 
woman,  his  soul  mate,  whom  he  thinks  of  as 
the  woman  of  the  horizon.  Thruout  his  travels 
he  is  writing,  feverishly  at  times,  on  a  new 
poem  in  his  own  satiric  vein.  When  disaster 
overtakes  his  fortune  and  he  is  reduced  to  a 
small  income,  he  flounders  about  between  des- 
pair and  an  artificial  courage.  In  this  mood 
he  meets  Beatrice,  his  dream  woman,  and  thru 
her  experiences  a  rebirth. 


"It  is  a  moving  tale,  well  told  and  interest- 
ing."   J.    S.    B. 

-I-   Boston    Transcript   p3   Jl   14    '23    600w 
Cleveland    p68    S    '23 
"The  novel  is  a   foray  of  'fine  writing.'    Now 
and    then    it    is    very    rickety   as    to    grammar." 
R.   C.   Halliday 

—  Int   Bk   R  p60  O  '23  150w 
Lit    R    p896   Ag   H    '23   600w 

"If  the  author  had  been  frank  enough  to  l^t 
this  novel  stand  simply  as  a  gay  narrative  of 
light  amours,  smartly  and  cynically  disclosed 
after  the  manner  of  Schnitzler,  it  could  be  set 
down  as  an  adroit  and  well-modulated  perform- 
ance. With  the  m,oral  sugar-coating  and  the 
quest-of-the-perfect-woman  business  dragged 
in,    it    leaves    rather    a    bad    taste." 

H   Nation   117:247  S  5   '23  80w 

N    Y   Times  p24  Je   3  '23   650w 

"The  book  has  been  both  under-written  and 
over-written.  Some  episodes  might  well  be 
omitted.  Others  might  be  exploited."  Ruth 
Snyder 

—  NY    World    pl9e    Jl    1    '23    600w 

"It  is  a  narrative  that  entertains,  however, 
one  may  question  the  underlying  sensational- 
ism of  the   sex  interest." 

H Springf'd    Republican  p7a  S  30  '23  400w 


FRASER,      WILLIAM      ALEXANDER.        Caste. 

274p       $2       Doran       [7s    6d    Hodder    &    S.] 

22-25227 

When  an  English  official  in  India  marries  a 
native — of  however  high  rank  among  her  own 
people — he  loses  caste  absolutely  and  becomes 
an  outcast.  The  inexorability  of  this  social 
law  is  followed  out,  in  this  Hindu  tale,  to  a 
tragic  conclusion.  The  story  depicts  the  fan- 
atical hatred  of  the  Mahrattas  for  the  English, 
their  plotting  to  overthrow  the  foreign  rule 
by  fair  means  or  foul,  goaded  on  or  deterred 
by  their  religious  superstitions.  Under  the 
protection  of  one  of  the  leaders  of  a  Mahratta 
band  is  a  beautiful  dancing  girl,  pure  in  spirit, 
and  of  resourceful  wisdom.  Captain  Barlow, 
an  English  officer  falls  under  her  spell.  He 
saves  her  life  and  she  in  turn  saves  his  and, 
in  the  face  of  extreme  danger,  the  English 
cause.  He  loves  her,  but  altho  he  has  learned 
that  she  is  a  native  princess  of  high  rank  and 
that,  abandoned  by  him.  a  living  hell  in  the 
seraglio  of  a  hated  Indian  prince  awaits  her, 
they  both  know  that  the  barrier  to  their  mar- 
riage is  insurmountable.  She  takes  the  only 
alternative  left  to  her  and  sacrifices  herself 
at  the   shrine  of  Omkar. 


Lit   R   p666  My   5   '23   150w 
"As    a    novel    of    romantic    adventure    it    is    a 
capable,    interesting,    picturesque   tale." 

-f   N    Y    Times    p22    Ja    28    '23    800w 
"An     adventurous     excursion     into     the     best 
Dumas   tradition."   A.   D.   Douglas 

+   N     Y    Tribune    p22    F    4    '23    360w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p749    N 
16    '22    210w 


FRAZER,  SIR  JAMES  GEORGE.  Golden 
bough;  a  study  in  magic  and  religion.  752p 
il  |5  Macmillan 

291     Religion.     Magic.     Folklore  22-21418 

"Sir  James  G.  Frazer's  'Golden  Bough'  first 
issued  thirty-two  years  ago  in  two  volumes  and 
since  expanded  into  twelve,  is  here  reprinted  in 
an  abridged  edition  for  the  delight  of  the  gen- 
eral reader  and  in  the  interest  of  all  who, 
whether  as  amateurs  or  experts,  are  concerned 
in  folk-lore,  anthropology  and  the  other  socio- 
logical sciences.  The  author  tells  us  that  while 
the  bulk  of  the  work  has  been  reduced  to  752 
pages  he  has  receded  in  nothing  from  the  in- 
terpretations originally  offered,  one  reason  being 
that  new  evidence  which  has  since  reached  him 
serves  to  confirm  and  illustrate  rather  than 
invalidate.  No  bibliography  Is  attempted,  and 
the  notes  that  underlined  almost  every  page  of 
the  complete  work  have  disappeared.  A  single 
picture  remains  as  frontispiece;  reproducing  the 
'Golden  Bough'  painted  by  Turner." — Boston 
Transcript 


"Like  most  books  which  deal  with  a  real 
conflict  of  ideas.  'Caste'  has  genuine  appeaL 
It  is  a  novel  of  ideas,  but  it  is  a  novel  of 
ideas  well  fortressed  with  exciting  incidents." 
D.    L.    M. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p6    Ja   31    '23    llOOw 
Int    Bk    R    p79    F    '23    220w 


Boston   Transcript  pi   N   25  '22  lOOOw 
Cath    World    117:124   Ap   '23    1350w 

"This  edition  of  The  Golden  Bough  is  a  very 
successful  feat  of  compression.  ,  The  classical 
reader  will  inevitably  regret  that  the  par- 
ticular omissions  deprive  him  of  the  author's 
interpretation  of  many  strange  phenomena  of 
Greek  and  Roman  custom.  But  the  author  had 
to  eliminate  matter  without  fear  or  favor,  and 
on  the  whole  full  justice  has  been  done  to 
ancient  rites  and  customs.  Whatever  views 
critics  may  entertain  regarding  Sir  James 
Frazer's  theories,  his  work  in  its  present  form 
can  be  recommended  to  all  students  of  ancient 
life  and  thought,  and  now  with  somewhat 
greater  hope  that  the  recommendation  will  be 
followed  by  actual  reading."  Campbell  Bonner 
H Class    Philol    18:76   Ja   '23   600w 

"In  this  work,  the  author  can  justly  lay 
claim  to  something  more  than  the  modest  laurels 
of  an  erudite  compiler.  If  he  has  by  no  means 
solved  some  of  the  basic  problems  of  compara- 
tive religion,  he  has  at  least  stated  them  with 
clarity  and  provided  a  formulation  of  value  for 
subsequent  discussion."  R.  H.  Lowie 
-j Freeman    7:353  Je   20   '23   1850w 

"The  Golden  Bough  in  its  own  line,  is  one 
of  the  books  which  have  made  history.  By 
the  compression  of  the  original  twelve  volumes 
into  one.  Sir  James  Frazer  has  conferred  a 
real  favour  upon  those  whose  libraries  have  no 
room  for  the  large  edition."  J.  E. 

+   Int   J    Ethics  33:439  Jl  '23  150w 
J    Religion   3:664   N   '23   40w 

"An  admirably  abridged  edition  in  which  the 
leading  principles  of  the  book  are  retained 
together  with  an  amount  of  evidence  sufficient 
to  illustrate  them.  With  some  condensation 
here  and  there  the  language  of  the  original  has 
lieen  kept;  no  new  matter  has  been  added, 
neither  have  the  views  expressed  in  the  latest 
complete  edition  been  altered."  S:  C.  Chew 
+  Nation  116:73  Ja  17  '23  1300w 

"Sir  James  Frazer's  'Golden  Bough'  is  in 
inany  respects  the  greatest  achievement  of  an- 
thropology— a  science  the  short  life-history 
of  which  allows  still  of  a  rapid  survey  and  a 
correct  apportionment  of  values.  The  book,  like 
no  other  work,  expresses  the  spirit  of  mod- 
ern humanism — the  union  of  classical  scholar- 
ship with  folk-lore  and  stnthropology."  B.  Mal- 
inowski 

+   Nature  111:658  My  19  '23  3000w 


BOOK   REVIEW   DIGEST 


175 


•'This  condensation  of  a  great  and  voluminous 
book  is  extremely  welcome." 

+   New  Statesman  20:supxviii  D  2  '22  30w 

Pittsburgh    Mo     Bui    28:218    My    '23 

Springfd    Republican  plO  F  13  '23  650w 

"The    language    of    the    original,    if    here    and 

there    condensed,    has    for    the    most    part   been 

preserved.       The     general     effect     is     excellent. 

This  abridgment  is  no  short  cut  to  knowledge, 

and    anyone    who    supposes    that    he    is    thereby 

spai-ed    the    reading    of    the    whole    series    but 

exhibits   himself  as   one   who    is   not   worthy   of 

such  initiation  as  is  thus  allowed  him." 

+  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p790  D  7 
•22  llOOw 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:79   Mr  '23 

FREDERICK,   JOHN   T.      Druida.     286p     il  $2.50 
Knopf 

23-1443 

Druida's  mother  was  the  unhappy  and  dis- 
tracted wife  of  a  coarse,  brutish  farmer  in 
the  valley  of  the  Ked  river  of  the  North.  Her 
father  was  a  man  of  cultivation  and  refinement 
who  had  worked  on  Horsfall's  farm  for  a  while 
and  passed  out  of  sight  and  knowledge  when 
Druida  was  born,  leaving  her  only  his  shelf 
of  books.  Her  beauty  and  fine  intelligence  were 
strangely  alien  to  her  rude  surroundings  and 
the  rude  man  who  passed  as  her  father.  The 
story  tells  of  her  struggle  between  heritage 
and  circumstance,  dream  and  reality,  of  her 
experience  at  the  normal  school,  and  of  her 
intuitively  wise  choice  between  lovers — a  choice 
that  brings  her  back  to  the  soil  which  was 
as  truly  her  lieritage  as  was  her  inheritance 
from   her    father. 


Booklist   19:223  Ap  '23 
Cleveland  p39  My  '23 
Dial   74:520   My   '23   120w 

"It  is  with  difficulty  that  the  substantial 
merits  of  John  T.  Frederick's  first  novel, 
•Druida,'  show  themselves  through  the  thick 
fog  of  theatrical  devices  by  which  he  has  sought 
to  provide  the  external  movement  of  his  stor.v. 
'Druida'  has  fine  moments,  but  they  are — with 
a  few  exceptions — stagy."     I.i.    B. 

—  +   Freeman    7:70   Mr   28    '23    230w 

"The  uncertainty  of  focus  is  perhaps  the 
greatest  weakness  of  this  fine  story.  Is  Druida 
a  melancholy  Pippa,  who  touches  others  in 
passing  and  is  important  only  in  her  effect 
upon  their  lives?  Or  is  she  another  Tess,  whose 
vicissitudes  we  are  to  follow  with  aching 
heart?  Or  is  this  really  not  the  tale  of  Druida 
at  all,  but  of  the  narrowness  of  men  and  women, 
alike  on  the  farm  and  in  the  college?  Or  is 
it,  perhaps,  none  of  these  things,  but  an  epic 
of  the  soil?  I  am  inclined  to  believe  that  Sir. 
Frederick  has  attempted  to  do  a  little  of  all 
of  these  in  his  book,  and  that  the  passages 
which  seem  to  lack  vividness  are  the  passages 
of  transition  from  one  viewpoint  to  another." 
Brooks    Shepard 

H Lit    R    p431    F   3   '23    780w 

"Mr.  John  T.  Frederick's  story  of  the  Middle 
West  is  honest  in  intention.  He  has  a  genuine 
sense  of  the  dramatic  value  of  the  peasant  type, 
and  he  has  chosen  his  central  character  from 
the  lower  rather  than  the  higher  ranks  of  his 
community."    J.   W.    Krutch 

+   Nation    116:397   Ap    4   '23    360w 

"The  theme  is  very  simple  and  the  story 
is  told  with  great  simplicity  and  sincerity. 
One  of  its  notable  features  is  the  author's  keen 
and  accurate  observation  of  details.  Unfor- 
tunately this  is  not  true  of  the  larger  aspects 
of  the  story.  He  has  not  kept  its  development 
in  due  balance.  For,  like  most  of  his  male 
characters,  he  is  so  much  in  love  with  hi.s 
heroine  that  he  exalts  her  at  the  cost  of  all 
the   others." 

H NY    Times    pl6   Ja    14    '23    720w 

"For  all  its  debt  to  the  approved  instances 
of  f.irm  fiction  this  first  novel  compasses  a 
satisfying  distinction.  It  is  never  weak,  and 
its  best  pages  are  a  wonder.  The  plot  thickens 
into    mud    and    drink    and    the    heavy   breath   of 


scandal;  but  the  atmosphere  shines  with  life 
and  color.  'Druida'  is  an  earnest  of  formidable 
power."      A.   D.    Douglas 

H NY    Tribune    p26    Ja    28    '23    700w 

Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:213  My  '23 
"P^or  a  book  starting  out  so  full  of  promise, 
che  latter  half  falls  short  of  the  reader's  ex- 
pectations. Mr  Frederick  shows  real  talent  in 
his  character  study,  and  his  description  of  life 
on  a  western  larm.  But  it  would  appear  that 
this  talent  is  not  fully  developed." 

f-   Springfd     Republican     pSa    Mr    11     '23 

390w 

Wis    Lib   Bui   19:84  Mr  '23 

FREDERICK      WILLIAM      VICTOR     AUGUST, 
formerly   crown    prince    of    Germany.    My   war 

experiences.  364p  il  $6  McBride   [24s  Hurst  & 

B.] 
940.41     European  war — Campaigns  and  bat- 
tles— Western    front.      European    war — Ger- 
many [23-1852] 

A  military  record  of  the  war  on  the  western 
front  comprising  the  Crown  prince's  experiences 
as  commander  of  the  Fifth  army.  Part  one  is 
devoted  to  the  operations  of  this  army  in  the 
battle  of  the  Marne,  the  retreat  and  the  begin- 
ning of  trench  warfare.  Part  two  deals  with 
the  battle  for  Verdun,  of  which  a  full  and  de- 
tailed account  is  given,  and  the  German  offen- 
sive of  1918  to  the  end  of  the  war.  There  are 
four  folding  maps  and  numerous  sketch  maps  of 
the  chief   movements. 


"Despite  his  bombast  at  the  close,  the  Crown 
Prince  has  evidently  made  a  sincere  effort  to 
tell  the  story  as  he  saw  it."     E.  J.  C. 

H Boston  Transcript  p2  Ap  7  '23  600w 

"The  ex-Crown  Prince's  second  book  is  better 
than  the  first,  inasmuch  as  it  is  mainly  a 
record  of  the  operations  of  his  armies,  with 
comparatively  little  of  the  rhetorical  moralizing 
that  made  the  earlier  book  tiresome." 
+  Spec  130:295  F  17  '23  450w 

FREEMAN,  ELLA  MARY.  Home  vegetable- 
garden;  suggestions  of  real  gardens  for  home- 
makers  and  others.  (Open  country  bks.)  214p 
il   $1.75   Macmillan 

635     Vegetable    gardening  22-24037 

A  practical  book  on  tlie  home  vegetable  gai- 
den,  written  from  personal  experience.  Each 
topic  is  treated  in  detail:  the  kinds  of  soil  and 
their  improvement,  the  right  autumn  and  spring 
preparation;  special  preparation  at  planting 
time  ana  proper  caie  thruout  the  season.  Each 
vegetable  is  studied  from  the  choice  of  seed 
and  soil  to  the  harvest  and  the  storing  and 
canning    of    the    surplus. 


Booklist    19:242   My   '23 
"One  of  the  most  practical  of  'home  vegetable 
garden'    books.      And    as    all    tne    directions   and 
suggestions    are    the    results    of    long    personal 
experience,    they    have   a  double  value." 

+   Boston    Transcript   p6   D   18   '22   290w 
Reviewed   by   A.   D.    Douglas 

Int    Bk    R    p42   My   '23   50w 
Reviewed   by  H:   T.    Finck 

Lit    R   p62C   Ap   21    '23   150w 
"A    handy   little  volume  written   with   the   en- 
tliusiasm  of  one   who   likes  to  see   things  grow, 
with    a    practical    eye    for    production    ana    in- 
come." 

-1-   N    Y    World    p8e   Mr   25    '23    330w 

Springfd  Republican  p7a  My  13  '23  150w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p423   Je 
21    '23    lOw 

FREEMAN,    R.    M.     The   new   Boswell.    242p   $2 

Stokes    [6s  6d  Lane] 
827  23-26850 

The  author  imngines  Dr  Johnson  in  Elysium 
discoursing  on  current  events  among  terres- 
trials with  his  accustomed  vigor  and  conviction 
and  with  Boswell  still  faithfully  recording.  We 
learn  what  he  thinks  about  some  modern  Brit- 
ish  statesmen,   about   the   Irish  nation,   Bolshe- 


176 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


FREEMAN,    R.    M. — Coiitinnrd 
vism,  auction  bridge,  the  Elysian  telephone  sys- 
tem,   M.    Coue,    the    equality   of   the    sexes,    and 
other  present-day  interests. 


Booklist  20:48  N  '23 
Bookm  57:649  Ag  '23  120w 
"The  fooling  is  a  little  obvious  at  times,  the 
roles  too  persistently  uniform,  and  the  foibles 
rather  too  heavily  stressed;  but  nothing  less 
than  supreme  genius  would  have  been  required 
to  give  us  faithful  and  vital  character-studies 
of  all  the  personages  here  involved,  and  the 
book  does  well  enough  in  avoiding  the  worst 
offences  which  so  easily  beset  this  kind  of 
work."   Lawrence    Mason 

H Lit  R  pl02  O  6  "23  600w 

"As  a  satire  on  nearly  everything  under  the 
sun,  as  a  sheer  tour  de  force  of  wit,  Freeman's 
'The  New  Boswell'  is  a  book  apart.  From  the 
first  page  to  the  la.st  it  is  immensely  jolly 
reading." 

+  N   Y  Times  pll  My  27  '23   660w 
"Mr   Freeman    deserves   all   praise   for   his  in- 
spired   and    delicious    contribution    to    Johnson- 
iana.    He    has    bodied    forth    the    greatest    gro- 
tesque   of   the    eighteenth    century    in    a  picture 
of   remarkable    distinction."      Kenneth    Rode 
-f   N  Y  Tribune  pl8  S  2  '23  650w 
"With    the    reflection    that    his    chapters    will 
be    equally    good    iDusiness    for    Mr.    Freeman's 
readers,    and   capital    stuff  to   read   aloud   every 
night    for   a    winter   month,    we    will,    like    Bar- 
num,    hand    the    new    Boswell    our    card,    as    a 
warranty  of  our  bona  fides." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p778    N 
30    '22    850w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:409   Jl   "23 

FREEMAN,   RICHARD   AUSTIN.     Singing  bone. 
256p  fl.75     Dodd 

[22-25806] 

"In  four  out  of  the  five  stories  collected  in 
this  present  volume,  air.  Freeman  has  altered 
the  usual  methods  of  procedure  [in  mystery 
tales].  His  idea,  as  he  himself  states  it  in  his 
preface  to  the  book,  is  that  'the  ingenious 
reader  is  interested  more  in  the  intermediate 
action  than  in  the  ultimate  result,'  the  ques- 
tion: "How  was  the  discovery  achieved?'  being 
far  more  curiosity-provoking  than  any  mere 
'AVho  did  it?'  So  in  fo^^ir  of  the  five  stories  the 
reader  knows  the  facts  from  the  very  beginning. 
Each  of  these  fovir  tales  is  divided  into  two 
parts,  of  which  the  first  shows  how  and  why 
the  crime  w^as  committed,  the  motive  back  of 
it  and  the  methods  employed,  while  the  second 
shows  how  John  Thorndyke,  the  eminent  med- 
ico-legal practitioner,  who  appeared  in  other 
of  Mr.  Freeman's  books,  worked  out  the  facts 
of  the  case  and  brought  it.  bit  by  bit,  to  a 
successful  conclusion." — K  Y  Times 


Booklist  20:101  D  '23 
"Cleverly    conceived    and    written    are    these 
stories.      Thev    are    arresting   throughout." 
+   Boston  Transcript  p4  S  19  '23   520w 
"A    series    of    detective    stories    far    ahead    of 
the    average    in    ingenuity,    plausibility    and    in- 
terest.    Mr.  Freeman  has  proved  his  point:  that 
it    may    be    far    more    interesting    to    follow    the 
methods   of   a    detective   when    one's    knowledge 
is    greater    than    his    than    to    proceed   in    igno- 
rance." 

-1-  N  Y  Times  p21  S  9  '23  550w 
"Four  stories  out  of  five  in  R.  Austin  Free- 
man's book  are  remarkable  for  the  fact  that 
they  are  told  wrong  end  to.  This  way  with  a 
mystery  tale  proves  to  be  quite  as  effective  in 
inspiring  and  maintaining  interest  as  is  the 
conventional  way — when  the  right  man  has  it 
in   hand."     E.    W.    O. 

-f   N    Y   World   p6e   S   16   '23   lOOw 

Springf'd    Republican  p7a  S   30  '23  300w 

FRENCH,    JOSEPH    LEWIS,    ed.      Great    pirate 
stories.    320p   $2.50   Brentano's 

22-23344 

"A   companion    volume    to   Great    sea   stories, 
this   includes   seventeen    well-chosen   stories   of 


buccaneering  and  piracy,  peopled  with  some  of 
the  most  romantic  figures  that  ever  drew  cut- 
lass." (Cleveland)  Contents:  The  Piccaroon,  by 
Michael  Scott;  The  capture  of  Panama,  1671,  by 
John  Esquemeling;  The  Malay  proas,  by  J.  F. 
Cooper;  The  wonderful  fight  of  the  Exchange 
of  Bristol  with  the  pirates  of  Algiers,  by 
Samuel  Purchas;  The  daughter  of  the  great 
mogul,  by  Daniel  Defoe;  Barbarossa,  king  of 
the  Corsairs,  by  E.  H.  Currey;  Morgan  at 
Puerto  Bello;  The  ways  of  the  buccaneers,  by 
John  Esquemeling;  A  true  account  of  three 
notorious  pirates,  by  Howard  Pyle;  Narrative 
of  the  capture  of  the  ship  Derby,  1735,  by  Cap- 
tain Anselm;  Francis  Lolonois,  the  slave  who 
became  a  pirate  king,  by  John  Esquemeling; 
The  fight  between  the  Dorrill  and  the  Moca; 
Jaddi  the  Malay  pirate;  The  terrible  Ladrones, 
by  Richard  Glasspoole;  The  female  captive,  by 
Lucretia  Parker;  The  passing  of  Mogul  Mac- 
kenzie, the  last  of  the  North  Atlantic  pirates, 
by  A.  H.  Chute;  The  last  of  the  sea-rovers;  The 
Riff  coast  pirates,  by  W.  B.  Lord. 


Booklist    19:252   My    '23 
"A  rather  dull  anthology  of  buccaneer  yarns. 
They  are  a  mixture  of  truth  and  fiction,  mainly 
truth.      While    the    truth    is    exciting   enough   in 
action,  it  makes  dull  reading  in  context." 
—  Bookm   57:101  Mr  '23  150w 
Cleveland  pll  F  '23 
"We  are  glad  of  this  collection.     The  present 
anthologist   has   displayed   not   only   enthusiasm 
but  discrimination  and  an   effort  to  present  all 
the  main  aspects  of  the  history  of  piracy.     He 
has  done  his  work  well." 

+   Lit  R  p297  D  9  '22  320w 

Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:123  Mr  '23 
"The  stories  exhale  the  enthusiasm  of  their 
subjects,  and  bring  back  the  virility  that  many 
contemporary  writings  lack.  Mr  French  de- 
serves a  vote  of  thanks  for  salvaging  the  long- 
sunk  Jolly  Roger." 

-f  Springf'd  Republican   p7a  F  11  '23  200w 

FRENCH,     JOSEPH     LEWIS,     comp.     and     ed. 

Pioneer    West;    with    a    foreword    by    Hamlin 

Garland.  386p  $2.50  Little 
917.8    West — History.    Frontier    and    pioneer 
life  23-15930 

Both  history  and  fiction  are  drawn  upon  for 
these  narratives  of  the  pioneer  West — of  path- 
finders, gold  seekers,  cowboys  and  Indian 
fighters.  The  selections  are  from  Lewis  and 
Clark,  Francis  Parkman,  Bret  Harte,  Mark 
Twain,  Theodore  Roosevelt,  Owen  Wister, 
Emerson  Hough,  Hamlin  Garland  and  others. 
Some  of  the  works  drawn  from  are  now  out  of 
print  and  not  accessible  to  students  of  pioneer 
days.  The  selections  are  arranged  in  chrono- 
logical order. 


N  Y  Tribune  p21  N  4  '23  180w 
"Older  readers  will  enjoy  rereading  these 
chapters  of  a  history  that  ought  never  to  be 
forgotten,  while  the  younger  set  will  find  them 
of  novel  and  absorbing  interest.  The  type  is 
good  and  there  are  attractive  illustrations." 
4-  Outlook   135:506    N    21    '23    150w 

FRENCH,    JOSEPH     LEWIS,    ed.    Thrilling    es- 
capes.     333p    $2    Dodd 

904    Escapes  23-13060 

From  a  wide  field  of  literature  the  compiler 
has  selected  accounts  of  some  thrilling  escapes. 
Casanova's  flight  from  the  Inquisition,  John 
Boyle  O'Reilly's  escape  from  the  convict  set- 
tlement in  the  Australian  bush,  Charles  II's 
flight  after  the  battle  of  Worcester,  Jack 
Sheppard's  break  from  Newgate,  and  I>atude's 
from  the  Bastille,  Colonel  Rose's  escape  from 
Libby  Prison,  and  Jean  Martin's  from  a  Ger' 
man  prison  in  the  World  war,  are  among  the 
adventures  described.  Most  of  the  escapes  are 
matters  of  history  but  a  few  are  incidents  in 
novels. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


177 


"Here  is  adventure  in  full  measure  pressed 
down   and    running  over." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p3  O  27   '23   180w 

"The  tales  that  Mr.  French  has  gathered  to- 
gether are  almost  all  absorbingly  interesting; 
they  abound  in  grewsome  accounts  of  men 
threatened  with  death  at  the  stake,  horrifying 
stories  of  men  weighed  down  with  irons  and 
flung  into  the  ocean,  excruciating  incidents  of 
the  Inquisition  and  of  the  recent  World  War. 
The  narratives  are  gathered  from  many  sources 
and  are  selected  with  due  regard  for  the  dar- 
ing, the  perilous,  and  the  sensational." 
+   Lit  R  pll2  O  6  '23  180w 

FRESHFIELD,    DOUGLAS    WILLIAM.        Below 

the  snow  line.  270p  $7  Button  [18s  Constable] 
914  Moimtaineering.  Europe — Description 
and  travel  [23-10511] 

"Dr.  Freshfield  is  a  true  mountaineer,  in  that 
his  weight  of  learning  is  so  nicely  balanced  and 
portioned  out  and  disposed  that  he  can  take  it 
with  him  when  he  goes  a-climbing  without  mov- 
ing a  thought  less  lightly.  .  .  He  has  been  presi- 
dent of  the  Alpine  Club  but  in  this  book  he  is 
not  concerned  with  conquering  peaks.  He  de- 
scribes himself  as  a  picker  up  of  unconsidered 
trifles  in  the  way  of  mountains,  and  is  through- 
out too  deeply  interested  in  mountain  nature  as 
a  whole  to  discuss  otherwise  than  casually  the 
technique  of  climbing.  He  does  a  service,  too, 
in  poking  fun  at  the  'ascensionists' — the  dull 
dogs  who  climb  a  mountain  without  seeing  it. 
The  unconsidered  trifles  were  picked  up  in  vari- 
ous parts  of  the  Alps,  in  the  Apennines,  in 
Corsica  and  Greece,  in  the  Kabyle  Highlands, 
in  Japan,  and  in  the  Mountains  of  the  Moon. 
All  the  papers  but  one  have  appeared,  'though 
considerably  altered  in  form,'  in  the  Alpine 
Journal." — The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 


"Mr.  Freshfield  brings  to  his  task  of  com- 
municating his  pleasure  to  others  qualities  more 
valuable  than  mere  experience.  He  has  an  ironic 
wit,  wide  reading,  and  a  retentive  memory,  and 
he  has  always  written  as  a  scholar  and  a  man 
of   taste." 

4-  Nature  112:894  D  22  '23   720w 

"Mr.  Freshfield  takes  us  in  this  book  far  and 
wide,  and  differs  from  the  latest  travellers  in 
oeing  much  less  sentimental  and  much  more 
informative.  He  is  not  mainly  concerned  with 
his  reaction  to  the  scenery  and  the  landlord's 
daughter,  but  he  tells  us  the  sort  of  thing  that 
any  visitor  would  like  to  know.  His  book  is 
attractive,  because  he  has  so  many  interests — 
history  and  the  classics,  geology  and  botany, 
artists  and  poets,  and — last,  not  least — those 
little  encounters  which  enliven  the  lucky  travel- 
ler's da.v." 

-f   New   Statesman   21:56  Ap   21   '23   550w 

"We  like  Mr.  Freshfield's  warm  and  glowing 
appreciation  of  all  that  he  has  seen,  and  we 
admire  his  observing  eye,  his  recording  memory, 
his  fresh  and  responsive  mind,  as  well  as  his 
gift  for  apt  and  exact  description.  His  accu- 
racy, one  feels  sure,  is  beyond  dispute;  and  one 
is  charmed  by  the  beauty  of  his  language,  his 
economy  of  words,  and  his  vivid,  pictorial 
touches.  .  .  He  is  as  judicious  as  he  is  enthusi- 
astic. No  guide  could  be  found  more  nicely 
fastidious,  more  acutely  discriminating,  more 
sure  and  catholic  in  taste.  One  is  quite  certain 
that  what  he  approves  deserves  approbation." 
+  Sat    R  135:537  Ap   21   '23  350w 

"The  book  is  as  easy  and  smooth  as  the 
wanderings  described.  Only  here  and  there  it 
rises  to  heights  of  vivid  but  restrained  descrip- 
tion, or  wanders  off  down  a  side  track  to  phi- 
losophize concerning  climbing  in  general." 
+  Spec  130:892  My  26  '23  350w 

"Mr  Freshfield's  descriptions  are  clear-cut 
and  easily  visualized.  His  essays  are  laden  with 
anecdote,  and  are  written  in  a  quiet  dignified 
style  that  is  both  substantial  and  companion- 
able." 

+   Springf'd    Republican    p6   D   24   "23   240w 

"This  set  of  papers  is  a  classic  in  the  original 
sense  of  the  word.  Dr.  Freshfield's  style  is 
classical.  It  can  rise  to  heights  and  to  describ- 
ing what  is  seen  from  them,  but  there  is  no 
straining  after  effect;   the  beauty  and  austerity 


of  the  real  world  are  familiar  to  him  and  they 
suffice." 

-|-  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl89   Mr 
22   '23   1750W 

FRIEDLAENDER,    V.     H.    Mainspring.    426p    $2 
Putnam  [7s  6d  Collins] 

[22-14422] 

When  Bridget  Gale  was  still  a  child,  her 
godmother,  a  crippled  painter,  discovered  genius 
in  her  but  impressed  upon  her  that  it  was  an 
exacting  gift,  that  it  dema,nded  service,  that  it 
must  be  treated  as  the  mainspring  of  her  life, 
that  it  would  suffer  no  compromise.  Bridget 
toils  whole-heartedly  at  her  art  but,  after  the 
first  elation  over  her  success  comes  to  feel  that 
she  has  fallen  short  of  her  highest.  In  the 
meanwhile  life  too  exacts  its  toll  of  suffering. 
She  cannot  marry  the  man  she  loves  first  on 
account  of  poverty,  then  of  illness,  and  finally, 
on  the  eve  of  her  marriage,  a  horrible  prison 
experience  intervenes  to  postpone  the  event. 
Now  a,  long  rest  is  needed  to  restore  her  vigor, 
her  power  to  work,  and  at  last  she  paints  a 
masterpiece.  With  its  completion  a  realization 
of  her  old  friend's  bitter  creed  of  sacrifice  and 
service  begins  to  dawn  upon  her.  The  cele- 
brated art-critic  who  buys  her  picture  clears 
up  her  last  doubt.  She  must  choose  between 
marriage  and  her  art. 


"In  this  carefully  conceived  and  written  story, 
kinship  to  her  earlier  writings  is  clearly  wit- 
nessed in  its  understanding  of  human  nature, 
its  keen  analysis,  its  ordered  detail,  and  a 
sincerity  which  compels  recognition,  even 
should  the  reader  be  unable  to  accept  certain 
of   its   ideals." 

+    Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  4  '23  450w 
Cleveland   p68   S   '23 

"This  story  is  above  the  average  of  the  sea- 
son's output  because,  in  spite  of  the  sardonic 
attitude  often  taken  by  the  author,  her  charac- 
ters are  vitally  alive.  It  is  not  a  pleasant  book 
to  read.  It  is  more  important  than  that.  It  is 
an  absorbing  biography  of  two  English  girls, 
both  of  whom  embody  twentieth-century  prob- 
lems and  show  just  how  far  the  human  mind 
niay  go  in  its  rebellion  against  inheritance." 
+   Int  Bk  R   p69  O   '23  350w 

"One   must   read   this  more   than   once   to   get 
all     that     the    author    has     put    there     for    the 
thoughtful — drama    in    the    plot,    realism    in    the 
characters,   and  beauty  in  all  of  it." 
+   Lit    R    p632   Ap   21    '23   320w 

"Miss  Friedlaender's  earnestness  is  also  her 
own  undoing.  For  Bridget's  habit  of  yearning 
after  the  Sublime  in  perpetual  amateur  theatri- 
cals is  very  tiresome  indeed." 

—  Nation   and   Ath   31:314  My  27  '22   lOOw 

"With  a  cast  abounding  in  reality  'Main- 
spring' could  not  well  be  less  than  an  unusual 
offering.  Added  to  this  care  for  character  de- 
tail is  a  simple,  swiftly  moving  nairative  vein 
that  carries  the  theme  on  from  episode  to  epi- 
sode with  the  inclusion  of  no  extraneous 
matter." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl6  Mr  11  '23  780w 

"Although  at  the  end  consecration  palls  on 
the  reader  a  trifle,  throughout  most  of  the  long 
novel  Miss  Friedlaender  has  succeeded  in 
maintaining  an  almost  perfect  balance  between 
actuality  and  idealization."  Eva  Goldbeck 
+   N   Y   Tribune  p25  Ap   1   '23   500w 

"There  are  authors  who  can  bury  the  reader 
under  avalanches  of  the  iinessential  without 
letting  him  feel  the  weight  of  the  load,  but 
Miss  Friedlaender  is  not  one  of  them.  For  one 
thing,  she  has  only  a  faint  and  occasional  sense 
of  humour.  None  of  the  actors  moreover  in 
'Mainspring'  impress  themselves  very  deeply 
on  the  imagination.  Yet  the  book  has  un- 
doubted merits.  It  is  capably  and  most  consci- 
entiously written,  many  things  in  it  are  truly 
said,  and  arresting  passages  often  occur." 
—  +   Sat  R  133:372  Ap  8  '22  750w 

"The  book  would  be  the  better  for  compres- 
sion,   but   the   study   of   the   heroine's   character 
is    interesting,    if   not    absolutely  convincing." 
\-  Spec  128:598  My  13  '22  50w 


178 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


FRIEDLAENDER,   V.   H.— Continued 

"Notwithstanding  a  prevailing  tone  of  sorrow. 

the  narrative  affords  emotional  compensation  in 

the    integrity    of    the    characters.    It    is    a    first 

novel  of  merit  and  repays  reading  and  analysis." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  13  '24  450w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p246  Ap 

13  '22  150w 

FRIEL,    ARTHUR    O.    Cat   o'    mountain.    333p   il 
=    $2    Penn 

23-9940 
"Mr.  Friel's  novel  has  a  wild,  mountainous 
country,  with  a  background  of  bloody  Indian 
wars,  moonshine  stills,  lost  silver  mines,  snakes, 
human  and  otherwise,  and  plenty  of  gunfights 
and  fistic  encounters.  His  hero  is  a  newspaper 
reporter  from  New  York  City,  but  he  turns  out 
to  be,  not  only  a  human  being,  but  a  real  he- 
man.  He  is  all  but  adopted  by  the  old  settlers." 
— N   Y   Times 


Paludan-Miiller;  J.  P.  Jacobsen;  Holger  Drach- 
mann;  Viggo  Stuckenberg;  Johannes  Jorgensen; 
Ludvig  Holstein;  Helge  Rode;  Jeppe  Aakjaer; 
Sophus    Claussen;    Johannes   V.    Jensen. 


"There  is  plenty  of  excitement,  fighting,  art- 
ful dodging  and  so  on,  up  to  the  expected  clean 
up.  It  is  good  melodrama,  but  hardly  more  than 
that." 

f-   Lit  R  p347  D  8  '23  280w 

N    Y   Times   pl7  Ja   6  '24   500w 
N    Y   Tribune  p23   O   21   "23   650w 


FRIEL,    ARTHUR    O. 

Harper 


Tiger    river.    352p    $1.90 

23-4293 

The  Andes  mountains  of  eastern  Peru  are  the 
scene  of  the  story  and  once  again  we  meet  the 
daring  adventurers  who  appeared  in  the 
author's  previous  book  "The  pathless  trail." 
(Book  Review  Digest,  1922)  They  make  their 
way  far  into  the  jungle  in  search  of  hidden  gold 
and  one  adventure  after  another  befalls  them. 
They  meet  green-painted  men  who  steer  them 
down  a  dangerous  trail,  they  fight  with  head- 
hunters,  but  despite  their  lurid  escapades  they 
come  out  safely,  thanks  to  a  timely  earthquake. 
They  leave  Jos6,  the  outlaw,  in  the  jungle 
where  he  purposes  to  live  with  his  nine  wives 
and  people  the  place,  finally  exterminating  the 
head-hunters. 


Cleveland    p39    My  '23 
Lit    R   p590  Ap  7  '23  220w 
"Mr.    Friel    has    himself    explored    the    region 
in   which  his   story   is   scened   and  therefore   his 
setting  has   the  authority  of  first-hand   knowl- 
edge.    His  background  is  always  carefully  por- 
trayed and  makes  a  vivid  impression,   although 
the   constant   excitements   of  his    story   tend   to 
draw  the  reader's  attention  away  from  the  wild 
surroundings  through  which   it   is   carried." 
-I-   N   Y  Times  pl6  Mr  4  '23  480vv 
"The   author's   bag  of  tricks  holds  many   sur- 
prises.   He  quite  apparently  knows  his  counti-y— 
and    has    sufficient    sense    to    remain    within    his 
own   bounds.     Also  there   is  unlimited   imagina- 
tion."     Kenneth   Fviessle 

+   N    Y    Tribune   p20   Ap   15    '23    520w 
"We  guarantee  any  reader  with   a   thirst  for 
bloody    adventure    his     fill    of    lurid    detail    in 
'Tiger  River.'  "   E.  W.    Osborn 

N    Y    World   p8e  Mr   IS   '23   250vv 
Springf'd  Republican  p8  Ag  28  '23  190w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:133  My  '23 

FRIIS,  OLUF,  comp.  Book  of  Danish  verse; 
tr.  in  the  original  meters  by  S.  Foster  Damon 
and  Robert  Silliman  Hillyer;  selected  and 
annotated  by  Oluf  Friis.  (Scandinavian  clas- 
sics) 179p  $2  Am. -Scandinavian  foundation 
[lis  Milford] 

839.81  Danish  poetry — Collections  23-6268 
A  collection  of  poetry  from  the  works  of  the 
foremost  Danish  poets  from  Adam  Oehlen- 
schlilger,  who  wrote  in  the  first  half  of  the  last 
century,  to  Johannes  Jensen  in  our  own  times. 
The  iJoets  represented  are  as  follows:  Adam 
Oehlenschlager;  Carsten  Hauch:  N.  F.  S. 
Grundtvig;  B.  S.  Ingemann;  Poul  Moller;  Chris- 
tian Winther;  Ludvig  Bodtcher;  Emil  Aare- 
strup;      Hans      Christian      Andersen;      Frederik 


Booklist  19:310  JI  '23 

"One  can  only  marvel  at  the  apparent  ease 
and  understanding  with  which  S.  Foster  Damon 
and  Robert  Silliman  Hillyer  translated  from  the 
originals.  If  anything  has  been  lost  in  the 
translation  it  is  not  perceptible  here." 
+  Bookm    57:346   My   '23    150w 

"Maurice  Francis  Egan  says  that  he  is 
astonished  at  the  almost  miraculous  success 
of  the  two  men  responsible  for  the  translations 
in  this  little  volume.  He  says  that  they  even 
reflect  the  hammer-like  stroke,  sometimes 
muted,  which  gives  Danish  verse  its  special 
sound.  I  share  Mr.  Egan's  astonishment  and 
enthusiasm.  I  have  not  enjoyed  any  poetry 
of  late  as  I  have  this." 

-f  Chicago  Evening   Post  Je  1  '23  llOOw 

Reviewed  by  Pierre  Loving 

Freeman  7:478  Jl  25  '23  230w 

"One  knows,  not  by  any  painful  g:uessing  at 
the  more  or  less  lost  original,  but  by  immediate, 
unmistakable  demonstration  that  one  is  in  the 
presence  of  poets  who  have  written  for  all 
ages  and  the  whole  world  as  well  as  for  their 
own'  time  and  place— poets  whose  style  and 
spirit  combine  a  peculiarly  tender  and  wistful 
brooding  with  a  musical  charm  that  is  some- 
times soothing  as  the  soft  breezes  of  a  sum- 
mer evening  and  at  other  times  darkly  majestio 
as  a  winter  storm  sweeping  through  lonely 
northern  woods."  Edwin  Bjorkman 
+   Lit   R  p798  Je  30  '23  420w 

"Dani.sh  verse  is  generally  too  fragile,  too 
unmittelbar  and  naive  to  make  a  brave  im- 
pression in  other  than  native  garb.  Even  the 
ruggedness  of  some  of  the  lines  becomes  mere 
verbal  humpiness  in  the  attempted  English 
transmutation.  The  implication  is  not  that 
the  translators  have  essayed  a  most  difficult 
task  in  an  indifferent  manner.  They  have  per- 
haps done  as  well  as  possible  with  an  in- 
herently unplastic  material.  The  selections 
capably  represent  the  best  of  Danish  poetry 
from  the  early  to  modern  times.  Denmark 
has  never  been  rich  in  poets  and  surely  does 
not  count  many  who  can  be  acclaimed  great." 
J:  Koren 

Nation  117:197  Ag  22  '23  250w 

FROST,   HELEN,  and  CUBBERLEY,   HAZEL  J. 

Field  hockey  and  soccer  for  women;   with  an 
introd.   by  Ethel   Perrin.    247p  il   ?2   Scribner 

797  Field  hockey.  Soccer 
A  practical  manual  of  two  of  the  most  popular 
team  games  for  girls.  The  book  is  written  for 
both  players  and  coaches.  The  fundamentals  of 
play  for  the  two  games  are  presented  clearly 
and  in  a  form  that  may  be  used  for  large 
groups.  Illustrated  with  photographs  and 
seventy  diagrams. 

Booklist    20:11   O    '23 
"Players  and  coaches  will  find  it  very  helpful. 
Twenty  or  more  illustrations  and  seventy  pages 
of    diagrams    add    greatly    to    the    value    of    the 
book." 

-I-   N   Y  Times  p20  My  20  '23  400w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:407  Jl   '23 

FROST,     ROBERT.     New    Hampshire;    a    poem 
with  notes  and  grace  notes.   113p  il  $2.50  Holt 
811  23-17677 

"  'New  Hampshire'  is  at  root,  a  whimsical 
book.  Its  form  is  whimsical.  The  book  is  di- 
vided into  three  parts:  Frost  calls  it  a  long 
poem,  with  notes  and  grace-notes.  The  notes, 
to  which  we  are  referred  by  footnotes  in  the 
initial  poem,  are  dramatic  portions  of  New  Eng- 
land life.  The  grace-notes  are  lyrics.  The  long 
poem  'New  Hampshire'  has  not  appeared  else- 
where. Mr.  Frost  credits  its  inception  to  The 
Nation.  They  had  asked  him  to  write  one  of 
their  series  on  the  various  States  of  the  Union. 
He  had  grown  weary  of  reading  criticisms  of 
States — so  one  night  he  decided  that  he'd  like  to 
write  a  poem  in  praise  of  New  Hampshire.     The 


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idea  grew  on  him.  Altho  he  usually  works 
slowly,  this  time  it  was  with  an  almost  furious 
rapidity  that  the  poem  prog-ressed.  He  sat 
down  in  the  farmhouse  at  South  Shaftsbury,  one 
evening-  at  ten  o'clock,  and  wrote  through  until 
ten  o'clock  the  next  morning.  I^ater,  he  added 
the  last  line — At  present  I  am  living  in  Ver- 
mont."— Int  Bk  R 

"Intensely    local    as    the    book    is,    it    conveys 
also  a   definite   sense   of  the  universal.    So  it   ia 
with  any  creative  work  which  presents  in  forms 
of  suitable  beauty  the  essential  truth  of  person 
and  place.  It  is  by  such  writing  that  a  country 
may  best  be  iudged."  M.  A.   DeW.  Howe 
4-  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  Ja  '24  630w 
"With    absolute    freedom    from    contemporary 
fashions,  technical  trickery,  or  the  latest  erudite 
slang.    Frost  has   created   a   poetry   which   is   at 
one  time  fviU  of  heat  and  humor,  a  poetry  that 
belongs    not    only    to    the    America    of    our    own 
day  but  to  the  richest  records  of  English  verse." 
+  Bookm  58:578  Ja  '24  1600w 

"It  becomes  more  and  more  apparent  that 
Robert  Frost  is  New  England's  most  authentic 
poet,  and  by  authentic  poet  we  mean  the  most 
sincere,  foursquare  and  forthright  who  has 
tried  to  lay  a  finger  on  the  slow  and  positive 
pulse  of  the  New  England  north  of  Boston 
and  sound  the  secret  of  its  heart."  D.  T.  W. 
■  McC. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  D  8  '23  1050w 

"This  long  poem  is  Robert  Frost  at  his  mel- 
lowest. It  is  filled  with  biting  observation, 
genial  fun-poking,  and  wise  tolerance.  It  has 
passages  of  great  beauty.  .  .  Turn  to  the  lyrics 
[that  follow]  and  you  find  half  a  dozen  poems 
at  least  that  you'll  remember  forever.  They 
are  all  perfect  in  their  way."  J:  Farrar 
+   Int   Bk   R  p25  N  '23  1850w 

"New  Hampshire  is  full  of  philosophy  and  fun. 
If  it  can  be  summarized  at  all,  it  is  a  statement 
of  Mr.  Frost's  partiality  to  wildness."  Mark  Van 
Doren 

-1-   Nation    117:715   D  19   '23    400w 

"  'New  Hampshire',  is  just  like  an  old,  wander- 
ing stone  wall.  Made  of  human  hands,  it  rests  in 
the  ground,  or  is  partly  buried  there;  it  is  never 
the  same  height  in  any  two  places:  here  it  has 
fallen  away,  further  on  it  has  become  a  solid 
protruding  rib  of  the  very  hill  under  it;  curi- 
ous, irregular  lichens  embellish  it,  flowers 
sprout  through  the  cracks;  it  is  a  museum  of 
quaint  beetles,  and  meager  berries;  cows  are 
stopped  by  it,  men  talk  across  it;  and  it  goes 
bending  and  ascending  over  hills  and  pas- 
tures, illogically,  variously,  permanently.  So 
bends  and  wanders  Mr.  Frost's  pithy,  moving, 
garrulous,  and  invulnerable  poem."  Robert 
Littell 

+  New  Repub  37:sup24  D  5  '23  1350w 

"Every  line  of  the  book  is  authentic  of  the 
North,  where  nature  shrouds  herself  in  a  veil 
that  one  must  penetrate  before  her  beauty  and 
her  calm  majesty  become  apparent." 

4-  N   Y  Times  p6  N  18  '23   1050w 

"We  have  at  least  one  rounded,  solid,  human, 
healthy,  humorous  poet  in  the  United  States, 
one  who  works  slowly  and  exquisitely  at  his 
task,  never  bothered  by  fads,  never  finding  his 
release  in  the  latest  epidemic  of  the  soul — a 
sound,  honest  craftsman."  Maxwell  Anderson 
+   N   Y  World    p6e  N  25  '23  1600w 

"The  title  poem  itself  in  'New  Hampshire* 
is  in  line  with  neither  of  these  departments 
of  Mr.  Frost's  work,  though  it  lies  nearer  to 
the  New  England  character,  of  course.  It  is 
done  with  less  seriousness,  with  a  more  whim- 
sical and  detached  view  of  the  people  and  the 
country.  It  is  nearer  to  sublimated  reporting 
than  to  high,  interpretative  poetry."  D:  Morton 
4-  Outlook    135:688    D    19    '23    1850w 

"  'New  Hampshire'  is  set  in  winter,  not  in 
spring,  but  not  a  winter  of  sunless  gloom.  It 
is  a  spiritual  crop  of  the  upper  Connecticut  val- 
ley, not  of  the  upper  Nile,  but  in  this  part  of 
the  world  at  least  few  of  us  would  change. 
And  if  destiny  had  planted  Mr  Frost  somewhere 
between  Cairo  and  the  first  cataract,  he  would 
still  have  evolved  somehow  into  some  kind  of 
true  poet.  If  faith  may  move  mountains,  may 
not  art  hurdle  a  river  or  two?" 

-f  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  25  '23  720w 


FROST,  ROBERT.  Selected  poems.  143p  $2  Holt 

[6s   Heinemann] 
811  23-6707 

"Forty-three  poems  selected  by  Frost  from 
his  three  published  volumes;  North  of  Boston,  A 
boy's  will  and  Mountain  interval.  Includes  'The 
death  of  the  hired  man,'  'Snow,'  'Home  burial,' 
'Birches,'  'The  hill  ^vife'  and  other  favorites." 
— Cleveland 


Booklist  20:91  D  '23 
Cleveland  p37  My  '23 
Nation    117:715    D    19    '23    400w 
"Were  it  necessary  to  boil  him  down  into  one 
catch-phrase,    perhaps    'a    simpler    Wordsworth 
crossed    with    a    less   ebullient    Browning'    might 
serve.    There   is    little   recognisably   American    in 
his  style,  and  not  much  in  his  atmosphere.  The 
blank  verse  dialogues  suffer  from  the  obscurity 
inseparable  from  rapid  change  of  several  speak- 
ers,   hut    they   are   vivid,    with   a   kind   of   quiet, 
grey  enjoyment,   so   that   one   comes   to  the   end 
feeling  it  is  all  very  well  done,  hut  not  quite  so 
sure   how   far   it   was  worth   doing."   F.    I^.    L. 

H New    Statesman    20:780    Ap    7    '23    2S0w 

"This  collection  emphasizes  his  place  in 
American  poetry  and  confirms  his  possession 
of  a  definite  niche.  He  has  pictured  New  Eng- 
land farm  life  with  a  wise,  humorous,  tender 
touch  that  is  not  to  be  found  in  the  work  of 
any   other   living   author." 

+  Outlook  134:521  Ag  1  '23  330w 
"Mr.  Frost  is  not  an  easy  poet  to  read.  He 
lacks  those  airs  and  graces  that  lure  the  read- 
er onwards,  and  often  he  has  obscurities,  and 
irrelevant  trivialities,  that  are  irritating.  Yet 
when  the  effort  has  been  made,  when  a  con- 
siderable amount  of  Mr.  Frost's  verse  has  been 
read,  the  obscurities  and  trivialities  are  either 
forgotten,  or  put  into  their  proper  places  in 
the  wonderfully  vivid  and  impressive  picture 
that   the   whole   creates." 

H Sat   R   135:736  Je  2  '23  400w 

"No  account  of  Mr.  Frost's  poetry  would 
be  complete  without  a  reference  to  his  lyrics, 
in  which,  though  never  merely  decorative  or 
precious,  he  is  in  the  conventional  and  super- 
ficial sense  more  poetical.  A  few  of  those 
lyrics  are,  in  my  opinion,  quite  flawles.s — a  per- 
manent contribution  to  the  lyric  poetry  of  our 
language,  and  considering  his  work  as  a  whole 
I  can  think  of  no  poet  of  his  generation  who 
seems  to  me  more  worthy  to  survive."  Martin 
Armstrong 

-f  Spec  130:671  Ap  21  '23  700w 
"The  defect  of  Mr.  Frost's  narrative  poems 
is  such.  He  knows  his  people,  his  farms,  his 
solitudes — it  is  not  their  genuineness  that  is 
in  question.  He  tells  good  stories.  But  he 
avoids  poetry:  and  not  even  sound  (hU7natifi 
personae  and   a    plot   make   up   for   it." 

H The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p213    Mr 

29    '23   1050w 

FROUDE,    CHARLES    C.    Right   food;   the    right 
-    remedv:  with  an  introd.  by  Royal  S.  Copeland. 

301p  $2.50  Brentano's 

613.2  Diet  23-10194 

"A  serious  attempt  to  give  the  layman  the  in- 
formation and  practical  advice  necessary  for 
healthful  diet;  not  always  in  accord  with  gen- 
erally accepted  theories  of  nutrition  and  diet- 
etics?'— J  Home  Econ 


Reviewed  bv  M.  F.   Egan 

Bookm  58:73  S  '23  160w 
J   Home  Econ  15:607  N  '23  20w 
"Written   in  an  entirely  serious  vein  but  with 
no  literary  skill  and  reveals  utter  unconscious- 
ness   of    the    fundamental    principles    of    nutri- 
tion."   M.    S.    Rose 

—  J  Home  Econ  16:34  Ja  '24  450w 
N   Y  world  p9e  Ag  5  '23  520w 

FRYE,    PROSSER     HALL.    Romance    and    trag- 
edy.    341p  $2.50  Jones.  Marshall 
804  Literature — History  and  criticism 

22-21038 

Eight  essays   in   literary  criticism   which  have 

for   their    themes    the    romance    and    tragedy    of 


180 


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FRYE,    P.    H. — Continued 

some  classics  of  literature.  Contents:  Litera- 
ture and  criticism;  The  terms  Classic  and 
romantic;  German  romanticism;  Nietzsche;  The 
Idea  ot  Greek  tragedy;  Racine;  Shakespeare 
and    Sophocles;    Structure    and    style. 

"The  volume  is  closely  reasoned  and  abun- 
dantly illustrated  with  quotation.  It  is  a  work 
primarily  designed  for  scholars  and  a  serious 
attempt  to  bring-  order  out  of  the  chaos  which 
tlie  autlior  believes  reigns  in  the  world  of  criti- 
cism." 

-I-   N    Y    Times    p9    Ja   14    '23    700w 

FUESS,  CLAUDE  MOORE.  Life  of  Caleb 
="    Cushing.    2v   il   $10   Harcourt 

B  or  92  Cushing,  Caleb  23-12975 

"Cushing  was  born  in  1800,  and  died  in  New- 
buryport  in  1879.  Besides  his  service  in  Congress, 
where  he  was  a  leader  of  his  party,  and  his 
experience  as  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  Massachusetts,  the  most  conspicuous  events 
In  his  career  were  his  appointment  as  a  brig- 
adier-general in  the  Mexican  War,  his  service 
In  the  Cabinet  of  President  Franklin  Pierce 
as  Attorney-General,  and  his  nomination  by 
Grant  as  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States.  He 
headed  a  mission  to  China  in  1843,  and  success- 
fully negotiated  a  treaty;  he  was  counsel  for 
this  country  in  the  Geneva  Arbitration  with 
England  in  1872;  and  afterwards,  in  his  old  age, 
he  was  highly  successful  as  Minister  to  Spain." — 
Outlook 


Reviewed  by  S.  L.  Cook 

Boston  Transcript  p3  S  22  '23  1900w 
"This    is    a    thorough,    well    documented    and 
readable    biography.    Mr.    Fuess's   efforts    enrich 
the   literature    of   American   political   and   diplo- 
matic history  "   H.   E.   B. 

-f-  New  Repub  37:211  Ja  16  '24  350w 
"Dr.  Fuess's  work  deserves  very  high  praise 
indeed.  Thanks  to  this  book,  and  without  ac- 
cepting all  of  its  valiant  apologies  for  a  man 
who  was  under  perpetual  attack,  we  can  cer- 
tainly look  more  kindly  upon  Caleb  Cushing." 
E.   L.   Pearson 

+  Outlook    135:411    N    7   '23   3200w 

FUESSLE.   NEWTON   AUGUSTUS.  Jessup.  280p 

$2      Boni    &    Liveright 

23-6948 

Jessup  had  been  brought  up  by  her  grand- 
parents in  ignorance  of  her  origin.  When  her 
grandfather  one  day  blurted  out  the  secret,  her 
one  thought  was  to  get  away  where  she  could 
live  among  strangers.  Five  years  later  she  was 
in  New  York,  resolutely  determined  to  make  a 
place  for  herself  in  the  world.  Beauty,  talent 
and  a  strong  will  brought  her  success,  first  on 
the  stage,  then  as  a  costume  designer.  To 
give  herself  a  background  she  inv.ented  some 
satisfactory  ancestors  and  displayed  their  por- 
traits. She  married  a  young  architect  of  aris- 
tocratic family,  who.se  love  for  her  was  not 
strong  enough  to  overcome  his  suspicions  about 
her  nameless  birth,  and  when  the  chance  recog- 
nition of  one  of  her  fake  ancestors  by  a  friend 
led  to  the  discovery  of  her  deceit,  her  husband 
divorced  her.  The  story  leaves  her  starting 
out  to  face  the  world  again,  if  without  ancestors 
or  husband,  yet  with  confidence  in  herself  and 
her  abilities. 


'To  the  pages  of  'Jessup'  Mr.  Fuessle  has 
transferred  some  of  the  enchantment  which 
New  York  exercises  even  in  her  crudest  moods 
He  has  also  portrayed  the  theatrical  life  of  the 
city  lightly  and  refreshingly.  And  he  has  told 
a  pretty  good  story  swiftly  and  dramatically, 
without  waste  of  time  and  paper  and  without 
attempting  profundity.  Whatever  else  may  be 
s.Tid  of  his  latest  novel,  it  is  at  least  most  read- 
able. ' 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4   Ap  25   '23  320w 
Cleveland  p42  Je  "23 
Int    Bk   R   p40   O   '23   220w 
"We  do  not  always  see  the  characters  in  their 
full   depths,    but   we   never   entirely   miss   them 
They   are    real    people    with    real    emotions,    and 


they  are  capable  of  interesting  us  in  the  things 
they   do." 

H Lit   R   p633  Ap  21  '23  500w 

New   Repub  35:49  Je  6  '23  ISOw 

"In  spite  of  Mr.  Fuessle's  attempts  to  create 
a  character  who  shall  be  essentially  realistic 
from  all  points  of  view,  there  is  yet  an  atmos- 
phere of  unreality  about  Jessup.  A  partial 
reason  for  this  may  rest  in  the  fact  that  much 
of  the  dialogue  wherein  she  takes  part  sounds 
unconvincing.  But  these  are  lesser  defects  in 
a  book  which  moves  swiftly  enough  to  carry 
the  reason  unthinkingly  over  certain  pitfalls." 
H NY  Times  pl9  Ap  8  '23  620w 

"The  turbulent,  pregnant,  dynamic  life  of 
New  Y'ork  is  set  down  with  understanding  and 
■  occasional  finish.  The  author  shows  wit  in  both 
word,  situation  and  idea.  But  we  believe  that 
it  will  take  four  more  years  to  sift  out  the 
genuinely  fine  qualities  of  this  writer."  Bruce 
Gould 

H NY   Tribune  p20  Je  10  '23   580w 

"Newton  Fuessle  who  a  few  seasons  ago 
burst  on  an  astonished  public  with  a  'first  novel' 
of  unusual  excellence,  'The  Flail,'  and  followed 
that  with  another  equally  good,  'Gold  Shod.' 
has  again  proved  the  quality  of  his  pen  with 
'Jessup.'  "   C.   S. 

-I-   N   Y  World  p8e  Ap  8  '23  350w 

"Fuessle  writes  what  used  to  lie  called  a. 
'nervous'  English — quick,  incisive,  direct.  His 
theme  is  held  in  tiiorough  control;  the  action 
that  develops  it  is  vigorous  and  rapid;  his  con- 
ception of  character  and  his  portrayal  of  it  in 
motive  and  act  are  definite  and  strong,  and  his 
persons  real  even  when  their  type  and  environ- 
ment are  least   familiar." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Je  10  '23  680w 

FUJISAWA,  RIKITARO.  Recent  aims  and 
political  development  of  Japan.  (Inst,  of 
politics  publications,  Williams  college)  222p 
$2.50    Yale    univ.    press 

915.2       Japan— Politics       and       government. 
Japan — Foreign    relations  23-11390 

"This  volvime  is  made  up  of  a  series  of  six 
lectures  delivered  before  the  Institute  of  Poli- 
tics at  Williams  College.  The  first  lecture 
deals  with  the  careers  and  the  policies  of 
Premier  Hara,  Marquis  Okuma  and  Prince 
Yamagata,  three  leading  Japanese  slatesnien 
who  died  between  November.  1921,  and  Feb- 
ruary, 1922.  The  three  following  lectures  treat 
of  'The  Recent  Political  Development  in 
Japan,'  the  fifth  of  'An  Average  Interpreta- 
tion of  Democracy,'  and  the  sixth  of  'The  Aims 
of  Japan.'  The  author  has  traced  the  develop- 
ment of  constitutional  government  in  Japan 
from  the  time  of  his  country's  first  contact 
with  European  civilization  to  the  present  day 
and  has  outlined  the  Nation's  foreign  policy 
as  it  has  been  in  the  past  and  as  it  now  is. 
He  devotes  some  space  to  a  discussion  of 
Japan's  attitude  during  the  war." — N   Y  Times 

"The  book  is,  indeed,  a  scholarly  one  upon  a 
subject  of  considerable  interest  to  Ameri- 
cans, more  especially  in  view  of  the  place 
Japan  is  surely  taking  in  the  direction  of  East- 
ern   policies    and    politics."     S.     L.     R. 

-f-  Boston    Transcript    p2    Jl    14    '23    720w 

"It  is  not  a  closely  reasoned  or  profound 
work,  indeed  it  is  sometimes  irritatingly 
vague;  but  it  contains  a  good  deal  of  interest- 
ing and  sensible  comment,  some  wit,  and  n'.'V 
a    little    genuine    irony." 

H Lit    R   pl34   O   13   '23   400w 

N   Y   Times  p28   S  16  '23   400w 

"Dr  Fujisawa  is  eminently  equipped  to  make 
his  Mirrors  of  Tokio  a  useful  contribution  to 
mutual  understanding.  As  a  professor  at  the 
Imperial  ITniversity  at  Tokio  he  is  at  the  center 
of  both  the  intellectual  and  political  life  of 
the    country." 

+  Springf'd   Republican   plO  Jl  11  '23  720w 

FULLER,   SIR    BAMPFYLDE.   Causes  and   con- 
>    sequences.    291i)    $5   Dutton    [12s   Murray] 

824  [23-10163] 

The    author    considers    life    as    a    current    of 


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181 


changes.  "Everything  that  'happens'  is  a  change, 
and  each  of  the  changes  that  occur  incessantly 
outside  us  and  within  us  is  linked  both  to  the 
past  and  to  the  future — to  the  past  as  the  con- 
sequence of  a  cause  and  in  the  future  as  the 
cause  of  a  consequence."  In  a  series  of  essays 
he  follows  some  of  these  causes  and  consequen- 
ces in  life.  His  studies  lead  him  into  the  regions 
of  race  and  nationality,  ancients  and  moderns, 
liberty,  auto-suggestion,  the  laws  of  the  mind, 
time  and  space,  vocabulary  and  grammar,  logic, 
motives  and  feelings,  morality,  art  and  amuse- 
ment. 


"Here  and  there  the  author  is  cryptic  and 
epigrammatic  by  turns;  as  a  rule  he  hits  the 
mark  with  wise  sayings,  yet  occasionally  the 
effort  to  cover  a  vast  amount  of  ground  and  to 
do  it  sapiently,  betrays  him  into  untenable 
judgments  and  premature  conclusions."  E.  N. 
-I Boston    Transcript   p6   Ag   1    '23    900w 

"The  author  of  this  book  discourses  on  many 
things,  indeed,  on  all  things  which  concern  sci- 
ence and  philosophy,  with  an  easy -flowing 
style  and  irresponsible  dogmatism.  His  descrip- 
tion of  insects  a  'brainless  animals'  has  al- 
ready evoked  a  lengthy  correspondence  in  the 
Press,  and  he  might  easily  be  called  to  account 
for  a  hundred  other  equally  confident  and  art- 
lessly   simple-minded   statements." 

H Nature   111:665    My   19   '23   120w 

"An  English  reviewer  has  described  this 
book  as  'the  fruit  of  wide  reading  and  hard 
thinking,'  He  might  have  added  that  it  is  far 
from  light   reading."   H:   J.   Forman 

N    Y   Times   p8    S   16   '23   llOOw 

"While  he  does  not  pretend  to  have  discovered 
the  precise  root  of  all  these  matters,  his  essays 
supply  a  working  technique  for  those  who  wish 
to    follow   the   quarry    further."    W.    C. 

N    Y    Tribune    pl9    O   28    '23    150w 


FULLER,       BENJAIV1IN       APTHORP       GOULD. 
History     of      Greek      philosophy,      Thales      to 

Democritus.       290p     $3.50;     students     ed     $2.75 

Holt 

181     Philosophy,    Ancient  23-10667 

The  author  maintains  that  the  many  excel- 
lent histories  of  Greek  philosophy  already 
available  are  all  too  learned,  too  technical,  or 
too  bloodless  for  the  use  and  pleasure  of  the 
general  reader.  They  either  assuine  a  previous 
knowledge  of  philosophy  or  an  already  awak- 
ened flair  for  philosophic  imaginings  and  spec- 
ulations and  thus  fail  to  arouse  the  interest 
of  the  novice.  The  present  volume  attempts 
to  meet  this  want  and  to  prove  "that  philoso- 
phy is  not  really  the  impossibly  abstract,  ab- 
struse, cold  and  difficult  thing  of  the  popular 
imagination,  but  rather  something  essentially 
warm,  close,  nay,  clinging  to  everyday  life, 
highly  colored,  melodramatic,  and  naturally 
provocative  and  engrossing."  (Preface)  Con- 
tents: What  is  philosophy?  Greek  religion; 
The  school  of  Miletus,  the  first  philosophers; 
Pythagoras  and  the  Pythagoreans;  Heraclei- 
tus;  The  Eleatic  school;  The  pluralists;  Sum- 
mary; Appendixes. 


"A  pleasant  relief  from  conventional  ways 
of  presenting  Greek  philosophy  is  the  out- 
standing merit  and  recommendation  of  this 
book."    E.    N. 

+   Boston   Transcript   p6   S   5   '23   lOSOw 
New   Statesman   22:350  D  22   '23   160w 
"Dr.  Fuller  has  had  experience  as  an  American 
teacher  and  his  book  is  very  readable,  covering 
the  pill   with   quite   attractive  jam;    such   as   an 
account  of  a  well-attended  evening  at  Aspasla's 
as  a  modern   reporter  might   see  it." 
-I-  Sat  R  136:624  D  8  '23  290w 
Spec  131:807  N  24  '23  330w 
"His   style  and   way  of  approaching  the  sub- 
ject are   in   refreshing  contrast   to   the   work   of 
some   of  his   predecessors." 

-f-  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p898  D  20 
■23    200w 


FULLER,  JOHN  FREDERIC  CHARLES.  Re- 
formation of  war.  287p  $6  Button  [16s  Hut- 
chinson] 

355  War.  Military  art  and  science 
Believing  that  war  is  inevitable  the  author, 
a  military  expert,  inquires  into  the  nature  of 
future  warfare.  What  he  desires  is  not  to  out- 
law war  but  to  transform  it  and  make  it  more 
humane.  Heretofore  the  underlying  theory  of 
war  has  been  the  destruction  of  life  and  prop- 
erty. Col  Fuller  believes  that  its  aim  should 
be  not  to  cripple  an  enemy,  but  to  enslave  him 
with  all  his  powers  intact.  He  regards  gas 
warfcire  as  the  most  efficient  and  humane 
method  of  warfare  that  has  yet  been  invented, 
and  tanks  and  airplanes  as  its  other  chief 
weapons.  He  maintains  that  noncombatants 
have  no  claim  to  immunity  from  attack  and 
that  in  the  future  they  must  be  prepared  to 
face  all  the  dangers  which  the  conscript  is 
called   upon   to   endure. 

Boston   Transcript  p4  Jl   '23  980w 

"To  his  motives  and  his  general  thesis  every 
progressive  thinking  military  man  will  grant  a 
good  measure  of  approval.  There  are  details 
perhaps  on  which  there  will  not  be  agreement. 
But  in  its  broader  aspects  his  vision  of  the 
type  of  war  in  the  futuie  will  meet  the  approv- 
al of  every  soldier  who  cares  to  see  his  profes- 
sion transformed  and  elevated  and  made  more 
intellectual  and  less  merely  a  crude  man-kill- 
ing, army-shattering  trade."  Elbridge  Colby 
+   Lit    R   pl85    O    27    '23    1700w 

"Colonel  Fuller's  loquacious  but  remarkably 
able  book  does  something  at  least  to  supply  the 
deficiencies  of  practical  experience  in  this  re- 
spect; and  we  wish  it  the  widest  possible  cir- 
culation." 

-I-   New  Statesman  21:174  My  19  '23  IGOOw 

"It  would  be  a  difficult  task  to  find  in  the 
current  output  a  more  provocative  book  than 
this.  To  the  pacifist  it  will  be  as  a  red  flag 
to  a  bull.  To  those  who  believe  that  human 
nature  remains  unchanging  this  book  will  open 
vast  vistas  of  speculation,  horrifying  or  com- 
forting, depending  on  how  far  our  belief  goes 
with  Colonel  Fuller  in  his  excursion  into  the 
future." 

N  Y  Times  pi  Ag  5  '23  2900w 

"Apart  from  over-colouring,  and  a  tendency 
in  places  to  a  somewhat  frothy  rhetoric  which 
might  have  been  toned  down  with  advantage, 
we  have  only  praise  for  Colonel  Fuller's  at- 
tempt to  realize  the  conditions  under  which 
the  next  great  war  is  likely  to  be  carried  on." 
+  Sat    R    135:330    Mr    10    '23    OOOw 

"He  writes  with  more  vigour  than  coherence; 
but  on  the  general  principles  of  warfare  his 
knowledge  is  complete  and  his  expression  ad- 
mirable." 

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FULLER.  RAYMOND  GARFIELD.  Meaning 
of  child  labor.  (National  social  science  ser.) 
161p    $1     McClurg 

331.3      Child    labor  23-967 

"This  is  a  competently  prepared  booklet  in 
the  'National  Social  Science  Series'  by  an  ex- 
pert in  the  field  of  child  labor.  The  body  of 
the  book  deals  with  the  extent  of  child  labor 
and  its  effects  on  the  health,  delinquency,  and 
education  of  children.  Prefacing  this  is  an  ac- 
count, first,  of  what  child  labor  means  in  terms 
of  the  spiritual  stunting  of  human  beings,  and, 
second,  of  the  various  methods  of  reform.  Two 
chapters  on  federal  and  state  legislation  con- 
clude the  book."' — Cath  World 


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Bookm    57:221    Ap    '23    120w 
"It  is  a  good  introduction  to  the  question  and 
it  is  so  capably  done  and  contains  so  much  in- 
formation  in   so  compact   a   form  that  it  merits 
wide   distribution   and   use." 

+  Cath   World   117:568  Jl  '23  130w 
"Mr.  Fuller's  work  on  child  labor  is  too  much 
of  an   abridgment,   due  presumably  to  the  limi- 


182 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


FULLER,    R.   G. — Continued 

tations   of  the   series   of  wbich   it   is   a  part,    to 

be    thorough,    but    it    is    lundamental."      B.    C. 

Lindeman 

+  —  New   Repub  35:187  Jl  11  '23  300w 

FUNCK-BRENTANO,  FRANZ.  Middle  ages; 
tr.  from  the  French  by  Elizabeth  O'NeilL  556p 
$3.50    Putnam    [12s    6d   Heinemann] 

944  France — History.  Middle  ages — History 

[23-5490] 

The  book  comes  under  "The  national  history 
of  France"  series  of  which  four  volumes  have 
already  appeared  under  the  editorship  of  the 
author  of  the  present  volume.  It  begins  with 
the  barbarian  invasions  of  the  ninth  and  tenth 
centuries,  with  their  complete  destruction  of 
Roman  civilization  and  of  government,  and  de- 
scribes how  out  of  this  state  of  anarchy  and 
from  the  only  enduring  social  unit,  the  family, 
feudalism  arose  and  developed  during  several 
centuries  and,  in  turn,  came  to  an  end  with 
the  end  of  the  Hundred  years'  war  in  the 
fifteenth  century.  Separate  chapters  are  de- 
voted to  the  epics  of  feudalism,  the  crusades, 
the  communes,  the  minstrels,  the  university 
and  the  cathedrals,  to  the  rise  of  towns  and 
ttade  associations  and  other  cultural  develop- 
ments. Bibliographical  references  at  the  end 
of  each  chapter.     Index. 


among  the  moimtaineers  in  Knott  County,  Ken^ 
tucky.  It  tells  of  the  "outlandishest  doings" 
of  a  "passel  of  quare  women  fotched  in  from 
furrin  parts" ;  how  they  taught  young  and  old 
to  cook  and  sew,  to  play  and  sing,  to  lay  aside 
their  blood  feuds  carried  from  generation  to 
generation,  to  keep  moonshine  whiskey  away 
from  the  children  and  in  general  to  look  for- 
ward to  better  things.  The  mountain  dialect 
sets  off  the  quaint  views  held  by  the  people. 


Booklist  20:95  D  "23 
Bookm    57:471    Je   '23    120w 

"If  the  reader  keeps  on  his  guard  against 
rose-colored  views  of  mediaeval  society  he  will 
find  here  a  vivid  picture  of  feudal  France  to 
the  close  of  the  fifteenth  century.  He  must 
not,  however,  expect  accuracy  of  detail."  C: 
H.   Haskins 

-\ Lit    R   p892   Ag   11   '23   420w 

"The  book  is  clearly  and  vividly  written.  It 
does  not  possess  the  severe  analytical  tone  of 
some  of  the  German  and  English  works,  nor 
is  it  distinguished  for  a  continuous  and  smoothly 
flowing  narrative.  Rather  it  is  written  in  the 
characteristic  and  delightful  style  of  the  French 
historians,  well  planned  and  organized  chapters, 
profusely  illuminated  with  countle.ss  illustrative 
episodes  and  anecdotes,  usually  drawn  from  con- 
temporary chroniclers.  What  is  lost  in  continu- 
ity of  thought  and  logical  marshaling  of  facts 
is'  gained  in  pictorial  intensity  and  compelling 
interest."  H.   E.  Barnes 

4-  Nation   117:121  Ag  1   '23   SOOw 

"This  book  is  written  with  so  rare  a  blend  of 
infectious  enthusiasm  and  thorough  scholarship 
that  it  rises  triumphant  even  over  the  cruel 
handicap  of  translation.  Not  that  its  English 
version  is  not  well  and  carefully  made,  but 
since  the  great  feature  of  the  book  is  that  it 
is  built  up  on  innumerable  quotations  from  old 
French  poems  and  chronicles  it  must  infallibly 
lose   half    its    savour    when    it    is    rendered    mto 

'"°*''+K'tt;te?man    20:608    F   24   '23   lOOOw 
"\dmirahlv   done.      A   revelation   of  what   can 
be    accomplished    in    discriminative    selection    ol 
historical   material."     A.    S.  Will 

-I-  N  Y  Times  p21  My  6  '23  17d0w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:307    Je    '23 
"It  is  a    fascinating  volume." 

-h  Sat  R  134:930  D  16  '22  150w 
"This  is  a  book  which  causes  regret  that  one 
is  only  an  Englishman;  or,  rather,  that  one  is 
not  F'renrh  We  have  turned  out  many  very 
respectable  volumes  of  history;  but  our  histor- 
ians never  seem  to  believe  that  the  events  of 
which  thev  write  really  happened.  Whereas  a 
Frenchman  is  so  convinced  of  the  truth  oi  nis 
storv  that  he  makes  it  read  like  a  romance 
rather  than  as  a  merely  fictitious  bit  of  scien- 
tific li^t'^g'-yg;;  139.SUP486   Mr  24  '23   320w 

FURMAN,  LUCY.  Quare  women;  a  story  of  the 
Kentucky  mountains.  219p  $1.75  Atlantic 
monthly  23-26338 

The  story  is  an  account  in  fiction  form  of  the 
vvork   done  by   the   Hindman   settlement   school 


Boston    Transcript   p4   Je   20   '23   450w 
Cleveland   p42   Je  '23 
"A  delightful  huinor  plays  through   the  book, 
but   underneath   it   is   a   clear  realization   of  the 
innate    fineness    of    the    people    of    whom    she 
writes,    and   an    abiding   respect    for    their    faith 
and    courage.      The    oddities    and    anachronisms 
are  fast    disappearing,  and  that  makes  the  work 
one  of  value  as  a  preservative  of  a  picturesque 
and   fascinating  phase  of  American  civilization; 
while   the   underlying  respect   of  the  author   for 
her    characters    makes    it    acceptable    to    those 
whose    acquaintance   with    the    mountain   people 
has    been    productive    of    affection."      G.    W.    J. 
+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily   News   p20   Ag 
26   '23   720w 
"The   charm  of  the   book  lies  in   the   imagin- 
ative  realism   with    which   the   author   has   pre- 
sented   the    strength    and    quaintness    of    these 
fellow-countrymen  of  ours,  and  in  the  readabil- 
ity of  the  story  as  a  story."   H.   W.   Boynton 
+   Ind    110:350    My   26    '23    650w 
Reviewed  by  Ruth  Van  Deman 

J    Home  Econ  15:507  S  '23  350w 
Reviewed   by  Rebecca   Lowrie 

Lit  R  p699  My  19  '23  780w 
"  'The  Quare  Women'  is  a  charming  book, 
with  many  phases  of  interest  for  in  addition  to 
its  portrayal  of  the  mountain  people  and  their 
life,  which  is  sometimes  amusing  and  some- 
times pathetic,  it  offers  a  good  story  in  which 
one  of  the  famous  feuds  of  the  mountaineers 
affords  plenty  of  thrilling  moments." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl6  Ap  15  '23  820w 
"It  must  not  be  thought  that  it  is  chiefly  the 
mountain  background  alone  that  makes  this 
book  so  attractive;  the  people  in  their  talk  and 
their  actions  are  capitally  individualized,  while 
the  humor  and  quaintness  of  the  narrative  are 
delightful."     R.   D.   Townsend 

+  Outlook  133:719  Ap  18  '23  210w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:276  Je  '23 
"While  the  book  is  mirthprovoking  most  of 
the  time,  the  laughter  it  evokes  is  not  in  ridicule 
of  the  mountain  people  but  simply  comes  from 
humorous  situations  where  people  of  two  dif- 
ferent civilizations  are  sparring  for  a  mutual 
understanding  and  sympathy.  The  book  will 
entertain     every    reader    and    will    educate    as 

^®   '    _(-  springf  d  Republican  p7a  My  13  '23  300w 
"The  book  has  the  charm  of  the  mountaineers; 
it   is   full   of  their  delightful   idiom;    it   portrays 
them    with    humorous    understanding."      G.    S. 
+  Survey  50:supl88  My  1  '23  450w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:160   Je   '23 

FURNISS,    HARRY.        Some   Victorian   women; 

good,    bad.    and   indifferent.     226p   il   $4     Dodd 

[12s  '6d   Lane] 
920.7      Woman— Biography.      England— Biog- 
raphy ^i-b6J 

Harry  Furniss  was  for  many  years  cartoonist 
for  Punch  and  some  of  the  many  illustrations  m 
thi.'^  volume  have  appeared  in  that  periodical. 
His  cartoons  are  inlaid  in  a  medley  of  amusing 
chatter  about  the  celebrities  whom  he  met  dur- 
ing a  long  career.  He  was  an  unashamed  Vic- 
torian and  most  of  his  sketches  are  admiring 
Among  the  many  women  he  remembers  and 
go^s°pf  about  are  Lady  Wilde  Ouida,  Mrs 
Humphry  Ward.  Ellen  Terry,  Lily  I-angtry, 
Florence  Nightingale,  the  Baroness  Burdett- 
Coi^tts  and  Ladv  St  Heller.  He  has  an  enter- 
taining chapter  dn  a  few  old  women  and  another 
about  some  bad  women. 


Bookm    58:584   Ja   '24    160w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


183 


"The  women  are  shown  and  commented  upon, 
not  always  in  immaculate  English,  but  certainly 
in  a  most  delightful,  free-and-easy  manner 
which  will  appeal  to  the  reader  as  one  might 
not  who  is  trained  in  writing  as  is  Mr.  Furniss 
in  drawing."     E.   J.    C. 

-\ Boston   Transcript  p6   O  27   '23   700w 

New  Repub  37:212  Ja  16  '24  40w 
N   Y  World   pile  O  21   '23   190w 

"He  produces  a  jumble  of  memories,  and 
everything  he  mentions  reminds  him  of  some- 
thing else  that  he  is  in  a  great  hurry  to  say, 
like  a  child  home  from  a  party  eager  to  tell  in 
a  breath  all  about  the  splendour  and  fun  and 
his  own  part  in  it.  The  result  is  disjointed  and 
a  little  ridiculous,  but  conveys  a  certain  infec- 
tious pleasure.  .  .  But  these  are  minor  flaws  in 
a  lively  and  amusing  chronicle,  illustrated  by 
delightful  drawings  of  famous  women." 

+  —  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p470  Jl  12 
'23   1250w 


GABIROL,    SOLOMON    BEN    JUDAH    IBN.    See 

Ilm    Galiirol,    S.    ben    G. 

GALE,    ZONA.      Faint   perfume.    218p    $1.75    Ap- 

pleton 

22-6139 

Like  Miss  Lulu  Bett,  Leda  Perrin  is  a  poor 
relation.  Delicate,  sensitive,  high-souled,  she  is 
driven  by  circumstance  ioto  the  vulgar,  squab- 
bling family  of  Crumbs  whose  every  word  and 
act  lacerate  her.  Incisively  and  with  the  ut- 
most brevity.  Miss  Gale  etches  each  member 
of  this  family,  body  and  soul.  When  the  di- 
vorced daughter  Richmiel  comes  home  with  her 
little  son  Oliver,  the  last  touch  of  coarseness 
is  added  to  the  horrors  of  the  household.  Barn- 
aby  Powers  soon  follows  to  plead  for  a  share  in 
his  son,  whom  he  finds  he  cannot  live  without. 
He  and  Leda  meet.  The  fragrance  and 
serenity  of  their  love  is  shattered  by  Richmiel 
who  is  ready  enough  to  give  up  her  son  but  un- 
willing that  the  happiness  of  the  boy  and  his 
father  shall  encompass  Leda  as  well.  Abnega- 
tion on  the  part  of  the  lovers  follows  but  the 
book  closes  on  a  faint  but  persistent  note  of 
hope. 


"The  egregiousness  [of  the  Crumb  family]  is 
fully  developed  in  the  few  pages  the  book  con- 
tains by  means  of  a  rigid  economy  of  style  in 
which  every  word  has — perhaps  a  little  too  ob- 
viously— been  weighed,  with  the  result  that  it 
seems  at  times  somewhat  mannered,  and  at 
times  disturbingly  clever.  .  .  One  feels  that 
Leda  and  Barnaby  have  not  a  fair  chance  to 
develop  their  sensibilities  in  a  style  that  is 
quite  adequate  for  Mama  and  Pearl.  Mama 
and  Pearl  have  no  overtones:  Leda  and  Barna- 
by have  little  else;  and  the  latter  hover  about, 
rather  uncertain  figures,  for  want  of  a  suffi- 
ciently delicate  medium  of  expression."  R.  M. 
Gay 

-\ Atlantic's    Bookshelf   My    '23    500w 

Booklist   19:252   My   '23 
"It  exhibits  Miss  Gale  at  her  best  and  at  her 
worst."     J.    F. 

-I Bookm    57:327   My   '23   250w 

Boston    Transcript   p4    Ap   4    '23    1300w 
Cleveland   p26   Ap  '23 
"A    deeply    moving,    poignant    book,    but    not 
sweet,  instead,  rather  implacable."  Russell  Gore 
Detroit  News  pl2  Jl  8  '23  700w 
"There   is   in   this  new   novel  of  Zona  Gale  all 
the  delicacy  of  touch,   all   the  photographic  ob- 
servation,   that    made    'Miss    Lulu    Bett'    one    of 
the   remarkable   books   of   its  year;    but   by   way 
of  adding   the  finishing  touch  to  a  picture  that 
threatened    to    attain    greatness   she    has   hurled 
a    custard    pie    into    the    middle   of   this   canvas, 
and    squashy    sweetness    spattered    to    the    four 
corners  of  it   distracts   the  observer's  attention 


somewhat  from  the  excellence  of  the  drawing." 
G.   W.    J. 

+  —  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily   News  plO  My 
G  '23   800w 

"The  art  and  the  cleverness  of  Zona  Gale 
were  never  more  mightily  welded  than  in  her 
latest  novel,  'Faint  Perfume.'  In  many  ways, 
it  is  her  finest  achievement;  in  others,  it  is  her 
poorest.  Once  more  she  peimits  herself  to 
succumb  to  sentimentalism."  C:  H.  Towne 
T Int   Bk   R  p9  Ap  '23   900w 

"As  befits  such  a  story.  Miss  Gale  has  sharp- 
ened her  fine  style  into  a  precision  and  a  subtle- 
ty which  make  this  hook  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  in  recent  American  literature.  It 
is  not,  as  some  critics  have  already  cliarged, 
precious.  The  subject  is,  if  you  will,  precious — 
the  style  is  a  very  different  thing,  precise,  with 
an  absolute  mastery  of  phrase  and  epithet  that 
is  completely  successful  except  at  the  very  end, 
where  the  fine  in  thought  becomes  too  fine  and 
the  concept  of  the  faint  perfume  of  love  itself 
is  almost  too  metaphysical  for  clear  expression." 
H:    S.    Canby 

-f-   Lit   R  p547  Mr  24  '23  950w 

"What  one  remembers  most  clearly, — perhaps 
it  was  Miss  Gale's  intention  that  one  should — 
is  the  book's  theme;  amid  a  moral,  noisy, 
trivial  world  arises  love.  .  .  It  is  a  pity  that 
Miss  Gale  has  not  given  her  embodiment  of 
this  experience  as  much  breadth  and  richness 
as  she  has  given  it  glint  and  evane.scent 
aroma."   Ludwig  Lewisohn 

H Nation    116:547    My    9    '23    800w 

"The  people  in  Miss  Zona  Gale's  Faint  Per- 
fume are  struggling  to  become  real  against 
their  author's  too  intimate  contact  with  them. 
The>'  are  somewhere  between  ghost  and  flesh. 
With  one  exception — and  he  stands  out  like  a 
rock  in  a  mist.  Grandfather  Crumb,  because 
he  has  so  much  life  of  his  own,  forces  his  way 
from  the  outer  fringe  of  the  novel  where  was  the 
place  intended  for  him  to  its  very  centre. 
Grandfather  Crumb  is  surely  intended  to  be 
nothing  more  than  an  odd  and  touching  piece 
of  furnitiire  in  a  room  about  which  the  im- 
portant thing  should  seem  that  it  is  filled  with 
faint  perfume.  The  perfume  grows  fainter  and 
fainter  because  it  is  too  much  insisted  upon, 
and  our  eyes  are  more  and  more  fascinated 
hy  the  solid,  whimsical,  creaking,  pathetic  old 
armchair."      Robert    Littell 

h   New   Repub  35:47  Je  6  '23  1450w 

"  'Faint  Perfume,'  in  spite  of  its  technical 
drawbacks,  is  an  exceptional  piece  of  work  and 
one  that  should  further  emphasize  the  impres- 
sion that  Miss  Gale  made  with  'Miss  Lulu  Bett.' 
It  reveals  a  distinguished  writer,  mistress  of 
her  narrative  and  matured  in  style,  whose  one 
defect  is  a  streak  of  sentimentalism  that  may 
be  viewed  with  complacenc.v  in  others  but  not 
in  a  novelist  who  attempts  such  subjects  as  are 
evident  in  Miss  Gale's  last  two  books." 
+  N   Y  Times  pl4  Mr  11   '23  780w 

"In  the  scene  where  Barnaby  and  his  former 
wife  bargain  for  the  possession  of  their  child, 
Oliver,  Miss  Gale  has  written  one  of  the  most 
moving  and  magnificent  passages  in  modern 
fiction.  Herein  is  the  beauty  of  fact  limned 
poetically  and  poignantly."  Burton  Rascoe 
+  N    Y    Tribune    pl7    Ap   1    '23    1550w 

"Withholding  nothing  of  enthusiasm  for  the 
perfect  technique  of  the  book,  we  are  not 
inclined  to  accept  its  philosophy  of  life  through- 
out. We  will  grant  that  it  is  well  motivated 
and  that  very  probably  the  people  in  the  book 
would  have  behaved  just  as  Miss  Gale  has  em- 
powered them  to  do.  But  we  deplore,  slightly, 
her  evident  satisfaction  at  the  abnegation  of 
hero  and  heroine."  Heywood  Broun 
-1 NY  World   p8e  Mr  18  '23   650w 

"  'Faint  Perfume'  may  not  have  as  wide  a 
reading  as  "Miss  Lulu  Bett,'  because  Miss  Lulu 
was  more  direct  and  objective  in  her  appeal 
to  the  sympathy  and  because  the  earlier  book 
had  more  humor.  In  'its  art  the  new  story  is 
much  more  finely  wrought.  There  is  no  word 
wasted;  the  exact  effect  intended  is  produced, 
not  by  talking  it  into  the  reader's  mind,  but 
by  short,  keen,  or  subtle  sentences."  R.  D. 
"Townsend 

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GALE,   ZONA — Continued 

Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui   28:276  Je  '23 
"The  book  will   strengthen   Miss  Gale's   repu- 
tation among  readers  able  to  appreciate  skillful 
workmanship  and  beauty  of  motive  in  a  setting 
of  sordid  reality." 

-f  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  8  '23  480w 
"Leda's  sufferings  from  the  bluntness  of  her 
cousins'  sensibilities  are  not  exciting  enough 
to  carry  us  away,  and  make  us  forget  to  criti- 
cize her,  and  not  all  Miss  Gale's  cleverness, 
wit,  and  verbal  neatness — qualities  with  which 
she  is  handsomely  endowed — can  hide  from  us 
that  her  heroine  is  a  little  Pharisaical,  in  how- 
ever refined   and  ladylike  a  fashion." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p357   My 

24    '23    280w 


GALSWORTHY,  JOHN.  Burning  spear;  being 
the  experiences  of  Mr  John  Lavender  in  time 
of  war.  251p  $1.50  Scribner   [5s  Chatto  &  W.] 

23-7201 
This  book  published  anonymously  during  the 
last  months  of  the  war  is  now  repul)lished  and 
acknowledged  by  the  author.  It  is  a  farcical 
little  tale  intended  to  show  up  the  extravagant 
propaganda  used  by  press  and  public  men  to 
arouse  mass  emotions  in  war  time.  Dr  Lav- 
ender, a  peaceable,  kindly  middle-aged  gentle- 
man, has  become  so  intoxicated  by  fervid  edi- 
torials on  patriotism,  conservation,  etc.  that  he 
asks  for  and  obtains  a  commission  from  the 
Ministry  of  propagation  to  stump  the  country  for 
the  purpose  of  rousing  devotion.  "Don  Pick- 
wixote,"  as  a  neighbor  calls  him,  and  Joe  Petty, 
his  Sancho  Panza,  set  forth  and  before  they 
have  gone  far  Dr  Lavender  has  earned  the 
reputation  of  being  a  harmless  lunatic.  His 
speeches  and  adventures  satirize  ways  of  wag- 
ing war  at  home. 


Booklist  19:318  Jl  '23 
Cleveland  p66  S  '23 
"The  antics  of  John  Lavendar,  descendant  of 
Don  Quixote  and  Pickwick,  the  credulous  vic- 
tim of  floridly  patriotic  propaganda,  are  staged 
with  the  skill  of  a  Barnum,  supplemented  by 
Galsworthy's  admired  sense  of  fitness.  There 
is  much  horseplay,  but  not  the  most  insistent 
serious-mindedness  could  resist  such  stringently 
selected,    uproarious   fun." 

+  Dial  75:201  Ag  '23  80w 
"Needless  to  say,  the  craftsmanship  of  the 
book  is  magnificent.  Perhaps  its  extravagances 
grow  a  bit  wearisome  before  the  thing  Is  done, 
but  a  great  deal  of  it  is  excruciatingly  funny, 
and  a  hearty  laugh  at  ourselves  once  in  a  while 
is  the  best  sort  of  mental  tonic."     G.   W.   J 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)   Daily  News  p8  Je  24 
'23   500w 

Reviewed  by  H.  "W.  Boynton 

Ind    110:350    My    26    '23    500w 
Reviewed   by  L.   M.   Field 

Int  Bk  R  p39  Ag  '23  450w 
"Mr.  Galsworthy  does  not  choose  to  acknowl- 
edge the  full  implications  of  his  satire;  he  seems 
to  assume  that  war  might  be  waged  as  cricket 
IS  played — without  rancor  and  lies,  and  by  the 
rules.  This  is  the  weak  point  of  his  position: 
he  disowns  the  application  of  his  destructive 
criticism  to  the  war  itself.  Hence  his  book,  in 
spite  of  its  vigor  and  brilliance,  leaves  one  with 
a  sense   of  futility."     H.    E.   "Woodbridge 

h   Lit    R   P747   Je   9    '23    550w 

N    Y    World   pile   Ap   15    '23   400w 

mP"^^'^^''^^^  thinks  that  this  little  volume 
will  add  appreciably  to  Mr.  Galsworthy's  repu- 
tation." 

—  Outlook    133:854    My    9    '23    60w 

"The  situations  are  Pickwickian,  the  main 
characters  (Mr  Lavender  and  his  irrepressible 
sheep-dog  Blink)  are  creatures  of  Barrie,  and 
the  satire  delightfully  Shavian.  There  is  here 
so  little,  indeed,  of  Galsworthy  himself,  as  here- 
tofore known  to  us,  that  we  should  hardly,  even 
now,   miss  his   name   from   the  title-page." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  6  '23  300w 


GALSWORTHY,      JOHN.       Captures.      305p     $2 
Scribner 

23-12430 
A  collection  of  short  stories,  character  studies 
and  sketches  of  people  in  all  walks  of  life.  In 
the  first,  A  feud,  the  far-reaching  influence  of 
a  trivial  incident  on  the  lives  of  two  families 
is  shown.  Bowden's  yellow  dog  bites  Steers's 
ungaitered  leg.  Steers  shoots  Bowden's  dog. 
This  crystallizes  into  hatred  the  distrust  which 
a  west  country  farmer  of  old  stock  had  for  a 
newcomer  with  new  methods.  The  result  is  a 
broken  engagement  between  two  young  people; 
a  lawsuit  and  more  resentment;  the  loss  to 
farmer  Steer  of  his  niece;  Ned  Bowden's  enlist- 
ment and  death  in  Prance;  two  desolate  homes. 
Contents:  A  feud;  The  man  who  kept  his  form; 
A  hedonist;  Timber;  Santa  Lucia;  Blackmail; 
The  broken  boot;  Stroke  of  lightening;  Virtue; 
Conscience;  Salta  pro  nobis;  Philanthropy;  A 
long-ago  affair;  Acme;  Late — 299;   Had  a  horse. 


Booklist   20:39  Ja  '24 

Reviewed   by   E.    P.    Edgett 

Boston    Transcript    p4    O    6    '23    1350w 

"A  Feud  is  a  beautifully  balanced  tale,  rich 
■with  the  atmosphere  of  the  English  country- 
side and  the  emotional  implications  so  largely 
depending  thereon.  The  sketches  following  the 
two  stories,  although  gleaming  ^vith  the  fine 
reserved  words  that  have  power  to  convey 
subtle  insights,  are  disconcertingly  slight  and 
by -the -way." 

4-  —  Dial    75:506   N   '23    80w 

Reviewed  bv  H.   W.  Bovnton 

Ind    111:228    N'  10    '23    400w 

"  'Captures'  is  one  of  the  most  objective  of 
his  books,  and  is  a  really  Important  addition 
to  his  achievement.  It  proves  his  mastery  of 
the  short  story.  With  regard  to  both  substance 
and  form,  the  new  collection  shows  in  some 
respects  a  positive  advance  over  his  previous 
work."    H.    E.    Woodbridge 

+   Lit    R   pl03   O   6   '23   900w 

Reviewed  by  Raymond  Mortimer 

New   Statesman   22:supl8  O  13   '23  230w 

"For  me  the  outstanding  triumph  of  the  book 
is  'Late — 299,'  the  story  of  a  doctor  released 
from  prison  after  serving  his  time  for  mal- 
practice. .  .  The  doctor  is  a  piercing  creation 
from  which  you  shrink,  but  by  which  you  are 
stirred  to  inordinate  pity.  This  is  the  Gals- 
worthy way — to  leave  you  at  the  end  with 
pities  multiplied,  with  bigotries  chastened,  with 
the  social  vision  more  responsively  cleared." 
Alexander   Black 

-I-   Int  Bk  R  p88  N  '23  850w 

"It  might  appear  that  Galsworthy  had  been 
discovered  by  this  reviewer  in  the  clutches  of 
a  fixed  idea.  Nothing  could  less  closely  ap- 
proximate an  actual  intention  to  convey  the 
infinite  possibilities  which  Galsworthy  has 
found  in  the  relationship  which  he  exploits. 
He  enriches  it  with  profound  observation  of  its 
social  and  intimate  significances.  .  .  On  the 
whole,  this  new  volume  deserves  to  stand  be- 
side the  rest  of  Galsworthy's  sensitive,  ques- 
tioning  criticisms   of   the   life   we   live." 

-f   N    Y    Times   pll    S    16    '23    1200w 

"The  author's  characteristic  excellence  is 
shown  in  the  drama  of  social  injustice  and  the 
novel  of  social  structure.  The  short  story  of- 
fers a  less  extended  field  of  action  than  the 
novel  of  character  and  a  less  intense  range  of 
feeling  than  the  play  of  social  purpose.  Con- 
sequently in  'Captures'  Mr  Galsworthy  seems 
at  times  to  be  compressing  his  material  unduly 
to  meet  the  limits  of  the  form  employed.  .  . 
The  irony  of  these  short  stories  often  seems  a 
literary  device,  whereas  the  irony  of  the  final 
situation  in  such  a  work  as  'The  Forsyte  Saga' 
is  an  .essential  contrast,  innate  in  the  natures 
and  pasts  of  the  men  and  women  involved." 
-f  Springf'd  Republican  p5a  S  23  '23  350w 

"Mr.  Galsworthy's  sixteen  new  stories,  here 
collected,  are  neither  unworthy  of  him  nor  yet 
on  a  level  with  his  best  work.  They  are  char- 
acteristic.    But  one  feels  that  in  writing  them 


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he   allowed    himself   a   certain    relaxation;    they 
are   deficient  not  in  truth   but  in  intensity." 

H The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p602    S 

13    '23    750w 

GALSWORTHY,  JOHN.     Plays;  fifth  series.  108, 
110, 91p    $2.50    Scribner    [7s    Ducksworth] 

822  23-2586 

Contents:     A  family  man;  Loyalties;  Windows. 


Booklist   19:215  Ap   "23 
"In    the   latest   plays    emphasis   is    spread   too 
evenly  over  a  considerable  group  of  characters, 
so  that  none  stands  out  in  the  memory."  H.  E. 
Woodbridge 

—  Lit  R  p618  Ap  21  '23  720w 
"In  'Loyalties'  we  have  a  play  of  contempo- 
raneous life,  charged  with  serious  and  instruc- 
tive purpose,  yet  wholly  devoid  of  sentimentality 
or  preachment,  excellently  written,  full  of  enter- 
tainment and  dramatic  suspense,  which  fulfils 
many  of  the  best,  if  not  the  very  highest, 
functions  of  the  theatre.  Neither  of  the  other 
plays— though  both  are  morally  and  philosophi- 
cally sound — is  so  veracious  or  convincing."  J.  R. 
Towse 

H •  Lit   R  p928  Ag  25  '23  1150w 

Reviewed  by  F.   L.   Birch 

New   Statesman    20:360   D   23   '22   600w 
Reviewed   by  P.    A.   Hutchison 

N   Y  Times   p9   Mr  11   '23   1700w 
"There   is   much    in   all    three   of   these    plays 
that    Galsworthy    has    said    before,    and    all,    of 
course,     are    clearly    and    beautifully    written." 
Charlotte  Dean 

-}-  N    Y   Tribune   p27   F  18   '23   1250w 

GALSWORTHY,  JOHN.  Windows:  a  comedy  in 
three  acts  for  idealists  and  others.  91p  $1 
Scribner    [2s    6d    Duckworth] 

822  23-16079 

"A  delicate  criticism  of  after-war  conditions 
in  England,  hit  off  through  a  middle-class  family 
with  an  idealistic  veteran  son,  a  novelist  father, 
a  servant  girl  who  is  constitutionally  unchaste 
and  a  commonsense  mother  of  the  family  who 
gets  tipsy  at  the  end  and  enunciates  the  moral.'' 
— N   Y  World 

"In  this  play  Galsworthy  is  to  be  seen  at  his 
best.  Something  of  the  social  appeal  that  vital- 
izes Justice  stands  forth  in  this  drama,  yet 
underlying  and  overspreading  all  is  a  subtle  and 
skilfully  woven  strand  of  comedy  that  dominates 
the  action.  The  author's  technical  e.xpertness 
is  nowhere  better  exemplified  than  in  Windows, 
and  only  in  a  few  instance.-?  have  his  characters 
been  etched  with  more  originality  and  reality." 
+   Dial   75:401  O  '23  60w 

"Mr.  Galsworthy's  work  has  never  been 
blessed  before  with  such  a  steady  flow  of  hu- 
mour, both  of  situation  and  of  character." 
R.   A.   P. 

+  Freeman  7:70  Mr  28  '23  220w 

"An  appreciably  slighter  offering  then  some 
of  the  author's  earlier  efforts  that  come  to  one's 
mind,  but  if  the  essential  fabric  of  Mr.  Gals- 
worthy's dramatic  invention  wears  a  bit  thin, 
the  surface  is  as  attractive  as  ever  and  the 
workmanship    brilliant."    Harold    Kellock 

-) Freeman    8:186    O   31    '23    1050w 

N  Y  World  p8e  Jl  22  '23  70w 

GALVEZ,   MANUEL.     Nacha  Regules:   auth.   tr. 

from  the  original  Spanish  by  Leo  Ongley.  304p 

$3  Dutton 

23-10466 

Fernando  Monsalvat  had  lived  the  first  forty 
years  of  his  life  in  comparative  serenity  when 
he  suddenly  began  to  be  aware  of  social  in- 
justice— the  misery  of  the  poor,  the  lot  of  fallen 
women.  Nacha  Regules  especially  arouses  his 
compassion  and  he  tries  to  help  her  change  her 
mode  of  life.  Fearing-  the  reaction  upon  him- 
self of  his  championship,  Nacha  simulates  in- 
difference and  loses  herself  to  him,  incurring 
great  hardships  in  her  efforts  to  live  a  clean 
life.  Much  of  the  narrative  is  taken  up  with 
Monsalvafs    search    for    Nacha,     his    growing 


spirituality  and  unworldliness  and  his  futile 
struggles  to  reform  the  world  singlehanded. 
Several  times  he  succeeds  in  finding  Nacha, 
only  to  lose  her  again  after  her  repeated  re- 
fusals to  marry  him,  on  the  ground  that  she 
does  not  love  him.  He  is  impoverished  and  ill 
and  losing  his  eyesight  when  Nacha,  having  dis- 
covered him,  goes  to  him  voluntarily  and  insists 
on  marrying  him  against  his  protests.  Tho 
blind  he  now  finds  a  new  vocation  as  friend 
and    guide    to   aspiring    students. 

"It  is  intelligent  fiction.  Tou  really  know  some- 
thing about  Argentina  when  you  are  through 
with  it."  A.  W.  Porterfield 

4-  Bookm  58:92  S  '23  lOOOw 
"Locally  this  novel  must  have  been  of  peculiar 
interest.  Intellectually  it  defeats  its  own  in- 
tention. The  climax  is  theatrical.  There  is  no 
skill  in  character  drawing.  But  as  a  faithful 
representation  of  South  American  life,  with  its 
iniquity  and  viciousness  well  placed  in  the  fore- 
ground, this  novel  will  hold  the  attention  of  all 
its    readers."      D.    F.    G. 

H Boston    Transcript   p3    My   5   '23    620w 

Cleveland   p66   S  '23 
"Expressionism  seems  not  yet  to  have  struck 
South  America.     Galvez,  alluded  to  in  the  Latin 
style  as   'a   noble   man   of  letters'   and  a   'repre- 
sentative of  culture'   in   a  country  where  wide- 
spread   reading    is    an    achievement    of    the    last 
twenty  years,  Galvez  has  the  monumental  style 
of    his    monumental    purpose.        It    is    moving, 
however:  it  has  the  bite  of  earnest  sarcasm,  and 
merits  the  interest  bestowed  on  the  new  spokes- 
man of  a   new  country."   Ruth  Underbill 
Nation  116:603  My  23  '23  720w 
"Altogether  this  is  perhaps  the  most  interest- 
ing and  graphic  novel  that  has  yet  come  out  of 
South    America." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl4  Ap  1  '23  1150w 
"Here  is  a  definite  and  commendable  con- 
tribution to  letters.  It  is  not  difficult  to  admit 
Manual  Galvez  to  the  ranks  of  leading  novel- 
ists. He  has  mastered  his  method,  is  seldom 
imitative,  and  exhibits  broad  knowledge  of  not 
only  his  characters  (whom  he  presents  com- 
prehensively) but  of  mankind."  Kenneth 
Fuessle 

-f  N  Y  Tribune  p20  Je  10  '23  840w 
"To  an  American  reader  it  seems  very  slightly 
above  the  level  of  ordinary  propagandist  fiction." 
—  Survey   50:sup200   My   1   '23    50w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p895  D  20 
'23   480w 

GANPAT,    pseud.    Harilek:    a    romance.    336p    $2 
-    Houghton    [6s   Blackwood] 

23-15475 
"The  ingenious  author  has  set  his  scene  near 
the  Desert  of  Gobi,  which  is  new;  and  more- 
over, he  seems  to  know  his  Central  Asian 
history.  'I  wonder  if  anyone  who  reads  these 
lines' — that  is,  of  course,  how  the  musty,  yellow 
paper  of  great-great-uncle  begins;  and  his 
nephew,  a  soldier  of  the  good  old  modern  stamp 
(a  trifle  prolix  in  his  writing,  and  scornful  of 
(Materialists  and  Eugenists),  following  the  clue, 
seeks  to  discover  this  strange  lost  kingdom  be- 
yond the  desert.  Then,  on  the  threshold  of  ad- 
venture amid  this  forgotten  tribe,  he  magnifi- 
cently rescues  the  Lady  Aryenis.  and  finds  that 
she  speaks  Greek,  and  subsequently  (so  that 
no  one  mav  forbid  the  banns)  that  she  is  one 
Df  that  old  and  highly  respectable  Christian 
sect,  the  Nestorians." — The  Times  [London] 
Lit  Sup  

"A  real  treat.  It  is  the  sort  of  book  of  ad- 
venture and  mystery  that  one  stays  up  to  all 
hours  of  the  night  to  finish."  . 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  po  D  23 
'23  450w 
"Part  of  'Ganpat's'  strength  is  to  be  found 
in  his  unusuallv  fine  style  and  the  care  he  has 
taken  to  develop  all  of  his  characters  in  the 
most  complete  manner.  Fact  and  fancy  are  in- 
termingled with  dexterity,  and  the  result  is  a 
tale  which  most  readers  will  violently  wish 
were  true  even  if  it  isn't.  No  writer  of  romance 
can  do  more  than  this." 

+  N   Y  Times  p9  O  28  '23  700w 


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"It  is  a  good  story  of  its  kind,  full  of  adven- 
tures. The  conversations  are  a  little  obvious 
(like  most  true  conversations)  and  the  book 
would  have  been  better  if  it  had  been  'cut' ; 
but  the  story  is  carefully  worked  out.  and  the 
country  is  well  described  by  one  who  obviously 
knows  it.'" 

+  —  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p638  S  27 
•23    280w 

GARDINER,     ALFRED    GEORGE.    Life    of    Sir 
William    Harcourt.    2v    v    1    (1827-1886);    v    2 
(1886-1904).  608;670p  $12  Doran  r45s  Constable] 
B  or  92     Harcourt,  Sir  William  Vernon 

[23-7059] 
This  biography  is  a  full  record  of  a  long, 
rich  and  varied  career.  Sir  William  Harcourt, 
1827-1904,  was  one  of  the  great  parliamentary 
figures  of  the  period  of  Gladstonian  liberalism, 
a  powerful  campaign  fighter  and  debater.  Be- 
fore entering  Parliament,  he  had  become  recog- 
nized as  an  authority  in  international  law. 
From  1880  to  1892  he  was  Mr  Gladstone's  loyal 
and  tireless  lieutenant,  from  1894  to  1898  the 
leader  of  the  Liberal  party  in  the  House  of 
commons.  His  biographer  sets  down  the  facts 
of  his  life  impartially  and  in  the  concluding 
chapter  attempts  an  estimate  of  his  character 
and  place  in  history. 

"Though    writing    obviously    con    amore,    Mr. 
Gardiner  never  loses  his  poise  or  discrimination. 
He   has   chosen    his  material  well   and   his   nar- 
rative is  interesting  throughout." 
+  Bookm  58:84  S  '23  250w 

Reviewed  by  S.  L.  Cook 

Boston    Transcript    p3    Jl    7    '23    2200w 

"He  has  constantly  caught  Harcourt  as  he 
always  was— humanly  natural  in  his  temper,  his 
appetite,  his  affection,  his  humour.  It  goes 
without  saying  that  a  biography  which  does 
justice  to  this  last  aspect  of  Sir  William's  char- 
acter cannot  be  a  dry  book."  R.  M.  Lovett 
+  Dial    75:391    O   '23    2150w 

"Mr.  Gardiner  has  performed  his  task  in  a 
masterly  way.  The  vast  wealth  of  papers  and 
documents  in  which  Harcourt's  career  is  re- 
corded has  been  handled  with  great  skill,  and 
although  quotations  are  numerous,  it  is  the  nar- 
rative itself  that  holds  the  chief  place.  The 
final  chapter  is  a  singularly  able  piece  of  per- 
sonal characterization,  and  the  volumes  as  a 
whole  are  fairly  to  be  pronounced  indispensable 
to  any  one  who  would  dig  below  the  surface 
of  the  England  in  which  for  more  than  half  a 
century  Harcourt  was  one  of  the  most  con- 
spicuous figures."   W:    McDonald 

+   Lit   R  p844  Jl  21  "23  1200w 

"A  book  which  easily  stands  in  the  front 
rank  of  the  biographies  of  the  year."  H.  W. 
Horwill 

+  Nation    117:sup402   O   10   '23   1450w 

"Mr.  Gardiner's  admirable  biography  will  find 
readers    outside    England   for    two    reasons,    one 
personal,    the   other   political."    J.    L.    Hammond 
-t-  New   Repub  35:128  Je   27   '23   1500w 

"A  fine  piece  of  work.  The  method  is  the  ap- 
proved one  of  telling  the  story  as  far  as  pos- 
sible by  quotations  from  correspondence  and 
other  documents.  The  book  is  probably  defini- 
tive;  the  job  might  have  been  done  better,  but 
It  has  been  done  so  well  that  no  one  else  is 
likely  to  attempt  to  improve  on  it."  H:  W.  Bunn 
-f   N  Y  Tribune  pl7  Jl  22  '23  1600w 

Reviewed   by   S.    K.    Ratcliffe 

Outlook    135:112   S    19    '23    600w 

"These  books  are  warped  in  parts  by  a  nar- 
row bias.  It  is  a  well-written  full-dress  'Life  ' 
though  m  perspective  often  faulty  and  some- 
times obscuring  the  trees  by  the  leaves.  But 
Its  wealth  of  matter  makes  it  a  mfimoire  a, 
servir   both   for   the   man   and    his   period  " 

H Sat   R   135:371  Mr  17  '23   1150w 

Spec    130:447    Mr    17    '23    1650w 

"It  is  not  alone  as  an  historical  document 
that  we  may  value  the  book,  but  also  because 
It  leaves  us  with  the  portrait  of  an  intelligent 
and  courageous  man."     J:   D.   Gaus 

+  Springf'd      Republican     p7a     N     18     ''3 
ISOOw 


GARLAND,    HAMLIN.      Book   of   the   American 
2    Indian;     pictured     by     Frederick     Remington. 
274p  $5   Harper 

970.1  Indians  of  North  America  23-12977 
Of  gift  book  size  and  sumptuousness  this 
volume  contains  fourteen  stories  of  the  Ameri- 
can Indian,  one  of  them  more  than  a  hundred 
pages  in  length.  The  Remington  pictures,  in- 
cluding three  in  color,  are,  of  course,  already 
familiar  and  are  not  to  be  considered  illustra- 
tions of  the  text  but  an  independent  interpre- 
tation of  Indian  life. 


Booklist    20:95    D    '23 
"An  American  historical  document  of  distinct 
value   as   well  as   a   beautiful   gift  book." 
-+-   Lit   R   p412   D  29   '23  220w 
"If    they    do    no    more    than    prick    our    con- 
science as  to  a  national  responsibility  toward  an 
ancient    race    which,    as   the   Indian    Bureau    re- 
minds   us,    is    slowly    increasing    then    they   will 
bring    their    greatest    honor    to    a    distinguished 
American   writer."     P:   Phillip 

-f-  N  Y  Times  p5  O  14  '23  1400w 
"The  drawings  in  themselves  fully  justify 
their  republication.  Whether  it  would  not  have 
been  better  and  more  legitimate  to  make  two 
books — one  volume  of  Mr.  Garland's  stories  and 
an  album  of  Remington's  drawings — is  an- 
other matter.  Each  should  have  been  strong 
enough  to  stand  alone.  But  the  combination 
gives    us   a   readable    and  attractive   volume." 

H The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p908    D 

27   '23   500w 

GARNETT,   DAVID.     Lady  into  fox.   97p  $1.50 

Knopf   [5s   Chatto] 

23-8271 

One  day  a  year  after  her  marriage  as  Silvia 
Tebrick  was  walking  with  her  husband  in  a 
wood  near  their  Oxfordshire  home  she  was  sud- 
denly changed  before  his  face  and  eyes  into  a 
small  red  fox.  Her  husband  took  her  home  and 
cared  for  her  tenderly  as  if  she  were  indeed  his 
wife.  As  her  nature  rapidly  became  that  of  the 
animal  into  which  she  had  been  changed  he 
continued  to  love  her  and  deal  gently  with  her 
vixenish  ways.  Finally,  hunted  down  by  the 
hounds,  she  died  in  his  arms  where  she  had 
sprung  for  protection.  This  is  the  story  which 
Mr  Garnett  tells  with  the  utmost  simplicity 
and  directness,  with  much  beauty  in  the  telling, 
and  no  attempted  appeal  to  mystery  or  senti- 
ment or  allegorical  significance. 


Booklist  19:318  Jl  '23 

Cleveland  p39  My  '23 

Dial  74:631  Je  '23  90w 
"Mr.  Garnett  has  achieved  a  miracle  of  dis- 
tinction. The  grotesque  pitfalls  and  obvious  ab- 
surdities of  his  fable  he  has  escaped  by  some 
infallible  instinct  of  style  and  content.  He  ad- 
mits the  supernaturalism  of  his  story,  makes  no 
effort  to  rouse  vulgar  thrills,  writes  in  the 
grave  and  beautiful  prose  of  the  eighteenth 
century.  In  the  whole  course  of  his  narrative 
he  makes  not  one  blunder,  not  a  single  mis- 
chance. He  has  written  a  little  masterpiece  of 
perfect  art,  for  which  ordinary  praise  seems  al- 
most an  impertinence,  so  exemplary  is  this  cur- 
ious and  distinguished  fable." 

-f-  Int  Bk  R  p62  S  '23  350w 
"The  book  is  quick  with  a  deep  poetic  emo- 
tion which  comes  of  a  rare  sensibility  to  the 
English  countryside  and  recalls  something  of 
Hudson,  something,  too,  of  Edward  Thomas. 
But  to  this,  by  his  calm,  austere  narrative  style, 
Mr.  Garnett  has  added  a  quiet  literary  courage 
which  is  all  his  own.  He  has  given  us  much 
to  hope  for."     Hamish  Miles 

+  Lit  R  p379  Ja  13  '23  880w 
"It  is  now  neither  more  nor  less  significant 
than  it  would  have  been  or  will  be  in  any  civ- 
ilized century,  and  so  channingly  is  it  told 
that  I  should  not  be  at  all  surprised  to  see  it 
become  a  minor  classic.  Yet  such  books  are  a 
sore  trial  to  the  reviewer.  Conscience  will  not 
let  him  pass  them  by,  but  how  can  he  explain 
their  unobtrusive  charm?"  J.  W.  Krutph 
+  Nation   116:602  My  23  '23   800w 


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187 


"Mr.  Gainett  is  indebted,  no  doubt,  to  the  late 
M.  de  Voltaire  for  his  style  and  also  for  the 
colour  of  his  mind;  but  he  has  individual  quah- 
ties  which  make  him  the  perfect  historian  of 
such  an  event  as  the  accident  which  befell 
Silvia  Tebrick."     E.   R. 

+   New  Statesman  20:212  N  18  '22  1300w 

"Mr  Garnett  ^\Tites  as  though  he  believed 
what  he  was  writing  and  there  is  no  better 
way  of  creating  fantasy.  'Lady  Into  Fox'  is 
one  of  those  small  bright  accidents  of  literary 
achievement  that  happen  all  too  seldom." 
4-  N    Y   Times   p9   Ap  15   '23   GMw 

Reviewed   by  A.    D.    Douglas 

N    Y   Tribune  p25  Ap   29   '23  800w 

"xVn  exceptionally  adroit  performance.  This 
little  story  may  serve  as  a  model  for  those  who 
are  minded  to  plunge  into  fantasy.  .  .  Here  is 
a  story  which  strikes  out  boldly,  and  such 
readers  as  are  too  practical  to  accept  the  amaz- 
ing incident  upon  which  the  tale  is  based  can 
abandon  the  pursuit  as  early  as  page  five. 
Once  the  major  premise  is  accepted,  everything 
is  developed  witli  unimpeachable  logic."  Hey- 
wood   Broun 

+    N   Y   World   p8e   My   G  '23   650w 

"It  is  not  often  the  reviewer  chances  on  such 
an  exceptionally  good  book;  a  book  in  which  wit 
and  beauty  move  so  smoothly  under  the  re- 
straint of  gravity  and  a  direct  simplicity;  where 
the  technique,  though  quite  easily  discernible 
and  modelled  on  the  best  classical  atithors,  is 
yet  so  lacking  in  awkwardness,  in  conventional- 
ity, in  offence;  where  fantasy,  satire,  allegory 
and  realism  are  all  kept  firmly  on  the  leash." 
+  Spec  129:770  N  25  '22  820w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  180w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:413  Jl   '23 

GARRET,   CARET.     Cinder  buggy.   355p  $2  But- 
ton 

23-13946 

This  story  of  love — and  hate — which  involves 
two  families  to  the  third  generation,  has  for 
its  background  the  development  of  iron  and 
steel  in  the  United  States.  In  the  little  two- 
wheeled,  bow-legged  tub  that  carries  the  slag 
of  the  iron  furnace  to  the  dump  Mr  Garrett 
finds  his  title.  With  the  founding  of  the  first 
iron  furnace  in  New  Damascus,  Aaron  Break- 
speare  wins  Esther  Mitchell  as  his  bride,  from 
his  partner  and  rival,  Enoch  Gib.  Enoch,  in  his 
rage,  dissolves  the  partnership,  retaining  a 
master  grip  on  the  iron  industry  which  is  not 
broken  until  John  Bieakspeare,  son  of  Aaron, 
succeeds  in  solving  the  problem  of  the  manu- 
facture of  steel.  As  John  triumphs  over  Enoch 
in  the  competition  of  iron  versus  steel,  so  does 
he  also,  eventually,  win  Agnes,  Enoch's  daugh- 
ter  for  his  wife. 


moments    when    the    characters    seem    obviously 
to  follow  a  dotted  line."     E.   W.   Osborn 

-I NY  World  plOe  O  21  '23  450w 

Outlook   135:506    N    21    '23    70w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  11  '23  400w 


"Overdramatic,    perhaps,    'The    Cinder    Buggy' 
is  yet  a   real  achievement   in   telling  a   story  of 
America's  meteoric  industrial  rise." 
H Lit   R   p215  N.  3  '23  500w 

"A  novel  of  hot  love  and  cold  steel,  in  which 
one  may  learn  considerably  more  about  the 
profits  of  a  great  industry  than  about  the 
promptings  of  a  great  emotion.  Mr.  Garrett 
composes  in  short  sentences;  his  story  moves 
rapidly  and  he  knows  his  background." 
-I-   Nation   117:692  D  12  '23  60w 

New    Repub    37:26    N    28    '23    80w 

"As  a  novel  there  is  perhaps  a  bit  too  much 
technical  information  without  any  camouflage, 
but  as  a  'fable  of  steel  and  iron,'  as  the  author 
has  branded  it,  he  leaves  little  to  be  desired. 
There  are  times  when  he  approaches  the  man- 
ner of  a  college  chemistry  lecturer  to  a  class  of 
beginners." 

H NY  Times  p9  N  4  '23  750w 

"  'The  Cinder  Buggy'  is  a  story  well  told  and 
with  an  absorbing  interest.  Mr.  Garrett  has  a 
way  with  him  in  fiction  writing  and  it  is  a  way 
which  has  been  vastly  bettered  since  the  pub- 
lication of  his  first  book,  'The  Blue  Wound.' 
Apparently  he  knows  almost  as  well  as  he 
knows  his  own  trade  the  technicalities  of  the 
foundry  and  the  blast  furnace.  We  get  from 
'The  Cinder  Bugg/'  the  occasional  suggestion  of 
a    story    too    personally    conducted.        There   are 


GARRETT,      WILLIAM. 
313p    $2   Appleton 


Friday     to     Monday. 
23-13325 


There  was  no  lack  of  excitement,  mystery 
and  thrilling  revelations  in  Sir  Richard  Mon- 
tague's week-end  visit  to  Arnington  Cotirt. 
It  was  ten  years  since  he  had  last  seen  his 
old  friend  Philip  Tracy,  now  Lord  Arnington. 
and  with  the  exception  of  Joan,  Philip's  sister, 
Richard  finds  everything  changed  at  the  Court. 
On  his  trip  from  London,  Richard  had  been 
oblige(i  to  put  up  with  the  vulgarities  of  an 
American  journalist  bound  for  the  same  sta- 
tion. The  strangeness  of  the  once  familiar 
Arnington  Court  arouses  Richard's  suspicion 
and  things  happen  thick  and  fast.  By  Monday 
morning  he  has  become  the  victim  of  a  hold- 
up, secret  tmderground  chambers  have  yielded 
up  their  horrors,  there  have  been  wild  noctur- 
nal motor  rides,  a  dramatic  rescue  from  a 
smuggler's  cave,  the  unmasking  of  a  dangerous 
band  of  jewel  thieves  and  of  a  spurious  Lord 
Arnington,  also  an  aeroplane  tragedy;  and  all 
with   the  help   of   the   ostensible   journalist. 

Booklist  20:101  D  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p7  D  22  '23  600w 
"Of  the  making  of  detective  stories  there  is 
no  end,  but  of  the  making  of  as  good  detective 
stories  as  'Friday  to  Monday'  there  is  all  too 
little.  For  here  is  a  tale  that  holds  interest 
even  for  the  seasoned  devotee  of  mystery  fic- 
tion from  beginning  to  end,  that  is  ingeniously 
constructed,  well  narrated,  and  carefully  artic- 
ulated." 

+   Lit    R    P72    S    22   '23    280w 

N    Y    World   p6e   S    16   '23    40w 
"A   lively   tale   and   quite   good   reading   of  its 

^  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup   p590   S   6 
•23    250w 

GARTLAND,     HANNAH.      Globe     Hollow     mys- 
tery.     294p     $1.75     Dodd  23-4140 

"Jasper  Bowen,  Fifth  avenue  miser  and 
recluse,  made  his  will,  disinheriting  his  niece 
and  leaving  millions  to  his  nephew  Charles, 
just  out  of  a  German  prison  after  being 
mourned  as  killed  in  an  air  fight  in  France. 
The  same  dav  the  old  man,  supposed  to  be  dy- 
ing, went  off  into  the  heart  of  Connecticut  and 
disappeared.  His  bones  were  found  in  a. 
burned  hut  in  a  forest  clearing.  But  that  is 
only  the  beginning,  not  the  end."— Sprmgf  d 
Republican 

"None  or  the  character  work  is  especially 
consistent.      But    there    is    atmosphere    and   plot 

h   Boston    Transcript    pll    Mr    24    '23    350w 

"The  book  is  indeed  complicated,  but  it  is 
gruesome,  and  not  as  intrigtiing  as  it  could  be 
if  it  had  not  so  many  side-plots.  Nevertheless, 
it  is  a  good,  plausible  mystery  story,  out  of  tne 
ordinary  in  that  the  first  and  main  mystery  is 
solved  in  the  first  two  hundred  pages,  and  other 
detective  problems  are  brought  into  the  book 
to  lead  up  to  the  capture  of  the  criminal. 

-\ Int    Bk    R    p48   Ag   '23    170w 

"There   is   a   slight   fumbling  of  action   by   the 
author.      Her    hand    is    not    quite    sure    and    she 
does    not   pull    the    wool    over   the    reader  s   eyes 
cleverly   enough."  .^„   ^„„ 
I-   N    Y   Times  p24  F   18   '23   180w 

Reviewed   by   A.   D.   Douglas 

N    Y   Tribune   p26   Mr  4  '23  250w 

"Interest  rests  less  steadily  upon  the  dis- 
appearance of  old  Jasper  Bowen,  the  recluse, 
than  upon  the  marvels  of  imnersonation  accom- 
plished bv  the  voung  man  who  is  trailed  by  the 
New  York   police   detectives.     This   diversion   of 


188 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


GARTLAND,    HANNAH — Continued 
the   reader's   concern   is   a   new   element   in   the 
modern  mystery  story,  and  it  should  be  appre- 
ciated accordingly  well." 

+   N   Y  World  p6e   Mr  4  '23  60w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  29  '23  200w 

GAHVIN,  AMELIA  BEERS  (WARNOCK)  (MRS 
JOHN  GARVIN)  KATHERINE  HALE, 
pseud.)-  Canadian  cities  of  romance.  191p  il 
$2  jJoran 

917.1     Canada — Description  and  travel 

23-26851 
Impressionistic  sketches  of  Canadian  cities 
which  call  up  their  historic,  romantic  and  liter- 
ary associations.  Contents:  Quebec — an  im- 
mortal; Domes  and  dreams  of  Montreal; 
Kingston  and  her  past;  Halifax — a  holding 
place;  The  port  of  St  John;  Fredericton — the 
celestial  city;  Ottawa — a  towered  town;  Tor- 
onto— a  place  of  meeting;  Historic  backgrounds 
of  Brantford;  Golden  Winnipeg;  Edmonton  and 
Jasper  park;  Calgary  and  Banff;  Vancouver — 
the   western   gateway;   Victoria — an   island  city. 


Booklist  20:52  N  '23 
"Fascinating  book." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  11  '23  360w 

GATES,  PHILIP.  Jigs,  tools  and  fixtures;  their 
drawing  and  design.  195p  il  $2.50  Van 
Nostrand 

621.9      Machine-tools  [23-5238] 

"Covers  equipment  for  practically  all  modern 
machine  tools,  with  chapters  on  special  equip- 
ment and  drawing  office  procedure;  also  giving 
numerous   examples   from   practice." — Subtitle 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:178   Ap   '23 

GAULT,  ROBERT  HARVEY.    Social  psychology; 

the  bases  of  behavior  called  social.   336p  $2.50 

Holt 

301    Social   psychology  23-6689 

The  scope  of  social  psychology,  as  conceived 
by  the  author,  includes  all  the  reactions  of 
members  of  the  human  race  upon  one  another 
and  manifesting  themselves  as  social  behavior. 
He  sees  human  nature  not  as  something  etern- 
ally fixed  and  unchangeable  but  altering  slowly 
in  response  to  multiform  environing  conditions. 
Instinct  and  heredity  are  shown  not  to  have  the 
predominant  influence  hitherto  attributed  to 
them  and  to  be  largely  resolvable  into  habits 
acquired  thru  a  sense  of  social  unity,  thru 
convention,  custom  and  training.  He  does  not 
accept  the  social  mind  as  a  necessary  concept 
but  holds  that  every  social  phenomenon  is  first 
accomplished  in  the  individual.  Feeble  minded - 
ness  and  psychic  defects,  racial  psychologic 
traits,  and  suggestibility  are  among  the  subjects 
discussed.      Appendices,    index. 


"It  is  inevitable  that,  bound  hand  and  foot  by 
the  philosophical  and  psychological  presupposi- 
tions, the  book  cannot  rise  to  the  level  of  social 
analysis.  That  it  does  not  do  so  is  painfully 
obvious  as  the  discussion  proceeds."  E.  B.  Reu- 
ter 

—  Am  J  Soc  29:241  S  '23  250w 

"The  inedium  size  of  the  volume,  the  pleas- 
ing appearance  to  the  eye,  and  the  straightfor- 
ward style  recommend  this  book  as  an  avail- 
able text  for  students  not  too  far  advanced." 
T.   V.   S. 

4-  Int  J    Ethics   33:440   Jl   '23   lOOw 

Reviewed    hv   C.    E.    Avres 

New    Repub   35:77   Je   13   '23   1150w 

"It  may  well  be  doubted  whether  a  science 
which  i=;  as  yet  in  its  first  vague  beginnings 
can  with  profit  be  applied  systematically  to  so 
wide  a  field.  It  seems  certain  that  Professor 
Gault  is  not  equipped  for  the  undertaking."  J: 
Corbin 

—  NY  Times  p8  My  13  '23  380w 

"With  the  soul  abolished,  consciousness  lost 
and  the  mind  tottering  out  of  psychology,  one 
looks  in  Professor  Gault's  Social  Psychology  for 
something  to  take  the  place  of  these  once  useful 


concepts.  But  one  looks  in  vain.  Mind  and 
soul  do  not  appear  in  the  book.  'Self  appears 
only  in   a   compound."     J.    K.    H. 

—  Survey  50:suplS7   My  1    '23   380w 

GAUNT,  MARY  ELIZA  BAKEWELL.  Where 
the  twain  meet.  335p  il  $6  Dutton  [15s 
Murray] 

917.29    Jamaica  23-6154 

This  travelogue  of  Jamaica  goes  deeply  into 
the  history  of  the  island,  especially  of  the 
black  population  from  its  earliest  slavery  days, 
speaking  sympathetically  and  hopefully  of  the 
future  of  the  black  citizens.  "An  enchanting 
tale,  a  tale  of  rare  adventure  and  romance  is 
the  past  of  Jamaica,  and  before  lier.  lies  a 
glorious  future,  for  the  Empire  is  slowly  awak- 
ening to  the  value  of  the  tropical  possessions 
that  are  within  the  borders,  and  this  fruitful 
island  must  surely  play  a  great  part  in  the 
future  development  of  one  of  the  gi-eat  nations 
of    the    earth."    (Preface)    Index. 


Booklist    19:314   Jl    '23 

"We  can  make  but  one  adverse  criticism  of 
this  graphic  and  delightful  book.  Its  author, 
in  discussing  the  race  problem,  has  failed  to 
speak  of  the  inevitable  mixed  marriage  result- 
ing from  those  equal  rights  and  equal  privileges 
now  so  scrupulously  maintained  in  the  West 
Indies."       D.    F.    G. 

H Boston    Transcript    p4    F    21    '23    880w 

"For  those  who  know  Jamaica  this  book  by 
Mary  Gaunt  will  confirm  and  amplify  their 
previous  knowledge  and  enthusiasms,  while  for 
that  other  more  numerous  class  who  have  yet 
to  visit  one  of  the  loveliest  islands  of  the 
tropic  sea.  'Where  the  Twain  Meet'  will  arouse 
their  immediate  interest  and  curiosity.  It  is  a 
remarkable  volume  in  several  ways."  W:  Mc- 
Fee 

-I-   Lit   R  p564  Mr  31  '23  750w 

"Marred  though  It  Is  by  a  somewhat  flamboy- 
ant style  as  well  as  by  the  author's  prejudices, 
it  is  a  suggestive  study  of  the  Island  where 
Britain    is    e.xperimenting    in    negro    rule." 

H New    Statesman    20:494    Ja    27    '23    180w 

"The  major  part  of  the  book  is  concerned 
with  the  slave  trade,  and  much  of  this  is  re- 
petitive and  monotonous.  To  the  general  reader 
it  may  be  depressing,  but  the  data  it  contains 
with  its  unique  and  often  humorous  presenta- 
tion will  be  interesting  to  those  who  like  a 
great  deal  of  history,  even  if  unpleasant,  inter- 
woven with  more  agreeable  reactions  to  life  in 
the  tropics." 

H NY   Times  p20  Mr  4  '23  280w 

"She  shows  no  appreciation  of  the  difficulties 
of  the  coloyr-question;  but,  embedded  in  her 
expansive  moral  comments  there  are  interest- 
ing extracts  from  the  journals  of  old  slave 
traders." 

H Spec  130:26  Ja  6  '23  90w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p735    N 
16    '22    llOOw 

GEBHART,    EMILE.     Mystics    and    heretics    In 

Italy    and    the    end    of    the    Middle    ages;    tr. 

with   introd.    by   Edward   Maslin   Hulme.    283p 

$4  Knopf  [12s  6d  Allen  &  U.] 

274.5  Heresy.   Mysticism.   Italy — Church  hi.s- 
tory  [22-23140] 

"Gebhart's  L' Italic  Mystique,  now  for  the  first 
time  translated  into  English,  was  an  early  ef- 
fort to  put  into  their  right  perspective  some  of 
the  leading  figures  of  medieval  Italy;  he  includes 
not  only  people,  such  as  Joachim  of  Flora  and 
Arnold  of  Brescia,  whose  thought  was  driven 
underground  to  blossom  later  into  beauty  and 
excess  at  the  Reformation,  but  others  such  as 
St.  Francis  of  Assisi,  Jacopone  da  Todi  and 
Dante  himself,  who  never  diverged  in  expression 
from   orthodoxy." — New    Statesman 


"The  publication  of  a  translation  of  Gebhart  s 
L'ltalie  Myntique  thirty-two  years  after  the  ap- 
pearance of  the  original  seems  to  serve  no  pur- 
pose. The  author  had  no  particular  distinc- 
tion either  as  a  literary  man  or  a  scholar,  and 
this  work,  which  implied  such  a  wide  field  of 
study,    was   regarded    as    a   popular   exposition, 


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told  in  a  charming  style,  rather  than  a  serious 
historical  work.  The  mass  of  new  documents, 
new  investigations  on  the  period  covered  by  the 
book,  makes  it  to-day  thoroughly  inadequate  as 
a  presentation  of  its  subject."  G:  L.  Hamil- 
ton 

—  Am  Hist  R  28:350  Ja  '23  120w 
Booklist   20:37   N   '23 
Cleveland  p57  JI  "23 

"M.  Emile  Gebhart  writes  charmingly,  with 
that  play  of  the  imagination  which  transmutes 
records  into  romances  and  documents  into  dra- 
mas; and  he  can  well  permit  himself  the  indul- 
gence in  that  liberty,  for  the  artist  in  him  is 
held  in  rare  restraint  by  a  fine  judgment  and 
a  sure   intuition."   Temple   Scott 

+   Freeman    6:574   F   21   '23   1700w 

"The  method  is  skilful  and  the  presentation 
of  the  historical  scene  most  attractive.  It 
was,  therefoie,  well  worth  while  to  introduce 
the  book  to  a  wider  circle  of  readers  by  a 
translation  into  English;  and  the  translation  has 
been   admirably   done."      C.    D.    Burns 

+  Int   J    Ethics  33:223  Ja  '23   300w 

"To  have  presented  the  essential  features  of 
a  complex  intellectual  situation,  to  have  ex- 
hibited skilfully  the  transformation  wrought 
alike  by  the  mystic  seeking  individual  liberty 
near  to  God  and  by  the  rational  soul  question- 
ing the  process  of  nature,  until  the  whole  finds 
synthesis  and  self-consciousness  in  Dante — to 
have  done  this  with  a  charm  of  statement  and 
an  artist's  sense  of  proportion  is  the  merit  of 
Emile  Gebhart."  E.  W.  Nelson 
-t-  Lit   R  p69  S  22     '23  800w 

"The  book  is  an  authoritative  and  valuable 
summary  of  an  hysteric  age." 

+  Nation   117:127  Ag  1  '23  230w 

"Gebhart  was  not  a  great  scholar.  He  had 
no  inclination,  as  his  enthusiastic  translator  con- 
fesses, for  digging  into  dusty  archives;  and 
what  is  more  disastrous,  he  shows  no  power  of 
grasping  his  problem  in  its  full  significance.  .  . 
He  is  rhetorical  in  style,  a  devout  but  not 
indiscreet  disciple  of  Chateaubriand.  He  had 
a  good  general  knowledge  of  his  period,  and 
leaves — granted  his  limits — few  important  names 
unmentioned."      E.    R. 

H New  Statesman   20:410  Ja  6  '23  950w 

"A  delightful  book.  .  .  Gebhart's  method  of 
reconstructing  history   is   vivid   and  sympathet- 

H-  Spec   129:218  Ag  12  '22  220w 

"  'L'ltalie    Mystique'     has    long    been    known 

as    a    standard    book    on    the    inner    history    of 

Italy  during  the  two  centuries  which  culminated 

in  Dante.  It  is  indeed  a  fine  monument  of  French 

medieval  scholarship  and  French  literary  prose." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p503   Ag 

3   '22   1700W 

GEHRING,  JOHN  GEORGE.     Hope  of  the  vari- 
ant. 252p  $2  Scribner 

616.8      Nervous    system — Diseases.    Psychol- 
ogy,   Pathological.    Mental  suggestion 

23-8446 
"The  Variant  of  whom  Dr.  Gehring  writes  is 
that  person  who  because  of  nervous  or  physical 
disorder,  habits  formed  in  childhood,  improper 
training,  or  any  one  of  a  hundred  other  causes, 
in  some  measure  varies  from  what  we  call 
normal,  and  the  book  is  the  account  of  the 
methods  and  results  obtained  by  this  famous 
doctor  during  thirty  years  in  curing  those 
whose  variation  was  a  real  obstacle  in  life. 
His  methods  are  those  of  suggestion  and  auto- 
suggestion, education  in  optimism,  etc.,  but 
with  these  he  combines  careful  physical  treat- 
ment of  digestion  and  other  sources  from  which 
nervous  troubles  so  often  spring.  He  writes 
of  obsessions,  habits,  morbidness,  melancholy, 
improper  mental  functioning,  the  beginnings  of 
breakdowns,  and  many  other  varyings  from  the 
normal,  and  illustrates  them  by  specific  ex- 
amples out  of  his  own  experience  at  Bethel, 
Maine,  where  he  has  successfully  treated  thou- 
sands of  patients." — Publisher's  note 


Boston   Transcript  p7  Je  2  '23  550w 


"The  book  should  be  read  as  a  human  docu- 
ment affording  a  glimpse  of  a  personalit.v 
rather  than  as  a  system  of  therapeutics.  It  is 
too  bad,  however,  that  men  of  the  stamp  of  the 
author  should  not  be  somewhat  more  keenly  in 
touch  with  the  more  recent  developments  in 
psychotherapy.  The  deeper  insight  they  would 
thus  gain  of  the  nature  of  the  mechanisms  in- 
volved in  their  patients'  symptoms  would  axid 
just  so  much  more  to  their  power  for  good." 
H Lit   R   pl.5S  O   20   '23  400w 

"His  book  is  the  unsuccessful  effort  of  a 
medical  aitist  to  explain  his  effects.  He  is 
much  better  than  his  book.  All  one  can  gather 
is,  aside  from  the  personal  influence  of  benign 
personalities  such  as  Dr.  Gehring's,  the  hope 
of  the  variant  is  digestion  plus  suggestion." 
J:    E.    Lind 

h   Nation  116:120  Ag  1  '23  500w 

"A  warm  humanity  infuses  the  entire  book, 
which  is  written  in  so  Interesting  a  style  and 
deals  so  intimately  and  so  practically  with  mat- 
ters that  in  one  way  or  another  touch  the  lives 
of  almost  all  people  that  there  are  few  of  those 
interested  in  modern  developments  of  this  kind 
who  would  not  find  it  well  worth  reading." 
-f  N  Y  Times  p22  Jl  1  '23  560w 
N  Y  Tribune  p22  Ag  19  '23  130w 

"Many  readers  may  find  his  handling  ot 
psychological  themes  old-fashioned  or,  at  best, 
unorthodox,  but  we  feel  ourselves  in  the  pres- 
ence of  a  born  healer  who  does  not  need  to 
unravel  in  any  special  scholastic  way  his  own 
mental  processes  in  order  to  heal,  and  whom 
one  must  not  only  hear  speaking  but  glimpse 
at  his  work  in  these  pages  if  one  is  to  inter- 
pret his  art  of  success."  E.  J.  D.  Radclyffe 
-f  Spec  131:560  O  20  '23  600w 

"The  Hope  of  the  Variant  is  an  honest, 
simply  told  account  of  the  work  which  Dr. 
Gehring  has  been  carrying  on  for  many  years 
in  the  re-adjustment  of  nervous  and  unhappy 
people.  The  book  reflects  a  keen  appreciation 
of  the  needs  of  the  so-called  variant  and  in  its 
consistently  optimistic  note  must  carry  a  tre- 
mendous deal  of  hope.  It  deserves  a  careful 
reading  from  those  interested  in  the  alleviation 
of  nervous  maladies."  Bernard  Glueck,  M.D. 
+  Survey   51:350    D   15   '23    150w 

The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p622    S 
20    '23    lOOw 

GEISTER,  EDNA.  Let's  play.  152p  il  $1.25  Doran 
790     Games  23-3596 

"A  book  of  games  for  children  which  will  be 
of  use  to  mothers  and  leaders  of  recreation.  In- 
cludes those  for  out-of-doors,  indoor  parties 
and  picnics  and  for  special  occasions." — St  Louis 

Booklist  19:215  Ap  '23 
Cleveland  p61  Jl  '23 
"Would     prove     an     invaluable    book     to     the 
mother  or  entertainer  of  children."     M.  G.  Bon- 

+  Int   Bk   R  p34  Ag  '23  30w 
St   Louis  21:104  Je  '23 

GELZER,  MRS  JAY.     Compromise.  273p  $2  Mc- 
'    B"<i«  23-13727 

The  tale  of  a  sensitive  child,  an  adopted  or- 
phan, brought  up  by  the  Trevore  family  and 
constantlv  subject  to  the  intense  hatred  of 
sour  aunt  Catherine.  Everything  she  has  is 
taken  from  her  bv  Nathalie,  the  daughter  of  the 
house,  even  her  boy  lover,  Chan.  As  .she  grows 
older  she  decides  to  earn  her  own  living  and 
she  then  begins  to  realize  that  life  is  not  quite 
as  she  had  pictured  it  in  her  childhood  days. 
She  marries,  and  is  again  disillusioned.  She 
leaves  her  husband  who  is  drawn  away  from 
her  bv  Nathalie,  the  cause  of  most  of  her  un- 
happiness.  He  finally  returns  and  Joan  takes 
him  back  because  she  is  happier  with  him  than 
without  him.  He  promply  tells  her  that  after 
all  life  is  nothing  but  a  compromise. 

"The  author's  work  possesses  sincerity  with- 
out penetration:  objective  reality  without  sub- 
iective    truth.    It    is    a    sketchily    written    story 


190 


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GELZER,   MRS  J AV —Continued 
abounding   in    specific   facts   and   incidents,    but 
lacking    that    depth    and    psychological    warmth 
best    calculated    to    hold   the    reader's    interest." 

H Lit    R    p216   N    3    '23    220w 

"The  reader  is  impressed  so  profoundly  by 
Mrs.  Gelzer's  compact  story  that  everything 
seems  quite  as  it  should.  She  has  this  first 
novel   well   in  hand." 

+  N   Y  Times  p9  O  28  '23  450w 
Reviewed  by  Will   Cuppy 

N    Y    Tribune   pl9   D   30   "23   1800w 

GENTILE,  GIOVANNI.  Theory  of  mind  as  pure 
act;  tr.  from  the  3d  ed.,  with  an  introd.  by 
H.  Wildon  Carr.  280p  $4  (15s)  Macmillan 

195   Philosophy,   Italian.   Idealism         22-12417 
"Sig.    Gentile    is    professor    of    the    history    of 
philosophy   at    Rome,    and    he   is   of   the   idealist 
school.     He  criticizes  both  P'ato  and  Hegel  vig- 
orously."— Sat  R 


"English-speaking  philosophers  who  are  dif- 
fident of  their  Italian  have  ample  reason  to  be 
grateful  to  Professor  Carr  for  this  lucid  and 
most  readable  translation  of  Gentile's  principal 
book."     J:  Laird 

-f   Int  J    Ethics   33:213  Ja  '23   1300w 

Reviewed   by  Hartley  Alexander 

New  Repub  36:186  O  10  '23  1250w 
"We  have  seldom  read  a  weaker  or  more  in- 
effective chapter  in  any  philosophical  book  than 
Sig.  Gentile's  discussion  of  space  and  time.  Nor 
is  Sig.  Gentile  much  mpre  satisfactory  in  what 
should  be  one  of  his  great  chapters — immortal- 
ity. .  .  The  purely  historical  pages  are  techni- 
cally the  best.  But  some  of  the  constructive 
philosophic   chapters  are  of  high  merit." 

1-  Sat   R  133:234  Mr  4  '22   580w 

Spec  128:660   My  27   '22  250w 
"The  publication  of  Giovanni  Gentile's  'Teorla 
generale    dello    spirito    come    atto    puro,'    in    the 
remarkably    clear    English    translation     by    Dr. 
Wildon  Carr,  has  a  peculiar  significance  for  the 
student    of   contemporary    Italian    philosophy    in 
its    relation    to    the    great    idealistic    movement 
which    has   spread    over    European    thought.    .    . 
The   idealism   of   Gentile   is   a   noble   thing   ex- 
pressed in  language  of  rare  beauty  and  power." 
+  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   pl92   Mr 
23  '22  2250W 

GEORGE,      WALTER      LIONEL.       One     of     the 

guilty.   335p  $2  Harper  [7s  6d  Chapman  &  H.] 

23-15585 

Owen  Prendergast,  bereft  of  both  family  and 
fortune  while  still  a  public  school  boy,  finds 
himself  at  a  tender  age  a  junior  clerk  in  a 
London  contractor's  office.  Ambitious  and 
freedom -loving,  he  soon  recoils  from  the  nar- 
row outlook  and  lack  of  opportunity  that  con- 
front him,  and,  falling  by  chance  in  love  with 
his  employer's  daughter,  is  driven  to  desper- 
ate means  in  order  to  ■win  her.  The  "borrow- 
ing" of  a  pound  from  the  office  cash-box  in  or- 
der to  buy  Rosemary  a  Christmas  gift  leads 
him  eventually  into  robbery  as  a  means  of  liv- 
ing, from  which  he  emerges  a  clever  and 
wealthy  criminal.  In  the  end,  Rosemary  be- 
comes  his   wife. 


"In  spite  of  Mr.  George's  great  clarity  and 
his  power  to  arouse  our  interest,  we  never 
quite  accept  his  hero.  When  next  Mr.  George 
gives  us  a  novel,  we  shall  not  insist  that  his 
hero  have  more  honesty  than  the  figure  he  has 
now  drawn  for  us,  but  we  do  bespeak  for  him 
a  little  more  common   sense."     S.   L.   C. 

h    Boston    Transcript    p5    D    12    '23    1250w 

Reviewed    by    Eva    Goldbeck 

Lit  R  p403  D  29  '23  760w 
New   Repub  37:155  Ja  2  '24  140w 
"Though   the    first   part   of   the   novel   Is    dull, 
it  is  much  the  best.     But  there  is  not  one  gen- 
uine  human   being   in   the   novel." 

—  NY  Times  p8  N  18  '23  800w 
"One  cannot   work   up   any   fervor  in   the  dis- 
cussion   of    so    glaring    a    sophistry.      That    was 


Mr.    George's    error;    he    put   the    stress    on    the 
weakest  point  in  the  tale.     It  is  quite  readable 
and   equally   forgettable."    Isabel    Paterson 
h  N    Y  Tribune  p22  N  11  '23   SOOw 

"From  our  rather  biased  stand,  we  are 
greatly  disappointed  in  'One  of  the  Guilty,*  its 
methods   and   its    message." 

—  NY  World  p7e  N  11  '23  600w 

"He  is  always  efficient,  and  he  is  never  dull. 
He  can  always  extort  our  admiration,  even 
when  critical  condemnation  goes  with  it.  'One 
of  the  Guilty,'  for  instance,  is  anything  but  a 
good  book.  It  is  by  far  the  worst  book  that 
I  have  ever  read  of  its  author's.  Its  plot, 
which  may  be  called  robbery  under  hearts.  Is 
never  made  plausible.  There  is  not  a  single 
character  in  it  with  even  a  momentary  breath 
of  life.  Every  link  in  Mr.  George's  narrative 
is    forged   mechanically." 

h  Sat   R   136:364  S  29  '23   430w 

"All  the  sentimental  reactions,  both  Rose- 
mary's and  the  Byronic  ones  of  Owen,  are  ri- 
diculous. But  compensating  virtues  of  this 
lively  story  are  the  truth  with  which  the  au- 
thor brings  home  to  the  reader  the  wretched, 
circumscribed  life  of  a  city  clerk  with  am- 
bitions." 

h  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p602    S 

13   '23    500w 

GEORGIAN  poetry,  1920-1922.  207p  $2.50  Putnam 
821.08     English    poetry — Collections 

[23-6782] 
This  is  the  fifth  volume  of  Georgian  poetry  to 
be  published.  It  includes  seveial  poets  whose 
names  are  new  to  the  collections,  among  them 
Edmund  Blunden,  Martin  Armstrong,  Frank 
Prewett,  Peter  Quennell,  Richard  Hughes,  Wil- 
liam  Kerr   and  Victoria   Sackville-West. 


Booklist    19:310    Jl    '23 

"How  these  young  poets  have  been  able  iw 
keep  so  close  to  the  simple  and  the  heart  stab- 
bing elements  of  poetry  while  our  own  young- 
sters are  still  wallowing  in  the  nets  of  the 
superficial,  is  certainly  puzzling.  A  cool  and 
artless  aroma  of  field  and  wood  exudes  from 
the  volume,  together  with  the  tang  and  doughti- 
ness of  English  character,  telling  of  poetic 
roots  set  deep  in  a  rich  productive  soil." 
+  Bookm  57:649  Ag  '23  160w 
Int    Bk   R   p39  O   '23  350w 

"With  all  its  limitations,  'Georgian  Poetry' 
remains  the  most  valuable  collection  of  con- 
temporary British  poetry  in  existence.  But  the 
limitations  are  serious.  There  is  too  little 
humor,  and  there  is  too  much  description." 
Mark   "Van   Doren 

-^ Nation    116:601   My   23    '23    80w 

"It  is  hard  to  avoid  moments  of  doubt  when 
reading  a  volume  like  this  last  of  Georgian 
poetry,  so  accomplished,  so  careful — and  so  im- 
potentlv  dull.  It  is  not  so  much,  one  feels,  the 
editorial  fault  of  'E.  M.,'  whose  preface  Is 
indeed  the  most  amusing  thing  in  the  book." 
F.    L.    L. 

-I New    Statesman    20:486    Ja    27    '23    950w 

"It  is  all  delicately  and  charmingly  conceived, 
but  the  hard  beat  of  blood  is  not  in  it.  The 
veins  of  the  Georgians  appear  to  run  slow." 
H.   S.   Gorman 

-I NY    Times   p5    Ap   1    '23    900w 

"Georgian  poetry  for  1920-'22  shows  this  critic 
quite  clearlv  that  England  is  still  the  home 
of  poetry.  There  is  nothing  in  American  an- 
thologies approaching  the  smoothness,  the  fa- 
cility, the  delightfulness  of  these  modern  verses. 
The  turn  of  phrase,  the  real  passion  concealed 
under  cool,  flowing  words,  the  ease,  as  though 
such  a  metier  were  their  inheritance,  prove 
the  contributors  true  poets."  Milton  Raison 
+  N  y  Tribune  d20  .\p  8  '23  320w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:411  Jl  '23 

GEORGIAN    stories,  1922.     373p  il  $2.50  Putnam 
[7s    6d    Chapman    &    H.]  23-4899 

A  collection  of  twenty-two  short  stories  writ- 
ten for  the  most  part  by  the  younger  novelists 
of     the     Georgian     period.       They    have     been 


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selected  as  typical  of  the  short  story  as  it  is  be- 
ing written  in  England  today.  Portraits  of  the 
authors  are  included.  Contents:  The  beautiful 
merciless  lady,  by  Stacy  Aumonier:  The  crim- 
inal, by  J.  D.  Beresford;  The  tryst,  by  Alger- 
non Blackwood;  Speed  the  plough,  by  Mary 
Butts;  The  first  violin,  by  Norman  Davey;  Mr. 
Andrews,  by  E.  M.  Forster;  Perez,  by  W.  L. 
George;  George's  gender,  by  B.  M.  Hastings; 
The  coach,  by  Violet  Hunt;  The  man  with  two 
mouths,  by  F.  T.  Jesse;  Mrs  Adis,  by  Sheila 
Kaye-Smith;  The  shadow  in  the  rose  garden, 
by  D.  H.  Lawrence;  A  scrap  of  paper,  by 
Arnold  Lunn;  Pictures,  by  Katherine  Mansfield; 
Rain,  by  W.  S.  Maugham;  Lovells  meeting,  by 
E.  C.  Mayne;  The  perfect  wife,  by  Elinor 
Mordaunt;  lo,  by  Oliver  Onions:  Sentimental 
rubbish,  by  Roland  Pertwee;  A  pair  of  muddy 
shoes,  by  Lennox  Robinson;  The  bambino,  by 
May    Sinclair;   The   intruder,   by  Alec  Waugh. 


Booklist  19:252  My  '23 
Reviewed   by   B.   C.   Williams 

Bookm    57:332    My    '23    1150w 
Cleveland    p43    Je    '23 
Reviewed   by  W:    R.    Benet 

Lit  R  p680  My  12  '23  190w 
Nation  116:726  Je  20  '23  270w 
"People  speak,  a  little  prematurely  perhaps, 
of  a  'boom'  in  short  stories.  The  appearance 
of  another  such  volume  as  this  will  kill  it  out- 
right. It  will  be  like  pricking  a  bubble  with  a 
crowbar."     J.    M.    Murry 

—  Nation   and   Ath  31:712  Ag  26  '22  1300w 
"So   many    names   of   importance   abound    and 

it  is  so  obvious  that  the  natural  moods  of  these 
writers  are  expressed  in  the  stories  included 
that  the  judgment  could  not  be  seriously  altered 
even  with  the  Inclusion  of  more  cheerful  writers. 
The  spirit  is  there  for  a:ll  to  perceive  and  it  is 
indubitably  one  of  cynical  acceptance  and  so- 
phisticated observation."  H.  S.  Gorman 
N  Y  Times  p8  F  25  '23  2450w 

"For  purposes  of  entertainment  pure  and 
simple  the  collection  might  well  have  been 
given  a  lighter  turn,  but  of  ability  there  is 
abundance." 

1-  Outlook   133:547   Mr   21   '23   120w 

"What  the  editor  of  Georgian  Stories  express- 
es by  his  title  except  respect  for  his  Monarch 
and  'E.  M.'  it  would  be  difficult  to  say,  for 
there  is  nothing  distinctively  Georgian  about  it. 
The  present  writer  sincerely  regrets  that  the 
present  title  should  have  been  appropriated  by 
an  editor  who  shows  himself  to  have  no  par- 
ticular moral   right  to  it." 

—  Spec  129:248  Ag  19  '22  300w 

"If  the  nameless  editor  carries  out  his  plan 
of  publishing  Georgian  Stories'  annually  or  bi- 
ennually  one  revie'.ver  hopes  that  he  will  reduce 
the  size  of  his  book.  It  is  too  large  and  too 
heavy  for  the  relaxed  mood  of  the  storv  reader." 

—  Springf  d  Republican  pl4  Ap  11  '23  500w 
"It  must  be  admitted  that  the  general  stand- 
ard of  these  stories  is  not  high.  Some  of  them 
are  hardly  above  the  level  of  an  'all-fiction 
summer  number,'  very  few  show  any  notable 
mark  of  style.  But  if  the  quality  of  these  sto- 
ries is  not  as  good  as  the  idea  which  prompted 
the  assembling  of  them,  the  editor  must  by  all 
means  proceed  with  his  venture  and  collect  an- 
other volume  in  a  year  or  two." 

f-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p440    Jl 

6  '22  1900W 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:160   Je   '23 

GERALDY,  PAUL.  You  and  me  (Toi  et  moi): 
tr.  from  the  French  by  Joseph  T.  Shipley.  64p 
$1.50   Boni   &   Liveright 

841  23-7813 

Love   in   its   many  moods  and   caprices   is   the 

lightly  touched  theme  of  all  these  verses  by  one 

of  the  younger  French  writers. 


"There  is  no  idealism  in  the  poems.   It  is  the 
senses  which  are  involved.  It  is  a  bitter,  disil- 
lusioning  book."   J:   V.   A.   Weaver 
\-   Int   Bk   R   p40  O  '23   280w 

"The  Latin  temperament  has  expressed  itself 
here  with  characteristic  fervor  and  frankness,  if 
with  no. great  depth.  And  the  translator  has 
been  at  pains  to  remain  true  to  the  spirit  of  the 
original.  Taken  for  just  what  they  are,  light 
verses  with  nothing  particularly  new  about 
them,  they  are  entirely  successful  in  their 
satire."     Mary   Siegrist 

+  N   \  Times  plO  My  6  '23  800w 

"The    translation    is    an    atrociously    bad    one. 

1  don't  know  what  the  original  meter  is,  but  in 
the  translation  lines  limp  all  over  the  pages,  the 
rhythms  are  jagged,  so  that  reading  the  book 
is  anything  but  a  smooth  affair.  I  think  that 
Geraldy  has  something  there  in  the  original." 
Milton  Raison 

1-   N   Y  Tribune  p25  My  6   '23   300w 

GERHARDI,    WILLIAM.     Anton    Chehov.      207p 

2  $2    Duffleld    [7s  6d   R.  Cobden-Sanderson] 

B    or    92      Chekhov,    Anton    Pavlovich 

24-380 
A  critical  study  of  the  work  of  one  of  the 
greatest  of  the  modern  Russian  writers.  Chek- 
hov's stories  and  plays  are  searched  for  the 
philosophy  which  was  at  the  back  of  his  mind, 
for  the  causes  of  his  peculiar  sensibility  and 
the  love  which  he  inspires  in  his  readers.  At 
every  point  the  study  is  illustrated  by  quota- 
tions  from   his   works. 


"It  is  only  natural  that  such  poetry, 
undeniably  well  done  and  entertaining, 
necessarily  have  such  little  weight  as 
rather    insignificant." 

H Bookm    57:558    .11    '23    140w 


while 

must 

to    be 


"It    may    be    that    Mr.    Gerhardi's    admirable 
and   delightful   little   book  will   come  to  writers 
and   readers   alike   as   a   cheerful    message   and 
even   something  of  a  gospel."     H:   J.   Forman 
-f   N  Y  Times  p4  Ja  6  '24  2500w 

"Mr.  Gerhardi  has  some  suggestive  things 
to  say  of  Chehov's  technique,  though  curiously 
enough  he  fails  to  comment  upon  one  of  his 
most  subtle  gifts — the  art  of  taking  you  into 
his  story  at  once.  As  often  as  not  he  begins  by 
telling  you  the  time,  and  generally  has  put 
enough  into  his  first  paragraph  to  enable  the 
figures  to  be  seen  in  an  immediate  and  intel- 
ligible relation  to  the  background.  He  just 
catches  you  by  the  scruff  of  the  neck,  as  it 
were,  and  flings  you  into  the  stream,  where  you 
are  delighted  to  find  you  are  not  out  of  your 
depth,  and  that  the  water  is  warm  and  entic- 
ing."    A.   E.    Coppard 

+  Spec  131:902  D  8  '23  900w 

"To  write  about  Tchehov  is  an  ordeal.  One 
cannot  hope  to  emerge  from  it  unscathed.  Mr. 
Gerhardi  has  not  managed  that.  But  it  is  no 
small  thing  for  anyone  who  has  felt  within 
himself  the  subtle  and  secret  spell  of  Tchehov 
to  have  the  courage  of  the  ordeal.  .  .  In  such 
an  attempt  it  was  impossible  for  Mr.  Gerhardi 
to  avoid  making  us  wince  by  touching  upon  a 
nerve  occasionally;  and  let  us  remember  that 
it  is  probably  true  that  such  a  thing  had  to  be 
done  voung  or  not  at  all.  Then  we  can  freely 
rejoice  that  the  thing  has  been  done,  for  it  is 
certainly  better  that  it  should  be  done  than  left 
alone."  _  „.^    ^ 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p841    D 
6    '23    2600W 

GERHARDI.  WILLIAM.  Futility:  with  a  pref- 
ace bv  Edith  Wharton.  256p  $2  Duffleld 
[7s    6d    R.    Cobden-Sanderson] 

"The  storv  is  that  of  a  Russian  family.  But 
what  a  family!  The  father,  Nikolai  Vasihevich. 
lives  with  his  three  daughters,  aged  16,  15  and 
14.  in  St.  Petersburg.  Fanny  Ivanovna  is  the 
mistress  of  Nikolai  .ind  of  his  household.  Niko- 
lai's wife.  Magda  Nikolaevna,  lives  in  Moscow 
— with  a  lover.  Nikolai  wants  a  divorce — but 
not  to  marry  Fannv.  He  wants  to  marry  a 
schoolgirl  friend  of  his  daughters!  But  Magda 
won't  consent  to  a  divorce  because  she  is  de- 
pendent for  support  upon  her  husband.  Sud- 
denly, however,  she  decides  that  she  does  want 
a  divorce.  But  not  to  marry  her  lover!  Mapda 
wants  to  marry  a  wealthy  Austrian.  Then  the 
Government  confiscates  the  Austrian's  property 
— and  there  are  no  divorces.     In  the  end  Magda 


192 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


GERHARDI,   WILLIAM — Continued 
and    l^'anny    set    up    a    millinery    partnership    in 
Shanghai — on     Nikolai's     money,     or     what     re- 
mained of  it  after  the  revolution.     And  always 
nothing   happened." — N   Y   Times 


Booklist    19:223    Ap    '23 
"If  William  Gerhardi  can  make  these  strange 
people  alive  to  us  and  probable,   we  feel  certain 
that  he  possesses  the  qualities  of  a  real  creator." 
D.  L.  M. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p3    F    10    '23    1400w 
Dial    74:521   My   '23   80w 
Reviewed  by  H.   W.   Boynton 

Ind  110:135  F  17  '23  380w 
"Mr.  Gerhardi's  skill  in  character  delineation 
is  unusual,  he  has  made  natural  and  veritable 
a  whole  gallery  of  people  whose  motives  and 
psychology  would  ordinarily  be  totally  inexplic- 
able to  the  English  mind,  and  he  has  done  it  in 
such  fashion  that  they  are  touched  by  both 
pathos  and  humor." 

+  Int  Bk  R  p52  Ap  '23  490w 
"It  is,  I  believe,  a  first  book;  if  so,  it  is 
a  brilliant  one  and  deserves  far  more  serious 
attention  than  the  serious  minded  will  give  it. 
For  it  is  that  rare  thing,  international  litera- 
ture that  is  both  international  in  its  aspects 
and  in  its  values  really  literature."  H:  S.  Canby 
+  Lit  R  p395  Ja  20  '23  llOOw 
"  'Futility'  strikes  this  reviewer  as  the  best 
fictional  comedy  of  the  season  because  it  is  so 
laughing  a  criticism  of  the  romantic  viewpoint 
and  because  in  addition  to  the  gift  of  satire 
Mr.  Gerhardi  has  a  true  novelist's  gift  of  vivid 
characterization  and  rapid  narrative.  His  book 
is  the  hearty  laughter  of  common  sense  at  those 
vagaries  which  are  the  source  of  all  man's 
absurdities  and  all  of  his  sublimities."  J.  W. 
Krutch 

+  Nation  115:576  My  16  '23  llOOw 
"A    very    remarkable    book.      It    is    vivid    and 
amusing,    and    its    substance    is    most   unusual." 
J.    M.    Murry 

+   Nation  and   Ath   31:656  Ag  12  "22  250w 

Reviewed  by  Glenway  Westcott 

New    Repub   35:214    Jl    18   '23   700w 

"The  book  is  built  on  a  combination  of  gen- 
erous susceptibility  and  cool  detachment;  it  is 
a  rare  combination,  and  the  only  method,  we 
believe,  by  which  the  subject  could  be  treated 
tolerably,  unless  by  a  writer  of  the  spiritual 
stature  of  Tchekov.  This  sureness  of  instinct 
in  a  first  novel  seems  to  imply  creative  powers 
of  an  unusually  high  order,  and  in  fact  the  fig- 
ures in  this  book  are  already  very  much  alive. 
We  await  Mr.  Gerhardi's  next  book  with  more 
than   usual   confidence."      S.    P.    W. 

+  New  Statesman  20:116  O  28  '22  650w 

"Gerhardi  sees  with  the  eyes  of  a  Russian: 
he  interprets  with  the  mind  of  an  Englishman. 
It  has  been  said  that  the  book  is  humorous; 
it  is  also  philosophical.  It  will  bear  reading. 
it  will  bear  rereading,  from  many  angles  and 
for    many    reasons." 

-f   N    Y    Times    pl9    Ja   14    '23    850w 

"This  is  an  excellent  and  clever  book  by  one 
of  the  most  engaging  of  modern  misanthropes, 
a  man  with  a  happy  sense  of  the  futility  of  all 
human  things,  a  writer  with  a  genuine  in- 
genuity and  a  sardonic  sense  of  humor.  It  is 
not  likely  that  a  finer  book  will  find  its  way 
into  the  spring  publishing  lists  this  year;  and 
it  is  more  than  probable  that  this  is  the  first 
of  a  series  of  novels  which  will  place  Mr.  Ger- 
hardi in  the  forefront  of  contemporary  novel- 
ists."     Burton    Rascoe 

+   N    Y    Tribune    pl7    F    4    '23    2550w 

"Mr.  Gerhardi  is  a  brave  soul.  For  years  we 
have  yearned  for  some  one  who  would  point 
out  the  comic  element  in  Russian  life.  It  has 
always  seemed  to  us  that  any  people  who  take 
themselves,  their  troubles  of  the  spirit,  their 
agonies  of  soul,  so  tremendously  seriously  are 
intensely  humorous.  No  one,  so  far  as  we 
know,  has  ever  dared  proclaim  the  Great  Rus- 
sian Soul  as  a  comic  thing.  Mr.  Gerhardi  has 
not  only  proclaimed  it.  "We  think  he  has 
proved  it."    F:   F.  Van  de  Water 

N  Y  Tribune  pl9  Ap  1  '23  1450w 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:213   My   '23 
"One    hurries,    blindly    but    not    unpleasantly, 
mingling  tears  and  sighs  with  a  vague  and  sti- 
fling  multitude,    to   no   goal,    with    no   purpose, 

through  an  infinite  dark  forest  that  isn't  there. 
And  yet  the  book  is  a  delicious  book,  uproari- 
ously funny,  and  touched  with  a  wistful,  youth- 
ful  charm."      Gerald    Gould 

H Sat    R    134:147    Jl    22    '22    GOOw 

"It  is  compact  of  the  freshness  and  charm  of 
youth.      Yet    a    delightful    sense    of    humour    in 
its   author   never   allows   this   youthful    gusto   to 
become    either    pompous    or   sentimental." 
+  Spec  129:278  Ag  26  '22  220w 

Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Mr     18     '23 
220w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p473  Jl  20 
'22   llOOw 

GERNSBACK,    HUGO.     Radio    for    all.     292p     il 

$2    Lippincott 
654.6     Radio    communication  23-1411 

The  author,  editor  of  Radio  News,  having  re- 
viewed most  of  the  recent  books  on  radio,  be- 
lieves that  the  present  volume  covers  ground 
not  touched  upon  by  other  writers.  He  aims  to 
give  the  novice  the  information  necessary  to 
understand  radio,  to  make  or  buy  a  receiving 
set,  to  operate  his  set  and  get  the  most  out  of 
his  outfit.  A  list  of  broadcasting  stations,  the 
text  of  the  radio  law  of  1912,  tune  signals,  a 
schedule  of  weather  reports  and  other  miscel- 
laneous  information    are    included. 


Booklist   20:44    N   '23 
4-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   plO   Ap 
22   "23    450w 

Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:181  Ap  '23 

GEROULD,  KATHARINE  (FULLERTON) 

(MRS     GORDON      HALL      GEROULD).     Con- 
quistador.     205p     $1.50     Scribner 

23-7200 
Wharton  Cameron,  orphaned  son  of  a  Scotch 
covenanter  father  and  a  Creole  mother,  but  of 
American  birth  and  education,  finds  himself 
in  Mexico  on  his  first  job  of  railro-ad  engineering 
at  the  time  of  Villa's  raids.  When  political 
conditions  interrupt  his  work  and  a  brush  with 
the  raiders  threatens,  he  resolves  to  pu.«h  thru 
to  the  hills  and  hunt  up  the  hacienda  of  Santa 
Eulalia,  the  ancestral  estate  of  his  mother's 
family  since  the  days  of  Cortes.  His  uncle 
welcome.s  him  warmly,  inheritance  of  the  estate 
shortly  follows  and  AVharton  Cameron  becomes 
Don  Pablo  Gutierrez,  haciendado  of  the  vast 
and  noble  Santa  Eulalia.  With  the  name  he 
begins  to  assume  the  traits  of  the  Gutierrez. 
Mrs  Gerould's  story  shows  the  development  of 
this  subtle  transformation,  and  the  final  as- 
cendancy  of   conquistador   over   covenanter. 


Boston    Transcript    p4    My    12    '23    700w 
Cleveland   p66  S  '23 

"Mrs.  Gerould  has  that  rare  combination  of 
literary  virtues — restraint  of  language  and  rich- 
ness of  description — which  enables  her  to  give 
a  complicated  radical  problem  its  full  human 
expression  in  the  space  of  200  small  pages.'" 
+   Int    Bk    R  pl08   Ja  '24   300w 

"Mrs.  Gerould's  is  a  clean-cut  art,  chary  of 
incident,  smooth  in  its  precision,  robust  and 
vigorous.  It  never  lacks  conviction,  even  where 
it  fails  to  carry  it.  If  her  story  falls  short  of 
proper  effect,  it  is  not  because  it  has  got  away 
from  her,  but  because  the  end  to  which  she  is 
directing  it  does  not  present  the  inevitability 
to  the  mind  of  the  reader  that  it  does  to  that 
of  the  writer."     Amv  T..oveman 

H Lit   R   p659  My  5  '23  550w 

Nation   117:172  Ag  15  '23   20w 

"That  the  book  is  exceptionally  well  written, 
and  with  no  ."mail  degree  of  subtlety,  goes  with- 
out saying.  Mrs.  Gerould's  style  is  beautifully 
clear,  and  if  this  nresent  story  ha.='  somewhat 
less  brilliancy  or  of  glittering  cleverness  than 
is  possessed  by  other  of  her  tale.';,  it  has  an 
unusual    richness   of   color.     It   is   an    interesting 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


193 


story  and  some  of  its  episodes  are  dramatic, 
even  if  full  use  has  not  been  made  of  the  many 
possibilities   of   its    theme." 

H NY    Times    pl6    Ap    1    '23    950w 

"Not  so  very  long  ago  Mrs.  Gerould  hove  the 
younger  English  novelists  into  a  hornet's  nest, 
and  then  and  now  she  goes  right  on  spanking 
our  own  naughty,  younger  generation  with  her 
hard,  hard  words.  Yet  it  is  doubtful  if  even 
the  verv  youngest  English  novelist  or  the  most 
unrepentant  flapper  ever  negotiated  a  psychol- 
ogy oi  so  devious  a  confusion  as  IVIrs.  Gerould 
dis'plays  in  •Conciuistador.'  Romance  belongs 
to  the  rightful  sorcerers  who  can  conjure  the 
dull  world  into  a  transfixion  of  enchanted 
wonder.  Mis.  Gerould  had  better  abide  by  her 
redoubtable  and  self-constituted  task  of  slog- 
ging the  dreadful  younger  generation  upon  their 
bobbed    pates."     A.    D.    Douglas 

—  NY    Tribune    p22    Ap    8    '23    520w 

"To  us  her  Don  Pablo  is  an  emiity-head  and 
we  could  not  get  up  the  faintest  glimmer  of 
excitement  as  to  whether  the  Spanish  or  the 
American  strain  in  him  would  conquer.  In  any 
land  or  language  he  would  remain  no  more  than 
a  romantic  figure  not  very  fresh  from  the  stock- 
room."    Hevwood  Broun 

—  NY    World   plOe   Ap   15   '23   660w 

"It  is  a  rrvstal-clear  little  romance,  stripped 
nearly  to  the  skeleton,  satisfying  in  a  certain 
directness  and  compression,  but  lacking  fire  and 
color,    intensity   and   vividness." 

-f  —  Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Ap     22     '23 
350w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:415    Jl    '23 

GESELL,  ARNOLD  LUCIUS.  Pre-school  child 
from  the  standpoint  of  public  hygiene  and 
education.  (Riverside  textbooks  in  educa- 
tion)   264p    $1.90    Houghton 

371.7    Children — Care   and    hygiene.    Children 
—Charities,    protection,    etc.  23-6812 

The  book  is  devoted  to  the  years  before 
entering  school  which  until  recently  have  been 
neglected  in  the  plans  of  schoolmen.  This 
period  is  now  seen  to  have  a  vital  relation  to 
child  health  during  the  years  with  which  the 
school  has  to  deal  and  it  is  realized  that  these 
pre-school  years  must  be  brought  more  com- 
pletely under  educational  control.  The  book 
discusses  the  significance  of  this  period,  the 
subject  of  nurseries  and  nursery  schools,  and 
work  with  mothers  and  babies  in  preparation 
for  the  kindergarten  and  primary  school.  The 
relation  of  the  kindergarten  to  problems  of 
school  entrance,  handicapped  children  and  par- 
ental education  are  also  discussed. 


Booklist  20:40  N  '23 
"The  book  is  of  special  interest  to  school  ad- 
ministrators and  of  special  value  to  those  en- 
gaged in  the  work  of  health  centi-es  and  in- 
fant welfare  movements.  Its  appendices  cover 
an    important   field   of  information." 

+   Boston    Transcript    p5    Ag    18    '23    220w 
Reviewed  by  A.   R.   Mead 

Educ  R  67:58  Ja  '24  650w 
"The  book  gives  an  introduction  to  a  very 
significant  educational  problem.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  it  will  stimulate  a  more  scientific  attitude 
toward  the  study  of  child  development."  G.  T. 
Buswell 

+   El    School    J    24:72   S   '23    480w 

Reviewed    by   I...    G.    Yerkes 

J  Home  Econ  15:507  S  '23  200w 
"We  have  here  a  fair  mingling  of  honest 
social  philosophy  and  the  science  upon  which 
a,  race  may  grow  mighty  without  any  warfare 
except  the  stimulating  and  relentless  struggle 
against  the  preventable  diseases  of  childhood." 
Haven    Emerson 

-f-   Lit   R  pl86  O  27  '23  400w 

GHENT,   WILLIAM   JAMES.      Reds  bring  reac- 
tion.   113p  $1.50  Princeton  univ.   press 
335  Socialism.  Bolshevism — United  States 

23-9158 

"Professor  Ghent's  volume   is   devoted   mainly 

to  exposure  of  the  unreasonableness  of  radicals 

and   the  harm  they  do  to  the  cause  which   the 


writer  would  like  to  see  more  safely  and  sanely 
advanced.  His  main  thesis,  stated  in  his  title, 
is  that  the  violent  extremists  of  class  struggle 
bring  on  reactionary  repression  of  the  very 
processes  which  they  pretend  to  promote.  The 
argument  begins  with  the  Socialist  Convention 
at  Indianapolis  in  1912  and  the  elections  of 
that  year,  which  yielded  the  party  the  largest 
vote  it  ever  polled  in  the  United  States.  The 
record  is  followed  through  the  war  and  the  split 
in  the  party  caused  by  the  issues  of  'pro- 
Germanism'  and  opposition  to  the  war,  and  on 
through  the  post-war  development  of  further 
controversies  and  divisions  over  Bolshevism,  the 
attitude  to  be  taken  towards  Soviet  Russia, 
and  the  contest  for  Communist  leadership  in 
America.  .  .  The  book  closes  with  a  review 
of  the  regrouping  of  the  depleted  moderate 
Socialist  forces  and  a  forecast  of  the  future 
and   its   prospects." — Lit   R 


"A  valuable  and  sincere  analysis  from  the 
point  of  view  of  a  moderate  Socialist  of  the 
tendencies  and  results  of  class  conflict  in  the 
past  decade.  .  .  Through  all  the  book  runs 
the  tone  of  wounded  feeling  over  a  break  with 
old  Socialist  associates,  the  conflict  between 
groups  professing  to  serve  the  same  social 
cause  and  the  treatment  inevitably  received 
in  such  a  conflict.  This  makes  it  more  interest- 
ing and  significant  as  a  personal  and  human 
account,  although  robbing  it  of  some  value 
and  authority  as  a  social  and  historical  docu- 
ment."     M.    W.    Davis 

H Lit    R   p88   S   29   '23   660w 

"Ghent  is  an  unhappy  socialist  who  believes 
that  all  other  socialists  are  out  of  step.  The 
I.  W.  W.,  the  Socialist  Party,  the  Socialist  La- 
bor Party,  the  Communists,  the  radicals,  the 
liberals,  everybody  has  failed  to  agree  with 
Ghent.  But  for  these,  Ghent  seems  to  feel,  he 
might    have    reformed    America." 

—  Nation   117:172  Ag  15   '23   lOOw 

"Mr.  Ghent's  is  a  skilful  pen;  his  habitual 
method  is  that  of  a  delicate  sarcasm,  which 
makes  his  volume  readable,  though  much  of 
it  is  concerned  with  details,  already  half  for- 
gotten, of  minor  party  conventions  and  dissen- 
sions and  with  citations  from  the  'parlor  Bol- 
shevist' weekly  press.  .  .  A  stimulating  book, 
mercifully  brief."     J.  L.  H. 

-f   N   Y  World  p9e  Mr  25  '23  700w 
R  of  Rs  67:672  Je  '23  40w 

GIBBON,   JOHN    MURRAY.      Pagan   love.      310p 

$2      Doran 

22-23715 

Walter  Oliphant,  a  starved  British  ex-soldier 
and  unsuccessful  author,  about  to  drown  him- 
self, reaches  the  river  just  in  time  to  save 
another  person  who  had  accidentally  fallen  in. 
This  other  person,  Czech  by  birth  but  a  natu- 
ralized American,  turns  out  to  be  a  millionaire 
and  a  personal  efficiency  expert.  He  takes 
Walter  in  hand,  brings  him  to  America  and 
installs  him  as  an  employee  in  his  wonderful 
business  system  with  its  innumerable  ramifica- 
tions, all  playing  to  the  tune  of  success  and 
efficiency  and  enveloped  in  an  air  of  mystery. 
Vague  and  conflicting  rumors  reach  Walter's 
ears  about  this  employer  of  his,  Frank  A. 
Neruda,  aliout  the  nature  of  his  business,  spies 
and  spying,  incitement  to  labor  troubles  and 
unknown  dangers.  While  Walter  rises  in  favor 
and  his  prosperity  increases  by  leaps  and 
bounds,  the  unknown  dangers  come  to  a  head 
and  just  as  Neruda  has  revealed  himself  as 
a  woman  much  in  love  with  Walter  and  ready 
to  lay  her  millions  at  his  feet,  an  assassin's 
bullet   ends   her   dream. 


"The  story  is  cleverly  written.  Even  the  ex- 
perienced guesser  may  be  fooled  till  well  on 
to  the  end.  It  contains  a  few  genuinely  worth- 
while bits,  like  the  original  sketch  of  Walter 
in  London.  But  none  of  the  characterization — 
except  that  of  the  little  Canadian  colony  in 
New  Y'ork — is  steady,  and  the  end  strains  be- 
lief. No  matter.  It  is  not  the  fashion  to  be- 
lieve   anything   nowadays." 

H Boston    Transcript    p5    F    17    '23    550w 


194 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


GIBBON,    J:    M. — Continued 

"Some    elusive,     vitalizing    touch    is    missing'. 

Perhaps   the   impression    that   is   given   can   best 

be  described   by  saying  that  the   book  has  been 

written    (and  veil  written),   but   not   imagined." 

h   Lit    R   p610   Ap   14   '23   450w 

"An  ingenious  yarn,  conceived  in  a  daring 
spirit  of  imagination  and  worked  out  with 
cIgvgitigss.  " 

+  N    Y    Times   p24  Ja   28   '23   380w 

"The  first  260  pages  of  this  novel  contain  a 
painstaking  slow-moving  account  of  a  young 
Scotchman's  adventures  in  American  business. 
It  is  simply,  realistically  told.  Then  suddenly, 
without  a  word  of  warning,  the  story  plunges 
into  fifty  pages  of  wild,  voluptuous  lovemaking 
that  is  so  out  of  place  that  it  is  positively 
ridiculous.  It  hinges  on  an  incident  that  has 
the  theatricality  of  a  dime  novel  and  robs  all 
the  rest  of  what  little  plausibility  it  possessed." 
Edith    Leighton 

H   N    Y    Tribune    p22    F    4    '23    720w 

"What  Mr.  Gibbon  is  trying  to  say  might 
be  all  right  if  he  made  it  seem  real.  As  it 
is,  one  finds  oneself  stumbling  through  a  smeary 
fog."     R.    S. 

—   NY    World    pSe   F   18   '23    330w 

GIBBONS,     HERBERT    ADAMS.    Europe    since 

1918.    622p   $3   Century 
940.5        Europe — History.  Reconstruction 

(European    war)  23-12915 

An  unqualified  denunciation  of  the  Treaty 
of  Versailles  is  followed  by  chapters  describing 
conditions  in  the  different  countries  of  Europe 
since  the  peace.  They  discuss  the  effects  of 
the  Balkan  settlement  upon  Bulgaria  and  Al- 
bania, the  foreign  policy  of  Russia  under  the 
Soviets,  the  new  Baltic  republics,  the  resur- 
rection of  Poland  and  the  evolution  of  Jugo- 
slavia, Rumania  and  Czecho-Slovakia,  Musso- 
lini's advent  to  power  in  Italy,  the  expansion 
of  Greece,  Turkish  nationalism,  the  Washing- 
ton conference,  the  French  occupation  of  the 
Ruhr,    reparations,    and   the   allied   debts. 


"Upon  the  whole  the  book  is  probably  the 
most  up-to-date,  clear,  and  comprehensive  ac- 
count of  the  great  international  issues  of  the 
moment  and  their  immediate  historical  back- 
ground."  V:    S.    Clark 

+  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  Ja  '24   520w 
Booklist  20:95  D  '23 

"Presented  in  a  lucid  style  Gibbons'  Europe 
is  easy  reading  and  is  at  once  entertaining  as 
well   as  instructive."     P.   A.   Adler 

+   Detroit   News  p8   D   30   '23   310w 

"Where  the  presentation  on  the  whole  is  so 
able  and  large,  it  would  be  ungracious  to  em- 
phasize defects  of  detail  or  to  dwell  upon  de- 
batable points.  It  is  to  be  regretted,  however, 
that  space  could  not  have  been  found  for  a 
fuller  record  of  British  performance  since  1918." 
W:   MacDonald 

H Nation    117:443  O   17   '23   1400w 

"He  has  obviously  travelled  much  in  Europe; 
he  has  visited  many  countries  and  he  has  talked 
to  many  leading  men.  He  does  not,  as  so  many 
Journalist  authors  do,  overload  his  book  with 
personal  anecdotes  and  personal  experiences. 
He  has  considerable  knowledge  of  recent  dip- 
lomatic histor>'.  The  real  fault  of  the  book  la 
one  of  style.  Like  so  many  journalists  accus- 
tomed to  write  quickly,  he  does  not  understand 
that  matter  to  be  put  together  in  the  form  of  a 
connected  treatise  on  great  events  requires 
much  more  serious  consideration  and  revision 
than  a  hasty  article  in  a  newspaper,  which  will 
be   forsotten    as    soon   as   it    is   read." 

-I The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p759    N 

l.T  '23  1550W 

GIBBS,    GEORGE    FORT.        Fires    of    ambition. 

4  43p    $2   Appleton 

23-13126 

"This  story  is  concerned  with  the  career  of 
Mary  Ryan,  bright,  witty,  adaptable,  but  above 
all  ambitious,  and  reliant  on  her  good  looks  to 
obtain  the  material  prosperity  which  she  most 
desires.      It    is   almost    through    the    pages    of   a 


biography  that  we  follow  her  career  and  mark 
how  her  essential  hardness  becomes  more  domi- 
nant. In  the  end,  though  she  gains  a  full  mea- 
sure of  prosperity  she  loses  the  love  of  Joe  Bass, 
which,  all  unconsciously  she  had  longed  for 
most.  The  scene  is  almost  entirely  in  New 
York."— The   Timas    [London]    Lit   Sup 

"This  from  the  man  who  wrote  'The  House 
of  Mohun'  seems  a  pity.  When  you  can  portray 
real  people  why  deal  with  dummies?  When  you 
move  in  good  society,  why  prepare  the  kind 
Mary  liked  for  vour  audience." 

—  Boston  Transcript  p4  N  7  '23  360w 
N   Y  Times  p8  S  30  '23  450w 

Reviewed   bv   Edith   Leighton 

N   Y  Tribune  p23  N   4  '23  320w 
Reviewed  bv  E.   W.  Osborn 

N   Y   World  p7e  D  16  '23   240w 
"The     circumstances     are     vapid     and     inane 
when  they  are  not  sordid  and  unwholesome.     It 
is    difficult    for    Mr.    Gibbs    to    do   justice    to    his 
talent  in  so  parched  a.n  atmosphere." 

—  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p710  O  25 
'23  80w 

GIBBS,   SIR    PHILIP    HAIVIILTON.      Adventures 

in   journalism.    363p    $2.50   Harper 

B    or    92    Journalism.    European    war,    1914- 
1919 — Press  correspondents  23-15850 

As  editor,  reporter  and  war  correspondent, 
Philip  Gibbs's  life  has  been  crowded  with  in- 
terest and  adventure.  His  first  and  most  im- 
portant scoop  was  his  exposure  of  Dr  Cook's 
fake  discovery  of  the  North  Pole.  He  has  met 
and  interviewed  many  of  the  great  personalities 
of  his  time.  He  saw  a  good  deal  of  the  suffragette 
movement  and  of  the  political  strife  between 
England  and  Ireland.  He  was  in  the  vortex  of 
the  war  from  its  beginning,  but  it  is  with  Fleet 
Street  from  the  inside,  that  he  deals  and  with 
the  work  and  difficulties  of  the  correspondents, 
rather  than  with  his  war  experiences,  which  he 
has  told  elsewhere.  For  four  years  after  the 
Armistice,  he  became  a  wanderer  in  Europe, 
Asia  Minor  and  America,  studying  the  psychol- 
ogy of  the  after-war  world  and  attempting  to 
get  at  the  deeper  currents  of  men's  thoughts 
underneath  the  surface.  The  book  closes  with 
his  experiences  as  a  lecturer  in  the  United 
States. 


Booklist  20:119  Ja  '24 

"It  is  the  story  of  English  Journalism  from 
the  inside,  frank  without  sensationalism,  and 
intimate  without  being  barrenly  personal. 
Though  it  does  not  come  in  the  guise  of  an 
autobiography  it  is  actually  one  of  the  most 
thrilling  life  stories  of  a  successful  man  which 
has  been  published  in  many  years."  D.  L.  Mann 
4-  Boston   Transcript  p5  D  22   '23   llOOw 

"If  you  would  escape  for  a  while  from  the 
maelstrom  of  subjectivity,  'Adventures  in 
Journalism'  will  set  you  drifting  all  over  the 
world  of  men  and  affairs  of  the  last  two  de- 
cades." G.  H.  „  „ 
-t-  Freeman   8:335  D  12  '23   220w 

Reviewed  by  L:  Gannett 

Nation  118:67  Ja  16  '24  420w 
"Unconsciously  Sir  Philip  Gibbs,  in  this  most 
entertaining  and  readable  book,  betrays  the 
secret  of  his  great  success  as  a  journalist,  and 
his  great  and  deserved  popularity.  He  has  most 
of  the  traits  which  make  a  supreme  descriptive 
reporter — a  quick  eye,  a  ready  sympathy,  an 
easy  style  and  a  strong  belief  in  the  importance 
of  'news.'  Often  men  have  had  these,  however, 
and  have  not  reached  Sir  Philip  Gibbs'  level  of 
success.  That  level  he  owes  to  two  other  qualities 
— personal  modesty  and  a  most  disarmingly  naif 
loyalty  to  his  newspapers." 

+  New  Statesman  21:748  O  6  '23  300w 
Reviewed  bv  H.  J.  Mankiewicz 

N   y"  Times  plO   Ja  6  '24   1600w 
N  Y  World  p9e  N  18  '23  650w 
"The  general  impression  he  conveys  is  of  the 
glamour    and    adventure    of    Journalism.    .    .    We 
have    enjoyed    every    page    of     this    volume   of 
reminiscences." 

-f-  Sat   R   136:363   S   29   '23   330w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


195 


"  'Adventures  in  Journalism'  is  not  so  much 
a  new  book  as  a  book  of  annotations  on  his 
others,  a  running  summary  of  much  that  he  has 
already  written  with  new  tales  added.  He  teUs 
over  again  the  story  of  some  events.  He  re- 
peats a  great  deal  of  what  he  has  written  m  his 
five  books  on  the  war.  He  summarizes  old  arti- 
cles not  always  leaving  out  phrases  which 
should  not  be  allowed  to  slip  from  them  into 
books.  But  one  forgives  this  and  the  inevitable 
repetitions  for  the  sake  of  the  new  stories  which 
suddenly  light  up  these  old  descriptions  of  past 
events.  He  makes  you  feel  that,  however  often 
he  returned  to  a  tale  already  told,  he  would 
always  have  something  new   to  tell."        „..   ^   , 

-I The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p644   O  4 

•23    750w 


GIBBS,    SIR    PHILIP    HAMILTON.       Middle    of 
the   road.     428p   $2   Doran    [7s   6d   Hutchinson] 

23-5517 
Bertram  Pollard  is  the  son  of  a  conservative 
of  the  die  hard  type  whose  children  have  all 
rebelled  against  his  views.  Bertram  is  mar- 
ried to  the  pleasure  loving,  bobbed-haired 
Joyce,  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Ottery  and  tho 
he  loves  her,  he  has  no  sympathy  with  her 
ideas  or  friends.  On  the  labor  question  his 
sympathies  are  more  or  less  with  the  work- 
ing man,  while  his  wife  and  her  family  are 
on  the  extreme  other  side.  Bertram  has  done 
brilliant  things  in  the  war  but  now  he  tinds 
himself  without  a  job  and  rather  hard  up. 
Joyce  leaves  him  when  he  refuses  to  join  the 
strike-breakers,  and  he  then  starts  out  on  a 
journalistic  tour  which  serves  as  the  occasion 
for  vivid  pictures  of  the  economic  and  social 
questions  which  have  fermented  Europe  since 
the  war.  In  the  closing  chapters  Bertram 
and  Joyce  decide  to  start  afresh  in  a  world 
for  whose  disorders  no  permanent  cure  has 
been    found. 


Booklist  19:252  My  '23 
"At  last  we  have  a  novel  which  reveals  what 
this  after-the-war  world  is  really  like.  From 
first  to  last  this  is  the  impression  left  by 
Philip  Gibhs's  book.  He  succeeds  in  doing  what 
some  have  tried  to  do  and  what  many  authors 
have  shirked  trying.  We  feel  as  we  have  felt 
in  so  many  of  his  books  that  he  has  something 
to  say  which  it  is  imperative  the  world  should 
hear."       D.    L.    M. 

-I-   Boston  Transcript  p4  F  28  '23  1200w 
Cath   World    117:420   Je    '23   230w 
Cleveland  p26  Ap  '23 
"The    strength    of    the    book    lies    in    the    un- 
doubted truth  of  the  picture  it  paints.   Its  stark 
gloom     is     unrelieved     by     futile     conventional 
optimisms.     But    its    convincing    description    of 
the  shipwreck  of  nations,  faiths,  and  ideals  will 
not  appeal  to  those  who  wish  to  be  amused.   In 
that  sense  it  is  not  a  novel." 
Dial  75:97  JI  '23  150w 
Reviewed  bv  Zona  Gale 

Int  Bk  R  pl6  Ap  '23  1750w 
"Philip  Gibbs,  like  his  central  character,  man- 
ages himself  to  hold  to  the  middle  of  the  road; 
he  is  sympathetic,  understanding,  never  hys- 
terical. In  fact,  so  much  is  one  impressed  by 
his  broad  sympathy  and  comprehension  of  hu- 
man beings  that  one  might  reasonably  wish 
that  at  some  later  date,  when  he  has  ceased 
to  feel  the  overpowering  interest  in  contempor- 
ary social-political  conditions  that  is  now  evi- 
dent, he  might  present  a  novel  more  purely 
artistic   and   less    weighted  with   fact." 

-j Lit    R   p531   Mr  17   '23   720w 

"Although  there  are  undoubtedly  hundreds 
whom  it  will  fascinate,  even  they  will  not  find 
it  endurable  beyond  tomorrow.  It  is  a  mockery 
to  send  it  forth  in  the  pretended  permanence 
of  cloth   covers."     J.   "W.  Krutch 

—  Nation  116:602  My  23  '23  lOOw 
"Sir  Philip  tries  to  produce  an  effect  of 
strength  .and  sternness  by  printing  'bloody' 
and  its  American  equivalent,  but  it  doesn't 
succeed.  He  presents  himself  merel.v  as  a 
kindly    gentleman    viewing    a    distressed    world 


and  declaring  that  something  ought  to  be  done 
about   it." 

—  NY   Times    plO    F    25    '23    550w 
"  'The    Middle   of    the    Road'    solves    no    prob- 
lems   and    grinds    no    man's    axe.       It    is    rathei' 
hastily    written,    yet    this    is    to    be    desired,    for 
the   book   Is   alive   to-day."   Laurence   Stallings 

^ NY    World   p7e   F   25   '23   780w 

"The  people  in  the  story  are  very  much 
alive,  the  action  is  quick  and  sharp,  with  one 
realistic  scene  following  close  on  the  heels  of 
another."       R.    D.    Townsend 

+  Outlook     133:411     F    28     '23     550w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:213   My  '23 
"It    is    all    vivid    and    interesting:    one    feels 
that  here  is  an  able  man  saying  urgently  what 
he    urgently    wants    to    say.       But    not    thus    is 
a    good    novel    written."       Gerald    Gould 

H  Sat    R    134:844    D    2    '22   350w 

"The  book  is  to  be  recommended,  if  not  as 
fiction,  yet  as  an  account  of  present-day  po- 
litical   conditions." 

-1 Spec    129:1013    D    30    '22    150w 

"The  story's  timeliness  and  evident  sincerity 
should   gain    a   wide    reading   for   it." 

Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Mr  25  '23  300w 
"The  characters  of  this  novel  matter  very 
little  as  individuals.  Sir  Philip  Gibbs  has  not 
made  them  solid  because  it  was  enough  for 
his  purpose  that  they  should  be  flat.  His  aim 
has  been  to  bring  before  us  all  the  various 
currents  and  counter-currents  of  opinion,  and 
the  economic  or  social  causes,  which  have  kept 
and  still  keep  Europe  in  a  ferment.  The  im- 
mensity and  variety  of  the  problem  is  pre- 
sented with  a  wealth  of  graphic  touches  and 
telling  descriptions  which  make  this,  if  not 
a  good  novel,  at  least  an  instructive  as  well 
as  entertaining  book,  intended  to  make  its 
readers    think    seriously." 

H The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p746    N 

16    '22    700w 

Wis   Lib    Bui    19:160   Je   '23 

GIBSON,     ROBERT     WILLIAMS.      Morality    of 

nature.    430p    $3    Putnam 

170   Ethics.     Evolution  23-4573 

The  purpose  of  the  book  is  to  consider  the 
conduct  of  humanity  in  its  evolutionary  aspect, 
to  show  that  conduct  and  morality  are  subject 
to  the  laws  of  evolution.  It  looks  to  the  dis- 
coveries of  modern  science,  especially  those  of 
biology,  for  a  new  light  on  the  old  questions 
of  the  nature  and  destiny  of  life,  its  obligations 
and  duties  and  privileges,  and  finds  in  these 
scientific  facts  a  ^eal  and  physical  basis  for 
the    principles    of    moral    conduct. 


Reviewed  bv  A.   D.    Douglas 

Int   Bk   R  p61   My  '23  lOOw 
N    Y   Tribune  p25   S  9   '23   150w 
The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p306  My 
3  '23  200w 

GIFFORD.  FANNIE  STEARNS  (DAVIS)  (MRS 
AUGUSTUS  MCKINSTAY  GIFFORD).  An- 
cient beautiful   things.    S2p  $1  Macmillan 

811  23-11789 

"This  is  a  thin  book  of  delicately  made  lyrics 
on  intimate  themes,  often  domestic.  The  poems 
are  not  ambitious,  but  are  largely  the  expression 
of  joy  arising  from  simple  things,  and  of  thanks- 
giving for  that  joy." — ^Outlook 


Booklist   20:130   Ja   '24 

"One  must  accept  this  book  as  it  is  proffered 
— a  gentle  and  wholesome  series  of  marginal 
comments  upon  the  poet's  own  life.  Delicacy 
is  probably  the  right  word  to  use  in  describing 
her  work.  Its  great  failing  is  an  ever  present 
thinness  of  mental  conception  and  a  distinct 
limitation  of  personality  which  even  its  un- 
doubted ardor  fails  to  disguise."  H.  S.  Gorman 
H Bookm    58:332   IST  '23   120w 

"It  is  of  the  ancient  beautiful  things  which 
are  slowly  learned  through  the  whole  of  life, 
which  the  poet  writes.     And  she  writes  of  them 


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GIFFORD,    F.    S. — Continued 

with  a  quiet  dignity  of  revelation,  a  reverence 
for  what  is  most  beautiful  in  the  world  and 
in    human    relationships."    D.    L.    M. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  O  20  '23  800w 
"The  author  paints  upon  a  narrow  canvas, 
and  is  at  her  best  when  picturing  the  fire- 
side and  the  cradle;  but,  within  her  limited 
fields  she  writes  with  a  directness  and  a  gen- 
uineness of  emotion.  The  book  is  impres- 
sive because  the  impulse  behind  it  is  obviously 
authentic." 

H ■  Dial  75:507   N   '23   50w 

"The  thought  and  feeling  are  not  profound 
nor  profoundly  moving  but  they  are  often  poign- 
ant, and  they  are  gracefully  sung." 

-I Outlook  135:46  N  7  '23  140w 

GILBERT,   BERNARD.     Tyler  of  Barnet.      (Old 
England   ser.)    304p   $2   Small    [7s    6d   Collins] 

23-12097 
"Mr  Gilbert  is  publishing  a  whole  series  of 
books  to  illustrate  the  life  of  a  particular 
locality.  'Tyler  of  Barnef  is  the  third;  the  first 
was  'Old  England:  a  God's-Eye  View  of  a 
Village';  the  second  was  'King  Lear  at  Hordle: 
Rural  Plays';  and  there  are  more  to  come." 
(Sat  R)  "Watson  Tyler  is  a  successful  farmer, 
self-made  autocrat,  and  adroit  and  money- 
grasping  business  man.  He  has  accumulated 
a  fortune  through  being  ruthless  and  unemo- 
tional; and  never  in  his  many  years  of  inces- 
sant climbing  has  he  let  emotion  master  him. 
But  he  meets  his  Waterloo  in  the  person  of 
Hepzibah,  a  young  servant  to  whom  he  gives 
control  of  his  household.  After  a  life  lived 
rigorously  and  without  dissipation,  he  conceives 
a  violent  passion  for  this  woman,  and  through 
this  passion  he  temporarily  loses  his  good  judg- 
ment and  commits  a  crime  that  somewhat 
melodramatically  brings  about  his  own  undo- 
ing."— N  Y  Times 


edition     of     the     author's     'Handbook     of     cost 
data.'  " — Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bul    28:178    Ap    '23 

GILMAN,  CHARLOTTE  (PERKINS)  STET- 
SON (MRS  GEORGE  H.  GILMAN).  His  re- 
ligion and  hers:  a  study  of  the  faith  of  our 
fathers  and  the  work  of  our  mothers.  300p 
$1.75    Century 

396      Religion.      Woman — Social    and    moral 
questions  23-13870 

Mrs  Oilman  amplifies  her  theory  of  our  "Man- 
made  world"  to  include  the  religious  depart- 
ment of  human  life  and  in  her  new  book  cen- 
ters her  study  on  our  man-made  religions.  She 
maintains  that  the  dominant  male  instincts, 
survivals  of  a  primitive  state  of  existence,  have 
impressed  themselves  on  most  of  the  world's 
religions  thus  far  and  that  religion  needs  now 
to  be  recast  under  feminine  influence  to  express 
women's  dominant  instincts,  which  she  believes 
are  more  in  line  with  race  improvement  and 
social    progress. 

Booklist  20:82  D  '23 
"In  an  age  bereft  of  prophets,  one  may  be 
grateful  for  the  sincerity  of  her  gift,  though  It 
lack  the  elements  of  patience  and  compassion 
that  distinquish  a  great  teacher."  Hildegarde 
Fillmore 

-I Bookm  58:575  Ja  '24  300w 

"Her  brilliant  sentences  will  afford  entertain- 
ment for  a  few  hours,  although  her  lack  of 
sure-footed  common  sense  may  eventually 
create  a  lack  of  sympathy  between  her  reader 
and    herself."    D.    F.    G. 

H Boston  Transcript  p3  D  8  '23  500w 

"Orthodoxy  will  not  like  her  book,  nor  will 
the  ultra-masculine  reader.  Thoughtful  inen 
and  women  will  welcome  it  and  ponder."  Amy 
Wellington 

-I Lit   R  p303  D  1   '23  lOOOw 


"The  author  has  tried  here  an  experiment 
which,  academically,  seems  plausible,  but  which 
in  his  hands  is  a  failure.  .  .  There  is  no  story, 
no  style,  and,  it  is  almost  safe  to  say,  no  living 
person;  only  a  network  of  drab  events  and 
mediocre,  close-packed  humanity." 
—  Int    Bk    R    p57   My   '23    400w 

"Whatever  may  be  thought  of  the  larger 
.scheme,  this  separate  unit  of  Mr.  Gilbert's 
colossal  undertaking  is  an  entirely  conventional 
novel  and  a  very  good  one,  too;  well  built  as 
to  plot,  excellent  in  its  character  drawing,  ris- 
ing steadily  to  a  soundly  planned  dramatic 
crisis  and  quite  free  of  eccentricity.  Moreover, 
its  style  is  distinctly  above  the  average." 
H.   L.   Pangborn 

-f   Lit    R    p912   Ag  18   '23   660w 

"This  book  neither  is,  nor  is  Intended  to  be, 
either  very  easy  or  very  pleasant  to  read;  but 
it    is   a   quite    remarkable    achievement." 

-f-   New  Statesman   20:312  D  9  '22  150w 

"On  the  whole.  Mr  Gilbert  paints  a  picture 
that  is  both  clear-cut  "and  Illuminating  and  the 
reader  turns  from  the  book  with  the  conviction 
that  the  author  has  intimate  knowledge  of  the 
scenes  and  characters  whereof  he  writes." 
-f   N    Y   Times   pl4    Mr   18   '23    680w 

Reviewed   by   Gerald    Gould 

Sat   R   134:684  N   4   '22  450w 

"  'Tyler  of  Barnet'  is  a  thoroughly  revising 
story  for  the  casual  reader,  and  an  interesting 
study  for  him  who  goes  deeper.  Gilbert's  meth- 
ods may  be  spectacular  and  experimental;  but 
they  are  worth  while  and  turned  by  a  gifted 
hand." 

+   Springf'd    Republican  p7a  S  16  '23   850w 

GILLETTE,    HALBERT    POWERS.      Handbook 
of    construction    cost.    1734p    il    $6    McGraw 
620.02    Engineering — Estimates    and    costs 

22-23764 

"An    extremely    valuable    reference    book    for 

the  contractor  and  civil  engineer.   Supplements. 

but  does   not   duplicate,    material   in   the   second 


GILMAN,    DOROTHY    FOSTER.      Lorraine.    281p 

$2    Macmillan 

23-15031 

"This  novel  relates  the  adventures  in  Sing- 
apore of  a  pretty  American  girl  accustomed  by 
war  work  to  independence  and  self-reliance, 
capable  and  energetic,  but  unconventional  by 
Anglo-Indian  standards.  She  is  there  to  sur- 
prise her  fiance,  an  English  civil  servant.  She 
surprises  him  too  much,  for  he  is  a  martinet 
on  etiquette.  In  the  end  the  engagement  is 
broken  and  she  marries  a  fine  American  man 
of  her  own  type." — Outlook 


"In  its  action,  in  its  sensational  episodes,  in 
its  keen  sympathy  with  human  nature,  'Lor- 
raine' is  a  story  that  counts."     E.  F.   E. 

-f   Boston    Transcript    p4    O    31    '23    650w 

"In  the  early  chapters  there  are  a  few  pas- 
sages of  keen  and  witty  analysis  which  promise 
well  for  the  rest  of  the  book.  But  it  is  the 
melancholy  truth  that  this  promise  is  not  ful- 
filled." 

—  Lit    R    p373   D    15    '23    290w 

"It  took  a  keen  eye  for  the  picturesque  to 
set  down  these  pictures  of  life  in  the  Straits 
Settlements  and  they  ring  with  that  sincerity 
which  precludes  all  suspicion  of  mere  cursory 
knowledge.  The  book  is  not  particularly  im- 
portant as  a  work  of  fiction,  but  it  is  saved 
from  mediocrity  by  this  excellant  depiction  of 
background." 

-f  —   N    Y   Times  p8   N  11   '23   330w 

"In  this  book  Miss  Oilman  has  drawn  an 
amazingly  vivid  picture  of  life  in  Singapore 
and  has  done  it  in  such  a  way  that  the  setting 
of  her  story  is  as  interesting  as  the  plot."  Edith 
Leighton 

-I NY   Tribune    p22   D   2   '23    480w 

N   Y  World  p7e  O  28  '23  150w 

"The  local  color  is  decidedly  interesting  and 
there  is  excitement  growing  out  of  native  plots 
and  an  abortive  insurrection." 

-f  Outlook  135:280  O  17  '23  ISOw 


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'•A  sufflcientlv  exciting  title.  The  characters 
are  quite  frankly  impossible,  they  never  could 
exist,  even  in  Asia."  „    ^    ,.,<,„    ,r,A 

Springf'd    Republican   plO   D   5   '23    lOOw 

GILSON,     CHARLES     JAMES     LOUIS.     White 
cockade.    251p   il   $2.50   Appleton 

23-12997 

The  hero,  Henri  de  .Savenay,  son  of  a  French 
nobleman,  when  he  was  three  years  old  strayed 
away  in  the  woods,  was  found  by  La  taupe,  a 
dwarf  and  mountebank,  and  taken  by  him  to 
the  slums  of  St  Antoine  in  Paris.  There  he  grew 
up  a  street  gamin  and  hater  of  aristocrats, 
known  to  the  neighborhood  as  Jacques  Sansa- 
bri.  He  was  thirteen  years  old  when  the  Rev- 
olution broke  and  he  became  the  devoted  fol- 
lower of  Citizen  Timardier  of  the  Commune. 
Meanwhile,  his  father  ns  marquis  of  France, 
had  become  the  most  formidable  of  the  royalist 
leaders  in  La  A^end^e.  Timardier  was  sent  there 
to  suppress  the  peasant  uprising  and  there 
Jacques  discovered  the  facts  of  his  paternity. 
The  dilemma  which  f.Tced  him  was  whether  to 
cling  to  his  master  and  the  revolutionary  prin- 
ciples he  had  been  taught  or  cast  in  his  lot 
with  the  people  of  his  own  blood  and  fight  for 
a    lost    cause. 


Boston  Transcript  p6  Ja  2  '24  720w 
"Mr.  Gilson  has  succeeded  in  telling  a  thrill- 
ing story  in  which  there  is  so  just  a  measure  of 
sentiment  one  does  not  realize  until  the  la«t 
chapter  that  the  love  interest  has  been  totally 
eliminated." 

-f  Lit  R  pl68  O  20  '23  450w 
•'Besides  the  fact  that  it  is  historically  cor- 
rect and  vividly  written  there  is  a  thrill  in  every 
chapter  and  an  appreciation  of  the  grand  ges- 
ture that  will  appeal  to  any  one  with  a  spark 
of  romance  in  him.  It  is  a  spirited  stor>'  that 
extols  brave  living,  gay  fighting  and  gallant 
dying.  It  should  be  carefully  kept  out  of  the 
hands  of  any  boy  whose  parents  hope  he  may 
grow  up  to  be  a  pacifist."  Edith  Leighton 

+   N  Y  Tribune  p23  N  25  '23  420w 

GINGER,   pseud.  See  Irwin,  W.  A. 

GIRAUDOUX,  JEAN.  My  friend  from  Limou- 
sin; tr.  by  Louise  Collier  Willcox.  306p  $2 
Harper 

23-9536 
The  story — a  succession  of  brilliantly  whim- 
sical reflections  and  fantastic  incidents  around 
a  slender  plot — is  an  extravaganza  which  char- 
acterizes and  satirizes  the  Germans  and  com- 
pares them  disadvantageously  with  the  French. 
The  plot  is  founded  on  a  case  of  total  amnesia, 
A  writer,  believing  his  poet-friend  Forestier 
killed  in  the  war,  is  repeatedly  surprised  to 
find  passages  which  he  knows  to  be  plagiarisms 
from  the  works  of  his  friend  in  contributions 
to  the  Frankfurter  Zeitung.  He  learns  that  they 
come  from  the  pen  of  a  German,  living  in 
Munich  under  the  name  of  Siegfried  Kleist, 
who  had  been  picked  up  on  the  battlefield  at 
the  point  of  death  and  had  awakened  to  con- 
sciousness with  complete  loss  of  memory.  The 
writer  goes  to  Munich  and  identifies  Kleist  as 
Forestier.  Reedvicated  as  a  German,  he  has, 
in  every  particular,  taken  on  the  characteris- 
tics of  a  German.  Later,  as  his  past  revives 
on  his   own   soil,  he  becomes  French  again. 


spirits  have  a  strong  taste  of  clear  mind.  I 
have  read  M.  Giraudoux  twice,  once  in  French 
a  few  months  ago,  just  now  in  Mrs.  Willcox  s 
superb   tran.slation."  ,„„  „^„ 

New  Repub  35:129  Je  27  '23  250w 
"WTiatever  he  has  done  to  clarify  that  pro- 
cess so  dear  to  the  French,  a  political  and  so- 
cial question,  is  far  overshadowed  by  his 
achievement  in  giving  to  the  present  our  own 
present,  not  onlv  the  all  but  blinding  radiance 
and  immediacv  which  it  possesses,  but  some- 
thing of  the  illusion  of  the  grotesque  and  the 
deliciously  fantastic  which  is  customarily  rele- 
gated to  the  land  of  far  away  and  long  ago. 
He  fairly  scintillates  with  epigrams  and  para- 
doxGS  ** 

-f  N    Y   Times   pl7   Je   10  '23  420w 

"He  is   bright  to  the  point   of  brilliance.     He 
writes    with    nervous    alertness     as     if    images 
culled   from   an    extremely   varied   and  ,rich   ex- 
perience   popped     into    his    head    capriciously. 
Burton    Rascoe  ,   „   .„„    „„„ 

-f  N   Y  Tribune   p20  Jl  8  '23   620w 

"The  means  by  which  'Herr  von  Kleist,'  the 
shell-shocked,  was  turned  back  again  into  the 
M  Forestier  that  he  had  been  originally  are  in- 
genious enough.  But  the  story  between  the 
covers  of  this  book  does  not  hurry  past  the 
intervening  stages.  There  is  amusement  on 
every  ^age.;^   WoHd   pi9   Jl   15   '23   500w 

Springf'd    Republican   p7a  O   28  '23   170w 

GIRAUDOUX.  JEAN.  Suzanne  and  the 
Pacific:  tr.  by  Ben  Ray  Redman.  286p  ^i 
Putnam  23-4142 

Suzanne,  a  well  educated  French  girl,  starts 
out  on  her  vovage  round  the  world,  a  prize  she 
has  won  from"  a  newspaper  for  the  best  maxim 
on  boredom.  Her  ship  is  wrecked  and  she  is 
cast  upon  a  group  of  islands  in  the  South  seas. 
She  has  a  livelv  imagination  and  in  her  solitude 
it  has  full  and  subtle  play.  She  writes  poeti- 
cal letters.  Imaginary  ones  of  course  to  her 
lover  and  answers  them  herself.  There  are 
some  colorful  descriptions  of  the  birds  and 
flowers  The  dead  bodies  of  German,  French 
and  English  sailors,  washed  up  by  the  waves, 
are  the  onlv  evidence  Suzanne  has  of  the  war 
which  begins  and  ends  while  she  is  in  exile. 
Before  Suzanne  is  rescued  by  a  band  of  Lnglisn 
and  American  scientists  she  has  m  her  mmd 
entirely  remade  the  islands  according  to  the 
French  plan,  even  to  the  concoction  of  com- 
plexion powders  from  the  tropical  flora. 


Booklist    20:21    O    '23 
"Has    many    passages    of   beauty    and    insight 
but   is   too  allusive   for   the   reader   unversed    in 
European   literature  and  affairs." 

-I Cleveland  p50  Jl  '23 

Freeman  7:551  Ag  15  '23  150w 
"Its  plot  is  a  highly  entertaining  and  unusual 
one." 

-f  Lit  R  p74  S  22  '23  330w 
"'By  dint  of  the  gift  of  seeing  surprising 
analogies  he  scatters  wit  all  over  the  place, 
comedies  in  a  sentence,  farces  five  words  long. 
Here  extravaganza  is  concise,  intellect  is  gay, 
nonsense  is  brilliantly  critical,   the  highest  high 


Booklist  19:223  Ap  '23 
"It  is  a  book  all  sparkle  and  color,  immensely 
wittv  and  high  spirited— warm-hearted  too  in 
the  "Gallic,  not  the  Teutonic,  way-  Its  only 
fault  is  that  it  is  unremittingly  and  almost  piti- 
lesslv  brilliant."  H.  W.  Boynton 
lessiy  _nrun^^^   57:207  Ap  '23   350w 

"Through  and  through  it  is  touched  with  de-^ 
lightful  glints  of  humor  which  leave  nist  the 
suggestion  that  M.  Giraudoux  may  be  laughing 
It  uf  all  the  while  he  is  developing  his  most 
serious   situations."     D.  _L.    M. 

-I-  Boston    Transcript   plO   Mr   24     2d   vuuw 

Cleveland  pl8  Mr  '23 
"Suzanne  and  the  Pacific  is  replete  with 
technical  victories.  The  elements  of  the  plot 
are  iAtroduced  with  thrills,  and  <he  functions 
of  the  narrative  are  operated  «n.oothl>'  though 
in  an  unaccustomed  manner.  .  .  The  nooK 
elves  a  sense  of  difiiculties  hannily  overcome 
rathir  than  a  -sense  of  inevitabi  ity  ^produced 
bv   the  harmonie.'^   of  the   imagination. 

•    ^ Dial    74:520    My    '23    200w 

"Although  this  is  an  amusing  story,  it  can 
onlv  be  thoroughly  appreciated  l^'  those  who 
can  follow  the  numerous  allusions  tbat  M^ 
Giraudoux  makes  to  French  life.  In  short  it  is 
nof  enolh  for  the  book  to  be  tran.^lated  into 
En-li."h-  the  reader  needs  to  be  translated  m- 
to  French."  L.   C.   M.  ,.   .9,   -.rnw 

-1 Freeman    7:551    Ag  15    23   150w 


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GIRAUDOUX,    JEAN— Continued 

"It  is  the  kind  of   book  only  France  can   pro- 
duce,  breathing  a  gaiety,   an   61an,   a  resuscitat- 
ing   mirth    which    are    masks    for    the    deepest 
Gallic  wisdom  and   insight."     H.   W.    Boynton 
+   Ind  110:136  F  17  '23  450w 
Int    Bk    R    p56   Ap    '23    400w 
"This  Frenchman   writes   in  high    fantasy  and 
his  style  is  full  of  complex  and  dazzling  images, 
touched  off  with  an  esprit  that  is  aJways  daring 
and    nearly    always    successful.      He    is    allusive, 
philosophical,    satirical,     genuinely    original.       It 
must    have    been    hard    to    translate    him.      Mr. 
Redman's      translation      is      good.       He      makes 
sprightly   English   out    of  spirited    French."      H: 
S.   Canby 

+  Lit  R  p500  Mr  3  '23  480w 
"With  plot  fragile  as  that  of  a  musical  com- 
edy, Giraudoux  has  succeeded  where  even  Con- 
rad sometimes  fails;  he  has  made  the  sub- 
jective stirringly  alive  as  a  horse  race.  Each 
movement  of  the  girl's  hand  becomes  dramatic, 
each  thought  an  adventure."  B.  L.  Burman 
+  Nation  116:701  Je  13  '23  560w 
"M.  Giraudoux  is  adept  at  tiu-ning  the  texture 
of  modern  sensations  into  literature,  and  in  the 
exploitation  of  these  new  undigested  materials, 
he  is  a  comrade  of  the  dadaists.  .  .  His  book 
is  full  of  spontaneity,  of  irrationalities,  unex- 
pected relationships,  fancies  and  fantasies. 
Logic,  in  his  subject-matter  at  least,  is  abol- 
ished."     G.    B.    Munson 

New  Repub  34:219  Ap  18  '23  1800w 
"When  I  first  read  8u::annv  et  le  Pa.ciflque, 
I  thought  it  the  wittiest  book  of  the  year. 
Reading  it  in  a  translation  that  contains  some 
prodigious  blunders,  I  remain  of  the  same  opin- 
ion."    Raymond   Mortimer 

-\ New  Statesman   21:622  S   8  '23   1.50w 

"It  is  a  glittering  style,  full  of  unexpected 
whimsicalities  of  phraseology  and  quaint  twirks 
of  imagination.  And  because  of  this  the  book 
would  seem  to  be  peculiarly  self-conscious  in 
its  narrative  until  the  reader  has  adjusted  him- 
self to  the  unexpected  focus  of  the  writer  and 
then  discovers,  delightfully  enough,  that  it  is 
a    most   consistent    portrait." 

-f  N   Y   Times  pll   F  11   '23   780w 
"Her  adventures  and    resourcefulness  and   re- 
flections   make  good   reading." 

+  Outlook   133:456  Mr  7  '23   50w 

GIRDLE  of  Aphrodite;  the  complete  love-poems 
of  the  Palatine  anthology;  tr.  with  an  introd. 
by  F.  A.  Wright.  (Broadway  translations) 
316p  $3  Dutton 

881.08  Greek  poetry — Collections  23-17506 

A  translation  into  English  verse  of  the  love 
poems  of  the  Greek  anthology.  The  translator 
in  his  introduction,  discusses  the  poets  who  fi- 
gure in  the  Anthology,  their  translators,  and  the 
treatment  of  love  as  a  theme  in  Greek  litera- 
ture. 


"Some  of  Mr.  Wright's  modernisms  are  clever, 
others  strike   us  as  merely  vulgar."  V.  R. 

-I New  Statesman   20:306  Je   16  '23  950w 

"Done    into    verse    by    a    scholar    whose    work 
may  certainly  be  thought  to  fulfil  the  two  quali- 
ties   which    he   regards   as   essential   in    a   verse 
translation,  namely,  'readableness  and  fidelity.'  " 
+  The   Times    [London]    Lit  Sup   p306  Mv 
3  '23  350w 

GLASGOW,     ELLEN     ANDERSON    GHOLSON. 

Shadowy    third,     and     other     stories.     291p     $2 

Doubleday 

23-17163 

These  seven  short  stories  either  hover  on  the 
edge  of  or  actually  enter  the  realm  of  the  psv- 
chlc.  In  two  of  them  a  shadowy  third  presence 
mvisible  to  all  save  the  two  other  participants 
in  the  drama,  is  in  reality  the  chief  actor  on 
whom  the  whole  action  depends.  Contents:  The 
shadowy  third:  Dare's  gift;  The  past;  Whis- 
permg  leaves;  A  point  in  morals;  The  differ- 
ence;  Jordan's  end. 


"In  each  of  the  stories  the  weird,  uncanny 
manifestations  of  the  spirit  would  have  vivid 
convincing   actuality." 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  plO  O 
28  '23  200w 
"Miss  Glasgow's  new  book  is  a  collection  of 
short  stories  so  interesting  that  the  reader 
loses  no  time,  after  reading  the  first — which 
gives  the  book  its  title — in  going  on  to  the  next 
and  the  next  until  he  finds  himself  finishing 
the  seventh  and  last." 

4-   Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  plO  D  16 
'23    llOOw 
"They    are    extraordinarily    fine    in    construc- 
tion    and     in     craftsmanship.     Algernon     Black- 
wood and   Henry   James  have   used   the  method 
which  makes  Miss  Glasgow's  book  so  arresting. 
It    is   at    the    same    time    an    entirely    individual 
volume,   beautiful   in  its  form,   without  waste  of 
words,    carelessness  of   phrase,    or   ill-considered 
characterization."    Rebecca    Lowrie 
4-    Lit    R   p256   N   17  '23  480w 
"Miss  Glasgow  accomplishes  the  transition   so 
smoothly,   and   blends   the   natural  with    the  un- 
natural   so    skillfully,    that    her    tales    lack    en- 
tirely   the    self-consciousness    and    patent    arti- 
ficiality that  one   invariably  associates  with   the 
ghost   storv." 

+    N  Y    Times  pl6  O  28  '23  600w 
Reviewed  bv  Ruth  Snyder 

N   Y  World  plOm  Ja  6  '24  220w 

Outlook  135:690  D  19  '23  70w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ja  13  '24  360w 

GLEAVES,  ALBERT,  ed.  Life  of  an  Ameri- 
can sailor:  Rear  Admiral  William  Hemsley 
Emory,  United  States  navy,  from  his  letters 
and    memoirs.    359p    il    $4    Doran 

B  or  92  Emory,  William  Hemsley 
Rear  Admiral  Emory,  1846-1917,  had  an  im- 
portant part  in  the  naval  events  of  his  time. 
Beginning  his  career  as  a  midshipman  in  the 
Civil  war,  his  first  important  commission  was 
the  command  of  U.  S.  S.  Bear  on  the  Greely  re- 
lief expedition.  He  was  commander  of  the  IT. 
S.  S.  Petrel,  on  the  China  station,  of  the  Yose- 
mite  in  the  war  with  Spain,  and  just  before  his 
retirement,  division  commander  of  the  North 
Atlantic  fleet.  He  had  a  fuller  service  than 
falls  to  most  naval  officers  and  wherever  op- 
portunity offered  he  served  with  distinction. 
His  biography,  told  from  his  letters  and  mem- 
oirs, becomes  a  part  of  the  history  of  the 
navy  for  the  period  covered. 


Reviewed  by  L.  C.  Willcox 

Bookm  58:573  Ja  '24  340w 


"Gleaves's  liife  of  Rear-Admiral  Emory  might 
have  been  compressed  without  serious  loss  into 
half  the  number  of  pages.  The  stjle  both  of 
the  letters  and  of  the  editor's  running  com- 
ments is  interesting.  But  there  is  included 
considerable  matter  that  is  trivial  and  discur- 
sive, whole  chapters  dealing  with  invitations  to 
dinner'  and  other  enteitaimnents  and  a  half- 
dozen  pages  being  given  to  the  escapades  of 
Emoi'y's  fox  terriei."  H.  F.  Krafft 
-\ Am   Hist  R  29:184  O  '23  460\v 

"Not  only  lovers  of  the  sea  will  relish  this 
biography.  Its  sheer  humanity  will  delight 
everyone.  Admiral  Gleaves  had  unusually  in- 
teresting material  to  woi'lc  with,  and  he  has 
shown  the  same  technique  in  handling  it  which 
distinguished  his  eai-lier  books."  I.  W.  L. 
-f   Boston   Transcript   p3   Jl   7   '23   500w 

"This  is  evidently  a  memorial  written  for  the 
family  of  the  late  Rear  .\dmiral  Emory.  To 
thom,  doubtless,  the  work  will  be  most  gratify- 
ing, and  those  who  have  served  with  this 
splendid  officer  will  doubtless  find  in  the  book 
much  that  is  interesting.  For  outsiders  how- 
ever, it  has  the  faults  of  prolixity  and  trivial 
detail  which  are  inseparable  from  this  kind  of 
biography." 

h    Lit    R   p883   Ag  4    '23   60w 

GLENDON,      RICHARD      A.      and      GLENDON. 

RICHARD  J.  Rowing.   240p  il  $3   (12s   6d)   Lip- 

pincott 

797     Rowing  23-8007 

This  exhaustive  treatise  considers  rowing  his- 
torically,   scientifically    and    as    a    pastime    and 


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sport.  Much  space  is  given  to  professional 
rowing  in  all  its  phases  with  accounts  of  in- 
dividual matches  and  of  numerous  regattas  and 
college  races.  .Contents:  Introduction;  Rowing 
in  Great  Britain;  Rowing  in  America;  Profes- 
sional rowing;  Scientific  oarsmanship;  The  cap- 
tain, coxswain  and  stroke-oar;  Coaching  and 
training;  Boats,  oars  and  rigging;  Sculling; 
History  of  rowing  at  the  U.S.  Naval  Academy; 
The   Olympic   regatta  of  1920.   Appendix.   Index. 


Booklist  19:308  Jl  "23 
Cleveland    p48    Je    '23 
"The    Messrs.    Glendon    are    crew    coaches    at 
the   Naval   Academy   at  Annapolis.      They   have 
been    at   great   pains,    evidently,    to   produce   an 
authoritative  book." 

+  N    Y    World    p9e   Ap   1    '23    420w 

Sprlngf'd     Republican     p7a     Jl     15     '23 
420w 

The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p443   Je 
28   '23   30w 

GLYN,  ELINOR  (SUTHERLAND)  (MRS 
CLAYTON  GLYN).  Great  moment.  304p  $2 
Lippincott   [7s  6d  Duckworth] 

[23-9237] 
"Sir  Edward  Pelham,  tenth  of  his  line,  mar- 
ries a  Russian  gipsy,  and  their  daughter  is 
the  wild  seductive  heroine  of  the  present  novel. 
Her  mother's  temperament  has  descended  to 
her,  and  this  renders  her  proposed  marriage 
to  an  effete  diplomat  utterly  against  nature. 
A  young  mine  manager  is  her  heart's  desire; 
and  after  a  visit  to  his  mine  she  is  bitten  by 
a  rattlesnake  and  rescued  by  him,  but  in  such 
equivocal  circumstances  that  her  father  in- 
sists on  an  immediate  marriage.  A  misunder- 
standing follows  and  their  marriage  is  an- 
nulled, leaving  the  girl  free  to  investigate  the 
resources  of  New  York.  There  is  plenty  of 
scope  there  for  a  girl  of  such  character,  so 
that  the  newspapers  soon  display  such  head- 
lines as  'Daughter  of  English  Baronet  plunges 
into  lake  at  'Poppa'  Hopper's  orgie.'  Hopper 
is  a  millionaire  of  unquestionably  bad  taste; 
but  as  there  is  no  sign  of  life  from  her  late 
husband,  the  mine  manager,  out  of  despair 
she  agrees  to  marry  the  bounder.  This  dis- 
aster is  only  evaded  at  the  last  moment — the 
'great  moment'  of  the  title,  presumably." — The 
Times    [London]    Lit  Sup 


"There  are  not  lacking  those  who  believe  it 
is  presumption  for  the  author  to  write  at  all, 
and  this  book  is  not  calculated  to  change  theiu 
opinion." 

—  Greensboro   (N.C.)    Dally   News  p8  S   23 
'23   550w 

Reviewed    by    Raymond    Mortimer 

New  Statesman   21:144  My  12  '23  1500w 

"It  is  easy  enough  to  launch  a  tirade  against 
writing  of  this  sort.  It  is  cheap,  it  is  dull,  there 
is  no  truth  or  grace  or  power  in  it.  But  there 
is  no  need  for  tirades.  Elinor  Glyn  was  judged 
before  she  wrote  'The  Great  Moment.'  This 
new  book  of  hers  simply  reconfirms  the  verdict." 

—  NY  Times  p24  Ag  26  '23   380w 
Reviewed   by   Ruth    Snyder 

N  Y  World  p9e  S  9  '23  750w 
"The  novel  will  appeal  to  two  types  of  read- 
ers: to  those  simple  souls,  in  the  first  place, 
who  delight  in  a  blend  of  sentimental  melo- 
drama and  the  innocuous  risqu6;  and,  secondly 
to  those  more  complicated  persons  who  find 
in  such  books  as  this  a  first-class  comic  enter- 
tainment. We  confess  to  finding  ourselves 
among  this  latter  class,  and  to  those  of  like 
persuasion  we  unreservedly  recommend  The 
Great  Moment.  It  is  flrst-rate  nonsense." 
Spec  130:972  Je  9  '23  80w 
"Mrs.  Glyn's  gifts  of  vividness  and  vigour  are 
so  evident  that  it  is  a  pity  this  story,  which 
has  real  observation  in  it,  though  it "  is  pre- 
posterously romantic,  should  have  been  stereo- 
typed  in    many   passages." 

h  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p273   Ap 

19     '23     250w 


GOGOL,  NIKOLAI  VASILIEVICH.  The  .over- 
coat, and  other  stories.  (Collected  works 
tr.  by  Constance  Garnett)  262p  $2  Knopf  [7s 
6d  Chatto  &  W.]  ^^_^^^23 

The  rise  of  the  Russian  realistic  school  of 
fiction  is  generally  ascribed  to  the  title-story 
of  this  collection,  written  when  Gogol  was  in 
his  early  twenties.  "We  all,"  wrote  Dostoev- 
sky,  "come  out  from  under  Gogol's  'Overcoat.'  ' 
The  overcoat  belonged  to  Akaky  Akakyevitch,  a 
poor  government  clerk  whom  it  had  cost  a  good 
part  of  his  yearly  salary  and  untold  privations 
to  buy.  He  had  owned  it  but  a  day  when  it 
was  stolen  from  him,  and  within  a  few  days 
more  he  had  died  from  exposure.  His  ghost 
haunted  the  neighborhood  that  had  known  him 
and  stripped  overcoats  from  the  shoulders  of 
passers-by.  That  is  all.  But  there  is  infinite 
pathos  and  richness  of  imagination  in  the  tell- 
ing. Contents:  The  overcoat;  The  carnage; 
The  Nevsky  prospect;  A  madman's  diary;  The 
prisoner;    The    nose;    The   portrait. 

Boston   Transcript   p5   Ja   5   '24    330w 

Reviewed  by    J:    M.    Murry 

+  Int   Bk   R  pllO  Ja  '24  2150w 

"His  gusto,  his  command  of  the  vis  cornica, 
his  richness  of  characterization  and  his  mborn 
power  to  tell  a  story  give  him  high  rank.  The 
reader  rides  along  on  his  prose  with  the  deepest 
enjoymen^.';^  Times  p9  N  11  '23  540w 

"Almost  everything  in  Mrs.  Garnett's  new  col- 
lection of  Gogol's  short  stories  is  excellent  rhe 
Overcoat'  itself  and  'The  Nevsky  Prospect  have 
the  largest  air,  the  easiest  and  surest  quality 
of  greatness."  Gerald  Gould 

-f  Sat    R    136:310    S   15   '23   320w 

"Gogol's  types  are  immortal,  because  he  was 
a  great  psvchologist  who  made  a  deep  study 
of  the  hearts  and  minds  of  the  average,  hum- 
ble people.  He  was  a  realist  and,  at  the  same 
time  one  of  the  most  lyrical  writers  whose 
brilliant  rich  and  picturesque  prose  sounds 
sometimes  like  poetry."  C.  Nabokoff 
+  Spec  31:514  O  13  '23  900w 

"Over  and  over  again,  in  reading  'The  Over- 
coat '  we  come  upon  sentences  and  paragraphs 
in  which  we  feel,  as  it  were,  a  new  life  stirring, 
the  birth  of  a  new  sensitiveness  to  human  ex- 
perience. The  range  of  man's  responsiveness  is 
being   definitely    extended."      ,    ,  .^    _  ror    a 

^  4.  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p585    S 
6   '23   1850W 

GOLDBERG,  ISAAC.  Drama  of  transition;  na- 
tive and  exotic  playcraft.  487p  $5  Stewart 
Kidd 

792        Dramatic    criticism  23-2060 

The  author  uses  the  term  transition  to  in- 
dicate a  period  marked  by  a  comparative  ull 
in  creative  activity,  by  a  decline  from  high 
achievements,  by  restlessness,  experiment  and 
eager  groping.  After  an  introductory  chapter 
on  contemporary  dramatic  criticism  the  book 
deals  with  the  leading  transition  authors  of 
Snain  Italy,  South  America,  France,  Germany, 
Russia  and  the  United  States,  with  a  minimum 
of  bioaraphv,  where  necessary,  a  more  or  less 
full  doscription  of  the  contents  of  plays  and 
his  own  critical  evaluations  as  well  as  the 
op"inions  of  foreign  critics.  Considerable  atten- 
tion is  given  to  the  Yiddish  drama,  to  the 
monodrama  of  the  Russian  Evreinov,  the  ex- 
pressionists of  Germany  and  to  Eugene  O  NeiM 
and    Susan    Glaspell.       Index. 


"  'The  Drama  df  Transition'  gives  "ample  proof 
of  painstaking  scholarship,  catholicity  of  taste 
and  a  probing  insight,  quite  rare  among  Ameri- 
can critics.  The  book  is  exceedingly  well  docu- 
mented: it  is  riclilv  and  organically  inforrna- 
tive-  almost  every  page  will  give  the  reader 
pause  because  the  author  essays,  as  docu- 
mentary critics  rarely  do,  fresh  re-appraisal9 
of  single  plavs  and  long  standing  sesthetic  ten- 
ets and  specific  judgments  that  centre  around 
the  dramatists  on  the  table.  .  .  Mr.  Goldberg, 
in  mv  view,  possesses  at  least  one  inescapable 
shortcoming  as   practical   critic   of   the   theatre: 


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GOLDBERG,    ISAAC — Continued 

he   discourses,    and   wisely   at   that,   about   plays 

he  has  never  seen  in  actual  production."  Pierre 

Loving 

H Lit    R    p463   F    17    '23    880w 

"Dr.  Goldberg  has  written  a  treatise  on  & 
passing  phase  of  intellectual  effort  that  de- 
serves to  take  its  place  as  a  textbook  with 
all   students   of  the  drama." 

+  N  Y  Times  p5  Ja  21  '23  4000w 
"Catalogues,  jibes  and  classifies  the  youthful 
element  in  the  theatre  with  a  light-handed 
seriousness  that  makes  a  colossal  work  good 
reading.  Dr.  Goldbeig  thumbs  the  drama  of 
the  world  with  no  ordinary  Cook's  tourist  in- 
sight. He  translates  from  the  Latin-American 
group  (Argentina,  Brazil,  &c.)  in  order  to 
discuss  them  with  English-speaking  readers. 
Spanish,  French,  Yiddish  and  German  expres- 
sionists fall  into  his  clutches.  He  has  an 
illuminating  chapter  on  the  'Teatro  Grotesco' 
of  the  Italian  school.  .  .  'The  Drama  of  Transi- 
tion' is  hereby  recommended  as  indispensable 
to    the   modern    student    of    the   drama."       L.    S. 

+   N    Y    World    p7e    F    11    '23    420w 

GOLDING,   LOUIS.    Prophet  and   fool;   a  collec- 
tion  of    poems.      121p     $2.50     Dutton 

821  23-10039 

A  poet's  revolt  against  war  and  his  hatred  of 
all  its  aspects  is  expressed  in  the  first  group  of 
poems,  Sorrows  of  war.  This  is  followed  by 
Prophet  and  fool,  and  by  a  group  of  nature 
lyrics.    Shepherd    singing    ragtime. 


"Possessing  duofold  talent — for  he  writes  with 
a  torch  of  fire  in  one  hand  an  airy  goose  quill 
in  the  other — Mr.  Golding  is  neither  prophet  nor 
fool,  but  a  good  poet." 

+   Lit    R   p900  Ag  11   '23   280w 

"Louis  Golding  shows  himself  a  lover  of  na- 
ture, and  his  lyrics  have  a  peculiar  haunting 
quality  which  is  very  individualistic.  This  is 
his  first  volume,  and  it  possesses  a  distinction 
not  always  to  be  found  in  first  volumes."  P.  A. 
Hutchison 

-i-   N    Y   Times   p7   My   13    '23   400w 

"The  true  note  of  genius  is  there.  Mr.  Gold- 
ing has   lucidity   and   passion." 

+  Sat   R   136:249  S  1   '23  220w 

"Mr  Golding's  poems  have  certain  merits,  such 
as  sincerity  and  the  much-vaunted  imagist  vir- 
tue of  colorful  description.  But  there  are  evi- 
dences of  strain,  of  forcing,  that  betray  the 
too   determinedly    self-conscious    writer." 

f-  Springfd   Republican  p7a  Je  3  '23   250w 

GOLDMAN,  EMMA.  My  disillusionment  in  Rus- 
sia.   242p    $2    Doubleday 
947      Bolshevism — Russia.       Russia — Politics 
and   government  23-17761 

For  months  before  she  was  deported  from 
America  Emma  Goldman  had  been  preaching 
the  F'ussian  revolution.  She  went  to  Russia  ex- 
pecting to  find  a  new-born  country  and  hoping 
to  work  in  its  reconstruction.  After  two  years 
of  disillusionment  she  writes  a  sweeping  indict- 
ment of  the  Communist  government  in  Russia. 
She  found  no  evidence  of  benefits  received 
either  by  the  workers  or  the  peasants  from  the 
Bolshevik  regime,  and  she  denounces  their  be- 
trayal of  the  Ru.ssian  revolution.  The  revolu- 
tionary faith  of  the  people,  in  her  opinion,  has 
been  broken  and  their  spirit  of  solidarity 
crushed. 


"If  you  are  a  radical  this  book  will  strip  you 
of  a  few  'of  your  illusions  about  the  Soviets. 
And  if  you  are  one  of  those  old-fashioned  per- 
sons who  think  the  United  States  is  about  the 
best  place  to  live  in  that  the  world  knows, 
and  who  wants  a  chance  to  play  the  game  here 
■without  any  m,ajor  alterations  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  our  civilization,  it  will  make  vou  angrv, 
and  that's  a  good  day's  work  for  any  book." 
D.    R. 

H Boston   Transcript   p8   D  5   '23   520w 

"The  book  is  pretty  good  reading.  But  the 
story  of  disillusionment,  per  se,  is  usually  of 
more  interest  to  the  teller  than  to  any  one  else, 


and  the  cold-blooded  obvious  logic  of  the  case 
is  apt  to  be  that  illusions  are  risky  things 
in  the  first   place."    M.  W.   H. 

H Survey    51:354    D    15    '23    70w 

GOLLOMB,   JOSEPH.      Girl    in   the   fog.' 255p   $2 

Boni    &    Liveright 

23-12746 

"The  girl  is  Eileen,  daughter  of  Dr.  Ernest 
Goodrich.  Her  father  has  just  been  made  rich 
and  famous  by  an  invention  worked  out  by  him. 
While  she  waits  for  him  at  the  Picadilly  Palace, 
he  is  foully  killed  in  his  car,  out  in  the  fog, 
and  an  attempt  is  made  through  a  carefully 
planned  collision  to  destroy  the  evidences  of 
the  crime.  Other  tragedies  follow,  tind  the  end 
comes  only  with  the  running  down  of  a  gang 
controlled  by  a  degenerate  hunchback  who  also 
is  a   deaf  mute." — N*  Y  World 


"There  are  dull  patches  in  the  book,  particu- 
larly those  sections  which  deal  with  the  plotting 
of  the  criminals,  but  otherwise  the  tale  holds 
the  interest  very  well." 

-\ Boston  Transcript  p6  S  5  '23  ]30w 

"The  author  attempts  no  feat  of  style  or  of 
philosophy.  He  has  a  story  of  thrills  to  relate, 
and  he  relates  it  in  a  simple  and  direct  manner. 
Yet  his  work  of  character-creation  is  not  care- 
lessly done.  .  .  The  chief  merit  of  the  story 
however,  is  its  rush  from  one  thrill  to  another." 
+  Int    Bk   R   p73  N  '23   300w 

"  'The  Girl  in  the  Fog'  has  the  conventional 
substance,  jealous  energy,  the  lust  for  gold, 
ancient  grievances  and  murder:  countered  by 
love  and  fidelity  and  the  relentless  vigilance  of 
the  law.  But  every  episode,  every  detail,  is 
out  of  the  ordinary;  and  usually  it  is  better 
done  than  in  the  conventional  mystery  story." 
+   N    Y   Times   p22   S   2   '23    850w 

Reviewed    by   Will    Cuppy 

N   Y  Tribune  p33  O  14   '23  2000w 

"Mr.  Gollomb  has  provided  in  this  book  thrills 
in   prodigal   measure."     E.    'SV.   O. 

+   N    Y    World   p6e   S   16   '23   130w 

GOOCH,  GEORGE  PEABODY.  Historv  of 
modern  Europe.  1878-1919.  728p  $5  Holt 
[21s   Cassell] 

940.28  Europe — History 
The  present  work,  which  covers  the  period 
from  the  formation  of  the  Triple  alliance  thru 
the  Peace  of  Versailles,  is  planned  as  a  con- 
tinuation of  Fyffe's  "Historv  of  Modern  Eu- 
rope, 1792-1878."  Its  theme  is  the  relations  of 
the  great  powers  to  one  another  during  the 
last  fifty  years.  Contents:  After  the  treaty; 
The  Triple  alliance:  The  .scramble  for  Africa; 
Bulgaria  and  the  powers;  The  dual  alliance: 
M^iliiam  II;  Armenia  and  Crete;  Fashoda:  The 
South  African  war;  The  Anglo-French  entente; 
The  Anglo-Russian  entente;  The  Near  East; 
Anglo-German  rivalry;  Agadir;  The  Balkan 
wars;  The  breaking  of  the  storm;  The  world 
war:  first  phase;  The  world  war:  second 
phase;   The  settlement:   Index. 


"Students  and  publicists  will  be  grateful  for 
this  straightforward  narrative  based  on  the 
voluminous  material  released  since  1918,  all  the 
more  so  because  the  new  sources  are  being 
frequently  exploited  in  an  unscientific  or  un- 
scrupulous manner;  and  this  dispassionate  an- 
alysis may  be  recommended  to  all  whose  knowl- 
edge of  recent  history  is  derived  from  current 
manuals."    B.    E.    Schmitt 

+  Am    Hist    R  29:136  O  '23  750w 

Boston    Transcript   p2   S    22   '23    1500w 

"In  view  of  the  existing  state  of  knowledge 
and  passions  it  is  hard  to  see  how  a  better  epit- 
ome of  world  politics  from  the  Congress  of 
Berlin  to  the  Congress  of  Versailles  could  have 
been  written."  L:  R.  Gottschalk 

-f  Nation  117:690  D  12  '23  980w 

"Extraordinarily  valuable  work."  C.  J.  H. 
Hayes 

-f  New   Repub  36:337  N  21  '23  1150w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


201 


■N'ntiually  enougrh  there  are  traces  of  hasty 
reading-  and  of  somewhat  indiscriminate  use 
of  second-rate  material.  Still,  Dr.  Gooch's 
judgments  are  most  of  them  marked  by  an  at- 
tempt   to    arrive    ;\t    fairness    and    impartiality." 

h    New    Statesman    20:700    Mr    17    '23    650w 

"Coherent  and  .solid  as  this  book  seems  to  be, 
there  is  yet  something  superficial  about  it;  the 
fagade  is  impressive,  but  the  edifice  is  incom- 
plete. Katurally  enough,  it  was  impossible  to 
crowd  into  a  single  volume  every  point  of  view 
of  so  vast  a  subject,  or  even  several  points  of 
view,  but  it  must  be  said  that  Dr.  Gooch  has 
hardly  done  full  justice  to  the  point  of  view 
he  has  adopted." 

f-   Sat    R    135:.634   My   12   '23   950w 

".As  iie  is  undoubtedly  a  first-rate  historian 
and  has  been  able  to  amass  new  material  with 
the  opening  of  some  foreign  archives,  he  has 
produced  a  very  valuable  piece  of  historical  re- 
search '' 

+  Spec    130:1013    Je    16    '23    130w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl82   Mr 
1.5    '23    60w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p27S   Ap 
26   '23   1700W 

GOODSELL,  WILLYSTINE.  Education  of 
women;  its  social  background  and  its  prob- 
lems.  378p  $2.60  Macmillan 

376    Education    of   women  23-7555 

"This  new  volume  in  the  Text-Book  Series 
edited  by  Dr.  Paul  Monroe  is  offered  less  as  a 
series  of  deliverances  and  conclusions  by  the 
author  than  as  a  presentation  of  the  facts  she 
has  gathered,  the  issues  that  have  been  raised, 
and  the  'pro  and  con'  arguments  used  by  the 
debaters.  Beginning  with  an  historical  intro- 
duction, the  hook  deals  lucidly  with  such  topics 
as  'College  Women  and  the  Marriage  Rate,' 
'Sex  Differentiation  in  Education,'  'Cultural 
versus  Vocational  Education,'  'Vocational 
Education  of  Working  Girls,'  'Social  Education 
of  Woman,'  'Manners  and  Morals,'  'Health  and 
the  Woman,'  and  'Values  in  Education.'  Here 
and  there  Dr.  Goodsell  does  not  hesitate  to 
sum  up  the  evidence  she  has  accumulated  in 
the    form    of   results." — Boston    Transcript 


Booklist  20:7  O  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p5  Je  13  '23  620w 
"A  careful,  informed,  up-to-date  and  search- 
ing inquiry.  Professor  Goodsell's  book  is  a  valu- 
able contribution  to  one  of  the  most  important 
of  our  current  social  and  educational  discus- 
sions." 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl8  My  6  '23  420w 
"Possibly  the  book  would  have  made  a  more 
unified  impression  if  the  author  had  confined 
her  discussion  to  higher  education  and  had 
eliminated  the  data  about  health  and  physi- 
ology." 

—  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  29  '23  580w 

GOODWIN,    JOHN.      Sign    of    the    serpent.    378p 

51.75    Putnam 

23-4138 

The  complicated  action  of  this  story  involves, 
as  chief  personages,  a  wicked  uncle,  scheming 
to  rid  himself  of  a  nephew  and  inherit  his  bro- 
ther's estate:  his  still  more  wicked  tool;  the 
real  heir — kidnapped  as  a  child  and  returned 
to  life  as  a  ma!i;  the  heir's  exact  double — even 
to  the  t.ittooed  snakes  about  his  neck:  the 
heir's  newly  found  beautiful  sister.  The  last 
three  find  themselves  close  partners  in  a 
counter-plot  to  defeat  the  evil  schemes  of  the 
uncle;  and  the  two  opposing  parties  lead  each 
other  a  lively  dance  in  forestalling  and  frustrat- 
ing each  other's  moves  till,  after  many  unusual 
adventures,  by  sea  and  by  land,  the  criminal 
is  brought  to  bay. 


"A    right   jolly    tale." 

-f   N    Y    Times   pl6   F  18   '23   550w 
"A  stirring  and  lively  yarn,   and  one  with  an 
artfully   concealed   moral   purpose."    Isabel    Pat- 
erson 

H NY    Tribune    pl9   Mr   25   '23    320w 

Reviewed  by  E.   W.   Osborn 

N  Y   World  p8e  Ap  1  '23  lOOw 
Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Mr     18     '23 
120w 

GORDON,    CHARLES    WILLIAM.     See    Connor. 
R.,    pseud. 

GORDON,   JAN.     Modern   French  painters.   188p 

il   $7.50   Dodd    [21s   Lane] 

759.4  Painting,   French.   Impressionism    (art) 

23-9177 

In  these  chapters  the  author  shows  the  ideas 
which  lie  behind  the  manifestations  of  the  new 
art  in  Paris  and  why  it  has  taken  on  these 
new  forms.  Those  artists  are  treated  who  have 
made  the  most  definite  contributions  to  the 
movement.  Forty  illustrations,  some  of  them 
in  color.  Contents:  The  languages  of  art;  Im- 
pressionism and  neo-impressionism;  Cfizanne; 
Vincent  van  Gogh;  Renoir;  Gauguin;  Art  and 
the  new  civilization;  The  designing  instinct 
Henry  Rousseau  and  Utrillo;  Savage  art  and 
Modigliani;  "Space"  and  "Life"  in  painting; 
The  value  of  art;  Derain  and  Vlaminck;  Cub- 
ism; The  modern  realists;  The  women  painters; 
The   Slavonic  influence;   Conclusion. 


Booklist  20:47  N  '23 
"Mr.  Gordon  is  so  open-minded  and  fair  that 
one  is  inclined  not  only  to  coincide  in  the  praise 
and  appreciation  that  he  lavishes  on  the  various 
phases  of  modern  art  but  also  to  accept  his 
criticisms.  He  knows  what  he  is  writing  about 
and  he  does  not  affect  snap  judgments." 
N.   H.  D. 

-f   Boston    Transcript    p3    Je    23    '23    1950w 

"His  book  is  incoherent,  difficult  to  follow, 
and  monotonous  in  its  efforts  at  brilliant  con- 
densation— obviously  the  work  of  one  in  the 
habit  of  talking  rather  than  of  thinking.  Aside 
from  technical  matters  Mr.  Gordon's  criticism 
is  essentially  English  and  literary."  T:  Craven 
—  Freeman  7:379  Je  27  '23  1750w 

GORDON,  JAN,  and  GORDON,  CORA  JOSE- 
PHINE (MRS  JAN  GORDON).  Two  vaga- 
bonds in  Spain.   272p  il  $4  McBride 

914.6  Spain— Description  and  travel  23-18006 
An  account  of  an  unconventional  trip  of  two 
English  artists  to  Spain.  Starting  out  with 
very  little  money  and  a  determination  to  make 
it  last  as  long  as  possible,  they  kept  out  of 
the  beaten  tracks  of  travel  and  lived  in  the 
simplest  way.  They  kept  to  the  southeast 
corner  of  the  peninsula  and  spent  most  of 
their  time  in  Murcia,  Verdolay  and  Jijona. 
They  wandered  about,  mingling  with  peasants, 
shopkeepers,  artists  and  others,  sketching,  tak- 
ing lessons  in  Spanish  and  on  the  guitar,  and 
making  the  most  of  their  small  knowledge  of 
the  language.  The  account  of  their  experi- 
ence.s  is  written  with  humor  and  vivacity  and 
illustrated  with  colored  plates  and  line  drawings. 


Int   Bk   R  p51  Mr  '23  200w 
"The   book    obviously   lacks   the   power   to   be 
aught     but     innocuous — nay.     more,     it     is    well 
bound    and    has   a   pretty   jacket.    But   here    our 
laudatory   remarks   must    end." 

—  Lit    R   p570  Mr  31   '23  220w 


Boston  Transcript  p6  D  26  '23  580w 
"Both  authors  are  artists  and  the  book  is 
peppered  with  amusing  and  sprightly  .sketches 
as  well  as  equipped  with  a  number  of  more  pre- 
tentious full-page  drawings,  including  a  frontis- 
piece in  color.  But  the  charm  of  it  lies  chiefly 
in  the  writers'  happy  humorous  perceptions  and 
their    pleasing    suavity." 

+   Lit  R  p380  D  15  '23  190w 
"The    faithful,    unbowdleri.sed    and    unadorned 
record    of    the    ups    and    downs    of    this    experi- 
ence   is    a    wonderfully    vivid    and    human    pic- 
ture   of   everyday   Spanish   life." 

+  New  Statesman   20:309  D  9  '22  550w 
"This   book    derives    Its    charm    and    piquancy 
not    so    much    from    what    the    authors    enjoyed 
in  Spain  as  from  what  they  suffered;   and  their 


202 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


GORDON,  J.  and  C.   J. — Continued 
disappointments    prove    much    more    interesting 
to  the   reader  than   their  delights."      S.   A.    Co- 
blentz 

+   N    Y   Times  p7    D   16   '23   1300w 

"The  authors'  black  and  white  illustrations 
are  quaint  almost  to  the  verge  of  childishness, 
but  they  are  always  interesting."  \V.  E.  G. 
Fisher 

+  Sat   R   134:796   N   25   '22  lOOw 

"The  little  black-and-white  drawings  with 
which  it  abounds  are  very  entertaining  indeed. 
Indeed  the  text,  good  as  it  is,  is  really  onlv 
a  setting  for  the  illustrations  or  a  running 
commentary  upon  them.  We  do  not  know  what 
sort  of  work  our  authors  brought  back  with 
them  from  Spain,  though  we  gather  that  they 
both  did  a  good  deal  of  sketching  and  painting 
there,  but  if  it  is  all  as  good  as  this  they 
must  be  congratulated  upon  having  had  such 
a  fruitful  summer.  Their  book  is  as  good  as 
a    holiday." 

+  Spec   129:sup672   N   11    '22    750w 

Jhe    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p800    D 

i       ^2t     ooOW 

GORGOLINI.  PIETRO.  Fascist  movement  in 
Italian  hfe;  with  preface  by  S.  E.  Benito 
Mussolini;  tr.  and  ed.  with  introd.  by  M.  D 
Petre.      217p    $3    Little    [10s    Unwin] 

945    Italy — Fascisti    movement  [23-12158] 

Stamped  with  the  approval  of  Signor  Mus- 
solini himself  this  book  may  be  considered  an 
authoritative  statement  of  the  aims  and  pro- 
gram of  the  Fascist  movement  and  the  rela- 
tions of  that  movement  to  socialism,  Bolshev- 
ism, nationalism  and  internationalism,  to  the 
state    and   to    Italian    foreign    policy. 


Dr.  Gorgohni  so  bewilders  one  with  his 
impassioned  propaganda,  his  rhapsodic  style 
his  repetitions  (which  seldom  reach  ultimate 
clearness),  that  it  is  a  little  difficult  to  compre- 
hend Fascism  in  his  pages,  even  as  a  move- 
ment. Certain  general  features,  however,  may 
be    made    out." 

H No  Am  219:142  Ja  "24  550w 

"The  author,  carried  away  by  enthusiasm 
tor  his  subject,  indulges  in  much  inflation  of 
language,  and,  to  the  coldly  critical  mind,  is 
not  altogether  guiltless  of  verbosity.  The  analy- 
sis IS  perhaps  hardly  searching  enough,  and 
the  picture  is  over-coloured.  No  doubt  a  con- 
siderable body  of  literature  will  grow  up  around 
and  about  Fascismo,  and  will  in  time  produce 
a  work  on  it  which  will  be  more  restrained 
impartial^  and  objective  in  its  nature  than  this 
of  Dr  Gorgolini,  but  it  is  the  best  that  at 
present    exists." 

^ Sat    R    136:82   Jl    21    '23   lOOOw 

_  "Dr.  Gorgolini's  book  is  not  a  bad  piece  of 
journalism.  The  author  is  both  wider  and 
wilder  than  his  hero.  The  translator,  for  his 
part,  stumbles  occasionally.  But  taking  the 
book  as  a  whole,  author  and  translator  alike 
have  done  good  service  by  putting  before  us  a 
clear,  readable,  and  authoritative  statement  of 
the  facts  as  to  the  ruler  of  Italy  and  his  aims." 

"^  ~oo^'?fnJ''"«s  [London]    Lit  Sup  p373  Je  7 

f^^^*^^'  HERBERT  S.  Procession  of  masks. 
'    270p    $2    Brimmer 

814 

"The  essays  in  this  volume,  as  the  title  im- 
plies, take  their  subjects  under  the  guise  of 
maskers,  people  whose  art  is  a  thing  worn  for 
the  world  to  know  them  by,  as  a  mask  covers 
and  reveals  and  makes  more  abstract  and  mem- 
orable the  figure  behind  it.  Swinburne,  Van 
Gogh,  Arthur  Symons,  Lafcadio  Hearn,  Emily 
Dickinson  and  others  are  brought  past;  but  the 
best  revelation  of  the  lot  is  Edwin  Arlington 
Robinson." — New  Repub 


"One  feels  that  whatever  he  writes  about  has 
been  given  the  benefit  of  the  best  thought  of 
which  he  is  capable,  and  if  the  result  is  not  in- 
variably stimulating,  it  is  genuine  and  honestly 

+   Nation  118:15  Ja  2  '24  70w 

"Here  are  recorded  the  intimate  reflections 
of  one  of  the  younger  generation;  speaking  deli- 
cately and  beautifully  of  his  youth  in  Springfield. 
And  passing  from  all  that  to  one's  elders  nowa- 
days, what  they  think  of  the  new  generation, 
and  what  the  new  generation  thinks  of  them; 
what  it  dreams  for  itself,  and  what  joy  there 
is  in  riding  the  wind  of  a  new  era.  This,  the 
last  mask  of  all  the  procession,  is  a  brave  and 
touching    thing."    S.    Y. 

-f  New    Repub   37:156   Ja   2   '24   350w 

"Mr.  Gorman  bows  gracefully;  his  voice 
pleases,  and  his  gestures  have  an  elegance 
worth    preserving." 

-f  N   Y  Times  p7  D  16  '23  900w 

GOSSE,  EDIVIUND  WILLIAM.  More  books  on 
the  table.  402p  $2.75  Scribner  [8s  6d  Heine- 
mann] 

804  Literature — History  and  criticism 

[23-26769] 
A  second  series  of  brief  essays  on  books,  fol- 
lowing the  author's  "Books  on  the  table."  (Book 
Review  Digest,  1921)  The  essays  are  hardly  re- 
views, but  rather  attempts  to  pass  on  to  others 
the  pleasure  Mr  Gosse  has  experienced  in  cer- 
tain books.  Among  these  books  are  Strachey's 
"Queen  Victoria."  Housman's  "Shropshire  lad,'" 
Frederic  Myers's  poems,  Mrs  Watts-Dunton's 
"Home  life  of  Swinburne,"  Rostand's  plays, 
G6rard  de  Nerval's  "Les  filles  du  feu,"  Percy 
Lubbock's  "Earlham,"  Bourget's  novels  and 
Lamartine's  "Meditations." 


"He  writes  without  pedantrv,  with  lucidity 
and  keen  sympathy  for  the  authors  whose  worth 
he  estimates.  He  has  the  ability  to  say  more 
about  an  author  in  one  sentence  than  most  of  us 
manage   in  a   column." 

+  Boston    Transcript    p4    Ja   5    '24    300w 


Booklist  20:14  O  '23 
"Would    that    we   had    in    our   magazines    ajid 
papers  more  reviews  comparable   to  these  little 
causeries.      They   are   the   perfection   of   literary 
urbanity."     R.  C.  Holliday 

+  Bookm  58:79  S  '23  650w 
"The  personal  note  in  these  essays  is  their 
distinguishing  and  most  appealing  feature.  They 
are  what  they  are  because  they  are  written 
by  Mr.  Gosse  about  the  books  he  has  read." 
E.  F.  Edgett 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Jl  7  '23  lOOOw 
Cleveland  p79  S  '23 
"The  charm  of  these  papers  lies  in  the  fact 
that  Mr.  (]rOsse  is  not  only  a  critic,  but  so  many 
other  things  as  well.  The  elements  that  make 
for  success  in  such  writing  are  in  him  so  for- 
tunately mixed  that  we  can  not  every  day 
expect  so  harmonious  a  combination."  R:  Le 
Gallienne 

+  Int  Bk  R  p45  O  '23  3800w 
"The  passage  of  years  has  not  a  whit  damp- 
ened his  enthusiasm  for  literature,  and  he  be- 
stows generous  yet  wisely  qualified  praise  upon 
the  work  of  'the  younger  men';  even  Proust  is 
not  beyond  his  sympathetic  ken.  But  he  is 
most  happy  when  the  weekly  book  upon  his 
table  offers  an  excuse  for  an  excursion  into 
some  half-forgotten  corner  of  the  literature  of 
former  times.  .  .  With  all  his  urbanity  this 
critic  has  always  been  a  master  of  genteel, 
discreet    malice."    S:    C.    Chew 

-I-  _  Nation  116:219  Ag  29  '23  900w 
"As   for  Mr.   Gosse.   he  is  living  still  with  the 
vitality  and  vivacity  of  Tithonus.  And  we  have 
the   good  hope   that  he  will  continue   to  live  as 
long  as  the  food  supply  holds  out."  R.  M.  Lovett 
New    Repub   35:334   Ag  16    '23    450w 
"There    is    virtually    nothing    that    Mr.    Gosse 
cannot    discuss    with    the    liveliness    and    charm 
of  an  old  and  much  experienced  connoisseur,  one 
who    has    lived    much    among    the    liooks,    and 
therefore    has    gained    much    wisdom."        H:    J. 
Forman 

-f   N   Y  Times  pl8  Jl   23   '23   820w 
"This  collection  of  essays  is  testimony  to  the 
acuteness  of  Mr.  Gosse's  memory  and  the  alert- 
ness of  his  intellectual  vision.  .   .  Mr.  Gosse  is  a 


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203 


bit  prim  and  academic;  he  holds  reticence  to  be 
a  mark  of  good  taste;  his  regard  for  the  pro- 
prieties leads  him  often  to  suppress  or  conceal 
what  inay  be  of  great  interpretative  import- 
ance." Burton  Rascoe 

h   N   Y  Tribune  pl7  Jl  1  "23  850w 

"The  younger  men  have  a  brighter  style." 
Laurence  Stallings 

—  NY    World   pl9e  Jl    8   '23    60w 

"Like  Sainte-Beuve,  he  always  goes  back  to 
the  original  and  generally  has  something  in- 
dividual to  say  about  it.  Age  cannot  wither 
him,  and  this  new  volume  is  a  welcome  com- 
panion to  the  half-dozen  friendly  volumes  in 
the  same  brown  livery  that  already  stand — ■ 
not  exactly  where  Homer  and  where  Shakes- 
peare are,  but  in  the  congenial  company  of 
Walter  Bagehot  and  Leslie  Stephen,  Traill  and 
Lang   and    Austin    Dobsoii." 

-t-  Sat   R   135:841  Je  23  '23  400w 

Springf'd      Republican     p6     Ag     20     '23 

lOOOw 
"Mr.  Gosse  makes  the  best  of  both  the  jour- 
nalistic and  the  literary  worlds  with  a  grace- 
fulness which  may  well  be  the  envy  of  the  less 
adroit.  His  journalism  touches  simple  chords, 
and  the  gentle  thrill  with  which  he  suffuses 
his  writing  could  be  censored  only  by  the  more 
ardent  Sabljatarians.  But  when  the  book  read- 
er, a  totally  different  person,  settles  down  to 
devour  the  forty  articles  as  though  they  were 
an  airy  souffle  he  is  checked  by  a  substantial- 
ity which  may  oblige  him  to  divide  the  con- 
tents among-  several  meals." 

H The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p385   Je 

7    '23    600w 

GOURMONT,   REMY   DE.     Horses  of  Diomedes; 

tr.    by   G.    Sartori.s.    249p   $2   Luce,    J:   W. 

"This  book,  which  has  been  called  a  novel,  is 
of  a  kind  that  cannot  be  found,  to  my  knowl- 
edge, in  Knglish;  it  is  a  product  difficult  to  de- 
fine for  English  readers.  One  can  say  truth- 
fully that  it  was  wiitten  with  the  primary  pur- 
pose of  expressing  something  of  its  author's 
philosophy  and  some  of  his  opinions  and  ideas, 
that  the  fiction  in  it  is  wholly  subordinate  to 
the  thought.  Granted  that  the  thought  in  this 
book  is  more  important  than  its  characters, 
there  is  still  life  in  it,  and  some  delectable  flesh. 
It  is  philosophy  expounded  in  a  garden  of 
earthly  delights,  and  whatever  the  final  evalua- 
tion of  these  delights,  they  ai-e  made  vital  in 
the  depiction.  And  there  is  a  strange  and  con- 
vincing life  in  the  characters  that  have  been 
called  phantoms  by  certain  unemotional  critics. 
.  .  There  is  much  of  symbolism  in  'Les  Chevaux 
de  DiomSde';  there  lingers  here  the  love  of 
words  for  their  own  sake;  life  is  still  seen  in 
symbols;  the  whole  mood  is  that  of  the  move- 
ment directly  behind  this  work,  and  Diom^de 
himself  is  the  arch-type  of  svmbolist  hero." — 
N   Y  Tribune 


"Thought  glides  elusively  complete  as  all  liv- 
ing things  in  the  transparent  pool  of  his  style; 
a  moonlight  style  in  which  shapes  are  distinct 
yet   pliant." 

+   Dial   75:398  O  '23  160w 

"This  book,  in  the  original,  is  Reiny  de  Gour- 
mont's  most  successful  piece  of  fiction  of  novel 
length." 

-\ Lit   R   p75   S   22   '23   250w 

"  'Les  Chevaux  de  Diomede'  is  Gourmont's  most 
successful  approach  to  the  novel  form;  and  one 
never  wishes  that  it  approached  the  recognized 
genre  more  closely,  for  it  is  a  thing  of  original 
beauty,  capable  of  giving  unusual  pleasure.  If 
we  follow  its  author's  rule  that  a  work  of  art 
must  be  judged  by  its  own  aesthetic,  we  must 
admit  that  it  is  consummate."  B.  R.  Redman 
-I-   N  Y  Tribune  pl7  S  2  '23  1650w 

GOWING,    SIDNEY    D.     Helen   of   London.    449p 

$1.75    Putnam 

23-7996 

Helen  of  London.  Lady  Helen  Deltry,  is  the 
most  beautiful  woman  in  the  world  and  like  her 
name.'sake  Helen  of  Tr-oy,  thru  her  beauty  a 
trouble  maker.  She  is  also  one  of  the  richest 
women  in  the  world.  In  character  she  is  a 
saint,  she  had  endowed  a  hospital  in  the  slums 


of  London  and  is  putting  in  part  of  her  time — 
during  which  she  disappears  from  the  social 
world — as  nurse  there  under  the  guise  of  Sister 
Anna.  Among  her  admirers  is  Lord  Carys,  bril- 
liant but  hard  and  unscrupulous.  His  only  re- 
deeming trait  is  his  love  for  Helen.  Suspecting 
a  secret  he  tracks  her  steps  to  discover  it,  and. 
by  the  revelations  of  his  espionage,  becomes  a 
transformed  man.  Lady  Helen,  thru  much  suf- 
fering, rises  higher  and  higher  in  saintshlp.  The 
story  has  many  bizarre   features. 


"Not  a  character  in  the  book  leaves  an  im- 
pression of  reality.  All  are  either  violently  good 
or  violently  bad,  with  a  tinge  of  violence  to 
everything  they  do.  Ther-e  is  not  a  dull  moment 
in  Mr.  Gowing's  story,  except  for  those  who 
want  character  study  as  well  as  action  in  what 
they   read." 

h   Boston    Transcript   p4   Je   6   '23   380w 

N    Y   Times  p22  My  13   '23   300w 
Reviewed  bv   E.    W.   Childs 

N    Y  Tribune   p2l  Jl   8   '23  300w 

"There  are  times,  as  we  turn  the  pages  of 
'Helen  of  London'  when  we  are  reminded  of  the 
old  fictional  offerings  of  Mrs.  Georgie  Sheldon. 
At  other  moments  we  seem  to  glimpse  back- 
ward to  the  halcyon  period  of  Mrs.  E.  D.  E.  N. 
Southworth.  'Helen  of  London'  is  a  master- 
piece in  the  line  of  invincibly  popular  litera- 
ture."    E.  W.   Osborn 

—  NY  World  plOe  Ap  29  '23  310w 

GRAHAM,   STEPHEN.     In  quest  of  El  Dorado. 
334p      $2      Appleton 

917     West  Indies — Description     and     tr-avel. 
New   Mexico — Description   and    travel.    I'an- 
ama — Description   and   travel.      Mexico — De- 
scription  and    travel  23-14399 
Stephen    Gr-aham    followed     in     the     wake     of 
Columbus    on    his    voyage    to    the    New    World, 
taking  a  Spanish  ship  from  Cadiz  to  the  Indies. 
Landing    at    Porto    Rico    he    visited    Haiti    and 
Cuba,    saw   San    Salvador,    the    first    land    foirnd 
by  Columbus,   and  the  Bahamas.     He  proceeded 
to  New  Orleans,  then  to  Santa  F6  and  Panama, 
and    alone    climbed    a    peak    in    Darien,    where 
Balboa  first  sighted   the  Pacific.      Afterward  he 
followed    some    of    the    fantastic    adventures    of 
Coronado   in   his   qirest   of   the   far   famed   seven 
cities,    finally    hitting    the    trail    of    Cortez    and 
visiting  the  places  most  memorable  in  his  con- 
quest of   Mexico. 


Booklist    20:135    Ja   '24 
Boston   Transcript  p8   N   14  '23   1400w 
Reviewed    bv    E:    T.    Booth 

Freeman  8:382  D  26  '23  1450\v 
"For  stay-at-homes  who  must  perforce  tr-avel 
by  proxy,  'In  Quest  of  El  Dorado'  comes  as 
a  real  boon.  Stephen  Graham  makes  a  travel- 
ing corrrpanion  as  well  informed  as  he  is  en- 
tertaining. Americans  may,  Columbus-like, 
discover  a  new  world  for  themselves  in  his 
pleasant    pages."      F.    F.    Bond 

-I-  N  Y  Times  p2  N  4  '23  1500w 
N  Y  World  p7e  N  4  '23  300w 
"Even  the  hardened  reviewer  will  find  it  diffi- 
cult to  avoid  enthusiasm  in  char-acterizing  this 
fine  book  of  travels.  It  is  the  work  of  a  keen 
observer  and  a  practiced  writer  who  knows 
what  to  see  and  how  to  describe  his  experi- 
ences so  as  to  give  his  readers  real  pictures 
or   travel." 

+  Outlook    135:506   N   21    '23   150w 

GRANT,    ALLAN,    pseud.      See   Smith,    A.    D.    H. 

GRANT,     JAMES     RICHARD.        Acquiring    .skill 

in    teaching.        222p    $1.60    Silver 

371       Teaching  22-10956 

The  purpose  of  the  book,  a  new  type  of 
textbook  in  teaching,  is  to  guide  the  reading, 
thinking  and  practice  of  teachers  and  of  those 
in  training  for  teaching.  Each  chapter  is  made 
up  of  a  number  of  brief  pedagogical  state- 
ments, most  of  them  true,  a  few  of  them  ques- 
tionable. The  teacher  is  asked  to  examine 
them  and  discover  their  truth  or  fallacy.  A 
paragraph    of    suggested    readings    follows    each 


204 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


GRANT,   JAMES    RICHARD — Continued 

list  Ol  topics  and  in  many  cases  llieie  is  a 
set  of  exercises  to  test  t)ie  reader's  individual 
thinking. 

"The  book  covers  an  encyclopedic  range  of 
topics,  an  area  as  broad  and  uncompassed  as 
the  rural  field  itself.  .  .  Normal-school  teachers 
will  find  it  a  valuable  text  on  the  rural-school 
problem."       M.    L.    Stuart 

-r   El    School    J    23:313    D    '22    480w 
Survey  49:sup204  N   1  '22  70w 

GRANT,     PERCY    STICKNEY.       Essays.       174p 

$1.75      Harper 

814  22-22719 

Essays  on  literary  themes  by  the  rector  of 
the  Church  of  the  Ascension,  New  York  city. 
Contents:  Is  Bernard  Shaw  an  immortal? 
Browning's  art  in  monologue;  The  religion  of 
Shakespeare;  Feodor  Dostoevsky;  The  elegiac 
tone    in    sculpture;    The   last   of    the    poets. 


"The  'Essays'  are  readable  and  entertaining, 
though  their  general  trend,  perhaps,  is  one  of 
affirmation  of  foregone  conclusions  rather  than 
development   of  newer   thought." 

Bookm    57:219   Ap    '23   120w 
"Interesting     opinions,      often      brilliant,      but 
sometimes    too    sweeping    to    convince." 

-j Springf'd    Republican    p6   F   26    '23   240w 

Survey  49:818  Mr  15  '23  30w 

GRANT,     PERCY     STICKNEY.        Fifth     avenue 

parade,   and  other  poems.      178p    $1.75   Harper 

811  22-22715 

There    is    wide    variety    in    this    collection    of 

poems.        Some    are    poems    of    the    city's    life, 

some  are   songs  to  love   and  beauty,   a  few   are 

religious.        Included    in    the    group    of    sonnets 

is    an    Italian    sequence. 


"There   are    some   happy   thoughts,    some   fine 
lines,    in    'A  Fifth   Avenue   Parade.'  " 
+  Bookm    57:219    Ap    '23    30w 

"The  best  we  can  do  is  to  praise  the  in- 
tent of  many  of  these  poems,  praise  the  social 
conscience  that  is  apparent  in  them,  the  deep 
humanity.  We  cannot  praise  them  technically. 
There  are  too  many  flaws  in  the  workmanship." 
h   Lit    R    p360    D    30    '22    250w 

"When  Dr.  Grant  turns  from  the  theme  of 
men's  sorrows  and  longings  he  becomes  more 
the  intellectual  preacher  than  the  poet,  and 
loses  in  emotional  force.  Some  of  his  work 
is  classic  in  theme,  some  didactic,  but  he  is 
not  so  happy  on  these  lines.  The  contents  of 
Percy  Stickney  Grant's  poems  are  more  ad- 
iTiirable  than  his  style.  He  frequently  lacks 
the  music  and  lilt  so  requisite  in  a  perfect 
lyric  and  gives  the  impression  of  hard  tones 
and  labored  rhymes.  His  machinery  creaks  a 
bit.  especially  when  his  theme  is  intellectual 
or    artificial,     rather    than    stronglv    emotional." 

h  Springf'd    Republican    p6    F   26   '23    600w 

Survey    49:818    Mr   15    '23    20w 

GRANT,  PERCY  STICKNEY.    Religion  of  Main 
street.     200p    $1.50    Am.    library    service 

230     Religion.     Church  23-7416 

The  series  of  sermons  expressing  Dr  Grant's 
views  on  Christianity  and  the  church,  on  lib- 
eralism and  on  freedom  of  speech  in  the  pulpit, 
which  have  been  the  subject  of  recent  contro- 
versy. The  book  contains  also  the  correspond- 
ence between  Bishop  Manning  and  Dr  Grant 
in  which  they  define  their  respective  positions. 

Reviewed   by  M.   L.    Franklin 
Ind  111:18  Jl  21  '23  550w 

"Those  who  think  that  Dr.  Grant  is  a  destruc- 
tive element  in  the  Episcopal  Church  will  be 
interested  to  read  what  he  really  said  in  his 
sermons."    Marv  Lee 

Lit    R   p748  Je  9   '23   490w 

"One  should  not  be  supercilious  in  speaking 
of  the  book.  The  sermons  in  it  may  lack  grace 
and  dignity,  they  may  be  hackneyed  in  tone 
and  cheap  in  content,  but  they  did  arouse  a 
storm  and   then  weathered   it   triumphantly — no 


small  achievement  even  in  this  year  of  grace." 
L:   Brown 

i-  Nation   116:752  Je  27  '23  250w 

Reviewed    by    H.    C.    Herring 

New  Repub  35:267  Ag  1  '23  720w 
"The  book  is  of  greater  value  as  the  record 
of  a  conspicuous  controversy  than  as  a  contri- 
bution to  theological  thought.  In  so  far  as  Dr 
GraJit's  position  is  noteworthy,  it  is  not  for 
originality  but  for  frankness  and  pugnacity — a 
pugnacity  that  loses  something  of  the  fine  edge 
of  spiritual  fervor  in  the  off-hand,  apparently 
extemporaneous  language  in  which  the  sermons 
are  couched.  There  are  several  nontheological 
observations    of   considerable    suggestiveness." 

-j Springf'd    Republican   p6   Jl   31   '23   480w 

The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p475    Jl 
12  '23  20w 

GRAVES,    JOHN     TEMPLE,    jr.       Shaft    in    the 

sky.   295p  $1.75     Doran 

23-5516 

"When  Commander  Gilchrist  Sturtevant  picks 
Alice  Deering  up  in  his  strong  arms,  carries  her 
to  his  waiting  car,  and  drives  her  in  angry 
silence  all  the  way  home  from  Arthur  Herrick's 
shady  party  at  the  Purple  Iris  Inn,  he  makes  an 
enemy  for — well,  for  a  long  time.  Alice  is  pretty 
and  a  daughter  of  millions,  and  badly  spoiled. 
She  has  never  before  been  subjected  to  cave- 
man processes,  and  of  course  she  thinks  she 
hates  the  impulsive  Commander  accordingly.  She 
thirsts  eagerly  for  revenge  and  believes  she  can 
find  it  in  blocking  the  Sturtevant  path  to  Con- 
gress. But  eventually  she  is  sorry  for  her 
naughtiness  and,  to  the  end  that  'The  Shaft  in 
the  Sky'  may  have  its  properly  cheerful  ending, 
she  manoeuvres  to  bring  her  late  enemy  into 
the  port  of  love."— N  Y  World 


"Mr.  Graves  has  an  honesty  and  zest  about 
his  work  that  give  it  a  certain  interest  because 
of  his  frank  sincerity  and  enthusiasm,  but  he 
is  not  a  craftsman.  .  .  He  must  needs  make 
mere  words  serve  him  more  consistently  before 
he  can  challenge  serious  attention  as  a  novel- 
ist."    S.   L.   C. 

—  Boston   Transcript  p4  Mr  28  '23  780w 
"A  thoughtful  and  brilliant  book.     It  contains 

some  excellent  portraiture.  As  a  whole,  it  is 
animated  by  the  somewhat  plaintive  irony  of 
an  idealist  who  is  determined  not  to  give  up  the 
ship."    H.    W.   Boynton 

+  Ind  110:320  My  12   '23   900w 

"Written  by  an  older  person,  the  story  would 
at  times  be  impossibly  romantic  and  hopelessly 
idealistic;  but  these  are  honest  elements  of 
youth — and  Mr.  Graves  possesses  both  sincerity 
and  a  promising  talent.-" 

-I-   Int   Bk   R  p58  My  '23  400w 

"It  is  a  well  meant  book,  but  ineffective." 

—  Lit   R  p632  Ap  21   '23  90w 

"Mr.  Graves  has  caught  the  spirit  of  AVash- 
ington  in  an  admirable  fashion.  His  style, 
though  now  frequently  rough,  is  promising — 
particularly  in  its  lyric  qualities.  If  sometimes 
he  is  the  prophet,  thundering  forth  abstrac- 
tions, he  is  youthfully  spontaneous  and  youth- 
fully idealistic."   Kenneth  Fuessle 

-I NY  Tribune  p24  Mr  25  '23  550w 

"A  rather  thin  infusion  of  political  matter 
marks  an  attempt  to  give  the  book  a  real 
Capitoline  standing.  When  all  is  said  and  done, 
however,  the  love  story  of  Alice  and  the  Com- 
mander, as  set  forth  with  notes  on  the  doings  of 
a  'jazzy'  young  smart  set  added  by  the  way  of 
spice,  is  the  main  thing  in  'The  Shaft  m  the 
Sky.'  "   E.   W.   O. 

N  Y  World  p9e  Ap  22  '23  330w 
Springf'd     Republican     p7a    Ap    29    '23 
150w 

GRAVES,    ROBERT.        Whipperginny.      71p    $2 

Knopf    [5s    Heinemann] 

S21  23-12027 

"That  is  obvious  in  Whipperginny  which  was 
not  at  nil  clear  in  some  of  Mr.  Robert  Graves's 
earlier  books— Fairies  and  Fusiliers  and  Coun- 
try Sentiment— namely,  that  his  poems,  for 
good   or   ill,   have   a   great   deal  of  meaning,    or. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


205 


in  the  jargron  of  the  hour,  a  full  intellectual 
content — they  are  things  to  enjoy,  but  not 
merely  things  to  enjoy.  .  .  In  his  earlier  books 
Mr.  Graves's  conscious  attention  was  largely 
with  the  front  view  of  his  poems — the  unequivo- 
cal meaning.  Lately  it  has  been  sliding 
around;  he  seems  sometimes  to  pay  no  at- 
tention to  the  obvious  sense  of  what  he  is 
writing,  but  to  be  entirely  concerned  with  the 
symbolic  or  associative  meaning  of  the  words 
he  uses.  But  it  must  not  be  thought  that 
there  is  any  lack  in  the  present  collection  of 
perfectly  straightforward  poems." — Spec 


Booklist  20:14  O  '23 

"Robert  Graves  is  growing  too  self-conscious 
about  his  art  for  the  good  of  that  art.  Never- 
theless, 'Whipperginny'  is  acutely  interesting." 
W:  R.   Benet 

h   Lit   R  p61  S  22  '23   lOOOw 

"The  fourth  volume  of  Mr.  Graves's  warm 
and  witty  verse  to  appear  in  America,  and  it 
Is  one  of  the  best.  It  represents  no  marked 
advance  in  ability,  perhaps;  yet  it  convinces  us 
that  Mr.  Graves  is  continuing  to  experiment  and 
therefore   to  grow."     Mark  Van   Doren 

+  Nation   117:sup402  O  10   '23   280w 

"Laughter,  though  in  a  lighter  vein,  a  milder 

mockery,   is  what   shows  him   at  his  best.     His 

Sheltonics  can  be  very  effective  and  it  was  an 

extremely  good   idea   to   revive  him."     F.   L.   L. 

+  New  Statesman   20:780  Ap  7  '23  140w 

"Alike  in  the  humorous  and  in  the  philosophic 
utterances  of  'Whipperginny'  there  is  abundant 
treasure.  There  are  many  minds  today  strug- 
gling silently,  Jacob-wise,  with  all  kinds  of 
religious  and  philosophic  problems.  To  those 
especially,  'Whipperginny'  w^ill  have  its  own 
peculiar  import.  And  to  all  it  will  mirror  back 
undeniable  beauty."  Mary  Siegrist 
+   N   Y  Times  p9  S  9  '23  2050w 

"It  maintains  a  sound  level  of  accomplish- 
ment throughout,  and  such  a  poem  as  'Sullen 
Moods'  is  one  of  which  any  poet  might  well 
be  proud.  Graves  is  a  poet  minor  but  com- 
petent, producing  work  that  is  tight,  well 
wrought,  learned,  rather  dry,  sometimes  a  little 
dull  despite  its  occasional  felicities."  Rex 
Hunter 

H NY  Tribune  p28  S  9  '23  250w 

"It  is  a  fit  reading  for  the  early  spring  in 
England;  it  has  just  the  half-sardonic  note 
checking  back  the  lush,  unashamed  lyricism  of 
a  later  time  or  a  warmer  climate.  I  can  im- 
agine no  better  companion  for  a  spring  walk- 
ing tour  than  Whipperginny."  A.  Williams- 
Ellis 

+  Spec   130:592   Ap   7   '23   1050w 

"We  have  called  Mr.  Graves  an  'unmistak- 
able' poet.  The  secret  of  that  lies  in  his 
\vhimsicality,  that  mischievous  and  artful  rus- 
ticity of  his  which  affords  so  lively  a  recrea- 
tion to  one  pent  in  the  Georgian  city.  He  can 
be  sad,  severe,  foreboding;  but  then  on  a 
sudden  he  is  off  again  in  chase  of  some  danc- 
ing   sunbeam    of    the    fancy." 

+  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  pl95   Mr 
22    '23   1200w 

GRAY,  ARTHUR  HERBERT.  Men.  women, 
and  God;  a  discussion  of  sex  questions  from 
the  Christian  point  of  view.  200p  $1.50  Doran; 
pa  50c  Assn.  press  [4s  Student  Christian 
movement] 

176     Sex.     Sexual  ethics  23-9703 

The  book  deals  simply  and  plainly  with  the 
social,  personal  and  sexual  relations  of  men 
and  women,  and  the  ways  in  which  their  com- 
mon life  may  attain  to  happiness,  harmony  and 
efficiency.  Contents:  Knowing  the  facts;  Com- 
radeship; Love;  Falling  in  love  and  getting 
engaged;  Our  moral  standards;  A  man's  struggle; 
Prostitution — a  chapter  for  men;  A  girl's  early 
days:  Involuntary  celibacy;  The  art  of  being 
married;  Unhappy  marriages;  The  influence  of 
social  conditions;  Forgetting  the  things  which 
are  behind;  Appendix — some  of  the  phvsiological 
facts,   by  A.   Charles   E.    Grav,   M.D. 


"This  is  a  book  which  thousands  of  discern- 
mg  youth  of  both  se.xes  may  read  with  profit. 
It  is  one  of  the  best  ever  written  on  its  perplex- 
mg  subject.  It  is  intellectually  enlightening 
and   profoundly   religious." 

-r   Boston  Transcript  p4  O  3  '23  lOOw 

"The  writer's  attitude  is  religious,  though  he 
does  not  preach;  and  practical,  though  his  ap- 
peal IS  to  ideal  motives.  The  book  is  charac- 
terized by  a  wholesome  vein  of  common  sense, 
founded  on  sympathy  with,  and  knowledge  of, 
human    nature." 

+  Spec    130:sup490   Mr   24    '23    300w 

GRAY,  GRETA.     House  and  home.  356p  il  $2.50 
Lippincott 

728    Architecture.  Domestic  23-11746 

The  book  comes  under  the  "Lippincott's 
Home  ManuaLs"  series  edited  by  Benjamin  R. 
Andrews.  It  considers  the  sanitary,  economic, 
social  and  architectural  problems  involved  in 
housmg  and  is  designed  as  a  text  for  students, 
study  groups  and  the  general  reader,  not  archi- 
tecturally trained  but  interested  in  acquiring 
their  own  homes.  It  is  also  intended  to  arouse 
interest  in  community  housing  problems  and 
city  planning.  Its  scope  includes  location, 
plans,  materials  and  construction,  plumbing, 
heating,  lighting,  built-in  conveniences  and  la- 
bor savers,  interior  and  exterior  designs, 
grounds  and  alterations.  There  are  problems 
at  the  end  of  each  chapter,  a  bibliography,  a 
glossary   and   an    index. 


"The  arrangement  of  the  treatise  is  carefully 
planned.  The  author  has  gleaned  widely  and 
with  commendable  judgment.  Having  been 
technically  trained  she  is  able  to  use  technical 
terms  properly;  and  being  a  woman,  she 
recognizes  the  super-importance  of  the  interior 
of  the  house.  The  other  sections  of  the  book 
are  interesting  and  useful  to  those  who  desire 
to  extend  the  living  values  of  a  home  to  the 
community  and  surroundings." 

-f   Boston   Transcript  p5  Jl  7  '23  150w 

"A  work  of  comprehensive  aim,  intelligently 
written  and  abounding  in  helpful  suggestions, 
but  embracing  somewhat  too  great  a  diversity 
of   subject   matter." 

H Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Je  17  '23  180w 

GRAY,  JOSLYN.     Old  IMary  Metcalf  place.  187p 

$1.60     Scribner 

23-7282 

"Not  far  from  Briarly  seminary  stood  an  old 
colonial  mansion  with  an  Interesting  tragedy 
woven  into  its  traditions.  It  was  empty,  but 
not  'haunted,'  yet  Chloe  Callender  almost 
thought  It  was,  and  was  led  into  an  adventure 
that  interferred  sadly  with  her  studies  ana 
her  standing  in  school.  Caring  for  a  sick 
stranger  there  and  guarding  her  secret  from  a 
mistaken  sense  of  honor,  she  got  into  a  suc- 
cession of  difficulties  with  her  teachers  that 
lacked  little  of  expulsion.  One  girl  stood  by 
her  loyally,  and  when  the  mysterious  stranger 
was  identified  by  friends.  Chloe  regained  her 
position  and  found  herself  possessed  of  new 
friends." — Springf'd    Republican 


"It  is  not  a  book  for  teachers  to  recommend. 
Yet  the  author  meant  well.  She  merely  tried 
too  hard  to  make  an  exciting  story."  "The 
whole  reminds  one  of  a  moving  picture  show, 
rather  than  an  episode  in  real  life." 

—  Boston   Transcript   p4  Ap  25   '23  340w 

"Joslyn  Gray  has  established  a  reputation  for 
school-girl  stories,  which  is  well  sustained  by 
her  latest  volume.  The  storj'  cannot  fail  to 
be    popular." 

4-  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  Jl   8   '23   120w 

GRAY,   MORRIS.     City's  voice:  a  book  of  ver.se. 

l.-^fip   $2.n0  Marshall   Jones 
811  24-377 

"Mr.  Gray's  poetry  suggests  the  versification 
of  the  educated  and  sensitive  man.  somewhat 
old-fashioned  in  his  outlook  and  wholeheartedly 
religious." — N   Y   Times 


206 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


GRAY,    MORRIS — Continued 

"It  is  a  singular  relief  to  read  such  a  collec- 
tion of  poems  as  'The  City's  Voice,'  which  re- 
presents the  fruition  of  a  life  of  earnest  and  de- 
termined effort  and  is  the  expression  of  the 
thoughts  and  ideas  of  a  grown  man." 

+   Boston    Transcript    p2    D    22    '23    320w 

"Here   is  a   book  in   which  the  poet  ha^  been 
assiduous   in   meticulous   workmanship,    and   yet 
he    is   altogether   too    didactic,    and   his    didacti- 
cism is  not  particularly  original  or  interesting." 
[-  N   Y  Times  plO  Ja  13  "24  400w 

GRAY,  TERENCE.  "And  in  the  tomb  were 
found — ";  plays  and  portraits  of  old  Egypt. 
236p  il  $2.50  Appleton 

932     Egypt — History,  Ancient — Drama 

23-10057 
In  these  dramatic  sketches  the  author  seeks 
to  reconstruct  the  life  of  ancient  Egypt  by 
means  of  some  moving  incidents  in  its  history. 
In  each  piece  he  takes  one  great  personality 
around  which  to  build  his  drama.  The  first  is 
a  character  study  of  Khufu,  builder  of  the  great 
pyramid  of  Gizeh:  the  second  reveals  the  great 
Amenemhat  and  his  parting  instructions  to  his 
son  Senusert  who  was  to  succeed  him;  the  third 
is  a  humorous  presentation  of  Rameses  the 
Great  and  the  interview  between  Moses  and  the 
Pharaoh;  the  fourth  is  a  royal  romance  of  old 
Egypt  under  the  shepherd-kings.  To  the  four 
dramas  is  added  a  group  of  Egyptian  love-songs 
and  dirges. 


"Unusual  as  is  the  manner  and  form  of  these 
dramas  and  songs,  the  reader  will  not  fail  to 
find  in  them  a  sentiment  which  he  may  per- 
haps ascribe  justly  to  the  days  of  the 
Pharaohs." 

-f-   Boston  Transcript  p5  My  5  '23  480w 

"The  book  is  fascinating,  dramatic,  convinc- 
ing."    L.   M.  Field 

4-   Int    Bk   R   pl8   My  '23   640w 

"It  is  his  power  of  realising  beliefs  and  mor- 
alities so  remote  from  our  own  that  gives  his 
work  a  unity  and  significance  which  are  not 
at  first   sight   apparent." 

-f  New   Statesman    21:178   My   19   '23   950w 

"Mr.  Gray  is  evidently  well  read  in  the  learn- 
ing and  legends  of  the  hieroglyphics,  and  he 
has  that  creative  imagination  which  can  make 
the  dry  bones  of  the  mummies  alive  again.  .  . 
We  strongly  commend  Mr.  Gray's  book  to  all 
those  who  wish  to  know  what  life  in  the  palaces 
of  ancient  Egypt  may  really  have  heen  like. 
It  reflects  the  highest  credit  alike  on  his  learn- 
ing and  his  imagination." 

+  Sat   R  135:290  Mr  3  '23  520w 

"The  specimens  of  verse  have  a  sensuous 
charm  in  their  decoration,  but  the  body  of  the 
book  is  rather  boneless." 

h  Spec   130:675   Ap   21   "23  30w 

GREEN,  ANNA   KATHARINE    (MRS  CHARLES 
ROHLFS).      Step   on    the    .stair.     380p   $2  Dodd 

23-1441 

I'oi.son  is  supposed  to  have  hastened  the 
deat'i  of  the  rich  old  man.  Edgar  Quenton 
Bartholomew.  He  leaves  a  beautiful  daughter 
Orpha  and  two  nephews.  The  old  man  is 
known  to  have  made  two  wills  one  of  which 
he  destroyed  before  he  died  and  the  other 
seem.-^  to  liave  been  either  hidden  or  spirited 
away.  Just  which  nephew  is  the  beneficiary 
forms  the  hasi.s  for  a  tale  of  dovtbts  and  grave 
suspicions.  No  detective  plays  any  spectacular 
part  in  the  hunt  for  the  missing  will,  but  the 
two  nephews  vie  with  each  other  in  trying  to 
unfold  the  mystery  surrounding  their  uncle's 
death. 


Booklist  19:191  Mr  '23 
"  'The    Step    on    the    Stair'     will    undoubtedly 
bring   delight     to     her     already     wide    range    of 
readers,    and   new   thrills   to  all   other  lovers   of 
mysterv   stories."     R.    D.    W. 

+  Boston   Transcript   p5   Mr   3   '23    520w 
Cleveland  p43  Je  '23 
Int    Bk    R    p58    F    '2:?    350w 


"It    is    a    clever    and    extremely    complicated 

story,     with     many    false    clues    and    seemingly 

inexplicable    incidents,    which    hold    the    reader's 

attention   firmly  until   he  has  reached  the  end." 

+   N    Y    Times    pl9    Ja    21    '23    550w 

Reviewed   by   A.    D.    Douglas 

N     Y    Tribune    p23    F    4    '23    950w 
"For  present-day  taste  her  style  is  too  diffuse 
and  she  alternates  between  sentiment  and  sad- 
ness;   but    she    packs    in    plenty    of    thrills." 

H  Outlook   133:320   F   14   '23    60w 

Sprlngf'd   Republican  p8a  Mr  11  '23  60w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p546   Ag 
16    '23   220w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:133  My   '23 

GREEN,    FITZHUGH.     Mystery     of     the     Erik. 

288p     $1.75      Appleton 

23-3440 

This  Arctic  sea-yarn  relates  the  adventurous 
trip  of  the  Erik  to  the  Arctic  ocean  to  investi- 
gate the  northwest  passage.  A  young  college 
boy.  Ruddock  Winters,  is  of  the  party  and  he 
is  in  the  thick  of  things  when  the  crafty  first 
officer,  Menon,  as  head  of  a  conspiracy  to  se- 
cure a  big  loot  thru  loss  of  the  ship,  induces 
the  crew  to  mutiny.  While  the  skipper  and  a 
small  party,  including  Rudd,  are  on  a  scouting 
expedition  In  the  motor  launch,  after  the  Erik 
reached  Melville  bay,  Menon  and  his  mutinous 
followers  steal  the  ship  and  afterward  abandon 
it,  while  the  scouting  party,  after  much  ex- 
perience with  life  in  the  Arctic,  and  hunting 
and  fishing  with  the  Eskimo,  make  the  north- 
west passage  in  the  launch  and  after  a  frantic 
trip  by  aeroplane  and  rail  to  St  Johns,  are  just 
in    time    to    bring   the    criminal    to   justice. 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  28  '23  190w 
"It  is  evident  that  the  author  is  entirely  con- 
versant   with    the    means   of   subsistance    in    the 
icy   North,   and  he  has  employed  all  this   prac- 
tical  knowledge    to   good    purpose,    composing   a 
book   that  is  a  faithful  exposition  of  Arctic  ex- 
ploration as  well  as  a  rousing  adventure  yarn." 
4-   N    Y   Times   p22    Mr   14   '23   250w 
"A    good    story    of   adventure    and    mystery    in 
the    frozen    north.      Will   appeal    to   older   bovs." 
-I-  Wis   Lib  Bui  19:135  My  '23 

GREENE,    MRS    ANNE    (BOSWORTH).      Lone 

winter.    379p   $2.25   Century 
818  Vermont — Description  and  travel   23-7203 

The  author  spent  a  winter  alone  on  an 
isolated  Vermont  hill  farm  with  a  herd  of  Shet- 
land ponies  and  a  family  of  most  companionable 
animals,  including  a  dog  and  a  cat,  a  cow,  a 
horse  and  an  unbroken  chestnut  colt.  Beside 
caring  for  all  her  animals,  corraling  her  lively 
ponies  who  roamed  the  hills,  mending  her 
fences,  doing  the  many  farm  chores  and  taking 
frequent  fourteen-mile  trips  to  the  nearest  vil- 
lage, she  found  time  to  keep  this  delightful 
journal.  She  describes  her  busy  daily  round, 
following  lovingly  the  moods  of  nature  and  of 
her  animals.  She  fussed  over  her  ponies  as  if 
they  were  children  and  she  makes  them  stand 
out  of  her  pages  like  the  individuals  they  are. 


"Every  page  is  a  delight,  not  only  in  its  sus- 
tained intere.st  of  event  and  impression,  but 
in   the  charm   of  literary  style." 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  18  '23  360w 
Dial  75:299  S  '23  90w 
"In  the  main  it  is  very  readable  and  likeable 
— taken,  as  all  such  literature  should  be.  in 
moderate  doses.  Nobody  who  has  ever  done 
farm  chores  can  fail  to  appreciate  the  deftness 
and  humor  with  which  this  chronicler  has  caught 
and  recorded  the  inwardness  of  the  woodpile, 
and  the  fencing  problem,  and  the  everlasting 
milk   pail."   H.    W.    Boynton 

+  Ind  111:44  Ag  4  '23  llOOw 
"She  has  a  beguiling  way  of  seeing  something 
that  interests  her,  beginning  to  write  about  it 
and  then  just  wandering  on  as  fancy  leads  her 
pen,  with  memories,  piquant  notions,  quaint 
ideas,  surmises,  and  all  in  a  style  that  never 
fails   to  be  interesting." 

H-  N   y  Times  p7  Ap  8  '23  2000w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


207 


"Anne  Bosworth  can  really  write.  She  has  a 
style  of  writing  that  very  few  possess.  And 
why?  Because  she  has  the  soul  of  the  artist- 
can  see  in  Nature  the  million  and  one  thmgs 
the  blind  eyes  of  the  careless  cannot  see."  Ruth 
Snyder 

+   N  Y  World  p8e  Jl  22  "23  900w 
"A   more   individual   narrative   would  be   hard 
to   find." 

+  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    My     6     '23 
llOOw 

Wis   Lib   Bui  19:158  Je  '23 

GREENE,    WILLIAM    CHASE.     Achievement  of 
2    Greece;   a  chapter  in  human  experience.   334p 
$3.50    Harvard   univ.    press 

913.38    Civilization,    Greek.      Greece — History 

23-17166 

"Professor  Greene  begins  his  story  with  the 
prehistoric  Greeks,  the  small,  dark  men  who 
made  their  home  in  this  part  of  the  world  as 
early  as  the  late  stone  age,  continuing  well  in- 
to the  age  of  bronze.  These  prehistoric  men, 
whose  lives  and  character  have  of  late  years 
been  laid  bare  by  the  activities  of  the  archae- 
ologist's spade.  Professor  Greene  believes  to 
have  been  a  distinct  race  of  men,  forerunners 
of  the  men  of  the  heroic  age,  but  not  their  pro- 
genitors. A  little  farther  on  in  his  discourse. 
Professor  Greene  touches  briefly  upon  what  is 
known  as  the  'Homeric  question,'  but  declines 
to  debate  it  in  extensus.  Passing  on  from  these 
questions  of  a  prehistoric,  fascinating  in  their 
mystical  suggestions,  Professor  Greene  proceeds 
to  the  discussion  of  the  Golden  Age  in  Greece 
and  of  the  spread  of  Greek  culture,  bringing  the 
story  rapidly  down  to  the  age  following  that  of 
the  Persian  wars.  In  later  times  he  shows 
Greece  for  twenty  centuries  under  the  domina- 
tion of  alien  powers,  a  foreign  rule  which  seri- 
ously depleted  the  resources  of  the  Greeks.  A 
final  paragraph  indicates  the  author's  belief  in 
the  future  of  the  Greeks  of  today." — Boston 
Transcript 


"Professor  Greene  has  in  this  very  beautiful 
book,  brought  forth  to  light  many  aspects  of 
Greek  life  and  thought,  which  have  added 
greatly  to  the  sum  of  human  character.  Very 
modestly  he  disclaims  originality;  but  it  is  not 
the  scholar  alone,  but  the  general  reader,  in 
his  search  for  the  deep  things  of  life  who  will 
find  here  both  instruction  and  entertainment." 
E.    J.    C. 

-f-   Boston    Transcript   p7   D   12   '23    880w 

"Dr.  Greene  has  written  an  advertisement 
for  the  ancient  Greeks,  and  in  the  main  a  pretty 
good   advertisement."     Elmer   Davis 

+   N    Y   Times   p3    D   9   '23   2200w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  11  '23  350w 

"Mr  Greene's  scholarship,  if  not  profound,  is 
at  least  reliable  and  widely  informed,  his  as- 
sociation with  the  modern  world  is  genial  and 
sensitive,  and  his  manner  of  writing  attracts 
one  with  its  poise  and  serenity." 

+  Springf'd    Republican    pl4   D   7   '23   330w 

GREENLY,  HENRY.  Model  steam  locomo- 
tives; their  details  and  practical  construction. 
318p    il    $2    Funk    [6s    Cassell] 

621.13   Locomotives  [22-24463] 

"A  very  full  consideration  of  details  for  va- 
rious designs  prepared  by  the  author." — Pitts- 
burgh Mo  Bui 


GREEVER,        GARLAND,    and        BACHELOR, 
-    JOSEPH    M.,  comps.   Soul  of  the  city;   an  ur- 
ban   anthology.    364p    $1.75    Houghton 

821.08     Cities    and     towns— Poetry.     English 
poetry— Collections  23-17909 

An  anthology  of  city  verse.  The  fact  that 
most  of  the  poems  are  modern,  contemporary 
even,  and  that,  according  to  the  compilers' 
statement,  this  is  the  first  collection  of  its  kmd, 
goes  to  show  that  the  city  has  appeared  rather 
recently    as    the    inspirer    of   verse. 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:178    Ap    '23 

GREER,    HILTON    ROSS,    comp.    Voices   of   the 

Southwest.      207p     $1.75     Macmillan 
811.08     Texas — Poetry.       American    poetry — 
Collections  23-8264 

An    anthology    of   contemporary   Texan   verse, 
representing  some  sixty  poets. 


"The  endeavor  is  significant  as  emphasizing 
the  trend  in  contemporary  literature  away  from 
country  sentiment,  but  it  is  too  bad  that  there 
is  so  much  city  sentiment  here — so  much 
Charles  Hanson  Towne,  for  instance — and  so 
little    of   the   wit   which    cities    alone    can   gene- 

-(1  _  Nation  118:40  Ja  9  '24  160w 
"Most  readers  will  find  with  delight  many 
another  poem  which  they  once  saw  somewhere 
and  then  lost  track  of  and  have  been  wanting 
to  see  again  ever  since.  Of  many  grades  of  ex- 
cellence are  these  poems,  but  not  a  few  of  them 
have  already  won  that  wide  favor  that  bespeaks 
real    worth." 

-f-   N   Y   Times  p4  Ja  13  '24  660w 
Reviewed    by    Maxwell    Anderson 

N   Y  World  p6e  D  16  '23  660w 

GREGORY,     ISABELLA    AUGUSTA     (PERSSE) 
lady.      Three   wonder    plays.    290p    $2   Putnam 
822  22-23574 

The  first  of  the  plays,  "The  dragon,"  was 
published  separately.  (Book  Review  Digest, 
1920)  "Aristotle's  bellows"  is  reminiscent  of 
"The  three  wishes."  A  learned  old  grouch 
finds  an  enchanted  bellows  with  seven  blasts 
that  will  change  entirely  anything  upon  which 
they  are  blown.  With  these  blasts  he  means 
to  change  Ireland  into  an  earthly  paradise. 
But,  as  in  "The  three  wishes,"  all  the  blasts 
but  one  are  foolishly  wasted,  changing  every- 
thing for  the  worse.  Luckily  by  a  reversal  of 
the  bellows  the  original  status  is  restored. 
Only  the  last  blast  changes  the  grouch  him- 
self into  a  contented  happy  individual.  "The 
jester"  is  a  jolly  magic  play  for  children,  with 
a  moral.  Both  "Aristotle's  bellows"  and  "The 
jester"  are  liberally  interspersed  with  songs  sung 
to  old  Irish  melodies,  the  music  for  which  is 
given  at  the  end  of   the  book. 


Boston    Transcript    p3    Je    9    '23    180w 
"The  Lone  Star  State  cannot  be  congratulated 
as  producing  any   great  figure,   but  the  bulk  of 
work   included   is   excellent." 

-t-   N    Y   Times   pl2   Je   10   '23    380w 


"These  plays  are  characterized  by  an  airy 
imagination,  a  delicious  and  whimsical  humour, 
and  a  fascinating  and  purposeful  unreality;  they 
bear  us  up  from  the  earth  on  the  wings  of 
fairies,  yet  are  never  quite  out  of  sight  of 
earth,  and  never  wholly  out  of  touch  with  life." 
+  Dial  74:211  F  '23  60w 
Reviewed  by  Glenway  Westcott 

Lit  R  p683  My  12  '23  BOOw 
"Lady  Gregory's  plays  are  often  inconse- 
quential, but  she  is  pleasant  to  read  and  her 
delight  in  dragons,  hobgoblins,  leprochaAvns, 
ogres,  princes  with  stout  swords,  and  all  the 
paraphernalia  of  fairyland  communicates  itself 
to   the    reader." 

-f  N    Y    Times    p4    Ja    14    '23    450w 
Reviewed   by   R.    W.    Brink 

N    Y    Tribune    p26    Ja    21    '23    400w 

GREGORY,   JACKSON.       Timber-Wolf.    333p  $2 
Scribner 

23-12433 

An  exciting  tale  of  the  southwest  country. 
Bruce  Standing,  known  as  Timber-Wolf,  was 
the  terror  of  the  country  around  Big  Pine. 
When  gold  was  discovered  in  the  vicinity  he 
came  riding  into  the  village,  and  the  excitement 
began  at  once.  Just  after  he  had  paid  a  big 
debt  Standing  was  shot  in  the  back,  apparently 
by  the  girl  Lynette  Brooke.  At  any  rate  she 
fled  to  the  mountains  with  Babe  Deveril,  a. 
gentlemanly  adventurer,  who  shot  the  village 
sheriff  to  help  Lynette  escape.  Both  of  the 
wounded  men  recovered  and  there  followed  a 
long  chase  thru  the  mountain  country.  Before 
long  it   became   apparent   that   Deveril   was   not 


208 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGES'J' 


GREGORY,   JACKSON— Cotitinued 
so  altruistic  as  he  seemed  and  Standing  not  so 
black   as   he   was   painted.     And   as   it   is   in   all 
good   stories,    the   best  man   won. 

"Once  again  Mr.  Gregory  scores  with  a  highly 
interesting  tale  of  the  West  in  which  Bruce 
St?inding  (Timber  Wolf)  is  a  big  heroic  figure, 
who  dominates  by  his  great  strength,  fearless- 
ness, and  keen  brain." 

+   Lit    R   pl33   O   13   '23   llOw 

"There  is  plenty  of  fighting  in  the  book,  a 
much  involved  plot,  and  several  hairbreadth 
escapes.  Bruce  Standing  is  as  skillful  with  a 
gun  as  any  wild  West  hero  of  them  all,  and  no 
doubt  those  who  enjoy  this  particular  kind  of 
fiction  will  find  much  to  please  them  in  the  tale 
of    'Timber- Wolf.'  " 

-r  N   Y  Times  p5  S  30  '23  500w 

GREIG,  JOHN   YOUNG  THOMSON.  Psychology 
of  laughter  and  comedy.     304p     $4     Dodd 

157     Laughter.     Comedy  23-17583 

This  is  a  strictly  scientific  treatise  based  on 
the  observation  of  children  and  adults,  begin- 
ning with  the  smile  of  the  infant  and  leading 
up  to  the  most  complex  manifestations  of  adult 
wit  and  humor.  The  accumulated  evidence,  the 
author  holds,  points  to  an  intimate  connection 
between  love  and  laughter.  The  appendix  con- 
tains a  summary  of  opinions  on  laughter  and 
comedy  by  philosophers,  poets,  critics  and  psy- 
chologists from  Plato  to  Max  Eastman,  given 
in  chronological  order  for  purposes  of  reference. 
Bibliography.    Index. 


"Mr.  Greig  is  one  of  the  most  lucid  and  en- 
tertaining interpreters  of  the  new  school;  he 
lightens  his  science  with  quotations  old  and 
new,  with  amusing  incidents  from  his  own  ex- 
perience, and  with  stories  that  really  illustrate 
the  subject.  In  this  way  there  is  served  up  a 
mass  of  interesting  lore  on  such  sub-topics  as 
satire  and  humor,  caricature  and  parody,  wit, 
punning  and    the    like."    E.    N. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p5  S  1  '23  600w 
Reviewed    by   ,1:    E.    Rosser 

Int  Bk   R  p9  N  '23  4050w 
Reviewed   hv   J:    E.    Lind 

N    Y   Times   pll    Ag  26   '23    1500w 
"If  Mr.   Greig's  book  covers  all  the  ground  it 
sets  out  to  cover  it  should  be  fascinating  read- 
ing." 

Spec    130:553    Mr   31    '23    lOOw 
The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p219  Mr 
29   '23   140w 
"Mr  Greig  has  been  logical  and  done  his  best. 
His    book    is    remarkable    and    invigorating:    It 
throws   new   light   all   round   the   subject.      Fan- 
tastic  as   he  grants   that   his   idea  will  seem,   it 
is  most  forcibly  presented;  but  the  book  closed, 
we  revert   to  scepticism." 

-\ The  Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p245   Ap 

12  '23   1850W 

GRENFELL.    WILFORD    THOMASON.      North- 
=    ern   neighbors.   333p  il  $2  Houghton 

23-12127 
Nineteen  short  stories  based  upon  Dr  Gren- 
fell's  experiences  among  the  Labrador  people. 
Most  of  the  stories  are  about  the  fisherman, 
afloat  and  ashore,  but  others  tell  of  Eskimos 
and  trappers.  Eight  of  these  tales  are  reprint- 
ed from  an  earlier  volume  entitled  "Off  the 
rocks."  Contents:  Off  the  rocks;  "That  bit 
o'  line"-  Little  Prince  Pomiuk:  The  copper 
store:  On  the  rocks:  Johnny:  Reported  lost; 
Peter  Wright,  mail-carrier;  Paddy;  Ghosts; 
Green  pastures:  Two  night  watches:  The  wreck 
of  the  mail  steamer;  The  first  frost  of  winter; 
Above  the  big  falls;  St.  Anthony's  first  Christ- 
mas:   Sou'west    by    west;    Deeds    of   derring    do. 


Booklist   20:101    D   '23 
"Guided    by    sympathy,    understanding    and    a 
very   real    love   for  his   people.    Dr.    Grenfell  has 
give     us     an     introduction     to     our     'Northern 
Neighbors'     worthy    of    himself    and    of    them, 
which   is   very   high   praise   indeed."    S.    L.    R. 
+  Boston  Transcript  p6  S  22  '23  450w 
N  y  World  p7e  O  28  '23  60w 


"A  sheaf  of  stories  that  will  stir  the  blood  of 
all  readers  who  love  the  sea  and  the  people 
who  live  on  it  and  by  it.  The  style  is  simple, 
direct,    and    forceful." 

+  Outlook  135:150  S  26  '23  30w 

"His  aim  is  to  tell  of  the  unsophisticated,  but 
very  human  and  frequently  heroic  people  of 
Labrador.  He  presents  them  without  the  gloss 
of  art  and  artifice,  and  this  unvarnished 
representation  sometimes  gains  because  of  its 
very    lack   of   technic." 

Springf'd    Republican   p6  D  24   "23   240w 

GRESS,  EDMUND  GEIGER.  Dash  through 
Europe.  2.')4p  il  $2.50  Oswald  pub.  co.,  243  W. 
SiJth    St.,    N.Y. 

914    Europe — Description    and   travel.    Print- 
ing 23-11621 

It  was  a  seven  weeks'  trip  to  Paris,  Rome, 
Florence,  Venice,  Lucerne,  Strasbourg,  Ant- 
werp, Louvain  and  London,  which  the  author 
describes  in  a  chatty  informal  way,  and  with 
much  detail  useful  to  other  travellers.  He  is 
the  editor  of  the  American  Printer  and  his 
chief  interest  everywhere  was  in  printing  and 
book-making.  He  describes  famous  presses, 
rare  printing,  noted  manuscripts  and  exhibi- 
tions of  the  graphic  arts.  There  are  125  illus- 
trations. 


"Edmund  Gress  has  made  his  enthusiasm 
for  fine  printing  the  major  interest  in  his  book. 
His  last  chapter,  giving  the  minutest  details 
of  expense,  itinerary,  food  and  the  best  places 
to  find  it,  will  probably  be  of  value  to  any 
traveler  who  has  not  much  time  to  spend  and 
wishes  to  make  the  most  extensive  use  of  it." 
+  Bookm  58:337  N  '23  150w 
"If  Edmund  G.  Gress's  'A  Dash  Through 
Europe,'  is  not  something  quite  new  in  the 
way  of  a  travel  book  it  is  at  least  something 
very  far  out  of  the  ordinary.  The  book  is 
illustrated  from  a  multitude  of  snapshots,  and 
it  is  written  in  a  style  of  delightful  chattiness 
— a  style  to  suggest  to  the  reader  that  he  Is 
just   hearing  the   trip  talked  over." 

-f   N    Y    World    p6e   Ag  5   '23   350w 
R   of   Rs  68:560  N  '23   40w 
Springf'd     Republican     plO     Ag    22     '23 
330w 

GREY,  PAMELA  GENEVIEVE  ADELAIDE 
(WYNDHAM)  viscountess  (formerly  LADY 
GLENNCONNER).  Shepherd's  crowns.  143p 
$1.50  Appleton   [7s  6d  Blackwelll 

824  23-13083 

Eleven  essays  on  a  variety  of  themes,  but 
\%nth  a  spiritual  quality  thruout.  In  the  first. 
Fables  and  folklore.  Lady  Grey  wTites  of  the 
universality  of  ballads  and  folklore  and  the  way 
thev  show  us  that  we  are  all  kin.  In  Salisbury 
Plain  her  subject  is  the  mystery  of  Stone- 
henge,  and  in  The  singing  of  birds,  the  poets 
who  have  shown  us  bird  speech  in  verse.  There 
are  essays  on  .loan  of  Arc  and  the  two  poets, 
Chaucer  and  William  Barnes.  In  The  way. 
On  dreams,  and  Some  aspects  of  the  higher 
spiritualism  she  touches  upon  mystical  themes 
and  the  concluding  essay  is  on  symbolism. 


"She  writes  in  an  intimate  and  charming 
style  on  subjects  of  literary,  biographical,  his- 
torical   and    spiritual    significance."    N.    H.    D. 

-f-   Boston    Transcript    p6   Ag   29    '23    1350w 

"There  appears  to  be  no  emphatic  reason  why 
her  essays  should  be  published  in  book  form 
over  here.  Her  style  is  undistinguished  and 
her  critical  acumen  concerning  literary  matters 
is  hardly  unusual  enough  to  be  weighed  heavi- 
ly  bv   other   people." 

—  NY   Times   pll   S   9   '23   500w 

"She  writes  carefully,  with  a  little  affecta- 
tion of  simplicity  which  rests  not  without 
charm  on  the  shoulders  of  a  pr6cieuse.  We 
prefer  Lady  Grey  in   her  simpler  moods." 

H Sat    R    135:256    F   24    '23    150w 

Spec  130:452  Mr  17  '23  200w 

"The  book  reads  pleasantly.  Lady  Grey  can 
talk  smoothly  and  easily  on  a  variety  of  sub- 
jects literary  and  otherwise,     but    there    is    no 


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particular  originality  of  thought  or  manner  In 
her  treatment  of  Joan  of  Arc,  for  mstance,  or 
Chaucer,    or    'The    Singing   of    Birds.'  " 

H Sprinflf'd   Republican  p6  O  1  '23  480w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p72  F  1 
'23    800w 

GREY,     ZANE.         Tappan's     burro,     and     other 
stories.      253p      il     $3     Harper 

"The  first  story  in  the  book,  and  the  one 
which  gives  its  title  to  the  volume,  is  the  tale 
of  a  prospector  and  his  dumb  but  very  dear 
friend.  Tappan,  pursued  by  the  gang  of  claim 
jumpers  who  wanted  to  rob  him  of  the  gold 
he  had  lately  found,  crossed  Death  Valley.  He 
crossed  it  at  the  worst  place  and  during  the 
worst  possible  season,  'when  the  day  heat  was 
unendurable  and  the  midnight  furnace  gales 
were  blowing.'  If  it  had  not  been  for  the 
faithful,  plucky,  sturdy  burro,  Jenet,  Tappan 
must  have  added  one  more  to  that  long 
list  of  victims  to  which  Death  Valley  owes 
its  sinister  name."  (N  Y  Times)  Contents: 
Tappan's  burro;  The  great  slave;  Yaqui;  Tigre; 
The   rubber  hunter. 


Boston   Transcript   p9   D    5   '23   450w 
"Reading   it    makes    one    feel    a    mild    kind    of 
surprise  that  this  should  be  Zane  Grey's  initial 
excursion    into    a    region    to    which    he    is    evi- 
dently so  much  better  adapted  than   to  that  of 
the  novel.      His  picturesque   settings,   the  feel- 
ing for  nature  which    does   so  much   to  redeem 
his  work,  are  decidedly  in  evidence." 
-f  N    Y   Times   p8   N   11   '23   660w 
"These    short     stories     are     among     the     best 
things    that    the     author     has     written.       They 
have  the   old  scenery   and  atmosphere,   and   the 
same  elements  of  passion  and  daring,  and  they 
have    an    added    compactness." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p773    N 
15   '23    80w 

GREY  Towers;  a  campus  novel.  286p  $2  Covici- 

McGee 

23-11823 

Joan  Burroughs,  an  alumnus  of  Grey  Towers, 
a  midwestern  university,  goes  back  to  her  alma 
mater  as  an  instructor  in  English.  The  story 
is  made  up  in  equal  parts  of  what  she  finds 
v.'ithin  the  walls  on  the  campus  and  of  the 
surrounding  social  atmosphere.  Whatever 
of  soul  the  college  had  in  her  student  days  is 
gone,  she  finds  only  a  dehumanized  machine,  a 
system,  to  which  the  students  are  mercilessly 
sacrificed.  She  is  criticized  for  bringing  a  per- 
sonal touch  into  her  work,  for  trying  to  in- 
terest students  in  their  studies,  for  becoming 
popular  with  them.  The  trustees  and  the  fac- 
ulty fixtures  are  afraid  of  progress  in  any 
form — radicalism,  free  speech,  initiative — only 
theories  and  facts  count.  The  social  life  of  the 
place,  on  the  other  hand,  is  hectic  with  the  af- 
fectation of  extreme  modernism.  The  boys  and 
girls,  and  the  younger  faculty,  talk  sex  freely 
and  live  up  to  their  theories  of  a  new  freedom. 
Joan   finds   that    they   sensationalize   sex. 


"  'Grey  Towers'  is  a  novel  that  is  well  con- 
structed   from    cheap    material." 

H Boston   Transcript  p6  D  22   '23   300w 

"It  demonstrates,  with  a  great  deal  of  ar- 
dour and  some  effectiveness,  that  universities 
are  controlled  by  human  beings  whose  weak- 
nesses are  not  altogether  academic.  This  has 
long  been  suspected,  and  doubtless  will  continue 
to  be  the  case  much  after  Grey  Towers  is  out 
of    print." 

h   Dial    75:399    O    '23    60w 

"She  presents  her  thesis,  loads  it  with  pen 
portraits  of  her  enemies,  and  fires  at  the  world 
by  way  of  Chicago.  And  to  be  scandalmonger, 
satirist,  cartoonist,  and  novelist  all  at  once  ex- 
ceeded her  powers.  Nevertheless,  this  is  a  good 
novel  for  the  educators  who  do  not  happen  to 
live  in  Chicago.  They  will  feel  the  sting  of  a 
tiny  arrow  of  truth  and  soothe  that  trifling  pain 
by  reflecting  that  the  story  which  causes  their 
discomfort      is      feverishly     conceived,     loosely 


written.  Intensely  personal,  and  absurdly  con- 
fident of  the  ease  of  doing  things  better  if 
only    you    want    to." 

H Lit    R  p923  Ag  25  '23  550w 

Nation   117:331  S  26  '23  80w 

"In  'Grey  Towers'  the  story  never  rises  above 
the  personal  grievances  of  this  author.  It  is 
not  even  a  large  and  venomous  spite  that  is 
vented,  but  only  a  schoolgirlish  discomfort. 
There  is  .nowhere  the  slightest  escape  of  the 
imagination.  The  heroine  calls  herself  a 
'rebel.'  Hers  is  that  facile  revolt  of  negation; 
she  takes  the  opposite  of  any  accepted  point  of 
view,  and  is  ruritan  among  the  Bohemians, 
liberal  among  the  straightlaced,  radical  among 
the  reactionaries  conservative  among  the  ex- 
tremists. 'Grey  Towers'  cannot  be  so  bad  as  a 
college  as  its  history  is  as  a  book." 
—  NY    Times   pl9    S   2   '23    660w 

"  'Grey  Towers'  reads  very  much  like  the 
work  of  an  able  upper-class  student,  or  more 
probably  a  recent  graduate,  with  a  still  fresh 
soreness  such  as  is  consistently  encountered  in 
students  of  certain  familiar  types,  and  with 
an  active  and  undisciplined  imagination  that 
is  forced  to  invent  somewhat  crudely  because 
its  owner  has  not  had  the  depth  of  experience 
and  the  breadth  of  observation  to  learn  the 
truth  about  the  life  she  or  he  is  trying  to  por- 
tray." 

h  Springf'd    Republican   p7a   S  16   '23   320w 

GRIFFIN,  SOLOMON  BULKLEY.  People  and 
politics;  observed  by  a  Massachusetts  editor. 
506p   $5   Little 

973.8  United  States— Politics  and  govern- 
ment. Springfield  Republican 
"Solomon  Bulkley  Grifl3n  joined  the  staff  of 
the  Springfield,  Mass.,  Republican  in  1872  and 
retired  from  the  ser\ice  of  the  paper  in  1919. 
For  about  forty  years  of  that  long  period  he 
was  managing  editor.  In  his  first  128  pages 
Mr.  Griffin  devotes  himself  to  matters  peculiarly 
relating  to  the  Republican,  its  associations  and 
development,  and  to  the  Bay  State  region 
which  was  immediately  served  by  the  paper. 
After  what  we  may  call  the  local  division  of 
our  book,  and  preceding  the  thirty  pages  of  the 
excellently  compiled  index,  there  are  358  pages 
of  'Glimpses  of  State  and  National  Politics.' 
Here  is  richness  which  student,  general  reader 
and  reviewer  ma.v  search  thru  with  certainty  of 
reward  in  remembered  fact,  recorded  anecdote 
and  sharply  preserved  impressions  of  living 
factors.  Mr.  Grifi^n's  first  Presidential  cam- 
paign with  the  Republican  was  that  of  1872. 
From  this  time  on  our  author  was  in  the 
harness  through  campaign  after  campaign,  up 
to  the  eve  of  the  1920  reaction.  And,  of  course, 
he  was  on  the  fighting  line  in  each  affair  of 
Bay  State  consequence." — N  Y  World 


"One  will  find  grounds  for  differing  with  Mr. 
Griffin  here  and  there,  but  his  book  is  upon  a 
high  level  and  it  is  a  long  time  since  another 
so  really  notable  a  contribution  has  been  made 
to  our  political  literature."  S:  W.  McCall 
-f  Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:481  Ag  '23  750w 
Booklist  20:7  O  '23 

"Mr.  Griffin's  wide  acquaintance  and  his  fine 
insight  enable  him  to  present  his  characters 
and  draw  his  conclusions  with  a  fairness  which 
lends  distinction  to  his  recollection  and  his  un- 
derlying   philosophy." 

-f   Bookm   57:656  Ag  '23  120w 
Ind  111:8  Jl  21   '23  2700w 

"The  chief  fault  we  have  wth  the  book  is  in 
a  sense  a  compliment  to  its  author.  Mr.  Grif- 
fin has  by  no  means  put  enough  of  himself  into 
it.  He  conceals  his  individuality  throughout 
the  greater  part  of  it.  His  book  would  be  more 
interesting  and  more  valuable  had  he  omitted 
a.  good  deal  of  history  which  can  be  found  in 
other  volumes  for  the  history  that  is  available 
nowhere  but  in  his  own  memory  and  his  own 
store  of  reflections."  Allan  Nevins 

-f   Lit   R  p676  My  12  '23  1650w 

"It  would  have  been  extremely  valuable  for 
students  of  journalism  if  Mr.  Griffin  had  omit- 
ted   some    of   his   recollections    of   local   political 


210 


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GRIFFIN,    S.    B. — Continued 

worthies  and  devoted  several  chapters  at  least 
to  a  longer  portrayal  of  the  inner  life  of  a 
great  newspaper."    O.   G.  Villard 

H Nation   117:356  O  3  '23  350w 

"All  is  set  down  without  bias  or  dogmatism 
or  acrimony;  and,  though  the  chief  interest  of 
the  book  necessarily  lies  in  the  immediate 
scenes  of  Mr.  Griffin's  labors,  it  should  find 
many  readers  glad  to  add  to  their  knowledge  or 
refresh  their  recollection  of  many  stirring 
events  in  the  past  half  century." 

+  N  Y  Times  p4  My  20  '23  2200w 
"Will  be  especially  valuable  to  students  of 
our  recent  politics,  and  to  all  who  have  lived 
through  the  period  described  the  whole  book 
will  be  found  delightfully  reminiscent  and  il- 
luminating." "W.   N.   Carleton 

+   N  Y   Tribune   p24   Je   24   '23   700w 
"The  book  is  a  permanently  valuable  contri- 
bution to  the   records  of  its  period."  E.  W.  O. 
+  N  Y  World  p9e  My  13  '23  900w 
R  of  Rs  67:670  Je  '23  200w 

GRIFFIS,  WILLIAM  ELLIOT.  Story  of  the 
Walloons,  at  home,  in  lands  of  exile  and  in 
America.    299p  il   $2  Houghton 

949.3     Walloons  23-13463 

The  history  of  the  settlers  of  New  Belgium, 
French-speaking  exiles  and  pilgrims  from  south- 
ern Belgium,  who  came  to  make  their  homes  in 
the  area  comprised  by  the  states  of  New  York, 
New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania  and  Delaware.  They 
made  their  first  settlements  along  the  Hudson 
and  Delaware  rivers  in  1624.  The  book  is  not 
merely  the  story  of  the  Walloons  in  America. 
It  follows  also  the  history  of  these  people  in 
Europe  and  traces  the  visions  and  motives  which 
led  them  to  America. 


Booklist  20:132  Ja  '24 
"If  this  were  merely  a  story  of  the  Walloons 
of  America,  we  should  likely  find  it,  due  to  a 
scarcity  of  material  or  to  a  similarity  with  the 
story  of  the  Pilgrims,  rather  uninteresting.  But 
it  is  much  more  than  that.  All  of  its  discus- 
sion, though  some  of  it  appears  rather  irrele- 
vant, compresses  important  historical  informa- 
tion into  small  compass,  enriches  our  concep- 
tion of  the  problem  of  ages  when  society  pre- 
sented conditions  difficult  to  imagine,  and  en- 
ables us  more  clearly  to  understand  the  heart 
promptings  which  led  to  American  settlement." 

■p         ip         XT 

-i-  —  Boston  Transcript  p4  O  31  '23  600w 
"In  America  [the  story  of  the  Walloons]  so 
merges  in  the  story  of  Dutch  and  Flemish, 
French  and  Swedish  immigrants  that  in  at- 
tempting to  tell  it  Mr.  Griffis  has  had  to  re- 
hearse at  every  step  the  tale  he  had  elsewhere 
told.  This  has  led  him  into  so  many  elisions 
and  so  many  unexplained  allusions  to  persons 
and  events  that  the  narrative  cannot  be  very 
clear  excepting  to  those  already  familiar  with 
its  main  features  and  the  less  clear  because  it 
lacks  continuity  in  the  telling."  Mrs.  Schuyler 
Van  Rensselaer 

h    Lit   R  p231  N  10  '23  900w 

R  of  Rs  68:558  N  '23  80w 

GRIMSHAW,      BEATRICE      ETHEL.      Nobody's 

island.      332p     $1.75      Doubleday 

23-9944 

A  most  unusual  series  of  complications  marks 
the  love  adventure  between  Edith  Cardillion, 
an  English  aristocrat,  and  Ben  Slade,  an  Aus- 
tralian adventurer.  First  Catholicism  and  di- 
vorce block  the  way  to  happiness  and  when 
Slade  thinks  himself  a  true  wido'wer,  Edith  has 
contracted  a  loveless  marriage  with  another 
man.  She  becomes  a  widow  but  under  cir- 
cumstances so  suspicious  as  to  necessitate 
flight.  Slade  helps  her  to  escape,  marries  her 
and  takes  her  to  his  lonely  island  in  the  South 
seas.  There,  in  time,  their  solitude  and  safety 
is  interrupted  by  strange  whites,  by  cannibals 
and  lastly  by  the  arm  of  English  Justice  in  the 
person  of  Captain  Campbell,  cousin  of  Edith's 
late  husband.  Even  that  shadow  clears  away  in 
time. 


"The  hero  is  one  of  those  men  who  are  men. 
The    story    does    well    enough    to   round    out    an 
idle   summer-hour."    R.    C.    Holliday 
Int  Bk  R  p60  O  '23  150w  ■ 
N    Y   Times  pl9  Je   3   '23  780w 
"The  plot   is   impossible   to  the  verge  of  silli- 
ness,   but    of   its    kind    the    book    is    quite    good. 
Not    remarkable,   but  enjoyable."   Isabel   Pater- 
son 

h   N    Y   Tribune  pl8  Je  17  '23   300w 

"Interesting,  but  lacks  some  of  the  dash  of 
her  earlier  novels.  Introduces  too  many  of  the 
influences  of  civilization  and  is  too  much  given 
to  the  quotation  of  sentimental  poetry  to  please 
readers  of  her  first  spirited  tales." 
[-  Wis   Lib    Bui    19:415   Jl  '23 

GRIN  NELL,  GEORGE  BIRD.  Cheyenne  Indians; 

their  history  and   ways  of  life.    2v  358;430p  11 

$10    Yale   univ.    press 

070.3     Cheyenne  Indians  23-17688 

Mr.  Grinuell's  first  meeting  with  the  Cheyenne 
Indians  was  hostile  and  it  was  not  till  their  wars 
were  over  that  he  learned  to  know  them. 
After  a  few  years'  acquaintance  they  began 
to  give  him  their  confidence  and  many  visits  to 
their  camps  have  enabled  him  to  penetrate  in- 
to their  secrets.  He  gives  an  account  of  their 
early  history  and  describes  in  great  detail  their 
life,  ways,  religious  beliefs  and  ceremonies, 
their  methods  of  child  training,  the  place  of 
women  among  them,  their  industries,  etc. 
There  are  many  and  excellent  illustrations  and 
an    index. 


"Mr.  Grinnell  has,  through  vast  industry,  col- 
lected and  put  into  excellent  form  much  valu- 
able information  concerning  this  vanishing 
people  who,  in  the  lapse  of  another  century, 
will  have  perished  or  become  absorbed  into  our 
civilization.  There  is  a  large  number  of  ad- 
mirable illustrations  from  photographs."  E.  J. 
C. 

-I-   Boston   Transcript  p3   D   29   '23  780w 

"The  value  of  such  a  work  as  Mr.  Grinnell 
has  produced  can  hardly  be  over  stated.  The 
Indians  are  a  vanishing  race,  and  the  remnant 
that  remains  is  rapidly  losing  the  traditions 
which  link  it  with  the  past.  It  is  highly  im- 
portant that  what  can  still  be  learned  about  the 
race  be  recorded  while  there  is  yet  time,  and 
this  can  be  done  through  the  patient  and  pains- 
taking labors  of  such  devoted  students  of  In- 
dian lore  as  George  Bird  Grinnell  and  a  few 
others   like   him." 

+   N    Y   Times   p5   Ja  13   '24   1800w 

GROSS,  IV1ARK  STANISLAUS.  To  the  dark 
tower;  being  Gerard  Linton's  account  of  all 
that  happened  at  the  house  of  Jacques  Cour- 
not  in  the  summer  of  nineteen  hundred  and 
seven.    356p    $1.75    Kenedy 

23-118 
"Gerard  Linton,  a  farmer  lad,  invades  the 
dark  forests  of  Iowa  in  search  of  an  uncle  he 
has  never  known.  He  immediately  finds  him- 
self plunged  into  a  hotbed  of  intrigue  and 
violence.  Championing  the  interests  of  his  fair 
cousin,  Domini,  he  joins  forces  against  her  evil 
suitor  and  a  crew  of  pirates  who  are  in  search 
of  a  treasure  reputed  to  be  hidden  in  the 
ancient  tower  of  Jacques  Cournot.  There  are 
the  usual  ado  about  the  chart,  the  secret  of  a 
demented  habitant  of  the  woods,  much  eaves- 
dropping by  Gerard,  and  action  enough  for  four 
dime    novels." — Lit    R 


"Every  person  who  is  young  at  heart  will 
follow  Gerard's  adventures  with  breathless  in- 
terest. For  there  is  about  them,  despite  the 
magic  plagiarism  of  lust  and  treasure  and 
murder,    a   freshness   which   makes   it   all    new.' 

-\ Boston   Transcript   p3  N  25   '22   580w 

Lit    R   p492   F  24   '23   150w 

"The  story  reminds  one  in  its  developments 
of  a  vivid,  long,  breathlessly,  exciting  dream 
on  a  wild  night,  except  that  it  is  coherent 
throughout  and  logically  advances  from  one 
development  to  the  next.  The  author  shows 
skill  in  drawing  the  reader  on  from  chapter  to 
chapter   bv   the    breathless    rush    of   his   event.s 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


211 


It  is  all  factitious  and  illusory,  without  any 
resemblance  to  anything  that  could  possibly 
happen,  but  it  makes  an  exciting  tale  of  ro- 
mantic adventure,  which,  evidently,  is  all  the 
author  meant   it    to   be." 

+   N    Y    Times   p8   N    28   '22    450w 

GROSZMANN,     MAXIMILIAN     PAUL    EUGEN. 
Parents'  manual.,  2v  v  1,  Child  problems,  men- 
tal and   moral:   v  2,   Child  problems   in  health 
and  illness.   342;244p  v  1   $2.50  v  2  $2  Century 
136.7      Children — Management    and    training. 
Children — Care  and  hygiene 
Dr   Groszmann's   book   comes   out   of   his   long 
experience  as  an  educator  and  close  observer  of 
children.     He  was  a  pioneer  worker  on  the  prob- 
lem of  the  exceptional  child  and  founder  of  the 
National   association    for    the    study   and   educa- 
tion   of    exceptional    children.        His    "Parents' 
manual"     follows     the     child     from     birth     thru 
adolescence  and  touches  helpfully  on  every  sort 
of   child    problem,    mental,    moral    and   physical. 
The   second   volume   is   given   to  matters   of  hy- 
giene, child  diseases  and  sex  education. 


bama,  by  Clement  Wood;  South  Dakota,  by 
Hayden  Carruth;  Oregon,  by  C:  H.  Chapman; 
Pennsylvania,  by  R.  W.  Kauffman;  Texas,  by 
G:  C.  Edward:  Arizona,  by  Mary  Austin;  Con- 
necticut, by  Don  C.  Seitz;  Arkansas,  by  C.  L. 
Edson;  Colorado,  by  E.   S.  Jones. 


Booklist  20:82  D  '23 
"Parents  will  find  Dr.  Groszmann  full  of  gentle 
wisdom,  sound  feeling,  and  a  ripe  sagacity.  Once 
he  is  on  the  subject  of  how  to  behave  with 
children,  to  say  nothing  of  how  to  watch  over 
their  health,   he  is  an  ideal  guide."     Ruth  Hale 

H Bookm   58:328   N   '23   400w 

Cleveland  p54  Jl  '23  (Review  of  v  1) 
"Parents  will  find  Mr.  Groszmann's  Manual  a 
very  great  illuminant  and  a  very  helpful  coun- 
selor. Perhaps  they  will  find  his  most  important 
assistance  to  be  in  the  fact  that  he  tells  them 
why  children,  at  any  special  age,  do  certain 
things,  shows  plainly  the  roots  of  conduct,  and 
of  misconduct,  in  the  nature  and  the  stage  of 
development  of  the  child,  and  so  makes  for 
understanding  on  the  part  of  the  parent.  It  is 
a  book  so  rich  in  lore  of  human  nature  and  of 
child  nature  at  all  ages  of  childhood  and  of 
adolescence,  so  full  of  wisdom  in  its  practical 
application  of  that  knowledge  to  specific  prob- 
lems, so  illuminating  for  the  whole  period  of 
childhood,  that  any  parent  or  any  one  who  has 
to  do  with  children,  will  find  in  it  the  greatest 
helpfulness." 

-I-  N  Y  Times  p21  My  13  '23  oOOw  (Review 
of  V  1) 
"One  would  be  hard  put  to  it  to  name  a 
problem,  mental  or  normal,  of  health  or  sick- 
ness, which  is  not  touched  on  in  the  Parents' 
Manuals  compiled  by  the  late  Dr.  Maximilian 
Groszmann.  The  parent  who  wishes  a  bird's 
eye  view  of  his  overpowering  domain,  illumined 
by  the  comments  and  anecdotes  of  a  pioneer  of 
education  during  the  last  quarter  century,  will 
find    it    here." 

+  Survey  51:supl96  N  1  '23  650w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:405    Jl    '23    (Review    of 
v   1) 

GRUENING,     ERNEST      HENRY,      ed.       These 
United    States.    388p    $3    Boni   &    Liveright 

917.3  United  States — Description  and  travel. 

United  States — Social  life  and  customs 

23-9417 
These  twenty-seven  essays  on  as  many  states 
of  the  Union  and  by  as  many  writers,  first  ap- 
peared as  a  series  in  the  Nation,  several  of 
them  in  somewhat  briefer  form.  There  is  no 
attempt  at  uniformity  of  treatment  in  the 
studies,  but  the  titles  are  often  suggestive  of 
the  method  of  approach:  Ward  of  a  feudal  fam- 
ily (Delaware);  A  Roman  conquest  (Massachu- 
setts); Slave  of  two  cities  (New  Jersey).  Con- 
tents: Kansas,  by  William  Allen  White;  Mary- 
land, by  H.  L.  Mencken;  Mississippi,  by  B.  A. 
Ratliff;  "Vermont,  by  Dorothy  Canfield  Fisher; 
New  Jersey,  by  Edmund  Wilson,  Jr.;  Utah,  by 
M.  E.  King;  South  Carolina,  by  Ludwig  Lewi- 
sohn;  Nevada,  by  Anne  Martin;  Ohio,  by  Sher- 
wood Anderson;  Maine,  by  Robert  Herrick; 
Delaware,  by  Arthur  Warner;  Tennessee,  by 
E.  E.  Miller;  California,  by  G:  P.  West;  Wis- 
consin, by  Zona  Gale:  Michigan,  by  L.  L.  Cline; 
T^iouisiana,  by  Basil  Thompson;  Iowa,  by  J.  J. 
Smertenko;    Massachusetts,    by   J:    Macy;    Ala- 


"The  picture  is  dark  and  bright  in  spots — 
more  dark  than  bright.  There  is,  furthermore, 
a  sombre  tone  given  to  the  whole  by  the  qual- 
ity of  modernity  and  sameness  which  over- 
spreads both  the  romance  of  the  past  and  the 
individuality  of  the  present.  One  cannot  read 
this  hook  without  reflecting  that  this  is  an 
amazingly  interesting  nation.  W'hat  we  seem  to 
lack  is  the  power  to  find  ourselves  interesting." 
R.    B.    Perry 

H Atlantic's    Bookshelf  Jl   '23    650w 

Booklist   19:314   Jl    '23 

Boston  Transcript  p3  Je  9  '23  ISOw 

"These  essay."  are  singularly  free  of  the  old 
evocations  of  local  pride.  They  emphasize, 
though  not  unduly,  those  differences  that  give 
color  and  fl.Tvor  to  the  Aineii<"an  comtuon- 
wealths;  hut  their  frankness  and  honesty  set 
them  apart."  Meredith  Nicholson 
+    Lit    R   p765   Je   IG   '23   1350w 

"  'These  United  States'  is  a  very  interesting 
V)Ook,  rising  at  times  into  eloquence,  always  in- 
formative, frequently  shrewd,  and  when  doc- 
trinaire, why  doctrinaire  in  a  way  which  is 
itself  illuminating!"  H:   S.   Canby 

+   Nation    116:751    Je    27    '23    940w 

"The  book  must  at  once  dishearten  and 
stimulate  the  sensitive  American;  and  it  there- 
fore has  an  importance  which  quite  outruns 
the  quality  of  even  the  best  contributions  to 
its   pages."    Bruce   Bliven 

H New    Repub    35:301    Ag   8   '23    1500w 

"On    the    whole    they    are    exceedingly    spon- 
taneous,   lively   and   sincere."      G.    L.    Harding 
+  N   Y  "Times   p3   Je   10   '23   2750w 

"Only  twenty-seven  states  are  dissected  in 
the  book.  The  almost  unanimous  report  is  that 
their  condition  is  Terrible  and  something  should 
be  done  about  it.  Taking  the  voices  of  the 
Protestants  one  by  one  there  are,  we  think,  too 
many  excited  tenors  and  not  enough  basses  with 
the  resonance  and  smoothness  of  William  Allen 
White.  Most  of  the  censure  the  book  contains 
seems  to  us  unprejudiced  and  without  malice 
or  pose."  F:  F.  Van  de  Water 

_| NY     Tribune    pl9     My    13    '23    1300w 

"Far  and  away  the  best  symposium  con- 
cerning the  nature  of  America  we  have  yet 
encountered."  Heywood  Broun 

+  N  Y  World  p6e  My  20  '23  600w 

"The  result  is  not  an  ideal  reference  book, 
but  there  is  some  compensation  for  the  loss  in 
the  enhanced  variety  and  divergent  viewpoints 
presented." 

-\ R  of  Rs  67:672  Je  '23  160w 

"This  volume,  full  of  bitter  and  angry  crit- 
icism, and  not  without  brave  and  wistful  pa- 
triotism, should  help  us  to  become  interested  in 
our    heritage."    J:    M.    Gaus 

+  Springf  d   Republican  p7a  O  28    23  650w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:159   Je   '23 

GRUM -GTRZHIMAILO,  VLADIMIR  EFIMO- 
VICH.  Flow  of  gases  in  furnaces:  with  ap- 
pendices upon  the  design  of  open-hearth  fur- 
naces; tr.  from  the  Russian  into  French  by 
Leon  Dlougotch  and  A.  Rothstein;  with  a 
preface  by  Henry  Le  Chatelier;  tr.  from  the 
French  by  A.  D.  Williams.  399p  il  $5.50 
Wiley       [27s    6d    Chapman    &    H.] 

621.18  Gases,  Flow  of.  Furnaces.  Metal- 
lurgy 22-25817 
"This  book  is  built  up  about  a  helpful  analogy 
which  regards  the  flow  of  hot  gases  in  furnaces 
as  resembling  inverted  streams  of  fluid,  flowing 
along  the  tops  of  furnaces  and  flues,  over  in- 
verted weirs,  and  exerting  quite  appreciable 
pressures  as  their  height  increases.  .  .  The  de- 
velopment of  the  analogy,  the  presentation  and 
use  of  the  formulas,  for  the  flow  of  hot  gases 
over  inverted  weirs,  and  the  application  of 
these  principles  to  the  design  of  reverberatory 


212 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


GRUM-GRZHIMAILD,    V.    E. — Continued 
furnaces    and    kilns    of    various    types,    are    the 
most    valuable    portions    of   the    book.       (Indus- 
trial and  Engin  Chem,  1923)"  Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:416    O    "23 

GUEDALLA,    PHILIP.     Masters  and   men.    171p 

il   $2.50   Putnam   [7s  6d  Constable] 

824  23-14230 

A  collection  of  essays  on  law,  letters  and  his- 
tory, iiighly  spiced  and  abounding  in  parody 
and  epigram.  Mr  Guedalla  plays  in  and  out 
among  statesmen  and  men  of  letters,  arch- 
bishops and  deans,  Fabians  and  literary  critics. 
He  takes  a  fling  at  barristers  and  the  absurdi- 
ties of  the  law,  at  Col  Repington,  Max  Beer- 
bohm.  Professor  Saintsbury,  G.  K.  Chesterton, 
and  the   "Gloomy  dean." 


"The  humor,  swift,  penetrating,  memorable, 
with  which  ^Ir.  Guedalla  unfolds  each  of  his 
subjects  before  us  is  something  to  make  him 
i-emenibered  as  long  as  we  shall  read  books." 
D.   L.   M. 

-f   Boston  Transcript  p4  D  12  '23  820w 

Reviewed   by  H:   L.   Stuart 

Freeman    8:237   N   14   '23   2000w 

"  'Masters    and    Men'    is    rather    scrappy,    but 
the    scraps   are    scraps    of   velvet." 
+  Ind   111:285  D  8  '23  250w 

New    Repub    31:211    Ja    16    '24    140w 

"It  is  in  parody  that  Mr.  Guedalla  really  ex- 
cels; and  when  he  fails,  which  is  not  very  often, 
it  is  when  a  multiplicity  of  styles  impedes  the 
flow  of  his  more  ambitious  sentences  and  pro- 
duces a  kind  of  block  in  the  traffic;  when  a 
verbal  felicity  gets  locked  up  with  a  recondite 
historical  allusion,  and  the  Juggernaut  of  Belloc 
bellows  to  the  neat  hansom  of  Mr.  Beerbohm 
to  take  up  a  little  less  room  on  the  road.  Mr. 
Guedalla  usually  succeeds  in  wearing  his  weight 
of  learning  lightly  like  a  flower;  but  at  times 
his  nosegay  is  a  large  one,  perhaps  a  little 
too  large  for  a  gentleman's  buttonhole.  Heavily 
gemmed,  brilliant  with  pastiche,  and  heavy 
with  the  embroidery  of  erudition,  he  staggers 
now  and  then  like  an  alderman  under  the 
weisht   of  his   massive   garments." 

+  —  New   Statesman    21:574   Ag  25   '23    850w 

"He  draws  pictures  of  various  contemporaries 
that  are  sometimes  amusing  and  keen  and 
sometimes  overlarded  and  boresome.  An  un- 
pleasant note  of  insolence  inevitably  creeps 
into  his  work.  Mr.  Guedalla  is  altogether  too 
brilliant  to  be  a  good  writer."  H.  S.  Gorman 
h   N   Y  Times   p7   N  4  '23   600w 

"Mr.  Guedalla's  chief  deficit  is  in  the  absence 
of  a  point  of  view.  He  has  the  literary  gestures 
and  mannerisms  of  stage  aristocrats  and  vague 
proletarian  sympathies.  He  is  clever,  but  it  is 
a  cleverness  not  anchored  by  cultural  disci- 
pline and  sound  judgment.  And  he  laughs  too 
loud  at  his  own  jokes."  Burton  Rascoe 
h   N   Y   Tribune  pl7   O  7  '23   1350w 

"We  frankly  admit  that  while  we  did  not 
think  Mr.  Guedalla's  essays  very  good,  we 
thoroughly  enjoyed  them.  Who  would  not?  If 
he  says  many  nothings  he  says  them  amusingly. 
If  he  'exposes  popular  errors'  for  errors  only 
less  popular,  he  does  it  brilliantly.  •  And  his 
epigrams  are  (nearly  always)  beyond  reproach." 
H Sat    R   135:807  Je  16  '23   650w 

"Mr.  Guedalla  is  so  obviously  a  master  of  the 
medium  in  which  he  has  chosen  to  write,  he 
moves  so  easily  among  cunning  and  witty  anti- 
theses, and  he  is  so  shrewd  in  his  judgments 
when  he  is  really  interested,  that  we  hesitate 
to  say  that  in  these  essays  he  has  not  found 
himself.  Yet  in  our  opinion  he  has  not.  .  . 
The  essays  are  brilliant  little  efforts  in  persi- 
flage. There  would  be  no  fault  to  find  with 
them  if  an  unvarying  standard  were  observed. 
But  here  and  there  we  find  an  essay  which 
is  at  odds  with  the  general  mood.  This  is  the 
technical  defect  of  the  book.  But  the  neatness 
and  audacity  with  which  he  puts  things  are 
delightful." 

H Spec   131:195   Ag  11   '23   550w 

"The  sophisticated  reader  will  find  in  this 
well-illustrated     and     well-printed     book     more 


entertainment  than  in  the  average  modern  novel, 
and  the  chances  are  that  he  will  thenceforward 
have  an  eye  out  for  anything  literary  that  Mr 
Guedalla  may  turn  his  hand  to.  He  is  a  Lytton 
Strachey,  with  a  little  less  malice,  but  with 
quite  as  effective  an  irony,  and  perhaps  even 
greater  facility  of  expression." 

4-  Springf'd  Republican  p6  D  31  '23  680w 
"Mr.  Guedalla  can  be  relied  upon  to  be  very 
entertaining  at  the  expense  of  every  one,  aJ- 
though  in  this  book  he  chooses  his  victims  on 
rather  orthodox  lines.  So  highly  spiced,  how- 
ever, are  his  dishes  that  only  by  a  discreet  in- 
dulgence can  we  preserve  ourselves  from  indi- 
gestion." 

-{ The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p486    Jl 

19  '23  300w 

GUERARD,  ALBERT  LEON,  Short  history  of 
the  international  language  movement.  268p 
$4     Boni   &   Liveright    [21s  Unwin] 

408.9     Language,    Universal  [22-13041] 

In  his  account  of  the  international  language 
movement  Professor  Gu^rard  studies  the  ad- 
vantages of  French,  English,  Latin,  and  an 
Anglo-French  condominium  as  a  universal  lan- 
guage and  discusses  the  various  artificial  lan- 
guages which  have  been  proposed — Volapuk, 
Esperanto,  Ido,  etc.  His  own  position  is  that 
the  most  feasible  project  is  an  international 
auxiliary  language  analogous  to  stenography, 
i.e.,  a  special  tool  for  special  purposes  which 
has  no  more  bearing  on  the  use  and  spread  of 
existing  national  languages  than  stenography 
has  had  on  printing  and  longhand.  Appendices 
provide  bibliographical  notes,  a  list  of  artificial 
language  projects  and  a  critical  comparison  of 
Esperanto,  Ido,  Interlingua  and  Romanal. 
Index. 


"Had  Professor  Gu6rard  tried  to  show  that  an 
international  language  is  unfeasible,  he  would 
not  have  been  so  convincing:  for  he  would  have 
been  more  embarrassed — embarrassed  with  the 
wealth  of  argument.  As  it  is,  he  has  just  gone 
on  pleading  the  cause  of  a  world  language  for 
268  pages,  and  the  further  he  goes  the  more 
clearly  he  disproves  his  pet  point.  But  it  is  an 
exceedingly   interesting   book;    and    it    is    sug- 

ETGStiVG  *' 

H '-  Bookm    57:347    My    '23    220w 

"His  plea  for  the  international  language  is 
well  and  convincingly  presented  in  this  very 
practical  book." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p2  Je  16  '23  320w 

Reviewed  bv  L:  Mumford 

Freeman   7:167   Ap  25  '23   1600w 
Freeman   7:430  Jl  11  '23  350w 
"An    entertaining    volume.      The    author    has 
more    sense    of    proportion,     and    not    so    much 
humorless   zeal   as    most   of   the    writers   on    the 
topic."     E.   L.    Pearson 

+   Ind  110:162  Mr  3  '23   220w 
"Professor    Gu6rard    writes    with    persuasive 
eloquence  and  wit." 

-I-   Nation  and  Ath  31:350  Je  3  '22  350w 
New   Statesman   19:132  My  6   '22  250w 
N    Y   Times  p2  Ap  8  '23   650w 
"Professor    Gu^rard    writes    with    moderation 
and    common    sense,    and    does    not    appear    to 
have  any  special  axe  of  his  own  to  grind." 
+  Sat    R    133:371    Ap    8   '22    850w 
"An     interesting    book,     enlivened    here    and 
there   with  flashes   of  humour." 

+  Spec   128:467   Ap   15   '22    1200w 

Springf'd    Republican   p8  Ag  9  '23  700w 
"Sound    and    entertaining    review    of    the    in- 
ternational    language     movement."      G.     S. 
-I-   Survey   50:supl91   My   1   '23   400w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  pl98  Mr 
23  '22  250w 

GUERNON,  CHARLES.     Titans.  306p  $2  Duffleld 

23-4360 

"The  scene  appears  to  be  laid  among  the 
islands  at  the  mouth  of  the  St.  Lawrence,  and 
the  personnel  of  the  story  are  simple  fishmg 
folk  of  the  New  World.  Primitive,  dominant, 
self-sufficient,   the  hero.   John  Strong,  thus  puts 


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his  creed  into  words — 'I  leave  nothin'  to  God; 
I  take  care  of  myself."  Strong  for  the  first  part 
of  the  story,  makes  good  his  boast,  regard- 
less of  the  suffering  which  his  appropriation 
of  all  for  which  he  cares  may  cause  to  others. 
Success,  money,  a  wife,  position  among  his  own 
people,  he  wins  or  takes,  as  to  him  seenas  good. 
Even  the  one  character  in  the  volume  who  at- 
tempts to  stand  before  him — a  woman  whose 
temperament  resembles  his  own,  but  whose  will 
is  subordinate  to  his — while  embittered,  is  con- 
quered by  his  strength  and  egotism.  And  when 
the  denouement  comes  and  the  overweening  of 
the  hero  has  brought  its  own  reward,  the 
dramatis  personae  stand  out  as  real  characters, 
lovable  and  unlovable  alike." — Lit  R 


Booklist  19:318  Jl  '23 
Cleveland  p39  My  '23 
"It  seems  unbelievable  that  'Titans'  has  been 
executed  in  the  year  1922,  for  it  is  as  wordy  and 
efflorescent  as  any  Victorian  novel  at  its  worst. 
It  at  least  makes  an  attempt  to  solve  the 
problem  of  man  and  his  relations  with  Fate. 
There  is  a  suggestion  of  the  melancholy  of  the 
sea  in  his  book  that  reminds  one  of  Pierre  Loti's 
'Iceland  Fisherman,'  but  there  is  no  freshness  of 
figure,  no  originality  of  conception." 

1-   Int    Bk   R   p57   Ap  '23   310w 

"A  remarkably  well  written  and  powerful 
novel  with  an  unusual  theme  and  new  local 
color." 

+   Lit   R  p555   Mr  24  '23  300w 
"  'Titans'   has   little  philosophical  questioning, 
the    characters    being   heavily    drawn    and    ele- 
mental." 

—  Sprlngf'd     Republican    p7a    My    6    '23 
600w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p773  N  15 
'23  180w 

GULL,  CYRIL  ARTHUR  EDWARD  RANGER 
(GUY  THORNE,  pseud.).  Cinema  city.  290p 
$1.75  Harcourt 

23-5950 

Cinema  city  is  supposed  to  be  a  kingdom  of 
its  own  within  London,  ruled  over  by  the  great- 
est film  producer  in  the  world,  one  Alexander 
Georgins,  a  genius  of  sorts  to  whom  crime  and 
murder  are  no  obstacles  in  the  accomplishment 
of  his  ends.  This  marvelous  city,  with  its 
secrecies  and  magical  contrivances  forms  the 
descriptive  part  of  the  story  while  the  dramatic 
part  consists  of  the  hunting  down  of  Georgins 
and  his  helpers  by  the  persons  interested  in  the 
rescue  of  a  brother  and  sister  who  have  been 
abducted  by  him  with  murderous  intent. 
Reason  for  the  crime  is  the  discovery  that  the 
two  are  sole  heirs  not  only  to  Cinema  city  but 
to  a  chain  of  similar  concerns  in  America.  The 
boy's  murder  has  been  contrived  to  secure  an 
expression  of  ecstatic  martyrdom  for  a  film. 
Hair-raising  adventures,  reckless  daring  and  the 
most  astute  impromptu  detective  work  are  some 
of  the  features. 


"Here  is  a  fantastic  fourth-rate  mystery  ro- 
mance, abominably  written  by  a  contempor- 
ary shadow  of  a  shadow  of  the  good  Baron  Mun- 
chausen. .  .  But  it  is  too  fantastic — or,  rather, 
it  is  too  poorly  written,  to  bear  up  under  its 
overload  of  the  fantastic." 

—  Lit  R  p634  Ap  21  '23  220w 
"The  author,  in  the  intoxicating  fervor  of 
pouring  out  from  his  mind  so  many  wonders  and 
marvels  and  mysteries,  forgets  all  about  the 
realities  of  life.  .  .  The  story  is  written  in  a 
deplorably  slipshod  style  and  is  as  full  of 
grammatical  errors  as  it  is  of  marvels." 

—  NY    Times    pl6    Mr   25    '23    450w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  29  '23  120w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p749    N 
16    "22    150w 

GUNN,  JOHN  ALEXANDER.  Modern  French 
philosophy;  a  study  of  development  since 
Comte.     3.58p  $5   Dodd   [21s   F.   Unwin] 

194       Philosophy,    French  [23-6356] 

"Mr.    Gunn's   starting-point   is    the  year  1851; 

his  book    is   a  very  thorough  survey  of  French 

philosophical    thought    from    Comte    and    up    to 

Bergson     and     Boutroux.       M.     Bergson     in     an 


appreciative  introductory  note  lays  stress  on 
the  importance  of  the  period,  saying  that  it  was 
that  in  which  most  of  our  present  philosophical 
ideas  were  elaborated,  and  certainly  Mr.  Gunn's 
pages  are  full  of  matter.  The  chief  names  are 
those  of  Renan,  Taine,  Cournot,  Renouvier, 
Ravaisson,  Guyau,  Fonill^e,  Bergson;  all  of  them 
identified  with  certain  essential  problems  defined 
by  Mr.  Gunn  as  Science,  Liberty,  Progress,  Mo- 
rality and  Religion.  These  give  the  titles  of 
the  various  sections  of  the  book,  and  under 
them  the  thought  of  each  philosopher  is  ex- 
posed and  examined  in  turn." — New  Statesman 


"A  praiseworthy  effort  is  here  inade,  with 
sixty  or  more  great  names,  Comte  leading  a 
list  which  closes  with  Bergson,  to  estimate  the 
debt  we  owe  to  French  philosophers  of  the 
century  just  past."   E.  N. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p4  F  21  '23   1050w 
Cleveland   p54  Jl   '23 

"His  work  is  careful  and  accurate,  and  full 
of  enthusiasm  for  the  movement  he  is  describ- 
ing— the  movement  away  from  materialism  and 
determinism  towards  spiritualism  and  free 
will.  It  would  be  difficult  to  find  anything  to 
criticize  in  Dr  Gunn's  work,  given  his  very 
humanistic  interpretation  of  philosophy." 
Bertrand  "Russell 

+   Dial  74:91  Ja  '23  1500w 

"Dr.  Gunn's  analysis  is  throughout  extremely 
lucid,  well  informed,  and  interesting."  J.  E. 
Turner 

+  J   Philos  20:669  N  22  '23  620w 

Reviewed   by  C.   E.    Ayres 

New   Repub  35:184  Jl  11   '23  2400w 

"Mr.  Gunn's  book  is  an  excellent  example  of 
a  student's  thesis;  the  reader  has,  however, 
sometimes  the  impression  of  a  surfeit,  a  result 
perhaps  of  Mr.  Gunn's  form  of  exposition  under 
which  he  is  unable  to  dispose  of  any  one  of 
his  philosophers  until  he  has  disposed  of  them 
all." 

H New  Statesman  20:550  F  10  '23  350w 

"There  is,  so  far  as  the  present  reviewer 
knows,  no  other  book  in  any  language  that  has 
precisely  this  scope.  That  the  present  book  will 
be  useful  as  well  as  unique  cannot  be  doubted. 
.  .  .  In  view  of  the  present  awakening  of  in- 
terest both  among  students  of  philosophy  and 
on  the  part  of  the  general  public  in  contempor- 
ary French  thought  and  culture,  Dr.  Gunn's 
clear  and  comprehensive  survey  is  therefore 
sure  to  find  many  grateful  readers."  R.  B. 
Perry 

+  N   Y  Times  pl5  Je  3  '23  1600w 

"The  author,  showing  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  his  subject  and  writing  in  a  style  easy,  sim- 
ple, clear  and  direct,  traces  accurately,  sys- 
tematically, comprehensively  and  attractively 
the  course  of  French  philosophic  thought  from 
1851   to  1921."    W:   R.   Shields 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p29  Ap  8  '23  700w 
St    Louis  21:96  My  '23 
Sat  R  134:721  N  11  '22  480w 

"Hitherto  there  has  been  no  book,  M.  Bergson 
remarks  in  his  preface  to  Dr.  J.  Alexander 
Gunn's  study  of  Modern  French  Philosophy, 
dealing  with  French  philosophy  during  the 
period  from  1851  to  the  present  time — the 
period,  that  is,  since  Comte.  For  this  reason, 
and  for  the  reason  that  it  is  extremely  well  ex- 
ecuted. Dr.  Gunn's  book  is  a  very  welcome 
contribution  to  philosophical  literature." 
+  Spec  129:697  N  11  '22  600w 

"The  method  which  Dr.  Gunn  follows  of  divid- 
ing the  history,  not  chronologically,  nor  yet 
biographically,  but  under  five  heads  of  special 
philosophical  departments  has  distinct  disad- 
vantages but  it  has  also  notable  advantages. 
One  disadvantage  is  that  it  divides  a  phi- 
losopher's work  into  aspects,  and  another  is 
that  it  involves  a  good  deal  of  repetition.  On 
the  other  hand  it  has  the  great  advantage  that 
in  sacrificing  the  unity  of  the  individual  It 
brings  vividly  before  us  the  imiversal  features 
and  tendencies  of  the  individual  philosopher's 
age." 

H The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p719  N  9 

'22  1600W 


214 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


GWATKIN  WILLIAMS,     RUPERT     STANLEY. 

Prisoners  of  the  Red  desert;  being  a  full  and 
true  history  of  the  men  of  the  "Tara";  with 
an  introd.  by  the  Duke  of  Westminster.  348p 
il    $2.50    Dutton    [5s    Butterworth] 

940.48     European     war,      1914-1919 — Personal 
narratives.     Senoussi.     Libyan  desert 

23-8057 

In  the  late  autumn  of  1915  when  the  British 
position  in  Egypt  was  seriously  threatened,  H. 
M.  S.  "Tara"  was  ordered  to  proceed  to  Alex- 
andria, to  patrol  the  coast  and  to  call  daily  at 
Solium,  where  a  small  British  garrison  was  sta- 
tioned. On  November  5,  the  "Tara"  was  tor- 
pedoed by  the  Germans.  The  survivors  were 
landed  on  the  North  African  coast  and  placed 
under  guard  of  the  wild  Senoussi.  The  book 
is  a  nanative  of  their  four  months  of  captivity 
In  the  Libyan  desert,  of  the  terrible  hardships 
they  suffered  and  of  their  final  rescue  by  an 
armored  car  brigade  led  by  the  Duke  of  West- 
minster. 


"It  is  not  so  good  a  book  as  'Beasts,  Men 
and  Gods'  by  a  long,  long  way;  but  it  has 
something  of  the  same  quality,  the  Defoe  quali- 
ty, the  absolute  impression  of  true  narrative 
through  the  amassing  of  great  detail.  Captain 
Gwatkin -Williams,  of  the  British  Navy,  is  oc- 
casionally exceedingly  childlike  in  his  style.  At 
other  times,  he  writes  with  a  fair  amount  of 
vividness." 

H Bookm    57:546   Jl   '23    300w 

"The  story  is  simply  but  vividly  told.  It 
proves  to  be  one  of  the  most  exciting  stories 
of  the  war." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  23  '23  280w 

"There  is  nothing  more  important  in  writing 
a  book  than  having  something  to  say.  Captain 
Williams  has  a  great  deal  to  say — he  is  eager 
and  determined  to  say  it — and  that  alone  makes 
his  book  of  interest." 

-f-    N    Y   Tribune    p25    S   9   '23   400w 

"Capt.  Gwatkin -Williams's  account  is  clearly 
and   soberly  written." 

+    N    Y   World  pile  Ap  15   '23   350w 


H 


HAAS,  JOHN  AUGUSTUS  WILLIAM.  Freedom 
and  Christian  conduct;  an  ethic.  318p  $2.25 
Macmillan 

171     Ethics.     Free  will  and  determinism 

23-3848 
The  book  is  intended  to  serve  as  a  textbook 
for  students  in  ethics.  The  author  takes  the 
position  that  freedoin  is  the  great  problem  of 
ethics  and  makes  it  his  way  of  approach  to  a 
system  of  ethics.  The  emphasis  thruout  is 
placed  on   the  Christian  point   of  view. 


J   Religion  3:335  My  '23  30w 
"A  delightfully  dull  and  equally  comprehensive 
exegesis." 

N    Y   Times   plO   Ap   15   '23    880w 
"An     earnest,     but    very     general     survey     of 
fundamental    ethical    principles." 

4-  Sprlngf'd     Republican     plO    Ap     24     '23 
250w 

HADLEY,      ARTHUR      TWINING.       Economic 
problems  of  democracy.     162p     $1.50     Macmil- 
lan 
330.4     Democracy.     United  States — Economic 
conditions  23-4281 

These  six  lectures  by  the  president-emeritus 
of  Yale  university  were  given  at  British  uni- 
versities in  1922  under  the  foundation  of  the  Sir 
George  Watson  chair  of  American  history,  lit- 
terature  and  institutions.  Contents:  Democ- 
racies old  and  new:  Economic  freedom;  Indus- 
trial combination;  Collective  bargaining  in  poli- 
tics; National  animosity;  Class  consciousness 
and   puhlc   opinion. 


"President  Hadley's  studies  of  the  working 
of  modern  democracy  are  marked  by  that  ripe 
and  rare  wisdom  which  comes  from  the  under- 
standing of  life  as  well  as  theory.  He  sees  the 
problems  of  economic  freedom,  industrial  and 
political  combination,  class  consciousness  and 
its  effects,  as  essentially  dynamic;  and  the  fact 
renders  his  treatment  of  economic  institutions 
as  stimulating  as  his  reading  of  history."  W: 
Orton 

+  Am    Econ    R   13:524  S   '23   400w 
"One   must   look   far   to  find   two   hours    read- 
ing  more    likely    to    clarify    the   political    think- 
ing    of      the      average,      intelligent — but      often 
mentally  careless^ — American."     V:    S.*  Clark 
-f-  Atlantic's   Bookshelf  S  '23  550w 
Booklist   19:300   Jl  '23 
Boston    Transcript   p2    Je    2    '23    700w 
Cleveland  p45  Je  '23 

"There  is  some  good  stuff  in  this  little  vol- 
ume. His  own  ideals  will  not  gain  entire  ac- 
ceptance from  a  '100  per  cent.  American'  or 
from  a  100  per  cent. — or  even  a  50  per  cent. — 
Socialist.  But  he  is  a  shrewd  and  broad-minded 
critic,  and  he  will  carry  every  intelligent  reader 
a   long  way  with  him." 

-f-  New  Statesman   20:732  Mr  24  '23  360w 
"Dr.  Hadley's  volume  is  graceful,  incisive  and 
undogmatic."     M.   F.  Egan 

+   N   Y  Times  p4  Ap  22  '23  1200w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:223   My   '23 
Spec   131:261   Ag   25   '23    220w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl68   Mr 
15   '23    900 w 


HAECKEL,  ERNST  HEINRICH  PHILIPP 
AUGUST.  Story  of  the  development  of  a 
youth;  letters  to  his  parents,  1852-1856;  tr. 
by   G.    Barry  Clifford.    420p   $3   Harper 

B  or  92  23-1008» 

These  letters,  written  during  Haeckel's  stu- 
dent years,  are  translated  as  literally  as  pos- 
sible and — in  the  introduction  by  Heinrich 
Schmidt — are  said  to  be  "among  the  most 
precious  in  the  whole  of  epistolary  literature." 
They  take  the  form  of  a  diary  and  are  the 
story  of  the  development,  not  only  of  an  en- 
thusiastic scientist,  but  of  a  human  soul. 


Booklist   20:18  O   '23 

"This  collection  of  home  loving  and  life  lov- 
ing letters— however  dull  and  conventional  in 
many  of  their  details  and  points  of  view — de- 
mands a  welcome  as  one  of  the  most  significant 
documents  of  youth  ever  made  widely  accessible 
to  young  manhood." 

+   Bookm   58:216  O   "23  130w 

Boston    Transcript   p6   Jl   18   '23    750w 

Reviewed  bv  R.  H.   Lowie 

Freeman   8:164   O   24    '23    1500w 

"In  range  of  ideas  and  experience,  in  variety 
and  richness  of  expression,  many  collections  of 
letters  are  superior  to  these  though  few  equal 
them  in  candor,  in  depth  of  feeling,  and  in  the 
completeness  with  which  the  heart  is  'shaken 
out.'  "      C.    M.    Smertenko 

H Nation  117:527  N  7  '23  1050w 

"Throughout  he  displays  affectionate  rever- 
ence, a  simple  candor  and  rather  solemn  hu- 
mor. If  we  cannot  fully  subscribe  to  the  opin- 
ion of  the  editor  of  the  German  edition  that 
'the  youthful  letters  of  Ernst  Haeckel  are 
among  the  most  precious  in  the  whole  of  epis- 
tolary literature,'  we  must  agree  that  the  theme 
of  parents  and  children  has  never  been  more 
beautifully  and  lovingly  treated."  R.  M.  Lovett 
+   New  Repub  35:210  Jl  18  '23  720w 

"They  were  not  intended  for  the  judicial 
appraisement  of  the  sophisticated.  In  the  in- 
timacy of  correspondence  with  his  parents  he 
was  his  real  self.  Candor  bursts  from  almost 
every  sentence.  Intellect  marks  the  letters, 
and  power,  and  aspiration.  No  burden  of 
world    leadership    in    any    school    of    philosophy 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


215 


rested    upon    his    shoulders.      He    threaded    no 

maze    of    hypotheses    based    upon    microscopic 

studies    of    animals    and    plants."      A.    S.    Will 

N  Y  Times  pi  Jl  15  '23  2450w 

Springf'd    Republican    plO   N   7   '23   150w 

HAGGARD,  ANDREW  CHARLES  PARKER. 

Victor    Hugo;    his    work    and    love.    288p    il    $6 

Doran   [16s  Hutchinson] 

B   or   92     Hugo,    Victor   Marie,    comte 

[23-11697] 

The  Dook  is  chiefly  given  to  an  account  of 
the  grand  passion  of  Victor  Hugo  and  Juliette 
Drouet  which  lasted  undimned  for  fifty  years — ■ 
a  relation  of  unbounded  loyalty  and  devotion  on 
Juliette's  part,  but  more  than  once  interrupted, 
on  Hugo's,  by  other  brief  love  adventures.  Con- 
siderable space  is  given  to  analyses  of  the 
novelist's  works,  "Les  mis6rables,"  "Notre 
Dame  de  Paris,"  "Les  travailleurs  de  la  mer," 
and  "L'homme  qui  rit."  His  political  experi- 
ences are  also  tieated  with  some  fullness. 


"The  book  is  absorbing  reading,  not  only  be- 
cause of  the  lure  of  Hugo  himself,  but  because 
Colonel  Haggard  adheres  to  plain,  unostenta- 
tious diction  that  is  almost  conversational.  His 
is  a  carefree,  easy  style  that  lends  itself  admir- 
ably to  the  subject.  Not  too  scholarly  for  the 
uninformed,  and  sufficiently  accurate  to  be  of 
service    to    the    student." 

+   Bookm  58:338  N  '23  140w 

Boston  Transcript  p3  O  27  '23  520w 

"It  is  obvious  that  a  certain  type  of  culture- 
sprinter  can  be  immensely  benefited  by  Colonel 
Haggard's  method;  it  is  for  him  that  books  like 
Colonel  Haggard's  are  written,  and  it  would  be 
idle  to  find  fault  with  them  on  the  ground  that 
they  are  not  criticism."     C.  W. 

—  Freeman  8:215  N  7  '23  450w 

"Victor  Hugo's  work,  need  it  be  said,  is  in- 
teresting; but  his  love  affairs  were  not.  The 
chief  of  his  'loves  was  Juliette  Drouet,  to  whom 
his  relation  was  creditable  and  persistent  rather 
than  interesting.  The  object  of  the  author  is 
to  make  a  pretty  sentimental  tale  out  of  a  very 
unusually  persistent  irregular  alliance.  The  lit- 
erary criticism  is  sensible,  but  negligible." 

—  New  Statesman   21:28  Ap   14  '23   IGOw 
Reviewed  by  C:  W.  Thompson 

N   Y  Times  p5  N  18  '23  1450w 
"This  history  of  Juliette  has  been  poorly  writ- 
ten,   but    it    remains    continuously    fascinating." 
Bruce  Gould 

h   N    Y    Tribune    p20   D    2    '23   950w 

"This  is  a  curious  volume,  written  quite  as 
heedlessly  as  Hugo  himself  so  often  worked. 
It  wanders  far  and  wide,  mixing  politics,  exile 
and  love  affairs  in  a  fantastic  jumble." 
N  Y  World  p6e  O  28  '23  350w 
"Clearly  written  well-ordered.  In  an  easy  style 
which   disarms   perplexity." 

+  Sat   R  136:247  S  1  '23  950w 

HAGGARD,    SIR     HENRY     RIDER.       Wisdom's 

daughter.    383p   $1.75   Doubleday 

23-7283 

"An  impossible,  fantastic,  horrible  tale  of 
colossal  vanity  and  pride,  of  jealousy  and  pas- 
sion, of  treachery  and  murder,  of  the  downfall 
of  kin^s  and  the  overthrow  of  empires.  It  tells 
of  how  a  high  priestess  to  the  goddess  Isis 
fell  in  love  with  a  Greek,  priest  to  the  same 
goddess;  of  how,  breaking  all  her  vows,  she 
embraced  the  King  of  Fire,  thereby  gaining 
eternal  youth,  beauty  and  life;  of  how,  in 
her  wrath  she  slew  the  Greek  because  he  reject- 
ed her  love;  and  how  for  two  thousand  years  she 
still  waited  for  him  to  come  in  another  incar- 
nation. It  is  the  third  and  the  author  promises 
the  last  in  the  series,  the  first  two  volumes  of 
which    are    'She'    and    'Ayesha.'  " — Cleveland 


"Like  the  author's  former  works  'Wisdom's 
Daughter'  is  designed  wholly  as  a  source  of  en- 
tertainment, and  as  such  it  is  successful.  It 
may  be  remarked  however,  that  the  style  is  a 
trifle  too  pompous  and  artificial  even  for  a 
fantastic  theme." 

+  —  Lit   R  p667  My  5  '23  220w 
"For  those  who  wish  to  while  away  an  hour 
or  two  this  is  a  blood  stirring  romance,  handled 
by    an    accomplished    story-teller." 

+  N   y  Times  pll  Mr  18  '23  1150w 
Reviewed  by  Isabel  Paterson 

N   Y  Tribune  p20  Ap  22  '23  500w 
Springf'd     Republican     p7a    Ap     15     '23 
650w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   pl78   Mr 
15    '23   600w 


HAINES,     DONAL    HAIVIILTON.     Sky-line    inn. 

296p      $2      Houghton 

23-7986 

"ThSophile  Gelas  is  an  ex-soldier  of  the 
French  Army.  The  war  over,  he  became  an 
innkeeper,  and  the  circumstances  of  a  varying 
fortune  brought  him  to  the  High  Sierras  of 
Central  California.  Here  he  found  a  wayside 
inn,  admirably  suited  to  his  taste,  but  off  the 
main  road,  and  unpromisingly  bare  of  guests. 
Being  an  optimistic  philosopher  as  well  as  a 
culinary  genius,  Theophile  sets  about  the  mak- 
ing of  his  fortune  with  a  confidence  hardly  justi- 
fied by  circumstances.  Guests  of  a  most  un- 
expected sort  arrive  at  the  inn,  the  Frenchman 
is  involved  in  the  web  of  their  affairs  (which 
include  a  prize-fight,  an  adventure  in  goat-herd- 
ing, and  a  thwarted  elopement),  and  emerges 
triumphant,  not  only  assured  of  the  prosperity 
of  his  house,  but  of  the  happiness  of  the  guests. 
The  narrative  of  the  eventful  summer  forms  the 
story  of   'Sky-Line   Inn.'  " — Publisher's  note 


Booklist   19:252   My   '23 
Cleveland  p42  Je  '23 
Reviewed   by  L.   M.   Field 

Int   Bk    R   pl8   My   '23   300w 


"Those  readers  reasonable  enough  to  desire 
not  a  thousand  nights  entertainment  but  one 
evening's,  are  hereby  advised  to  gain  posses- 
sion of  this  novel  and  enjoy  themselves  for  the 
space  of  its   reading." 

+   Boston    Transcript   p4   My   9   '23    750w 

Cleveland  p68  S  '23 
"Mr.   Haines   writes  as  well  as  most  journal- 
ists,  and  with  most  journalists  makes  much  of 
Uttle." 

—  Lit  R  p792  Je  23  "23  310w 
"Mr.    Haines    has    concocted    his    tale    sheerly 
for   entertainment,    and   he    is   entirely   success- 
ful." 

-1-  N    Y  Times  p22  Ap  29  '23   470w 
"Plenty  of  entertainment  and  many  odd   hap- 
penings   in    this    lively    and    whimsical    book." 
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Spec  131:1036  D  29  '23  lOOw 
"Mr.    Haines    can    write    deftly    and    however 
preposterous  his  personages  may  appear  to  us; 
he  knows  them  thoroughly,  and  can  make  plaus- 
ible and  amusing  scenes  out  of  the  interplay  of 
their  specialities." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p692    O 
18   '23   300w 
Wis  Lib   Bui   19:160  Je  *23 


HALBERT,    LEROY    ALLEN.       WTiat    is    pro- 
>    fessional  social  work?  149p  $1.50  Survey 

361    Social    work  23-8837 

"Mr.  Halbert  is  a  social  executive  of  some 
twenty  years'  experience.  A  rather  unique  and 
helpful  thing  about  Mr.  Halbert's  book  is  a 
chart,  neatly  pocketed  inside  the  back  cover, 
detailing  the  processes  of  social  work.  Here  is 
clearly  outlined  before  the  observer  the  various 
^phases  in  social  work  as  applied  to:  Society 
as  a  Whole;  The  Family:  Medicine;  Busmess; 
Education;  Government;  Agencies  for  Religious 
and  Social  Life;  Fine  Arts.  These  are  in  paral- 
lel columns  and  each  of  these  divisions  treated 
under  three  headings— I.  Case  Work;  II.  Group 
Work;  III.  Organization  Work." — Ann  Am  Acad 


216 


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H ALBERT,    L.   A. — Continued 

"The    book    is    written    in    plain    and    simple 
terms  and   with  a  view   of   being  as   helpful  as 
possible  to  the  average   man  or  woman  as  well 
as  to  social  workers  themselves."  S.  C.  Kingsley 
4-  Ann   Am   Acad   110:226  N   '23   500w 
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Cleveland    p70    S   '23 
"Mr.    Halbert    has    tackled    a    hard    job    that 
needed  to  be  done.  It  is  no  light  task  to  answer 
the  question  "What  is  Professional  Social  Work? 
The    little    book    which    he    has    produced,    and 
which   has   already   found  its  way   to   many   so- 
cial workers'   bookshelves,    is  an  interesting  at- 
tempt  at  an   answer.   It  is,    of  course,   far  from 
a   final   answer."    G.    S. 

H ■  Survey  51:414  Ja  15   '24   650w 

HALE,  MRS  BEATRICE  (FORBES-ROBERT- 
SON). What's  wrong  with  our  girls?  159p  $1.50 
Stokes 

173    Girls  23-3609 

The  author  takes  a  sympathetic  and  clear- 
eved  look  at  the  young  girl  of  today,  at  the 
conditions  and  environment  that  have  made 
her  what  she  is  and  at  some  of  the  faults  in 
her  which  the  older  generation  most  criticises. 
She  also  suggests  some  points  of  training  which 
might  be  bettered  by  cooperation  between  par- 
ents,   teachers    and    communities. 


confines  of  over-enthusiasm  of  moon,  stars  and 
flowers.  The  title  poem,  'The  Dancer  In  the 
Shrine,'  won  the  yearly  prize  of  the  Poetry  So- 
ciety for  the  best  poem  read  at  any  of  its 
meetings." — Boston    Transcript 


"Not  only  goes  down  to  basic  principles  in 
her  analysis  but  makes  practical  suggestions 
for    bettering    conditions." 

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Cleveland   p55  Jl  '23 
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"Common-sense   reflections   on  the   much   dis- 
cussed   flapper,    whom    Mrs.    Hale    finds    over- 
sophisticated    and    frivolous." 

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HALE,   KATHERINE,    pseud.     See    Garvin,     A. 
B. 

HALL,   ALBERT    NEELY.      Home-made   games 
and  game  equipment.   394p   $2.50   Lothrop 

79u     Games  23-7044 

FVactically  every  kind  of  game,  both  indoor 
and  outdoor,  played  with  equipment,  is  here 
represented.  The  book  tells  how  to  make  the 
equipment,  using,  as  far  as  possible,  material 
picked  up  at  home.  Rules  of  the  game  are  also 
supplied. 

"A  good  up-to-date  book  that  gives  simple, 
sufHcientlv  detailed  directions." 
+  Booklist  19:323  Jl  '23 
"Not  only  the  playing,  but  the  making  of  the 
equipment  of  the  eames  is  studied.  The  lat- 
ter, in  the  most  practical  and  economical  of 
ways,  so  that  there  is  no  excuse  for  any  handy 
boy  or  girl  to  be  without  any  game  especially 
desired.  Most  of  the  games  are  instructive, 
and  all  the  work  of  making  them.  They  cover 
practically  every  type  of  game  played  with 
equipment." 

-f   Boston   Transcript      p5   S   1   '23   260w 
Reviewed  by  M.   G.   Boimer 

+   Int   Bk    R   p34   Ag  '23   30w 
Lit  R  p900  Ag  11  '23  300w 

Reviewed  bv  Everett  McNeil 

N   Y  Tribune  p20  N  11   '23  lOOw 

HALL,   AMANDA    BENJAMIN.     Dancer  in   the 
shrine,   and  other  poems.   106p  $1.50  Doran 

811  23-10168 

"In  her  first  book  of  poems  Miss  Hall  shows 
a  personality  in  love  with  the  out-of-doors: 
more  than  that — she  fairly  worships  nature. 
But  she  has  set  for  her  poems  a  field  of  en- 
deavor rather  limited.  "To  be  sure,  several 
poems  are  written  in  a  lighter  vein,  comic 
compositions  splendidly  done,  but  her  thoughts 
seem  seldom  to  be  able  to  escape  these  certain 


"There  is  a  good  deal  of  pleasant — and  some 
very  excellent — reading  in  'The  Dancer  in  the 
Shrine.'  There  is  robust  good  sense  in  many 
of  the  poems,  which  make  the  more  surprising 
a  note  of  religious  sentimentality  that  is  heard 
now  and  again  in  the  book."  D:  Morton 
H Bookm  58:76  S   '23  150w 

"Reading  'The  Dancer  in  the  Shrine  and 
Other  Poems,'  we  appreciate  how  alluring  a 
place  Lyric-I..and  really  is,  but  nevertheless  we 
appreciate  also  that  its  music  can  be  played 
too   incessantly." 

H Boston    Transcript   p3   Jl   14   '23   340w 

"There  is  a  wide  variety  of  verse  here,  all  of 
it  ."Showing  the  exquisite  care  of  the  poet  who 
never  forgets  that  the  real  poet  is  invincibly 
an  artist."     J.  J.  R. 

+  Cath   World   118:137  O  '23   280w 

"Miss  Amanda  Hall   seems   likely  to   turn   out 
some  very  good  work  when  she  shall  have  lived 
long    enough    to    lose     some    of    her    self-con- 
sciousness."    J:   v.   A.    Weaver 
H Int   Bk    R   p38  O  '23   240w 

"Her  mood  is  frequently  that  of  the  Victorian 
or  the  late  eighteenth  century  Romanticist,  yet 
her  manner  is  streaked  and  colored  with  the 
influence  of  the  twentieth  century  innovator. 
She  displays  imagination  and  a  definite  lyrical 
talent,  aided  by  a  moderate  gift  of  technique; 
and  when  she  has  come  to  purge  her  work  of 
an  occasional  crudity  of  phraseology  she  may 
easily  take  her  place  among  our  leading  women 
poets."     S.  A.   Coblentz 

H Lit  R  pl28  O  13  '23  500w 

"Miss  Hall  has  not  only  a  pretty,  sophisti- 
cated faculty  in  the  choice  of  words,  but  as  a 
relief  to  the  wistfulness  of  parting  and  rustic 
tragedy  can  weave  them  into  charming  non- 
sense."     H:    L.    Stuart 

-f  N   Y  Times  pl2  Jl  8  '23  5S0w 

"This  is  a  first  book  of  poems  by  a  writer  who 
has  become  known,  through  the  magazines,  as 
a  maker  of  pleasant  verses.  The  book  rein- 
forces that  reputation,  shows  certain  more  pro- 
nounced qualities  of  excellence,  and  reveals 
certain  tendencies  that  constantly  menace  the 
dignity  and  effectiveness  of  the  work." 
+  Outlook   135:150   S   26    '23    220w 

"Has  an  unusual  theme,  the  melody  is  ex- 
quisite and  the  whole  atmosphere  is  a  rich 
blend  of  frolic  and  reverence,  of  joy  in  life  and 
happy  workship." 

+  Springf'd    Republican  p5a  S  23  '23  220w 

HALL,  GRANVILLE  STANLEY.  Life  and  con- 
fessions of  a  psychologist.  622p  il  $5  Apple- 
ton 

B  or  92  23-10862 

"Dr  Hall  surveys  his  long  life,  telling  of  his 
childhood  on  a  New  England  farm,  of  his  activi- 
ties in  the  advancement  of  psychology,  of  his 
contacts  with  interesting  and  famous  men,  of  his 
personal  experiences  viewed  in  the  light  of  his 
science.  His  life  story  is  that  of  a  man  born 
and  raised  on  a  farm  who  studied  both  in  this 
country  and  abroad,  who  served  as  professor 
in  a  small  western  college,  then  at  Harvard, 
then  during  important  years  did  pioneer  work 
in  psychology  at  Johns  Hopkins,  and  for  31 
years  directed  Clark  university,  of  which  he 
was  president." — Springf'd  Republican 

"One's  own  zest  for  life  is  tremendously  whet- 
ted by  the  book,  which  is  perhaps  the  best  of 
purposes  to  write  for."  C:  E.  Park 

-f  Atlantic's    Bookshelf  O   '23   650w 
Booklist    20:54   N   '23 

"The  storv  is  an  interesting  one,  and  aside 
from  the  personality  of  Dr.  Hall,  whose  pur- 
pose it  is  to  reveal  that  he  may  better  under- 
stand himself,  it  throws  light  upon  the  road 
that  education  has  traveled  in  this  country  the 


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217 


past  third  of  a  century,  a  light  that  is  neither 
so  illuminating  nor  dazzling  as  he  seems  to 
think  it  is."   Joseph  Collins 

•  H Bookm    58:206    O    '23    1700w 

"By  far  the  most  remarkable  autobiography, 
in  its  appeal  to  readers  both  lay  and  expert. 
.  .  A  more  unique  self-revelation  has  perhaps 
never  before  been  given  to  the  world."  Edmund 
Noble 

+   Boston   Transcript  p3  Ag  4  '23  2850w 
Reviewed  by   R.   M.   Lovett 

New  Repub  36:286  N  7  '23  500w 
N  Y  Times  pl6  S  9  '23  2250w 
"An  autobiography  in  the  latest,  or  rather 
in  the  future  manner,  a  self-analysis  by  an  ex- 
pert psychologist.  "rhe  book  is  written  for 
everybody  and  is  perfectly  intelligible  and 
meaningful  for  every  one."  Will  Cuppy 

-j NY   Tribune  pl7  Ag  5  '23   1850w 

N   Y   World  p7e  Ag  19  '23  450w 
St    Louis   p343   D   '23 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  120w 
"It  is  true  that  throughout  this  book  there 
are  words,  phrases  and  paragraphs  with  which 
critical  readers  will  disagree.  Some  will  see  only 
the  defects,  as  they  have  seen  only  the  defects 
in  the  author's  earlier  works.  But  above  and 
beyond  all  minor  matters  stands  clear  this  one 
fact:  that,  here  in  this  Life  and  Confessions 
of  a  Psychologist,  America  has  achieved  a  more 
critical  self-consciousness  about  psychology  and 
education  than  can  be  found  in  any  other  single 
statement — a  critical  outlook  which  is  of  the 
essence  of  the  need  of  our  democracy."  J.  K.  H. 

H Survey    51:supl81    N    1    '23    2300w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p573    Ag 
30  '23  20w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:507  D  '23 

HALL,   HAZEL.     Walkers.  94p  $1.50  Dodd 

811  23-7943 

The  poet  listens  to  the  feet  of  passers-by  for 

what   they   have   to   tell  her  of  their  souls,    "to 

hear  the  truth  your  feet  speak  to  the  ground." 


"Genuine,    individual,    and   very   lovely." 
+   Bookm    57:652   Ag   '23    150w 

"Here  are  approximately  ninety  poems,  and 
in  not  one  of  them  can  I  find  a  novel  idea  or  a 
memorable  expression.  It  is  all  a  series  of  im- 
pressions of  symbolic  walking — the  same  old 
thing  over  and  over."     J:   V.   A.   Weaver 

—  Int  Bk  R  p38  O  '23  400w 

"This,  Miss  Hall's  second  book  of  poems,  is 
greatly  marred  by  poor  selection.  The  collec- 
tion is  an  odd  assortment  of  the  thoughtful, 
the  mediocre,  and  the  banal.  The  author's 
mind  is  passionless.  It  reminds  one  of  slow 
water." 

—  Lit  R  p836  Jl  14  '23  300w 

"Hazel  Hall  is  not  one  of  the  pathetic  futile 
ones,    but    an    authentic    singer.      Her    lyrics    in 
'Walkers'     have    moondust    and     road    dust    in 
them,    flame   and  cool   leaves."     Rex  Hunter 
f  N    Y  Tribune  p28  My  13  '23  30w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:411   Jl   '23 


HALL,      SAMUEL      ROLAND.        Handbook      of 

business   correspondence.    1048p   il   $5   McGraw 

652    Commercial    correspondence  23-6127 

"A    reference    work    covering    the    principles 

and     practice     of    letter    writing     for     business 

purposes." — Subtitle 


'Not  only  the  most  complete  compendium  of 
information  about  business  letter  writing  but 
also  one  of  the  most  thorough  pieces  of  work 
on  this  subject  that  the  reviewer  has  seen  dur- 
ing the  12  or  so  years  that  he  has  specialized  in 
this  field.  Practically  no  detail  regarding  the 
preparation  and  writing  of  business  letters  has 
escaped."    E:    J.   Kilduff 

+   Management  &  Adm  6:243  Ag  '23  1200w 
Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui  28:361  Jl  '23 


HALL,     TROWBRIDGE.     Spain     in     silhouette. 

351p    il    $3    Macmillan 

914.6    Spain— Description    and    travel    23-9503 

The  book  is  an  enthusiastic  description  of  a 
trip  which  circled  Spain,  leading  the  author 
iroia  ban  Sebasti&n  on  the  north,  thru  Sar- 
gossa  and  Montserrat,  to  Barcelona,  then  south 
thru  Valencia  to  Carthagena,  westward  to 
Granada,  Cordova  and  Seville,  then  zigzagging 
northward  thru  Madrid,  Segovia,  Salamanca, 
Valladolid  and  Burgos  to  Orviedo  and  back 
again  to  his  starting  point. 


Booklist  20:52  N  '23 

Boston  Transcript  p2  Ag  25  '23  300w 
"It  is  a  succession  of  pictures  of  Spain  full 
of  life  and  color,  animated  and  vivid,  historical 
Spain  and  the  Spain  of  today  alternating  be- 
fore the  reader's  eyes,  the  procession  of  them 
moving  rapidly." 

+   N   Y   Times  p23  Je   17  '23   650w 
N   Y  World   p7e  N   11  '23  60w 
"In  flowing  style  the  author  describes,  muses 
over,   and  expa.tiates  upon  the  glories  of  Spain. 
Familiar  and  unfamiliar  chapters  of  her  history 
are   presented   with   enthusiasm   and  piquancy." 
+  Outlook  134:676  Ag  29  '23  60w 
R    of    Rs   68:223   Ag   '23   30w 
"Unless  one  has  been  having  too  much  book- 
travel    in    Spain,    he    is    entirely    safe    in    taking 
home    'Spain    in    Silhouette.'      The    illustrations 
are  good,  but  it  is  Mr  Hall's  racy  depiction  that 
will    entertain    him.       It    will    even    give    him, 
in    a    few   places,    hints   of   the   new   Spain    that 
is    emerging,    not   always    peacefully,    to    depose 
the  old  Spain  which  so  long  has  withstood  the 
modern    spirit." 

-h  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ag  5  '23  250w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:413   Jl   '23 

HALLECK,  REUBEN  POST.  History  of  our 
country;  for  higher  grades.  543p  il  $1.60  Am. 
bk. 

973   United  States— History  23-5611 

"Mr.  Halleck  has  infused  interest  into  his 
story  not  only  by  means  of  numerous  well 
chosen  pictures  but  particularly  by  striving  for 
concreteness.  'Colonial  household  industries' 
is  a  bjind  phrase  to  boys  and  girls  and  to  a 
good  nfiany  men  and  women,  for  that  matter. 
In  order  to  make  it  and  equivalent  phrases 
more  than  mere  words,  Mr.  Halleck  tells  how 
Nancy  Peabody  supplied  her  brother  with  a 
pair  of  new  mittens  in  twenty-four  hours 
after  he  had  lost  his  old  ones.  The  story, 
which  is  brought  down  to  the  Washington  Con- 
ference, includes  an  account  of  literary,  scien- 
tific, and  social  progress  as  well  as  of  politi- 
cal  and   industrial   activity." — Lit  R 


"He  has 'written  an  honest  text  book,  and 
has  not  sought  to  plant  in  young  minds  and 
hearts  hatred  and  rancour.  It  is  a  fine  and 
honest  thing  to  do." 

+   Boston   Transcript   p6   S   5   '23   320w 
"This   little    volume   affords    a   good,    substan- 
tial survey  of  the  development  of  the  American 
nation.     It   is  not   sectional,   racial,   or  narrow." 
-h  Oath   World    117:862  S  '23  200w 
Lit   R   p820  Jl   7   '23   120w 

HALLSTROM,  PER  AUGUST  LEONARD.  Se- 
lected short  stories;  tr.  from  the  Swedish  by 
F.  J.  Fielden.  (Scandinavian  classics)  293p 
$2  Am. -Scandinavian  foundation  [lis  Milford] 

23-6140 
"These  ten  tales  by  Sweden's  great  master 
of  the  short  story  have  been  selected  with  the 
author's  advice  from  various  volumes  of  his 
production.  The  scenes  of  some  are  laid  in  his 
native  valleys  and  deal  with  simple,  homely 
people  who  lead  drab  lives  of  self-repression. 
Others  have  the  exotic  background  of  Sicily  or 
Granada.  One  deals  with  the  silent,  pathetic 
heroism  of  the  French  Revolution.  One  paints 
a  'stray  bird.'  an  immigrant  nobleman  dining 
on    a   Philadelphia    kitchen    door-step.     All '  are 


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HALLSTROM,    P.    A.    L. — Continued 
alike   in   their  restrained   emotional  quality   and 
their  sympathy  with  everything  human." — Pub- 
lisher's note 


Booklist  20:101  D  '23 

"The  translator,  in  selecting  the  stories,  has 
largely  chosen  tales  with  a  Swedish  setting 
that  give  one  a  breath  from  Hallstrom's 
wonderful  surroundings  in  nature,  for  he  con- 
veys it  in  words  with  a  masterhand.  But  he 
is  at  home  in  many  fields;  and  in  A  Secret 
Idyll,  a  charmingly  pathetic  tale  of  the  French 
Revolution,  one  recognizes  the  romantic  coun- 
tryman of  Count  Axel  Fersen.  The  American- 
Scandinavian  Foundation  has  put  us  under  new 
obligations  by  making  this  verse  and  prose  ac- 
cessible to  American  readers."  J:  Koren 
+   Nation  117:197  Ag  22  '23  250w 

"It  is  an  excellent  service  to  provide  such 
fine  specimens  of  his  work  in  English  as  those 
of  this  volume.  The  stories  that  make  up  this 
volume  are  distinguished  by  the  fact  that  Hall- 
strom  himself  selected  them  as  most  widely 
representative  of  his  work." 

-f   N    Y    Herald    My   13   '23    540w 

"There  are  ten  stories  in  the  volume,  stories 
of  very  considerable  diversity,  and  each,  so  far 
as  can  be  judged  through  the  medium  of  a 
translation,  very  well  written.  They  are  all 
interesting,  and  the  many  who  are  unable  to 
read  them  in  the  original  have  reason  to  feel 
grateful  to  F.  J.  Fielden." 

-i-  N   Y  Times  pl7  My  13  '23  850w 

HALMAN,    DORIS   F.     Set  the   stage   for  eight. 

194p   $1.50   Little 

812  23-5006 

Eight  one-act  plays  suitable  for  amateur 
pi'esentation.  Two  of  them  have  been  given  in 
Professor  Baker's  47  workshop.  Contents:  Lady 
Anne;  Santa  Claus;  The  playroom;  Famine  and 
the  ghost;  The  difficult  border;  The  closet;  The 
dog;    Will-o'-the    wisp. 


"If  one  is  to  judge  by  the  facility  with  which 
she  arranges  her  grouping  and  her  lighting 
effects.  Miss  Halman  would  be  a  much  more 
successful  stage  director  than  she  is  a  play- 
wright. But  the  pieces  in  themselves  are  of 
no  great   consequence." 

-I Lit    R   p522   Mr   10  '23   260w 

"Miss  Halman's  work  may  be  in  miniature, 
but  within  its  narrow  compass  it  is  close  to 
perfect.  She  has  an  unerring  instinct  for  the 
dramatic  moment,  and  she  extracts  the  utmost 
from   it."    F.   A.    Hutchison 

+   N    Y    Times    p9    Mr    14   '23    280w 

Reviewed  by  R.  \V.  Bruick 

N    Y   Tribune   p21   Ag  5   "23   800w 

"These  plays  are  decidedly  actable,  with  un- 
usually clever  dialog  and  much  poetic  feeling, 
affording  parts  for  both  grown-ups  "and  chil- 
dren." 

-|-   Springf  d   Republican  p7a  Jl  29  '23  200w 

HAMILTON,    COSMO.      Another    scandal.     320p 

$2     Little 

23-12708 

The  story  of  the  married  life  of  Beatrix  and 
Pelham  Franklin,  begun  in  "Scandal."  (Book 
Review  Digest.  1917)  Just  before  the  birth  of 
Franklin,  Junior,  Beatrix  suggested  that  Frank- 
lin take  a  trip  on  his  yacht.  Now,  altho  the 
suggestion  came  from  Beatrix,  and  altho 
Franklin  acquiesced  under  protest.  Beatrix  did 
not  quite  forgive  him  for  going.  With  him  on 
the  trip  were  Malcolm  Frazer,  his  best  friend; 
Mrs  MacKenzie,  his  cousin;  and  Mrs  Beamish, 
a  protege  of  Mrs  MacKenzie.  Mrs  Beamish,  soon 
to  become  "wee  friend  May"  was  decidedly  of 
the  vamp  type.  When  the  yachting  trip  was 
over  she  decided,  since  she  was  tired  of  her 
English  aviator  husband,  to  trap  the  wealthy 
Franklin.  Her  plans  were  all  laid,  but  she 
counted  without  Beatrix  who,  altho  she  waa 
piqued  at  Fianklin,  still  loved  him.  On  the 
night  of  Mr.s  Beamish's  well  planned  stroke, 
when  .she  finally  had  Franklin   in  a  compromis- 


ing position  and  the  paid  officers  were  knocking 
at  the  apartment  door,  Beatrix  came  in  by  way 
of  a  neighboring  fire  escape  and  foiled  her  plot. 

"Once,  in  a  bit  of  characterization  of  the 
reckless  Greenwood,  Mr.  Hamilton  almost  falls 
into  literature  but  tor  the  most  pait  he  suc- 
ceeds in  being  'popular'  without  being  openly 
vulgar,  while  cari'ying  on  what,  to  borrow  one 
of  his  often-used  phrases,  we  may  call  'the 
rattle  of  sex.'  ''     S.   1.,.  C. 

+     —  Boston    Transcript   p4    S    26    '23    llOOw 
Int  Bk  R  pl56  Ja  '24  350w 
Lit   R  p264  N  17  '23  330w 
"  'Another   Scandal'    is  a   very    clever   piece   of 
work.   Not  that  it  is  theoretically  or  artistically 
clever.     Far  from   it!   As  a  literary  masterpiece 
it    is    a    cross    between    a    Sunday    World    word 
puzzle   and    the    intricacies   of   Mah    Jong   to   the 
blessed   uninitiated.     Neveitheless,    the  tout  en- 
semble is  daringly  clever."     Ruth  Snyder 
+   N   Y   World   p7e  S  16  '23   lOSOw 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  O  14   '23  300w 

"In    handling    this    rather    thin    material    Mr. 

Cosmo  Hamilton  shows  he  has  lost  none  of  that 

intimate  knowledge  of  feminine  ways  and  wiles 

which  we  have  learnt  to  expect  of  him." 

H The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    pG92    O 

18   '23   200w 

HAMILTON,     LORD     ERNEST    WILLIAM.    Old 

^    days  and  new.  360p  ?4  Doran 

B  or  92  England — Social  life  and  customs 

23-16305 
The  first  chapters  of  Lord  Ernest  Hamilton's 
reminiscences  deal  with  two  of  his  great  grand- 
parents, Jane,  duchess  of  Gordon,  and  John 
James,  marquis  of  Abercorn,  in  the  days  of  the 
regency.  Then  come  glimpses  of  the  manners 
ot  mid-Victorian  days,  which  are  compared  with 
those  of  today.  There  are  memories  of  Harrow 
School  and  Eaton  Hall,  of  mountaineering,  of 
salmon  fishing  in  Norway,  tales  of  Kensington 
Barracks  and  recollections  of  operas  and  plays. 


"These  family  details  and  a  great  variety  of 
oddments  are  offered  by  Sir  Ernest  with  the 
full  knowledge  that  they  are  not  a  turning  point 
or  a  new  era  in  anything,  but  are  nevertheless 
good  fun.  Most  of  his  highly  amusing  essays 
have  genuine  historical  interest  as  well  in  re- 
spect to  many  sides  of  Victorian  society."  W.  C. 
4-  N    Y    Tribune    pl9    N    25    '23    250w 

The  Times  f-onclonl   Lit  Sup  p707  O  25 
'23   780w 

HAMILTON,  WALTON  HALE,  and  MAY, 
STACY.  Control  of  wages.  (Workers'  book- 
shelf)  185p  $1.50  Doran 

331.2      Wages  23-9303 

The  question  with  which  this  closely  analyzed 
and  at  the  same  time,  most  readable  study  is 
concerned  is  whether  the  life  of  the  wage-earner 
must  be  dominated  by  his  wages  or  whether  he 
can  bring  his  wage  under  control.  Having  ex- 
amined the  factors  and  values  which  are  the 
.sources  of  wages  and  proved  that  these  sources 
are  subject  to  control,  the  book  advises  workers 
about  where  to  look  for  wage  increases  and  how 
to  set  about  the  task.  Emphasis  is  laid  thruout 
on  the  importance  of  patient  exhaustive  research 
and  intelligent  attention  to  the  sources.  The 
concluding  chapter,  A  note  on  the  annals  of 
wages,  is  a  commentary  on  the  literature  of 
wages. 


"As  an  introductory  survey  of  the  factors 
affecting  wage  rates,  this  is  a  good  piece  of 
work.  The  book  is  written  in  a  very  readable 
style  which  trespasses  at  times  on  the  facetious. 
Not  the  least  attractive  feature  of  the  volume 
is  the  use  of  pertinent  quotations  from  Mr. 
Dooley  to  head  the  chapters."  D.  A.  McC. 
4-  Am    Ecom   R   13:703   D   '23   210w 

"The  great  <-ontrihution  is  in  the  approach  to 
the  problem  and  the  methods  employed.  Per- 
hans  no  better  piece  of  theoretical  work  m  the 
field  of  economics  has  been  done  by  any  Ameri- 
can writer." 

+  Am  J   Soc  29:240  S   '23   140w 


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Booklist   20:41   N  '23 
Cleveland  p70  S  '23 
"One    of    the    most   valuable    chapters    is    that 
on   the   annals   of   wages.     It   is   a   key   to   com- 
prehensive  study."     Clark   Kinnaird 

+  Detroit  News  pl2  Ag  12  '23  240w 
"The  authors  of  this  volume  have  attempted 
pioneer  work.  They  do  not  paint  Utopias;  they 
have  not  prepared  a  patent  medicine  for  the 
settlement  of  wage  rates.  But,  in  a  comparative- 
ly few  pages,  they  present  certain  very  sane 
suggestions  as  to  general  methods  of  controlling 
wage  rates."   F.   T.  Carlton 

+  Management  &  Adm  6:642  N  '23  950w 
"An  extraordinarily  suggestive  little  book  for 
the  express  purpose  of  pointing  out  to  the 
unions  possible  sources  of  future  wage  in- 
creases and  possible  methods  of  realizing  such 
increases.  This  is  a  new  sort  of  wage  theory. 
Old -school  economists  will  probably  denounce 
it  as  no  theory  at  all,  but  thoughtful  workers 
are  likely  to  declare  it  not  only  more  interest- 
ing, but  vastly  more  useful  to  them,  than  the 
older  speculations.  .  .  Its  whole  purpose  is  di- 
rectly and  eminently  practical — which  is  to  say 
that  it  has  the  first  requisite  of  good  theory." 
H:    R.    Mussey 

+  Nation    117:493   O   31    "23    900w 
"The  book   is   written   primarily   for  working- 
class    readers.    It   is   worth    everybody's   reading, 
if    for    nothing    else,    for    the    demonstration    it 
gives  unconsciously  that  classical  economics  is. 
after  all',   a  pretty   fair  interpretation   of  an  in- 
dividualistic   economic    system."    Alvin    Johnson 
+   New  Repub  36:106   S  19  '23  llOOw 
Reviewed   by   J:    Corbin 

N    Y    Times    pl3    Je    19    '23    2200w 
Survey   51:supl87    N   1   '23   550w 

HAMLIN,  ALFRED  DWIGHT  FOSTER.  History 
'    of   ornament;    v   2,   Renaissance   and   modern. 

521p  il  $5  Century 

729     Architecture — Details.     Decoration    and 
ornament 

A  companion  volume  to  the  author's  "History 
of  ornament,  ancient  and  medieval"  covering 
the  period  from  the  fifteenth  to  the  twentieth 
century.  It  sketches  the  general  historic  move- 
ment of  the  arts  of  decoration,  and  the  evolu- 
tion and  succession  of  the  various  styles.  Tho 
architecture  is  still  treated  as  the  first  of  the 
decorative  arts,  a  larger  proportion  of  space 
is  allowed  in  this  volume  to  the  allied  and  minor 
arts  than  in  the  earlier  volume.  There  are  464 
illustrations  and  twenty-three  plates. 


Booklist    20:127    Ja   '24 
"Professor  Hamlin's  work  is  imique  in  breadth 
and    reach;     within     its     boundaries,     it     leaves 
scarcely  any  part  of  the  field  untouched."  L.  C. 
M. 

-f-  Freeman  8:263  N  21  '23  150w 
"An  inspiring  and  reliable  source  of  informa- 
tion, and  students  will  welcome  it  as  the  op- 
posite of  a  dry-as-dust  treatment  of  its  sub- 
ject. The  illustration  is  notable  for  its  fullness 
and  intelligent  selection." 

4-  Outlook  135:280  O  17  '23  220w 

HAMMERTON,  JOHN    ALEXANDER,  ed.  Won- 
-    ders    of    the    past:    the    romance    of   antiquity 
and    its    splendours.    4v    v    1    255p    il    $5    Put- 
nam 

913  Archeology  (23-12917) 

The  first  volume  of  a  four-volume  work  on 
vanished  civilizations.  It  is  mainly  descriptive, 
and  only  incidentally  historical,  while  it  is  quite 
frankly  more  pictorial  than  literary.  The  ac- 
counts of  ancient  wonder  cities,  royal  palaces 
and  tombs,  temples  of  the  gods,  master  build- 
ers of  antiquity,  and  ancient  arts  and  crafts 
are  written  by  various  archeologists.  The  pre- 
eminent feature  is  the  illustrations,  which  are 
excellent  and  verv  numerous,  some  of  them 
being  in  color.  They  are  almost  sufficient  in 
themselves  without  the  text,  to  tell  the  story. 


past.  One  would  have  to  search  in  many  volumes 
to  find  anything  approximating   the   rich   treas- 
ure  of   illustration   herein  contained." 
-] Outlook    136:117    Ja   16    '24    200w 

HAMSUN,  KNUT.  Victoria;  tr.  from  the  Nor- 
wegian bv  A.  G.  Chafer.  166p  $1.75  Knopf 
[5s    Gyldendal] 

23-7829 
One  of  Hamsun's  earlier  stories,  written  in 
1898,  and  hardly  more  than  a  novelette  in  length. 
It  is  a  simple,  touching  idyl  of  young  love.  The 
loveis  are  .Johannes,  the  miller's  son,  and  Vic- 
toria, daughtei-  of  the  laird  of  the  manor  house. 
Johannes  dares  not  lift  up  his  eyes  to  her, 
but  his  love  makes  a  poet  of  him.  Then  one 
da.v  a  miracle  happens.  He  finds  that  his  love 
is  returned.  The  lovers  have  a  brief  moment 
of  ecstasy,  then  prove  cruel  to  each  other,  Vic- 
toria thru  loyalty  to  her  father  and  Johannes 
thru  the  hurt  to  his  love.  In  the  end  Victoria 
adds  to  the  sacrifice  of  her  love,  that  of  her 
liealtli    and    her   life   as   well. 


Boston  Transcript  pi  N  24  '23  800w 
"Though    the    work    gives    the    impression    of 
being     somewhat     miscellaneous     in     character, 
as   a  whole  it   is  vastly   impressive  in   its   exhi- 
bition   of    what    man    has    accomplished    In    the 


Booklist    19:318    Jl    '23 
Cleveland  p39  My  '23 

"  'Victoria'  is  not  one  of  his  greatest  novels, 
but  it  has  on  every  page  the  mark  of  a  great 
writer,  and  is  one  of  those  minor  exercises 
which,  in  the  sureness  and  ease  with  which 
everything  is  accomplished,  sometimes  give  a 
more  vivid  sense  of  the  power  behind  them 
than  greater  works  do."  Edwin  Muir 
+  Freeman   7:522  Ag  8   '23   1150w 

Reviewed    hv    Julius    Moritzer 

Int    Bk    R   p30   Ag  '23   210w 

"In  a  very  brief  space,  for  the  book  is  spare 
and  condensed,  Hamsun  has  managed  to  convey 
a  whole  world  of  emotion;  it  is  Victoria's  mem- 
ory, her  spirit,  we  gather,  that  forever  after 
nourishes  the  poet's  fiery  soul."  Pierre  Loving 
+   Nation  116:663  Je  6  '23   900w 

"Victoria  should  be  read,  of  course,  by  all 
who  are  following  the  development  of  Hamsun; 
but  it  should  be  judged  in  view  of  its  proper 
position  in  that  development,  interesting  in  so 
far  as  it  is  colored  by  his  personality,  but  of 
no  special  significance  in  itself."  E.  R. 
h  New    Repub   35:266  Ag   1   '23   300w 

"The  novel  is  delicate,  finely  done,  of  an  ex- 
quisite simplicity.  There  is  vividness,  and 
there  is  passion,  but  always  the  idyllic  quality 
is  unfalteringly  maintained.  It  is  from  the  soul 
of  Johannes,  the  miller's  son,  that  it  is  all  re- 
flected  back   to   the   reader." 

+   N   Y  Times  pll   My  6  '23   950w 

"It  is  as  sweet  and  wistful  a  love  story  as 
though  there  had  never  been  one  written  be- 
fore; it  is  fresh  and  serious  and  beautiful  and 
unbelievably  young."    Edith  Leighton 

+   N    Y   Tribune  p27  O   14   '23   450w 

"A  large  and  careless  simplicity — careless,  not 
of  form,  hut  of  convention:  a  lyrical  exalta- 
tion: a  seeking  of  loveliness  in  sorrow — one  is 
conscious  of  all  these,  and  conscious  too  that 
probably  in  a  translation,  however  good,  they 
lose  much  of  themselves:  and  yet  one  hesitates, 
one  is  not  rapt  and  conquered."  Gerald  Gould 
^ Sat   R  135:638  My  12  '23   400w 

"Its  vividness,  its  simplicity,  above  all  Its 
romantic  magical  air  and  its  delicious  freshness 
may  be  commonplaces  of  Norwegian  literature, 
or  if  not  commonplaces,  virtues  more  easily 
taken  for  granted  there  than  by  us.  The  open- 
ing chapters  of  Victoria  are  almost  unparalleled 
(except  by  Andersen,  whom  at  times  they  re- 
ca'l)  for  their  unsophistication  and  their  fairy- 
tale   quality." 

-f  Spec  131:162  Ag  4  '23   750w 

"How  far  Knut  Hamsun  was  .serious  in  com- 
posing a  novel  so  intensely  sentimental  as  to 
seem  like  a  parody  of  the  old  fashioned  Scan- 
dinavian romance,  we  cannot  say:  but  it_  is 
completely  out  of  keeping  with  his  more  im- 
portant and  characteristic  works.  We  take  Vic- 
toria' to  be  a  juvenile  exneriment.  If  it  were 
really  'new'  in  1923,  we  should  have  to  revise 
our  judgment   of  Knut   Ham.sun." 

—  The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p341   My 
17    '23    250w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:413  Jl  '23 


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HANEMANN,  HENRY  WILLIAM.  As  is;  a  book 
2    of     miscellaneous     revelations.     191p     il     $1.50 

Harcourt 

817  23-15498 

Comic  sketches  reprinted  from  Life,  Vanity 
Fair,  and  the  New  York  Tribune.  Illustrated 
by  John  Held,  jr. 

"The  author  is  original  and  witty  and  spon- 
taneously amusing-.  He  has  his  own  little  twist, 
his  own  genre,  his  own  neat  unexpected  way 
of  ending  his  little  excursions  into  the  realm 
of  the  vivacious." 

-f   Boston  Transcript  p4  O  10  '23  260w 

"Absorbed  with  discretion,  the  patient  may 
benefit  from  it,  but  too  much  at  a  time  is  un- 
settling." 

H Lit    R   p240   N   10  '23   llOw 

"This  little  book  contains  an  abundance  of 
good  la^u|hs..'^^^_^   Republican  plO  D  19  '23  150w 

HANEY,  JOHN  LOUIS.  Story  of  our  litera- 
ture; an  interpretation  of  the  American 
spirit.   399p  $1.50  Scribner 

810.9  American  literature— History  and  crit- 
icism 23-8177 
A  textbook  of  American  literary  history 
which,  while  it  aims  to  be  a  guide  to  the  things 
that  are  worthwhile  in  the  whole  range  of  our 
literature,  gives  more  than  proportionate 
space  to  modern  times  and  to  living  writers. 
At  the  end  of  the  book  are  suggestions  for 
reading  and  study,  a  supplementary  list  of 
American  writers  and  some  problems  intended 
to  help  the  student  form  opinions  and  judgments 
on  American  literature. 

Booklist  20;49  N  '23 
"While  certain  inaccuracies  (perhaps  care- 
lessness would  be  the  better  word),  however 
unimportant,  regarding  contemporaneous  writ- 
ers, maJve  one  a  bit  uncertain  as  to  how  many 
others  exist,  did  we  but  know  as  well  about 
them,  the  spirit  of  generous  appreciation  which 
transfuses  even  the  keenest  criticism,  makes 
any  reference  to  slight  discrepancies  seem  some- 
what ungracious."     F.  B.' 

-| Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  13  '23  950w 

N   Y   World  p8e  Jl  29  '23  130w 
"Attractive    chapter   headings.    Together   with 
a   vivid    narrative   style,    make    this    a    readable 
book."  E.  E.  Leisy 

+  School    R    31:634    O    '23    300w 
"As  in  all  highly  abridged  textbooks,  some  of 
the    judgments     seem     rather    forced,     but    Mr 
Haiiey  succeeds  in   being  unbiased  and  reason- 
ably informing." 

-| Springf'd     Republican     p7a    My    13    '23 

220w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:505  D  '23 

HANKINS,  ARTHUR  PRESTON.  Cole  of  Spy- 
glass mountain.  309p  $1.75  Dodd 

23-5621 

Joshua  Cole,  at  the  end  of  the  story,  wakes 
up  from  a  fever  delirium  to  find  himself  a 
famous  astronomer.  From  early  boyhood  the 
study  has  absorbed  him  thru  many  and  singular 
tribulations.  He  is  expelled  from  school  at 
fourteen,  spends  six  years  in  a  house  of  refuge, 
a  year  as  a  tramp  along  the  railroad,  and  winds 
up  as  a  workman  in  a  California  construction 
camp — lured  thither  by  the  memory  of  a 
friendly  girl  face.  In  his  ramblings  he  dis- 
covers a  mountain  eminently  fitted  for  astro- 
nomical observations;  obtains  a  homestead  title 
and,  with  his  own  hands  erects  an  observatory, 
fitting  it  with  a  second-hand  telescope  earned 
by  an  engineering  feat  quite  outside  his  line. 
He  has  just  made  a  wonderful  discovery  on 
Mars  when  a  hostile  bullet  picks  him  off  the 
ladder.  Romance,  persecution,  mystery  and 
danger  add  spice  to  the  narrative. 


"The  style   of   the  book   is  sufflcient  unto   the 
story  thereof." 

—  Lit    R    p590    Ap    7    '23    300w 
"The  book  may  furnish  indulgent  readers  with 
a  passable  evening's  entertainment,  but  it  lacks 
fire  and  is  slow  going  at  best." 

h   N  Y  Times  pl6  Mr  18  '23  480w 

"This  book  may  be  briefly  described  as  a  'real 
good  story.'  It  is  undeniably  that,  and  it  pre- 
tends to  be  nothing  more.  There  is  an  inter- 
esting plot,  well  constructed,  and  a  few  clearly 
drawn  charactei-s,  besides  that  most  welcome 
of  ingredients — an  idea."  Edith  Leighton 
-1-   N   Y  Tribune   p21  Mr  11  '23  420w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  6  "23  150w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:160   Je   '23 

HANKINS,  ARTHUR   PRESTON.  Valley  of  Ar- 
2    cana.    281p    $2    Dodd 

23-13004 
A  pretty  young  widow,  Charmian  Reemy, 
heads  an  expedition  into  the  remote  moun- 
tains of  California  to  find  a  certain  unexplored 
and  hitherto  inaccessible  valley.  A  doctor  and 
his  young  friend,  Andy  Jerome,  who  accompany 
her  thru  many  mishaps  and  adventures  both 
fall  in  love  with  her,  and  Charmian  seems  to 
favor  Andy.  No  one  but  the  doctor  knows  that 
Andy  is  a  cretin  and  depends  on  a  special  med- 
icine taken  daily  to  retain  a  normal  mental 
and  physical  condition.  When  the  doctor  loses 
his  medicine  case  in  the  valley  of  Arcana,  which 
they  finally  reach,  he  has  to  return  to  civiliza- 
tion to  obtain  more  medicine.  Left  alone  with 
him,  Charmian  sees  Andy,  thru  lack  of  his  tab- 
lets, turn  into  a  helpless  imbecile.  Delayed  by 
kidnappers  and  storms,  the  doctor  finally  de- 
scends into  the  valley  with  his  precious  restor- 
ative, and  is  welcomed  by  Charmian's  declara- 
tion of  love  for  him. 


"Beyond  question  Mr.  Hankins  knows  how 
to  write  an  interesting  story.  That  the  nar- 
rative veers  further  and  further  from  the  plau- 
sible to  the  completely  impossible  does  not 
matter." 

4-   Boston  Transcript  p8  N  21  '23  350w 

"There  are  sparkling  black  eyes  in  this  story. 
Also,   the  story  opens  with  an  incident,   the  in- 
congruity   and    the    inherent    drama    of    which 
might   do   credit   to   Bret   Harte  himself." 
+   N   Y   Times  p5   S   30   '23   330w 

HANNAS,     RALSTON       R.        Popular     poultry 

pointers;  a  book  of  popular  up-to-date  recom- 
mendations   that    have    nroved    successful    on 
many  farms.   207p  il   $2.25   (10s   6d)    Macmlllan 
636.5      Poultry  23-4526 

The  book  aims  to  give  the  most  up-to-date 
Information  possible  on  the  different  phases  of 
poultry  raising  and  forms  the  basis  of  a  year's 
work  for  a  poultry  keeper.  Beginning  with  the 
choice  Of  a  breed  it  continues  with  the  lay-out 
of  the  farm,  the  housing  of  the  birds,  their 
feeding  and  care,  the  obtaining  of  maximum 
egg  production,  the  marketing  of  eggs,  as  well 
as  the  selection  of  breeders,  incubation  and 
brooding  of  the  chicks,  and  sanitation  of  the 
flock,  concluding  with  a  summary  of  the  finan- 
cial  side   of   the   business.     Appendix. 


"Mr  Hankins  knows  his  West,  he  has  sane, 
clean  ideals,  and  he  loves  beauty.  In  addition, 
he  has  a  sense  of  humor."    I.   W.  L. 

+   Boston    Transcript   p3   Ap   7   '23   750w 


"Every  page  of  this  book  is  full  of  practical 
information  and  help  about  raising  not  only 
one    but   various   breeds    of   poultry." 

4-  N    Y    Times   p23    Mr   14    '23    300w 
N    Y   World   p8e  Mr  18   '23   60w 
"One  of  the  best  handbooks  for  the  amateur 
chicken   man." 

-f  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  6  '23  250w 

HANNAY.  JAMES  OWEN  (GEORGE  A.  BIRM- 
INGHAM, pseud.).  Found  money.  302p  $2 
Bobbs    [7s    6d    Methuen] 

23-12110 

"In  'Found  Money'  the  rival  Free  State  and 
Republican  armies  charge  back  and  forth  across 
the  pages  in  a  most  good-natured  and  incon- 
sequential way,  the  British  forces  previously 
making  way  with  great  politeness,  and  love 
and  lucre  work   their  usual  devastation.     Love 


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is  represented  by  a  dashing  young  heiress  of 
buried  money.  Lucre  plays  its  part  in  the 
buried  hoard  of  a  disreputable  person  who 
dies  damning  his  luclc  because  he  cannot  live 
to  blow  it  in.  The  hero,  a  most  unheroic  one, 
is  a  novelist.  As  in  all  well  conducted  treasure 
ti-ove  tales,  the  buried  money  is  to  be  found 
by  use  of  a  chart  and  markers,  beginning  at 
the  north  wall  of  an  old  church  tower  on  Hang- 
man's Hill.  The  marker  is  an  Ogam 
stone.  Unfortunately  this  has  been  removed 
to  get  it  out  of  the  way  of  an  aviation  camp. 
And  of  course  the  beauty  of  the  tale  is  not  in 
the  main  current  of  the  story  at  all,  at  all, 
but  in  the  detail,  with  beautiful  touches  out 
of  Synge  and  Lady  Gregory." — N  Y  World 


Booklist    20:101     D    '23 

"Underneath  all  the  jolly  frivolity  of  the 
yarn,  quite  apart  from  the  humorous  surface, 
lies  a  good  deal  more  philosophy  than  usual 
on  the  subject  of  Irish  politics.  There  is  prob- 
ably nothing  Mr.  Birmingham  does  not  know 
on   the   subject."   I.   W.    L. 

-f-   Boston    Transcript    p4    S    26    '23    600w 

"The     dialogue     is     entertaining     throughout, 

not  with  any  sort  of  slapstick  humor,   but  with 

a  dry  wit,  often  touched  with  irony,  but  always 

good-humored.     And  the  fun  is  never  labored." 

+   N   Y  Times  pl7  Ag  26  '23  1150w 

"Quite  impossible  things  happen  in  a  man- 
ner so  suavely  plausible  that  it  would  seem 
rude  to  voice  a  doubt.  There  never  was  a 
writer  so  urbane  as  Canon  Hannay."  Isabel 
Paterson 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p23  O  7  '23   780w 
N    Y   World   p9e   S   9   '23   300w 

"Mr.  Birmingham  has  invented  a  clever  and 
amusing  plot  for  his  new  novel,  and  he  tells  it 
with  experience  and  a  comfortable  wit.  The 
author  makes  no  discoveries  in  psychology  yet 
his  characters  are  sufficiently  alive  and  suf- 
ficiently true  to  the  convention  of  psychology 
for  his  gentle  purpose — to  amuse.  His  satire 
on  Irish  politics  should  not  stir  the  fiercest 
patriot    to    resentment." 

-I-  Spec    130:891    My    26    '23    150w 

"The  real  merit  of  the  whole  is  that  it  gives 
G.  A.  Birmingham  one  of  the  best  chances 
he  has  ever  had  for  the  display  of  his  special 
gift  of  humour.  He  is  one  of  the  very  few 
writers — perhaps  the  only  one  living — who 
thoroughly  understand  humour  of  situation 
and  character  and  never  waste  it  on  verbal 
quips." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup  p320   My 
10    '23    400w 

HANNAY,        JAMES       OWEN       (GEORGE      A. 

BIRMINGHAM,   pseud.).     Great  grandmother. 

312p     $2     Bobbs 

23-7321 

"It  is  an  Irish  story,  and  the  plot  hinges  on 
the  attempt  of  a  penniless  Irish  nobleman  se- 
cretly to  dispo.se  of  the  portrait  of  his  great- 
grandmother,  a  painting  by  an  old  master,  and 
to  do  so  without  the  knowledge  of  his  creditors. 
A  charming  love  story,  with  the  granddaughter 
and  a  young  Englishman  as  the  principal  actors, 
is  interwoven  with  the  adventures  of  the  por- 
trait."—Lit  R 


Booklist   19:319   .11   '23 
Boston    Transcript    p5    Jl    14    '23    llOOw 
"A   tale    to    chuckle    over.     There    are    only    a 
few  of   the   would-be   humorists   whose   produc- 
tions   are    genuinely    funny,    and    among    these 
few  the   gentleman    who   uses   the    pen-name   of 
George   A.    Birmingham   holds   a   secure   place." 
+  Int    Bk    R    p59   Je   '23    450w 
"A  good  story,   well  told.     But  that  is  about 
all  that  can  be  said  of  George  A.  Birmingham's 
new  book." 

H Lit    R    p772    Je    16    '23    240w 

"The  humor  in  Mr.  Birmingham's  stories  usu- 
ally depends  much  on  the  sequence  of  incidents, 
but  he  knows  and  appreciates  the  Irish  char- 
acter so  well  that  the  reader  can  be  sure  of 
finding  plenty  to  chuckle  over  in  his  people." 
-h  N    Y    Times   p25   Ap   22   '23    560w 


"This  is  not  his  best  book,  but  he  cannot 
write  otherwise  than  simply  and  charmingly." 
Isabel  Paterson 

H NY   Tribune   p23    My   6   '23    550w 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:509    D   '23 
"A    very    fair    entertainment." 

H The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p598  S  21 

'22   440w 

HANSEN,    HARRY.       Midwest    portraits.       357p 

$2.50      Harcourt 

928       Authors,    American.       Chicago — Intel- 
lectual life  23-15084 

Character  sketches  of  some  contemporary 
Chicago  writers  whose  careers  are  still  in  the 
making,  with  critical  comment  on  their  work. 
Separate  chapters  are  given  to  Carl  Sandburg, 
Sherwood  Anderson,  Robert  Herrick  and  Edgar 
Lee  Masters,  Lew  Sarett,  Wallace  Smith  and 
Ben  Hecht.  There  is  a  chapter  also  on  Chi- 
cago's literary  critics,  on  tlie  famous  round 
table  at  Schlogl's  where  so  many  writers  gather, 
on  the  magazine  Poetry  and  its  editor,  Harriet 
Monroe. 


"The  portrait  of  the  author  is  an  interesting 
study,  for  it  is  of  a  man  for  whom  the  past 
seems  hardly  to  exist,  a  man  in  love  with  a 
world  as  new  as  department-store  varnish,  for 
whom  anyone  in  revolt  against  the  past  is  by 
that  fact  alone  an  apostle  of  the  future,  and 
for  whom  the  future  apparently  dawned  in 
Chicago  the  day  before  yesterday.  And  yet  his 
faith  in  the  new  is  so  honest  and  his  admira- 
tion of  his  literary  friends  so  real  that  one 
ends  by  liking  him  better  than  one  can  like 
them."    R.    M.    Gay 

h  Atlantic's    Bookshelf   D   '23    450w 

Booklist    20:98    D    '23 

Bookm    58:565    Ja    '24    290w 

Boston   Transcript  p2   N  10   '23   720w 

Reviewed    by    H:    B.    Fuller 

Lit    R    p420   Ja   5   '24    800w 

"Mr.  Hansen  has  written  a  most  excellent  kind 
of  book.  He  is  quite  right  in  his  philosophic 
indifference  as  to  the  ultimate  literary  fate  of 
the  figures  he  describes.  These  men  are  living 
deeply  and  characteristically  and  expressing  a 
section,  a  country,  an  age  to  itself.  .  .  It  is 
well,  too,  that  Mr.  Hansen  has  not  quite  con- 
fined himself  to  the  chief  figures  of  his  city 
and  his  movement,  but  has  mentioned,  at  least, 
minor  figures,  figures  related  to  literature  some- 
times only  through  intelligence  and  a  certain 
creative  intrepidity  of  life.  For  these  are  as 
necessary  to  any  rich  literary  movement  as  the 
actual  writers  themselves  and  are  often,  in  the 
perspective  of  time,  almost  as  significant  and 
quite  as  delightful.  Mr.  Hansen's  execution  is 
unequal.  His  first  chapter.  Of  an  Ancient 
Tavern,  is  an  uncommonly  limpid  and  agree- 
able piece  of  writing."  Ludwig  Lewisohn 
+  Nation   117:558  N   14  '23  880w 

"Mr.  Hansen  has  written  a  book  full  of  the 
quality  of  Midwestern  letters  and  full  of  the 
spirit  of  the  Middle  W^est.  His  informal,  un- 
pretending method  is  the  one  to  which  these 
authors,  in  so  many  of  whom  lingers  something 
of  the  pioneer,  yield  themselves  most  readily. 
In  a  deeper  sense  than  that  of  accuracy  to  fact 
he  has  been  true  to  the  land  and  to  the  men 
of  whom   he  writes."    R.    M.   Lovett 

-I-    New    Repub    36:208    O    17    '23    1500w 

Reviewed    by   H.    J.   Mankiewicz 

N   Y   Times  plO   N   25   '23   410w 

"Mr.  Hansen  in  his  excellently  written  and 
entertaining  book  has  confined  himself  to  the 
most  recent  pha.se  of  the  Chicago  literary  renais- 
.sance:  the  only  veteran  he  discusses  is  Robert 
Herrick.  .  .  Mr.  Hansen's  record  is  both  anec- 
dotal and  critical;  it  is  written  with  a  warm 
and  fraternal  sympathy  and  with  an  eye  to  the 
human  and  amusing  points  of  interest  concern- 
ing the  personalities  which  form  the  Chicago 
group." 

-f-  N   Y  Tribune  pl8  O  7  '23  1150w 

"The  judicial-minded  reader,  even  if  opening 
the  book  in  the  fear  of  encountering  an  excess 
of  opinionated  praise  or  condemnation  or  of 
special-pleading,  finds  the  treatment  as  a  whole 


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HANSEN,  HARRY — Continued 
restrained  and  soundly  informative — a  satis- 
fying contribution  to  contemporary  literary  his- 
tory and  portraiture.  Mr  Hansen  creates  a 
sense  of  actuality  and  of  substantial  achieve- 
ment in  the  work  of  the  mid-western  company 
such  as  hitherto  the  reader  has  probably 
lacked."      R.    W.    N. 

-I-  Springf'd    Republican  p7a  D  9  '23  IGOOw 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:479    N   "23 

HARDING,      ALICE      (HOWARD)       (iVIRS      ED- 
2    WARD     HARDING).       Peonies     in     the     little 

garden.      (Little     garden     ser.)     91p     il     $1.75 

Atlantic    monthly 

716   Peonies  23-15257 

This  book  in  the  Little  garden  series  follows 
the  author's  "Book  of  the  peony,"  published 
six  years  ago  which  was  the  first  volume  on 
the  subject.  The  later  book  is  a  practical  guide 
for  the  amateur,  treating  the  selection  of  varie- 
ties, some  of  the  newer  American,  French  and 
English  varieties,  location  and  soil,  planting, 
cultivating  and  fertilizing,  root  divisions  and 
seedlings,   and   the   diseases   of  peonies. 


"A   verv    practical   little   manual." 
-I-  Booklist   20:127   Ja  '24 

"Mrs  King,  editor  of  the  Little  Garden  series, 
savs,  'I  congratulate  readers  of  this  book  on 
the  possession  of  the  best  and  clearest  popular 
guide  yet  written  on  the  peony;  a  book  founded 
on  fine  experience  edged  by  a  delightful  crit- 
ical taste— entirely  dispassionate  in  compari- 
sons, readable  and  practical  on  every  page.'  " 
+  Springf'd    Republican  plO  D  19  '23  450w 

HARDMAN,  SIR  WILLIAM.  Mid-Victorian 
Pepys;  the  letters  and  memoirs  of  Sir  William 
Hardman:  annotated  and  edited  by  S.  M. 
Ellis.      316p      il      $7.50      Doran 

B  or  92  23-13819 

William  Hardman,  1828-1890,  was  an  English 
lawyer  and  politician,  for  the  last  eighteen 
years  of  his  life  editor  of  the  Morning  Post. 
He  was  a  great  lover  of  life,  always  about 
town,  in  the  midst  of  people  and  affairs  and 
alive  to  the  news  and  gossip  of  the  day.  For 
years  he  wrote  a  monthly  letter  to  an  old  friend 
in  Australia,  telling  of  all  he  did  and  heard 
and,  without  any  idea  of  publication,  he 
kept  a  copy  of  every  one  of  these  letters  which 
make  an  entertaining  commentary  on  events 
and  people  of  the  time.  The  letters  here  con- 
tained cover  the  period  between  1859  and  1863. 
George  Meredith  was  his  most  intimate  friend, 
and  his  is  the  name  most  frequently  occurring 
in  these  letters. 


Boston   Transcript  p4  O   17  '23   1350w 
"A  collection  of  rather  dull  gossip.   It  by  no 
means    fulfils   the   expectations   aroused   by   the 
title." 

—  Nation   117:469  O  24   '23  150w 
Reviewed   by   Burton   Ra.scoe 

N  Y  Tribune  pl8  D  30  '23  620w 
"The  letters  were  thoroughly  well  worth  pub- 
lishing; they  depict  a  London  at  once  joU.v, 
coarse,  and  hearty,  something  like  the  earlier 
London  of  Pickwick.  Another  volume  of  them 
may    possibly   be    even    more   amusing."      E.    L. 

+  Outlook  135:593  D  5  '23  lOOOw 
"These  letters  are  very  good  reading,  and 
present  a  lively  picture  of  London  life  sixty 
years  ago.  On  the  whole  Mr.  Ellis  has  done  his 
editorial  work  with  much  skill,  and  has  pro- 
duced an   extremely  readable  volume." 

H Sat    R   136:83   Jl   21   '23   780w 

"Mr.  Ellis  is  a  worthy  editor.  He  takes  as 
much  interest  in  London  gossip  as  Hardman 
himself." 

+  Spec  130:1044  Je  23  '23  1300w 

The   Times    [Ltjndon]    Lit   Sup   p353   My 
21   '23   2250W 


HARDY,    ARTHUR    SHERBURNE.     Things   re- 
membered.   311p    $5    Houghton 

B  or  92  23-9218 

Mr  Hardy's  reminiscences  are  drawn  from  a 
full  and  varied  life.  After  graduation  from 
West  Point  and  two  year's  service  in  the  army, 
he  became  professor  of  mathematics  at  Dart- 
mouth college  and  later,  the  author  of  a  suc- 
cessful group  of  novels.  In  1897  he  entered  on 
a  diplomatic  career  lasting  eight  years,  being 
successively  United  States  minister  to  Persia, 
Greece,  Rumania,  Serbia,  Switzerland  and 
Spain.  His  reminiscences  relate  chiefly  to  his 
diplomatic   experiences   in   these   countries. 


Booklist    20:18   O   '23 
Reviewed  by  E.  F.  Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p4  My  26  '23  1300w 
"A  most  tranquil  book — the  detached  record 
of  a  career  which  seems  never  to  have  filled 
out  its  possible  boundaries.  The  author  says 
the  expected  things  about  the  value  of  West 
Point  training  and  speaks  pallidly  of  the  com- 
pensations of  old  age,  but  few  of  his  contacts 
wiih  life   seem   to  have   struck   fire." 

h   Dial    75:203    Ag   '23    80w 

"Arthur  Sherburne  Hardy's  'Things  Remem- 
bered' will  probably  be  read  aloud  next  winter 
in  many  placid  reading  clubs  and  sewing  cir- 
cles. It  is  the  perfect  volume  of  reminiscences 
for  such  a  purpose,  abounding  with  anecdotes, 
with  trivialities  concerning  monarchs  and  dip- 
lomats, and  humor  too  often  bordering  on  the 
facetious." 

H Nation  117:303  S  19  '23  lOOw 

Reviewed  by  I:  Anderson 

N  Y  Times  pl4  Je  10  '23  1500w 
"The   style  is   conversational,    the    anecdotes 
are  often  amusing,   and   numerous  photographs 
further  enliven  the  pages." 

+  Outlook   134:99   My  30   '23   60w 
R    of    Rs    68:110    Jl    '23    150w 
St  Louis  p297  O  '23 
"A  high-grade,  worth-while  autobiography,  or 
more   strictly,   a  book   of  reminiscences   as   the 
title  implies." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  p6  Je  25  '23  720w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:443   O   '23 

HARE,  WILLIAM  LOFTUS.  Mysticism  of 
east  and  west;  with  an  introd.  by  J.  Estlin 
Carpenter.  356p  $2.75  Harcourt  [10s  6d  J. 
Cape] 

201   Religion.   Mysticism  [23-15282] 

"The  author  has  gathered  stores  of  knowledge 
in  comparative  religion  and  philosophy,  and 
in  this  work  he  gives  us  some  of  the  results 
of  his  research.  The  central  thought  of  the 
book  is  that  religion  is  essentially  a  mystical 
process  which  has  its  roots  deeply  set  in  the 
metaphysical  Life-Unity.  It  meets  with  op- 
position from  our  natural  egoism  and  the 
struggle  between  them  depends  on  our  will. 
Religion,  which  is  the  assimilation  of  the  soul 
to  the  universal  order,  is  primarily  experience, 
and  only  secondarily  belief.  The  author  deals 
with  the  philosophies  of  religrion  in  China, 
India,  Greece,  and  Alexandria.  In  four  con- 
cluding chapters  he  discusses  the  period  be- 
tween the  old  and  New  Testaments  with  its 
apocalyptic  literature,  the  Eucharist,  and  the 
ethic  and  psychology  of  forgiveness." — The 
Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 

"The  student  of  comparative  religion  will  find 
in    these    essays    sound    scholarship    and    think- 
ing upon   the  subject   of  religion."   F.   W.   C 
+   Boston    Transcript   p4   S  29   '23   420w 

"Mr.  Hare  has  a  fascinating  subject,  but  his 
book  is  disappointing.  It  is  disconnected,  and 
full  of  odd  scraps  of  theory  and  moral  com- 
ments of  his  own  indicating  an  uncritical  at- 
titude."   W.    J.    H.    S. 

—  New  Statesman   21:451  Jl  21  '23   850w 

"The  author  shows  independence  of  Judg- 
ment, and  comes  to  conclusions  which  many 
will  challenge,  but  he  writes  with  care  and  con- 
viction. Many  quotations  from  the  works  of 
the   great   religious    teachers   of  the   Bast  give 


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223 


a  special  interest  to  the  book  and  help  to  make 
It   useful   to  the  general   reader." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p490   Jl 
19    "23    220w 

HARKER,    MRS    LIZZIE    ALLEN.        Really   ro- 
mantic age.  260p  $1.75  Scribner  [7s  6d  Murray] 

23-4810 
At  the  age  of  forty-one  Mellory  Upton  in- 
herited baby  Joe,  at  the  death  of  his  child 
mother,  to  the  consternation  of  all  her  friends 
and  family.  When  she  brought  him  home  her 
servants  gave  notice  and  left  her  abruptly.  It 
is  at  this  crisis  when,  with  the  baby  in  her 
arms,  she  goes  out  to  find  some  sort  of  help, 
that  she  encounters  John  Mill,  a  perfect  strang- 
er. He  is  most  helpful,  so  much  so  that  he 
becomes  Joe's  god-father  and  staunch  friend, 
while  the  winning  little  fellow,  who  is  the  ab- 
sorbing figure  in  the  story,  becomes  the  foil 
for  a  true  romance  between  two  people  of  mid- 
dle age. 


Booklist  19:223   Ap   '23 
"An  entertaining  story."     D.   L.   M. 

+   Boston   Transcript   p3   Mr  31   '23  720w 
Cath   World  117:426  Je  '23   70w 
Cleveland    p68    S   '23 
Lit   R    p571   Mr   31    '23   300w 
"It    is    a   charming    story    told   with    sensitive 
feeling  for  delicate  tones  of  character  and  tem- 
perament,   and    the    author    makes    quite    real 
and    alive    not    only    the    hero    and    the    heroine 
but  most   of  the   subordinate  characters   also." 
-I-   N   Y  Times  pl4  Mr  4  '23  600w 
"A   charming   little   story."      R.    S. 

+  N   Y   World   p7e  Mr  11  '23  360w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:276   Je    '23 
Pratt  p37  spring  '23 
Spec  130:191  F  3  '23  80w 
"The    incidents    and    the    style    are    like    the 
persons — touched     with     simplicity     but     never 
common.     A   restful  book   that  leaves  a  feeling 
of   cleanness   and   good   will." 

-|-  Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Mr  25  '23  150w 

HARKER,   MRS    LIZZIE   ALLEN.      Vagaries  of 
Tod  and  Peter.     300p     $1.75     Scribner 

23-12444 

Mrs  Harker  has  collected  some  fugitive 
sketches  of  the  kind  of  children  she  has  known 
during  the  past  twenty-five  years.  Tho  some 
of  the  children  she  writes  about  are  of  the 
last  century  and  some  of  this,  a  changing 
world  seems  to  have  left  the  children  alone 
unchanged.  There  are  amusing  stories  here 
and  pathetic  ones.  Best  of  all  are  the  pranks 
of  the  twins.  Tod  and  Peter,  at  an  English 
public  school  and  their  efforts  to  get  even  with 
a   master   whom    they   disliked. 


Booklist  20:139  Ja  '24 

"Mrs.  Harker  knows  as  much  as  most  people 
about  children — those  particularly  well-bred 
children  of  the  English  countryside  and  more 
thah  most  about  life  in  an  English  public 
school.  There,  also,  she  is  an  expert  in.  por- 
traying the  beautiful  aged  of  Britain.  When 
she  sticks  to  these  she  is  invaluable.  Occasion- 
ally, however,  she  drops  to  low  life,  and  fails 
to  give  the  impression  that  she  knows  it." 
H Boston    Transcript   p4    O   10   '23   400w 

"Parents  and  all  who  find  children  interesting 
will  want  to  read  it."     M.   G.    Bonner 
+   Int    Bk    R   p60   N   '23    60w 

"Mrs.  Harker's  'Romance  of  the  Nursery'  and 
'Paul  and  Fiammetta'  caught  much  of  the 
golden  charm  of  the  theme,  but  her  latest 
effect  along  this  line  is  not  very  successful. 
In  a  series  of  short  sketches,  such  as  this  book, 
the  author  has  no  opportunity  for  the  spacious 
conveyance  of  simple  effects  that  is  necessary 
to  the  subject;  the  result  is  rather  unsatis- 
factory." 

—  Lit   R   p244   N  10   '23   130w 

"It  is  a  collection  of  pathetic  and  amusing 
tales  of  children,  some  of  which  leave  rather 
a  sickly  flavour  behind  them.  It  is  hard  to 
imagine  these  children,  however  dimly,    broad- 


ening and  hardening  into  men  and  women;  we 
can  think  of  them  only  as  ingenious  little  fig- 
ures, perpetually  performing  the  charming  little 
tricks  which  their  author  has  devised  for  them." 

—  The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p521  Ag 
2    '23   50w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:482   N  '23 

HARLOW,    RALPH    VOLNEY.     Samuel   Adams, 
promoter  of  the  American  revolution;  a  study 
in   psychology   and  politics.    363p   $3   Holt 
B    or   92    Adams,    Samuel.      United    States- 
History — Revolution  23-14396 
In  following  out  his  stated  purpose   "to  show 
the  man  at  work,  and  to  make  clear,  as  far  as 
possible,  why  he  followed  his  particular  course," 
the  author  applies  the  methods  of  the  new  psy- 
chology to  the   study  of  Adams's  political  faith 
and  revolutionary  career.     Using  the  vocabulary 
of    psychoanalysis,    he    finds    Adams    the    victim 
of  an     inferiority  complex.       He  maintains  that 
Adams's   political    activity   was    the    product   of 
his    emotions   and    that   his   behavior   in   politics 
was  on  that  account  always  irrational;   that  he 
was  half  idealist  and  half  fanatic,   with  an  im- 
mense  enthusiasm  for  liberty  and   a  genius  for 
propagandism.     In  studying  the  workings  of  the 
small    group    of    radicals    to    which    Adams    be- 
longed the  author  contributes  to  our  knowledge 
of  the   Revolution   in   its   preliminary   stages. 

"For  the  reader  who  approaches  the  biogra- 
phy fairly,  ready  to  accept  only  that  which  con- 
vinces his  reason,  and  determined  to  u.se  that 
reason  impartially  between  author  and  subject, 
this  book  will  be  illuminating,  enlivening  and 
provocative."     S.    L.    Cook 

1-   Boston    Transcript  p3   O   27   '23   ISOOw 

"As  a  contribution  to  American  history  rather 
than  to  personal  biography,  the  book  confirms 
the  views  now  generally  held  by  scholars  as  to 
the  origin  and  nature  of  the  Revolution.  The 
principal  regret  will  be  that  the  author's  sense 
of  the  essential  inferiority  of  Adams  as  a  man 
and  as  a  political  force  should  have  been  al- 
lowed to  intrude  itself  so  persistently  into  the 
narrative."      W:    MacDonald 

H Lit    R   p441    Ja    12    '24    1200w 

"Had  Professor  Harlow  merely  tried  to  trans- 
late Adams  into  current  psychological  terms 
no  harm  would  have  been  done.  But  having 
based  his  thesis  largely  on  the  assumption  that 
Adams  lived  in  a  'dream  world'  cut  off  from 
reality,  he  has  had  to  show  that  such  was  the 
fact,  and  in  doing  so  has  been  tempted  into 
special  pleading.  In  this,  it  appears  to  the  re- 
viewer that  he  has  occasionally  distorted  the 
facts."     J.   T.  Adams 

—  New   Repub   37:100  D  19   '23   1350w 
N   Y   Times  p25  Ja  6   '24   750w 

"One  may  not  be  wrong  in  inferring  that  this 
was  an  early  work,  perhaps  written  under  the 
requirement  of  'originality'  imposed  by  the 
doctor's  thesis,  and  that  the  author's  gift  of 
research  will  be  turned  to  better  account.  But 
here  even  the  technical  method  is  not  reassur- 
ing. Flippancy  of  language  could  be  tolerated  if 
it  were  spiced  with  irony  and  insight.  But 
even  the  records  of  supposed  fact  are  not 
always    convincingly    expressed." 

—  Springf  d  Republican  plO  D  5  '23  700w 

HARPER,  JAMES  WILSON.  Essentials  of  re- 
ligion.   224p  $2.25  Doran   [7s  6d  Allen   &  U.] 

239  Religion.   Christianity  A23-1087 

In  his  restatement  of  the  essentials  of  re- 
ligion and  of  its  claims,  the  author,  a  minister 
of  the  Free  church  of  Scotland,  shows  religion 
in  its  univer.'^ality  and  as  tested  by  realities, 
summing  up  its  theory  of  personal  and  social 
morality  and  its  bearing  on  life  in  all  its  re- 
lationships. 

HARRADEN,  BEATRICE.  Patuffa;  the  story 
of  an  artist.  375p  $2  Stokes  [7s  6d  Redder  & 
S.] 

23-12785 

In  this  continuation  of  the  story  of  Pa- 
tuffa we  find  the  "devil  child"  a  finished  artist. 


224 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


HARRADEN.  BEATRICE — Continued 
on  the  eve  of  her  first  great  London  success. 
Her  old  friend  and  teacher,  the  great  vioHnist 
Stefansky,  has  come  from  Pragxie  for  the  pur- 
pose of  being  present.  After  the  concert  it 
takes  all  Patuffa's  great  loyalty  and  kindness 
of  heart  to  appease  the  jealousy  of  the  super- 
annuated genius  at  her  success.  All  thru 
the  story  these  traits  of  the  heart  triumph 
over  her  fiery  temper.  Her  friends  Chummy 
and  Irene  still  keep  their  protective  hands 
stretched  out  to  her,  opening  up  opportunities 
and  guiding  her  from  success  to  success.  Re- 
turning from  a  tour  in  America  with  the  pianist 
Madame  Janeiro,  Patuffa  is  drowned,  at  the 
height   of   her   career. 


"Altogether  it  is  a  finely  visioned  and  purely 
expressed  story  of  a  type  which  we  get  all  too 
seldom."      S.    L.    C. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p4    O   10    '23    740w 

"Beatrice  Harraden  has  indeed  written  an 
artistic  book — she  has  even  solved  the  problem 
of  the  ending  in  a  way  which  the  reader  will 
admit  is  the  best.  Those  who  have  liked  her 
other  books  will  not  be  disappointed  in  this 
one." 

+   Int    Bk    R   p74   D   '23  240w 

"  'Patuffa'  lives  up  to  its  subtitle.  It  is  not 
the  tale  of  a  young  person  who  dabbles  in 
'temperament,'  shows  remarkable  genius,  and 
is  acclaimed  at  once  by  multitudes,  only  to  dis- 
cover presently  that  love  and  a  husband  are 
best.  It  is  the  story  of  an  artist.  It  fairly  de- 
serves rank  with  that  remarkable  story  of  the 
singing  artist.  Miss  Gather's  'Song  of  the 
Lark.'  "    H.    W.    Bovnton 

+   Lit    R    pl46   O    20    '23    520w 

"A  substantial  piece  of  work,  a  study  in  tem- 
peraments, generously  understood  and  projec- 
ted in  a  narrative  of  considerable  breadth  but 
little    flavor." 

-I Nation    117:614    N    28    '23   50w 

"Miss  Harraden's  last  story  deals  with  the 
ambition  and  jealousies  of  professional  musi- 
cians. Truly  they  would  seem  a  class  apart,  tire- 
some lovable  children  of  genius,  their  moral 
nature  undermined  by  envy,  their  hearts 
warmed  and  their  tempers  inflamed  by  their 
emotional  art.  Their  vagaries  make  good  read- 
ing." 

+  Spec  131:19  Jl  7   '23  120w 

"Woven  of  the  moods,  the  character,  the 
acts,  of  so  different  persons,  it  is  never  dull. 
Technically,  the  author  has  made  one  mistake. 
There  is  no  reason  why  Patuffa  needs  to  die. 
But  so  natural  and  attractive  are  the  persons 
and  incidents  that  one  feels  no  temptation  to 
carp  about  a  fault  in  structure  that  affects 
scarcely  at  all  the  real  interest  and  the  plea- 
sure-giving   reaction    of    the    novel." 

-|-  Springf  d   Republican   p7  O  21  '23  310w 

"The  failure  to  clinch  her  presentment  of  the 
leading  personality  results  from  Miss  Harra- 
den's method  of  working  from  outside — of  con- 
centrating upon  the  salient  features  of  a  char- 
acter she  has  visualized  ready-made,  rather 
than  upon  the  germ  of  individuality  whence 
they  spring.  But  this  method  is  responsible  also 
for  a  conspicuous  merit  of  her  latest  book:  it 
has  enabled  her  to  realize  a  considerable  group 
of  persons  in  correct  perspective  and  with  a 
clear  eye  for  the  subtleties  of  their  mutual  re- 
lations." 

^ The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p231   Ap 

5    '23    700w 

HARRIMAN,    FLORENCE   JAFFRAY    (HURST) 
(MRS  J.   BORDEN    HARRIMAN).  From  pina- 
fores to  politics.  359p  il  $5  Holt 
B  or  92  United  States — Politics  and  govern- 
ment 23-17479 
Mrs  Harriman  has  had,  as  one  of  her  friends 
expressed  it,  "a  box  seat  at  the  America  of  her 
times."    She    herself    gives    as    one    of    her    rea- 
sons for  writing  her   recollections  that  she   has 
been  happy  and  that  people  like   to  hear  about 
happiness.     Certainly  her  life  has  been  full,  and 
her  enthusiasm  colors  all  her  experiences.     The 
first   part   of   her   book   is   concerned   with    New 


York  society  in  the  late,  'eighties  and  the  'nine- 
ties, but  by  far  the  larger  part  relates  to  her 
public  activities  from  1920  on  and  especially 
during  the  war.  She  has  been  an  ardent  fol- 
lower of  Woodrow  Wilson  since  the  days  before 
the  convention  that  first  nominated  him,  and 
has  campaigned  for  him.  She  was  appointed 
by  him  the  only  woman  member  of  the  Indus- 
trial relations  commission  and  in  1918  she  went 
to  France  to  take  charge  of  500  women  drivers 
in  the  motor  corps.  She  knows  everybody  and 
has  had  personal  contacts  with  most  of  the 
men  who  shaped  American  policy  during  the 
war. 


"Mrs.  J.  Borden  Harriman's  reminiscences  are 
filled  with  sparkle,  charm,  and  observation." 
J.  F. 

+  Bookm  5S:458  D  '23  450w 

"Not  only  vastly  entertaining  but  peculiarly 
timely."     F.   B. 

+   Boston    Transcript   p6   D   26   '23   750w 

"Mrs.  Harriman  writes  with  simplicity  at 
once  and  vividness,  of  old  times  and  new,  of 
interesting  personalities  and  stirring  events,  of 
piquant  incidents  and  picturesque  scenes.  It  is 
by  no  means  necessary  for  a  reader  to  be  seri- 
ous-minded in  order  to  enjoy  so  charming  and 
cheering  a  narrative  of  a  rich  and  varied  life." 
-f-   Ind  111:285  D  8  '23  300w 

"Mrs    Harriman    has    entertained    upon    num- 
berless occasions,  but  she  has  never  entertained 
more  entertainingly  than  in  the  sprightly  pages 
of  her  reminiscences."     R.   J.   Davis 
+   Lit   R  p303  D  1  '23   780w 

"What  a  book  it  all  is!  What  vivacity,  what 
energy,   what  aplomb!"    H.    B.    Fuller 

-f   N    Y   Times  p3   N   25    '23   2300w 

"England  has  had  its  Margot;  now  the  United 
States  finds  its  feminine  spokeswoinan  in  Mrs. 
J.  Borden  Harriman.  When  she  relates  her  ex- 
periences in  the  realm  of  civic  and  political  af- 
fairs, she  becomes  much  the  same  sort  of  inter- 
esting raconteuse  as   the  racy  Mrs.   Asquith." 

Springf'd   Republican  p6a  D  9  '23  1080w 

HARRIS,     ARTHUR     MERTON.        Pirate     tales 

from    the    law.      324p    il    $2    Little 

910.4    Pirates  23-12008 

In  the  form  of  stories  the  book  gives  the 
history  of  six  notorious  pirates  as  authentic 
history  "stripped  of  legend,  excised  of  exaggera- 
tion and  presented  to  you  as  it  was  adduced  in 
the  courts  of  law  by  sworn  witnesses,  the  prob- 
ing counsel,  the  directing  judges  and  the  ji^iies 
who  cast  their  capital  verdicts."  (Preface) 
The  pirates  are:  Captain  Kidd,  John  Quelch, 
"Blackbeard,"  Henry  Avery,  Tom  Green,  John 
Gow. 


Booklist    20:98    D    '23 

Boston    Transcript  p4    S   12   '23   450w 

"Mr.  Harris  has  made  a  notably  good  job  of 
this  restatement  of  the  stories  of  some  of  the 
pirates.  His  narrative  is  based  carefully  upon 
authoritative  records,  chiefiy  court  proceedings 
.  .  .  but  it  is  transmuted  from  the  bareness  of 
a  clerk's  reporting  into  a  lively  narrative,  some 
of  it  even  in  dialogue  form — and  it  is  good  nar- 
rative." 

-I-   Lit    R    p375    D    15    '23    270w 

"  'Pirate  Tales  from  the  Law'  which  is  based 
entirely  upon  court  records  and  other  authentic 
documents,  presents  a  reasonably  true  picture 
of  pirates  as  they  really  were.  Lest  the  im- 
pression be  conveyed  that  Mr.  Harris  has  given 
us  a  dry  transcription  of  official  documents,  it 
is  well  to  state  here  that  the  stories  he  tells 
have  all  the  thrills  that  one  is  accustomed  to 
associate  with  tales  of  the  buccaneers.  But 
he  assures  us  that  he  has  told  nothing  that  is 
not  a  matter  of  record." 

4-   N  Y  Times  p9   S  2  '23   550w 

"The  narrative  is  as  breezy  as  the  winds  that 
drove    their  craft."  ^  „   ,„„  ^m 

+  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  O  7   '23  150w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


225 


HARRIS,     CLARE     WINGER.     Persephone     of 
Eleusis.      2iyp      $2     Stratford 

23-1439 

This  tale  of  Greece  during  the  time  of  the 
Persian  invasion  contains  descriptions  of  the 
battles  of  Thermopylae,  Salamis  and  Plataea, 
of  many  Greek  customs  and  religious  and  fes- 
tive rites.  It  also  narrates  the  romance  of  a 
half-Greek  Persian  soldier,  who,  during  the  fall 
of  Athens,  rescues  a  maiden  named  Persephone 
and  falls  in  love  with  her.  He  renounces  his 
Persian  allegiance,  fights  in  the  battle  of  Plataea 
as  a  Greek  soldier,  and,  returning  to  Athens, 
helps  in  its  restoration  and  becomes  the  friend 
of  prominent  Athenians  and  poets,  among  them 
Aeschylus.  To  crown  all  his  lost  Persephone 
turns  out  to  be  the   latter's  daughter. 


"Perhaps  the  story  would  have  gained  in  local 
color  if  the  author  had  used  the  Greek  forms 
for  Greek  names.  But  the  ordinary  reader  will 
not  be  troubled  with  these  finicky  scruples,  and 
will  enjoy  the  romance  for  its  own  sake,  prob- 
ably more  than  the  few  that  are  conversant 
with   Greek." 

-\ Boston    Transcript    p6    S    5    '23    450w 

"Much  of  the  background  is  fairly  well  done, 
and  the  author's  narrative  style  is  fluent  and 
smooth  enough,  but  the  plot  is  wholly  modern 
in  its  romantic  conception.s — a  somewhat  melo- 
dramatic love  story,  with  a  sufficiency  of  strenu- 
ous  action." 

H Lit    R   p884   Ag   4   '23    llOw 

"More  than  the  use  of  actual  names  and 
scenes  taken  from  standard  histories  are  re- 
quired to  make  an  historical  novel  ring  true. 
Here  is  a  most  ambitious  attempt  to  inject  a 
love  story  into  an  excerpt  from  the  Anabasis." 
E.    M.    L. 

—  NY    Tribune    p22    My    6    '23    90w 

HARRIS,    CORRA    MAY    (WHITE)    (MRS    L.    H. 

HARRIS).       Daughter     of     Adam.     333p     $1.75 

Do  ran 

23-7005 

"The  stoi'y  concerns  a  former  country  girl 
who,  after  having  lived  in  New  York  for  ten 
years  and  succeeded  there  as  a  writer  of  fiction, 
is  called  back  to  the  farm  by  her  father's  seri- 
ous illness  and  forced  to  take  charge  of  affairs. 
There  she  comes  to  a  fresher  and  truer  evalua- 
tion of  life,  and  incidentally  falls  out  of  love 
with  her  city  fiance  and  takes  in  his  place  a 
sturdy  'son  of  the  soil.'  " — N  Y  Times 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  11  '23  1150w 

"Elven  with  so  simple  a  plot,  Mrs.  Harris 
might  have  written  an  interesting  novel,  if  It 
were  not  for  her  unreadable  style.  Perhaps 
some  day  she  will  write  one  that  flows  along 
in  limpid  English  and  gives  her  epigrams  the 
setting   they    deserve." 

—  Int    Bk    R   p56  Jl    '23   350w 

"The  story  is  excellently  finished,  and  shows 
Mrs.  Harris  as  a  more  sophisticated  technician 
than  in  her  earlier  novels.  If  it  lacks  some- 
thing of  the  fervor  and  charm  of  its  predeces- 
sors it  is  none  the  less  a  substantial,  sound 
piece  of  literary  workmanship,  well  conceived, 
and   expertly   executed." 

H Lit    R   p666   My   5   '23    220w 

"The  author's  occasional  superficially  clever 
comments  upon  life  will  probably  meet  with 
one's  approval,  and  her  theme  is  likely  to  have 
one's  sympathy;  her  style  is  to  be  regarded  as 
neither  conspicuously  good  nor  conspicuously 
poor;  her  characters  are  depicted  as  well  as  the 
average,  and  her  background  painted  with 
average  skill — and  yet,  when  all  is  said,  the 
novel  lacks  some  element  of  vitality  without 
which  any  book  must  be  lifeless  as  chaff.  It 
takes  its  place  securely  by  the  side  of  hundreds 
of  mediocre  romances  that  issue  annually  from 
the  press." 

h   N    Y   Times  pl6  Mr  25  "23   450w 

"Disguised  as  the  heroine  in  'A  Daughter  o'f 
Ad.im,'  Corra  Harris  imposes  a  redoubtable  task 
upon  our  credulity.  In  ever  so  many  words 
she  exy-iects  us  to  believe  that  after  ten  years 
as  a  writer  in  New  York  Nancy  McPherson 
returns  to  the  farm  and  within  a  few  days  is 


physically  and  spiritually  reclaimed  to  the  an- 
cestral land,  repudiating  art  as  an  abomination 
in  the  sight  of  the  corn.  Nancy  is  quite  sure 
that  'tis  only  noble  to  be  corn-fed."  A.  D. 
Douglas 

—  NY   Tribune   pl9   Ap  8  '23   420w 

Sprlngf  d  Republican  p7a  My  27  '23  420w 

HARRIS.  CORRA  MAY  (WHITE)  (MRS  LUN- 
DY  HOWARD  HARRIS).  House  of  Helen. 
268p    $2   Doran    [7s    6d    Hodder    &    S.] 

23-12712 
"The  scene  of  this  story  is  laid  in  Shannon, 
a  little  town  in  North  Geprgia.  Young  George 
Cutter  and  Helen  Adams  are  average  types 
of  the  younger  generation.  They  seem  fairly 
well  suited,  but  their  marriage  is  a  failure. 
He  is  determined  to  get  on  in  the  world.  She 
is  domesticated— 'good,'  as  her  irritated  mother- 
in-law  calls  her.  When  George  makes  a  for- 
tune as  a  war  profiteer  he  feels  the  call  to  the 
wider  sphere  of  New  York;  Helen  disappoints 
him — she  is  not  ambitious  enough.  In  the 
end  he  deserts  her.  Helen,  left  alone,  realizes 
her  ideals;  she  collects  babies  around  her  and 
builds  a  house  for  herself  and  them.  And 
when  George,  after  losing  his  fortune,  returns 
she  takes  the  prodigal  back."— The  Times  [Lon- 
don]   Lit    Sup  

"We  expect  of  Mrs.  Harris  humor,  and  sun 
Iving  on  deep-ploughed  furrows,  people  of  the 
soil  and  the  beauty  which  comes  of  natural 
things.  Of  all  this  we  have  only  a  touch  here 
and  there.  We  travel  by  macadamized  road, 
albeit  among  woods  and  flowers,  but  we  go 
very  little  cross  country,  and  we  have  little 
breath  of  open  spaces.".    I.  W.  L 

—  +   Boston  Transcript  p3  O  6    23  400w 
Lit    R    pl34    O    13    '23    180w 
Sprlngf d   Republican  p5a  S  23  "23  360w 
"The  story  might  well  have  been  abbreviated; 
it    is    greatly    overwritten."    ,    ,  .^    .  cca    r^ 

Z.  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p654    O 
4   '23    220w 

HARRIS  EMERSON  PITT,  and  HOOKE,  MRS 
FLORENCE  (HARRIS).  Community  new.s- 
paper;  its  promise  and  development.  378p  $2.50 

^^PP'®*^""  ?3  8970 

070      Newspapers  <26-s»<u 

A  discussion  of  the  local  newspaper  which 
serves  the  interests  and  development  of  its  own 
Smunity.  in  distinction  to  the  'arge  c,ty  da^ly 
with  its  wider  scope  and  better  ff^''JVndividual 
T  analvzes  the  community  and  the  individual 
wifh  special  reference  to  their  newspaper  needs 
Part  II  deals  with  the  editorial  service  of  a 
paper  which  aims  to  meet  these  needs.  Part 
TTT  disciisses  the  problems  involved  in  selling 
the  product  of  the  paper  to  readers  and  ad- 
vertisers Part  IV  concerns  the  publisher  and 
his  P.eld.  

"In  manv  respects  this  is  the  best  book  that 
has  ev?r  been  written  about  the  newspaper 
Nowhe?e  else  has  the  nature  of  news  and  the 
rm^  of  the  news  editor  been  described  with 
keener  insight  and  greater  understanding  of 
thih-  significance  and  their  possibilities.  .  . 
very  few  even  among  the  ranks  of  newspaper 
men  h^e  understood  the  extent  and  nature 
^f  the  influence  exerted  upon  the  P"^'*^  j'y  t|i'3 
serial  storv  of  local  life'  that  is  recorded  in  the 
news  columns  of  the  ^"^^'1  V^,^;;?,,  T^'Aie  iu^3 
may  be  said  to  open  a  new  chapter  m  the  study 
of  the  local  community.  ^^R^E^^Park^ 

Am  Pol  Sci   R  17:521  Ag  '23  70w- 
Bookllst  20:36   N   '23 

Boston    Transcript    pi    Je    23    '23    320w 
Cleveland  p52  Jl  '23 

^^^'^^Nltl^n   ?17:?70"s'ir'23   320w 
Reviewed ^by^Ellery^Rand^  '23  300w 

"P'nthpr  and  daughter  have  in  this  book  laid 
dow'^^mu'ch' useful  Idvice  as  to  newspaper  pub^ 
lication   in   towns   and   small   cities.      Nor   neea 


226 


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HARRIS,   T.    P.   and    HOOKE,    F. — Continued 
newspaper  men   in   the   big  cities   scorn   to   read 
it,  for  towns,  little  and  bigr,  are  not  so  different 
in   the   demands   they   make   upon    the   press." 
+  N    Y   World   pl8  Je  10   '23   250w 
"In    the    main    tliis    is   a   practical    manual    of 
suggestions    for    the   use   of   publishers   and    edi- 
tors   of    small-town    papers.      But    it    is    also    a 
wise    discussion    of    the    possibilities    of    such    a 
paper   in    developing   community   spirit   and   ad- 
vancing  the   people's   prosperity   and   civic   edu- 
cation." 

+  Outlook    134:240    Je    20    '23    130\v 
R    of    Rs    68:224    Ag   '23    lOOw 
Sprlngf'd   Republican  p8  Ag  17  '23  480w 
Survey   51:353    D    15    '23    160w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup  p427   Je 
21    "23    llOw 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:441  O  '23 

HARRISON,   E.  J.     Lithuania  past  and  present. 

229p  il  $4  McBride  [16s  Unwin] 

947.5    Lithuania  23-8541 

The  author,  who  was  a  inember  of  the  British 
commission  for  the  Baltic  provinces  and  after- 
ward British  vice-consul  at  Kaunas  and  Vil- 
nius, sketches  Lithuania's  spacious  past  as  well 
as  its  present  renascence.  He  gives  a  general 
outline  of  Lithuanian  history  and  topography, 
of  the  rise  of  the  new  state  and  its  political 
parties,  of  the  Polish-Lithuanian  controversy 
and  of  present  economic  conditions.  There  are 
chapters  on  Lithuanian  types  and  character,  on 
customs,  language  and  literature,  art  and  music. 
Maps.   Index. 


"This  scholarly  book  ought  to  attract  atten- 
tion. It  will  teach  English  readers  something 
of  the  history  of  Northern  Europe,  and  of  the 
great  part  placed   in  it  by  Lithuania." 

4-  New  Statesman  20:465  Ja  20  '23  350w 
"Mr.  Harrison  writes  very  interestingly  of  the 
early  period  in  the  history  of  lathuania,  of  her 
rise  and  decadence,  and  of  her  absorption  by 
Russia.  He  treats  even  more  interestingly  of 
her  renascence,  both  literary  and  political,  while 
still  under  the  Russian  yoke.  His  account  of 
her  attainment  of  independence  in  1919-20  is 
vivid  and   sometimes  thrilling." 

-I-  Sat    R   134:994   D   30   '22  400w 

The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p716  N  9 
•22  ISOOw 

HARRISON,    FREDERIC.    De    senectute;    more 
last    words.    201p    $3    Appleton 

824 

Frederic  Harrison's  "last  words"  published 
a  year  ago  were  not  his  last,  for  a  later  collec- 
tion of  essays  marks  the  close  of  his  long 
literary  career.  The  first,  a  dialog  on  old  age, 
contains  the  thoughts  of  one  entered  on  his 
ninety-second  year.  This  is  followed  by  mem- 
ories of  the  Victorian  era,  its  characteristic 
persons,  events  and  manners.  Next  is  a  history 
of  Constantinople  during  twenty-five  hundred 
years.  Then  come  some  critical  studies  of  poets 
and  novelists,  and  lastly,  some  chapters  on  the 
philosophy  of  positivism. 


"It  is  an  inspiring  record  of  thoughts  in  'the 
last  of  life,  for  which  the  first  was  made.'  " 
R.  M.  Gay 

-f  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  S  '23  450w 
Booklist   20:14   O    '23 
"To  the   reader  who  desires  mental   stimulus, 
who  th  ives  on   mental  irritation,   the  charm  of 
style    and    the    originality    of    thought    of    this 
book   Will    give    continuous    pleasure.        It    is    a 
volume    which    lends    itself   to   annotations,    and 
the  margins  are  sufficiently  wide."     M.   F.  Egan 
H-   Bookm  57:645  Ag  '23  1200w 

Boston  Transcript  pi  Je  23  '23  500w 
Reviewed   by  G.   H.    Carson 

Lit  R  p88  S  20  '23  780w 
Reviewed  by  R.   M.   Lovett 

New  Repub  35:334  Ag  16  '23   lOOOw 
"To  read  'De  Senectute,'  even  without  having 
previously     read     any     of     Frederic     Harrison's 


other  books,  would  be  to  acquire  a  fairly  com- 
prehensive view  of  the  range  of  his  interests 
and  the  qualities  of  his  mind  and  spirit.  The 
volume  reveals  his  scholarship,  his  urbanity  of 
mood,  his  serious  ethical  idealism,  his  vigorous 
advocacy  of  humanitarian  doctrine."  Lloyd 
Morris 

-f   N   Y  Times  p2  Je  3  '23  1750w 
Outlook  134:193  Je  13  '23  220w 
St   Louis  p340  D  '23 
"Like    all    their    author's    critical    work,    they 
are  marked  by  scholarship  and  good  sense,  but 
show  nothing  of  sensitiveness,  on  the  one  hand, 
or    the   acuteness,    on    the   other,    that   go  along 
with    first-class    literary    criticism:     they    lack 
the    illuminating    phrase." 

H Spec  130:850  My  19  '23  1350 

"The  papers  in  this  volume  together  make 
one  of  the  best  books  that  Mr.  Harrison  ever 
published,  and  as  faithful  a  memorial  of  the 
writer  as  could  be  devised.  Serener  judgments 
can  hardly  ever  have  been  formed  by  a  non- 
agenarian; nothing  in  any  of  them  except  the 
length  of  reminiscence,  suggests  extreme  old 
age." 

-I-  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p265   Ap 
19   '23  llOOw 

HARRISON,  MRS  MARGUERITE  E.  (BAKER). 
Unfinished  tales  from  a  Russian  prison.  195p 
$2    Doran 

947     Prisons — Russia.     Bolshevism — Russia 

23-9767 
The  author  was  held  as  a  political  prisoner 
by  the  Bolsheviks  for  ten  months.  The  first 
of  the  sketches  describes  the  prison  and  its 
inmates,  while  each  of  the  others  is  devoted 
to  an  individual  prisoner  and  her  story,  always 
an  unfinished  tale,  as  the  fate  of  the  person 
receiving  the  order  "pack  your  clothes"  re- 
mains unknown  to  the  other  prisoners — women 
of  various  nationalities  and  social  standing. 


Booklist   20:16    O    '23 
Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  9  '23   550w 
"Mrs.    Harrison   tells  with  admirable   simplic- 
ity and  vividness  the  story  of  one  after  another 
of    her    strangely    assorted    room-mates    in    the 
Moscow  prison   of  the  Cheka."     M.  L.   Franklin 

-i-  Ind  110:426  Jl  7  '23  250w 
"One  gains  froin  these  stories  a  picturesque 
impression  of  the  strange  disturbed  life  of  the 
Russia  of  the  last  seven  years,  and  the  hazards 
of  individual  destinies.  They  are  convincing, 
one  feels,  in  spite  of  some  pardonable  journalis- 
tic heightening  of  effects."     D.   B. 

-I-  Nation  117:529  N  7  '23  120w 
"It  is  relief  to  read  these  simple,  journalist's 
pictures.  They  are  in  strong  contrast  with  what 
passes  for  art  among  our  editors,  the  dope  of 
fiction  by  which  industrialized  society  seeks  to 
hide  from  itself  that  life  is  sudden,  tiagic  and 
vast.  This  book  reminds  one  that  journalism 
has  contained  the  dignity  of  the  most  renowned 
names  in  European  literature;  and  that  for  a 
sentient  human  being  words  may  still  recall 
something  of  the  magic  horror  of  existence." 
H.    J.    Seligmann 

+  New  Repub  35:365  Ag  22  '23  550w 
"One  puts  down  the  'Unfinished  Tales'  with 
the  thought  that  he  has  had  a  real  peep  into 
the  topsy-turvy  Russia  of  today.  Beyond  this 
no  author  can  lead  us,  for  we  can  no  more 
scan  the  whole  svibject  at  once  than  we  can 
scan  the  moon  in  the  same  way.  We  must 
centre  our  mental  telescope  on  a  part  only, 
and  be  satisfied  if  we  can  obtain  a  clear  con- 
ception  even   of   that."      A.    S.    "Will 

-I-  N  Y  Times  p9  My  27  '23  820w 
"These  records  of  the  tragedies  or  mishaps 
of  women  confined  with  her  in  the  prison  of  the 
Checka  in  Mo.scow  make  excellent  adventure 
gtories.  They  arouse  the  eager,  unhalting  in- 
terest commanded  by  swift  romantic  yarns 
standing  in  highly  colored  relief  against  a  fan- 
tastic and  never  quite  visualized  background."' 
Eva  Goldbeck 

-f   N   Y  Tribune  p21  S  2  '23  520w 


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227 


"It  Is  enough  to  say  that,  read  between  the 
lines,  these  stories  confirm  what  has  been  told 
and  hinted  so  often  about  the  Cheka  and 
the  merciless  power  that  worked  through  it. 
There  are  two  reasons  for  reading  them:  their 
interest  and  revelation  of  human  quality,  and 
their  unquestionable  authenticity  as  evidence 
concerning  what  has  taken  place  in  Russia." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  plO  Jl  10  '23  380w 
Springf'd      Republican      p7a     S      30      '23 
1750w 

HARRISON,    MRS    MARY    ST    LEGER    (LUCAS 
MALET,    pseud.).    Survivors.    349p    ?2   Dodd 

23-7725 

"The  well-preserved  and  truly  lovely  mother 
of  a  grown-up  English  daughter,  infatuated 
with  a  boy  soldier  in  her  own.  private  war 
hospital,  conspires  with  herself  to  have  the 
boy's  wounded  leg  cut  off  short,  that  he,  being 
for  the  time  under  her  spell,  may  not  run  away 
from  her  when  he  gets  better.  The  surgeon  in 
charge,  despite  the  fact  that  he  is  a  sturdy 
Scot,  apparently  with  an  occasional  mind  of 
his  own,  permits  himself  to  be  bullied  into  the 
crime  of  amputation.  There  is  a  wedding  soon 
after.  .  .  If  we  turn  from  the  career  of  Sybella 
Aylwin  to  the  story  of  her  daughter  Lydia,  we 
get  the  account  of  the  reasonable  doings  of  a 
lovely  young  English  girl,  healthy  in  mind  as 
well  as  in  body.  If  we  turn,  then,  to  the  tale 
of  Rupert  Seeker's  youthful  romance  with  a 
famous  singer  of  grand  opera — Rupert  being 
a  bachelor  of  more  than  fifty  in  the  book — we 
shall  come  again  into  contact  with  wholesome 
passion." — N    Y    World 

Boston    Transcript    p4    Jl    21    '23    1300w 

"This  is  very  frankly  a  novel  of  ideas,  a  study 

of  after-war  conditions  in  England.     To  put  the 

matter  bluntly,    it  is   not  much   of  a  story."    H. 

W.   Boynton 

—  Ind   111:19   Jl   21   '23   500w 

"The  novel  is  practically  plotless;  it  is  slow 
in  movement,  the  style  is  sometimes  strained, 
and  the  book  as  a  whole  would  have  been  the 
better  for  vigorous  pruning.  But  the  author's 
comments  on  life  and  character  are  usually 
worth  while,  her  point  of  view  is  interesting, 
and  her  work  has  more  than  a  touch  of  distinc- 
tion." 

—  +   Int    Bk    R    p57   Je   '23   230w 

"This  is  a  book  of  small  virtues  and  great 
favilts.  The  virtues  are  good  description,  clear 
characterization,  and  agreeable  style;  the  faults 
go  deeper.  The  construction  is  of  the  loosest; 
there  are  three  distinct  themes  utterly  unre- 
lated to  each  other.  .  .  There  is  neither  plot, 
character  development,  nor  action  worth  men- 
tioning." 

h   Lit   R  pl32  O  13  '23  400w 

"The  novel  is,  of  course,  well  written;  very 
well  written  at  times,  if  there  are  also  moments, 
and  especially  moments  of  dialogue,  which  seem 
a  little  over-elaborated,  a  little  too  mannered 
to  be  quite  natural.  There  is  much  of  notable 
comment,  despite  the  author's  rather  sweeping 
condemnations.  'The  Survivors'  is  in  many 
ways  an  interesting  book,  thoughtful,  and  very 
carefully  done,  with  much  noteworthy  analysis 
both  of  persons  and  of  tendencies." 

H NY  Times  pl4  Ap  29   '23  1150w 

"The  book  as  a  whole  is  rather  heavy  going. 
It  is  overstuffed;  every  sentence  is  gorged  with 
adjectives;  every  statement  is  repeated  at  least 
twice,  sometimes  thrice."  Isabel  Paterson 

—  NY   Tribune   p24   My   13   '23   950w 
"Lucas  Malet  is  a  writer  to  be  reckoned  with. 

And  whenever  we  can  get  away  from  Sybella 
and  her  crippled  young  veteran,  into  our 
author's  pleasant  pictures  of  English  life  and 
love,  we  make  this  acknowledgment  gladly. 
What  we  cannot  understand  is  the  complex 
which  moves  her  to  place  above  the  really  fine 
work  that  characterizes  most  of  'The  Survivors' 
the  brand  of  the  subnormal  as  it  stands  out 
from  the  incident  of  the  sawed-off  leg."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

h   N    Y  World  plOe  Ap  29  '23   420w 

"The  story  of  the  beautiful  Lady  Aylwin  and 
her  Hampstead  hospital;  as  seen  first  through 
the    eyes   of  her   daughter   Lydia,   and   then   by 


scenes  passing  in  the  actual  hospital,  is  ex- 
ceedingly unattractive.  On  the  whole  the  book 
must  be  called  an  unpleasant  description  of  an 
unpleasant  state  of  things.  The  author,  how- 
ever, either  does  not  see  or  fails  to  convey  a 
glimpse  of  the  hope  which  sustains  the  courage 
of  the  world  of  to-day." 

—  Spec   130:971   Je    9   '23   450w 
"The   interest   in   the   story  lies   in  the   clear- 
cut   picture   of  English   people   facing  the   prob- 
lems left  by  the  great  war,  and  in  the  carefully 
drawn   characters." 

-f-  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  15  '23  250w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p320   My 
10  '23  450w 

Wis   Lib  Bui  19:414  Jl  '23 

HARROW,    BENJAMIN.   What   to  eat  in  health 

and    disease.    203p    $2    Dutton 

613.2  Diet  23-G397 

The  author,  associate  in  physiological  chemis- 
try in  the  College  of  physicians  and  surgeons, 
Columbia  university,  provides  a  scientific,  yet 
non-technical,  summing  up  of  our  present 
knowledge  of  foods.  He  tells  what  to  eat  and 
why,  both  in  health  and  in  disease,  including 
chapters  on  the  diet  of  infants  and  of  nursing 
mothers,    and   for   overweight   and   underweight. 


Booklist   20:10   O   '23 
Boston   Transcript   p5   Je   23   '23   300w 
Reviewed  by  E.  V.  McCollum 

J    Home   Econ  15:454  Ag  '23  370w 

"This  book  should  be  read  by  those  who  have 
occasion  to  be  concerned  in  any  way  about  what 
they  are  eating,  or  feeding  to  otiiers.  It  contains 
all  that  is  necessary  for  the  average  person 
to  know  about  these  matters."  Van  Buren 
Thorne 

+   N   Y  Times  p8  Ap  29  '23  2350w 
"A    scientific    survey    of    dietetics,    written    to 
fit   the  every  day  understanding." 

-I-   N    Y    World   p9e  Ap   1   '23  190w 
Wis  Lib   Bui  19:441  O  '23 

HART,    MRS      FRANCES      (NOYES).     Contact. 

328p   $1.75   Doubleday 

23-9537 

A  collection  of  short  stories  of  the  romantic 
type.  Contents:  Phillip  the  gay;  Contact;  There 
was  a  lady;  Long  distance;  Delilah;  Green  gar- 
dens; Her  grace;   The  honorable  Tony. 


Booklist  20:21  O  '23 
"The  charm  of  Mrs.  Hart's  stories  lies  un- 
doubtedly in  the  fact  that  for  a  brief  moment 
she  has  put  woman  back  on  her  pedestal.  Cer- 
tainly it  is  the  charm  of  Mrs.  Hart's  work; 
not  that  she  pictures  life,  but  that  she  pictures 
romance;  not  that  she  strives  for  truth  but  that 
she  successfully   creates  illusion."     D.   L.   M. 

-\ Boston    Transcript    p4   Je   6   '23    7S0w 

Cleveland   p43  Je   '23 
"The    entire    group    is    good    reading,    full    of 
romance,   and  a  welcome  volume  for  entertain- 
ment." 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   pl9   Jl 
29   '23  420w 
"The   reader   of  this  volume   may  find   stories 
which  fail  to  convince;  he  will  find  none  which 
bore  him." 

-\ Lit   R   p315   D  1   '23   320w 

"Mood,  Miss  Hart  has  mastered.  Character- 
ization is  where  she  falters.  In  [her]  stories, 
there  is  a  lingering  fragrance,  like  perfume,  de- 
lightful;   but   it   leaves   nothing   definite." 

H NY   Times  p9  My  20  '23  lOOOw 

"Mrs.  Hart  is  a  true  romantic,  but  sometiines 
she  slips  across  that  all  but  invisible  hairline 
which  divides  romance  from  whatever  is  the 
equivalent  of  sentiinentality,  as  compared  to 
sentiment.  Her  stories,  like  her  people,  want 
bones,    not    to   say   blood."      Isabel    Paterson 

h   N    Y    Tribune    p21    My   27    '23    600w 

"We  think  the  trouble  with  'Contact'  is  that 
it    displays    no    evidence    whatever    of    contact 


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HART,    FRANCES — Continued 
with   life.     Miss  Hart   seems  to  go  on   the  as- 
sumption that  the   typical  is  always   the  super- 
lative."  F:   F.  Van   de  Water 

—  NY  Tribune  pl9  Ag  5  '23  1950w 
"Though   of   uneven   quality  and   not  yet  in- 
evitably sure  in  technique,  her  stories  have  in- 
dividuality and  power,  and  seem  to  promise  the 
attainment  of  substantial  distinction." 

H Springf  d   Republican   p7a  Jl  1  '23  180w 

"Short  stories  of  real  distinction." 
-I-  Wis   Lib   Bui   19:415  Jl  '23 

HARTMAN,  HERBERT  WEIDLER,  Jr.  Imperial 
fiddle-sticks.  55p  $1.50  Brick  Row  bk.  shop, 
19   E.   47th   St.,    N.Y.    [7s  6d  Hackett] 

817  23-8265 

"This  i.s  'colyum'  verse.  The  'colyums'  of 
the  New  York  Sun,  World,  Tribune,  and  Even- 
ing Post  sponsored  a  good  deal  of  it  and  the 
Yale  Daily  News  and  the  Yale  Record  printed 
a   number   of   these   verses." — Lit   R 


tions  of  the  various  types  of  graphical  devices 
to  the  functions  of  business.  (Industrial  man- 
agement,   1923)"— Pittsburgh   Mo    Bui 


"His  book,  under  the  paint  and  spangles, 
echoes  the  tragedy  of  our  generation.  Some- 
times he  even  drops  the  pretence  of  humor, 
as  in  'Jazz'  and  'Pictvire  Ahead,  Kodak  as  You 
Go.'  At  other  times  his  humour  is  too  cruelly 
sardonic,    too  clear-sighted."     J:    G.    Fletcher 

-\ Freeman    7:499   Ag   1    '23    600w 

"It  is  clever  persiflage,  for  the  most  part. 
We  snatched  at  the  book  hoping  for  an  in- 
tellectual cocktail,  but  there  was  too  much  syn- 
thetic gin.  The  flavor  is  not  all  one  could 
desire  and  the  strength  of  the  concoction  not 
enough  to  give  a  real  'kick.'  We  have  been 
rather  disappointed  where  we  desired  exhilara- 
tion." 

h   Lit    R    p804   Je    30   '23   130w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p443   Je 
28   '23   200w 

HARTT,    ROLLIN    LYNDE.      The    Man    himself. 

291p    $2.50     Doubleday 
232    Jesus    Christ  23-14247 

"Tearing  away  from  the  figure  [of  Jesus]  all 
mythical  and  legendary  elements — the  miracles, 
the  virgin  birth,  the  resurrection;  casting  out 
all  'theological  addenda' — the  incarnation,  the 
atonement,  the  trinity;  avoiding  discussion  of 
the  Nazarene's  career,  to  which  he  devotes  fewer 
pages  than  the  eighteen  in  Bossuet's  famous 
volume,  the  author  takes  us  straight  to  'the 
man  himself,'  and  presents  him  as  a  young 
Jewish  rabbi,  of  marked  limitations,  who  'could 
make  mistakes,'  parochial  in  knowledge  and  ex- 
perience, but  of  flawless  character  and  profound 
spiritual  insight,  a  man  who  gave  himself  heroi- 
cally to  the  service  of  an  unselfish  cause,  and 
left  behind  him  an  example  of  virtue  and  a 
record  of  wisdom  which  prove  him  to  be  'the 
greatest  religious  genius  of  all  time.'  " — Nation 


"A   strange    book    indeed,    but    unquestionably 

stimulating  and   thought-provoking."     G.   W.    J. 

Greensboro    (N.C.)     Daily    News    plO    O 

28   '23   llOOw 

"Mr.    Hartt's  book   is   brave,   honest,    brilliant, 

and    useful.      It    is    literary,    even    journalistic, 

rather    than    scholarly    in    style,     but    it    has    a 

background  of  scholarship  which  is  as  accurate 

as   it   is   adequate.     Mr.    Hartt   has   gone   to   the 

Bible  with  a  fresh,   open  mind  and   the  modern 

spirit,  and  has  read  its  pages  as  he  would  read 

any  other  book,  or  books,  for  information"  J:  H. 

Holmes 

+   Nation   117:664  D  5   '23   700w 
Wis   Lib    Bui    19:478   N   '23 

HASKELL,  ALLAN  CECIL,  and  BREAZNELL, 
JOSEPH  G.  Graphic  charts  in  business;  how 
to  make  and  use  them;  with  an  introd.  by 
Richard  T.    Dana.      250p     $4      Codex  bk. 

510.85      Graphic   methods.     Business   22-17467 
"Without  entering  into  the  mathematical  com- 
plexities    of     charting    and    chart     construction 
gives  a  fairly  completf»   resume  ol   the   applica- 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bul    28:351    Jl   '23 

HASKINS,    CHARLES    HOMER.      Rise    of    uni- 
2    versifies.   134p  $1.50  Holt 

378       Colleges       and       universities — History 

23-17816 
Three  lectures  delivered  on  the  Colver  foun- 
dation at  Brown  university.  In  the  first  lec- 
ture Professor  Haskins  traces  the  rise  of  the 
universities  as  one  phase  of  the  intellectual 
awakening  of  Europe  during  the  later  Middle 
ages.  The  second  lecture  discusses  the  medi- 
eval university  as  an  institution,  its  course  of 
study,  methods  of  teaching  and  the  status  of 
its  teachers.  The  third  is  devoted  to  the  medi- 
eval student,  to  his  life  revealed  in  the  stu- 
dent letters  and  poetry  which  have  come  down 
to  UB   from   that  time. 


Int  J  Ethics  34:204  Ja  '24  80w 
"An  admirable  combination  of  the  results  of 
wide  and  deep  scholarly  research  and  the  abil- 
ity to  write  pungently,  picturesquely,  with  a 
keen  sense  of  the  humanly  appealing,  this  little 
book  ought  to  afford  much  pleasure  to  all  those 
who  can  have  interest  in  the  past  as  the  fore- 
bear   of    the    present." 

-H   N   Y   Times  p28  D  23  '23  600w 

HAUNCH,  paunch  and  jowl;  an  autobiography. 

301p   $3   Boni   &  Liveright 

2.']- 17085 

"Whether  romancing  or  setting  down  soberly 
the  details  of  a  ruthless  human  life,  this  re- 
corder shrinlts  from  no  detail,  however  shame- 
ful. Meyer  Hirsch  was  born  in  the  maelstrom  of 
the  New  York  lower  east  side  in  the  '80s,  when 
this  town  was  wide  open  and  when  political 
corruption  walked  hand  in  hand  with  social 
vice.  He  takes  up  his  story  when  he  was  9 
years  old.  He  is  an  only  child,  and,  with  the 
help  of  his  parents  and  his  uncle  Philip,  sup- 
plemented by  his  own  ill-gotten  gains,  he  gets 
through  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York. 
Meanwhile,  he  is  stealing  when  he  may,  ex- 
torting 'protection  money'  from  hard-driven 
east  side  merchants,  singing  and  serving  beer 
in  a  vicious  Bowery  dance  hall,  a  hanger-on 
and  runner  around  police  courts,  an  unscrupu- 
lous lawyer,  a  strikebreaker,  and,  finally,  by 
means  of  blackmail,  a  Judge  of  the  Superior 
Criminal  Court,  rich,  fat  and  dissatisfied.  His 
gross  obesity  has  made  him  the  'Haunch, 
Paunch  and  Jowl'  of  newspaper  cartoons.  He 
has  succeeded,  he  lives  on  Riverside  Drive,  and 
his  triumph  is  as  ashes  in  his  mouth.  This 
book  is  by  bitter  implication  an  indictment  not 
of  Meyer  Hirsch  but  of  the  society  which 
nurtured  him." — N  Y  Times 


Boston  Transcript  pl2  N  21  '23  450w 
"The  book  is  as  crowded  with  colours  as  a 
painter's  palette,  and  they  have  been  handled 
with  the  skill  of  a  master  in  a  narrative  which 
ranges  from  the  harshness  of  frank  realism  to 
the  harmonious  vibrations  of  poetry."  L.  B. 
+  Freeman  8:239  N  14  '23  380w 
"There  is  no  animus,  no  bitterness  even  when 
he  treats  of  such  delicate  subjects  as  anti- 
Semitism  and  race-consciousness.  There  is  no 
diffuseness,  no  pedantry.  All  is  fairness  and 
deep  understanding.  The  problems  are  not 
dragged  in,  they  are  of  the  substance  of  the 
narrative  itself.  There  is  no  taint  of  profes- 
sional sociology,  no  trace  of  the  spirit  of  'holier 
than  thou.'  Yet  for  these  very  reasons  the 
book  will  aid  us  to  meet  with  kindness  and 
knowledge  the  difficulties  which  necessarily 
arise  from  the  mingling  of  the  races."  F.  D. 
Gallatin 

-1-  Int   Bk  R  p36  N  '23  1700w 
"If  it  is  fiction,  with  the  characteristic  exag- 
geration of  fiction,   it  is  also  fiction  made  poig- 
nant .by  fact.  No  man  who  had  lived  the  life  it 
depicts   would  have   written   it,    but   ">ince   there 


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229 


were  such  men  that  is  the  very  reason  why  it 
should  have  been  written  by  somebody."  R.  J. 
Davis 

Lit    R   p202   N   3   '23   lOOOw 

"It  is  a  marvelously  wrought  book  with  deep, 
stirring  moments.  Through  it  runs  a  pure  and 
tragic  love,  the  perfume  of  a  rose  in  a  charnel 
house."     Konrad  Bercovici 

Nation   117:743   D  26  '23   580w 

"An    extraordinary   book,    vigorous    and    vivid 
and  racy,  alive  in  every  page."   Silas  Bent 
4-  N    Y   Times  p6   O  14  '23  2200w 

"Who  the  author  or  the  authors  of  this  book 
are  I  do  not  know,  but  comparisons  with  the 
work  of  Defoe  and  Swift  are  ringing  in  my 
ears.  There  are  faults  in  'Haunch,  Paunch 
and  Jowl,'  but  there  is  genius  in  it  too."  Leo 
Markun 

H NY   Tribune   p20   O   14    '23   1650w 

"The  Judge  writes  too  well  for  a  judge  and 
too  clearly  for  a  lawyer.  There  are  many 
suspicious  marks  about  this  book,  so  many,  in 
fact,  that  the  present  reviewer  has  concluded 
that  it  is  no  autobiography  at  all."  A.  K. 
N  Y  World  pile  O  21  '23  lOOOw 

HAUPTMANN,  GERHART  JOHANN  ROBERT. 

Heretic  of  Soana;  tr.  by  Bayard  Quincy 
Morgan.  192p  $1.50  Huebsch  [6s  Seeker] 
"This  story  is  a  narrative  of  a  priest's  sensual 
temptation,  told  without  excessive  realism  and 
much  emphasis  on  the  all-compelling  power  of 
Eros — an  interesting  example  of  Hauptmann's 
later  philosophy,  derived  from  his  reading  of 
the  classics  and  his  actual  contact  with  Greek 
art  as  narrated  in  his  'Griechischer  Friihling." 
"Technically  it  is  distinguished  by  its  simple  and 
effective  construction,  and  by  the  remarkable 
descriptions  it  contains  of  Swiss  mountain 
scenery  (Monte  Generoso)." — The  Times  [Lon- 
don]  Lit  Sup 

"  'The  Heretic  of  Soana'  may  have  a  spiritual 
background  and  a  pseudo  sense  of  exaltation, 
but  under  the  clever  camouflage  it  is  a  carnal 
handling  of  the  same  old  theme."     W.  B. 

—  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ja  5  '24  550w 
"The  translator  has  done  his  work  quite  well, 

but  the  book  demands  more  than  most  novels 
to  be  read  in  the  language  in  which  it  was  writ- 
ten. Very  simple  and  unburdened  with  much 
characterisation  or  incident,  it  depends  for  its 
value  upon  the  lyricism  of  its  tone  and  the  gen- 
eral eloquence  of  its  language."  Raymond 
Mortimer 

H New  Statesman   22:supl9  O  13  '23  250w 

"The  narrative  runs  throughout  in  the  force- 
ful, often  florid,  style  of  Hauptmann.  It  is  an  ap- 
peal to  the  passions  as  against  self-restraint, 
free  thinking  as  against  reverence  for  authori- 
ty, magic-working  of  the  Stone  Ages  against 
christian  belief,  but  a  little  tale  that  holds  one 
all  the  time." 

H NY  Times  p8  N  18  '23  780w 

"Against  a  glorious  backerround  of  the  Swiss 
Alps  and  in  the  presence  of  a  community  of 
primitive  Catholics,  the  story  stands  out  splen- 
didly. Picturesque  detail  combines  with  fine  de- 
scription to  round  it  out:  careful  characteriza- 
tion gives  it  intensity."  C.   E.   N. 

+   N  Y    World    p7e    N    11    '23    520w 

"This  book  is  sheer  rhapsody.  The  thread  of 
narrative  is  slight,  and  far  from  new."  Gerald 
Gould 

h  Sat   R   136:408  O  13  "23  150w 

"Its  mystifications  are  childish;  the  qviality 
of  its  imagination  is  pretentious  and  poor;  giv- 
ing the  effect  of  a  thin  stream  in  a  great  tidal 
estuary,  hardly  visible  in  the  waste  of  mud 
flats  and  shallows.  Even  the  effect  of  strange- 
ness for  which  it  labours  is  spurious."  L.  P. 
Hartley 

—  Spec  131:760   N  17  '23   400w 

"There  are  a  few  very  lovely  passages  of  de- 
scription, but,  for  the  most  part,  the  natural 
beauties  are  extolled  merely  for  their  powers 
of  fecundity,  in  a  manner  suggestive  of  var- 
ious pagan  religions.  Hauptmann  has  the  gift 
of  words.  His  literary  power  is  unquestioned. 
Thus   in    'The   Heretic   of   Soana'    it   seems    im- 


possible   to    give    in    mere    words    a    more    vivid 

portrayal   of  stark   and   unadulterated   passion." 

Springf'd    Republican   p6  D  10   '23   360w 

The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p693    O 

18    '23    200w 

HAWES,     CHARLES     BOARDMAN.     Dark     fri- 
gate.   247p    il   $2   Atlantic   monthly 

23-26928 
"The  story  of  Philip  Marsham  who  lived  in 
the  time  of  King  Charles  and  was  bred  a  sail- 
or but  came  home  to  England  after  many  haz- 
ards by  sea  and  land  and  fought  for  the  King 
at  Newbury  and  lost  a  great  inheritance  and 
departed  for  Barbados  in  the  same  ship,  by 
curious  chance,  in  which  he  had  long  before 
adventured    with    the    pirates." — Subtitle 


"The  Dark  Frigate  is  a  good  story,  so  good 
that  it  could  well  have  been  twice  as  long. 
It  it  lacks  some  of  the  excitement  and  spon- 
taneity of  the  earlier  books,  it  shows  the  same 
skill  in  choosing  incident  and  detail,  in  rapid 
narration,  and  in  flashing  a  character  in  a  sen- 
tence or  two."     R.  M.   Gay 

-) Atlantic's   Bookshelf  Ja  '24  700w 

Booklist  20:106  D  '23 

Boston  Transcript  p3  D  22  '23  440w 

"One  feels  that  the  author  lost  heart  and 
also  the  sense  of  rhythm  with  which  he  pre- 
pared the  reader  in  the  beginning  of  the  story. 
No  one  seems  to  get  anywhere.  They  are  con- 
tinually fouled  in  the  meshes  and  recoiling  de- 
vices of  their  own  unspeakable  iniquity.  Which 
of  course  is  just  as  it  should  be.  Let  "evil  for- 
ever be  confounded.  But  in  this  instance  it  al- 
so frustrates  the  purpose  and  design  of  litera- 
ture."   Jack    Hines 

+  —     NY   Times  p5   N  11   '23  720w 

HAWKES,   CLARENCE.  Dapples  of  the  circus; 

the  story  of  a  Shetland  pony  and  a  boy.  230n 

il  $1.50  Lothrop 

23-6923 

"Dapples,  the  Shetland  pony,  is  trained  to 
perform  many  wonderful  tricks:  to  ring  a  bell 
to  call  an  imaginary  school  to  order,  to  brush 
his  trainer's  clothes,  to  look  over  books  in  a 
very  wise  way,  to  tell  the  time  of  day  and  many 
other  things.  Freckles  is  an  orphan  boy  who 
lives  on  the  poor  farm.  He  runs  away,  joins 
the  circus,  and  learns  to  ride  Dapples.  The 
author  describes  the  circus  methods  with  great 
vividness." — Boston  Transcript 


Booklist   19:324   Jl   '23 
"The  story  is  a  wonderful  one  for  boys  from 
ten    to    fifteen,    and    many    of   their    elders    will 
be  delighted  by  it." 

-f-   Boston   Transcript   p4  Je  16   '23   lOOw 
"It    is    a    simple    enough    story,    but    there    is 
something    very    genuine    about    it;    a   Shetland 
pony  and  a  boy  and  a  circus  are  a  good  com- 
bination."     M.    G.    Bonner 

+  Int   Bk   R  p38  Jl  '23  40w 
Lit  R  p774  Je  16  '23  70w 
"The  story  is  spiritedly  written  and  its  tenor 
imparts    excellent    lessons    in    kindness    to   ani- 
mals." 

+  Springf'd    Republican    p7a   Jl   1   '23   70w 

HAWKES,    CLARENCE.        Way    of    the    wild; 

stories  of  field  and  forest.  280p  il  $1.60  Jacobs 
591.5     Animals — Habits  and   behavior 

23-7783 

These  intimate  little  animal  stories  all  ac- 
centuate the  points  of  contact  between  animals 
and  humans  and  give  the  child  a  sense  of  fel- 
lowship with  the  inhabitants  of  the  air,  fields 
and  forests.  Birds,  foxes,  raccoons,  squirrels, 
rabbits,  bears  and  deer,  from  the  author's  ovra 
acquaintance  and  observation,  furnish  the  sub- 
jects.    Introduction  by  Ernest  Thompson  Seton. 

"No     one     can     read     these     stories    without 
recognizing     and     appreciating     their     author's 
wonderful    insight    into,    as    well    as    knowledge 
of  the  wild  animal  love  of  forest  and  field." 
+  Boston    Transcript   p6  Jl  11   '23   SOOw 


230 


BOOK   REVIEW   DIGEST 


HAWKES,    CLARENCE — Continued 
Reviewed  by  M.   G.    Bonner 

Int   Bk  R  p52  S  '23  150w 
"The    animals    in    this    book    are    wonderfully 
clever,   and   it  doesn't  seem  to  be  due  to  'com- 
pany manners'   either." 

+  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  Jl  1   '23  300w 

HAWKSWORTH,    HALLAM.     Workshop   of   the 

mind.      252p      il      $1.60      Century 

150       Psychology  23-7846 

The  book  is  an  attempt  to  present  the 
basic  facts  of  mental  processes,  in  a 
simple  and  interesting  style,  for  young  readers. 
It  shows  the  possibilities  of  mental  develop- 
ment, the  requirements  of  a  well  ordered  mind, 
gives  good  advice  for  forming  correct  mental 
habits — all  with  the  help  of  biographical  ref- 
erences and  anecdotes.  Contents:  The  head- 
quarters of  the  mind;  In  the  wonderlands  of 
memory;  Our  little  brains  and  their  business; 
The  wings  of  the  mind;  A  night  in  the  land  of 
dreams;  The  mysterious  strangers  in  the  land 
of  mind;  In  the  playgrounds  of  the  mind;  The 
little  world  within  four  walls;  The  little  world 
called  home;  The  world  from  the  watch-tower; 
The   genius   of   childhood;    Be   good! 


Booklist  20:.63  N  '23 
"The  author  calls  upon  the  resources  that 
have  served  him  so  well  in  his  previous  suc- 
cesses— anecdote,  illustration,  dramatization;  in 
a  word,  every  device  that  can  assist  in  making 
the  subject  matter  concrete  and  individual.  The 
result  is  a  book  of  which  it  can  be  said,  as  was 
said  of  the  earlier  volumes,  that  it  will  be 
enjoyed  by  older  people  almost  if  not  quite  as 
much  as  by  those  for  whom  it  was  written." 
+   Lit   R  pl2   S  1  '23  150w 

N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  14  '23  120w 

N   Y  World  p9e  Ag  5  '23  70w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:511  D  '23 

HAWTREY,    RALPH    GEORGE.      Monetary   re- 
construction.     147p     $3    (9s)      Longmans 

332     Money.      Gold   (as  money)  23-1770 

Six  essays  on  problems  of  currency  reform. 
The  subjects  treated  are  the  fall  in  American 
exchange  in  1915,  inflation,  the  gold  standard,  the 
European  currency  situation,  the  Federal  re- 
sei-ve  system  of  the  United  States,  and  the 
Genoa  resolutions  on  currency.  The  author 
maintains  that  the  trade  cycle  is  a  purely 
monetary  phenomenon  and  that  it  is  remediable 
by  means  of  a  rational  control  of  credit. 


Booklist  20:41  N  '23 
"There  is  naturally  much,  especially  in  the 
earlier  essays,  that  is  obsolete  and  of  little 
interest  to  the  students  of  the  prevailing  state 
of  monetary  affairs  in  Europe.  In  fact,  there 
is  not  a  little  error  to  be  found  in  them,  largely 
because  some  of  the  author's  predictions  failed 
to  materialize.  However,  some  of  these  mis- 
takes are  corrected  in  a  rather  lengthy  intro- 
duction by  means  of  which  the  author  also  at- 
tempts to  give  semblance  of  unity  to  the  com- 
pilation."    T:  York 

1-  Management  &   Adm   6:103   Jl   '23   1600w 

Reviewed  by   H.    R.   Mussey 

Nation  117:743  D  26  '23  200w 
"Mr.  Hawtrey's  volume  will  be  eagerly  read 
not  only  by  those  who  have  come  to  regard 
him  as  perhaps  the  foremost  living  authority 
on  questions  of  currency  and  credit,  but  also 
by  practical  bankers  and  old-fashioned  econo- 
mists. Even  those  who  dispute  his  central 
thesis  that  it  rests  with  the  Bank  of  England 
to  stabilise  the  general  level  of  prices  by  a 
rational  control  of  credit  will  have  to  admit 
that  these  essays,  written  at  different  dates 
between  September,  1915,  and  the  autumn  of 
1922.  reveal  an  uncanny  foresight  and  a  re- 
markable  consistency."     E.    M.    A.    L. 

New  Statesman   20:574  F  17  '23  llOOw 

Spec   131:324  S  8  '23  430w 

HAY,    IAN,   pseud.     See  Beith,   J:   H. 


HAYES,    CARLTON    JOSEPH    HUNTLEY,    and 
MOON,   PARKER  THOMAS.     Modern  history. 

890p    il    $2.40    Ma,cmillan 

909      History,    Modern  23-6291 

"A  book  intended  for  the  course  in  modern 
European  history.  .  .  The  central  theme  of  the 
book  is  democracy.  Political  history  is  the 
thread  about  which  the  story  is  built,  but 
every  chapter  contains  some  social  interpreta- 
tion, and  seven  chapters  deal  primarily  with 
social  and  economic  progress.  The  size  of  the 
book  enables  the  authors  to  give  adequate 
treatment  to  these  various  factors  in  human 
life.  The  book  abounds  in  pedagogical  aids." 
—School  R 


"Excellent  survey  of  the  modern  age.  While 
intended  for  schools  in  general,  Catholic  teach- 
ers will  welcome  its  viewpoint,  tolerance,  and 
skillful  presentation  of  the  mooted  incidents 
and  controversial  periods.  And  the  reviewer 
ventures  that  the  non-Catholic  student  will 
marvel  at  the  scientific  detachment  in  text  and 
bibliographical   aids." 

+  Cath    World    117:857    S    '23   450w 

"The  book  is  as  impartial  and  as  free  from 
misguided  patriotic  propaganda  as  one  can 
fairly  ask.  .  .  This  volume  ought — for  several 
years  to  come,  at  least — to  find  extensive  em- 
ployment in  the  secondary  schools  of  the 
country."      L:    R.    Gottschalk 

+   Educ   R   66:303   N    '23   1300w 

"Messrs.  Hayes  and  Moon  courageously  flout 
the  notion  that  so-called  epochs  form  arbitrary 
divisions  to  that  continuous  flow  of  human  ac- 
tivity we  know  as  history  and  give  a  deservedly 
lesstr  place  to  those  heretofore  overrated  de- 
partments of  history,  royal  biography,  and 
genealogy.  .  .  This  volume  contains  adequate 
illustrations,  plentiful  references,  a  chronology 
which  takes  its  place  as  an  appendix  and,  what 
will  most  delight  the  adventuresome  schoolboy 
heart,  references  to  historical  fiction,  Henty 
not   excluded." 

+  Nation    117:95    Jl    25    '23    220w 

"The  book  is  written  from  the  1923  point  of 
view.  The  language  is  simple,  and  the  style  is 
fascinating.  On  the  whole,  it  is  an  accurate 
work.  Moreover,  the  parts,  chapters,  sections, 
and  paragraphs  are  all  arranged  according  to 
an  all-comprehensive  scheme.  The  book  hangs 
together,  and  the  material  is  readily  grasped. 
One  is  impressed  with  the  fairness  of  the  ac- 
counts, especially  of  the  Reformation  and  the 
world- war."     H.    P.   Walker 

+  School    R   31:475  Je  '23   800w 

Springf'd  Republican  pl2  Je  20  '23  300w 

HAYNES,    ROY    ASA.    Prohibition     inside     out. 

308p    $2.50   Doubleday 

178      Prohibition  23-14423 

The  United  States  commissioner  of  prohibi- 
tion writes  this  history  of  prohibition  enforce- 
ment to  date.  He  gives  an  account  of  the  var- 
ious developments  and  aspects  of  the  illegal 
liquor  traffic — moonshining  m  the  cities  and 
border  states,  the  hazard  of  chasing  moonshin- 
ers and  the  temptations  to  which  prohibition 
agents  are  exposed,  the  rum-running  trade,  and 
leaks  on  the  Canadian  border.  The  wet  pro- 
paganda organization  is  described  and  the 
method  of  safeguarding  lawful  liquor  activities. 
A  chapter  is  given  to  the  thirty  men  who  have 
lost  their  lives  in  enforcing  prohibition  laws 
and  the  book  closes  with  a  summary  of  the  re- 
sults   thus    far    from     prohibition    enforcement. 


Booklist  20:82  D  '23 
"Reading  Mr.  Haynes'  book  is  exactly  like 
listening  to  one  of  his  speeches.  It  is  wonder- 
fully cheering,  but  when  compared  with 
actual  conditions  it  is  utterly  unreal.  The 
principal  difficulty  lies  in  the  fact  that  the 
commissioner  has  purported  to  give  an  inside 
story  of  prohibition.  As  a  matter  of  fact  prac- 
tically every  thing  he  has  written  about  is 
hearsay."     T.    H:    W^alnut 

f-  Survey   51:352   D   15   '23   980w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


231 


HAYWARD.    ARTHUR     H.       Colonial    lighting. 

-  159p  il  $7.50  Brimmer 
628.9  Lighting 
"Mr.  Hayward's  book  gives  an  account  of  the 
various  ways  our  ancestors  lighted  their  houses 
and  city  streets,  from  the  time  when  the  Pil- 
grims used  Betty  lamps,  crude  adaptations  of 
Greek  and  Roman  prototypes,  down  to  the  mid- 
dle of  the  nineteenth  century,  when  Sandwich 
glass   was   still   in    vogue." — Lit   R 

"This  book  is  not  the  very  last  work  on  the 
subject,  writes  Mr.  Hayward.  True,  it  is  not, 
but  it  is  very  nearly  the  first  word,  and  cer- 
tainly is  the  first  authoritative  work  on  a  fas- 
cinating subject,  for  which  no  'apology'  is 
needed."     G.   H.   S. 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p4  O  27  '23  850w 
"Mr.  Hayward  has  recorded  for  us  his  knowl- 
edge of  this  subject,  giving  an  almost  equally 
interesting  picture  of  lanterns,  candles  and 
candlesticks  and  of  various  strange  develop- 
ments of  the  lamp.  His  book  is  carefully,  ac- 
curately, and  most  satisfactorily  illustrated  with 
over  a  hundred  full  page  plates."     Elsie  Viengou 

-1-  Lit  R  p408  D  29  '23  450w 
"A  book  that  will  have  an  instant  and  strong 
appeal  to  those  who  have  been  bitten  by  the 
collecting  mania  of  whatever  variety.  Mr.  Hay- 
ward's  handsome  volume  has  much  in  it  that 
will  also  interest  the  casual  and  non-collecting 
reader." 

-I-   N   Y  Times  p24  N   11   '23  600w 

HAYWARD,  CHARLES  WILLIAMS.  What  is 
psychology?  with  sections  treating  of  sug- 
gestion and  autosuggestion.  254p  $2.50  Knopf 
[7s   6d  Allen   &  U.] 

150     Psychology  23-10940 

The  author  holds  that  psychology  is  nothing 
more  than  accumulated  suggestions  from  en- 
vironment. The  book  is  an  attempt  to  acquaint 
the  average  reader  with  the  origin  and  nature 
of  this  psychology  and  to  impress  him  with  the 
transcendent  importance  to  human  progress  of 
the  cultivation  of  this  science.  He  also  holds 
that  all  the  evils  of  mankind  usually  attributed 
to  human  nature  are  due  to  a  wrong  psychol- 
ogy which  is  now  known  to  be  within  human 
control,  making  us,  with  adequate  knowledge, 
complete  masters  of  our  fate. 

"A  tartly  written  criticism  of  social  condi- 
tions such  as  would  please  Dean  Inge  underlies 
this  well-meant  effort  to  enlist  psychology  in 
the  interest  of  human  progress.  But  it  is  'psy- 
chology' capitalized  and  invested  with  mean- 
ings which  have  been  ordinarily  reserved  for 
our  conception  of  mind." 

h   Boston    Transcript   p4   JI   21    '23    580w 

N    Y   Tribune   p21    Ag  5    '23   80w 
"It    is    marked    by   a   fiery    enthusiasm    and    a 
quenchless    optimism    which    will    appeal    to    the 
unscientific    reader.      There    are    some    excellent 
chapters   on   auto-suggestion." 

+  Sat    R    135:636   My   12   '23   lOOw 

HAYWARD,      VICTORIA.      Romantic      Canada; 

with   an    introd.    by   Edward   J.    O'Brien.    254p 

il   $10   Macmillan 

917.1     Canada — Description  and  travel 

23-8914 

"Romantic  Canada  is  the  joint  product  of 
Victoria  Hayward's  pen  and  Edith  S.  Watson's 
camera.  Author  and  artist  have  journeyed  to- 
gether from  sea  to  sea,  carefully  sidestepping 
the  obvious  tourist  goals  and  picturing  the 
common  people  in  their  commonplace  occupa- 
tions. The  stiict  geographer  will  note  that 
Labrador,  Newfoundland  and  St  Pierre  et  Mi- 
nuelon  are  not  in  the  Dominion,  as  the  authors 
themselves  confess;  but  logically  they  belong 
in  a  story  to  be  read  by  people  wno  uncritically 
class  everything  north  of  the  United  States  as 
Canada.  The  authors  start  at  Nova  Scotia, 
working  e-i.«;twfird  through  the  maritime  r>ro- 
vinces,  including  these  un-Canadian  lands,  then 
leisurely  through  Quebec  f>nd  on  out  to  the 
prqirie<!  and  Briti.sh  Columbia.  One  .sees  the 
Abnaki    Indians    weaving    sweet    grass    baskets. 


visits  the  wood  carvers  outside  Quebec,  spends 
a  chapter  or  two  with  Mennonites  and  Douk- 
hobors  and  the  Pacific  coast  Indians,  digs 
clams  at  low  tide  in  the  bay  of  Fundy  or  cures 
fish  with  the  French  fishwives  at  St  Pierre." — 
Springf'd  Republican 

Boston  Transcript  p5  F  10  '23  llOOw 
"The  book  will  be  found  to  be  something  more 
than  a  mere  gift  book  for  tourists;  for  the 
letterpress  is  based  on  close  personal  observa- 
tion, and  the  illustrations  are  marked  by  a 
depth  of  interpretative  insight  and  a  perfec- 
tion of  technique  which  give  them  an  excep- 
tional value." 

+  Canadian   Hist   R  4:76  Mr  '23  320w 
Reviewed  by  I:   Anderson 

Int  Bk  R  p42  Je  '23  200w 
"Foitunate    the    land    that    can    be    described, 
interpreted    and    pictured    by    two    such    sym- 
pathetic  chroniclers   as   have   cooperated    in   the 
making    of    this    handsome    volume!" 

+  N  Y  Times  p4  F  4  '23  2200w 
"Miss  Watson  has  an  unerring  eye  for  the 
picturesque  in  the  selection  of  subjects  for  her 
camera,  and  the  large  format  gives  her  photo- 
graphs unusual  distinction.  The  author  of  the 
text,  Miss  Havward,  wandered  in  happy  com- 
panionship with  her  photographic  friend  through 
a  large  part  of  Canada,  both  east  and  west, 
and  the  collaborators  have  worked  in  perfect 
harmonv  in  making  an  unusual  book." 

+  Outlook    133:187   Ja   24   '23   120w 
"The    book    is    really    an    'open    sesame'    to 
quaint    and    delightful    and    little-kncwn    lands 
and    peoples."  .^„   ,„„ 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Mr  4  '23  400w 
"No  one  would  wish  to  sacrifice  Miss  Hay- 
ward's enthusiasm  and  infectious  interest  in 
her  subject  for  mere  formal  correctness  of 
style;  but  her  capricious  use  of  capital  letters 
is  trying,  and  she  is  diffuse  and  inclined  to 
moralize   and    'enthuse'    too   generously." 

1_  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p888  D  20 

•23    llOOw 

HAZEN,    CHARLES    DOWNER.      Europe    since 
'    1815.    (American   historical    ser.)    rev   and  enl 

ed  2v  1202;1202p  ea  $3.50  Holt 

940.28    Europe— History  23-14579 

The  first  edition  of  this  history  appeared  In 
1910.  The  new  edition  brings  the  history  of 
Europe  down  to  the  midsummer  of  1923.  In 
recounting  the  years  from  1910  to  1919,  the 
author  has  freelv  used  the  material  contained  in 
his  "Modern  Europe."  but  the  chronicle  of 
events  since  the  middle  of  1919  is  entirely  new 
and  constitutes  more  than  a  fourth  of  the  book. 

"The  best  thing  about  this  book  Is  its  as- 
piring point  of  view,  the  author's  refusal  to 
look  at  events  with  an  indulgence  toward  the 
unmorality  of  national  striving,  which  gives  so 
material  a  tinge  to  so  much  historical  writing. 
That  Professor  Hazen  put  it  all  in  trenchant 
phrase  and  illuminating  form,  that  he  makes 
what  ought  to  be  hard  reading  a  genuine  plea- 
sure, is  an  accomplishment  that  should  bring 
him  much  gratitude  and  many  readers.  Here, 
through  a  thousand  crowded  pages,  history  and 
literature  go  hand  in  hand."     S.  L.  C. 

+   Boston   Transcript    p4    Ja    12    '24   1500w 

HEARNSHAW,  FOSSY  JOHN  COBB,  ed.  So- 
cial and  political  ideas  of  some  great  medi- 
ppval  thinkers.  224p  $3.50  Holt  [10s  6d 
Harrap] 

320.9  Political  science — History 
A  course  of  public  lectures  delivered  at  Kiner's 
college,  London,  by  different  speakers,  during 
the  autumn  of  1022.  Political  speculation  was 
active  in  the  middle  ages  and  its  core  is  the 
conception  of  a  single  universal  society,  in 
which  politics  and  economics  are  subordinated 
to  ethics.  The  theories  of  seven  medieval 
thinkers  are  outlined  in  these  lectures  with 
an  introductory  lecture  on  political  thought  in 
general  during  this  period.  Each  lecture  is 
provided  with  a  bibliography.  Contents:  In- 
troductory: Mediaeval  political  thought;  St 
Augustine  and  the  city  of  God;  John  of  Sails- 


232 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


HEARNSHAW,  F.  J:  C,  ed. — Continued 
bury  and  the  "Policraticus";  St  Thomas  Aquinas 
and  the  papal  monarchy;  Dante  and  world- 
empire;  Pierre  du  Bois  and  the  domination  of 
France;  Marsilio  of  Padua  and  mediaeval  secu- 
larism;   John   Wycliffe   and   divine   dominion. 


"Occasionally  there  are  flashes  of  humor. 
The  lectures  as  a  whole  are  serious  and  re- 
quire close  attention:  they  are  meant  to  edify 
and   instruct."     N.    H.    D. 

+  Boston  Transcript  pi  N  17  '23  420w 

"No  one  can  fail  to  admire  the  art,  admirably 
Illustrated    throughout    this    volume,    of    making 
instructions  so  enjoyable."   T.   V.    Smith 
-f-  Int  J   Ethics  34:204  Ja  '24  140w 

"This  is  an  admirable  collection  of  lectures 
on    mediaeval    social     and     political    doctrines." 

+  New  Repub  37:50  D  5  '23  200w 
"The  lectures  maintain  a  high  level  of  in- 
terest and  are  introduced  by  a  general  study 
of  mediaeval  political  theory  by  Principal 
Barker,  which  is  as  illuminating  as  are  all  the 
generalizations  of  that  versatile  historian." 
+  Spec   131:322   S    8   '23    520w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p552  Ag 
23   '23   llOOw 

HEATH,  CHARLES  E.  Beginners'  guide  to  the 
microscope;  with  a  section  on  mounting 
slides.   120p  il  75c  Spon    [Is  6d  P.   Marshall] 

578     Microscope  and  microscopy 
"An  elementary  study  of  the  microscope  and 
its  use,  including  illumination,  accessories,  care, 
and  the  examination  of  both   mounted  and   un- 
mounted objects." — Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui  28:351  Jl  '23 

HECHT,    BEN.      Florentine    dagger.    256p    il    $2 

Boni  &  Liveright 

23-26770 

Prince  Julien  De  Medici,  a  descendant  of  the 
notorious  Florentines,  is  a  respectable  Broad- 
way playwright,  in  spite  of  his  inherited  ghosts 
thru  whom  he  is  given  over  to  hallucinations 
and  morbid  fears  and  fascinated  by  the  thought 
of  crime.  His  theatrical  producer  and  friend, 
Victor  Ballau,  is  murdered  under  melodramatic 
circumstances  which  throw  suspicion  on  Bal- 
lau's  daughter  with  whom  De  Medici  is  in  love. 
An  orgy  of  mystery,  weird  imaginings,  madness 
and  crime  is  let  loose,  in  which  the  latest  psy- 
chopathic theories  score  heavily  and  in  which 
De  Medici,  for  all  his  morbid  obsessions,  finally 
distinguishes  himself  by  solving  the  mystery 
and  laying  his  own  ghosts. 


Booklist  20:21  O   '23 
Dial  75:399  O  '23  80w 
"It   is   a   remarkably  amusing  and   adroit    de- 
tective story,   with   a  seductive  enigma  pursued 
by     meticulously     ingenious     pseudo-solutions." 
Eva  Goldbeck 

+   Lit   R  p6   S  1   '23  350w 

N  Y  Times  p24  S  16  '23  780w 
"It  is  rather  good  as  such  things  go,  with  all 
the  trappings  of  a  mystery  story  and  with  biz- 
arre ajid  fantastic  puppets.  For  all  its  claptrap, 
mechanical  horrors  and  intimations  of  horror, 
the  novel  contains  some  shrewd  observations 
and  some  highly  effective  descriptive  passages. 
Hecht  can  write  irritatingly  and  even  badly, 
but  he  cannot  write  dully  or  fatuously."  Burton 
Rascoe 

-I-   N   Y  Tribune  p32  O  14   '23  60w 

Sppjngf'd     Republican     p7a    Ag    26     '23 
240w 

HEDRICK,     ULYSSES    PRENTISS.    Cyclopedia 
of  hardy  fruits.  370p  il  $6  Macmillan 

634     Fruit  22-19449 

"Describes  varieties  grown  in  North  Amer- 
ica. Not  concerned  with  cultural  methods."— 
Pittsburgh   Mo    Bui 


HELLER,  FRANK,  pseud.  (SERNER,  GUN- 
NAR).  Emperor's  old  clothes;  tr.  by  Robert 
Emmons  L^e.     388p     |2     Crowell 

23-8078 
Richard  Hegel,  a  respectable  writer  of  de- 
tective stories  in  Copenhagen,  homeward  bound 
alter  a  convivial  night  in  a  caf6,  with  brain 
befuddled,  suddenly  feels  ashamed  of  his  re- 
spectability and  of  writing,  in  the  security  of 
his  study,  about  dangers  and  excitements  whicii 
he  has  never  experienced.  He  forthwith  re- 
solves to  commit  a  burglary  and  enters,  with 
little  trouble,  an  apparently  forsaken  house.  He 
finds  it  furnished  in  Chinese  fashion,  discovers 
a  shrine  to  Buddha  and  a  living  devotee.  He 
miraculously  escapes  a  trap-door  and  reaches 
home  safely  but  from  that  time  on  lives  in  the 
thick  of  mysterious,  exotic  and  exciting  adven- 
tures, which  had  their  inception  in  China  a 
generation  back.  They  involve  a  Chinese  em- 
peror's treasure  brought  to  Copenhagen  for  safe- 
keeping by  a  faithful  servant  and  a  message 
woven  by  him  into  three  mandarin  coats.  One 
of  these  Hegel  had  inherited  from  a  sea-faring 
uncle,  and,  worn  by  him  to  a  masquerade,  it  be- 
comes the  clue  to  the  discovery  of  the  my.stery. 


"The  charm  of  this  particular  mystery  tale 
lies  wholly  in  the  telling.  Mr.  Heller  has  a 
quiet,  thoughtful  sense  of  humor  that  rises  to 
its  most  avowed  and  apparent  height  when  he 
contemplates  the  picture  of  masterful  Richard 
Hegel,  teller  of  detective  stories,  leaving  his 
hat  with  initials  in  it  at  an  unknown  house 
which   he  had  burglarized."    W.   E.   H. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p3  Je  9  '23  780w 
Freeman  7:526  Ag  8  '23  220w 
"It  is  a  mystery  story  of  unusual  quality;  it 
describes  with  striking  reality  a  series  of  ex- 
traordinary events,  and  is  pervaded  with  a 
whimsical  humor  that  makes  it  genuinely  re- 
freshing." 

+   Lit   R  p867  Jl  28   '23   150w 
Reviewed    by   Nathan    Asch 

Nation    117:43   Jl   11    '23   300w 
N    Y    Times  pl4   My  13  '23   550w 
"If   all    of    Heller's   stories   are   as   fascinating 
and   baffiing   as    this,    the   reason   for  his   popu- 
larity is  immediately  apparent." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Je  10  '23  190w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:509  D  '23 

HELM,    JEANNETTE.    Without    clues.    319p    $2 

Boni    &   Liveright 

23-13262 

"The  chief  novelty  here  lies  in  the  fact  that 
the  crime  to  be  committed  is  announced  in 
advance  and  the  game  is  to  prevent  it.  The 
hero-author  is  challenged  by  the  mysterious 
'A.  Z.,'  who  tells  him  that  on  a  certain  definite 
date  'one  of  the  prominent  citizens  of  Catawba 
City  will  die  by  violence,'  and  wagers  $50,000 
that  the  crime  will  be  put  through  without  leav- 
ing any  clues.  What  happens  must  be  left 
to    the    reader's    curiosity." — Lit    R 


Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:180  Ap  '23 


"This  'mystery  story'  is  all  mystery  and  no 
story.  We  spend  so  much  time  in  preparation 
that  we  do  not  get  on  fast  enough  to  suit  the 
average   detective    story   enthusiast." 

—  Boston  Transcript  p4  O  24  '23  150w 

"In  spite  of  a  certain  cumbrousness  this  is  a 
fairly  well  made  puzzle  story,  though  it  works 
the  machinery  of  coincidence  rather  extensive- 
ly." 

H Lit   R  pl66  O   20  '23  20w 

Nation    117:562   N   14   '23    GOw 

HENDERSON,      BERNARD      WILLIAM.       Life 
and  principate  of  the  Emperor  Hadrian,  A.D. 
76-138.  304p  il     $4.50  Brentano's  [15s  Methuen] 
B   or    92      Hadrian,    emperor   of   Rome 

[23-18187] 
"Dr.  Henderson  has  now  added,  to  his  books 
on  the  Roman  Empire  a  volume  on  Haririan. 
This,  when  his  scheme  is  complete,  will  be 
the  concluding  volume  of  a  series  which  beerins 
with   his   Nero   and   which  will   then   furnish   a 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


233 


continuous  narrative  up  to  the  death  of  Had- 
rian in  A.D.  138." — The  Times  [London]  Lit 
Sup 


Boston    Transcript    p2   O    20   '23    lOOOw 
Reviewed    by   Cuthbert    Wright 

Freeman  8:262  N  21  '23  750w 
"One  cannot  help  feeling  that  Dr.  Henderson 
seeks  to  beat  off  the  demon  of  dullness  too 
consciously,  too  spasmodically.  He  writes  as 
if  he  were  always  bidding  us  note  that  he  was 
not  a  bit  donnish  or  ponderous  like  a  German. 
His  liveliness  sometimes  becomes  a  kind  of 
breeziness  and  jauntiness  which  does  not  mean 
greater  effectiveness.  Yet  Dr.  Henderson  has 
real  life  and  imagination  and  good  common 
sense  and  can,  when  he  likes,  write  fine  pas- 
sages." 

-| The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p497    Jl 

26  '23  1800W 


HENDERSON,  DANIEL  MACINTYRE.  Pirate 
princes  and  Yankee  jacks.  234p  il  $2  Dut- 
ton 

23-8273 

"Barbary  pirates  and  the  Yankee  sailors  who 
punished  them  in  Decatur's  day,  are  vividly  por- 
trayed in  this  stirring  story,  in  which  fiction 
is  thoroughly  intermixed  with  fact  in  a  way 
that  will  please  boys  who  have  a  thirst  for 
sea   tales  of  adventure." — Outlook 


Booklist  20:24  O  '23 
"The  story  is  devised  and  wrought  out  with 
great  skill,  the  reader,  while  learning  much  of 
truth  concerning  the  relations  between  the 
United  States  and  Tripoli,  is  entertained  by  an 
imaginative  narrative  of  great  interest  and 
beauty."    E.   J.   C. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p5   My  5  '23   750w 

Cleveland  p68  S  '23 
"The    book    is   a    masterpiece    of   its   kind.     It 
is    extraordinarily    well    written."    M.    G.    Bon- 
ner 

+  Int  Bk  R  p56  O  '23  50w 
"Here  is  material  for  a  corking  book.  But 
it  is  not  nearly  freshly  enough  told  to  make 
an  outstanding  juvenile.  It  touches  too  slightly 
on  Decatur  to  be  a  life  of  him  and  it  is  hardly 
a  history   for  adult   minds." 

h    Lit  R  p50  S  15  '23  220w 

"The  book  is  beautifully  written.  It  is  for 
older  bovs  and  girls."     M.    G.    Bonner 

+   N    Y    Times   pll   Je    24    '23    560w 
Outlook    134:48    My    23    '23    30w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p773  N  15 
'23   200w 

HENDRICK,       BURTON       JESSE.         Jews      in 

America.    171p    $1.50    Doubleday 

296     Jews  in   the   United    States         23-10400 

"The  four  chapters  which  compose  the  book 
are  in  reality  four  papers  which  originally  ap- 
peared in  the  World's  Work.  Mr.  Hendrick 
opens  his  discussion  with  an  extremely  inter- 
esting historical  sketch  of  the  Jew  in  America. 
.  .  The  second  chapter  discusses  the  question: 
'Do  the  Jews  Dominate  American  Finance?' 
This  is  a  question  often  discussed,  or  more 
properly  stated,  it  is  a  declaration  afflrmatively 
made  with  frequency.  Mr.  Hendrick  shows  the 
utter  fallacy  of  such  a  statement.  .  .  The  Polish 
Jew  is  considered  specifically  in  the  last  two 
chapters." — Boston    Transcript 


Booklist    20:5    O    '23 
Bookm   58:84  S  '23  250w 
"The    'Jewish   Question'    in   this  small  volume 
is    discussed    with    vast    care    and    thoroughness 
by  Mr.   Hendrick."     E.   J.   C. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p5    Jl    14    '23    500w 
"Mr.    Hendrick    might    be    right    or   wrong    in 
his   rewriting   of   Jewish   anthropology  and   his- 
tory— it   is  my  intention   to  indicate   further  on 
how    emphatically    wrong   he    is — but   obviously 


the  indictment  of  anti-Semitism  will  not  lie 
against  a  man  who  shows  that  at  bottom  there 
is  nothing  definite  to  anti-Semitize  against." 
Simeon   Strunsky 

-{ Lit  R  p812  Jl  7  '23  2650w 

"The  author's  failings  are  not  confined  to  a 
mis-citation  of  records.  He  betrays  in  his  gen- 
eral discussion  that  psychopathic  trait  of  a 
bigot,  the  desire  to  beat  his  victim  with  both 
ends  of  the  stick  at  the  same  time.  .  .  It  is  sur- 
prising that  so  keen  a  journalist  as  Mr.  Hend- 
rick did  not  recognize  that  by  piling  up  his 
contradictions  in  so  gross  a  manner  he  has 
made  the  indictment  self-defeating."  J.  J. 
Smertenko 

—  Nation    117:468    O    24    '23    1050w 

"We  are  not  much  impressed  by  Mr.  Hend- 
rick's  logic,  and  in  regard  to  Labour  and 
Americanisation  he  is  not  very  far  from  the 
notions  that  the  Klan  believes  itself  to  siand 
for.  But  his  little  book  in  the  main  is  sound, 
and  it  comes  at  the  right  moment." 

^ New   Statesman    21:722   S   29   '23  280w 

"That  the  existance  of  such  a  situation  in 
America  should  present  various  interesting 
problems  is  inevitable.  These  Mr.  Hendrick 
describes  in  a  lively  and  unprejudiced,  though 
perhaps  a  rather  categorical,  manner.  When 
he  comes  to  argue  from  his  material,  how- 
ever, Mr.  Hendrick  discloses  the  insufflciency 
of  his  research.  His  conclusions  are  not  al- 
ways logical,  and  do  not  necessarily  follow 
from  his  premises.  But  Mr.  Hendrick,  fortun- 
ately, has  no  axe  to  gi-ind." 

—  -1-  Spec  131:1002  D  22  '23  140w 

"The  purpose  of  this  book  is  propaganda  for 
further  restriction  of  immigration.  To  this  end, 
an  editor  of  the  World's  Work  has  worked  out 
a  neat  Uttle  thesis  to  prove  that  the  character 
and  achievements  of  the  older  Jewish  immi- 
grants to  America  belong  to  a  race  and  civili- 
zation totally  different  from  those  of  the  Rus- 
sian-Polish Jews  who  have  come  in  recent 
years  and  desire  to  come  perhaps  in  even  larger 
numbers.  It's  a  fine  thesis— but  unfortunately 
for  the  author  it  can  be  maintained  only  by 
many  half-statements  and  misstatements,  and 
in  these   the   book   abounds." 

—  Survey  51:111  O  15  '23  750w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p608  S  13 
•23   50w 

HENDRYX,   JAMES   BEARDSLEY.    North.    334p 
$1.75    Putnam  ^^_^^^^ 

In  the  Alaskan  gold  country  Burr  MacShane 
was  a  character,  a  roving  spirit  always  playing 
a  lone  hand,  breaking  camp  and  hitting  the 
trail  when  the  "hunch"  got  him  and  blazing 
his  trail  bv  deeds  of  valor.  He  first  meets 
Lou  Gordon,  then  a  child  of  eleven,  under 
circumstances  which  make  him  her  hero.  Years 
later,  when  Lou's  dog-team  is  entered  at  Nome 
for  the  Alaska  sweepstakes,  they  meet  again 
and  luck  favors  him  once  more  when  he,  as 
a  stranger,  saves  the  day  for  her  and  drives 
her  dos?s  to  the  winning  of  the  race.  Thus 
amid  complications,  adventures  and  danger, 
rough  men  and  dogs,  this  snow-bound  romance 
spins    itself    out    to    a    successful    issue. 


Booklist   19:253  My  '23 
"The   storv   is   packed  with  thrilling  incidents 
of    life    in    the    far    North." 

+  Int    Bk    R   p57   F  '23    240w 
"A    tale    which    has    plenty   of   adventure   and 
more   than   one   thrill." 

-f    N    Y    Times   p24    Ja    21    '23   480w 
Reviewed    by 'E.    W.    Osborn 

N  Y  World  p6e  F  11  '23  190w 
"There  is  an  echo  of  the  Alaskan  gold  fever, 
scenes  in  Dawson  and  multiple  other  settle- 
ments inhabited  by  seekers  after  fortune  and 
vivid  descriptions  of  life  in  the  open.  The  cli- 
max of  the  story  is  a  vivid  description  of  the 
great    Alaskan    sweepstakes,    the    famous    dog- 

-t-  Sprlngf  d  Republican  p7a  Je  24  '23  180w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:160    Je    '23 


234 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


HENNESSY,    FRANCIS    XAVIER.      Citizen    or 
subject?    466p    $3   Dutton 

342.73  United  States — Constitution.  Pro- 
hibition 
Tlie  present  treatise  concerns  the  constitu- 
tionality of  the  Eighteenth  amendment.  The 
author  demonstrates  from  history  that  after 
1790  no  individual  in  America  was  a  subject  of 
any  government  or  governments,  but  each  in- 
dividual was  a  citizen  of  the  nation  which  is 
America;  that  as  such  citizens  they  had  given 
government  power  to  interfere  with  their  in- 
dividual freedom  only  by  direct  grant  from 
themselves  thru  their  conventions;  that  the 
Eighteenth  amendment  is  a  return  to  the  Tory 
concept  that  the  people  are  subjects. 


N   Y  Times  pl8  Ag  26  '23  550w 
Reviewed  by  S.    A.   Coblentz 

N  Y  Tribune  p20  O  21  '23  500w 
"Mr.   Hennessy  argues  well  and  the  Supreme 
Court    Judges   ought   to   study   his    book,    which 
includes  an  excellent  history  of  the  amendment, 
as   well   as   much    incidental   information." 
+   N  Y  World  p7e  Ag  12  '23  240w 

HENRI,    ROBERT.    Art    spirit;    comp.    by    Mar- 
gery Ryerson.  292p  $2     Lippincott 

750  "Art.  Painting 
From  articles  and  notes  by  the  artist,  from 
his  letters,  criticisms  and  class  talks  one  of  his 
pupils  has  compiled  this  book  of  his  opinions  on 
art  and  painting  and  advice  on  the  technique 
of  picture-making.  Thruout,  the  artist  seems 
to  be  talking  familiarly  with  his  students  and 
friends. 


BookMst    20:127    Ja   '24 

"Mr.  Henri  is  full  of  individuality,  a  dynamic 
soul,  and  he  delights  in  giving  electric  shocks. 
There  are  plenty  of  these  in  his  criticisms  and 
in  his  apothegms.  His  book  is  not  meant  for 
a  long  bath  but  for  a  quick  plunge  in  the 
early  morning  before  breakfast.  One  will 
emerge,  as  from  cold  salt  water,  all  aglow  and 
ready  for  a  tussle  with  him  or  with  the  whole 
world."     N.   H.   D. 

H Boston  Transcript  p6  N  3  '23  550w 

"The  volume  is  devoid  of  method  and  con- 
tinuity; the  author  'has  no  idea  that  any  one 
should  agree  with  any  of  the  comments;  if  they 
irritate  to  activity  in  a  quite  different  direc- 
tion it  will  be  just  as  well.'  It  is  hard  to  ap- 
ply a  cruel  aesthetic  test  to  opinions  frankly 
put  forward  as  mere  stimuli."  T:  Craven 
h  Freeman    8:234    N    14    '23    1850w 

"The  valuable  discussions  contained  in  this 
hodge-podge  of  students'  notes,  occasional  ar- 
ticles, and  letters  could  be  given  to  the  pub- 
lic in  comparatively  few  pages.  It  is  unfor- 
•unatt-  that  his  wholesome  and  liberating  ideas 
jhould  be  lost  to  the  general  public  for  lack 
of  an  intelligent  secretary.  These  ideas  are 
not  new,  but  many  of  them  are  something  bet- 
ter; they  are  true,  important,  and  neglected. 
They  unite  in  an  unusual  and  salutary  way  the 
independence  of  the  secessionist  with  the 
academician's  respect  for  the  past."  C.  M. 
Smertenko 

-I Nation   117:495  O  31  '23  480w 

"The  real  philosophy,  psychology,  aesthetics 
and  general  readability  of  Henri's  book  will  be 
found  at  their  best  in  the  passages  which  reg- 
ister the  author's  personal  reaction  to  works  of 
certain  masters  of  his  predilection." 

+   N   Y  World  p6e   Ag  19   '23  lOOOw 

HENRY,   ALICE.     "Women  and  the  labor  move- 
ment.   (Workers'    bookshelf)    241p   $1.50   Doran 
331.4     Trade  unions.     Woman — Employment 

23-13659 
The  secretary  of  the  educational  department 
of  the  National  women's  trade  union  league 
writes  this  record  of  the  steady  growth  of  or- 
ganization among  women  in  all  branches  of 
industry  in  the  United  States.  Two  introductory 
chapters  summarize  the  part  taken  bv  the 
primitive  and  the  colonial  woman  in  industry. 
The    earliest    information    about    women's    trade 


unions  dates  back  to  1825  and  in  1851,  with  the 
establishment  of  the  Female  labor  reform  as- 
sociations unionism  became  more  active.  Most 
of  the  book  is  given  to  the  modern  trade  union 
movement  since  1920,  the  record  of  industrial 
legislation  for  women,  the  establishment  of  the 
Women's  national  trade  union  league,  and  the 
Working  women's  congress,  the  first  world 
gathering  of  women  which  presented  its  de- 
mands to  the  Labor  conference  of  the  League  of 
nations. 


"The   book   is   compact,    thoroughgoing   as   far 
as   its  space   allows   and  a  valuable  addition   to 
the    series    of    the    Workers'    Bookshelf    as    well 
as  an  interesting  study  for  the  general  reader." 
-I-  N   Y  Times  p24  N   4  '23  600w 
Survey   52:supl87   N   1  '23   550w 
"This    is    a    useful    volume,    written    in    clear, 
simple,   dignified  English  and  packed  with  facts 
that     have     been     carefully     sifted."       Florence 
Kelley 

+  Survey   51:351   D    15   '23   9S0w 

HENSHALL,    JAMES    ALEXANDER.      Book   of 

the    black    bass,     new    ed    rev    548p     il    $4.50 

Stewart  Kidd 

799     Black  bass.     Fishing  23-12088 

Tho  the  first  edition  of  this  book  was  pub- 
lished forty  years  ago  it  still  remains  the  first 
authority  on  the  subject.  In  the  present  edi- 
tion Part  one,  comprising  the  scientific  history 
of  the  black  bass  species,  has  been  considerably 
curtailed,  while  Parts  two  and  three,  concern- 
ing tackle  and  implements,  angling  and  fly-fish- 
ing, have  been  largely  added  to. 


Boston  Transcript  p4  S  1  '23   220w 
"The   book   was   perfect   as   ft   was   first   pub- 
lished   42    years    ago,    better    in    the    edition    of 
1904,    and    best    of    all,    incomparably    so,    in    its 
present  form."  J.   G.  de  R.   H. 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Dally  News  p20  Ag 
26  '23  1300W 
"Dr.  Henshall  was  the  leader  in  popularizing 
the  black  bass  and  'giving  them  due  rank  among 
game  fish.  His  treatise  on  them  from  the  an- 
gler's standpoint  is  a  classic  long  known  to  the 
angling    fraternity." 

+    Lit   R   pl95  O   27  '23   160w 

N   Y  Tribune  p22  O  28  '23  lOOw 

HERBERT,   ALAN    PATRICK.   "Tinker,   tailor"; 

a  child's  guide  to  the  professions.   67p  il  $1.50 

Doubleday     [3s    6d    Methuen] 

821  23-13520 

"  'A.  P.  H.'  of  Punch  is  the  author  of  a  book 
of  humorously  solemn  rhymes  for  children.  The 
vocational  advantages  the  meteorologist,  the 
apothecary  or  the  sailor  enjoys  are  whim- 
sically noted,  and  should  any  aspiring  young- 
ster have  any  idea  of  hitching  his  wagon  to 
the  star  that  presides  over  the  fortunes  of  sec- 
retaries of  commerce,  orchestra  conductors  or 
farmers,  respectively,  he  has  only  to  read  care- 
fully 'A.  P.  H.'s'  verse  relative  to  these  vo- 
cations to  be  informed  as  to  the  desirability 
of    them    all." — -Springf'd    Republican 


"The  illustrations,  by  George  Morrow,  are  as 
witty  and  delightful  as  the  text."  M.  L.  Frank- 
lin 

-f-   Ind  111:254  N  24  '23  450w 
"Adults    will    like    this    book,    and    the    illus- 
trations by  George  Morrow  are  delicious!"  M.  G. 
Bonner 

-f  Int  Bk  R  pBO  N  '23  flOw 
"This  volume  of  rhymes  falls  into  the  cate- 
gory of  books  that  provide  witty  entertainment 
for  youngsters,  but  can  only  fully  be  appre- 
ciated by  their  elders.  Mr.  Herbert's  verses 
are  delightful,  clever  in  technique,  pointed  with 
good  humouied  raillery,  and  infused  with  gay 
mockery." 

+   Lit   R   p242   N   10  '23   200w 
"A   volume    of    very   light,    entirely    unpreten- 
tious and   extremely   funny  verse."     F:    F.    Van 
de   M'^ater 

+  N    Y   Tribune   p5   S   23   '23   980w 


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235 


"The  Joke  would  be  on  donor  and  recipient  if 
it  were  given  to  a  child,  for  the  reader  of  ten- 
der years  would  be  somewhat  mystified  by  its 
satirical  verses  on  squires  and  rectors  and  dip- 
lomats   and    apothecaries    and    others."    M.    A. 

N   Y   Tribune  p24  N  11  "23   lOOw 
"All    in    all,    21    vocations    are    herein    wittily 
tagged    for    the    public." 

+   Springf'd    Republican  p7a  S  16  '23  150w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:480   N   "23 

HERBERT,      ALAN      PATRICK.        Man     about 

=*    town.    287p    il    $2   Doubleday    [6s   Heinemann] 
827 
Humorous    sketches   of    London    life    done    by 
A.   P.   H.   most  of  which  appeared  originally  in 
Punch. 

"To  call  Mr.  Herbert  a  social  satirist  would 
be  true,  but  unjust.  He  is  something  more 
than  that,  because  he  is  content  to  appear 
something    less."     Gerald    Gould 

+  Sat   R   137:17   Ja  5   '24   360w 
"It  is  that  sort  of  book  that  makes  off  from 
a   reviewer's   desk   but   can    be    tracked   by   the 
chuckles  it  provokes." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p874   D 
13  '23  500w 

HERDMAN,  SIR  WILLIAM  ABBOTT.  Found- 
ers of  oceanography  and  their  work.  340p  il 
$7   Longmans   [21s  E.   Arnold] 

551.46  Ocean 
The  book  is  based  on  a  course  of  twenty 
lectures  given  in  the  University  of  Liverpool. 
The  first  six  lectures  are  in  the  main  biograph- 
ical and  deal  with  the  men  who  did  pioneer 
work  in  the  science  of  the  ocean:  Edward 
Forbes,  the  Manx  naturalist;  Sir  C.  Wyville 
Thomson  and  the  "Challenger"  expedition;  Sir 
John  Murray  the  pioneer  of  modern  oceano- 
graphy: Louis  and  Alexander  Agassiz  and 
American  explorations;  the  Prince  of  Monaco 
and  the  Oceanographic  museum.  The  remain- 
ing chapters  deal  with  ocean  phenomena  and 
methods  of  investigation;  marine  biological  sta- 
tions; hydrography;  ocean  currents;  submarine 
deposits;  coral  reefs  and  islands;  phosphores- 
cence; plankton;  applied  oceanography;  sea- 
fisheries;    the    food    of    sea    animals. 


"Here  is  a  well  written  and  highly  interesting 
account  of  the  men  who  went  down  to  the  sea 
in  ships,  not  on  commercial  errands  bent,  but 
in  order  to  make  the  oceans  an  object  of  study 
and  bring  forth  from  their  depths  the  secrets 
they  had  so  long  hidden  from  human  view." 
E.    N. 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p5  D  15  '23  950w 
"The  book  is  one  of  great  freshness  and  charm, 
much  of  which  is  due  to  the  impress  of  the 
author's  personality;  it  bears  throughout  the 
mark  of  his  own  keen  interest  in  the  science  to 
which  his  life  has  been  so  zealously  devoted. 
As  a  consequence,  the  book  is  never  dull,  even 
when  treating  of  somewhat  more  recondite 
themes,  and  in  many  parts  the  presentment  at- 
tains a  degree  of  interest  positively  absorbing." 
J.    Schmidt 

+  Nature  112:784  D  1  '23  llSOw 
"A  thoroughly  interesting,  easily  readable 
book  on  a  scientific  subject  is  unfortunately 
rather  rare;  and  we  are  the  more  grateful  when 
we  find,  on  opening  a  volume  with  the  half- 
shrinking  expectation  of  encountering  techni- 
cal terms  to  be  learnt  and  a  grammar  to  be 
mastered,  that  our  anxieties  have  been  needless 
and  that  our  attention  is  caught  at  the  out- 
set   and    steadily    held    to    the    end." 

-I-  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p615  S  20 

•23    1800w 

HERFORD,  OLIVER,  ed.  Poems  from  Life: 
with  introductory  words  by  Oliver  Herford 
and  orchestration  by  Charles  B.  Falls.  308p 
$2.50    Macmillan 

811.08    Humor.     Life  (periodical).    American 
poetry — Collections  23-7263 

A  collection  of  humorous  poetry  from  Life. 


"One  wonders  how  some  of  the  verses  won 
this  book  appearance,  while  being  grateful  that 
others   have    been    revived." 

H Bookm    57:655    Ag    *23    lOOw 

"Do  you  want  to  be  cheered?  Life's  Anthol- 
ogy, taken  faithfully  in  daily  doses,  will  make 
you    cheerier    and    cheerier."      I.    W.    L. 

+   Boston    Transcript   p2   My   26   '23   1050w 
"Mr.    Herford    was    most    happily    chosen    as 
Life's    anthologist.      He    has    compiled    a    neat 
and    attractive    volume." 

+  Lit  R  p836  Jl  14  '23  200w 
Nation  117:95  Jl  25  '23  50w 
"The  collection  of  verse  which  Oliver  Her- 
ford has  edited  and  introduced  in  'Poems  from 
Life'  compares  favorably  with  the  English 
volume.  Although  the  verses  are  undeniably 
lacking  in  that  mellow  finish  and  occupy  a  lesser 
position  from  a  literary  view -point,  they  are 
much    funnier." 

-I Outlook   134:481  Jl  25   '23   300w 

St   Louis  p292  O  "22 

HERRICK,    ROBERT.      Homely    Lilla.      293p     $2 

Harcourt 

23-3437 

We  meet  Lilla  first  on  a  Wyoming  ranch,  a 
sturdy,  overgrown,  thirteen-year-old  tomboy. 
After  the  deatli  of  her  father  she  is  obliged 
to  exchange  her  wild  freedom  for  a  circum- 
scribed existence  in  Chicago,  always  at  war 
with  her  mother's  prim  New  England  ways  and 
with  conventionality  in  general.  Her  vivid  and 
robust  personality  attracts  men  and  at  the 
age  of  nineteen,  her  sane  intuitions  having  be- 
come confused  thru  her  environment,  she  mar- 
ries a  inartinet  of  a  man  with  ambitions  in 
the  teaching  profession.  She  endures  a  re- 
lationship that  would  have  broken  a  weaker 
character,  for  fifteen  years,  and  when  she  has 
reached  a  point  where  divorce  would  be  the 
only  scJlution  for  her  problem,  the  war  gives  hei 
an  opportunity  to  betake  herself  and  young 
son  to  a  ranch  in  Idaho.  Thru  years  of  hard- 
ship and  struggle  she  succeeds  in  making  a 
home,  in  finding  herself  and  the  man  to  whom 
her  wliole  being  responds.  When  her  husband 
suddenly  appears  protesting  his  love  for  her 
and  throwing  himself  upon  her  mercy,  she  has 
the  courage  to  insist  on  her  right  to  her  own 
life. 


"  'Homely  Lilla'  is  in  no  way  worthy  of  the 
author  of  'The  Web  of  Life,'  'The  Real  World,' 
or    'The    Common    Lot.'  "       E.    F.    E. 

—  Boston    Transcript   p6   Ja    31   '23   650w 

"The  story  is  told  with  a  simplicity,  economy, 
and  directness  which  assures  us  that  Mr  Her- 
rick's  craftsmanship  has  not  suffered  from  dis- 
use— rather,  it  has  gained.  He  has  avoided 
the  over-emphasis  which  marred  certain  earlier 
works,  and  has  achieved  an  easy  uniformity  of 
texture."      R.   M.    Lovett 

-f   Dial    74:513    My    '23    1050w 

Reviewed  by  Frances  Newman 

Freeman    7:115   Ap   11    '23   520w 

"Mr.  Herrick's  style  is  a  refreshment  in  this 
hour  of  slapdash  novelese,  but  he  has  not 
much  to  say  or  tell  on  the  present  occasion." 
H.    W.    Boynton 

h   Ind    110:196    Mr    17    '23    300w 

Int    Bk     R    p55    Mr    '23    300w 

"It  is  a  good  story.  But  there  is  no  great- 
ness in  it.  And  what  but  a  touch  of  great- 
ness, something  more  than  distinction  of  form, 
can  now  really  justify  the  rehandling  of  this 
old,  old  matter?"  H.  W.  Boynton 
h   Lit     R    p447    F    10    '23    950w 

"The  author  has  succeeded  as  he  has  never 
succeeded  before  in  conveying  the  sense  of  life 
as  a  passionate  thing  and  thus  supplied  that 
almost  indefinable  something  which  was  lack- 
ing in  his  previous  books.  .  .  Sex  is,  through 
the  book,  the  center  about  which  all  revolves, 
but  this  is  not  an  over-emphasis,  because  the 
sexual  nature  of  Lilla  is  no  febrile  and  irritated 
desire  but  simply,  as  in  all  minkind,  the 
center  from  which  radiates  her  energy,  the 
key  to  the  richness  of  her  nature."  J.  W. 
Krutch 

+  Nation    116:190    F   14   '23    1300w 


236 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


HERRICK,    ROBERT — Continued 

N  Y  Times  pl4  Ja  28  '23  750w 
"This  novel  has  all  of  the  superficial  merits  and 
almost  none  of  the  major  virtues  in  the  art  of 
fiction.  It  is  felicitous  in  its  phrasing;  it  is 
planned  with  academic  precision;  it  moves 
virithout  impediment  to  a  dramatic  climax;  it 
ends  in  a  solution  that  appears  inevitable  and 
satisfactory.  But  the  characters  in  the  novel 
seldom  breathe  the  breath  of  life.  Mr.  Her- 
rick  too  often  plays  the  preceptor  and  birch- 
man  to  his  figures  instead  of  letting-  them  lead 
their    own    lives."       Burton    Rascoe 

h   N    Y    Tribune   pl8   F   4    '23    1700w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ja  28  '23  ISOw 

HERROLD,  LLOYD  DALLAS.  Advertising  for 
the  retailer.  (Commercial  educ.  ser.)  677p 
11       $5       (21s)       Appleton 

659     Advertising  23-9907 

Complete  information  on  every  type  of  ad- 
vertising used  by  the  retailer.  Illustrations 
of  layouts,  window  decorations,  show  cards, 
letters,    etc. 


Booklist  20:45  N  '23 
"The  appeal  of  this  book  is  broader  than  is 
indicated  in  its  title.  While  much  of  the  material 
is  prepared  specifically  with  the  retail  dealer 
in  mind,  there  is  much  more  that  is  of  value 
to  everybody  who  advertises,  and  that  certainly 
includes    the   industrial    executive   of   today." 

-I-   Management   &   Adm    6:385    S    '23    450w 
"Many  good  advertising  books  have  been  writ- 
ten, some  devoted  to  retail  advertising,   but  we 
cannot,  at  this  time,   recall  a  more  practical  or 
comprehensive  work  than  Mr.   Herrold's." 
-I-   N    Y  Times   p20   Ag  5   '23  500w 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui    28:478    N   '23 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:504  D  '23 

HERTZLER,  JOYCE  ORAMEL.  History  of 
Utopian  thought.  321  p  $3  Macmillan  [12s 
6d  Allen   &   U.] 

321.07    Utopias  23-5831 

The  author  defines  the  Utopian  spirit  as  "a 
conception  of  social  improvement  by  ideas  and 
ideals  themselves  or  embodied  in  definite 
agencies  of  social  change."  The  first  part  of 
this  siudy  of  social  Utopias  is  an  historical 
review  beginning  with  the  social  ideals  of  the 
earliest  Hebrew  prophets  and  continuing  with 
the  republic  of  Plato  and  the  early  Utopias  to 
the  Utopian  socialists  and  the  fantasies  of  Bel- 
lamy, Hertzka  and  Wells.  Part  second  is  an 
analytical  and  critical  appraisal  of  the  writers 
of  the  various  Utopias,  their  ideals,  the  contri- 
butions they  have  made  to  human  advance- 
ment,  and  their  limitations.     Index. 


"The  author  should  be  commended  for  his 
method  of  relating  each  Utopia  to  its  historical 
matrix.  He  shows  considerable  critical  judg- 
ment and  sound  knowledge  of  sources  and  ac- 
cessory materials,  such  as  biography.  There 
is,  therefore,  all  the  less  excuse  for  quoting 
from  secondary  sources  for  the  whole  line  of 
FYench  utopists  when  their  own  writings  are 
easily  obtainable."     A.   J.   Todd 

-r  —  Am    J    Soc   29:237   S   '23   550w 

Ann    Am   Acad    108:225   Jl   '23   50w 

"An    interesting   and    suggestive    survey." 
+  J    Religion   3:336   My   '23   70w 

"An  excellent  prolegomenon  to  this  new  move- 
ment and  I  trust  that  Dr  Hertzler's  excellent 
work  will  get  the  attention  it  deserves."  L: 
Mumford 

+   Lit   R   p784  Je  23   '23   ISOOw 

"Unfortunately  Mr.  Hertzler's  book  will  not. 
In  all  probability,  be  widely  read.  He  has 
not  stooped  to  patronize  the  pubhc  by  talk- 
ing baby-talk  to  them,  he  does  not  hide  be- 
hind a  sugar-coating  of  sentimental  morallz- 
ings.  It  is  not  a  book  to  lie  in  a  hammock  and 
read  throngh  in  one  lazy  summer  afternoon, 
but  a  book  that  might  make  a  person  think — 
and  that  is  disastrous  for  its  popularity.  While 
it  is  an  excellent  piece  of  work  from  a  literary 


standpoint,  it  is  also,  of  course,  historical  and 
political.  But  since  it  is  literary,  the  politi- 
cians will  have  nothing  to  do  with  it,  and  since 
it  is  political,  the  literati  will  have  none  of  it, 
and  since  it  is  historical,  few  will  even  consider 
it."      Kathleen    Millay 

+  Nation  117:197  Ag  22  '23  800w 
St  Louis  p278  O  '23 
"After  Lewis  Mumford's  brilliant  survey  this 
book  comes  somewhat  as  an  anti-climax,  be- 
cause it  is  not  as  interestingly  written.  This, 
however,  should  not  detract  from  its  value  as 
an  independent  study  which,  in  many  respects, 
covers  different  ground  and  approaches  the  sub- 
ject   from    a   different    angle." 

-I Survey    50:supl9l    My    1    '23   200w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p427    Je 
21    '23    30w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p657    O 
11    '23    3100w 

HERVEY,   HARRY.  Black  Parrot:  a  tale  of  the 
golden   Chersonese.    337p   $1.90   Century 

23-12965 
"The  plot  of  Mr.  Harvey's  novel  centers  about 
an  American  girl  who  bears  the  unusual  name 
of  Lhassa  Camber.  From  childhood  she  has 
felt  an  irresistible  desire  to  visit  Asia,  and 
when  her  last  remaining  relative  dies,  she 
yields  to  this  desire,  traveling  alone  except  for 
the  companionship  of  a  Filipino  servant.  At 
Singapore  she  meets  Captain  Remy  Barth^lemy 
of  the  French  Annamite  army.  It  is  he  who 
first  tells  her  the  strange  story  of  the  Black 
Parrot.  The  man  who  first  bore  that  name  died 
under  the  guillotine  at  Cayenne,  but  his  name 
lives  on,  and  so  do  the  activities  of  the  Black 
Parrot.  At  Bangkok,  Dr.  Garth,  an  old  friend 
of  Lhassa's  grandfather,  is  murdered.  The 
police  suspect  a  servant  who  has  disappeared, 
but  Lhassa  has  reason  to  believe  that  the  crime 
is  the  work  of  the  Black  Parrot.  She  goes  to 
Saigon  in  search  of  the  murderer,  and  then, 
against  her  will,  to  Borneo.  Here  she  is  the 
guest  of  Stephen  Conquest,  who  calls  himself 
the  Rajah  of  Kawaras.  Prom  the  time  of  her 
arrival  at  Kawaras.  Lhassa  becomes  involved 
in  a  series  of  swift  and  perilous  adventures 
which  culminate  in  the  clearing  up  of  the  mys- 
tery   of    the    Black    Parrot." — Int    Bk    R 


"Mr.  Hervey  has  a  wealth  of  material.  He 
ought  to  be  an  excellent  short  story  writer. 
But  faced  with  the  magnificence  of  the  East 
he  generously  wishes  to  give  it  all  to  us  within 
the  compass  of  one  volume.  He  interests  us 
in  one  or  two  people,  in  their  surroundings  or 
their  particular  characteristics,  then  he  hurries 
us  away  to  another  place.  .  .  If  he  were  a 
little  more  interested  in  human  beings  than  in 
stringing  vis  along  with  a  marvellous  yarn  of 
the  Far  East,  he  would  be  a  more  inspired 
artist."   D.    F.   G. 

f-    Boston  Transcript  p4  O  20  '23  600w 

"The  author  has  succeeded  to  an  extraordi- 
nary degree  in  capturing  the  charm  and  mys- 
tery of  the  Orient  and  in  delineating  characters 
whose  apparently  contradictory  traits  keep  the 
reader  in  suspense  until  the  very  end.  The  ac- 
tion of  the  story  never  slows  up.  and  the  mys- 
tery remains  a  mystery  until  the  final  chap- 
ter." 

-I-   Int  Bk  R  p71  N  '23  300w 

"Mr.    Hervey    writes    occasionally    with    good 
effect  in   giving  the  color  of  the   Far  East  and 
his  style  is  fragrantly  fresh   and  vivid." 
-\ Lit    R  p315  D  1  '23  220w 

"Were  it  a  mere  travel  book,  it  might  be  ful- 
Iv  as  successful,  for  the  mere  story  that  gives 
it  its  bulk  is  a  flimsy  fabrication,  while,  on  the 
other  hand  its  scenic  descriptions  are  strikingly 
good,  and  the  author's  style  has  in  places  real 
distinction." 

-1 NY  Times  pl4  N  11  '23  330w 

"Although  'The  Black  Parrot'  is  smoothly 
written,  it  is  not  up  to  the  usual  standard  of 
Harry  Hervev's  stories.  There  is  too  much  de- 
scription for  one  thing,  too  many  stilted 
phrases;  one  feels  that  the  author  is  sparring 
for  time  to  bring  his  characters  into  action." 
\-  Springf'd  Republic?  "  p7a  O  7  '23  160w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


237 


HESS,  HERBERT  WILLIAM.  Creative  sales- 
manship; scientific  ideas  for  salesmen,  sales- 
managers  and  sales  administrators.  339p  il 
$3.50  (15s)  Lippincott 

658     Salesmen  and   salesmanship  23-6209 

This  very  comprehensive  book  on  salesman- 
ship takes  full  account  of  the  human  factor  in- 
volved, the  urge  and  desire  of  human  beings  to 
possess  the  benefits  of  modern  goods  and  inven- 
tions and  their  response  to  creative  selling.  It 
aims  to  present  a  technique  based  on  laws  which 
are  a  part  of  human  experience.  Successive 
chapters  treat  the  historical  development  of 
salesmanship,  personality  in  salesmanship,  the 
interacting  effect  of  buyer  and  seller,  the  ele- 
inents  of  the  selling  talk,  systems  for  judging 
human  nature,  etc.  Concluding  chapters  dis- 
cuss the  relations  of  administrators  and  exec- 
utives to  effective  selling,  the  part  of  the  sales 
manager,  and  the  selection  and  training  of 
salesmen.     Bibliography.     Index. 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:293    Je   '23 

HESSE,    HERMANN.     Demian.    215p   $2   Boni   & 
Liveright 

23-6945 

The  book,  translated  from  the  German  by 
N.  H.  Friday,  is  less  a  novel  than  an  account 
of  the  unfolding  of  a  soul  to  self-realization 
under  the  inlluence  ol  a  guide  and  friend,  play- 
ing the  part  of  destiny.  It  is  told  in  the  first 
person,  beginning  with  the  narrator's  childhood 
when  he,  Sinclair,  while  in  the  toils  of  a  dis- 
integrating fear,  first  meets  Max  Demian,  a 
boy  only  slightly  older  than  himself  but  a  grown 
man  spiritually,  with  a  mysterious  gift  of  read- 
ing the  other's  mind  and  dispelling  the  fear. 
The  narrative  marks  the  various  stages  of  Sin- 
clair's spiritual  travail;  his  slump  into  dissi- 
pation during  adolescence  and  first  freedom 
from  parental  authority;  his  complete  release 
from  this  degradation  upon  meeting  with 
Demian  a.ter  a  separation  of  several  years;  his 
increased  reliance  on  Demian' s  guidance;  his 
night  and  day-dreams — a  strange  mingling  of 
spiritual  exaltation  and  sensuality;  his  sense 
of  an  impending  change  in  human  affairs  of 
which  only  awakened  individuals  like  himself 
and  Demian  become  conscious  as  the  will  of 
humanity.  Mysticism  and  symbolism  with  a 
groping  after  the  subconscious  desire  of  the 
soul,    which    is    destiny,    pervade    the    whole. 


'We  are  confused  (and  perhaps  exasperated) 
by  so  much  talk  of  soul  fot-ces,  shaping  desti- 
nies, realizations  of  self.  Whatever  may  have 
been  the  author's  purpose,  he  gives  us  a  night- 
mare of  abnormality,  a  crazed  dream  of  a 
paranoiac."    W.  A.   N. 

—  Boston   Transcript   p5   Ap   14   '23   780w 
Cleveland  p66  S  '23 

"Despite  the  carefully  selected  incidents  and 
a  background  drawn  with  unusual  honesty  and 
considerable  skill,  the  characters  remain  ab- 
stractions. One  and  all  are  bloodless  creatures, 
empty  of  all  reality,  and  suggestive  of  the 
studio-conceptions  of  Poe."  T:  Craven 
h   Dial    74:619    Je    '23    750w 

"The  argument  of  the  book  has  a  certain 
speculative  interest,  but  it  is  very  much  limited 
and  in  a  measure  contradictory  to  the  concept 
of  a  true  novel,  which  interprets  life  concretely. 
The  reader  searches  futilely  for  lifelikness  in 
the  characters  and  rejects  the  strained  ideas 
imposed  upon  them."  Eva  Goldbeck 
h   Lit    R   p624   Ap   21    '23   720w 

"  'Demian'  is  an  unusual  piece  of  work.  To 
call  it  unusual,  however,  is  not  to  do  it  justice; 
it  is  in  reality  a  book  in  a  hundred.  For  it 
is  written  with  an  animation  and  a  warmth 
that  can  issue  only  from  the  deepest  sincerity. 
True,  it  is  perhaps  too  morbid  in  places;  true, 
it  has  somewhat  too  pronounced  a  tendency 
to  didacticism;  true,  some  inelegancies  of  style 
have  seeped  into  the  translation;  but,  when 
all  is  said,  'Demian'  is  to  be  recommended 
whole-heartedly  to  the  reader  in  search  of  a 
stimulating  and  thoupht-provoking  book." 
-f  N    Y   Times   pl4   Ap    8   '23   720w 


"There  is  enough  here  to  hearten  the  ques- 
tioning, the  bewildered,  the  discouraged,  into 
a  brave  renewal  of  the  search  for  the  realities 
of   self." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ap  8  '23  250w 

"The    story    is    important    as    an    example    of 
the    present-day    trend    toward    mysticism,    and 
is   told   with   a   pleasing   simplicity,    that   is  oc- 
casionally marred  by  bookishness  of  expression." 
H Survey   50:sup200    My    1    '23    50w 

HEUZE,    PAUL.   Do  the   dead  live?  an   inquiry 

into  the  present  state  of  psychical  research; 

tr.    from    the    French.      172p     $2     Dutton    [5s 

Murray] 

134  Psychical  research  [A23-1088] 

The  present  volume  is  the  result  of  an  in- 
vestigation conducted  by  the  author  for  the 
Paris  paper  L'Opinion.  It  took  the  form  of  in- 
terviews with  prominent  spiritists  and  scien- 
tists, among  them:  Gabriel  Delanne,  Dr  Geley, 
Camille  Flammarion,  Conan  Doyle,  Maeterlinck, 
Charles  Richet,  Mme  Curie,  Mme  Bisson,  Pere 
Mainage  and  Professor  E.  Branly.  The  conclu- 
sion is  that  spiritism  in  its  present  state  is  of 
the  nature  of  a  religious  belief  and  that  sci- 
entific proofs  of  its  truth  are  lacking.  Rem.-ark- 
able  psychic  forces  of  the  living  have  undoubt- 
edly been  observed,  and  extremely  interesting 
facts  are  now  comdng  to  light  in  laboratories 
which  may  lead  to  a  new  orientation  of  sci- 
ence but  we  must  wait,  and  not  trust  to  un- 
trained   experimenters.    Index. 

"The    book      will    be    of    interest      to    persons 

studying  this  form  of  human  aberration,  which 

is     now     making     such     progress     everywhere, 

and    nowhere    more    than    amongst    ourselves." 

+  Cath    World    117:414   Je   '23    150w 

New  Statesman  22:supl6  O  13  '23  600w 
"Heuze  is  a  reporter,  and  his  book  a  collec- 
tion of  brief  newspaper  articles.  They  are  not 
very  well  knit  together,  but  the  whole  is  a 
marvel  of  lucidity  and  dispassionate  common 
sense  compared  to  the  heterogeneous  collec- 
tions of  the  two  'scientific'  gentlemen.  .  .  . 
Richet  and  Flammarion."  Burton  Rascoe 
^ NY    Tribune   plS    Jl   1   '23   450w 

HEWETT,      BERTRAM      HENRY      MAJENDIE, 
and    JOHANNESSON,    SIGVALD.     Shield   and 
compressed  air  tunneling.     465p  il  $5   McGraw 
622.26     Tunneling  22-21003 

"Covers  in  great  detail  the  problems  of  tunnel- 
ing through  soft  or  water-bearing  ground. 
Treats  of  surveying  methods,  design  of  tunnel 
and  shield,  surface  and  underground  plant,  labor 
problems,  construction,  inspection  and  mainte- 
nance, progress  and  cost,  and  compressed  air 
sickness  and  its  prevention." — Pittsburgh  Mo 
Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:180   Ap   '23 

HEWLETT,  MAURICE  HENRY.     Extemporary 
essays.      256p     $2.20     Oxford     [6s  6d   Milford] 
824  23-10728 

"Mr.  Hewlett's  scope  in  'Extemporary  Essays' 
is  limited  only  by  the  publishers'  offerings.  It 
is  as  various  as  the  devices  of  an  erudite  and 
fertile  mind  with  a  column  to  fill.  And  so, 
along  with  a  hail  and  farewell  for  W.  H.  Hud- 
son, a  commendation  for  the  Stirling  biography 
of  the  De  Morgans,  and  a  review  of  J.  Middle- 
ton  Murry's  'The  Problem  of  Style'  (in  which 
neither  Mr.  Murry  nor  his  problem  is  men- 
tioned), Mr.  Hewlett  prints  his  animadversions 
on  'Poetic  Relativity,'  'The  Ballad-touch.' 
'Byron  at  His  Worst,'  'The  Limits  of  the 
Readable,'  'The  Death  of  Society,'  'Gentlemen 
Seats.'  and  some  score  other  topics  of  a  pleas- 
ant   and    semi-literary    character." — Lit    R 

"Mr.  Hewlett,  in  style  and  attack,  in  erudi- 
tion and  wit,  in  economy  and  neatness  of 
stvle,  marks,  at  any  rate,  the  high-water 
mark  in  the  current  flood  of  essay  reprints 
from  British  newspapers  and  reviews."  G.  H. 
Carson 

+   Lit   R   p703   My  19   '23  500w 


238 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


HEWLETT,    M.    H: — Continued 

"Most  of  the  fragments  are  book  reviews, 
saved  from  mediocrity  by  the  erudition  that 
Hewlett  has  brought  to  his  Httle  tasks  but 
rather  dull  reading  because  of  the  commonplace 
nature  of  the  tasks  themselves.  This  is  un- 
fortunate, for  Hewlett  possessed  much  of  the 
charm  of  the  elder  essayists.  He  looked  upon 
life  with  a  knowing  eye  and  had  some  humor. 
The  few  real  essays  that  the  book  contains 
are  excellent.  'Junketings  New  and  Old'  and 
'Daily  Bread'  can  stand  the  test  of  his  own 
definition."    H.    I.    Young 

H Nation    117:530   N   7   '23   320w 

"  'Extemporary  Essays'  allures.  It  does  more. 
One  line  leads  to  another;  one  essay  to  an- 
other. The  felicitous  blending  of  critical  per- 
spicacity and  literary  feeling,  of  judgment  and 
imagination,  makes  the  small  volume  one  of 
the  most  satisfactory  of  companions,  as  well 
as   one   of    the    most    illuminating." 

-f  N    Y    Times   p9   Ap  1   '23  1400w 

"Soinetimes  he  rails  against  great  men,  as 
against  Byron  and — most  astonishingly — against 
Montaigne.  Sometimes  his  social  views  seem 
purely  perverse  and  unfair.  But  he  is  always 
himself,  a  presence  to  be  recognized  and  re- 
spected, and  a  writer  who,  when  he  cliooses, 
can  be  as  full  of  amenity  and  as  graceful  as  the 
best  of  the  disciples  of  Charles  Tjainb." 
-\ Sat  R  135:255  F  24  '23  550w 

HEXT,    HARRINGTON,   pseud.     Thing  at   their 

heels.    334p    $2    Macmillan 

23-12869 

"The  scene  is  laid  in  the  England  of  today, 
where  the  ancient,  landed  and  titled  aristocracy 
is  slowly  disintegrating  by  the  erosion  of  pres- 
ent opinions  and  situations  accentuated  by  the 
World  war.  The  direct  descendants  of  Sir 
Augustine  Templer  of  Kingscresset  are  few. 
Two  of  these  saw  active  service  in  the  army, 
one  in  the  infantry  and  one  as  a  chaplain.  Both 
came  back  filled  with  the  new  spirit  of  the 
age.  The  murder,  one  after  another  of  the 
direct  Templer  male  heirs,  and  last  of  all  of 
Sir  Augustine  himself  forms  a  plot  that  baffles 
Scotland  Yard,  and  the  reader  to  the  last.  The 
mystery  is  solved  by  the  confessions  of  the 
chaplain  made  in  a  letter  read  after  his  death." 
— Springf'd  Republican 


service  whose  duplicity  he  finally  sensed.  It 
is  a  sorry  picture  on  the  whole  of  schemes  and 
plots  as  history  attests  and  as  the  author  of 
this  romance  sets  forth." — Springf'd  Republican 


"Without  question  we  should  place  Harring- 
ton Hext  among  the  most  skilful  weavers  of 
mysteries  of  the  present  day."     D.  1..  M. 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p4  O  10  '23  800w 
New  Statesman  22:274  D  8  '23  60w 
"  'The  Thing  at  Their  Heels'  differs  most 
decidedly  from  the  slap-dash  school  of  mystery 
fiction  now  so  rampant.  It  is  notable  not  only 
for  its  thoroughly  bewildering  plot,  but  for  the 
excellence  of  its  character  drawing." 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl7  N  11  '23  750w 
"It  is  intensely  dramatic,  but  not  overdone. 
The  interest  is  sustained  till  the  end,  when  one 
finds  what  'The  Thing'  really  is.  "V^Tiile  the  plot 
is  unusual,  the  events  do  not  appear  unnatural 
with  the  exception  of  their  rapid  occurrence. 
The   literary  quality  is  good." 

+  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  D   2   '23   240w 
The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p752  N  8 
•23    140w 

HEYER,   GEORGETTE.     Great  Roxhythe.    418p 

$2   Small    [7s   6d   Hutchinson] 

23-8988 

"A  character  study  of  the  closest  political 
friend  of  Charles  II  of  England,  the  Marquis 
of  Roxhythe,  'who  did  the  king  his  will.'  The 
Restoration  reign  has  many  landmarks  on  the 
pages  of  history,  but  the  author  has  chosen  to 
stick  closely  to  the  political  field,  involving 
plots  and  counterplots.  In  the  kaleidoscope  of 
personal  ambitions  and  genuine  patriotisms, 
there  was  one  man  who  never  swerved  from 
his  creed.  Roxhythe  was  the  king's  man;  his 
loyalty  was  to  Charles  and  not  to  land  or  party. 
That  Roxhythe  was  a  lovable  man  is  shown  in 
the  delineation  of  Christopher  Dart,  his  young 
secretary,  who  worshipped  him  and  who,  blind 
to  his  diplomatic  immoralities  for  nine  years, 
continued   to   love   him    after   resigning   from    a 


Booklist  20:57   N  '23 
Boston    Transcript   p5   Je   23   '23   200w 
Cleveland  p68  S  '23 
"A  colorful  and  interesting  account  of  a  color- 
ful    and      interesting      period     is      this      which 
Georgette     Heyer     pi-esents    to    us     under     the 
name   of   the   man   who  to  a  very  great   extent 
personifies  it,   the  man  who  is  here  represented 
as  the  power  behind  the  throne,  David,  Marquis 
of  Roxhythe,   whose  one  aim  and  desire  in  life 
was    to   do    the   King's   pleasure." 

+   N    Y  Times  pl7  Je  24   '23  750w 
Reviewed  by   Leo   Markun 

N   Y  Tribune  p23  Jl  22  '23  400w 

"Set  forth  with  careful  detail  of  local  color 
and  broad   grasp   of  essential  facts." 

+  Springf'd    Republican   p8  O  3  '23  500w 

HIGGINS,    HENRY    BOURNES.    New    province 
^    for   law   and  order.    181p   $2   Dutton    [5s   Con- 
stable] 

331.1  Arbitration,  Industrial.  Courts,  In- 
dustrial. Australia.  Court  of  conciliation 
and    arbitration  [Li23-49] 

A  review,  by  its  late  president  for  fourteen 
years,  of  the  Australian  Court  of  conciliation 
and  arbitration.  He  describes  the  powers  and 
objects  of  the  court,  and  gives  an  account  of 
some  of  the  disputes  it  has  dealt  with  and  the 
awards  it  has  made.  The  book  is  more  than  a 
study  of  the  labor  problem  in  Australia;  it  is 
the  report  of  an  honest  effort  capable  of  ap- 
plication anywhere,  to  bridge  the  differences  be- 
tween   capital    and    labor. 


"The  book  is  well  written  and  is  an  interest- 
ing account  of  a  somewhat  daring  experiment." 
-j-   Boston  Transcript  p5  Ja  5  '24  400w 

"His  book  is  an  illuminating  study  of  the  de- 
velopment and  the  methods  and  results  of  the 
court,  especially  dealing  at  length  with  the  de- 
termination of  a  minimum  scale  and  of  how  it 
is  fixed  without  resulting  in  a  rise  in  the  price 
of  commodities." 

-I-   N  Y  Times  p24  Ja  13  '24  500w 

HIGGINS,    WALTER.    Father    Thames.    352p    il 
$2.50    Stokes    [7s    6d    Gardner.    Dartonl 
914.2    Thames    river.    London — ^Description 

23-26886 
The  book  is  divided  into  three  parts:  Lon- 
don River  from  its  mouth  to  London  Bridge; 
the  great  city  which  the  river  made;  the  upper 
river  from  its  source  to  Chelsea  and  Lambeth. 
The  author  follows  the  towns  along  the  lower 
and  the  upper  river,  telling  something  of  their 
history  and  industries,  but  the  central  portion 
of  the  book  is  given  to  London. 


Booklist  20:96  D  '23 
"Not  the  least  of  the  attractions  of  Mr.  Hig- 
gins's  book  are  the  drawings  of  scenes  in 
country  and  town  that  are  scattered  through 
its  pages.  They  show  fields  and  cottages,  woods 
and  palaces  and  a  multitude  of  examples  of 
the  works  of  nature  and  of  man  along  the 
entire   course   of  the   river." 

-f    Boston   Transcript   p6  Ag  25   '23   lOOOw 
"He    writes    clearly    and    easily,    and    quotes 
popular  authorities." 

-I-   New    Statesman    21:280    Je    9    '23    llOw 
"In   a   pleasant,   good-natured  manner  Walter 
Higgins    offers   full   information   adapted   to  ju- 
venile    taste.       The    historical     characters     and 
events  witnessed   on   the   banks  of   the   Thames 
are    set   forth   with    fullness.      He   gives   full   in- 
formation   on    its    antiquities,    its    edifices,    its 
vegetation.     If    it   be    true    that    the   adolescent 
mind  is  greedy  for  facts  'Father  Thames'  should 
fully  satisfy  its  appetite."     W:  R.  Langfeld 
+   N    Y   Tribune   p28    O    14    '23    300w 
St  Louis  p342  D  '23 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


239 


"Mr.  Hig-glns  has  dulled  his  facts  with  the 
poverty  of  his  imagination:  his  language  is  a 
collection   of  cliches." 

—  Spec  131:230   S   18   '23   90w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:506  D  '23 

HILDEBRAND,       ARTHUR      STURGES.      Blue 

water.  318p  il  .?3  Harcourt 

910.4    Voyages    and    travels.    Mediterranean 
sea  23-12920 

The  account  of  a  year's  cruise  on  a  sailing 
vessel.  The  author  and  a  friend  buy  a  fifty- 
four  foot  yawl  on  the  Clyde  and  sail  from  the 
Port  of  Glasgow,  around  Penzance,  thru  the 
Bay  of  Biscay  and  the  Mediterranean,  stopping 
at  many  ports  along  the  way.  The  end  of  the 
year  finds  them  at  Athens,  whence,  after  a 
short  trip  to  Constantinople,  they  return  to 
Marseilles  where  the  boat  is  sold  and  the 
cruise  ended. 


"Arthur  Hlldebrand,  his  illustrations,  and 
his  story  of  the  cruise  of  the  yacht  'Caltha'  are 
all  thoroughly  delightful.  Here  is  a  book  that 
combines  the  ordinary  travel  descriptions  with 
the  mysteries  of  yachting  and  the  feel  of  the 
sea.  Hlldebrand  has  a  faculty  for  making  the 
slight  incidents  of  voyaging  dramatic  and  the 
most  shadowy  of  ports  real."  J.  F. 
+   Bootcm    58:321    N    '2S   300w 

Boston  Transcript  p2  O  27  '23  lOOOw 
"A  restrained  and  honest  narrative  that  com- 
bines literary  charm  with  a  deep  feeling  for  the 
true  atmosphere  of  open  waters.  .  .  'Blue 
Water"  is  distinctly  a  book  for  more  than  one 
reading.  It  is  a  pity  the  author  used  photo- 
graphs when  his  drawings  are  so  good."  D:  AV. 
Bone 

+   Lit   R  p206  N  3  '23  1150w 

N  Y   Tribune   p20   O   14    '23    200w 
"Adventures    were     few    and     the     chronicler 
does    not    load   us    up    with    history,    science    or 
economics.      Here  is  a   pleasant  log." 
+   N  Y   World   p9   O   14   '23    150w 
"The  lure  of  the  sea  is  in  this  book,  and  so  is 
a  measure  of  real  appreciation  of  foreign  lands, 
an     appreciation     that     puts     Mr.     Hildebrand's 
narrative    much    ahead    of   many    travel    books." 
+  Springf'd   Republican  pl4  N  16  '23  300w 

HILL,  AMELIA  LEAVITT.  Redeeming  old 
homes;  country  homes  for  modest  purses.  IBOp 
il   $3.50     Holt 

728     Architecture,    Domestic  23-9176 

"Numerous  achievements  in  the  rebuilding 
and  remodeling  of  old  country  dwelling  houses 
for  use  as  permanent  residences  or  summer 
homes  are  described  in  this  book.  Illustrations 
are  indispensable  to  convey  an  adequate  idea 
of  the  transformations  wrought  through  the 
combination  of  adequate  carpentry  and  ingeni- 
ous design,  and  this  book  is  provided  with  31 
pictures  showing  buildings  before  and  after  re- 
construction. The  chapters  contain  much  ele- 
mentary information  about  such  subjects  as 
wall-papering,  water  supply,  heating,  lighting, 
etc.,  and  less  is  said  than  some  may  desire 
about  fundamental  ideas  of  design  and  con- 
struction."— Springf'd  Republican 


Booklist   20:47   N   '23 
"Her  advice   is   both   sound   and   sensible,   and 
will  be  of  value  to  those  capable  of  applying  it." 
-f  Bookm  57:651  Ag  '23  lOOw 
"So   sane   and    so    sincere,    so   wholesome   and 
so    full    of    the    really    practical    advice    which 
every    going-to-be    householder    needs    that    it 
is  a  book  greatly  to  be  commended." 

-\-  Boston   Transcript   p6   Jl   25   '23   420w 
Cleveland    p60   Jl   '23 
Reviewed   by   Dorothy  Hamilton 
Lit    R   pl04   O   6   '23    250w 
"The  book  is  written  in  a  very  practical  way 
and  is  evidently  the  product   of  both   consider- 
able   experience    and    much    observation.    .    .    A 
mine    of    useful    information    and    helpful    sug- 
gestions." 

4-  N  Y  Times  p20  Je  3  '23  450w 


"The  discussion  of  methods  is  sensible  and 
direct." 

H NY  World  p8e  Je  3  '23  220w 

"The  book  contains  some  useful  suggestions 
for  city  dwellers  who  have  or  desire  to  have 
inexpensive  homes  in  the  country  and  whose 
knowledge  of  hou.se  construction  and  mainten- 
ance is  limited." 

-{-  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ag  5  '23  320w 

HILL,   CAROLINE    MILES.,  ed.     World's  great 

religious  poetry.   S36p  $5  Macmillan 
808.1     Poetry — Collections.    Religious   poetry 

23-26236 

"A  collection  of  religious  poems,  ancient  and 
modern,  representing  the  world's  great  relig- 
ions, pagan  as  well  as  Christian  and  also  the 
present  day  social  applications  of  Christianity. 
'Arranged  in  twelve  divisions,  under  the  twelve 
religious  concepts.'  Has  an  introduction  on 
The  religious  spirit  in  the  world's  poetry.  In- 
dexes to  titles,  authors  and  first  lines." — Wis 
Lib  Bui 


"An    admirable    collection    with    an    essay    on 
the    religious   spirit   in    the   world's   poetry." 
+  Cleveland  p38  My  '23 

J  Religion  3:448  Jl  '23  30w 
"Much  of  the  material  is  soggy;  but  that 
was  to  have  been  expected.  There  is  enough 
with  wings  to  let  the  volume  hover,  if  not 
soar.  In  its  immense  catholicity  most  things 
of  value  have  managed  to  creep  in."  Clement 
Wood 

H Nation    117:246    S    5    '23    650w 

"It  is  the  sort  of  volume  that  may  be  dipped 
into  again  and  again  with  the  assurance  that 
new  and  unexpected  beauties  will  continually 
reveal  themselves.  The  volume  exhibits  the 
wide  scope  of  religious  poetry  and  the  high 
peaks  of  excellency  to  which  it  rises." 
+  Outlook  133:812  My  2  '23  220w 
"[An]  attempt  to  present  within  a  single  vol- 
ume a  classified  survey  of  religious  thought 
wrapped  up  in  poetical  form  grouping  the 
gropers  after  truth  so  that  one  may  see  what 
progress  has  been  made  in  various  ways  and 
what  changes  have  come  from  age  to  age  in 
the  humyn  consciousness  of  its  relations  to 
God  and  things  of  the  spirit." 

4-  Springf'd    Republican  p8  Ap  3   '23  420w 
"It    is   a   mine    in   which   the    reader   must   do 
his  own  digging,   but  the  gold  is  there." 
+  Survey   50:supl97  My  1   '23  30w 
Wis   Lib    Bui   19:81   Mr  '23 

HILLYER,  ROBERT  SILLIMAN.  Hills  give 
promise,  and  Carmus:  a  symphonic  poem. 
IGOp   $2   Brimmer 

811 
"Many  of  the  lyrics  and  sonnets  [in  the  first 
part  of  the  book]  deal  with  the  emotions  at- 
tendant upon  romjintic  love  and  its  passing. 
.  .  The  symphonic  poem  is  a  parable  of  man's 
spiritual  adventure  in  quest  of  union  with  an 
envisioned   perfection." — Outlook 


"Mr  Hillyer  has  talent  for  the  lyric  mode. 
In  the  shorter  poems  which  comprise  the  first 
half  of  this  volume  his  abilities  are  excellently 
displayed.  Yet  we  wonder  why  the  author  felt 
it  necessary  to  weigh  down  his  lyrics  with 
'Carmus.'  Symphonic  it  may  well  be.  It  is 
freighted  with  fine  emotion,  lacking  dramatic 
value,  pos.sessin'g  instead  a  curious  heaviness. 
Its  solemn  timbre  therefore  suggests  mcoher- 
ence  in  places.  Without  'Carnius'  the  book 
might  be  less  impressive  in  a  store  wmdow. 
H Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  28  '23  260w 

"Mr.  Hillyer  suffers  from  the  melodic  ex- 
uberance of  youth.  He  publishes  too  much-- 
far  too  much— for  fully  two-thirds  of  The  Hills 
Give  Promise'  is  of  a  juvenile  quality  that  can- 
not but  lessen  Mr.  Hillyer's  average  excellence 
as  a  whole."  ^„„ 
\-  Lit  R  p806  Je  30  '23  180w 

Reviewed  by  Clarence  Britten 

New  Repub  37:sup22  D  o  '23  lOoOw 


240 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


HILLYER,    R.    S. — Continued 

"Robert  Hillyer  already  has  given  evidence  of 
his  skill  in  the  sonnet  and  other  verse  forms. 
The  first  part  of  this  book  will  support  his  re- 
putation in  this  respect.  In  some  instances,  how- 
ever, the  content  runs  thin  behind  the  skill  and 
some  of  the  pieces  are  merely  accomplished 
verse,    or  less." 

+  —  Outlook  133:900  My   16  '23  280w 

HIND,    ARTHUR    MAYGER.     Wenceslaus    Hol- 
lar;   and    his    views    of    London    and    Windsor 
in  the  seventeenth  century.     92p    il    $12    But- 
ton    [31s  6d   Lane] 
767     Hollar,      Wenceslaus.      Etchings.     Lon- 
don—Views [23-5602] 
Wenceslaus     Hollar,     1G07-1677,     was     a     Bo- 
hemian etcher,  whose  inost  interesting  and  im- 
portant   work    consisted     of    his    topographical 
etchings,    including    his    famous    views    of    Lon- 
don.     The    Earl   of   Arundel    became    his    patron 
and  brought  him  to  London,  which  was  his  home 
for  many  years.     Here  he  executed  many  plans 
and    views    and    architectural    drawings    which 
are  not  only  mathematically  exact  but  pictures 
as  well.     Mr  Hind's  monograph  contains  a  gen- 
eral  survey  of  Hollar's   life   and   work,    followed 
by    a    detailed    catalog   of   all    his    etched    views 
of    London    and    Windsor    and    accompanied    by 
sixty-four  reproductions  of  his  etchings   in  this 
series. 


"The  result  of  the  issuance  of  this  delightful 
book  will  most  likely  produce  a  considerable  en- 
hancement in  the  price  of  Hollar  etchings 
which,  according  to  the  author,  may  still  be 
acquired  at  very  reasonable  prices."  N.  H.  D. 
-)-  Boston  Transcript  p3  Jl  7  '23  1300w 
N  Y  Times  pl6  Jl  29  "23  llOOw 

HINE,   MURIEL.     See  Coxon,  M. 

HINKLE,  MRS  BEATRICE  (MOSES).  Re-creat- 
-    ing  of   the  individual;   a  study  of  psychologi- 
cal   types   and    their   relation    to    p.sychoanalv- 
sis.   465p  il  $4.50  Harcourt 

130    Psychoanalysis  23-17152 

The  pvirpose  of  the  book,  which  is  the  result 
of  an  experience  of  more  than  twenty  years  in 
the  study  and  treatment  of  individuals  suffer- 
ing from  nervous  diseases  and  psychic  disturb- 
ances, is  to  show  the  significance  of  psychoan- 
alysis for  the  development  of  man's  latent 
powers  and  creative  possibilities.  Tho  the  author 
is  an  exponent  of  the  Jung  school  of  psycho- 
analysis, she  does  not  present  her  book  as  an 
exposition  of  Jung's  ideas,  but  rather  as  a  re- 
sult of  her  own  study,  testing  and  observation. 
The  second  and  larger  part  of  the  book  is  de- 
voted to  a  delineation  and  study  of  the  two 
fundamental  psychological  types,  the  introvert 
and  the  extravert,  of  masculine  and  feminine 
psychology,  the  psychology  of  the  artist  and  the 
significance  of  psychoanalysis  for  the  spiritu- 
al life.  This  part  of  the  book  includes  much 
actual   case   material. 


Boston  Transcript  p6  D  1  '23  320w 
"Dr.  Hinkle's  book  gives  evidence  of  deep 
thought,  wide  research  and  rich  and  mature 
experience  in  the  field  of  psychoanalytic  prac- 
tice. In  it  and,  indeed,  throughout  its  pages, 
sometimes  gently,  always  flrmlv  and  often  with 
marked  restraint  she  voices  disagreement  with 
Freud."    Van    Buren    Thorne 

-I-  N  Y  Times  pl2  Ja  13  '24  2550w 
"An  important  book.  The  more  practical  sec- 
ond cart  of  the  book  deals  in  an  interesting  and 
convincing  manner  with  Jung's  and  the  author's 
attempts  to  delineate  and  interpret  the  two 
fundamental  psychological  types,  the  introvert 
and  the  extravert.  The  ca.se  material  in  this 
part  of  the  book  is  presented  in  a  very  inter- 
esting manner,  and  the  book  closes  with  a 
thought-provoking  chapter  on  the  significance 
of  psycho-analysis  for  the  spiritual  life  and 
man's  attitude  towards  the  infinite."  Bernard 
Glueck,   M.   D. 

+  Survey  51;350  D  15  '23  300w 


HIRST,  FRANCIS  WRIGLEY.    Paper  moneys  of 

Europe;  their  moral  and  economic  significance. 

(Barljara  Weinstock  lectures  on  the  morals  of 

trade)    47p    75c   Houghton 

332.5      Paper   money  22-20372 

The  author  cites  a.  great  many  instances  in 
history  of  the  inflation  of  the  money  market 
with  printed  paper,  quoting  writers  like  Ma- 
caulay,  Adam  Smith,  John  Stuart  Mill  and 
others  as  to  the  disastrous  consequences  to  the 
morals  and  economics  of  a  country  irom  such 
inflation,  and  shows  that  the  present  inoney 
situation  in  all  European  countries  exceeds  any- 
thing that  has  gone  before.  The  only  real 
remedy,  he  holds,  lies  in  the  reestablishment  of 
complete  peace,  disarniament,  the  abolition  of 
conscription,  the  drastic  reduction  of  bureaucra- 
cies and  a  wholesale  lowering  of  tariffs.  The 
appendix  reviews  the  hitherto  unheeded  recom- 
mendations   of    the    Brussels    conference. 


"Entertaining    and     informing    lecture." 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p3  Ap  7  '23  260w 
"It  is  a  pity  that  all  users  of  paper  money, 
and  many  lawmakers,  are  not  more  familiar 
with  the  history  and  principles  of  money.  On 
this  particular  point  Mr.  Hirst  has  written  use- 
fully   and    interestingly." 

-f   N    Y    Times    pll    Ja    21    '23    480w 

HOBART,    L.    C.    Silken    scarf.    296p    $2    Button 
[7s    6d   Arnold] 

23-14482 

An  accident  in  a  scuffle  caused  by  jealousy 
over  a  faithless  woman  makes  Anthony  Fen- 
wick  a  near  murderer.  His  friend,  O'Bonoghue 
is  witness  to  the  truth  and  a  silken  scarf  the 
only  incriminating  evidence.  Ten  years  later 
when  Joan  Butler,  whom  O'Bonoghue  would 
have  given  his  soul  to  win,  is  engaged  to  be 
married  to  Fen  wick,  she  accidentally  acquires 
the  scarf  on  a  shopping  expedition  in  Malta 
and  is  told  its  history.  As  both  young  men 
evince  horror  at  sight  of  it  each  in  turn  is 
questioned  by  Joan.  The  transparency  of  Fen- 
wick's  lie  in  denying  all  knowledge  of  it  alarms 
Joan,  and  O'Bonoghue,  horribly  tempted  by 
his  passion,  confirms  her  suspicion  that  her 
lover  is  a  murderer.  The  rest  of  the  story  is 
the  tale  of  a  man's  struggle  with  his  con- 
science before  his  atonement  thru  confession 
and   renunciation. 


"It   isn't    much    of   a    story." 
—  Int   Bk  R  p67  O  '23  250w 

N  Y  Times  p5  S  30  '23  550w 
"The  story  itself  is  feeble,  but  the  descriptive 
passages,  with  Malta  for  their  theme,  are  so 
good  that  we  have  hopes  that  the  author,  re- 
alizing what  are  her  weaknesses  and  strength, 
may  in  her  next  novel  produce  something  more 
worthy." 

h  Spec    131:92   Jl   21    '23    60w 

"There  is  a  good  deal  of  sincere  observation 
and  straightforward  workmanship  in  The  Silk- 
en Scarf,  but  it  is  mixed  up  with  the  melo- 
dramatic devices  chosen  to  further  the  devel- 
opment of  the  story." 

-I The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p338   My 

17   '23  850w 

HOBBS,    WILLIAM    HERBERT.     Cruises    along 

by-ways  of  the  Pacific.    162p  il  $2.50  Stratford 

919.6  Caroline  island.s — Description  and  travel 

23-3911 
The  cruises  along  the  island  fringes  on  the 
western  border  of  the  Pacific  which  the  book 
describes  were  made  with  the  cooperation  of 
the  Navy  department  of  Japan  and  of  the 
United  States,  .which  made  it  possible  for  the 
author  to  reach  the  more  remote  islands.  The 
main  object  of  his  cruises  was  a  study  of  cora! 
reefs,  but  he  is  here  more  concerned  with  the 
human  interests  of  the  islands  tnan  scientific 
results.  His  itinerary  included  the  Bonin,  Mari- 
anne and  Caroline  islands.  Yan  and  the  Pelews. 
In  addition,  the  .southern  Philippines  and  many 
i.slands  in  the  Butch  East  Indies  were  passed 
at    close    range. 


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"Mr.  Hobbs  has  described  his  voyage  in  an 
entertaining  manner — not  as  a  scientific  treatise, 
but  as  any  man  oi  brains  with  an  errand  would 
describe  what  he  did.  He  has  performed  an- 
other difficult  task  in  putting  his  story  into 
small  compass,  and  in  keeping  it  entertaining 
and    instructive." 

4-   Boston  Transcript  plO  Mr  24  '23  400w 
N    Y    World   p9e   F   18   '23   lOOw 
Springf'd   Republican  p6  S  4  '23  720w 

HOBSON,   ERNEST  WILLIAM.  Doinain  of  nat- 
ural science.   510p  $6.50     Macmillan 

509  Science — History 
In  the  course  of  Gifford  lectures  delivered  in 
the  University  of  Aberdeen  in  1921-22,  I*rof. 
Hobson  contributes  an  historical  and  critical 
survey  of  contemporary  theories  in  the  domain 
of  natural  science.  He  examines  the  methods 
and  principles  of  some  typical  branches  of  sci- 
ence, especially  those  branches  which  are  in  an 
advanced  state  of  development.  Beginning  with 
a  general  account  of  the  foundations  of  the 
method  adopted  in  the  various  departments  of 
science,  he  proceeds  to  examine  scientific  the- 
ories in  such  typical  branches  as  number,  time 
and  space,  dynamics,  matter  and  energy,  ther- 
modynamics, electricity,  magnetism  and  light. 
A  chapter  is  given  to  Einstein's  theory  of  rela- 
tivit.v  and  there  are  three  chapters  on  the  de- 
velopments in  special  departments  of  biological 
science. 


Reviewed  by  W.   H.   Sheldon 

Lit  R  p230  N  10  '23  720w 
Reviewed  by  F.    S.   Marvin 

Nature  112:567  O  20  '23  1400w 
"Throughout  the  lectures  he  emphasizes  the 
limitations  of  purely  scientific  knowledge,  and 
hints  at  the  probabilities  for  the  existence  of  a 
less  limited  type  of  apprehension;  but  when, 
in  the  final  theistic  chapters,  it  seems  that  this 
hint  might  have  been  brought  to  fulfilment  in 
some  expression  of  belief  or  doubt,  he  remains 
indecisive.  Nevertheless,  the  book  as  a  whole 
shows  a  breadth  of  vision  and  a  grasp,  both  of 
the  future  possibilities  and  the  necessary  limita- 
tions of  scientific  knowledge,  which  must  com- 
mand our  respect  and  admiration."  Amethe 
McEwen 

H Spec   131:425   S   20   '23   900w 

"This  is  a  clear,  useful  and  compendious 
suinmary  from  a  point  of  view  that  is  at  once 
comprehending    and    reasonably    detached." 

+  Springf'd    Republican    pl2    O   9   '23   980w 
Springf'd    Republican    p8   N   17    '23   330w 
The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p580   S   6 
'23   2200W 

HOBSON,  JOHN  ATKINSON.  Economics  of 
unemployment.  157p  $1.75  Macmillan  [4s  6d 
Allen   &  U.] 

331     Unemployment  [22-23371] 

An  inquiry  into  the  causes  of  trade  depression 
and  the  unemployment  which  goes  along  with 
it.  Arguing  from  the  experience  of  the  war, 
which  proved  the  power  of  high  consumption 
to  maintain  production,  Mr  Hobson  shovi^s  that 
the  failure  of  consumption  to  keep  pace  with 
production  is  responsible  for  the  periodic  gluts, 
stoppages,  under-production  and  unemployment 
which  cause  cycles  of  depression.  On  this  fact 
he  bases  his  thesis  that  it  is  the  unequal  dis- 
tribution of  the  surplus  of  unearned  income, 
the  disproportion  between  saving  and  spending, 
which    brings    about    trade    fluctuations. 


Booklist  20:42   N"  '23 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  25  '23  230w 
"The  interest  of  his  book  is  much  wider  than 
its  title  seems  to  imply:  for  it  is  a  discussion 
of  some  fundamental  moral  issues  which  arise 
in  the  present  economic  system.  The  central 
problem,  unemployment,  on  which  the  author 
concentrates  attention  seems  to  bring  out  more 
vividly  than  any  trade  figures  could  the  under- 
lying moral  difl^culties  in  regard  to  the  dis- 
tribution of  well-being  at  present."  C.  D.  B. 
+  Int  J   Ethics  33:341  Ap  '23  180w 


"Professor  Hobson  has  given  us  another 
notable  book — clear,  concise,  authoritative."  R. 
M.    Binder 

-1-   Management  &  Adm  6:241  Ag  '23  1200w 

HOBSON,  JOHN  ATKINSON;  MACGREGOR, 
DAVID  HUTCHINSON,  and  LENNARD, 
REGINALD  VIVIAN.  Some  aspects  of  re- 
cent British  economics.  134p  $1.50  Univ.  of 
Chicago   press 

330.942  Great  Britain — Economic  conditions. 
Agriculture— England  23-9825 

Four  essays  on  the  economic  outlook  in  Great 
Britain,  and  its  relation  to  world  economics. 
Contents:  Britain's  economic  outlook  in  Europe, 
by  John  A.  Hobson;  British  aspects  of 
unemployment,  by  D.  H.  Macgregor;  English 
agriculture  during  the  war;  English  agriculture 
since  the  armistice,  by  Reginald  Lennard. 


"Professor  Hobson  is  an  English  liberal,  an 
economist  of  radical  tendencies,  but  definitely 
anti-Socialist.  His  present  study  is  a  state- 
ment of  his  views  on  unemployment  and  it  is 
likely  to  evoke  sharp  controversy  among  the 
more  orthodox  scholars.  The  theory  offered, 
however,  is  essentially  his  own  and  it  cannot 
be  disregarded  in  any  adequate  consideration  of 
the   problem."  ' 

1-   N   Y  Times  pl5  Jl  29  '23   lOOOw 

"Since  Mr.  Lennard  wrote  his  papers  on 
English  Agriculture  the  Government  has  adopt- 
ed a  policy  for  the  further  relief  of  agri- 
cultural rates  and  the  reinforcement  of  agri- 
cultural credit.  These  points  apart  he  provides 
a  full  and  sympathetic  summitry  of  the  posi- 
tion, written  with  marked  freshness  and 
vigour.  He  makes  the  most  considerable  con- 
tribution to  this  volume." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p424   Je 
21    '23   300w 

HODGINS,  NORRIS.  Why  don't  you  get 
married:  a  hodge-podge  of  sketches,  a  few 
wise,  many  witty  and  all  wholesome.  270p  il 
$2    Doran 

817  23-16319 

A  collection  of  humorous  sketches  on  a  wide 
variety  of  topics,  including  many  of  the  time- 
honored  subjects  of  jokes,  such  as  the  bachelor's 
reasons  for  not  getting  married,  the  lost  collar- 
button,  catching  trains,  shaving,  the  vagaries 
of  watches,  etc. 


"It  is  not  so  much  that  Norris  Hodgins  lacks 
the  persuasiveness  of  the  first  rate  humorist, 
but  that  he  mixes  with  his  humor  the  too  often 
platitudinous  counsel  of  the  writer  of  news- 
paper sermonettes.  And  yet,  there  are  chuckles 
enough  in  this  book  with  the  sardonic  title, 
especially  in  pieces   like    'On  Buttons.'  " 

h   Bookm   58:487  D  '23   250w 

Boston   Transcript  p5  D   15  '23   260w 
Reviewed  by  Lawton   Mackall 
Lit   R  p334  D  8  '23  60w 
"It    is    always    just    missing    being    hilarious. 
The  divine  spark  or  the  infernal  sparkle  is  miss- 
ing."    Leo  Markun 

—  NY   Tribune   pl8  D   2   '23  250w 

HODGKIN,  HENRY  THEODORE.  China  in  the 
family  of  nations.  267p  $2  Doran  [7s  6d  Allen 
&   U.] 

951  China — Foreign  relations.  China — His- 
tory 23-12645 
The  author,  a  long  and  sympathetic  observer 
of  China,  gives  her  a  central  position,  poten- 
tially, in  the  family  of  nations.  He  shows  the 
Chinese  as  amazingly  unified  in  thought  and 
life,  endowed  with  quiet  strength  and  tenacity 
of  purpose,  a  people  who  can  take  long  views 
and  wait  patiently.  He  sketches  their  ancient 
civilization,  their  earlier  international  rela- 
tions and  the  forces  which  are  now  sweeping 
them  into  the  middle  of  events.  The  book 
describes  internal  political  changes,  Jap- 
anese policy  in  China  and  China's  relations 
with  European  countries  and  with  America. 
It  makes  clear  the  infiuence  of  the  missionaries 
and  the  so-called  "new  thought"  movement,  due 
to   the    meeting   of   e.-^st   and    west   and   the   in- 


242 


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HODGKIN,    H:    T. — Continued 
filtration   of  new  ideas.    The   last   chapter  looks 
to  the    future   and   the  possibilities   which   open 
up   before   China. 


"The  valuable  parts  of  Mr.  Hodgkin's  work 
are  his  chapters  on  the  Republic  and  the  'new 
thought'  movement.  .  .  One  cg-nnot  help  wish- 
ing that  Mr.  Hodgkin  had  so  planned  his  book 
as  to  limit  it  to  an  analysis  of  spiritual  and  in- 
tellectual tendencies.  To  have  done  so  would 
certainly  have  been  to  confine  the  appeal  for 
interest  in  China  which  he  wished  to  make 
to  a  small  circle  of  readers,  but  the  result 
would  have   been  more   satisfactory." 

h  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p511   Ap 

2  '23   1400W 

HOERNLE,   REINHOLD  FRIEDRICH  ALFRED, 

Matter,  life,  mind,  and  God;  five  lectures  on 
contemporary  tendencies  of  thought.  215p  $2 
Harcourt    [6s    Methuen] 

101  Philosophy 
The  professor  of  philosophy  at  Armstrong 
college.  University  of  Durham,  addressed  these 
lectures  originally  to  men  and  women  without 
any  special  training  in  philosophy.  His  plan  Is 
to  review  some  of  the  chief  movements  in  con- 
temporary thought;  to  see  where  the  reflections 
of  leading  thinkers  are  tending  on  such  per- 
sistent problems  as  matter,  life,  mind  and  God; 
to  discover  whether,  in  spite  of  their  diversity 
and  even  their  conflict,  they  do  not  show  traces 
at  least  of  unity.  Contents:  Science,  religion, 
and  philosophy;  The  present-day  revolt  against 
"matter;"  The  order  of  nature:  mechanism, 
vitalism,  teleology;  The  nature  and  function  of 
mind;  Religion  and  the  meaning  of  "God." 

Boston    Transcript   p4   Jl   14    '23    650w 
Reviewed  by  C.   E.   Ayres 

New   Repub  36:26  Ag  29  '23  1350w 
"A  readable,  informative  and  successful  piece 
of  work.     The  writer  not  only  places  the  pres- 
ent  intellectual   difliculties    and    theories    before 
us    but    shows    where    they    can    be   modified    so 
that   a   fairly   satisfying   synthesis   may   result." 
+   N   Y  Times  p20  Jl  1  '23  400w 
"The  book  is   full  of  a  rich  and  profound  in- 
sight into  the  problems   of  the  intellect,   and  a 
warm   sympathy   that   marks   Mr    Hoernle   as   a 
philo.sopher  in  his  own  sense,    'a  man  who  sees 
the  whole.'  " 

+  Springf  d  Republican  p8  N  6  '23  450w 
"Professor  Hoernle  is  an  instructive  and  re- 
liable guide  to  the  thoughts  and  aims  of  phi- 
losophers, and  his  book  will  be  read  with  plea- 
sure, but  we  hope  it  will  be  followed  soon  by 
some  original  philosophy  of  his  own.  No  one 
of  our  younger  philosophers  is  so  full  of 
promise." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl90  Mr 
22    '23    800w 

HOLLAND,  HENRY  SCOTT.  Fourth  Gospel;  ed. 
=    by    Wilfred    J:    Richmond.    174p    $2.50    Dutton 
[6s  Murray] 

226.5     Bible.     New     Testament— Gospels— St 
John 

This  little  volume  consists  of  the  fragments 
only  of  a  projected  work  on  the  Fourth  gospel 
which  was  interrupted  by  the  author's  death. 
It  includes  two  introductions,  a  note  on  the 
prologue,  and  an  appendix.  The  thesis  of  the 
first  introduction  is  that  the  synoptic  gospels 
demand  some  such  story  as  that  of  the  Fourth 
gospel  to  supplement  and  explain  their  story. 
The  second  story  deals  with  the  Fourth  gospel 
itself,    its   character,    purpose   and   authorship. 

"No  author  since   the   late   Charles  A.    Briggs 
has  done  more  to  clear  up  some  of  the  myster- 
ies connected  with  the  earth  life  of  Jesus." 
+  Boston  Transcript  p5  D  29  '23  200w 

"It  is  unfortunate  that  a  master  of  such  skill 
and   persuasiveness   as  this   sample   reveals   was 
unable   to    finish    the    whole    book." 
+   Lit   R   p246   N   10  '23   220w 

"In  its  present  form  the  work  is  still  frag- 
mentary and  the  rhetorical  habits  of  the  writer 
are  all  too  apparent.  But  when  these  disadvan- 


tages are  set  aside,  many  readers  of  these 
remarkable  chapters  will  be  disposed  to  assent 
to  the  Dean  of  Wells'  judgment  that  'they  offer 
the  most  important  contribution  of  recent  times 
to  the  discussion  of  the  Johannine  authorship.'  " 
G.    M.   Y. 

+   New    Statesman    22:308   D    15   '23    1200w 


HOLLIDAY,    ROBERT   CORTES.   In   the  neigh- 
borhood of  Murray  Hill.    255p  $2   Doran 

917.47  New  York  (city)— Description  23-26339 
In  these  papers  of  a  rover  thru  the  streets  of 
New  York  Mr  Holliday  chooses  for  the  subjects 
of  his  discursive  talk  some  of  the  less  familiar 
moods  and  aspects  of  Fifth  Avenue;  the  vanish- 
ing hurdy-gurdy,  its  makers  and  players;  a 
group  of  New  York  publishers;  the  fabled  fame 
of  Greenwich  village;  some  novel  ways  of  living 
in  the  metropolis;  the  swimming-pool  in- Madi- 
son Square  Garden;  an  excursion  thru  New 
York   toy   shops. 


"Mr.  Holliday  is  not  merely  a  keen  observer; 
he  is  something  of  an  antiquarian,  too.  All  his 
abundantly  garnered  facts  he  scans  with  a 
humorous  and  jolly  eye,  and  communicates 
them  in  picturesque  little  essays,  slight  in  tex- 
ture, but  clearly  individualized  by  a  bright  and 
somewhat  mannered  style." 

+   Bookm    57:560  Jl   '23   120w 

"We  confess  that  the  personal  note  adds 
much  to  our  enjoyment  of  it.  It  possesses  also 
delightful  variety.  It  seems  to  us — and  we 
speak  advisedly,  having  read  all  his  books — the 
very  best  book  Mr.  Holliday  has  yet  written." 
D.    L.    Mann 

+  Boston    Transcript   p3   My   20    '23    1400w 

"We  find  revealed  through  this  book  new 
values,  new  delights.  The  author's  style  is 
easy,  informal — at  times,  alas,  a  little  careless; 
and  the  whole  effect  of  his  book  is  one  of  quiet 
pleasure."     C.   P. 

+  Cath    World    118:139    O    '23    250w 

Reviewed  by  H.  W.  Bo.vnton 

Ind   111:94   S   1   '23   llOOw 

"[These  essays]  appeared  in  magazines  or 
newspapers,  and  at  the  time  of  their  original 
publication  the.v  seemed  fairly  impressive.  .  . 
The  'column'  which  seems  to  be  so  effervescent 
when  read  in  the  smoking  car  loses  much  of  its 
sparkle  when  returned  to  in  moments  of  truer 
leisure.  This  is  not  to  say,  however,  that  HoUi- 
day's  papers  are  stale  and  unprofitable." 
1-   N  Y  Times  p9  Ap  29  '23  220w 

"Mr.  Holliday  is  neither  unique  nor  profound; 
but  he  doesn't  pretend  to  omniscience,  and  in 
memory  and  gossip  of  the  older  New  York  and 
Uterary  plunder  he  can  give  you  epigram  and 
knowledge  you  may  find  nowhere  else  so  in- 
geniously  rendered."      A.    D.    Douglas 

4-   N    Y    Tribune    p29    My    13    '23    320w 

"Holliday  writes  evidently  from  voluminous 
notes  taken  in  wild  stalkings  for  copy  about 
New  York.  But  after  he  gets  his  notes  down 
he  cannot  pick  them  up  again  alive.  'In  the 
Neighborhood  of  Murray  Hill'  is  a  poor  book, 
indeed,  if  contrasted  with  James  Huneker's 
'New  Cosmopolis.'  The  vim,  the  joy  of  life 
that  Huneker  got  into  his  lines  is  absent  from 
the  pages  of  Holliday.  The  latter  writes  like 
a  self-conscious  Baedeker,  afraid,  oh,  so  afraid 
of  using  virile  words  without  bracketing  them 
or  hobbling  them  with  quotation  marks."  L.  W. 
—  N   Y  World  pile  Ap  29  '23  350w 

"This  volume  of  New  York  sketches  will  fur- 
nish its  readers  with  enjoyable  memories,  some 
old,    some   new." 

4-  Sprlngf'd    Republican  pl6  Je  1   '23  550w 

HOLM,    FRITS    VILHELM.      My   Nestorian   ad- 
venture in  China;  introd.  by  Abraham  Yohan- 
non.    335p   11   $3.50    Revell 
281  8      China — Description    and    travel.    Nes- 
torian   tablet   of  Sian-fu  23-11339 
"This  is  a  popular  account  of  the  adventures 
of  a  Danish  explorer  and  scholar  several  years 
ago  in  making  and  bringing  to  America  a  rep- 
lica    of     the     celebrated     Nestorian     Monument 
erected    bv    Christian    missionaries    in   China   in 


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the  eighth  century.  The  replica  is  now  in  Rome, 
it  having  unfortunately  been  better  appreciated 
there   than   in    this    country." — Outlook 


"This  book  is  naive  both  in  style  and  in 
revealing  the  author's  personality.  But  it  is 
entertaining  and  instructive  for  any  one  that  is 
interested  in  Chinese  geography  and  ethnology 
or  as  a  story  of  indomitable  good  nature  and 
energy."    N.    H.    D. 

+   Boston   Transcript  pi  Jl  28  '23   llOOw 
Reviewed    by    C:    de    Kay 

N   Y  Times  pl4  JI   1   '23   1200w 
"Dr.    Holm's    book    is    written    in    lively    and 
entertaining  style,  and  is  one  of  the  most  read- 
able of  recent  books  on  China." 

+  Outlook  134:384  Jl  11  '23  50w 

St  Louis  p330  D  '23 

HOLMES,   EDMOND   GORE   ALEXANDER. 

Freedom  and  growth;   and  other  essays.    312p 

$3  Dutton  [7s  6d  Dent] 

824     Education  23-12914 

The  author  was  for  thirty- six  years  inspector 
of  elementary  schools  in  England.  Half  the 
essays  deal  with  education  and  half  with 
"things  in  general."  Contents:  Socialism  and 
education;  Professor  Eucken  and  the  philosophy 
of  self-realisation;  Ideals  of  life  and  education 
— German  and  English;  Discipline  and  freedom; 
Drudgery  and  education;  The  real  basis  of 
democracy;  Freedom  and  growth;  Religion  as 
the  basis  of  social  reconstruction;  The  religious 
training  of  the  young;  The  philosophy  of  my 
old  age;  The  psychology  of  sanity;  The  spirit 
of  the  quest;  Does  contemporary  scholarship 
do  justice  to  the  teaching  of  Jesus?  The  re- 
creations of  the  Spitalflelds  weavers;  The  con- 
fessions and  hopes  of  an  ex-inspector  of 
schools;   What  joy  does  for  the  young. 


"  'Socialism  and  Education'  is  one  of  the  most 
illuminating  discussions  of  this  vital  topic  that 
may  be  recalled,  even  though  it  was  written  in 
1912.  'The  Confessions  of  an  Inspector,'  will 
prove  of  deep  interest  to  those  who  have  held 
positions  in  the  schools,  for  many  of  its  con- 
clusions are  in  accord  with  educational  experi- 
ences  in   all   civilized   countries." 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  29  '23  320w 

Reviewed  by  H.  W.  Boynton 

Lit  R  p25  S  8  '23  840w 
New  Statesman  21:122  My  5  '23  330w 
"Since  most  of  our  educational  method  was 
made  in  Germany,  the  author  makes  a  trench- 
ant analysis  of  both  the  method  and  the  results 
to  which  it  has  led.  Autocratic  authority  and 
a  rigid  routine  were  the  keynotes  of  that 
method.  .  .  And  are  there  any  remedies?  Mr. 
Holmes  has  a  good  deal  to  say  upon  that  head, 
for  he  is  not  merely  a  destructive  critic."  H: 
J.  Forman 

-f  N  Y  Times  p8  S  16  '23  2200w 
Spec  131:328  S  8  '23   lOOw 
The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p272  Ap 
19  '23  250w 

HOLIVIES,  FENWICKE  LINDSAY.  Songs  of 
the  silence,  and  other  poems.  119p  $1.75 
McBride 

811  23-8137 

These  are  the  songs  of  an  exultant  optimist 
and  cheer  maker,  who  lives  in  a  "God-thrilled 
world"   and  sees  good  in  everything- 


"Mr.  Holmes's  rhymes  ought  to  go  prettily 
with  any  well-tuned  harp;  his  stage  properties 
and  business  are  all  in  line  with  the  best  tradi- 
tions of  the  trade  and  his  manner  is  forthright 
and   outspoken." 

—  NY  Tribune  p21  Je  10  '23  500w 

HOLMES,     SAMUEL    JACKSON.        Studies    in 
evolution  and  eugenics.   261p  $3  Harcourt 

575      Evolution.      Eugenics  23-12889 

"It    is   composed    in    part    of    papers    prepared 

for  various  occasions  and  periodicals;  but  these 

are  put  together  so  skilfully  as  to  do  away  with 


repetition  and  make  up  a  whole  of  logical  se- 
quence. The  first  three  chapters  recapitulate  and 
exhibit  the  present  state  of  knowledge  as  re- 
gards evolution  and  provide  a  most  useful  short 
summary  for  the  reader  who  cannot  afford  the 
time  to  go  through  the  ever  flowing  stream  of 
hterature  on  that  subject.  The  middle  section 
of  the  book,  discussing  various  special  aspects 
of  human  heredity  and  eugenics,  is  character- 
ized by  conservatism  of  statement  combined 
with  liberalism  in  the  attitude  to  what  are  as 
yet  open  questions.  One  chapter  is  devoted 
to  the  subject  of  infant  mortality  and  the  ques- 
tion whether  its  general  reduction  means  de- 
terioration of  the  stock.  The  next  chapter  re- 
views more  generally  the  effect  of  civilization 
on  natural  selection.  There  follow  chapters  on 
Sexual  Selection,  on  Early  Marriages — which  he 
favors,  on  Birth  Control  and  on  Some  Miscon- 
ceptions of  Eugenics.  The  remaining  chapters 
on  Immigration,  Race  Mixture  and  The  Biologi- 
cal Fortunes  of  the  Negro,  do  not  maintain  the 
scientific  level  of  the  rest  of  the  book." — Survey 


Boston  Transcript  p3  N"  10  '23  720w 
"The  author's  work  as  a  zoologist  and  student 
of  heredity,  especially  in  relation  to  the  human 
race,  has  been  of  such  a  nature  that  the  reader 
may  rest  assured  that  the  contents  of  the  book 
are"  thoroughly  scientific  and  therefore  accurate 
and  unprejudiced.  The  volume  should  do  much 
to  correct  certain  errors  that  are  more  or  less 
widespread  in  regard  to  evolution  and  eu- 
genics."     Beverlv    Kunkel 

+  Lit  R  p260  N  17  '23  600w 
"The  literature  on  human  evolution  and  race 
relations  is  so  full  of  prejudice  that  one  must 
be  grateful  for  a  discursive  and  comprehensive 
contribution  which,  relatively  speaking,  is  so 
free  from  that  all  too  human  defect.  No  stu- 
dent of  those  subjects  should  fail  to  read  this 
stimulating  book."    B.    L. 

H Survey  51:226  N  15  '23  1650w 

HOLT.  ARTHUR  ERASTUS.  Social  work  in 
the  churches;  a  study  in  the  practice  of  fel- 
lowship.  131p  60c    Pilgrim  press 

260     Church  work.     Sociology,  Christian 

22-18109 
This  study,  prepared  for  the  Commission  on 
the  church  and  social  service  of  the  Federal 
council  of  the  churches  of  Christ  in  America, 
outlines  the  place  and  the  responsibility  of  the 
church  in  society,  its  educational  program,  its 
organized  benevolence,  its  relation  to  the  home, 
to  industry,  to  its  immediate  community,  and 
to  the  world  order.  In  Part  two  is  given  a  pro- 
gram for  the  fellowship  principle  in  social 
action  and  in  social  education  and  for  the 
adaptation  of  the  church  to  the  various  occupa- 
tional groups.  There  are  also  suggestions  for 
church  equipment  and  a  directory  of  social 
service  agencies. 

Boston  Transcript  p3   F  10  '23  650w 
"It    is    an    admirable    piece    of    constructive 
Christian  statesmanship." 

-f  Springf  d  Republican  p7a  S  24  '22  260w 
"The  volume  is  more  than  the  'study  in  the 
practice  of  fellowship'  which  it  claims  to  be.  It 
is  a  very  helpfully  suggestive  manual  for  actual 
use  in  prompting  and  promoting  effective  social 
work  by  the  churches."  Graham  Taylor 
+  Survey  49:393  D  15  '22  450w 

HOLT,  HENRY.     Garrulities  of  an  octogenarian 
editor;    with    other    essays    somewhat    biogra- 
phical and  autobiographical.  460p  $4  Houghton 
B  or  92  23-17904 

Mr  Holt's  recollections  are  made  up  mostly 
of  matter  that  has  previously  appeared  m  peri- 
odicals. As  the  title  implies,  the  book  is  not 
a  continuous  autobiography,  but  a  jotting  down 
of  reminiscences,  impressions  and  convictions 
as  they  suggested  them.selves.  Part  one  is  de- 
voted to  his  life  and  friends.  Part  two  to  his 
four  great  teachers,  Francis  A.  Walker,  E.  L. 
Godkin,  Herbert  Spencer  and  John  Fi.ske  Part 
three  expresses  the  principal  conclusions 
reached  in  his  long  experience. 


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HOLT,   HENRY — Continued 

"It  will  make  for  clear  thinking  and  the  ap- 
preciation of  life  if  a  good  many  people  read 
the  Garrulities."     Ralph   Bergengren 

+   Boston   Transcript   p3   D   8   '23   2400w 
"Upon    the   whole,    a    significant,    and,    to   the 
present  reviewer,  intensely  interesting  volume." 
H:   A.    Beers 

+   Lit   R  p42l  ,Ja  5  '24  1350w 
Reviewed   by  H:    B.    Fuller 

N    Y   Times  pi   D  23   '23   1050w 
"There  is  a  world  of  interest  and  philosophy 
in   the  volume." 

+   N    Y   World   p7e  D   2   '23   1150w 
R   of   Rs  69:111  Ja  '24  130w 

HOLT,  WINIFRED   (MRS   RUFUS  GRAVES 

MATHER).       Light    which    cannot    fail.       419p 
$3.50       Dutton 

362.4      Blind  22-23078 

True  stories  of  blind  men  and  women  with 
whom  Miss  Holt's  work  as  Lighthouse  keeper 
both  here  and  in  Europe,  has  brought  her  in 
contact.  The  first  stories  are  from  the  pioneer 
Lighthouse  in  New  York  city  but  most  of  them 
are  of  men  blinded  in  the  war  whom  the  au- 
thor met  and  helped  in  France.  There  is  a 
third  group  of  stories  from  Rome  and  Poland 
where,  after  the  war,  she  extended  her  work. 
The  last  hundred  pages  consist  of  a  handbook 
on  the  psychology,  personality  and  treatment 
of  the  blind,  with  suggestions  for  their  enter- 
tainment   and   occupation. 


Booklist    19:146    F    '23 

Bookm  57:101  Mr  '23  SOw 
"Her  tender  heart  has  served  to  give  (o  her 
a  tender  and  delightful  style  in  the  telling  of 
stories  of  the  blind — not  mere  inventions,  or 
figments  of  fancy,  but  true  tales  out  of  her 
own    experience." 

+   Boston    Transcript   p3   D    9    '22    820w 

Int  Bk  R  p48  My  '23  llOOw 
"She  tells  many  beautiful  stories  and  she  tells 
them  well.  The  reader  need  not  fear  constant 
appeal  to  the  emotions,  but  can  rise  from  the 
book  refreshed  and  invigorated,  holding  a  new 
conception  of  what  blindness  may  mean,  and 
perhaps  entertaining  a  desire  to  share  in 
ameliorating  it,  surely  in  preventing  it."  E:  E. 
Allen 

+   Nation    117:199   Ag  22   "23    450w 

Pittsburgh    Mo   Bul  28:221  My  '23 

Wis    Lib    Bul    19:24   Ja   '23 

HOOL,  GEORGE  ALBERT;  KINNE,  WILLIAM 
SPAULDING;  and  BAKER,  HORACE 
SINGER,  eds.  Foundations,  abutments  and 
footings.    414p    il   $4    McGiaw 

624.1     Foundations  23-9042 

"Text-book  presenting  modern  practice  and 
elementary  theory.  Consists  mainly  of  concise 
articles  by  many  different  authors.  Though 
these  are  so  blended  as  to  minimize  duplication 
of  material,  there  are  inevitable  differences  in 
style  and  manner  of  treatment.  Very  few  ref- 
erences to  original  literature." — Pittsburgh  Mo 
Bul 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bul   28:417   O  '23 

HOPE,   ELIZABETH.  My    lady's    bargain.     299p 
$1.75    Century     [7s   6d   Nisbet] 

23-2469 
The  time  is  the  Protectorate  with  Cromwell 
one  of  the  characters.  The  story  is  told  in  the 
first  per.<;on  by  one  Peter  "Williams,  of  lowly 
birth,  who  has  risen  to  the  rank  of  major- 
general  m  the  army  of  the  Commonwealth 
From  the  time  when  he  was  a  ragged  boy  he 
had  oved  the  imperious  little  Lady  Rosamond, 
daughter  of  Lord  Lovc-t.  When  the  storv  opens 
the  lady,  now  the  widow  of  Lord  Killigew,  had 
entered  mto  a  bargain  to  marry  any  man  the 
.«tale  might  choose  and  hand  over"  the  title- 
deeds  of  her  estates  to  him,  for  the  pafdon 
and  safe  passage  to  foreign  parts  of  her  younger 
brother,  now  prisoner  in  the  Tower  under  sen- 
tence of  death.    The  man  chosen  is  Peter  Wil- 


iiams.  The  marriage  takes  place  and  the  lady 
sliows  herself  remarkably  docile  for  one  so 
haughty  and  imperious.  When  Williams  falls 
under  the  suspicion  of  shielding  a  royalist  in 
his  household  and  in  his  turn  makes  a  bargain 
to  deliver  up  either  the  suspect  or  himseli  for 
execution,  the  denouement  shows  that  the  sup- 
posedly dead  Lord  Killigew  is  alive  and  that 
VVilUams  has  unwittingly  been  married  to  Ladv 
Killigew' s  cousin  and  exact  double,   Una  Lovet. 


Booklist  19:224  Ap  '23 
"The  author  succeeds  in  keeping  the  most  im- 
portant part  of  her  story  a  secret  and  gaining 
thereby  a  very  exciting  climax  and  ending. 
The  book  has  a  lovable  liero  and  is  a  decidedly 
readable    tale." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  11  '23  300w 
"As  a  novel,  'My  Lady's  Bargain'  could  never 
bear  up  under  careful  scrutiny.  Yet  there  is 
an  easy  grace  in  the  narrative  that  goes  far 
to  compensate  for  the  technical  flaws  that  beset 
it." 

h   N    Y   Times   pl4   Ja  21   '23   500w 

"We  can  highly  recommend  the  volume  to 
those  who  enjoy  a  good  story  of  adventure  and 
promise  them  that  they  will  find  it  absorbing 
in    no   small    degree."     A.    L.    Hill 

+   N    Y    Tribune    p25    Ap   8    '23    390w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p617  S 
28  '22  20w 
"The  sketch  of  Cromwell  is  good;  Miss  Hope 
gives  him  no  romantic  beauty,  but  makes  him 
a  picturesque  figure  in  another  way.  The  ma- 
chinery, in  short,  works  smoothly  as  a  rule, 
though  there  is  a  moment,  near  the  end,  when 
it  creaks." 

H The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p650  O  12 

'22   420w 

Wis    Lib    Bul    19:56    F   '23 

HOPKINS,  EDWARD  WASHBURN.  Origin  and 
evolution  of  religion.  370p  $3  Yale  univ.  press 
[15s  Milford] 

290     Religion  23-7668 

"It  is  a  searching  study  into  the  beginnings, 
the  nature  and  the  development  of  religion, 
traced  through  long  centuries  from  the  worship 
of  stones,  hills,  trees,  and  other  inanimate  ob- 
jects to  plants  and  animals  and  finally  to  the 
adoration  of  unembodied  beings  believed  to  be 
divine.  Ancestor  worship  is  discussed;  there 
are  chapters  on  'The  Soul,'  'The  Self  as  Soul,' 
'Sacrifice,'  'The  Ritual,'  'The  Priest  and  the 
Church,'  and  one  especially  important  section 
devoted  to  the  relations  of  religion  to  mythol- 
ogy, ethics  and  philosophy.  The  author  finally 
examines  the  Hindu,  Buddhistic  and  Christian 
conceptions  of  the  Trinity,  summing  up  the 
conclusions  he  has  reached  regarding  the  'real- 
ity   of    religion.'  " — Boston    Transcript 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  28  '23  770w 
"Perhaps  the  principal  merit  of  Dr.  Hopkins's 
book  is  its  perfect  objectivity,  its  serene  de- 
tachment from  all  question  of  belief  and  unbe- 
lief. .  .  If,  however,  we  ask  whether  or  not  Dr. 
Hopkins  has  realized  his  programme,  that  Is, 
laid  bare  'the  factors  and  the  means'  which 
have  determined  the  various  forms  of  religion, 
we  are  obliged  to  answer  in  the  negative.  Not- 
withstanding all  its  wealth  of  information,  the 
reader  will  in  vain  attempt  to  form  a  coherent 
notion  either  of  the  order  of  succession  of  the 
various  re'igious  ideas  or  of  the  causes  which 
produced    them."    Herman    Simpson 

H Freeman    7:306   Je    6    "23    1500w 

"Scholarly  and  well-written  work." 
+   N   Y  Times  p24  Je   17  '23  600w 

HOPKINS,   GERARD.     Unknown  quantity.   404p 

$2     Dutton     [7s  6d  Chatto  &  W.] 

23-4004 

Evelyn  Rendle,  a  young  author  who,  together 
with  his  Chelsea  associates,  takes  his  artistic 
conscience  very  conscientiously  and  is  scornfully 
superior  to  becoming  a  successful  writer,  falls 
in  love  with  a  pretty  typist,  common  and  un- 
educated, and  without  either  emotional  or  in- 
tellectual possibilities.     She  is  disgusted  with  his 


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245 


Chelsea  friends,  whom  she  does  not  in  the  least 
understand  and,  since  she  has  married  above 
her  station,  is  determined  to  reap  every  advan- 
tage of  this  fact  by  becoming  a  social  climber. 
As  a  result  Evelyn,  blindly  led,  achieves  both 
fame  and  wealth.  To  his  grieving  former 
friends,  the  most  perspicacious  of  them  points 
out  that  Evelyn  has  not  in  reality  sold  his  soul 
and  is  not  persistently  writing  down  to  his 
public  but  has  reached  his  own  true  level,  be- 
cause he  is  himself  second-rate  and  not  the 
genius   that  his   friends   looked   forward   to. 


"Mr.  Hopkins  has  managed  to  create  a  very 
penetrating  study  of  certain  phases  of  an  art- 
ist's life."     D.   L.   M. 

Boston  Transcript  p3  Mr  10  '23  1150w 
Lit  R  p570  Mr  31  '23  450w 
"As  yet  his  work  is  not  particularly  individu- 
al, but  it  is  refreshingly  spontaneous,  and  he  has 
the  enviable  gift  of  being  able  to  hold  our  in- 
terest without  appealing  to  our  curiosity."  For- 
rest Reid 

H Nation   and   Ath   32:127   O  21   '22  700w 

Reviewed   by   Glenway   Westcott 

New  Repub  35:158  Jl  4  '23  30w 

"It    lacks    only    that   intangible    quality   called 
distinction    to    be    uncommonly    good.        At    the 
least,    it    is    a    sound    and    honest    study    of    a 
theme   generally  sentimentalized  to  death.     Mr. 
Hopkins  possesses  the  same  clear-eyed  common 
sense  which  marks  Arnold  Bennett's  best  work, 
and    makes    him    so   pre-eminently    the    novelist 
of  and   for   the   middle  class."      Isabel   Paterson 
+   N    Y    Tribune    p26    F   25    '23    650w 
"An    interesting    story.      In    bringing    it    forth 
Mr.  Hopkins  has  progressed  measurably  toward 
fulfilment    of    the    promise    written    so    largely 
into  the  pages  of  his  first  book."     E.  W.  Osborn 
-f   N   Y  World  p6e  F  11  '23  720w 
"Mr.    Hopkins's   plot   is   extremely   good:    it   is 
so  frankly  and  unsentimentally  true  to  life  that 
it   could    scarcely   be    better.  But    his    style   un- 
fortunately begins  by  being  detestable,  and  only 
when  he  forgets  about  it  does  it  become  toler- 
able."     Gerald    Gould 

-1 Sat   R  134:483   S  30  '22  380w 

Spec  129:975  D  23  '22  220w 
"A   capital   story,    original   in   plot,    full   of   in- 
teresting characters,   and  told  with  a  simplicity 
of    style    which    is    truly    refreshing." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  20  "23 
550w 
"This  is  a  fairy-tale,  boldly  be  it  said,  which 
has  not  yet  come  true  by  the  Chelsea  riverside 
or  anywhere  else.  But  the  book  on  the  whole 
produces  a  pleasant  impression  of  fertility;  and 
Mr.  Hopkins,  with  the  good  gift  of  his  eye,  has 
only  to  practice  his  hand." 

H The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p598  S  21 

'22  560w 

HOPKINS,    MARSH.   Chance  and  error.    223p  $3 

Button 

519      Chance 

"Mr.  Hopkins  covers  a  somewhat  wider  field 
[than  Whitworth's  classic  treatise,  'Choice  and 
Chance']  including  some  parts  of  the  great 
province  for  which  the  integral  calculus  is  re- 
quired, explaining  the  methods  and  working  out 
the  formulae  from  first  principles  as  he  goes 
along.  The  hook  is  evidently  intended  for  the 
general  public,  for  whom  this  subject  perhaps 
alone  of  mathematical  studies  has  an  appeal." 
— The   Times    [London]    Lit  Sup 


Lit  R  p264  N  17  '23  410w 
"Here  is  an  odd  publication  which  may  be 
useful  either  to  the  matchers  of  nickels  or  to 
mathematical  researchers  in  this  quite  respect- 
able byway  of  the  mental  sciences.  Mr.  Hop- 
kins tells  you  how  to  calculate  the  number  of 
heads  and  tails  to  be  expected  in  the  case  of 
the  nickels  on  the  theory  of  the  interference  of 
yes  and  no.  .  .  The  author  asserts,  'The  sub- 
ject took  such  a  hold  of  me  that  for  a  number 
of  years  I  constantly  worked  at  it  in  my  sleep." 


Although  the  book  gives  that  general  impres- 
sion, it  may  interest  those  who  gamble  with 
equations."    W.    C. 

—  NY   Tribune  pl8  O   21   '23   70w 

"We  doubt  if  the  exposition  is  sufficiently 
simple  for  the  non -technical  reader,  and  it  is 
scarcely    rigid   enough    for   the   mathematician." 

—  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p506    Jl 
26    '23    lOOw 

HORN,    JOHN    LOUIS.       American    elementary 

school.   422p  $2  Century 

372     Education,    Elementary 

The  book  comes  under  the  Century  education 
series  with  an  introduction  by  Charles  E.  Chad- 
sey.  Its  prime  object  is  to  help  students  in 
colleges  and  normal  schools,  to  acquire  broad 
conceptions  of  the  significance,  organization, 
aims,  and  goals  of  publicly  supported  elemen- 
tary schools.  It  emphasises  the  fact  that  edu- 
cational problems  can  never  be  settled  but  must 
always  remain  open  to  receive  the  light  of  new 
evidence.  With  this  in  view  it  makes  a  survey 
of  the  general  foundations  of  elementary  school 
practice  in  the  United  States  at  the  present 
moment,  noting  its  historical  background,  the 
political,  social  and  economic  factors  that  condi- 
tion its  practice  today,  and  its  immediate  and 
still  unsolved  problems.  Problems  and  bibli- 
ography at   the   end   of   each  chapter.     Index. 


Reviewed  by  Agnes  de  Lima 

New   Repub   35:302  Ag  8   '23   150w 

"In  summarizing  what  is  workable  in  recent 
school  procedure  and  practice,  Professor  Horn 
has  written  a  useful  book.  His  emphasis  on 
the  need  for  differentiated  education  is  well 
made;  highly  endowed  children  in  our  public 
schools  have  been  neglected,  he  asserts — and 
his  suggestion  is  interesting  that  the  schools 
train  the  emotions  as  well  as  the  intellect." 
Agnes  de  Lima 

+  Survey   50:638   S   15   '23   300w 

HORSFIELD,  HERBERT  KNIGHT.  Sidelights 
on  birds;  an  introd.  to  the  study  of  bird  life 
with  a  foreword  by  W.  Eagle  Clarke.  224p  ii 
$4   Appleton    [12s   6d   H.    Cranton] 

598.2       Birds  Agr23-9lO 

The  idea  of  the  book  by  a  well-known  British 
ornithologist  is  to  show  how  birds  live  and 
move,  to  describe  their  structure,  nests  and 
eggs,  altitude  and  speed  of  flight,  their  habits 
and  language  and  their  place  in  literature.  The 
second  part  of  the  book  describes  some  cele- 
brated bird  haunts — the  Shetland  islands  and 
the  outer  Hebrides,  Norway,  and  a  Swiss  gla- 
cier. 


Booklist  20:10  O  '23 
"A    book    of    abiding    interest    and    charm    is 
this,    not    only    leading   us    to    many   new    posts 
of  observation,   but  clarifying  vision  from  those 
long  established." 

+   Boston   Transcript   p4   Je   13   '23   480w 
"Contains    some    delightful    chapters    suggest- 
ing   the    possession    by    birds    of    occult    senses. 
One's  criticisms  on  a   book  containing  so  much 
accurate  knowledge  are  very  small  ones." 

H ■  Spec   130:sup488  Mr  24  '23   140w 

Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Ag    19     '23 
200w 

HORTON,    ROBERT   FORMAN.      Mystical  quest 
of  Christ.     317p  $3  Doran   [10s  6d  Allen  &  U.] 
248      Cnristian    life.    Mysticism  [23-12468] 

"I  ask  the  reader  to  recognise  in  the  Chris- 
tian the  true  mystic.  A  great  element  of  mys- 
ticism enters  into  every  genuine  Christian  ex- 
perience. And  anyone  who  would  be  in  the 
oest  and  truest  sense  a  Christian  must  be  in  a 
real  sense  a  mystic.  Mysticism  is  not  con- 
fined to  Christianity;  it  is  no  less  extensive  than 
religious  experience  generally;  but  the  relation 
between  the  soul  and  Christ  is  a  distinctive 
mystical  experience;  and  it  is  specific  in  this 
sense,  that  this  relation  works  out  in  a  certain 
practice   of   life   and   a   certain   development   of 


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NORTON,    R.    F.— Continued 

character.  It  is  this  concrete  effect  of  a  true 
Christian  mysticism  which  forms  the  subject  of 
this   book." — Foreword 


"Among  the  books,  almost  without  number, 
that  have  been  published  in  recent  years  on 
mysticism  this  work  stands  out  as  one  of  the 
most   sane   and   attractive." 

+  Sat    R   135:668   My   19    '23    550w 
"This  book,  by  a  venerable  and  distinguished 
Nonconformist    clergyman,     may    be     taken    as 
representative    of    the    best    Nonconformist    at- 
mosphere of  the  writer's  time." 

+  Spec  130:1012  Je  16  '23  80w 
"A  devout  thinker  and  preacher  here  surveys 
his  experience  of  the  Christian  life,  and  gives 
us  the  fruits  of  his  reflections  with  a  combined 
modesty  and  conviction  which  bespeak  the  at- 
tention of  his  readers." 

-f  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p307  M> 
3    '23    400w 

HOTCHKISS,  GEORGE  BURTON,  and  FRAN- 
KEN,  RICHARD  BENJAMIN.  Leadership  of 
advertised  brands.  (N.  Y.  univ.  Bur.  of  busi- 
ness research.   Studies)    256p   $2   Doubleday 

659  Advertising  23-3902 

"This  book  is  primarily  a  compilation  of  data 
concerning  brands  of  goods  commonly  used  in 
the  home.  The  nature  of  the  investigation  was 
that  of  the  questionnaire.  Blanks  were  sent  out 
to  a  considerable  number  of  the  higher  institu- 
tions of  learning  in  the  different  parts  of  the 
country.  Each  of  these  blanks  contained  100 
spaces  in  which  the  name  of  some  common 
household  article  was  mentioned.  They  started 
with  bacon,  baked  beans,  breakfast  food,  butter, 
candy,  and  included  bicycles,  yarn,  face  powder, 
silverware,  umbrellas,  cigarettes,  and  enough 
more  of  like  nature  to  make  an  even  hundred. 
Arrangements  were  made  with  the  instructors 
of  a  number  of  normal  schools,  colleges,  and 
universities  to  distribute  these  in  their  classes, 
and  have  each  student  write  in  the  name  of 
the  brand  which  first  occurred  to  him  for  each 
article  listed.  Of  the  hundred  articles,  only  17 
brands  were  so  generally  known  that  they  re- 
ceived a  majority  vote  of  all  who  participated. 
The  result  of  the  investigation  is  fully  tabulated, 
and  the  table  for  each  product  is  presented 
separately." — Administration 


"All  in  all,  the  book  is  one  of  the  most  val- 
uable contributions  to  the  study  of  advertising 
of  the  last  two  or  three  years.  One  well-known 
advertising  man  called  it,  'The  best  book  that 
has  been  written  on  any  phase  of  advertising 
by  an  author  not  directly  engaged  in  advertis- 
ing.' Hundreds  of  brands  are  mentioned,  and 
each  manufacturer  will  be  able  to  get  a  valuable 
sidelight  upon  the  popularity  that  his  product 
enjoys."   H.   E.   Agnew 

+  Administration    5:749    Je   '23   2250w 

HOUGH,    EMERSON.      North    of   36.    429p    il    $2 

Appleton 

23-10971 

Against  a  background  of  history — the  time 
being  the  reconstruction  period  after  the  Civil 
war — the  story  depicts  the  plight  of  the  Texan 
cattle  rancher  when  lawlessness  reigned  in  the 
state  and  the  cattle,  for  which  there  was  no 
market,  were  stolen  in  large  numbers  by  out- 
law bands.  It  tells  how  young  Taisie  Lockhart, 
an  orphan,  with  thousands  of  head  of  unsalable 
cattle  on  her  hands,  unable  to  pay  her  men 
and  carry  on,  conceived  the  desperate  plan  of 
taking  the  herd  north  to  Kansas,  where  the 
Kansas  Pacific  railroad  had  opened  up  a  market. 
The  weary  pilgrimage  of  many  months,  full  of 
dangers  and  setbacks  and  with  a  wild  and 
dramatic    romance   makes   a   thrilling  narrative. 


Booklist  20:21  O  '23 
"Mr.  Hough  has  by  no  means  in  'North  of 
36'  written  an  epic  of  the  America  of  its  time 
and  place,  but  he  has  at  least  set  down  some 
of  the  most  significant  and  stirring  of  its  de- 
tails. To  read  his  novel  is  to  become  better 
acquainted  with  some  of  the  forces  that  have 


made    the    America    of    yesterday    what    it    is 
today."     E.    F.   Edgett 

-f-  Boston  Transcript  p4  JI  21  '23  SOOw 
Cleveland  p68  S  '23 
"He  has  not  merely  written  an  excellent 
book,  but  he  has  furnished  American  readers 
with  a  piece  of  historical  fiction  carefully  dug 
from  the  soil  of  their  own  land.  He  has  done 
this  numerous  times  before,  but  never  better. 
Such  writing  requires,  as  well  as  knowledge, 
high  spirits,  deep  humanity  and  a  clear  mind. 
I..iterary  labor  of  that  kind  must  be  sweet  and 
satisfying."      R.    J.    McLaughlin 

+  Detroit    News   pl2  Ag   12   '23   480w 

Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  p8  Ag 
5  '23  480w 
"After  all  merited  praise  is  awarded,  may  one 
not  protest  against  the  giving-out  of  the  idea 
that  such  narratives  reflect  the  real  history  and 
life  of  the  West  that  was?  .  .  As  a  romance 
for  the  unsophisticated,  'North  of  36'  is  of  the 
best  prevailing  order.  As  anything  like  true 
history,  however,  one  may  regretfully  confess 
that    it    is   very   like    'bunk.'  "      Stuart   Henry 

h   Int    Bk    R   p34   N    '23   1450w 

"It  is  a  theme  alluring  to  the  fiction  writer 
and  one  that  demands  at  least  a  touch  of  the 
romantic  in  its  treatment.  Mr.  Hough  has 
given  it  much  more  than  a  touch.  But  he 
has  also  endeavored  to  find  out  all  that  it  is 
now  possible  to  learn  about  that  great  inland 
movement  of  commerce  and  to  write  his  story 
in  accordance  with  both  its  spirit  and  its  de- 
tails." 

+   N   Y  Times  pl4  Jl  22  '23  900w 
"No  shelf  of  books  with   the  thrill  legitimate 
should  lack  'North  of  36.'  "  E.  W.  Osborn 
-I-   N    Y   World   pl9   Jl  15   '23   480w 
"The  book   is   quite  as  good  aa   'The   Covered 
Wagon,'  better  if  anything  in  plot,  and  it  would 
make    an    equally   popular    'movie'    if   it   is    pos- 
sible   now    to    find    big    herds    of    long-horns    to 
film."     R.  D.   Townsend 

+  Outlook  134:675  Ag  29  "23  300w 
"Like  all  of  Mr.  Hough's  studies  of  the  South- 
western country,  this  book  may  be  relied  on 
for  fidelity  to  detail.  It  forms  a  vitally  interest- 
ing chapter  in  the  economic  history  of  our 
Southwest." 

+   R  of   Rs  68:560  N  '23  270w 
"Mr.   Hough  gives  us  a  vivid,   stirring  narra- 
tive lacking  none   of  the   thrills  of  more  purely 
imaginative    'Western'    tales   because   of  having 
a  basis  of  historical   fact." 

-|-  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    Ag    12     '23 
470w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup   p605  S  13 
'23  180w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:481   N   '23 

HOUSE  on  Smith  square,  by  the  author  of  The 
house   on   Charles   street.    316p  $2     Duffield 

23-6150 
"This  story,  laid  principally  in  England  just 
as  the  great  war  was  quivering  to  a  close, 
centres  about  the  love  of  Sidney  Ashburnham, 
an  American  girl,  and  Adrian  Romeyne,  Lord 
Waveney  a  Liberal  British  statesman.  On  one 
side,  English  social  prestige  and  political  Con- 
servatism are  trying  to  alienate  Lord  Waveney 
from  the  American  girl,  pulling  desperately  at 
him  through  a  handsome  young  Englishwoman 
considered  'just  the  right  match.'  On  the  other 
hand  America  drags  at  Sidney  Ashburnham 
through  a  really  fine  young  New  York  busmess 
man  who  loves  her,  and  who  cannot  quite  con- 
ceive how  Sidney  or  any  one  else  could  really 
be  satisfied  to  live  outside  the  United  States.  — 
N  Y  Times 

Booklist  1S:319  Jl  '23 
"The  story  is  written  in  a  deliberate,  restful 
style  which  is  a  marvel  of  defined  arresting 
lucidity.  .  .  It  is  like  a  very  beautiful,  well  hung 
etching  where  values  are  appraised  little  by 
little  as  the  onlooker  carefully  estimates  the  pic- 

^"'■^•"+^0^01?  Transcript   pll   Mr   24   '23   600w 


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Cleveland  p50  Jl  '23 
"This  story  is  human  enough  and  well  enough 
told  to  hold  the  reader,  but,  unstirred  by  great 
events  behind  its  little  ones,  the  literary  talent 
of  its  writer  does  not  seem  as  considerable  as 
it   did    in    'The   House   on    Charles    Street.'  " 

■j Lit    R    p755    Je    9   '23    200w 

"The  anonymity  of  this  author  is  unusually 
tantalizing  and  piquing  to  the  curiosity.  Who 
is  this  person  who  goes  about,  catfooted,  among 
England's  great  and  near-great — ^who  writes 
both  of  America  and  England  with  the  intimate 
knowledge  and  kindly  tolerance  with  which  one 
might  discuss  a  pert  young  cousin  or  a  spoiled 
old   great    aunt?" 

+   N  Y  Times  pl9  Ap  1  "23  220w 
Outlook  133:8.54   My  9  '23  30w 

HOUSMAN,  LAURENCE.  Dethronements;  im- 
aginary portraits  of  political  characters,  done 
in  dialogue;  Charles  Stewart  Parnell,  Joseph 
Chamberlain,  Woodrow  Wilson.  95p  $1.25 
Macmillan    [2s    6d   J.    Cape] 

822  23-7949 

The.^e  three  dialogues,  imaginary  conversa- 
tions which  never  actually  took  place,  are  in- 
terpretations of  three  gi-eat  men,  thru  the  utter- 
ances of  their  inmost  heai'ts  at  the  moment  of 
the  apparent  failure  of  their  ideals.  First,  there 
is  Charles  Stewart  Parnell,  in  political  exile  in 
Brighton,  talking  with  Katharine  O'Shea  whom 
he  loved  and  who,  men  said,  had  been  the  cause 
of  his  ruin;  then  there  is  Joseph  Chamberlain, 
the  once  powerful  minister,  now  old  and  help- 
less, receiving  a  distinguished  visitor,  who  may 
be  I3alfour;  and  lastly,  Woodrow  Wilson,  on  the 
day  of  his  successor's  inauguration  as  president, 
in  conversation  with  his  secretary.  The  author 
says  that  these  personal  readings  of  characters 
and  events  are  all  tributes  to  men  for  whom 
he  has  a  very  great  respect  and  admiration. 


Booklist  20:49   N  '23 

Boston    Transcript    p6   Ag   15    '23   490w 

"An  interesting  and  successful  experiment. 
Of  the  justice  of  the  portraits  it  would  be  rash 
to  speak  in  a  word;  but  no  one,  whether  alto- 
gether convinced  or  not,  can  miss  the  serious- 
ness and  the  care  for  truth  with  which  the  work 
is  executed.  The  novel  form  seems  well  suited 
to  Mr.  Housman's  mood  and  purpose;  it  enables 
him  to  express  his  judgments  with  lucidity  but 
without  didacticism."  IM.  L.  Franklin 
+   Ind    110:348   My  26   '23    150w 

"These   three    imaginary   portraits   are    ingen- 
ious and   decidedly   poetic.     They  are    projected 
vividly,    and,    in    the    case    of   Chamberlain    par- 
ticularly, with  pathos  and  irony  wisely  blended." 
+   Nation    117:561   N   14   '23    120w 

"His  three  personages — Parnell,  Chamber- 
lain and  Woodrow  Wilson — were  men  who 
hewed  to  a  line  and  won  much  through  de- 
feat. It  is  what  Housman  considers  the  real 
victory  of  each  which  is  brought  out  in  the 
dialogue.  One  does  not  question  either  the 
perspicacity  or  the  sincerity  of  the  author; 
one  questions  merely  the  wisdom  of  the  med- 
ium selected.  We  cannot  shake  off  the  feeling 
that  the  English  author  should  have  chosen 
the  essay  form  rather  than  the  semi-dramatic." 
-\ NY   Times  pl5   My   6   '23   220w 

"It  is  a  curious  fact  that  these  studies  seem 
to  be  genuinely  dramatic  though  virtually  not 
the  slightest  physical  movement  takes  place  on 
the  part  of  their  protagonists.  Mr.  Housman 
makes  the  air  tremulous  with  the  vast  drama 
in  which  they  played  so  great  and  unsuccessful 
a   part." 

+  Sat    R   134:924  D  16  '22  950w 

"Such  portraits,  while  of  dubious  historicity, 
yet  are  of  value  in  that  they  permit  the  ordi- 
nary reader,  removed  from  the  intricacies  of 
politics,  to  glimpse  hastily  the  human  quality 
of  the  men  who  make  kings  and  decide  the 
fate   of  nations." 

4-  Sprlngf'd    Republican   p7a  O  7  '23   300w 

"The  final  impression  which  the  volume 
leaves  is  that  the  technique  is  in  advance  of 
the    subject-matter.      There    is    finely    written 


dialogue  in  each  of  the  three  pieces,  but  not 
much  fresh  revelation  of  character,  not  much 
significant    judgment    of    events." 

1-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p741    N 

16    '22    560w 

HOUSMAN,  LAURENCE.  Doorway  in  fairyland. 

220p  il  $2  Harcourt   [6s  J.  Cape] 

23-8829 

A  selection  of  fairy  tales  reprinted  from  four 
of  Mr  Housman's  books  now  out  of  print,  with 
illustrations  by  the  author.  Contents:  The  blue 
moon;  The  wishing- pot;  The  way  of  the  wind; 
The  bound  princess;  The  rat-catcher's  daughter; 
The  traveller's  shoes;  The  rooted  lover;  The 
wooing  of  the  maze;  The  moon-flower;  The  white 
king;  The  passionate  puppets;  Knoonie  in  the 
sleeping  palace. 


Booklist   20:24   O   '23 
Reviewed  by  A.   C.  Moore 

Bookm  57:355  My  '23  420w 
Reviewed   by  Marianne  Moore 

Dial  75:293  S  '23  1250 
"With  all  this  highly  romantic  fancy  Lau- 
rence Housman  keeps  a  gleam  of  humor  sparkl- 
ing, and  a  laugh  up  his  sleeve  for  human  folly. 
Never  do  the  stories  become  saccharine,  which 
is  often  the  case  when  a  modern  writer  mixes 
the  ingredients  for  a  fairy-tale."  L.  St  J: 
Power 

+  Int  Bk  R  pl2  Je  '23  170w 
Lit  R  p668  My  5  '23  120w 
"The  stories  included  in  this  collection  are 
fairly  equal  in  quality  and  interest;  but  if  a 
preference  must  be  made  between  the  two  vol- 
umes, the  honors  will  go  to  'A  Doorway  in 
Fairyland,'  for  the  sake  of  two  delightful 
stories.  The  Passionate  Puppets,  which  Is  as 
lovely  a  tale  as  Wilde's  The  Happy  Prince, 
and  Knoonie  in  the  Sleeping  Palace,  as  tender 
and  wistful  as  The  Nightingale  and  the  Rose." 
W:  A.  Drake 

+  Nation  116:702  Je  13  '23  320w 
N   Y  Times  p8  Mr  11  '23  330w 
"The  tales  are  at  once  delicate   and   sturdy." 
Charlotte  Dean 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p24  F  25  '23  550w 
N  Y  World  p9e  Mr  18  '23  30w 
Wis  Lib   Bui   19:416  Jl  '23 

HOUSMAN,  LAURENCE.  False  premises;  five 
one  act  plays.  103p  $1.25  Brentano's  [3s  6d 
Blackwell] 

822  23-8045 

"Each  of  the  plays  is  a  refutation  of  the  pre- 
mise from  which  one  or  another  of  the  charac- 
ters starts.  In  two,  a  little  play  called  'The  Christ- 
mas Tree,'  and  one  called  'The  House  Fairy,' 
the  author  plays  on  the  emotions  with  the  skill 
of  the  Irish  dramatists,  and  blends  the  real  and 
the  ghostly."  (N  Y  Times)  Contents:  The 
Christmas  tree;  The  torch  of  time,  a  study  in 
revolution;  Moonshine;  A  fool  and  his  money, 
a  wayside  comedy;   The  house-fairy. 

Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  15  '23  320w 
"The  range  of  Housman  genius  is  shown  in 
the  volume.  His  tragic  pieces  are  moving;  his 
comic  pieces  whimsical;  and  his  emotional 
pieces  poignant.  In  'False  Premises'  he  is 
very  sure.  These  little  plays  have,  in  their 
prose,  the  literary  sureness  of  the  poetry  of  his 
brother,    A.    E.    Housman." 

-f   N   Y  Times  p7  My  20  '23  220w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit  Sup   p8   Ja  4 
'23   250w 

HOUSMAN,  LAURENCE.  Moonshine  &  clover. 
220P  il   $2  Harcourt  ^^_^^^^^ 

A  further  selection  of  fairy  tales  from  the  au- 
thor's out  of  print  books;  "A  farm  in  Fairy- 
land"; The  house  of  joy";  "The  field  of  clover" 
and  "The  blue  moon."  Contents:  The  prince 
with  the  nine  sorrows;  How  little  Duke  Jarl 
saved   the  castle;  A  capful  of  moonshine;   The 


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HOUSMAN,  LAURENCE — Continued 
story  of  the  herons;  The  crown's  warranty; 
Rocking-horse  land;  Japonel;  Gammelyn,  the 
dressmaker;  The  feeding  of  the  emigrants; 
White  birch;  The  luck  of  the  roses;  The  white 
doe;  The  moon-stroke;  The  gentle  cockatrice; 
The  green  bird;  The  man  who  killed  the  cuckoo; 
A  Chinese  fairytale;  Happy   returns. 


Reviewed   by   A.    C.    Moore 

Bookm  57:355  My  '23  420w 
"Brimmed  with  the  delicate  fancy  and 
imagery  that  have  made  them  somewhut  unique 
among  fairy  stories  to  which  the  heart  of  a 
child,  whatever  his  age  may  be  perennially  re- 
sponds." 

-\-  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  29  '23   160w 

Reviewed  bv  Marianne  Moore 
Dial  75:293  S  '23  1250\v 
"Children,  looking  for  enchantment  this  sum- 
mer, will  want  to  know  about  the  Blue  Moon, 
the  memory  of  whose  beauty  makes  the  night- 
ingdale  sing  all  the  night  through."  L.  St  J: 
Power 

-f   Int    Bk   R  pl2  Je  '23   170w 
Lit    R    p668   My   6   '23   120w 
"The   day  that   brings   to  the   reviewer's   desk 
two   such   perfect   delights   as   these   volumes   of 
Mr.   Laurence  Housman's   fairy  tales  is   marked 
by  a  white  stone."     W:  A.   Drake 

+  Nation  116:702  Je  13  '23  250w 
"Because  it  is  in  the  right  tradition  it  de- 
serves to  live.  These  fairy  stories  are  not  writ- 
ten in  words  of  one  syllable,  nor  are  they  rou- 
tine affairs.  .  .  There  is  a  high  degree  of  art 
evident  in  the  engravings,  the  line  work  being 
exquisite   at   times." 

+  N  Y  Times  p8  Mr  11  "23  330w 
"Any  child  old  enough  to  like  reading  will 
read  these  tales  for  the  story.  He  may  miss 
some  of  their  subtlety  of  innuendo  and  nuance, 
but  there  is  much  poetic  imagery  in  bold  de- 
sign that  he  will  not  miss.  He  may  be  saddened 
by  their  occasionally  mournful  atmosphere, 
which  never  falls  into  sentimentality,  and  he 
will  surely  be  delighted  by  the  frequent  bursts 
of   merriment."    Charlotte   Dean 

4-  N  Y  Tribune  p2  4  F  25  '23  550w 
N  Y  World  p9e  Mr  18  '23  30w 
"Admirable  fairy  tales.  Reading  them  one 
forgets  all  the  scholarly  theorizing  about  folk- 
lore and  Aryan  sources  and  is  quite  ready  to 
assume  once  more  the  delightfully  believing 
frame  of  mind   of  one's   childhood." 

-f  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  20  '23  350w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:134   My   '23 

HOUSTON,    PERCY    HAZEN.      Doctor  Johnson: 
2    a  study  in  eighteenth  century  humanism.  280p 

$3   Harvard   univ.    press   [15s  Milford] 

B  or  92     Johnson,    Samuel  23-13425 

"This  book,  by  the  Assistant  Professor  of 
English  in  the  University  of  California,  is  en- 
titled 'A  study  in  Eighteenth-Century  Human- 
ism'— that  is  to  say  that  it  is  not  so  much  con- 
cerned with  Johnson  the  man  as  with  Johnson 
the  critic.  Mr.  Houston  takes  Dr.  Johnson  as 
one  of  the  last  representatives  of  the  'neo-clas- 
sic'  Chapter  X. — the  last^onveniently  sum- 
marizes the  argument  of  the  preceding  chap- 
ters; how  far  Johnson  was  a  neo-classic;  what 
was  the  value  of  his  opinions;  how  he  stands 
to  the  romantic  movement;  what  contributions 
he  made  to  Shakespearian  criticism;  what  is  his 
worth  'as  one  of  the  greatest  humanists.'  "— 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 


Reviewed   by  C.    B.   Tinker 

Lit   R  p417  Ja  5  '24   3400w 

"Prof  Houston's  book  has  done  good  service 
for  Dr.  Johnson  in  presenting  him  apart  from 
the  engaging  gossip  of  Boswell  as  the  serious 
critic  of  letters  and  life,  manfully  upholding 
his  views,  fighting  against  sham  and  loose 
thinking.  Occasionally  Prof  Houston  tries  to 
outdo  that  service  by  claiming  a  broader- 
minded,  more  truly  humanistic  point  of  view 
for  Johnson  than  the  facts  seem  to  warrant." 
C.   D'E. 

-\ Springf'd   Republican  p6  Ja  14  '24  800w 


"The  book  will  hardly  serve  all  readers 
equally.  To  true  Johnsonians  it  will  probably 
appear  sound  in  principle  but  not  exciting; 
others,  less  well  read  in  Johnson's  works,  may 
wish  that  there  were  more  quotations  in  it  to 
bear   out   the   statements   of   principle." 

4-  —  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p854  D  6 
'23   320w 

HOWARD,    ERNEST.      Wall    Street    fifty    years 
after  Erie.   181p  il  $2  Stratford 

385  Denver  and  Rio  Grande  railroad  com- 
pany. Gould,  George  Jay.  Railroads — Fi- 
nance. Railroads— United  States  23-9700 
The  book  tells  how  the  control  of  fifteen  thou- 
sand miles  of  railroad  line  passed  out  of  the 
hands  of  the  Gould  interests  and  their  stock- 
holders into  the  power  of  a  small  group  of  pri- 
vate bankers  who  are  the  creditors  of  the  rail- 
roads and  whose  affairs  are  beyond  public  regu- 
lation, public  responsibility,  or  even  public 
knowledge.  The  author  shows  the  great 
dangers  of  this  concentration  of  control  in  the 
hands  of  creditors  whose  interests  lie  in  the 
continuance  of  debt  and  financial  disorder 
rather  than  in  freedom  from  debt.  His  con- 
clusion is  that  the  only  way  out  is  public  owner- 
ship and  that  this  is  as  certain  to  come  as 
that  railroads  will  continue  to  be  indispensable. 


N  Y  World  pl9e  Jl  8  '23  400w 
R  of  Rs  68:224  Ag  '23  30w 
"It  deserves  to  be  placed  alongside  govern- 
ment reports  embodying  investigations  of  other 
railroad  scandals,  though  it  is  not  dispassion- 
ately written  and  invites  dissent  from  some  of 
its  inferences  or  judgments." 

H Springf'd   Republican  p6  O   8   '23   700w 

HOWARD,       FRANCIS       MORTON.         "Strictly 

business."  237p  $2  Dutton 

23-8242 

"Our  friends  of  other  and  not  so  far  away 
days,  Horace  Dobb,  Peter  Lock,  Joseph  Tridge 
and  Samuel  Clarke,  all  formerly  of  the  bad  old 
coaster  Jane  Gladys,  still  are  well  and  doing 
each  other  at  the  old  tricks.  This,  notwith- 
standing that  the  Jane  Gladys  has  been  con- 
demned to  go  the  way  of  all  such  of  her  kind 
as  have  outlived  their  usefulness.  When  we 
first  knew  these  indomitable  four  they  were 
the  'Happy  Rascals'  of  F.  Morton  Howard's 
book  of  that  title.  In  'Strictly  Business'  Mr. 
Howard  presents  them  to  us  anew,  with  the 
assurance  that  they  are  rascals  still  and  as 
happy  as  circumstances  will  occasionally  per- 
mit. The  old  boat  being  gone,  our  rascals  are 
in  urgent  need  of  something  else  to  keep  them 
above  water.  In  the  course  of  ten  episodes 
which  really  give  us  the  continued  tale  of  Dobb, 
Tridge  et  al.,  Mr.  Howard  tells  us  how  the 
four  find  advantage  each  for  himself  and  not 
without  disadvantage  to  some  other." — N  Y 
World 


Booklist  19:319  Jl  '23 
Cleveland  p68  S  '23 
"If  the  fun  is  a  bit  boisterous  and  sometimes 
a  little  too  obviously  engineered,  it  is  amusing 
enough;  a  sort  of  literary  analogue  to  the  bet- 
ter varieties  of  slapstick  comedy  of  the  stage 
and  moving  picture  world." 

-j Lit   R   p932  Ag  25  '23  150w 

"In  his  new  book,  'Strictly  Business,'  as  in 
his  previous  one,  'Happy  Rascals,'  F.  Morton 
Howard  challenges  com.parison  with  W.  W. 
Jacobs,  for  he  enters  the  field  which  that  older 
English  humorist  has  made  for  many  years  so 
peculiarly  his  own.  He  enters,  and  moreover, 
maintains  his  right  to  stay  there,  for  his  stories 
are  extraordinarily  good.  Between  him  and  Mr. 
•Tacobs,  honor.«;  seem  to  be  about  even." 
+  N  Y  Times  p25  My  13  '23  880w 
"It  Is  worth  while  for  anybody  who  has  met 
the  rascals  before  to  catch  up  with  them  now." 
E.   W.    Osborn 

-f-  N    Y   World   p8e   My  6  '23   350w 
Outlook    134:192   Je   13    '23   60w 

HOWARD,   KEBLE,  pseud.     See  Bell,  J:  K. 


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HOYT,    CHARLES   WILSON.      Training  for  the 
business   of   advertising.    125p  $1.50   Woolson 

659  Advertising  23-2045 

The  business  of  advertising  has  grown  so 
rapidly  tliat  there  is  a  glut  of  ordinary,  poorly 
prepared,  inefficient  workers.  The  need  is  for 
well-prepared,  capable  advertising  men.  The 
object  of  the  book  is  to  give  the  candidate  a 
plan  by  which  he  can  thoroughly  prepare  to 
become  a  master  of  marketing.  The  subject 
is  divided  into  advertising  for  the  retailer,  the 
wholesaler,  the  publisher;  the  national  adver- 
tiser, bill  board,  street  car  and  miscellaneous 
advertising;  local  advertising  service  agencies 
and    advertising   agencies.      Appendix. 


"This  is  an  admirable  desk  book  for  the  ex- 
ecutive who  wishes  to  keep  his  finger  on  the 
pulse  of  American  advertising." 

-|-  Administration   5:493  Ap  '23  230w 
"Much   unusual   and   out-of-the-way   informa- 
tion is  contained  in  his  book." 

R   of   Rs   67:448  Ap  '23   160w 

HUBBARD,  WILLIAM    HUSTACE.     Cotton  and 
2    the  cotton  market.  503p  $3.50   (16s)  Appleton 
338.1     Cotton  23-10315 

The  study  covers  the  production  and  market- 
ing of  cotton,  the  future  contract  system  and 
the  speculative  factor.  The  cotton  crop  is  fol- 
lowed from  the  planting  to  the  door  of  the  mill, 
the  cotton  manufacture  not  being  included  in 
the  survey. 


"The  reading  public  interested  in  business 
subjects  is  indebted  to  the  author  of  this  book 
for  a  carefully  prepared,  detailed  description  of 
the  practices  followed  and  of  some  of  the  prin- 
cipal problems  encountered  in  the  production 
and  marketing  of  American  cotton."  S.  E. 
Howard 

+  Am   Econ   R  13:683  D  '23  860w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p534   Ag 
9  '23  SOW 

HUDSON,  JAY  WILLIAM.  Nowhere  else  in  the 

world.   383p   $2   Appleton 

23-14481 

Stephen  Kent,  the  hero,  is  a  young  man  of 
sensitive  intelligence,  in  revolt  against  the 
crude  culture  and  materialism  of  America. 
From  his  birth  he  was  destined  by  his  father 
for  the  Kent  construction  company  of  Chicago, 
hut  he  hated  business  and  after  college  begged 
for  a  year's  respite  in  travel.  The  story  opens  in 
Paris  which  had  captured  Stephen's"  imagina- 
tion in  contrast  to  his  despised  Chicago.  He  is 
engaged  in  writing  a  novel  and  in  falling  in 
love  with  Catherine  Hardy,  friend  of  his  col- 
lege years,  now  studying  in  Paris.  A  sudden 
cessation  of  his  allowance  from  an  exasperated 
father  brings  him  back  to  America  to  accept  a 
position  as  instructor  in  a  backward  mid-West 
college,  which  he  holds  for  less  than  a  year 
because  of  his  rebellion  against  stereotyped 
methods  of  teaching.  Then  he  turns  to  Chicago 
where,  thru  hard  experience,  he  arrives  at  an 
almost  apocalyptic  vision  of  American  indus- 
trial civilization.  Chicago  comes  to  be  to  him 
the  "spiritual  capital  of  America"  and  the  story 
leaves  him  in  happy  accord  with  his  father  in 
the    Kent    construction    company. 


"Mr.  Hudson  is  conscientious,  and  in  conse- 
quence his  style  is  heavy.  He  points  out  to  us 
finally,  what  we  all  knew  in  the  beginning,  that 
there  is  beauty  and  value  in  all  America,  in  her 
business  life  and  in  her  cities,  in  her  growth 
and  in  her  expansion.  The  conflict  of  life  is  the 
thing  that  makes  the  world  endurable.  Mr. 
Hudson  ought  to  start  this  novel  with  his  con- 
clusions if  he  wishes  to  interest  Americans  in 
his  work."     D.   P.   G. 

—  Boston  Transcript  p4  D  29  '23  440w 

"If  Mr.  Hudson  is  not  careful,  he  may  awake 
some  morning  to  find  himself  dubbed  the  Thack- 
eray of  the  Middle  West.  It  would  be  utterly 
unfair  to  suggest  inadvertently  that  Mr.  Hud- 
son has  written  a  story  around  a  series  of 
essays,  but  the  fact  remains.  Thev  are  woven 
in,  not  thrown  in.  The  result  is  wholly  delight- 


ful, for  the  hand  that  does  the  weaving  com- 
mands a  prose  that  in  itself  has  the  power  to 
charm  and   carry  on   the   interest." 

+   N  Y   Times   p8   O   28   '23   550w 

"Mr.  Hudson  commands  a  style  of  some  dis- 
tinction, although  his  characterization  and  his 
understanding  of  practical  psychology  are  often 
superficial.  Into  the  depths  of  personality  he 
seldom  penetrates,  but  he  does  possess  some 
insight  into  the  souls  of  the  cities.  Of  Mr.  Hud- 
son it  may  be  said  that  he  knows  how  to  man- 
age puppets  but  not  how  to  create  a  character." 
Leo  Markun 

-I NY    Tribune    p24    N    25    '23    900w 

"As  a  piece  of  fictional  propaganda  through 
which  one  is  urged  to  see  these  United  States 
as  the  greatest  and  grandest  of  nations  and 
Chicago  as  the  brightest  shining  light  thereof, 
'Nowhere  Else  in  the  World'  is  calculated  to 
give  heart  throbs  to  every  devout  100  percenter 
for  Cook  County  and  America."  E.  W.  Osborn 
N  Y   World   p6e  N   11  '23   1050w 

HUDSON,  STEPHEN.     Prince  Hempseed.     250p 

$2     Knopf      [6s  Seeker] 

"The  hero  of  the  novel  is  somewhat  of  a 
dreamer,  somewhat  of  a  romantic,  yet  lives 
constantly  in  surroundings  as  uncongenial  as 
those  of  a  flower  that  springs  to  life  among 
thistles.  We  first  meet  him  as  a  child  of  5  or 
6;  and,  using  the  diary  form,  he  outlines  for 
us  his  most  significant  experiences  until  we 
catch  our  last  glimpse  of  him  as  an  unhappy, 
disgruntled  youth  of  18.  The  story  begins  no- 
where in  particular  and  ends  nowhere  in  particu- 
lar; it  is  merely  an  excerpt  from  life  presented 
seemingly  at  random.  In  a  style  always  simple 
and  often  naive  the  hero  describes  his  blunder- 
ing attempts  to  understand  life  at  home  and  in 
school,  his  growing  hostility  toward  his  unsym- 
pathetic father,  his  yearning  toward  the  mother 
who  neglects  him  in  favor  of  social  activities, 
his  first  surprised  contact  with  hypocrisy  in  his 
teachers  and  with  snobbishness  in  his  compan- 
ions, his  clumsy,  fledgling  encounters  vsrith  girls 
and  his  growing  unhappiness  in  view  of  his  in- 
creasing spiritual  isolation." — N  Y  Times 

"Despite  the  skill   in  writing,   the  boy  is  not 
very    interesting,   but   as   an   exercise   in   crafts- 
manship there  is  much  to  commend  the  book." 
4-  —  Boston  Transcript  p5  My  29   '23  120w 

"Here  is  a  sympathetic  and  essentially  poetic 
narrative  of  boyhood — a  story  of  mingled  as- 
piration and  frustration,  projected  without  sen- 
timentality and  "without  recourse  to  the  befog- 
ging machinery  of  Freud.  The  author  discloses 
an  unerring  sense  of  adolescent  psychology,  a 
fine  grasp  of  values,  and  artistic  economy  in 
the  use  of  mere  plot.  Altogether,  an  arresting 
novel  in  which  form  and  content  have  been 
welded  into  a  complete  harmony." 
+    Dial  75:96  Jl  '23  90w 

"Mr.  Hudson  writes  interestingly,  humorously 
and  with  understanding:  but,  on  the  whole,  he 
is  not  so  successful  as  the  reader  might  wish. 
His  style,  while  adapted  to  the  theme,  tends 
too  much  to  a  gossipy  discursiveness;  his  char- 
acters, including  the  hero  himself,  are  all  some- 
what too  shadowy  to  enable  the  reader  to  visu- 
alize  them." 

. 1-  N    Y   Times   pl3  My  13   '23   620w 

"  'Prince  Hempseed'  is  a  remarkable  book  in 
many  ways,  but  what  at  any  rate  might  have 
been  a  fine  creation  remains  a  rather  brilliant 
tour  de  force.  Mr.  Hudson  will  never  have  a 
large  public,  but  those  discerning  people  who 
read  him  are  likely  to  remember  his  charac- 
ters." 

H Sp€C   131:91  Jl   21   '23  400w 

HUDSON.    W.    H.        Hind    in    Richmond    Park. 

296p     $3     Button      [16s    Dent] 
590.4       Nature  23-4383 

"W.  H.  Hudson's  last  book  'A  Hind  in  Rich- 
mond Park'  is  perhaps  more  the  work  of  the 
essayist  than  the  naturalist.  He  gives  more 
interpretation  of  human  life  and  conduct  and 
less  observation  of  the  ways  of  birds.  The 
hind  whose  experiences  in   Richmond  park  give 


250 


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HUDSON,  W.    H. — Continued 

a  title  to  the  first  essay  and  to  the  volume 
was  merely  an  animal  excited  by  the  color  red. 
Mr.  Hudson  has  something  to  say  about  the 
animal's  sense  of  color  and  also  about  the 
animal's  sense  of  smell.  But  it  is  the  human 
sense  of  smell  that  he  is  particularly  concerned 
with,  and  again  he  is  not  altogether  compli- 
mentary to  so-called  civilized  society." — 
Springf'd   Republican 


Booklist   19:305   JI   '23 

"Hudson  saw  everything  as  a  child  sees  it, 
emotionally;  his  soul  went  out  to  meet  what  he 
saw  And  thus  'A  Hind  in  Richmond  Park, 
like  all  the  ampler  works  of  its  author,  is  rich 
in  rapture,  in  beauty,  and  in  wisdom."  H:  A. 
Lappin^  Bookm   58:477   D   '23   400w 

"This    book    is    Mr.    Hudson    at    his    best.    It 
is  a  great  pity  that  it  is  his  last."  E    F.  Edgett 
-I-    Boston    Transcript    p4    F    3    '23    IboOw 

"Hudson's  work  can  be  recommended  to  the 
mature  reader  for  its  range  of  thought  and  its 
keen  observation  of  nature  afield,  of  plant, 
tree  insect,  bird  and  wild  beast,  of  the  wind 
and' the  stars.  He  has  the  faculty  of  thinking 
aloud  a  thousand  and  one  of  the  thoughts  that 
everyday  people  ponder  over  by  themselves.  It 
is  a  pity  that  he  lacks  a  foundation  of  Chris- 
tian    philosophy     to     give     his     interpretations 

^^^5-'-  ctth'world  117:419  Je  '23  320w 

"The  book  is  rich  in  anecdote,  but  richer  in 
self-revelation."      Brooks    Shepard 

+  Lit  R  p642  Ap  28  '23  1500w 
"It  is  his  profusion  of  knowledge  and  fancy 
about  the  animated  world— his  poetic  sensitive- 
ness to  the  wonder  and  the  mystery  that  lurk 
in  its  every  detail— that  make  this  rambling 
book   a   work   not   likely   to   be   forgotten   in  our 

"•^'•'V   New'lta'^tL^man    20:304    D    9    '22    1800w 

Reviewed  by  P.  A.  Hutchison    „   ^  .^^ 
N    Y    Times    plO    F   18   '23    1400w 

Reviewed    by    Morris   Gilbert 

N   Y  Tribune  p24  Ap  29  '23  1300w 

Reviewed   by   Laurence   Stallings 

N    Y   World  p27   Mr  4   '23  1300w 

"He  has  left  us  enduring  art  of  his  own  in 
his  beautiful  prose,  which  holds  echoes  of  the 
best  poetry,  but  otherwise  is  all  the  more  ef- 
fective for  its  simplicity.  The  book  has  the 
happy  inconsequence  of  easy  talk,  and  should 
certainlv  have  been  provided  with  an  index." 
-f-'  Sat    R    134:840    D    2    '22    900w 

"We  will  not  sav  that  this  volume,  which 
W  H.  Hud.son  did  not  live  to  see  through  the 
press,  is  its  author's  best  book;  but  we  are 
almost  certain  that  it  is  his  most  characteristic 
one.  Here,  we  feel,  he  wrote  as  he  loved  to 
write,  in  an  easy,  speculative  vein  that  takes 
so  cunning  vet  seemingly  artless  expression 
that  the  author  often  appears  to  be  musing 
aloud  and  not  addressing  an  audience." 
-f  Spec    129:925    D    16    '22    1300w 

"The  wisdom,  the  serenity,  the  gentle  ef- 
fortle.ss  style  and  the  exalted  tenderness  are 
all  here  to  delight  Mr.  Hudson's  old  admirers 
and  to  win  new  ones.  For  introduction  there 
is  a  penetrating  and  remarkably  summarizing 
study    bv    Edward    Garnett." 

-f   Springf'd  Republican  p7a  F  25  '23  1400w 

"Of  all  his  books  this  last  one  is  the  widest 
and  most  ambitious  in  range,  the  most  fertile 
in  discussions  and  arguments;  and  for  that 
reason  it  may  lack  the  immediate  charm  of 
some  of  them,  though  of  diffused  charm  and 
entertainment  it  has  plenty,  and  of  interest  so 
much  that  it  certainly  ranks  with  the  best 
of  them.  All  of  it  is  full  and  vivid  with  ex- 
perience, and  the  threads  of  interest  are  be- 
wilderingly    many." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p743    N 
16    '22    2000w 

"If  the  reader  will  accept  my  assurance  that 
'A  Hind  in  Richmond  Park'  is  quite  as  inter- 
esting and  delightful  as  any  other  work  of 
Hudson's,    he    will    readily    dispense    with    my 


criticism;  or  rather  eulog:y,  for  to  me  the  charm 
of  Hudson  at  his  best,  of  the  authentic  Hudson, 
is  irresistible."     H:   W.   Bunn 

-f  Yale   R   n   s   13:383   Ja   '24   750w 

HUDSON,  W.  H.  Letters  from  W.  H.  Hudson, 
•    1901-1922;     ed.     with    an    introd.     by    Edward 

Garnett.  295p  $7  Button  [25s  Nonesuch  press] 
B   or   92  24-198 

"Most  of  these  letters  to  Mr.  Garnett  are 
about  books  which  Hudson  had  been  reading, 
either  at  the  instigation  of  his  correspondent  or 
of  his  own  free  will.  His  opinions  here,  frankly 
and  often  caustically  expressed,  compose  a  kind 
of  running  commentary  on  the  literature  con- 
temporary with  his  last  twenty  years,  and  as 
such  have  value  even  outside  of  the  fact  that 
they  are  associated  with  him." — Nation 


Nation  118:67  Ja  16  '24  160w 
"There  is  so  much  in  the  volume  that  is  worth 
reading,  so  much  of  wisdom,  irony  and  discern- 
ing criticism,  that  it  is  somewhat  of  a  pity  that 
the  reader  has  to  wade  his  way  through  point- 
less epistles  in  which  Hudson  declines  an  invita- 
tion for  lunch  or  states  in  conventional  language 
that  he  is  sending  a  manuscript  by  the  accom- 
panying post." 

H NY  Times  p24  Ja  13  '24  lOOOw 

"Every  one  of  the  admirers  of  the  work  of 
this  n:ituralist  wilt  want  to  read  this  volume  of 
letters  " 

+  Outlook  136:.117  Ja  16  '24  120w 
"As  a  whole,  the  letters  are  unimportant  as 
Mr  Garnett  says  Mr  Hudson  would  probably 
have  felt.  But  there  are  literary  opinions  worth 
preserving.  The  personal  temper  disclosed  is 
that  of  a  playful,  kindly,  meditative  intellect 
whose  violent  antipathies  spring  less  from 
malice    than    from    inexperience." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  13  '24 
1200W 
"It  was  worth  while  to  publish  the  letters; 
one  is  quite  sure  of  that  before  the  end.  At 
first  sight  their  interest  might  be  harder  to  ex- 
plain. But  as  we  read  the  letters,  which  cover 
the  last  twenty  years  of  his  life,  a  fascination 
grows." 

H The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p871    D 

13  '23  1650w 

HUDSON,  WILLIAM  HENRY,  and  GUERN- 
SEY, IRWIN  SCOFIELD.  United  States: 
from  the  discovery  of  the  American  continent 
to  the  end  of  the  World  war.  632p  il  $5 
Stokes  [10s  6d  Harrap] 

973     United  States— History  23-8003 

This  concise  history  of  the  United  States  is 
not  primarily  a  military  and  political  chronicle, 
but  a  social  interpretation.  Greater  space,  rela- 
tively, is  given  to  the  period  before  the  Civil 
war,  the  last  fifty  years  being  compressed 
into  a  quarter  of  the  whole  space,  and  the  part 
of  the  United  States  in  the  W^orld  war  is  treated 
with  the  utmost  brevity.  There  are  numerous 
illustrations    and    twenty-three    maps.      Index. 


Booklist   20:51   N   '23 

"For  the  student  desiring  to  make  an  in- 
tensive study  it  will  be  found  inadequate;  but 
it  fulfils  excellently  its  function  of  providing  a 
general  acquaintance  with  the  outstanding  facts 
of  American  history." 

H Bookm   57:348  My  '23  90w 

"The  book  is  particularly  illuminative  of  the 
period  from  the  founding  of  the  colonies  to  the 
abolition  of  slavery,  when  the  multiplicity  of 
issues  demanding  discussion  has  resulted  in  a 
growing  brevity  in  their  treatment.  Professor 
Hudson  was  an  accomplished  scholar,  with  a 
gift  for  clear  exposition,  primarily  the  interpre- 
ter rather  than  the  historian.  His  death  ended 
his  contribution  to  the  volume  with  the  ad- 
minLstration  of  John  Adams.  That  Mr.  Guern- 
sey, taking  the  work  at  this  point  could  see 
so  nearly  eye  to  eye  with  him  that  the  con- 
tinuity of  the  interpretation  should  be  un- 
broken, is  a  credit  to  the  choice  of  successor, 
and  to  Mr.  Guernsey's  own  skill."  S.  L.  R. 
+  Boston  Transcript  p3  Mr  10  '23  450w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


251 


"It  is  a  remarkable  example  of  collaboration. 
The  plan  of  the  book  is  carried  out  most  suc- 
cessfully and  while  one  aware  of  the  joint 
authorship  will  be  conscious  of  certain  differ- 
ences in  style  and  method  of  presentation,  it  is 
doubtful  if  they  would  be  detected  by  anyone 
not  forewarned.  With  the  defects — and  there 
are  many — clearly  recognized  it  must  still  be 
said  that  the  book  is  unusually  good  for  one 
of  its  kind."    J.   G.  de  R.  H. 

-t Greensboro    (N.C.) Daily    News    plO    My 

6   '23  lOOOw 

"Not  particularly  well  written,  the  latter  part 
of  the  volume  being  especially  culpable  in  this 
respect  and  having  the  additional  fault  of  a 
scrappiness  that  sometimes  leaves  the  reader 
wondering  just  what  happened.  Excellently 
illustrated." 

h   Lit   R   p852  Jl  21   '23   310w 

"While  undoubtedly  available  as  a  college 
textbook  on  American  history,  the  volume  is 
quite  obviously  intended  for  the  general  reader, 
and  is  best  adapted  to  his  needs.  The  book  is 
Interestingly  written  and  admirably  printed. 
Certain  chapters,  especially  that  on  colonial  so- 
ciety, possess  high  merit.  One  who  desires  a 
reliable  and  reasonably  vivid  conventional  nar- 
rative of  Ajnerican  history  will  not  be  disap- 
pointed with  this  volume;  those  who  wish  to 
gain  some  real  insight  into  the  growth  of 
American  society  and  culture  will  turn  to  West's 
'American    Democracy.'  "     H.    E.    Barnes 

-^ Nation  116:672  Je  6  '23  600w 

R   of    Rs   67:334   Mr  '23   8Uw 

"So  slight  is  the  account  of  events  connected 
with  the  Great  War  that,  except  for  the  sake 
of  completeness,  it  could  easily  have  been 
spared.  In  other  parts  of  the  book  a  good  sense 
of  proportion  seems  to  have  been  maintained, 
and  the  selection  of  portraits  and  maps  is  ex- 
cellent." 

H The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p871  D  28 

•22  140w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:412    Jl    '23 

HUESTON,  ETHEL  (POWELSON)  (MRS  E. 
J.  BEST).  Merry  O.  Slip  il  $2  Bobbs  [Vs  6d 
Hodder    &    S.l 

23-7009 

"Merry  O  is  a  self-reliant  American  girl,  the 
support  of  her  aged  father  and  younger  sisters. 
She  takes  to  the  road  with  her  family  in  a 
Ford  car  as  a  traveling  book  department. 
For  Merry  O  is  an  avid  though  uncritical 
reader  and  has  a  store  of  half-digested  knowl- 
edge gleaned  from  the  'new  thought' — Christian 
Science,  theosophy,  psycho-analysis,  auto-sug- 
gestion, and  so  forth.  In  the  course  of  her 
wanderings  she  falls  in  with  fin  old  sick  man 
who  is  suffering  mostly  from  the  attentions  of 
his  expectant  relatives,  heals  him,  and  marries 
his  nephew." — The  Times    [London]    Lit  Sup 

"Within  the  last  few  years  Ethel  Hueston  has 
won  an  easy  success  with  her  stories  of  girls 
growing  up  in  Methodist  parsonages,  rearing 
large  families  on  small  means  and  leading  their 
families  to  triumphant  maturity.  Apparently 
her  success  has  been  too  easy.  Certainly  the 
degree  of  naturalness  and  plausibility  which 
was  the  attraction  of  her  first  books  has  van- 
ished utterly  in  this  latest  story.  'Merry  O'  is 
carelessly  constructed  and  improbable  from,  be- 
ginning to  end.  We  sincerely  hope  that  Ethel 
Hueston  will  write  no  more  stories  of  this 
kind." 

—  Boston    Transcript   p4   Ap   25   '23    180w 
"This  is  almost  a   'glad'   book,   but  stops   just 

short  of  Pollyanna-ism,  though  the  author  runs 
now  and  then  perilously  close  to  sentimentality. 
There  is  a  thin  but  honest  vein  of  humor  in 
it,    and    the    writer's    manner    is    engaging." 

h   Lit  R  p667  My  5  '23  150w 

"The  volume  gives  an  absurd  idea  of  the  real 
values  and  conditions  of  life  which,  if  the 
reader  for  whom  it  is  intended  be  at  all  un- 
sophisticated, will  probably  mislead  her,  both 
as  to  the  real  elements  of  and  probability  of 
success,  as  well  as  to  many  other  topics  which 
are  therein    handled."     A.    L.    Hill 

—  NY  Tribune  p24  Ap  8  '23  450w 


"It   is   all   very   thin   and    rather    boring." 

—  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p673    O 
11   '23   llOw 

HUGHES,    RUPERT.     Within    these    walls.    363p 

il  $2  Harper 

23-9460 

"New  York  and  its  progress  through  half  a 
century  is  Mr.  Hughes's  theme  in  'Within  These 
Walls.'  His  story  begins  with  the  flight  of  a 
bride  and  bridegroom  from  the  cholera-stricken 
town  in  1832.  It  continues  through  tempestu- 
ous episodes  that  come  into  the  lives  of  David 
RoBards,  his  wife  and  their  children,  through 
the  wild  nights  of  a  city  threatened  with  de- 
struction by  flre,  through  the  years  that  begin 
and  enlarge  a  water-supply  to  quench  the  thirst 
of  rapidly  growing  millions.  Personal  and  po- 
litical intrigue  pervades  a  story  in  which  the 
joys  and  the  penalties,  the  burdens  and  the 
woes  of  sex  have  a  significant  part." — Boston 
Transcript 


"Both  hasty  and  unpleasant.  His  historical 
facts  of  old  New^  York  are  well  marshaled. 
There  is  a  good  deal  of  charm  in  the  back- 
ground of  this  story,  as  there  is  a  good  deal 
that  is  not  charming  in  its  characters."  J.  F. 
—  +   Bookm    57:659   Ag   '23    200w 

"With  the  speed  and  chaotic  transitions  of 
a  motion  picture  move  the  action  and  scenes 
of  Mr.  Hughes's  latest  novel,  one  of  many  by 
him  in  which  he  is  nothing  if  not  original  and 
individual."      E.    F.   Edgett 

-|-  • —  Boston    Transcript    p4    Je    2   '23    1500w 

"In  spite  of  what  Edith  Wharton  has  done.  I 
am  inclined  to  think  that  this  novel  of  Mr. 
Hughes's  is  the  best  American  book  of  its  type. 
Mr  Hughes  not  only  writes  well  and  vividly,  but 
his  experience  as  a  dramatist  and  a^  a  'movie' 
technician  has  enabled  him,  as  usual,  to  'put 
over'  what  the  blurbist  would  term  'a  grippmg 
tale  of  action.'  consisting  of  battle,  murder 
and  sudden  death,  all  subdued,  however,  to  the 
undoubted  intention  of  the  author  to  make  a 
worth-while  book."  T:  L.  Masson 
-f   Int    Bk   R   p40   Jl   '23   SOOw 

"That  the  novel  is  interesting  there  can  be 
no  two  opinions.  Since  his  early  novel  'Zal' 
Mr  Hughes  has  done  nothing  more  graphic, 
painstaking  or  readable  than  'Within  These 
Walls.'  " 

-I NY  Times  pl3  Je  3  '23  16n0w 

"Mr  Hughes  has  made  New  York  from  1815 
to  perhaps  1870  as  vividly  purposeful  and  ex- 
citing as  the  New  York  of  to-day.  We  seem 
to  be  living  our  own  life  over  again.  But  be- 
hind all  life  he  reveals  the  skeleton  hand  of 
chance  and  the  pull  downward  and  continually 
tugs    to    overthrow    high     achievement."    P.     S. 

^'^^  _  N    Y   Tribune   p20   Je   3   '23    840w 

"Whatever  critical  questions  one  may  invoke, 

as   indicated   herewith,    'Within   These   Walls'    is 

Mr     Hughes's    most    elaborate    and    considered 

work  in  fiction,  and  it  has  been  well  done."  E. 

'4.  L  N  Y  World  p6e  My  27  '23  420w 

Springf'd    Republican  p7a  N  25  '23  360w 
The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p506    Jl 
26    '23    ISOw 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:444  O  '23 

HULBERT,  ARCHER  BUTLER.  Making  of  the 
'  American  republic.  656p  il  $3  Doubleday 
973  United  States— History 
A  textbook  in  United  States  history  in  which 
special  effort  is  made  *?  ,?how  the  economic 
and  social  factors  in  relation  to  the  political 
and  to  emphasize  the  place  and  effect  of  west- 
ern develonment.  The  appendix  provides  a 
series  of  biographical  sketches  to  supplement 
the  information  concerning  the  more  prominent 
per-ons  mentioned  in  the  text  Query  and  dis- 
cussion topics  as  well  as  reading  lists  accom- 
pany each  section.      

"Rapidly    but    clearly    and    certainly    dispas- 
sionately    and     with     little     or     no     d'splay     of 
partisanship  is   the   story  of  ""'l  country  told. 
■+-  Boston    Transcript    p6    Ja    2     24    hhOw 


252 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


HULBERT,   ARCHER    BUTLER — Continued 

"The  book  is  readable  and  on  the  whole  seems 
sound.  There  are  many  rather  ambiguous  state- 
ments but  one  is  inclined  to  resolve  them  in 
favor  of  accuracy.  The  book  is  strikingly  free 
from  sectionalism  or  other  prejudice  and  its 
temper  is  admirable.  As  a  piece  of  bookmaking 
it   is   a   delight." 

^ Greensboro   (N.C.)    Daily   News  plO  D  2 

■23    330w 

HULL,    HELEN    R.      Labyrinth.    343p    $2    Mac- 

millan 

23-13891 

Catherine  Hammond  is  the  intellectual  type 
of  woman,  caught  in  the  labyrinth  of  after  war 
conditions.  Her  husband,  Charles  Hammond, 
professor  in  a  New  York  city  college,  is  happy 
in  their  home  and  their  three  fascinating  chil- 
dren, and  so  is  Catherine.  During  the  war, 
while  Charles  was  in  France,  Catherine  had 
done  soiTie  good  research  work,  and  now  when 
she  is  feeling  the  lack  of  mental  stimulus 
comes  a  chance  to  reenter  the  work.  She 
hesitates  for  a  time,  partly  because  of  the 
wordless  opposition  of  Charles,  but  finally  de- 
cides to  go  back  to  the  research  bureau.  A 
competent  woman  is  found  to  take  care  of  the 
children  and  all  goes  well  for  a  time.  At  last 
comes  her  big  chance,  but  while  she  is  on  an 
investigation  trip  in  Ohio,  she  is  recalled  by 
a  serious  accident  to  ten-year-old  Spencer. 
Weeks  of  anxiety  follow,  with  no  thought  of 
her  work.  When  Spencer  recovers  Catherine's 
thoughts  once  more  turn  to  the  research 
bureau.  A  move  to  a  smaller  college  just  at 
this  time  does  not  straighten  matters;  the 
labyrinth    only    grows    more    confusing. 


"Fully  as  interesting  as  the  problem  which 
Miss  Hull  outlines  so  competently  and  sug- 
gestively for  us,  is  the  range  and  variety  of 
her  people.  They  are  a  very  human  lot.  This 
fundamental  question  of  the  woman  of  today 
with  her  economic  independence  is  bound  to 
underlie  every  truly  reflective  novel  of  the  day 
just  as  it  is  part  of  the  most  fundamental 
situations  of  life  itself.  It  is  to  the  enduring 
credit  of  Miss  Hull  that  she  shows  us  she  has 
something  different  to  say  on  this  much  vexed 
subject."     D.   L.    M. 

-I-   Boston    Transcript    p5    O    20    '23    1300w 

"In  'Labyrinth'  we  have  a  vastly  more  skilful 
and  sane  handling  than  Mr.  Hutchinson's  of 
almost  precisely  the  theme  of  'This  Freedom.'  '" 
H.   W.    Bovnton 

4-   Lit    R    pl83    O    27    '23    750w 

"The  l)ook  as  a  book  is  excellent.  Because 
Miss  Hull  has  chosen  such  controversial  ma- 
terial her  reviewers  may  too  easily  forget  to  say 
that  her  writing  is  fluent  and  precise,  that  she 
says  what  she  means  to  say  with  deflniteness 
and  clarity,  that  she  changes  her  rhythm  with 
the  chang^ing  demands  of  her  material — that 
she  is,  in  short,  a  thorough  craftsman.  She 
gives  hpr  beautifully  drawn  characters  a  three 
dimensional  world  to  live  in,  full  of  weather 
and  sunshine  and  alive  with  color  and  sound  " 
Dorothea    Brande 

H New   Repub   36:288   N   7   '23   700w 

"Miss  Hull  achieves  a  style  that  is  staccato 
without  degenerating  into  syncopation.  It  is 
so  sensitive  to  her  material  that  when  in  the 
last  few  pages  the  book  shirks  its  problem  the 
style   seems   to  flatten  out  also." 

H NY   Times   pll   S   16   '23   820w 

"  'Labyrinth  fails  to  make  out  a  good  case 
for  the  feminists.  It  does  not  prove  that  Mrs 
Hammond,  even  with  her  husband's  fullest  co- 
operation, could  successfully  manage  her  home 
and  her  investigations  together.  It  does  how- 
ever, tell  a  fairly  interesting  story  in  a  style 
which  is  rather  above  the  mediocre."  Leo 
Markun 

h   N   Y  Tribune  p8  S  23   '23  700w 

"In  Catherine  Miss  Hull  has  created  a  char- 
acter that  is  finely  and  charmingly  drawn. 
She  is  the  real  character  of  the  book.  The  other 
characters  are  adequate,  but  one  finds  them 
slipping  away  into  unreality  at  times.  Miss 
Hull  s  way  of  writing  betrays  an  ardent  reader. 


Despite  its  mixed  origin,  it  is  a  style  peculiarly 

original."    Ruth   Snyder 

-J NY   World  plOe  O   21   '23   720w 

Outlook    135:552    N    28    '23    140w 
Springf  d   Republican  p9a  D  23  '23  320w 
Wis  Lib   Bui  19:509  D  '23 

HUME,  CYRIL.  Wife  of  the  centaur.   372p  $2.50 

Doran 

23-18374 

The  story  is  entirely  of  the  younger  genera- 
tion, in  its  adolescent,  col'egiate  and  early 
married  period.  The  centaur  is  a  Tale  poet 
whom  the  author  develops  from  boyhood  to 
maturity,  thru  sex  slavery  to  self  mastery.  He 
loves  Inez,  the  beautiful  and  cruel,  and  is  loved 
by  Joan,  the  simple.  After  a  long  and  distracted 
pursuit  of  Inez  he  finally  has  her  consent  to 
marry  him,  but  his  happiness  is  short-lived. 
When  she  jilts  him  he  tvirns  to  the  sympathetic 
Joan.  They  have  a  brief  period  of  married 
serenity.  Then  Inez  reappears  and  asserts  her 
old  power  over  him.  He  is  torn  between  his 
passion  for  Inez  and  his  need  of  Joan.  In  the 
final  fight  with  himself,   the  man  conquers. 


"It  is  not  a  good  first  novel,  it  is  a  wonderful 
one — not  as  a  novel  but  as  a  piece  of  writing, 
as   a    presentation    of   a   viewpoint."    J.    F. 
+  Bookm    58:459    D    '23    130w 

Boston   Transcript  p4   D  19   '23  270w 

"I  say  at  once  and  without  hesitation  it  is 
the  best  first-fruit  that  has  ripened  in  the  lit- 
erary orchard  of  this  country  for  many  a  day." 
Joseph  Collins 

+   Int   Bk  R  p42  D  '23  800w 

"Mr.  Hume  at  present  is  a  member  of  an 
attractive  and  necessary  but  not  a  productive 
class  of  society  and  as  such  is  not  ready  to 
write  anything  that  is  more  than  promising.  It 
is  difficult  to  be  precise,  but  he  has  the  gift  of 
hurling  truth  and  realism  in  a  cloud  of  petals 
as  George  Meredith  so  divinely  used  to  do.  We 
hope  that  having  so  rare  a  thing  he  will  not 
content  himself  with  the  privilege  of  first-night 
seats  and  the  entree  to  the  literary  eating 
houses."    Fillmore   Hyde 

H Lit  R  279p  N  24   '23  850w 

"In  spite  of  much  fine  writing  and  much 
platitudinous  reflection  the  work  has  an  inde- 
finable bloom  of  youth  in  spots  and  a  breath- 
less eagerness  to  be  that  all  but  erases  its 
smugness  and  its  priggish  conclusions.  There 
are  episodes  of  pure  comedy,  and  a  few  glimpses 
of   intuitivelv   realized   beautv." 

+  —  N  Y   Times   p9   N   4   '23    600w 

"It  is  a  more  sincere  piece  of  work  than 
Fitzgerald's,  but  less  subtle:  more  sound,  but 
less  brilliant.  Hume's  great  handicap  is  quite 
evidently  a  lack  of  a  sense  of  humor.  Without 
its  gleam  to  gviide  him  he  has  stumbled  into 
the  pit  of  boring  and  mockable  super-earnest- 
ness." J.  N.   Robinson 

h    N  Y   Tribune   p21   D   2   '23   lOOOw 

"The  book  is  full  of  excellently  conceived  in- 
cident, and  it  does  not  seem  unfortunate  that 
much  of  it  is  irrelevant.  Rarely  it  is  humorous; 
often  it  has  more  than  a  touch  of  beauty. 
Words  are  used  with  care  and  a  love  for  words. 
The  style  or  rather  the  mood  of  the  telling,  is 
slightly  monotonous.  There  is  an  overcontinu- 
ous  striving  for  effects.  However,  a  moderately 
high  percentage  of  the  effects  is  secured."  C.  E. 
N. 

-I NY  World   p7e  N   25  '23   550w 

"It  is  readable  enough.  The  chief  faults  are 
the  faults  of  youth:  overexuberance,  and  the 
tendency  to  ramble  and  overwrite  upon  occa- 
sions." 

h  Springf  d    Republican    p9a  D   16   '23  280 

HUMMEL,     GEORGE     F.      After    all.       350p      $2 

Boni    &   Liveright 

23-9747 

A  story  of  marriage.  Gus  Brenner,  the  hero 
and  narrator,  after  several  passionate  love  af- 
fairs marries  Helen  Forbes,  a  woman  ten  years 
older  than  himself  who  had  separated  from 
her   husband.      They   are    happy    together    for   a 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


25: 


few  years  but  have  not  a  strong  enough  foun- 
dation on  which  to  build  a  maturing  love.  Their 
experience  passes  thru  the  well-known  stages — 
a  gradual  drifting  apart,  quarrels,  divorce.  At 
the  bottom  of  their  misunderstanding  of  each 
other  was  the  difference  in  their  convictions 
about  the  institution  of  marriage,  which  Gus 
thought  destructive  of  individuality  and  free- 
dom while  Helen  held  to  a  more  conventional 
view.  Their  differing  views  are  well  summed 
up  in  the  long  letter  at  the  end  of  the  book 
in  which  Helen  declines  to  resume  marital  re- 
lations with  her  husband  as  he  had  begged  her 
to  do. 


them  as  a  happy  discovery  and  the  book  ex- 
presses something  of  the  wonder  of  the  dis- 
covery. 


Boston   Transcript  p5  Je  30  '23  450w 

"Not  the  construction  of  theoretically  ideal 
conditions,  but  a  destructive  analysis  of  a  pres- 
ent evil  forms  the  more  valid  part  of  this  book. 
The  fact  that  it  does  not  lay  bare  the  root 
of  the  matter  does  not  greatly  diminish  its 
value  as  a  stimulant  to  thought  and  discussion." 
Eva  Goldbeck 

-\ Lit    R   p783   Je   23    '23   1050w 

"Though  he  improves  much  after  the  first 
part,  Mr.  Hummel  has  painstakingly  overwrit- 
ten his  stoi-y  by  one  hundred  and  fifty  pages; 
the  remaining  two  hundred  pages  are  richly 
worth  reading."   J.   J.   Smertenko 

1-   Nation    117:200   Ag  22   "23    400w 

"The  general  reader,  if  not  of  squeamish 
mind,  will  find  it  interesting  and  not  too  irri- 
tating because  of  the  carelessness  as  to  style 
and    grammar." 

1-   N    Y   Times   pl7   Je    24    '23    750w 

"Mr.  Hummel's  book  is  explicit  and  frank. 
This  is  announced  in  a  tone  not  of  depreca- 
tion, but  of  praise.  He  paints  the  thing  as  he 
sees  it,  and  his  eyesight,  praise  be,  seems  nor- 
mal and  masculine.  He  has  power  and  a  gift 
of  words.  Our  chief  comp!a.int  against  his 
style  is  that  he  has  too  man>  words."  F:  F. 
Van   de   Water 

-I NY    Tribune   pl9   Je    17   '23    850w 

Sprlngf  d  Republican  p7a  Ag  19  '23  250w 

HUMPHREY,    GEORGE.      Story   of  man's   mind. 

302p  11   $3   Small 

150      Psychology  23-9214 

"Professor  Humphrey's  book  contains  in  an 
attractive  and  readable  form  'the  psychology  of 
business,  home  and  school,  with  its  thousand 
uses  and  applications  explained  for  every  one.' 
The  author  tells,  among  many  other  things, 
how  to  train  the  baby,  what  dreams  mean,  what 
advertisements  appeal,  why  we  shiver  in  a  hot 
bath,  why  a  child  fears  the  dark,  why  we  have 
dislikes,  what  psycho-analysis  is,  how  to  cure 
insomnia,  why  we  love,  and  how  we  remem- 
ber."—N  Y  Tribune 


"Racily  written  and  helpful  book."     E.  N. 

4-  Boston   Transcript  p2  Jl  7   '23   750w 
"He    has    a    way    with    him    that    makes    the 
story    of    the    mind    something    worth    thinking 
about.     It  is  so  simply  told  that  even  Mr.  Bryan 
might    understand    it."      T:    L.    Masson 
+   N  Y  Times  pl8  Jl  8  '23  1150w 
"There    are    a    number    of    illustrations    and 
diagrams,    all    cleverly    in    tune    with    the    text, 
and  the  style    is  popular   in   the  extreme." 
-f   N    Y   Tribune   p20   Ag   19    '23   80w 

HUMPHREY,  ZEPHINE  (MRS  WALLACE 
WEIR  FAHNESTOCK).  Mountain  verities. 
201p      $2      Button 

818  Country  life  24-351 

An  enthusiastic  account  of  the  experiences 
of  two  city  people  who  have  made  a  success 
of  country  living.  Accepting  it  without  reser- 
vations, dodging  none  of  its  drudgeries  and 
cutting  away  the  last  tie  which  bound  them  to 
city  ways  the  writer  and  her  husband  settled 
down  to  active  all-the-year  living  in  a  Ver- 
mont village.  The  peace  and  beauty  and  con- 
tentment they  found  in  their  new  life  came  to 


The  current  literature  of  domestic  content- 
ment IS  slight  enough  in  bulk,  and  Zephine 
Humphrey  performs  timely  service  in  affirming 
the  possibilities  which  still  inhere  in  a  life  by 
one's   own   fireside." 

Bookm   58:487  D  '23   lOOw 

"Both  the  author  and  Christopher  have  an 
abiding  sense  of  humor.  Whatever  the  specific 
verity'  under  discussion,  through  it  like  some 
little  mountain  stream  dances  this  delicious 
humor."     F.   B. 

-f-   Boston    Transcript    p4    O    17    '23    lOOOw 

"The  book  makes  no  pretensions  of  being 
other  than  a  chatty,  pleasantly  written  record 
of  a  common- place  experiment.  But  somehow 
the  author  and  'Christopher,'  her  artist  hus- 
band, become  very  real  friends  to  the  reader. 
Amusing  little  anecdotes  about  them,  bits  of 
their  philosophy  of  life,  their  contagious  joy  at 
being  away  from  the  hectic  artificiality  of  city 
Hving,  and  above  all,  their  spontaneous  enthu- 
siasm over  their  new  toy,  make  these  simple 
adventures  in  everyday  living  well  worth  read- 
ing   about." 

+  Springf'd    Republican    p6   O   15  '23   520w 

HUMPHREYS,    ELIZA    M.    J.    (GOLLAN)    (MRS 
'    DESMOND    HUMPHREYS)     (RITA,    pseud.). 

Ungrown-ups.   382p  $2   Putnam 

"A  quiet  picture  of  a  left-at-home  war  house- 
hold, wherein  for  Philistia.  the  central  character, 
the  entire  span  of  the  budding  of  girlhood  into 
youth  is  covered  by  the  war  years  and  turned 
by  them  into  a  period  of  home  drudgery  and 
manual  labor,  with  an  over-development  of 
many  qualities  and  an  under-development  of 
many  other  more  usual  ones.  Late  in  the 
story  a  visit  to  a  wealthy  city  household,  busily 
engaged  in  the  gayer  aspects  of  home  war  work 
— entertainments,  benefits  and  so  on — throws  in- 
to sharp  relief  for  her  all  that  has  been  lacking 
in  her  life  as  well  as  all  that  has,  even  so,  been 
vastly  preferable  in  it.  And  a  life  story  in- 
volving the  anxiety  and  suspense  of  war  days 
rounds  into  a  happy  outcome,  along  with  several 
reconciliations  and  better  understandings  with- 
in the  family  itself.  .  .  The  story  is  writ- 
ten in  the  shape  of  a  young  girl's  diary." — Lit 
R 


"The  characterizations  are  not  notable  beyond 
Philistia  herself  and  her  novelist-father.  But 
the  picture  of  skimped,  uncomfortable,  patient 
home  life,  with  the  household  revolving  about 
the  girl-who-stayed-at-home  and  kept  in  action 
only  by  her  ceaseless  labors,  is  perhaps  the  best 
thing  in  the  book,  and  is  drawn  with  a  good 
deal  of  simplicity  and  no  sentimentality." 
H Lit   R   p320  D  1  '23  500w 

"  'The    Ungrown-Ups'     will    sustain    on    sure 
wing  Mrs  Humphreys's  reputation  as  a  novelist 
of   credible,    if   not   profound,    powers." 
+   N  Y  Times  p22  S  2  '23  780w 


HUMPHRIES,  WILFRID  R.  Patrolling  in  Pa- 
pua: with  an  introd.  by  J.  H.  P.  Murray.  287p 
il    $3.50   Holt    [21s    Unwin] 

919.5  Papua  [23-11793] 

"Mr  Humphries  is  one  of  some  thirty  white 
men  to  whom  is  committed  the  care  of  the 
Territory  of  Papua,  a  country  half  as  large 
again  as  England.  There  seems  to  be  no  com- 
pendious term  that  will  embrace  all  their  duties. 
Enrolled  to  assist  them  are  three  hundred 
natives — ex-cannibals  and  ex-head  hunters,  and 
with  this  body,  in  detachments  of  about  ten, 
thev  maintain  authority  over  savages  who  are 
cannibals,  and  head  hunters  without  the  'ex'. 
To  assert  this  authority  they  have  to  make 
journevs  into  districts  of  which  they  know  no 
more  than  the  general  lie — or  corrugation — of 
the  land.  Mr.  Humphries  describes  several  such 
journevs.  On  one  of  these  journeys — carried  out 
in  1917  from  Kerema,  on  the  south  coast,  to 
Morobe,    in    what    was    formerly    German    ter- 


254 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


HUMPHRIES,    WILFRID    R. — Continued 
ritory — he  was   the  first  to  work   out  a   definite 
route   from   sea   to   sea." — The   Times    [London] 
Lit   Sup 


"Full  of  stirring  incident  is  this  story  of 
adventure  in  Papua  land,  a  story  which  while 
not  wholly  new  in  all  its  parts,  still  is  well 
worth    the    telling."      E.    J.    C. 

4-  Boston  Transcript  p3  S  29  '23  720w 
"No  one  who  reads  Mr.  Humphries'  straight- 
forward, self-effacing  account  of  his  pioneer 
work  in  Papua  will  be  disposed  to  dispute  its 
authenticity  or  mistake  it  for  a  traveller's  tale; 
it  is  as  passionless  as  an  official  report.  It  is 
an  admirable  narrative,  a  narrative  that,  for 
its  avoidance  of  what  is  merely  trivial  or  tech- 
nical, should  be  given  a  high  place  among  re- 
cent books  of  travel." 

-h   New  Statesman  21:628  S  8  '23  250w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p295   My 
3    '23    1050W 

HUNGERFORD,      EDWARD,      ed.      Planning     a 

trip  abroad.     300p     $1     McBride 

910.2  Travel  23-11556 

A  practical  little  book  of  advice  about  routes 
and  expenses,  shipboard  arrangements,  baggage, 
railway  travel,  hotels,  what  to  see,  shopping, 
automobile  touring  abroad,  and  customs  on  re- 
turn. 

Booklist   20:52  N   '23 
Bookm    58:82    S   '23    I50w 
"One,  who  spent  four  years  abroad  as  a  stud- 
ent,  and  who  now  and   then  returns  to  his  old 
haunts    across    the     sea,     unqualifiedly     recom- 
mends   it    as    a    practical,    helpful    instructor   to 
all   who  are  planning  to   visit  the  other  side." 
+   Boston   Transcript   p2   Ag   25    '23   200w 
"If  there   is  anything  an   ordinary  traveler  to 
Europe   would    like   to   be    informed   about    that 
he  cannot  find  within  its  pages,  his  needs  would 
be  of  an  annazing  kind.    For  those  many  travel- 
ers   who    are    taking    this    year    their    first    trip 
across  the  Atlantic  the   little   book  will  be   in- 
valuable." 

-t-   N  Y  Times  p22  Jl  1  '23  280w 

N  Y  World  pl9e  Je  24  '23  140w 
"The  novice  in  travel  who  is  about  to  go 
abroad  will  find  the  greater  part  of  the  pre- 
liminary planning  done  for  him  in  this  little 
book  by  Mr.  Hungerford,  and  will  have  many 
troublesome  questions  answered  before  he  can 
ask  them." 

-f   R  of   Rs   68:223  Ag  '23   70 w 
Wis   Lib    Bui   19:507  D  '23 

HUNTINGTON,  ELLSWORTH.  Earth  and  sun; 

with   a  chapter  by   H.    Helm   Clayton.    296p   il 

$5   Yale   univ.    press 

551.5     Meteorology.     Sun-spots  23-13162 

"The  sub-title  of  this  work  is  'An  hypothesis 
of  weather  and  sunspots';  it  is  a  companion 
volume  to  the  author's  recent  book  on  'Climatic 
Changes,'  which  dealt  mainly  with  past  re- 
lationships between  the  earth  and  sun,  while 
the  present  work  is  concerned  with  existine 
connexions.  The  leading  idea  of  both  books  is 
that  terrestrial  meteorology  depends  partly  on 
purely  terrestrial  conditions,  and  partly  on 
changes  in  the  solar  activity;  the  latter  'are 
supposed  to  act  chiefly  through  variations  in 
barometic  pressure  and  especially  in  the  num- 
ber, location,  and  intensity  of  cyclonic  storms.' 
It  is  also  claimed  that  there  is  an  important 
solar-activity  effect  on  atmospheric  electricity. 
.  .  A  considerable  section  of  Mr.  Huntington's 
book  is  devoted  to  the  inverse  problem  of  plane- 
tary influence  upon   solar  activity." — Nature 


before  it  is  safe  to  accept  many  of  the  conclu- 
sions which  the  author  regards  as  established." 
S.   C 

+  —   Nature   112:681    N   10    '23   llOw 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p763    N 
15    '23    2000w 

HUNTINGTON,     ELLSWORTH,    and    VISHER, 

STEPHEN       SARGENT.       Climatic      changes, 

their  nature  and  causes.   329p  $3.50  Tale  univ. 

press   [17s  6d  Milford] 

551.5  Climate  22-20363 

"This  book  not  only  discusses  climatic 
changes,  but  considers  the  causes  of  earth- 
quakes and  attempts  to  show  how  climatic 
changes  may  be  related  to  great  geological  rev- 
olutions in  the  form,  location,  and  altitude  of 
the  lands.  Thus  the  book  has  a  direct  bearing 
on  all  the  main  physical  factors  which  have 
molded  the  evolution  of  organic  life,  including 
man. ' ' — Preface 


Booklist  20:125  Ja  '24 
"The  author  has  himself  devoted  enormous 
labour  to  investigation,  and  writes  both  with 
enthusiasm  and  with  a  wide  acquaintance  with 
the  literature  concerned.  But  to  the  reviewer 
it  seems  that  much  more  evidence  is  required 


Booklist    19:181    Mr    '23 
Boston  Transcript  p5  N  1  '22  850w 
"Interesting  and   suggestive   volume."     J.    "W. 
Gregory 

4-   Nature    111:562   Ap   28    '23    850w 
N  Y  P  L  New  Tech  Bks  7:48  O  '22 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:110  Mr   '23 
"Every   social   student   interested   in   the   pre- 
valent theories  of  cyclical  changes  and  their  in- 
fluence on  crops  and  thereby  on  world  trade  and 
politics  should  know  it." 

Survey  49:259  N  15  '22  160w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p751  N  16 
'22   20w 

HURST,    FANNIE.      Lummox.      329p  $2  Harper 

23-13730 
Bertha,  huge  of  body  and  white  of  skin, 
half  Swede,  half  Slav,  was  born  somewhere  on 
the  waterfront  of  New  York.  Silent  and  brood- 
ing, she  was  the  receptacle  of  inherited  mem- 
ories of  her  mixed  ancestry.  Altho  inarticulate 
she  gave  the  impression  of  strength  that  was 
more  than  physical,  and  many  there  were  who 
drew  from  it.  Her  life  was  spent  in  hard  labor, 
sometimes  as  domestic  servant,  sometimes  as 
day  worker.  Once  a  young  poet,  son  of  an  em- 
ployer, sensed  the  drama  of  the  unconscious 
in  this  uncouth  body  and  the  result  was  a  single 
book  of  inspired  verse  for  an  otherwise  me- 
diocre talent  and  for  Bertha  a  son  in  the  flesh. 
More  silent  now  than  ever  and  more  lonely— 
her  baby  signed  away  to  rich  foster-parents — 
Bertha  stumbled  thru  life  and  stumbled  "*  'ast, 
when  middle  age  had  made  her  less  sought 
after  as  a  worker,  upon  a  family  of  neglected, 
motherless  children. 

"  'Lummox'  is  an  arresting  and  powerful 
portrait.  In  some  ways  it  is  a  brutal  piece  of 
work.  Yet  it  has  passages  of  greaf  beauty.  This 
is  to  a  certain  extent  a  new  style  of  Miss 
Hurst's.  It  is  occasionally  awkward,  occasionally 
poetic,  occasionally  downright  funny.  The 
book's  great  fault  is  one  which  Miss  Hurst 
shares  with  Sherwood  Anderson  (of  whom  this 
novel  somehow  constantly  reminds  me) :  there 
is  practically  no  humor  in  it."  J.  F. 
+  -^  Bookm   58:320  N  '23   240w 

"It  would  not  be  fair  to  leave  this  novel  with- 
out some  mention  of  the  beautiful  way  in  which 
it  is  written.  Just  as  Bertha  symbolizes  the 
earth  itself  in  her  strength  and  kindness  and 
inscrutability,  so  the  entire  book  seems  to  move 
to  vast,  unheard  but  clearly  sensed  rhythms. 
There  is  a  force  and  a  swing  to  it  which  moves 
the  reader  profoundly.  Far  more  nearly  than  In 
anything  else  she  has  written  has  Fannie  Hurst 
expressed  her  true  strength  in  this  novel." 

-f   Boston   Transcript   p5  O   27   '23   1350w 

"Miss  Hurst  has  a  style  that  might  bite  un- 
less it  were  held  in  leash.  She  knew  that  it 
was  the  only  means  to  employ  for  the  telling 
of  her  strange  tale.  She  never  overdoes  that 
marconigraphic  method.  A  slash  here,  a  slash 
there,  and  we  have  a  perfect  picture.  Vivid 
as  lightning— and  as  terrifying."  C:  H.  Towne 
-f-   int  Bk  R  p42  O  '23  2100w 


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255 


"One  can  account  for  so  much  bad  in  the 
midst  of  so  much  good  only  by  imagming  in 
Miss  Hurst  more  talent  and  force  than  taste 
and  an  attendant  inability  to  distinguish  the 
really  good  from  the  faux  hon.  No  other  explan- 
ation can  account  for  the  fact  that  an  author 
with  so  much  knowledge  of  real  life  and  so 
great  a  power  of  setting  it  forth  can  fall  into 
such  bathos  in  some  critical  scenes  or  cripple 
her  book  with  so  mechanical  a  scheme.  But  it 
would  be  a  great  mistake  to  let  too  much  fas- 
tidiousness prevent  one  from  getting  the  bene- 
fits of  her  talent,  and  one  must  merely  resign 
himself  to  take  the  gold  and  accept  the  heavy 
alloy   as   best   he   may."    J.   W.    Krutch 

-\ Lit   R  pl45   O  20   "23  950w 

Reviewed  by  Robert  Littell 

New    Repub   37:99   D   19   '23   470w 
"Although   Fannie    Hurst   has    not   unrolled    a 
great    story   in    her    new    novel,    entitled    'Lum- 
mox,'   she    has    still    done    much    that    is    fine: 
portrayed  a  notable  character,  etched  in  verbal 
mezzotint    several    types    of    New    York    people, 
tinged      the     commonplace     with     beauty     and 
touched  the  deepest  wells  of  human  emotion." 
-I-  —  N    Y   Times   p5   O   14    '23   1200w 
"The    theme   is   a   great   one   and   Miss   Hurst 
has  handled  it  superbly."     J:   Farrar 

+  N    Y   Tribune   p24   O   14    '23   1300w 
"To  our  mind,  Bertha,  the  Lummox,  ranks  up 
to  the  moment  as  Miss  Hurst's  crowning  crea- 
tion."     E.    W.    Osborn 

-|-   N   Y  World  p8  O  14  '23  720w 
"A  book  of  tremendous  power  and  interest." 

-1-  N  Y  World  pll  O  30  '23  850w 
Reviewed    by   R.    D.    Townsend 

Outlook  135:642  D  12  '23  170w 
"The  story  is  original  in  conception  and  de- 
velopment, and  narrative  form.  The  latter, 
however,  is  not  artistic  or  effective:  it  will 
pall  upon  the  reader  unused  to  exclamatory, 
one-word  sentences,  and  sing-song  word  paint- 
ing." 

-1 Springfd   Republican  p7a  D  30  '23   480w 

HURST,      SAMUEL      BERTRAM       HAWORTVl. 
Barney.    323p  $1.90  Harper 

23-8942 

Barney  Hilliard  and  Dick  Carew,  two  Eng- 
lish boys  close  friends  from  childhood,  are  both 
wrongly  accused  of  a  serious  misdemeanor.  It 
drives  them  from  home  and  they  make  their 
penniless  way  to  Canada  and  Alaska  where 
they  endure  every  possible  hardship  before  re- 
turning to  civilization.  The  loss  of  his  beloved 
Ethel  and  later,  of  his  friend  Dick  makes  Barney 
henceforth  the  loneliest  of  men.  The  compara- 
tively scanty  incidents  of  the  story  are  filled 
in  with  Barney's  eschatological  musings — some- 
times ravings.  His  one  ambition  had  been  to 
write  one  book  on  philosophy  but  the  cruelty 
and  injustice  of  the  world  bewilder  him  and  he 
doubts  immortality  and  the  existence  of  God. 
In  turn  he  blasphemes  and  lifts  his  soul  in 
prayer.  After  his  losses  he  spends  two  years 
in  utter  solitude  in  a  snow-bound  wilderness 
trying  out  weird,  occult  experiments.  While  he 
does  not  see  the  use  of  living  he  will  not  be  a 
quitter.  When  at  last  he  feels  that  he  has 
earned  the  right  to  a  voluntary  exit  from  life 
and  has  made  elaborate  preparations,  a  new  vis- 
ion, inspired  by  the  memory  of  Dick  and  Ethel, 
stays    his    hand. 


Reviewed  by  Isabel  Paterson 

N  Y  Tribune  pl8  Je  17  '23  250w 
"It  is  not  a  finished  piece  of  work  according 
to  the  literary  canons.  Its  details  are  as  rough 
as  the  life  with  which  it  deals.  The  joints  of 
the  narrative  structure  are  plainly  visible.  Yet 
these  very  crudenesses  seem  curiously  to  have 
lent  strength  to  the  book.  'Barney,'  for  all  that 
it  carries  so  openly  what  should  be  its  faults  of 
composition,  is  impressive  and  compelling  to  a 
degree   exceptionally  high."     B.   W.   Osborn 

H NY  World  p6e  My  20  '23  420w 

Springfd   Republican  p9a  S   9  '23  520w 
Wis  Lib   Bui  19:509  D  '23 

HUSBAND,  JOSEPH.     High  hurdles.   232p  $1.75 

Houghton 

23-8989 

Harry  Gray,  the  scion  of  several  generations 
of  inherited  New  England  wealth  and  social 
standing,  without  ambition  to  work,  wastes  his 
time  at  Harvard,  fails  in  his  exams  and  is 
finally  expelled.  The  girl  he  loves  turns  from 
him  in  disappointment.  At  the  same  time  he 
Is  confronted  with  his  father's  physical  and 
financial  decline.  So  Harry  goes  to  Chicago  to 
look  for  a  job.  He  finds  work  in  a  coal-mine 
and  begins  on  the  lowest  rung  as  a  loader,  works 
his  way  up  and  distinguishes  himself  in  a  mine 
disaster  which  closes  up  the  mine.  Returning 
to  Chicago  he  enters  business,  makes  good  and 
is  sent  by  his  firm  to  their  headquarters  in 
Boston.  He  finds  by  this  time  that  he  has  re- 
habilitated himself  in  every  way,  even  in  the 
eyes  of  the  girl  he   loves. 


Booklist  20:57  N    23 

"It  is  done  with  great  skill,  with  acuteness 
and  profundity  of  perception,  and  with  excel- 
lent symmetry'  and  proportion  in  the  mechanism 
of  it. "  The  surface  texture  of  its  style  is  also 
."jood.  It  is  a  sombrely  impressive  performance." 
H.   L.   Panghom 

-F   Lit  R  p6  S  1  '23   800w 

"The  novel  is  much,  very  much,  more  than 
a  mere  adventure  story,  though  it  has  adven- 
tures in  plenty,  and  of  the  most  thrilling  kind. 
.  .  [The]  book  will  appeal  both  to  the  lover  of 
adventure  in  the  open  and  among  men  and  to 
him  who  prefers  to  journey  in  the  more  com- 
plicated and  difficult  realms  of  the  mind." 
-t-  N    Y  Times  pl4   My   20  '23   1200w 


Booklist  20:21  O  "23 
Boston  Transcript  p4  My  23  '23  250w 
Cleveland   p51   Jl   '23 
"The  story  is  light  and  pleasant  on  the  whole, 
though  the  hero  grows  wearisome  in  spots." 

-\ Greensboro    (N.C.)     Daily    News    p8    Je 

17  '23  250w 
"Mr.  Husband  has  given  us  a  genuinely  in- 
teresting story.  He  lets  it  tell  itself  in  vigorous 
fashion  and  refrains  from  the  temptations  to 
psychologize  or  to  indulge  in  introspective  solilo- 
quies. If  'red-blooded'  had  not  suffered  from 
careless  usage,  we  would  apply  that  adjective 
to    'High   Hurdles.'  " 

-f-  N  Y  Times  p27  My  20  '23  660w 
"Mr.  Husband's  book  has  vim  and  action  and 
interest.  The  chief  trouble  we  find  with  it  is 
that  it  runs  almost  too  smoothly  to  its  destined 
finish.  Doubtless  Harry  Gray  had  a  rough,  tough 
time  at  work,  especially  when  he  was  loading 
coal  at  the  mine.  But  not  enough  grime  and 
blister  suggests  itself  in  the  pages  we  read." 
E.  W.  Osborn 

H NY    World    p8e   My   13    '23    350w 

Wis    Lib   Bui   19:414  Jl  "23 

HUTCHINSON,  ARTHUR  STUART-MEN- 
TETH.  Eighth  wonder,  and  other  stories. 
283p  $2  Little  [7s  6d  Hodder  &  S.] 

23-13375 
Any  lack  of  plot  in  these  eight  short  stories 
is  made  up  for  by  the  never  failing  vivacity  of 
the  manner.  The  first  and  title  story  is  a  love 
tale  wherein  a  young  man  finds  his  eighth 
wonder  of  the  world  in  a  certain  girl.  Contents 
The  eighth  wonder;  Some  talk  of  Alexander — 
The  rough  little  girl  and  the  smooth  little  girl 
The  swordsman;  The  grim  test;  A  magdalen  of 
the  soil;  There  still  are  fairies;  In  evening  bells. 

Booklist    20:139    Ja    '24 

"The  great  popularity  of  'If  Winter  Comes' 
was  Mr.  Hutchinson's  undoing.  From  a  nov- 
elist with  a  mission  to  entertam  he  thought 
he  had  become  a  reformer  with  a  commission  to 
nreach  This  collection  of  his  short  .stones 
will  help  to  rehabilitate  him.  The  chief  at- 
traction of  these  stories  is  a  certain  vivacity 
which  lacks  the  monotony  of  Mr.  Hutchinson  s 
manner  in  some  of  his_  novels  '  „„E.  F  L^ 
-f-  Boston   Transcript  p4   S  26  '23  780w 

"The    book    will    scarcely    add    much    to    Mr. 

Hutchinson's   reputation."       

""'*'_  int   Bk  R  p74  D  '23  380w 


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HUTCHINSON,    A.    S.-M. — Continued 

"They  are  good  stories;  one  of  them,  at  least, 
very  good,  as  the  modern  'magazinable'  short 
story  goes.  But  there  is  nothing  epoch  making 
or  materially  above  the  average  of  the  general 
run  of  such   things." 

4 Lit    R    pl66    O    20    '23    300w 

"  'If  Winter  Comes'  was  written  in  fairly 
ordinary  English,  very  exclamatory  and  rather 
suggestive  of  a  hearty  flapper,  but  rarely  bi- 
zarre. Now  we  are  more  ambitious.  Biblical 
phrases  have  become  very  frequent;  adjec- 
tives are  used  as  nouns  and  nouns  as  verbs; 
and  continual  inversions  give  the  oddest  look 
to  almost  every  sentence.  .  .  The  Eighth  Wonder 
contains  something  for  various  tastes — self- 
possessed  little  girls  for  lovers  of  the  quaint, 
allegories  for  lovers  of  uplift,  and  a  new  form 
of  dialect  for  lovers  of  rusticity."  Raymond 
Mortimer 

—  New  Statesman  21:572  Ag  25  '23  1500w 

"If  the  tales  collected  in  this  volume  will 
not  particularly  enhance  Mr.  Hutchinson's  re- 
putation,   they   will   at   least   do   it   no   harm." 

H NY  Times  p22  O  14  '23  500w 

N    Y   World   p7e  D  2  '23   230w 
"A  striking,   and   indeed  a  shocking,    example 
of  the  good   bad.     It  is    (aesthetically   speaking) 
deplorable   in    kind,    but    its   execution    shows   a 
virtuosity."      Gerald    Gould 

-+-  —  Sat    R   136:252   S   1    '23    500w 
"The  book  is  not  the  eighth  wonder  in  story- 
writing,    but    rather    a   good    book    that    will    be 
liked  by  some  and  neglected  by  others  accord- 
ing to   temperament."     R.   W.    N. 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ja  6  "24  370w 

HUTTON,  EDWARD.  Pietro  Aretino,  the 
scourge  of  princes.  268p  $4  Houghton  [12s 
Constable] 

B  or  92  Aretino,  Pietro  23-3577 

"Through  chapter  after  chapter  the  author 
takes  us  into  the  very  life  of  the  man,  telling 
graphically  of  his  parentage,  his  education,  his 
greatness,  his  glory,  his  shame.  We  are  with 
him  in  Rome,  in  Mantua,  in  Venice.  We  note 
how  he  founded  the  House  of  Aretino.  We  are 
told  of  his  friendships  with  Francis  I.  and 
Charles  V.;  of  his  various  secretaries  and  his 
many  friends,  and  then  comes  a  delightful  chap- 
ter of  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life,  an  almost 
unbroken  record  of  fame  and  ease." — Boston 
Transcript 

Booklist   19:221   Ap  '23 
"The  most  satisfying  study  of  Pietro  Aretino 
yet  done  in  the  English  language."  M.  F.  Egan 
+  Bookm    57:206  Ap  '23   900w 
"Pietro    may    have    been    the    most    infamous 
man  of  the  sixteenth  century,   but  unquestion- 
ably his  life,  as  told  in  his   own  letters,   is  one 
rich  in  contrasts,   made  richer  by  Mr.  Button's 
skilful  work."  L.  H.  Guyol 

-j-   Boston  Transcript  p4  F  17  '23  1550w 
"Mr  Hutton  has  performed  a  valuable  service 
in  writing  this  authoritative  and  competent  bi- 
ography." 

-f  Dial   74:523  My   '23   150w 

Freeman   6:598  F  28   '23  1650w 
"The   work   of   Mr.    Hutton   is    competent   and 
authoritative."     Nathan   Asch 

-t-   Nation   116:398  Ap  4  '23  850w 
"Learned     and     not    unfriendly    monograph." 
F     B 

New  Statesman  20:272  D  2  '22  1400w 
"It  is  a  pity  that  Mr.  Hutton  did  not  take 
greatei-  advantage  of  his  opportunity,  for  he 
has  given  us,  I  believe,  the  first  biography  of 
Aretino  in  English.  What  he  relates  is  fasci- 
nating enough;  it  is  felicitously  put  with  just 
the  proper  note  of  irony;  it  is,  all  in  all,  a  deli- 
cious recital  so  long  as  it  adheres  to  the  facts. 
The  trouble  is  that  it  stops  short  of  being 
either  an  adequate  or  a  wholly  truthful  biog- 
raphy." Burton  Rascoe 

4-  _  N  Y  Tribune  pl8  Mr  25  "23  1050w 
"Mr.    Hutton   has   been   so   successful    in   dis- 
playing the  humanity  that,  without  in  the  least 
intending  to  whitewash  the  monster,  he  leaves 


the  degree  of  his  monstrosity  to  be  a  little 
taken  for  granted.  A  reader  of  this  book,  with 
an  unprejudiced  mind,  might  reasonably  come 
to  the  conclusion  that,  making  allowances  for 
his  age,  Aretino  was  no  worse  a  ruffian  than 
many  a  wielder  of  the  pen  who  in  our  day  has 
wrested  honour,  wealth,  and  admiration  from 
the  public." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p741  N  16 
'22   1450w 

HUXLEY,     ALDOUS     LEONARD.     Antic     hay. 

350p    $2    Doran 

23-17924 

The   title  of  the  book  is  explained  by  a  coup- 
let of  Marlowe   found  on  the  title  page: 

"My  men  like  satyrs  giazing  on  the  lawn, 
Shall  with  their  goat  feet  dance  the  antic  hay." 
With  the  opening  chapter  the  dance  begins 
when  Theodore  Gumbril,  Jr.,  Oxford  tutor, 
wearied  of  his  daily  round,  decided  to  taste 
life  and  become  the  "Complete  Man."  Across 
the  pages  of  the  book,  Gumbril  and  his  fellow 
satyrs  dance  from  one  adventure  into  another 
and  since  there  is  no  lack  of  women  companions, 
the  effect  of  the  whole  is  that  of  some  bac- 
chanalian revel  at  which  the  author  is  an 
amused  onlooker.  Satirist  or  caricaturist — one 
hardly  knows  in  which  category  to  place  him — 
he  seems  to  describe  life  as  he  sees  it.  The 
adventures,  told  with  an  amazing  frankness, 
of  Gumbril  and  Mrs  Viveash,  Lypiatt  and  Cole- 
man, Rosie  and  the  Cossack  are  the  very  last 
word   in   freedom   and   self-expression. 


"He  is  the  creator-god  of  a  beautiful  new 
world  which  is  wholly  and  peculiarly  his  own 
and  which  he  peoples  with  antic  folk  whose  ad- 
ventures, always  keenly  intelligent  and  spark- 
ling with  wit,  are  eloquently  and  continually 
amusing."  Howard  Weeks 

-t-   Detroit   News  p23  D  9  '23  400w 

"It  is  extremely  'well-written,'  now  in  the 
truncated  manner  of  the  period,  now  with  an 
individual  lilt  that  gives  inany  of  its  descrip- 
tive passages  real  charm.  Apart  from  its  read- 
ability, and  Its  brilliant  satirical  portraiture, 
the  book  contains  an  abundance  of  clever  dia- 
logue, in  which  all  sorts  of  ideas  are  touched 
on  and  played  about  from  various  angles.  And 
it  should  be  admitted  that  reckless  as  is  his 
mockery  of  all  things  cherished  (or  at  least 
publicly  upheld)  by  persons  in  authority,  it  by 
no  means  spares  his  own  generation."  H.  W. 
Boynton 

+   Ind   111:287  D  8   '23   720w 

"Half  low  comedy  and  half  a  genuine  cry  of 
despair,  it  is  in  one  way  not  so  good  as  some 
of  the  author's  previous  works  because  it  is 
not  so  perfect  an  expression  of  what  he  is 
trying  to  say;  but  it  proves  that  he  has  not 
ceased  to  grow."  J.  W.  Krutch 
1-   Lit   R   p403  D  29   '23   1150w 

"Antic  Hay  has  the  literary  delights  of  the 
intelligence  questionnaire,  characters  who  don't 
talk  in  conversations  but  in  charades,  with 
satire  japing  sophistication  as  well  as  the 
more  obvious  targets,  engaging  naughtiness  nar- 
rated for  its  own  sake,  rising  and  falling  in 
broad  comedy  and  in  episodes  deliciously 
strange    and    tender."    Kurt    Daniels 

New   Repub  37:71  D  12  '23   1450w 

"Mr.  Huxley  has  had  experience  of  every 
good  thing  that  civilised  society  has  to  offer, 
and  he  has  not  a  good  word  to  say  for  it.  .  . 
He  is  on  the  way  to  become  the  complete  mis- 
anthrope: he  revels  in  his  own  disgust.  He  has 
tried  all  the  pleasures,  enjoys  none  of  them, 
and  cannot  bear  that  others  should.  His  dis- 
taste for  life  resembles  at  moments  that  of  a 
Falsetto  in  face  of  a  Casanova.  This  new  in- 
tensity of  emotion  gives  a  new  savour  to  the 
wit  which  is,  after  all,  what  we  read  Mr.  Hux- 
ley for.  But  if,  as  1  think,  Antic  Hay  is  more 
entertaining  than  any  novel  that  has  appeared 
this  year  in  England,  1  also  feel  somehow  that 
Mr  Huxley  is  capable  of  writing  a  book  a 
lot  more  entertaining  than  Antic  Hay."  Ray- 
mond  Mortimer 

-I New  Statesman   22:146  N  10  '23  lOOOw 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


257 


"Aldoiis  Huxley's  latest  novel  is  apt  to  leave 
the  first  impression  that  it  is  a  somewhat  be- 
lated 'cry  for  madder  music  and  for  stronger 
wine.'  There  is  in  it  a  delirium  of  sense  enjoy- 
ment, with  the  ever-present,  listless  certainty 
that  lioredom  is  sure  to  follow.  'Antic  Hay'  is 
satirical  light  literature,  done  with  a  deft,  sure 
touch.  The  portraits,  or  rather  travesties,  of 
the  characters  are  the  most  delightful  features. 
Mr.  Huxley  is  at  least  havmg  his  revenge  up- 
on his  forebear,  the  biologist,  and  his  kinsman, 
Matthew  Arnold." 

-I NY  Times  p8  N  25  '23   600w 

N  Y   Tribune   pl9   D   2   '23   1550w 

"The  fact  is  that  the  cheap,  the  obvious,  the 
popular,  has  a  fatal  fascination  for  Mr.  Hux- 
ley. It  is  his  Dark  Angel,  struggling  with  the 
Muse  for  possession  of  what  is,  when  aJl's  said 
on  the  other  side,  one  of  the  rarest  and  most 
promising  intelligences  of  our  time.  There  are 
passages  in  'Antic  Hay'  of  a  pure  and  rhythmic 
beauty:  passages  so  fine,  so  just,  that  they 
move  one  like  good  music.  And  then — plump! — 
on  the  next  page  we  are  back  again  in  a  pain- 
ful unreality:  in  a  dirty,  trivial  world  of  the 
constant  effort — and  failure — to  be  clever;  of 
aimless,  pointless,  seductions  at  sight."  Gerald 
Gould 

h  Sat   R   136:550   N   17   '23  300w 

"Indeed,  Antic  Hay  offers  a  wide  field  for 
criticism.  In  respect  of  unity  and  complete- 
ness it  falls  short  of  Mr.  Huxley's  earlier  novel, 
Crome  Yellow,  for  its  action  is  spread  loosely 
over  years,  not  condensed  into  days;  Its  many 
love  affairs  are  always  provisional  and  antici- 
patory, never  conclusive.  There  are  passages, 
too,  in  which  coarseness,  that  quality  dear  to 
the  full-blooded,  cannot  be  held  to  redeem  in- 
decency."     L.    P.    Hartley 

—  Spec   131:998   D   22   '23  llOOw 

"When  we  think  of  'Mortal  Coils'  and  then 
watch  the  goat-feet  of  this  book's  men  and 
women  like  satyrs  dancing  the  antic  hay,  we 
wonder  what  has  happened  to  cause  in  Mr. 
Huxley  this  reversion  to  the  adolescent.  Adoles- 
cent the  subject  and  the  people  are,  no  matter 
how  adult  in  knowledge  of  the  world  and  ma- 
ture in  craft  is  this  violent  story.  .  .  "WTien 
he  has  worked  the  poison  off  and  has  come  to 
the  point  whence  he  can  see  that  truth  has 
two  sides— that  the  beautiful  is  no  more  a  lie 
than  the  hideous,  what  a  novel,  with  the  power 
of  expression  that  he  here  shows,  he  will  be 
able    to    write!" 

f-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p748    N 

8    '23   78 Ow 

HUXLEY,  ALDOUS  LEONARD.  On  the  margin 
218p      $2      Doran 

824  23-10374 

Brief  essays  on  literature  and  life  by  this 
brilliant  young  English  novelist  and  poet. 
Whether  the  subject  is  new  or  old,  light  or 
sober,  there  is  always  something  to  arrest  and 
hold  in  his  angle  of  thought  and  his  expression 
of  it.  Contents:  Centenaries;  On  re-reading 
Candide;  Accidie;  Subject-matter  of  poetry; 
Water  music;  Pleasures;  Modern  folk  poetry; 
Bibliophily;  Democratic  art;  Accumulations;  On 
deviating  into  sense;  Polite  conversation;  Na- 
tionality in  love;  How  the  days  draw  in!  Tibet; 
Beauty  in  1920;  Great  thoughts;  Advertisement; 
Euphues  redivivus;  The  author  of  Eminent  Vic- 
torians; Edward  Thomas;  A  Wordsworth  an- 
thology; Verhaeren;  Edward  Lear;  Sir  Christo- 
pher Wren;   Ben   Jonson;   Chaucer. 


Booklist   20:92   D    '23 

"These  short  pieces  are  filled  with  wit  and 
charm.  It  is  true  that  they  are  not  so  brilliant 
as  I  had  been  led  to  expect  by  a  reading  of 
English  reviews  of  them.  Yet  how  eminently 
quotable  they  are!  What  a  wise  young  man  Mr. 
Huxley  is,  to  be  sure.  How  acutely  he  under- 
stands the  turning  of  a  phrase!"  J.  P. 
H Bookm   58:65   S  '23  500w 

"He  has  a  gift  for  digging  up  the  real  ques- 
tion, and,  by  putting  it  concretely  before  us, 
for  starting  us  on  lines  of  speculation  which  are 
rarely  profitless.  On  serious  themes  he  is 
equally  free  from  ponderosity  and  affected  light- 


ness; the  two  chief  faults  which  themes  of  that 
kind  are  likely  to  provoke.  His  lighter  essays 
are  trivial;  yet  there  is  sufficient  sense  in  their 
triviality  to  make  them  quite  delightful.  But 
his  distinguishing  quality  as  an  essayist  is  an 
admirable  inability  to  be  foolish  and  banal,  even 
on  subjects  which  provoke  it;  and  that  is, 
indeed,    rare."     Edwin  Muir 

4-  Freeman  8:92  O  3  '23  720w 
"  'On  the  Margin'  is  a  scissors-and-paste 
book — a  mild,  pleasant,  graceful  patchwork  of 
different  odd  pieces  of  literary  material.  Noth- 
ing particularly  important,  but  everything  neat, 
pleasing,  in  order,  often  mildly  humorous — of 
Mr.     Huxley's     characteristic     flavor     hardly     a 

+' —  Lit    R  pl64   O   20  '23   300w 

"The  essays  are  written  with  a  great  deal  of 
skill  but  are  not  distinguished  by  choice  of  sub- 
ject. He  skims  over  life,  examining,  comment- 
ing with  suave  irony.  He  and  Max  Beerbohm 
are  almost  alone  in  modern  letters  in  reviving 
the  essay  from  its  state  of  neglect  and  in  mak- 
ing it  serve  as  a  medium  for  original  observa- 
tions upon  men  and  manners."  H.  I.  Young 
H Nation   117:530  N  7  '23  250w 

"His  erudition,  his  reading  at  least,  seems 
formidably  extensive,  but  he  employs  it  lightly 
and  always  with  a  genuine  relish  of  the  per- 
sonality it  expresses.  If  anyone  wanted  to  know 
why  Chaucer  was  worth  reading  to-day,  he 
would  not  find  a  more  acceptable  explanation 
than  Mr.  Huxley's  essay  on  the  subject.  The 
ability  to  animate  ideas,  particularly  literary 
ones,  is  a  rare  and  valuable  gift,  and  there  is 
no  doubt  that  Mr.  Huxley,  however  far  it  may 
have  been  from  his  intention,  is  one  of  the  best 
of  popularisers." 

+  New  Statesman  21:208  My  26  '23  680w 

"  'On  the  Margin'  gets  nowhere.  Mr.  Huxley 
doesn't  bring  the  reader  anything  particularly 
pleasing  or  new  or  important  either  in  foolery 
or  criticism.  It  is  a  distinct  let-down  after  the 
short  stories  contained  in  'Mortal  Coils.'  It  is 
to  be  suspected  that  it  is  a  book  that  would 
never  have  appeared  between  covers  had  not 
its  author  already  attained  an  appreciable  repu- 
tation." 

1-   N  Y  Times  pll  S  9  '23  650w 

"These  essays  are  so  obviously  day-to-day 
efforts  to  please  some  circle  of  weekly  readers, 
and  some,  such  as  the  one  on  Christopher 
Wrenn,  appear  to  have  been  written  on  assign- 
ment with  the  encyclopedia  open  by  the  type- 
writer. It  is  regrettable  that  a  man  who  has 
contributed  'Crome  Yellow'  to  the  humor  of 
our  literature  should  ever  have  a  weekly  stmt. 
Laurence  Stallings 

\-  U   y  World  pl9e  Jl  8  '23  150w 

"Thoughtfulness,  acquaintance  with  literature, 
good  humor,  good  sense  and  wit  that  is  neither 
too  self-conscious  nor  too  assertive,  richly  char- 
acterize  these   essays."  iirn„, 
+  Springf'd  Republican  p8  Ag  4  '23  1150w 

"Mr  Huxlev  can  be  fantastic  enough,  though 
his  is  never  the  fantasy  of  the  cloudy  dreamer, 
but  the  fantasy  of  a  thinker  whose  mind  is  en- 
chanted by  the  logical  development  of  a  happy 
thought;  but  his  clarity  was  never  better 
shown  than  in  this  collection  of  essays.  Some 
of  them  are  very  slight,  mere  jottings,  but  al- 
ways charming.  Even  in  his  lesser  marginalia 
he  has  a  winning  and  graceful  conversational 
manner.  But  there  are  other  essays  in  this 
book,  notably  the  first,  in  which  he  exhibits 
most  strikingly  his  admirable,  candid  attack 
upon  a  ^"bjectr ^^  [London]  Lit  Sup  p301  My 
3   '23   950w 

HUXLEY,  JULIAN  SORELL,  Essays  of  a  bio- 
logist. 304p  $2.50  Knopf  [7s  6d  Chatto  & 
W.] 

570.4  Biology.  Religion  and  science  23-16613 
Six  essays  reprinted  and  revised  from  var- 
ious magazines  are  here  brought  together  "The 
most  important  essays  are  the  first  and  the 
last.  In  the  first  the  author  traces  the  salient 
steps  in  evolution  in  the  attempt  to  show  how 


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HUXLEY,  JULIAN  SORELL — Continued 
the  facts  of  evolutionary  biology  provide  a  con- 
ception of  God  based  upon  external,  ascertain- 
able evidences.  The  last,  Religion  and  science, 
has  a  similar  theme,  that  the  physical  and  bio- 
logical sciences  provide  a  rational  basis  for 
what  have  heretofore  been  only  theological 
speculations.  "The  term  God,"  he  argues,  '"just 
as  much  as  the  terms  Energy  or  Justice,  has  a 
real  meaning  and  scientifically-based  sense." 
There  are  also  included  an  essay  on  the  mani- 
festation of  emotion  in  birds,  a  biologic  fan- 
tasy called  "Philosophic  ants,"  and  a  discussion 
of  sex  biology  and  sex  psychology. 


Boston   Transcript  p7   N   28   '23  800w 

"This  brilliant  book,  though  somewhat  dis- 
figxjred  by  overlapping  and  repetition  in  cer- 
tain parts,  is  one  of  the  most  suggestive  and 
enlightening  works  for  the  popularisation  of 
science  which  have  appeared  for  a  long  time. 
It  covers  a  wide  field,  and  Mr.  Huxley  shows 
himself  in  it  a  man  of  wide  interests,  many 
parts,  and  an  easy  and  attractive  style  of 
writing."      F.    S.   Marvin 

-i Nature  112:682  N  10  '23  6(K)w 

Reviewed  by  J:  M.  Clarke 

N   Y  Times  pl2  Ja  6  '24  lOOOw 

"Mr.  Huxley  maintains  the  balance  fairly 
between  fact  and  hypothesis  and  contents  him- 
self with  driving  through  this  vast  tangle  a 
number  of  paths  by  means  of  which  the  reader 
obtains  a  clear  insight  into  these  problems,  and 
Is  not  left  with  a  few  dogmatic  statements  and 
no  understanding.  By  thus  bringing  recent 
and  specialized  knowledge  within  the  range  of 
the  ordinary  thoughtful  person  he  has  placed  us 
in   his   debt." 

+  Spec    131:1033    D    29    '23    800w 

"Mr.  Huxley  is  impelled  to  a — necessarily — 
unsatisfactory  treatment  of  such  questions 
by  the  great  interest  he  has  in  them:  it  is  for 
himself,  not  his  reader,  that  he  writes  these 
essays.  And,  as  nearly  always  in  such  cases, 
the  reader  suffers.  It  is  very  much  easier 
going  for  the  reader  when  he  gets  on  to 
what  we  consider  the  finest  essay  in  the  book. 
'An  Essay  on  Bird-Mind.'  Here  the  trained 
naturalist  who  loves  his  subject  is  writing  with 
ease  and  freedom;  Mr.  Huxley's  prose  becomes 
an  altogether  different  thing  from  the  obscure 
and  often  strained  sentences  which  occur  so 
often    in    the    more    'philosophic'    essays." 

H The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p728  N  1 

■23    800w 

HUYSMANS,  JORIS  KARL.  Against  the  grain 
(A  rebours);  from  the  French  by  John 
Howard;  introd.  by  Havelock  Ellis.  331p  $3 
Lieber    &    Lewis 

22-20131 
"A  novel  which  has  been  called  the  Breviary 
of  the  Decadence.  .  .  Aestheticism,  or  decad- 
ence, or  I'art  pour  I'art,  or  the  interior  life,  is 
the  theme  of  A  Rebours.  Like  all  its  author's 
productions,  it  deals  with  a  situation,  expanded 
to  its  last  possibilities,  not  with  the  develop- 
ments arising  from  a  situation,  and  it  has  only 
one  character.  The  Due  des  Esseintes  is  the 
last  representative  of  his  race.  At  the  age  of 
thirty  he  has  simplified  his  philosophy  into  a 
complete  detestation  of  his  fellow-men.  and  is 
empty  of  desire  since  he  is  deprived  of  all 
vitality  save  a  febrile  loathing  for  mankind. 
Nevertheless  he  is  not  incapable  of  loving.  He 
loves  art — that  is.  the  art  of  other  men  and 
other  atres— l")ut  even  this  aesthetic  passion  is 
infected  by  his  disease.  In  the  first  chapter, 
he  retires  to  an  hermetical  house  in  a  desolate 
suburb  where  he  gives  himself  up  to  a  kind«  of 
ghastly  aestheticism,  amused  by  a  mouth- 
orchestra  composed  of  liquors,  a  concert  con- 
sisting of  perfumes,  a  mechanical  landscape, 
and  a  mock  sea." — Dial 


England.  .  .  It  is  impossible  to  speak  of  [the 
translation]  very  highly.  That  it  must  have 
been  a  labour  is  unquestionable,  that  it  was  a 
labour  of  love  is  evident,  but  the  liaison  be- 
tween the  translator  and  his  subject  is  not 
altogether  happy  regarded  as  a  work  of  art." 
Cuthbert  Wright 

H Dial    74:303    Mr    '23    2150w 

"A  curious,  ridiculous  and  puerile  book  which 
a    few   spirits   will   always   cherish   with   an   in- 
dulgent and  amused  affection."  Clarkson  Crane 
Freeman    6:428   Ja   10    '23   850w 

"It  is  a  melancholy  narrative;  not  wholly 
illuminating,  because  not  wholly  documented. 
In  'A  Rebours'  as  so  often  in  Poe,  the  trap- 
pings of  romance  have  overlaid  and  obscured 
the  story  and  weakened  whatever  emotions  are 
proper  to  it."  Glenway  Westcott 
Lit  R  p292  D  9  '22  410w 

"  'Against  the  Grain'  remains  the  most  con- 
sistent symbol  of  that  languor  and  tired  quest 
for  whipped-up  sensationalism  which  pervaded 
almost  the  whole  of  Europe  at  the  close  of  the 
nineteenth  century.  It  is  a  significant  book 
because  it  voices  this  invalidism  with  insight 
and  precision;  it  exhales  a  pallid  world-weary 
spirit;  it  is  beautiful  and  spotted  just  as  Huys- 
man's  soul  was  beautiful  and  spotted.  It  con- 
denses not  only  the  introverted  man,  but  the 
neurasthenic  age  in  which  he  lived."  Pierre 
Loving 

-I-  Nation  116:44  Ja  10  '23  1700w 

HUYSMANS,  JORIS  KARL.  Saint  Lydwine 
of  Schiedam;  tr.  from  the  French  by  Agnes 
Hastings.    252p    $2.50    Dutton   [6s  6d  K.  Paul] 

B  or  92  Lydwine,  Saint 
Among  the  lives  of  the  saints  there  are  few 
so  authenticated  as  the  life  of  Saint  Lydwine 
of  Schiedam,  Holland,  1380-1433,  which  has  been 
perpetuated  thru  the  accounts  of  three  con- 
temporaries: Jan  Gerlac,  Jan  Brugman  and 
Thomas  k  Kempis.  It  is  from  these  three  texts 
that  Huysmans  has  drawn  his  account  of  this 
much  venerated  mystic  who  was  called  upon 
to  suffer  every  imaginable  pain. 


"Though  not  one  of  the  more  important  of 
Huysmans'  books  Saint  Lydwine  holds  an  in- 
teresting position.  In  it  ...  he  shows  the  su- 
preme humiliation  of  his  reason  and  the 
triumph  of  faith.  Huysmans  is  not  a  tepid 
hagiographer;  once  he  believed  he  stopped  at 
nothing."     J.    E.    R. 

+  New  Statesman  21:86  Ap  28  '23  1600w 
"The  interest  of-  this  book  is  not  only  to  the 
devout  and  the  literary.  It  presents  a  very  re- 
markable but  not  uncommon  phenomenon  which 
the  materialist  would  dismiss  as  hallucination. 
More  significant  is  the  glimpse  it  gives  into  the 
mental  life  of  the  fourteenth  century,  when  the 
supernatural  was  the  most  natural  thing  in  the 
world." 

-f  Spec   130:892   My   26   '23   150w 


Cleveland    p66    S    '23 

"A  Rebours   is  not  only  a  very  precious  and 

remarkable  work  of  criticism,   but  it  has  had  a 

singular  influence  on  the  literaiy  psychology  of 

a  whole  generation,  not  only  in  France,  but  in 


IBN       GABIROL.      SOLOMON       BEN      JUDAH. 

Selected  religious  poems;  tr.  into  English 
verse  by  Israel  Zangwill  from  a  critical  text 
ed.  by  Israel  Davidson.  247p  $2.50  Jewish 
pub.      [12s    6d    Routledge] 

8y2.4  23-16999 

This  volume,  the  first  in  a  projected  series 
of  Jewish  classics,  is  a  selection  from  the  re- 
ligious poetry  of  Solomon  Ibn  Gabirol,  who 
flourished  in  the  golden  age  of  the  Spanish- 
Jewish  period.  Hebrew  text  and  English  trans- 
lation  are   given   on    parallel   pages. 


Cath   World   118:566   Ja   '24  200w 


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"With  remarkable  understanding  the  trans- 
lator penetrates  into  the  philosophic  depths  of 
the  poetry;  with  true  sincerity  he  reproduces 
its  religious  exaltation;  with  great  skill  he 
preserves  the  biblical  flavor  of  the  original.  He 
has  succeeded  in  translating  beautiful  Hebrew 
into  beatiful  English — a  task  whose  difficulty 
is  enhanced  by  the  characteristic  picturesque 
brevity  of  expression  of  the  Hebrew  language." 
S.   N.   Brainin 

+  N    Y    Times   p6   O    28   '23    ISOOw 

"These  poems,  appearing  in  English  for  the 
first  time,  must  now  be  considered  as  an  im- 
portant addition  to  our  literature.  There  is  no 
need  of  new  evaluation;  Gabirol  has  held  the 
esteem  of  those  who  knew  his  work  for  900 
years.  And  the  translation  is  adequate,  al- 
though it  is  at  first  just  a  little  disconcerting 
to  see  the  stately  English  of  the  King  James 
version  of  the  Bible  tripping  along  in  meter 
and   rhyme."    C.    E.    N. 

-f   N    Y   World   p7e   N   4   '23   720w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p854  D  6 
•23  70 w 

INGALESE,  RICHARD.    Greater  mysteries.  330p 

$2.50      Dodd     [12s    6d    Fowler] 
133     Occult  sciences  23-8168 

This  book  on  occultism  is  a  revised  and  en- 
larged and  rechristened  edition  of  an  earlier 
book  entitled  "Cosmogony  and  evolution"  and 
now  out  of  print.  Contents:  The  creative  gods; 
The  seven  cosmic  periods  of  evolution;  The 
seven  planets  of  evolution;  The  seven  cosmic 
forces;  The  seven  planes  of  our  world;  The 
seven  ages  of  the  earth;  Fatalism.  Karma  and 
free  will;  Immortality;  Along  the  path;  A  mes- 
sage;   Index. 


INGERSOLL,    ERNEST.    Birds   in   legend,    fable 

and  folklore.  292p  $3  Longmans 

398  Birds — Legends  and  stories  23-17974 

"A  treasury  of  legends,  beliefs  and  fancies  in 
which  birds  are  concerned,  illustrating  the  ex- 
traordinarily varied  ways  in  which  birds  have 
appealed  to  men  in  the  past.  The  author  in 
studying  the  subject  in  history  and  folklore 
has  gathered  not  only  a  collection  of  supersti- 
tions and  absurdities  regarding  the  nature,  ha- 
bits and  spiritual  influence  of  birds,  but  has 
explained  the  often  obscure  origin  of  these  no- 
tions, and  their  survival  in  poetry  and  prov- 
erbs,  and  in  the  symbols  of  religion  and  art. 
He  finds  curious  parallelisms  in  myth  and  leg- 
end among  peoples  widely  separated,  discloses 
unsuspected  relations  to  familiar  ideas,  and 
makes  clear  literary  allusions  and  common 
sayings  that  few  but  scholars  understand." — 
Publisher's   note 


"The  book  is  worth  reading  by  old  and 
young.  The  elders  will  be  glad  to  have  some 
of  their  observations  verified;  the  youth  will 
be  delighted  to  acquire  so  much  information 
so   easily  and    so  pleasantly." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  D  12  '23  400w 
"Mr.  Ingersoll  is  especially  well  fitted  to  un- 
dertake a  task  of  this  kind,  which  calls  for 
wide  and  varied  knowledge  of  both  birds  and 
books.  The  volume  he  has  produced  is  scholar- 
ly in  its  widely  ranging  references  to  the  stores 
of  fables  and  fancies  that  have  been  gathered 
together  from  all  the  ends  of  the  earth,  vital 
all  through  with  wisdom  of  men  and  animals, 
and  entertaining  from  first  to  last  because  the 
author  has  himself  been  interested  in  his  narra- 
tive and  has  imbued  it  with  his  own  lively  feel- 
ing for  its  quaint  theme." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl4  D  2  '23  550w 
"It  is  one  of  the  great  merits  of  Mr.  Inger- 
soll's  admirably  written  volume  that  he  does 
not  grow  scientific,  but  compiles  his  tales  on 
their  merits  as  imagery  or  superstition.  The 
birds  get  full  credit  for  their  deeds  and  powers. 
A  book  that  deserves  to  be  widely  read  and 
one  that  will  richly  reward  the  reader."  J.  O. 
Swift 

4-  N  Y  World  p7e  D  16  '23  460w 


INTERNATIONAL  ASSOCIATION  OF  MASTER 
HOUSE  PAINTERS  AND  DECORATORS  OF 
THE       UNITED      STATES      AND      CANADA. 

Painting  and  decorating  working  methods;  ed. 
by  F.  N.  Vanderwalker.  282p  il  $2  McGhan, 
A.    H. 

698    Painting,    Industrial  22-18901 

"A  text  book  for  the  apprentice  and  journey- 
man   house    painter   and   decorator." — Subtitle 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:355   JI   '23 

IRVINE,   ALEXANDER    FITZGERALD.  Yankee 
with  the  soldiers  of  the  king.   225p  $2  Dutton 
940.477    European    war,     1914-1919 — Personal 
narratives  23-9950 

Dr  Irvine  had  been  active  here  as  a  religious 
and  social  worker  before  going  to  England,  in 
1916,  a  self-appointed  representative  of  the 
United  States  to  Great  Britain  and  morale 
raiser  for  the  British  army.  He  began  his  work 
there  at  the  gates  of  the  factories  and  soon 
after  was  sent  to  France  under  Y.M.C.A.  aus- 
pices to  talk  to  the  men  in  the  front  line 
trenches,  to  cheer  them  for  the  work  ahead 
and  inspire  them  with  the  will-to-win.  When 
the  war  was  over  he  visited  the  chief  industrial 
centers  of  England  and  talked  to  the  workers, 
pleading  for  unity  of  purpose  and  a  more  spiri- 
tual interpretation  of  life  and  labor.  The  book 
is  the  account  of  his  experiences  during  these 
five   years. 

"It  is  a  strange  book,  artless  and  by  reason 
of  its  very  freedom  from  all  literary  artifice, 
vividly  interesting  and  convincing."  H:  L. 
Stuart 

+   N  Y  Times  pl8  Jl  29  '23  1600w 

"Mr  Irvine's  instinctive  delight  in  shinning  up 
the  perpendicular  pronoun  and  standing  jubi- 
lantly tiptoe  on  that  personal  mountain  top  is 
as  free  from  offence  as  any  performance  of  like 
nature  one  has  ever  seen.  We  would  willingly 
join  the  gallery  gods  in  stamping  and  shouting 
out   for   more." 

Springf'd    Republican   p7a  Jl   8   '23   210w 

IRWIN,  FLORENCE.  Holding  hands;  three- 
score-and-ten  auction  hands.  159, 77p  il  $1.75 
Putnam 

795      Auction    bridge  23-6195 

The  writer  teaches  the  game  by  means  of 
a  series  of  seventy  interesting  and  representa- 
tive hands  illustrating  important  points  in  the 
bid  and  in  the  play.  Each  hand  is  illustrated 
and  a  page  of  advice  given  on  how  it  should 
be  played.  The  laws  of  auction  are  included, 
together   with   the   etiquette   of  the  game. 


"A    manual     of     sound    advice    to   all    auction 
players." 

-I-    Lit    R  p932  Ag   25   '23  200w 
"Very  able  discussion  of  three  score  and  ten 
auction   bridge   hands." 

4-  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ap  29  '23  80w 

IRWIN,         WALLACE         ADMAH  (GINGER, 

pseud.).   Lew   Tyler's  wives.     384p  $2   Putnam 

23-12454 
Lewis  Kensington  Tyler  had  more  charm 
than  character,  and  it  was  his  charm  that 
gave  him  his  power  over  women.  Kind-hearted, 
quickly  repentant  and  a  splendid  entertainer, 
he  held  his  little  wife,  Jessie,  spell-bound 
for  a  number  of  years,  altho  she  knew  that 
he  deceived  her  in  many  matters,  had  an  af- 
fair with  her  friend,  Coleen,  and  drank  in- 
ordinately. It  was  not  till  after  the  death  of 
her  second  baby  that  her  patience  was  ex- 
hausted and  she  left  and  divorced  him.  The 
shock  sobered  Lew  and  when,  after  the  war,  he 
married  Virginia  Philips,  the  memory  of  Jessie 
made  him  a  better  husband  to  the  new  wife. 
For  the  fir.'^t  time  in  his  life  he  felt  a  sense 
of   responsibility. 


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IRWIN,    WALLACE   ADM  AH — Continued 

"The  story  has  the  semi-saving  grace  of  a 
style  which  now  and  then  becomes  inevitably 
brilliant.  And  there  is  no  denying  that  Mr. 
Irwin  has  sketched  his  characters  so  completely 
that  ihey  are  already  easily  visible  on  the 
screen.  But  cheapness  pervades  the  whole — 
the  cheapness  of  a  hackneyed  plot  turning 
with  cinema  precision  to  the  tearful  meeting 
in  the  hospital.  One  weeps,  indeed,  but  one 
weeps  for  Mr.    Irwin."   C.    B.   O. 

\-   Boston   Transcript   p4   S   22   '23   600w 

"Altogether  it  is  an  entertaining  book,  inter- 
esting both  as  a  social  document  and  as  a  piece 
of  craftsmanship — not  a  great  book,  but  entirely 
too  good  to  be  passed  up  by  the  novel-reader 
who  likes  to  keep  abreast  of  the  modern  field." 

-i Greensboro  (N.C.)   Daily  News  plO  O  21 

•23  550w 

"  'Lew  Tyler's  Wives'  is  by  far  the  most 
serious  effort  thus  far  made  by  Mr.  Irwin,  and 
while  critical  readers  may  be  able  to  make 
minor  points  against  the  book — as,  for  example, 
that  it  is  full  of  errors  due  to  careless  proof- 
reading, and  that  the  author's  two  or  three 
bursts  into  the  first  person  tend  to  jar  the 
reader's  thought  away  from  the  tale  and  toward 
the  manner  of  its  creation — still,  these  are  small 
matters  by  comparison  with  Mr.  Irwin's  sound 
achievement."      Julian    Street 

-\ Int   Bk   R  pl8   O   '23  900w 

"It  is  particularly  satisfying  to  find  a  novel 
dealing  with  marriage  today  which  sees  in  the 
relationship  something  more  than  a  physiologi- 
cal affair.  It  is  there  that  Mr.  Irwin  shows  the 
clear  vision  and  the  depth  of  understanding 
that  lift  the  book  quite  out  of  the  common- 
place."    H.    L.    Pangborn 

+   Lit  R  p45  S  15  '23  550w 

"  'Lew  Tyler's  Wives'  is  far  and  away  above 
the  average  run  of  stories.  And  if  not  so 
finished  a  piece  of  work  as  one  would  like  to 
see  it  has  the  merit  of  being  likely  to  arouse 
discussion.  Moreover,  Wallace  Irwin  shows  a 
capacity  for  descriptive  writing — when  the  story 
permits — which  astonishes.  The  story  through- 
out is  wholesome — if  it  errs  it  is  on  the  side 
Of  pointing  a  moral.  And  the  response  it  evokes 
is  genuinely  human." 

-) NY  Times  plO  S  16  '23  950w 

"The   book   is   less   than   brilliant,    but   it   is   a 
fine  and  stalwart  achievement  and  nothing  more 
honestly   told  and  devised   has   been   seen   here- 
about this  season."     Heywood  Broun 
+   N    Y   World   pll   O   6    '23   300w 

"  'Lew  Tyler's  Wives'  in  its  early  chapters 
impresses  one  as  dealing  with  the  surface  of 
life  rather  than  the  depths — all,  to  be  sure  in 
an  entertaining  and  lively  way.  As  the  story 
goes  on,  however,  and  especially  in  the  part 
relating  to  Lew's  second  wife,  the  author  de- 
velops a  strength  in  presenting  life's  actualities 
and  in  the  working  out  of  character  under 
stress  and  strain  that  gives  his  book  a  right 
to  be  classed  with  the  fiction  that  is  to  be 
taken   seriously."      R.    D.    Townsend 

^ Outlook    135:150    S    26    '23    160w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p773  N  15 
'23  270w 

IRWIN,  WALLACE  ADMAH  (GINGER, 
pseud.).  More  letters  of  a  Japanese  schoolboy. 
137p  il   $1.50   Putnam 

817  23-14227 

These  sketches  have  already  appeared  in  the 
Sunday  World.  In  them  Hashimura  Togo  com- 
ments with  his  usual  quaint  use  of  the  English 
idiom  upon  several  subjects  of  present  day  in- 
terest. Contents:  What  is  etiquette?  Golf 
champings;  The  radio  age;  Charity  drives: 
What  the  well  dressed  man  will  wear:  Off  with 
the  dance;  Sigh-'kick  phenomena;  The  dangers 
of  baseballing;  Presidential  umpossibilities;  The 
call  of  the  great  outdoors;  The  European  situa- 
tion;  The  vice  presidency. 


not  let  us  discourage  the  reader,  for  this  book 
is  excellent  if  you  happen  to  like  the  Hashi- 
mura Togo  idiom." 

1-   Boston  Transcript  p4  O  20  '23  300w 

"Togo  is  so  old  a  friend  that  he  is  welcome, 
even  if  his  observations  have  not  quite  the 
freshness  and  surprise  of  his  earlier  outpour- 
ings." 

H Lit    R   p447   Ja  12   '24   90w 

"He  is  now  in  the  class  with  Mr.  Dooley  and 
Ring  Lardner.  Heretofore  all  his  Oriental  com- 
mentaries were  taken  as  ridiculous  efforts  at 
orientation  into  our  Occidental  society,  excruci- 
atingly funny.  Now  he  must  be  taken  serious- 
ly.    He  has   something  to   say." 

-f   N  Y  Times  p3  O  28  '23  600w 

"Mr.  Irwin  contributes  lightheartedness  and 
hreeziness,  but  he  is  certainly  not  a  first-rate 
satirist.  It  should  be  added,  too,  that  Togo  is 
not  quite  conventionalized.  He  is  himself,  and 
he  has  many  admirers."  Leo  Markun 
-I NY  Tribune  pl8  D  2  '23  280w 

"Mr.  Irwin  is  always  clever  and  amusing.  His 
satire  is  admirable  and  his  points  are  well  tak- 
en." 

-f  N    Y   World   p6e  N   4  '23   40w 

IRWIN,    WILL.      Christ    or    Mars?      18&p      $1.50 

Appleton 

172.4     War  23-13034 

A  powerful  indictment  of  war  and  of  the 
failure  of  the  church  to  prevent  it.  Mr  Irwin 
first  records  the  church's  views  on  war  thru 
the  centuries  and  examines  the  ideal  of  chivalry, 
with  its  code  of  "civilized  warfare,"  which  the 
church  built  up.  Then  he  turns  to  those  aspects 
of  war  which  are  of  particular  concern  to 
Christianity — the  hate  which  war  engenders  and 
the  means  by  which  this  is  kept  active,  the 
moral  confusion  which  results  from  it  and  its 
corruption  of  a  whole  rising  generation.  He 
calls  on  the  church  to  determine  the  causes  of 
war  and  to  eliminate  them  from  the  human 
heart  and  from  society;  to  start  the  work  of 
educating  people,  from  childhood,  in  the  illusion 
and    immorality    of    war. 


Bookm    58:581    Ja    '24    220w 
"A    little    of    this    sort    of    thln^   goes    a    long 
way.      The   letters,    the   spelling  and   the   forced 
humor  do  not  make  very  lively  reading.  But  do 


"His  arguments  are  simple  and  clear  and  un- 
prejudiced, and  one  hopes  that  he  is  not  over- 
optimistic  in  his  belief  that  war  can  be  stopped 
and   that   America   can   stop  it." 

+  Bookm  58:581  Ja  '24  190w 
"Has  the  same  qualities  of  vivid  appeal  and 
compelling  sincerity  which  attracted  so  much 
attention  to  its  predecessor.  It  seems  ungra- 
cious to  break  in  on  his  passionate  sermon  with 
a  word  of  critical  comment,  nevertheless,  in 
the  interest  of  the  cause  which  he  has  at  heart 
such  comment  ought  not  to  be  withheld.  To 
begin  with,  the  volume  is  misnamed."  A.  E. 
Zimmern 

H Lit   R  p335  D  8  '23  480w 

Reviewed  bv  Robert  Herrick 

Nation  117:654  D  5  '23  950w 
"Mr.    Irwin    challenges    the    Church    with    the 
task  of  creating  the   necessary  moral   force   for 
peace,  in  a  manner  which  should  compel  the  at- 
tention of  liberal  thinkers  everywhere."  C.  R.  B. 
+  New   Repub   36:262  O  31  '23    80w 
"The  evidence  presented  in   Mr.   Irwin's  book 
is  convincing.   .  .  The  book  challenges  indirectly 
every  civilized  citizen.     Most  of  us  would  profit 
by    reading   it,    although    it    is    regrettable    that 
the    fervor    of    the    author    occasionally    sweeps 
him    into    assertions    that    are    doubtful    if    not 
ridiculous."     J.    G. 

_| NY  World  p7e  O  28  '23  550w 

"A  large  part  of  Mr  Irwin's  book  is  devoted 
to  the  dernonstration  of  the  obvious,  that  war 
is  the  height  of  folly  and  cruelty,  that  it  ceases 
to  pay  even  the  victors,  that  unless  abolished  it 
will  destroy  civilization.  Yet  he  does  well  to 
remind  us  of  these  things.  He  has  power  as 
a  writer  a'nd  is  to  be  congratulated  on  using 
it    as    he    does." 

H Springf'd   Republican   plO  O  24  '23  550w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p755  N  8 
'23   lOOw 

Wis   Lib   Bul   19:478  N  '23 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


261 


ISLES  of  illusion;  letters  from  the  South  Seas; 

ed.    by    Bohun    Lynch.       334p      il      $3      Small 

[7s  6d    Constable] 
919.34    New  Hebrides — Description  and  travel 

23-14683 

"This  is  a  collection  of  letters  written  to  Mr. 
Lynch  by  a  friend  who  went  out  to  the  South 
Seas.  They  cover  the  years  1912  to  1920  and 
form  a  very  frank  statement  of  what  the 
writer  saw,  felt  and  thought  during  these 
years,  years  of  exile  and  adventure.  The 
writer,  who  prefers  to  remain  anonymous, 
shows  himself  to  be  a  person  of  no  ordinary 
temperajnent,  and  does  not  disguise  his  various 
reactions  to  the  life  he  deliberately  chose  for 
himself.  Sometimes  he  admits  to  being  com- 
pletely satisfied  with  the  'lotus-eating'  existence 
of  the  islands,  and  scorns  Europe  and  its  civili- 
zation; at  other  times  he  curses  the  Pacific, 
its  islands  and  all  their  works,  and  longs  for 
a  return  to  England  and  the  life  he  once  knew. 
But  everywhere  he  is  nothing  if  not  frank,  as- 
sertive   and   picturesque." — Spec 


Boston    Transcript   p2    O    20   '23    650w 
"It  is   sad,   but  it  is   to  me  perhaps  the  most 
interesting    of   all    the    recent    South    Sea   books 
— the  most    interesting  because  the  most  real." 
Raymond   Holden 

+  Lit  R  pl44  O  20  •23'  450w 
"Why  bother  with  him  or  his  book?  Because 
in  addition  to  giving  us  shrewdly  intelligent 
first-hand  information,  candor  of  this  sort,  if 
more  often  indulged,  would  s»on  destroy  what- 
ever rags  and  tatters  are  left  of  the  White 
Man's  Burden  myth.  Far  more  important,  the 
book  contains  a  great  portrait.  For  eight  years 
its  subject  defied  disease,  appalling  loneliness, 
madness  itself,  in  his  effort  to  win  through 
to  a  comprehension  of  things,  being  in  search 
not  so  much  of  the  illusively  desirable  South 
Sea  Island  as  of  his  own  soul.  And  in  the 
end  he  finds  the  two  together."  A.  B.  Parsons 
+  Nation  117:494  O  31  '23  580w 
New  Repub  37:50  D  5  '23  lOOw 
"He  has  the  rare  faculty  of  being  able  to 
face  unpleasant  facts  squarely,  but  in  his  case 
it  is  apparently  inseparable  from  a  hardness 
and  a  lack  of  sympathy  that  must  detract  from 
the  value  of  his  judgments  of  other  people. 
The  letters,  however,  are  of  absorbing  interest." 

-I New   Statesman    21:576   Ag   25    '23    600w 

"The  book  is  very  interesting  in  the  intimate, 
unadorned  glimpses  it  gives  of  native  life,  of 
the  white  men  of  various  nationalities  with 
whom  he  came  in  contact,  of  the  influence  of 
each  upon  the  other  and  in  its  colorful  descrip- 
tions. The  sense  of  actuality  it  conveys,  the 
surety  that  here  is  a  man  who  writes  exactly 
what  he  saw,  with  no  glossing  for  literary  effect 
and  with  no  toning  down  or  up  for  general  read- 
ing, with  a  comfortable  feeling  of  confidence 
that  here  is  truth  unadulterated  with  romantic 
glamour." 

-h   N   Y  Times  pl8   O   14   '23  950w 
Reviewed    by    Eva    Goldbeck 

N   Y  Tribune   p20  N   4  '23   1150w 
"His  letters  are  at  once  an  entertaining  record 
of  travel  and  the  revelation  of  unusual  person- 
ality." 

+  Spec  131:293   S  1   '23   150w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p435    Je 
28  '23  lOSOw 


JACKS.  LAWRENCE  PEARSALL.  Legends  of 
Smokeover.  324p  $4  Doran  [12s  6d  Hodder  & 
S.] 

"The  novel  comes  from  the  pen  of  the  prin- 
cipal of  Manchester  College.  Oxford,  and  editor 
of  the  Hibbert  Journal,  who  has  clothed  his 
philosophical  ideals  in  something  which  is  not 
quite  an  allegory  and  even .  less  an  ordinary 
novel.  Under  the  name  of  'The  Legends  of 
Smokeover'  he  giyes  a  picture  of  the  condition 


of  the  post-war  world  in  a  great  industrial  city, 
and  finally  presents  an  idealistic  plan  for  the 
amelioration  of  society.  This  rather  large  and 
unwieldly  volume  contains  a  remarkable  exposi- 
tion of  Mr.  Jacks's  philosophical  ideas." — Lit  R 

"Dr.  Jacks,  in  spite  of  his  clerical  and  aca- 
demic position,  approaches  his  subject  from  the 
point  of  view  of  a  cultured  man  of  the  WQrld 
rather  than  that  of  theology  or  philosophy;  and 
his  imagination  is  suffused  by  a  delightful  and 
subtle  satirical  humor  such  as  we  rarely  find 
in  parson  or  professor."  J.  F.  Muirhead 
+  Ind  109:172  S  30  '22  1350w 

"Though  we  may  question  his  wisdom  in  hav- 
ing chosen  this  rather  curious  form  of  fiction 
in  which  to  convey  his  views,  the  book  is  worth 
careful  reading  and  reflection."  Mrs  St  Loe 
Strachey 

-I Lit   R   p433  F  18  '22  120w 

"Dr.  Jacks  produces  a  queerly  interesting 
vehicle  for  his  criticism  of  life.  The  sharpest 
realism  jostles  against  the  wildest  romance,  and 
a  rollicking  humor  against  the  most  pungent 
satire.  There  is  plenty  of  philosophy  and  high 
politics  conveyed  in  impetuous  dialogue,  and  the 
whole  is  woven  together  under  a  spell  of  whim- 
sical mysticism  with  figures  and  even  a  literary 
technique  of  its  own.  This  blend  defies  all 
classification:  it  is  simply  the  characteristic 
expression  of  its  maker,  one  of  the  great 
humanists  of  our  time  and  country."  J.  A.  H. 
-t-   Nation   and  Ath  30:562  Ja  7  '22  1500w 

"Through  all  the  dreamlike  unreality  of  epi- 
sode the  book  is  a  feast  of  reason.  All  the 
characters  talk  philosophy — most  of  them  un- 
consciously, and  all  of  the  discourse  is  fiavored 
with  the  mild  bouquet  of  academic  wit  and  with 
the  good  humor  of  a  professor  who  can  refer 
to  the  lore  of  his  profession  as  the  tunes  phi- 
losophers have  whistled  to  keep  their  courage 
up  as  they  pass  the  cemetery.  Beyond  this, 
the  liook  is  suffused  with  an  ethereal  beauty 
of  phrase  that  is  the  natural  medium  of  a  high 
and   fine  idealism."   C.   E.   Ayres 

-f-   New  Repub  33:230  Ja  24  '23  1300w 

"The  first  thing  that  will  strike  the  reader 
about  Mr.  Jacks'  Legends  of  Smokeover  is 
probably  the  charming  urbanity  of  the  book. 
It  is  a  piece  of  work  very  difficult  to  classify, 
being  neither  a  philosophical  treatise,  nor  quite 
a  series  of  parables,  nor  quite  a  novel,  though 
it  contains  elements  from  all  these  kinds.  A 
book  like  Smokeover  may  aid  the  progress  of 
philosophic  reasoning  more  than  a  profounder 
treatise  which  is  made  inaccessible  by  the  tech- 
nicality of  its  language." 

+   Spec  128:118  Ja  28   '22  1050w 

"This  is  no  dry  treatise,  rather  a  story  of 
engrossing  interest  even  though  it  exceeds  the 
length  of  the  average  novel,  and  though  the 
author's  gift  of  characterization  and  of  narra- 
tive occasionally  fails  him  at  a  crucial  point. 
The  plot  of  the  story,  if  there  is  one,  is  its 
weakest  part."  B.   L. 

H Survey  49:808  Mr  15   '23  450w 

"The  satirist,  however  he  may  pile  absurdit.v 
upon  absurdity,  must  make  us  feel,  by  a  singl't 
phrase,  by  a  single  word,  that  his  eye  is  all 
the  time  fixed  upon  the  truth.  He  must  be 
concentrated  and  passionate  inwardly,  however 
freakish  he  may  appear  on  the  surface.  But 
Professor  Jacks  is  freakish  without  being  pas- 
sionate. The  meanings  are  so  many;  the  alle- 
gories so  prolific,  the  symbolism  so  incessant 
that  at  last  we  give  up  looking  for  a  meaning 
and  let  the  entertainment  proceed.  All  we  can 
vouch  for  is  that  everything  has  a  meaning; 
that  significant  phrases,  witty  phrases,  sugges- 
tive phrases  are  sprinkled  so  thick  that  it  i."' 
a  thousand  pities  that  we  should  get  tired  be- 
fore we  have  picked  them  all  up." 

—  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p840  D  15 
'21   950w 

"The  book  is  not  intended  for  those  who  de- 
sire only  to  while  away  lazily  the  passing  hours. 
It  stimulates  thought;  it  provokes  discussion; 
and,  after  all,  these  are  among  the  best  things 
that  a  good  book  can  do.  .  .  The  cleverness  of 
the  author  is  perhaps  best  revealed  in  his 
ability  to  use,    as  constructive  agencies  for  the 


262 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


JACKS,    LAWRENCE   PEARSALL — Continued 
accomplishment    of    desired    reform,     the    very 
persons,  organizations,  and  conditions  which  he 
ha^    so    recently    and    successfully    held    up    to 
ridicule."  A.  E.  Stearns 

+  Yale  R  n  s  12:668  Ap  '23  850w 

JACKS,    LAWRENCE    PEARSALL.        Religious 
perplexities.  92p  $1  Doran  [2s  6d  Hodder  &  S.] 
230      Religion.      Christianity  23-9473 

This  inspiring  little  book,  by  the  editor  of  the 
Hibbert  journal  discusses  some  of  the  underly- 
ing religious  perplexities:  the  mysterious  fact 
of  our  existence  as  individual  souls;  the  prob- 
lem of  disbelief  and  the  difficulty  of  faith;  how 
the  apparent  failure  of  Christianity  can  be  made 
to  consist  with  the  persistence  of  the  hopes 
placed  in  it.  The  book  is  a  challenge  to  courage 
rather  than  an  apology,  religion  in  the  author's 
definition  being  a  "power  which  develops  the 
hero  in  the  inan  at  the  expense  of  the  coward." 


Booklist  20:38  N  '23 
Reviewed  by  F.  W.  Collier 

Boston  Transcript  p5  JI  21  '23  1550w 
"An   unusually   stimulating  little   book." 
+  J    Religion  3:447  Jl  "23   30w 

N    Y   World  p9e  Ap  22  '23   60w 

"The  perplexities  with  which  these  lectures 
deal  are  religious,  not  ecclesiastical;  primary, 
not  secondary;  and  faced,  not  evaded:  the  book 
appeals  to  the  lay  mind.  It  deals,  in  fact,  with 
some  of  the  central  problems  of  religion  in  gen- 
eral and  Christianity  in  particular;  and  it  will 
come  as  a  relief  to  those  who,  while  dissatisfied 
with  the  thinness  of  modern  theology,  are  con- 
sciously or  unconsciously,  seekers  after  God." 
+  Spec  130:104  Ja  20  '23  320w 

"It  is  a  work  permeated  with  Dr  Jack's 
characteristic  freshness  of  thought  and  lan- 
guage." 

+  Springf  d  Republican  pl2  Ap  17  '23  700w 

"Dr.  Jacks  always  writes  with  vigour  and 
freshness,  and  the  distinction  of  thought  and 
style  which  we  expect  from  him  appears 
throughout  this  little  book.  In  it  he  asks  not 
'What  is  Christianity?'  but  'What  is  religion?'; 
and,  whether  we  agree  or  not  with  the  answer 
which  he  gives,  the  way  in  which  he  treats 
his  subject  is  both  significant  and  valuable. 
His  little  book,  its  simplicity  and  spiritual 
power,   is  profoundly  suggestive." 

-I-  The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p717   N  9 
'22  14.50W 

JACKSON,    HENRY    EZEKIEL.      Robinson   Cru- 
soe,    social    engineer.      301p    $3    Dutton 

331.x     Industry.     Labor  and  laboring  classes 

22-2336G 
The  thesis  of  the  book  is  stated  in  the  sub- 
title: "how  the  discovery  of  Robinson  Crusoe 
solves  the  labor  problem  and  opens  the  path 
to  industrial  peace."  Part  one — The  secret  of 
Robinson  Crusoe's  popularity — relates  the  main 
incidents  of  Defoe's  life  that  led  up  to  the 
writing  of  Crusoe,  pointing  out  the  artistic 
qualities  of  the  book  and  the  secret  of  its 
success.  Part  two — Robinson  Crusoe's  chal- 
lenge to  modern  industry — describes  the  labor 
conditions  created  by  the  industrial  revolution 
and  shows  how,  by  contrast,  Crusoe's  mode  of 
life  is  a  challenge  to  our  civilization.  Part 
three — How  Robinson  Crusoe  solves  the  labor 
problem — continues  the  .luthor's  critical  survey 
of  modern  conditions  and  offers  a  bill  of  par- 
ticulars for  the  creation  of  a  new  industrial 
America  on  the  manhood  principle.  Frequent 
quotations  from  other  writers  and  recourse  to 
parables  add  to  the  interest  of  the  book.  Ref- 
erences,  index. 


"  'Robinson  Crusoe — Social  Engineer'  is  an  en- 
tertaining book,  and  as  such  will  win  readers 
by  its  very  ebullience,  readers  of  the  sort  that 
might  sheer  off  from  more  weigiity  treatises 
upon  the  same  theme.  .  .  The  book  gives  no 
marked  impression  of  depth,  but  the  sparkle  of 
its  idea-stream  is  beyond  dispute.  And  it 
sounds,  too,  a  generous  and  lofty  note  through- 
out, a  faith  that  all  good  things  are  not  only 
possible  but  actually  imminent."  Arthur 
Pound 

-1 Lit    R   p626   Ap   21   '23    550w 

"Let  us  not  ignore  the  many  engaging  quali- 
ties of  this  very  earnest  essay.  The  interpreta- 
tion of  Defoe,  which  occupies  the  first  ten  of 
its  thirty  chapters,  is  vivid  and  in  the  main 
convincing  as  to  the  sociologic  implications  of 
that  philosophic  romance  which  sociologists 
have  permitted  to  be  "captured  by  boys.'  The 
second  ten  chapters,  which  contrast  the  life 
of  the  modern  factory  worker  with  that  of 
the  free  and  self-sufficing  manual  laborer  of 
old,  present  once  again,  and  very  eloquently, 
the  indictment  of  reason  and  humanity  against 
the  modern  enslavement  of  the  worker  to  the 
machine.  It  is  Mr.  Jackson's  solution  of  the 
problem,  contained  in  his  last  ten  chapters, 
that    makes    one    stare    and    gasp."       J:    Corbin 

[-   N    Y    Times    p6    D    17    '22    1250w 

N    Y    Tribune    p31    Ja   28    '23    780w 

JACKSON,    HOLBROOK.       Occasions.      197p     $2 

Scribner        [7s    6d    G.    Richards] 
824 

"A  pleasant  voluine  of  collected  essays,  the 
work  of  an  experienced  hand.  The  essays 
are  gathered  under  four  headings — 'Landmarks,' 
'Prejudices,'  'Adventures,'  and  'Books' — and  the 
contents  list  is  very  inviting,  for  Mr.  Jackson 
is  cunning  in  his  choice  of  titles.  He  has 
wide  reading  and  knows  what  and  when  to 
quote  (one  essay,  'The  Pathos  of  Profanity,' 
is    a    mine    of    good    anecdote.)" — Spec 


"Mr.  Jackson  is  so  evidently  sincere  in  his 
intention  to  correlate  Defoe  and  modern  soci- 
ological advancement,  that  one  must  take  his 
book  seriously.  But  it  would  have  been  much 
better  rn  leave  Robinson  to  the  tender  mercies 
of  his  i.sland.  and  to  talk  straight  from  the 
shoulder  instead  of  practising  philosophical 
ventriloquism." 

1-   Bookm    56:770    P    '23    250w 


Bookm  57:341  My  '23  200w 
"Content  to  write  only  of  what  pleases  him, 
Mr  Jackson  yet  assumes  advocacy  for  none  of 
his  subjects;  and,  since  he  does  not  seek  to 
advertise,  he  has  no  need  of  a  garish  style. 
His  epigrams  are  concentrations  of  judicious  re- 
flection tempered  by  humour,  his  prose  is  the 
unforced  and  well-modulated  expression  of  his 
thoughts." 

+   Dial    74:415   Ap   '23    150w 
Reviewed  by  E.   L.    Pearson 

Ind    110:25    Ja    6    '23    250w 
Int    Bk    R    p56    Ag   '23    200w 
Lit   R  p490   F  24   '23   70w 
Reviewed  by  Rex  Hunter 

Nation  117:121  Ag  1  '23  350w 
New  Statesman  20:supxiv  D  2  '22  40w 
"Here  will  be  found  wit  in  abundance.  Not 
the  boisterous  laughter  of  the  comic  stage,  but 
pervasive,  urbane  humor,  which  is  combined, 
on  occasion,  with  scintillating  epigram.  Phi- 
losophy there  is,  but  not  metaphysics,  and 
never  too  much.  There  is  erudition,  when 
erudition  is  demanded.  And,  most  important 
of  all,  the  essays  make  contact  with  life  at 
a   thousand   points." 

+  N  Y  Times  p9  Ja  14  '23  llOOw 
"Neither  in  matter  nor  manner  has  he  suf- 
ficient distinction  to  lift  his  work  above  the 
general  level  of  mere  pleasant  book-making. 
His  essays  do  not  suggest  a  personality;  they 
are  merely  faint  echoes  of  other  personalities, 
and  have  that  forced  playfulness  and  that  'for- 
sooth' manner  which  are  too  often  the  curse 
of    work    of    this    sort." 

h   Spec    130:26    Ja    G    '23    80w 

The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p805    D 
7    '22    lOOOw 

JACKSON,   SIR    THOMAS   GRAHAM,    1st    bart. 

Renaissance  of  Roman  architecture.  2  pts  200; 
200p  11  ea  $10.50  Univ.  of  Chicago  press  [42s 
Cambridge  univ.  press] 

724.1     Architecture,   Renaissance       [22-9634] 

"Volume    one    traces    the    revival    of    Roman 

architecture  in  Italy,   from  its  faint  beginnings 


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263 


under  Niccola  Pisano  in  the  thirteenth  century 
until  its  final  collapse  in  the  license  of  the  Bar- 
oco.  Volume  two  follows  the  course  of  the  same 
style  as  introduced  in  England  by  Italian  work- 
men under  Henrv  VIII,  until  it  gave  way  before 
the  Gothic  revival  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
Well  illustrated  with  photographs  and  drawings, 
some  colored.  The  Italian  volume  covers  some- 
what the  same  ground  as  Anderson,  The  archi- 
tecture of  the  Renaissance  in  Italy,  but  in  less 
of  a  textbook  manner." — Booklist 


wren,   antelope  chipmunk,   tumble-bug,    bighorn, 
coyote,  tortoise,  lizard  and  some  other  unusual 

species. 


Booklist  19:43  N  '22 
"It  is  a  book  that  helps  to  understanding  not 
only  of  its  special  subject,  but  of  all  art  as  an 
expression  of  human  experience." 

-f   N  Y  Times  pl4  Ag  6  '22  lOOOw  (Review 
of  v   2) 
"His   latest   volume    is   so   freshly   and   vigor- 
ously written  that  it  is  difficult  to  realize  that 
the   author   was    born    in    the   reign    of   William 
IV." 

+  Sat  R  133:444  Ap  29  '22  600w  (Review  of 

V   2) 

"In  both    [volumes]   we  wish   there  were  less 

detailed  history  and  more  general  criticism;  but 

that  is  always  the  critic's  way,  to  pine  for  what 

is  not." 

—  The  Times   [London]    Lit    Sup  p289  My 
4  '22  2050W 

JACOBS,    FREDERIC    BURNHAM.     Production 
grinding.      238p       il     $3     Penton   pub. 

621.92     Grinding    and    polishing  22-23068 

"Mainly  descriptive,  showing  the  extent  to 
which  grinding  may  be  applied  in  rapid  and 
accurate  finishing.  The  author  is  editor  of 
'Abrasive  industry.'  and  most  of  the  material 
was  originally  published  in  that  journal." — 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:291    Je    '23 

JACQUES,    MARIE.      Colette's    best    recipes;    a 
book   of  French   cookery.      229p     $2     Little 

641    Cookery,  French  23-8775 

Colette  is  a  famous  Breton  cook  whose  skill 
has  come  from  fifty  years'  experience.  In  this 
book  her  employer  has  written  down  the  re- 
cipes as  Colette  gave  them  to  her,  with  de- 
tailed advice  and  explanations  along  the  way. 


Booklist    20:11   O   '23 
Reviewed  by  M.   F.   Egan 

-t-   Bookm   58:72   S   '23  300w 

Boston    Transcript    p6    Ag    22    "23    520w 

Cleveland    p59    Jl    '23 

"The   book   ought   to  have  a  wide   popularity. 

It  is  the  real  thing  in  French  cooking,  and  I  do 

not   mean  spurious  French   cooking  that  passes 

current  in   Kew  York." 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily   News  p9  Jl   1 
'23  800w 

■'It  is  an  inviting  volume.  It  is  an  innova- 
tion to  cook  books  that  ought  to  make  a  wide 
appeal  even  to  those  who  have  for  a  generation 
followed  the  didactics  of  the  celebrated  Mrs. 
Lincoln." 

-f   N    Y  World  p6e  My  27  '23  140w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:408  Jl  '23 

JAEGER,  EDMUND  C.  Denizens  of  the  des- 
ert; a  book  of  southwestern  mammals,  birds, 
and    reptiles.        299p    il    $3    Houghton 

591.97      Desert    fauna  22-23350 

The  writer  is  a  constant  observer  of  the 
fauna  of  wild  and  unfrequented  places.  In 
these  sketches  he  describe.?  some  of  the  ani- 
mals, birds  and  insects  of  our  southwestern 
deserts,  where  environment  has  so  changed 
the  bodies  and  behavior  of  these  desert  fauna 
that  they  stand  out  as  unique  among  animals 
Instead  of  giving  the  life  histories  of  all  the  ani- 
mal forms  inhabiting  the  desert  region  he  has 
chosen  the  most  interesting  and  typical  Among 
these    are    the    road-runner,    pack    rat,    cactus 


Booklist  19:211  Ap  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p8  D  9  '22  290w 
"This  information,  gained  through  years  of 
careful  study  and  painstaking  observation  by  an 
unbiased  mind,  adds  tremendously  to  our  knowl- 
edge of  animal  behavior.  Written  in  a  pleasing 
and  exceedingly  interesting  manner,  Mr.  Jae- 
ger's book  will  appeal  alike  to  nature  lover, 
traveller,    and    naturalist." 

+  Lit  R  p635  Ap  21  '23  280w 
"Mr.  Jaeger  has  intermingled  these  stories 
with  bits  of  valuable  information  in  such  a 
manner  as  to  make  his  volume  pleasant  read- 
ing. To  one  who  is  more  interested  in  the  life 
of  the  desert  and  in  the  behavior  of  animals 
than  in  a  scientific  treatise  'Denizens  of  the 
Desert'    is   sure    to   appeal." 

-I-   N    Y    Tribune    p27    F    18    '23    580w 
R   of    Rs   67:336   Mr  '23   80w 

JAMES,    HENRY.  Richard  Olney  and  his  public 

service.   335p  il  $5  Houghton 
B  or  92  Olney,  Richard  23-17689 

Richard  Olney's  achievements  as  Attorney- 
general  and  Secretary  of  state  during  Cleve- 
land's second  administration  were  memorable.  He 
was  called  upon  to  deal  with  unusual  difficulties 
and  he  met  theni  with  a  bold  directness  which 
had  about  it  a  dramatic  quality  and  which 
more  than  once  caused  a  profound  stir  in  the 
country.  The  Chicago  strike,  the  Venezuela  dis- 
pute and  the  General  arbitration  treaty  were 
among  the  most  important  matters  with  which 
he  had  to  deal  and  the  policies  he  adopted  con- 
cerning them  added  to  the  prestige  of  the  ad- 
ministration. Having  served  Cleveland  wdth 
loyalty  for  four  years,  Mr  Olney  retired  to 
private  life  for  the  rest  of  his  days.  Mr  James's 
biography  confines  itself  almost  exclusively  to 
the  four  years  of  his  public  service. 


"Mr.  James  has  plenty  of  excellent  material 
from  which  to  evolve  this  biography  of  four 
crowded  years,  and  he  makes  the  most  of  it. 
He  has  given  us  not  merely  a  biography  for 
the  casual  reader,  but  a  very  excellent  source- 
book for  the  historical  writer."  S.  L.  Cook 
4-   Boston  Transcript  p3  N  24  '23  2250w 

"Exceptionally    good,    and    no    student    of    the 
period  which   it  covers  can   understand  it  with- 
out   reading   it."      Moorfleld    Storey 
Lit    R   p421   Ja   5   '24   680w 
R    of    Rs    69:110    Ja    "24    200w 

"Mr  James,  besides  being  a  lawyer,  is  the 
son  of  a  psychologist,  and  he  gives  abounding 
interest  to  the  portrayal  of  Mr  Olney's  person- 
ality, which  had  its  puzzling  as  well  as  rugged- 
ly picturesque  phases.  The  work,  which  de- 
rives historical  value  from  the  quotations  from 
private  letters  and  a  memorandum  written  by 
Mr.  Olney  himself,  takes  high  rank  as  an  ex- 
ample of  comprehending  and  artistic  biography; 
seldom  does  Mr.  James  appear  more  eager  to 
defend  Mr  Olney's  course  than  to  explain  it." 
+  Springf'd  Republican  pl4  N  23  '23  1600w 

JAMES,    HERMAN    GERLACH,    and    MARTIN, 
=    PERCY  ALVIN.     Republics  of  Latin  America; 
their  history,   governments  and  economic  con- 
ditions.  533p   $3.50   Harper 

980   Latin   America — History.   Latin  America 
—Politics  23-11669 

"The  authors  say  that  their  book  has  been 
prepared  for  use  in  college  courses  in  history, 
government,  and  foreign  trade.  The  first  chap- 
ter, discussing  the  European  background,  na- 
tive races,  discovery  and  settlement,  the  second, 
on  the  colonial  systems,  and  the  third,  on  the 
struggle  for  Spanish  American  independence, 
are  general,  tracing  developments  in  all  of  the 
colonies  simultaneously.  The  remainder,  except 
the  last  chapter,  which  is  on  international  re- 
lations, instead  of  being  a  general  treatise  on 
Latin  America  is  really  a  bundle  of  primers  or 
encyclopaedic  articles,  each  containing  a  study 
of    a    single    country,    approximately    the    first 


264 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


JAMES,  H.  G.,  and  MARTIN,  P.  A. — Continued 
half  being-  historical  and  the  last  half  govern- 
mental, with  a  brief  economic -geographic  por- 
tion   inserted   between." — Am   Hist   R 


"As  an  introduction  to,  or  for  required  col- 
lateral reading  in  connection  with,  a  course  in 
Latin  American  trade  to  supply  the  necessary 
minimum  of  knowledge  concerning  the  history 
and  government  of  the  countries,  it  is  more 
satisfactory  than  any  single  book  previously 
obtainable.  For  a  general  study  of  the  govern- 
ments of  Latin  American  countries  it  is  also 
better  than  any  existing  volume.  The  histori- 
cal portions  are  too  brief  to  prove  entirely 
satisfactory."     W:    R.   Manning 

H Am    Hist   R   29:386  Ja  '24   450w 

Boston    Transcript    p4   N   24    '23    600w 

"A  book  which  will  prove,  on  the  whole,  sat- 
isfactory. The  authors  have  been  painstaking 
in  their  search  for,  and  statement  of,  the  facts. 
The  work  is  perhaps  a  little  defective  in  maps, 
the  index  is  not  exhaustive,  and  there  is  no 
analytical  table  of  contents  and  no  list  of  maps." 
J.  F.  Rippy 

H Educ    R    66:307    N    '23    700w 

"The    effort   is   commendable,    but   falls   some- 
Wha.t  short  of  the  merit  it  might  have  attained. 
Written  in  school  book  style,  under  side  heads, 
the   book   is   sketchy  and   incomplete." 
f-  N    Y  World  p7e   S  16  '23  220w 

JEFFERSON,  CHARLES   EDWARD.  Friendship 
indispensable.    88p  75c  Macmillan 

327.42        Great    Britain — Foreign    relations — 
United    States.      United    States — Foreign   re- 
lations—Great   Britain  23-7840 
The    all -important    friendship    of    which    this 
little  book  treats  is  that  of  the  English-speaking 
peoples.      Dr   Jefferson    considers   their    need    of 
interpretation   each   to  the  other,    the   causes  of 
misimderstanding    and     the     forces     which     are 
working  against  international  friendship.  He  re- 
calls  some   of  the    beautiful   things    in   England, 
in  its  customs  and  in  the  character  of  its  people, 
and  takes  a  glance  at  its  religious  and  political 
life. 


"The    book    is    pointed,    well    written,    concise 
and  very  illuminating.     It   is   one   that   all   fair- 
minded    people    .'.hould    read    and    ponder." 
-f   Boston  Transcript  p5  O  6   '23  130w 

"With  sincerity  and  earnestness  and  appeal- 
ing fairness,  he  discusses  the  traits  of  character 
and  the  national  aims  and  tendencies  of  both 
nations  and  shows  how  some  of  these  bring  the 
two  peoples  together  and  how  others  tend  to 
arouse  irritation  between  them." 

+   N   Y  Times  p20  My   27   '23  720w 

JENISON,  MADGE  C.     Sunwise  Turn.     162p    $2 
Button 

6.55.5     Booksellers  and   bookselling.     Sunwise 
Turn,    inc..    New    York    city  23-9431 

The  author  calls  this  book  "the  Olympiad  of 
a  beautiful  and  adventurous  and  anxious  ex- 
perience." It  tells  how  two  women  with  small 
capital  but  immense  enthusiasm  and  courage 
opened  a  real  bookshop  of  a  different  sort,  in 
New  York  city,  and  made  it  pay.  The  adven- 
ture is  described  in  intimate  detail  and  with  the 
emphasis  always  on  its  human  and  humorous 
sides. 


B&oklist   19:305   Jl   '23 
"The    fact    that    Miss    Jenison    knows    human 
beings,  has  a  real  sense  of  humor,  and  possesses 
the  gift  of  making  people  live  and  move  before 
us,  gives  her  little  volume  a  vital  charm." 
+  Bookm    58:83    S    '23    lOOw 
"An  exhilarating  book." 

-+-  Boston  Transcript  pi  Je  9  '23  260w 
Reviewed  bv  F:   Melcher 

Lit  R  p814  Jl  7  '23  900w 
"It  is  a  hook  at  once  so  merry  and  so  serious, 
so  thoughtful  and  full  of  chuckles,  so  whole- 
some and  wise  and  compa.ssionate.  There  may 
be — in  all  likelihood  there  will  be — a  swarm  of 
books  about  bookshops  following  in  its  wake, 
but  not  any  of  them  will  be  'Sunwise  Turn,' 
for  the  author  has,   as  it  were,   wrenched  from 


Jove  his  essential  thunder.  She  has  broken 
fresh  furrows  and  she  has  given  us  something 
that  is  startlingly  alive  and  human."  Mary 
Siegrist 

+  N   Y   Times  pl6  Je   10  '23  2200w 
Reviewed  by  Leo  Markun 

N  Y  Tribune  p21  Ag  19  '23  600w 
"We  detect  in  the  chapters  before  us  all  the 
colorings  of  romance;  and  to  those  who  do  not 
believe  that  romance  and  bookselling  can  have 
anything  in  common  we  say  only  read  Miss 
Jenison's  little  volume  and  be  convinced  other- 
wise."    E.  W.  O. 

-I-  N  Y  World  pl8  Je  10  '23  390w 
"Her  experiences  were  both  amusing  and  In- 
structive. One  learns  a  great  deal  about  book 
seekers,  especially  those  at  Christmas-time. 
Miss  Jenison's  ideas  of  what  a  bookshop  should 
be   are   original   and   sound." 

+  Outlook  134:193  Je  13   '23   lOOw 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:441  O   '23 

JENKINS,  LOUISE  HADOW  (YOUNG).  Gen- 
eral Frederick  Young;  first  commandant  of 
Sirmur  battalion  (second  Gurkha  rifles.)  268p 
il    $3.50    Dutton    [8s   6d   Routledge] 

B  or  92  Young,  Frederick 
The  subject  of  this  biography  was  a  pioneer 
in  the  building  of  the  British  empire  In  India. 
At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  obtained  a  cadetship 
in  the  East  India  Company  and  thereafter  for 
forty-four  years  served  his  country  with  dis- 
tinction in  India,  in  the  Central  Indian  cam- 
paign of  1802-3,  in  the  campaign  against  the 
Gurkhas,  and  in  military  expeditions.  Mrs  Jen- 
kins, writing  in  her  ninetieth  year,  (she  was 
born  in  1834),  gives  an  intimate  picture  of  her 
father  and  an  account  of  her  own  experiences 
in   India   during  the   Mutiny. 

"Altogether  it  is  an  interesting  picture,  some 
historical,  much  personal,  and  all  attractive  and 
interesting."      E.    J.    C 

-|-  Boston  Transcript  p3  Jl  21  '23  750w 
"Her  narrative  is  amazingly  full  of  detail,  and 
certainly  deserves  reading  by  all  who  had  any- 
thing of  the  same  personal  connexion  vrith  the 
history  of  India  in  the  nineteenth  century,  or 
even  by  those  whose  interest  lies  in  the  more 
academic    study   of  Indian   history." 

-f  The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p323  My 
10   '23   160w 

JENKINS,  ROLLAND.  Mediterranean  cruise; 
an  up-to-date  and  concise  handbook  for  travel- 
ers.   279p    il    $3.50   Putnam 

910.4  Mediterranean  sea  23-12403 

A  comprehensive  guide  book  to  the  Mediter- 
ranean lands  and  ports — Spain,  Gibraltar,  Alge- 
ria, the  Riviera,  Naples,  Rome,  Athens,  Con- 
stantinople. Palestine,  Egypt  and  the  Nile.  In- 
cludes chapters  on  preparing  for  the  cruise,  on 
what  and  where  to  buy  and  what  to  read. 
There  are  forty  illustrations,  some  of  them  in 
color,   and   nine   maps. 


"The  average  traveler  will  welcome  it:  it  is 
not  meant  for  those  who  rely  upon  a  broader 
cultural  knowledge  rather  than  a  pleasant  sur- 
face currycombing  to  point  the  glow  of  their 
exotic    reactions." 

Bookm  58:339  N  '23  140w 
"A  cursory  volume,  reasonably  informative 
and  impersonal.  A  running  description  of  the 
lands  and  points  of  interest  visited  is  supple- 
mented by  some  sensible  advice  as  to  arrange- 
ments and  conduct.  Excellent  illustrations  are 
plentiful." 

N  Y  World  p6e  O  28  '23  60w 
"It  is  matter-of-fact  in  its  descriptions,  as  a 
good  guide-book  should  be;  but  its  large  type 
and  its  numerous  pictures  make  it  more  suit- 
able for  preparatory  reading  for  those  who  are 
planning  a  visit  to  the  regions  described.  As 
such  it  is  informative,  up  to  date,  and  compre- 
hensive." 

Outlook   135:150   S    26   '23   70w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p839    N 
29    '23   220w 


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265 


JENSEN,    JOHANNES    VILHELM.     The     Cim- 
brians;   tr.   by  A.   G.   Chater.  340p  $2.50  Knopf 

23-14110 

In  this  volume,  Parts  III  and  IV  of  "The 
long  journey,"  the  author  carries  his  epic 
story  of  man  another  stage  forward  on  the 
long  journey  which  culminates  in  the  discovery 
of  the  New  World.  Noma  Gest,  the  fabulous 
figure  of  Norse  legend,  born  and  grown  to  young 
manhood  in  Sealand  during  the  Stone  age,  lives 
thru  the  successive  ages  of  Bronze  and  Iron, 
and  eventually  watches  with  his  own  eyes,  the 
forced  emigration  of  the  Cimbrians  from  Jut- 
land, because  of  storm  and  floods,  their  jour- 
ney toward  the  South,  and  their  final  destruc- 
tion by  the  Romans,  under  Marius,  as  they 
cross    the   Alps    into    Italy. 


Booklist  20:139  Ja  '24 

"What  Jensen  has  accomplished  in  'The  Long 
Journey'  is  not  so  much  a  transmutation  of 
history  into  romance,  or  an  abandonment  of 
fact  for  fiction,  as  a  distillation  of  human  spirit 
out  of  human  fact  and  act.  This  cycle  of  civil- 
ization is  written  bv  a  poet  of  history."  I.  G. 
+   Boston    Transcript   p4    N   10    '23    950w 

Reviewed  by  Roselee  Cohen 

New   Repub  36:313   N  14  '23   1050w 

"It  is  by  telling  the  story  of  mankind  as  seen 
by  a  single  eyewitne.ss  that  Mr.  Jensen  has  suc- 
ceeded in  making  what  is  a  mixture  of  legend 
and  histoi-y  read  like  a  romance.  Not  the  least 
of  the  merits  of  the  book  is  the  delightfully 
clear  and  simple  style  in  which  it  is  written." 
+   N  Y   Times   p27   O   21   '23   550w 

"It  is  not  perhaps  a  compliment  to  call  a 
book  instructive,  but  that  is  precisely  the  na- 
ture of  Mr.  Jensen's  work,  without  its  being  in 
the  least  pedantic.  It  is  possible  that  the  eth- 
nologists and  anthropologists  would  quarrel 
with  him  over  details — that  is  one  of  the  privi- 
leges of  being  a  specialist — but  till  one  of  them 
shoTvs  an  equal  power  of  interesting  a  simple 
person  in  the  legendary  and  prehistoric  ages  of 
the  race  we  shall  read  these  courageous  inter- 
pretations. He  has  been  particularly  fortunate 
in  having  a  translator  who  can  write  strong 
and  simple  English." 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p748   N   8 
•23    500w 

JENSEN,  JOHANNES  VILHELM.  Fire  and 
Ice;  tr.  by  A.  G.  Chater.  294p  $2.50  Knopf 
I7s  6d  Gyldendal] 

23-3133 
The  present  volume  is  a  translation  of  the 
first  two  parts  of  the  Danish  novelist's  historical 
cycle,  "The  long  journey."  The  aim  of  the 
entire  cycle  is  to  retrace  the  long  journey 
traveled  by  mankind  from  primeval  chaos  to 
modern  civilization.  The  narrative  is  in  story 
form,  showing  how  the  actual  stages  in  the 
ascent  of  man  and  in  the  climatic  conditions 
of  the  earth's  surface  have  left  their  trace.s 
in  mythology  and  religions.  The  present  volume 
tells  how  the  use  of  fire  first  became  known 
and  gave  rise  to  the  beginnings  of  religious 
worship  and  how  the  ice-age  became  a  civiliz- 
ing   force. 


"In  the  translation  the  narrative  displays 
thoroughgoing  intelligence  rather  than  inspira- 
tion on  the  part  of  the  story  teller.  It  is  a  solid 
product  of  thought  and  research,  but  not  much 
can  be  said  for  it  as  a  story  moving  of  its 
own   accord."      H.    W.    Boynton 

h   Bookm    57:209   Ap    '23    120w 

"It  is  refreshing  to  come  upon  an  uncommon 
thing  done  uncommonly  well.  Jensen  wrote, 
undoubtedly,  for  the  pleasure  of  cultivated  per- 
sons; yet  it  would  be  a  service  to  education 
if  'The  Long  Journey'  could  be  digested  bv 
every  teacher  in  the  country,  for  it  might  help 
to  lessen  the  gaps  between  learning  and  living 
and    between    living    and   enjoving."       I.    G. 

+   Boston    Transcript   p4   F  17   '23   1450w 
Cleveland    p39   My   '23 

Greensboro    (N.C.)    Dally    News    plO    F 
25   '23   950w 


"Unique    among    the    books    of    the    twentieth 
century  in  its  wealth  of  invention  and  its  sweep 
and    beauty    of    imagination."      Julius    Moritzen 
+  Int   Bk   R  pis  Ap  '23  2700w 

New   Statesman   20:supxvi   D  2  '22   80w 
Reviewed   by   A.    W.    Porterfield 

N    Y    Times    p3    F    25    '23    3750w 
"To  us,  it  seems  that  Mr.  Jensen  has  written 
one    of    the    greatest    of    sagas.       It    is    difficult 
to   believe  that   his  book  could   be   more  power- 
ful in   the   original   than  it  is  in  A.   G.   Chafer's 
English    translation."       F:    F.    Van    de    Water 
-f  N    Y   Tribune   pl9    F   11    '23    1600w 
Reviewed    by    E.    W.    Osborn 

N    Y    World    p9e    F    18    '23    550w 
Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui  28:214  My  '23 
"It  is  a  romantic,  almost  an  epic  presentation 
of  the  history  of  primitive  man." 

+  Spec    130:519    Mr    24    '23    900w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p726    N 
9    '22    820w 

JEROME,    HELEN.     Secret   of   woman.    144p   $2 

Boni   &   Liveright 

396     Woman — Social   and   moral   questions 

23-7194 

"The  book  was  written  in  answer  to  H.  L. 
Mencken's  'In  Defense  of  Woman'  and  is  dedi- 
cated to  him  'with  a  faint  hope  of  reforming 
him.'  'The  Secret  of  Woman'  is  an  attempt 
to  describe  the  feelings  of  woman  in  her  rela- 
tions to  man  and  to  the  demands  made  upon 
her  by  the  position  in  the  world  in  which  Na- 
ture, aided  and  abetted  by  man,  has  placed 
her." — Springf'd  Republican 


"This  book,  directed  primarily  against  H.  L. 
Mencken's  and  Otto  Weininger's  estimates  of 
women,  achieves  neither  the  scientific  thorough- 
ness of  the  Austrian  nor  the  clever  irony  of 
the  American — it  is  simply  an  entertaining, 
popularly  written  appraisal  of  women  by  a 
woman." 

H Bookm    57:559   Jl   '23    130w 

"We  marvel  at  the  repetition  in  this  little 
book.  She  could  have  said  it  all  nicely  and 
sweetly  in   fifteen  hundred  words." 

—  Boston   Transcript  p4  Ap  25  '23  360w 
"Neither  clever  nor  noble,   she  grovels  at  the 

feet  of  man,  begging  his  recognition  of  the 
rarely  understood  refinement  in  women.  That 
she  defeats  her  own  purpose  is  negligible.  Vn- 
fortunately  imposing  is  the  fact  that  she  alone 
creates    a   justification    for   Mr.    Mencken's    'De- 

'—  Lit   R  p758  Je  9  '23  160w 
"After    reading    the    book   we    are    quite    pre- 
pared to  agree  with  Nietzsche,  who  said:  'From 
a   woman    you    can   learn   nothing   of   women.'  " 
Ruth   Snyder 

—  NY   World    p8e   Mr   25   '23   720w 
Sat  R  136:446  O  20  '23  280w 

"The  tone  of  the  book  is  somewhat  cynical, 
pessimistic — in  short  gloomy.  In  all  seriousness, 
INIiss  Jerome's  book  is  one  which  should  be  read 
by  men  as  well  as  women,  because  it  is  interest- 
ing and  out  of  the  ordinary  as  well  as  being 
fundamentally    true."      E.    M.    J. 

H Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  27  '23  480w 

The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p608  S  13 
'23  80w 

JEROME.        JEROME        KLAPKA.  Anthony 

John.    276p   $2   Dodd 

23-7989 

"Mr.  Jerome  K.  Jerome,  the  humorist  of  a 
past  generation  which  enjoyed  'Three  Men  in 
a  Boat.'  is  once  more  the  Christian  idealist  of 
The  Passing  of  the  Third  Floor  Back.  The 
first  seventy  odd  pages  of  this  novel  give  us  a 
simnle  tale  of  a  spirited  small  boy,  son  of  an 
engineer  in  the  great  mill  district  of  Mills- 
borough,  very  level  headed  and  very  much 
determined  to  get  on.  Anthony  John's  rise  to 
wealth  as  partner  in  the  legal  firm  of  Mowbray 
and  Cousins  is  accomplished  naturally  enough 
by  his  shrewdnes.*'  and  ability.  .  .  With  his  rise 
in    the    world,    culminating   in    his    marriage    to 


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JEROME,  JEROME  K. — Continued 
the  daughter  of  a  local  baronet,  comes  the  real 
signiHcance  of  the  story.  It  would  be  not  un- 
fair perhaps  to  describe  the  rest  of  the  tale  as 
a  series  of  sermons  expounding  a  vague  hu- 
manitarian religion — and  leading  up  to  the  re- 
nunciation by  Anthony  and  his  wife  of  their 
wealth  and  position  to  follow  Christ." — The 
Times   [London]    Lit  Sup 


which  shows  that  Rome,  like  America,  was 
dubbed  'crassly  materialistic'  by  its  intelligent- 
sia and  was  oppressed  by  the  zeal  of  fanatical 
reformers  in  the  most  approved  modern  style. 
The  author  has  made  a  critical  analysis  of  the 
sources  of  Roman  history  and  has  drawn  the 
parallel  between  Rome  in  the  time  of  the  Cae- 
sars and  America  today." — N  Y  Times 


Booklist  19:319  Jl  '23 
"The  reader  sees  [the  hero]  clearly  not  merely 
as  a  freak  of  the  novelist's  Imagination,  but 
as  a  very  genuine  figure  of  a  man  who  is  re- 
turning to  the  people  whence  he  came."  B.  F. 
Edgett 

+  Boston    Transcript   p4   Ap   28    '23    1350w 
Cleveland  p42  Je  '23 
Reviewed    by    H.    W.    Boyton 

Ind  110:404  Je  23  '23  550w 
Int    Bk    R    p45    Jl    '23    COOw 
"It  is   a  far  cry  from   'Three  Men   in  a  Boat' 
to   'Anthony  John,'   and   the   author  can   hardly 
be  said  to  be  as  interesting  as  a  prophet  as  tie 
was  as  an  entertainer."  E:  B.  Hill 

—  Lit   R   p699  My  19   '23  1300w 
"A  book  of  gentle  will,  written  by  a  man  to 
whom   this   world's  misery   is   a  source  of  pain, 
written    with    winning    amenity    that    is    never 
syrupy  or  too  bland." 

-I New   Repub  35:239  Jl  25  '23  250w 

"It  would  be  no  difficult  matter  to  make  fun 
at  the  expense  of  Mr.  Jerome  K.  Jerome's  latest 
work,  the  novel  'Anthony  John.'  The  absence 
of  psychoanalysis,  sex,  expressionism  and  hair 
a  dozen  other  indispensable  ingredients  is  posi- 
tively glaring.  It  seems  incredible  in  the  same 
world  with  'Ulysses'  and  the  works  of  Marcel 
Proust.  To  all  that  is  modern  in  the  art  of  the 
novel  it  bears  no  remotest  relation,  or  even 
relativity.  It  is  propaganda,  a  sermon,  a  thing 
any  self-respecting  novelist  must  eschew  as 
anathema.  But  even  granting  all  that,  there  is 
still  something  to  be  said  for  'Anthony  John.'  " 

H NY  Times  pll  Ap  22  '23  llOOw 

"More  a  sermon  or  a  tract  for  the  times  than 
a  novel,  the  fable  of  'Anthony  John'  is  vmfolded 
in  a  temper  so  gentle  and  kindly  that  at  the 
close  one  echoes  Agrippa:  'Alinost  thou  per- 
suadest  me.'  Almost — if  only  the  practical  side 
would  not  intrude."  Isabel  Paterson 
-(-  —  NY  Tribune  p24  My  13  '23  750w 
"Mr.  Jerome  has  written  a  good  story,  but  we 
do  not  fall  in  with  his  logic  or  his  propaganda." 
E.    W.    Osborn 

-1 NY   World   p8e  My  6  '23   800w 

"Strictly  speaking,  the  book  is  less  a  novel 
than  a  quiet,  modest  effort  to  implant  unsel- 
fishness in  humanity.  But  in  form  and  manner 
of  writing  it  has  many  excellent  fiction  char- 
acteristics." 

+  Outlook   134:99    My   30    "23    lOOw 
"Mr.    Jerome    handles    most   skilfully  a   theme 
that  an  inferior  artist  would  horribly  mutilate." 
-f-   Spec    130:931    Je   2    '23    120w 

Springf'd  Republican  pl2  Jl  13  '23  350w 
"We  think  it  will  be  read.  Its  religion  is  the 
practical  religion  of  thousands  of  educated 
people;  the  consistent  amiability  and  good  feeling 
of  everybody  in  the  book  makes  a  wide  appeal: 
the  lightly  touched  picture  of  the  society  of  a 
mill  town  is  full  of  charm:  and  Mr.  Jerome's 
clear  and  simple  way  of  writing,  too,  is,  in  these 
days  of  laboured  sophistication,  a  real  delieht." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p231   Ap 

5   '23   700w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:160  Je  '23 


JEROME,  THOMAS  SPENCER.  Aspects  of 
the  study  of  Roman  history.  434p  $3.50  Put- 
nam 

937     Rome — History  23-8872 

"Here  is  a  book  written  before  the  war  de- 
picting vividly  the  Rome  of  the  early  Caesars 
in  terms  which  we  had  been  led  to  believe  were 
applicable  only  to  these  awful  United  States 
today.      It    is    a    brilliant    and    scholarly    work 


"To  the  historical  student  these  papers  serve 
to  open  up  what  seem  to  be  some  new  lines  of 
thought  and  research."     E.   J.   (!. 

+   Boston    Transcript   p4   Je   16    '23   750w 

"This  is  a  brilliant  book.  Combining  great 
scholarship  with  great  common  sense,  it  stands 
out  as  one  of  the  most  original  and  capable 
historical  studies  that  has  been  published  in 
many  years.  To  the  layman  it  is  inspiring.  To 
the  student  of  history  it  presents  a  most  inter- 
esting analysis  of  the  merits  of  historic  sources. 
To  the  person  who  feels  that  'the  time  is  out 
of  joint'  it  brings  a  new  optimism  based  on  that 
broader  understanding  which  comes  from  a 
realization  that  the  problems  which  America 
faces  today  are  as  old  as  Rome."  N:  Roosevelt 
+   N   Y   Times  pl4  Jl  15   '23  1950w 

"Beneath  the  uninviting,  academic  title  of 
this  book  there  lies  one  of  the  most  fascinating 
reconstructions  of  the  past — with  reference  to 
the  problems  before  us  to-day — imaginable  in 
any  literature.  Neither  Strachey  nor  Guedalla 
is  Jerome's  compeer  in  urbanity;  neither  has 
his  vast  fund  of  information;  and  only  Strachey 
is  capable  of  his  arrangement  of  facts  to  heigh- 
ten the  irony  of  human  events.  .  .  It  has  been 
a  long  time  since  I  have  encountered  reading 
of  any  sort  as  interesting,  as  delightful  and 
as  informing  as  this."     Burton  Rascoe 

-t-   N   Y  Tribune  pl7  My  27   '23  3000w 

JESSUP,     ALEXANDER,     ed.        Representative 
American    short  stories.     974,   209p  $4  Allyn 

Short   stories— Collections  23-8528 

"Professor  Jessup's  book  is,  in  effect,  an  an- 
thology from  1788  to  1921,  from  the  earliest 
American  short  story  to  almost  the  latest,  with 
.some  74  specimens  in  his  more  than  a  thousand 
pages  of  text."  (N  Y  Times)  "He  has  fortun- 
ately set  himself  the  task  of  selecting  'the  best 
at  all  periods  of  development,  even  though  the 
best  of  one  decade  fall  far  below  the  best  of 
another.'  "    (Nation) 


Booklist  20:57   N  '23 
Bookm   58:86  S  '23   160w 
"Mr.    Jessup    is   an    industrious   and    scholarly 
collector,  but  not  possessed  of  a  critical  instru- 
ment of  any  special  distinction."     A.  W.   Colton 

-I Lit   R   p923   Ag  25   '23   850w 

"Though  shallow  in  its  prefatory  criticism, 
this  book  is  probably  the  best  anthology  of 
American  short  stories  yet  published."  J.  J. 
Smertenko  ^„„ 

+   Nation  117:243  S  5  '23  160w 

Reviewed  by  H:  J.   Forman 

N   Y  Times  p2  Je  24   '23  llOOw 

"One  critici-sm  often  and  justly  made  of  col- 
lections of  American  short  stones  has  been 
that  these  collections  do  not  cover  the  field 
adequately  and  are  intended  rather  to  furnish 
entertaining  reading  matter  than  to  give  a 
representative  view  of  this  form  of  our  fiction 
literature.  The  present  book  is  free  from  this 
criticism.  The  book  is  one  well  worth  a  place 
in  any  library."  „   „„„ 

-I-  Outlook   134:432  Jl   18   '23   220w 

"Dr  Jessup's  critical  judgment  on  other  mat- 
ters than  on  Bret  Harte  is  not  always  above 
suspicion.  WTien  all  is  said,  however,  Dr  Jes- 
sup has  done  yeoman  service  to  the  American 
short-storv.  For  although  there  are  some  strik- 
ing omissions  from  his  collection,  he  points  the 
way  clearlv  to  an  understanding  study  of  the 
develoomerit  of  the  American  short  story.'  J 
J  Reillv 
'  4 Springf'd   Republican   p7a  S  16  '23  720w 


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JESSUP,  ELON.     Roughing  it  smoothly;  how  to 
avoid  vacation  pitfalls.   247p  il  $2.50  Putnam 

796  Camping.     Outdoor  life  23-4523 

A  book  of  practical  information,  by  the  as- 
sociate editor  of  Outing,  concerning  the  various 
outdoor  activities  which  enter  into  a  well- 
rounded  camping  vacation,  a  vacation  which  im- 
plies a  general  familiarity  with  the  ways  of  the 
wood.s.  He  advises  how  to  avoid  the  discom- 
forts and  dangers  of  the  woods— getting  lost, 
or  drowned,  or  poisoned — and  tells  how  to  make 
a  comfortable  bed  and  a  good  camp  fire.  There 
are  chapters  on  the  use  of  the  compass,  on 
fishing  tackle,  canoe  paddling,  sailing,  walking 
and  mountain  climbing.  The  last  four  chapters 
deal  with  family  camping  under  canvas. 


Reviewed  by  T.   R.   Coward 

Bookm    57:,644   Ag    '23    30w 
"Mr.  Jessup's  book  is  a  first-aid  kit  in  itself, 
given    to    directions   about    the   discomforts,    ex- 
perienced   if    rudimentary     matters    are     unfa- 
miliar." 

-f  Boston   Transcript  p4  Ap   28   '23   lOOw 
Cleveland  p48  Je  '23 
Outlook  134:140  Je  6  '23  60w 
"The   articles,    some   of    which   first   appeared 
in    magazine    form,    are    a   refreshing   departure 
from   the   dictionary   style   of  guide   books.      Mr 
Jessup   writes   in  a  friendly  spirit  and   he   does 
not    confuse    his    reader    with    too    many — and 
sometimes    conflicting — examples    of    the    points 
under  consideration." 

-I-  Sprlngf'd     Republican     plO    My    29    "23 
200w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:158  Je  '23 


JESSUP,  ELON.     Snow  and  ice  sports;  a  winter 
manual.    293p    il    $3.50    Dutton    [7s    6d    Dent] 
796     Winter   sports  23-6390 

"Mr.  Jessup's  chapters  on  selecting  skiis  and 
skiing  equipment  and  their  use  up  to  the  high 
art  of  ski  jumping,  use  of  snow  shoes,  winter 
mountaineering,  on  ice  creepers,  camping  in  the 
snow,  snow  photography,  skating  and  skate 
sailing,  hockey  and  curling  are  all  from  personal 
experience,  learning  from  the  ground  up,  mak- 
ing the  beginner's  mistakes  and  taking  good 
advice.  There  is  an  entertaining  chapter  on 
Great  South  Bay  scootering.  .  .  The  last  chapter 
is  an  account  of  winter  sports  at  Dartmouth 
College,  where  snow  activities  leading  up  to 
the  famous  February  carnival  have  given  the 
school  a  unique  reputation." — Lit  R 


Booklist  20:127  Ja  '24 
"Mr.    Jessup   has   written   a   useful   and   inter- 
esting  book." 

+  Boston    Transcript    p4    My    29    '23    500w 
Lit    R   pS20  Jl  7   '23   250w 
"The    book    is    full    of    practical    directions    In 
such     unaffected    terms    that    Boy    Scouts    can 
use  it  as  well  as  grown-up  campers."  E.   M.   Li. 
-f  N   Y  Tribune  p23  My  20   '23  60w 
"Mr.     Jessup's    work    has    the    personal    and 
authoritative   touch   of  the   man   who   has   skied 
and  skated  and  snowshoed  and  found  that  it  Is 
good.     His  descriptions  are  as  snappy  as  a  De- 
cember  atmosphere    and    his   very   captions   are 
inspiring." 

-f   N   Y  World   pl9e  Jl  1   '23  250w 

"Mr.  Jessup's  book  is  packed  with  invaluable 
hints,  the  fruit  of  long  experience,  on  the  choice 
of  equipment  for  winter  sports." 

-f  Sat   R   136:621   D  8   '23    850w 

"  'Snow  and  Ice  Sports'  is  remarkably  clear, 
for  it  does  not  confuse  the  reader  with  a  maze 
of  highly  technical  points  which  only  the  expert 
can  understand  or  need  consider.  Basic  and 
fundamental  principles  alone  are  considered, 
and  they  are  treated  with  an  insight  that  will 
give  any  careful  reader  a  very  workable  idea 
of  how  to  g'o  about  the  enjoying  of  winter 
sports." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p9a  S  2  '23  180w 


JEUDWINE,    JOHN    WYNNE.     Studies   in    em- 
pire and  trade.     399p     $7.50     (21s)     Longmans 
380         Commerce — -History.  Colonization. 

Colonial   companies.     East  India  company 

23-2199 
"The  author  divides  these  studies,  which  have 
a  unity  in  so  far  as  they  illustrate  the  principles 
of  Empire  and  the  part  played  by  trade  in  ter- 
ritorial expansion,  and  conquest,  into  five  parts. 
The  first,  devoted  to  medieval  adventure  and 
trade,  contains  sections  on  the  Crusades,  the 
medieval  town,  the  Hanseatic  League,  and  in- 
dividual trades,  such  as  the  herring,  woollens, 
wine,  and  coal.  The  second  part  is  devoted  to 
the  discovery  of  the  Bast  to  the  European;  the 
third  to  the  discovery  and  colonization  of  North 
and  South  America:  the  fourth  and  fifth  to  the 
Dutch  and  English  companies  and  related  mat- 
ters. Maps  and  appendices  are  included." — The 
Times   [London]    Lit   Sup 


"He  has  collected  a  vast  number  of  facts 
which  duller  historians  have  overlooked.  It  is 
in  his  statement  of  these  facts,  rather  than  in 
abstract  argument,  that  lies  the  value  of  his 
book.  This  is  not  a  'sloppy'  declaration  of  new 
visions  and  original  principles.  It  is  a  re-state- 
ment of  the  facts  of  a  very  important  depart- 
ment of  history." 

+   New  Statesman   20:782  Ap  7  '23  800w 

"The  thoroughness  of  the  book  is  one  of  its 
best  recommendations  to  the  attention  of  the 
thoughtful  reader.  The  style  is  lucid  and  flow- 
ing, and  the  novelty  of  some  of  the  views  pre- 
sented lends  a  refreshing  flavor  of  originality 
to    the    whole    work."      A.    S.    Will 

+   N    Y   Times   p4   Mr   25   '23   1900w 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui    28:285   Je  '23 

"Mr.  Jeudwine  assumes  a  simplicity  that  is 
far  from  truth  both  in  human  motives  and  in 
the  problems  of  different  ages.  As  a  history 
his  book  is  inaccurate  and  confused;  as  a  piece 
of   propaganda    unnecessary   and    long." 

—  Spec  130:sup492  Mr  24  '23  200w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p342  My 
17   '23   80w 
"There  are  some   extreme  cases  of  compres- 
sion and  omission  in  Mr.  Jeudwine's  book  which 
result  in  absolute  jumbte.   Sometimes   there  are 
positive  errors." 

—  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p394   Je 
14  '23   1050w 

JOHNS,    ORRICK.    Blindfold.    259p   $2   Lieber   & 
Lewis 

23-10692 

"During  the  first  few  chapters  the  interest 
wavers  between  Ellen  Sydney  and  Potter 
Osprey,  who  are  destined  to  become  the  parents 
of  the  principal  character.  Then  the  light  dims 
on  Ellen  and  goes  out  completely  on  Potter, 
whose  opportune  return  is  saved  for  the  tragic 
denouement.  Meanwhile  the  illegitimate  Moira 
emerges  from  childhood  a  rather  charming  girl, 
combining  the  brains  of  an  artistic  amateur  with 
the  habits  of  a  flapper.  Her  experiences  are 
interesting  but  not  unusual.  But  the  author 
depends  for  his  climaxes  on  two  such  aged 
melodramatic  devices  as  the  heroine's  discovery, 
through  an  old  letter,  of  her  illegitimacy  and 
the  father's  discovery — also  by  the  convenient 
means  of  a  letter — that  the  girl  he  loves  is  his 
own  daughter.  Of  course  their  reactions  are 
orthodox;  the  girl  goes  out  into  the  world  and 
the  father  shoots  himself." — Detroit  News 


"Here  is  a   novel,   written  carefully  and   seri- 
ously, which  concerns  subjects  once  taboo,  now 
recognized   as   leeitimate   material   for   Action." 
+   Boston  Transcript  p5  Ag  4  '23  150w 

"He  accepts  the  conventional  novel  form 
and  wisely,  for  on  the  whole  his  is  a  simple 
tale  with  no  profundity  of  character  nor  seri- 
ousness of  philosophy  to  Justify  an  individual 
form.  Although  this  novel  is  weak  in  construc- 
tion and  trite  in  action  John's  prose  style  is 
natural,  clear  and  easy  to  read.  Judg-ing  from 
his  ability  to  sketch  individual  scenes  the  short 
story  would  be  his  prose  form."  R.  D.  Sage 
—  +  Detroit   News  pl2  Ag  12  '23  480w 


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JOHNS,   ORRICK — Continued 
Dial   75:300  S   '23   90w 

"  'Blindfold'  by  Orrick  Johns  possesses  all 
the  merits  of  an  intelligent  application  of  the 
reportorial  instincts  to  the  art  of  Action,  but 
stops  far  short  of  noteworthy  achievement." 
L.    B. 

H Freeman    7:573    Ag   22   '23   220w 

"Much  that  is  startlingly  and  bravely  beauti- 
ful is  to  be  found  in  Orrick  Johns's  first  novel 
'Blindfold.'  Mr.  Johns  has  boldly  seized  upon 
one  of  the  stock  devices  of  the  elder  melo- 
drama in  initiating-  his  situation,  and  has  re- 
solved it  simply  and  inevitably,  though  with 
a   touch   of   irreality." 

-4-  —  N    Y   Times   p21   Jl   15   '23   420w 

JOHNSEN,    JULIA    E.,    comp.    Selected   articles 
on     government     ownership     of     coal     mines. 
(Handbook  ser.)   392p  $2.40  Wilson,  H.W. 
380.16     Coal  mines  and  mining — Government 
ownership 
"This  Handbook  is  centered  on  the  aspect  of 
coal    as    a    public    resource    and    considerations 
for  and   against   the   government   entering  upon 
a  more  direct  trusteeship  in  the   immediate  in- 
terests of  the  people  as  against  private  owner- 
ship.   Both   the   articles   selected   and   the   refer- 
ences  have   been   classified   as   general,    affirma- 
tive  and  negative,    and  there  is   also  a  brief.  A 
separate    section    is    given    to    government    con- 
trol   or    regulation   of   coal    prices." — Publisher's 
note 

JOHNSON,    SURGES.      As    I    was    saying.    235p 

$2.50  Macmillan 

814  23-5506 

Familiar  essays  thru  which  good  sense  shines, 
and  a  friendly  humor.  Contents:  Is  after-dinner 
speaking  a  disease?  Small-town  stuff;  You're 
another;  The  alleged  depravity  of  popular 
taste;  The  censorious  mind;  That  elusive  West; 
Elefantasies;  The  dead  hand;  A  chair  of  non- 
sense; Pedagogues  and  business  men;  A  book 
in  the  house;  A  dog  in  the  house;  From  the 
notebook  of  an  unnaturalist;  In  a  land  of 
memory. 


Booklist  20:49  N  '23 
Boston   Transcript  p4  Mr  21  '23  720w 
"In   these  essays   Mr.   Johnson  uses  a  manner 
that    is    too    rare    among    controversialists.      He 
pretends    to    care    not    a    bit    what    one    thinks 
of   his   opinions,    for   which    reason    one   is   more 
gracious    in    considering    them.      Instead    of    di- 
dactic assertions,   he  jokes  softly  with   one   and 
not    until    the    essay    is    read    through    does    the 
realization    come    that    there    has    been    a    great 
deal   of  argument — gentle,    insidious   argument — 
scattered   thru   his   apparent   jesting." 
-I-    Lit    R    p590    Ap    7    '23    300w 
"Startlingly  brilliant  the   volume  is  not.     But 
it  is  sound;  optimistic,  but  not  sentimental;  and 
as    appreciative    of    the    good    in    the    author's 
countrymen    as    it   is    unsparing   of   their   faults 
and  their  foibles.     The  bock  is   wholesome  and 
entertaining  reading;  and  it  is  packed  with  that 
rare  commodity — common  sense." 

-)-  N   Y  Times  p6  Mr  11  '23  750w 
"A  collection   of  rather   dull  essays." 

N    Y   World    pile  Ap   29  '23   150w 
"Burges    Johnson's    flow    of    humor    is    spon- 
taneous   and    agreeable- — in    short,    an    excellent 
seasoning  for  essays  that  never  lack  perception, 
cultivation  and  common   sense." 

-f  Springfd   Republican  plO  Mr  2  '23  850w 

JOHNSON,    CLARENCE     RICHARD,    ed.    Con- 
stantinople  to-day;   or.   The   pathfinder   survey 
of    Constantinople.      418p    il    $5    Macmillan 
914.901        Social    surveys.        Constantinople — 
Social   conditions  22-24790 

The  book  represents  a  study  in  oriental  social 
life  made  by  the  Pathfinder  survey,  organized 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Council  of  fifteen 
made  up  of  members  of  the  faculty  of  Robert 
College  and  of  the  American  Red  cross  and 
Near  East  relief.  The  recognition  of  the  neces- 
sity for  such  a  survey  came  from  the  appalling 


misery  and  poverty  encountered  by  these  work- 
ers in  Constantinople,  a  city  which  for  a  decade 
has  been  in  a  state  of  war,  which  is  without 
a  trace  of  civic  coopeiation,  and  which  has 
become  the  center  for  refugees  from  all  quar- 
ters of  the  Near  East.  Caleb  F.  Gates,  presi- 
dent of  Robert  College  writes  a  foreword  to 
the  book;  Clarence  Richard  Johnson,  director 
of  the  Survey,  gives  its  history  and  Fred  Field 
Goodsell,  the  historical  setting  for  present-day 
conditions.  The  rest  of  the  book  consists  of 
the  findings  of  the  various  members  of  the  Sur- 
vey staff  in  their  respective  fields  of  investi- 
gation.     Maps    and    charts. 


"It  is  more  illuminating  than  any  guide  book 
could  ever  hope  to  be.  The  reader  of  this 
'pathfinder  survey'  will  be  nearer  the  heart 
of  things  in  this  fascinating  and  mysterious 
Oriental  city  than  he  can  approach,  at  second 
hand,   in  any  other  waj\" 

+   Boston    Transcript    p4    F    7    '23    260w 
Reviewed   by   M.    M.    Patrick 

Nation    116:497   Ap   25   '23   650w 
"This    survey    is    perhaps     most    valuable    as 
marking  the  transition   from  the  Constantinople 
which    most    of   us    treasure    in   our   imagination 
to  the  new  metropolis  of  a  regenerated  Turkey." 
-f   N    Y    Times    pS    D    31    '22    2000w 
R    of    Rs    07:223    F    '23    120w 
Springfd     Republican     p8a     Mr     11     '23 
220w 

Survey  50:458  Jl   15   '23  80w 

JOHNSON,    LIONEL    PIGOT.      Art    of    Thomas 
Hardy.    357p    $2.50    Dodd    [8s    6d    Lanel 

823  Hardy,   Thomas  23-10015 

A  reprint  of  the  -work  of  a  brilliant  young 
Clitic  whose  essays  on  the  art  of  Thomas 
Hardy,  originally  published  in  1894  and  long 
since  out  of  print,  have  lost  nothing  of  their 
critical  value.  The  book  was  written  before  Mr 
Hardy  had  issued  his  first  volume  of  poems 
and  so  contains  no  criticism  of  his  poetry. 
The  publisher  has  supplied  this  lack  by  the 
addition  of  a  chapter  by  J.  E.  Barton  dealing 
with  Mr  Hardy's  great  and  still  growing  re- 
putation as  a  poet.  There  is  also  added  a  bib- 
liography of  first   editions,    by   John   Lane. 


"From  the  day  of  its  first  publication  in  1894 
this  book  has  had  a  very  special  place  in  the 
field  of  literary' criticism;  not  so  much,  perhaps, 
for  its  restrained,  clear-sighted  estimate  of 
Hardy's  genius  as  from  the  fact  that  in  its 
pages  one  is  initiated  into  the  very  quintessence 
of  the  author's  own  refined  and  solitary  tem- 
per." Llewelyn  Powys 

-I-  Freeman    8:261   N    21    '23    1500w 
St    Louis    p339    D    '23 
The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p406    Je 
14    '23   80w 
"With  true  and  lasting  matter,   finely  stated, 
it  will   never  be   out   of  date;   yet   you   can   feel 
that    it    is    praising    qualities    which    were    less 
recognized    then    than    they   are    now." 

H The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p485    Jl 

19    '23    1200W 

JOHNSON,    ROBERT    UNDERWOOD.    Remem- 
bered  yesterdays.    624p   il   $5   Little 

B    or    92  23-17557 

Robert  Underwood  Johnson  w.as  connected 
with  the  Century  magazine  for  forty  years,  as 
associate-editor  and  later  as  editor-in-chief.  He 
has  had  relations  with  many  prominent  per- 
sons and  public  events,  and  during  Wilson's 
second  term  he  served  as  ambassador  to  Italy. 
His  book  is  not  a  consecutive  autobiography 
but  a  discursive  narrative  strung  together  on 
the  thread  of  his  experiences  with  an  abund- 
ance of  delightful  anecdote,  and  divided  into 
separate  sections  on  his  different  interests  and 
activities.  lie  gives  something  of  the  life  of  an 
American  boy  in  the  Middle  West  just  before 
and  during  the  Civil  war,  an  account  of  his 
forty  years  of  editing  and  of  some  special  pro- 
jects of  the  Century  which  proved  successful. 
There  are  also  sections  on  Mr  Johnson's  "spirit- 
ual    lobbying"     at     Washington;     some     causes 


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which  he  at  various  times  advocated  before 
Congress;  men  and  women  of  distinction;  the 
delight  and  humor  of  foreign  travel;  and  dip- 
lomatic  service   in   Italy. 


"Varied  are  the  contents  of  Mr.  Johnson's 
book,  and  discursive  must  be  any  attempt  to 
outline  or  suggest  its  range.  It  is  the  record  of 
incidents  in  a  very  full  life.  He  gives  us  in- 
numerable glimpses  of  his  judgments  of  men 
and   things."    E.    F.    Edgett 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  N  17  "23  2650w 
Reviewed    by   W:    R.    Benet 

Lit  R  p257  N  17  '23  1950w 
"The  author  professes  to  have  tempered  his 
text  by  a  sense  of  humor;  yet  this,  often  slender 
and  none  too  cogent,  sometimes  calls  for  in- 
dulgence. The  book  as  a  whole,  suggests  the 
large  bamboo  cabinets  once  In  vogue — bulk  with 
slightness."   H.   B.    F. 

h   New  Repub  37:184  Ja  9  '24  350w 

"Mr.  Johnson's  'Yesterday'  is  a  repository  of 
much  valuable  and  authentic  information  about 
the  most  creditable  aspects  of  American  life 
during  a  full  half  century,  in  which  the  narra- 
tor was  himself  a  valuable  part  of  almost 
everything  to  which  he  refers."  Albert  Shaw 
-f  N  Y  Times  p4  D  9  '23  2200w 
Reviewed  by  D.  C.  Seitz 

N  Y    World   p7e   N   25   '23   900w 
Outlook  135:689  D  19  '23  860w 

JOHNSON,  W.   BRANCH.     Among  French  folk; 

a  book  for  vagabonds.  256p  $4  Small  [12s  6d  C. 

Palmer] 

914.4     France — Description  and   travel 

A23-2175 

"There  came  a  day  in  spring  when  Mr.  John- 
son found  himself  on  Fleet  Street  out  of  a  job, 
and  he  and  his  wife  strapped  a  couple  of  army 
packs  on  their  backs,  and  set  out  to  wander 
through  Southern  and  Western  France.  Like 
your  true  campaigners,  the  authors — for  Mr. 
Johnson  would  be  first  to  concede  that  the 
book  owes  much  of  its  inspiration,  if  not  its 
actual  writing,  to  his  wife — lived  on  the  coun- 
try. Running  out  of  funds  here,  they  set  them- 
selves up  as  a  tourist  agency;  there,  they 
turned  their  hands  to  guide-book  writing. 
Throughout  they  lodged  with  simple  folk,  and 
going-  the  roads  as  the  winds  of  chance  blew 
them  they  picked  up  with  all  sorts  and  condi- 
tions of  travelling  companions,  grave  and  gay, 
honest  and  not  so  honest.  All  their  little  ad- 
ventures by  the  way  Mr.  Johnson  chronicles 
with  a  pleasantly  quiet  humour,  and  the  book 
is  packed  with  intimate  little  side-lights  upon 
the  manners  and  customs  of  provincial  France. 
"The  travels — sometimes  with  a  donkey — begin- 
ning in  Provence,  continued  parallel  with  the 
Pyrenees  through  Languedoc  and  Gascony,  by 
way  of  those  mediaeval  towns  whose  names 
carry  the  very  ring  of  romance,  and  so  up  the 
Biscay  coast  into  Brittany." — New  Statesman 


Booklist  20:53  N  '23 

"One  of  the  most  delightful  travel  books  that 
fortune  has  brought  in  the  way  of  the  present 
reviewer." 

+  New  Statesman  19:368  Jl   1  '22  300w 

"It  is  in  the  characterizations  and  the  various 
incidents  that  arise  that  the  real  charm  of  the 
narrative  exists.  Mr.  Johnson,  apparently  a 
newspaper  man,  knows  how  to  catch  a  likeness 
and  to  develop  it  in  the  most  whimsical  manner. 
It  is  not  so  much  the  spirit  of  places  that  he 
captures  as  the  spirit  of  people.  Entering 
heart  and  soul  into  the  mood  of  the  French 
people  he  meets,  he  conveys  this  mood  (no 
easy  matter)  to  his  readers.  Mr.  Johnson's 
method  is  discursive,  full  of  gaps,  but  utterly 
delightful." 

-f   N   Y  Times  p7  Mr  4  '23  2200w 
Pratt  p29  spring  '23 

"Mr.  Johnson's  account  of  his  travels  will 
sharpen  the  most  ignobly  repressed  Wanderlust. 
Among  French  Folk  is  an  entertaining  and  un- 


pretentious book.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Johnson  fell 
in  with  many  odd  travelling  companions,  and 
had  many  amusing  experiences." 
+  Spec  129:84  Jl  15  '22  350w 
"Much  of  it  is  very  agreeable;  it  might  all 
have  been  so  but  for  the  writer's  painfully  ap- 
parent resolve  to  make  his  story  what  his  pub- 
lisher announces  it  to  be,  'a  cheery,  chatty  itin- 
erary, brightly  written.'  The  book  is  marred 
by  an  artificial  sentimentality,  by  a  convention- 
al unconventionality,  which  overspreads  it." 

-i The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p382  Je  8 

'22  250w 

JOHNSTON,  CHARLES,  and  SPENCER, 
CARITA.  Ireland's  story,  new  ed  442p  il 
$3     Houghton 

941.5     Ireland— History  23-7476 

With  an  additional  chapter  covering  the  years 
1904  to  1922,  this  new  edition  of  a  book  first 
published  in  1905  provides  a  complete  survey  of 
Irish  history  from  the  earliest  times  to  the  for- 
mation of  the  Irish  Free  State.  Intended  pri- 
marily as  a  textbook.  It  has  numerous  illustra- 
tions, seven  maps,  and  an  appendix  giving  the 
origin  of  some  of  the  most  famous  Irish  sur- 
names. 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  28  '23  120w 
"In  an  era  of  historical   'outlines'   this  one   is 
eminently  satisfactory.    The  chapter  which  deals 
with    the    Irish    literary   revival   is    most   inade- 
quate.   The  difficult  last  chapter  is  well  done." 

H Cath   World   117:565  Jl  '23  190w 

"Brief  and  useful  history  of  Ireland.  Its  ap- 
proach is  somewhat  romantic  and  its  method 
inspirational." 

+   Lit  R  p612  Ap  14  '23  50w 

JOHNSTON,  SIR  HARRY  HAMILTON.  Little 
life  stories.  215p  $2  Macmillan  [7s  6d  Chatto 
&   W.] 

23-5358 
The  stories  are  hardly  more  than  a  notebook 
of  sketches,  the  shortest  about  four  pages  in 
length,  the  longest  seventeen.  Almost  every 
one  has  an  ironic  turn.  Tho  all  are  extremely 
slight  and  rigidly  condensed  some  of  the  stories 
afford  the  scaffolding  for  a  full-size  novel.  Con- 
tents: The  pituitary  gland;  The  chalk-pit;  The 
young  Messiah;  Mrs  Doubleday;  Edith  Stalli- 
brass;  or.  The  sin  of  unselfishness;  James 
MacGeochan  ("Jim  Mageen");  "The  Rev.  D. 
Macaulay";  The  end  of  the  day;  The  jewels  at 
Davensham  castle;  Not  what  you  might  have 
expected:  "Good-night,  old  man!"  Frederick's 
remorse;  Sir  Matthew  Casely  Brompton;  "Old 
Arthur";  Samuel  Gwillym:  Jeannette  Side- 
botham;  Mrs.  Muggridge;  Lady  Isobel  Drum- 
haven;  The  Browsmiths;  Adela  Totworthy;  The 
task. 


Cleveland   p43   Je   '23 
"It  is  a  slim  book,  with  21  slim  stories  in  it. 
And,  one  fears,  it  is  a  slim  chance  that  anyone 
would  read  them  twice."     C.  A.  P. 

—  Detroit   News  pl2  Jl  8   '23  200w 
"What    one    misses    in    these    tales    is   feeling. 

There  is  a  very  evident  lack  of  emotional  com- 
prehension and  a  consequent  flatness,  a  sense 
of  ineptitude  one  cannot  escape.  Certamly  the 
author  has  much  to  learn  before  mastermg  the 
art  of  the  short   story." 

—  Lit    R    p668    My    5    '23    220w 

"The  eminent  explorer  and  administrator  is 
not  an  artist,  at  least  in  fiction.  For  form  in 
its  literary  sense  he  cares  nothing.  But  his 
writings  take  their  value  from  the  richness  ot 
his  experience  and  the  alertness  of  his  mind.  Sir 
Harry  comprehends  everything,  pardons  every- 
thing, but  cannot  give  to  everything  that  mo- 
mentary and  intuitive  sympathy  which  is  the 
secret  of  the  greatest  writers."  Raymond  Mor- 
timer _  ^^^   statesman   20:543  F  10  '23  760w 

"Many  of  them  are  of  no  great  significance; 
they  are  too  trivial  in  theme,  too  discursive  in 
method:  but  on  the  whole  their  style  is  effective, 
their  subject-matter  interesting,  their  charac- 
ters distinctly  etched;  and  now  and  again  one 


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JOHNSTON,  SIR    HARRY   H. — Continued 
comes  across  a  touch  of  humor  or  a  philosophic 
speculation  that  adds  point  and  meaning  to  the 
stories." 

H NY  Times  pl4  Mr  11   '23   600w 

"Sir  Harry  Johnston  is  a  fine  gentleman 
dowered  with  a  pardonable  garrulity  and  an  im- 
mense store  of  surprising  recollection.  He  is  a 
first-rate  anthropologist  of  disarming  wit  with- 
out the  very  least  notion  of  how  to  transmute 
the  material  of  life  into  a  story.  .  .  The  stripped 
summary  of  plots  can  convey  little  of  the 
wonderful  material  hidden  in  'Little  Life 
Stories,'  just  as  a  brief  recount  of  the  plot  of 
"The  Idiot'  would  sound  like  propaganda  from 
a  padded  cell.  The  plots  are  there,  authentic 
and  alive.  They  need  only,  they  cry  aloud  for, 
the  releasing  words  of  power."     A.   D.   Douglas 

-\ NY   Tribune   p25   Mr   18   '23    1050w 

Outlook  133:630  Ap  4  '23  150w 

"More  ruthless  than  Procrustes,  Sir  Harry 
chops  out  the  very  vitals  of  his  subjects,  so 
determined  is  he  that  at  any  rate  the  skeleton 
shall  get  in.  The  result  is  peculiar  and  unsat- 
isfactory. Nobody  has  greater  admiration  than 
I  for  the  author's  various  and  astonishing 
achievements;  but  among  the  fairies  who  visited 
his  cradle  the  Muse  of  the  short  story  was  cer- 
tainly  absent."     Gerald   Gould 

—  Sat  R  135:190  F  10  '23  90w 

"The  short  biographies  of  which  this  volume 
consists  are  unfortunately  reminiscent  of  a  book 
of  reference.  There  seems  no  reason  why 
these  fictitious  persons  should  have  been  writ- 
ten about.  Though  the  collection  may  be  ex- 
cused as  being  composed  of  little  sections  of 
life,  the  author  is  not  quite  successful  in  pre- 
senting the  various  sketches  with  the  analyti- 
cal art  which  would  have  made  them  interest- 
ing." 

f-  Spec  130:673  Ap  21   '23   60w 

Springf  d  Republican  p7a  My  6  '23  180w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:134   My   "23 

JOHNSTON,  SIR  HARRY  HAMILTON.  Story  of 
my   life.    504p  il   $5   Bobbs    [21s  Chatto  &  W.l 
B    or    92  23-18038 

It  seems  scarcely  credible  that  one  man's  life 
could  combine  such  a  variety  of  interests  and 
accomplishments  as  Sir  Harry  Johnston's. 
Medallist  in  art,  zoology  and  geography,  travel- 
er, explorer,  naturalist,  empire-builder,  philol- 
ogist and  historian,  he  was  all  these  before 
he  began  writing  his  sequels  to  Dickens's  novels 
which  so  widened  his  circle  of  readers,  especially 
in  America.  His  autobiography  records  the 
marvelous  versatility  of  his  interests  and  his 
contacts  with  many  of  the  great  personalities  of 
his  time,  but  above  all  it  is  an  account  of  the 
part  played  by  the  author  in  Great  Britain's 
colonial  policy  in  Africa  during  the  latter  part 
of  the  nineteenth   century. 


"The  reader  will  absorb  much  information 
about  strange  lands  and  people  that  he  might 
never  gather  from  a  book  just  as  authoritative 
but  less  charmingly  written.  The  reader  will 
not  only  get  glimpses  of  the  natives  of  the 
Wilderness,  and  of  the  pioneers  of  civilization, 
but  of  many  statesmen,  litterateurs  and  leaders, 
but  first  among  them  all  will  be  the  indomitable 
author  himself.  His  life  story  is  thrilling  and 
if  he  tells  it  fascinatingly  it  does  not  lessen  its 
worth."   S.    L.    Cook 

-I-   Boston  Transcript  p3  D  15  '23  1650w 

Reviewed  by  E:   T.  Booth 

Freeman   8:454  Ja   16   '24   1050w 

Reviewed  by  Martha  Bayard 

Int  Bk   R  pl41  Ja  '24  2000w 

"In  view  of  the  well-known  versatility  of  Sir 
Harry  Johnston's  interests  and  his  recent  suc- 
cess as  a  writer  of  fiction,  one  would  have  ex- 
pected an  exceedingly  fascinating  personality 
to  have  been  revealed  in  these  pages.  The  vol- 
ume before  us  shows  a  man  human — all  too 
human— a  quite  ordinary  man  of  the  talkative, 
official  type,  who  is  only  too  eager  to  register 
each  msignificant  incident  that  has  made  up  his 
career."    Llewelyn  Powys 

h   Lit  R  p282  N  24  '23  1200w 


Reviewed  by  P.  A.  Hutchison 

N   Y  Times  pi   N   11   '23   2500W 

"Those  who  have  read  Sir  Harry's  novels 
will  remember  them  as  being  marked  by  a 
great  simplicity  and  directness  of  style.  His 
autobiographical  chapters  run  in  the  same 
straight  paths  of  composition.  He  has  had 
experience  as  a  diplomat,  but  he  engages  in 
no  intrigue  with  his  language.  Whether  he 
writes  of  a  week-end  party  in  England,  with 
the  politest  society  in  attendance,  or  gives  the 
account  of  an  expedition  in  Africa,  with  the 
most  unconventional  of  tribesmen  on  either 
hand,  he  sticks  to  the  main  points  of  his  story 
and  offers  no  literary  embroideries."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

-h  N  Y  World  p7e  N  11  '23  1500w 

"It  will  undoubtedly  be  of  real  interest  and 
value  to  the  serious  student  of  African  history; 
In  it  he  will  find  a  vast  deal  of  ethnological, 
political  and  geographical  detail  and  information, 
while  the  ordinary  reader  can  fully  appreciate 
its  merit,  and  though  not  himself  competent 
to  criticize  or  to  controvert,  will  receive  from 
the  expert  exposition  an  impression  of  solid 
efficiency.  Moreover,  Sir  Harry  Johnston  never 
contrives  to  be  dull;  his  pages  are  frequently 
exciting,   and   quite  often   amusing." 

H Sat   R  136:657  D  15  '23   llOOw 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p743   N 
8  "23  1500w 


JOHNSTON,    IVIARY.     Croatan.    298p  $2  Little 

23-15821 
This  story  has  been  woven  about  that  little 
band  of  English  settlers  sent  by  Sir  Walter 
Raleigh  from  Plymouth  in  1587  to  settle  in  Vir- 
ginia, under  the  governorship  of  John  White. 
Their  first  settlenient  on  Roanoke  island  was 
destroyed  by  unfriendly  Indians  and  they  re- 
treated from  the  shore  to  the  mountains,  imder 
the  protection  of  the  friendly  Croatan  tribu. 
Virginia  Dare,  the  first  child  born  in  the  colony, 
is  the  heroine  of  the  romance.  Captured  by  the 
Shawnees,  who  spared  her  on  account  of  her 
beauty  and  made  her  the  prophetess  of  the 
tribe,  she  was  finally  rescued  by  her  lover,  Miles 
Darling. 


"It  is  a  long  time  since  we  have  had  from 
Miss  Johnston  a  novel  which  so  nearly  ap- 
proaches the  particular  substance  and  merit 
which  first  riveted  public  attention  on  her  work 
as  'Croatan.'  The  author  will  be  repaid  for 
turning  her  face  toward  her  earliest  successes, 
for  she  has  turned  out  a  swift-moving  book,  of 
steadily  increasing  interest,  full  of  elemental 
romance.  And  yet,  in  spite  of  all  this  Croatan 
does  not  hark  back  in  spiritual  entirety  to 
'Prisoners  of  Hope'  or  'To  Have  and  To  Hold.' 
It  stirs  memories  of  them,  but  sometimes  they 
are   ghostly  memories."      S.    L.    C. 

H Boston  Transcript  p4  O  31  '23  llOOw 

"Mary  Johnston  presents  a  vivid  picture,  tho 
a  highly  idealized  one,  of  the  life  of  the  colonists 
In  the  New  World  and  of  the  perils  and  hard- 
ships through  which  they  passed.  It  is  an  old- 
fashioned  romance  of  a  kind  which,  in  spite  of 
the  modern  trend  toward  a  realism  which  con- 
cerns itself  chiefly  with  the  seamy  side  of  life, 
is  still  popular  with  a  large  section  of  the  read- 
ing public." 

+   Int  Bk  R  p72  D  '23  360w 

"Unfortunately,  she  has  dissipated  her 
strength  in  this  volume  by  trying  to  weld  the 
romantic  with  the  realistic.  She  has  destroyed 
its  unity  of  impression  by  employing  a  hectic 
method  and  weakened  its  interest  by  piling  up 
petty  detail.  If  the  whole  had  been  as  instinct 
with  life  as  the  last  part  of  the  tale  the  novel 
would  have  made  vivid  reading.  As  it  is,  it 
is   disappointing."   Amy  Loveman 

1-   Lit   R  pl83  O  27  '23  450w 

N  Y  Times  p8  O  28  '23  600w 

"In  her  familiar  latest  style,  with  it.s  severe 
economy  of  the  articles  'a,'  'an'  and  'the,'  Miss 
.Johnston  has  told  a  story  of  steadily  running 
interest,  resorting  to  no  noisy  rhetoric  to  ac- 
celerate her  thrills." 

+  N  Y  World  p7e  O  28  "23  280w 


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27\ 


"  'The  Croatan'   has  just   the     right  tinge  of 
historical   flavor;    the   earlier   part    is   admirable 
in  its  plain   but  picturesque  narrative." 
+  Outlook  135:729  D  26  "23  120w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:509    D    '23 

JONES,  CHARLES  LANDON.  Service  station 
management;  its  principles  and  practice, 
covering  service  merchandising  methods,  shop 
arrangement  and  management,  stock  room 
systems  and  stock  record  systems.  171p  il  $2 
Van  Nostrand 

629.2  Automobile  service  stations  22-7089 
"While  the  book  applies  directly  to  Ford  ser- 
vice stations,  there  are  many  things  dealing 
with  merchandising  service,  such  B.S  manage- 
ment, layouts  and  systems,  which  will  be  found 
of  value  to  all  who  are  making  a  study  of  the 
problem  of  service.  (Automotive  Industries, 
1922)"— Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


complete  but  never  offensive  frankness  about 
youth's  favorite  subjects  of  speculation.  The 
constantly  recurring  thesis  is  the  essential  like- 
ness between  men  and  women,  their  differences 
being  of  type  rather  than  of  sex. 


Pittsburgh    IVIo    Bui    28:178   Ap   '23 

JONES,      CLEMENT      WAKEFiELD.        British 
merchant   shipping.   284p  $3.75  Longmans 

387  Shipping— Great  Britain  [22-22051] 

The  book  traces  the  steps  by  which  Great 
Britain  as  a  country  has  come  into  possession 
of  her  merchant  marine  and  describes  the 
methods  by  which  it  is  maintained.  Begin- 
ning with  an  historical  sketch,  the  author  de- 
scribes the  technical  details  in  the  change 
from  sail  to  steam,  the  different  types  of  ves- 
sel used  in  overseas  trade,  the  duties  of  officers 
and  crew,  provisions  for  safety  and  sanitation 
at  sea,  the  routine  of  the  shipping  office,  and 
loading  and  unloading  of  cargoes.  A  chapter 
on  marine  insurance  is  included  and  one  on 
trade   routes   and  cargoes. 


Spec  130:187  F  8  "23  1400w 
"Mr.  Jones  is  to  be  congratulated  on  the  mass 
of  instructive  and  entertaining  material  which 
he  has  succeeded  in  packing  in  this  one  volume. 
The  whole  is  written  with  a  light  sympathy  and 
sense  of  humour." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p689  O  26 
'22    220w 

JONES,   EDITH    KATHLEEN,   ed.     Hospital  li- 
brary.   lOOp    il    $2.25    A.    L.    A. 
027.6        Hospital     libraries.       Bibliography — 
Best  books  23-13939 

The  American  library  association  war  service 
demonstrated  the  recreational,  educational  and 
healing  power  of  books  in  hospitals  and  this 
form  of  library  service  has  been  carried  over 
into  peace  times  and  civilian  life.  After  a 
brief  account  of  library  service  in  war  hospitals 
and  in  the  United  States  public  health  service, 
the  author,  formerly  librarian  of  the  McLean 
hospital,  Waverley,  Mass.,  considers  the  organ- 
ization and  administration  of  a  hospital  library, 
the  matter  of  book  selection  and  books  suitable 
to  read  aloud  to  the  convalescent  patient. 
About  half  the  book  consists  of  a  finding  list 
of  books  and  periodicals  suitable  for  hospitals, 
including  a  list  for  the  children  and  one  for 
the  nurses'    library.     Bibliography.      Index. 


Booklist  20:80  D  '23 

JONES,  EMILY  BEATRIX  COURSOLLES 
(MRS  F.  L.  LUCAS).  Wedgwood  medallion. 
302p  $2     Holt 

[23-7039] 
The  world  of  this  story  is  another  "Quiet  in- 
terior" in  which  moves  a  group  of  young  people 
— the  four  Rendel  sisters  with  their  delightfully 
understanding  mother  and  the  three  Watergate 
brothers,  their  friend  Oliver,  and  their  cousin 
Denis  Ash,  whose  sister  is  married  to  one  of  the 
brothers.  The  story  is  concerned  chiefly  with 
the  engagement  of  Sophie  Rendel  and  Denis 
Ash  and  then,  when  they  are  no  longer  able  to 
ignore  the  conflict  between  her  instinctive  hon- 
esty and  his  sentimentalism,  with  their  un- 
engagement.  The  book  is  all  characterization 
and  conversation.     The  young  people  talk  with 


"We  are  disappointed  in  this  third  novel  of 
the  once  justly  heralded  E.  B.  C.  Jones.  It  is 
dull!  Perhaps  we  ought  to  like  its  quality.  We 
admire  its  author's  turns  of  phrase,  her  choice 
of  words,  her  deft  handling  of  conversation 
about  trivialities.  But  in  her  desire  to  be  deli- 
cate, to  be  versatile  and  detached,  she  sacrifices 
character  drawing  to  style."     D.  F.  G. 

h   Boston   Transcript  p4   Mr  14   '23   600w 

"It  is  a  good  story  and  it  has  qualities  of 
freshness  and  vivacity  that  make  it  peculiarly 
attractive.  The  men  in  it  are  presented  with  a 
joyous  informality,  the  girls  are  amazingly  alive, 
and  the  love  story  is  not  at  all  of  the  usual 
kind.  .  .  As  fiction  it  is  well  constructed  and 
closely  knit;  as  a  picture  of  the  new  world 
into  which  we  are  swiftly  moving  it  is  deeply 
interesting.  Miss  Jones  conveys  the  charm  of 
her  backgrounds,  both  in  Cornwall  and  in  Lon- 
don, without  exuberance,  yet  colorfully  and 
with  enthusiasm.  Her  book  is  real;  one  likes  it 
and  is  sorry  to  reach  the  end,  and  to  have  to 
bid  farewell  to  Sophie  and  Oliver  and  the 
Watergates,  all  of  them — even  Denis."  H.  H. 
-+-  Int  Bk  R  p64  O  "23  lOOOw 
"Her  method  is  not  unique,  it  i.«  not  startling, 
it  is  not  subtle — although  this  adjective  would 
apply  to  many  of  her  observations.  It  has  the 
air  of  unassuming  authority  which  presides 
over  a  fine  piece  of  work,  as  a  good  hostess 
presides  over  a  brilliant  and  difficult  dinner 
party."     Babette   Deutsch 

+  Lit  R  p531  Mr  17  '23  lOOOw 
"She  has  a  faculty  for  caricature  which  is 
very  effective  both  in  an  elaborate  study  of  a 
Victorian  painter  of  the  Watts  type  and  in  a 
Bateman-like  thumbnail  sketch  of  some  golf- 
ers."    Rebecca  West 

-\-  New  Statesman   20:16  O  7   '22  170w 
"Miss   Jones   possesses    that   desirable    faculty 
of  revealing  characters  with  such  a  high  degree 
of  simplicity  that  they  seem  to  walk  right  into 
the  reader's  life." 

+  N   Y  Times  pl7  Mr  11  '23  750w 
Reviewed  by  Will  Cuppy 

N  Y  Tribune  p28  Ap  29  "23  1300w 
"We  have  found  greatly  developed  and 
strengthened  in  the  new  book  those  character- 
istics of  thought  and  style  which  led  us  to  re- 
flect when  Miss  Jones  introduced  herself  through 
her  story  'Quiet  Interior,'  two  years  ago,  that 
here  was  entered  in  the  lists  of  fiction  .a  new 
writer  whose  place  would  be  presently  very 
near  the  top."     E.   W.   Osborn 

-|-  N  Y  World  p8e  F  18  '23  700w 
"Miss  Jones  always  writes  with  delicacy  and 
distinction,  and  this  latest  book  of  hers,  though 
unconvincing,  is  well  worth  reading.  But  it 
seems  a  pity  that  she  should  expend  so  much 
talent  on  people  who  are,  tor  the  most  part, 
what  one  can  only  call  so  footling."  Gerald 
Gould 

h  Sat    R   134:483   S   30  '22   420w 

"Miss  Jones  has  now  given  us  another  acut.i, 
sound,  and  careful  novel.  Lucidity,  balance,  and 
close  workmanship  are  rare  enough  to  be  trea- 
sured; and  here  is  one  reviewer  who  will  not 
sell  The  Wedgwood  Medallion." 

+  Spec  129:sup664  N  11  '22  4.i0w 
"The  characters  are  truly  and  familiarly  con- 
ceived. There  is  a  sense  of  intimacy  that 
makes  the  reader  feel  as  if  he,  too.  were  a 
member  of  the  friendly  group.  All  the  people 
are  thoroughly  'nice*  people." 

_| Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Ap     15      23 

550w 
"Miss  Jones  introduces  us  to  an  un  usually 
agreeable  company  of  men  and  women,  each 
one  portrayed  with  deftness  and  precision,  and 
some  with  impartiality.  In  attempting  a  theme 
which  relies  for  its  interest  on  the  interplay  of 
character,  and  on  that  alone,  she  has  displayed 
considerable  courage;  for  books  of  this  kind  too 
easily   degenerate   into   abstract   theorizing  and 


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JONES,   E.   B.  C.~Continued 
motive-analysis.     Into  this  pitfall  and  into  the 
pitful    of    facile    generalization    Miss    Jones    is 
never  beguiled." 

"t"n7^?.'^''"®s  [London]   Lit  Sup  p614  S  28 
jiZ   650w 

JONES,  ROSALIE.  American  standard  of  liv- 
ing and  world  cooperation.  329p  il  $3  Corn- 
hill 

304  Standard  of  living.  International  cooper- 
ation 23-8322 
"The  author,  who  is  a  member  of  the  New 
York  Bar,  here  presents  a  study  of  the  various 
problems  connected  with  the  maintenance  of  a 
high  standard  of  living  in  the  United  States. 
Two  of  these  questions  have  an  obvious  enough 
international  bearing:  immigration  and  tariffs. 
Abundant  immigration  will  secure  a  cheap  la- 
bour supply  and  its  restriction  has  an  effect 
in  maintaining  the  price  cf  labor;  a  tariff  is 
designed  to  protect  the  home  market  and  allow 
of  high  wages  being  paid.  Miss  Jones  examihes 
these  and  many  other  associated  problems  at 
length."— The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 

"There  is  undoubted  earnestness  of  purpose 
in  the  book.  A  careful  annotation  demonstrates 
indxistry,  as  does  also  a  lengthy  bibliography 
and  a  good  index.  But  neither  sound  method 
nor  thoroughness  controlled  the  choice  or  pres- 
entation of  the  titles  named  in  the  bibliography 
and  muddled  commentary  plus  a  ludicrously 
faulty  style  discredit  the  whole  work.  The  spe- 
cialist will  find  all  that  is  contained  here  in 
volumes  he  already  knows."     J.  B    Peixotto 

H Am    Econ    R   13:525  S   '23  550w 

"There  is  considerable  interesting  material 
gathered  together  from  widely  scattered  sources 
but  the  author  has  perhaps  emphasized  the 
standard  of  living  to  the  exclusion  of  other  fac- 
tors causing  international  dissension  and  has 
not  set  forth  any  very  practicable  methods  for 
making  standards  of  living  more  uniform  other 
than  the  general  suggestion  of  world  coopera- 
tion. 

-{ Am     Pol     Sol     R     17:522     Ag     '23     llOw 

Boston  Transcript  p3  Je  30  '23  650w 

.oo^rn    "^'"les  [London]   Lit  Sup  p731  N  1 
^3  50w 

JORDAN,  DAVID  STARR.  Days  of  a  man; 
being  memories  of  a  naturalist,  teacher,  and 
minor  prophet  of  democracy.  2v  710;906p  il  $15 
World   bk. 

B  or  92 

*  "l^J-  Jordan  says  that  he  has  followed  his 
two-fold  career  of  naturalist  and  teacher  for 
the  love  of  it,  and  has  assumed  the  character 
f  ?  I"'"91  prophet  of  democracy  from  a  sense 
Of  duty.  At  any  rate,  these  distinct  and  parallel 
careers  have  brought  him  into  hundreds  of 
intimate  relationships,  of  which  these  portly 
volumes  tell  the  story.  Long  before  Dr.  Jordan 
had  become  first  president  of  Leland  Stanford 
University  he  had  been  an  enthusiastic  and 
well-trained  naturalist.  The  first  part  of  his 
memoirs  is  largely  given  over  to  accounts  of 
his  zoological  researches  and  expeditions.  Dr. 
Jordan  also  has  much  to  tell  about  university 
development  in  America,  from  the  period  of  the 
early  seventies  to  the  present.  He  gives  a  full 
account  of  Stanford  University's  beginnings 
and  of  the  stress  and  difficulties  of  the  pioneer 
period  in  its  history.  Dr.  Jordan  retired  from 
the  presidency  in  1913,  and  is  now  chancellor 
emeritus.  For  the  past  ten  years  he  has  been 
grently  interested  in  efforts  to  accomplish  world 
peace,  and  his  second  volume  contains  what  is 
essentially  a  history  of  the  American  move- 
ment to   that  end." — R  of  Rs 


Booklist  19:316  Jl  '23 
"His  autobiography  is  a  storehouse  of  tinv 
essavs  on  all  .sorts  of  subjects:  it  abounds  in 
fresh  and  genial  anecdotes:  it  depicts  a  host 
of  famous  men  and  women;  it  tells  in  entranc- 
me  detail  the  storv  of  the  crention  of  a  mar- 
velous University;  It  gives  illuminating  descrip- 
tions of  many  countries  and  cities:  it  cites  many 
original   poems    which   deserve    high   praise    for 


their  grace  and  their  themes;  it  overflows  with 
humorous  turns  which  give  it  a  flavor  all  its 
own,  and  above  all  it  justifies  its  title:  'The 
Days  of  a   Man.'  "     N.   H.   Dole 

+   Boston   Transcript  p5  My  12  '23   2000w 
Reviewed  by  R.  L.  Duffus 

Freeman  7:114  Ap  11  '23  2350w 
"Every  reader  will  find  something  to  interest 
him  in  the  varied  contents  of  these  volumes. 
But  few  readers  are  interested  in  as  many 
things  as  Dr.  Jordan,  consequently  most  read- 
ers will  find  many  things  that  do  not  interest 
them.  His  generous  heart  impels  him  to  say 
a  few  kind  words  about  all  his  students,  asso- 
ciates and  acquaintances  and  these  are  many. 
This  gives  some  sections  a  'Who's  Who'  aspect 
that  adds  to  the  historical  value  of  the  work, 
but  detracts  from  its  readableness."  E.  E. 
Slosson 

+  —  Ind  110:264  Ap  14  '23  llOOw 
"The  autobiography  before  us  sets  down  fail- 
ures and  achievements  objectively  without 
apology  and  without  false  modesty.  It  is 
largely  this  objectivity  that  gives  the  book  its 
value  and  its  charm.  Through  his  ever  pres- 
ent humor  the  author's  personal  qualities  are 
revealed;  a  happily  phlegmatic  disposition,  an 
ample  energy  never  exhausted,  a  character 
temperate,  humane,  courageous,  and  effectual." 
J.   G.    Wales 

+  Lit  R  p518   Mr  10  '23  650w 
"It   is   admirably    illustrated;    it   is   written   in 
clear    and    limpid    English;     it    is     never    dull. 
Though  President  Jordan  declares  that  he  takes 
his   fun   inwardly,    there  is   frequently   a  cheer- 
ful   gleam    of   humor.      It   were    devoutly    to    be 
wished   that    it   may   have   a   wide   reading,    for 
its   whole   atmosphere,    if   one   may   use    such   a 
term,    is   distinctly    humane,    generous,    modest, 
optimistic,   helpful  and  noble."   N.   H.   Dole 
+   N    Y   Times   p7   My   6   '23    2550w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:303  Je  '23 
"In  all  that  he  writes  there  is  movement,   as 
well    as    lucidity    of    expression.      He    is    never 
tedious." 

+  R  of  Rs  67:335  Mr  '23  400w 
"The  interest  of  the  book  lies  first  and  fore- 
most in  its  commentary  on   the  development  of 
the     United     States,     especially     the     Western 
States,   during  the   last  fifty  years." 

-I Spec   130:632   Ap   14    '23    350w 

"Dr.  Jordan  has  used  both  hands  to  stir  up 
the  fire  of  life.  His  autobiography  is  written 
with  the  same  earnest  tumultuous  activity 
which  he  devoted  to  the  days  of  over  seventy 
years.  Two  volumes,  one  of  over  seven  hundred 
pages,  the  other  of  nearly  one  thousand,  are 
the  raw  materials  out  of  which  a  useful  and  in- 
teresting book  might  have  been  made,  and  have 
reached  their  dimensions  only  by  the  inclusion 
of  much  that  would  be  of  minor  interest  even 
if  Dr.  Jordan  were  the  only  literate  representa.- 
tive  of  the  civilization  of  the  United  States." 

-| The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p210  Mr 

22  '23   1400W 

JOSEY,    CHARLES    CONANT,      Race    and    na- 
tional  solidarity.     227p  $2.50  Scribner 

172.4     Internationalism.        Nationalism     and 
nationality.      Race    problems  23-12876 

"This  book  is  a  critical  examination  of  the 
idealism  which  underlies  the  attempts  to  elim- 
inate all  distinctions  between  men  based  on 
race  and  nationality.  It  is,  in  other  words,  an 
inquiry  into  the  validity  of  much  of  our  cur- 
rent social  idealism."  (Preface)  The  conflict  of 
values  and  ideals,  between  a  narrow  nationalism 
which  expresses  itself  in  the  selfishness  and 
jealousies  by  which  Europe  is  now  being  torn 
and  a  broad  humanitarianism  which  decries  pa- 
triotism and  group  loyalty,  the  author  holds 
responsible  for  our  present  lack  of  unity  and 
harmony.  He  uncovers  the  weaknesses  in  ideals 
of  universal  brotherhood  and  argrues  for  a 
frankly  avowed  and  forcefully  directed  domina- 
tion of  the  world  by  the  white  race. 


"One  weakness  of  his  thesis  is  that  it  takes 
no  note  of  the  kind  of  internationalism  which 
would  supplement  and  not  oust  nationalism;  an- 
other  is    its   neglect    to    forecast   at   what   date 


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273 


in  the  future  the  various  nations  forming^  'the 
white  race'  will  be  ready  to  enter  into  the  har- 
monious agreements  needed  for  'the  domina- 
tion of  a  world."  But  his  argTJment  is  well  sus- 
tained throughout,  and  has  at  least  the  rec- 
ommendation that  it  also  contemplates  interna- 
tionalism of  a  kind,  for  he  holds  that  the 
white  domination  he  favors  would  be  likely  to 
yield  'the  maximum  good  to  us  and  to  man- 
kind as  a  whole.'  "   E.   N. 

H Boston  Transcript  p3   N  10  '23  650w 

"The  author  successfully  deflates  illusory  eth- 
ical values  sanctified  by  democracy.  He  is  less 
sound  in  his  reasoning  about  politics  and  eco- 
nomics, and  does  not  take  the  possibly  very  ac- 
tive development  of  the  subject-races  into  con- 
sideration. The  book  lacks  the  trenchant  dry- 
ness that  makes  for  clarity  and  force  in  an  ar- 
gument; too  much  of  it  is  in  the  form  of  a 
pedagogical    peroration." 

—  Dial  75:614  D  '23  lOOw 
"The  thesis  is  clear  enough,  but  its  supports 
and  implications  are  engulfed  in  the  most  up- 
to-date  obscurantism.  He  is  blissfully  igno- 
rant of  anthropology  and  likewise  of  history. 
He  vaguely  implies  that  'internationalism'  is 
identical  with  'cosmopolitanism'  or  Christian 
'humanitarianism'  and  therefore  that  it  is  evil. 
Instead  of  writing  clearly  and  to  the  point  he 
fills  his  pages  with  much  prattle  about  'goods' 
and  'values,'  'intelligence-tests'  and  Frazer's 
'Golden  Bough,'  'herd-instincts'  and  Aztec 
'scapegoats.'  "    C.    J.    H.    Hayes 

h   Freeman  8:308  D  5  '23  1300w 

Reviewed  by  J:   Corbin 

N   Y  Times  pll  Ja  6  '24  700w 
N   Y  Tribune  p27  O  28  '23  130w 
"The   book  is  suggestive  and  stimulating,  but 
rarely  convincing."     J.   G. 

h   N   Y  World  p8e  N  18  '23  750w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p695  O  18 
'23   30w 


JOSEY,   CHARLES  CONANT.   Social  philosophy 

of  instinct.  274p  $2  Scribner 

301  Instinct.    Social  psychology  22-20269 

The  book  undertakes  to  analyze  the  relation- 
ship that  exists  between  human  behavior  and 
instinct  or  inherited  forces  on  the  one  hand, 
and  social  institutions  and  culture  on  the  other; 
to  show  to  what  extent  the  latter  are  the  re- 
sult of  expression  or  repression  of  instinct.  The 
conclusion  arrived  at  is  that  our  behavior,  de- 
sires and  impulses  are  the  results  of  our  ac- 
tivities, determined  by  the  give-and-take  rela- 
tions of  the  individual  to  his  environment  and 
that  institutions  are  neither  expressions  nor  re- 
pressions of  original  nature,  but  its  responses 
to  a  given  set  of  conditions.     Index. 


Reviewed    by    C:    L.    Stone 

Am  Econ  R  13:289  Je  '23  320w 
Cleveland  pl5  F  '23 
"As  a  critic  he  is  finely  equipped;  but  his 
positive  theorizing,  powerful  as  it  is,  one  can 
only  regard  as  an  aberration  from  the  stream 
of  tendency  to  which,  inevitably,  the  most  in- 
telligent of  mankind  must  give  themselves  for 
a  time."   E.    M. 

-I-  —  Freeman  7:623  S  5  '23  600w 
"Professor  Josey  is  not  faultless;  his  book 
is  not  entirely  clear  in  outline,  and  is  repeti- 
tious in  parts.  He  often  overemphasizes  his 
point;  he  sometimes  mistakes  a  criticism  for  a 
refutation.  But  his  task  is  so  necessary,  and 
his  main  contentions  so  sound,  that  to  cavil 
were  ungenerous.  No  one  can  lay  down  the  vol- 
ume without  an  added  appreciation  of  the  gulf 
between  uncritical  dogmatism  and  a  genuinely 
reflective    attitude."    .1:    H.    Randall,    jr. 

H -J    Philos   20:494   Ag  30   '23   1900w 

Reviewed  by  T:  L.  Masson 

N  Y  Times  pl2  Mr  11  '23  600w 
Survey   50:supl87   My   1   '23   380w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p78G  N  30 
'22  20w 


JUNG,  CARL  GUSTAV.  Psychological  types; 
or.  The  psychology  of  individuation;  tr.  by 
H.  Godwin  Baynes.  (International  lib.  of 
psychology,  philosophy  and  scientific  method) 
654p     $7.50     Harcourt     [25s  K.   Paul] 

130  Psychoanalysis.  Individuality.  Char- 
acters and  characteristics  23-9093 
"Everyone  is  familiar  with  the  division  of 
mankind  into  two  general  types:  the  man  who 
is  interested  primarily  in  objects,  people  and 
ideas  for  their  own  sakes,  and  the  man  who 
is  interested  in  them  only  in  so  far  as  they  af- 
fect himself.  Such  general  types  had  been  rec- 
ognized, as  J^ing  shows,  long  before  he  called 
them  'Extraverts'  and  'Introverts'  respective- 
ly. .  .  But  this  is  not  all.  Besides  the  two 
great  classes  there  are  four  sub-classes  in  each, 
according  to  which  'psychological  function'  is 
most  developed.  Jung  distinguishes  in  this  way 
thinking,  sensation,  feeling  and  intuition  types — 
and  an  extravert  and  introvert  variety  of  each, 
making  eight  classes  in  all.  This  is  a  slight 
change  of  teaching;  in  1918  he  identified  the 
thinking  type  with  the  introvert  and  the  feel- 
ing  type   with   the  extravert." — New   Statesman 


"As  the  'deductive  presentation  of  empirically 
gained  understanding'  and  the  opinion  of  a 
highly  gifted  psychologist  intimate  with  the 
'stuff  of  life,'  this  book  presents  an  authentic 
documentation  of  life  as  a  totality.  It  deserves 
the  interest  of  the  novelist  and  the  critic,  and 
invites  judgment."  E:  H.  Reede 
+   Bookm    57:337    My    '23    SOOw 

Boston  Transcript  p6  Je  2  '23  600w 

"Not  until  the  last  page  is  turned  back  does 
one  fully  realize  how  extraordinary  a  work  one 
has  been  reading.  It  is  often  dry,  it  is  some- 
times impossible  to  follow,  and  it  is  never  very 
closely  reasoned.  But  it  is  a  fascinating  book. 
Its  one  idea  is  like  the  intense  stare  of  a  man 
who  has  found  something,  and  this  something 
a   little    uncanny."    E:    Sapir 

-f-   Freeman    8:211    N    '23    2000w 

Reviewed  by  J.  R.  Kantor 

J  Philos  20:636  N  8  '23  2250w 

"The  book  seems  a  notorious  instance  of  that 
pretentious  verbalism,  that  mechanic  of  thought 
without   its  content,    which   justly   brings  learn- 
ing   into    disrepute."    Ii-win    Edman 
—  -f   Nation   117:400   O   17   '23   780w 
Nature   112:88  Jl   21     23   450w 

"Only  an  adherent  of  his  psychology,  patched 
up  as  it  is  from  speculations  long  outgro^, 
can  feel  any  cogency  in  his  reasoning.  The 
book  does  not  aid  the  science  of  psychology;  it 
actually  confuses  it  by  unjustifiable  and  unsup- 
ported assumptions.  Nor  does  it  in  the  review- 
er's opinion  contribute  to  the  technique  or 
analysis.  At  best  it  seems  to  be  but  another  jus- 
tification of  life's  failures  and  to  give  one  more 
shoulder  upon  which  the  weakUng  may  lean. 
J:  B.  "Watson  „„  ,„^„ 

—  New  Repub  36:287  N  7  '23  1950w 

"Such  concepts  as  he  invents  are  of  great 
help  in  psychology,  and.  when  he  is  merely 
elaborating  them.  Dr.  Jung's  work  is  va.luable 
and  important.  The  types  are  as  clearly  de- 
scribed as  can  be  expected,  and  it  is  exceed- 
ingly profitable  that  attention  should  be  drawn 
to  their  distinguishing  characteristics.  But  he 
does  not  stop  there.  He  is  always  feeling  his 
way    towards    irrationality."      W.    J-  ,".!-'■ 

1| New   Statesman    21:22   Ap   14   '23   1600w 

Reviewed  by  M.  K.  Isham 

N   Y   Times   p9  Je  10  '23   3200w 

"Mr  Baynes,  his  able  and  enthusiastic  trans- 
lator here  presents  us  with  'Jung's  crowning 
work.'  WTiat  we  find  in  it  is  that  the  famous 
psychologist  appears  impre.ssivelv  well-in- 
tentioned, enormously  learned,  and  extremely 
muddle-headed." 

-I Sat   R  135:773  Je  9  '23   850w 

"Among  the  psychologists  who  have  some- 
thing of  value  to  tell  us  Dr.  Jung  holds  a  very 
high  place.  He  is  both  sensitive  and  acute: 
and  so,  like  a  great  writer  he  convinces  us  that 
he  is  not  inadequate  to  the  immense  complexi- 


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JUNG,   CARL  GUSTAV — Continued 
ty  and  sublety  of  his  material.   There   is  a   de- 
lightful absence  of  dullness  in  his  comments  on 
human    beings." 

4-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p448    Jl 
5   '23   2100W 


K 


KAHLER,    HUGH    MACNAIR.      East   wind,    and 

other    stories.     301p    $2     Putnam 

23-2805 

A  thread  of  homely,  ancient  wisdom  runs 
thru  these  stories  about  the  fundamental  things 
in  life  without  which  modern  civilization  is  but 
chaff.  In  the  title  story  a  city-bred  revolu- 
tionary worker  who,  in  pursuit  of  his  task  of 
bringing  about  the  downfall  of  capital  and  ally- 
ing himself  with  strikers  for  the  purpose  of 
"boring  from  within,"  is  sent  by  the  organizer 
to  a  farm.  For  the  first  time  in  his  life  he 
gets  an  inkling  of  the  significance  of  agricul- 
ture as  a  bed-rock  industry  and  of  the  neces- 
sity of  long  hours  of  hard  toil.  It  changes  his 
entire  point  of  view.  In  The  failure  a  man 
who  all  his  life  had  been  oppressed  with  a 
sense  of  failure,  from  his  lack  of  ambition, 
but  who  nevertheless  had  done  his  whole 
duty  by  his  family  of  boys,  finds  at  the  end  of 
his  career  that  he  can  afford  to  smile  at  the 
word.  The  other  stories  are:  Like  a  tree;  In 
a  hundred  years:  Davy  Corbutt's  brother;  The 
torch. 


"The  stories  are  not  mere  tracts  on  the  dig- 
nity of  farm  labor.  Each  is  a  character  study 
of  absorbing  interest,  and  each  has  its  ele- 
ment  of   romance  as   well." 

-f-   Int    Bk    R    p57    Mr    '23    320w 

"These  are  vigorous  stories  from  the  point  of 
view  of  the  farmer.  As  narratives  they  are 
thoroughly  readable.  If  their  theses  bother, 
their  author's  decided  knack  as  a  narrator  does 
not.  He  deals  graphically  with  entirely  familiar 
material.  What  he  lacks  are  sensitive  intel- 
lectual insight  and  the  gift  of  a  style."  W:  R. 
Benet 

-\ Lit    R    p599    Ap    14    '23    850w 

Reviewed  by  Glenwav  Westcott 

New    Repub   35:158   Jl   4   '23   70w 

"The  similarity  of  method,  purpose  and  feeling 
throughout  the  stories  makes  the  collection  a 
bit  monotonous.  But  the  central  idea  is  de- 
veloped with  variety  and  clothed  with  fresh- 
ness m  each  instance.  The  studies  are  all 
marked  by  subtle  insight  into  human  nature 
and  deft  skill  in  painting  its  secret,  inmost 
feelings  and  motives  in  words.  Admirable,  too, 
is  the  sincerity  with  which  thev  are  written  " 
-I NY    Times    pl4   Ja    21   '23    600w 

"Mr.  Kahler  is  determined  to  celebrate  not 
only  the  dramatic  poignancy  of  farm  life,  but 
he  insists  on  arguing  about  the  supreme  moral 
worth  of  getting  the  chores  done  by  sundown, 
placating  the  ravenous  hogs,  keeping  the  girls 
away  from  the  artifices  of  college,  bearing 
mterminable  progeny,  and,  above  all  things, 
shunning  the  horror  of  city  life.  He  is  a  little 
too  much  the  peasant's  advocate,  intent  on 
turning  the  mysterious  play  of  life  into  a  prob- 
lem for  farmers  only."  A.  D.  Douglas 
f-   N    Y   Tribune    p30   Ja    28    '23    500w 

Reviewed   by  Heywood   Broun 

N   Y   World  p6e  Mr  11  '23   950w 

KAMM,   OLIVER.   Qualitative  organic  analysis; 

an     elementary    course     in     the     identification 

of   organic     compounds.      260p    il    $2.50    "Wiley 

[12s  6d  Chapman  &  H.] 
543.8   Chemistry,    Organic.    Chemistry,    Ana- 
lytic— Qualitative  23-273 

"Based  on  a  course  at  the  University  of  Ill- 
inois. The  author  is  (1923)  director  of  chemical 
research  for  Parke,  Davis,  &  Co." — Pittsburgh 
Mo  Bui 


KANE,  THOMAS  P.  Romance  and  tragedy  of 
banking;  problems  and  incidents  of  govern- 
mental supervision  of  national  banks.  549p  il 
$5  Bankers  pub. 

332.1   Banks  and  banking — United  States 

23-1519 
"For  thirty-six  years  Mr.  Thomas  P.  Kane 
has  been  in  the  service  of  the  National  Bureau 
of  Currency,  during  the  first  thirteen  years  of 
that-  time  as  Secretary  to  the  Controller,  and 
since  1899  as  Deputy  Controller.  Since  the 
Currency  Bureau  has  direct  supervision  over  all 
the  national  banks  in  the  United  States,  it  fol- 
lows that  when  Mr.  Kane  discusses  the  banking 
business  he  speaks  as  one  having  authority. 
Through  the  reports  of  the  Bank  Examiners  he 
has  been  and  is  in  constant  touch  with  all  ol 
the  national  banks  throughout  the  country.  .  . 
Mr.  Kane  takes  up  the  administration  of  each 
Controller  in  turn,  tells  what  changes  were 
made  in  the  banking  laws  and  in  the  policy 
of  the  bureau  under  each,  lists  the  important 
new  banks  organized,  the  failures  and  the  in- 
stances in  which  banks  have  been  saved  from 
failure  through  the  action  of  the  Controller  and 
his    aids." — N    Y    Times 


"Popular,  not  technical,  is  the  note  of  this 
unusual  but  rarely  interesting  book."     B.  J.  C. 

H Boston  Transcript  p6  Mr  7   "23  1400w 

N  Y  Times  p2  Ja  21  '23  2050w 
"Because    the    book    is    written    with    insight 
and  is  the  work  of  a  qualified   expert  it  should 
prove  of  value  to  all  who  are  interested  in  bank- 
ing."    S.  A.  C. 

-f   N   Y  Tribune  p26  Ap  29  '23  250w 

KAYE-SMITH.    SHEILA.    End  of   the   house   of 
Alard.   353p   $2  Button 

23-12671 

The  Alards  of  Conster  Manor  were  a  Sussex 
family,  holders  of  an  ancient  title  and  broad 
lands  but  an  impoverished  estate,  heavily 
mortgaged,  crushingly  taxed.  The  story  shows 
the  old  house  at  the  end  of  the  war,  beset  by 
forces  from  within  and  without,  going  down 
rapidly  to  its  end.  Peter,  the  heir,  a  slave  to 
the  Alard  convention,  deserts  the  girl  he  loves 
to  marry  money  and  then,  repenting  his  mis- 
take, kills  himself  just  as  the  succession  was 
about  to  fall  to  him.  The  youngest  and  last 
surviving  of  the  four  sons,  who  had  already 
joined  a  Catholic  brotherhood,  refuses  to  be- 
come Sir  Gervase  Alard  and  sells  the  estate 
to  secure  a  fairly  comfortable  living  for  his 
mother  and  sisters.  Only  the  youngest  daughter 
has  the  courage  to  break  away  from  her  tra- 
ditions and  make  a  strike  for  freedom.  She 
marries  for  love  a  sturdy  and  prosperous  yeo- 
man farmer  into  whose  hands  some  of  the 
Alard   lands    had   already   passed. 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bul    28:353    Jl    '23 


Reviewed  by  E.    S.   Sergeant 

Atlantic's    Bookshelf    Ja    '24    550w 
Booklist   20:57   N   '23 
"The    story    is    another    lasting    contribution 
to    Miss    Kaye-Smith's    series    of    stories    about 
the   scenes   and   people   of   Sussex."    E.    F.    E. 
-f-   Boston    Transcript   p4    S    12    '23    750w 

Cleveland   p66   S  '23 

"The  Alard  family  are  not  living  men  and 
women.  They  are  the  portraits  of  a  modish 
generation,  interesting  as  human  curiosities 
perhaps  but  only  for  exhibition  purposes."  Mrs 
Cecil    Chesterton 

h   Ind  111:169  O  13  '23  90w 

"There  are  weaknesses  and  inconsistencies 
in  the  book,  but  it  is  beautifully  written,  it 
holds  the  reader's  attention,  and  its  arguments 
are  worth  careful  and  respectful  consideration. 
'The  End  of  the  House  of  Alard'  is  a  novel  of 
di.'itinction,  which  if  less  finely  artistic  than 
some  of  Miss  Kaye-Smith's  other  work,  is  in- 
ferior only  when  judged  by  the  high  and  rig- 
orous standards  she  has  set  herself."  L.  M. 
Field 

H Int   Bk   R  p41  O  '23  1350w 

"If  some  intellectual  earthquake  should  top- 
ple down  the  reputations  of  living  English 
novelists.  Miss  Sheila  Kaye-Smith's  would  be 
among  the  last   to  fall.     It  stands  solid  on   the 


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rich  Sussex  soil  and  is  built  of  that  loving 
sense  of  the  almost  mystical  relations  between 
man  and  his  environment  which  Cockney 
novelists  do  not  understand  and  clever  novelists 
ignore.  To  this  relationship  her  best  genius  is 
devoted,  from  it  her  peculiar  insight  into  honest 
character  springs,  and  her  style  adorns  it."  H: 
S.   Canby 

+   Lit   R   p39   S  15  '23  720w 

"Here  in  her  latest  work,  as  elsewhere,  Miss 
Kaye-Smith  closes  a  strong  little  fist  on  signi- 
ficant realities.  Probably  her  present  novel  will 
rise  to  the  dignity  of  the  historical — however 
much  that  inay  amount  to — with  the  passing 
of  the  years.  It  is  an  important  socio-historical 
document."    H:    B.    F\iller 

-1-   Nation   117:689   D    12   '23   1050w 

"Excellent  novel  that  it  is.  The  End  of  the 
House  of  Alard  finds  its  chief  importance  in 
that  it  bids  us  turn  back  to  take  account  of 
Miss  Kaye-Smith's  work  as  a  whole  and  look 
forward  to  her  future  of  promise.  It  is  clear 
that  her  earlier  novels,  with  their  rare  and 
delicate  charm  are  not  to  be  lost  among  the 
ephemeridae  of  their  day.  It  is  also  clear  that 
the  prophecy  which  one  was  inclined  to  make 
after  Joanna  Godden  is  being  fulfilled  in  work 
of  larger  scope  and  meaning."  R.  M.  Lovett 
+   New   Repub   36:157   O   3   '23   1500w 

Reviewed  bv  Raymond   Mortimer 

New  Statesman   21:621   S  8  '23  1550w 

"The  author  has  chosen  a  timely  and  moving 
subject  for  her  latest  novel,  but  in  its  work- 
ing out,  it  must  be  owned,  'The  End  of  the 
House  of  Alard'  becomes  rather  an  affair  of 
shreds  and  patches.  .  .  Sheila  Kaye-Smith 
knows  and  loves  her  East  Sussex,  and  her 
novel  is  steeped  in  atmosphere  that  makes 
rich  amends  for  all  failings." 

H NY   Times  pl4   S   9   '23   1200w 

"Miss  Kaye-Smith  has  the  narrative  gift 
completely  to  equip  her  for  the  unfolding  of  the 
tale,  and  she  has  the  knowledge  of  Sussex 
life  and  character  essential  to  the  presenta- 
tion of  the  proper  background  and  environment. 
Constant  to  her  pages  is  the  note  of  inevita- 
bility; prevalent  as  well  is  the  suggestion  of 
pathos.  .  .  'The  End  of  the  House  of  Alard' 
adds  itself  worthily  to  the  growing  list  of  its 
author's  works  in  the  higher  fiction."  E.  W 
Osborn 

+   N    Y    World    p8e    S    9    '23   350w 

"In  some  ways  "Tbe  End  of  the  House  of 
Alard'  reminds  one  of  the  best  of  Archibald 
Marshall's  stories  rather  than  of  'Joanna  God- 
den.' It  is  wrought  out  with  care  and  deliber- 
ateness  and  deals  v/ith  its  theme  in  a  masterly 
manner."     R.   D.   Townsend 

+  Outlook   135:149    S   26   '23    520w 

"Miss  Kaye-Smith,  with  a  large  view,  a  real 
power  of  imagining  character  and  incident,  has 
here  forced  the  facts  in  the  attempt  to  make 
them  prove  a  thesis  with  a  neatness  and  com- 
pleteness utterly  foreign  to  reality.  .  .  'The  End 
of  the  House  of  Alard'  is  less  good  than,  say, 
'Joanna  Godden,'  because  it  is  lopped  into  an 
artificial  pattern,  not  created  naturally  as  the 
characters  live  and  grow.  Still,  the  book  is  ad- 
mirably written  and  deeply  interesting."  Gerald 
Gould 

-I Sat   R   136:281   S  8  "23   470w 

"No  one  could  read  'The  End  of  the  House  of 
Alard'  without  interest  or  without  emotion;  but 
the  interest  is  the  interest  we  feel  In  a  problem 
deftly  worked  out,  and  the  emotion  is  the  emo- 
tion that  necessarily  arises  from  the  skilful 
handling  of  tragic  events,  not  from  the  direct 
apprehension  of  their  reality."  L.  P.  Hartley 
-f  Spec  131:358  S  15  '23  900w 

"The  tragedy  is  convincing,  the  characters 
are  real  enough  and  the  situation  has  Indubi- 
table precedents.  But  the  novel  does  not  convey 
the  sense,  of  intense  emotion  as  do  'Tamarisk 
Town'  and  'Joanna  Godden.'  The  people  of  the 
new  novel  are  all  creatioris  of  honest,  sound 
craft.=!man.shin,  but  scnrcely  the  Intimate  friends 
of  long  periods  of  musing  and  ruminating." 

H Sprlngf'd    Republican   p7a  O   7    '23   600w 

"There  are  many  moments  when  Miss  Kaye- 
Smith  seems  rather  to  be  set  on  stating  a  case 
in  plain,  comprehensive  language  than  in  tell- 
ing a  story  which  is  to  move  the  emotions:  and 


she  nas  added  lo  the  monitory  and  hortatory 
effect  of  this  work  by  making  it  also  the  vehicle 
of  tendencious  religious  sentiment,  Anglo- 
Catholic  in  type,  which  over-balances  the  struc- 
ture. She  has  still  her  limpid  distinction  of 
style  and  her  capacity — rather  sparely  used 
here — for  the  telling  sentence  of  shrewd  hu- 
mour. But  she  has  not  found  the  magic  touch 
that,  in  'The  Forsyte  Saga,'  fused  the  human 
beings  with  the  impersonal  thing  of  which  they 
were  a  part." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p571   Ag 

30    '23   650w 

KEABLE,  ROBERT.  Peradventure;  or.  The 
silence  of  God.  353p  $2  Putnam  [7s  6d 
Constable] 

23-2808 
The  story  of  the  religious  adventures  of  an 
emotional  and  artistic  youth.  At  eighteen  he 
IS  an  eager  Evangelical,  holding  open-air  meet- 
ings and  planning  to  be  a  foreign  missionary. 
He  goes  up  to  Cambridge  and  his  friendships 
there  open  him  to  the  influence  of  various 
shades  of  belief  and  unbelief.  Skepticism, 
Anglicanism,  agnosticism  make  their  appeal 
and  he  just  escapes  being  converted  to  Catholi- 
cism. At  the  close  of  the  book  he  has  reached 
a  vague  kind  of  paganis.u,  but  he  is  still  young 
and   his    quest    can    hardly    be    over. 


Booklist    19:253    My    '23 

"Although  it  is  a  novel  with  a  full  share  of 
the  interest  which  attaches  to  a  good  story 
It  IS  something  more.  .  .  'Peradventure'  is  "a 
fine,  brave  novel,  worthv  of  the  most  thought- 
ful consideration,  for  it  plunges  to  the  heart 
of  the  spiritual  turmoil  of  our  day."  D  L 
Mann 

-h   Boston    Transcript    p5    Ja    27    '23    1300w 

"Mr.  Keable  has  the  gift  of  dramatic  presen- 
tation; his  book,  instead  of  being  stodgily  dog- 
matic, is  deeply  interesting.  We  care  what 
happens  to  Paul  and  that  caring  about  what 
happens  to  a  fictional  character  is  to  a  great 
extent  the  measure  of  a  novel's  interest." 
L.    M.    Field 

+    Int     Bk     R     p29    F    '23    780w 

"This  new  novel  is  lacking  in  coherence, 
and  Its  character  drawing  is  not  always  so 
sharp  and  firm  of  outline  as  it  might  be — 
again  the  theological  treatise  intrudes  and  the 
people  are  loo  much  lay  figures  disposed  by 
the  hand  of  the  drama-maker  in  their  proper 
attitudes  rather  than  appearing  as  God  in- 
tended they  should.  'Peradventure'  marks  no 
perceptible  growth  in  the  artistic  stature  of 
Its  writer.  He  remains  a  writer  of  promise 
rather    than    of    fulfilment."       Herschel    Brickell 

h    Lit    R    p464    F    17    '23    4S0w 

Nation    116:525    My    2    '23    lOw 

"This  novel  is  well  written  and  well  thought. 
It  is  really  a  study  in  religious  experience, 
though  character  is  never  sacrificed,  and  all 
the  many  religious  discussions  are  strictly  in 
place.  Mr.  Keable  has  performed  a  very  diffi- 
cult task  extremely  well,  and  it  is  a  pleasure 
to  read  work  so  competent  and  so  intelligent." 
Forrest    Reid 

-h    Nation    and    Ath    32:128    O    21    '22    120w 

"The  book  rings  hollow;  the  figures  are  not 
real,  but  become  merely  mouthpieces  for  the 
presentation  of  a  few  of  the  many  confiicting 
theories   of   Christianity." 

—  N     V    Times    pl4    Ja    21    '23     700w 

"The  chief  defect  of  this  book  is  the  least 
excusable,  considering  its  author's  equipment. 
It  doesn't  tell  a  story.  It  merely  relates  a 
string  of  episodes.  That  is  because  of  the 
character  of  the  hero,  for,  with  all  his  pleasing 
qualities,  Paul  had  no  backbone;  hence  his 
history  has  no  structure.  Mr.  Keable  can 
write.  He  is  obvious  and  shallow  to  the  last 
degree,  but  he  is  lucid,  brisk,  graphic.  He 
has  the  primary  merit  of  being  easy  to  read." 
Isabel    Paterson 

1-   N    Y    Tribune    p20    Ja    21    '23    1500w 

"One  cannot  but  admire  Mr.  Keable's  honesty 
and  charity:  the  vividness  of  his  writing  is 
remarkable:  but  his  conclusion  is  very  unsatis- 
factory."     Gerald   Gould 

H Sat    R    134:554    O    14    '22    300w 


276 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


KEABLE,    ROBERT — Continued 

"The     book    is    restrained    and    truthful,    but 
not    vitally    interesting." 

Springf'd    Republican  p7a  F  25  '23   180w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p598    S 
21   '22  600w 

KEEN,  WILLIAIVI  WILLIAIVIS.  I  believe  in  God 
and  in  evolution.   lOOp  $1  Lippincott 

575  Evolution.  Religion  and  science  23-979 
This  little  book  is  an  expansion  of  a  much 
quoted  address  at  Crozer  theological  seminary. 
Writing  from  the  point  of  view  of  a  surgeon  of 
long  experience,  Dr  Keen  affirms  his  belief  both 
in  God  and  in  evolution  and  in  the  harmony 
of  science  and  religion.  He  argues  man's  as- 
cent from  the  low^er  animals  by  the  many  re- 
velations of  identical  organs  and  physiological 
processes  in  the  animal  and  the  human  body. 


Booklist   19:236   My   '23 
"The  argument   is  somewhat   unique.     It  is  a 
very  convincing  little  book   and  should   be  read 
by   every   searcher   after   the   truth   in   both    re- 
ligion  and  science." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  Ja  6  "23  320w 
"It  is  very  difficult  to  know  what  to  say  about 
this  book.  One  cannot  but  praise  the  genuine 
faith  of  its  writer  in  Christianity.  But  the 
book  itself  is  but  a  rather  scrappy  elucidation 
of  the  thesis,  which  surely  cannot  require  prov- 
ing  to-day." 

Cath  World  116:861  Mr  '23  250w 
"An    exceptionally    readable    little    book." 

J    Religion   3:334  My  '23  30w 
Reviewed  by  G.   B.   Smith 

J    Religion   3:437   .Tl   '23  350w 
Lit    R    p726    My    26    '23    70w 
"Dr.    Keen's    essay    is    simple    and    succinct: 
even  Mr.  Bryan  ought  to  bo  able  to  understand 
it."     I'j.    Brown 

4-  —  Nation   116:753  .Te  27  '23  80w 
N    Y   Times   pl5  F  4   '23   1450w 
Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui   28:165  Ap  '23 
Springf'd   Republican  plO  N  20  '23  22Uw 
Survey  49:818  Mr  15  '23  20w 

KEITH,    MARIAN.     Bells  of  St   Stephen's.   336p 

$1.75    Doran 

The  soul  of  the  story  is  Mary  Erskine,  niece 
of  Dr  Sutherland,  rector  of  St  Stephen's.  When 
she  comes  to  live  with  her  uncle  all  the  young 
people  of  the  town's  61ite  are  interested  in  social 
entei'prises  for  the  raising  of  money  for  church 
chimes.  But  Mary  finds  other  interests,  in 
Sawdust  Alley  and  in  the  slums  of  the  town 
clustering  about  the  saw-mills.  She  spends  her 
time  between  the  children  of  the  poor  and  their 
mothers,  dodging  both  the  social  accompani- 
ments of  the  genteel  and  aloof  charities  of  the 
rich  and  the  too  assiduous  attentions  of  the 
young  owner  of  the  saw-mill.  Between  her 
efforts  she  still  finds  time  for  the  pursuit  of 
romance.  Events  culminate  in  a  catastrophe 
that  puts  an  end  to  the  saw-mill  and  to  Saw- 
dust Alley,  at  one  blow,  and  wakes  up  the  good 
church  people  to  a  truer  conception  of  Christian 
zeal,  in  consequence  of  which  a  plain  bell  takes 
the  place  of  the  coveted  chimes. 


"There  are  few  thrills,  if  thrills  are  what  you 
want  but  a  vast  deal  of  wholesome  humanity." 
+   Boston  Transcript  p4  F  28  '23  420w 
Cleveland    p43   Je    '23 
"Cocktails,   cigarets,   jazz   and   petting  parties 
are     conspicuous     by     their     absence    and     yet, 
strange  as  it  may  seem,  there  is  not  a  dull  page 
in    the   book.      And    what    a   relief   it   is   to   read 
a  modern   novel  without   feeling  that  one  really 
ought   to  blush!" 

-f  Int  Bk  R  p58  Mr  '23  220w 
Lit  R  p772  Je  16  '23  320w 
"A  quietly  fashioned,  rather  pleasing  narra- 
tive, a  romance  placed  against  a  background 
of  quaint  Scotch  characters.  Miss  Keith's  abil- 
ity as  a  novelist  is  limited,  but  within  those 
limits  she  is  excellent,  capturing  a  delightful 
spirit  of  youth  and  romance  that  should  please 


most  readers.  There  is  a  deal  of  humor  in  the 
novel,  which  moves  along  at  a  fair  gait." 
-f-  N  Y  Times  p24  P  18  '23  120w 
"There's  a  fine  background  of  sturdy  Scotch 
characters,  a  pretty  romance,  an  atmosphere 
of  irrepressible  youth,  and  a  bubbling  sense  of 
humor  pervading   the  story." 

4-  Springf'd     Republican     p7a     My     13     '23 
250w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p473    Jl 
12   '23   30w 

KELLAND,  CLARENCE  BUDINGTON.   Contra- 
band.   302p   $2   Harper 

23-5359 
Carmel  Lee,  an  impulsive  young  girl,  just  out 
of  college,  inherits  an  almost  bankrupt  small- 
town paper.  The  town  itself  is  in  the  hands  of 
a  scoundrel  who  thru  his  money  power  controls 
both  business  interests  and  politics  and  is  the 
leading  spirit  and  chief  profiteer  in  a  large 
scale  rum-running  industry.  The  sheriff  of  the 
town  has  just  disappeared  mysteriously,  crime 
is  rife  and  the  town  asleep.  "When  Carmel  finds 
that  she  also  is  in  the  hands  of  Abner  Fownes, 
who  is  resolved  to  make  her  his  tool  or  crush 
her,  she  is  as  determined  to  win  out  against 
him.  She  engages  a  pedagogical  failure,  an 
automaton  of  logic  and  learning,  Evan  Bartholo- 
mew Pell,  A.B.,  Ph.D.,  L.L.D.,  A.M.,  to  assist 
her,  and  together  they  raise  considerable  dust. 
The  town  is  awakened  from  its  lethargy,  the 
liquor  traffic  is  shown  up  and  stopped,  Abner 
Fownes  and  his  criininal  retainers  meet  their 
doom  and  the  learned  Evan  finds  his  feet  as  a 
human  being  and  his  heart  as  a  lover. 


Booklist  19:319  Jl  '23 
"There  may  be  some  readers,  (there  are 
annoying  people  of  that  kind  in  the  world)  who 
will  object  that  neither  Carmel  nor  the  story 
are  'credible.'  But  what  of  it?  No  one  can 
say  truthfully  that  the  story  is  not  entertaining. 
Never  expecting  the  'credible'  in  this  increas- 
ingly incredible  world,  we  have  but  one  fault 
to  find;  that  the  delectable  Tubal  and  Simmie 
are  not  brought  upon  the  stage  more  frequently, 
and  kept  there  longer."   F.   B. 

-^ Boston   Transcript  p4  Mr  21   '23  800w 

Lit    R   p835  Jl  14  "23   150w 
"For    the    most    part    the    dialogue    rings    true 
and   the   plot   is   cheerfully   diverting.' 
-j-  N  Y  Times  p27  Mr  25  '23  220w 
"It   is  an   exciting  story.     The   situations  are 
tense    and    dramatic;    the   ovitcome    uncertain    to 
the    last     minute.     Besides    which    'Contraband' 
contains   a    pleasant   little    romance    and    plenty 
of     good     material      for     the     movies."      Edith 
Leighton 

-i-   N   Y  Tribune  p24   Mr  25  '23  360w 
Reviewed  by  E.  W.   Osborn 

N  Y  World  p8e  Mr  18  '23  250w 

"Kelland    is    both    a    humorist    and    a    mellow 
dramatist  as  proved   bv  this  interesting  story." 
+  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  Jl  8   '23  180w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:133   My  '23 

KELLEY,    EDITH    SUMMERS.    Weeds.    333p    $2 
Harcourt 

23-12959 

Portraying  the  monotonous,  drudging  life  of 
the  small  tenant  farmers  of  the  tobacco  fields 
of  Kentucky,  this  story  centers  around  Judith 
Pippinger.  She  is  born  amidst  the  same  drab 
surroundings  as  her  sisters  and  neighbors,  but 
has  spirit,  beauty,  and  a  restless  seeking  for  a 
purpose  in  life.  She  is  more  interested  in  barn- 
yard doings  and  nature's  moods  than  in  affairs 
of  the  house.  Growing  up  into  young  woman- 
hood, she  retains  her  vitality  and  vivid  beauty. 
A  period  of  glorious  freedom  follows  her  mar- 
riage with  Jerry  Blackford,  then  her  firstborn 
initiates  her  into  routine  and  drudgery.  With 
each  succeeding  child,  she  becomes  more  re- 
bellious and  hardens  her  heart  against  Jerry. 
Her  last  baby's  narrow  escape  from  death, 
however,  brings  reconciliation,  and  with  It 
calm  acceptance  of  her  position  and  her  future, 
both   her  own   and  her  children's. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


277 


"An    admirable    venture    in    the    writing-    of 
novels,  one  much  to  he  commended."  F.   A.   G. 
+   Boston    Transcript   p8   N    21   '23    900w 

"For  rne,  the  chief  blemish  in  'Weeds'  lies  in 
the  author's  tendency  to  over-emphasize  items 
of  mere  physical  unseemliness  and  squalor.  But 
her  work  as  a  whole  is  on  the  upper  plane  of 
realism;  it  has  not  only  verisimilitude  but  dig- 
nity and  force."  H.  W.  Bovnton 
+  —  Ind    111:288  D  8  '23   780w 

"There  are  parts  where  the  reader  is  devout- 
ly thankful  that  the  author  has  gone  no  fur- 
ther in  her  suprg-estive  descriptions,  while  those 
who  like  a  'little  smut'  in  their  books  will  not 
be  disappointed,  for  it  is  there — handled  in  a 
suggestive  but  veiled  manner;  and  it  is  there 
because  it  is  a  part  of  the  life  of  these  people, 
so  well  portrayed,  and  completes  the  picture 
The  passages  dealing  with  Judith's  love  of 
nature  are  beautiful  in  contrast  with  the  rest." 
h  Int    Bk    R   p74   D  '23   210w 

Reviewed   bv   S.    P.    Sherman 

Lit   R  p363   D  15  '23  1400w 

"Without  being  tremendously  original  in  either 
style  or  feeling.  Miss  Kelley's  story  of  the  to- 
bacco growers  hidden  away  among  the  Ken- 
tucky hills  is  thoroughly  sound,  and  leaves  upon 
the  render  a  genuinely  sober  impression."  J.  W. 
Krutch 

H Nation  118:65  Ja  16  '24  900w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  18  '23  250w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:509  D  '23 

KELLEY,    ETHEL    MAY.      Heart's    blood.    205p 

?2    Knopf 

23-11808 

Ostensibly  the  story  is  the  account  of  a 
girl's  experiences  written  down  by  her  as  they 
occurred.  She  is  a  puritanically  reared  Cape  Cod 
girl  and  loves  David,  the  husband  of  her  cousin 
Lila,  a  frivolous  and  passionate  girl.  Gwenny, 
on  the  other  hand,  is  serious  and  quiet  and  her 
love  is  deeply  rooted.  David  seeks  her  out 
when  Lila  neglects  him  and  Gwenny  fondly 
dreams  that  his  feeling  goes  deeper  than  friend- 
ship. When  Lila  finally  leaves  David,  gets  a 
divorce  and  marries  another  man,  Gwenny,  who 
by  this  time  is  worn  out  nursing  a  sick  mother, 
is  cruelly  disillusioned.  David  takes  another 
light  woman  and  Gwenny  an  overdose  of  the 
sedative    prescribed    by    her    doctor. 


"It  is  unusually  refreshing  to  discover  a 
Cape  Cod  novel  in  which  the  characters  speak 
like  ordinary  human  beings.  Certainly  'Heart's 
Blood'  loses  nothing  by  not  being  thrown  into 
dialect."      D.    L.    M. 

-f  Boston    Transcript   p4    O    3   '23    1200w 

"Here  is  a  new  voice  from  New  England 
bringing  new  tidings.  One  may  easily  point 
out  what  the  work  of  Miss  Kelley  owes  to  her 
literary  predecessors.  With  the  exception  of 
her  appreciation  of  the  worthy  word — which  is 
not  necessarily  derived  from  Henry  James — the 
resemblances  are  far  less  vital  than  the  dif- 
ferences. What  she  has  given  of  the  true  and 
beautiful  from  her  own  experience  more  than 
pays  her  debt.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the 
novel  is  her  medium  and  that  the  earthy  prob- 
lem of  the  Yankee  folk  is  her  material."  J:  J. 
Smertenko 

-t-   Lit    R    p60    S    22    '23    900w 
Nation  117:331  S  26  '23  160w 
New   Repub   37:26   N   28   '23   220w 

"There  is  a  compactness  in  'Heart's  Blood' 
that  is  admirable.  It  takes  Miss  Kelley  only 
205  pages  to  draw  four  full  length  portraits  and 
thrust  them  through  the  crises  of  their  lives. 
In  an  era  of  so  much  over-writing  such  a 
disciplined  style  is  to  be  commended.  When 
she  cares  to  do  so  Miss  Kelley  can  write  in  a 
rich    and    poignant    style." 

-f  N    Y    Times   pl5   S    9    '23    650w 

"Perhaps  its  novelty  as  a  story  of  life  on 
Cape  Cod  lies  in  its  being  really  a  portrayal  of 
life  and  character  merely  made  concrete  with 
and  illustrated  by  prototypes  conforming  to 
the  accidental  characteristics  proper  to  Barn- 
stable   county.      Frequently    this    emphasis    is 


reversed     in     stories    of     the    CJape.       'Heart's 
Blood'    is   the- stronger    for   making   the   funda- 
mental   n\ore   important    than    the    accidental." 
+  Sprjngf d  Republican  p7a  S  16  '23  450w 

KELLOGG,    VERNON     LYMAN.        Human    life 
as    the    biologist    sees    it.    140p    $1.50    Holt 

570.4        Biology  22-25160 

In  the  Colver  lectures  for  1921  at  Brown  uni- 
versity, the  author  discusses  the  biological  as- 
pects of  human  life  and  its  origin,  the  problem 
of  social  inheritance  and  human  nature  in  con- 
nection with  war,  the  problem  of  eugenics  and 
of   death,    immortality   and    the   soul. 


Booklist   19:306    Jl   "23 

Boston    Transcript  p7   Ja  27   '23   270w 

"The  book  is  written  with  notable  charity 
and  simplicity — barring  an  occasional  careless 
relapse  into  an  over-long  and  complicated 
sentence — and  needs  little  or  no  previous  knowl- 
edge of  biological  science  to  be  read  with  ap- 
preciation." 

+   N    Y    Times    p27    Ja   21    '23    950w 

"I  wager  that  'Human  Life  as  the  Biologist 
Sees  It'  is  the  clearest,  most  authoritative  and 
most  thrilling  discussion  in  brief  form  of  evolu- 
tion and  some  of  its  chief  problems  that  can 
be  found  in  the  book  shops — an  ideal  presenta- 
tion of  what  the  unbigoted  biologist  can  tell 
his  fellow  men  not  only  through  his  function 
as  historian,  but  in  his  role  as  prophet  in  which 
probably  inheres  his  highest  usefulness."  Will 
Cuppy 

-I-   N  Y   Tribune   pl8   Jl   22   '23   1300w 

KELLY,  ERNEST,  and  CLEMENT,  CLAR- 
ENCE ELBERT.  Market  milk.  445p  il  -$3.75 
Wiley 

637.1  Milk  23-2790 

Sanitary    control    and    business    methods    fo? 

large-scale  handling  of  milk  to  be  consumed  in 

liquid    form    rather    than    converted    into    other 

dairy   products." — Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 

Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:419  O  '23 

KELLY,    FRED   CHARTERS.     Fun   of  knowing 
folks;  a  book  about  you  and  me;  with  a  fore- 
word  by   Samuel   G.    Blythe.    210p   $1    McClurg 
814  23-9626 

"Fred.  C.  Kelly  puts  human  nature  under  the 
magnifying  glass.  The  book  consists  of  two 
dozen  brief  papers  of  unequal  length  in  which 
the  author  discourses  upon  various  traits  of 
people  as  a  whole.  'Why  we  dress,'  'How  en- 
vironment affects  us,'  'Revealing  ourselves  in 
letters,'  'Liars,'  'Words  you  couldn't  do  with- 
out.' are  some  of  the  chapter  headings.  Mr 
Kelly  describes  his  book  as  a  sort  of  rambling 
excursion  into  fields  of  everyday  human  nature. 
'Unconsciously  we  are  always  studying  each 
other  and  making  comparisons,'  he  says.  'Every- 
body's favorite  character  is  himself,  and  other 
people  are  interesting  in  proportion  to  their 
ability  to  remind  him  of  himself." — Springf'd 
Republican 

"In  writing  about  such  material  it  should  be 
possible  to  be  very  wise  or  very  funny  and  at 
times  very  dull.  Mr.  Kelly  has  succes.sfully 
evaded  all  three  opportunities.  Through  a 
modicum  of  human  interest  he  has  managed  to 
talk  engaginglv  about  the  commonplace  inci- 
dents and  habits  of  hfe  as  it  trickles  on  from 
day  to  day.  Sometimes  he  is  amusingly  in- 
formative."    W.   E.  H. 

-t-  Boston    Transcript    p3   Jl   28    '23    500w 

"A  series  of  mildly  entertaining  essays  on 
things  in  general,  from  marriage  to  astrology. 
Mr.  Kelly  writes  fluently  and  is  not  without 
humor." 

H Lit    R    pl64   O   20   '23    280w 

"His  pages  show  that  he  knows  human  na- 
ture through  and  through  and  that  he  is 
familiar  with  a  thousand  and  one  little  ways  in 
which  it  reveals  its  keynotes,  its  springs  of 
action,  its  subconscious  aims.  Many  a  sentence 
will  surprise  many  a  reader,  so  unerringly  will 


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KELLY,  F.  C. — Continued 

its  half  dozen  or  so  words  go  straight  to  the 
heart  of  some  personal  foible  and  reveal  its 
unsuspected    significance." 

+   N   Y   Times  p20  Je   3   '23   720w 
"The  book  is  an  interesting  one  to  pick  up  at 
odd   moments   and    discover    something   new   or 
old  about  oneself  and  the  rest   of  folks." 

+  Sprlngf  d   Republican  p7a  Ag  5  "23  180w 

KELLY,  GEORGE  EDWARD.  Torch-bearers;  a 
satirical  comedy  in  three  acts;  preface  by 
Kenneth  Ma.cGowan.  213p  $2  Am.  library  ser- 
vice 

812  23-15853 

The  play  is  a  satirical  comedy  with  amateur 
theatricals  and  the  little  theater  movement  as 
its  target.  "A  business  man  reaches  his  home 
after  a  trip  and  finds  his  wife  entrusted  with 
the  principal  rOle  of  a  one-act  play.  The  first 
act  is  taken  up  with  the  final  rehearsal,  in 
which  his  wife's  acting  proves  so  terrible  that 
he  faints  away,  recovering  from  his  attack 
only  in  time  to  attend  the  actual  performance 
on  the  next  evening.  We  see  the  performance 
from  behind  the  scenes  in  the  second  act,  but 
the  husband  witnesses  it  among  the  phantom 
audience,  until  he  is  again  overcome.  In  the 
final  scene  he  tells  his  wife  that  her  acting  was 
criminal  and  he  forbids  her  ever  to  'act' 
again."    (Playground) 


of  the  Atlantic,  into  the  Mediterranean,  to  the 
United  States,  where  he  spent  two  years  on  the 
Great  Lakes;  to  the  African  coasts,  across  the 
Pacific.  The  most  interesting  chapters  of  the 
book  are  those  that  tell  the  story  of  his  ship- 
wreck in  the  South  Pacific." — N  Y  Times 


"A  delightful  piece  of  foolery — a  drama  of 
Intelligent    nonsense."    L.    B. 

-f  Freeman    7:930    Jl   11    '23    80w 

"  'The  Torch-Bearers' — as  Broadway  has 
already  half  forgotten — passed  under  the  crit- 
icisms of  the  dramatic  editors  not  very  long 
ago.  They  were  right  in  declaring  it  funny. 
Certain  elements,  however,  which  were  very 
telling  on  the  stage,  lose  much  of  their  glamour 
and  their  vigor  on  the  printed  page."  Leo 
Markun 

h  N   Y  Tribune  p21  My  13  '23  320w 

KENDALL,    ARTHUR    ISAAC.   Civilization    and 
2    the    microbe.    231p    il    $2.50    Houghton 

589.95    Bacteriology.     Micro-organisms 

23-12992 

This  clear  and  non-technical  account  of  the 
marvelous  activities  of  bacteria  shows  the  use- 
ful and  important  part  microbes  play  in  the 
economy  of  nature  and  in  everyday  life.  It  shows 
that  "in  reality  civilization  owes  much  to  the 
microbe,"  that  in  time  even  the  antagonistic 
bacteria  will  be  controlled  and  that  one  day 
these  countless  multitudes  of  unseen  toilers  will 
be  put  to  work  in  the  interests  of  mankind. 

"The  history  of  bacteriology  is  here  enter- 
tainingly set  forth;  the  theories  of  Ehrlich  and 
Metchnikoff  are  discussed,  with  the  conclusion 
that  neither  is  wholly  correct.  Altogether  it  is 
a  most  readable  and  informing  book."  L.  H. 
Smith 

-1-   Nation  118:15  Ja  2  '24  350w 

"While  often  vague  and  cryptic,  with  themes 
developed  out  of  logical  sequence,  it  will  be  of 
interest  to  readers  who  already  know  something 
about  bacteriology." 

h  Outlook  135:416  N  7  '23  llOw 

KENLON,  JOHN.  Fourteen  years  a  sailor.   320p 

il   $2   Doran 

B  or  92     Seafaring   life  23-8442 

"New  York's  Fire  Chief  has  already  told  the 
story  of  his  long,  strenuous  and  very  successful 
career  in  the  city's  servnce  in  his  book  'Fires 
and  Firefighters,'  and  now  in  this  new  work 
he  describes  the  preparation  he  had  had  for 
that  kind  of  a  job  in  his  fourteen  years  of  life 
at  sea.  His  narrative  of  that  time,  from  his 
thirteenth  to  his  twenty-seventh  year,  shows  it 
to  have  been  well  spiced  with  dangers,  emer- 
gencies and  crises.  .  .  He  progressed  rapidly, 
and  at  20  was  the  second  officer  of  a  steamer 
running  on  the  western,  southern  and  northern 
coasts  of  Europe.  And  it  was  not  much  longer 
before  he  was  in  command  of  a  ship.  His 
voyages  took  him  all  about  the  eastern  shores 


Booklist  20:18  O  '23 
"It    is    a    simple,    straightforward    narrative, 
told  without  any  attempt  at  literary  embellish- 
ment,  and   its  very   simplicity  makes   it  all   the 
more    effective." 

+   Int   Bk   R   p46  Je  '23   1200w 
Lit   R  p49  S   15  '23  500w 
"It  is  a  narrative  both  entertaining  and  thrill- 
ing,   and,    while    it    will    deeply    interest    adult 
readers   who  care   for  life  stories  of  adventure, 
it  will  be  a  particularly  good  book  for  boys." 
-t-   N   Y   Times  p20  Ap  29  '23  650w 
"The   hook   is   written   in   a  curious,    old-fash- 
ioned   style    that    has    vigor,    devotedness    and 
honesty    in    narrative.    .    .    It   is   all   interesting 
and    has    the    ring    of    truth    about    it."     Milton 
Raison 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p20  Je  3  '23  800w 
"His  story  of  his  adventures  is  refreshing  in 
that  we  are  spared  the  course  of  brutalities 
that  writers  of  sea  books  usually  seem  to  find 
necessary  to  perfect  their  yarns.  There  is 
roughness  and  some  fine  fighting,  but  for  the 
rest  our  author  served  under  good  Captains 
with  decent  men  in  the  crews." 

-I-  N  Y  World  p9e  Ap  22  '23  350w 

KENNARD,  DOROTHY  KATHERINE  (BAR- 
CLAY)  lady.  Career.  395p  $1.90  Century  [7s 
6d   Heinemann] 

23-6946 
The  conflict  between  love  and  career  is  the 
theme  of  this  story  of  diplomatic  circles  in 
Constantinople  during  pre-war  days.  The  lova 
story  is  that  of  a  young  British  under-secretary, 
James  Fanshaw,  and  a  beautiful  Levantine  girl, 
Irene  Ducane,  of  doubtful  origin  and  reputation, 
but  with  idealism  which  prompts  her  to  appall- 
ing sacrifice.  The  other  element  of  the  plot  has 
to  do  with  the  procuring  of  valuable  oil  con- 
cessions, under  the  control  of  Ishmael  Pasha,  a 
Syrian  Jew,  and  played  for  by  the  French, 
German  and  British  governments.  When,  thru 
an  infamous  offer  made  to  Irene  by  Ishmael, 
the  key  to  the  situation  passes  into  her  hands, 
she  chooses  to  sacrifice  her  own  love  for  the 
sake  of  her  lover's  career. 


"It  is  hard  to  imagine  a  book  more  thoroughly 
suited  to  dramatization  than  Lady  Kennard's. 
After  the  first  hundred  pages,  which  move 
slowly  but  not  dully,  the  action  takes  place  in 
vivid  scenes  playing  up  admirably  juxtaposed 
forces,  and  all  drawing  to  a  tense  climax." 
-I-   Int    Bk    R    p58    My    '23    400w 

"The  atmosphere  of  Constantinople  does  not 
permeate  the  story.  Local  color  is  fragmen- 
tary. The  author  overemphasizes  the  national 
characteristics  of  her  people;  most  of  her 
characters  lacking  individuality,  being  simply 
puppet-like   racial   types." 

—  Lit    R   p280   Jl   7   "23   220w 

"Since  the  characters  refuse  to  emerge  into 
human  beings,  the  author  points  to  their  en- 
semble effect  to  justify  labeling  them  diplo- 
matic life  and  atmosphere.  Unfortunately,  this 
magic  cannot  create  the  spell  of  reality;  the 
blurred  details,  lacking  in  contrast  of  light  and 
shade,  have  produced  a  blurred,  monotonous 
picture." 

—  NY  Times  pl7  Ap  22  '23  500w 

"The  characters,  granted  that  they  are  not 
actual  portraits,  are,  nevertheless,  so  well 
drawn  that  they  give  the  illusion  of  reality. 
Not  one  of  them  but  is  a  type  that  can  be  found 
in  ordinary  circles,  and  therefore  very  probably 
in  diplomatic  ones.  And  the  plot,  highly  in- 
teresting in  itself,  is  so  re-enforced  by  the  in- 
dividuality of  the  nctors  in  it  that  one  is  per- 
fectly willing  to  credit  it  altogether.  It  bears 
the  stamp  of  authenticity  and  should  be  greeted 
with  a  lively  interest."  Edith  Leighton 
+  N   Y  Tribune  p24  Ap  8  '23   650w 


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"If  you  like  adventure,  you  will  find  it  in 
'Career';  if  you  like  a  love  problem,  you  will 
find  it  here;  if  you  enjoy  a  business  story,  you 
will  find  it  here.  Dorothy  Kennard  has  written 
a  sophisticated  story  which  is  well  worth  read- 
ing."    Ruth   Snyder 

+   N   Y   World   p9e  Ap  1  "23  550w 
Spec   129:717   Jl   22   '22   40w 
"With   the   exception   of  Irene,    and   a  cynical 
free-lance    newspaperman,    the    characters    are 
colorl6ss. '  * 

—  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    My    27    '23 
370w 

The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p366  Je  1 
'22    280w 

KENNEDY,     AUBREY     LEO.       Old     diplomacy 
and   new,    1876-1922,    from    Salisbury   to   Lloyd 
George.  414p  il  $5  Appleton   [18s  Murray] 
327       Diplomacy.       Great     Britain — Foreign 
relations.     Europe— Politics  [22-21828] 

"An  exposition  of  English  diplomacy  for  the 
past  forty-six  years.  The  author  deplores  the 
deceit  and  trickery  of  the  old  diplomacy  but 
challenges  the  expediency  of  the  new  with  its 
entire  absence  of  secrecy.  He  suggests  bring- 
ing the  old  diplomatic  machinery  up-to-date  by 
the  democratization  of  the  diplomatic  service." 
— Booklist 


"It  is  not  easy  to  put  recent  events  in  an 
intelligible  perspective.  This  book  has  suc- 
ceeded in  an  exceptional  degree  without  de- 
stroying the  pen  pictures  of  the  leading  par- 
ticipants. The  maps  are  excellent  and  very 
serviceable.    The   index    is   good." 

+  Am   Pol  Scl   R  17:504  Ag  '23   500w 
Booklist   19:204    Ap  '23 

"Salisbury,  Rosebery,  Landsdowne,  Edward 
VII,  Grey,  Lloyd  George — this  is  the  gallery 
that  Capt.  Kennedy  hangs,  analyzing  the  char- 
acter, methods,  and  acts  of  each.  Two  por- 
traits stand  out,  representing  the  old  diplomacy 
and  the  new — the  first  and  the  last.  The  study 
of  Lord  Salisbury  should  be  carefully  followed 
and  after  the  book  is  finished  may  be  read 
again.  .  .  [Concerning]  that  oscillating  figure, 
[Lloyd  George],  which  in  the  last  four  years 
has  kept  the  world  a-talking  and  wondering  .  .  . 
the  growing,  the  gnawing,  doubts  of  many 
Englishmen  are  here  crystallized."  Wilfred 
Ewart 

+  Lit    R   p416   Ja  27   '23    1350w 

"Mr.  Kennedy  has  ...  a  style  that  swings 
along  as  easily  as  Mr.  Strachey's,  and  imparts 
impressions  often  just  as  vivid."   C:  Merz 

+  New   Repub   34:142   Mr   28   '23   1500w 

"Joined  to  his  exceptional  equipment  for  his 
task  the  author  shows  a  strongly  stylistic  touch 
admirably  adapted  to  the  subject.  He  writes 
with  marked  compactness  and  finish,  and  with 
a  graphic  force  that  sweeps  the  reader  along 
with  the  unfolding  of  the  narrative.  In  his 
skillful  hands  the  skeleton  of  diplomatic  his- 
tory rises  before  our  eyes  clothed  in  flesh  and 
blood,  and  even  in  orders  and  decorations.  The 
view  is  composite  and  complete." 

-I-   N   Y  Times  p5  Ja  28  '23  2200w 

KENNEDY,       WILLIAM       PAUL       MCCLURE. 

Constitution  of  Canada;  an  introduction  to  its 

development   and    law.      520p   $9    Oxford    [25s 

Milford] 
342.71      Canada — Politics    and    government. 
Canada — Constitutional  history  23-5316 

"His  aim  is  not  so  much  an  analysis  of  con- 
stitutional details  as  a  historical  study  of  de- 
velopment— the  development  of  Canada  from 
the  'New  France'  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
under  a  paternal  absolutism,  into  a  democratic 
and  self-governing  Dominion  'under  the  crown 
of  the  United  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  and 
Ireland.'  " — New    Statesman 


"Professor  Kennedy  has  done  a  valuable,  ne- 
cessary, and  timely  piece  of  work.  The  book 
is  faultlessly  printed."  Carl  Wittke 

+  Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:491  Ag  '23  800w 
Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  4  '23  1150w 
"This  substantial  volume  is  one  of  the  most 
important  contributions  yet  attempted  single- 
handed  in  the  field  of  Canadian  constitutional 
history.  It  is  the  result  of  years  of  indus- 
trious research,  reflecting  credit  not  only  upon 
Canadian  history  but  upon  Canadian  scholar- 
ship."     Chester   Martin 

+  Canadian   Hist  R  4:162  Je  '23  4400w 
"It    is    really    impossible    to    overpraise    this 
volume.     It  is  based  on   a  careful  examination 
of    the     available     documentary     material    and 
thorough    acquaintance     with     the     authorities; 
the    subject    matter    is    clearly    arranged,    the 
style   is  delightful."     E:    S.    Corwin 
+  Lit  R  p925  Ag  25  '23  1200w 
"To  say  that  Dr.  Kennedy  has  written  a  val- 
uable   book    is   to   do   him   less   than   justice;    he 
has   written   what   is   likely   long  to   remain    the 
standard  introduction  to  the  study  of  he  Canad- 
ian  constitution."      H.    L.    Laski 

+   New   Repub  35:159   Jl   4  '23  lOOOw 
"This  is  a  book  which  will  rank  high   in  the 
literature  of  political  science.     Dr.  Kennedy  not 
only  has  the  qualities  of  the  scholar;  he  knows 
also,   what  many  scholars  do  not,  how  to  make 
his  subject  interesting  to   the  inexpert  reader." 
4-  New  Statesman  21:60  Ap  21  '23  400w 
"Some    erroneous    statements    are    made    and 
some   false   impressions   conveyed,   but  we  must 
not  be  hypercritical  of  what  is  on  the  whole  the 
most   satisfactory   book   to   be   had   on   its   sub- 
ject."    R.   L.    Schuyler 

H Pol  Sci   Q  38:525  S  '23  550w 

"Mr.  Kennedy  has  achieved  a  history  of  the 
Canadian  constitution  that  is  vivid,  interesting 
and  generally  sound.  He  paints  rapidly  and 
well  the  ideas  of  different  times,  the  political 
forces  that  brought  Canada  through  its  troubled 
career  to  be  the  first  of  the  Dominions,  and  his 
human  characters  are  real  men,  not  lay  figures 
dressed  in  constitutional  robes.  .  .  This  is  prob- 
ably the  best  volume  covering  Canadian  con- 
stitutional history  from  Amherst's  conquest  yet 
written." 

+  Spec   130:sup478  Mr  24  '23   500w 
"It  is  a  book  of  much  merit,  both  in  substance 
and   in   form.     It   is    clearly   written,    sometimes 
powerfully  written." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p84   F   8 
'23   1900W 

KENYON,  BERNICE  LESBIA.    Songs  of  unrest, 

1920-1922.   95p  $1.50   Scribner 

811  23-5005 

The  first  volume  of  a  young  poet  whose  verse 
has  been  widely  published  in  the  magazines 
during  the  last  three  years.  The  poems  are 
carefully  wrought  both  as  to  thought  and  form. 


"This  is  an  interesting  contribution  to  an 
increasing  body  of  literature  growing  up  around 
the  historical  development  of  the  Canadian  con- 
stitution. The  literary  style  is  vivacious — fre- 
quently entertaining — thus  distinctly  sustaining 
the  interest  of  the  reader."  Adam  Shortt 
-t-  Am    Hist    R    28:763   Jl   '23    650w 


"The  collection  is  one  of  distinction.  In 
thought,  in  feeling,  in  workmanship."  D: 
Morton 

4-  Bookm    58:76    S    '23    240w 

"This  is  a  typical  first  book,  uneven,  honest, 
very   good    in    spots,    not    striking  as   a   whole." 
H Lit   R  p69  S  22  '23  300-w 

"One  will  not  have  to  travel  many  pages  to 
discover  that  Miss  Kenyon  is  an  artist  who 
loves  to  chisel  at  her  material  until  she  achieves 
perfection.  Miss  Kenyon's  ability  to  produce 
her  desired  effect  is  the  extraordinary  thing 
about  her  poetry,  and  something  that  sets  it 
apart  from  the  usual  first  volume.  At  pres- 
ent her  very  desire  for  perfection  exercises 
a  restraint.  This  she  should  not  find  difficult 
to  throw  off  as  she  acquires  confidence  and  a 
control  over  her  medium  which  permits  of 
liberties."  ,        .„„  „,„ 

4-  N  Y  Times  p6  Mr  4  '23  650w 

"There  is  a  slow,  sustained  quality  about  Miss 
Kenyon's  verse  that  lends  itself  to  rereading 
and  memorizing  unconsciously.  Her  songs  are 
all  stately,  with  that  fine,  impervious  quality 
youth  uses  as  a  defense   against   pain.  .  .  The 


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KENYON,    B.    L. — Continued 

measured  clearness  of  the  poems,  their  restraint 
and  warning  coolness  flow  over  the  pages  like 
water.  But  that  there  is  a  current  underneath, 
an  undertow,  stirred  up  by  pain  and  memory 
and  the  ache  of  beauty,  one  does  not  doubt." 
Milton  Raison 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p21  Mr  11  '23  300w 

"There   is  little  in  it  that   suggests  hesitancy 

or    experimentation    or    insufficient    practice    in 

the    medium.      Much    of    Miss    Kenyon's    verse 

possesses   definite   charm;   all    of  it   is   distinctly 

+  Outlook  134:335  Jl  4  '23  700w 
"These  'first  poems'  establish  the  young 
author  as  decidedly  above  the  rank  of  'promis- 
ing.' Miss  Kenyon  writes  with  thought  as  well 
as  feeling.  Many  of  her  lyrics  conjure  up  warm 
memories  of  sea  and  woods." 

+  Survey  49:819  Mr  15  '23   30w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:411   Jl  '23 

KER,    WILLIAM    PATON.    Art    of    poetry.    160p 

$2  Oxford   [6s  Milford] 

809.1  Poetry  23-27431 

"William  Paton  Ker,  until  his  recent  death 
an  absorbed  searcher  into  languages  mediseva! 
and  modern,  collected  here  seven  lectures  de- 
livered at  Oxford.  They  are  on  'The  Art  of  Poet- 
ry," 'Shelley,'  'Samson  Agonistes,'  Romantic 
Fallacies,'  'Pope,'  'Moli^re  and  the  Muse  of 
Comedy,'  and  'Matthew  Arnold.'  All  of  them 
are  rich  in  allusion  to  remote  literatures,  illus- 
trated and  advanced  by  many  quotations  and 
such  asides  as  a  talented  scholar  with  whim- 
sicality and  without  pedantry  might  gracefully 
be  free  with.  .  .  Mr.  Ker  addresses  himself 
not  to  the  general,  but  to  pupils  grave  and 
genial  as  he  is.  Speaking  on  the  older  songs 
of  the  language  or  on  those  comparatively  mod- 
ern, he  touches  only  lightly  and  long  enough 
to  leave  the  impress  of  their  unique  flavor,  the 
source    and    rhythm    of    their    secret." — Lit    R 


son,    George    Meredith,    Augustine    Birrell,    and 
Sheila    K^iye-Smith. 


Booklist  20:130  Ja  '24 
"Being  lectures,  and  not  essays  in  a  more  de- 
liberate sense,  they  lack  the  completensess  of 
retrospect  one  would  relish  from  such  an  in- 
terpreter as  Mr.  Ker  was  noted  to  be.  However 
they  are  really  delightful  in  their  personal,  ran- 
dom fashion  that  wise  detachment  and  fond- 
ness of  both  the  scholar  and  the  lover,  in  their 
suggestion  of  genuine  understanding  and  ad- 
miration." 

+    Lit  R  p313  D  1  '23  360w 

Nation  117:746  D  26   '23  llOw 

"Seven  rather  charming  though  unimportant 
essays."   H.    S.   Gorman 

H NY   Times   p5   D    9   '23    400w 

"Ker  was  so  eminent  a  judge  of  poetry,  be- 
cause poetry  to  him,  and  poetry  alone,  was 
the  real  world.  There  is  evidence  of  it  in  every 
page   of   this   volume." 

+  Sat  R  136:333  S  22  '23  720w 
"The  tunes  of  the  world  of  poetry  Ker  knew 
as  few  scholars  have  known  them.  And,  for  all 
his  learning,  he  did  not  know  them  like  a 
scholar.  All  the  time  they  were  singing  in  his 
head.  He  has  got  the  tunes  and  he  gives  them 
to  you,  the  one  upon  the  other,  freshly  and 
delightedly.  .  .  And  if  at  the  end  of  it  you 
do  not  know  what  poetry  is.  It  is  not  Ker's 
fault." 

+  The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p525  Ag 
9    '23    3950w 

KERNAHAN,  COULSON.  Celebrities-  little 
stories  about  famous  folk.  316p  il  $6  Dutton 
[16s    Hutchinson] 

920  Authors  [23-10896] 

These  recollections  of  an  English  editor  and 
Journalist  of  wide  acquaintance  are  a  medley 
of  anecdotes  and  yarns  mostly  about  literary 
people.  Among  the  celebrities  he  has  met  are 
Jerome  K  Jerome.  J.  M.  Barrie.  Philip  Mars- 
ton,  the  blmd  poet,  Conan  Doyle,  Swinburne, 
Bernard    Shaw,    Lord    Northcliffe,    W.    H     Hud- 


"What  he  relates  is  mildly  entertaining,  al- 
though it  can  not  be  said  that  he  has  shed  any 
fundamental  illumination  upon  the  personali- 
ties with  which  he  has  been  brought  into  jour- 
nalistic   contact."    L.    B. 

—  Freeman  8:334  D  12  '23  200w 

"A  big  book  containing  much  padding,  sev- 
eral fairly  interesting  photographs  and  some 
tiny  little  stories  about  the  above  mentioned 
'famous   folk.'  " 

—  New   Statesman   20:758   Mr  31   '23   150w 
"The    volume    is    an    entertaining    hamburgei 

of  anecdotes,  yains  admittedly  aprochryphal 
and  otherwise,  selections  from  the  almanac 
and   some    villainous   repartee   by    the   author." 

h   N  Y   Tribune   pl9   N   4    '23   250w 

"Much  that  he  relates  is  trivial,  and  his  'Cele- 
brities' are  not  very  eminent.  One  [story]  at 
least  about  Lord  Northcliffe,  had  better  not 
have  been  told.  It  has  all  the  earmarks  of  ma- 
lice. In  the  same  way  he  gives  some  mischances 
on  the  part  of  Robert  Barr  that  can  hardly 
prove  pleasing  to  that  gentleman  or  give  plea- 
sure  to   the   reader." 

—  NY  World  p6e  O  28   '23  180w 

"The  book  as  a  whole  is  rather  deficient  in 
permanent   value." 

h   Springf'd    Republican  p6  D  3  '23   550w 

"Mr.  Kernahan  freely  records  verbatim  from 
memory  the  words  which  fell  from  the  lips  of 
his  celebrities;  and  his  literary  power  is  shown 
chiefly  in  the  skill  with  which  he  can  pad  out 
to  any  length  required  the  conversations  or 
the  events  in   which   they  were  concerned." 

—  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p234    Ap 
5   '23   300w 

KERR,    PHILIP,    and    CURTIS,    LIONEL.      Pre- 
2    vention  of  war.    (Inst,   of  politics  publications. 
"Williams    college,    Williamstown,    Mass.)    170p 
$2.50     Yale    univ.    press    [10s   6d  Milford] 

172.4     War.   International   law  and   relations 

23-16155 

The  first  three  lectures,  by  Philip  Kerr,  deal 
specifically  with  the  problem  of  ending  inter- 
national war.  He  argues  that  world  wars  can 
be  done  away  with  only  by  the  acceptance  of 
the  standard  of  the  general  good  of  humanity 
as  opposed  to  the  self  interest  of  sovereign  states, 
and  by  the  nations  combining  to  settle  inter- 
national questions  by  law.  Mr  Curtis's  first  lec- 
ture on  the  Union  of  South  Africa  describes  the 
causes  which  gave  rise  to  the  Boer  war,  and 
the  second,  on  responsible  governinent  in  India, 
sets  forth  the  attempt  which  is  being  made 
there  to  effect  the  transition  from  benevolent 
despotism  to  self-government  without  anarchy 
or  civil  war.  The  third  lecture  discusses  the 
relations  between  Europe  and  Asia. 


"Both  men  write  with  that  lucidity  and  force- 
fulness  and  that  earnest  conviction  that  add 
tremendously  to  the  persuasive  power  of  argu- 
ment." 

-f   N   Y  Times  p28  D  23  '23  6G0w 

"However  complete  our  agreement  may  be 
with  the  general  principles  and  ideals  ex- 
pounded in  this  book,  there  are  two  criticisms 
which  must  be  made.  The  first  is  that  the 
historical  evidence  seems  to  show  that  the 
sense  of  unity  on  which  alone  a  free  society  can 
be  based  has  in  fact  not  originally  snrung  in 
most  cases  from  moral  causes.  And  tacitly, 
though  not  actively,  the  attitude  of  the  book 
is  that  the  British  Empire  and  America  nre 
regarded  as  the  chosen  people  and  the  rest  of 
the  world  as  the  baser  tribes  without   the  law." 

-I The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p859    D 

13   '23   2050W 

KEUN.   MME  ODETTE.  Mv  adventures  in   Bol- 
shevik Russia.  320p  $2.50  Dodd  [5s  Lane] 

914.7     Russia — Description   and   travel.    Bol- 
shevism—Russia 23-17931 
The    author,   a   Dutchwoman,    originally  wrote 
and  published  her  book  in  French  and  has  her- 
self made  this  English  translation.     It  is  a  most 


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dramatic  account  of  hideous  experiences  a.nd 
an  exposure  of  "British  brutality  and  Russian 
madness."  She  was  acting  as  an  observer  for 
a  socialist  organization  when  she  was  arrested 
as  a  spy  in  Constantinople  by  the  British  mili- 
tary police  and  deported  to  Russia.  The  Soviet 
government  then  took  charge  of  her  and  sent 
her  to  various  places,  eventually  to  Moscow. 
The  horrors  and  indignities  which  she  suffered 
were  sufficient,  apparently,  to  account  for  the 
hysteria  of  the  book  and  for  her  change  ot 
heart   toward   socialism. 


"Mile.  Odette  Keun's  account  of  her  adven- 
tures makes  painful  reading.  It  is  an  honest 
outburst,  but  ineffective,  we  should  say,  as 
propaganda."      K.    M.   H.   L. 

^ New   Statesman   21:342   Je   23   '23   50w 

N  Y  World  plOe  O  7  "23  600w 
"It    is    a    document    to    be    referred    to    with 
circumspection,    but    a    romance    which    may    D© 
read    eagerly." 

-\ Spec  131:294  S  1  '23  70w 

"Anyone  who  reads  this  book  for  its  fire- 
works will  find  it  entertaining,  but  those  who 
are  not  impressed  by  the  authoress's  hysterical 
egotism  may  wonder  why  an  English  publisher 
has  put  it  on  the  market." 

1_  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p464    Jl 

12    '23    1050W 

KEYSER,  ARTHUR  LOUIS.    Trifles  and  travels. 

278p     $4     Dutton 

910   Voyages  and   travels  [23-10576] 

Beginning  with  the  author's  youthful  days  in 
Hertfordshire,  England,  these  reminiscences 
take  him  into  many  lands  in  official  capacities. 
But  the  recollections  are  less  of  travels  than  of 
personalities,  of  friends  and  chance  acquaint- 
ances, distinguished  and  otherwise,  with  many 
an  anecdote  interspersed.     Index. 


Booklist  20:135  Ja  '24 
Boston    Transcript   p4   S   1   '23   800w 
New  Statesman  21:248  Je  2  '23  380w 
"Mr.  Keyser  is  a  genial -hearted  creature  who 
gossips  in  a  very  entertaining  manner.  He  writes 
simply,   and  is  always  readable." 

+  Sat   R  138:809  Je  16  '23  40w 
"This    volume     of     reminiscences     is     full     of 
stories.    One  suggests  another;  Mr.  Keyser  is  as 
discursive  as  if  he  were  entertaining  us  at  din- 
ner." 

-f-  The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p332   My 
17  '23  900w 

KILMER,  ALINE  (MURRAY)  (MRS  JOYCE 
KILMER).  Hunting  a  hair  shirt,  and  other 
spiritual  adventures.     105p     $1.50     Doran 

814  23-10408 

These  eleven  brief  essays,  better  described  by 
the  author  as  "pieces,"  touch  upon  some  of  the 
everyday  things  with  gaiety  and  humor,  and 
sometimes  in  a  mood  of  frank  nonsense.  Con- 
tents: Pernicious  practice  of  philosophers; 
Wicked  wireless;  Those  unruly  emotions;  Hope; 
A  study  in  economy;  Relativity;  Hunting  a  hair 
shirt;  Ghoulies  and  ghaisties;  The  helplessness 
of  adults;  The  case  of  Bluebeard;  On  works  of 
reference. 


+  Cath  World  117:847  S  '23  350w 
"As  a  summer  guest  this  little  book  should 
find  a  ready  welcome;  and  it  is  recommended 
to  those  seriou.s-minded  persons  who  not  long 
ago  were  searching  for  the  ten  books  they  would 
wish  to  have  by  them  on  the  desert  island  on 
which  they  expected  soon  to  be  called  away." 
+  N  Y  Times  p22  Jl  15  '23  850w 
"It  is  compact  of  such  firm,  delicate  and  per- 
fumed prose  as  we  may  rarely  savor  in  our  day. 
Through  the  fragrant  pages  flutters,  flits  and 
hides  an  enchanting  sprite  of  humor.  And  the 
surprising  things  in  this  author's  character  have 
now,  in  the  reader's  view,  become  reconciled. 
The  thing  that  is  the  matter  with  her,  it  is 
apparent,  is  that  she  is  a  philosopher."  R.  C. 
Holliday 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p20  Ag  5  '23  430w 
"A  gay  impertinence  is  achieved,  but  it  is 
insufficiently  sustained.  In  portions  of  the  es- 
says given  over  to  narrative  the  author  is  mildly 
entertaining,  but  on  the  whole  the  papers  are 
without  distinction  either  in  thought  or  style." 
1-  Outlook  134:641  Ag  22  '23  300w 

KIMBALL,  SIDNEY  FISKE.  Domestic  archi- 
tecture of  the  American  colonies  and  of  the 
early  republic.  314p  il  $12  Scribner 

728     Architecture,     Domestic.     Architecture. 
Colonial  22-24675 

"The  present  quarto,  heavy  only  in  Its  cal- 
endared paper  and  not  in  its  style,  is  an  elabor- 
ation of  a  series  of  lectures  delivered  in  1920 
at  the  Metropolitan  Museum  in  New  York  under 
whose  auspices  it  has  been  published  as  'a 
comprehensive  and  accurate  view  of  the  evolu- 
tion of  the  early  American  house.'  Dr.  Kimball 
divides  his  work  into  three  general  ports:  Colo- 
nial Houses  (Primitive  Shelters,  Frame  Houses, 
and  Houses  of  Masonry,)  Houses  of  the  Eight- 
eenth Century  and  Houses  of  the  Early  Re- 
public. A  chronological  Chart  precedes  twenty- 
three  pages  of  closely  printed  'Notes  on  Colonial 
Houses,'  giving  dates,  authorship  and  state- 
ment of  their  original  form.  There  is  a  full 
index  and  the  pages  are  illustrated  with  219 
pictures  from  photographs,  drawings  and  orig- 
inal plans,  of  structures  and  details." — Boston 
Transcript 


Booklist  20:49  N  '23 

'The   author's    'spiritual   adventures'    reveal  a 

sparkle  of  elusive  truths  picked  up  among  the 

trivialities   of   everyday   living.      Mrs.    Kilmer   is 

a  philosopher  who  travels  light  and  goes  far." 

+  Bookm   58:214  O  '23   150w 

"Grave  and  nonsensical  and  light-hearted  and 
they  have  the  touch  of  intimacy  upon  them. 
She  seems  always  about  to  take  the  public  into 
her  entire  confidence,  but  somehow  when  the 
moment  has  passed  they  understand  that  after 
all  there  have  been  definite  barriers  of  reserve 
which  have  not  fallen.  Doubtless  this  is  the 
mystery  which  has  been  accorded  to  be  part  of 
her  charm."     D.   L.   M. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  25  '23  llOOw 


Booklist  20:127  Ja  '24 
"It  is  impossible   in  a  brief  review  to   convey 
an  adequate  notion  of  the  richness  of  historical 
lore    and   biographical   information   embodied   in 
this  admirable  work."  N.  H.  D. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p6  D  13  '22  1350w 
Reviewed  by  H:   B.   Puller 

Freeman  8:453  Ja  16  '24  800w 
"Mr.  Kimball  brings  together  the  scattered 
results  of  earlier  investigators,  authenticate.s 
the  history  of  some  two  hundred  typical  houses, 
weeds  out  purely  conjectural  evidence,  and  con- 
tributes to  the  whole  subject  a  fine  passion 
for  detail  which  makes  the  present  volume, 
within  its  limits,  complete  and  irreproachable. 
Since  this  book  is  quite  indispensable,  and  will 
readily  claim  a  place  for  itself  on  the  shelf  of 
the  student  of  American  history,  as  well  as  the 
lover  of  architecture,  I  am  free  to  say  that  it 
covers  only  a  part  of  its  subject,  and  that 
while  the  data  it  presents  are  extremely  valu- 
able, large  areas  have  scarcely  even  been 
scratched  bv  Mr.  KJi^boll."  T^:  Mumford 
-f-  New  Repub  34:48  Mr  7  '23  3050w 
Reviewed   by  Welles    Bosworth 

N    Y   Times   plO   F   4  '23   1550w 

KINDERMANN,  HENNY.  Lola;  or.  The  thought 
and  speech  of  animals;  tr.  by  Agnes  Blake. 
188p    $2.50    Dutton    [6s    Methuen] 

591.5  Animal  intelligence.  Dogs  23-9494 
The  book  is  an  account  of  the  experiments 
on  animal  intelligence  conducted  by  Karl  Krall 
and  others  during  the  last  twenty  years,  and, 
more  particularly,  a  detailed  description  of  the 
education  of  the  celebrated  Lola,  an  Airedale 
terrier,  born  in  Germany  in  1914.  The  author 
claims  for  Lola  that  she  can  not  only  count, 
but  reason  and  think,  spell  out  words  and  sen- 
tences,  forecast   the  weather  and  do  somewhat 


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BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


KINDERMANN,    H. — Continued 

advanced  problems  in  arithmetic.     A  chapter  on 

thinking:    animals    by    Dr    William    McKenzie    is 

included. 


Reviewed  oy  Will  Cuppy 

N  Y  Tribune  pl8  Ap  22  '23  llSOw 
"It  cannot  yet  be  ascertained  how  far  uncon- 
scious suggestion  from  the  author  has  influenced 
the  animals  under  her  training.  Until  the  pos- 
sibilities of  this  influence  are  determined  we  feel 
that  the  author's  claim  for  independent  higher 
reason  in  animals  is  not  fully  convincing." 
—  Spec  129:881  D  9  '22  220w 

KING,    BASIL.   Discovery  of  God.   265p   $2   Cos- 
mopolitan  bk. 

231   God.  Bible  23-13303 

Basil  King  traces  thru  the  Bible  the  struggle 
of  man  to  find  God.  The  high  points  in  this 
search,  the  times  of  greatest  spiritual  insight, 
are  usually  marked  by  the  emergence  of  some 
seer,  some  spirit  deeply  sensitive  to  God,  like 
Abraham,  Moses,  Isaiah  and  St  Paul,  whose 
insight  opens  and  lights  the  way  for  others. 
Each  of  these  .seers  had  his  own  conception  of 
God.  To  Abraham,  He  was  the  Almighty,  to 
Jacob,  the  one  who  cared,  to  David,  the  right- 
eous God.  to  .Jesus,  the  universal  father.  This 
last  and  crowning  conception  includes  as  an 
essential  element  the  sense  of  the  brotherhood 
of  man.  Thus  the  author  studies  the  Bible  as 
the  mirror  of  the  progress  of  man's  spirit  and 
of  the  conflict  between  the  material  and  the 
spiritual. 


Booklist  20:120  Ja  '24 
"This  is  an  enticing  title  for  a  cleverly  writ- 
ten book.  The  author  has  been  uniformly  skil- 
ful in  giving  attractive  titles  to  most  of  his 
publications.  This  particular  one  reminds  us  of 
a  cleverly  salted  mine.  Its  richness  and  value 
are   soon   exhausted." 

-\ Boston    Transcript    p4    N    3    '23    320w 

"It  is  a  commentary  on  the  Bible  which  is 
strikingly  interesting,  highly  original,  and  pro- 
vocative of  thought.  To  many  of  today  who  do 
not  know  the  Bible  or  who  do  not  appreciate 
it — which  is  after  all  about  the  same  thing — it 
will  open  a  new  and  wonderfully  interesting 
world   of   study." 

-4-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    plO    D 
2   "23   2100w 
"Simplicity   and   sanity   are   characteristics   of 
this   volume." 

,      +   Lit    R   p292   N   24   '23   170w 
"A    popular    and    helpful    interpretation." 

+   Springf'd    Republican    plO   D   4    '23   S.'iOw 

KING,    BASIL.    Happy    isles.    485p    il    $2    Harper 

23-16817 
At  the  age  of  eight  months  Tom  Whltelaw, 
the  child  of  wealthy  parents,  was  stolen  from 
his  baby  carriage  in  Central  Park  by  a  poor 
woman  mad  with  grief  over  the  loss  of  her  own 
baby.  She  gave  him  a  strange  erratic  kind  of 
love  and  when  she  died  he  became  the  ward  of 
the  state.  Then  he  passed  into  the  hands  of  one 
person  after  another,  finally  coming  into  the 
care  of  a  burglar  who  watched  over  him  and 
put  him  on  the  high  road  to  success,  Fortunate- 
ly, the  boy's  lovable  nature  brought  out  the 
love  of  the  persons  into  whose  hands  he  fell, 
and  thru  all  his  experiences,  so  different  from 
those  to  which  he  was  rightfully  born,  he  grew 
and  developed.  WTien  he  was  finally  found  by 
his  parents  he  had  become  so  much  of  a  man 
by  his  own  efforts  that  he  could  stand  by  him- 
self  and    needed    no   help    from    the   Whitelaws. 


"Among  the  many  novels  Mr.  King  has  writ- 
ten during  the  past  twenty  years  and  more. 
'The  Happy  Isles'  is  unquestionably  his  best 
.story.  WTiile  at  times  it  may  exaisperate  us  by 
its  obstrusive  psychologial  reflections  and  argu- 
ments, it  would  be  useless  to  claim  that  these 
shortcomings — which  are  more  trivial  in  retro- 
spect than  when  we  are  in  the  midst  of  them — 
destroy  its  effects  as  a  realistic  chronicle  of 
the  progress  of  an  American  youth  from  infancy 


to  manhood.  Their  worst  effect  is  to  try  our 
patience  now  and  then  by  slowing  up  the  action 
of   the   story."    E.    F.    Edgett 

H Boston  Transcript  p4  N  24  '23  1200w 

"There  are  minor  small  annoyances  in  the 
book  which  will  doubtle.ss  seem  less  forced  on 
the  screen  than  in  the  book.  But  in  spite  of 
these  small  matters  'The  Happy  Isles'  is  a 
readable,  well  written,  happily  logical  book, 
which  inevitably  will  be  enjoyed  and  deserved- 
ly so." 

H NY   Times   pl4   N   25   '23   420w 

KING,    GORDON    CONGDON.      Horatio's    story. 

272p  $2   Boni   &   Liveright 

23-14115 

Rhoda  Lispenyard,  in  revolt  against  her  posi- 
tion as  the  daughter  of  the  impoverished  branch 
of  an  old  Boston  family,  decides  early  in  life 
that  she  will  have  an  independent  career  and 
never  marry.  But  she  falls  in  love  with 
O'Flarity  Child,  a  brilliant  tho  impractical  pro- 
fessor of  philosophy,  and  marries  him,  willing 
to  sacrifice  her  career  for  his.  As  he  becomes 
increasingly  successful,  however,  his  inability  to 
appreciate  her  sacrifices  and  his  disregard  of 
her  as  an  individual  lead  to  growing  incompati- 
bility which  causes  her  finally  to  leave  him  and 
to  seek  death.  The  story  is  told  by  her  cousin, 
I^ee  Seebohm,  who  had  loved  her  unsuccessfully 
but  who  had  remained  always  her  friend  and 
confidant. 


"In  'Horatio's  Story'  Mr.  King  has  dealt 
squarely  by  his  readers.  The  tale  has  the 
breath  of  real  life  from  beginning  to  end.  It 
is  a  book  to  lend  and  hope  it  will  be  returned." 
n.    H.    A. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p2  N  17  '23  780w 

"What  strikes  one  about  'Horatio's  Story'  is 
not  any  of  its  little  awkwardnesses,  but  the 
vitality  and  significance  of  the  characters  and 
the  just  sense  of  values  which  the  author  pos- 
sesses."    M.    L.    Franklin 

H Ind   111:254   N   24   '23  600w 

"The  story  may  seem  sometimes  to  lack  the 
roundness  and  warmth  of  life,  but  that  may  be 
largely  because  Professor  Seebohm  views  every- 
thing through  such  cool  eyes  and  speaks  with 
such  academic  restraint.  Certainly  the  book  is 
one  of  quiet  and  uncompromising  distinction, 
and  Mr.  King  shows  unusual  promise."  P:  L. 
Allen 

H Lit  R  p204  N  3  '23  480w 

"Here  is  a  smooth  and  tranquil  novel,  done 
with  an  easy  and  competent  grasp  of  its  ma- 
terials, and  suggesting  that  the  author — when 
he  gets  hold  of  a  story  which  will  kindle  his 
talent  into  a  brighter  flame — may  do  work  of 
considerable  value." 

-{ Nation  118:40  Ja  9  '24  80w 

"It  is  a  book  of  talk,  level  and  truthful,  but 
it  misses  the  electrical  spark  that  holds  a  read- 
er's  interest." 

H NY  Times  p9  O  21   '23  150w 

"  'Horatio's  Story'  is  a  brilliantly  subtle  first 
novel  by  an  exquisite  intelligence,  but  its  cere- 
bral prominence  dominates  and  altogether  sub- 
merges an  obviously  sincere  attempt  at  con- 
vincing character  delineation.  The  heavily  cul- 
tured, suavely  confident  characters  simply  do 
not  exist  as  rational  human  beings."  J:  Arm- 
strong 

h   N   Y  Tribune  p23   O  7  '23  1050w 

"A  single  reading  is  thoroughly  enjoyable. 
But  more  delightful  still  is  a  rereading  at  ran- 
dom to  catch  a  bit  of  dry  philosophy  or  hu- 
morous commentary  upon  our  present-day  edu- 
cational system  which  has  escaped  one  in  the 
first  reading.  The  book  is  a  fine  piece  of  prose 
writing  and  an  unusual   study  of  character." 

-f  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  D   2   '23   750w 

KING,  HORACE  WILLIAMS,  and  WISLER, 
CHESTER  OWEN.  Hydraulics.  237p  il  $2.75 
Wiley 

532.5    Hydraulics  22-14589 

"A  text-book  for  beginning  courses  in  hy- 
draulics. 'Deals  with  the  fundamental  principles 
of  hydraulics  and  their  application  In  engineer- 
ing practice.     Though  many  formulas  applicable 


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283 


to  different  types  of  problems  are  given,  it  has 
been  the  aim  of  the  authors  to  bring  out .  .  . 
the  underlyins  principles  .  .  .  rather  than  to  em- 
phasize the  importance  of  the  formulns  them- 
selves."   (i'reface)" — Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:58    F   "23 

KING,  LOUISA  (YEOMANS)  (MRS  FRANCIS 
KING).  Variety  in  the  little  garden.  120p 
il     jl.Tii     Atlantic  monthly 

716  Gardens  23-10885 

In  her  second  book  on  the  pleasures  of  the 
little  garden,  Mrs  King  is  chiefly  interested  in 
suggesting  varieties  and  color  groupings  to  pro- 
duce beautiful  effects.  Illustrations  and  plans. 
Contents:  Variety  in  spring  flowers;  Variety  in 
flowers  of  early  summer;  Variety  in  annual 
flowers;  Variety  in  perennial  flowers;  Variety 
in  newer  flowers;  Variety  in  shrubs;  Variety  in 
trees;  The  meaning  of  the  garden. 

Booklist   20:47  N  '23 
Lit   R   p864  Jl   28   '23   320w 
"To   be   warmly   recommended   to   those   seek- 
ing   the    appropriate    gift    at    this    season    for    a 
garden-loving  friend." 

+  Springfd    Republican   plO  D  19   "23  330w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:408   Jl   *23 

KING,  RICHARD.  Some  confessions  of  an 
2  average  man.  279p  $2  Small  [5s  I^ane] 
824 
"The  subjects  of  his  essays  cover  'all  things 
and  a  few  others,'  and  include  many  of  those 
generally  inarticulate  thoughts,  the  doubts,  the 
hopes,  the  fears,  the  beliefs,  which  the  Average 
Man — 'and  this  means,  of  course,  the  Average 
Woman' — meet  and  either  overcome  or  are  over- 
come by  them,  as  they  stumble  along  life's  un- 
charted way.  'Unimaginative  Men  and  Women,' 
"Old  Friends  for  New,'  'The  Adventure  of  Life,' 
'Unimportant  Glories,'  'Falling  Out  of  I..ove,' 
•Those  Whom  We  Forgive,"  'Loneliness,"  'The 
People  We  Dislike,"  'The  Religion  of  the  Aver- 
age Man'  and  over  a  score  of  other  brief  es- 
says.""— Boston   Transcript 


poignancy  by  the  Karsten  code  of  honor:  "never 
let  any  woman  suffer  from  fault  of  yours." 
After  an  unusually  guarded  and  wholesome 
childhood  Erik's  troubles  begin  in  adolescence 
and  before  he  has  become  aware  of  the  code. 
His  love  experiences  always  bring  him  into 
conflict  with  his  code  and  end  in  disappoint- 
ment. Even  the  apparently  peimancnt  and 
placid  relationship  with  a  one-time  geisha  girl 
comes  to  an  abrupt  end  thru  Erik's  young  son 
— another    Curly     Karsten. 


"A  book  which,  kept  close  at  hand  on  one's 
library  table  and  read  desultorily,  will  give  an 
enduring  delight.  For  each  re-reading  will  dis- 
close new  thoughts,   new  visions."     F.   B. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  D  15  "23  700w 
"Mr.  King  does  not  sermonize  and  there  is  no 
ponderosity  about  him,  but  he  impresses  one  as 
being  a  philosopher  who  misses  a  good  deal  of 
fun  in  life." 

-1 Lit  R  p344  D  8  "23  1.50w 

"It  is  really  a  witty  volume,  so  quietly  writ- 
ten as  to  slip  the  wit  over  on  the  reader  before 
he  is  quite  aware  of  it."  IT.  S.  Gorman 
-f  N  Y  Times  p7  N  4  '23  220w 
"On  the  whole  Mr.  King  has  hit  off  the  class 
to  which  he  wishes  to  appeal  with  great  skill, 
and  has  given  us  a  book  which  should  attract 
readers  of  to-dav."" 

H Sat   R   135:152   F  3  '23  300w 

"Disillusioned  he  seems;  a  bit  cynical,  some- 
times smugly  self-.satisfied  in  his  attitude 
toward  life  and  people,  but  always  maintaining 
a  commonsense,  wholesome  view  of  this  or- 
dinary, commonplace  world.  We  are  inclined 
at  times  to  wish  Mr  King  would  view  his  com- 
monplace world  with  a  little  more  humor  and 
less  impatience." 

H Springfd   Republican  p8  Ja  9  '24  420w 

KINNEY,     HENRY     WALSWORTH.        Code     of 

the    Karstens.     359p    $2     Little 

23-1301 

The  Karstens  were  an  aristocrat  If  old  Danish 
family  among  whom  curly  hair  was  a  sporadic 
occurrence  and  significaiit  thru  the  tradition 
of  an  ancient  curse.  .According  to  this  all 
curly  Kar.stens  were  doomed  to  pursue  the  love 
of  women  like  an  evasive  ph.-intom  and  to 
bring  ill  fortune  to  those  women  who  loved 
them.  In  this  life  .story  of  Erik  Karsten— 
one  of  many  curly  Erik.s — the  ctirse  proves  its 
efficacy  and  becomes  complicated  with  an  added 


"The  book  is  not  merely  a  good  story,  it  is 
also   a   social   document."      D.    L.    Mann 

-I-   Boston    Transcript    p5    Ja    13    "23    1450w 
Int    Bk    R    p56    F   "23    350w 

"An  intensive,  minute,  and  able  psychological 
study  of  the  degeneration  of  an  aesthetic  and 
super-reflned  man  who  abandons  himself  to 
a  life  of  the  senses.  The  author  has  skilfully 
portrayed  the  contrasts  of  life  in  Denmark 
on  an  ancestral  country  estate,  the  severe 
requirements  of  the  University  of  Copenhagen, 
the  colorful  and  .irtiatic  allurements  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  the  gentle,  peaceful,  tranquil  ex- 
istence of  Japan.  His  characterization  of  a 
large  number  of  women  is  done  with  subtle 
art."' 

+   Lit     R    p454    F    10    '23    410w 

"It  is  a  story  of  slow  deterioration  and  it 
suggests  a  microscopic  study  of  a  decomposing 
jelly  fish.  It  is  written  with  profound  insight, 
keen  and  close  observation  and  wide  knowledge 
of  men  and  women  in  varied  parts  of  the 
world."" 

-{NY    Times    pl7    Ja    7    "23    950w 

"A  lush  and  hectic  story,  told  in  a  style  to 
suit.  It  will  be  liked  by  those  who  like  it, 
and   serve   them   right.'"      Isabel   I'aterson 

—  NY    Tribune    p23    Ja    21    "23    750w 

"The  story  is  told  rather  successfully  and 
without  offense — once  the  theme  of  the  novel 
is  conceded  to  be  valid.  As  a  study  of  sexual 
morals,  or  a  particular  aspect  of  sex  psy- 
chology, for  adults  of  mental  maturity  a  good 
word    can    be    said    for    it." 

4 Springfd    Republican  p7a  Ja  21  "23  190w 

"If  Mr.  Kinney  had  reduced  Erik's  amorous 
adventures,  which  are  generally  commonplace, 
to  a  fairer  proportion,  he  would  have  increased 
the   interest    of   an    extremely   able   book." 

-I The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p473    Jl 

12  "23  350w 

KIPLING,     RUDYARD,     comp.     and     ed.     Irish 
guards    in    the    great    war.    2v    $10    Doubleday 
[40s   Macmillan] 
940.4     Great  Britain — Army.     European  war, 
1914-1919— Great    Britain  23-9504 

"Mr.  Kipling's  record  of  the  labours,  the  sor- 
rows and  the  humours  of  the  two  battalions  of 
the  Irish  Guards  in  the  War  is  rather  unlike 
anything  else  he  has  written.  In  the  ordinary 
way,  we  imagine,  he  would  have  liked  to  read 
and  be  told  all  that  there  was  to  know  about 
the  two  battalions  and  then  throw  away  his 
notes  and  trust  to  the  general  conflagration  in 
his  mind  for  the  production  of  the  glowing 
picture.  But  hero  he  has  followed  closely  the 
material  placed  before  him — the  diaries,  the 
Orders,  the  private  letters  and  the  spoken  re- 
miniscences. He  evidently  felt  that  the  writ- 
ten and  spoken  materials  of  history  which  the 
two  battalions  had  created  were  things  to  pre- 
serve in  as  exact  a  form  as  might  be;  that 
there  would  be  disrespect  in  treating  them  in 
any  other  way.  His  method,  then,  is  an  essen- 
tial part  of  his  tribute  to  a  regiment  which  has 
superlative  deeds  and  an  unflagging  spirit  to 
its  credit.  Also,  it  is  perhaps  permissible  to 
sav.  in  offering  this  tribute  Mr.  Kipling  has 
written  incidentally  a  tribute  to  his  own  son,  a 
gallant  boy,  a  lieutenant  in  the  second  battal- 
ion,  who  was  killed   at  liOOs." — Spec 

"In  addition  to  the  patient  and  discerning  la- 
bors of  the  historian,  Kipling  has  lavished  on 
this  labor  of  love  all  the  richness  of  his  genius. 
Every  aspect  of  the  life  of  men  in  war  yields 
a  picture  for  his  pen;  the  hand  of  the  master 


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KIPLING,  R.,  comp.' — Continued 
never  fails.  .  .  All  the  chords  of  memory  are 
touched,  the  hideous  and  the  heroic  alike,  with 
an  impartial  hand.  And  the  overtones  of  mem- 
ory, the  things  understood  but  not  to  be  put 
into  words,  add  a  mystic  quality  that  to  the 
outsider  is  at  once  an  illumination  and  an  ex- 
clusion."  H:  G.  Pearson 

Atlantic's   Bookshelf  N  '23  650w 
Booklist  20;J6  O  '23 

"Many  pages  of  this  book  will  seem  dry  read- 
ing to  the  average  reader  because  of  its  me- 
ticulous detailing  of  military  operations,  but  on 
the  other  hand  one  constantly  comes  upon  pas- 
sages that  may  fairly  be  said  to  have  a  uni- 
versal human  interest.  However,  the  profes- 
sional soldier,  the  veteran,  and  those  for  whom 
a  war  chronicle  is  not  anathema  will  find  here 
a  full  account  of  the  services  rendered  by  two 
of  the  finest  battalions  in  the  British  Army." 
Drake  de  Kay 

H Lit  R  p7  S  1  '23  880w 

"These  volumes  of   Mr.    Kipling's  are  a  grreat 
tribute  to  great  men  doing  and  dying  greatly." 
+  New  Statesman   21:242  Je  2  '23  2000w 

Reviewed  by  Austin  Hay 

N  Y  Times  p9  S  2  '23  2000w 

"Elimination,  selection,  compression,  these 
have  been  his  watchwords  from  the  beginning. 
AJways  he  strove  to  omit  the  unessential  to 
reach  his  effect  by  a  daring  though  legitimate 
short  cut.  .  .  The  total  effect,  I  think,  is  what 
Kipling  deliberately  strove  for,  a  novel  kind 
of  realism.  It  is  not  a  distillation;  it  is  not 
figurative;  it  has  an  awful  literalness."  Isabel 
Paterson 

-I-  N   Y  Tribune  pl7  Ag  5  '23  2000w 

"Difficult  as  must  have  been  the  job  of  writ- 
ing a  brigade  history,  'The  Irish  Guards  in  the 
Great  war'  is  probably  the  best  thing  of  its 
sort  that  vfiW  be  written.  Most  such  books  are 
done  by  hacks  and  amateurs.  Few  first-rate 
writers  would  attempt  the  thing  in  the  first 
place.  Mr.  Kipling's  work  should  serve  as  a 
model  of  clarity  and  straightforward  narrative. 
There  are  many  maps,  beautifully  done  in  six- 
teenth century  topographical  style,  with  dia- 
grams showing  movements  of  men  and  material 
on  a  divisional  front.  The  student  of  military 
topography  and  minor  tactics  will  relish  them 
particularly.  Occasionally  Mr.  Kipling  throws 
away  the  burden  of  his  data  and  dips  his  pen 
into  descriptive  ink.  Then  he  has  his  old  mas- 
tery of  cast-iron  prose  figures  and  we  like  him 
best."     Laurence  Stallings 

-f-   N   Y   World   p8e  Jl  22  '23   1850w 

"What  is  most  conspicuous  throughout  these 
pages  is  the  good  taste  with  which  Mr.  Kipling 
has  restrained  the  temptation  to  give  us  any  of 
those  'purple  patches'  which  the  thoughtless 
reader  might  have  expected  to  find  sewn  to 
many  of  his  pages.  He  has  risen  to  the  height 
of  his  great  argument  by  adopting  a  severe 
simplicity  of  style  .  .  .  and  the  result  is  a 
singularly   impressive    book." 

-f  Sat    R    135:570   Ap   28    '23    660w 

"Mr.  Kipling  has  set  down  in  a  wonderfully 
well  joined-up  narrative  what  the  two  battal- 
ions did  and  felt  and  said  while  they  had  less 
sense  of  their  connexion  with  the  War  as  a 
whole  than  anyone  had  who  looked  on  from 
England.  Some  day,  a  hundred  years  hence 
perhaps,  the  history  of  the  War  will  be  reduced 
to  an  ultimate  form  which  only  unorthodox 
historians  will  dispute.  But  it  is  certain,  what- 
ever shape  that  history  may  take,  that  these 
two  volumes  will  be  indispensable  to  the  mak- 
ing of  it." 

+  Spec   130:669   Ap   21   '23   1300w 

"His  nature  has  been  subdued  to  what  it 
works  in.  and  he  has  sacrificed  to  his  theme 
all  his  own  prepossessions,  as  the  Guardsmen 
whom  he  describes  sacrificed  themselves  to  their 
regiment.  This  history  is  a  subject  that  might 
have  been  created  for  the  artist  in  him,  and 
he  has  accepted  it  reverently  so  that  it  is  told 
rather  through  him  than  by  him;  it  has  style 
without   mannerisms." 

4-  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p265  Ap 
19   '23  2850w  K   K  ** 


KIRK,  MRS  ELLA  (BOYCE).  My  pilgrimage  to 
Cou6.    92p   $1.25    Am.    library   service 

615.851    Mental   suggestion.    Cou6,    Eraile 

22-23048 
The  author,  no  longer  young,  suffering  from 
a  chronic  ailment  that  threatened  her  with  a 
protracted,  bedridden  invalidism,  as  a  last  resort 
sought  out  Cou6  at  Nancy.  The  book  is  an 
account  of  her  treatment  and  complete  cure;  of 
the  environment  in  which  Cou6  -works;  of  tne 
scientific  basis  upon  which  his  cure  by  auto- 
suggestion rests  and  the  conditions  upon  which 
its  success  depends.  It  ends  with  the  credo: 
"I  believe  in  the  earnestness  of  purpose  of 
Emile  Cou6,  in  his  devotion  to  and  sincerity  in 
his  work;  in  his  great  kindness  to  all  patients. 
.  .  in  fact  I  believe  in  all  his  methods,  all  his 
attitude  toward  sickness  or  distress." 


Reviewed    by    Joseph    Jastrow 

New    Repub    33:292    F    7    '23    750w 
"This   book    is   an    interesting   recital   of  what 
goes   on    in    the   Cou6   clinic   at   Nancy,   and   the 
narrative    is    set    forth    in    an    engaging    style." 
Van    Bwren    Thorne 

-f   N    Y    Times   pll   Ja   14   '23    1550w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:98    Mr    '23 

KIRK,  RALPH  G.  Six  breeds.  266p  $2.50 
Knopf 

23-8483 

Stories  of  six  different  breeds  of  dogs:  Red 
Feather,  the  gim-shy  Gordon  setter;  Keelta 
MacRowan,  Irish  wolf-hound;  El  Paso  Don,  the 
bird-dog  who  preferred  to  chase  rabbits;  Zanoza, 
the  borzoi;  the  bulldog  White  Monarch  and  the 
gas-house  pup. 

Booklist  20:21  O  '23 
"Anyone  who  enjoys  bull  fights  and  rooster 
fights,  and  dog  fights  will  enjoy  Mr.  Kirk's 
volume.  .  .  If  you  like  ro  be  harried — if,  in  fact, 
you  are  the  kind  of  person  who  enjoys  a  dog 
fight — you   will   enjoy   it." 

H Boston  Transcript  p3  Jl  14  '23  160w 

"Four  of  the  stories  can  be  warmly  recom- 
mended to  lovers  of  both  dogs  and  a  hurricane 
yarn  that  bloweth  as  it  listeth.  The  fifth, 
'Zanoza,'  a  borzoi-and-were-wolf  fantasia,  is 
artistically  successful  enough  to  warrant  the 
suspicion  that  Mr.  Kirk's  other  writing  has 
been  done  with  his  tongue  in  his  cheek  and 
that  he  may  step  forth  at  any  time  and  con- 
front us  as  a  big  man." 

+  Lit  R  p792  Je  23  '23  200w 
"While  the  reader  may  occasionally  wonder 
why  tellers  of  dog  stories  invariably  seem  im- 
pelled to  adopt  a  dialect  of  exaggerated  slang, 
this  style  is  not  characteristic  of  the  entire 
collection." 

H NY  Times  p22  My  20  '23   400w 

Reviewed  by  Edwin  Clark 

N    Y  Tribune  p22  Jl  22   '23   180w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:415    Jl    '23 

KIRKCONNELL,  WATSON.  International  as- 
pects of  unemplovment.  276p  $2.25  Holt  [6s  6d 
Allen    &    U.] 

331.8      Unemployment  [L23-185] 

"This  book  by  a  Canadian  author  endeavours 
to  indicate  the  root  causes  of  unemployment 
and  to  suggest  a  remedy.  Essentially  a  problem 
of  the  great  urban  populations  which  owe  their 
existence  to  the  industrial  revolution,  unem- 
ployment Is  'in  part  an  index  to  maladjustments 
in  the  organization  of  the  system  and  in  part 
a  symptom  of  grave  perils  threatening  that 
whole  scheme  of  human  life.'  The  author  de- 
velops these  two  aspects  of  his  argument  and 
submits  a  prograTnme  of  world  reconstruction 
based  on  restoration  of  the  machinery  of  pro- 
duction, improvement  of  the  machinery  of  dis- 
tribution, financial  reorganization  and  peace." 
— The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 

Booklist  20:123  Ja  '24 
Boston  Transcript  p2  N  10  '23  llOOw 
Reviewed  by  Herbert  Feis 

Lit  R  p338  D  8  '23  590w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


285 


"Let  the  first  word  of  praise  go  to  the  book  s 
extreme  readability.  Mr.  Kirkconnell  shows  a 
happy  knack  of  illustration  and  constantly  hits 
off  his  ideas  and  comparisons  with  a  memor- 
able aptness." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl4  Ag  26  '23  13oOw 
"Mr.  Kirkconnell  diagnoses  quite  ably,  and  is 
excellent  in  the  marshalling  and  application  of 
historical  evidence.  ^Utogether  the  book  is  to 
be  commended,  although  we  could  wish  that 
Mr.  Kirkconnell  would  sometimes  be  less  pro- 
fuse   and    grandio.se    with    his    analogies." 

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Survey   51:229   N  15  '23   300w 
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KIRKPATRICK,   FRANK   HOME.   Public  speak- 
ing,   a    natural    method.    176p    $2    Doran 

808.5      Public   speaking  23-10929 

The  author  treats  public  speaking  as  a  vari- 
ant of  a  talk  with  the  one  modification  that  the 
former  is  done  with  more  accentuation.  The 
same  factors  that  make  a  successful  conversa- 
tion hold  in  public  speaking:  if  one  has  some- 
thing to  sav,  if  one's  ideas  are  clearly  organ- 
ized, one  will  talk  with  purpose,  with  natural- 
ness, with  persuasion,  and  without  self-con- 
sciousness or  confusion.  Each  of  these  factors  is 
dwelt  upon  in  the  text  and  advice  is  given  as 
to  how  to  interest  an  audience,  to  gain  and 
hold  attention,  to  cultivate  one's  diction  and 
voice  and  how  to  practice  before  an  imaginary 
audience.  Assignments  for  practice  at  the  end 
of  each  chapter.     Appendix. 

KLAATSCH,  HERMANN.  Evolution  and  prog- 
ress of  mankind.  316p  il  $8.50  Stokes 
571  Man — Origin.  Man.  Prehistoric.  Evo- 
lution. Civilization  [23-8087] 
"This  is  an  up-to-date  work  something  on 
the  lines  of  Tyler's  'Early  History  of  Mankind' 
and  Lord  Avebury's  'Prehistoric  Times."  The 
late  Professor  Klaatsch  died  in  1916.  leaving 
beside  more  technical  manuscripts  that  of  the 
present  volume,  which  is  'a  sort  of  summary  of 
the  results  of  all  his  inquiries,  a  retrospect  and 
an  outlook.'  It  was  completed  and  edited  by 
Professor  Adolf  Heilbron,  and  is  now  translated 
from  the  second  Gterman  edition  by  Mr.  Joseph 
McCabe.  The  book  gives  a  clear  and  on  the 
whole  trustworthy  account  of  the  latest  theories 
as  to  the  polygenesis  or  plural  origin  of  man- 
kind. Klaatsch  himself  held  that  monkeys  were 
not  the  ancestors  but  the  collateral  relatives  of 
men.  The  primitive  group  from  which  mankind 
sprang  divided  early  into  various  lines  of  des- 
cent some  of  which  rose  into  humanity,  while 
others  wandered  off  the  track  of  higher  evolu- 
tion to  give  us  the  gorilla  and  the  chimpanzee. 
The  later  chapters  in  this  volume  describe  the 
most  important  discoveries  of  fossil  skulls,  from 
Neanderthal  in  1856  to  Piltdown  in  1912  and 
Obercassel  in  1914.  which  throw  light  on  this 
still  vexed  question." — Sat  R 


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"The  book  is  stimulating  on  those  points  on 
which  the  author  can  speak  with  authority;  in 
other  portions  the  numerous  hypotheses  will 
amuse  the  reader  (if  they  do  not  irritate  him). 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that,  if  another  edition  is 
printed,  the  editor  will  supplement  with  refer- 
ences the  many  ex  cathedra  statements  which 
characterize  the  course  of  the  argument."  M.  J. 
Herskovits 

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"It  is  altogether  a  remarkable  book,  provoca- 
tive of  much  thought.  .  .  Most  translations  are 
awkward  and  at  best,  easily  detected.  This 
book  has  received  the  touch  of  a  master  in  the 
E^nglish  language.  It  is  delightful  to  read,  al- 
ways clear  and  precise,  entirely  free  from  the 
German  idiom  or  the  original  without  apparent 
loss  of  meaning." 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Dally    News   p20   Ag 
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"The  attention  of  the  reader  will  be  well  held 
throughout,  and  no  little  interest  is  added  by 
the  well-chosen  and  numerous  pictures."  C:  W^- 
Gould 

+    Int   Bk   R  p9  Jl  '23  3100w 

"This  book  of  Prof.  Klaatsch's  is  of  value, 
not  because  it  represents  a  weighty  contribu- 
tion to  anthropology,  but  because  it  gives  in  a 
readable  form  the  opinions  held  by  an  outstana- 
ing  personality  concerning  the  manner  in  which 
man  has  come  by  his  present  place  In  the 
world."     Arthur  Keith 

-+-   Nature   112:854   D  15  '23  1300w 

Reviewed  by  R.   H.   Lowie 

New  Repub  35:268  Ag  1  '23  650w 

New    Statesman    21:576   Ag   25    '23    750w 

"His  style  is  easy,  simple  and  direct,  his  ideas 
evidently  being  intended  for  the  general  public, 
as  well  as  for  scientists  and  philosophers,  and 
his  views  are  well  calculated  to  clear  away  many 
if  not  most  of  the  average  man's  misconceptions 
of  humanity's  base  origin  and  mysteriously 
slow,  painful  and  precarious  development."  "W: 
R.   Shields 

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St   Louis  p334  D  '23 
"Prof.    Klaatsch    summarizes   a  wide   mass   of 
material  in  a  clear  and  readable  manner.    More 
than  a  hundred  well  selected  and  striking  illus- 
trations add  to  the  intelligibility  of  the  text." 
+  Sat  R  135:405  Mr  24  '23  400w 
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♦'Vividness,    indeed,    both    of    conception    and 
of  literary  style,  is  his  outstanding  characteristic. 
He  is  the  born  popularizer,  who  will  be  striking 
at  all  costs.     In  the  present  work,  at  any  rate, 
which  is  intended  for  the  general   reader,   there 
is   far  more  that  will  stimulate  the  fancy   than 
can   possibly  satisfy  the  critical  intelligence.    In 
short,    his   book   at   once   attracts    by   its   vigour 
and    repels    by    its    lack    of    intellectual    refine- 
ment." 

1-  The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p283   Ap 

26   '23   1300W 

KLEIN,  PHILIP.  Burden  of  unemployment;  a 
studv  of  unemployment  relief  measures  in  fif- 
teen" American  cities,  1921-22.  260p  |2  Rus- 
sell   Sage   foundation 

331.8      Unemployment  23-9608 

"Without  attempting  to  deal  with  the  larger 
aspects  of  industrial  life  the  study  concerns 
itself  chiefly  with  unemployment  as  an  emer- 
gency and  aims  to  give  an  account  of  the  un- 
employment relief  measures  made  use  of  during 
the  emergency  period  of  1921-1922.  projected 
upon  a  background  of  as  many  and  as  varied 
American  cities  as  there  was  time  to  visit  and 
inquire  into  before  the  summer  of  the  latter 
year.  It  records  the  activities  of  social  agen- 
cies, special  committees,  organized  community 
attempts  to  meet  distress  among  the  unem- 
ployed and  the  efforts  of  employers  and  trade 
unions.    Index. 


Reviewed  by  E.  H.   Sutherland 

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the  guidance  of  local  communities  and  organiza- 
tions which  are  confronted  with  a  considerable 
amount  of  unemployment.  As  such,  it  should 
prove  very  useful  when  that  problem  becomes 
once  more  acute." 

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Reviewed  by  J:  B.  Andrews 

Management  &  Adm  6:513  O  '23  950w 
Reviewed    by   H:    R.    Mussev 

Nation    117:654   D  5   '23   250w 
"A    volume     somewhat    technical,     but    very 
readable   for  all   that." 

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"The   Russell    Sage    Foundation   has   added   a 
notable   volume   to   its   library  of   textbooks  on 
social  practice  and  engineering,  a  volume  which 


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goes  far  beyond  any  previous  attempt  to  sys- 
tematize our  existing  linowledge  of  tlie  nature 
of  the  relief  problem  at  a  time  of  exceptional 
unemployment  and  of  the  best  craftsmanship 
that  has  been  developed  in  meeting  it.  If  a 
study  so  thorough  and  sound  as  that  of  Mr. 
Klein  fails  to  awaken  a  sense  of  responsibility 
and  a  desire  to  be  prepared  for  emergencies, 
then   nothing  will   avail."     B.    L. 

+  Survey   50:supl85   My  1   '23  2300w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:504  D   '23 

KLP.INMICHEL,      MARIE        (VON        KELLER) 

GRAFINIA.  Memories  of  a  shipwrecked  world; 

being  memoirs,   tr.   by  Vivian  Le  Grand.    286p 

il   $4    (14s)    Brentano's 
B  or  92  Russia— History  23-12050 

"Another  unwilling  martyr  to  Russia's  tragic 
reaction  from  the  old  regime  has  added  her 
memoirs  to  those  which  have  been  read  with 
eagerness  in  the  last  few  years.  They  link  a 
quiet  yet  eventful  past  with  a  cruel  present. 
"The  author,  now  seventy-seven  years  old,  writes 
boldly  and  convincingly  not  only  of  the  latter 
days  of  her  most  unfortunate  nation  but  of  re- 
collections from  earliest  youth  of  Alexander  II, 
and  his  court,  of  prominent  military  government 
and  society  leaders,  of  travel,  of  politics,  in- 
trigue, revolution,  of  gayeties  and  splendors,  of 
poverty  and  oppression.  It  is  a  fascinating  biog- 
raphy of  a  Russian  gentlewoman  who  was  a 
favorite  at  the  Imperial  Court  for  many  years, 
who  entertained  lavishly  and  who  enjoyed  the 
confidence  of  men  and  women  in  highest  posi- 
tions. Her  story  is  largely  an  amplification  of 
carefully  preserved  diaries." — Boston  Transcript 


"In  Europe  this  volume  has  aroused  profound 
Interest.  A  similar  reception  is  bound  to  await 
It  here."    F.  P.  H. 

Boston  Transcript  p4  My  16  '23  850w 

"A  fascinating  book,  and  valuable,  for  what 
is  unsaid  as  well  as  for  what  is  said.  It  is  an 
Intellectually  naive  picture  of  a  shipwrecked 
world,  more  interesting  than  most  novels  and 
going  further  towards  making  people  'under- 
stand' the  revolution  than  many  solemn  books 
that  try  to  explain  it."  Arthur  Ruhl 
+  Lit  R  p814  Jl  7  '23  1300w 

"Although  the  pages  contain  much  rather 
wearisome  detail  in  the  way  of  explaining  and 
following  relationships,  the  book  is  neverthe- 
less lively  and  entertaining,  filled  with  anec- 
dotes and  incidents  that  have  always  an  inter- 
esting human  value." 

H NY  Times  p23  My  13  '23  1150w 

"It  is  irritatingly  dateless,  confused  and  con- 
fusing. Her  eyewitness  accounts  of  scenes  and 
personalities  in  the  early  stages  of  the  revolu- 
tion are  vivid  and  picturesque,  forming  the  most 
readable  portions  of  the  book..  But  one  cannot 
share  the  Countess  Kleinmichel's  whimpering 
regrets  that  her  world  is  no  more.  Her  mem- 
ories of  it  are  blazing  evidence  that  it  had 
forfeited  its  right  to  exist."    W.  N.  C.  Carlton 

f-   N  Y  Tribune  p22  Jl  29  '23  500w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p480    Jl 
19  '23   1350w 

KNIBBS,    HENRY    HERBERT.      Saddle    songs 
and  other  verse.   lOlp  $1.50   Houghton 

811  22-20060 

Songs  of  the  cowboy's  West. 


Booklist  19:153  F  '23 

"Knibbs's  'Saddle  Songs'  are  full  of  the 
rhythmic  beat  of  hoofs;  his  lines  gallop  along, 
now  in  taut,  nervou.s,  tight  reined  metre,  now 
lazily  shambling  with  a  slow  laughter  under 
their  nonchalance.  It  is  a  pity  that  .so  much 
of  his  verse  bears  the  standardized  'western' 
stamp,  for  this  poet  has  a  sensitive  inner  quick 
to  which  he  should  be  devoutly  and  unequivo- 
cally faithful." 

H Bookm  57:98  Mr  '23  120w 

"Mr.  Knibbs  writes  in  an  old  Western  tradi- 
tion, but  he  writes   flashingly  better  than  most 
celebrators  of  the  cowboy."  W:   R.  Benet 
+  Lit  R  p364  Ja  6  '23  500w 


"Verse  which  catches  at  its  best  and  at  its 
worst  the  West  of  sixshooters  and  firewater,  of 
rough  chivalry  and  of  quick,  though  often  il- 
legal justice.  The  writer  knows  his  West;  he 
lived  there  in  the  days  when  the  broncho's  place 
was  undisputed  by  mechanical  contrivances 
from  the  factories  of  Michigan;  and  he  has  a 
natural  talent  for  enabling  his  readers  to  see 
things  as  he  sees  them.  Moreover,  under  an 
exterior  which  at  times  appears  rough,  he  has 
manly  ideals  which  he  never  forgets." 

H Springf'd   Republican  p5a  D  10  '22  380w 

KNICKERBOCKER,    EDWIN    VAN    BERGHEN, 

ed.     Present-day  essays.   348p  $1.24  Holt 
814  Essays  23-2818 

"The  articles  in  this  volume  have  been  col- 
lected for  use  in  the  upper  terms  of  the  high 
school  course,  where  they  may  be  read  in  place 
of  the  older  essays  usually  read  there.  They 
treat  of  problems  and  phases  of  present-day 
living  or  of  experiences  of  recent  years,  and 
they  are  all  written  in  the  easy,  vivid  style  that 
marks  the  best  writing  of  to-day.  They  are 
agreeably  personal  in  tone,  and  present  a  wida 
variety  of  subject  and  type."  (Preface)  The 
compiler's  object  in  choosing  present-day  essays 
is  that  they  will  best  help  young  people  to  see 
life  with  an  understanding  of  its  reality  and 
significance.  He  introduces  his  collection  with  a 
chapter  on  the  essay  as  a  branch  of  literature 
and  concludes  with  suggestions  for  study  and 
notes  on  the  authors  chosen:  Lafcadio  Hearn; 
Simeon  Strunsky;  Agnes  Repplier;  John  Macy; 
Dorothy  Canfleld  Fisher;  Robert  C.  Benchley; 
William  Beebe;  Truman  J.  Spencer;  Charles  S. 
Brooks;  William  James;  Walter  Lippmann;  Eu- 
gene Manlove  Rhodes;  Lilian  D.  Wald;  Kath- 
arine FuUerton  (Jerould;   E.   F.   Benson. 


"One  need  not  go  beyond  the  list  of  authors 
whose  essays  are  here  reprinted,  for  their 
names  are  guarantees  of  good  thought,  pure 
Engli.sh  and  careful  construction." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  21  '23  140w 

"The  appeal  of  the  book  is  not  confined  to 
any  student  class  working  for  a  diploma.  All 
readers  of  good  modern  and  diversified  writing 
will  delight  in  these  reprints." 

-i-   N   Y  Times  p20  F  18  '23  330w 

"A  new  book  which  ought  to  be  in  the  hands 
of  every  junior  or  senior  high  school  class.  The 
fifteen  modern,  vital,  interesting,  and  artistic 
personal  writings  collected  and  edited  in  this 
textbook,  ought  to  precede,  and  probably  super- 
sede, Burke's  'Conciliation  Speech'  and  Macau- 
lay's  'Johnson'  if  we  want  students  to  enjoy 
reading."      R.    L.    Lyman 

4-  School    R    31:315    Ap    '23    lOOw 

KNIGHT,  LAURA  (JOHNSON)  (MRS  HAROLD 
KNIGHT).  Book  of  drawings,  ltd  ed  11  $25 
Button    [£3    3s   Lane] 

741  Drawings 
A  collection  of  twenty  drawings  with  a  fore- 
word and  descriptive  notes  by  Charles  Marriott. 
"There  is  great  variety;  from  portraits,  such  as 
that  of  Mme.  Pavlova,  to  complete  water-colors 
like  the  discreet  bather  standing  with  her  back 
to  the  spectator  on  the  Cornish  coast,  and  there 
are  bustling  scenes  like  Hampstead  Heath  on 
a  bank-holiday,  or  polar  bears  in  the  zoo.  The 
edition  is  limited  to  500  copies,  each  auto- 
graphed by  the  artist."   (Boston  Transcript) 


Boston  Transcript  p7  Ag  1  '23  650w 
"The  twenty  drawings  in  the  volume  Just 
published  are  each  of  them  finer  than  any  paint- 
ing by  the  artist  known  to  the  present  writer. 
Charles  Marriott  says  of  her  that  she  'lives 
in  her  eve.s.'  has  to  a  degree  unusual  even 
among  modern  artists  the  'visual  alertness' 
that  is  more  or  less  a  modern  affair;  that  her 
attitude  toward  life  and  her  subjects  is  that 
of  'artistic  sympathy  with  personal  detach- 
ment.' He  finds  her  humorous  with  her  per- 
ception of  character  and  situation,  keeping 
'always  on  the  right  side  of  caricature,'  and 
that   she   can   Interpret   the   character  of  place 


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as  truly  as  human  character.  Mrs.  Knight 
bears  him  out  bravely  in  the  drawings  repro- 
duced." 

+   N    Y  Times  pl7  Jl  29   '23   700w 

"An  altogether  delightful  book.  Mrs.  Knight 
is  one  of  our  mo.st  brilliant  living  draughts- 
men; spontaneous,  fluid,  accurate.  She  has  a 
fine  feeling  for  design  and  a  delicate  observa- 
tion which  her  technique  effectively  expresses. 
Her  quality  is  certainly  better  conveyed  in  the 
rapid  medium  than  in  the  laborious  and  sus- 
tained effort  of  oil.  The  selection  given  in  this 
excellently  produced  book  is  admirable  with  one 
exception,   The   Bather." 

Spec  131:262  Ag  25  '23   130w 

"Laura  Knight  is  the  true  impressionist  be- 
cause she  seems  to  see  in  a  moment  what  she 
wants  to  visualize  at  once  as  a  rhythmical 
composition,  and  to  transfer  it  to  her  paper 
without  a  moment's  after-thought.  With  such  a 
gift  as  this,  she  need  make  little  selection  of 
subject.  Figure,  landscape,  or  crowded  scenes 
in  the  theatre,  the  ship,  the  streets — in  all  she 
sees  in  a  moment  what  is  pictorial  or  charac- 
teristic." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p283   Ap 
26    '23    850w 

KNIGHT,  RACHEL.  Founder  of  Quakerism; 
a  psychological  study  of  the  mysticism  of 
George  Fox.  280p  $5  Doran  L12s  6d 
Swarthmore  press] 

B  or   92     Fox,   George.     Friends,    Society  of 

23-8487 

"This  book  was  written  by  a  leader  among 
the  younger  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends 
in  America  and  one  who,  at  the  time  of  her 
death  in  1921  was  Professor  of  Psychology  at  the 
State  College  of  South  Dakota.  The  psychology 
of  religion  is  a  difficult  and  still  to  a  large  ex- 
tent unexplored  science,  and  one  of  its  chief 
dangers  is  that  it  may  fall  into  a  too  narrowly 
scientific  analysis  of  what  is,  above  all  others, 
a  complex,  delicate,  and  intensely  personal  prob- 
lem. By  the  fact  that  she  was  not  only  a 
psychologist,  but  also  herself  a  Quaker,  Dr. 
Knight  escapes  this  pitfall.  Her  study  is,  in 
fact,  entirely  sympathetic,  even  though  she  in- 
terprets the  apparently  miraculous  elements  in 
Fox's  life-history  in  terms  of  the  new  psychol- 
ogy."— Spec 

"To  students  of  applied  psychology  this  book 
will  be  constantly  enlivening.  To  those  other 
readers  who  do  not  care  to  deal  with  such 
phrases  as  'maximal  perceptivity'  or  'context 
of  personality'  or  'instantaneous  motor  response,' 
or  to  consult  diagrams  showing  the  subject's 
development  or  its  contrasts  with  others,  this 
book  still  holds  much  to  impress  and  fascinate 
in  an  understandable  and  easily  grasped  portrait 
of  a  man  who  had  many  ordinary  characteris- 
tics and  yet  behind  all  had  that  subtle  some- 
thing which  perhaps,  without  his  being  con- 
scious of  it,  set  him  apart  from  his  fellows." 
S.  L.  Cook 

-f   Boston  Transcript  p5  Jl  14  '23  lOOOw 

"Dr.  Knight  puts  George  Fox  into  an  Ameri- 
can thesis,  full  of  advanced  psychology.  His 
symptoms  are  tabulated,  weighed  in  the  bal- 
ance, and  explained  in  diagrams  like  a  weather 
chart.  Pages  of  small  type  note  his  'Conflict- 
ing Traits'  side  by  side.  He  was  human  after 
all,  and,  in  spite  of  his  way  of  leaving  ven- 
geance to  God,  rejoiced  emphatically  when  a 
judgment  came  off.  This  kind  of  research  is 
for  experts  only,  and  explained  in  a  language 
devoid  of  human  charm." 

—  New  Statesman  20:638  Mr  3  '23  200w 

"As  interesting  for  the  layman  as  for  the 
philosopher.  It  is  difficult  to  say  whether  the 
merit  of  simplicity  and  clarity  lies  with  Rachel 
Knight  or  with  her  subject." 

-f   N  Y  Times  p23  Je  17  '23  680w 

"We  get  not  a  plain-sailing  voyage  of  discov- 
ery, but  insight  and  research  overwhelmed  with 
scientific  jargon.  The  real  value  of  her  analysis 
IS  warped  by  a  presentation  of  contrasted  cate- 
gories expressed  even  in  geometrical  figures  and 
concentric    circles.     We    are    grateful    to    Misa 


Knight  for  much  that  is  informing,  even  while 
we  deplore  her  overweight,  both  of  method  and 
matter.  Fox  and  Plato,  however,  are  not  to  be 
confused." 

h  Sat   R   135:187  F  10  '23   650w 

"Like  many  recent  psychology-books  this 
study  contains  several  diagrams  which  are 
likely  to  do  little  else  than  bamboozle  the  aver- 
age reader;  but  for  the  book  as  a  whole  we 
have  little  else  but  praise.  Its  interest  is  not 
only  psychological  but  strongly  human." 
H Spec   130:554   Mr  31   '23  680w 

KOCH,     FREDERICK     HENRY,     ed.        Carolina 

toik-plays.      160p     il     $1.75     Holt 
812         Theater — Little      theater      movement. 
American    drama — Collections  22-24897 

The  editor  is  a  professor  in  the  University 
of  North  Carolina  and  director  of  the  Carolina 
playmakers.  He  teaches  the  students  at  the 
university  to  write  plays  about  their  own  life, 
their  common  experiences  and  interests.  He 
also  teaches  them  how  to  act  these  plays,  to 
design  the  scenery  and  make  the  costumes. 
The  five  one-act  plays  contained  in  the  book 
were  all  written  by  native  North  Carolinians 
and  have  been  produced  with  success  thruout 
the  state.  There  is  an  introduction  on  folk- 
play  making  by  the  editor,  and  an  appendix 
on  the  language  of  the  plays  and  the  pronun- 
ciation of  the  dialects  by  Tom  Peete  Cross. 
The  illustrations  are  from  photographs  of  the 
original  productions.  Contents:  Aims  of  the 
Carolina  playmakers;  Folk-play  making;  When 
witches  ride,  by  Elizabeth  A.  Lay;  Peggy,  by 
Harold  Williamson;  "Dod  gast  ye  both!"  by 
Hubert  Heffner;  Off  Nags  Head  or  The  bell 
buoy,  by  Dougald  MacMillan;  The  last  of  the 
i^owries,    by    Paul    Greene;    Appendix. 


"The  one-act  plays  published  in  Professor 
Koch's  volume  are  sincere,  dramatic  work, 
well-fltted  for  practical  presentation  to  the 
audience  for  whom  they  were  written.  Two  of 
them,  'Peggy'  and  'The  Last  of  the  Lowries,' 
on  the  themes  of  self-abnegation  and  mother- 
love,  have  a  more  general  appeal.  But  the  real 
value  of  such  work  lies  in  the  fact  that  it  is 
done  for  a  locality  in  which  it  is  indigenous." 
M.   L.   M. 

+  Freeman   8:718  Ap  11   '23  350w 

"The  book  is  worthy  of  a  place  in  the  library 
of  every  student  of  the  drama,  every  student 
of  folk-ways,  every  student  of  society,  and 
especially  of  every  literate  Tar  Heel.  .  .  As 
for  Professor  Cross'  essay  on  North  Carolina 
dialects,  it  is  a  pure  delight  to  a  North  Caro- 
linian."    G.   W.   J. 

+   Greensboro     (N.C.)     Daily     News    p6    D 
17    '22    1250w 

Reviewed   by   Lloyd  Morris 

Int    Bk    R    p46    Mr    '23    150w 

"Professor  Koch,  by  thus  preserving  the  rich 
strain  of  folklore  in  our  national  life  and  mak- 
ing articulate  the  dramatic  instincts  of  the 
people,  makes  a  significant  contribution  to  the 
drama  of  the  country.  .  .  In  spite  of  their  natur- 
ally amateurish  melodrama,  the  plays  live  and 
give  the  sense  of  a  vital  artistic  instinct  back 
of  them,  seeking  expression.  They  portray 
sentimental  emotions  with  a  poignant  sim- 
plicity which  liites  through  to  the  sentimentality 
that  lives  in  us  all,  however  brutally  we  have 
disciplined  it  with  our  sophistication  and  scorn." 
+   Lit    R    p355    D   30    '22   360w 

"Dramas  ^\Titten  with  .skill  and  a  gift  for 
the   creation   of   background." 

-t-    N    Y    Times    pl2    F    4    '23    450w 

Reviewed    by    R.    W.    Brink 

N    Y    Tribune    p26    Ja    21    '23    700w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:82    Mr    '23 

KOEBEL,  WILLIAM    HENRY.    New  Argentina. 

276p     il     $3     Dodd     [15s    Unwin] 
91S.2     Argentina  23-4510 

"The  story  of  the  regime  of  misrule  of  Spain, 
in  her  South  American  colonies,  from  1536  to 
1810.  is  told  in  a  brief  but  comprehensive  in- 
troduction to  this  volume.  Mr.  Koebel  devotes 
a  chapter  or  two  to  the  history  of  the  organi- 


288 


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KOEBEL,   W:   H: — Continued 

zatioii  and  advancement  of  the  Argentine  repub- 
lic, as  a  political  entity,  and  proceeds  to  show 
forth  the  Argentina  of  today — the  character  of 
its  people;  the  facilities  of  employment;  the 
distribution  of  the  population;  its  commerce; 
its  pioducts  in  livestock  and  in  cereals;  its  lead- 
ing city  of  Buenos  Aires;  its  railways;  its  ports 
and  shipping;  its  provinces  and  what  they  con- 
tain, including  the  once  little  known  country 
of  Terra  del  Fuego;  and  its  relations  with 
other  nations,  especially  with  the  United  States 
and    with    Great   Britain." — Boston   Transcript 


"Undoubtedly  of  great  value  to  American  men 
of    business." 

+  Boston    Transcript    p4    F   21    '23    250w 
"There   is  much  information  which   should  be 
of   great   value    to   those   who   have   oi'    contem- 
plate    having     commercial     relations     with     our 
South    American    neighbor."      I:    Anderson 
-f-   Int    Bk    R  p39  Je  '23   70w 

"We  are  surprised  to  find  no  single  word, 
from  beginning  to  end,  dealing  with  the  art, 
literature,  music,  or  drama  of  New  Argentina. 
Mr.  Koebel  has  evidently  never  heard  of  any 
of  them,  especially  literature.  These  criticisms 
are  not  launched  in  a  mean  spirit.  They  are 
inspired  by  a  clear  consciousness  that  one  of 
our  prime  needs  in  the  United  States  today  is 
a  supply  of  well  written,  ably  designed,  and 
adequately  indexed  books  on  South  America. 
But  the  authors  must  have  vision  as  well  as 
knowledge.  If  it  be  not  too  much  to  ask,  we 
would  add  that  it  will  not  endanger  their  pop- 
ularity with  us  if  they  have  talent  as  well." 
W:    McFee 

—  Lit   R  p924  Ag  25   '23  650w 

New    Statesman    21:334    Je    23    '23    320w 
Reviewed  by  R.  J.   Burdette 

N  Y  Times  p20  Mr  4  '23  400w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:306  Je  '23 
R  of  Rs  67:335  Mr  '23  50w 
"Mr.  Koebel  is  a  well-known  authority  on 
South  America,  and  in  this  book  he  renders 
a  distinct  service  to  the  large  number  of  people 
in  this  country  who  are  interested  in  the  Ar- 
gentine. .  .  Mr.  Koebel  thinks  that  Argentina 
has  passed  successfully  through  her  Socialistic 
phase,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  is  right. 
Such,  then  is  his  message  regarding  the  situa- 
tion— a  message  of  confident  hope.  The  man- 
ner in  which  that  message  is  delivered  is  not 
quite  so  satisfactory,  for  the  book  seems  to 
have  been  written  in  a  hurry,  is  loosely  con- 
structed in  places,  and  contains  not  a  few  rep- 
etitions." 

-\ Sat   R   136:138  Ag  4   '23  520w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup  p376  My 
31    '23    200w 
"A  rather  complete  handbook  better  adapted 
for    reference    purposes    than    for    consecutive 
reading." 

+  Wis   Lib   Bui  19:132  My  '23 

KOHLSAAT,  HERMAN  HENRY.  From  McKin- 
ley  to  Harding;  personal  recollections  of  our 
presidents.   235p  il  $3   Scribner 

923.2    Presidents— United    States.    McKinley, 
William.    Roosevelt,    Theodore  23-5828 

These  reminiscences  consist  of  a  series  of 
articles  reprinted  from  The  Saturday  Evening 
Post,  with  some  new  matter.  They  contain 
recollections  of  many  public  men.  besides  the 
presidents,  and  of  conventions  and  other  poli- 
tical events;  also  many  letters  to  and  from  the 
author. 


"There  is  not  a  dull  page  in  the  entire  volume 
and  the  only  regret  is  that  the  author  did  not 
extend  some  of  his  chapters  so  that  we  could 
have  learned  even  more  of  the  interesting  de- 
tails of  our  political  life  from  one  who  has  had 
an  unusual  opportunity  to  know  the  politics  of 
the  past  quarter  century  from  the  inside." 
-f  Am    Pol   Sci    R  17:687  N  '23  240w 

Boston    Transcript    p4   Ap   25   '23    600w 

"Altogether,  it  is  one  of  the  most  interesting 
books  that  have  been  written  regarding  Amer- 
ican politics,   and  points  out  the  author  as  not 


only  a  facile,  agreeable  writer  but  also  a  citi- 
zen and  a  statesman  of  the  highest  type,  en- 
dowed with  great  foresight  and  breadth  of 
view.  He  rendered  a  great  service  not  only  to 
the  men  he  writes  about  but  also  to  the  pa- 
tion    at    large." 

-f  Cath    World    117:715    Ag   '23    320w 

Reviewed  by  E.  L.  Pearson 

Ind   110:231   Mr   31   '23   320w 

"Every  page  bears  the  impi-ess  of  truth  and 
of  a  sincere,  wise  and  kindly  personality.  The 
book  is  at  once  a  diverting  mine  of  good  anec- 
dotes and  a  valuable  contribution  to  the  polit- 
ical history  of  our  time."  E.  L.  Shuman 
-I-   Int    Bk    R    p28   Ap   '23   2800w 

"Mr.  Kohlsaat's  book  is  little  more  than  a 
collection  of  anecdotes  and  brief  scenes,  but  as 
they  are  first  hand  and  as  many  of  them  are 
new,  and  as  they  relate  to  the  most  conspicu- 
ous personages  in  our  recent  history,  they  make 
a  highly  entertaining  volume."  R.  J.  Davis 
+   Lit     R    p678    My    12    '23    550w 

Reviewed  by  O.  G.  Villard 

Nation  117:3561  O  3  '23  400w 

New  Repub  34:246  Ap  25  '23  980w 

"From  the  standpoint  of  a  balanced  and 
rounded  statement  of  events  in  their  sequence 
Mr.  Kohlsaat's  volume  might  well  be  criticised. 
Its  abrupt  transitions,  its  wide  omissions  and 
its  seemingly  casual  selection  of  episodes  are 
not  to  pass  unremarked.  But  the  merit  of  the 
book  lies  in  the  fact  that  it  does  not  attempt 
to  do  anything  except  to  give  direct  testimony, 
in  the  briefest  possible  way,  upon  matters  about 
which  Mr.  Kohlsaat  had  some  personal  testi- 
mony  to  offer."     Albert   Shaw 

H NY  Times  pi   Mr  11   '23  2350w 

"In  'From  McKinley  to  Harding'  Mr.  H.  H. 
Kohlsaat  contributes  a  volume  that  should 
stand  out  in  the  growing  list  of  American 
memoirs  because  of  its  avoidance  of  the  twin 
pitfalls  of  indiscretion  and  dullness.  The 
book  lives.  If  we  should  attempt  to  say  why, 
our  guess  would  be,  first,  because  of  the  fine- 
ness of  its  feeling,  and,  second,  because  of  its 
high  journalistic  quality."     J.   S.  M. 

-+-   N    Y   Tribune  p20   Mr  11   '23   800w 

"His  story  is  told  dispassionately,  without 
tinge  of  prejudice  or  personal  flavor.  It  is  in 
that  particular  'all  to  the  good'  for  the  histor- 
ians  who   turn   to   his   pages."      E.    W.    Osborn 

H NY   World   pile  Ap  15   '23   1250w 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:304   Je   '23 

"The  credibility  of  Mr  Kohlsaat's  narrative  is 
strengthened  by  the  fact  that  the  present  re- 
viewer is  in  a  position  to  testify,  from  an 
examination  of  unpublished  documents,  to  the 
careful  accuracy  with  which  Mr  Kohlsaat  later 
deals,  for  example,  with  the  break  between 
Roosevelt  and  Taft  and  its  causes.  The  Taft- 
Roosevelt  break  is  the  text  for  some  of  Mr. 
Kohlsaat's  most  valuable  and  interesting 
pages." 

+  Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Je  10  '23  750w 
Survey  50:457  Jl  15   '23  220w 

KOHS,  SAMUEL  CALMIN.  Intelligence  mea- 
-    surement;      a     psychological     and     statistical 

study  based  upon  the  block-design  tests.   312p 

$3   Macmillan 

150   Mental   tests  23-8936 

Dr  Kohs  has  devised  a  new  system  of  testing 
intelligence  by  means  of  variously  colored  and 
designed  blocks.  He  describes  the  test,  gives 
the  results  of  its  application  to  more  than  three 
hundred  children  from  scattered  environments, 
subjects  his  results  to  statistical  method,  and 
suggests  rules  for  standardization  and  for  the 
evaluation   of  results. 


Boston   Transcript  p2  Je  16  '23  250w 
"He     summarizes     very     briefly,     yet     rather 
soundly,  the  errors  and  faults  of  the  army  Alpha 
and  Beta  tests.     He  is  modest  in  his  claims  and 
cautious  in  his  criticisms." 

-1-  Lit    R   p411   D  29   '23   330w 


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289 


KORFF,   SERGIEI    ALEKSAN  DROVICH,  baron. 

Autocracy  and  revolution  in  Russia.  161p  $1.50 
Macmillan 

947     Russia — History— Revolution,    1917- 

23-7362 

The  book  embodies  a  course  of  six  lectures 
delivered  under  the  auspices  of  the  Harris 
foundation  at  Northwestern  university,  Evan- 
ston,  111.  It  is  an  attempt  at  a  dispassionate 
and  scientific  analysis  of  the  causes  and  the 
results  of  the  Russian  revolution.  It  shows 
that  the  political  system  and  social  background 
that  constituted  the  Russian  autocracy  made  the 
revolution  inevitable,  describing  the  various 
factors  that  led  up  to  it.  It  examines  the  part 
played  by  Germany  in  preparing  for  the  revo- 
lution and  deals  with  Bolshevism  as  a  deplor- 
able altho  perhaps  inevitable  feature.  Contents: 
Autocracy;  The  Russian  peasant;  The  Russo- 
Japanese  war;  The  events  of  the  revolution; 
Germany  and  the  Russian  revolution;  Some  les- 
sons  of  the   Russian    revolution;   Index. 


Am    Econ    R   13:478  S   '23   50w 
Reviewed  bv  R.   M.   Storv 

Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:49.5  Ag  '23  550w 
Booklist  20:17  O  '23 
"Readers  will  welcome  the  clear,  luminous 
presentation  of  the  subject.  Baron  Korff  has  a 
panoramic  mind  with  an  unusual  faculty  for 
brinejing  into  systematic  relations  the  elements 
of  the  picture  he  observes,  and  of  expressing 
plainly  the  underlying  principles  which  he  finds 
at  work.  'Autocracy  and  Revolution  in  Russia' 
is  a  book  which  those  who  wish  to  be  informed 
on  world  affairs  cannot  aftord  to  leave  unread." 
M,  E.  P. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p7  S  8  '23  800w 

"Baron  Korff's  book  is  a  study  of  the  whole 
situation  illuminated  by  historical  nnalogies. 
from  the  hand  of  a  scholar  exceptionally  fitted 
by  experience  and  training  to  shed  light  upon 
the  subject."     A.   S.  Will 

4-   N    Y   Times   p9   My   27   '23   16,50w 
R    of    Rs    67:671    Je   '23    20w 
Sat    R   136:387   O   6   '23   3.'^nw 
The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p5,52   Ag 
23  '23  90(hv 

KREYMBORG.      ALFRED.      Less     lonely.      llOp 

$1.75  Harcourt 

811  23-12861 

"  'Less  Lonely,'  a  collection  of  rhymed  and 
imrhymed  verse  Is  a  near  relation  of  the 
'Spectra'  of  Witter  Bynner  and  Arthur  Davison 
Ficke."  (NT  Tribune)  "Most  of  the  pieces  are 
still  in  the  author's  old  manner,  but  imder  the 
title  of  'Madonna  di  Campagna'  Kreymborg 
presents  some  thirty-odd  sonnets,  inspired  by 
Italian  subjects  of  such  xmiform  excellence  that 
the  reader  is  convinced  the  poet  will  go  far 
if  he  follows  up  his  new  venture."   (N  Y  "Times) 


"Mr.  Krevmborg's  new  volume  betrays  signs 
of  being  affected  by  the  prevailing  vogue  for 
testhetic  formulation.  He  has  been  attempting 
the  more  traditional  forms,  especially  the  son- 
net. His  experiments  in  this  medium  are  inter- 
esting, but  I  think  scarcely  satisfying."  J.  G. 
Fletcher 

f-   Freeman    8:356   D    19   '23    150w 

"Pages  of  Mr.  Kreymborg  lack  tension  and 
vibrancy,  and  so  cannot  appeal  to  the  ear. 
Nothing  shapes  itself  in  the  memory;  w^e  do 
not  recall  one  line.  Mr.  Kreymborg  is  naive  and 
charming,  and  he  is  an  agreeable  satirist  in 
prose.  In  the  first  and  fourth  poems  here  he 
has  recognized  some  pretty  identities  between 
fish  and  men.  between  needles  nnd  rain.  But 
he  develops  them  with  a  drawl  that  has  noth- 
ing to  do  with  poetry,  however  characteristic  of 
himself  it  may  be."  Mark  Van  Doren 
f-   Nation    117:sup402    O    10    '23    200w 

"Alfred  Kreymborg's  many  followers  In  the 
modern  school  of  democratic  poets  and 
poetasters  are  likely  to  gnash  their  teeth  over 
his  new  book  of  poems,  'Less  Lonely,'  for  in  it 
the  Leader  clearly  announces  his  apostasy.  But 


there  is  vigor  of  thought — as  always  with 
Kreymborg — and  the  perception  of  an  appropri- 
ate  beauty   to   clothe   it   in." 

H NY  Times  p6  N  18  '23  440w 

"Alfred  Kreymborg  writes  in  strained 
hoarse  whispers.  He  always  seems  to  have  a 
sore    throat."      Weir    Vernon 

—  NY  Tribune  p24  O  21  '23  200w 

KREYMBORG,  ALFRED.  Puppet  plays;  with 
a  preface  by  Gordon  Craig.  133p  $1.75  Har- 
court    t5s  Seeker] 

812     Puppet-plays  23-9970 

These  seven  plays  are  intended  for  human 
actors  as  well  as  for  puppets,  and  have  been 
performed  by  both.  The  characters  thruout  are 
lovers.  Contents:  WTien  the  willow  nods;  Blue 
and  green;  Manikin  and  Minikin;  Jack's  house; 
Lima   beans;    People   who  die;   Pianissimo. 


"In  his  foreword  to  this  volume,  Grordon  Craig 
hazards  the  opinion  that  these  highly  individu- 
alistic little  dramas  would  act  better  than  they 
read,  but  one  who  has  seen  some  of  them  put 
to  that  test  is  inclined  to  the  contrary  view. 
WTiat  appears  on  the  printed  page  as  fanciful, 
bizarre,  or  poetic  takes  on  a  somewhat  self- 
conscious  pose  across  the  footlights;  the  flavour 
is  charming,  but  a  bit  too  precious." 
Dial    75:201   Ag  '23    lOOw 

Reviewed   bv   M.    L.    Franklin 

ind   111:141   S  29   '23   140w 

"For  the  most  part  'Puppet  Plays'  is  compact 
with  a  gentle,  tender  and  wisely  humorous  sym- 
bolization  of  life  that  intimates  far  more  than 
is  actually  set  before  the  reader  or  observer  of 
these  plays.  A  unique  form  and  a  peculiarly 
individual  approach,  both  in  verbal  arrangement 
and  thought  development,  are  evident  here."  H, 
S.   Gorman 

+   Lit   R  p38  S  15   '23   650w 

"Graceful  and   unassuming  little  plays." 

-I-   New  Statesman   22:160  N  10  '23  200w 

"Mr.  Kreymborg  has  not  descended  upon  the 
theatre  as  we  know  it  at  all.  He  is  working 
in  the  terms  of  an  art  which  has  only  super- 
ficial resemblances  with  the  art  of  the  theatre. 
His  purely  literary  work  has  always  either 
bored  or  irritated  us.  In  these  'Puppet  Plays,' 
which  we  should  like  to  see  the  Marionette 
Players  take  in  hand  at  an  early  opportunity, 
he  seems  decisively  to  have  found  himself." 
+  Sat   R   136:17  Jl  7  '23  900w 

"They  are  fantastic,  amusing.  Their  meas- 
ure hops  nierrilv  along,  without  lapsing  into 
connected  thought.  They  are  little  physical 
songs,  inspired  by  sex.  One  may  read  Kreym- 
borg for  amusement.  He  touches  life  lightly, 
and  with  the  gay  staccato  of  things  artificial 
and   make-believe." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  230w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p389  Je  7 
'23    40w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p402  Je  14 
'23    llOOw 

Theatre  Arts   M   7:350  O  '23  150w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:410  Jl   '23 

KUPRIN,  ALEXANDER  IVANOVICH.  Sula- 
mith-  a  prose  poem  of  antiquity;  tr.  from  the 
Russian  by  G.  Guilbert  Guerney.  lo9p  $2 
Brown,   N:   L.  23-7946 

"This  prose  poem  recounts  the  story  of  Sol- 
omon's infatuation  for  the  Shulamite  peasant 
eirl  which  he  immortalized  in  the  Song  of 
Songs '  At  the  same  time  the  author  has 
searched  the  traditional  stories  about  Solomon, 
both  biblical  and  contemporary  accounts,  and 
has  made  the  Incidents  fit  into  the  construction 
of  his  tale,  adding  interest  and  breaking  the 
monotony  of  the   romance." — Boston  Transcript 

"Here  the  story  of  Solomon's  love  for  the 
naive  lovely  Shulamite  peasant  girl  is  consider- 
ably altered,  amplified,  and  romanticized,  and 
all  with  a  skilful  and  entrancing  simplicity.  M. 


290 


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KUPRIN,   A.   J. —Continued 

Kuprin's  handling  of  the  love  theme  is  redeemed 

by  a  poetical  delicacy." 

+  Bookm  57:657  Ag  '23  120w 

"The  account  of  the  strange  ceremonies  at 
tne  worship  of  Isis  is  written  with  clearness 
and  IS  realistic  as  well   as   picturesque." 

+   Boston    Transcript    p4   Je   27    "23    210w 

"The  chief  aesthetic  difficulty  is  one  of  tex- 
ture: to  harmonize  one's  own  prose  with  ihe 
frequent  magnificent  inserts  from  the  Song  of 
bongs.  This  requires  a  sensitive  limitation  of 
vocabulary  and  a  gift  for  rhythm  and  unstrained 
but  fresh  imagery,  for  both  of  which  either 
Kupnn  or  his  translator  fail  to  qualify  in  the 
measure  that  Edgar  Saltus  and  Oscar  Wilde  did 
m  similar  situations." 

—  Dial   75:98   Jl  '23   90w 

*i-"-^1.  ^^^^  *^'^  °^  ^O'^®  Kuprin  reached  the 
the  height  of  his  enormous  talent.  It  is  not 
without  reason  that  he  selected  the  noblest 
motive,  the  most  beautiful  legend  of  mankind 
for  his  poem  in  prose.  .  .  Every  page  of  this 
masterpiece  is  impregnated  with  beauty;  there 
IS  nothing  superabundant  about  it.  It  is  full 
of  virginal  modesty;  it  possesses  all  the  quali- 
ties   of    'Sulamith'    herself." 

+   Lit  R  pl69  O  20  '23  600w 
"Beautiful  and  eloquent  handling  rather  high 
in    spots,    of    a    story    assumed    to    underhe    the 
faong    of    Solomon." 

+  Nation    116:727   Je   20   '23   20w 
"A  surpassingly  beautiful  prose  poem."  Ken- 
neth  Fuessle 

+   N  Y  Tribune  p20  My  27  '23  580w 

KUYUIVIJIAN,  DIKRAN  (MICHAEL  ARLEN, 
pseud.).  "Piracy";  a  romantic  chronicle  of 
these    days.    237p    $2.50   Doran    [7s    6d   ColUns] 

23-9230 
The  medium  in  which  Ivor  Pelham  Marlay 
lived,  moved  and  had  his  being  is  London  hign 
society.  Being  born  rich,  his  task  is  to  find 
the  something  to  fill  his  days.  He  begins  by 
getting  himself  expelled  from  school,  out  of 
sheer  boredom.  Next  he  writes  novels  and 
though  naturally  seclusive,  forces  himself  to 
make  social  connections.  He  has  two  love  af- 
lairs  with  noted  beauties,  one  before  and  one 
after  the  war,  the  descriptions  of  which  are 
contributions  to  the  psychology  of  love.  While 
still  in  a  state  of  depression  over  the  disastrous 
outcome  of  the  last  affair  he  has  a  peculiar  ad- 
venture which  promises  to  be  the  beginning  of 
his  greatest  experience. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  Je  20  23  560w 
"The  writer  is  at  his  best  in  setting  a  scene 
His  description  of  a  Soho  restaurant  Is  really 
capital.  His  observations  on  human  affairs,  too 
are  spiced  with  wit  of  a  cynical  kind,  although 
a  merit  of  this  kind  may  at  times  become  tire- 
some. 

-\ Lit   R  p73  S  23  '23  250w 

"We  find  the  wine  of  'Piracy'  a  little  thii). 
It  cannot  take  its  place  beside  Maupassant's 
IJne  Vie  its  obvious  prototype.  But  the  story 
is   delicately   told." 

f-   N    Y   Times   pll    My   27   '23    llOOw 

"  'Piracy'  1.=;  not  great,  nor  inspiring,  nor  tech- 
nically remarkable.  Not  every  one  would  care 
for  It  nor  even  understand  why  others  should 
like  It.  But  it  has  a  distinctive  flavor,  a  faint 
but  positive  note  of  originality."  Isabel  Pater- 
son 

-f   N  Y  Tribune  pl8  Je  10  '23  500w 

" 'Kracy*  is  not  a  success  at  all,  though  it 
has  the  makings  of  one.  .  .  Mr.  Arlen  rarely 
succeeds  in  getting  away  from  preoccupation 
•with  his  own  worldly  wisdom.  When  he  does 
succeed,  he  gives  us  something  notable.  He 
feels  called  upon  to  write  almo.st  entirely  in 
epigrams,  with  the  result  that  most  of  the  epi- 
grams are   cheap   and   bad:    it   is   a  pity,   for  he 

l^^u^lV^'-  ^Vf-  ^?^  M^""^  of  t'le  epigrams  are  ex- 
cellent.      Gerald  Gould 

_ (-  Sat    R   134:761   N   18  '22  400w 

t/'.^''.-  ^'"'e"'s  novel  is  queerly  dissatisfying. 
;i=:',lTr  if*'"^-.,  ^^^  y^^  '^  must  he  spoken  of 
respectfully,   and  it   must  be  spoken  of  vaguely 


because  there  is  something  In  it  that  fails  to 
come  out.  .  .  Mr.  Arlen  is  clever  and  inclined 
to  'snappy'  comments  on  very  contemporary 
life.  He  is  too  fond  of  dragging  in  literary 
references.     He  has  not,  indeed,  shed  the  essay." 

h  Spec   130:108   Ja  20  '23  200w 

"Mr.  Michael  Arlen  is  a  clever  man,  but  he 
is  far  too  obviously  determined  to  be  clever  at 
all  costs.  This  makes  his  book  tedious.  He 
occasionally  says  a  witty  thing  that  is  worth 
saying  in  Piracy.  More  often  his  epigrams 
would  be  witty  as  impromptus,  but  were  not 
quite   worth  writing  down." 

h  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p726  N   9 

'22    350w 

KYNE,  PETER  BERNARD.  Never  the  twain 
2    shall    meet.      375p    $2    Cosmopolitan    bk. 

23-15036 
Dan  Pritchard,  successful  young  shipping 
merchant,  suddenly  finds  himself  guardian  to 
Tamea,  a  beautiful  half-caste  South  Sea  island 
queen.  She  is  intelligent  and  schooled  in  French 
and  English  but  unrestrained  in  her  emotions. 
She  immediately  falls  in  love  with  him  and 
openly  demonstrates  her  affection.  Dan's 
friend,  Maisie  Morrison,  also  loving  him,  is  too 
well-bred  to  claim  him  in  such  a  primitive  and 
unconventional  manner.  There  is  a  constant 
struggle  between  the  two  women  till  Tamea 
wins  him  thru  sheer  infatuation,  while  Dan  is 
too  bewildered  to  act  coherently.  A  misunder- 
standing of  a  white  man's  honor  in  refusing  to 
accept  her  money  when  he  needs  it,  causes  her 
to  leave  for  her  island  home.  Dan  follows  and 
marries  her  in  native  fashion.  After  a  few 
months  of  happiness,  Tamea  senses  his  utter 
inadaptability  to  the  sameness  of  island  life 
and  his  yearning  for  his  own  race.  When 
Maisie  comes  at  her  request,  Tamea  remains 
behind  while  Maisie  and  Dan  return  together  to 
live    in    a    more    conventional    environment. 


"As  a  tale  that  marches  rapidly,  presents 
vivid  pictures  and  contains  many  surprising 
episodes,  Mr.  Kyne's  hook  has  a  distinct  appeal. 
We  read  it  avidly  and  bid  sober  judgment  go 
hang.  It  is  not  so  deep  as  a  well  nor  so  wide 
as  a  barn  door,  but  it  has  already  leaped  into  a 
high  position  among  the  best  sellers,  so  what 
more  is  there  to  be  said?"   S.   L.   C. 

H Boston   Transcript   p4   D   19   '23  780w 

"Mr.  Kyne  has  kept  his  East  and  West  fully 
up  to  the  burden  of  his  Kipling  title  and  has 
provided  at  the  same  time  a  romance  as  con- 
sistently absorbing  as  it  is  at  tense  moments 
incredible."      E.    W.    O. 

-f    N  Y  World  p7e  O  28  '23  500w 

Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  D  30  '23   180w 


LAHEE,    HENRY   CHARLES.     Annals  of  music 
in   America.    298p   $3    Marshall  Jones 

780.9        Music— United    States  23-76 

The  book  records,  in  chronological  order,  the 
chief  musical  events  in  America  since  the  print- 
ing of  the  Bay  Psalm  Book  in  1640.  The  items 
of  historical  importance  which  are  thus  chron- 
icled include:  the  first  mention  and  importa- 
tion of  various  musical  instruments;  the  first 
performance  of  important  orchestral,  choral 
and  operatic  works;  the  first  concerts  given 
in  various  sec>tions  of  the  country;  the  open- 
ing of  the  earliest  theaters,  opera  houses  and 
concert  halls;  the  establishment  of  the  first 
schools  and  conservatories  of  music:  the  Ameri- 
can debuts  of  noted  singers,  pianists,  violinists 
and  conductors.  The  history  is  divided  into 
periods,    with    a    brief    review    of    each. 

"As  a  whole  the  book  is  a  valuable  contribu- 
tion  to   reference   literature."   Deems   Taylor 
-f   Bookm   57:212  Ap  '23   480w 

"The  author  is  what  James  Huneker  called 
'a  date  hound';  if  he  occasionally  has  got  off 
the  scent  and  followed  a  wrong  trail   it   is   not 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


291 


to  be  wondered  at;  but  In  the  main  his  dates 
seem  to  be  reliable."     H:  T.  Finck 

H Lit    R   p700   My   19   '23   150w 

"An  extraordinary  amount  of  information 
about  the  development  of  music  in  America 
is  compressed  within  the  covers  of  this  book. 
So  far  as  we  are  aware,  this  is  the  first  at- 
tempt to  record  American  musical  history  in 
this   way." 

+    R    of    Rs    67:224    F    '23    lOOw 

Wis    Lib   Bui   19:505   D  '23 

LAIMBEER,   RICHARD   HARPER.   Birds  I  have 

known.   401p  il  $4  Putnam 

598.2    Birds  23-12500 

The  book  is  not  offered  as  an  authority  on 
nature  study  but  as  the  record  of  a  devoted 
bird  lover's  close  observation  of  the  lives  and 
habits  of  some  of  the  birds  commonly  seen  on 
Long  Island.  He  tells  of  the  many  devices  he 
used  to  attract  the  birds  and  how  he  made 
them  friendly  trusting  companions.  More  than 
half  the  book  is  given  to  descriptive  sketches 
of  fifty  of  his  bird  visitors.  These  are  ac- 
companied by  colored  illustrations.  The  other 
illustrations  include  some  charming  pictures  of 
the  birds  making  friends  with  the  author. 


Booklist  20:125  Ja  '24 
Boston    Transcript    p5   N   10    '23   520w 
"The    plates    make    up    for    seriovis    flaws    in 
some    of    the    descriptions;    Mr.    Laimbeer    has 
succeeded    in    being   non-technicaf,    but    not    al- 
ways  in    being   accurate." 

1-   Lit    R   p377   D   15   '23    180w 

"Effective  sympathy,  rather  than  complete  in- 
formation, is  Mr.  Laimbeer's  aim,  and  his  book 
seems  well  planned  to  accomplish  just  what  he 
has  had  in  mind  to  do.  The  book  has  its  obvi- 
ous limitations."     C:  Johnston 

-I NY  Times  pl2  O  28  '23  800w 

N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  21  '23  120w 
N  Y  World  p7e  S  16  '23  300w 
"The  numerous  pictures  in  color  and  the 
many  snapshots  would  make  this  book  excep- 
tionally attractive  to  bird  lovers  even  without 
the  text  which  is  written  in  a  popular  vein 
from  a  scientific  standpoint.  The  birds  are 
those  commonly  seen  on  Long  Island,  but  the 
information  about  them  will  interest  bird 
students    everywhere." 

-I-  Outlook   135:113   S   19   '23   40w 

LAISTNER,    M.    L.    W.,    comp.    and    tr.    Greek 
*    economics.  (Library  of  Greek  thought)  204p  $2 

Button    [5s  Dent] 

330  Economics.  Greek  literature 

No  comprehensive  Greek  treatise  dealing  spe- 
cifically with  political  economy  has  been  preserv- 
ed, economics  as  a  separate  subject  belonging 
to  a  much  later  period,  but  Plato  and  Aristotle 
and  other  Greek  writers,  even  when  primarily 
concerned  with  other  subjects  contain  interest- 
ing speculations  on  economic  questions.  The  ex- 
tracts from  Solon,  Xenophon,  Aristophanes, 
Plato  and  Aristotle  brought  together  in  this 
volume  translated  by  M.  L.  W.  Laistner,  con- 
tain many  allusions  to  contemporary  or  earlier 
political,  social  and  economic  conditions  in 
Greece. 


Boston  Transcript  p3  S  1  '23  400w 
"Mr.  Laistner  will  not  convince  us  that  his 
economic  geese  are  swans.  Nevertheless  his 
extracts  from  the  Republic  and  the  Laws  and 
Aristotle's  Politics  are  well  worth  printing.  If 
the  reader  who  does  not  know  them  will  study 
these  works  and  look  for  something  other  than 
economics    in   them,    he   may   find   the   birds   are 

-I-  —  New  Statesman   22:342  D  22  '23   500w 

LANDORMY,  PAUL  CHARLES  RENE.  History 
*    of   music;    tr.    with    a   supplementary    chapter 

on   American    music  bv   F:   Herman    Martens. 

397p    $2.50    (10s    6d)     Scribner 

780.9  Music— History  23-13128 

A   brief   r6sum6   of   musical   history    from   the 
period  of  antiquity  to  today,  with  a  supplement- 


ary chapter  on  music  in  America  written  by 
the  translator.  The  immense  ground  covered 
allows  of  only  the  briefest  treatment  of  indi- 
vidual musicians,  but  the  inclusive  scope  makes 
the  book  useful  for  reference  purposes.  Biblio- 
graphies.  Index 

"The  book  is  crowded  with  personal  opinions, 
arrogant,  patronizing,  or,  in  the  case  of  French 
composers,  sentimental.  Its  obvious  French  bias 
gives  us  on  the  one  hand  a  valuable  account 
of  French  music,  and  on  the  other  a  treatment 
of  German  music  that  is  almost  ludicrous." 
—  +  B,ookm  58:487  D  '23  150w 
"A  wonderful  deal  of  information  is  packed 
into  these  pages,  and  packed  with  care." 

+  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p754  N  8 
■23  160w 

LANE,  HENRY  HIGGINS.  Evolution  and 
Christian  faith.  214p  $2  Princeton  univ.  press 
[9s  Milford] 

215     Evolution  23-9124 

"Attacks  on  the  Christian  faith  in  the  in- 
terest of  evolution,  and  on  evolution  in  the  in- 
terest of  the  Christian  faith,  are  alike  dis- 
counted by  this  book.  The  author  came  to  his 
subject  familiar  with  both  fields  and  as  a 
champion  in  each.  An  expert  zoologist  and 
member  of  an  evangelical  Protestant  church, 
trained  in  science  and  with  a  religious  bring- 
ing-up,  he  appeals  to  each  side  in  the  great 
controversy  with  an  argument  intended  to  show 
that  fact  may  usefully  fraternize  with  belief, 
and  that  belief  has  nothing  to  fear  from  fact, 
provided  only  that  the  two  rightly  understand 
each  other.  A  large  part  of  nis  work  goes  in 
presenting  evolution  as  a  natural  process.  The 
foundations  thus  laid.  Professor  Lane  proceeds 
to  show  that  acceptance  of  the  evolutionary 
doctrine  in  no  way  involves  any  relinquish- 
ment of  the  Christian's  fidelity  to  his  religion, 
but  rather  tells  for  the  reinforcement  of  his 
trust   in    it." — Boston   Transcript 


Boston  Transcript  p3  Jl  28  '23  650W 
"Those  who  start  out  to  settle  the  dispute 
between  religion  and  science  and  who  ignore 
Catholic  theology,  will  not  get  very  far,  and 
those  who  rely,  like  this  author,  on  what  is  to 
be  found  in  Protestant  theology  alone,  will  find 
gtie\ous   gaps   in   their  defense." 

—  Cath   World   117:846  S   '23  420w 
"It   is  a  little   surprising  to  find  a  volume   so 
naive    in    its    religious    interpretations    bearing 
the  imprint  of  a  university  press."     G.  B.  Smith 

h  J    Religion  3:436  Jl   '23  430w 

J  Religion  3:444  Jl  '23  50w 
"Taken  as  a  whole,  his  work  is  an  admirable 
defence  of  the  position  that  there  is  no  in- 
herent antagonism  between  Christian  theism 
and  the  biological  doctrine  of  evolution."  E.  W. 
Barnes 

+   Nature   112:47  Jl   14   '23  950w 

LANE,    RALPH    NORMAN    ANGELL.     See    An- 

gell,    N.,    pseud. 

LANE,  MRS  ROSE  (WILDER).  Peaks  of 
Shala.  349p  il  $3  Harper  [12s  6d  Chap- 
man &  Dodd] 

914. 9G  Albania — Description  and  travel.  Al- 
bania— Social  life  and  customs.  23-8539 
The  book  is  the  account  of  an  expedition  un- 
dertaken by  three  American  women,  with  an 
interpreter,  guides  and  two  gendarmes,  into  the 
mountains  of  Albania  for  the  purpose  of  making 
the  acquaintance  of  the  oldest  Aryan  branch  in 
Europe.  The  author  desires  it  to  be  received 
not  as  a  serious  study  of  a  primitive  people 
but  as  an  adventure  of  an  inquiring  mind,  and 
at  the  end  confesses  herself  a  special  pleader 
for  Albania,  for  "I  know  the  country,  I  speak 
the  language,  I  have  traveled  along  the  north- 
western frontier  from  Lake  Scutari  to  the  Dibra, 
I  have  spent  months  with  the  people  of  tribes 
never  before  visited  by  a  foreigner.  And  I 
have  vet  to  read  in  any  American  publication 
a  reference  to  Albania  which  is  accurate."  The 
final  chapter  is  a  postscript  of  a  historical   na- 


292 


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LANE,    R. — Continued 

ture  and  an  account  of  the  March  rebellion  of 
1922  of  which,  on  the  occasion  of  a  second  visit, 
Mrs  Lane  was  an  eye-witness. 


Booklist   19:315   Jl    '23 
"Her  travel   narrative   is  stirring.     I  am  con- 
vinced that   there   is  no  corner  of  the   world  so 
dusty    that    Mrs.    Lane   could    not    find   romance 
there." 

+  Bookm  57:546  Jl  '23  400w 
"Seldom  is  given  to  lovers  of  travel  and  of 
history  such  picturesque  and  novel  visions  as 
these  Mrs.  Lane  opens  to  us,  and  in  spirit  so 
blithely  friendly  that  no  reader  can  look  back 
for  the  last  time  to  the  Peaks  of  Shala  without 
greeting  her  silently  with  the  ave  atque  vale  of 
the  Albanians  as  they  meet  and  pass  on  the 
winding  trails  of  the  Peaks  of  Shala:  'To  you 
long  life — and  a  smooth  trail.'  "     F.   B. 

+  Boston  Transcript  pi  Je  9  '23  1350w 
"She  has  squeezed  a  rich  juice  out  of  her  ex- 
periences. She  has  apparently  the  knack  of 
making  people  talk,  of  asking  questions  that 
bring  out  the  most  telling  facts.  She  has  a 
knack  with  words.  She  conveys  her  thought 
vividly,  she  gives  you  pictures.  And  the  vol- 
ume is  not  without  a  dramatic  episode  or  two. 
Oh,  it  has  its  faults,  this  book.  Sometimes  you 
get  tired  of  the  weather,  sometimes  you  wish 
that  a  few  of  the  chief  adventures  might  have 
fallen  to  the  lot  of  that  attractive  Prances 
Hardy  so  vividlv  described  at   the  beginning." 

-\ Lit  R  p847  Jl  21   '23  950w 

New    Repub   36:160  O  3   '23   200w 
N    Y   World   p9e   Je   3   •23'700w 
"The  natives  and  scenery  of  that  remarkable 
land    are    described    in    a    flowing    and    colorful 
style   that   will   please   imaginative   readers  who 
do    not    rare    for    matter-of-fact    description." 
+  Outlook   134:99   My   30   '23   50w 
"The  narrative  is  written  in  an  enjoyable  and 
refreshing  style,  and  illustrated  by  good  photo- 
graphs.    The  book  is  substantial   and  a  worthy 
addition  to  the  shelf  of  travel  chronicles." 

-f  Springf'd   Republican  p6  Ag  27  '23  300w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:442   O   '23 


LANE,  W.  H.  Babylonian  problems;  with  an 
introd.  by  S.  Langdon.  350p  il  $8  Button  [21s 
Murray] 

935.4  Babylonia 
The  author  has  specialized  upon  the  topog- 
raphy of  the  region  between  the  ancient  capi- 
tal of  Babylonia  (Babylon)  and  Opis,  or 
Akshak.  Besides  these  two  cities  the  region 
surveyed  includes  two  other  of  the  most  an- 
cient cities  in  human  history — Kish,  the  capi- 
tal of  the  Semites  of  Accad  and  the  first  city 
whose  name  occurs  in  Sumerian  inscriptions; 
and  Agade,  the  seat  of  the  powerful  Semitic 
empire  of  the  ancient  Sargonids.  Col.  Lane 
has  succeeded  in  identifying  ancient  Opis  with 
Tel  Abir  and  claims  to  have  proved  the  loca- 
tion of  Nimrod's  Dam.  He  has  also  cleared  up 
numerous  obscure  points  in  Pliny,  Xenophon. 
Strabo  and  other  classical  authors  with  refer- 
ence to  events  in  Babylonian  history.  Appen- 
dices include  translations  of  excerpts  from 
these  historians  and  others.  There  are  two 
maps,  one  of  Mesopotamia,  the  other  of 
Nimrod's    Dam    and    its    defences. 


Boston  Transcript  p3  N  3  '23  650w 
New  Stateman  21:526  Ag  11  '23  780w 
Colonel  Lane  has  essayed  a  difficult  task, 
not  as  an  Assyrjologist  or  archaeologist,  but 
as  a  soldier  who  has  lived  in  the  country  which 
he  is  describing.  .  .  We  like  the  modest  way  in 
which  Colonel  Lane  recognizes  that  Oriental 
archaeology  is  a  study  that  cannot  be  under- 
taken superficially.  He  is  an  amateur  in  the 
best  sense  of  the  word." 

-f  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p455    Jl 
5    '23    1250w 


LANG,  ANDREW.     Poetical  works;  ed.   by  Mrs 

Lang.   4v  ir$14  per  set  Longmans 

821  23-10791 

"More  than  ten  years  after  his  death  we  have 
what  will  be  a  surprise  even  to  those  who 
thought  they  knew  Mr.  Lang  well  as  a  versa- 
tile authoi',  his  poetical  works  in  a  series  of  no 
less  than  four  volumes.  They  are  edited  by 
Mrs.  Lang,  and  each  volume  contains  a  fron- 
tispiece portrait  of  their  author.  Within  their 
covers  we  find  the  poems  grouped  under  such 
subjects  as  Oxford  and  St.  Andrews,  Scotland, 
Books,  Games  and  Sports,  Ghosts  and  Kin- 
dred Subjects,  Ballades,  Sonnets  and  Trans- 
lations."— Boston     Transcript 

"Both  industry  and  inspiration  are  charac- 
teristic of  those  poems,  and  they  are  none  the 
less  significant  because  they  are  the  by-pro- 
duct of  an  active  literary  life  and  not  merely 
the  expression  of  the  poet's  whole  intellectual 
existence.  .  .  While  nobody  claims  for  Andrew 
Lang  a  high  place  among  British  poets,  these 
volumes  give  evidence  that  he  may  rank  with 
Thackeray,  Hood,  Calverley,  Houghton  and 
those  others  to  whom  the  writing  of  verse  was 
a  diversion  in  the  midst  of  other  and  perhaps 
more  brilliant  but  no  less  lasting  work."  E. 
F.    Edgett 

-j-   Boston    Transcript    p4    Je    30    '23    1700w 

"The  inevitable  conclusion  is  that  Lang's 
verse  is  the  product  of  a  fine  scholarship  rather 
than  a  fine  frenzy.  Nevertheless  these  volumes 
contain  much  that  is  the  music  of  his  own 
high  soul,  much  that  gives  us  occasion  to  re- 
joice."    B.   M.   K. 

H Cath  World  118:136  O  '23  450w 

"In  these  four  volumes  we  can  see  almost 
every  side  of  this  many-sided  poet.  We  have 
in  these  pages  a  clear  mirror  of  the  man  him- 
self: gentle  and  genuine,  unaffected  and  sin- 
cere, learned  and  clever  with  an  adroitness 
and  a  dexterity  in  verse  which  never  obscured 
the  depth  of  his  sentiment  and  the  ardor  of 
his  soul."     Brander  Matthews 

-t-   Lit    R   pl04   O   6   '23   1800w 

"This  edition  is  an  appropriately  distinguished 
memorial  of  a  man  of  letters  of  unique  ac- 
comphshments  and  charm,  one  of  the  most  at- 
tractive figures  of  our  time,  one  whose  'mis- 
cellaneous writing'  was  a  fine  art,  and  whose 
best  poetry  will  have  a  permanence  he  never 
thought   to  claim." 

""+   N    Y   Times   p6   Jl   8   '23    2400w 

Reviewed  by  E.  L.   Pearson 

Outlook  134:560  Ag  8  '23  2400w 
"Lang  could  be  almost  anything  but  passion- 
ate That  his  verse  never  is,  and  this  one  lack 
is  perhaps,  what  kept  him  always  a  minor  poet. 
But  how  charming  a  minor  poet  everyone  who 
has  leisure  tq  biowse  through  these  four  vol- 
umes will  soon  discover." 

-f  Spec    131:324    S    8    '23    580w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p419    Je 
21  '23  1400W 

LANGNER,  LAWRENCE.  Five  one-^c*  come- 
dies; introd.  by  St  John  Ervine.  165p  $2  Stew- 
art Kidd 

gj2  23-2166 

These  five  plays,  four  of  which  have  been 
successfully  produced  by  the  P'ovincetown  and 
the  Washington  Square  players,  have  to  do  with 
marriage  and  family  life.  While  the  sense  of 
^medy  is  always  uppermost,  they  deal  under- 
Sding  y  with  the  relations  of  husband  and 
wife  and  the  conventions  that  have  g■ro^yn  up 
about  the  marriage  institution.  Contents:  Ma- 
tinata;  Another  way  out;  The  family  exit;  Pie; 
Licensed. 

"The  plays  are  deftly  constructed  and  .reveal 
no  small  degree  of  technical  expertness  in  the 
Sne-act  form.  But  the  texture  and  .the  con- 
tent are  slight  and  the  satire  inconclusive,  altho 
the  situations  are  those  of  pure  comedy.     Lloyd 

^°+ 1.  int   Bk   R   P46  Mr  '23  150w 


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"Mr.  Langner  has  a  very  free  and  flexible  in- 
telligence and  a  solid  gift  for  comedy  that  is 
not  less  amusing  for  being  quite  serious  at  its 
core.  Hence  these  plays  are  both  stimulating 
and  gay."      Ludwig   Lewisohn 

+   Nation   116:755  Je  27  '23   230w 

LANKESTER,     SIR     RAY.         Great    and     small 

things.   246p  il   $2.50     Macmillan 
570.4     Biology 

A  miscellaneous  collection  of  short  papers 
chiefly  on  biological  subjects.  Contents.  The 
gorilla  of  Sloane  street;  Science  and  the  film; 
The  phagocytes,  or  eater-cells:  Some  pond- 
snails;  Pond-snails  and  blood-red;  The  pond- 
snail's  flea;  The  liver-fluke;  Progress!  Is  nature 
cruel?  The  senses  and  sense-organs;  An  eye  at 
the  back  of  the  head;  Other  eyes:  The  paired 
eyes  of  man;  Wasps;  An  unwarranted  fancy; 
Spider-sense  and  cat-sense;  Two  experiments; 
The  last  of  the  alchemists;  Extreme  old  age 
Longevity;  Metchnikoff  on  old  age;  Giants;  Mor- 
phologv-  and  monsters;  Various  kinds  of  mon- 
sters; Tobacco;  Cerebral  inhibition;  Index. 


Booklist  19:306  Jl  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p4  My  16  '23  400w 
"Apart  from  the  interest  of  the  subjects  which 
Sir  Ray  Lankester  treats  in  these  brief  essays, 
benefit  and  refreshment  can  be  derived  from  his 
treatment  of  them.  The  reader  can  hardly  fail 
to  acquire  from  reading  him  a  clearer  notion  of 
what  is,  and  what  is  not,  evidence,  and  of  the 
exceedingly  cautious  and  sober  processes  by 
which  men  of  science  arrive  at  conclusions." 

-I-   New  Statesman   21:24  Ap  14  '23   1150w 
Outlook  134:48  My  23  '23  200w 
"Sir  Ray  Lankester  is  one  of  our  best  popular 
exponents  of  the  scientific  art  of  clear  thinking, 
and   any   addition    to   the   series   which   he   calls 
'Easy   Chair   Science'    is   sure   of   a   welcome." 
-f  Sat  R  135:373  Mr  17  '23  450w 
Spec    130:764   My  5    '23    150w 
"It    would    be    impossible    to    select    the    most 
interesting  or   entertaining   of   the    27    essays    of 
this   volume    for   the    good    reason    that   for   one 
reason    or   another   each    one    seems   best.      The 
35    illustrations    and    the    generous    index   make 
this  book  more  than  an  amusement." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  plO  My  29  '23  350w 

LARMINIE,    MARGARET    RIVERS.    Echo.    352p 
$2     Putnam    [7s    6d   Chatto    &   ^W.] 

23-7994 
"Charles  Aubury,  a  young  man  of  independent 
means,  on  revisiting  after  the  War  'Starlings,' 
the  country  house  of  a  cousin,  falls  in  love  with 
Melita  T^ounde.  the  beautiful  ward  of  his  hos- 
tess. He  is  moved  to  this  principally  by  in- 
dignation at  the  boycotting  of  the  girl  by  the 
whole  party  at  'Starlings,'  where  she  has  re- 
cently been  received  back  from  motives  of  com- 
passion after  the  birth  and  death  of  her  illegi- 
timate child.  After  their  marriage,  which  for 
various  reasons  very  speedily  takes  place,  an 
infinitely  urcomfortable  situation  arises  owing 
first  to  Anbury's  misapprehension  as  to  the 
identity  of  his  wife's  former  lover,  and  secondly 
to  Melita's  belief  that  she  has  been  married 
from  motives  of  pity.  The  disclosure  of  the 
name  of  the  real  father  of  her  child  will  prob- 
ably astonish  the  reader  as  much  as  it  does 
Aubury.  At  any  rate,  it  satisfactorily  resolves 
all  difficulties." — Spec 


"The  story  is  no  slighter  than  many  another 
of  equal  length,  but  so  much  visible  effort  to 
make  the  narrative  a  fine  novel  works  out  to 
the  injury  of  the  narrative.  It  is  not  uncom- 
mon to  find  passages  of  careful,  well  expressed 
but  not  absorbing  description,  of  which  certain 
single  paragraphs  cover  over   an  entire  page." 

-I Boston   Transcript  p6  Ag  15   '23   400w 

Cleveland   p66   S   '23 

"Her  book  is  good.  That  vapid  word  does  it 
injustice  by  not  describing  its  incisiveness,  its 
acute  delineation,  and  its  beauty — its  beauty 
in  parts.  It  is  sincere  and  lucid.  There  is  a 
steady  outpour  of  shrewd   observation,   both  or 


man  and  of  woman.  Melita  Founde  is  really 
alive;  so  is  Charles  Aubury,  and  so  is  everybody 
in  the  book.  Miss  Larminie  has  power  and  she 
is  skilful." 

H Lit   R  p708  My  19  '23   550w 

New    Repub   35:239   Jl   25    '23   250w 
"Margaret    Larminie    has    a    subtle    and    dis- 
criminating   touch;    her    style    is    complex    and 
psychological;  she  weaves  her  tale  with  a  sure- 
ness  and  delicacy  of  apprehension  that  gives  the 
promise  of  great  things  in  the  future." 
-I-   N   Y  Times  p22  My  13  '23  780w 
"Tried  and  true,   the  stuff  this  novel  is  made 
of.      One  of  the   original   seven   plots.   .    .    Melita 
is  rather  an  annoying  creature,  and  Charles  dis- 
tinctly a  prig;  but  on  the  whole  it  is  a  pleasing 
confection."     Isabel  Paterson 

h   N    Y  Tribune   p24   My  13   '23  700w 

"The   plot  is  stirring  and  original.     The  style 
is  more    than   adequate."      Ruth   Snyder 
-f   N    Y    World   pl9   Je   17   '23   700w 
"A  story  which,  if  not  very  strong  in  motive 
and  conception,  is  written  with  considerable  ac- 
coiTiplishment." 

1-  Spec  130:673  Ap  21  '23  150w 


LASCELLES,   ERNITA.      Sacrificial  goat.      295p 

$2   Boni  <fe   Liveright 

23-15476 

"A  novel  of  the  London  stage  in  the  early 
days  of  the  independent  theatre.  The  ex- 
ternal life  of  the  modern  Grub  Street,  the 
hunting  of  jobs,  the  weary  pursuit  of  man- 
agers, the  waiting  in  offices,  the  intrigties, 
the  deceptions,  the  despair,  the  blind  luck,  the 
fortuitous  success,  the  flood  tide  of  fortune 
which  ebbs,  leaving  the  aspirant  to  repeat  the 
whole  dreary  process — all  this  is  done  in  a 
vivid  staccato  style.  The  inward  experience 
of  the  heroine  vibrating  between  the  fascina- 
tion of  Moreby  and  the  passion  of  David  is 
touched  less  certainly  btit  suggestively.  More- 
by, the  publishers  hasten  to  assure  us,  ia 
George    Bernard    Shaw." — New   Repub 


"There  are  undeniable  dullnesses  in  the  early 
part  of  the  book,  but  the  later  chapters  do 
much  to  compensate  for  them.  It  is  certainly 
an  unusual  first  novel  which  Miss  Lascellea 
has   written."      D.    L.    M. 

-| Boston   Transcript  p5  O  13  '23   llOOw 

"The  opening  chapters  are  a  revelation  in 
swift  observation,  deft  character-drawing  and 
sure-footed  narration.  The  tone  is  one  of  gay 
irony,  and  every  stroke  counts.  Later  on,  the 
story  ties  itself  in  knots  and  fails  to  maintain 
its    early    promise."    L.    B. 

H Freeman  8:311  D  5  '23  200w 

"It  is  sparklingly  handled,  but  the  idea  is 
a  little  too  inhuman  to  be  true  literature.  'The 
Sacrificial  Goat'  is  a  clever  and  an  entertain- 
ing novel;  but  its  characters,  though  drawn  with 
an  amazingly  sure  hand,  though  vivid  and  true 
types,  move  in  a  milieu  so  restricted,  so  arti- 
ficial, so  far  away  from  the  vast  currents  of 
life  that  the  significance  of  the  book  and  its 
universal  applicability  are  cast  in  doubt."  J: 
F.   Carter,   jr. 

1-   Lit    R   p40   S   15   '23    650w 

"The  most  astonishing  fact  about  The  Sacri- 
ficial Goat  is  that  it  is  a  first  novel.  The  vir- 
tuosity of  the  writing,  the  ease  with  which  full- 
bodied  characters  (in  a  limited  milieu,  it  is 
true)  are  made  to  express  individuality,  the 
witty  dialogue,  the  easy  mastery  with  which 
Miss  Lascelles  wields  the  baton  over  her  en- 
semble— all  acquit  the  writer  of  the  offense  of 
being  a   novice."     Harry   Salpeter 

+   Nation    117:559   N   14   '23   540w 

New    Repub    36:188    O    10    '23    130w 

"The  novel'  is  too  long,  somewhat  cluttered 
at  times,  and  a  trifle  repetitious,  while  there 
are  moments  when  one  can  feel  the  author's 
fairly  desperate  determination  to  be  clever  at 
any  and  every  cost.  But  it  is  entertaining  on 
the  whole,  the  point  of  view  is  well  maintained, 
and  the  account  of  the  theatrical  and  hterary 
worlds    of    the    period    carries    conviction,    while 


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LASCELLES,   ERN\TA-^Cotitinued 
the   portrait   of  Edward   Moreby   will   prove   in- 
teresting   to    all    admirers    of    George    Bernard 
Shaw." 

H NY  Times  pl5  S  9  '23  650w 

"No  one  will  deny  Miss  Lascelles  the  quality 
of  brilliance,  but  I'm  rather  inclined  to  deny  her 
the  brevity  of  wit.  She  sounds  too  much  like 
conscientious  imitations  of  early  Shaw  which 
don't  even  sound  like  early  Shaw."  A.  D. 
Douglas 

—  4-   N   Y  Tribune  p5  S  23  '23  900w 

"  'The  Sacrificial  Goat'  is  without  form. 
There  are  moments  when  it  is  also  void.  In 
other  moments  it  has  a  sparkle  of  epigrams 
beyond  which  we  seem  to  feel  our  author 
laughing  both  at  us  and  at  her  work.  It  is 
that  laugh  which  bewilders  us.  We,  listening 
to  it,  do  not  know  whether  to  take  Miss  Las- 
celles seriously  or  let  her  book  rank  as  one  of 
the  literary  ebullitions  of  an  age  prone  to 
'josh.'  "      E.    W.    O. 

N   Y  World   p6e   S  16  '23   550w 

"Ernita  Lascelles  has  written  a  brilliant  first 
novel.  It  would  be  extremely  entertaining  even 
if  the  jacket  had  not  hinted  that  the  proto- 
type for  the  character  of  Edward  Moreby  was 
George   Bernard   Shaw."     E.   M.   Jewett 

+    Springf'd    Republican   p7   O   21   '23   540w 

LAWRENCE,  C.  E.  Lass  of  the  sword.  311p  $2.50 
2    Button  [7s  6d  Murray] 

A  story  of  the  days  of  chivalry.  Rosalind, 
beautiful  eighteen-year  old  maiden,  foster-child 
and  drudge  of  Gleb  and  Ailse,  learns  that  she 
was  stolen  when  a  baby,  and  on  Gleb's  threat  to 
marry  her  to  Bryon,  determines  to  escape  and 
to  seek  her  own  fortune.  At  the  outset  of  her 
adventure  she  meets  Tristram  Palentyre,  the 
emperor's  son,  who  has  left  his  father's  house 
to  win  his  spurs  as  a  knight.  Disguised  as  a 
man  she  goes  out  also  to  win  her  own  laurels, 
like  any  true  knight,  and  learning  that  Tristram 
is  in  danger  from  Gleb,  sets  forth  for  Palentyre 
to  warn  his  parents.  At  the  conclusion  of  her 
adventures  she  finds  Tristram  again  and  comes 
with  him  to  his  father's  house.  Here  she  learns 
of  her  noble  birth  and  becomes  Tristram's  bride. 


"It  is  a  gay  and  charming  tale,  and  since  it 
is  by  Mr.  Lawrence  it  goes  without  saying  that 
it  is  exquisitely   told." 

4-   Boston   Transcript  p4  Ja  9   '24   360w 
"A  very  simple,  pleasant  little  tale,  depending 
for    its    value    principally    upon    the    charm    of 
the  telling." 

-f   N   Y  Times  pl6  Ja  6  '24  600w 
Spec  130:1047  Je  23  '23  120w 
The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p266  Ap  19 
'23   320w 

LAWRENCE,   DAVID  HERBERT.   Birds,  beasts 

and  flowers.  180p  $2.50  Seltzer 

821  23-14821 

"The  title  of  Mr.  Lawuence's  new  volume  of 
poems  might  have  been  'Men.  Women  and 
Frogs';  it  might  have  been  'Tulips  and  Chim- 
neys'; it  might  have  been  anything.  For  al- 
though Mr.  Lawrence  looked  at  birds,  beasts, 
and  flowers  and  wrote  a  book,  he  saw  in  those 
things  only  that  he  was  born  to  see,  and  he 
saw  it  with  the  same  kind  of  energy  that  he 
has  displayed  in  all  his  books,  whatever  their 
subjects.  No  volume  better  than  this  one  re- 
veals the  quality  of  the  gaze  with  which  he 
fixes  the  world — a  fierce  and  sullen  gaze,  grop- 
ing and  grasping  and  hugging  tight.  .  .  When- 
ever he  looks  at  people — and  he  hates  people — 
he  sees  them  gray,  correct,  and  hard.  He  is 
sick  of  the  flatness  of  democracy;  he  is  en- 
raged by  the  properties  of  the  great  middle 
mass." — Nation 


"It  is  his  best  effort  in  poetry  so  far,  .  . 
Like  Whitman  he  often  is  incoherent  and  mere- 
ly strident;  but  when  he  hits  he  hits  like  thunder. 
He  cannot  or  will  not  work  for  an  effect  in  the 
ordinary  way.  He  despises  the  patience  with 
which  most  poets  refine  their  lines  until  they 
can  penetrate  the  imagination  and,  once  within, 
dilate  it.  He  is  direct.  His  words  are  huge 
stones  that  he  hurls  with  intent  to  crush  his 
subject  into  submission.  And  at  least  half  of 
the  time  the  result  is  great.  The  pieces  here 
on  Persephone,  on  humming  birds,  on  goats, 
on  asses,  on  fishes,  on  snakes,  are  master- 
pieces in  their  kind."  Mark  Van  Doren 
H Nation   117:660   D  5   '23   750w 

"There  is  meat  in  Mr.  Lawrence.  He  is  not 
interested  merely  in  the  concoction  of  beautiful 
lines,  but  is  intensely  disturbed  about  life  and 
bent  upon  revealing  it  with  a  somewhat  savage 
disillusionment."     H.   S.  Gorman 

N  Y  Times  p5  D  9  '23  500w 

"Attracted  by  the  substance  rather  than  the 
form,  we  have  at  first  the  entirely  pleasing 
sensation  of  straying  in  a  demi-Paradise,  a 
subtly  chosen  and  contrasted  little  "wonder- 
Zoo"  of  plants  and  animals  which  have  been 
fascinating  to  Mr.  Lawrence.  He  can  write  of  a 
small  tortoise  as  tenderly  as  Clare  does  of  the 
"jetty   snail,"   if   more    inquisitively." 

4-  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p864  D  13 
'23  2250w 

LAWRENCE,     DAVID     HERBERT.        Captain's 
doll;  three  novelettes.  323p  $2     Seltzer 

23-7638 
The  subject  of  all  three  stories  is  the  relation 
of  the  sexes,  with  something  of  a  mystical  in- 
terpretation. In  the  title  story  a  British  officer 
in  Germany,  after  the  war,  has  an  affair  with  a 
refugee  Austrian  countess  who  designs  dolls  for 
a  living.  She  makes  a  perfect  effigy  of  the 
captain,  displays  it  in  her  shop  and  thru  it  is 
discovered  by  the  captain's  wife.  After  the 
latter  has  been  accidentally  killed  and  the  coun- 
tess has  gone  back  to  Austria,  the  captain  seeks 
her  out  and,  on  occasion  of  a  wonderfully  de- 
scribed excursion  into  the  Tyrolese  Alps,  pro- 
poses marriage  to  her,  not  because  he  loves 
her- — he  is  thru  with  love— but  because  he  wants 
someone  to  obey  and  serve  him.  In  spite  of  all 
her  towering  rage  at  such  an  offer.  Countess 
Hannele  accepts.  The  second  story.  The  fox, 
is  of  a  symbolic  significance  and  in  The  lady- 
bird, both  husband  and  lover  of  Lady  Daphne 
accept  the  triangle  situation  as  a  mystic  fatal- 
ity. 


"Mr.  Lawrence's  geniUs  still  burns  on  waste- 
fully.  He  has  as  little  command  over  his  re- 
sources as  he  had  at  the  beginning,  but  his 
resources,  on  the  other  hand,  seem  to  be  inex- 
haustible. They  are  richer  now  after  a  decade 
spent  in  squandering  them  than  they  were  when 
he   started    fresh."   Edwin  Muir 

Freeman  8:404  Ja  2  '24  3000w 


Booklist    19:319    Jl    '23 
"Two    of    the    stories    are     fine    examples    of 
Lawrence   at   his    best.      The    other   strikes    this 
reviewer  as  an  equally  perfect  specimen  of  his 
work  at  its  most  insufferable." 

-( Greensboro   (N.C.)    Daily   News  p6  Jl  15 

'23  450w 
Reviewed   by  H.   W.    Boynton 

Ind   110:353  My  26  '23   550w 
Reviewed  bv  Leo  Markun 

Int  Bk  R  p40  Jl  '23  600w 
"Mr.  Lawrence  has  original  ideas,  but  he  is 
a  craftsman  to  whom  no  part  of  his  work  is 
negligible.  This  craftsmanship  seems  most  ap- 
parent in  the  shorter  stories.  The  sex  interest 
does  not  so  obscure  the  delicate  skill  of  the 
thing."      A.    W.    Colton 

4-  Lit  R  p732  Je  2  '23  700w 
"Each  story  is  a  masterpiece,  and  each  alone 
is  enough  to  refute  the  idea,  which  is  a  con- 
solation to  the  uninventive,  that  there  are  no 
new  plots.  Not  one  of  these  stories  suggests 
anything  that  has  been  before,  even  in  the 
work  of  Lawrence  himself.  The  novelty  resides 
in  the  sheer  naked  plot  as  well  as  in  the  un- 
matched individuality  of  the  treatment."  J: 
Macy 

4-   Nation   116:665  Je  6  '23  lOOOw 
"Mr.     Lawrence     has     written     three     stories 
which    show    him    at    his    best,     stories    about 
as    living    and    as    well    done    as    can    be    found 
anywhere   today."   R.   L. 

4-   New  Repub  35:132  Je  27  '23  1350w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


295 


"Three  stories  are  contained  in  the  volume 
and  in  the  first  rush  of  hiingled  admiration  and 
repugriance  I  incline  to  believe  that  it  is  Mr. 
Lawrence's  most  considerable  performance.  It 
is  his  clearest  and  most  coherent  protest  against 
the  whole  civilised  conception  of  love,  and. 
therefore,  of  Pleasure."     Raymond   Mortimer 

H New  Statesman   20:752  Mr  31  '23   1950w 

"D.  H.  Lawrence  has  perceptibly  tightened 
his  form  in  these  three  tales,  and  consequently 
he  has  created  three  remarkable  stories  that 
should  add  to  his  fame." 

+  N  Y  Times  pll  Ap  22  '23  750w 
Reviewed  by  Burton  Rascoe 

N  Y  Tribune  pl7  My  27  '23  200w 
"It  would  be  strange,  and  yet  it  is  not  im- 
possible, that  the  true  complaint  of  the  cen- 
sorious against  Lawrence  lies  in  the  fact  that 
he  serves  up  life  too  coldly  rather  than  too 
warmly.  There  is  a  common  tendency  to  con- 
fuse immorality  and  disinterestedness."  Hey- 
wood  Broun 

+  N  Y  World  p8e  Ap  22  '23  650w 
"The  things  that  happen  might  as  well  not 
happen,  or  happen  differently:  the  essence,  the 
inevitability,  is  not  there.  Mr.  Lawrence  is 
expostulatory  about  life  instead  of  illuminat- 
ing. .  .  His  characters  are  not  characters,  but 
lay-figures  enimciating  nonsense;  and  his  gen- 
ius, gone  astray,  fails  to  interpret  life."  Gerald 
Gould 

—  Sat    R   135:439   Mr   31   '23    400w 
"These    stories    would    not    have    made    Mr. 
Lawrence's   reputation,   but  they  sustain  it." 

-i Spec  130:630  Ap  14  '23  1050w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  13  '23 
450w 
"Among  our  novelists  there  is  no  one  who 
seems  to  be  the  voice  of  some  compelling  power 
in  quite  the  way  that  Mr.  D.  H.  Lawrence  does. 
It  is  a  power  astonishingly  rich  in  beauty,  deep- 
flowing,  very  near  the  sources  of  life,  but  it  can 
also  be  so  darkly  physical  and  overwhelming  as 
to  spread  the  oppression  which  he  appears  to 
feel.  How  good,  then,  to  find  him  in  a  mood 
where  he  is  at  ease  with  his  inspiration  and  not 
submerged  by  it:  the  stream  running  clear,  and 
his  own  interest  not  flagging." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl95   Mr 
22    '23    780w 

Wis   Lib    Bui   19:413   Jl  '23 

LAWRENCE,    DAVID     HERBERT.      Kangaroo. 

421p   $2   Seltzer 

23-13261 

With  little  incident  the  story  centers  about 
the  psychic  experiences  of  Richard  Lovatt  Som- 
ers,  as  induced  by  the  war  and  the  chaotic 
condition  of  the  after-war  world.  A  voluntary 
exile  from  England  since  the  war,  he,  with  hia 
wife  Harriet,  has  wandered  about  Europe  and 
India  and  has  at  last  reached  Australia,  the 
scene  of  the  story.  He  is  a  writer  and  a  lonely 
soul,  given  to  thought  adventuring  and  shrink- 
ing from  human  contact,  altho  always  aspiring  to 
align  himself  with  some  project  of  human  en- 
deavor. Twice  in  Australia  the  opportunity  of- 
ers  and  twice  he  stands  off,  estranging  the 
friends  who  have  counted  upon  him.  The  most 
keenly  disappointed  is  Kangaroo,  an  ardent  soul 
who  would  redeem  the  world  with  love,  would 
institute  a  dictatorship  of  love  and  to  that 
end  has  become  the  leader  of  a  league  of  ex- 
soldiers.  After  his  death  Somer's  sense  of 
loneliness  and  frustration  increases  to  the  point 
of  morbidity.  The  narrative  abounds  in  reflec- 
tions upon  freedom,  democracy  and  civilization 
both  in  their  general  and  in  their  Australian 
aspects. 

"Those  who  pick  up  'The  Kangaroo'  expect- 
ing a  stream  of  Lawrencean  erotics  will  be 
profoundly  disappointed:  they  may  not  even 
stop  to  read  because,  simply,  there  are  none. 
Mr.  Lawrence  has  brought  off  a  full-length 
novel  without  one  single  scene  of  passion!  .  .  . 
Mr.  Lawrence  cannot  fail  to  be  stimulating  and 
provocative  of  thought;  there  is  hardly  a  page 
nay,  hardly  a  paragraph  which  will  not  arouse 
one    to    anger    and    violent    disagreement.      The 


whole  book  is  permeated  with  didacticism,  flung 
m  the  face  of  the  public  with  all  the  strength 
that  the  author  can  command."     P.  B.  W. 

H Boston  Transcript  p3  O  13  '23  950w 

Reviewed  by   H.   W.   Boynton 

Ind   111:228   N"  10  '23  700w 
"This  is  the  epic  of  a  man's  struggle  to  find 
some    place    for    himself    in    the    after-the-war 
world.  It  is,  indeed,  the  story  of  Mr.  Lawrence's 
own   struggle.    And   there    is   in   it   magnificence 
and  beauty,  fine  anger,  a  rare     understandiner," 
-I-   Int  Bk  R  p73  D  '23  600w 
Reviewed  by  H:  S.  Canby 

Lit   R  p256  N  17  '23  1750w 
"What    may   one    say   of   him    except   that   he 
is   the   most   interesting   and   the   most   unsatis- 
factory of  novelists  writing  today."  J.  W.  Krutch 
Nation  117:526  N  7  "23  950w 
"Th«  story  wanders  on  without  any  direction 
that    I    can    perceive,    and    page    after    page    is 
filled  with  words  which  convince  me  that  either 
Mr.   Lawrence  is  mad  or  I  am.     If  ever  a  book 
consisted  of  'flounderings  in  feelings'  it  is  Kan- 
garoo."    Raymond  Mortimer 

—  New    Statesman    21:712    S   29    '23   1550w 
"There    is    much    full    rich    beauty    in    'Kan- 
garoo.'     There   is   not   a  paragraph   that  is   not 
luminously    provocative." 

+    N   Y  Times  p8  O  14  '23  650w 
Reviewed  by  H.    J.    Seligman 

N  Y  Tribune  p30  O  14  '23  1500w 
"Here,  in  spite  of  the  flaws,  is  a  fine  book; 
experimental,  masterful,  challenging  the  rules 
and  his  readers,  yet  compelling  us  to  recognize 
that  the  form  of  the  novel  has  been  used 
witti  strength,  diversity  and  beauty.  .  .  Mr. 
Lawrence  has  drawn  pictures  exquisite  in 
colour  and  suggestion,  with  words  which  seem 
to  he  a  vision-language  even  more  than  to 
be  chosen  for  their  own  beauty;  and  when  he 
puts  his  whole  impression  in  a  phrase  it  has 
a  subtle  passionateness." 

-\-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p617    S 
20    '23    1050W 

LAWRENCE,    DAVID    HERBERT.      Studies    in 
classic    American    literature.    264p    $3      Seltzer 
810.4    American    literature  23-12810 

For  the  new  voice  in  American  literature,  for 
a  quality  belonging  peculiarly  to  the  American 
continent  and  nowhere  else  Mr  Lawrence  looks 
to  our  old  classics.  He  finds  in  them  a  new 
feeling,  far  more  than  in  the  modern  Ameri- 
can books.  Contents:  The  spirit  of  place;  Ben- 
jamin Franklin;  Hector  St  John  de  Cr&vecoeur; 
Fenimore  Cooper's  white  novels;  Fenimore 
Cooper's  leatherstocking  novels;  Edgar  Allan 
Foe;  Nathaniel  Hawthorne  and  "The  Scarlet 
Letter";  Hawthorne's  "Blithedale  Romance"; 
Dana's  "Two  Years  Before  the  Mast";  Her- 
man Melville's  "Typee"  and  "Omoo";  Herman 
Melville's    "Moby   Dick";   Whitman. 


Reviewed  by  R.  M.  Weaver 

Bookm  58:327  N  '23  520w 

"When  he  chooses  to  write  plain  English 
prose,  Mr.  Lawrence  can  be  passionately  simple 
and  direct;  when  he  prefers  to  write  like  a 
possessed  typewriter,  he  can  be  infinitely  tedi- 
ous. He  says  the  proper  function  of  a  critic  is 
to  save  the  tale  from  the  artist.  His  own  criti- 
cism needs  to  be  saved  from  Mr.  Lawrence." 
Newton  Arvin 

—  Freeman   8:190  O  31  '23  900w 

"Mr.  D.  H.  Lawrence's  new  book  has  none 
of  the  brilliant  qualities  of  expression  which 
make  some  of  his  novels  endurable  in  spite  of 
their  perversity.  It  is  a  criticism  of  a  life  of 
which  Mr.  Lawrence  knows  nothing.  It  is  as 
bigoted  and  superficial  as  it  is  perverse.  It  is 
likewise  funny,  but  not  amusing.  It  is  a  book 
full  of  humor  because  the  author  is  so  serious; 
in  fact,  a  modern  Delphic  oracle,  with  the  most 
amazing  contortions."     M.    F.    Egan 

—  Int   Bk   R  p28   S  '23  2700w 
Reviewed  by  S.   P.   Sherman 

Lit  R  pl43  O  20  '23  2600w 


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BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


LAWRENCE,    D:    H. — Continued 

"His  book  is  honest,  independent,  and  eccen- 
tric, a  thousand  miles,  or  a  million  light-days, 
away  from  most  books  of  critical  essays.  The 
core  of  the  book  is  its  tinglingly  vital  challenge 
not  only  to  America  but  to  all  manner  of  hu- 
man quackery  and  puffery.  Because  it  will 
offend  the  patriotic  and  bafHe  the  stupid,  I  am 
inclined  to  insist  on  its  merits,  on  its  essential 
wisdom,  on  its  insolent  courage,  and  to  leave 
to  others  the  many  quarrels  which  it  provokes. 
But  because  I  feef  its  strength  I  feel  all  the 
more  keenly  its  weaknesses,  many  of  which  the 
puniest  reviewer  can  light  upon  and  ridicule, 
or  simply  misunderstand  as  I  do."  J:  Macy 
^ Nation   117:sup398   O   10   '23   1500w 

"Lawrence  is  full  of  ideas,  but  he  lets  them 
fly  half-fledged.  His  positive,  staccato,  repeti- 
tious style  is  effective  when  it  isn't  exasperat- 
ing. The  logician  languishes  before  the  literary 
fellow  turning  a  neat  phrase.  He  sets  as  his 
goal  being  frank  and  straightforward  and 
writes  his  views  merely  as  his  opinions  and  not 
as  universal  truths.  But  he  upsets  the  effect  of 
this  by  taking  his  opinions  so  very  seriously." 
K    L    Daniels 

___|_   New  Repub  36:236  O   24  '23   950w 

LAWRENCE,    WILLIAM.      Fifty    years.    97p    $1 
Houghton 

230     Faith.       Protestant     Episcopal     church 

23-17489 

In  this  little  book  dedicated  to  young  men  in 
college,  divinity  school  and  the  ministry,  the 
bishop  of  Massachusetts  tells  the  story  of  his 
personal  experiences  in  the  church  during-  the 
last  fifty  years,  how  he  passed  thru  changes 
of  thought  and  belief  and  at  the  same  time 
gained  a  stronger  hold  on  the  fundamentals  of 
his  faith.  He  deals  simply  and  frankly  with  the 
changing  interpretation  of  the  Scriptures  and 
creeds  and  makes  it  plain  that  the  vital  test  of 
a  young  man  entering  the  ministry  is  not  "what 
particular  doctrine  he  believes  today,  but  what 
is  the  essential  trend  of  his  thought,  what  his 
attitude  toward  the  ever-revealing  truth." 

"No  matter  what  may  be  the  reader's  faith  or 
his  denominational  affiliations,  he  is  certain  to 
be  interested  in  this  book  by  a  Christian  lead- 
er." 

-f-   Boston  Transcript  p7  N  28  '23  230w 

Springf'd   Republican  p8  N  6  '23  600w 

LAWSON,     WILLIAM     PINKNEY.     Lem     Allen. 
248p    $2    Boni    &    Liveright 

23-12744 

To  Lem  Allen,  temporarily  r^^nch  cook  at 
the  Bar  T  ranch,  comes  one  AUingham,  who 
strongly  resembles  a  tramp.  Lem  takes  care 
of  him,  gets  him  a  job  on  the  ranch  and  later 
decides  to  be  his  partner.  With  Lem's  back 
pay  as  their  only  financial  backing  the  two 
start  out  on  horseback.  The  plan  is  to  study 
the  neighborhood  intensively,  interview  its 
inhabitants,  and  with  the  results  write  a 
western  novel.  Early  in  their  travels  they 
meet  an  eastern  girl,  Miss  Hallock,  with  whom 
Allingham  promptly  falls  in  love.  The  part- 
ners decide  to  follow  her  and  from  then  on 
things  happen  thick  and  fast.  They  encounter 
wily  Mexicans,  gamblers,  hold-up  men  and 
sheriffs,  but  the  resourceful  Allingham  and  his 
partner  win  out,  and  the  novel  as  written  by 
Lem,    is    the    result. 


•"A    Wild   West   yarn    told    lightly   and   with    a 
modicum    of    satire    is    a   welcome    variation." 
-I-   Lit   R  p73   S  22   '23  230w 

"Lem's  humorous  comments  on  the  experi- 
ences they  pass  through  and  on  life  in  general 
will  provide  the  reader  with  many  a  laugh.  A 
curious  feature  of  Lem's  writing  is  that  in 
describing  his  own  speech  he  shows  that  noble 
disregard  of  the  laws  of  spelling  and  grammar 
which  is  to  be  expected  of  a  man  in  his  sta- 
tion in  life,  but  when  he  quotes  Allingham  he 
has  no  trouble  whatever.  Possibly  Allingham 
revised    the   manuscript." 

H NY  Times  p27  S   2  '23   600w 


LEACOCK,  STEPHEN   BUTLER.     College  days. 

169p  $1.25  Dodd 
827  23-15500 

"I  present  this  little  book  to  such  of  the  pub- 
lic as  care  to  read  it,  without  apology.  "The 
'pieces'  that  are  included  in  it  appeared  in  by- 
gone years  in  the  Toronto  Varsity,  the  McGill 
Outlook,  the  Harvard  Advocate,  the  Princeton 
Tiger  and  other  journals  of  the  same  uncom- 
mercial and  ideal  character.  The  responsibility 
for  their  existence  rests  with  the  brilliant  and 
uncalculating  young  men  who  are  editors  of 
such  publications."  (Preface)  Contents:  Pref- 
ace; My  college  days;  a  retrospect;  My  memo- 
ries and  miseries  as  a  schoolmaster;  Laus  Var- 
itatls:  a  song  in  praise  of  the  University  of  Tor- 
onto; The  oldest  living  graduate;  The  faculty  of 
arts;  English  as  she  is  taught  at  college;  A  little 
glimpse  into  the  college  future;  A  subscription 
with  reflections;  Toronto  and  McGill;  The  chil- 
dren's corner;  A  sermon  on  college  humour;  A 
Christmas  examination:  Idleness:  a  song  for  the 
long  vacation;  The  diversions  of  a  professor  of 
history;  The  old  college  and  the  new  university. 


Booklist  20:130  Ja  '24 
"The  volume  is  padded  with  some  historical 
notes  which  their  author  once  wrote  for  some- 
thing and  which  would  not,  we  dare  swear, 
have  seemed  so  awfully  amusing  if  anyone  else 
had  written  it.  But  the  rest  of  it  is  delight- 
ful. Of  course,  you  say,  Stephen  Leacock  al- 
ways is."     I.  W.  L. 

H Boston  Transcript  p3  D  15  '23  700w 

"O,  happy  gleaning!  This  collection  contains 
fooleries  with  a  fine  flavor.  'College  Days'  is  a 
book  which  belongs  in  every  college  library  and 
every  college  club.  It  is  enduringly  delightful." 
Lawton   Mackall 

+   Lit  R  p334  D  8  '23  220w 
Reviewed  by  H.  .T.  Mankiewicz 

N  Y  Times  p9  Ja  13  '24  50w 
"If  it  has  clearly-marked  limits  as  an  expedi- 
ent for  provoking  mirth,  the  trouble  perhaps  is 
that  Mr.  Leacock  seems  more  bent  on  broad 
fun  than  on  satire  and  does  not  for  the  most 
part  treat  the  phases  of  the  college  that  invite 
either  the  subtlest  or  the  broadest  satire.  There 
is  this  compensation,  however,  that  at  various 
stages  he  is  humanely  and  humorously  reflec- 
tive.'" 

-^ Springf'd   Republican  p8  D  15  '23   1400w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p788  N  22 
'23    650w 

LEACOCK,     STEPHEN      BUTLER.       Over     the 
footlights.    285p  $1.50  Dodd   [5s   Lane] 

827      Drama.     Humor  23-11064 

In  part  one  of  this  volume  the  author  has  his 
fling  at  old  and  new  plays,  giving  imaginary 
plots  of  the  old-time  melodrama,  of  the  mod- 
ern piffle  play  wherein  men  and  women  search 
their  souls,  of  the  lurid  movie,  the  Greek  trag- 
edy of  the  colleges,  historical  drama,  Russian 
drama,  etc.  In  part  two,  various  fads,  old  and 
new,  are  satirized.  There  are  the  obtrusive  en- 
thusiasms of  the  nature  lover,  the  success  fad- 
dist, prohibition,  radio,  the  heroine  in  sensa- 
tional fiction,  the  apartment  landlord,  the  golfing 
craze,    and    other   up-to-date   amenities. 


Booklist   20:14   O   '23 

"  'Over  the  Footlights'  contains  some  of  the 
funniest  stuff  this  man  has  done.  For  the  most 
part  he  travesties  all  the  recognized  forms  of 
drama,  and  he  does  it  in  such  a  way  that  any- 
one who  has  ever  been  to  the  theatre  must,  it 
seems,  laugh." 

-f  Bookm  58:482  D  '23  lOOw 

"It  is  not  to  be  recommended  to  those  who 
insist  on  'quiet  humor'  only.  For  it  frequently 
makes  you  laugh  aloud.  In  one  or  two  places 
you  will,  imless  you  are  a  very  prim  person 
indeed,  fairly  explode  with  merriment.  And  in 
these  days,  when  most  writers  and  many  read- 
ers seem  to  think  that  anything  more  than  a 
smile  is  rather  ill-bred,  such  books  are  rare." 
E.    L.    Pearson 

+  Boston    Transcript    p3    Jl    28    '23    1700w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


297 


Reviewed  by  H.  W.   Boynton 

Ind   111:94    S   1   '23   950w 
Reviewed   by   L.    C.    Hall 

Int  Bk  R  p31  N  '23  lOOOw 
"If  you  rush  to  this  book  expecting  to  roll 
In  convulsions  upon  the  floor  over  every  syl- 
lable you  will  probably  find  it  duller  than  the 
telephone  directory.  If,  on  the  other  hand,  you 
expect  to  find  it  merely  an  urbane  relief  from 
the  frenzied  literature  of  the  hour,  you  may 
be  surprised  at  discovering  passages  uproari- 
ously funny."     W:     R.   Benet 

■] Lit    R    pl07    O    6    '23    700w 

"Mr.  Leacock  possesses  in  excelsis  this  clear, 
preposterous  vision  of  the  medley  of  imbecilities 
through  which  man  takes  his  solemn  way  from 
the  cradle  to  the  grave.  His  new  volume  is  an 
uproarious  collection  of  ribald  comments  on  the 
contemporary  drama." 

-f   New   Statesman    21:528   Ag   11   '23   500w 
"As  delicious  a  bit  of  intelligent  nonsense  and 
foolish  thoughtfulness  as  has  yet  delighted  those 
who   love   to   laugh." 

+   N   Y  Times  p2  Jl  29  '23  1050w 
Reviewed  by  Bruce  Gould 

N    Y  Tribune  pl9  Jl   29  '23   900w 
N    Y   World   p9e   Jl  29   '23   150w 
Outlook  135:34  S  5  '23  llOw 
St  Louis  p294  O  '23 
"Mr.  Leacock  is  the  contemptuous  philosopher 
— he    derides.     When    Mr.    Leacock's    vein    runs 
thini — as  it  does  through  most  of  'Over  the  Foot- 
lights'— he     can     provide     only     machine-made 
stuff."   Gerald  Gould 

—  Sat   R   136:49  Jl  14   '23  lOOw 
"It    is   a   little   difficult   to   choose   between   so 
many  amusing  studies.      Over  the  Footlights   is 
the    best   book    Mr.    Leacock    has    written    for   a 
long   time." 

+  Spec  131:198  Ag  11  '23  200w 
"The  appearance  of  a  new  book  by  Stephen 
Leacock  is  a  real  literary  event.  This  choice 
humorist  is  unequalled  in  his  special  field  of 
gentle  buffoonery  and  burlesque,  and  in  'Over 
the  Footlights,'   he   is   seen   at   his  best." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  180w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p438    Je 
28  '23  650w 

Wis   Lib  Bui  19:480  N  '23 

LEARNED,    ELLIN    (GRAVEN)    (MRS    FRANK 
>    LEARNED)         (PRISCILLA         WAKEFIELD, 

pseud.).     Everybody's  complete  etiquette.  428p 

$2.50  Stokes 
395     Etiquet  23-14370 

"Every  question  of  social  behavior  is  fully  dis- 
cussed in  this  volume,  intended  'not  only  for 
those  of  high  social  position  but  particularly  for 
people  in  average  circumstances.'  A  section  is 
devoted  to  etiquette  for  children,  another  for 
those  in  small  towns,  and  one  for  those  who 
are  shy.  Some  of  the  information  may  be  skip- 
ped by  the  social  leader  who  has  arrived." — 
N  Y  Tribune 


N  Y  Tribune  p33  O  14  '23  130w 
N  Y  World  p7e  D  30  '23  450w 
Springf'd   Republican   p7a  D  30  '23  150w 

LEE,   MUNA.     Sea-change.   76p  $1.50  Macmillan 
811  23-8499 

These  poems  are  mostly  lyrics  of  love   in   its 
various   moods   and   changes. 


"She  is  nearly  always  haunted  by  visions 
which  she  strives  to  capture  in  her  verse. 
Though  this  is  a  far  from  unusual  characteristic, 
it  is  certain  that  there  is  always  something 
sharply  individual  in  her  vision.  She  has  a 
habit  of  seeing  the  less  usual  image  or  of  see- 
ing it  in  a  slightly  different  wav,  which  im- 
parts a  freshness  to  her  poems."  D.  L.  M 
+   Boston    Transcript   p3   S   29   '23   900w 

"Miss  Muna  Lee  is  obviously  convinced  of  the 
Importance  of  her  feelings.  Unfortunately  she 
says  nothmg  that  has  not  been  said  before,  and 


better,    by   hundreds   of   other   poets,    masculine 
and  feminine."   J:  G.   Fletcher 

—  Freeman   7:452  Jl   18   '23   130w 

"Her  poems  are  youthful,  fragile,  slender, 
perhaps  too  slender,  and  that  is  all.  Many  of 
them  please  for  the  moment,  rise  and  fall  in 
fanciful  design,  and  then  evaporate.  They 
carry  with  them  a  certain  wistful,  elusive  charm 
that  never  reaches  its  full  power— a  distress- 
mg    impotence    of   youth." 

1-   Lit    R    p900    Ag    11    '23    220w 

"Here  there  is  emotion  in  its  more  spontane- 
ous and  thoughtless  combinations.  There  is  no 
particular  cerebration.  Miss  Lee  belongs  to  that 
school  of  lyricists  that  is  led  by  Sara  Teasdale. 
She  displays  finish,  a  captivating  rhyme,  and 
she  achieves  a  certain  poignancy.  But  there  is 
nothing  new;  there  is  no  unique  personality 
developing   itself   here." 

H NY  Times  pl2  Je  10  '23   220w 

"There  is  no  pompous  seriousness  in  these 
poems,  no  reaching  after  effect  that  results  in 
ludicrous  bending  backward,  but  a  simple  de- 
light in  familiar  objects  that  proves  unex- 
pectedly pleasing.  The  images  are  vivid  and 
not  forced:  and  there  is  a  strain  of  Celtic 
wistfulness  that  recalls  Mr  Yeats  in  his  best 
and    most    lucid    moments." 

-f  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ag  2G  '23  420w 

LEE,     VERNON,     pseud.      (VIOLET      PAGET). 

Handling    of    words;     and    other     studies     in 
literary  psychology.  315p  $2.50     Dodd 

808  Rhetoric.  Style.  Literary 
These  studies  by  a  writer  of  long  practice 
who  is  herself  a  finished  stylist  penetrate  more 
deeply  into  literary  psychology  and  the  subtle 
relationship  between  writer  and  reader  than  the 
title  would  seem  to  imply.  Vernon  Lee's  thesis 
is  that  the  "efficacy  of  all  writing  depends  not 
more  on  the  Writer  than  on  the  Reader.  . 
that  the  craft  of  the  Writer  consists  in  manipu- 
lating the  contents  of  his  Reader's  mind  "  The 
most  interesting  side  of  the  book  is  the  analy- 
tical, in  which  she  dissects  the  work  of  certain 
well-known  authors,  taking  passages  of  five 
hundred  words  at  random  and  analyzing  the 
effects  they  produce  on  the  reader's  mind. 

Booklist    19:311    Jl    '23 

"Good  sense  and  a  fine  literary  instinct 
trained  to  more  than  adequate  expression  made 
Vernon  Lee's  book  interesting  and  worth  while 
reading.  It  is  dogmatic  at  times,  too  logical 
for  an  illogical  world,  but  it  should  prove  in- 
valuable to  a  young  writer  since  it  answers 
so    many    of    his    questions." 

+   Bookm   58:90    S   '23   150w 
Cleveland    p53    Jl    '23 
Freeman    7:334    Je    13    '23    2200w 

"Genuinely  illuminating  for  both  the  reader 
and    the   writer." 

-f   Nation    117:201   Ag  22  '23   20w 
St    Louis  p291  O  '23 

"Vernon  Lee's  examination  of  the  subject  leads 
her  to  inferences  and  conclusions  which  often 
throw  unexpected  light,  both  critical  and  philo- 
sophical, on  literature  in  general  and  on  the 
several  writers  of  whom  she  treats  specifically.  .  . 
Perhaps  the  most  interesting  part  of  the  book  is 
that  in  which  she  takes  at  random  passages 
from  Meredith,  Kipling,  Stevenson,  Hardy, 
Henry  James  and  Maurice  Hewlett  and  sub- 
mits them  to  a  rigorous  dissection,  applied  not 
only  to  their  syntax,  but  also  to  the  process 
whereby  they  produce  their  effects  on  the  read- 
er's mind.  Her  method  is  a  searching  one." 
-f  Spec  130:671  Ap  21  '23  S20w 

"She  is  so  much  in  earnest  on  this  point,  'the 
manipulation  of  the  mind  of  the  reader,'  that 
everything  else  she  has  to  say  comes  round  to  it 
sooner  or  later;  till  for  the  listener  the  phrase 
besins  to  assume  a  terrible  literalness,  and  it 
will  be  lon.g  before  he  forgets  the  vision  of  the 
writer  kneading  and  moulding  the  more  or  less 
ductile  contents  of  another's  skull.  It  is  only 
to  be  wished  that  Vernon  Lee  had  pushed  her 
investigation  farther.  Wit?i  a  dozen  pages  from 
each  of  her  authors  instead  of  one — and  with 
twenty    authors    instead    of    half    a    dozen — she 


298 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


LEE,  VERNON,  pseud. — Continued 
would  have  turned  a  modest  chapter  into  a 
stout  volume,  and  we  should  have  been  the 
better  for  it.  But  the  laborious  task  of  apply- 
ing her  minute  devices  more  widely  must  be 
shared  by  others,  and  she  has  done  a  good  work 
in  making  a  start." 

-|-  —  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl85  Mr 
22  '23  4000W 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:442   O   '23 

LEFEBURE,  VICTOR.  Riddle  of  the  Rhine; 
chemical  strategy  in  peace  and  war;  an  ac- 
count of  the  critical  struggle  for  power  and 
for  the  decisive  war  initiative;  with  a  pref- 
ace by  Marshal  Foch;  and  introd.  by  Sir 
Henry  Wilson.  282p  il  $2  Dutton  [2s  6d  Col- 
lins] 

623  Gases  in  warfare  [22-2505] 

Major  Lefebure,  scientist  and  engineer,  was 
active  in  the  chemical  warfare  service  thruout 
the  war.  He  gave  assistance  on  various  chem- 
ical questions  in  connection  with  the  treaty,  and 
in  the  attempt  to  bring  his  findings  clearly  be- 
fore the  peace  delegates,  he  surveyed  the  great 
chemical  munition  factories  of  the  Rhine.  In 
this  book  he  stresses  his  belief  that  no  law, 
guarantee  or  disarmament  safeguard  will  pre- 
vent an  unscrupulous  enemy  from  employing 
poison  gas,  especially  if  it  possess  a  strong 
chemical  industry  and  means  for  producing  such 
chemicals  in  bulk  at  short  notice.  He  further 
urges  that  England's  safety  makes  it  imperative 
that  the  study  of  the  subject  should  be  con- 
tinued and  her  chemical  and  dye  industry  de- 
veloped. 


"Major  Lefebure,  in  the  work  under  review, 
has  imdoubtedly  made  the  most  considerable 
contribution  to  the  history  of  chemical  warfare 
which  has  yet  appeared.  The  weakest  point  of 
Major  Ijefebure's  book  is  its  constructive 
policy."     T.   E.   Thorpe 

H Nature  108:331  N  10  '21  1550w 

Reviewed   by  Van   Buren  Thorne 

N   Y  Times  plO  F  12  '22  2400w 
"Presents  a  complete  history  of  the  develop- 
ment of  chemical  warfare  in  all  its  aspects  and 
concludes  with   an   interesting  glimpse   into  the 
future." 

-f  Sat  R  132:561  N  12  "21  780w 
"A   highly   interesting   account    of   the    use   of 
poison-gas   in  the  War." 

-I-  Spec  127:749  D  3  '21  980w 

LEFEVRE,  EDWIN.  Reminiscences  of  a  stock 
operator.    299p  $2.50  Doran 

332.6      New    York     (city) — Stock    exchange. 

Speculation  23-10295 

A  tale,  autobiographical  in  manner,  of  a  suc- 
cessful Wall  Street  speculator  and  stock - 
plunger.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  and  just  out 
of  grammar  school,  he  became  a  quotation- 
board  boy  in  a  stock -brokerage  office.  He  was 
quick  at  figures,  had  a  good  memory,  and  was 
a  good  observer.  He  became  interested  in  the 
behavior  of  stocks  as  a  game.  At  fifteen  he 
was  known  as  the  "boy  plunger"  of  the  bucket 
shops.  Needless  to  say  he  became  the  biggest 
and  most  successful  speculator  of  Wall  Street. 


Booklist  20:54  N  '23 
"A  very  clever  story  of  a  very  clever  writer, 
based  upon  his  acquired  knowledge  of  how  such 
things  are  done.  .  .  One  reads  the  book  eagerly 
and  when  he  has  read  it  all,  he  has  not  learned 
even  then  the  secret  of  success  as  a  player 
of  the  game  of  stock  gambling.  But  it  is  a 
good    story."      E.    J.    C. 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p7  Jl  18  '23  650w 
"The  narrative  is  always  in  a  pleasant, 
genial  spirit.  .  .  In  a  literary  way,  the  method 
and  style  of  the  work  leave  much  to  be  de- 
sired. The  narrative  is  rambling,  repetitious, 
filled  to  boresomeness  with  inconsequent  de- 
tail and  fairly  bristling  with  the  first  personal 
pronoun." 

-\ NY  Times  p26  Jl   8  '23   550w 

Pittsburgh    IVIo   Bui   28:516  D  '23 
R    of    Rs    68:335    S    '23    30w 


LEGOUIS,       EMILE       HYACINTHE.        William 

Wordsworth    and     Annette     Vallon.     146p     $2 

Dutton 

B  or  92  Wordsworth,  William.     Vallon,  An- 
nette 23-9278 

It  is  no  newly  discovered  fact  that  William 
Wordsworth  when  a  young  man  studying  in 
France  fell  in  love  with  a  young  French  lady, 
Annette  Vallon,  who  became  the  mother  of  his 
daughter  Caroline.  Wordsworth  returned  to 
England  expecting  to  marry  Annette,  but  the 
opposition  of  his  guardians  and  the  outbreak 
of  the  Revolution  proved  insuperable  obstacles. 
They  remained  friends.  His  sister  Dorothy 
shared  his  secret  and  kept  up  an  irregular  cor- 
respondence with  Annette.  Wordsworth  eventu- 
ally married  Mary  Hutchinson.  M.  Legouis  has 
made  new  discoveries  which  have  enabled  him  to 
sketch  Annette's  career  between  1792  and  1816 
and  the  part  she  took  in  the  Revolution.  Of 
special  interest  is  Dorothy  Wordsworth's  con- 
nection with  the  affair,  her  sympathy  for  An- 
nette  and   drawing  toward   the   child. 


Bookm    57:565   Jl   '23    lOOw 
"To    the    [already    known]    facts    M.    Legouis, 
who    is    professor    of    English    at    the    Sorbonne 
and   one   of   the   most   eminent   foreign   authori- 
ties   on    our    literature,    has    added    many    more 
in  this  book.  Though  he  has  not  even  suggested 
that  the  young  poet  was  blameless,  he  has  given 
reasons    for    taking    a    charitable    view    of    his 
behavior    and    has    cleared    up    many    obscure 
points   in   the  whole  affair."     G:    M.    Harper 
+   Lit    R   p626  Ap   21   '23   1150w 
Reviewed  by  R:  Le  Gallienne 

N   Y  Times  p5  Ap  29  '23  3200w 

LE     GRAS,     JOSEPH.       Casanova,    adventurer 
and  lover;  tr.   from  the  French  by  A.  Francis 
Steuart.     237p     il     $5     Dodd     [12s  6d  Lane] 
B    or    92     Casanova    de    Seingalt,    Giovanni 
Jacopo 
The  personality  of  Casanova  presents  an   un- 
usual human  type.     A  Venetian  by  birth  he  was 
the  king  of  adventurers — a  braggadocio,   a  vain 
dandy,  a  gambler  and  scamp,  the  lover  of  hun- 
dreds   of    women    in    all    walks    of    life,    a    com- 
panion   of   royalty,    a    beggar    in    the    street,    al- 
ways   charming    and    never    lacking    champions 
and    friends.      He    was    a    great    traveler,    pos- 
sessed of   brilliant    wit   and   scholarship  and  his 
M^moires,    upon    which    the    present     study    is 
largely  based,  is  one  of  the  best  mirrors  of  the 
age  in  which  he  lived.     Index. 

"A  book  filled  with  rapid  fire  anecdote  and 
colorful  description.  Surely,  if  you  are  not 
easilv  shocked,  you  will  enjoy  this  romance  of 
peccadillos  and  bravados,  of  Venetian  confidence 
games  and  knavish  love  making."  J.   F. 

Boston   Transcript   pi   Je   2   '23   650w 

"It  is  not  Puritanism  that  makes  preferable 
M.  Le  Gras's  study  of  the  man  to  the  cele- 
brated 'Memoires'  themselves,  but  rather  an 
attempt  to  escape  boredom.  Few  men's  lives 
are  so  colorful  as  to  fill  wth  interest  eight 
octavo  volumes,  especially  when  they  are  so 
replete    with    sordid    love    minutely    chronicled." 

o      T        Ty 

Boston  Transcript  pi  Je  2  '23  650w 
"M.  Le  Gras's  study  of  Casanova,  sympathet- 
icallv  written  and  filled  with  information,  comes 
to  America  at  a  time  when  the  adventurer's 
name  is  in  the  air;  and  it  will  do  a  great  service 
if  it  tempts  a  few  readers  to  plunge  into  the 
enchanted  wonderland  of  the  Memoirs  them- 
selves."     Clarkson   Crane 

+  Freeman  7:378  Je  27  '23  1250w 
"To  read  the  'M^moire.s'  is  to  find  oneself  in 
those  days,  accompanied  bv  a  man  who  lead.s 
you  fronri  tavern  to  boudoir,  from  some  great 
state  banquet  to  a  provincial  cloister,  all  the 
while  making  remarks,  at  times  wise  and  at 
times  cynical,  but  always  interesting."  Nathan 
Asch 

+   Lit   R  p787  Je  23  '23  1050w 

Reviewed   by   R.   M.    Lovett 

New   Repub  35:236  Jl  25  '23  1500w 
N    Y   Times   pl3  Je   10  '23   1700w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


299 


LEIGHTON,   JOSEPH    ALEXANDER.     Field   of 
philosophy.      584p     $3      (12s  6d)      Appleton 

109     Philosophy— History  23-5614 

A  revised  edition,  with  several  additional 
chapters,  of  a  work  first  published  in  1918.  In- 
tended to  serve  as  an  introduction  to  the  study 
of  philosophy,  the  book  presents  a  rapid  histori- 
cal sketch  of  the  development  of  philosophic 
thought  from  the  primitive  world  view  to  the 
beginning  of  modern  thought,  followed  by  a 
systematic  and  critical  survey  of  the  chief 
modern  problems  and  theories.  The  third  part 
gives  in  outline  a  survey  of  the  chief  problems 
of  constructive  philosophy. 


"Dr.  Leighton  looks  beyond  the  classroom 
and  is  rare  among  twentieth  century  thinkers 
in  his  determina.tion  to  see  social  interests,  na- 
tional interests,  even  world  interests  bound  up 
with  the  development  of  reason  and  with  the 
exercise  of  the  mind.  A  more  outspoken  con- 
demnation of  retrograde  tendencies  in  this  field 
has  rarely  been  uttered;  a  more  searching  ar- 
raignment of  the  things  which  work  to  stereo- 
type the  individual  and  mechanize  life  will  be 
looked  for  in  vain  vinder  the  rubric  of  contem- 
porary   philosophical   writing."     E.    N. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p4  Ap   14  '23  800w 
J    Religion    3:445    Jl    '23    30w 

LEITCH,    MARY    SINTON.        Waggon    and    the 
star.   103p  $1.50  Brimmer 

811  23-1008 

■'In  this  poetry,  by  a  poet  who  for  the  first 
time  is  reaching  the  public  through  the  concrete 
medium  of  a  book,  there  is  much  that  seems 
reminiscent  of  other  poets,  as  is  always  the 
way  with  poetry  that  is  broad  and  imaginative. 
The  Magic  Gown'  might  have  been  written  by 
Walter  de  la  Mare;  he;  like  Mrs.  Leitch  and 
Barrie,  believes  in  fairies,  and  again  in  'Sail- 
ing-Ship Days'  one  recalls  Kipling,  or  perhaps 
one  of  the  inimitable  'Salt  Water  Ballads'  of 
Masefield." — Boston  Transcript 


"Frequently,  as  in  'The  Hermit  Thrush,' 
'Masks,'  'The  Suppliant,'  'Silence,'  to  name  a 
few  of  her  most  flawless  lyrics,  the  divine  af- 
flatus is  visible,  the  supreme  lyric  ecstacy  Is 
achieved."     V.   T.   M. 

+  Boston   Transcript   p5  N  18   '22   1300w 
Reviewed  bv  W:  R.  Benet 

Lit    R   p680   My   12   '23   30w 
"The  verse  is  good,  I  admit  that.     It  Is  better 
than    nine    out    of   ten    books   of   poetry.      But    I 
can't    see    it    having  any   claims    to    greatness." 
Milton  Raison 

f-  N    Y   Tribune   p21   Mr  11   '23   320w 

LENERU,  MARIE.  Journal  of  Marie  Len6ru:  tr. 
by  William  Aspenwall  Bradley;  introd.  by 
Frangois  de  Curel.  295p  $2.50  Macmillan 

23-13418 
Marie  Len6ru  became  an  important  figure  in 
French  literary  and  feminist  circles  after  her 
drama  "Les  Affranchis"  won  the  Vie  Heureuse 
prize.  Encouraged  by  her  mother,  Marie  be- 
gan her  diary  when  she  was  eleven  years  old — 
at  that  time  a  brilliant,  light-hearted  child  who 
had  everything  to  hope  and  nothing  to  fear. 
At  the  age  of  eighteen,  the  deafness  which  had 
begun  four  years  before  became  incurable,  and 
the  Journal  of  Marie  Len^ru,  continued  from 
that  time  until  her  death  in  1918,  twenty-five 
years  later,  is  one  long  revelation  of  her  strug- 
gle against  the  tragedy  which  had  befallen  her. 
It  is  the  story  of  a  brave  fight,  waged  and 
won,  against  doubt  and  despair.  Like  all  hu- 
man documents,  so-called,  it  has  a  universal 
appeal  because  of  the  sense  of  kinship  which 
comes  from  thus  entering  into  the  life  of  an- 
other and  realizing  that  another  has  suffered 
like  us  and  conquered. 


Bashkirtseff,  but  how  strained,  how  artificial 
the  Russian  girl's  sufferings  appear  beside  those 
Marie  Leneru  confided  to  her  secret  pages  for 
twenty-five   years!"   M.    M.    Marshall 

+   N   Y   World  p8  O  14  '23  1300w 

LENORMAND,  HENRI  RENE.  Failures;  a  play 
in  fourteen  scenes;  [and.  Time  is  a  dream,  a 
play  in  six  scenes] ;  tr,  from  the  French  by 
Winifred  Katzin.   231p  $2  Knopf 

842  23-16813 

This  play  in  fourteen  scenes,  by  one  of  the 
younger  French  dramatists,  is  the  Theatre 
Guild's  second  production  of  the  season.  It 
evidently  marks  an  attempt  to  break  away  from 
the  traditional  and  conventional  in  the  theater. 
The  plot  is  of  the  slightest,  consisting  of  epi- 
sodes onlv  in  the  lives  of  the  two  principal 
characters".  He  and  She,  an  unsuccessful  young 
playwright  and  his  actress  wife.  She  goes  on 
a  theatrical  tour  to  support  herself  and  her 
husband,  and  they  grow  steadily  poorer  and 
more  wretched,  till  she  finally  sells  herself  to 
add  to  their  revenue.  The  play  ends  in  disil- 
lusion, murder  and  suicide.  "Your  love  kills  you 
or  you  kill  your  love,"  as  He  says  over  his  wife's 
dead  body,   seems  to  be  the  main  theme. 


Reviewed  by  H:  B.  Fuller 

Freeman  8:356  D  19  '23  900w 

"The  tragically  honest  story  of  a  woman 
rebel — sans  piety,  sans  platitudes,  sans  pose — 
that  is  the  'Journal  of  Marie  Leneru.'  Her 
Journal    has    been    compared    to    that    of    Marie 


"Although  the  play  has  been  called  depress- 
ing, morbid  and  neurotic,  these  people  strike 
one  as  being  entirely  normal  and  above  all  else 
human.  They  act  in  situations  in  which  they 
find  themselves  with  a  consistency  of  character 
that  M.  Lenormand  maintains  with  rare  msight 
and  understanding."     M.   M. 

Freeman    8:376    D  26   '23   ISOOw 

"This  translation,  a  faithful  and  skilful  one, 
is  the  best  piece  of  contemporary  dramatic  lit- 
erature which  the  Theater  Guild  has  produced 
since  St.  John  Ervine's  'Jane  Clegg.'  "  Ludwig 
Lewisohn  ^     ^„„„ 

-I-   Nation   117:692  D  12  '23  lOOOw 

"Les  Rat^s  may  not  be  easy  for  us  because 
of  its  volubility,  the  copiousness  with  which  the 
characters  express  themselves,  find  figures  of 
speech,  words,  images  and  spurts  of  warm  or 
bitter  eloquence,  the  spring  and  current  of  the 
scenes  as  they  come  following  closely  and  easily 
one  upon  another.  And  yet  we  must  perceive 
that  both  the  facility  and  artifice  and  the  volu- 
bility are  supported— or  redeemed,  if  you  in- 
sist on  mistrusting  them— by  sensitivity.  Lenor- 
mand's  Les  Rat^s.  for  all  the  craft  and  theatre 
game  of  it,  is  alive  with  sensitivity.  Stark 
Young 

_|.  _  New  Repub  37:46  D  5  "23  1500w 

LEONARD,     FRED     EUGENE.  Guide    to    the 

history  of  physical  education.  (Physical  edu- 
cation ser.)  361p  il  $4  Lea 

613.71      Physical      education  and      training 

"No  work  undertaking  to  trace  the  history  of 
physical  education  in  Europe  and  America  and 
to  describe  the  chief  present  day  movements  has 
appeared    hitherto    in    any    language.   —Preface 

Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui  28:414  O  '23 

LEONARD,  FRED  EUGENE.  Guide  to  the 
Red  Bird;  a  drama  of  Wisconsin  history  in 
four   acts.    149p   $1.50   Huebsch 

g^2  23-10549 

"This  play  is  a  distinguished  piece  of  work, 
for  its  dramatic  and  romantic  and  historic 
values  alike.  The  scene  of  the  ^surrender  of 
the  young  Indian  chief.  Red  Bird,  chances  to 
be  not  fSr  from  the  end  of  the  main  street 
of  Portage,  Wisconsin  The  legend  of  Red 
Bird,  that  picturesque  figure  in  his  white  doe 
skins  with  the  single  red  feather  always  in  his 
cap  has  persisted  all  thru  this  Winnebago 
country.  The  nobility  of  his  surrender  when  he 
found!  that  the  supposed  wrong  done  to  his 
own  people,  which  he  had  himself  so  terribly 
avenged,  was  but  idle  gossip,  is  one  9f  the 
high  moments  of  racial  life.  This  heroic  fig- 
ure, set  against  the  petty  and  domineering 
white  overlords,   among  the  traders  and  Indian 


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LEONARD,  W:    E.   C. — Continued 
agents,    is    of    a    significance    and   a    beauty    of 
wliich  Dr.   Leonard   has   taken  constant  advan- 
tage."— Zona   Gale 


"As  a  play  for  the  professional  stage,  Red 
Bird'  is  but  indiiiferently  suited.  The  first  two 
acts  are  expository  and  narrative  rather  than 
dramatic,  the  story  and  baclcground  being 
developed  through  extended  dialogue  instead 
of  by  action.  The  last  two  acts  are  better,  the 
last  especially  being  one  of  real  emotion  and 
deep  pathos.  The  style,  varyingly  adequate,  is 
at  times  commonplace,  and  again  dignified 
and  poetic;  ogcasionally  there  is  a  striking 
phrase."    A.    H.    S. 

H Boston    Transcript    pi    Ag    18    '23    390w 

"It  illustrates  fully  the  potency  and  power 
of  the  little  theatre  to  develop  native  drama. 
In  the  simplicity  and  eloquence  of  style  Dr. 
Leonard  has  what  Matthew  Arnold  described 
as  'natural  magic  in  words.'  His  portrayal  of 
the  character  of  Red  Bird,  the  chief  of  the 
Winnebago  Indian  tribe,  has  a  deft,  natural 
touch."  Edwin  Clark 

+   N    Y   Times  pl4  Je  24   '23   660w 

LE  QUEUX,  WILLIAIVI  TUFNELL.  Voice  from 
the  void,  the  great  wireless  mystery.  318p 
$1.75     Macaulay     [7s  Gd  Cassell] 

23-6149 
"In  addition  to  being  a  practiced  builder  of 
mystery  yarns,  Mr.  Le  Queux  is  a  "Member  of 
the  Institute  of  Radio  Kngineers,'  and  this  is 
his  second  attempt  to  bring  applied  wireless 
science  to  bear  upon  the  making  of  fiction.  There 
is  rather  more  radio  than  story  to  the  result 
as  the  chief  interest  lies  in  the  use  of  new 
contrivances  to  unravel  criminal  conspiracies 
and  so  on.  It  centres  upon  an  emerald  mine. 
The  villain  is  after  the  concession,  but,  of 
course,   is   properly   foiled." — Lit  R 


"It   is   a  good   yarn   and   every   one   who   likes 
radio  will  enjoy  that  part  of  it." 

-f   Boston    Transcript   p4   My   23   '23    450w 
"The   book   is   rather  a  wooden   performance." 

—  Lit    R   p667   My   5   '23   70w 
Reviewed    by    E.    W.    Osborn 

N   Y   World   p8e  Ap  1  '23  70w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  D  30  '23   120w 

LEROUX,    GASTON.     Wolves    of   the    sea    (Eng 
title  The  prison  ship).     320p     $1.7.5     Macaulay 

23-6286 
The  Bayard,  a  French  ship,  was  bound  for 
the  penal  colony  of  Cayenne  with  a  cargo  of 
convicts  whose  leader  v.'as  one  Cheri-Bibi.  Al- 
tho  he  was  kept  in  solitai-y  confinement  and 
in  irons  he  managed  to  escape  and  lead  his  pals 
in  a  desperate  mutiny,  as  a  result  of  which  the 
captain  and  surviving  crew  occupied  the  con- 
victs' cells  and  Cheri-Bibi  was  captain  of  the 
ship.  They  now  rescue  a  yachting  party  in 
which  Cheri-Bibi  recognizes  his  arch  enemy, 
the  Marquis  du  Touchais,  and  his  boon  com- 
panions. The  story  ends  in  horror,  for  Cheri- 
Bibi  consigns  the  Marquis  to  the  tender  mercies 
of  a  convict  pair,  man  and  wife,  addicted  to 
cannibalism.  The  strange  feature  in  Cheri- 
Bibi's  career  is  that,  in  spite  of  his  criminal 
reputation,  up  to  these  last  acts  of  revenge, 
he  had  been  an  innocent  man  pursued  by  a 
tragic  fatality. 


"There  is  something  about  the  gruesome, 
when  one  gets  a  little  more  of  it  than  one  can 
enjoy,  which  does  not  thrill — but  merely  bores." 
—  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  2  '23  320w 
"It  is  a  fairly  well  executed  example  of  the 
old-fashioned  'dime  novel'  replete  with  modern 
sophistication  and  enough  plausibilitv  to  make 
it  entertaining." 

H Lit  R  p723  My  26  '23  50w 

Reviewed   bv  E.   W.   Osborn 

N  Y  World  p8e  Ap  1  '23  60w 
Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  24  '23  180w 


LESLIE,   EUGENE   HENDRICKo.     Motor  fuels; 
'    their    production    and    technology.    681p    11    |7 
Chemical   catalog  co. 

662.6     Fuel.      Gasoline.     Automobile   engines 
—Fuel  23-8797 

"A  thorough  treatise  on  all  aspects  of  the 
motor-fuel  problem.  Pays  considerable  atten- 
tion to  the  theory  which  underlies  the  processes 
involved  and  which  will  be  of  interest  to  chem- 
ical engineers  other  than  those  engaged  in 
petroleum  work.  Besides  the  refining  and 
cracking  of  petroleum  oils,  considers  natural- 
gas  gasoline,  alcohol,  benzol,  etc. "^Pittsburgh 
Mo    Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:536    D   '23 

LESLIE,    HENRIETTA.      Other    people's    prop- 
erty. 256p  $2  Moffatt 

"The  story  concerns  one  Gregory  Chart  and 
his  relations,  intimate  or  financial,  with  three 
women,  all  of  whom  love  him  more  or  less. 
One  jilts  him  to  marry  a  moneyed  commoner, 
he  jilts  the  second  after  taking  over  the  busi- 
ness she  had  created  and  marries  the  third.  In 
the  first  few  pages  he  is  made  penniless  by  the 
usual  loss  of  the  family  fortune,  and  the  re- 
mainder concern  his  efforts  to  get  money,  hon- 
estly or  dishonestly.  The  incident  which  launch- 
es the  plot  is  characteristic:  In  a  London  fog 
Gregory  manages  to  sprain  the  ankle  of  a 
rather  charming  courtesan,  Roxane,  so  that  he 
is  forced  to  take  her  home,  finding  at  the  time 
a  pocketbook,  which,  unreturned,  begins  his 
dishonesty." — N    Y    Tribune 


"The  book  is  a  fairly  well  written  affair,  with 
some  good  incidental  passages  but  is  no  more 
than  a  conventionally  smooth  story  of  a  stock 
pattern." 

-i Lit  R  p265  N  17  '23  200w 

"A  strange  little  novel,  spottily  clever,  and 
full  of  the  awkwardness  of  an  outworn  method, 
trying,  without  much  relish  and  with  no  suc- 
cess at  all,   to  acquire   the  new   tricks." 

H NY  Times  p22  S  16  '23  500w 

"One  wonders  just  how  well  this  sort  of  thing 
goes  with  the  English  public,  for  it  is  thin 
gruel."     F:   O.   Anderson 

—  NY   Tribune   p26   O   14   '23  250w 

LESLIE,  SHANE.  Mark  Sykes;  his  life  and 
letters:  with  an  introd.  by  Winston  Church- 
ill.   308p  il  $4  Scribner  [16s  Cassell] 

B  or  92  Sykes,  Sir  Mark,  bart.  [23-8924] 
Sir  Mark  Sykes,  1879-1919,  was  an  English- 
man of  many  gifts  and  eccentric  education, 
who  during  his  short  career  achieved  distinc- 
tion as  traveller,  explorer,  cartographer,  au- 
thor, cartoonist,  diplomat  and  politician.  His 
knowledge  of  Near  and  Middle  East  affairs 
proved  invaluable  in  the  world  war.  The  chief 
political  fact  as.sociated  with  his  name  was  the 
negotiation  during  the  war,  of  the  Sykes-Picot 
agreement,  an  arrangement  between  Great  Brit- 
ain and  France  concerning  Syria,  Mesopotamia, 
and  eastern  Asia  Minor.  His  biographer  tells 
the  story  of  his  life  and  travels  and  his  services 
in  the  East,  the  account  of  his  childhood  and 
youth  being  told  in  a  "summary"  prefixed  to 
the  biography  proper.  Thirty  of  his  caricatures 
and  cartoons   are   reproduced   in   illustration. 


Boston  Transcript  p2  Je  9  '23  1200w 
"Mr.  Shane  Leslie  has  written  a  vivacious 
volume.  It  abounds  in  anecdote  and  incident. 
While  it  offers  a  plentiful  panegyric,  the 
panegyric  is  illumined  with  artistry."  P.  W. 
Wilson 

+  Lit  R  p894  Ag  11  '23  1750w 
"No  other  living  biographer  could  have  un- 
derstood him  as  well  as  Shane  Leslie,  who  is 
akin  to  him  in  a  certain  quixotic  quality,  and 
who  goes  deeper  than  most  men  into  the  mys- 
tical depths  of  life,  without  losing  his  sense  of 
humor."     M.    F.    Egan 

-I-   N  Y  Times  pl8  Jl  1  '23  2250w 


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301 


"This  biography  is  a  serious  and  valuable 
piece  of  work,  on  which  we  congratulate  Mr. 
Shane  Leslie." 

+  Sat   R   135:601   My  5   '23   800w 
"When    all    has    been    said    we    cannot    thinlc 
that    Mr.    Winston    Churchill,    who    has    written 
an  introduction  to  Mr.   Shane  Leslie's  must  at- 
tractive  volume,    has   really   formed  a   judicious 
estimate  of  Sir  Mark  Sykes's  merits." 
Spec   130:711   Ap   29   '23   ISOOw 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p255  Ap 
19  '23  lOOOw 

LEUTWILER,   OSCAR   ADOLPH,     Problems  in 
machine   design.      133p   il   $1.50   McGraw 

621    Machinery— Design  23-5226 

"A  collection  of  problems  dealing  mainly 
with  isolated  machine  parts,  but  progressing  to 
design  of  simple  machines.  Problems  are  taken 
directly  from  existing  machines." — Pittsburgh 
Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh   Mo    Bui   28:417  O   '23 

LEVERMORE,  CHARLES  HERBERT.  Samuel 
Train  Dutton;  a  biography.  280p  il  |2.50 
Macmillan 

B  or  92     Dutton,   Samuel   Train  22-23336 

The  subject  of  this  biography  was  a  man  of 
wide  influence  in  American  education.  He  was 
successively  superintendent  of  schools  of  New 
Haven  and  of  Brookline,  professor  of  school  ad- 
ministration at  Teachers  college,  Columbia  uni- 
versity, and  superintendent  of  the  Horace  Mann 
school.  The  later  years  of  his  life  were  devoted 
to  the  cause  of  internationalism  and  world  peace 
and  to  relief  work  in  the  Near  East. 

"Mr.  Levermore  has  here  told  the  story  of 
Dutton's  valuable  services  in  so  many  lines  of 
educational  activity;  and  not  only  of  his  educa- 
tional work.  Dutton  believed  in  internationalism 
and  worked  for  it.  And  the  story  of  his  life  is 
inspiring  for  teacher  and  layman  alike."  K.  W. 
K. 

-f  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily   News  p9  Je   3 
•23  500w 

N  Y  Times  pl3  F  11  '23  1150w 

LEVIN  E,  ISRAEL.  The  unconscious;  an  intro- 
duction to  Freudian  psychology.  215p  $2.50 
Macmillan 

130  Psychoanalysis.  Subconscious 
The  book  is  a  study  of  the  theory  upon  which 
psychoanalysis  rests.  It  contains,  first,  a  sur- 
vey of  the  pre-Freudian  conceptions  of  the  un- 
conscious, more  especially  those  of  Schopen- 
hauer, Hartmann  and  Nietzsche;  second,  an 
outline  of  the  Freudian  conception  of  the  un- 
conscious; third,  a  discussion  of  tlie  validity  of 
the  conception  as  a  hypothesis;  fourth,  an  ac- 
count of  the  conflict  between  the  repressed  and 
repressing  forces;  fifth,  some  considerations  on 
the  application  of  the  Freudian  psychology,  in 
ethics    in  aesthetics  and  in  philosophy. 


LEVY,    NEWMAN    (FLACCUS,    pseud.).    Opera 
guyed.     87p     il    $2    Knopf 

817  23-26856 

Newman  Levy  is  the  Flaccus  of  F.  P.  A.'s 
famous  column,  "The  conning  tower,"  and 
twice  his  burlesques  of  operas  won  him  the 
prize  awarded  by  the  column  for  the  best 
contribution  of  the  year.  The  burlesques  are 
in  rhyme  and  are  take-offs  on  fourteen  grand 
operas,  including  Tannhauser,  Tosca,  Carmen, 
Samson    and    Delilah.    Thais   and   others. 


"Its  happy  rhymes,  couched  in  the  colorful 
argot  New  York  speaks,  summarize  the  leading 
scores  of  the  repertory  ('Tristan,'  'Pelleas  and 
Melisande,'  and  'Tosca'  are  treated  with  the 
same  cheerful  irreverence)  with  a  wit  and  hu- 
mor that  captivate." 

+   Bookm   58:486   D   '23   130w 
"This   book   is   amusing,    trifling,    replete   with 
cleverness — and   a    bit    cheap." 

H Lit    R   p92   S   29    '23   200w 

N    Y   World    p8e   S   9    '23   180w 
"Mr.    Levy's  wit   has  parodied  14  of  the  bet- 
ter   known    and    liked   music    dramas   in    laugh- 
provoking    resonant     rhymes." 

-I-   Springf'd    Republican  p5a  S  23  '23  240w 

LEVY-BRUHL,  LUCIEN.  Primitive  mentality; 
auth.  tr.  by  Lilian  A.  Clare.  458p  $5  Mac- 
millan 

136.4  Savages.  Ethnopsychology 
The  present  volume  is  a  sequel  to  an  earlier 
book  by  the  same  author  on  the  mental  func- 
tioning of  uncivilized  people.  After  a  close  study 
of  primitive  people  the  author  maintains  that 
their  mentality  differs  from  our  own  not  through 
inherent  incapacity  or  natural  inaptitude  but  m 
Its  manner  of  functioning.  It  is  essentially  mys- 
tic, attributing  all  happenings  to  occult  agen- 
cies and  causing  a  belief  in  dreams,  omens,  and 
ordeals,  and  the  practice  of  divination.  It  is 
averse  to  logical  reasoning  and  incapable  of  ab- 
stract thought.  The  difference  between  prmii- 
tive  mentality  and  the  white  man's  way  of 
thinking  is  so  far-reaching  as  to  make  an  abrupt 
transition  from  the  one  to  the  other  inconceiv- 
able.   Index. 


"Remarkably  clear  and  well  balanced  exposi- 
tion."    T.  P.    Niinn 

+  Int   J    Ethics   34:97   O   "23   300w 
"It  is  a  merit   possessed  by  some   books  that 
although    in    themselves    they    may    not    be    of 
any  great  importance,  they  still  are  exceedingly 
suggestive  of  intellectual  movements  and  condi- 
tions.    The   present    little   volume,    containing  a 
brief  but  splendid  r6sum6  of  Freud's  ideas  cen- 
tered around  the  conception  of  the  unconscious, 
adds    only    another    unit    to    the    already    large 
number  of   such   books."     J.    R.    Kantor 
+  J   Philos  20:640  N  8  '23  250w 
"An   excellent   short   account   of   the   Freudian 
theory    in    its    general    philosophical   aspect." 
-I-   Nature  112:617  O  27  '23  60w 
"It    is    thoroughly    philosophical    in    its    treat- 
ment  of   the   psychological   problem   and   though 
it   aims   at   conciseness   and   clear   definition   yet 
succeeds    in    indicating    the    range    and    breadth 
of  its  great  subject-matter." 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p443  Je  28 
•23  300w 


Booklist  20:120  Ja  '24 
"Valuable  contribution  to  psychology.  .  .  Aims 
to  apply  a  unifying  formula   to  long  recognized 
phenomena  and   should   furnish  useful   guidance 
in  the  treatment  of  native  races."    E.   N. 

H Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  15  '23  850w 

Reviewed  bv  H.  B.  Alexander 

Lit  R  p258  N  17  '23  1300w 
"The  translation  of  the  work  is  excellent,  and 
nothing  is  lost  by  it.  Not  as  much  can  be  said 
of  the  bibliographic  material  used  by  the  au- 
thor The  American  data,  particularly,  are 
highly  insufficient."     M.   J.   Herskovits 

h   Nation  117:689  D  12  ^23  1150w 

Reviewed   by   W.    I.    Thornas 

New  Repub  36:159  O  3  ^23  1300w 
"The    fascination   of  his   book   lies   in   the  ac- 
cumulation   of    evidence   and    the    clarity   of   his 
argument^'^^J.^L^-^D^^^   21:476  Jl  28   '23  lOOOw 

"Interesting  and  valuable  [book],  and  will 
command  especially  the  attention  of  readers  fa- 
miliar with  Frazer's  monumental  work.  The 
Golden  Bough.'  " 

^ NY  Times  pl2  Je  19  '23  950w 

Reviewed    by    A.    G.    Ingalls 

Outlook   135:112    S    19    "23    800w 

"He  could  have  strenj^thened,  not  weakened, 
his  insistence  on  the  inherent  difference  be- 
tween the  mind  of  the  savage  and  the  civilized 
man  by  tracing  the  survivals  of  savage  meth- 
ods of  thought  in  our  own— a  task  which  mod- 
ern psychology  has  rendered  comparatively  easy 
The  book  remains,  however,  a  valuable  and 
important  contribution  to  its  subject."  R: 
Hughes  .„„   „„„ 

-\ Spec   131:506  O   13   '23   9S0w 


30.2 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


LEVY-BRUHL,   L. — Continued 

"Professor  Levy-Bruhl's  book  may  be  warmly 
recommended  as  a  thoughtful,  learned,  and 
valuable  contribution  to  the  psychology  of  the 
savage.  The  translation  appears  to  be  ex- 
cellent: it  possesses  one  of  the  highest  quali- 
ties of  a  translation,  that  of  reading  like  an 
original    work." 

-j-  The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p594    S 
13  '23  1400W 

LEWIS,    ALFRED    HENRY.     Wolfville.    new   ed 

313p  $1.75     Stokes   [2s   Nelson] 

A23-903 

Reissue  of  a  book  first  published  in  1897.  "It 
comprises  24  short  stories  founded  on  the  rem- 
iniscences of  an  Old  Texas  cattleman.  Told 
in  the  picturesque  vernacular  of  the  venerable 
Texan,  they  purport  to  portray  life  and  inci- 
dents in  the  Southwest  when  the  law  of  the 
gun  was  the  recognized  code.  The  author,  who 
for  a  long  time  was  the  Washington  correspon- 
dent of  a  New  York  newspaper,  was  a  native  of 
the  erstwhile  'last  frontier'  country.  His  fam- 
iliarity with  local  scenes  and  the  psychology  of 
the  people  concerned  in  the  tales  may  be  at- 
tributed, perhaps,  to  this.  It  enables  him  to 
throw  into  the  narratives  the  nonchalant,  drawl- 
ing manner  of  the  retired  cattleman  and  vividly 
recreate  the  episodes  he  relates." — Springf'd 
Republican 


"An  unpretentious  volume  but  it  makes  most 
of  the  newer  books  upon  the  same  theme  seem 
jecond-hand  and  smoothly  conventional.  Its 
very  roughness,  its  deliberate  lack  of  finish,  add 
to  its  interest — like  a  sharp  first  proof  off  an 
etcher's  plate.  Only  two  or  three  swift  broken 
lines  are  used  for  each  portrait  of  Old  Man 
Enright,  Tucson  Jennie,  the  Deef  Woman,  Mis- 
sus Rucker.  Faro  Nell  and  Enright's  Pard — the 
story  of  the  latter  is  really  a  little  gem — but 
they  stand  out."     Isabel  Paterson 

-f   N  Y  Tribune  pl8  F  18  '23  980w 

"Mr  Lewis's  style  is  pictorial  and  journalistic. 
He  displays  no  skill  in  creating  characters;  but 
his  reportorial  training  enabled  him  to  accurate- 
ly recount  what  purports  to  have  been  told  by 
another." 

-1 Springf'd    Republican  p7a  F  25  '23  180w 

LEWIS,    EDWIN    HERBERT.     White   lightning. 
354p     $2      Covici-McGee 

23-9690 

The  unusual  ingredients  of  this  novel,  with 
its  ninety-two  chapters  named  after  the  chemi- 
cal elements,  are  equal  parts  of  chemistry  and 
physics,  war  and  business,  speculations  on  the 
earth's  future  fuel  supply,  and  love.  Marvin 
Mahan,  son  of  an  eminent  mining  engineer,  gives 
great  promise  as  a  chemist  and  is  ambitious  to 
devote  his  life  to  researches  on  the  atom.  He 
becomes  disabled  in  the  war  and  goes  to  Mack- 
inac island  to  recuperate.  There  he  discovers 
the  cabin  of  a  retired  scholar,  Dr  Ambrose 
Rich,  who  is  living  in  poverty-stricken  solitude 
with  his  daughter.  Marvin  falls  in  love  with 
Jean  but  she  will  have  none  of  him  throughout 
many  chapters  of  the  book,  until  her  own  philo- 
sophic and  scientific  speculations  have  recon- 
ciled her  to  the  thought  of  giving  life,  in  the 
face  of  war  and  destruction,  and  the  project  of 
an  Horatio  Rich  Research  Laboratory  on  her 
father's  own  land  has  become  an  assured  fact. 


"Often  it  twinkles  with  humor,  sometimes  it 
touches  tragedy,  and  its  philosophy  is  always 
interesting,  infused  as  it  is  with  the  tang  of 
personality.  The  story  interest  is  not  well  sus- 
tained. It  often  drags,  with  regard  both  to  the 
people  and  their  fates  and  the  progress  of  the 
action." 

h   N   Y  Times  p22  Je  24   '23   540w 

"All  the  characters  are  too  good  to  be  true. 
If  they  were  representative  of  this  earth's  popu- 
lation there  would  never  have  been  a  war.  A 
drop  of  saccharine  must  have  escaped  from  a 
test  tube  while  they  were  being  compounded. 
And  the  way  they  scorn  money,  tossing  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  dollars  at  each  other  just 


to  be  rid  of  the  tiresome  stuff!"    Isabel  Pater- 
son 

—  NY  Tribune  pl8  Je  17  '23  800w 
"Dr.  Lewis  has  shaped  a  work  of  art.  Its 
whimsical  abundance  of  chemical  allusions  is 
simply  its  recurring  chemistry  motif.  Its  plot  is 
smoothly,  firmly  woven.  Its  style  is  distinctive 
and  delightful.  Its  characters  will  be  remem- 
bered."   F.  L.  H.,  jr. 

-t-  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ag  5  '23  950w 

LEWIS,   GILBERT    NEWTON,   and    RANDALL, 
'    MERLE.     Thermodynamics   and   the   free   en- 
ergy of  chemical  substances.  653p  il  $5  McGraw 
536.7     Thermodynamics  23-6806 

"A  scholarly  treatment  of  modern  chemical 
thermodynamics.  Divided  into  three  parts,  the 
first  treating  of  the  foundations  of  thermody- 
namics, the  second  dealing  with  the  applications 
of  the  principles  to  chemical  problems,  and  the 
third  giving  the  computations  of  the  free  en- 
ergies of  chemical  substances." — Pittsburgh 
Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh   Mo  Bul  28:521  D  '23 

LEWISOHN,      LUDWIG.     Don     Juan.      305p     $2 

Boni   &  Liveright 

23-14409 

"The  problem  of  marriage  and  personal 
freedom  i.s  treated  with  insight  by  Ludwig 
Lewisohn  in  his  revealing  divorce  novel,  the 
scenes  of  which  are  all  laid  between  Green- 
wich Village  and  Fifty-ninth  Street.  Through- 
out the  story  of  'Don  Juan'  runs  an  under- 
current of  biting  sarcasm  on  the  present  di- 
vorce laws,  which  'are  a  hundred  years  behind 
the  needs  of  the  day.'  There  is  nothing  new, 
sensational  or  complex  about  the  plot.  It  is 
the  sirnpie  story  of  a  man,  his  wife  and  two 
other  women  with  whom  he  has  fallen  in  love; 
the  man's  revolt  against  the  conventions  of 
society  and  his  reaction  to  the  three  types  of 
women,  the  seductive,  the  emancipated  and 
the  instinctively  female.  It  is  distinguished 
from  other  novels  of  the  type  by  its  cold  analy- 
sis of  sentiment  and  character  and  the  stac- 
cato riveting  of  the  ideas  and  purposes  he 
wishes  to  bring  out." — N  Y  Times 


Boston   Transcript  p2  D   15    '23  540w 
Reviewed  by   Joseph   Collins 

Int  Bk  R  p42  D  '23  1150w 
"His  novel,  which  is  as  fresh  and  interest- 
ing as  naked  sincerity  always  is,  is  a  triumph 
of  simplicity.  Discarding  all  long-winded  dis- 
sertation, stripping  plot  and  setting  to  the  barest 
essentials  and  thus  reducing  his  book  to  about 
half  the  usual  length,  he  has  achieved  a  most 
illuminating  discussion  of  marriage  and  divorce 
through  the  sheer  logic  of  the  situation."  J.  W. 
Krutch 

+  Lit  R  p203  N  3  '23  1150w 
"As  an  argument  'Don  Juan'  does  not  Im- 
press me;  but  as  a  pleading  before  the  bar  of 
a  stupidly  conventional  world  it  moves  me 
deeply.  Excellently  written,  poignantly  argued, 
dramatically  conceived,  this  book,  however, 
must  be  praised  as  a  pamphlet,  not  as  a  novel." 
H:   S.   Canby 

^ Nation   117:649  D  5  '23   lOOOw 

New   Repub  37:156  Ja  2  "24  lOOw 
"The   story  drives  home  because  it  deals,   not 
with    the    exotic   and    abnormal    but   with   plain 
people.     And  the   telling  is  excellently  done." 
+   N   Y  Times  p9  O  21  '23  800w 
Reviewed    by   Isabel    Paterson 

N  Y  Tribune  p2p  O  28  '23  880w 
"Mr  Lewisohn  handles  the  themes  soberly 
enough,  and  without  any  light-headed  free- 
love  propaganda,  as  far  as  one  can  see;  but  he 
makes  no  poignant  revelation  of  the  tragedy 
inherent  in  this   thwarted  love." 

—  4-  Springf'd    Republican    p7   O  21   '23   250w 

LIBBY,    WALTER.     History   of   medicine   in   its 
salient    features.     427p    il   $3    Houghton 

610.9     Medicine— History  22-21256 

A    history   of   medical    science    from    its   dawn 

in    Egypt    and    Babylonia    to    the    present    day. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


303 


Avoiding  unnecessary  detail,  Dr  Libby  places 
his  emphasis  on  the  most  important  stages  in 
the  evolution  ol  medicine,  connecting  witii  each 
great  advance  the  names  and  biographies  of 
the    men    who    made    it   possible.     Index. 


or  four  lines  in  a  column  of  other  news;  a  very 
small  affair.  But  into  his  account  of  it,  Libe- 
dinsky  has  managed  to  work  a  large,  carefully 
chosen  gallery  of  revolutionary  portraits." — 
Introd. 


"The    book    is    admirably    conceived    and    ex- 
cellently   executed."    J.    H.    S.    Bossard 

+  Ann  Am  Acad  109:311  S  '23  550w 
Booklist  19:243  My  '23 
"In  a  singularly  engaging  mannei'  Dr.  Libby 
has  traced  the  salient  features  of  medical  ac- 
complishment from  half  fabulous  times  down 
to  the  present  day.  To  bring  order  into  such 
a  discontinuous  and  fickle  history  as  that  of 
medicine  required  that  the  author  possess  not 
only  veritable  artistry  but  prodigious  industry 
and  address."  E:  C.  Streeter,  M.D. 
+  Lit  R  p845  Jl  21  '23  1200w 
"The  construction  of  this  volume  betrays  its 
origin,  the  note-books  of  a  don.  Insensibly 
as  the  reader  proceeds  through  the  over- 
congested  pages,  he  pictures  himself  once  more 
shuffling  his  feet  and  gazing  out  of  the  windows 
of  a  college  lecture-room.  For  Dr.  Libby  has 
found  himself  in  the  position  of  all  those  who 
prepare  others  for  examination,  that  of  being 
obliged  to  cram  too  much  into  too  small  a 
space.  Still,  as  Dr.  Libby  advances,  he  al- 
lows himself  more  space.  He  devotes  several 
delightful   pages   to  Harvey." 

1-   New  Statesman  21:58  Ap  21  '23  800w 

"Dr.   Libby   has   recorded   the   salient   features 
of    this    growth    and    progression    in    a    manner 
most  admirable  and  illuminating.   The  facts  are 
presented    in    an    entertaining    manner,    and    his 
book     should    achieve    instant    popularity    both 
among  laymen   and   in   the   medical   profession." 
-f   N    Y   Times   p8   .Ta   28   '23   25o0w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:64    F    '23 
"His    treatment    is   bright   but    somewhat    su- 
perficial,   and    he    is    at    his    best    in    a   chapter 
like    that    on    the    introduction    of    auEesthetics, 
where     the    huinan     interest    is    stronger    than 
the    purely    scientific    element." 

H Sat    R    135:841    Je    23    '23    250w 

"Some  of  the  chapters  in  Libby's  History  of 
Medicine  are  almost  encyclopedic,  and  one  is 
amazed  at  the  amount  of  information  compressed 
mio  several  pages  and  wishes  that  the  author 
had  further  developed  some  of  the  interesting 
bits  of  information  only  hinted  at."  C.  N.  B. 
Camac,   M.D. 

4-  Survey  49:662  F  15  '23  250w 
"This  book  is  quite  short  and  elementary, 
though  we  think  that  parts  of  it  are  hardly 
within  the  comprehension  of  the  lay  reader.  The 
little  bililiographies  at  the  end  of  each  chapter 
are  often  oddly  selected,  and  the  section  of 
the  work  which  deals  Avith  the  most  modern 
period  shows  some  curious  gaps.  The  illustra- 
tions, also,  are  mostly  so  inferior  and  ill- 
authenticated  that  it  would  have  been  better 
to  omit  them.  But  these  are  minor  faults. 
Professor  Libby  has  courageously  undertaken 
a  very  difficult  task  and  has  skilfully  carried 
it  through  with  a  degree  of  success  which  is 
surprising  in  the  circumstances  and  on  which 
he  is  to  be  congratulated.  We  certainly  regard 
his  work  as  the  best  preliminary  survey  of 
the    subject    in    English." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p243   Ap 

12  '23  lOOOw 

LIBEDINSKY,  lURY.  A  week;  with  an  introd. 
by  Arthur  Ransome.  247p  $1.50  Huebsch 
"In  'A  Week,'  Libedinsky  [a  hitherto  un- 
heard-of young  Russian],  paints  on  a  small  can- 
vas an  extraordinarily  inclusive  picture  of  all 
that  inner  life  of  the  revolution  at  which  it  is 
difficult  for  a  foreigner  even  to  guess.  .  .  It  is 
an  account  of  a  single  week  in  a  small  town 
in  the  foothills  of  the  Urals,  in  the  Spring 
of  1921,  before  the  New  Economic  Policy  and 
the  abandonment  of  militant  Communism  had 
eased  the  extremely  hostile  relations  betweeti 
country  and  town.  It  is  the  story  of  one  of 
those  revolts  of  desperately  resentful  peasants, 
led  by  Whites  against  the  Reds,  and  presently 
suppressed,  which  used  to  be  dismissed  in  the 
Moscow    newspapers    in    a   paragraph    of    three 


"There  are  many  heart-rending  scenes  in  the 
story,    but    the    author    has    managed    to    make 
them    appear    far    from    depressing.      Above    the 
whole  narrative  hovers  nature,  serene  and  paci- 
fying;   and   there    is    an    immense    relief   in    the 
author's  return  from  every  excruciating  episode 
to    the    air    of    early    spring,    to    the    sap-laden 
birches,   to  the  floating  clouds  overhead,   to  the 
eternity  of  the  sky  over  the  town."     M.  J.  Olgin 
-I-   Freeman  8:333  D  12  '23  1650w 
N  Y  Times  p9  O  28  '23  250w 
"This   young   writer   is    essentially   the   artist. 
The    great    touch    of    compassion    covers    every 
page."     L:  Weitzenkorn 

-f   N    Y   World   p7e  N  4  '23  1200w 
"The  fact  is  that  Jury  Libedinsky  depends  on 
the  past — is  a  direct   descendant  of  old   Russia. 
His  mood   is   Russian;   his   tone   is  Russian:   his 
persons    are    Russian;    their    character    is    Rus- 
sian; the  things  done  are   Russian.     If  Jury  has 
turned  a  page  on   the  old  days,   it  was  a  badly 
torn  page  and   the  past   sticks  through.     There 
is   however,    one   thing   new   and   fresh   in   Libe- 
dinsky's  book;  he  tells  a  tale  of  things  as  they 
are   today,    against   a   background   of   contempo- 
rary  Bolshevism."  _„   „„„ 
Springf'd    Republican   p7a  D  9  '23   800w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p753    N 
8  '23  150w 

LICHTENBERGER,  JAMES  PENDLETON.  De- 
velopment of  social  theory.  (Century  social 
science   ser.)     482p     $4     Century 

309     Sociology  23-8284 

"This  work  is  the  result  of  Professor  Lichten- 
berger's  courses  in  the  history  of  social  theory 
at  the  University  of  Penn.sylvania.  Each  theory 
discussed  is  first  given  a  background  m  a  sketch 
of  the  social  and  political  conditions  existing 
during  the  time  and  at  the  place  of  its  formula- 
tion, there  is  then  presented  a  sketch  of  the 
personality  of  the  man  who  is  associated  with 
it,  and  then  the  theory  itself.  Beginning  with 
Plato,  the  author  treats  of  Aristotle,  the  later 
Greeks  and  early  Roman  writers,  the  early 
Christians,  Machiavelli,  the  writers  of  the  Ref- 
ormation and  of  the  French  revolution,  before 
he  attempts  to  deal  with  the  theories  of  rnen 
who  are  generally  classed  as  sociologists.  — 
Nation 


"The  author  has  succeeded  admirably  in  pre- 
senting social  theory  as  an  organic  growth 
through  utilizing  typical  thinkers  as  illustrating 
dilterent  stages  in  the  development  of  social 
thinking.  .  .  One  misses  some  very  significant 
names."    C:  A.   Ellwood 

_| Am    J    Soc   29:104   Jl   '23   400w 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p5  Je  30  '23  400w 

"The  work   should    be  splendid   as   a    textbook 
for  such  courses  as   Professor  Lichtenberger's. 
-1-  Nation  117:95  Jl  25  '23  180w 

"The  book  is  very  clearly  written  and  the 
most  important  contributions  of  these  writers 
on  social  theory  are  usually  adequately  ex- 
pounded. .  .  The  work  is  not  in  any  way  im- 
pressive, but  as  a  useful  textbook  it  is  a  satis- 
factory performance  and  as  such  will  fulfill  a 
very  real  function  in  sociological  instruction. 
H.  E.  Barnes  „     „,„ 

-I New   Repub  35:338  Ag  16   '23  750w 

LIE,  JONAS  LAURITZ  IDEMIL.  Family  at 
3    Gilje-    tr.    from    the    Norwegian    by    S:    Coffin 

Eastman;  with  an  introd.  by  Julius  Ebil  Olson. 

245p   $2   Doubleday 

A  story  of  Norwegian  home  life.  At  Gilje,  in 
the  mountain  district,  lives  Captain  Jager  with 
his  wife  and  four  children.  Thinka.  Inger-Jo- 
hanna.  Thea  and  Jorgen,  and  it  is  with  the 
everyday  events  in  the  family  life  that  the  story 
deals  It  centers  particularly  around  the  des- 
tinies of  the  two  older  daughters,  Thinka  wno 
surrenders    her   love    for    the    penniless   Aas   to 


304 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


LIE,    J.    L.    I.- — Continued 

marry  in  accordance  with  her  parents'  wishes, 
and  Inger-Johanna  who  refuses  the  splendid 
match  intended  for  her  and  in  the  end  does  not 
marry  at  all  but  lieeps  her  own  soul. 


sees   fit   to  divulge  to  the   latter  the   secret  of 
the  forged  check  that  had  sent  him  to  prison. 


"The  superb   naturalness  of  the  story  is  con- 
stantly apparent.     It  has  no  artificiality  of  plot 
or   straining  after  effect   in   characterization." 
+   N   Y   Times  p9   N   18   '23   550w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:508  D  '23 

LIFE  unveiled,  by  a  child  of  the  drumlins;  with 
an  introd.  by  John  Burroughs.  335p  $2  Dou- 
bleday 

B  or  92  23-2053 

In  this  anonymous  autobiography  is  contained 
a  candid  record  of  a  normal  girlhood  and  adoles- 
cence. It  describes  the  writer's  childhood  in  a 
New  York  village,  her  medical  training  at  Bos- 
ton university  and  the  first  few  years  of  her 
professional  life.  There  were  no  dramatic  in- 
cidents to  record,  but  the  memories  are  keen 
and  there   is  no  straining  for  effect. 


"This  anonymous  autobiography  is  interesting 
reading    but    it    leads    nowhere." 

1-   Boston   Transcript  p6   D   16   '22  400w 

"There  is  plenty  of  background,  indeed,  tho 
the  interest  centers  always  on  the  heroine  her- 
self. Just  such  another  book  there  has  never 
been — it  has  the  uniquene-ss  of  individual  ex- 
perience and  its  value."  Hildegarde  Hawthorne 
+   Int   Bk   R   p62  O  '23   1450w 

"The  book  contains  a  lot  of  ordinary  reminis- 
cences of  an  uneventful  life  such  as  most  peo- 
ple would  delight  in  telling  if  they  could  get 
any  one  to  listen  to  them,  but  which  have 
really  no  general  interest.  .  .  The  title  is  apt; 
it  is  the  life  of  the  writer  which  is  unveiled, 
but  not  her  soul  or  her  character,  and  as  the 
events  are  unimportant  the  result  attained  is  not 
considerable." 

—  Lit   R  p299  D  9  '22  280w 

"As  the  story  unfolds,  the  reader  recognizes 
that  herein  is  portrayed  most  entertainingly  not 
only  child  psychology,  but  that  of  adolescence 
and  dawning  maturity.  The  author  asserts  that 
this  deliberate  self-analysis,  written  many  years 
ago,    is   wholly   sincere." 

+  Springf'd    Republican  plO  Je  6  '23  400w 

LINCOLN,      EDIVIOND      EARLE.      Applied  busi- 
ness   finance.      772p    $t    Shaw,    A.    W. 

332      Business.      Finance  23-2198 

A  discussion  of  such  problems  of  business 
finance  as  actually  arise  from  day  to  day  in 
the  average  industrial  concern,  including  both 
manufacturing  and  trading  enterprises.  In  ad- 
dition to  the  problems  of  capitalization,  the 
important  aspects  of  investment  and  commer- 
cial banking  are  treated,  and  the  relations 
between  financing  and  the  production,  distri- 
bution and  consumption  of  goods.  There  are 
chapters  on  customer  ownership  and  employee 
ownership,  on  the  preparation  and  interpreta- 
tion of  financial  statements,  on  trade  and  bank 
acceptances,  on  distribution  of  earnings  and  on 
financial  failures.  Many  forms  and  tables  are 
given   and  there   is  an   index. 

LINCOLN,    JOSEPH    CROSBY.    Doctor    Nye   of 

North   Ostable.    423p    $2   Appleton 

23-12002 

This  tale  of  heroic  high-mindedness  altho 
based  on  tragedy  is  full  of  quiet  country  life  and 
humor.  An  undenied  accusation  of  the  theft 
of  church  money  had  torn  young  Dr  Nye  out 
of  a  flourishing  practice  in  his  native  town 
and  given  him  a  prison  term  of  five  years. 
After  the  war  he  returns  and  takes  up  his 
practice  again,  is  shunned  by  all  but  a  very 
few  old  friends,  who  had  never  lost  faith  in 
him,  and  finds  his  practice  only  among  the 
Doorest.  His  worst  enemy  is  his  brother-in- 
law,  Judge  Copeland,  who  considers  his  fam- 
ily disgraced  by  him.  It  is  only  when  Dr  Nye 
sees  no  other  possible  way  of  saving  the  happi- 
ness of  two  young  people,  one  of  them  Faith 
Copeland,   the  daughter  of  the  Judge,   that  he 


Booklist  20:57  N  '23 
"It  is  a  very  real  scene,  and  even  though 
at  times  the  plot  may  creak  and  limp  a  little 
with  age,  the  reader  who  cannot  find  enter- 
tainment in  it  must  be  difficult  to  please.  And 
we  who  know  the  New  England  of  Mr  Lincoln's 
storiesi  know  that  it  is  a  New  England  drawn 
directly  from  the  life,  with  only  a  touch  of 
exaggeration  and  fantasy  here  and  there  to 
add  a  tang  to  it."    E.    F.   E. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  S  5  '23  750w 
"The  reader  is  not  thrown  by  the  book  into 
any  critical  mood.  He  just  enjoys  it  to  the  full, 
laughs  with  and  at  its  characters,  rejoices  at 
the  vindication  of  right,  and  hopes  the  24  novels 
of  Mr.  Lincoln's  score  may  very  speedily  be- 
come   25." 

-I-  Greensboro    (N.  C.)    Daily    News   plO   O 
21    '23   450w 
"I   have  not   read   all   of  Joe   Lincoln's   books. 
But  of  those  I   have  read,   'Doctor  Nye'   is  the 
best.  I  regard  Mr.  Lincoln  as  a  public  blessing; 
his    novels    give    happiness,    entertainment,    and 
instruction   to   thousands."  W:   L.    Phelps 
-4-   Int   Bk   R  pl3   N  '23  1200w 
Lit   R   pl69  O   20   '23   400w 
"There  is  a  certain  quality  about  Joseph  Lin- 
coln's novel  that  appeals  to  a  normal,   healthy 
appetite    for    fiction.    He    has    no    highly    spiced 
kickshaws    to   offer,    but    plain,    wholesome    fare 
with  its  individual  flavor  undisguised  by  condi- 
ments.     The    memory    of    it    lingers,    and    one 
comes    back    for    more,    as    the    traveler    returns 
to  an  inn  where  he  has  been  well  served." 
-f-   N   Y  Times  p27  S   9  '23  500w 
Outlook   135:506  N  21  '23   lOOw 
"Will   undoubtedly   rank   high     in     popularity 
among   the   Cape   Cod   novels." 

+  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  O  7   '23  150w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p672    O 
11    '23   150w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:481  N  "23 

LINCOLN,  NATALIE  SUMNER.  Meredith  mys- 
tery.  28Up  $1.75  Appleton 

23-5515 
While  spending  a  weekend  at  Ten  Acres, 
David  Curtis,  a  blind  physician,  in  grouping-  his 
way  along  the  passage  to  his  room  stumbles 
upon  the  dead  body  of  his  host,  John  Meredith. 
Suspicion  falls  upon  Meredith's  niece.  Curtis 
determines  to  clear  her  name,  and  his  methods 
in  spite  of  his  handicap  make  absorbing  read- 
ing. Just  before  his  death  Meredith  had  ex- 
acted a  promise  from  his  niece  to  marry  Curtis, 
and  very  much  against  her  will  she  had  finally 
consented  to  do  so.  This  fact,  coupled  with 
other  evidence  almost  convicts  Anne,  but  the 
efforts  of  Curtis  finally  place  the  guilt  on  the 
real  criminal. 


"Miss  Lincoln  has  concocted  a  bewildering 
plot  that  urges  the  reader  into  numerous  cul 
de  sacs  and  leaves  him  there  while  it  takes  a 
new  twist.  The  detective  investigation  con- 
ducted by  Dr.  Curtis  is  outlined  in  an  engross- 
ing fashion,  and  the  reader  will  be  sure  to  fol- 
low it  with  interest  as  he  takes  his  inevitable 
course  toward  the  heart  of  the  mystery." 
-H  N   Y  Times  pl4  Mr  11   *23  300w 

"Like  all  of  Miss  Lincoln's  stories,  this  is 
machine  made,  assembled,  one  might  say,  but 
doubtless  entirely  satisfactory  to  the  large  pub- 
lic that  exists  for  all  standard  products."  Isabel 

'_  N    Y   Tribune   p21    Ap   15   '23    190w 
N    Y   World   p8e   Mr   25    '23    200w 
The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p290  Ap 
26  '23  lOOw 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:133   My  '23 

LINDQUIST,  G.   E.   E.     Red  man  in  the  United 

States.   461p  11   $3.50  Doran 
970.1  Indians  of  North  America 

"This  valuable  volume  is  the  result  of  a 
'survey'    of   the    Indians   of    the   United    States 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


305 


during  the  years  1919-22.  It  presents  reports 
as  to  the  status  of  the  Indians  in  every  part 
of  the  country,  with  many  photographic  illus- 
trations. The  tone  of  the  booli  is  optimistic  as 
to  the  future  of  the  race,  but  its  facts  consti- 
tute a  clarion  call  to  friends  of  the  Indian  to 
continue  their  work  for  his  improvement,  physi- 
cal, moral,  and  intellectual.  It  is  interesting 
to  note  that  the  Indians  of  the  United  States 
are  increasing  in  number  and  that  more  than 
half  of  them  are  citizens." — Outlook 


Bookm  58:90  S  '23  130w 
"The  book  includes  a  vast  array  of  facts, 
systematically  collected,  furnishing  a  fund  of 
information  covering  our  Indian  population  of 
the  greatest  value  to  the  general  reader,  as 
well  as  to  the  specialist."     E.  J.  C. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  29  '23  900w 
"There  is  no  attempt  to  conceal  the  poverty 
and  misery  of  many  of  the  tribes,  but  there  is 
also  a  characteristic  lack  of  disposition  to  trace 
these  conditions  to  their  sources  or  to  propose 
any  remedy^  than  that  of  missionary  effort.  Al- 
together. 'The  Red  Man  in  the  United  States' 
summarizes,  often  unconsciously,  the  bigotry, 
ignorance,  and  cupidity  of  our  dealing  with  the 
Indian  quite  as  fully  as  it  records  our  occa- 
sional lapses  into  sentimentality  and  human 
fellowship."   Mary  Austin 

—  Lit    R   p46   S   15  '23   lOOOw 
Reviewed    by    E.    S.    Sergeant 

Nation   116:218  Ag  29   '23   800w 
Reviewed   by   E.    S.    Sergeant 

New  Repub  36:sup2  S  26  '23  1800w 
"Mr.  Lindquist's  valuable  study  takes  an  im- 
portant place  in  the  new,  constructive  liter- 
ature which  alongside  Mr.  McClintock's  happy 
tribute,  is  beginning  to  educate  us  on  the 
first  and  last  Americans."     P:  Phillip 

+   N    Y    Times    p7    Je   24   '23    1300w 
"A  book   of  more   than   ordinary   interest.     It 
gives   us  a  first  hand  review   of  the  status  of 
the  tribesman." 

-f  N  Y  World  p6e  My  20  '23  550w 
Outlook  134:48  My  23  '23  llOw 
"Out  of  a  beginning,  made  several  years  ago 
by  the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  has  grown 
a  broadly  conceived  and  thorough  inquiry  into 
the  social,  economic  and  religious  life  of  the 
Indian  as  he  exists  to-day.  The  results  of 
this  investigation  have  been  compressed  into  a 
book  of  convenient   size." 

-f  R  of   Rs  67:672  Je  '23  200w 
"The    book    is    rich    in    information    and    will 
provide   the   social   worker  and   missionary   with 
much    valuable    material."    A.    C.    Parker 
+  Survey   51:110  O  15   '23   400w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p514   Ag 
2    '23    1400w 

LINDSAY,      NICHOLAS     VACHEL.        Collected 

poems.     390p     $3.50     Macmillan 

811  23-9097 

A  collection  of  Mr.  Lindsay's  entire  output  of 
verse,  not  only  the  assembled  contents  of  his 
previously  published  volumes  of  poetry,  but  the 
occasional  poems  that  have  appeared  scattered 
thru  his  prose  work.  The  autobiographical  fore- 
word, "Adventures  while  singing  these  songs," 
sketches  his  life,  surveys  his  work,  and  shows 
the  occasion  of  the  writing  of  many  of  the 
poems. 


"He  is  no  delicate  developer  of  details,  but  a 
glorified  sign-painter  on  a  panoramic  rampage; 
the  real  value  of  his  work  lies  not  in  any  in- 
cidental finish  it  may  possess,  but  in  its  extent 
and  its  unfailing  gusto."  J.  W.  Linn 

+  New   Repub  35:297  Ag  8  '23   1300w 

Reviewed    by   H.    S.    Gorman 

N  Y  Times  p20  Jl  29   '23  2500w 

"Fundamentally,  Mr.  Lindsay  is  a  remarkable 
poet;  altogether  he  never  comes  to  as  much  as 
he  should.  Probably  he  never  had  much  of  a 
chance.  He  grew  up  in  the  Babbitt  country. 
He  was,  when  young,  a  Babbitt  himself,  and 
to  this  day  he  has  not  ceased  trying  to  trans- 
mute the  activities  of  Babbittry  into  the  stuff 
of  dream.s  and  fantasy.  It  is  a  task  beyond 
Hercules.  Yet  once  in  a  while  Lindsay  himself, 
finding  a  splotch  of  color  and  romance  in  the 
commercial  gray  of  the  Middle  West,  makes  a 
poem  that  astonishes  with  sheer  nervous 
beauty." 

H NY   World  pl9e  Je   24   '23   850w 

"He  has  the  prophet's  insensibility  to  nega- 
tive and  extraneous  elements.  He  sees  nothing 
but  his  vision,  feels  nothing  but  his  inspiration. 
It  is  this,  in  part,  that  renders  him  such  a 
unique — and  such  an  exasperating — figure  in  a 
world  that  is  committed  to  hush-whispers  and 
doubts  and  all-side-seeing.  The  faith  that  is  in 
him  and  the  unconscious  power  and  apocalyptic 
manner,  plus  the  verse  in  which  these  things 
are  manifest,  make  him  a  figure  unique  among 
his   contemporaries."     I>:   Morton 

+  Outlook    134:432    Jl    18    '23    750w 
Sat   R   136:249   S   1   '23  500w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:411   Jl   '23 


LINDSAY,  NICHOLAS  VACHEL.  Going-to-the- 
sun.   lOlp  il  $1.75     Appleton 

811  23-4731 

In  his  preface  Mr  Lindsay  says  that  his  verses 
are  a  sequel  and  a  reply  to  Stephen  Graham's 
"Tramping  with  a  poet  in  the  Rockies."  (Book 
Review  Digest,  1922)  Going-to-the-sun-moun- 
tain,  "the  very  jewel  of  the  mountains  of 
Glacier  Park,"  is  the  chief  inspiration  of  his 
lyric  ecstasy  and  his  own  pen-and-ink  drawings 
are  his  reply  to  the  pictures  by  Vernon  Hill 
which  illustrated  Mr  Graham's  volume.  The 
longest  poem  in  the  book  is  entitled  So  much 
the  worse  for  Boston. 


Booklist  20:14  O  '23 
"There  is  scarcely  anyone  who  will  like  every 
poem  in  the  book.  The  range  of  subject  matter 
and  quality  alike  reaches  from  pole  to  pole. 
Yet,  even  where  the  poetic  values  are  nowhere 
discoverable — and  there  are  such  passages — 
there  is  a  genuine  effort  at  realities."  D:  Mor- 
ton 

Bookm    58:75    S    '23    220w 
Reviewed    bv    Marianne    Moore 
Dial   75:498   N  '23   1950w 
Lit   R   p916  Ag  18   '23   440w 
"A  curious   and   important   book." 
-i Nation    116:727   Je   20   '23   60w 


Reviewed  by  W:   R.   Benet 

Bookm  57:554  Jl  '23  lOOw 

"We  should  read  ['Tramping  with  a  poet']  in 
one  hand  and  ['Going-to-the-sun']  in  the  other 
simultaneously.  For  Mr.  Graham  tells  you  what 
happened  and  what  the  poet  thought  about  it, 
and  the  poet's  merry  minglings  of  museful 
mazes  become  lucid — or  more  lucid.  For  it 
must  be  confessed  that  without  the  libretto  it 
is  pretty  much  Greek  to  us.  It  is  merely  a 
divine  riot  of  sound.  All  this,  however,  would 
have  been  changed  if  we  could  have  heard  Mr. 
Lindsay  declaim  it,  chant  it,  flaunt  it  down  the 
minutes   of   time."     I.   "W.    L. 

—  Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  10  '23  780w 
Cleveland   p35  My  '23 

"A  book  of  happy  doggerel  illustrated  with 
Lindsay's  own  drawings,  which  are  rather  more 
amusing  than  the  text  and  never  much  worse 
in  technique.  Their  lines  are  intricately  drawn, 
and  firm;  his  verse  is  written  sloppily." 
h   Dial    75:202   Ag   '23    60w 

Reviewed  by  J:   G.    Fletcher 

Freeman   7:500  Ag  1  '23   150w 

"Open  on  a  random  page,  and  it  is  awful. 
It  promises  to  justify  those  people  who  are  say- 
ing that  Mr.  Lindsay  has  gone  mad,  or  run  dry. 
It  is  puerile  shouting,  stupid  syncopation,  meta- 
phor strained  to  the  fainting-point.  Begun  at 
the  beginning,  however,  the  book  is  not  bad. 
And  if  it  is  read  through  patiently,  with  the 
fact  always  in  mind  that  the  author  was  ex- 
cited beyond  expression  by  the  mountains  he 
visited,  it  is  encouraging,  even  impressive.  .  . 
Whatever  he  writes  henceforth,   or  whether  he 


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LINDSAY,    N:    V. — Continued 
writes  at  all,    'Going-to-the-Sun'  will  remain   a 
curious,    important   document   in   the   history    of 
a  poet."     Mark  "Van  Doren 

H Natioffi    116:342  Mr   21    '23   550w 

"The  author's  exuberance  both  with  pen  and 
pencil  seems  inexhaustible;  he  is  certainly 
to  be  envied  that;  but,  though  he  may  thank 
Heaven  for  his  high  spirits,  we  cannot."  Frank 
Lucas 

—  New   Statesman   21:114   My  5   '23   250w 
"Many  of  the  pieces  fail  to  make  either  good 

sense  or  good  nonsense.  Most  of  them  read  like 
half-formed  thoughts  jotted  in  a  note-book  and 
sent  to  the  printer  without  revision.  .  .  'Going- 
to-the-Sun'  has  a  value,  however,  as  a  bio- 
graphic glimpse  of  a  personality  that  is  enviable 
for  its  gusto,  its  high  spirits,  its  obviously  sin- 
cere enthusiasms."    Orrick   Johns 

1-  N   Y  Tribune  p23  Ap  1  '23  450w 

"The  pictures,  one  must  frankly  admit,  are 
not  so  good.  They  are,  however,  bad  enough 
to  be  individual,  whereas  the  lines  fashioned 
to  go  with  them  are  no  more  than  watered- 
down  Lindsay  of  the  long  ago." 

—  NY  World  pile  Ap  15  "23  580w 
Spec  131:229  S  18   '23  lOOw 

"Mr.  Lindsay  has  not  enhanced  his  reputa- 
tion by  his  latest  experiment." 

—  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p327  My 
10  '23  190w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:411   Jl   '23 

LINDSAY,   VACHEL.     See  Lindsay,   N:  V. 

LINK,      HENRY      CHARLES.      Education      and 

industry.    265p   $2   Macmillan 

331.86    Industrial    education  23-7554 

The  writer  who  has  been  for  the  past  seven 
years  in  charge  of  the  educational  activities 
of  two  large  industrial  corporations  here  stud- 
ies the  subject  of  industrial  education  as  it  is 
conducted  by  the  industries  themselves.  He 
discusses  the  development  of  general  education 
in  industry,  the  use  of  moving  pictures, 
vocational  guidance,  vestibule  and  trade 
schools,  the  training  of  executives,  the 
education  of  foremen,  departnaent  heads  and 
salesmen,  the  training  of  sub-normal  workers 
and  the  educational  significance  of  works 
councils. 


"Mr.  Link  has  indexed  this  volume  well,  and 
a  feature  of  each  chapter  is  a  succinct  sum- 
mary of  the  main  points  made.  As  a  textbook, 
as  a  reference  book,  as  a  guide  to  principle 
and  tested  practice,  the  volume  is  admirable." 
W.    L.    Stoddard 

-I-  Am    Econ    R   13:526   S   "23   250w 

"Education  and  Industry  will  be  helpful, 
partly,  by  provoking  disagreement  and  causing 
the  reader  to  take  stock  of  his  own  stereotypes. 
Moreover,  the  'tired  business  man'  will  tlna 
much  that  can  be  applied  practically,  after  the 
demands  of  golf  relax  and  he  can  find  time  for 
an  evening  with  a  stimulating  book  on  a  serious 
subject."     C.   H.   Crennan 

+  Ann   Am   Acad   110:221  N  '23  1350w 
Booklist    20:7    O    '23 
Boston    Transcript    p6    Ag    22    '23    360w 

"It  is  a  pleasure  to  read  Dr.  Link's  sane  book 
with  its  clear,  concrete  style  and  its  abundant 
evidence  of  having  been  written  by  a  man  of 
much  practical  experience  and  sympathetic 
wisdom."    D:    Snedden 

+    Educ    R   66:187  O   '23   420w 

"The  author  has  dealt  so  effectively  with  the 
phases  of  general  and  special  education  which 
have  come  within  his  own  experience  and  has 
interpreted  so  well  the  program  of  the  corpor- 
ation school  that  it  seems  most  unfortunate 
that  the  same  knowledge  of  facts  and  skill  in 
interpretation  could  not  have  been  brought  to 
bear  on  public  education.  The  limited  experi- 
ence of  the  author,  resulting  in  inadequate  in- 
terpretation of  public  education,  has  made  full 
realization  of  his  objective  impossible."  A.  Y. 
Reed 

^ El  School  J  23:793  Je  '23  720w 


"The  purpose  and  arrangement  of  this  book 
are  practical;  and  within  the  narrow  limits  of 
a  study  which  is  deliberately  avoiding  a  dis- 
cussion of  educational  theory,  the  presentation 
of  facts  is  thorough  and  stimulating." 
-t-  Survey  51:119  O  15   '23  150w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p505   JI 
26    '23    80w 

LIPPINCOTT,    WILMOT.     Outdoor  advertising; 

with    an    introd.    by    Percival    White.    340p    11 

$5  McGraw 

659   Advertising  23-6125 

"A  detailed  study  of  outdoor  advertising 
mediums,  including  posters,  electric  and  print- 
ed signs,  window  displays,  street-car  cards, 
etc.  A  useful  feature  is  the  description  of  seven 
national  advertising  campaigns.  Costs  and  the 
relative  value  of  various  methods  are  thor- 
oughly discussed.  The  book  is  well  illustrated, 
partly   in   color." — Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui 


"Mr.  Lippincott  does  far  more  than  merely 
provide  running  comment  on  his  admirable  pic- 
tures. He  gives  a  comprehensive  and  well- 
balanced  account  of  modern  outdoor  advertis- 
ing, and  therefore  does  a  real  service  to  every 
executive  who  wishes  to  get  the  best  possible 
value  out  of  every  dollar  of  his  advertising  ap- 
propriation." 

+   Management  &  Adm   6:383  S   '23  400w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bul    28:361    Jl    '23 

LITZ,  FRANCIS  ALOYSIUS.  Father  Tabb;  a 
study  of  his  life  and  works;  with  uncollected 
and  unpublished  poems.  303p  $2.50  Johns 
Hopkins 

B  or  92  Tabb,  John  Bannister  23-11247 

"Apart  from  his  Civil  War  experiences. 
Father  Tabb's  life  was  a  singularly  unevent- 
ful one.  After  his  conversion  to  Catholicism 
and  his  entry  into  the  priesthood  he  spent  the 
rest  of  his  years  as  a  teacher  in  St.  Charles's 
College,  Catonsville,  Md.,  leading  the  tranquil 
existence  of  a  scholar.  It  was  during  this  time 
that  most  of  his  poems  were  written.  There- 
fore, this  is  tlie  story  of  a  quiet  life,  a  story 
of  the  poet  priest's  devotion  to  his  chosen  work, 
of  his  friendships,  his  ideals  and  his  enthu- 
siasms. A  large  part  of  the  book  is  given  up 
to  a  collection  of  hitherto  unpublished  poems 
by  Father  Tabb.  They  are  all  short,  many  of 
them  quatrains,  and  the  subjects  range  from 
grave  to  gay;  from  the  sublime  to  the  ridic- 
ulous. There  are  poems  which  breathe  deep 
religious  feeling,  poems  of  nature  and  of  senti- 
ment, and  there  are  mere  punning  jingles 
evidently  written  for  the  poet's  own  amuse- 
ment or  that  of  his  friends." — N  T  Times 

.Boston   Transcript  p9   N  14  *23  300w 
"Dr.    Litz's    book    is    a    substantial    contribu- 
tion  to  the  literature  on  Father  Tabb.     It  wit- 
nesses to  very   thorough  research  work,   and  is 
a   good    specimen    of    the    scholarship    that   con- 
sists in  cla.ssification,  tabulation,  and  collation." 
+  Cath    World    118:141    O    '23    500w 
Reviewed  by  Robert  Hillyer 

Freeman  8:212  N  7  '23  1750w 
"Dr.  Litz  is  a  conscientious  biographer, 
though  scarcely  a  discriminating  one,  for  in 
his  zeal  to  tell  all  that  he  has  been  able  to 
learn  of  the  life  of  Father  Tabb  he  has  in- 
cluded some  incidents  so  trivial  as  to  be  un- 
worthy   of   being    recorded." 

N    Y   Times   p25   S   9   "23   280w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p637    S 
27    '23    150w 

LIVINGSTON,  FLORENCE  BINGHAM.  Under 
a  thousand  eyes.  456p  il  $2  Cosmopolitan  bk. 

23-7724 
Heather  Davenway  came  back  to  her  native 
town — a  remote  Vermont  village  congealed  in 
puritan  traditions — after  an  absence  of  eight 
years.  She  was  dismayed  to  find  her  mother's 
house  filled  with  boarders  and  her  mother  a 
drudge.  She  chafed  under  all  the  pettiness  and 
narrow-mindedness    of    the   village   and   at    the 


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thought  of  herself  being  the  centre  of  curiosity 
and  gossip,  but  admired  the  neighborly  help- 
fulness and  kindliness  of  the  people  and  her 
mother's  large-hearted  intuitions.  She  shared 
and  enjoyed  the  natural  out-door  sports  of  the 
girls  of  her  age  and  became  engaged  to  the 
only  up-to-date  young  man  of  the  town  and  a 
successful  lawyer.  When  she  wakes  up  to  the 
"legitimate"  business  he  is  doing  on  the  side 
she  turns  from  him  in  horror  to  realize  for  the 
first  time  that  she  loves  Clif  Stanleigh,  her 
childhood  playfellow,  whose  worldly  failures  had 
been  depressing  her  since  her  return. 


Booklist  19:319  Jl  '23 
"Havins  had  'Main  Street'  in  all  its  repel- 
lent detail  thrust  upon  one,  ad  nauseum,  it  is 
refreshing  to  have  the  other  side  pictured  and 
interpreted  so  understandingly.  For  there  is 
another  side  to  Main  Street^after  all  is  said, 
the  backbone  of  the  country — a  normal,  happy 
side,  the  actors  of  whose  drama  are  decent 
men  and  women.  It  is  this  side  of  the  .shield, 
too  often  forgotten  in  these  days,  which  Mrs. 
Livingston    turns    toward    us." 

+   Boston    Transcript    p5    Jl   14   '23    650w 

Cleveland  p43  Je  '23 
"Miss  Livingston  has  attempted  an  ambitious 
piece  of  work    and  hn.s  acciuitteri   lierself  well." 
-f-  N  Y  Times  p25  My  13  '23  600w 
"On    the    whole,    the    characterizations    ring 
true.     We  really  feel  we  know  these   'folks'   of 
Hampton."     Ruth    Snyder 

^ NY    World    pile    Ap    29   '23    ISOOw 

"The  small  town,  with  its  quaint  characters 
common  to  all  such,  is  well  described,  and  the 
story  is  entertainingly  told.  Though  some  of 
the  events  seem  improbable,  the  characters  and 
general  small-town  atmosphere  are  genuine." 
-f-  —  Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Ag  19  '23  250w 


LIVINGSTONE,   RICHARD  WINN,  ed.  Pageant 
of   Greece.    436p   $2.75    Oxford    [6s  6d    Milford] 

880.8  Greek  literature — Collections 
"Mr.  Livingstone  has  compiled  an  anthology 
which  is  yet  something  more  than  an  anthology. 
Every  department  of  Greek  literature  is  covered. 
There  is  a  chapter  on  Homer,  one  on  lyric 
poetry,  one  on  comedy,  one  on  tragedy;  three 
on  history — one  for  each  of  the  great  historians, 
if,  indeed,  Xenophon  may  be  justly  so  called; 
and  three  on  philosophy^one  on  the  Sophists 
and  Socrates,  the  others  on  Plato  and  Aristotle. 
The  last  four  chapters  are  apportioned  to  ora- 
tory, Theocritus  and  the  epigrammatists,  Plut- 
arch, and  science.  The  excerpts,  except  per- 
haps for  oratory  and  the  tragedy,  are  long 
enough  and  broad  enough  to  be  representative." 
— Cath  World 


"Almost  every  week  brings  a  fresh  appeal  for 
a  revival  of  the  ancient  classics.  Mr.  Living- 
stone's is  one  of  the  most  effective  and  excel- 
lently conceived."     N.  H.   D. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p2  O  27  '23  780w 
"What    gives    Mr.     Livingstone's    compilation 
its  unique  value  is  that  he  has  not   suffered  it 
to   remain    merely   a   collection.      He  has  woven 
the  pieces   into   a   continuous  whole."    E.    F.    H. 
+  Cath   World   118:417  D  '23   820w 
Reviewed  by   Paul   Shorey 

Class  Philol  18:362  O  '23  300w 
Lit   R  p447  Ja  12  '24  310w 
New   Statesman   21:600   S   1   '23   850w 
"As  an  invitation  to  that  noble  banquet  which 
Greek    literature,    Greek    philosophy    and    Greek 
art  provide  for  those  worthy  to  partake  there- 
of we  can  imagine  nothing  more  alluring.     With 
sympathy,    with    simplicity,    with    true    under- 
standing,   and    always    with    perfect    taste,    Mr. 
Livingstone  tells  of  the  delights  which  the  man 
who    loves    learning,    beauty,    and    the    satisfac- 
tion   of   the   soul,    can    draw   from    the   Greeks." 
J.    St   L.    Strachey 

+  Spec  131:504  O  13  '23  2100w 


LLOYD,  E.  M.  H.  Stabilisation:  an  economic 
policy  for  producers  and  consumers.  141p 
$1.50    Knopf    [4s    6d    Allen   &   U.l 

338  Money.  Prices.  Economic  policy  23-16050 
The  author  analyzes  the  causes  of  the  col- 
lapse of  world  commerce  and  finance  since  the 
war  and  points  to  the  direction  in  which  a 
rexnedy  is  to  found.  The  experience  of  war 
organization  demonstrated  a  power  to  control 
what  had  hitherto  been  regarded  as  inexorable 
economic  laws  and  the  demand  is  now  becom- 
ing insistent  for  some  plan  of  stabilisation 
by  means  of  worldwide  collective  action.  Such 
a  plan  of  international  control  of  currency 
and  prices,  foodstuffs  and  raw  materials,  mar- 
kets and  output  is  here  outlined. 


"Many  of  Mr.  Lloyd's  readers  will,  no  doubt, 
ask  for  more  light  on  the  technical  details  and 
the  practical  working-out  of  his  plans,  before 
they  are  convinced.  But  meantime  they  will 
find  in  this  little  book  an  admirably  clear  and 
persuasive  statement  of  the  case  for  stabilisa- 
tion." 

-i New   Statesman    21:88   Ap   28  '23   950w 

"One  feels  that  he  has  presented  a  very  good 
case,  unmarred  by  flamboyancy,  bombast  or  ex- 
aggeration of  any  kind,  and  that,  on  the  whole, 
his  plan  might  be  worth  a  trial." 

-j-   N   Y  Times  p6  S  9  '23  850w 

"The  author  gives  us  no  clue  of  any  value 
regarding  the  means  by  which  he  would  secure 
the  cooperation  of  competing  national  inter- 
ests, nor  does  he  really  face  the  difficulties 
attending  the  holding  up  against  fluctuations 
in  production  or  demand  of  such  staples  as 
foodstuffs,  coal,  or  rubber.  Mere  words  will  not 
do  away  with  the  inevitable  deterioration  and 
wastage.  Again,  his  treatment  of  the  future 
course  of  gold  prices  is  scrappy  and  inconclu- 
sive." 

—  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p272    Ap 
19   '23   140w 


LLOYD   GEORGE,    DAVID.     Where  are  we  go- 
ing? 371p  $3  Doran 

940.5  Europe — History.  Reconstruction  (Eu- 
ropean war)  23-16478 
The  chapters  of  this  book  form  a  running 
comment  on  the  European  situation  during  the 
ten  months  from  November,  1922  to  September, 
1923.  Mr  Lloyd  George  shows  that  during  this 
period  the  international  temper  has  grown  un- 
mistakably worse  and  the  promise  of  peace  in 
Europe  has  visibly  lessened.  He  views  with 
alarm  the  international  rivalries,  suspicions  and 
ill-will  which  everywhere  rule,  the  cost  of  ar- 
maments, the  situation  created  by  Italy  in  the 
Corfu  occupation  and  by  France,  under  Poin- 
car6,  in  the  Ruhr  invasion,  also  the  stand  of 
France  on  the  German  reparations.  There  are 
chapters  on  the  British  elections,  on  peace  with 
Russia,   on  Zionism  and  on  prohibition. 


Booklist  20:133  Ja  '24 
"Readers  will  find  Lloyd  George  always  inter- 
esting, and  at  times  fa.scinating,  as  a  writer. 
He  does  not  mince  words  in  print,  especially 
since  his  retirement  from  the  Government." 
F.  P.  H. 

-f   Boston    Transcript  p9   N   21   '23   1200w 

"In  the  discussion  of  the  tendencies  that  lead 
to  war  there  are  many  pages  of  a  criticism  so 
scathing  that  we  begin  to  wonder  whether  it 
is  Lloyd  George  or  Lowes  Dickinson  that  we 
are  reading,  and  they  are  accompanied  by  moral 
appeals  so  fervent  that  they  might  fittingly 
have  come  from  an  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 
H    H.   Horwill 

—  Nation   117:745  D  26  '23   400w 

"The  miscellaneous  articles  and  addresses  in 
the  latter  part  of  the  hook  are  no  different  in 
tone  from  those  on  the  reparation  question,  but 
thev  are  less  unhappy  in  effect.  Two  hundred 
pages  of  unbroken  wailing  about  reparations 
di.strcss  the  soul  more  than  a  hundred  p.Tgcs  of 
disjointed  wailings  on  assorted  subjects.'  Elmer 
Davis_  ^   ^  Times  p7  N  11  '23  1900w 


308 


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LOCKE,     GLADYS     EDSON.     Scarlet     macaw. 
315p    il    $1.90    Page 

23-11806 

"  'The  Scarlet  Macaw'  tells  of  the  murder 
of  Genevra  Tressady,  an  English  girl,  who  is 
poisoned  in  her  own  room,  and  of  the  great 
bird,  only  witness  of  the  tragedy,  that  gives 
an  alarm  by  imitating  the  death  cries  of  the 
victim.  In  this  story  there  reappears  the  de- 
tective, Mercedes  Quero,  who  was  active  in 
Miss  Locke's  earlier  tale,  'The  Red  Cava- 
lier.' "— N  y  World 


"The  thing  is  a  good  enough  thriller,  a  very 
middling  detective  story,  because  there  is  prac- 
tically no  deducing  done,  but  otherwise  there 
is  nothing  to  it.  There  are  no  real  people  in 
it,  and  the  atmosphere  is  laid  on  in  chunks." 
—  +   Boston  Transcript  p8  D  15  '23  320w 

"In  spite  of  an  occasional  crudeness  in  writ- 
ing and  a  clumsiness  in  construction,  'The  Scar- 
let Macaw'  is  sufficiently  supplied  with  sus- 
pense and  unexpected  incidents  to  qualify  as  an 
interesting  detective  story.  One  fault  that  Mr. 
Locke  has  is  an  extremely  mediocre  prose,  and 
this  rather  aggravates  the  reader's  sensation 
of  unreality." 

-  +  N  Y  Times  p9  O  28  '23  440w 
N  Y  World  p6e  S  16  '23  50w 

LOCKE,  WILLIAM   JOHN.  Lengthened  shadow. 
372p    $2    Dodd 

23-12872 

"Susanne  Chastel,  daughter  of  a  French 
officer  who  fell  in  the  war  and  an  English 
mother,  vivid  and  charming,  is  left  a  huge 
fortune  by  a  satyr  uncle — on  conditions.  The 
will  appoints  two  guardians:  Timothy  Swayne, 
lame,  homely,  and  Moordius,  a  cosmopolitan 
banker  living  in  Paris,  both  advanced  in  years. 
Su.'ianne  is  to  spend  half-years  alternately  in 
the  households  of  the  two  until  her  25th  birth- 
day, but  if  she  marries  either  with  the  consent 
of  the  otlier  before  that  date,  she  is  to  come 
into  her  fortune  immediately.  The  issue  is 
far  from  what  a  writer  tempted  by  the  obvi- 
ous might  make  it,  and  is  the  more  moving 
and  convincing.  It  is  in  Timothy's  fate  that 
the  drama  reaches  its  climax,  and  he  who  was 
grotesque  at  the  beginning  is  heroic  at  the 
end." — The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup 


Booklist  20:57  N  '23 

Reviewed    by    E.    F.    Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p5  S  15  '23  1300w 
"The  structure  of  the  plot  is  excellent, 
though  it  tapers  off  at  the  climax  into  some- 
thing very  near  to  thin  melodrama.  .  .  But 
the  book  as  a  whole  hangs  on  Moordius,  who 
overshadows  all  the  rest.  And  he  simply  will 
not  do:  he  is  too  much  'made  up,'  with  the 
rouge  showing,  a  bogrv  rather  than  a  'lost  hu- 
man    .<;oul."'     H.     L.     Pangborn 

1-  Lit    R   p60   S   22  '23   600w 

"This  is  a  completely  competent  Locke  hook 
and  Locke  fans  need  have  no  fear  for  their 
entertainment." 

+   N   Y  Times  plO  S  16  '23  lOOOw 
"  'The   Lengthened    Shadow'    shows   no   falling 
off    or    substantial    departure    from    the    Locke 
tradition."   Leo   Markun 

-I-  N  Y  Tribune  pl9  S  9  '23  1350w 
"The  tale  will  he  widely  read.  It  is  not  in 
the  front  rank  of  his  long  list  of  stories  be- 
cause in  centering  the  interest  in  and  around 
an  accomplished  villain  he  has  done  his  work 
too  thoroughly — this  Moordius  is  both  too  ac- 
coinplished  nnd  too  villainous:  we  simply  do 
not    believe    in    him."    R.    D.    Townsend 

h  Outlook   135:149    S   26   '23    220w 

"  'The  Lengthened  Shadow'  becomes  a  story 
pleasant  in  the  reading,  and  agreeably  suffici- 
ent in  substantial  elements  without  being  a 
novel  of  substance — on  the  whole,  a  book  to  be 
enjoyed  without  apology,  and  liked  for  the 
obvious  merits  of  all  Mr  Locke's  work." 

4-  Springf'd   Republican   p5a  S  23  '23  250w 
The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p602    S 
13   '23   500w 

Wis   Lib  Bui  19:481  N  "23 


LOFTING,       HUGH.       Doctor       Dolittle's       post 

office.    359p   il   $2.50   Stokes 

23-12962 

Once  more  Dr  Dolittle,  the  animals'  doctor, 
was  busy  ^vith  his  philanthropic  works.  As 
he  and  his  friends,  the  pushmi-puUyu,  Dab- 
Dab  the  duck,  Jip  the  dog,  Gub-Gub  the  pig, 
Too-Too  the  owl,  and  the  white  mouse,  were 
returning  from  a  voyage  to  West  Africa  they 
learned  that  a  slave  trader  had  been  busy 
along  the  coast.  The  doctor  at  once  gave 
chase  and  helped  by  H.  M.  S.  Violet  succeeded 
in  capturing  him.  Then  the  doctor  took  the 
people  back  to  their  own  country,  Fantippo. 
In  Fantippo  affairs  were  in  a  bad  way:  the  post 
office  department  was  especially  upset.  So 
Dr  Dolittle,  helped  by  his  countless  bird 
friends,  put  the  department  on  its  feet.  Then 
he  established  a  weather  bureau,  and  helped 
the  people  of  the  land  so  generally  that  when 
he  departed  for  England  they  erected  a  wooden 
statue  of  the  good  doctor.  Probably  to  this 
day    he    is    remembered    in    Fantippo. 


Booklist  20:63  N  '23 
"All  the  time  you  marvel  at  yourself  be- 
cause you  believe.  You  chuckle  at  the  whimsi- 
cality of  these  animal  talkers,  and  are  carried 
breathlessly  along  through  their  hundreds  of 
quaint    adventures."    E.    C.    Adams 

-I-   Detroit    News   pl7   S   23   '23   550w 
"The   book   is    delightful   and   is   an    ideal   gift 
book   for  young  folks    who  are  still   able   to   in- 
dulge   their    imaginative    powers." 

-I-  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  plO  D  16 
'23  400w 
"May  his  humor  long  flourish  in  the  green 
soil  of  children's  favorites!  It  is  the  humor  of 
the  fat  man  who  can  smile  at  his  own  shadow; 
it  is  the  humor  of  the  scientist,  long  in  contact 
with  nature  and  nature's  inexorable  ways." 
Laura   Benet 

-I-   Lit    R    p229    N    10    '23    220w 
Reviewed    by    Constance    Naar 

New  Repub  36:315  N  14  '23  30w 
N  Y  Times  p4  N  11  '23  280w 
"This  admirable  class  of  fiction  awakens  no 
hesitation  in  the  reader's  mind  concerning 
probability,  for  there  is  no  attempt  at  any- 
thing except  humorous,  witty  invention.  All 
children  enjoy  animal  make-believe  and  Mr. 
Lofting's  clever  creations  will  make  children 
read   for   the   fun   of  reading." 

-4-  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  S  16  '23  280w 
Survey  51:111  O  15  '23  400w 
"The    third    and    longest    of    Doctor    Dolittle 
books.      Fully    as    interesting,    as    novel    and    as 
spontaneous  as  the  earlier  two.     There  are  de- 
licious   bits    of   humor   for    the    adult    with    un- 
flagging interest   of  anticipation   for   the  child.'" 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:444  O  '23 

LOG-CABIN    lady.      lOSp    il    $1.50    Little 

B   or   92  22-24814 

The  anonymous  autobiography  of  a  woman, 
born  of  pioneer  parents  in  a  Wisconsin  log 
cabin,  who  married  into  a  wealthy  and  aristo- 
cratic family.  Before  she  had  mastered  even 
the  simpler  rules  o£  social  usage,  her  husband 
was  appointed  to  the  dinlomatic  corps  and  she 
had  to  learn  to  steer  her  way  thru  the  in- 
tricacies of  an  even  more  formal  and  sophis- 
ticated society.  Before  reaching  her  present 
position  of  distinction  and  authority  she  had 
to  suffer  shame  for  mfny  a  social  blunder. 
The  brief  story  of  her  life  is  told  in  the  in- 
terest of  other  women  and  of  a  more  simple 
and    sincere    social    usage. 


Booklist   19:250  My  '23 
"Of    her   life    in    England,    in    France    and    in 
Austria,   she   writes   with    charming   simplicity." 

4-   Boston    Transcript   p4    N    25    '22   850w 
Cleveland  p40  My  '23 
"This      little      autobiography      is      charmingly 
written,  with  a  depth  of  sincerity  and  a  simple 


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straightforwardness   which   carry   the  plea   from 
its   author's    heart    to    that    of   her   audience." 
+   Lit    R    p438    F    3    '23    270w 

Springf'd    Republican    p8    F    7    '23    480w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:24    Ja    '23 

LOMAS.   CHARLOTTE    RIDER.     Garden   whim- 

seys.     171p    $1.50    Macmillan 

716     Flowers.     Gardening  23-6830 

There  is  not  much  of  practical  instruction 
for  the  gardener  in  this  little  book  but  a  great 
deal  of  the  joy  of  gardens.  Mrs  Lonias  follows 
the  seasons  in  her  chapters,  lingering  over  her 
favorite  flowers  and  confessing  her  whims  and 
fancies   about    them. 


Cleveland   p60   Jl   '23 
■'"Written  in  a  charmingly  conversational  way." 

+   N    Y    Times    p20    Ap    1    '23    280w 
"If    vou    like    flowers  .you    can    well    afford    to 
trust   an   hour  to   the   reading  of  this  delightful 
volume.     And    if    you    have    a    flower   garden    of 
your  own   it   is   indispensable."     Bruce   Gould 
+   N    Y    Tribune   p21    Mr   25   '23    450w 
N  Y  World  p9e  Ap  22  '23  120w 
"Mrs.    Lomas's    style    is    fascinatingly    whim- 
sical, her  humor  most  refreshing,  and  her  taste 
impeccable."     M.    S.    J. 

-|-  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  8  '23  380w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:408  Jl  '23 
LOMBROSO,  GINA.  See  Ferrero,  G. 

LONG,    A.    W.       Irish    sport   of   yesterday.    288p 

il     $4.50     Houghton 

914.15      Ireland  23-13090 

The  book  is  well  characterized  by  the  sub- 
title: "Sports,  types  and  yarns  of  western  Ire- 
land life."  It  describes  the  experiences  of  the 
author  and  his  party  during  fishing  and  hunt- 
ing expeditions  in  a  hunting  lodge,  forty  miles 
from  nowhere,  and  in  "Rackrent  Hall;"  the 
types  of  peasantry  they  encountered  and  the 
fascinating   scenery. 


"Major    Long    is    at    his    best     In     recounting 

anecdotes  which  illustrate  the  charm  and  frailty 

Of   these   inhabitants   of  western   Ireland.     It    is 

in  his  descriptions  of  nature  that  he  falls  short." 

H Boston    Transcript   p3   Ag   4   '23   550w 

"The  title  of  this  entertaining  and  edifying 
book  is  far  too  modest,  for  Major  Long  is  much 
more  than  a  sportsman  with  good  hunting  yarns 
and  fish  stories  to  tell." 

+   Lit  R  pl72  O  20  '23  280w 

"  'Irish    Sport     of     Yesterday'     is     a     hearty, 
wholesome,  jovial  book  that  almost  any  kind  of 
person,   provided  only  that  he  loves  his  fellow- 
man,   can  read  with  constant  entertainment." 
-f  N    Y   Times   p26   Jl   29   '23   540w 

LONG,   JOHN    CUTHBERT,   and    LONG,    JOHN 
DIETRICH.      Motor  camping.   340p   il   $2   Dodd 
796    Camping.  Automobile  touring       23-26435 
An     introductory     chapter     sketching     briefly 
some   of    the   possibilities    of    motor   camping    is 
followed    by    chapters    on    expenses    and    equip- 
ment,  how  to  choose  a  camp,   meals  and   cook- 
ery,   sleeping  arrangements,     where    to    go    for 
short  or  long  trips  and  laws  to  be  observed.    A 
list    of    about    two    thousand    camping    sites    is 
given,  arranged  alphabetically  by  states  and  in- 
dicating the  facilities  of  each  site. 


Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:540  D  '23 
St    Louis    p290    O    '23 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:409   Jl    '23 

LONG,  JOHN  DAVIS.  America  of  yesterday; 
as  reflected  in  the  journal  of  John  Davis  Long; 
ed.  by  Lawrence  Shaw  Mayo.  250p  i)  $3  At- 
lantic  monthly 

B  or  92  United  States — Politics  and  govern- 
ment 23-8534 
John  D.   Long,  1838-1915,  was  for  two  genera- 
tions a  favorite  figure  in   the  life  of  New  Rng- 
'and.   A  Boston   lawyer,   he  became  successively 
grovernor  of  Massachusetts,  member  of  Congress 


and  Secretary  of  the  navy  in  President  McKin- 
ley's  cabinet.  From  the  time  he  was  nine  years 
old,  until  his  death,  he  kept  a  diary,  and  it  is 
from  its  twenty  volumes  of  manuscript  that  this 
book  is  drawn.  Tho  the  last  half  of  its  entries 
relate  chiefly  to  political  experiences  the  book  is 
thruout  less  a  record  of  his  public  career  than 
a  revelation  of  his  inner  life  and  spirit.  "I  sup- 
pose people  think  I  think  of  politics,"  he  writes. 
"Oh,  how  far  away  in  other  dreams  I   fioat." 

Am   Pol   Sci    R   17:678  N  '23  300w 
"America  of  Yesterday — a  very  recent  yester- 
day— is  worth   reading.     Mr.    Mayo   has   made  a 
wise  choice  of  material  and  filled  the  gaps  with 
Informing,  well- written  material."    J:  D.  Merrill 
+  Atlantic's    Bookshelf   Jl   '23   550w 
Booklist    19:316    Jl   '23 
"It  cannot  be  said  that  the  volume  sheds  any 
new  or  especially  interesting  light  on  the  period 
of    our    national    history    in    which    Mr.     Long 
played  at  times   a  not  unimportant  part.     It   is 
interesting,    however,    in    its    record    of    upward 
growth    through    the    various    stages    then    con- 
sidered   the    inevitable    stepping    stones    toward 
distinguished  ends."     J.  L.  Ford 

H Bookm   57:457  Je   '23   600w 

"It  is  a  pity  that  there  is  not  more  of  Gov- 
ernor Long  and  less,  oh,  very,  very  much  less, 
of  Mr  Mayo  between  these  covers.  His  editorial 
comments  are  atrociously  long.  In  addition  to 
the  length  of  the  comment  it  is  so  diabolically 
intertwined  with  the  text  that  it  is  difficult  to 
skip^it^'  ^l-^^-^^°^^^^^,;pi  pu  Mr  24  '23   2200w 

Reviewed  by  R.  J.  Davis 

Lit   R  p678  My  12  '23  450w 

N    Y  Times   p8   Ap  22   '23   1700w 

"Only  the  last  part  is  of  special  value  to  the 
historian.  It  is  the  early  part  of  the  diary, 
however,  that  is  the  most  interesting.  Aa  a 
picture  of  America  of  yesterday  it  has  much 
charm."      N:   Roosevelt 

_)_   N    Y    Tribune   pl9   Je   17   '23    850w 

"There  is  much  in  the  volume  to  delight  and 
inform  But  more  than  all  does  it  afford  the 
reader  refreshment  in  revealing  that  simplicity 
can  abide  with  success  and  that  a  man  can 
serve  his  fellow  citizens  and  keep  a  simny  soul.' 
serve  ni.^   ^  ^^^^^  ^^^  ^^  ^^  .^^  ^jsOw 

R   of   Rs  68:110  Jl   '23   240w 
"The   historian    will    regard    the   diary   of   the 
secretary    of    the    navy    as    the    most    valuable 
section    of    the    book.      There    one    has    a    look 
behind  the  scenes  in  Washington." 

+  Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Ap    zz      iS 
1500W 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:132  My  '23 

LONG.   WILLIAIVl    JOSEPH      Mother   Nature:    a 

study    of    animal    life    and    death.     330p    U    $d 

Harper 

591.5      Animals-Habits   and   behavior      Na- 
ture ii-m6i 

The  author  refutes  the  old  notion  of  nature  s 
rrueltv  of  struggle  for  existence  and  of  suffer- 
fng  n  any  huS  sense,  among  the  birds  and 
heists  On  the  contrary  he  shows  the  wilder- 
ness as  a  place  of  peace  and  gladness  where 
the  animals  live  sociably  together.  The  fears 
and  terrors  of  the  wild,  the  sufferings  of  ani- 
mals live  in  man's  imagination,  not  in  the  ex- 
Slrience  of  the  animal.  Brute  instincts  are  not 
briital  in  our  sense  of  the  word,  but  whole- 
some protective  impulses  The  animal  knows 
onlv  life.  He  does  not  know  what  death  is. 
Alfnature's  vital  processes  are  Pain  fss  and  the 
death  of  an  animal  is  as  peaceful  as  falling 
asleep.  

"He  has  read  his  own  nature  into  the  animals 
and  he  tries  to  prove  them  all  as  kind  y  as 
himself  In  the  effort  to  prove  his  point  Dr. 
Lo™g  makes  some  statements  readily  open  to 
criticism  .  .  There  are  many  pleasant  pages 
of  i^^  erpretation,  illustrated  by  Mr.  Bull's  ex- 
cellent pictures,  from  Dr.  Long's  personal  slant 
^owards"^  nature,  of  the  ^^f  ^al-  '.indly  playful. 
.=vpn  comic  ways  of  animals.  K.  H.  iorrey 
even  cmiiic^w  y^g^^  Je  30   '23   900w 


310 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


LONG,  W:  J. — Continued 

"Altogether,  it  is  an  engaging  and  an  illumi- 
nating book,  and  one  that  is  likely  to  influence 
the  mental  attitude  toward  life  and  nature  of 
any   one   who   reads   it." 

+   N  Y  Times  p7  Jl  15  '23  1750w 

LOOMIS,    FREDERIC    BREWSTER.   Field  book 
'    of    common    rocks    and    minerals;    for    identi- 
fying  the    rocks   and    minerals   of   the   United 
States    and     interpreting     their    origins     and 
meanings.    277p  il   $3.50  Putnam 

549    Mineralogy.    Rocks  23-12584 

A  guide  book  to  the  identification  of  minerals 
and  rocks  by  such  methods  as  are  practical 
without  elaborate  equipment  or  previous  train- 
ing. The  book  is  fully  illustrated,  those  minerals 
in  which  color  is  important  for  identification 
being  shown  in  color.  An  introductory  chapter 
explains  the  terms  used  in  describing  minerals 
and  the  systems  in  which  they  are  grouped. 

Booklist  20:87  D  '23 
"This  is  a  very  welcome  book.  Thanks  to  im- 
proved processes  of  color  reproduction,  Mr. 
Loomis  has  been  able  to  use  pictures  of  great 
beautv  to  illustrate  certain  typical  minerals 
and  these  he  has  supplemented  by  good  un- 
colored  photographs.  The  plan  of  the  book  is 
excellent." 

4-   Lit    R    pl75    O    20    '23    280w 
Reviewed  by  .1.  O.   Swift  . 

N  Y  World  p7e  D  16  '23  300w 

LOOMS,     GEORGE.     John-no-Brawn.     320p     $2 
"-    Doubleday  ^3-16044 

*'  'John-No-Brawn'  is  ironically  named;  the 
central  figure's  name  is  John  Brawn,  he  comes 
of  good  Louisville  stock,  but  there  is  a  feeble 
streak  in  him.  He  gets  on  fairly  well  at  his  law, 
makes  a  tolerable  soldier  when  the  war  comes 
and  marries  the  girl  he  wants.  But  he  is  defici- 
ent, a  little  'yellow.'  When  tuberculosis  takes 
him  he  easily  loses  his  nerve,  and  is  able  with- 
out much  struggle  to  become  a  nerveless  charge 
upon    his   wife's    devotion." — Ind 

"It  is  all  very  graphic  and  'real.'  Its  picture 
of  the  Louisville  scene  adds  another  vivid  square 
to  our  growing  patchwork  of  American  'local- 
isms.' Readers  who  are  interested  in  brilliant 
studies  of  the  congenitnl  weakling  should  read 
it  with  enthusia.sm."  H.  W.  Boynton 
4-  Ind    111:315    D    22    '23    250w 

"If  this  book  had  been  expanded  from  the 
nmple  store  of  ripened  observation  that  the 
sketch  suggests  Mr.  Looms  could  have  achieved 
a  very  solid  piece  of  work.  But  something  threw 
him  out  of  his  leisure  and  even  gait  when 
he  began  the  second  part  of  his  novel.  Here 
Mr  I..ooms  is  the  victim,  not  the  master,  of  his 
material  and  it  is  "with  considerable  dismay 
that  one  witnesses  his  downfall,  for  in  the  first 
book  of  'John  No-Brawn'  he  shows  a  very  nice 

l.| Lit    R    p317    D    1    '23    500w 

"Mr.  Looms's  descriptive  work,  his  ability 
to  clothe  character,  scene  and  emotion  with 
distinctive  apparel  is  the  outstanding  feature 
of  the  book.  He  leaves  little  for  the  imagination 
of  the  reader." 

+   N   Y  Times  p8  O  28  '23  720w 

LOOSE.  KATHERINE  RIEGEL  (GEORG 
SCHOCK,  pseud.).  House  of  Yost.  310p  $2 
Boni  &  Liveright 

23-4898 
"The  story  concerns  a  family  of  Pennsylvania - 
Germans,  which,  because  of  its  material  wealth 
and  public  benefactions  holds  the  position  of 
overlord  in  the  village  of  Middleport  and  the 
countryside  around.  It  is  in  this  atmosphere 
of  family  pride  that  the  fourth  and  fifth  gen- 
erations iiit  their  ideals  against  each  other. 
Because  Christiana  is  more  of  the  grim  settler, 
shrewd,  kind,  but  made  hard  by  belief  in  the 
destiny  of  her  blood,  she  defeats  her  son  George 
in  his  attempt  to  lead  his  own  life  unburdened 
by  the  heritage  of  ancestry.  Before  her  ad- 
amant will  he.  a  sensitive,  temperamental,  vaga- 
bondish    spirit,    is    like    so    much    dough.      Only 


the  family  name  is  her  ideal  and  religion,  it 
must  go  on,  it  must  be  extended.  To  that  end 
all  else  is  sacrificed,  herself,  her  son,  his  wife, 
and  to  all  probability,  baby  Frederick.  Chris- 
tiana's fanaticism  bl.azes  on  every  page,  in  her 
acts  and  in  the  consequence  of  them.  She 
dominates  the   book." — Boston  Transcript 


"Without  effort  'The  House  of  Yost'  spins 
out  its  history,  naturally,  concisely,  vividly. 
Amid  the  descending  avalanche  of  spring  books, 
Georg  Schock's  contribution  can  be  recom- 
mended as  one  tale  that  catches  the  lights  and 
shadows  of  existence  in  direct  proportion  to 
their  significance.  Here  is  stern  realism  made 
beautiful  by  skilful  treatment."     F.   E.  R. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  10  '23   600w 
Cleveland  p42  Je  '23 

"Shrewd,  observant,  close-flsted  in  comment, 
she  knows  how  to  use  words  and  when  not  to 
use  them;  but  the  second  half  of  the  book  falls 
lamentably  short  of  the  promise  of  the  first 
half.  The  conversation  yawns  Into  horrid  gaps 
of  lifeless  material,  nor  does  the  author  hesi- 
tate to  use  uncalled  for  melodrama  in  order 
to  solve  her  difficulties."     E.   S. 

\-  Freeman  7:118  Ap  11  '23  300w 

"One  comes  under  the  speU  of  a  strange, 
almost  weird  power  in  this  quite  unique  writ- 
ing, which  certainly  has  marked  individuality 
rather  than  originality.  'The  House  of  Yost' 
reads  like  stark,  strong  realism,  and  that  is 
what  I  should  take  it  for  if  the  actors  in  the 
tragic  drama  were  not  labelled  'Pennsylvania 
Germans.'  To  this  label  I  find  myself  unable 
to  assent.  These  people  are  so  far  from  being 
typical  Pennsylvania  Germans  that  they  would 
really  be  strange  exotics  in  Berks  County,  the 
scene  of  the  story."  H.  R.  Martin 
H Lit   R  p515  Mr  10  '23  800w 

"Obviously  the  life  which  she  is  describing  is 
too  familiar  to  her  to  seem  merely  quaint  liter- 
ary material,  and  the  story  which  she  tells 
grows  naturally  from  the  community.  With- 
out being  a  great  novelist  or  a  perfect  one  she 
is  entirely  genuine  and,  though  she  has  not 
equal  talent,  she  suggests  Miss  Sheila  Kaye- 
Smith  in  her  power  to  make  rich  and  real  a 
rural  civilization  unfamiliar  to  the  reader."  J. 
W.  Krutch 

-I-  Nation   116:397  Ap  4  '23  720w 

Reviewed  bv  Glenway  Westcott 

New  Repub  35:158  Jl  4  '23  300w 
N  Y  Times  pl6  F  18  '23  550w 

"In  this  book  Georg  Schock  has  fully  made 
good  the  ripe  promise  of  'Hearts  Contending.' 
She  might,  indeed,  once  more  have  used  the 
title  for  a  powerful  if  somewhat  saddening 
novel." 

-f   N    Y   World   p7e   My   27   '23   330w 

"She  writes  with  a   plain  and  sincere  realism." 
-f-  Springf  d     Republican    p7a    Mr    25    '23 
350w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   10:133   My   '23 

LOTI,  PIERRE,  pseud.  (LOUIS  MARIE  JULIEN 
VIAUD).  Tale  of  the  Pyrenees  (Ramuntcho); 
tr.  from  the  French  by  W.  P.  Baines.  255p 
il  $4  Stokes   [10s  6d  T.  W.  Laurie] 

[23-8578] 

The  first  translation  into  English  of  Pierre 
Loti's  "Ramuntcho,"  a  love  story  of  the  Basque 
countrv.  Ramuntcho  and  Gracieuse  had  begun 
to  love  each  other  as  children  but  did  not 
speak  their  love  till  Ramuntcho  was  called 
awav  for  three  years'  military  .service  in 
France.  He  planned  to  come  back  for  Graci- 
euse when  his  three  years  were  up  but  during 
his  absence  her  mother  forced  her  into  a  con- 
vent to  prevent  her  marriage  to  the  poor,  il- 
legitimate Ramuntcho.  He  returned  a  mar  a-id 
determined  to  steal  Gracieuse  from  her  clol.g- 
ter,  but  their  faith  in  the  Church  and  its  hold 
on  them  proved  too  strong  for  them  both. 
Leaving  her  to  pray  for  him,  he  went  to 
America,  probably  never  to  return. 

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"Is  there  much  lo  be  said  for  this  sort  of 
thing  after  all?  There  is  this,  that  though  the 
psychology  is  distressing-ly  thin  it  is  not  false. 
There  are  simple  people  left  in  the  world  and 
they  do  indeed  act  very  like  the  characters 
in  a  Loti  novel.  Again,  while  perhaps  it  is 
true  that  the  appeal  of  his  'exoticism'  is  some- 
times a  little  too  obvious  for  our  tastes,  it  is 
clearly  the  result  of  close  personal  observation. 
As  far  as  he  goes,  indeed,  M.  Loti  is  a  more 
truthful  writer  than  most  of  his  kind.  And  his 
prose,  in  the  Chateaubriand  (his  master  in 
this  as  well  as  other  things)  manner,  is  some- 
times   superb." 

H New    Statesman    20:782    Ap    7    '23    850w 

"Loti  sees  with  his  soul  as  well  as  with  his 
eyes.  The  accurate  descriptions  of  Basque  life 
and  games  and  customs  are  changed  from 
merely  pleasing  travel  talks,  into  vivid,  vital 
reproductions  of  the  living  land,  by  the  real 
and  deep  feeling  that  Loti  drew  into  himself 
from  the  very  heart  of  the  Basque  soil,  and 
gave  back  within  the  pages  of  his  book.  The 
actual  personality  of  the  country  is  reflected 
through  that  of  the  greatest  of  Impressionists. 
As  Loti  succeeded  in  seizing  the  spirit  of  this 
Pyrenean  land,  so  has  Mr.  Baines  succeeded  in 
seizing  the  spirit  of  Loti.  His  translation  is 
altogether    admirable." 

+   N  Y  Times  pl9  S  2  '23  550w 

LOWELL,  ABBOTT  LAWRENCE.  Public 
opinion  in  war  and  peace.  302p  $2.50  Harvard 
univ.    press 

301     Pulslic  opinion.     Political  parties.     War 

23-2647 

"It  is  as  a  student  of  party  politics  rather 
than  as  a  psychologist  that  President  Lowell 
deals  with  the  subject  of  public  opinion  in 
war  and  peace.  He  seeks  to  call  attention  to 
processes  rather  than  to  inquire  into  their  ori- 
gin; he  shows  the  formation  of  public  opinion 
and  its  effect  rather  than  the  psychological 
mechanics  of  thought.  He  makes  no  attemnt 
to  probe  the  subconscious  mind  of  the  mob; 
nor  does  he  father  some  new  theory  as  the 
only  key  to  the  understanding  of  public  opin- 
ion. Rather  does  he  sketch  the  various  factors 
which  influence  opinion  and  by  analyzing  them 
helps  the  reader  to  a  better  conception  of  the 
metliod  in  which  opinion  grows  and  changes. 
His  book  may  be  divided  into  two  parts.  'The 
first  deals  with  the  public  opinion  per  se.  "The 
second  deals  with  the  influence  of  opinion  on 
party  politics,  and  with  its  transformation  dur- 
ing   and    since    the    war." — N    Y    Tribune 


"President  Lowell  has  made  a  substantial 
contribution  to  the  literature  of  his  topic."  W. 
W.  Willoughby 

+  Am  Pol  Sci   R  17:313  My  '23  500w 
"The  book  represents  the  serious  thought  of 
an  acute  and  high-minded  thinker,  and  will  be 
provocative  of  fruitful  thought  in  others."  TaJ- 
cott  Williams 

+  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  My  '23  800w 
"It  is  a  real  pleasure,  as  well  as  satisfaction, 
to  find  a  book  so  sound,  adequate,  and  sane  in 
its  content.  Also  it  is  written,  not  with  the 
brazen  assurance  of  the  tyro,  but  with  the 
calm  restraint  of  the  thorough  scholar.  .  .  The 
reading  of  this  volume  should  prove  both  a 
purgative  and  a  tonic  to  the  mental  processes 
of  our   bi'st   citizenship."     "W:    S     Myers 

+  Bookm  57:462  Je  '23  680w 
"Scliolarly  the  book  undoubtedly  is,  but  it 
is  not  directed  alone  to  those  who  take  delight 
in  volumes  of  abstract  scholarship.  The  reader 
will  find  that  his  mind  goes  rationally  along 
with  that  of  the  author  and  that  he  is  invit- 
ing neither  headache  nor  fatigue  in  following 
its   lucid   reasoning."      S.   L.   Cook 

-I-   Boston    Transcript    p5    F    3    '23    1600w 
"It    is    compact    and    highly    charged,    but    is 
attractive   and    altogether    readable."      S.    S.    A. 

-f  Greensboro    (N.C.)     Daily    News    p8    Ag 
5    '23    1050W 

"This  is  a  very  disappointing  book.  What 
there  is  in  it  of  merit  and  originality  President 
Lowell  has  already  said  In  an  earlier  volume; 


and    its    novelties    will    hardly   commend    them- 
selves to  any  real  critical  mind."     H.   J.   Laski 
—  Nation  116:sup446  Ap  11  '23  300w 

"President  Lowell  does  not  say  much  that  is 
new  or  arresting;  but  he  puts  together  in  ad- 
mirably non-technical  language  a  number  of 
sensible  observations  which  form  a  valuable 
corrective  of  certain  popular  psychological  views 
of  to-day." 

^ New  Statesman  21:344  Je  23  '23  320w 

"A  little  less  rapidity  of  style,  less  deter- 
mination to  be  precisely  clear,  would  make  this 
book  easier  reading.  As  it  is,  it  is  a  stimulant 
toward  greater  thoughtfulness  and  a  careful 
analysis  of  those  motives  which  create  and 
support  political  issues,  on  which  the  fate  of 
our  nation  must  depend."  M.  F.  Egan 
^ NY    Times    pi    F    4    '23    2600w 

"To  any  one  interested  in  politics  'Public 
Opinion  in  War  and  Peace'  is  sure  to  be  il- 
luminating."      N:    Roosevelt 

+   N    Y    Tribune    p23    F    25    '23    1450w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:221   My   '23 

"So  penetrating  and  sober  an  analysis  that 
it  may  be  said  to  be  a  treatise  without  a 
thesis.  .  .  In  all  respects  the  analysis  is  ob- 
jective and  cumulative,  the  reasoning  is  clear 
and  concrete.  The  profound  examination  and 
dispassionate  judgment  which  characterize  the 
book  as  a  whole  should  make  it  an  aid  to  the 
self-education  of  the  American  people.  It 
breaks  little  new  ground  save,  perliaps,  in  the 
somewhat  speculative  classifications  of  the  last 
chapter,  but  it  is  a  compact  and  well-deliberated 
work." 

+   Springf  d    Republican   p6  F  12  '23   1350w 

The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p207  Mr 
29   '23   lOOOw 

LUBBOCK,    PERCY.      Roman   pictures.    221p   $3 

Scribner    [7s   6d   Cape] 

914.56    Rome    (city)— Description     [23-12098] 

"Mr.  Lubbock  has  given  us  an  authentic  pic- 
ture of  the  real,  underlying,  essential  Rome, 
without  ever  describing  it  at  all.  His  method 
is  delightfully  elusive,  and  we  can  imagine  a 
simple-minded  and  enthusiastic  lover  of  the 
most  fascinating  city  in  the  world  putting  down 
this  book  in  disgust,  after  reading  a  chapter  or 
two  because  his  beloved  palaces,  ruins, 
churches,  sculptors,  painters  and  architects  re- 
ceive no  mention.  Yet  if  the  sympathetic  reader 
persists  to  4;he  end,  he  will  be  left  with  a  finer 
sense  of  the  spirit  of  the  place  than  he  is 
likely  to  get  out  of  any  one  book,  except  per- 
haps Marion  Crawford's  Ave  Roma  Immortalia. 
"The  writer  drifts  about  in  different  societies, 
semi-Italian  and  English,  and  encounters  many 
different  kinds  of  people  drawn  by  the  magnet 
of  Rome  The  perfectly  mannered  English  Jes- 
uit- the  old  lady,  the  descendant  of  English 
squires,  in  her  Palazzo;  the  cultivated  but  not 
very  leaf-ned  authoress.  All  these  people  re- 
flect Rome  from  different  angles  unconsciously." 
— Spec  

Booklist  20:49  N  '23 
"In  these  'Roman  Pictures'  we  are  shown 
some  delightful,  amusing,  and  distinctly  hu- 
morous portrayals  of  life  among  the  colonists 
in  Rome.  These  pictures  are  delicately  and 
deliciously  handled."     D.    L.   M. 

-f   Boston  Transcript  p5  S  22  '23  780w 
"There  is  not  a  careless  phrase  in  the  book; 
the  pattern  is  as  intricate  as  it  is  beautiful." 
+  Dial    75:508    N    '23    lOOw 

Reviewed  by  H:  L.  Stuart 

Freeman  7:547  Ag  15  '23  llOOw 

"He    has    distilled    the    very    essence    of    the 
city,   and  precipitated  it  through   the  magic  of 
a   mood   at   once   whimsical   and    tender,    clear- 
sighted and  romantic."     Amy  Loveman 
+   Lit  R  p891  Ag  11  '23  600w 

"  'Roman  Pictures'  is  the  book  of  a  penetrat- 
ing judge  of  character,  a  satiric  observer  of 
manners,  and  an  accomplished  literary  artist. 
It  will  appeal  most  strongly  to  those  familiar 
with  English  and  American  society  in  Rome, 
but  will  be  enjoyed  and  admired  by  all  who  ap- 


312 


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LUBBOCK,    P. — Continued 

predate  a  finished  style,  a  well-knit  unity,  and 
a  well-governed  satiric  mood."  Grant  Shpwer- 
man  „     ,„ 

-f   Nation   117:668      D  5   "23   750w 
"For  my  part  I  like  this  book,  it  is  one  of  the 
few    bearable    books    on    Italy    in    the    world    so 
far "     S.   Y. 

4- "New  Repub  36:54  S  5  '23  1500w 
"A  book  which  a  faithful  remnant  will  in  all 
probability  find  themselves  not  only  re-readinp. 
but  reading:  again  and  again,  for  the  delicate 
pleasure  of  his  unobtrusive  yet  alert  companion- 
ship, and  of  sharing  the  harvest  of  a  quiet  but 
unerring  eye."   D.   M. 

-j-  New  Statesman  21:274  Je  9  '23  1600w 
"The  author's  style  has  at  once  the  smooth- 
ness, the  poli.sh,  even  the  hard  sheen  of  ivory, 
yet  is  perfumed  and  languorous.  'Roman  Pic- 
tures' is  not  a  book  to  be  read  through  hur- 
riedly; nor  should  one  apply  one's  self  to  a  con- 
tinuous reading.  There  is  no  necessary  se- 
quence to  the  chapters;  the  volume  may  be 
opened  anywhere,  read,  and  put  do^wn.  And 
this  is  the  best  way  to  get  at  its  charm,  its 
flavor — a  flavor  of  old  wine  slightly  spiced  with 
modernity." 

-f  N  Y  Times  pll  .71  22  '23  1900w 
"How  subtle  the  art  is  and  how  delightful 
the  humour,  and  how  delicate  the  satire,  can 
only  be  realized  by  reading  the  book.  The  char- 
acter drawing  is  excellent  and  the  people  are 
alive." 

+  Spec  130:1088  Je  30  '23  520w 
"Needless  to  say,  these  brisk-paced  scenes  are 
not  desultory  sketches,  with  loose  ends  to  them. 
One  fits  into  another  with  the  compactness  of 
terza  rima,  the  writer  picking  up  in  each  scene 
a  new  character  who  dominates  the  scene  that 
follows.  .  .  These  little  ironies  of  the  human 
may  persuade  us  that  one  of  the  best  ways  to 
convey  the  sense  of  Rome  is  to  look  at  it  as  he 
has   done,   obliquely." 

+  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p385  Je  7 
'23    1500W 

LUBY,   JAIVIES   PATRICK    KENYON.     One  who 

gave  his  life;  war  letters  of  Quincy  Sharpe 
Mills;  with  a  sketch  of  his  life  and  ideals;  a 
study  in  Americanism  and  heredity.  490p  il 
$4.50  Putnam 

B    or    92     Mills,    Quincy    Sharpe.      European 

war,   1914-1919 — Personal  narratives       23-202 

Lieutenant    Quincy    Sharpe     Mills,     1884-1918, 

was  a   North   Carolinian,   a   reporter  and,    later, 

editorial  writer  on  the  New  York  Sun,  who  was 

.killed    in    battle    near    Chateau-Thierry.      About 

half   the    book   is   given   to   a    sketch   of  his   life 

and  ideals,   the  rest  is  taken  up  with  his  letters 

written  from,  training  camp  and  from  the  battle 

line.     Most  of  them  are  addressed  to  his  mother 

and   are   personal    in    tone.     They    are    excellent 

reading,     from    their    cheerfulness    and    humor, 

their  descriptions  of  French  life  and  of  military 

engagements  and  their  interesting  comment. 


LUCAS,  SIR  CHARLES  PRESTWOOD.  Parti- 
tion and  colonization  of  Africa.  228p  $4.20 
Oxford   [12s   6d  Milford] 

960     Africa — Colonization.     Africa — History 

22-21426 
"Sir  Charles  Lucas  was  for  long  a  distin- 
guished official  of  the  Colonial  Ofhce  at  White- 
hall. The  book  itself  had  its  origin  in  lectures 
delivered  at  the  Royal  Colonial  Institute  to  a 
study  circle  of  teacneis  o:  the  London  County 
Council.  His  lectures  are,  for  the  most  part,  a 
bare  record  of  facts,  of  the  slave  trade  and  the 
explorations,  of  missionary  enterprise,  of  the 
scramble  for  and  partition  of  Africa,  and  of  the 
African  campaigns  of  the  great  war.  In  so  far 
as  any  historian  can  be  impartial  and  objec- 
tive, Sir  Charles  Lucas  succeeds  in  being  so; 
his  facts  are  facts,  and  no  one  can  possibly 
deny  it.  .  .  They  are  official  facts  recorded  in 
Blue  Books  and  White  Books,  sanctified  in 
State  Papers,  and  apotheosised  in  imperial 
histories.  And  only  the  official  facts  find  a 
place  in  Sir  Charles  Lucas's  pages." — New 
Statesman 


"The  war  letters  breathe  a  cheerful  optimism, 
are  bright  and  cheery,  but,  of  course,  being 
written  from  the  front,  they  contain  nothing 
concerning  the  movements  of  the  troops.  Never- 
theless, they  are  all  excellent  reading  and  give 
an  insight  into  the  life  of  the  American  soldier 
in    France." 

+   Boston   Transcript  p6   F   14   '23   450w 

"If  there  be  any  man  who  fears  his  sons  are 
growing  up  without  a  clear  sense  of  the  spirit 
that  animated  the  best  of  America's  youth  in 
the  great  war,  he  can  not  do  better  "than  to 
place  this  book  into  their  hands  and  bid  them 
read  it."     L.  G. 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    pl3    F 
11  "23  1850w 

Lit    R   p630   Ap   21   '23   200w 
N   Y  Times  p3   Mr  4  '23   900w 
Reviewed  by  P:  Felix 

N  Y  Tribune  p27  Mr  25  '23  1150w 
N  Y  World  pile  Ap  29  '23  240w 


"Sometimes  rather  confusing,  and  for  his 
purpose  of  stimulating  interest  and  provoking 
further  reading  it  would  have  been  better  had 
he  contented  himself  with  laying  down  the 
broader  lines  of  his  thesis  and  leaving  his 
audience  to  fill  up  the  rest  for  themselves.  On 
the  other  hand,  the  statement  of  the  compara- 
tive merits  of  the  French  and  British  systems 
of  colonial  administration  is  well  worth  giving 
to  an  English  audience,  which  is  apt  to  over- 
look the  peculiar  advantages  in  certain  respects 
of  systems  different   from   their  own."  Basil 

Williams 

H Am    Hist    R    29:146   O    '23    600w 

"An  excellent  brief  survey,  showing  how 
Africa  has  become  a  virtual  dependency  of 
Europe,  and  how  its  different  colonics  come  into 
being    and    are    governed." 

+  Am    Pol    Sci    R    17:342    My    '23    150w 
Booklist    19:313    Jl    '23 
"Although   these   lectures  are   comprised   in    a 
somewhat  small  volume,  Sir  Charles  has  covered 
in   a  wonderfully  succinct  style  a  broad   line  of 
modern  history  which  has  perhaps  never  before 
been   undertaken   and   which   comprises   an  out- 
line  for   a  study   of  deep  interest."     E.   J.   C. 
+   Boston    Transcript   p4   F    3   '23   850w 
"The    historical    series    of    events    which    ex- 
plains the  present  position   of  European   powers 
in  Africa  is  set  out  both  simply  and  effectively, 
but    the    main    attraction    of    the    book    is    un- 
doubtedly  the   expression    of   the   author's   opin- 
ions on  the  relations  of  Europeans  and  natives." 
A.    B.    K. 

+    Eng    Hist   R   38:309  Ap  '23   400w 
"Within   its  limits   this  book   is  a  correct  and 
competent  piece  of  work,  easy  to  read  and  easy 
to    remember."     Hubert   Harrison 

H Nation    117:247    S    5    '23    320w 

"His  book  is  of  value  only  in  so  far  as  Its 
readers  remember  that  throughout  it  gives  a 
severely  official  view  of  highly  controversial  and 
complicated  facts  and  events,  and  also,  perhaps, 
because  it  records,  in  a  rather  jejune  manner, 
a  large  number  of  details  about  the  partition 
of  Africa."     L.  F.  W. 

—  New  Statesman  20:246  N  25  '22  650w 
"This  book  is  a  brief  but  clear  survey  of  the 
history  of  the  relationship  of  Africa  to  the 
civilized  world.  There  is  very  little  here  to  stir 
the  imagination,  save  possibly  in  the  opening 
chapters.  Even  in  those,  however,  the  author 
is  rigidly  abstemious,  and  seldom  attempts  to 
clothe  the  bare  bones  of  political  history." 
+  Spec  129:769   N   25  '22  600w 

Springf'd  Republican  pl2  My  2  '23  500w 
"The  tribute  is  due  that  it  takes  a  man  of 
large  mind  to  prepare  so  great  a  subject  for  so 
comparatively  small  an  audience.  But  the  book 
will,  through  these  professional  teachers,  as- 
suredly find  a  wide  audience,  especially  over- 
seas. We  venture  a  prophecy  that  when  the 
volume  finds  its  way  into  the  schools  of  Africa 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


313 


it    will    be    read    for    pleasure    as    well   as    for 
knowledge." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p756    N 
23  '22  1950w 

LUCAS,       EDWARD       VERRALL.         Genevra's 
money.    307p  .$2      Doran 

23-8181 
When  Genevra  died  her  money,  safely  in- 
vested in  an  old  established  insurance  company, 
was  left  to  her  husband,  to  be  used  at  his  dis- 
cretion to  help  those  of  her  nephews  and  nieces 
whom  he  found  worthy.  Uncle  Cavanagh's  first 
duty,  then,  was  to  become  acquainted  with  these 
young-  people,  so  he  started  on  a  tour  of  inspec- 
tion to  scrutinize  them  in  their  own  homes.  The 
quest  led  him  far  afield  and  it  ended  suddenly 
with  the  failure  of  the  company  in  which  the 
money  was  invested.  It  had  yielded  no  benefi- 
ciaries for  Genevra's  money,  but  had  given 
Uncle  Cavanagh  a  most  amusing  year.  He  had 
recovered  his  lost  knack  of  meeting  new  people 
and  he  had  made  friends  with  some  very  likable 
children. 


Booklist   20:21   O   '23 
"Wliat   we   like   best  of  all   is  that  Mr.   Lucas 
allows   us    to   share   his   discreet   smile   over   the 
foibles  of  his   people.     We  share  it  even   to  the 
end — and  afterward."    D.   L.   M. 

+   Boston    Transcript   p4   Je   20   '23    lOOOw 
Cleveland  p42  Je  '23 
"It's  a  satisfying  book  because  its  characters 
are  real  and  entertaining  people." 
-f  Int  Bk  R  p44  Jl  '23  420w 
"Mr.  Lucas  hates  scenes,  one  feels.    He  would 
go   miles    out    of  his   way   to   avoid   one.        Give 
him  a  cup  of  tea  and  a  friend  with  a  tolerant 
ear  and  he  can  gossip  on  without  tiring.     That 
is    what    he    does    in     'Genevra's    Money."      His 
novel   is   so   much   froth.      But   it   is   not  vulgar, 
crude  froth  of  life.     It  is  very  genteel,  very  cul- 
tivated, a  sort  of  whipped  cream  froth."     Edwin 
Seaver 

1-   Lit    R   pS30   Jl   14   '23   500w 

"Casual  chatter,  chance  observations,  sound 
philosophy — all  have  their  part  in  this  engaging 
volume.  A  whimsicality  so  natural  that  it  bears 
no  trace  of  the  bizarre,  and  the  spirit  of  good 
humor  also  pervades  Mr.  Lucas's  pleasant  pages. 
The  author  writes  as  one  who  sees  the  flaws 
in  human  nature  but  likes  it  just  the  same." 
+  N  Y  Times  pl9  My  6  '23  850w 
"Gentle,  leisurely,  amiable  humor  is  E.  "V. 
Lucas's  strong  point.  He  has  already  written 
more  than  fifty  books,  most  of  which  stress  this 
point  with  varying  degrees  of  emphasis,  and 
this,  his  latest,  is  an  admirable  example  of  it 
In  all  its  glory.  It  is  a  wandering,  easy-going 
sort  of  narrative,  with  much  more  wandering 
than  narrative,  and  the  reviewer  has  to  fight 
the  continual  temptation  to  call  it  whimsical." 
Edith   I^eighton 

-f  N    Y   Tribune   p25  My  13  '23  800w 
"Lovers  of  E.  V.  Lucas's  clever  work  will. need 
only    to    be    told    that    'Genevra's    Money'    is    in 
the  key  and  vein   of  'Verena  in    the  Midst.'  " 
+   N  Y  World  pile  Ap  29  '23  BOOw 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  220w 

LUCAS,     EDWARD     VERRALL.     Luck    of    the 
-    year.   184p  $2  Doran    [6s  Methuen] 

824  23-16687 

The  essays,  fantasies  and  stories  of  which 
this  little  book  is  made  up  are  engaging  trifles 
only,  but  Mr  Lucas  often  drops  a  word  of  wis- 
dom among  his  drolleries.  Partial  contents:  My 
first  authors;  The  lost  stick;  On  the  borders  of 
Paris;  Scents;  Names;  The  human  touch;  Our 
feathered  friends;  Fate  malevolent;  The  pork 
pie;  Black-sanding;  A  poker  problem;  Wben 
time  is  money;  Rivalry;  Wax;  A  mother's  coun- 
sel; London  in  June. 


satisfying.    He    must    be    a    nice    man    to   know, 
too." 

+  Detroit   News  p23  D  9  '23  90w 
"It    is    typical    of    Lucas — gracefully    phrased 
observation  and   mild  philosophy." 

+  Lit  R  p372  D  1.5  '23  llOw 
"Mr.  Lucas  grows,  if  possible,  more  illusive, 
more  insinuating,  more  droll.  His  talent  is  one 
which  might  very  easily  have  been  over  refined. 
But  instead,  life  has  continued  to  enrich  it  and 
time  to  mellow,  while  the  old  sleight-of-hand 
has  never  settled  into  habit." 

+  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p686  O  18 

'23   700w 

LUCAS,  EMILY  BEATRIX  COURSOLLES.  See 
Jones,   E.   B.   C. 

LUCAS,  WILLIAM  PALMER.  Health  of  the 
runabout  child;  the  journey  from  his  mother's 
lap  to  the  school  gate.  229p  il  $1.75  Mac- 
millan 

649.1  Children — Care  and  hygiene  23-7338 
The  period  from  two  to  six  in  the  child's  life 
is  here  under  consideration.  The  physical  and 
mental  growth  of  this  period  is  treated  in  all  its 
aspects.  Development  and  nutrition  charts  are 
given,  descriptions  of  the  prevailing  diseases  of 
childhood  and  warning  against  pitfalls  to  be 
avoided.  Contents:.  Heredity;  Normal  growth 
and  development;  Hygiene  and  health  problems; 
Modern  health  ideas  for  children;  Health  cen- 
ters; Common  diseases;  Defects  of  the  pre- 
school child;  Nutrition,  diet  and  malnutrition; 
Recreation;  Character  training  in  childhood; 
Behavioristic  psychology  of  the  little  child.  In- 
dex. 


"The  glittering,  if  somewhat  tenuous  thread 
of  British  pleasantry  and  humor  is  spun  out 
to  unbelievable  finesses  by  E.  V.  Lucas  in  his 
latest.  His  essays  are  fairly  original,  nleasantly 
humorous  and  have  enough  truth  in  them  to  be 


Booklist  20:45  N  '23 
"He  writes  convincingly  and  with  clearness 
and  vivacity.  It  is  a  book  preeminently  for 
mothers,  nurses,  primary  teachers  and  others 
who  have  an  interest  in  childhood,  that  hope  of 
the  coming  age." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  18  '23  130w 
"There  is  nothing  better  in  this  still  very 
meagre  literature  than  this  new  book  b.v  Dr. 
Lucas.  Probably  there  are  very  few  parents  of 
little  children  but  will  find  much  in  it  that  will 
interest  and   benefit   them." 

+  N    Y   Times  pl8   My   6   '23   480w 
R  of  Rs  68:112  Jl  '23  60w 

LUCATELLI,  LUIG1.     Teodoro  the  sage:   tr.  by 
Morris   Bishop.      238p    $2    Boni    &    Liveright 

23-5824 
A  biographical  sketch  of  the  author,  by  his 
friend  Federico  Mastrigli,  serves  as  an  intro- 
duction to  this  collection  of  sketches,  sayings 
and  stories  clustered  about  the  fictitious  per- 
son of  Teodoro  Nasica,  the  sage.  In  them  all 
the  virtues,  vices,  weaknesses  and  pretensions 
of  the  human  race  are  castigated  with  gentle 
satire  and  humor.  These  latter  are  the  am- 
buscade from  which  the  sage  persists  to  fiing 
his  truths  after  his  first  disastrous  experiment 
to  live  openly   "according  to   the  truth." 

Booklist  20:101  D  '23 

"The  fifty-six  sketches  which  make  up  the 
present  volume  are  of  widely  varying  merit. 
Some,  and  particularly  those  in  which  the  idea 
is  not  new,  fall  decidedly  fiat;  others  are  little 
masterpieces."    J.    F.    S. 

-I Boston    Transcript  p4   Mr  31    '23   520w 

Freeman  7:551  Ag  15  '23  300w 

Reviewed    by    Arthur    Livingston 
Int    Bk    R   plO   Je   '23   1700w 

"In  his  compact  and  limpid  style  and  in  the 
dexterous  twist  he  gives  to  the  end  of  each 
sketch,  fable,  or  short  story,  the  Italian  writer 
shares  in  some  degree  the  greatness  of  the 
Frenchman  [De  Maupassant]."  Marian  Duble 
-I-   Lit   R  p731  Je  2  '23  780w 

"He  sees  straight  and  has  the  courage  and 
power  to  tell  what  he  sees.  The  man  who  sees 
straight  and  thinks  clearly  when  considering 
humanity  is  called  a  cynic.  If  the  right  word 
bite   instead   of   caress,    the   writer   is   a   misan- 


314 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


LUCATELLI,    L.—Continued 

thrope  and  pessimist.  Lucatelli's  pen  pictures 
of  humanity  are  not  flattering  or  comforting  but 
they  resemble  the  original  to  a  high  degree." 
H.  I.   Young 

Nation  117:301  S  19  '23  550w 

"Teodoro  is  an  admirable  reporter.  Indeed, 
the  brevity  of  his  style,  his  ability  to  get  in- 
stantly to  the  heart  of  the  matter,  his  succinct 
phrasing,  his  perception  of  the  end  when  it  has 
been  reached,  all  give  proof  that  he  was  no 
cub  writing  on  space.  It  is  our  own  guess^ 
Humanity,  a  very  large  portion  of  it,  will  cherish 
his  one  notebook  as  part  oi  tiie  world's  per- 
manent  literary   treasure." 

+  N   Y  Times  plO  Mr  18  '23  2200w 

"Some  of  the  brief  word  pictures  in  'Teodoro, 
the  Sage,'  are  the  microcosms  of  three-volume 
novels;  others  are  O.  Henry  in  a  bitter  and 
caustic  mood  that  was  never  his;  not  a  few 
are  George  Ade's  fables  with  an  unwonted 
stinging  acidity  injected."  F:  F.  Van  de  Watei 
N  Y  Tribune  pl9  Mr  18  '23  1400w 
N    Y   World   p8e  Ap  22   '23   480w 

"Lucatelli  is  dead,  leaving  the  world  free  to 
decide  for  itself  whether  he  were  humorist, 
farceur  or  satirist,  or  all  three  in  one,  with 
something  to  boot.  His  'pieces'  are  keen, 
pointed  and  abounding  in  'pep.'  He  is  agile, 
irreverent,  daring,  socialistic,  abrupt,  unex- 
pected, provocative,  absurd — and  methodical;  for 
he  writes  to  pattern." 

-I-  Sprlngfd  Republican  plO  My  8  '23  150w 

LUCKIESH,  MATTHEW.  Ultraviolet  radiation; 
its  oroperties.  production,  measurement,  and 
applications.  258p  11  $3.50  "Van  Nostrand 

535.3      Spectrum,    Ultra-violet.      Ultra-violet 
rays  23-754 

"Brief  and  not  highly  technical." — Pittsburgh 
Mo    Bui 


"Though  Mr.  Luckiesh  has  taken  great  care 
to  present  accurate  data  and  has  stated  his 
facts  in  very  definite  terms,  there  are,  never- 
theless, a  few  things  about  his  book  which  in- 
vite adverse  criticism."     A.  F.  Kovarik 

H Lit    R   p832   Jl   14   '23   720w 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:58    F    '23 

LUCKIESH,  MATTHEW.  Visual  illusions,  their 
causes,  characteristics  and  applications.  252p 
11    $3    Van    Nostrand 

535.7      Optical    illusions  22-3634 

"Describes  in  detail  the  various  types  of 
'static'  optical  illusions  .  .  .  and  lays  emphasis 
upon  their  piactical  effects  in  everyday  vision 
rather  than  upon  the  conflicting  theoretical  ex- 
planations which  have  been  advanced  to  ac- 
count for  them.  The  discussion  is  introduced 
by  two  very  clearly  written  chapters  upon  the 
mechanism  of  the  eye  and  upon  the  general 
principles  of  monocular  and  binocular  vision. 
.  .  .  The  discussion  of  terrestrial  and  marine 
camouflage  is  of  special  interest.  (J  Optical 
Soc    of    Am.    1923>" — Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 

Cleveland   p29   Ap   '23 
Reviewed  by  Dr.  M.  R.  Niefeld 

Lit  R  p237  N  10  '23 
"The    book    is    well    written    and    attractively 
produced,    and    should   be   of   interest    to    others 
as  well  as  to  students  of  psychology." 
+  Nature   111:876   Je   30   '23    150w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:167    Ap   '23 

LUCY,  SIR  HENRY  WILLIAM.  Diary  of  a 
journalist;  fresh  extracts,  v  3  306p  $5  Dut- 
ton   [12s  Murray] 

920 
The  third  volume  of  the  diary  of  Toby.  M. 
P.  deals  with  the  years  from  1910  thru  1916. 
Written  chiefly  in  the  earlier  stages  of  the 
Great  war,  it  contains  many  passages  throwing 
side-hghts  on  its  progress  and  on  the  civilians 
and  soldiers  actively  engaged. 


"Like  the  two  which  preceeded  it,  this  Diary 
is  crammed  with  new  facts  about  well-known 
figures  in  political  and  national  life.  Nor  is 
there  the  slightest  touch  of  that  curious  egotism 
which  often  injures  the  work  of  authors  more 
distinguished  even  than  Sir  Henry  himself." 
+  Boston  Transcript  p3  D  1  '23  520w 

"Haphazard  and  generally  amusing  anecdotes 
of  personalities  (mainly  titled)  who  have  had 
their  names  in  the  papers,  from  1910  to  1916.  .  . 
A  book  with  hardly  a  boring  page." 

-f   New    Statesman    21:504    Ag    4    '23    700w 

"Either  Sir  Henry  Lucy  has  kept  his  diary 
with  very  extraordinary  prescience  of  what 
would  become  significant  a  decade  or  two  later 
or  he  possesses  in  a  very  unusual  degree  the 
talent  to  be  his  own  anthologist.  Whatever  the 
explanation,  the  pleasant  fact  remains  that 
there  are  hardly  three  pages  of  his  three  hun- 
dred that  could  be  spared,  and  among  his  many 
anecdotes  perhaps  only  one  is  too  old  for  repeti- 
tion.    Of  his  more  solid  merits  accuracy  is  not 

+   Sat    R   136:386  O   6  '23   600w 

Sprlngfd   Republican  p7a  N  4   '23  1300w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p479   Jl 
19  '23  lOOOw 

LUDOVICI,     ANTHONY     MARIO.       Woman;     a 
vindication.     331p     $3     Knopf     [12s  Constable] 
396    Woman  23-11756 

The  author  justifies  his  title  on  the  ground 
that  the  place  of  woman  in  the  scheme  of 
things  is  as  mother  of  the  race  and  that  any- 
thing that  tends  to  interfere  with  her  physical 
vigor  and  constitutional  bias  in  favor  of  life  is 
evil.  On  this  ground  he  deplores  the  feminist 
tendencies  as  a  tinsel  of  dangerous  sentiment 
and  sentimentality,  an  absurd  idealization  which 
disfigures  and  distorts  and  which  will  ulti- 
mately ruin  her  and  the  race.  Having  divided 
women  into  the  positive  and  the  negative  type 
he  proceeds  to  describe  the  negative  woman  as 
an  artificial  product  and  to  show  all  the  in- 
stinctive virtues  and  vices  of  the  positive 
woman  as  necessary  for  the  survival  of  the 
species  at  all  costs.  He  scorns  the  idea  of 
making  woman  honest,  upright,  straightforward, 
impartial,  scrupulous,  or  of  destroying  her  love 
of  petty  power,   her  vanity  and  her  sensuality. 


Bookm  58:334  N  '23  150w 
"One  of  those  books  written  at  the  top  of  the 
author's  voice.  Its  English  is  excessively  ora- 
torical and  there  is  much  dogmatic  repetition 
of  dubious  points,  much  argument  by  epithet. 
Behind  every  paragraph  is  the  ever  charming 
and  modest  assumption  that  all  the  persons  on 
the    other    side    are    knaves    or    fools."      M.    M. 

—  NY  World  p8e  S  9  '23  llOOw 

"The  chief  fault  we  have  to  find  with  this 
modestly-titled  thesis  is  a  certain,  possibly  in- 
tentional, lack  of  documentation.  It  has  not  been 
his  method  to  include  the  concrete  Instances 
upon  which  most  of  his  generalizations  have 
been  founded." 

H Sat   R  136:47  Jl  14  '23  550w 

"Mr  Ludovici  admits  that  feminism  is  in  the 
air,  and  thinks  there  is  danger  of  developing  a 
generation  of  women  which  will  refuse  to  recog- 
nize its  duty  to  the  race.  Whether  or  not  there 
is  ground  for  this  fear,  Mr  Ludovici,  with  his 
animosity  and  his  eroticism,  is  not  the  person 
to  awaken  in  recreants  a  sense  of  their  obliga- 
tion to  society.  The  temper  habitually  dis- 
played excites  resentment.  The  intelligence, 
gift  of  analysis  and  mastery  of  method  dis- 
played in  the  book  are  worthy  of  a  better  argu- 
ment." 

—  Springf'd   Republican   p7a  O   7  '23  500w 

"Mr.  Ludovici  says  quite  a  lot  of  true  things, 
a  good  many  more  that  are  only  half  true,  and 
not  a  few  that  are  not  even  that.  He  gives  us 
too  much  of  apriorism  and  illegitimate  infer- 
ence, and  there  are  queer  gaps  in  his  knowledge 
of  human  nature." 

—  -I-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p475    Jl 
12  '23  280w 


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LUTZ,  GRACE  LIVINGSTON  HILL  (MRS 
FLAVIUS  J.  LUTZ).  Tomorrow  about  this 
time.    345p   $2    Lippincott 

23-11080 
A  scientist,  after  years  abroad  on  research 
work,  returns  home  to  find  himself  suddenly 
with  two  daughters  on  his  hands.  The  older, 
child  of  his  first  wife  is  lovely  and  sweet  like 
her  mother;  the  younger  is  also  like  her  mother, 
Greeve's  divorced  wife,  a  vixen  and  a  super- 
flapper.  She  conceives  a  great  hatred  of  her 
half-sister,  leads  her  father  and  the  household 
a  dance,  and  shocks  and  scandalizes  the  town. 
After  many  explosive  scenes  and  escapades  the 
shrew  is  finally  subdued  and  Greeves,  in  the 
process,  becomes  a  changed  man  and  is  led 
back  to  the  God  of  his  childhood. 


"The  publishers  claim  that  Mrs.  Hill  is  a 
writer  of  'wholesome  romances.'  Her  story  quite 
justifies   this  characterization." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  18  '23  250w 
"The  small  town  atmosphere  is  well  done,  but 
the  main  characters  are  painted  with  too  heavy 
a  brush  and  too  elusive  a  use  of  primary  pig- 
ments to  be  very  convincing,  and  the  denoue- 
ment lacks  probability." 

h  Cath  World  118:282  N  "23  200w 

"In  many  respects  the  author  is  highly  skill- 
ful in  her  portrayal,  and  the  book  will  serve 
admirably  for  the  whiling  away  of  hot  after- 
noons." 

H Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   p8   Ag 

19  '23  300w 

Lit  R  p49  S  15  '23  250w 
"A  strongly  marked  religious  atmosphere  per- 
meates the  little  town  where  the  scene  of  the 
story  is  laid  and  becomes  an  important  element 
in  the  novel." 

N   Y  Times  p21  Jl  1   '23   620w 
Reviewed  by  E.  W.  Osborn 

N  Y  World  pl9e  Jl  8  '23  160w 

LYESKOV,  NICOLAI  LEIM YONOVITCH.  Sen- 
try, and  other  stories;  tr.  by  A.  E.  Chamot; 
with  an  introd.  by  Edward  Garnett.  320p  il 
$2.50   Knopf 

23-10908 
The  collection  has  an  introduction  by  Edward 
Garnett  with  biographical  data  and  a  literary 
appreciation  of  the  works  of  Lyeskov,  of  which 
the  present  volume  is  the  first  translation  in 
English.  In  The  Sentry,  the  central  fact,  from 
which  the  incidents  of  the  story  spring,  is  that 
a  sentry  saves  the  life  of  a  drowning  man,  well 
knowing  that  under  no  pretext  whatsoever  ought 
he  to  leave  the  sentry  box.  The  outcome  of  the 
affair  shows  how  adroitly  the  cast  iron  code  of 
military  discipline  can  on  occasion  be  circum- 
vented. The  other  stories  are:  The  Lady  Mac- 
beth of  the  Mzinsk  district;  The  toupee  artist; 
On  the  edge  of  the  world. 


Booklist   20:102  D   '23 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Ja  9  '24  320w 

Cleveland  p69  S  '23 

Freeman  8:239  N  14  '23  300w 
"The  four  tales  in  this  volume  are  equal  to 
the  best  of  Chekhov  or  Turgenev,  and  they  are 
better  rendered  into  English."  J:  J.  Smertenko 
-f  Nation  117:358  O  3  '23  200w 
"As  a  gallery  of  pictures  of  Russian  life  be- 
fore the  revolution  'The  Sentry'  will  appeal  to 
the  student  of  mankind.  As  a  collection  of  fic- 
tion it  will  not  fail  to  interest  the  artist  in 
words.  The  four  tales  that-  make  up  the  vol- 
ume are  told  so  artlessly  that  it  may  be  doubted 
if  any  of  them  could  pass  even  the  first  line  of 
defense  in  a  present-day  magazine  office.  Yet 
they  have  power  of  insight  and  depth  of  im- 
pression seldom  approached  in  our  age  of  clever- 
ness." 

H NY  Times  pl9  Jl  8  '23  800w 

"The  material  of  the  book  is  the  cowed,  cruel 
life  of  the  peasant  and  middle  classes  in  Old 
Russia.  Sometimes  the  author's  humor  is  tol- 
erant and  throws  into  relief  graver  emotions; 
sometimes,    as    in    'The    Lady    Macbeth    of    the 


Minsk  District,'  it  is  bitter  and  adds  horror  to 
a  recapitulation  of  harsh  events.  Pathos  and 
terror  are  implicit  in  all  the  stories,  but  never 
completely   evoked."     Eva   Goldbeck 

N  Y  Tribune  p23  Jl  29  '23  350w 
"In  length  the  stories  smack  of  *a  complete 
novelette  in  this  issue.'  In  manner  they  seem 
amazingly  like  the  burlesque  of  Russian  fiction 
without  which  no  current  magazine  is  com- 
plete."   Laurence  Stallings 

—  NY  World  p9e  Jl  29  '23  lOOw 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:509   D    '23 

LYNCH,    BOHUN.    Knuckles    and    gloves;    pre- 
face by  Sir  Theodore  Cook.   217p  il  $3.50  Holt 

79G  Boxing 
"Fists  and  the  man  is  the  theme  of  Mr. 
Lynch' s  volume,  wherein  he  tells  the  story  of 
the  art  of  boxing  and  its  use  in  the  prize  ring 
from  its  earliest  days  until  the  present  time, 
with  full  descriptions  of  famous  battles  and  of 
the  men  who  fought  them.  .  .  Beginning  with 
'the  real  father  of  the  ring,'  John  Broughton, 
who  was  champion  from  1738  to  1750,  Mr.  Lynch 
follows  the  growth  and  decline  of  pugilism 
down  through  the  years,  and  the  development 
afterward  of  boxing,  in  thirty-four  chapters 
which  describe  as  many  battles  famous  in 
their  day  and  describe  the  appearance  and  dis- 
cuss the  personalities  and  methods  of  almost 
fifty  men  who  won  prominence  as  fighters  or 
boxers.  This  history  comes  down  as  late  as 
the  contest  between  Carpentier  and  Dempsey 
in  New  Jersey  two  years  ago  and  that  between 
Carpentier  and  Cook  in  London  in  the  winter 
of  1922."— N  Y  Times 


"Mr.  Lynch  or  his  publishers  picked  a  v/hack- 
ing-good  title  in  'Knuckles  and  Gloves.'  It 
would  lead  one  to  expect  more  verve  and  life. 
As  it  is — well,  his  descriptions  of  battles  are 
those  of  a  cultured  Englishman  talking  of  a 
ring-contest  in  a  club,  with,  possibly,  ladies 
present."   Jim  Tully 

h   Int    Bk    R    pl4  Ag   '23   1500w 

"To  all  who  care  for  the  'manly  art'  we  can 
commend  this  volume  by  an  amateur  who  once 
stood  up  in  a  friendly  bout  with  Bob  Fitzsim- 
mons  and  takes,  in  the  history  of  boxing,  the 
interest  of  one  practically  conversant  with  the 
technique  of  this  mode  of  self-defence,  as  well 
as  the  interest  of  a  cultivated  student  of 
sport." 

-t-   Lit   R  p768  Je  16  '23  700w 

"He  does  it  all  so  interestingly,  with  so  much 
background  of  knowledge  of  human  nature,  so 
many  digressions  of  discussion  of  motive  and 
of  character,  so  pleasant  a  humor  and  so  gen- 
ial a  purpose  to  find  the  underlying  reasons 
for  the  fascination  of  this  sport  that  almost 
any  reader  of  inquiring  mind  will  discover  a 
good  many  charming  pages  in  the  volume." 
+   N   Y  Times  pl8  My  20  '23  700w 

Reviewed    bv   Hevwood   Brovm 

N    Y  World   p8e  Je   3   '23   480w 

LYND,    ROBERT.       Books    and    authors.       312p 
.$2.50      Putnam      [7s   6d   Cohden-Sanderson] 
804  Literature — History      and      criticism. 

Authors  23-2673 

The  author  maintains  that  literary  criticism 
which  confines  itself  to  analysis  and  does  not 
lead  to  a  synthesis  is  of  no  value;  that  the 
I)ositive  task  of  criticism  is  to  create  in  one's 
own  mind  an  image  of  a  writer's  genius  and 
then  to  try  to  clear  the  minds  of  one's  readers 
so  that  I  he  same  image  will  be  reflected  in 
theirs.  It  is  with  this  ideal  in  view  that  the 
essays  have  been  written.  Under  the  caption 
"More  or  kss  ancient."  some  of  the  writers 
chosen  are  "Victor  Hugo.  MoH&re,  Keats,  Lamb, 
Byron,  Shelley,  Hans  Andersen  and  Hawthorne. 
Am'ong  the  "More  or  less  modern"  are  Mnx 
Beerhohm,  Arnold  Bennett,  Conrad,  Wells, 
Vachel  I.,indsay,  Tchehov.  There  is  an  in- 
terlude on  the  ci'lt  of  dullness  and  a  final 
essay    on    the    critic. 


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LYND,  ROBERT — Continued 

"He  writes  with  intelligence,  charm,  and  hu- 
mor, and  with  an  expertness  and  a  distinction 
that  seem  peculiarly  English." 

+   Bookm   57:467   Je    "23   170w 

"Mere  smartness  is  the  constant  temptation  of 
a  talent  like  Mr.  Lynd's;  and  it  is  his  principal 
claim  on  our  attention  that  his  essential  so- 
briety of  taste,  his  persistent  rectitude  of  jvidg- 
ment,  have  kept  him  at  all  times  from  being 
merely  smart."     N.  A. 

+   Freeman    7:94   Ap   4   '23   250w 

"Mr.  Lynd's  draught  as  a  critic  of  literature 
is  not  great.  He  trims  his  sails  shrewdly, 
and  lays  his  course  in  the  safe  channels  clearly 
marked  by  well-established,  enlightened  con- 
temporary taste.  And  he  has  a  special  merit 
in  his  faculty  for  concreteness  and  personality 
of    style."     G.    H.    Carson 

\-  Nation    117:91   Jl   25   '23   320w 

"Mr.  Lynd  sometimes  slips;  but  his  slips  are 
surprisingly  light  and  infrequent  when  we  take 
into  account  the  wide  range  of  his  subjects, 
and  the  extreme  difficulty  of  preserving  both 
enthusiasm  and  discretion  in  writing  of  au- 
thors still  alive.  In  nothing  does  he  show 
his  quality  better  than  in  his  invariable  ap- 
plication to  modern  authors  of  the  standards 
which  can  only  be  secured  by  a  wide  ac- 
quaintance  with   the   greatest   art  of  the   past." 

-I Nation    and    Ath    32:160    O    28    '22    500w 

New    Statesman    20:48    O    14    '22    1250w 
N    Y   Times  p6  Mr  14   '23   550w 

"Mr.  Lynd  is  unfailingly  interesting  and 
stimulating.  He  is  informal,  breezy,  chatty, 
and  sociable.  He  does  not  stand  aloof.  He 
has  ideas,  opinions,  notions  to  impart  and  he 
imparts  them  with  grace,  good  humor,  com- 
araderie.  He  is  catholic  in  his  tastes;  but  the 
important  thing  is  that  he  is  a  man  of  taste." 
Burton   Rascoe 

-h   N    Y    Tribune    p7    Mr   4    '23    2650w 

"Interesting  not  only  for  the  author's  crotch- 
ets and  fancies,  but  because  it  manifests  the 
high  quality  of  literary  work  turned  out  for  the 
English  dailies."     Laurence  Stallings 

-f  N   Y   World   p9e  Mr  25  '23  1500w 

"Mr.  Lynd  is  not  one  of  the  detractors;  he 
is  clear-minded  and  scrupulous,  and  he  is  in- 
spired by  that  instinctive  love  of  letters  and 
passion  for  fine  expression  without  which  critical 
writing  is  nothing  but  a  tinkling  cymbal." 
+  Sat    R    134:319    Ag    2G    '22    600w 

"Mr.  Lynd  is  eminently  quotable,  and  that 
this  should  be  so  is  a  sure  sign  of  a  certain 
kind  of  excellence;  in  fact,  ne  is  easier  to  quote 
from  than  to  criticize  for  what  he  aims  at  he 
achieves,  and  his  aim,  if  modest,  is  worthy. 
He  perfectly  knows  his  limitations  and  his 
performance  within  those  limitations  is  de- 
lightful. He  seldom  flounders  because,  unlike 
more  ambitious  writers,  he  seldom  ventures 
out  of  his  depth." 

-I-   Spec    129:467    O    7    '22    700w 

"Mr  Lynd  is  at  his  lightest  in  this  book.  He 
is  capable  of  more  sustained  criticism  than  ap- 
pears here.  But  if  he  persists  in  being  witty 
rather  than  profound,  his  wit  is  on  the  side 
of  the  angels.  He  does  not  exalt  the  trivial 
or  the   freakish." 

1-  Springf  d     Republican     p8a     Mr    11     '23 

700w 

"Mr.  Lynd  writes  charmingly  and  sympathet- 
ically, of  man.v  cleverly;  only  of  a  few,  how- 
ever, in  his  best  moments  can  he  be  said  to 
write    as    the    great    critics." 

-I-  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p518   Ag 
10    '22   1600W 

LYND,     ROBERT.      Solomon    in    all    his    glory. 

251p     $2.50     Putnam    [7s  6d   G.  Richards] 

824  23-9268 

Another  collection  of  Mr.  Lynd's  newspaper 
and  periodical  essays.  Among  these  twenty- 
seven  pieces  he  writes  of  country  sights  and 
sounds,  particularly  birds,  of  changing  houses, 
of  keeping  the  Sabbath,  of  women's  clothes, 
of  superstition,  of  riding  on  a  char-a-banc,  etc. 

Booklist  20:92  D  '23 


Bookm  58:341  N    23  150w 
"It   is   bad  enough   when   the  weekly  journals 
embalm    conversation    which    should    have    been 
brushed    away    with    the    crumbs    at    the    lunch 
table;   but  why  should  one  give  such  ephemera 
the   spurious  permanence  of  a  book?"  L.   C.   M. 
—  Freeman  8:143  O  17  '23  llOw 
Lit  R  p411  D  29  '23  300w 
New  Repub  36:262  O  31  '23  70w 
"Charming  essays." 

-|-  New   Statesman   20:supxiv  D  2   '22   20w 
"The  author  has  charm  of  style  and  a  toler- 
ant philosophy." 

,-1-  Outlook  135:234  O  10  '23  20w 
"Unlike  most  men's  periodical  essays,  Mr. 
Lynd's  actually  read  better  in  a  book  than  they 
do  separately  in  the  papers  they  first  appeared 
in.  They  have  a  quality  that  is  often  talked 
about,  but  actually  very  rarely  discovered,  and 
that  is  charm.  Mr.  Lynd  is  sane  and  tolerant 
without  ever  being  platitudinous,  witty  without 
ever  being  ill-natured,  sparkling  without  being 
strained,  gently  paradoxical  (for  the  essay  is 
talk,  and  what  is  talk  without  paradox?)  with- 
out ever  really  departing  from  those  sound  eth- 
ical judgments  that  underlie  the  work  of  all 
men  who  write  from  the  heart.  Given  such  an 
author,  his  subject  hardly  matters." 
+  Spec  130:109  Ja  20  '23  350w 
"He  proves  to  be  a  very  good  type  of  essayist, 
and  largely  for  this  reason.  He  is  at  his  best 
when  he  has  something  to  say.  That  means 
that  not  all  his  essavs  are  equally  good." 

H Springf'd  Republican  plO  D  22  '23  lOOOw 

"Mr.  Lynd's  new  volume  sets  beyond  doubt 
his  claim  to  a  place  among  the  best  modern 
essayists.  Though  not  every  one  of  these 
twenty-seven  pieces  is  of  permanent  value, 
there  is  none  but  contains  felicitous  turns  of 
thought  and  style,  none  that  does  not  display 
wit,  humour,  and  a  talent  for  vivid  suggestion." 
+  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p837  D 
14   '22  1050w 

LYON,    LAURANCE.    "WTien  there  is  no  peace. 
319p   $3      Doran 

940.5  Reconstruction  (European  war) — 
Europe.  France — Foreign  relations.  Europe — 
Politics  23-9315 

The  author  appears  to  have  much  inside  in- 
formation about  events  during  and  since  the 
war  and  a  wide  acquaintance  among  political 
and  official  personages.  Much  of  his  account  is 
in  diary  form.  He  reviews  the  situation,  from 
personal  experience  in  Spain  during  the  war  and 
in  1919;  gives  a  great  deal  of  attention  to 
Anglo-French  relations,  with  adversely  critical 
comments  on  Lloyd  George;  devotes  a  special 
chapter  to  Ludendorff  and  expresses  his  opin- 
ions on  German  affairs  with  a  final  chapter  on 
the  Ruhr.  He  entirely  approves  of  French  tac- 
tics and  thruout  the  book  his  friendly  attitude 
towards  the  Frertch  is  most  pronounced.   Index. 


Am    Pol    Sci    R   17:682   N  '23   240w 

"The    anonymous    author   of    "The     Pomp     of 
Power'    should   have    rested   on   his  first   laurels. 
The  trouble  with  this  second  production  is  that 
it    is    dull — very    dull."     H.    F.    Armstrong 
—  Lit    R    p874    Ag    4    '23    650w 

"His  best  chapter  in  this  volume — much  of 
which  is  very  dull — deals  with  the  relations  of 
Lord  Haig  and  Mr.  Lloyd  George.  His  account 
is  the  most  accurate  and  detailed  that  has  yet 
been  printed." 

^   New    Statesman   20:730   Mr   24   '23    450w 

Reviewed    by    Silas    Bent 

N    Y    Times   p3   Je    17   '23    3000w 

"The  author  of  this  book  shows  more  inner 
intimacy  and  practical  experience  than  the  Mir- 
rorer  of  Whitehall.  He  is  absolutely  familiar 
with  everybody  and  everything  French.  His 
book  comprises  facts,  figures,  and  conclusions 
of  permanent  value  concerning  issues  that  are 
still  vital.  His  style  is  direct,  though  its  gram- 
mar sometimes  trips.  Our  sole  conaplaints  are 
that    often    he    reveals    the    known,    that    some- 


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times  he  emphasizes  the  irrelevant,  that,  here 
and  there,  whether  from  caution  or  coldness,  he 
praises  with  too  faint  a  damnation  the  very 
intriguers  whom  he  unmasks.  In  the  sum,  his 
aim — and  he  succeeds— is  to  track  the  complete 
breakdown  of  conference-diplomacy." 

^ Sat    R    135:435   Mr   31   '23    2050w 

"The  temptation  to  write  a  sequel  to  The 
Pomp  of  Power  was  no  doubt  great,  and  the 
author  would  have  been  more  than  human  if 
he  had  not  yielded  to  it.  But  the  new  informa- 
tion which  he  had  left  over  after  writing  his 
first  book  is  scant.  The  author  furbishes  up 
facts  which  are  familiar  and  which  cannot  be 
saved  from  staleness  by  the  pretence  of  an 
intimate    touch." 

—  Spec   130:514   Mr  24  '23   1050w 


LYONS,  ALBERT  MICHAEL  NEIL.     Fifty-fifty; 

a  blend  of  old  and  new.     318p     $2     Dodd     [7s 

6d  T.   Butterworth] 

The  book  is  a  collection  of  oddly  humorous 
sketches  ostensibly  of  the  author's  own  experi- 
ences about  London  and  the  English  country- 
side. The  first,  an  answer  to  a  letter  from  a 
child,  explains  the  title,  "Fifty-fifty,"  as  sym- 
bolic of  a  petrol  and  benzol  mixture,  used  in 
motor  cars  and  supposed  to  go  off  with  a  bang. 
Some  of  the  titles  are:  Parish  o'  Nowkere;  In- 
efficient Mr  Jones;  The  office  parrot;  The  wind 
which  blew  cold;  Cheery  bangers;  The  man  with 
two  chins;  Lightweight  happiness;  The  admir- 
able Henery;  A  pacifist  among  the  Perkinses; 
The   distressed  gentlewoman. 


LYTLE,  JOHN  HORACE.  Sandy  Oorang;  and 
other  stories  of  dogs  and  the  wilderness.  257p 
$1.75    l'"enno 

23-6447 

"Sandy  Oorang,  an  Airedale,  tells  his  own 
story,  from  puppyhood  to  old  age.  Born  on  a 
farm,  he  moves  to  a  city  home,  then  spends 
a  winter  in  the  Canadian  wilderness;  is  stolen; 
bears  a  part  in  the  World  War,  and  in  the  end 
wins  the  Croix  de  Guerre  and  is  reunited  to 
his  master.  'The  Heart  of  a  Pal'  tells  the 
story  of  a  Chesapeake  Bay  retriever,  while 
'The  Monarch  of  Moose  Lake'  has  for  its  central 
figure  'The  Big  Fellow,'  a  Canadian  moose. 
The  fourth  and  last  of  the  stories,  'The  Mighti- 
est Eagle,'  has  its  climax  in  the  wonder  of  the 
old  trapper  when  he  sees  his  first  airplane, 
which    to    him   seemed   a   miracle." — Lit   R 


Boston  Transcript  p5  Ag  25  '23  580w 
Cleveland  p69  S  '23 
"It  seems,  from  one  point  of  view,  rather 
a  shame  to  have  a  review  of  this  book  in  a 
paper.  'Fifty-fifty,'  the  latest  volume  from  the 
hand  of  one  A.  Neil  Lyons,  is  just  the  sort  of 
book  which  gives  the  reader  especial  pleasure 
to  come  upon  by  chance — to  discover  for  him- 
self. On  the  other  hand,  it  is  just  the  sort 
of  book,  too,  which  when  found  one  likes  very 
much  to  tell  others  about."  R.  C.  Holliday 
+  Lit  R  p895  Ag  11  '23  550w 
"If  certain  aspects  of  Anton  Tchekov,  O. 
Henry  and  Punch  could  be  isolated  and  then 
merged  the  result  might  be  something  approach- 
ing the  neat  sketches  of  A.  Neil  Lyons.  He  is 
frankly  fvmny.  He  makes  no  attempt  to  dis- 
guise the  fact  that  he  is  always  willing  to 
strain  a  point  to  be  funny.  And  yet  these  fig- 
ures of  his — there  are  a  host  of  them  in  the 
book — are    not    burlesques." 

-h   N  Y  Times  pl9  Jl  8  '23  800w 
"Mr.   Lyons  writes  with  a  conscious  but  gen- 
erally  effective   humor.     He    is    never    dull,    and 
he    doesn't    even    try   to    be   profound."     A.    D. 
Douglas 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p23  Jl  29  '23  320w 
"Mr.  Lyons  hasn't  the  form  and  structure  of 
W.  W.  Jacobs,  but  he  also  has  none  of  the  la- 
bored wit  and  prolonged  effect  of  the  harbor 
master.  His  fun  is  more  racy,  spontaneous  and 
acute.  His  types  are  more  varied,  and  he  has 
an  inexhaustible  stock  of  dialects."  Laurence 
Stallings 

+  N  Y  World  p9e  Jl  29  '23  300w 
"Mr  Lyons  has  something  of  the  'colyum-ist's' 
style;  he  writes  easily  of  everything  or  any- 
thing, and  manages  to  write  into  the  most 
commonplace  appearing  subject  a  bit  of  whim- 
sical humor  peculiarly  his  own.  And  he  is 
always  very  human  in  his  sympathy  and  under- 
standing as   well   as   in    his   ridicule." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  S  30  '23  350w 
"He  sees  the  'genteel'  or  Its  variants  everv- 
where;  it  is  his  King  Charles's  head;  and  wher- 
ever he  sees  that  head  he  hits  it.  The  conse- 
quence it  that  we  feel  that  we  are  having  so- 
cial tracts  foisted  on  us  in  the  guise  of  amusing 
fiction.  For  Mr.  Lyons  can  be  amusing.  He 
makes  his  points  neatly,  and  he  has  a  happy 
turn   of  phrase." 

f-  The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  pl78  Mr 

15    '23    530w 


"The    writer    loves    the    wildernesses   of    Can- 
ada.    He   knows    forest   trails   and    the   ways   of 
guides    and    trappers   in    the   snowbound    North. 
His  accounts  of  open  air  living  have  no  taint  of 
pose,  no  pretence  at  poetic  flights,  sentimentally 
phrased.    It  is  a  man's  book;  and  all  youngsters 
ought  to  enjoy  it  likewise,  as  a  fitting  incentive 
to  their  own   tramping  trips  in  days  to  come." 
-I-   Boston    Transcript   p4    F   28   '23    160w 
Cleveland    p43    Je    '23 
Reviewed   by   M.    G.    Bonner 

Int    Bk   R   p52   S  '23   60w 
"These    stories    of   the    brute    creation    consti- 
tute   a    notable    addition    to    animal    literature, 
written  with  a  sure  knowledge  and  a  sympathy 
that  make  the  tales  vastly  attractive." 
+   Lit    R    p590   Ap   7   '23    160w 

N    Y    Times    pl6    Mr    4    '23    280w 
"It  is  an  interesting  story  as  he  tells  it,   and 
there    is    nothing    incredible    in    the    narrative." 
4-  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ap  8  '23  180w 


M 


MACADIE,   ALEXANDER    GEORGE.    Wind  and 

weather.     82p    il    $1.25    Macmillan 

551.5     Winds.     Weather  22-24707 

The  book  describes  the  tower  of  the  winds 
in  ancient  .A.thens  and  the  eight  winds  that 
were  supposed  to  preside  over  the  weather. 
It  also  describes  the  present  status  of  meteor- 
ological science  with  regard  to  weather  forecasts, 
explaining  such  terms  as  isobars,  cyclone  and 
anti-cyclone  as  indicative  of  low  and  high  pres- 
sure. "  As  for  the  certainty  of  forecasts  "each 
storm  is  in  reality  a  law  unto  itself;  and  while 
we  know  something  of  the  relations  between 
pressure  and  fiow  of  the  air;  as  yet  we  know 
verv  little  about  the  relations  of  wind  and 
weather."     (Page    32)    Illustrations    and    charts. 


Nature    111:597   My    5    '23    200w 
"The  book  is   packed  full  of  information,   and 
if  it  originally  resulted  from  university  lectures 
it    will    now    be   enjoyed    by    the    student   of   art 
and    will,     undoubtedly,     also    find    its    way    to 
the   desk   of   the  general   reader,    especially   that 
one    who    wants    to    know    when    and    why    it's 
time    to    look    up   his    rubbers    and    umbrella." 
-f-   N    Y    Times    pl7    Ja    21    '23    330w 
N    Y  Tribune  p21  Je  3  '23  70w 
"It    is    to    be    regretted    that    the   book    is   not 
about    three    times    the    size.       In    its    pleasant 
style  it  would  have  made  an  admirable  popular 
introduction     to    weather     wisdom,     but,     as    it 
is,    it    is    somewhat    too    brief   to    be    more    than 
an    invitation    to   the   reader   to   go   further   into 
the    subject." 

-I Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  14  '23  600w 

IVIACAULAY,  ROSE.  Mystery  at  Geneva;  an 
imnrobable  tale  of  singular  happenings.  248p 
$1.75   Boni   &  Liveright 

23-3137 

The  gentle  satire  of  this  tale  has  for  its  ob- 
ject an  imaginary  session  of  the  League  of 
nations.      The   correspondent   of  a  paper  called 


318 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


MACAU  LAY,   ROSE— Continued 

the  British  Bolshevist  tells  the  story,  the  the 
League  is  the  real  "central  figure."  The 
mystery  concerns  the  spiriting  away  of  all 
members  in  favor  of  munitions — a  puzzle  finally 
solved  by  an  Italian  detective  who  happens  to 
be  a  brother  of  the  villain.  There  is  fun  in 
plenty  poked  at  the  ideals  brought  forth  at 
the  various  meetings  held  by  the  different 
nationalities  represented,  and  the  discerning 
reader    will    find   a   mystery    within    a    mystery. 


any    high 
it    surely 


Booklist  19:190  Mr  '23 

Reviewed   by   P.    N.    Stone 

Bookm    57:212   Ap   '23   130w 

"Miss  Macaulay  never  stirs  us  to 
degree  of  interest  in  her  tale  and 
ends  farcically.  We  are  inclined  to  think  that 
the  author  of  as  brilliantly  keen  a  novel  as 
'Potterism'  should  hesitate  before  she  offers 
her  readers  so  unsatisfactory  a  story  as  'Mys- 
tery  at    Geneva.'  " 

h   Boston  Transcript  p4  F  7  '23  300w 

Cleveland  pl8  Mr  '23 

"There  is  nothing  severe  in  the  book,  whose 
author  has  the  godlike  faculty  of  laughing  heart- 
ily and  without  malice  at  all  humanity."  H.  W. 
Boynton 

Ind   110:135  F  17  '23  Y20w 

"Miss   Macaulay's   novel   is   for  the  most  part 
entertaining,    but    it    is    quite    evident    that    the 
domain   of   the   myst&ry   story   is   not   a   country 
in  which   she  is  perfectly  at  home." 
H Int    Bk    R    p58   Ap   '23    450w 

"It  is  at  first  a  disappointment  to  find  that 
Rose  Macaulay,  who  can  write  of  human  be- 
ings so  wisely  and  wittily,  has  chosen  in  'Mys- 
tery at  Geneva'  to  write,  even  though  here 
again  wisely  and  wittily,  of  people  in  the  mass 
rather  than  as  individuals.  She  has  flattened 
out,  generalized,  her  satirical  method,  and  thus 
allowed  herself  merely  to  prick  the  surfaces 
into  which  she  used  to  cut  so  deep."  K.  S. 
Angell 

—  Nation   116:634   My   30   '23   650w 

"It  differs  from  the  staple  mystery  story  in 
several  ways.  It  is  bright  with  wit  and  with 
common  sense,  it  scores  off  human  behavior 
again  and  again  with  a  kind  of  extra-dry  exu- 
berance, its  gay  and  quiet  transition  from  mys- 
tery to  farce  is  a  delight."  Q.  K. 

+  New   Repub  33:298   F  7   '23  750w 

"She  has  too  good  a  sense  of  humor  to  be 
a  born  mystery  writer.  She  is  too  reasonable. 
But  even  at  that,  she  understands  the  art  of 
holding  the  reader  in  suspense,  and  in  spite  of 
its  lack  of  thrills  it  is  hard  to  conceive  of  any 
lover  of  mystery  stories  starting  the  book 
without  finishing  it." 

-1 NY  Times  p22  Ja  28  '23  4S0w 

"Miss  Rose  Macaulay  is  off  her  reservation  in 
attempting  'Mystery  at  Geneva,'  and  the  loss  to 
posterity  would  have  been  inconsiderable  had 
she  never  attempted  it."   Isabel   Paterson 

—  NY  Tribune  p23  F  18  '23  1200w 
"There  is  abundance  of  entertainment  in   the 

book  to  those  who  forget  that  they  must  not 
look  for  irony.  Miss  Macaulay's  publishers  are 
quite  right  in  announcing  the  book  as  'search- 
ingly  satirical.'  "   R.  D.  Townsend 

+  Outlook  133:411  F  28  '23  170w 

Reviewed  by  Gerald  Gould 

Sat   R  134:726  N   11   '22   ISOw 

"Mystery  at  Geneva  is  the  sort  of  book  which 
makes  delightfully  easy  reading,  but  which  must 
heavily  have  ta.xed  the  patience  and  verve  of 
its  author.  It  is  a  short  story,  really,  written 
at  length,  and  written  so  amusingly  that  to 
say  it  was  'padded'  would  be  as  untrue  as  It 
is  ungracious.  It  is  rather  thin,  even  deli- 
cately spun.  Indeed,  the  present  writer's  only 
quarrel  with  the  author  is  with  her  few  pages 
of  conclusion,  in  which  she  has  the  indelicacy 
to  make  her  characters  quite  suddenly  and 
gratuitously  come  alive." 

-I Spec   129:877   D   9   '22   600w 

"The  narrative  moves  swiftly,  but  not  at  the 
expense  of  the  brilliance  that  we  expect  from 
Miss   Macaulay.     Sureness  of  touch,   a  sense  of 


real  perspective  in  her  writing,  makes  her  tliird 
novel,  even  though  a  mystery  story,  an  a.dvance 
over  'Potterism'  and  'Dangerous  Ages.'  " 

-f-  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  15  '23  350w 
"Skilfully  done,  but  far  less  deserving  of  suc- 
cess  than   her  earlier  novels." 

-i Survey  49:819  Mr  15   '23   20w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:85   Mr  '23 

MCBRIDE,        ROBERT        MEDILL       (ROBERT 
MEDILL,     pseud.).     Norwegian     towns       and 
people;  vistas  in  the  land  of  the  midnight  sun. 
85p      il      $1.50      McBride 
914.81      Norway — ^Description  and  travel 

23-10662 

This  little  book,  which  pictures  the  physical 
and  human  aspects  of  Norway,  succeeds  in  re- 
producing the  grandeur  of  the  country  and  the 
spirit  of  its  people.  After  an  introductory  chap- 
ter on  rural  Norway  the  book  takes  up  its  most 
distinctive  towns  and  cities:  the  modem  cities 
of  Bergen  a,nd  Christiania;  Trondhjem,  the  an- 
cient capital  of  the  Vikings:  BCammerfest,  the 
world's  northernmost  city.  There  is  a  chapter 
on  the  fjords  and  fjelds  of  Norway  and  another 
on  the  island  of  Spitzbergen. 


Booklist  20:53  N  '23 
"It  is  not  often  one  comes  across  a  book  of 
travel  and  description  that  is  so  distinctive,  so 
richly  infused  wth  the  spirit  of  the  author, 
so  varied  in  its  factors  of  interest  as  this 
unique  work.  .  .  The  work,  which  is  written 
in  a  simple,  straightforward  style,  occasionally 
marred  by  deplorable  attempts  at  persiflage,  is 
an  interesting  little  book." 

-\ NY   Times  pl5  Jl   8   "23   1900w 

R    of    Rs    68:222   Ag   '23    120w 

MACCABE,   FREDERICK   FABER.  Human  life; 

its     enjoyment     and     prolongation.     223p     $2 

Knopf 

613     Hygiene  23-12080 

In  a  sane  and  helpful  book  and  one  singularly 
free  from  fads,  a  physician  with  a  broad  experi- 
ence with  the  British  soldier  in  the  war,  lays 
down  the  rules  of  plain,  common-sense,  healthy 
living.  In  general  he  allows  the  indulgence  of 
the  natural  appetites  in  a  moderate  way  and 
teaches  that  there  is  no  need  of  reducing  the 
legitimate  enjoyment  of  life.  The  book,  which 
goes  into  intimate  detail  about  all  matters  of 
personal  hygiene,   is  decidedly  readable. 


"He  touches,  without  much  skill  in  writing, 
but  with  compensating  earnestness,  upon  many 
topics,  divided  among  thirty-four  chapter  head- 
ings. It  is  a  volume  (not  large)  of  preventive 
measures  broadly  applied,  moderation,  perhaps, 
its   underlying  line   of  emphasis." 

j-   Boston    Transcript   p4   Je   20   '23   120w 

"  'Human  Life'  is  a  book  to  be  recommended 
for  wide  reading."    Clark  Kinnaird 

4-  Detroit   News  pl2  Jl  8   '23   500w 

"He  writes  with  an  easy  vigor,  assurance, 
and  general  light-heartedness  to  which  none 
but  an  Irishman  could  hope  to  attain.  And 
withal,  let  me  hasten  to  say,  his  advice  and 
the  knowledge  upon  which  it  is  based  are,  in 
the  main  and  with  a  few  probably  quite  un- 
important exceptions,  as  sound  as  is  possible  of 
attainment  in  the  present  state  of  medical  and 
hygienic  learning.  The  book  will  not  be  liked 
by  the  academically  narrow-minded,  chiefly  be- 
cause of  the  style,  which  sometimes  descends 
perilously  close  to  flippancy  or  even  vulgarity." 
Raymond   Pearl 

H Lit    R    p828   Jl   14   '23   llOOw 

"Col  F.  F.  MacCabe  begins  his  new  book  with 
the  promise  never  to  be  dull  or  dry,  and  he 
keeps  it  to  the  end.  As  an  antidote  for  dullness, 
he  follows  his  own  rule  of  moderation  in  the 
use  of  technical  terms,  making  his  chapters 
brief  and  saving  his  readers  the  trouble  of 
counting  calories." 

4-  Springf'd    Republican    p8   Jl   19   '23   900w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:441   O  '23 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


319 


MCCARTNEY,  EUGENE  STOCK.  Warfare  by 
land  and  sea.  (Our  debt  to  Greece  and 
Rome)    206p    il    $1.50    Marshall    Jones 

355    Military    art    and    science  23-103C3 

This  little  book  traces  back  to  the  Greeks  and 
Romans  the  principles  of  warfare  as  it  is  con- 
ducted today — the  modern  idea  of  generalship, 
of  army  organization,  tactics  and  strategy,  the 
development  of  cavalry  and  artillery.  The  au- 
thor shows  how  similar  are  the  principles  in- 
volved in  certain  modern  battles  to  those 
fought  by  Alexander,  Hannibal  and  Julius 
Caesar. 


"One  misses  any  satisfactory  discussion  of 
the  problem  of  raising  and  maintaining  armies. 
The  book  contains  several  good  illustrations  and 
a  selected  bibliography,  which  however,  fails  to 
cite   any   recent    history   of   Greece   or   Home." 

-I Am    Hist    R    29:366   Ja  '24   370w 

Booklist   20:8   O    '23 
Cath  World  118:277  N  '23  130w 
Cleveland  p72  S  '23 
"As     a     handy    condensation    and    compilation 
of  military  and  naval  data  of  the  ancient  world 
dealing  with   means  and   methods   and  manners 
of  conducting  warfare,  this  small  volume  justi- 
fies  itself,   an   illuminating  aid   to   students   and 
teachers    of   classical    texts    that    touch    on    bel- 
ligerent operations.     Its  multitude  of  facts  com- 
pensates    for    its    undistinguished     style."     El- 
bridge   Colby 

+   Educ    R    66:189   O    '23    420w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p753  N  8 
'23  80w 

MCCLINTOCK,    WALTER.    Old     Indian    trails. 

336p    11    $5    Houghton 

970.3      Blackfoot  Indians  23-9781 

In  1896  the  author  went  to  noithwestern  Mon- 
tana on  a  government  forestry  expedition.  A 
Blackfoot  Indian  acted  as  guide  and  when  the 
last  survey  had  been  made  and  the  other  mem- 
bers of  the  expedition  had  left,  Mr  McClintock 
stayed  behind  with  his  Indian  scout,  joined  the 
camp  of  the  Blackfoots  and  became  a  member 
of  the  tribe.  He  kept  up  clo.'ie  associations  with 
his  tribe  thru  many  years,  making  faithful  rec- 
ords of  all  he  had  seen  and  learned  about  their 
customs,  legends,  religious  beliefs,  etc.  His 
hook  is  a  record  of  this  fifteen  years'  associa- 
tion with  the  Blackfoot  chiefs,  medicine  men, 
and  common  people. 


Booklist  20:95  D  '23 
Bookm  58:86  S  '23  300w 
"Very  few  white  men  have  had  so  rare  an 
opportunity  for  study  and  observation  as  Dr. 
McClintock.  And  how  rarely  he  profited  by  it, 
this  book,  as  fascinating  as  a  record  of  out- 
of-door  adventure,  as  valuable  for  reference, 
attests.  Thus  authoritative  as  well  as  of  novel 
appeal  are  his  descriptions  and  interpretation 
of  the  Blackfoot  tribal  customs."    F.   B. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  27  '23  620w 
Nation  116:218  Ag  29  '23  320w 
"His  beautiful  photographs  are  unusual;  the 
careful  notes  that  constitute  his  volume  infect 
us  with  the  nostalgia  that  certainly  attended 
its  writing.  His  book  will  be  of  value  to  the 
future  historian  and  student,  and  forms  part 
of  that  literary  sepulture  with  which  we  have 
begun  to  honor  a  civilization  we  wantonly  ex- 
tinguished."    P:    Phillip 

+  N  Y  Times  p7  Je  24  '23  1300w 
"The  book  is  true  to  type  even  in  the  in- 
definiteness  of  its  flowing  style,  suggesting  the 
flavor  and  spirit  of  Indian  life  in  a  way  that 
no  scientific  treatise  could  do.  As  a  record  of 
a  vanishing  epoch  it  is  a  human  document  of 
singular   interest." 

+   Outlook   134:288   Je   27   '23   120w 
"Mr.  McClintock's  book  serves  to  preserve  the 
record  of  a  life  and  environment  that  have  vir- 
tually  vanished   fiom  the    land." 

+  R  of  Rs  68:112  Jl  '23  lOOw 
St   Louis  p345  D  '23 


"Though  it  seems  a  book  intended  for  the 
student  it  might  be  very  much  enjoyed  by  an 
intelligent    boy." 

-t-  Spec  131:257  Ag  25   '23   50w 
Spec  131:564  O  20  '23   150w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p565   Ag 
30   '23   lOOOw 

Wis  Lib   Bui   19:442  O  '23 

MCCONNELL,    SAMUEL    DAVIS.      Confession.s 
of  an  old  priest.  125p  $1.25  Macmillan 

230    Christianity.  Theology.  Ministers  of  tlie 
gospel  22-19303 

At  the  end  of  a  fifty  years'  ministry  in  the 
Epi.scopal  yhurch  Dr  McConnell  openly  re- 
nounces his  belief  in  an  orthodox  Christianity 
and  in  this  little  book  traces  the  steps  by  which 
he  has  come  to  his  present  position. 


J  Religion  3:111  Ja  '23  30w 
"Those  who  wish  to  know  what  it  is  that  men 
doubt  to-day,  who  are  willing  to  listen  to  the 
skepticism  of  youth  expressed  with  the  vigor 
and  resourcefulness  of  maturity,  will  do  well 
to  read  this  book.  But  they  will  not  find  in  it 
a  goal;  they  will  find  only  a  starting-point." 

H Outlook  133:319  F  14  '23  950w 

Pratt  p7   winter  '23 

Springf'd  Republican  plO  N  14  '22  130w 
"A  clearly- reasoned  declaration  of  doubts  and 
convictions.  The  doubts  which  he  has  exper- 
ienced are  by  no  means  unique;  but  the  expres- 
sion that  he  gives  to  them,  while  reverent,  is 
individual  and  pungent." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  pl2  Ja  2  '23  480w 

MACCORKLE,  WILLIAM  ALEXANDER.  Per- 
sonal genesis  of  the  Monroe  doctrine.  102p 
$1.50    Putnam 

327.73     Monroe    doctrine  23-8600 

The  book  takes  issue  with  those  who  attempt 
to  assign  the  authorship  of  the  Monroe  doctrine 
to  John  Quincy  Adams  instead  of  to  James 
Monroe.  It  seeks  to  confute  bv  a  statement  of 
historical  fact  the  following  propositions:  that 
President  Monroe  was  timid,  letliargic,  incap- 
able of  grasping  the  great  question  at  issue; 
that  the  views  previously  held  by  Mr.  Monroe 
were  not  in  accord  with  the  Monroe  doctrine; 
that  he  actually  did  not  conceive  or  write  the 
doctrine. 

Am    Pol   Sci    R   17:510  Ag  '23   80w 
Reviewed   l>y  M.   K.    Pierce 

Boston    Transcript    p2    Ag   11    '23    2400w 

Cleveland    p72    S    '23 
Reviewed  by  W.    P.  Cresson 

Lit   R  p338  D  8  '23   1050w 

"Mr.  MacCorkle  undertakes  to  clear  Monroe 
of  the  charge  of  natural  timidity.  .  .  One  puts 
down  the  book  with  a  fairly  clear  impression 
that  the  famous  message  of  1823  stated  in  forci- 
ble language,  at  the  psycjiological  moment,  an 
historical  policy  which  neither  Monroe  nor 
Adams  originated."  W:   MacDonald 

Nation     117:199     Ag    22     '23    700w 
Reviewed   by  H.    E.    Barnes 

New  Repub  36:27  Ag  29  '23  400w 
"A  di.stinct  service  is  performed  by  Mr.  Mac- 
Corkle in  portraying  in  stirring  sentences  an 
outline  of  Monroe'.-^  wonderful  role  in  the  early 
history  of  the  Republic.  .  .  No  one  who  is  in- 
terested in  reaching  a  stable  conclusion  on  the 
controversy  can  afford  to  ignore  this  book." 
A.  S.  Will 

-I-  N   Y  Times  p4  Je  24  '23  2550w 
St   Louis  p278  O  '23 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p838  N  29 
'23  30w 

MCCORMICK,     ELSIE.     Audacious     angles     on 

China.   305p  il  $2.50  Appleton 

915.1  China— Social  life  and  customs  23-12918 

"The  author  presents  the  panorama  of  life 
in  Chin.a  as  seen  by  a  resident  rather  than  by 
a    tourist,    and    endeavours    to    answer   some    of 


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MCCORMICK,  B\-S\E.^Continued 
the  questions  of  those  having  friends  in  the 
country.  She  treats  lightly  and  somewhat 
sitetchily  a  number  of  topics — trams,  rickshas, 
boats,  trains,  and  travel  generally,  customs  and 
etiquette,  the  chit  system,  beggars,  saving  face, 
the  'sing-song  girl,'  gambling  and  opium, 
temples  and  Confucius." — The  Times  [London] 
Lit  Sup 


Boston  Transcript  p9  N  21  '23  310w 
N  Y  World  plOe  O  7  "23  850w 
"Not  only  are  these  angles  on  China  au- 
dacious; so  is  the  style.  The  reader  is  Itept  in 
a  continual  chuckling  state,  often  somewhat  too 
continuous.  It  is  rather  breathless  a  chase  to 
follow  puns  through  sentence  after  sentence, 
and  then  have  the  feeling  that  one  has  missed 
a  few.  This,  however,  arises  only  from  an  oc- 
casional excess  of  the  gay  humor  which  makes 
the   entire    book   unusually    interesting." 

^ Springf'd  Republican  p6  O  29  '23  550w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p795  N  22 
'23  40w 

MCCRACKAN,       WILLIAM       DENISON.       New 
Palestine.  392p  il  $5  Page   [16s  J.   Cape] 

915.69       Palestine — Description     and     travel. 
Jerusalem  22-22174 

"Mr.  McCrackan  went  to  Palestine  in  1919  on 
an  impulse  that  was  mainly  spiritual.  But  he 
is  also  a  practical  man.  As  one  of  a  little  mis- 
sion of  four  Americans  he  assisted  in  the  ad- 
ministration of  the  relief  which  American  lib- 
erality had  provided  at  that  time  for  the  half- 
starved  population  of  Jerusalem.  He  came  in- 
to close  contact  with  Zionists,  Jews  who  were 
non-Zionists,  Arabs,  and  all  sorts  and  condi- 
tions of  Christians.  Part  of  the  narrative  is 
the  result  of  his  personal  observation  and  of 
his  conversations  with  the  leaders  of  the  var- 
ious political  groups,  part  is  a  sketch  of  Al- 
lenby's  campaigns  and  of  the  first  efforts  of 
the  British  to  establish  good  government  in  a 
region  which  had  known  nothing  of  the  kind 
for  centuries.  Mr.  McCrackan  is  writing  for 
Americans,  and  he  lets  them  understand  very 
clearly  that  he  is  'frankly  favourable  to  the 
British  and  the  work  they  have  done  in  Pales- 
tine.' Perhaps  the  most  important  portion  of 
the  book  is  that  in  which  he  discusses  the  prob- 
lems of  Palestine — its  conflicts  of  race  and 
religion,    taxation,   and    land   questions." — Sat   R 


Booklist   19:118  Ja  '23 
"Every  chapter  of  the  book  is  delightful.    Mr. 
McCrackan  vivifies  every  subject,  every  locality, 
every    personality." 

+  Boston   Transcript   p4  D  2  '22   lOOOw 
Cleveland   p48  Je   '23 
Reviewed   by   C.    K.    Zorian 

Lit  R  p448  F  10  '23  750w 
"The  author,  while  doing  relief  work  in  Jeru- 
salem, published  a  daily  paper  for  several 
months  during  1920.  This  fact  will  indicate  the 
practical,  progressive  character  of  his  book.  It 
is  full  of  information  about  present-dav  Jeru- 
salem and  other  parts  of  Palestine,  and  is  writ- 
ten in  the  concise,  clear-cut  way  that  one  might 
expect   from   the  author's  training." 

+  Outlook  132:624  D  6  "22  llOw 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:306  Je  '2.3 
"Shortly  before  his  death  last  year  Lord 
Bryce  wrote  an  Introduction  to  this  work,  and 
in  it  he  described  the  book  as  a  simple  and 
lively  picture  of  the  facts— which  is  just  what 
it  is.  But  it  may  be  added  that  it  is  well  il- 
lustrated with  photographs  and  with  reproduc- 
tion  m   colour  of  paintings   by   John   Fulleylove. 

+  Sat  R  136:248  S  1  '23  600w 
"The  historical  events  of  the  last  few  years 
are  described  by  an  eye-witness,  and  pen 
sketches  are  given  of  many  interesting  people 
^"  i.^'.?'^^®-  Outstanding  problems  are  discussed 
with  discernment  though  not  in  every  case 
with  sufficient  thoroughness  for  the  student  of 
politics. 

-J Survey   50:108   Ap   15    '23   200w 


"Mr.  McCrackan  is  specially  qualified  for  the 
task  he  has  set  himself;  for,  as  a  journalist, 
he  had  to  be  conversant  with  the  ambitions  of 
the  numerous  races  cong:regated  in  Palestine 
and  with  the  claims  and  feelings  of  Arab  Mos- 
lems, Jewish  Zionists  and  Christians  of  various 
creeds;  moreover,  ne  can  put  his  conclusions 
before  his  readers  In  lucid  and  persuasive  form. 
His  book  is  popular  in  the  sense  that  he  takes 
no  knowledge  for  granted,  and  that  he  explains 
the  elements  of  the  problems  to  be  solved  and 
the  circumstances  to  which  they  owe  th«ir 
rise.  .  .  It  is  a  book  to  be  read  for  entertaih- 
ment   as   well    as   for   instruction." 

+  The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p363   My 
31   '23   llOOw 


MACCURDY,  JOHN  THOMPSON.  Problems  in 
dynamic  psychology;  a  critique  of  psycho-an- 
alysis and  suggested  formulations.  383p  $2.50 
Macmillan    [12s    fid   Cambridge   univ.    press] 

130  Psychoanalysis  22-24826 

"The  book  is  divided  into  four  parts.  Part 
1  is  devoted  to  a  critical  analysis  of  Freud's 
formulations.  Part  II  deals  with  psychoanaly- 
sis and  suggestion  as  methods  of  investiga- 
tion and  treatment  of  the  psychoneuroses  and 
psychoses.  In  part  III  the  doctrines  of  two 
Freudians,  Ferenczi  and  Burrow,  are  discust. 
Part  IV  is  the  constructive  portion  of  the 
book,  containing  the  author's  contribution  to 
dynamic  psychopathology.  It  begins  with  an 
analysis  of  Kivers's  book,  'Instinct  and  the 
Unconscious,'  in  which  praise  is  exprest  of  the 
author,  but  criticism  of  his  concept.  In  the 
chapters  that  follow  the  instincts  are  classified 
and  described  in  the  light  of  their  pragmatic 
conception." — Int    Bk    R 


Boston   Transcript  p6  Jl  3  '23   420w 

"On  the  whole  Dr.  MacCurdy's  book  is  a 
valuable  contribution,  and  some  of  the  points 
brought  forward  in  the  analysis  of  instincts 
should  alone  suffice  to  place  the  author  among 
the  'iron -age'  Freudians.  All  students  of  ab- 
normal behavior  will  find  the  book  well  worth 
reading."    Joseph    Collins 

+   Int    Bk    R    pl3    S   '23   2400w 

"This  important  book  is  constructive  as  well 
as    critical."     Miilais    Culpin 

+   Nature    112:88    Jl    21    '23    500w 

"Dr.  MacCurdy's  book  is  a  decidedly  worthy 
gesture."     Kimball     Young 

-I-   New   Repub  36:210  O  17  '23  380w 

"It  is  very  rare  to  find  a  psychologist  who 
has  wide  clinical  experience,  and,  at  the  same 
time,  an  interest  in  theoretical  questions  raised 
by  the  new  dynamic  attitude  towards  the 
facts  with  which  psychology  deals.  Dr.  Mac- 
Curdy  hns  both,  and  the  result  is  that  his  book 
is  the  most  important  commentary  on  psycho- 
analysis which  has  appeared  in  the  English 
language.  He  is  sympathetic  but  not  en- 
meshed, and  he  has  a  clarity  of  vision  which 
enables  him  to  state  the  problems  clearly  and 
see  the  pitfalls  into  which  too  many  have 
fallen  in  the  attempt  to  solve  them."  W.  J. 
H     S 

+   New   Statesman    21:598   S   1   '23   llOOw 

MCCUTCHEON,    GEORGE    BARR.      Oliver   Oc- 
tober.  337p  $2  Dodd 

23-12065 
On  the  day  Oliver  October  Baxter  was  born 
a  gypsy  prophesied  great  things  for  him,  but 
also  that  he  would  be  hung  before  he  was 
thirty  years  old.  It  caused  his  father  and  self- 
appointed  uncles  to  watch  over  him  and  omit 
no  occasion  to  teach  him  to  control  his  temper, 
lest  he  should  murder  a  man  in  a  fit  of  rage — the 
only  conceivable  reason  for  his  committing 
such  a  crime.  Oliver  grows  up  to  be  a  splendid 
man,  a  fine  engineer,  a  soldier  back  from  the 
war  with  medals,  and  he  is  chosen  by  his 
friends  for  a  political  career.  But  as  his  thir- 
tieth year  approaches  the  g^'psy's  prophesy, 
never  out  of  the  father's  mind,  has  a  disin- 
tegrating effect  on  the  old  man.  One  day  he 
disappears  and  as  time  goes  on  the  suspicious 
circumstances    of  his  disappearance    draw   their 


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net  closer  and  closer  about  Oliver.  The  pred- 
iction is  fulfilled  to  the  letter— but  there  is 
more   to   the  story. 


Booklist  20:102   D   '23 
"The    thing    we    love    about    it    is    that    it    is 
.such   a  human   book,    and   being  human,   so  de- 
lightfullv    funny."     I.    W.    Lawrence 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  Ag  18  '23  1550w 
"Mr.  McCutcheon  wiites  to  entertain,  and 
this  being  so  it  i.s  only  fair  to  judge  his  book 
from  his  own  attitude.  Observed  from  that 
angle,  there  is  not  much  fault  to  be  found  with 
'Oliver  October.'  It  is  full  of  humor  and  its 
element  of  suspense  is  planted  at  tlie  very  be- 
ginning." 

-f   N  Y  Times  p26  Ag  26  '23   G60w 
Reviewed  by  E.   W.    Osborn 

N  Y  World  p8e  S  9  '23  150w 
Outlook  135:234  O  10  '23  50w 
"It  is  perhaps  more  sketchy  than  some  of 
his  previous  novels,  but  the  author  spiu-s  the 
action  with  lively  incidents,  a  pretty,  if  some- 
times halting,  romance,  mystery,  and  a  dash 
of    humor." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  O  28  '23  4C0w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:444   O   '23 

MCCUTCHEON,      JOHN      TINNEY.       Heir     at 
large.    302p   il   $1.75   Bobbs 

23-6145 

"A  young  man  of  sound  character  and  good 
intelligence  who  has  been  plodding  along  on 
a  meagre  salary  learns  that  quite  unexpectedly 
he  is  the  heir  to  the  huge  estate  of  his  uncle. 
The  entire  fortune  of  fifteen  million  dollars  has 
been  given  to  him  in  such  a  way  that  his  good 
fortune  can  be  kept  wholly  secret  for  several 
months.  He  first  puts  to  the  test  the  girl  that 
he  loves  and  her  mother,  while  they  still  be- 
lieve him  to  be  poor,  and  they  meet  it  in  such 
a  way  as  to  make  it  possible  for  him  to  forget 
his  infatuation.  And  then  he  journeys  in  a 
battered  Ford  to  the  town  in  Western  Penn- 
sylvania where  are  located  the  steel  mills  out 
of  which  the  girl's  family  have  drawn  their 
wealth.  He  works  as  a  truck  driver  and  lives 
with  the  poorest  of  the  ■v\'orkers  in  order  to 
find  out  wliat  are  the  grievances  of  the  men 
and  the  faults  of  the  management.  And  then 
indeed  come  to  him  adventures  and  romance 
and  complicated  developments." — N  T  Times 


modore  Perry's  expedition.  Through  an  exercise 
of  daring  and  ingenuity  he  succeeded  in  his 
enterprise.  He  became  the  first  teacher  of  Eng- 
lish in  Japan  and  there  paved  the  way  for  the 
opening  up  of  the  country  to  foreign  trade  and 
intercourse  a  few  years  later.  An  appendix  to 
his  story  contains  contemporary  Japanese  and 
American  records  confirming  his  narrative  and 
a  biographical  sketch  covering  portions  of  his 
life  not  touched  upon  by  the  author.  A  Jap- 
anese-English glossary  of  500  words,  a  complete 
bibliography  and  contemporary  illustrations  are 
also  included. 


"If  this  had  been  a  story  in  which  the  hero 
had  made  good  by  his  own  efforts  it  would 
have  been  supremely  worth  while — for  the 
most  part.  But  of  course  it  \vas  his  bank  roll, 
enabling  hira  to  buy  private  detectives  and 
keep  down  prices  and  acquire  shares  of  stock, 
which  made  the  difference.  What  Mr.  McCut- 
cheon really  needs  is  an  attack  of  ideals.  For 
he    could    live    up    to    them." 

h   Boston    Transcript   p4    Mr   28    '23    400w 

Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p8    Ag 
5  '23  250w 
"Mr.      McCutcheon      tells    his    story      in    bold, 
.sketchy  outlines  with  an   ironic  sense  of  humor 
—a   cartoon   in   the   form  of  a  novel." 

N    Y    Times    pl8   Mr    25    '23    330w 

MACDONALD,  RANALD.  Ranald  MacDonald; 
2  the  narrative  of  his  early  life  on  the  Columbia 
under  the  Hudson's  Bay  company's  regime; 
of  his  experiences  in  the  Pacific  whale  fish- 
ery; and  of  his  great  adventure  to  Japan; 
with  a  sketch  of  his  later  life  on  the  western 
frontier — 1824-1894;  ed.  and  annotated  from 
the  origin.al  manuscrints  by  W:  S.  I.,ewis  and 
Naojiro  Murakami.  333p  il  $7.50  Eastern  Wash- 
ington state  historical  soc,  314  Symons  block, 
Spokane.  Wash. 

979.7  Hudson's  Bay  company.  Japan — De- 
scription and  travel  23-9305 
The  original  manuscript  of  this  story  of  per- 
sonal adventure  and  historical  interest  is  in  the 
archives  of  the  Eastern  Washington  state  his- 
torical society.  Ranald  MacDonald,  son  of  a 
Hudson's  Bay  compan^'  trader,  was  nossessed 
by  an  adventurous  spirit  to  penetrate  the  rigidly 
isolated  Japan  of  the  period  just   before  Com- 


"In  addition  to  its  undoubted  historic  interest, 
a  genuine  and  very  delightful  flavor  of  personal 
adventure   pervades  this   narrative." 
+  Asia   23:616  Ag  '23  280w 

"The  manuscript  which  MacDonald  has  left, 
while  florid  in  parts,  possesses  no  small  degree 
of  literary  charge.  It  displays,  on  the  whole, 
an  excellent  command  of  language  and  marked 
gifts  of  imagination.  There  is,  besides,  a  rug- 
ged current  of  personal  narration  which  gives 
the  reader  a  strong  impression  of  MacDonald's 
individuality.  One  absorbs  the  view  that  it  is 
emphatically  the  story  of  a  man  of  deeds,  vi- 
brant with  his  own  spirit."  A.  \.  Will 
+  N   Y  Times  pl4  S  16  '23  1750 

"Ranald  MacDonald  himself  was  a  character 
as  interesting  and  adventuresome  as  most  char- 
acters in  fiction,  and  no  small  part  of  the  value 
of  this  history  lies  in  the  hundreds  of  foot- 
notes. .  .  From  a  historical  standpoint  it  is  a 
work  of  decided  value  .  .  .  the  book  has  an  In- 
terest which  is  almost  personal." 
-I-  Oregonian  p5  Jl  15  '23 

MACDONALD,   WILLIAM.      Three   centuries   of 
American   democracy.      346p     $2.25     Holt 
973     United  States— History.     United  States 
— Politics    and    government  23-10217 

The  author  has  particularly  had  in  mind,  in 
writing  this  brief  and  simple  history  of  the 
I'nited  States,  the  very  large  number  of  per- 
sons who  want  to  know  the  main  facts  and 
the  formative  influences  in  the  growth  of  the 
United  States  as  a  democratic  nation,  but  who 
have  no  time  to  read  elaborate  narratives  or 
to  study  a  series  of  books  on  special  periods 
or  topics.  Students  and  teachers  will  also  find 
the  book  useful  as  a  summary  narrative  around 
which  more  comprehensive  lectures  or  reading 
may  be  grouped. 

"The  book  is  a  simple,  straightforward,  and 
clearlv  written  account  of  the  larger  political 
events  and  forces  of  United  States  history,  with 
worthwhile    comments   and   criticisms."     M.    W. 

emegan^^    Hist   R   29:378  Ja  '24   410w 
"Accurate  and  readable  history." 

-f  Am  Pol  Sol  R  17:689  N  '23  180w 
Booklist  20:133  Ja  '24 
"For  its  kind,  the  book  is  rather  well  done. 
The  author  has  a  clear  and  convincing  style. 
He  writes  with  the  authority  of  a  trained  his- 
torian thoroughly  familiar  with  his  subject  and 
consequently  has  produced  a  book  which,  in 
spite  of  a  few  statements  of  doubtful  accuracy, 
is    readable    and    suggestive."     R.    D.    W.    C. 

H Greensboro   (N.C.)    Dally  News  p8  S  23 

'23  360 w 
"To  tell  the  story  of  the  United  States  in  300 
small  pages  is  no  light  undertaking,  but  Pro- 
fessor MacDonald  has  performed  it  admirably. 
He  has  managed  to  omit  without  becoming  dis- 
connected and  to  be  concise  without  becoming 
lifeless.  .  .  In  subsequent  editions  there  should 
be  correction  of  a  few  slips."  R.  J.  Davis 

H Lit   R  p908  Ag  18  '23  400w 

"Obviously,  the  field  covered  is  too  large  for 
detailed  discussion  of  moot  points,  but  for  the 
general  reader  or  for  a  general  view,  this  vol- 
ume will  prove  very  useful."     C.  E.  M. 

-f   New  Repub  36:264  O  31  '23  120w 
"A  work  which   deserves  a  place  In  every  li- 
brary that  admits  history  to   its   shelves.     It  Is 
the    clarified    product    of    profound    study,    ana- 
lytical reflection  and  courage  of  conviction.  The 


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MACDONALD,  W:— Continued 
book  might  be  called  an  extended  essay  in  the 
form  of  history.    At  any  rate,  its  originality  and 
force  will  be   welcomed."  A.    S.   Will 
+   N   Y  Times  p22  Je  19  '23  2200w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:548   D   '23 
"A    well    written,     brief    political    history    of 
the  United   States,   thoroughly  sound  and  with 
out    a    trace    of    originality." 

H Survey   51:119    O   15   '23    50w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  pC54  O  4 
'23    210w 

MCDOUGALL,  WILLIAM.  Outline  of  psychol- 
ogy.     456p    $2.50    Scribner 

150      Psychology  23-4812 

The  author,  who  is  professor  of  psychology  at 
Harvard  university,  makes  no  claim  for  his 
book  as  an  adequate  textbook  of  psychology 
but  only  as  offering  the  student  an  introduc- 
tion, a  useful  line  of  approach  to  psychological 
problems.  He  is  an  exponent  of  the  purposive 
psychology  in  distinction  to  the  mechanical 
psychology,  with  which  he  is  in  disagreement 
and   against   which   his   book   is  aimed. 

Booklist  20:82  D  '23 
Bookm  57:467  Je  '23  180w 
Cleveland   p54   Jl   '23 
"Although    no    'polemic'    is    likely    to    make    a 
satisfactory    text-book    it    is    nevertheless    true 
that  no  advanced  student  or  teacher  of  psychol- 
ogy should  fail  to  become  acquainted  with  this 
adventure    of     Professor     McDougall's."     H.     L. 
Holling^vorth 

h  J    Philos    20:679    D    6    '23    3300w 

"Those  who  have  regarded  psychology  as  but 
desiccated  food  for  daily  life  may  turn  to  this 
book  for  proof  to  the  contrary."  J:  B.  Lind 
+  Lit  R  pl86  O  27  '23  460w 
"The  book  is  unsafe  to  put  into  the  hands 
of  elementary  students  or  even  of  the  general 
public.  It  breeds  a  lazy,  genial,  speculative, 
arm-chair  attitude:  when  what  we  need  is 
work,  reflection  about  the  results  of  that 
work,  then  more  work  vmder  better  conditions 
of  control  and  more  reflections,  until  the  so- 
called  mysteries  of  psychology  stand  revealed." 
J:    B.    Watson 

New  Repub  34:supll  Ap  11  "23  2500w 
"McDougall  has  written  an  entertaining  and 
instructive  book,  which  can  be  recommended 
without  hesitation  to  the  intelligent  layman  who 
\voiild  like  to  familiarize  himself  with  psycho- 
logical principles."    J:   E.  Lind 

-I-   N    Y   Times   p21   Ap   22   '23   1250w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:278    Je    '23 
Springf  d  Republican  pl4  Ap  13  '23  880w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p407   Je 
14    '23    80w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:405    Jl    '23 

MCELROY,  ROBERT  MCNUTT.  Grover  Cleve- 
land, the  man  and  the  statesman.  2v  359;427p 
$10  Harper 

B  or  92  Cleveland,  Grover.  United  States- 
Politics  and  government  23-16894 
An  authorized  biography  of  Grover  Cleveland 
by  the  professor  of  American  history  in  Prince- 
ton university.  The  author,  who  writes  from 
evident  admiration  of  his  sub.lect  but  without 
personal  or  partisan  prejudice  builds  up  a  strong 
and  rugged  figure — an  impression  which  the 
many  quoted  letters  of  Mr  Cleveland  serve  to 
strengthen.  The  biography  is  also  a  political 
history  and  helps  to  an  understanding  of  a 
critical  period  in  American  history  during  which 
the  opportunity  came  to  Mr  Cleveland,  as  mayor 
of  Buffalo,  governor  of  New  York  and  presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  to  change  the  current 
of  American  politics.  The  introduction  is  by 
Elihu  Root  and  there  is  a  list  of  sources  and 
an  index. 

Reviewed  by  Moorfield  Storey 

Atlantic's  Bookshelf  Ja  '24  600w 

_  "Profc.<:.sor     McElroy's     life     encompasses    the 

times     of     his     subject     and     although     frankly 

enough  an  admiring  estimate,  it  has  none  of  that 


forced  exuberance  and  enthusiasm,  which  is  too 
frequently  introduced  about  other  recent  figures, 
by  certain  writers  who  seem  to  believe  that  their 
personal  infatuation  will  effectively  lead  history 
to  value  their  subjects  at  their  own  appraisal. 
Professor  McElroy's  style  is  fluent,  clear,  sym- 
pathetic, never  florid  or  slipshod."  S.  L.  Cook 
+  Boston  Transcript  p2  N  10  '23  2050w 
"One  puts  down  this  product  of  careful 
scholarship,  this  authoritative  life,  with  a  sense 
of  having  been  taken  over  the  entire  field  by 
a  man  who  knows  ever.v  nook  and  corner  of  it. 
But  no  large  view  of  Cleveland  and  his  place 
in  American  history  emerges  from  the  material." 
B.   T.    B. 

H Freeman  8:383  D  26   '23  310w 

"Here  appears  the  long-anticipated  authorita- 
tive biography  of  P>resident  Cleveland,  and  the 
admirers  of  the  man  will  welcome  it  eagerly." 
J.    G.    de   R.    H. 

-f  Greensboro  (N.C.)    Daily  News  plO  D  9 
•23   1200W 
Reviewed    by    Moorfield    Story 

Lit    R   p421   Ja   5   '24   680w 
"It    is     neither    eulogy    nor     defence.       It     is 
straight-forward  narration — at  times  more   suc- 
cinct   than    lucid.      Criticism    is    by    no    means 
absent    though,    properly,    rather    implied    than 
expressed.        Not    a    single    misprint    mars    the 
handsome  volumes.     Like  their  subject,  they  are 
a  monument  of  restraint."     A.  W.   Vernon 
-f-   New    Repub    37:127    D    26    '23    1300w 
Reviewed  by  Silas  Bent 

N  Y  Times  p3  N  18  '23  2550w 
"Its  historical  value  is  real,  because  it  presents 
the  truth  about  many  disputed  incidents  in  the 
private  life  and  public  career  of  the  man.  The 
literary  value  and  readability  of  the  work,  how- 
ever, are  less  positive.  Prof.  McBlroy  seems 
to  have  set  out  to  do  his  task  so  accurately 
and  so  much  in  the  manner  of  the  chronologer 
that  he  has  stripped  the  volumes  bare  of  that 
warmth  and  color  which  they  should  contain. 
The  result  is  a  steel  etching,  and  not  a  portrait, 
of  Mr.   Cleveland." 

-I NY  World  p6e  N  11  '23  650w 

Reviewed  by  L.  F.  Abbott 

Outlook  135:484  N  21  '23  2000w 
R   of   Rs  69:110  Ja  '24   260w 
"It  is   a  readable  work,   the   more   so  because 
of  the  numerous  anecdotes,  colloquial  records  of 
conversations,   and   contemporaneous   newspaper 
accounts  incorporated  in  the  text." 

-f-  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  D  9  '23 

MCFARLAND,   JOHN    HORACE.     Rose  in  Am- 
erica.    233p  il  $3  Macmillan 

716.2     Roses  23-5940 

"Mr  McFarland  has  been  for  eight  years 
editor  of  the  'American  Rose  Annual.'  He  has 
come  into  contact  with  thousands  of  amateur 
and  professional  rose  growers,  and  his  book  has 
resulted  from  the  conviction  forced  upon  him 
that  there  is  a  need  of  considering  the  rose  in 
America  from  an  American  standpoint."  (Lit  R> 
Partial  contents:  The  rose  plant  itself;  Using 
roses  to  best  advantage;  Roses  away  from  the 
home;  Making  roses  grow  and  bloom;  The  art 
and  mystery  of  pruning;  Protecting  roses  from 
insects  and  diseases;  Wintering  roses  anywhere; 
What  about  rose  varieties?  Producing  roses, 
old  and  new.  Short  bibliography.     Index. 


Booklist    19:308    Jl    '23 
Boston   Transcript  p4   Je   13   '23    430w 
"Rose   culture   is   considered   from   every   pos- 
sible point  of  view."  H:  T.  Finck 

-I-   Lit    R   p626   Ap   21   '23   150w 
"A  most  interesting  survey  of  the  presence  of 
the  flower  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic." 
+   N  Y  World  plOe  Ap  15  '23  180w 
"The  literary  treatment  is  simple,  informative, 
and  sometimes,  as  in  the  chapter  on  the  social 
relations  of  the  rose,  entertaining  also." 
+  Outlook   133:766   Ap   25    '23   130w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p425    Je 
21    '23    20w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p605    S 
13    '23    250w 


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323 


MACFARLANE,  PETER  CLARK.  Man's  coun- 
try; the  story  of  a  great  love  of  which  busi- 
ness was  jealous.   343p  il  $2  Cosmopolitan  bk. 

23-887 

George  Judson,  upon  whom  as  a  small  child 
heavy  responsibilities  were  laid,  determines  to 
make  his  way  in  the  world  and  the  Judson - 
Morris  automobile  company,  a  rich  concern,  is 
the  reward  of  his  shrewdness,  personality  and 
hard  work.  His  wife.  Fay,  is  a  pleasure-loving, 
spoilt  creature,  unsympathetic  with  her  hus- 
band's business  difflculties  and  nmch  more 
interested  in  the  traveled  Englishman,  Sir  Brian 
Hook,  who  has  more  time  than  her  husband 
for  the  attentions  she  craves.  Husband  and 
wife  drift  further  and  further  apart  and  George 
finally  calls  in  a  psychoanalyst  who  tells  him 
how  to  win  Fay  back.  Then  the  war  breaks  out 
and  the  story  ends  happily  in  the  reuniting  of 
the  hero  and  his  wife. 


"Perhaps  the  highest  praise  we  may  give  this 
volume  is  to  say  that  it  reminds  one  of  Booth 
Tarkington.  It  lacks  the  humor,  but  it  has  a 
more  sympathetic  human  kindness.  We  shall 
watch  with  great  eagerness  for  another  book 
from  the  same  bi-ush,  but  the  next  time  we  shall 
do  as  the  children  do,  and  read  the  end  first 
to  see  if  we  like  it."   I.   W.   L. 

H Boston  Transcript  p3  F  3  '23  850w 

Int  Bk  R  p58  Mr  '23  210w 
"George  Judson  and  his  wife  are   interesting, 
possible   kinds   of   persons,   and   the   reader   may 
explore    'Man's    Countiy'    with    ej;pectations    of 
entertaining  discoveries." 

+   Lit    R   p633   Ap   21   '23   300w 
N  Y  Times  pl9  Ja  21  '23  620w 
"The    story    is    developed   with    no    great   skill, 
and   presents    no    new    solutions." 

—  Springf'd  Republican  p7^  Mr  25  '23  300w 

MCFEE,  INEZ  NELLIE  (CANFIELD)  (MRS 
M.  M.  MCFEE).  Nature's  craftsmen.  325p  il 
$1.7.5   Crowell 

595.7     Insects  23-11152 

In  story  form  the  author  tells  for  children 
some  scientific  facts  about  insects  and  animals. 
Partial  contents:  A  race  of  telegraphers 
(spiders);  Tiny  builders  of  a  great  nation 
(ants) ;  A  family  of  rope  dancers  (caterpillars) ; 
Interesting  tunnel  builders  (moles);  Progressive 
town  builders  (prairie  dogs);  Some  timber 
cutters  (heavers);  Famous  spinners  (silk 
worms);  A  band  of  tireless  hunters  (as- 
sassin bugs);  Policemen  of  the  garden  (toads); 
A  rascally  hunchback  (curculio);  An  insect 
carpenter  (hornet). 

"We  fear  that  Fabre's  'Social  Life  in  the  In- 
sect World'  has  rather  spoiled  us  for  the  work 
of  others  in  the  field  of  which  he  is  supreme 
lord.  Young  people,  however,  who  may  not  be 
familiar  with  the  great  naturalist's  studies  and 
stories,  will  perhaps,  get  something  of  value 
from   this   attractively    bound    volume." 

-I Boston  Transcript   p4  O  31  '23  ISOw 

"The  book  contains  a  very  great  deal  of  in- 
formation about  insects,  birds,  toads,  and  all 
such  tiny  residents  of  fields  and  forests  and 
meadows  and  roadsides,  put  into  such  simple 
graphic  language  that  it  will  easily  capture 
the  attention  of  the  young  while  the  real  sci- 
entific accuracy  and  scope  of  it  will  appeal  to 
their  elders.  Unfortunately,  the  author  is  not 
equally  successful  with  her  method  of  present- 
ing   her    material." 

H NY   Times   pl8   Ag  26   '23   330w 

MACGILL,  PATRICK.    Lanty  Hanlon.    310p  $1.90 

Harper     [7s  6d    H.  Jenkins] 

"Mr.  MacGill's  new  story  is  called  'Lanty  Han- 
Ion,'  bearing  so  the  name  of  its  principal  figure 
of  interest.  Ostensibly  it  is  a  tale  told  at 
length  by  one  Nedd.v  MacMonagle,  son  of  a 
gypsy  boss  tinker  who,  in  his  great  age,  recalls 
the  years  spent  in  the  service  and  adoration  of 
Lanty  in  what  "  he  remembers  as  the  most 
friendly  village  of  Bnllykeeran,  where  life  was 
a  serial  story  of  neighborly  helpfulness  and  of 
plenty.      The    Hanlon    has    been    born    in    Bally- 


keeran,  has  been  christened  there  in  good  Irish 
moonshine,  the  parish  cistern  having  fallen  dry, 
and  has  lived  there  his  days  of  alternating  pomp 
and  poverty,  at  one  moment  blessed  and  at  an- 
other cursed  by  the  villagers." — N  Y  World 

"We  have  read  Patrick  MacGill  before,  and 
there  was  strength  and  humor  and  tears  and 
delight  in  him.  But  this!  Faith  and  his 
name  saint  be  to  his  helping,  we  cannot  see 
what   there   is   in   it    at   all."     I.    W.    L. 

—  Boston  Transcript  p2  S  1  '23   350w 

"This  engaging  jjresentment  of  a  vigorous 
Irishman  who  founds  the  fortune  of  his  village 
in  despite  of  whisky  and  all  opposition  is  ca.st 
in  the  epic  mold,  which  doesn't  fit  any  too 
well.  The  incidents,  the  dialog,  the  scheme  of 
literary  grandeur,  all  are  there,  but  not  in 
full    measure." 

[-  Int   Bk   R  p47   Ag  '23  280w 

Lit    R    p899    Ag    11    '23    220w 

"It  is  an  amusing,  often  whimsical,  narrative, 
with  plenty  of  clearly  drawn  characters  and 
some  excellent  bits  of  descriptive  writing.  It 
has,  to"o.  a  general  air  of  joviality  and  good 
humor,  but  when  one  goes  beneath  the  surface 
manner  one  finds  thnt  the  impression  produced 
is    by   no    means   a   pleasant   one." 

^ NY    Times    p22    Je    3    '23    950w 

"In  Patrick  MacGill's  new  book,  there  is  the 
very  complete  demonstration  of  his  ability  to 
see  and  to  put  eloquently  into  print  the  com- 
edy and  poetry  and  childlike  temperament  of 
the  Irish  race,  as  it  lives  and  moves  among 
the  social  eddies  of  its  small  town."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

+   N   Y  World   p6e  My  27  '23   600w 

"The  story  is  a  rollicking  .adventure,  with 
humorous  asides,  and  intimate  sketches  of  the 
Irish  peasant's  prejudices  and  mercurial  tem- 
perament. Lanty  is  a  delightful  creation  whose 
optimistic  conceit  places  him  on  a  par  with 
other  famous  characters  in  popular  Irish  fic- 
tion." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  O  11  '23  45nw 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:444   O   '23 


MACGRATH,     HAROLD 

$1.75  Doubleday 


World    outside.    332p 


23-7995 

"The  same  day  in  which  young  Jeremiah 
Bancroft  is  informed  that  he  is  the  sole  heir 
to  the  seven  millions  that  his  father  possessed 
he  receives  a  call  from  a  stranger  in  the 
village.  This  person  first  shows  an  imcanny 
knowledge  of  his  personal  affairs  and  then  dis- 
closes the  object  of  his  visit:  for  $10,000  he 
will  sell  the  young  man  Adventure — travel, 
danger,  excitement.  The  young  man  acts  in 
accord  with  everyday  reason  and  refuses  this 
mad  offer.  But  it  rankles  in  his  mind;  he  re- 
members the  hint  of  mystery  in  his  father's 
death  and  he  senses  a  connection  between  the 
two.  Soon  this  brings  him  to  New  York,  where 
he  stumbles  head  fli-st  into  an  amazing  train  of 
circumstances.  He  is  clever  and  daring  and 
determined  to  get  to  the  bottom  of  it  all  but 
very  gradually  he  gets  enmeshed,  and  the  coils 
draw  close  about  him  until  the  story  reaches  a 
deftly  planned  climax  and  things  begin  to  come 
out  right." — N  Y  Tribune 


"Another  capable  mystery  story  from  the  pen 
of  a  skillful  writer.  .  .  The  general  effect  is  that 
of  perpetual  exciting  adventure.  And  when  the 
thrill  of  action  begins  to  diminish,  the  author 
deflects  our  attention  by  bringing  in  the  love 
element." 

-j-   Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  21  '23   180w 
N  Y  Times  p27  Ap  1  '23  550w 
"A  tale   of  unusual  interest  and   excellence." 
Edith    Leighton 

-1-   N  Y  Tribune  p24  Ap  8  '23  550w 
"Mr.  Macgrath  works  out  a  solution  and  wins 
a    lovely    girl     for    young    Bancroft     with     the 
facility  he  has  so  often   revealed  in  the  writing 
of  fiction   that   holds."   E.   W.   Osborn 
-f   N  Y  World  plOe  Ap  15  '23  180w 
"An  excellently  sustained  mystei-y  which  never 
descends   to   the  obvious." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  27  '23  210w 


324 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


MCGRAW,  JOHN   J.    My  thirty  years  in  base- 
ball.    265p   il   $2   Boni   &   Liveright 

797     Baseball  23-9583 

The  book  besides  giving  the  author's  experi- 
ences as  a  player,  is  full  of  baseball  facts  and 
is  a  history  of  the  game  since  1890.  It  has  an 
introduction  by  George  M.  Cohan. 


Booklist    20:19    O    '23 
"By   the   omission   of  quantities   of  aints   and 
hurrahs,    it    is    inferior    to    the    prose    of    ball- 
parks. Nor  does  the  slangy,  technical,  dominant, 
athletic,  racy  personality  of  McGraw  enter  into 
its  grammatically  correct   and  subdued   pages." 
— •  Dial   75:205   Ag  '23   lOOw 
"For    a    baseball    enthusiast    it    is    quite    the 
most    Interesting    book    of    its    kind    that    has 
ever  been   published.      It    is  written   in  a  clear, 
easily  readable  fashion  and  is  comfortably  con- 
structed." 

-i-  Lit   R  pll  S  1  '23    160w 
"The  life  story  of  a  man  of  salient  and  charm- 
ing personality  told  simply,   honestly,   and  win- 
ningly."     H.   L..    Mencken 

+  Nation   117:40  Jl  11  '23  llOOw 

Reviewed    by    C:    Merz 

New    Repub   35:309   Ag   8   '23    1300w 
"John    J.    McGraw's    experience     has     spread 
widely  over  every  phase  of  the  sport.     His  vol- 
ume of  recollections  takes   in   that  whole  great 
field,    and   not   only   the   baseball    fan   but   every 
believer   in   athletics   and   honest   sportsmanship 
will   find   in    it   something  to  interest   him." 
-f  N   Y   Times   p23   My  27   '23   600w 
"  'My  Thirty  Years  of  Baseball'  is  three  hours 
of  conversation  with  the  manager  of  the  Giants. 
.    .   It   is   that   most  engrossing   type   of   autobi- 
ography in  which  the  writer  has  been  far  more 
interested   in  the  things  he  has  witnessed  than 
in    the    things    he   has    done.      There   is   another 
thing  we  admire  about  Mr.   McGraw's  recollec- 
tions.   We  have  rarely  seen  a  book  of  reminis- 
cences  in   which   the   first  person   singular  pro- 
noun was  less  conspicuous."  F:  F.  Van  de  Water 
-I-  N   Y  Tribune  pl9  My  20  '23  1300w 
"The    book   is   rich   in   incident   which   carries 
the  air  of  being  authentic.    It  is  pretty  generally 
entertaining  and  amusing."    Heywood  Broun 
-f  N  Y  World  p8e  My  13  '23  600w 
"If    there    is    a    better    book    about    the    great 
gaine,    we    don't    know    it." 

+  Outlook   134:140   Je   6    '23   130w 
"An    unexampled    collection    of    baseball    por- 
traits   has    gone    into    the    illustration    of    the 
book.      Altogether,    the   volume    is    made   up    of 
material  of  most  vital   interest  to  all  who  care 
anything    about    baseball    as    a    sport." 
+   R   of    Rs   68:110   Jl  '23   150w 
St  Louis  p290  O  '23 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:409   Jl   '23 

MACHEN,     ARTHUR.     Hieroglyphics;     a     note 
upon   ecstasy  in  literature.      166p     $2      Knopf 
801      Literature  23-11988 

In  a  series  of  conversations  Arthur  Machen 
develops  the  theory  by  which  to  judge,  in  the 
case  of  any  particular  book,  whether  it  is  lit- 
erature or  not.  He  names  the  quality  of  ecstacy 
as  the  touchstone  by  which  fine  literature  may 
be  distinguished  from  mere  reading  matter,  art 
from  artifice  and  style  from  intelligent  expres- 
sion. Then  he  applies  his  theory  to  various 
literary  works  to  determine  their  proper  rank 
and   station. 


Booklist  20:92  D  '23 
"Whatever  may  be  thought  of  the  general 
proposition,  pushed  as  it  is  without  compro- 
mise to  the  borderline  of  absurdity,  there  is  no 
derwing  the  spell  of  the  rich  yet  colloquial 
English,  the  personal  note  of  the  'armchair 
criticism,'  the  talk  of  the  author  as  one  man 
to  another,  the  passionate  devotion  of  the  man 
to  the  literary  art."  J.  F.  S. 

-\ Boston  Transcript  p2  Ag  11  '23  550w 

Cleveland    p79    S    '23 

Dial  74:627  Je  '23  280w 


"Mr.  Machen  is  more  than  charming.  He 
seems  always  to  be  treading  fairy  ground,  touch- 
ing mysteries.  And  however  much  you  may 
doubt  you  can  nevermore  contemplate  master- 
pieces with  quite  the  same  bafflement."  H:  J. 
Forman 

-f-   N  Y  Times  pl8  Jl  22  '23  lOOOw 

MACHEN,    ARTHUR.      Shining    pyramid.    241p 

$10  Covici-McGee 

828  23-9011 

"This  is  a  collection  of  Mr.  Machen's  earlier 
tales  and  sketches  and  essays  which  appeared 
in  miscellaneous  journals  some  years  ago  and 
are  now  brought  togther  between  book  covers 
for    the   first   time. '"^Nation 


Freeman    7:455   Jl   18   '23   350w 

"The  queerness  and  cleverness  of  the  man 
stick  out  all  through  the  book.  There  are 
foretastes  of  the  writing  Macheniacs  have 
come  to  prize  in  'The  Hill  of  Dreams'  and 
'The  House  of  Souls'.  .  .  On  the  whole,  though 
the  book  will  be  interesting  chiefly  to  Machen 
collectors  rather  than  to  the  general  reader, 
the  publication  of  these  papers  is  not  to  be 
regretted." 

-j Lit  R  p867  Jl  28  '23  280w 

"Such  stories  as  The  Shining  Pyramid  and 
The  Lost  Club,  could  very  well  afford  to  be 
forgotten.  The  Priest  and  the  Barber,  on  the 
other  hand,  is  a  delightful  bit  of  delving  into 
occult  bibliography,  quite  as  good  as  anything 
Mr.  Machen  has  ever  set  hand  to." 
-f  —  Nation    117:247   S   5   '23   90w 

"For  all  the  long-drawn  loveliness  of  prose 
in  The  Hill  of  Dreanrus,  the  distilled  perfume 
of  The  Secret  Glory,  the  radiance  of  The  Shin- 
ing Pyramid:  for  all  this  magic  and  wonder 
the  stories  of  Arthur  Machen  are  not  of  the 
first  rank  in  atmosphere,  suspense,  invention, 
or  sustainment  of  power.  .  .  In  The  Shining 
Pyramid  and  Out  of  Earth  there  gleams  a 
golden  mesh  of  words;  but  it  is  a  mesh  through 
whose  impalpable  interstices  Mr.  Machen  pours 
an  invisible  and  soundless  water."  A.  D. 
Douglas 

f-  New    Repub   35:300   Ag   8    '23    ISOOw 

"This  volume  is  regrettably  poor  in  the  auto- 
biographical fragments  for  which  we  had  hoped. 
It  is,  however,  an  indication  of  the  respect  in 
which  Mr.  Machen  is  held  in  America,  and  all 
the  resources  of  the  book  producer's  art  have 
been  combined  to  produce  a  volume  of  artistic 
pretensions,  the  sight  of  which  makes  one 
physically  unhappy.  It  is  not  fair  to  the  modest 
and  quietly  persuasive  tone  which  distinguishes 
the   best    work   of   this   WTiter."     J.    E.    R. 

h  New    Statesman    21:652    S    15    '23    800w 

"Machen's  virtue  lies  in  a  peculiar  suavity 
of  expression.  He  hasn't  much  to  say  and  what 
he  says  is  often,  I  think,  dubious;  but  he  says 
it  with  such  felicity  and  precision  that  one 
reads  with  a  pleasure  comparable  to  the  pleas- 
ure derivable  from  Sir  Thomas  Browne."  Bur- 
ton Rascoe 

-) NY    Tribune    pl8    Je    3    '23    260w 

Reviewed   by   L:    Weitzenkorn 

N   Y  World   pl9  Jl  15  '^3  1200w 

MACHEN,    ARTHUR.      Things    near    and    far. 

250p     $2     Knopf    [7s    6d    Seeker] 

B  or  92  23-26247 

"Of  all  the  works  of  autobiography  that  I 
know,  this  is  the  saddest,  because  it  relates, 
from  the  calm  dignity  of  advanced  middle-age, 
in  beautiful  prose,  without  malice,  with  superb 
courage,  one  of  the  most  tragic  and  heart- 
breaking stories  in  the  histoiT  of  English  let- 
ters, the  story  of  Arthur  Machen's  own  career 
as  a  writer,  his  experiences  with  publishers, 
his  failure  with  the  public,  and,  above  all,  his 
loneliness  and  solitude  in  the  fonnative  years, 
a  loneliness  that  found  expression  in  his  mas- 
terpiece. The  Hill  of  Dreams.  .  .  As  a  matter 
of  fact  this  narrative  of  the  conception  and 
birth  of  Mr.  Machen's  books  contains  more 
real  drama  even  than  his  novels  and  tales, 
with  the  exception  of  The  Hill  of  Dreams,  a 
book  to  which  Things  Near  and  Far  is  strangely 
related    in    mood." — Carl    Van    Vechten 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


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"The  whole  book  shows  the  reflections  of  a 
conceited  man  of  mediocre  ability,  who  buries 
his  talent  in  the  ashes  of  the  past,  mumbles 
over  it  incessant  Latin  quotations,  pats  him- 
self on  the  back  because  he  knows  so  much 
Latin  to  quote  and  then  ...  is  continually  ir- 
ritated because  the  world  hurries  by  without 
digging  into  the  ashes,  or  listening  respectfully 
to  his  incantations."    D.  F.  G. 

—  Boston   Transcript  p4   Ap   28  '23   400w 

Cleveland  p80   S   '23 

"Things  Near  and  Far  really  contains  the  core 
of  most  of  Machen's  creative  writing."  Hamish 
Miles 

+   Dial    74:627  Je   '23   280w 

"His  background  is  interesting  in  that  it 
reveals  the  element  of  miracle  in  his  donn§e, 
his  attitvide  of  mind;  but  it  does  not  explain 
the  miracle  of  his  style,  that  incomparable 
prose  which  .Mr.  Machen  writes,  so  beautiful, 
ironic,  distinguished,  so  replete  with  noble  har- 
monies, with  an  almost  mystical  control  of 
language;  that  style  which  has  gone  unnoted 
and  disregarded  for  thirty-five  years.  The  his- 
tory and  secret  of  this  idiom,  painfully  acquired 
and  thanklessly  practised  for  more  than  a 
quarter  of  a  century,  are  revealed  in  two  vol- 
umes of  reminiscence,  'Far-Off  Things,'  and 
its  sequel,  'Things  Near  and  Far.'  "  Cuthbert 
Wright 

Freeman    7:90   Ap    4   '23    2050w 

"A  frankly  autobiographical  piece  of  writing 
.  .  .  and  one  that  sears  the  soul  of  the  reader 
even  as,  though  in  so  much  higher  degree,  the 
actual  experiences  recorded  palpably  seared  and 
to  some  extent  embittered  the  soul  of  the 
writer.  The  impersonal  note  so  beautifully 
maintained  in  all  his  previous  work  is  to  no 
small  extent  lost,  and  one  gets  repeatedly  a 
sense  of  peevishness  that  does  not  make  for 
great   art."     Edwin   Bjorkman 

+  —  Lit    R    p643    Ap    28    '23    1200w 

"Though  the  mystical  side  of  his  character 
is  the  most  interesting  and  the  satirical  the 
mo.st  entertaining,  his  Rabelaisian  gusto  for  the 
good  things  of  life  sets  them  both  off  to  ad- 
vantage His  style  approaches  the  gift  of  music, 
and  will  repel  such  readers  as  consider  words 
to  be  utilitarian  vessels  for  measuring  out  their 
quart  or  bushel  of  meaning."  Roliert  Hillyer 
N    Y   Times  p5   Mr  4   '23   1550w 

"  'Tilings  Near  and  Far'  is  a  poignant  chron- 
icle. It  is  a  book  for  craftsmen  who  could  wel- 
come the  destruction  of  every  textbook  ever 
written  about  writing.  It  is  the  textbook  of 
a  writer's  life — or  let  us  say  a  scholar's  life." 
L:  Weitzenkorn 

4-   N    Y    World   p9e   Ap   22   '23   900w 

"  'Things  Near  and  Far'  is  his  masterpiece 
of    humanism."    R.    S.    Hillyer 

+  Yale    R   n   s   13:174   O   '23   500w 

MACHEN,     ARTHUR.     Three     imposters.     287p 

$2.50   Knopf 

23-13197 

"  'The  Three  Impostors'  is  a  romance  of  the 
hair-raising  type,  with  mystery  following  mys- 
teri',  and  blood  trickling  down  the  pages. 
Machen's  tale  is  neither  a  mystery  story  nor  a 
detective  story  within  the  usual  application  of 
those  terms.  That  is  to  say,  neither  the  mys- 
tery nor  the  detective  work  is  the  main  theme. 
These  ai-e  essential  features  of  the  narrative, 
and  through  them  the  author  is  able  to  prolong 
su.spense  and  hold  attention.  But  the  main  in- 
terest lies  elsewhere.  'The  Three  Impostors,' 
to  characterize  it  in  a  word,  belongs  to  the  type 
of  psycho- romantic  tale  made  famous  by 
Steve". '^on.  .\nd  perhaps  it  was  partly  because 
'The  Three  ImpMDstors'  followed  it  in  the  genre 
perfected  by  Stevenson — to  whom  Arthur  Ma- 
chen jTiakes  some  acknowledgment  in  a  preface 
to  the  American  volume — that  it  did  not  re- 
ceive the  reading  and  the  welcome  that  were 
its   due." — N  Y  Times 


a  well-knit  narrative.  Those  who  look  for  a 
lucid  explanation  of  the  monstrosities  in  this 
story  will  be  disappointed.  'The  Three  Impos- 
tors' is  something  more  on  the  order  of  a  huge 
and  ghastly  joke  at  the  expense  of  humdrum 
GxistGncc ' ' 

H Boston   Transcript  p4   S  12  '23   360w 

"The    story    has    the   defects   of    Mr.    Machen's 
qualities;    it    is   disclosed   with   such   grace   that 
it  is  robbed  of  more  than  half  its  horror."  L.  B. 
H Freeman  8:311  D  5  '23  150w 

"Machen  mastered  the  principles  of  this 
genre,  and  then  went  at  his  work  with  all  the 
artistry  at  his  comuiand.  The  result  in  'The 
Three  Impostors'  is  a  narrative  that  places  him, 
within  that  narrative's  field,  little,  if  any,  be- 
hind Steven.son.  Like  "Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr. 
Hyde,'  the  tale  is  essentially  a  moral  one. 
.  .  Along  with  all  the  horror  Machen  contrives 
to  bring  in  all  the  delightful,  purely  artificial 
humor  that  is  so  inseparable  a  part,  so  essenti- 
ally an  ingredient  of  this  type  of  story." 
N  Y  Times  pl9  S  2  '23  850w 

MACHEN,  JOHN   GRESHAM.     Christianity  and 

hberalism.   189p  $1.75  Macmillan 

230    Christianity.    Liberalism  23-4814 

The  author,  who  is  assistant  professor  of 
New  Testament  literature  and  exegesis  in 
Princeton  theological  seminary,  maintains  that 
the  liberal  theologian  in  attempting  to  reconcile 
science  and  Christianity  has  abandoned  one 
Christian  doctrine  after  another  and  that  what 
he  has  retained  is  "not  only  a  different  re- 
ligion from  Christianity  but  belongs  in  a  totally 
different  class  of  religions."  In  support  of  his 
conviction  he  compares  the  teachings  of  historic 
Christianity  and  of  modern  liberalism  with  re- 
gard to  God  and  man,  the  Bible,  Jesus  Christ, 
salvation,   and  the  church. 

Cath    World    117:849    S    '23    500w 
"An  extremely  able  apologetic."  M.  L.  Frank- 
lin 

+   Ind  111:18  Jl  21  '23  720w 
"The  argument  is  well  sustained,  and  the  book 
is    a    dignified    and    scholarly    defence    of   ortho- 
doxy." 

-t-  J  Religion  3:334  My  '23  50w 
"Perhaps  it  is  too  much  to  ask  that  a  popu- 
lar book  would  be  critically  exact.  But  the 
critical  reader  will  learn  little  from  this  presen- 
tation. Most  important  of  all,  there  is  not  a 
hint  as  to  why  Christian  men  in  such  numbers 
are  growing  'hberal.'  Unless  this  is  under- 
stood, it  is  almost  superfluous  to  take  so  much 
pains  to  prove  that  they  are  liberal,  and  that 
liberalism  differs  from  orthodoxy."  G.  B. 
Smith 

—  J    Religion    3:541    S    '23    1250w 
"What    irks    about    this    book    is    not    its    ar- 
gument,   but   its   temper,   the  particular  mixture 
of  theological  patronage  and  of  theological  vit- 
riol which  it  offers  the  'liberal.'  "   W.  L.   Sperry 

—  Lit   R   p828  Jl  14   '23   850w 

"If  anv  imagine  that  the  work  of  ridding 
Christianitv  of  its  doctrinal  barnacles,  is  un- 
opposed in  theological  circles,  they  should  read 
this  precious  volume.  It  is  a  broad  and  inclti- 
sive  condemnation  of  any  and  every  attempt 
to  let  light  into  the  attic  of  theology.'  L: 
Browne 

—  Nation   116:753   Je   27   '23   160w 

St    Louis    p277   O   '23 
"It    defends   with    considerable    dialectical,  in- 
genuity   the   view    that    'liberalism'    is   in    direct 
opposition  to  Christianity."  ,„n„ 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  13    23  120w 


MCINTYRE,         JOHN         THOMAS. 

weather.    407p   $1.90     Century 


Blowing 
23-4985 


Booklist  20:58  N  '23 
"  'The  Three  Impostors'  is  a  work  of  remark- 
able, if  distinctly  ghoulish  and  morbid,  imagi- 
nation. .  .  Mr.  Machen  seems  more  interested 
in  conjuring  up  strange  and  occult  horrors  and 
then   gloating  over  them,    than    in    constructing 


"  'Blowing  Weather'  is  a  story  for  sea  lovers, 
telling  of  ships  and  the  priceless  cargo  they 
carry?  of  pirates  who  seek  to  plunder  the  ships 
and  gallant  young  blades  who  meet  the  pirates 
with  their  own  weapons  and  shame  them  at 
their  own  high-handed  game.  .  It  tells  how 
Anthony  Stevens's  lot  is  to  retrieve  the  honor 
of  the  great  shipping  house  to  which  he  is  neir. 


326 


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MCINTYRE,  J:  T: — Continued 
how  he  braves  the  vandals  who  scheme  and  plot 
ag-ainst  him;  how  he  undertakes  a  perilous 
voyage  through  the  Sargasso— the  City  of  Dead 
Ships— and  finds  the  Rufus  Stevens,  the  ship 
that  carries  all  his  fortune,  and  how,  finally, 
through  his  courage  and  resourcefulness,  the 
house  of  Stevens  js  restored."— N  Y  Times 

"Few  if  any  more  delightful  novels  have  come 
into  the  reviewer's  hands  in  recent  years  than 
this  storv  which  is  as  fresh,  invigorating,  and 
exhilarating  as  its  title.  Every  page,  every  word 
of   it,    is   absorbingly    interesting." 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  pl2  Ja 
19  '24  480w 
"Mr.  Mclntyre  does  know  how  to  spin  a  yarn 
in  the  good  old  way,  and  though  his  technique 
is  often  hackneyed  it  is  extremely  serviceable. 
The  best  part  of  the  book  is  that  which  tells 
of  the  old  port  of  Philadelphia  in  the  now  almost 
forgotten  days  when  sailing  vessels  crowded  the 
harbor  and  the  docks  were  teeming  with  the 
very   stuff  of  romance." 

H Lit   R  p571  Mr  31  '23  llOw 

"It  is  a  strong,  sound  tale,  well  planned  and 
told  simply.  .  .  John  Mclntyre  has  a  real  feel- 
ing for  the  sea  and  the  craft  that  sail  it.  He 
writes  a  terse,  seaman's  style,  with  little  in  the 
way  of  decoration  to  block  the  progress  of  the 
narrative,  yet  with  plenty  of  space  given  over 
to  description  that  adds  tang  and  flavor  to  it." 
+   N   Y  Times  pl7   Mr  14  '23  280w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  N  25  '23  270w 
"An  excellent  piece  of  work  with  a  distinctive 
atmosphere  of  its  own,  but  the  reader  may 
wonder  why  towards  the  end  of  the  book  he 
should  repeat  almost  verbatim  two  passages  of 
considerable  length  that  appear  in  earlier 
pages." 

-] The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p341   My 

17    '23    250w 

MACKAIL,  DENIS  GEORGE.  According  to 
Gibson.  288p  $2  Houghton  [7s  6d  Henie- 
mann] 

23-1245S 

Gibson  is  a  kind  of  Munchausen  who  reels 
off  these  preposterous  tales  to  a  tolerant  list- 
ener and  fellow  member  of  the  Caviare  club. 
They  are  vivacious,  written  in  a  play  spirit 
and  with  a  touch  of  satire  often,  as  in  the 
last  story  when  Gibson  enters  upon  a  prolonged 
lecture  tour  in  America  following  the  trail 
blazed  bv  others  of  his  countrymen.  Contents: 
The  invention  of  Professor  Salt;  Gibson  and 
the  ghost;  Gibson  and  the  rivals;  The  story  of 
Colonel  Turpentine;  Gibson  and  the  specialist; 
The  mystery  of  the  managing  director;  Gibson 
and  the  wager;  Gibson  and  the  blue  emerald; 
The  strange  behaviour  of  Henry  Gibson;  Gib- 
son's  last   words. 


Booklist   20:102   D    '23 

"The  book  is  generally  so  gay  and  delightful 
that  one  would  prefer  to  accord  it  unstinted 
praise.  But  even  Mr.  Mackail's  greatest  admir- 
ers will  probably  admit  that  in  the  last  story 
but  one  he  committed  a  serious  and  almost 
fatal   literary    blunder."     .1.   P\    S. 

-f  —  Boston  Transcript  p2  S  8  '23  400w 
Cleveland  p69  S  '23 

"His  excursion  in  humor  is  one  of  those  ef- 
forts that  'go  big'  if  they  do  not  fall  utterly 
flat.  We  fancy  that  it  will  'go  big,'  for  he  has 
been  so  adroit  a  craftsman  that  the  hasty 
reader  looking  for  stereotyped  entertainment 
can  miss  entirely  the  subtle  point  of  'Accord- 
ing to  Gibson'  and  still  enjoy  the  book  im- 
mensely." 

-I NY   Times   pl7    Je   24   '23    600w 

"Mr  Mackail's  book  is  light,  whimsical,  hu- 
morous. It  has  no  mission  to  perform  except 
to  bring  amusement;  no  end  in  view  beyond 
the  entertainment  of  its  reader.  We  think  it 
a  complete  success."  F:  F.  Van  de  "Water 
-}-  N    Y    Tribune   pl9    Je    24    '23    920w 

"Some  [of  the  stories]  are  too  steep  to  be 
truly  funnv;  most  call  for  a  smile  rather  than 
a  hearty  laugh.  Several  might,  by  judicious 
padding,    have   been    made    into     just     as     good 


short  stories  as  the  majority  of  our  magazines 
print  regularly.  For  those  who  like  a  book  they 
can  pick  up  and  lay  down  with  equal  ease,  and 
which  yet  will  not  tempt  one  to  throw  it  out 
of  the  window,  this  is  the  very  thing."  Isabel 
I^Q-t-Grson 

-\ NY   Tribune   p20   Je   24   '23   250w 

Outlook   135:34   S   5  '23   50w 
"Mr.    Mackail  has  brought  it     off  again.    His 
slight    and    graceful    Muse    has    not    played   him 
false.     The    first   story   in   the   book   is   so   much 
the  worst  that  I  feared  disaster:   but  all  comes 
right   long    before    the    end."     Gerald   Gould 
+  Sat   R   135:670  My  19  '23   190w 
"The   best   of  Gibson's   tales,   all   of  which   he 
pretended  were  true,  is  the  ghost  story,   though 
most    are    good    and    written     in     Mr.    Mackail's 
usual    attractive    manner    with    flashes    of    real 
irony   and   wit." 

+  Spec  130:853  My  19  '23  80w 
"It  is  all  nonsense,  of  course,  but  Mr.  Mac- 
kail's gift  is  that  of  infusing  into  his  nonsense 
a  strain  of  charming  satire.  Above  all,  he  is 
gay;  and  gaiety  is  worth  an  infinity  of  more 
solid  qualities." 

+  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p266   Ap 
19    '23    450w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p586   S   6 
•23  600w 

Wis   Lib   Bui  19:415  Jl  '23 

MACKAIL,  JOHN  WILLIAM.  Virgil  and  his 
meaning  to  the  world  of  today.  159p  $1.50 
Marshall  Jones 

873  Virgil  (Publius  Virgilius  Maro)  23-26135 
This  volume,  which  is  the  fourth  in  a  series 
known  as  Our  debt  to  Greece  and  Rome,  is  a 
study  of  the  significance  of  Virgil  to  the  twen- 
tieth century,  of  his  influence  on  European 
poetry,  and  of  the  permanent,  vital  and  human 
element    in    his    work      Bibliography. 


Booklist  19:216  Ap  '23 

"Professor  Mackail's  name  will  be  a  sufficient 
guarantee  to  all  who  are  acquainted  with  his 
other  writings — for  the  soundness  of  the  views 
and  the  charm  of  the  manner  in  this  little 
study." 

+  Cath  World  117:424  Je  '23  370w 

"I  am  not  sure  that  he  does  not  err  a  little 
in  overpraising  his  author — or  rather  in  praising 
him  uncritically.  But  on  the  whole  the  book  is 
admirable  for  its  purpose;  it  infects  the  reader 
with  the  peculiar  glow  of  lutninous  enthusiasm 
which  is  characteristic  of  Mackail  and  which 
makes  him  such  a  charming  writer  on  the  clas- 
sics."  Edmund   Wilson 

Dial    75:492    N    '23    ISOOw 

"Brilliantly    written    throughout,    it    contains 
chapters    of    delicate    and    sympathetic    analysis 
which  could  hardly  be  bettered."  R.  K.  Hack 
+   Freeman    7:89   Ap    4    '23    820w 

"Tbe  book  under  review  is  a  superb  'appreci- 
ation'   of    the    greatest    of    stylists.    It    is,    per- 
haps,  a  thought   too  rhapsodical,   but   it   suffici- 
ently indicates  Virgil's  faults."  H:  W.  Bunn 
H Ind    111:71   Ag    18   '23    450w 

"Mr.  Mackail  appears  to  have  far  outshone 
all  previous  interpreters  and  appreciators  of 
Virgil.  His  style  is  beautifully  clear,  piquant, 
epigrammatic;  his  devotion  to  Virgil  makes 
every  word  and  every  sentence  glow  with  a 
white  heat  of  enthusiasm;  in  short,  he  appears 
as  a  man  of  intense  poetical  feeling  interpreting 
to  the  world  this  greatest  of  Roman  poets."  A. 
D:   Eraser 

-i-   Lit   R  p548  Mr  24  '23  1150w 

"Mackail  brings  to  his  task  undeniable  talents 
of  criticism  and  of  appreciation.  From  the 
satisfying  definition  of  poetry  on  the  first  page 
to  the  final  chapter  on  the  style  and  diction 
of  the  poet,  is  writing  worthy  of  author  and 
of  subject."    A.   H.   Rice 

+   Nation  116:498  Ap  25  '23  1150w 

New    Statesman    20:780    Ap    7    '23    850w 

"Professor  Mackail's  study  falls  short,  in  point 
of  size,  of  a  serious  contribution  to  the  study 
of  Virgil.  It  dovetails,  rather,  with  the  other 
books   of   the   series,    which,    taken   as   a   whole. 


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form  a  valuable  contribution  (too  ephemeral 
when  taken  singly)  to  classic  studies  and  the 
perpetuation,  in  a  material  age  of  the  literary 
canons  of  the  fathers." 

h   N  Y  Times  p23  F  25  "23  350w 

•'The  fastidious  elegance  of  his  prose  has 
something  Virgilian  about  it.  Dr.  Mackail  can 
hardly  be  responsible  for  the  Bibliography, 
which  is  meagre  and  inadequate.  It  misses  out 
important  authorities  he  uses  in  his  text,  and 
as  a  basis  of  study,  can  only  be  described  as 
shockingly  provincial." 

-\ sat-  R  135:636  My  12  '23  430w 

"The  book  is  eulogy.  But  it  is  eulogy  in 
which  there  is  a  marked  element  of  interpre- 
tation   at    well   as    of   sensitive    appreciation." 

+  Springf'd    Republican   p6   Ja  22  '23   180w 

MACKAYE,  PERCY.  This  fine-pretty  world;  a 
s    comedy  of  the  Kentucky  mountains.  lOTp  $1.50 

Macmillan 

812  24-388 

In  a  dialect  which  he  has  built  up  from  copious 
notes  taken  during  a  several  months'  stay 
among  the  Kentucky  mountaineers,  Mr  MacKaye 
has  written  this  play  to  interpret  a  native  Am- 
erican background  and  to  conserve  a  distinctive 
native   idiom. 


"Before  he  wrote  a  line  he  had  made  himself 
as  much  as  possible  a  native  of  these  mountains, 
and  he  writes  as  from  within  the  confidence  of 
their  people,  in  a  language  of  quite  extra- 
ordinary richness  and  variety."  Carl  Van  Doren 

4-  Nation  118:68  Ja  16  '24  520w 
"His  phrases  in  themselves  are  no  doubt 
correct;  the  archaic  words,  the  compound  ad- 
jectives, the  ungrammatical  picturesqueness, 
all  these  things  he  set  down  in  those  volumin- 
ous notes.  But  T;he  general  spirit  of  the  dialogue 
is  unreal.     It   does  not   smack   of  actuality." 

—  NY  Times  p2  Ja  6  '24  llOOw 

MCKENNA,  STEPHEN.  By  intervention  of 
2  Providence.  298p  $2.50  Little  [7s  6d  Chap- 
man &  H.] 

917.29   West   Indies — Description   and   travel. 

Bahamas — Description  and  travel  23-17388 
"Mr.  McKenna's  pages  were  written  during  a 
period  of  voyaging  in  and  among  pleasant  is- 
lands, those  of  the  various  West  Indian  groups, 
and  they  carry  delightful  suggestions  of  progress 
and  daily  change.  'From  Avonmouth  to  Bar- 
bados'— that  was  the  first  stage  in  Mr.  McKen- 
na's journeying,  which  began  last  January.  Four 
parts  follow,  thus:  'From  Barbados  to  King^ston,' 
'From  Kingston  to  Nassau,'  "In  the  Bahamas' 
and  'From  Nassau  to  Havana  and  Kingston.'  " — - 
N  Y  World 


"There  is  in  this  book  some  of  the  best  writ- 
ing that  Mr.  McKenna  has  done.  Doubtless  the 
informality  of  it  has  stripped  from  it  his  man- 
nerisms and  his  too  perceptible  style.  He  is 
more  human  here  than  we  have  ever  found  him 
previously. "  D.  L.  Mann 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  D  15  '23  1250w 
"If  we  were  starting  out  as  a  lone  traveler 
and  an  incomplete  one,  we  undoubtedly  should 
simulate  completeness  by  packing  'By  Inter- 
vention of  Providence'  into  our  next-to-hand 
bag,   on  board."   E.   W.   Osborn 

+  N   Y  World  p7e  D   16  '23  720w 
"Of    information     of    the    informational     kind 
there  is  scarcely  any.  Indeed,  anything  like  grit- 
ty  fact   obviously   repels   him,    and   the   value  of 
the  book  lies  in  its  susgestion  of  atmosphere." 

h  Spec  131:804  N  24  '23  300w 

The  Times    [London!    Lit  Sup  p718  N  1 
'23   470w 

MCKENNA,      STEPHEN.        Soliloquy.      318p     $2 

Doran   r7s  6d  Hutchinson] 

23-5619 

No  less  disagreeable  than  the  portrait  of 
a  woman  revealed  in  his  "Confessions  of  a 
well-meaning  woman"  is  the  Marion  Shelley 
of  this  book  who,  similarly,  in  a  serip's  of 
monologs,  tells  the  story  of  her  life.  With 
no  sparing  of  sordid  details  its  chapters  pre 
unrolled.      Born    in    narrow    circumstances,    she 


had  brains  and  she  longed  for  power.  She 
saw  her  goal  from  the  beginning,  pursued  it 
relentlessly,  gave  her  life  to  it,  left  nothing 
to  chance,  trampled  on  love,  and  spared  no 
one  who  got  in  her  way.  At  forty-five,  facing 
imminent  death,  she  looks  back  over  her  life 
trying   to   decide   whether   she   was   ever   happy. 

Booklist  19:253  My  '23 
Cleveland  p66  S  '23 

"Ploughs  a  straighter  furrow  into  the  femi- 
nine psychology  of  its  subject  than  did  Mr  Mc- 
Kenna's previous  novel.  It  lacks  somewhat  in 
perspective,  due  to  the  author's  election  of  the 
soliloquy  form.  Life  seen  through  a  capital  I 
is  apt  to  be  like  a  ball  game  surveyed  through 
a  fence;  the  gap  is  seldom  as  wide  as  the  field." 
H Dial  75:200  Ag  '23  SOw 

"  'Soliloquy'  is  a  veritable  tour  de  force 
worthy  of  the  author  of  'Sonia'  and  intensely 
interesting  psychological  study  of  youth  and 
middle  age,  a  chronicle  of  that  most  ironic 
failure  the  world  esteems  a  success."  Her- 
schel  Brickell 

+   Lit    R  p515  Mr  10  '23  720w 

Reviewed  by  Rebecca  West 

—  New  Statesman  20:16  O  7  '22  500w 
Reviewed  by  Charlotte  Dean 

N   Y  Tribune  p31  Ap  8  '23  lOOOw 
"A  shrewd  portrait,  but  one  not  worth  sitting 
before    for    three    hours    required    to    read    the 
book."     Laurence    Stallings 

—  NY    World    p7e    F    25    '23    360w 

"No  description  can  convey  the  vulgarity  of 
the  book — intentional  vulgarity,  of  course:  we 
are  summoned  to  witness  the  self-revelation  of 
a  mean,  selfish,  worldly  woman.  But  so  great 
is  Mr  McKenna's  sheer  narrative  gift  that  one 
reads  on  with  a  sort  of  interest."     Gerald  Gould 

—  Sat   R  134:596  O  21   '22  190w 

"Mr  Stephen  McKenna  has  at  last  written  a 
good  novel;  or  it  would  be  more  true  to  say  per- 
haps that  he  has  at  last  chosen  a  theme  worthy 
of  his  undoubted  talent." 

+  Spec   129:sup663    N   11   '22   720w 

"It  is  a  vibrant,  high-pitched  tale,  of  absorb- 
ing interest  in  the  telling."  »„  r  .90  ocn™ 
+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ag  5    23  950w 

"It  is  an  ugly,  if  a  clever  picture;  it  would  be 
easier,  perhaps,  to  be  content  with  Mr.  McKen- 
na's omission  to  indicate  the  light  in  which 
he  wishes  us  to  see  it,  if  it  were  certain  that 
the  omission  is  intentional,  and  not  an  over- 
sight.'^ The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p650  O  12 
•22   400w 

MACKENZIE,  AGNES  MURE.  Without  condi- 
tions 152p  $1.50  Doubleday  [6s  Heine- 
mann]  23-17723 

"The  scene  is  Scotland  in  1848,  but  aside  from 
the  fact  that  the  ladies  all  wear  voluminous 
hoop-skirts  and  have  a  few  fornial  mannerisms, 
the  setting  might  just  as  well  be  in  the  Scot- 
land of  today.  The  heroine,  Janet  is  really  a 
maddening  creature.  She  treats  the  man  she 
loves  with  the  utmost  incivility  and  coldness, 
then  she  takes  matters  into  her  own  hands  and 
proposes  marriage  to  him,  and  having  gained 
her  heart's  desire  by  his  acceptance,  immedi- 
ately makes  herself  miserable  in  the  approved 
modern  style  by  wondering  why  he  accepted 
her  and  why  she  proposed,  and  what  love  is, 
and  why,  up"until  her  wedding  day.  No  wonder 
her  poor  lover  was  baffled  and  uncomprehend- 
ing At  last  a  series  of  events  and  explanations 
solve  their  tangled  relationship."— Boston  Tran- 
script 

"[The  author]  writes  with  a  facile  and  flow- 
ing style,  but  crinoline  does  not  make  an  era, 
and  passionate  analyzing  of  emotions  does  not 
make  reality." 

I-   Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  27  '23  260w 

Lit   R  p266  N   17   '23  200w 
"In  this  brief  story  Miss  Mackenzie  has  out- 
lined   a    theme    that    might    well    serve    as    the 
ground-work    for  a  novel   of  more   epic  propor- 


328 


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MACKENZIE,    A.    M. — Continued 
tions.  However,  within  the  brief  compass  of  the 
medium  she  has  adopted,  she  has  clearly  etched, 
in   sharp   and   telling  strokes,    the   tragedy   of   a 
high-spirited  young  Scots-woman." 

+  N   Y  Times  pl9  .Te  3  '23  700w 
"A  slight  but  charming  book."   Isabel   Pater- 
son 

-|-  N    Y    Tribune   pl8   Je   10   '23   330w 

MACKENZIE,      COMPTON.         Seven      ages     of 

woman.     315p    $2    Stokes 

23-1446 

The  life  of  one  woman,  Mary  Flower,  de- 
picted in  a  formal  design  of  seven  panels. 
First:  the  infant  whose  English  parents  had 
committed  a  mesalliance,  according  to  the 
familiar  Victorian  pattern,  had  then  been  dis- 
inherited, and  while  trying  to  emigrate,  had 
been  lost  at  sea.  Second:  the  child,  brought 
up  until  the  age  of  ten  in  a  London  basement 
by  humble  foster  parents,  but  unmistakably 
patrician;  then  fortuitously  restored  to  her 
inheritance.  At  twenty  she  is  a  wife,  her  grand- 
mother having  arranged  a  marriage  of  conven- 
ience. The  motherhood  phase  of  Mary  Alison's 
life  is  vaguely  sketched  in,  the  formal  pattern 
still  persisting.  At  fifty  she  is  a  widow,  her 
favorite  son  killed  in  the  Boer  war,  the  second 
son  cast  off  because  he  has  married  beneath 
him,  and  the  daughter  a  devotee  of  a  religious 
order.  Ten  years  later  the  grandmother  is 
receiving  into  her  care  another  orphaned  Mary, 
death   having  again  overtaken   the   mesalliance. 


Booklist   19:224  Ap  '23 

"Bits  of  apt  characterization  vivify  a  story 
that  is  extraordinarily  commonplace  in  its  de- 
tails. .  .  Mr.  Mackenzie  seems  to  have  lost 
some  of  the  skill  of  an  eye-witness  that  he 
proved  himself  to  be  as  a  shrewd  observer  of 
Oxford  life,  of  the  ways  of  stage  people,  and 
of  the  varied  career  of  Sylvia  Scarlett  in  France, 
Russia,  and  other  European  countries."  E.  F.  E. 
h   Boston    Transcript   p8   Ja   17   '23   650w 

"It  is  a  careful  and  competent,  rather  than 
a  spontaneous  and  inspired  piece  of  work.  .  . 
Somehow  the  whole  affair  is  merely  performed, 
not  created,  and  the  result  is  a  comedy  of  the 
commonplace  instead  of  a  comedy  of  the  uni- 
versal."    H.   W.   Boynton 

\-  Ind   110:295   Ap  28   '23   380w 

"Mr.  Mackenzie  shows  noiv  neither  revolt  nor 
love  for  the  people  he  has  made.  Nothing  is 
more  depressing  than  work  without  will.  Here 
is  a  man  writing  because  he  is  born  to  write; 
writing  carefully,  ostensibly  as  he  has  always 
written — but  no  longer  caring  to  write.  Even 
the  familiarly  clear  style  has  developed  an  al- 
most old-fashioned  austerity  which  would  be 
a  fine  thing  in  itself  did  it  not  seem  an  echo 
of  a  warmer  music.  Mr.  Mackenzie  is  writing 
in  character,  but  without  heart."  Marion  Pon- 
sonby 

h   Lit    R    p499    Mr   3    '23    1900w 

"On  the  surface  at  least  of  Compton  Mac- 
kenzie's work  there  is  always  a  liveliness,  a 
sophistication,  and  a  verisimilitude  that  carries 
the  reader  along,  and  there  is  an  easy  capacity, 
not  for  character  analysis,  but  for  those  little 
strokes  which  individualize  figures  and  keep 
his  pages  alive.  But  beyond  this  he  cannot 
go.  He  has  no  philosophy  to  give  significance 
to  his  work  and  no  depths  in  himself  to  be 
moved,  for  he  inhabits  an  essentially  trivial 
world.  'The  Seven  Ages  of  Woman'  is  hollow 
because  he  never  realizes  that  his  tragic  heroine 
is   a  trivial   person."      J.    W.   Krutch 

—  Nation    116:124    Ja    31    '23    560w 
Reviewed  by  Glenway  Westcott 

New    Repub    35:158   Jl    4    "23    80w 
"A  colourless  book  this,  when  one  remembers 
the  beginnings  of  that  picaresque  and  equivocal 
talent."    Raymond  Mortimer 

—  New   Statesman    20:661   Mr   10   '23   500w 
"Mr.     Mackenzie     has     done     much    better    in 

other    novels,     where    as    author    he     has    been 
caught    under    the    spell    of   his    own    story." 

—  NY    Times    pl6    Ja    14    '23    950w 


"  'The  Seven  Ages  of  Woman'  is  that  most 
dangerous  of  experiments — the  following  through, 
to  the  bitter  end,  over  a  period  of  years,  of 
the  life  of  one  dominant  person.  Yet  it  may 
be  said  at  once  that  from  first  to  last  Mr. 
Mackenzie  has  handled  his  difficult  material 
with  grace  and  distinction;  has  never  once  lost 
the  thread  of  his  complicated  narrative.  .  . 
It  is  a  fascinating  story  that  Mackenzie  has 
woven,  and  there  are  passages  as  finely  human 
as  anything  he  has  done."  C:  H.  Towne 
+  N    Y   Tribune   pl8   F   11   '23   llSOw 

Pratt  p37  spring  '23 

St  Louis  21:94  My  '23 
"Mr.  Compton  Mackenzie  is  presumably  test- 
ing how  much  his  public  will  stand.  If  they 
will  take  'The  Seven  Ages  of  Woman'  seriously, 
he  need  trouble  no  more:  they  will  stand  any- 
thing. After  'The  Altar  Steps,'  in  which  it 
seemed  as  if  a  writer  with  real  gifts  were 
really  proposing  to  use  them,  this  is  a  disap- 
pointment. Or  perhaps  it  is  only  a  holiday. 
But  nobody  dowered  with  that  fair  and  fatal 
fluency  of  Mr.  Mackenzie's  can  afford  to  take 
quite  so  cheap  a  holiday."  Gerald  Gould 
—  Sat    R    135:375   Mr   17    '23   880w 

Spec    130:672    Ap    21    '23    500w 

Springf'd    Republican    p7a   F  4   '23    150w 

MCKENZIE,  DONALD  ALEXANDER.  Ancient 
man  in  Britain;  with  a  foreword  by  G.  Eliot 
Smith.  257p  il  $4.50  Stokes  [12s  6d  Blackie] 
571  Man,  Prehistoric.  Great  Britain — An- 
tiquities [23-7291] 
"He  begins  with  the  period  when  Africa  and 
Italy  were  united,  and  the  British  Isles  and 
North  Sea  formed  part  of  a  lowland  plain  ex- 
tending to  France,  the  Low  Countries  and 
Scandinavia.  He  traces  the  various  invasions 
from  the  south  and  the  east,  long  heads  and 
broad  heads,  agriculturists,  dog-owners,  horse- 
owners,  ui^  to  the  coming  of  the  bronze  swords- 
men and  the  beaker  folk  when  we  are  ap- 
proaching historic  times.  He  tries  to  lead  us 
to  some  notion  of  the  complexity  of  social 
conditions  in  which  the  building  of  the  great 
prehistoric  earthworks  could  have  taken  place, 
and  to  the  civilization  which  alone  could  have 
made  it  possible  for  such  monuments  as  Stone- 
henge  or  Avehury  to  have  been  raised.  Lastly, 
he  shows  how  there  are  living  among  us 
and  forming  the  bulk  of  our  population  the 
descendants  of  these  Neolithic  folk  who  first 
peopled   our   country." — Sat   R 


"He  nas  been  able  to  see  clearly  through 
this  amazing  jumble  of  confusing  statements 
the  way  in  which  every  phase  of  civilization 
in  all  parts  of  the  world  is  closely  correlated 
with  the  rest,  and  he  has  given  luminous  ex- 
pression to  this  clear  vision  of  the  history 
of  man  and  of  civilization  as  it  affects  Britain." 
E.     N. 

+    Boston    Transcript    p4    O    3   '23    800w 

Reviewed    by    Arthur   Keith 

Nature  112:856  D  15  '23  600w 
"Mr  Mackenzie  has  set  himself  in  this 
handsomely  illustrated  volume  the  task  of 
telling  the  history  of  these  islands  in  connex- 
ion with  that  of  Western  Europe,  and  has 
performed   it  with   great   success." 

+  Sat    R    135:334    Mr   10    '23   480w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p257   Ap 
19   '23   1500W 

MACKENZIE,  WILLIAM  COOK.  Life  and  times 
of  John  Maitland.  duke  of  Lauderdale  (1616- 
1682).  514p  $6  Dutton  [15s  K.  Paul] 

B  or  92  Lauderdale,  John  Maitland,  duke 
of.  Scotland — History 
John  Maitland,  duke  of  Lauderdale,  was  a 
Scottish  politician  whose  name  is  chiefly  as- 
sociated with  his  administration  of  Scotland 
during  the  reign  of  Charles  II  and  the  part  he 
played  in  the  attempted  restoration  of  the  Stuart 
dynasty.  He  was  a  member  of  the  famous  cabal 
ministry,  so-called  from  the  initials  of  the  men 
composing   it— Clifford,   Arlington,    Buckingham, 


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329 


Ashley  and  Lauderdale.  While  in  the  main  a 
political  study,  the  book  aims  also  at  an  inter- 
pretation of  the  character  of  Lauderdale. 


New  Statesman  22:248  D  1  '23  900w 
Sat  R  136:386  O  6  '23  550w 
"This  is  an  able,  well-informed  and  well- 
written  book;  and  it  suggests  a  reasonable  and 
intelligible  interpretation  of  the  career  of 
Lauderdale,  without  making  an  impossible  at- 
tempt to  whitewash  him." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p612  S  20 
•23  1200W 

MCKERROW,   JAMES  CLARK.     Appearance   of 
mind.      120p      $2       (6s)      Longmans 
126       Consciousness.       Life.       Thought     and 
thinking  23-6614 

The  treatise  is  an  attempt  to  divide  honors 
evenly  between  idealism  and  realism  by  first 
proving  that  conscious  mind  is  the  result  of  the 
evolutionary  operation  of  a  law  of  nature  thru 
which  the  non-living  became  the  living  and 
physico-chemical  action  became  bio-chemical. 
In  other  words  mind  is  due  to  the  life-principle 
and  is  mechanical  in  the  sense  that  it  is  de- 
termined by  physiology.  From  this  starting 
point  the  author  arrives  at  the  conclusion  that 
"our  consciousness  is  an  illusion,  or  rather,  our 
sense-consciousness  is  hallucination,  and  our 
knowledge  delusion— a  delusion  to  which  all  but 
the   wisest  are  subject." 


Int  J    Ethics  33:440  Jl  '23  120w 
"It  is  a  striking  argument  ably  developed." 

-f  Nature  111:770  Je  9  '23  130w 
"This  small  work  is  likely  to  interest  only 
those  well  accustomed  to  what  may  be  called 
the  technical  side  of  metaphysics  and  who  en- 
joy the  intricate  speculations,  often  largely  ver- 
bal in  character,  which  have  so  'cng  engrossed 
the  minds  of  abstract  thinkers  on  the  relation 
between   Subject  and  Object." 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p219   Mr 
29  '23  230w 

MACKINTOSH,  CHARLES  HENRY.  Creative 
selling,  making  and  keeping  customers.  183p 
$1.50    (6s)   Appleton 

658    Salesmanship  23-4167 

"Pertinent      suggestions,      clearly      expressed. 

The      section    on    mass    selling      is    particularly 

helpful." — Pittsburgh   Mo    Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:361  Jl   '23 

MCKNIGHT,  GEORGE  HARLEY.  English 
words  and  their  background.  449p  $2.50  Ap- 
pleton 

422  English  language— Etymology  23-1006 
The  book  is  very  successful  in  bringing  out 
the  variety  of  interest  to  be  found  in  words 
and  especially  their  human  interest.  It  begins 
with  a  look  at  the  sources  from  which  the 
English  language  is  constantly  renewed— di- 
alect, slang,  Americanisms,  technical  vocabu- 
laries, and  then  goes  back  to  its  ancestrv,  the 
different  elements  that  enter  into  its  composi- 
tion, and  the  creation  of  new  words  and  com- 
pounds. It  shows  too  the  romantic  interest  of 
words  and  the  light  which  they  throw  on  ar- 
cheology and  the  history  of  human  culture. 
There  is  a  concluding  chapter  on  the  choice 
of  words. 


Booklist  20:9  O  '23 
"It  is  an  exhaustive  and  carefully  planned 
study  that  must  be  the  work  of  years  and  its 
value  to  students  of  etymology  lies  both  in  the 
breadth  of  its  scope  and  the  fact  of  its  being 
thoroughly  up   to  date." 

Bookm  57:342  My  '23  120w 
''It  is  a  pleasant  book  to  read  for  instruction 
and   amusement,   and   a   useful   one   to   consult." 

+   Boston    Transcript    pi    Je    2    '23    320w 
Cleveland  p53  Jl  '23 
Reviewed   by    Llewelyn  'Powys 

Freeman    7:357   Je   20   '23   1150w 


"The  book  is  full  of  sound  and  interesting 
observations,  and  contains  a  surprising  abund- 
ance of  aptly  selected  illustrative  examples. 
What  is  more,  the  author  writes  thoroughly 
good  English,  and  is  a  zealous  advocate  of  good 
English.  The  reader  who  is  capable  of  being 
interested  in  the  phenomena  of  language  will 
hardly  find  in  the  volume  either  a  dull  or  a 
difficult  page."     H:   Bradley 

4-  Lit    R   p601  Ap   14   '23   1300w 
"This    is    a    most    interesting    book.    Mr.    Mc- 
Knight   makes   the   study  of   words   a   fascinat- 
ing,   romantic    sort   of  adventure." 

+  Nation  117:43  Jl  11  '23  llOw 
"A  romantic  volume.   .    .   All  at  once  we  have 
discovered    that    the    history    of    human    speech 
is    almost    as    interesting    as    that    of    humanity 
itself."    F:    F.   Van   de  Water 

+   N    Y  Tribune   p21   Mr   25   '23   1350w 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:285  Je  '23 
Springf'd   Republican  p8  Ja  27   '23  lOOw 
"A    rich,    full    and    fascinating    book,    written 
with  vividness  and  vitality!  it  is  not  an  original 
work,  but  a  compilation,  and  for  this  reason  its 
appeal  is  to  the  public,   not  the   scholar." 

4-  Springf'd   Republican  p6  Ap  23  '23  480w 
"The    mass    of   examples    of   all    kinds    makes 
the  book  rather  exhausting  for  continuous  read- 
ing,  but   it   is  a  capital  book  to  dip  into." 

-\ The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p274  Ap 

19  '23  420w 
"His  arrangement  of  material  is  admirably 
clear  and  logical  and  his  presentation  of  it  so 
lucid  and  readable  that  the  book  should  take 
its  place  as  one  of  the  best  general  introduc- 
tions to  the  study  of  English  philology."  G. 
Van  Santvoord 

-f  Yale    R   n   s   12:892   Jl   '23    150w 

MACLAGEN,  BRIDGET,  pseud.  See  Borden- 
Turner,   M. 

MACLAURIN,  C.  Post  mortem;  essays,  his- 
torical and  medical.  255p  it  $2.50  Doran 
[7s  6d   J.  Cape] 

920  Biography 
A  doctor  looks  at  history  as  another  doctor 
looked  at  literature,  to  throw  on  certain  his- 
torical personages  some  light  regarding  their 
physical  condition  and  to  discover  how  far 
the  actions  of  people  who  happened  to  have 
been  leaders  of  events  at  critical  periods  were 
the  result  of  their  state  of  health.  Contents: 
The  case  of  Anne  Boleyn:  The  problem  of 
Jeanne  d'Arc;  The  Empress  Theodora;  The 
Emperor  Charles  V;  Don  John  of  Austria, 
Cervantes,  and  Don  Quixote:  Philip  II  and  the 
arterio-sclerosis  of  statesmen;  Mr  and  Mrs 
Pepys;  Edward  Gibbon;  Jean  Paul  Marat; 
Napoleon    I;    Benvenuto    Cellini;    Death. 


Freeman  8:311  D  5  '23  300w 

"Dr.  MacLaurin  does  not  mean  to  lessen  in 
any  way  the  renown  of  those  he  dissects: 
what  he  wants  is  to  widen  the  field  of  history 
until  it  includes  the  science  of  applied  medi- 
cine. For  he  is  a  learned  and  civilized  man,  as 
well  as  a  surgeon,  and  the  book  reflects  wide 
reading  and  a  humane  spirit.  Naturally  Post 
Mortem  is  speculative,  being  based  on  storied 
symptoms:  but  it  forces  us  to  see  that  human 
motives  of  the  past  depended  as  much  on 
physiology  as  we  know  our  own  to  do."  Rose- 
lee   Cohen 

-j New    Repub    36:210   O   17    '23    350w 

"An  original  and  fascinating  book.  Written  by 

a   man   whom   one   would    feel    it   a  privilege   to 

know,  and  in  a  manner  that  seems  to  draw  both 

time   and   space   closer   together."    H:    L.    Stuart 

4-  N  Y  Times  p4  N  25  '23  1650w 

"There    is   probably    not    one    of    the    doctor's 

dicta    which    would    hold    water.     But    the    book 

is   highly   entertaining   nonetheless,    in   the   way 

that   all    highlv    spiced    gossip    is    entertaining." 

1-   N    Y    Tribune   p25   O   14   '23   780w 

"Dr.  MacLaurin  has  written  an  amusing  and 
unconventional  set  of  essays  on  an  unhackneyed 
theme." 

+  Sat   R  135:436  Mr  31   '23  520w 


330 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


MACLAURIN,  C— Continued 

T^"^l}^  result,  on  the  whole,  is  unconvincing. 
Dr.  MacLaurin  is  not  sufficiently  an  historian 
to  make  his  essays  important  from  the  histori- 
cal point  of  view,  and  his  medical  theories  are 
often  in  default  of  any  available  evidence,  so 
entirely  a  matter  of  gruesswork  as  to  be  unin- 
teresting-. Dr.  MacLaurin's  idea,  however,  if 
carried  out  more  thoroughly  might  produce  cu- 
rious and  interesting  results  " 
h  Spec  131:229  S  18  '23  150w 

MACLEOD,  DELLA  CAMPBELL.  Swan  and  the 
mule.    301  p  $1.75     Houghton  ""^ 

22-18852 
Andrew  MacDonald,  a  young  cotton  planter, 
came  to  New  Orleans  to  pay  off  the  mortgage 
on  his  plantation  and  celebrated  the  event  bv 
S?i"^io„^  ^^^y  ball.  Masked  as  a  mule,  he 
met  Calla  Portescue,  the  orphaned  grand- 
daughter of  his  banker,  in  the  disguise  of  a 
swan.  They  loved  instantly  and.  unlble  to  en^ 
dure  the  tragedy  of  parting  until  the  morning, 
eloped  that  night.  Calla's  infuriated  grand^ 
l^ii^t^''^  f"*?  her  wealthy,  middle-aged  flanc6 
plotted  to  bring  her  back,  using  a  wily  mulatto 
as  chief  agent  who  in  turn  called  in  the  sinister 
arts  of  voodooism.  But  Calla  was  the  daughter 
of  a  pirate  and  her  courage  was  equal  to  every 
test.  Almost  unbelievable  misfortunes  and  hor^ 
ror.s  were  visited  on  the  lovers  but  they  endured 
to  the  end  The  story  leaves  them  starting  on 
a  second  honeymoon,  financed  by  the  contents 
of  a  buried  treasure  chest  discovered  on  the 
plantation. 


The  author  may  be  a  daughter  of  the  land 
for  all  we  know.  In  which  case  it  is  harder  to 
forgive  this  story,  for  then  she  must  have 
known  that  there  are  things  in  the  South  bet- 
ter worth  writing  of  than  the  things  she  chose. 
The  novel,  however,  is  pleasantly  written  and 
will  prove  interesting  to  those  who  are  always 
curious  to  read  what  others  have  to  say  of 
their  part  of  the  world,  and  for  others  who  like 
to  have  their  preconceived  ideas  of  certain 
sections  of  the  country  verified  in  story  books  " 

h   Boston  Transcript   p4  My  12  '23  290w 

Lit  R  p792  Je  23  '23  160w 
N   Y  Times   pl9  My  6  '23  400w 
"The   author's   knowledge   of   mud   and    mules 
seems  to  be  authentic,  and  one  enjoys  the  story 
reasonably  sure  the  situations  as  presented  have 
a    true    southern    atmosphere." 

-f  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  29  '23  190w 
Wis   Lib   Bui  19:414  Jl  '23 

^'on^o'-^?9^i?°^^'^'^  °-  County  rural  libraries. 
=    292p   il   $2.75   Wilson,    H.   W.    [10s   6d  Grafton] 
021.6     Libraries,    County  23-26771 

An  account  of  the  policy  and  organization  of 
the  country  rural  library  movement  in  Great 
Britain  and  Ireland  based  on  the  schemes  of 
the  Carnegie  United  Kingdom  trustees  to  whom 
the  author  was  librarian.  The  second  and  larger 
part  of  the  book  is  given  to  the  internal  organiz- 
ation of  the  county  book  repositories— library 
ff^'t.  provision  and  care  of  books,  accession. 
Classification,  cataloging,  charging  systems 
transport  methods  and  extension  work.  Biblio- 
graphy.   Index. 

''Gives    a   vast    amount   of   information    in    an 
attractive  and  readable  manner." 
+   Booklist  20:36  N  '23 

v,.'JA'S'^k"^^-  "^'■'"en  primarily  for  British  county 
rural  libraries,  the  author's  frequent  rompari"- 
sons  of  conditions  in  Great  Britain  with  those 
in  America,  make  his  book  informing  for  Am- 
ericans   also." 

St   Louis  p329  D  '23 
.oo'^'onA'^''"^^  [London]   Lit  Sup  p441  Je  28 

id    ^20w 

MAC  MICKLE,  VIRGIL.  Eat  and  be  healtbv 
the  diet  question  simplified.  154p  il  $1.50  Un- 
iversal  press 

613.2    Diet  23-8017 

A  brief  and  non-technical  discussion  of  the 
chemistry  of  foods  and  the  phvsiologv  of  nu- 
trition. After  classifying  the  different  foods  and 


their  use  in  the  diet,  the  book  lays  down  thn 
rules  for  eating  them  correctly  and  follows 
with  illustrative  menus.  Food  for  over-weights 
and  under-weights  is  prescribed  as  well  as  diet 
for  the  diabetic,  and  there  is  a  chapter  on  the 
importance  and  use  of  the  different  elements 
in  the  dietary.  The  book  concludes  with  a  set 
of  health-giving  exercises. 

N    Y   World  p9e  My   13  '23   250w 
"Dr  McMickle  presents  in   this  book  the  facts 
of  nutrition,   in  everyday  English.  The  chapters 
regarding  the  chemical  content  of  various  foods 
IS  especially  clear." 

-i-  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ag  5  '23  240w 

MACMURCHY,     MARJORY.     Child's     house;     a 
=    comedy   of   Vanessa.    243p   $1.75    (6s)    Macmil- 
lan 

The  book  traces  in  fiction  from  the  psychologi- 
cal reactions  to  various  situations  of  Vanessa 
Brown,  from  the  time  she  was  eight  until 
she  attained  the  age  of  thirteen.  "When  there 
were  snow  forts  to  defend  Vanessa  was  sure 
she  wanted  to  be  a  boy.  Then  when  the  Relative 
lent  her  a  green  silk  parasol  and  she  walked 
proudly  forth  and  met  the  strange  little  boy 
who  tried  to  kiss  her,  Vanessa  reacted  entirely 
like  an  insulted  little  girl.  And  so  she  progress- 
ed from  one  stage  to  another  until  that  proud 
day  when  "the  full  glory  of  her  attainment  burst 
upon  Vanessa.  She  was  an  independent  human 
being!" 


"Mii^s  MacMurchy  reveals  psychological  in- 
sight into  the  workings  of  the  small-girl  mind 
and  heart  and  unusual  ability  in  translating 
them  into  action.  It  is  a  charming  book,  which 
one  reads  with  a  smile  and  a  chuckle  and  a 
feeling  of  much  tenderness  for  its  little  heroine." 
-f   N  Y  Times  p22  D  23  '23  500w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p838  N  29 
•23   llOw 

MCNALLY,     WILLIAM      JAMES.       The     barb. 

389p    $1.75    Putnam 

23-7830 

"  'The  Barb'  is  the  story  primarily  of  the 
career  of  Boh  W^hitney  in  a  midwestern  State 
university,  and,  in  a  lesser  degree,  of  his  sister 
Connie.  Bob  comes  to  the  State  university  after 
several  years  in  Europe,  where  he  has  been 
accustomed  to  hearing  young  men  talk  about 
the  finer  aspects  of  music,  literature  and  life. 
At  the  university  he  finds  a  loud-talking,  vul- 
gar mass  of  students.  Bob  finds  them  obvious, 
facile,  superficial,  empty-headed  and  crude. 
Education  he  discovers  to  be  the  merest  minor 
aspect  of  university  life.  Then  there  is  the  in- 
fluence of  the  fraternities  and  the  sororities. 
Those  luckless  individuals  who  fail  to  attain 
tnenihership  in  these  organizations  productive 
of  an  absurdly  artificial  social  caste,  ba.sed 
neither  upon  breeding  nor  ability,  are  dubbed 
'barbs.'  Bob  is  a  barb  by  choice.  Besides  the 
more  common  details  of  university  life  the  love 
affairs  of  Bob  form  an  important  part  of  the 
book."— N  Y  Times 


"We  feel  that  the  author  of  'The  barb'  does 
not  write  with  a  practised  hand.  As  to  whether 
or  not  this  novel  tells  the  whole  truth  about 
co-education  only  the  co-educated  can  say." 
D.    P.    G. 

—  Boston    Transcript    p4    Mr    28    '23    780w 
"  'The    Barb'    is    a    crooked    representation   of 

college-life."     J.    F.    Royster 

—  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily   News  plO  My 
6   '23   700w 

Reviewed  by   J.   L.    Becker 

Int    Bk    R    o56    Je    '23    560w 

"As  a  treatment  of  life  in  a  State  university 
the  novel  is  hardly  adequate.  As  a  novel  it  is 
spottv.  Its  good,  moreover,  never  reaches 
heights  equal  to  the  depths  of  its  bad.  Its 
style  is  no  great  help:  frequently  the  choice  of 
words  is  iarring,  and  at  be.<?t  the  author  writes 
without  distinction,"  Herscbel  Brickell 
h   Lit    R   p624   Ap   21    '23    450w 

"As  a  novel,  even  as  a  first  novel,  'The  Barb" 
is  uneven  in  texture.  The  book  is  saddled  with 
an    incredible    hero    and    an    oversolemn    'case 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


331 


against  the  harmless  snobbery  of  the  prosperous 
peasant  youth  of  the  Middle  West  who  form 
the  backbone  of  the  Greek  letter  fraternity 
system.  Yet  'The  Barb'  is  neither  dvill  nor 
inept.  It  is  close-packed  with  shrewd  and 
ca\istic  observation,  and  it  conveys  the  satis- 
faction which  attaches  to  any  representation  of 
the  truth,  because  it  is  obviously  built  out  of 
the  very  stuff  of  life   itself." 

H Nation    116:703    Je    13    '23    140w 

"Isn't  It  almost  time  for  minstrels  of  college 
sagras  to  stop  thrusting  seductions,  brilliance, 
exquisite  faculty  wives,  solemn  young  bruins, 
European  culture,  and  in-the-last-psycho- 
analysis  into  stories  about  state  universities? 
Those  of  us  who  have  lived  six  or  more  years 
in  these  places  only  wish  that  people  did  these 
things.  It  would  be  quaint  and  interesting,  but 
it  is  not  true."   A.  D.   D. 

—  New  Repub  35:266  Ag  1  '23  450w 
N    Y    Times    pl6    Ap    1    '23    520w 

"The  novel  is  both  harmfully  untruthful  and 
sensational.  .  .  It  is  nicely  done,  from  the 
standpoint  of  writing.  It  progresses  smoothly, 
with  each  dramatic  situation  well  timed.  Its 
dialogue  is  either  clever  or  smart,  and  there 
is  a  great  deal  of  it."  Kenneth  Fuessle 
1-  N    Y   Tribune   p25   Ap   29   '23   850w 

"  'The  Baib,'  however  excellent  its  intent, 
cannot  fail  to  impress  the  reader  with  an 
uneasy  feeling  that  education  must  be  a  terri- 
ble   thing." 

—  NY   World   p8e  Ap  1   '23   600w 

"The  book,  on  the  whole  is  passable,  as  light 
fiction;  its  lack  of  a  consistently  developed 
central  idea  causes  it  to  lose  effectiveness  as 
a    study    of    a    rather    important    subject." 

—  Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Ap     15     '23 
450w 

MACNAMARA,       RACHEL       SWETE.       Stolen 

honey.    390p   $2   Small 

23-7002 

"A  man  stationed  in  India,  faced  with  the 
problem  of  an  eighteen -year-old  daughter  who 
is  shortly  to  join  him,  proposes  marriage,  by 
letter,  to  a  woman  whom  he  knew  as  a  child 
ten  years  before.  The  daughter,  a  sophisti- 
cated mite,  falls  passionately  in  love  (on  the 
desert)  with  a  Frenchman  who  is  not  a  'marry- 
ing man.'  The  widower  suspects  his  virtuous 
second  wife  of  relationships  with  a  nice  boy 
whose  only  error  is  a  love  for  the  sophisticated 
flapper  who  doesn't  love  him  at  all.  In  the 
end,  the  widower  sees  his  error,  and  the 
Frenchman  asks  for  the  daughter's  hand." — 
Int  Bk  R 


"Here   is   a    sentimental    romance    with    over- 
tones   of    suggestive    melodrama.     The    book    is 
full  of  thrills  after  the  manner  of  'The  Sheik.'  " 
—  Int   Bk  R  p68  O  "23  350w 

"WTiile  not  a  novel  of  any  particular  distinc- 
tion,    'Stolen    Honey'     is    yet    saved    from     the 
cheap  claptrap  of  so  many  of  its  contemporaries 
by  something  of  reality  in  the  characters." 
H NY   Times   p27   Ap   8   '23   500w 

"It  is  a  swift-moving  story  that  holds  the 
interest  steadily,  despite  a  rigidly  conventional 
style  and  the  occasional  outcropping  of  such 
sentiments  as  'behind  the  clouds  the  sun's  still 
shining.'  "   Edith  Leighton 

H NY   Tribune   p22  My   6   '23   390w 

MCNEILE,     CYRIL     (SAPPER,     pseud.).     Black 

gang.    286p    $1.75   Doran 

Sir  Bryan  Johnstone,  director  of  criminal  in- 
vestigation, was  worried.  For  months  England 
had  been  terrorized  by  a  mysterious  band 
known  as  the  Black  gang,  whose  members  were 
always  disguised  in  black  robes  completely 
shrouding  their  flgrures.  They  had  a  wav  of 
appearing  out  of  the  darkness  and  spiriting 
people  away  to  parts  unknown.  As  the  persons 
kidnapped  were  always  Red  agitators,  there 
was  little  sorrow  on  that  score  among  the 
police,  but  they  did  want  to  know  who  were 
the  members  of  the  gang.  Presently  when  the 
leader  of  the  gang  nearly  lost  his  life  in  clearing 
out  a  particularly  dangerous  nest  of  criminals 
Scotland  Yard  was   informed  of  all   the   doings 


of  the   secret   society.     And  the  identity  of  the 
leader  was   a   surprise   to  friend  and  foe   alike. 

"Adventure    follows    adventure    in    such    rapid 
succession,  that  the  most  jaded  reader  of  crime 
stories  is  bound  to  sit   up  and  take  notice." 
+   Int   Bk   R  p66  O   '23   500w 

N    Y   Times  pl4    D    16    '23   400w 
"The    tale    of    Black     Gang    operations    goes 
with   a   thrill   as    Mr.    McNeile    sets    it    forth." 
+   N  Y    World   p7e   S   16    '23   300w 

MCPHERSON,  LOGAN  GRANT.  Human  ef- 
fort and  human  wants;  an  interpretation  of 
economic  activity  in  relation  to  human  life. 
318p    $2.50    Harcourt 

330      Economics  23-8467 

The  book  undertakes  to  explain  minutely  the 
fundamental  laws  of  economics  that  underlie 
production,  buying  and  selling,  without  which 
human  wants  cannot  be  met  and  which  imply 
not  only  continual  production  but  the  continual 
rendering  and  exchange  of  personal  services. 
Among  the  subjects  discussed  are  competition; 
the  transformation  of  substance  into  utilities; 
the  meaning  of  credits  and  debits;  the  uses  of 
money;  banking;  industrial  development;  etc 
Index. 


Boston  Transcript  p7  Je  2  '23  600w 
"Economics  does  not  deserve  the  title  of  'the 
dismal  science'  when  it  is  treated  by  the  re- 
alistic method  which  Mr.  McPherson  applies  to 
it.  His  point  of  view  and  his  method  both  had 
their  origin  in  an  interesting  parallel  which  oc- 
curred to  him  while  he  was  making  a  study 
of  the  development  of  art." 

-f  N    Y   Times   p21    Je   10   '23    750w 
"A    readable     and    interesting    discussion     of 
fundamental   matters." 

+   R   of   Rs   67:672   Je  '23   80w 

MADDISON,   IVY.  Riding  astride  for  girls.   263p 

il  $3.50   Holt 

798    Horsemanship  23-9657 

Since  the  cross  saddle  for  women  has  come  to 
sta.v  the  book  not  only  sets  forth  all  the  ad- 
vantages to  be  derived  therefrom  but  goes  into 
horsemanship  in  general  including  its  history, 
hunting  and  hunters,  and  the  training  and  care 
of  sport   horses. 

"Miss  Maddison  is  widely  known  as  one  of  the 
most  expert  horsewomen  in  this  country.  It 
is  evident  from  her  book  that  she  is  a  great 
lover  of  horses  and  that  she  understands  them 
well.  The  volume  is  fairly  comprehensive  in 
its  treatment  of  riding  for  women,  from  the 
beginner  to  advanced  phases." 

4-   N   Y  Times  p6  My  27  '23  550w 

MAETERLINCK,    MAURICE.    Cloud   that   lifted. 

and    The    power    of    the    dead;    tr.    by    F.    M. 

Atkinson.      354p      $2      Century 

842  23-12498 

"  'The  Cloud  that  Lifted"  is  a  drama  of  tense, 
high-pitched  human  emotions.  The  scene  is 
laid  in  present-day  Finland.  The  three  prin- 
cipal characters  are  Sonia,  the  daughter  of 
one  of  the  hated  tyrannical  Russian  rulers; 
Axel,  her  lover,  a  splendid  young  patriot,  and 
Tatiana,  a  false  friend  but  a  true  lover.  The 
accidental  murder  of  Sonia' s  father  by  the  man 
who  loves  her,  forms  the  pivot  of  the  plot. 
Tatiana  knows  about  it  and  uses  her  knowl- 
edge to  torture  but  not  to  kill.  In  'The  Power 
of  the  Dead,'  a  young  Frenchman,  the  last  of 
a  long  line  of  magistrates  whose  sense  of  honor 
or  justice  was  their  religion,  attempts  dis- 
honor, acts  a  lie,  in  his  old  ancestral  chateau. 
The  power  of  the  dead  comes  upon  him  and  he 
is  thrust  out  of  his  home  and  brought  to  con- 
fession. But  at  the  end  it  all  turns  out  to 
be  only  a  horrible  dream." — Springf'd  Repub- 
lican 


Booklist  20:49  N  '23 

"■While    neither   of    the    plays    in    this    volume 

possesses   the  mystery   and   beauty   of   the   best 

of  Maeterlinck's  earlier  work,  a  peculiar  interest 

attaches  to  both.     They  are  markedly  different 


332 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


MAETERLINCK,  M. — Continued 
from  any  of  his  previous  dramas,  save  possibly 
'The  Burgomaster  of  Stilemonde'  and  'The  Mir- 
acle of  St  Anthony.'  Their  contents  suggest 
that  the  War  has  had  and  is  going  to  have 
a  far  stronger  effect  on  Maeterlinck's  output 
than  was  generally  suspected.  Of  the  two,  "The 
Cloud  That  Lifted'   is  distinctly  the  better." 

H Boston    Transcript    p4    S    12    '23   300w 

Reviewed   by   R:    Le   Gallienne 

N  Y  Times  p2  S  30  "23  2300w 
"  'The  Cloud  That  Lifted'  is  a  more  actable 
play  than  'The  Power  of  the  Dead,'  It  is  more 
poignant  and  more  intensely  stirring.  The  lat- 
ter, more  subtle  and  intricate,  is  not  so  con- 
vincing. It  touches  the  true  Maeterlinckian 
chord,  the  notes  we  have  learned  to  listen  for 
and  greatly  desire;  but  perhaps  because  it 
touches  these  only  lightly  and  inconclusively, 
we  are  left  a  little  disappointed  and  dissatis- 
fied  at  the  end." 

-| Springf'd    Republican   p7   O   21   '23   600w 

MAHIN,     EDWARD     G.,     and     CARR,     RALPH 

HAROLD.    Quantitative    agricultural   analysis. 

(International  chemical  ser.)   329p  il  $2.75  Mc- 

Graw 

547   Agricultural    chemistry.    Chemistry,    An- 
alytic— Quantitative  23-5132 

"Contains  bibliographical  footnotes.  'The  dis- 
cussion of  special  methods  .  .  .  for  the  analysis 
of  materials  of  prime  importance  to  chemical 
students  of  agricultural  materials  and  of  agricul- 
tural problems  forms  an  important  portion  of 
the  book.'  Includes  an  introductory  course  in 
general  analysis  and  a  section  on  special  mea- 
surements."— Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:472  N  '23 

MAIS,  STUART  PETRE  BRODIE.  Some  mod- 
ern authors.  355p  $2.50  Dodd  [7s  6d  G.  Rich- 
ards] 

820.4  Authors.  English  literature 
"Mr.  Mais,  though  he  admits  to  being  a  book 
reviewer,  will  not  call  himself  a  literary  critic. 
The  art  of  criticism  he  thinks  beyond  his  reach: 
he  is  employed  as  a  'Taster'  only.  And  it  may 
be  said  that  his  business  is  to  tell  those  who  have 
not  time  to  read  'the  latest  books'  what  those 
books  are  about,  and  what  can  be  intelligently 
said  about  them  at  the  dinner  table.  Some- 
times he  mounts  higher."  (The  Times  [Lon- 
don] Lit  Sup)  Of  the  forty-two  authors 
treated  almost  all  are  English.  Four  Americans 
are  included' — Sherwood  Anderson,  Sinclair 
Lewis,  Joseph  Hergesheimer  and  Eugene 
O'Neill,  and  there  are  ten  dramatists  to  three 
poets. 


Bookm  58:334  N  '23  200w 
"On  the  whole,  I  confess,  I  have  failed  to 
discover  wherein  this  collection  of  essays  dif- 
fers from  its  predecessors.  The  chapters  are 
of  approximately  the  same  length,  they  deal 
with  the  same  people,  more  or  less,  and  indi- 
cate nothing  beyond  the  fact  that  Mr.  Mais  has 
an  astounding  faculty  of  enthusiasm  which  had 
better  be  placed  at  the  service  of  those  editors 
who  like  their  reviewers  to  like  what  the  public 

'  —  Freeman    8:141    O   17  '23   800w 
Reviewed   by   R:    Le   Gallienne 

Int    Bk    R   p20   N  '23   700w 
Lit    R   p312   D   1   '23   200w 
Lit   R   p411  D  29   '23   220w 
New    Repub    36:262   O    31    '23    120w 
Reviewed  by  H.  J.  Mankiewicz 

N  Y  Times  plO  N  25  '23  150w 
St  Louis  p339  D  '23 
"He  must  be  easily  the  most  breathless  per- 
son who  has  ever  written  about  books.  But 
as  he  likes  doing  it,  and  as  he  has  obviously 
won  a  public  for  himself,  neither  he  nor  his 
stouthearted  publisher  can  be  blamed  for  these 
periodical  eruptions.  The  public  has  decided 
that  Mr.  Mais  must  read  the  latest  novel  and 
the  last  play  and  must  hurry  away  to  his  type- 


writer, sketch  the  plot  and  add  a  few  breath- 
less comments;  and  the  public  must  be  obeyed. 
It   seems    a   pity,    though." 

H Spec    130.974   Je   9    '23   300w 

"Reasonable  independence,  but  unrewarding 
criticism.  It  is  in  fact,  hardly  more  than  a 
summary  of  various  works  t'nat  are  more  or  less 
familiar." 

h  Springf'd    Republican   p6   O   13   '23   600w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p374   My 
31    '23    150w 

MALCOSKEY,  EDNA  WALKER.  Debutante. 
1    220p      $2      Dutton 

23-9167 
"Intimate  glimpses  into  the  heart  of  a  young 
girl.  Her  early  frivolity,  her  awakening  ideals 
and  desire  for  service  when  America  goes  into 
the  war,  her  adventures  in  the  maelstrom  of 
Europe,  her  problems,  her  flirtations,  her  gay 
social  life  in  the  fashionable  South  after  her 
return,  her  views  on  the  political  situation,  and 
finally  her  great  lasting  love  are  told  in  her 
diary  overflowing  with  youthful  spirits." — Pub- 
lisher's  note 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Jl  28  '23  lOOOw 
"A     conceited    and     supercilious     ego    is    the 
heroine's,    restless    and    bored,    but    for    all    that 
sufficiently    amused    to    continue    the    'butterfly' 
life  she  leads." 

—  Int  Bk  R  p61  S  "23  200w 

"There  are  such  women,  of  course,  but  it 
hardly  seems  worth  while  to  fill  up  a  whole  book 
with  their  meditations  and  jejune  analyses. 
Merely  as  a  narrative  it  is  thin  and  rather  dull." 

—  Lit   R  p932   Ag  25  '23   150w 

—  NY  Times  pl7  Je  10  '23  330w 
"Rhetorically  and  sentimentally  it  is  incredi- 
bly youthful;  it  reeks  with  raw  platitudes, 
naively  pompous  generalities  and  comically  in- 
nocent errors  in  grammar.  It  hasn't  any  plot; 
it  hasn't  any  style;  worst  of  all,  it  hasn't  any 
personality."     Isabel   Paterson 

—  NY   Tribune    pl8   Je    10   '23   280w 
"There  are  some  splendid  passages  and  some 

good    thoughts    and    reflections.     But    are    they 
the    thoucrhls    and    rejections    of    a    debutante — 
even  a  clever  eighteen-vear-old?"    Ruth  Snyder 
h   N   Y  World  p8e  Je  3  '23  840w 

MALET,   LUCAS,  pseud.  See  Harrison,  M.  St  L. 

MALLARME,   CAMILLE.    House  of  the  enemy; 

tr.    from   La    casa    seca,    by    Adeline.     256p   $2 

McBride    [6s    J.    Cape] 

The  scene  is  laid  in  La  Mancha,  a  little 
knowni  urovince  of  central  Spain  which  mod- 
ern civilization  has  passed  by.  The  heroine  is 
CTandida,  a  foundling,  adopted  by  an  old  shep- 
herd and  his  wife.  Roaming  the  heath  all  day, 
Candida  grew  up  strong  and  beautiful.  Juan 
Jos6,  heir  of  the  Jimenez  of  Casa  Seca,  cast 
desiring  eyes  upon  her,  but  when  he  took  her 
home  as  his  wife  he  had  already  spoiled  her 
dreams  and  forfeited  her  respect.  The  Jimenez 
owned  a  great  part  of  the  province,  acted  as 
petty  tyrants  and  exacted  tribute  from  the 
whole  countryside.  In  Casa  Seca,  place  of 
hatred  and  vice,  and  later  in  her  town  house, 
C!andida  lived  the  life  of  a  real  senora,  but 
one  of  sorrow  and  bitterness.  The  crowning 
tragedy  of  her  life  was  to  see  her  idolized  son 
grow  up  a  true  .Timenez  and  set  his  heart  upon 
one   of  his   cousins,   whom   she   hated. 


"The  story  is  strong  and  vivid  and  a  little 
strange,  and  it  leaves  a  clear  and  definite  im- 
pression  of  tragedy  behind  it."   D.    L.   M. 

-f-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Jl  14  '23  850w 
"The  author  develops  his  story  with  rare  skill 
and  presents  a  striking  and  convincing  picture 
of  La  Mancha  and  its  customs.  This  tale  pos- 
sesses Qualities  entitling  it  to  more  than  transi- 
ent recognition."   J.   D.   Haag 

+  Detroit   News   pl2   Ag  26   '23   480w 
"Aside    from    its   violent    story,    which    doesn't 
quite   compel   credence,    this   novel   has   colourful 
moments  and  a  qviick-paced   narrative  style." 
H Dial  75:301  S  '23  70w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


333 


Heviewed  by  H.  W.  Boynton 

Ind  111:19  Jl  21  '23  820w 

"The  plot  is  well  prepared  and  has  been 
treated  so  simply  that  the  reader  will  thread 
through  the  complex  situation  without  difficulty. 
The  author  has  written  with  a  clear,  clean-cut 
vision  and  a  sober  purpose.  Though  the  book 
presents  obvious  problems,  it  has  its  fine  mo- 
ments. It  is  fairly  above  the  average  in  treat- 
ment and  conception." 

H Lit    R    p772    Je    16    '23    420w 

"The  material  has  been  handled  with  com- 
petence and  vigor,  and  with  a  fidelity  to  human 
motive  and  relations  which  lifts  the  story  above 
the   commonplace." 

+  Nation  117:531  N  7  '23  90w 

"A  genre  study  of  a  deal  of  charm,  animated 
by   the   outline   of   a   girl's    rise   which   is    often 

+  N  Y  Times  pl4  My  20  '23  600w 
"There  are  elements  of  greatness  in  this 
novel;  the  theme  has  a  classic  simplicity,  an 
elementary  power.  Why  then  does  it  distinctly 
fail  of  being  great?  Some  essential  ingredient 
is  lacking;  sympathy,  perhaps,  on  the  part  of 
the  author  for  his  creatures.  He  localizes  them 
too  successfully  in  time  and  space.  They  ought 
to  assume  a  larger  significance."  Isabel  Pat- 
erson 

H NY    Tribune    p27    My    27    '23    550w 

MALLETT,  MARGUERITE.  White  woman 
among  the  Masai.  288p  il  $7.50  Dutton  [21a 
Unwin] 

916.7  Masailand 
The  author  nowhere  tells  why  she  went  to 
East  Africa  in  war-time  to  live  among  the  Ma- 
sai for  nearly  three  years.  The  greater  part 
of  the  narrative  is  an  account  of  her  hunting 
experiences,  and  the  illustrations  are  mostly 
pictures  of  her  many  kills,  which  included 
lions,  hyenas,  buffalo,  wildbeeste,  etc.  She  de- 
scribes the  forests,  camping  in  the  jungle,  the 
animals  and  insects  encountered  and  something 
of  the   life  and   customs  of  the  Masai. 


"Its  value  lies  in  the  fact  that  the  author  has 
had  a  most  unusual  series  of  adventures.  Her 
manner  of  writing  about  them  is  straight- 
forward but  not  unusually  entertaining." 

+   Boston  Transcript   p2  D  22   '23  300w 
"We  are  not  much  enriched  by  this  ill-writ- 
ten personal   narrative." 

—  New  Statesman  22:gupl2  O  13  '23  lOOw 
"The  effect  is  puzzling — it  is  as  if  a  picture 
had  been  cut  out  of  its  frame  irregularly  and  a 
little  way  from  the  edge;  little  of  the  picture 
is  missing,  but  the  whole  appears  slightly  out 
of  focus;  just  as  we  should  search  for  a  cen- 
tral point  in  the  picture  for  the  parts  to  group 
themselves  round." 

1-  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p449  Jl  5 

•23  800w 

MALLOCH,    DOUGLAS.      Come  on  home.      222p 
$2      Doran 

811  23-10333 

A  collection  of  homely  verse,  the  themes  of 
which  center  about  the  home,  its  inmates  and 
interests.  Just  dad.  Long  pants,  A  rose  from 
mother's  garden,  WTien  mother  starts  the  apple 
sass,  are  typical  titles  and  indicate  the  manner 
and    quality    of    the    contents. 


"This  is  a  book  for  all  'who  live  in  a  house 
by  the  side  of  the  road'  and  believe  that  'Just 
the  art  of  being  kind  is  all  this  sad  world 
needs,'  for  lovers  of  Sam  W^alter  Foss  and  of 
Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox,  whose  philosophy  Douglas 
Malloch    is   carrying   on." 

—  Lit    R    p32    S    8    '23    270w 

"Douglas  Malloch's  'Come  on  Home'  has  no 
more  pretense  to  be  poetry  major  or  minor 
than  the  daily  'features'  of  Walt  Mason  or 
Walter  Kiser.  It  is  'just  folks,'  its  theme  the 
pleasant  residential  ways  that  turn  off  Main 
Street,  where  dad.  with  pipe  and  paper,  mother 
with  her  knitting,  sit  on  porches  in  rocking 
chairs."     H:    L.    Stuart 

—  NY  Times  pl2   Jl   8  '23   230w 


"Verse  of  the  Eddie  Guest  variety.  The 
poems  base  their  appeal  on  obvious  turns  of 
sentiment,  transpiring  through  trite  phrasing 
and   rhyme." 

—  Outlook    134:599    Ag   15   '23   150w 

MANN,  THOMAS.  Bashan  and  I;  tr.  by  Her- 
man George  Scheffauer.  247p  $2.25  Holt 
[7s   6d   Collins] 

Passing  as  a  dog  story  "Bashan  and  I,"  by 
an  Austrian  novelist,  is  less  a  story  than  a 
study  in  dog  psychology  and  of  the  relations 
between  a  dog  and  his  master.  The  book 
opens  with  an  account  of  their  morning  meet- 
ing, Bashan's  dance  of  welcome  and  salutation, 
their  daily  walk  together  before  breaJifast  and 
their  mutual  love  of  nature.  Then  his  master 
tells  how  he  acquired  Bashan,  a  setter  not  of 
purest  breed,  and  describes  with  great  detail 
his  character  and  manner  of  life.  He  was  born 
with  the  hunting  instinct  and  he  pursues  the 
chase  for  its  own  sake,  not  for  the  sake  of  prey. 
The  rest  of  the  book  is  given  to  an  account 
of  Bashan's  hunting-grounds  and  his  forays  on 
rabbits,  field-mice  and  water-foWl.  It  is  all 
told  with  simplicity  and  a  loving  understanding 
of  dog  nature. 


"If  Mr.  Mann  is  concerned  solely  with  dog 
psychology  this  ought  to  be  in  a  pamphlet.  If 
he  is  endeavoring  to  produce  literature  he  needs 
to  distinguish  more  carefully  between  a  photo- 
graphic representation  of  his  favorite  short- 
haired  setter  and  an  artistic  study  of  a  devoted 
dog.  Elaborate  digressions  on  natural  scenery 
which  he  makes  are  too  heavy  to  be  appropriate. 
This  book,  contrai-y  to  the  publishers'  declara- 
tion, is  not  subtle.  It  is  merely  tiresome." 
—  Boston    Transcript   p4   N   7   '23   320w 

"In  the  simplicity  of  the  telling  lies  the  great 
pull  of  the  author's  messages.  The  book  is  an 
enchanting  classic,  destined  for  conspicuous 
place  amid  the  greatest  dog  stories  of  all  time." 
Jack   Hines 

-f   N    Y    Times   plO    N    4   '23    650w 

"We  are  given  an  almost  uncanny  glimpse 
into  the  mentality  not  only  of  Bashan  himself, 
but  of  all  those  other  four-legged  friends  of 
ours  whom  he  so  delightfully  typifies.  This  is 
particularly  so  when  the  author  touches  on 
those  tense  moments  when  Bashan's  hunting 
instincts  are  aroused,  or  when  he  encounters 
another  of  his  kind — moments  when  every  dog, 
no  matter  how  domesticated,  sheds  his  thin 
veneer  of  civilization  and  suiTenders  himself 
to  something  more  primitive,  something  that 
seems  to  well  up  from  the  very  depths  of  his 
nature.  In  telling  us  so  mugh  about  Bashan, 
his  master  cannot,  of  course,  avoid  telling  us 
also  a  good  deal  about  himself.  Every  now  and 
then  Bashan's  biographer  strikes  a  note  that 
shows  he  is  more  than  an  acute  and  sensitive 
observer  of  natural  phenomena,  that  proves  him 
also  to   be   a  profound  and   poetical   thinker." 

+  The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p532   Ag 
9   '23  580w 

MANNIN,   ETHEL   E.     Martha.   352p  $2  Duffield 
2    [7s   6d  L.    Parsons] 

23-14913 

"Martha  left  the  workhouse  at  the  age  of 
sixteen  to  enter  domestic  service  with  a  doctor 
in  London.  Her  superior  birth  begins  to  make 
itself  felt  when  she  develops  the  rudiments  of 
an  intellectual  curiosity,  which  later  enables  her 
to  act  as  the  doctor's  secretary  and  presently 
as  his  wife.  But  immediately  after  her  mar- 
riage she  realizes  she  cannot  love  her  husband 
and  runs  away  from  him.  Her  attempts  to  get 
suitable  employment  are  baffled  by  lack  of  a 
reference,  for  her  letters  to  the  doctor  are  m- 
tercepted  by  a  wicked  old  housekeeper,  who 
knew  Martha's  unfortunate  mother  and  longs 
to  see  her  daughter  in  the  gutter.  For  a  long 
time  Martha  hovers  on  the  verge  of  dishonesty. 
After  many  misfortunes  her  husband  manages 
to  trace  her,  but  they  are  reunited  only  at  his 
death-bed.  Beyond  this  point  the  emotional 
realism  of  the  story  declines."— The  Times 
[London]   Lit  Sup 


334 


BOOK   REVIEW   DIGEST 


MANN  IN,   E.    E; — Continued 

"A  psychological  novel  of  considerable  merit. 
She  writes  smoothly  and  she  has  a  restraining 
good  taste.  More  importantly,  her  central  figure 
is  well  conceived  and  acutely  analyzed.  The 
men  are  rather  conventional  figures,  with  a 
touch  of  theatricality,  and  there  are  extrava- 
gances in  the  later  portion  of  the  plot.  But 
the  book  as  a  whole  is  distinctly  better  than 
the  average  of  such  studies  and  may  properly 
be   called  promising." 

-I Lit  R  p214  N  3  '23  300w 

"Outside  of  the  final  disposition  of  her  leading 
character  the  writer  had  done  little  that  is  not 
both  trite  and  dull.     Certainly   there  is  nothmg 
new  in  either  the  plot  or  the  handlmg  of  it." 
—  NY  Times  pl7  Ja  6  '24  500w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p424    Je 
21  '23   210w 

MANSBRIDGE,  ALBERT.  Older  universities 
of  England:  Oxford  and  Cambridge.  308p  il 
$2.50     Houghton     [7s  6d    Longmans] 

378.42  Oxford  university.  Cambridge  uni- 
versity [23-13216] 
The  author  was  a  member  of  the  Royal  com- 
mission appointed  in  1919  to  consider  the  af- 
fairs of  the  two  universities  and  had  a  leading 
part  in  the  investigation  and  report.  His  book, 
which  is  based  upon  a  course  of  Lowell  lec- 
tures delivered  in  Boston  in  1922,  covers  briefly 
the  whole  range  of  university  history  from  the 
twelfth  century  to  the  present.  It  is  an  in- 
terpretation, as  well,  of  the  place  of  Oxford 
and  Cambridge  ia  the  political,  intellectual  and 
religious  histoi-y  of  England.  The  book  em- 
bodies also  the  author's  criticisms  as  investi- 
gator, 

"A  short  and  well-written  and  appreciative 
history  of  our  two  oldest  and  greatest  seats  of 
learning." 

+  Nature  112:465  S  29  '23  650w 
"The  book  has  many  faults.  It  is  not  well 
arranged:  it  is  discursive,  and  at  times  it  is 
ill-proportioned.  But  these  faults  matter  com- 
paratively little,  for  Mr.  Mansbridge  is  always 
readable,  and  he  presents  throughout  a  clear 
and    interesting   point   of   view." 

_| New    Statesman    21:628    S    8    '23    500w 

"A  popular  yet  penetrating  book  covering  the 
whole  history  and  range  ot  influence  of  these 
ancient  universities  has  never  been  available, 
and  Mr.  Mansbridge  was  just  the  person  to 
write   It." 

-|-  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p415    Je 
21   '23   1400W 

MANSFIELD,  KATHERINE,  pseud.  (MRS 
JOHN  MIDDLETON  MURRY).  Doves'  nest, 
and  other  stories.  242p  $2.50  Knopf  [7s  6d 
Constable] 

23-11811 

A  collection  of  posthumous  stories,  of  which 
six  are  complete  and  fifteen  are  fragments.  The 
stories,  both  finished  and  unfinished,  show  the 
qualities  which  have  marked  all  Miss  Mans- 
field's work,  simplicity,  directness,  sensitiveness 
to  impressions  and  the  complete  absorption  of 
herself  in  her  characters.  Contents:  Doll's 
house;  Honeymoon;  A  cup  of  tea;  Taking  the 
veil;  The  fly;  The  canary;  A  married  man's 
story;  Doves'  nest;  Six  years  after;  Daphne; 
Father  and  the  girls;  All  serene!  A  bad  idea; 
A  man  and  his  dog;  Such  a  sweet  old  lady; 
Honesty;  Susannah;  Second  violin;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.     Williams;    Weak    heart;    Widowed. 


"Fragments  many  of  the  tales  frankly  are. 
Yet  even  these  broken  bits  seem  not  so  much 
unfinished  as  incomplete — like  fragments  of  a 
cunningly  wrought  vase,  shattered  by  some  evil 
chance,  yet  still  revealing  the  color  and  design 
of  the  artist  who  conceived  the  whole."  A.  L. 
Grant 

+  Atlantic's    Bookshelf  D   '23   410w 
Booklist    20:58    N   '23 

"These  finished  stories  are  all  brief,  vital, 
written    in    the    simplest    yet    wonderfully    lucid 


and  well  chosen  English.  They  are  subtle,  pene- 
trating, and  human."  J.  F.   S. 

4-   Boston  Transcript  pi  S  29  '23  280w 

"One  wonders  if  Mr  Middleton  Murry  is  wholly 
aware  of  the  injury  he  is  doing  his  wife's  repu- 
tation by  treating  as  sacred  every  chance  scrap 
of  paper  on  which  she  recorded  her  most  denud- 
ed and  transient  moods.  Like  a  somnambulent 
acolyte  with  bowed  head  and  reverential  step  he 
bears  the  chalice  of  her  fame  unconscious  that 
in  replenishing  it  with  ever  thinner  and  thinner 
dilutions  he  is  imperilling  the  clear  wine  with 
which  he  began  his  pilgrimage.  .  .  To  know 
Katherine  Mansfield  at  her  best  one  must  real- 
ly, then,  return  to  her  earlier  stories,  to  Pre- 
lude, to  At  the  Bay,  to  Bliss,  so  subtle  in  pos- 
sibilities that  one  wonders  if  she  herself  caught 
at  more  than  the  floating  straw  of  her  own 
intuition,  to  The  Stranger,  and  to  Escape." 
Alyse  Gregory 

H Dial   75:484   N  '23   lOOOw 

"Exquisite!  This  last  volume  of  Katherine 
Mansfield's  is  better  than  'Bliss'  and  'The  Gar- 
den Party'  for  all  that  fifteen  of  the  stories 
are  unfinished.  Indeed,  I  think  one  of  the  un- 
finished tales,  'A  Married  Man's  story,'  quite 
the  finest  thing  she  has  ever  done;  and  the 
six  stories  which  are  complete  seem  to  me 
deeper,  touched  with  an  urbanity  which  was 
sometimes  missing  in  the  two  earlier  books." 
F:    B.    Eddy 

-f   Lit  R  p59  S  22  '23  850w 

"One  wonders  if  the  publication  of  The  Doves' 
Nest  may  not,  on  the  who'e,  be  a  little  unfor- 
tunate for  Katherine  Mansfield's  reputation.  For 
if  one  had  guessed  limitations  in  Bliss,  and  be- 
gun to  see  them  somewhat  less  dimly  in  The 
Garden  Party,  in  The  Doves'  Nest  one  finds 
them  positively  held  up  before  one,  and  in  a 
glare  no  less  harsh  for  being  to  some  extent 
directed  by  Miss  Mansfield  herself.  .  .  The 
stories  in  The  Doves'  Nest  are  not  her  best. 
With  the  exception  of  A  Married  Man's  Story 
and  The  Fly,  which  are  brilliant,  they  merely 
deepen  one's  impression  of  the  smallness  and 
repetitiveness  of  Miss  Mansfield's  art;  and  even 
more  saddening  is  it  to  detect  in  them  her  own 
gnawing  sense  of  failure."  Conrad  Aiken 
. 1-   New   Repub  35:307  Ag  8  '23   1900w 

"There  is  no  weakness  in  them,  and  they 
will  be  read  by  every  admirer  of  her  writing; 
but  it  is  not,  I  think,  possible  by  comparing 
them  with  her  earlier  work  to  discover  in  what 
direction,  if  any,  her  talent  was  developing." 
Raymond    Mortimer 

-I-   New  State.sman  21:394  Jl  7  '23  1050w 

"  'The  Doves'  Nest'  is  in  itself  an  important 
and  an  interesting  book,  and  a  book  that  is,  just 
now,  of  veritable  value.  For  it  reveals  a  rare 
and  lovely  talent  in  what  we  may  believe  was 
its  maturity.  Among  contemporary  writers  of 
fiction  few  have  attained  the  complete  felicity 
of  expression,  the  exquisite  precision  and  the 
depth  01  insight  which  came  so  readily  to  Kath- 
erine Mansfield."    Lloyd  Morris 

-f   N  Y  Times  pll  Ag  5  '23  2600w 

Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui  28:509  D  '23 

"When,  amid  the  stormy  imperfections  of  life, 
we  come  upon  something  so  simple  that  we  feel 
the  first  freshness  of  a  child's  mind  might  have 
uttered  it,  and  yet  so  wise  that  it  illuminates 
our  whole  body  of  experience,  we  fly  to  abstrac- 
tion and  hyperbole  for  the  expression  of  our 
gratitude,  and  invoke  another  world  to  witness 
the  ennobling  of  this."  Gerald  Gould 
+  Sat  R  135:874  Jo  30  '23  850w 

"  'The  Doves'  Nest'  is  a  twenty-flve  page 
fragment  of  vivid  narrative  which  might  have 
become  one  of  the  best  of  her  less  profound 
stories;  it  is  executed  with  the  humour  and  un- 
erring precision  of  touch  which  so  often  delight 
us  in  her  work,  and  there  are,  besides,  one  or 
two  tales  which  do  not  quite  succeed  and  sev- 
eral not  above  the  average  of  her  two  previous 
books.  But  that  is  no  ground  for  complaint, 
for  the  average  was  a  high  one,  and  we  could 
not  easily  have  too  much  of  things  so  good. 
"The  quotations  from  her  journal  are  of  extra- 
ordinaiT  interest  and  make  us  look  forward  to 
its  publication  with  the  greatest  eagerness.  The 
present    book    contains    some    fascinating   work, 


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and  both  by  its  fulfilment  and  unfulfilled  promise 
increases  our  sense  of  what  our  literature  has 
lost  by  Katharine  Mansfield's  untimely  death." 
+  Spec  130:1085  Je  30  "23  lOOOw 
"The  beauty  of  this  writing  lies  in  the  fine- 
ness of  its  texture  and  the  balance  of  its  ele- 
ments; the  purging  process  to  which  the  a.utho'r 
subjected  her  inmost  thoughts  is  concealed,  and 
the  work  stands  forth  as  delicate  and  as  pure 
as    a   budding   rose." 

+  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  O  7  '23  600w 
+  The  Times    [London]    Lit  Sup  p437  Je 
28   '23   2100w 

MANSON,   ARTHUR   JAMES.     Railroad  electri- 
'    fication  and  the  electric  locomotive.  332p  il  $4 

Simmons -Boardnian 

621.33        Railroads — Electrification.      Electric 
locomotives  23-9589 

"Outline  of  principles  involved  in  railroad  elec-" 
trification,  a  comparison  of  steam  and  electric 
locomotives,  history  of  electrification  in  United 
States,  data  on  electrification  in  America,  Eu- 
rope and  Australia."  (Subtitle)  "Based  on  articles 
published  in  'Railway  electrical  engineer'  and 
'Railway  and  locomotive  engineering."  Supplies 
authoritative,  information  on  the  elementary 
theory,  the  design,  construction,  care,  and 
operation  of  electric  locomotives,  as  well  as 
their  application  to  all  classes  of  railroad  ser- 
vice.— (Preface)"    (Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui) 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:530    D    '23 

MANTLE,  BURNS,  ed.  Best  plays  of  1921- 
1922;  and  the  year  book  of  the  drama  in 
America.  574p  $2  Small 

822  Drama — Collections 
"The  anthologist  has  selected  telling  scraps 
of  dialog  and  has  welded  them  together  with  a 
condensation  of  the  narrative.  Ten  plays  are 
thus  sketched:  'Anna  Christie,'  'A  Bill  of 
Divorcement,'  'Dulcy,'  'He  Who  Gets  Slapped,' 
'Six-Cylinder  Love,'  'The  Hero,'  'The  Dover 
Road,'  'Ambush,'  'The  Circle'  and  'The  Nest.' 
The  appendix  to  1,he  anthology  forms  one  of  its 
most  important  and  valuable  features.  One 
may  find  there  a  brief  history  of  the  prominent 
10  authors,  and  a  complete  list  of  all  plays, 
good,  bad,  and  indifferent,  produced  during  the 
season  with  original  casts  and  scenarios 
appended." — Springf'd  Republican 


"Although  some  readers  may  disagree  with 
Mr.  Mantle's  choice,  he  has  certainly  presented 
ten  of  the  best  plays  that  have  been  gathered 
in  one  book.  His  manner  of  presentation  is  not 
particularly  novel." 

h  Cath  World  116:717  F  '23  250w 

Reviewed  by  Lloyd  Morris 

Int  Bk  R  p48  Mr  '23  70w 
"As  the  years  go  by,  bringing  with  them  an 
anthology  of  this  type,  the  serious  student  of 
the  drama  in  America  will  have  at  his  elbow 
a  reference  library  of  some  value;  but  extracts 
from  plays  are  not  very  meaty  reading." 

-I Sprlngrd  Republican  plO  Mr  16  '23  300w 

MAPU,  ABRAHAM.  Shepherd  prince:  a  his- 
torical romance  of  the  days  of  Isaiah;  tr. 
from  the  Hebrew  by  Benjamin  Schapiro;  in- 
trod.  by  Robert  Dick  Wilson.  380p  11  $2.50 
B.  A.  M.  Schapiro,  83  Bible  House,  Astor  p!., 
N.Y. 

23-117 
"Written  some  seventy  years  ago  by  the  man 
who  is  known  as  the  'Father  of  Jewish  fiction,' 
this  novel  was  not  available  to  the  English- 
speaking  public  before  the  advent  of  Mr. 
Schapiro's  translation.  The  scene  is  ancient 
Palestine,  and  the  action  takes  place  about 
twenty-seven  hundred  years  ago.  Like  most 
novels,  it  is  built  upon  the  everlasting  theme 
of  love:  it  Is  highly  romantic  in  flavor,  highly 
glamourous  in  atmosphere,  and  yet  is  not  with- 
out distinct  elements  of  reality.  The  action  be- 
gins when  a  slave  sets  fire  to  a  house  during 
the  master's  absence,  with  the  result  that  an 
Innocent  woman  is  accused  of  the  crime  and 
has  to  flee.  Moreover,  there  ensues  an  invol- 
untary exchange  of  infants,  as  in  so  many  an- 


other tale;  and  about  these  infants,  when  they 
grow  to  maturity,  the  love  story  resolves,  run- 
ning Its  course  through  many  difficulties  and 
entanglements  until  the  anticipated  happy  end- 
ing is  reached." — Lit  R 

"While  the  book  has  a  pronounced  archaic 
savor  both  in  spirit  and  in  style,  the  transla- 
tion has  been  accomplished  not  only  with  stu- 
dious care  but  with  success  in  producing  a  nar- 
rative that  is  at  once  colorful  and  readable." 
-f  Lit  R  p755  Je  9  '23  400w 

"  'The  Shepherd  Prince'  is  one  of  those 
spacious  stories  which  have  been  written  for 
all  time.  Within  the  Russian  pale,  Mapu 
evolved,  eighty  years  ago,  this  exquisite  nar- 
rative of  the  life,  civic  and  pastoral,  which  his 
nation  lived  in  the  golden  era  of  King  Hezekiah, 
when  Isaiah  was  prophet.  In  telling  his  tale, 
he  displays  the  supreme  art  which  forgets  not 
only  itself  but  the  audience,  so  appealing  not 
to  one   but    to   every    generation." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl6  Ap  1  '23  540w 

MARBURY,  ELISABETH.  My  crystal  ball.  355p 
2    il  $3.50  Boni   &  Liveright 

B  or  92  24-1403 

Miss  Marbury's  crystal-gazing  reveals  the  pic- 
tures of  a  full  and  many-sided  life.  The  earlier 
reflections  are  of  social  New  York  from  forty 
to  fifty  years  ago.  A  great  interest  in  the 
theater  led  to  her  entrance  into  a  most  interest- 
ing and  productive  field  of  work  as  business 
representative  of  foreign  dramatists  in  America. 
She  arranged  the  selling  of  foreign  plays  on  a 
royalty  basis  and  became  the  official  agent  for 
French  dramatists  in  English-speaking  coun- 
tries. This  work  brought  her  into  contact  with 
leading  playwrights  and  actors  including 
Sardou,  Clyde  Fitch,  J.  M.  Barrie,  Oscar  Wilde, 
Richard  Mansfield,  Bernhardt,  and  many  others. 
Miss  Marbury  was  active  in  war  work  both  here 
and  on  the  other  side  and  of  late  years  she  has 
been  prominent  in  politics.  Tho  her  pages  are 
crowded  with  memories  of  people  and  events  it 
is  above  all  her  own  personality  and  vitality 
which  her  crystal  ball  mirrors. 

"What  a  volume  she  has  given  us — full  of 
meat  and  luscious  plums!  Here  is  self -revela- 
tion with  a  vengeance.  There  are  no  inhibi- 
tions to  hide  the  soul  and  heart  of  an  amazmg 
personality,  no  glossing  over  failures,  no  veiling 
the  fact  which  might  be  smiled  at  in  certam 
quarters — the  fact  that  the  author  happened  to 
be  well-born.  Miss  Marbury  writes  as  she  talks 
—easily,  frankly,  truthfully,  wittily,  pleasantly 
and  dramatically."   C:   H.    Towne 

-f  N   Y  Tribune  pl8  D  30  '23  1800w 

"This    is    the    story    of    a    full    life    of    service, 
richly    told    without    immodesty    or    affectation, 
despite    which     fact     the    virile    personality    of 
Elizabeth  Marbury  looms  large."     C.   G.   B. 
+   N   Y  World  plOm  Ja  6  '24  1450w 

"One  fancies  that  she  could  write  a  some- 
what more  revealing  volume;  but  she  has  seen 
so  much  and  known  so  many  celebrities  that 
her  impressions  have  interest  even  if  not  in- 
variably  thoroughgoing." 

-I Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  6  '24  1300w 

MARCHANT,    SIR   JAMES,    ed.      Claims   of   the 
2    coming   generation.    175p    $2.50   Dutton    [6s   6d 
K.    Paul] 

136.7     Eugenics.     Social  hygiene.  Children — 

Care  and  hygiene 
The  eight  papers  which  make  up  this  sym- 
posium are  concerned  with  the  right  of  the  child 
to  be  well-born,  with  posterity's  claims  on  the 
present  generation  for  those  things  which  most 
vitally  affect  the  well-being  and  development  of 
the  race — mental  hygiene,  sex  mstruction,  child 
welfare,  moral  and  religious  training,   etc. 

"Although  the  authors  of  all  these  papers  are 
British  and  deal  with  problems  that  are  of  par- 
ticular importance  in  British  life,  there  is 
enough  similarity  between  most  of  these  prob- 
lems and  those  that  oerplex  American  life  to 
make  the  volume,  with  its  array  of  the  names 
of    authorities    of    high    standing,    valuable    to 


336 


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MARCHANT,  J.,  ed.—Continued 
American  readers.  The  questions  considered 
are  all  of  them  of  outstanding  importance  and 
the  serious,  informed  and  high-minded  quality 
of  the  discussions  shows  how  concerned  these 
scientists  and  students  of  the  ills  of  life  are  as 
to  present  conditions  and  tendencies." 
+  N  Y  Times  pll  Ja  13  '24  750w 
"To  all  who  are  in  a  sponsorial  relation  to 
the  young,  this  book  can  be  commended  as 
containing  a  great  deal  of  wisdom  in  a  com- 
paratively small  number  of  pages.  Particularly 
valuable  will  be  found  the  article  of  Sir  Fred- 
erick Mott  on  Mental  Hygiene,  which  is  ad- 
mirably lucid  and  singularly  free  from  the  ap- 
palling terminology." 

+   Sat    R    136:888   O    6   '23   240w 

The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p608  S  13 
'23   40w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p680  O  18 
'23  800w 

MARCHANT,  SIR  JAMES,  ed.  Coming  renais- 
sance; with  an  introd.  by  W.  R.  Inge.  259p 
$5   Button   [12s  6d  K.    Paul] 

901  Civilization.  Social  problems  23-9061 
A  symposium  on  the  future  of  civilization,  by 
a  group  of  men  and  women  each  eminent  in  his 
or  her  field,  about  half  of  them  ecclesiastics. 
The  writers  try  to  interpret  the  spiritual, 
social  and  moral  elements  that  are  at  work.  In 
religion,  the  hope  is  seen  to  be  In  church  unity; 
in  science,  education  and  philosophy  the  plea 
is  also  for  unity  of  purpose  and  harmony.  The 
rest  of  the  book  emphasizes  some  of  the  more 
individual  elements  of  the  social  renaissance — 
internationalism,  the  work  of  woman,  personal- 
ity in  leadership,  the  biological  ideal  of  racial 
health  and  well-being.  Among  the  contributors 
are  the  bishops  of  Truro,  Lichfield  and  Ply- 
mouth, C.  F.  G.  Masterman,  William  Adams 
Brown,  Patrick  Geddes,  David  Starr  Jordan, 
Mrs  St  L.oe  Strachey,  Lady  Frances  Balfour, 
A.    E.    Zimmern,    and   J.    Arthur   Thomson. 

"To  produce  a  book  with  such  a  title  at  the 
present  time  implies,  one  would  think,  consid- 
erable courage,  and  leads  one  to  expect  the 
bringing  forward  of  some  very  striking  and  un- 
usual grounds  for  hope.  Having  read  the  book, 
however,  we  find  it  difficult  to  imagine  why 
it   should   have   been    published." 

—  New   Statesman    21:152   My   12   '23   320w 

"An  unusual  and  stimulating  book.  It  is  a 
fine  piece  of  bookmaking,  although  a  few  errors 
have  been  allowed  to  creep  in.  In  some  re- 
spects the  arrangement  might  easily  have  been 
bettered." 

H NY  Times  p24  Je  17  '23  600w 

MARCH  ESI,     BLANCHE.     Singer's    pilgrimage. 

304p  $4  Small  [18s  G.  Richards] 

B  or   92     Singers  [23-12424] 

"Blanche  Marchesi  herself  is  the  product  of  a 
great  teacher,  Mathilde  Marchesi,  who  in  her 
day  probably  turned  out  more  famous  operatic 
women  than  any  vocal  teacher  before  or  since, 
Melba,  Calv6,  Fames,  Sybil  Sanderson,  Etelka 
Gerster,  Suzanne  Adams  among  them.  Of  these 
pupils,  grateful  or  ungrateful,  Mme.  Blanche 
Marchesi  has  much  to  tell.  She  has  much  to 
say  about  her  mother's  teaching  and  that  of 
the  two  Manuel  Garcias  who  preceded  her.  She 
has  many  anecdotes  of  great  musicians  and 
personalities,  Liszt,  Gounod,  Cosima  Wagner, 
Schumann-Heink  and  many  more.  Her  opin- 
ions are  honest  and  fair.  Sometimes  she  enjoys 
'showing  up'  the  ungrateful  ones  among  her 
mother's  pupils,  but  even  then  she  is  an  unpreju- 
diced recorder  of  their  vocal  abilities." — Boston 
Transcript 

"Throughout  Mme.  Marchesi  has  succeeded  in 
writing  much  that  is  sound  and  leadable  on  the 
technical  side  of  the  singer's  profession,  which 
has  been  her  chief  aim,  but  it  is  delightfully 
garnished  with  varied  recollections  which  make 
it  not  only  a  treatise  but  a  book  of  real  charm." 
+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  29  '23  320w 

"The  lights  and  shadows,  the  pinnacles  and 
the    abysses    of    prima    donna    land    are    most 


vividly  exhibited  in   'Singer's  Pilgrimage.'  "     H: 
T.   Finck 

-f  Lit  R  pl26  O  13  '23  380w 
"No  writer  has  succeeded  better  than  Blanche 
Marchesi  in  putting  on  paper  the  thousand  little 
nothings  that  make  a  professional  singer's  daily 
life,  the  courtesies  of  audience  and  diiectors,  or 
the  lack  of  them,  and  the  ills  that  human  flesh 
is  heir  to,  but  which  audiences  and  directors  fail 
to  understand,  or  sometimes  to  believe.  Very 
shrewdly  she  counts  the  costs  of  a  musical 
career."     W.   B.   Chase 

+  N  Y  Times  p5  Ag  26  '23  2800w 
"Most  well-known  singers  who  condescend  to 
write  books  provide  us  with  a  cloying  record 
of  floral  tributes,  prolonged  applause,  and  royal 
compliments,  with  an  occasional  minor  mishap 
thrown  in  as  comic  relief.  Madame  Marchesi, 
however,  not  only  takes  her  work,  both  as  a 
singer  and  a  teacher,  seriously,  but  gives  us  a 
volume  of  reminiscences  that  clearly  reflects 
her   serious   interest." 

+  Spec   130:595  Ap  7   '23  300w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  pl55  Mr  8 
'23  llOOw 

MARGUERITTE,  VICTOR.  Bachelor  girl;  from 
the  French  of  'La  gargonne' ;  tr.  by  Hugh 
Burnaby.   264p  $2   Knopf   [7s   6d  A.    Philpot] 

23-11514 
"  'The  Bachelor  Girl'  is  a  story  of  feminism 
to  the  extent  that  it  depicts  the  adventures 
of  a  young  woman  who,  leaving  home  because 
of  certain  differences  with  her  parents  on  a 
combined  score  of  business  and  matrimony, 
with  the  discovery  of  her  lover's  faithlessness 
for  added  measure,  takes  up  life  on  her  own. 
Her  name  is  Monique  Lerbier,  and  presently 
it  is  a  name  much  on  the  lips  of  luxury  in 
Paris.  Her  charm  and  her  exceeding  beauty 
are  material  assistance  to  her  in  a  business 
way;  through  them  and  through  an  impres- 
sionable temperament  she  is  led  into  a  life  of 
guilty  dalliance.  Her  story  savors  of  Mont- 
martre.  .  .  The  idea  is  openly  stated  by  some 
Paris  commentators  that  the  censorship  fell 
upon  M.  Margueritte  not  because  'La  GarQonne' 
was  a  book  too  strong  for  the  French  pro- 
prieties, but  because  certain  gentlemen  of  the 
military  set  saw  a  chance  to  get  back  at  the 
author  for  some  of  his  published  criticisms  of 
proceedings  in  the  Franco-Prussian  War." — 
N  Y  World 


"The  artistic  value  of  the  book,  if  genuine, 
is  not  very  great;  its  for)n  is  that  of  the  con- 
ventional French  novel,  and  the  behavior  of  the 
personages  is  made  to  seem  not  so  much  the 
result  of  any  inner  necessity  as  of  M.  Marguer- 
itte's  designs  as  a  sociologist."     N.   A. 

—  Freeman    8:239    N    14    '23   300w 

"It  was  necessary  to  call  in  Mrs.  Bowdler; 
and  if  the  book  she  found  was  tiresome,  the 
book  she  has  left  is  pointless.  The  Bachelor 
Girl  may  be  left  about  without  fear,  but  it  is 
not  for  that  reason  a  less  discreditable  publi- 
cation." Raymond  Mortimer 

—  New   Statesman   21:332   Je  23   '23   320w 
"It    is    true    that    in    plain    English      Monique 

appears  a  heroine  more  incredible  than,  in  the 
censor's  sense,  impossible.  She  is  so  unbeliev- 
able, indeed  that  we  are  not  incited  to  con- 
troversy when,  in  the  happy  ending,  a  lover  is 
found  to  accept  her  for  better,  for  worse,  in 
disregard    of    lovers   gone    before."    E.    W.    O. 

—  NY  World  p6e  Ag  5  '23  600w 

"We  find  that  our  outstanding  complaint 
against  her  is  that  she  seems  not  quite  a  real 
woman.  She  seems  somehow  synthetic."  Ruth 
Hale 

—  NY  World  p7e  Ag  26  '23  1550w 

Springf  d  Republican  p7a  O  7  '23  150w 

MARIE,  Queen  Consort  of  Ferdinand,  King  of 
Rumania.  Voice  on  the  mountain:  a  story  for 
those  who  understand.   235p  $2  Knopf 

23-17847 
"This  is  a  fantastic  romance  woven  around 
a  maiden  who  is  regarded  by  her  countrymen 
as  a  wonder  worker.  She  is  a  Valkyrie-like 
creature  who  rides  a  red  stallion  and  carries  a 
jewelled    sword    and   works    miracles   upon    the 


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suffering  multitudes  who  climb  to  her  lonely 
mountain  dwelling.  She  lives  with  an  ancient 
nurse  and  a  dying  nobleman,  who  loves  her 
and  whom  she  loves  in  a  beautiful  childlike 
way.  The  'awakening'  is  accomplished  by  a 
stranger  who  rides  up  the  mountain.  The  no- 
bleman dies  brokenhearted,  and  Glava  goes  off 
to  see  life.  The  story  is  told  in  the  grand  man- 
ner, and  the  characters  speak  in  epic  phrases. 
It  is  full  of  color,  and  allegory  and  mysticism 
abound." — Lit  R 


"It  is  glamourous  but  uninteresting.  The  book 
takes  what  interest  it  has  from  the  fact  that 
it  is  the  work  of  a  Queen,  and  that  Queen  the 
most   romantic   of   European   monarchs." 

h   Lit  R  p267  N  17  '23  220w 

"Not  a  particularly  good  story — rather  a  long 
way  from  it.  But  it  holds  after  its  rather  naive 
fashion  a  quality  of  romance."  H.  I.  Brock 
h   N    Y  Times   p2  O  25   '23  850w 

MARKS,    HENRY    KINGDOM.      Undertow.    337p 
$2     Harper 

23-11925 

"Twenty-four  years  of  married  life  had 
brought  the  Volmers  discord,  disillusion,  and 
three  children."  Thus  begins  the  painful  story 
of  the  downfall  of  the  Volmer  family.  A  domi- 
neering, brutal  father  had  reduced  his  family 
to  a  state  of  intimidation.  His  weak,  colorless 
wife,  having  no  weapons  with  which  to  fight 
him  had  given  up  the  unequal  contest.  Mary, 
the  oldest  daughter,  is  as  spiritless  as  her 
mother.  Ronald,  his  mother's  darling,  is  a 
coward  and  a  sneak.  Only  Florrie  has  the  spirit 
to  resist  her  father.  Ronald  becomes  a  drug 
addict  and  a  thief,  Plorrie  takes  to  the  streets, 
Mary  develops  into  a  replica  of  her  ineffec- 
tual mother,  and  Mrs  Volmer  is  brought  to  the 
point  of  seeking  Ronald's  anodyne.  And  all  thru 
fear. 


"Never  has  a  book  been  written  which  is 
more  totally  free  from  the  American  curse  of 
sentimentality  than  this  second  novel  by  Mr. 
Marks.  We  feel  a  very  natural  shrinking  from 
such  a  pitiless  facing  of  life.  For  these  people 
live!"    D.    L.    M. 

4-  Boston  Transcript  pG  Ja  2  '24  1050w 

"One  finds  it  a  distinctly  uninspired  perform- 
ance— drab  in  detail,  and  barren  of  significance." 
L.   B. 

—  Freeman   8:407  Ja  2   '24  160w 

Reviewed  bv  H.  W.  Bovnton 

Ind    112:24    Ja   5    '24    150w 

"Dr.  Henry  K.  Marks,  a  physician  of  laborious 
training  and  extensive  experience,  particularly 
in  the  field  of  neuropsychiatry,  is  entitled 
by  profession  and  possibly  by  temperament  as 
well,  to  speak  authoritatively  of  the  make-up 
and  conduct  of  the  degenerate  individual.  He 
has  built  a  house  of  glass,  put  the  Volmer  fam- 
ily in  it,  and  invited  us  to  observe  them  carry 
on."    Joseph  Collins 

h   Int    Bk   R   p42   D   '23   1150w 

"I  am  prepared  to  call  this  realism.  Out  of 
drawing  as  some  of  the  characters  most  cer- 
tainly are  in  spots  and  overstressed  and  too 
darkly  shadowed  as  is  the  canvas  as  a  whole, 
still  the  thing  has  tang  and  power.  The  final 
impression  is  of  a  rugged  canvas  somewhat  out 
of  drawing.  In  the  main  the  book  is  effective, 
interesting,  different."  Theodore  Dreiser 
h   Lit   R   p255  N  17  '23   1550w 

"As  the  case  history  of  a  family  of  remarkable 
dulness  and  uninteresting  degeneracy,  this  book 
possibly  justifies  itself.  Its  claim  to  consideration 
as  literature  can  scarcely  be  allowed." 

h   Nation    117:745    D    26    '23   60w 

New  Repub  37:26  N  28  '23  lOOw 

"  'Undertow'  ia  frankly  unpleasant,  but  it  has 
the  hall  mark  of  sincerity.  Mr.  Marks  disdains 
the  use  of  clap-trap  incident  or  artificial  device 
of  plot.  He  presents  his  study  simply,  convinc- 
ingly and  straightforwardly  as  a  'slice  of  life.' 
He  fashions  the  materials  to  his  purpose  with 
the  deftnes.s  of  the  stvlist." 

-I-   N   Y  Times  p9  O  28  '23  360w 

"Here  is  a  psychological  novel  without  a  single 
psychological  term;  analysis  of  character  and 
motives  made  convincingly  implicit  without  ex- 


planatory devices.  The  narrative  method  no 
less  than  the  manner  is  a  triumph  of  technique, 
reminding  one  of  the  sheer  craftsmanship  if  not 
the  squinting  vision  of  Maupassant.  They  are 
unrelievedly  drab  and  groveling  human  beings 
which  Dr.  Marks  has  made  live  in  these  pages; 
but  with  their  hideous  existence  there  is  some- 
thing conveyed  to  us  by  the  sympathetic  and 
understanding  art  of  the  author,  which  unites 
them  with  all  life  and  makes  us  embrace  them 
with  pity  and  sympathy."  Burton  Rascoe 
+   N  Y  Tribune  pl7  O  21  '23  1200w 

MARQUAND,     JOHN     PHILLIPS.        Four    of    a 

kind.   331p  $1.75     Scribner 

23-5823 

There  are  four  stories  in  this  collection  about 
men  who  took  great  risks  and  won.  In  "The 
right  that  failed"  a  prize-fighter  took  the  chance 
of  leaving  a  girl,  far  above  him  socially, 
in  ignorance  of  his  calling  while  she 
fell  in  love  with  him.  In  "Different 
from  other  girls"  a  young  man  daringly  put 
a  girl  and  her  father  to  a  test  to  win  both  the 
girl  and  a  position.  The  other  two  stories  are: 
Eight  million  bubbles;  and  Only  a  few  of  us  left. 

"Mr.  Marquand  is  clearly  possessed  of  an  art 
in  these  stories.  He  develops  them  after  a 
settled  manner  and  he  plays  with  our  interest, 
teasing  it,  half  satisfying  it,  and  then  rousing 
it  anew.  It  is  a  more  or  less  clever  game  in 
which  the  author  has  become  proficient.  It  is, 
however,  a  definite  artiflciaHty  of  technique." 
D.    L,.   M. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  27  "23  lOOOw 

Cleveland   p69   S  "23 

"It  would  be  just  the  book  to  give  to  a  man 
of  traveling  profession  yet  of  ethical  standards, 
for  it  is  assuredly  easy  reading,  while  its  hu- 
mor and  gaiety  are  of  a  'Wholesome'  nature. 
Yet  the  book  can  not  be  dismissed  too  lightly. 
The  stories  are  perfectly  turned,  and  the  facil- 
ity in  writing  which  they  show  can  not  fail  to  be 
admired." 

H int  Bk  R  p59  My  '23  150w 

"His  four  stories  are  varied  and  ingenious  In 
plot  and  character,  scene  and  subject,  while  a 
very  striking  quality  in  all  of  them  is  the  richly 
individual  style,  method  and  viewpoint  with 
which  they  are  developed." 

+   N  Y  Times  pl8  Mr  25  '23  600w 

"A  delightful  romance  characterizes  each. 
The  stories  are  not  deep,  but  are  eminently 
entertaining."  ,,     „„  ,„„  .. 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  20  '23  90w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:415   Jl   "23 

MARQUIS,    SAMUEL   SIMPSON.      Henry  Ford; 

an  interpretation.  206p  il  $2.50  Little 

B  or  92  Ford,  Henry  23-8126 

A  candid  stifdy  of  the  Ford  psychology,  by 
a  former  pastor  of  Henry  Ford  and  one-time 
head  of  the  sociological  department  of  the  Ford 
Motor  Company.  The  impression  left  on  the 
mind  by  these  chapters  in  interpretation  is  of  a 
baflling  personality  in  whom  are  met  opp9Sing 
natures  and  most  contradictory  qualities: 
strength  of  mind  in  one  direction  offset  by 
surprising  weakness  in  another;  business  genius 
and  insight  by  unashamed  ignorance  in  other 
matters:  generosity  to  his  employees  by  utter 
indifference,  at  times,  to  their  fate  and  feel- 
ings.   

Booklisi?  20:19   O  '23 
"Dr      Marquis     writes     intelligently     and     he 
writes  whereof  he   knows."     E    J.    C         -„-„^ 
-f-  Boston   Transcript  p3  Ap  28    23  1050w 

Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p8    Je 
17   '23   900w 
Reviewed   by   M.    L.    Franklin 

Ind  110:426  Jl  7  '23  450w 
"His  opportunity  for  close  observation  of 
Ford's  characteristics,  coupled  with  an  evident- 
ly independent  mind  and  a  keen  Psychological 
nterest  in  human  nature,  has  enabled  Dr  Mar- 
quis to  write  what  is,  in  the  first  place,  an  ex- 
ceedingly entertaining  book  and,  in  the  second. 


338 


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MARQUIS,  S:  S. — Continued 

the    most    truthfully    illuminating    discussion    of 

the    Ford    mind    and    heart    that    has   yet    been 

made." 

+  N  Y  Times  p20  Ap  29  '23  800w 

Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Jl  15  '23  180w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:412  Jl  '23 

MARRIAGE;    short    stories    of   married    life    by 
American  authors.  325p  $2     Doubleday 

23-9170 
The  book  is  a  collection  of  short  stories,  each 
of  which  has  marriage  as  its  central  topic. 
Contents:  "Us,"  by  Booth  Tarkington;  Really 
married,  by  Mary  Stewart  Cutting;  Miss  Coni- 
fee,  by  Joseph  Hergesheimer;  The  house  guest, 
by  Alice  Duer  Miller;  The  lost  Columbine,  by 
Julian  Street;  For  value  received,  by  Edith 
Barnard  Delano;  The  perfect  husband,  by 
Charles  G.  Norris;  The  C'lausons,  by  Zona  Gale; 
Pursuit,  by  Henry  Sydnor  Harrison;  The  mental 
hazard,  by  Clarence  Budington  Kelland;  The 
ants,  by  James  Hopper;  The  indissoluble  bond,  by 
Samuel  Hopkins  Adams;  The  tenth  Mrs  Tul- 
kington,  by  Ellis  Parker  Butler;  Mrs  Redmond's 
shame,  by  Maximilian  Foster;  Peachblow,  by 
Rupert  Hughes;  Marriage — for  one,  by  Theodore 
Dreiser;  Driftwood,  by  Courtney  Ryley  Cooper; 
Birth  stones,  by  George  Kibbe  Turner;  His 
wife's  visitor,  by  Henry  Kitchell  Webster;  The 
pie  and  the  past,   by  Joseph  C.   Lincoln. 


Booklist  20:22  O  '23 
"No  better  example  of  the  silliness  to  which 
American  authors  of  reputed  ability  will  descend 
on  any  occasion  may  be  found  than  the  collec- 
tion of  short  stories  published  under  the  name 
of  'Marriage.'  " 

—  NY  Times  p24  Ap  29  '23  650w 
"Except  as  a  source  of  gay  and  rather  callow 

diversion,    the    book    is    of    little    worth."      Eva 
Goldbeck 

h    N  Y  Tribune  pl8  Ag  5  '23  450w 

"The  collection  seems  to  have  gone  stale. 
'Marriage'  does  not  represent  the  most  vital 
short  fiction  that  can  be  gathered  from  the 
recent   output  of  American   writers." 

—  Springf  d  Republican  pl4  My  23  '23  200w 
The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p556  Ag 

23   '23  450w 

MARSH,  FRANK  BURR.  Founding  of  the  Rom- 
'    an  empire.  329p  buck  $3.50  Univ.  of  Texas 
937  Rome— History  22-23925 

"This  is  the  first  volume  in  the  new  series 
of  University  of  Texas  Studies.  The  author 
shows  how  the  Roman  Republic  broke  down 
because  of  the  serious  administrative  and  mili- 
tary problems  Imposed  by  the  conquests  of  the 
Mediterranean  world,  and  how  despotism  was 
the  resvilt  of  the  administrative  necessities  of 
the  empire  rather  than  the  personal  choice  or 
character  of  Augustus." — Am  Pol  Sci  R 


Reviewed  by  Donald  McFayden 

Am    Hist    R   28:767   Jl  '23   600w 
Am  Pol  Sci   R  17:690  N  '23  70w 
"While  the  book  is  not  an   imposing  example 
of  original  research  or  in  any  sense  an  illustra- 
tion   of    the    newer    type    of    dynamic    and    syn- 
thetic history,  it  is  a  commendable  and  reliable 
effort  to  reconstruct  and  summarize   the  politi- 
cal history  of  this  important  epoch  on  the  basis 
of  the  results  of  the  researches  of  the  last  gen- 
eration of  students  in  this  field.','  H.   E.   Barnes 
-f   Nation  117:21  Jl  4  '23  250w 

MARSHALL,  ALFRED.  Money,  credit  and  com- 
==    merce.    369p   $3    (10s)   Macmillan 

332     Money.     Credit.     Commerce  23-4040 

"The  volume  is  divided  into  four  parts  or 
•books:  (1)  money;  (2)  business  credit;  (3)  in- 
ternational trade;  and  (4)  fluctuations  of  in- 
dustry, trade  and  credit.  Professor  Marshall 
has  followed  his  well-known  practice  of  col- 
lecting much  of  his  best  work  in  appendices, 
thus  leaving  the  main  development  of  his  treat- 
ment unlDroken  by  the  digressions  that  would 
otherwise  be  introduced." — Ann  Am  Acad 


Ann  Am  Acad  111:383  Ja  '24  150w 
"The  comprehensiveness  of  the  author's  think- 
ing  is   amazing.    Frequently   there   is   packed  in 
a   single   obscure   phrase   a   thought   that   might 
be  expanded  into  a  chapter."  H.   L.  Reed 
+  Am   Econ    R   13:666  D  '23   600w 

Boston    Transcript    p6    My    12    '23    800w 

"The  veteran  economist  writes  so  clearly  and 

so  dispassionately  that  he  raises  the  subject  out 

of  the  noise  and  confusion  of  politics  into  the 

serener  air  of  science." 

4-  Spec  131:323  S  8  '23  450w 

MARSHALL,     ARCHIBALD.       Anthony     Dare. 
331p  $2     Dodd 

23-15159 

A  quiet,  almost  plotless  story  of  an  English 
boy  which,  since  it  covers  scarcely  two  years  of 
his  life,  promises  to  be  the  beginning  of  a  series. 
He  is  a  boy  of  sixteen  when  the  story  opens, 
sunny-natured,  friendly  and  rather  clever,  drift- 
ing along  contentedly  with  the  tide.  He  has 
some  aspirations  toward  authorship  and  is  look- 
ing forward  to  a  university  career.  The  sudden 
death  of  his  father,  who  leaves  no  money  but 
only  a  fairly  prosperous  business  to  which 
Anthony's  half-brother  succeeds,  comes  as  a 
rude  awakening  and  it  is  Anthony's  adjustment 
to  his  new  life  and  to  his  relatives  and  friends 
that  the  story  follows.  It  leaves  him  seated  on 
a  high  stool  filling  in  bills  of  lading,  but  there 
is  no  sense  of  the  inevitable  about  the  career  on 
which  he  has  started. 


"Nothing  in  English  fiction  can  rival  the  calm 
placidity  of  'Anthony  Dare.'  Even  Mr.  Marshall 
himself   has   never   rambled   through   a  story   at 
such  slow  and  measured  pace."     E.   F.  Edgett 
+   Boston   Transcript  p4   O   27   '23   1300w 

"We  have  in  this  book,  apart  from  the  central 
figure  of  Anthony  Dare,  a  group  of  portraits  not 
excelled  in  any  earlier  novel  by  Mr.  Marshall." 
H.  W.  Boynton 

+   Ind   111:228   N  10  '23   650w 

"The   book  is   an   idyll,   yet  comprehensive;   it 
acknowledges   the   seamy   side   of    life,    but   tac- 
itly.   This    is    not    morality    nor    inability;    it    is 
something  more  like  good  form."  Eva  Goldbeck 
H Lit   R  p280  N  24  '23  850w 

"It  is  no  small  tribute  to  Mr.  Marshall's  abili- 
ties to  say  that  the  reader  is  lured  on  from  page 
to  page,  each  telling  of  the  simplest,  most  com- 
monplace of  happenings,  from  the  day  we  first 
meet  Anthony  to  the  one  on  which  we  leave 
him.  .  .  It  is  all  very  real,  and  the  reader  feels 
that  he  has  lived  with  Anthony  and  known  the 
places  and  the  people  he  knows.  There  are 
many  beautiful  descriptions  of  the  Norfolk 
country,  and  the  portrait  of  Anthony  Dare  him- 
self is   exceptionally   well   drawn." 

+  N  Y  Times  p9  O  21  '23  520w 

"Mr.  Marshall  has  never  required  much  in  the 
way  of  plot,  nor  even  of  character.  Types  and 
background  amply  supply  his  modest  wants.  It 
is  almost  as  if  he  were  bent  upon  setting  down 
for  the  benefit  of  future  historians  a  microcos- 
mic  puppet  show  of  the  social  order  of  his  day. 
I  would  rather  not  have  known  it.  But  if  I 
must  be  told,  Mr.  Marshall  is  the  most  accept- 
able raconteur  imaginable  to  impart  the  dismal 
truth."     Isabel   Paterson 

—  NY  Tribune  p22  N  4  '23  llOOw 
Outlook  135:505  N  21  '23  30w 

"One  misses  in  this  novel  Mr  Marshall's  ac- 
customed serenity.  He  has  abandoned  the  novel 
of  sentiment  for  character  analysis  and  in  so 
doing  does  not  achieve  the  end  of  significance. 
The  plot  is  slight,    the  situations  are  episodic." 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  18  '23  400w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:509  D  '23 

MARSHALL,     ARCHIBALD.       Audacious    Ann. 
1^2P   *2   Dodd  ^^_2^g^^ 

Ann  Sinclair  had  spent  most  of  her  life  in 
France  but  at  thirteen  she  came  to  England  to 
live  with  her  grandmother.  When  Ann  entered 
The  Cedars,  a  boarding-school  near  home,  it 
might  have  been  expected  that  she  would  nave 
her  own  way,  for  her  grandmother  was  Lady 
Sinclair  and  wealthy.     But  the  school  girls  were 


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339 


very  democratic  and  Ann  received  the  same 
treatment  as  the  poorer  girls.  There  came  a 
time  when  Ann,  in  a  moment  of  mistaken  gen- 
erosity, shouldered  the  blame  for  a  mean  trick 
for  which  her  best  friend  was  responsible,  and 
was  "sent  to  Coventry."  It  was  a  period  of 
agony  for  little  Ann,  but  she  came  thru  it  safely 
and  became  one  of  the  best  loved  girls  in  the 
school. 


Booklist   20:64   N   '23 
"Archibald  Marshall  gives  us  here  one  of  the 
slightest    but    most    delightful    of    his    books." 
Marion   Ponsonby 

+   Lit   R  p232  N  10  '23  150w 
Reviewed  by  Constance   Naar 

New  Repub  36:315  N  14  '23  40w 
"The  various  types  of  girls  in  Miss  Sutor's 
school  are  described  with  rare  sympathy  and 
understanding,  and  the  author  has  managed  to 
construct  an  unusually  readable  story  on  the 
basis  of  a  very  simple  plot." 

+   N    Y   Times  pll   S   16   '23   600w 
"The    difficulties    of    this    amusing,    charming 
child  make  a  readable  story  in  which  an  English 
boarding  school   seems  convincingly  presented." 
M.   A.  MacLean 

+   N  Y  Tribune  p24  N  11  '23  300w 

MARSHALL,   ARCHIBALD.     Clinton  twins  and 

other  stories.   296p  $2     Dodd 

23-6953 

Readers  of  Mr  Marshall  are  familiar  with  the 
Clinton  family  about  whom  he  has  already  writ- 
ten five  stories.  The  first  four  of  the  twelve 
short  stories  making  up  the  present  volume 
have  to  do  with  the  escapades  of  the  lively 
Clinton  twins  who  have  now  reached  the  age 
of  twelve.  Of  the  other  tales  several  are  com- 
edies, one  is  a  ghost  story  and  the  longest, 
"Oakfleld  House,"  follows  the  fortunes  of  an 
English  aristocratic  family  and  the  social 
changes  that  came  to  it  during  fifty  years.  Con- 
tents: The  Clinton  twins;  Codex  E;  The  Sevres 
vase;  Haslam;  Yalding  Wood;  Oakfleld  House; 
Mrs  Timmins's  tea-i)arty;  Inheritance;  How  to 
treat  a  woman. 


Booklist  19:320  Jl  '23 
Reviewed   by  H.    W.    Boynton 

Ind  110:379  Je  9  '23  170w 
"Mr.  Marshall's  peculiar  charm  is  that  he  has 
no  ups  and  downs.  He  has  no  great  moments, 
and  he  has  no  slumps.  Life  is  pleasant,  never 
intense,  but  pricked  with  a  gentle  humor  that 
at   times   is  even   ironical,   but  never  sardonic." 

H Int  Bk  R  p77  D  '23  200w 

"The  stories  are  deliciously  amusing.  .  .  So 
sure  is  the  author's  craftmanship  that  the  con- 
ventional formalities  of  introduction  are  dis- 
pensed with,  and  the  reader  finds  himself  caught 
up  in  the  leisurely  flow  of  life  at  Kencote  House. 
Meadshire,  with  a  sense  of  long  familiarity  and 
frequent  association."     Lloyd  Morris 

+   N   Y  Times  p6  Ap  8  '23  1900w 
Outlook  133:720  Ap  18  '23  20w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:276   Je   '23 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:134  My   '23 

MARSHALL,    BERNARD    G.     Torch   bearers:   a 
tale   of   cavalier   days.     318p   il   $2.50   Appleton 

23-12963 
An  historical  novel  for  older  boys  and  girls. 
The  story  is  of  Miles  Delaroche,  a  lad  of  Puri- 
tan instincts,  who  lived  in  England  in  the  days 
of  Charles  I.  After  he  had  refused  a  commis- 
sion in  the  king's  army  Miles  returned  to  his 
father's  farm  in  the  West  country,  there  to 
live  a  wholesome  life  helping  his  friends  and 
neighbors  whenever  he  could.  In  the  days  of 
the  Commonwealth  he  fought  in  Cromwell's 
army,  only  to  find  that  his  conscience  would  not 
let  him  sanction  Cromwell's  policy  either.  So 
he  set  sail  for  America,  where  his  brother  had 
preceded  him. 


lacks   the   dramatic   force   of  a   Sabatini   novel, 
it   is  by  no   means  dull." 

-j Lit    R    pl66    O    20    '23    350w 

"  'The    Torch    Bearers'    is   a    real    tale    of    ac- 
tion,   told   with   epic   simplicity." 

4-   N    Y   Times   p8   S   30   '23   550w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  25  '23  llOw 

MARSHALL,    BERNARD    G.    Walter   of   Tiver- 
ton.   263p    $1.75    (6s)    Appleton 

23-8404 
In  this  tale  of  knightly  valor  and  chivalry, 
in  the  time  of  Richard  Coeur  de  Lion,  AValter 
of  Tiverton,  squire,  and  Sir  Boris  Delmar  ac- 
complish a  series  of  heroic  exploits  beginning 
with  the  rescue  of  a  farmer's  daughter  from 
the  hands  of  a  cruel  guardian.  A  more  arduous 
task  is  thwarting  the  evil  designs  of  Prince 
John  against  Edith  of  Williston,  the  betrothed 
of  Boris.  It  involves  flights,  pursuits,  hand  to 
hand  skirmishes  and  killings,  hiding  in  the  for- 
est, wounds  and  outlawry,  all  the  stuff  that 
romance   is   made   of,    including  love. 


Booklist  20:58  N  '23 
"Like  the  clean  salt  breath  of  the  sea  blown 
through  sultry  city  streets  is  the  reading  of 
this  'old-fashioned'  story  of  brave  knights  and 
fair  ladies,  after  that  of  the  problem  novels  of 
our  avowedly   higher  civilization." 

+  Boston   Transcript   p6   Jl   25   '23    650w 
Cleveland  p43  Je  '23 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  25  '23  llOw 
"The   machinery   of   the   story    is   of   the   sim- 
plest,   but    the    grievous    adventures    and    hair- 
breadth perils  are  as  many  as  the  most  ardent 
lover  of   romance   can   demand." 

-f  The   Times   [Londonl    Lit   Sup   p389   Je 
7  '23  lOOw 

Wis   Lib    Bui   19:417   Jl   '23 

MARSHALL,  EDISON.     Isle  of  retribution.  332p 
$1.75  Little 

23-3552 

"The  theme  is  the  regeneration  of  urban 
weaklings  by  harsh  contacts  with  inexorable 
Nature,  the  struggle  of  primitive  man  with  the 
elements.  Ned  Cornet,  the  wastrel,  the  rich 
clubman  and  spoiled  child  of  Seattle,  finds,  in 
the  horrors  of  captivity  on  an  island  on  the 
Alaskan  coast,  health,  character  and  a  sense 
of  the  eternal  verities  denied  him  in  the  wasted 
years.  Incidentally,  he  finds  a  wife  who  loves 
him  more  than  her  own  life,  and  as  the  sacri- 
fice, tho  perilously  close,  is  never  made,  the 
book  has  a  happy  ending  in  spite  of  its 
ominous   title." — Int   Bk   K 


Booklist  21:146  Ja  '24 
"This    book    is    a    fair    representative    of    its 
class — the   romantic,   historical   novel.     While   it 


"Mr.  Marshall  has  never  told  a  better  story 
than   this."     D.    L.   M. 

-j-  Boston    Transcript  p5   Ap   21   '23   1150w 

"Edison  Marshall  catches  the  interest  of  any 
reader  who  likes  adventure  in  the  great  open 
spaces.  He  is  a  real  success  as  a  creator  of 
recreational    fiction." 

-f  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p8   Mr 
4    '23    700w 

•'Mr.  Marshall  knows  his  far  north  country 
and  loves  it,  which  is  doubtless  one  reason  for 
his  success  in  describing  the  witchery  of  the 
Arctic.  When  he  leaves  civilization  the  author 
is  unquestionably  in  his  element.  Trapping  and 
hunting  scenes  are  vividly  and  effectively 
described." 

H Int  Bk  R  p59   Ap  '23  300w 

"From  end  to  end  of  the  book  the  author 
holds  the  reader's  attention  firmly  riveted,  and 
does  so  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  the  plot  is 
far  from  a  plausible  one  and  that  the  central 
character  is  wholly  melodramatic  and  incredi- 
ble." 

-] Lit    R    p555    Mr    24    '23    320w 

"His  descriptions  are  graphic  and  colorful 
and  frequently  show  poetic  feeling.  In  common 
with  his  previous  novels,  the  story  shows  Mr. 
Marshall  to  have  a  keenly  sympathetic  feeling 
with  the  wild  spaces  of  the  earth  and  to  under- 
stand the  influence  they  can  exert  on  a  nature 
sensitive  to  their  fascination." 

-I N  Y  Times  p9  F  18  '23  700w 


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MARSHALL,   EDISON — Continued 
Reviewed    by    Bruce    Gould 

N    Y   Tribune   p24   Ap   29   '23   850w 
"It    will    prove  ^  popular    for    readers    with    a 
weakness  for  tales  of  the  far  North  and  the  open 
spaces;   for  adventure,   for  all  that  goes  toward 
the    'making'    of    a    man." 

+  Springf'd      Republican     p7a     Je    24    '23 
200w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p638  S  27 
•23   140w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:84    Mr    '23 

MARSHALL,    EDISON.   Land   of  forgotten  men. 
306p  $1.75  Little 

23-11812 

This  triangle  story  includes  Peter  Newhall,  his 
wife  Dorothy,  and  Ivan  Ishman,  a  Russian 
violinist  violently  in  love  with  her.  Peter,  un- 
der suspicion  of  having  killed  Ivan's  secretary, 
had  fled  to  Alaska  and  the  report  was  that  he 
had  been  drowned  in  a  wreck  at  sea,  washed 
ashore  and  buried.  Dorothy  makes  it  a  con- 
dition to  her  marriage  with  Ivan  that  they  first 
go  to  Alaska  and  bring  back  the  remains  of 
Peter.  But  the  latter,  greatly  disfigured  by  the 
rocks,  is  still  living  and  is  assigned  as  guide 
to  the  party  from  the  south.  A  storm  maroons 
them  on  a  desolate  coast  and  the  stage  is  set  for 
the  better  man  and  the  better  race  to  prove 
themselves. 


Boston  Transcript  p6  S  5  '23  800w 
"Its  first  and  greatest  fault  is  its  unreality. 
It  is  beyond  belief  that  such  a  situation  as  the 
book  deals  with  would  ever  have  arisen  in  life. 
It  is  equally  unbelievable  that  the  characters 
would  have  behaved  like  the  puppets  Mr. 
Marshall  makes  of  them.  Tony  Sarg's  Mari- 
onettes are  infinitely  more  real,  human  and 
lifelike." 

—  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    plO    S 
16   '23   150w 

"He  knows  his  wild  life,  and  the  chapters 
dealing  with  the  stranded,  quintet  and  their 
flght  for  existence  on  the  Alaskan  barrens  with 
winter  not  so  far  away,  are  wholly  admirable. 
The  animal  lore  and  the  hunting  episodes  smack 
of  the  real  thing.  We  have  no  'nature  faking' 
here." 

-f  N   Y  Times  p24  Ag  26  '23  550w 

"Quite  the  usual  novel  of  Alaska,  where 
the  improbable  seems  to  happen  with  boring 
frequency." 

—  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  4  '23  150w 

MARTENS,  FREDERICK  HERMAN.  Art  of 
the  prima  donna  and  concert  singer.  293p  il 
$3     Appleton 

784.9       Singing  23-9579 

In  the  form  of  personal  interviews  with  the 
author,  twenty  artists  "give  their  personal 
views  and  reactions,  based  on  their  own  study 
and  experience.  They  consider  technique  and 
interpretation,  the  practical  points  of  difference 
between  singing  in  opera  and  in  concert,  the 
use  of  the  mirror  and  costume,  the  opera  aria 
in  the  concert  program,  the  way  to  prepare  a 
new  role  or  song,  daily  vocal  exercise,  and  a 
hundred-and-one  other  phases  of  their  art." 
(Foreword)  The  artists  are:  Geraldine  Farrar, 
Lucrezia  Bori,  Sophie  Braslau,  Emma  Calv^, 
Anna  Case,  Florence  Easton,  Amelita  Galli- 
Curci,  Mabel  Garrison,  Ursula  Greville,  lYieda 
Hempel,  Louise  Homer,  Marie  Evogiin,  Maria 
Jeritza,  Tamaki  Miura,  Sigrid  Onegin,  Rosa 
Ponselle,  Rosa  Raisa,  Elizabeth  Rethberg, 
Ernestine    Schumann-Heink,    Alice    Verlet. 


Booklist  20:47  N  '23 
"It  should  prove  to  be  of  great  benefit  and 
interest  to  both  aspiring  vocal  student  and 
opera  lover.  It  is  helpful  and  inspiring  to  the 
first,  as  it  offers  many  valuable  hints  relative 
to  the  practical  side  of  an  operatic  career,  and 
holds  the  latter's  attention  because  it  reveals 
many  of  the  fascinating  little  details  of  a  prima 
donna's  existence  that  are  not  ordinarily  known 
on  the  spectator's  side  of  the  footlights."  For- 
tune  Gallo 

+  Bookm    58:211   O   '23   BOOw 


Reviewed  by  H:  T.  Finck 

Lit  R  pl26  O  13  '23  550w 
"The  danger  to  students  that  lurks  in  such  a 
book  as  Mr.  Martens's  is  illustrated  to  perfec- 
tion in  the  gay  and  sparkling  misinformation 
with  which  an  interview  with  a  prima  donna, 
though  perfectly  innocent  in  its  intent,  may 
so  easily  abound.  The  book  as  a  whole  is  rich 
in  wisdom,  in  sound  and  mature  counsel,  but 
the  burden  lies  with  the  reader  of  distinguish- 
ing the   wheat  from  the   chaff."     Pitts  Sanborn 

^ Nation  117:440  O  17  '23  650w 

N  Y  Times  p23  Je  10  '23  550w 
"Each  of  the  singers  tells  informally  what 
her  aims  and  methods  are  together  with  what 
she  considers  the  preparation  necessary  for  suc- 
cess. Each  draws  upon  her  fund  of  experiences, 
narrating  sprightly  events  as  well  as  giving 
advice    and    explaining   her   technique." 

+  Springrd  Republican  plO  Jl  25  '23  720w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p474   Jl 
12   '23    40w 

Wis   Lib    Bui   19:479   N   '23 

MARTIN,  HELEN  (REIMENSNYDER)  (MRS 
FREDERIC  C.  MARTIN).  Church  on  the 
avenue.     348p     $2     Dodd 

23-1447 
The  story  is  an  arraignment  of  established 
Christianity  in  its  condonement  of  the  present 
social  order.  Two  types  of  ministers  preside 
over  their  respective  congregations  in  a  small 
industrial  town  in  Pennsylvania  ruled  by  its 
richest  capitalist.  The  first,  pastor  of  the 
wealthy  "church  on  the  avenue,"  is  smugly  con- 
servative, always  ready  to  compromise  his 
Christian  principles  to  safeguard  his  position. 
Unfortunately  for  his  peace  of  mind,  his  wife 
is  an  idealist,  too  ready  to  go  to  the  other 
extreme  for  truth's  sake.  The  second  minister 
is  a  true  follower  of  Jesus,  more  willing  to 
jeopardize  his  position  than  his  spiritual  in- 
tegrity. After-war  conditions  and  the  glaring 
injustices  of  our  present  social  order  furnish 
the  grounds  for  a  war  between  the  town's 
autocrat  and  his  ignorant  and  subservient  fol- 
lowing, on  the  one  hand,  and  its  rebellious 
spirits,  on  the  other.  The  case  of  Christianity 
and  of  the  disinherited  is  ably  set  forth  in 
public  speeches  and  in  domestic  encounters  be- 
tween the  Reverend  Robert  Watts  and  his  wife, 
bringing  the  latter  to  the  conclusion  that  the 
ministry  "has  come  to  be  an  impossible  pro- 
fession   for    a    self-respecting    man." 


"Here  is  material  enough  for  a  very  good 
novel,  if  it  had  only  been  treated  as  such. 
But  so  much  space  is  taken  up  by  discussion 
between  the  different  characters  that  the  story 
is  often  lost  sight  of  for  pages  at  a  time.  As 
a  tract  in  favor  of  a  new  adjustment  of  in- 
dustrial relations,  the  book  is  well  worth  read- 
ing,   but   as   a   novel   it   is  a    disappointment." 

-) Int    Bk    R   p58    F   '23    500w 

"Mrs.  Martin  is  so  greatly  interested  in  the 
doctrines  she  wishes  to  emphasize  in  this  novel 
that  she  lets  the  preachment  get  badly  in  the 
way  of  the  story.  Her  characters  become 
schematic,  and  they  stop  the  action,  frequently, 
to  deliver  long  sermons  or  arguments  at  each 
other,  much  of  it  repetitious.  Nevertheless, 
it  remains  a  well  conceived,  often  dramatic, 
storv,   and  it  is,    at  all   events,    a   timely  tract." 

h   Lit    R    p438   F   3    '23   300w 

"Thoughtful  in  the  working  out,  but  rather 
bare   as   fiction." 

H Nation    116:525    My    2    '23    20w 

N   Y  Times   pl7  Ja  28  '23   520w 
Springf'd     Republican     p8a     Mr    11    '23 
280w 

SuiVey   49:819    Mr    15    '23    20w 

MARTIN,    PERCY    FALCKE.        Egypt— old    and 
new.    224p   il   $7.50     Doran    [21s  Allen   &    U.] 

916.2  Egypt — Description   and   travel 

"The    author    is   a    veteran    British    Journalist 

and  economic  expert.    That  his  economic  studies 

have  not  blinded  him  to  the  poetry  and  beauty 

of  the  world  may  be  inferred  from  his  eloquent 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


341 


tribute  to  the  glories  of  sunrise  and  sunset  on 
the  Nile.  .  .  His  chapters  on  Thebes,  Karnak, 
Memphis,  and  Cairo  give  illuminating  glimpses 
of  the  tincient  ruins  as  well  as  the  latest  facts 
in  the  field  of  Egyptian  archeology,  all  liberally 
illustrated  with  photographic  scenes  in  colors." 
— Int  Bk  R 

"His  book  is  a  mine  of  facts  and  figures  on 
every  phase  of  modern  Egyptian  life,  and  he 
traces  many  of  his  topics  back  into  the  dim 
realms  of  antiquity." 

+   Int  Bk  R  p21  Ap  '23  800w 

"Much  the  best  part  of  Mr.  Martin's  book 
consists  in  the  illustrations.  There  are  forty- 
five  excellent  repioductions  of  photographs  in 
colour,  which  should  give  the  stay-at-home 
reader  a  lively  idea  of  what  Egypt  looks  like. 
Mr.  Martin's  description  of  Egypt  is  somewhat 
superficial." 

H Sat   R   135:189   F  10  '23   180w 

"Contains  enough  information  about  the  coun- 
try, ancient  and  modern,  to  satisfy  a  voracious 
appetite,   but   it  is  not  well  arranged." 
-jl  _  Spec   130:558   Mr   31   '23   120w 

MARTINDALE,      CYRIL      CHARLIE.      Bernard 
Vaughan.     244p  il  $2.50  Longmans 

B  or  92  Vaughan,  Bernard  23-14250 

A  memoir  of  Bernard  Vaughan,  1847-1922,  an 
English  Jesuit  priest  and  popular  preacher.  For 
eighteen  years  he  took  a  conspicuous  part  in 
the  religious  and  civic  life  of  Manchester  and 
later  came  to  London  where  he  spent  the  rest 
of  his  life  working  among  the  poor  at  West- 
minster and  in  the  East  End.  He  also  preached 
to  crowds  in  Mayfair  where  he  drew  large  au- 
diences with  his  Sins  of  society  and  Smart  set 
sermons.  I'reaching  mostly  on  social  and  civic 
subjects,  he  was  accused  of  sensationalism  and 
self-advertisement,  but  he  taught  the  Gospel  to 
rich  and  poor  alike  in  plain  words.  He  went 
about  in  the  East  End  ringing  a  bell  to  attract 
an  audience  and  he  was  greatly  loved  by  chil- 
dren. 


"Father  Martindale  can  be  congratulated  on 
the  moderate  size  and  admirable  temper  of  his 
biography." 

+  New   Statesman   22:310  D  15   '23   700w 
"This  admirable  life  of  Fr.   Bernard  Vaughan 
is  the  more   successful   because   the  author   dif- 
fers so  widely  in  temperament  and  outlook  from 
the    subject    of   the    biography."    Alfred    Fawkes 
-f  Spec   131:750   N  17   "23   800w 

The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p702  O  25 
■23  700w 

MARVIN.  FRANCIS  SYDNEY,  ed.  Science  and 
civilization.  (Unity  ser.)  350p  $4.20  Oxford 
[12s   6d   Milford] 

509  Science — History 
"These  chapters  had  their  origin  as  lectures 
delivered  at  the  sixth  Unity  History  School  held 
in  Woodbrooke,  near  Birmingham,  England, 
during  the  month  of  August  last  year.  J.  L. 
Myres  opens  the  discussion  with  an  essay  on 
*The  Beginnings  of  Science.'  and  Charles  Singer 
deals  with  'Ancient  Medicine'  and  'The  Dark 
Ages  and  the  Dawn.'  The  aspects  of  biological 
and  geological  knowledge  in  antiquity  are  de- 
scribed by  Arthur  Piatt.  J.  L.  E.  Dreyer's  sub- 
ject is  'Greek  Mathematics  and  Astronomy.'  A. 
N.  Whitehead  tells  of  'The  First  Physical  Syn- 
thesis,' and  Cecil  H.  Desch  writes  of  'Science 
in  the  Industrial  Revolution.'  Then  comes  an 
article  by  Professor  Arthur  Thomson  on  'The 
Influence  of  Darwinism  on  Thought  and  Life,' 
followed  by  essays  in  which  A.  E.  Heath,  F. 
G.  Cruikshank.  Julian  S.  Huxley  and  E.  S.  Mar- 
vin present  successively  the  relations  of  sci- 
ence to  education,  health,  religion  and  human 
affairs." — Boston    Transcript 

"Many  problems  now  uppermost  in  the  pub- 
lic mind  are  here  ably  discussed  by  scientific 
experts."   E.    N. 

-f   Boston  Transcript  p6  D  1  '23  720w 
Reviewed   bv   W.    R.    Inge 

Nature  112:383  S  15  '23  lOOOw 

New  Statesman   21:720  S  29  '23  550w 


Sat  R  136:388  O  6  '23  350w 
The   Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p535  Ag 
9  '23  140w 
"We  have   counted   it   a   merit   in   the   present 
survey  that  it  limits  attention  to  a  few  promi- 
nent   features    of    the    domain.       Some    of    the 
earlier  chapters  are   mainly  historical,   but  give 
rapid    reviews    of    progress   wliich    are    not   only 
good  reading,   but  will  be  convenient  for  future 
reference.      Others    of    the    chapters,    especially 
that  on  'Science  and  Education,'  have  an  admir- 
ably practical  bearing." 

4-  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p628  S  27 
'23  1800w 

MAS'EFIELD,  JOHN.    Dream,  and  other  poems. 

63p     il     $1.25    Macmillan 
821  23-9960 

"In  this  new  volume  of  his  verse  Mr.  Mase- 
field  has  included  'The  Dream'  which  previously 
appeared  only  in  a  limited  autographed  edition, 
and  eight  shorter  poems.  One  of  these,  'The 
Racer'  was  included  in  the  'Selected  Poems'; 
the  rest  are  new." — Publisher's  note. 


Booklist  20:14  O  '23 
Reviewed   by  H.    S.    Gorman 

Bookm  58:332  N  "23  250w 

Cath    World    118:424    D    '23    300w 

"The    old    richness    and    mellowness    are    here 

but  the  poems  seem   slighter  than   those  of  the 

former  volumes,    and   the   metre   is   so   unvaried 

and  so  balanced  as  to  be  very  slightly  soporific." 

H Dial   75:507  N   '23   90w 

"  'The  dream'  is  an  interval  during  which  his 
powers  have  ebbed  from  their  full  tide.  But 
we  have  little  doubt  that  the  tide  will  return 
again  strongly  before  the  poet's  last  songs  are 
sung." 

1-   Lit   R  pll5  O  6  '23  250w 

"A  slight  volume,  containing  nothing  that 
will  substantially  increase  the  reputation  of  Mr. 
Masefleld." 

—  Nation   117:200  Ag  22  '23  60w 
"Nothing    in    the    present    volume    attains    to 

the  high  standard  of  Masefleld  at  his  best;  but 
'The  Dream,'  with  the  other  poems  which  ac- 
company the  titlepiece,  would  take  high  rank 
among  contemporary  work  if  the  author  had 
not  previously  done  better.  In  the  present  vol- 
ume Masefleld  exhibits,  as  always,  his  great 
mastery  of  color,  his  old  expertness  at  trenchant 
phrasing.  In  substance,  however,  the  poems 
seem  to  be  a  trifle  thin." 

h    N    Y    Times   pll    Jl    22    '23    lOOOw 

Outlook  135:460  N  14  '23  300w 
Springf'd   Republican   p7a  O  7  '23  SOOw 

MASEFIELD,  JOHN.  A  king's  daughter;  a 
>    tragedy    in    verse.     170p    $1.75    Macmillan    [63 

Heinemann] 

822  23-15299 

The  story  of  Jezebel,  queen  of  Samaria,  is 
here  dramatized,  and  the  tragedy  which  she 
brought  on  her  house  thru  the  treatment  of 
Naboth,  who  had  refused  to  sell  his  vineyard 
to  King  Ahab. 

"Perhaps  the  chief  difficulty  with  'A  King's 
Daughter'  is  that  the  poet  is  laboring  under  the 
romantic  illusion,  that  distortion  of  vision  which 
has  handicapped  more  than  one  modern  when 
he  has  attempted  to  handle  ancient  material." 
P.    A.   Hutchison 

—  NY  Times  p8  Ja  6  '24  400w 

"There  is  some  beautiful  verse,  and  some 
miserable  verse — ^and  much  that  is  mediocre. 
The  weaving  in  of  the  story  of  Helen  by  means 
of  a  maiden  chorus  is  far  from  effective,  though 
some  of  the  stanzas  concerning  Helen  mark 
the  highest  points  in  the  achievement." 

^-   N  Y  World  p7e  N  11  '23  220w 

Sat    R    136:656   D   15   '23   180w 

"This  tragedy  will  hardly  add  to  Mr.  Mase- 
fleld's  reputation.  It  is  very  curious;  but  that 
is  its  chief  interest." 

—  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p786  N  22 
'23  1050W 


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MASEFIELD,   JOHN.     Melloney  Holtspur.    151p 

$1.50     Macmillan 
822 

The  play  tells  the  story  of  two  generations 
of  Copshrews  and  Holtspurs.  Laurence  Cop- 
shrew  loved  Melloney  Holtspur  but  the  devil  in 
him  made  him  faithless  to  her.  His  daughter  in 
her  turn  loved  a  son  of  the  Holtspurs  but  the 
shadow  of  the  dead  past  came  between  the 
lovers  and  it  appeared  that  the  sin  of  the 
father  was  about  to  be  visited  on  his  child. 
Then,  in  the  panelled  hall  of  the  Holtspurs,  the 
spirits  of  Melloney  and  her  faithless  lover  met, 
to  judge  the  sin  of  the  past.  Melloney,  who 
had  for  years  nursed  her  injury,  accepted  as 
atonement  the  love  of  the  two  young  people, 
and  so  the  lovers  were  freed  from  the  "net  of 
old  sorrows." 


Booklist  9:300  Jl  '23 
"The    play    has    its    fine    moments,    but    the 
weaknesses   of   its   general    make-up   are  over- 
whelming."    Li.  C.  W. 

f  Freeman  7:623  S  5  '23  300w 

"As  long  as  Mr.  Masefield  sticks  to  his  own 
work  as  a  good  lyricist,  or  when  he  ventures 
to  write  novels  in  verse  and  poems  in  prose,  the 
world,  in  which  the  reviewer  claims  temporary 
membership,  must  do  him  reverence.  But  when 
he  goes  body-snatching  to  gather  material  for 
a  comedy  he  transgresses  the  limit." 

—  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  p8  O 
7  '23  550w 
"The  play  would  be  good  enough  melodrama 
If  only  it  didn't  attempt  to  be  anything  more. 
But  neither  melodrama  nor  news  from  nowhere 
is  what  we  expect  of  Mr.  Masefield."  M.  L. 
Franklin 

h  Ind  110:348  My  26  '23  220w 

"  'Melloney  Holtspur'  is  a  very  interesting 
piece  of  work.  It  is  distinctly  out  of  the 
ordinary.  And  if  the  author  seems  to  grope, 
the  result  of  his  groping  is  of  no  small  value. 
Whatever  objection  may  be  brought  against 
the  creaking  machinery  of  the  play,  the  mean- 
ing of  the  piece  is  clear  in  its  humanitarian 
lesson." 

-\ NY  Times  p5  My  6  '23  1450w 

"Mr.  Masefield  has  handled  a  rather  difficult 
technical  problem  excellently  here,  and  his  play, 
though  adding  nothing  to  his  fame,  becomes  a 
rather  pleasing  effort  to  read.  It  is  dubious 
whether  it  would  act  or  not." 

H Outlook   134:562  Ag  8  '23   250w 

"Reads  like  an  immature  work.  Except  for 
a  certain  felicity  of  emotional  expression  there 
is  no  quality  in  the  play  to  awaken  admira- 
tion   or    even    to    sustain    interest." 

-j Sprlngf  d  Republican  p7a  Je  10  '23  150w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:480  N  '23 


MASON,       ALFRED       EDWARD       WOODLEY. 

Winding    stair.    283p    $2    Doran 

23-12221 

When  Paul  Ravenel  came  to  England,  after 
his  father's  death,  he  learned  the  reason  for 
his  father's  voluntary  exile  from 'his  country 
and  for  his  own  French  bringing  up.  As  an 
army  officer  in  India,  his  father  had,  under 
stress,  deserted  a  post,  had  been  court-mar- 
tialled  and  cashiered.  In  consequence  of  this 
knowledge  Paul  joins  the  FYench  army  and  takes 
service  in  Morocco.  But  he  too,  on  the  occasion 
of  a  massacre  in  Fez,  to  save  the  life  of  the 
woman  he  loves  becomes  a  deserter  and  an 
outcast.  It  is  now  the  resourcefulness,  and 
courage  of  his  beloved  Marguerite  that  help 
him,  with  such  opportunity  as  the  great  war  of- 
fered to  regain  his  status  in  the  army  and  win 
distinguished    honors. 


another  of  a  higher  grade  than  most,  in  point 
of  good  taste  and  workmanlike  use  of  the  Eng- 
lish language,  but  perhaps  falling  half  an  inch 
short  of  some  of  its  predecessors  in  the  matter 
of   thrills." 

_| NY  Tribune  p20  S  2  '23  400w 

"Admirers  of  Mr.  Mason's  writing  will  find  The 
Winding  Stair  pleasant  reading.  It  is  already 
proving  itself  a  best  seller." 

+  Spec  131:198  Ag  11  '23  lOOw 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p518  Ag  2 
'23  620w 

MASSEY,  GEORGE  BRAGG.  EJngineering  of  ex- 
cavation. S76p  il  |6  Wiley  [308  Chapman  &  H.] 
622.21    Excavation.    Excavating    naachinery. 
Dredging  machinery  23-4604 

"Contains  a  large  proportion  of  original  notes, 
having  real  operative  value.  .  .  The  author  has 
drawn  liberally  from  commercial  data  ...  to 
facilitate  the  choice  of  the  type  and  size  of 
the  machine  for  a  particular  problem.  (Engi- 
neering and  mining  journal-press)" — Pittsburgh 
Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:358  JI  '23 

MASSINGHAM,    HAROLD    JOHN,    ed.       Poems 
about  birds;  with  a  preface  by  J.  C.  Squire. 
415p  $2.50  Dutton   [10s  6d  Unwin] 
821.08    Birds— Poetry.    English    poetry— Col- 
lections 23-5510 
"Mr.  H.  J.  Massingham  anthologist  and  natur- 
alist,  was  clearly  the  appointed  man  to  edit  a 
book   of   poems   about   birds.      He   has   selected 
two    hundred    poems    (or    occasionally    bits    of 
poems)."      (The     Times      [London]      Lit     Sup) 
"Beginning    with    Chaucer    and    his    school,    it 
gives    an    admirable    selection    from    the    Eliza- 
bethans,   and,    gathering    up    much    interesting 
anonymous  verse  on  the  way,   proceeds  chron- 
ologically   to    the    present    day."    (New    States- 
man) 


Reviewed  by  E.   F.   Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p4  S  1  '23  1250w 
Lit   R  p240  N  10  '23   170w 
N  Y  Times  pl9  S  16  '23  650w 
'"If  all  the  recent  novels  which  deal  with  the 
Sahara  and    points    east   were    laid    end    to    end 
they   would    come    near   blanketing   it.     This   is 


"In  this  case  the  anthologist  must  not  only 
be  a  critical  student  of  poetry:  he  must  be  a 
critical  student  of  birds,  and  a  'bird-lover'  as 
well.  Mr.  Massingham  fortunately  unites  these 
essentials,  and  possesses  moreover  the  addi- 
tional advantage  that  his  work  is  coloured  by 
that  humanitarian  sympathy  which  is  slowly 
effecting  a  revolution  in  our  outlook  on  wild 
bird-life.  Hence  this  delightful  book  is  by  far 
the  best  and  most  representative  anthology  of 
poetry  about  birds  that  has  yet  appeared." 
+  New  Statesman  20:150  N  4  '22  1050w 

"Mr.  Massingham  was  the  very  man  to  gather 
the  garland,  and  he  has  done  it  very  well,  with 
a  liberal  eye  for  all  sorts  of  taste." 
-t-  Sat  R  134:641  O  28  '22  800w 

"While  the  editor's  general  selection  is  good, 
he  has  surely  allowed  his  propagandist  zeal  to 
get  the  better  of  his  poetic  judgment  when  he 
gives  up  two  valuable  pages  to  Mr.  Hodgson's 
merely  topical  'Hymn  to  Moloch.'  " 
H Spec   129:975  D  23   '22   80w 

"No  quarrel  can  be  picked  with  the  editor  for 
either  inclusion  or  exclusion,  for  his  taste  is 
evidently   catholic   and  yet   discriminating." 

4-  Springf'd    Republican    p6  Ap   9  '23   350w 

"They  are  all,  if  not  poetry  of  the  best,  at 
least  poetry  of  some  merit  and  charm.  It  is  a 
most  entertaining  volume,  and  with  Mr.  Mas- 
singham as  editor  we  have  but  a  single  quarrel; 
It  is  that  in  his  introduction,  and  also  in  his 
jaunty  and  loquacious  notes  at  the  end  of  the 
book,  he  writes  almost  entirely  as  a  man  of 
letters  and  scarcely  at  all  as  an  ornithologist." 

-\ The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p663  O  19 

'22  1800w 

MASSINGHAM,  HAROLD  JOHN.  Untrodden 
ways;  adventures  on  English  coasts,  heaths 
and  marshes  and  also  among  the  works  of 
Hudson,  Crabbe.  and  other  country  writers. 
255p  $4  Dutton   [10s  6d  Unwin] 

598.2   Birds.      Nature  [23-12233] 

A  book  of  essays  on  nature  and  nature 
writers.  The  first  and  finest  chapter  is  an  ap- 
preciation  of   W.    H.   Hudson   as  artist  and  na- 


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turalist.  Most  of  the  other  papers  deal  with 
birds,  lare  ones  like  the  bittern,  spoonbill,  wood- 
lark,  tern  and  bearded  tit,  of  which  he  is  an 
acute  and  loving  observer.  He  describes  birds 
always  in  relation  to  landscape,  also  some  of 
their  wild  native  haunts  like  lonely  Blakeney 
in    Norfolkshire    and    the    Fame    islands. 


Bookm    58:488   D   '23   llOw 

Boston  Transcript  p3  K  24  '23  320w 

"In  Mr.  Massingham's  writing  there  is  a 
certain  want  of  robustness  and  animation,  a 
certain  thinness  of  the  air,  which  seem  to 
come  from  his  preference  of  birds  to  human 
beings."   N.  A. 

1-   Freeman    8:239   N   4  '23   200w 

"Apart  from  carelessness  in  minor  matters 
and  occasional  unwarranted  exuberance  of  style 
Mr.  Massingham  has  written  an  enjoyable  book 
and  one  which  contains  secret  pleasures  for 
those  who  know  that  part  of  England  which  is 
least  spoiled,  the  country  of  the  East  Wind." 
F.  V.  Morley 

-i Lit   R  p440  Ja   12  '24  780w 

"Able  and  devoted  essays,  with  entirely  too 
little  of  that  unaffected  nobility  which  Mr.  Mas- 
singham, who  is  always  conscious  of  writing 
well,    admires    in    Hudson." 

H Nation  117:495  O  31  '23  50w 

"Mr.  Massingham's  strength  lies  in  his  ac- 
cumulated detail,  and  the  faculty  he  has  of 
appropriating  just  those  salient  points  which 
epitomise  the  scene,  character,  or  atmosphere 
which  he  wishes  to  recreate.  It  is  this  power 
which  has  made  his  essay  on  W.  H.  Hudson 
the  most  real  and  exhaustive  study  of  him." 
H New    Statesman    22:56    O    20    '23    800w 

"While  one  would  need  to  be  a  naturalist, 
and  a  learned  one  too,  to  enjoy  Mr.  Massing- 
ham's book  to  the  full,  yet  he  so  charmingly 
combines  the  knowledge  and  zest  of  the  nat- 
uralist with  the  temperament  of  the  poet,  sen- 
sitive to  the  strangeness  of  natural  beauty  and 
the  cosmic  mystery  in  the  wild  life  he  so  lov- 
ingly studies,  and  his  writing  is  in  itself  so 
beautiful  that  his  book  can  be  enjoyed  even 
by  those  whose  actual  knowledge  is  slight." 
R:   Le  Gallienne 

-f   N    Y   Times  p4   O   28   '23   500w 

"In  'Untrodden  Ways'  H.  J.  Massingham 
proves  himself  naturalist,  poet,  critic  and  phi- 
losopher. His  work  is  that  of  a  stylist,  liquid, 
tinged  with  ineffable  charm  and  intangible  mel- 
ody. His  mental  attitude  is  lofty,  impersonal, 
fitly  expressed  in  a  rather  stately  and  digni- 
fied manner.  Throughout  the  book  there  runs 
a  gentle,  contemplative  philosophy,  a  panthe- 
istic strain  of  unity  of  man  with  nature."  W. 
R.    L. 

+  N   Y  Tribune  p27  O  21  '23  380w 
Outlook  135:195  O  3  "23  30w 

"The  appreciation  of  Hudson  is  the  important 
thing  in  this  book.  It  is  as  good  as  any  pub- 
lished essay  on  Hudson,  showing  a  fine  and  full 
understanding  of  both  his  literary  and  natural- 

H 'Sat    R   136:85   Jl   21   '23   650w 

Spec  131:357  S  15  '23  400w 
Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Jl  1  '23  120w 
"it  is  only  fair  to  warn  the  general  reader 
that  he  may  find  himself  astray  in  Mr.  Mass- 
ingham's country.  His  paths  are  not  for  the 
man  who  gets  his  'Nature'  a-Sundays  speed- 
ing along  the  state  highway  in  a  touring  car, 
nor  even  for  the  man  who  measures  Nature  in 
miles  done  afoot.  His  paths  are  rather  for  the 
wanderer  to  whom  the  world  of  the  open  is 
more  natural  than  the  world  of  men,  to  whom 
its  minutiae  are  as  full  of  adventure  as  Its 
grand  effects.  To  such  a  reader  'Untrodden 
Ways'  is  at  once  a  discovery  and  a  rediscovery, 
opening  new  trails  and  reblazing  those  already 
known."    C.    D'E. 

+  Springf'd      Republican     p7a     O     28     '23 

1700w 

"Mr.    Massingham    writes    from    a    standpoint 

which    is    occasionally    a    little    fanciful    but    is 

never  dull.     He  describes  his  observations  and 


criticisms  as  adventures  and,  although  noth- 
ing very  unusual  seems  to  have  happened  to 
him,  the  term  is  justified  by  his  own  capacity 
for    finding    novelty." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p400   Je 
14   '23   1150\v 


MASSON,  ROSALINE  ORME,  ed.  I  can  re- 
member Robert  Louis  Stevenson.  369p  11  $2.50 
Stokes   [7s  6d  Chambers] 

B  or  92  Stevenson,  Robert  Louis  23-3456 

A  collection  of  personal  memories  of  relatives, 
intimate  friends,  acquaintances  and  school  com- 
rades of  Stevenson.  Most  of  the  contributions 
have  been  written  expressly  for  this  book,  but 
a  few  extracts  from  books  and  periodical  articles 
have  been  included.  Among  the  nearly  one 
hundred  contributors  are  Edmund  Gosse,  Sid- 
ney Colvin,  Principal  Swing,  Flora  Masson,  Mrs 
Bourke  Cockran,  Birge  Harrison,  William 
Archer,  and  J.  M.  Barrie.  The  reminiscences, 
which  range  from  half  a  page  to  thirty  pages 
in  length,  belong  chiefly  to  the  Edinburgh  and 
the  Samoa  period  of  Stevenson's  life,  but  there 
are  also  descriptions  of  the  life  at  Grez,  at 
Bournemouth,    and   of  his   year  in  California. 


Booklist   19:221   Ap   '23 

Bookm   57:202  Ap  '23  530w 
"There    is    no    period    of    his    life    that    is    not 
touched  upon  by  the  many  contributors  so  skil- 
fully rounded  up  by  Miss  Masson."  E.  F.  Edgett 
4-  Boston    Transcript   p4  My   12   '23   1750w 

Cleveland  p80  S  '23 
"Worth-while    book,    which    in    its    novel    and 
effective  way  is  a  new  revelation  of  the  playful 
side  of  Stevenson's  nature."    E.  L.   Shuman 
+   Int    Bk    R   p30   My   '23    900w 

Lit   R  p610   Ap  14   '23   150w 

New  Statesman  20:supxx  D  2  '22  70w 
"Any  general  summing  up  of  Miss  Masson's 
compilation  must  place  it  in  the  class  of  ap- 
preciations. That  purpose  is  plainly  in  view 
from  beginning  to  end  and  there  is  no  need  to 
cavil  at  it,  although  a  number  of  people  un- 
doubtedly will  point  to  the  fact  that  there  is 
more  unthinking  praise  and  less  Judicious  con> 
sideration  than  should  be  expected  in  a  com- 
pilation of  memoirs." 

■\ NY   Times  p9  Ja   28   '23   2550w 

"  'I  Can  Remember  Robert  Louis  Stevenson' 
offers,  as  would  be  imagined,  the  scrapings  of 
the  biographical  pot.  It  was  got  together,  with 
tlie  best  will  in  the  world.  The  book  does  con- 
tain much  material  which,  properly  selected  and 
narrated,  would  have  made  a  thoroughly  en- 
tertaining little  volume.  As  it  stands,  however, 
it  adds  Robert  Louis  Stevenson  to  the  long  list 
of  victims  of  the  mistaken  theory  that  every 
memory  of  a  great  or  well  loved  man  is  worth 
recording,  and  the  still  more  erroneous  notion 
that  every  person  possessing  memories  of  such 
a  man  is  qualified  to  record  them."  Hunter 
Stagg 

—  NY  Tribune  p29  Ap  8   '23  850w 
"The    contacts    are    nearly   all   superficial   and 

reveal  no  note  of  real  value  in  the  way  of  inci- 
dent or  anecdote." 

—  NY  World  p7e  F  11  '23  190w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:258  My  '23 
St    Louis   p343   D   '23 

"When  posterity  comes  finally  to  'place'  the 
life  and  works  of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson  it  will 
gain  no  small  advantage  from  the  possession  of 
such  a  book  as  this." 

+  Spec  130:103  Ja  20  '23  850w 

Springf'd    Republican   p8   Mr  9   '23   360w 

"Stevenson  lovers  will  naturally  find  much  to 

interest    them — of    fresh    incidents,    scenes,    and 

sayings.     But  the  book  is  evidently  rather  one 

to  dip  into  than  to  take  for  continuous  reading." 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p748    N 

16  '22  70w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p777  N  30 
•22    1400w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:83  Mr  '23 


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MASSON,    ROSALINE   ORME.       Life  of  Robert 
'    Louis  Stevenson.  358p  ii  $3  Stokes 

B  or  92  Stevenson,  Robert  Louis  23-18136 
This  latest  biography  of  Stevenson  is  an  out- 
growth of  the  author's  recent  compilation.  "I 
Can  Remember  Robert  Louis  Stevenson,"  which 
brought  her  into  touch  with  so  many  people  who 
had  known  and  remembered  him.  She  is  a 
daughter  of  Professor  David  Masson  of  Edin- 
burgh university  in  whose  classes  Stevenson 
sometimes  sat  during  his  rather  casual  atten- 
dance at  the  university.  The  biography  is  par- 
ticularly full  concerning  his  boyhood  and  the 
Edinburgh  period,  and  is  illustrated  with 
numerous  portraits  and  several  manuscript  let- 
ters. 


Reviewed  by  E.   F.   Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p4  D  15  '23  1750w 
"On  the  whole  it  is  a  good  life,  although  it  is 
evident  that  Miss  Masson  is  concerned  in  rein- 
forcing the  general  idea  of  Stevenson's  romantic 
knightliness.  If  anything  Miss  Masson's  book  is 
valuable  for  the  intimate  glimpses  it  gives  of  the 
early  days  of  R.  L.  S." 

-I-   N    Y   Times   p4  30  '23    700w 

1VIASS0N,    THOMAS    LANSING,    comp.      Listen 
to  these.  275p  $1.50     Doubleday 

817    Humor.    Jokes  22-18662 

Owing  to  differences  in  taste,  it  is  difficult  to 
trust  one's  own  judgment  as  to  the  merits  of  a 
Joke,  says  the  compiler  of  this  collection  of 
jokes  and  anecdotes.  Over  the  collection  he 
has  first  brooded,  then  tried  them  on  a  limited 
circle  of  friends  to  test  out  the  correctness  of 
his   judgment. 


Booklist  19:216  Ap  '23 
"There  is  wide  enough  range  to  make  the 
collection  welcome  to  both  those  who  insist 
meticulously  upon  jokes  of  the  intellectual  sort, 
and  those  whose  taste  runs  to  a  clever  twist 
and   ridiculous  situations." 

+  Bookm  56:512  D  '22  80w 
Cleveland  p27  Ap  '23 
"  'Listen  to  These,"  it  may  be  stated,  is  not 
a  book  that  will  be  shunned.  Mr.  Masson  shows 
sense  and  discretion  in  his  compilation,  and  the 
result  is  a  book  that  may  be  dipped  into  with 
evident   pleasure." 

-t-  N    Y  Times   p2  Ja  14   '23   160w 
St    i-ouls  20:273   N  '22 

MASSON,  THOMAS  LANSING.  That  silver 
lining;  a  heartening  book.  441p  $2  Double- 
day 

170  Conduct  of  life  23-9213 

"His  book  aims  to  be  nothing  less  than  a 
philosophic  guide  to  the  proper  conduct  of  life 
and  perhaps  it  might  be  boiled  down,  for  de- 
scriptive purposes,  to  a  statement  of  the  phi- 
losophy of  courage,  based  upon  self-knowledge, 
discipline,  and — faith.  In  the  course  of  the  in- 
tentionally erratic  discussion  of  these  basic 
things  the  book  incidentally  pays  its  respect  to 
many  of  the  vagaries  of  current  thought,  or 
near-thinking,  from  Einstein  to  the  'Nautilus' 
and  the  'inspirational'  writers.  Mr.  Masson  has 
small  use  for  the  philosophy  of  the  'forced 
smile'  or  the  'glad'  book.  He  discusses  in  some 
detail  the  phenomena  of  consciousness  and  de- 
votes chapters  to  death,  self-discipline,  love, 
prayer,  the  use  of  books,  and  many  minor  mat- 
ters."—Lit    R 


Booklist  20:5  O  '23 
"In  simple  language  and  in  a  thoughtful, 
straightforward  manner,  he  cheerfully  puts 
down  his  theories  about  dispensing  with  worry, 
lessening  fear,  and  developing  one's  capacities. 
Some  of  these  arguments  are  convincing  be- 
cause of  their  complete  sincerity." 

-\ Bookm    58:88    S    '23    lOOw 

"His  book  is  an  unusually  interesting  one  and 

will,  no  doubt,  be  helpful  to  many.     It  is,  above 

all,  entirely  honest,  earnest,  and  without  pose." 

-t-   Lit   R  p900  Ag  11  '23  280w 

"The   readableness  of   the   book   is   surprising 

Masson  is  everywhere  alive.     He  is  a  dynamo— 


a  dynamo  of  spiritual  energy.  He  recharges 
the  run-down  cells  of  our  spiritual  being.  His 
book  is  a  tonic  uplift;  and  Masson  is  not  a 
pest." 

+  N   Y  Times  pl4  My  13  '23   880w 

N   Y  World  p9e  My  6  '23  450w 

St    Louis  p276  O   '23 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:405   Jl  '23 

MASSON,  THOMAS  LANSING,  ed.  Tom  Mas- 
2  son's  annual  for  1923.   278p  $2  Doubleday 

817  23-18026 

The  first  annual  collection  of  the  best  light 
verse,  humor,  sketches,  articles,  jokes  and 
anecdotes. 


"Many  of  the  best  things  from  Punch's  Chari- 
vari are  reprinted,  but  beside  them  are  given 
a  hundred  counterparts  in  American  journals, 
pitiful  in  comparison.  We  cannot  do  humor  in 
that  style.  In  the  burlesque,  the  exaggerated 
nonsense,  we  are,  I  believe,  supreme.  In  the 
epigram,   the  pithy  remark,  we  are  nothing." 

H Boston   Transcript   p6   D   26   '23  320w 

"Take  it  a  little  at  a  time  and,  as  any  one 
will  find  by  reading  the  book  in  that  way,  it 
will  amuse,  refresh,  sweeten,  delight  and 
nourish." 

-I-   N    Y  Times  p24  N  11   '23   500w 

Springf'd    Republican   p7a  D  9   '23   180w 

MASTERMAN,  CHARLES  FREDERICK  GUR- 
NEY.  England  after  war;  a  study.  311p  $2 
Harcourt    [10s    6d   Hodder   &    S.] 

914.2  England — Economic  conditions.  Eng- 
land— Social  conditions  23-3559 
There  is  little  relief  in  this  depressing  picture 
of  an  England  in  process  of  change;  the  pass- 
ing of  its  aristocracy;  the  decay  of  middle  class 
standards  of  civilization;  a  greater  cleavage  of 
class  than  has  existed  for  half  a  century;  a 
declining  birth  rate;  labor  making  extraordinary 
claims;  the  church  losing  ground.  The  author 
shows  what  these  post-war  conditions  and 
privations  will  inean,  if  continued,  to  the  stand- 
ards of  living  of  the  entire  country. 


Am   Pol  Sci   R  17:692  N  '23  60w 
"This  is   the  most  vivid  pen   picture  of  post- 
war conditions  in  England  that  the  reviewer  has 

+  Ann  Am  Acad  110:228  N  '23  200w 
Booklist  19:205  Ap  '23 
"The  book  is  written  thoughtfully  and  with  a 
force  bred  of  sincerity;  and,  while  it  contains 
much  material  that  is  far  from  new,  it  abounds 
in  impressive  and  significant  commentary  on 
the  postwar  condition  of  England  and  of  the 
world  in  general." 

+  Bookm  57:345  My  '23  160w 
"The  conditions  as  they  are  in  England  are 
given  with  intense  vividness  in  this  volume  by 
a  writer  who  is  as  honest  with  his  subjects  and 
his  readers  as  he  is  with  himself  and  this  is 
saying  much.  There  is  in  this  book  no  com- 
placent prophecy."  S.  L.  C. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  21  '23  650w 
Cleveland  p62  Jl  '23 
Reviewed  by  S.  K.   Ratcliffe 

Freeman  7:619   S  5  '23  1150w 
Reviewed  by  M.  A.  E.   White 

Int  Bk  R  pl8  Ag  '23  1400w 
"He  writes  with  sustained  eloquence  that  does 
not  become  tedious,  as  eloquent  writing  so  often 
does.  And  his  pages  are  lit  up  everywhere  with 
literary  and  historical  parallels  and  allusions 
that  add  greatly  to  their  interest  and  value," 
H.   W.   Horwill 

4-   Nation   116:496   Ap   25   '23   1200w 

Reviewed  by  S.  A.  Coblentz 

New  Repub  36:106  S  19  '23  850w 

"His  book  is  authoritative.  Of  its  kind,  it  is 
so  much  the  best  post-war  book  on  Britain 
that  it  stands  alone.  It  is,  in  a  word,  the  book 
on  the  subject.  And  this  being  so,  I  shall  not 
hesitate    to    add    what    the    Senate    would    call 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


345 


some  reservations.  Sometimes  Mr.  Masterman 
repeats  himself.  Sometimes  his  aptitude  for 
emphasis  challenges  retort."   P.    W.   Wilson 

-\ NY   Times  p3   F  11   '23  2200w 

N  Y  Tribune  p30  My  13  '23  320w 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:282  Je  '23 
Spec  i:j0;757  My  5  '23   1200\v 
Springf'd    Republican   p8   Ap  2    '23  750w 
"Mr.  Masterman's  book  may  serve  as  a  v^rarn- 
ing.     He  has  the  clearest  perception  of  isolated 
facts;   but  the  condition  of  a  country,   needless 
to   say,   consists  of  an    infinity  of  facts   in   infi- 
nitely   complex    correlation.      But    Masterman's 
construction  is  surely  mixed  of  fears  and  hopes 
in  quite  an  extraordinary  degree." 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p831   D 
14  '22  2150\v 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:407  Jl  '23 

MASTERS,     DAVID.       Romance    of    excavation. 
236p   il   $2.50   Dodd   [6s   6d   Lane] 

913    Archeology.    Excavations    (archeology) 

23-16680 

This  book  tells  the  romantic  story  of  the  men 
who  have  gone  out  into  the  desert  places,  dug 
up  remains  of  long  lost  cities  and  revealed  the 
glory  and  treasure  of  ancient  kings.  It  tells  of 
the  discovery  of  the  key  to  Egyptian  hiero- 
glyphics and  cuneiform  writing,  and  describes 
the  work  of  such  men  as  Flinders  I'etrie,  Gas- 
ton Maspero  and  Howard  Carter  in  Egypt,  Sir 
Henry  Rawlinson  in  Persia  and  Babylonia, 
Austin  Henry  Layard  in  Assyria,  Campbell 
Thomson  in  Mesopotamia,  Heinrich  Schliemann 
in  Troy  and  Mycenae  and  Sir  Arthur  Evans  at 
Knossus. 


Reviewed   bv  L.   M.    Field 

Int   Bk   R   pl46  Ja  '24   430w 

"Mr.  Masters  in  dealing  with  his  subject  adds 
to  the  learning  of  a  scholar  the  enthusiasm  of 
a  schoolboy.  The  combination  has  the  great 
advantage  that  the  reader  is  carried  breathlessly 
on  from  page  to  page.  It  has  also  the  draw- 
back of  entailing  a  certain  amount  of  repetition 
and  diffuseness." 

-1 New  Statesman   22:sup28  O  13   '23  210w 

"Notwithstanding  its  faults,  it  is  an  interest- 
ing, even  thrilling,  book,  and  the  author  has 
handled  his  material  deftly,  so  as  to  make  a 
fairly  comprehensive  story." 

H NY   Times   p24   N   25   '23   350w 

MASTERS,    EDGAR    LEE.    Nuptial    flight.    376p 

$2.50  Boni  &  Liveright 

23-12745 

The  story  deals  with  the  fate  of  three  genera- 
tions of  a  family,  which  had  its  beginning  in 
wholesomeness,  thrift,  and  the  genuine  union 
of  two  congenial  souls.  Things  began  to  go  less 
well  for  William  and  Nancy  Houghton's  brood 
of  five,  in  spite  of  their  prosperity  and  flawless 
home  atmosphere.  Wrong  mating  wrecked  the 
lives  of  Walter  Scott  Houghton  and  his  wife 
Fanny,  turning  him  into  a  bewildered  muddler 
and  her  into  a  vixen.  Of  their  three  beautiful 
and  gifted  children  only  the  youngest,  Bertram, 
remained  the  master  of  his  fate,  being  too  cold 
and  shrewd  to  be  betrayed  by  any  heart  hun- 
ger. Both  Alfred,  the  musical  genius  and 
chaste  soul,  who  falls  prey  to  a  designing  woman 
and  Elaine,  whose  beauty  wins  her  a  rich 
husband,  meet  with  disaster.  May  they  grow 
whole  again  under  the  protection  and  sanity  of 
Grandfather   William    and   Grandmother   Nancy. 


Boston   Transcript   p4   O   20   '23    780w 
"Mr.   Masters  chose  a  subject  with   which  he 
is    temperamentally    unfitted    to    deal;    and    that 
IS  the  tragedy  of  error  which  he  did  not  intend 
to  produce."    G.   W.   J. 

--Greensboro   (N.C.)   Dally  News  plO  S  30 

23   900w 

"It  is  better  than  most  of  his  later  verse    yet 

it   leaves   the   old  complaint   unsatisfied:    it  'does 

not   equal   'Spoon   River.'   It  is  less  human;   the 


characters  give  the  impression  of  being  parts  of 
a  mechanism  or  examples  to  prove  an  argu- 
..lent."    Malcolm   Cowley 

H Lit  R  p61  S  22  '23  700w 

"This  book  is  Mr.  Master.s's  most  considerable 
performance  since  the  'Spoon  River  Anthology' 
and  places  him.  in  that  shabby  but  useful 
phrase,  m  the  front  rank  of  American  novelists 
It  IS  a  work  as  deep,  as  rich,  as  concrete  as 
that  Ilhnois  soil  which  Mr.  Masters's  pioneers 
went  forth  to  till."   L.  L. 

+   Nation  117:270  S  12  '23  880w 

"If  our  divorce  procedure  is  iniquitous  and  ab- 
surd, as  perhaps  it  is,  the  public  cannot  be 
induced  to  reform  it  by  a  novel  so  incoherent 
that  Its  characters  seem  to  need  a  lunacy  com- 
mission rather  than  a  court  of  domestic  rela- 
tions." 

—  NY  Times  p26  Ag  26  '23  550w 
Reviewed  by  Will   Cuppy 

—  NY  Tribune  p23  S  9  '23  1700w 

■^A^T^"^^'  EDGAR  LEE.     Skeeters  Kirby.  394p 
$2    Macmillan 

23-4003 
An  autobiographical  novel  in  which  Skeeters 
Knby,  Mitch  Miller's  boyhood  companion,  tells 
the  story  of  his  life  from  childhood  to  the  age 
ot  thirty-three.  He  is  a  creature  of  circum- 
stance, sensitive  and  impressionable,  never  sure 
of  his  goal.  To  please  his  father  and  against 
ins  own  inclinations,  he  studies  law  and  wins  a 
fair  success  tho  at  the  expense  of  some  shady 
dealing.  He  has  a  series  of  love  affairs  and  an 
unfortunate  marriage  ending  in  divorce.  At  the 
close  of  the  book  it  is  the  author's  assertion 
rather  than  any  conviction  on  the  part  of  the 
reader,  that  Skeeters  has  come  to  self- 
consciousness  and  knowledge. 


Dial   75:98  Jl  '23  40w 

Reviewed  by  E.   L.  Pearson 

Ind   110:195  Mr  17  '23   120w 

"The  picture  which  Mr.  Masters  gives  of  con- 
temporary American  life  is  hard  and  unlovely 
and  a  little  bitter,  hut  undeniably  powerful. 
And  its  power  derives  almost  exclusively  from 
the  author's  uncompromising  sincerity  and  con- 
viction rather  than  from  his  creative  abilities 
as   an   artist." 

-f   Int    Bk    R   p52  Ap  '23  300w 

Reviewed  by  J.  J.  Smertenko 

Lit    R    p875    Ag    4    '23    900w 

"The  novel  suggests  a  too  recently  overturned 
puritan  conscience  in  its  sentimental  apology 
for  sensuality,  but  it  at  least  reconstructs,  in 
a  manner  that  should  gratify  old  New  England, 
the  faith  that  human  life  is  a  pilgrimage  on- 
ward from  depths  to  height.s,  sloughing  off  false- 
hoods b>"  the  way  and  gradually  assuming  a  pure 
radiance  of  reality.  It  is,  however,  reality  with 
a   distinction."     ,1:    W.    Crawford 

Nation    116:473  Ap   18   '23   800w 

"Skeeteis  Kirby  assuredly  is  both  real  and 
interesting,  distinctly  human  both  in  his  virtues 
and  in  his  shortcomings.  The  entire  book, 
moreover,  is  decidedly  entertaining;  it  is  writ- 
ten with  a  trained  and  capable  hand,  and  gives 
one  illuminating  glimpses  of  certain  aspects  of 
life  in  Chicago  and  in  the  smaller  Middle  West- 
ern towns.  Not  the  least  valuable  part  of  the 
novel  are  the  comments  which  crop  up  from 
time  to  time  on  significant  phases  of  modern 
life — on  love,  on  the  law,  on  militarism,  on 
political  ambition." 

+   N   Y  Times  pl4  Mr  4  "23  750w 

"As  a  study  of  a  man  in  his  environment  and 
his  read  ion  to  his  times  'Skeeters  Kirl)y*  has 
merits  that  raise  it  above  the  novels  of  this 
Itind  that  have  been  published  in  America  the 
last   five  years."     Harrv  Hansen 

+    N    Y   Tribune  p20  My  13  '23   900w 

"It  is  the  strength  of  this  book,  of  those  200 
pages  lietween  the  opening  and  the  closing,  that 
the  sense  of  fiction  is  completely  lost.  Masters 
has  contrived  a  reality,  an  honesty  and  a  speed 
of  development  that  hold  one  like  the  oral  tell- 
ing of  great  adventure.  Then,  one  by  one,  his 
parts  drop  away  until,  the  front  of  his  structure 
gone,    one    looks    within    and    sees    a    score    of 


346 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


MASTERS,   E.   L. — Continues 

dummy  men  and  women,  all  worn  like  rag  dolls 
with  the  stuffing-  breaking  out,  lopsided,  mere 
badly  painted  things.  The  book  is  then  the 
pity  of  pities."  L:  Weitzenkorn 

H NY   World  p7e  Mr  4  '23   600w 

"Masters  is  taking  deflniteness  and  character 
of  individual  manner;  and  as  we  grow  to  under- 
stand the  manner,  we  find  it  ruggedly  simple 
and  agreeably  clear.  Masters  is  putting  us  next 
to  American  types,  and  doing  it  in  a  way  that 
makes  us  feel  old  friends  with  him.  His  talking 
soothes  without  being  dull;  and  looking  back, 
we  find  he  has  said  a  lot  worth  thinking  over." 
B.  W.  N. 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7e  Mr  18  '23  780w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:414  Jl  '23 

MATHER,    FRANK    JEWETT,    jr.      History    of 
Italian   painting.      495p  il   $3.50   Holt 

759.5     Painting,     Italian  23-10706 

Professor  Mather  calls  this  a  book  for  begin- 
ners but  its  interest  will  not  be  confined  to  be- 
ginners. Italian  painters  and  their  paintings, 
from  Giotto  to  Domenichino,  are  -made  human- 
ly interesting  and  understandable  in  a  book 
suited  to  the  traveller  and  private  student  as 
well  as  to  the  classroom.  The  descriptions  and 
analjses    really    illuminate    their    subjects. 


Mr.  Mathews,  though  calling  his  book  one  for 
young  people,  has  written  that  which  will  ap- 
peal to  young  people  of  all  ages." — N  Y  Times 


Booklist    20:90   D    '23 

"The  book  is  a  scholarly  piece  of  work,  es- 
pecially because  Professor  Mather  so  joyously 
rides  his  prejudices,  regardless  of  pedestrian 
preferences  and  principles.  .  .  The  illustrations 
are  sufftciently  good,  as  reference,  and  the 
style  is  charming  throughout.'.' 

-f   Boston    Transcript   p4   Ag   18   '23  320w 

"Professor  Mather's  book  is  criticism  in  the 
constructive  sense  of  the  word,  founded  on  an 
estimate  of  personal  acquaintance  with  che 
works  of  the  artists  and  a  really  sane  independ- 
ence of  judgment.  Students  who  may  find  the 
works  of  Crowe  and  Cavalcaselle  and  Berenson 
somewhat  difficult  reading  will  welcome  Pro- 
fessor Mather's  most  helpful  and  illuminating 
analyses,  which  are  the  ripe  fruits  of  a  sym- 
pathetic appreciation  of  the  artists  as  well  as 
of  a  vital  understanding  of  the  times  in  which 
they  lived  and  labored."  Temple  Scott 
-f   Nation    U7:sup408   O   10   '23   400w 

"We  must  credit  Mr.  Mather  with  an  exten- 
sive knowledge  of  externals,  and  a  warm  de- 
sire to  tell  his  story  in  a  rapid  and  readable 
mannei-.  He  is,  however,  no  aesthetician;  and 
in  the  last  analysis  seldom  arrives  at  funda- 
mental valuations.  He  interprets  pictures  as 
if  they  were  divine  illustrations,  and  his  opin- 
ions on  composition  are  academic  and  uncon- 
vincing. .  .  He  has  lived  so  long  in  the  .shad- 
ow of  the  great  past,  and  has  surrendered  his 
initiative  so  undeservedly  to  Renaissance  for- 
malism, that  he  is  imperially  oblivious  of  the 
demands  and  expectations  of  the  younger  gen- 
oiation."      T:    Craven 

h   New    Repub    36:233    O    24    '23    1750w 

MATHEWS,  FERDINAND  SCHUYLER.  Book 
of  wild  (lowers  for  young  people.  397p  il  $3 
Putnam 

716.2    Flowers  23-5285 

"This  book  contains  fourteen  chapters.  The 
author  follows  the  advent  of  the  wild  flowers 
throughout  the  United  States  from  April  to 
September.  From  trillium  and  its  early  spring 
companion,  the  skunk  cabbage,  to  the  mountain 
sandwort  which  opens  its  eyes  6,290  feet  above 
tidewater  as  late  as  September,  the  habitat, 
characteristics  and  'reason  for  being'  of  326 
varieties  of  flowering  plants  are  described.  A 
general  summary  is  given  of  the  changing 
physical  aspect  of  the  earth's  surface  from  the 
ice  age  to  the  present  time  with  its  inevitable 
conditioning  of  both  flora  and  fauna:  also  much 
more  than  a  mere  outline  of  insectology.  One 
hundred  and  sixty  black-and-white  illustrations 
and  thirty-two  in  color  accompany  the  text,  and 


Booklist  19:256  My  '23 
Boston   Transcript  p4  Ag  11  '23  420w 
Reviewed   by   A.   D.   Douglas 

Int   Bk   R  p44  My  '23  300w 
"  "The   Book   of  Wild   Flowers'    is  as   enthusi- 
astically human  as  it  is  informative.    It  is  told 
in    unobtrusive    narrative    form    by    the    flower 
bearing  months  from  April  through  September." 
-r   Lit    R   p774   Je   16   '23   140w 
"Botany  is  but  one  of  several  topics  success- 
fully   treated    by    the    author    in    this    excellent 
compilation." 

+  N   Y  Times  p23  Mr  18  '23  280w 
N   Y  World  p9e  Mr  18  '23   60w 
Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui  28:286  Je  "23 
"It    is   a    veiy    pleasant   excursion    afield    with 
a  seasoned  and  gentle  naturalist."     M.   S.  J. 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  8  '23  300w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:161  Je  '23 

MATHIESON,   WILLIAM    LAW.   English  church 
2    reform,    1815-1840.    ISOp    $3.50    (10s    6d)    Long- 
mans 

283  Church  of  England 
"During  the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury the  Church  of  England  underwent  some- 
thing like  a  revolution  in  its  administrative  and 
financial  organization.  The  steps  by  which 
dioceses  were  divided  and  new  dioceses 
formed;  episcopal  and  Cathedral  revenues 
reduced  and  redistributed;  the  permanent 
Ecclesiastical  Commissioners  instituted,  and 
other  material  reforms  carried  out  have 
proved  a  less  tempting  subject  of  investigation 
than  the  spiritual  and  intellectual  movements 
that  were  at  the  same  time  changing  the  char- 
acter of  the  established  religion.  Dr.  Mathie- 
son,  therefore  claims  to  fill  a  gap  by  this  care- 
ful study  of  measures  and  statistics,  some  of 
which  have  eluded  the  notice  of  earlier  Church 
historians." — The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  D  13 
'23 


"Dr.  Mathieson  is  unusually  fortunate  in  his 
subject.  He  is  very  well-read  in  the  social 
and  economic  documents,  as  he  showed  in  his 
earlier  book,  England  in  Transition,  and  he  is 
a  satisfactorily  exact  writer,  standing  out  in 
this  respect  among  the  crowd  of  people  who 
in  recent  years  have  dealt  with  one  aspect  or 
another  of  a  great  period.  Indeed,  with  a  greater 
power  of  narrative  to  supplement  his  scholar- 
ship and  judgment,  his  place  among  the  histori- 
ans of  the  industrial  revolution  might  be  a 
place  a(  honour." 

H New  Statesman   22:124  N  5  '23   160w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p882  D  13 
23   lOOw 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p891  D  20 
23  2250w 

MATTHEWS,  BRANDER.  Playwrights  on  play- 
making,  and  other  studies  of  the  stage.  315p 
$2   Scribner 

809.2   Drama.     Theater  23-13499 

The  professor  of  dramatic  literature  in  Col- 
umbia university  writes  these  essays  on  drama, 
the  stage  and  the  art  of  dramatic  criticism  in 
the  conviction  of  his  first  theorem,  that 
"drama  is  an  art,  the  laws  of  which  (like  those 
of  all  the  other  arts)  are  unchanging  through 
the  ages,  although  their  application  has  changed 
from  century  to  century  and  from  coimtry  to 
country."  (Contents:  Playwrights  on  playmak- 
ing;  Undramatic  criticism;  Old  plays  and  new 
playgoers;  Tragedies  with  happy  endings;  On 
the  advantage  of  having  a  pattern;  Did  Shaks- 
pere  write  plays  to  fit  his  actors?  Strange 
Shaksperian  performances:  Thackeray  and  the 
theater;  Mark  Twain  and  the  theater;  Henry 
James  and  the  theater;  Stage  huinor;  The  "old 
comedies";  The  organization  of  the  theater; 
Memories  of  actors. 


Booklist  20:93  D  '23 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


347 


"The  book  may  most  justly  be  regarded  as  a 
sort  of  suffix  to  its  many  predecessors;  and  it 
will  be  most  appreciated  by  readers  who,  be- 
cause of  their  familiarity  with  Mr.  Mat- 
thew's biographies  of  Moli^re  and  Shakespeare, 
and  his  several  volumes  of  collected  essays  on 
the  drama,  have  already  become  mentally 
habituated  to  his  theory  of  the  theater." 
Clayton  Hamilton 

-I Int  Bk  R  p44  N  '23  SOOOw 

Reviewed  by  H.  J.  Mankiewicz 

N  Y  Times  plO  N  25  '23  150w 
"The  fourteen  essays  here  collected  are  all 
of  interest  to  any  one  who  is  at  all  stage  struck, 
though  they  prove  no  more,  critically,  than 
that  those  who  disagree  with  the  author  are 
likely   to  be  of  different  mind."   Will   Cuppy 

-I NY  Tribune  p21  O  21  '23  1800w 

Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:542  D  '23 
"He  writes  with  the  ease  that  a  long  ex- 
perience gives,  and  though  he  sometimes  tilts 
at  windmills,  as  in  the  second  essay,  he  is  al- 
ways interesting,  sensible  and  humorous."  Frank 
Kendon 

H Spec  131:848  D  1  '23  900w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p6S5  O  18 
'23   1050W 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:506  D  '23 

MATTHEWS,    WILLIAM    HENRY.     Mazes   and 
labyrinths;  a  general  account  of  their  history 
and  developments.   254p   il  $5    (18s.)    Longmans 
571.95      Mazes.      Labyrinths  22-24934 

The  object  of  the  book  is  to  treat  the  subject 
from  a  general  and  not  a  purely  archeological, 
horticultural,  mathematical,  or  artistic  point  of 
view;  to  set  forth  as  readably  as  may  be,  an 
account  of  the  various  devices  in  which  the 
labyrinth-idea  has  been  embodied,  to  indicate 
where  examples  may  be  found,  to  give  some 
notion  of  the  speculatioila  which  have  been 
made  regarding  their  origins,  and  to  consider 
the  possibilities  of  the  idea  from  the  point  of 
view  of  amusement  and  recreation.  After  de- 
scribing the  labyrinths  of  Egypt  and  Crete,  as 
the  earliest  of  which  mention  is  made  by  the 
classic  writers,  and  other  labyrinths  of  anti- 
quity, it  considers  labyrinthine  designs  used  for 
purposes  of  ornament  or  symbolism  in  later 
classic  art  and  as  adopted  and  developed  by  tlie 
Christian  church  in  the  Middle  ages.  Their 
uses  as  a  medium  of  horticultural  embellish- 
ment are  also  noted  and  the  mathematical 
principles  are  examined  which  imderlie  their 
construction  and  solution.  Bibliographical  ap- 
pendix,  index. 


"He  has  prepared  fascinating  material,  which 
is  made  even  more  attractive  by  the  multiplic- 
ity and  variety  of  his  illustrations." 

-1-   Boston   Transcript   p4  F   21   '23   260w 

Reviewed  bv   Avmar  Embury,   2d 
Lit   R   p583  Ap  7   "23   050w 

"The  best  part  of  the  hook  is  the  collection 
from  various  sources  of  illustrations  of  various 
types  of  mazes.  Many  of  these  have  been  de- 
stroyed in  modern  times,  and  this  book  may 
serve  a  useful  purpose  in  directing  attention  to 
their  interest,  and  may  tend  towards  the  preser- 
vation of  those  which  survive  to  our  day." 
-f   Nature  111:321   Mr  10  '23  200w 

""\Vhat  is  told  in  this  very  readable  and  in- 
structive volume  will  most  assviredly  hold  a  high 
place  in  the  complete  literature  of  a  most  fas- 
cinating and  heretofore  little  understood  subject. 
Mr.  Matthews  has  undertaken  a  unique  and  an 
arduous  work,  and  he  has  done  it  extremely 
well." 

-f   N   Y   Times  pl3   D   24   '22   1950w 

Reviewed   bv   Will  Cuppy 

N    Y    Tribune   p24   Je   10   '23    ir)00w 

Reviewed    bv   \^^    K.    G.    Fisher 

Sat    H   134:795   N   25   '22   120w 

"Certainly  anyone  who  may  contemplate  con- 
structing a  labyrinth  or  maze  of  any  kind  or 
who  desires  to  know  anything  about  either  will 
delight  in  Mr.  Matthews's  well-illustrated  book. 


where  he  will  incidentally  wander  Into  many 
entertaining  bypaths  of  mythology,  legend  and 
history." 

+  Spec  130:152  Ja  27   '23  200w 
"He  has  worked  with  keenness,  and  observed 
well  what   has   come   under   his   own   notice;   he 
writes  pleasantly,  even  facetiously  at  times,  and 
his   book   is   copiously  illustrated." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p40    Ja 
18    '23    llOOw 

MAUGHAM,  WILLIAM  SOMERSET.  East  of 
Suez;  a  play  in  seven  scenes.  138p  $1.25 
Doran   [3s  6d  Heinemann] 

822  22-23811 

A  drama  of  East  and  West,  the  action  of 
which  takes  place  in  Peking.  The  marriage  of 
a  young  English  merchant,  Harry  Anderson,  to 
a  beautiful  Eurasian  girl  has  resulted  in  social 
ostracism  and,  for  Daisy,  boredom  as  well.  She 
conspires  to  reclaim  an  old  lover,  George  Con- 
way, who  is  also  her  husband's  friend.  When 
George  has  satisfied  himself  of  the  depth  of 
her  deceit  and  intrigue  he  shoots  himself  and 
she  swallows  poison. 


The  play   reads   well,    and   color   and   atmos- 
phere   are   carefully   worked   out." 
-f   Booklist    19:184    Mr    '23 
"Mr.   Maugham   contrives   dramatic   situations 
and    then    flats    them    by    crude    or    feeble    dia- 
logue." 

—  Dial    74:315    Mr   '23   90w 

"One  feels  that  the  situation  is  improbable, 
though  not  impossible.  However,  it  makes  a 
decidedly  intriguing  and  clever  play,  and  vast- 
ly   good    reading." 

H Springfd     Republican     p7a     Ja     21     '23 

180w 

MAURICE,    MICHAEL.      Not   in   our   stars.    288p 

$2   Lippincott   [7s  6d   Unwin] 

"In  the  early  part  of  this  tale  the  earth  comes 
into  collision  with  a  gigantic  meteorite,  which 
upsets  its  normal  movements  and  in  some  ob- 
scure fashion  disarranges  the  orderly  progress 
of  Time.  The  hero  discovers  on  awakening 
that  he  had  jumped  forward  something  like  a 
year  in  his  own  life  without  having  lived 
through  the  interval.  This  unlived  portion  of 
his  life  includes  his  marriage  and  its  failure  af- 
ter a  few  months  of  happiness,  a  fatal  quarrel 
with  the  man  who  he  thinks  has  supplanted 
him,  and  his  arrest,  trial,  and  condemnation  for 
murder.  .  .  From  the  point  of  awakening  the 
victim  of  this  queer  mishap  begins  to  move 
backward  throiigh  the  period  which  he  has 
missed,  until  he  leaches  his  point  of  departure 
just  before  making  his  proposal  of  marriage. 
There  he  returns  to  the  normal,  with  the  com- 
plication that  he  has  a  foreknowledge  of  what 
the  result  will  be  if  he  ventures  to  marry." — 
The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup 

"  'Not  In  Our  Stars'  is  of  decided  dramatic 
quality,  but  the  manner  of  its  telling  is  not 
quite  the  equal  of  its  content." 

H Boston    Transcript   p4   O   10   '23   260w 

"Altogether,  it  seems  to  this  reviewer  that  of 
the  many  books  now  dealing  with  the  psychic, 
the  occult,  with  neuroses  and  psychoses  this  is 
one  of  the  weakest." 

—  Greensboro   (N.C.)    Daily   News  plO  D  2 
'23    420w 

"The  author  of  this  fantasia  is  not  entire- 
ly successful  in  creating  the  necessary  air  of 
plausibility  to  carry  it  off,  but  he  does  it  well 
enough  to  be  mildly  interesting,  as  his  central 
conception  is  a  good  one.  The  working  out  of 
the  tale  is  mieven,  parts  of  it  being  good  but 
others  clumsily  managed,  so  that  the  requisite 
sense  of  possibility  in  the  illusion  is  not  always 
maintained." 

[-   Lit   R  pll2  O  6  '23  280w 

"The  under1>'ing  conception  is  novel  rather 
than  convincing.  It  leaves  us  bewildered  and 
skeptical,  yet  we  read  on.  held  in  spite  of  our- 
selves. For  it  stimulates  the  deductive  powers 
.-and  satisfies  the  imiversal  craving  for  some- 
thing strange  and  different  and  new." 
H NY  Times  pl5  S  9  '23  330w 


348 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


MAURICE,    MICHAEL — Continued 

"  'Not  In  Our  Stars'  is  not  a  shocker,  but 
genuinely  a  novel,  in  the  sense  that  its  real 
subject  is  not  the  mere  sensationalism  of  the 
machinery  used,  but  normal  human  experience, 
however  extended  into  a  setting  of  bizarre  cir- 
cumstances." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p341   My 
17   '23   320w 

MAVOR,    JAMES.    My    windows    on    the    street 
of  the  world.  2v  400;452p  $12  Dutton  [36s  Dent] 

B  or  92 
"Dr.  James  Mavor  of  Toronto  was  head  of  the 
economics  department  of  that  university  until 
the  other  day;  but  it  is  not  by  any  means 
through  Canadian  windows  alone  that  he  has  ob- 
served the  movement  of  affairs.  He  has  been  an 
untiring  traveller,  for  both  professional  and  holi- 
day purposes,  and  has  never  been  anywhere 
without  noting  almost  everything  and  meeting 
the  men  and  women  who  get  the  interesting 
things  done.  In  London  and  many  cities  abroad, 
he  is  found  moving  among  the  reformers  and 
revolutionists  of  every  shade,  particularly  the 
Russians.  He  was  intimate  with  Kropotkin  and 
with  Stepniak,  and  he  gives  an  entirely  objec- 
tive picture  of  the  Tolstoy  household.  The  early 
days  of  the  Fabian  Society  and  of  Toynbee  Hall, 
the  literary  and  social  groups  that  enjoyed 
themselves  in  the  world  that  began  so  markedly 
to  change  with  the  Boer  War,  the  Doukhobor 
emigrants,  the  makers  of  the  Canadian  North- 
west. Goldwin  Smith  and  John  Morley — these 
and  hundreds  more  have  their  places  in  the 
moving  shadow  show  called  up  in  memory  by 
the  veteran  Scotch-Canadian  professor." — New 
Statesman 


"Vividly  written  and  well  illustrated  volumes. 
The  work  forms  a  veritable  mosaic  of  reminis- 
cence such  as,  while  revealing  no  particular 
structural  pattern,  ranges  over  an  extraordi- 
narily wide  field,  and  though  always  retaining 
its  character  as  autobiography,  is  everywhere 
alive  with  shrewd  estimates  of  men  and  events." 
Edmund  Noble 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p2  D  15  '23  2050w 
"He  is  usually  shrewd  and  not  often  unkindly — 
except   when    he   comes   up   against   people    who 
believe   in   the   public   ownership    and   control   of 
communal  services." 

H New   Statesman    22:190   N   17   '23   400w 

N  Y  World  p7e  N  25  '23  660w 
"The  author  possesses  a  neat  gift  of  thumb- 
nail portraiture,  and  in  certain  cases,  as  of 
Disraeli,  William  Morris,  and  Tolstoy,  gives 
us  character-sketches  of  great  interest  and 
value." 

+  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p685  O  18 
'23   1400w 

MAXWELL,    SIR    HERBERT     EUSTACE,    bart. 

Memories  of  the  months:  seventh  series.   260p 
il  $3.75   Longmans   [10s   6d  E.   Arnold] 

590.4  Nature 
"Once  more  Sir  Herbert  Maxwell  puts  forth  a 
collection  of  notes  and  observations  the  seventh 
in  a  series  which  has  appeared  at  intervals  since 
1897.  We  have  again  a  chronicle — not  too 
slavishly  tied  to  the  framework  of  the  monthly 
calendar — mainly  concerned  with  botanic  and 
zoologic  studies,  but  often  deviating  into  more 
various  fields  of  human  interest.  Notes  on  birds, 
beasts  and  fi.shes,  with  a  good  deal  of  garden- 
lore,  leave  room  for  excursions  in  the  byways 
of  history,  for  a  little  occasional  philosophy  and 
the  use  of  a  restrained  sense  of  humour.  Per- 
sonal reminiscence  and  books  are  but  slightly 
drawn  upon.  In  all  there  is  a  pleasant  security 
due  to  practice,  both  in  letters  and  in  the 
world."— The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup 


MAXWELL,     WILLIAM      BABINGTON.     Day's 

journey.   329p  $2  Doubleday 

23-26437 

The  story  hsiS  an  unusual  and  engaging  theme, 
the  lifelong  friendship  of  two  men.  Carrington 
Bird  and  Wilfred  Heber  are  introduced  to  the 
reader  as  two  old  cronies,  spending  their  sum- 
mer at  their  favorite  Beach  End,  playing  golf 
badly,  quarreling  over  their  game  and  making 
themselves  nuisances  in  the  club.  Then  the 
scene  shifts  back  to  their  boyhood  days  in 
Hampshire  and  the  drama  of  their  friend.ship 
unfolds  thru  its  successive  stages — separation 
and  return,  a  long,  period  of  bachelorhood,  be- 
lated and  unsuccessful  experiences  with  mar- 
riage, from  which  they  are  both  freed  to  live 
together  again  in  their  mellower  age.  Thru  ^U 
their  quarrels  and  fallings-out  they  are  becom- 
ing more  and  more  indispensable  to  each  other. 
"Some  happy  days  before  us  yet,  old  boy,"  says 
Birdie  when  he  has  successfully  nursed  Willy 
thru  a  serious  illness. 


"Old  readers  will  not  need  to  be  told  that 
the  method  is  easy  and  entertaining  and  the 
observation    direct    and   close." 

+   The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p679  O  26 
'22  1050w 


Booklist  19:320  Jl  '23 

"No  one  writing  in  English  at  the  present 
moment  approaches  Mr.  Maxwell  in  his  ability 
to  pluck  the  heart  out  of  the  mystery  of  hu- 
man life  for  story-telling  purposes.  .  .  Each 
view  of  [these  two  men]  apart  or  together  is 
a  little  picture  of  human  nature,  a  graphic 
representation  of  what  men  and  women  are  at 
their  best  and  their  worst."     E.  F.  Edgett 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  19  '23  1350w 
Cleveland  p42  Je  '23 
"Such  is  the  craftsmanship  of  the  writer  that 
the  miracle  has  been  wrought  without  altering 
one  salient  feature  of  the  characters;  at  the 
end  of  the  book  we  have  before  us  the  same 
pair  of  dreary  old  goofs  that  dismayed  us  at 
the  beginning.  Only  we  understand,  now.  We 
have  had  a  revealing  glimpse  into  their  hearts, 
and  we  can  never  again  find  them  dreary,  or 
even  ridiculous,  for  we  see  them  through  misty 
eyes."   G.   W.   J. 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  pl9  Jl  29 
•23   600w 
Reviewed    bv    H.   W.    Boynton 

Ind    110:405   Je   23   '23   460w 
Reviewed  by  I:  Anderson 

Int  Bk  R  p40  Jl  '23  520w 
Reviewed   by   H.    W.    Boynton 

Lit  R  p799  Je  30  '23  lOOOw 
"There  is  simple  beauty  in  the  author's  prose 
and     genuine     art     in     the     portraiture     of     his 
heroes." 

+   Nation    117:331    S    26    '23    80w 

New    Repub    35:129   Je   27   '23   300w 
"The  novel  is  one  that  holds  the  interest  from 
beginning   to    end,    because    it    is    finely   written 
with    a    deal    of    narrative    charm    and    acumen 
where  life  is  concerned." 

+  N  Y  Times  p9  My  20  '23  700w 
"It  is  a  satisfactory  book.  Reliable,  and 
amusing,  and  not  always  trite.  The  neatness 
of  it  about  the  edges  makes  it  a  good  deal 
better  than  most  of  its  kind.  Plenty  of  readers 
will  find  it  delightful."  Lillian  Gilkes 

-h  N  Y  Tribune  p20  Je  17  '23  540w 
"As  we  look  back  upon  the  story  complete, 
we  find  it  a  inasterpiece  in  its  own  line.  It  is 
not  a  work  to  achieve  a  noisy  fame;  something 
better  should  await  it  in  the  enduring  memory 
of  every  reader  who  catches  in  his  mind's  ear 
the  perfection  of  its  dominant  note."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

+   N    Y    World    p8e   My   13   '23   llOOw 
Outlook   134:192  Je  13   '23   60w 
Spec   131:806   N   24   '23   130w 
"Not  much  of  a  story,  this,  and  told  in  terms 
of  the  lowest  common  denominator,  yet  it  man- 
ages  to  make   itself   into   a   book   of   more   than 
ordinary     significance.      Mr.      Maxwell      has      so 
thoroughly   comprehend    his   characters    that   he 
has   been   able   to  make   them   in   all   their  com- 
monplaceness,   appear  not  commonplace  as  they 
seem    to   their  acquaintances,    but   touched  with 
a    certain    glamor    as    symbols    of    human    des- 
tiny." 

+  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  Jl   1   '23   420w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


349 


"As  an  unsentimental   study  of  men's   friend- 
ship, this  is  a  shrewd  and  clever  piece  of  work." 
+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p688    O 
18  '23  680w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:414   Jl  '23 

MAYER,    EDWIN    JUSTUS.      A    preface    to   life. 

253p   $2.50   Boni   &   Liveright 

B  or   92  23-14501 

A  boolv  of  franliest  self-revelation  in  which  a 
young  man,  a  would-be  poet,  examines  himself 
from  liis  fifteenth  to  his  twenty-fifth  year — 
his  ideas,  his  beliefs,  his  literary  tastes,  his 
aspirations,  searching  for  the  secret  of  his  life 
and  in  the  end  passing  judgment  upon  himself. 
He  was  an  underwear  salesman,  then  stock 
broker,  journalist,  movie  press-agent,  but 
whatever  his  outward  circumstance  it  is  the 
adventures  of  his  soul  that  interest  him.  There 
is  the  constant  struggle  between  the  necessity 
of  earning  his  bread  and  the  realization  of  him- 
self and  his  ideal,  and  thru  all  the  burning  de- 
sire  to   be   a  poet. 


"A  rather  remarkable  book.  It  deserves  atten- 
tion alike  for  its  subject  matter  and  for  the 
literary  excellence  with  which  Mr.  Mayer  has 
handled  his  vital  theme."  J.  F.  S. 

4-   Boston  Transcript  p4  N  10  '23  520w 

"Only  at  very  rare  intervals  has  it  been  given 
to  me  to  read  a  book  written  with  such  pas- 
sion and  such  sincerity  as  Mr.  Mayer's  volume. 
Its  carrying  power  and  its  verve  are  so  intense 
that  one  lays  down  the  book  with  the  feeling 
that  the  whole  2G0  pages  have  been  written 
at  a  single  sitting:  an  outburst  of  an  over- 
whelmed soul.  .  .  'A  Preface  to  Life'  is  poignant, 
significant,  powerful.  It  is  not  an  autobiog- 
raphy. It  is  a  challenge  to  life."  Konrad 
Bercovici 

+    Lit    R    pl25    O    13   "23    950w 

"  'A  Preface  to  Life'  is  the  intellectual  auto- 
biography of  a  chaotic  young  man  brilliantly, 
If  not  always  lucidly,  engaged  with  his  chaos. 
It  is  the  sort  of  book  which,  I  fancy,  every 
first-rate  writer  has  written  and  tossed  into 
the  waste-basket,  but  the  sort  of  book  which 
only  a  first-rate  writer  could  write.  Since  it  is 
the  first  one  of  its  kind  which  has  seen  the 
light,  it  is  welcome  as  a  record  of  what  a  writer 
thinks  of  himself.  But  now  we  want  what  is 
more  important — what  he  thinks  of  the  world, 
his  world,  his  world  in  terms  of  our  own  ex- 
perience."      Sampson    Raphaelson 

H Nation    117:691   D   12   '23    630w 

"Though  three-fourths  of  the  book  is  devoted 
to  revealing  the  author's  inner  life,  it  is  dif- 
ficult to  find  much  that  is  either  original  or 
profound,  much  that  exhibits  a  mature  or  well- 
rounded  point  of  view  or  a  depth  of  thought 
or  emotion  conspicuously  beyond  the  average. 
Yet  as  an  artist  he  shows  signs  of  a  faculty  for 
expression  that  may  take  him  far  provided 
that  he  preserves  his  .-^ense  of  the  beautiful 
and  exchanges  a  little  of  his  adolescent  interest 
in  himself  for  a  more  wholesome  interest  in 
the   world."    S.    A.   Coblentz 

—  -f  N  Y  Times  p6  O  28  '23  950w 
"  'A  Preface  to  Life'  is  an  autobiography, 
and  to  me,  with  a  taste  for  day-to-day  living, 
a  slow  one.  I  say  it  in  spite  of  the  fact  that 
its  prose,  aside  from  the  overuse  of  italics,  is 
sheerly  delightful  harmonics.  My  taste  in  auto- 
biography is  not  alone  for  what  a  man  thinks 
but  for  wliat  he  does  and  what  people  and  cir- 
cumstance do  to  him.  I  want  flesh  and  blood 
about  me  and  in  this  book  there  is  only  the 
paler  blood  of  a  soul.  .  .  Nevertheless  the  au- 
thor has  accomplished  what  he  set  out  for.  He 
has  given  a  record  of  a  poet's  thoughts  and 
attitude  and  the  effect  upon  that  poet  of  litera- 
ture in  its  highest  sense.  There  is  a  warmth 
to  Mayer,  a  pervasion  of  the  frankest  honesty 
of  exposure,  in  every  line  of  the  book.  Having 
achieved  his  object,  even  if  he  has  disappointed 
this  reviewer  and  every  reviewer  in  the  States, 
he  has,  in  spite  of  it,  written  a  successful  book. 
The  man  who  can  write  in  so  little  space  so 
much  as  this  is  a  man  who  will  some  day  throw 
life  bodily  into  the  ink  pot  and  dip  it  out  on 
the  point  of  his  pen."  L:  Weitzenkorn 
-I NY   World   plOe   O   21   *23    llOOw 


"The  reader  must  admit  the  intellectual  gifts 
of  the  writer.  He  was  once  supremely  desirous 
of  being  a  poet;  that  he  does  possess  the 
'lyrical  quality'  the  occasional  poems  included 
in  the  autobiography  testify.  That  he  possesses 
a  more  fruitful  gift  for  prose,  often  lyrical  in 
quality,  and  at  times  oriental  in  character,  is 
much  more  certain." 

+  Sprlngf'd    Republican   plO   N   7   '23   580w 

MAYNE,    ETHEL   COLBURN.      Nine  of  hearts. 

207p      $2      Harcourt       [6s   Constable] 

[23-11830] 

"It  seems  to  have  been  the  obvious  thing 
for  reviewers  to  talk  of  Miss  Mayne  in  con- 
nexion with  Katherine  Mansfield.  The  two 
writers  have  one  thing  in  common:  a  deep  in- 
sight into  the  minds  of  women  and  children. 
But  their  methods  of  working  are  totally  differ- 
ent. Katherine  Mansfield  accumulated  minutiae 
— pomts  of  light  that  lit  her  canvas  as  the 
stars  irradiate  the  frosty  winter  sky.  The  re- 
sult was  that  her  work,  to  our  mind,  resembled 
that  of  the  pointilliste  painters  who  followed 
the  first  Impressionists.  Miss  Mayne  lays  her 
'scheme'  more  deliberately;  working  threads 
into  the  warp  and  weft  with  cunning  hands: 
and  the  result  is  stories  of  exquisite  and  per- 
fect design.  She  does  not  give  high  lights  or 
splashes  of  colour,  but  purposely  quietens  all 
down  to  the  serene  silver  sweetness  which,  we 
think,  must  be  the  hue  of  her  own  personality." 
(Spec)  "The  central  character  in  each  tale  is 
a  woman;  in  some  of  them,  two  or  more  women 
hold  the  stage.  Some  of  the  plots  are  dramatic, 
some  merely  portray  the  unfolding  of  a  rare  or 
interesting  personality."    (Springf'd  Republican) 

"Exquisitely  written  and  subtle  are  the  studies 
of  feminine  character  which  make  up  'Nine  of 
Hearts.'  One  is  taken  aback  by  the  cleverness 
and  literary  excellence  of  them.  Miss  Mavne's 
work  is,  however,  distinctly  caviare  to  the  gen- 
eral. .  .  The  people  with  whom  Miss  Mayne 
deals,  are,  after  all,  a  very  small  though 
irritating,  portion  of  mankind.  Not  only  are 
they,  as  a  rule,  difficult  to  understand,  but  it 
IS  a  question  whether  they  are  worth  the  under- 
standing they  demand." 

1-   Boston    Transcript  p4   S   12   '23   360w 

Int  Bk  R  pl56  Ja  '24  360w 
"Miss  Mayne  is  a  cultivated  and  accomplished 
writer.  In  these  nine  etchings  of  feminine 
character  she  has  decided  moments — but  .  .  . 
her  situations  are  too  studied,  her  stage  is  set 
too  elaborately  for  too  little.  Her  style  prepares 
one  for  some  really  profound  subtlety  that  her 
analytical  faculty  disappoints." 

1-   Lit    R   pll4   O   6   '23   280w 

"What  distinguishes  Miss  Mayne's  work  most 
seems  to  be  an  intuitive  accuracy  in  her  under- 
standing of  feminine  psychology,  what  one  might 
almost  call  an  unoanniness  of  perception.  .  . 
Miss  Mayne  has  a  flair  for  metaphor  and  an 
easy  grace  of  style.  Her  work  has  long  been 
a  delight  to  the  discriminating  public  in  Eng- 
land." 

-I-    N   Y  Times  p8    S   30  "23   720w 

"Beyond  all  our  power  of  praise  she  has  the 
charm  of  grace.  "VVe  cannot  help  feeling  that 
her  style  has  been  brought  to  its  state  of  per- 
fection by  the  limpid  and  disciplined  spirit  of 
pity  which  Is  the  moving  power  behind  her 
work." 

+  Spec    130:594    Ap    7    '23    IBOw 

"Ethel  Colburn  Mayne  has  been  likened 
to  Katherine  Mansfield  in  her  keen  analy- 
tical ability  and  her  fine  sense  of  the 
dramatic.  This  likeness  is  to  be  found 
in  her  book  of  stories  entitled  'Nine  of 
Hearts.'  But  it  is  a  likeness  with  a  dif- 
ference. Katherine  Mansfield  saw  deeper  and 
wrote  more  simply.  Miss  Mayne  depicts  the 
subtle  shades  of  a  sensitive  character  with  as 
much  insight  and  feeling,  but  her  angle  of 
approach  is  less  direct  and  her  manner  some- 
times a  little  obscure.  Suffice  it  to  say  that 
Miss  Mayne  is  in  herself  a  close  student  of 
humanity,  if  within  a  somewhat  narrow  range 
and  a  skilful  and  individualistic  portrayer 
thereof." 

-^ Sprlngf'd    Republican    p6    O   1    '23    300w 


350 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


MEAD,  ARTHUR  RAYMOND.  Learning  and 
teaching;  psychological  foundations  of  educa- 
tional technique.  (Lippincott's  educational 
guides)      277p     $1.80     Lippincott 

150      Psychology-,    Education  23-11405 

A  textbook  in  educational  psychology,  the  aim 
of  which  is  to  apply  the  principles  of  psychology 
to  the  actual  practice  of  teaching  and  to  bring 
out  the  relation  between  learning  and  teaching. 
The  first  part  of  the  book  is  devoted  to  answer- 
ing the  question  How  do  pupils  learn?  while 
the  second  part  answers  the  question  How  may 
their  efficiency  as  learners  be  increased?  Each 
chap>:er  is  provided  with  exercises  and  refer- 
ences. 


"The  greatest  significance  of  the  text  lies  in 
the  fact  that  it  is  an  honest  attempt,  by  sim- 
plicity of  presentation  and  the  use  of  the  in- 
ductive method,  to  place  the  teaching  of  edu- 
cational psychology  on  a  sound  psychological 
basis,  and,  as  such,  it  will  find  a  place,  not 
only  in  the  classroom,  but  also  in  the  reading 
circle  and  in  the  private  library."  P.  V.  West 
-f  El  School  J   24:155  O  '23  700w 

"It  is  essentially  a  treatise  on  elementary 
psychology  for  teachers,  replete  with  appro- 
priately grouped  educational  problems.  The 
book  will  be  helpful  to  students  of  education, 
particularly  to  those  pursuing  courses  in  the 
psychology  of  elementary  or  high-school  sub- 
jects."      H.    H.    Ryan 

+  School    R   31:713  N  '23   350w 

MEATH,  REGINALD  BRABAZON,  12th  earl 
of.  Memories  of  the  nineteenth  century.  354p 
il    $7    Button    [18s    Murray] 

B    or    92  23-10321 

"Reginald,  12tli  Earl  of  Meath,  now  in  his 
eighty-second  year,  is  best  known  as  a  phi- 
lanthropist and  as  an  Imperialist  in  the  better 
sense  of  the  word.  Much  of  this  book  is  oc- 
cupied w^ith  the  record  of  the  philanthropic 
activities  of  himself  and  his  gifted  wife,  a 
daughter  of  the  11th  Earl  of  Lauderdale.  His 
actiNTties  in  these  directions  have  tended  to 
overshadow  the  diplomatic  and  other  activities 
of  his  long  and  varied  life.  Italy  in  the  'for- 
ties, Eton  in  the  'fifties,  Germany  in  the 
"sixties,  the  Foreign  Office  in  the  days  of  Pal- 
merston,  Berlin  during  the  Franco-Prussian 
war,  and  Paris  just  after  the  Commune — these, 
with  social  reminiscences  of  London,  Ireland 
and  Scotland,  make  up  a  record  which  is  a 
contribution  of  interest  as  well  as  entertain- 
ment to  the  social  history  of  the  latter  half 
of  the  nineteenth  century.  It  is  a  record  by 
a  shrewd  observer,  whose  opportunities  for 
its  study  were  such  as  fall  to  the  lot  of  few, 
of  what  may  be  called  a  vanished  civilisa- 
tion."— 'New    Statesman 


"He  is  throughout  his  life-story  exceedingly 
chatty;  is  susceptible  to  the  appeal  of  humour; 
is  gifted  with  a  remarkably  retentive  memory 
(for  he  has  never  kept  a  diary);  and  upon  the 
whole  has  produced — despite  its  frequent  lapses 
in  syntax — a  very  readable  book  of  personal 
reminiscences.  He  does  not  spare  persons  and 
thus    spoil    a    good    story."    E.    J.    C. 

-I-   Boston  Transcript  p5  Ap  25  '23   900w 

"The  quintessence  of  Victorianism — no  vice, 
no  gossip,  no  beauty;  in  their  stead  a  bustling 
benevolence.  A  chronicle  of  externals."  A.  W. 
V, 

—  New    Repub   36:160  O   3   '23   150w 

"Lord  Heath's  book  has  no  great  pretensions 
to  literary  style,  but  it  is  written  simply  and 
not  without  humour.  Throughout  it  adopts  a 
frank  tone  of  social  distinction  which  in  an- 
other ^vTiter  might  be  regarded  as  offensive 
snobbery.  But  its  frankness  is  disarming,  and 
the  tone  is  natural  to,  and  therefore  pardon- 
able in,  a  pre-war  aristocrat,  whose  order 
passes  into  history  with  the  period  of  these 
reminiscences." 

H •  New   Statesman    21:218  Je  2   '23   250w 

Reviewed  by  W.  N.  C.  Carlton 

N  Y  Tribune  p20  N  4  '23  600w 
N    Y    World   p6e   Ag  19   '23   500w 


"It  is  a  sound  instinct  that  has  induced  Lord 
Meatli  to  confine  these  reininiscences  to  the 
nineteenth  century,  for  he  is  a  glass  that  re- 
flects without  distortion  one  of  the  aspects  of 
that  century.  In  him  we  recognize  qualities 
that  were  thought  admirable  by  Victorians, 
and  will  no  doubt  be  thought  admirable  once 
more  when  posterity  turns  again  to  Tennyson. 
Throughout  these  reminiscences  he  appears 
painstaking,    moderate,    and    sensible." 

+  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p317  My 
10    '23    1700W 

MEDILL,  ARTHUR,  pseud.  See  McBride,  R.  M. 

MEIER-GRAEFE,  JULIUS  A.  Vincent  van 
Gogh;  a  biographical  study;  tr.  by  John  Hol- 
royd  Reece.     2v     11     $17.50     (63s)     Medici  soc. 

B  or  92  Van  Gogh,  Vincent 
"It  is  not  the  study  of  Vincent  van  Gogh  as 
an  artist  which  engages  the  clever  pen  of  Mr. 
Julius  Meier-Graefe,  altho  a  splendid  array  of 
illustrations  enables  one  to  follow  more  or  less 
closely  the  works  van  Gogh  produced,  but  the 
instructive  development  of  the  painter's  mad- 
ness, the  culminating  horror  of  van  Gogh's 
mental  illness,  the  dismal  minor  affairs  which 
led   up   to  the  major  tragedy." — Int  Bk  R 


"A  book  of  curious  charm,  as  idiosyncratic  as 
the  unhappy  peasant  Quixote  who  stumbles, 
lonely  and  awkward,  through  its  pages.  It  is 
not  the  usual  'artistic  brochure,'  in  spite  of  its 
appearance."  Pierson  Underwood 
-f   Bookm   57:552  Jl  '23   600w 

"Meier-Graefe  puts  down  the  facts  without 
comment,  and  leaves  us  to  draw  our  own  con- 
clusion. He  writes  as  if  he  himself  were  living 
van  Gogh's  life — his  reconstruction  of  the  catas- 
trophe at  Aries  is  brilliant,  and  is  the  only  psy- 
chological elucidation  that  I  have  seen  which 
covers  fully  the  known  facts."  J:  G.  Fletcher 
+  Freeman  7:281  My  30  '23  3250w 

"The  best  that  cfin  be  said  for  Van  Gogh  is 
this:  in  his  life-tragedy  he  furnished  a  theme 
from  which  Mr.  Julius  Meier-Graefe  has  woven 
in  wild  words  a  very  absorbing  story."  C:  de 
Kay 

-1-  Int    Bk    R  p30   Je   '23   2600w 

"Meier-Graefe's  study  is  a  unique  achieve- 
ment in  the  literature  of  biography.  With  an 
art  that  is  of  the  rarest  quality  he  has  created 
out  of  the  stuff  of  Van  Gogh's  letters  to  his 
friends  and  to  his  brother  a  living  being  who 
must  now  go  on  living  so  long  as  literature  will 
be  read."     Temple   Scott 

+   Nation  116:556  My  9  '23  1050w 

"These  two  volumes,  with  their  mass  of  il- 
lustrations, are  a  credit  to  the  printer's  art; 
only,  since  obviously  no  expense  was  spared  in 
their  preparation,  it  is  unfortunate  that  they 
contain  not  a  single  reproduction  in  color  of  van 
Gogh's  work.  As  biography,  desoite  the  vivid 
dexterity  of  the  translator,  one  feels  a  certain 
incongruity  in  the  swift,  matter-of-factness  of 
Herr  Meier-Graefe's  narrative;  for  there  are 
times  when  his  account  seems  to  reduce  van 
Gogh's    st.iture."      L:    Mumford 

_| New  Repub  35:296  Ag  8  '23  2300w 

"Julius  Meier-Graefe's  'Vincent  van  Gogh'  is 
creative  biography  in  the  rarest  sense  of  the 
word.  The  book  moves  like  a  poem,  a  highly 
intellectual  poem,  that  is  yet  vibrant  with  the 
impulses  of  life.  Beneath  the  sliding  cadences 
of  exquisite  sentences  (the  credit  for  which, 
perhaps,  should  go  to  the  translator),  the  fig- 
ure of  a  man  reveals  itself,  grows  to  more  than 
life-stature  and  eventually  stands  as  a  typiflca- 
tion  of  a  certain  art-urge."  H.  S.  Gorman 
-f   N    Y  Times   p5   Ap  22  '23  3000w 

"Here  is  an  extraordinary  biography  of  an 
extraordinary  man." 

+  Outlook  133:854  My  9  '23  llOw 

MEIKLEJOHN.     ALEXANDER.     Freedom     and 

2    the   college.    231p   $1.75   Century 

378  Education,   Higher  23-16671 

"Nine  speeches  and  papers,  the  earliest  of 
which  is  his  inaugural  address  delivered  at  Am- 
herst eleven  vears  ago.  are  included  in  the  book. 
In  the  first  essay,  To  Whom  Are  We  Respons- 
ible, Mr.  Meiklejohn  states  his  belief  in  the  ex- 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


351 


istence  of  an  absolute  truth  of  which  we  have 
as  yet  only  a  fragmentary  knowledge.  He  con- 
tends that  the  scholar  and  teacher  must  be 
judg:ed  principally  by  his  relation  to  this  truth. 
And  this  expression  of  belief  in  a  unified  ex- 
ternal truth  with  which  the  book  opens  is  the 
center  from  which  the  other  essays,  although 
all    less    abstruse,     seem     to    radiate."^— Survey 


"The  addresses  merit  reading  by  all  who 
would  understand  what,  in  Prof.  Meiklejohn's 
opinion,  we  must  do  with  and  at  our  colleges 
if  they  are  to  educate  a  generation  of  freemen. 
If  one  were  inclined  to  be  optimistic,  one  might 
say  that  here  is  probably  the  first  of  a  series 
of  books  which  will  be  written  in  the  near  fu- 
ture to  storm  the  ramparts  of  Babbittry."  Ethan 
Edloff 

-1-   Detroit   News  p23  D  9  "23  350w 
"A  positive  note  is  struck  throughout  the  book. 
Its    gospel    is    one    of    educational    idealism,    ex- 
pressed with  good  humor  and  taut  logic,  fervid 
devotion   and   ringing  courage."    W.   R.   Agard 

+  Sprlngf  d  Republican  p7a  N  11  '23  1250w 
Survey  51:416   Ja  15   '24  350w 

MELDRUM,     DAVID     STORRAR.     Rembrandt's 
^    paintings;  with  an  essay  on  his  life  and  work, 

453p  il   $25   Button    [63s   Methuen] 

759.9      Rembrandt,    Hermanzoon   van    Rijn 

"Mr.  Meldrum  confines  himself  almost  wholly 
to  the  painting  accomplishment.  To  have  dis- 
cussed his  two  thousand  or  more  drawings  and 
the  three  hundred  listed  etchings  would  have 
swelled  the  book  to  inidue  proportions.  But  the 
descriptions  of  the  more  notable  oils  (with  num- 
bered reference  to  the  illustrations),  with  praise 
or  at  least  appreciation  of  their  extraordinary 
qualities  and  careful  and  masterly  criticisms 
of  their  faults  and  exposition  of  their  merits, 
in  all  cases  indicating  the  trend  of  his  growth, 
make  an  inspiring  education  in  the  understand- 
ing of  Great  Art.  There  are  complete  indexes 
to  the  known  paintings  and  to  the  references 
in  the  text,  even  to  those  not  reproduced;  there 
Is  also  a  chronological  list  of  the  paintings  with 
attribution  of  their  present  ownership.  .  .  Of 
the  six  hundred  and  fifty  or  more  known  paint- 
ings left  by  Rembrandt  Mr.  Meldrum  has  been 
able  to  secure  photographic  reproduction  of  541." 
— Boston  Transcript 


"One  is  so  captivated  by  the  enthusiastic 
zeal  and  brilliant  cleverness  of  the  work  that 
one  reads  it  as  if  it  were  a  historical  novel  and 
forgets  slight  imperfections  of  diction.  It  may 
be  considered  as  the  most  authoritative  and,  in- 
deed, definitive  study  of  Rembrandt  as  a  man 
and  as  a  painter."   N.   H.  D. 

-f-  Boston    Transcript   p2   Ag   18   '23   2000w 

"The  author  has  lived  long  with  him,  has 
Interrogated  all  the  known  sources  of  informa- 
tion, has  thought  independently,  has  become 
intimate  with  his  subject,  and  has  written  a 
book  that  is  eloquent  not  only  of  research  but 
of  intelligent  and  sympathetic  study." 

-I-   N    Y   Times  pl6   Jl   29   '23   1800w 

"Mr.  Meldrum  has  made  a  notable  cantribu- 
tion  to  the  literature  of  Rembrandt  in  this  vol- 
ume."  H.    S. 

4-  Spec    130:1046   Je    23   '23   lOOOw 

"The  reproductions  excel  in  quantity  rather 
than  in  quality  and  some  of  his  particular  judg- 
ments seem  perverse  or  undiscerning.  But  we 
feel  throughout  that  he  has  grasped  the  peculiar 
character  of  Rembrandt's  greatness,  that  he  has 
written,  not  because  he  wanted  to  write  some 
book,  but  because  he  wanted  to  write  this  one; 
that  Rembrandt,  in  fact,  is  his  painter  Whom 
he  has  thoroughly  experienced  and  whom  he 
knows  up  to  the  limits  of  his  own  capacity  for 
knowing  anything  It  is  therefore  a  good  book, 
written  from  a  full  mind,  and  one  of  which  we 
remember  the  merits  rather  than   the  defects." 

H The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p315  My  10 

'23  1550w 

IVIELLAND.  FRANK  HULME.  In  witch-bound 
Africa.  316p  11  $5  Lippincott  [21s  Seeley, 
Service] 

916.8   Rhodesia 
"The  author,  who  has  worked  for  twenty-two 

years  among  Bantu  peoples,  eleven  of  them  be- 


ing spent  with  the  Bakaonde.  here  offers  a 
serious  study  of  the  latter  and  their  neighbors 
Inhabiting  the  Kasempa  District  of  Northern 
Rhodesia.  The  study  has  been  made  in  the  light 
of  comparative  religion  and  social  science,  and 
is  intended  not  only  for  those  who  live  amongst 
the  Bakaonde,  but  for  students  at  home  and 
abroad  of  the  Bantu.  Upwards  of  fifty  illustra- 
tions and  three  maps  are  included." — The  Times 
[London]  Lit  Sup 


Nature  112:824  D  8  '23  280w 
"Not  only  the  special  interest  of  the  subject 
matter,  but  the  special  excellence  of  the  author's 
attitude,  places  this  work  among  the  few  really 
excellent  books  on  African  ethnology  that  have 
come  from  servants  of  the  British  government 
stationed   there." 

+  New  Statesman  22:54  O  20  '23  1020w 
Reviewed  by  Frank  Sullivan 

N  Y  World  p7e  D  2  '23  llOOw 
The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p637  S  27 
'23  40w 
"Students  of  man  will  be  grateful  to  Mr.  Mel- 
land    for    having    written    it,    though    they    may 
wish  that  he  had  entered  into  fuller  details  on 
various  topics,  such  as  the  physical  type  of  the 
people,   their  social  organization,   folk-tales,  and 
arts  and  crafts." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p805    N 

29  '23  1700w 

MERWIN,  SAMUEL.  Silk;  a  legend  as  narrated 
in  the  journals  and  correspondence  of  Jan  Po. 
267p   $2   Houghton 

23-15474 

"The  story  is  a  romance  of  the  days  2000  years 
ago,  when  China  itself  was  beginning  to  be  curi- 
ous about  the  countries  far  away  to  the  West. 
So  from  the  Chinese  court  was  sent  Jan  Po,  a 
discreet,  well-educated  young  man  who  was  a 
poet  as  well,  whose  ostensible  purpose  was  to 
select  in  the  country  now  called  Persia  the 
finest  stallion  and  mares  that  it  was  possible 
to  obtain  for  breeding  purposes.  His  real  errand 
was  to  find  out  all  he  could  about  Persia  and 
other  countries  as  far  West  even  as  Rome,  and 
to  report  at  home  all  he  could  about  their  condi- 
tion "and  the  reason  why  they  consumed  vast 
quantities  of  Chinese  silk.  The  ruler  of  the 
country  Jan  Po  visited  was  a  young  girl,  Rox- 
ana.  and  the  story  really  concerns  itself  with 
her  love  for  Jan  Po's  master,  the  Chinese  heir 
apparent,  who  visits  her  court  secretly  and 
Jan  Po's  love  for  Mosulla,  her  maid." — Springf'd 
Republican 


Boston  Transcript  p6  O  20  '23  130w 
"He   has   a   new   and   surprising   story    to   tell 
and  he  tells  it  marvelously  well."   D.  L.  M. 
-f   Boston  Transcript  p5  N  10  '23  1150 
"At  once  a  very  careful  and  a  very  animated 
piece  of  work." 

+   Ind  111:314  D  22  '23  330w 
Reviewed   by  T.   H.    Lewis 

Int  Bk  R  pl52  Ja  '24  480w 
"In  so  far  as  his  book  is  a  semi-historical 
novel,  describing  trade  routes,  the  great  silk 
caravans,  the  contact  between  the  Chinese  and 
western  civilization,  it  attains  no  small  degree 
of  success,  being  vividly  told,  not  without 
humor,  and  holding  a  considerable  novelty.  In 
so  far  as  it  is  a  hectic  love  story  and  a  tale  of 
intrigue  and  slaughter,  it  is  not  much  above  the 
screen  level  and  also  has  an  overload  of  sen- 
suality." 

H Lit  R  p346  D  8  '23  270w 

New  Repub  37:26  N  28  '23  70w 
"The  book  is  colorful  and  interesting,  though 
neither  as  colorful  nor  as  interesting  as  it  well 
might  be.  The  characters  are  not  convincing; 
behind  Jan  Po  one  is  always  conscious  of  the 
presence  of  the  author,  and  Mosulla,  the  slave 
girl,  is  an  entirely  conventionnl  heroine  of  ro- 
mance. Less  of  their  love  story  and  more  of 
the  customs  and  affairs  of  Balkh  would  improve 
the  book.  The  account  of  the  long  caravan 
trains  loaded  with  silk  is  impressive,  and  there 
are  some  good  bits  of  description." 
h  N   Y  Times  p8  O  28  '23  700w 


352 


BOOK   REVIEW   DIGEST 


MERWIN,    S: — Continued 

"Keality  never  intrudes;  it  would  be  a  dis- 
cord, a  thread  of  homespun  marring  a  silken 
surface.  And  if  there  is  no  depth  nor  substance 
to  it,  what  matter  so  long  as  the  surface  is  so 
delicately  pleasing?  This  is  a  book  for  a  holi- 
day mood,  a  leisured  and  lazy  hour  when  fancy 
frets  at  the  commonplace  and  must  be  indulged 
with  a  day-dream."     Isabel  Paterson 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p20  O  28  '23  650w 
"The  strength  of  the  book  lies  in  the  de- 
scription of  Old  Persia  and  the  insight  the  au- 
thor gives  into  ancient  China,  its  customs,  its 
scenery  and  its  ethics.  Mr  Merwin  is  well 
known  as  a  well-informed  writei'  on  modern 
China.  He  here  shows  ability  in  reconstructing 
that  part  of  the  ancient  world  that  is  the  back- 
ground of  his  vivid  and  human  story." 

+  Springf'd    Republican  p8  O   25  '23  400w 
Wis   Lib    Bui    19:509   D   '23 

MEYNELL,  ALICE  CHRISTIANA  (THOMP- 
SON)  (MRS  WILFRID  MEYNELL).  Poems, 
complete  ed  144p  $2  Scribner  [6s  Burns, 
Gates] 

821  23-7220 

This  volume  contains  the  whole  of  Mrs  Mey- 
nell's  poetry,  about  120  poems  in  all,  reprinted 
from  previous  collections  and  editions. 


"Her  religious  poems,  excellent  as  they  are  in 
workmanship,  do  not  move  the  reader  so  gen- 
erously nor  so  profoundly  as  the  free  and 
changing  moods  of  her  love  poems  and  nature 
poems.  Time  will  be  long  forgetting  these  lat- 
ter, if  indeed  it  forgets  them  ever."  D:  Morton 
+  Bookm  57:459  Je  '23  480w 

"There  is  serenity,  a  sureness  of  touch  both 
in  thought  and  execution  which  marks  these 
poems  as  being  apart  from  the  most  of  our 
modern  verse.  She  is  aware  of  rhythms  and 
perfections  to  which  most  can  attain  but  rarely 
even  in  perspective.  She  has  a  spiritual  per- 
ception of  beauty  which  gives  substances  to  her 
slightest  as  well  as  her  most  considered  poems." 
D.    L.    M. 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  16  '23   1050w 
Cath    World    117:272    My    '23    1050w 

"She  is  immensely  better  than  any  of  her  im- 
itators. She  has  personality,  a  background,  an 
undeniable  and  unbelievable  command  of  En- 
glish meters.  There  is  nobody  in  England  today 
■*'ho  can  write  one  sort  of  verse  like  Alice 
Meynell,  but  -if  there  were  he  would  hardly 
choose  to  write  that  style  of  verse." 
+  Dial   75:202  Ag  '23  120w 

Freeman  7:286  My  30  '23  220w 

"Most  of  her  verse  has  a  remarkable  finality 
of  phrase.  Her  reasoning  was  always  of  in- 
terest, her  expression  of  her  reasoninjr  clear 
and  striking.  Occasionally  she  did  not  encoun- 
ter altogether  successfully  some  pitfall  of  sen- 
timentality. But  in  our  loud  and  chaotic  day 
the  strictness  and  epigrammatic  pungency  of 
her  poetry  are  grateful  to  the  mind." 
+   Lit    R    p775   Je    16   '23   410w 

"Little  needs  to  be  said  about  the  greater 
part  of  it,  firmly  established  as  it  already  is. 
The  last  poems,  like  those  that  went  before, 
are  perfect  in  their  tenuous  way — shining  with 
a  spirit  almost  too  pure  for  words,  and  tem- 
pered by  an  art  that  never  tired."  Mark  Van 
Doren 

+   Nation   116:602   My   23  '23   70w 

"She  might  write  four  lines  or  a  hundred  lines 
and  she  would  be  always  the  same,  delicately 
selective,  fastidious  rather  than  sparing,  and 
disciplining  her  emotions  without  suppressing 
them.  .  .  If  she  had  left  us  only  a  fraction 
of  this  little  volume,  she  would  have  written 
herself  fully  into  her  poetry,  at  one  point  or 
another."     W:   A.   Norris 

+   New    Repub  34:324   My   16   '23   1400w 

"Her  verse  is  gentle.  Each  line  is  clear,  soft 
and  polished,  with  tinkling  rhythms  like  pour- 
ing water.  It  approaches  more  closely  than  any- 
thing T  have  read  in  months  the  older  concep- 
tion of  poetry.  A  good  deal  of  the  book  has 
been    written    in   a    religious    fervor,    a    spiritual 


ecstasy    that   is    real    and   impresses    the   readef 
so."     Milton   Raison 

H NY   Tribune   p20  Ap  8   '23   400w 

"A  book  of  the  greatest  interest  and  value 
to  lovers   of   real   poetry." 

-+-  N  Y  World  p8e  Mr  18  '23  250w 
"The  uniformity  of  her  poetry  is  marked, 
when  we  read  it,  as  now  for  the  first  time,  in 
its  entirety.  Her  range  is  limited  and  her  tact 
and  adroitness  forbade  her  to  attempt  experi- 
ments, which  might  betray  her  limitations,  but, 
at  the  same  time,  might  reveal  unsuspected 
powtrs.  Her  chief  fault  is  obscurity,  a  defect 
to   which   all    'metaphysical'    poets  are   liable." 

H Sat    R   135:327   Mr   10   '23   350w 

"To  many  people  her  poems  are  rightly  ex- 
ceedingly attractive,  they  are  intellectual,  they 
are  melodious,  they  are  in  admirable  taste,  and, 
in  almost  every  poem,  there  are  here  and  there 
lines  which  must  give  deep  pleasure  to  every 
intelligent  reader  of  poetry." 

+  Spec  130:370  Mr  3  '23  850w 
"Hers  was  the  clear  voice  as  of  a  singing 
bird.  Her  rhythmic  sense  was  unfailingly  deli- 
cate. There  is  a  touch  of  humor  mingling  now 
and  then  with  pathos  and  laughter,  which  are 
almost  concealed  beneath  the  austerity  which, 
in  spite  of  her  graciousness,  is  an  outstanding 
mark  of  all  her  poetry."     J.   J.  R. 

+   Springf'd     Republican     p7a     My     27     '23 
620w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:131  My  '23 

MIDDLETON,    ARTHUR,    pseud.     See    O'Brien, 
E:    J.    H. 

MIDDLETON,    EDMUND    SMITH.        Unity    and 

Rome.    269p    $1.75    Macmillan 

280    Church    unity.    Roman    Catholic    church 

22-20140 

The  author,  an  Anglican  priest,  insists  that 
Rome  must  be  drawn  into  any  plan  of  church 
unity  that  is  really  such,  since  Rome  is  the  only 
see  which  claims  universal  authority.  In  build- 
ing up  his  argument  he  examines  some  recent 
proposals  looking  toward  church  unity,  the 
continuity  of  Rome's  claims  to  primacy  and  the 
testimony  of  the  Fathers  of  the  church  regard- 
ing unity. 

Boston   Transcript   p4   D  23   '22   320w 

"Dr.    Middleton  has   little   new   to   say   on   the 

subject  of  reunion,   but  he  shows  good  common 

sense   in   rejecting   the   many   schemes   proposed 

by  his   brethren      in   England  and   in   America." 

H Cath   World    116:851   Mr  '23   350w 

Springf'd   Republican  p8  Mr  20  '23  950w 

MIDDLETON,   ELLIS.  Road  of  destiny.   372p  $2 

Stokes  „    ,,„„„ 

23-11082 

In  this  eighteenth  century  tale  of  chivalry 
Sir  Richard  Revelsdale  had  nearly  succeeded  in 
squandering  his  patrimony  when  a  beautiful 
young  widow  asks  a  queer  favor  of  him.  With- 
in three  days  he  is  to  procure  for  her,  by 
gambling,  ten  thousand  guineas.  Altho  the 
reason  for  this  urgency  remains  a  secret  to 
him  he  complies  like  the  gentleman  he  is.  He 
is  lucky  enough  to  win  the  money  in  a  single 
night  but  on  his  way  home  is  waylaid  and 
robbed.  To  save  his  honor  he  sells  all  that 
remains  of  his  estate,  his  town  house  and  his 
horses,  redeems  his  promise  to  the  lady  and 
disappears  from  his  social  world.  His  uncle. 
Lord  Dunstable,  disgusted  with  his  nephew's 
penniless  condition  leaves  him  but  one  choice 
— to  become  a  farm  laborer.  Besides  learning 
how  to  make  a  living  he  has  many  adventures 
of  a  romantic  nature  and  wins  out  on  all 
points — honor,    prowess,    fortune   and   love. 

Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  15  '23  260w 
"The  action  is  as  fast  and  the  incident  as 
plausible  as  in  the  ordinary  tale  of  the  sort. 
His  characters  have  come  off  so  well.  With 
only  the  usual  lay  flgnres,  he  has  made  them 
even  more  incredible  by  putting  the  most  hack- 
neyed and  bombastic  speeches  into  their 
mouths." 

H   Lit  R  pll3  O  6  '23  180w 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


353 


"A  lively  svvjisliluicklinf,'  talc  is  tins,  wholly 
in   the   romantic    tradition." 

N   Y  Times  p27  Jl  20  '23  660w 
"Mr.  Middlcton  gives  us  atmosphere  hut  never 
overdoes    it.    He    is    intent    on    working   out    his 
storv    quite    sincerely    and    carefully — in    a    long 
string-  of  ing-enious  and  moving  episodes." 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p442    Je 
28    '23    200 w 

MIDDLETON,  GEORGE,  and  BOLTON,  GUY 
REGINALD.  Polly  with  a  past,  and  Adam 
and  Eva;  two  comedies.  272p  $1.75  Holt 
rSs    6d    Bell] 

812  23-8134 

"Facile  satires  of  American  life,  by  two  well- 
known  Broadway  playwrights.  In  'Polly  With 
a  Past,"  Polly,  a  poor  minister's  daughter,  is 
working  as  a  maid  in  the  apartment  of  a  young 
interior  decorator.  Rex,  the  hero,  is  a  fiiend 
of  the  decorator.  Uex  is  ab.iectly  in  love  with 
a  girl  who  is  so  filled  with  the  crusading  spirit 
and  the  passionate  winning  of  souls  from  the 
gutter  that  she  has  no  time  to  fall  in  love  with 
him.  There  follows  a  sustainedly  human  and 
well  dialogued  plot,  in  which  I'oUy  pretends  to 
be  a  French  adventuress  out  to  seduce  the  love- 
lorn Rex,  so  that  the  girl  he  loves  will  fly  to 
save  him  from  a  vampire's  clutches.  During 
the  process,  of  course.  Rex  finds  that  he  is 
really  in  love  with  Polly,  and  Polly  really  in 
love    with  Rex." — Ut  R 


reader  is  conducted  over  the  field.  .  .  In  the 
main  purpose  of  the  work,  the  presentation  is 
highly   successful."    A.    L,.    Taylor 

4-  Am    Hist   R   29:177   O  '23   600w 
Spec  131:94  .11   21   '23  140w 

MILES,  HAMISH,  and  MORTIMER,  RAYMOND. 

2    Oxford   circus;   a   novel   of  Oxford  and   youth. 

242p   $2   Knopf 

[23-3219] 

"  'The  Oxford  Circus'  purports  to  be  the  work 
of  the  late  Alfred  Budd,  who  was  lost  at  sea, 
and  whose  only  work,  inspired  by  a  three  days' 
visit  to  Oxford,  is  introduced  by  an  appropriate 
memoir  which  is  as  delicious  a  bit  of  mock- 
seriousness  as  the  novel  of  the  .fictitious  and 
lamented  Budd  himself.  His  hero  was  the  aris- 
tocratic Gaveston  ffoulis  (spelt  with  a  small 
'ff').  Heredity  and  upbringing  had  combined 
to  make  ffoulis  what  he  was,  a  very  Apollo, 
athletic  and  intellectual,  intensely  interested  in 
life  and  literature.  In  the  intervals  of  a  bril- 
liant university  career  he  acquainted  himself 
with  the  wonders  of  London  and  Paris.  Nor  did 
he  turn  from  the  seamy  side  of  life,  yet  through- 
out it  all  he  remained  particularly  pure.  And, 
in  the  end,  seeing  the  futility  of  all  things, 
he  deliberately  ruined  his  chances  of  obtaining 
a  degree  with  honors,  in  one  magnificent  ges- 
ture. He  quoted  Renan  before  the  Scripture 
examiners!  " — Boston  Transcript 


"Printing  plays  of  just  this  texture  and  fibre 
is  a  dangerous  experiment,  for  light  comedy 
on  the  stage  is  a  more  happy  thing  than  light 
comedy  on  the  printed  page — unless  it  has  a 
genuine  and  lasting  brilliance.  These  authors 
have  given  us  two  acting  plays  of  at  least 
ephemeral  merit.  Both  act  remarkably  well.  It 
does  not  seem  to  us  that  as  reading  plays  they 
quite   come   up   to   specifications." 

f   Boston    Transcript   p5    Ag   4    '23   260w 

"These  plays  are  sufficiently  full  of  charac- 
teristic American  humor  to  be  adequate  for  the 
American  theatregoing  public.  The  literary  pub- 
lic will  find  them  slight  and  unnoteworthy,  for 
they   are    trite    in    both    plot    and    treatment." 

h   Lit    R    p94    S   29    '23    500w 

Wis   Lib   Bu!  19:410  Jl  '23 

MIDDLETON,  THOMAS  HUDSON.  Food  pro- 
duction in  war.  (Carnegie  endowment  for  in- 
ternational peace.  Division  of  economics  and 
historv.  Economic  and  social  history  of  the 
World  war.  British  ser.)  373p  $3  Oxford  [10s 
fid  Milford] 

338.1    Food  supply  23-7796 

"Within  the  scope  obviously  set  by  himself, 
the  author  of  this  treatise  has  executed  the 
project  with  precision.  The  appropriate  back- 
ground is  provided,  the  centuries-old  conflict 
Ijetween  the  plough  and  the  pasture.  There 
was  so  much  in  controversy.  At  one  time  it 
was  military  vs.  civilian;  then  city  vs.  country; 
then  shells  vs.  wheat;  then  grain  vs.  animals. 
Agricultuial  production,  as  well  as  food  control, 
was  bungled  until  1917,  fairly  in  accordance 
with  'muddling  through.'  It  was  not  until  the 
crop  year  1918  that  a  programme  of  increased 
food  production  was  seriouslv  undertaken.  The 
larger  part  of  the  book  is  devoted  to  the  reasons 
for  the  programme,  the  methods  of  operation, 
the  justification  of  procedures,  and  the  tabula- 
tion of  results.  As  a  picture  of  war-made  agri- 
culture, it  is  successful,  just  as  the  thing  itself 
was  successful." — Am  Hist  R 

"Those  who  are  concerned  with  the  possibili- 
ties of  an  expansion  of  the  food  supply  in  a 
given  country  during  war,  or  with  the  desir- 
ability of  producing  as  high  a  percentage  as 
possible  of  the  legular  supply  during  peace  will 
find  this  volume  both  interesting  and  instruc- 
tive."    B.  H.  Hibhard 

H-   Am    Econ    R   13:485    S    '23   450w 

"'The  writer,  a  distin.gui.shed  authority  on  agri- 
culture, was  in  the  thick  of  the  contest  over 
agricultural  policy  in  the  United  Kingdom  dur- 
ing the  war.  It  was  a  contest  embittered  by 
class  prejudice  and  intensified  by  conflict  of 
interests  as  well  as  opinions.  Objectively,  in  a 
spirit  of  tolerance  and  historical  accvu-acy,   the 


"Among  the  cleverest  literary  travesties  this 
reviewer  has  read  in  recent  years.  The  first 
part  is  slightly  better  than  the  last,  being  some- 
what less  extravagant;  but  it  is  all  conspicu- 
ously good  and  really  merits  the  adjective  'bril- 
liant.' "  J.  F.  S.  „„  „„^ 
-f  Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  16  '23  600w 
"  'The  Oxford  Circus*  is  a  fantasy  so  desper- 
ately, so  fatally  smart  that  it  almost  betrays 
one"  into  writing  seriously  about  it.  But  it  is 
only  clearer  than  ever  that  Oxford  is  still  the 
home  of  lost  causes,  and  that  the  cause  of 
humour  is  one  of  these.  The  book  is  written 
in  a  style  persistently  ironical,  and  it  never 
achieves  irony."     E.   M. 

—  Freeman  8:455  Ja  16  '24  350w 
"Mr.  Miles  and  Mr.  Mortimer  have  achieved 
a  noteworthv  piece  of  satire.  There  is  much 
that  is  amusing  about  their  volume,  and  much 
that  is  pointed;  it  is  to  be  recommended  as  an 
antidote  for  a  certain  all-too-prevalent  type  of 
fiction.  One  cannot  but  wish,  however,  that 
they  had  practiced  the  art  of  condensation." 
I] NY  Times  pl3  My  13  '23  700w 

Mil  L,  HUGH  ROBERT.  Life  of  Sir  Ernest 
Shackleton.  312p  il  $5  Little  [21s  Heine- 
mann] 

B    or    92      Shackleton,     Sir     Ernest     Henry. 
Antartic   regions  [23-11568] 

The  authorized  biography  of  the  great  ex- 
plorer by  a  friend  who  has  had  access  to  all 
available  records.  Mr.  Mill  divides  his  narra- 
tive into  three  sections.  Book  one,  which  he 
calls  "Equipment,"  describes  Shackleton  s 
childhood  and  education  and  early  days  at  sea. 
Book  two  "Achievement,"  covers  the  years 
1906  to  1910,  the  Nimrod  voyage,  his  year  of 
endurance  in  the  farthest  South  and  the  expe- 
dition to  the  pole  which  just  failed  of  reach- 
ing its  goal.  Book  three,  "Bafflement"  shows 
the  explorer  in  his  days  of  unrest  on  shore 
his  efforts  to  finance  more  expeditions  and  his 
last  voyage.  

Reviewed  by  H:  G.  Pearson 

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"For  wealth  and  material  and  skill  in  deline- 
ation  the  book  stands  out   conspicuously  in  the 
merature   of   exploration,   yet   it  is   also  notable 
for    the    author's   insight   into    the   complex   and 
often    contradictory   elements    which    had  ,to   be 
taken  account  of  In  estimating  the  man.     Ed- 
mund_NoWe^^^  Transcript  p3  Je  23  '23  2800w 

"No  man  was  ever  more  fortunate  In  his  bi- 
ographer, and  it  may  be  said  at  the  outG<^ .  with- 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


MILL,    H.    R. — Continued' 

out  fear  of  dispute  or  challenge  that  Dr.  Mill's 
work  in  scope,  content,  method,  and  execution 
is  like  the  character  and  career  which  it  pre- 
eents — a  model."  H.  L.  Bridgman 
4-  Lit  R  p877  Ag  4  '23  1500w 
"Whatever  may  be  said  in  criticism  of  the 
book  must  be  acknowledged  that  the  biographer 
has  carried  out  his  task  worthily  and  has  re- 
vealed to  us  the  man  as  he  was,  fully  and  fairly. 
It  has  been  done  with  skill  and  understanding." 
F.   Debenham 

H Nature   112:123  Jl  28  "23   1450w 

"Dr.  Mill's  is  the  authorized  biography;  it  is 
adequate    but    not   inspiring." 

-4 New  Statesman  21:398  Jl  7  '23  450w 

"Dr.  Mill  presents  a  well-balanced  picture  of 
Shackleton  with  all  his  shortcomings  as  well 
as  the  qualities  which  made  him,  if  not  a  great 
man,  at  least  a  leader  singularly  gifted  for 
dangerous   enterprises." 

-f  N  Y  Times  p5  Je  17  '23   1850w 
"Fine   and   exalting   reading.    Mr.   Mill's   biog- 
raphy   is    unadorned    narration.    We    think    his 
story    of    a    valorous    life    is    made    additionally 
dramatic  by  his  determined  refusal  to  embellish. 
He   has   written   a   book    in    which    the    courage 
and    determination    of    the    human    soul    shine 
clearly  and  inspiringly."  F:  F.  Van  de  Water 
4-   N  Y  Tribune  p21  Jl  1  '23  1300w 
St   Louis  p297  O  '23 
"It  Is  unfortunate  that  a  biography  so  well  in- 
formed should  exhibit  one  of  the  most  irritat- 
ing faults  of  the  conventional  memorial  tribute, 
the    fault    of   reading   into    the    subject's   earlier 
career    and    more    conunonplace    moods    thin^^s 
congruous   with    his    final    achievement,    but    m 
fact  not  to  be  discerned  where  the  biographer 
in.sists   on    flndinfj:   them.      Dr.    Mill   is   a    capable 
and   honest   chronicler,   but   far  too   sentimental 
In  anticipatory  or  retrospective  comment." 

1-  Sat    R   135:667  My  19   '23  750w 

"The  volume  is  illustrated  with  a  number  of 
photography    of   exceptional    interest,    and    alto- 
eether  Is  not  unworthy  of  the  man  it  honours." 
+  Spec    130:1010   Je   16   '23    820w 

The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p281  Ap 
26  '23  llOOw 

Wis    Lib   Bui   19:412  Jl  '23 

MILLAY,    EDNA   ST    VINCENT    (MRS    EUGEN 
=!    BOISSEVAIN).       Harp-weaver,       and       other 

poems.    93p   $2  Harper 

811  23-27470 

"  'The  Harp-Weaver,'  the  title  poem  of  this 
volume  and  the  winner  of  the  1922  Pulitzer  prize 
for  poetry,  is  a  striking  example  of  the  origi- 
nality of  Miss  Millay's  conceptions,  and  of  the 
way  in  which  she  achieves  the  original  without 
falling  victim  to  the  bizarre.  This  i.s  a  poem  of 
mother-love,  simple,  direct  and  tense  as  a  nar- 
rative poem  should  be.  It  is  in  ballad  form 
and  the  speaker  is  the  child,  who  does  not  com- 
ment but  tells  his  story  ■with  stark  directness." 
— Boston  Transcript 


New  York.  Contents:  Coal;  Cotton;  Iron  and 
steel;  Luinber;  Petroleum  and  products:  Rubber; 
Silk;  Sugar;  Wheat;  Wool."— Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


"EJdna  St.  Vincent  Millay  has  escaped  some- 
what from  her  mood  of  brittle  cynicism.  In 
'The  Harp-Weaver  and  Other  Poems'  we  come 
on  lyrics  that  are  both  sturdier  and  surer  than 
some  earlier  performances.  Her  mood  is  still 
that  of  a  woman  who  loves  both  lightly  and 
deeply  and  is  a  trifle  ironical  about  it  all."  J.  F. 
-f   Bookm  58:565  Ja  '24  250w 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Ja  9  '24  llOOw 

"Miss  Milla.v  is  a  natural  lyrist,  and  if  her 
verse  seems  at  times  to  be  somewhat  negligent, 
it  is  this  very  freedom  from  care  which  consti- 
tutes a  large  part  of  the  charm  exercised  upon 
the  reader.  In  inore  than  one  poem  there  ex- 
ists an  abandon — or  a  seeming  abandon — which 
is  reminiscent  of  the  Irish  poets  at  their  best." 
P.    A.    Hutchison 

+   N   Y  Times  pll  D   23  '23  1250w 

MILLER.    EDITH    M..    and    others.    Some    great 
commodities.    287p    $1.75    Doubleday 

660  Commercial  products  23-2047 

"Written  by  members  of  the  Statistical  divi- 
sion   of    the    National    Bank    of    Commerce    in 


Pittsburgh   Mo    Bui  28:479  N  '23 

MILLER,  HARRY  LLOYD.  Directing  study; 
educating  for  mastery  througli  creative  think- 
ing.    377p     $1.80     Scribner 

371.3     Study.     Education  22-20688 

The  object  of  the  book  is  to  show  that  teach- 
ing is  more  than  a  task  ox  instilling  knowledge 
and  to  suggest  methods  of  liberating  repressions 
and  inliibitions,  of  stimulating  curiosity  and  the 
search  for  knowledge  and  of  giving  the  student 
a  sense  of  mastery  and  power  thru  creative 
thinking.  It  aims  at  building  a  new  technique 
for  upper  grade  and  high  school  teaching.  Par- 
tial contents:  A  manual  of  suggestive  procedure; 
The  learning  process;  The  development  of  the 
work  spirit;  Initiative  and  authority;  Suggestive 
helps  and  problems  for  teachers  using  this  book; 
Definition  and   use  of  terms;   Index. 


"The    author    is    aflame    with    his    gospel,    ex- 
pressing his  enthusiasm  in  a  style  quite  Emer- 
sonian.   .    .    The     philosophy     of     the     book     is 
wliolesome   and    stimulating."      R.    E.    Wager 
+    El   School  J   23:549  Mr  '23  700w 
Lit    R    p370    Ja   6   '23   300w 
Springf'd    Republican   pl2   O  2  '23   450w 

MILLER,   HUGH    CRICHTON.    New  psychology 
and    the  parent.     241p     $1.T5     Seltzer 

150        Parent      and      child.      Psychoanalysis. 
Psychology  23-9621 

In  the  belief  that  tlie  principal  cause  of  all 
nervous  breakdown  lies  in  the  wrong  treat- 
ment of  the  child  by  his  parents,  the  author, 
who  is  director  of  a  clinic  for  functional  nerve 
cases,  sets  forth  the  results  of  his  clinical  ex- 
perience in  this  department  of  life.  The  book 
presents  a  brief,  popular  statement  of  the  main 
principles  involved  in  the  new  psychology  and 
of  its  value  in  discovering  the  unconscious  mo- 
tive. 


Reviewed    bv   H.    P.    Rainey 

El   School  J   24:315  D  '23  600w 

"The  book  Is  neither  very  fundamental  nor 
very  new,  but  contains  much  sane  advice  and 
harmless  doctrine."     Agnes  de  Lima 

h   New   Repub  35:303  Ag  8  '23  150w 

"The  work  is  really  a  shining  achievement  in 
popular  exposition  of  the  recent  developments 
of  psychological  science.  And  it  is  quite  as 
successful  in  the  clear  and  simple  manner  in 
which  the  author  applies  the  principles  he  sets 
forth  to  the  daily  problems  of  the  parent,  to 
the  always  difficult  business  of  bringing  up 
children." 

-f  N   Y   Times  p21  Je  10   '23   490w 

"The  work  as  a  whole  is  stimulating,  for- 
ward-looking, and  permeated  with  a  doctrine 
that  ought  to  find  realization  in  our  present- 
day  junior  and  senior  high  schools.  The 
amount  of  concrete  material  illustrating  the 
proposed  reforms  saves  the  discussion  from 
the  abstractness  too  often  found  in  similar 
works."     R.    M.    Tryon 

+  School    R    31:227   Mr   '23    550w 

Reviwed  by  Agnes  de  Lima 

Survey  50:638  S  15  '23  200w 

MILLER,  JOAQUIN.  Poetical  works  of  Joaquin 
Miller,  edited  with  an  introduction  and  notes 
by  Stuart  P.  Sherman.  5S7p  $3.50  Putnam 

811  23-7262 

A    complete    one-volume    edition    of    Joaquin 

Miller's  poems,   with  a  biographical  and  critical 

introduction. 


Booklist  19:330  Jl  '23 
"There  is  little  variety  of  verse  form,  but 
♦'-fre  is  much  and  lavish  beauty  mingled,  here 
and  there,  with  sentimentality  and  overemphatic 
rhythm.  Even  in  the  most  erring  of  them  one 
comes  upon  memorable  lines,  and  recognizes 
the    sincerity    and    vigor    of    this    pioneer    who 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


355 


was  born  in  a  covered  wagon,  and  who  spent 
liis  last  years  on  the  hills  overlooking  San 
Francisco  Bay." 

-f-  Bookm   57:653  Ag  '23   120w 
"Professor     Sherman's     introductory     chapter 
tells    in    inimitable    and    satisfying    fashion    the 
story  of  the  poet  and  his  life  work."     E.  N. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p3    Ap   28    '23    lOOOw 
Reviewed  by  J:    G.    Fletcher 

Freeman  7:548  Ag  15  '23  ISOOw 
Reviewed  by  Rex  Hunter 

N  Y  Tribune  p24  Jl  31  '23  250\v 
"Although  the  book  contains  nearly  600  pages 
it    is   so   admirably   made   and    balanced   that   it 
falls  easily  under  the  class  of  handy  volumes." 
+  N  Y  World  p9e  Ap  8  '23  150w 
"It  is  a  thoroughly  competent  and   'practical' 
selection  and  should  introduce  Miller's  poetry  to 
a   new  generation   of   readers." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  p6  Ap  23  '23  GOOw 

MILLER,     WILLI  AIM.      History     of     the     Greek 

people    (1821-1921);    with    an    introd.    by   G.    P. 

Gooch.      (Histories    of    the    peoples)      184p     $2 

Dutton     [6s    Methuen] 

949.5     Greece,   Modern— History         [23-7331] 

After  an  introductory  chapter  summarizing 
the  many  centuries  of  foreign  rule  in  Greece, 
the  book  devotes  itself  to  the  history  of  modern 
Greece  from  the  time  of  the  establishment  of 
the   monarchy   thru   the   world   war. 


Boston   Transcript  p3  S  1  '23   520w 
N    Y   World    pGe   Ag   5   '23   220w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:307    Je    '23 

MILLIN.    MRS    SARAH    GERTRUDE.    The   Jor- 
dans.   242p   $2  Boni  &  Liveright   [7s  6d  Collins] 

23-14122 
This  story  portrays  the  attempt  of  an  eldest 
son  to  free  himself  from  a  miserable  and  degrad- 
ing family  environment.  Henry  Jordan,  a  con- 
fessed failure,  is  shipped  by  his  family  in  Eng- 
land to  South  Africa  to  seek  his  fortune  in  tlie 
diamond  fields.  But  he  continues  to  be  a  failure, 
and  breeds  a  family  of  failures — all  except 
Dahiel.  Daniel  determines  at  an  early  age  to 
have  an  education  and  so  lift  himself  out  of  the 
miserable  conditions  amid  which  he  was  born. 
With  the  help  of  a  wealthy  Jew,  named  Jessel. 
he  secures  the  education  and  eventually  be- 
comes Jessel's  secretary.  In  spite  of  his  changed 
condition  in  life,  however,  he  finds  that  his  for- 
tunes continue  to  be  involved  with  those  of  his 
family. 


"Readers  who  enjoy  a  first-rate  novel  con- 
cerned with  life  as  it  is  and  those  who  want 
a  veracious  picture  of  South  Africa  will  be  well 
repaid  for  the  time  they  devote  to  'The  Jordans.' 
but  it  is  no  book  to  pick  up  when  seeking  diver- 
sion and  relief  from  the  travail  of  existence." 
+   N  Y  Times  pl4  N  4  '23  550w 

"While  'The  Jordans'  contains  a  narrative 
thread  which  binds  the  reader  with  absorlDed 
interest,  its  principal  potency  lies  in  Mrs.  Millin's 
powerful  characterizations,  subtle  contrasts  and 
word  paintings.  'The  Jordans'  are  not  inerelv 
romantic  fictional  beings.  They  are  of  the  world 
we  live  in  albeit  their  life  story  centres  in  and 
around  Johannesburg,  South  Africa." 
-f   N    Y  World  p9e   N  18   '23   850w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  D  30  '23  320w 

"The  Jordans  were  a  painful  family,  but  in 
Miss  Millin's  hands,  an  interesting  one.  She  has 
seen  them,  in  their  Johannesburg  setting,  too 
clearly,  perhaps,  for  romance,  but  yet  with  an 
admirable  directness  of  purpose  which  gives 
them   size   and    shape." 

H The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p402  Je  14 

'23   300w 

MILLS,   DOROTHY.    Book  of  the  ancient  world 
for  younger   readers.     218p   il   $1.90   Putnam 

930     History,  Ancient  23-7364 

To  give   "an  account  of  our  common  heritage 

from    the    dawn    of    civilization    to    the    coming 

of  the  Greeks"  is  the  object  of  the  book,  used 


in  its  original  form  by  the  author  in  her  his- 
tory classes  at  the  Brearley  School.  After  an 
introduction,  giving  a  r§sum6  of  what  is  known 
of  pre-historic  times,  it  begins  with  Egypt, 
describing  the  land,  its  architecture,  civiliza- 
tion, life,  and  religion  and  takes  up  successively 
the  Assyrians  and  Babylonians,  the  Hebrews, 
Hitites,  Persians  and  Phoenicians.  Maps,  illus- 
trations,   chronological    chart    and   index. 


Booklist  19:324   Jl  '23 
Boston   Transcript  p6  Jl  18   '23   lOOw 
"Miss    Mills    in    compiling    her    material,    has 
gracefully  accomplished  a  difficult  task  and  in- 
fused  the   past   with   so   much   vitality   that   the 
problems  and  lives  of  the  ancients,   their  man- 
ners   and    customs,    are    made    understandable 
and    alive    to    the    reader   of    the    present   day." 
-f-   N    Y    Times    p4    Ap    22    '23    250w 
"Prepared   with   younger  readers    particularly 
in    mind,    the    book    possesses    an    interest    and 
usefulness    not    limited    by   age." 

+    N    Y    World    piye    Jl    8   '23   90w 

MILLS,    ENOS    ABIJAH.       Wild   animal   home- 
steads. 259p  il  $2.50     Doubleday 

591.5     Animals — Habits   and  behavior 

23-26340 
Enos  Mills  was  a  devoted  animal  lover  to 
whom  wild  creatures  were  intimates.  He  knew 
their  haljits  as  men  know  the  ways  of  a 
neighbor  friend.  From  long  and  patient  obser- 
vation he  discovered  that  most  animals  own  and 
control  a  definite  bit  of  homestead,  that  they 
have  a  real  love  of  home,  that  most  of  their 
abundant  leisure  is  spent  resting  and  playing 
there,  that  they  sometimes  go  away  for  their 
vacations.  It  is  of  the  domestic  habits  of 
animal.s  that  these  sketches  treat,  in  the  main. 
The  author  also  has  much  to  say  of  their 
sense  of  smell,  nosecraft  he  calls  it,  and  its 
extraordinary   usefulness   to   them. 


Bookm  57:563  Jl  '23  120w 
"It  is  indeed  an  amazing  series  of  true  stories 
which   Mr.    Mills   tells  of   the   habits  and  habitat 
of  various  wild  animals  in   the   Rockies." 

4-  Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  11  '23  600w 
N  Y  Times  p23  My  6  '23  500w 
"His  posthumous  volume  seems  to  us  the 
sweetest,  gentlest  epitaph  a  man  could  have. 
It  pictures  him  restoring  the  lost  cub  to  its 
mother;  tramping  days  on  end  to  find  the 
orphaned  baby  grizzly;  driving  off  the  coyotes 
who  had  hennned  the  mother  antelope  and  her 
kid  in  a  thicket  of  cactus  and  were  starving 
them  out.  He  lays  no  einphasis  on  this.  He 
is  too  deeply  concerned  with  the  timid,  harried, 
neglected  creatures  of  the  forest  and  prairie 
whom  man  is  doing  his  best  to  wipe  out  of 
existence.  They  are  his  heroes  and  heroines." 
F:  F.  Van  de  Water 

-f   N    Y   Tribune   p20    Ap   29   '23   1450w 
N   Y  World  pl8  Je  10  '23  lOOw 
Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ag  12  '23  240w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:158    Je    '23 

MILN,  LOUISE  (JORDAN)  (MRS  GEORGE 
CRICHTON  MILN).  Mr.  &  Mrs  Sen.  325p  $2 
Stokes 

23-6288 
The  theme  of  the  story  is  an  international 
marriage  between  a  wealthy,  cultivated,  Ox- 
ford-bred Chinese  and  an  English  girl.  There 
are  only  small  clouds  on  the  happiness  of  their 
first  years  of  married  life  in  England,  but  when 
he  goes  to  China  on  a  visit  to  his  relatives  and 
his  wife  insists  on  going  with  him  the  skies 
change.  In  England  Sen  King-lo  had  been 
received  as  a  cosmopolitan.  In  China  his  wife 
is  made  to  feel  alien  and  subjected  to  many 
slights  by  her  husband's  family.  He  shields  her 
at  every  turn  and  when  she  begs  him  to  take 
her  back  to  England  he  yields,  tho  against  his 
will,  to  her  entreaties.  There  the  author  makes 
him  die,  some  years  later,  of  homesickness, 
leaving  two  children  to  adjust  themselves  to 
the  difficulties  of  their  racial  inheritance. 


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MILN,    L.- — Cotitinued' 

"The  entire  first  half  of  the  story,  leading 
up  to  the  marriage  is  thoroughly  convincing. 
The  second  part  is  less  convincing."     D.   L.   M. 

H Boston  Transcript  p6  Ap  14  '23  1150w 

Cleveland  p51  Jl  '23 
"Mrs  Miln  has   told  her  story  in   a  way  that 
Will  give  pleasure  to  all  lovers  of  good  writing 
for  its  own  sake." 

+  Lit  R  p739  Je  2  '23  180w 
"You  may  not  accept  Mrs.  Miln's  excursions 
into  sociology  and  Hongkong,  but  you  do  not 
drown  in  a  pool  of  salt  tears  simply  because  the 
characters  bear  no  more  semblance  to  human 
beings  than  goblin  lanterns  stippled  with  eye- 
holes and  stuffed  with  exploding  firecrackers." 
A.   D.   Douglas 

—  NY  Tribune  p22  Ap  8  "23  450w 
Reviewed  by  Ruth  Snyder 

N    Y   World   p8e   My   13   '23   650w 
The     Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p304  My 
3    '23   150w 

Wis    Lib   Bui    19:133  My  '23 

MILNER,      ALFRED      MILNER,     1st     viscount. 

Questions   of   the   hour.    173p    $4   Doran    [7s   6d 

Hodder  &  S.] 

330.4     Great    Britain — Economic    conditions. 
Imperialism  [23-17261] 

Viscount  Milner  is  an  imperialist  with  wide 
experience  as  a  colonial  administrator,  having 
served  as  High  commissioner  in  South  Africa 
during  and  after  the  Boer  war,  and  as  Secre- 
tary of  state  for  the  colonies  from  1919  to  1921. 
His  essays  are  devoted  chiefly  to  economic  and 
imperial  problems.  The  first  essay  is  an  analy- 
sis of  British  economic  policy  since  the  war. 
Taxation  and  economy  is  a  suggestion  for  find- 
ing additional  revenue  by  means  of  a  permanent 
excess  profits  tax.  Another  essay  considers  the 
conditions  necessary  to  a  state  of  peace  in  in- 
dustry. The  rest  of  the  book  is  given  to  imperial 
problems. 


"Lord  Milner's  detachment  from  party  con- 
flicts and  his  distinguished  career  as  an  ad- 
ministrator at  home  and  abroad  lend  exceptional 
weight  to  these  essays." 

-f-  New  Statesm-an  21:398  Jl  7  '23  850w 
"He  writes  with  fairness,  liberality,  and  under- 
standing." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p430  Je  28 
'23    llOOw 

MILTON,  ARTHUR.  London  in  seven  days;  a 
guide  for  people  In  a  hurry.  121p  $1.50  Mc- 
Bride    [5s   Mills   &   B.] 

914.21  London — Description 
"One  can  understand  Mr.  Milton's  dismay 
when,  certain  relatives  of  his  appearing  in 
London,  he  was  calmly  asked  to  show  them 
that  city  in  the  seven  days  only  which  thf-y 
could  give  their  visit.  Thereupon  Mr.  Milton 
planned  a  travel-programme  for  each  day  of  the 
allotted  week,  which  at  its  close  should  have 
included  everything  'most  worth  seeing.'  And 
as  if  this  were  not  enough  'I  endeavored  neith- 
er to  overcrowd  the  days  nor  to  make  them 
too  monotonous,'  he  comments.  In  London,  the 
travels  commence  at  Piccadilly  Circus.  Rad- 
iating from  there,  they  cover,  at  the  end  of 
seven  days,  the  whole  of  London — The  West 
End,  the  City,  Soho  and  Limehouse,  the  Tem- 
ple and  the  Tower." — Boston   Transcript 


Bookm    57:656    Ag    '23    llOw 
Boston   Transcript   p4   Je   13   '23   230w 
Cleveland    pl8   Je   '23 
"May    be   utilized   to   good   purpose    by   many 
a   traveler  who   is    compelled    to    economize    his 
time  and  may  be  appalled  by  the  mass  of  detail 
which    confronts    him    in    the    pages    of    many 
books  about  London.   Not  only  does  Mr.   Milton 
tell   the   traveler  what   to   see,    but   his   book   is 
full    of    practical      suggestions      about      eating- 
places  and  shops   for  which   'people   in   a   hurry 
will  be  grateful.'  " 

-f   R    of    Rs    68:112    Jl    '23    150w 


MILTON,  ARTHUR.  Paris  in  seven  days;  a 
guide  for  people  in  a  hurry.  117p  $1.50  Mc- 
Bride    [5s   Mills  &   B.] 

914.436    Paris— Description  [23-10600] 

"Many  people  who  visit  Paris  with  the  in- 
tention of  acquainting  themselves  with  the 
various  points  of  interest  in  the  city,  will  scam- 
per about  aimlessly  for  weeks  and  on  leaving 
find  to  their  utter  disappointment  that  thej' 
have  missed  almost  everything  of  importance. 
To  just  such  people  the  publication  of  Arthur 
Milton's  'Paris  in  Seven  days'  will  come  as  the 
gift  of  the  gods."  (Bookm)  "The  point  of  de- 
parture is  the  Place  de  la  Concorde,  from 
which  the  travel  circles  widen — as  rings  from 
a  stone  cast  intoi  a  pool — until  at  the  Four 
d'Argent  in  the  old  Latin  Quarter,  they  reach 
the  furthest  confines  of  the  city.  This  may 
seem  well-nigh  incredible — in  seven  days' — to 
those  yet  unacquainted  with  Mr.  Milton's 
method.  But  it  is  nevertheless  true.  Nor  are 
the  famous  shopping  districts,  immemorially 
dear  to  feminine  hearts  the  world  over,  unex- 
plored."   (Boston    Transcript) 


"One  is  guided  through  the  city  with  such 
great  economy  that  there  is  not  a  lost  moment 
nor  a  superfluous  step,  and  not  an  interesting 
spot  is  passed  unnoticed.  It  seems  however  that 
the  perfect  griide  book  has  yet  to  make  its 
appearance.  This  hasty  little  guide  lacks  the 
photographs  by  which  one  may  visualize  one's 
route." 

H Bookm    57:656   Ag   '23    llOw 

"One  is  happily  astonished  at  the  travel 
marvels  a  combination  of  knowledge,  concen- 
tration and  system  can  accomplish  even  in 
seven  days  and  even  in  cities  so  packed  with 
historic  wealth  as  London  and  Paris.  For  all 
travellers  the  book  condenses  and  clarifies 
gratefully  a  mass  of  detail  too  often  forbidding 
by  reason  of  its  very  richness." 

+   Boston   Transcript   p4   Je   13   '23   230w 
Cleveland  p48  Je  '23 

"Here,  as  in  the  'London,'  the  author  econ- 
omizes to  the  utmost  his  own  and  his  reader's 
time   and  effort." 

+   R   of   Rs  68:112  Jl   '23  30w 

MINCHIN,  HARRY  CHRISTOPHER.  Talks  and 
'  traits.  21 5p  $2.50  Dutton  [6s  Dent] 
824 
A  collection  of  quiet  essays  mostly  literary. 
Some  of  these  are  cast  in  the  form  of  dialogs 
in  which  the  speakers  are  chiefly  seventeenth 
and  eighteenth  century  worthies — Dr  Johnson, 
Sterne,  Swift,  Pope,  Coleridge,  Lamb,  Izaak 
Walton  and  others.  Contents:  Shenstone  and 
his  ballad;  Henry  Fielding  and  his  writings;  A 
morning  call;  Ancient  pistol;  Sensibility;  Milton 
In  his  Latin  poems;  The  little  flowers  of  life; 
Glimpses  of  Dr  Thomas  Fuller;  Glimpses  of  Sir 
Thomas  Browne  and  his  family;  Restoring  the 
restoration;  Wordsworth  and  the  sub-oon.scious 
self;  "Accordingly  I  read  the  perfect  piece;"  A 
Dutch  exterior;  Gardening  in  the  frost;  Em- 
perors and  auxiliaries;  The  convert;  History 
and  myth  in  Lyonesse;  Old  lamps  re-lighted; 
On  the  way  from  Widecombe;  Lazing  at  the 
Lizard;  In  the  meadows  of  Asphodel;  George 
Eliot;  The  thatcher;  The  hill  ponies  of  Stretton; 
An  August  voluntary;  Over  the  fells  to  Cald- 
beck;  "Company's  gone";  A  lodge  in  the  forest; 
(Dra  pro  nobis;   Envoi. 


"In  his  easy,  quiet  way,  there  is  the  glamour 
of  a  book  lover,  at  home  among  old  books.  So 
It  is  not  strange  to  find  him  writing  agreeably 
of  the  quaint  and  charming  essayists  of  the 
more  leisurely  past." 

+   N   Y  Times  p6  Ja  13   '24  230w 

"Possibly  Mr.  Minchin's  book  is  too  chaste  to 

appeal   widely,   but  all  who  value  the  union  of 

art  and  learning  should  read  it.     It  is  the  happy 

balance    between    a    fastidious    scholarship    and 

an  eager  partisanshin  that  impresses  us  most." 

4-  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p648  O  4 

•23  1050W 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


357 


MINNIGERODE,  MEADE.  Seven  Hills.  308p 
$l.yO      Putnam 

23-12398 

"Once  again  Rome  declines  to  her  fall — the 
Barbarian  is  at  the  gate."  In  this  novel  Rome 
signifies  the  Moors  and  Westons,  encamped  for 
generations  on  the  Seven  Hills  oT  a  New  Eng- 
land town,  the  very  embodiment  of  old  New 
iOngland  conservative  traditions.  The  Barbaii- 
ans,  the  younger  generations  of  the  two  fami- 
lies, refuse  to  have  their  lives  moulded  accord- 
ing to  old  family  customs  and  traditions,  and 
blaze  out  new  paths  for  their  feet  to  follow.  In 
addition  to  the  unending  struggle  between  cau- 
tious age  and  eagei'  youth,  the  book  reflects 
also  the  gradual  invasion  of  New  England  by 
the  foreign-born. 

"The  style  has  a  flavor  all  its  own;  the  young 
people  are  delightful  without  being  flapperish. 
In  other  words,  they  are  just  the  kind  of  young 
people  we  ourselves  are  accustomed  to.  So  we 
like  to  read  about  them." 

+   Boston  Transcript   p6  D  22  '23  300w 

"The  story  is  well-written  and  entertaining. 
The  problem  presented  of  the  struggle  between 
the  old,  but  far  too  often  decaying  families  of 
New  England  and  the  invading  barbarians  of 
younger  generations  or  of  foreigners  is  one  of 
great  interest  and  import." 

+   Greensboro    (N.C.)     Daily    News    plO    N 
18    '23    480w 

"The  lightness  and  delicacy  of  this  author's 
treatment  ought  not  to  prevent  American  read- 
ers from  retijizing  the  force  of  his  symbols. 
One  should  not  miss  the  warning,  sitnply  be- 
cause unpleasant  facts  are  presented  in  a  pleas- 
ant way.  Many  Americans,  in  what  they  are 
pleased  to  call  theii-  thinking,  have  fallen  into 
a  vicious  circle:  they  aie  not  willing  (o  do  the 
necessary  work,  and  yet  they  wish  to  exclude 
foreigners  who  have  both  will  and  capacity." 
W:    L.    Phelps 

+   Int    Bk    R    p64    O   '23   780w 

"If  the  author  has  given  his  readers  rather 
an  overdose  of  swaggering  youth,  his  Aunt 
Charlotte  gives  them  a  glimpse  of  the  hardy 
stuff  of  which  this  youth  is  made.  .  .  It  is  too 
bad  that  the  writer  did  not  give  nioie  of  Aunt 
Charlotte's  force  ;ind  personality  to  his  callow 
youths    and    bewildered    maidens." 

H NY    Times    pl7    Ag   26    '23    380w 

MINNIGERODE,  MEADE.  Some  personal  let- 
ters of  Herman  Melville,  and  a  bibliography. 
195p  $2  Brick  Row  bk.  shop,  19  E.  47th  St., 
N.Y.    [12s   6d  E.   B.    Hackett] 

B  or  92     Melville,   Herman  22-24839 

"Mr.  Minnigerode  has  made  generous  extracts 
from  a  score  or  more  of  unpublished  letters  that 
were  written  by  Melville  to  Evert  Augustus 
Duyckinck  between  the  years  1846-1860,  the 
years  of  the  author's  greater  literary  activity. 
Assembled  in  juxtaposition  to  quotations  from 
and  contemporary  criticisms  of  Melville's  works, 
their  propinquity  makes  clearer  points  about 
the  works,  as  well  as  illuminates  Melville's  opin- 
ions and  interprets  his  personality.  The  original 
letters  are  in  the  New  York  Public  Library." — 
Lit  R 


"Edmond    Byrne   Hackett's    first   venture   into 
the    publishing    world    is    more    than    successful. 
Meade  Minnigerode  has  found,   and  arranged   in 
wisdom    and    taste,    'Some    Personal    Letters    of 
Herman   Melville  and   A   Bibliography.'  "   J.  F. 
+  Bookm   56:753   F  '23   300w 
"Numerous    bibliographical     tests     show     that 
Mr.    Minnigerode    has    done    a    careful    job    and 
upon   correct  principles.     Melville's  memory  will 
not   need    so   soon   another    bibliography   as    an- 
other biography.     In  the  latter  field  the  surface 
has  been  only  scratched."    V:   H.   Paltsits 
+   Lit   R  p752  Je  9  '23   600w 

N    Y    Times    p3    Ja    21    '23    800w 

MITCHELL,  RUTH  COMFORT  (MRS  WIL- 
LIAM  SANBORN  YOUNG).  Corduroy.  294p 
$2    Appleton 

23-5518 
"A   tale  of  the  cattlelands   and   forests  of  the 

Far     West,     without     recourse     to     bloodshed, 


melodrama  and  the  villainy  that  characterizes 
many  a  western  tale.  There  is  romance  when 
Dean  Wolcott  of  the  Boston  Wolcotts  comes 
West  to  find  the  sister  of  his  buddy,  whose 
mortal  remains  he  left  on  Flanders  fields,  and 
to  give  her  his  last  messages.  Virginia  Valdes 
McVeigh,  better  known  as  'Ginger'  becomes 
owner  of  an  immense  cattle  ranch,  as  a  heri- 
tage of  the  war.  Dean  and  Virginia  find  that 
true  love  never  runs  smooth  and  that  Boston 
and  western  standards  are  different.  But  all 
ends  well,  so  what  else  matters?" — Springf'd 
Republican 

Booklist  19:320  Jl  '23 

"The  situation  is  good  for  a  love  story  and 
for  a  very  dramatic  one.  On  the  other  hand 
the  author  has  clearly  played  to  her  audience 
in  every  detail  of  the  book.  It  lacks  a  sincerity 
and  a  truth  which  seemed  the  best  part  of  her 
earlier   novel,    'Playing    the   Game.'  " 

h   Boston   Transcript   p4  Ap  25   '23   250w 

"It  is  a  novel  of  the  West;  not  the  wild  and 
woolly  West,  but  a  sane,  clean,  reasonable 
West.  Whether  it  is  the  author's  pleasant  man- 
ner of  writing,  the  excellent  characterization, 
or  the  very  human,  very  hkable  plot  that  makes 
for  the  pleasurable  something  is  hard  to  deter- 
mine, but  one's  sympathetic  interest  is  sus- 
tained throughout." 

+   Int    Bk    R   p60   Je   '23   200w 

"  'Corduroy'  follows  a  rather  stereotyped  plot, 
but  is  worth  reading  because  the  author  has  a 
real  knowledge  of  her  locality  and  a  skill  in 
describing  it.  The  minor  characters  in  this 
book  are  well  drawn,  and  the  proper  amount  of 
thrill   is   given    to   the  story  by  a   forest  fire." 

H Lit  R  p610  Ap  14  '23  220w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  My  6  '23  lOOw 

"The  author  of  this  novel  of  modern  Ameri- 
can life  knows  both  how  to  tell  a  stoi^^  and 
how  to  create  an  atmosphere,  and  has  achieved 
a  success  by  her  art." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p289    Ap 
2C  '23  150w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:133    My    '23 

MITCHELL,  RUTH  COMFORT  (MRS  WIL- 
LIAM SANBORN  YOUNG).  Narratives  in 
verse;  prefatory  note  by  William  Rose  Benet. 
181p      $1.50      (6s)      Appleton 

811  23-1005 

These  narrative  poems  make  up  a  book  of 
human  interest  stories,  mostly  of  poor  folk 
whom  the  poet  observes  with  humor  and  sym- 
pathetic understanding.  Two  one-act  plays  are 
included. 


"I  feel  that  she  possesses  unusual  powers  of 
sympathetic  intuition  and  a  very  chivalrous  na- 
ture. She  has  an  ability  in  graphic  narrative, 
though  I  often  differ  with  her  ideas  of  the 
proper  technique."  W:  R.  Benet 
+  Bookm  57:554  Jl  '23  50w 
Reviewed  bv  H.    S.    Gorman 

Int   Bk   R  p26  Je  '23  30w 
Reviewed  by  L.   C.    Woodman 

Lit  R  p6  S  1  '23  550w 
"While  'Narr-atives  in  Ver-se'  doesn't  adhere 
to  the  classical  conception  of  a  book  of  poems, 
it  has  more  than  most  such  books  can  boast 
in  really  being  alive!  It  is  readable,  every 
word  of  it.  Miss  Mitchell  gets  her  smiles  and 
tears  with  a  facile,  breezy  pen,  with  sparkling, 
crystal  words  that  keep  prodding  the  reader." 
Milton  Raison 

-(-NY   Tribune  p21   Mr  11   '23   260w 

MITCHELL,    SAMUEL    ALFRED.      Eclipses    of 
the   sun.    425p   il   $3.85     Columbia   univ.   press 
523.7     Eclipses,  Solar.     Astrophysics 

23-12993 
The  author  has  travelled  more  than  forty 
thousand  miles  to  observe  four  total  eclipses  of 
the  sun.  Tho  the  entire  time  afforded  him  for 
•scientific  observations  during  these  four  eclipses 
has  been  a  period  of  less  than  eleven  minutes 
the  years  he  has  spent  in  investigating  the 
problems  involved  and  in  preparing  for  the 
eventful  moment  have  made  him  a  leading  au- 


358 


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MITCHELL,  S:  A. — Continued 
thority  on  eclipses.  Beginning  with  an  histori- 
cal account  of  the  earliest  recorded  eclipses  the 
book  deals  successively  with  tlie  subject  of 
eclipse  prediction,  the  development  of  astrophys- 
ics and  of  the  spectroscope,  an  account  of 
nineteenth  century  eclipses  and  the  story  of  his 
personal  experiences  in  observing  four  total 
eclipses.  The  last  part  of  the  book  is  given  to 
the  problems  of  solar  physics  and  recent  re- 
searches in  chemical  and  physical  theory,  clos- 
ing with  two  chapters  on  the  Einstein  theory 
of   relativity. 


his  master's  service  against  men  of  his  own 
blood,  always  nursing  his  revenge  on  his 
British  betrayer,  his  hatred  of  his  conqueror, 
and,  keenest  pain  of  all,  those  nationalist 
longings  which  awake  too  late  to  what  they 
really    mean." — The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup 


Booklist  20:125  Ja  '24 
"One  of  the  most  absorbing  books  on  astron- 
omy published  in  many   years  past,   notable  for 
its  combination  of  scientific  accuracy  with  popu- 
lar appeal."  E.   N. 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p5  O  6  '23  1450w 
"Both  the  trained  astronomer  and  the  ordi- 
nary citizen  in  search  of  instruction  not  tire- 
some will  find  this  book  suitable  for  his  library. 
We  think  it  will  be  the  authoritative  treatise 
on  eclipses  for  many  years  to  come."  Harold 
Jacoby 

+   Lit   R  pl05  O   6  '23  1250w 
"It  is   the   only   modern   work   on   the   subject 
for   the   layman.      The    final   chapters   contain   a 
remarkably    clear    and    level-headed    interpreta- 
tion of  the  Einstein  theory."     E.  E.   S. 
+   New   Repub  37:50  D  5  '23  150w 
Reviewed  by  E:  Royce 

N  Y  Times  pl2  Ja  6  '24  1250w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p754  N  8 
'23    20w 

MITCHELL,  THOMAS  WALKER.  Medical 
psychology  and  psychical  research.  244p  $3 
Dutton    [7s   Gd  Methuen] 

132  Psychology,  Pathological.  Psychical  re- 
search. Personality,  Disorders  of 
The  book  deals  with  those  branches  of  medi- 
cal psychology  which  have  thrown  most  light  on 
the  problems  of  psychical  research— hypnotism, 
hysteria  and  multiple  personality.  It  examines 
some  pathological  states  of  mind  with  a  view 
to  making  understandable  the  study  of  certain 
psychic  phenomena.  Most  of  the  contents  of 
the  book  has  already  been  published  in  the 
proceedings  of  the  Society  of  psychical  research, 
of  which  the  author  is  president. 


"An  earnest  and  painstaking  contribution  to 
a  somewhat  hackneyed  subject.  In  the  present 
volume  are  several  detailed  reports  of  cases 
of  so-called  multiple  personality.  These  are 
always  interesting,  even  to  the  lay  reader,  and 
Dr.  Mitchell's  theories  about  them  are  plausible, 
although  not  agreeing  with  the  present  opinion 
of  leading  psychiatrists."  J:  E.  Lind 
+    Lit  R  p567  Mr  31  '23  150w 

"There  is  undoubtedly  a  connection  between 
abnormal  and  supernormal  phenomena,  and  such 
a  book  as  this,  which  attempts  to  discover  tliis 
connection,  is  of  the  utmost  interest  and  value." 
Hereward   Carrington 

+   N   Y  Times  pl8  Ap  8  '23  2100w 

"Though  the  book  contains  little  that  is  new, 
it    provides    fascinating    reading    in    one    of    the 
most  intriguing  branches  of  psychology." 
Spec  130:64   Ja  13  '23  260w 

MITCHISON,  MRS  NAOMI.  The  conquered- 
with  an  introd.  by  Ernest  Barker.  320d  $2 
Harcourt      [7s    6d    J.    Cape] 

[23-10234] 
"The  basis  of  Mrs.  Mitchison's  novel  is  the 
Gallic  war  rewritten  from  the  Gallic  standpoint 
and  told  m  the  tragedy— it  is  too  sad  a  story 
to  be  called  an  adventure — of  Meromic,  a  young 
Gallic  chieftain.  The  book  opens  in  the  autumn 
of  58  B.C.,  on  the  Atlantic  seaboard  of  the 
ancient  Veneti;  it  ends  on  an  Italian  farm  near 
Rome  in  46.  During  these  twelve  years — as 
swift  as  any  in  their  destruction  of  a  nation's 
hope— Gaul  has  lost  the  last  semblance  of 
united  strength  and  has  come  to  rest  under 
•  ""tit  "^^^  lords.  We  see  it  all  crystallized 
in  Meromic,  as  we  follow  him  from  freedom 
among  those  Brittany  strongholds  to  slavery 
in    Rome,    and    back    again    to   Gaul   to   fight    in 


Booklist  20:140  Ja   '24 

"The  whole  story  is  a  remarkably  good  piece 
of  imaginative  writing."     D.  L.  M. 

-\-   Boston    Transcript    p7    S    29    '23    200w 

Reviewed   by   Llewelyn   Powys 
Dial    75:600   D   '23   1450w 

"The  finest  thing  about  this  finely  told  story 
is  its  simple  and  limpid  style.  No  fustian  here, 
no  mangling  of  English  speech  to  give  an  artifi- 
cial sense  of  quaintness  or  foreignness."  H.  W. 
Boynton 

+  Ind  111:314  D  22  '23  720w 

"Mrs.  Mitchison  may  have  lived  in  Gaul  in 
some  former  life  for  all  we  know;  she  cer- 
tainly writes  her  story  not  like  an  archaeolo- 
gist, not  even  as  a  Roman,  but  as  a  Gaul,  a 
fine  barbarian,  might  have  seen  it.  What  a 
companipn  this  book  would  be  for  Caesar's 
'Commentaries';  but  indeed  it  is  interesting 
enough  in  itself  to  stand  alone  as  vigorous, 
exciting     romance." 

+   Lit     R     p60     S     22     '23     300w 

"With  The  Conquered,  which  is  apparently 
her  first  book.  Mrs.  Mitchison  establishes  her- 
self as  the  best,  if  not  the  only  English  his- 
torical novelist  now  writing.  The  Conquered 
seems  to  me  in  many  respects  the  most  at- 
tractive and  poignant  historical  novel  that  I 
have    ever    read."      Raymond    Mortimer 

+  New    Statesman    21:82    Ap    28    '23    900w 

"fhe  author  has  made  an  interesting  story 
!' gainst  a  colorful  background,  a  background 
that  in  its  essentials  seems  as  accurately  as  it 
is  graphically  pictured.  True,  she  frequently 
forgets  in  the  conversation  of  her  people,  es- 
pecially in  their  expletives,  that  they  are  not 
modern  Britons.  The  result  is  an  often  jarring 
note  that  seems  the  more  regrettable  because 
of  the  care  and  the  excellence  with  which 
otherwise  she  has  recreated  the  time  and  the 
scene  " 

+  '—  N    Y   Times  pl6  O  28   '23  700w 

"She  has,  as  it  were  by  miracle,  got  back 
into  the  air  and  mood  of  the  time  she  writes 
about:  she  creates,  and  re-creates.  The  splen- 
dour and  the  mystery  come  easy  to  her.  She 
is  at  home.  Mrs.  Mitchison's  touch  never 
falters.  She  never  condescends  to  the  pedantry 
of  archaic  speech  on  the  one  hand  or  of  dis- 
tracting colloquialism  on  the  other.  And  she 
rises  without  effort  to  eloquence  and,  beyond 
eloquence,    to    poetry." 

+  Sat   R   135:704  My  26  '23  520w 

"There  is  no  criticism  to  be  offered  about  this 
book.  We  can  only  say  that  we  think  it  one  of 
the  best  historical  novels  we  have  read.  Apart 
from  the  vivid  reality  of  scenes  and  details  of 
dress,  food,  and  customs  of  Gaul  and  Roman, 
there  is  a  larger  accuracy." 

Spec    130:1089   Je   30   '23   90w 

"Those  who  ask  for  fidelity  to  the  original  in 
a  historical  novel  will  find  little  to  complain 
of  in  Mrs.  Mitchison's  treatment  but  she  has 
not  quite  bridged  the  difference  between  his- 
torian and  novelist." 

H The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p354  My 

24  '23  700w 

MOLNAR,  FRANZ.  Fashions  for  men,  and 
The  swan;  two  plays;  English  texts  by  Ben- 
jamin   Glazer.    309p    $2    Boni    &    Liveright 

894  23-1248 

Both  plays  are  three-act  comedies.  The  first 
portrays  both  the  advantages  and  disadvantages 
of  extreme  kindliness  in  the  person  of  Peter 
Juhasz,  a  shop-keeper  of  Budapest.  His  good- 
ness, having  lost  him  his  shop  and  his  wife, 
wins  him  the  patronage  of  a  count  and  a  posi- 
tion of  trust  on  the  latter's  estates.  Guarding 
too  zealously  the  count's  pretty  secretary  from 
the  old  man's  amorous  advances,  even  against 
the  young  woman's  own  wishes,  he  is  forced  to 
leave  and  luckily  regains  possession  of  his  shop. 
When  he  is  once  more  in  a  fair  way  to  make 


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a  mess  of  his  affairs,  the  young  woman— won 
over,  in  spite  of  herself,  by  his  love  and  good- 
ness— appears  on  the  scene  to  take  charge  of 
both  Peter  and  the  shop.  The  second  play  il- 
lustrates the  juggling  with  hearts  practiced  in 
royal  fnmilies  to  engineer  the  right  matrimonial 
alliances.  In  this  case  the  young  princess— the 
swan — after  the  satisfactory  arrangement  is 
concluded  is  admonished  never  to  betray  her 
close  kinship  to  a  common  duck  by  walking  on 
land  but  to  confine  her  activities  to  gliding 
majestically  on  the  surface  of  the  water. 

Booklist  19:247  My  '23 
Dial  74:r)21  My  '23  80w 
"Neither  'Fashions  for  Men'  nor  'The  Swan' 
shows  the  sweep,  the  impelling  force  or  the 
bizarre  quality  of  Molnar's  imagination  which 
go  to  make  'Liliom'  a  work  of  genius.  Both 
are  more  ordinary  in  conception  and  technique, 
but  occasional  strokes  of  sound  pathos  or  hu- 
mour arid  the  several-faceted  humanity  of  tbf 
chief  characters,  elevate  them  above  the  ruck 
of  ordinary    plays."      R.   A.    P. 

-\ Freeman   6:598   F   28   '23   250w 

"His   delicate    humor   has    moments   of    inimi- 
table  shrewdness   and   penetration.      He   flashes 
bitterly     poignant     touches.       Emotionally     and 
dramatically   the   plays   are   not   great,    but   they 
are  adequate,  and  in  the  sincerity  of  the  satire 
there  is  a  human  wistfulness  that  is  profound." 
-I-   Lit   R   p490   F  24  '23   520w 
N   Y  Times  p4  Ja  14  '23  50()w 
N   Y   World  p9e   F  18  '23  550\v 

"Both  these  Molnar  plays  are  light  in  con- 
tent, but  they  are  more  than  redeemed  by  the 
lightness  of  the  author's  touch.  They  both  have 
charm  and  no  little  insinuation  of  meaning,  and 
both  are  made  refreshing  and  delightful  by  the 
sophistication  and  cosmopolitan  suavity  and 
ease   of  the  talk." 

-f  Theatre   Arts   M   7:170  Ap  '23   150w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:53   F   '23 

MONROE,  WALTER  SCOTT.  Introduction  to 
the  theory  of  educational  measurements. 
(Riverside  textbooks  in  education)  364p  $2 
Houghton 

371  Mental  tests.  Educational  measure- 
ments 23-2220 
An  advanced  textbook  on  tests  and  measure- 
ments dealing  with  the  principles  underlying 
their  construction,  use  and  interpretation.  The 
purpose  is  to  give  college  and  graduate  students 
a  basis  on  which  to  make  critical  studies  of 
educational  tests  and  to  form  intelligent  judg- 
ments concerning  their  usefulness.  Two  chap- 
ters on   statistical   methods  are   included. 

Booklist  19:203  Ap  '23 
Educ  R  66:248  N  '23  550w 
"This  book,  in  spite  of  its  unfinished  character, 
makes  a   contribution    to    the  literature   of   edu- 
cational     measurements      where      it      is      most 
needed."     F:    S.    Breed 

H El   School   J   23:629  Ap  '23  650w 

MONTAGUE,  CHARLES  EDWARD.  Fiery  par- 
ticles. 277p  $1.75  Doubleday  [7s  Chatto  &  W.] 
An  ironic  humor  characterizes  most  of  these 
short  stories.  The  first,  "Another  temple  gone," 
is  a  story  of  Irish  moonshine;  "Honours  easy!" 
of  the  competition  of  two  men  for  undeserved 
war  decorations;  "A  propos  des  bottes,"  of  two 
amu.sing  exhibitors  of  waxworks  who  ap- 
proached too  near  the  Equator  and,  finding 
their  figures  melting,  had  the  foresight  to  turn 
their  show  into  a  representation  of  the  end  of  the 
world;  "Trade  report  only,"  of  an  Irishman  at 
the  front  who  exch;mged  one  live  dog  for  one 
dead  German,  with  a  profit  of  five  pounds. 
Other  stories:  My  friend  the  swan;  First  blood 
sweep;  In  Hanging  Garden  gully;  All  for  peace 
and    quiet;    Two   or   three   witnesses. 

Booklist   20:58   N   '23 

"Humorou.^;  but  with  a  penetrating  mordant 
wit  that  makes  'Honours  Easy' — on  the  face  of 
it  a  genial,  slow  moving,  rather  elaborately 
worded  sketch — more  devastating  in  its  arraign- 
ment of  war  conduct  than  Dos  Passos's  'Three 


Soldiers.'.   .  .  I  suspect  C.  E.  Montague  of  being 
a    writer    of    a    vast    amount    of    deftness    and 
possibly  a  touch  of  genius."     J.   F. 
-i-    Bookm    57:451   Je    '23   150w 
"His    method    is    nearly    always    leisurely    and 
frequently  stiff;  and  it  must  be  added,  the  style 
of    'Fiery    Particles'    is    neither    so    rich    nor    so 
graceful  as  that  of  'Disenchantment.'    Notwith- 
standing all  this,  the  nine  stories  are  very  forci- 
ble,   and    more    important    still,    individual,    for 
Montague's  own  personality  pervades  his  work. 
J    F.   S. 

-f  —i  Boston    Transcript    p4    My    26    '23    660w 

Cleveland  p43  Je  '23 
"Two  of   the   finest  short  stories   of  war  ever 
written   are   in   this   amazing  collection."    D.    K. 
Laub 

+  Detroit  News  pl2  Jl  8  '23  800w 
"There  is  something  about  these  tales  which 
gives    them    the    racy,    authentic    stamp    of    the 
born    story-teller   who   can    begin   anywhere   be- 
cause he  knows  precisely  where  he  is  going  to 
come  out — and  how.   In  some  instances  this  ef- 
fect is  attained  with  a  puzzling  deliberation,  but 
it    is    there    just    the    same,    strongly    felt    and 
vividly  etched  on  the  imagination."   L.     B. 
4-  Freeman  7:455  JI  18  '23  210w 
"Were   there   nothing  else   to  recommend   this 
group  of  brilliant  short   stories,   its  variety  and 
striking    changes    of    color    would    earn    a    high 
ranking   in   the   output   of  contemporary   fiction. 
Mr.  Montague  makes  no  attempt  to  be  original; 
traces  of     Kipling,   Chekhoff  and  O.   Henry  are 
easily    found    in    his    plots    and    his    treatment. 
Nevertheless,   in  vigorous  versatility  the  author 
has    been    surpassed    by    no    modern    singer    of 
sagas."     J.   J.    Smertenko 

+  Lit  R  p619  Ap  21  '23  700w 
"Mr.  Montague  is  obviously  more  interested 
in  his  highly  stilted  style  than  in  the  portrayal 
of  his  characters  and  his  fiery  particles  turn 
out  to  be  rather  frigid  pieces  of  humanity  after 
all.  They  are  eminently  literary  but  they  do  not 
make   literature." 

h   Nation    116:676   Je    6    '23    90w 

"Although  excellence  is  to  be  found  upon 
every  page  of  'Fiery  Particles,'  it  must  be 
pointed  out  that  C.  E.  Montague,  good  as  he  is. 
has  been  overpraised.  "What  he  appears  to  be 
is  a  keen  thinker  of  somewhat  ironical  turn  with 
a  delightful  sen.se  of  humor  and  with  a  decided 
knack  of  turning  out  well-sustained  and  highly 
motivated  short  stories.  Two  of  the  finest  in 
this  book  are  'A  Propos  des  Bottes'  and  'A 
Trade  Report  Only.'  " 

-I NY  Times  pl4  Ap  22  '23  600w 

"Mr.  Montague  has  things  to  say,  and  he  says 
them  magnificently."   Charlotte  Dean 

-f   N  Y  Tribune  pl9  My  20  '23  750w 
"Amply    qualified    to    uphold    the    reputation 
which  Mr.  Montague  established  among  his  Am- 
erican   readers    by    means    of    his    'Disenchant- 
ment.' "  E.  W.  O. 

+   N  Y  World  plOe  Ap  29  '23  650w 
"Mr.    Montague    is   an   extremely,    and   consci- 
ously, accomplished  artist.     He  is  witty,  with  a 
vast    fund    of   quotation   and   allusion,    generally 
drawn    upon    with    ease    and    aptness.    .    .    But 
culture  has  not  divorced  him  from  life." 
-I-   Sa'.   R  135:374  Mr  17  '23  600w 
Spec  130:631     Ap  14  '23  350w 

MONTAGUE,    MARGARET    PRESCOTT.     Deep 
channel.    289p    $1.90    Atlantic    monthly 

23-12709 

This  is  the  story  of  the  sublimated  love  of  a 
man  and  woman  of  like  nature,  over-sensitive 
timid  and  misunderstood,  who  never  felt  at 
home  in  the  world  until,  too  late,  they  found 
each  other.  Julie  Rose  had  no  defences  against 
her  prying  neighbors  and  Timothy  Bixby  was 
at  the  mercy  of  a  vulgar,  nagging  wife.  He 
was  also  daily  facing  the  draft  call  which  to 
him  was  a  terrifying  experience.  With  their 
discovery  of  each  other  courage  came  to  dety 
the  world  and  its  laws  and  go  away  together. 
Two  months  of  happiness  brought  them  a  higher 
courage— Timothy  to  answer  his  call  and  .Julie 
to  return  to  her  old  home  and  face  her  neigh- 
bors. 


360 


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MONTAGUE,   M.   P. — Continued 

"To  write  a  novel  with  such  a  hero  and  such 
a  heroine  required  originality  and  unusual  lit- 
erary skill.  The  author  of  Deep  Channel  has 
both,  and  has  succeedea  in  producing  one  of 
the  best  novels  of  the  year."  W:  L.  Phelps 
4-  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  O  '23  600w 
Booklist    20:58    N    '23 

"Few  of  the  story  writers  of  our  dav  deal 
so  persistently  with  the  things  of  the '  spirit 
as  does  Margaret  Prescott  Montague.  In  many 
times  and  ways  she  has  striven  to  impress 
her  conviction  that  if  there  is  peace  at  the 
centre  of  a  man's  life,  he  can  meet  the  buffet- 
ings  of  fortune  unafraid.  'Deep  Channel'  is 
also  a  war  story  insofar  as  background  is  con- 
cerned. In  its  essentials  it  possesses  universal 
significance."    D.    L..    M. 

Boston   Transcript  p6  Ag  29  '23  1050w 

"Her  portrait  of  the  repressed  and  the  perse- 
cuted is  intelligible  and  substantial,  but  it  is 
not  inspired.  For  she  writes  more  simply  than 
well.  Her  prose  lacks  both  passion  and  precision. 
She  has  not  dulled  the  interest  of  her  story,  but 
neither  has  she  added  any  richness  to  the 
iJiot  in  the  telling."  J.  J.  Smertenko 

h   Lit    R   pl03   O   6   '23    200w 

Nation  117:sup410  O  10  '23  480w 
"If  only  the  book  had  been  sustained  through- 
out on  the  high  level  reached  by  its  first  160 
pages,  we  would  have  been  able  to  hail  it  as 
one  of  the  best  novels  of  its  type  published  in 
many  a  day.  But  from  this  point  it  goes  rapidly 
down  hill.  .  .  The  author's  style,  particularly  in 
the  early  portion  of  the  book,  is  unusually  good, 
and  often  very  beautiful.  Because  of  this 
beauty,  because  of  the  fine  and  delicate  under- 
standing manifested  throughout  the  first  part  of 
the  book,  'Deep  Channel'  is  well  worth  reading." 

H NY  Times  pl8  S  2  '23  880w 

"  'Deep  Channel'  is  a  book  revolving  inter- 
estingly about  a  mooted  dramatic  situation 
and  significantly  presents  an  old  moral  problem 
from   a   new  angle." 

+  Sprlngf'd     Republican     p7a     Ag     26     '23 
720w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:444  O  '23 

MONTGOMERY,  BO  GABRIEL  DE.  British 
and  continental  labour  policy;  the  political  la- 
bour movement  and  labour  legislation  in  Great 
Britam,  France,  and  the  Scandinavian  coun- 
tries,   1900-1922.    575p   $8   Dutton 

331  Labor  and  laboring  classes  [22-18932] 
"The  author  extends  his  survey  to  Denmark, 
Norway  and  Sweden,  but  the  main  chapters  are 
given  to  Great  Britain  and  France,  and  it  is 
within  this  field  that  his  more  general  conclu- 
sions apply.  Within  the  sections  devoted  to 
the  labor  movement  as  a  whole  are  extended  ac- 
counts of  such  developments  as  trade-unionism, 
socialism,  syndicalism,  communism,  Fabianism 
and  guild  socialism.  The  part  played  by  labor 
in  parliamentary  representation  is  set  forth, 
and  there  is  a  careful  estimate  of  the  legal  posi- 
tion conferred  on  trade  unions  in  the  several 
countries.  Not  the  least  informing  of  the  chap- 
ters are  those  devoted  to  conciliation  and  arbi- 
tration, the  minimum  wage,  legal  regulation  of 
the  hours  of  labor,  unemployment,  and  nation- 
alization   of    indu.stries." — ^Boston    Transcript 

"This  study  of  the  European  labor  problem, 
carried  out  by  a  well-known  economist  and  fin- 
ancier, is  the  first  yet  made  on  a  scale  com- 
mensurate with  the  importance  of  the  suhlect 
and  has  a  bearing  on  world  trade  and  interna- 
tional relations  that  promises  to  keep  it  in 
demand  as  a  book  of  reference  for  years  to 
come." 

+   Boston    Transcript   p5    'F   24    '23    1200w 

"From  the  standpoint  of  lasting  value,  the 
encyclopedic  features  of  M.  de  Montgomery  will 
make  the  volume  a  valuable  addition  to  any 
student's    library."      R.    C.    Feld 

-f   N  Y  Times  p8  Mr  4  '23  330w 

"The  book  contains  a  wealth  of  interesting 
fact  In  addition  to  the  political  organization 
^f-.'^Y?*""'  the  legal  position  of  trade  unions,  con- 
ciliation and  arbitration,  the  minimum  wage 
legal  regulation  of  the  hours  of  labor,  unem- 
ployment,  joint  industrial  organization  and  na- 


tionalization in  the  four  countries  are  all  de- 
scribed with  much  detail,  although  not  with  any 
especial  brilliance.  The  book  will  probably  be 
read  with  pleasure  by  those  who  want  to  believe 
that  the  interests  of  the  workers,  after  all  is 
said  and  done,  are  identical  with  those  of  their 
employers.  Here  are  facts  which  are  forced  to 
prove  it."     H.    S.   Raushenbush 

-i-  —  Survey  50:635  S  15  '23  700w 

MONTGOMERY,  LUCY  MAUD  (MRS  EWAN 
MACDONALD).  Emily  of  New  Moon.  351p 
$2      Stokes 

23-12112 
"In  the  story  little  Emily  Byrd  Starr,  aged 
eleven,  has  been  left  an  orphan.  We  are  in 
time  to  see  the  death  of  her  father,  Douglas 
Starr,  an  unsuccessful  journalist,  and  to  learn 
that  though  he  had  never  been  forgiven  for 
having  eloped  with  Juliet  Murray,  yet  the  Mur- 
ray pride  is  such  that  the  family  will  certainly 
provide  for  Juliet's  daughter.  It  is  decided  by 
the  drawing  of  lots  that  she  shall  go  to  New 
Moon  with  two  of  her  aunts.  New  Moon,  called 
after  the  ship  in  which  the  Murrays  sailed  from 
the  old  country,  had  been  built  more  than  a 
century  ago;  the  family  had  spread  and  pros- 
pered, its  tentacles  were  deep  down  in  the  is- 
land soil,  so  that  we  may  watch  the  founding 
of  a  new  squirearchy  as  well  as  obtain  glimpses 
of  many  aspects  of  an  ordered  colonial  life." 
—The   "Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 


"  'Emily  of  New  Moon'  shows  Miss  Mont- 
gomery to  be  simply  a  pleasing  story-teller. 
There  is  little  originality  in  either  her  plot  or 
her  characters.  Her  greatest  charm  lies  in  a 
real  understanding  and  sympathy  for  children, 
a  sympathy  which,  even  though  it  may  degen- 
erate at  times  into  the  sentimental,  neverthe- 
less has  a  certain  appealing  quality  and  a  depth 
of   sincerity   that   is   disarming." 

H  N    Y   Times  p24    Ag  26   '23   520w 

"Both  as  a  study  of  the  early  life  of  a  ver.v 
precocious  child  and  for  its  original  setting  in 
Prince  Edward  Island,  this  story  makes  a  con- 
siderable   appeal." 

-f  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p605    S 
13   '23   200w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:444  O  '23 

MONTROSS,  LYNN,  and  MONTROSS,  LOIS 
SEYSTER  (MRS  LYNN  MONTROSS).  Town 
and  gown.   283p  $2     Doran 

23-3553 
"Ijife  in  a  co-educational  institution,  presum- 
ably Middle  Western,  is  portrayed  in  a  more  or 
less  graphic  manner  in  'Town  and  Gown.'  The 
institution  of  learning  is  the  same  throughout, 
but  the  characters  vary,  each  episode  being 
complete    in    itself." — N    Y    Times 


Booklist   19:224   Ap   "23 

"  'Town  and  Gown'  is  the  representation  of  a 
complete  little  microcosm,  presented  with  skill 
and  minuteness  and  a  point  of  view  steady  and 
disenchanted."     G.    H.    Carson 

+   Bookm    57:213   Ap   '23   750w 

Boston    Transcript   p2   Ap   28   '23   1300w 

"The  uniform  level  of  excellence  in  the  whole 
book  is  impressive.  The  occasional  stylistic  ex- 
cesses, the  youthful  air  of  disillusionment,  the 
fierceness  of  the  satire,  the  hard  flippancies, 
merit  indulgence.  They  are,  furthermore,  in- 
teresting because  highly  significant  of  the  spir- 
it of  revolt  in  which  the  heirs  of  America  are 
now  surveying  their  demesne."  G.  H.  Carrin 
4-   Int    Bk    R    pl6   Ag   '23    2400w 

"A  note  of  hard  sophistication  runs  thru  the 
book.  In  construction  only  a  few  of  the  stories 
have  merit,  most  of  them  being  mere  sketches: 
the  style  is  frequently  false  and  overstrained. 
Here  and  there  shrewd  touches  occur,  and  the 
first  and  last  stories  show  that  when  the  authors 
deal  with  significant  material  in  a  sincere  spirit 
they  can  produce  a  creditable  and  informing 
bit  of  fiction.  But  for  the  most  nart  the  book 
is   distasteful   in   both   manner  and  matter." 

h   Lit   R   p555   Mr   24  '23   330w 


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"  'Town  and  Gown'  is,  in  short,  to  'Moon-Calf 
and  "Main  Street'  and  'Tiiis  Side  of  Paradise' 
about  what  the  life  of  a  university  is  to  Ameri  • 
can  life  at  large;  that  is,  it  is  an  abstract  and 
a  condensation.  But  it  has  such  excellence  in 
Its  'own  right  that  for  its  sake  I  forgive  the 
tedious  'college  stories'  I  have  read.  I  shall  not 
forgive  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Montross,  however,  if  they 
fail  to  come  up  to  my  expectations  find  do  other 
books  as  clever  and  even  more  far-reaching." 
Carl  Van  Doren 

Nation  116:221  F  21  '23  lOOOw 
N  'Y  Times  p24  Ja  28  '23  450w 
"Altogether  'Town  and  Gown'  is  a  gallant  at- 
tempt. It  is  an  attempt  on  the  part  of  youth 
to  stand  off  and  take  a  look  at  itself.  It  can't 
be  done,  but  the  effort  is  diverting  to  watch." 
Isabel  Paterson 

H   N    Y   Tribune   plS   Mr  4   '23   1150w 

MOORE,    BERTHA    PEARL.        Love   child.    253p 

$2   Seltzer 

23-12715 

A  tale  of  a  family  of  Jewish  immigrants  of 
the  East  Side  that  depicts  their  futile  ambitions, 
their  vague  longings  for  beauty  and  their  dreary 
day-by-day  activities.  Mira,  practical,  bustling 
thru  life,  has  never  even  glimpsed  the  inner  life 
of  her  husband,  Yekel,  a  drunkard  and  a 
dreamer.  Annie,  the  child  who  so  strangely  re- 
sembles a  girl  he  once  loved,  is  touched  by  his 
position  and  gropingly  attempts  to  meet  him  on 
common  ground.  In  spite  of  her  efforts  they 
drift  further  away  from  sympathetic  under- 
standing. When  Yekel  finds  Annie  drunk  at 
her  sister's  wedding  party,  he  loses  his  last 
hold  on  life  and  ends  it.  Annie,  persumably, 
is  to  follow  in  his  path  of  slow  dissolution. 


is  traced  from  its  rudimentary  beginnings  thru 
ascending  ranges  of  the  spirit  till  it  reaches  its 
ultimate  goal  in  sclf-i-ealization,  the  fulfillment 
of  the  highest  possibilities  of  human  nature. 
Contents:  Antecedonis  and  rudiments;  Souls 
and  spirits;  The  emergence  of  gods;  Morals  and 
religion;  Religions  of  higher  civilizations;  After 
dealt h;  Ways  of  salvation;  Salvation:  religion 
and    philosophy. 


"In  every  way  this  is  a  remarkable  American 
novel.  It  is  the  product  of  an  East  Side  environ- 
ment, plus  an  education  in  strictly  Gentile  sur- 
roundings. The  result  is  manifestly  excellent." 
D.  F.  G. 

-I-   Boston  Transcript  p4  N  7  '23  650w 

"  'The  Love  Child'  has  many  faults,  but  the 
book  commands  the  reader's  attention  because 
the  subject  matter  is  vital.  The  style,  it  is 
true,  is  no  better  than  ordinary,  the  action  in 
places  is  a  little  jeiky,  the  ending  a  trifle  forced 
and  somewhat  inconclusive,  the  Freudian  com- 
plexes that  animate  father  and  daughter  per- 
haps a  bit  too  pronounced  to  be  altogether  con- 
vincing; but  one  feels  that  somehow  the  author 
is  dealing  with  the  material  of  real  life  and  is 
reaching  down  beneath  the  surface,  that  some- 
how she  has  identified  herself  with  her  charac- 
ters and  shared  with  them  their  sufferings  and 
their  aspirations."  S.  A.  Colilentz 
H Lit   R   pG6   S  22   '23  550w 

"The  author  knows  her  subject,  and  has 
managed  to  get  the  idiom  and  the  broken 
rhythm  of  ghetto  existence  tangibly  into  these 
pages." 

+  Nation    118:15  Ja   2   '24   50w 

"She  has  told  her  essentially  simple  stbry 
straightforwardly,  and  yet  at  the  close  one  puts 
the  book  down  baffled,  not  by  the  mystery  of 
life,  but  for  want  of  demonstrated  significance 
in  this  particular  chain  of  events.  The  charac- 
ters live  and  breathe.  They  have  personality, 
individualit.v  and  they  are  veritable  Russian 
Jewish  immigrants.  It  is  in  the  deeds  and  im- 
pulses ascribed  to  them  at  times,  in  the  inotiva- 
tion  of  the  story,  that  they  are  made  to  appear 
false.  It  is  easy  to  accept  them,  but  not  the 
things  we  are  told  about  them." 

h   N  Y  Times  o4  S  30  '23  550w 

Reviewed    by   Leo    Markim 

N   Y  Tribune  p21  N  11  '23  lOOOw 

MOORE.   GEORGE   FOOT.   Birth  and  growth   of 
"    religion:  being  the  Morse  lectures  of  1922.  178p 

$1..''.0    Scrihner 

201    Religion— Psychology  23-13fi69 

The  professor  of  the  history  of  religion  in  Har- 
vard university  here  studies  the  origin  and 
development  of  the  religious  instinct  which  in 
various  forms  has  persisted  thru  all  the  stages 
of  civilization.  Tlie  universal  motive  is  found 
In  the  impulse  of  self-preservation.  This  impulse 


"Based  on  a  series  of  lectures  adequate  for  the 
average    reader    though    not    comprehensive." 
H Booklist  20:120  Ja  '24 

MORAND,  PAUL.  Open  all  night;  tr.  from  the 
French  by  H.  C.  V.  172p  $2  Seltzer  [7s  6d 
Chapman    &   Dodd] 

23-14918 
The  five  stories  contained  in  the  book  are  love 
episodes,  night  adventures  in  as  many  capitals 
of  post-war  Europe.  Sensual  and  decadent,  the 
stories  picture  the  war's  deadliest  effects — the 
spiritual  disease,  the  mad  recklessness,  the 
cynicism  which  it  has  left  in  its  wake,  and  they 
aie  told  with  an  art  which  captures  the  spirit 
of  the  place  and  time.  The  women  about  whom 
these  night  episodes  center  are  all  flotsam  of 
the  war.  Among  them  are  Dona  Remedios, 
widow  of  a  Catalan  socialist;  Anna  Valentin- 
ovna,  Russian  aristocrat  and  refugee,  waiting 
on  table  in  a  Constantinople  restaurant;  and 
Zael,  the  little  Hungarian  dancing  girl.  Con- 
tents: The  Catalonian  night;  The  Turkish  night; 
The  Roman  night;  The  six -day  night;  "The 
Hungarian   night. 


"The  book  is  really  important  to  the  student 

of    modern    politics;    but    first    and    foremost    it 

is    axtremely    fine    craftsmanship,    a    delight    to 

evei'y  mind   that  loves  artistic  work."  G.   W.   J. 

+  Greensboro   (N.C.)   Dally  News  plO  Ja  6 

'24  430w 

"M.  Paul  Morand  is  the  first  writer  I  have 
come  across  who  has  treated  like  a  man  of  let- 
ters those  post-war  phenomena  which  in  the 
young  generation  alarm  our  moralists,  depress 
our  aesthetes  and  sadly  gravel  our  elderly  observ- 
ers. .  .  Considered  merely  as  a  document,  'The 
Turkish  Night'  has  recorded  for  ever  the  mood 
of  the  Russian  refugees  in  Constantinople.  Nor 
have  I  read  anything  which  brought  so  close  to 
my  apprehension  the  rush  of  subterranean 
savagery  beneath  a  shabby  yet  superficially  re- 
covering civilisatio)!,  a  torrent  war  has  let  loose, 
as   the   story   of   "The   Hungarian    Night.'  " 

+   New  Statesman    21:523   Ag  11   '23   1800w 

Reviewed    bv   Raymond    Mortimer 

New    Statesman    27:supl9    O   13    '23   40w 

"For  highly  civilized  folk,  with  just  a  touch 
of  decadence  in  their  taste,  persons  who  by 
preference  frequently  select  a  literary  hors 
d'oeuvre  instead  of  a  more  substantial  roast, 
this  book  will  tingle  all  the  way  down  the 
esophagus."     Bruce  Gould 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p25  O  21   '23  650w 

"It  is  fair  to  record  that  'Open  all  Night,'  in 
Its  pristine  shape  as  'Ouvert  la  Nuit,'  awakened 
in  many  critical  breasts  an  enthusiasm  which 
the  English  version  certainly  does  not  awaken 
in  mine.  I  have  not  enjoyed  it  sufficiently  to  be 
tempted  towards  the  original.  .  .  There  is  wit 
there,  and  wisdom;  but  they  seem  of  too  narroAV 
a  sophistication.  There  is  a  good  deal  that  is 
cynical  and  'daring.'  "  Gerald  Gould 

Sat    R    136:408    O    13    '23    640w 

"M.  Morand's  prose  is  a  development  of  the 
ecriUtre  artiste  of  the  Goncourts  as  it  was  in- 
tensified by  Huysmans.  In  spite  of  the  differ- 
once  (due  to  the  fashion  of  the  times)  that  he 
insists  on  seeming  casual,  there  is  the  same 
search  for  the  word  which  shall  exactly  trans- 
mit the  sensation,  the  research  for  the  bizarre 
in  the  familiar,  and  consequently  a  vocabulary 
crowded  with  terms  from  the  workshops  and 
the  pavements.  The  ti'anslator  has  been  almost 
inspired  in  his  discovery  of  equivalents  for 
French  slang,  and  his  work  might  be  taken  as 
a  model  for   the  translator." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p500  Jl  26 
'23  550w 


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MOREHOUSE,      FRANCES      MILTON      IRENE, 
and    GRAHAM,    SYBIL    FLEMING.    American 

problems.     567p     $1.72      Ginn 

304  Social  problems.  United  States — Econ- 
omic conditions  23-4371 
In  this  textbook  in  social  progress  the  open- 
ing chapters  build  up  the  historical  background 
for  the  pupil  by  tracing  the  development  of 
our  social  institutions,  the  ideas  that  we  have 
inherited  on  such  subjects  as  property,  the 
family  and  government  and  the  changes 
wrought  by  revolutions.  Then  follow  chapters 
on  the  larger  economic  problems  of  prices, 
production,  money  and  credit,  distribution,  tax- 
ation, etc.  The  remaining  chapters  deal  with 
social  problems  such  as  poverty,  crime,  citizen- 
ship, rural  life,  politics  and  foreign  relationships. 
Reading  lists,  search  questions  and  problems 
follow  each   chapter.    Index. 


Reviewed  by  E.   W.  Goodhue 

Am  Econ  R  13:466  S  '23  1500w 
"The  value  of  the  book  is  enhanced  by  the 
pamstaking  care  on  the  part  of  the  authors 
in  checking  source  materials  both  in  publica- 
tions and  in  present-day  business  institutions. 
The  sound,  constructive,  and  far-reaching 
programs  of  reform  recommended  throughout 
the  book  should  help  to  direct  the  pupils' 
thought  in  solving  problems.  This  text  should 
find  wide  use  in  twelfth-grade  modern  prob- 
lems courses."   W.   G.   Kimmel 

+   School    R    31:392   My   '23    480w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:157  Je  '23 

MORGAN,  CONWY  LLOYD.  Emergent  evo- 
lution; the  Gifford  lectures,  delivered  in  the 
University  of  St  Andrews  in  the  year  1922. 
313p      $3.25     Holt      [15s    Williams  &  N.] 

113      Evolution  [23-101G4] 

The  author  holds  that  the  orderly  sequence 
of  events,  in  scientific  research  and  thought 
from  time  to  time  presents  something  genuinely 
new  something  entirely  unpredictable  from 
mechanistic  premises.  This  he  calls  emergent 
evolution  and  the  object  of  the  book  is  to  show 
that  it  admits  of  a  supernaturalistic  explana- 
tion of  the  universe,  which  does  not  supersede 
but  supplements  the  outcome  of  scientific  inquiry 
and  does  not  preclude  an  acknowledgment  of 
God  founded  on  philosophic  considerations.  List 
of    works    quoted.       Appendix.     Index. 

Cath  World  118:562  Ja  '24  850w 
Freeman  8:287  N  28  '23  200w 
"Professor  Uloyd  Morgan's  hook  is  both  in- 
teresting and  important.  It  provides  some 
valuable  new  criticisms  and  suggestions  with 
regard  to  the  central  problem  of  philosophy 
today. 

-f   Int   J    Ethics  34:93   O   '23   500w 
Reviewed  by  G.  T.  W.  Patrick 

J    Philos  20:714  D  20   '23  2500w 
Reviewed   by   Vernon    Kellogg 

Lit   R   4:366   D  15  '23   800w 
"It    must    be    admitted    that    the    lectures    are 
extremely  difficult  to  follow  and   that  the  ideas 
of   the   lecturer  are   frequently  obscure."   B    W 
Kunkel 

Nation    118:66   Ja   16   '24   350w 
"A  volume   of  hard   thinking,   but   not   of   un- 
necessarily  hard   reading."    E.    E.    S 

New    Repub    36:162    O    3    '23    150w 
St   Louis  p329  D  '23 

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MORGAN,   EMANUEL.     See  Bynner,  W. 


'^^f^.'^^^r^f  A^,'^'*'^'^-     P"b"c  relief  of  sickness. 
lySp  $1.50   Macmillan 

331.2.5  Insurance,  Health.   Charities,  Medical 
Health  centers  22-19423 

"Mr.  Morgan  has  organized  considerable  valu- 
able material  on  the  problem  of  sickness  and 
poverty  and  methods  being  u.sed  to  meet  that 
problem  in  America,  Denmark,  Germany  and 
Great  Britain.  He  then  discusses  the  facts  so 
cornpiled.  with  reference  to  the  relative  success 
and  failure  of  the  methods  used  in  those  coun- 


tries. His  conclusion  is  that  health  insurance 
alone  cannot  meet  the  problem  and  that  the 
best  plan  would  be  a  two-fold  one  comprising 
two  separately  operated  and  distinct  programs: 
one,  a  provision  for  contributory,  compulsory 
health  insurance;  the  other  a  state-wide  .sys- 
tem of  public  health  centers  in  which  the  best 
possible  health  service  would  be  provided,  that 
service  to  be  paid  for  by  patients  in  proportion 
to  their  ability  to  pay." — Ann  Am  Acad 


"The  book  is  a  thoughtful,  logical  discussion 
of  a  very  important  subject  in  the  field  of  social 
work.  While  it  may  be  said  to  be  too  sketchy 
to  be  considered  a  comprehensive  study  of  the 
subject,  it  does  bring  together  a  nucleus  of  idea, 
fact  and  bibliography  which  should  prove  valu- 
able to  anyone  wishing  to  pursue  the  subject 
further."    W.    M.    L. 

+  Ann    Am    Acad   106:274  Mr  '23   400w 

"The  question  of  providing  adequate  sickness 
insurance  has  received  little  attention  in  the 
United  States.  Mr.  Morgan  has  rendered  a 
real  service  in  presenting  the  various  phases  of 
the  problem  in  challenging  form."     A.   H.   C. 

+  Com   on   Church   &   Soc   Ser.    Inf  ser  p6 
D  30  '22  900w 

"Mr.  Morgan's  book — interesting,  well-bal- 
anced, and  packed  with  information — deserves 
to  be  studied  by  every  progressive  citizen.  The 
reader  will  find  an  orderly  presentation  of  the 
subject."      Rosslyn   Earp 

+   New   Repub  34:326  My   16  '23  1300w 
N   Y  Times  p6  F  18  '23  750w 

"While  Gerald  Morgan's  familiarity  with 
medical  experience,  vital  statistics  and  the  eti- 
ology of  disease  leads  him  into  making  some 
rather  grotesque  statements,  his  study  of  the 
elements  essential  for  the  financial  aid  and 
medical  service  of  the  wage-earner  is  timely, 
judicial  and  constructive."  H.  E. 
-I Survey  49:396  D  15  '22  820w 

MORGAN-DE-GROOT,   J.     Gladys.   330p  $2  Lip- 

pincott 

The  theme  of  the  book  is  that  the  marriage 
vows  ruin  a  woman's  chance  of  happiness  in 
m.arital  relationship,  and  the  way  to  insure  that 
happiness,  according  to  Gladys,  is  to  love,  have 
a  husband  and  children,  but  eliminate  the  cere- 
mony. Her  prospective  husband-after-a-fashion 
tries  to  dissuade  her  from  pursuing  this  method, 
and  so  suggests  to  her  that  this  arrangement 
might  be  a  bit  hard  on  the  children  involved. 
Altho  Gladys  had  given  the  matter  serious 
consideration,  this  thought  had  not  occurred  to 
her.  She  is,  however,  open  to  suggestion  and 
finally  succumbs  to  marriage  in  the  estabished 
manner. 


"Out  of  his  own  experience,  his  insight  into 
mind  and  motive,  and  his  observation  of  the 
habits  of  his  fellows.  Dr.  Morgan-de-Groot  has 
built  a  group  of  characters  that  bear  an  al- 
most human  stamp.  But  he  cannot  make  them 
betiave  like  human  beings.  His  logic,  his  tech- 
nical skill,  possibly  his  patience,  all  have 
failed   him." 

h   N   Y  Times  p27  S  9  '23  500w 

"Herein,  apparently  lies  a  problem  which  Mr. 
J.  Morgan  de  Groot  wishes  to  expound.  If  so, 
why  does  he  do  it  by  artificial  and  deus  ex 
machina  situations?  Surely  this  is  the  least 
convincing    wav    of   presenting    a    point."    K.    L. 

—  NY    Tribune    p26   O    14    '23    lOOw 
"It    is    rather   lurid." 

—  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  O  14  '23  130w 

MORGENTHALER,    HANS    O.     Matahari:     im- 
pressions   of    the      Siamese-Malayan      jungle. 
240p   il    $2.50   Doran    [7s   6d   Allen    &   U.] 
915.93   Siam — Description  and  travel 

23-13959 
An  unusual  kind  of  travel  book  by  a  Swiss 
geologist  whose  mine  prospecting  carried  him 
into  the  remotest  villages  and  jungles  of  Siam 
and  into  contact  with  a  simple  lovable  people. 
He  describes  them  as  a  "wonderfully  happy 
humanity  in  an  almost  perfect  world."  Also, 
the  happy  circumstance  of  knowing  the  Malay 
language  put  him  in  the  way  of  experiences 
not    usually    accessible    to    the    white    man.    He 


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gives  impressionistic  descriptions  of  his  trips 
thru  untrodden  forests,  of  flying  visits  to  Bang- 
kok, of  life  at  headquarters  in  a  tropical  bun- 
galow, of  Aris,  his  man-servant,  and  Hollook- 
kee,  his  Chinese  cook,  of  coolies  and  boatmen 
and  lovely  Siamese  girls. 


"This  book — Matahari  is  the  Malayan  name 
for  the  sun — contains  fascinating  descriptions 
of  Siamese  and  Malay  life.  The  book  has  a 
strong  personal  note  and  is  frank  and  uncon- 
ventional, for  the  author's  impressionable  tem- 
perament was,  as  he  vividly  describes,  con- 
stantly tormented  with  the  conflict  between  his 
European  prejudices  and  his  burning  desire  to 
taste  this  simple,  gay,  unrestrained  tropical 
life  to  the   full." 

-f   New   Statesman    21:122    My    5    '23    230w 

"A  rather  sensuous  sentimentalist  with  a 
partiality  for  picturesque  attitudes  and  fine 
writing,  he  seems  to  have  enjoyed  himself 
hugely,  and  he  succeeds  in  communicating  a 
little  of  his  enjoyment  to  his  readers,  except 
perhaps  when  he  overstresses  his  account  of 
his  east  of  Suez  amorous  episodes.  The  native 
drawings  and  decorations  reproduced  in  the 
volume  are  excellent." 

H Spec  130:856  My  19  '23  llOw 

MORGULIS,  SERGIUS.  Fasting  and  undernu- 
trition; a  biological  and  sociological  study  of 
inanition.    407p  il   $5   Button 

612.39     Nutrition.     Fasting.     Hibernation 

23-10421 
A  thoro,  tho  i-ather  technical  study  of  the  re- 
sults of  fasting  and  underfeeding,  by  the  pro- 
fessor of  biochemistry.  University  of  Nebraska 
college  of  medicine.  In  the  first  part,  the  chemi- 
cal, physiological  and  morphological  phenom- 
ena in  the  hibernating  organism  are  studied. 
The  second  part,  experimental  inanition,  con- 
siders the  effects  of  fasting  as  it  has  been 
made  the  subject  of  scientific  investigation. 
There  are  chapters  also  on  partial,  chronic,  and 
intermittent  inanition  and  on  inanition  and 
growth.  An  85-page  bibliography  is  added,  also 
an  author  and  a  subject  index. 


"A  long  discussed  subject  is  here  brought  up 
to  date  by  Prof.  Morgulis,  making  his  treatise. 
with  its  many  illustrations  and  bibliography  at 
once  a  book  of  reference  for  the  expert  and  a 
valuable  source  of  information  for  the  general 
reader."   E.    N. 

-f-   Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  4  '23  950w 
"A  valuable,  rather  technical  summary  of  the 
results   of   biological   and   sociological   investiga- 
tions  of    inanition." 

+  J    Home   Econ  15:667  N  '23   20w 
Reviewed  by  M.    S.    Rose 

J   Home  Econ  16:36  Ja  '24  240w 

MORIARTY,  WILLIAM   DANIEL.   Economics  of 

^    marketing  and  advertising.   592p  $3.50  Harper 

338      Marketing.    Advertising.    Economics 

23-9157 
"At  the  outset,  the  author  launches  into  a 
discussion  of  production  and  consumption  of 
material  goods  and  the  manner  in  which  econ- 
omic distribution  takes  place.  This  is  followed  by 
a  general  survey  of  the  social  and  political  fac- 
tors which  have  influenced  the  present  eco- 
nomic order,  Adam  Smith,  the  Labor  Socialists, 
reciprocity,  protective  tariff  and  subsidies,  di- 
versified industries,  immigration  and  foreign  la- 
bor. Froni  this  point  onward  the  attention  of 
the  writer  is  directed  to  the  delineation  of  the 
varied  forces  of  economics  and  psychological 
problems,  directly  and  indirectly  affecting  the 
functions  of  marketing  and  advertising." — Bos- 
ton Transcript 


Booklist  20:83  D  '23 
"This  book  should  be  of  great  value,  not  only 
to  the  student  and  business  man,  but  to  tho 
sales  manager,  the  advertising  manager  and  the 
market  investigator  of  advertising  agencies.  It 
is  particularly  adapted  for  use  as  a  textbook, 
containing  at  the  end  of  each  chapter  review 
problems."  L.  L.  M. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  S  8  '23  lOOOw 


"Due  to  lack  of  space,  the  author  is  unable 
to  discuss  various  theories  in  sufficient  detail 
to  make  sure  that  the  business  man  or  the 
student  will  understand  them  thoroughly.  It  is 
also  very  doubtful  if  the  average  business  man 
would  be  willing  to  wade  through  the  amount  of 
theory  involved  in  order  to  get  at  the  crumbs  of 
practical  business  sense  hidden  therein.  As  a 
textbook  Mr.  Moriarty's  work  is  likely  to  leave 
the  student  in  practically  complete  ignorance 
of  methods  and  organization  actually  in  use  in 
distribution." 

—  Lit   R   p430  Ja  5   '24  280w 

MORITZEN,  JULIUS.  Georg  Brandes  in  life 
and  letters.  152p  $1.75  D.  S.  Colyer,  Broad  & 
Lafayette   st.,    Newark,    N.J. 

B  or  92  Brandes,  Georg  Morris  Cohen 

23-6623 
"He  takes  each  of  the  great  works  of  the 
Danish  scholar  and  critic  in  turn,  gives  an  idea 
of  their  content,  quotes  freely,  and  makes  a 
short  and  casual  estimate  of  its  worth.  Then 
he  tells  of  the  life  and  personality  of  Georg 
Brandes,  his  early  struggles  with  the  prejudice 
of  Copenhagen  worthies  against  his  race,  and 
his  revolutionary  sentiments  in  literature,  poli- 
tics and  religion.  .  .  Moritzen's  style  is  not 
always  clear  and  easy,  but  his  admiration  for 
the  master  mind  he  is  describing  is  honest  and 
great." — Springf'd    RepubUcan 

"He  has  set  himself  a  definite  task  and  ac- 
complished it.  He  has  made  no  attempt  to  give 
and  evaluate  all  the  biographical  data  bearing 
on  his  subject.  He  has  in  truth  recorded  but 
few  of  them.  He  has  neither  analysed  all  of 
Brandes's  works  nor  weighed  all  of  the  opinions 
that  have  been  expressed  concerning  him.  The 
title  of  his  treatise  did  not  make  such  thorough- 
ness obligatory,  while  regard  for  the  limitations 
of  space  during  an  era  of  costly  pulp  and  ex- 
acting compositors  would  have  made  it  impos- 
sible." 

Lit   R  p297  D  9  *22  500w 

"The  productivity  of  an  old  age  which  has 
given  us  these  monumental  studies  excites  Mr. 
Moritzen's  very  natural  admiration,  but  coupled 
with  the  scrappiness  of  the  other  chapters,  this 
over-emphasis  seriously  diminishes  the  value  of 
his  little  book.  In  so  ardent  an  admirer  of  a  mas- 
ter so  supreme  in  the  art  of  critical  biography 
Mr.  Moritzen's  lack  of  method  and  perspective 
are   disappointing."      Ernest   Boyd 

h  Nation   116:306  Mr  14  '23  1850w 

"Mr.  Moritzen  presents  his  facts  and  his  de- 
ductions in  a  pleasantly  constructed  and  digni- 
fied style.  He  has  given  a  definite  picture  not 
only  of  Georg  Brandes  but  of  his  monumental 
contribution     to     the     development     of     modern 

°"^_^'  N   Y  Times  p5  F  18  '23  380w 
"Mr    Moritzen's    excellent,    but    all    too    brief, 
critical    study   makes   an    honest   and   successful 
attempt   to  fulfil  an   ideal."         ^  ^  „.  ,„„  om 
+  Springf'd  Republican  p6  F  26  '23  350w 

MORLEY,    CHRISTOPHER    DARLINGTON.   In- 

2    ward    ho!    158p    $1.75    Doubleday 

814    Literature.    Poetry  23-17773 

A  little  book  of  soliloquies  on  the  nature  and 
meaning  of  literature,  especially  poetry.  It  is 
not  a  %ook  of  literary  criticism  hut.  as  Mr 
Morley  says,  an  'attempt  to  probe  the  ecstasies 
and  disturbances'  that  produce  literature— an 
analysis  of  writing  as  an  instrument  a'ld  ot 
the  way  its  effects  are  communicated  to  the 
reader." 

"It  is  a  wise  book  and  one  that  will  gain  many 
an  apostle  who  finds  in  it  somewhat  obvious 
truths  beautifully  expressed,  os  well  as  those 
who  find  far  more  subtlety  than  at  first  meets 
the  eve.  It  is  a  book  that  I  shall  keep  on  rny 
shelf  for  much  reference.  It  is  exquisitely 
written."     J.    F. 

-f   Bookm  58:566  Ja  '24  250w 

Reviewed  by  Arthur  Colton 

Lit  R  p302  D  1  '23  700w 


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MORLEY,        CHRISTOPHER        DARLINGTON. 

Powder  of  sympathy.  304p  il  $1.75  Doubleday 
814  23-10173 

"In  'The  Powder  of  Sympathy'  Mr.  Morley 
has  again  made  a  book  of  his  newspaper  contri- 
butions. Its  title  represents  a  miscellany  of 
Morleyan  observations  withdrawn  both  from 
the  books  he  reads  and  from  the  life  about 
him.  Its  significance,  so  we  are  credibly  in- 
formed, comes  from  a  'magical  nostrum  or 
philtre — for  inducing  affection  between  books 
and  readers,'  having  been  invented  by  Sir 
Kenelm  Digby  in  the  seventeenth  century." — 
Boston   Transcript 


Booklist   20:14   O   '23 
"There  are   charm  and  humor  aplenty  in  the 
book." 

-I-   Bookm  58:88  S  '23  160w 

Boston   Transcript  p4  Je   27   '23  950w 
"There   is  much   fine  gold  in    'The   Powder  of 
Sympathy.'    In   fact,    it    will   assay   more   to   the 
ton  than  nine-tenths  of  the  new  volumes  on  the 
bookseller's  shelves."   G.  W.  J. 

-I Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily   News  p8   S  23 

'23    450w 
Reviewed  by  J.   W.  Krutch 

Lit  R  p302  D  1  '23  780w 
"The  powders  of  sympathy  indicated  in  the 
title  of  this  book  are  the  forty-odd  papers 
li.sted  in  the  index.  Mr.  Morley  sprinkles  them 
hopefully — 'sprinkles'  is  his  own  word.  On  the 
whole,  we  are  glad  to  have  been  caught  under 
the   sprinkle." 

+  N  Y  World  pl9e  Jl  1  '23  200w 
"One  cannot  take  a  spacious  view  of  one's  job 
of  'reviewing'  Morley.  One  will  have  to  con- 
tent oneself  with  saying  that  he  still  seems 
fresh  and  of  an  unpredictably  various  freedom 
in  subject  and  approach." 

-[-  Springf'd    Republican   p8  Ag  7   '23   350w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:410  Jl  '23 


MOROSO,    JOHN     ANTONIO.      Stumbling    herd. 

306p  $1.75  Macaulay 

23-G142 

"In  the  beginning  we  find  the  four-year-old 
orphan,  Rosie  Rosetti,  adopted  by  the  Kamin- 
skys,  a  childlesd  east  side  couple;  a  moment 
later  we  cee  little  Rosie  successfully  urging  her 
foster  parents  to  adopt  another  orphan  child, 
Danny  Lewis;  and  throughout  the  rest  of  the 
book  our  attention  is  focused  primarily  on  the 
relations  between  Danny  and  Ro.sie,  for  as  the 
years  go  by  and  the  old  people  are  taken  from 
the  scene,  the  girl  develops  a  passionate  love 
for  the  boy  she  has  mothered,  and  not  until  the 
end  of  the  story  is  this  love  fully  reciprocated." 
N  Y  Times 


first  slim  volume  of  verse.  The  discussion  of 
Robinson's  ideas,  men,  plays,  legends,  and 
history  is  plentifully  illustrated  with  selections 
from  his  verse.  On  the  whole  the  essay  serves 
to  make  this  poet's  audience  better  acquainted 
with  the  man,  who  has  till  now  basked  in  a 
sort   of    mystic   light."— Bookm 


Bookm   57:464  Je  '23   160w 
Cleveland   p39    My   '23 
Reviewed   by  Edmund  Wilson,  jr. 
Dial    74:515    My    '23   lOOOw 
Int  Bk  R  p23  My  '23  1400w 
"Mr.  Morris  affords  the  general  reader  a  well- 
considered  approach  to  the  art  of  Mr.  Robinson 
in   this  little   book,   and   it   should   m-ake   certain 
strange    perplexities    regarding    the    philosophy 
of  the   poet   nonexistent." 

+   N   Y  Times  p3  Mr  25  '23  800w 
Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui   28:300  Je   '23 
"An  appreciation  of  this  kind  cannot   pretend 
to  completeness,    but   it   will   probably  clear  the 
way  to  some  extent  for  an     approach  to  an  in- 
teresting   poet    whose    most    remarkable    feat    is 
a    daring    prosaism,    a    deliberate    flatness,    with 
which  he  gives  expression  to  his  poetic  insight." 
-I-  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p250  Ap 
12    '23    250w 


MORSE,    ANSON    DANIEL.      Parties   and    party 


by    Dwight    Whitney 
267p    $2.50    Marshall 


United   States— Poli- 
23-10819 


leaders;    with   an   introd. 

Morrow.   (Amherst  bks.) 

Jones 

329     Political   parties, 
tics    and    government 

The  author  of  these  political  essays,  which 
are  reprinted  from  periodicals  and  other  sources, 
was  for  many  years  professor  of  history  in  Am- 
hei'st  College.  The  articles  ai'e  studies  in  the 
history  and  theory  of  political  parties  and  show 
the  writer  as  a  philosopher  of  politics,  chiefly 
concerned  with  the  end  toward  which  party 
government  in  America  appears  to  be  moving. 
Contents:  Introduction:  Place  of  the  party  in 
the  political  system;  What  is  a  party?  Natural 
history  of  party;  Politics  of  John  Adams;  Alex- 
ander Hamilton;  Causes  and  consequences  of 
the  party  revolution  of  1800;  Political  influence 
of  Andrew  Jackson;  Whig  party;  Cause  of  se- 
cession; Our  two  great  parties:  their  origin  and 
tasks;  Significance  of  the  Democratic  party  in 
American  politics;  Republican  party;  1,  Equal- 
ity in  taxation;  2,  Commercial  union  with  Can- 
ada; Commercial  relations  of  American  coun- 
tries.   Index. 


"The  novelist  gives  a  not  over-colored  picture 
of  conditions  in  this  country,  of  which  we  should 
know  the  truth,  and  of  which  most  of  us  know 
deplorably  little." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  Ap  7  '23  500w 
"There  is  nothing  original  about  the  plot  of 
the  book;  in  fact,  in  places  it  is  decidedly  ster- 
eotyped, and  proceeds  very  much  according  to 
formula.  And  yet,  with  all  its  drawbacks,  the 
book   is   a   decidedly   appealing    one." 

1-   N    Y  Times   pl9   Mr   14   '23   480w 

"There  is  no  art  in   Mr.   Moroso's   novel.     He 
is    not    articulate,    although    a    sprightly    talker. 
He   utterly   fails   to  convince."      P.ruce   Gould 
—  NY  Tribune  p22  Mr  25  '23  SSOw 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Je  24  '23  ICOw 


MORRIS.    LLOYD  R.     Poetry  of  Edwin  Arling- 
ton Robinson.   116p  $1.50  Doran 

811    Robinson,    Edwin   Arlington  23-7575 

"Lloyd    Morris's     essay    on     'The     Poetry    of 
Edwin  Arlington  Robinson*   is  a  tribute  to  Am- 
erica's foremost  poet.  The  book  is  a  comprehen- 
sive appraisal  of  all   Robinson's  work  since  his 


Reviewed  by  J.   P.  Richardson 

Am   Pol  Sci   R  17:067  N  '23  650w 
Reviewed  by  J.   A.   Woodhurn 

Am  Hist  R  29:341  Ja  '24  700w 
"While  we  never  find  cause  to  disagree  with 
Professor  Morse's  conclusions,  we  sometimes 
find  ourselves  antagonistic  to  his  illustrations. 
.  .  Would  that  tiie  author  might  have  been 
spared  to  give  us  a  complete  and  well-rounded 
treatise.  But  for  the  papers  heie  included  we 
are  grateful."    S.  L.  C. 

H Boston  Transcript  p5  Jl  21   '23  950w 

"It  is  a  deep  book  without  being  ponderous; 
It  Is  scholarly  without  being  dry.  It  is  for  all 
its  weight  absorbingly  interesting  to  anyone 
who  cares  for  the  study  of  our  parties  and  our 
party  system."   J.   G.   de  R.   H. 

-f  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   p8   S  2 
'23   1200W 
Reviewed    by  R.    J.   Davis 

Lit  R  pl88  O  27  '23  550w 
"As  scientific  studies  of  party  processes  these 
papers     have     relatively     little     utility,     but     for 
historical  purposes,   they  possess  a  notable  sig- 
nificance."  C.    E.    M. 

New    Repub    36:262    O    31    '23    150w 
N   Y   Times  p3  Ag  12  '23   2100w 
R   of   Rs   68:336   S  '23   160w 


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MORSE,     JOHN     LOVETT;     WYMAN,     EDWIN 
THEODORE,    and       HILL,       LEWIS      WEBB. 

Infant  and  young  child;   its  care  and   feeding 

from    birth    until      school      age.    271p    il    $1.75 

Saunders 

649.1  Infants— Care  and  hygiene.   Children  — 
Care    and    hygiene  23-9711 

Three  physicians  who  are  also  professors  or 
instructors  of  pediatrics  in  the  Harvard  medical 
school  have  prepared  this  manual  for  mothers 
on  the  care  and  feeding  of  children  from  birth 
to  the  age  of  six.  A  section  on  the  diseases  of 
infancy   and  early  childhood   is  included. 


"Every  page  of  the  book  contains  practical 
suggestions  that  the  mother  and  the  nurse  will 
do  well  to  read  and  to  memorize.  Its  chief 
characteristic  is  its  straightforwardness  and 
common  sense,  its  frankness  regarding  what 
should  and  should  not  be  done." 

+    Boston    Transcript    p3    Jl    7    '23    200w 
J   Home   Econ  15:722, D  '23  70w 
N    Y   World   pl9e  Jl   1   '23   50w 

MORTON,     BENJAMIN     ALEXANDER.      Veiled 

empress.     213p   il   $5   Putnam 
B    or    92    Dubuc    de    Rivery,    Marie    Marthe 
Aim6e.    Martinique  23-15067 

"This  book  presents  a  vivid  view  of  Martin- 
ique, with  eight  excellent  illustrations  in  color, 
from  paintings  by  Christina  Morton,  used  as  a 
background  for  a  factitious  story  of  Aimee 
Dubuc  de  Rivery,  a  Creole  girl,  captured  by 
Barbary  corsairs  and  sent  to  Constantinople  to 
serve  as  one  of  the  wives  of  Sultan  Abdul 
Hamid  I.  Aimee  became,  we  are  toid,  mother 
of  the  Sultan  Mahmoud,  who  was  in  time  to 
destroy  the  Janissaries.  A  contemporary  of  the 
Empress  Josephine,  who  died  in  1814,  Mr.  Mor- 
ton's veiled  Empress  survived  her  by  three 
years,  dying  in  the  Seraglio  at  Constantinople 
in  1817  after  a  strange  enough  career  to  war- 
rant almost  any  conjecture." — N  Y  World 


"One    of    the    most    romantic    biographies    un- 
covered  in   many   years."     D.    L.    M. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p7  N  3  '23  850w 
"Told  in  a  style  not  only  pleasing  for  its  grace 
of  flowing  narrative,  but  especially  for  the 
modest  and  unassuming,  yet  convincing,  manner 
in  which  the  author's  claims  are  put  forth." 
C.   P. 

+  Oath  World  118:570  Ja  '24  650w 
"Mr.  Morton,  though  he  has  brought  to  light 
much  interesting  and  valuable  material,  has  not 
proved  his  case  for  the  identity  of  the  cousin 
of  Josephine  with  the  Veiled  Empress,  nor  for 
the  role  of  predominant  political  leadership. 
From  the  artistic  standpoint  it  is  to  be  regretted 
that  he  did  not  choose  between  the  strictly 
historical  monograph  and  the  pure  romance 
with  Martinique  and  Turkish  setting,  for  his 
book  contains  laudable  literary  qualities."  Bar- 
nette  Miller 

h   Lit    R   p365  D  15   '23   1200w 

Reviewed   by   I:    Anderson 

N  Y  Times  p4  N  25  '23  1650w 
N  Y  Tribune  p27  O  7  '23  llOOw 
"Mr.  Morton,  with  much  ingenuity,  tries  to 
reconstruct  Turkish  politics  and  to  line  up  events 
in  a  way  to  prove  the  influence  of  the  lady 
upon  affairs  and  in  the  French  interest,  but  his 
story  is  not  convincing,  interesting  though  it 
be." 

H NY   World   p6e  O   28   '23   300w 

Spec  131:910  D  8  '23  350w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p866   D 
13    '23   780w 

MOSS,    GEOFFREY.      Sweet    pepper.      406p    $2 

Dutton 

23-8481 

Jill  Mordaunt,  a  young  English  girl  attached 
to  the  British  military  mission  in  Vienna,  was 
left  resourceless  when  her  employment  on  the 
clerical  force  ended.  Insecure  as  was  her  future, 
she  decided  to  take  a  holiday  in  Budapest  be- 
fore returning  to  England.  There,  in  company 
with   a   rather   harmless  American   adventuress. 


she  had  a  little  fling  at  gayety.  When  Glory 
Heathcote  left  her,  Jill  was  a  lonely  bit  of 
flotsain  on  the  current  of  the  irresponsible  after- 
war  life  of  the  Hungarian  capital.  Anxiety 
about  the  affairs  of  a  sister  in  England  was  now 
added  to  her  own  troubles.  Seeing  no  other  way 
out  of  her  financial  difficulties  Jill  deliberately 
compromised  with  conscience  and  tradition  and 
bartered  herself  at  the  highest  price  she  could 
get  to  one  titled  foreigner  and  then  another. 
She  intended  this  course  to  be  only  a  temporary 
expedient.  T'ne  awakening  came  with  the  ap- 
pearance of  a  man  whom  she  could  love,  who 
loved  her  and  whose  belief  in  her  she  had  to 
destroy. 


"We  think  the  author  has  done  a  good  piece 
of  work,  no  matter  how  repellent  it  may  seem 
in   a   bald    recapitulation." 

-I Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  18  '23  420w 

"The  detail  of  it  is  excellent  as  well  as  its 
general  effect.  This  and  its  treatment  of  the 
central  problem  lift  the  book  quite  out  of  the 
rut  of  the  commonplace." 

+  Lit  R  p739  Je  2  '23  400w 
Nation  116:670  Je  6  '23  llOw 
"A  large  part  of  Mr.  Moss's  virtue  as  a 
novelist  is  his  sanity,  a  naturalism  that  will  not 
allow  him  to  twist  incidents,  exaggerate  charac- 
ters or  overlard  his  action  with  superfluous 
theories.  He  has  a  story  to  tell  and  the  theories 
are  implicit  in  the  tale.  It  is  this  wise  applica- 
tion to  naturalistic  values  that  makes  'Sweet 
Pepper'  so  thoroughly  pleasing  to  read.  The 
characterization    itself    is    delightful." 

-f  N  Y  Times  pll  My  6  '23  550w 
"This  is  Mr.  Moss's  first  novel.  He  has 
failed  to  synthesize  it,  and  hence  to  make  it 
powerful.  But  this  failure  is  due  rather  to  the 
complexity  of  his  subject  than  to  an  incapacity 
for  mastering  and  developing  a  theme.  His  po- 
tential ability  to  select  and  organize  material 
more  adequately  is  evident;  and  it  is  to  be 
hoped — but  chiefly  it  is  to  be  hoped — that  Mr. 
Moss   will   study   a   grammar."     Eva  Goldbeck 

h   N    Y    Tribune    p27    My   13    '23    820w 

"  'Sweet  Pepper'  is  a  daring  story  precisely 
as  'The  Scarlet  Letter'  is  a  daring  story,  al- 
though it  is  but  distantly  akin  to  that  Haw- 
thorne classic.  Its  daring  is  that  of  the  truth 
frankly  stated.  There  is  not  in  it  a  line  written 
for  sensation's  sake.  We  should  not  regard 
with  env.v  the  state  of  mind  of  a  Clean  Books 
Leaguer  who  should  attempt  to  halt  its  march- 
ing  pages."    E.    W.    Osborn 

-!-  N  Y  World  plOe  Ap  29  '23  800w 
"Mr.  Moss  can  write.  He  has  a  fluent  and 
engaging  style,  a  pretty  wit,  a  sense  of  situa- 
tion and  a  considerable  knowledge  of  the  alleged 
continent  of  Europe.  He  surrounds  his  heroine 
with  the  intoxication  of  strange  sights,  wraps 
her  in  that  cloud  of  unreality  which,  to  the 
stolid  British  eye,  always  envelops  the  foreigner, 
and  corrupts  her  to  the  haimting  music  of 
Tziganes.  .  .  The  plain  weakness  in  such  a  story 
is  the  absence  of  adequate  motive.  The  inci- 
dental unrealities  do  not  help  to  create  the 
necessary  illusion;  they  only  introduce  an  ele- 
ment  of   comic   opera."    Gerald   Gould 

h  Sat   R   135:154  F  3   '23  600w 

"Mr.  Moss  has  an  extraordinary  power  of 
reproducing  human  character  and  character- 
istic speech:  when  we  say  that  he  reproduces 
meticulously  but  does  not  do  much  in  the  way 
of  original  creation  we  have  summed  up  his 
chief  virtue  and  vice.  .  .  One's  net  conclusion 
is  that  Sweet  Pepper  is  that  rarer  thing  than 
a  promising  first  novel,  an  enjoyable  one." 
-1 Spec    130:412   Mr   10    '23   850w 

MOTHER'S  letters  to  a  schoolmaster;  with  an 
introd.  by  James  Harvey  Robinson.  283p  $4 
Knopf 

372  Education  of  children 
In  letters  to  the  principal  of  the  school  from 
which  she  has  just  withdrawn  her  son  Peter, 
aged  seven,  a  mother  outlines  her  idea  of  a 
sound  plan  of  education,  for  Peter  had  declined 
to  go  to  school  because  he  was  "so  busy  find- 
ing out  things."  It  is  from  talks  with  him  that 
the  mother  derives  her  plan  for  a  school.  Peter 
thinks  that   it  should  be  like  real  life,  with  the 


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MOTHER'S  letters  to  a  schoolmaster — Continued 
accustomed  symbols  of  adult  activities  natur- 
ally arranged,  so  that  a  child  can  learn  to  think 
in  the  familiar  terms  of  food,  shelter,  clothing, 
play,  behavior,  barter,  etc.  The  book  contams 
some  interesting  charts,  including  a  floor  plan 
of  a  remodelled  public  school,  a  chart  of  civili- 
zation and  a  picture  of  a  child's  thinking,  also 
a  citv  of  play  mapped  out  by  Peter  himself. 
The  concluding  chapter  gives  the  mother's  de- 
tailed  program   of   public   education. 

Booklist  20:42  N  '23 
''This  book  is  a  series  of  roost  ingenious  and 
thought-provoking    letters,    whose    authorship   is 
withheld,    but   which   bear   the    stamp   of  a   real 
and    highly    intelligent    personality." 

+   Boston   Transcript  pi  Je  2  '23  250w 
Cleveland  p75  S  '23 
Educ   R  66:243   N  '23  550w 
Reviewed  by  M.  L.  Franklin 

Ind   110:378   Je  9  '23  lOOOw 
Reviewed  by  I.  L.   Kandel 

Lit  R  p304  D  1  '23  600w 
"While  the  writer  is  undoubtedly  sincere,  and 
often  brilliant  in  her  indictment  of  the  existing 
educational  order,  her  proposed  substitute  is 
as  blind  to  the  real  needs  of  childhood  as  the 
most  hidebound  old  fashioned  school."  A  de 
Lima  „  „„„ 

f-  New  Repub  35:302  Ag  8  '23  800w 

"With  the  boy  as  her  initial  prompter,  the 
mother  goes  far  and  widely  into  the  questions 
of  educational  rights  and  wrongs  which  the  af- 
fairs of  home  have  brought  so  very  near  to  her 
heart.  She  argues  and  urges  and  illustrates 
from  life.  She  presents  drawn  plans  and  speci- 
fications for  school  communities  of  the  future. 
To  the  conservative  mind  her  proposals  may 
take  on  the  complexion  of  fads  and  fancies.  To 
the  progressive  thought  they  will  appeal  with 
all  the  force  of  living  issues."  E.  W.  Osborn 
4-   N    Y  World   p7e   My   27   '23   1300w 

Reviewed  by  Agnes  de  Lima 

Survey  50:637   S   15  '23   400w 

MOTT,    JOHN    RALEIGH.      Confronting    young 
2    men   with   the   living  Christ.    203p   $1.50   Assn. 

press ;  Doran 

267.3      Young    men's    Christian    association. 
Christian  life  23-9864 

Addresses  delivered  by  the  general  secretary 
of  the  T.  M.  C.  A.,  during  a  recent  continent- 
wide  tour.  The  burden  of  his  message  is  an 
earnest  plea  for  increased  spiritual  vitality,  both 
in  the  association  and  in  the  individual  man 
and  boy. 

Booklist  20:120  Ja  '24 
Survey  51:113  O  15  '23  90w 

MOULTON,  HAROLD  GLENN,  and  MCGUIRE, 
CONSTANTINE  EDWARD.  Germany's  ca- 
pacity to  pay.  (Institute  of  economics.  Investi- 
gations in  international  economic  reconstruc- 
tion)   384p    il    $2.50   McGraw 

330.943        Germany — Economic        conditions. 
European  war,  1914-1919 — Reparations 

23-11391 

"A  thorough  analysis  of  Germany's  economic 
condition  with  the'  purpose  of  determining  her 
'ability  to  continue  making  reparation  pay- 
ments, and  to  point  out  the  bearing  of  inter- 
national trade  conditions  and  commercial  poli- 
cies upon  any  reparation  settlement  whatso- 
ever.' Based  on  the  official  figures  of  the  Ger- 
man government  and  concerned  only  with  the 
economic  aspects  of  the  problem,  it  is  as  au- 
thoi'itative  and  as  impartial  as  any  study  of 
this   nature   can   be." — ^Booklist 


thors  have  taken  the  figures  for  German  trade, 
and  e.specially  exports,  at  their  face  value,  de- 
spite the  fact  that  the  unrecorded  exports  of 
Germany  throughout  the  entire  period  of  the 
so-called  'deutsche  Ausverkauf  must  have 
been  enormous."  Carl  Snyder 

H Am    Econ    R   13:669   D   '23   1450w 

Booklist  20:84  D  '23 
"While  Mr.  Moulton  and  Mr.  McGuire  have 
endeavored  to  remain  unbiased  politically  and 
economically,  some  readers  may  find  it  pos- 
sible to  take  issue  with  them  on  some  points. 
If  so,  they  will  find  the  sources  of  all  statistics 
given,  as  well  ag  all  the  steps  taken  in  arriv- 
ing at  any  conclusion,  clearly  set  forth.  The 
book  is,  indeed,  a  most  careful  and  thorough 
study   of   a   pressing  problem."    S.    L.    R. 

-I Boston    Transcript   p5    S   1    '23    750w 

+   Nation  117:sup404  O  10  '23  1450w 

MOUNTJOY,    DESMOND.     Melody  of  God,   and 
other  papers.     262p  $6  Button  [15s  Constable] 

824    Eugenie,    empress    consort    of    Napoleon 

III 
"The  first  section  of  the  book,  called  'The 
Winged  Chalice,'  consists  of  five  rapturous 
sketches  of  young  soldiers  who  died  in  the  war. 
Mr.  Mountjoy's  recollections  of  the  Empress 
Eugenie  which  occupy  nearly  a  hundred  pages, 
were  much  more  worthy  of  preservation  than 
these  raptures.  He  was  presented  to  the  Em- 
press at  Farnborough,  and  he  was  admitted  to 
her  intimacy.  The  Empress  talked  to  him  con- 
fidentially, and  he  made  very  copious  notes  of 
what  she  said.  Much  of  his  record  in  its  loose, 
chatty  form,  is  interesting.  The  end  of  the 
book  consists  of  essays,  dedicated,  in  Gothic 
type  and  with  much  solemnity,  to  various  per- 
sons of  quality.  Mr.  Mountjoy  sees  everything 
and  everybody  in  a  mist  of  rose-colour." — Sat  R 


"In  spite  of  his  reverent  observation  and  his 
glowing  fancy  the  figure  of  the  aged  Empress 
does   not    take    shape    before   our   eyes." 

—  New    Statesman    21:92    Ap    28    '23    150w 
"Mr.   Mountjoy  writes  in  a   style  which  is  al- 
ready   out    of    fashion,    a    mixture    of    volubility 
and   high-falutin.    .    .    .    He  wears  his   heart   too 
prominently   on   his   sleeve." 

—  Sat   R  135:499  Ap  14  '23  400w 

"The  author  of  this  miscellany  of  papers  is 
the  possessor  of  a  picturesque  style  and  a  quick 
sensibility.  These  qualities  are  both  an  aid  and 
a  snare  to  a  writer.  They  do  Mr.  Mountjoy 
good  service  in  the  most  important  essay  in 
his  collection,  the  study  of  the  Empress  Eu- 
genie in  her  later  years,  based  on  personal 
recollections.  .  .  His  sensibility  gets  a  little  the 
better  of  his  power  of  artistic  restraint  in  the 
tributes  to  unnamed  soldier  friends  who  died 
in  service  which  make  up  the  first  section  of 
his  book." 

+  —The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p234   Ap 
5    '23    250w 

MOWAT,  ROBERT  BALMAIN.  History  of 
European  diplomacy,  1815-1914.  308p  $5.75 
Longmans    [16s   Arnold! 

327  Europe — Politics.  Europe — Foreign  re- 
lations [22-22288] 
"A  handbook  for  the  student  of  politics  de- 
siring a  continuous  narrative  of  the  diplomatic 
events  from  the  fall  of  Napoleon  to  the  out- 
break of  the  war.  It  contains  a  r§sum4  of  the 
contents  of  all  the  treaties  of  any  importance 
and  has  been  compiled  from  documentary 
evidence."  (Booklist)  "Mr.  Mowat  has  not 
written  a  history  of  European  diplomacy,  but 
rather  a  series  of  studies  of  the  political  his- 
tory of  Europe  with  the  stress  laid  on  its  dip- 
lomatic  side."    (Spec) 


"It  is  evident  that  all  this  material  has  been 
gathered  and  presented  ■with  great  care.  Per- 
haps with  an  effort  towards  compression  cer- 
tain propositions  are  set  down,  in  a  rather 
dogmatic  way,  to  which  many  economists  would 
not  readily  assent.  And  even  on  the  statistical 
side   it   will   probably   be   objected   that   the   ai:- 


"As  Mr.  Mowat  writes  with  an  easy  style, 
it  is  regrettable  that  he  has  not  risen  to  his 
full  opportunity.  Most  of  the  book  i.s  sound 
enough,  although  the  Polish  question  is  practi- 
cally ignored,  and  we  should  gladly  substitute 
for  the  names  of  innumerable  forgotten  di- 
plomatists  some  general  statement  of  the  poli- 


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cies   of   the   several   powers.    But   the   treatment 
of  the   period  after    1871,   and   particularly   suice 
1900,   is  unsatisfactory."   B.   E.    Schmitt 
h  Am    Hist    R   28:740  Jl  '23   850w 

Booklist  19:205  Ap  "23 
"His  book  is  little  more  than  a  chronicle  of 
important  events,  with  a  certain  amount  of 
stress  laid  upon  the  part  played  by  diplomacy 
therein.  It  does  not  give  the  author's  estimate 
of  the  old  diplomacy  in  the  light  of  its  nine- 
teenth century  achievements;  it  does  not  sum 
up  the  personality  and  work  of  the  leading  dip- 
lomats of  the  epoch;  worst  of  all.  it  does  not 
show  how  the  principles  vmderlying  the  old 
diplomacy  nxight  be  linked  with  those  underly- 
ing the  League  of  Nations,  for  the  benefit  of 
the   world."   T.    R.    Ybarra 

—  NY   Times   p7   Ja   14    '23    1350w 

Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:101  Mr  '23 
"Too  much,  or  too  little,  knowledge  is  as- 
sumed in  the  reader,  and  those  who  already 
know  the  main  facts  of  the  history  of  Europe 
in  the  nineteenth  century  will  be  bored  by  vain 
repetitions,  while  those  who  do  not  know  them 
will  gain  no  clear  impression  of  their  meaning 
and  values.  And  in  the  presentation  of  facts 
there  is  little  sign  of  the  sense  of  proportion 
essential  to  the  success  of  a  short  book  of  this 
kind.  .  .  Parts  of  the  book  are  excellent,  nota- 
bly the  comparison  of  the  peace  settlement  of 
1919  with  that  of  1815  and  the  account  of  the 
diplomacy  in  the  Eastern  Question  between  1830 
and  1841." 

h  Spec  129:875  D  9  '22  1550w 

IVIOWRER,    PAUL    SCOTT.    Good    comrade   and 
Fairies.      ltd    ed      84p      $2      Dutlon 

811  23-10546 

The  poet's  comrades  are  fairies  and  woodland 

things,    wind    and    water   and    stars.    Some    love 

poems  are   included. 


MUIR.  RAMSAY.  Politics  and  progress;  a  survey 
of  the  problems  of  today.  182p  $1.75  Knopf  [39 
6d    MethuenJ 
320.4  Liberalism.  Great  Britain— Politics  and 
government  23-11402 

"The  purpose  of  this  little  book  is  to  give  a 
coherent  view  of  the  political  and  social  aims 
of  Liberalism:  to  show  that  it  represents  a  dis- 
tinctive attitude,  sharply  contrasted  with  that 
of  Conservatism  and  with  that  of  Socialism;  to 
analyse  the  reasons  for  the  Liberal's  dissatis- 
faction with  the  existing  order  of  things;  to  de- 
scribe the  kind  of  society  which  he  would  desire 
to  create,  and  the  immediate  steps  towards  this 
goal  which  he  would  advocate:  and  to  show 
that  these  aims  are  in  accord  with  the  tradi- 
tions and  the  great  achievements  of  British 
Liberalism." — Preface 


Bookm  58:335  N  '23  170w 

"To  every  poet  his  own  domain.  Mowrer's  is 
fairyland.  And  though  it  is  true  that  Mowrer 
does  not  have,  when  singing  of  fairies  and  elves, 
the  lilt  of  the  Irish  singers  in  the  same  field, 
he  has  charm  and  felicity  of  phrase.  A  more 
serious  charge  is  that  when  he  seeks  to  link  his 
fairyland  with  the  land  of  reality  he  does  not 
generally  succeed.  The  charm  of  the  work  as  a 
whole  is,  however,  undeniable.  'The  Good  Com- 
rade and  Fairies'  is  far  from  great  poetry,  but 
it  is  very  pleasing  verse." 

1-   N    Y  Times   pl4  Ag  12  '23   550w 

"The  verses  are  undistinguished  but  mani- 
festly  sincere."     Rex    Hunter 

—  NY   Tribune   p28   S  9  '23   60w 

MUILENBURG,      JAMES,      ed.        Specimens     of 
Biblical    literature.      412p    $2.50    Crowell 

220   Bible.    Whole— Selections  23-8124 

"Prof  Muilenburg  has  set  himself  the  task 
of  selecting  striking  examples  of  various  lit- 
erary types  from  the  Bible,  narrative,  parable, 
fable,  short  story,  lyric  and  dramatic  poetry, 
the  essay,  oratory,  letters,  etc.  The  book  is 
enriched  with  a  pronouncing  glossary,  a  brief 
but  up-to-date  bibliography  and  stimulating 
notes,  free  from  pedantry,  which  contain  sug- 
gestive readings  in  verse  and  prose  from  mod- 
ern   English    authors."— Springf'd    Republican 


"The  specimens  are,  as  a  rule,  well-chosen 
and  'classifled.  The  Notes  are  quite  meager, 
and  betimes  reveal  lack  of  knowledge  on  the 
part  of  the  author.  'Literature'  should  include 
works  on  the  new  liackground,  especially  of 
history  and  prophecy.  The  Glossary  illustrates 
agam  the  hazardous  attempt  of  a  non-Hebrew 
.scholar  to  give  meanings  of  Hebrew  proper 
name.s." 

H J    Religion    3:442   .11    '23    80w 

"The  .selection   is  admirable." 

+   Springf'd    Republican   plO  Jl   10   '2,"!   500w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:406  Jl  '23 


Reviewed  by  G.  V.  Price 

Am   Pol   Set    R  17:665  N  '23   850w 
Boston   Transcript  p5  Ag  25  '23  450w 
"Clear-sighted   and    well-written    handbook." 

+    Nation    117:273    S    12   '23    90w 
"This     book,     while     professing     to    define     a 
Liberal  doctrine,   furnishes  rather  a  Liberal  in- 
stinct. It  sheds  light,  but  generates  none  of  that 
heat    from   which   alone   democracies   derive   the 
power  to  achieve  advance.  Mr.  Muir  is  not  cre- 
ating one  party.  He  is  educating  all  parties." 
N    Y  Times  p7   S   9  '23   3300w 
"This   very    capable    little   book    is    a    precis — 
admirably  phrased — of  the   Liberal  doctrine  and 
a    record    of    its    piesumed    achievements.      The 
only   fault   we   can    find   with   it   is   that   neither 
of    its    departments    coriesponds    to    hard    reali- 
ties." 

H Sat   R  136:335  S  22  '23  660w 

"This  little  book  is  usefully  constructive,  and 
cannot  be  counted  as  one  of  those  political  treat- 
ises in  which  the  authors  either  point  out  cry- 
ing social  evils  without  suggesting  a  remedy, 
or  propound  some  hopelessly  Utopian  scheme. 
Neither  is  it  irritatingly  partisan.  The  book  is 
full  of  information  which  is  masterfully  put 
together,  and  alternated  with  some  valuable 
constructive  suggestions." 

+  Spec    131:165    Ag    4    *23    200w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p291    Ap 
26   '23   60w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p347   My 
24    '23    550w 

MUIR,  RAMSAY.  Short  history  of  the  British 
commonwealth.  2v  S24;814p  vl  $8  v2  $6  World 
bk. 

942   Great  Britain — History  21-7716 

"Professor  Muir  has,  it  is  evident,  designed  a 
history  of  the  English-speaking  peoples,  set  in 
a  framework  of  world-politics.  It  is  a  great, 
even  a  colossal,  enterprise  to  which  he  has  set 
himself.  He  has  not  only  written  a  history  of 
Great  Britain,  social  as  well  as  political:  a  his- 
tory of  the  Briti.sh  Empire;  a  history  of  British 
foreign  relations;  but  he  has  included  a  con- 
siderable amount  of  the  history  of  the  United 
States,  and  of  the  separate  histories  of  the  Brit- 
ish self-governing  colonies.  He  has  brought 
together  in  the  space  of  two  volumes  an  enor- 
mous amount  of  material,  an  extraordinary 
collection  of  facts,  ideas,  opinions,  conclusions, 
generalizations,  and  relationships,  making  the 
history  of  Great  Britain  a  kind  of  centre  of 
world-history  for  the  period  which  it  covers  in 
a  view  which  sweeps  mankind  'from  China  to 
Peru.'  " — Am  Hist  R 


"Whatever  the  omissions  and  condensal  ions— 
which  he  him.self  points  out  and  deplores  in 
his  preface — he  has  not  only  brought  together 
here  in  convenient  form  a  huge  mass  of  facts, 
but  he  has  related  those  facts  into  a  new  form, 
and  so,  perhaps,  given  a  new  direction  and  a 
new  meaning  to  the  'History  of  England'  of 
tradition." 

+  Am   Hist   R   28:738   Jl  '23   550w 


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MUIR,    RAMSAY— Confinwed 

"The  task  has  been  admirably  done,  but  at 
times  one  could  wish  that  the  limitations  of 
space  did  not  require  such  brief  treatment, 
for  there  are  so  many  facts  to  be  crowded  in 
that  some  of  them  lose  something  of  their  im- 
portance in   the  mass." 

H Am   Pol  Sci   R  17:514  Ag  '23  220w 

"Vitality    in    its    subject    matter    makes    this 
work  of  interest,   to  which  the  author's  careful 
scholarship    gives    additional    value."    S.    L.    R. 
+   Boston   Transcript   p4  My  5   '23   780w 

"The  book  is  written  in  a  clear  and  interest- 
ing style,  and  is,  on  the  whole,  remarkably  well 
informed.  Unfortunately,  however,  it  rather  falls 
between  two  stools.  It  is,  on  the  one  hand, 
rather  too  long  for  a  text-book  or  an  inter- 
pretative treatise;  on  the  other  hand,  it  is  hard- 
ly full  enough  to  be  an  entirely  satisfactory 
work  of  reference.  .  .  In  regard  to  the  growth 
of  imperial  ideas,  the  book  will  be  found  to 
contain  much  that  is  both  interesting  and  val- 
uable." 

-i Canadian    Hist    R   4:170   Je   '23   350w 

"To  this  great  task  he  has  brought  a  great 
amount  of  knowledge,  a  wide  point  of  view,  a 
lively  style,  and  a  certain  statesmanlike  out- 
look. He  has,  in  consequence,  produced  a  book 
which  whatever  its  defects  of  detail  in  the  eyes 
of  specialists  in  particular  fields,  will  prove  of 
great  value  in  bringing  together  an  immense 
mass  of  facts,  and,  what  is  far  more  important, 
connecting  them  in  a  related  whole." 
-f-   Lit   R   p740  Je   2  '23   300w 

"Coherent  and  well-informed  history  of  our 
imperial  polity." 

+   New   Statesman   21:58   Ap   21   '23  700w 

"He  is  an  accurate  and  also  an  attractive 
writer.  He  selects  judiciously  from  the  immense 
mass  of  facts,  and  dwells  on  the  main  tenden- 
cies of  each  successive  chapter  in  a  wonderful 
story." 

+  Spec  130:1013  Je  16  '23  150w 

MUKERJI,    DHAN    GOPAL.     Caste  and   outcast. 
303p     $3     Dutton 

B     or  92    India— Social     life    and     customs. 

Hinduism  23-8871 

Written  by  a  Hindu  of  the  Brahmin  caste, 
this  narrative  describes  the.  experiences  of  his 
childhood  and  youth  in  India  CCaste)  and  the 
early  years  of  his  life  in  America  (Outcast). 
The  first  and  longer  part  reveals  Indian  life 
from  within,  the  training  of  a  Brahmin  youth, 
and  his  initiation  into  the  priesthood,  at  four- 
teen. These  chapters  show  clearly  the  extent 
to  which  religion  is  a  part  of  daily  existence 
in  India.  In  America,  Mr  Mukerji  worked  his 
way  thru  California  university  bv  dishwashing 
and  housework,  and  mingled  with  socialists, 
anarchists  and  I.  W.  W.'s.  Later  he  gave  a 
college  course  of  lectures  on  comparative  liter- 
ature and  began  a  series  of  lecture  tours  which 
brought  him  into  contact  with  many  other  kinds 
of  Americans. 


Booklist  20:17  O  '23 
Bookm  58:65  S  '23  550w 
"The  book  is  vitally  and  absorbingly  inter- 
esting. If  our  critics  are  to  come  to  us  from 
Asia  let  us  be  glad  that  in  Mr.  Mukerji  we  have 
one  who  is  keen,  compassionate  and  construc- 
tive, who  does  not  aim  to  lead  us  to  his  faith 
but  who  appears  to  be  a  very  admirable  ex- 
ponent of   its   worth."    D.    P.   G. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p3   Je  2  '23  750w 
"Mr.  Mukerji  writes  well  about  both  East  and 
West  because  he  has  insight  into  human  nature 
irrespective  of  its  habitat."  C.  M. 

-f  New  Repub  35:365  Ag  22  *23  800w 
"It  would  be  hard  to  find  a  more  interesting 
and  charming  account  of  Hindu  life  than  that 
\vhich  fills  the  first  half  of  this  book.  Con- 
sidered a.*!  a  literary  achievement,  this  portion 
of  his  book  is  noteworthy,  because  he  succeeds 
so  well  in  making  the  Western  reader  realize 
and  understand  the  spirit  of  an  utterly  alien 
life. 

-f   N  Y  Times  pl4  Je  3  '23  1050w 


"The  book  contains  the  most  precious  kind  of 
knowledge  for  a  modern  man,  the  knowledge 
of  another  race  and  civilization.  We  ought  to 
have  a  book  like  this  written  by  a  chosen  youth 
from  every  nation  in  the  world — by  a  young 
man  who,  like  Mr.  Mukerji,  represents  the  best 
in  his  own  tradition  and  who  has  a  gift  for 
words." 

-f  N   Y  Tribune  pl9  My  13   '23  1650w 

"The  whole  atmosphere  is  charged  with  the 
insouciance  of  the  child  and  the  devotion  of  the 
priest.  Call  it  childlike,  if  you  will,  and  call  it 
unpractical.  It  is  the  heart  of  the  country,  and 
it  fascinates." 

-f  The   Times   [London]    Lit    Sup   p4   Ja   3 
'24    850w 

MUKERJI,    DHAN    GOPAL.    Jungle    beasts   and 

men.    160p   il   $2   Dutton 

23-13123 

The  story  purports  to  tell  the  experiences  of 
an  Indian  youth  and  his  friend  who  set  off  on 
a  pilgrimage  to  the  Himalayas  to  see  shrines 
and  cities  and  mountains.  They  encounter  the 
wild  beasts  of  the  jungle,  listen  to  the  tales  of 
a  magician,  visit  a  nobleman's  palace  and 
watch  the  ways  of  animals  in  the  forest.  These 
adventures  are  described  by  a  skilled  story- 
teller. 


"A  quality  of  childlike  directness  in  the 
prose  of  Dhan  Gopal  Mukerji  gives  to  his  writ- 
ing an  undoubted  power.  By  the  fewest  and 
simplest  of  strokes,  a  mood  is  created — and 
nothing  is  done  to  destroy  it  because  nothing 
is  done  to  embellish  it."  L.   B. 

+   Freeman  8:287  N  28  '23  150w 

"  'Jungle  Beasts  and  Men'  is  full  of  vivid, 
limpid  passages  that  are  a  pattern  to  us  to 
whom  the  English  language  is  a  birthright. 
Here  is  con-'/incing  proof  that  the  Indian  is  a 
horn  story  teller.  The  most  unromantic  Occi- 
dental heart  will  be  bewitched  by  these  tales." 
-\-   Lit   R   p315  D   1   '23  330w 

"His  diction  is  fluent  and  his  stories  are  full 
of   adventure." 

+   Springfd   Republican  p7a  N  11  '23  220w 

MULLINS,  MRS  ISLA  MAY  (HAWLEY)  (MRS 
EDGAR  YOUNG  MULLINS).  Captain  Pluck. 
235p    $1.50    Doran 

23-12713 

"The  chronicle  of  an  American  boy,  who  began 
his  life  in  the  home  of  a  Southern  planter- 
preacher,  and  enjoyed  certain  desirable  oppor- 
tunities which  gave  him  an  excellent  founda- 
tion for  life.  At  his  birth  his  parents  naturally 
pledged  him  to  the  high  calling  of  his  father, 
but  they  wisely  gave  him  his  way  to  learn  to 
be  a  man  and  to  select  his  own  life-work.  He 
was  brought  up  to  work  and  to  do  what  was 
his  task.  His  father  taught  him  early  in  life 
that  he  could  do  what  he  wanted  to  do — a 
lesson  not  perfectly  taught  or  understood  at 
present — and  he  went  about  his  various  duties 
with  a  determination  that  won  him  the  title 
of  'Captain  Pluck'  from  those  who  observed 
the  sturdy  way  he  met  and  overcame  difficul- 
ties."— Boston  Transcript 


"The  story  of  this  youth  is  told  in  a  pleasant 
manner  and   without   mawkishness." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  23  '23  250w 
"It  is  a  book  which  would  make  a  good  Sun- 
day-school prize.  Children  never  read  the  books 
they    receive    as    Sunday-school    prizes."    M.    G. 
Bonner 

—  Int    Bk   R  p52   S  '23   50w 

MUNROE,  JAMES   PHINNEY.     Life  of  FVancis 
Amasa   Walker.      449p      il      $4     Holt 

B  or  92  Walker,  Francis  Amasa  23-9758 
Francis  A.  Walker,  1840-1897,  was  eminent  in 
various  fields,  as  soldier,  statistician,  political 
economist  and  educator,  but  his  greatest  me- 
morial is  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology, whose  president  he  was  during  the  most 
crucial  years  of  its  history.  He  came  to  the 
presidency  in  1881,  twenty  years  after  the 
founding  of  the  Institute,  when  it  was  in  severe 
financial  straits  and  during  his  administration 


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laid  the  foundations  of  its  present  strength  and 
prestige.  His  biographer  was  faculty  secretary 
during  the  larger  part  of  his  administration  of 
the  Institute. 


Booklist  20:137  Ja  '24 
"In  spite  of  the  compelling  interest  in  Gen- 
eral Walker,  the  work  of  his  biography  should 
not  be  dismissed  lightly.  In  those  days  when 
volumes  written  around  letters  of  easy  access 
can  take  prizes  for  biographical  writing,  one 
may  legitimately  grow  enthusiastic  over  an  ar- 
duous task  accomplished  with  such  skill,  taste 
and  adequacy,  as  Mr.  Munroe  has  shown  in 
this  hook."    S.  L.   Cook 

+  Boston   Transcript  p4  Je  23  '23  1500w 
Reviewed  by   H:   Holt 

Ind  111:255  K  24  '23  IGOOw 
"The  jacket  of  this  book  tells  Us,  in  rather 
old-fashioned  phrase,  that  the  Life  of  General 
Walker  'will  appeal  to  all  who  find  entertain- 
ment in  exemplary  biography.'  For  once  the 
reviewer  may  fully  indorse  the  jacket  and  may 
say  in  addition  that  the  incidental  tid-bits — 
among  which  one  is  tempted  to  mention  par- 
ticularly some  charming  interchanges  between 
General  Walker  and  his  publisher — add  their 
savor  to  the  more  substantial  elements  of  the 
feast."   Fabian  Franklin 

+   Lit    R   p206   N   3   "23   1150w 

"The  volume  which  he  has  written  is  distin- 
guished by  its  fine  balance  in  the  presentation 
of  the  character  and  achievements  of  a  many- 
sided    being."    H:    G.    Pearson 

+  Nation  117:143  Ag  8  '23  750w 
Reviewed  by  R.  M.  Lovett 

New  Repub  36:286  N  7  '23  llOOw 
"It   was   well   worth  writing   for.    .    .    Walker's 
career  was  highly  typical  of  the  period  in  which 
he  lived."  A.  D.   Noyes 

+   N  Y  Times  plO  N  4  '23  1650w 
R   of   Rs   68:335  S   '23   200w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  1  '23  2600w 

MUNRO,  WILLIAM    BENNETT,  and  OZANNE, 
CHARLES    EUGENE.      Social    civics.    697p    il 

$1.72   (8s  6d)    Macmillan 

320    Social  sciences.    United  States — Politics 
and    government  22-12908 

"The  authois  are  respectively  Professor  of 
municipal  Government  at  Harvard  and  Teacher 
of  Civics  in  the  Central  High  School,  Cleveland, 
Ohio.  Their  main  theme  is  American  govern- 
ment, and  their  aim  has  been  to  discuss  the 
main  questions  of  citizenship,  economics,  sociol- 
ogy, and  international  relations  in  their  direct 
bearings  on  the  American  constitution  and 
policy.  The  book  contains  a  number  of  illus- 
ti-ations  drawn  from  the  masterpieces  of  Amer- 
ican mural  art." — The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup 


"The  chief  merit  of  the  book  is  not  to  be 
found  in  the  features  of  arrangement  and  illus- 
tration but  in  its  thoroughness  and  accuracv 
and  the  presentation  of  subject  matter  in  a 
manner  which  is  scholarly  and  at  the  same  time 
within  the  grasp  of  youthful  minds  for  which 
the  volume  is  intended." 

+  Am  Pol  Scl  R  16:723  N  '22  250w 

"The  book  does  not  show  economic  or  social 
bias,  but  it  does  state  facts  clearly  and 
unequivocally.  Mobile  the  autiiors  have  failed 
to  grasp  the  idea  that  the  unit  treatment  of 
the  social  field  must  be  based  on  and  organized 
about  history  primarily,  they  have  produced  a 
book  which  will  aid  in  the  unification  of  this 
field.  The  material  is  a  little  overcondensed 
on  account  of  the  scope  of  the  work."  J-  Munro 
+  —  School    R   31:157  F  "23  350w 

"The   material    is    well   designed    to   appeal   to 
the  pupil's   intelligence  by  focusing  his   thought 
upon    matters    lying    round    aliout    him,    but    to 
which   he   has    not   given    critical    attention." 
+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  O  8  "22  200w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p7C7  N  23 
'22  50 w 


MUNSON,     GORHAM      B.       Waldo     Frank;     a 
study.      95p   $1.50    Boni   &    Liveright 

B    or    92    Frank,    Waldo  23-5156 

"Mr.  Waldo  Frank  is  thirty-four  years  old; 
and  already  he  is  a  man  to  reckon  with.  His 
point  of  view,  his  philosophy,  and  his  tortured, 
exacting  prose — in  short,  his  world — afford  a 
much  richer  theme  for  discussion  than  those  of 
almost  any  other  contemporary  novelist  in 
America.  Mr.  Gorham  Munson's  study  of  Wal- 
do Frank  is  not  the  sort  of  tributei  the  author 
of  Rahab  deserves.  While  Mr.  Frank's  hardy 
genius  will  probably  survive  even  Mr.  Munson's 
study,  it  should  never  have  been  put  to  the 
test.  Almost  a  quarter  of  this  study  is  devoted 
to  excerpts  from  criticisms,  which  unite  into  a 
veritable  din  of  praise  by  the  simple  expedient 
of  omitting  all  the  qualifying  clauses,  sentences 
and  paragraphs  in  which  the  praise  is  embed- 
ded."—New  Repub 


"To  be  desperately  mannered  is  perhaps  a 
sign  of  originality,  or  merely  incoherence.  Mr. 
Munson  challenges  the  hard-thinking  reader  in 
'Waldo  Frank:  A  Study'  by  his  manner,  in 
fact,  rendering  a  disservice  to  his  subjects.  Lest 
you  do  not  know  whom  the  study  concerns  (and 
"this  is  easily  possible^  we  hastily  and  helpfully 
insert:  Waldo  Frank— novelist,  novelettist,  mi- 
nor essayist,  and  short  storyist."  R.  D.  W. 
—  Boston    Transcript   p5   My  12   '23   550w 

"I  am  inclined  to  believe  that  one  of  the 
real  calamities  that  have  befallen  Mr.  Frank 
in  this  vale  of  tears  is  the  book  written  about 
him  by  Mr.  Gorham  Munson.  The  book  is  of 
the  solemn  kind  that  ought  to  be  suppressed  by 
publisher,  author  and  subject,  for  their  own 
good.  The  attempt  to  shove  Mr.  Frank  into 
the  rank  of  the  most-distinguished  living 
writers  when  he  has  not,  in  fact,  been  writing 
long  enough  to  discover  what  is  in  himself,  and 
when  he  is  just  beginning  to  learn  his  trade,  is 
indeed  a  very  sad  business.  Mr.  Frank  and  Mr. 
Munson  take  themselves  far  too  seriously." 
M.    M.    Colum 

—  Freeman   8:140  O   17  '23   150w 
"Under   the   tattoo   of  a   critical   hammer,   one 

fancies  that  the  sparks  might  fly,  and  that 
Mr.  Frank's  work  would,  through  impact  and 
resistance,  take  on  a  firmer  shape.  Mr.  Gor- 
ham Munson's  study  of  Waldo  Frank  is  not, 
alas!  the  .sort  of  tribute  the  author  of  Rahab 
deserves;  for  its  thin,  eulogistic  exposition 
leaves  Mr.  Frank  on  the  brink  of  maturity  with 
most  of  his  barbarisms  and  solecisms  intact.  .  . 
Mr.  Frank  would  profit  at  the  present  moment 
in  the  hands  of  a  generous  antagonist,  who 
would  wrestle  with  him  and  make  him  sweat; 
unfortunately,  in  Mr.  Munson's  friendly  hands 
he  gets  nothing  more  than  a  cool  massage;  and 
if  this  sort  of  treatment  is  pleasurable,  it  is 
also  debilitating."  L:   Mumford 

—  New   Repub  34:276  My  2   '23  750w 

MURPHY,  HARRY  DUNCAN.  Fundamental 
principles  of  purchasing;  with  a  foreword  by 
L.  F.  Boffey.  83p  $1.50  Purchasing  agent  co., 
53   Park   pi.,   N.Y. 

658      Purchasing  23-2043 

"Deals  briefly  with  the  training  and  work   of 

the    purchasing   agent."— Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 

"While  this  book  may  not  tell  the  prospective 
purchasing  agent  all  that  he  needs  to  know, 
there  are  outlined  in  it,  in  clear,  concise  lan- 
guage, certain  well-defined  principles  with  which 
he  should  be  familiar.  A  study  of  these  will 
be  of  real  value  and  should  constitute  an  es- 
sential part  of  his  training."  A.  F.  Macklin 
+  Management  &  Adm  6:105  Jl  '23  900w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:423   O  '23 

MURRY,  JOHN  MIDDLETON.  Countries  of 
the  mind;  essays  in  literary  criticism.  246p  $4 
Dutton   [10s  Gd  Collins] 

824    Literature — History  and  criticism 

[22-21032] 

Eleven  essays  on  writers,  English  and 
French  prefaced  by  a  note  answering  some 
objections  of  reviewers  and  concluding  with  a 
critical   credo   de-scriliing   the    function    of  criti- 


370 


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MURRY,   J:    M.^ — Continued 

cism.  Contents:  Prefatory  note;  Shakespeare 
and  love;  A  neglected  heroine  of  Shakespeare; 
Burtons  "anatpmy";  The  poetry  of  William  Col- 
lins; The  poetry  of  John  Clare;  The  poetry  of 
Walter  De  L.a  Mare;  'Arabia  Deserta'; 
Baudelaire;  Amiel;  Gustave  Flaubert;  Stendhal; 
A  critical  credo. 


"The  book  falls  considerably  short  of  the  high 
felicity  of  its  title." 

—  Bookm  57:343  My  '23  200w 
"It  is  substantial  without  the  sacrifice  of  dis- 
tinction  and   charm.     Although   the   conclusions 
do  not  always  command  full  assent,  they  never 
forfeit   respect."      G:   B.   Dutton 

H Lit    R    p5S0   Ap   7    '23    1500w 

"However  intimately  and  secretly  Mr.  Murry 
may  in  theory  be  an  accomplice  of  the  impres- 
sionists, there  is  little  of  the  subjective  quality 
in  his  literary  criticism.  We  may  detect  some- 
thing of  'curiosity'  and  perhaps  a  little  of  per- 
versity in  an  essay  which  probes  among  the 
yellowed  sheaves  of  John  Clare's  verses,  and 
in  Mr.  Murry's  drumming  lor  Doughty's  'Travels 
in  Arabia  Deserta,'  which  he  describes  as  'in- 
comparable' and  'a  triumph  both  of  art  and 
of  personality.'  But  for  the  most  part  there  is 
completely  lacking  here  the  quaUties  which 
characterize  impressionistic  criticism — gusto, 
vitality,  penetration,  provocation,  and  heresy." 
G.  H.  Carson 

Nation  116:sup442  Ap  11  '23  880w 
"They  include  two  examples  of  Mr.  Murry  at 
his  happiest  and  best,  as  we  think — the  papers 
on  William  Collins  and  John  Clare.  Those  two 
pieces  of  writing  incidentally  exhibit  the  extra- 
ordinary desire  and  reverence  for  the  very  high- 
est achievements  of  literature  which  underlie 
Mr.  Murry's  method  of  approach." 

+  Nation  and  Ath  131:448  Je  24  '22  120w 
"As  a  critic  Nature  has  endowed  him  with 
an  extremely  delicate  sensibility  of  response, 
so  that  he  is  exceptionally  exposed  to  the  temp- 
tation to  rise  to  great  themes  by  hysteria,  while 
the  other  side  of  his  make-up  is  a  remarkable 
soundness  of  practical  judgment  based  not  on 
reasoning  but  on  instinct.  It  is  a  rare  combi- 
nation, this  apparatus  of  quivering,  sensitive 
nerves  allied  to  instinctive  common  sense;  and 
the  ends  it  serves  are  often  interesting  and  use- 
ful. But  when  the  call  comes  for  something 
more  than  emotion  and  common  sense  to  regu- 
late perception,  we  are  liable  to  find  Mr.  Murry 
in  an  ecstasy  of  prostration."  S.  P.  W. 

H New  Statesman  19:444  Jl  22  '22  1850w 

"The  editor  of  The  Athenaeum  is  far  from 
florid.  But  there  is  warmth  pervading  every 
line  and  every  page;  his  sentences  are  grace- 
fully, not  to  say  sweetly,  modulated;  and  the 
impression  made  by  the  entire  essay  is  in  each 
case  that  it  is  well-nigh  perfect  in  form.  On 
the  other  hand,  Murry  displays  a  love  for  his 
fellow-men  which  lifts  his  essays  out  of  the 
classical  and  gives  to  them  something  very  rare, 
something  which  makes  them  other  than  class- 
ical   or    romantic."     P.    A.    Hutchison 

-f-  N  Y  Times  plO  F  18  '23  1250w 
"There  are  critics  who  have  at  you  with  a 
birch  in  the  hand.  Such  a  one  is  John  Middle- 
ton  Murry.  He  is  right  (sometimes)  and  he 
knows  he  is  right;  he  wants  you  to  know  gram- 
mar and  rules  and  dates;  what  is  more,  he 
wants  you  to  observe  the  Decalogue,  say  your 
pi'ai,ers,  report  for  tardiness  and  see  him  after 
school.  He  is  a  very  young  man,  but  he  is  very 
stern  and  very  serious.  He  has  schooled  him- 
self; he  has  read  many  books,  he  is  interested 
in  the  past.  He  is  a  trifle  dull,  a  trifle  pedantic, 
rather  pedagogical.  But  Mr.  Murry  is  valuable 
even  in  his  pedantry.  He  is  a  teacher  of  the 
old  school.  He  doesn't  like  cleverness,  specious- 
ness  and  superficiality."   Burton  Rascoe 

H NY   Tribune  pl7  Mr  4    '23   880w 

N  Y  World  p6e  Mr  11  '23  650w 
"This  is,  if  we  mistake  not,  the  fifth  collec- 
tion of  purely  literary  essays  published  by  a 
writer  who  has  risen  into  prominence  almost 
more  rapidly  than  any  other  critic  of  our  day. 
We   may   say   at   once   that   we   consider   it   the 


best,  because  the  most  solid  and  the  most 
temperate,  which  Mr.  Middleton  Murry  has 
issued." 

+  Sat  R  134:18  Jl  1  '22  1200w 
"Mr.    Murry   is   no   mere   preacher.      Often   he 
preaches,  and  sometimes  narrowly  and  wrongly, 
as   all   sincere   people   must   do.      His   sensitive- 
ness   to    beauty    hovers    like    a    flame    over   his 
words,    informing  his  prose  style,  and  enlarging 
his  sympathies,  so  that  he  is  ready  to  welcome 
with  eagerness   any   comer,   famous   or   obscure, 
who  will  offer  him  fuel  to  feed  this  sacred  fire." 
+  Spec  129:115  Jl  22  '22  450w 
"His    work    in    these   articles    is    never   either 
slovenly  or  shallow;   and  it    has  a  point  and   a 
life  to  which  the  unhindered,  undriven  professor 
does  not  always  attain." 

-j-  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p504  Ag  3 
'22   1550W 

MUZUMDAR,   HARIDAS  T.  Gandhi  the  apostle; 

his  trial  and  his  message.  208p  $1.50  Universal 

pub.   CO. 

B    or    92    Gandhi,    Mohandas    Karamchand. 
India 

The  first  half  of  the  book  is  a  panorama  of 
Indian  history  showing  India's  contribution  to 
religiious,  philosophical  and  scientific  thought, 
her  history  and  art  in  outline  and  the  develop- 
ment of  Indian  nationality.  The  second  half 
is  devoted  to  Mahatma  Gandhi,  as  India's 
contribution  to  humanity,  and  his  gospel  of 
passive  resistance  and  non-cooperation. 

"A  burning  desire  to  set  his  country  in  its 
proper  light  before  the  world,  combined  with 
a  grasp  of  the  subject  and  unusual  powers  of 
expression,  have  helped  to  make  a  book  worth 
the  attention  of  anyone  who  would  know  the 
facts  in  connection  with  Mahatma  Gandhi  and 
the  politico-spiritual  movement  v/hich  has 
swept  over  India.  The  book  has  that  illusive 
but  real  thing  we  call  charm."  Blanche  Watson 
+  Nation  117:243  S  5  '23  1150w 

MYERS,    LEOPOLD    HAMILTON.   The  Orissers. 

555p  $2  Scribner  [7s  6d  Putnam] 

23-7318 

Lilian  Orisser,  a  young  widow,  in  order  to 
save  her  suicide  husband's  estate  for  her  step- 
son Nicholas,  heavily  mortgages  it  to  rich  old 
John  Mayne  and  in  return  for  her  financial 
security,  marries  him.  They  soon  become 
estranged.  Then  Mayne's  niece,  Madeline,  covet- 
ous of  Eamor,  fastens  herself  upon  Lilian.  She 
exerts  all  her  feminine  wiles  to  secure  final 
possession  of  the  place,  with  the  result  that 
Mayne's  dying  days  are  tense  with  furtiveness 
and  intrigue.  The  psychology  and  motives  of 
all  the  characters  involved  are  subjected  to  a 
close  study  and  show  a  variety  of  types — the 
unworldly  and  worldly-wise;  the  over-intellec- 
tualized  and  the  instinctive;  the  herd  mind 
and    individualized   aloofness. 


Cleveland  p67  S  '23 

"Overburdened  by  ramifications  of  psychology 
and  philosophy.    The   author   has    set   himself  a 
weighty  task  and  defeated  his  accomplishment 
of  it  by  too  great  thoroughness." 
—  Dial    75:97  Jl   '23   lOOw 

Reviewed   bv   H.    W.    Boynton 

Ind   110:379  Je   9   '23   680w 

"Altho  'The  Orissers'  can  not  be  said  to  con- 
stitute either  an  experiment  or  an  innovation 
in  fiction,  due  credit  should  be  given  to  its 
unusual  power.  It  is  an  absorbing  and  con- 
vincing study  of  character,  largely,  it  must  be 
confessed,  unpleasant,  against  a  background  of 
melodramatic  incident,  and  under  the  expect- 
ancy of  an  impending  fate.  Moreover,  it  is  a 
novel  of  ideas,  surveying  life  which  it  reports 
from  the  point  of  view  of  a  consistent  philo- 
sophic   attitude."    Lloyd    Morris 

H Int    Bk   R   p25   My  '23   2000w 

"Mr.  Myers  paints  weird  portraits  that  diffuse 
an  atmosphere  of  spiritual  torture  after  the 
manner  of  El  Greco.  His  characters  are  often 
depicted  in  a  sterile,  forbidding  milieu,  a  desert 
or  sand  waste,  that  seems  peculiarly  appropriate 
to  their  world-weary  spirits."  Drake  de  Kay 
Lit    R   p715  My  26  '23   950w 


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"A  novel  which  quite  shatters  critical  stand- 
ards by  its  amazing-  vitality  and  excessive 
blundering.  Its  defects  fairly  scream  at  the 
reader,  and  yet  there  is  an  animating  impulse 
behind  the  boolc  that  holds  the  reader,  charms 
him.  stirs  him  mightily." 

H NY  Times  pll  Ap  29  '23  2300w 

"There  are  no  traces  of  any  attempt  to  make 
the  characters  appear  as  human  beings.  The 
creatures  do  nothing  but  discourse  tritely  in 
ponderous,  complex  sentences  that  severely 
overtax  a  reader's  powers  of  concentration 
about  their  lamentable  situation,  varying  the 
performance  with  occasional  overwrought 
wranglings  among  themselves.  As  for  Mr. 
Myers's  ideas,  they  are  so  encumbered  by  his 
thoroughgoing  exploitation  of  the  English  lan- 
guage that  it  is  almost  impossible  for  them  to 
show  themselves  at  all.  Still,  I  have  a  notion 
that  Mr.  Myers  ought  to  have  the  conduct  of 
a  psychological  clinic,  that  he  is  really  much 
more  profound  as  a  psychologist  than  a  novel- 
ist."  L.   B.   Gilkes 

h   N    Y   Tribune    p27   My  13   '23   650w 

"The  story  is  one  of  the  few  fiction  works  of 
the  year  that  loom  above  their  fellows.  By 
some  elusive  literary  line  it  misses  greatness. 
It  is  sharply  striking,  enthralling,  in  some 
respects  unique."   E.   W.   Osborn 

H NY    World    p8e    Ap    22    '23    800w 

"Whether  the  book  will  ever  be  popular,  I 
do  not  feel  sure.  Its  enormous  length — though 
every  episode  subserves  the  main  theme — may 
be  an  obstacle  to  some,  its  richness  of  style  and 
thought  to  others.  Most  of  all,  perhaps,  its 
unreality,  its  remoteness  from  anything  that 
we  ordinary  people  are  conscious  of  experienc- 
ing, its  urgent  and  threatening  symbolism,  will 
baffle  and  perplex.  But  its  exactness  and  pro- 
fundity of  thought  give  it  permanence.  It  is  a 
work  conceived  and  executed  on  the  grand  scale, 
and    it    will   live."   Gerald   Gould 

H Sat   R  135:259  F  24  "23  600w 

"  'The  Orissers'  reveals  a  mind  of  pronounced 
individuality  and  a  remarkable  degree  of  per- 
ceptive concentration  in  the  study  of  human 
psychology.  Yet  one  is  inclined  to  regard  the 
result  as  a  tour  de  force  rather  than  a  new  and 
significant  achievement." 

\-   Springf  d   Republican  p7a  Je  10  '23  300w 


N 


N.    N.,    pseud.    See  Pennell,   E. 

N AETHER,    CARL    ALBERT.    Business    letter; 

its  principles  and  problems.  516p  $4  Appleton 
652   Commercial   correspondence  23  -9445 

In  a  book  for  the  student  and  teacher  as 
well  as  for  the  business  man,  the  principles 
of  modern  business  letter  writing  are  present- 
ed along  with  typical  problems  by  which  to 
apply  these  principles.  Three  introductory 
chapters  on  the  essentials  of  the  business  letter 
are  followed  by  450  pages  discussing  the  vari- 
ous types  of  routine  and  sales  letters.  The 
problem  material  of  the  book  comes  almost 
entirely  from  the  files  of  business  men  in  vari- 
ous   parts    of   the    country. 


Booklist  20:46  N  '23 

Lit   R   p411  D   29   '23   300w 

"This  is  a  good  book  with  a  somewhat  in- 
appropriate title.  As  a  restatement  of  the 
principles  of  the  business  letter  it  can  make  no 
special  claim  to  distinction  among  the  many 
recent  works  professing  to  do  the  same  thing. 
As  a  collection  of  problems  in  letter-writing, 
however,  and  of  specimens  of  actual  business 
letters,  good  and  bad,  it  is  a  valuable  and 
almost  a  unique  contribution  to  the  literature 
of  the   subject."     J:    M.   Clapp 

+   Management  &  Adm  6:379   S  '23  14.''iOw 

"The  book  is  well  worth  owning  by  everyone 
having  any  kind  of  business  corresponding  lO 
do,    from  the  man   looking  for  a  job  up   to  the 


sales  manager  and  general  executive — probably 
one  of  the  best  treatises  in  print  upon  husincKs 
correspondence." 

-j-   Springf  d    Republican  p8  Ag  29  '23  lOOw 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p425   Je 
21    '23    50w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:505   D   '23 

NAHAS,  BISHARA.  Life  and  times  of  Tut- 
ankh-amen.  112p  il  $1.50  Am.  library  ser- 
vice 

913.32    Tut-ankh-amen.      Egypt — Antiquities 

23-8492 
An  Egyptian  educated  in  Europe  writes  this 
small  and  useful  book  to  serve  as  an  historical 
background  for  Tut-ankh-amen  and  his  times. 
Tiie  book  includes  a  brief  outline  history  of 
Egypt,  a  description  of  an  Egyptian  village,  an 
historical  sketch  of  the  most  important  exca- 
vations of  Egypt,  an  account  of  the  d>nasty  of 
Tut-ankh-amen  and  a  sketch  of  his  life.  The 
last  three  cliapters  are  on  the  significance  of 
Lord  Carnarvon's  discoveries,  on  the  process  of 
mummification  of  Tut-ankh-amen  and  on  Egyp- 
tian   funeral   festivities. 


Booklist  20:17  O   '23 

"The  natural  conclusion  of  the  prospective 
purchaser  would  be  that  the  book  is  spurious. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  it  is  a  convenient  resume 
of  information  about  ancient  Egypt  that  might 
well  interest  the  tourist.  The  result  of  this 
method  is  a  biography  which  might  fit  any  king 
of  the  period,  and  the  assumption  of  assurance 
on  many  historical  matters  which  are  highly 
conjectural.  Incidentally,  the  quotation  reveals 
the  stylistic  weakness  of  the  book;  a  weakness 
for  which  we  can  not  blame  the  author,  whose 
native  idiom  is  not  English.  The  publishers 
should  have  taken  the  pains  and  the  time  to 
have  the  text  revised."  R  S.  H. 
1-  Freeman  7:407  Jl  4  '23  450w 

"The  layman  who  desires  a  handy  compen- 
dium by  means  of  which  to  acquaint  himself 
with  the  main  facts  about  Tut-Ankh-Amen  and 
his  time  will  find  a  good  introduction  to  Egyp- 
tology in  this  little  book.  It  is  concisely  writ- 
ten  for   the   average   reader." 

+   Lit  R  p756  Je  9  '23  210w 

"This  is  a  pleasant  little  supplement  to  Sun- 
day magazine  Egyptology,  mildly  informative 
and  highly  condensed.  Bishara  Nahas  knows 
his  subject,  but  in  this  instance  seems  conscious- 
ly to  talk  down  to  his  supposedly  uninformed 
readers."  Kenneth  Fuessle 

-^ NY  Tribune  p25  S  9  '23  450w 

St    Louis  p295   O   '23 
"The  little  book,  which  not  improperly  can  be 
designated  as   a   primer  is  easy  reading." 

+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p8  My  22  '23  130w 
"The  rapidity  with  which  this  book  has  been 
produced  and  the  author's  picturesque  career 
do  not  lead  one  to  expect  a  book  of  deep  scien- 
tific thoroughness;  but  it  is  an  interesting  and 
enlightening  story  nevertheless — chiefly  because 
of  the  author's  ability  to  relate  the  events  of 
Tut-Ankh-Amen's  reign  and  times  to  the  sur- 
vivals of  ancient  social  usages  in  the  Egypt  of 
today." 

-f  Survey  50:354   Je   15   '23   llOw 

NATHAN,    GEORGE    JEAN.      World    in    false- 
face.    326p   $2.50    Knopf 

792     Theater.     Art  23-1117 

The  writer,  who  is  a.=:sociate  editor  of  the 
Smart  Set,  arranges  the  matter  of  his  book  in 
four  parts:  Art  and  criticism;  Theater  and 
drama;  Men  and  women;  The  world  we  live  in. 
His  opinions  are  not  presented  in  the  form  of 
essays,  but  often  in  a  mere  sentence  or  para- 
graph, sometimes  in  a  chapter  of  considerable 
length.  His  interests  are  all  aesthetic,  but 
center  chiefly  in  the  theater  anci  drama  and 
he  writes  unsparingly  of  playwrights  and  pro- 
ducers,   of  theater   goers   and   critics. 


Booklist    19:217    Ap    '23 
Bookm    57:215   Ap   '23   140w 


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NATHAN,  G:  J. — Continued 

"A  motley  collection  of  digressions  on  the  tlie- 
atre,  art,  women  and  otlier  things,  with  a  fore- 
word in  the  best  Nathan  imitation  of  George 
Moore,  vintage  at  least  a  quarter  century  old. 
George  Jean  as  an  Olympian  with  a  mild  stogie 
in  his  mouth  is  a  trifle  disconcerting.  Never- 
theless,   he   is   nothing  if  not  clever." 

h   Dial    74:312   Mr   '23   50w 

"The  present  collection  of  detached  but  re- 
lated opinions  follows  the  pattern  of  its  pre- 
decessors in  every  respect.  When  he  is  not  pos- 
ing as  a  sort  of  critical  back-drop  for  Mr. 
Mencken,  he  projects  some  excellent  patter  over 
the  footlights,  brings  out  some  of  his  old  preju- 
dices in  fresh  costumes,  and  does  a  good  ven- 
triloquist turn  with  a  Viennese  dummy.  Mr. 
Nathan  is,  in  fact,  one  of  the  few  one-man 
sliows  in  dramatic  criticism.  As  such,  he  de- 
serves— and  usually  gets — a  hand."  L.  B. 

H Freeman   7:311   Je  6  "23  200w 

"I  have  read  'The  World  in  Falseface'  thor- 
oughly, and  though  I  know  what  each  para- 
graph is  about,  I  haven't  any  definite  idea  of 
what  the  whole  book  is  about.  Whether  Mr. 
Nathan  happens  to  like  or  to  dislike  this  or 
that  particular  play  or  book  or  landscape  will 
become  a  matter  of  more  importance  to  his 
readers  after  he  has  managed  to  think  out  for 
himself  a  patterned  and  consistent  philosophy 
of   life."     Clavton    Hamilton 

—  Lit    R   p716   My   26  '23   1900w 
"One    suspects   destructive   criticism   for   pre- 
cisely   this    reason.      It    is    too    easy.      And    the 
cleverness  which   is  so  inseparable  a  part  of  it 
is  likewise  too  easy." 

h   N   Y  Times  p9  F  4  '23  ISOOw 

N  Y  Tribune  pl7  Mr  4  '23  880w 
Sat  R  136:444  O  20  '23  850w 
"With  judicious  restraint  and  good  taste  Mr 
Nathan's  critical  faculty  and  knowledge  of  the 
foreign  theater  would  be  an  asset  alike  to 
American  criticism  and  to  the  drama.  But  he 
prefers  to  play  the  literary  clown — now  and 
then  a  philosophical  clown,  but  too  often  a 
mere  cavorter.  'The  World  in  Falseface'  shows 
him  not  as  a  critic  of  the  drama  but  as  a 
satirist  whose  subjects  are  the  drama  and  the 
public.  And  he  is  clever  enough  to  make  a  good 
many  shrewd  hits." 

-j Sprlngrd  Republican  p8  Ja  12  '23  480w 

NATHAN,      ROBERT.       Puppet     master.       221p 

$1.75   McBride 

23-14805 

Tho  this  story  of  a  puppet  maker  and  his 
dolls  is  almost  pure  fantasy,  yet  the  author's 
meaning  speaks  plainly  thru  his  allegory.  Papa 
Jonas's  little  creatures  of  wood  and  cloth  and 
paper  consort  on  equal  terms  with  his  human 
friends,  Mary  Holly  and  her  daughter  Amy  May, 
and  Christopher  Lane,  his  poet  assistant.  Amy 
May  coaxed  Papa  Jonas  to  give  her  his  favorite 
puppet,  Mr.  Aristotle,  for  her  girl-doll  to  play 
with,  and  the  indulgent  puppet  master  even 
arranged  a  marriage  between  the  two.  Thru 
his  dolls  as  mouthpieces,  with  the  help  of  wise 
Papa  .Jonas  and  his  friends,  the  author  unfolds 
his  philosophy  of  life  and  love  and  marriage, 
a  philosophy  as  mellow  and  wise  as  it  is  fanci- 
ful   in    its    presentation. 


"Nathan  is  a  gentle  ironist:  but  like  all  iron- 
ists in  whom  there  is  a  touch  of  greatness,  he 
has  much  tenderness  when  he  contemplates  the 
race  of  man.  In  one  paragraph,  Nathan  savs 
all  that  Floyd  Dell  really  has  to  say  about  the 
younger  generation."     J.   F. 

-I-   Bookm    58:458   D    '23   500w 

"There  is  a  delicate,  fragrant  loveliness  about 
everything  which  Robert  Nathan  writes.  His 
touch  is  so  light  and  so  exquisite  that  it  is 
possible  to  miss  the  fact  that  his  wisdom  is 
deep  and  ageless.  He  possesses  an  art  of  un- 
usual appeal,  because  it  has  the  power  to  pierce 
through  the  defences  of  the  individual  and  sur- 
prise him  with  its  full  human  import.  We 
like  throughout  the  sense  of  unworldliness,  of 
isolation  and  a  quiet  in  the  heart  of  the  crowd 
which  pervades  the  story.  It  is  indeed  a  book 
With   a    great    deal    of   truth    and    beauty   in    It 


one  of  the  most  lovely  and  idyllic  stories  of  the 
season."      D.    L.    M. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p4    O    24    '23    lOOOw 

"Once  within  their  magic  spell,  one  submits 
unquestioningly  to  the  slim  plot  woven  out  of 
threads  drawn  alternately  from  reality  and  pure 
fancy,  from  the  lives  of  puppets.  It  is  pleasant 
indeed  in  these  days  of  verbal  contortions,  to 
meet  with  such  limpid,  carefully  wrought  and 
yet  wholly  unaffected  English.  It  is  pleasant, 
too,  to  rest  a  while  in  company  with  a  spirit 
that  knows  nothing  of  the  competitive  hurry 
moving  most  of  us — a  spirit  that  sits  dreamily 
by  the  wayside  watching  the  wild  turmoil  of 
the  world's  highroad  with  a  tolerantly  skepti- 
cal smile."     Edwin  Bjorkman 

-f   Int  Bk  R  p71  D  '23  280w 

"It  is  a  charming  book,  full  of  originality  and 
feeling.  Mr.  Nathan  has  a  beautifully  light 
touch  and  he  has  materials  which  suit  his 
method  to  perfection.  All  the  dolls  are  mag- 
nificent. It  says  much  for  their  history  that 
we  are  affected  and  even  poignantly  moved  dur- 
ing its  progress.  There  is  much  verbal  beauty 
in  the  writing,  and  even  more  beauty  in  the 
imagination  of  the  book."  Frank  Swinnerton 
+   Lit   R  p301  D  1  '23  880w 

Nation    117:669   D    5    '23   180w 

"It  is  somewhat  difficult  to  indicate  the  spe- 
cific flavor  of  Mr.  Nathan's  novel.  It  has  the 
same  poetic  imagination  that  made  'Autumn' 
so  distinguished  a  piece  of  work.  It  has  deli- 
cate fantasy,  whimsical  humor  and  a  quiet  gay- 
ety;  it  shows  a  love  of  human  nature  and  a 
serious  reading  of  life.  To  say  that  it  possesses 
many  of  the  qualities  which  bring  the  best  of 
Barrie's  work  so  close  to  our  hearts  is  to  praise 
it  highly  but  not  unde'servedly."  Lloyd  Morris 
-f ■  N   Y  Times  p7  O  28  '23   1700w 

"Every  one  is  sure  to  read  'The  Puppet  Mas- 
ter' with  delight  for  its  beautiful  limpid  prose, 
its  grave  and  sacramental  wisdom,  its  twilight 
melancholy  and  its  elfin  humor.  Is  every  one 
sure  to  realize  just  where  these  things  end? 
Mr.  Nathan  is  too  genuine  an  artist  for  per- 
sons to  call  'whimsical,'  and  unless  he  is  very 
careful  he  will  have  to  endure  that  word.  No 
one  Avants  to  hear  Mr.  Nathan  set  down  as 
'reminiscent'  of  Barrie."  Donald  Douglas 
-f-  —  N   Y  Tribune  p23  O  28  '23  850w 

"Romance  and  philosophy,  and  poetry  too  are 
in  the  chapters  of  'The  I*uppet  Master.'  We 
earnestly  advise  a  generous  searching  for  them 
there  by  all  thoughtful  readers."  E.  W.  Os- 
born 

-f   N  Y  World  plOe  O  21  '23  150w 

NEILSON,   FRANCIS.  Duty  to  civilization.  136p 
$1  Huebsch 

940.32      European      war,      1914-1019— Causes. 
European    war,      1914-1919 — Diplomatic    his- 
tory.   Diplomacy  23-8870 
The    book    is    an    indictment    of    secret    diplo- 
macy as  the  chief  factor  in  bringing  on  the  war. 
In    an    attempt    to    shift    the    responsibility    for 
the  war  from  Germany  to  the  Allies,  the  author 
examines     the  diplomatic,     military     and     naval 
plans    of   the      Allies     for     twelve     years,      the 
charges    of    war    propagandists,     and     the    gar- 
bling of   official   dispatches  just   before   the   war 
broke   out.    The   "duty  to  civilization"    is   to    rid 
ourselves   of  a  system   that   makes   such   things 
possible. 

Int  J  Ethics  33:440  Jl  '2Z  70w 
"Only  one  observation  need  be  made  about 
this  hodge-podge  of  a  book.  Like  all  attempts 
to  shift  the  responsibility  for  the  war  from 
the  Central  Powers,  it  studiously  avoids  a  dis- 
cussion of  the  central  Incident  of  the  crisis — 
Austria's  declaration  of  war  upon  Serbia." 
—  Lit   R   pl2  S   1   '23   210w 

NEUMANN,     HENRY.    Education       for       moral 
growth.    383p   $2.50    (10s   6d)    Appleton 

170  Moral  education  23-12990 

By   the    instructor   in   ethics   and   education   in 

the  Ethical  culture   school.   New  York  city,  who 

draws   on   his   experience  in   school,   college  and 

settlement    to    show   teachers   and   parents   how 


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Z7Z 


many  opportiinilies  lie  at  hand  in  the  moral 
resources  of  the  school  to  promote  a  hetter  life 
for  our  world.  The  chapters  discuss  the  ethical 
implications  of  democracy,  the  influences  which 
have  contributed  to  America's  ideals  and  some 
of  the  agencies  for  giving  effect  to  the  ethical 
motive.  Each  chapter  is  provided  with  ques- 
tions and   references. 


"A  tremendous  seivice  is  rendered  by  this 
timely    book."    P.    B.    N. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p8  D  8  '23  400w 
"This  book  contains  considerations,  now 
largely  ignored  by  educators  in  general,  which 
should  be  taken  into  account.  If  this  book  were 
to  be  widely  used  in  normal  schools  and  col- 
lege departments  of  education,  American  edu- 
cation would  gain  immeasurably." 
+   Survey   51:198  N   1   '23   300w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p752    N 
8   '23   50w 

NEVILL,  RALPH  HENRY.  Yesterday  and 
to-day.   285p  11  %5  Button   [15s  Methuen] 

914.21       London — Social     life     and     customs. 

London— Description  [23-2354  J 

These  reminiscences  relate  chiefly  to  London 
society  and  club  life,  to  the  changes  that  have 
come  to  the  streets  and  buildings  and  customs 
of  the  city,  to  the  passing  of  bohemianism  and 
the  revival  of  puritanism.  'J'he  latter^is  much 
deplored  by  the  author  and  so  aie  most  of  the 
social  changes  of  which  he  writes.  The  last 
chapter  is  devoted  to  France  and  its  resorts. 

"As  a  contribution  to  the  biography  of  Lon- 
don, the  book  has  its  slight  value;  aside  from 
this   it   is  a  bulky  vacuity." 

h   Bookm    57:343    My    '23    lOOw 

"His  book  is  oddly  interesting,  for  it  is  writ- 
ten in  a  staccato  style  of  frequent  paragraphs 
that  is  by  no  means  appealing  to  the  eye  or  to 
the  mind  of  the  reader.  He  has  crov/ded  his 
pages  with  reflections  and  reminiscences  and 
the  portraits  he  gives  of  distinctive  London 
personalities  in  varied  walks  of  life  are  very 
definite.  'Yesterday  and  Today'  is  a  notable 
book  of  personal  recollections."  E.  F.  Edgett 
-t-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ja  13  '23  1450w 
"A  Tory  mourning  his  lost  England  and  at 
the  same  time  chuckling  over  his  memories  of 
it— this  we  have  in  Mr.  Nevill's  entertainingly 
discursive   book." 

-t-    Lit    R    p522   Mr   10   "23    330w 

New  Statesman  20:152  N  4  '22  170w 
"It  would  be  difhcult  to  find  any  one  less 
tolerant  of  the  opinions  of  otheis  than  Mr. 
Ralph  Nevill.  He  is  so  absolutely  sui-e  that  he 
is  always  right  that  he  arouses  in  the  reader 
a,  feeling  of  antagonism  and  an  instinctive 
desire  to  take  the  opposite  side  of  the  argument 
even  on  those  occasions  when  Mr.  Nevill  hap- 
pens  to   be   right." 

—  NY  Times  p5  Ja  28  '23  800w 
Outlook    133:372    F    21    '22    30w 
Sat    R    134:fi31   O   28   '22   SOOw 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p6C8    O 
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NEWMARCH,  MRS  ROSA  HARRIET  (JEAF- 
FRESON).    Russian    arts.    293p   il   $2.50   Button 

709.47  Art,  Russian 
An  introduction  to  the  study  of  Russian  art 
which  concentrates  on  architecture,  painting 
and  its  various  branches,  and  sculpture,  with 
chapters  on  decoration  and  iconographv  and  on 
illuminadon  and  engraving.  The  author  has 
drawn  upon  material  collected  during  several 
visits  to  Russia;  personal  notes  made  in  the 
Imperial  public  library,  Petrograd,  and  the 
chief  galleries  of  both  canitals  during  a  period 
ranging  from  1897  to  1915.  There  are  32  illus- 
trations. 


ous  language  which  clothes  the  bones  of  the 
exposition  in  a  happy  spontaneity.  Artistically 
illustrated  with  thirty-two  full  page  halftones, 
the  admirer  and  student  of  Russia  will  find  In 
this  book  real  nutriment  and  real  charm." 
C.    T.   C. 

4-  Boston  Transcript  p4  O  27  '23  550w 
"The    text,    the    contents,    and    the    comments 
would     have     been     quite     adequate — perhaps — 
twenty   years  ago."     I...    M. 

—  New   Repub   37:50   B   5    '23   170w 

NEWMARCH,  MRS  ROSA  HARRIET  (JEAF- 
FRESON).  Russian  opera.  403p  il  $2.50  But- 
ton 

782.1  Opera,  Russian 
The  author  attempts  to  bring  out  in  this  sur- 
vey of  the  history  of  Russian  opera  from  its 
earliest  beginnings  to  the  present  day  the  fact 
that  it  is  beyond  all  question  a  genuine  growth 
of  the  Russian  soil  with  its  roots  so  deep  in 
folk- music  that  neither  the  long  oppression  by 
the  church,  nor  its  conflicts  with  authority 
could  check  its  growth.  The  contents  include 
chai-acterizations  of  the  various  musical  schools 
and  sketches  of  all  the  great  composers  and 
their  works.  Index  of  operas  and  index  of 
names. 


"Considering  the  vast  work  of  the  school  and 
the  technical  intricacies  of  the  subject,  and  the 
distinguishing  feature  of  the  effort  she  de- 
scribes she  has  succeeded  most  admirably.  For 
all  its  compactness  her  accoimt  is  remarkably 
interesting  and  faithfully  retains  the  romantic 
atmosphere  which  is  inevitably  wrapped  about 
so   colorful   an   enteiprise." 

-I-   N    Y    Times    pl3   Je   24    '23    820w 

NEWTH,  GEORGE  S.  Text-book  of  inorganic 
chemistry,  new  and  enl  ed  772p  $2.50  (8s) 
Longmans 

546  Chemistry,  Inorganic 
"Part  I  contains  a  brief  sketch  of  the  fun- 
damental principles  and  theories  upon  which 
the  science  of  modern  chemistry  is  built.  .  . 
Part  2  consists  of  the  study  of  the  four  typical 
elements,  hydrogen,  oxygen,  nitrogen,  and 
carbon,  and  of  their  more  important  com- 
pounds."— Preface 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:353   Jl    '23 

NEWTON,    ALFRED    EDWARD.     Boctor   John- 
son; a  play.     120p     il     $3.50     Atlantic  monthly 
812     Johnson,    Samuel— Brama  23-8740 

The  dialog  of  this  play,  which  presents  four 
scenes  from  the  life  of  Samuel  Johnson,  is 
drawn  from  Boswell,  Br  Johnson's  letters  and 
other  contemporary  sources.  The  "immortal 
cast"  includes  Sir  .loshua  Reynolds,  James  Bos- 
well, Mr  and  Mrs  Thrale,  Fanny  Burney,  Bavid 
Garrick,  Oliver  Goldsmith,  Edmund  Burke,  Peg 
WofTrngton  and  others.  Dr  Johnson  is  shown 
in  the  first  act  at  his  house  In  Gough  Square, 
just  after  the  completion  of  the  Bictionary; 
in  tbfi  next  two  acts  at  the  covmtry  house  of 
the  Thrales  at  Streatham;  in  the  last  act  on 
his  deathbed,  with  his  friends  gathered  around 
him. 


"Rosa  Newmarch  has  performed  this  lal)or 
of  love  for  Russia  in  no  didactic  manner. 
Rather  has  there  fiowed  from  her  pen  a  vivaci- 


Booklist  19:311  Jl  '23 
"This  anthology  has  in  it  a  creative  quality 
which  only  a  love  for  the  people  who  spoke  and 
wrote  the  words  of  wit  and  wisdom  could  have 
Imparted  to  it.  The  men  and  women  of  Bos- 
well's  biography  are  really  living  for  Mr.  New- 
ton, and  he  has  made  them  live  for  us  also." 
Temple  Scott 

^ Freeman   7:476  Jl   25   '23   1350w 

"A  charming  book,  from  the  dedicatory  epistle 
in  best  Johnsonese  to  the  final  fall  of  the  cur- 
tain."   C:    G.    O.sgood 

-\-  Lit  R  p827  Jl  14  '23  950w 
"From  Mr.  Newton's  play  he  who  knows 
nothing  of  Br.  Johnson  will  acqxiire  a  curiosity 
to  know  more,  and  he  who  knows  something  will 
find  his  knowledge  recalled  to  his  mind  in  a 
manner  highlv  pleasing."     P.  I>. 

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NEWTON,  A.    E: — Continued 

•The  autlior  has  achieved  something  original. 
He  has  discovered  a  new  method  of  playwrit- 
ing.  It  might  be  called  the  co-operative  meth- 
od." 

-f-   N   Y  Times  p7  My  20  "23  1050w 

"He  has  indeed  made  a  creditable  and  a  w^ork- 
man-like  job  of  it.  No,  it  is  very  much  more 
than  that.  He  has  made  Dr.  Johnson  take  on 
again  for  a  moment  all  the  verisimilitude  of 
life."    Kenneth   Fuessle 

-f-  N   Y  Tribune  p20  Jl  1  '23  1250w 
"The    play,  while  a  literary  curiosity  and    care- 
ful  piece  of  work,   fails  to  capture  those  adum- 
brations   of    a    great    personality    that    pervade 
the   pages   of   Boswells   biography 

-I Springt'd     Republican     pl6     My     25      2.i 

900w 
"The  book   is  beautifully  printed." 

-f  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p441  Je  28 
•23    150 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:410  Jl  '23 

NEWTON,  JOSEPH  FORT.  Some  living  mas- 
ters of  the  pulpit;  studies  in  religious  person- 
ality.    261p     $2     Doran 

922     Ministers   of   the    gospel  23-7118 

Studies  of  fifteen  eminent  preachers,  English 
and  American.  Dr  Newton,  who  was  pastor  of 
the  City  Temple,  London,  during  the  war,  and 
is  now  pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Divme  Pa- 
ternity New  York  City,  has  selected  preachers 
of  whom  he  has  personal  and  moving  memories, 
one  of  them  being  Maude  Royden  who  was  as- 
sociated with  him  in  the  pulpit  of  the  City 
Temple.  Contents:  George  A.  Gordon;  John  A. 
Hutton;  Dean  Inge,  of  St  Paul's;  Charles  E. 
Jefferson-  W.  E.  Orchard;  Charles  D.  Williams; 
A  Maude  Rovden;  Samuel  McChord  Crothers; 
T  Reavelev  Glover;  S.  Parkes  Cadman;  Regi- 
nald J.  Campbell;  "William  A.  Quayle;  George 
W.  Truett;  Edward  L.  Powell;  Frank  W.  Gun- 
saulus;  In  memoriam. 

"One  of  the  most  fascinating  studies  of  liv- 
ing preachers  that  has  appeared  in  recent 
years."  O.   S.   Davis 

+  J    Religion   3:552  S  '23   300w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p523  Ag  2 
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NEW  YORK  (CITY).  PUBLIC  LIBRARY.  His- 
tory of  the  New  York  public  library,  by 
Harry  Miller  Lydenberg.  643p  il  $2  The  libra- 
ry  [lOs  6d  Stevens  &   B.] 

027.4    New    York    public    library  23-10238 

The  chief  reference  librarian  has  brought 
together  these  annals  of  the  Astor  library, 
the  Lenox  library,  the  Tilden  Trust,  the  New 
York  circulating  library  and  other  circulating 
libraries  of  which  the  present  New  York  public 
library  is  composed.  The  union  of  these  ele- 
ments in  1895  brought  togethei-  some  four  hun- 
dred thousand  volumes  which  have  now  grown 
to  a  total  of  over  two  million  and  a  h.ilf  books 
and  pamphlets.  The  history  is  told  with  ample 
detail  from  the  printed  and  manuscript  records 
of  the  Library,  with  numerous  illustrations,  a 
statistical   appendix   and   a   full    index. 


Booklist   20:81    D   '23 
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Sprlngf'd      Republican     p7a     Je     24 
620w 


•23 


NICHOLS,    BEVERLEY.      Self.    313p    $2    Moffat 

[7s   6d   Chatto   &  W.] 

"To  any  one  who  has  ever  wondered  what 
BocKv  Sharp  would  be  like  had  she  seen  Armis- 
tice Night  instead  of  the  ball  before  Waterloo, 
had  she  known  a  modern  'financier'  instead  of 
Lord  Steyne,  had  she  been  described  by  an 
author  less  hampered  by  Victorian  reticence 
than  Thackeray,  'Self  will  offer  some  pleasant 
hours.  "  (Lit  R)  "Nancy  Worth  is  the  type  of 
the  adventuress.  Her  creator  h;is  spared  no 
colours  in  her  composition.  She  has  red  hair 
and  green  eyes,  is  the  daughtec  of  a  German 
musician,  and  has  grown  up  in  the  atmosphere 
of  art  and  the  Cafe  Racine.   She  speaks  French 


and  German  perfectly,  plays  the  piano  divinely, 
can  sing  ravishingly,  has  read  all  the  naughty 
books,  and  possesses  a  hard  wit  that  appreciates 
all  the  foibles  of  other  people.  She  is  about  to 
bid  farewell  to  the  respectable  school  for  young 
ladies  at  Ealing,  where  she  has  been  a  pupil- 
teacher,  when  the  book  opens.  She  is  out  to 
sell  her  brains  and  her  body  to  the  highest  bid- 
der. How  she  does  so  and  how  she  fails  is 
presented  to  us  in  a  series  of  lively  scenes. •• — 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup 

"If  anyone  doubts  that  a  novel  can  be  ably 
written  and  still  remain  poorly  done,  let  him 
read  'Self.'  Mr.  Nichols  has  a  good  style  and 
a  ready  eye  for  the  dramatic.  He  has  written 
faithfully  and  uncompromisingly  a  rather  sor- 
did story,  yet  it  is  not  at  all  the  tale  he  started 
out  to  weave.  'Self  promises  aii  extraordin- 
arily interesting  study  in  character.  The 
promise   is   never   completed."    W.    E.    H. 

1-   Boston    Transcript   p4    My   19  '23    650w 

"  'Self    is    neither    profound    nor    'significant,' 
but    still    less    is    it    commonplace.      It    is    fresh. 
Interesting,     and     unpretentious,     and     arouses 
real   curiosity   as   to   what   may   yet   be   done  by 
a    'younger   novelist'    who    is    really    young." 
-t-    Lit   R  p883  Ag  4  '23   460w 
"There  is  a  smooth,  cynical  touch  to  the  pic- 
ture   that   makes    Nancy   Worth    a    real    woman 
rather    than    tlie    adventuress    of    melodrama." 
-f  N   Y  Times   p22  Ap  29   '23   450w 
Spec    129:23   Jl    1    '22    80w 
"Mr.    Nichols's    slapdash    is    quite    good    fun; 
his    aim    has    obviously    been    to    write    a    pure 
shocker,    compounded    of   farce    and    melodrama, 
with   his   eye,    perhaps,    on   the   distant   cinema; 
and    in    this   aim    he    has    certainly    succeeded." 

\-  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup  p322   My 

18    '22    500w 


NICHOLS,  ROBERT  MALISE  BOWYER.  Fan- 
tastica;  being  The  smile  of  the  Sphinx,  and 
other  tales  of  imagination;  with  a  foreword 
by  John  Masefield.  375p  $2.50  Macmillan  [7s  6d 
Chatto  &  W.] 

23-13195 

The  book  contains  three  philosophic  fables,  an 
explanatory  preface  and  an  epilogue.  "The 
earliest  of  his  three  stories,  The  Smile  of  the 
Sphinx,  is  the  most  complete  of  the  three.  It 
is  playful,  fantastic  and  delicate  in  its  manner; 
in  itself  it  is  a  study  of  intellectual  endeavour, 
a  parable  of  the  striving  mind;  of  a  striving 
mind,  that  is,  without  any  religion.  The  second 
story,  that  of  Perseus  and  Andromeda,  is 
slighter.  It  is  a  weighing  or  contrasting  of  two 
methods  of  intellectual  endeavour,  the  pagan 
or  classical,  with  the  noi-thern  and  mediaBval. 
In  the  third  story,  Golgotha  &  Co.,  Mr  Nichols 
mixes  with  the  motive  of  another  coming  of 
Christ  a  large  fantasy  of  satii-e  that  examines, 
appraises  and  condemns  much  that  directs  this 
modern  civilization  of  misapplied  science  and 
sensational    newspapers."      (Foreword) 


Reviewed  by  L.   C.  Willcox 

Bookm    58:574    Ja    '24    560w 

"The  author  has  written,  with  the  exception 
or  an  abstruse,  'highly  explanatory'  preface,  to 
which  genre  he  seems  to  have  a  yielding — a 
•work  of  sincerity  and  passion."     J.  W.   L. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p3  N   10  '23  950w 

"The  author  was  previously  known  as  a  good 
minor  poet  of  the  class  of  Ralph  Hodgson  and 
Robert  Graves.  Now,  having  retired  afar  from 
his  native  England  and  having  brooded  for  a 
long  lime  on  the  ghastly  fruits  of  the  labours 
of  the  Elder  Statesmen,  he  bursts  into  prose  as 
a  crusader.  .  .  As  propagandist.  Mr.  Nichols  is 
a  little  too  disorganized;  but  perhaps  the  good 
artist  in  him  will  discipline  and  order  his  just 
rages.  Even  in  these  avowedly  propagandist 
tales  the  good  artist  comes  often  to  the  fore.'^ 
\.   Freeman   7:599   Ag  29   '23   220w 

"In  this  story  the  style  and  poetry  of  Robert 
Nichols's  prose  are  freest,  the  theme  is  most 
tender,  the  imagination  brightest."  Fillmore 
Hyde 

Lit  R  p419  Ja  5  '24  640w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


Z75 


"Mr.  Nichols  has  not  quite  stolen  Are  from 
heaven  for  us;  but  he  hap  tried — and  failed,  if 
one  nxust  use  that  word,  nobly  enough."  Floyd 
Dell 

-\ Nation  117:650  D  5  '23  l.'iOOw 

"Mr.  Nichols  haa  an  ample  gesture  which  few 
of  his  conteiiiporai-ies  rival,  but  this  method  of 
tale-telling:  is  the  worst  he  could  have  chosen 
for  the  expression  of  those  generous  ideals 
which  inspire  him.  The  symbolic  method  en- 
tices him  to  wrap  up  his  thought  even  more  un- 
tidily than  it  appears  in  the  comparative  nudity 

h   New  Statesman   21:,718   S  29   '23   TOOw 

N  Y  Times  p9  O  21  '23  660w 
"No  detail  escapes  him;  no  exposed  cranium 
goes  uncracked.  Deliberately  passing  from  point 
to  point,  he  frames  his  indictment  in  the  form 
of  a  suave  fable.  His  picture  of  the  dis- 
astrous consequences  that  come  from  the  effort 
to  use  religion  is  one  that  could  have  arisen 
nowhere  else,  one  thinks,  than  in  a  poetic  sub- 
consciousness set  ablaze  by  passion.  Mr.  Nichols 
rivals  Swift  and  out-Shaws  Shaw." 
No  Am  219:141  Ja  '24  630w 
"There  can  be  no  doubt  that  he  believes  his 
message  to  be  urjirent  and  tremendous  but  it  is 
difficult  in  his  whirl  of  words  to  discover  what 
the  message  is.  .  .  I  cannot  discover  anything 
new.  But  that  doesn't  matter.  All  prophets 
must  repeat  the  old  truths:  their  function  is  to 
wake  up  the  new  generation:  and  to  that  at- 
tempt Mr.  Nichols  has  dedicated  himself  with 
an  energy  and  conviction  which  command  a 
deep  respect.  But,  as  an  artist,  he  is  experi- 
menting,  not  succeeding." 

h  Sat    R    135:742    Je    2    '23    290w 

"Mr.  Robert  Nichols  is  Professor  of  English  at 
Tokyo;  if  the  style  of  his  preface  is  that  of  his 
lectures,  there  must  be  life  in  some  lecture 
rooms  of  Japan.  For  he  is  ardent,  as  becomes 
a  young  man,  and  takes  himself  seriously.  He 
conceives  himself  as  a  warrior,  armed  only  with 
the  sword  of  his  art,  on  a  crusade  against  mech- 
anism, against  the  tyranny  of  organization  and 
stereotyped  pattern,  on  behalf  of  hope,  dreams, 
liberty,  and  what  he  calls  integration  in  evolu- 
tion. .  .  Mr.  Nichols  has  stretched  himsielf  be- 
yond the  capacities  of  his  art.  He  is  not  a 
great  prose  writer  except  in  a  certain  lyric, 
apostrophic   style." 

—  -f  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p337   My 
17  '23  1400W 

NICHOLSON,    DANIEL    HOWARD    SINCLAIR. 

Mysticism    of    St    Francis    of    Assisi.    394p    il 

$3.50    Small    [12s    6d   J.    Cape] 

B  or  92  Francis  of  Assisi,   Saint.   Mysticism 

[23-10609] 

"The  author  first  proceeds  to  a  definition  of 
mysticism,  then  selects  from  the  known  facts 
concerning  St.  Francis  those  which  best  il- 
lustrate his  mental  attitude  and  spiritual  out- 
look. "We  thus  read  how  the  saint,  in  all  his 
sayings,  writings  and  doings,  gave  forth  the 
signs  by  which  the  mystic  may  be  known 
among    men." — Boston    Transcript 


"An  analysis   remarkable   for  its  breadth   and 
acuteness."    E.   N. 

-f  Boston    Transcript    pi    S    29    '23    600w 
"The   consideration    of   St.    P'rancis   as   mystic 
has    only    received    passing    notice,    and    by    his 
.scholarly    and     well-written     treatment    of    this 
aspect    Mr.    Nichol.'^on    ha.s    made    an    important 
addition    to    Franciscan    litei-ature." 
+  Spec  130:1012  Je  16  '23  80w 
"A    work    in    many    ways    admirable,    and    yot 
a   work    hardly    likely    to   have    any    appreciable 
influence    to    nuicken    .nnd    revive    us." 

f-  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p213    My 

29  '23  1900w 


NICHOLSON,   MEREDITH.     Hope  of  happiness. 

35-8p  $2     Scribner 

23-13882 

"Story  of  life,  love  and  other  matters  in  the 
Middle  West.  Mr.  Nicholson's  pages  preseTit 
young  Bruce  Storrs.  architect,  as  a  character  in 
quest  of  a  father,  and  they  take  him  through 
all   the  social  courses  possible  to  a  town  about 


as   large,    we   should  say,   as    [that  of]   Mr.   Sin- 
clair Lewis's  Babbitt." — N  Y   World 

Booklist    20:140   Ja   '24 
Boston    Transcript   p8    N    14    '23    900w 
Freeman  S:2G3  N  21  '23  500w 
"There  is  evident  some  vivid  writing,   a  good 
deal    of    truthful    observation,    and    touches    of 
real   acuteness  here  and   there.    But   it   is   not  a 
book  to  be  taken  very  seriously."  Allan  Nevins 

h   Lit    R    pl83    O    27    '23    660w 

"It  is  a  note  of  the  life  discussed  by  Mr. 
Nicholson  that  his  characters  cannot  take  a 
drink  without  having  it  recorded,  but  again  Mr. 
Nicholson  is  not  to  blame.  Not  nnich  can  be 
made  of  such  a  situation  in  Indianapolis,  and 
Mr.  Nicholson  does  not  make  much  of  it."  R.  M. 
L.. 

—  New  Repub  37:155  Ja  2  "24  250w 
"A  hint  of  the  old  hokum  of  the  society  novel 
is  in  "The  Hope  of  Happiness.'  It  is,  however, 
only  a  hint.  The  people  are  tangible  and  the 
situations  are  freshly  spontaneous  and  inherent 
in  the  personalities.  It  is  a  rather  intelligent 
popular  novel." 

4 NY  Times  p9  O  14   '23  650w 

Reviewed   by    Isabel   Paterson 

N  Y  Tribune  p20  O  28  '23  750w 
"We  hereby  warn  the  young  intellectual 
reader  from  Mr.  Nicholson's  pages.  They  ai-e 
safe,  sane,  utterly  conventional  and  absolutely 
readable.  The  book  is  as  optimistic  as  Harold 
Bell  Wright,  and  it  is  written  in  a  style  calcu- 
lated to  torture  Sherwood  Anderson  or  Ben 
Hecht  by  its  smooth  perfections.  We  truly 
enjoyed  'The  Hope  of  Happiness.'  "  E.  W. 
Osborn 

+   N    Y   World    plOe   O   7   '23   350w 

Springf'd    Republican  p7a  Ja  6   '24  320w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:509  D  '23 

NICOLSON,      HAROLD      GEORGE.      Tennyson. 

308p    $4    Houghton 

B    or    92    Tennyson.    Alfred      Tennyson,    1st 
baron 

The  second  book  within  the  year,  the  first 
being  Fausset's  "Tennyson,"  to  express  the 
modern  revolt  against  Victorian  idolatory  of 
Tennyson,  to  distinguish  between  the  true  and 
the  false  in  the  legend  that  has  grown  up 
about  the  poet  and  to  attempt  to  set  up  a 
formula  by  which  to  judge  liis  rank  and  merits. 
Tennyson  emerges  from  Mr  Nicolson's  bio- 
graphical and  critical  analysis  "an  extremely 
good  emotional  poet,  but  a  very  second-rate 
instructional  bard,  as  possessed  of  a  highly 
poetic  temperament  and  lyrical  qualities — but 
of  shallow  intelligence."  He  finds  that  Tenny- 
son was  unfortunately  affected  by  the  atmos- 
phere and  literary  taste  of  his  ri.ge  ;ind  that  by 
subordinating  his  lyrical  and  emotional  gifts 
to  the  moral  and  instructional  he  lost  thereliy 
half  the  potential  value  of  his  poetry. 

Booklist   20:99   D   '23 
"A  sincere    scholarly  biography." 

-f  Bookm  58:336  N  '23  lOOw 
"The  work  is  not  so  much  for  reference  as 
it  is  for  an  introduction  to  that  which  is  best 
In  Tennyson.  As  such  it  deserves  the  atten- 
tion of  all  students  of  poetry.  Mr.  Nicolson's 
style  is  readable,  and  his  conclusions  promise 
a  new  appreciation  of  Tennyson."  W:   L.   Smy- 

+   Boston   Transcript   p3  O  13   '23   1300w 
Reviewed  by  W:   L.   Phelps 

4-  Lit  R  p81  S  29  '23  2800w 

"The  portrait  that  is   finally  achieved  is  that 

of  a  great  personality  and  a  great  genius;  more 

imposing,     more     majestic     than,     perhaps     Mr. 

Nicolson  intended  or  quite  realizes."  S:  C.  Chew 

-f-  Nation  117:559  N  14  '23  1250w 
"Mr.  Nicolson  has  made  an  important  and  a 
fascinating  contribution  to  the  new  literary  spe- 
cies of  interpretative  biography.  It  is  impor- 
tant because  it  deals  with  one  of  the  great 
epochal  figures  of  English  poetry."  R.  M. 
Lovett 

+   New    Repub   36:51    S    5   "23    2000w 


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NICOLSON,   H.   G:— Continued 

"The  reader  may  not  agree  with  every  pro- 
nouncement of  Nicolson's — it  would  be  unfortu- 
nate if  he  should.  The  reader  will  have  confi- 
dence In  Mr.  Nicolson's  taste.  And  he  will 
greatly  relish  the  author's  very  breezy  hut  at 
the  same  time  cultured  style.  The  English 
writer  maintains  a  fine  balance  between  the 
learned  and  the  popular  in  this  manner  of  writ- 
ing."  P.   A.   Hutchison 

4  —  N   Y  Times  pl4  S  2  '23   2700w 

"Mr.  Nicolson  has  acquitted  himself  of  his 
task  with  such  competence  and  sincerity  that 
he  la  amusingly  hoist  with  his  own  petard  and 
does  not  seem  to  realize  it.  It  is  as  if  Tenny- 
son had  drawn  him  into  argument  and  then 
subtly  led  him  on  to  reveal  himself  as  Victorian 
at  heart  as  the  laureate  himself.  Or  one  may 
take  it  rather  that  the  mentality  we  call  Vic- 
torian is  universal  and  immutable,  however  its 
superficial  manifestations  may  vary  from  year 
to  year."  Isabel  Palerson 

+  N    y   Tribune   p20   S   9    '23   2600w 

"The  monograph  of  Mr.  Nicolson  is  an  ex- 
cellent example  of  the  effect  of  personal  study 
on  a  candid  and  open  mind.  We  can  plainly 
see  that  Mr.  Nicolson,  like  so  many  ingenious 
young  men  of  his  generation,  was  pre.ludiced 
against  Tennyson,  was  bored  by  the  outpour- 
ings of  hero-worship,  and  had  taught  himself 
to  dislike  what  he  had  never  read." 
-I-  Sat    R    135:734   Je   2   '23   450w 

"One  thing  which  will  strike  the  reader  at 
once  about  Mr.  Nicolson'.^  book  is  its  beauti- 
ful workmanship.  Every  sentence  is  well  turn- 
ed; the  parts  all  fit  into  a  prearranged  whole: 
it  is  French  in  its  finish  and  good  taste.  It  is, 
incidentally,  a  book  which  could  probably  not 
have  been  produced  in  England  in  any  age  but 
the  present.  We  have  said  that  Mr.  Nicol.son  has 
written  carefully;  many  people  will  say  that 
he  has  written  inaccurately.  He  has  as  far  as 
minor  facts  are  concerned;  but  we  do  not  pro- 
pose to  deal  with  this  aspect  of  the  book." 
+  Spec    130:628   Ap   14    '23    650w 

"The  book  is  fascinating  reading."  C.  D'E. 
4-  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  N  4  '23  1800w 
Wis   Lib   Bui  1!):507  D  '23 

NICOLSON,      MRS      HAROLD      GEORGE.      See 

Sackville-West,   V.   M. 

NICKERSON,   HOFFMAN.   Inquisition;  a  polltl- 
'    cal   and    military   study    of   its   establishment; 

with    a    preface    by    Hilaire    Belloc.    258p    $4 

Houghton 

272.2  Inquisition.   Albigenses.  Prohibition 

[23-12299] 
In  the  author's  dedication  and  on  the  opening 
page  some  hint  Is  given  of  the  underlying  pur- 
pose of  the  book,  which  is  to  draw  a  parallel 
between  the  Inquisition  of  the  thirteenth  century 
and  the  prohibition  movement  in  our  own,  as  in- 
stances of  equally  tyrannous,  interference  of 
religion  with  politics.  Most  of  the  book,  how- 
ever, deals  with  the  Waldensian  heresy,  the 
Albigensian  wars  and  the  establishment  of  the 
Inquisition.  Not  till  the  final  chapter,  An  epi- 
logue on  prohibition,  does  the  author  reach  his 
announced  thesis,  which  is  summed  up  in  this 
culminating  statement:  "As  an  assault  on  hu- 
man liberty,  what  was  even  the  Inquisition 
compared  to  the  American  Anti-saloon  League?" 

Boston  Transcript  p4  D  12  '23  180w 

"He  has  compiled  from  excellent  sources,  and 

when    his   heat    permits   he    tells   his   tale    with 

literary    .skill;    but    his   contempt   for   all   dissent 

soon  makes  him  the  partisan  of  the  inquisitor." 

-I-  —  New  Repub  37:212  Ja  16  '24  150w 
"The   political  and   military  aspects  of  the  In- 
quisition are,  treated  with  a  successful  blending 
of  scholarshi'p  and  style."   .T:   Armstrong 
4-   N   Y   Tribune   p20   D  30   '23  220w 
"It  is  not   often  that  so  extraordinary  a  mix- 
ture   of    laboured     scholarship    with    sectarian 
pleading  comes  our  way." 

f-  Sat  R  136:166  Ag  11  '23  780w 

"The  author  is  not  well  qualified  to  write  on 
the  establishment  of  the  Inquisition.  On  the 
Other  hand,  Mr.  Nickerson  is  warmly  interested 


in  the  war  which  put  down  the  Albigenses. 
Here  the  author  is  at  his  best,  and  we  cannot 
help  wishing  that  this  section  of  his  book  had 
been  longer.  It  is  of  real  worth  and  atones  for 
much  in  this  book." 

h  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p498  Jl  26 

'2.'',    llOOw 

NILES,    MRS    BLAIR.        Casual    wanderings    in 

Ecuador.    249p    il    $2.50     Century 
918.6     Ecuador — Description  and  travel 

23-7094 

"Mrs.  Niles's  tale  of  'Ca.sual  Wanderings  in 
Ecuador'  takes  herself  and  her  companion  down 
the  west  coast  of  South  America  to  Guayaquil, 
thence  over  the  Guayaquil  &  Quito  Railroad 
across  the  Andes,  and  finally  by  horseback  down 
the  eastern  slope  of  that  range  into  Oriente 
Province.  She  enjoys  it  all  with  the  zest  of 
those  to  whom  fresh  experiences,  new  sights, 
little  known  peoples  and  regions  are  among  the 
keenest  and  richest  delights  that  this  world 
can  offer,  and  she  is  able  to  pass  through  the 
printed  page  to  her  readers  her  own  eager 
pleasure  in  all  that  she  sees." — N  Y  Times 


"It  seems  to  be  the  result  of  the  work  of  an 
author  who  has  an  adventurous  spirit,  a  cul- 
tured mind,  and  observant  eyes.  'The  pictures 
too  are  satisfactory  in  sustaining  the  interest 
of  the  book.  We  have  the  feeling  that  we  will 
never  now  be  quite  contented  until  we  have 
seen  the  Main  Street  in  Barios!" 
+  Bookm  57:466  Je  '23  130w 
"Here  is  that  rare  thing  in  narratives  of  trav- 
el: an  absence  of  the  spirit  of  the  self-appointed 
globe  trotter." 

-f  Dial  75:203  Ag  '23   70w 
"Mrs.   Niles  has  no  thrilling  adventures  to  re- 
late,   but    her    lively    and    sympathetic    descrip- 
tions  of   places   and   people   make   very   pleasant 
reading  indeed."     I:   Anderson 

+  Inf  Bk  R  p38  ,Ie  '23  lOOw 
Lit  R  p775  Je  16  '23  260w 
"The  book  is  full  of  charm  for  those  who 
find  pleasure  in  a  well-written  story  of  travel 
which  has  a  touch  here  and  there  of  poetic 
Imagination  and  a  never-flagging  enjoyment  of 
the  changing  scene." 

+  N  Y  Times  plO  Ap  22  '23  820w 
"Written  in  staccato  style.  Our  traveller  Is 
enraptured  with  what  she  saw,  and  does  not 
spare  words  in  saying  so.  Very  vividly  does 
she  retell  the  story  of  the  banishment  of  yellow 
fever  from  the  once  pest   port  of  Guayaquil." 

-I NY  World  p8e  Ap  1  '23  150w 

St  Louis  p342  D  '23 
"Mrs  Niles  describes  her  trip  through  this 
country  with  clarity  and  charm.  There  Is  no 
serious  attempt  to  study  social  situations.  Once 
in  a  while  gentle  moralizing  intrudes.  But  there 
Is  always  the  saving  grace  of  humor." 

-f-  Sprlngf'd  Republican  pl2  Ap  25  '23  300w 
"Her  eye  is  so  alert  that   she  looks  until  she 
sees   what   is  below  the  surface,   and  her  ques- 
tions   are    so    eager    that    her    informant    is    en- 
couraged   to    volunteer   what    she   had    not    sus- 
pected;   often    her    discovery    is    of    somethmg 
homely,   and   therefore    with   the   wider  appeal." 
+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p861  D  13 
•23    1050W 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:413   Jl   '23 

NIPPOLD,  OTFRIED.  Development  of  Inter- 
national law  after  the  World  war;  tr.  from 
the  German  bv  Amos  S.  Her.shey.  (Carnegie 
endowment  for  international  peace.  Division 
of  international  law.  Publications)  242p  $2.50 
Oxford    [7s    6d    Milford] 

341  International  law  and  relations  23-10762 
"A  more  accurate  title  for  this  monograph 
would  be  'The  Law  of  International  Procedure. 
The  author  is  not  so  much  concerned  with  the 
content  of  international  law  a.M  with  the  method 
of  settling  disputes  and  of  averting  war.  His 
main  argument  is  directed  against  war  as  a 
legal  means  of  sell-help.  He  deduces  certain 
important  T>ostulates  from  the  experiences  of 
the  great  war  and  re;iches  the  conclusion  that 
the  community  of  nations  through  a  realization 


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of  solidarity  of  interests  should  assume  the  right 
and  the  oblig-ation  of  coercion  against  any  na- 
tion guilty  01  violations  of  international  law." — 
Lit  R 


"This  book  is  most  stimulating  and  sugges- 
tive as  the  result  of  independent  and  close 
thinking  bv  a  genuine  scholar  of  international 
affairs.  It  is  of  special  interest,  naturally,  as 
representing  to  a  certain  extent  a  Germanic 
point  of  view.  The  monograph  is  in  reality 
intended  for  the  specialists  in  international  af- 
fairs; it  will  not  make  a  very  wide  appeal.  But 
it  should  be  read  most  critically  by  all  who 
have  earnestly  at  heart  the  stupendous  prob- 
lem of  world  peace  as  viewed  in  the  light  of 
the  great  war."     P.   M.   Brown 

-I-   Lit  R  p910  Ag  18  '23  1300w 
Reviewed    bv    Abraham    Benedict 

N    Y   Times   p3    S    30    '23    ISOOw 
Spec    131:165    Ag   4    '23    220w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p490    Jl 
19   '23   210w 

NIRDLINGER,  CHARLES   FREDERIC.  Conval- 
escents. 312p  $1.75  Century 

23-9233 

In  this  hospital  story  a  supposedly  hopeless 
surgical  case  is  given  over  to  a  young  under- 
graduate nvirse.  The  case  is  the  "one  in  a 
hundred"  recovery  against  all  odds,  and  some 
of  the  credit,  at  least,  is  due  to  the  psychol- 
ogical insight  of  the  nurse.  As  convalescence 
lasts  for  months  there  is  ample  time  for  patient 
and  nurse  to  fall  in  love.  The  story  admirably 
describes  the  hospital  atmosphere  and  the  ways 
of  doctors  and  nurses  from  a  humorous  point 
of  view,  with  comic  episodes  and  digressions — 
such  as  the  divorced  contessa's  successful  coup 
of  ensnaring  the  millionaire  banker  during  the 
sessions  of  the  convalescents'  porch  club,  and 
the  dissertation  of  the  learned  orderly,  "Cap- 
tain Jim,"  on  "Rallitherapy,"  the  curative  po- 
tencies   of    beauty. 


"In  this  novel  Mr.  Nirdlinger  has  chosen  to 
give  us  style.  That  is,  he  has  chosen  to  tell 
us  a  story  so  enwrapt  in  a  bombastic  vocabu- 
lary that  we  feel  as  if  we  were  translating  it, 
rather  than  reading  it."     D.  F.  G. 

—  Boston   Transcript  p2  Mr  17  '23   450w 
"There  is  mild  entertainment  to  be  extracted 

from  these  sketches  of  hospital  life,  which  hold 
some  comic  situations  and  are  punctuated  by 
flashes  of  wit.  But  Mr.  Nirdlinger's  manner  is 
often   exasperating  with  a   snippy  smartness." 

h  Lit   R  p554  Mr  24  '23  150w 

"Though  the  author  provides  documentary 
evidence  that  he  knows  what  a  hospital  looks 
like  from  the  in.side,  the  book  is  too  loosely 
knitted  and  sketchy  to  hold  the  average  read- 
er's attention." 

—  Nation  116:703  Je  13  '23  90w 

"The  story  offers  no  suspense,  no  conflict, 
no  slightest  tinge  of  originality;  and  it  is  so 
carelessly  written  that  one  might  well  wonder 
why  the  author  ever  bothered  to  set  it  down 
at  all.  But  it  is  interesting  because  it  presents 
the  hospital  from  a  new  angle — and  because 
some  of  its  leading  characters  are  reproductions 
of  living  people  who  will  be  readily  recognized 
by  any  one  familiar  with  the  medical  world 
that  centres  around   Baltimore." 

h   N    Y  Times   pl7   Mr  25   '23   450w 

NITTI,    FRANCESCO   SAVERIO.     Decadence  of 
Europe;    the    paths    of   reconstruction;    tr.    by 
F.    Britain.    302p   $3    Holt 
940.314      Reconstruction      (European     war) — 
Europe.   Versailles,    Treaty  of.   1919     23-8811 
In   his  long   preface   to  the   American   edition, 
and  as   an   appeal   to  the   American   people,    the 
author  sets  forth  in  detail  the  present  attitude 
of  France  and  his  disapproval  of  it.     Beginning 
with   a   comparison   of   the    treaty  of   Paris   and 
the  Versailles  treaty,  the  author  argues  that  the 
latter  is  but  a  method  of  continuing  the  war  and 
that  thru  it  Europe  has  taken  a  long  step  back- 
ward in  the  path  of  civilization;  that  the  actions 
of  France  are  responsible  for  the  disorganization 
and    economic    depression   of   Germany   and   the 


political  disorder  of  the  whole  of  Europe.  He  ex- 
presses his  faith  that  America  will,  in  her  own 
best  interests,  unite  with  England  in  adopting  a 
reconstruction  program  which  Signer  Nitti  be- 
lieves should  include:  cancellation  of  debts  and 
credits;  renunciation  of  all  military  occupation 
and  control;  abandonment  of  the  so-called  rep- 
arations policy.  A  note  on  the  military 
strength  of  the  different  European  states  is 
added. 


"The  book  is  written  with  a  decided  bias  or 
bent  of  mind  and  with  an  obsession  as  to  the 
'iniquities'  of  France,  but  at  the  same  time  the 
author  must  be  given  credit  for  his  almost 
brutal  frankness  and  consistency  in  setting  forth 
his  views." 

h  Am   Pol  Sci  R  17:505  Ag  '23  500w 

Atlantic's  Bookshelf  Jl  '23  430w 
Booklist    20:8    O    '23 
-I-   Bookm  57:642  Ag  '23  330w 
"The    'Decadence    of    Europe'    merits    the    at- 
tention   of   all   who   are    interested    in    European 
reconstruction.       Even     though     Signor     Nitti's 
mistrust   of  French   policy  leads  him   to  an   ex- 
cessive     and      altogether     groundless      fear     of 
French  intentions  in  Europe,  his  book  is  written 
in  the  spirit  of  sincerity."   Oliver  McKee,  jr. 

-\ Boston  Transcript   p3  My  19  '23  2400w 

Cath  World  117:698  Ag  '23  2100w 
Cleveland   p62  Jl   '23 
"Signor  Nitti's  book  should  be  helpful  for  the 
knowledge    it    imparts    and    for    the    counsel    it 
gives.  There  are  rather  obvious  blemishes  in  the 
book."  C.  J.  H.  Hayes 

H New  Repub  35;237  Jl  25  '23  1350w 

"His  is  a  book  of  terrible  pictures  of  the 
life  in  Europe  to-day,  not  the  life  that  tourists 
and  official  visitors  see  but  the  actual  life  of 
the  iieople  of  almost  every  country.  Occasional- 
ly thru  the  book  there  gleams  a  ray  of  hope. 
And  always  this  hope  looks  westward,  wistfully. 
If  America  would  only  do  something!  it  seems 
to  say."      Arthur  Benington 

N   Y   World   p7e  My  20   '23   1850w 
R   of   Rs   67:671' Je  '23   lOOw 
Wis   Lib  Bui   19:407  Jl  '23 

NITZE,  WILLIAM  ALBERT,  and  DARGAN, 
EDWIN  PRESTON.  History  of  French  liter- 
ature: from  the  earliest  times  to  the  Great 
war.  781p  il  $5  Holt 

840.9  French  literature — History  and  criti- 
cism 22-21200 
A  comprehensive  history  covering  the  whole 
period  of  French  literature  and  a  wide  array  of 
names  and  intended  for  the  general  reader  as 
well  as  for  the  student.  It  is  divided  into  three 
parts:  medieval,  renaissance  and  modern,  the 
last  division  taking  up  half  the  book.  The  plan 
is  to  emphasize  the  chief  literary  movements 
and  writers  and  to  pass  over  minor  tendencies 
and   figures.     Bibliography.   Index. 


Booklist  20:15  O  '23 

"A  work  which  for  general  breadth  of  design 
and  minuteness  of  detail  compares  very 
favourably  with  Lanson's  architectural  monu- 
ment to  Gallic  letters.  .  .  Messrs  Nitze  and 
Dargan,  though  hauling  in  every  French  writer 
of  note  have,  by  fishing  up  so  many  minnows, 
diverted  attention  from  the  real  monsters  of 
their  sea." 

-] Dial   74:311  Mr  '23  90w 

"The  central  merit  of  the  book  lies  in  its  gen- 
eral rightness,  its  refreshing  ability  to  see  lit- 
erature as  a  social  and  intellectual  phenom- 
enon, the  virility  with  which  it  is  written,  and 
its  avoidance  of  gush,  balderdash,  and  r6- 
chauff6   opinions."    H.    M.    Jones 

+   Freeman   7:43   Mr  21   '23  1150w 

"The  writers  have  failed  to  fashion  a  distin- 
guished design,  whether  their  material  was  the 
golden  ore  of  the  past  or  the  unsifted  riches  of 
the  present.  To  be  sure,  there  is  room  and 
even  a  welcome  for  their  work,  since  English 
studies  of  French  literature  are  few  and  inade- 
quate. Their  contribution  lies  in  the  actual 
foundations    that    they    have    built    and    in    the 


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NITZE,  W:  A.^ — Continued 

pioneer  trenching  which  they  have  done  in 
contemporary  fields.  Other  scholars  will  un- 
doubtedly be  grateful  for  their  labor,  which  will 
not  facilitate  more  valuable  generahzations."  J. 
J.  Smertenko 

H Lit    R   p44   S   15   '23   550w 

"That  the  authors  have  not  availed  them- 
selves of  the  opportunity  to  make  a  vital  con- 
tribution to  the  study  of  French  literature  is 
obvious.  Their  treatment  of  the  moderns  is 
wholly  inadequate,  but  the  earlier  periods  re- 
ceive more  extensive  and  careful  consideration." 
J.   J.    Smertenko 

h  Nation  117:93  Jl  25  '23  700w 

"It  is  difficult  to  see  any  reason  for  the 
existence  of  this  work,  apart  from  those  which 
everywhere  govern  the  manufacture  of  texi- 
books  and  with  which  the  general  reader — and 
even  the  student  affected — have  no  concern, 
l^rofessors  Nitze  and  Dargan  have,  of  course, 
the  qualities  as  well  as  the  defects  of  their 
virtues.  Their  book  begins  at  the  usual  point 
in  French  literary  history  and  patiently  follows 
the  u.sual  course  until  it  reaches  the  usual 
breathless,  pellmell  chapter  at  the  end  wherfc, 
according  lo  prejudice  or  timidity,  names  of 
contemporaries  are  scattered  wildly  and  labelled 
at  haphazard."  Frnest  Bovd 

—  New    Repub   34:75"   Mr  14   '23   1950w 

"It  represents  an  immense  amount  of  hard 
work  and  considerable  architectural  skill.  It  is 
In  many  ways  an  admirable  work  of  reference, 
and  the  writing,  if  sometimes  rather  undistin- 
guished, is  completely  free  from  affectation  or 
'cleverness.'  " 

-I New  Statesman  21:428  Jl  14  '23  650 

N    Y   Times  p5   F  11  '23   1700w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:300   Je   '23 

NIVEN,  FREDERICK  JOHN.  Justice  of  the 
*    peace;    with    introductions    by    Hugh    Walpole 

and    Christopher    Morley.    453p    $2.50    Boni    & 

Liveright 

23-18070 
"  'Justice  of  the  Peace'  is  a  story  of  three 
people,  father,  mother,  and  son.  The  father  Is 
a  generous-hearted  manufacturer  of  'soft  goods,' 
limited  by  his  rearing  and  environment.  He  and, 
his  son  are  often  at  cross-purposes,  especially 
as  to  the  younger  Moir's  desire  to  be  an  artist 
Instead  of  going  into  the  paternal  business.  But 
this  is  due  to  Moir  senior's  very  vague  notion  of 
art  and  artists.  After  a  time  he  comes  round 
handsomely,  develops  pride  in  his  son's  career, 
and  some  understanding  of  it." — Ind 


"We  have  a  wealth  of  Glasgow  atmosphere, 
murky  sunset,  radiant  dawn,  dear  people  going 
about  their  little  businesses,  beloved  human 
nature  by  a  man  who  loved  it.  It  is  very  much 
worth  your  while,  and  should  be  one  of  the  few 
books  one  keeps  in  the  revolving  bookstand."  I. 
W.  Li. 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ja  16  '24  1050w 
Reviewed  by  H.  W.  Boynton 

Ind  112:23  Ja  5   '24   630w 
New   Repub  37:155  Ja  2  '24  250w 
"So  carefully   knit   a   novel   deserves   all   sort* 
of  success:   it   postulates  a  serious   endeavor  on 
the  part  of  Mr.  Niven  which  is  not  to  be  found 
In   his    more   popular  "Western    tales." 
4-  N  Y  Times  pl6  Ja  6  '24  780w 

NIVEN,     FREDERICK    JOHN.    Treasure    trail. 
2    254p   $2   Dodd 

23-13653 
A  tale  of  a  hunt  for  treasure  In  the  far  West. 
An  old  Scotch  prospector.  Angus  MacPheraon, 
and  Piccolo  of  the  high  squeaky  voice  set  out 
to  find  the  exact  location  of  certain  precious 
ore.  The  secret  of  their  quest  has  leaked  out 
and  they  are  shadowed  by  a  band  of  crooks. 
Thru  chance  and  luck,  they  outwit  their  ene- 
mies, only  to  find  Movie  Bill  ahead  of  them  with 
the  claim  staked  out.  But  Movie  Bill,  it  seems, 
had  overheard  enough  of  the  crooks'  nlans  to 
arouse  his  suspicions,  and  as  friend  of  Angus, 
had  determined  to  precede  them  and  stake  the 
claim   In   the  name   of   Angus  and   Piccolo.   The 


final  arrangements  give  Movie  Bill  a  share,  and 
in  spite  of  his  intense  ugliness  he  wins  the  favor 
of  Angus'  daughter,  Miggles. 

Booklist  20:140  Ja  '24 
Boston  Transcript  p4  O  10  '23  250w 
"A  good  yarn  of  its   kind,  with  enough  thrills 
to    afford    entertainment    for   a    Winter    evening 
when  it  is  pleasanter  to  read  of  hardships  than 
to  experience  them." 

+  N   Y  Times  pl9  D  16  '23  220w 

NIVEN,   FREDERICK  JOHN.     The  wolfer.  314p 

$1.75     Dodd 

23-6949 

"The  story  centres  around  the  winning  and 
holding  of  a  newly  discovered  gold  mine  called 
"Good  Enough.'  An  old  prospector,  Adam  Bush, 
is  brought  in  dying,  by  Larry  Shanks,  who  says 
he  found  the  gold  seeker  stretched  across  the 
old  trail  with  an  awful  bruise  on  his  head. 
Around  the  deathbed  assemble  the  characters. 
There  is  Walter  Dewar,  known  as  The  Wolfer, 
and  his  partner  Bunt  Bradley;  they  are  occupied 
in  making  a  governmental  survey.  They  dis- 
like Shanks  on  general  principles  and  decide 
to  get  the  mine  if  possible  and  shut  him  out. 
John  Fisk,  an  En.sterner,  is  taken  in  with  them. 
Clandestinely  they  manage  to  get  their  pack 
train  into  the  mountains.  Shanks  calls  in  a 
gang  of  rum  runners  to  aid  him,  with  a  des- 
perado Carl  Scott,  to  'bump  off'  The  Wolfer 
and  his  pal  while  Shanks  goes  ahead  and  takes 
the  claim.  A  thrilling  mountain  battle  ensues. 
The  daughter  of  the  hotelkeeper  back  in  Jaffery 
appears  upon  the  scene  at  this  moment  in  the 
guise  of  the  heroine." — N  Y  Times 


"  'The  Wolfer'  is  a  tale  that  has  its  portion  of 
originality,  but  originality  which  is  lost  through 
conventional    treatment." 

—  +  Boston  Transcript  p5  Ap  21  '23  350w 
"An  alluring  yarn.  The  story  is  rich  in  de- 
scription of  the  flora  of  the  country  and  the 
philosophy  of  gun  play  and  natural  justice. 
There  is  nothing  of  the  dime  novel  style  a^  jut 
it.  It  is  flrst-class  Western  stuff — if  you  like 
such." 

4-  N    Y  Times  p9  Ap  15  '23   550w 
Reviewed   by   E.   W.    Osborn 

N   Y  World  p8e  Ap  1  "23  60w 

Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Je  10    '23  I50w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:444  O  '23 

NOBLE,         RICHMOND         SAMUEL         HOWE. 

Shakespeare's  use  of  song;  with  the  text  of 
the  principal  songs.  160p  $4.20  Oxford  [12s  6d 
Milford] 

822.33      Shakespeare,    William — Music 

[23-14985] 

"Mr  Noble's  aim  is  to  show  that  students 
and  players  who  omit,  transfer  or  belittle  the 
importance  of  Shakespeare's  songs  are  guilty 
of  an  error  in  the  highest  degree  destructive  of 
the  beauty  and  worth  of  the  plays  in  which 
these  songs  occur.  Such  errors,  or  the  tendency 
to  them,  holds  Mr.  Noble,  would  at  once  dis- 
appear on  a  careful  and  unbiased  scrutiny  of 
the  songs  themselves  and  of  the  context  in 
which  thev  are  placed.  The  product  of  such  an 
examination  Mr.  Noble  forthwith  undertakes  to 
supply  in  the  case  of  each  of  the  Shakespearean 
dramas  which  contains  one  or  more  songs.  His 
method  is  to  give,  at  the  beginning  of  each 
chapter,  the  entire  text  of  the  song  or  songs 
found  in  the  play  under  discussion.  Subse- 
quently he  considers  the  text,  its  sources  and 
its  probable  degree  of  accuracy  under  the  given 
circumstances.  He  then  furnishes  a  complete 
exposition  of  the  purpose  and  context  of  each 
song  and  of  its  meaning,  general  and  particular, 
direct  and  implied."— N  Y  Times 

"Mr.  Noble  is  a  student  of  his  text,  and  he 
draws  stimulating  conclusions.  His  suggestion 
should  be  of  value  to  critic,  producer,  and  play- 
wright."    W.   L,.    S. 

+  Boston   Transcript  p2   S   15   '23    1200w 

"The  result  of  his  thoroughness  is  that, 
although  the  reader  may  in  a  few  instances 
disagree    in   detail   with   the   opinions   advanced. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


379 


nevertheless  the  general  thesis  Is  on  the  whole 
admirably   supported."     E:    Royce 

+   N   Y  Times  pl6  S  16  "23  1200w 
"His  book  is  an  acute  and  solid  contribution 
to  the  study  of  his  subject." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p453    Jl 
5   '23   2100W 

NORDEN,  HERMANN.  From  golden  gate  to 
golden  sun.  315p  il  $4-50  Small  [15s  With- 
erby] 

915.9  Siam.  Malay  peninsula 
"Mr.  Norden's  book  is  a  genial  record  of 
"travel,  sport  and  observation'  in  Siam  and 
Malaya.  He  begins  with  an  account  of  the 
interesting  little  State  of  Sarawak,  in  describ- 
ing a  corner  of  which  he  gives  us  a  good  idea 
of  the  idyllic  life  which  the  people  now  lead 
under  the  descendants  of  Rajah  Brooke.  A 
hasty  run  through  the  Malay  States  brought 
him  to  Siam.  whose  laughter-loving  people  he 
describes  picturesquely  in  a  chapter  called 
'Bangkok  Days  and  Nights.'  Sumatra  follows, 
with  a  vivid  sketch  of  the  curious  race  known 
as  Bataka  and   their   tribal  customs." — Sat   R 


Boston    Transcript    p4    My    26    '23    850w 
"Mr.   Norden  has  taken  pains  to  get  more  in- 
formation  on   native   matters    than    the   average 
globe-trotter    secures,     and    his    book    is     both 
readable   and   instructive." 

+  Sat   R   135:538  Ap  21  '23  160w 
"The  most  interesting  part  of  the  book  deals 
with    Mr.    Norden's   experiences  among   the   Ba- 
taks   and   other  wild   peoples   of  Sumatra." 

4-  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   pl73   Mr 
15  '23   llOOw 

NORDICA,  LILLIAN.  Lillian  Nordica's  hints 
to  singers;  transcribed  by  William  Armstrong. 
167p       il     $3     Dutton 

784.9  Singing.  Armstrong,  William  23-11408 
Following  the  group  of  letters  by  Lillian  Nor- 
dica  and  her  mother,  which  tells  the  story  of 
the  singer's  training  for  her  operatic  career, 
are  Mme  Nordica's  "Hints  to  singers,"  in  which 
are  gathered  together  notes  written  from  her 
own  broad  experience  for  the  help  of  other 
singers.  She  tells  about  the  choice  of  a  teacher 
and  where  to  study,  the  obstacles  to  be  met  and 
how  to  overcome  them,  the  stage  manner  to  be 
cultivated,  how  to  prepare  for  grand  opera  and 
concert  singing  and  to  sing  Wagnerian  rSles 
and  about  the  making  of  a  career.  The  illus- 
trations show  Mme  Nordica  in  her  most  im- 
portant parts. 


Booklist    20:90    D    '23 

"It  Is  so  human,  so  genuine,  so  imbued  with 
love  of  her  art,  so  free  from  the  slightest  smack 
of  conceit,  that  no  one  can  doubt  that  the 
preparation  of  the  book  was  a  labor  of  love, 
that  it  was  intended  for  no  other  purpose  than 
to  help  and  to  encourage,  not  indeed,  as  in  any 
sense  a  technical  manual,  but  exactly  what  its 
title  implies — 'Hints.'  It  ought  to  do  a  vast 
amount   of   good."    N.    H.    D. 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p5  S  1  '23  1350w 

Reviewed  by   H:   T.    Finck 

Lit  R  pl26  O  13  '23  250w 

"The  book  as  a  whole  is  rich  in  wisdom,  in 
sound  and  mature  counsel,  but  the  burden  lies 
with  the  reader  of  distinguishing  the  wheat 
from  the   chaff."    Pitts   Sanborn 

-I-   Nation  117:440  O  17  '23  1350w 

"A  double  value  resides  in  this  book,  since 
it  offers  for  the  benefit  of  students  of  singing 
the  advice  and  counsel  evolved  out  of  the  hard 
work  and  success  of  one  of  the  great  singers 
of  her  time,  and  also  preserves  the  only  record 
that  exists  of  her  personal  life  during  the  days 
of  her  training  and  early  successes,  a  record 
that  has  never  before  been  published.  Mr.  Arm- 
strong has  done  his  work  of  assembling  and 
transcribing  very  well  Indeed,  and  the  volume 
is  interesting  and  well  worth  while  on  both  its 
personal   and   its   artistic   sides." 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl9  Jl  15  '23  450w 


NORDMANN,  CHARLES.  Kingdom  of  the 
heavens;  some  star  secrets;  tr.  by  E  E  Four- 
nier  d'Albe.  262p  $3.50  Appleton  [12s  6d 
unwin] 

520.4  Astronomy 
"The  book  confines  itself  to  some  of  the  mar- 
vels which  the  heavens  have  revealed  to  us 
recently— the  magnetic  and  electric  influences 
exercised  by  the  sun,  discoveries  concerning  the 
physical  and  chemical  evolution  of  the  stars 
the  rotation  of  the  earth,  star  clusters  and 
spiral  nebulae,  etc.  Contents:  On  the  moon- 
Life  m  the  universe;  The  sun  and  its  wonderful 
influences;  The  gigantic  structure  of  the  sidereal 
universe;  The  life  and  death  of  stars;  Does 
the   earth   turn?   Conclusion.    Index. 


This  book  sums  up  m  popular  and  entertain- 
ing fashion  the  main  facts  of  the  science  over 
which   Urania  presides."    E.    N. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p2  D  22  '23  550w 
"Dr.  Nordmann's  work  deserves  a  welcome  re- 
ception,   for   it   differs   in   some   essential   points 
from  the  ordinary  popular  treatise." 
+   Nature   112:784  D   1   '23  350w 
"The    translation    into    English    is    by    E.    E 
Fournier  d'Albe  and   brings  out   to  the  full   the 
very   readable   qualities  of   the   book.     His   voy- 
age through  the  kingdom  of  the  heavens  gives 
the    reader    in    simple,    attractive    language    the 
gist  of  what  is  newest  in  heavenly  exploration." 
+  N   Y   World   p7e  D  2  '23  150w 
"M.     Nordmann    makes    a    fine    clearance    of 
useless  expectations  in  his  introduction  by  jet- 
tisoning  the    'exact    but   ancient   data    found    in 
manuals    and    compilations';    and    declares    his 
intention  to  limit  himself  to  what  is  recent  and 
new,    speaking    'not    to    instruct    or    amuse    but 
to    produce    thought    and    even    dreams."      The 
deficiencies    of   statement   culminate    in    the    in- 
dex,  which  is  perhaps  the  worst  we  have  ever 
seen." 

—  +  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p742  N  8 
'23   llOOw 


NORRIS,    CHARLES    OILMAN.    Bread.    511p   $2 

Dutton 

23-12005 

The  thesis  of  the  novel  ia  that  the  business 
woman  who  has  tasted  the  joys  of  indepen- 
dence is  unfitted  for  wifehood  and  motherhood. 
Jeannette  Sturgis  enters  the  business  world 
from  strong  inclination  and  from  a  desire  to 
help  her  widowed  mother.  She  makes  such  a 
success  of  her  work  that  she  throws  over  her 
first  lover  and  only  after  long  hesitation  and 
questioning  yields  to  a  more  masterful  one. 
She  is  happy  at  first  in  her  home  and  her 
husband's  love  but  resents  her  financial  de- 
pendence and  the  household  economies,  while 
all  the  time  she  dreads  the  fetters  which 
motherhood  would  force  upon  her.  And  so  she 
leaves  Martin  and  goes  back  to  her  good  posi- 
tion as  secretary.  Not  until  she  has  reached 
her  forties,  climbed  as  far  as  possible  in  the 
business  world  and  been  shocked  to  discover 
her  husband  happily  remarried,  to  a  different 
type  of  woman,  does  she  begin,  to  question  the 
wisdom  of  her  choice. 


Booklist  20:102  D  "23 
"Here   is  a  story  without  bitterness,  without 
the  prevailing  note  of  satire.  It  is  firm,  simple, 
direct." 

4-  Bookm  58:200  O  "23  300w 
"He  observes  and  records  with  the  eye  of 
the  photographer;  he  paints  with  the  brush  of 
the  artist.  The  world  to  which  he  invites  us 
is  a  veritable  world,  and  his  people  actually 
live  and  move  and  have  their  being  in  it."  E. 
F.   Edgett 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  18  *23  ITOOw 
"May  be  edible,  but  it  is  neither  nutritious 
nor  palatable.  The  author  is  an  indiscrimi- 
natingly  voluble  slave  of  the  realistic  school 
with  no  suspicion  that  by  showing  the  romance 
of  the  commonplace  the  commonplace  itself 
may  be  revealed." 

—    Dial  75:507  N  '23  lOOw 


380 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


NORRIS,  C:  G.— Continued 

"The  setting  is  drab;  the  characters  are  con- 
ceived in  a  commonplace  fashion;  the  style  is 
painfully  explicit;  and  yet  'Bread'  is  saved 
from  complete  nullity  by  the  dogged  earnest- 
ness of  Mr.  Norris's  mind  and  by  the  convic- 
tion he  gives  that  he  is  struggling  to  present 
a  matter  which,  if  not  exactly  the  essence  of 
art,    has    public    importance."    L.    C.    M. 

h   Freeman   8:119   O   10  '23   200w 

"The  sum  of  my  feeling  is  that  romance  pur- 
ple-patched with  poetic  fustian  is  on  the  Whole 
a  more  respectable  thing  as  a  work  of  art  than 
realism  broken  with  argument  in  the  style  of 
a   Congressional   report."    H.    W.    Boynton 

—  Ind   111:142  S  29  '23   1200w 

"Slow  in  movement  with  a  superabundance 
of  detail,  the  book  nevertheless  succeeds  in 
holding  the  reader's  interest  fairly  well.  Fol- 
lowing closely  the  fortunes  of  one  character, 
it  escapes  the  scrappiness  of  'Brass,'  and  it 
is  also  better  written.  If  Mr.  Norris's  style  still 
lacks  distinction,  it  has  at  any  rate  greatly 
improved.  Moreover,  he  has  been  wise  enough 
to  remain  strictly  within  the  limits  of  the 
class  he  understands  and  can  portray."  L..  M. 
Field 

-I Int    Bk    R    p54    S   '23   1500w 

"It  would  be  unfair  to  say  that  'Bread'  pre- 
sents the  man's  view  of  woman  in  business. 
It  is  only  the  monarchist  view.  'Bread'  is  the 
gospel  of  the  last  ditchers."  N.  B.  Mavity 

—  Lit  R  p39  S  15  "23  850w 

Nation  117:sup410  O  10  '23  120w 
"Of  his  three  novels  Bread  is  undoubtedly 
the  best,  partly  because  Mr.  Norris  has  been 
most  fortunate  in  his  selections  of  theme  and 
background.  .  .  In  only  one  respect  do  we 
find  Mr.  Norris's  realism  markedly  at  fault — 
that  is  in  his  financing."  R.  M.   Lovett 

-J New    Repub    36:23    Ag   29    '23    1500w 

"Since  it  seems  to  be  the  function  of  the 
American  novel  to  convey  a  message,  it  may 
be  said  that  a  moral  lesson  could  easily  be 
drawn  from  the  story  of  .leannette  Sturgis; 
but  only  the  old  and  somewhat  hackneyed  one 
that  you  can't  eat  yom*  cake  and  have  it  too,  and 
even    that    is    not    universally   valid." 

—  NY  Times  plS  Je  19  '23  1300w 

"  'Bread'  is  a  really  admirable  piece  of  work 
of  its  kind  and  as  far  as  it  goes.  But  it  goes 
off  at  a   tangent."    Isabel   Paterson 

h   N   Y  Tribune  pl7  Ag  19  '23  1900w 

"  'Bread'  is  by  far  the  best  literary  work  that 
Mr.  Norris  has  contributed  to  his  fictional  pub- 
lic. In  the  main  it  reads  smoothly  and  easily. 
His  characters  have  not  the  finesse  of  our 
Kathleen,    but   they  are  good."   Ruth   Snyder 

J, NY  World  pile  O  7  '23  560w 

Reviewed  by  R.  D.  Townsend 

Outlook  134:675   Ag  29  '23  360w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  O  14  '23  600w 

NORRIS,  KATHLEEN  (THOMPSON)  (MRS 
CHARLES  OILMAN  NORRIS).  Butterfly.  346p 
$2    Doubleday 

23-14201 
"Hilary  and  Dora  Collier  were  the  daughters 
of  two  impoverished  musicians.  At  an  early 
age  it  was  discovered  that  Dora  was  gifted 
with  all  the  artistic  sense  of  her  parents.  On 
the  death  of  the  latter,  Hilary  promised  to  de- 
vote her  life  to  the  success  of  Dora  as  a  mu- 
sician. Dora,  however,  grew  into  a  beautiful 
and  fairylike  creature,  who  foup-i  more  hap- 
piness in  the  easy  things  of  life.  Because  of 
her  drifting  disposition,  she  was  early  chris- 
tened 'Butterfly.'  Soon — and  too  soon — into  her 
life  came  love.  And  it  was  a  love  dressed  in 
luxury  and  ease.  Butterfly  forgot  her  violin: 
forgot  her  early  life  of  struggle.  When  Hilary 
came  to  see  hei'  sister  in  lier  new  home,  she 
found  that  the  serpent  of  discontent  had  crept 
into  the  love-nest  of  Butterfly  and  Craig— 
waiting.  But  if  you  know  Kathleen  Noriis. 
you  will  also  know  that  happiness  is  awaiting 
Butterfly  somewhere  and  sometime." — N  Y 
World 


Boston  Transcript  p5  O  27  '23  480w 
Int   Bk  R  p73  N  '23  300w 
Reviewed   by  H.   W.    Boynton 

Lit  R  pl46  O  20  '23  500w 
"Mrs.  Noiris'  style  retains  throughout  an  easy 
care  and  an  almost  fluid  directness.  She  wields 
her  tool  of  language  with  a  sure  hand,  now 
hewing,  now  delicately  scraping  a  well  rounded 
and  complete  relief.  Her  characters  assume 
the  proportions  of  flesh  and  blood  actuality, 
and  though  each  is  typical  in  his  way,  he  Is 
none   the   less  a   living   individual." 

+  N  Y  Times  p4  S  30  '23  780w 
"The  cynicism  of  this  simple  tale  resides  In 
the  almost  absent-minded  glibness  of  the  man- 
ner of  its  recital.  Mrs.  Norris  once  had  an  ex- 
traordinary talent  for  genre  work;  she  could 
paint  you  a  domestic  interior  like  a  Dutchman. 
She  can  do  it  still — like  a  fashionable  decorator. 
Her  people  and  her  p.oblems  are  equally  con- 
ventionalized   to    match."    Isabel    Paterson 

h   N    Y  Tribune  pl4   S  30   '23   lOOOw 

Reviewed   bv   Ruth   Snvder 

N    Y   World   pile  O   7   '23    500vv 
"The   work    is   ple;xsing  in   a   popular   style." 

-\ Springf'd    Republican    p7a   O   7    '23   500w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p732  N  1 
•23    200w 

Wis   Lib   Bui  19:444  O  '23 

NORTHCLIFFE,  ALFRED  CHARLES  WIL- 
LIAM HARMSWORTH,  1st  viscount.  My 
journey  round  the  world;  ed.  by  Cecil  and  St. 
John  Harnisworth.  326p  $4  Lippincott  [12s  6d 
Lane] 

910  Voyages  and  travels  23-12053 

The  time  of  the  journey  was  from  July,  1921, 
to  February,  1922,  and  the  travels  were  chiefly 
in  Asia.  "This  account  was  compiled  by  Lord 
Northcliffe's  brothers  from  a  diary,  dictated  en 
route  to  his  secretaries  and  intended  for  his 
family  circle.  It  deals  primarily  with  impres- 
sions received  on  the  way  and  only  incidentally 
with  imperial  and  international  politics.    Index. 


Booklist  20:102  D  '23 


Booklist    20:96   D    "23 

"These  desultory,  often  disconnected,  hasty, 
yet  always  delightful  notes  of  a  journey  are 
carefully   and  judiciously  edited."   E.   J.   C. 

+  Boston   Transcript   p4  O  13   '23  780w 

"The  publication  of  this  diary  does  no  service 
to  Lord  Northcliffe's  reputation,  nor  does  it 
throw  fresh  light  on  his  personality.  It  was 
not  intended  to  be  published,  but  was  written, 
or  rather  dictated,  for  his  family  at  home,  to 
whom  it  was  sent  in  sections  and  circulated  as 
a   substitute  for  letters." 

—  New   Statesman    21:182   My   19    '23    200w 

"To  the  highly  specialized  powers  of  observa- 
tion possessed  by  the  journalist,  Lord  North- 
cliffe  added  a  lively  personal  interest  in  every- 
body and  everything  he  met  and  saw.  Though 
the  diarv  was  written  in  snatches,  at  odd  mo- 
ments, and  in  all  sorts  of  circumstances,  it  was 
kept  up  on  every  day  of  his  journey,  and  he 
seems  to  have  missed  nothing.  In  general  his 
notes  and  comments  are  sharp,  clear  and  in- 
cisive, and  they  are  often  entertaining.  Prob 
ably  a  more  honest  book  w^as  never  printed." 
-I-  Sat  R  135:807  Je  16  '23  SOOw 

"Carmelite  House  never  sent  out  a  better 
correspondent  than  its  chief.  America,  Aus- 
tralia. China,  Japan,  no  matter  what  the  place 
or  the  hour.  Lord  Northcliffe  sat  down  and,  in 
a  brief  paragraph  or  so,  captured  the  effective 
details  and  made  the  appropriate  bright  com- 
ments: it  is  beautiful  'copy.'  This  is  not  to  say 
that  his  diary  cannot  be  read  and  enjoyed  by 
those  who  have  never  been  captivated  by  the 
Harmsworth  productions  or  the  Harmsworth 
manner:  actually,  it  is  full  of  interest  from 
half  a  dozen  different  points  of  view." 
+  Spec  130:974  Je  9  '23  400w 

"Throughout  it  the  personality  of  the  writer, 
with  all  its  fun,  its  boyish  petulance,  its  eager- 
ness, and  its  force,  makes  itself  felt." 

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17  '23  1050w 


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NORTHEND,    MARY    HARROD.      Small    house, 
iUs  po.ssiliilitif.s.    24:>,v   il   l^.oO  Dodd 
749     Architecture,  Domestic.     House  decora- 
tion 23-13748 
The  book   has   to  do   with  all   the  possibilities 
for  beauty  in  the  small  house — its  design,   loca- 
tion   and    relation    to    its    grounds,    gaiden,    in- 
terior   decoration    and    use    of    color,    furniture 
and    its    grouping,    pictures    and    their    placing, 
lighting,   etc.      The   many   illustrations  are   from 
Miss   Noithend's   very   large  collection   of  photo- 
graphs. 


Booklist  20:128  Ja  *24 
"She  has  wi'itten  clearly  and  comprehensively 
of    the    things   we    want    to    know,    whether    the 
building    of   our    own    small    house    is    imminent 
or  as  ye(    is   hut  a  thing  of  dreams."     L.    H.   G. 
4-   Boston   Transcript   p4   O    13   '23   32Uw 
Reviewed  by  II:  L.  Stuart 

Freeman  8:165  O  24  '23  1150w 
"Even  in  cases  where  the  reader  may  not  ful- 
ly agree  with  the  author's  conclusions  the  points 
are  made  in  a  sensible  and  reasonable  way 
which  provides  food  for  thought,  while  the  entire 
volume  contains  much  which  will  prove  of  in- 
terest both  to  the  tyro  and  to  the  professional 
decorator" 

-\ Lit    R   p396   D   22   '23   500w 

"Applicable  not  only  to  the  small  house  but  in 
many  of  its  suggestions  to  the  city  apartment 
also,  Miss  Northeiid's  new  book  deserves  the 
attention  of  home  makers  who  want  to  bring 
into  their  surroundings  as  much  beauty  and 
grace  as  limited  space  and  limited  purse  pei'- 
mit." 

H-  N   Y  Times  p20  O  14  '23  340w 
"Miss  Northend  has  simple  and  pleasing  ideas 
about    house    furnishings,    and   about    house    de- 
sign,   and    communicates    them    with   a    glow    of 
enthusiasm  that  makes  you,   even  if  you  do  not 
belong  to  the   sex   that  delights   in   such   things, 
a   house   furnisher   in    desire   and   imagination." 
+  Springf'd   Republican   pl2  O  10  '23  500w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:479  N  '23 

NORTON,  HENRY  KITTREDGE.  Far  East- 
ern Republic  of  Siberia.  316p  $3.50  Holt  [12s 
6d    Allen    &    U.l 

957  Far  Eastern  Republic  [23-9388] 

"The  book  is  divided  into  two  parts  of  which 
the  first  gives  a  packed  description  of  the  col- 
onization and  early  history  of  Eastern  Siberia, 
followed  by  a  not  altogether  unbiased  account 
of  the  post-War  phases,  struggles  and  occupa- 
tions experienced  by  this  peasant  population 
until  its  ultimate  rejection  of  Communism  re- 
sulted in  the  formation  of  the  present  three- 
year  old  Republic  under  President  Krasno- 
schekoff.  The  second  half  of  the  book  is  en- 
tirely given  up  to  the  Constitution  of  the  Re- 
public, to  representative  personalities,  and  to 
the  all-important  and  vital  questions  of  foreign 
policy  and  the  problems  raised  by  Japanese 
military    ambition." — Spec 


Boston  Transcript  p6  S  8  '23  650vv 
"All   who   would  know   something   of  the    Far 
Eastern    problems      should    read      Mr.    Norton's 
book." 

+  New  Statesman  20:704  Mr  17  '23  330w 
N  Y  World  p7e  Ag  26  '23  350w 
"Students  of  th"  Far  East  will  t)nd  a  very 
Informing  narrative,  as  it  presents  inany  little- 
known  facts  that  are  worth  knowing,  but 
they  will  have  to  review  some  of  these  facts  by 
the  light  of  what  has  since  occurred,  and  draw 
Inferences  which  will  scarcely  be  identical 
with   those   of   this   author." 

-^ Sat   R   135:537   Ap  21   '23   450w 

"This  book  abounds  in  fact  and  date  and 
authoritative  statement.  We  must  be  grateful 
to  Mr.  Norton  for  what  appears  to  have  been 
a  very  strenuous  literary  effort  on  his  part; 
even  though  we  may  find  the  result  at  times 
terribly  reminiscent  of  textbook  history.  In  a 
measure,  perhaps  a  certain  quality  of  'in- 
structiveness'  could  not  have  been  avoided,  as 
obviously  the  public  is  small  '^hat  ':nows  any- 


thmg    definiie    of    the    development    of   Siberian 
affairs    smce    the    Russian    Revolution    in    1917  " 
i Spec    131:88   Jl   21    '23   750w 

NORWOOD,  EDWIN  P.  In  the  land  of  Dig- 
geldy  Dan.  (Diggeldy  Dan  ser.)  226p  il  $1.75 
Xjittle 

23-13488 
"A  .story  of  the  ever-changing  here-and-there 
land  that  we  call  the  circus.  Here  at  half- 
past  twilight,  according  to  the  flower-petal 
watch  comes  again  the  Pretty  Lady  with  the 
Blue-Blue  Eyes,  mounted  on  the  White-White 
Horse  And  others  come  too.  Crow  and  his 
comrades  in  sombre  procession,  all  marching  In 
step  and  wearing  the  jauntiest  of  messenger 
caps.  There  are  monkeys  and  bears  and  kan- 
garoos, and  a  great  chest  that  contains  twenty 
parcels  of  sugar  plums,  three  bags  of  corn, 
forty-two  bundles  of  stick  candy  with  red 
stripes  and  forty-two  bundles  of  stick  candv 
with  green  stripes,  two  boxes  of  tlffy- 
on-the-stick  and  twelve  plum  puddings.  How 
we   wish    we    had    been    there,    but    what    is   the 

^f^T^i  Ii^'"^T^*°  ^"^y  '"o^*  ""^^^^  the  adventures 
Of  Diggeldy  Dan  the  Circus  Man;  of  the  Crew 
of.,  the  Kangarooster,  the  Monkey  in  the 
Windle-TVell,  Shadow-.Sho  and  all  the  others" 
—Boston   Transcript 

„  "y°".  J^'OH'*^ .  "ot  suppose  that  anyone  who 
wrote  the  delightful  'Adventures  of  Diggeldy 
Dan     could    sit    right    down    and    write    another 

Jhi'J.T  '^^'^^.^^'"^  '^'"^  ^"^  '■etain  the  same 
charm.  But  this  is  what  Mr.  Norwood  has 
oone.        jj.    H.    G, 

+    Boston    Transcript    p4    O    6    '23    SlOw 
"Diggeldy  Dan  should  be  a  most  popular  chap 
come    holiday    time — and    even    earlier "    Kenne 
Beck 

-f    N    Y    World    pfie    S    16    '23    200w 

NOYES.  GEORGE  WALLINGFORD,  comp.  Re- 
2    hgious  experience  of  John   Humphrey   Noyes: 

founder    of    the    Oneida    community.     416D    11 

$2.50    Macmillan 

B    or    92    Noyes,    John    Humphrey.    Putney 
community.   Perfectionism  23-8624 

An  account  of  the  early  life,  to  his  twenty- 
seventh  year,  of  .lohn  Humphrey  Noyes,  founder 
of  the  sect  of  Perfectionists  or  Bible  commun- 
ists. His  religious  and  social  theories  were 
embodied  in  the  community  at  Putney,  Ver- 
mont, a  small  settlement  formed  by  his  disciples 
in  1838,  later  removed  to  Oneida,  New  York, 
and   known   as   the   Oneida  community. 

"By  iudicious  skipping  the  reader  interested  in 
understanding  the  American  mind  of  about  1830, 
in  some  of  the  queerest  manifestations  which 
were  then  so  abundant,  will  find  In  the  little 
volume  a  great  amount  of  entertainment  and 
even    of   instruction." 

H Am  Hist  R  28:778  Jl  '23  300w 

Boston  Transcript  p6  Je  23  '23  360w 

"This  account,  carefully  documented  from 
letters  and  journals  of  John  Noyes,  gives  a 
very  vivid  picture  of  the  early-nineteenth-cen- 
tury reaction  from  European  deism  as  it  took 
place  in  a  logical,  original  and  forceful  mind 
that  carried  a  light  ballast  of  non-religious 
tradition."    E.    T.    B. 

-f   Freeman    8:215    N    7   '23   350w 

"It  is  not  only  a  headlong  dive  into  the  sea 
of  mysticism — but  into  the  Sargasso  sea  of 
perfectionism.  .  .  But  there  is  rich  treasure 
for  the  modern  man  who  can  ride  those  billows. 
There  is  a  style  as  perspicuous  as  Franklin's 
a  humor  as  unforced  and  unexpected  as  Cow- 
per's.  a  moving  sincerity  and  a  wanton  logic." 
A.  W.  V. 

+  New    Repub   37:156   Ja    2   '24    300w 

NUTTING,  WALLACE.  Connecticut  beauti- 
ful. 301p  il  $4  Old  America  co.,  Framingham, 
Mass. 

917.46  Connecticut — Description  and  travel 

23-13527 

"Wallace   Nutting  gives  to  the   Nutmeg  state 

the  third  volume  of  the  's'ate.-s  beautiful'  series 

which   he  is  writing  for  the  Old  America  com- 


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NUTTING,  WALLACE — Continued 
pany  of  Framingham.  'Connecticut  Beautiful' 
is  uniform  in  size  and  style  with  the  earlier 
volumes  on  Vermont  and  Massachusetts,  and 
the  treatment  of  the  subject  matter  is  gen- 
erally similar.  Many  of  the  304  photographs 
might  have  been  chosen  for  their  possibilities 
as  artistic  compositions,  and  in  general  they 
picture  the  'old'  Connecticut.  Mr  Nutting  does 
not  write  with  the  cold  inclusiveness  of  a 
cartographer;  he  accepts  the  unpleasant  spots 
as  Inevitable  and  searches  successfully  for  the 
more  winsome  places." — Springf'd  Republican 


"Mr.  Nutting  pursues  the  same  appealing 
method  in  this  as  in  his  other  studies  of  the 
beautiful,  rambling  along  from  one  township 
to  another,  in  that  leisurely  fashion  which  al- 
lows time  to  study,  or  at  least  to  note,  those 
details  which,  generally  speaking,  give  a  clearer 
Impression   than   does  the   whole."     F.    B. 

+   Boston    Transcript   p5    S    15   '23    800w 
Lit    R  p292   N   24  '23   40w 

"Again,  Mr  Nutting  has  given  readers  a  book 
that  will  stir  them  to  a  better  appreciation  of 
a  state,  and  as  usual  he  writes  what  he  pleases. 
This  independence  counterbalances  any  flatness 
that  occurs  now  and  then.  .  .  Throughout  the 
book,  and  especially  in  the  photographs,  he  gives 
noticeable  evidence  that  he  sees  with  the  eye 
of   an   antiquary   as   well   as   of   an   artist." 

-f-   Springf'd    Republican   pl2  O   2  '23   480w 

NUTTING,  WALLACE.  Massachusetts  beauti- 
ful. 301p  il  $4  Old  America  co.,  Framing- 
ham,  Mass. 

917.44  Massachusetts — Description  and  trav- 
el 23-10216 
"Here  is  the  second  volume  in  the  States 
Beautiful  Series  initiated  and  carried  on  by 
Mr.  Wallace  Nutting.  His  purpose  is  to  set 
forth  by  the  evidence  of  pictures  the  beauty 
and  allure  of  each  State,  and  to  accompany 
the  illustrations  with  a  stream  of  descriptive 
and  discursive  text.  This  volume  has  three 
hundred  and  four  illustrations  from  photo- 
graphs by  the  author,  which  include  every 
county  in  Massachusetts,  while  the  text  has 
an  equal  number  of  pages.  In  short,  Mr.  Nut- 
ting has  found  and  preserved  a  sample  of 
every  phase  of  the  varied  appeals  to  the  es- 
thetic sense  which  can  be  found  from  end  to  end 
of  the  state.  Among  the  subjects  which  he  dis- 
cusses at  some  length  and  with  evident  knowl- 
edge and  appreciation  are  Cape  Cod  cottages, 
the  making  of  pictures,  the  fireplaces  of  old 
Massachusetts  houses,  the  selecting  and  de- 
veloping of  a  farm,  the  pleasures  and  benefits 
of  the  Winter  season  in  his  State.  There  are 
also  sections  devoted  to  advice  conce  ning 
sightseeing  excursions  in  several  different 
localities."— N  Y  Times 


Boston  Transcript  p3  Je  30  '23  1200w 
"The  total  lack  of  systematic  arrangement 
which  exists  in  the  pictures,  as  well  as  in  the 
text,  is  the  most  serious  fault  of  the  book.  The 
illustrations  not  only  do  not  illustrate,  being 
placed  with  no  relation  to  each  other,  but  the.v 
are  also  without  relation  to  each  other,  road- 
sides and  interiors;  Pittsfleld  and  Cape  Cod 
being  thrown  together  with  fine  abandon. 
Nevertheless  they  are  a  thing  to  be  grateful 
for,  for  with  all  their  lack  of  arrangement 
they  give  a  good  deal  of  that  flavor  of  Mas- 
sachusetts which  the  writer  is  trying  to  con- 
vey." 

H  Lit  R  p34  S  8  '23  400w 

"His  landscape  and  architectural  photography 
are  of  rare  excellence,  but  he  is  not  always  so 
successful  with  the  human  figure.  He  does  not. 
Indeed,  make  much  use  of  it,  and  when  he 
does  it  is  usually  for  the  purpose  of  intro- 
ducing the  sentimental  note,  which  is  very 
likely  to  be  detrimental  to  artistic  results.  The 
text  which  accompanies  the  pictures  is  fluent 
and  discursive.  Sometimes  it  is  informative, 
sometimes  florid  and  fervid  with  sentiment  and 
quite  often  it  is  loosely  unthinking  in  its  state- 
ments." 

+  —  N   Y  Times  p20  Jl  22  '23  500w 
Outlook  135:115  S  19  '23  50w 


"The  volume  might  be  better,  but  it  is  re- 
freshing to  find  a  book  that  attempts  honestly 
to  give  its  readers  what  the  author  himself 
thinks  and  sees  rather  than  'what  the  public 
expects.'  " 

-\ Springf'd  Republican  p8  Ag  24  '23  550w 

NUTTING,      WALLACE.       Vermont     beautiful. 
302p    il    $3.50    Old   America   co.,    Framingham, 

Mass. 

917.43  Vermont — Description  and  travel 

23-2379 
"In  New  England  Wallace  Nutting  is  an  in- 
stitution. Nine  out  of  ten  homes — those,  at 
least,  where  the  old  order  is  honored  have  Nut- 
ting pictures  proudly  hung  in  conspicuous 
places.  .  .  This  volume  is  a  series  of  short 
sketches  or  informal  essays  on  the  distinctive 
features  of  Vermont,  written  with  no  great 
literary  merit,  but  with  so  much  sincerity  and 
so  keen  a  love  for  the  beautiful  that  they  need 
no  apology.  It  is  really  the  illustrations  that 
are  the  greatest  source  of  delight,  however. 
There  are  literally  hundreds  of  them  and  they 
show  the  loveliest  phases  of  the  country." — 
Lit  R 


"Mr.  Nutting,  from  his  own  experiences  of 
life  and  travel  in  '  Vermont  for  over  twenty 
years,  gives  us  this  book  of  delight,  not  only 
visualizing  for  us  the  Vermont  of  today,  but 
reawakening  its  past.  So  that  to  many  who 
read  its  happy  text  and  pore  over  its  exquisite 
illustrations  will  come  memories  of  days  when 
they  also  trod  its  green  green  uplands  and 
green  green  valleys."     F.   B 

+   Boston   Transcript   pi  D  2   '22  900w 

"Many  of  the  photographs  will  stir  old  mem- 
ories. There  are  the  stone  fences,  the  little 
white  farms,  the  valley  brooks,  and  the  never- 
to-be-forgotten  elms  and  maples,  all  shown  at 
their  very  best.  It  is  a  volume  that  will  stimu- 
late one's  sen.se  of  beavity." 

+   Lit    R    d511    Mr    3    '23    350w 

"The  304  photographs,  most  of  them  made 
within  a  year  of  publication,  more  than  fulfil 
their  role;  no  one  familiar  with  Vermont  would 
ever  mistake  them  for  pictures  of  another  state, 
and  people  who  have  never  seen  the  Green 
mountains  will  find  in  them  the  'atmosphere' 
which    explains    rural    New   England." 

-f  Springf'd   Republican   p8  D  23   '22   950w 


o 


O.  HENRY  MEMORIAL  AWARD.    Prize  stories 
of    1922;    chosen    by    the    Society    of    arts    and 
sciences;    with   an    introd.    by    Blanche   Colton 
Williams.    260p    $1.90    Doubleday 
Contents:    Snake    doctor,    by    Irvin    S.    Cobb; 
Innocence,  by  R.  W.  Lane;  Gold-mounted  gruns, 
by  F.   R.   Buckley;  As  a  dog  should,  by  Charles 
Alexander:  Art  for  art's  sake,  by  R.  B.  Barrett; 
Tact,  by  T:   Beer:  The  kiss  of  the  accolade,  by 
J.   W.   Bennett;   The  sixth  shot,   by  S:   A.   Deri- 
eux;  The  jinx  of  the  "Shandon  Belle,"  by  R.  de 
S.    Horn;    His    sacred    family,    by    H    R.    Hull; 
The  horse  of  Hurricane  reef,  by  C:  T.  Jackson; 
Old    Peter    takes    an    afternoon    off,    by    O.    F. 
Lewis;    Tg's   amok,    by  Gouverneur  Morris;    The 
Anglo-Saxon,  bv  W.  D.   Steele:   "The  writer-up- 
ward,"  by  A.   P.   Terhune;  Twilight  of  the  pod, 
by    M.    H.    Vorse. 

Booklist   20:23   O   '23 
Reviewed   by  Gilbert  Seldcs 

Dial   75:184  Ag  '23  950w 
Ind   110:319  My  12  '23  230w 
Int    Bk   R  p71  O  '23   650w 
"These    are    all    good    stories:    most    of    them, 
indeed,    very    good.      But    in    all    of    them,    with 
the    possible    exception    of    Gouverneur    Morris's 
sardonic   tale,   one   is  always  aware  of  a  sense 


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of  strain,  an  effort  (doubtless  a  sub-conscious 
effort  in  most  cases)  to  conform  to  a  standard." 
H.   Li.    Pangborn 

4-  —  Lit    R   p702  My  19   '23   650w 
Reviewed  by  J.   J.  Smertenko 

Nation  116:726  Je  20  "23  200w 
"Let  us  to  the  infighting  at  once  and  say  that 
in  the  choice  of  the  sixteen  stories  selected 
by  the  Society  of  Arts  and  Sciences  we  believe 
that  the  Scientists  cast  a  majority  vote."  Bruce 
Gould 

—  NY  Tribune  p27  Ap  8  '23  800w 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:277  Je  '23 
Springf'd    Republican   pl6  Je   1  '23  270w 

OAKLEY,  AMY  (EWING)  (MRS  THORNTON 
OAKLEY).  Hill-towns  of  the  Pyrenees.  449p 
11  $4     Century 

914.47  Pyrenees  mountains.  France — De- 
scription and  travel  23-13032 
The  impressions  recorded  in  this  book  have 
been  gathered  by  the  author  and  the  artist  dur- 
ing tnree  summers  spent  in  this  primitive 
mountain  region — the  borderland  between 
t^-ance  and  Spain  and  the  home  of  the  Basque 
people.  Starting  from  Perpignan  on  the  Medi- 
terranean coast  the  route  of  the  travellers  ran 
west  from  hill-town  to  hill-town  to  Bayonne  on 
the  Bay  of  Biscay.  There  is  much  more  about 
the  French  than  about  the  Spanish  side  of  the 
Pyrenees,  but  sometimes  the  travellers  crossed 
the  frontier.  The  book  is  rich  in  legend,  history 
and  anecdote  and  full  of  suggestions  on  routes 
and  excursions  and  inns  for  those  who  may  be 
planning  to  visit  this  region. 


"Mrs.  Oakley  unfortunately,  has  not  made 
the  most  of  her  opportunity.  Though  she  has 
entirely  escaped  the  banality  of  the  guide  book, 
Bhe  has  rarely  succeeded,  except  in  occasional 
instances,  in  conveying  to  the  reader  the  daz- 
zling splendor,  the  poignant  humanity,  of  her 
scenes  and  characters.  Her  style  is  largely  to 
blame." 

k   Lit    R   p247   N   10   '23   480w 

"A  charming  account  of  an  interesting  coun- 
try for  which  Hilaire  Belloc  has  written  a  guide. 
On  the  whole,  we  much  prefer  Mrs.  OaKley's 
volume.  She  contrives  to  tell  us  how  and  where 
to  go,  yet  all  the  while  giving  an  entrancing 
picture  of  the  great  mountains  that  border 
France  and  Spain." 

4-   N    Y   World  p9  O   14  '23  300w 

"Excellent  co-operation  between  writer  and  il- 
lustrator has  made  this  a  notably  good  book  of 
travels.  The  Pyrenees  have  never  had  more 
enthusiastic  advocates  as  a  scenic  wonderland 
than  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Oakley,  and  their  enthusi- 
asm easily  spreads  its  contagion  to  the  reader. 
The  author  is  lively  and  entertaining  in  her 
descriptions  and  the  artist's  pen-and-ink  draw- 
ings are  l)o!d  and  effective." 

+  Outlook    135:234    O    10    '23    llOw 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:507   D  '23 

O'BRIEN,    EDWARD    JOSEPH     HARRINGTON 
(ARTHUR    MIDDLETON,    pseud.).      Advance 
Of  the  American  short  story.     302p     $2     Dodd 
813     Short    story.      Ajnerican   fiction    23-8047 
A    study    of    American    literary    achievements 
during  the   last  hundred  years  as  measured   by 
the  short  story.    It  analyzes  the  relation  of  the 
short   story  to  American   life  in   general  and  to 
its   local   aspects  as   chronicled   by   our   regional 
writers.    Irving,    Hawthorne,   Melville,   Poe,    Bret 
Harte.    Mark    Twain,    Henry   James,    O.    Henry, 
and  Sherwood   Anderson  are   treated  with   con- 
siderable   fullness    and    a    great    many   contem- 
porary  short    story   writers   are    briefly    charac- 
terized. 


Booklist  19:311  Jl  '23 
"As  a  treatise  on  the  short  story  this  book 
seems  to  me  of  little  value;  as  a  chronology  of 
short  story  writers  it  is  probably  sufficiently 
complete.  But  it  is  worth  having,  and  worth 
reading,  if  only  for  the  sake  of  the  criticisms 
of  Henry  James  and  Sherwood  Anderson.  These, 
and  particularly  the  latter,  seem  to  me  intelligi- 


ble, informative,  and  interesting.    They  are  criti- 
cisms worthy  of  the  name."  B.  A.  Williams 
H Bookm  57:555  Jl  '23  550w 

Cleveland  p78  S   '23 

Dial   75:186  Ag  '23  170w 
Reviewed   by   Ernest   Boyd 

Freeman  8:141  O  17  '23  820w 
"Mr.  O'Brien's  discussion  of  particular  writ- 
ers is  no  less  interesting  than  one  would  expect 
from  his  sensible  attitude  toward  his  subject 
as  a  whole.  The  biographical  and  the  critical 
elements  are  particularly  well  combined  in  the 
treatment  of  Irving,  Hawthorne,  and  O.  Henry. 
In  treating  present-day  story  writers,  however 
it  seems  to  me  that  Mr.  O'Brien  carries  his 
contempt  for  plot  a  bit  too  far."    M.  L.  Frank- 

H Ind  111:18  Jl  21   '23  400w 

"That  Mr.  O'Brien  makes  his  points  too  quick- 
ly and  too  separately  will  hardly  condemn  him 
with  readers  anxious  rather  to  be  told  what  they 
should  think  than  to  think  for  themselves."  C- 
fa.    Baldwin 

—  Lit    R   p204   N    3    '23    360w 

"Mr.  O'Brien  permits  little  of  academic  classi- 
ncation,  or  academic  calm  for  that  matter,  to 
mar  the  interest  of  his  work.  Reading  this 
book  is  an  adventure.  Its  author  is  concerned 
with  the  American  short  story  because  he  is 
concerned  with  American  civilization,  of  which 
literature  is  the  expression  as  well  as  the 
interpretation.  And,  though  his  criticisms  of 
both  will  present  nothing  startling  to  the 
readers  of  Mr.  Mencken's  jeremiads,  they  illu- 
mine the  subject  by  the  brilliancy  of  his  par- 
ables and  analogies."  J.  J.  Smertenko 
+  Nation   117:243  S  5  '23  400w 

"It  becomes  readily  obvious  in  reading  Mr. 
O'Brien's  book  that  it  will  be  but  little  help- 
ful to  us  in  anything  excepting  stray  com- 
ments and  a  certain  sort  of  chronology  of  the 
American  short  story.  His  design,  however 
well  meant,  is  confused  and  confusing.  He  de- 
sired to  write  a  criticism  and  produced  a  sort 
of  vague  textbook,  of  use  possibly  to  Chautau- 
qua camps,  where  the  languors  of  August  days 
cannot  be  rigorously  exacting."     H:   J.   Forman 

—  NY  Times  p2  Je  24  '23  1270w 
"Only  after  reading  does  one  realize  the  mis- 
nomer of  the  title  'The  Advance  of  the  Ameri- 
can Short  Story.'  'Advance'  should  be  struck 
out;  for  the  volume  cannot  fairly  be  said  to 
consider  historically  the  origins  or  the  develop- 
ment of  the  short  story  in  America.  There  Is, 
indeed,  reason  to  suspect  that  Mr  O'Brien  is 
temperamentally  unsuited  for  historical  study 
scientifically  sound.  .  .  Though  it  presents  opm- 
ions  at  times  shrewd,  at  times  suggestive,  and 
at  times  unlikely  to  arouse  important  dispute. 
It  is  too  uneven  and  erratic  in  its  judgments 
to  be  depended  upon  for  safe  critical  guidance; 
and  in  places  it  becomes  an  exposition  merely  of 
personal  estimate  or  impression." 

—  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  15  '23  900w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:158   Je    '23 

O'BRIEN,  EDWARD  JOSEPH  HARRINGTON 
(ARTHUR  MIDDLETON,  pseud.),  ed.  Best 
short  stories  of  1922;  and  the  year  book  of 
the  American  short  story.  389p  $2  Small 
Contents:  The  dark  city,  by  Conrad  Aiken; 
I'm  a  fool,  by  Sherwood  Anderson;  The  death 
of  Murdo,  by  Konrad  Bercovici;  An  unknown 
warrior,  by  Susan  M.  Boogher;  The  helpless 
ones,  by  Frederick  Booth;  Forest  cover,  by  Edna 
Bryner;  Natalka's  portion,  by  R.  G.  Cohen;  The 
shame  of  gold,  by  Charles  J.  Finger;  Two  for 
a  cent,  by  F.  Scott  Fitzgerald;  John  the  Bap- 
tist, by  Waldo  Franic;  Mendel  Marantz — house- 
wife, by  David  Freedman;  Belshazzar's  letters, 
by  Katharine  Fullerton  Gerould;  Winkelburg, 
by  Ben  Hecht;  The  token,  by  Joseph  Herge- 
sheimer;  The  resurrection  and  the  life,  by  Wil- 
liam J.itro;  The  golden  honeymoon,  by  R.  W. 
Lardner;  He  laughed  at  the  gods,  by  James 
Oppenheim;  In  the  metropolis,  by  Benjamin 
Rosenblatt:  From  the  other  side  of  the  south, 
by  W.   D.   Steele;  The  coffin,  by  Clement  Wood. 


384 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


O'BRIEN,    E:  J.    H. — Continued 
Booklist  19:222  Ap  '23 
Cleveland  p43  Je  '23 
"I   dislike     some    of    his     selections   intensely 
and    it    seems     to     me    that    some     of     his    best 
choices    do    little    to    strengthen    his    argTjment. 
Mr  O'Brien   has  authority;    he   knows  whom   to 
encourage.    But    there     are     moments    when    he 
seems  not  to  know  what  in  them  needs  encour- 
agement most."   Gilbert  Seldes 

H Dial   75:186  Ag   '23   210w 

Reviewed  by  Lloyd  Morris 

Int  Bk  R  p48  Je  '23  900w 
"The  volume  is  an  excellent  cross-section  of 
all  the  strata  of  short  stories  now  being  written 
and  in  it  the  best  writers  in  America  are  rep- 
resented, though  not  necessarily  their  best 
work.  The  stories  are  fairly  chosen  and  every 
one  is  worth  the  interest,  if  not  always  the 
approval,  of  the  sympathetic  reader.  There  is 
the  usual  full  critical  and  bibliographical  ap- 
pendix."    Allan   Nevins 

+  Lit   R  p604  Ap  14  '23  700w 
"Though    Mr.    O'Brien's    introduction    is    un- 
doubtedly   the    most    important    contribution    to 
his   book   this  year,    the    collection   of   stories   Is 
from   everv    point   of   view    better    than    any    he 
has   previously    made."      J.    J.    Smertenko 
+   Nation   116:725  Je  20  '23  250w 
Reviewed   by  W:   L.    McPherson 

N  Y  Tribune  p20  Ap  8  '23  500w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:212  My  '23 
"Many  of  them  are  quite  second  rate;  but 
there  are  a  few,  on  the  other  hand,  which,  show 
that  in  America  to-day  there  are  writers  who 
can  do  good  work,  and  may  yet  do  extremely 
good  work,  in  this  form.  Since  the  death  of 
Katherine  Mansfield  they  have  nothing  to  fear 
from  a  comparison  with  English  short  story 
writers." 

-i Spec  130:1012  Je  16  '23  400w 

"In  brief,  Mr  O'Brien's  compilation  is,  as 
usual,  convenient  because  of  the  reference  ma- 
terial it  contains,  but  far  from  being  the  last 
word  on  the  comparative  merits  of  the  year's 
output  of  short  stories." 

_| Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Mr    25     '23 

190w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p264   Ap 
19  '23  llOOw 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:85  Mr  '23 

O'BRIEN,  EDWARD  JOSEPH  HARRINGTON 
(ARTHUR  MIDDLETON,  pseud.),  and 
COURNOS  JOHN,  eds.  Best  British  short 
Btories   of   1922.   339p  $2   Small 

22-23919 
"A  companion  volume  to  the  annual  selec- 
tion of  the  best  American  short  stories.  The 
stories  are  arranged  alphabetically  by  the 
author,  with  year-book  of  the  British  and  Irish 
short  story,  July,  1921,  to  June,  1922,  and  bibli- 
ography of  volumes  of  short  stories  published 
in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland  during  the  same 
period."  (Booklist)  Contents:  Where  was  Wych 
street?  by  Stacy  Aumonier;  The  looking-glass, 
by  J.  D.  Beresford;  The  olive,  by  Algernon 
Blackwood;  Once  a  hero,  by  Harold  Brighouse; 
"The  peiisioner,"  by  William  Caine;  Broadsheet 
ballad,  by  A.  E.  Coppard;  The  Christmas  pres- 
ent, by  Richmal  Crompton;  Seaton's  aunt,  by 
Walter  de  la  Mare;  The  reaper,  by  Dorothy 
Easton;  The  song,  by  Mary  Edginton;  A 
hedonist,  by  John  Galsworthy;  Tho  Bat  and 
Belfry  inn,  by  Alan  Graham;  The  lie,  by  Hollo- 
way  Horn;  A  girl  in  it,  by  Rowland  Kenney; 
The  backstairs  of  the  mind,  by  Rosamond 
Langbridge;  The  birth  of  a  masterpiece,  by 
Lucas  Malet;  'Genius,'  by  Elinor  Mordaunt;  The 
devil  to  pay,  by  Max  Pemberton;  Empty  arms, 
by  Roland  Pertwee;  Lena  Wrace,  by  May  Sin- 
clair; The  dice  thrower,  by  Sidney  Southgate; 
The  stranger  woman,  by  G.  B.  Stern;  The 
woman  who  sat  still,  by  Parry  Truscott;  Major 
Wilbraham,    by   Hugh   Walpole. 


"The  lasting  and  regretful  impression  one 
retains  is  of  competence  and  careful  carpentry 
and  innocuous  entertainment  and  adequacy  of 
style.  It  just  happens  that  'The  Best  British 
Short  Stories  of  1922'  contains  none  of  the  best 
British  short  stories,  but  that  is  no  reason  why 
the  annual  shouldn't  be  useful  and  interesting 
and  not  without  honor  even  in  its  own  country." 

1-   Lit    R   p371  Ja  6   '23  450w 

"The  results  on  contemporary  English  fiction 
are  literary  contortions,  skilfully  and  gracefully 
executed,  but  meaningless  and  futile  and  essen- 
tially ugly.  There  are  exceptions."  J.  J. 
Smertenko 

1-   Nation   116:726  Je  20  '23  270w 

Pittsburgh    Mo   Bul   28:95    Mr  '23 
Reviewed  by  Gerald  Gould 

Sat  R  135:190  F  10  '23  720w 
Spec  130:557  Mr  31  '23  380w 
"It  is  less  intricate  than  in  the  American 
series,  and  regrettably  omits  the  biographical 
data  concerning  the  writers.  On  the  other  hand, 
it  does  not  adopt  one-two-three  starring  to 
indicate  presumed  degrees  of  excellence,  but 
contents  itself  with  the  one-star  to  signify 
distinction.'  "     R.  W.    N. 

H Springf'd  Republican  p7a  F  11  '23  950w 

Wis    Lib    Bul   19:85  Mr  '23 

O'BRIEN,      HOWARD      VINCENT.       Terms     of 

conquest.      357p     S2     Little 

23-17474 

The  story  of  a  man  and  his  struggle  to 
achieve  his  ideals.  Homer  Gaunt  gives  up  his 
job  in  the  printing  plant  in  a  small  town  and 
goes  to  Chicago  where  he  believes  opportunity 
exists.  After  long  unemployment,  poverty,  un- 
congenial work,  interrupted  by  strikes,  he  fin- 
ally secures  a  job  in  a  printing  plant  and  even- 
tually becomes  the  head  of  the  firm  and  a 
power  in  the  business  world.  Discourage- 
ments continue —labor  troubles,  his  wife's  ill- 
ness, the  frustration  of  his  plans  for  a  text- 
book merger,  the  determination  of  his  children 
to  follow  their  own  ideals,  all  have  their  effect 
on  his  character,  but  his  honesty  and  courage 
remain  unabated.  Running  thru  the  story  is 
the  love  between  him  and  Eleanor  Jessup,  a 
girl  of  another  social  class,  who  had  believed 
in   him   from   the   beginning   of  his   career. 


Booklist  19:124  Ja  '23 

Cleveland  pll   F  '23 

Int    Bk    R   p48  Je  '23   900w 


"There  is  much  of  modern  thinking  woven 
into  the  book.  And  there  is  some  thought.  Too, 
the  book  is  readable,  but  the  reader  is  given 
a  succession  of  lesser  jolts  as  the  pages  are 
turned."     D.   R. 

-i Boston   Transcript  p4   D  1   '23   320w 

"In  the  constant  repetition  of  the  popular  ad- 
jectives and  adverbs  Mr.  O'Brien's  style  Is,  to 
use  his  words,  singularly  banal.  In  every  other 
respect  the  book   is  admirable."   R.    J.   Flack 

h    Lit    R    p387    D    22    '23    650w 

"In  its  presentation  of  the  varying  currents, 
the  book  is  very  intere-sting  and  distinctly  sig- 
nilicant.     Its  plot  is  slight  and  conventional." 

-i NY  Times   p8   N  25   '23   880w 

Reviewed  by  E.  W.   Osborn 

N   Y   World   p7e  D   16   '23  300w 

O'BRIEN,   HOWARD  VINCENT.     Trodden  gold. 
316p  $2  Little 

23-4895 

The  careers  of  twin  sisters,  Constance  and 
Deborah,  both  brought  up  with  every  advantage 
to  enable  them  to  hold  their  own  in  the  best 
society,  are  here  narrated  to  show  the  illusive- 
ness  of  riches  as  a  factor  in  human  happiness. 
Both  disappointed  their  mother's  ambition  for 
them  by  marrying  poor  men.  But  Lyman 
Wainright,  Constance's  husband,  a  man  of 
affairs,  accumulated  wealth  rapidly,  while  Ned 
Sears,  Deborah's  husband,  a  college  instructor 
in  chemistry,  remained  hopelessly  immersed  in 
his  science  and  incapable  of  worldly  success. 
Prodded  by  her  family,  Deborah  lived  thru  some 
years  of  discontent  with  her  lot  until  she  too 
became  interested  in  chemistry  and  her  hus- 
band's    true     companion.       Constance,     on     the 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


385 


other  hand,  surrounded  by  all  that  money  could 
buy,  found  her  wealth  to  be  dead  sea  fruit  and 
barely  escaped  marital  shipwreck. 

Booklist  19:224  Ap  '23 
"It  is  with  a  feeling  of  thankfulness  that 
we  perceive  in  his  work  a  feeling  of  decent 
reticence  concerning  the  intimacies  of  life,  good 
well  bred  writing  and  standards  of  wholesome 
respectability."       D.    F.    G. 

+    Boston    Transcript    p4    F    24    '2.3    680w 

Cleveland  p43  Je  '23 
"ISIr.  O'Brien,  one  feels,  sets  out  to  prove  in 
'Trodden  Gold'  that  wealth  and  position  are 
not  synonyms  for  happiness;  one  reader,  how- 
ever, is  not  entirely  convinced — but  that  is  an 
individual  reaction.  The  book  is  written 
smoothly,  with  sermonic  overtones;  for  those 
who  prefer  pleasantness  and  constructive  crit- 
icism to  deep  ol)servation  and  unbiased  inter- 
pretation, 'Trodden  Gold'  may  be  recommended. 
Mr.  O'Brien's  is  a  popular  appeal,  and,  after 
its  fashion,   a   sincere   appeal." 

•  -I int    Bk    R   p56   Ap   '23   320w 

"Mr.  O'Brien  has  succeeded  in  large  measure 
both  in  telling  a  story  skilfully  and  in  writing 
a  homily  far  less  dull  than  many  heard  from 
l)ulpits  on  Sunday  mornings.  His  is  a  simply 
written  novel,  moving  along  almost  entirely 
through  conversation,  but  he  finds  time  to 
make  his  characters  live,  and  it  is  here  that 
the  main  strength  of  the  novel  lies."  Herschel 
Brickell 

-f-  Lit  R  p515  Mr  10  '23  550w 
"Mr.  O'Brien  works  out  a  formula  almost  in 
terms  of  the  chemical  laboratory  from  which 
his  chief  character  is  drawn.  The  novel  reveals 
a  certain  impartial  observation.  The  characters 
talk  and  act  naturally,  but  their  motivation  is 
outrageoiislv   simplified."     J:    W.    Crawford 

h   Nation   116:395   Ap   4   '23   160w 

"As  a  tract,  his  hook  has  real  value.  But 
since  it  passes  as  a  novel,  it  must  be  judged 
as  a  novel.  It  seems  that  Mi-.  O'Brien  has 
brooded  so  much  on  the  money  problem  that 
he  is  unable  to  see  anything  in  life  beyond 
it;  or  else  he  feels  that  his  public  will  not 
xinderstand  him  unless  he  di'ives  his  theme 
home  with  a  sledgehammer.  For  his  characters 
are  not  people,  but  duinmies  dressed  to  suit 
his  purpose;  and  his  plot  is  hardly  more  than 
a  covering,  a  capsule  for  his  message,  with 
which  he  hopes  to  make  it  a  little  easier  in 
tlie    swallowing." 

1-   N    Y    Times    pl4   Mr   4   "23    450w 

"Mr.  O'Brien  had  a  good  thesis.  It  must  be 
good,  it  has  been  vised  so  often.  It  is  a  restate- 
ment of  the  ancient  and  doubtless  truthful 
platitude  that  'riches  don't  bring  happiness.' 
Neither  does  poverty.  And  a  thesis  does  not 
make  a  novel.  Plot  and  character  are  helpful. 
'Trodden  Gold'  is  rather  meagerly  supplied  with 
these.  As  for  the  style,  a  choice  of  two  ad- 
jectives offers;  it  is  competent  or  adequate." 
Isabel   Paterson 

1-    N    Y    Tribune    p22    Mr   11    '23    .S20w 

"In  a  way  it  is  commonplace.  But  in  that 
very  fact  is  a  major  part  of  its  strength.  Its 
people  are  not  psychic.  They  do  not  live  in 
ways  of  mystery.  Not  one  of  us  who  has 
access  to  the  accoimt  of  these  folks  presented 
hv  our  author  is  likelv  to  miss  a  word  of  it." 
E.    W.    Osborn 

-F   N    Y    World    p6e    F    25    '23    650w 
"The    story    analyzes    more    or    less    success- 
fully,   if    very    generally,    contemporary    social, 
spiritual    and    economic    conditions." 

+  Springfd     Republican     p7a     Ap     15     '23 
600w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p637    S 
27  '23   200w 

O'CONNOR,  ELIZABETH  (PASCHAL)  (MRS 
THOMAS  POWER  O'CONNOR).  Hat  of  des- 
tiny.    341p     $2     Lieber  &  Lewis 

23-10697 
"Little   Marie   Louise   Antoinette   Mercier   de- 
signs  the   hat,    Mr.    William   Jones   promotes    in 
Paris    the    competition    in    which    it    wins    first 
prize.    Mrs.  Frederick  Townshend  buys  the  crea- 


tion in  New  York.  The  hat  goes  to  a  party 
where,  aided  and  abetted  by  one  of  Mrs.  Town- 
shend's  most  effective  toilettes,  it  arouses  emo- 
tions varied  according  to  the  sex  of  the  be- 
holders. In  the  breast  of  Laurel  Taylor,  the 
dearest  foe  of  the  wearer,  the  millinery  prize 
awakens  an  envy  which  is  followed  by  an  in- 
spiration. Mme.  Dubois  gets  hurry-up  orders 
for  the  duplicate  of  the  delectable  headpiece.  At 
the  next  event  in  the  Townshend-Taylor  set 
there  is  a  clash  of  hats  and  hates,  and  the  so- 
cial stage  is  set  for  the  play.  New  York,  New- 
port, London,  Long  Island  and  a  piece  of  Vir- 
ginia furnish  the  settings  for  various  of  our 
author's   episodes." — N  Y   World 

"The  proof-reading  is  abominable;  and  in  a 
novel  so  slight  an  additional  blemish  weighs 
down  what,  at  best,  is  scarcely  worth  much  at- 
tention." 

—  Boston  Transcript  p5  JI  14  '23  200w 
"Emphasis  and  high  light  are  totally  lacking 

and  are  but  poorly  compensated  for  by  a  more 
extensive  expatiation  on  the  characters  which 
more  particularly  engage  Mrs.  O'Connor.  It  does 
not  matter,  however,  whether  Mrs.  O'Connor 
spends  one  page  or  fifty  on  a  character;  all  of 
them  are  impelled  by  the  same  somewhat  fee- 
ble  motivation." 

—  NY  Times  p27  Je  10  '23  490w 
"Keally,    this   is  a   pretty  bit  of  millinery,   all 

ribbons  and  roses,  suitable  for  a  garden  party 
and  never  intended  for  the  wear  and  tear  of 
winter  storms.  It  is  not  so  much  an  article  of 
apparel  as  an  ornament,  a  confection.  The  cut 
of  it  is  faintly  reminiscent  of  twenty  years  ago, 
in  spite  of  an  obvious  effort  at  modernity." 
Isabel  Paterson 

-j NY   Tribune   pl8  Je   10  '23   370w 

"Altogether,    'The   Hat   of   Destiny'    should   do 
much   to  take,   for  its  readers,   the  chill  from  a 
procrastinating  summer."    E.   W.   Ostwrn 
-i-  N    Y    World   p6e  My  27   '23  350w 

ODLE,   E.    V.     Clockwork  man.   213p  $2  Double- 
day    [6s   Heinemann] 

[23-11828] 
"Mr.  Odle  has  tackled  the  discovery  of  the 
future.  The  story  takes  place  in  the  present, 
the  human  automaton  having  walked  here  by 
accident  from  the  year  8000  or  so.  He  has  the 
faculty  of  moving  at  will  in  another  dimension, 
he  has  conquered  the  clock.  He  has  come  to 
the  present  because  he  is  run  down;  his  organ- 
ism needs  adjustment,  and  this  can  be  done 
by  means  of  the  dial  which  ciccupies  the  back 
of  his  head.  The  theory  that  this  creature  is 
a  man  from  the  future  is  passionately  held  by 
Gregg,  an  undergraduate,  but  scoffed  at  by  the 
local  doctor.  Chance  forces  on  the  doctor  the 
opportunity  to  manipulate  the  clockwork  dial, 
and  he  finds  that  by  means  of  keys  and  knobs 
he  can  run  this  creature  up  and  down  the  evolu- 
tionary scale.  He  is  forced  to  accept  Gregg's 
hypothesis,  but  declares  that  this  monstrosity 
shall  be  hidden  from  the  world,  for  if  men  knew 
that  this  automaton  was  to  be  their  future  they 
would  despair.  Gregg,  on  the  other  hand,  is 
enthusiastic;  but  both  points  of  view  are  put 
out  of  court  by  a  further  discovery  which  serves 
to  show  that  the  clockwork  man  is  'the  future 
but  not  the  whole  of  the  future.'  "—The  Times 
[London]   Lit  Sup 

"The  amusing  attempts  of  the  Clockwork  Man 
to  adapt  himself  to  his  unfamiliar  surroundings, 
a  slender  love  interest,  and  a  paragraph  or  two 
of  philosophv  make  a  unique  novelette  out  of 
a   theorist's    futuristic   dream." 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p8  D  15  '23  150w 

"Mr.  Odle  wanders  off  into  such  a  wilderness 
of  dubieties  and  dimensions  that  one  is  left  at 
the  end  rebellious  and  confused.  But  he  is  a 
writer,  despite  the  imitative  form  he  has  here 
adopted,  of  originality.  He  has  a  style  of  his 
owTi.  He  can  create  character:  he  can  conceive 
incident.  Above  all,  he  has  a  rollicking  sense 
of  humour."  „^    .„„  „„„ 

-j Sat   R   135:540  Ap  21   '23  300w 

"Some  readers,  no  doubt,  will  recognize  the 
Wellsian  manner,  and  probably  the  author  him- 
self would  be  the   first  to  admit  it.     But  in  a 


386 


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ODLE,   E.  V. — Continued 

case  like  this,  where  so  much  has  been  worked 
out  on  independent  lines,  that  need  not  be  a 
serious  defect.  The  tension  in  the  latter  part 
of  the  book  is  very  high.  Mr.  Odle  has  the 
trick,  too,  of  leading  the  reader  along  the 
pleasant  footpaths  of  romance  to  consider  the 
human  side  of  highly  abstruse  speculations." 

+  Spec   130:853   My    19   "23   500w 
"There    is   a   deal    of   meaning   in   Mr.    Odle's 
fantasy." 

-j-  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p244   Ap 
12   '23    420w 

O'DONOVAN,    GERALD.      Holy    tree.       314p    $2 
Boni    &   Liveright    [7s    6d   Heinemann] 

23-4982 

The  story  is  Irish  in  style,  treatment  and 
spirit  with  Ireland's  poetry,  romance  and 
dramatic  intensity,  of  which  Ann  Logan  is  the 
personification.  "With  dreams  of  love  in  her 
heart  for  the  man  who,  she  is  sure,  will  some 
day  come  to  her,  she  nevertheless  marries  Joe 
Dunne — sells  herself  to  save  the  farm  for  her 
beloved  grandfather.  Her  daughter  Bessie  is 
four  years  old  -when  Brian  Hogan  comes  her 
way  and  the  "holy  tree"  of  love  which  already 
had  its  roots  in  her  heart  begins  to  send  out 
branches.  The  joy  and  ecstasy  of  the  discovery 
and  the  struggles  that  follow  are  a  revelation  of 
Ann,  individually,  and  of  the  Irish  character. 
Her  experience  brings  her  the  understanding 
sympathy  of  persons  who  had  hitherto  been 
turned  away  from  her  in  hatred  and  who,  she 
now  sees,  had  been  embittered  by  a  thwarted 
love.  She  fights  a  battle  royal  for  her  con- 
viction that  love  is  the  only  thing  that  matters. 
When  she  is  at  last  clear  on  this  point,  the 
death  of  Brian  by  drowning  throws  her  irrevo- 
cably back  into  her  drab  life,  with  the  one 
consolation  that  she  may  be  the  instrument  of 
saving  her  child  from  a  like  fate. 


"The    book    is    emotional,     and     not     without 
force.      But    its    style,    its    Irishness,    comes    to 
seem  conventional  and  monotonous  in  the  course 
of  all   these   pages."     H.    W.    Boynton 
H Ind  110:262  Ap  14  '23  420w 

"Mr.  O'Donovan  is  strikingly  successful  in 
presenting  the  emotional  life  of  an  Irish  peasant 
girl  and  his  method  has  the  stamp  of  originality. 
'The  Holy  Tree'  affords  a  genuine  emotional  ex- 
perience. .  .  He  is  a  novelist  concerned  much 
with  atmosphere,  though  not  with  atmosphere 
in  the  ordinary  sense  of  the  word.  Not  once 
does  he  describe  the  appearance  of  the  land- 
scape or  paint  a  picture,  for  these  things  are 
assumed  in  the  mind  of  the  reader  as  they  are 
in  the  minds  of  the  characters.  What  he  does 
present  is  the  spiritual  atmosphere  that  a 
peculiar  racial  temperament  creates."  J.  W. 
Krutch 

+  Lit   R  p563   Mr  31   '23   llOOw 

"There  is  power  and  unconventlonality  in  the 
book,  also  a  good  deal  of  technical  skill.  A 
mistake  was  the  carrying  of  the  Anglo-Irish 
idiom  into  the  narrative  proper.  Mr.  O'Donovan 
would  have  done  better  to  have  reserved  this 
for  his  dialogue.  He  has  not  the  sense  of  style 
that  can  give  it  color  and  variety,  the  con- 
struction of  his  sentences  drops  mechanicallv 
into  one  or  other  of  two  or  three  forms,  and 
as  he  pounds  away  at  these  remorselessly  the 
elTect  at  last  bpcomes  desolating  in  its  monot- 
ony."     Forrest  Reid 

^ Nation  and  Ath  31:628   Ap  5  '22  180w 

"One  dreads  lest  this  book  should  not  be 
recognized  as  the  poem  it  is,  but  should  pass 
as  a  novel;  as  'fiction';  as  an  item  in  the  raw 
material  of  a  circulating  library."  Rebecca 
West 

+  New   Statesman   19:443    Jl    22   '22   1700w 

"Much  of  the  novel  is  beautifully  written, 
but   its  ."=fvle   is   a    trifle   monotonous." 

H NY  Times  pl8  Mr  11  '23   800w 

"  'The  Holy  Tree'  glows  from  an  inner  bright 
radiancy  like  an  impassioned  dream  of  life." 
A.  D.  Douglas 

-I-  N  Y  Tribune  p22  Ap  1  '23  850w 


Reviewed  by  E.  W.  Osborn 

N  Y  World  p6e  Mr  4  '23  480w 
"In  trying  to  write  a  novel  throughout  on  the 
level  of  poetry,  Mr.  O'Donovan  has  attempted 
something  beyond  even  his  powers.  Nobody 
could  perform  such  a  feat,  and  Mr.  O'Donovan 
has  not  performed  it.  But  he  has  made  a 
heroic  attempt,  and,  despite  occasionaj  flatness 
and  awkardness,  the  beauty  prevails.  The  stark 
setting,  the  plain  hard  life  of  the  Irish  village. 
Is  in  keeping."     Gerald  Gould 

-f-  Sat  R  134:109  Jl  15  '22  180w 
"His  habit  of  writing  even  descriptive  pas- 
sages in  the  Irish  idiom  presents  a  difficulty  to 
English  readers,  who  are  by  now  so  familiarized 
with  it  ad  nauseam  that  it  ceases  to  produce 
any  effect  on  them.  There  is  nothing  partic- 
ularly new  in  the  characterization,  though  much 
that   is  attractive." 

(-  Spec   129:183   Ag   5   '22   800w 

"Its  singularity  is  due  to  the  excellent  man- 
ner of  presentation  which  the  author  has  fol- 
lowed." 

-f  The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p443   Jl 
6   '22   800w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:481    N   '23 

OESTEREICH,       TRAUGOTT       KONSTANTIN. 

Occultism      and      modern      science.      181p      $2 

McBride 

134      Occult     sciences.      Psychical     research 

[23-10670] 

The  book  is  a  translation  of  its  second  Ger- 
man edition.  The  author  holds  that  modern 
psychology  and  the  new  biology  have  joined  to 
uproot  the  mechanical  conception  of  the  uni- 
verse and  that  certain  psychic  and  psycho- 
physical phenomena,  under  the  general  designa- 
tion of  occultism  and  qualified  to  influence  in 
decisive  fashion  our  entire  conception  of  the 
universe  and  of  life,  are  challenging  scientific 
research.  As  these  phenomena  are  peculiar  to 
certain  persons  the  author  gives  a  summary  of 
the  results  of  the  examinations  of  the  mediums 
Helene  Smith,  Mrs  Piper,  Eusapia  Palladino  and 
others  and  of  the  status  of  theosophy  as  pre- 
sented by  its  German  exponent  Rudolph  Steiner. 
In  conclusion  he  considers  spiritism  as  neither 
proven  or  disproven  but  of  sufficient  importance 
to  call   for   further  investigation. 


Booklist  20:82  D  '23 
Nature   111:840   Je   23   '23   200w 
"The  well-known  cases  of  mediumship  are  ex- 
amined    and   the  pros   and   cons   for  their  gen- 
uineness   very    fairly    presented.      This    alone    is 
refreshing  after  the  usual  nauseating  literature 
which    emanates    from    neurotic    enthusiasts,    or 
from    scientists    who    have,    for    this    subject    al 
any  rate,  lost  their  sense  of  relative  values." 
+  Spec   130:933   Je   2   '23   120w 
"Although  pleasant  to  read,  and  on  the  whole 
instructive,    this   book   leaves   a   strong   impres- 
sion    that     the     author's   original   ambition    ex- 
ceeded the  time  he  had  available  for  its  realiza- 
tion." 

+  —  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup  p366   My 
31    '23   llOOw 

OGBURN,  WILLIAM  FIELDING.  Social  change 
with  respect  to  culture  and  original  nature. 
365p      $2      Huebsch 

301       Sociology.      Civilization  22-27481 

"The  author  of  this  book  is  professor  of  so- 
ciology in  Barnard  College.  His  thesis  is  well 
stated  in  the  preface:  'Why  social  changes  oc- 
cur, why  certain  conditions  apparently  resist 
change,  how  culture  grows,  how  civilization  has 
come    to    be   what   it   is.'  " — Lit   R 


"Professor  Ogburn's  sole  specific  is  recrea- 
tion; but  as  he  questions  the  possibility  of  any 
marked  curtailment  of  the  hours  of  labor,  and 
gives  us  only  the  most  cursory  examination  of 
the  social  and  psychological  effects  of  certain 
so-called  recreational  activities,  the  value  of  the 
suggestion  is  not  great.  The  book  is  essentially 
a  contribution  to  theory,  not  practice;  but  aa 
such  its  logical  arrangement  and  conscientious 


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387 


treatment  of  its  theme  deserve  attention."  W: 
Orton 

f-  Am    Econ    R   13:468   S   '23   1250w 

"Unpretentious  attempt  to  extract  from  the 
varied  lines  of  work  indicated  some  light  on 
present  problems.  Its  outstanding  merit  lies 
not  in  the  solutions  offered,  which  are  avowed- 
ly meagre  and  tentative,  but  in  the  lucidity 
with  which  the  fundamental  questions  are  de- 
fined.'*   R.   H.    L. 

H Freeman   7:431  Jl  11  '23  550w 

"Throughout  the  book  there  is  constant  evi- 
dence of  a  desire  to  avoid  any  extreme  state- 
ments. Such  a  restrained  and  suggestive  study 
in  the  social  field  has  unusual  merit.  The  au- 
thor has  stated  the  problem  with  marked  ab- 
sence of  prejudice,  and  as  his  treatment  is  in- 
teresting, the  book  will  repay  him  who  has 
time  to  read  it  carefully."  Carl  Kelsey 
-I-   Lit    R   p736  Je  12  '23   lOOOw 

Survey    50:supl87   My   1    '23   380w 

OGDEN,  CHARLES  KAY,  and  RICHARDS, 
IVOR  ARMSTRONG.  Meaning  of  meaning; 
a  study  of  the  influence  of  language  upon 
thought  and  of  the  science  of  symbolism; 
with  an  introd.  by  J.  P.  Postgate,  and  sup- 
plementary essays  by  B.  Malinowski  and  F. 
G.  Crookshank.  (International  library  of  psy- 
chology, philosophy  and  scientific  method) 
544p    $3.75    Harcourt    [12s    6d   K.    Paul! 

153  Thought  and  thinking.  Meaning  (psy- 
chology). Language  and  languages  [23-90641 
"Communication  can  only  go  by  means  of 
words,  or  some  other  kind  of  symbol,  such  as 
gestures;  everyone  is  convinced  that  they  want 
or  may  want  to  communicate  something  to 
someone  else;  and  words  are  highly  dangerous 
and  unsatisfactory  instruments  for  that  pur- 
pose. In  the  book  before  us  we  have  two  auth- 
ors attacking  the  problem  from  a  more  fun- 
damental point  of  view  than  from  which  others 
have  dealt  with  it,  and  at  last  some  light  is 
thrown  on  the  factors  involved.  When  we  think, 
we  make  references  to  things — such  as  objects 
and  events  and  their  characteristics — and  then 
we  communicate  these  references  by  means  of 
language.  It  is  clear  that  there  are  two  prob- 
lems which  must  be  tackled.  First,  there  is 
the  problem  of  thinking — how  we  make  refer- 
ences, or  think  of  things  at  all;  and,  secondly, 
the  means  by  which  we  can  ensure  the  correct- 
ness of  our  symbolisation  of  such  references 
or  'thinkings  of.'  Mr.  Ogden  and  Mr.  Richards 
deal  with  both  these  questions.  Their  treat- 
ment of  the  former  is  necessarily  incomplete 
and  unexpanded,  because  their  work  deals 
mainly    with    the    latter." — New    Statesman 


Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  3  '23  400w 

"Messrs.  Ogden  and  Richards  are  no  mere 
sophists,  no  clever  hair-splitters.  It  is  doubt- 
ful if  the  essential  limitations  of  speech  have 
ever  been  more  vividly,  yet  sympathetically, 
realized  than  in  their  radical  study  of  symbol- 
isin.  They  make  it  clear,  as  no  philologist  has 
ever  quite  made  it  clear  why  an  understanding 
of  the  nature  of  speech  is  a  philosophic  essen- 
tial." E:  Sapir 

-f-  Freeman   7:572  Ag  22  '23   1650w 

"Regarded  as  a  whole,  the  work  is  a  valu- 
able contribution  to  a  difficult  subject  of  funda- 
mental importance  for  everybody.  I  venture  to 
add  that,  if  the  authors,  before  rewriting  their 
work  for  a  second  edition,  w^ere  to  study  the 
style  of  William  Kingdon  Clifford,  who  was 
also  a  Cambridge  man,  their  next  presentation 
of  the  subject  would  be  much  simpler  and 
clearer."    C.    J.    Kevser 

T Lit    R    pl06    O    6    '23    2000w 

"The  book  contains  a  good  deal  of  amusing 
matter  and  some  valuable  criticisms,  but  it  is 
formless   and   unequal." 

h  Nature  111:566  Ap   28  '23   200w 

"The  importance  of  the  work  is  obvious.  It 
Is  a  book  for  educationalists,  ethnologists, 
grammarians,  logicians,  and,  above  all,  psy- 
chologists. The  book  is  written  with  admirable 
clarity  and  a  strong  sense  of  humour,  making 
it  not  only  profitable  but  also  highly  entertain- 


ing reading  for  anyone  who  wishes  to  address 
any  remark  to  a  fellow  creature  with  the  in- 
tention of  being  understood." 

+  New  Statesman  21:176  My  19  '23  1350w 
N    Y   Times  p20  Jl   1   '23  2050w 

OHANIAN,    ARMEN.      Dancer     of     Shamahka. 

284p   $2   Button    [7s   6d   J.   Cape.] 
B    or    92  23-7138 

The  life  story  of  an  Armenian  woman  of 
aristocratic  family,  known  in  Europe  and  Asia 
as  the  charming  "dancer  of  Shamahka."  In  a 
narrative  as  highly  colored  as  the  life  it  de- 
scribe.'^ .she  tells  her  experiences,  beginning  with 
the  sheltered  home  life  of  her  girlhood  days 
in  the  Caucasus — not  so  far  different  from  that 
of  an  English  home — and  in  the  Russian  city 
of  Baku,  where  her  father  was  killed  in  an 
Armenian  massacre.  Adventure  followed  adven- 
ture in  her  crowded  life.  She  finally  took  up 
the  profession  of  a  dancer  and  the  narrative 
closes  with  her  signing  a  year's  contract  to 
dance  in  England  and  America.  The  book  is 
a  vivid  word  picture  of  life  in  the  East — espe- 
cially   the   life   of   women. 


"In  telling  of  her  girlhood  Madame  Armen 
has  written  charmingly.  That  section  of  her 
narrative   is   by   far  the  best."     D.   F.   G. 

Boston   Transcript   p5   Mr  17   '23   GaOw 

"It  is  an  extraordinary  book,  both  in  its  sub- 
ject matter  and  in  the  writer's  handling  of  it. 
It  holds  some  passages  of  superb  description, 
vivid  but  not  overdone,  and  there  are  narra- 
tive episodes  of  uncanny  dramatic  quality." 
H.    L.    Pangborn 

+   Lit    R   p599   Ap   14   '23   720w 
Nation  117:67  Jl  18  '23  180w 

"Abounds  in  enthralling  descriptions  of 
dawns  and  sunsets;  vivid  bits  of  superstitions 
and  folklore,  and  the  recital  of  romantic  person- 
al adventures." 

4-   N  Y   Times  p5  Jl  1  '23  550w 

"The  East  of  the  Arabian  Nights  still  exists. 
Armen  Ohanian,  'the  dancer  of  Shamahka,'  is 
a  little  sister  of  Sch6h6razade.  Her  own  life 
story  has  the  same  naive  charm  as  her  prede- 
cessor's  inventions."     Isabel   Paterson 

+  N   Y  Tribune  pl7  My  6  '23  900w 

"Armenia  refutes  Kipling.  There  East  meets 
West.  A  good  book  has  come  out  of  this  junc- 
tion of  Ea.st  and  West.  The  sometimes  over- 
powering richness  of  its  phrasing,  the  mad 
coloring  of  word  and  superlative  metaphor, 
what  we  may  call  the  interior  decoration  of 
the  writing,  is  done  so  surely  as  to  make  it 
almost  impossible  to  believe  that  a  woman, 
raised  and  nurtured  as  Armen  Ohanian  describes 
herself  to  have  been,  could  have  done  it."  L: 
Weitzenkorn 

+   N    Y    World   p9e   Ap   1    '23   1300w 

"Armen  Ohanian  has  incorporated  into  her 
early  reminiscences  various  legends  imbued 
with  the  glamour,  the  passion  and  mystery  of 
the  East,  possibly  in  order  to  bring  European 
readers  the  more  closely  into  touch  with  her 
native  atmosphere.  But  the  reproduction  of 
these  tales  is  a  work  of  .supererogation,  since 
her  own  storv  leads  one  into  the  heart  of  Ori- 
ental romance.  .  .  Her  book  has  an  intensely 
personal    interest." 

+  The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p746    N 
16    '22    650w 

O'KELLY,   SEUMAS.  Wet  clay.   377p  $2  Stokes 

[7s   6d  Talbot   pr. ;   Unwinl 

"Mr.  O'Kelly  takes  an  Irish  boy,  an  Irish- 
American  of  our  generation,  and  sends  him 
back  with  a  high  aim  and  aspiration  to 
Ireland.  The  Ireland  he  takes  us  to  is  an 
Ireland  of  from  fifteen  to  eighteen  years  ago, 
when  the  Land  Purchase  act  of  1903  was  having 
its  clauses  translated  from  theory  into  practice. 
We  are  taken  to  the  typical  farming  village 
of  Clonlea,  and  into  the  home  of  one  of  its 
admittedly  'first'  families,  the  Cusacks.  To 
them  comes  Brendan  Nilan  of  New  York, 
grandson,  nephew  and  cousin  in  turn,  for  the 
Cusack  family  consists  of  his  grandmother, 
Mrs.  Mulvehill;  his  aunt,  Mrs.  Cusack,  and 
her  sons,  Mark  and  Luke.    With  them  he  settles 


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O'KELLY,    S. — Continued 

down  to  take  his  part  in  the  domestic  drama. 
Wjth  his  cousin  Luke  he  finds  himself 
at  once  at  variance  and  their  clash  of  temper- 
aments goes  into  the  very  warp  and  woof  of 
the  story.  The  book's  chief  value  seems  to 
be  Its  depiction  of  the  Irish  peasantry.  Mrs. 
Mulvehill  stands  out  pre-eminent.  She  seems 
to  sum  up  in  her  person  the  agre-long  struggle 
of  the  peasant   for   the   land."— -N   Y   Times 

"It  would  be  wrong  to  give  the  impression 
that  the  only  thing  in  this  novel  is  a  discussion 
of  the  surprises  which  Ireland  and  the  Irish 
people  hold  for  an  American  who  goes  back 
to  the  home  of  his  fathers.  There  is  a  very 
dramatic  story  woven  into  the  more  serious 
discussion."  D.  L.  M. 

-f-  Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  18  '23  1050w 
"  'Wet  clay '  apart  from  certain  almost 
melodramatic  incidents,  has  a  quiet  yet  im- 
pelling interest  all  its  own.  Its  people  are  ob- 
viously real  people.  Its  scenes  are  the  Ireland 
of  actuality,  rain-soaked  and  almost  fetid  at 
times  in  their  realism  and  without  the  false 
enchantment  which  distance  has  lent  to  Erin 
more  than  once  in  Irish-American  fiction.  The 
tale  marches  onward  to  its  conclusion  with 
an  almost   epic   inevitability." 

-f-   N    Y   Times   p21   JI   l    '23   600w 
Reviewed   by    Leo   Markun 

N   Y   Tribune  p22  S   9  '23  500w 

OLCOTT,     WILLIAM     TYLER.       Book     of     the 
stars    for    young    people.     411p    il    $3    Putnam 
523   Stars  23-6804 

"In  Mr.  Olcolt's  new  book  the  young  reader 
will  find  careful  and  detailed  instruction  for 
locating  practically  all  the  stars  visible  to  the 
naked  eye,  together  with  a  few  for  which 
an  opera  glass  is  neces.sary.  Studying  the 
heavenly  panorama  in  four  sections,  as  the 
stars  appear  in  Autumn,  Winter,  Spring  and 
Summer,  the  author  describes  their  move- 
ments and  the  changes  that  take  place  in  the 
sky  in  such  a  way  as  to  make  the  young  ob- 
server realize  the  constant  march  of  the  pro- 
cession and  to  show  him  how  he  can  locate 
any  star  or  cluster  at  any  time.  The  author's 
method  is  to  take  up  the  constellations,  one 
by  one,  explaining  how  to  locate  each  one, 
showing  its  relations  to  others  and  describing 
its  constituent  star.s.  He  does  all  this  with  a 
wealth  of  interesting  aMusion,  drawn  from 
classic  niyth.s,  barbaric  traditions,  world-wide 
folklore.  English.  Roman,  Greek  and  other 
literature  thus  humanizing  the  stars  by  show- 
ing h3w  closely  associated  thev  have  been 
with  human  thought  and  imagination  through 
all   the   ages." — N   Y  Times 


Booklist    19:324   Jl   '23 

"It  is  an  engrossing  book,  a  beautifully  writ- 
ten book,  and  one  which  has  within  it  an 
alluring  supply  of  ancient  and  mythological 
legends  closely  afflliated  with  star-history."  M. 
G.    Bonner 

+   tnt    Bk    R    p.iO    S    '23    650w 

"The  diagrams  of  the  sky  pictures  for  differ- 
ent seasons  are  simple  and  perfectly  clear, 
and  the  explanations  of  how  to  use  them  are 
easy  to  follow." 

+   Lit    R   p868   Jl   28  '23   300w 

"The  book  is  especially  noteworthy  for  the 
wide  range  and  the  interest  of  the  illustra- 
tive references.  But  notwithstanding  their 
comprehensiveness,  Mr.  Olcott  has  missed  one 
bit  of  i)iformation  that  would  particularly  in- 
terest young  people.  The  fact  that  the  con- 
stellation of  the  Great  Bear,  or  Dipper,  serves 
as  a  clock  to  cowboys  and  other  plainsmen 
who  are  much  out  of  doors  at  night." 
-\ NY  Times  pl2  Ap   29   '23  440w 

"Parents  are  advised  to  buy  the  latest  of  Mr. 
Olcotfs       delightful       star       books       for       their 
young  ones  and   read   it   themselves."   W.    C. 
-I-   N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  14  '23   90w 

"Young  readers  with  a  happy  turn  for  star- 
gazing will  find  in  'The  Book  of  the  Stars'  a 
very  capable  first  aid  to  their  studies  of  the 
nightly   skies." 

+   N    Y    World    p9e    Ap    22    '23    lOOw 


OLDMEADOW,   ERNEST  JAMES.     Miss  Watts. 

31Sp     $2     Longmans 

23-15829 

Two  romances,  one  of  youth  and  one  of  middle 
age.  develop  side  by  side  in  this  gentle,  old- 
fashioned  story.  Lady  Hilda  Barrowmore-Ban- 
nington,  the  great  lady  and  almoner  of  Sillport, 
had  never  before  crossed  the  threshold  of  Dr 
Martin  Dacey,  the  village  surgeon,  when  one  day 
she  asked  an  interview  with  him  and  demanded 
that  he  take  into  his  bachelor  household  sixteen- 
year-old  Dollie  Watts  from  a  neighboring  or- 
phanage. Stunned  into  acquiescence,  the  doctor 
yielded  to  the  masterful  Lady  Hilda.  With  Dol- 
lie's  arrival  a  process  of  transformation  began. 
She  blossomed  under  the  benign  influence  of  her 
guardian,  while  he  came  rapidly  out  of  his  ruts. 
The  mystery  of  Dollie's  birth  was  unravelled 
by  Felix  Roke,  the  playmate  of  her  childhood 
and  she  turned  out  to  be  the  daughter  of  a 
respectable  baronet.  WTiile  Dollie  and  Felix 
were  falling  in  love  Lady  Hilda  and  the  doctor 
were  discoveiing  each  other  and  to  round  out 
the  smooth  harmony  of  the  story,  the  three 
unbelievers  were  converted  to  Felix's  Roman 
Catholicism. 


"The    story    has   a    certain    quaint    charm    in- 
separable  from   descriptions   of   English  country 
life.    It    has   cleverness    as    well,    in    spite    of  an 
undercurrent  of  forbidding  pragmatism." 
H Boston   Transcript   p4   D  19  '23   230w 

"There  is  a  good  spicing  of  humor  and  much 
excellent  character  drawing.  The  author's  man- 
ner is  suave  and  the  construction  of  his  tale 
is  that  of  an  experienced,  skilled  artificer.  If 
it  remains  rather  feeble  as  propaganda,  these 
good  surface  qualities  go  far  to  redeem  it  from 
being  no  more  than  medicated  fiction." 
+  —  Lit   R  p345   D  8  '23  300w 

"The  setting,  a  quiet  English  countryside,  is 
wholly  charming,  but  the  characters  are  of 
that  perfection  which  we  immediately  associ- 
ate with  the  Sunday  school  library  of  our 
childhood.     Tliey  are   too  good   to  be  true." 

1-   N   Y  Times  p9   N  25   '23  380w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p726    N 
1    "23   500w 

OLDS,  MARSHALL.  Analysis  of  the  Inter- 
church  world  movement.  Report  on  the  steel 
strike;  foreword  by  Jeremiah  W.  Jenks;  ed. 
as  to  the  law  involved  in  labor  controversies 
by  Murray  T.  Quigg;  ed.  as  to  detailed  ac- 
curacy of  citations,  quotations,  and  statistics 
by  Haskins  and  Sells;  pt.  2,  History  of  the 
Interchurch  Report  on  the  steel  strike,  ed. 
by  Stanley  Went,  James  E.  Craig.  475p  $2.50 
Putnam 

331.89  Steel  strike,  1919-1920.  Interchurch 
world  movement.  Report  on  the  steel  strike 
of    1919  23-3332 

The  report  of  the  steel  strike  of  1919  made 
by  the  Interchurch  world  movement  and  the 
Supplementary  report  published  a  year  later 
are  here  analyzed  and  severely  criticised  by  the 
author  of  "The  high  cost  of  strikes."  Mr  Olds 
maintains  that  the  investigators  were  strongly 
biased,  that  they  colored  and  misrepresented 
the  facts  and  that  the  report  is  being  used  by 
radicals  for  revolutionary  purposes.  Part  one 
is  an  analysis  of  the  report  as  to  its  accuracy 
and  adequacy  and  the  soundness  of  its  conclu- 
sions. Part  two  is  a  history  of  the  circum- 
stances which  led  up  to  the  investigation,  of 
the  personnel  of  the  report  and  its  composition 
and    authorization. 


"This  book  must  be  characterized  as  un- 
scientific and  unconvincing.  Admitting  for  the 
sake  of  argument  defects  in  the  Interchurch 
Report,  one  must  say  that  Mr.  Olds  has  not 
controverted  its  fundamental  conclusions  be- 
cause he  does  not  seem  to  have  the  faintest 
comprehension  of  what  the  people  in  the  Inter- 
church World  Movement  were  trying  to  do. 
The  social  point  of  view  in  industry,  however, 
Is  gaining  ground,  and  if  this  is  true,  the 
gratuitous     distribution     of    this    book     by    the 


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389 


United  States  Steel  Corporation  is  a  sheer 
waste  of  g-Qod  money."   G:   M.   Janes 

—  Am    Econ    R   13:503   S  '23   850w 
Booklist    19:240    My    '23 

Boston  Transcript  p5  Mr  31  '23  2150w 
"Unquestionably,  Mr.  Olds  has  made  a  telling 
attack  on  the  Interchurch  Report,  and  it  will 
be  interesting  to  hear  what  the  investigators 
and  the  Commission  of  Inquiry  have  to  say 
about  it."     J.   E.   LeRosgignol 

Ind  110:165  Mr  3  '23  2050w 
"In  one  hundred  and  fifty  quotations  from 
the  Report  there  are  only  thirteen  which  are 
identical  with  the  originals.  In  the  mere  matter 
of  copying  Mr.  Olds's  accuracy  assays  a  little 
under  nine  percent.  If  we  must  go  on  to  his 
Analysis,  which  is  devoted  to  the  exegesis  of 
misquoted  passages,  we  find  Mr.  Olds's  logic 
of  a  piece  with  his  grammar  and  his  accuracy." 
W.  H.   Hamilton 

—  New    Repub   34:103   Mr  21   '23    3200w 
"Books   like    these    out-steel    the   steel    group. 

They  defend  the  twelve-hour  day  with  an  in- 
humanity seldom  charged  against  the  steel  men 
themselves.  The  twelve-hour  day  is  passing 
and  will  finally  disappear  by  adjustments 
technically  made  by  the  steel  leaders  them- 
selves. The  Interchurch  commissioners  are 
willing  to  be  called  Bolshevists  by  a  book  like 
this  if  they  can  help  create  the  public  opinion 
which  will  put  that  pressure  upon  the  steel 
group  without  which  the  steel  men  say  they 
cannot  act."     F.   J.    McConnell 

—  Survey   49:659   F   15   '23   lOOOw 

O'LEARY,  DE  LACY  EVANS.  Short  history 
of  the  Fatimid  khalifate.  (Trubner's  oriental 
ser.)      267p   $4      Button      [10s   6d   K.    Paul] 

962       Egypt— History.       Caliphs  23-7697 

The  book  tells  in  brief  outline  the  history  of 
the  Fatimid  khalifs  who  were  ruling  in  Egypt 
at  the  time  of  the  first  and  second  crusades. 
It  aims  to  bring  together  in  an  accessible  form 
material  which  will  be  of  service  to  the  student 
of  medieval  western  history  and  the  develop- 
ment of  Islam  with  such  comment  as  will  co- 
ordinate it  with  contemporary  European  history. 


"A  good  deal  of  ethnology  and  folklore  as  well 
as  history  goes  into  the  narrative;  there  is  also 
much  personal  incident  embodied  In  the  author's 
account  of  the  fourteen  khalifs." 

+  Boston    Transcript    pi    Je    9   '23    310w 

"As  a  handbook  for  students  of  the  history 
of  the  Near  East  this  volume  has  much  value. 
It  presents  in  250  pages  an  account  of  the  re- 
ligious, political  and  economic  conditions  in  the 
Moslem  world  between  the  fourth  and  thirteenth 
centui'ies — the  Middle  Ages  of  the  Near  East. 
It  is  a  scholarly  work,  written  for  scholars." 
Morris   Gilbert 

+   N    Y   Tribune   pl9   Je   10   '23   380w 

OLLIVANT,  ALFRED.  "Old  For-ever";  an 
epic  of  bevond  the  Indus.  279p  $1.75  Double- 
day    [6s    Allen   &   U.] 

23-9241 
This  is  a  frontier  story  from  the  Indian  plain 
between. the  Indus  and  the  hills  that  shut  off 
central  Asia — a  region  subject  to  raids  from 
border  tribesmen.  It  is  the  story  of  the  bravery 
of  Tom  Oliver,  who  as  a  mere  stripling  had  been 
dubbed  Lad  Oliver,  a  nickname  that  clung  to 
him  until  in  middle  age  it  was  replaced  by  "Old 
For-ever,"  and  of  the  heroism  of  his  wife 
Marion.  When  the  cholera  had  broken  out  in 
his  regiment,  during  his  absence  on  leave,  and 
the  men  were  dying  like  flies  under  the  spell 
of  a  threat  by  a  Mohammedan  fakir,  Maiion 
insisted  on  accompanying  her  husband  to  the 
camp  with  her  young  baby,  altho  the  journey 
lay  thru  a  pass  infe.'Jted  by  a  revengeful  raider, 
because  she  knew  that  the  sight  of  the  wife 
and  baby  of  the  their  adored  cYiief  would  raise 
the   morale   of   the   soldiers. 


of  so  short  a  story  Mr.  Ollivant  is  able  to  make 
us  familiar  with  such  unfamiliar  material." 
D.   L.    M 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  23  '23  950w 
"One  comes  away  from  the  book  with  the 
feeling  that  there  is  little  worth-while  after  all 
in  this  'white  man's  burden'  which  makes  men 
and  women  of  such  character  and  ability  waste 
their  lives  in  such  a  way.  None  of  this  how- 
ever detracts  in  the  slightest  wav  from  the 
mterest  of  the  book  itself.  It  is  good  reading, 
sufficiently  exciting  to  stir  the  blood." 

H Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p8    Ag 

19    '23    330w 

"Unfortunately,  the  author  gives  us  scarcely 
a  glimpse  of  his  Eastern  setting;  unfortunately, 
he  portrays  his  characters  only  in  sketchy  out- 
lines, and  makes  them  so  stoical  and  externally 
cold  as  to  seem  almost  inhuman.  On  the  whole, 
this  story  gives  the  impression  that  the  author 
did  not  feel  it  deeply  enough  to  make  it  deeply 
felt  by   the   reader." 

—  NY   Times  p22  My  27  '23   600w 
"There  is  abundance  of  action  and  a  beauti- 
ful  incident  of  sacrifice.     The  book's  faults  are 
too    much    detail    about    intricate    race    relations 
and   a    little    over-stressing  of   horrors." 

h  Outlook   134:140  Je   6  '23   llOw 

"The  promise  of  stirring  action  and  colorful 
descriptions  forecast  in  the  early  chapters  of 
'Old    For-ever'    does    not   materialize." 

—  Sprlngf  d   Republican  p7a  Je  3  '23   250w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:414   Jl   '23 

OLMSTEAD,  ALBERT  TEN  EYCK  History 
of  Assyria.      695p     il   $7.50     Scribner 

935.2     Assyria — History  23-17167 

A  comprehensive  account  of  the  rise,  suprem- 
acy and  fall  of  the  great  Assyrian  empire, 
based  upon  years  of  research  and  an  examina- 
tion of  every  original  source  available.  These 
include  not  only  the  record  left  in  cuneiform 
writing  and  the  facts  about  Assyrian  civiliza- 
tion which  .sculptures  and  bas-reliefs  tell  but 
fifteen  hundred  business  documents,  as  well 
as  letters  disclosing  the  truth  about  defeats  suf- 
fered by  the  Assyrians  and  uncovering  official 
intrigues,  also  self-revealing  prayers.  Heretofore 
historians  have  subordinated  everything  to  the 
military  activities  of  the  Assyrians.  Mr  Olm- 
stead  .shows  them  as  warriors  first,  but  then 
as  administrators  who  developed  a  real  empire 
and  laid  the  foundation  of  modern  imperial  or- 
ganization. There  are  176  illustrations,  13  maps 
and  an  index  of  proper  names  and  of  subjects. 

"The  maps  and  illustrations,  as  well  as  the 
mechanical  beauty  of  the  volume,  add  very 
greatly  to  its  attractiveness."  E.  J.  C. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p7  N  24  '23   llOOw 

OLMSTED,  FREDERICK  LAW.  Frederick 
Law  Olmstead.  landscape  architect,  1822-1903; 
ed.  by  Frederick  Law  Olmsted,  jr.  and 
Theodora  Kimball;  v  1,  Early  years  and  experi- 
ences, together  with  biographical  notes.  131p 
il  $2.50  Putnam 

B  or  92  Landscape  gardening  23-464 

Frederick  Law  Olmsted  was  the  founder  of 
the  profession  of  landscape  architecture  in 
America,  the  designer  of  Central  Park,  New 
York,  and  of  the  grounds  for  the  World's  Fair 
in  Chicago.  This  volume,  which  is  intended 
as  an  introduction  to  a  series  of  Mr  Olmsted's 
writings  covering  his  main  activities  as  a  land- 
scape architect,  consists  of  biographical  notes, 
autobiographical  passages  relating  to  his  early 
experiences,  and  a  chapter  on  American  land- 
scape   gardening   in    1857. 


Booklist   20:59  N  '23 
"  'Old  Forever'  is  an  exciting  story  in  its  later 
chapters.      It    is    remarkable    that    in    the    space 


"There    is    much    that    is    interesting    for    the 
general   reader  in   this   first  volume." 

+    Boston  Transcript   p2  My  19  '23   200w 
"An  admirable  piece  of  work.  .  .  We  can  think 
of    no    other    American    of    the    last    generation 
whose  biography,  so  far  withheld,  could  be  more 
significant." 

+  Survey  49:818  Mr  15  '23  380w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl88   Mr 
22  '23  750w 


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OMAN,  SIR  CHARLES  WILLIAM  CHADWICK, 

Unfortunate  Colonel  Despard,  and  other  stud- 
ies.   230p    $3.50    Longmans    [10s    6d    Arnold] 

904      History  [23-1767] 

Of  these  eleven  historical  essays  or  studies 
four  deal  with  some  rather  obscure  figures  in 
history:  Colonel  Despard,  instigator  of  a  plot 
to  murder  George  III  and  seize  the  Tower  and 
the  Bank  of  England;  Arthur  Thistlewood. 
leader  of  the  Cato  Street  conspiracy;  Lord 
Carteret  (later  Earl  Granville);  and  Basil  of 
Cappadocia.  The  essay  on  rumor  in  time  of 
war  draws  its  examples  from  many  periods  but 
chiefly  from  the  World  war.  There  is  an  essay 
on  some  medieval  conceptions  of  ancient  his- 
tory, another  on  the  Crusades,  one  on  the 
drawing  of  boundaries  in  the  Treaty  of  Versail- 
les, and  one  on  the  difficulties  of  the  modern 
historian. 


"Eleven  lively   and   characteristic   essays." 

-f-  Eng  Hist  R  38:315  Ap  '23  150w 
"Apart  from  the  desirability  of  bringing  into 
one  place  the  widely-scattered  work  of  one  of 
England's  leading  scholars,  there  is  here  a 
solid  and  entertaining  contribution  to  knowl- 
edge in  many  fields  which  must  be  of  interest 
to  all  students  of  history."  W.  C.  Abbott 
-f  Lit  R  p922  Ag  25  '23  250w 
"A  master  of  style  could  no  doubt  have 
welded  together  even  such  motley  themes  as 
these  into  a  single  whole,  and  made  us  feel  the 
power  of  a  central  idea  focussing,  all  the  little 
points  of  light  with  which  the  volume  certainly 
sparkles.  Still,  in  default  of  the  focus,  we  can 
at  least  hardly  fail  to  find  the  sparkles  enter- 
taining." 

-i New   Statesman   20:490  Ja  27   '23   1250w 

N   Y  Times  p2  My  13  '23  800w 
Outlook  134:288  Je  27  "23  90w 
"A  book  of  great   interest,  not  only  from   the 
historical,    but   also  from   the   psychological   and 
literary    points    of    view." 

+  Spec  130:590  Ap  7  '23  680w 

Springf'd   Republican   p6  Je  11  "23  580w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p73   F  1 
'23  llOOw 

ONIONS,   MRS  OLIVER.     See  Ruck,   B. 

OPPENHEIM,      MRS      BERTHA      (ELSBERG). 

Winged  seeds.     242p     il     $2.25     Macmillan 
630.1     Country  life  23-15256 

This  is  the  story  of  a  farm  on  Lake  Champ- 
Iain,  of  how  it  came  into  being,  and  of  its  de- 
velopment. The  doctor,  who  was  a  well-known 
specialist  in  children's  diseases,  and  his  wife, 
the  narrator,  realized  a  growing  vision  of  a 
country  home  which,  beginning  as  a  simple  va- 
cation home  for  summers,  developed  into  a 
large  farm  undertaking  for  which  the  doctor 
finally  gave  up  his  practice  and  left  the  city 
for  good.  The  enterprise  brought  not  only  joy 
to  the  adventurers  but  enrichment  to  a  rural 
community  and  influenced  movements  for  edu- 
cation, better  roads  and  better  breeds  of  stock. 
The  story  is  told  with  zest  for  the  activities 
described  and  a  deep  sense  of  the  spiritual 
value  derived. 


Bookm    58:567    Ja    '24    240w 
"A  pleasant  chronicle  of  sane  living  " 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  D  26  '23  170w 
"The  book's  distinctive  charm  lies  largely 
in  the  imaginative  quality  and  poetic  feeling 
with  which  it  is  written.  These  two  people 
were  both  sensitive  to  beauty  and  responsive 
in  high  degree  to  that  appeal  which  nature 
makes  so  subtly  and  so  irresistiblv  to  her 
chosen   ones" 

-f  N   Y  Times  plO  N  18  '23   1200w 
Reviewed   by  J.    O.   Swift 

N  Y  World  p7e  D  16  '23  310w 

„v,'I^*^*'V^'^®^    ^^o'i    reading;    it    is    helpful    and 
cheerful   in   spirit;    in   incident   and   in   pen    pic- 
tures of  life  outdoors   and   life   indoors  it   is  an 
unusual    expression    of   much    that    is    fine " 
+  Outlook  135:507  N  21  '23  llOw 


OPPENHEIM,    EDWARD   PHILLIPS.   Michael's 
*    evil    deeds.    311p   $2    Little 

23-17473 
"The  hero  is  a  master  criminal  known  by  name 
and  reputation  to  every  man  in  Scotland  Yard. 
He  is  also  an  expert  in  many  disguises,  and 
from  the  moment  of  his  appearance  in  the  story 
as  Thomas  Pugsley,  a  supposedly  reputable 
leather  merchant,  he  leads  detectives  and  police 
a  pretty  chase  that  takes  them  from  London 
far  into  the  English  country  and  on  the  contin- 
ent to  the  Mediterranean  shores  of  France.  No 
life  is  sacred  to  him,  if  it  stands  in  the  way  of 
his  successful  pursuit  of  his  profession,  and 
when  we  leave  him  he  is  making  his  way  upon 
a  dangerous  and  mountainous  journey.  A  woman 
is  his  companion  for  a  while,  but  he  is  as  mer- 
ciless to  her  as  to  others,  and  eventually  she 
becomes  the  beloved  and  the  wife  of  his  great- 
est enemy,  a  retired  Scotland  Yard  official  who 
has  taken  upon  himself  the  task  of  hunting  down 
this     super-criminal." — Boston     Transcript 


"The  characters  are  all  well  sustained,  and  Mr. 
Oppenheim  in  doing  this  has  wisely  followed  in 
the  steps  of  one  of  the  greatest  of  his  predeces- 
sors— Wilkie  Collins."  A.  A.  W. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p2  Ja  5  '24  260w 
"The  new  mystery  story  is  perhaps  the  most 
successful  of  all  Mr.  Oppenheim's  numerous  and 
arresting-  boolcs.  The  series  of  intricate  plots  are 
skillfully  and  believably  put  together  with  a 
sure  and  practiced  hand,  and  the  quality  of  the 
writing  is  higher  than  anything  tlie  author  has 
heretofore  published." 

-I-   N  Y  Times  p9  N  25  '23  550w 
N   Y  World  plOm  Ja  6  '24   300w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  D  30  '23  300w 

OPPENHEIM,    EDWARD    PHILLIPS.     Mystery 
road.      297p      $2      Little 

23-9855 

Two  young  Englishmen,  Lord  Gerald  Dombey 
and  Christopher  Bent,  rescue  a  young  French 
peasant  girl  from  the  clutches  of  a  stepfather 
and  an  elderly  suitor  and  take  her  with  them 
to  Monte  Carlo.  Myrtile  loves  Gerald  at  first 
sight  and  resents  the  kindly  guardianship  of 
Christopher  who,  knowing  his  friend  as  a  phil- 
anderer, is  keeping  watch  over  both.  Gerald 
falls  violently  in  love  with  a  mysterious  Rus- 
sian in  Monte  Carlo  who  proudly  rebuffs  him 
but  nevertheless,  later  on  in  England,  conde- 
scends to  allow  him  to  undertake  a  perilous 
journey  into  Russia  for  her  and  to  sacrifice  a 
fortune  in  buying  off  a  prisoner  in  one  of  the 
fortresses  there.  His  mission  succeeds  but  he 
barely  escapes  with  his  life.  After  months  of 
inhuman  hardship  and  peril  he  reaches  Eng- 
land, a  wreck  in  body  and  mind,  to  find  his 
Russians,  the  last  surviving  Romanoffs,  as  hus- 
band and  wife.  It  is  Myrtile,  now  established 
as  the  prosperous  mistress  of  the  old  farm  in 
Toulon,  who  succeeds  in  nursing  him  back  to 
an   interest   in   life   and   love. 


"It  is  in  many  ways  the  best  plotted,  the 
best  written  and  the  most  entertaining  of  Mr. 
Oppenheim's  stories.  And  as  he  has  written 
almost  a  hundred  of  them  this  seems  to  be  say- 
ing a  great  deal."    E.   F.   E. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  13  '23  700w 
"The   lightest    of    light   literature   is    this,    but 
well  enough  done  never  to  drop  the  reader  into 
boredom." 

-4-  Greensboro  (N.C.)   Dally  News  p8  O  14 
'23    250w 

Ind    111:118    S    15    '23    120w 
"The  book  has  the  usual  Oppenheim  standard 
of  keeping  the   interest   high,    and   has   another 
ripping  Oppenheim   plot." 

+   N   Y  Times   p24  Jl  8  '23  330w 
"In    'The   Mystery   Road'    [the   author]    shows 
himself  still   ingenious  beyond   belief,    still  most 
plausibly   extravagant   in   his   fictional   fancies." 
E.   W.    Osborn 

-f-  N  Y  World  pl8  Je  10  '23  280w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


391 


OPPENHEIM,     EDWARD     PHILLIPS.       Seven 

conundrums.      277p    il    $2    Little 

23-4986 

"A  number  of  detective  episodes  loosely  tied 
together  by  the  recurrence  of  the  chief  actors 
in  each  are  made  into  a  continuous  story.  A 
trio  of  entertainers,  pianist,  singer  and  humor- 
ist, down  to  their  uppers,  are  rescued  from 
their  failure  by  an  apparent  philanthropist  who 
has  overheard  them  say  they  would  give  their 
souls  for  a  meal  or  a  drink  or  a  cigaret.  He 
bargains  like  Mephistopheles  for  their  souls,  and 
uses  them  In  seven  cases  within  a  year  as  ama- 
teur assistants  in  his  secret  service  work.  But 
whether  he  is  a  crook,  or  is  fighting  crooks,  a 
patriot  or  spy,  or  what  he  is  and  why,  remain 
conundrums  to  the  trio  until  the  year  is  up." — 
Springf'd  Republican 


Booklist  19:225  Ap  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p4  F  28  '23  700w 
"It    is   all   very    exciting,    with   no    superabun- 
dance of  detail,  and  mild  enough  not  to  startle 
the    timid;    a    good    evening's    entertainment." 
+   Int   Bk   R  p45  Je  '23  190w 
Lit   R  p739  Je  2  '23  150w 
"The  episodes  are  ingeniously  contrived,  with 
great    variety    of    setting,    character    and    inci- 
dents." 

-j-  N  Y  Times  pl4  Mr  25  '23  420w 
"Through  a  freshly  ingenious  device  in  his 
new  book,  he  binds  a  group  of  short  stories 
together  into  a  single  running  narrative.  They 
make  a  vastly  entertaining  whole,  fully  up  to 
the  established  Oppenheim  standard  of  strength 
in  interest."     E.   W.   Osborn 

+  N   Y  World  p6e  F  25  '23  220w 
"There    isn't    a    dull    minute    for    the    reader 
while    he    rushes   along  through    the    story." 

-h  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Mr  4  '23  150w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:134    My    '23 


OPPENHEIM,    JAMES.      Golden    bird.    75p   $1.50 

Knopf 

811  23-7950 

"There  is  almost  nothing  Occidental  about  the 
poetry  of  James  Oppenheim.  It  is  full  of  the 
mystery,  the  symbolism,  the  color,  and  the  pas- 
sion of  the  East.  The  Bible  uses  this  kind  of 
symbolism,  the  piling  of  figure  upon  figure,  til! 
the  poem  becomes  a  kind  of  ecstatic  chant.  The 
whole  becomes  rich  and  glamourous,  but  some- 
thing distinctly  Oriental,  which  has  no  part  of 
its  inspiration  in  our  materialistic  civilization. 
The  book  is  divided  into  three  parts.  The  first 
and  by  far  the  longest  section  is  that  entitled 
'Golden  Bird'  and  contains  his  vision  of  love  and 
beauty.  The  second  has  one  poem  only,  hi.': 
Hebrew  chant.  The  third  section  he  calls  'The 
Great  Mother'  but  it  contains  a  series  of  dark, 
swift-changing  visions  of  war,  and  the  abyss." 
— Boston  Transcript 


Reviewed  by  W:  R    Benet 

Bookm   57:553  Jl   '23  950w 

"A  lyric  ecstasy  underlies  every  mood  of  this 
poetry.  It  is  easy  to  understand  why  Mr.  Op- 
penheim can  say  that  he  rereads  this  book  with- 
out weariness,  that  if  he  had  to  make  a  choice 
he  would  pick  this  as  the  one  book  he  would  like 
to  le<ve  to  the  future.  Certainly  in  it  his  in- 
spiration burns  most  purely,  and  he  seems  to 
have  cast  aside  all  that  is  not  clear  lyric  es- 
sence."     D.    L.    Mann 

-+-  Boston    Transcript   p5   Mr   17    '23    1150w 
Cleveland   p36   My  '23 

"He  possesses  .color  and  spiritual  ardor,  but 
for  some  rea.son  the  book  does  not  succeed." 
H.   S.  Gorman 

—  Int   Bk   R   p26  Je   '23   80\v 

"With  the  Soul  and  its  half-dozen  synonyms 
as  his  simple  and  central  motif,  he  celebrates 
the  miracle  of  its  survival  and  experience  of 
love  with  an  astonishing  enrlurance.  a  depress- 
ingly  insistent  reiteration  of  two  or  three  re- 
frains,   an    unrelieved    lack    of    precision   in   any 


detail,  and  a  wearying  poverty  of  phrase  and 
intonation.  .  .  The  quality  of  Oppenheim's 
voice  is  thoroughly  sexual."   L:  Grudin 

—  Lit  R  p562  Mr  31  "23  500w 
"The  influence  of  the  Psalms  and  the  Song 
of  Solomon  is  clearly  discernible  in  the  poetry 
of  Oppenheim,  and  it  is  obvious  that  he  owes 
much  to  the  religious  books  of  his  race.  In  ad- 
dition to  being  a  poet  in  his  own  right,  by  thus 
calling  attention  to  poetry  of  greater  antiquity 
than  that  of  Greece,  he  renders  double  service^ 
'Golden  Bird'  is  worthy  of  many  readings,  and 
will   disclose    new  beauties   with   each   reading." 

+  N  Y  Times  p6  Mr  4  '23  700w 
"In  'Golden  Bird,'  it  seems  to  me,  Oppenheim 
has  reached  sustained  beauty  and  a  serenity 
that  is  the  condition  of  great  verse.  These, 
added  to  his  other  gifts  and  his  persistent  self- 
criticism,  are  signs  of  a  real  poet."  Orrick 
Johns 

-I-   N    Y   Tribune   p23   Ap   1   '23   450w 

Springf'd     Republican    p7a    My    13    '23 
180w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:411   Jl   '23 

OPPENHEIM,    JAMES.      Your    hidden    powers. 
249p    $2    Knopf 

130   Psychoanalysis  23-8304 

The  papers  in  this  book  appeared  originally 
as  newspaper  articles.  In  simple  and  direct 
language  based  on  analytic  psychology,  Mr  Op- 
penheim purposes  to  help  people  to  such  a  self- 
knowledge  as  will  enable  them  to  make  full  use 
of  all  their  powers.  Without  being  a  treatise  on 
psychoanalysis  it  attempts  to  show  how  this 
science  holds  "the  seeds  of  a  new  education,  a 
new  understanding  of  ourselves  and  others,  a 
new  attitude  toward  religion,  a  new  philosophy 
of  life."  The  appendix  answers  some  questions 
on  psychoanalysis  put  to  the  author,  and  ex- 
plains the  technical  terms  of  the  science. 


Booklist  20:120  Ja  "24 

"The  book  is  inevitably  journalese.  Written 
originally  for  a  daily  newspaper,  it  has  been 
revised  for  book  form,  but  still  savors  of  the 
special  feature  style.  Nor  is  this  perhaps  a 
fault.  The  audience  for  which  the  book  is  in- 
tended can  be  reached  most  quickly  and  surely 
in  this  manner.  The  short,  simple  sentence,  the 
homely  metaphor,  the  colloquialism,  the  easy 
familiarity,  all  these  put  the  reader  unaccus- 
tomed to  any  sort  of  thinking  about  psychologi- 
cal processes  at  his  ease  and  it  is  quite  possible 
in  this  way,  many  of  the  concepts  may  be 
grasped,  even  though  in  a  diluted  form."  J:  E. 
Lind 

+   N    Y   Times   p26   Ap   22   '23   280w 

"Persons  who  are  trying  to  make  the  best 
of  life  will  find  some  fresh  suggestions  as  well 
as  many  commonplaces  in  Mr  Oppenheim's 
pages  of  'up-to-date  moralizing.'  They  will  per- 
haps find  some  things  with  which  to  disagree." 
H Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Mr  18  '23  420w 

"His  book  will  be  of  much  value  to  the  layman 
who    is    confused    by    the    jargon    of    psycho-an- 
alysis without  knowing  its  fundamentals." 
+  Survey  50:supl98   My  1   '23   120w 

ORCZY,  EMMUSKA  (MRS  MONTAGU  BAR- 
STOW)  baroness.  Triumph  of  the  Scarlet 
Pimpernel.  314p  $1.75  Doran  [7s  6d  Hodder  & 
S.] 

23-1202 

This  more  or  less  historical  novel  deals  with 
that  period  of  the  French  revolution  five  years 
after  the  destruction  of  the  Bastille,  when 
Robespierre  was  at  the  height  of  his  power. 
A  league  of  English  nobles  was  supposed  to  do 
rescue  work  in  France,  saving  unfortunates 
from  the  terror  by  mysteriously  spiriting  them 
away.  Chief  of  these  was  Sir  Percy  Blakeney, 
the  Scarlet  Pimpernel.  The  story  centers  about 
his  marvellous  exploits,  the  intrigues  which 
were  set  on  foot  by  Robespierre  and  his  follow- 
ers to  destroy  him,  but  which  ended  with  the 
tyrant's  dramatic  downfall. 


Booklist  19:190  Mr  '23 


392 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


ORCZY,    E. — Continued 

"One  can  lose  oneself  immediately  in  the  spell 
of  the  story.  It  has  dash  and  gay  romance." 
I.  W.  L. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p3  F  10  '23  650w 
Cleveland  pl8  Mr  '23 
Int   Bk   R  p56  Ap  '23  350w 
"Since   she   meticulously  follows   the   standard 
formula,  we  recommend  this  novel  to  those  who 
like — the    Baroness    Orczy.    Although    it    cannot 
he   rated   as   a   literary   achievement,    it   is   good 
entertainment  with  a  scenario  feeling." 

h   Lit    R   p474   F  17   '23   ITOw 

Reviewed  by  Glenway  Wescott 

New   Repub  35:158  Jl  4  '23  230w 
"Quite    likable.    The    color    and    movement    in 
Barones.s  Orczy's  prose  add  greatly  to  the  swift- 
ness with  which  the  tale  moves.  No  sooner  has 
the   Scarlet   Pimpernel    evaded   one   trap   set   for 
him    than    he    is    in    the    midst    of    another    and 
valiantly    fighting    his    way    out    again." 
+   N  Y  Times  pl7  F  4  '23  420w 
Reviewed  by  Charlotte  Dean 

N   Y   Tribune  p31   Ap   8   '23   70w 
Pratt    p38    spring   '23 

Sprlngf'd    Republican  p7a  Mr  4  '23  180w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p522   Ag 
10   '22   80w 

O'RIORDAN,  CONAL  O'CONNELL  (NORREYS 
CONN  ELL,  pseud.).  In  London;  the  story 
of  Adam  and  marriage.  308p  $1.90  Harcourt 
[7s  6d  Collins] 

22-23915 
A  continuation  of  "Adam  of  Dublin"  and 
"Adam  and  Caroline."  Adam's  rightful  environ- 
ment is  Dublin,  not  the  war-time  London  to 
which  he  comes  when  he  is  not  yet  seventeen. 
There  is  a  scarcity  of  actors  and  Adam  has  the 
good  fortune  to  secure  a  part  in  a  popular  play 
which  brings  him  five  guineas  a  week.  He  makes 
friends  and  a  success,  but  the  mystery  about 
his  parentage  clings  to  him  and  he  is  still  en- 
chanted and  troubled  by  women.  After  various 
experiences  with  them,  he  meets  again  his  old 
flame  Barbara  Burns  and  marries  her.  The  story 
ends  on  a  note  of  anxious  interrogation  "And 
lived  happily  ever  after?"  The  reader  has  mis- 
givings. 


"The  yarn  is  valuable  for  its  insight  into 
Irish  character,  not  Adam's — he  didn't  have 
any — but  the  author's.  It  is  clever,  in  spots, 
sometimes  naively,  sometimes,  lahoredly.  The 
rest  of  the   time  it  is  merely  voluble." 

h   Boston    Transcript   p4   An   11    '23    500w 

New  Statesman  19:474  Jl  29  '22  220w 
N  Y  Times  pl6  F  11  '23  600w 
"The  whole  is  lightly  and  pleasantly  written 
with  frequent  outcroppings  of  real  Irish  humor. 
One  understands  now  why  the  author  is  re- 
garded by  many  of  his  countrymen  as  the  fore- 
most Irish   novelist."    Edith   Leighton 

-f  N  Y  Tribune  p2G  F  25  '23  550w 
"The  author  might  have  made  an  interesting 
psychological  studv  of  the  effect  on  the  hero's 
mind  of  the  shoddy  commercial  play  in  which 
he  acts.  But  the  opportunity  is  missed.  It  is  a 
pity,  for  at  least  one  character  in  the  book,  the 
boy's  guardian,  is  drawn  with  remarkable  in- 
sight. Had  he  been  the  central  figure  In  London 
would  have  been  something  better  than  the 
rather  lifeless  tail   of  a   trilogy." 

—  Spec   129:117   Jl   22   '22   150w 
"The    story    capers    and    flashes    and    is    con- 
stantly   breaking   out    in    remarks    more    notable 
for  sparkle   than   for  logic." 

Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Mr     25     '23 
220w 

"Now  Adam  has  come  to  I>ondon.  We  no 
longer  see  people  and  things  altogether  through 
the  medium  of  his  mind;  and  sometimes  there 
seems  to  be  a  fading  of  characters  and  objects 
alike  into  the  light,  not  of  common  day,  but 
of  the  common  novel.  Not  that  this  novel  is 
common;  no  one  else  could  have  written  it,  and 
it  contains  half  a  dozen  people  and  scene.s  any 
one   of   which   would  make   the   fortune   of   the 


ordinary   novel;    but    it   has    not    the    unity,    the 
strangeness  yet  certainty,   of  the  other  two." 

\-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p426    Je 

29  '22   1550W 

OSBORN,  ALBERT  SHERMAN.  Problem  of 
proof,  especially  as  exemplified  in  disputed 
document  trials;  a  discussion  of  various  phases 
of  the  proof  of  the  facts  in  a  court  of  law, 
with  some  general  comments  on  the  conduct 
of  trials;  introd.  by  John  Henry  Wigmore. 
526p   $6   Bender 

347.94    Evidence    (law)  22-17786 

"The  main  purpose  of  this  book  is  to  help  the 
lawyer  who  has  a  case  to  try  in  which  it  be- 
comes necessary  to  prove  the  facts  relating 
to  a  disputed  document.  Either  directly  or  in- 
directly, the  matter  presented  has  application 
to  the  general  problem  of  proof,  which  may 
give  the  work  a  somewhat  wider  use.  .  .  In 
considerable  part  the  book  is  a  report  of  direct 
observations  of  the  work  of  able,  as  well  as  of 
stupid,  attorneys  in  courts  of  high  and  low  de- 
gree in  widely  separated  fields.  Parts  of  many 
of  the  chapters  have  been  written  in  court- 
rooms. This  matter  has  been  combined  with 
the  results  of  study  and  experimentation  relat- 
ing to  the  problem  of  how  to  prepare  and  pre- 
sent a  technical  subject  to  a  court  and  jury." — 
Preface 


"This  book  is  by  Albert  S.  Osborn,  the  well- 
known  expert  in  all  matters  relating  to  disputed 
written  evidence.  It  is  primarily  of  interest  to 
trial  lawyers,  and  especially  to  those  who  are 
interested  in  cases  where  the  issue  depends  on 
written  evidence.  Others,  who  would  find  this 
work  of  interest  and  advantage,  are  all  who 
are  called  upon  to  give  expert  testimony  in 
court."     T:  Conyngton 

4-  Administration   5:100   Ja   '23    1400w 

"Many  experts  in  the  field  of  adjective  law 
proclaim  it  as  one  of  the  most  significant  books 
appearing  in   that  field  in   recent  years." 

+  Am   Bar  Association   J  v9  F  '23  50w 

"To  every  student  who  aspires  to  be  truly  a 
great  lawyer  and  to  every  lawyer  who  regards 
his  profession  as  something  more  than  a  money- 
making  craft  .  .  .  we  say  with  fervor  and  firm 
faith  in  the  result,  read  this  great  work  by  Mr. 
Osborn."      Bram    "Thompson 

-h  Canadian    Law   Times   v42   N   '22    950w 

"Excellent  as  is  the  author's  treatment  of  the 
technical  problem  of  proof  relating  to  questioned 
documents,  the  greatest  value  of  the  book  lies 
in  its  remarkable  contribution  to  the  subject  of 
preparation  of  cases  and  their  trial.  A  lawyer 
who  inay  never  have  a  questioned  document 
come  before  him  will  yet  reap  a  rich  reward 
from  reading  this  book.  .  .  It  is  not  often  that 
we  can  say  of  a  law  book  that  it  unites  tech- 
nical excellence  with  broad  human  interest. 
Such  a  book  Mr.  Osborn  has  produced.  He 
has  done  this  because  he  is  a  man  who  com- 
bines in  a  rare  degree  the  powers  of  observa- 
tion and  reflection.  He  is  both  an  observer  and 
a   student."      R.   W.    Gifford 

+  Columbia    Law    R    v22    D    '22    llOOw 

"B'ar  from  being  a  book  for  lawyers  only.  It 
is  a  book  that  will  give  pleasure  and  profit,  new 
visions  and  stimulating  ideas  to  every  one  who 
reads   it."     H:    S.    Boutell 

-f-  Georgetown    Law  J   vll   N  '22   1700w 

"One  of  the  most  arresting  productions  that 
has  emerged  from  the  vast  literature  of  the 
law  during  the  past  two  decades."  S:  M.  Wil- 
son 

+   Ky   Law  J   vll  Ja  '23  1500w 

"It  contains  much  that  is  of  value  to  the 
legal  practitioner,  especially  if  he  be  young 
and  inexperienced,  but  buried  in  such  a  mass 
of  verbiage  so  wandering,  redundant,  and  repe- 
titious that  the  reader's  patience  is  sorely 
taxed.  If  much  of  this  great  ma.ss  of  words 
were  omitted  and  the  rest  condensed  the  book 
would  gain  in  value  and  be  greatly  reduced  in 
bulk." 

h    Lit    R   p270   N  17   '23   400w 

"Mr.  Osborn's  'Questioned  Documents'  had 
prepared  us  to  expect  much  from  him  when  he 
should  speak  again,  and  he  has  not  disappointed 


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us.  There  is  scarcely  a  person,  a  place,  a  prob- 
lem, or  a  thing-  involved  in  the  trial  of  an  is- 
sue in  court,  from  the  judge,  the  jury,  the 
lawyer,  the  vs^itness,  the  party,  to  the  court 
room  and  the  lawyer's  office  which  is  not  con- 
sidered in  thought-provoking  discussion  with 
wisdom  and  much  originality.  .  .  The  treatment 
is  not  technical.  The  intelligent  layman  will  be 
fascinated  by  it.  Almost  no  commendation 
would    be   extravagance."     V.    H.    Lane 

-t-   Michigan   Law  R  v21  Ja  '23  450w 

"The  outstanding  virtue  of  the  book  is  that 
it  does  not  deal  in  vague  generalities  or  consist 
of  a  relation  of  anecdotes  wherein  adept  trial 
practitioners  have  made  the  worse  appear  the 
better  cause,  but  it  states  concrete  problems 
and  offers  definite  concrete  methods  of  meeting 
them."     E.  M.  Morgan 

-I-  Minnesota    Law    R   v7   D   '22   900w 

"The  book  po.ssesses  not  only  the  peculiar 
advantage  of  being  written  by  a  learned  ex- 
pert on  the  main  subject  treated  but  a  still 
greater  one  as  the  work  of  a  most  intelligent 
layman  who  has,  as  such,  had  much  experi- 
ence in  taking  part  both  as  an  expert  and  a 
looker-on  in  the  trial  of  cases."  R.  T.  W. 
Duke,    jr. 

-H   Va    Law    Register    O    '22    450w 

"He  is  a  man  of  sound  judgment  and  ripe 
scholarship,  and  he  has  solved  the  problem 
of  candid  advice  to  a  great  profession,  without, 
we  believe,  giving  just  offense  to  anyone.  The 
Bar  would  be  strengthened  and  elevated  if  this 
book  were  in  the  hands  of  every  lawyer  in  the 
United    States."       C.    A.    Graves 

-I-  Va    Law    R  v9   D  '22   1150w 

OSBORN,  HENRY  FAIRFIELD.  Evolution  and 
'    religion.    21p  75c  Scribner 

215    Evolution.      Religion   and   science 

23-10520 
Clearly  and  very  briefly  Professor  Osborn  re- 
plies   to   the   contentions   of  Mr   Bryan   and   the 
fundamentalists    that   acceptance   of   the    theory 
of  evolution  is  destructive  of  religious  faith. 
Reviewed  by  B.  W.   Kunkel 

Nation    118:66   Ja   16   '24   50w 
"If  Mr.   Bryan  were  amenable  to  argument  he 
would  surely  be  convinced  by  the  force  of  Pro- 
fessor Osborn's  case.     But  in  the  ineantime  the 
essay     ought     to     have     wide     reading.       It     is 
especially  worth  putting  into  the  hands  of  those 
whom  the  sophistries  of  Mr.  Brvan  have  upset." 
-f-  Survey  51:121  O  15  '23  150w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:478  N  '23 

O'SHAUGHNESSY,  ARTHUR  WILLIAM  ED- 
GAR. Poems;  selected  and  ed.  by  William 
Alexander  Percy.  104p  $2  Yale  univ.  press 
[10s    Milford] 

821  23-7743 

"The  Tale  University  Press  is  doing  a  rare 
service  to  literature  in  putting  forth  this  ex- 
cellently edited  volume  of  the  finest  poems  of 
Arthur  O'Shaughnessy.  Although  it  is  more 
than  forty  years  since  O'Shauerhnessy's  death, 
he  is  generally  known  only  for  a  few  lyrics 
that  have  made  their  way  into  anthologies, 
and  no  considerable  part  of  his  work  has  been 
commonly    available    for    many    years." — Lit    R 


"An  attractive  volume;  even  the  poems  that 
we  are  forced  to  call  minor  have  the  freshness 
of  the  work  of  a  new  and  unknown  poet,  and 
with  regard  to  the  six  or  seven  exceptional 
poems  in  the  book  we  can  heartily  endorse 
what  Mr.  Percy  says  of  O'Shaughnessy's  work 
g-enerally:  'By  some  sorcery  this  man  produced 
beauty  of  a  rare  and  charmed  and  perfect 
kind,  and  this  he  gave  to  the  world.  For  this 
let  the  lovers  of  beauty  offer  thanks  to  the 
high  god  unquestioriingly.  remembering  that 
many  men  have  lived  their  lives  and  loved  their 
loves,  good  or  ill,  blissful  or  wretched  without 
learning  his  enchanted  speech.'  "  P.  C. 
-f-   Freeman  8:191  O  31  '23  480w 

"He    has    inany    poems    of   a    musical   delicacy 
and    of    an     imaeinative     splendor    that    should 
make    them    immortal."      S.     A.     Coblentz 
+  Lit   R   p752   Je   9   '23   800w 


"Those  who  care  for  poetry  cannot  afford 
to  ignore  a  poet  who  is  sometimes  so  good, 
though    never   great."     F.    L.    Lucas 

1-   New    Statesman    21:596    S    1    '23    2000w 

"He  is  at  his  best  in  small  sensuous  descrip- 
tions: we  may  almost  laugh  to  see  such 
excess  of  sweetness  go  with  such  tenuity  of 
meaning,  but  at  least  a  prosodist  must  re- 
spect   him."     Alan    Porter 

1-  Spec   131:196   Ag   11    '23    850w 

"O'Shaughnessy  was  not  a  poet  of  the  morn- 
ing, and  the  simplicity  of  his  work  was  not 
a  natural  simplicity.  He  was  a  tired  Vic- 
torian with  a  gift  for  rhyme,  beset  by  in- 
substantial ardours  that  flamed  within  and 
left  him  languid,  fluctuating  in  the  single 
love-dream  which  was  his  obsession,  between 
an  ideal  of  sacred  constancy  and  a  desire  to 
burst  the  bounds  and  rage  with  centaurs  in 
the    wilderness." 

—  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p468    Jl 
12    '23    llOOw 

O'SHEA,    MICHAEL    VINCENT.     Tobacco    and 
mental   efficiency.      258p     $2.50     Macmillan 
613.84     Tobacco — Physiological    effect 

23-6511 
An  unbiassed  inquiry  into  the  effects  of  to- 
bacco on  the  intellectual  processes.  The  data 
presented  is  derived  from  three  sources:  from 
personal  observation,  biography  and  the  testi- 
mony of  distinguished  men  and  women  in  ten 
different  professions;  from  school  and  college 
records;  from  laboratory  tests  and  investiga- 
tions.    Bibliography.     Index. 


Booklist  20:87  D   '23 
"Based  on  the  investigations  of  a  special  com- 
mittee,    this     book    gives     information     with    a 
whole-souled  impartiality  which  is  not  the  least 
of   its    recommendations."     E.    N. 

-f-   Boston   Transcript  pi   My  5  '23   lOOOw 

Cleveland  p55  Jl   '23 

"Not  the  least  value  of  the  book  is  the  con- 
trast which  it  affoids  between  the  subjective 
and  loose  method  of  study  employed  in  Part  I 
and  the  carefully  controlled  scientific  procedure 
employed  in  Part  III."    G.   T.   Buswell 

-I-  El  School  J  23:795  Je  '23  800w 
"Throughout  the  discussion  Professor  O'Shea 
maintains  excellent  scientific  poise  and  entire 
good  faith  with  his  readers.  The  book  cannot  be 
regarded  as  propaganda  either  for  or  against 
tobacco.  It  is  simply  an  excellent  educational 
work  designed  to  place  before  the  reader  in 
a  thoroughly  impartial  way  important  evidence 
bearing  upon  certain  phases  of  the  tobacco 
problem."    E.    L.    Fisk,    M.   D. 

4-   Lit   R  p864  Jl  28  '23  1200w 
Reviewed   bv  C.   V.    Good 

School    R   31:711    N   '23   700w 

Springf'd   Republican  pl6  .le  22  '23  840w 

Wis   Lib  Bui  19:157  Je  '23 

OUTRAM,  JAMES.     In  the  heart  of  the  Cana- 
dian   Rockies.      450p    $3.50    Macmillan 

917.12  Rocky  mountains — Canadian  Rockies. 

Mountaineering 
"Sir  James  Outram  issued  this  record  of  the 
mountains  of  the  Great  Divide  nearly  twenty 
year.s  ago  after  living  among  them  more  than 
three  years  during  which  he  made  over  a  score 
of  'first  ascents.'  In  the  compilation  of  this 
work  he  has  been  able  to  draw  largely  on 
his  own  magazine  articles  and  on  those  of  other 
prominent  pioneers  and  on  their  books.  The 
same  holds  good  of  the  many  illustrations  and 
of  the  maps.  The  work  includes  the  loftiest 
mountains  and  the  most  lovely  scenery  from 
Mount  Assiniboine  to  Mount  Columbia,  and  de- 
scribes the  chief  points  of  interest  and  beauty 
massed  in  the  mountain  fastnesses." — N  Y 
"Tribune 


"Valuable  as  were  these  sketches  of  moun- 
tain travel,  when  the  book  was  first  published 
in   1905   they  are  even  more  so  today." 

+   Boston    Transcript   p5   Jl   21   '23   600w 


394 


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OUTRAM,    JAMBS— Continued 

N  Y  Tribune  p23  Je  24  '23  ISOw 
N  Y  World  pile  Ap  29  '23  lOOw 
"Sometimes  a  little  heavy  and  chronicle-like 
in  its  account  for  the  general  reader,  'In  the 
Heart  of  the  Canadian  Rockies'  will  have  no 
tedium  for  the  enthusiast  in  mountain  climb- 
ing, and  can  be  recommended  to  adventurers 
in  search  of  opportunities  to  engage  in  ex- 
ploration of  new  peaks  or  wishing  to  substi- 
tute the  American  for  the  European  Alps  in 
making  ascents  of  heights  already  explored." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  pl4  Je  29  '23  450w 
"Mr.  Outram  is  well  qualified  to  write  the 
hook.  An  explorer  with  virgin  country  to  in- 
vestigate, and  mountains — such  as  the  presump- 
tuous Hooker  and  Brown— to  put  in  their  place: 
an  enthusiast  with  an  enormously  magnified 
Switzerland  to  dilate  upon:  a  climber  with  the 
unclimbed  challenging  him  on  every  side:  he  is 
obviously  the  man  to  sing  the  Columbian  ice- 
field." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p569   Ag 
30    '23    1050W 

OVERELL,  LILIAN.  Woman's  impressions  of 
German  New  Guinea,.  224p  il  $4  Dodd  [12s  6d 
Lane] 

919.5   New  Guinea  [23-12195] 

The  v.'riter  o>i  these  impressions  was  in 
German  New  Guinea  at  the  outbreak  of  the 
war  and  escaped  into  the  interior  where  she 
lived  for  some  time  on  a  coconut  plantation 
the  mistress  of  which  was  greatly  loved  by 
the  blacks  and  a  power  among  them.  The 
author  describes  native  customs  and  cere- 
monies and  has  something  to  say  of  the  politi- 
cal situation  and  the  future  of  the  black  races. 


Booklist  20:97  D  '23 
Boston   Transcript   p4   S   1   '23   800w 
"She    has    made    out    of   a    visit    to    late    Ger- 
man    New    Guinea,     a     light,     agreeable     book, 
v\hich    v,ill    interest    the   general    reader." 

4-  New  Statesman  21:336  Je  23  '23  70w 
"Miss  Overell's  impressions  of  German  New 
Guinea  are  marked  by  the  naive  wonder 
which  a  sudden  plunge  into  the  midst  of 
savage  life  is  apt  to  produce  in  a  highly 
civilized  feminine  mind,  and  would  be  read- 
able enough  if  they  were  not  so  jerkily  writ- 
ten." 

H Sat    R    138:809    Je    16    '23    120w 

Spec    131:293    S   1    '23   120w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p398    Je 
14    '23    TOOw 
Wis   Lib   Bui  19:480  N  '23 

OVERTON,  GRANT  MARTIN.  American  nights 
entertainment.    414p    il    50c    Appleton;    Doran; 
Doublsday;    Scribner 
820.4       American       literature — History      and 
criticism.     English     literature — History    and 
criticism.     Authors  23-13677 

This  is  frankly  a  book  of  advertising  and 
four  Dublishers,  Appleton,  Doran,  Doubleday 
and  Scribner,  have  joined  with  the  author  in 
its  production.  It  provides  a  running  com- 
mentary on  the  books  published  by  these  houses 
tind  their  authors.  To  Galsworthy,  Conrad, 
Arthur  Train,  Victoria  Sackville-West,  Harold 
IJell  VVrierht,  Ralph  Connor,  Booth  Tarkington, 
Donald  Ogden  Stewart,  Zona  Gale,  Gene  Strat- 
ton  Porter,  Joseph  Lincoln,  Edith  Wharton, 
Christopher  Morley  and  Lothrop  Stoddard  a 
whole  chapter  each  is  devoted,  and  many 
other  authors  are  treated  in  groups.  Mate- 
rial not  easily  accessible  elsewhere,  on  the  per- 
sonality of  authors  is  here  brought  together 
and  the  information,  both  biographical  and 
critical,   is  presented  in  a  most  readable  way. 


Few  books,  either  for  reading  or  reference, 
and  this  is  for  both,  are  so  carefully 
documented."     E.    F.    E. 

4-   Boston   Transcript   p5   S   26   '23   llOOw 
Reviewed  by  H.  J.  Mankiewicz 

N  Y  Times  plO  N  25  '23  130w 
Outlook    135:318    O    24    '23    220w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p733  N  1 
'23  70w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:506   D   '23 


OVERTON,    GRANT    MARTIN.      Island    of    the 

innocent.     332p  $2  Doran 

23-5522 

Dace  Sherril's  physically  find  emotionally  iso- 
lated childhood  in  an  old  fenced-in  house  on  Fifth 
avenue  gave  her  the  fancy — with  a  sense  of 
protection — of  being  on  an  island  in  the  midst 
of  a  roaring  sea.  She  leaves  college  to  begin  her 
bread-earning  career  as  a  kitchen-helper  in  a 
hospital  for  drug-addicts.  In  the  further  devel- 
opment of  the  story,  the  experiences  of  Dace 
epitomize  the  various  reactions  of  young  people 
of  both  sexes  toward  each  other.  Sometimes 
repelled  by  the  man  she  is  about  to  many,  and 
again  irresistibly  attracted  against  her  better 
judgment,  she  becomes  worn  out  with  doubt 
and  a  sense  of  failure.  In  the  nick  of  time, 
before  yielding  to  temptation,  she  and  Avery 
Floyd,  a  young  author  and  office  acquaintance, 
discover  each  other  and  the  true  basis  for  love 
and  happiness — complete  understanding.  Full 
confession  leaves  each  guiltless  in  the  eyes  of 
the  other  and  Dace  once  more  has  her  island — 
the  island  of  the  innocent.  The  story  thruout  is 
interpolated  with  philosophic  and  psychologic 
reflections  on  love. 


Booklist   20:131   Ja   "24 

"To  .'^aj'  that  the  volume  is  filled  to  over- 
flowing with  all  sorts  of  information  about  the 
books  and  authors  of  these  publishing  houses 
is  no  exaggeration.  It  begins  with  John  Gals- 
worthy    and    it     ends    with     Lothrop    Stoddard. 


Cleveland  pl9  Mr  '23 
"It  possesses  no  single  distinguishing  char- 
acteristic that  might  lift  it  above  the  general 
run  of  pretty  popular  books  unless,  perhaps,  it 
be  a  not  too  happy  ending.  It  is  all  a  dreary 
level  of  mediocrity  smacking  of  the  uninspired, 
if   sincere,    literary    tradesman." 

—  Dial   75:96  Jl   '23   50w 

"Even  the  happy  ending  does  not  remove 
the  impression  of  ugliness  and  disillusionment." 

—  lot    Bk    R   p56   Mr   '23   2S0w 

"The  book  is  not  written  in  a  notable  style. 
It  is  swift,  sharp  and  graphic  in  places;  but 
often  the  figures  are  not  clear — too  much  is  left 
to  the  mind  of  the  reader,  with  too  little  sug- 
gestion. Occasionally  there  is  a  flagrant  breach 
of  form,  slang  is  introduced  where  it  does  not 
belong;  metaphors  grow  long  and  twisted  and 
end  nowhere.  Yet  the  book  will  be  treasured, 
for  it  is  human  and  living,  and  it  is  obviously 
about    real    people." 

^-   N  Y  Times  plO  F  25  '23  5S0w 

Reviewed  by  M.   A.    Murphy 

N   Y  Tribune  p22  F  18   '23   1200w 

"Grant  Overton  has  a  style  of  writing  which, 
like  the  olive,  is  fascinating  when  cultivated. 
Some  of  his  ideas — well,  perhaps  they  would 
serve  better  an  island  of  a  select — a  very  select 
few."  Ruth  Snyder 

—  NY  World  p6e  F  11  "23  600w 

"Grant  Overton  proves  his  ability  to  portray 
human  nature  not  in  the  fanciful  language  of 
the  romancer  but  in  the  plain,  simple  liut  force- 
ful   English    of   fact." 

-f-   Springf'd     Republican     p7a     My     13     '23 
300w 

OWEN,  CAROLINE  DALE,  pseud.  See  Snedeker. 
C.    D. 

OWEN,   JOHN.   Robert   Gregory;    the  history  of 

a   little    soul.    323p    $2    Dutton 

Robert  Gregory's  home  was  a  little  London 
suburb,  the  abode  of  petty  city  clerks,  all  en- 
gaged in  a  pathetic  struggle  with  poverty  and 
the  efforts  to  hide  it  behind  shabby  pretenses. 
Robert  hated  it  all  but  his  hatred  was  impotent 
for  it  becomes  clear  as  the  story  progresses 
that  he  is  incapable  of  effort,  that  he  possesses 


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none  of  the  qualities  that  would  enable  him  to 
lift  himself  out  of  his  condition,  that  altho  he 
was  born  with  the  tastes  of  a  gentleman,  he 
has  neither  the  strength  of  mind  nor  of  soul  to 
become  one.  In  his  futile  efforts  to  escape 
from  his  own  barrenness  he  twice  becomes  a 
defaulter.  Both  times  he  is  saved  from  public 
disgrace  by  his  father,  not  from  parental  af- 
fection but  from  a  revengeful  desire  to  enslave 
the  son  he  despises.  At  the  close  of  his  twen- 
ties Robert  Anally  realizes  that  the  cause  of 
his  successive  failures  is  spiritual  and  intel- 
lectual  rather  than   material   poverty. 


"A  faithfully  realistic  chronicle  of  the  deplor- 
able existence  of  a  young  man  who  was  doomed 
to  failure  from  the  very  first.     An  air  of  fatal- 
ity   hangs    over    the    story,    and    it    is    scarcely 
possible    to    blame    Robert    Gregory    either    for 
his    motives    or   his    deeds."    E.    F.    Edgett 
Boston  Transcript  p4  S  8  '23  1300w 
Cleveland    p67    S    '23 
Reviewed   by   H.    W.    Boynton 

Ind  111:142  S  29  '23  660w 
"There  is  material  for  a  great  novel  in  'Robert 
Gregory,'  but  Mr.  Owen  has  fallen  short  of  his 
opportunity.  The  author,  at  times,  seems  about 
to  write  passages  that  move  the  reader;  but 
always  he  fails.  Having  a  mass  of  material  that 
should  result  in  a  novel  of  deep  worth,  he  has 
written  a  book  that  is  neither  valuable  nor 
interesting.  Only  occasionally  do  the  characters 
assume  the  warmth  of  life." 

—  Int   Bk   R  p75  D  '23  220w 
"  'Robert   Gregory'    should    be    'required    read- 
ing'   for   the    American    clerk,    though   one    need 
not    be    a    clerk    to    appreciate    and    understand 
the   pain   and   the   struggle   recorded    in    it.    The 
story    wins    one's    sympathy    immediately.  'Like 
all    true    art,    it    achieves    the    identification    of 
subject   and   spectator."    J.    .J.    Smertenko 
+  Nation   117:585   N  21   '23   400w 
"It  is  a  depressing  picture,  but  for  those  who 
can    detect    the    less    obvious,     more    recondite 
beauty    that   can    be   evoked    by   an    artist    even 
from    the   sordid,    for   those   to  whom   beauty   is 
beauty    even    if    it    is    subtle,    'Robert    Gregory' 
will  be  a  morsel  to  linger  over." 

H NY  Times  plO   S  16  '23   800w 

"Mr.  Owen  works  in  the  approved  tradition  of 
novelists  with  no  sentimental  nonsense  about 
their  creations.  We  must  protest,  however,  that 
Mr.  Owen  is  much  too  keen  on  demonstrating 
the  obvious  as  if  it  were  a  Rosicrucian  mys- 
tery. In  his  zeal  as  a  displayer  of  store  dummies, 
he  has  overlooked  his  duty  as  an  artist.  He 
tells  and  tells  and  tells  about  the  smallness  of 
that  clerical  soul."   A.    D.    Douglas 

—  NY  Tribune  p21  S  9  '23  800w 
"The  story  of  a  character  so  well  portrayed, 
so  living  and  so  vital  that  we  heartily  recom- 
mend the  study  of  it  to  all  those  lonesome  souls 
who  find  in  books  their  best  companions." 
Ruth  Snyder 

-f   N  Y   World   plOe  O   21   '23   400w 

OXFORD  poetry,    1922.     48p     $1     Appleton      [3s 

6d   Blackwell] 

821.08     English   poetry— Collections        23-638 

Twenty  Oxford  undergraduates  are  repre- 
sented in  this  small  collection  of  thirty-eight 
poems  some  of  which  have  appeared  previously 
in  English  periodicals. 


Bookm  58:82  S  '23  80w 
"The  undergraduates  of  Oxford  for  the  year 
1922  have  made  a  collection  of  verse  even  bet- 
ter than  that  of  the  preceding  year.  The  young 
men  work  carefully,  with  a  precision  of  form 
which  contrasts  very  favorably  with  the  free 
and  easy  slip-shod  style  of  some  of  our  Ameri- 
can  youth."     C.    K.   H. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  20  '23  lOOOw 
"Considerably  higher   grade   poetry   than    that 
of  the  average  American  undergraduate  collec- 
tion." 

-f-  Cleveland  p38  My  '23 


'These  fellows  know  how  to  make  verses, 
and,  moreover,  there  is  frequently  much  more 
than  mere  dexterity."    Rex  Hunter 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p28  My  13  '23  220w 
Outlook   135:72   S   12   '23   260w 
Springf'd   Republican  p9a  D  23  '23  780w 


PACK.     ARTHUR     NEWTON.       Our    vanishing 

forests.      189p    il    $2    Macmillan 
634.9      Forests    and    forestry — United    States 

23-5937 

A  graphic  presentation  of  the  uses  and  the 
waste  of  our  wood  supply.  After  describing  the 
vast  consumption  of  wood  in  house  building, 
railroad  ties,  telegraph  poles,  paper,  etc.  the 
book  makes  a  stiong  plea  for  a  new  forest 
policy.  It  urges  reforestation,  the  planting  of 
a  liee  in  place  of  every  one  cut  down,  protec- 
tion against  forest  fires,  a  system  of  national 
and  state  owned  forests  and  the  cultivation  of 
woodlots. 


"Illustrated  lavishly  this  book  sets  forth  in 
popular  style  our  increasing  forest  shortage." 
+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  7  '23  350w 
"In  spite  of  a  few  minor  inaccuracies  'Our 
Vanishing  Forests'  is  exceedingly  readable  and 
informative.  It  is  fully  illustrated  with  vivid 
cartoons,  pictographs  and  maps  which  clearly 
emphasize  the  lessons  of  the  text.  This  book, 
which  might  well  be  called  'Forestry  for  the 
Business  Man'  deserves  a  wide  circulation  and 
the  less  than  200  pages  will  well  repay  a  care- 
ful   reading." 

-I-  Greensboro    (N.C.)     Daily    News    p9    Jl 
1    '23    950w 
Reviewed  bv  A.  D.  Douglas 

Int  Bk  R  p46  My  '23  60w 
"Altogether  admirable  tract  for  the  times. 
.  .  The  book  is  interesting  in  itself  and  most 
worthy  in  its  object.  Schoolboys  and  students 
will  find  it  a  mine  of  subjects  for  themes  and 
worthwhile    debates." 

4-   N    Y    Times    p2   Ap   1   '23    600w 
"The    defect    of    the    book    is    excessive    argu- 
ment and  a  very  small  modicum   of  suggestion 
a.-5  to  what  should  be  done  or  how  it  should  be 
done." 

—  NY  World  p9e  70w 
"Unfortunately    the    book    is    neither    brilliant 

enough  to  command  a  large  popular  circulation 
nor  decisive  enough  on  questions  of  technique 
and  public  policy  to  serve  the  purpose  of  stu- 
dents  and   civic   leaders." 

—  Survey  50:supl96  My  1   '23   90w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:131   My   '23 

PACK,  CHARLES  LATHROP.  School  book  of 
forestry.  159p  il  $1  Am.  tree  assn.,  1214 
16th    St.,    "Washington,   D.C. 

634.9    Forests    and    forestry  23-1193 

The  author,  who  is  president  of  the  American 
tree  association,  states  the  principles  of  an  in- 
telligent forestry  system.  He  describes  the  birth 
and  growth  of  a  tree,  the  leading  tree  families 
and  the  vai'ious  enemies  of  trees.  He  outlines 
the  goveinmental  policy  regarding  our  national 
forests  and  reservations  and  points  out  the  need 
for  experiment  stations  to  determine  the  most 
economical    ways    of    using    lumber. 


Booklist  20:126  Ja  '24 
"The  book  is  available  not  only  for  schools 
and  classes  of  any  grade  above  the  primary, 
but  it  is  a  manual  of  valuable  information  for 
the  citizen  who  would  be  better  informed  re- 
garding so  vital  a  matter.  Altogether  it  is  a 
valuable  treatise  on  a  great  problem  which  af- 
fects our  industries  and  our  welfare." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  31  '23  250w 


396 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


PACK,    C:    L. — Continued 

"The  book  is  worth  while  as  a  wholesome  at- 
tempt to  present  to  children  an  appeal  for  forest 
preservation."  M.  L.  Stewart 

+   El    School    J   23:714   My  '23    450w 
Reviewed    by    Raymond    Torrey 

Lit    R    p816    Jl    7    '23    350w 
N  Y  World  p9e  F  18  "23  60w 
Outlook  133:720  Ap  18  '23  350w 
Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui   28:180  Ap  '23 
R    of    Rs   67:336   Mr   '23   80w 
Wis    Lib    Bul    19:441    O    '23 

PACK,  CHARLES  LATHROP.  Trees  as  good 
citizens.  3d  ed  257p  il  $2  Am.  tree  assn., 
1214    16th   St.,   Washington,   D.C. 

715     Trees  [23-1194] 

"Mr.  Pack  has  been  active  for  many  years 
in  promoting  scientific  forestry  in  this  country 
and  encouraging  tree  conservation,  in  city  and 
country.  In  this  volume  he  gives  descriptions 
of  many  varieties  of  shade  tiees,  offers  pi-ac- 
tical  suggestions  as  to  the  selection  of  trees 
for  planting,  and  includes  a  special  chapter  on 
memorial  trees.  There  are  also  full  directions 
regarding  the  care  of  shade  trees.  The  volume 
has  many  interesting  illustrations,  including 
sixteen  color  plates  of  great   beauty." — R  of  Rs 


"The  reading  of  human  qualities  into  trees  is 
an  ancient  practice,  consecrated  by  innumerable 
deliverances  of  myth,  legend  and  story,  but  it 
was  never  done  to  such  good  purpose,  or  with 
such  complete  combination  of  the  ideal  and 
practical  justifications,  as  in  this  book.  Presi- 
dent Pack,  an  expert  in  his  subject,  writes  lov- 
ingly of  it,  and  his  enthusiasm  is  sure  to  prove 
contagious."    E.   N. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  F  24  '23  90Qw 
Reviewed   bv   A.   D.   Douglas 

Int    Bk    R    p46    My    '23    60w 
Reviewed  bv  Ravmond  Torrey 

Lit    R    p816    Jl    7    '23    350w 
"It   is    not    technical    but   thoroughly   informa- 
tive,  giving  the   reader   an   intelligent  survey  of 
the    varieties    of    timber    that    are    counted    best 
for  purposes  of  shade  and  utility.     The  chapter 
on  nut  trees  is  especiallv  enlightening." 
-f   N  Y  World  p9e  F  18  "23  90w 
Outlook   133:720   Ap   18  "23   350w 
R   of   Rs  67:336  Mr  '23  lOOw 
Wis    Lib    Bul   19:441   O   '23 

PACKARD,  FRANK   LUCIUS.     Four  stragglers. 

303p     $2     Doran 

23-9234 

"  'The  Four  Stragglers'  has  its  prologue  amid 
the  smoke  and  noise  of  battle  in  France.  It 
gets  fully  into  action  in  the  London  of  three 
years  after  the  war.  Its  complete  development 
and  shuddery  climax  are  reached  on  a  lone 
island  of  the  Florida  Keys.  The  story  involves 
the  fortunes  of  a  mystery  girl  lifted  from  the 
streets  of  London,  a  mad  millionaire  who  owns 
the  Floridian  isle,  the  keen  young  son  of  a  New- 
York  dealer  in  finance,  and  a  few  characters 
necessary  to  the  tale.  The  principal  figure  In 
the  book  is  Capt.  Francis  Newcombe  who  has 
a  past  in  which  he  has  been  known  to  Scotland 
Yard  and  to  other  eager  seekers  as  Shadow 
Varne.  Obviously  the  captain  must  work 
stealthily  in  many  of  the  pages  before  us.  He 
is  always  however,  a  melodramatic  figure,  and 
lurid  adventure  follows  in  his  path — affairs  of 
mysterious  shots,  battles  in  the  dark,  and 
ghostly  calls  from  the  island  forests." — N  Y 
World 


"Mr.  Packard  is  a  master  hand  at  weaving 
intricacies  of  plot  and  then  solving  them  all  by 
a   brilliantly   imexpected    stroke." 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  27  '23  360w 
"He  tells  the  story  with  rather  more  natural- 
ness than  is  customary  in  such  purely  artificial 
yarns,  and  has  succeeded  in  devising  situations 
which  will  keep  even  the  most  sophisticated 
mystery-story  devotee  guessing." 

+   N  Y  Times  p24  My  27  '23  650w 


Reviewed  by  A.   D.    Douglas 

N  Y  Tribune  p20  Je  17  '23  500w 
"To  sensitive  readers  the  end  of  the  story 
may  foreshadow  nightmares.  But  if  they  enjoy 
'The  Four  Stragglers'  as  gruesomely  as  we 
think  they  will  they  won't  mind  that."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

+   N    Y   World    pl8  Je   10   '23   440w 

PACKARD,     FRANK     LUCIUS.        Jimmie    Dale 
and    the    phantom    clue.      301p    $1.75    Doran 

22-20537 
"That  shilling  light  of  society,  Jimmie  Dale, 
the  clubman,  known  on  the  Bowery  as  'Smarl- 
inghue,'  a  broken  artist,  and  to  the  police  and 
criminal  world  as  the  "Gray  Seal,'  comes  back 
into  literature  in  another  volume  of  underworld 
adventure.  Over  the  head  of  the  woman  he 
loves  hangs  a  laenace  from  the  gang  she  and 
Jimmie  have  often  thwarted,  and  though  the 
previous  volume  saw  the  leader  disposed  of, 
a  new  head  is  just  as  dangerous  until  the  last 
chapter,  when,  after  many  narrow  escapes, 
Jimmie  and  IMai-ie  discover  that  they  have 
reached  the  port  of  Dawn." — Spriiigf'd  Re- 
publican 


"It  is  a  low  order  of  ci'iminal  fiction,  but  it  is 
criminal   enougli.    in   all   conscience." 

—  Greensboro    (N.C.)     Daily    News    p8    Ja 

28  "23    120\v 

"A  book  no  better  and  no  worse  than  scores 
that  annually  issue  from  our  pies.s.  It  is  the 
t.vpical  mystery-crooU  story,  dealing  with  the 
adventures  of  a  redoubtable  hero  amid  the  al- 
luring and  colorful  it  inevitably  melodramatic 
surroundings    of   the    New    York    underworld." 

—  Lit    R    p229    N   18   '22   220w 

"For  people  who  like  tales  of  underworld  in- 
trigue, this  new  novel  of  Mr.  Packard's  will 
be  a  breathlessly  interesting  and  absorbing- 
book.  For  its  plot  is  complicated,  its  incidents 
varied  and  highly  ingenious,  and  it  is  skillfully 
developed." 

-h   N    Y   Times  pl2   O   29   '22   550w 

Springf'd   Republican  i)7a  Ja  21  '23  120w 
The   Times   [London!    Lit   Sup   p218   Mr 

29  '23  70w 


PAGE,     ROSEWELL.        Thomas    Nelson    Page. 

210p  $1.50   Scrihner 
B    or    92     Page,    Thomas    NeLson  23-8967 

A  rather  slight  memoir,  by  his  brother,  of  the 
Virginia  novelist  and  wai--time  ambassador  to 
Italy.  The  sub-title,  "a  memoir  of  a  Virginia 
gentleman"  fitly  describes  the  picture  that  forms 
itself  in  these  pages.  His  literary  career,  his 
friendships,  not  only  with  eminent  men  but 
with  his  faithful  family  servants,  his  life  in 
Rome  and  his  efforts  to  make  Italy's  work 
known,  and  the  happy  ending  of  a  life  serenely 
lived,  are  the  parts  which  make  up  the  pic- 
ture. 


Booklist  19:316  Jl  '23 
"The  life  of  Thomas  Nelson  Page  was  well 
worth  recording  in  its  intimate  details,  and 
surely  no  better  informed  biographer  could 
have  been  found  than  his  brother  Uosewell 
Page." 

4-    Bookm    58:90    S    '23    150w 

Cleveland    p80   S   '23 
"A    pleasant    and    di.'-.anning       naivet(5 — some- 
times   conscious,    sometimes    unconsciou.s — gives 
the  book   an   air  of  its  own."    H:   B.    Fuller 
4-   Freeman  7:450  Jl  18  '23  2250w 
"The  author  has  a  wealth  of  material  as  well 
as    the    closest    personal    knowledge    of    its    sub- 
lect.    both    very    necessary    equipment    for   writ- 
ing the   life   of   a   contemporary.     But,    unfortu- 
nately,   he    lacks    that   equally   essential   posses- 
sion,   perspective." 

j-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p9    Jl 

1    '23    300w 

"TTnpretentious    as    this    memoir    is,    it    paints 

a    picture,    models    a    lifelike    figure.     It    leaves 

ns  with  a   powerful  impression  of  having  known 

Thomas    Nelson    Page    intimately.    .    .    There    is 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


39; 


ati  effortless  skill  about  its  tracery  which  one 
doc-s  not  find  once  in  fifty  memoirs."  C:  W. 
Thompson 

+   N    Y   Times   pl3   Je   24   '23   1850w 
"It  is  a  very  slight  affair,  but  it  touches  with 
a     fragrant     breath     a     liie     of     much     mellow 
charm.  '     R.    C.    Holliday 

+   N    Y  Tribune  pl9  Je  10   '23  780w 
N  Y   World   p7e  Ag  12  '23   350w 
Outlook   134:288   Je  27   '23   190w 
"The   biography   is   ricii   in   humorous  and   in- 
timate  anecdotes    in    the   conversation   and   lore 
of   famous   Virginia   families." 

+  Springfd  Republican  pl2  Je  13  '23  900w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:412  Jl  '23 

PAGE,  WILLIAM.  London;  its  origin  and  early 
development.  300p  il  |5  Houghton  [14s 
Constable] 

942.1  London— History  [23-14684] 

From  results  brought  to  light  by  the  most 
recent  researches  into  the  history  and  topog- 
raphy of  London  the  author  has  traced  its 
origin  and  early  development  from  the  first, 
probably  Celtic,  settlement  thru  the  Roman, 
Saxon  and  Norman  periods  to  about  the  year 
1200.  The  last  half  of  the  book  deals  with 
interesting  special  subjects:  the  sokes  or  spe- 
cial grants  of  land  made  to  prominent  laymen 
and  ecclesiastics  in  return  for  clearing  or  drain- 
ing the  tracts  and  bringing  them  under  culti- 
vation; the  establisliment  of  the  first  churches 
and  schools;  the  organization  of  the  city  into 
wards;  the  early  government  of  lx>ndon;  its 
prominent  governing  families;  the  growth  of 
its  streets  and  market-places.  Four  sketch 
maps  show  the  Roman  road  system,  the  posi- 
tions  of   sokes,    and   the    location   of   wards. 


"We  have  in  this  short  compass  the  most 
complete  and  trustworthy  narrative  of  the  ori- 
gins of  London  which  has  yet  been  published." 
C.    L.    Kingsford 

-|-  Eng  Hist  R  38:611  O  '23  2000w 
"Mr.  Page  has  drawn  out  of  scanty  records 
reinforced  by  inferences  from  usages  elsewhere 
the  beginnings  of  the  city;  and  prospecting 
warily  in  his  indistinct  field,  tells  us  as  much 
as  can  be  hoped,  where  distinct  history  is  miss- 
ing. Througliout  we  admire  the  ingenuity  which 
Mr.  Page  has  brought  to  bear  on  his  materials. 
It  is  none  the  worse  for  being  tempered  with 
caution." 

-I-   New    Statesman    21:452    Jl    21    '23    600w 
"Mr.  Page  has  produced  a  book  without  which 
no   Londoner's   library   will   be   complete." 
+  Spec   131:229    S   18   '23    150w 
"Material  so  grouped  is  of  peculiar  value  for 
tlie  student   of  the   history  of  London." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p397   Je 
14  '23  1050W 

PAGET,  VIOLET.     See  Lee,  V.,  pseud. 

PAGET,  WALBURGA  EHRENGARDE  HEL- 
ENA  (VON  HOHENTHAL)  lady.  Embas- 
sies of  other  days.  2v  288;289-584p  il  $12 
Doran      [42s     Hutchinson] 

B  or  92    Courts  and   courtiers  23-16991 

Walburga,  Lady  Paget,  was  a  daughter  of 
Count  Hohenthal,  owner  of  large  estates  in 
Saxony  and  Prussia,  and  the  wife  of  Sir  Au- 
gu.stus  Paget,  who  in  the  course  of  his  long 
diplomatic  career  was  minister  at  Copenhagen, 
Lisbon  and  Florence  and  ambassador  at  Rome 
and  Vienna.  Lady  Paget's  memoirs  were  written 
in  Vienna  during  the  ten  years  from  1883  to 
1893  and  no  attempt  has  been  made  to  bring 
them  up  to  date.  They  are  recollections  of  her 
childhood  and  of  the  English,  German  and 
Austrian  courts  of  the  last  half-century.  The 
pages  are  crowded  with  names  and  personal- 
ities, descriptions  of  court  and  .social  functions 
of  the  ladies  there  present,  the  dresses  thev 
wore,  etc.  ' 


Prmces,  and  the  humorous  something  to  enjoy 
in  the  accidentally  naive  collocation  of  social 
and  grave  events,  descriptions  of  dresses  and 
international   crises." 

-\ New   Statesman   22:sup8   O  13   '23   250w 

"Most  of  the  book  reminds  us  of  nothing  so 
much  as  what  we  believe  are  called  in  the 
newspapers  'society  paragraphs';  those  para- 
graphs in  which  we  read  that  Lady  So-and-so 
in  pink  brought  her  daughter  looking  charming 
in  blue.  Signs  are  not,  however,  wanting  in 
these  memoirs  that  on  really  interesting  people 
the  author  can  be  interesting  indeed.  On  the 
rare  occasions  when  she  deserts  the  elegant  and 
fashionable  for  the  great  and  illustrious  her 
remarks  are  illuminating  enough." 

1-  Sat   R   136:360  S   29   '23  650w 

"Embassies  of  Other  Days  is  a  specimen  of 
open  diplomacy'  which  should  interest  and 
amuse  a  wide  public."     W.  A  B 

+  Spec  131:518  O  13   '23   760w 

"At  the  age  of  eighty-three  Walburga  Lady 
Paget  has  given  to  the  world  her  experiences 
of  those  political  earthquakes  of  the  second  half 
of  the  last  century  of  which  the  reactions- 
subsidences,  and  further  upheavals— to-day 
make  all  our  lives  precarious.  It  is  doubtful 
If  anyone  living  can  speak  of  the  forces  that 
brought  about  the  emergence  of  the  German 
Lmpire  and  the  Italian  Kingdom,  and  of  the 
general  conditions  that  favoured  their  activity 
with  more  authority  and  closer  personal  knowl- 
edge. 

"^9^5?  iTl!P"    [London]    Lit    Sup    p596    S 
lo    <J3   1050w 

''Is^p^'il  1^.!o"Jarp^e'r°^^°^-      «^"^'^     ''-•- 

23-8401 
This  collection  of  brief  and  humorous  short 
o  °'^'®^.,i°"*^^'^^  'ife  in  many  points.  In  the 
first,  Mrs  Tumulty's  hat,"  the  hat,  a  recent 
present  from  the  lady's  lawyer  husband,  is  the 
cause  of  a  near-divorce.  It  blows  off  her  head, 
alights  in  a  passing  automobile,  is  carried  home 
'^y,  "^ne  unsuspecting  driver,  discovered  by  his 
»^  *v^"^^"°,  '^  ^^  *^^^  time  in  consultation  with 
Mr  Tumu  ty  about  a  will.  The  consternation  is 
at  last  calmed  by  the  tearful  Mrs  Tumulty  her- 


The  historian  may  find  in  them  something 
to  stimulate  his  imagination,  and  even  occasion- 
ally something  to  help  him  check  his  reading 
of     the     motives     of    diplomats,    statesmen   and 


Booklist  19:320  Jl  '23 
"Never  were  his  tales  more  entertaining  than 
these  wherein  as  by  flashlight  revelations  we 
view  briefly  certain  phases  of  human  nature, 
made  the  more  arresting  by  the  transmuting 
tmich  of  tone  who  not  only  sees  the  humorous 
side  of  life's  ironies  but  knows  how  to  make 
otiiers  see   it." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  Je  2  '23  450w 

"Mr.  Paine  can  be  satirical,  but  he  has  no 
malevolence  and  is  usually  in  a  happilv  genial 
mood.  It  makes  an  engaging  volume,  a  pleas- 
ant book  to  dip  into  now  and  then  " 
-f-  Lit  R  p899  Ag  11  '23  170w 
"Mr.  Paine's  carefully  engineered  incon- 
gruities do  not  seem  to  matter  much  The 
reader  continues  an  unsurprised  perusal  of 
many  of  the  slight  little  tales  in  much  the  .SHme 
spirit  of  bored  courtesy  that  would  keep  him 
seated  at  a  tedious  host's  dinner  table  There 
IS  an  unctuous  and  oily  whimsicality  about  .some 
of  them   that  is  particularly  trying." 

—  NY  Times  p25  My  13"  '23  300w 
"In    these   two   dozen   short   stories   there   is  a 
lot  of  good,  wholesome  fun.   much  ouiet  humor, 
as  well  as  a  great  deal  of  broad  farce." 
+   N   Y  Tribune  p20  Je  10  '23  50w 
"Qu^intli'     humorous,     but     quite     uninspirea 
stories." 

H Springfd   Republican   p7a  Jl   8   '23   180w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:415   Jl   '23 

PAINE,    RALPH    DELAHYE.    Comrades   of    the 
rolling  ocean.     323p     il     $2     Houghton 

23-8990 

Judson  Wyman,  a  young  North  Dakota  giant, 

throws   over   college    in   his   sophomore   year    to 

sign   up   for  a  training  course   in   the   merchant 

marine.    On  his  way  to  Newport  News  he  picks 


398 


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PAINE,    R.    D. — Continued 

up  a  pal,  "Kid"  Briscoe,  bound  for  the  same 
destination  although  he  has  already  seen  service 
in  the  navy  during  the  war  and  calls  himself 
a  hard-boiled  guy.  Training  over,  they  take 
service  on  the  ship  "Liberty  Chimes"  where 
they  meet  Judson's  former  tutor,  Spencer  Tor- 
rence,  as  super-cargo.  Near  the  Holland  coast 
they  strike  a  forgotten  mine  and  are  torpedoed. 
The  badly  damaged  ship  is  abandoned  by  her 
entire  crew  and  captain,  all  but  the  three  chums 
who  succeed  in  seeing  her  safely  into  port  and 
saving  a  valuable  cargo.  Their  next  trip  is 
equally  f\ill  of  thrilling  adventures  all  of  which 
go  to  prove  that  a  sailor's  life  in  the  modern 
merchant  marine  is  not  lacking  in  opportunity 
for  displaying  valor  and  courage  and  romantic 
adventure. 


Booklist  19:325  Jl  '23 
"He  makes  a  vivid,  stirring  tale  of  it  until 
we  read  with  regret  the  last  of  our  heroes.  It 
should  delight  the  heart  of  any  boy,  nor  will 
many  older  readers  fail  to  find  in  it  an  occa- 
sional  thrill   and  much   enjoyment." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  2  '23  450w 
"There     is     a    rugged    honesty    and    courage 
about    the    book.      It    has    sturdiness    and    great 
charm    and    character    that    is    too    vigorous    to 
stoop    to    obvious    moralizing."    M.    G.    Bonner 
+   Int    Bk    R   p37   Jl   '23    150w 
"The   story   is   a   stirring   one    from   the   point 
of  romance   alone;   and  in  addition   it  helps  the 
reader   to  absorb  a   lot   of   information   and  pa- 
triotism   through   the   pictures   of   the   operation 
of   the   shipping   board   in   recruiting  and   train- 
ing sailors  and  rebuilding  a  national  naval  tra- 
dition and  service." 

+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  Ag  5  '23  300w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:417  Jl  '23 

PAPINI,  GIOVANNI.  Life  of  Christ;  freely  tr. 
from  the  Italian  by  Dorothy  Canfleld  Fisher 
(European   lib.)    416p  $3.50  Harcourt 

232   Jesus   Christ— Biography  23-7050 

The  writing  of  this  book  marked  the  con- 
version to  Christianity  of  the  celebrated  Floren- 
tine philosopher  and  man  of  letters,  after 
years  of  denial  and  unbelief.  It  was  during 
the  war  that  he  turned  to  the  study  of  the 
Gospels  and  the  story  of  Christ,  reaching  the 
conviction  that  the  "sole  solution  of  the  evil 
of  the  world  is  the  tran.sformation  of  human 
souls,  that  this  cannot  be  brought  about  ex- 
cept by  means  of  religion,  and  that  the  most 
perfect  and  suitable  is  that  taught  bv  Christ  " 
With  the  desiie  of  reaching  people  who  do  not 
go  to  church,  or  read  the  Bible,  or  listen  to 
sermons,  the  author  has  made  his  book  as 
popular  and  readable  as  possible,  and  Mrs 
Fisher  has  preserved  this  quality  in  her  trans- 
lation. 


He  re-tells  the  old  story  with  a  certain  fresh 
and  fiery  ardor;  takes  what  we  have  all  known 
from  childhood,  but  brings  it,  as  it  were,  right 
up  to  date;  gives  it  an  indefinable  color  and 
vigor  of  modern  touch;  shows  that  the  Christ- 
Ideal  is  so  simple  that  a  child  can  understand 
it,  yet  so  difficult  that  the  wisest  can  realize 
it  only  by  getting  rid  of  their  wisdom  and  be- 
coming as  little  children."  Gamaliel  Bradford 
+  Atlantic's   Bookshelf  Ap  '23  550w 

"The  impassioned  style  of  narration  is  that 
of  a  discoverer  eager  to  reveal  his  findings  for 
guidance  of  others.  The  work  is  written  in 
scenes  rather  than  in  chapters,  and  not  once 
does  the  aggressive  vigor  of  the  stvle  waver. 
It  IS  picturesque  to  the  point  where  colorful 
word  paintings  visualize  events  with  heart  stir- 
ring reality."    Alice  Rohe 

+  Bookm    57:458   Je   '23    500w 

"The  author  has  frankly  said  that  he  was  de- 
termined to  write  a  readable  book.  He  has 
fully  succeeded.  His  pictures  of  the  back- 
ground— Greek,  Roman  and  Jewish — are  remark- 
able. His  blunt  descriptions  of  character  in 
modern  terms  make  them  vivid  to  the  reader, 
until  he   feels  as  if  he  were   living   in   the  gen- 


eration contemporary  with  Christ."    F.  W.   Col- 
lier 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p5  Ap  14  "23  1300w 
"This  Life  of  Christ  is  worthy  of  its  fame, 
and  no  one  should  hesitate  to  procure  it  for 
fear  of  its  not  measuring  up  to  the  expectations 
created  by  its  advertisers.  No  one  who  can 
appreciate  a  work  of  literary  art,  and  no  one 
who  is  interested  in  the  life  of  Christ  should 
make  the  mistake  of  ignoring  this  extraordinary 
volume." 

+  Cath  World  117:274  My  '23  800w 
"A  bombastic,  sententious,  inflated  restate- 
ment of  the  New  Testament  stories." 
—  Dial  75:99  Jl  '23  80w 
"Besides  being  fiercely  orthodox,  Papini  is 
lyrical  as  only  an  Italian  can  be.  Here  one  is 
far  from  the  faded  domain  of  fine  writing  and 
purple  patches;  the  lyricism  is  really  native, 
eloquent,  honest  and  commanding.  .  .  Yet 
despite  its  contemptuous  ortliodoxy  and  its  un- 
disciplined lyricism  this  is  a  stimulating,  a 
thought-provoking  book.  The  only  way  to  write 
a  life  of  Christ,  other  things  being  equal,  is 
surely  Papini' s  way,  the  way  of  one  who,  with 
all  his  errors  of  taste  and  judgment,  is  still 
a  man  of  letters  and  a  passionate  artist."  Cuth- 
bert  Wright 

+  Freeman  7:211  My  9  '23  980w 
"However  amazing  this  volume  may  appear 
to  those  who  have  ceased  to  accept  the  belief 
that  Christ  is  God,  and  however  astonishing  it 
may  seem  to  them  that  one  of  the  foremost 
literary  minds  in  Italy  should  take  the  things 
of  the  spirit  in  the  humility  of  unfaltering  faith, 
there  can  be  only  one  opinion  of  the  superb 
literary  qviality  of  Papini' s  work,  of  its  loving 
sympathy  and  its  intense  and  eloquent  sin- 
cerity."    M.   F.    Egan 

-I-  Int  Bk  R  pl4  Ap  '23  2800w 
"Signor  Papini's  volume,  like  the  Gospel  of 
John,  is  chiefly  valuable  because  it  reveals  the 
reaction  of  a  great  soul  who  has  come  into 
vital  touch  with  the  eternal  Christ."  C:  F.  Kent 
+  Lit  R  pGOl  Ap  14  '23  300w 
"There  can  be  no  doubt  of  the  sincerity  of 
the  writer;  the  book  is  at  once  the  product  of 
a  passionate  conviction  and  a  deep-rooted  faith 
in  the  revelations  of  the  Bible.  In  that  respect 
Signor  Papini's  'Life'  is  as  much  a  revelation 
of  his  own  soul  as  it  is  an  interpretation  of  the 
Gospel  narrative.  He  has  written  it  as  a  Sal- 
vation Army  convert  might  have  written,  who 
has  suddenly  'found  religion'  after  a  life  of 
riotous  living."    Temple  Scott 

+  Nation  116:701  Je  13  '23  lOOOw 
"Papini's  sincere  and  enthralling  book  will 
stand  for  many  years  as  a  rallying  sign  for 
thousands  who  are  making  their  way  painfully 
and  deviously  to  a  less  inhuman,  because  a  more 
Christlike  world."     H:   L.   Stuart 

-I-  N  Y  Times  p8  Mr  25  '23  2350w 
"Papini  writes  like  a  superior  journalist,  at 
times  like  a  pamphleteer.  He  is  direct,  dog- 
matic, assertive,  vigorous,  malicious  and  un- 
critical. He  has  swallowed  both  the  Old  and 
the  New  Testaments  whole.  Papini,  one  would 
think,  would  be  the  last  man  in  the  world  to 
write  a  sympathetic  and  satisfactory  life  of 
Christ:  but  it  is,  to  date,  the  best  one  I  have 
read.  For  all  Papini's  unquestioning  acceptance 
of  the  Gospels  as  authentic  contemporary  nar- 
ratives, it  is  more  credible  (and  if  modern 
historians  are  to  be  believed)  more  authentic 
tlian  the  accounts  by  the  ironic  Renan  or  by 
David  Strauss."  Bvirton  Rascoe 

-I NY    Tribune    pl7    F   18   '23    2100w 

"From  the  purely  literary  standpoint  nothing 
but  praise  can  be  given  to  it.  Its  style  is  vi- 
brant with  life  and  energy.  .  .  Dorothy  Can- 
fleld Fisher  has  done  a  rare  thing — made  a  real 
translation."      Arthur   Benington 

-f-   N   Y  World   p9e  Mr  25  "23   1400w 

"The  book  by  the  young  Italian  seems  to  us 
mean  spirited,  quarrelsome  and  inexpressibly 
dull.  He  has  adopted  a  method  of  writing  al- 
most exactly  onposite  to  that  of  the  men  who 
set  down  the  gospel  stories.  He  simply  cannot 
endure  economy  of  utterance.  Quite  evidently 
he  has  had  the  feelincr  that  the  original  nar- 
ratives  are   far  too  brief.     Using  practically  no 


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other  material,  he  has  succeeded  in  expanding 
the  four  Gospels  into  a  huge  book  of  408  pages. 
Although  he  has  paid  a  tribute  to  'the  candid 
sobriety'  of  the  Gospels,  sobriety  is  the  quality 
which  almost  never  comes  into  his  'Life  of 
Christ.'  Throughout  it  is  overwrought  and 
hysterical.  Indeed,  it  seems  the  book  of  a 
sick    man."      Heywood    Broun 

—  NY    World    p9    Mr    27    '23    880w 

"It  is  not  the  dispassionate,  analytical  work 
of  a  scholar,  nor  does  it  bear  the  marks  of 
credulity  that  are  commonly  associated  with  the 
conventional  writings  of  the  propagandist  for 
the  faith.  It  is  a  clear,  simple,  and  extremely 
vivid  narrative." 

+   R   of   Rs  67:670  Je  '23   300w 

"Both  in  substance  and  in  style  The  Story 
of  Christ  is  popular  and  unscientific:  there  is 
no  attempt  to  go  behind  or  outside  the  text, 
which  is  treated  as  a  fixed  quantity;  were  this 
not  so,  the  book  would  fail  to  commend  itself 
to  the  particular  public  to  which  it  is  addressed 
and  by  which  it  has  been  so  enthusiastically 
welcomed.  It  is,  in  fact,  admirably  adapted  to 
its   purpose." 

+  Spec  130:1010  Je  16  '23   920w 

"From  the  pen  of  a  master  of  literary  para- 
doxes, it  is  in  itself  an  amazing  paradox,  for 
it  is  a  confession  of  faith — uncritical,  humble, 
sincere  faith — from  a  man  who  has  long  been 
recognized  as  an  atheist  and  iconoclast  of  the 
first  order."     E.   M.   Jewett 

+   Springf'd     Republican     p7a    My     13     '23 
950w 

"The  book,  in  the  actual  reading,  is  very 
long,  a  restless  succession  of  homilies,  narra- 
tive passages,  lyric  declarations  of  faith,  glow- 
ing expansions  of  the  parable  and  miracle  stor- 
ies. Papini  is  a  literary  man  and  an  artist;  the 
artistic  and  the  religious  passions  work  togeth- 
er for  the  fullest,  most  moving  expression. 
There  are  many  passages  of  power  and  beauty 
— and  many  others  in  which  the  style,  crowded, 
driven,  protesting,  becomes  a  wearying  assault 
upon   the   nerves." 

h  Survey   50:637   S  15   '23   400w 

"In  a  Catholic  country  like  Italy,  where  the 
Bible  is  little  read,  this  book  may  be  of  great 
value.  But  in  England  its  only  real  interest  lies 
in  the  light  it  throws  on  Papini  himself.  The 
noise  he  has  always  managed  to  make  in  the 
world  would  necessarily  have  attracted  attention 
to  it.  quite  apart  from  the  deep  and  genuine 
religious  feeling  that  runs  through  it;  but  as 
a  revelation  of  Papini  it  cannot  be  compared 
with   'Un   Uomo  Finito.'  " 

1-  The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p335   My 

17  '23   1450W 

"It  is  a  notable  book.  In  Italy  it  has  sold 
like  a  best-selling  novel.  But  one  must  read  it 
as  a  human  document,  the  outpouring  of  a  hu- 
man heart.  It  knows  nothing  of  the  quest  of 
the  historical  Jesus  as  the  scholar  knows  it. 
It  is  written  for  the  modern  man."  E:  L. 
Parsons 

+  Yale  R  n  s  13:381  Ja  '24  870w 

PARKER,   AUSTIN.     Here's  to  the  gods.      326p 

$2     Harper 

23-14266 

The  hero,  Tony  Morton,  is  the  son  of  a  min- 
ing engineer  whose  profession  keeps  him  in  the 
East.  Unwilling  that  his  son  should  be  brought 
up  in  the  tropics,  he  sends  him  to  America 
with  his  mother,  entrusted  to  the  care  of  a 
bachelor  friend,  Peter  Kincaid  who  later,  when 
Tony  is  orphaned,  becomes  his  guardian  and 
mentor.  The  story  takes  Tony  thru  school  and 
college,  youthful  adventures  in  love,  service  with 
the  American  ambulance  in  France  during  the 
war,  and  a  brief  experiment  with  marriage. 
Thru  all  Peter  keeps  wisely  in  the  background. 
,  In  the  last  pages  "Tony  leaves  his  young  wife 
to   seek  adventure   in   Central   America. 


hunts  for  no  deliberately  disagreeable  phrases. 
His  realism  is  as  casual  and  sometimes  pre- 
functory  as  life  and  not  the  deliberately  arti- 
ficial method  of  the  morbid  modern.  A  little 
more  artifice  might,  indeed,  heighten  his  climac- 
tic periods."   W.   A.    M. 

Boston    Transcript    p4    D    19    '23    850w 

"An  unusually  thoughtful  as  well  as  brilliant 
story  of  the  younger  generation  after  the  war." 
H.   W.   Boynton 

-1-  Ind   111:314  D  22  '23  300w 

"  'Here's  to  the  Gods'  is  well  written  and 
interesting  as  a  study  of  post-war  nerves.  Mr. 
Parker  has  caught  the  spirit  of  the  types  he 
portrays  and  has  made  it  all  extremely  divert- 
ing and  true.  Certainly,  compared  to  the  rancid 
preoccupations  of  many  of  his  contemporaries, 
it  is  singularly  refreshing  to  glimpse  the  life 
of  the  war  generation  from  the  unforced  and 
independent  aviator's  eye-view."  J:  F.  Carter,  jr. 

H Lit   R  pl84  O  27  '23  650w 

New   Repub  37:26  N  28  '23  50w 

"Conrad  could  have  made  this  theme  come 
near  to  equaling  'Lord  Jim.'  The  character  is 
of  his.  Mr.  Parker's  execution  falls  short  of 
the  conception.  There  is  much  extraneous  ma- 
terial, and  the  style  does  not  lift  to  match  the 
story.  However,  this  is  an  unusually  good 
book." 

H NY  Times  p8   N   4  '23    350w 

"The  story  itself  is  well  enough,  but  there  is 
nothing  startlingly  new  and  original  in  it;  that 
is  rather  too  much  to  expect  of  a  first  novel, 
anyway.  The  promises  which  Austin  Parker 
gives  in  this  novel  lie  more  in  his  manner  of 
writing  and  in  the  interesting  reactions  and 
little  illuminating  flashes  which  distinguish  it 
from  the  general  run  of  novels."  Phyllis  Duganne 
+   N    Y   Tribune   pl8   N   4   '23   880w 

"But  technicality  aside.  'Here's  to  the  Gods' 
is  a  fine  novel,  rich  with  character  studies  ana 
splendidly  magnificent  in  theme.  We  strongly 
recommend  it  to  the  younger  generation.  Let 
them  see  themselves  mirrored  in  fiction."     R.  S. 

H NY  World  p6e  D  2  '23  520w 

Springf'd   Republican  p9a  D  16  '23  250w 

PARKER,  SAMUEL  CHESTER.  Types  of 
elementary  teaching  and  learning;  including 
practical  technique  and  scientific  evidence. 
585p  il  $2  Ginn 

372   Teaching.    Education,    Elementary 

23-3824 
The  professor  of  educational  methods  in  the 
University  of  Chicago  presents  in  this  textbook 
many  examples  of  methods  and  devices  actually 
used  in  progressive  elementary  schools  for 
training  pupils  in  various  types  of  learning, 
such  as  handwriting,  spelling,  reading,  arith- 
metic, problem -solving,  expression,  enjoyment, 
etc.  In  addition  to  its  abundant  practical  ma- 
terial, the  book  contains  much  of  the  scientific 
evidence  that  has  been  developed  to  justify 
and  interpret  the  methods  set  forth.  It  thus 
joins  practical  technique  and  scientific  evidence. 
Bibliographical    notes.      Index. 


"The  book  is  rambling,  too  long,  and  ex- 
tremely  immature."     D.    F.   G. 

—  Boston  Transcript  p4  D  1   '23  650w 

"Mr.  Parker  has  the  merit  of  being  frank. 
He  does  not  fear  words  that  say  simply  and 
directly  what  he  means.     At  the  same  time  he 


"One  of  the  important  features  of  the  book 
is  the  abundance  of  fine  illustrations.  They 
add  materially  to  the  effectiveness  of  the  book. 
Other  very  valuable  features  are  the  well- 
selected  and  carefully  qualified  bibliographies 
given  at  the  close  of  each  chapter  and  the  very 
practical  way  in  which  the  source  of  each 
ouotation  is  indicated  in  connection  with  the 
material    quoted."      H.    W.    Nutt 

+  El    School    J    23:548   Mr   '23   650w 

Reviewed  by  W.  C.  Reavis 

School    R    31:391   My   '23    350w 

PARKHURST,    CHARLES    HENRY.      My    forty 
vears  in  New  York.     256p     $2    Macmillan 

B  or  92  23-14814 

Dr  Charles  H.  Parkhurst.  clergyman  and  re- 
former, came  to  New  York  in  1880  as  pastor 
of  the  Madison  Square  Presbyterian  church  and 
later  became  president  of  the  Society  for  the 
prevention  of  crime.  His  exposure  of  the  cor- 
ruption of  the  New  York  police  department  led 
to  its  investigation  by  the  Lexow  committee  and 


400 


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PARKHURST.  C:  H: — Continued 
its  reorganization,  also  to  the  defeat  of  Tam- 
many in  1894.  His  book  contains  his  autobio- 
graphy, a  sketch  of  his  mountaineering  ex- 
periences, a  section  devoted  to  an  account  of  his 
ousting  of  the  Tammany  organization,  and  a 
concluding  section  consisting  of  brief  articles  on 
religious   and   social   questions. 


"There  is  much  charm  in  his  autobiography. 
He  is  kindly  and  mellow."     S.  L.  C. 

4-  Boston  Transcript  p6  N  28  '23  1200w 
"A  characteristic  work — vigorous,  concise, 
outspoken  and  colorful.  The  manner  as  well  as 
the  matter  presents  the  man  who  nearly  a 
generation  ago  waged  his  famous  and  success- 
ful fight  against  Tammany  and  the  system  of 
protected  and  exploited  vice  which  it  main- 
tained." 

+  Springf  d  Republican  plO  N  13  '23  lOOOw 
Wis   Lib    Bui   19:506   D  '23 

PARR,  OLIVE  KATHARINE  (BEATRICE 
CHASE,  pseud.).  Lady  Avis  Trewithen;  a 
romance  of  Dartmoor.   212p  $2   (6s>   Longmans 

22-24228 
An  earl's  daughter  has  the  ambition  to  get 
away  from  her  rank  and  be  an  ordinary  girl, 
to  meet  humanity  on  equal  terms  and  to  be 
loved  for  her  own  sake.  With  the  connivance 
of  her  parents  she  becomes  a  farm  pupil,  vmder 
an  assumed  name,  on  a  farm  in  Dartmoor. 
There  .she  becomes  one  of  the  family,  sharing 
in  their  work,  learning  to  milk,  to  care  for  the 
poultry,  to  assist  in  hay-making,  to  cook,  etc. 
When  trouble  overtakes  the  family  she  becomes 
their  good  angel.  But  her  fate  overtakes  her 
in  the  person  of  a  young  lord,  anonymous 
author  of  her  favorite  novel,  and  romance  and 
w^edding-bells   end   her   escapade. 

Cath  World  116:862  Mr  '23  120w 
"The  circumstances  leading  to  the  denoue- 
ment are  so  exceedingly  complicated  that  the 
reader  is  tempted  to  attribute  the  result  to 
coincidence,  until  he  learns  that  both  Lady  Avis 
and  the  author  evidently  regard  the  whole  af- 
fair as  a  remarkably  neat  working  out  of  fate." 

—  Lit    R    p340   D   23   '22   330w 

"It  is  all  simply  too  sweet  for  words."  Isabel 
Paterson 

—  NY  Tribune  p23  Ja  21  '23  230w 
"Pleasant  little   story." 

h  The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p825    D 

7  "22  150w 

PARRISH.    ANNE.      Pocketful    of   poses.      320p 

$2       Doran 

23-5'520 

"The  story  is  concerned  with  the  innate  de- 
sire of  a  nice  girl  named  Marigold  to  dramatize 
herself  and  to  be  the  character  that  any  one 
else  wants  her  to  be  at  the  time  or  that 
seems  to  her  interesting  for  the  moment.  She 
has  a  sweet  and  lovable  nature  and  beneath 
all  her  pretending  and  posing  are  gentleness 
and  humility  of  heart,  unwillingness  to  hurt 
any  one's  feelings  and  a  real  desire  to  make 
others  happy.  This  characteristic  forms  the 
central  thread  of  the  story,  and  in  the  reac- 
tions and  interactions  it  brings  about  between 
Marigold  and  the  other  people  there  are  evolved 
dramatic  situations,  much  comedy,  an  occa- 
sional hint  of  tragedv  and  considerable  emo- 
tional   interest." — N    Y   Times 


"It  i.s  entertaining  reading,  but  more  than 
that  it  gives  us  clear  suggestions  of  what  Anne 
Parrish  may  do  in  the  future,  when  she  has 
perfected  her  technique  and  brought  her  keen 
irony  to  a  higher  degree  of  effectiveness." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  28  '23  280w 
Cleveland  p2G  Ap  '23 
"Miss  Parrish  has  written  in  a  vein  delight- 
fully humorous  and  kindly,  a  novel  of  life  in  a 
small  town  where  personalities  are  not  all  flat 
as  pancakes.  If  the  plot  itself  is  not  surprizing, 
certainly  its  treatment  is  notably  individual 
and  whimsical." 

-f  Int   Bk   R  p48  Ag  '23  210w 


"  'A  Pocketful  of  Poses'  offers  two  things 
after  all  rare  in  a  first  book,  present  enjoy- 
ment and  promise  with  more  than  a  sporting 
chance  of  fulfilment.  And  it  has  a  special 
piquancy  because  it  is  at  once  sophisticated 
and   naive."     Marion   Ponsonby 

+   Lit    R    p515   Mr    10   '23    llOOw 

"Her  mischievousness  is  manifest;  its  con- 
structiveness  becomes  more  and  more  apparent. 
She  has  written  the  clean  story  with  the  sweet 
heroine,  and  satirized  it,  not  with  malice,  but 
with  gaietv."    Eva  Goldbeck 

+   Nation    116:636   My  30   '23   180w 

"The  story  is  ■v\Titten  so  wholly  in  the  spirit 
of  gay  and  mocking  comedy  that  the  author 
can  never  resist  the  temptation  to  make  her 
people  ridiculous,  if  she  can  thus  make  them 
more  amusing.  Her  gift  of  humor,  of  the  sort 
that  inspires  laughter  at  but  never  laughter 
with  another,  is  marked,  and  her  story  about 
Marigold  and  her  poses  is  a  bright,  amusing, 
clever  but  superficial  tale,  not  without  charm 
in  tiie   depiction   of   its   heroine." 

-(I  _  N    Y   Times   pl2   F   2.5    '23    450w 

"Lightly  told  as  the  story  is,  there  is  a  pene- 
tration in  its  depiction  of  character  that  makes 
it   worth    reading." 

+  The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p605    S 
13   '23   lOOw 

PARRY,   EDWARD  ABBOTT.     What  the  judge 
thought.     283p     $5      Knopf     [21s  Unwin] 

340    Law  23-14682 

Seventeen  essays  on  the  law  and  advocacy 
by  the  judge  of  County  court,  Lambeth.  The 
humor  and  human  quality  of  the  essays  bring 
them  within  the  range  and  enjoyment  of  the 
layman  as  well  as  the  lawyer.  Three  of  them 
have  to  do  with  the  careers  of  American  advo- 
cates— Abraham  Lincoln,  Rufus  Choate,  and  W. 
H.  Seward.  Contents:  Abraham  Lincoln;  Law 
of  the  lost  golf  ball;  Legal  out-patients;  Daniel 
O'Connell;  Passing  of  the  indictment;  Psychol- 
ogy of  perjury;  Whistler  v.  Ruskin;  Mr  Justice 
Maule;  Legal  reform;  Future  of  Portia;  Witch- 
craft and  wizardry;  Rufus  Choate;  Jumbo  in 
chancery;  What  the  archon  did;  Orders  in  coun- 
cil; Coursing  and  the  law;  William  Henry  Se- 
ward. 


"A    series    of    delightful    es.says." 

+  Am   Pol  Sci    R  17:685  N  '23  220w 
Booklist  20:84  D  '23 
"To   the    laymen    they    will    be   a    joy,    to   the 
lawyer  they  will  shine  among  his  more   serious 
volumes  like  a  good  deed  in  a  naughty  WTorld." 
S     L    C 

'  +'  Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  11  '23  900w 
"The  book  as  a  whole,   because  of  its  diversi- 
fied   contents,    defies    classification.      But    it    is 
immensely  good  reading  from  the  first  page   to 
the  last.  It  is  a  unique  book." 

+    N  Y  Times  p22  Jl   15   '23  1050w 
"  'What  the  Judge  Thought'   is  in   every  par- 
ticular,  worth   any  reader's  thinking  about." 
4-  N  Y  World  pl9e  Jl  1  '23  600w 

PARSONS,  FRANCIS.  Friendly  club,  and  other 
portraits.  223p  11  $3  E.  V.  Mitchell,  27  Lewis 
St..   Hartford,   Conn. 

920    United  States— Biography  23-5680 

"A  coterie  of  writers  who  gathered  at  Hart- 
ford after  the  Revolution  became  famous  at 
home  and  abroad  and  were  known  as  'The 
Friendly  club.'  "  (Springf'd  Republican)  "Now 
the  shadows  of  a  century  are  thrust  aside,  and 
one  by  one  we  see  the  members  of  the  Friendly 
Club  and  learn  the  .scope  and  significance  of 
their  literary  work.  Trumbull,  lawyer  and  poet: 
Lemuel  Hopkins,  physician  and  poet;  Colonel 
David  Humphreys,  friend  of  Washington,  on 
whose  staff  he  served  with  distinction;  the 
young  Noah  Webster,  even  then  noted  for  his 
'strangely  intense  powers  of  mental  application'; 
Dr.  Martin  Cogswell,  physician  and  .surgeon  as 
well  as  poet;  Richard  Alsop,  naturalist,  book- 
worm, linguist  as  well  as  budding  poet;  Theo- 
dore Dwight,  lawyer  and  litterateur,  brother  of 
the  'more  famous  Timothy';  and  Joel  Barlow, 
perhaps  the  most  arresting  yet  elusive  person- 


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ality  of  all,  experimenting  by  turn,  in  epic  poetry, 
the  ministry,  the  law,  bookselling,  philosophy, 
journalism,  and  diplomacy;  this  was  the  person- 
nel of  the  Friendly  Club."   (Boston  Transcript) 


Boston  Transcript  p6  Ja  3  '23  1150w 
"Parsons  not  only  contributes  to  literary  his- 
tory; he  has  given  us  a  volume  about  America 
and  Americans  from  which  the  reader  outside 
of  academic  walls  will  derive  an  abundant 
amount  of  quiet  pleasure." 

+   N   Y  Times  p9  Ja  14  '23  900w 

Springf'd    Republican  p8  My  7  '23  800w 

PARSONS,   MRS   MARION    RANDALL.    Daugh- 
ter of  the  dawn.     287p     $2     Little 

23-8082 
The  theme  of  the  story  is  mixed  marriages. 
Liliha  Kniglit  and  Tom  Gregory  are  two  Ha- 
waiian half-castes.  Tom,  educated  in  the 
states,  would  be  quite  satisfied  to  remain  on  the 
islands  and  marry  among  his  own  people.  Not 
so  Liliha.  She  bitteily  resents  her  ambiguous 
position  and  her  ambition  is  to  marry  a  man 
more  white  than  herself.  She  is  even  ready  to 
give  herself  to  a  white  man  as  his  mistress. 
Altho  she  eventually  becomes  a  very  rich  and 
travelled  woman  the  stigma  of  her  birth  re- 
mains a  bitter  tragedy  to  her  and  she  is  re- 
solved that  her  orphaned  granddaughter  shall 
remain  in  ignorance  of  the  taint  in  her  blood. 
For  all  her  efforts  young  Helen  falls  deeply  in 
love  with  Richard,  Tom  Gregory's  son,  and  is 
made  happy  by  the  discovery  that  she  too  is 
of  mixed  blood  and  belongs  to  the  islands. 


"As   a   story   it    is   arresting;   as   a    racial   dis- 
cussion  it   is   vitally   important."    I.   W.   L. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  23  '23  600w 
"Mrs.  Parsons  portrays  her  heroine  justly, 
freely,  with  sympathetic  understanding  and 
with  keen  insight.  It  is,  indeed,  a  remarkable 
fictional  portrait,  because  of  its  rich  emotional 
coloring,  its  touch  of  poetic  imagination  and  the 
convincingness  of  the  realism  with  which  it 
bares  the  soul  of  this  mixed  product  of  civi- 
lization   and    barbarism." 

+    N   Y  Times  p25  Ap  29  '23  600w 
"The    whole    tale    is    absorbing    and    has    the 
ring  of  truth,  even  to  a  reader  unfamiliar  with 
conditions    with    which    Mrs.     Parsons    is    evi- 
dently  conversant."      A.    L.    Hill 

+   N    Y   Tribune   p20   My   20   '23   700w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  27  '23  180w 

PARSONS,  WILLIAM  BARCLAY.  Robert  Ful- 
ton and  the  submarine.  154p  il  $2.50  Columbia 
univ.    press 

B  or  92     Fulton,   Robert.      Submarine   boats 

23-5456 
It  has  long  been  known  that  Robert  Fulton 
had  visioned  the  possibility  of  a  submarine 
boat,  but  not  till  1806.  with  the  discovery  in 
the  French  archives  of  his  plans  for  the  boat 
he  had  constructed  and  an  account  of  negotia- 
Lions  with  the  French  government,  did  the  ex- 
tent of  his  enterprise  appear.  More  recently 
a  manuscript  written  and  signed  by  Fulton,  with 
carefully  executed  drawings,  has  been  discovered 
in  England.  The  book,  after  giving  a  bio- 
graphical sketch  of  Fulton,  an  account  of  early 
attempts  at  sub-surface  navigation  and  of  Ful- 
ton's experiments,  puts  on  record  his  negotia- 
tions with  both  governments  and  reproduces 
his    manuscript   and    drawings. 


Boston  Transcript  p3  Mr  3  '23  660w 
"It  is  uniqiie  and  valuable  not  only  on  ac- 
count of  the  hitherto  unpublished  material  it 
gives  and  the  interesting  addenda  it  makes  to 
modern  engineering  history  but  because  of  the 
impartial  but  sympathetic  character-drawing  of 
Robert    Fulton." 

-t-   N    Y    Times    p20    F    11    '23    600w 
"Gives  for  the  first  time  a  complete  account, 
much    of   it    from    hitherto   unused   material,    of 
Fulton's  invention  of  an  underwater  boat." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p8  D  30  '22  250w 


PATRICK,  DIANA,  pseud.  (MRS  HARRY  J. 
WILSON).  Dusk  of  moonrise  346p  $2  Dutton 
[7s    6d    Hutchinson] 

23-2882 

The  Yorkshire  moors  in  their  sombre  beauty 
form  the  setting  of  this  story.  As  symbolic  aa 
the  title  is  the  name  of  the  heroine,  June  Tem- 
pest. Her  beauty,  from  babyhood,  is  of  such  a 
compelling  sort  that  the  lives  of  three  men  take 
their  coloring  from  its  influence:  her  father  who 
is  consoled  thereby  for  a  disappointing,  limit- 
ing environment;  the  lover  who  arouses  the 
girl's  first  romantic  passion,  but  falls  short  of 
the  role  of  hero;  and  Michael,  who  by  his  unsel- 
fish devotion  and  fidelity  wins  at  last  the  under- 
standing love  of  a  mature  and  more  perceptive 
June. 


"The  author  is  now  as  much  a  writer  as  a 
story  teller.  She  has  a  respect  for  her  art.  There 
are  so  many  elements  of  excellence  in  this  book 
and  it  is  a  step  so  far  in  advance  of  her  last 
one  that  we  are  inclined  to  congratulate  the 
writing  world  on  the  advance  of  Diana  Pat- 
rick." S.  L.  C. 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p6  Ja  24  '23  950w 

"The  early  chapters  of  the  book  are  marred 
by  the  author's  rather  florid  and  involved  'word 
painting'  and  by  her  fondness  for  making  her 
characters  indulge  in  conversations  over-full  of 
literary  allusions,  but  as  the  drama  unfolds, 
these  faults  are  lost  sight  of,  and  the  story 
holds    the   reader's   interest   to   the   exclusion   of 

h   Int   Bk  R  p56  Mr  '23  320w 

"The  author  has  tried  very  hard  to  achieve 
a  beautiful  style,  and  has  succeeded  in  produc- 
ing a  few  good  bits  of  description.  But  the 
greater  part  of  the  excessively  long  book  is 
stilted  and  old-fashioned." 

—  NY  Times  p24  Ja  21   '23  440w 
Reviewed   by   Kenneth    Fuessle 

N    Y   Tribune   p26   F  25  '23   llOOw 
"The     story     certainly     suffers    a  little     from 
'overwriting.'   But  it  is   worth  reading." 

-|-  —  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    pllO    F 
16    '22    90w 

PATRICK,  DIANA,  pseud.  (MRS  HARRY  J. 
WILSON).  Manuscript  of  youth.  344p  $2  Dut- 
ton  [17s  6d  Hutchinson] 

23-9748 

When  Isabel  and  Jocelyn  Chapeldene  come 
under  the  care  of  their  stern  maternal  grand- 
father on  the  Yorkshire  moors,  their  friendship 
for  Rex  Stapleton  the  son  of  a  dnmken  vicar, 
becomes  the  high  light  of  their  lonely  lives  and 
with  adolescence,  this  friendship,  of  Isabel  and 
Rex,  ripens  into  love.  Rex,  rarely  gifted  and 
matured  by  his  lonely  and  unhappy  childhood, 
is  inspired  by  his  love  of  the  moors  and  of  his 
companions  to  write  stories.  They  give  him  his 
first  start  on  the  road  to  success.  But  his  war 
experiences  kill  the  spark  of  genius  in  the  sen- 
sitive boy  and  after  his  discharge  he  finds  him- 
self unable  to  write,  poor  and  discouraged.  The 
sudden  death  of  his  friend  Jocelyn  leaves  him 
in  possession  of  an  entirely  unsuspected  manu- 
script of  merit.  He  yields  to  the  temptation  of 
having  it  published  as  his  own  under  a  pseu- 
donym. It  turns  out  to  have  been  the  work  of 
Isabel,  but  her  love  is  even  greater  than  her 
talent. 


"This  is  a  striking  story  marked  by  an  effec- 
tive and   unusual  plot,   excellent   character  por- 
trayal, convincing  description,  and  clever  work- 
manship. It  excites  keen  interest  in  its  opening 
chapter  and  never  lets  it  flag  to  the  conclusion." 
+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   p8    Ag 
5   '23   180w 
"The    novel    provides    pleasant    entertainment 
without  attempting  deep   analysis  of  character. 
The  many  readers  who  enjoy  safe,    sentimental 
love   stories    will    not    be   disappointed   in    this." 
Drake    de    Kay 

H Lit    R   p896   Ag  11   '23   580w 

Nation   117:sup410  O  10  '23   60w 
"The  reviewer  would  not  be  harsh  to  a  thing 
so   delicately    conceived   as    'The   Manuscript    of 


402 


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PATRICK,  DIANA,  pseud. — Continued 
Youth,'  yet  he  wishes  the  author  had  spent 
less  thought  on  the  butterfly-winged  beauty  of 
her  words  and  more  on  the  utility  of  a  good 
homely  two-fisted  plot.  Day-dreaming  is  pleas- 
ant, but  it  doesn't  write  books  for  a  world  that 
needs  to  see  and  to  know." 

h  N   Y  Times  p21  Jl  1  '23  660w 

"A  more  inconsequent  tale,  in  the  literal 
meaning  of  the  word,  could  hardly  be  cobbled 
together  than  this;  and  yet  some  of  the  ma- 
terial employed  was  worthy  of  better  treatment. 
The  story  is  either  hackneyed  or  absurd 
throughout;  but  whole  pages  of  incidental  de- 
scription or  minor  characterization  are  quite 
delightful." 

-^ NY  Tribune  p21  Jl  8  '23  490w 

"Diana  Patrick  has  revealed  a  happy  knack 
with  titles.  'The  Manuscript  of  Youth,'  bor- 
rowed from  Omar  Khayyam,  is  perhaps  the 
most  appealing  title  of  all.  And  not  less  appeal- 
ing than  this  title  is  the  story  to  which  it  is 
attached — a  love  story,  nothing  more  and  noth- 
ing less,  but  a  love  story  so  presented  as  to 
form  the  best  and  sweetest — in  no  mawkish 
sense — of  Miss  Patrick's  offerings  to  her  readers 
up  to  the  moment."  E.  W.  Osborn 
-f  N   Y  World  pl9e  Je  24  '23  580w 

PATTEE,  FRED  LEWIS.  Development  of  the 
American  short  story;  an  historical  survey. 
3S!Sp   $:2.50   Harper 

813  Short  stories.  American  fiction — His- 
tory and  criticism  23-4306 
Profes.'^or  Pattee  traces  the  history  of  the 
short  story  in  America  from  Washington  Irv- 
ing, whom  he  regards  as  the  first  of  our  short- 
story  writers,  to  O.  Henry.  He  shows  how  the 
arrival  of  the  annual  and  lady's  book,  so 
adapted  to  the  short  prose  tale,  encouraged 
the  growth  of  this  type  of  literature  and  how 
rapid  development  of  the  periodical  favored  its 
extension.  The  book  is  a  combination  of  biog- 
raphy and  literary  history  and  has  to  do  only 
incidentally  with  the  technique  of  the  short 
storv.  Its  chief  exponents,  Washington  Irving, 
Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  Edgar  Allan  Poe,  Bret 
Harte  and  O.  Henry  are  treated  in  separate 
chapters,   and  each  chapter  has  a  bibliography. 


Booklist  19:247  My  '23 
"In  the  main,  Professor  Pattee's  volume  is  a 
splendid  piece  of  work,  rich  in  scholarship, 
graceful  in  style,  and  notable  for  its  sound  and 
keen  criticism.  He  has  a  basic  conception  of 
what  a  short  story  should  be;  his  ideal  of  it  is 
high  and  he  condemns  what  he  regards  as 
deviations  from  sincerity  and  truth.  However 
one  mav  disagree  with  Professor  Pattee's  judg- 
ments on  individual  writers,  there  can  be  no 
question  about  the  high  caliber  of  this  excel- 
lentlv  done  piece  of  work." 

+■  _  cath  World  117:566  Jl  '23  380w 
Cleveland  p78  S  '23 
"Professor  Pattee's  book  is  adumbrated  by 
the  prudent  fallacy  that  a  literary  historian 
must  chronicle  witliout  judging.  The  author's 
opinions,  a  few  of  them  staunchly  independent, 
are  unobtrusively  inserted.  The  book  is  thor- 
ough, but  not  concise;  informative,  but  not 
formative." 

h   Dial    74:522   My  '23   lOOw 

"It  is  unusual  to  find  a  piece  of  minor  literary 
historv  rendered  at  once  with  such  erudition 
and  such  good  sense.  The  chief  fault  of  the 
book,  unavoidable,  one  may  be  forgiven  for 
thinking,  is  that,  concerned  with  the  develop- 
ment of  the  American  short  story,  it  does  not 
show    that    development    very    clearly."      E.    M. 

^ Freeman   7:382  Je  27  '23  34nw 

"It  is  a  reference  book  full  of  information, 
with  all  the  useful  if  unattractive  apparatus  of 
mdexos  nnd  bibliographies.  But  it  is  also  a 
book  which  may  be  read  for  pleasure."  E.  L. 
Pearson 

-I-  Ind    110:162   Mr   3    '23    150w 
Lit   R  p204   N   3  '23  360w 
Reviewed  bv  J.   J.   Smertenko 

Nation   117:243   S  5  '23  500w 


Reviewed    bv    M.    J.    Moses 

N    Y    Times   plO   Ap   8    '23    700w 

"In  the  main  Prof  Pattee's  volume  is  a  valu- 
able piece  of  work,  rich  in  scholarship,  graceful 
in  style  and  notable  for  its  sound  and  keen 
criticism.  He  has  a  basic  conception  of  what 
a  short  story  should  be;  his  ideal  of  it  is  high 
and  he  condemns  what  he  regards  as  deviation 
from  sincerity  and  truth.  However  one  may 
disagree  with  Prof  Pattee's  judgments  of  indi- 
vidual writers,  there  can  be  no  question  about 
the    high   caliber   of   this   work." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  plO  Ap  4  '23  300w 

PAUL,     ELLIOT    H.       Impromptu.      356p     $2.50 

Knopf 

23-7828 

"Taking  a  combination  of  what  may  be  called 
the  "Winesburg,  Ohio,'  and  the  'Three  Soldiers' 
motives,  Mr.  Paul  strives  to  make  them  again 
interesting  and  to  bring  the  dull  intolerance  of 
the  village,  the  dirty  brutality  of  war,  and  the 
irony  of  frustrated  lives  into  a  more  direct 
contact  with  the  reader's  nerves  than  they 
have  ever  been  brought  before.  .  .  The  story 
tells  how  a  perfectly  ordinary  young  man  fell 
in  love  with  a  perfectly  ordinary  young  girl  in 
a  perfectly  ordinary  village.  The  war  sweeps 
the  youth  away  to  a  series  of  brutal  and  stulti- 
tying  experiences  and  when  he  returns  to  find 
that  the  girl,  partly  through  the  power  of  cir- 
cumstances and  partly  through  her  own  sim- 
plicity, has  been  led  into  prostitution,  his  own 
n.'orale  breaks  down  and  he  escapes  from  life 
back  into  the  army,  where  we  see  him  last 
responding  mechanically  to  the  commands 
'Parade    Rest'    and    'Atten-tion!'  " — Lit    R 


"Here  is  an  honestly  written  book  that  has 
in  its  fibre  much  strength,  much  understanding, 
much  human  pity."    S.  L.   C. 

H Boston    Transcript   p4   My   2   '23   850w 

"The  story,  while  well  told,  becomes  monoto- 
nous in  its  unrelieved  drabness."     F.  G. 
h  Freeman   8:47   S   19   '23   200w 

"To  this  reviewer  it  seems  to  be  as  fine  a 
thing  as  the  year  has  produced,  but  people  who 
are  looking  for  a  pleasant  evening's  entertain- 
ment had  better  quit  right  here  and  now  and 
pick  up  something  comparatively  cheerful." 
G.   W.   J. 

-1 Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   plO    Je 

10  '23  880w 

Reviewed  by  L.    M.    Field 

—  Int    Bk    R   p38   Ag  '23   430w 

"There  is  no  doubt  that  the  book  is  the  prod- 
uct of  a  rather  remarkable  talent  and  there  is  no 
doubt  that  Mr.  Paul  succeeds  in  his  immediate 
purpose,  for  some  of  the  scenes  are  as  striking 
as  any  in  recent  literature.  .  .  No  one  who 
reads  'Impromptu'  can  fail  to  pronounce  it  a 
very  striking  book,  but  no  one,  on  reflection, 
could  possibly  call  it  a  great  one.  The  total 
effect  is  rather  that  of  a  very  skilfully  exe- 
cuted stunt."     J.   W.   Krutch 

+  —  Lit    R   p659   My   5   '23   llOOw 

"Written  naturalistically,  like  a  verbal  photo- 
graph it  reveals  both  the  strength  and  weakness 
of  that  method — at  times  dull,  at  times  powerful 
and  sinister  in  its  faithfulness,  hopelessly  clut- 
tered with  irrelevant  detail,  flashing  occasional 
bits  of  brilliant  description  and  narration,  plot- 
less, distracted  and  without  conclusion.  .  .  Mr. 
Paul  shovels  description,  narration,  details  and 
impressions  into  one  disorderly  heap." 
1-   N    Y  Times  p9   Ap  8  '23   850w 

"A  fine  novel,  firm  in  outline,  sharpened  in 
observation,  brilliant  in  spots,  interesting 
throughout  and  unusual  in  point  of  view.  Mr 
Paul  has  here  treated  a  common,  even  a  prev- 
alent, situation  with  sympathy,  insight,  irony 
and  distinction  and  has  left  in  his  record  an 
implied  criticism  of  values  in  these  times.  It 
is  a  novel  of  revolt  and  disenchantment,  but  it 
is  without  a  trace  of  bitterness,  anger,  or  indig- 
nation: the  benevolent  smile  of  pity  and  irony 
suffuses  and  gives  warmth  to  these  page.s. 
which  might  have  remained  all  a  mockery  and 
misanthropy,  so  stark  a  tale  of  misery,  stupidity 
nnd    injustice    (in    its    essence)    is    it."      Burton 

+  N   Y  Tribune  pl8  Ap  15  '23  1550w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


403 


"Having  set  down  the  complaint  that  a  large 
part  of  Impromptu'  covers  fields  very  thor- 
oughly worked,  we  should  add  that  Elliot  Paul 
handles  these  materials  better  than  his  com- 
petitors. 'Impromptu'  outweighs  'Three  Sol- 
diers' according  to  our  judgment.  It  is  far 
freer  from  self-consciousness."  Heywood  Broun 
-) NY  World  p8e  Ap  8  '23  650w 

PEABODY,  FRANCIS  GREENWOOD.  The 
apostle  Paul  and  the  modern  world.  285p 
$2.50     Macmillan 

227     Paul,   Saint  23-6760 

The  teachings  of  Jesus  Christ  have  been  earn- 
estly studied  for  the  practical  guidance  they 
give  in  the  affairs  of  modern  life.  The  transi- 
tion from  this  loving,  persuasive  teaching  to 
the  sterner  and  more  didactic  teaching  of  St 
Paul  has  been  a  long  standing  cause  of  pei-plex- 
ity.  Paul's  problem,  as  Dr  Peabody  finds  it, 
was  to  adjust  the  faith  of  the  Gospels  to  the 
thoughts  and  desires  of  the  Roman  world  of 
his  day  and  it  is  the  author's  problem  to  dis- 
cover the  universal  qualities  in  his  teaching 
and  to  interpret  St  Paul  in  terms  of  the  modern 
world.  He  approaches  the  study  by  reviewing 
the  story  of  St  Paul's  life  and  the  letters  which 
contain  his  teachings. 

"While,  in  everything,  he  will  not  expect  to 
find  his  readers  agreeing  with  him,  he  will  have 
a  large  class  who  will  appreciate  his  fine  spirit, 
broad  learning  and  sane  judgment.  The  author 
in  his  preface  offers  an  apology  for  adding  one 
more  book  to  the  large  number  on  Paul.  He 
need  not,  for  every  book  that  makes  a  con- 
tribution is  needed;  and  this  book  belongs  to 
that  class."     F.  W.  C. 

-{■  Boston  Transcript  p5  Jl  14  '23  550w 
Int  J    Ethics  33:440  Jl  '23  90w 

"While  Prof.  Peabody  will  not,  perhai>s, 
change  the  minds  of  those  to  whom  Paul  is 
neither  lovable  nor  an  essentially  Christian 
figure,  he  has  supplied  a  sympathetic  and  es- 
sentially religious  interpretation  of  Paul's  con- 
tribution   to    Christianity." 

Sprlngf  d   Republican  plO  My  8  '23  470w 

PEABODY,  HENRIETTA  CHANDLER  (MRS 
JOHN  CARLSON).  Outside  the  house  beauti- 
ful: a  collection  of  exterior  views  show- 
ing the  surroundings  of  the  home.  70p  il  $3 
Atlantic  monthly 

710     Landscape   gardening  23-26341 

'"Illustrations  of  dooryards,  lawns  and  gar- 
dens with  brief  texts.  Reprinted  from  the 
House    Beautiful." — Cleveland 


"The  selection  is  admirably  classified.  The 
arrangements  of  garden  beds  and  borders 
leads  one  immediately  from  the  set  and  formal 
to   the   natural   and    attractive." 

-I-   Boston   Transcript  p5   S   15   '23   300w 
Cleveland   p60   Jl  '23 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:158  Je   '23 


PEAR,   TOM    HATHERLEY.     Remembering  and 
forgetting.   242p  $3  Dutton    [7s   6d  Methuen] 

154     Memory  [23-7673] 

While  the  object  of  this  book  is  to  "serve 
as  a  guide-book  to  some  of  memory's  most  in- 
teresting facts"  it  shows  these  facts  to  consti- 
tute the  fundamental  problems  of  psychology. 
It  describes  the  apparatus  of  remembering,  dis- 
cusses at  length  the  difference  between  percept 
and  image,  and  devotes  a  number  of  chapters 
to  the  study  of  the  dream,  thus  linking  up 
normal  psychology  with  psycho-analysis  and  in- 
troducing the  reader  to  the  new  aspects  of  psy- 
chology. Discussions  of  the  laws  of  association 
and  of  the  economy  and  training  of  memory  are 
omitted.  The  last  four  chapters  constitute  an 
appendix  illustiating  the  principles  laid  down  in 
the  book  in  such  phenomena  as  synsesthesia, 
number-forms    and    kinaesthesis.     Index. 


formal  discussions  of  the  topics.  It  is  written 
in  the  characteristic  breezy  style  of  Prof.  Pear, 
and  should  be  of  value  as  an  easy  introductory 
avenue  to  the  subject  of  which  it  treats." 
+  Nature  111:318  Mr  10  '23  200w 
"The  Freudian  view  and  the  Rivers  amend- 
ment are  placed  side  by  side  with  a  wealth  of 
analogy  and  illustration,  which  makes  these 
chapters  delightful  reading,  and  perfectly  easy 
to  grasp  for  people  altogether  untrained  in  psy- 
chology. In  matters  of  controversy  Prof.  Pear 
is  very  cautious.  He  rarely  commits  himself  to 
any  view  whatever  on  a  subject  about  which 
conflicting  opinions  are  held.  The  makes  his 
account  of  the  doctrines  of  other  psychologists 
all  the  more  valuable  to  the  elementary  student 
of  psychology,  and  it  is  to  them,  and  particular- 
ly to  W.E.A.  classes,  that  we  would  recommend 
this  book." 

+   New  Statesman   20:436  Ja  13  '23  520w 
N  Y   Tribune  p21   Ag  19   '23   130w 
St    Louis   21:95   My   '23 
"The    book    is    well    within    the    reach    of    the 
ordinary  reader:   it  is  full  of  interesting  matter 
and  never  dry." 

+  Spec  130:65  Ja  13  '23  250w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p690  O  26 
•22   30w 


PEARSON,   EDMUND  LESTER.  Books  in  black 

or  red.   213p  il  $3.50     Macmillan 

814    Books   and    reading.     Literary   forgeries 
and  mystifications  23-7172 

Written  by  a  book -lover  and  for  the  book- 
lover  this  volume  of  literary  miscellanies  takes 
its  title  from  the  Canterbury  pilgrim  whose  joy 
it  was  to  have  at  his  bed's  head  "twenty  books 
clad  in  black  or  red."  Mr  Pearson  writes  of 
literary  hoaxes,  old  and  new,  among  the  latter 
"The  "cruise  of  the  Kawa"  and  his  own  "Old 
librarian's  almanack";  of  second-hand  book- 
shops; of  some  wizards  and  enchanters  of  the 
golden  age  of  children's  books.  One  chapter  is 
devoted  to  a  defense  of  the  dime  novel  and 
another  to  murder  as  a  theme  in  literature. 
There  is  a  chapter  also  on  that  New  England 
eccentric,  Timothy  Dexter.  The  illustrations 
are    reproductions   from   old   books. 


"Prof.  Pear's  work  is  not  an  ordinary  text- 
book on  the  subject.  Its  net  is  cast  wide  enough 
to  include   much   that   is   usually   not   treated  in 


Reviewed   by   R.    M.   Gay 

Atlantic's    Bookshelf    Jl    '23    500w 

Reviewed   by   A.    C.    Moore 

Bookm   57:358  My  '23   50w 
"As  pleasant  a  collection  of  book  talk  as  one 
can   find   in   a  year's   reviewing." 
+   Bookm   57:471  Je  '23  lOOw 
"Mr.  Pearson  has  gathered  as  happy  a  literary 
miscellany   as   is    to   be   found   anywhere   within 
book  covers.     Nobody  with  a  bookish  corner  in 
his  brain   will   fail   to  read   it;   nobody  who  has 
read  it  will  be  happy  until  he  owns  it."  E.  F.  E. 
+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  18  '23  900w 
Cleveland  p79  S  '23 
"This     is     a     book-lover's     volume.     Tasteful 
binding,    good    paper,     large     type    well    leaded, 
many    illustrations    (but,    strangely,     no     mdex) 
make  it  nearlv  all  that  could  be  desired  on  the 
mechanical  side.   It  would  be  hard  to  imagine  a 
book    more    easy    to    read    or— once    read — more 
pleasant    and   more    profitable    to   go   back    to   a 
second   time."   C.    B.    S.  .   „  ,^ 

-f  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Dally  News  p6  Jl  15 
'23  1200W 
"It  is  a  book  for  those  who  do  not  run  as 
they  read,  but  vield  themselves  leisurely  and 
luxuriously  to  the  charm  of  their  chosen  tomes, 
regardless  of  the  contempt  in  which  these  cher- 
ished volumes  may  be  held  by  the  misguided 
creatures  which  are  ever  seeking  out  'the  good 
edition— the  one  with  the  misprint.'  "  Brander 
Matthews  „„   „„^„ 

-j-   Int   Bk   R  p33  Je  '23  26.50w 

Reviewed  bv  R.  C.  Holliday 

Lit   R  p674   My  12  '23  600w 

"People  to  whom  books  are  living  beings  will 
like  Mr  Pearson's  volume.  They  will  enjoy  the 
illustrations  in  words  and  pictures  and  the  de- 


404 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


PEARSON,    E.    L. — Continued 

lightful  humor  that  runs  throuph  it."     Leo  Mar- 

kun 

+   Nation   116:549   My   9   '23   580w 

"It  is  an  interesting  packet  of  odds  and  ends 
which  Mr.  Pearson  brings  together.  His  mood 
Is  genial   but  his  own   wit  heavy." 

H New  Repub  35:26  My  30  '23  680w 

"His  eyesight  about  people  and  books  is  al- 
ways keen,  and  his  judgment  will  commend 
itself  to  readers  of  sanity,  while  his  comments 
are  frequently  forthright  and  trenchant  even  if 
they  are  invariably  clothed  with  gracious  ur- 
banity and   amused   tolerance." 

+   N    Y   Times  p6  Mr  18   '23  2250w 

"This  book  is  full  of  tidbits  of  curious  in- 
formation; it  is  fantastic,  graceful  and  slyly 
wise.  The  subjects  themselves  are  stimulating, 
and  the.v  are  developed  with  a  skill  that  re- 
touches their  most  prominent  features  and  at 
the  same  time  throws  unsuspected  nuances  into 
relief.  Mr.  Pearson  is  affable  and  merry;  he 
has  a  genius  for  unearthing  what  is  droll  and 
presenting  it  with  an  air  of  whole-hearted  en- 
joyment that  doubled  the  reader's  appreciation." 
Eva  Goldbeck 

-H   N   Y  Tribune  p25  My  6  '23  580w 

"Reading  'Books  in  Black  and  Red'  one  gets 
the  sensation  of  being  cozily  at  ease  in  a  canoe, 
with  the  canoe  drifting  whither  it  will  upon  the 
surface  of  a  placid  lake.  Occasionally  there  Is 
a  gentle  rocking  and  one  opens  one's  eyes  to 
stop  the  day  dream,  and  then  there  is  quietude 
again  and  a  kind  of  perfume  that  connotes,  for 
this  reviewer  at  least,  days  long,  long  ago,  when 
he  read  Indian  tales  by  the  side  of  an  old- 
fashioned  fireplace  in  which  pine  logs  burned." 
L:  Weitzenkorn 

4-   N   Y  World   p9e  Ap  8  '23  1250w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:278   Je   '23 

"It  is  a  book  about  hooks,  for  the  lover  of 
books  and  a  delightful  one  at  that.  Indeed  one 
does  not  need  to  be  a  scholarly  soul  like 
Chaucer's  clerk  to  enjoy  it  to  the  full,  to 
chuckle  over  it,  browse  and  reminisce  over  it 
about  one's  own  adventures  in  bookland,  and 
place  it  when  read,  if  not  at  one's  'beddes  head' 
at  least  near  at  hand  where  one  can  leaf  it 
over  again  and  quote  delectable  portions  of  it 
to  one's  friends!" 

-I-   Sprlngf'd   Republican  p6  My  21  '23  700w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:442   O   '23 

PEDLER,    MARGARET.     Vision   of  desire.   368p 

$2   Doran    [7s    Cd   Hodder   &   S.] 

23-3444 

With  an  unabashed  sentimentality  the  story 
tells  how  Eliot  Coventry  lost  his  faith  in  women 
and  with  difficulty  regained  it.  The  likable 
young  heroine,  Ann  Lovell,  is  the  instrument 
by  which  his  lost  illusions  are  restored,  but  not 
without  some  unhappy  moments  on  her  part 
before  the  hero's  distrust  is  conquered.  In  the 
final  happy  ending  the  woman  who  had  at  first 
betrayed  him  bears  a  helpful  and  unselfish  part. 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  25  '23  980w 
"  "The  Vision  of  Desire'  begins  by  being  an 
excellent  moving-picture  serial.  It  ends  by 
being  a  crude,  one-color  print  of  a  subtle,  mul- 
ticoloied  world.  The  technique  which  saves 
the  first  half  of  the  book   ruins  the  last  half." 

h    l"t    Bk    R    p59   Ap   '23   210w 

"The  subject  of  'The  Vision  of  Desire'  is  the 
pervor.sion  of  a  man's  soul  into  a  scepticism  of 
all  good  through  his  betrayal  by  a  woman.  Here 
is  something  real,  capable  of  genuine  develop- 
ment and  analysis.  And  it  is  all  wasted,  a  little 
bottle  of  precious  liquid  poured  away  into  an 
artificial    lake    of   sentimentality,    conventionally 

—  Nation  and  Ath  31:830  S  23  '22  250w 
"To  write  a  book  which  is  light  without  being 
inane,  romantic  without  being  sentimental  and 
agreeable  without  being  vapid  is  no  small  ac- 
complishment. That  is  the  precise  nature  of 
Margaret  Pedler's  talent,  and  she  has  once 
more  exercised  it  in  this  book  with  noteworthy 
success."     Edith  Leighton 

-f-  N  Y  Tribune  p26  Ap  8  '23  450w 


"  'The  Vision  of  Desire'  is  a  book  which  de- 
votees of  Margaret  Pedler  will  not  care  to  miss. 
True  romance  is  here  and  real  dramatic  ability." 
Ruth   Snyder 

H NY   World  plOe  Ap  15   '23   650w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ap  1  '23  210w 

PEERS,      GERTRUDE      KATHERINE      (SHEP- 
HERD)     (MRS     CHARLES      REED     PEERS). 

Early  northern  painters:  studies  in  the  Na- 
tional gallery.  21 4p  11  %'i  Medici  soc.  [10s  6d  J. 
Cape] 

759    Painting  23-7304 

"Mrs.  Peers  gives  an  illuminating  account 
of  the  origin  of  Medieval  painting  north  and 
south  of  the  Alps.  Besides  the  frontispiece  to 
this  charming  volume — a  reproduction  in  color 
of  Jan  van  Eyck's  picture  of  Giovanni  Arnol- 
fini  of  Luca  and  his  wife,  it  contains  twenty- 
four  illustrations,  monochrome  reproductions 
of  pictures  by  Robert  Campin,  Roger  van  der 
"W'erden,  I'eter  Chri.stus,  Dirk  Bouts,  Hans 
Memling,  Gerard  David,,  Joachim  Patiner, 
Quenten  Masys,  Jan  Gosart  de  Mabuse,  Stephen 
Lochner,  Hans  Holbein  and  several  unknown 
masters  of  various  schools." — Boston 

Transcript 


"It  is  an  interesting  and  useful  little  guide 
not  only  to  the  National  Gallery,  but  also  to  any 
art  collections  where  one  finds  the  early  pic- 
tures   called    'primitive.'  "    N.    H.    Dole 

4-   Boston    Transcript   pi    Ag   25    '23    lOoOw 

"As  a  guidebook  for  a  casual  visitor  who  is 
not  an  art  student  to  a  particular  section  of 
the  English  National  Gallery  Mrs  Peers's  book 
Is  as  good  a  companion  as  one  could  wish  to 
have.  It  is  chatty,  informing,  and  pleasantly 
discursive."    Temole    Scott 

+  Nation    n7:sup408    O    10    '23    280w 

"Mrs.  Peers  covers  the  century  between  Van 
Eyck  and  Holbein  plea.santly,  tactfully,  with 
frequent  discursiveness  and  constant  tolerance, 
in  the  most  reputable  feminine  manner.  Her 
historical  commentaries  are  suggestive  and  ac- 
curate. What  more  is  there  to  be  said?  Such 
books  are  inconsiderable  as  art  criticism  be- 
cause by  their  very  nature  they  seem  designed 
to  stimulate  only  those  least  important  centres 
of  ae.sthetic  appreciation — the  surface-asso- 
ciational    faculties." 

j-  New   Statesman   21:482  Jl   28   '23   220w 

"This  book  will  appeal  to  American  readers 
mainly  because  of  its  careful  and  sympathetic 
description  and  criticism  of  the  pictures  of 
the  early  Flemish,  Dutch,  and  German  masters 
included,  and  also  because  of  the  attractive  il- 
lustration   of    the    volume." 

-f   Outlook    134:48    My   23    '23    30w 

PEMBERTON,  MAX.  I..ord  Northcliffe,  a 
memoir.  250p  $3.50  Doran  [7s  6d  Hodder 
&   S.] 

B  or  92     Northcliffe,  Alfred  Charles  William 
Harmsworth,    1st    viscount  [23-2481] 

This  memoir  of  a  great  newspaper  owner 
is  an  appreciation  by  a  lifelong  personal  friend. 
From  bovhood  Eord  Northcliffe  had  an  over- 
mastering inclination  toward  the  newspaper  and 
at  twenty  had  entered  upon  the  journalistic 
career  which  was  to  cariT  him  so  far.  Mr  Pem- 
berton  follows  the  successive  steps  in  this 
career,  but  chiefly  he  writes  of  Lord  Northcliffe, 
the  man,  and  his  friend.  Of  the  controversies 
of  his  later  life  he  has  little  to  say. 


"It  was  inevitable  that  the  history  of  Lord 
Northcliffe,  the  most  spectacular  figure  in  jour- 
nalism in  his  time,  and  perhaps  in  any  time, 
should  be  told  soon  after  its  completion.  It  is 
fortunate  that  it  should  be  written  by  so  capable 
a  literary  man  and  so  discriminating  a  friend 
as   Mr.   Max   Pemberton."      S.   L.   C. 

4-   Boston  Transcript  p3  Je  9  '23  1400w 
Reviewed    by   H.    W.    Horwlll 

Nation   116:728  Je  20  '23  230w 
Reviewed   bv   Mordaunt   Hall 

N    Y   Times   pi   My  20   '23   3500w 
"He    speaks   chiefly    of     the     friend     and     the 
man— to   him    a   great    and    beloved    friend;    to 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


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all  who  came  in  contact  with  him  a  very  re- 
markable personality  and  a  very  great  patriot." 
J.   C.   Gray 

+  N   Y  Tribune  pl8  Je  3  '23  1300w 
"Mr.    Pemberton    was   deeply  attracted   to   his 
life-long  friend — for    he    so     remained — and    his 
book    is    sympathetic   from    first   to   last." 
+   N    Y    World   pGe   My   20   *23    900w 

Springf'd   Republican  p6  Ag  21  "23  300w 

PENDEXTER,      HUGH.     Pay     gravel.     353p     $2 

Bohbs 

23-6141 

"This  tale  deals  with  the  days  of  the  gold 
rush  to  the  Dakota  Black  Hills  country  in 
1876,  when  that  part  of  the  West  could  still 
honestly  be  called  wild  enough  to  suit  any 
sturdy  adventurer.  The  hero  and  two  compan- 
ions from  the  effete  East  start  out  for  Dead- 
wood  City,  and,  as  must  be  expected,  they  find 
the  trail  lively  going.  There  is  plenty  of  shoot- 
ing and  a  sufficiently  uproarious  run-around  to 
keep  any  one  happy." — Lit  R 


Booklist    19:320    Jl    '23 
Cleveland   p51  Jl  '23 
"  'Pay  Gravel'  depends  for  its  success,  not  on 
novelty  of  material,    unusual   melodramatic   sit- 
uation,   or    fine    writing,    but   on    sheer,    not   too 
incredible,    adventure." 

-f-  Int  Bk  R  p59  My  '23  400w 
"There  is  much  more  solid  substance  to  Mr. 
Pendexter's  wild  Western  stories  than  usually 
belongs  to  that  familiar  class  of  popular  fic- 
tion. He  follows  the  rules  of  the  game  as  to 
his  fighting  hero,  heavy  villains,  hairbreadth 
escapes,  etc.,  but  he  builds  his  stage  scenery 
out  of  good  honest  material,  good  enough  to 
rank  his  work  as  in  some  sort  a  historical 
novel.  Mr.  Pendexter's  style  is  also  above  the 
average." 

+   Lit   R  p667  My  5   '23  200w 
Reviewed  by  E.   W.  Osborn 

N    Y    World   p8e   Ap  1   '23   80w 

PENMAN,  JOHN   SIMPSON.     Irresistible  move- 
ment of  democracy.    729p  $5  Macmillan 
321.8      Democracy.      United    States — Politics 
and  government.  Great  Britain — Politics  and 
government.      France — Politics    and    govern- 
ment 23-12841 
A    study    of    the    progress    of    the    democratic 
movement     during    the     last     one    hundred    and 
fifty   years   and    of    the    realization    of   its    ideals 
in    the   forms   of  popular   government   developed 
in   America,    France   and    England.      The   history 
limits  itself  to  the  striking  events  and  the  ideas 
of  the  leading  men  who  contributed   to  the  ad- 
vance of  democracy    in    these  three  countries. 


"Nobody  reading  these  vividly  written  chap- 
ters will  fail  to  catch  some  of  the  enthusiasm 
which,  if  put  into  policy  and  action,  bids  fair 
not  only  to  equip  democracy  for  further  achieve- 
ments, but  also  to  energize  civilization  in  the 
very  pit  to  which  some  of  our  pessimists  have 
already    consigned    it."      E.    N. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p8    N    17   '23    ISOOw 

"A  better  work  than  the  reviewer  expected 
to  find  it.  Its  title  suggests  that  the  author 
started  out  to  prove  a  thesis  and  then  selected 
and  marshalled  his  evidence  to  establish  it.  Such 
works  are  anathema  to  the  trained  historian. 
In  this  work,  however,  the  author  stops  after 
he   has   stated   his   thesis." 

h  Greensboro     (N.C.)     Dally    News    plO    D 

2   '23   780w 

PENNELL,  ELIZABETH  (ROBINS)  (MRS 
JOSEPH  PENNELL)  (N.  N.,  pseud.).  Guide 
for   the   greedy.    179p    $2    Lippincott    [6s    Lane] 

641  Cookery 
A  new  and  revised  edition  of  the  "Feasts  of 
Autolycus."  first  published  in  1896.  This  is  no 
commonplace  collection  of  recipes  but  a  book 
about  the  romance  of  cookerv.  Each  dish  that 
Mrs  Pennell  describes  is  treated  as  a  work  of 
art  worthy  of  infinite  pains  in  the  preparation 
and  artistic  delight  in  the  eating.  Chapters  on 
some    perfect    breakfasts,    dinners    and    suppers 


are  followed  by  a  dozen  or  so  essays  on  the 
cookery  of  special  articles  of  food— the  simple 
sole,  the  magificent  mushroom,  the  triumphant 
tomato,    the   stirring   savoury,    etc. 

"A  literary  sauce,  slightly  flavored  with  ac- 
curate culmary  information  surrounds  this  vol- 
ume. Reading  it  one  may  forget  to  eat  anything 
at  all.   A  most  charming  book.'' 

-f-   Boston   Transcript   pi   N   17   '23   260w 

•  '^^'^,  ^^  ^*  °"^«  a  delightful  and  a  sadden- 
mg  book.  It  is  delightful  for  that  elect  minority 
who  believe  with  the  author  that  'the  love  of 
good  eat mg  gives  an  object  in  life,'  because  it 
is  lull  of  wisdom  and  wit  on  the  art  of  eating 
It  IS  saddening  because  it  reminds  us  how 
shrunken  are  our  opportunities  for  the  exerci.se 
of  that   noble   art." 

-I-  New  Statesman  21:504  Ag  4  '23  500w 
"Cookery  manuals,  the  standardized  variety, 
have  but  little  in  common  with  her  book; 
rather  is  it  to  be  ranked  as  a  work  of  belles 
lettres  for  gourmets.  It  is  a  collection  of 
sprightly  essays  upon  good  eating,  enjoyable 
indulgence  without  gormandizing,  and  the  pas- 
time of  collecting  cookerv   books." 

+   Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  25  '23  300w 

PERCIVAL,    MACIVER.   Chintz  book.   103p  il   $5 

Stokes    [15s   Heinemann] 
745     Chintz 

"It  was  from  India  that  the  earliest  chintzes  in 
Europe  came.  Though  Europeans  gradually 
learned  the  Indian  methods,  Mr.  Percival 
thinks  the  whole  process  of  manufacture  has 
never  been  carried  out  in  the  production  of  any- 
thing approaching  the  elaboration  of  the  finest 
Indian  examples.  .  .  After  tracing  the  his- 
tory of  chintz,  in  considerable  detail,  the  author 
gives  us  much  practical  advice  as  to  how  to 
choo.se  modern  reproductions  and  how  to  make 
them  'go'  with  the  furniture  of  the  various 
periods." — New  Statesman 

Booklist  20:126  Ja  '24 
"Maclver   Percival's   book,   with   its   many   at- 
tractive    colored     plates,     has     the     chance     of 
awakening    a    real    and    intelligent    interest    in 
the  subject." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  D  15  '23  300w 
New  Statesman  22:186  N  17  '23  350w 
"Mr.  Percival  has  treated  his  subject  in  an 
entertaining  manner,  which  should  appeal  to 
the  general  public  as  well  as  to  the  collector, 
and  the  person  who  is  interested  in  furnish- 
ing his  house  strictly  to  period.  Unlike  most 
writers  on  collecting,  he  is  fully  alive  to  the 
aesthetic  appeal  of  the  examples  he  discus.ses, 
irrespective  of  their  antiquity.  His  aesthetic 
Judgments  are  always  faultless."  W.  McCance 
+  Spec  131:652  N  3  '23  750w 
"The  book  before  us  offers  an  admirable  in- 
troduction to  more  laborious  studies,  and  it  fit- 
l.v  serves  the  author's  main  purpose,  to  assist 
'lovers  of  old  furniture  who  like  to  see  their 
treasures  in  the  setting  best  suited  to  them.' 
It  will  also  be  of  interest  to  those  who  like  to 
trace  the  dogged  insistence  of  inventive  effort 
and  to  all  who  seek  enlightenment  about  the 
familiar    objects    of    daily    life." 

-f-  The   Tinuss    [London]    Lit   Sup    p728   N 
1   '23   560w 

PEROCHON,     ERNEST.       La     parcelle     32;     tr. 

from   the   French   by  Frances  C.   Fay.   348p  $2 

Doran 

23-8241 

"Avarice  is  the  theme  of  the  story.  Young 
Mazureau,  one  of  the  principal  characters,  is 
but  an  embodiment  of  that  repellent  quality. 
Son  of  a  townsman,  but  grandson  of  the  soil, 
he  returned  to  his  ancestral  acres  at  the  age 
of  sixteen,  with  but  one  object  in  life — to  buy 
back  the  land  his  remoter  ancestors  had  owned. 
Once  there  had  been  a  Mazureau  called  the 
Rich:  he  must  have  owned  all  of  fifty  acres,  and 
Lot  32  was  part  of  his  wealth.  So  Grandfather 
Mazureau  and  young  Bernard  Mazureau 
yearned  for  that  lot  as  if  it  had  been  nart  of 
themselves.     Bernard  by  endless  toil  and  every 


406 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


PEROCHON,  ERNEST — Continued 
manner  of  petty  dishonesty  managed  to  save 
enough  to  buy  the  coveted  lot.  He  is  last  seen 
driving  his  plow  across  the  field,  savoring  so 
keenly  the  avid  joy  of  ownership  that  he  did 
not  hear  his  grandfather,  stricken  with  senile 
paralysis,  dying  untended  by  the  boundary 
line."— N   Y    Tribune 


tures  by  his  son  of  this  "professor  of  life," 
drawn  with  loving  and  humorous  appreciation 
and  showing  him  as  economist,  preacher,  stu- 
dent,   and    teacher. 


"M.  Pgrochon  has  achieved  something  very 
fine.  This  is  if  anything  a  more  impressive 
novel  than   Nene."   D.    L.    M. 

+   Boston    Transcript    pi    My    5    '23    1050w 

"The  translation,  by  Frances  C.  Fay,  is  fairly 
good,  tho  it  is  a  little  difficult  to  see  why  any 
one  should  have  taken  the  trouble  to  do  ft. 
The  one  merit  of  the  story  lies  in  the  picture 
it  gives  of  the  French  peasant,  his  intense  love 
for  the  land,  and  his  earnest  desire  to  possess 
as  much  of  it  as  possble."  M.  K.  Ford 
f-   Int   Bk   R  p56  Je  '23  580w 

Reviewed    by   J.    W.    Krutch 

Nation   116:725  Je  20  '23   440w 

"There  can  be  no  question  regarding  P6ro- 
chon's  knowledge  of  the  French  peasant.  The 
air  of  reality  which  is  an  essential  part  of  the 
book  is  unaffected  because  it  is  true.  P^rochon 
has    studied    the    peasant." 

+   N    Y   Times   pl4   Ap   29    '23    650w 

"Of  its  genre,  and  within  its  limitations,  it  is 
an  honest,  careful  and  creditable  piece  of  work. 
Lacking  Zola's  scope  and  brute  strength,  it  is 
also  devoid  of  his  grossness.  .  .  Such  material 
is  too  meager  to  afford  a  rich  book.  It  cannot 
be  other  than  severe  and  in  a  sense  dry.  The 
characters  as  well  as  the  scene  are  set;  the 
action  is  consequently  circumscribed.  It  be- 
comes almost  mathematical.  But  for  an 
American  reader  it  has  the  interest  of  utter 
difference  from  everything  within  our  personal 
experience  and  produces  a  singular  mental  re- 
action, a  protest  and  a  defense.  Extravagance 
becomes  almost  a  virtue  after  contemplating 
such    thrift."      Isabel   Paterson 

+  —  N   Y  Tribune  p22  Ap  29  '23  560w 
N    Y  World   p6e   My   27   '23   580w 

PERRY,     BLISS.     Praise     of     folly,     and     other 

papers.    231p  $2  Houghton 

814  23-1.5166 

A  group  of  papers  on  literary  topics,  most 
of  them  reprinted  from  periodicals.  Contents: 
The  praise  of  folly:  The  written  word;  Poetry 
and  progress;  Dana's  magical  chance;  John 
Burroughs;  The  colonel's  quality;  Emerson's 
most  famous  speech;  Emerson's  savings  bank; 
James  Russell  Lowell;  Woodrow  Wilson  as  a 
man  of  letters;  Literary  criticism  in  American 
periodicals. 


Booklist  20:131  Ja  '24 
"Wise,  tolerant,  interesting  book."  J.   F. 
+   Bookm    58:460   D   '23    SOOw 
Freeman    8:383    D    26    '23    50w 
"This    is    a   vivid    and   admirable    essay   style. 
It   is   the  humanistic  method,    the   recreation   of 
a    scene    in    such   a   manner   that   it    lives   again 
for  the   reader."   H.    S.   Gorman 

+   N  Y   Times  p5   N   25   '23   1650w 
"It  may  be   said   in   passing  that   Prof.    Perry 
wields   a   very   pretty   pen." 

-I-  N  Y  World  p7e  N  4  '23  250w 
"Prof  Perry's  book  runs  a  pleasing  course 
from  mild  exhortation  through  appreciative 
exposition  of  some  great  figures  of  our  literary 
past — Dana.  Emerson,  Lowell — down  to  criti- 
cism and  analysis  pertaining  to  our  own  day." 
+  Springf'd    Republican   p8   D   8  '23   1450w 

PERRY,    CARROLL.       Professor    of    life.      113p 

$1.25     Houghton 

B  or  92  Perry,  Arthur  Latham  23-9089 

The  subject  of  this  memoir,  Arthur  Latham 
Perry,  was  for  many  years  professor  of  history 
and  political  economy  at  Williams  college,  a 
writer  in  the  field  of  economics  and  one  of  the 
leading  advocates  in  this  country  of  free  trade 
and  tariff  reform.  The  book  is  not  a  formal 
and   continuous  biography,   but  a  series  of  pic- 


"The  book  is  surprisingly  honest,  and  whether 
one  ever  knew  Professor  Perry  or  not,  one  can 
believe  the  estimate  to  be  fine,  true  and  hu- 
morous. As  a  piece  of  writing  (grant  the  na- 
tural enthusiasm)  there  are  no  hackneyed  mo- 
ments, no  cradle  to  the  grave  presentation,  but 
selected  excerpts,  relatively  important  to  a  good 
understanding  of  the  man." 

+   Boston   Transcript  p3  Je  30  '23  200w 
Springf'd  Republican  p7a  JI  22  '23  750w 

PERRY,  LILLA  (CABOT)  (MRS  THOMAS 
SERGEANT  PERRY).  Jar  of  dreams;  a  book 
of  poems.   llSp  $1.50  Houghton 

811  23-5154 

Quiet,    pensive    poems,  keyed    thruout    in    a 

minor     tone     and     using  the     old     forms     and 
rhythms. 


"A  sentiment  lofty  and  true  pervades  her 
work.  She  looks  on  life  steadily  and  sees  it 
whole.  There  is  no  straining  after  effect  in 
her  emotional  poems."     C.  K.   H. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  Ap  21  '23  llOOw 

"A  collection  of  commonplace  lyrics  and  son- 
nets." 

—  Outlook  133:854  My  9  '23  lOOw 

"One  may  suggest  that  a  lyricist  who  always 
chooses  the  minor  key  and  muted  strings  does 
so  from  some  perception  of  his  emotional  limi- 
tations. Yet  Mrs  Perry's  poems  have  their 
compensating  qualities.  They  are  humorous, 
ironic,  cool.  She  perceives  the  essential  absurd- 
ity and  inutility  of  life  and  yet  does  not  become 
irritated." 

1-  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  22  '23  300w 

"Calm,  precise,  and  uniform,  these  numerous 
compositions  are  rather  elegances  than  poems. 
The  reader  admires,  but  is  unlikely  to  be  kin- 
dled into  enthusiasm  by,  the  command  over 
verse  outline  and  the  dignified  thoughts  exem- 
plified in  them." 

h  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p219  Mr  29 

'23    70w 

PERRY,  STELLA  GEORGE  (STERN)  (MRS 
*  GEORGE  HOUGH  PERRY).   Come  home;  a 

romance   of   the   Louisiana    rice-lands.    367p   $2 

Stokes 

23-13008 

"Mrs.  Perry  chooses  the  Southern  Louisiana 
parishes  for  her  locale.  Daniel  Barde,  a  shell 
shocked  soldier,  is  sent  by  his  mother  back  to 
his  childhood  home  on  the  plantation.  Camille 
Berenicia  La  Grande,  his  old  playmate,  is  now 
manager  of  the  La  Grande  plantation,  fighting 
against  the  odds  of  broken  machinery  on  a  run- 
down place,  and  the  extravagances  of  a  spend- 
thrift brother  and  mother,  and  an  incompetent 
if  lovable  father.  Camille,  who  is  known  as 
'Flame  of  the  Birds'  is  also  guardian  of  the 
egrets  against  the  criminal  plume  hunters. 
David  and  Camille's  romance  ripens  in  the  midst 
of  exciting  episodes.  The  picture  of  the  social 
life  of  these  parishes  tributary  to  New  Orleans 
is  pleasantly  given." — Lit  R 

"There  are  some  fiashes.  very  brief,  of  a  skill 
in  character  delineation  which  might  be  de- 
veloped." 

4-    Lit   R  p240  N  10  '23  280w 

"The  outstanding  fact  about  the  book  is  that 
the  author  is  writing  of  a  country  that  she 
knows  and  loves  and  that  she  has  brought  to 
her  work  the  artistic  skill  to  impart  its  charm 
to  those  who  have  had  no  experience  of  it.' 
E.  H.  Wyman 

-(-NY   Tribune  p22  D  2  '23  700w 

PERRY,  W.  J.  Children  of  the  sun;  a  study 
in  the  early  history  of  civilization.  551p  $8 
Dutton      [18s    Methuen] 

571    Civilization,  Ancient.    Man,  Prehistoric. 
Sun-worship 
"The  book  may  bo   said  to  mark  an  epoch  in 
the    study    of   anthropology.       Mr.    Perry    boldly 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


407 


champions  the  historical  method  as  against 
those  who,  Uke  Professor  Westermarck,  accumu- 
late examples  of  apparently  similar  practices 
from  all  over  the  world,  and  assume  that  such 
practices  were  developed  independently,  or  as 
against  the  geographers  who  suppose  that  early 
man  was  the  puppet  of  climate  and  weather. 
Mr.  Perry  holds  that  early  man,  like  later  man, 
Aioved  about  in  search  of  the  things  he  wanted 
— whether  it  was  food,  or  stone,  or  the  'life- 
givers'  such  as  gold  and  pearls,  turquoise  and 
amber — and  that  he  was  not  deterred  by  the 
perils  of  travel  by  land  or  by  sea.  The  author's 
thesis  is  that  an  early  food-producing  civiliza- 
tion was  developed  in  iEgypt  and  spread  east- 
ward to  India,  Malaysia,  the  Pacific  Islands, 
Australia,  and  thence  to  Central  America  under 
the  Mayas,  and  through  North  America.  His 
closely-knit  argument  is  based  on  a  multitude 
of  well-attested  facts  and  native  traditions, 
which  gain  greatly  in  significance  by  being 
brought  together.  Mr.  Perry  throws  much  new 
light,  not  only  on  sun-worship  and  pyramid- 
building,  gold-mining  and  pearl-fishing,  but 
also  on  the  development  of  society  and  religion 
in  general." — Spec 


"Mr.  Perry's  researches  are  of  high  import  to 
the  anthropologist  and  ethnologist,  but  they 
are  of  even  more  value  to  the  statesman  who 
can  read  between  the  lines  of  his  literary  pre- 
sentation of  the  orgins  and  progress  of  our  hu- 
man civilization."     Temple   Scott 

+  Nation    117:609   N   28   '23   I250w 

"Mr.  Perry  is  already  well  known  to  anthro- 
pologists but  his  present  book  puts  his  work  on 
a  wider  plane  than  heretofore.  The  facts  with 
which  he  deals  are  in  theinseives  sufficient  to 
ensure  that  his  book  shall  be  interesting,  but 
his  theory  is  even  more  remarkable.  .  .  It  is 
hardly  necessary  to  say  that  there  is  a  good  deal 
that  is  controversial  in  this,  the  first  portion  of 
his  study,  but  a  very  great  accession  of  knowl- 
edge is  bound  to  come  from  the  discussions  it 
will  provoke." 

-h     New  Statesman  22:88  O  27  '23  850w 

"The  Children  of  the  Sun  has  not  the  literary 
charm   of   The   Golden   Bough,    but   its   scientific 
significance,    we   make    bold    to   say,    is   not   less 
than  that  of  Sir  James  Frazer's  classic  work." 
-I-  Spec   131:428    S   29   '23    800w 

PERTWEE,    ROLAND.     Singing  wells.     314p    $2 

Knopf 

23-9688 

"A  story  of  Algiers,  how  fate  took  John  Len- 
nox Casallis,  seeking  to  shut  out  the  picture  of 
Eve,  whom  he  had  left  far  behind  in  England, 
and  Meriem  of  Kasbah,  a  beautiful  Arabian, 
out  into  the  desert  and  the  singing  wells,  and 
how  Eve  reappears,  desiring  the  love  she  had 
once  refused." — Pub  W 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  30  '23  600w 
"The  conversation  is  animated  and  carries 
the  story  along  at  a  canter.  The  real  lack  in 
the  book  is  sinceiity  of  motivation.  Results 
are  too  often  machine-made  rather  than  in- 
evitable, but  the  story  is  entertaining  and 
likely  to  prove  popular  for  August  reading."  H. 
J.   Gilchrist 

-^ Int    Bk    R   p40  Ag  '23   420w 

Lit  R  p74  S  22  '23 
"There  is  a  certain  amount  of  padding  in  the 
book  which  might  have  been  omitted  to  the 
advantage  of  the  narrative,  but  it  has  several 
exciting  episodes,  and  is  for  the  most  part  well 
written." 

H NY  Times  p22  Je  17  '23  820w 

"This  chivalric  romance  is  written  in  nice 
clear  English,  up  to  the  best  magazine  serial 
standard,  and  can  be  read  without  eye  strain, 
if  not  without  astonishment."  Isabel  Paterson 
—  NY  Tribune  p20  Je  24  '23  500w 
"  'The  Singing  Wells'  is  full  to  the  limit  of 
stunts.  When  it  is  filmed  thev  will  have  to 
use  asbestos  screens.  Nevertheless,  it  is  writ- 
ten in  a  style  as  unexceptionable  as  it  is  vivid. 
It  proves  that  an  author  does  not  have  to  drop 
out  of  his  English  in  order  to  prove  that  he  is 
in  a  rush."     E.  W.   Osborn 

-] NY   World   pl9e   .Te   24   '23    440w 


"Some  of  the  characters  seem  to  be  the  fami- 
liar stock  types,  until  they  fool  the  reader  by 
becoming  real.  The  writing  is  good,  though 
there  are  a  few  places  in  which  the  author's 
cleverness  exhibits  itself  instead  of  gaining  the 
desired    effect." 

-\ Springf'd     Republication    p7a    Jl    15    '23 

350w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p558   Ag 
23    '23    220w 

PETRIE,    WILLIAM     MATTHEW     FLINDERS. 

Social   life   in   ancient   Egjpt.    210p   $2   Hough- 
ton  [6s  Constable] 

913.32  Egypt. — Social  life  and  customs 
A  sketch  of  the  way  men  lived  in  the  Nile 
valley  in  ancient  times.  The  book  describes 
the  classes  of  society,  administration  of  govern- 
ment, the  moral  code,  private  life,  supplies  and 
commerce,    and    building. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  D  29  '23  470w 
"This  volume  will,  I  think  be  found  indispens- 
able by  amateurs,   who  will  place  it,  as  a  coni- 
plement,     between    Budge's    recent    works    and 
Weigall's    'Akhnaten.'  "    Robert    Hillyer 
-I-   Freeman    8:309  D   5   '23   llOOw 
"It  is  a  most  interesting  volume,    clearly  and 
concisely  written   with   a  simplicity   and  direct- 
ness which  make  it  easy  to  read  as  well  as  fas- 
cinating."    L,.   M.   Field 

+  Int    Bk   R  pl45   Ja   '24   750w 
"It    is    a   thoroughly    documented    and    intelli- 
gently   arranged    work,    from    which    irrelevant 
and    repetitious    material    has    been    rigorously 
winnowed." 

+   Nation  117:670  D  5  '23  80w 
"Very    interesting  account." 

-I-   New   Statesman   21:526   Ag   11    '23    90w 
R  of  Rs  69:109  Ja  '24  30w 
"No  one  could  be  better  qualified  to  write  it 
than  Dr.  Flinders  Petrie,  for  he  is  not  only  one 
of    the    highest    living    authorities    on    ancient 
Egypt,   but  he  has  a  pleasant  gift  of  breathing 
life    into    the    dry    bones    of   mere    archaeological 
'facts." 

+  Sat   R  136:579  S  8  '23  560w 

"A  delightfully  readable  little  book." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  pl2  N  30  '23  550w 
"Altogether,    it    is    a    fascinating    little    book 
for    those   who   wish    to    learn   something   about 
one   of   the   first   civilizations." 

-f   The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p489    Jl 
19   '23   220w 
Wis  Lib   Bui  19:507  D  '23 

PEYSER,    ETHEL   R.     Cheating  the  junk-pile; 

with   an   introd.    by  Richardson    Wright.    402p 

11  $3  Dutton 
640       Household    appliances  23-1058 

This  book  of  advice  about  the  purchase  and 
care  of  household  appliances  is  intended  to 
cheat  the  junk-pile  by  inspiring  the  buyer  to 
get  the  utmost  advantage  out  of  every  purchase 
thru  wise  buying  and  proper  care  of  equipment 
after  it  is  acquired.  The  book  explains  what 
the  householder  needs  to  know  about  the  prac- 
tical home  use  of  electricity,  about  such  modern 
appliances  as  electric  washing  machines  and 
vacuum  cleaners,  about  electric,  gas  and  oil 
stoves,  heating  and  ventilation,  kitchen  furnish- 
ings, water  supply,  lighting,  fire  prevention,  etc. 
Bibliography. 

Booklist  19:181  Mr  '23 
"The  book  is  intended  primarily,  perhaps,  for 
the  use,  advice  and  instruction  of  young 
housekeepers  or  intending  housekeepers.  It  is 
useful  for  the  guidance  of  housekeepers  of  all 
ages  and  conditions,  not  the  poor  alone,  but  all 
who  recognize  the  value  of  economy  and  good 
living  " 

+   Boston   Transcript  p4  D  30  '22   300w 

"A  most  helpful  and  interesting  volume." 
-f   Lit  R  p524  Mr  10  '23  250w 

"It  [is  not]  a  book  to  be  read  hurriedly  and 
then  consigned  to  the  junk  pile.  Rather  should 
it    be    kept    within    easy    reachmg    distance    by 


408 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


PEYSER,  ETHEL  R.~Continued 
every  manager  of  a  home;  its  text-book  quality 
IS  not  negligible.     P>om  its  first  chapter  to  the 
last,   there  is  a  wealth  of  fact   seasoned  with  a 
dash  of  detail  that  lessens  the  problem  of  every 
day  'bread  and  butter  setting  forth.'  " 
+   N   Y   Times  p9    F  11   '23  llOOw 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:80   Mr   '23 

PFISTER,  OSKAR  ROBERT.  Expressionism  in 
art;  its  psychological  and  biological  basis; 
auth.  tr.  by  Barbara  Low  and  M.  A.  MUgge. 
272p  il   $3   Button  ^"Bee. 

130  Expressionism  (art).  Psychoanalysis 

[23-9870] 
"Dr.  PHster's  work  is  a  study  by  psycho- 
analytic^ methods  of  a  French  artist  suffering 
from  depression,  who  came  to  the  author  for 
psychological  treatment.  In  addition  to  the  an- 
alysis of  his  dreams,  the  artist  was  asked  to 
draw  whatever  he  liked,  and  these  drawings, 
usually  of  an  extremely  unconventional  char- 
acter, were  treated  In  the  same  way  as  the 
dreams.  The  results  are  very  interesting,  both 
from  the  insight  obtained  into  the  personality  of 
the  artist  and  also  from  the  light  thrown  on 
that  type  of  art  generally  known  as  expres- 
sionism. The  first  part  of  the  book  is  a  study 
from  a  psychological  point  of  view  of  the  artist; 
the  second  part  discusses  the  psychological  and 
biological  background  of  expressionism." — Na- 
ture 


Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  29  '23  330w 
"Pfister  set  out  to  give   us   the  details  of  an 
interesting  medical   case;    he   finished   by   giving 
an  exposition  of  art  which  is  of  far  greater  in- 
terest."    Temple  Scott 

+  Nation  118:37  Ja  9  '24  900w 
_  "It  is  a  very  interesting  study,  both  of  a 
particular  man  and  of  an  art  movement;  but 
the  method  of  writing  is  discursive,  and  the 
book  might  with  advantage  be  considerably 
condensed." 

H Nature  111:736  Je  2  '23  250w 

"This  book  seems  to  me  to  be  so  stimulating 
so  thrilling  and  novel  a  discussion  of  certain 
art  problems  in  terms  of  the  new  psychology 
that  it  must  hold  equal  interest  for  the  specialis"t 
and  for  the  layman  in  psychology  and  in  art 
whatever  his  bias  on  any  of  the  main  lines  of  Dr' 
poster's  study— psychological,  biological,  philo- 
sophical, social  or  aesthetic."  Will  Cuppy 
+  N  Y  Tribune  plS  O  7  '23  1750w 

PFISTER,  OSKAR  ROBERT.  Some  applica- 
tions of  psychoanalysis.  352p  $5  Dodd  [16s 
Allen   &  U.] 

130     Psychoanalysis  23-8992 

"In  the  first  part  of  the  book  he  outlines  the 
nature  of  the  psychoanalytic  method  and  dis- 
poses of  the  chief  objections  which  have  been 
urged  against  it  in  a  capable  manner.  Follow- 
"l&^i"is  are  some  remarks  on  the  investigation 
of  the  sources  of  artistic  inspiration  A  few 
pages  are  given  to  considerations  of  peace  and 
war,  a  subject  which  no  writer  seems  able  to 
avoid  nowadays.  The  next  hundred  pages  are 
devoted  to  philosophical  considerations  and  indi- 
cate ways  by  which  psychoanalysis  may  yet  be 
harmonized  with  metaphysics.  Pfister  shows 
that  the  extreme  views  of  some  psychoanalysts 
are  not  entirely  tenable.  He  holds  that  the  phi- 
losopher should  himself  be  analyzed  and  then 
freed  from  his  complexes,  he  would  be  able  to 
dwell  without  discomfort  in  the  rarefied  regions 
of  pure  reason.  .  .  Pfister  closes  his  book  with 
a  discussion  of  the  value  of  psychoanalysis  in 
missionary  work." — Lit  R 


Cleveland   p58   Jl    '23 
Reviewed   by   J.    Langdon-Davies 

Int  J    Ethics  24:99  O  '23   lOOw 

T,/t"fl^^J^l'  Poster's  book,  'The  Psychoanalytic 
Method,  remains,  in  spite  of  minor  faults,  the 
best  epitome  of  psychoanalysis  in  English.  His 
present  volume  is  in  a  way  a  sequel  to  it  "  J- 
ill.   Lind 

+   Lit   R   p566  Mr  31   "23  750w 


"There  is  a  want  of  correlation  between  the 
different  essays,  and  it  is  doubtful  whether  a 
reader  new  to  the  subject  would  find  it  made 
sufficiently  clear:  yet  the  book  is  useful  to  place 
in  the  hands  of  people  who  see  only  evil  in 
psycho-analysis."    Millais    Culpin 

—  +   Nature    112:87   JI    21   '23   700w 

"Dr.  Pfister's  chapter  on  'Psycho-analysis  and 
Missionary  Work,'  in  which  he  advocates  the 
use  of  psycho-analysis  as  a  means  of  converting 
those  outside  his  own  faith,  will  probably  dis- 
turb some  of  the  analysts  quite  as  much  as  it 
may  surprise  some  missionaries.  It  is  perhaps 
the  outstanding  section  of  a  book  of  the  greatest 
importance  to  all  the  mental  sciences,  and  as 
such  should  receive  the  peaceable  attention  of 
any  student  or  worker  in  these  fields,  whatever 
his  religious  views."     Will  Cuppy 

+   N   Y  Tribune  pl9  Ap  1  "23  1050w 
St    Louis   21:95   My    '23 

"There  can  be  nothing  but  praise  for  Dr. 
Pfister's  newly  translated  work.  The  author 
is  a  Protestant  divine  and  not  a  medical  man, 
therefore  his  work  attracts  a  wider  public  than 
that  which  interests  itself  in  psycho-pathology 
from  an  exclusively  medical  viewpoint.  The 
work  is  scrupulously  scientific  and  intensely 
critical — clearly  the  work  of  a  trained  philo- 
sopher." 

+  Spec  130:595  Ap  7  '23  300w 

PHELAN,  JAMES  DUVAL.  Travel  and  com- 
ment. 318p  il  ?4  A.  M.  Robertson,  222  Stockton 
St.,   San  Francisco 

910     Voyages   and  travels  23-5290 

The  author  of  this  accovmt  of  a  leisurely  tour 
around  the  world  in  1921  and  1922  is  the  former 
senator  from  California.  Sailing  from  home 
westward,  he  visited  Hawaii,  Japan,  China,  the 
Philippines,  India,  Egypt,  Palestine,  Italy,  the 
French  battlefields,  a  bit  of  Germany,  the  Irish 
Free  State,  London  and  Paris.  The  author's 
interests  are  naturally  reflected  in  his  comments 
on  racial  and  political  questions  in  the  countries 
visited. 


Boston  Transcript  pll  Mr  24  '23  450w 
"He  gives  a  new  note  to  the  literature  of 
travel.  The  book  is  nothing  if  not  original, 
and  the  frankness  and  wit  of  the  author  may 
almost  disarm  the  serried  ranks  of  those  critics 
who  believe  him  to  be  a  social  and  politicai 
heretic."      M.    F.    Egan 

+   Int   Bk    R  p36  Je  '23   2200w 
"Contains     interesting,     often     caustic     com- 
ment." 

-I-   N   Y  Times  pl8  F  25  '23  330w 
Reviewed   by   E:    A.    Bradford 

N  Y  Times  pll  Ap  1  '23  1600w 
"He  had  a  good  time  on  his  travels  and  his 
observations  are  both  entertaining  and  inform- 
ative. .  .  It  is  a  pity  that  so  well  printed  a  hook 
could  not  have  been  decently  proof-read."  D. 
C  S 
■   +  _  N   Y  World  p7e  Mr  4  '23  360w 

PHELPS,    WILLIAM    LYON.    As   I    like    it.    236p 

$2    Scribner 

814     Books    and    reading  23-12911 

The  twelve  articles  here  contained  are  re- 
printed from  Scribner's  magazine.  They  are 
a  chatty  record  of  monthly  impressions,  run- 
ning comment  on  books,  plays  and  music  with 
now    and    then    an    e.Kcursion    into    other    fields. 


Booklist  20:131  Ja  '24 
"The  book  has  a  quietly  insistent  charm.    His 
courage  shows  itself  in  insisting  upon  the  recog- 
nition   of   current   books    which   other   reviewers 
pay  no  attention  to." 

-I-  Bookm  58:481  D  '23  170w 
Dial  75:614  D  '23  lOOw 
"There  is  a  good  deal  that  is  suggestive  in 
them,  and  even  provocative  in  a  good-humored 
way.  This  writer's  popularity  is  due,  it  seems, 
less  to  any  high  distinction  as  a  man  of  letters 
than  to  the  net  effect  of  his  personality."  H. 
W.    Boynton 

Lit   R  p406  D  29  '23  850w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


409 


Reviewed  by  G.  H.  Carson 

Nation   118:67  Ja  16  '24  310w 
Reviewed  bv  H.   J.   Mankiewncz 

N  Y  Times  plO  N  25  '23  llOw 
"Tlie  interest  that  this  book  has  is  derived 
from  Mr  Phelps's  good  sense  and  witty  allusive- 
ness  as  displayed  in  relation  to  things  in  gen- 
eral. Of  criticism  there  is  little;  of  arrange- 
ment   none.     Yet    there     is    likableness    in    all 

his    rambling."  „„ 

-\ Springf'd    Republican   p6   O   13   '23   660w 

Wis    Lib   Bui   19:506  D  '23 

PHELPS,  WILLIAM  LYON.  Some  makers  of 
American  literature.  187p  $2.50  Marshall 
Jones 

810.4      American       literature — History       and 
criticism  23-10170 

Six  lectures  delivered  at  Dartmouth  college  in 
1922,  on  the  Guernsey  Center  Moore  foundation. 
Contents:  The  man  of  the  world  and  the  man 
of  God:  [Jonathan  Edwards  and  Benjamin 
Franklin]:  a  dramatic  contrast;  Spirit  of  ro- 
mance: James  Fenimore  Cooper;  Political  ideals: 
Daniel  Webster  and  Abraham  Lincoln;  Na- 
thaniel Hawthorne  and  Puritanism;  The  Ameri- 
can philosopher:  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson;  The 
American   humorist:    Mark    Twain. 


Booklist  20:15  O  '23 
Bookm  58:216  O  '23  200w 
""We  find  many  pleasant  literary  opinions  in 
this  volume,  but  we  discern  little  trace  of  re- 
search. On  the  whole,  we  are  afraid  that  this 
popular  author  has  too  many  irons  in  the  fire 
and  that  his  output  may  be  a  little  lacking  in 
sub.stance   thereby."   S.    L.   C. 

4 Boston   Transcript  p5   O   27   '23   800w 

"Professor   Phelps   is  not   the   mere   trumpeter 

of    other    men's    thoughts.        He    is    an    original 

thinker  whose  scholarship,  sanity,  and  brilliancy 

combine  to  make  this  volume  notable."  J.  J.   R. 

+  Cath   World   118:429  D  '23   550w 

Dial    75:508    N    '23   90w 

"One  wanting  well  written,  genial  pages  of 
explanation,  discussion,  and  anecdote  concern- 
ing some  of  the  chief  figures  in  American  litera- 
ture will  be  well  repaid  for  adding  this  volume 
to   his   library."     C.   A.   H. 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  plO  D 
16  '23  500w 
"Professor  Phelps  is  just  as  much  alive  and 
awake  as  Anti-Professor  Mencken.  He  uses  a 
twinkle  instead  of  a  snarl  because  of  a  tem- 
peramental (not  to  say  racial)  preference  for 
amenity  as  against  SchreckUchkeit.  He  does  not 
profess  to  be  an  impassioned  delver  among  the 
foundations  of  huinan  character  and  letters.  He 
is  good-humoured,  reasonable,  urbane,  and  we 
needn't  be  ashamed  of  liking  him  for  these 
moderate  virtues."  H.  W.  Boynton 
+  Lit  R  p912  Ag  18  '23  950w 
"Although  his  sentences  fire  not  always  con- 
nected with  one  another,  they  are  connected 
with  God.  He  is  not  iirhane,  but  there  is  no 
malice  in  him;  he  is  not  a  great  critic,  but  he 
is  .1  good  .'^ort  of  a  person  to  instil  in  youth.?  a 
love  for  literature;  he  is  one  of  those  for  whom 
the  profession  of  criticism  has  only  one  attrac- 
tion— the  pleasure  of  praising.  I  adore  Billy 
Phelps."    Burton    Rascoe 

+  Nation  117:464  O  24  '23  1500w 
"One  of  the  best  of  the  lectures  is  the  first, 
comparing  and  contrasting  Jonathan  Edwards 
and  Benjamin  FVanklin.  Professor  Phelps  ad- 
mires them  both,  but  in  his  display  of  some- 
thing even  warmer  than  admiration  for  that 
eighteenth  century  bigot  of  ours  it  is  difficult  to 
follow  him  Professor  Phelps,  however,  is 
catholic  in  his  tastes.  He  can  admire  Franklin, 
who  was  anything  but  a  bigot,  even  more 
warmly  than  Edwards."  H:  J.  Forman 
H NY  Times  pl8  22  '23   6«0w 

R  of  Rs  68:222  Ag  '23  lOOw 
"The   style   is  light,   informal,    and,    of  course, 
anecdotal.     It   is  undoubtedly  an   excellent  style 
for  capturing  the  attention   of  a  youthful   audi- 


ence. But  it  does  not  read  impressively,  though 
we  can  relish  his  sallies  of  wit,  which  at  times 
are  really  illuminating  and  at  times  irrelevant." 

f-   Springf'd   Republican  p8  Jl  7  '23  800w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:479  N*  '23 

PHILBY,  HARRY  ST  JOHN   BRIDGER.     Heart 
of  Arabia;  a  record  of  travel  and  exploration. 
2v  386;354p  il  $16  Putnam  [63s  Con.stable] 
915.3      Arabia — Description    and    travel 

[22-18529] 
Mr  Philby  went  to  Arabia  in  1917  on  a  British 
political  mission  and  remained  there  for  nearly 
a  year.  He  crossed  Arabia  from  the  Persian 
gulf  to  the  Red  sea,  spending  considerable  time 
at  Riyadh,  the  Wahhabi  capital,  and  his  obser- 
vations enabled  the  Royal  Geographical  society 
to  chart  great  tracts  of  country  hitherto  un- 
explored. The  volumes  contain  not  only  an 
account  of  his  mission,  but  much  inforination 
about  central  Arabia,  its  geography,  geology 
and  botany,  and  about  the  Bedouins  and  their 
customs.  Maps  are  included,  also  a  glossary 
of  Arabic  terms  and  an  index. 


Boston   Transcript  p5  F  24   '23   1300w 
"Mr.  Philby's  two  volumes  of  travel  in  South- 
ern   Najd,    or    Wahabiland,    as   he    calls    it,    are 
likely  to  be  the  standard  work   on  the  country 
for  a  long  time  to  come."   Edmund  Candler 

+   Nation   and  Ath   32:59  O  14  '22  2050w 
"His  book  is  an    important  one  in  pioneering 
literature." 

-|-  New  Statesman  20:supxvi  D  2  '22  50w 
"Though  the  author  is  a  mine  of  information, 
his  information  is  detailed  almost  to  weariness. 
He  does  not  give  the  atmosphere  of  desert  life 
as  Doughty  has  done  so  vividly.  The  great  and 
first  fault  of  the  book  is  that  it  is  extremely 
hard  to  read.  .  .  There  are  many  interesting 
chapters  and  anecdotes,  and  the  whole  book 
is  worth  study  as  a  record  of  a  very  remarkable 
journey  taken  under  very  favourable  conditions, 
such  as  no  previous  traveller  in  Arabia  had 
enjoyed." 

h   New   Statesman   20:457  Ja  20   '23   1800w 

"His  explorations  are  of  immense  value.  The 
permanent  interest  of  Mr.  Philby's  book  is, 
however,  as  a  source  record  of  contemporary 
history."  G.  L.  Harding 

-1-   N    Y   Times   p4   Mr  18   '23   2550w 
Sat   R   134:446  S  23  '22  720w 
5pec  129:640  N  4  '22  600w 
"He   seems   to  possess   every  qualification   for 
an    Arabian    explorer,    from    the    discerning   eye 
to  the  equable  temper,   from  sympathy  to  high 
courage.      His   literary    style,    too,    is   ju.st   right 
for  the  description  of  such  an  epic  journey." 

-t-   The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p591    S 
21  '22  1800W 

"PHILLIPS,  CLAUDE  ANDERSON.  Modern 
methods  and  the  elementary  curriculum.  389p 
$2      Century 

375      Education — Curricula.     Education,   Ele- 
mentary 

The  book  comes  under  the  Century  education 
series  edited  by  Charles  E.  Chadsey.  Its  ob- 
ject is  to  furnish  a  text  for  the  student  or 
teacher  on  the  fundamental  objectives  of  ele- 
mentary education  and  their  realization  in 
the  various  subjects  of  the  curriculum.  Atten- 
tion is  given  to  the  dominant  characteristics 
of  children  from  the  biological,  pysiological  and 
sociological  point  of  view,  to  the  way  children 
learn  thru  motor  activity,  imitation,  associa- 
tion of  ideas  and  reflective  thinking.  It  is  a 
mediation  between  the  philosophy  of  Professor 
John  Dewey  and  his  disciples  and  the  old  type 
course  of  study  which  treated  the  textbooks 
and  outlines  as  something  almost  sacred.  The 
various  subjects  of  the  curriculum — reading, 
spelling,  arithmetic,  geography,  etc. — are  treated 
in  successive  chapters.  Problems  and  refer- 
ences at  the  end  of  each  chapter.     Index. 


"It  is  worthy  of  mention  that  he  has  suc- 
ceeded in  preparing  a  very  easily  comprehend- 
ed and  a  very  complete  examination  of  this 
subject.    Every   chapter  gives    evidence   of   care- 


410 


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PHILLIPS,   C.   A. — Continued 
ful  selection  and  elaborate  elimination,  reserv- 
ing   only    the    most    'meaty'    material    for    the 
book."    F.   E.   Clerk 

+  Educ  R  66:128  S  '23  650w 
"The  author's  purpose,  as  stated  in  the  pre- 
face, of  simplifying  and  codifying  some  of  the 
recent  investigations  in  education  is  laudable. 
However,  when  one  examines  the  book  from 
this  point  of  view,  it  is  distinctly  disappoint- 
ing. In  the  small  amount  of  space  devoted 
specifically  to  this  task,  the  discussions  of  such 
Investigations  are  too  brief  to  be  clear  to  one 
who  is  not  already  acquainted  with  them."  G. 
T.    Buswell 

HE!   School  J   23:793  Je  '23  650w 

PHILLIPS,     H.     I.      Globe    trotter.       210p    $1.50 
Doubleday 

817  23-8262 

The  material  in  this  collection  of  humorous 
sketches  is  reprinted  from  the  author's  column 
In  the  New  York  Globe.  The  sketches  are  ex- 
travagant burlesques  on  current  events,  on  the 
political  and  economic  situation  and  on  social 
happenings. 


"H.  r.  Philips  provides  an  entertaining  column 
in  the  Globe  every  day,  but  his  humor  seeins 
strained  when  it  appears  in  a  type  larger 
than  its  customary  nonpareil  and  is  set  in  the 
more  permanent  form  of  a  book." 
—  Lit    R   p522   Mr   10   '23   160w 

"Mr.  Phillips  has  a  broad  burlesque  touch, 
with  little  satire  or  rancor  and  much  comedy. 
Concerning  his  proper  status  among  humorists 
we  defer  to  Mr.  Masson.  All  we  know  is  that 
we  got  more  laughs  out  of  his  volume  than  we 
have  ever  obtained  from  the  bound  works  of  any 
other  columnist."  F:,  F.  Van  de  Water 
-f  N   Y  Tribune  pl9  F  25  '23   200w 

Reviewed  by  Heywood  Broun 

N  Y  World  p6e  F  11  '23  950w 

PHILLIPS,    WALTER    ALISON.    Revolution    in 
Ireland,   1906-1923.  327p  $4  Longmans 

941.5   Ireland— History.    Ireland— Politics   and 
government  23-14687 

The  nucleus  of  the  book  is  the  author's  article 
on  the  recent  poHtical  hi.story  of  Ireland  con- 
tributed to  the  new  volumes  of  the  Encyclopae- 
dia Britannica.  Following  a  brief  introduction 
on  the  history  of  Ireland  before  and  during 
the  Union,  the  book  treats  of  the  confused  and 
troubled  period  of  Irish  political  history  from 
the  revival  of  home  rule  agitation  and  the  be- 
ginnings of  Sinn  Fein  organization  to  the  birth 
of  the  Free  State.  The  author,  who  is  profes- 
sor of  history  in  the  University  of  Dublin, 
writes  in  the  belief  "that  the  Union,  in  spite  of 
the  remediable  defects  of  its  machinery,  alone 
stood  between  Ireland  and  a  sea  of  troubles." 


Boston  Transcript  p7  D  8  '23  720w 
"His  treatment  is  objective  and  thoroughly 
calm  and  judicial.  There  is  no  very  sympa- 
thetic account  of  the  ideas  of  Irish  enthusiasts 
or  the  higher  ideals  of  Sinn  Fein,  but  no  de- 
preciation of  them.  The  story  is  amply  docu- 
mented."    Raymond  Turner 

-I-  Lit  R  p442  Ja  12  '24  1300w 
"Mr.  Alison  Phillips,  while  he  shares  the  pre- 
judices of  the  Morning  Post,  lacks  the  vivacity 
of  expression  and  hghtness  of  touch  which  re- 
deem its  most  deplorable  propaganda.  Indigna- 
tion with  him  does  not  make  verse  or  even 
tolerably  good  prose,  and  a  period  which,  what- 
ever view  one  takes  of  it.  is  packed  with  the 
raw  stuff  of  drama,  is  subjected  in  his  pages  to 
a  treatment  that  robs  it  of  anv  appearance  of 
life."    J.    W.    G. 

—  New  Statesman  22:246  D  1  '23  1200w 
"Painful  and  shameful  as  every  patriotic  Eng- 
lishman must  find  this  account  of  the  Revolu- 
tion in  Ireland,  no  one  can  afford  to  leave  it 
unread  who  owns  to  the  smallest  interest  in  the 
history  of  his  country,  or  who  cares  to  under- 
stand   why    it    was    that    the    constituencies    of 


Great  Britain  rose  in  revolt  against  the  Coalition 
Government  twelve  months  ago,  when  it  was 
realized  what  had  been  done." 

+  Sat  R  136:461  O  27  '23  1200w 
"In  our  opinion  Mr.  Alison  Phillips  has  carried 
out  his  intention  of  maintaining  an  open  mind 
and  a  judicial  spirit  exceedingly  well  consider- 
ing how  difficult  it  is.  to  use  his  own  phrase, 
'to  keep  a  detached  mind  amid  the  turmoil  of  re- 
volution.' "   J.   St  Loe  Strachev 

+  Spec    131:800    N   24   '23    900w 

Springf'd   Republican  p9a  D  23  '23  310w 

"Professor  Phillips  marshals  his  facts  carefully 

and    well.    Those    who    do    not    agree    with    his 

opinions  will  find  it  hard  to  impugn  the  accuracy 

of  his  statements." 

H The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p661  O  11 

'23  1150W 

PHILLIPSON,  COLEIVIAN.  Three  criminal  law 
reformers;  Beccaria,  Bentham,  Romilly.  344p 
$7  Button  [18s  Dent] 

343       Criminal       law.        Beccaria-Bonesana, 
Cesare,     marchese     de.     Bentham,     Jeremy. 
Romilly,   Sir  Samuel 
Tho  the  book  consists  of  three  essays  cast  in 
biographical  form,  it  is  intended  to  be  considered 
as  a  unit,   the  subject  being  the  reforin  of  penal 
law,   studied  thru  the  life  and  work  of  three  of 
the  greatest  protagonists  of  the  movement,  Bec- 
caria,   Bentham    and   Romilly.    They    were    born 
ten  years  apart  and  their  work  was  closely  re- 
lated,   the  two  Englishmen   acknowledging  their 
indebtedness     to     the      Italian.      Dr     Phillipson 
sketches  each   reformer  against  the  background 
of  the  age   in  which  he  lived. 


"Without  any  literary  affectations,  he  has 
drawn  three  very  vivid  studies  of  his  chief  char- 
acters. He  has  convinced  us  that  they  were  all 
very  living  persons;  and  those  who  have  tried 
to  fight  their  way  through  the  eleven  volumes 
of  Bentham's  works  will  realize  that  it  was  no 
light  task  to  persuade  us  that  this  writer  was 
not  a  mechanical  figure  born  in  a  science  labora- 
tory." G.  R.  S.  Taylor 

+  Spec  131:652  N  3  '23  520w 

The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p737  N  8 
'23  5100W 

PHILLPOTTS,  EDEN.  Black,  white  and 
brindled.  344p  .$2  Macmillan  [7s  6d  G. 
Richards] 

23-8405 
The  book  is  a  collection  of  stories  from  the 
West  Indies,  dealing  with  blacks,  whites  and 
mulattos.  In  the  first  story  "The  three  dead 
men,"  the  inystery  of  the  deaths  by  violence  of 
three  men  in  the  same  night,  is  explained  psy- 
chologically. One  of  two  brothers,  twins  and 
owners  of  a  large  sugar  plantation,  is  found 
dead  on  the  plantation  beside  the  I)ody  of  a 
black  night  watchman,  and  on  a  ledge  near  the 
sea,  the  body  of  a  half-breed  Avith  throat  cut 
from  ear  to  e;ir.  By  closely  studying  the  char- 
acters of  each  of  the  dead  men  the  investi- 
gator reads  the  mystery  as  two  killings  and 
one  suicide,  the  characters  supplying  the  mo- 
tives in  lieu  of  other  evidence.  Contents:  The 
three  dead  men;  The  Styx;  Lily's  stocking;  Red 
tooth;  The  skipper's  Bible;  The  mother  of  the 
rain;  High  tide:  Monsieur  Pons  and  his  daugh- 
ter; Carnival;   The  monkey;   Obi. 


Booklist    20:22   O    '23 
"This   collection    of   short    stories   proves   that 
Mr.     Phillpotts    is    at    home    anywhere    in    the 
world   of   fiction."     E.    F.    E. 

4-   Boston   Transcript   p4   Je   6   '23   700w 
Cleveland  p69   S  '23 
Dial    75:399   O   '23   lOOw 
"The    book    ha.s    humor    of    a    quiet    sort    and 
one    cou'rl    scarcely    select     a     pleasanter    com- 
panion   for  vacation   travels." 

4-    Lit   R   p851  Jl   21  '23  500w 
"The  eleven  stories  here  collected  are  as  color- 
ful as  their  setting,  interesting  as  psychological 
studies   of  racial    differences,    interesting  simply 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


411 


as  dramatic  tales,  now  grim,  now  gay,  some- 
times horrible,  sometimes  fantastic,  but  always 
entertaining." 

+  N  Y  Times  pll  My  6  "23  850w 
"Phillpotts  has  the  capacity  to  drive  straight 
to  the  core  of  a  problem,  to  get  to  the  essential 
truth  of  a  situation,  which  most  people  lack. 
Nine-tenths  of  our  effort,  both  individually  and 
as  peoples,  is  spent  seeking  a  way.  Not  so  with 
Phillpotts."     J.    W.    Fawcett 

-f   N   Y  Tribune  pl9  Je   24   '23  1200w 
"The  subject-matter  is  certainly  original  and 
unusual,   and   many   of  the   tales   are   vivid   bits 
of    impressionism.     The    author's    knowledge    of 
the  West   Indies     is   surprisingly  definite." 
-f  Outlook   134:139   Je   6   '23   llOw 
"Mr.    Phillpotts's    style    is       rather    cold    and 
formal,    and    he    tells    his    stories    with    an    ap- 
pearance of  awkwardness  which  yet  cannot  dis- 
guise the  narrative  skill  behind."    Gerald  Gould 

H Sat    R    135:540   Ap    21    '23   80w 

Spec  130:1012  Je  16   "23   lOOw 

PHILLPOTTS,    EDEN.      Children   of   men.    471p 

$2.50   Macmillan 

23-7286 

The  chief  characters  among  the  "children  of 
men"  in  this  tragic  drama  of  Dartmoor  are 
Jacob  Bullstone,  a  prosperous  farmer,  Margery 
his  wife,  and  Judith  Huxam,  his  mother-in- 
law.  The  marriage  of  Jacob  and  Margery, 
founded  upon  love  and  respect,  promises  all 
happiness,  but  from  the  beginning  there  is  a 
feeling  of  impending  tragedy.  A  man  of  strength 
and  a  certain  nobility  of  character,  Jacob  has 
a  jealous  nature  and  is  possessed  by  a  suspicion 
of  his  wife's  unfaithfulness  which,  growing  with 
the  years,  becomes  a  settled  conviction  and 
finally  brings  him  to  make  the  worst  of  accusa- 
tions. Without  allowing  Margery  to  explaii. 
herself,  he  takes  his  case  to  court  where  she 
readily  proves  her  innocence.  Proud  in  this 
innocence  she  steels  herself  against  Jacob's 
contrition  and  refuses  to  see  him.  In  this  re- 
fusal she  is  strengthened  by  her  fanatical 
mother  and  when  she  would  yield  and  return  to 
her  husband,  is  forcibly  restrained.  Margery 
dies  before  the  reconciliation  and  Jacob  lives 
out  his  days   in   an   agony  of   remorse. 


"A  novel  that  presents  with  clear  insight  and 
an  unerring  hand  his  knowledge  of  a  people 
and  place  unique  both  in  life  and  in  literature." 
E.   F.    Edgett 

+   Boston    Transcript    p4    Ap   14    '23    1450w 

Dial   75:399  O  '23  lOOw 
"As    in    his    other    novels,    we    get    delightful 
backgrounds     and     among     the     minor     figures 
quaint  and  very  human   characters  not  a  few." 
Lit   R  p792  Je  23  '23  370w 
N   Y  Times  p7  Ap  15  '23  2200w 
N  Y   Tribune   p22    Jl   22   '23    700w 
"His   story's  confines,   it   is  true,   are  those  of 
Dartmoor.      But    his    humanity    is    as    broad    as 
earth  itself.     The  humor,  the  truth,   the  homely 
wisdom,  the  frailties  and  the  strength  exhibited 
on    his    printed    pages    are    those    of    the    race — 
things  elemental  and  essential."     E.  W.   Osborn 
-f  N   Y  World  plOe  Ap  15  '23  720w 
"The    Phillpotts    of    'Green    Alleys'    does    not 
once  apoear   in   this   dull   chronicle." 

—  Springf  d   Republican   p7a  Jl  29  '23   200w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p370  My 
31   '23   640w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:414   Jl   '23 

PIENAAR,  ANDRIES  ALBERTUS.  Adventures 
of  a  lion  family  and  other  studies  of  wild 
life  in  East  Africa;  tr.  from  the  Afrikaans 
by  B.  and  E.  D.  Lewis;  with  an  introd.  by 
Sir  Percy  Fitzpatrick.  256p  il  $2  (7s  6d) 
Longmans 

599    Lions.    Zoology — Africa  23-10459 

These  true  tales  of  animal  life  in  the  vast 
untrodden  depths  of  South  African  forests 
were  written  by  a  young  South  African  and 
have  been  translated  into  English  from  the 
original  homely  Afrikaans.  They  are  the  re- 
sult of  intimate  personal  experience,  minute 
observation    and    sympathetic    understanding   of 


the  big  game  animals  of  South  Africa — lions 
and  zebras  and  buffaloes,  elephants,  rhinos 
and   hippos. 

Booklist  20:107  D  '23 
"An     extremely    interesting     and     fascinating 
little   book."     Llewelyn   Powys 

+   Lit   R  pl54  O  20  '23  650w 
"Mr.    Pienaar    very    successfully    conveys    the 
atmosphere  of  the  veldt  and  the  jungle,  with  a 
sureness   of   touch    which    holds    the    interest   of 
the   reader   of  any   age." 

-f  New  Statesman  21:686  S  22  '23  200w 
N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  21  '23  30w 
"Savage  animal  life  has  had  but  few  inter- 
preters possessing  Mr  Pienaar' s  sympathy.  He 
makes  a  very  readable  and  withal  credible 
story,  wherein  one  realizes  that  in  dealing 
with  these  animals  there  is  a  distinctly  wild 
animal  equation  to  be  considered,  terrifying, 
though    interesting." 

4-  Springf'd   Republican  pl2   S  21  '23  330w 
The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup  p428   Je 
21  '23  lOOw 
"Mr.    Pienaar   knows   the   beasts   of   the   Afri- 
can   veld    and    forest    as    well,    perhaps,    as   any 
man  can  come  to  know  them.     But  one  wonders 
if  he   is  on  equally   firm   ground  when   he  deals 
with   the   things   that   he   cannot   see   which   are 
going   on    inside    a    lion's   head.    His    experience 
is  evidently  so  wide  and  his  beasts  are  for  the 
most  part  such   true  wild   beasts,    so   intimately 
drawn,    that   one   regrets   the   intrusion    of   even 
a   shadow  of   misgiving." 

^ The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p499    Jl 

26  '23   700w 

PIERSON.  CLARA  DILLINGHAM.  Living  with 
our  children;  a  book  of  little  essays  for  moth- 
ers.   239p    $2    Dutton 

173    Children — Management   and    training 

23-10538 
The  author  of  this  collection  of  essays  has 
the  experience  of  teacher,  mother  and  grand- 
mother to  give  her  a  sympathetic  grasp  of  the 
many  perplexities  that  beset  an  inexperienced 
mother  in  rearing  her  children.  In  the  sim- 
plest language  these  essays  deal  with  all  the 
everyday  problems  of  the  parent,  such  as  dis- 
cipline, management  and  training,  education, 
amusement,  and  winning  a  child's  confidence  and 
cooperation,  with  a  word  of  advice  to  the 
mother  for  the  time  when  her  children  are 
grown. 

"All  the  mothers  of  whom  Mrs.  Pierson  ap- 
proves are  grave  and  noble.  Home  life  is  what 
it  is  over  too  great  a  stretch  already  because 
women  have  tried  to  bring  these  two  virtues 
to  the  making  of  it."  Ruth  Hale 
—  Bookm    58:329    N    '23    lOOw 

J  Home  Econ  15:667  N  '23  40w 
"She  gives  sound  practical  advice  about  such 
things  as  obedience,  bed  time,  spending  money, 
lying,  sex  education,  and  a  thousand  and  one 
other  problems.  Many  of  her  illustrative  ex- 
amples are  drawn,  we  suspect,  from  her  own 
methods  in  dealing  with  children." 
+   Lit  R  p431  Ja  5  '24  230w 

N   Y  Times  p24  D  23  '23  llOOw 

PILSWORTH,  EDWARD  S.  Electrotyping  in  its 
relation  to  the  graphic  arts.  131p  il  $1.75  Mac- 
millan 

655.22   Electrotyping  23-8562 

A  description  of  the  whole  process  of  elec- 
trotyping, which  treats  the  materials,  tools  and 
methods  employed  in  molding  and  flnishmg,  the 
process  of  blocking  and  mounting  and  the  use 
of  facings  other  than  copper. 

Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui  28:424  O  '23 

PINTNER,  RUDOLF.  Intelligence  testing.  406p 
2    $2.50;   students  ed  $2   Holt 

150    Mental  tests  23-11615 

A    simple   account   of    intelligence    testing  and 

a    summary    of    the    results    thus    far    obtained. 

Part    one    is    mainly    historical    and    theoretical, 


412 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


PINTNER,  R. — Continued 

showing-  the  gradual  evokition  of  the  intelh- 
gence  test  and  the  assumptions  underlying  the 
work.  Part  two  is  a  description  of  the  various 
tests,  individual  and  group,  that  are  at  present 
available.  Part  three  summarizes  the  main  re- 
sults of  intelligence  te.sting.  Bibliographical 
references   follow  each   chapter. 


"Dr.  Pintner's  account  of  this  development  in 
its  many  phases  is  clear,  complete,  and  au- 
thoritative."    C:  L.   Stone 

+  Am  Econ  R  13:727  D  '23  200w 
"Told  in  tables  and  conclusions,  often  tenta- 
tive and  with  gaps  at  vital  points,  yet  with 
sufficient  po.sitive  results  to  make  it  abundantly 
clear  that  testing,  though  a  crude  instrument, 
has  .iustified  the  labor  spent  upon  it  and  even 
excuses  much  of  the  misspent  energy."  Joseph 
Jastrow 

+   Nation   118:36  Ja  9  '24  300w 
Reviewed  bv  J.  Corbin 

N  Y  Times  p24  Ja  6  '24  400w 


PIRANDELLO.  LUIGI.  Late  IMattia  Pascal  (II 
fu  Mattia  Pascal) ;  tr.  from  the  Italian  by 
Arthur    Livingston.      321p     $2.50     Button 

23-11679 
Mattia  Pascal,  defrauded  of  his  family  for- 
tune, rushed  by  puppy  love  into  a  marriage 
which  soon  results  in  disillusionment  and  eking 
out  a  poverty-stricken  existence  as  librarian  in 
a  small  town,  makes  use  of  an  accidental  small 
gift  of  money  to  run  away.  After  a  few  weeks 
he  reads  his  own  death  notice  in  a  paper — the 
body  of  a  drowned  man  has  been  identified  as 
himself  and  buried  in  his  name.  After  the  first 
exaltation  over  his  freedom  he  proceeds  to  start 
his  life  all  over  again  under  a  new  name.  He 
now  perceives  that  this  freedom  is  everything 
but  freedom.  He  is  harassed  by  restless- 
ness, by  a  painful  feeling  of  detachment,  by  un- 
certainties and  indecision,  although  large  win- 
nings at  Monte  Carlo  have  left  him  financially 
comfortable.  After  two  and  a  half  years,  and 
when  he  realizes  that  he  cannot  marry  the  girl 
he  loves,  he  dies  a  second  time  and  returns  to 
his   native    town   as    Mattia   Pascal. 


laughter  with  thought — and  the  viviflcation  of 
philosophy  with  laughter — that  makes  'The  Late 
Mattia  Pascal'  a  rare  book." 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl8  Je  19  '23  ISOOw 
"An  artificial  short  story  blown  valiantly  into 
a  dull  and  tedious  novel.  .  .  The  sound  of  his 
own  Niagara  is  music  to  Pirandello.  He 
preaches,  he  philosophizes  and  he  lectures  all 
around  a  mechanical  theme  which  has  been 
worked  and  re-worked  by  romancers  since  the 
world  began."    L:.  Weitzenkorn 

—  NY   World   p7e  Ag  19   '23   1750w 

PITKIN,   WALTER   BOUGHTON,  comp.     As  we 
are;  stories  of  here  and  now.  312p  $2  Harcourt 

23-6950 
"Mr.  Pitkin  has  gathered  together  thirteen 
short  stories  by  a  number  of  the  younger 
American  writers.  These  stories  are  all  strictly 
realistic  in  method.  It  is  the  aim  of  all  to 
depict  the  barriers  of  caste  and  prejudice  that 
arise  between  man  and  man,  the  walls  of  race, 
color,  wealth  and  social  prestige,  as  well  as 
the  ramparts  that  nature  has  imposed  by  en- 
dowing different  men  with  different  desires  and 
interests.  The  situation  most  frequently  de- 
scribed is  that  of  the  man  and  woman  who  are 
about  to  marry  and  break  off  the  match  when 
they  discover  they  have  nothing  in  common." 
(N  Y  Timesj  Contents:  Shif'less.  by  James 
Uoyd;  Railroad  tracks,  by  E.  N.  Sachs;  Natural 
selection,  by  E.  I.  Folsoni;  Excelsior,  by  Arthur 
CoUard:  Mirage,  by  Elaine  Sterne:  Masters  of 
ourselves  and  ours,  by  W.  B.  Pitkin;  The  harp 
and  the  triphammer,  by  Paul  Rand;  "It's  me, 
O  Lord!"  by  Alma  and  Paul  Ellerbe;  Berghita 
and  the  Americans,  by  Rolla  Prideaux;  "Colonel, 
meet  my  mother,"  by  Alma  and  Paul  Ellerbe: 
The  mask,  by  Worth  Tuttle;  The  monument, 
by  V.  M.  Jones;  The  case  of  Doctor  Ford,  by 
Clement  Wood. 


"It  is  as  amusing,  as  original,  as  provoking 
as  the  first  day  when  it  was  issued.  It  is  so 
characteristically  Pirandellesque.  so  little  de- 
pendent after  all  upon  mere  plot  or  place,  that 
it  will  possess  interest  as  long  as  men  and 
women  speculate  upon  their  various  inner 
selves."    I:    Goldberg 

+  Boston  Transcript  p3  Ag  2.t  '23  1800w 
"With  such  a  theme  an  artist  of  ability  might 
have  written  a  great  philosophic  novel:  but 
Pirandello  has  little  imagination  and  no  artistic 
discipline,  and  when  he  essays  psychology,  as 
he  is  compelled  to  do  in  order  to  get  anything 
out  of  the  theme  at  all.  he  is  as  puerile  as 
D'Annunzio.  There  i.'-.  an  abundance  of  clever- 
ness in  the  novel;  but  art  begins  where  clever- 
ness ends;  and  Pirandello's  cleverness  never 
ends,  or  rathei-.  where  it  ends  it  does  not  end 
in  art."    E.    M. 

h   Freeman   8:167  O  24  '23   450w 

"This  story  of  a  man  who  dies  twice  and  yet 
lives,  told  in  a  vivacious  style  that  never  ap- 
pears quite  serious,  seems  to  be  truth,  for  the 
underlying  idea  is  true,  just  as  Mattia  Pascal 
seems  a  real  person,  for  he  feels,  thinks  and 
acts  according  to  the  ways  of  human  beings." 
E.   S.   Taber 

+  Int   Bk  R  p59  S  '23  750w 
Reviewed   by   Guiseppe   Prezzolini 

Lit    R   p3   S   1   '23   1800w 
Reviewed  by  B.  L.  Burman 

Nation  117:sup408  O  10  '23  750w 
"In  its  very  quiet  way,  it  is  one  of  the  most 
entertaining  novels  that  has  appeared  for  many 
and  many  a  day.  The  plot — if  plot  there  be — 
is  whimsical  to  a  degree.  At  the  same  time  it 
is  not  extravagant.  On  the  contrary,  the  story 
is  profoundly  human,  its  humanity  being  the 
result  of  a  keenly  searching  psychological  and 
spiritual    analysis.    .    .    It    is    the    tempering    of 


Reviewed    by    Gilbert    Seldes 

Dial  75:186  Ag  '23  450w 
Int  Bk  R  pl59  Ja  '24  250 
"The  mechanics  of  the  tales  have  been  super- 
intended by  a  journeyman  hand:  they  begin  as 
tales  should,  they  proceed  as  the  modern  canons 
demand,  and  they  end  often  with  real  power. 
But  are  realism  and  mechanics  the  whole  of 
the  short  story  art?"   F.   L:   Pattee 

-\ Lit    R   p715   My   26    '23    900w 

"Though  the  stories  differ  widely  in  merit,  not 
one  of  them  can  boast  of  a  distinguished  style; 
not  one  is  so  distinctly  the  work  of  an  indi- 
vidual that  it  might  not  have  been  composed 
by  almost  any  of  the  thirteen  writers  repre- 
sented." 

1-    N    Y   Times  pl3   My  13   '23   700w 

"In  most  of  the  stories  there  is  a  satisfactory 
amount  of  entertainment  and  humor.  A  few 
have  some  qualities  of  originality.  On  the  whole, 
the  experiment  that  the  volume  makes  appears 
much  more  interesting  than  the  result."  L.  B. 
ailkes 

H NY  Tribune  p23  My  13  '23  llOOw 

Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Je  17  '23  740w 

PIUS    XI     (ACHILLE    RATTI)    pope    of    Rome. 

Climbs  on  Alpine  peaks;  tr.  by  J.  E.  C.  Eaton; 

with    a    foreword    by    Douglas    W.    Freshfleld, 

with   an    introd.    by    L.    C.    Casartelli.    139p    $2 

Houghton 

914.94  Mountaineering.   Alps  23-8128 

The  present  "prisoner  of  the  "Vatican"  before 
his  election  to  the  Papacy  was  an  enthusiastic 
mountain  climber  and  had  contributed  several 
articles  on  his  Alpine  experiences  to  the  jour- 
nal of  the  Italian  Alpine  club.  The  book  con- 
tains an  account  of  his  ascent  of  Monte  Rosa, 
of  the  Matterhorn  direct  from  Zermatt,  and  of 
Mont  Blanc. 


Booklist  20:12  O  '23 
"This  little  volume  will  be  welcomed  by  all 
lovers  of  mountain  joys.  It  is  not  the  work 
of  a  so-called  'human  interest'  writer,  and 
those  who  expect  to  find  lurid  descriptions  of 
hardship  and  suffering  will  be  disappointed. 
The  author  writes  for  his  public  much  as  he 
would  write  were  he  contributing  to  a  scientific 


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413 


journal — with  moderation  and  accuracy;  but 
there  are  many  descriptive  passages  which  are 
of  highest  literary  excellence."       F.   P.   H. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  12  '23  650w 
"Simple  and  charming-,  and  every  line  of  it 
indicates  true  love  of  the  mountains,  displays 
daring  combined  with  prudence,  and  gives 
proof  of  kindness  of  heart  and  unfailing  con- 
sideration for  others.  His  style  is  concise,  clear, 
and  shows  an  evident  desire  for  exactitude 
even    in    the    most    simple    matters." 

+   Cath    World    117:703   Ag  '23    800w 
"The   nari-ative    is    that    of    the    scientist    en- 
riched   by    the    felicitous    phrases   which    spring 
from  a   background   of  real  scholarship."   A.   P. 
Maher 

+  Lit  R  pl44  O  20  '23  600w 
"Everywhere  the  interests  of  science  are  hum- 
bly and  sedulously  served.  Technical  points 
are  carefully  noted,  and  the  work  of  the  fore- 
climbers  appositely  quoted.  The  book  contains 
a  brief  summary  of  the  parochial  and  scholarly 
labors  of  the  author  oefore  he  was  elevated  to 
the  culminating  honor  of  the  Papacy.  The  il- 
lustrations of  the  various  Alpine  goals  reached 
by  him  are  remarkably  clear  and  well  chosen." 
W.   G.   Tinckom-Fernandez 

+   N    Y   Times  p9   My  13   '23   2100w 
N  Y   Tribune   p23   S   9    '23   330w 
"Modestly  and  charmingly  written  little  book." 
+   N    Y    World    p9e   Ap   22   '23   330w 
Outlook  134:48   My  23  '23    llOw 
R   of   Rs  68:111  Jl  '23   180w 
Sat    R   135:777  Je   9   '23  700w 
Spec    130:892   My   26    '23    300w 
"The  general   reader  v;iil  find  this  volume  an 
instructive    addition    to    his    library;    the    moun- 
taineer   will    respect    it    from    a    professional    as 
well  as  a  literary  viewpoint." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  pl2  S  14  '23  260w 
"These  records  would  be  well  worth  reading 
had  the  author  been  anonymous;  there  is 
abundant  internal  evidence  that  they  are  the 
work  of  a  mountaineer  who  was  master  of  his 
craft — one  who  can  tell  us  what  to  look  at,  what 
to  look   for,   and.   above   all,   what   to  avoid." 

-f-   The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p241   Ap 
12   '23    1650W 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:158    Je    '23 

PLUM,  HARRY  GRANT,  and  BENJAMIN,  GIL- 
BERT GIDDINGS.  Modern  and  contemporary 
European  civilization;  the  persisting  factors 
of  the  great  war;  in  collaboration  with  Bessie 
L.  Pierce.  413p  il  $2.20  (9s)  Lippincott 
940.28  Europe — History.  European  war,  1914- 
1919  23-5693 

The  purpose  of  the  liook  is  to  serve  as  a 
text-book  in  secondary  schools  and  as  such  to 
give  an  outline  of  nineteenth  century  history 
that  will  bear  a  direct  relation  to  the  Great  war 
and  its  outcome.  The  first  five  chapters  set 
forth  the  present  condition  of  the  world  and 
its  problems  and  give  a  general  r6sum6  of  the 
terms  of  peace.  After  this,  starting  with  the 
Congress  of  Vienna  in  1815,  the  social,  eco- 
nomic and  diplomatic  history  of  Europe  is  pre- 
sented up  to  the  present  time.  It  includes  such 
subjects  as  imperialism,  the  Near  Eastern  ques- 
tion, nationality  and  democracy,  commerce  and 
the  World  war,  the  United  States  and  the  war. 
Suggestive  readings  and  topics  for  special 
study  at  the  end  of  each  chapter.  Maps.  Index. 


Booklist  20:133  Ja  '24 
"Nothing    like    a    connected    narrative    is    at- 
tempted,   but    a  mass  of  pertinent  information, 
valuable  for  reflection  as  well  as  for  reference 
Is  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  reader." 

-f   Boston    Transcript    p2    My   19    '23    400w 
R  of   Rs  67:447  Ap  '23  IGOw 
"Although  little  originality  either  in  interpre- 
tation   or   in    materials   appears    in    the   volume, 
the  book  is  a  creditable  piece  of  work,  and  the 
topical  organization   which  it  embodies  will  en- 
able it   to  meet  a  real  need.     The  exceptionally 
full    treatment    given    to    social    and    economic 
problems  is  also  commendable."     H    C    Hill 
H School    R   31:554    S   '23   550w 


"A  great  advantage  of  this  textbook  over 
others  is  that  it  discusses  adequately  the  great 
social  and  economic  movements  that  have  given 
direction  to  the  political  life  of  the  century. 
The  book  is  decidedly  to  be  recommended." 
+  Survey   50:supl94   My   1   '23    150w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p425   Je 
21  '23  80w 

PLUMB,    GLENN    EDWARD,   and    ROYLANCE, 
WILLIAM    G.      Industrial   democracy;    a   plan 
for  its  achievement.     359p     $2     Huebsch 
334      Cooperation.      Plumb    plan.      Industrial 
democracy  23-10673 

Mr  Plumb  elaborates  the  theory  of  industrial 
organization  which  he  developed  originally  with 
reference  to  the  railroad  industry,  extending 
the  program  to  embrace  general  industry.  The 
book  discusses  the  fundamentt^ls  of  democracy 
as  related  to  the  object  of  government  and  the 
production  and  distribution  of  wealth,  and  pre- 
sents a  definite  plan  for  the  reorganization  of 
mdustry  on  such  a  democratic  basis.  Succeed- 
ing chapters  show  the  application  of  the  au- 
thor's theory  to  transportation,  the  most  im- 
portant public  utility;  to  coal,  a  typical  basic 
industry;  to  agriculture,  the  most  important 
fundamental  industry  and  the  one  most  largely 
under  individual  ownership  and  control;  to  the 
essential  activities  of  marketing  and  credit; 
and  to  the  reconciliation  of  industrial   disputes. 

Booklist   20:84  D   '23 

"Once  the  authors  get  on  their  wav,  they  are 
convincing  enough.  In  fact,  the  enthusiastic 
presentation  overcomes  a  good  deal  of  rather 
stodgy   writing." 

H Bookm    58:214   O   '23   160w 

Boston   Transcript   p5  D   29   '23   1700w 

"There  is  only  one  chapter  of  the  book  that 
IS  of  primary  importance  and  that  is  the  chap- 
ter in  which  the  reorganization  of  industry  ac- 
cording to  Mr.  Plumb's  ideas  is  described.'  The 
plan  would  have  been  fully  as  convincing  with- 
out the  long  historical  and  economic  introduc- 
tion, and  it  would  have  been  fully  as  clear  with- 
out the  long  list  of  applications.  The  fact  some- 
what destroys  the  value  of  the  book,  but  it  does 
not  alter  the  defects  and  virtues  of  the  plan 
or  its  value  as  a  challenge  to  progressive  think- 
ing." H:  S.  Dennison  and  G.  Hicks 
h    Lit    R   p893   Ag  11   '23   3050w 

"It  is  not  a  book  for  the  technical  economist 
and  political  scientist,  who  will  doubtless  find 
in  its  large  generalizations  much  to  despise, 
and  in  its  detailed  statement  of  fact  and  argu- 
ment many  a  salient  open  to  gleeful  attack. 
To  the  conventional  profit-grabbing  financier 
(not  to  the  thoughtful  business  man)  and  to 
the  pestiferous  and  rapidly  multiplying  young 
breed  of  'business'  economists  it  will  be  matter 
for  misunderstanding  and  merriment.  In  these 
days  of  disillusionment  and  distrust  of  all  'solu- 
tions, it  may  oven  be  doubted  whether  the 
common  people  will  hear  the  prophet  gladly. 
Yet  to  all  who  knew  the  man,  the  work  will 
remain  a  source  of  inspiration  and  renewed 
faith."      H:    R.    Muzzey 

-I-  Nation    117:328    S    26   '23   lOOOw 

Reviewed    by   D.    R.    Richberg 

New   Repub  35:238  Jl  25  '23  1550w 

"Valuable  both  for  its  critical  sections  and  for 
the  attention  which  it  directs  to  the  possibili- 
ties of  the  joint  stock  company  as  an  instru- 
ment of  democratic  control  in  the  public  in- 
terest. It  deserves  to  be  widely  read  in  this 
country." 

-f   New  Statesman  21:600  S  1  '23  500w 

"The  volume  Is  a  curious  mixture  of  soap- 
box denunciation,  empty  exhortation,  and  ably 
constructed  thought.  It  is  radical  throughout, 
but  when  it  proceeds  from  vituperation  to  a 
detailed  program  it  is  radical  in  the  sense  of 
going,  or  of  endeavoring  to  go,  to  the  root  of 
economic  and  social  evils  that  are  manifest. 
Some  of  its  criticism  is  profound  and  much  of  it 
is  acute."    J:  Corbin 

h  N   Y  Times  pi  Jl  8  '23  1850w 

Reviewed  by  Janet  Law 

N    Y   Tribune   p21   Jl   22  '23   1650w 


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PLUMB,  G.  E: — Continued 

"While  the  volume  is  in  part  modified  Social- 
ism, It  is  also  a  searching  analysis  of  industry. 
Like  most  radical  propaganda  inspired  by  ideal- 
lem,  it  perhaps  assumes  that  men's  aggressively 
selfish  motives  can  be  readily  changed.  The 
chapter  upon  credit  is  the  result  of  much  study 
and  thought.  Taken  all  in  all  'Industrial  De- 
mocracy' is  a  book  to  stimulate." 

H Sprinaf'd   Republican  p7a  D  30  '23  850w 

"The  book  is  well  written,  with  clearness, 
directness  and  simplicity.  Those  of  us  who  had 
the  privilege  of  knowing  Glenn  B.  Plumb,  earn- 
estly and  greatly  hope  that  his  posthumous 
work  will  not  merely  be  read  and  studied  by 
tens  of  thousands,  but  that  it  will  point  the 
way  to  a  satisfactory  solution  of  our  most  dif- 
ficult and  fundamental  industrial  problems."  J: 
A.  Ryan. 

+  Survey  50:454  Jl  15  '23  1300w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p534  Ag 
9    '23    30w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p903    D 
27   '23   1900W 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:407  Jl   '23 

POATE,    ERNEST    M.      Trouble    at    Pinelands. 

310p   $1.75   Chelsea   house 

22-24686 

"The  scene  is  in  the  pine  regions  of  North 
Carolina,  and  the  story  is  told  in  the  first  per- 
son by  an  elderly  bachelor,  the  Uncle  George 
of  the  young  physician  who,  on  the  eve  of  his 
wedding  day,  is  charged  with  the  murder  of 
an  older  physician,  his  chief  rival  in  the  medi- 
cal practice  of  the  town.  There  is  a  poltergeist, 
a  malicious,  pranking  ghost  that  frequently  dis- 
turbs the  household  of  this  young  man's  be- 
trothed. The  poltergeist  is  one  of  the  important 
characters  in  the  tale  and  its  weirdly  malicious 
doings  provide  an  uncanny  atmosphere  for  the 
development  of  events.  An  elderly  woman,  Aunt 
Mary  McGregor,  aunt  of  the  young  physician's 
betrothed,  a  partial  paralytic  who  can  be  moved 
about  only  in  a  wheeled  chair,  is  another  im- 
portant person  in  the  plot.  But  the  outstanding 
character  of  the  tale  is  the  young  man  who 
comes  to  the  town  to  be  the  bridegroom's  best 
man,  finds  him  in  jail  on  a  charge  of  murder, 
takes  charge  of  everything  and  finally  resolves 
the  mystery." — N  Y  Times 


Boston   Transcript  p4  F  21  '23  580w 
"It   is  a   good  story,   worked   out  capably  and 
Interestingly,  and  it  has  features  that  set  it  out 
a  little  from  the  ordinary  multitude  of  detective 
tales." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl7  F  4  '23  480w 
Reviewed  by  P:  F.  Van  de  Water 

N  Y  Tribune  pl9  F  4  '23  980w 
"It  is  well  rounded  and  all  the  threads  are 
gathered  up  at  the  end.  Mr.  Poate  seems  to  be 
a  newcomer  in  fiction,  but  he  is  said  also  to  be 
a  medico-criminologist,  and  his  book  bears  out 
the  statement.  Grotesque  and  horrifying  as  the 
elements  of  this  tale  are,  they  have  an  accent 
of  reality."   Isabel   Paterson 

-f  N  Y  Tribune  p22  F  4  '23  200w 
N   Y   World  p6e  Mr  4  '23  llOw 
"The     author    is     a    medico-criminologist     of 
ability,    and    u.ses    his    knowledge    with    literary 
ekill  to  produce  an  interesting  story." 

4-  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Mr  4  '23  180w 

POCOCK,     ROGER     S.       Wolf     trail.       324p       $2 

Appleton      [7s   6d   Blackwell] 

23-9535 

"A  mystical  tale  of  the  souls  of  an  English 
sailor  and  an  American  Indian  priestess,  wedded 
in  Spiritland  before  they  met  on  earth,  and, 
after  many  vicissitudes,  reunited  after  death. 
The  scene  shifts  from  the  London  water-front 
to  the  North  American  forests,  and  the  web  of 
the  narrative  is  shot  through  with  dreams  of 
Jerusalem  and  of  other  strange  lands." — Cleve- 
land 


ally  the  author  indulges  in  pure,  unadulterated 
nonsense,  after  the  manner  of  Lewis  Carroll 
and  Oliver  Herford.  .  .  Through  the  story  runs 
a  tenuous  thread  marking  the  world's  spiritual 
development  from  Golgotha  to  the  middle  years 
of  the  nineteenth  century.  It  is  a  story  In 
which  fact  and  fantasy  are  strangely  woven  into 
a  pattern  that  is  like  a  picture  with  a  deep 
perspective,  enticing  one's  thoughts  to  follow 
idealistic  bypaths,  and  so  affording  that  sense 
of  agreeable  relaxation  only  experienced  when 
one  reads  a  truly  sympathetic  book."  Drake 
de  Kay 

+  Lit  R  p875  Ag  4  '23  700w 
"Traveling  with  persons  'magical,  mysterious, 
in  contact  with  worlds  unseen,'  gifted  with 
'awareness  and  activity  outside  the  bodily 
senses' — if  these  things  are  your  idea  of  a  good 
time,  by  all  means  read  'The  Wolf  Trail.'  Mr. 
Pocock  will  take  you  into  dreamland,  fairyland, 
the  astral  plane,  vegetarianism,  and  heaven  it- 
self which  he  knows  as  familiarly  as  you  know 
the  way  to  your  office." 

N  Y  Times  p22  Je  17  '23  360w 
The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p240  Ap 
12  '23   700w 

POLLOCK,    FRANK    LILLIE.    Timber    treasure. 

269p   il   $1.75   Century 

23-11926 

"Tom  Jackson,  the  son  of  a  Toronto  lumber 
merchant,  discovers,  after  his  failure  in  col- 
lege, the  uselessness  of  the  life  he  has  been 
leading,  and  leaves  for  the  northern  woods  to 
make  a  new  start  on  his  uncle's  homestead. 
However,  he  is  thrown  entirely  upon  his  own 
meagre  resources  upon  his  arrival  in  the  wil- 
derness, where  he  finds  his  uncle's  home  in 
ashes  and  the  family  gone.  In  desperation  he 
attempts  to  camp  in  the  old  barn  in  the  hope 
of  reclaiming  the  homestead  land.  There  fol- 
lows swiftly  the  sudden  discovery  of  a  strange 
treasure  within  the  farm,  the  intrigues  and 
desperate  strategy  of  a  band  of  thieves,  and 
Tom's  final   victory  over   them." — N   Y   Times 


Cleveland  p51  Jl  '23 

"It  is  at  the  same  time  melodrama,  historical 
novel,  and  tale  of  psychic  adventure.    Occasion- 


Booklist   20:107   D   '23 
"Any    boy    who    does    not    enjoy    this    story    is 
lacking    an    interest    in    activities    of    life." 

-I-   Boston    Transcript   p4   O    3   '23    260w 
"A  boys'  story  and  an  excellent  one."     M.  G. 
Bonner 

-h  Int  Bk  R  p54  O  '23  60w 
"It  is  a  story  with  all  the  elements  that  most 
appeal  to  those   eager,   adventure-thirsty   years, 
and    the    telling    is    decidedly    better    than    that 
of  the  usual  boy's  book." 

+   N    Y   Times   p27   S   22   '23   230w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:511   D  '23 

PONSONBY,  ARTHUR  AUGUSTUS  WILLIAM 
HARRY.  English  diaries.  447p  $7.50  Doran 
[21s    Methuen] 

920     Diaries  [23-11979] 

Included  in  this  survey  of  English  diaries 
are  not  only  the  well-known  diaries  which  are 
a  part  of  English  history  and  literature,  but 
some  forgotten  ones  and  others  privately 
printed  or  in  manuscript  form.  They  range  in 
time  from  the  diary  of  King  Edward  VI,  1549, 
to  Barbellion's  "Journal  of  a  Disappointed 
Man."  1919.  The  diaries  selected  for  study 
are  such  as  together  represent  all  shades  of 
diai-y-writing,  long  and  short,  historical,  pub- 
lic and  private,  good  and  bad.  Each  diary 
is  dealt  with  separately  and  freely  criticised. 
Contents:  Introduction — diary  writing;  Chrono- 
logical list  of  diaries;  Sixteenth  century  di- 
aries; Seventeenth-century  diaries:  Sir  Sim- 
onds  d'Ewes,  Sir  Henry  Slingsby,  Samuel 
Pepys,  John  Evelyn,  Henry  Teonge;  Seven- 
teenth-century minor  diaries;  Eighteenth- 
century  diaries:  John  Wesley,  The  Earl 
of  Egmont,  Fanny  Burney,  William  Wind- 
ham; Eighteenth-century  minor  diaries;  Nine- 
teenth-century diaries:  B.  R.  Haydon,  Byron, 
Charles  Greville,  William  Cobbett,  Queen  Vic- 
toria, Caroline  Fox,  General  Gordon:  Nine- 
teenth-century minor  diaries;  '^ — "^tieth-cen- 
tury   diaries;    Index. 


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415 


Booklist  20:93  D  '23 
"On  the  whole  it  is  highly  successful,   for  it 
carries    on   with    the   fluidity    of   fiction,    and   no 
hint  of  the  pursed  Ups  of  the  literary  historian." 
+   Bookm  58:485  D  '23  llOw 
"P\ind   for   entertainment   and    reflection   may 
be    found   in  all   these   examples   of   diary  writ- 
ing,  whether   they  be   from    men   in   obscure   or 
in  conspicuous   walks   of   life."    E.    F.    Edgett 
+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  11  '23  2000w 
"To  those  who  have  not  had  the  inestimable 
advantage  of  browsing  freely  in  a  well-stocked 
library  when  they  were  young,  'English  Diaries' 
is   indispensable."     M.   F.    Egan 

-f-  Freeman   8:116  O  10  '23  1850w 
Reviewed   by  Hamish  Miles 

Lit    R    p880    Ag    4    '23    ICOOw 
Reviewed  by  R.  M.  Lovett 

New  Repub  36:77  S  12  '23  1500w 
"Mr.  Ponsonby  has  provided  his  readers  with 
a   well-selected   table  of  viands   on  which  they 
can    feed    all    their   humours.     The   biographical 
notes  are   full  of  interest  and  information,   and 
altogether  we  recommend  the  book  to  the  mis- 
cellaneous   reader    with    the    utmost    confidence, 
and  without  any  bias,   or  warp  of  natural  af- 
fection,   for    though    we    have    kept    a   dog,    we 
have    never    kept    a    diary."     Augustine    Birrell 
-i-  New  Statesman  21:146  My  12  '23  1750w 
Reviewed    by    P.    A.    Hutchison 

N  Y  Times  pi  Jl  29  '23  2800w 
"A  more  entertaining  and  illuminating  an- 
thology than  this  work  can  scarcely  be 
Imagined,  so  many  frank  and  intimate  pictures 
does  it  give  us  of  all  sorts  of  people."  Burton 
Rascoe 

-H   N  Y  Tribune  pl7  D  30  '23  1700w 
"Mr.  Arthur  Ponsonby  is  certainly  very  much 
to  be  congratulated.     He  has  hit  upon  an  orig- 
inal    idea,     and    has    also    treated    his    novelty 
with   admirable   skill." 

+  Sat  R  135:666  My  19  '23  1150w 
"Though  Mr.  Ponsonby  has  given  us  a  quaint 
and  charming  April  nosegay  from  the  meadows 
In  which  he  has  been  wandering  for  the  last 
yf»ar  or  two,  the  book  is,  and  was  bound  to 
be,  tantalizing  rather  than  satisfying — valu- 
able and  stimulating  as  a  guide,  but  sharing 
the  disability  of  all  compendiums.  To  speak 
quite  frankly,  what  the  reader  would  have 
Uked  would  have  been  not  a  review  of  Eng- 
lish diaries,  but  a  library  of  English  diaries, 
after  the  manner  of  Johnson's  British  Poets, 
with  a  critical  life  and  estimate  of  each  di- 
arist prefixed  to  his  work."  J:  St  L..  Strachey 
-f  —  Spec  130:802  My  12  '23  1750w 
"Mr.  Ponsonby  is  to  be  congratulated  upon 
having  brought  off  a  remarkable  preliminary 
feat,  that  of  discerning  an  idea  for  a  book,  so 
simple  that  everyone  seems  to  have  overlooked 
It.  How  many  good  books  would  there  not  be 
written  if  authors  could  only  find  themes  alike 
solid  and  novel!  Mr.  Ponsonby's  notion,  now 
that  he  has  evolved  it  into  such  an  excellent 
achievement,  wins  the  tribute  of  raising  our 
wonder  that  so  simple  and  striking  a  need  in 
the  library  had  not  struck  us!" 

+  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p301  My 
3  '23  1900W 

POOLE,    ERNEST.    Danger.    297p    $2    Macmillan 

23-8358 
The  havoc  wrought  by  a  neurotic  woman  Is 
the  theme.  Maud  Brewer  and  her  young 
brother  Dallas  had  been  left  orphans  and  Maud 
had  spent  her  health  and  her  best  years  in 
putting  him  thru  college.  When  the  war  came 
she  followed  him  to  France.  He  returned  shell- 
shocked  but  with  incentive  to  recovery  in  his 
love  for  Natalie  Darrow.  Maud  continued  to 
live  in  the  war  and  was  unwilling  that  anyone 
should  forget  it.  She  ran  a  club  for  crippled 
soldiers  and  drained  her  brother's  sympathies 
and  pocket  in  support  of  her  work.  Dallas  and 
Natalie  stood  by  her  loyally,  but  when  they 
married,  jealousy  added  to  nerve  wrack 
developed  in  Maud  a  positive  mania  which 
threatened  danger  to  the  new  home  and  to 
Natalie.  Maud's  attempted  suicide  led  to  a  train 
of    tragic    circumstances — the    death    of    Dallas 


and  misfortune  to  the  whole  Darrow  family. 
But  Natalie's  young  sanity  never  deserted  her 
and  the  story  closes  with  light  breaking  on  her 
horizon. 


Booklist  20:59  N  '23 
"  'Danger*  is  not  free  from  defects.  It  con- 
tains here  and  there  an  obvious  attempt  to 
thrill  rather  than  to  convince  the  reader,  but 
as  a  whole  it  is  a  very  faithful  chronicle  of  the 
trials  that  have  come  to  the  souls  and  bodies  of 
men  and  women  as  a  result  of  the  war." 
E.  F.  Edgett 

—  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  21  '23  1250w 
Cleveland    p42    Je    '23 
"The    story    is    too    long    drawn    out,    but    It 
holds  the   reader's   interest,   and  is  occasionally 
dramatic." 

H Int    Bk    R    p53    JI   '23    450w 

"After  all,  the  intensity  of  this  novel  counts 
for  something.  It  jars  the  nerves,  but  it  does 
remind  us  of  something  which  we  cannot  let 
ourselves  forget — namely,  that  we  must  in  one 
sense  forget."  S.  T.  Williams 

h   Lit  R  p731  Je  2  '23   1050w 

"The  contrast  is  curious  between  Mr.  Poole 
at  his  topmost  and  Mr.  Poole  as  the  rather 
commonplace  contriver  of  events,  the  rather 
conventional  drawer  of  his  other  characters, 
which  he  is  sometimes  in  this  neither  conven- 
tional nor  commonplace  book,  the  work  of  a 
man  who  exacts  most  from  himself  when  he 
sets  himself  the  hardest  of  his  tasks." 
-f   New  Repub  35:241  Jl  25  '23  330w 

"I't  Maud  Brewer  seems  somewhat  of  an 
anachronism  today,  she  is  at  least  a  real  char- 
acter. She  is  not  The  Famous  Mrs.  Fair.  She 
is  a  morbid,  brooding  sister,  of  Mrs.  Fair.  And 
the  morbid  strain  is  so  much  the  strongest  thing 
in  the  book  that,  unfortunately,  it  dominates  an 
otherwise   verv  readable  novel." 

^ NY  Times  pl3  My  13  '23  880w 

"The  book  is  written  quietly  and,  on  the 
whole,  commendably.  Occasionally  the  author 
speaks  a  few  unguarded  words  in  his  own 
person  and  not  through  the  medium  of  his  tale. 
There  is  a  good  deal  of  sentimentality  in  it,  but 
it  is  not  allowed  to  run  wild.  Mr.  Poole  seems 
to  have  realized  that  the  tragedy  of  the  con- 
flict he  describes  gains  in  power  what  it  forgoes 
in  adornment."  Eva  Goldbeck 

^ NY  Tribune  p25  My  13  '23  1300w 

"Ernest  Poole  brings  out  the  ugliest  and  one 
of  the  best  written  stories  yet  added  to  his  list. 
Our  judgment  of  the  book  might  be  tempered 
if  we  could  see  that  any  special  purpose  or 
vital  human  interest  had  been  served  by  its 
writing.  As  the  work  stands,  and  as  far  as  we 
can  see,  ugliness  is  the  sole  outstanding  quality 
of  the  tale."  E.  W.  Osborn 

^ NY  World  p8e  My  13  '23  480w 

"Not  a  pleasant  tale!   But  it  is  treated  with 
dramatic     intensity,     and     is     relieved     by     the 
tender    and    charming    silhouette    of    a    lovable 
old  Quaker  lady."   R.  D.  Townsend 
h  Outlook  134:287  Je  27  '23  500w 

"It  is  apparent  that  Mr  Poole  feels  that  the 
returned  soldiers  have  been  neglected  and  la 
in  sympathy  with  bonus  agitation.  But  it 
should  not  be  understood  that  the  object  or 
the  book  is  to  forward  bonus  legislation.  It 
is  rather  a  plea  for  intelligent  handling  of  the 
problem  of  the  broken  ex-service  men,  not 
allowing  it  to  fall  to  the  mismanagement  of 
the  Maude  Brewers.  The  book  is  a  painstakmg 
piece  of  work  and  commends  itself  to  thought- 
ful readers  at  least."  t,  o  ,n«  ,.An 
H Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  8  '23  600w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:414  Jl  '28 

POORMAN,  ALFRED  PETER.  Applied  me- 
chanics. 2d  ed  rev  and  enl  293p  il  $2.75  Mc- 
Graw 

531   Mechanics  23-9040 

.  "A  textbook  for  undergraduate  courses  in  en- 
gineering schools.  Departs  from  the  usual  pro- 
cedure by  making  extended  use  of  the  graphic 
method  of  solution  and  by  presenting  a  large 
number  of  illustrative  examples  which  have 
been   solved  in   detail   to  show  the  relation   be 


416 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


POOR  MAN,  A.  P.— Continued 
between  the  principle  which  has  been  developed 
and  the  problem  to  which  it  applies.   (Mechan- 
ical Engineering,  1923)" — Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui  28:471  N  '23 

POR,    ODON.    Fascism;    tr.    by    E.    Townshend. 
-    300p  $2.75  Kno'pf 

945     Italy — Fascisti  movement  23-18326 

"In  his  study  of  Fascism,  Odon  For  devotes 
himself  primarily  to  an  examination  of  the  in- 
stitutions and  methods  of  the  rule  of  the  'black- 
shirts.'  Himself  apparently  a  guild  Socialist,  he 
finds  much  to  commend  in  the  trade  union  and 
guildist  policy  of  Fascism,  and  sees  in  the  in- 
stitutions recently  created  in  the  Italian  State 
the  best  chance  of  avoiding  a  conflict  between 
producers  and  employers.  He  shows  how  com- 
pletely Government,  the  old  State  had  broken 
down  in  the  months  following  the  close  of  the 
war,  and  how  absolutely  it  had  failed  to  grapple 
with  the  problems  of  post-war  readjustment. 
Then  came  the  attempt  of  the  Socialists  to  step 
in  the  breach,  but  the  Socialists,  deficient  in 
imagination  failed  to  sense  the  power  of  the 
national  ideal,  and  by  their  emphasis  upon  in- 
ternationalism, proved  their  inability  to  save 
Italy  from  the  enemies  in  her  own  household. 
Then  came   the  Fascisti." — Boston  Transcript 


America.  The  best  he  remembers  from  this 
experience  is  a  stock  of  ecclesiastical  anecdotes, 
some  pleasant  characterizations  of  about  thirty 
dissenting  clergymen,  evangelists  and  mission- 
aries, and  a  few  interesting  recollections  of 
casually  met  figures  in  secular  life." — N  Y 
Times 


"The  author's  analysis  of  Fascism  is  an  able 
and  thorough  one,  and  he  demonstrates  clearly 
why,  with  its  emphasis  upon  discipline,  patriot- 
ism, and  its  devotion  to  the  nation  and  the  na- 
tional interest,  it  succeeded  in  the  space  of  a 
few  months  in  overthrowing  the  Governmjent, 
and  establishing  the  Fascist  State  as  the  Italian 
State."      D.    McK.,    jr. 

+  Boston   Transcript  p4  O  31   '23  580w 

"This  book  gives  an  excellent  and  accurate 
idea  of  the  course  of  Italian  politics  since  Italy's 
entry  into  the  war."   J.   M.  H. 

+   New  Statesman  21:598  S  1  '23  1450w 

"This  book  is  the  first  coherent  account  of 
the  Fascist  movement  that  has  reached  this 
country.  It  may  be  that  Fascism  is  not,  or  will 
not  prove  to  be,  as  it  is  here  described.  Of  that 
we  in  England  are  not  able  to  judge.  But  at 
any  rate  here  is  an  attempt,  logical  and  consis- 
tent, to  see  as  a  whole  this  complex  and  violent 
uprush  of  national  energy,  to  evaluate  both  its 
aims  and  its  achievements,  and  to  drag  out  the 
profound  and  unspoken  impulses  that  have 
driven  the  movement  on  and  to  expose  them  to 
the  light  of  formulation  and  analysis."  E.  J: 
Strachey 

+  Spec  131:288  S  1  '23  ISOOw 

POROSKY,    MATTHEW.     Practical  factory  ad- 
ministration.    244p   $2.50   McGraw 

658.7  Factory  management  23-5838 

"The  book  begins  with  the  fundamentals  of 
industrial  organization  and  follows  through 
equipment,  material  and  personnel  handling 
methods  to  the  final  chapter  on  synchronizing 
sales  and  production.  (Am  Machinist,  1923> 
Primarily  methods  applicable  to  the  small  and 
medium-sized  plant." — Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 

"This  book  is  of  value  to  executives  in  small 
plants,  as  well  as  in  large,  because  the  princi- 
ples, practices,  and  forms  outlined  therein  are 
presented  from  the  viewpoint  of  the  average 
rather  than  the  exceptionally  large  establish- 
ment. Factory  managers  and  others  interested 
in  industrial  organization  will  do  well  to  add 
it  to  their  desk  or  library  equipment."  J:  DeC 
Van  Etten 

+   Management   &   Adm   6:641  N  '23  lOOOw 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:423  O   '23 

PORRITT,    ARTHUR.      Best    I   remember.    253p 

$3     Doran     [7s  6d  Cassell] 

922   Ministers   of  the  gospel  23-6046 

"Arthur  Porritt  has  for  thirty  years  been  con- 
nected with  religious  journalism  in  London,  and 
his  work  has  brought  him  into  close  contact 
with  leaders  in  Nonconformity  in  England  and 


"A  delightful  book." 

+  J  Religion  3:448  Jl  '23  50w 
"He  is  gentle  throughout.  Despite  the  re- 
ligious atmosphere  of  the  whole  book — he 
speaks  of  few  men  who  are  not  clergymen — 
there  are  amusing  touches.  .  .  The  author's 
circle  of  intimates  is  limited,  perhaps  because 
■whether  in  the  smoke-room  or  on  the  golf  links 
or  on  country  walks,  I  find  ministers  the  liveli- 
est of  companions,  varied  in  their  interests, 
keen  in  their  enthusiasm  and  sincere  in  their 
attachments.'  " 

+   Lit    R   p490   F   24   '23   250w 
"Mr.    Porritt    is    candid    in    summing    up    the 
Nonconformist    leaders    of    his    time.       He    has 
shrewd   comments   on   prominent   preachers  and 
their  methods  of  sermon  preparation." 

+   New  Statesman  20:152  N  4  '22  300w 
N  Y  Times  p2  Mr  18  '23  600w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p670    O 
19   '22  35Uw 

PORTER,  ELEANOR  (HODGMAN)  (MRS  JOHN 
-     LYMAN      PORTER)      (ELEANOR      STUART, 
pseud.).  Money,   love  and  Kate,  together  with 
The   story  of  a  nickel.    295p   $2  Doran 

23-13324 
"The  title  story  revolves  about  a  young  man 
who  is  burdened  with  a  legacy  of  $30,000  on 
condition  that  he  is  wed  by  the  time  he  is  thirty, 
and  who  is  morbidly  afraid  that  some  one  is 
going  to  marry  him  for  his  money.  The  heroine 
when  she  learns  of  the  legacy  is  equally  sensi- 
tive for  fear  the  young  man  is  trying  to  marry 
her  in  order  to  get  this  large  fortune.  The  sec- 
ond story  is  entitled  'The  Story  of  a  Nickel.* 
and  is  told  through  the  medium  of  a  coin  which 
by  a  remarkable  chance  always  manages  to  be 
handed  out  in  change  to  one  of  the  principal 
characters  just  when  something  important  is 
going  to  happen." — Lit  R 


"Engaging  little  story,  this.  And  one  sure  of  a 
welcome  from  those  who  followed,  not  with 
tolerance,  but  with  rejoicing,  the  uplift  work 
of   the  appallingly   'glad'    PoUyanna." 

-I-  Boston  Transcript  p4  O  31  '23  380w 
Int   Bk  R  pl59  Ja  '24  580w 
"Her  admirers  will  find  what  they  lock  for  in 
this   volume    in    the    way    of   wholesome   cheeri- 
ness  and  other  good  home  virtues." 
Lit    R    p240   N    10  '23   250w 

PORTER,  GENE  (STRATTON)  (MRS 

CHARLES    DARWIN    PORTER).     White   flag. 
483p  $2   Doubleday 

23-13098 

Martin  Moreland,  thru  the  power  of  money, 
holds  the  town  of  Ashwater  in  his  grip.  A 
daily  evidence  of  his  greed  and  secret  sins  is 
Rebecca,  who  in  her  demented  state  of  mind 
bids  all  pass  under  her  white  flag  and  be  puri- 
fied. Beautiful  Mahala  Spellman  refuses  to 
marry  Moreland's  son.  Junior,  and  as  punish- 
ment, they  foreclose  on  the  Spellmans,  bring- 
ing destitution  upon  them.  They  involve 
Mahala  in  charges  of  theft,  but  cannot  break 
her  spirit.  Thru  all  she  has  the  devotion  of 
Jason,  the  poor,  snubbed  boy  who  fights  his 
way  against  all  Moreland's  power.  In  the  final 
mad  reaction  of  the  townspeople  against  the 
Morelands  all  their  sins  are  exposed  and  in- 
nocents cleared.  Junior's  suicide  and  his 
father's  loss  of  reason  alone  save  them  from 
the  mob.  Ashwater  calms  down,  Jason  and 
Mahala  are  united,  and  Moreland  thenceforth 
carries  the  white  flag  of  Rebecca,  true  to  her 
dying  curse. 

Boston   Transcript  p4  Ag  25  '23   450w 
"It   is   a   sorry   story,    untrue    to   life   and  un- 
duly drawn  out.    It  is  a  relief  that  most  of  the 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


417 


characters  meet  with  violent  or  semi-violent 
deaths.  This  reader  would  have  desired  a 
clean  sweep,  preferably  in  the  first  chapters  of 
the  book.  There  would  have  been  less  book, 
but  it  would  probably  have  been  a  better  one." 

—  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily   News  p8   S   23 
•23    270w 

"This  is  a  long,  very  lachrymose,  tale,  with 
an  excessive  casualty  list,  for  all  the  villains 
and  many  others  who  get  in  the  way  are  in- 
continently slaughtered — one  is  even  struck  by 
lightning.  Full  of  absurdities  as  it  is,  it  holds 
attention,  and  the  average  reader  will  go  on, 
wanting  to  know  what  happens  next— which, 
after  all,  is  a  justification  for  the  writer.*" 
h   Lit   R  p75  S  22  '23  500w 

"Mrs.  Porter  has  been  happy  in  some  of  her 
character  drawing,  and  her  picture  of  the  high 
school  commencement  in  which  Mahala  speaks 
her  mind  to  the  tight  minds  of  the  town,  is  a 
commendable  piece  of  work.  But  the  author 
seems  to  tire  toward  the  last.  Perhaps  the 
emotional  strain  is  too  much  even  for  her. 
The  last  chapters  are  bare  framework,  and 
read  like   a  movie   scenario." 

-I NY  Times  pl7  Ag  26   '23   720w 

"Every  word  of  this  overtrue  tale — it  must 
be  true,  for  it  is  so  irmch  stranger  than  most 
fiction — is  set  down  by  Mrs.  Porter  with  trans- 
parent good  faith.  What  is  more,  she  has  a 
certain  gusto,  a  driving  power  behind  her  pen, 
that  carries  the  reader  along  like  a  bug  on  a 
chip,  right  over  the  millrace.  She  is  much  less 
sophisticated  than  Daisy  Ashford.  A  high 
school  girl  might  write  such  a  tale  if  she  could 
write,  but  she  cannot  and  INIrs.  Porter  emphati- 
cally  can."     Isabel    Paterson 

1-   N    Y   Tribune   p20   S   2   '23   ISOOw 

"Too  much  sweetness  and  politeness  in  the 
first  part  of  a  book  and  over-charge  of  ras- 
cality and  violent  death  in  the  latter  portion 
show  the  need  of  a  more  balanced  literary 
method.  Mrs  Porter  at  times  comes  clo'ser 
to    melodrama    than    to    realism." 

—  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  S   16  '23   400w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p638  S  27 

•23   210w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:481  N  '23 


POST,  EMILY  (PRICE)  (MRS  EDWYN  MAIN 
POST).  Etifjuette;  in  societj-,  in  bu.siness,  in 
politics    and    nt    home.     627p    il    $4    Funk 

39.3     Etiquet  22-16464 

"It  is  safe  to  say  that  'Etiquette'  will  be  the 
last  word  in  social  matters,  at  least  until  such 
time  as  society  has  radically  changed,  for  it 
covers  with  an  almost  incredible  minuteness 
of  detail  every  contingency  into  which  a  social 
being  may  he  plunged.  From  the  ceremony 
of  christening  a  child  until  the  last  sad  rites 
after  death,  the  life  of  a  well-bred  person  is 
conducted  with  painstaking  care.  And  it  is 
not  merely  a  collection  of  senseless  rules,  though 
there  are  rules  aplenty  in  relation  to  the  more 
formal  phases  of  human  relationship.  The  us- 
ages of  Ihe  l)est  POoiet>-  in  such  intercourse  as 
takes  pl.'ice  at  public  halls,  large  dinners,  and 
ceremonial  functions  of  any  sort  are  illustrated 
with  a  wealth  of  detail  which  will  keep  any 
fairly  intelligent  reader  from  going  wrong.  But 
the  book  does  not  stop  with  this.  It  treats  of 
social  life  in  a  larger  and  more  flexible  sense: 
it  shows  that  good  taste  and  n  regard  for  the 
feelings  of  others  form  the  foundation  of  all 
its    customs." — Lit    R 


Booklist    19:206   Ap   '23 
"I'p-to-date,     sensible,     comprehensive." 

-L  Cleveland  p22  Mr  '23 
"Not  only  is  its  style  delightful,  but  it  reads 
like  a  first-class  society  novel.  .  .  She  tells 
hovv^  people  of  all  purses  in  polite  society  live 
and  dress  and  entertain,  and  you  know  that 
they  are  all  real  people  lightly  disguised.  More- 
over— wonderful  feat! — you  are  never  antag- 
onized by  snobbery.  The  author  is  as  free 
from  it  as  she  should  be.  The  last  thing  she 
would  ever  have  thought  of  was  writing  a 
book   on   etiquette.    She   only  did    so   at    the   in- 


sistence of  a  publisher.  But  when  she  accepted 
the  job,  she  did  it  thoroughly.  It  is  merely 
an  assemblage  of  facts,  presented  in  a  straight- 
torward.  convmcing  and  entertaining  manner  " 
Gertrude    Atherton 

-f-  Int  Bk  R  plO  Mr  '23  3100w 
"To  any  one  who  wishes  a  sincere  and  dis- 
crmiinating  discussion  of  the  principles  under- 
'yi.^S-^Sood  behavior,  written  bv  an  authority 
this  book  will  be  worth  many  times  its  cost'" 
Dorothv    Hamilton 

+   Lit    R   pl80   N   4  '22   600w 

N    Y   Times   plO   D   17   '22   380w 
"Let    it    be    said   at   once   that   Mr.c.    Post   is  a 
very    delightful    writer — humorous,    wise     wittv 
worldly,   sympathetic,  human."  Will  Cup'py 
+   N    Y   Tribune   p7   S   3   '22   1300w 

POST     MELVILLE    DAVISSON.   Monsieur  Jon- 

-    quelle,    prefect   of  police  of  Paris.   287p  $2    (7s 

6d)    Appleton  ^ 

23-13658 
A  dozen  detective  stories  grouped  about  the 
personality  of  M.  Jonquelle,  prefect  of  polici 
?he  fnT.-  Th?*^r^^^  ^^'^  ^•'^^t  cipher;  Found  in 
the  fog;  The  alien  corn;  The  ruined  eye;  The 
haunted  door;  Blucher's  march;  The  womkn  on 
^^^1.1  '"■'■^^^V  ^^®  triangular  hypothesis:  The 
problem  of  the  five  marks:  The  man  with  steel 
fhTruby  ^    '"°"'^'^    butterfly;    The    girl    wfth 


Booklist  20:140  Ja  '24 
"As    a    whole,    the    book    will    make   Mr.    Post 
still   more   secure   in    his   position   as   an   author 
of  good  mystery  stories."  M.   K.  Ford 
4-  Int  Bk  R  pl53  Ja  '24  550w 
"The  best  story  in  the  lot,  the  one  which  this 
reader    found    the    most    unique    and    arresting 
l^^^^^.J^^^^    '"    *^®    ^ook,    'The    Great    Cipher' 
ihe  others  are  all  good,  but  more  nearly  of  the 
type    that    one    is    accustomed    to    in    the   books 
of   a   certain   great    English   writer  who   has    of 
late  years,   deserted  the  study  of  crime  for  the 
study    of    after-life    communications." 
-f-   N    Y   Times   p9   N   4   '23   450w 
"Mr.    Post    has   a    style   of   his   own    and    puts 
much    more    literary   art   into   the   telling   of   his 
stories    tlian    is    usual    in    that    class    of   work  " 
+  T"he  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p880  D  13 
23    140'w 

POST.  MELVILLE  DAVISSON.  Randolph  Ma- 
son: corrector  of  destinies.  319p  $1.75  Putnam 
The  third  and  last  of  the  Randolph  Mason 
books  contains  a  collection  of  thirteen  mysterv 
stories  having  to  do  with  legal  subtleties.  The 
lawyer  Randolph  Mason  has  made  himself  the 
champion  of  the  wronged  and  helps  them  to 
outwit  the  wrong-doers  by  evading  the  law  in 
an  entirely  legal  manner.  Contents:  My  friend 
at  bridge;  Madame  Versay;  The  Burgoyne- 
Hayes  dinner;  The  copper  bonds;  The  district 
attorney;  The  interrupted  exile;  The  last  check; 
The  life  tenant;  The  Pennsylvania  pirate;  The 
virgin  of  the  mountain;  An  adventure  of  St. 
Valentine's  night;  The  danseuse;  The  intriguer. 


Boston  Transcript  p4  N  7  '23  330w 
"The  manner  in  which  Randolph  Mason  pro- 
ceeds is  entirely  plausible,  so  plausible  that 
one  would  not  be  surprised  to  learn  that  many 
of  his  exploits  have  a  foundation  in  fact.  He 
is  perhaps  too  diabolically  clever  to  seem  en- 
tirely human,  yet  he  is  depicted  with  consider- 
able reality,  and  the  stories  in  which  he  is 
involved  are  skilfully  developed  and  effectively 
written." 

-f-  Lit  R  p667  My  5  '23  220w 
"The  general  tone  of  all  these  stories  is  aa 
unemotional  as  the  character  of  their  hero. 
They  are  brisk,  clear-cut  and  they  move  with 
rapidity.  Set  in  a  New  York  background,  they 
are  charged  with  the  spirit  of  American  com- 
merce. Their  romance  is  the  romance  of  Wall 
Street.  There  is  little  or  no  love  element  in 
the  entire  collection  and  that  little  is  subordina- 


418 


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POST,    M.   D. — Continued 

ted  to  the  legal  theme.  Mr.  Post  has  turned 
out  a  group  of  mystery  stories  that  are  'most 
uncommon   good."  " 

4-   N    Y   Times   p24   Ag   26   "23    500w 
N    Y   World    p6e   S   16   '23    60w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p606    S 
13   '23   50w 

POSTGATE,  RAYIVIOND  WILLIAM.  Out  of 
the  past;  some  revolutionary  sketches.  120p 
$1.50    Houghton    [5s    Labour    pub.    co.] 

335     Communism.     Blanqui,   Louis  Auguste. 
Revolutions  [23-5768] 

In  a  previous  book,  "Revolution  from  1789  to 
1906"'  (Book  Review  Digest,  1921)  Mr  Postgate 
brought  together  a  collection  of  documents 
bearing  on  European  revolutions  during  the 
period  covered.  In  the  present  volume  he  col- 
lects some  studies  of  minor  revolutionary  char- 
acters. The  longest  of  these  studies  is  con- 
cerned with  Louis  Auguste  Blanqui,  who  can 
claim  to  have  originated  the  two  chief  weap- 
ons of  the  modern  Bolshevik,  the  "arming  of 
the  proletariat  and  disarming  of  the  bourgeoi- 
sie" and  the  "dictatorship  of  the  proletariat." 
A  shorter  study  is  devoted  to  Theophile 
Ferr6,  chief  of  police  of  the  Paris  commune, 
and  another  to  Richard  Parker,  the  admiral  of 
the  Nore  mutineers.  There  is  an  introductory 
note  on  the  history  of  the  Paris  commune,  and 
the  book  closes  with  three  brief  sketches  of 
the    commune. 


"Mr.  Postgate  writes  with  enthusiasm  for 
his  subject  and  with  scholarly  zeal;  and  des- 
pite his  bias,  he  arouses  our  interest  and  earns 
our  confidence."   L.    C.   M. 

H Freeman   7:214  My  9   '23   300w 

"To  any  one  interested  in  the  modern  revolu- 
tionary movement  either  as  sympathizer  or 
critic  the  book  is  one  of  extreme  value  for  the 
insight  it  gives  into  the  lives  and  minds  of 
the  revolutionists.  It  conduces  to  considerable 
thought  and  withal  is  extremely  well  written 
and  interesting."    W.    E.    C. 

4-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   plO    S 
IG   '23   660w 

Nation   117:495  O  31  '23   50w 

POULSEN,  FREDERIK.    Travels  and  sketches; 

tr.    from   the   Danish.     235p     $3   Knopf    [7s    6d 

Chatto   &   W.] 

910     Voyages    and    travels  23-12056 

An  unusual  collection  of  travel  sketches  by  a 
Danish  man  of  letters.  In  the  first  part  of  the 
book  he  describes  his  childhood  home  on  a  little 
Jutland  farm,  which  he  visits  after  an  absence 
of  twenty-five  years  and  which,  in  the  last 
sketch,  he  revisits  with  his  little  daughter  Sys. 
Between  these  two  sketches  are  gathered  ex- 
periences In  many  lands.  In  Germany,  Poland, 
Italy,  Greece  and  the  Aegean,  Turkey,  Palestine, 
and  Tunis.  He  observes  minutely  and  with  a 
keen  eye  for  the  dramatic.  Contents:  Country 
of  my  childhood;  German  student  life;  Polish 
magnates;  Italian  memories;  Hellas;  Asia  Min- 
or; Recollection  of  Constantinople;  Palestine; 
Tunis;    Sys. 


Booklist  20:97  D  '23 
"There    is    flavor  in   every   chapter — a   mellow 
flavor  of  yesterday  that  can  be  found  in  so  few 
postwar  books." 

-f  Bookm  58:486  D  '23  70w 
"He  has  tried  too  completely  in  it  not  to 
be  a  scholar;  has  set  down  too  obviously  what 
he  considers  light  and  unusual;  and  only  by 
oversight  has  he  produced  what  is  nearly  a 
work  of  art.  But  one's  last  word  must  be  that 
he  is  charming."     E.  M. 

H Freeman    8:167   O   24   '23   490w 

"  'Travels  and  Sketches'  is  so  well  written, 
and  strikes  so  fresh  a  note  in  travel  lore,  that 
the  temptation  to  quote  again  and  again  is 
hard  to  resist."     H:  L.  Stuart 

-1-  N  Y  Times  pll  Ag  26  '23  1400w 


"Very  graceful    and    vividly    written.      Prof. 
Poulsen  is  an  intelligent  traveller." 

4-  N    Y   World   p9e  Ag  5   '23   lOOw 
"His  sketches  are  both  vivid  and  charming." 

+  Sat  R  135:808  Je  16  '23  230w 
"Had  the  author  not  told  us  he  was  a  bad 
traveller,  we  should  have  reckoned  him  a  very 
good  one.  He  has  so  many  of  the  best  quali- 
fications— the  power  to  take  things  equably  and 
to  seize  the  humour  from  an  unpleasant  situa- 
tion." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p398  Je 
14  '23   950w 


POUND,  ROSCOE.  Interpretations  of  legal  his- 
tory. <Cambridge  studies  in  English  legal  his- 
tory) 171p  $2.25  Macmillan  [12s  6d  Cambridge 
univ.    press] 

340.1   Law  23-5449 

Studies  in  legal  history  and  interpretation  by 
the  dean  of  the  Harvard  law  school.  Dr  Pound 
outlines  the  work  of  the  various  schools  of  juri- 
dical thought  from  antiquity  to  modern  times, 
appraises  the  permanent  gains  of  each  move- 
ment and  gives  his  own  conception  of  the 
jurist's  part  in  the  making  of  law  and  in  adapt- 
ing old  law  to  new  conditions.  In  particular  he 
studies  the  way  in  which  the  historical  school 
has  interpreted  legal  history. 


"This  book  is  one  of  permanent  value.  It 
digs  at  the  roots  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  law.  The 
spade  is  not  spared.  The  work  is  well  done  and 
will  be  particularly  helpful  to  all  students  of 
comparative  law  and  jurisprudence."  S.  E.  Bald- 
win 

-f  Am  Hist  R  29:322  Ja  '24  800w 
"A  book  containing  so  much  that  is  valuable 
should  be  widely  read.  It  is  the  more  unfor- 
tunate, therefore,  that  the  author  should  have 
made  the  reader's  task  so  difficult."  W.  F. 
Dodd 

H Am   Pol  Sci   R  17i656  N  '23  650w 

"Every  page  of  his  book  testifies  to  his  wide 
reading  as  well  as  to  the  vividness  of  his  im- 
pressions and  expressions."  Paul  Vinogradoff 
+  Eng  Hist  R  38:298  Ap  '23  750w 
"It  is  a  book  of  the  first  order  of  learning, 
of  peculiar  vigor  and  clarity  of  expression,  and 
into  which  is  compacted  as  much  of  stylistic 
charm  as  it  were  possible  to  put  into  so  seri- 
ous a  matter  without  diluting  its  strength."  S. 
S     A. 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Dally  News  plO  Ja  6 
■24    750w 
"Professor  Pound's    study  of   certain   aspects 
of    legal    history    is    remarkable    for    its    broad 
historical  and  philosophical  range,  its  easy  mas- 
tery and   co-ordination   of  separate   but   related 
lines  of  legal  growth  and   theory,    and  the   skill 
and  vigor  of  its  destructive  criticism." 
-f  int    J    Ethics   34:91    O   '23    880w 
Reviewed  by  G.  H.  Montague 

Lit    R   p235   N   10   '23   1050w 
"Primarily  a  book  for  trained  jurists,  this  vol- 
ume will  interest  everyone  studying  the  theory 
of   history.      It   has   many  of   the   qualities   of  a 
classic  of  its  subject." 

+  Sat  R  135:539  Ap  21  '23  150w 
"The  story  of  the  rise  and  fall  of  the  histori- 
cal school,  and  the  relation  of  its  interpretations 
to  the  purposes  of  its  time  Is  treated  with  a 
breadth  and  originality  which  will  astonish  and 
delight  the  most  profound  and  experienced  law- 
yer But  it  is  the  deductions  which  Dr.  Pound 
draws  from  his  story,  and  his  new  interpreta- 
tions of  legal  science,  rejected  or  ignored  in  the 
last  century,  which  give  the  book  its  chief 
value."  _ ,  ,„„  ,.. 

+  Spec  130:632  Ap  14  '23  150w 
"He  has  put  the  layman  as  well  as  the  Jurist 
in  his  debt  and  written  a  book  which  adds  one 
more  to  his  achievements."     P.  B 

+  Sprlngf'd     Republican    p7a    Ag    5        23 
1800W 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p85  F  8 
'23    1400W 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


419 


POWELL,  EDWARD  ALEXANDER.     By  camel 

and    car    to    the    peacock    throne.    392p    il    $3 

Century 

915.6     Syria — Description  and  travel.  Persia 

— Description  and  travel.  Mesopotamia 

23-9507 

The  book  is  an  account  of  a  Journey  from 
Beirut  thru  Palestine,  across  the  Syrian  desert, 
thru  Mesopotamia  and  Persia  to  Teheran  and 
back  thru  Kurdistan.  The  adventures  include 
travel  by  camel  caravan,  and  capture  by 
Bedouin  brigands.  The  account  is  full  of  his- 
torical reflections  and  comparisons  and  throws 
many  sidelights  on  the  political  situation  in  the 
respective  countries.     Index. 


Booklist   19:315   Jl   '23 
Reviewed   by   Frances   Bartlett 

Boston   Transcript  p3  Jl   14   '23   2000w 
"An    intensely    interesting    story   to    read." 

-I-  Int  Bk  R  p35  O  '23  360w 
"There  is  much  of  color,  of  vivid  descrip- 
tion, of  sidelights  on  the  Great  War,  scattered 
through  the  pages  in  brisk  journalistic  style. 
And  by  way  of  final  mention,  Mr.  Powell's  analy- 
sis of  Bedouin  life,  customs,  habits,  and  morals 
ought  to  prove  more  than  satisfactory  anti- 
dote for  flappers  with  romantic  notions  of  desert 
shoiks  '* 

+  Lit  R  p904  Ag  11  '23  45'Ow 
"His  book  as  a  whole  is  a  many-sided,  in- 
teresting and  informing  account  of  conditions 
in  Syria,  Palestine,  Irak  and  Persia.  There  are 
bits  of  history  that  give  background  to  present 
day  peoples  and  events,  colorful  descriptions, 
anecdotes,  political  and  economic  exposition,  ac- 
counts of  important  personages,  explanation  of 
conditions  and  tendencies,  and  always  interest- 
ing  narrative." 

+   N   Y  Times  pl2  Je  17   '23  1300w 
N  Y  World  p7e  My  27  '23  60w 
"Instructive  as  well  as  delightfuU  reading." 
-t-  Outlook  134:140  Je  6  '23  50w 
St   Louis  p296  O  '23 
"As   a  geographical  review  and  as  a  descrip- 
tion   of    the    present    state    of    lands    as    old    as 
written  history,   it  is  equally  informative.    That 
his    point    of    view    is    wholly    impartial    or    his 
opinions    invariably    just,    one    sometimes    ques- 
tions,  but  the  body  of  historical   statement  un- 
derlying   his    pronouncements    nevertheless    re- 
mains  accessible  and   useful." 

-I Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  17  '23  450w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p845  D  6 
•23    1550W 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:442    O    '23 


POWERS,    HARRY    HUNTINGTON.     Florentine 

revery.    76p   fl    (4s    6d)    Macmilan 

945.5     Florence — History  23-3082 

"The  following  pages  lay  no  claim  to  the 
character  of  exact  history.  The  aim  has  been 
to  give  pictorial  expression  to  certain  significant 
phases  and  prominent  personalities  in  the  life 
of  a  famous  city.  The  dates  here  assumed  are 
more  or  less  arbitrary  and  the  sequence  of 
events  somewhat  simplified.  In  the  interest  of 
pictorial  completeness  conjecture  has  been 
freely  admitted  to  fill  the  inevitable  void  of 
the   historic   record." 


"A  small  volume  of  distinct  literary  value. 
Professor  Powers  has  absorbed  details  and 
events  into  that  essential  and  all  embracing 
truth  which  is  greater  than  the  limitation  of 
facts  and  has  written  a  book  which  will  be  ac- 
ceptable to  those  who  like  to  obtain  not  too 
close  a  view  of  history  and  yet  get  a  satisfac- 
tory comprehension  of  certain  phases  in  its 
development." 

-I-   N  Y  Times  pl7  Ja  21  '23  250w 
"The    author    is    president    of    the    Bureau    of 
University  Travel,  and  possesses  a  pleasant  nar- 
rative  st^■le   that    is   verv   easy   to   read." 
-f   N   Y  Tribune  pl8   My  13  '23  60w 

The    Times    fLondon]    Lit    Sup    p427    Je 
21   '23    20w 


POWYS,    JOHN    COWPER.      Samphire.     53p    $1 

Seltzer 

821  22-23144 

According  to  the  book's  jacket  these  twenty 
poems  suggest  "a  naked  spirit  suspended  over 
the  yawning  abysses  of  the  universe."  Certainly 
the  odor  of  decay  hangs  about  the  shapes  of 
terror,  the  nightmare  images,  the  murky  pools, 
the  sea-scum,  the  "fallen  roofs  where  hyaenas 
bark,"   of  which  the  poet   writes. 


"An  exotic  little  book  of  verse,  highly  arti- 
ficial   and    self-conscious." 

—  Bookm    57:220   Ap   '23   80w 
Dial    74:633   Je   '23   60w 

"In  spite  of  a  horrendous  jacket,  the  'terrible 
beauty'  of  Mr.  Powys's  poems  is  a  rather  mild 
mixture — a  synthetic  brew  compounded  of  a 
fair  amount  of  sonorous  vigor,  a  heaping  por- 
tion of  well  spiced,  highly  spirited  verse,  and 
a  good  dash  of  doggerel."    L:   Untermeyer 

H Lit    R    pGOO   Ap    14   '23   300w 

"It's  (the  abbreviation  is  the  cover's)  as  if 
the  poet  said  sternly  to  his  soul,  'Come  let  us 
be  morbid!'  Thei-e  are  two  nice  short  pieces, 
which  just  escape  being  first  rate,  and  a  sur- 
plusage   of    sluggish    singing."    Clement    Wood 

—  Nation    116:272   Mr   7    '23   80w 

"The  deeply  sensitive  poetrv  of  Powvs  has 
the  brooding  quality  that  has  lain  long  'in  the 
mind.  Usually,  however,  emotion  at  white  heat 
is  tempered  and  fused  with  pure  intellect.  An- 
other thing.  These  poems  have  always  the 
note  of  largeness.  They  will  have  something 
— some  deep  and  vital  meaning — for  all  those 
who  live  from  a  great  depth  of  being.  For  they 
are  made  out  of  the  living  tissue  of  life."  Mary 
Siegrist 

+   N    Y   Times   pl4   F   11   "23   2100w 

"There  are  poems  in  the  book  worth  having 
patience  with,  but  the  entiie  tone  is  an  ir- 
ritating, adolescent  call  of  futile  morbidity,  un- 
coupled with  even  originality  to  make  them 
readable."       Milton    Raison 

(-   N    Y    Tribune  p21   Mr   11   '23   250w 

POWYS.  LLEWELYN.  Ebony  and  Ivory:  with 
a  preface  by  Theodore  Dreiser.  223p  $2  Am. 
library  service 

23-9945 
Part  one.  Ebony,  of  this  collection  of  short 
stories  and  sketches  contains  pictures  from 
British  East  Africa,  and  part  two.  Ivory,  English 
impressions.  A  sombre  tone  pervades  them  all 
due  partly  to  the  subjects  themselves,  partly  to 
the  author's  austere  philosophy  of  life  under- 
lying the  appearances  of  things. 


"The  searchlight  of  truth,  like  the  blazing  sun 
of  the  tropics,  discovers  the  hopelessness  of  all 
being  and  doing.  Yet  this  pessimism  is  not 
harsh:  it  is  rather  a  gentle  undercurrent  of 
melancholy — growing  sometimes  poignantly  pa- 
thetic." 

-\ Bookm  57:564  Jl  '23  150w 

"Here   are   charming   style   and    brutal   frank- 
ness  combined   to   set   before   us   in   dark   colors 
the    observations    and    philosophy    of    one    who 
views   life   as  the   insoluble   mystery."   G.   E.   H. 
Copi   on    Church   and   Soc   Ser.    Int  sen 
p5  D  15  '23  420w 

"It  is.  with  the  world  of  tangible  di.=iturbing 
spectacles — mean,  fantastic,  slyly  ironic,  ma- 
levolent, merciless:  of  proud  and  covert  ani- 
mals of  primeval  savagery,  or  of  animals  dumb- 
mouthed  under  oppression;  the  world  of  men 
and  women,  debased  and  purblind  with  vulgar 
egoism,  or  exposed  to  cruelty  and  exnloitation 
by  their  helplessness,  that  Mr  Powys's  imag- 
ination is  concerned.  Here  is  no  great  interest 
in  ideas — but  a  restra!int,  wholly  tough — yet 
strangely,  even  hauntingly  vulnerable — artless, 
perhaps,  yet  with  the  subtle  artlessness  of  com- 
plete sophistication."  Alyse  Gregory 
4-   Dial   74:405  Ap  '23   1450w 

"Mr.  Powys,  by  virtue  of  his  mood  and  his 
directness  of  vision,  shows  signs  that  he  may 
yet   become   a   tragic   writer   in   the   immemorial 


420 


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POWYS,     L. — Continued 

tradition.  The  present  volume,  nevertheless, 
contains  almost  as  much  failure  as  promise." 
Edwin  Muir 

-\ Freeman  7:332  Je  13  '23  llOOw 

Reviewed  by  H.  W.   Boynton 

Ind  110:232  Mr  31  '23  400w 
"There  is  a  horror  attached  to  it  all — the 
horror,  perhaps,  of  disillusionment — but  Powys 
handles  it  with  a  remarkable  restraint.  Occa- 
sionally, delicacy  may  revolt  at  some  details, 
but  one  always  feels  that  more  and  more  dis- 
gusting things  could  have  been  written.  He 
ehooses  only  those  things  necessary  to  make 
his  pictures  defy  misrepresentation."  P.  N. 
Stone 

+  Lit  R  p484  F  24  '23  950w 
"There  is  in  them  all  the  superb  terror  and 
mystery  of  nature,  the  savage  grace  of  primitive 
things,  the  bitter  realization  of  the  futility  of 
aspiration  in  the  face  of  certain  doom.  Books 
like  'Ebony  and  Ivory'  are  not  created  every 
day.  Such  works  are  born  only  'when  men 
and  mountains  meet."  "  Edwin  Seaver 
-f  Nation  116:602  My  23  '23  400w 
"  'Ebony  and  Ivory'  is  not  only  an  achieve- 
ment, it  is  a  great  achievement.  But  Powys's 
readers  cannot  change  Africa,  and  if  the  carrion 
becomes  too  overpowering,  and  the  buzzards  be- 
come too  numerous,  those  readers  are  likely  to 
revolt.  The  realists  will  call  this  cowardice. 
Perhaps  it  is.  But  one  has  a  shrewd  suspicion 
that  it  is  law.  In  the  meantime,  Powys's  next 
book  will  be  awaited  with  more  than  the  usual 
interest." 

-I ^'  N  Y  Times  p9  F  25  '23  1550w 

N  Y  Tribune  pl8  F  11  '23  450w 
"A  fine  book  that  has  slipped  into  the 
American  silences  with  the  quietness  of  one  of 
the  author's  own  jungle  snakes.  Perhaps  it  is 
the  bitter  note  that  sounds  out  in  a  low  bass 
from  every  page  that  has  crippled  its  popu- 
larity."    L:   Weitzenkorn 

H NY   World  plOe  Ap  29  '23  600w 

"Sad  and  unpleasantly  temperamental  are 
most  of  these  papers,  though  never  monoto- 
nous, and  their  readers  will  find  them  a  relief 
from  fine  writing  and  posing." 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Jl  15  '23  330w 
Survey  49:819  Mr  15  '23  20w 
"Each  of  these  pieces  is  admirable  for  its 
clean  workmanship  and  instinctive  colouring. 
But  humour  is  not  a  quality  of  his,  not  even 
the  humour  of  ancient  Rome.  It  is  the  book  of 
a  man  who  has  been  hurt  and  who  mirrors  his 
wound  more  clearly  in  his  art,  not  to  hurt 
others,  but  so  that  neither  he  nor  we  may  run 
uselessly  away  from  that  which  we  carry  with 
us." 

-i The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p706    O 

25   '23   450w 

^*^^^^i,  .^'-F^^.l-J'^-       Thirteen      worthies. 
zZlp    $1.75    Am.   library  service 

928     Authors,   English  23-8367 

„J:/^^  ■Po'^'ys  says  of  one  of  his  worthies  that 
his  feet  are  firmly  planted  in  meadow  soil." 
Of  most  of  the  others  this  might  be  said  with 
equal  truth,  and  it  is  this  quality  which  seems 
to  have  determined  the  author  in  his  selection 
of  worthies.  They  are  natural,  spontaneous 
lovers  of  life  whom  Mr  Powys's  character 
sketches  endow  with  an  unusual  sense  of  reality 
Contents:  Geoffrey  Chaucer;  Michel  de  Mon- 
^igne;  Christopher  Marlowe:  Tom  Corvat:  Sir 
Thomas  Urquhart;  Izaak  "Walton;  John  Bunyan; 
Nicholas  Culpeper;  Beau  Nash;  John  Woolman; 
Thomas  Bewick;  William  Barnes;  Thomas 
Hardy. 


Booklist  20:15  O  '23 
"As  a  matter  of  fact  there  is  nothing  of 
brilliance  here.  These  cameo  portraits  of  Chau- 
cer, Montaigne,  Marlowe,  and  others  are  work- 
manlike, digestible,  and  informative,  but  at  no 
point  do  they  begin  to  achieve  the  glitter  that 
characterizes    'Victoria.'  " 

-I Bookm  58:82  S  '23  lOOw 

Cleveland   p80   S   '23 


Dial   75:508   N  '23   lOOw 
"In  a  day  of  merely  showy  books,  Mr.  Powys 
has  written   one   of   those    real   books   which,    to 
adapt  a  phrase  of  his  own,  have  their  origin  in 
the  heart  as  well  as  in  the  head."     R.  L.   G. 
+   Int    Bk    R    p20   Ag   '23   2600w 
"Pointed   in    style   and    pleasant    in    the    read- 
ing,   it    serves    admirably    for    stowing    in    the 
pocket    when    leaving    town    for   cooler   climes." 
+   Lit    R   p30   S   8   '23   720w 
"Mr.    Llewelyn  Powys   is  less  ponderous  than 
his  brother,   and   though  his   matter  is   thin,   he 
is  lively,   genial,   and  entertaining."   S:  C.   Chew 
+  Nation    117:65   Jl   18    '23   lOOw 

New  Statesman  22:86  O  27  '23  450w 
"Possibly  it  is  easy  to  write  a  brief  paper 
on  Chaucer  or  Montaigne  or  Marlowe.  But  it 
is  not  so  simple  to  make  characters  like  Tom 
Coryat,  him  of  the  'Crudities,'  or  Sir  'Thomas 
Urquhart,  translator  of  Rabelais,  or  Nicholas 
Culpeper,  or  John  Woolman,  or  Thomas  Bewick, 
live  before  us  in  the  space  of  a  few  pages.  But, 
with  a  peculiar  talent  for  vitality  and  character, 
that  is  precisely  what  Mr.  Powys  succeeds  in 
accomplishing." 

+  N  Y  Times  p8  My  20  '23  2650w 
"There  is  often  a  rich  humor  in  the  essayist's 
remarks,  and  his  prose  is  always  of  that  neatly 
cadenced  order  that  induces  to  lingering  read- 
ing. Nothing  new  is  squeezed  out  of  these 
essays  on  well-known  figures,  but  much  that  is 
old  is  represented  in  the  most  charming  fash- 
ion." 

+  Outlook  134:481  Jl  25  '23  220w 
"The  writing  is  excellent;  it  is  unhurried  and 
has  the  charm  of  an  occasionally  whimsical  in- 
sight, and  is  utterly  free  from  the  defect  of 
revealing  the  machinerj'  with  which  the  author 
produces  his  effect." 

+   Springf'd   Republican  p8  Ag  28  '23  300w 


POWYS,   THEODORE    FRANCIS.    The  left  leg. 

Slip   $2.50   Knopf    [7s    6d    Chatto    &   W.] 

23-12340 

The  stories  carefully  transcribe  the  phycho- 
logical  processes  in  the  minds  of  Dorset  peas- 
ants— their  absolute  indifference  to  everything 
not  immediately  connected  with  their  own  in- 
terests, their  sordid  desires  and  ambitions,  their 
dullness  and  pettiness.  The  central  figures  in 
the  title  story  are  Farmer  Mew  whose  over- 
weening ambition  is  to  own  all  the  land  and 
houses  in  the  village  of  Madder,  including  the 
people,  and  old  man  Jar,  mysteriously  set 
apart  from  and  superior  to  the  rest.  It  is 
after  the  return  of  the  latter  from  a  prolonged 
absence,  and  his  heart  to  heart  talk  with  Mr. 
Mew  in  the  dead  of  night,  that  the  wicked 
farmer  blew  himself  to  bits  with  gunpowder, 
and  his  left  leg  dropped  from  the  sky  upon  the 
village  dullard.  Mad  Button.  The  other  stories 
are   Hester  Dominy  and   Abraham   Men. 

"The  main  objection  to  his  work  is  its  funda- 
mental lack  of  coherent  action.  For  the  most 
part  all  is  clear  and  definite;  but  when  we 
might  reasonably  expect  a  dramatic  culmination 
of  some  sort,  the  narrative  becomes  tenuous 
and  unimportant,  and  at  length  dissolves  into 
vapid  fancies  resembling  the  oddities  of  Mr 
James  Stephens  in  his  less  serious  moods."  T: 
Craven 

h   Dial    75:395   O   '23    580w 

Reviewed  by  H.   W.   Boynton 

Lit    R   pl08   O   6   '23   750w 

Reviewed  by  J.  J.  Smertenko 

Nation    117:358    O    3    '23   180w 

"Maupassant  and  Mirabeau  have  given  the 
most  gloatingly  repulsive  pictures  of  the  peas- 
ant; Zola  and  Hardy  have  in  their  different 
ways  given  him  a  magnificent  presence;  Mr. 
Powys  gives  him  something  new,  something 
exciting,  something  almost  convincing.  His 
peasants  look  at  life  with  eyes  almost  as  dif- 
ferent from  ours  as  those  of  a  sheep  or  a  hen, 
yet  they  are  not  merely  animals;  still  less  are 
they  noble  or  heroic."   Raymond  Mortimer 

New  Statesman   21:271  Je  9  '23  1750w 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


421 


"Weird  as  bad  dreams  are  these  tales.  Yet 
who  has  not  been  so  intrigued  with  a  night- 
mare that  he  would  not  drowse  again  and  fol- 
low it  to  its  crazy  end?  These  peasant  stories 
put  a  spell  upon  the  soul.  To  lay  them  down 
after  one  chapter  is  difficult.  To  sketch  their 
action  in  the  space  of  a  book  notice  is  im- 
possible. Their  scope  is  as  wide  as  the  cloud- 
ridden  sky  above  Madder  and  as  deep  as  na- 
ture." 

N    Y   Times   p21   Jl   15   '23    500w 

"Mr.  Powys  has  written  three  long  stories, 
remarkable  (despite  a  few  crude  mannerisms) 
for  their  gaunt  and  bitter  power.  'The  Left 
Leg,"  'Hester  Dominy'  and  'The  Abraham 
Men'  come  very  close  to  the  first  rank  of  art." 
A.   D.   Douglas 

-1-  N    Y    Tribune    p23    Jl    29    '23    650w 

Reviewed  by  E.   W.   Oslx)rn 

N    Y   World    p9e  Jl  22  '23   500w 

"Mr.  Powys  gives  the  twist  and  savour  of 
hell  to  facts  in  themselves  usual  and  lovely. 
This  perversity  of  Mr.  Powys  is  a  pity,  for  his 
work  is  good:  for  a  new  writer,  almost  startl- 
ingly  good.  His  method  is  rhythmical,  indi- 
vidual and  mature.  He  tells  each  story  slowly; 
the  unhurried  pace  never  drags  or  falters." 
—  -i-  Sat  R  135:809  Je  16  '23  600w 

"Mr.  Po\\->-s  frequently  writes  very  brightly, 
but  his  restless  eye  would  do  him  better  ser-. 
vice  if  it  could  find  some  object  worth  its  con- 
stancy. Having  so  thoroughly  exploited  the 
sordidness  of  rural  life  he  owes  it  to  his  talent 
to  find  some  region  where  it  may  gather  a  less 
acidic   crop." 

h  Spec   131:197    Ag   11    '23    350w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p352   My 
24    '23    1050W 


PRATT,  JAMES  BISSETT.  Matter  and  spirit; 
a  study  of  mind  and  body  in  their  relation  to 
the   spiritual  life.    232p  $1.50  Macmillan 

110       Metaphysics.       Dualism.       Mind       and 
body  22-20379 

A  brief  survey  of  the  various  answers  to  the 
problem  of  mind  and  body  in  metaphysical 
speculation.  Rejecting  the  solutions  of  material- 
ism and  parallelism  and  the  negative  attitude  of 
behaviorism  and  objective  idealism,  the  author 
accepts  as  the  only  tenable  view  the  theory  of 
interaction,  which  carries  with  it  the  conception 
of  a  dualism  of  process  within  the  universe.  In 
the  concluding  chapter  he  considers  the  bearings 
of  dualism   upon   ethics  and   religion. 


"Most  readers  will  agree  with  the  author's 
prefatory  statement  that  the  most  individual 
thing  about  the  book  is  its  frank  defense  of 
metaphysical  dualism.  The  volume  is  largely 
occupied  by  clear,  forceful,  and  often  eloquent 
argumentation  based  on  direct  empirical  ap- 
peals."    A.  W.  Moore 

H J    Religion   3:320  My  '23  1600w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p224  Ap  5 
•23  1050w 


PRICE.   CLAIR.    Rebirth    of   Turkey.    234p   il    $3 
-    Seltzer 

949.6      Turkey — Nationalist    movement 

23-17390 
An  account  by  an  American  journalist  of  the 
New  Turk  movement,  of  the  rise  to  power  of 
Mustapha  Kemal  Pasha  and  the  establishment 
of  the  Angora  government.  He  outlines  the 
policy  of  Russia,  Great  Britain  and  Germany  in 
Turkey  in  the  years  before  the  war,  the  young 
Turkish  program  and  the  revolution  of  1908,  the 
disintegration  of  Turkey  after  the  World  wnr, 
and  the  development  of  Turkish  nationalism. 
The  author  is  favorable  to  the  nationalist 
movement  and  its  leader,  whose  career  he 
sketches. 


his  assistant,  Ismet  Pasha,  in  restoring  the  Ot- 
toman nation  to  a  place  in  the  world's  affairs." 
D    C    Seitz 

■+   N    Y    World    p6e   D    16   '23    60w 

PRICE,   EDITH   BALLINGER.     Garth,  able  sea- 
man.   244p   il    $1.75      Century 

23-12518 

The  ambition  of  Garth  Pemberley's  life  was 
to  become  an  able  seaman,  but  he  was  only 
eight  and  a  half,  and  walked  with  crutches. 
Until  the  war  broke  out  he  had  lived  with  his 
father  and  mother  at  the  Silver  Shoals  light- 
house, but  now  his  father  had  joined  the  navy, 
and  Garth  and  his  mother  lived  in  New  York 
with  Aunt  Joan  and  Uncie  Rob.  Garth  missed 
the  sea  and  life  at  Silver  Shoals  more  than  was 
realized  and  there  came  a  time  when  reading 
about  those  that  go  down  to  the  sea  in  ships 
did  not  suffice.  A  specialist  was  summoned  and 
a  serious  operation  followed.  When  Garth  was 
able  to  walk  again  the  crutches  were  discarded, 
altho  he  would  always  be  a  little  lame.  After 
the  war  Mr  Pemberley  took  his  family  to  New- 
port to  live,  and  Garth  rejoiced  in  its  quaint 
houses  with  the  sea  at  their  very  door.  That 
was  the  sunxmer  Garth  was  ten,  when  his 
knowledge  of  sailing  helped  him  to  save  three 
Uves  and  earn  the  title  of  Garth  Pemberley, 
A.   B. 


Boston   Transcript   p5  Ja   12   '24   710w 
Reviewed   by   F.    H.    Snow 

N    Y   Times  p6  Ja  6   '24   2000w 
"A  succinct  account  of  conditions  leading  up 
to  the   success   achieved   by   Kemal  Pasha  and 


Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  O  14  '23  180w 
Wis  Lib   Bui   19:511  D  '23 

PRIESTLEY,      HERBERT     INGRAM.     Mexican 
nation;  a  history.   507p  il   $4  Macmillan 

972     Mexico— History  23-11394 

The  associate  professor  of  Mexican  history  in 
the  University  of  California  has  written  a  his- 
tory of  Mexico  for  four  hundred  years,  from  the 
conquest  by  Cortes  to  the  accession  of  Presi- 
dent Obregon.  About  half  the  book  is  given  to 
the  colonial  history  of  New  Spain  from  which 
the  present  republic  is  politically  descended.  The 
reigns  of  each  of  the  sixty-one  viceroys  of  New 
Spain  are  sketched  and  the  administrations  of 
successive  presidents  since  the  establishment  of 
Mexican  independence.  The  history  is  predom- 
inantly political.  The  author  aims  particularly 
to  show  the  contribution  of  Spain  to  Mexican 
culture  and  the  growth  of  Mexico  toward  con- 
scious nationality. 

Booklist  20:133  Ja  '24 

"The  work  is  particularly  well-balanced.  .  . 
The  genera)  reader  will  find  it  most  enjoyable 
and  profitable;  teachers  of  Mexican  history 
already  state  that  it  is  unequalled  in  its  field  as 
a  textbook."   Osgood  Hardy 

-1-    Lit    R   p281   N   24   '23   630w 

"For  real  understanding  historical  perspective 
is  essential — more  so  in  the  case  of  Mexico  than 
of  almost  any  other  country.  Mr.  Priestley's 
scholarly  'The  Mexican  Nation — A  History,'  the 
product  of  profound  research,  gives  us  the  clear- 
est record  yet  published  in  this  country.  Its 
judgments  are  carefully  arrived  at  and  the  dis- 
parate views  of  other  historians  impartially 
weighed."     Ernest  Gruening 

-\-  Nation   117:492  O  31  '23  400w 

"This  is  an  Important  work  by  a  competent 
scholar  and  a  fine  specimen  of  historical  writing 
of  the  approved  type.  It  offers  the  English 
reader  more  than  he  will  find  between  any  other 
covers.  It  is  a  pity,  however,  that  the  author 
grasps  things  by  their  tops  rather  than  by 
their  roots.  We  miss  in  him  a  vivid  sense  of  the 
underlying  economic  and  social  situation  in 
Mexico,  which  all  along  has  been  the  invisible 
stage  director  dictating  pronunciamentos  and 
constitutions  and  moving  armed  men  about  the 
stage."    E.    A.    Ross 

^ New   Repub  37:25  N  28   "23  180w 

"In  spite  of  the  great  mass  of  writings  about 
Mexico,  Dr.  Priestley's  book  is  a  welcome  ad- 
dition. It  was  planned  with  an  admirable  sense 
of  proportion.  He  never  loses  himself  in  the 
jungle  of  incidents  that  have  been  the  despair  of 
many  commentators  The  narrative  down  through 
the  period  of  Spanish  domination  is  kept  well 
in  hand  and  out  of  the  chaos  of  insurrectionary 


422 


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PRIESTLEY,    H.    l.~Continued 
movements  since  independence  order  is  brought 
so  that   the   mind   of  the  reader  is  never  con- 
fused. 

+  N  Y  Times  p6  N  25  '23  2350w 
"Dr.  Priestly  Is  in  every  way  competent  to 
deal  with  his  subject.  The  book  is  written  with 
clearness  and  a  good  sense  of  proportion,  as  well 
as  with  a  note-worthy  desire  to  be  fair  and 
Just  in  distributing  praise  and  blame  to  the 
Mexican  political  and  military  personages  of  the 
country's  hectic  historical  record." 

+  Outlook  135:194  O  3  '23  150w 
"Mr.    Priestley   has   dealt   with   the   history   of 
Mexico    at    sufficient    length    and    in    the    right 
spirit    in    this    handy    volume." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p805  N  29 
'23   600w 

PRIOLEAU,    JOHN.      Adventures    of    Imshi;    a 
two-seater    in    search    of    the    sun.  358p    11    $5 
Little  [21s  Jarrolds] 
916    Africa,    North — Description    and    travel. 
Europe — Description    and     travel.     Automo- 
bile  touring  23-16783 
Imshi    is   the    motor   car   in   which   the   author 
toured   from   London,    thru   France  and,   on   the 
other  side  of  the  Mediterranean,  thru  Morocco, 
Algeria    and    Tunisia,    thence    back    to    England 
by  way  of  Spain,  the  Pyrenees  and  France.  The 
route    is    indicated    by    sketch    maps,    and    such 
matters  as  roads,  gasoline,   supplies,   hotels,   re- 
pair-shops and  general   costs   are   carefully   re- 
ported on. 


"Having  Imshi  with  him,  he  never  lost  the 
Occident,  and  writing  everything  he  did,  trans- 
lating as  it  were  his  emotions  into  marketable 
prose  before  they  had  time  to  settle  in  him 
he  never  lost  himself  in  the  immensities  of 
time  and  space,  the  only  restful  way  to  spend 
a  vacation.  All  the  same,  it  is  an  interesting 
book.  The  pictures  are  startling  clashes  of 
east  and  west  occasionally,  but  for  the  most 
part  they  are  far  more  suggestive  of  the  wor- 
shippers of  Allah  than  the  usual  'desert  scenes' 
and  'lives  in  the  East'  which  adorn  our  read- 
ing." 

H Boston  Transcript  p8  N  21  '23  400w 

"Written  with  much  charm  and  lightness  of 
style  and  a  joyous  sense  of  humor.  Mr.  Prlo- 
leau  has  a  happy  temperament  which  likes 
everything  foreign  and  picturesque,  and  in  the 
holiday  mood  in  which  his  book  is  written  even 
mud  and  rain  and  broken  springs  are  treated 
as  trifles."     C.   E.   Andrews 

-f-   Lit  R  p260  N  17  '23  420w 
N  Y  World  plOe  O  21  '23  300w 

PROUTY,   OLIVE    (HIGGINS)    (MRS    LEWIS    I. 

PROUTY).     Stella  Dallas.   304p  $2     Houghton 

23-8(>60 

After  his  father  commits  suicide,  Stephen 
Dallas  leaves  home  and  seeks  solitude  in  a  little 
mill-town.  There  he  meets  Stella,  the  daughter 
of  a  mill-hand.  More  out  of  a  longing  for  com- 
panionship than  from  love  he  marries  her.  The 
story  shows  the  effect  this  marriage  had  upon 
their  lovely  child.  Laurel.  Stephen,  a  man  of 
great  refinement,  soon  realizes  that  he  cannot 
tolerate  his  wife's  crudities.  Her  senseless  flir- 
tation with  a  riding-master  exhausts  his  pa- 
tience and  he  leaves  her.  Laurel  lives  in  shabby 
gentility  with  her  mother  eleven  months  of  the 
year,  and  in  a  cultured  atmosphere  with  her 
father  the  other  month.  It  is  only  when  Stella 
understands  how  she  is  hindering  Laurel's 
career  that  she  makes  a  supreme  sacrifice — 
giving  her  husband  his  freedom  that  he  may 
marry  the  woman  who  should  have  been  his 
wife.  Stella  herself  marries  the  riding-master 
whom  she  loathes,  in  order  to  force  Laurel  to 
leave  her  and  seek  the  advantages  her  father's 
home  offers. 


to  have  walked  their  path  with  them.  Mrs 
Prouty's  use  of  words  is  delicate  and  so  un- 
forced that  one  used  to  analysis,  held  entirely 
by  what  she  says,  never  stops  to  enquire  how 
she  says  it.  Her  subject  is  conceived  with  that 
surety  and  understanding  which  in  literature 
makes   beauty."     S.    L.   C. 

-f-  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  9  '23  1450w 
Cleveland  p50  Jl  '23 
"  'Stella  Dallas'  as  a  novel,  like  Stella  Dallas 
herself,  is  filled  with  contradictory  qualities.  It 
Is  sometimes  hard  to  disentangle  the  faults 
from  the  virtues.  The  book  has  both — more 
virtues,  we  should  say,  than  faults.  At  times  It 
Is  conventional,  but  there  are  other  times  when 
it  touches  real  tragedy  and  touches  it  with  un- 
erring skill." 

-j Lit  R  p819  Jl  7   '23  330w 

"There  can  be  no  question  that  Olive  Higglns 
Prouty  has  conceived  one  of  the  most  entertain- 
ing, excellently  sustained  and  consistently  de- 
veloped novels  of  the  season." 

-t-  N    Y   Times   pl4   Ap   22   '23   850w 
"The  ending  is  a  trifle  sentimental,   but  this 
does  not  detract  from  the  strength  and  beauty 
of   'Stella  Dallas'    as   a  whole."     M.    A.    Murphy 

H NY  Tribune  p26  My  13  '23  llOOw 

"Mrs.   Prouty  has  triumphed  with  her  'Stella 
Dallas.'      She    has    revealed    a    rich    and    deep 
understanding  of  human  weaknesses  and  short- 
comings.    All  defects  and  blemishes  in  the  tell- 
ing   must    be    sublimated    in    her    triumphant 
glorification    of   the   mother."     Ruth   Snyder 
-f  N  Y  World  p8e  Ap  22  '23  600w 
Spec  131:430  S  20  '23  20w 
Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  6  '23  300w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p574  Ag 
30   '23   240w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:161   Je   '23 


PRYDE,  ANTHONY,  pseud.  (AGNES  RUSSELL 
WEEKES),  and  WEEKES,  ROSE  KIRK- 
PATRICK.    City  of    lilies.    332p   $2    McBride 

23  11517 
This  romance  of  an  imaginary  state  and  an 
Imaginary  prince  belongs  to  the  order  of  the 
"Prisoner  of  Zenda"  and  "Graustark."  The 
scene  is  the  duchy  of  Neuberg  and  the  time 
not  so  very  long  ago.  Neuberg  under  the  rule 
of  the  unhappy  Prince  Helnrich  is  on  the  brink 
of  revolution.  The  story  unfolds  the  palace  in- 
trigues and  plots,  the  growth  of  the  revolution 
under  the  mysterious  Valentin,  with  beautiful 
women  playing  their  accustomed  parts. 


Booklist  19:320  Jl  '23 
"One  does  not  have  the  good  fortune  to  en- 
counter many  times  in  a  season  so  sound  a 
novel  as  Mrs  Prouty's  'Stella  Dallas.'.  .  It  has 
a  simple  but  deeply  moving  narrative.  It  por- 
trays several  characters  with  an  understanding 
and  sympathy  that  is  so  human  that  we  seem 


"  'The  City  of  Lilies'  is  a  genuine  melodrama 
In  novel  form  and  is  to  be  recommended  to  all 
who  delight  in  unabashed  Ruritanian  romance. 
Those  who  despise  honest  melodrama  had  bet- 
ter pass  it  by.   The   loss   is  theirs." 

-f-  Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  18  '23  210w 
Cleveland  p43  Je  '23 
"Written  with  a  good  deal  of  intelligence. 
Moreover,  the  writer  is  convincing.  He  may  not 
know  any  more  about  Central  Europe  than  his 
average  reader,  but  he  manages  to  give  the  im- 
pression that  he  knows  it  thoroughly  and  is  de- 
scribing   it    with    accuracy." 

-t-  Lit  R  p835  Jl  14  '23  300w 
"It  maintains  a  brisk  tempo  and  carries  its 
sundry  intrigues  forward  at  the  requisite  pace. 
Moreover,  it  has  caught  In  the  telling  a  definite 
glow  of  its  own.  It  achieves  something  like  a 
tour  de  force  in  making  many  of  the  conven- 
tional puppets  of  melodrama  live  and  move  and 
have  an  actual  being." 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl7  Je  24  '23  840w 
Reviewed  by  Leo  Markun 

N  Y  Tribune  p23  Jl  22  '23  400w 
"It  grows  more  and  more  ten.se  and  exciting 
as  it  develops,  and  it  quite  fully  answers  the 
main  requisite  for  books  of  this  type  in  that  it 
keeps  the  reader  in  suspense  and  is  ingenious 
and  novel  in  the  working  out  of  the  final  happy 
conclusion." 

-t-  Outlook   134:641   Ag  22   '23   150w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


423 


PUNNETT,    REGINALD    CRUNDALL.      Hered- 
ity  in   poultry.     204p     il     $3.25     Macmillan 

575.1   Poultry.   Heredity  Agr23-880 

"Professor  Punnett  has  been  studying  inher- 
itance in  poultry  since  the  early  days  of  Men- 
delian  investigation;  and  the  present  book  rep- 
resents what  is  known  on  the  subject  from  the 
Mendelian  point  of  view.  There  are  obvious 
gaps  in  the  subject-matter  of  this  book — gaps 
which  are  there  chiefly  because  no  one  has  yet 
done  the  work  which  could  fill  them.  But  the 
layman  probably  does  not  dream  of  the  labour 
and  time  necessary  to  establish  the  facts  that 
are  known.  Among  the  most  interesting  points 
are  the  discoveries  concerning  hen-feathered 
males  and  sex-linked  characters;  while  from  a 
purely  utilitarian  point  of  view  much  has  been 
done  to  build  up  on  Mendelian  lines  strains 
pure   for  high   egg-production." — Spec 


"We  would  like  to  criticize  Professor  Pun- 
nett's  method  of  presenting  sex-linked  inher- 
itance, which  is  unnecessarily  complex.  He 
could  have  saved  himself  and  his  readers  some 
trouble  if  he  had  adopted  the  chiomosome  hypo- 
thesis throughout.  Professor  Punnett's  book 
will  provide  a  welcome  basis  for  future  work, 
whether  by  professional  biologist  or  fancier." 
H Spec  131:20  Jl  7  '23  360w 

"There  could  be  no  better  introduction  than 
his  book,  either  for  those  who  wish  to  under- 
take experimental  breeding  themselves  or  for 
those  who  wish  to  follow  one  of  the  most  fertile 
sides  of  modern  biology.  But  the  book  is  not 
only  clear  exposition,  but  excellent  propaganda." 
+  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p203  Mr 
22    '23   150w 

PUPIN,    MICHAEL    IDVORSKY.        From   immi- 
grant  to   inventor.    396p   il   $-1     Scribner 

B  or  92  23-13553 

Michael  Pupin  landed  at  Castle  Garden  in  1874, 
a  poor  peasant  boy  from  a  Serb  village.  The 
half  century  between  that  day  and  this  he  has 
filled  with  high  achievement  as  a  scientist,  of 
which  this  narrative  is  an  inspiring  record.  He 
%vorked  his  way  in  America  as  farm  hand  and 
factory  worker  till  he  was  able  to  enter  Colum- 
bia university.  There  he  acquired  his  interest 
in  electro-mechanics  in  which  field  he  has  gained 
such  distinction  and  recognition.  From  New 
York  he  went  to  Cambridge  university  there  to 
take  up  the  study  of  Faraday's  and  Maxwell's 
theories,  then  to  Berlin  and  back  to  Columbia 
where  he  has  been  since  1901  professor  of  elec- 
tro-mechanics. He  is  an  idealist  in  science  and 
the  main  object  of  his  narrative  "has  been  to 
describe  the  rise  of  idealism  in  American  sci- 
ence, and  particularly  in  physical  sciences  and 
the  related  industries."  A  proof  of  his  own 
idealism  is  in  his  gift  to  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment of  the  use  of  his  invention  eliminating 
static  interference  with  wireless  transmission. 


Booklist  20:137  Ja  '24 
Reviewed  hv  K.   M.  Gould 

Bookm  58:477  D  '23  780w 
Boston  Transcript  p7  N  10  '23  720w 
"This  is  a  good  autobiography.  More  than 
that,  it  is  a  great  book,  worthy  to  rank,  in 
style  and  spirit,  among  the  best  that  the  twen- 
tieth century  has  so  far  produced."  E.  E.  Slos- 
son 

+    Lit  R  p365  D  15  '23  1400w 
"It  is  a  fascinating  story  and  a  more  stimulat- 
ing argument  in  the  debate  on  immigration  than 
any   other  I   know."   B.   C.    Vladeck 

+  Nation  117:557  N  14  '23  880w 
"I  have  never  read  a  book  which  offers  the 
layman  so  clear  and  intimate  an  account  of  the 
meaning  of  modern  physical  science.  It  is  a 
book  that  ought  to  be  widely  read  especially  by 
young  students,  not  only  because  it  is  sure  to 
kindle  their  scientific  interests,  but  also  because 
it  will  introduce  them  to  a  type  of  personality 
worth   emulating."     A.    J. 

+  New   Repub  36:336  N  21  '23  800w 
Reviewed  bv  H:   B.   Fuller 

N   Y  Times  p2  O  14  '23  1650w 


"Because  of  its  'idealism',  its  dominant  feeling 
tone,  and  its  imaginative  grasp,  this  book  pos- 
sesses, in  addition  to  the  interest  of  its  facts, 
a  singular  charm  and  a  truly  literary  quality 
of  its  own." 

-j-  No  Am  219:143  Ja  '24  520w 

"The  book  has  two  interests.  I  have  never 
met  ^o  good  and  complete  an  account  of  the 
Americanization  of  an  immigrant,  and  I  have 
never  read  so  plain  a  story  of  the  growth  of 
modern  science  told  for  those  who  have  no 
knowledge  of  the  subject." 

4-  Sat  R  136:475  O  27  '23  120w 

"His  account  of  his  part  in  the  unfolding  of 
a  new  science  is  written  in  an  easy-going  nar- 
rative style  that  makes  one  forget  he  is  reading 
facts  that  really  should  be  colorless  and  un- 
interesting. At  times,  Dr  Pupin  is  still  a  boy 
on  the  plains  of  Idvor;  his  whole  book  lives. 
He  has  made  a  story  out  of  what,  in  less  poetic 
hands,  might  well  have  been  a  dry  catalog  of 
fact,   data  and  formula." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  ip7a  N  25  '23  1350w 

"His  is  a  most  inspiring  book,  and  apart  from 
its  human  interest  it  will  be  particularly  in- 
teresting to  those  who  care  for  the  problems 
of  abstract  science." 

-I-  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p730  N  1 
'23   340w 

Wis   Lib   Bui  19:507  D  '23 

PUXLEY,  W.  LAVALLIN.  Wanderings  in  the 
Queensland  bush.  213p  il  $3.50  Houghton 
[10s   6d   Allen    &   U.] 

919.43   Queensland  [23-10032] 

"The  author  of  this  volume,  a  young  Eng- 
lishwoman, has  recently  enjoyed  the  rugged  and 
primitive  life  of  this  strange  land  and  has  taken 
many  photographs,  some  of  which  are  repro- 
duced with  undoubted  effect.  She  writes  of  the 
pioneers,  the  Glasshouse  Mountains,  the  sea- 
shore, the  pests,  the  snakes,  the  cultivations, 
the  plains,  the  tropical  features  and  of  politics." 
— Boston  Transcript 


"There  is  apparently  accuracy  of  observation 
to  please  the  naturalist  and  wealth  of  incident 
for  the  general  reader." 

+   Boston   Transcript  pi  Ap  7  '23  250w 

Reviewed   by  I:   Anderson 

Int  Bk   R  p45  Je  '23   40w 

"The  facts,  unfortunately,  are  not  adorned 
with  any  particular  literary  skill,  so,  except  for 
information,  the  book  cannot  entice  many  ex- 
cept the  chronic  book  traveller.  However,  there 
is  a  great  amount  of  information  and  there  are 
many  attractive  photographs  for  those  not  too 
critical  of  the  method  of  presentation." 
h   Lit   R  p918  Ag  18  '23  lOOw 

"Her  volume  is  a  tribute  of  loving  remem- 
brance whose  every  page  bears  evidence  to  the 
keen  enjoyment  of  her  visit  in  this  Australian 
State.  Everywhere  she  is  interested  in  the 
possibilities  of  the  land  for  agriculture  and 
other  purposes,  in  the  scenery,  in  the  people, 
in  tales  of  pioneer  days  and  prowess  and  hero- 
ism, in  the  daily  life  of  which  they  made  her 
part,  and,  above  all,  in  the  strange  beasts  and 
birds,  trees  and  flowers,  the  abounding  wild  life 
which  fills  her  constantly  w^ith  joy  and  with 
investigating    interest." 

-I-  N   Y  Times  plO  Ap  22  '23  800w 


QUENNELL,      MARJORIE,      and      QUENNELL, 

CHARLES   HENRY   BOURNE.     Everyday  life 

in  the  new  stone,  bronze  and  early  iron  ages. 

(Everyday  life  ser.)    237p   il   $2.50   Putnam 

571     Man.   Prehistoric.      Stone  age.      Bronze 

age.     Iron    age  23-6388 

The    book    supplements    a    previous    book    by 

the    authors,    "Everyday    life    in    the    old    stone 

age."    (Book    Review   Digest,    1922)    It    is    their 

aim  always  to  reconstruct  the  hfe  of  the  people 


424 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


QUENNELL,  MARJOR\E~Continued 
of  a  given  period  and  to  give  a  picture  as  far 
as  can  be  inferred  from  the  remains  found,  of 
their  dwellings,  their  occupations,  their  mode 
of  life,  their  intellectual  status  and  their  wor- 
ship. Illustrations  by  the  authors,  list  of  au- 
thorities, index. 


thus  making  the  work  really  an  exposition  of 
the  character  and  achievement  of  the  Egyp- 
tians. The  plates  and  text  illustrations  are 
used  as  examples  of  the  various  phases  of  art, 
and  the  reader  is  told  in  what  museum  each  can 
be   found."  — N  Y  Times 


Boston   Transcript   pi   My   26   '23   280w 

"Notwithstanding  the  vast  amount  of  ground 
which  has  been  covered  and  the  mass  of  mat- 
erial which  they  have  had  to  bring  within  the 
compass  of  their  little  book,  the  authors  have 
produced  an  excellent  and  very  readable  popu- 
lar account  of  the  peoples  of  the  later  prehis- 
toric ages  in  North-Western  Europe  and,  in 
particular,   of  Britain." 

+   Nature   111:700   My   26   '23   150w 
N   Y  Times  p20  Ap  8  '23  550w 

"The  authors  have  studied  the  relics  of  these 
prehistoric  times  and  the  learned  books  written 
about  them  to  such  good  purpose  that  they  are 
able  to  write  a  vivid  and  convincing  account 
of  the  daily  life  of  our  forgotten  ancestors, 
in  which  there  is  hardly  a  single  statement  for 
which  good  scientific  authority  cannot  be  given. 
No  one  who  cares  at  all  about  the  distant  life 
of  our  ancestors  should  omit  to  read  this  clear 
and    delightful   little   book." 

-1-   Sat    R    134:920    D   16   '22   120w 

"Admittedly  written  for  boys  and  girls  of 
public   school  age." 

-f  Spec    130:68    Ja    13    '23    lOOw 

"In  a  most  suggestive  and  readable  manner 
the  authors,  after  touching  on  the  transition 
between  the  Old  and  New  Stone  Ages,  illustrate 
the  varying  races  which  successively  migrated 
to  these  shores,  and  the  gradual  change  from 
the  hunter  to  the  pastoral  stage,  and  recon- 
struct from  the  evidence  of  archaeological  re- 
mains the  life  of  those  early  races  in  its  various 
phases  " 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p751    N 
16   '22    210w 

QUENTAL,  ANTHERO  TARQUINO  DE.  Son- 
nets and  poems;  tr.  by  S.  Griswold  Morley. 
133p     $2.25     Univ.    of  Cal. 

869.1  23-1009 

Anthero  de  Quental,  1842-1891,  was  one  of  the 
most  important  and  widely  read  of  nineteenth 
century  Portuguese  poets.  His  translator  pro- 
vides an  introduction  to  his  versions  in  appre- 
ciation of  the  poems,  and  as  guidance  to  an 
understanding  of  them. 

"An  excellent  selection  from  one  of  the  most 
attractive  poets  in  the  nineteenth  century." 
I.  G. 

-I-   Boston  Transcript  p4  Ja  27  '23  600w 
"The    translator    desires    his    versions    to    be 
judged     solely     upon     their    merits    as     English 
poetry:   and  it  may  be   said   that   he  often   suc- 
ceeds  in   catching   the   spirit   of   the   original    in 
happy   English   phrase   and  cadence."     I.    G. 
+  Freeman  7:407  Jl  4  '23  300w 
"The  best  translations   to  date  from   this  im- 
portant Portuguese   poet.     Monotonous,   like  the 
original,   but  thoughtful  and  fine." 

+   Nation   116:604  My  23   '23  20w 

New   Statesman   21:62   Ap   21   '23  200w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p850  D  6 
•23  150w 

QUIBELL,  MRS  ANNIE  A.  Egyptian  history 
and  art  with  reference  to  museum  collections. 
178p  11  $2   Macmillan 

932  Egypt— History.  Art,  Egyptian  23-13460 
"Mrs.  Quibell's  collection  on  'Egyptian  His- 
tory and  Art'  is  intended  primarily  for  the  use 
of  students  of  Egyptology  who  are  visiting 
museums.  It  was  first  published  with  refer- 
ence only  to  the  contents  of  the  Cairo  Museum, 
with  which  Mrs.  Quibell  is  connected,  but  last 
Winter  was  revised,  extended  and  brought  up 
to  date  for  this  present  publication.  The  auth- 
or treats  her  subject  chiefly  from  the  viewpoint 
of  the  artistic  products  of  the  various  ages 
but  relates  these  with  the  history  and  the  life 
of    the    people,    as    outgrowth    and    expression. 


"Mrs.  Quibell  shows  remarkable  ability  in 
making  a  connected  story  built  up  from  the 
remains.  .  .  She  knows  what  the  museums  of 
Cairo,  London,  Berlin.  New  York  and  other 
cities  have  done  in  arranging  their  treasures 
and  she  has  had  opportunity  to  see  in  Egypt 
itself  the  triumphs  of  modern  exploration.  The 
manual  should  be  in  the  hands  of  every  visitor 
either  to  Egypt  or  to  the  Egyptian  collections 
of  the  Boston  or  Metropolitan  Museums;  it 
is  a  capital  introduction  to  the  fuller  works  of 
Dr.  Sayce,  Sir  Gaston  Maspero  and  other  Egyp- 
tologists."   N.    H.    Dole 

-I-   Boston  Transcript  p3  Jl  21   '23  750w 

"A  thoroughly  readable  volume.  Her  admir- 
able chapter  on  the  development  of  the  tomb 
reveals  her  ability  to  condense  clearly  and  In- 
terestingly, and,  in  this  case,  summarizes  all 
the  available  material  on  a  very  important  prob- 
lem."   Robert  Hillyer 

+  Freeman  7:568  Ag  22  '23  700w 

"It  is  written  in  a  pleasing  style,  rather  con- 
versational in  tone.  With  all  of  its  array  of 
facts  it  never  becomes  tiresome." 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    plO    O 
28  '23   6O0w 

"Mrs.  Quibell's  book  fulfills  its  purpose,  and 
is  clearly  written  and  well  laid  out.  Such  bare 
remarks  hardly  do  justice  to  the  devotion  and 
industry  of  the  author.  Her  book  is  an  excel- 
lent  guide  into  a  vast   subject."     R.   C. 

+  New   Statesman   21:338   Je   23   '23   50w 

"It  is  limited  in  its  full  appeal  to  those  who 
have  at  least  a  groundwork  of  knowledge  of 
the  subject,  but  the  beginner  and  also  those 
whose  desire  is  merely  for  a  little  general 
knowledge  will  find  in  it  much  to  help  and 
illuminate   their   progress." 

-I-  N  Y  Times  pll  S  2  '23  120w 
R  of  Rs  68:223  Ag  '23  80w 
St    Louis   p315   D   '23 

"The  lure  of  Egypt  is  strengthened  happily 
by  the  concise,  condensed  popular  account  of 
life    in    the   country   of   the    Nile." 

-I-   Sprlngf'd   Republican   pl2  S   21   '23   24nw 

QUICK,     HERBERT.      Hawkeye.      477p      il      $2 
Bobbs 

23-11977 

"Mr.  Quick  has  told  the  life  story  of  Fremont 
McConkey.  But  back  of  the  personal  side  of 
this  narrative  of  the  Middle  West  of  last  cen- 
tury's third  quarter,  there  is  a  continuation  of 
that  appealing  account  of  a  young  country  still 
very  much  in  the  process  of  making  itself  which 
our  author  began  so  splendidly  in  his  earlier 
novel,  'Vandemark's  Folly.'  Not  that  the  new 
book  is  in  any  literal  way  a  sequel  to  the  other. 
In  its  pages,  Vandemarks  appear,  including  the 
original  Jacob.  But  'The  Hawkeye'  is  a  story 
that  can  be  read  perfectly  well  by  itself,  having 
its  own  plot,  its  own  circumstance  and  its  o^vn 
cast  of  characters.  Its  action  is  centred  in 
Iowa  and,  beginning  with  the  June  night  in 
1857  when  Pi-emont  McConkey  is  born,  it  runs 
along  through  1878,  or  thereabouts,  dealing  as 
it  goes  on  its  way  with  the  plagues,  the  pests, 
the  politics,  the  crops,  the  expectations  and  all 
sorts  of  things  that  marked  lowan  days  and 
nights  within  that  period." — Springf'd  Repub- 
lican 


Booklist    20:22   O   '23 

H Bookm  58:67  S  '23  400w 

"There  ore  nearly  five  hundred  pages  in  tht 
story,  which  is  full  measure,  pressed  down  and 
running  over.  Mr.  Quick  has  pressed  it  down 
just  a  bit  too  much.  But  it  is  a  book  that  is 
good  to  read.  Mr.  Quick  is  to  be  praised,  not 
alone  for  what  he  has  attempted  to  do,  not 
alone  for  his  legitimate  efforts  to  re-create  a 
very  interesting  and  important  phase  of  Ameri- 


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can  growth,  a  phase  that  is  very  closely  re- 
lated to  certain  present  day  restlessness,  but 
generally  for  the  way  in  which  he  has  done  it." 
S    L.   C 

+  —  Boston    Transcript   p6   Ag   15   '2,3    llOOw 

"It  is  an  excellent  story,  as  a  story;  but  be- 
yond that  it  will,  I  believe,  take  its  place  among 
permanent  imaginative  interpretations  of  an 
important  phase  of  our  national  experience.  I 
don't  say  it  is  as  great  a  book  as  'The  Scarlet 
Letter'  or  'Huckleberry  Finn,'  or  'The  Rise  of 
Silas  Lapham';  but  it  is  a  book  of  the  same 
order."  H.   W.   Boynton 

-f  Ind  111:69  Ag  18  "23  1050w 
"The  chief  value  of  the  book  lies  in  the  pic- 
ture it  presents  of  American  politics  on  a  small 
scale.  And  the  picture  is  all  the  more  con- 
vincing just  because  it  is  on  a  small  scale."'  I: 
Anderson 

+   Int  Bk  R  p40  Ag  '23  650w 
"This  volume  is  well  worth  reading,   but  it   is 
not    the    high    achievement    that    it    might    have 
been  had  he  given  full  play  to  his  unique  talents 
and    special    knowledge."    Allan    Nevins 

-i Lit    R   p39   S   15  '23   800w 

Nation  117:247  S  5  '23  150w 
"Here  is  an  ambitious  and  admirable  plan, 
executed  by  a  writer  of  mature  intelligence, 
long  apprenticeship,  and  a  great  love  for  the 
country  and  the  people  he  portrays.  He  has 
moreover,  an  excellent  narrative  gift  and  a 
good   sense   of  characterization."    B.   B. 

+  New  Repub  37:74  D  12  '23  580w 
"It  is  not  a  book  that  can  be  read  at  a  gal- 
lop, so  rich  it  is  in  the  lore,  the  humor  and  the 
pathos  of  those  bygone  days  of  brave  homely 
struggle.  Another  writer  might  have  drawn  the 
picture  as  grim  and  hopeless.  But  such  was 
not  the  spirit  of  the  Iowa  pioneers.  They  worked 
for  happiness  and  found  it  in  large  measure; 
and  Mr.  Quick  has  gathered  the  beauty  and 
the  good  cheer  and  the  courage  of  their  experi- 
ence in  a  novel  that  lifts  American  literature 
and  American  life  a  little  higher." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl7  Ag  5  '23  800w 
"It  belongs  with  Hough's  'Covered  Wagon, 
Miss  Gather's  'One  of  Ours,'  the  earlier  studies 
of  Garland  and  other  of  our  sturdy  native 
writers  who  depict  native  types  and  scenes. 
It  suggests  what  admirable  service  can  be  and 
is  being  rendered  by  our  fiction  makers,  who, 
while  they  are  artists,  are  not  ashamed  to  be 
Americans  in  the  sense  that  they  believe  in  and 
love  our  past  and  are  fain  to  make  us  see  it 
and  understand  it."  R:  Burton 

+   N    Y    Tribune    pl7    .11    29    '23    800w 
"Mr.    Quick    has    put    into     his     pages     story 
enough    to   please    the    most    casual    reader   and 
enough   of   historic    truth    to    invite    the    serious 
attention   of   earnest   students   of   American   de- 
velopment.   .    .    'The    Hawkeye'    is    a    tale    fine, 
strong  and  true,  and  American  to  the  last  word 
—a   real   lOO-per-center.      We   commend   it   with 
no    reservation    whatever."     E.    W.    Osborn 
-h   N    Y    World   pl9   Jl    15   '23   350w 
"  'The    Hawkeye'    has    the    same    quiet    humor 
and    leisurely,    pleasurable    narrative    stvle    that 
gave    flavor    and    quality    to    Mr.    Quick's    early 
story."   R.    D.    Townsend 

-i-  Outlook  134:675  Ag  29  '23  360w 
R  of  Rs  68:560  N  '23  150w 
"  'The  Hawkeye'  is  not  a  book  to  be  read 
hurriedly.  One  must  savor  slowly  the  flavor  of 
its  humor,  pathos,  and  analysis  of  the  condi- 
tions which  made  for  political  trickery  and  cor- 
ruption to  get  the  fuUe.st  enjoyment  from  it.  .  . 
Despite  its  seasoning  of  romance  it  has  its  basis 
of   social    reality." 

+   Springf'd   Republican  p7a  O  14   '23   900w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:481  N  '23 

QUINN,   ARTHUR    HOBSON,   ed.   Contemporary 

American   plays;    edited   with   an   introd.    upon 

recent    American    drama.    382p    $2.50    Scribner 

812    American    drama— Collections        23-6739 

Contents:    Why    marry?    by    J.    L.    M'illiams; 

The    Emperor    Jones,    by    Eugene    O'Neill;    Nice 

people,    by   Rachel   Crothers;   The  hero,    by   Gil- 


bert Emery;   To   the  ladies!   by  G.   S.   Kaufman 
and  Marc   Connelly. 


"We  heartily  sympathize  with  Professor 
Quinn'S  ardent  desire  to  turn  America's  at- 
tention to  its  own  dramatic  fare.  But  in  the 
long  run  nothing  will  be  gained  by  being  so 
uncritical  about  it."   W.   P.   Eaton 

[-  Bookm    57:640    Ag    '23    llOOw 

"It  is  quite  possible  that  Professor  Quinn  has 
picked  out  the  best  specimens  of  his  available 
material  and  all  of  them  have  valuable  theatri- 
cal qualities  and  are  superior  in  general  work- 
manship to  the  great  majority  of  their  kind. 
But,  in  the  bulk,  when  subjected  to  the  test 
of  deliberate  reading  they  are  not  particularly 
impressive."   J.   R.   Towse 

h   Lit  R  p62  S  22  '23  1200w 

N  Y  Times  p5  Ap  8  '23  650w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:302  Je  '23 
"Although  'Contemporary  American  Plays' 
does  not  include  dramas  of  modernistic  flavor, 
it  is  invaluable  as  an  encouraging  milestone  in 
the  progress  of  American  dramatic  history.  It 
deals  with  accomplishment  rather  than  with  ex- 
periment, and  at  a  time  when  experiment  is 
the  prime  stimulus  in  the  theater  as  else- 
where, these  five  plays  stand  out  as  solid 
achievements." 

-j-  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  600w 

QUINN,    ARTHUR     HOBSON.     History    of    the 
-    American    drama,    from    the   beginning   to   the 
civil   war.    486p   $4   Harper 

812.09   Anxerican   drama— History         23-17215 

A  book  based  on  extensive  research  and  treat- 
ing with  great  thoroughness  the  evolution  of 
American  drama  from  it.s  beginnings  to  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  war.  The  author  has  spent 
many  years  in  collecting  obscure  and  forgotten 
examples  of  our  early  drama,  studying  a  com- 
paratively barren  period  for  the  historical  sig- 
nificance of  its  drama  rather  than  for  the  pur- 
pose of  dramatic  criticism.  The  more  important 
plays  are  analyzed  and  quoted.  To  dramatists 
of  the  importance  of  William  Dunlap,  James 
Nelson  Barker,  John  Howard  Payne,  Robert 
Montgomery  Bird,  George  Henry  Boker  and 
Dion  Boucioault  whole  chapters  are  devoted 
and  plays  showing  their  influence  are  grouped 
about  them.  There  is  a  foi'ty-page  bibliography, 
also  a  list  of  American  plays  from  1665  to  1860. 
Index. 


Reviewed  by  Brander  Matthews 
Int    Bk    R    p38    N    '23    2500w 

"It  is  painstaking  and  thorough  in  research, 
lucid  and  logical  in  arrangement,  and  sane  and 
unextravagant  in  its  sense  of  values.  And  if  it 
should  appear  that  this  history,  though  intense- 
ly interesting  to  eager  antiquaries,  is  of  com- 
paratively little  interest  to  the  general  reader, 
the  faiilt  is  not  in  the  authorship  but  in  the 
subject  matter;  for  rarely  have  the  talents  of 
an  excellent  historian  been  applied  so  devotedly 
to  the  investigation  and  exposition  of  a  period 
that  is  in  Uself  so  barren."  Clavton  Hamilton 
+   Lit    R    p405    D   20    '23    2750w 

"Let  it  be  said  of  this  dull  and  unimaginative 
history  that  it  has  an  enormous  value  as  a  rec- 
ord and  a  starting  point  for  some  future  histor- 
ian with  an  agile  and  critical  mind.  Prof.  Quinn 
has  neither."  L:  Weitzenkorn 

h   N   Y  World  p6e  D  16  '23   oOOw 

"It  is  a  useful  book.  A  reliable,  solid  volume 
to  have  around  when  separate  facts  are  in 
dispute  or  in  request  in  what,  taken  all  to- 
gether, offers  a  dreary  perspective."  H.  I. 
Brock 

-1-   N   Y  Times  p4  D  23  '23  1450w 

QUINN,    VERNON.      Beautiful   America.    333p   il 
$4   Stokes 

917.3   United   States — Description   and   travel 

23-12974 
The    book    is    devoted    to    the    more    unusual 
beauties  and  scenic  wonders  of  America — moun- 
tains of  East  and  West,  picturesque  rivers,  des- 
erts,  canyons,   natural   bridges,   mineral  springs. 


426 


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QUINN,   \/E.BNON— Continued 
seashore  and  inland  seas.     Especial  attention  is 
given  to  the  national  parks  and  monuments  and 
Alaska   also   has   a   chapter.     There   are   thirty- 
nine  illustrations. 


Booklist  20:135  Ja  '24 
"A  broad  subject  is  chosen  by  Mr.  Quinn,  a 
subject  three  thousand  and  more  miles  in  ex- 
tent. But  he  has  chosen  with  discretion  the 
very  finest  descriptive  points  in  our  vast  land 
from  the  East  to  the  West,  and  has  produced 
a  book  not  at  all  designed  as  a  guide  book,  but 
yet  one  which  one  who  designs  to  follow  the 
slogan.  'See  America  First,'  might  well  employ 
as  a  guide." 

+  Boston   Transcript  p8   N  10  '23  600w 
"His   is   the   type   of  book   one  would  wish   to 
send  to  a  foreigner  planning  to  visit  America  for 
the  first  time.     The  complete  index  adds  much 
to    its    usefulness." 

+   Lit   R  p324   D  1   '23  50w 
"The  author  writes  with  enthusiasm  of  rivers, 
lakes  and  mountains,   all   of  which   invite   us  to 
better  acquaintance  and  none  of  which  will  dis- 
appoint the  visitor." 

-f   N   Y  World  p9e  N  18  '23  60w 
R  of  Rs  68:560  N  '23  30w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:443  O  '23 

QUIRK,     VIOLET.      Different     gods.       329p      $2 

Holt   [7s  6d  Constable] 

23-11705 

A  love  story  and  a  book  of  lovely  spirit.  It 
is  distinctly  a  book  of  youth,  flaming  with 
youth's  ideals  and  with  never  a  hint  of  com- 
promise to  the  different  gods  of  coarser  folk. 
Sheila,  the  heroine,  is  an  orphan — sensitive, 
imaginative,  intensely  alive  and  loving.  From 
the  moment  of  her  meeting  with  Philip  Strongi- 
tharm  he  is  the  one  man  the  world  contains 
for  her.  Their  experience  together  never  lose.s 
its  purity  and  radiance  even  tho  Philip  is  forced 
to  marry  and  for  years  endure  life  with  Fanny, 
to  whom  he  had  engaged  himself  before  he  met 
Sheila  and  who  holds  him  relentlessly  to  his 
bargain.  The  passing  years  take  nothing  from 
the  love  of  Philip  and  Sheila.  The  war  claims 
Philip  and  just  when  the  death  of  Fanny  seems 
to  have  removed  the  insuperable  obstacle  to 
happiness,  fate  interposes  one  of  its  little  ironies 
and  Philip  is  reported  dead.  Then  Sheila's 
bright  spirit  wavers,  but  by  that  happy  device 
of  story-tellers  her  lover  is  restored  to  her  from 
the   dead. 

"Obsessed  though  it  is  with  emotion,  'Differ- 
ent Gods'  the  first  novel  of  a  young  English- 
woman, Violet  Quirk,  is  an  interesting  tale. 
Miss  Quirk's  writing  is  of  agreeable  style  and 
the  Sheila  on  whoin  she  concentrates  her  plot 
is  an  individual  and  a  lovable  character."  E.  A. 
G. 

H Boston   Transcript   p2   N  17  '23   350w 

Reviewed  by  H.  W.   Bovnton 

Ind  111:256  N  24  '23  500w 

"It  is  refreshing  to  read  a  book  that  is  free 
from  smugnes.s  and  intolerance  and  which 
shows  that  after  searching  the  barren  fields 
of  self  the  young  novelist  is  coming  back  to  a 
juster  appraisal  of  the  art  of  life."  J:  F.  Carter, 
jr. 

+   Lit    R    pins    O    6    '23    800 w 

"A  first  novel  of  which  criticisms  of  its  an- 
atomy are  forgotten  in  view  of  the  healthy 
color  in   its  cheeks."   K.    L.   D. 

H New    Repub    37:26    N    28    '23    70w 

May  Sinclair  is  entirely  justified  in  char- 
acterizing 'Different  Gods'  as  a  remarkable  first 
novel.  Violet  Quirk  has  the  powers  of  observa- 
tion and  insight  and  she  has  the  gift  of 
words.  It  may  not  always  be  possible  to  take 
her  lovers  quite  as  seriously  as  she  would  have 
us   but   her  writing   is   a   delight." 

+   N   Y  Times  pl9  N  11  '23   45nw 

"This  book  has  an  unusual  quality  which  any 
one  might  discern,  even  though  unable  to  name 
it.  Its  distinction  consists  in  the  fact  that  it 
is   a   genuine,    spontaneous   and    outspoken   ex- 


pression of  a  girl's  notion  of  what  life  ought 
to  be  and  hence  of  what  she  believes  it  to  be. 
It  is  a  clear  statement  of  the  normal,  romantic, 
nice  girl's  idea  of  things  as  they  are.  The  fact 
that  they  are  quite  otherwise  makes  no  matter. 
.  .  The  tale  is  told  in  good  clear  English,  no- 
wise amateurish,  but  faintly  imitative."  Isabel 
Paterson 

N  Y  Tribune  pl7  O  14  '23  lOOOw 
"Miss  Quirk's  reach  exceeds  her  grasp.  She 
makes  almost  every  possible  mistake.  But  she 
has  the  right  spirit.  Through  it  all,  there  is 
a  light  of  aspiration  and  of  promise  that  makes 
the  attempt  worth  while.  Miss  Quirk  is  no  im- 
itator: she  has  her  own  vision."  Gerald  Gould 
-I Sat   R   135:338   Mr  10   '23   350w 


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RAINE,       WILLIAM        MACLEOD.       Ironheart. 

288p     $1.75     Houghton 

23-9859 

Captain  Thurston  K.  Hollister,  alias  Tug 
Jones,  had  contracted  the  morphine  habit  in 
the  field  hospital.  It  dragged  him  to  the  bot- 
tom and  we  first  meet  him  as  a  tramp  in  a 
Colorado  ranch.  He  is  ordered  off  and  beaten 
up  in  the  process,  when  the  owner's  daughter, 
Betty  Reed,  intercedes  for  him.  The  girl's 
faith  in  him  is  the  turning  point  in  his  down- 
ward course.  After  some  more  proofs  of  her 
trust  in  him  he  throws  away  his  dope  outfit, 
takes  a  job  on  the  irrigation  construction 
works,  proves  himself  an  able  engineer,  finds 
opportunities  to  thwart  some  evil  designs 
against  the  works  and  at  last,  when  the  dam 
has  been  dynamited  after  all,  saves  Betty's  life 
from   the  flood. 


Booklist  20:102  D  '23 
"Those  readers  who  while  liking  stories  of 
Western  adventure  are  sceptical  as  to  any  nov- 
elty now  being  possible  in  plot  or  narrative  will 
find  something  new  in  'Iron  Heart.'  Strong 
and  appealing,  as  indeed  are  all  Mr.  Raine's 
novels,  with  their  sympathetic  analyses  of  Far- 
Western  life,  there  is  a  peculiar  charm  about 
this."   F.   B. 

-1-  Boston  Transcript  p2  Je  23  '23  650w 
"Mr.  Raine"s  latest  novel  is  not  only  the  best 
thing  he  has  done,  hut  seems  to  us  by  far  the 
best  novel  of  the  West  since  Owen  Wister's 
'The  Virginian.'  It  is  equally  well  written  and 
inore   exciting." 

-f   Lit   R  p74   S  22  '23   200w 
Reviewed  bv  E.  W.   Osborn 

N    Y   World   pl9  Je  17   '23   lOOw 
"The   volume   is   better   than   the   average   of 
its  type." 

Springf'd    Republican     p7a     Ag    19    '23 
250w 
"This   is   a   good    e.xample   of  the    better  class 
tale  of  the   Far  West." 

+  The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p622    S 
20    '23    150w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:444  O  '23 

RALEIGH,        SIR        WALTER        ALEXANDER, 

-    Some  authors;   a  collection   of  literarv  essays, 
1896-1916.   332p  $5  Oxford  [15s  Milford] 

824  Literature 
A  collection  of  fourteen  literary  essays  con- 
tributed to  magazines  during  the  period  from 
1896  to  1916.  "He  writes  with  equal  gusto  of 
svich  widely  differing  types  as  Boccaccio,  Cer- 
vantes, and  Sir  John  Harrington.  He  springs 
from  the  llenaissance  to  the  Age  of  Reason, 
and  discourses  on  Dryden  and  "The  Battle  of 
the  Books.'  He  comes  down  to  the  romantic 
movement  and  in  three  admirable  studies  pen- 
etrates to  the  very  heart  of  Burns,  Blake,  and 
Shelley.  He  even  devotes  a  few  pages  to  Mat- 
thew Arnold." — Lit  R 


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427 


"There  is  nothing  of  the  merely  impression- 
istic in  Raleigh's  work.  It  is  based  on  knowledge 
wide  and  deep;  it  is  built  up  in  admirable  art- 
istic symmetry.  And  it  is  instinct  with  ripe 
and  kindly  wisdom,  a  wisdom  shown  not  only 
in  his  critical  dicta,  though  these  are  little 
flashes  of  revelation,  but  in  nis  profounder  com- 
ments on  life  itself."  T.  M.  Parrott 
+  Lit   R  p439  Ja  12  '24  900w 

"The  author  was  a  profound  scholar  endowed 
with  a  fine  sensibility.  He  writes  with  charming 
grace.  There  is  not  a  trace  of  the  pedant,  the 
don    or    the    academician    about    him."    Burton 

If?  Q  gpQp 

+  N   Y  Tribune  p20  N  25  '23  310w 
"The  figures  he  shapes  for  us  are  consistent, 
credible,    veracious.    He   breathes   life   into   them 
by  the  power  of  his  sympathy." 

-f-  Sat    R    136:469    O    27    '23    840w 
"It   is   not   too   much   to  say   that   Walter   Ra- 
leigh's was  the  richest  and  best   balanced   mind 
that  in  our  time  has  placed  itself  in  the  service 
of  literature."  J.  Isaacs 

+  Spec  131:650  N  3  '23  800w 
"It  is  certainly  a  rare  thing  that  a  posthumous 
collection  of  fugitive  essays  should  add  much 
to  a  figured  reputation.  More  often  it  is  all  the 
other  way.  But  this  time  there  is  no  mistake; 
the  piety  of  friends  has  not  blundered;  and  this 
is  Raleigh's  best  book." 

-f-   The  Times  ^London]    Lit  Sup  p633   S  27 
'23    2300W 

RANSOME,  ARTHUR.  "Racundra's"  first 
cruise;  sailing  in  the  eastern  Baltic.  258p  il 
$2.50  Huebsch  [10s  6d  Allen  &  U.] 

914.74  Baltic  sea 
In  a  thirty-foot  ketch  built  for  the  purpose 
Mr.  Ransome  cruised  along  the  coast  of  the 
eastern  Baltic  from  Riga  to  Revel  and  Helsing- 
fors  and  back  again,  winding  in  and  out  among 
the  islands  of  the  Latvian,  Esthonian  and  Fin- 
nish coasts.  He  discovered  much  interest  and 
romance,  which  he  passes  on  to  the  reader, 
along  this  little  known  coast  and  among  the 
Baltic  islands.  On  some  of  these  Islands  he 
tells  us  the  inhabitants  are  still  living  in  the 
middle  ages.  One  steamer  a  year  visits  such 
islands  as  Moon  and  RunO,  the  people  practice 
their  ancient  handicrafts  and  the  modern  indus- 
trial  system    is   all   unknown    to   them. 

"His  enthusiastic  precision  together  with  his 
humour,  makes  enjoyable  a  style  that  might 
otherwise  savour  too  often  of  the  log-book."  L. 
S.    Morris 

-f  Freeman  8:284  N  28  '23  1400w 
"We  fancy  that  we  shall  hear  of  Racundra 
again:  we  sincerely  hope  so,  for  we  have  already 
an  affection  for  her,  and  merely  to  read  her  de- 
tailed description  is  enough  to  make  anyone's 
mouth  water — anyone,  that  is  to  say,  who  is 
not   a    speed-maniac." 

4-  New  Statesman  21:452  Jl  21  '23  550w 
"This  narrative  ably  sets  forth  the  charm  of 
an   unusual  cruising  ground." 

■+■  Outlook  135:642  D  12  *23  160w 
"A  volume  which  yachtsmen  will  read  with 
envy  and  any  type  of  holiday-maker  with  de- 
light. They  will,  in  fact,  look  forward  with 
pleasant  anticipation  to  the  Racundra's  second 
cruise,  her  first  having  been  so  unqualified  a 
success.*' 

+  Sat  R  136:111  Jl  28  '23  300w 
"Some  extraordinarily  beautiful  anecdotes  and 
the  charm  and  humour  of  Mr.  Ransome's  writ- 
ing, form  a  book  of  which  there  is  little  more 
to  be  .s;iid  th-^n  that  it  is  altogether  delightful 
— a  pleasure  to  read  from  beginning  to  end." 
-h  Spec  131:292  S  1  '23  200w 

Springf'd    Republican   p8   Ja   9   "24   230w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p468   Jl 
12   '23   550w 

RANSOIVIE,  ARTHUR.  Soldier  and  death;  a 
Russian  folk  tale  told  in  English.  46p  75c 
Huebsch  [Is  J.  G.  Wilson] 

23-814 
"A    really    charming    little    fairy    story    of    a 

soldier  with  a  magic  sack,  into  which  whoever 


he  calls  must  jump.  He  imprisons  in  it  in  turn 
a  crowd  of  devils  who  are  haunting  one  of  the 
Tsar's  palaces  and  then  Death,  whom  he  hangs 
in  it  to  the  top  of  a  tree.  To  oblige  an  old 
crone  he  lets  Death  out;  but  she  will  not  take 
him  nor  will  the  devils  allow  him  into  hell  to  do 
penance.  He  gives  the  sack  to  some  sinners 
he  has  rescued  and  asks  them  to  take  it  into 
heaven  with  them  and  then  call  him,  so  thus 
he  can  enter;  but  they  forget,  and  he  is  left 
outside.  'There  was  no  place  for  him  in  Para- 
dise and  no  place  for  him  in  hell.  For  all  I  know 
he  may  be  living  yet.'  " — The  Times  [London] 
Lit   Sup 


Bookm  57:104  Mr  '23  80w 
New  Statesman  20:582  F  17  '23  300w 
"Preposterous  absurdities  nonchalantly  mas- 
querading as  commonplaces,  bits  of  wisdom 
emerging  from  manifold  experience  and  trim- 
med into  proverbs  or  naively  symbolized,  bra- 
vado, simplicity  almost  pathetic  and  gay  aban- 
don to  extravagances  of  imagination  are  there 
to  delight  the  reader  of  a  more  sophisticated 
civilization.  Mr.  Ransome's  relation  of  the  story- 
preserves  the  straightforwardness  and  sly  grav- 
ity of  peasant  narration.  The  advisability  of 
publishing  in  book  form  a  production,  no  mat- 
ter how  charming,  as  slight  as  this  is  to  be 
questioned."    Eva  Goldbeck 

+   N  Y  Tribune  p20  My  20  '23  250w 
"As   simple   and   delightful   as  any  of  Ander- 
sen's   fairy    tales,    this    droll    and    merry    story 
should    have    wide    popularity    among    children 
and  their  elders." 

-I-  Outlook  133:668  Ap  11   '23  50w 
"There  are  goblins  and  adventure  and  magic 
in  it,  and  a  moral  shrewdly  concealed." 
-t-  Survey  49:819  Mr  15   '23  20w 

The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  pl4  Ja  4 
'23    lOOw 

RASIN,  ALOIS.  Financial  policy  of  Czecho- 
slovakia during  the  first  year  of  its  history. 
(Carnegie  endowment  for  international  peace. 
Czechoslovak  ser.  English  version)  160p  $2.50 
Oxford    [73    6d    Milford] 

336.437     Finance— Czechoslovakia  23-6432 

"The  late  Dr.  Ra§fn  left  at  least  two  legacies 
to  the  world;  first,  financial  stability  to  Czecho- 
slovakia, an  example  for  other  new  states  to 
follow;  .secondly,  the  book  now  under  review. 
One  of  the  first  of  the  new  series  to  appear,  the 
work  is  mainly  divided  into  three  parts,  the  cur- 
rency question,  national  finance,  and  economic 
measures.  A  brief  but  valuable  historical  in- 
troduction precedes,  and  a  still  briefer  conclu- 
sion follows,  the  main  discussion.  One  learns 
the  way  out  of  some  difl^culties  confronting  new 
states  amid  post-war  conditions  and  how  to  dif- 
ferentiate between  these  states  according  to  the 
wi-sdom  shown  in  facing  those  problems." — Am 
Hist   R 


"Characterized  by  great  clarity,  with  the  ma- 
terial well  organized  for  study  or  references,  the 
book  treats  every  pertinent  tonic  with  apparent 
frankness  and  with  full  consideration  for  the 
political  as  well  as  the  economic  conditions  In- 
volved. Useful  statistical  tables  are  appropri- 
ately nlaced;  there  is  an  adequate  index."  A. 
I.    Andrews 

-I-  Am    Hist   R  28:775  Jl  '23  320w 

"The  characteristics  of » the  book  of  Alois 
Rasin.  former  Minister  of  Finance  for  Czecho- 
slovakia, can  be  .^summarized  in  the  paradoxical 
phrase,  an  exciting  economical  treatise  by  a 
financial    hero."    Emil    Lengyel 

4-   Nation    117:246    S    5   '23    800w 

"Dr.  Rasin's  book  on  the  finances  of  Czecho- 
slovakia is  of  exceptional  interest  and  is  likely 
to  give  rise  to  much  discussion  among  econo- 
mists." 

-f  New  Statesman   20:754  Mr  31    '23  210w 

N   Y  Times  pl2  My  13  '23  1400w 
Spec    130:330    F    24    '23    1150w 


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RATCLIFF,  ARTHUR  JAMES  JOHN.  History 
of  dreams;  a  brief  account  of  the  evolution 
of  dream  theories,  with  a  chapter  on  the 
dream  in  literature;  with  an  introd.  by  God- 
frey Hilton  Thompson.  247p  $2.50  Small 
[7s  €d    G.  Richards] 

135      Dreams  23-7224 

"The  leading  theories  of  dreams  since  Demo- 
critus  are  succinctly  stated,  with  picturesque 
instances.  Superstitious  persons  will  find  their 
imagrination  pleasantly  titillated  by  accounts  of 
prophetic  dreams,  while  the  skeptical  will  find 
congenial  the  occasional  douche  of  cold  water 
applied  to  the  subject  by  the  materialists 
quoted  by  the  author.  Freud  and  Jung  are  the 
headliners,  naturally,  and  their  views  are  simply 
and  sympathetically  presented.  The  author 
closes  with  a  chapter  on  dreams  occurring  in 
literature  and  another  one  on  dreams  which 
were  later  turned  into  literature,  such  as 
Coleridge's  Kubla  Khan  and  Stevenson's  Dr. 
Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde." — Lit  R 


"Whether  one  believes  in  Freud  or  in  the 
tattered  dream  book,  this  book  will  be  found 
entertaining.  .  .  Future  writers  on  psychoanaly- 
sis or  on  the  occultism  of  their  day  need  never 
search  the  literature  for  a  historical  background, 
at  least  so  far  as  dreams  are  concerned.  Rat- 
cliff  has  done   it  once  for  all." 

+  Lit    R   pl73  O   20   '23   300w 

"Mr.  Ratcliff  is  to  be  congratulated.  He  has 
been  able  to  write  a  book  on  dreams,  including, 
among  other  things,  a  passable  account  of 
Freud's  theory,  and  of  Jung's,  and  even  a  seri- 
ous toleration  of  Van  Eeden's  belief  in  real 
demons,  without  nauseating  his  readers.  .  .  'A 
History  of  Dreams'  is  a  good  storv-book.  Even 
les  Jeunes  fiUes  may  read  it,  and  possibly  it 
tells  us  all  as  much  as  it  is  worth  knowing 
of  the  theories  of  the  new  psychology." 
-f  Sat    R    135:700    My   26    '23    650w 

"Amidst  the  multitude  of  books  on  dreams, 
.some  of  them  mere  book-making,  manv  of  them 
frammg  theories  which  never  seem  to  fit  all 
the  facts,  this  volume  has  at  any  rate  something 
on  which  we  can  get  a  hold.  .  .  When  he 
gets  away  from  history  and  literature  Mr.  Rat- 
cliff  follows  with  too  much  docility  the  .so- 
phistications   of    modern    theorists." 

H The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p325  My 

10  '23   350w 

'^o)^'^®^/^  MARCUS    ELI.     Malady   of   Europe. 

250p      $2      Macmillan 

940.5  I^econstruction  (European  war).  Eu- 
ropean war,  1914-1919— United  States. 
United  States — Foreign  relations  23-12019 
The  first  part  of  the  book  is  a  diagnosis  of 
iiiurope  s  disease  and  its  underlving  causes 
vrhich  the  author  traces  to  its  artificial  divi- 
sions and  frontiers,  its  unnatural  bases  of  na- 
tionality. While  Europe  is  in  reality  one  coun- 
try, one  civilization,  both  intellectually  and 
spiritually  a  unit,  the  old  system  of  frontiers 
and  armaments  and  tariffs  is  still  in  force  and 
JiiUrope  has  become  a  house  divided  against  it- 
self. The  second  part  is  an  analysis  of  Amer- 
ica s  attempt  to  help  Europe  and  of  her  share 
of  the  responsibility  for  the  failure.  The  third 
part  IS  given  to  a  di.scussion  of  what  America 
may  yet   do   to   stay   Europe's   break-up. 

Booklist   20:133  Ja  '24 

Bookm  58:481  D  '23  200w 
"His  hook,  as  a  whole,  challenges  however 
?r^u  5^1®"^'°'?'  •^"'^.  <'onstitutes  one  of  the  most 
valuable  contributions  to  our  knowledge  of  con- 
teniporary  conditions  in  Europe  that  has  been 
made  in  many  a  month."  Oliver  McKee   jr 

H Boston    Transcript    p3    S    1    '23    2600w 

♦  v,'!'^^'"-  '^•'amatic  treatment  of  the  topic  and 
Iht  ^Jl'°i"^*'*=  remarks  of  the  author  furnish 
wv?,vh  ti!-'",  ^'*^  .?^^"y  digestible  aphorisms 
^te  ^^'l^  recapitulating  the  essence  of  a 
vnr?tf  o.i^P*!u  V"  ^J"^"^  '^^o'^'^s  have  another  ad- 
7n  t^f®  '"  *^^*  V^^y  ^a"  ^^  stored  up  easilv 
Len-yel  '"^'"^''^  ^^^  future  reference."  Emil 
+  Nation    117:301    S    19    '23    700w 


"One  may  read  and  enjoy  The  Malady  of 
Europe  and  entirely  disagree  with  Mr  Ravage 
about  his  solution  of  the  European  problem. 
The  book  is  not  a  high-brow  book.  It  sends  no 
one  to  the  dictionary  nor  to  his  history  nor  to 
geographies  old  and  new;  it  is  not  erudite  and 
yet  carries  the  effect  of  being  intelligent,  honest 
and  important."     W:   A.  White 

+    New   Repub   36:260   O  31   '23   800w 

"His  book  is  a  good  example  of  that  kind  of 
writing  which  we  may  attribute  to  war  psy- 
chology. It  is  a  triumph  of  understatement  and 
overstatement,  a  long  and  impassioned  stump 
speech.  He  repeats  the  familiar  arguments  of 
the  extreme  liberal  and  radical  schools." 

h  JM    Y  Times   p5  N  18  '23   650w 

Springf'd   Republican  p9a  D  23  '23  480w 

"Here  is  a  remarkable  book  which  ought  to 
be  read  by  every  American  who  is  at  all  capa- 
ble of  thinking,  and  particularly  by  every 
American  whose  function  it  is  to  shape  and 
direct  public  opinion.  It  is  a  book  which  should 
be  read  by  every  European,  particularly  by  the 
innumerable  Poincar^s  and  Mussolinis  and 
Stinnes  who  now  play  the  part  of  tragic  des- 
tiny for  Europe."  H.  A.  Overstreet 

+  Survey    51:sup202    N    1    '23    300w 


RAYMOND,     EDWARD    THOMPSON.      Life    of 
Lord    Rosebery    (Eng    title    Man    of    promise: 
Lord   Rosebery).    254p   $3    Doran    [10s    Unwin] 
B   or  92      Rosebery,   Archibald   Philip   Prim- 
rose,   5th    earl    of  23-14376 
Mr    Raymond's    biography     of     this     Liberal 
statesman,    now   living   in   retirement,    who   was 
once    so   powerful   a   force   in   British   politics   is 
chiefly   a   summary    of   his    political   career.      It 
is  also  an  attempt  toward  an  interpretation  of 
the  puzzle  of  his  personality,   the  contradictory 
elements    in    his    character    which    have    made 
Lord    Rosebery    a    man    of    mystery.      His    bi- 
ographer  does   not   claim    to    have   supplied   the 
clue    to    the    mystery   but    he    forms    interesting 
questions   which    will    help   to   a    clearer   under- 
standing and  furnish  contemporary  impressions 
for  a   more    complete   estimate   in   the    future. 


Booklist   20:137   Ja   '24 
"A  critical,   carefully  drawn  picture  of  one  of 
the   most    enigmatic    and   interesting   figures    in 
nineteenth    century    English    politics." 
+  Bookm  58:483  D  '23  170w 
Reviewed   by    D.    L.    Mann 

Boston   Transcript  p5  Ja  12  '24  1050w 
Reviewed   by   H.   W.    Horwill 

Nation  117:586  N  21  '23  800w 
"Of  this  latest  biography  by  Mr.  E.  T.  Ray- 
mond perhaps  the  only  serious  criticism  is  to 
be  directed  at  one  brief  monosyllable  on  the 
title  page.  It  is  not  'the'  life  of  Lord  Rose- 
bery that  Mr.  Raymond  has  written.  The  'life' 
is  in  reality  a  magnified  essay,  analytical  rather 
than  narrative,  and  as  literature  it  is  am- 
bitious." 

H NY    Times   p3   O   14   '23   lOOOw 

Reviewed  bv  Joseph  Devlin 

N  Y   Tribune    p20   O   21    '23    1600w 
Reviewed  by  Owen   Langdon 

N  Y  World  plOe  O  7  '23  llOOw 
"Wayward,  ineffective,  fascinating — so  Mr. 
Raymond  describes  him.  Fascinating,  assur- 
edly. And  this  book  about  him,  with  its  busy 
and  acute  ingenuity,  takes  on  itself  no  little 
of  the  charm." 

+  Sat  R  136:46  Jl  14  '23  1200w 
"Mr.  Raymond  has  written  a  clever  and  read- 
able book;  but  it  is  difficult  to  understand  why 
he  wrote  it,  for  it  seems  rather  a  gruesome 
task  to  present  to  his  own  generation  a  criti- 
cally detailed  study  of  a  man  who,  his  active 
and  public  life  over,  lives  in  retirement,  stricken 
in  years,  stricken  in  health,  and  deeply  stricken 
in   sorrows." 

H Spec    131:158   Ag   4   '23   lOSOw 

"The   questions   are   all   well   put,   but    the   bi- 
ography we   want  is  the  one  in  which  they  are 


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429 


not  only  asked  but  answered,  which  cannot 
be  for  years.  If  the  biographer  has  any  love 
for  the  richness  and  variety  of  human  char- 
acter his  book,  we  think,  will  show  an  exhilara- 
tion and  enjoyment  remote  from.  Mr.  Ray- 
mond's pages.  It  will  be  far  less  a  political 
threnody,  and  very  much  more  a  romance  of 
mental    adventure." 

1-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p447    Jl 

5  '23  1150W 


REAL    story    of    a    bootlegger.    23Sp    $2    Boni    & 

Liveright 

178      Bootlegging  23-12838 

In  this  straightforward  autobiography  a  one- 
time saloon  keeper  and  son  of  a  saloon-keeper, 
a  retired  millionaire  still  in  his  thirties,  tells 
how  he  made  his  money  as  a  bootlegger  and 
defends  it  as  a  legitimate  business.  His  con- 
clusion is  that  bootlegging  is  an  established 
business  and  has  come  to  stay.  Prohibition 
also  has  come  to  stay  for  it  is  financed  by  Big 
Business  which  can  afford  to  get  all  its  own 
liquor  at  whatever  high  prices. 


"The  revelations  of  the  tricks  of  the  trade 
are  timely,  and  doubtless  will  have  a  personal 
and  most  practical  application  for  those  readers 
who  view  the  volume  as  a  kind  of  handbook. 
There  can  be  no  question  as  to  whether  the 
book  is  authentic  or  no;  it  isn't." 
Bookm   58:212  O  '23   320w 

"This  is  a  fascinating  book.  One  is  of  course 
permitted  to  doubt  the  pretensions  of  any  anony- 
mous work  to  be  all  that  it  claims  and  so 
one  may  with  entire  propriety  be  incredulous 
concerning  the  autobiographical  character  of 
this  book.  It  is  too  good  to  be  true,  but  in  one 
respect  it  is  true  beyond  question.  It  is  writ- 
ten by  one  who  knows,  whether  from  personal 
experience  or  not,  the  bootlegging  game."  J. 
G.   de  R.  H. 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)     Dally    News    pl2    S 
9    '23    1800W 

"Much  detail  of  the  sort  commonly  described 
as  'human  interest'  abounds  in  the  story,  and 
much  of  it  is  wholly  irrelevant  to  the  bootleg- 
ger part.  It  has  been  the  earnest  intention  of 
the  collalxjrators  to  supply  two  dollars  worth 
of  entertainment  and  undoubtedly  there  are 
those  who  will  get  their  money's  worth  from 
the   book."    Silas   Bent 

+    N  Y    Times   p20    S    2    '23    1900w 

"Mr.  Anonyinous  writes  glibly  and  not  un- 
interestingly. We  cannot  persuade  ourseli, 
however,  that  his  book  meets  a  long-felt  want 
in    American    literature." 

h   N    Y  World  p9e  Ag  5  '23   120w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ag  26  '23  120w 
Survey  51:237   N  15   '23   300w 


RECKNAGEL,    ARTHUR    BERNHARD.    Forests 
of  New   York   state.    167p   il   $2.50   Macmillan 

634.9     Forests  and  forestry  23-4524 

The  author  holds  that  half  of  New  York  is 
better  suited  to  the  growing  of  forests  than 
to  any  other  purpose  and  sets  forth  their  past 
and  present  significance,  their  vast  potentiali- 
ties for  the  future,  and  the  economic  aspects 
of  forest  conservation.  Introduction  by  Liberty 
Hyde   Bailey.    Bibliography  and   index. 


"As  other  States  beside  New  York  have  a 
similar  problem,  the  book  becomes  of  national 
value,  both  for  the  general  reader,  for  profes- 
sional foresters  and  for  all  legislators.  It 
abounds  in  statistical  tables,  maps,  and  half- 
tone illustrations.  It  also  has  valuable  appen- 
dices   and   an    exhaustive    bibliography." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p3  Jl  21  '23  200w 
N    Y    World   pl8  Je   10  '23   200w 
R  of  Rs  68:224  Ag  '23  80w 
Springf'd   Republican  p6  Jl  2  '23  500w 


RED  CROSS.  UNITED  STATES.  AMERICAN 
NATIONAL  RED  CROSS.  History  of  Ameri- 
can Red  cross  nursing,  by  Lavinia  L.  Dock, 
Sarah  Elizabeth  Pickett,  Clara  D.  Noyes, 
Fannie  F.  Clement,  Elizabeth  G.  Fox,  Anna 
R.    Van    Meter.      1562p    il    $5    Macmillan 

940.477  European  war,  1914-1919— Hospitals, 
charities,  etc.  Nurses  and  nui'sing  23-536 
"More  than  half  of  this  thick  volume  is  given 
over  to  the  account  of  American  Red  Cross 
experiences  in  the  World  War.  This  is  an  in- 
tensely interesting  story  and  closely  parallels 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  record.  But  the  Red  Cross  edi- 
torial committee  has  included  within  the  scope 
of  the  work  the  beginnings  and  early  growth 
of  the  organization  in  this  country,  and  has 
devoted  several  chapters  to  Red  Cross  work 
since  the  war — international  nursing  education, 
public  health  nursing,  class  instruction  for 
women    and   the    dietitian    service." — R   of   Rs 


Booklist  19:206  Ap  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p5  F  3  '23  1600w 
"All  of  this  is  interesting  and  valuable  as  a 
part  of  the  story  of  the  American  Red  Cross 
and  of  the  history  of  the  war.  But  its  value 
and  its  interest  are  both  greatly  increased  by 
the  account  of  what  has  been  done  since  the 
war  and  the  brief  survey  of  the  history  of 
nursing  from  the  days  of  Haldora  the  Dane 
in   the   year  1000  A.D." 

4-   N   Y   Times   p4  Ja  28  "23   1600w 
"This  is  by  far  the  most  comprehensive  work 
in  its  field,  and  is  the  onlv  oflicial  history." 
R    of    Rs    67:221    F    '23    170w 
Reviewed   hv    Haven    Emerson,    M.D. 
Survey  50:supl85  My  1  '23  80w 

REED,    HAROLD    LYLE.     Development   of   fed- 
eral reserve  policy.   352p  $3.50     Houghton 

332.11     Federal  reserve  banks  22-19697 

The  object  of  the  book — intended  primarily  for 
general  reading  and  only  secondarily  for  class- 
room purposes — is  to  clear  up  many  of  the  mis- 
conceptions that  have  become  current  regarding 
the  nature  and  the  purpose  of  the  Federal  re- 
serve banking  system  and  to  stimulate  a  proper 
spirit  of  inquiry  regarding  it.  The  writer  is 
not  connected  with  the  management  and  offers 
this  study  merely  as  a.  superior  opportunity  for 
investigating  the  working  of  the  principles  of 
money  and  credit  under  contemporary  condi- 
tions of  business  and  industry. 


Cleveland  p44  Je  '23 
"Professor  Reed's  book  is  a  very  clear  and 
well -written  exposition,  dealing  with  the  di- 
verse phases  of  the  question  in  succinct  com- 
pass and  in  a  fashion  that  any  interested  reader 
can   understand."     Carl  Snyder 

+   Lit    R   p766   Je   16   '23   1050w 

REED,  WILLIAM    B.    Bituminous  coal  mine  ac- 
counting.   221p    il    $3    McGraw 

657  Accounting.  Coal  mines  and  mining- 
Accounting  22-22428 
"Expanded  from  a  series  of  articles  published 
in  'Coal  Review.'  Discusses  the  various  items 
which  make  up  an  adequate  accounting  scheme 
and  gives  the  necessary  forms.  The  author  is 
(1922)  secretary  of  the  National  Coal  Associa- 
tion."— Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 


Pittsburgh     Mo    Bui    28:113    Mr    '23 

REES,  ARTHUR   JOHN.  Island  of  destiny.   362p 
$2    Dodd    [7s    6d   Lane]  ^^^^^^^^ 

"The  hero  of  this  melodramatic  tale  is  a  ro- 
mantic young  man  whom  we  find  living  alone 
as  custodian  of  a  tropical  island  as  the  result 
of  his  having  shouldered  the  guilt  of  a  murder 
committed  by  a  lady  in  whom  he  has  taKen 
an  illegitimate  interest.  At  his  next  appear- 
ance he  figures  as  the  prodigal  son,  new  y 
returned,  of  a  pompous  baronet,  who  has  recently 
married    a    pretty    young    wife.      Between    the 


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son  and  the  baronet's  lady,  as  between  the  lady 
and  a  sinister  creature  masquerading  as  a  game- 
keeper, there  is  a  mysterious  connexion,  dat- 
ing from  a  remote  period  in  the  son's  extremely 
shady  past.  In  due  course,  inevitably, 
the  shadows  prove  to  be  due  not  to  the  young 
man's  vices,  but  to  his  romantic  disposition, 
and  his  habit  of  succouring  ladies  in  distress. 
But  before  the  truth  is  revealed  the  baronet 
has  died  suddenly,  his  young  wife  has  disap- 
peared, and  his  son  has  returned  to  his  lonely 
island,  once  more  under  a  cloud,  and  thereby 
separated  from  the  latest  of  his  rather  num- 
erous   loves." — The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup 

"The  main  character  work  is  good,  the  sup- 
porting very  slim.  The  value  of  the  tale  lies  in 
its  atmosphere,  and  that  is  put  on  with  a  skil- 
ful brush,  in  water  colors,  to  be  sure,  but  with 
plenty  of  mucilage  in  it." 

1-  Boston    Transcript   p4    O    24   '23    650w 

"The  author's  style  not  infrequently  rises 
above  the  level  of  his  plot,  and  he  manages  to 
hold   one's   interest    fairly   well." 

h    Lit   R   pl68   O   20   '23   260w 

"A  mystery  story  which  might  have  been 
told  better  in  half  the  space.  The  plot  is  'grip- 
ping' enough  in  itself,  but  it  is  smothered  by 
nighflown  emotionalism.'' 

h  Outlook  135:194  O  3  '23  20w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p521   Ag 
2  '23  140w 

REICHE,    FRITZ.     Quantum   theory;    tr.    by  H. 

S.    Hatfield    and    Henry    L.    Brose.    183p    $2.50 

Dutton   [6s  Methuen] 

530.1     Quantum  theory  23-5287 

"The  quantum  theory  is  creeping  into  every 
branch  of  physics,  even  into  the  theory  of  heat, 
and  it  is  throwing  hght  into  the  dark  places  of 
the  electron.  The  present  work,  by  a  Professor 
of  Physics  at  Breslau,  is  a  compact  technical 
account  of  the  history  and  nature  of  the  theory. 
It  is  far  beyond  those  unfamiliar  with  mathe- 
matical formulae.  But  to  any  student  of  modern 
physics  it  supplies  a  very  clear  and  extremely 
interesting  guide  to  the  ramifications,  the  suc- 
cesses, and  the  difficulties  of  a  theory  which 
seems  destined  to  transform  fundamental  exist- 
ing conceptions."     The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup 


"The  professor's  exposition  of  the  theory  and 
its  successes  so  far  as  it  goes,  is  well-nigh  ex- 
haustive." 

+   Boston   Transcript   p3  F  17   '23  250w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p787    N 
30    '22    210w 

REID,  FORREST.    Pender  among  the  residents. 
278p   $2   Houghton    [7s   6d   Collins] 

23-26342 

The  residents  among  whom  Re.K  Pender  finds 
himself  when,  badly  broken  by  the  war,  he 
comes  to  his  recently  inherited  estate  in  Bally- 
castle,  are  the  ghostly  figures  which  occupy 
the  manor,  coming  out  of  the  frames  of  the 
family  portraits  to  bear  him  company,  and  the 
very  human  inhabitants  of  the  little  Irish  vil- 
lage. Pender's  preoccupation  with  one  of  the 
ghosts,  the  beautiful  Roxana,  overshadows  his 
rather  lukewann  affair  with  pretty  Norah  Bur- 
ton, the  canon's  daughter,  which  finally  dies 
of  inanition.  There  is  little  plot  but  deUghtful 
characterization    and    atmosphere. 


"The   author   has  a  good   ear,   a   sophisticated 
brain,  alert  perceptions  of  the  comic,  and  a  skill 
wholly  equal  to  the   subtle  task  of  stitching  an 
interior  ghost-plot  to  the  external  material  one." 
+  —  Dial    74:521    My   '23    lOOw 
"Forrest    Reid    has    thus    far    by    no    means 
gained  the  sort  of  hearing  in  this  country  that 
his    quality    merits.      In    a    period   of   hasty    im- 
provisation,  he  is  a  careful  and  finished  artist. 
He    sees    the    completed    image    of    his    work    in 
the    block    of    marble    before    venturing    a    first 
touch  of  the  chisel."    H.  W.  Boynton 
+  Ind   110:295  Ap  28  '23  720w 
Int    Bk    R   p48   Ag  '23    250w 


"Mr.  Reid  tells  his  slight  story  with  unusual 
delicacy  and  charm.  The  interest  of  [the] 
novel  lies  not  so  much  in  the  story  he  tells 
as  in  his  manner  of  telling  it  and  in  the  char- 
acters which  he  creates  with  a  deftness  and 
reality  which  give  them  a  genuine  hold  on  the 
memory." 

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"He  is  a  master  hand  at  the  creation  of  an 
atmosphere  out  of  which  something  uncanny 
must  develop  and  at  making  the  supernatural 
seem  not  only  possible  but  actual.  There  is 
no  one  writing  today  who  exceeds  him  in  the 
ability  to  deal  effectively,  persuasively,  with 
occult   themes." 

+  N    Y   Times   pl6   F  4   '23    500w 
"With    a    manner    gratifyingly    detached    and 
irresponsible  about  ever>'  one  in  his  book,   For- 
rest  Reid   has   accomplished   a   novel   both   light 
and    not    undistinguished    in    spite    of    a    quite 
ordinary  collection   of  properties.      He  writes  in 
a  style  so  simple   that  one   is  not  oppressed  by 
the  fact  that  he  possesses  a  style  at  all.   .   .  As 
a    story    of   life    in    an    Irish    town    the    book    is 
exactly    what    it    was    intended    to    be,    and    its 
title — why    are    titles    so    seldom    mentioned? — 
could   scarcely   be    improved."      Emily   Clark 
-t-   N    Y   Tribune   p22   Mr   25    '23    800w 
Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui  28:277  Je  '23 
"Mr.    Reid     sees     life     whole,     including     the 
ghosts:     he    presents    a    fantastic    diversity    of 
character    and    incident    within    the    compass    of 
a    few    months'    commonplace    life    in    a    small 
town.       Mr.    Reid    never    strains    after    effect." 
Gerald  Gould 

+  Sat    R   134:761    N   18   '22  600w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Jl  15  '23  480w 
"Very  well  written,  neat  and  pleasant,  mirth- 
ful   and    fanciful." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p746   N 
16   '22   650w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:414  Jl   '23 

REINACH,  SALOMON.  Short  history  of  Chris- 
tianity; from  the  French  by  Florence  Sim- 
monds.    227p  $2.75  Putnam 

270  Church  history 
In  an  earlier  book  of  Dr  Reinach's  on  the 
general  history  of  religions,  first  published  in 
1909,  the  five  concluding  chapters  were  devoted 
to  Christianity.  The  present  volume  is  based 
upon  those  chapters,  re-written  and  revised  and 
with  the  bibliography  brought  up  to  date.  Dr 
Reinach  writes  in  the  belief  that  Christianity 
is  the  greatest  of  all  human  institutions  "be- 
cause it  suits  the  temper  of  progressive  and 
laborious  nations,  and  adapts  itself  to  the  most 
various    conditions    of    society." 


Boston  Transcript  p3  F  17  '23  900w 

"It   is   so   brilliantly  written   that  all   students 
of  social  development  must  take  account  of  It." 
-I-   Int   J    Ethics  34:102  O   '23   460w 

"These  are  singular  pronouncements  to  come 
from  an  historian  of  religions,  and  we  look 
askance  at  this  suspicious  terminal  glorifica- 
tion of  a  creed  which  he  has  just  torpedoed. 
But  perhaps  it  is  well  that  a  history  of  Chris- 
tianity should  give  us  furiously  to  think;  and 
this  book  of  Dr.  Reinach  does  accomplish  that 
very  desirable  end."  Hubert  Harrison 
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"M.  Reinach  is  a  severe  critic  of  the  persistent 
obscurantism  and  arrant  cruelties  of  Christian 
rulers,  but  he  clearly  indicates  his  belief  in  the 
future  of  Christianity  as  the  greatest  moral 
force  in  the  world.  The  Bibliographies  are  a  full 
and  valuable  feature  of  the  book,  and  interna- 
tional in  scope,  as  befits  a  scholar  of  M.  Rem- 
ach's  standing;  but  he  naturally  has  a  prefer- 
ence for  French,  where  an  Englishman  would 
go  to  native  sources."  V.   R. 

New  Statesman  20:462  Ja  20  '23  1250w 

"Dr  Reinach  is  a  master  of  short  character- 
izations- he  is  often  whimsical  and  humorous; 
he    is    clear,    incisive    and    never    dull."    Burton 

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431 


RETURN  of  Christendom,  by  a  group  of  church- 
men. 252p  $1.75  Macmillan  [7s  6d  Allen  &  U.] 
261  Sociology,  Christian.  Church  and  so- 
cial problems  23-6997 
The  fact  that  the  group  of  men  who  have 
contributed  these  essays  hold  certain  principles 
in  common  gives  the  volume  both  continuity 
and  unity.  While  the  contributors  are  not  so- 
cialists, except  in  a  general  sense,  they  are  at 
one  in  believing  that  no  stable  industrial  or 
social  fabric  can  be  built  on  the  principle  of 
individualism  or  the  unrestricted  right  of  private 
property.  They  demand  a  form  of  society  which 
shall  secure  spiritual  liberty  to  the  individual 
and  they  call  for  a  fearless  application  of 
Christian  principles  to  modern  conditions.  There 
is  an  introduction  by  Bishop  Gore,  and  to  the 
American  edition  by  Bishop  Brent.  Contents: 
The  idea  of  Christendom  in  relation  to  modern 
society,  by  M.  B.  Reckitt;  The  return  of  dogma, 
by  H.  H.  Slesser;  The  necessity  of  Catholic 
dogma,  by  Fr.  L.  S.  Thornton;  The  return 
of  "The  Kingdom  of  God,"  by  P.  B.  T.  Wid- 
drington;  The  mediaeval  theory  of  social  order, 
by  A.  J.  Carlyle;  The  obstacle  of  industrialism, 
by  A.  J.  Penty;  The  moralization  of  property, 
by  M.  B.  Reckitt;  The  failure  of  Marxism,  by 
Niles  Carpenter;  The  kingdom  of  God  and  the 
church  to-day,  by  Fr.  Paul  B.  Bull;  Epilogue,  by 
G.   K.   Chesterton. 


Reviewed  by  A.  E.  Palmer 

N  Y  Times  pl2  Mr  4  "23  550w 
"No  branch  of  the  Christian  commonwealth 
will  be  wholly  pleased  with  what  is  found  here. 
Nevertheless,  there  is  an  appeal  both  for  those 
within  and  without  the  church  that  far  tran- 
scends any  use  or  misuse  of  terms  which  have 
often  ceased  to  carry  a  true  connotation.  In- 
directly religion  is  found  to  be  a  different  thing 
from    what    many    have    supposed." 

-f  Springf'd   Republican  plO  My  1  '23  650w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p691  O  26 
'22   150w 


REYNOLDS,  GERTRUDE  M.  (ROBINS)  (IVIRS 
LOUIS  BAILLIE  REYNOLDS).  Lost  dis- 
covery.  310p  $1.75  Doran   [7s  6d  Hodder  &   S.] 

23-7003 
Delighted  with  her  invitation,  Althea  Kemp- 
thorne  goes  to  Curfew  Place  in  Norfolk  for 
Christmas.  The  old  house  had  belonged  to 
Dr  Gillespie,  reputed  discoverer  of  a  cure  for 
cancer,  and  his  priceless  secret  and  a  will 
are  hidden  somewhere  in  the  house.  Althea 
is  surpiised  at  the  eagerness  with  whicli  Philip 
Garnon  also  accepts  an  invitivtion  from  her 
hostess,  and  when  another  young  man  called 
Penrose  appears  on  the  scene  slie  is  sorely 
puzzled.  Some  strange  things  happen  in  the 
house  and  Althea  who  has  unwittingly  run 
into  the  midst  of  a  group  of  desperados  is 
almost  their  victim  tho  in  the  end  she  comes 
out    triumphant. 


"It  is  written  with  a  seasoned  hand.  The 
style  is  strong  and  the  action  swift.  There  are 
no  loose  threads,  none  of  those  blind  alleys 
which  cheaper  writers  find  convenient  to  dodge 
about  in  when  they  are  wondering  how  on 
earth  to  end  their  stories." 

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Int  Bk  R  p48  Ag  '23  150w 
"It  is  a  thoroughly  good  story,   logical,   excit- 
ing, involved,  well  worked  out,  moving  at  a  good 
pace  to  an  exciting  climax.     The  most  ingenious 
reader    will    be    surprised    by    some    of    Its    odd 
turns    and    unexpected    developments.     Its    deft 
mixture  of  the  commonplace  and  the  gruesome  " 
+  N    Y  Times  pl7  Mr  18  '23   500w 
N    Y   Tribune   p24   Mr  25    '23    320w 
Reviewed  by  E.   W.   Osborn 

N   Y  World  p8e  Mr  25  '23  190w 
Spec  130:594   Ap  7  '23  50w 

Springf'd     Republican    p7a    Mv    27    '23 
160w 


RHYS,  ERNEST,  and  SCOTT,  MRS  GATH- 
ARINE  AIV1Y  (DAWSON),  eds.  31  stories  by 
thirty  and  one  authors.  413p  $2.50  Apple- 
ton 

23-14914 
Contents:  A  strange  thing,  by  John  Gals- 
worthy; The  door  in  the  wall,  by  H.  G.  Wells; 
The  price  of  the  head,  by  John  Russell;  The 
fortune  teller,  by  Arnold  Bennett;  The  collector, 
by  May  Sinclair;  In  a  city  that  is  now  ploughed 
fields,  by  Rebecca  West;  The  sabbath  breaker, 
by  Israel  Zangwill;  The  blue  beads,  by  Mary 
E.  Mann;  Fear,  by  Catherine  Wells;  The  story 
of  Chang  Tao,  by  Ernest  Bramah;  "The  White- 
boys,"  by  CE.  Somerville  and  Martin  Ross; 
Statement  of  Gabriel  Foot,  highwayman,  by 
A.  T.  yuiller  Couch;  Destiny  and  a  dog,  by 
Grace  Rhys;  The  man  in  the  room,  by  H.  D. 
Dowry;  The  turret  room,  by  E.  Colburn  Mayne; 
The  pictures,  by  Jane  Findlater;  Fine  feath- 
ers, by  W.  W.  Jacobs;  My  honoured  master,  by 
C.  A.  Dawson  Scott;  Clorinda  walks  in  heaven, 
by  A.  E.  Coppard;  Mektub,  by  R.  B.  Cunning- 
hame  Graham;  The  flower,  by  George  R.  Mal- 
loch;  The  mare  without  a  name,  by  Elrnest 
Rhys;  Why  Senath  married,  by  F.  Tennyson 
Jesse;  The  connoisseur,  by  Percival  Gibbon;  The 
drawn  arrow,  by  Clemens  Housman;  The  last 
lap,  by  E.  M.  Goodman;  Out  there,  by  E.  Grant 
Watgon;  His  widows,  by  Violet  Hunt;  Blessed 
are  the  meek,  by  Mary  Webb;  The  great  unim- 
pressionable, by  Stacy  Aumonier;  The  invisible 
man,  by  G.  K.  Chesterton. 


Booklist  20:140  Ja  '24 
"This  interesting  compilation  illustrates  in 
comprehensive  fashion  the  versatility  and  ex- 
pertness  of  British  short-story  writers.  It  will 
be  a  revelation  to  some  Americans  who  do  not 
realize  that  in  this  field  of  fiction  our  cousins 
have  produced  not  only  several  transcendent 
geniuses  but  a  general  run  of  talented  crafts- 
men equal  if  not  superior  to  the  best  American 
magazine  writers.  As  a  whole  the  selections 
are  excellent.  The  chief  weakness  of  the  vol- 
ume is  that  the  stories  chosen  to  represent  the 
three  best-known  writers — Bennett,  Galsworthy 
and  Wells— fall  short  of  their  highest  level." 
Allan    Nevins 

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N  Y  World  p7e  D  16  '23  260w 
"The  collection,  as  one  would  expect  from 
the  editors,  is  a  very  good  one;  and  the 
editors'  own  contributions  are  not  the  least  ad- 
mirable: but  of  their  'Foreword'  they  should 
have   given   us  more— or  less."     Gerald   Gould 

H Sat    R  136:141  Ag  4  '23  900w 


RICE,    CALE      YOUNG.      Mihrima 
poems.     127p    $1.50    Century 

811 
The  first  and  title-poem  is  a  poet 
Jerusalem    in    the    sixteenth    centur 
the    innocence   of   a   young   wife    is 
the    miracle   of    the    stigmata.     This 
by    a    number    of    lyrics     and     four 
poems;     Evocations;     Lurid     lives; 
veil;    Etchings. 


and     other 

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y  in  which 
attested  by 
is  followed 
groups  of 
Behind     the 


"In  the  free  rhyming  poems  in  the  section 
'Evocations'  and  in  some  of  the  'Etchings,'  the 
line  is  hard,  the  poet  escapes  his  lushness  and 
assumes  a  character  of  his  own  instead  of  be- 
ing the  echoer  of  the  past,  or  assuming  the 
stiff  poses  into  which  his  pretensions  to  in- 
terpret lives  to  whose  secret  he  has  no  clue 
throw  him.  The  title  poem,  a  play  in  one  act, 
after  leading  carefully  up  to  a  dramatic  situa- 
tion suddenly  abandons  it  with  a  pointless 
miracle." 

-\ Bookm    57:99    Mr    '23    240w 

Cleveland   p36  My  '23 

"  'Mihrima  and  Other  Poems'  illustrates  a 
squandering  of  poetic  power.  At  his  best,  Mr. 
Rice  manifests  imagination  and  a  sense  of 
unity." 

1-   Lit   R  p723  My  26  '23  550w 

"Seldom  if  ever  does  the  author  make  a  fresh 
figure  of   speech;   and   quite   as  seldom  does  he 


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impale  his  idea  upon  a  sharply  pointed  plirase  or 
word.  The  style  is  otiose;  the  sentiment  com- 
monplace;   the    passion    nonexistent." 

—  Springf'd    Republican  p6   N  6   '22  480w 

RICE,   CALE   YOUNG.     Youth's  way     217p   $1.75 
Century 

23-6944 

"The  struggles  of  youth,  its  dreams  and  des- 
pairs, its  sufferings,  its  temptations  and  its 
triumphs  constitute  the  realm  that  Mr.  Rice 
attempts  to  invade;  and  the  book  is  the  chronicle 
of  the  formative  years  of  a  certain  David  An- 
son— the  years  when  he  stands  at  the  threshold 
of  all  experience  and  strives  painfully  to  under- 
stand the  meaning  of  his  developing  mind  and 
body  and  to  adapt  himself  to  swiftly  changing 
horizons.  Like  most  youths,  he  hears  with  fas- 
cinated ears  the  call  of  the  opposite  sex;  he 
becomes  secretly  engaged  at  the  age  of  17.  and 
because  of  his  engagement  becomes  involved  in 
various  embarrassing  situations  from  which  in 
the  end  he  escapes  with  miraculous  ease."— 
N   Y   Times 

"It  displays  little  besides  Mr.  Rice's  lack  of 
proficiency  in  the  writing  of  fiction.  David  An- 
son never  stands  out  clearly  before  the  reader  s 
eyes;  he  is  endowed  with  no  definite  and  sharp- 
cut  characteristics;  he  is  a  blur  rather  than  an 
individual.  In  this  respect,  moreover,  he  is  not 
at  all  inferior  to  the  secondary  figures,  who 
are  one  and  all  shadowy  and  unreal." 

—  NY  Times  p24  Ap  8  '23  420w 
Reviewed   by  Will   Cuppy 

—  NY   Tribune  p24  My   6  '23   1750w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Je  3  '23  550w 

RICE,  ELMER  L.  Adding  machine;  a  Play  in 
2    seven    scenes;     with    a    foreword     by     PnuiP 

Moeller;    the    Theatre    guild    version.     143p    u 

$1.50    Doubleday 

812  23-10962 

This  play,  a  Theatre  Guild  production,  is  an 
example  of  dramatic  "expressionism."  It  is 
the  tragedy  of  Mr  Zero,  a  poor  clerk  who  has 
passed  a  life  of  deadly  monotony  doing  nothing 
but  add  figures,  only  to  be  supplanted  after 
years  of  service  by  a  more  efficient  adoing  ma- 
chine. In  his  desperation  and  sense  of  outrage 
he  murders   his   employer. 


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"The  whole  thing  is  essentially  imitative,  vvith 
scarcely  a  gleam  of  arresting  originality,  while 
the  spirit  of  it  is  drearily  pessimistic.  Such 
virtue  as  the  piece  has,  and  that  is  but  mod- 
erate,   is    purely    theatrical." 

1-   Lit   R   p26   S   8   '23   410w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  400w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    p442    O    '23 

RICH,    FRANK    MERRITT.      Jolly   tinker.      139p 

il     U      (3s  6d)      Appleton 
680     Carpentry.     Toys  23-8840 

"Chapters  on  The  versatile  tin  can.  The  nail- 
box  motor,  The  musical  broomstick,  Home- 
made printing  outfit.  Practical  book  surgery, 
Shoe  mending,  etc.  Full  of  suggestions  for 
manual  arts  teachers.  Some  chapters  too 
sketchy  to  be  used  by  the  pupil  himself.  Re- 
printed from  Popular  Mechanics,  Youth's  Com- 
panion,    etc." — Wis    Lib    Bui 


School  Arts  M  23:128  O  '23  50w 
"The  directions  are  fairly  simple,  but  require 
a  large  command  of  tools  and  material  and  a 
great  deal  of  skill.  We  think,  however,  that 
this  book  would  be  a  doubtful  boon  to  an  Eng- 
lish child  unless  he  himself  is  'awfully  clever' 
and    his    papa    is    'awfully    rich.'  " 

-] The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p389   Je 

7   '23   lOOw 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:408  Jl   "23 


RICHARDS,    CHARLES    RUSSELL.     Art   in    in- 
dustry.     499p    $2    Macmillan 

607     Industrial  arts  23-26031 

"Report  of  a  survey  made  by  the  National 
Society  for  vocational  education  and  the  De- 
partment of  education  of  New  York.  The  pur- 
pose is  to  set  forth  the  exact  status  of  applied 
art  in  modern  industry  and  to  point  out  present 
limitations  with  a  view  to  ultimately  raising 
the  standard  of  design.  Such  industries  as 
textiles,  furniture  and  costume  are  considered 
in  detail  and  large  sections  are  devoted  to  de- 
scriptions of  schools  of  applied  art  in  Europe 
and   the   United  States." — Booklist 


Booklist    19:181    Mr    '23 

"The  book  has  a  deal  of  valuable  material 
imbedded  in  other  material  not  so  valuable.  It 
should  be  a  good  initial  voluine  for  a  reference 
library  on  modern  American  industrial  art. 
That  it  has  no  index  is  regrettable."  E.  H. 
Cahill 

H Lit   R   p582  Ap  7  '23   900w 

"Professor  Richards  has  assembled  the  evi- 
dence with  an  honest  hand;  he  has  scamped 
nothing;  his  English  is  intelligible;  and  he  has 
succeeded  in  relating  a  huge  mass  of  technical 
details    to   a   definite    thesis."    T:    Craven 

4-   New    Repub    33:296    F    7    '23    1650w 

"This  publication  is  the  result  of  mature  and 
long  continued  effort  not  only  by  Professor 
Richards  but  by  eighty-eight  individuals  in  the 
art  industries  who  contributed  their  efforts  dur- 
ing a  neriod  of  two  years  or  more.  In  that 
time  510  producing  establishments  were  studied 
by  e.xperts  and  careful  investigations  were  also 
made  of  the  courses  of  study  offered  by  fifty- 
five  different  schools  giving  instruction  in  in- 
du.=;trial    art."     W:    L.    Harris 

+   N    Y   Times   pll    Ja   7    '23    3000w 

RICHARDS,         IVIRS         LAURA         ELIZABETH 
(HOWE).    The   squire.    309p   $2   Appleton 

23-14807 
At  ninety  years,  old  Squire  Tertius  Quint  is 
decidedly  alert  in  mind,  rules  his  household 
with  the  air  of  an  autocrat  and  awes  the  vil- 
lagers into  admiring  silence.  When  his  sister 
dies  various  solitary  bachelors  and  spinsters, 
conceiving  the  idea  that  he  ought  to  have  some- 
body young  about  him,  offer  to  live  with  him. 
To  escape  their  sympathies,  he  advertises  for 
a  secretary,  and  engages  Alison  Thorne,  young 
and  pretty,  with  the  requisite  intelligence  and 
education.  The  young  Dent  twins,  adopted  by 
the  Tooths,  further  enliven  his  days.  On  the 
plea  that  he  wants  him  to  catalog  his  Greek 
books,  the  Squire  bids  Rodney  Chanter  to  live 
with  him.  but  actually  he  has  turned  match- 
maker. The  sudden  appearance  of  Alison's  dis- 
reputable brother  brings  mystery  and  drama 
to  the  little  village.  The  tangle  is  finally 
cleared  up,  Alison  and  Rodney  marry,  and  the 
twins  continue  to  enjoy  the  friendship  of  an- 
cient  Tertius  Quint. 


"A  lesser  writer  would  have  made  no  more 
than  melodrama  out  of  the  plot,  but  in  Mrs. 
Richards's  competent  hands  it  is  not  at  all  a 
cheap  affair.  But  the  plot  matters  little;  it 
is  the  people  who  count." 

+   Lit   R   p289   N  24  '23   300w 

"There  are  many  amusing  bits  in  the  book 
and  a  generally  cheerful  atmosphere.  A  very- 
agreeable,  'homey'  little  tale  is  that  of  'The 
Squire.'  " 

-f  N  Y  Times  p8  O  21  '23  380w 

"The  plot  retains  its  hold  on  the  reader  until 
the  very  close  of  the  book;  every  person  In 
it  is  drawn  close  to  human  nature,  while  the 
many  incidents  enliven  what  at  first  glance 
might  seem  to  be  an  impossible  story— the  tale 
of  a  man  who  has  passed  his  90th  birthday." 
4-  Springf'd   Republican  plO  N  15  '23  180w 

"The  daily  life  of  the  little  village  of  Cyrus 
is  pleasantly  drawn.  The  artistic  value  of  the 
book  is  marred  by  Mrs  Richards's  insistent  re- 
minders of  the  squire's  'spotlessness'  and  'mon- 
ument-like   appearance'     and    his    'ivory    finger 


tips 


-] Springf'd    Republican   p7a  D  2  '23   300w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


433 


RICHARDSON,  ANTHONY.     Word  of  the  earth. 

301p    $2   Uodd    [7s    6d   Heinemann] 
824 

In  the  taproom  of  the  "Lady  Gwendoline" 
an  ancient  inn  of  the  Wiltshire  Down.s,  tl.ere 
sat  and  talked  each  evening,  with  their  tank- 
ards of  red  beer  before  them,  the  Poet,  the 
Physicist,  the  Shepherd  and  the  Idiot.  They 
talked  of  many  things — of  grass  and  thrills  and 
hussies  and  little  fishes,  of  themselves,  of  sor- 
row and  happiness  and  creation.  The  Poet 
and  the  Physicist  did  most  of  the  talking  and 
the  Shepherd  came  in  with  a  word  of  wisdom 
derived  from  his  quiet  thinking  and  watching 
all  day  on  the  hills.  The  Idiot  said  little,  but 
his  was  usually  the  last  word  and  often  it  in- 
tuitively hit  the  truth.  At  first  the  Poet  and 
the  Physicist  hated  each  other.  The  Physicist 
mocked  at  the  Poet's  rhapsodizing,  called  it 
all  rubbish  and  sentimentality  and  tiled  to 
pull  him  down  to  earth.  But  gradually  they 
found  that  each  owed  the  other  too  much  to 
quarrel,  and  each  night's  talking  brought  them 
nearer    together. 


"Such  a  book  is  as  charming  as  it  is  un- 
expected. Mr.  Richardson  is  plainly  a  poet  and 
this  manifests  itself  in  his  picturesque  descrip- 
tions of  nature  as  well  as  in  the  gentle  conver- 
sations so  filled  with  nature-lore  and  quiet  medi- 
tations on   life." 

-f   N  Y  Times  p8  D  2  "23  600w 

"Of  all  the  subjects  of  discussion  the  best  is 
that  upon  Grass.  There  are  several  other  chap- 
ters that  for  beauty  come  near  to  this,  but  there 
is  none  that  surpasses  it.  Mr.  Richardson  is 
a  poet,  but  his  greatest  asset  is  his  ability  to 
tell  a  story,  which  is  admirably  illustrated  in 
the  chapter  on  'Thrills.'  This  is  a  book  full 
of  promise  with  some  excellent  things  in"  it. 
When  the  author  has  submitted  himself  to  a 
more  rigorous  discipline  of  style  we  feel  con- 
fident that  his  work  will  count  for  a  good 
deal." 

H Sat    R   136:575   N  24  '23   700w 

"The  charm  of  the  book  depends  upon  depth 
of  thought  and  felicity  of  expression,  and  though 
the  author  very  often  gives  us  several  con- 
secutive pages  which  are  successful,  his  tech- 
nique is  not  equal  to  sustaining  the  note 
throughout   the   book." 

h  Spec  131:662  N  3  '23  80w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p692  O  18 
'23    200w 

RICHARDSON,  DOROTHY  M.    Revolving  lights. 

254p   $2.50   Knopf    [7s    6d   Duckworth] 

23-14207 

This  novel,  the  seventh  in  the  series  in  which 
is  recorded  the  spiritual  pilgrimage  of  Miriam 
Henderson,  is  a  further  unfolding  of  her  emo- 
tions and  states  of  mind.  She  is  revealed  both 
to  herself  and  to  the  reader  in  blurred  and  hazy 
outlines  by  Miss  Richardson's  familiar  impres- 
sionistic metliod,  by  the  revolving  lights  of 
moods  and  sensations  and  contacts  vdth  various 
individualities.  She  is  shown"  first  in  her  pre- 
occupation with  Michael  Shatov,  the  Russian 
Jew,  who  is  afterward  supplanted  in  her  in- 
terest by  a  man  named  Hypo  Wilson. 


Reviewed   by   Hamish    Miles 

Lit   R  p859  Jl  28  '23  1300w 
N   Y  Times  p24  Ag  5  '23   950w 
"After  all  that  we  can  say  and  do,  what   re- 
mains  to   hold   us   to    'Revolving  Lights'    is    the 
style   of  Miss   Richardson,   which   has  developed 
through  the  processes  of  the  Miriam  books  into 
what  we  must  regard  as  the  perfection  of  sub- 
jective writing.    It  is  perfect  both  in   its  clear- 
ness and  in   its  appearance  of  being  unstudied. 
One  need  never  doubt  a  meaning  or  go  back  to 
find   it.     The    terms    of  description    are    such   as 
to   illustra,te   actually   the  book."    E.    W.   Osborn 
+   N   Y  World  p8e  Jl  29  '23  600w 
"  'Revolving    Lights'    suffers     more     than     do 
some  of  the  other  books  from  Mjss  Richardson's 
besetting  sin — her  tiresome  twist  towards  fem- 
inism.     It    is    the    one    blot    upon    her    exquisite 
fairness   and   detachment.      The     reader    cannot 


help  constantly  wishing  that  she  would  see  how 
much  any  twist  takes  away  from  the  value  of 
her   testimony   on    other   points." 

H Spec  130:1084  Je  30  "23  1350w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p266   Ap 
19    '23    570w 

RICHARDSON,  MRS  ETHEL  MARY  EMILY 
(STRONGE).  The  Lion  and  the  Rose;  (the 
great  Howard  story;  Norfolk  line  957-1646; 
Suffolk  line  1603-1917.  2v  296;301-615p  il  $12 
Dutton 

920   Howard   family  [23-8875] 

In  these  two  volumes  the  author  has  brought 
together  a  collection  of  historical  anecdotes  and 
portraits  from  the  annals  of  the  Howard  family, 
a  great  house  dating  from  feudal  times  in  Eng- 
land. Its  head,  the  duke  of  Norfolk,  is  the  first 
of  the  dlikes  and  the  hereditary  earl  marshal 
of  England,  while  foiu-  earls  represent  the  peer- 
age in  its  younger  lines.  "All  down  the  cen- 
turies we  find  them,  from  the  days  when  Here- 
ward  so  stoutly  faced  the  Conqueror,  and  the 
'Jockey  of  Norfolk'  fell  by  Richard's  side  on 
Bosworth  Field.  .  .  At  Flodden  Field  their  name 
is  famous,  and  on  the  'Field  of  the  Cloth  of 
Gold,'  a  Howard  challenged  for  England.  Two 
ladies  of  their  blood  shared  Henry  VIII's  throne, 
and  lost  their  heads  by  his  decree.  When  the 
.Spanish  Armada  threatened  our  shores,  a  How- 
ard led  our  fleet  to  victory."  And  so  on.  thru  a 
thousand  years,  the  record  of  this  family,  re- 
plete with  interest  and  tragedy,  is  bound  with 
the  history  of  England. 


"Wonderfully  fascinating  is  this  story  of  a 
thousand  years  of  the  life  of  a  single  English 
family,  its  vicissitudes,  its  triumphs,  its  men 
and  women,  for  the  most  part  of  high  character, 
and  who  have  done  much  throughout  the  years, 
for  the  upbuilding  of  the  British  state."  E.  J.  C. 
-f   Boston  Transcript  p6  D  15  '23  1550w 

"These  books,  in  which  archaeology,  romance, 
gossip,  and  political  history  are  mingled,  make 
pleasant  reading.  But  the  author  in  this  case 
has  too  large  .a  subject;  she  is  not  sufficiently 
saturated  in  the  periods  she  traverses  to  sup- 
ply the  illuminating  reference,  the  vivid  detail, 
which  make  past  days  live  again." 

H New    Statesman    20:732   Mr   24   '23   170w 

"It  is  unkind  to  carp  at  details,  for  as  a 
whole,  the  book  is  interesting  and  clever.  The 
material  is  well  organized  when  we  consider  the 
Herculean  task  which  confronted  Miss  Richard- 
son." 

-I Sprlngf  d    Republican   pl2  N   30   '23  720w 

RICHABDSON,   NORVAL.    My  diplomatic  edu- 
=    cation.      337p     il     $3     Dodd 

B     or    92       United    State.? — Diplomatic    and 
consular  service  23-16778 

The  writer  of  these  memoirs  has  seen  four- 
teen years  in  the  diplomatic  service.  Begin- 
ning with  an  account  of  his  induction  into  the 
service  and  of  his  preparation  for  the  required 
examinations,  he  passes  on  to  a  recital  of  his 
experiences  in  the  American  embassies  at 
Havana,  Copenhagen,  Rome,  Santiago,  Lisbon 
and  Tokyo.  His  longest  residence  was  in  Rome, 
under  Ambassador  Page,  during  and  after  the 
war.  His  narrative  brings  out  the  pleasanter 
and  more  human  side  of  diplomacy,  entering 
hardly  at  all  into  the  international  questions 
that  arose  during  his  experience  with  the  dif- 
ferent embassies.  He  closes  with  a  chapter 
of  advice  to  aspirants  to  the   foreign   service. 


Booklist  20:123  Ja  '24 

"The  book  is  full  of  incident  and  charm, 
sometimes  grave,  more  often  gay.  We  see 
strange  cities  and  alien  people,  and  always 
through  the  eyes  of  a  genuine  literary  artist. 
We  know  no  diplomatic  memoirs  that  are  more 
illuminating   or   delightful."     S.    L.    C. 

-f-   Boston   Transcript  p4  D  22   '23   lOOOw 

"The  book  is  very  much  worth  while  as  a 
photograph  of  diplomatic  life,  of  foreign  courts 
and   customs,    of   recent   world   history,    and   as 


434 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


RICHARDSON,    N.— Continued 
&  human  document  penned  by  a  trained  writer 
of   broad    sympathies    and    wide    experience." 
+  Springf'd    Republican   p6   D  3  '23  400w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:508  D   '23 

RICHET,    CHARLES    ROBERT.      Thirty    years 
of    psychical    research;    being    a    treatise    on 
metapsychics;  tr.  from  the  French  by  Stanley 
De  Brath.   646p  11  $6  Macmillan 
134     Psychical  research.     Spiritualism 

23-9062 
Without  advancing  any  theories  the  author 
has  endeavored  to  collect  the  documentary  evi- 
dence very  widely  scattered  in  many  records, 
and  to  put  some  order  into  a  matter  which  up 
to  the  present  has  never  been  synthetically 
studied.  He  thinks  "that  the  time  has  come 
to  claim  for  metapsychics  a  place  among  recog- 
nized sciences  by  making  it  conform  to  the 
rigor  and  the  logical  treatment  which  have 
given  them  their  authority."  After  a  general 
survey  of  the  subject,  including  a  historical 
summary,  he  divides  metapsychics  into  sub- 
jective and  objective  giving  each  an  exhaustive 
treatment  in  Books  II  and  III.  The  funda- 
mental phenomena  comprising  the  whole  of 
this  new  science  he  sums  up  as  cryptesthesia, 
telekinesis   and   ectoplasm.     Index. 


"Dr.  Richet's  book  covers  the  whole  field  of 
psychical  phenomena,  embodies  a  mass  of  per- 
sonal experiences,  his  own  included,  and  with 
its  extensive  bibliographies,  quotations  and 
illustrations  is  well  adapted  to  showing  what 
can  be  done,  as  the  author  phrases  it,  in  the 
direction  of  'removing  from  facts  called 
"occult,"  many  of  which  are  indisputably  true, 
the  supernatural  and  mystical  implications 
ascribed  to  them  by  those  who  do  not  deny 
their  actuality.'  "     B.    N. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p2  Je  16  '23  lOOOw 

"In  spite  of  the  author's  reputation  as  a 
acienti.st  and  his  recognized  scientific  temper 
Of  mind,  the  book  is  not  satisfactory."  J.  J.  "W 

—  Cath    World    118:131    O    '23    620w 
Reviewed    by   Joseph    Jastrow 

Lit   R  pl7   S   8  '23   3600w 
"The    reviewer    takes    his    leave    of   the    book 
without    bemg    convinced.      He    belongs    to    the 
Huxley  school   of  agnostics."  B:  Harrow 

—  NY  Times  p6  Je  17  '23  1300w 
"Professor  Richet's  mode  of  reasoning  Is  ri- 
diculous to  the  last  degree;  so  much  so  that 
I  can  hardly  expect  a  reader  of  this  review 
to  believe  a  cold  restatement  of  some  of  his 
trains  of  thought.  It  is  astounding."  Burton 
Rascoe 

—  NY   Tribune  pl8  Jl  1  '23   650w 

The  Times  [London]    Lit   Sup  p566  Ae 
30   '23    llOOw  K   V  6 

f  Siy.'^i^'^'^'  GRACE  LOUISE  (SMITH)  (MRS 
NELSON  GUERNSEY  RICHMOND).  Rufus 
260p    il    $1.90    Doubleday 

23-14199 
"A  doctor,  crippled  by  the  war  and  incapaci- 
tated for  practice,  a  little  foundling,  and  the 
woman  who  brings  the  two  together  are  the 
characters  in  this  story.  Ran  serially  in  Wom- 
an s   Home   Companion." — Wis   Lib    Bui 


Booklist  20:140  Ja  '24 

Cleveland  p68  S  '23 
«Ki^  pretty  tale  light,  forced,  rather  Improb- 
f-lf'if'"*  none  the  less  readable.  The  interest 
Is  well -sustained;  the  characters  are  well  drawn 
even  if  they  are  a  bit  too  perfect.  It  takes  rank 
as  not  the  least  worthy  of  the  author's  long 
list   of  productions.'  ^ 

+  T„,^C?S"®'"^'"°   (N.C.)    Daily  News  p8   O  14 
23   ooOw 

Wis   Lib    Bui  19:481   N  '23 

RICKETTS,  PERCY  EDWARD.  Modern  race- 
,^°."®',  conformation,  breeding  and  heredity. 
174p  il  $5  Scribner  [21s  Constable] 

798    Horses 
"Colonel   Ricketts,    in   this   volume  which   dis- 


cusses the  qualities  of  the  race  horse  lays 
especial  stress  upon  the  conformation,  the  lines, 
the  build  of  the  horse,  rather  than  upon  the 
blood.  In  following  up  this  point  of  view,  the 
author  discusses  general  proportions  and  com- 
parative measurements  and  follows  this  by  con- 
siderations touching  the  head  of  the  horse,  the 
neck,  the  trunk,  the  legs  and  especially  their 
anatomy  and  their  points  of  strength  and  en- 
durance. A  chapter  on  breeding  and  heredity 
shows  care  and  close  study  in  its  preparation, 
as  well  as  experience.  The  volume  is  rendered 
more  valuable  by  a  number  of  illustrations  from 
photographs  of  several  of  the  most  celebrated 
trotting  horses  of  the  present  day." — Boston 
Transcript 


Boston   Transcript   p3   Ag  4   '23   450w 
Reviewed  by  W.   G.  Tinckom-Fernandez 

N   Y  Times  p23  S  2  '23  llOOw 
"Colonel    Ricketts    has    based    his    measure- 
ments   on    horses    that    he    has    seen    and    mea- 
sured.     He    has    studied    the    measurements    of 
many    famous    animals,    and    he    sets    out    very 
ably,    and    in    a    most    interesting    manner,    why 
he    considers    these    measurements    are    correct. 
At  the  same  time,   it  must  be  emphasized  that 
these    measurements    are    the    result    of    theory 
rather   than    of   practice.    .    .    Colonel    Ricketts's 
book  is  a  good  one.     It  will  produce  discussion." 
-I-  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p382  Je  7 
'23   1150W 

RIDEOUT,      HENRY     MILNER.     Barbry.     300p 

$2     Duffleld 

23-14917 

"A  novel  whose  setting  is  New  England  and 
whose  central  character  is  a  girl  deserted  by 
her  father  and  brought  up  by  foster  parents 
among  the  most  discouraging  surroundings.  On 
the  farm  where  she  dwells  there  is  plenty  of 
time  for  work,  but  she  is  punished  for  read- 
ing Greek  mythology;  the  romance  native  to  her 
is  artificially  walled  in  and  stifled  and  she  has 
to  look  for  romance  to  her  own  dreams,  as  so 
many  another  misunderstood  child  in  fiction  and 
in  life  has  had  to  do.  Ultimately  however, 
real  romance  does  come  to  her;  it  comes,  more- 
over, in  the  shape  of  a  man;  and  after  a  furious 
storm  at  sea  and  a  storm  in  the  heroine's  soul 
and  a  misunderstanding  in  which  she  nearly 
loses  her  lover,  the  curtain  comes  down  to  the 
familiar  tune  of  'And  they  lived  happily  ever 
after.'  " — Lit    R 


Booklist  20:140  Ja  '24 

"This  history  is  an  unexciting  tale,  but  Mr. 
Rideout  has  peopled  it  with  an  easily  recog- 
nized type  of  country  people  and  with  incidents 
no  more  unusual  than  village  picnics  and  re- 
vival meetings,  yet  they  have  been  invested  with 
a  considerable  charm,  and  the  reader  may  pur- 
sue the  gentle  chronicle  of  Barbry  without 
boredom  to   its   happy  end."     F.  A.  G. 

H Boston    Transcript    p4    N    7    '23    330w 

"A    moderately  .entertaining   novel." 
h   Lit    R    p216    N    3   '23    190w 

"It  is  a  mild  and  innocuous  little  tale,  more 
than  half  of  which  is  devoted  to  an  account  of 
the  heroine's  not  especially  interesting  child- 
hood, the  best  thing  in  the  book  being  the 
description  of  the  wreck  which  brings  the  novel 
to  a  climax.  Here  Mr.  Rideout  seems  at  home, 
and  writes  with  a  touch  of  gusto,  instead  of 
in  the  somewhat  perfunctory  manner  which 
marks  the  greater  part  of  the  narrative." 
h  N    Y   Times   pl4   N   4  '23   320w 

RIDER,  FREMONT,  ed.  Rider's  New  York  city. 

2d    ed    670.48P    $4.50    Holt 

917.471   New  York    (city) — Description 

23-26861 

A  comprehensive  New  York  city  guide  book 
modelled  on  Baedeker,  covering  preliminary 
Information  for  the  traveller,  hotels,  restau- 
rants, railroad  and  steamship  lines,  theaters, 
shops,  churches,  etc.,  and  the  whole  of  the  city, 
downtown,  midtown,  uptown,  the  Bronx,  Brook- 
lyn  and   Staten    Island. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


435 


"As    a   book    of   reference    has    never    ceased 
to  be   useful."    E.    L.    P. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p2  Jl  21  '23  600w 
"Its  information  about  Greenwich  Village,  its 
note  about  the  Curb  Market  on  Broad  Street 
and  its  note  on  the  Negro  colony  in  Harlem 
are  especially  admirable  examples  of  the  curi- 
ous bits  of  information  which  make  a  guide- 
book readable  as  well  as  valuable."  E.  L.  Pear- 
son 

-f-  Outlook  134:520  Ag  1  '23   1500w 
"The    range    of    information    that    it    presents 
is  nowhere  else  to  be  found  between  the  covers 
of  a  single  volume." 

+   R    of   Rs    68:222   Ag   '23    80w 
"For  persons  who  care  to  approach  New  York 
in    this     spirit     of     absorbing,      albeit     critical, 
appreciation    'Rider's    New    York    City'    will    be 
a  guidebook  that   is   truly  a  friend." 

-j-  Springf'd    Republican   p9a   S   9   '23   360w 
Wis     Lib    Bui    19:480    N    '23 

RINEHART,   MARY    (ROBERTS)    (MRS  STAN- 
»    LEY    MARSHALL    RINEHART).     Out    trail. 
246p    il    ?2.50     Doran 

917.8  West — Description  and  travel.  Camp- 
ing 23-16302 
Tales  of  travel  and  adventure  in  the  un- 
frequented places  of  America,  including  vaca- 
tioning on  a  "dude"  ranch  in  Wyoming;  an 
arduous  journey  to  the  cliff  villages  of  the 
Hopl  and  Navajo  Indians  in  Arizona  and  New 
Mexico,  and  the  witnessing  of  a  real  snake 
dance;  the  journey  of  two  women  into  Mexico 
In  war  time;  and  the  delights  of  house-boating 
and  fishing  off  the  Florida  Keys.  Other  chap- 
ters Included  in  the  book  are  Roughing  it  with 
the  men;  The  spirit  of  the  sightseer;  and  Ad- 
venturing de  luxe. 


"The  de  luxe  aspect  of  Mrs.  Rinehart's  travel- 
ing does  not  lessen  her  easy  grace  in  telling 
about  it,  and  for  the  eastern  woman  who  has 
to  stay  at  home,  and  for  the  western  woman 
who  never  dropped  a  fly  into  the  trout  stream 
— and  there  are  many  of  them — here  is  vicarious 
relaxation  from  fulfilling  civilization's  de- 
mands." 

-I Bookm    58:585    Ja    '24    230w 

"A  cheerful,  entertaining,  refreshing  book, 
one  that  can  be  confidently  recoinmended  for 
the   reading   of   all   pessimists." 

-f   N    Y   Times   p24    N    4    '23    500w 

"In  this  book  she  relates  incidents  of  camp 
and  trail  life  with  her  usual  vivacity,  and  in- 
cludes many  experiences,  some  of  which  are 
simply  amusing  while  others  are  not  without 
the  thrill  of  adventure.  The  book  has  been 
made  agreeable  to  the  eye  by  the  publishers 
through  its  large  type,  wide  margins,  and 
abundant    pictures." 

+  Outlook    135:506    N    21    '23    lOOw 

RING.  BARBRA.  Into  the  dark;  tr.  from  the 
Norwegian  by  AV.  Emm6.  253p  $2  Knopf  [8s 
Gvldendal] 

23-8190 
Having  resolved  to  put  herself  out  of  the 
life  which  held  nothing  for  her,  Karen  Sandel 
tells  the  story  of  her  emotional  experiences  and 
how  she  slipped  out  of  the  conventional  path 
of  meo  and  women.  She  was  forced  when  very 
young  into  a  marriage  of  convenience  without 
knowledge  either  of  herself  or  of  men.  Her 
painful  initiation  made  her  a  rebel  against  so- 
ciety and  its  laws.  Her  story  is  a  frank  con- 
fession of  a  revolt  which  brought  her  no  nearer 
to  freedom  and  which  was  the  means  of  wreck- 
ing her  one  hope  of  happiness. 


"As  to  character  the  book  is  hardly  signifi- 
cant: as  to  style,  a  certain  facile  smouldering 
sincerity;  as  to  artistic  outcome,  mediocrity 
without   the   gold."    I.    G. 

—  Boston   Transcript  p4  Mr  31   '23   880w 
Int    Bk    R    pl58    Ja   '24    280w 
"A  dull   and   sordid   transverse   section   of  the 
possible  life  of  a  selfish,  hysterical  woman,   its 
only   excuse    for    existence    belng_the    glimpses 


which  it  gives  us  of  social  life  as  it  surprising- 
ly exists  in  that  dull,  uninteresting  little  city 
of  Christiania." 

—  Lit  R  p95  S  29  '23  500w 

"There  are  moments  when  the  theme  rises 
to  a  perceptible  strength,  but  for  the  most  part 
it  fails  becau.se  of  a  tumbling  in  the  character- 
ization, an  inadequacy  of  treatment  that  stresses 
mere  shoddiness,  and  a  boldness  muffled  in 
sentimentality  that  suggests  popular  newspaper 
sensationalism." 

. 1-   N    Y    Times    p9    Mr    25    '23    550w 

"The  stressed  foreign  tone  is  likely  to  re- 
pulse those  who  otherwise  might  find  in  the 
book  a  temporary  alleviation,  at  once  spicy 
and  sentimental,  of  their  own  lack-lustre  lives; 
and  it  is  difiicult  to  see  how  this  novel  can 
attract  other  readers.  It  is  flabby  and  false." 
Eva   Goldbeck 

—  NY    Tribune   p22   Ap   1   '23   520w 

RINGWALT,    RALPH    CURTIS.    Brief   drawing. 

21-lp  $1.50   (6s  6d)   Longmans 

808.5   Briefs.   Debating  23-8457 

The  author  holds  that  the  student  does  not 
learn  how  systematically  to  gather  and  classify 
material  without  the  study  of  argumentation. 
Accordingly  Part  I  of  the  book  discusses  the 
preliminary  step  to  argument,  defining  the 
nature  of  a  brief  and  giving  directions  for  li- 
brary research,  reading  and  note-taking.  Part 
II  sets  forth  the  elementary  principles  of  argu- 
mentation—the topic,  the  audience,  the  thing 
to  be  proved,  the  method  of  proof,  reasoning 
and  evidence.  Part  III  deals  with  brief  draw- 
ing proper,  in  all  its  details.  The  book  is  de- 
signed for  use  in  the  class  room  and  for  the 
practicing  lawyer. 

"The  book  is  not  meant  solely  for  law-stu- 
dents but  for  all  persons  who  may  be  called 
on  to  give  written  testimony  on  any  given 
subject  or  to  take  part  in  discussions,  pubhc  or 
private.  It  conduces  to  sound  thinking,  close 
reasoning  and  above  all  to  a  logical  system 
of  mental  processes  and  can  not  help  being 
useful   to   a  very  wide  public."   N.    H.    D. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p3  Ap  14  '23  650w 
Cleveland   p77   S   '23 
"Of   practical   value    to    craftsmen   as   widely 
different    as    the      essayist    and.    the    engineer. 
Brander  Matthews 

-I-   Int   Bk  R  p38  S  '23  2600w 

RIPMAN,  WALTER.  Good  speech;  an  intro- 
duction to  English  phonetics.  88p  $1.40  Dut- 
ton  [3s  6d  Dent] 

421.5  English  language— Phonetics  22-22422 
A  brief  and  simple  treatment  of  the  principal 
features  of  our  spoken  language:  how  we  learn 
to  talk-  the  relation  of  dialect  to  standard 
speech- 'what  constitutes  beautiful  speech;  how 
the  different  vowel  and  consonant  sounds  are 
produced;  the  question  of  stress  and  intonation. 

"A   little   handbook   of   immense  importance." 
+   Boston    Transcript   pll    Mr   24   '23   150w 

"This  is  a  big  little  book  presenting  truths 
about  our  spoken  language  in  a  delightfully 
human  manner,  which  should  assure  it  of  a 
large  public.  Separate  sound.s  of  ^Peech  and  all 
other  linguistic  points  are  invariably  handled 
on  the  modern  scientific  basis  of  phonetics.  One 
can  sincerelv  recommend  the  book  to  laymen 
who  a!?e  genuinely  interested  in  the  r  spoken 
laneruage  for  it  contains  some  elementary  facts 
which  should  be  in  the  possession  of  every 
English-speaking    person." 

4-   Lit    R    p508   Mr   3   '23   300w 

"This    book    is    a    good    introduction    to    the 
science    [o^ /h9netj<=^l:;„don]    Lit   Sup  p546   Ag 
24     '22     220w 

RITA,    pseud.    See    Humphreys,    E.    M.    J. 
RITCHIE,  ROBERT  WELLES.  Drums  of  doom. 
270p  $1.75  Dodd  23-6378 

"Beginning  in  San  Francisco,  the  action  of 
this   sfory   moves   quickly   to   I  ower  California. 


436 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


RITCHIE,   R.   W.— Continued 

Central  in  the  plot  is  the  legend  of  a  famous 
painting  of  the  Crucifixion,  by  Murillo,  which 
had  been  given  centuries  ago  by  a  queen  of  Spain 
to  a  mission  church  in  the  San  Ysidro  Valley. 
A  man  in  William  Walker's  filibustering  expedi- 
tion, half  a  century  ago,  had  cut  it  from  its 
frame  and  carried  it  off.  Believing  that  he  had 
concealed  it  somewhere  in  that  valley,  two 
people  set  forth  to  find  it.  One  of  them  is  his 
granddaughter  and  the  other  is  a  desperate  and 
wicked  man  who  had  once  been  associated  with 
him.  Their  paths  soon  cross  and  much  exciting 
incident   results." — N   Y   Times 


"Mr.  Ritchie  is  not  an  imitator  of  Zane  Grey. 
He  is  quite  competent  to  stand  on  his  own  feet. 
He  writes  with  a  subtle  touch  of  humor  which 
Mr.  Grey  lacks.  'Drums  of  Doom'  has  also  a  very 
interesting  plot." 

+    Boston  Transcript  pi  My  5  '23  320w 

"The  author  possesses  an  inventive  talent 
that  is  fertile  and  resourceful,  and  that  is  a  gift 
so  essential  to  the  writer  of  the  novel  of  ad- 
venture, indeed,  to  any  kind  of  fiction  con- 
cerned with  action  rather  than  with  psychology, 
that  it  well  nigh  overshadows  the  other  qualities 
necessary  for  good  story  writing.  Mr.  Ritchie 
possesses  other  desirable  qualities  also,  among 
them  the  ability  to  portray  his  backgrounds 
vividly  and  interestingly." 

+  N    Y  Times   pl9   Mr   25   '23   550w 

"Brightly  colored  adventures  these  young 
people  have,  with  no  lack  of  startling  develop- 
ments and  real  thrills,  which  is  all  that  a  good 
adventure  story  needs.  The  setting  is  unusually 
attractive,  and  every  here  and  there  one  comes 
across  a  bit  of  truly  beautiful  description  that 
gives  an  added  richness  to  the  design."  Edith 
Leighton 

+   N  Y  Tribune  p24  Ap  8  '23  450w 

Sprlngf  d  Republican  p7a  My  20  '23  120w 


"This  book  cannot  compete  with  [Beau- 
marchais's  own  memoirs]  but  it  is  entertain- 
ing." 

+  New  Statesman  20:supxx  D  2  '22  40w 
New    Statesman    20:384  D   30   '22   1300w 
Reviewed  by  R:  Le  Gallienne 

N  Y  Times  p7  Je  10  '23  3800w 
"Mr.  Rivers' s  biographical  work  is  gayly  and 
gracefully  written,  but  he  has  not,  I  think, 
properly  synthesized  his  material.  It  would 
gain  by  condensation  and  by  a  strict  adherence 
to  the  chronology  of  Beaumarchais's  career." 
Burton   Rascoe 

-i NY   Tribune   pl7   My  6  "23    640w 

"John  Rivers  gives  the  dry  dust  of  histor- 
ical research  a  freshness  comparable  to  that 
of  a  fine  novel."  Laurence  Stallings 

+  N    Y   World   p9e  Ap   8   '23  llOOw 
"It   is,    of  course,    as  an   author   that   the  real 
claim     to     fame     of     Beaumarchais     rests,     and 
rests,     we     believe,     securely.       On     this    point, 
when   Mr.    Rivers   can    tear    himself   away    from 
his    engaging   picture    of    manners,    he    gives    us 
some    excellent    pages    of   criticism." 
+  Sat  R  135:293  Mr  3  '23  420w 
"Makes  no  pretence  to  be  anything  but  anec- 
dotal.      Beaumarchais's    life,     however    was    of 
such  interest  and  his  character  is  so  vivid  that 
Mr.  Rivers  has  produced  an  extremely  readable 
book." 

+  Spec  130:109  Ja  20  '23  40w 
"Mr.  Rivers  avoids  the  danger  of  overwhelm- 
ing himself  and  his  readers  with  a  mass  of 
detail  which  is,  after  all,  available  elsewhere. 
He  has  not  shirked  investigation,  but  gives  us 
the  results  and  not  the  processes  of  his  investi- 
gations. He  tells  his  story  in  lively  fashion,  to 
the  accompaniment  of  a  cynical  man  of  the 
world  commentary,  which  occasionally  drops 
into   sententiousness." 

-\ The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p774    N 

30   '22   2100W 


RIVERS,  JOHN.     Figaro:   the  life  of  Beaumar- 
chais.   315p    il    $6    Dutton 

B     or     92     Beaumarchais,     Pierre     Augustin 

Caron  de 
Beaumarchais  was  the  assumed  name  of 
Pierre  Augustin  Caron,  1732-1799,  known  for 
his  many  adventures,  but  above  all  for  his  two 
comedies  "Le  barbier  de  Seville"  and  "Le 
mariage  de  Figaro."  The  author  follows  his 
adventurous  career  from  the  watchmaker's  shop 
in  Paris,  to  court  circles,  to  Spain,  on  his 
secret  service  missions  for  Louis  XV,  in  the 
writing  of  his  plays,  and  his  traffic  in  supplies 
with  the  Amjerican  colonists.  His  writings 
hastened  the  events  which  led  to  the  French 
revolution,  and  he  became  a  victim  of  its 
fortunes. 


"It  is  written  in  a  pleasant  style  with  occa- 
sional flashes  of  humor  and  a  scholarly  atten- 
tion to  detail.  Its  main  fault  is  a  certam  top- 
heaviness,  due  to  a  strong  emphasis  on  one  or 
two  events  of  seemingly  secondary  importance." 
-I Bookm  57:5G0  Jl  '23  140w 

"The  book  is  big  in  fact  and  scant  in  phi- 
losophy. Beyond  a  single  page,  which  broadly 
characterizes  Beaumarchais  as  a  dramatist  in 
relation  to  the  other  dramatic  authors  of  the 
day,  one  finds  little  or  nothing  in  the  way  of 
general  Ideas,  of  summing-up,  of  r6sum6.  In- 
stead, one  finds  an  immense  agglomeration  of 
items;  and  from  all  this  heaped -up  offering  the 
reader  is  free  to  draw  his  own  deductions  and 
make  his  own  generalizations."  H:  B.  Fuller 
H Freeman  7:209  My  9   '23  2300w 

Reviewed   by  R.   A.   Parker 

Ind  111:43   Ag   4   '23   1200w 

"The  book  is  wholly  adequate."  Nathan  Asch 
+  Lit  R  p663  My  5  '23  850w 

"This  book  is  biography  made  readable. 
Beaumarchais  swaggers  across  the  canvas  in 
all  the  colors  of  life.  If  he  is  a  bit  incredible, 
it  is  his  own  fault,  for  he  never  had  recourse  to 
protective  colorization;  rather  did  he  invite  at- 
tention to  himself  and  snap  his  fingers  in  the 
faces  of  his  enemies."  J:  E.  Lind 

+    New    Repub   36:109   S   19   '23   600w 


RIVERS,  WILLIAM  HALSE  RIVERS.  Confiict 
and  dream;  with  a  preface  by  G.  Elliot  Smith. 
(International  lib.  of  psychology,  philosophy 
and  scientific  method)  194p  $3.75  Harcourt 
[12s   6d  K.   Paul] 

130    Dreams.    Psychoanalysis  23-8893 

"The  author's  departure  from  the  original 
Freudian  position  consists  mainly  in  regarding 
the  significance  of  the  dream  as  due  to  a  con- 
flict rather  than  to  the  existence  of  an  il- 
legitimate wish  in  the  mind  of  the  dreamer. 
Dr.  Rivers  too  shows  himself  disinclined  to 
accept  the  extravagances  of  psychoanalytic  in- 
terpretations, especially  with  reference  to  sex 
symbolism.  "The  main  thesis  of  the  book  is 
that  dreams  are  devices  invoked  to  solve 
difficult  problems  in  waking  life,  and  as  such 
have  very  little  to  do  with  infantile  experi- 
ences,   which    Freud    unduly    stresses." — Lit    R 


Boston  Transcript  p2  Je  2  '23  400w 
"While  Dr.  Rivers  disagrees  with  many  of 
Freud's  deductions,  his  book  on  'Confiict  and 
Dream'  offers  a  very  readable  approach  to  the 
further  study  of  psycho-analytic  literature. 
For  though  there  are  many  phases  of  the 
subject  which  he  does  not  go  into,  whatever 
he  touches  upon  he  handles  in  an  inquiring  and 
suggestive  manner.  He  has  an  unusual  capac- 
ity for  succinct  statement  and  the  logical 
presentation  of  difficult  material.  .  .  He  is 
a  searcher  after  truth  who  withholds  final 
judgment.  He  is  never  the  evangelist  or  prop- 
agandist who  is  certain  that  he  has  captured 
the  ultimate  word  for  all  time."  Fola  La  Fol- 
lette 

+    Freeman  7:546  Ag  15  '23  lOOOw 

Int   J    Ethics    34:96    O   '23   350w 
Reviewed   by  J.    W.    Swain 

J  Philos  20:692  D  6  '23  750w 
"Had  Dr.  Rivers  lived  to  revise  the  little 
volume  the  style  would  surely  have  undergone 
an  improvement.  A  number  of  passages  lack 
not  only  conviction,  but  even  clarity.  In  this 
respect  "the  first  part  of  the  book  is  much  su- 
perior to  the  rest  of  it."  A.  A.  Roback 
H Lit    R    p20    S   8   '23   750w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


437 


"The  volume  consists  largely  of  a  singularly 
clear  and  candid  and  documented  analysis  of 
dreams  of  the  author  and  his  patients.  These 
analyses  give  the  impression  of  directness, 
simplicity,  and  common  sense.  They  are  inter- 
pretations of  what  is  there.  .  .  It  is  difficult  to 
pass  judgment  on  the  validity  of  his  specific 
contentions;  they  are  modestly  and  consistently 
developed  and  are  supported  by  clear  and 
impeccable   evidence."    Irwin   Edman 

+   Nation   117:142  Ag  8   "23   500w 
"This   book,    should    be   welcomed   by   psycho- 
analysts.   The    death    of   Dr.    Rivers    has    meant 
the   loss     of     one     of     its     few     understanding 
critics."    Millais    Culpin 

-f   Nature   112:88   Jl   21   '23   400w 

RIVERS,  WILLIAM  HALSE  RIVERS.  Psychol- 
ogy and  politics,  and  other  essays.  (Interna- 
tional lib.  of  psychology,  philosophy  and  sci- 
entific method)  ISlp  $3.75  Harcourt  [12s  6d 
K.  Paul] 
150  Psvchology,  Applied.  Social  psychology. 
Ethnopsychology  23-9162 

"A  collection  of  lectures  and  articles  post- 
humously published.  For  many  years  Dr.  Riv- 
ers had  advocated  a  closer  integration  of  eth- 
nology and  psychology,  and  his  application  to 
the  group  of  the  psychological  laws  which  mo- 
tivate the  individual  is  a  natural  corollary  of 
all  his  eailier  work.  His  studies  have  led  him 
to  the  conclusion  that  in  group- behaviour  as  in 
individual  behaviour  a  far  greater  importance 
must  be  accorded  to  instinctive  and  uncon- 
scious motivations  than  was  formerly  supposed. 
Consequently  leadership  and  the  symbolic  emo- 
tional appeal  are  potent  factors  in  directing 
mass  action.  He  maintains,  however,  that  re- 
pression is  as  ineffective  a  solution  for  the 
group  as  for  the  individual:  if  a  higher  level 
of  group-functioning  is  to  be  achieved,  political 
reformers  and  educators  must  concern  them- 
selves with  fundamental  causes  and  no  longer 
be  content  to  treat  mere  surface  symptoms." — 
Freeman 


"The  lectures  are  pertinent  reminders  of  what 
Graham  Wallas,  Charles  E.  Merriam,  and  others 
are  urging — the  careful  analysis  of  specific  po- 
litical actions  and  reactions  in  terms  of  avail- 
able   psychological    data." 

+  Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:518  Ag  "23  250w 
"The  book  is  the  work  of  an  earnest  and 
able  scientist  who  is  also  a  sympathetic  stu- 
dent of  his  fellowmen  ever  eager  to  do  some- 
thing to  lighten  their  burdens  and  enlarge  their 
lives."     F.    W.    C. 

-J-   Boston    Transcript   p4   Jl    7    '23    500w 
Educ    R    66:243    N    '23    300w 
"This    volume    should    prove    salutary    reading 
for   those    who   place    their   hope    for    social    re- 
generation  in   repressive  legislation."       Fola  La 
Foilotte 

+  Freeman  7:547  Ag  15  '23  230w 
"The  brilliancy  of  Dr.  Rivers'  work,  as  well  as 
his  great  sincerity  and  honesty,  must  be  evident 
to  all.  No  one  could  doubt  for  a  minute  that 
his  purpose  in  his  political  essays,  as  in  every- 
thing else  that  he  wrote,  was  the  advancement 
of  science  and  the  statement  of  truth.  Yet  when 
all  is  said  and  done,  the  net  results  are  dis- 
appointing. Though  we  may  have  no  quarrel 
with  a  single  one  of  the  few  'political  conclu- 
sions set  forth,  still  we  must  admit  that,  sav^e 
in  terminology  and  method  of  approach,  there 
is  nothing  either  new  or  psychological  about 
them."   J.   W.   Swain 

-\ J    Phllos   20:692  D  6  '23   750w 

"  'Psychology  and  Politics'  might  be  described 
as  a  book  of  wisdom,  the  work  of  an  expert 
technician  and  an  intimate  observer  of  life." 
Irwin   Edman 

4-  Nation  117:141  Ag  8  '23  SOOw 
"Dr.  Rivers's  demonstration  of  the  strength 
of  the  instinctive  and  unwitting  inotives  in  po- 
litical and  social  life  indicates  the  tactical  weak- 
ness of  his  own  unemotional  and  logical  pres- 
entations. Nevertheless,  those  who  turn  away 
from  the  catch -words  and  pseudo- intellectual - 
Ism  of  politics  will  find  pleasure  in  these  essays 


while  regretting  that  the  voice  was  that  of  one 
crying   in    the    wilderness." 

-I Nature    112:88    Jl    21    "23    220w 

Reviewed    by   J:    Corbin 

N  Y  Times   p8   My  13   '23   llSOw 


ROBERTS,       CECIL      EDRIC       MORNI NGTON. 

Scissors:    a   novel   of  youth.    368p   $2   Stokes 

23-6841 

The  hero  of  this  stoiy  of  youth  is  an  English 
boy  who,  having  spent  half  of  his  first  fourteen 
years  in  Turkey,  goes  back  to  England  to  be 
educated.  Everywhere  his  charming  person- 
ality makes  friends  for  him  and  when  his 
education  is  interrupted  by  his  father's  death 
a  successful  journalistic  career  opens  to  him. 
A  boy  and  girl  romance  persists  for  years  and 
when  it  is  suddenly  wrecked  by  Muriel's  mar- 
riage to  an  army  officer  whose  bfindness  ap- 
pealed to  her  sympathies.  Scissors  finds  Eng- 
land impossible.  An  opportunity  for  service  in 
Mesapotamia  offers  and  he  gladly  turns  east  to 
the  scenes  of  his  boyhood.  WTien  death  over- 
takes him  in  an  airplane  fight,  it  is  Ali  the 
Turk,  friend  of  his  boyhood,  who  finds  and 
mourns  over  him. 


Booklist    19:321    Jl    '23 

"Mr.  Roberts  has  a  good  eye  for  the  dramatic 
situation.  He  grips  our  interest  for  his  hero 
from  the  very  first."   D.   L.   Mann 

+   Boston  Transcript  p5  Ap  7  '23  1150w 

"There  is  a  reticence,  a  dignified  propriety, 
about  the  whole  book  which  is  decidedly  quaint, 
and  almost  as  startling  as  the  absence  of 
reticence  used  to  be.  Perhaps  the  best  writing 
that  Mr.  Roberts  has  done  is  in  the  early  chap- 
ters, which  are  laid  near  Constantinople  before 
the  war,  and  it  is  here  that  the  only  semblance 
of  a  connected  story  is  found.  The  greater  part 
is  loose  and,  at  times,  unpardonably  irrelevant." 
f-   Int   Bk   R   p47  Je  '23  550w 

"The  book  is  worth  reading  for  various  rea- 
sons— as  a  picture  of  life  in  Asia  Minor  or  of 
the  modern  English  country  gentleman  or  of  a 
boy's  school  experience.  And  if  for  none  of 
those,  then  simply  as  a  bit  of  excellent  writing 
in  a  particularly  agreeable   style." 

+    Lit     R     p590     Ap     7     '23     2S0w 

"Nowadays  when  a  fiction  writer  wishes  to 
dispose  of  a  superfluous  character,  or  when  he 
seeks  an  easy  way  of  ending  a  story  that  has 
become  too  involved,  he  hastily  summons  the 
war  to  his  assistance.  One  of  the  recent  books 
thus  mutilated  is  Cecil  Roberts's  'Scissors.'  In 
this  case  it  is  deplorable  that  the  author  has 
had  to  have  recourse  to  such  a  cross-cut  in  plot 
construction,  for  his  novel  is  in  some  respects 
an  admirable  one,  and  until  the  last  hundred 
pages  it  consistently  maintains  a  high  stan- 
dard." 

^ NY  Times  p22  Ap  1  '23  600w 

"Of  itself  it  is  always  mildly  interesting  and 
reads  easily.  Many  of  the  subsidiary  charac- 
ters, the  walking  ladies  and  gentlemen,  are 
sketched  from  life;  but  the  sketching  is  smart- 
ly superficial,  second-rate  journalism  in  every- 
thing but  style.  In  short,  this  is  a  typical  first 
novel,  even  in  the  matter  of  giving  distinct 
promise  of  better  work  to  come."  Isabel  Pat- 
erson 

h   N   Y  Tribune  p21  Ap  1  '23  720w 

"Up  to  page  281  Mr.  Roberts  has  written  what 
seems  to  us  an  extremely  interesting  and 
vivid  story  of  modern  English  life.  From  page 
281  to  the  conclusion  Mr.  Roberts  is  more  con- 
cerned with  elimination  than  creation.  One 
by  one  the  human,  vital  characters  he  has 
fashioned  during  the  first  and  better  two-thirds 
of  his  book  walk  out  to  slaughter."  F:  F.  Van 
de  Water 

[-   N    Y    Tribune    pl9   Ap    S    '23    1300w 

Reviewed  by  E.  W.  Osborn 

N    Y    World   p8e  Ap   8  '23  350w 
Sprlngf'd     Republican    p7a    My    27    '23 

380w 

The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p286   Ap 

26  '23  350w 

Wis   Lib    Bui  19:481  N  '23 


438 


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ROBERTS,  CHARLES  GEORGE  DOUGLAS. 

Wisdom   of    the   wilderness,    184p   $1.75   Mac- 
millan  [6s  Dent] 

23-7410 

Stories  of  animal  adventure  and  valor,  in 
which  are  described  dramatic  moments  in  the 
lives  of  forest  creatures  and  the  wisdom  they 
show  at  such  times.  Contents:  The  little  home- 
less one;  The  black  fisherman;  Starnose  of  the 
under  ways;  The  winged  scourge  of  the  dark; 
Quills  the  indifferent;  The  watchers  in  the 
swamp;  Mustela  of  the  lone  hand;  Fishers  of 
the  air;   The  citadel  in  the  grass. 


"Major  Roberts's  animal  stories  have  not 
only  their  interest  as  such,  but  they  stir  and 
wing  imagination.  This  rare  quality  is  par- 
ticularly marked  in  the  present  collection  of 
tales." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  My  29  '23  650w 

"The  boy  of  nine  to  ninety  may  herein  ad- 
venture inside  the  very  skin  of  marten,  porcu- 
pine, or  star  nosed  mole,  bittern,  osprey,  cor- 
morant, or  great  horned  owl.  Thrilled  by  swift 
action,  enchanted  by  descriptions  of  a  wilder- 
ness 'steeped  in  caressing  sunshine,'  or  camp- 
ing, shelterless,  in  the  rain  with  the  'snow  shoe 
rabbit,'  he  will  learn  much  of  the  wild  life  with- 
out suspecting  it." 

-f-   Lit   R  p820  Jl  7  '23   220w 

"These  stories  of  wild-animal  life  display  the 
combination  of  accurate  knowledge  and  fervid 
imagination  characteristic  of  the  author.  The 
tales  hold  the  reader's  attention  with  a  grip 
that  is  by  no  means  lessened  because  of  the 
tragical  ending  of  many  of  them." 

+  Outlook  134:48  My  23  '23  40w 

Springf'd   Republican  p5a  S  23  '23  430-w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:416  Jl   '23 

ROBERTS,    ELIZABETH    MADOX.      Under   the 

tree.  87p  $1.50  Huebsch 

811  23-811 

These  poems  of  childhood  image  its  joys, 
its  interests,  its  reveries,  in  verse  as  simple 
and  natural  as  a  child's  yet  with  the  under- 
standing that  belongs  to  reflection  and  re- 
collection. 

Booklist    19:311    Jl    '23 

"Some  of  the  verses  are  unusuallv  well  done. 
There   is    plenty  of  chaff,    but   the    kernels   are 
to  be  found  by  the  inquisitive." 
-1 Bookm  57:219  Ap  '23  220w 

"Miss  Roberts's  vision  is  clear  as  it  is  can- 
did, and  her  communication  is  equally  direct. 
She  reproduces  not  only  the  quality  of  child- 
hood but  its  very  colours.  Her  verse  is  graceful 
where  grace  commands  the  expression,  but  her 
unforced  naivete  allows  her  to  be  gaucne  when- 
ever awkwardness  is  natural.  Few  American 
lyricists  have  made  so  successful  a  debut." 
L:  Untermeyer 

■j-   Freeman  7:93  Ap  4  '23  400w 
Lit   R  p668  My  5  '23  400w 

"Her  poems  are  sharp  flashes  of  light  on 
common  things."  W:  A.  Norris 

+   New    Repub   34:353   My   23   '23   800w 

"The  author  shares  with  Stevenson  that  rare 
power  of  so  projecting  the  adult  self  into  the 
child's  consciousness  as  to  be  able  to  emerge 
with  adult  wisdom  and  the  wisdom  of  child- 
hood so  intermingled  that  they  cannot  be  torn 
apart.  As  the  result  adult  and  child  find  their 
own  reflections  In  the  little  hand  glass  she  holds 
up  to  nature." 

+  N  Y  Times  p2  Ja  28  '23  220w 

"The  most  delightful  book  of  children's  verse 
I  have  ever  seen.  It  is  so  sincere  and  true  and 
charming  that  one  keeps  reading  on  and  on, 
wondering  at  the  deftness  of  the  poet.  The 
verse  is  the  sort  children  would  write,  if  they 
had  the  rhythmic  sense  and  ability  to  compose 
of  adults  along  with  their  ingenious,  weird 
little  thoughts."  Milton  Raison 

4-   N    Y    Tribune    p22   Ja   28   '23    250w 
Outlook  133:812  My  2  '23  220w 

"The  50  poems  all  sing  the  thoughts  and  im- 
ages of  the   child   mind.     They  are   exquisitely 


simple  in  style  language  and  content.  Taken 
as  a  whole,  they  seem  to  portray  a  child's 
personality,  a  little  girl  who  sees  and  dreams 
and  tells  about  it  all  unselfconsciously  and  often 
in  a  manner  that  is  vivid  as  well  as  beautiful." 
+  Springf'd  Republican  p6  Mr  12  '23  300w 

ROBERTS,  HENRY  HOWARD,  Public  speak- 
er; and  what  is  required  of  him.  (Writer's 
ser.)    190p    $2    Button    [4s    6d    Routledge] 

808.5  Public  speaking 
A  manual  of  advice  to  the  public  speaker  on 
what  to  say  and  how  to  say  it  most  effectively. 
It  studies  the  power  and  use  of  words,  artic- 
ulation and  pronunciation,  delivery,  the  prep- 
aration of  speeches,  gesture  and  the  art  of 
getting  on  good  terms  with  one's  audience. 
The  latter  part  of  the  book  deals  with  the 
building  up  of  an  argrument,  the  importance  of 
facts  and  the  use  of  imagination,  feeling  and 
humor.  Many  examples  are  given  and  each 
chapter  has  a  set  of  exercises  for  the  use  of 
the  student. 


"If  oratory  is  an  evil,  it  seems  unlikely  that 
this  work  will  do  much  to  aggravate  it.  The 
book  is  of  American  origin  and,  like  many  of 
its  type,  deals  in  forcible  generalisations  rather 
than  concrete  advice.  On  the  whole  it  must  be 
dismissed  as  a  badly-planned,  badly-written 
book." 

—  New    Statesman    21:276    Je    9    '23    650w 
"The    book    is   clear,    readable,    and    full,    and 
devoid  of  all   unnecessary   verbiage." 

-f  The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p358  My 
24   '23    70w 

ROBERTSON,  DENNIS  HOLiVIE.  Control  of 
industry.  (Cambridge  economic  handbooks) 
171p  $1.25  Harcourt 

331  Industry.  Capitalism.  Labor  and  labor- 
ing classes  23-12879 
"The  scheme  of  the  book  is  to  give  first  a 
brief  account — and  a  crisp,  imaginative  account 
it  is — of  the  roots  and  rise  of  capitalism, 
culminating  in  standardization,  integration — 
both  vertical  and  horizontal — and  the  four  basic 
types  of  monopoly.  Upon  this  'system'  is  then 
levelled  a  chapter  of  penetrating  criticism,  in 
which  among  other  things  the  genuine  grievance 
of  the  worker  is  developed  with  great  sympathy 
and  no  sentimentalism.  Then  follows  an  analy- 
sis of  the  major  alternatives  which  have  been 
proposed  for  capitalism — Cooperation,  Collectiv- 
ism, Communism,  Syndicalism  and  lastly  'Joint 
Control'  or  participation  of  the  worker  in  the 
management  of  industry  as  a  graft  on  the  cap- 
italist tree." — New  Repub 


Booklist  20:123  Ja  '24 

Boston  Transcript  p8  D  5  '23  350w 

"The  efforts  to  amend  or  supplant  capitalism 
Mr.  Robertson  presents  succinctly  and  with  dis- 
cernment: producers'  and  consumers'  coopera- 
tion, of  which  he  gives  a  shrewd  analysis;  col- 
lectivism, the  real  significance  of  which  he,  in 
large  measure,  fails  to  comprehend;  commun- 
ism, for  which,  despite  his  scientific  manner,  he 
shows  impatience.  .  .  The  impulse  to  translate 
life  into  terms  of  points  and  rules  is  a  charac- 
teristic of  the  academic  mind,  and  because  Mr. 
Robertson  (who  is  a  Fellow  and  Lecturer  of 
Trinity  College,  Cambridge)  has  succumbed  to 
this  temptation,  the  latter  half  of  his  book  is  a 
sorry  anti-climax."  D:  E.  Lilienthal 
H Nation  117:716  D  19  '23  500w 

"Because  the  book  was  produced  in  a  period 
of  disillusionment,  Mr.  Robertson  stands  be- 
tween the  devil  of  the  vested  interests  and  the 
deep  sea  of  revolution  and  looks  about  him  with 
an  eye  in  which  wisdom  and  irony  and  pity 
commingle.  .  .  Certainly  it  is  the  most  readable 
and  the  most  artistic  textbook  in  economics  ever 
written."     Stuart  Chase 

New  Repub  36:290  N  7  '23  llOOw 

"The  book  has  the  effect  of  a  stereopticon  lec- 
ture in  the  hands  of  a  master  of  his  subject, 
possessed  of  the  gift  of  just,  luminous  and  witty 
comment.  For  the  student  The  Control  of  In- 
dustry is  an  excellent  introduction  to  the  wide 
subject    of    industrial    control;    to    the    general 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


439 


reader  it  offers  a  bird's  eye  view  of  industrial 
organization   and   methods   which   in   sweep   and 
authenticity    is    very    unusual."    R.    W.    Bru6re 
+  Survey  51:225   N   15   '23  520w 

ROBERTSON,  WILLIAM  SPENCE.  Hispanic- 
American  relations  with  the  United  States; 
ed.  by  David  Kinley.  (Carnegie  endowment 
for  international  peace.  Division  of  eco- 
nomics and  history)  470p  $4  Oxford  [17s  6d 
Milford] 

327.73  United  States — Foreign  relations — 
Latin  America.  Latin  America — Foreign 
relations— United    States  23-7693 

The  professor  of  history  in  the  University 
of  Illinois  traces  the  growth  of  intercourse, 
political,  economic  and  social,  between  the 
United  States  and  the  nations  of  Spanish  and 
Portuguese  origin  in  the  New  World.  He 
shows  how  the  foundations  of  this  intercourse 
were  laid,  the  steps  leading  to  the  promul- 
gation of  the  Monroe  Doctrine  and  the  effects 
of  the  application  of  that  policy  in  the  His- 
panic-American states.  He  also  considers  the 
controversies  involving  these  nations  in  which 
the  United  States  took  the  part  of  arbitrator 
or  mediator.  Commercial  and  industrial  re- 
lations are  treated,  also  educational  contacts 
and    the    work   of   missions. 


Reviewed  bv  W:   R.  Manning- 
Am   Hist  R  29:363  Ja  '24   G50w 
Cath   World   118:270   N   "23   550w 
"It     is     as     a     conscientious    and    fair-minded 
study  of  inter-Amei'ican   relations   of  a   century 
of   formative   development   that   Professor   Rob- 
ertson  lays   his   book   before   the   public,   and   in 
the   fulfillment   of  this   aim   the   book   is   a  Judi- 
cious historical  document  of  great  thoroug-hness 
and  value."   G.   L.   Harding 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl9  Jl  1  "23  2200w 
"A     valuable     book.     He     states     the       facts 
clearly   and   dispassionately,    and   does    no   more 
than   refer   in    passing    to    the   controversial   as- 
pects   Oi    the    iiuestion    in    recent    times." 
+  Spec  131:199  Ag  11  '23  120w 
"Mr.    Robert.son's    title   is    comprehensive,    and 
it    is   fully   justified    by    the    abundance   and    the 
variety   of   his    matter.      One   limitation   he   does 
impose  on   himself,   but  it   is  a  very  proper  one 
considering    what    his    aim   i.s.      He    hardly   does 
more     than     touch     on     the     relations     between 
Spanish     and     Portuguese     America    and     Brit- 
ish traders  in  'the  old  colonial  days.'  " 

-I The   Times    [LondonJ    Lit    Sup   p362    My 

31  '23   1250w 


ROBINS,    ELIZABETH.      Time    is    whispering. 
379p  $2  Harper  [7s  6d  Hutchinson] 

23-798! 
"It  depicts  the  Indian  summer  of  a  life,  of 
two  lives,  with  a  mellowness  appropriate  to  the 
theme.  Sir  Henry  Ellerton,  a  veteran  of  the 
Indian  Service,  comes  back  to  his  beloved  home 
in  the  South  of  England,  Rhodes  Hall,  to  find 
that  the  tenant  of  one  of  his  most  important 
properties  is — a  woman.  This  invasion  of  his 
threshold,  almost,  by  an  independent  woman 
was  a  considerable  shock  to  his  rather  despotic 
temperament,  and  he  feared  besides,  senti- 
mentally, for  the  welfare  of  the  garden  and 
orchard  which  had  been  things  of  creative 
beauty  under  the  hands  of  his  friend,  the  late 
tenant.  His  re-assurance  on  the  matter  of  the 
garden,  which  he  finds  to  be  reverentlv  cared 
for,  is  the  first  step  in  his  friendship  wfth  Mrs. 
Lathom,  his  tenant  and  widow  of  a  colleague 
of  his  Indian  days.  The  rest  of  the  book  fol- 
lows the  development  of  that  friend-ship  through 
the  earlier  stages  of  half-antagonistic  tolera- 
tion till  it  ripens  into  an  intimate  comrade- 
ship which  is  not  love  in  the  youthful  sense  of 
passion  but  something  at  once  subtler  and 
firmer."— The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 


She  has  her  tricks  and  mannerisms — the  use 
of  phrases,  words  disconnected  as  in  'If  Win- 
ter Comes' ;  ungrammatlcal,  not  always  clear 
and  never  brilliant  they  are,  but  the  reader 
quickly  observes  them  to  be  only  tricks  deemed 
necessary.  One  can  overlook  such  unobtrusive 
fripperies  in  the  appreciation  of  good  material 
well    handled."      W.    E.    H. 

H Boston    Transcript   p5   Jl   7    '23   600w 

"The    story    is    pleasant    and    agreeable,    not 
calculated  to  freeze   the  restive  blood,   but  not 
too  heavy  upon  the  drooping  eyelids." 
-I-   int    Bk    R   p41   Ag  '23   380w 

"Miss  Robins  has  taught  us  to  look  forward 
to  her  new  woik  with  interest  and  never  is 
anticipation  disappointed.  Her  latest  volume  is 
no  exception  to  this  rule,  and  the  theme,  al- 
though one  which  is  frowned  upon  in  magazine 
circles  because  of  its  supposedly  limited  appeal, 
is  not  only  well  worth  while,  but  handled  with 
the  author's  customaiy  skill,  losing  none  of  its 
interest  despite  the  amplitude  of  the  volume." 
A.    L.    Hill 

-\-      Lit    R    p763    Je    16    '23    700w 

"It  may  be  a  pretty  picture  of  the  ideal  of 
service,  but  it  is  hopelessly  sentimentalized  out 
of   focus."     J:    ^V^    Crawford 

—  Nation    117:42    Jl    11    '23    400w 

"The  story  is  a  very  considerable  advance 
in  artistry,  in  portrayal  of  life,  in  richness  of 
feeling,  in  its  sense  of  the  variety  and  the 
depths  of  human  nature,  beyond  anything  its 
author  has  written  hitherto.  Its  leisurely  prog- 
ress does  not  lack  story  interest,  while  its 
serene  spiiitual  quality,  its  gentle  humor,  its 
fine  craftsmanship  and,  in  particular,  its  large 
sense  of  life,  make  it  a  novel  that  one  reads 
slowly   and    with   keen   satisfaction." 

-I-   N    Y   Times  pll  My   27  '23  lOOOw 

"The  book  is  too  long  for  the  story,  and  Miss 
Robins's  fervor  in  making  her  point  creates  a 
curiously  wrong  atmosphere.  It  is  feverish;  it 
does  noc  convey  in  the  least  the  humorous  de- 
tachment and  indifference  to  superficial  matters 
which  men  and  women  of  experience  and  in- 
telligence generally  attain.  .  .  But  Miss  Robins 
cannot  produce  a  book  devoid  of  distinction  and 
the  saving  grace  of  readability.  'Time  is 
Whispering'  has  both."  Isabel  Paterson 
-I NY   Tribune   p21   My    27   '23   900w 

"It  is  a  thoughtful,  thought-magnetizing  cre- 
ation that  Elizabeth  Robins  has  been  working 
out."     Ruth  Snyder 

-f-  N    Y   World  p6e   My  27   '23  660w 
Outlook  134:140  Je  6  '23  150w 

Reviewed  by  Gerald  Gould 

Sat   R   135:638  My  12   '23   400w 

"Interest  and  entertainment  would  be  greater 
had  the  author  told  her  story  straightforwardly 
with  fewer  subtleties  of  thought  and  impulse. 
It  is  obvious  from  the  outset  that  romance  will 
follow,  but  the  author  makes  it  a  labored 
process." 

1-   Springf'd    Republican    p9a   S   9   '23   600w 

"Mrs.  Robins's  insight  into  the  feminine  char- 
acter does  not  falter  even  in  the  extremely 
delicate  situation  she  has  chosen  to  present. 
On  the  other  hand.  Sir  Henry  is  drawn  witii 
full  understanding,  for  he  has  been  through 
life — and  that  a  woman  may  understand." 

-1-  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p286  Ap 
26  '23  400W 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:414   Jl   '23 


ROBINSON,      EDWIN     ARLINGTON.       Roman 

Bartholow.     191p    $1.75    Macmillan 
811  23-5209 

This  long  dramatic  narrative  in  verse  tells 
how  a  friend  coming  out  of  the  unknown  cured 
the  sick  soul  of  Roman  Bartholow,  lingered 
long  in  the  home  of  his  grateful  patient  as  a 
loved  guest,  and  then,  under  cover  of  friend- 
ship   robbed    him    of    his    beautiful    wife. 


Booklist   20:22   O   '23 
"Miss  Robins  writes  easily,  for  the  most  part 
with    a    style    that    is    simple    and    direct,    often 
illuminated    with   a   pleasant    sense   of   comedy. 


Booklist   20:15   O   '23 
"For  me,    it  is  a   verital>le  House  of  Mirrors, 
a  Crystal  Maze  in  which  I  can  only  grasp  vainly 
at    the    slightest    reflected,    distorted,    inverted 


440 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


ROBINSON,   E.  A.— Continued 
image   of  Robinson's   actual   thought.     Perhaps 
it  is   the  poet's  contribution  to  psychoanalysis. 
At  any  rate,  you  will  find  it  fascinating  in  all 
its  pristine  murkiness."   J.   F. 

+   Bookm   57:450   Je   '23   350w 

"Mr.  Robinson  has  that  rarest  of  accomplish- 
ments or  gifts,  a  perfect  identification  of  style 
with  subject  matter.  His  peculiar  idiom  grows 
out  of  his  philosophy;  his  circuitousness  and 
his  veracity  are  one;  there  are  no  pitfalls  be- 
hind the  thorny  hedge  that  he  presents  to  the 
world.  Jump  that,  and  he  is  yours,  and  you 
will  wonder  that  you  ever  saw  any  barrier  at 
all."  W:  A.  Norris 

+   Boston    Transcript   p5   Ap   21   '23   1600w 

"It  is  both  a  dramatic  narrative  of  unusual 
emotional  power  and  a  reading  of  life  dis- 
tinguished by  the  intellectual  subtlety  and 
high  seriousness  that  qualify  the  mood  of  Mr. 
Robinson's  mind.  Into  it  have  gone  the  vision 
and  insight,  the  striking  command  of  expression 
and  the  spiritual  integrity,  which  constitute 
Mr.  Robinson's  contribution  to  our  poetry." 
Lloyd  Morris 

+  Freeman  7:140  Ap  18  '23  1550w 

"I  confess  that  I  quite  lost  my  way  in  the 
metaphysical  mazes  of  'Roman  Bartholow.' 
The  lines  scan,  the  sentences  construe,  and 
there  is  an  air  of  meaningfulness,  but  what 
the   whole  signifies  I  cannot  divine."    M.    L.    F. 

—  Ind  110:319  My  12  '23  120w 

"The  defect  of  the  poem  from  a  psycholog- 
ical point  of  view  is  that  in  the  case  of  the 
psychological  hero  we  get  no  clear  idea  of 
what  was  originally  the  matter  with  his  soul, 
the  nature  of  the  salvation  brought  to  it  by 
Penn-Raven,  or  of  its  final  value.  As  to  the 
form  of  the  poem,  'Roman  Bartholow'  can  not 
be  said  to  justify  the  novel  in  blank  verse  as 
one  adapted  to  psychological  purposes.  Too 
much  of  it  is  neither  a  novel  nor  a  poem."  R: 
Le  Gallienne 

—  Int    Bk  R  p23  My  '23  3500w 

"What  other  volume  of  the  collected  poems 
of  any  modern  poet  has  as  much  in  it  as  his? 
There  is  more  of  the  secret  of  Shakespeare  in 
the  disgusted  comments  put  in  the  mouth  of 
Ben  Jonson  than  in  many  shelves  of  books  on 
Shakespeare.  If  this  is  not  Shakespearean  talk, 
it  is  very  near  it,  and  to  come  so  near  the 
inimitable  is  no  simple  matter.  'The  mis- 
chievous half-mad  serenity'  which  Ben  Jonson 
noticed  is  noticeable  in  more  than  one  of  Rob- 
inson's own  characters."  A.  W.  Colton 
+  Lit  R  p781  Je  23  '23  3700w 
'Roman  Bartholow'  is  a  poem  such  as  no 
other  living  person  could  have  written.  Mr. 
Robinson  has  not  equaled  it  for  intensity  and 
cut  of  dialogue,  of  drama,  of  tlescription,  of 
mood.  The  speech,  of  course,  is  too  sharp  and 
profound  to  be  true.  People  never  talked  like 
this.  But  people  have  thought  like  this,  and 
Mr.  Robinson's  people  think  aloud — think  ver- 
nacularly— in  murvelous  verse."  Mark  Van 
Doren 

H Nation  116:700  Je  13   '23   900w 

"Mr.  Robinson  moves  his  pawns  with  a  mor- 
dant certainty.  Life  flares  through  them,  and 
It  is  life  itself  Avhich  the  poet  pictures.  His 
characters  are  never  ends  in  themselves;  they 
are  always  aspects  of  life  as  a  whole." 
+   N   Y  Times  p3  Mr  25  -'23  1750w 

"There  is  nothing  in  'Roman  Bartholow' 
which  surpasses  what  Mr.  Robinson  has  done 
before;  but  I  fail  to  discover  in  this  p.oem 
the  running  to  seed  that  one  critic  has  noted  " 
B.    R.    Redman 

h   N    Y    Tribune    p34   O    14   '23    1450w 

"  'Roman  Bartholow'  is  a  story  of  a  triangle 
gone  sour,  so  to  speak.  Lover,  husband  and 
wonian  all  appear  to  walk  and  talk  as  if 
stricken  with  the  palsy.  It  is  time  the  poets 
quit  talking  about  these  New  Englanders  who 
haven't  enough  courage  or  animal  force  to  look 
a  sin  between  the  eyes." 

—  NY  World  pl9e  Je  24  '23  ISOw 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:301  Je  '23 

,  "Mr.  Robinson's  blank  verse  is  lucid  and  sat- 
isfying, finely  modulated,  too,  in  the  minor  key 
m    spite    of    psychological    complexity,    there    is 


no  problematic  writing;  his  vision  is  as  ten- 
acious as  is  finely  focused."  H.  I'A.  Fausset 
4-  Spec  131:759  N  17  '23  800w 
"The  style,  as  a  vehicle  for  a  long  poem,  is 
too  contentedly  prosaic:  it  swoops  on  the  banal 
with  too  keen  a  satisfaction,  as  though  it  were 
necessarily  an  artistic  triumph  to  capture  a  col- 
loquial expression  in  a  line  of  verse.  None  the 
less  the  poem  is  woven  in  one  piece,  spun  from 
a  mind  aware  of  itself  and  of  deep  issues,  and 
it  is  as  a  whole  that  it  must  be  regarded." 

h  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p6   Ja   9 

'24   900w 
"For  content,  it  is  a  closely  knit  psychological 
novel.     But  there  is  also  too  much  circumlocu- 
tion   where    plain    and    direct    statement    would 
as  well — or  better— have  served."    W:    R.   Benet 
h  Yale    R   n   s   13:162   O   '23   170w 

ROBINSON,    ELIOT    HARLOW.       Mark    Gray's 

heritage.      381p      $1.90      Page 

23-7831 

"Mark  Gray,  the  herculean  son  of  the  village 
blacksmith,  is  an  element  of  discord  in  the 
austerely  restrained  hamlet  of  Content,  an  iso- 
lated community  of  Friends.  The  religiously 
restricted  souls  of  the  elders  frown  upon  his 
slight  impulsiveness.  He  loves  Faith,  a  demure 
maiden  modelled  in  the  tradition  of  the  Puritan 
Priscilla.  Action  is  introduced  in  this  Arcadian 
setting  by  the  forceful  advent  of  a  professional 
wrestler,  yclept  Bull,  in  a  speeding  motor.  Bull 
shows  Mark  some  of  the  tricks  of  the  trade. 
Later  he  recommends  Content  as  an  excellent 
place  for  a  secluded  vacation  to  a  jaded  Phila- 
delphia aristocrat,  Robert  Vandervetter  Means, 
who  is  sated  with  wine,  women,  and  Philadel- 
phia. Overcome  by  the  unspoiled  simplicity 
of  Faith,  Means  eventually  abducts  her,  giving 
Mark  and  Bull  an  opportunity  to  put  across  the 
last  minute  rescue.  The  secret  of  Mark's  heri- 
tage is  indicated  when,  at  his  first  attempt  to 
fire  a  revolver,  he  knocks  the  neck  off  a  whiskey 
bottle  at  a  hundred  paces.  He  is  supposed  to 
have    inherited    this    power." — Lit    R 


"The  story  is  sentimental  beyond  words. 
Nevertheless  it  is  amiable  reading.  .  .  A  suc- 
cessor  to   Pollyanna,    in    text,    type   and   style!" 

—  Boston  Transcript  p4  My  2  '23  180w 
"Mark  Gray  must  seem  to  any  but  the  most 

determinedly  sympathetic  reader  a  comic  opera 
absurdity  when  the  author  persists  in  putting 
into  his  mouth  such  speeches  as,  'Perchance  I 
may  be  able  to  aid  thee,  friend,  for  my  trade 
is  that  of  a  mechanic,  and  I  labor  much  over 
disabled  motor  cars.'  The  heroine  is  unbeliev- 
ably saintly  and  demure,  and  indefatigable  in 
quoting  Scripture.  It  is  only  in  the  minor 
characters  that  one  finds  any  semblance  of 
reality.  .  .  The  book  has  such  conspicuous 
faults  that  its  good  intentions  are  apt  to  be 
entirely    overlooked." 

—  Int    Bk    R    p72    O    '23    300w 

"The  melange  of  sentimentality  and  melo- 
drama that  mars  the  usual  sub-literary  attempt 
at  fiction  is  here  varied  with  an  excursion  into 
the  field  of  heredity  and  an  atmosphere  of 
Quaker  simplicity,  attained  chiefly  by  the  lib- 
eral use  of  the  second  person  singular  and  fre- 
quent Biblical   quotations." 

—  Lit   R  p772  Je  16  '23  320w 

"The  book  has  an  easy  narrative  style  and 
should  please  those  who  like  a  simple,  amiable 
tale." 

h   N    Y   Times   p22   Ap   29    '23   500w 

ROBINSON,     SIR     HENRY     AUGUSTUS,     bart. 

Memories:   wise   and   otherwise.    348p  $4   Dodd 
[16s    Cassell] 

B  or  92  Ireland — Politics  and  government 

[23-13077] 
Sir  Henry  Robinson  was  the  last  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Local  government  board  for  Ireland 
when  it  passed  out  of  existence  with  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Free  State  and  his  memories 
are  a  record  of  forty  years'  administrative  work 
in  Ireland.  He  saw  twenty  chief-secretaries 
come  and  go.  from  W.  E.  Forster  to  Hamar 
Greenwood.  He  estimates  the  character  and 
abilities  of  each  and  the  policies  of  successive 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


441 


British  administrations  of  Ireland.  The  the 
bacligrround  of  the  booli  is  always  his  official 
life,  the  pages  are  lightened  by  a  quantity  of 
anecdotes  and  many  amusing  sidelights  on  Irish 
character. 


Boston  Transcript  p7  D  26  '23  780w 
"To  run  a  system  of  local  government,  with 
the  object  of  preventing  local  control  from  be- 
coming a  reality,  inevitably  makes  for  cyni- 
cism; but  the  best  stories  in  this  book,  which  is 
crammed  with  good  stories,  prove  how 
thoroughly  the  writer  enjoyed  the  battle  of  wits 
in  which  he  was  engaged  for  nearly  half  a 
century,  with  parish  priests,  boards  of  guard- 
ians, and  county  councillors.  Some  of  the  epi- 
sodes read  like  the  wildest  fantasies  of  George 
Birmingham  transferred  to  real  life.  .  .  Sir 
Henry  Robinson  is  bitter,  as  most  men  would 
be  who  saw  their  life's  work  smashed  in  what 
they  regarded  as  a  mere  explosion  of  anarchy. 
Fortunately,  his  bitterness  does  not  warp  his 
judgment  or  deprive  him  of  a  sense  of 
humour." 

+  New  Statesman  21:116  My  5  '23  1300w 
"These  memoirs  have  made  a  most  excellent 
book,  as  instructive  as  only  such  first-hand  in- 
formation can  be  and  as  racy  as  a  story  by 
George  Birmingham.  Nothing  could  be  better 
than  the  intimate  glimpses  we  obtain  through 
his  pages  of  the  fascinating  succession  of  Vice- 
roys, Chief  Secretaries  and  Under-Secretaries, 
a  gallery  of  very  diverse  portraits,  from  Lord 
Frederick  Cavendish  to  Lord  Wimborne,  from 
John  Morley  to  Sir  Ha  mar  Greenwood.  And  it 
almost  goes  without  saying  that  the  book  is 
crammed  to  the  full  with  good  stories." 
+  Spec  130:630  Ap  14  '23  200w 
"Few  people  can  be  so  well  qualified  to  write 
an  intimate  account  of  Castle  rule  in  Ireland 
during  the  last  four  decades  as  Sir  Henry  Rob- 
inson.'' 

f  The  Times    [London]    Lit  Sup  pl93  Mr 
22  '23   1400w 

ROBINSON,  HOWARD.  Development  of  the 
British  Empire:  ed.  by  James  T.  Shotwell. 
475p   $3.50   Houghton    [12s   6d   Constable] 

942     Great  Britain — History.     Great  Britain 
—Colonies  22-20306 

"This  book  begins  with  a  brief  survey  of  our 
early  history  and  then  proceeds  to  describe  how 
English  seamanship,  going  hand  in  hand  with 
trade  and  settlement,  laid  the  foundations  of 
the  Empire.  Next  it  discusses  the  commercial 
rivalry  of  England  and  Holland  and  the  long 
struggle  with  France,  at  the  close  of  which, 
by  the  Peace  of  Paris  in  1763,  the  'old'  British 
Colonial  Empire  was  in  being.  .  .  All  this  part 
of  the  story  of  the  Empire  covers  about  one- 
third  of  the  book;  the  lest  of  it  deals  with 
the  marvellous  growth  of  the  Empire  during 
the  last  hundred  years:  the  completion  of  Brit- 
ish dominion  in  India,  and  the  developments  in 
Canada,  Australia,  New  Zealand,  and  South 
Africa  that  eventually  resulted  in  the  rise  of 
the  great  Dominions,  with  Canada  in  the  lead 
in  Constitutional  progress.  There  is  an  interest- 
ing and  informing  chapter  on  the  organization 
of  the  Empire  at  the  opening  of  this  century, 
and  another,  which  conclvides  the  volume,  on 
the  Great  "War  and  its  effect  on  Dominion  poli- 
tics and  Imperial  policy  generally." — Sat  R 


"One  gladly  pays  tribute  to  the  spirit  of  fair- 
ness and  impartiality  with  which  the  author 
has  treated  every  part  of  the  empire,  with  its 
relations  to  the  mother  country,  on  the  one 
hand,  and  to  adjoining  foreign  countries,  on  the 
other,  notably  in  the  case  of  the  relations  of 
Canada  with  the  United  States.  The  balance 
is  not  so  well  maintained,  however,  in  the  treat- 
ment of  the  domestic  issues  within  the  differ- 
ent sections  of  the  empire."    Adam   Shortt 

H Am    Pol   Sci    R   17:330  My  '23   650w 

Booklist  19:218  Ap  '23 

"Exhaustive  and  satisfying  work."  M.  A.  E. 
White 

+   Int  Bk  R  p61  Ag  '23  40w 


"A    clear,    accurate,    and    scholarly    narrative, 
which  is  as  thorough  and  well  arranged  as  it  is 
sure  footed  and  impartial."  R.   P.  Farley 
+   Lit   R  p848  Jl  21   '23  500w 

"Teachers  called  upon  to  guide  students 
through  the  mazes  of  British  imperial  history 
need  no  longer  lament  the  lack  of  a  suitable 
comprehensive  single-volume  text  for  use  with 
their  classes.  The  pedagogical  apparatus,  how- 
ever, is  not  obtrusive,  and  the  author's  style 
should  make  the  book  attractive  to  non-aca- 
demic readers.  On  the  whole,  it  is  probably 
the  most  satisfactory  history  of  the  British 
Empire  of  its  size  that  is  to  be  had." 
+  Pol   Sci   Q  38:183  Mr  '23  200w 

"Dr.  Robinson  is  Professor  of  History  in  an 
American  university,  but  we  are  bound  to  say 
that  we  know  of  no  single-volume  book  on  the 
same  subject  by  a  British  author  that  is  quite 
so  suitable  as  a  text-book.  It  does  not  pretend 
to  be  exhaustive,  but  as  a  compendium  it  is 
astonishingly    complete." 

+  Sat   R  136:109  Jl  28  '23  750w 

ROBINSON,  JAMES  HARVEY.  Humanizing 
of  knowledge.  (Workers'  bookshelf)  119p  $1.50 
Doran 

507    Science— Study    and    teaching.    Learning 
and  scholarship  23-16494 

The  author  shows  that  the  greatest  problem 
of  modern  education  is  to  make  our  accumulated 
scientific  knowledge  of  service  to  the  average 
man  and  woman,  to  rescue  science  from  the 
dangers  of  over-specialization  and  present  it  in 
such  a  human  way  as  to  catch  the  attention 
of  the  layman  and  bring  it  within  the  realm  of 
his  own  experience.  The  little  book  concludes 
with  some  practical  suggestions  for  the  dem- 
ocratization   of    scientific    knowledge. 


"The  great  merit  of  this  book  is  that  It  is 
bristling  with  stimulating  suggestions  in  many 
directions  and  raises  far  more  questions  than 
it   answers."    G.    S.    Hall 

-f   Nation   118:64  .Ta  16  '24  lOOOw 
New  Repub  37:23  N  28  '23  1050w 

"James  Harvey  Robinson  practices  what  he 
preaches.  He  advocates  the  publishing  of  lit- 
tle books  of  big  ideas.  And  he  has  done  it,  for 
the  117  pages  of  his  'Humanizing  of  Knowledge' 
contain  more  matter  about  the  things  that  mat- 
ter than  many  a  1,000-page  work.  He  has 
packed  into  this  pocket  volume  the  fruits  of  his 
philosophy  of  life  and  pleads  the  cause  that  Is 
most  dear  to  his  heart,  the  importance  of  ap- 
plying to  the  problems  of  modern  life  what  sci- 
entific study  of  the  physical  world  and  of  the 
history  of  the  human  race  has  made  known." 
E.   E.    Slo.sson 

-f   N   Y  Tribune  pl7  O  28  '23  1200w 

"Simple  and  engaging  in  style,  devoid  of  in- 
tellectual pretentiou.sne.ss  and  technical  form- 
ulas and  concise  and  logical  in  reasoning,  the 
work  possesses  an  appeal  for  the  mentally  active 
man    oi'   woman." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  13  '24  430w 
Survey   51:supl87    N    1    '23   550w 

ROBINSON,    M.    E.      Public    finance.    172p    $1.25 
Harcourt    [5s    Nisbet] 

336    Finance  [22-23898] 

The  volume  is  the  third  in  the  Cambridge 
economic  handbooks  series  of  which  J.  M. 
Keynes  is  editor.  The  book  is  concerned  with 
the  economic  problems — greatly  increased  thru 
the  war — arising  out  of  the  raising  and  spend- 
ing of  public  revenues.  Contents:  Expenditure 
and  revenue;  Taxation  and  equity;  Practical 
problems;  Taxation  and  production;  Taxation 
and  distribution;  Other  economic  considerations; 
Local  finance;  War  finance;  The  post-war  bur- 
den of  debt;  Future  policy. 


Boston   Transcript   p6   Ap  7   '23   25Uw 
"This    book    is    too    abstract    and    theoretical. 
Yet   it   is,    in   other  respects,    a  good   book — well 
and   clearly   argued   and   thoroughly   up-to-date. 


442 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


ROBINSON,  M.   E. — Continued 
The  trouble  is  that  the  author  has  a  knack  of 
thinking    abstractly,    and    remains    unconscious 
of  the  student's  need  for  practical  illustration." 

1-   New  Statesman  20:216  N  18  '22  150w 

"The  author's  remarks  have  special  reference 
to  British  finance,  but  their  application  may  be 
made  general,  and  American  readers  will  find 
much  to  interest  them  in  the  carefully  arranged 
facts  and  arguments." 

+   N   Y  Times  p7  Mr  4  '23  480w 
"On  the  whole,  her  treatise  is  both  interest- 
ing and   instructive." 

+  Spec  129:605  O  28  '22  80w 
Survey  50:458  Jl  15  "23  70w 
"The  author  has  produced  an  excellent  ele- 
mentary text-book  in  which  the  chief  features 
of  the  finance  of  the  United  Kingdom  are  ex- 
plained, both  in  their  political  and  economic 
aspects,  in  well-arranged  chapters." 

-f  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p668  O  19 
■22    150w 

ROBINSON,    MABEL    LOUISE.      Juvenile   story 

writing.   235p  $2  Button 

808.3  Children's  literature.  Fiction        23-4302 

Miss  Robinson  is  herself  a  successful  writer 
of  children's  stories  and  an  instructor  in  story 
writing  at  Columbia  university.  After  an  under- 
standing chapter  on  the  general  question  of 
writing  for  children  and  the  need  of  a  special 
technique,  the  author  analyzes  the  characteris- 
tics common  to  the  chief  types  of  stories:  ad- 
venture stories;  fairy  stories;  nature  and  animal 
stories;  school,  college  and  home  stories.  Then 
she  goes  on  to  study  the  different  elements  that 
enter  into  the  stories:  use  of  detail;  character- 
ization; dialogue;  plot;  theme;  the  problem  of 
sustaining  interest.  There  is  a  concluding  chap- 
ter  on   stories   about   children   for   adults. 


Booklist  19:217  Ap  '23 
Bookm  57:464  Je  '23  50w 
"If  Miss  Robinson  had  been  content  to  write 
her  first  chapter  on  'The  Question  of  Writing 
for  Children,"  it  would  perhaps  have  made  a 
readable  and  interesting  essay  in  some  mag- 
azine. But  when  she  makes  would-be  authors 
test  their  ability  by  Binefs  method,  she  goes 
too  far." 

—  +  Boston   Transcript  p4  Mr  21  '23  220w 
"The  book  is  Intended  for  adult  writers.     As 
a  matter  of  fact,  we  know  of  no  better   book 
for  a  boy  or  girl  who  wishes  to  improve  In  the 
art   of  short   story  writing.     Teachers   will    do 
well  to  put  it  before  their  pupils." 
-I-   Ind  110:273  Ap  14  '23  420w 
N   Y  Times  p4  Mr  25  '23   550w 
St    Louis    21:104    My    '23 

ROBINSON,    NORMAN    L.       Christian    Justice. 

(Christian    revolution    ser.)      256p      $2      Doran 

[6s  6d   Swarthmore] 
171.1     Christian  ethics.     Justice       [A22-843] 

"A  thorough  re-analysis  of  the  concept  of 
personal  and  social  justice  in  the  light  of  Chris- 
tian ethics." — Survey 

"Some  of  his  practical  conclusions  are  en- 
tirely tenable,  but  others  are  inadmissable.  If 
we  omit  his  attempt  to  interpret  the  New 
Testament,  there  is  not  a  great  deal  left,  and 
this  little  is  but  an  amateurish  and  frequently 
unsound  discussion  of  difficult  problems  in  po- 
litical  philosophy." 

h  Cath   World   117:712  Ag  '23   300w 

"The  author  gives  a  thoughtful  and  well- 
written  analysis  of  the  meaning  and  the  im- 
plications of  Justice." 

-I-  J   Religion  2:658  N  '22  50w 
"The  book  is  not  only  cogent  in  its  argument, 
but   its   style   is   clear   and   attractive,    eloquent 
with  fervent  conviction." 

+   Lit  R  p501  Mr  3  '23  lOOOw 
"The  book  will  strengthen  the  faith  of  every 
one  who  gives  it  close  attention." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  plO  My  8  '23  250w 
Survey    48:629   Ag    15    '22    20w 


"Well  thought  out  and  developed." 

+  The  Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p79   F  2 

'22    90w 

ROCKWELL,    FREDERICK    FRYE.       Gardening 
under  glass.   297p  il  $3.50     Doubleday 

716  Gardening.     Greenhouses  23-6829 

A  practical  book  which  passes  on  greenhouse 
secrets  to  the  amateur  who  the  author  thinks 
can  garden  as  successfully  inside  as  outside. 
Mr  Rockwell  begins  at  the  beginning  and  dis- 
cusses soils,  fertilizers  and  tools,  tells  what 
plants  to  combine  at  given  temperatures,  and 
describes   the   cultivation   of   special   crops. 

Booklist    19:309   Jl  '23 
"With    this   book    in   hand   no  one   coveting  a 
greenhouse    need    fear    stage    fever   or    failure." 
H:    T.    Finck 

+   Lit  R  p626  Ap  21  '23  120w 
"The   fimitations  which   when   recognized  and 
allow  ^d  for  become  the  essentials  of  success,  are 
taken  up  one  by  one  and  described  in  an  amus- 
ingly convincing  way." 

-f   N   Y  Times  p22  Mr  25  '23  280w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:408   Jl   '23 

ROOD,  SIR  JAMES  RENNELL.  Social  and  dip- 
lomatic   memories    (second    series)    1894-1901; 
Egypt    and    Abyssinia.      316p    $7.50    Longmans 
B    or    92    Egypt — History.      Cromer,    Evelyn 
Baring,  1st  earl  of 
During  the  years  covered  by  these  memories 
the    author    was    secretary   of   the    British    lega- 
tion,   Cairo,    and    his    volume    deals    with    the 
Egypt  of  that  period,   including  some  incidents 
of  a  mission  to  Abyssinia.  These  years  in  Egypt 
covered    a    period    of    frequently    acute    conflict 
with    France    and   included    the   Fashoda    affair. 
Two   figures,    those    of   Lord   Cromer   and   L.ord 
Kitchener,    then    dominated    the    valley    of    the 
Nile.     With  the  former,  the  author  was  closely 
associated  and   he   pays   tribute  to  the   Cromer 
that    he    knew. 


"With  the. exception  of  the  one  defect;  namely 
that  he  seemed  somewhat  too  universally  kind, 
these  Memories  are  an  interesting  addition  to 
the  literature — already  considerable  upon  the 
British  occupation  of  Egypt."     S.   L.  R. 

-f-   Boston    Transcript   p3    N   17   '23    700w 

"He  is  eminently  discreet  and  furnishes  little 
new  information,  but  his  comment  is  often 
greatly  worth  while.  The  book,  as  a  whole,  is 
a  mine  of  anecdote,  especially  of  non-political 
topics,  as  he  came  in  contact  with  most  of  the 
literary  and  artistic  celebrities  of  the  day  from 
Tennyson  to  F.  Marion  Crawford,  and  has  much 
interesting  matter  to  retail.  It  is  all  very  read- 
able, and,  especially  as  it  is  well  indexed,  it 
is  also  of  value  as  a  memoir  pour  servir  the  fu- 
ture   historian." 

4-   Lit   R  p30   S  8  '23  550w 

"It  is  a  sign  of  the  times  that  the  author  of 
this  volume  thinks  it  necessary  to  preface  his 
recollections  with  an  apologia  for  the  old  di- 
plomacy. Sir  Rennell  Rodd  takes  up  not  so 
much  the  cudgels  as  the  rapier  in  defense  of 
his  profession,  but  more  cogent  than  any  of  his 
direct  arguments  will  be  the  indirect  persua- 
siveness of  his  delightful  picture  of  the  activi- 
ties and  interests  of  himself  and  his  colleagues. 
He  presents  to  us  here  a  portrait  of  the  ortho- 
dox diplomat  at  his  best."  H.  W.  Horwill 
4-  Nation  117:41   Jl  11  '23  1400w 

"It  is  written  in  the  same  attractive  style  as 
the  earlier  volume,  but  is  of  less  varied  content 
and  therefore  Of  less  general  interest." 
H Nation  117:670  D  5  '23  lOOw 

"Whoever  shall  in  the  fullness  of  time  set  out 
to  write  the  history  of  modern  Egypt  will  as- 
suredly, even  if  he  have  full  and  free  access  to 
official  documents,  be  profoundly  grateful  for 
these  illuminating  memoirs." 

-f  Sat   R   136:597   D  1   '23   720w 

Reviewed   by   J.    St   Loe    Strachey 

Spec    131:1032    D    29    '23    920w 
The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p699  O  25 
•23    1900W 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


443 


ROE,  VINGIE   E.   Nameless  River.   278p  $2  Duf- 

field 

23-12162 

"Nameless  River  is  in  the  Deep  Heart 
country,  presumably  in  the  New  Mexico  dis- 
trict. Here  a  gang  of  'rustlers,'  under  a  reck- 
less and  evil  woman  leader,  have  been  busy  for 
.some  time  stealing  cattle,  which  have  mys- 
teriously disappeared  without  trace.  It  is  they, 
apparently,  who  have  murdered  Nance  Allison's 
father;  oippled  her  brother,  and  several  times 
attempted  her  own  life;  but  the  brave  pirl  re- 
fuses to  be  intimidated  into  abandoning-  her 
settlement,  and  meets  all  dangers  with  a  verse 
from  the  Psalms."- — The  Tiines  [I^ondon]  Lit 
Sup 


"This  is  the  kind  of  book  one  buys,  in  a 
moment  of  mental  weariness,  from  a  news  ven- 
dor on  the  train,  the  kind  one  reads — perhaps, 
and  carelessly  abandons  at  the  journey's  end. 
The  best  that  can  be  said  of  it  is  that  it  is 
harmless  and  inoffensive;  decidedly  a  redeem- 
ing feature  in  these  days  of  'naturalistic'  fic- 
tion." 

\-  Boston    Transcript   p4    O    10    '23    350w 

"A  story  which  lacks  nothing  of  the  usual 
ingredients  of  excitement  and  the  highly  im- 
probable." 

—  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p60G    S 
13    '23    120w 

ROGERS,    JOEL    TOWNSLEY.    Once    in    a    red 

2    moon.    347p   $2    (7s   6d)    Brentano's 

23-13650 
"This  is  rather  a  breathless  story  of  an  Irish- 
American  millionaire,  Tim  Grady,  who  is  still 
wanted  in  Ireland  for  a  forty  years  old  murder, 
and  Rose  Dawn,  the  beautiful  young  film  ac- 
tress, who  becomes  his  third  wife.  Grady  is  a 
drunken,  violent,  blustering  creature,  haunted 
by  semi-superstitious  fears  connected  with 
that  old  crime  of  his.  Somewhere  near  the  end 
of  the  story  he  is  found  stabbed  to  death  in 
the  cabin  of  his  yacht,  and  suspicion  falls,  in 
conventional  fashion,  on  half-a-dozen  people  in 
turn.  But  it  is  not  a  conventional  story.  The 
characters  are  very  numerous,  and  all  sorts  of 
subsidiary  threads  are  wound  in  with  the  plot." 
—The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup 


"  'Once  in  a  Red  Moon'  is  an  amazing  hodge- 
podge, displaying  uncommon  fertility  of  inven- 
tion, a  considerable  ability  in  charncterization 
and  a  complete  lack  of  nice  discrimination  and 
elimination.  For  the  young,  the  lusty  and  the 
avid    of    sensation   only." 

h   Boston  Transcript  p4  O  31  '23  250w 

"In  Mr.  Rogers's  'Once  in  a  Red  Moon'  there 
is  very  little  relief  from  comedy.  Even  when  he 
is  dealing  with  serious  matters  like  battle, 
murder  and  sudden  Irishmen,  Mr.  Rogers  can't 
refrain  from  putting  a  grandiose  oar  into  his 
style  and  splashing  about  merrily."  A.  D.  Doug- 

—  N   Y  Tribune   p24  N  25  '23  360w 
Reviewed  by  E.  W.   Osborn 

N   Y  World  p6e  N  11  '23  38nw 
Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Ja     13     '24 
140w 
"The  author's   language   is  of  the  kind  called 
'forceful' ;    it    is    full    of   sharp,    snappy,    verbless 
sentences,  and  includes  a  profusion  of  vehement 
adjective.^." 

The  Times  [London!   Lit  Sup  p897  D  20 
'23   140w 

ROLFE,  JOHN  CAREW.  Cicero  and  his  influ- 
ence. (Our  debt  to  Greece  and  Rome)  178p 
$1.50       Marshall    Jones 

875     Cicero,   Marcus  Tullius  23-10413 

The  book,  which  is  a  defence  of  Cicero's 
career  and  character,  discusses  his  influence 
in  his  own  time  as  politician,  orator  and  writer 
and  in  later  times,  on  such  movements  as  the 
renaissance  and   the  French   revolution. 


renewed  zeal  in  making  their  pupils  love  the 
rich  and  glorious  language  which  Cicero  wielded 
so   perfectly."   N.  H.  D. 

-+-  Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  15  '23  1550w 
"Professor  Rolfe  has  done  him  something  more 
than  justice;  but,  in  view  of  the  motivating 
idea  of  the  series  in  which  this  study  appears, 
we  may  overlook  the  unmistakable  tone  of 
panegyric."     E.  F.  H. 

-j Oath    World    118:274    N   '23   330w 

New    Repub    37:48    D    5    "23    50w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:506   D   '23 

ROLT-WHEELER,    FRANCIS    WILLIAM.      Sa- 
hara  hunters.      329p  il  $1.75  Lothrop 

23-9672 
"A  young  boy  and  his  father,  a  French  en- 
gineer, are  captured  by  an  unfriendly  tribe  in 
the  Sahara  desert.  The  son,  after  the  father's 
death,  wins  some  powerful  friends  who  finally 
effect  his  escape,  bidding  him  return  with  a 
message  of  peace  and  water-wisdoin,  Much 
information  about  the  manners  and  customs  of 
the  desert  tribes,  their  folklore  and  tradition." 
—Booklist 


Booklist    20:64    N    '23 

Boston    Transcript   p4   Je   30   '23    300w 

ROMAN,    FREDERICK    WILLIAM.      New    edu- 
cation  in    Europe.     271p     $5     Diitton     [12s   6d 
Routledge] 
370.94     Education — Great  Britain.    Education 
— France.     Education — Germany  23-16674 

A  special  collaborator  of  the  United  States 
Bureau  of  education  provides  this  well-docu- 
mented study  of  after-war  education  in  Great 
Britain,  Ireland,  France,  and  Germany.  The 
study  is  chiefly  confined  to  elementary,  tech- 
nical and  commercial  education  as  the  types 
around  which  the  actual  changes  and  proposed 
reforms  have  centered.  In  the  concluding  pages 
the  author  compares  the  results  of  the  educa- 
tional developments  found  in  the  different  coun- 
tries. 


Booklist    20:15    O   '23 
"Professor  Rolfe's  monograph  is  a  really  noble 
and  admirable  contribution  to  Ciceronian  litera- 
ture  and   ought   to   inspire   Latin    scholars   with 


"For  the  purposes  of  this  study  Dr.  Roman 
traveled  extensively  in  Europe  and  availed  him- 
.self  of  all  personal  contacts  and  documentai-y 
evidence  likely  to  bear  on  his  subject."  B.  N. 
+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  22  '23  750w 
"His  account  of  recent  movements  is  m- 
complete  and  partial;  in  several  phases  he  is 
content  with  descriptions  of  pre-war  education. 
In  general  the  book  fails  to  present  the  cominon 
political  and  philosophical  basis  that  underlies 
educational  thought  everywhere — in  the  newer 
democracies  as  well  as  in  the  countries  that  he 
describes."   I.    L.   Kandel 

—  Lit  R  p304  D  1  '23  490w 
"Tlie  results  of  Dr.  Roman's  investigations 
are  carefully  tabulated  and  the  volume  fairly 
bristles  with  statistics  It  is  a  book  for  the  ear- 
nest student  of  educational  reform  rather  than 
the  general   leader." 

+   N   Y  Times  p28  S  16  '23  380w 
"A  valuable  contribution   to  the  critical  liter- 
ature of  education." 

-f  Spec  131:262  Ag  25  '23  270w 
"This    substantial    volume    gives    an    account 
of  present-day  educational  ideals  in  three  chief 
European    countries,    which    is    very    fully    sup- 
plied with   facts,   figures,   and   tables." 

-j-  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p424    Je 
21    '23    llOw 

ROMBERG,    KONRAD-GISBERT,   freiherr   von, 

ed.       Falsifications    of    the     Russian     Orange 
book.    77p  $1   Huebsch 

940.32  Russia— Foreign  relations.  France- 
Foreign  relations.  European  war,  1914-1919 
— Diplomatic  history  23-11131 

The  so-called  color  books  issued  by  the  dif- 
ferent governments  after  the  outbreak  of  the 
war  for  the  purpo.se  of  justifying  themselves 
and  shifting  to  one  or  another  of  the  enemy 
countries  the  responsibility  for  the  issue,  have 
since  been  subjected  to  critical  analy.sis  which 
reveals     various     omissions     and     falsifications. 


444 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


ROMBERG,     K. — Continued 

This  book  is  composed  of  telegrams  wlncn 
passed  between  Paris  and  St  Petersburg  in 
July  and  August,  1914.  It  is  pnnted  m  two 
kinds  of  type:  plain  type  to  mdicate  the  tele- 
grams published  by  Russia,  and  black  type  to 
show  the  portions  omitted.  In  this  way  the 
book  seeks  to  prove  that  the  French  and  Rus- 
sian governments   favored   war. 

Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:506  Ag  '23  300w 
Nation  116:525  My  2  '23  50w 
"While  admiring  the  Baron's  editorial 
acumen,  we  find  it  impossible  to  attach  the  ini- 
portance  he  does  to  his  critical  acumen;  indeed, 
in  certain  cases,  the  German  argument  would 
have  been  stronger  if  he  had  not  found  it 
necessary  to  reveal  certain  omissions  in  ihe 
Orange  Book.'  "     Walter  Littlefleld 

"After  carefully  reading-  the  documents  pub- 
lished in  full  by  the  Bolsheviks,  we  are  bound 
to  say  that  the  editing  of  the  Russian  Foreign 
Office  was  far  more  honest  than  we  should  have 
supposed.  The  additions  were  trivial.  The 
passages  omitted  were  really  unimportant  or 
were  mere  repetitions  of  what  had  appeared 
in  other  publications  of  the  kind.  .  .  It  is 
curious  that  the  German  Foreign  Office,  whose 
own  White  Book  was  a  veritable  masterpiece 
of  garbling  and  falsification,  should  try  at  this 
time  of  day  to  pick  holes  in  M.  Sazonoff  s 
Orange  Book,  and  with  so  little  success. 
—  Spec  130:854   My   19  '23   220w 

RONALDSHAY,    LAWRENCE   JOHN    LUMLEY 

DUNDAS,  earl  of.     Lands  of  the  thunderbolt; 

Sikhim,    Chumbi    and    Bhutan.      267p      il      $5 

Houg-hton     [16s  Constable] 
915.4      Bhutan.       Sikhim.       Chumbi.       Bud- 
dhism.    Lamaism  [23-10572] 

"To  the  north  and  north-east  of  Bengal  lie 
the  two  Himalayan  States  of  Bhutan  and  Sik- 
kim.  Between  them  an  infinitesimal  portion  of 
Tibet,  known  as  the  Chumbi  Valley,  thrusts  it- 
self southwards  like  a  wedge  to  within  thirty 
miles  of  the  plains  of  Bengal.  Bhutan  has  hith- 
erto been  closed  to  all  except  a  few  Europeans; 
but  Sikkim,  with  which  this  book  chiefly  deals, 
has  long  been  a  welcome  playground  to  the 
dwellers  in  Bengal.  Lord  Ronaldshay  was  re- 
centlv  Governor  of  Bengal  for  five  years.  Dur- 
ing this  period  he  made  a  few  brief  holiday 
trips  into  Sikkim  and  the  Chumbi  Valley,  and 
one  to  Bhutan.  .  .  A  considerable  portion  of  the 
book  is  filled  with  a  history  of  Buddhism  in 
India  and  a  consideration  of  the  effect  of  Bud- 
dhism on  the  nature-worship  that  it  partially 
superseded  in  the  countries  to  which  the  book 
relates." — The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup 


Booklist  20:135  Ja  '24 

Boston    Transcript   p3    O    27   '23    580w 

"The  Earl  of  Ronaldshay  is  rather  unique  in 
his  many  sided  equipment;  and  so  he  has  writ- 
ten a  book  which  is  at  once  reliable  and  read- 
able. To  some  it  will  be  mainly  of  interest  as  a 
book  of  travel,  to  others  essentially  a  book  on 
Buddhism  in  one  of  its  many  picturesque  set- 
tiiiKs.  .  .  As  a  description  of  natural  scenery 
and  unnatural  religion  the  book  will  rank  high." 
Kenneth   Saunders 

+  Lit    R   p305  D   1  '23   670w 

"Lord  Ronaldshay' s  extremely  well  written 
and  illustrated  book  is  not  only  an  interesting 
narrative  of  travel  amongst  magnificent  scenery 
within  sight  of  the  highest  mountains  of  the 
world,  but  is  of  value  to  those  who  would  un- 
derstand the  differences  between  the  Eastern 
and  the  Western  attitudes  to  life." 

-f   New  Statesman   21:28  Ap  14  '23  350w 

N  Y  World  p7e  S   2  '23  250w 
"A  fascinating  travel  book." 

-I-  Spec  130:553   Mr  31   '23   60w 
"The  charm  of  the  text  is   Increased   by  the 
unusually  good  photogrraphs  with  which  the  au- 
thor has  Illustrated  it.    The  book  is  one  to  be 
read,    and   read   again." 

-1-  Spec  130:928  Je  2  '23   500w 


"We  find  him  apt  in  descriptions  of  scenery; 
thoughtful  and  observant  regarding  the  religious 
and  social  life  of  the  people.  He  has,  in  fact, 
made  the  most  of  his  somewhat  scanty  ma- 
terial. The  whole  book,  though  not  profound,  is 
written  in  a  spirit  of  thoughtful  inquiry.  It 
passes  from  grave  to  gay,  and  gives  us  a  good 
deal  of  information  in  an  attractive  form,  sup- 
plemented  with   some   excellent   illustrations." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p240   Ap 

12  '23  1300W 

ROOSEVELT,  THEODORE.  Americanism  of 
Theodore  Roosevelt;  selections  from  his  writ- 
ings; comp.  by  Hermann  Hagedorn.  317  $2.50 
Houghton 

308 
The  third  volume  of  the  Roosevelt  memorial 
association  publications  consists  of  selections 
from  his  writings  and  speeches  chosen  to  illus- 
trate his  idea  of  Americanism.  The  selections 
are  divided  into  three  major  parts.  The  first 
consists  of  extracts  from  his  historical  writings 
which  reveal  the  background  of  his  mind.  The 
second  division  illustrates  the  Roosevelt  phi- 
losophy of  character,  good  citizenship,  just  gov- 
ernment and  national  strength.  The  third  sec- 
tion is  devoted  to  autobiographical  narratives 
and  letters  chosen  to  show  how  Roosevelt  him- 
self practised  the   ideals  he  preached. 

"The  editor  has  not  only  niade  his  selection 
of  material  in  a  most  judicious  manner  but  the 
arrangement  is  such  that  the  reader  can  follow 
step  by  step  the  unfolding  of  Roosevelt's  ideas 
regarding  the  duties  of  citizenship  and  his  phi- 
losophy of  government." 

+   Am   Pol  Sci   R  17:687  N  '23  300w 
Bookm   58:482  D  '23   150w 
Boston   Transcript  p7   N  28   '23   320w 
"It    might    be    well    to    place    a    copy    of   this 
book  in  the  hands  of  every  American  boy — the 
future    citizens    of    America — for    the    future    of 
this  country  depends  on  them;  and  a  sober  re- 
alization  of   their   duties   and   responsibilities  to 
their    fellow    citizens    and    to    their    country,    is 
absolutely    necessary    before    they    can    achieve 
good  citizenship."  Constantine  Rasis 

+   Detroit   News  p23  D  9   '23   330w 
"This  is  a  happily  inspired  volume;  doubtless 
of  timely  value,  for  if  Americanism  means  any- 
thing  at    all    dynamic    assuredly    Roosevelt    was 
the  embodiment  of  it." 

+   Lit  R  p354  D  8  '23  150w 
N  Y  Times  p25  S  9  '23  220w 
"In  the   structure  of  this  book  Mr.   Hagedorn 
has    magnified    his    office    as    compiler    and    has 
really    made    a    distinct    contribution    to    biog- 
raphy." 

-f   R  of  Rs  68:558  N  '23  250w 

Springf'd    Republican  p7a  O  28  '23  450w 

ROSEBUSH,  JUDSON  GEORGE.  Ethics  of 
capitalism.      196p     $1.50     Assn.    press 

331   Labor   and   capital.    Sociology,    Christian 

23-12979 
Writing  from  his  experience  as  professor  of 
economics  at  Lawrence  college,  president  of 
two  paper  companies,  farmer  on  a  large  scale 
and  Sunday  school  superintendent,  the  author 
discusses  the  parties  to  industry,  industrial 
democracy,  the  distribution  of  the  social  prod- 
uct, a  productivity  theory  of  taxation,  the 
foundations  of  permanent  peace  and  the  new- 
er ethics  of  capitalism.  His  book  is  a  plea  for 
higher  motives  in  industry,  for  the  application 
of  Christian  principles,  for  a  spirit  of  coopera- 
tion that  shall  render  the  greatest  service  to 
all   the   parties   concerned. 

Springf'd  Republican  plO  Ag  3 '23  lOOOw 
"The  somewhat  biographical  tone  of  this 
book  suggests  that  many  books  on  principles 
and  theories  would  gain  in  value  if  their  auth- 
ors would  likewise  give  something  of  the  per- 
sonal background  that  influenced  their  think- 
ing Brieltv,  the  author's  plea  is  for  a  permea- 
tion of  business  life  with  Christian  principles — 
a  contention  which  is  radical  in  the  case  be- 
cause of  the  thoroughness  with  which  he  seeks 


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to  apply  it,  yet  not  so  radical  as  to  question 
Christian  sanction  for  the  control  of  industry 
by  capital." 

+  Survey  51:113   O  15   '23   150w 

ROSEN,  ROMAN   ROMANOVICH,  baron.     Forty 
years    of    diplomacy.    2v    315;309p    $7.50    Knopf 
[25s  Allen  &   U.] 
B   or   92     Russia — Politics   and   government. 
Russia — Foreign    relations  23-206 

"The  late  Baron  Rosen,  Ambassador  from 
Russia  in  this  country  for  many  years,  had  a 
more  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  United 
States  than  many  of  his  predecessors.  His  am- 
bassadorship began  about  the  time  of  the  Russo- 
Japanese  War,  but  he  had  not  only  visited 
America  in  the  1870's,  but  had  been  in  New 
York  as  consul-general  as  early  as  1884.  The 
volumes  include  the  author's  impressions  of 
events  in  Russia  fifty  years  ago,  of  diplomatic 
experiences  in  Japan  in  the  '70's,  and  America 
in  President  Cleveland's  time,  of  Mexico  under 
Diaz,  and  Serbia  under  King  Alexander.  Baron 
Rosen  served  his  country  in  all  these  lands,  and 
returned  to  America  in  time  to  sign,  with  Witte, 
the  Treaty  of  Portsmouth.  These  chapters  are 
Informal,  unaffected,  and  genial.  The  second 
volume  begins  with  the  Russian  revolution  of 
1905,  continues  through  the  days  of  the  Great 
War,  the  later  revolution,  and  the  establish- 
ment of  Bolshevism." — Ind 


ter  and  an  introductory  note  to  teachers  ex- 
plains the  technique  which  Dr  Ross  has  devel- 
oped from  thirty-two  years'  experience  in  teach- 
ing sociology.  Altho  intended  primarily  as  a 
textbook,  the  book  is  a  readable,  concise  pres- 
entation of  the  fundamental  principles  of  so- 
ciety. 


"One  cannot  read  these  two  volumes  without 
getting  an  adequate  picture  of  a  really  fascin- 
ating man.  He  never  attitudinizes  throughout 
the  entire  book,  whether  he  records  sad  or  happy 
passages  in  his  life.  He  is  a  man  of  the  world 
and  accepts  his  fortunes  as  they  come."  S.  L. 
Cook 

+  Boston  Transcript  p3  F  10  '23  1550w 
Cleveland   p24  Mr  '23 
"A  readable  record  of  the   life-experiences  of 
an  old-school  European  diplomat.     Allowing  for 
natural    inhibitions    of    training   and   conviction, 
he    writes    with    sincerity.      Czardom    finds    in 
him    an    able    advocate    because    his    views    are 
plausibly  and  moderately  expressed." 
+  Dial  74:416  Ap  '23  90w 
Reviewed   by  E.    L.   Pearson 

Ind  110:25  Ja  6  '23  300w 
"It  seems  as  if  this  book  might  be  considered 
the  definitive  work  on  the  phases  of  Russian 
diplomatic  life  that  went  on  behind  the  curtain. 
It  is  not  hard,  in  the  presence  of  so  many  un- 
expected revelations  made  by  people  behind  the 
scenes  in  Russia,  to  correct  his  facts  and  his 
Impressions.  There  is  scarcely  a  statement  of 
his  that  will  not  bear  strict  investigation."  M. 
F.   Egan 

H Int    Bk   R   pl6  F  '23   2350w 

Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:122  Mr  '23 
"[Baron  Rosen]  appears  in  these  interesting 
volumes  in  the  part  of  a  Cassandra  whose 
prophecies  have  heen  justified  by  events.  .  . 
Much  that  he  wrote  so  lucidly  can  be  read  now 
with  great  interest  and  profit  as  the  impressions 
of  a  detached  observer.  But  he  was  no  philoso- 
pher." 

H The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p54  Ja  25 

'23  1500W 

ROSIERE,    GABRIELLE.      Fortune    telling    and 
character  reading.    243p  il  $1   Clode 

133  Fortune-telling  23-5689 

This  little  book  on  various  forms  of  fortune- 
telling  and  character  reading  is  intended  to  pro- 
vide amusement  at  social  affairs.  It  has  sec- 
tions on  numerologFy.  palmistry,  astrology,  tea- 
leaf  symbols,  fortune-telling  by  cards,  dominoes 
and  dice,  dream  interpretation,  phrenology, 
physiognomy  and   graphology. 


Reviewed  by  E.   S.   Bogardus 

Am  J  Soc  29:241  S  '23  200w 
"As  a  textbook,  the  Outlines  of  Sociology  is 
a  distinct  advance  over  the  Principles  of  Soci- 
ology, and  will  be  sure  to  come  into  even  more 
general  use  than  the  larger  work."  J.  H.  S. 
Bossard 

-I-  Ann  Am  Acad  110:225  N  '23  170w 
Boston  Transcript  p6  Je  9  '23  800w 
"The  book  contains  for  social  reformers  who 
have  time  to  read  it — and  it  will  be  a  useful 
mental  exercise  for  all — sharply  defined  sum- 
maries of  contemporary  thought  on  many  per- 
plexing   problems." 

+  Survey    50:643    S    15    '23    150w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:504  D  '23 


ROSS,  EDWARD  ALSWORTH.  Social  revo- 
lution in  Mexico.  176p  $1.75  Century 

972        Mexico — Politics       and      government. 

Mexico — Social  conditions  23-8455 

On  a  basis  of  an  eleven  weeks'  sojourn  In 
Mexico,  the  author  writes  about  the  country 
from  a  sociologist's  point  of  view,  ignoring  her 
relations  with  the  United  States,  American  oil 
interests,  etc.  He  describes  the  people  of  Mexico 
and  the  handicaps  from  which  it  is  suffering 
thru  its  traditions,  former  governments  and 
revolutions.  He  then  goes  on  to  a  survey  of 
the  changes  now  in  progress  in  land  reform, 
the  labor  movement,  the  church  and  public  edu- 
cation, and  the  promise  they  hold  out  for  the 
future,  showing  that  the  backwardness  of  the 
Mexicans  is  due  to  their  never  having  had  a 
chance  and  that,  given  education  and  oppor- 
tunity,   their    future  is   full  of  possibilities. 


Ann  Am  Acad  111:383  Ja  '24  150w 
Booklist  20:17  O  '23 
"His  findings  are  of  interest  and  value.  Offi- 
cial and  ex-official  talked  volubly;  Dr.  Ross 
captured  the  gist  of  their  remarks.  .  .  Mexico 
is  a  readable  country — Dr.  Ross  a  readable 
investigator." 

-f   Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  13  '23  220w 
"Excellent  little    book."   Herman   Simpson 

-\-  Freeman  7:498  Ag  1  '23  2300w 
"Despite  its  sketchiness,  a  few  minor  errors 
of  fact,  and  an  occasional  contradiction  Mr. 
Ross's  treatise  is  to  date  the  best  book  on 
present-day  Mexico  in  our  language."  Ernest 
Gruening 

-i Nation   117:492   O   31   '23   850w 

"  'The  Social  Revolution  in  Mexico'  is  full  of 
information  and  valuable  as  a  handbook  to 
those  who  want  to  understand  what  is  going 
on  in  Mexico  and  the  problems  of  the  post- 
revolution   period." 

-h   N   Y  Times  p3  My  27  '23  950w 
"Prof.    Ross   writes    briskly  and   his   observa- 
tions are  sensible  and  unprejudiced." 
H-  N  Y  World  p6e  My  20  '23  350w 
Reviewed  by  Gregory  Mason 

Outlook  135:728  D  26  '23  400w 
R  of  Rs  67:672  Je  '23  160w 
St   Louis  p342  D  '23 
Reviewed    liy    B.    P.    Adams 

Survey    50:548    Ag    15    '23    800w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:413   Jl   '23 


ROSS,  EDWARD  ALSWORTH.  Outlines  of 
sociology.  (Century  social  science  ser.)  474p 
$3.50     Century 

301     Sociology  23-8282 

This    is    Dr    Ross's    "Principles    of    sociology" 

cut   down   a  third,   re-arranged,    re-phrased  and 

equipped  for  the  classroom.    Quiz  questions  and 

exercises  are  provided  at  the  end  of  each  chap- 


ROSS,  SIR  RONALD.    Memoirs;  with  a  full  ac- 
count  of   the    great   malaria    problem    and    its 
solution.     547p     il     $9     Dutton     [24s  Murray] 
B  or  92     Malaria  23-11844 

Ronald  Ross's  name  is  chiefiy  connected  with 
his  discovery,  while  in  the  Indian  medical  serv- 
ice, of  the  mosquito-borne  parasite  to  which 
malaria  is  due.    The  progress  of  the  investiga- 


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tions  leading  to  this  discovery,  which  he  calls 
"the  most  dramatic  in  the  history  of  medicine," 
he  describes  in  minute  detail,  the  disappoint- 
ments and  failures,  the  slow  recognition  of  the 
value  of  his  work  and  the  application  of  his 
discovery  to  the  cleaning  up  of  malaria  infected 
districts.  Apart  from  his  work  in  malarial  re- 
search, he  has  been  a  traveler,  a  writer,  and  a 
mathematician. 


"In  Sir  Ronald  Ross's  'Memoirs'  information 
is  to  be  found  which  will  interest  the  conven- 
tional 'wide  circle  of  readers,'  in  that  the 
subjects  treated  must  appeal  to  the  Imperialist, 
the  political  economist,  the  sanitarian  of  the 
tropics,  and  the  cosmopolitan  science  research 
worker;  nor  will  those  who  respond  to  the 
'call  of  the  East'  fail  to  find  interest  in  de- 
tails of  scenery  and  travels  in  India  and 
Burma."    W.    G.    King 

+  Nature  111:3  Jl  7  '23  1750w 

"The  book  is  very  well  worth  reading.  Apart 
from  the  interest  and  importance  of  Sir  Ron- 
ald's work,  because  it  reflects  in  every  page 
not  only  the  ardour  but  the  candour  of  mind 
which  are  characteristic  of  the  genuine  man 
of  sci6nc6  " 

+    New    Statesman    21:334   Je   23   '23   600w 

"The  part  devoted  to  research  must  have  a 
permanent  historical  interest.  But  unfortu- 
nately Sir  Ronald  Ross  has  also  seen  fit  to 
include  matter  that,  in  the  words  of  the  late 
Hector  Munro,  would  have  been  greatly  im- 
proved by  death;  and  the  story  of  his  subse- 
quent discerning  and  defeating  of  attempts  to 
filch  his  position  of  scientific  priority,  and  of 
the  many  instances  of  what  seemed  to  him  a 
gross  underestimate  of  his  abilities  and  ser- 
vices lend  a  note  to  his  volume  unpleasantly 
out  of  keeping  with  the  real  worth  of  his 
achievement.  .  .  We  can  only  deprecate  the 
inclusion  in  a  book  of  nearly  a  quarter  of  a 
million  words  of  so  many  tedious  and  trivial 
animosities." 

H Sat    R    136:82   Jl    21    '23    850w 

"Sir  Ronald  Ross  is  anxious  to  give  not 
simply  his  results  as  an  investigator,  but  also 
his  processes — a.  full,  absorbing  recital  of  pur- 
suit, divagation,  failure,  opposition  and  success. 
He  has  given  more  than  this,  perhaps  uncon- 
sciously— a  portrait  of  his  own  mind,  a  skia- 
graph, using  sometimes  heavy  shadows  and 
making  a  vivid  and  restless  picture.  He  is  a 
complete  and  candid  egoist  incapable  of  the 
timid  privacies  of  intellectual  poverty  and  un- 
able to  conc-eal  a  single   resentment." 

H Spec    130:1008    Je    16    '23    4,';00w 

"It  may  be  a  tactical  error  in  a  just  fight 
to  have  offered  so  very  frank  a  presentation  of 
his  own  grievances,  exploits,  and  unfulfilled 
hopes.  Artistically  it  would  have  come  better 
from  some  one  else  writing  about  Sir  Ronald 
Ross,  although,  it  is  to  be  admitted,  no  one 
else  could  have  had  knowledge  so  ample  or 
conviction   quite   so   assured." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p381    Je 

7  '23   1500W 


ROSTAND,       EDMOND       EUGENE       ALEXIS. 
*    Cyrano    de    Bergerac,    an    heroic    comedy    in 

five   acts.     256p     $1.75     Holt 

842  23-17560 

A  new  version  in  English  verse  by  Brian 
Hooker,  prepared  for  the  Walter  Hampden  re- 
vival, with  a  "prefatory  gesture"  by  Clayton 
Hamilton. 


"It  is  seldom  indeed  that  a  poet  undertakes  to 
translate  a  master  work  by  another  poet,  and 
still  more  seldom  when  that  work  comprises  a 
complex,  five-act,  three-score-charactered,  he- 
roic verse-play  for  the  theater.  One  analogous 
undertaking,  comparable  in  scope  but  different 
In  its  values  of  an  earlier  theater  technique. 
could  be  cited  in  Coleridge's  translation  of 
Schiller's  'Wallenstein.'  Since  that  was  written 
a  century  has  passed;  and  probably  during  that 
time  there  has  been  no  English  translation  of 
a  dramatic  masterpiece  more  likely  to  survive. 


in  virtue  of  its  spirited  rendering  of  the  or- 
iginal, than  Brian  Hooker's  'Cyrano  de 
Bergerac'  "      Percy   Mackaye 

+  Int  Bk  R  plOT  Ja  '24  2600w 
"The  spirit  of  the  fourth  and  fifth  acts  he 
has  caught  excellently.  In  fact,  this  new  ver- 
sion, which  has  proved  so  effective  upon  the 
stage,  is,  for  the  casual  reader,  preferable  to 
most  of  the  earlier  translations." 
+   Lit    R    p344    D    8    '23    330w 


ROTHERY,  AGNES  EDWARDS  (MRS  HARRY 
ROBERTS  PRATT)  (AGNES  EDWARDS, 
pseud.).  House  by  the  windmill.  286p  $1.75 
Doubleday 

23-9232 
"  'The  House  by  the  Windmill'  is  the  story 
of  mother  love  trespassing.  .  .  The  course  of 
Agnes  Rothery's  story  is  the  way  of  a  mother's 
hopes,  aspirations,  doubts,  and  breakings  of 
the  heart  when  these  hopes  and  aspirations 
have  crossed  the  forbidden  line  into  her  chil- 
dren's lives.  She  plans  their  picnics,  their  plea- 
sures, charges  them  with  vitality,  smooths 
their  manners,  and  would  be  happy,  one  feels, 
if  she  could  personally  conduct  each  chick  all 
the  way  to  Paradise.  The  children,  having 
enough  of  her  in  them,  are  vital  themselves, 
they  pull  at  their  cables,  take  longer  and  longer 
voyages  from  the  home  anchorage,  but  always 
with  Mrs.  Ryder  aboard,  first  as  pilot,  then  as 
stowaway,  and  finally  as  pirate  of  their  free- 
dom. The  storm  inevitable  on  such  waters 
gathers  over  one  of  the  daughters  whose  choice 
of  a  husband  differs  from  her  mother's  and  it 
breaks  in  a  thunderclap  of  masterly  directness." 
—Lit  R 


Booklist  20:22  O  '23 

"It  is  certain  that  Mrs.  Rothery  has  a  very 
human  and  a  very  dramatic  story  in  this  book. 
It  is  perhaps  inevitable  that  she  has  not  made 
all  that  we  should  like  her  to  have  made  of  the 
final  chapters.  The  power  to  get  the  utmost 
from  a  situation  is  a  slowly  and  painfully  ac- 
quired art.  Only  a  few  ever  achieve  it.  In  the 
liuman  interest  which  appeals  to  the  large 
majority  of  readers  the  book  abounds."  D.  L.  M. 

H Boston   Transcript   p4   My  29   '23   1200w 

Cleveland  p51  Jl  '23 

"The  book  is  simply  absorbing.  One  cannot 
put  it  down.  But  it  is  scarcely  a  completely 
pleasant  affair.  Pathos,  sadness,  disappoint- 
ment, and  utter  hopelessness  are  woven  into 
its    very   fabric." 

-|-  —  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p8    Ag 
19   '23   900w 

"The  salient  characteristics  of  this  first  novel 
are  first,  an  active  sincerity  of  observation, 
analysis,  and  presentation.  Next,  a  style  that 
is  light  on  its  feet  and  has  a  quick  thrust  now 
and  then.  .  .  The  faults,  as  in  most  first  novels, 
are  those  of  proportion."  T.  M.  Longstreth 
-1 Lit   R   p675  My  12  '23   lOOOw 

"There  is  a  buoyancy  and  clean  humor  in 
this  novel  of  Agnes  Edwards  Rothery  that 
avoids  too  deep  analysis  and  too  trenchant 
realism.  Her  charm  is  that  of  the  essayist  and 
she  is  best  when  she  writes  of  shelving  beaches 
and  wooded  cliffs;  as  a  novelist  she  lacks  the 
power  of  individual  characterization." 
H NY  Times  p25  My  5  '23  380w 

"As  the  study  of  a  problem,  the  novel  is  in- 
adequate. No  problem  so  integrated  with  human 
relationships  can  be  made  vital  and  significant 
without  close  characterization  and  careful  emo- 
tional analysis.  Too  much  emphasis  is  here 
laid  on  externals,  too  little  on  the  life  within. 
Mrs.  Rothery's  earnestness  cannot  balance  a 
fundamental  superficiality  and  an  undistin- 
guished  style."     E.    W.    Childs 

—  NY   Tribune  p22  My  6  '23  500w 

"Despite  the  sad  turning-out  of  the  Ryders, 
'The  House  by  the  Windmill'  is  far  from  being 
a  story  of  melancholy  effect.  It  is  a  wonder- 
fully easy  book  to  read,  perhaps  because,  for 
one  thing,  of  the  striking  ease  and  naturalness 
of  Mrs.  Rotherv's  writing  style."  E.  W.  Osborn 
-f  N  Y  World  p8e  My  13  '23  330w 


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"It  is  an  excellently  told  tale,  a  straight- 
forward narrative  about  plausible  people  which 
gives    the    reader    thoughtful    entertainment." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  15  '23  650w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:414   Jl  '23 


ROWLAND,   HENRY  COTTRELL.     Of  clear  in- 
»    tent.     282p     $2    Harper 

23-12672 

Keine  Nattis,  heiress  to  both  fortune  and  so- 
cial position,  has  ambitions  to  become  a  dancer 
rather  than  a  mere  social  figurehead.  By  clever 
manoeuvering  she  manages  to  exchange  names 
with  a  friend  who  closely  resembles  her,  thus 
deceiving  her  relatives  as  to  her  whereabouts. 
Her  life  of  freedom  leads  her  to  a  gypsy  camp 
where  Hammond  Hadden,  composer  and  vaga- 
bond, first  meets  and  falls  in  love  with  her. 
In  a  revue  composed  by  Hammond  and  his 
friend,  Reine  is  anxious  to  take  the  part  of 
a  gypsy  dancer,  but  her  real  identity  leaks 
out  and  innumerable  objections  are  raised  to 
thwart  her  desire.  She  wins  out,  however, 
against  the  arguments  of  her  guardian  uncle, 
against  the  public  opinion  of  her  class,  even 
against  her  lover's  rather  Puritan  objections. 
Her  final  victory  comes  when  Hammond,  solely 
dependent  on  his  talent  for  a  livelihood,  con- 
sents to  marry  her  before  he  has  achieved  ma- 
terial  success. 


"The  character  work  is  merely  sketched  in, 
yet  rather  telling.  But  the  charm  lies  in  little 
homely  touches,  life  on  the  wreck,  preparations 
for  going  a-visiting — all  of  which  go  to  make  up 
a  little  different  existence  from  that  to  which 
we  are  accustomed." 

H Boston   Transcript   p4   O  24  '23   540w 

"While  not  very  plausible,  serves  well  enough 
as  a  piece  of  literature  by  which  the  romantic 
reader  may  escape  from  the  prison  of  reality 
and  vicariously  enjoy  life  as  it  should  be." 

-^ NY    Times    p22    N    18   '23   480w 

Reviewed   by    E.    W.    Osborn 

N    Y    World    plOm    Ja    6    '24    380w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:481    N    '23 


ROWLAND,    HENRY    COTTRELL.      Return   of 
Frank  Clamart.   277p  $1.90  Harper 

23-8939 
The  story  is  based  upon  the  conceit  that  pro- 
hibition has  let  loose  in  this  country  a  flood 
of  illicit  traffic  in  narcotics,  on  a  large  scale, 
and  with  it  a  crime  wave  emanating  from  a 
scientifically  trained  murder  syndicate  oper- 
ating with  a  lethal  gas  of  instantaneous  and 
sure  effect.  Privy  to  this  syndicate  and  its 
plans,  and  fanatically  determinedi  to  exter- 
minate both  it  and  the  obnoxious  traffic,  are 
Frank  Clamart  and  Leontine,  a  beautiful  Rus- 
sian, both  ex-criminals  of  a  European  reputa- 
tion. Shane  Emmet,  a  famous  cartoonist,  is 
inadvertently  drawn  into  the  imbroglio,  be- 
comes the  innocent  cause  of  the  abduction  of 
the  daughter  of  a  great  financier  and  is  marked 
as  one  of  the  syndicate's  prospective  victims. 
Such  is  the  setting  for  an  orgy  of  crime  and 
murder — with  some  love-making — in  which 
most  of  the  killing  is  done  by  self-appointed 
executioners  in  the  cause  of  philanthropy  and 
"to  make  the  world  safe  for  the  police." 


"The  tale  Is  banal  and  never  heightened  by 
any  freshness  of  character  drawing.  No  less 
conventional  than  the  characters  are  the 
thrills."   W.   E.   H. 

—  Boston   Transcript  p3  Je  2   '23  650w 

"If  you  are  looking  for  a  real,  genuine,  old- 
fashioned  shocker,  you  can  hardly  do  better 
than  to  dip  into  the  pages  of  'The  Return  of 
Frank  Clamart.'  And  it  has  the  advantage  of 
not  gripping  the  imagination  formidably  enough 
to   induce    nightmares." 

-)-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   p20   Ag 
12   '23   180w 

"A  detective  story  which  has  the  distinction 
of  presenting  a  new,  untried  plot.  This  is 
something  of  an  achievement.  The  writing  is 
not    above    the    average.      In    spite    of   the    de- 


fects, however,  the  scenes  succeed  in  leaving 
an  impression,  and  the  interest  and  excitement 
are   well   sustained." 

-i Int    Bk   R   p62  S  '23   160w 

Lit   R  p884  Ag   4  '23  150w 
Reviewed   by   J:    W.    Crawford 

Nation    117:42    Jl    11    '23    250w 
N  Y  Times  pl4  My  27  '23  800w 
Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  17  '23  llOw 

ROXBURGH,  JOHN  FERGUSSON.  Poetic  pro- 
cession; an  introduction  to  English  poeti-y. 
143p  $1.25  Appleton   [2s  6d  Blackwell] 

821.09  English  poetry — History  and  criti- 
cism [23-1032] 
The  headmaster  of  an  English  public  school 
follows  in  this  little  book  some  400  years  of 
English  poetry  beginning  with  the  Elizabethans 
and  coming  down  to  Rupert  Brooke  and  John 
Masefield.  While  intended,  evidently,  for  young 
people  his  style  and  manner  of  treatment  make 
it  a  readable  book  for  all  ages.  The  plan  is 
to  study  the  changing  course  of  English  poetry 
thru  the  work  of  the  men  who  helped  to  make 
and  most  clearly  mark  its  changes.  He  divides 
these  into  groups  according  to  the  particular 
poetic  fashion  which  they  set  and  studies  the 
chief  exponents  only  in  each  group.  Contents: 
The  poetry  of  fancy;  The  poetry  of  Ingenuity; 
The  poetry  of  scholarship;  The  poetry  of  wit; 
The  elegy;  The  poetry  of  simple  feeling;  The 
poetry  of  romance;  The  poetry  of  imagination; 
The  poetry  of  picture-making;  The  poetry  of 
human  character;  The  poetry  of  to-day. 


"The  book  is  as  perfect  a  thing  in  its  way  as 
I..ytton  Strachey's  'Landmarks  of  French  Litera- 
ture,' though  of  course  the  performance  here  is 
on  a  much  smaller  and  humbler  scale."  M.  L. 
Franklin 

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"An  agreeable   and  intelligent  introduction   to 
English   poetry.      His    studies   are   delightful." 
-f  N    Y   World   p7e  Ag  26    '23   120w 

ROXOLO,  YSOBEL,  pseud.  Letters  from 
Monte  Carlo.  19 9p  il  $2  Christopher  pub. 
house 

914.49  Monte  Carlo.  Gambling  23-6572 
In  these  letters  to  a  friend,  an  American 
woman  writing  under  an  assumed  name  de- 
scribes the  life  of  Monte  Carlo— the  people 
seen  there,  the  Casino  and  the  game,  a  few 
of  the  systems  that  have  been  evolved  for 
winning,  experiences  of  winners  and  losers  and 
some    of    the    superstitions    of    the    place. 


"An  intimate  description  of  life  at  Monte 
Carlo,  written  by  one  'on  the  inside'  is  really 
something  new.  It  is  likewise  fascinating,  as 
is  the  life  itself  at  the  famous  gaming  pal- 
ace."    E.   J.    C. 

-I-   Boston     Transcript    p4    Je    2    '23    800w 

"These  letters  were  written  to  an  invalid 
friend  in  the  United  States,  not  being  in- 
tended for  publication.  It  was  a  happy  thought 
to  refrain  from  recasting  these  sparkling  let- 
ters, so  full  of  personalities,  anecdotes  and 
whims,   in   a  more  regular  form." 

+  Springf'd    Republican    p8   Jl    4   '23    280w 

ROYDEN,  AGNES  MAUDE.  Beauty  in  re- 
»  ligion.  155p  $1.25  (3s  6d)  Putnam 
240  Religion 
The  thought  underlying  the  addresses  brought 
together  in  this  little  book  is  that  the  beauty 
all  around  us  in  the  world  is  a  revelation  and 
expression  of  God,  that  the  assurance  of  God, 
Indeed,  comes  to  us  thru  this  beauty.  Con- 
tents: The  meaning  of  beauty  in  religion; 
Poetry  and  religion;  The  beauty  of  Christ's 
teaching;  The  beauty  of  common  things;  The 
poetry  of  Christ's  teaching:  The  poetry  of  the 
Gospels;  Religion  and  laughter;  Love  the 
Creator;  Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 


"Miss  Royden  is  at  her  best  in  this  volume 
of  addresses.  All  her  themes  are  treated  with 
a  depth  of  spiritual  insight  that  is  more  than 
remarkable.    Her  analysis  of  the  religious  value 


448 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


ROYDEN,    A.    M. — Continued 

of   such   poets   as    Shakspeare   and    Shelley   Is    a 

revelation." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p5  D  22  '23  260w 
"Miss    Royden's     Beauty    in    Religion     trans- 
ports   us    to   a   higher    level   and    into    a    larger 
air.    The    book    has    the    note    of    inspiration." 
Alfred  Fawkes 

+  Spec    131:659   N    3   '23   210w 
"One   goes   back  to  his   work  with   new  vigor 
after  a  book  like  this."   W.   E.   Brooks 
+  Survey   51:353   D   15   '23   250w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p735  N  1 
•23   50w 

ROYDEN,     AGNES     MAUDE.      Political    Chris- 
tianity.    143p   $1.25    (3s   6d)    Putnam 

261     Sociology,    Christian.    Social   problems 

23-26139 
The  addresses  in  this  volume  are  political 
only  in  the  broad  sense  of  the  word.  They  are 
concerned  with  the  application  of  Christian  prin- 
ciples to  our  problems  as  citizens.  Contents: 
Political  Christianity;  Justice:  human  and  di- 
vine; The  passion  of  Christ;  Christ  and  the  un- 
employed; St  Patrick's  day.  1921;  The  cry  of 
Russia;  Disarmament  and  the  Washington  con- 
ference;  Party  politics;  The  care  of  the  insane. 


Booklist  19:203  Ap  '23 
"Those   who  read   these   addresses   will   easily 
understand  why  thousands  crowd  to    hear   this 
great  woman  preacher  of  the  age  whenever  and 
wherever  she  is  announced  to  speak." 

-t-  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  4  '23  150w 
"We  seem  to  catch  the  very  intonation  of  her 
intensely  earnest  voice,  and  her  manner  is 
never  dogmatic  or  dictatorial,  but  always  ap- 
I)ealing  and  persuasive.  Convincing  reasonable- 
ness, unaffected  sincerity,  and  keen  human  in- 
sight make  her  sermons  very  different  from  the 
ordinary  run  of  barren  intellectual  exercises." 
Lawrence  Mason 

-I-  Lit  R  p487  F  24  '23  520w 
"Miss  Royden,  who  has  been  heard  by  many 
American  audiences  last  year  and  this,  is 
deeply  in  earnest,  but  her  sermons  might 
easily  have  been  bettered  as  literary  products 
by  more  careful  revision  before  they  were 
printed." 

H NY  Times  pl8  Je  10  '23  400w 

Pittsburgh   IVIo   Bui   28:154  Ap  '23 
Spec  130:149  Ja  27  '23  400w 
Springf'd     Republican     plO    Mr    13    '23 
220w 
Survey  49:819  Mr  15  '23  20w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p751  N  16 
'22   50w 

ROYDEN,   AGNES   MAUDE.    Prayer  as  a  force. 

132p  $1.25   (3s  6d)   Putnam 

248     Prayer  23-26241 

The  author  was  for  five  years  assistant 
preacher  at  the  City  Temple,  London,  and  is 
now  at  the  Eccleston  Guildhouse.  The  point  of 
view  of  this  series  of  addresses  is  that  prayer 
is  as  real  and  living  a  force  in  the  world  as  any 
of  the  great  forces  revealed  by  natural  science. 
Contents:  Worship;  The  God  within  us;  What 
is  prayer?  What  is  faith?  The  power  of  faith; 
Unanswered  prayers:  Prayer  for  others;  To 
whom  do  we  pray?  The  God  within  us  and  the 
God    without;    The    eternal    God. 


Booklist  19:237  My  '23 
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conventional simplicity  and  uncompromising 
candor  with  which  the  author  faces  difficulties 
and  recognizes  actual  experience,  but  ignores 
outworn  theology  and  shuns  homiletic  platitude 
in  bringing  home  to  us  the  workable  validity 
of  her  great  thesis."  Lawrence  Mason 
+  Lit  R  p487  F  24  '23  400w 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:154   Ap   '23 
"To  those  who  read  [these  lectures]  the  power 
exercised  by  the  preacher  over  earnest  men  and 
women  will  be  no  surprise." 

4-  Spec   130:149  Ja  27   '23  400w 


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and,  indeed,  ultra-modern  ideas  give  individual- 
ity  to  whatever  she   says  or  writes." 

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ROYDEN,     AGNES     MAUDE.     Women     at     the 

world's   crossroads.    139p   $1.25   Womans   press 

396     Woman — Social  and  moral  questions 

22-21092 
"First  given  as  addresses  at  the  seventh  na- 
tional convention  of  the  Young  Women's  Chris- 
tian Association  of  the  United  States.  Contents: 
The  world  at  the  crossroads;  Christian  patriot- 
ism; Woman's  service  to  the  race;  Woman's 
service  to  theology;  The  law"  of  life;  Love,  the 
fulfilling    of    the    law." — Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 


Booklist    19:241    My    '23 
Cleveland   p57   Jl  '23 
"A  collection  of  vigorous  and  picturesque  talks 
to  young  women   on   their  part   in   the  world  of 
the   future." 

+   Lit   R   p277   D  2  '22  300w 

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RUCK,      BERTA      (MRS      GEORGE      OLIVER). 

2    Dancing  star.     337p    $2     Dodd     [7s  6d  Hodder 

&    S.] 

23-13573 

"Ripple  Meredith  is  so  much  the  ordinary 
young  woman  of  light  fiction,  to  whom  as  a 
rule  everything  is  subsidiary  to  her  love  af- 
fairs, that  she  fits  a  little  incongruously  into 
the  framework  of  stage  life  provided  for  her, 
and  is  not  very  convincing  in  her  quality  as  a 
woman  torn  between  the  rival  attractions  of 
a  career  and  marriage.  Ripple's  great  chance, 
like  that  of  many  a  heroine  before  her,  comes 
when  she  is  understudying  a  popular  dancer; 
and  the  whole  of  the  scene  which  begins  with 
her  breakneck  journey  back  to  London  to  take 
the  place  of  her  leader  and  ends  with  the 
triumph  which  she  wins  disguised  as  the  star 
herself,  goes  with  a  rush." — The  Times  [Lon- 
don]   Lit    Sup 

"Miss  Ruck  writes  such  readable  ripplings 
that  we  do  not  care  whether  they  are  rubbish 
or  not.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  we  expect  them 
to  he,  and  this  time  we  are  wrong."  I.  W.  L. 
+  Boston  Transcript  p3  N  24  '23  520w 
"There  are  many  times  when  a  Fourth  of 
July  sparkler  is  pleasanter  than  a  searchlight, 
and  this  one  is  bright,  pretty  and  won't  hurt 
the    children." 

+  Lit  R  pl70  O  20  '23  llOw 
N  Y  Times  pl4  D  16  '23  330w 
"Berta  Ruck's  books  are  sweet  and  interest- 
ing. She  seems  just  to  pour  herself  into  her 
stories.  Perhaps  too  much  so.  With  such  an 
obvious  style  of  writing,  she  should  beware 
of  slipping  herself  into  the  mouths  of  her 
characters."     Ruth    Snyder 

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Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  13  '24  350w 
"Written    with    great    vigour." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p693    O 
18    '23    220w 

RUCK,      BERTA      (MRS      GEORGE      OLIVER). 

Sir   or   madam.    372p   $1.75    Dodd    [7s    6d   Hut- 
chinson] 

23-4807 

"The  story  of  the  complications  which  develop 
in  the  life  of  a  wealthy  young  hermit  bachelor 
because  of  the  machinations  of  a  widow  and 
the  pranks  of  a  girl  who  disguises  herself  as  a 
chauffeur  and  obtains  a  position  in  his  house- 
hold."—-Pub  W 


Booklist  19:320  Jl  '23 

"Light,    fluffy  comedy   is   Berta   Ruck's   latest 

love    story,    but    it    has    been    made    about    ten 

times    too    long.       One-tenth    as    long,    and    the 

pleasure  of  the  reader  would  be  magnified  ten- 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


449 


fold.  Alas,  that  that  best  friend  of  a  parlous 
writer,  the  blue  pencil,  could  not  have  cut  away 
the  interminable  well-bred  parenthetical  chatter 
and   let    the    story    come   clear!" 

h    Int    Bk    R   p70   O   '23   250w 

"This  is  a  spirited  and  amusingly  written 
novel,  the  characters  are  all  delightful  people 
and  the  incidents  are  cleverly  handled.  How- 
ever, for  so  trifling  a  story  it  is  unpardonably 
long;  each  situation  Is  prolonged  far  past  its 
normal  ending  and  every  character  has  the 
soliloquy  habit  developed  to  the  pomt  of  a 
vice.  A  sagacious  blue  pencil  would  have 
greatlv  improved  this  long-drawn-out  story." 
-I-  —  Lit  R  p555  Mr  24  '23  400w 
"The  book  makes  no  demands  on  the  reader's 
intelligence;  it  reads  itself,  and  is  altogether 
amusing  nonsense."     Raymond   Mortimer 

-I-   New  Statesman  20:661  Mr  10  '23  350w 
N   Y  Times  pl6  Mr  25  '23  280w 
"A  most  readable  story  which  will,  far  better 
than  many  of  a  more  serious   type,  beguile  our 
leisure  hours  with  swift  and  amusing  action  and 
a    happy    ending,    punctuated    by    the    music    of 
wedding  bells   for  all  concerned."      A.    L.    Hill 
+   N    Y  Tribune   p22  Mr  18   '23   450w 
Wis   Lib  Bui  19:161  Je  '23 


RUD,    ANTHONY    MELVILLE.      Second   gener- 
ation.    318p   $2   Doubleday 

23-16271 

A  story  of  the  Scandinavians  in  America.  Ei- 
nar  Merssen  having  left  Norway  to  escape  the 
responsibilities  attendant  upon  the  birth  of  his 
illegitimate  son,  goes  to  work  in  the  tobacco 
fields  of  farmer  Gottlieb  in  Wisconsin.  Hard- 
working, ambitious,  and  avaricious,  he  marries 
the  daughter  of  a  wealthy  farmer,  inherits  her 
father's  acres,  and  by  means  of  mortgages 
ruthlessly  foreclosed,  gets  the  neighboring 
farmers  into  his  power  and  becomes  a  banker 
as  well  as  farmer.  Lief  his  son,  sent  by  the 
mother  in  Norway  to  Einar  to  be  educated,  he 
also  endeavors  to  sacrifice  to  his  greed,  but  the 
son  finally  breaks  away  from  home  and  puts 
himself  thru  school  and  medical  college,  realiz- 
ing at  last  his  ambition  to  become  an  oral  spe- 
cialist. 


Booklist  20:141  Ja  '24 
"Mr.  Rud  skillfully  as  he  may  write,  lacks 
subtlety.  The  coarse  lovemaking  he  constantly 
emphasizes  in  his  novel,  at  least  in  the  first 
two  thirds  of  it,  wearies  the  reader.  Faithful 
as  his  representations  of  the  Norwegian  tem- 
perament may  be,  he  talks  of  it  too  much." 
T).  F.  G. 

\-   Boston    Transcript   p4    N    3   '23   550w 

"As  a  story  pure  and  simple  it  is  well  writ- 
ten, forceful,  and  gripping,  with  a  plot  that 
holds  the  attention.  As  a  picture  of  Norwegian- 
American  pioneer  life  it  cannot  be  accepted." 
H.   A.  Lars  en 

H Lit   R  p279  N  24  '23   660w 

"In  'The  Younger  Generation,'  Mr.  Rud  has 
produced  a  first  novel  not  only  of  promise,  but 
of  solid   achievement." 

-f-  N  Y  Times  pl4  O  21  '23  660w 
"  'The  Second  Generation'  takes  its  place  at 
once  as  one  of  the  novels  of  American  life 
which  is  close  to  the  soil,  authentically  docu- 
mented, honest  in  portrayal  and  moving  in  its 
beauty,  pathos  and  irony.  It  lacks  the  inten- 
sity of  'My  Antonia'  and  I  should  be  the  last 
to  suggest  that  Mr.  Rud  has  the  art  to  convey 
so  much  tenderness,  wonder  and  intangible 
feeling  that  Miss  Gather  conveys  in  that  novel; 
but  it  is  an  impressive  achievement,  none  the 
less,  and  as  a  first  novel  it  might  well  be  spon- 
sored with  credit  and  satisfaction  by  any  one 
of  a  dozen  of  the  more  eminent  of  our  novel- 
ists."     Burton   Rascoe 

+   N   Y  Tribune  pl7  O  14  '23  1750w 
Reviewed  bv  Gerald  Gould 

Sat   R  136:686  D   22  '23   250w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p895  D  20 
'23    380\v 


RUSKIN,  JOHN.  John  Ruskin's  letters  to  Wil- 
liam Ward;  with  an  introd.  by  Alfred  Mans- 
field Brooks.     176p   il   $2.50   Jones.   Marshall 

B  or  92     Ward,  William  22-19630 

When  John  Ruskin  was  teaching  drawing  in 
the  Working  Men's  college  William  Ward  was  a 
beloved  pupil,  later  becoming  under  drawing- 
master.  In  1858  Ward  began  the  work  with 
which,  in  later  years,  his  name  came  to  be  pecu- 
liarly associated — the  copying  of  Turner's  water- 
color  drawings.  Ruskin  followed  his  work  with 
rare  interest  and  his  letters  to  Ward,  covering 
the  period  from  1855  to  1885,  are  full  of  encour- 
aging, yet  severe  criticism.  Often  the  rule  given 
is  accompanied  by  a  pen  scrawl  in  illustration. 
A  short  biography  of  Ward  by  his  son  is  in- 
cluded. 


"It  is  not  to  artists  alone  that  this  cluster 
of  extremely  practical  and  characteristic  let- 
ters will  appeal."   E.   J.   C. 

Boston  Transcript  p8  N   22  '22  580w 

Cleveland  p23  Mr  '23 
"A  meticulous  garnering  of  the  choicest  in- 
eptitudes extant  of  the  famous  Victorian 
painter-pedant.  It  is  sufficient  to  record  that  in 
the  one  hundred  and  forty  odd  examples  given, 
there  is  not  one  incisive  observation  on  painting 
or  literature  or  life." 

—  Dial   74:104   Ja  '23  160w 
"We   should  be   grateful   for  this  volume.      It 
heightens   old    colors,    retouches    old    lines   in    a 
remarkable  life."   S.   T.   Williams 

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New   Repub   35:339   Ag  16  '23  450w 
R   of   Rs   67:223  F  '23   80w 
Springf'd     Republican    p7a    Mr    18    '23 
550w 
"The    twenty    letters    from    Ruskin    to    Ward, 
collected    here    for    the    first    time,    are    not    of 
great     interest.       Too     many     of     them     refer 
merely  to  some  business  commission  which  the 
writer  wished  executed;   and  the  technical  ad- 
vice   which    occurs    in    his    criticism    of   Ward's 
work    is    hasty    and    abbreviated.  .  .  Save    pos- 
sibly as  a  private  memorial  to  Ward,  we  ques- 
tion   the    wisdom    of    publishing    these    letters. 
An   introduction   by  Mr.    Mansfield  Brooks   con- 
tains little  more  than  pious  platitudes,  and  the 
short    biography    of    Ward    by    his    son    suffers, 
like    the     rest     of    the     book,     from     irrelevant 
matter." 

—  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p211   Mr 
29   '23   700w 

RUSSELL,     BERTRAND     ARTHUR    WILLIAM. 
2    A    B    C    of    atoms.    162p    $2    Dutton    [4s    6d    K. 

Paul] 

541.2    Atoms  23-15056 

In  simple,  non-technical  language  intelligible 
to  the  reader  without  mathematical  knowledge 
Bertrand  Russell  tells  what  is  known  about  the 
structure  and  behavior  of  atoms  and  how  it  has 
been  discovered.  Contents:  The  periodic  law; 
Electrons  and  nuclei;  The  hydrogen  spectrum; 
Possible  states  of  the  hydrogen  atom:  The 
theorv  of  quanta;  Refinements  of  the  hydrogen 
spectrum;  Rings  of  electrons;  X-rays:  Radio- 
activity; The  structure  of  nuclei:  The  new  phys- 
ics and  the  wave  theory  of  light;  The  new 
physics    and    relativity;    Appendix. 

"Clear  and  simple  in  statement;  brilliant  in 
style  and  stimulating  to  the  imagination  of  the 
lavman." 

4-  J   Home  Econ  16:40  Ja  '24  30w 

"The  book,  while  most  simply  written,  is  quite 
comprehensive."   Leigh  Page 

+   Lit    R    p444   Ja    12    '24    600w 

"Bertrand  Russell  has  done  all  that  can  be 
done  within  150  pages  to  make  plain  these  novel 
notions  and  their  startling  implications.  He  does 
not  as  some  of  the  rest  of  us  have  done,  merely 
plav  timidly  around  the  edges  of  the  subject 
and  trv  to  throw  a  little  light  upon  it  from  the 
sides  by  more  or  less  misleading  analogies  He 
dodges  nothing,  but  actually  undertakes  to  tell 
in  words  and  figures  and  a  minimum  of  alge- 
braic symbols  the  essence  of  these  ideas  and 
their  philosophical  significance.  Nobody  else  has 


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RUSSELL,    B.    A.    W: — Continued 
attempted  so  much  and  nobody  else  has  accom- 
plished more  in  the  way  of  enlightenment  of  the 
general  reader."   E.   E.   Slosson 

+   New  Repub  37:209  Ja  16   '24  1550w 

"Such  a  book  as  Mr.  Russell's  helps  us  enor- 
mously to  understand.  As  a  kind  of  clearing 
house  of  thought,  as  an  object  lesson  in  sci- 
entific clarity,  as  a  genuine  contribution  to  the 
only  kind  of  progress  worth  while,  it  bespeaks 
the  highest  commendation."  T:  L.  Masson 
+   N   Y  Times  p3  Ja  6  '24  780w 

"Mr.  Russell's  little  book  is  a  masterpiece  of 
lucid  exposition.  It  is  written  for  the  laynian 
and  demands  practically  no  previous  knowledge 
of  the  subject,  yet  it  is  the  kind  of  book  which 
may  be  read  with  profit  by  persons  of  every 
degree  of  knowledge  of  modern  physics  and 
chemistry.  It  would  be  difficult  to  recommend 
this  book  too  strongly."  „,  ^  ,„  ,no  ■,-7f> 

+  New  Statesman  22:sup24  O  13  '23  170w 

RUSSELL,    BERTRAND    ARTHUR    WILLIAM, 
and    RUSSELL,    DORA   WINIFRED    (BLACK) 
(MRS  BERTRAND   RUSSELL).     Prospects  of 
industrial  civilization.     287p     $2     Century   [7s 
6d  Allen  &  U.] 
330.4    Economic    conditions.    Socialism.    In- 
dustrial  revolution  23-13867 
The    authors    maintain    that    the    most    potent 
forces  molding  the  modern  world  are  industrial- 
ism and  nationalism  and  that  thru  their  inter- 
actions rather  than  thru  the  conflict  of  capital- 
ism and  socialism  the  world  is  reverting  to  bar- 
barism.      They    believe     that     unless    we    have 
along  with  our  highly  developed  industrial  civ- 
ilization,  socialization  of  production  and  distri- 
bution   and    internationalization     of    both,     this 
civilization   which   we   know   today   will  destroy 
itself  within  the  next  hundred  years.  They  also 
believe  that  socialism  is  bound  to  prevail  in  the 
end  but   not  by  means  of  the  class  war,   which 
would    destroy    industrialism    and    reduce    us    to 
a  primitive  agricultural  society. 

Com    on    Church   and    See   Ser.    Inf  ser 
p2  D  15  '23  1050w 

"Few  civilized  persons  will  dispute  the  broad 
assumptions  and  designs  of  such  delightful 
authors.  But  as  a  definite  contribution  to  de- 
tailed analysis  and  solution  of  the  world's  prob- 
lems, the  book  has  no  more  authority,  and  no 
more  appositeness,  than  would  naturally  arise 
from  the  random  speculation  of  such  intelligent 
and  sympathetic  amateurs."  G:  Soule 
f-  Nation  117:585  N  21  '23  800w 

"The  class-conscious  socialist  will  not  like 
this  book.  Keither  will  the  class-conscious  capi- 
talist. But  most  Americans  who  can  afford  the 
luxury  of  an  open  mind  will  find  it  worth  read- 
ing. They  will  agree  that  the  picture  as  a 
whole  is  uncommonly  clear  and  true.  It  is  the 
kind  of  picture  which  helps  one  to  a  fresh  view 
of   nature."     Alvin   Johnson 

-I New  Repub  36:258  O  31  '23  1350w 

"This  book  is  a  big  advance  on  Mr.  Russell's 
previous  ventures  into  the   field  of  social   pros- 
pect and  prophecy.  It  is  less  hot-tempered,  and 
its   judgments  are   more   calm   and   considered." 
4-  New  Statesman  22:220  N  24  '23  850w 

"The  parcel  of  newness  that  the  Russells 
bring  in  their  book  is  not  large.  Their  work, 
rather,  is  to  open  the  eyes  of  the  careless  gen- 
eration to  the  evils  of  the  things  It  Is  proud 
of,  so  that  with  the  ensuing  consciousness  it 
may  make  life  safe  for  the  future.  As  such, 
the  book  fills  its  scope."  F.  V.  Roman 
[-  N    Y   World    p6e   N   25   '23   lOOOw 

"Even  admitting  the  tentative  nature  of  the 
survey  attempted,  it  has  undoubtedly  contri- 
buted very  greatly  to  the  knowledge  of  our  own 
stage  of  civilization,  and  this  addition  is  In  Itself 

of  very  great  value."  ^  ,., 

-\ The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p660  O  11 

•23  1600W 
RUSSELL,     CHARLES     EDWARD.       Railroad 

melons,    rates    and    wages;    a    handbook    of 

railroad  Information.   332p   $2  Kerr 

385      Railroads— Finance  22-24057 

On  the  premise  that  railroads  are  public  high- 
ways and  are  therefore  part  of  the  machinery 


of  government,  and  that  the  corporations  ad- 
ministering them  are  entitled  to  a  reasonable 
profit  on  their  investments  and  no  more,  the 
author  argues  that  their  fraudulent  over-cap- 
italization has  robbed  the  government,  the 
public  and  the  railroad  workers  and  that  they 
are  huge  and  costly  failures  that  are  doomed  to 
give  way  to  public  ownership. 


Boston    Transcript   p7    Jl    18   '23   260w 
"Those   who  like   muckraking  will   find   their 
likes  catered  to.     Beyond  that  the  book  is  null, 
with  the  possible  exception  of  the  final  chapter, 
'Conclusions  and  Remedies."  " 

—  NY  Times  p9  F  4  *23  330w 
"Disappointingly  inadequate.  The  most  im- 
portant cases  of  inflated  capital  here  dealt  with 
occurred  before  the  present  century,  and  have 
very  little  to  do  with  rates  and  wages  today. 
Vehement  assertion  takes  the  place  of  economic 
argument  in  this  presentation  of  the  case  for 
government  ownership." 

—  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  22  '23  300w 

RUSSELL,  CHARLES  EDWARD,  and  RODRI- 
GUEZ,  E.  B.  Hero  of  the  Filipinos;  the  story 
of  Jos6  Rizal,  poet,  patriot  and  martyr.  392p 
II  $3  Century 

B  or  92  Rizal  y  Alonso,  Jos6  23-13074 

Jos6  Rizal,  1861-1896,  is  revered  as  the  lead- 
er of  the  movement  for  Philippine  independence 
and  the  inspiration  of  national  self-conscious- 
ness. Born  in  Luzon,  of  Tagalog  parentage,  he 
was  educated  in  Europe,  became  a  doctor  of 
medicine,  acquired  advanced  methods  of  scien- 
tific research  and  found  time  in  the  midst  of 
his  studies  to  write  his  novel  of  Philippine  life, 
"Noli  me  tangere."  Idol  and  leader  of  his  people, 
he  became  a  martyr  and  was  finally  put  to  death 
by  the  Spanish  government  in  his  thirty-sixth 
year. 


"Fortunately  there  are,  in  this  eulogy,  enough 
extracts  and  quotations  from  letters  and  jour- 
nals of  the  subject  to  rescue  him  from  the  adu- 
lation of  his  biographers,  and  to  reveal  him  as  a 
genuinely  great  man  who  laboured  not  only  to 
free  his  people  from  the  oppressions  of  imperial- 
ism but  also  to  prepare  them  for  a  wise  use  of 
the  freedom  which  they  have  yet  to  enjoy." 
E.  T.   B. 

-I Freeman   8:287   N   28   '23   380w 

"The  authors  of  this  study  have  performed 
their  difficult  task  well  in  that  the  result  is 
highly  readable,  the  background  is  adequately 
sketched  in,  and  the  study  is  well  documented, 
amply  illustrated,  and  equipped  with  an  index 
and  an  extensive  bibliography." 

+   Lit    R    p214    N   3   '23    400w 

"This   book    is    said    to   be    the   first   authentic 
account   of   the   martyr's  life  and   is   interesting 
as  an  addition  to  the  sparse  Filipino  literature." 
+  N    Y    World   p8   O   14   '23   550w 

"Mr.  Russell  and  his  collaborator  have  ac- 
complished a  coinpetent  piece  of  work,  and, 
if  it  circulates  as  it  should  in  these  United 
States,  will  give  our  people  a  much  needed  in- 
sight Into  the  character  of  the  people  over 
whose    destinies   we   preside." 

+    N  Y  World  p8  O  14  '23  550w 

RUSSELL,  CHARLES  EDMUND.  True  ad- 
ventures of  the  secret  service.  316p  ?2 
Doubleday 

940.485        European    war.     1914-1919— Secret 
service  23-10320 

Chapters  from  the  author's  experience  as 
head  of  the  United  States  secret  service  in 
that  section  of  France  thru  winich  most  of  the 
American  troops  passed  on  their  way  to  the 
front.  Contents:  Firebugs;  Greatest  secret 
service  story  ever  told;  Train-robbers;  Wine 
swindlers;  Stolen  passports;  Algerian  murder- 
ers; Woman  spy  of  Biarritz;  Women  in  room 
27;  Cocaine  smugglers;  Underground  railroad; 
Murder   of    private    Hand;    Avenging    old    Jean. 


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"These  adventures  may  be  true,  but  they 
aren't  interesting.  They  are  the  stufE  wherefrom 
literature  is  spun,  but  they  aren't  literature."  A. 
D.    Douglas 

—  NY   Tribune   p20   Je   17   '23   llOw 

Springf  d   Republican  p6  Ag  27  '23  560w 

RUSSELL,  FREDERIC  ARTHUR.  Manage- 
ment of  the  sales  organization.  227p  il  $2.50 
McGraw 

658  Salesmen  and  salesmanship  22-21341 

"Confined  to  'the  personnel  aspect,  or  the  re- 
lations which  should  exist  between  the  sales 
manager  and  the  traveling  salesmen  under  him.' 
Includes  practical  information  on  the  selection 
and  training  of  salesmen,  their  equipment,  com- 
pensation, territory,  etc.  The  final  chapter  is 
on  salesmen's  reports  and  letters." — Pittsburgh 
Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh    IVlo    Bui    28:182   Ap   '23 

RUSSELL,  GEORGE  WILLIAM   (A.  E.,  pseud.). 

The   interpreters.     175p  $1.75    (6s)   Macmillan 
320.1     Political   science  23-3067 

A  symposium  on  political  ideals,  in  which  the 
Irish  poet  sets  forth  in  prose  that  often  ap- 
proaches poetry  the  idea  of  a  world-state  as 
variously  interpreted  by  a  poet,  an  anarchist, 
an  artist,  a  socialist,  an  historian  and  an  im- 
perialist. The  protagonists  find  themselves  to- 
gether in  prison  after  an  attempted  revolution, 
which  tho  not  named  or  placed,  obviously  sug- 
gests the  Easter  uprising  in  Dublin.  Awaiting 
sentence  on  the  morrow  they  talk  all  thru  the 
night,  revealing  the  differing  political  and  spirit- 
ual moods  which  inspire  them.  All  of  them  ex- 
cept the  imperialist,  who  was  arrested  by  mis- 
take, are  idealists,  and  their  philosophy  partakes 
of  the  mystic  and  the  transcendental. 


Booklist   19:241   My   '23 

"There  are  many  weighty  thoughts  and  apt 
sayings,  but  such  an  endless  flow  of  beautiful 
words  camouflages  them  that  unless  one  skips, 
the  book  makes  slow,  at  times  tedious, 
reading." 

H Bookm   57:469  Je  '23   80w 

"In  repeated  flashes  of  beauty  and  gleams 
of  ancient  wisdom  'The  Interpreters'  gives  one 
more  than  one  can  account  for  in  any  positivist 
tally  of  its  ideas.  If  'A.  E.'  does  not  satisfy  us 
with  the  politics  of  eternity,  his  poetry  of 
eternity  leaves  little  to  be  desired."  L:  Mum- 
ford 

-t-   Freeman   7:235   My  16  '23  2350w 

"The  discussion  gets  nowhere  in  particular 
but  it  moves  swiftly  around  a  number  of  circles, 
vicious  and  otherwise,  ever  and  again  shooting 
off  on  a  tangent  of  novelty  into  infinite  spaces 
only  to  come  hurtling  back  on  a  parabolic  path 
of  return.  One  hundred  and  seventy-flve  pages 
of  speculative  ideas,  exceptionally  well  express- 
ed and  arrestingly  developed."   S.   S.   A. 

H Greensboro   (N.C.)    Daily   News  p5  D  23 

'23   400w 

"Poetry,  politics,  and  philosophy  are  by  no 
means  so  dissevered  in  essence  as  they  fre- 
quently are  in  practice,  and  it  is  a  rare  exhilar- 
ation to  find  a  book  which  is  a  sincere  and 
passionate  fusion  of  the  three.  A.  E.  is  one 
of  the  few  living  writers  who  could  accomplish 
the  feat.  .  .  It  would  be  hard  to  find  in  con- 
temporary literature  so  moving  and  magical  an 
essay  in  'relating  the  politics  of  time  to  the 
politics  of  eternity.'  And  this  most  Platonic 
symposium  is  written  in  a  prose  tuned  to  the 
grandeur  of  its  theme  and  its  intention."  Irwin 
Edman 

+   Nation   116:499   Ap  25   '23   880w 

"We  will  yield  to  none  in  admiration  of  the 
nobility  and  elevation  of  ^.'s  expression,  its 
ingenuity  and  humour,  too.  And  vet,  maybe,  the 
episcopal  thunderings  of  the  Bishops — which  be- 
gin, 'Thou  Shalt  not'— are  more  appropriate  to 
the  hour." 

-f   New  Statesman  20:386  D  30  '22  1050w 

"  'The  Interpreters'  is  deserving  of  the  widest 
reading,  but  with  the  very  general  prejudice 
against   any    writing   that    even    borders   on    the 


philosophical  the  volume  is  probably  doomed  to 
a  moderate  circulation.  Its  sheer  dramatic  qual- 
ity should,  nevertheless,  help  to  overcome  some 
of  the  prejudice  against  the  philosophical  con- 
tent." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl2  F  18  '23  2300w 

Reviewed    by    Eva    Goldbeck 

N  Y  Tribune  pl8  Jl  8  '23  1050w 

•'  'The  Interpreters'  is  an  addition  to  the  liter- 
ature of  the  day;  the  real  literature.  It  is  in 
style  so  fresh  and  vivid,  and  beautifully  phrased 
that  it  reminds  one  constantly  of  'A.  E.'s'  fel- 
low countryman,  Synge,  though  there  are  in  it 
no  Gaelic   idioms."   J.    L.    H. 

4-   N   Y   World  p8e  F  18   '23  520w 

Reviewed  by  Lloyd  Morris 

Outlook    133:497    Mr    14    '23    1700w 

"Such  a  book  as  'The  Interpreters,'  bv  one 
9^-  the  niost  distinguished  senators  in  the  new 
Irish  Government,  inspires  us  to  more  hope  in 
the  future  of  that  body  than  a  score  of 
manifestos  or  ordinances.  Such  qualities  of 
clear  thinking  and  beautiful  expression,  of 
vision  of  things  heavenly  combined  with  under- 
standing of  things  earthly,  cannot  but  conduce 
even  in  politics  to  the  happiest  results,  if  at 
least  the  professional  politicians  give  their 
exercise   an  opportunity." 

-I-  Sat   R   135:738  Je  2  '23  700w 

Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Je  3  '23  lOOOw 

'"The  chief  value  of  'The  Interpreters'  is  not 
to  be  looked  for  in  its  direct  contribution  to 
political  problems.  We  value  it  first  for  the 
impress  it  gives  us  of  an  elevated,  a  saintly 
mind;  next,  for  the  healing  beauty  it  contrives 
to  throw  over  memories  which  for  many  of  us 
have  been  defaced  by  images  of  brutality  and 
outrage;  and,  last,  for  the  gleam  of  insight 
It  should  leave  with  all  whom  fortune,  heritage 
or  sagacity  have  placed  on  the  side  of  the 
established    order." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p755  N  23 
'22   3000w 

RUSSELL,    JOHN.      In    dark    places.    285p   $2.50 
Knopf 

23-8944 
All  these  stories  from  the  South  seas  describe 
unusual  incidents  of  an  exotic  nature.  In  "The 
colour  of  the  East"  a  voung  man,  who  had 
always  lived  in  dreams  of  foreign  parts,  comes 
into  a  fortune  and  immediately  sets  out  on  a 
tour  to  the  Far  East.  On  his  first  landing  he 
starts  to  do  the  town  and  to  catch  the  local 
color.  He  barely  escapes  with  his  life  from  a 
gambling  joint  after  having  lost  most  of  his 
money.  The  local  color  that  he  carries  away 
with  him  is  the  rouge  from  the  painted  lips 
of  the  unfortunate  half-caste,  who  had  tried  to 
save  him.  Contents:  The  colour  of  the  East- 
The  pagan;  The  one-eyed  devil;  The  bird  of 
paradise;  Mc  Keon's  graft;  The  wreck  on  Deliv- 
erance: The  digger;  The  slaver;  Jonah;  The 
winning  hand;  The  witch  woman;  One  drop 
of  moonshine. 


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"Mr.    Russell   has   a   deliberate   power,    whollj- 
masculine    and    extraordinarily    honest.        Thert 
are     moments    when     his    prose    becomes    un- 
blemished poetry."  D.   F.  G. 

-f-   Boston  Transcript  pi  Je  9  '23  460w 
"Great    diversity    in    range   of   plot   and   char- 
acters as  well  as  style  insures  unflagging  inter- 
est   in    these    stories.     .    .     Their    beauty    is    in 
the  telling."  D.  W.   Laub 

-f   Detroit    News  pl4   Je  17  '23  860w 
Dial  75:201  Ag  '23  60w 
"His    workmanship    is    of    the    highest    order, 
and   it   is   no  wonder   that   he   has  achieved   the 
high  distinction  of  being  placed  alongside  Con- 
rad and  the  great  R.   K.   He  is,   in  a  word,   the 
Gauguin    among    novelists,    and    being    that    his 
work  will  live."  Cosmo  Hamilton 
-f   Int    Bk    R    p41   Jl    '23    420w 
"There  are  stories  of  greed  and  cowardice,  of 
twisted    loyalties  and   supreme   self-sacrifice,   of 
love  and  hate  and  lust.     There  are  stories  of 


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RUSSELL,  JOHN— Continuedi 
treasure    and    beautiful    things,    birds    of    para- 
dise   and    coral    shores.      But    why    say    more? 
There  are  stories."   J:    W.   Crawford 
+   Lit  R  p783  Je  23  '23  500w 
"If  literature  were  no  more  than  a  collection 
of  good  stories  well  told,  Mr.  Russell  would  be 
entitled  to  list  his  tramp  steamer  with   the  fri- 
gates    of     the     immortals.    Great    literature    is, 
however,   the  soul's  record  of  its  profound  voy- 
ages in  a  world  of  perplexing  appearances.  »Mr. 
Russell    is    almost    too    ready    to    write    a    'good 
story."  "   A.    D.    Douglas 

1-   New  Repub  36:82  S  12  '23  750w 

"No  volume  of  such  notable  short  stories  has 
appeared  in  a  very  long  time,  it  is  an  interest- 
ing unusual  book."  L.  M.  Field 

+  N    Y  Times  pl2   My  13  "23  1300w 
"In   the  works    of  Mr.   Russell  one   finds  ever 
the  something  unusual,  the  something  different. 
He  is  the  story-teller  in  excelsis."  E.  W.  Osborn 
+   N   Y  World  pl8  Je  10  "23  240w 
"Mr.  Russell  has  gifts.  He  can  devise  a  neat 
plot,  and  his  natural  descriptions  are  soinetimes 
effective:  If  he  could  get  rid  of  his  method,  he 
might    have    a    future.    But    then,    perhaps,    he 
would  be  much  less  popular  than  he  is  at  pres- 
ent."   Gerald   Gould 

1-   Sat    R   136:20   Jl   7   '23   350w 

Spec   131:291    S   1    '23    40w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ja  6  *24  500w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p438   Je 
28   '23   500w 

RUSSO,    JOSEPH    LOUIS.     Lorenzo    Da    Ponte; 

poet  and  adventurer.    (Columbia  univ.   studies 

in    romance    philology    and    literature)    166p    il 

$2.50  Columbia  univ.  press 

B  or  92  Da  Ponte,   Lorenzo  22-17047 

Lorenzo  Da  Ponte,  1749-1838,  was  a  Venetian, 
who  after  a  long  and  adventurous  life  in 
Europe,  came  to  America  in  1805  and  continued 
here  a  full  and  varied  career.  He  was  succes- 
sively grocer,  bookseller,  teacher  of  Italian,  pro- 
fessor at  Columbia  and  manager  of  the  first 
Italian  opera  house  in  the  United  States.  He  is 
chiefly  known  today  as  Mozart's  librettist,  tho 
he  wrote  librettos  for  other  composers  as  well. 
In  his  "Memorie,"  which  is  now  being  translated 
into  English,  he  has  given  an  account  of  his 
career.  The  present  biographer,  in  telling  the 
story  of  Da  Route's  life,  has  utilized  in  his  re- 
eearch  all  the  available  sources. 


Reviewed  by  T.  R.  Tbarra 

Int   Bk   R  p30  P  '23  3200w 

"Dr.  Russo  has  spared  no  pains  in  investiga- 
tion; he  has  cleared  up  obscure  points;  and  he 
has  told  the  story  of  da  Ponte's  tumultuous 
career  clearly  and  concisely.  It  is  only  in  deal- 
ing with  da  Ponte's  troubled  experiences  in 
London  that  he  is  not  entirely  satisfactory." 
Brander  Matthews 

-\ NY  Times  p5  N  5  '22  600w 


5ABATIER,  AUGUSTS.  The  apostle  Paul;  a 
sketch  of  the  development  of  his  doctrine; 
tr.  by  A.  M.  Hellier;  ed.  with  an  additional 
essay  on  the  pastoral  epistles  by  George  G. 
Findlay.  402p  $2  Doran  [10s  6d  Hodder 
&  S.] 

227      Paul,    Saint 
Translation  of  a  celebrated  work  by  a  French 

liberal   theologian,   published  in  France   in    1881. 

The  book  combines  a  history  of  St   Paul's   life 

and  an  exposition  of  his  doctrine. 

SABATINI,      RAFAEL.      Fortune's      fool.      304p 

$2    Houghton 

23-11978 

A  succession  of  misfortunes  marked  the 
career  of  Randal  Holies.  Bearing  the  same 
name    as    his    father — a   signatory    to   the    death 


warrant  of  Charles  I — and  himself  a  soldier 
in  Cromwell's  army,  England  is  no  place  for 
him  after  the  Restoration.  Having  also  lost 
every  trace  of  his  beloved  Nancy  Sylvester, 
he  goes  to  Holland  from  whence  he  returns 
after  a  lapse  of  years,  down  and  out,  to  find 
all  doors  closed  and  the  shadow  of  the  gal- 
lows hanging  over  him.  As  a  last  chance  of 
escape  he  accepts  an  ignoble  commission  from 
the  Duke  of  Buckingham  to  abduct  a  famous 
actress  and  deliver  her  into  the  duke's  hands. 
The  actress  turns  out  to  be  Nancy.  The  plague, 
then  raging  in  London,  delivers  her  from  the 
duke  and  gives  Randal  an  opportunity  for 
heroism  that  reinstates  him  in  Nancy's  favor 
and   in  his  worldly   fortunes. 

Booklist  20:59  N  '23 
"The     reader     of     'Fortune's     Fool'     will     not 
lack   for   thrills.     The   excitement  is  continuous, 
and    the    sympathies    of    the    reader   are   always 
with    the    hero."    E.    F.    E. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  29  '23  650w 
"For  all  that  this  book  is  a  story  of  obvious 
appeal  and  romantic  melodrama,,  it  contains 
what  most  of  its  genre  lack — a  firm  moral  basis. 
The  characters  are  well  drawn  and  act  like 
men    and   women    despite    their    fancy    dress." 

H Lit    R   pll4  O   6   '23   400w 

N  Y  Times  pl8  S  2  '23  COOw 
"A  fine  story;  the  sort  of  book  one  can 
read  without  feeling  that  he  is  being  made 
an  unwilling  and  decidedly  uncomfortable 
confidante  for  matter.s  that  are  usually  spoken 
only  in  a  mouth-to-ear  fashion."  F:  F.  Van 
de    Water 

+    N   Y  Tribune  pl9  S  9  '23  1350w 

The  Times  [Londoni   Lit  Sup  p605  S  13 
'23    lOOw 

SABIN,  EDWIN  LEGRAND.  Rose  of  Santa  F6. 
309p   $2  Jacobs 

23-7543 

When  Don  Isidro  and  his  daughter  Rosa  have 
occasion  to  travel  on  the  old  Santa  F§  trail,  they 
engage  as  escort  the  "Long  American,"  a  vet- 
eran of  Indian  fights,  Richard  Andrews,  brave 
but  untried,  and  a  hotheaded  caballero,  Don 
Antonio,  both  cousin  and  suitor  to  Rosa.  The 
rivalry  between  the  Don  and  Richard  is  open 
and  intense,  whether  for  an  Indian's  scalp  or 
for  the  favor  of  the  seiiorita.  The  end  of  the 
trail  leaves  the  two  Americans  entrusted  with 
the  secret  of  an  old  gold  mine  in  'Pache  coun- 
try. There  follow  the  search,  Indian  attacks, 
captivity  and  hair-breadth  escape,  Rosa  shar- 
ing all.  When  the  rickety  mine  collapses,  the 
"Long  American"  is  satisfied  with  the  mere  ad- 
venture and  Richard  and  Rosa  receive  priestly 
blessings. 

"While  Mr.  Sabin's  stories  of  the  West  have 
some  romantic  interest,  they  are  not  skilful 
enough  either  in  plot  or  writing  to  give  them  a 
permanent  place  among  the  best  stories  of 
frontier  life."  „„  „^„ 

\-   Lit  R  p899  Ag  11  '23  200w 

N   Y  World  p7e   My  27  '23  30w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup   p654  O  4 
'23    200w 

SACKVILLE-WEST,  VICTORIA  MARY  (MRS 
HAROLD  GEORGE  NICOLSON).  Challenge. 
29^P    *2    Doran  ^^_^^^^^ 

The  scene  of  the  story  is  Heraklelon,  sup- 
posedly a  tiny  republic  on  the  Aegean  sea  and 
Aphros,  its  island  dependency.  Julian  Daven- 
ant  son  of  an  English  wine  merchant  in  Herak- 
leion,  becomes  interested  in  the  liberation  of 
Aphros  and  the  leader  of  a  rebellion.  His  young 
cousin.  Eve,  passionately  in  love  with  him, 
accompanies  him  to  the  island  which  thus  be- 
comes the  scene  both  of  a  revolution  and  of  a 
most  singular  love-idyll.  Eve's  elemental  and 
boundless  passion  makes  her  .lealous  of  every 
Interference  with  her  exclusive  possession  of 
Julian  and  capable  of  crime  and  treachery.  By 
betraying  the  island  she  wrecks  Julian's  hopes 
and  her  own  life. 


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Booklist  19:254   My  '23 
"The    most    completely    satisfactory    novel    1 
have   read   since    "The  Judge.'  "     J.   F. 
+  Bookm   57:200  Ap  '23   320w 
"Neither  Eve  nor  Kato  nor  Julian  are  people 
to  be  forgotten.     Nor  is  'Challenge'  itself  likely 
to  be  a  book  of  ephemeral  popularity.     Its  flash, 
its   color,    its   brilliance,    its   magic    capture    the 
imagination   inescapably.     To  clasp   hands  with 
adventure  is  ^n  experience  not  to  be  forgotten." 
D.  L.  Mann     '• 

+  Boston   Transcript  p4  F  24  '23  1250w 
Cleveland  pl9  Mr  '23 
"Miss  Sackville-West  has  had  the  broad  vi- 
sion,  but  the  discipline  has  not  been  present  in 
quite  the  needed  measure."   L..   B. 

1-   Freeman    7:551   Ag   15   '23   SOOw 

"Miss  Sackville-West  has  written  a  romantic 
novel  of  rare  imaginative  insight,  distinct  psy- 
chologi'jal  acumen  and  explicit  dramatic  force. 
And  she  has  written  in  a  prose  so  felicitous, 
so  subtly  responsive  to  mood  and  color  and  at- 
mosphere as  to  have  achieved  a  very  consider- 
able degree  of  perfection.  The  novel  estab- 
lishes her  position  as  one  of  the  most  original 
and  talented  of  the  younger  group  of  British 
writers." 

+   Int    Bk    R   p52   Ap   '23   850w 
"It  is  no  end  good.     Miss   Sackville-West  can 
write   excellent   English." 

+   New    Repub   35:49   Je   6   '23   310w 
N    Y  Times  pll  F   18   '23  660w 
Reviewed   by   M.   A.   Murphy 

N    Y   Tribune   p22   Mr    11    '23    1050w 
Reviewed  by  E.   W.    Osborn 

N  Y  World  p6e  F  25  '23  250w 
Pratt  p37  spring  '23 
"Making  full  allowance  for  skillful  artistry  in 
the  telling  and  for  the  intended  portrayal  of 
the  fine  frenzy  of  idealistic  youth,  one  still 
feels  that  what  is  told  fails  to  represent  reality. 
'Challenge'  does  not  grapple  with  actual  exis- 
tence." 

4-  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Mr  25  '23  150w 

SACKVILLE-WEST,  VICTORIA  MARY  (IVIRS 
HAROLD  GEORGE  NICOLSON).  Grey  Weth- 
ers.     328p    $2    Doran 

23-12117 
The  story  is  the  elaboration  of  a  legend  con- 
nected with  the  sacrificinl  stones  of  the  druids 
on  the  downs  about  Marlborough  and  King's 
Avon.  It  tells  about  the  spell  the  downs 
wove  around  Clare  Warrener,  daughter  of  a 
country  squire,  and  Nicholas  Lovel  of  ques- 
tionable origin,  whose  grandmother  had  been 
burnt  as  a  witch  and  who  harbors  in  his 
dark,  secretive  house  his  mother,  a  bed- 
ridden old  hag  of  uncanny  reputation,  and  a 
half-wit<ed  brother.  The  high-minded  Lovel 
places  the  barrier  of  his  tainted  blood  between 
himself  and  Clare  and  they  both  contract 
loveless  marriages.  But  the  spell  holds.  One 
night  Clare  leaves  her  husband's  house,  finds 
Ijovel  on  the  downs  and  the  two  disappear 
from   the  ken  of  men. 


"The  author  has  caught  acutely  the  magic  of 
this  austere,  eerie  but  fascinating  Wiltshire 
country.  Her  story  of  primitive  emotions  grows 
naturally  in  a  setting  so  elemental.  'Grey 
Wethers'  is  a  most  charming  example  of  'fact 
and   fancy    wed.'  " 

+  Boston   Transcript  p4   S   22   '23   250w 
Dial    75:506    N    '23    lOOw 
New  Repub  36:188  O  10  '23  80w 
"This     sort     of    writing    is     certainly     agree- 
able    to     many     readers,     and     has     won     Miss 
Sackville-West      a      reputation      as      a      stylist. 
Moreo/er,    once    you    have    the    trick    of    it,    it 
can    be    manufactured    in    limitless    quantities. 
But    those    to    whom    it    is    not    agreeable    will 
hardly     have     the     patience     to    wade     through 
morasses    of    it    in    order    to    reach    the    patches 
of  firmer  ground   which   do   exist   in   its  midst." 
Raymond    Mortimer 

h   New   Statesman   21:448   Jl    21    '23   1300w 

N  Y   Times   pl8   S   2   '23   470w 


"Miss  Sackville-West  is  always  a  realist  of 
magnificent  power  and  here  she  is  equally  a 
poet."   Edith  Leighton 

-f  N    Y  Tribune  p21   D  2   '23   600w 

"If  more  time  had  been  spent  upon  writ- 
ing 'Grey  Wethers'. — time  enough  to  have 
wrought  that  literary  phantom  which  haunts 
the  book  into  a  reality — it  would  have  been  a 
good  novel,  perhaps  a  great  novel.  As  it  is, 
it    is    only    a    good    enough    novel."    Georgette 

H NY   World   p7e  Ag  26  '23   900w 

"There  are  good  scenes,  even  beautiful 
scenes,  in  the  book;  there  is  no  questioning 
the  ability  of  the  writer;  and  yet  somehow 
the  whole  does  not  satisfy.  The  truth  is,  I 
suppose,  that  even  more  than  novelty  does 
tradition  require  a  large  air  to  keep  it  ex- 
alted."   Gerald   Gould 

1-  Sat    R    136:20    Jl    7    '23    300w 

""We  can  find  lapses  from  distinction  all 
through  the  book.  A  tendency  to  careless 
writing  is  a  remediable  fault,  therefore  we 
do  not  scruple  to  point  it  out.  Miss  Sack- 
ville-West is  at  the  beginning  of  her  career, 
and  she  should  not  hide  her  really  consider- 
able powers  under  the  threadbare  cloak  of 
journalese." 

h  Spec  131:197  Ag  11  '23  520w 

"What  is  very  agreeable  about  the  book  is 
Miss  Sackville-West's  admirable  descriptive 
power;  the  Downs  and  the  hard  contours  of 
the  hills  live  in  her  pages.  And  who  that  has 
ever  loved  fairystories  really  leaves  them  be- 
hind?" 

-f  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p438    Je 
28    '23    720w 

SADLEIR,   MICHAEL.     Desolate  splendour.  391p 

$2   Putnam 

23-7991 

The  place  of  "desolate  splendour"  is  Morvane, 
the  Plethern  estate  in  Gloucestershire,  inherited 
by  Charles  Plethern  thru  the  accident  of  a  four 
hours'  start  of  his  twin  brother  James  into  the 
world.  James  is  his  mother's  favorite  and  her 
remaining  years  are  spent  in  sinister  designing 
to  win  the  estate  from  Charles  for  James  or 
for  his  son.  The  fact  that  Charles  had  remained 
unmarried  nourished  her  hope  and  the  arrival 
on  the  scene  of  Charles's  beautiful  young  ward, 
Viola  Marvell,  suggests  a  new  and  diabolical 
way  of  gaining  her  end.  A  villain  is  found  as 
an  accomplice  and  Viola,  thru  her  love  for 
Charles,  unconsciously  plays  into  her  hand.  The 
sensational  plot  and  its  frustration  are  frank 
melodrama,   not  unmixed  with  horror. 


"The  combination  of  Michael  Sadleir's  quali- 
ties  is   distinctly   unusual."    D.    L.   Mann 

-f    Boston   Transcript  p5  Je  2  '23  1350w 

"Where  Mr.  Sadleir  started  as  an  ironist  he 
has  grown  merely  callous;  where  he  was  crisp 
and  provocative,  he  has  become  tedious  and 
unmistakably  garrulous.  Instead  of  a  trace  of 
self-consciousness,  one  finds  an  overdose  of 
theatricalism.  His  characters  are  peculiarly 
bloodless,  and  their  reactions  could  be  charted 
by  a  curb  broker.  There  is  still  hope  for  this 
novelist — if  he  will  have  the  wisdom  to  revert 
to  his  earlier  work  as  a  point  of  redeparture." 
L.    B. 

—  Freeman    7:455   Jl   18    '23    150w 

Reviewed   by   A.    D.    Douglas 

Int   Bk    R  p41  Ag   '23  470w 

"It  is  as  happy  in  depicting  scenic  nature 
as  it  is  shrewd  in  observing  human  nature.  The 
colors  are  not  laid  on  the  canvas  laboriously, 
but  with  the  deftness  of  an  artist  who  responds 
to  the  subtle  hues  of  nature.  The  narrative  is 
delicately  sensitive,  beautiful,  rich." 
-j-   Lit  R  p95  S  29  '23  350w 

Reviewed  by  J:  W.   Crawford 

Nation  117:330  S  26  '23  80w 

"Michael  Sadleir's  theme  is  one  that  would 
ring  most  unconvincingly  in  the  hands  of  a 
lesser  writer,  but  since  he  commands  a  prose 
style  that  is  essentially  fine  and  an  authentic 
power  of  characterization,  one  does  actually 
believe  in  the  personages  who  carry  on  the  tale. 
.  .   If  he  has  one  failing  it  is  a  slight  straining 


454 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


SADLEIR,    M. — Continued 

for  effect,  a  too  obvious  desire  to  be  different. 
The  best  novelists  do  not  find  it  necessary  to 
worit  with  violently  unusual  characters.  Life 
itself  is  enough  for  them." 

H NY  Times  pl9  Ap  29  '23  800w 

"Mr.  Sadleir  invests  his  baroque  style  with 
all  the  measured  phrases  of  deliberate  romance 
like  the  slow,  dull  gloom  of  Victorian  furniture 
rearing  its  monstrous  elegance  under  the  florid 
glare  of  candelabra."   A.   D.   Douglas 

N   Y  Tribune  p25  My  13  '23  650w 

"Without  question,  here  is  an  author  who 
has  mastered  the  English  language.  He  has 
absolute  possession  of  words.  He  can  tear 
them  and  rip  them  and  sew  them  together  into 
a  most  harmonious  and  pleasing  pattern.  At 
times,  his  style  is  Biblical."  Ruth  Snyder 
+  N   Y  World  pl8  Je  10  '23  500w 

"Mr.  Sadleir's  dialogue  is  always  spontaneous 
and  unforced;  he  has  an  extraordinary  sense  of 
houses  and  his  imagination  is  equal  to  any 
task  it  undertakes.  Unfortunately,  it  outruns  his 
judgment;  it  defies  probability  without  tran- 
scending it.  In  spite  of  unassimilated  elements 
and  conflicting  aims,  however,  Desolate  Splen- 
dour is  well  worth  reading,  if  only  for  its  vigour, 
its  fertility,  its  manysidedness  and  the  long- 
drawn   excitement   of  its   close." 

+  Spec  130:593  Ap  7  '23  750w 

ST    JOHN-LOE,    GLADYS.      Spilled    wine.    333p 
$2   Seltzer    [7s    6d   Duckworth] 

23-4359 
Ann  Fielding  tells  her  story  in  the  first  per- 
son from  her  girlhood  to  her  marriage  at 
twenty-six  when  she  had  already  reached  fame 
as  a  novelist.  There  was  nothing  in  her  cock- 
ney father  or  her  colorless,  yielding  mother 
to  account  for  her  artistic  temperament  or  her 
overweening  ambition.  Breaking  loose  from  her 
uncongenial  surroundings  she  sought  indepen- 
dence by  way  of  her  pen,  and  later  achieved  a 
year  in  Paris.  The  spilled  wine  of  her  life  con- 
sisted of  a  series  of  love  affairs,  mostly  dis- 
creditable, from  which  she  emerged,  if  not  less 
selfish,  at  least  with  greater  knowledge  of  her- 
self. The  man  whom  in  the  end  she  married 
knew  of  the  spilled  wine  but  was  not  deterred 
thereby. 


"  'Spilt  wine."  The  author  mops  it  all  up, 
and  changes  the  cloth.  But  we  wonder  as  to 
the  reasonableness — we  dare  not  question  the 
morality — of  this  tale.  Spilt  wine,  as  a  general 
thing,  leaves  dregs  in  the  glass.  And  it  usually 
leaves   stains   on    the   tablecloth."     I.    W.    L. 

—  Boston   Transcript   p4   Mr  17  '23   900w 

"  'Spilled  Wine'  is  an  honest  document,  but 
it  is  without  distinction  either  of  plot  or  of 
style." 

1-   Lit  R  p773  Je  16  '23  190w 

Reviewed  by  J:   W.   Crawford 

Nation    116:396   Ap    4   '23    230w 
"As  a  portrait  Ann   is  overdrawn,   but   not  so 
much  as  to  destroy  the  illusion  of  reality.     She 
does  exist  for  her  readers,  both  in  her  strength 
of  mentality  and  in  her  weakness  of  moods." 

H NY  Times  pll  F  18  '23  750w 

Reviewed  by  E.  W.  Osborn 

N  Y  World  p8e  Mr  25  '23  250w 
"The   story    is   so   frank   as   to   be    nauseating 
and  leaves  Ann  at  the  end  of  two  tempestuous 
affairs,    w^orldly,    cynical    and    heart-broken." 

—  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p8a  Mr  11  '23  90w 
"There    is    no   detachment    in    Miss    St.    John- 

Loe's  attitude  towards  Ann;  and  it  is  probably 
for  want  of  a  measure  of  detachment  that  a 
really  clever  first  novel  falls  a  little  short,  as 
it  seems  to  us,  of  a  fuller  success." 

h  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p278   Ap 

27   '22  210w 

ST    NICHOLAS.       Stories    al)Out    horses,     retold 
from   St  Nicholas.    193p   il   $1.25     Century 

23-12069 
Contents:    Danny  and   the   "Major,"   by  Gert- 
rude  P.   Greble;   The   sea-horse   of  Grf\nd   Terre. 
by    Charles   Tenn.v   Jackson;    A   satisfactory    in- 
vestment,   by   Eveline   W.    Brainerd;   How   Babe 


escaped  polo,  by  Izola  Forrester;  A  blue-grass 
girl,  by  William  H.  Woods;  How  Rangoon 
carried  weight,  by  E.  Vinton  Blake;  In  the 
toils  of  fate,  by  Virginia  Mitchell  Wheat;  Ran- 
goon as  a  nuise,  by  E.  Vinton  Blake;  Belinda 
in  the  fore-room,  by  Ethel  Parton;  Benny's 
horse,   by  Mary   Catherine  Lee. 

"The  present  volume  ranges  from  the  sporty 
to  the  sentimental,  but  is  all  interesting  to  a 
person    who   likes   horses." 

4-   Boston   Transcript   p4   S  26   '23   210w 

"Just  as  horses  are  apt,  from  time  to  time, 
to  arouse  in  us  a  new  sense  of  their  heroic  and 
lovable  qualities,  so  do  these  stories  warm  the 
heart  and  make  one  glad  to  be  in  a  world  with 
such  splendid  animals  as  hoises  in  it.  Every 
storv   is   good."     M.    G.    Bonner 

+   Int    Bk    R   p54   O   '23   150w 

SAINT-SAENS,    CAMILLE.     Outspoken    essays 
-    on   music;  auth.  tr.   by  Fred  Rothwell.   (Musi- 
cian's   bookshelf;    186p    $2    Dutton    [4s    6d    K. 
Paul] 

780.4   Music  23-4015 

These  essays  do  not  confine  themselves  ex- 
clusively to  music  but  make  some  digressions 
into  other  fields,  including  impressions  of  Am- 
erica and  some  observations  on  spiders.  The 
first  and  longest  essay  is  a  study  of  certain 
ideas  of  Vincent  d'Indy  in  his  "Course  of  musi- 
cal composition."  Another  is  on  "false  master- 
pieces of  music,"  compositions  either  ridiculous 
or  mediocre  which  the  populace  has  been  tricked 
into  admiring  thru  snares  set  by  the  publishers. 
There  are  several  essays  on  Chopin  and  Gounod, 
a  note  on  Rameau  and  a  chapter  on  modern 
music. 


"Saint-Saens  has  written  his  essays  for  the 
individual  who  knows  but  little  if  anything 
about  music,  but  who  may  be  enabled  to  listen 
to  music  with  the  heightened  appreciation  that 
comes  from  knowing  where  the  music  itself 
came  from,  what  idea  the  composer  had  in 
mind  when  he  wrote  it,  and  how  little  the  musi- 
cians themselves  agree  as  to  how  it  should  be 
played."    A.    W.    Porterfield 

-I-   Bookm  58:93  S  '23  400w 

"A  good  deal  of  it  will  interest  the  trained 
musician  mainly,  but  scattered  here  and  there 
are  Hashes  of  his  keen  wit  and  unique  indi- 
viduality."    N.   H.   D, 

+   Boston   Transcript   p4  D  15  '23   850w 

SAINTSBURY,  GEORGE  EDWARD  BATE- 
MAN.  Collected  essays  and  papers,  1875-1920. 
3v   433;358;383p    $12.50    Dutton 

824  English  literature — History  and  criticism 
This  collection  includes  Professor  Saintsbury's 
essays  on  English  literature  of  the  period  from 
1780  to  1860,  most  of  which  have  been  published 
elsewhere,  but  which  are  here  revised  and  sup- 
plemented by  several  essays  on  authors  of  the 
Victorian  period.  The  third  volume  is  devoted 
to  a  miscellaneous  group  nearly  two-thirds  of 
which  have  never  before  been  collected.  Half 
of  these  are  also  on  English  literature  the  sub- 
jects of  the  others  including  politics,  cookery, 
spelling  reform  and  reviewing,  with  a  study  of 
the  historical  novel  and  an  essay  on  Dante  and 
the  grand  style. 


Reviewed  by  J:  M.  Murry 

N  Y  Times  p7  Ja  6  '24  1450w 
"That    a    man    who    writes    so    much    should 
write    so   freshly    is   remarkable    in    the    eyes   of 
those  who  were  born  into  the  days  of  a  desper- 
ately   dainty    attenuation    of    style    and    matter. 
Mr.    Saintsbury's  style  is  far  from  tenuous." 
+  Spec    131:658    N    3    '23    1250w 
"These   three   volumes  of  essays   are   extraor- 
dinarily   readable.      Open    them    anywhere,    you 
will  be  interested.     They  are  not  the  least  valu- 
able  part — as   in   any  real   work   the   appendices 
never  are — of  the  great  natural  history  of  Eng- 
lish literature  upon  which  Professor  Saintsbury 
has  been  engaged  for  a  half  a  century." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p787    N 
22  '23  1050W 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


455 


SALMON,  LUCY  MAYNARD.  Newspaper  and 
the  historian.  566p  il  $7.50  Oxford  [31s  6d  Mil- 
lord] 

070     Newspapers  23-10928 

"Professor  Lucy  Salmon,  long  connected  with 
the  department  of  history  in  Vassar  College,  has 
devoted  many  years  to  the  study  of  the  news- 
paper as  historical  material,  and  in  particular 
of  such  aspects  of  the  press  as  may  be  supposed 
to  bear  upon  those  departments  of  research  and 
interpretation  with  which  the  social  historian  is 
most  directly  concerned."  (New  Statesman) 
"Here  are  chapters  on  the  use  of  the  periodical 
as  a  historical  source,  but  also  others  on  the 
developanent  of  the  newspaper,  the  daily  jour- 
nal as  a  personality,  the  press  in  its  relation  to 
other  social  activities,  the  news  collecting  and 
news  distributing  organizations,  the  special  cor- 
respondent, the  war  correspondent,  the  general 
correspondent,  the  interview,  the  editor  and  the 
editorial,  etc.,  etc.  Under  these  and  other  heads 
Professor  Salmon's  industry  has  compiled  facts, 
opinions,  judgments,  and  experiments  of  im- 
mense value,  and  this  is  to  be  followed  by  a 
companion  volume  'The  Newspaper  and  Au- 
thority.' "    (Nation) 


"Miss  Salmon  has  manifestly  gone  to  the  bot- 
tom   of    her    subject,    incidentally    relating    the 
history  of  journalism  itself."     J.  E.  Chamberlin 
-I Boston    Transcript    pi    N    24    '23    3550w 

"Professor  Salmon  has  brought  together  an 
amazing  mass  of  information,  obviously  the  re- 
sult of  years  of  research,  which,  despite  the  fact 
that  the  press  has  been  handled  from  its  eso- 
teric side,  makes  of  the  volume  an  encyclopedia 
indispensable  to  every  student  of  the  subject. 
She  has  created  a  reference  book  of  permanent 
value  replete  with  facts  and  opinions."  O.  G. 
Villard 

H Nation   117:269   S  12  '23  750w 

"Her  book,  of  500  closely  packed  pages,  is  a 
monument;  the  proof  of  an  industry  and  a 
steady  faculty  of  classification  and  analysis  sel- 
dom, if  ever,  applied  before  by  a  teacher  of 
history  to  the  newspaper  files.  It  is,  moreover, 
an  instructive  and  entertaining  miscellany, 
garnished  with  a  tremendous  harvest  of  foot- 
notes which  provide,  on  almost  every  other  page, 
something  to  savour.  No  book  of  this  kind  can 
conceivably  be  free  from  omissions  more  or  less 
important.  Nevertheless,  her  book  is  a  full 
compendium  of  newspaper  fact.s — valuable, 
amusing,    and   wonderfully    diversified." 

-I New  Statesman  22:sup20  O  13   '23  780w 

"Prof.  Salmon  has  gone  at  length  into  the 
methods  of  news-gathering  and  editing,  the 
mechanical  difficulties  to  be  overcome  in  the 
race  against  the  question  of  illustration  and  ad- 
vertising. She  is  a  fair  and  sympathetic  judge 
and  critic."  P.  V.   N. 

+  N  Y  World  p6e  Ag  19  '23  1050w 

"Miss  Salmon  has  with  great  industry  and 
skill  collected  a  mass  of  material  which  will 
be  of  use  to  the  journalist  and  historian,  and  of 
interest  and  amusement  to  the  general  reader. 
But  from  the  very  immensity  and  incoherence 
of  the  subject  her  labours  serve  to  illustr.ate 
its  perplexities  rather  than  to  provide  solutions 
which  might  be  facile  but  could  not  in  the 
nature  of  things   be  conclusive." 

H The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p677  O  18 

'23    5300W 

SALTUS,  JOHN  SANFORD,  and  TISNE, 
WALTER  E.  Statues  of  New  York.  164p  il 
$5  Putnam 

718     Sculpture,  American.     New  York  (city) 
— Monuments  23-233 

"It  is  not  the  purpose  of  this  book  to  moralize 
upon  the  justification  of  this  or  that  statue. 
All  that  is  proposed  is  to  list  and  describe  the 
open  air  statues  erected  by,  or  presented  to, 
the  City  of  New  York  and  gracing,  or  dis- 
gracing, its  public  places.  The  reader,  to  whom 
this  volume  may  serve  as  guide,  must  form  his 
own  judgment  as  to  the  right  to  a  statue  of 
each  individual  portrayed,  and  also  decide  for 
him.=;elf  if  the  statue  is  a  near-Verrocchio  or  a 
near-cigar-store-Indian."  (Foreword)  Eighty- 
two   full   page   illustrations. 


"The  authors  prudently  content  themselves 
with  bare  descriptions  of  the  works,  but  a 
sensible  foreword  defends  the  metropolis  from 
any  charge  that  its  ornaments  are  the  worst 
ever.  The  palm  is  awarded  to  Washington." 
-t-  N  Y  World  plOe  Ap  15  '23  250w 
"The  running  comments  on  the  statues, 
accompanying  the  reproductions,  are  judicious 
and  mformative.  The  photographs  are  mostly 
creditable." 

+  Outlook  133:412  F  28  '23  130w 

Sprlngf'd   Republican  p6  Je   4  '23   450w 

SALVERSON,      LAURA      GOODMAN.       Viking 
2    heart.     326p     $2     Doran  vin^uiB 

23-13449 
A  story  of  early  Icelandic  settlers  in  Canada. 
Forced  to  leave  their  home  in  Iceland  because 
of  a  volcanic  eruption  which  destroyed  their 
home  and  killed  their  only  son,  the  Halssons 
go  to  Canada,  where  all  except  Borga,  the 
oldest  daughter,  fall  victims  to  the  hardships 
of  a  new  country.  Borga  is  soon  married  hap- 
pily to  Bjorn  Lindal,  and  the  two,  little  by 
little,  wrest  prosperity  from  the  wilderness  and 
rear  a  family  to  maturity.  The  story  ends  with 
the  death  of  the  only  son  in  the  war,  on  the 
threshold  of  a  promising  medical  career.  It 
portrays  not  only  the  difficulties  of  the  pioneer's 
hfe,  but  also  the  Icelandic  spirit  under  all 
conditions. 


"It    presents    certain    unmistakable   likenesses 
to    'Growth    of    the    Soil,'    though    it    has    not 
Hamsun's   stark   simplicity   nor   his   studied   at- 
tention to  detail.     But  it  has  a  beauty  distinct- 
ively its  own;  its  style  is  that  of  one  who  gives 
some    thought    to    the    rhythmic    and    colorful 
effects  of  words,  and  the  author  is  keenly  sen- 
sitive to  the  picturesque  influences  of  field  and 
wood  and  undulating  prairies."     S.  A.  Coblentz 
+  Lit  R  p333  D  8  '23  600w 
"A    solid   and    straightforward    recital    of    life 
among   Icelandic    emigrants   in   Canada." 
+  Nation    117:746    D    26    '23    40w 
N    Y    Times    p22    N    4    '23    150w 


SAM  MS,    A.    L.       Race;    a    novel    of    wives    and 

others.      273p    $2    Covici-McGee 

24-1495 

The  story,  told  in  the  first  person,  by  the 
wife  of  an  Adonis  and  potential  Don  Juan, 
tells  of  her  struggles  to  keep  the  affections 
of  that  half-brute,  half-angel.  On  returning 
home  from  school  Rosemary  Earle  finds  her 
beloved  cousin  Bess  married  to  Race  Gentry 
and  very  unhappy,  for  this  beautiful  "human 
tiger"  treats  her  cruelly.  In  spite  of  this 
knowledge,  Rosemary  at  first  sight  of  Race 
falls  passionately  in  love  with  him  and  after 
the  early  death  of  poor  Bess  the  two  elope 
and  are  married.  It  is  a  long  tale  of  struggle 
between  passionate  love,  hot  flares  of  temper, 
trial  excursions  on  forbidden  ground  and 
heartrending  fits  of  jealousy.  Rosemary  at  last 
succeeds  in  mastering  her  own  feelings,  tam- 
ing Race  and  holding  his  love  even  after  great 
wealth  had  added  many  allurements  to  tempt 
him    to    infidelity. 


"The  author  has  the  grace  to  tell  his  tale 
with  dexterity.  Perhaps  there  are  not  so  many 
or  so  warm-blooded  thrills  as  Elinor  Glyn 
might  give  us,  yet  there  seems  to  be  more  than 
a  sufl3cient  number  for  the  purposes  of  ex- 
plaining to  the  young  and  unsophisticated  what 
love  is." 

1-   Boston  Transcript  p4   O  24  *23  400w 

N   Y  Times  p21   S   9  '23   450w 
"The    back    of    the    book    is    perfect.     But    it 
ought    not    to    be    opened.     One    ought    to    sit 
down  and  write  what  might  be  on  the  inside." 
Georgette    Carneal 

h   N    Y   World   p7e  Ag  12  '23  1800w 

"The  book  is  not  badly  done,  especially  as 
sensationism  in  the  handling  has  been  sub- 
dued.     One   wishes   that    the   author   and   such 


456 


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SAM  MS,    A.    L. — Continuec 

things   as    the   proper   usage   of   nominative  and 

accusative      witli      pronouns      were     on      better 

terms." 

H Sprlngf'd    Republican   p9a   S    9   '23   240w 

SAMPSON,     EMMA     SPEED     (NELL     SPEED, 
2    pseud.)     Comings  of  Cousin  Ann.     266p     $1.75 
Reilly  &  Lee 

"  'The  Comings  of  Cousin  Ann'  deals  with  the 
visits  of  an  old-time  belle  to  one  after  another 
of  her  family  connections  ever  since  the  Civil 
war  had  killed  her  lover  and  her  father  had 
died  and  her  home  burned.  Every  relative  was 
glad  to  have  her  as  a  peripatetic  guest  but  io 
the  course  of  a  half-century  or  more  she  be- 
came a  very  pathetic  guest  whose  coming  was 
dreaded  to  the  verge  of  final  revolt.  Along 
with  Cousin  Ann  was  her  faithful  coachman 
and  guardian  Uncle  Billy,  equally  pathetic  in 
his  aged  solicitude  for  her  welfare.  And  then 
in  contrast  with  these  relics  of  the  old  South 
there  is  Miss  Judith  Buck,  the  belle  of  the 
ball  that  the  old  men  of  Ryeville  give  in  her 
honor;  full  of  busine.'^s.  earning  her  way  and 
winning  her  way  everywhere;  taking  in  Cousin 
Ann  and  Uncle  Billy  and  transforming  them 
into  modern  and  helpful  citizens." — Springf'd 
Republican 


"A  pleasing  human  interest  narrative,  ram- 
bling,   kindly    and    sufficiently    amusing." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  D  22  '23  310w 
"The  story  is  good  and  it  is  cleverly  told 
and  with  a  wealth  of  humorous  detail.  The 
whole  thing  is  a  compound  of  humor  and 
pathos  but  the  former  happily  is  predominant. 
There  is  a  laugh  on  almost  every  page  and  old 
and    young   alike   will    be   able   to   find   it." 

-f-  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  p8  O 
7  '23  520w 
"A  pleasing  vein  of  sentiment,  a  wisely  hu- 
morous understanding,  and  an  agreeable  man- 
ner in  its  narrative  make  this  an  attractive 
story  of  a  type  not  greatly  in  evidence  in  cur- 
rent  fiction." 

+  Lit   R  pl66  O  20  '23   210w 
"Altogether  delightful.    It  is  one  of  the  bright- 
est and   most   satisfactory  stories  of  the  year  " 
+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  N  18  '23  210w 

SAMUEL,    MAURICE.     Whatever  gods.    346p   $2 

Duffleid 

23-10691 

The  theme  of  the  story  is  the  revolt  of  an 
Idealistic  youth  against  the  gospel  of  success 
as  lived  and  preached  by  his  father.  Arthur 
Winner  has  vague  ideas  of  other  gdds  to 
serve  and  he  refuses  to  take  up  his  father's 
highly  successful  shoe  business.  Gathering 
strength  of  will,  at  last,  to  run  away  from 
home,  he  obtains  work  in  an  Ohio  rubber  fac- 
tory. But  there,  from  the  lowest  ranks  up,  he 
finds  the  same  worship  of  material  things. 
Worker  with  brain,  or  worker  with  hands,  it 
is  the  same  thing,  the  same  spirit.  He  realizes 
his  powerlessness,  that  he  must  be  successful 
himself  before  he  can  make  his  influence  felt. 
The  all-pervasive  snirit  of  etflciency  infects 
him  and  success  begins  to  come  his  way.  Be- 
fore long  he  becomes  reconciled  to  going  home 
and    boosting    Winner's    Shoes. 


"Mr.  Samuel  really  hits  an  idea.  Modern 
business  is  conducted  too  much  on  the  lines 
of  a  religion.  But  frankly  we  don't  think  he 
does  very  much  about  it.  Arthur  may  find  a 
more  moral  way  to  sell  Foam  Sandals,  but 
will   his   Foam   Sandals   sell?"    I.    W.    L. 

—  Boston  Transcript  pi  S  1  '23  650w 
Lit  R  p66  S  22  '23  700w 
"So  it  .seems  that  life  goes.  Mr  Samuel  gives 
us  a  faithful,  if  not  quite  a  brilliant,  account 
of  things  as  they  are.  The  book  is  not  too 
dramatic,  not  too  sugary,  and  it  leaves  us 
with  a  pleasant  taste  in  the  mouth."  Leo 
Markun 

-f-     N    Y  Tribune  p22   S   9  '23  lOOOw 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  S  30  '23  360w 


SANDBURG,  CARL.  Rootabaga  pigeons;  il.  and 
decorations  by  Maud  and  Miska  Petersham. 
218p  $2   Harcourt 

23-12908 
More  stories  in  the  vein  of  "Rootabaga 
stories."  Contents:  Two  stories  told  by  the 
Potato  Face  Blind  Man;  Two  stories  about 
bugs  and  eggs:  Five  stories  about  Hat- 
rack  the  horse,  six  pigeons,  three  wild  Baby- 
lonian baboons,  six  umbrellas.  Bozo  the  button 
buster;  Two  stories  about  four  boys  who  had 
different  dreams;  Two  stories  told  by  the  Potato 
P^ace  Blind  Man  about  two  girls  with  red  hearts; 
Three  stories  about  moonlight,  pigeons,  bees, 
Egypt,  Jesse  James,  Spanish  onions,  the  queen 
of  the  cracked  heads,  the  king  of  the  paper 
sacks;  Two  stories  out  of  the  tall  grass;  Two 
stories  out  of  Oklahoma  and  Nebraska;  One 
fcLory  about  big  people  now  and  little  people  long 
ago;  Three  stories  about  the  letter  X  and  how 
it  got  into  the  alphabet. 


Booklist  20:64  N  '23 
"Those  who  liked  Carl  Sandburg's  'RootaViaga 
Stories'  and  found  in  them  something  new  and 
different  than  we  have  had  in  any  book  before, 
will  go  further  and  find  still  more  in  'Rootabaga 
Pigeons.'  Those  who  did  not  like  the  first  book 
will  do  well  to  read  the  second  before  forming 
a  final  opinion  as  to  the  value  of  Carl  Sand- 
burg's contribution  to  American  children's 
books  I  feel  sure  that  a  definitive  vohime  of 
the  two  books  will  eventually  be  made  by  the 
author,  since  the  stories  are  unequal  in  con- 
tent and  form  and  some  of  them  were  mani- 
festly not  written  for  children.  Such  stories  as 
'Slipfoot,'  'Pig  Wisps,'  'Deep  Red  Roses,'  'The 
Pigeons  Who  Sent  the  Telegrams,'  and  others 
are  bound  to  live  because  they  are  works  of 
art."     A.   C.  Moore 

+  Bookm  58:188  O  '23  340w 
"Grown-ups  will  murmur  'How  charming!'* 
over  some  of  these  stories,  but  a  child  of  ten 
will  be  more  likely  to  lay  the  book  down — or 
suggest  that  it  be  laid  down  for  him — with  a 
solemn  headshake  of  bored  dissatisfaction."  L. 
B. 

1-  Freeman    8:335    D    12   '23    180w 

"It  is  little  short  of  being  a  work  of  genius, 
altho  there  is  uneven  writing  here  and  there. 
But  I  must  confess  I  felt  most  relieved  that  it 
was  not  too  uniformly  brilliant.  It  is  as  tho 
Carl  Sandburg  brushed  aside  every  old  idea 
upon  which  to  build  a  story  and  proceeded  to 
make  his  own  out  of  new  materials  which  he 
had  discovered  "  M.  G.  Bonner 
4-  Int  Bk  R  p60  N  '23  320w 
"Here  is  admittedly  the  same  peculiar  type 
of  narrative  and  the  same  infusion  of  fantas- 
ticality which  made  the  charm  and  glamour  of 
'Rootabaga  Stories' — the  second  crop  is  recog- 
nizably from  the  same  field,  but  the  second  crop 
is  a  shade  inferior  in  quality.  Yet,  for  all  that, 
Carl  Sandburg  has  invented  a  new  and  rootedly 
American   kind   of  faiiy   story." 

-I-  Lit  R  p230  N  10  '23  350w 
"Sandburg's  nonsense  is  fresh  nonsense.  If 
pressed  for  a  comparison  I  would  say  that  he 
has  more  in  common  with  Edward  Lear  than 
with  any  other  writer  for  children,  but  he  is  not 
an  imitator  of  anybody."  A.  C.  Moore 
-f   Nation   117:651  D  5  '23  780w 

New   Repub  36:313   N  14  '23   300w 
"There    is    a    good    deal    of    novelty    in    these 
stories  of  eccentric,   imaginative  beings,   bizarre 
happenings,    fascinating  turns   of  language,   and 
there's  something  of  the   repetition   of  euphoni- 
ous phrases  in   the  telling  that  appeals  to  chil- 
dren  in   folk   tales."      A.    M.    MacLean 
-f  N  Y  Tribune  p31  O  14  '23  250w 
"The   whimsy   and    play   spirit   of   the    'Roota- 
baga'    creatures     are     spontaneous     and     even 
grown-ups   may   enjoy   reading   them." 

+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  N  25  '23  90w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:482  N  '23 
"These  fantastic  tales  have  the  precise  folk 
quality  of  many  lives  lived  and  much  wisdom 
gathered  and  spent.  They  are  vigorous  and 
subtle  and  merry.  They  are  told  in  a  rhyth- 
mical  prose   as  highly   organized   as   Mr.    Sand- 


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457 


burg's    poetry.      Very    often    they    are    poetry." 
G.    H.   Conklinx 

+  Yale  R  n  s  13:409  Ja  '24  600w 

SANDERSON   of  Oundle.     365p   il  $4  Macmillar. 

[12s   6d  Chatto  &  W.] 
373.42         Sanderson,        Frederick       William 
Oundle   school.    Education,    Secondary 

[23-11786] 

Oundle  school  is  among  the  oldest  of  the 
English  public  schools.  The  old  school  entered 
on  a  period  of  revival  when  Frederick  William 
Sanderson  became  its  headmaster  in  1892  and 
gradually  raised  it  from  comparative  obscurity 
to  eminence  among  English  schools.  Many 
writers  have  contributed  to  this  book  which, 
beginning  with  an  account  of  the  headmaster's 
personality,  outlines  the  history  of  the  school 
and  gives  some  account  of  the  distinctive 
methods  of  its  various  departments.  It  also 
shows  the  development  of  Sanderson's  ideas, 
drawn  largely  from  his  own  manuscripts.  His 
chief  papers  and  addresses  are  included. 


types  of  inadequate  personalities  are  described, 
with  illustrative  cases.  Then  the  authors  dis- 
cuss in  turn  actual  mental  diseases,  borderland 
states,  epilepsy,  and  dru&  addiction.  The  last 
chapter  is  given  over  to  constructive  sugges- 
tions for  the  prevention  and  treatment  of  con- 
duct   disorders." — Lit    R 


"Especially  to  educators  this  volume  will  ap- 
peal in  its  large  amount  of  descriptive  matter 
of  modern  methods  in  education  in  England." 
E.  J.  C. 

+    Boston   Transcript   p6   Je   2  '23   800w 

"The    book   gives   an    excellent   picture   of   the 
problems   of   the   English   .schools  for  boys." 
+   El    School    J    24:237    N   '23   850w 

"The    book    is   probably   one   of   the    most   im- 
portant   contributions    that    have    appeared    re- 
cently  in    the   field   of   education."   I.    L.    Kandel 
+   Lit    R    p304    D    1    '23    840w 

"The  task  has  been  well  done,  and  no  man 
could  wish  for  a  nobler  memorial."  E.  J.  Rus- 
sell 

+   Nature   111:731   Je   2   '23   1200w 

"This  book  has  been  written  by  an  anony- 
mous group  of  friends  with  the  object  of  set- 
ting out  Sanderson's  ideas  in  a  way  that  will 
inspire  others  to  continue  his  pioneer  work. 
The  result  is  a  valuable  contribution  to  the 
literature  of  educational  reform.  At  the  same 
time,  there  emerges  an  interesting  portrait  of 
this  very  likeable,  impulsive  man,  who,  with 
his  passion  for  large  ideas,  his  scientific  out- 
look and  his  practice  of  constantly  trying  over 
and  reshaping  his  beliefs,  had  much  in  common 
With  the  author  of  'Joan  and  Peter.'  " 

+  New  Statesman  21:152  My  12  '23  550w 

"The  friends  who  have  written  this  book  have 
recorded  fully  the  enthusiasm  which,  after 
seven  years  of  opposition,  transformed  Oundle. 
but  they  have  been  hampered  by  Sanderson's 
inability  to  explain  himself;  nor  can  they  easily 
offer  justification  in  the  larger  world  outside 
Oundle  of  the  results  of  vague  and  sometimes 
illogical    propaganda." 

h   Sat  R  135:536  Ap  21  '23  950w 

"This  spontaneous  tribute  from  the  pens 
(and  clearly  the  hearts)  of  fifty  anonymous  con- 
tributors must  obviously  remain  unique  in  its 
evidence  and  significance.  To  have  made  a 
coherent  and  readable  book  out  of  such  various 
material  wa.s  a  considerable  literary  feat  in 
itself.  What  is  clearly  present  throughout  the 
book,  which  ranges  at  large  over  a  wide  tract 
of  economics,  religion,  education  and  all  ihe 
fundamentals  of  life,  is  a  steady  affection  for 
the  central  figure." 

+  Spec  130:889  My  26  '23  900w 

"This  record  of  the  man  and  his  work  is  of 
profound  practical  importance." 

+  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  pl89   Mr 
22  '23  1150W 

SANDS.  IRVING  lESSE.  and  BLANCHARD. 
PHYLLIS  MARY.  Abnormal  behavior;  pit- 
falls of  our  minds,  an  introduction  to  the 
study  of  abnoiTnal  and  anti-social  behavior. 
482p   $4     Moffat 

132     Psychology,   Pathological  23-9802 

"This  book  represents  an  attempt  on  the  part 
Of  the  authors  to  summarize  the  usual  forms 
of  mental  abnormalities  seen  in  such  clinics 
as  that  at  Bellevue,  and  to  discuss  the  par- 
ticular social  problems  raised  by  these.  After 
a    brief    r§sum6    of    normal    psychology    various 


"The  study,  the  labor,  the  insight  and  tact 
that  are  concentrated  in  'Abnormal  Behavior' 
can  be  but  inadequately  praised.  This  book 
does  not  pander  to  morbid  curiosity;  it  is  a 
scientific  exposition,  simple  and  fascinating,  of 
information   woefully   needed." 

+   Bookm  57:470  Je  '23  120w 

"The  book  as  a  whole  will  be  found  inter- 
esting and  suggestive  by  those  who  are  just 
beginning  to  dabble  in  psychopathology.  Un- 
fortunately, the  authors  have  tried  to  cover  too 
wide  a  field." 

H Lit  R  p916  Ag  18  '23  280w 

"The  result  has  not  been  wholly  a  happy  one. 
With  the  pui'pose  itself  there  can  be  no  quar- 
rel."    J.   E.    Lind 

h   N   Y  Times  p21   Ap  22  '23  650w 

SANTAYANA,    GEORGE.         Poems.    140p    $1.50 
Scribner 

811  23-5779 

"Mr.  Santayana  has  been  prevailed  upon  to 
gather  into  a  single  volume  a  selection  from  his 
early  poems,  which  in  their  original  format 
have  become  increasingly  rare  with  the  passing 
years,  and  to  these  he  has  added  a  number  of 
more  recent  poems.  The  theme  of  these  poems, 
as  Mr.  Santayana  himself  observes,  is  simply 
his  philosophy  in  the  making.  .  .  These  poems 
are  not  the  record  of  ideas  nor  the  statement 
of  a  philosophy:  they  are  the  expression  of 
emotional   response   to   thought." — N   Y   Times 


"His  poems  are  chill  and  formal,  as  they 
would  be  from  his  habit  of  checking  his  im- 
pulses or  laughing  at  them.  But  in  his  poetry 
you  will  get,  condensed,  much  of  his  philoso- 
phv."     Burton    Rascoe 

-j Bookm  57:332  My  '23  80w 

Cleveland  p37  My  '23 

"The  purity  of  his  phrasing  is  sustained 
everywhere  by  the  combined  exactitude  and 
flexibility  of  his  structure;  it  is  his  constant 
success  in  keeping  on  that  level  that  makes 
one  wonder  whether  English  verse  has  ever 
been  written  as  excellently  as  Mr.  Santayana 
has  written  it,  by  anyone  else  to  whom  the 
English  language  was  not  native."  N.  Arvin 
+   Freeman   7:71   Mr  28   '23  900w 

Reviewed  by  H.  S.  Gorman 

Int   Bk   R   p25  Je  '23  200w 

"I    know    of    no    book    which    is    so    happy    a 
choice   bv   a  poet   from   his   own   writings."   P.   I. 
+   New   Repub   34:102  Mr  21   '23   1500w 

"To  Mr.  Santayana  philosophy  is  not  an  offi- 
cial occupation,  a  pursuit  which  he  drops  in 
unprofessional  hours,  after  he  has  done  a  term 
of  work  at  solving  theoretic  puzzles.  Philoso- 
phv  is  his  life.  His  thought  colours  his  re- 
sponse to  all  that  he  observes  and  everything 
that  happens  to  him.  Consequently  his  poetry 
is  a  part  of  his  philosophy.  .  .  It  is  rather 
courageous,  calm  and  cold." 

4-   New    Statesman    21:81   Ap  28  '23   1500w 

"Of  all  Mr.  Santayana's  poetry,  by  far  the 
most  lovely  are  the  two  sonnet  sequences  with 
which  the  present  volume  opens,  and  the  gr-oup 
of  miscellaneous  sonnets  which  follows  them. 
In  them  one  finds  thnt  subtle  coalescence  of 
form  and  content  which  indicates  the  true  poet. 
They  are  expressive  of  beauty  long  pondered 
rndolearlv  apprehendf^d.  Ivrifs  in  which  re- 
flection rather  than  ecstacy  is  dominant,  and 
which  find  their  sources  in  the  moods  of  the 
spirit."     Llovd  Morris 

+  N   Y  Times  pll  Mr  14  '23  720w 

"Mr  Santayana's  poetic  feeling,  his  meditative 
concentration  and  his  exquisite  sense  of  music 
and  cadence  so  transfigure  the  language  and 
forms  with  which  he  works  that  his  product 
in  diction  and  in  rhvthm  is  the  nurest  poetry.' 
+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  1  "23 
1200w 


458 


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SANTAYANA,  G:-~Continued 

"No  doubt  he  is  a  born  prose-writer  more 
than  a  born  poet.  But  his  verse  would  be  worth 
reading  and  we  should;  we  believe,  find  it  re- 
markable if  we  had  never  read  any  of  his 
prose." 

-^ The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p368  My 

31   '23  1350W 

SANTAYANA,  GEORGE.  Scepticism  and  ani- 
mal faith;  introduction  to  a  system  of  phi- 
losophy.   314p    $3.50    Scribner    [12s    Constable] 

191  Philosophy.  Skepticism 
Mr  Santayana  offers  his  book  as  one  more 
system  of  philosophy.  He  makes  an  honest 
search  for  truth  from  various  directions  and 
seeks  to  give  to  everyday  beliefs  a  clearer  and 
more  accurate  form.  "Its  theme  is  the  sep- 
aration of  existence  and  essence,  the  beauty  of 
essence  and  the  indignity  of  existence." — New 
Repub 


"It  must  be  admitted  that  the  author's  clarity 
and  eloquence  decline  as  he  passes  from  the 
'soliloquizing'  preface  to  the  argumentative 
chapters  that  follow.  But  it  is  none  the  less 
a  book  of  rare  distinction,  both  in  style  and 
thought,  and  it  leaves  the  reader  eager  to  ac- 
cept the  author's  promised  invitation  to  'a 
further  excursion'  through  those  'Realms  of 
Being."  "    R.    B.    Perry 

H Atlantic's    Bookshelf    O    '23    750w 

"The  book  has  all  Mr.  Santayana's  well- 
known  merits:  beauty  of  style,  a  truly  philoso- 
phic temper,  a  wide  survey  of  history  and 
thought.  It  is  full  of  sayings  that  are  profound, 
delightful,  or  amusing.  And  it  has  the  great 
merit  of  not  pretending,  by  bad  arguments  to 
establish  doctrines  which  we  accept  on  instinct, 
but  cannot  hope  to  prove."  Bertrand  Russell 
+  Dial  75:278  S  '23  1650w 
"The  philosophy  professed  in  the  book  is  the 
same  as  the  philosophy  which  the  writer  ac- 
cepts practically  in  daily  life.  This  merit  of 
smcerity,  in  a  man  of  Mr.  Santayana's  breadth 
of  intellectual  sympathy,  would  suffice  to  make 
the  book  important,  even  if  it  stood  alone. 
In  fact  there  are  many  other  merits,  notably 
perspicuity  and  beauty  of  style."  Bertrand 
Russell 

-f-  Freeman  7:573  Ag  22  '23  lOOOw 
"One  can  not  conclude  a  review  of  this  bril- 
liant volume  of  Santayana's  without  comment- 
ing upon  its  literary  excellence  and  what  can 
best  be  described  as  its  spiritual  richness.  A 
literary  style  in  philosophical  writing  has  its 
dangers,  to  be  sure.  In  this  colume,  when  the 
poet  comes  to  the  rescue  of  the  philosopher  the 
thought,  dialectically  speaking,  is  not  always 
made  more  clear.  But  the  very  threat  of  this 
danger  may  have  valuable  results  for  accuracy 
and  intelligibility."  Marten  ten  Hoor 

H J    Philos    20:653    N    22    '23    6150w 

"This  book  stands  alone  in  the  literature  of 
modern  philosophy.  No  other  treatment  of  'the 
theory  of  knowledge'  or  (if  Mr.  Santavana  will 
forgive  me)  metaphysics  has  such  color  and 
atmosphere."   D.   S.   Miller 

+  Lit  R  p62  S  22  '23  2250w 
"No  one  at  all  interested  in  current  winds  of 
doctrine  can  afford  to  miss  this  adroit  and 
honest  book.  It  comes  to  grips  with  the  deeper 
issues  over  the  surfaces  of  which  contemporary 
thought  has  been  glibly  skipping.  Santayana 
has  provided  an  Introduction  to  Realms  of  Be- 
ing that  probes  to  the  depths  of  reality  with- 
out forsaking  the  light  of  common  sense." 
Irwin  Edman 

f    Nation    117:299    S    19    '23    1200w 
Reviewed  by  H.   W.  Carr 

Nature    112:572   O   20   '23    720w 
"For  continuity  and  subtlety  of  dialectic  the 
twok,    though    couched    in    a    radically    different 
philosophy,    is    worthy    of    Mr.    P.    H.    Bradley, 
the    master    of   living    dialecticians."    J:    Dewey 
+  New  Repub  35:294  Ag  8  '23  1350w 
"The    book    has    all    Mr.     Santayana's    well- 
known  merits:  beauty  of  style,  a  truly  philoso- 
phic   temper,     a    wide    survey    of    history    and 
thought.   It  is  full  of  sayings  that  are  profound, 


delightful,    or    amusing.    And    it    has    the  great 
merit   of  not  pretending,    by   bad  arguments,   to 
establish  doctrines  which  we  accept  on  instinct 
but    cannot    hope    to   prove."    Bertrand    Russell 
+   New   Statesman   21:596   S   1   '23   1700w 
"  'Skepticism  and  Animal  Faith'   is  a  master- 
piece   of   expository    felicity."    P.    A.    Hutchison 
+   N    Y    Times   p6   Je  3   '23   3000w 
St   Louis  p275  O  '23 

Springf'd  Republican  plO  Ja  4  '24  480w 
"Few  readers  of  Mr.  Santayana's  new  book, 
we  believe,  once  they  shake  themselves  free 
from  the  spell  of  his  style — its  fairylike  lucidi- 
ty, its  masculine  candour,  its  seductive  imag- 
ery, all  the  more  potent  for  being  less  exuber- 
ant than  once  it  was — will  not  confess  a  deep 
dissatisfaction. " 

-f-  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p540  Ae 
23  '23  5000W 
"Here  is  a  volume  that  is  unique  in  quality 
among  recent  philosophical  writings.  A  flash 
of  epigram  lightens  the  most  abstract  discus- 
sions. Pages  of  unnecessary  repetitions  seem 
all  too  short  as  the  reader  is  lured  on  and  on 
by  the  novelty  and  beauty  of  the  phrases.  No 
one  else  living  can  write  philosophy  like  this." 
H.  T.  Costello 

+  Yale   R  n  s  13:404  Ja  '24  600w 

SAUNDERS,    CHARLES    FRANCIS.      Southern 
Sierras   of   California.    367p   il   $4   Houghton 
917.94     Sierra  Madre  mountains.     California 
—Description    and   travel  23-9782 

The  regions  explored  by  the  author  are  the 
Sierra  Madre  of  southern  California,  the  Santa 
Barbara  national  forest,  the  desert  of  Santa 
Rosa,  the  passes  trodden  by  Fremont  and  other 
early  pioneers,  the  "Yosemite  of  San  Gabriel" 
and  other  wonder  regions.  He  writes  with  an 
unfailing  love  and  enthusiasm  of  the  trails 
tramped  and  mountains  climbed.  The  last 
chapter  describes  a  winter  in  the  cafions.  Illus- 
trated from   photographs  by  the  author. 


"Through  and  through  this  region  of  wonders 
has  Mr.  Saunders  traveled,  always  on  foot,  and 
of  his  experiences  he  tells  us  in  detail  and  with 
wonderfully  vivid  picturing."  E.  J.  C. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  20  '23  950w 
N  Y  World  pl9  Je  17  '23  190w 
"Mr.  Saunders  has  a  friendly  interest  in  both 
mountains  and  men,  and  he  writes  equally  well 
about  both." 

+  Outlook  134:288  Je  27  '23  70w 
R   of   Rs   68:111  Jl   '23   150w 

SAUNDERS,  HENRY  SCHOLEY,  comp.  Paro- 
dies on  Wait  Whitman.  171p  $2.25  Am.  library 
service 

817   Parodies.    Whitman,    Walt  23-14089 

Walt  Whitman  has  so  lent  himself  to  parody 
that  a  wide  variety  of  burlesques  connected  with 
his  name  have  collected,  continuing  over  a 
period  of  sixty  years,  and  including  among  the 
parodists  Bayard  Taylor,  H.  C  Bunner,  Richard 
Grant  White,  Helen  Gray  Cone,  A.  T.  Quiller- 
Couch,  Owen  Seaman,  Israel  Zangwill,  Ezra 
Pound,  Louis  Untermeyer,  G.  K.  Chesterton,  and 
many  others.  Christopher  Morley  has  written  the 
preface  to  the  collection. 


Reviewed  by  E.  L.  Pearson 

rnd  110:195  Mr  17  '23  200w 
"A  work  of  research,  and  a  profoundly  amus- 
ing tribute  to  Whitman's  vogue." 

+   Nation  116:474  Ap  18  '23  50w 
Reviewed  by  Milton  Raison 

N   Y  Tribune  p23  Ap  1  '23  80w 
Springf'd  Republican  plO  Je  27  '23  350w 

SAUNDERS,    LOUISE.    Magic   lanterns;  a  book 

of  plays.    179p  $1.50   Scribner 

812  23-5848 

Five  one-act  plays.  Contents:  Figureheads; 
Our  kind;  Poor  Maddelena;  See-saw;  King  and 
commoner. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


459 


Booklist   19:311    Jl   "23 

"  'Magic  Lanterns'  appears  as  very  compe- 
tent work.  .  .  There  is  no  doubt  that  Miss 
Saunders's  little  group  of  plays  will  act.  In 
the  hands  of  professionals  they  would  seem 
thin,  because  the  author's  greatest  weakness  is 
that  given  a  good  idea,  she  finds  it  difficult 
to  particularize  and  individualize  her  situa- 
tion and  sometimes  her  characters.  Undoubt- 
edly, Miss  Saunders  has  an  eye  for  stage 
values,  but  as  yet  she  labors  under  what  is 
perhaps  youth's  greatest  l!andicap — a  certain 
superficiality    of    treatment." 

4 Boston    Transcript    p5    Je    2    '23    250w 

"Three  of  Miss  Saunders's  plays  are  frankly 
fantastic,  while  two  aim  at  a  more  or  less 
matter  of  fact  exposition  of  life.  The  latter, 
though  written  with  considerable  skill  and 
even  with  some  originality,  have  little  trace 
of  distinction:  the  former,  while  they  enter  a 
territory  by  no  means  virgin,  have  a  freshness 
of  tone  and  an  elfln  lightness  of  imagination 
that  make  them  unique  and  delightful." 
-^ Lit    R    p835    Jl    14    '23    350w 

"The  plays  of  'Magic  Lanterns'  have  a  charm, 
coupled  with  dramatic  structure,  which  would 
seem  sufficient  to  hold  an  audience  and  give  a 
high  degree  of  pleasure.  And  Miss  Saunders, 
though  she  seems  to  flit  lightly  over  the  surface 
of  things,  puts  many  a  shrewd  word  into  the 
mouths   of   her   characters." 

+   N    Y  Times  p26  Ap  8  '23  250w 

"Fanciful    little    plays    that    make    delightful 
reading.     Some   of   them   would   play   well   also. 
'King   and    commoner'    might    be    done    by    high 
school   pupils   and   could   be   plaved    outdoors." 
+   Wis    Lib   Bui   19:132  Mv   '23 


SAVAGE,  HENRY.  Richard  Middleton:  the  man 
and  his  work.  209p  il  $3  Small  [12s  6d  C. 
Palmer] 

B  or  92  Middleton,  Richard  Barham 

[23-2186] 
"When  the  brief  and  hectic  career  of  Richard 
Middleton  was  brought  to  a  sudden  close  in 
1911,  his  name  was  wholb'  unknown  outside  a 
narrow  f  ircle  o^'  friend.s.  ft  might  have  remained 
unknown  but  for  the  untiring  zeal  and  punc- 
tilious loyalty  of  a  friend,  who  has  not  ceased 
to  retrieve  Middleton's  writings  in  verse  and 
prose,  and  to  insist  on  public  notice.  The  en- 
ergy of  Mr.  Henry  Savage  has  had  its  reward 
in  a  considerable  awakening  of  curiosity  and 
even  of  admiration.  After  publishing  Gve  vol- 
umes of  Middleton's  remains,  Mr.  Savage  now 
completes  his  labour  of  love  by  issuing  a  full 
biography  of  the  young  man  who,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-nine  perished  so  miserably  in  a  Brussels 
lodging-house.  Whatever  posterity  may  say  of 
the  misfortunes  of  Richard  Middleton,  it  can- 
not but  record  that  he  had  the  good  luck  to 
secure  an  unselfish  and  invaluable  executor." — 
Sat  R 


"Mr.  Savage,  who  was  his  literary  executor 
and  his  most  intimate  friend,  has  written  in 
large  characters,  and  quite  cheerfully  admits 
that  he  has  not  bothered  any  members  of  the 
family  for  biographical  details."  G:  H.  Sargent 
-f-   Boston   Transcript    p5    Mr    10   '23   2000w 

"Rather  a  pot-pourri  of  quotations  from  a 
'minor'  poet  interspersed  with  fervid  and  banal 
comments  than  a  portrait  of  the  artist.  There 
Is  entirely  too  much  of  Henry  Savage  and  too 
little  of  Richard  Middleton  in  this  biographv." 
h   Dial  74:523  My  '23   80w 

"Middleton  somehow  lost  himself  just  after  he 
had  foimd  his  art,  which  seems  to  have  been 
the  only  thing  he  really  cared  about,  while  a 
conviction  of  how  much  he  cared  is  the  only 
stable  impression  we  receive  from  Mr.  Savage's 
biography  But  to  elucidating  the  mystery  of 
Middleton's  life  and  death  Mr.  Savage's  mem- 
orial  brings  us   no  nearer." 

—  Nation  and  Ath  32:23  O  7  '22  1200w 
New  Statesman  19:613  S  9  '22  1700w 


"A  book  full  of  parlous  gaps  and  too-excessive 
adulation,  but  which  is  yet  an  extremely  en- 
grossing contribution  to  memoirs." 

H NY   Times   p7   F   4    '23   2600w 

"There  is  still  a  slight  air  of  mystification 
over  the  narrative,  full  as  it  has  grown  to  be. 
We  refrain  from  emphasizing  this,  since,  after 
all,  we  know  enough  about  this  unfortunate 
writer.  .  .  Mr.  Savage's  portrait  of  him  displays 
him  in  the  midst  of  a  strange  Bohemia  of  Fleet 
Street,  talking  with  uncontrolled  fluency,  im- 
provising endless  verses,  with  no  other  occupa- 
tion but  verse  and  talk,  the  little  bearded  god 
of  a  rather  squalid  clan  of  nymphs  and  satyrs, 
living  for  literature  and  nothing  but  literature 
in  a  back  water  of  the  understream  of  London." 
Sat    R   134:106  Jl  15  '22  550w 

"Whatever  the  verdict  of  time  may  be,  Mr. 
Savage  has  produced  a  vivid  and  interesting 
study." 

-h  Spec  129:243  Ag  19  '22  750w 

"Mr.  Savage's  attempt  to  make  a  picture  of 
the  man  who  threw  his  talent  away  so  untimely 
is  not  altogether  satisfactory.  The  portrait  that 
Mr.  Savage  has  drawn  has  little  colour  or  sub- 
stance, and  there  is  no  doubt  that  Middleton 
had  both.  Mr.  Savage  has  given  the  charac- 
teristics of  his  hero,  but  he  has  failed  to  pene- 
trate his  mind;  and  so  his  life  and  death,  his 
whole  strange  case,  remain  arbitrary  and  un- 
real, a  set  of  disconnected  facts  in  which  the 
interest  of  the  man  is  nearly  lost." 

—  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p472    Jl 
20   '22  1450W 


SAVI,     ETHEL    WINIFRED.      Rulers    of    men. 

342p  $2  (7s  6d)  Putnam 

The  .scene  of  the  story  is  laid  in  India.  An 
American  girl,  Dulcie  Durand,  touring  with  her 
father,  falls  in  love  with  Derek  Lang,  an  Eng- 
lishman and  owner  of  a  laige  estate.  The 
course  of  this  true  love  does  not  run  smoothly, 
for  a  disappointed  woman  digs  up  an  old  affair 
in  which  Derek  was  involved  and  presents  it 
to  Dulcie  in  a  false  light.  Complications  follow 
in  which  the  unrest  of  the  native  population 
and  their  hostility  to  British  rule  play  an  im- 
portant part.  It  is  in  the  midst  of  an  uprismg 
that  the  last  misunderstanding  between  the 
lovers  is  cleared  away  and  on  the  eve  of  their 
wedding  the  confidence  of  the  natives  of  the 
Panchbusti  estate  is  offered  to  Derek  with  the 
request   that  he  continue  as  their  leader. 


"With  all  the  discussion  of  Indian  politics  left 
out,  the  storv  would  be  easier  reading  and 
would  stand  a  better  chance  of  being  judged  on 
its  merits  as  a  novel.  The  prevailing  unrest 
in  India  has  a  direct  bearing  on  the  plot,  but 
what  the  characters  say  about  conditions  there 
and  about  the  British  Government  policy  has 
not.  .  .  'Rulers  of  Men'  is  a  story  well  worth 
the  telling,  but  it  could  have  been  told  much 
better   in   fewer  word.= 

H Int  Bk  R  p57  Mr  '23  140w 

"If  'Rulers  of  Men'  were  simply  a  bad  novel, 
it  could  be  read  and  forgotten.  But  the  fact 
that  it  combines  political  theories  with  its 
more  conventional  theme  makes  it  a  little 
dangerous.  For  the  people  who  are  taken  in  by 
the  stuffy  sentimentality  of  the  love  story  are 
precisely  those  who  might  be  impressed  by  the 
doctrines  it  sets  forth." 

—  NY   Times  pl6  F  4  '23   450w 

"In  readin.g  [the  story],  one  is  conscious  of 
the  author's  deep  dislike  for  the  native  Indian. 
According  to  Mrs  Savi's  tale  the  Indian  spends 
half  his  time  thinking  up  petty  plots  against 
the  British  and  the  other  half  in  carrying  them 

—  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  F  25  '23  200w 
"There    is   a    good   deal    of   discussion   through 

the  book  as  to  the  problems  of  Indian  rule,. 
Derek  supporting  the  strong  hand;  but  it  is 
not  overdone,  and  the  development  of  the  plot 
is  handled  throughout  with  restraint  and  skill." 
-I-  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p749  N 
16  '22  80w 


460 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


SAWYER,  JOSEPH  DILLAWAY.  History  of 
the  Pilgrims  and  Puritans,  their  ancestry  and 
descendants;  basis  of  Americanization;  ed.  by 
William  Elliot  Griffls.  3v  378;444;410p  11  buck 
$39.50   Century   hist.   co. 

974  Pilgrim  fathers.  Puritans  22-19063 
"This  expensively  produced  work  is  intended 
to  present  a  straightforward  account  of  the 
Pilgrim  and  Puritan  colonists  of  New  England 
from  the  Jacobean  persecutions  in  the  mother 
country  to  the  outbreak  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution. To  those  who  want  an  orthodox  narra- 
tion of  the  peopling  and  early  development  of 
New  England,  giving  emphasis  to  the  pictur- 
esque externals  of  the  story,  and  troubling  little 
with  the  highly  critical  treatment  which 
Puritan  history  has  received  in  recent  years — to 
those,  moreover,  who  want  this  history  beau- 
tifully bound  and  richly  illustrated,  these  three 
volumes  will  appeal.  They  are  a  characteristic 
subscription  set,  meant  for  the  household  li- 
brary, not  the  scholar's  study." — Lit  R 


"No  phase  of  their  activities,  no  detail  of 
their  times,  is  omitted.  Yet  the  book  is  not 
verbose;  its  fault  lies  rather  in  a  tendency  to 
flowery   wording." 

H Bookm   46:519  D  "22  160w 

"A  feature  of  this  book  is  the  extremely  pro- 
fuse collection  of  illustrations  which  author  and 
editor  have  been  able  to  bring  together.  In  the 
main  these  are  in  excellent  taste  and  display  in 
their  collection  a  vast  deal  of  industry  intelli- 
gently directed."  E.  J.  C. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p8  O  14  '22  750w 

"The  book  makes  no  pretensions  to  historical 
originality  in  any  part,  though  it  is  sufficiently 
accurate  in  its  following  of  the  older  standard 
authorities.  When  the  author  chooses  to  write 
simply  he  writes  well,  but  an  attempt  at  too 
ambitious  a  style  has  made  large  portions  of 
the  work  turgid  and  incorrect.  The  real  dis- 
tinction of  the  volumes  lies  in  their  wealth  of 
pictures.  We  can  well  believe  that  they  repre- 
sent years  of  searching." 

1-   Lit   R  p372  Ja  6  '23  300w 

"So  much  space  being  at  their  disposal,  the 
authors  have  made  it  a  point  to  be  extremely 
meticulous  in  their  history,  and  the  result  is, 
perhaps,  the  most  complete  account  of  the 
founding  and  growth  of  New  England  that  is 
available." 

-t-   N  Y  Times  pl7  Ja  21  '23  280w 

Reviewed  by  S.   A.   Coblentz 

N    Y   Tribune   p25  Mr  25    '23   1150w 

"The  author  hsis  had  the  advantage  of  the 
editorial  assistance  of  Dr.  W.  E.  GrifRs,  who, 
as  is  well  known,  is  a  high  authority  on  the 
general   subject   involved." 

+  Outlook  133:233  Ja  31  '23  120w 

"Mr  Sawyer  will  probably  achieve  success  as 
many  manufacturers  do,  through  his  by-prod- 
uct, the  illustrations,  which  is  said  without 
prejudice  to  the  quality  or  value  of  the  text. 
This  history  is  an  elaborate  picture  book  of 
historic  scenery  and  people,  documents  and 
autographs." 

-f  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p8  Ja  16  '23  360w 

SAWYER,      RUTH       (MRS      ALBERT    C.      DU- 
RAND).  Gladiola  Murphy.    337p   $2  Harper 

23-4292 
"The  product  of  mixed  blood,  Irish,  Indian 
and  Yankee  is  Gladiola  Murphy.  Her  history 
is  interesting,  as  it  shows  that  one  can  be 
superior  to  one's  surroundings  and  family. 
Although  Gladiola  is  surrounded  by  drunken- 
ness, shiftlessness,  moral  and  physical  dirt,  she 
is  naturally  refined  and  intelligent,  an  inher- 
itance evidently  from  an  early  ancestor  of 
sturdy  character.  The  redemption  of  the  child 
and  her  marriage  to  a  Boston  aristocrat,  who 
proves  to  be  a  cad  and  unworthy  of  her  is  the 
subject  of  the  story." — Boston  Transcript 


"It  is  the  very  merits  of  this  book  that  make 
one  deplore  its  serious  shortcomings;  it  is  the 
very  fact  that  three-quarters  of  it  is  good  that 
makes  one  regret  that  one-quarter — and  that 
the  concluding  quarter — is  distinctly  poor. 
Novelists  before  Miss  Sawyer's  time  have 
chosen  to  kill  off  characters  that  got  in  the 
way  of  their  plot,  but  few  have  done  so  more 
maladroitly  than  she." 

h   Lit   R   p554  Mr  24   '23  380w 

Reviewed  by  J:  W.  Crawford 

Nation    116:395  Ap  4  '23  150w 

"It  is  a  pretty  little  story  that  Ruth  Sav*ryer 
writes,  and  most  of  the  people  in  it  are  such  as 
we  would  be  only  too  glad  to  meet,  if  their  like 
were  to  be  found  anywhere  in  this  vale  of 
tears.  And,  after  all,  why  shouldn't  a  novelist 
make  people  better  than  they  really  are?  There 
are  enough  of  those  who  would  make  them 
worse." 

-i NY  Times  pl5  F  25  '23  450w 

"It  is  a  good  deal  to  have  created  a  char- 
acter like  Gladiola  and  to  have  drawn  her  de- 
velopment is  even  more;  if  the  last  few  chap- 
ters had  only  been  less  hurried  and  less  arti- 
ficial it  might  even  be  a  great  piece  of  por- 
traiture. It  is  a  fine  bit  of  writing  as  it  is,  and 
there  is  so  much  of  beauty  and  reality  in  it 
that  it  well  repays  a  reading."  Edith  Leighton 
H NY  Tribune  p22  Ap  1  '23  520w 

"Reckoning  up  the  balance  sheet  of  'Gladiola 
Murphy,'  we  find  the  credit  side  marked  with 
many  assets.  The  debit  side  has  only  one  minor 
liability  and  that  is  this:  We  grow  so'  com- 
fortable and  lazy,  sailing  along  with  Gladiola, 
that  it  is  with  a  start  we  find  ourselves  aqua- 
planing near  the  finish."  Ruth  Snyder 
-f   N    Y   World  p6e  Mr  11  '23  750w 

SAWYER,  RUTH   (MRS  ALBERT  C.  DURAND). 

Tale    of   the    enchanted   bunnies.    13Sp    il    $1.50 

Harper 

23-12521 

"In  'The  Tale  of  the  Enchanted  Bunnies'  a 
collection  of  toy  rabbits  (which,  as  the  author 
explains  in  a  preface,  actually  exists  in  Boston) 
is  the  background  of  things  that  happen  when 
two  small,  eager  persons  discover  that  the  fas- 
cinating rabbit  people  are  enchanted.  This  re- 
sults in  a  marvelous  journey  on  May  Eve  to 
places  inhabited  by  rabbit  fairies  and  other  in- 
teresting figures  in  rabbit  legends.  Youthful 
readers  will  enjoy  the  page  decorations  and  il- 
lustrations in  color  which  help  to  make  the  book 
attractive." — N  Y  Tribune 

Reviewed  by  M.  G.  Bonner 

Int   Bk  R  p62  N  '23  lOOw 
"That  it  is  a  charming  juvenile  every  young- 
ster will  emphaticallv  declare." 

-j-  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  N  11  '23  180w 

SAYERS,    DOROTHY   L.     Whose  body?  278p  $2 
Boni  &  Liveright 

23-9239 

Lord  Peter  Wimsey  is  an  amateur  crim- 
inologist who  pursues  his  hobby  as  a  sport  out 
of  which,  being  also  a  humorist,  he  derives  con- 
siderable amusement.  When  a  nude  corpse, 
wearing  a  golden  pince-nez  only,  is  found  in 
the  bath-tub  of  the  flat  of  a  timid  little  archi- 
tect, and  the  discovery  coincides  with  the  dis- 
appearance of  a  wealthy  financier,  Sir  Reuben 
Levy,  whom  the  body  resembled,  Sir  Peter's 
sporting  blood  is  aroused.  Together  with  a 
friend  from  Scotland  Yard  he  unofficially,  play- 
fully, as  it  were,  conducts  a  roundabout  inquiry 
under  the  jealous  eye  of  the  bungling  official 
Scotland  Yard  investigators  and  finally  tracks 
down   the   murderer. 


'Delightful  humor  and  some  pathos  are  there, 
but  the  characters  are  too  well  manipulated  and 
are   too  idealistic   to   be   convincing." 

H Boston   Transcript  p4  Mr  14  '23  130w 

Cleveland  p26  Ap  '23 


"The  story  is  justly  exciting  during  the  first 
third  of  the  book.  Unfortunately  its  author 
has  a  way  of  whipping  up  our  interest  by  send- 
ing her  amateur  detective  off  on  false  scents, 
by  giving  us  tedious  algebraic  paragraphs 
which  prove  nothing,  and  then  filling  up  pages 
with  small   talk." 

-I Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  6  '23  350w 

Cleveland    p51   Jl    '23 


BOOK   REVIEW   DIGEST 


461 


"It    is    a    verv    entertaining   mystery    yarn." 

+   Int    Bk    R   p76   S   '23   280w 
"Here    is    quite    the    maddest,    jolliest    crime 
story  of  recent   memory.    Seldom   has  a   murder 
been  made  so  delightfully  mysterious  and  rare- 
ly   has    the    gentleman    detective    been    cast    iri 
quite    so    attractive    a    guise    as    that    of    Lord 
Peter   Wimsey,    to    whom    books    in    first    folios 
and    bodies    in    bathtubs    are    of    equal    interest. 
An    absorbing   storv    and   a   well-written    book." 
+  Nation    117:247   S   5   '23   60w 
"The   tale   is  better  written,   and   has  a   good 
deal    more    of    characterization    than    one    finds 
in  the  average  detective  story.     The  interest  of 
the  narrative  is  maintained  up  to  the  very  end, 
and  if  Miss  Sayers   can   maintain   the  standard 
she  has  set  for  herself  in  this  tale,  there  seems 
to  be  no  reason  why  the  discerning,  but  by   no 
means    infallible.    Lord    Peter    should    not    be- 
come   one    of    the    best-known    and    best-liked 
among  the  many  amateur  detectives  of  Action." 
-h  N   Y   Times  p24  My  27   '23   530w 
"Murder   is    no   joke,    but    Dorothy   L.    Sayers 
has    found    assuredly    a    uniquely    lighthearted 
way  of  exploiting  it."   E.  W.   Osborn 

-I-   N    Y   World   p6e  My  20   '23  350w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  S  16  '23  150w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p709    O 
25    '23    200w 


whose  pictures  and  sculptures  must  be  sought 
in  their  home  lands.  But  as  a  work  of  refer- 
ence and  one  for  specialists  in  art  it  has  great 
value,  while  to  Americans  in  particular  who 
are  bothering  about  foreign  influences  exerted 
on  American  art  it  will  afford  many  lessons  not 
intended  by  the  authors."  C:  De  Kay 
+  Int  Bk  R  p24  F  '23  1500w 
"Highlv  competent  survey."   F.  J.  Mather,  Jr. 

-t-  Lit  R  p532  Mr  17  '23  1300w 
"Once  more  the  Scandinavian-American 
Foundation  has  done  a  service  commensurate 
with  its  purpose  in  bringing  out  this  rich 
volume,  which  is  the  first  in  any  language 
dealing  comprehensively  and  competently  with 
the  art  of  the  three  Scandinavian  kingdoms." 
J:    Koren 

-I-   Nation    115:sup638   D   6   '22   650w 

New  Statesman  21:372  Je  30  '23  700w 
"If  some  things  have  been  "left  out  which  an 
opinionated  criLic  might  have  wished  were  put 
in,  they  are  very  few;  and  they  do  not  in  any 
way  impair  tlie  unique  value  of  this  eminently 
-weU  written  and  well  illustrated  volume  de- 
voted  to  rational   art."      M.   F.    Egan 

+   N    Y    Times    p7    N    26    '22   2900w 
Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui  28:184  Ap  '23 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  pl81  Mr 
15  '23  70w 


SAYLER,    OLIVER     MARTIN.      Our    American 
»    theatre.      399p     il     $4     Brentano's 

792     Theater— United    States  23-18293 

Beginning  with  1908  as  the  year  when  the 
renaissance  of  the  American  theater  began, 
Mr  Sayler  confines  his  study  to  what  has  hap- 
pened since  that  year.  He  discusses  dramatists 
and  producers  and  writes  at  considerable  length 
of  the  Provincetown  players,  the  Washington 
Square  players,  the  Theater  Guild,  the  Neigh- 
borhood playhouse,  the  little  theateis  all  over 
the    land,    and    the    awakening    in    the    colleges. 


"A  stimulating,  enthusiastic  and  intensely 
vital  book.  Mr.  Sayler  is  one  of  those  who 
have  seen  a  vision  and  dreamed  a  dream.  It 
has  evidently  knocked  the  verbs  completely  out 
of  twenty-nine  per  cent  of  his  sentences,  but 
If  it  can  knock  the  greed  out  of  a  few  people 
in  the  theatre,  he  may  lose  his  nouns  as  well, 
for   all    we    care."     W.  P.  Eaton 

H Freeman    8:405    Ja    2    '24    2500w 

"Mr.  Sayler's  book  lacks  form  and  concen- 
tration of  aim.  But  it  is  full  of  arresting 
observations  founded  upon  an  extraordinarily 
complete  and  living  knowledge  of  conditions 
and  facts  of  the  contemporary  stage  both  in 
this  country  and  in  Europe."  H.  I.  Brock 
-\ NY  Times  p4   D  23   '23   1500w 

SCANDINAVIAN  art;  with  an  introd.  by  Chris- 
tian Brinton.  (Scandinavian  monographs) 
662p  il  $8   Am. -Scandinavian  foundation 

709.48     Art,   Scandinavian  22-27503 

"The  four  competent  men  who  have,  owing 
to  the  generosity  of  Mr.  C.  Henry  Smith  of 
San  Francisco,  made  this  volume  po.'^sible.  have 
given  us  preludes  to  the  work  itself,  valuable 
beyond  comparison.  They  are  Christian  Brinton 
and  Carl  Laurin  for  Sweden,  Emil  Hannover 
for  Denmark,  and  Jens  Thiis  for  Norway. 
Christian  Brinton  is  well  known  as  the  most 
sensitive  appreciator  of  Scandinavian  art  in 
this  country.  Laurin  is  admittedly  one  of  the 
first  critics  in  Sweden;  Emil  Hannover  is 
Director  of  the  Copenhagen  Museum  of  Indus- 
trial Art,  whose  authority  is  admitted;  Thiis  is 
the  Director  of  the  National  Gallery  of  Chris- 
tiania.  This  book  is  definitive;  it  leaves  almost 
nothing  to  be  added,  down  to  this  year  of 
grace;  it  contains  375  illustrations  and  a  care- 
ful index  of  artists." — N  Y  Times 


Booklist    19:245    My    '23 

Cleveland  p59  Jl  '23 

"The   work  may  not  have  much  attraction  to 

the  general  reader,  who  is  likely  to  weary  soon 

of    the    condensed     biographies    of    a    host    of 

artists    whose    very    names    are    unfamiliar    and 


SCARBOROUGH,      DOROTHY.   In     the  land     of 

cotton.    370p    $2    Macmillan 

23-7285 

In  Texas,  the  scene  of  the  novel,  cotton  is 
king,  and  the  drama  of  its  planting,  growing, 
harvesting,  and  marketing  transcends  the  hu- 
man drama  in  the  story.  The  free  and  generous 
life  of  a  great  plantation  is  pictured  and,  con- 
trasted with  it,  the  meagre  life  of  a  poor  tenant 
farmer;  we  see  the  negro  hands  at  work  and  a 
convict  chain-gang  going  to  the  fields  at  cotton- 
picking  time;  and  hovering  over  all,  the  dreaded 
enemies  of  the  cotton — boll-weevil,  cutworm, 
drought  and  flood.  The  story  of  the  daughter 
of  a  rich  planter,  from  childhood  to  marriage, 
provides  the  slight  thread  of  plot  which  holds 
together  the  moving  drama  of  cotton. 


Booklist    20:22    O   '23 
"In   this  novel  Miss   Scarborough  has  given   a 
sincere,  dramatic  picture  of  the  land  of  cotton." 
D.  F.  G. 

-I-   Boston   Transcript   p4   Ap  25   '23   800w 

"In  spite  of  obvious  flaws  the  book  has  the 
great  merit  of  presenting  in  gripping  and  in- 
deed heart-rending  fashion  the  tyranny  of  King 
Cotton.  It  is  a  thing  that  needed  doing;  and 
for  undertaking  it  Miss  Scarborough  is  due  the 
grateful  appreciation  of  the  south."     G.   W.   J. 

-I Greensboro     (N.C.)     Daily    News    p8    O 

14    '23    800w 

"A  good  story,  and  a  novel  that  has  its  mo- 
ments of  moving  beauty.  Its  author  has  caught 
the  idea  of  the  mask  of  loveliness  that  covers 
the  tragedy  of  the  production  of  cotton  under 
present  conditions  and  has  presented  it  effec- 
tively." Herschel  Brickell 

-f  Lit   R   p659  My  5   '23  420w 

"It  just  misses  being  a  great  novel.  It  ad- 
mirably succeeds,  however,  in  elucidating  a 
social   problem."    J:    W.    Crawford 

-j-   Nation  116:668  Je  6  '23  520w 

"It  is  a  book  original  in  theme  and  treat- 
ment, and  it  reveals  in  rich  detail  an  important 
scene  in  American  life."     W.  T. 

+    New    Repub   35:266  Ag  1   '23   300w 

"As  a  novel,  the  book  is  commonplace.  It  is 
not  its  fiction  but  its  fact  which  is  interesting 
and  of  importance.  All  this  fact  part  is  very 
well  done  indeed;  one  feels  that  the  author  has 
an  intimate  knowledge  of  the  region  about 
which  she  writes,  and  her  description,  if  some- 
times overweighted  with  words,  are  often  vivid. 
_| NY  Times  p9  Ap  15  '23  1200w 

"Miss  Scarborough  has  made  no  mistake — 
cotton  is  an  absorbing  theme.  A  close  second 
in  interest  are  the  bits  of  negro  folk  lore — too 
few  of  these — and  the  negro  folk  songs  that 
punctuate  the  story.     There  are  many  beaut'ful 


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SCARBOROUGH.  D. — Continued 
descriptions  of  the  trees,  the  flowers,  the  birds 
of  Texas.  .  .  On  the  whole,  a  refreshingly  differ- 
ent book — one  that  may  be  read  aloud  in  the 
family  without  bringing  a  blush  to  the  face  of 
old  or  young."  M.  A.  Murphy 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p22  My  6  '23  750w 
"The  author   has   a   good   sense   of  character 
and    humor." 

+  Outlook  134:140  Je  6  '23  90w 
"It  is  surprising  how  many  types  of  person 
and  of  class,  what  a  clear  and  all-rouna  picture 
of  existence  and  society,  she  has  succeeded  in 
giving.  And  the  lighter  touches  are  not  lack- 
ing." 

-f-  Springf'd     Republican     p7a   My     13     '23 
650w 
"An  interesting  and  convincing  picture." 
+  Survey  51:229   N  15   '23  80w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:415   Jl   '23 

SCHAFF,     MORRIS.   Jefferson     Davis;     his    life 
and  personality.  277p  $3  Luce,  J.  W. 

B  or  92  Davis,  Jefferson  22-24027 

"We  are  shown  Davis  in  his  entire  career;  at 
school,  at  West  Point,  as  a  young  oflicer,  as  a 
planter,  congressman,  colonel  in  the  Mexican 
War,  senator,  secretary  of  war,  secessionist 
leader.  President,  prisoner  and  private  person- 
age— neither  alien  nor  citizen.  Through  all 
these  stages  he  appears  what  he  always  was, 
a  fine  fibred  gentlemen  and  a  statesman."— 
Boston   Transcript 


"General  Schaff's  fairness,  his  broad  under- 
standing of  conditions  and  motives,  his  large 
human  sympathy,  which  has  done  so  much  to 
bring  North  and  South  together,  are  again  ap- 
parent in  this  book."  Gamaliel  Bradford 
-f  Atlantic's   Bookshelf  Mr  '23  500w 

"The  author  has  made  a  desperate  attempt 
to  write  this  biography  in  the  grand  old  style 
but  he  has  achieved  nothing  more  than  a 
maudlin  sentimentality  punctuated  by  out- 
bursts of  ecstatic  adoration." 

—  Bookm   57:100  Mr   '23   80w 

"General  Schaff's  faults  are  of  little  moment 
compared  with  his  literary  virtues.  His  chiv- 
alry, here  and  there,  may  make  him  a  little 
too  much  the  defender  .  .  .  his  poetic  sense  may 
make  him  squander  poetry  [but  he]  always 
writes  literature.  He  has  shown  us  a  knightly 
man,  no  matter  what  the  ideal  for  which  he 
struggled."   S.   L.  C. 

H Boston    Transcript   p4    N   4   '22    1950w 

"It  is  a  matter  worthy  of  comment  that  the 
most  sj-mpathetic  and  at  the  same  time  most 
unbiased  study  of  the  president  of  the  Con- 
federacy should  come  from  the  pen  of  a  union 
soldier.  More  than  this,  the  book  is  easily  the 
best  study  of  Mr.  Davis  that  has  yet  appeared." 
J.  G.  de  R.  H. 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    plO    N 
12  '22   1200w 

"It  is  a  disagreeable  task  to  find  fault  with 
a  book  which  is  permeated  by  so  delightful,  so 
chivalric  a  spirit  as  one  is  sure  to  find  in  anv 
book  written  by  Mr.  Schaff.  If  generous  in- 
tentions could  make  a  biography,  this  little  vol- 
ume would  be  a  masterpiece.  However,  there 
is  no  denying  that  this  volume  contributes  little 
else  but  good  will."  N.  W.  Stephenson 
h   Lit   R  p519  Mr  10   '23   780w 

"There  was  room,  if  not  need,  for  a  biography 
of  Jefferson  Davis,  and  this  book  contains  a 
good  deal  of  interesting  personal  data  Unfor- 
tunately, the  superficial  treatment  of  Davis's 
public  career,  joined  to  outspoken  hero  worship 
and  a  quite  too  familiar  and  personal  literarv 
style,  make  Mr.  Schaff's  work  one  of  slight  im- 
portance as  an  historical  contribution." 
h   Nation   117:66  Jl  18  '23   90w 

"It  is  much  more  valuable  as  an  essay  in  chiv- 
alry than  as  a  biography.  And  it  is  because 
Its  author  delights  in  dissipating  calumny  and 
m  doing  something  more  than  justice  to  a 
much  maligned  man  that  we  commend  it  as  a 
tract   for  the  times."   A.  W.   Vernon 

+  New   Repub   33:354   F  21   '23   750w 


"Readers  with  a  historical  leaning  will  wel- 
come the  book  as  a  refreshing  account  of  the 
career  of  Mr.  Davis.  The  general  reader,  more 
interested  in  Mr.  Davis  as  an  individual  than  as 
a  statesman,  will  find  the  book  equally  interest- 
ing. It  is  modestly  written,  and  the  occasional 
neglect  of  technical  subtleties  will  not  detiact 
from  its  genuine  interest." 

+  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    Ja    14      '23 
850w 

SCHAUFFLER,  ROBERT  HAVEN.  Magic  flame, 
and  other  poems.    90p   $1.50  Houghton 

811  23-6860 

In  addition  to  new  work,  this  volume  contains 
a  selection  of  the  few  poems  which  Mr  Schauff- 
ler  now  cares  to  save  from  his  two  earlier  vol- 
umes of  verse,  "Scum  o'  the  earth"  and  "The 
white  comrade." 

"Mr.  Schauffler  is  not  by  temperament  a  lyric 
poet.  He  does  not  sing,  musical  as  we  know  him 
to  be.  His  approach  to  poetry  is  dexterous, 
delicate  and  metrical.  Nevertheless  he  merely 
hints  at  vivid  feeling.  We  are  not  moved  as  we 
read  his  verses."  D.  F.  G. 

H Boston   Transcript  p6  My  5   '23   550w 

"It  is  a  thin  book  and  a  mediocre  one." 

—  Lit    R    p852    Jl    21    '23    150w 

"The  last  two  years  iiave  seen  a  steady  growth 
in  the  art  of  Robert  Haven  Sciiauffler.  The  basis 
of  his  art  is  a  persistent  search  for  truth  and 
beauty — or,  rather,  for  the  truth  tliat  is  involved 
in  beauty.  His  new  book,  'Magic  Flame.'  is  an 
extended  achievement — an  increasingly  full  ex- 
pression of  a  man's  reaction  to  the  joys  and 
tragedies  of  life."  Marv  Siegrist 

-f   N    Y   Times   p7   Ap   22   '23   1300w 

"His  stuff  is  too  average.  It  is  good,  but 
interminable,  heavy,  uninspired  and  the  sort 
of  verse  one  expects  between  the  covers  of  a 
poet's  book  called  'Magic  Flame.'  "  Milton 
Raison 

—  NY  Tribune  pl9  Jl  8  '23  300w 

"The   fact   that   Robert   Haven   Schauffler  has 
been  growing  mightily  in  poetical  stature  is  ev- 
idenced by  the  publication  of  'Magic  Flame.'  " 
+  Outlook    135:113    S    19    '23    150w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:301   Je  '23 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:411  Jl  '23 

SCHELLING,  FELIX  EMMANUEL.  Appraise- 
ments and  asperities  as  to  some  contempor- 
ary writers.   199p  $2   (9s)   Lippincott 

814  Engish  literature — History  and  criti- 
cism. American  literature — History  and 
criticism  22-17527 

"These  articles,  reprinted  from  the  Evening 
Public  Ledger  of  Philadelphia,  and  written  by 
the  Professor  of  English  Literature  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  give  a  good  idea  of  the 
better  class  of  American  reviewing  at  the  pres- 
ent day.  Many  of  the  writers  whose  works  .are 
criticized  are  American,  but  Mr.  Conrad,  Mi'. 
Lynd,  Mr.  Goldring,  Mr.  Masefield,  Mr.  Drink- 
water,  and  Mr.  Noyes  receive  attention." — The 
Times  [London]  Lit  Sup 


"Professor  Schelling  is  no  mere  reviewer.  He 
is  a  ripe  and  deep  scholar,  and  these  brief  pa- 
pers are  rich  with  the  fine  gold  of  his  scholar- 
ship and  his  sound  sense." 

+  Cath   World  116:716  F  '23  480w 

"Professor  Schelling  belongs  to  the  school 
in  which  erudition  results  not  in  perspicacity 
and  discernment,  or  in  any  power  of  synthe- 
sizing the  facts  of  literature  into  a  philosophy; 
but  in  which  erudition  is  made  the  excuse  for 
gentlemanly  trifling  and  patronizing  affability, 
and  in  which  the  three  r's  are  rainbling, 
wreatliing.  and  rectitude."  Newton  Arvin 
—  Freeman    6:426   Ja   10   '23   llOOw 

"Professor  Schelling  does  not  persuade  me 
to  engage  him  as  guide  and  philosopher.  This 
learned  professor  once  taught  us  something  of 
real  value  about  Elizabethan  lyrics,  but  he  has 
little  to  teach  us  about  living  poets  who  work 
m  tiadltional  forms,  Masefield,  Noyes,  Robinson, 


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Woodberry,  and  when  he  tries  to  follow  Sand- 
burg's erratic  way  he  gets  hopelessly  lost."  J: 
Macy 

h  Nation    115:sup621  D   6   '22  200w 

Reviewed  by  G.   B.  Munson 

New  Repub  32:313  N  15  '22  500w 
"A  collection  of  short  excursions  into  recent 
books,  in  tiie  course  of  which  there  is  some 
comment  but  little  interpretation.  Despite  the 
title  of  his  book,  Dr.  Schelling  indulges  in  few 
'asperities,'  and  those  few  are  heavily  diluted 
with  his  inevitable  urbanity.  Indeed,  amiability 
Is  perhaps  his  most  distinctive  attribute  as  a 
critic."   Lloyd  Morris 

—  NY  Times  p7  D  31  '22  130w 
"A  collection  of  newspaper  reviews  and  arti- 
cles;  they  are   rather  supercilious  at  times  and 
not  profound  or  keenly  analytical;  but  they  are 
entertaining."   Burton  Rascoe 

-I NY  Tribune  p8  O  8  '22  60w 

Pittsburgh  IVIo  Bui  27:591  D  '22 
"Prof  Schelling  has  given  us  much  more  than 
excellent  book  reviews  in  the  32  short  essays 
that  make  up  his  volume.  In  each  there  is  just 
the  right  blending  of  the  book's  content,  ap- 
preciation of  what  the  author  in  question  is 
trying  to  accomplish,  and  criticism  that  is 
sound,  unbiased  and  often  extraordinarily  keen. 
Besides  that  there  is  much  fun  and  whimsy  and 
the  personal  note  which  adds  charm  and  vi- 
tality to  any  essay,  be  it  about  books  or  any- 
thing else," 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Mr  18  '23  600w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p786    N 
30  '22  40w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:23  Ja  '23 

SCHELLING,     FELIX     EMMANUEL.       Foreign 
Influences     in    Elizabethan    plays.       160p      $2 
Harper 
822.09    English  drama — History  and  criticism 

23-10174 

Throughout  the  four  essays  the  author  traces 
the  foreign  influences — classic,  Italian,  French, 
and  Spanish — on  our  old  English  drama.  In  the 
end  he  thus  answers  his  own  question  as  to 
what  is  left  of  native  elements:  "Nearly  every- 
thing is  left,"  and,  quoting  Dr.  Horace  Howard, 
"It  is  through  and  through  an  English  drama, 
on  English  soil,  in  English  air."  Contents: 
Jonson  and  the  classics;  Shakespeare  and  the 
lure  of  Italy;  French  influences  at  court  and 
elsewhere;  Spanish  influences  on  Fletcher,  and 
after.     Bibliography.     Index. 


"Professor  Schelling's  reputation  for  sound 
and  thorough  scholarship  and  dispassionate 
judgment  is  guarantee  of  the  quality  of  the 
work.  The  author  is  not  so  specific  as  might 
be  wished  in  one  point  of  detail;  he  does  not 
specify  what  error  he  is  correcting,  and  in  con- 
sequence the  lay  reader,  the  one  unfamiliar 
with  Elizabethan  controversy,  fails  to  realize 
the  relative  importance  of  many  of  Professor 
Schelling's  statements.  Taking  the  book  all  in 
all,  however,  it  is  a  highly  valuable  handbook 
and  addendum  to  one's  shelf  of  Shakespearean 
and  Elizabethan  drama." 

-] NY  Times   p9   Je   19   '23   lG50w 

"As  a  critical  study,  the  volume  provides  ad- 
mirable reading  for  those  who  seek  a  more 
Intimate  and  scholarly  knowledge  of  Shake- 
speare   and    his    successors." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  160w 

SCHNITTKIND,  HENRY  THOMAS,  ed.  Poets 
of  the  future:  a  colIeRe  antholosy  for  1U21- 
1922.     237p    $2.25    Stratford 

811.08    American     poetry — Collections.      Col- 
lege  verse 

The  college  anthology  for  1021-22  is  volume 
SIX  of  the  series.  The  young  poets  repre- 
sented come  from  seventy-eight  American  col- 
leges  and   universities. 


it  is  to  hear  from  Elon  College  and  Baylor 
University,  one  hardly  feels  that  it  is  a  repre- 
sentative collection  that  has  nothing  whatever 
from    Yale   or    Princeton   or   Smith." 

f-  Bookm    57:344    My   '23    300w 

"In  general  the  stanzas  are  well  composed: 
inversions  are  rare;  the  free  verse,  on  the 
whole,    is    not   successful."        I.    G. 

H Boston    Transcript    p3    Ja    6    '23    llOOw 

Reviewed  by  H.   S.  Gorman 

Int  Bk  R  p26  Je  '23  80w 

N    Y   Tribune   pl9  Ag  5   '23   370w 

SCHNIT2LER,    ARTHUR.      Road   to    the   open; 

auth.   tr.  by  Horace  Samuel.    412p  $2.50  Knopf 

[7s    6d    Allen    &    U.] 

23-3554 

The  story  unfolds  a  picture  of  Viennese  life 
and  describes  the  efforts  of  Baron  George  von 
Wergdnthin,  a  young  composer,  to  live  his  life 
to  the  full  while  keeping  himself  free  from 
binding  alliances.  He  even  limits  himself  in 
his  application  to  his  art  and  his  relations 
with  women — sufiiciently  serious  and  sincere 
while  they  last — are  avowedly  episodic.  One 
of  these  episodes,  from  its  beginning  to  its 
end,  forms  the  principal  theme  of  the  story. 
Many  of  the  characters  are  Jews  and  much 
space  is  devoted  to  discussions  of  the  Jewish 
problem. 


"  'The  Road  to  the  Open'  is  the  only  novel 
ever  written  by  Schnitzler.  Schnitzler  holds 
in  this  book  the  familiar  brief  for  the  social 
irresponsibility  of  the  creative  artist."  H.  W. 
Boynton 

Bookm   57:208  Ap  '23   250w 

"It  is  a  beautiful  book,  and  a  true;  it  has 
flesh  and  blood  and  that  which  for  lack  of  a 
better    word   we   call    a   soul."      I.    G. 

-f   Boston    Transcript    p4    F   3    '23    1400w 

"His  style  is  always  finished  and  graceful; 
his  method  in  this  work  is  delicate  but  probing; 
his  is  the  hand  of  a  physician  of  sophisticated 
mind    and    heart." 

+   Int    Bk    R   p52   Mr   '23   700w 

SCHOCK,  GEORG.     See  Loose,   K.   R. 

SCHOEN,  WILHELM    EDUARD  VON,  frelherr. 

•  Memoirs  of  an  ambassador;  a  contribution 
to  the  political  history  of  modern  times;  tr. 
by   Constance   Vesey.     254p     $4     Brentano's 

B  or  92  Germany — Foreign  relations 
"The  author  served  as  a  volunteer  in  the 
Franco-Prussian  War,  became  an  officer,  was 
detailed  as  military  attach^  to  the  German  em- 
bassy at  Madrid,  entered  the  diplomatic  service, 
served  his  apprenticeship  at  the  Foreign  Office 
and  at  various  legations  before  he  was  finally 
appointed  councillor  of  the  embassy  in  Paris, 
under  Count  (afterwards  Prince)  Muenster.  In 
1900  he  was  appointed  German  minister  to  Den- 
mark. In  1905  he  became  ambassador  to  Rus- 
sia. In  the  autumn  of  1907  he  was  appointed 
Secretary  of  State  for  Foreign  Affairs  in  suc- 
cession to  Herr  von  Tschirsky,  whose  health 
was  no  longer  equal  to  the  work.  The  pressure 
of  work  in  this  office  gradually  undermined 
von  Schoen's  own  health,  but  he  continued  to 
discharge  his  exacting  duties  until  he  was  re- 
lieved in  1904  and  given  the  post  of  ambassador 
to  Paris,  which  he  still  held  in  1914  at  the 
outbreak  of  the  Great  War." — Boston  Transcript 


TTnfortunately  its  omis.sions  nre  its  most 
obvious  feature:  all  three  of  the  undergrfiduate 
poets  who  received  prizes  fiom  the  Poetry  So- 
ciety   have    been    left    out,    and.    interesting    as 


Boston    Transcript    p6    O    6    '23    850w 
"In  these  superlatively  entertaining  pages  the 
personal    element    looms    large."    Walter   Little- 
field 

N  Y  Times  pi  S  30  '23  2550w 
"It  might  be  assumed  that  an  official  in  so 
close  contact  with  pre-war  diplomatic  develop- 
ments would  discu.ss  them  with  critical  erudi- 
tion and  intimate  knowledge.  Freiherr  von 
Schoen's  book  is  disappointing  in  the  broad 
sense  because  he  does  not  do  this.  He  handles 
his  material  more  or  less  at  arm's  length." 
W:    L.    McPherson 

—  NY    Tribune    pl9    N    4    '23    1550w 


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SCHOLFIELD,    ETHEL    E.     Fillngr   department 
•    operation    and    control;    from    the    standpoint 

of    the    management.     318p     $3     Ronald 
651     Files  and  filing   (documents) 

Very  practical  book  in  which  an  experienced 
file  systematizer  and  teacher  of  filing  lays  down 
the  principles  on  which  effective  control  of  file 
operations  depends.  It  treats  the  functions  of 
the  filing  department  and  its  broad  relation  to 
the  organization  as  a  whole,  the  choice  of  filing 
systems  and  notation,  principles  of  classification, 
sources  of  material  and  information,  files  pe- 
culiar to  certain  departments  and  special  lines 
of  business,  and  mechanical  devices  and  equip- 
ment. Chapters  on  the  selection  and  training 
of  employees   are  also  included. 

SCHOOL  in  action;  data  on  children,  artists 
and  teachers;  a  symposium.    344p  $2.50  Button 

371.3        Education    of    children.        Teaching. 

Bird  school.  Peterborough,  N.H.  22-22674 
The  book  is  a  record  of  a  season's  work  of 
the  Bird  school,  Peterborough,  a  summer  va- 
cation school,  the  aim  of  whose  founder,  Mrs 
Arthur  Johnson,  is  to  have  the  instruction  in 
the  various  subjects  conducted  by  specialists 
in  their  lines.  Thus  literature  was  in  the  hands 
of  John  Merrill  of  the  Francis  Parker  school 
of  Chicago,  and  Padraic  Colum  the  poet;  music 
in  the  charge  of  Elsa  Campbell,  teacher  of 
the  theory  of  music,  and  Ernest  Bloch,  com- 
poser. Howard  Coluzzi,  the  sculptor,  conducted 
the  art  department  and  skilled  mechanics  the 
manual  training.  In  addition  an  efficient  psy- 
chological laboratory,  under  the  direction  of 
Dr  Florence  Mateer,  tested  the  mental  status 
of  the  individual  child.  The  stenographic  records 
that  were  taken  of  all  the  work  done  by  the 
school  form  the  basis  of  the  present  reports  by 
the  members  of  the  staff.  In  his  introduction 
to  the  book  F.  M.  McMurry,  of  Teacher's  col- 
lege, Columbia  university,  points  out  both  the 
merit.s  and  the  possible  defects  of  the  experi- 
ment. 


Booklist    19:177    Mr    "23 

"The  major,  and  by  far  the  most  interesting 
portion  of  the  book,  is  a  stenographic  report 
of  the  conversation  in  the  various  classrooms. 
This  little  diary  shows  both  children  and  teach- 
ers as  they  really  are  in  their  everyday  school 
life.  Recording  faithfully  the  pupils'  immature 
emotions,  as  well  as  the  awkward  questions 
they  so  frequently  ask,  it  is  a  human  docu- 
ment in  every  sense  of  the  word.  Parents  will 
read   it    with    both    pleasure    and    profit." 

-+-   Boston   Transcript    p7   D   9    '22   300w 

"Will  be  of  interest  to  teachers  at  large  as 
examnles  of  a  type  of  teaching  which  aims  to 
combine  the  old  idea  of  the  Humanists,  that 
of  communicating  the  arts  by  teachers  who 
were  themselves  makers,  with  the  modern  ideas 
of  pedagogics  which  stands  for  more  elaborate 
chi'H-studv  and  freedom  of  self-expression." 
D.    E.    Scates 

-f   El    School    J    23:394    Ja    '23    600w 

Reviewed    bv    W.    C.    Ryan,   jr. 

Lit    R    p381    Ja   13   '23    600w 

SCHOOLCRAFT,  JOHN.     Bird  of  passage.    295p 

$2     Doran 

23-8245 

Before  Springtime  had  become  a  full-fledged 
hobo,  the  wanderlust  had  seized  him  only  in 
the  springtime — hence  the  nickname.  The  first 
restraint  is  put  upon  his  free  and  roving  spirit 
when  he  is  charged  by  a  dying  pal  to  return 
the  "road-kid,"  .Johnny — a  runaway  like  him- 
self— to  his  parents.  The  encumbrance  is  re- 
sponsible for  his  entanglement  with  Tom  Os- 
borne, a  sporty  old  gentleman  with  a  pass-ion 
for  reclaiming  lost  boys.  In  a  crafty  way,  aided 
and  abetted  by  his  daughter  Kitty,  Osborne 
sets  about  to  tame  the  wild  spirit  of  Spring- 
time, an  impossible  task  had  not  the  behavior 
of  a  captive  wild  goose  in  the  last  moment 
tipped  the  scales  In  favor  of  civilization  and 
an  ordered  life.  The  book  teems  with  hobo 
lore  and  incidents  from  life  on  the  open  road, 
and  there  is  a  strain  of  humor  thruout. 


Boston   Transcript   p6   Jl  18   '23   600w 
Int    Bk    R    p75    N    '23    300w 

"Narrative  that  moves  swiftly  with  the  event, 
that  hits  hard  because  of  such  zest  for  life  as 
the  guide  feels  for  fish — this  is  the  sort  that 
one  finds  in  'The  Bird  of  Passage' — narrative 
as  lively  as  it  is  unpretentious."  Marion  Pon- 
sonby 

-f   Lit  R  p830  Jl  14  '23  600w 

"Certainly,    It   gives   the   impression   of   being 

accurate   in   the   main,   and  all   the   scenes   and 

situations    are    invested    with    a    reality    that 

stamps  them  firmly  upon  the  reader's  memory." 

-f  N  Y  Times  p27  Ap  29  '23  550w 

"I  think  boys  will  read  Mr.  Schoolcraft's 
book  eagerly,  though  it  is  not  a  'juvenile.'  It  is 
sophisticated  enough  for  almost  anybody  and 
at  the  same  time  sufficiently  chaste  for  the 
family  of  a  Supreme  Court  justice."  Leo 
Markun 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p2e  Ag  19  '23  520w 

"Mr.  Schoolcraft,  we  may  say,  has  told  a 
queer  tale  after  his  own  queer  fashion.  It  is 
a  good  tale,  fascinating  even  while  its  author 
is  breaking  the  union  rules  in  fiction.  So 
strongly  does  the  drift  of  things  impress  us  in 
the  book  that  we  almost  taste  the  mince  pies 
of  Mrs.  Osborne  when  they  are  set  out  to 
cool."   E.   W.   Osborn 

-f   N   Y  World   pile  Ap  29   '23  300w 

"The  reader  will  find  the  description  of  tramp- 
dom  somewhat  too  romantic,  but  may  welcome 
it  as  a  relief  from  tense,  sophisticated,  didactic 
or    sensation-seeking   stories." 

H Sprlngf'd    Republican    p9a   S   2   '23   240w 

SCHREINER,  OLIVE  (MRS.  S.  C.  CRON- 
WRIGHT  SCHREINER)  (RALPH  IRON, 
pseud.).  Stories,  dreams  and  allegories.  153p 
^1.75     Stokes     [6s   Unwin] 

23-6694 

"This  hook  contains  all  of  Olive  Schreiner's 
yet  unprinted  or  uncollected  imaginative  writ- 
ings, except  at  least  one  novel  to  appear  later, 
which  it  is  proposed  to  bring  forward.  They 
appear  unaltered,  except  in  a  few  minor  re- 
spects like  punctuation,  as  T  found  them  among 
her  papers.  The  date  and  place  of  writing, 
affixed  by  herself,  will  be  found  in  many  of 
these    writings." — Preface 


"For  many  the  most  significant  part  of  the 
volume  will  lie  in  the  score  or  so  of  allegories 
which  are  very  characteristic  of  Olive  Schreiner. 
They  have  all  in  varying  degrees  beauty  of 
language  and  her  power  of  inspiration,  though 
they  have  not,  as  the  stories  have,  her  under- 
standing of  human  nature  and  the  range  of  her 
dramatic    power."     D.    L.    M. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  9  '23  850w 
Cleveland   p57  Jl  '23 

"They  range  from  the  verge  of  realism  to 
the  rainbow  clouds  of  fantasy;  at  times  they 
reveal  a  deep  but  unaffected  emotion,  at  times 
they  are  beautifully  symbolical,  and  occasion- 
ally they  are  warm  and  vivid  in  their  criticism 
of   life." 

+   Dial    75:299    S    '23    80w 

"Every  page  of  the  book  is  worth  reading, 
becnuse  it  is  real  beyond  any  mere  patter  of 
reality.  Here  is  the  soul  and  the  mind  of  a 
woman  who  saw  deeply  and  felt  tremendously, 
and  who  carried  her  vision  to  the  end  un- 
marred.  It  is  a  rich  aftermath  for  which  we 
ate  thankful."  Hildegarde  Hawthorne 
-f   Int    Bk    R    p31    Mr    '23    lOOOw 

"Only  a  few  fragments  and  some  inferior 
early  writings  which,  one  must  conclude,  were 
not  "intended  for  publication  by  the  author." 
Amy   Wellington 

—  Lit    R    p7fi8    Je   16    '23    660w 

Nation    116:222    Ag    29    '23    150w 

"The  dreams  and  allegories,  while  several 
are  marked  bv  imaginative  quality  and  fine 
vision,  hardly  equal  in  interest  and  artistic 
finish  those  which  years  ago  found  so  warm 
n     welcome     among     English-speaking     readers 

everywhere."  

_| NY  Times  pl6  Mr  18  '23  550w 


BOOK   REVIEW   DIGEST 


465 


''The  larger  portion  of  the  book  Is  devoted 
to  the  short  stories  and  the  rest  to  the  "dreams 
and  allegories.'  Even  to  the  most  ardent  ad- 
herents of  Olive  Schreiner  this  second  part  will 
probably  seem  not  a  little  quaint  and  futile. 
The  stories,  however,  have  a  more  substantial 
claim  to   the   interest." 

H NY   Tribune  p22   My    6   '23   500w 

Outlook   133:810   My   2   '23    lOOw 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:277    Je    '23 
Reviewed  by  Gerald  Gould 

Sat  R  135:190  F  10  '23  lOOw 
"The  book  gains  distinction  from  one  su- 
premely good  story — ^the  first — called  'Eighteen- 
Ninety-Nine.'  The  style  is  not  always  equal  to 
the  theme,  but  the  story  as  a  whole  is  an  ex- 
tremely moving  and  impressive  work.  In  its 
large  and  melancholy  presentation  of  the  lives 
of  two  women  it  recalls  the  Russians.  .  .  It  is 
a  story  worthy  to  rank  with  the  best  in  the 
langruage." 

+  Spec  130:672  Ap  21  '23  520w 
"Mrs  Schreiner  had  made  a  secure  niche  for 
herself.  And  to  encumber  that  place  with  the 
lumber  of  the  writer's  note  book  and  waste- 
ba.sket  Is  not  to  enhance  her  fame  but  to  ob- 
scure it.  However,  those  who  treasure  every 
scrap  of  an  author's  output  for  its  signature, 
regardless  of  intrinsic  merit,  will  probaljly  be 
glad  to  have  this  volume  of  a  woman  of  achieve- 
ment." 

f-  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  D  30  '23  200w 

Survey   50:supl98  My  1   '23   70w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:161   Je   '23 

SCHREINER,  OLIVE  (MRS  S.  C.  CRON- 
WRIGHT  SCHREINER)  (RALPH  IRON, 
pseud.).  Thoughts  on  South  Africa.  398p  $6 
Stokes  [21s  Unwin] 

968     South   Africa  23-9879 

"There  is  here  much  of  the  raw  material  from 
which  her  imagination  fashioned  her  Story  of 
an  African  Farm,  and  her  pages  on  the  domes- 
tic life  and  the  every-day  psychology  Of  the 
Boer,  still  untouched  by  intruding  influences, 
often  recall  the  charm  of  its  remote.  God-fear- 
ing, primitive  setting.  Almost  all  the  essays 
were  published  in  various  South  African  and 
English  periodicals  between  1890  and  1900,  and 
the  collected  whole  was  apparently  originally 
intended  for  publication  by  Mrs.  Schreiner  so 
long  ago  as  1896.  They  contain,  therefore,  noth- 
ing of  her  views  on  the  country  as  it  developed 
after  the  war,  but,  for  the  admirably  drawn 
pictures  of  the  situation  as  it  was  then  shaping 
itself  for  Boers  and  Englishmen,  they  were 
worth  collecting." — New  Statesinan 


Booklist    20:96   D   '23 

Reviewed  bv  Edmund   Noble 

Boston  Transcript  p5  O  13  '23  1300w 

Reviewed  by  C.  C.  Church 

Freeman    8:430    Ja    9    '24    llOOw 

"There  could  be  no  mistaking  the  authorship 
of  the  essays  which  make  up  this  posthumous 
volume.  All  are  stamped  with  the  generous  and 
sympathetic  liberalism  of  Mrs.  Schreiner's  tem- 
perament, and,  even  although  she  is  sometimes 
verbose  and  occasionally  repetitive,  they  unite 
to  form  a  good  eye-witness  survey  of  the  South 
Africa  of  the  years  before  the  Jameson  Raid." 
+   New  Statesman  21:280  Je  9  '23   200w 

"Patience  with  the  book  has  its  rewards.  For 
hidden  away  in  those  interminable  sentences  are 
truths  about  the  peoples  of  South  Africa  by  no 
means  familiar  to  the  British  public.  Of  wider 
interest  than  any  other  portion  of  the  book  are 
the  pages  on  the  half-caste.  Olive  Schreiner's 
candid  and  sympathetic  treatment  of  the  ques- 
tion of  the  South  African  half-caste  mav  be 
commended  to  those  called  upon  to  deal  "with 
similai   questions  elsewhere." 

H Sat  R  135:871  Je  30  '23  780w 

"The     book     will     thoroughly     sustain     Mrs. 
Schreiner's    literary    reputation    and    should    in- 
terest everyone  who  is  concerned  with   the   de- 
velopment and  welfare  of  the  British   Empire." 
+  Spec    131:260   Ag   25    '23    400w 


"Olive  Schreiner  rightly  estimated  the  eternal 
factors  of  the  South  African  situation,  and  her 
book  has  a  value  far  beyond  party  polemics. 
In  her  grave  intricate  style  there  is  little  grace 
and  no  numour;  she  is  always  deeply  in  earnest, 
and  is  inclined  to  load  her  pages  with  heavy 
scientific  parallels  and  to  fall  into  the  cliches 
of  the  pulpit.  But  there  is  a  spaciousness  in 
her  vision,  a  justice  and  often  a  subtlety  in  her 
analysis,  and  a  rich  humanity,  which  enable  her 
chapters  to  be  read  not  only  with  resi>ect,  but 
with  pleasure.  She  has  the  sense  of  history  in 
every  fibre,  and  sees  modern  conditions  in  the 
light  of  a  long  past:  she  has  also  the  novelist's 
gift    of    painting    vivid    and    unforgettable    pic- 

-i The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p411   Je 

21   '23   I300w 

SCHULTZ,    JAMES    WILLARD.      Danger    trail. 
296p  il   $1.50     Houghton 

23-9861 

Another  story  for  boys  about  Tom  Fox  and 
his  Indian  "almost  broiher"  Pitamakan.  Tom 
lived  with  his  uncle  at  the  American  Fur  com- 
pany's post.  Fort  Benton,  in  the  days  of  the 
early  sixties.  It  had  been  a  bad  year  for  tha 
company  because  the  Hudson  Bay  company  had 
taken  so  much  of  their  trade.  As  a  last  resort  it 
was  decided  to  send  Tom  and  Pitamakan  on  a 
perilous  journey  to  the  northern  Blackfoot  tribes 
to  sue  for  their  trade.  The  boys  literally  fought 
their  way  thru  hostile  Assiniboines  and  Crows 
and  even  agents  of  the  Hudson  Bay  company, 
but  their  mission  was  successful. 


Booklist   20:24  O   '23 
"Mr.   Schultz's  books  are  not  only  interesting, 
they    are,    in    big    essentials,    history.    Moreovei 
they  are  not  only  history;  they  are  interesting." 
+   Boston  Transcript  p2  Ag  4  '23  330w 

SCHULTZ,   JAMES   WILLARD.    Friends  of  my 
"    life    as   an  Indian.     299p    il     $3     Houghton 
970.3       Piegan    Indians.     Indians    of     North 
America — Legends  23-15240 

Half  a  century  ago  James  Willard  Schultz 
joined  the  Piegan  tribe  of  the  Blackfoot  con- 
federacy, took  a  daughter  of  the  tribe  for  his 
wife,  learned  their  language,  studied  their  tra- 
ditions, manners  and  customs,  and  fought  with 
them  in  their  wars  against  the  Sioux  and  other 
enemies.  Recently,  he  revisited  these  friends 
of  his  youth  in  order  to  take  down  the  tribal 
nnyths  and  history  before  they  faded  into  ob- 
livion. The  story  of  the  reunion  as  told  in 
this  volume  is  a  record  of  experiences  and 
talks  with  his  friends,  and  a  collection  of  Indian 
lore. 


"The  book  is  not  only  interesting  reading  but 
a  compilation  of  historic  Indian  lore  as  well." 
4-  Boston  Transcript  pi  N  24  '23  280w 
"Mr.  Schultz's  new  book  ought  to  appeal 
strongly  to  all  lovers  of  outdoor  life,  while  as 
a  volume  of  Indian  lore,  of  both  ancient  tradi- 
tions and  more  recent  history,  it  is  valuable  and 
interesting." 

-f-   N    Y  Times  p24    N   4   "23   600w 

SCHULZE,    EDWARD    H.     Making  letters   pay; 

a  practical  system  for  making  business  letters 

produce  better   results,   in   less   time,   at   lower 

cost.    455p   $5    (21s)    Appleton 
652     Commercial   correspondence  23-8462 

The  author,  from  eighteen  years'  experience, 
has  worked  out  a  successful  system  of  business 
letter  writing  which  has  hitherto  been  obtain- 
able only  as  an  expensive  service  but  which  is 
now  made  available  in  book  form.  He  pre- 
sents his  ideas  with  clearness  and  vigor  and 
in  most  practical  form  for  use.  He  advises 
about  the  right  time  to  mail,  how  to  study 
and  know  your  prospects,  to  arouse  permanent 
interest,  to  present  a  good  sales  proposition, 
to  get  inquiries  by  mail  and  to  turn  these  in- 
quiries into  sales,  to  plan  follow-up  letters,  to 
handle  routine  correspondence,  credits  and  col- 
lections.   Illustrated  with  charts  and  figures. 

Boston   Transcript  p3   Je   16   '23   430w 


466 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


SCHULZE,  E:   H.— Continued 

N    Y  Times   p20   My   20   '23   260w 
"The  volume  is  a   business   tool,   as  handy  on 
the  desk  as  a  ruler,   ready   for  instant  use  and 
reference." 

+  Sprirvgf'd   Republican  p7a  Je  17  '23  150w 

SCOTSON-CLARK,       GEORGE       FREDERICK. 

Eating     without     fears.       145p      $1.50     Brown, 

N:   L. 

641   Cookery.    Diet  23-10526 

"The  author  takes  up  first  the  three  daily 
meals  seriatim,  and  discusses  and  describes 
the  di.<^hes  suitable  for  each,  offering  many 
recipes  for  his  favorite  dishes.  Some  ten  or 
more  other  chapters  deal  with  a  variety  of 
dishes  for  a  variety  of  occasions,  most  of  them 
looking  to  the  eye  of  experience  as  if  they 
would  produce  most  toothsome  results.  But 
the  book  is  far  from  being  a  mere  collection 
of  recipes.  The  author  discourses  about  his 
recipes  and  his  methods  and  his  ideas  enter- 
tainingly, interlarding  many  anecdotes  and 
making  the  whole  book  sound  much  like  the 
after-dinner  talk  on  his  favorite  subject  of  a 
man  who  has  dined  well  and  is  satisfied  with 
the  world  and  happy  in  his  companions." — 
N   T   Times 


Reviewed   by  M.   F.    Egan 

Bookm  58:71   S  '23  520w 
"His  claim  to  know  something  about  the  art 
of     gastronomy,     as     distinguished     from    mere 
cooking  of   food,    cannot  be   gainsaid." 
-f   N   Y  Times  p26  Jl  8   '23  500w 
"His    book    is    delightful    reading   in    its    very 
special   line." 

-f-  N  Y  World  pl9e  Je  24  '23  500w 
"Though  this  book  contains  many  recipes 
and  provides  a  diet  for  those  suffering  from 
the  national  disease,  indigestion,  it  is  not  a 
cookbook.  The  men  folks  will  probably  enjoy 
the  author's  racy  good  humor  and  the  anecdotes 
that  enliven  the  narrative;  for  that  is  what 
this   work  is,   a  narrative  full  of  bon   mots." 

+  Sprlngf  d  Republican  p7a  Ag  5  '23  180w 

SCOTT,  CYRIL  KAY.    Sinbad;  a  romance.    282p 

$2  Seltzer 

23-9240 

"Mr.  Scott  in  his  latest  novel,  sees  Green- 
•wich  Village  through  the  eyes  of  intense  bitter- 
ness more  as  a  menace  than  an  object  of  amuse- 
ment. And  indeed,  the  Bohemia  of  this  novel 
is  an  unhealthy  community,  a  turgid  welter  of 
emotions,  of  unsatisfied  restlessness,  and  banal 
cynicism.  .  .  The  story  deals  with  the  love- 
life  of  a  woman,  Emily  Tyler,  who  yearns  for 
suffering  because  life  seems  so  much  more  real 
when  she  is  on  the  rack.  Her  first  lover  is  a 
famous  scientist,  an  idealist,  and  she  is  miser- 
able with  him  because  he  tries  to  make  her 
happy;  in  spite  of  her  efforts,  they  do  not  quar- 
rel enough,  so  she  leaves  him  for  an  artist  who 
is  a  rather  complete  cad.  After  a  satisfactorily 
unhappy  time  with  him,  she  becomes  jealous 
and  returns  to  her  first  lover,  whom  she  eventu- 
ally deserts  a  .second  time.  Emily  typifies  the 
sincerely  morbid  pseudo-artist,  her  self-analysis 
and  self-torture  are  painful,  and  her  associates 
in  the  village  are  even  less  attractive.  They 
all  seem  to  be  suffering  from  a  type  of  hysteria." 
— Boston  Transcript 


"Mr.  Scott's  natural  style  is  restless  and  hur- 
rying, yet  effective,  but  too  often  he  breaks 
out  into  the  subjective  method  of  James  Joyce. 
We  cannot  help  wishing  that  he  had  made  hi.=; 
novel  shorter,  with  more  of  the  pure  satire  in 
it  and  less   of  the  mad  emotions."    T.   H.   D. 

1-   Boston    Transcript   p4   Je    23    '23    700w 

"Brings  to  the  portrayal  of  a  type  of  woman 
rarely  found  in  fiction  the  accuracy  of  a  dicta- 
phone record;  the  unsparing,  truthful  revelation 
of  a  voluntary  confessional;  the  justness  of 
widely-inclusive  observation:  the  emotional, 
dramatic  quality  of  human  interest.  But  the 
book  is  more:  it  is  a  dynamic  and  artistically 
harmonious  Interpretation  of  a  section  of  life." 
+  Dial   75:200  Ag  '23   lOOw 


Freeman  7:550  Ag  15  '23  250w 

"It  is  unusually  well  done.  Mr  Scott  is  not 
deceived  by  the  fraudulent  intellectuality  of 
Greenwich  Village.  On  the  contrary,  he  ham- 
mers it  prodigiously.  But  the  excellence  of 
the  workmanship  merely  adds  to  the  outrage. 
It  is  a  shame  to  waste  white  paper  and  ink  of 
excellent  quality  on  such  a  subject,  as  Mr. 
Seltzer  has  done." 

h  Greensboro     (N.C.)     Daily    News    p8    Jl 

22    '23    220w 

Reviewed  by  H.   W.   Boynton 

Ind  110:427  Jl  7  '23  700w 

Reviewed   by   M.    F.    Egan 

Int    Bk   R   p29   Ag  '23   1400w 

"The  author's  attempt  to  portray  the  bare- 
ness and  the  banality,  the  froth  and  the  frustra- 
tion, the  posturing,  the  pandering,  and  the  aim- 
less agitation  which  signify  life  to  the  Green- 
wich Villagers  is  astoundingly  successful  in  Its 
tout  ensemble,  considering  the  fact  that  the 
individual  inst.ances  are  forced  and  iterative. 
But,  if  Mr.  Scott  has  also  tried  to  show  the 
sterility  and  tragedy  which  are  the  lot  of  the 
true  artist  when  that  unfortunate  falls  In  step 
with  the  activities  of  our  Bohemians  he  has 
failed."      J.    J.    Smertenko 

-\ Lit   R  p891  Ag  11   '23   500w 

"  'Sinbad'  gives  evidence  that  its  author  al- 
lowed himself  to  be  persuaded  by  the  resources 
of  such  prose  as  is  derived  from  Gertrude  Stein 
and  other  contemporaries.  His  insight  into 
moments  of  struggling  souls  has  loveliness.  It 
is  for  such  qualities  rather  than  for  complete 
realization  of  his  intention  that  I  am  moved 
to  look  with  interest  for  his  new  work."  H.  J. 
Seligman 

Nation   117:120  Ag  1  '23  420w 

"Those  who  like  'free  verse'  probably  will  find 
■w^onderful.  though  indefinable,  merits  in  the  new 
book  by  the  author  of  'Blind  Mice.'  For  'Sin- 
bad' bears  much  the  same  relation  to  fiction  as 
it  has  been  written  by  the  acknowledged  mast- 
ers as  does  verse  with  no  regularity  of  form 
— no  rhymes  and  few  rhythms — to  that  which 
reveals  its  writer's  familiarity  with  the  estab- 
lished laws  of  his  art.  And  there  are  such  an 
unhappy  aggregation  of  futiles  and  frustrates!" 
—  NY  Times  pl7  Je   10  '23   580w 

Reviewed   bv  E.   W.   Osborn 

N   Y  World  p8e  Je  3  '23  llOw 

SCOTT,    DUNCAN    CAMPBELL.     Witching    of 
»    Elsple;   a   book  of  stories.     248p     $2    Doran 

23-16659 
A  book  of  short  stories,  the  scenes  of  which 
are  laid  in  the  Hudson  Bay  region  of  Canada, 
many  of  them  belonging  to  the  period  of  1815 — 
the  days  of  trappers  and  traders  and  voyageurs. 
Contents:  The  witching  of  Elspie;  The  vain 
shadow;  Vengeance  is  mine;  Spirit  river:  Ex- 
piation; In  the  year  1806;  At  Plangeant's  locks; 
Labrie's  wife:  The  winning  of  Marie-Louise; 
A  legend  of  Welly  Legrave;  An  adventure  of 
Mrs.  Mackenzie's;  The  escapade  of  the  Rev. 
Joshua  Geer. 


Reviewed    by    C.    L.    Skinner 

Lit    R   p419    Ja   5   '24    500w 
"All    deal    with    characters    which    Mr.    Scott 
apparently   knows  well,    and    there   is    a   certain 
vividness    of    characterization    and    action    that 
sets    these    stories    apart." 

-f  N    Y   Times  pl9   N   18   '23   600w 

SCOTT,    MRS    EVELYN.      Escapade;    an    auto- 
biography.    286p     $3     Seltzer 

B    or    92  23-11263 

The  writer  of  this  autobiography  is  a  novelist 
of  the  modern  subjective  school  of  fiction,  au- 
thor of  "The  narrow  house"  and  of  "Narcis- 
sus." In  an  extremely  frank  narrative  of  her 
experiences  she  tells  how,  having  fallen  in  love 
with  another  woman's  husband,  she  escapes 
with  him  to  South  America  where  for  three 
years  she  lives  with  him  in  extreme  poverty, 
in  squalid  surroundings  and  loneliness.  She  de- 
scribes  her    pregnancy,    the    birth    of   her   child, 


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the  illness  that  follows,  the  people  she  meets, 
all  with  the  psychological  reactions  upon  her- 
self. 


"Her  autobiography  is  precisely  what  we 
should  expect  from  a  reading  of  her  novels. 
She  is  clearly  more  interested  in  the  sickness 
than  in  the  health  of  her  body,  and  equally 
more  interested  in  the  sickness  than  in  the 
health  of  her  mind.  She  delights  in  exposing 
both  sicknesses.  The  amount  of  essential  truth 
unmasked  by  it  is  certainly  negligible.  .  .  Ex- 
cept as  warning  of  what  these  people  suffered 
when  they  became  exiles  from  society,  we  find 
little  in  the  book.  It  is  gruesome  and  unre- 
lieved, and  much  of  it  is  undeniably  distaste- 
ful. Its  significance  for  any  large  number  of 
persons  we  doubt."  D.  L.  M. 

—     Boston   Transcript   p6  Ag   15   '23   1300w 

"In  America  where  there  are  no  Rebecca 
Wests,  May  Sinclairs,  or  Virginia  Woolfs,  one 
Is  forced  to  make  a  place  for  so  able  a  writer 
as  EJvelyn  Scott  although  this  astringent  author 
lacks  the  depth  of  passion  and  richness  of  tex- 
ture of  Miss  West,  the  succinct  ironic  detach- 
ment of  Miss  Sinclair,  and  the  vigorous  culture 
of  Mrs  Woolf.  .  .  Evelyn  Scott's  corroding  hatred 
of  stuffiness  and  injustice  has  been  loosed  in  a 
very  stuffy  and  unjust  world.  Where  love  ceases 
to  instruct,  hate  at  least  rouses  to  defence." 
Alyse   Gregorv 

—  +   Dial    75:598   D  "23   660w 

"The  craftsmanship  of  the  book  was  to  me  a 
torment  and  a  delight.  If  autobiography  is  a 
calm  and  collected  narration  of  the  events  of  a 
life  in  their  chronological  order,  then  it  is  a 
total  loss  and  no  insurance.  On  the  contrary,  if 
It  Is  properly  a  portrait  of  a  soul  in  torment 
then  it  is  a  masterpiece  of  autobiography.  At 
times  it  bursts  into  unintelligible  ravings,  yet 
the  very  ravings  are  curiously  apt  and  appro- 
priate." G.  W.  J. 

H Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    plO    S 

16  '23   900w 

"It  is  a  vivid  book,  with  passages  of  great 
descriptive  beauty,  and  a  pressure  of  cumula- 
tive misfortune  that  makes  it  more  interesting. 
In  a  plot  sense,  than  her  novels.  Her  acute 
sensitiveness  to  external  detail  made  these 
novels  oppressive:  here,  where  her  nerves  have  a 
strange  tropic  world  to  play  upon,  a  lumi- 
nescence, as  of  the  rays  of  a  searchlight  reflect- 
ed from  ocean,  tree,  mountain,  and  plain,  is  the 
result.  The  moral  rebellion  in  the  book  is  lurid 
with  the  same  gleams,  but  is  neither  coherent 
nor  important,  and  is  quickly  forgotten;  not  so 
with  the  objective  world  of  bodies  and  their 
environment  (both  usually  disgusting),  which 
unpleasantly  remains  in  the  memory."  H:  S. 
Canby 

A Lit  R  pl9  S  8  '23  750w 

"This  book  tells  the  story  of  a  high  and 
heroic  adventure,  an  adventure  entered  upon 
with  complete  intellectual  lucidity  and  lived 
through  with  astonishing  fortitude.  Uncharted 
seas  and  poisoned  trenches  are  not  more  deadly 
than  that  extra-social  limbo  into  which  the  two 
people  spoken  of  were  plunged.  Evelyn  Scott's 
narrative  consists  of  a  string  of  tiny  episodes, 
pictures,  fierce,  stranpre.  garish  little  idyls, 
and  is  never  permitted  to  gather  sweep,  pas- 
sion, or  the  spiritual  impact  to  which  its  sub- 
stance and  its  story  could  so  easily  have  as- 
pired. A  story  of  heroic  adventure  thus  becomes 
singTilarly  unheroic.  .  .  Yet  it  is  clear  that 
'Escapade'  is  indeed  literature,  that  the  major 
portion  of  it  belongs  to  what  we  have  in  Amer- 
ica of  quite  serious  art."  Ludwig  Lewisohn 
-^ Nation   117:141  Ag  8  '23  750w 

"Mrs.  Scott  Is  too  constantly  preoccupied 
with  her  art,  naturalistic  or  psychic,  and  relief 
from  this  insistence  is  even  more  needed  than 
from  the  -intense  brooding  bitterness  with  which 
she  sees  her  world.  It  was  hardly  necessary 
to  enforce  this  character  of  the  book  by  the 
concluding  fantasy.  It  gives  away  the  whole 
process  by  which  Mrs.  Scott  'creates'  autobiog- 
raphy as  well  as  fiction.  She  has  not  crented 
but  brought  forth  an  impressive  and  brilliant 
book.  The  question  recurs — is  it  alive?"  R  M 
Lovett 

h  New  Repub  35:363  Ag  22  '23  1250w 


"Like  most  autobiographical  documents  the 
book  is  more  interesting  to  the  writer  than  to 
the  reader.  .  .  From  her  own  narrative  Miss 
Scott  appears  to  have  been  a  very  earnest 
young  woman,  very  opinionated,  and  naturally 
disagreeable.  Trouble  drove  her  to  the  creation 
of  a  home-made  system  of  metaphysics  which 
presents  no  particular  points  of  novelty.  All 
this  is  no  doubt  of  the  highest  significance  to 
the  author,  but  the  cash  customers  may  legiti- 
mately ask  for  something  a  trifle  more  interest- 
ing or  signiflcant  to  themselves."  Elmer  Davis 
—  NY  Times  p27  Ag  5  '23  450w 

Sprlngf  d  Republican  p7a  Ag  26  '23  220-w 

SCOTT,    EVERETT.   Third   base   Thatcher.    284p 

il  $1.75     Dodd 

23-8402 

"The  author  of  this  is  better  known  to  the 
simdry  millions  of  baseball  'fans'  as  'Deacon' 
Scott,  shortstop  of  the  Yankees  and  successor 
to  'Babe'  Ruth  as  their  captain.  It  is  a  school- 
boy story,  opening,  as  a  school  story  usually 
does,  with  a  flght  and  much  trouble  for  the 
young  hero.  He  is  then  put  through  most  of 
the  paces  of  the  boy  hero,  saves  a  life,  etc. 
[Finally  he]  gets  down  to  his  real  business 
and  plays  ball.  The  rest  of  the  book  is  de- 
voted   to    that    game." — Lit    R 

"A  school  and  baseball  story  all  boys  will 
love."      M.    G.    Bonner 

+   Int  Bk   R  p36  Ag  '23  70w 
"A    well    written,    simply    told    tale,    unpreten- 
tious  and   honest    in    workmanship." 
+   Lit    R   p668  My  5   '23   150w 
"The    story   is    slangy — and   enjoyable!    For   is 
it  not  a  baseball  story,  and  who  goes  to  a  base- 
ball  game   with   a   literary   vocabularv?    But   for 
nervous    givers    of    books    let    us    add    that    the 
slang   is   healthy."     M.    G.    Bonner 

4-   N   Y  Times  pll  .Te  24   '23  llOw 

SCOTT,  LEROY.    Cordelia  the  Magnificent.  395p 

$2  Holt 

23-8185 

"A  member  of  one  of  New  York's  first  fam- 
ilies, Cordelia  Marlowe  is  the  acknowledged 
leader  of  the  younger  set.  When  misfortime 
overtakes  the  dwindling  fortunes  of  the  Mar- 
lowes,  Cordelia  takes  stock  of  her  own  resources 
and  advertises  them  in  a  daily  paper,  calling  for 
a  bidder.  The  novel  advertisement  comes  to 
the  attention  of  Franklin,  an  unscrupulous  and 
grasping  lawyer  with  social  ambitions  far  in  ad- 
vance of  his  earnings.  Deceived  by  his  ap- 
pearance, she  is  engaged  as  an  investigator  at 
a  fabulous  salary:  the  real  purpose  of  her  work 
is  to  ferret  out  the  secrets  of  her  rich  friends 
so  that  Franklin  may  use  them  for  his  own 
evil  purposes.  Cordelia  on  her  wedding  day  is 
exposed  to  society  as  a  scheming  spy  and  ad- 
venturess, who  blackmailed  her  friends  to  sup- 
port herself  in  luxury.  Mitchell,  a  butler,  who 
becomes  a  business  man,  finally  discloses  the 
true  nature  of  Franklin,  clears  the  name  of  Cor- 
delia and  ends  by  marrying  her." — Springf'd  Re- 
publican 


"With  an  ingenuity  and  facility  of  expression 
worthy  a  better  cause  is  given  a  highly  colored 
story  of  a  modern  society  girl  and  her  social 
environment." 

h   Boston    Transcript    p4    Je    6    '23    700w 

"The  book  is  a  study  of  individuals  and 
groups,  and  it  shows  that  the  affairs  of  'mem- 
bers of  high  society'  still  hold  their  savor  for 
the  majority  of  readers.  The  different  stand- 
ards of  value  in  these  strata  are  presented  by 
Mr.   Scott  in  a  swift,  narrative  style." 

-i-   N   Y   Times  p22  My  27  '23  500w 

Reviewed  by  Donald  Douglas 

N  Y  Tribune  p22  Ag  19  '23  260w 
"Mr.  Scott's  story  is  of  the  super-popular 
brand  and  the  melodramatic  order.  It  will 
have  no  general  appeal  for  readers  on  the 
mountain  tops,  although  quite  a  number  of 
them  are  likely  to  come  down  to  the  valleys  to 
read  it."  E.  W.   Osborn 

H NY  World  p6e  My  20  '23  400w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  3  '23  300w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:415  Jl  '23 


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SCOTT,      REGINALD      THOMAS      MAITLAND. 

Secret     service      Smith;      wanderings     of     an 
American   detective.    296p   $2     Dutton 

23-13893 
Smith  is  an  American  detective  attached  for 
a  time  to  the  Criminal  investigation  department 
of  India.  These  stories  of  his  exploits  have 
their  setting  mostly  in  the  East.  Four  of  them 
take  place  in  New  York  city.  Contents:  Into 
the  East;  The  Rajah  of  Agh  Buthal;  Such  blurt 
as  dreams  are  made  of;  Mystery  mpuntam; 
Magic;  Hanuman  the  monkey  god;  The  trap; 
The  towers  of  silence;  Through  the  ether. 

"Plenty  of  action,  healthy  Americanism  and  a 
complete  disregard  of  the  usual  obvious  'framed 
detective  story  plots,  make  this  series  of  stones 
refreshing.^'^^^^   Transcript  p8  N  21  '23  300w 

"This  volume  contains  fifteen  short  detective 
stories,  most  of  them  excellent,  all  of  them  very 
good.  Though  they  are  not  so  good  as  the 
stories  Mr.  Conan  Doyle  wrote  while  he  was  still 
altogether  of  this  world,  they  are  very  good 
indeed,  and  the  best  that  are  likely  to  appear 
this  season."     Fillmore  Hyde 

+   Lit    R   pl52   O   20   '23   600w 

"The  book  makes  excellent  reading  for  hours 
when  something  in  the  realm  of  fiction  is  needed 
that  has  plenty  of  action  and  is  not  dully  drag- 
ging. Nowadays  there  is  no  such  thing  distinctly 
as  a  man's  book  but  this  is  one  that  any  man 
will  like."    E.   C.    H.   De   F. 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p23  N  4  '23  230w 

SCUDDER,  VIDA  DUTTON.  Social  ideals  in 
English  letters,  new  and  enl  ed  359p  $2.7o 
Houghton 

820.9  English  literature — History  and  criti- 
cism 23-10806 
An  additional  seventy-five  pages  and  the  in- 
clusion of  such  modern  interpreters  of  the  social 
ideal  as  Shaw,  "Wells,  Galsworthy,  and  Chester- 
ton bring  up  to  date  a  book  first  published  in 
1898. 


are  fond  of  exciting  plot.     It  is  agreeably  writ- 
ten." 

+  Outlook  135:280  O  17  '23  30w 

SEARS,  MINNIE  EARL,  ed.  List  of  subject 
headings  for  small  libraries.  183p  $1.50  Wil- 
son,   H.  W. 

025.3  Cataloging.  Subject  headings  23-26243 
A  list  of  subject  headings  le.ss  comprehensive 
than  the  lists  published  by  the  American  library 
association  and  the  Library  of  Congress  and 
designed  to  meet  the  needs  of  small  libraries 
where  elaborate  cataloging  is  unnecessary.  The 
list  i.s  a  compilation  based  on  the  subject  head- 
ings used  by  nine  representative  small  libraries 
known  to  be  well  cataloged. 


Booklist    18:234    My    '23 

Cleveland  p54  Jl  '23 

Library  Journal  48:338  Ap  1  '23  170w 
"Altho  there  may  be  some  subjects  of  general 
interest  not  included,  the  subjects  cover  most  of 
what  would  be  needed  in  the  average  small  li- 
brary." 

Public   Libraries  28:252  My  '23  160w 

SEDGWICK,    HENRY    DWIGHT.   Ignatius  Loy- 

-    ola;    an    attempt    at    an    impartial    biography. 

399p    $3     (15s)    Macmillan 
B  or  92  Loyola,   Ignatius,  Saint.  Jesuits 

23-14813 

Most  of  the  two  hundred  or  more  biographies 
of  Saint  Ignatius  have  been  written  either  by 
his  followers  and  personal  disciples,  or  by  con- 
troversialists, neither  of  whom  were  capable  of 
dispassionate  judgment.  This  hook  is  an  attempt 
at  an  impartial  biography  free  from  religious 
bias  and  based  on  original  sources.  From  Mr 
Sedgwick's  study,  the  figure  of  Ignatius  Loyola 
emerges,  not  as  a  champion  of  Roman  Catholi- 
cism or  as  an  enemy  and  pursuer  of  heretics, 
but  as  a  "passionate  believer  in  holiness." 


Freeman  7:478  Jl  25  '23  1300w 
"Brilliant  and  keenly  searching  study  of  Eng- 
lish literature.  .  .  Professor  Scudder  sees  more 
marked  than  ever  the  convergence  toward  the 
socialistic  ideal  which  she  had  described  in  the 
first  edition   of  her  book." 

+   N  Y  Times  p20  Jl  22  '23  350w 

SEAMAN,    MRS    AUGUSTA    (HUIELL).      Tran- 
quillity house.  222p  il  $1.75     Century 

23-13451 

Tranquillity  house  stood  in  the  midst  of  pleas- 
ant lawns,  in  a  little  New  Jersey  village  not 
far  from  Philadelphia.  Here  lived  Mr  Azariah 
Benham,  a  benign  old  Quaker  gentleman.  When 
Connie  and  Elspeth  Curtis  were  very  young 
they  moved  into  the  house  next  door  and  soon 
made  a  second  home  of  the  old  house  and 
adopted  its  owner  as  Uncle  Benham.  At  the 
time  the  story  opens  Connie  and  Elspeth  were 
in  high  school,  and  as  far  as  they  knew  Tran- 
quillity house  had  always  been  as  tranquil  as 
its  name.  Then  came  the  day  when  Connie  fell 
downstairs  and  broke  her  ankle  and  broke  the 
wainscot  in  the  process.  There  followed  the 
finding  of  the  teakwood  chest,  and  Uncle  Ben- 
ham's  serious  illness  shortly  after,  and  the  solv- 
ing of  several  m.vsteries  in  all  of  which  Connie 
and  Elspeth  played  important  parts. 

"Augusta  Seaman,  through  her  happy  habit 
of  writing  mystery  stories  with  girl  heroines, 
provides  a  plot  for  once  entirely  outside  of 
school  life,  a  plot  into  which  incidents  fit  na- 
turally and  through  which  characters  move 
easily,  told  in  Mrs.  Seaman's  always  clear 
style."   Marion  Ponsonby 

+   Lit   R  p232  N  10   '23  150w 
"The    story   is   told    simply    and    convincingly; 
it   m.oves    rapidly   enough   to    hold    the    interest; 
and    Connie    and    Elspeth    seem    pretty    normal 
girls   with   normal   abilities."    M.    A.   MacLean 

+  N   Y  Tribune  p24  N  11  '23  250w 
"This    is    a    story    for    girls    and    at    the    same 
time  a  mystery  story  that  holds  grown-ups  who 


Boston  Transcript  p6  N  28  '23  780w 
R  of  Rs  69:111  Ja  '24  150w 
"Loyola  is  one  of  the  three  great  incarnations 
of  the  Spanish  spirit,  and  it  is  well  to  have  a 
full  account  of  his  career  and  those  of  his  early 
disciples,  even  if  ■we  have  to  put  up  with  a 
modicum  of  commonplace  reflections  on  the 
subject." 

H Sat   R  136:660  D  15  '23  220w 

"Mr.  Sedgwick's  biography  is  full  of  interest. 
He  gives  here  and  there  illuminative  descrip- 
tions of  social  life,  he  tells  a  story  well,  he 
analyses  the  Exercises  and  the  Constitution  very 
skilfully;  most  of  all  he  is  generously  apprecia- 
tive   and   unprejudiced." 

4-  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p904  D  27 
•23    1050w 

SEDGWICK,  HENRY  DWIGHT.  Pro  vita  mon- 
astica;  an  essay  in  defense  of  contemplative 
virtues.  164p  $3.50  Atlantic  monthly 

242  Monasticism.  Spiritual  life  23-26343 
"Mv  purpose  in  this  little  book  is  limited  to  a 
consideration  of  the  rift  between  the  world  and 
the  religious  spirit,  as  it  has  existed  throughout 
the  course  of  Christianity  and  exists  still;  the 
thesis  being  that  the  contemplative  life,  by 
which  I  mean  the  definite  and  regular  practice 
of  meditation,  prayer,  and  the  restriction  of 
one's  society  to  books  and  fiowers,  for  certain 
times,  is  necessary  for  that  serenity  of  spirit 
which  is  now  and  always  has  been  the  chief  reed 
of  mankind;  for  upon  serenity  of  spirit  depends 
our  power  to  see  truth,  to  do  justice,  and  to 
think  no  evil." — Preface 

"Pro  Vita  Monastica  is  a  book  to  be  placed 
on  the  same  shelf  with  the  Meditations  of  Mar- 
cus Aurelius.  the  Imitation  of  Christ,  and  Wil- 
liam Penn's  Fruits  of  Solitude.  It  appeals  to  a 
mood  which  comes  to  every  one.  '  S:  M.  Crothers 
+  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  My  '23  400w 
Bookm  57:562  Jl  '23  120w 

"He  writes  beautifully  but  vaguely.  Indeed  he 
qppms  to   glory   in   vagueness   of   thought." 
seemsjo^l^o  y^^^^^  ^^^.^^^  q  '23  750w 


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469 


Cleveland  p57  Jl  '23 

"This  is  a  very  significant  book,  but  the  read- 
ing of  it  is  a  pleasure  apart  from  this,  for  it 
is  a  model  of  literary  style,  delicate,  polished, 
reserved,  while  the  format  of  the  volume  Is 
perfectly  consonant  with  its  matter,  a  very 
masterp"iece  of  book-making."  R.  A.  Cram 
+  Dial  75:288  S  '23  2550w 
"In  the  main,  a  very  wise  and  beautifully  writ- 
ten book."  A.  W.  Colton 

+   Lit  R  p716  My  26  '23  650w 
"The  little  volume  will  become  the  companion 
and  the  solace  of  many.     Every  line  is  the  call 
of  the  muezzin;  each  chapter  a  benediction.  The 
high  dignity  of  the  book,  its  loftiness  of  thought 
and  of  expression,  make  of  it  a  'retreat.'  " 
+   N  Y  Times  p9  Ap  1  '23  820w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:406  Jl   '23 

SEELYE,  LAURENS  CLARK.  Early  history 
of  Smith  college,  1871-1910.  242p  il  $2  Hough- 
ton 

376.8   Smith  college  23-9987 

"Dr.  Seelye  expressly  disclaims,  even  depre- 
cates any  temptation  to  be  autobiographical — 
much  more,  any  discussion  of  the  personalities 
involved  with  him  in  the  making  of  the  college. 
So  this  is,  as  it  were,  a  book  of  'minutes,' 
with  all  the  rubrics  and  documents  meticulous- 
ly correct  and  detailed,  a  narrative  in  chrono- 
logical sequence  of  events  from  the  death  of 
Sophia  Smith  on  Sunday,  June  12,  1870,  to  the 
commencement  day  of  1910,  when  after  three 
years  of  trying  to  let  go  President  Seelye  sur- 
rendered his  task  and  his  trusteeship  to  Mar- 
ion Leroy  Burton.  In  spite  of  himself  and  his 
-determination  to  be  impersonal  he  does  give 
you  a  picture  of  Dr.  Seelye.  The  picture  is 
that  of  a  sane,  firm,  minutely  conscientious 
man,  building  one  day  at  a  time  an  institu- 
tion whose  phenomenal  growth  was  always  a 
source  of  astonishment  to  him;  never  boastful 
•of  its  success,  not  boasting  even  of  the  fact — 
lor  it  is  a  fact  to  this  day — that  Smith  College 
always   has    lived   within    its    income."— Lit   R 


"It  is  a  dramatic  story  which  President  Em- 
eritus Seelye  tells.  In  a  sense  it  is  an  autobi- 
ography because  it  covers  the  period  of  the 
author's  administration  of  the  affairs  of  the 
college.  Dr.  Seelye  frankly  confesses  that  the 
work  is  more  of  a  chronicle  than  a  history.  In 
consequence  it  lacks  some  of  the  interest  of  a 
more  closely  connected  narrative.  But  for  all 
that  it  makes  a  valuable  contribution  to  the 
early  records  of  higher  education  for  women  in 
this   country." 

-1-   Boston   Transcript  p5  Ag  4  '23  230w 
"Smith  graduates,   especially  of  Seelye's  time, 
will  supply  out  of  their  own  memories  the  rest 
of   the   flesh    for   his   rather   bony   skeleton."    G. 
P.   Gavit 

h   Lit    R    pl08    O    6    '23    800w 

"Dr.    Seelye's    history    is    a    simple,    straight- 
forward  narrative   of  progress  and   growth." 
+   N   Y  Times  pl8  S  16  '23  1350w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p521  Ag  2 
•23    50w 

SELIVANOVA,      MRS      NINA      NIKOLAEVNA. 

Russia's   women.    226p    $3    Dutton 

947   "W6men   in  Russia.     Russia — Social   con- 
ditions 23-13815 

"The  purpose  of  this  book  is  to  interpret  the 
spirit  and  forecast  the  destiny  of  Russia, 
through  the  story  of  the  part  Russia's  women 
have  taken  in  its  formation.  Starting  with  earlv 
legendary  history,  the  author  describes  the 
varying  status  of  women  in  Russian  society; 
her  early  primitive  freedom;  the  restrictions 
gradually  placed  upon  her,  through  the  influ- 
ence of  Oriental  and  Christian  ideals  of  moral- 
ity; her  abject  servitude  for  five  hundred  years; 
Tier  emancipation  beginning  in  the  time  of 
Catherine  the  Great;  and  flnallv  her  inspiring 
mission  in  Russian  Revolutionary  history,  and 
her  position  as  the  hope  of  modern  Russia." — 
Publisher's    note 


"Mrs.  Selivanova's  book  will  appeal  to  the 
women  of  America.  It  will  give  them  many 
hitherto  unknown  facts  regarding  the  great 
struggle  which  the  women  of  Russia  as  well  as 
the  women  of  all  countries  have  been  passing 
through.  It  is  not  by  any  means  a  faultlessly 
constructed  treatise,  but  as  a  pioneer  work 
deserves  recognition."   N.   H.   D. 

H Boston   Transcript  p9  N  21  *23  lOOOw 

"The  book,  enthusiastic  rather  than  critical 
in  tone,  presents  much  that  is  curious  and  in- 
teresting." 

+  Sprlngf'd   Republican   p7a  O  28  '23  300w 

SELTZER,  CHARLES  ALDEN.  Brass  com- 
mandments. 301p  $1.90  Century  [7s  6d  Hodder 
&  S.] 

23-11810 
"Another  tale  of  the  Wild  West  about  a 
gang  of  'rustlers,'  lawless  and  desperate  men, 
and  the  secret  of  how  they  hide  the  stolen 
cattle.  Stephen  Lannon  had  been  the  terror 
of  the  countryside  before  he  left  Bozzam  City; 
his  voice  was  'vibrant,'  his  glance  held  'a  whim- 
sical wantonness,  a  sneering  mockery,  a  cold 
contempt,  and  a  chilling  confidence,'  before 
which  the  toughest  desperado  quailed.  The 
women  were  impressed  by  him  also,  and  when 
he  returns  Gloria,  the  hotelkeeper's  pretty 
daughter,  falls  in  love  with  him,  and  Ellen, 
daughter  of  a  neighbouring  rancher,  is  attracted. 
He  has  been  away  East,  but  the  call  of  the 
old  life  is  too  much  for  him.  Amid  scenes 
of  great  violence  the  gang  is  hunted  down;  and 
danger  helps  him  to  bring  out  the  differences 
between  Gloria  and  Ellen  and  to  guide  him  in 
his   choice." — The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 


Boston  Transcript  p5  Ja  5  '24  300w 
"In  'Brass  Commandments'  Mr.  Seltzer 
has  turned  out  another  briskly  moving  and 
exciting  yarn,  a  worthy  addition  to  the  long 
list  of  Western  'thrillers'  that  have  preceded 
it." 

+   N    Y   Times   p22   S   16   '23   550w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p606    S 
13    '23    140w 

SERGEL,     ROGER     L.     Arlie    Gelston.     420p     ?2 
'    Huebsch 

The  story  is  of  a  woman's  quest  for  real 
satisfaction  in  love.  Arlie  Gelston,  daughter  of 
ordinary  middle-class  parents  in  Coon  Falls, 
Iowa,  after  a  brief  summer's  love  affair  with  a 
boy  from  a  neighboring  town,  finds  herself 
pregnant.  She  keeps  her  secret  as  long  as  pos- 
sible, battling  as  best  she  can  with  the  terrible 
problem  confronting  her.  Thru  the  intervention 
of  the  woman  physician  who  assists  at  the  birth 
of  her  child,  she  is  married  to  the  baby's  father 
and  taken  to  live  with  his  parents.  A  brief 
year  or  so  of  happiness  is  ended  by  the  sudden 
death  of  her  husband.  A  few  weeks  later  she 
marries  Ed  Somers.  In  this  case,  to  her  hunger 
for  love  for  herself  is  added  pity  and  maternal 
love  for  the  man  who  needs  her.  Another  brief 
and  unsatisfying  love  adventure  brings  to  her 
the  realization  that  real  satisfaction  is  to  be 
found  not  in  the  seeking  but  in  the  giving  or 
love,  and  she  returns  to  her  husband. 

"The  author  presents  us  with  a  dreary  nar- 
rative more  dull  than  sordid,  pitifully  muddled 
in  many  places,  pathetically  youthful  in  its 
continued  emphasis  upon  the  less  ideal  side  of 
existence.  Mr.  Sergei  has  imitated  his  betters. 
It  is  an  extremely  poor  imitation  in  every  par- 
ticular/' g^^^^^  Transcript  p4  N  24  '23  250w 

"We  might  tolerate  its  subject,  its  people,  and 
their  reactions  to  life,  if  any  artistic  satisfac- 
tion were  to  be  obtained  from  the  language  or 
the  presentation;  but  it  is  poor  in  conception 
and  poorer  in  execution.  The  style  of  the  book 
is  desperately  bad,  and  the  effort  imposed  upon 
the  reader  who  tries  to  understand  the  meaning 
of  some  sentences  is  disheartening."  Joseph 
Collins_  ^^^  ^^  ^  p^2  D  '23  700w 

"There  is  strength  in  the  underlying  con- 
ception, in  the  organization  and  wprking  put  of 
the  story.   There  is,   because  of  this,  a  kind  of 


470 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


SERGEL,    R.    L. — Continues] 

nobility  which  is  pleasing  without  overdrawing. 
.  .  The  trouble  with  the  whole  tale  is  that  it 
seems  submerged  under  a  kind  of  sea  from 
which  rise  gleams  that  never  quite  break.  There 
is  a  lack  of  strong  concentration  in  the  book,  so 
that  each  scene  gives  niany  fine  things  and  is 
just  on  the  brink  of  finer,  but  never  the  essence 
of  anything."    Ruth   Suckow 

-\ Nation  117:742  D  26  '23  950w 

"Arlie  Gelston  is  encouragingly  free  from 
second-rate  fictional  devices.  In  its  small  town 
middle  western  realism  it  recalls  West  of  the 
"Water  Tower,  but  it  is  stronger  and  bolder. 
The  story  of  Arlie's  seduction,  pregnancy  and 
parturition  is  the  most  detailed  and  authorita- 
tive treatment  in  American  fiction  of  the  trag- 
edy of  the  primaeval  curse.  The  author  remains 
true  to  Arlie  and  to  his  method  in  his  nar- 
rative of  her  later  experience."  R.  M.  L. 
+  New  Repub  37:156  Ja  2  '24  150w 

"The  novel  is  excessively  long,  overburdened 
with  words,  and  more  than  a  little  tedious.  Yet 
there  are  bits  here  and  there  which  indicate  a 
possibility  that  the  author  may  some  day  do  bet- 
ter work — bits  of  description,  touches  of  char- 
acterization that  have  a  good  deal  of  promise." 
1-  N    Y   Times   pl6  N   18   '23  550w 

SERNER,   GUNNAR.     See  Heller,  F.,  pseud. 

SETON,   GRACE    (GALLATIN)    (MRS   ERNEST 
THOMPSON   SETON).     Woman  tenderfoot  in 
Egypt.   266p  il  $3  Dodd 
916.2  Egypt — Description  and  travel.  Women 
in  Egypt  23-5766 

The  book  is  not  intended  as  a  guide-book  for 
tourists,  but  to  give  the  author's  impressions  of 
modern  Egypt,  "the  Egypt  that  is  seething 
with  revolution  and  change."  Cairo,  she  says, 
is  the  most  cosmopolitan  of  cities  in  which  are 
to  be  found  some  of  the  most  dynamic  person- 
alities on  the  world's  stage.  Much  space  is 
given  to  the  women  leaders  of  modern  Egypt 
and  their  efforts  for  greater  social  and  political 
freedom  thru  their  organizations  "La  femme 
nouvelle"  and  the  "Ladies'  wafd."  There  is  a 
sketch  of  Lord  AUenby  the  present  arbiter  of 
Egypt,  and  of  the  problem  he  is  working  out. 
Camping  and  caravaning  in  the  Libyan  desert 
with  some  researches  into  the  religion  of  the 
ancient  Egyptians  formed  part  of  the  expedi- 
tion.   Appendix. 


Bookm  57:470  Je  '23  50w 
"The  first  half  of  the  volume,  and  it  is  a  fat 
one,  is  about  women.  Having  done  her  duty 
by  her  fellow  female,  Mrs.  Seton  settles  down 
to  be  herself  and  becomes  correspondingly  de- 
lightful. The  lure  of  the  volume  lies  in  her 
descriptions  of  life  among  the  Bedouins,  the 
great  world  outside  cities.  For  this,  and  for 
this  only,  it  is  worth  reading."     I.  W.  L. 

1-  Boston   Transcript  p4  Ap  14   '23   720w 

"Mrs.   Seton' s  opportunities  were  exceptional, 
and  not  only  did  she  collect  a  wealth  of  inter- 
esting material,  but  her  pictures  of  the  leading 
Egyptian  women  add  much  to  the  book's  value." 
+  Detroit  News  pl2  Jl  8  '23  330w 
Reviewed  by  I:    Anderson 

Int  Bk  R  p44  Je  '23  lOOw 
"It  is  a  woman's  Egypt  which  the  reader  is 
made    to    view    through    the    eyes    of    an    alert 
modern   woman."   Joseph  Collins 

-h  N  Y  Times  p4  Ap  15  '23  2550w 
N  Y  World  p9e  Ap  1  '23  180w 
"The  book  is  more  than  a  guide  to  the  popu- 
lar sights  of  Egypt.  It  tells  of  the  new  life  of 
the  Egyptian  women,  of  the  present-day  rela- 
tions between  English  and  natives,  and  of  the 
joys  and  dangers  of  'caravaning.'  The  pictures 
are  numerous  and  well  chosen." 

4-  Outlook  136:668  Ap  11  '23  llOw 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:261  My  '23 
"Interesting  and  useful  information  is  present 
In  some  of  the  chapters,  but  as  a  whole  the 
volume  gives  the  impression  of  being  made  up 
by  bringing  together  a  miscellaneous  lot  of 
magazine  articles  of  uneven  interest." 

(-  Springf'd     Republican     p7a    Ap    29    '23 

180w 


The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p656  O  4 
'23  300w 
"The    most    interesting    chapters    deal    with 
the   woman   movement.     Written    in   an   uneven 
style.     Not  needed  in  the  small  library." 
—  Wis    Lib    Bui   19:132    My  '23 

SEVEN  ages;  a  brief  and  simple  narrative  of 
the  pilgrimage  of  the  human  mind  as  it  has 
affected  the  English-speaking  world,  by  a 
gentleman  with  a  duster.  218p  il  $2.50 
Putnam    [5s   Mills  &   B.] 

170.9  Civilization.  Ethics— History  23-10894 
The  "Gentleman  with  a  duster"  traces  the 
main  current  of  human  thought  from  the  age 
of  Socrates  to  the  present  and  summarizes  the 
contribution  of  the  great  sages  to  the  race's  in- 
heritance. In  particular  he  traces  the  idea  of 
moral  responsibility  successively  thru  the  age 
of  Socrates,  of  Axistotle,  of  Jesus,  of  Augus- 
tine, of  Erasmus,  of  Cromwell  and  Wesley. 


Reviewed  by  G.  H.  Carson 

Bookm  58:208  O  '23  270w 
"The    chapters    furnish    entertaining    as    well 
as  informing  material,  and  they  are  sufficiently 
linked  up  to  make  easy  the  transition  from  age 
to  age." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  11  '23  500w 
"If  the  Gentleman  with  the  Duster  would  only 
leave  off  dusting  and  personally  conducting, 
mount  the  pulpit  where  he  belongs  and  exhort 
us  to  constructive  effort, — only  very  occasional- 
ly holding  up  one  or  two  personal  acquaintances 
as  horrible  examples, — we  would  go  far  more 
regularly  to  hear  him  than  we  do  to  buy  his 
books."  D.  B.  Woolsey 

—  New   Repub  36:212  O  17  '23  350w 
Reviewed  by  C:  W.  Thompson 

N  Y  Times  p5  Ag  5  '23  2250w 
N    Y   World   p6e  Ag  5   '23   360w 
Outlook    134:676   Ag   29    '23   llOw 
"Our  principal  criticism  of  the    book  is  that 
the  author,   though  he  has  written  with  a  con- 
tagious   enthusiasm,    and    sometimes    with    real 
eloquence,   about  great  periods  of   thought  and 
progress,    does    not    always    express    himself   so 
simply  as   he   thinks.     He   is  often   too   elusive. 
He  does  not  give  quite  enough  facts  and  dates 
— not    enough    of   those   easily   memorized    little 
points  which  enable  people  to  fix  history  in  their 
minds." 

-I Spec  130:928  Je  2  '23  550w 

"It  is  a  curious  arrangement  that  includes 
in  the  same  series  such  disparate  types  of 
genius.  The  only  convincing  argument  for  put- 
ting them  together  is  that  the  author  admired 
them  and  wanted  to  write  about  them.  This 
he  has  done  with  zest,  with  his  usual  lavish 
colouring,  and  with  his  familiar  epigrammatic 
facility.  The  'Gentleman'  always  makes  an  at- 
tempt to  be  fair  when  he  perceives  that  there 
is  another  side  to  the  question,  but  he  does  not 
perceive  that  nearly  often  enough." 

H The   Times   [London]    Lit  Sup   pl82  Mr 

15  "23  34^w 

SEYMOUR,  MRS  BEATRICE  KEAN 

(STAPLETON).       Hopeful    journey.      403p    S2 
Seltzer   [7s  6d  Chapman  &  H.] 

23-14269 
"In  Mrs.  Seymour's  book  we  begin  in  the 
middle  of  the  nineteenth  century  and  are 
brought  up  to  Ihe  present  day,  so  there  is 
scope  for  the  love-affairs  of  three  generations: 
the  Interest  centres  in  the  social  conceptions 
governing  the  relations  of  men  and  women.  Mrs 
Seymour's  story  falls  into  three  contrasted 
stages,  each  illustrating  an  attitude.  In  the 
first  generation,  the  girl  is  married  early,  is  ut- 
terly ignorant,  is  borne  down  by  the  physical 
exigencies  of  matrimony  and  child-bearing,  and 
never  reaches  out  towards  a  separate  personal 
existence.  She  accepts  her  own  wifely  subor- 
dination and  her  hu.sband's  somewhat  casual 
infidelities  as  part  of  an  essential  order.  In 
the  second  generation,  the  girl  puts  her  own 
career  first,  fights  for  it,  sacrifices  her  children 
to  it.  In  the  third  generation,  the  girl  does 
not  get  married  to  one  man  till  after  she  has 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


471 


been  the  mistress  of  another.  The  man  whose 
mistress  she  has  been  has  become  a  nuisance 
to  her;  she  is  tired  of  him;  but  her  luck  holds 
— ^he  is  killed.  She  has  always  really  wanted  to 
marry  the  other  man." — Sat  R 


not  be  so  stringent  as  to  lead  to  widespread 
evasion  and  disrespect  for  the  law." — N  Y 
Times 


"Mrs.  Seymour's  novel  is  a  well  constructed, 
thoughtful  book.  It  has  depth,  earnestness  and 
sincerity,  without  the  unblushing  vulgarity  of 
many  stories  whose  authors  endeavor  to  touch 
on  the  freedom^  of  women  in  a  trivial  and 
cheap  way.  The  story  is  never  morbid.  Every- 
X)ne  in  its  pages  is  extremely  normal.  Its  only 
lack  is  in  the  conveyance  of  emotion.  Yet  the 
author's  talent  for  character  drawing  is  so 
unique  that  it  is  only  at  moments  that  we 
feel  the  absence  of  heart."  D.  F.  Oilman 
+  Boston  Transcript  p5  N  24  '23  750w 
New    Repub    37:155    Ja   2    '24   200w 

"The  story  is  excellently  written  and  char- 
acterization is  drawn  rather  fine,  but  the  mass 
of  unimportant  detail,  dragged  in  by  the  heels, 
is   often   a  bit   tiring." 

H NY    Times   p8    N   4   '23   550w 

"The  narrative  is  engrossing  throughout,  ris- 
ing in  places  to  scenes  of  dramatic  intensity. 
'The  Hopeful  Journey,"  instinct  with  intelligence 
and  emotion,  is  a  thoroughly  distinguished 
novel."    B.   R.   Redman 

+   N    Y    Tribune    pl9    D   30    '23    1300w 

Reviewed  by  E.  W.  Osborn 

N    Y    World   plOe    O   21    '23    600w 

"All  the  characters,  except  one,  right  through 
the  three  generations,  are  real.  They  think, 
talk,  act,  with  perfect  naturalness.  Their  weak- 
nesses and  aspirations  are  deeply  and  gently 
understood.  The  book,  planned  on  a  large  scale 
and  carried  out  with  humour  and  sincerity,  is 
of  conspicuous  merit." 

+  Sat    R   135:778   Je   9   '23  480w 

"It  may  be  questioned  whether  Mrs.  Sey- 
mour is  wise  in  choosing  so  large  a  canvas 
for  the  exercise  of  her  delicate  art.  .  .  Her 
exposition  of  the  'Hopeful  Journey'  is  that, 
though  life  always  ends  in  disappointment,  the 
Journey  for  each  new  traveller  is  reinvested 
with  the  hopeful  promise.  Her  analysis  of  char- 
acter, at  least  of  feminine  character — the  men 
are  more  or  less  shadows — is  excellent." 
H Spec    131:18    Jl    7    '23    300w 

"If  Miss  Seymour  prefers  to  take  a  biological 
view  of  her  women  characters,  she  might  at 
least  have  endowed  some  of  them  with  charm — 
which  certainly  does  not  thwart  biological  pur- 
pose." 

—  Sprlngf'd    Republican   p7   O  21   '23  250w 

"This  is  pre-eminently  the  work  of  an  ex- 
ploring mind,  at  least  tinged  with  optimism. 
The  one  thing  Mrs.  Seymour  does  rather  un- 
accountably take  for  granted  is  that  the  thorny 
tangle  of  sex  problems  presents  a  serious  ob- 
stacle in  every  path  open  for  woman  or  man 
to  tread.  In  the  main  Mrs.  Seymour  takes  the 
best  from  the  modern  school  of  fiction  and  uses 
it  to  excellent  purpose." 

H The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p320  My 

10  '23  750w 


SHADWELL,   ARTHUR.    Drink   in  1914-1922;   a 
»    lesson   in  control.     245p    $3.50   (10s  6d)    Long- 
mans 

178     Liquor  traffic  23-18094 

"Dr.  Shadwell  is  no  crusader,  but  merely  an 
Investigator  seeking  to  find  the  best  means  of 
controlling  the  liquor  traffic  in  such  a  way  as 
to  minimize  drunkenness.  Whether  or  not  he 
considers  all  use  of  alcoholic  beverages  harmful 
does  not  appear;  he  is  concerned  only  with 
their  excessive  use.  As  a  basis  for  his  investi- 
gations he  takes  the  regulations  and  restric- 
tions in  force  in  Ehgland  during  the  war  under 
the  Defense  of  the  Realm  act,  believing  that 
a  careful  study  of  these  will  be  of  material 
help  in  framing  future  legislation  for  the  con- 
trol of  the  liquor  traffic.  .  .  The  conclusion  at 
which  Dr.  Shadwell  arrives  is  that  regulation 
of  the  drinking  habits  of  the  people  must,  to 
be  effective,  have  the  popular  support.    It  must 


Boston  Transcript  p2  Ja  5  '24  580w 
"Dr.  Shadwell  has  set  himself  the  task  of 
reviewing  the  experiments  made  during  the 
war,  weighing  them  carefully,  and  indicating 
the  results  to  which  they  have  led.  It  is,  in- 
deed, fortunate  that  this  important  and  in- 
dispensable work  has  fallen  into  such  com- 
petent hands.  A  succession  of  books  dealing 
with  social  problems  has  secured  for  Dr.  Shad- 
well a  high  place  among  our  social  students.  His 
knowledge,  candour,  and  wisdom  are  apparent 
on  every    page  of  his  book." 

-|-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p843    D 
6   '23   2000W 

SHANNON,    FREDERICK    FRANKLIN.     Coun- 
try  faith.     135p   $1   Macmillan 

252    Sermons  22-18942 

Ten    seiTnons    by    the    pastor    of    the    Central 

church,     Chicago.       The     collection     takes      its 

name    from   the   first   two   sermons   which   draw 

their   lessons   and   illustrations    from   nature. 


"Dr  Shannon's  sermons  are  certainly  'the 
product  of  an  unique  mind.'  They  are  always 
concerned  with  vital  discussions  of  religious 
ideals  and  most   brilliantlv   written." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p6  D  30  '22  260w 

"The  angle  from  which  he  looks  is  not  so 
different  from  that  of  others,  nor  what  he  sees 
from  what  they  see;  but  his  application  is 
what  is  arresting  and  unique.  His  style  is 
noticeable  for  a  choice  of  words;  not  pedantic, 
it  is  elevated  without  being  stilted;  and  his 
allusions  to  common  things  are  without  taint 
of    C03,rsGnGSs  '' 

4-  Sprlngf'd   Republican  plO  S  18  '23  220w 

SHARP,     DALLAS     LORE.       Magical     chance. 

232p   $1.75   Houghton 

814  23-12909 

The  first  and  title  essay  gives  the  key  to  the 
thought  which  runs  thruout  these  eight  essays. 
The  "magical  chance"  is  the  opportunity  of 
escape  from  the  commonplace  and  conventional 
which  life  offers  us  all  if  we  will  only  go  beneath 
the  surface  of  things.  It  is  chiefly  thru  nature 
that  this  way  of  escape  lies.  The  earth  is  still 
young  and  still  has  in  it  the  stuff  that  dreams 
are  made  of.  Contents:  The  magical  chance; 
The  radium  of  romance;  The  hunt  for  "copy"; 
The  duty  to  dig;  The  man  and  the  brook;  A 
January  summer;  After  the  loggers;  Wood- 
chuck   lodge    and   literature. 


Booktn   58:482   D   '23   160w 
Boston    Transcript   p4    D   1    '23    660w 
"The   eight   essays   contained   in   this  volume 
have    a     quality  sui  generis.      They    lead    one 
pleasantly   through    byways     of    literature    and 
nature,  with  occasional  glimpses  of  politics  and 
religion  verging  on  pantheism,   to  a  philosoph- 
ical concept  of  life."     Drake  de  Kay 
+  Lit    R    pl49    O    20    '23    500w 
Reviewed  by  R:   Le  Gallienne 

N   Y  Times  p4  O  28  '23  550w 
"Gentle   and   sometimes   also   stimulating   es- 
says." 

+  Outlook  135:318  O  24  '23  40w 
"A  volume  of  eight  essays  in  which  human 
nature  and  Nature  mingle  so  delightfully  that 
the  reader  who  did  not  know  the  author  might 
hesitate  whether  to  call  him  a  humanist  or  an 
agriculturist,  but  he  would  never  hesitate  when 
asked  if  Mr  Sharp  is  a  humorist.  His  humor 
Is  of  so  delicate  a  vein  that  few  words  of  what 
he  writes  can  be  skipped." 

-I-  Sprlngf'd   Republican   p8  O  11  '23  280w 

"The  author  of  'The  Hills  of  Hingham'  gives 

us    another    opportunity    to    turn    our   backs   on 

ennui   and  fancy  for  a   few  hours  at  least  that 

we    too    may    possess    the   magical   chance." 

+   Sprlngf'd    Republican   pfi   O   22   '23   600w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:506    D    '23 


472 


BOOK   REVIEW   DIGEST 


SHAW    of   DUNFERMLINE,    THOMAS   SHAW, 
baron.       Law    of    the    kinsmen;    with    a    fore- 
word   by    William    Howard    Taft.      178p    $3.50 
Doran   [7s  6d  Hodder  &  S.] 
340    Law.    United    States — Description    and 
travel.    Canada — Description    and    travel 
Lord    Shaw    of    Dunfermline    visited    America 
in    1922   as   the  guest   of  the   American   and   the 
Canadian    bar    associations.      His    impressions, 
which    he    puts   in    the    form    of    letters    to    the 
two  presidents  of  his  hosts,  are  written  in  the 
friendliest   spirit,    as  to  kinsmen.     Of  the   three 
letters  the  first.  Westward  bound,   sketches  his 
impressions  of  America;    the  second.   Mountain, 
plain    and    lake,    does    the    same    for    Canada; 
Lawyers    arrd     mufti     expresses    his    views    on 
American    lawyers    and    draws    some    contrasts 
between  American  and  British  law.   The  second 
half    of    the    book    consists    of    two    addresses, 
Widening    range    of    law    and    Law    as    the    link 
of    empire,     one    given    In    San    Francisco,    the 
other  in  Vancouver. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  S  15  '23  900w 
"Lord  Shaw  should  have  resisted  the  tempta- 
tion to  make  a  book  out  of  his  American 
notes.  During  his  few  weeks  in  the  country 
he  was,  as  he  says,  'carefully  shepherded.' 
He  met,  that  is  to  say,  none  but  Anglo-Saxon 
kinsmen,  and  saw  only  the  pleasant  things. 
Hence  his  generalisations,  often  rather  far- 
ranging,   are  apt  to  be  strikingly  at  fault." 

h  New    Statesmen    21:506    Ag   4    '23    350w 

"In   his   letters   Lord   Shaw    shows   himself   a 
kindly  critic.   He  finds  many  things  to  admire 
and  some  which  appear  strange  to  him,  but  on 
these  latter  he  does  not  pass  judgrment." 
+  N  y  Times  p4  S  9  '23  900w 

Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  20:546  D  '23 
"There  is  Doric  pepper  in  it  as  well  as 
Attic  salt.  But  the  book  is  no  'made-up'  af- 
fair. It  has  a  definite  unity — the  author's  glow- 
ing and  steadfast  faith  in  the  jus  gentium  as 
the  vital   principle  of  all  law." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p478    Jl 
19   '23    llOOw 

SHAY,  FRANK,  ed.    Treasury  of  plays  for  men. 
»    415p    $3     Little 

808.2  Dramal— Collections  23-15078 

A  companion  volume  to  Mr  Shay's  "Treasury 
of  plays  for  women."  (Book  Review  Digest, 
1922)  The  twenty-one  plays  included  call  for 
men  only  in  the  cast.  Contents:  Four  who  are 
blind,  by  C.  C.  Clements;  The  devil's  gold, 
by  S.  J.  Curry;  Blood  o'  kings,  by  Jane  Drans- 
fleld;  It  isn't  done,  by  Carl  Click;  Outclassed, 
by  Carl  Click;  The  hand  of  Siva,  by  K.  S. 
Goodman  and  Ben  Hecht;  Action!  by  Holland 
Hudson;  The  alchemist,  by  B.  L.  Kenyon;  The 
silent  waiter,  by  Alfred  Kreymborg;  Vote  the 
new  moon,  by  Alfred  Kreymborg;  The  stick-up, 
by  Pierre  Loving;  The  accomplice,  by  Abigail 
Marshall;  The  judgment  of  Indra;  by  D.  G. 
Mukerji;  The  beggar  and  the  king,  by  Win- 
throp  Parkhurst;  Just  two  men,  by  Eugene 
Pillot;  Freedom,  by  John  Reed;  Release,  by 
K.  H.  Smith;  The  rusty  door,  by  H.  F.  Smith; 
The  gold  circle,  by  T.  W.  Stevens;  Three 
wishes,  by  T.  W.  Stevens;  In  front  of  Pot- 
ter's,   by   F.    G.   Tompkins;    Bibliographies. 


Booklist    20:93    D    '23 
"They  are,    of   course,    of  varying   degrees   of 
effectiveness;   perhaps,    however,    the   best   pos- 
sible   anthology    when    one    considers    that    the 
distaff    side    of    drama    has    been    excluded." 
+  Nation    117:614    N    28    '23    lOOw 

Springf'd   Republican   p6  D  31  '23  310w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:506    D    '23 

SHERIDAN,  CLARE  CONSUELO  (FREWEN) 
(MRS  WILFRED  SHERIDAN).  West  and 
East.    269p    il    $2.50    Boni    &   Liveright 

914     Europe — Description   and  travel   23-8053 
Mrs    Sheridan    was    sent    to    Europe    by    the 
New   York   World   to   report   on    after-war   con- 
ditions.    The  editor  enjoined  her  to  write  about 


the  life  of  the  person  rather  than  that  of  the 
nation — what  people  were  talking  and  thinking: 
about,  the  plays  they  were  producing,  the  books 
they  were  reading  and  writing,  the  condition  of 
women  and  whether  they  were  raising  their 
children  to  be  cannon  fodder  in  a  few  years  to 
come,  or  were  determined  to  put  wars  behind 
them.  With  her  mind  on  these  questions  and 
with  a  self-confessed  interest  in  international 
politics  added,  Mrs  Sheridan  visited  the  cliief 
cities  of  Europe  interviewing  in  each  the  per- 
sonalities who  were  at  the  moment  holding  the 
stage,  and  expressing  her  opinions  with  the 
utmost  freedom. 


"We  confess  a  predilection  for  good  sob  stuff, 
wherefore  much  of  the  book  appeals;  but  for 
mere  twaddle  of  a  third  rate  sort  we  have  no 
stomach,  and  much  of  the  book  falls  under 
that  head." 

h  Bookm  57:652  Ag  '23  300w 

"It  is  not  that  she  is  not  serious,  that  she 
is  unimpressed  by  the  suffering  and  the  de- 
vastation which  she  witnesses,  but  she  clearly 
enjoys  all  the  excitement,  the  adventure,  the 
thrill  of  change.  She  is  not  oppressed  as  many 
might  be.  She  is  never  too  serious  for  her 
moment  of  enjoyment — to  see  a  funny  incident, 
to  strive  for  permission  to  model  the  head  of 
a  famous  man,  to  turn  a  bargain,  or  to  make 
an  entertaining  acquaintance."    D.  L.  M. 

Boston  Transcript  p4  My  2  '23  1200w 

Reviewed  by  Walter  Littlefleld 

Int   Bk    R  p23  Jl  '23  2300w 

"Mrs.  Sheridan  has  a  singularly  vivid  Journal- 
istic touch,  acute  powers  of  quick  observation 
and  analysis." 

+   Lit   R  p778  Je  16  '23  160w 

"This  is  a  really  live  book.  Much  of  it  was 
evidently  written  in  hot  blood,  and  it  is  none 
the  worse  for  that.  The  author  makes  no 
attempt  to  conceal  either  her  indignation  or 
her  sympathy,  and  the  play  she  gives  to  human 
feelings  of  anger  and  pity  in  no  way  detracts 
from  the  value  of  her  report,  but  rather  deepens 
its  impression."  H.  W.  Horwill 

-f  Nation   116:548  My  9  '23  800w 

."Her  eye  is  hardly  human,  but  defines  the 
object  as  does  an  opera  glass,  which  shuts 
out  environment  and  so  misleads  by  the  very 
exactitude  of  its  concentration.  Nor  is  Mrs. 
Sheridan's  eye  a  perfect  lens.  The  details  of 
her  landscape  are  often  edged  by  chromatic 
outlines,  not  suggesting  a  true  historic  back- 
ground, but  a  personal  emotion."  P.  W.  W. 
H   N    Y   Times  p3   Ap  29   '23  2400w 

"  'East  and  West'  is  at  once  amusing,  in- 
teresting and  depressing.  From  Dublin  to  Con- 
stantinople the  burden  of  Mrs.  Sheridan's  saga, 
varies  but  little.  It  has  singularly  dirge-like 
cadences.  After  reading  her  account  of  the 
situation  overseas,  you  long  for  nothing  so 
much,  by  way  of  antidote,  as  a  fresh  statement 
on  the  bu.'sine.ss  outlook  by  Schwab  and  Gary, 
the    Sun.shine    Twins."     F:    F.    Van   de    Water 

1-   N    Y    Tribune    pl9   Ap   22    '23    1200w 

"Good  reading  and  good  reporting.  'West 
and  East'  is  an  interesting  book,  clearly  writ- 
ten  throughout."    Bruce  Gould 

-I-   N  Y  Tribune  p27  Ap  29  '23  1050w 

St    Louis   p295   O   '23 

Springf'd   Republican   pl2   S   5   '23  900w 


SHERMAN,      STUART      PRATT.        Americans. 

336p  $2  Scribner 

814     American  literature — History  and  criti- 
cism.     United    States— Biography  23-224- 

For  descriptive  note   see   Annual   for  1922. 


"Vigorous   and   stimulating   book."    J.    Erskine 

+  Bookm  57:86  Mr  '23  1400w 
"One  of  the  charms  of  'Americans'  is  that 
Mr.  Sherman  never  rides  an  adjective  to  death. 
He  has  the  art  of  being  moderate  and  of 
choosing  his  words  as  carefully  as  the  word- 
loving   Emerson."    M.    F.    Egan 

+   Int  Bk  R  p23  Mr  '23  2200w 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


473 


"Prof.  Sherman  writes  entertainingly  (if  his 
bonhomie  is  sometimes  a  trifle  arch),  and  with 
careful  lucidity,  and  is  admittedly  a  critic  of 
wide   influence   in    his   country."    H.    M. 

+  New  Statesman  20:753  Mr  3  '23  550w 
Springf  d  Republican  p8  F  15  '23  1300w 
Wis   Lib   Bui  19:53  F  '23 


SHERMAN,  STUART  PRATT.  Genius  of  Amer- 
ica.    269p     $2'      Scribner 

814     National   characteristics,    American 

23-7369 
Professor  Sherman's  new  group  of  essays, 
mostly  reprinted  from  periodicals,  forms  a  kind 
of  sequel  to  his  "Americans."  He  finds  the 
genius  of  America  in  Puritanism,  translating 
the  word  to  mean  not  the  manners  and  morals 
of  any  particular  period,  but  an  essentially 
non-conforming  spirit,  the  spirit  of  the  eternal 
Puritan  who  is  possessed  by  a  "dissatisfaction 
with  the  past,  courage  to  break  sharply  from 
it,  a  vision  of  a  better  life,  readiness  to  accept 
a  discipline  to  attain  that  better  life."  Con- 
tents: The  genius  of  Ainerica;  What  is  a  Puri- 
tan? A  conversation  on  ostriches:  The  shifting 
centre  of  Morality:  a  study  of  the  vulgar  tongue; 
The  superior  class;  Education  by  the  people; 
Vocation:  The  point  of  view  in  American  criti- 
cism; Literature  and  the  government  of  *nen: 
an   apology    for   letters   in   the   Middle   West. 


Booklist  19:311  Jl  '23 

"The   spirit  and   content  of  the   book  are   de- 
lightful.    There     is    great    wisdom — not    merely 
knowledge — ^tolerance     without     seaitimentalism 
and  keen  satire  where  satire  is  due." 
-I-   Dial  75:98  Jl  '23  lOOw 

"He  suggests  only  too  frequently  the  specta- 
cle of  a  warrior  tilting:  at  windmills — at  super- 
cilious short-story  writers  who  are  not  very 
dangerous,  and  at  a  hardened  younger  genera- 
tion  which   does    not    exist."    Newton    Arvin 

—  Freeman   7:429  Jl   11  '23   1600w 
"Every  American   ought   to  read   his   "What  Is 

a  Puritan?'  It  is  full  of  subtle,  luiconscious 
humor,  and  it  bristles  with  the  causes  of  mental 
irritation  which  Vvill  force  the  thoughtful  to 
read  and  reread  it,  and  to  put  sweai-  words  on 
the  margin.  .  .  The  'Genius  of  America'  is  an 
interesting,  amusing,  irritating  docinnent,  with 
touches  of  extremely  profound,  original  and  sane 
thought.  It  is  more  the  result  of  contemplation 
and  meditation  than  of  wide  observation." 
M.    F.    Egan 

'] Int    Bk    R    p37    My    '23    1300w 

"Sherman  lacks  the  poetry  of  Emerson  and 
perhaps  this  is  why  he  just  fails  to  arouse  the 
enthusiastic  devotion  of  the  restless  minds  of 
the  new  world,  who  are  stirred  by  lesser  men.  In 
place  of  poetry  he  has  a  real  eloquence  and  a 
powerful  and  persuasive  judgment  that  are 
gradually  forming  an  attitude  in  American  criti- 
cism which  is  neither  radical  nor  conservative 
but  wholly  constructive  and  as  vital  as  the  life 
it  surveys."  H:  S.  Canby 

-I Lit    R    p800    Je    30    '23    1450w 

"Like  all  of  his  kind,  whether  in  literature 
or  politics  he  seems  to  be  blandly  unaware  of 
the  infiltrations  of  race  and  culture  which  are 
forming  America,  or  rather,  he  is  awarp  of 
them  and  resentful.  Otherwise,  it  is  difficult  to 
account  for  these  perpetual  gibes  at  gloomy 
Scandinavians,  crazy  Russians  and  so  forth." 
Ernest  Boyd 

—  Nation  116:723  Je  20  '23  1200w 

"It  may  be  open  to  question  whether  or  not 
Professor  Sherman  has  a  strikingly  original 
mind,  but  he  combines  great  shrewdness  with 
a  loftiness  of  purpose,  penetration  with  a  power 
of  synthesis,  and  he  has  the  crusading  spirit." 
-!-.—  N   Y  Times  pi  Ap  15  '23  2900w 

"The  professor  needs  no  bullets  in  his  gun 
and  there  isn't  the  slightest  bit  of  explosive 
behind  'Puritanism'  in  the  wav  he  fires  it 
There  is  only  a  sad  little  click'  with  the  re- 
sultant scared  look  upon  the  face  of  the  per- 
sons aimed  at  who  thought  the  professor  was 
actually  going  to  shooi.  .  .  Perhaps  the  rather 
empty    issue    which    might     be     dug     from     the 


critical  philosophy  of  Sherman   is  over  the  defi- 
nition   of   the    word   Good."     L:    VVeitzenkorn 
—   NY    World    pile   Ad   29   '23    1450w 
"Mr    Sherman's    conclusions    are    encouraging 
and   optimistic." 

4-  Springf'd  Republican  p6  My  14  "23  720w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:410    Jl    '23 

SHERWELL,     SAMUEL.     Old    recollections     of 

an    old    boy.      271p    $2    Putnam 
B  or  92 

Born  in  1841,  in  Dartmoor,  the  writer  of 
these  collections  was  early  destined  for  the 
United  States,  where  some  of  his  ancestors  had 
settled  and  prospered.  He  came  to  America  on 
the  "Niagara"  which  laid  the  first  Atlantic 
cable,  saw  much  of  the  pioneer  West  and  of 
prospecting  for  oil  in  Pennsylvania  and  began 
his  medical  education,  which  he  was  to  con- 
tinue in  Vienna.  Experiences  in  the  Franco- 
Prussian  war,  with  the  Anglo-American  ambu- 
lance, followed,  and  a  return  lo  the  United 
States  where  he  took  up  the  practice  of  his 
profession. 


"Unfortunately,  though  Dr.  Sherwell  writes 
well,  he  has  little  to  contribute  to  the  great 
bulk  of  personal  reminiscence  that  others  more 
notable  have  not  told  before.  These  remini- 
scences would  be  most  delightful  subjects  for 
chats  with  a  really  able  man  who  has  seen 
much.  Transferred  to  cold  type,  they  lack  a 
certain  appealing  quality  which  belongs  to  the 
most  entertaining  recollections." 

h   Boston   Transcript  p3  Ag  18  '23  280w 

"Dr.  Sherwell's  narrative  covers  so  many  va- 
ried experiences  during  a  thirty  year  period 
compact  of  momentous  developments  that  it  is 
necessarily  a  rather  sketchy  outline.  But  he 
evidently  enjoyed  to  the  full  his  share  of  those 
in  which  he  took  part,  and  his  zest  in  it  all 
infuses  his  acount  of  what  he  saw  and  did." 
-(-NY  Times  p23  Je  3  '23  500w 

"What    the    proofreaders    have    done    to    this 
book    is    a    crime.      Nevertheless,    it    is    an    ex- 
cellent book,    full  of  the  joy  of  life  and  of  true 
tales    of   adventure,    mainly    in    our   own    land." 
+    N    Y   World   p9e   Jl   22   '23   340w 

SHIEL,    MATTHEW    PHIPPS.      Children   of  the 
wind.     306p  $2  Knopf   [7s  6d  G.   Richards] 

23-11807 
A  story  of  adventure  in  South  Central  Africa. 
To  R.  Warren  Cobby,  an  English  scientist,  is 
brought  the  news  that  Spiciewegiehotiu,  white 
Queen  of  the  Wa-Ngwanyas,  is  his  own  cousin 
and  heiress  to  a  fortune  of  which  she  is  being 
kept  in  ignorance.  Armed  with  weapons  of 
modern  science  and  accoinpanied  by  his  inform- 
ant. Rolls,  Cobby  goes  to  Africa  to  find  his 
cousin.  Douglas  Macray,  the  false  heir,  joins 
the  expedition  in  disguise  and  causes  the  death 
of  Rolls  and  the  betrayal  of  Cobby  to  the  Queen 
who  desires  no  interference  with  her  ambitions 
for  her  savage  kingdom.  After  many  adven- 
tures, in  which  modern  science  is  pitted  against 
savage  cunning,  Macray  is  killed,  the  Queen 
realizes  that  she  loves  Cobby,  and  gives  up  her 
kingdom,    to   return   with   him  to  England. 

"The  bizarre  note  is  the  strongest  impression 
which  is  carried  away  from  this  strange  novel. 
We  know  also  that  not  once  has  the  author 
won  us  to  any  real  interest  in  his  story."  D. 
T      IVI 

■—  Boston    Transcript   p7   O    6   '23    500w 

Lit    R    pl68   O   20    '23   270w 
"There    is    skillfull    handling    of    unwholesome 
material     and     di.'^creet     handling    of    situations 
which    a    less    experienced    writer    would    have 
miade   too  vivid.      Mr.    Shiel   writes   of   a    people 
with   few   inhibitions   for   a    people   wth   many. 
N  Y  Times  p22  S  9  '23  720w 
Spec   130:593   Ap    7   '23   230w 
"One  somehow   i.«  not   so   fond   of  the   type  of 
story   as    one    once   was,    but    one    suspects    that 
but    for    that    disadvantage    one    would    find    Mr 
Shiel    an    intriguing    yarn-spinner,    even    thougn 


474 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


SHIEL,   MATTHEW    PH\PPS— Continued 
perhaps  not  quite  up  to  Haggard.     At  least,    it 
is  about  as  good  as  anything  one  has  happened 
on  in   that   sort   recently." 

1-  Springf'd    Republican    p9a   S    9    '23    180w 

SHORTHOSE,    WILLIAM    JOHN    TOWNSEND. 

Sport  and  adventure  in  Africa.  316p  il  $5  Lip- 
pincott 

916.7   Africa — Description   and   travel.   Hunt- 
ing— Africa.  European  war,   1914-1919 — Cam- 
paigns   and    battles — Africa  23-10679 
A  record  of  twelve  years  of  big  game  hunting, 
cajnpaigning  and  travel  in  the  wilds  of  tropical 
Africa.    The  author  served  in  the  King's  African 
rifles  in  Uganda  and  during  the  World  war  was 
engaged  not  only  in  guarding  the   frontier  out- 
posts  but  in  actual  fighting.     He   traversed  the 
country    from  Victoria    Nyanza    to    Nyasaland, 
and  into  German  East  Africa.     There  is  as  much 
of  hunting  as  of  fighting  in  the  book. 


"The  campaign,  in  which  the  quarry,  General 
von  JLettow  Vorbeck,  frequently  hunted  the 
hunters,  makes  rather  dull  reading.  Captain 
Shorthose's  passion  is  to  be  in  the  jungle  with  a 
rifle  in  his  hands  and  to  shoot  wild  animals,  and 
he  is  able  to  convey  something  of  the  pleasura 
to  be  derived  from  this  occupation  to  his 
reader." 

-I-  —  New  Statesman  20:610  F  24  '23  150w 
"Enticing  book." 

H NY  Times  p20  Ap  8  '23  450w 

SHOWERMAN,  GRANT.  Horace  and  his  in- 
fluence. (Our  debt  to  Greece  and  Rome)  176p 
$1.50  Marshall  Jones 

874     Horace    (Quintus   Horatius   Flaccus) 

22-20301 
B'or  descriptive  note  see   Annual  for  1922. 


"Professor  Showerman  is  led  astray,  and  the 
value  of  his  pleasant  essay  is  seriously  dimin- 
ished by  his  anxious  desire  to  present  us  with 
a  hero  who  possesses  every  possible  pagan 
virtue.  The  danger  that  lies  in  such  criticism 
ought  to  be  obvious." 

H Freeman  7:89  Ap  4  '23  850w 

"Mr.  Showerman  has  carried  his  system  too 
far,  and  might  well  have  allowed  the  reader 
to  judge  for  himself  a  little  more  frequently 
what  he  was  reading  about.  But  in  the  main 
the  fault,  if  fault  it  be,  is  merely  one  of  over- 
precision  in  form,  and  does  not  affect  the  sub- 
stance of  the  work.  At  bottom  the  presenta- 
tion of  the  poet  is  human  enough."  P.  E.   More 

h   Lit   R  p503  Mr  3  '23  700w 

New    Statesman    20:728    Mr    24   '23    800w 

"Professor  Showerman  is  a  humanist  who  is 
also  human,  and  who  is  therefore  equipped  to 
make  his  readers  perceive  and  feel  and  enjoy 
the  abiding  humanity  of  the  friendly  man  of 
the  world  who  lived  nineteen  hundred  years 
ago  and  who  talks  to  us  now  almost  as 
if  he  were  our  own  contemporary."  Brander 
Matthews 

+  Outlook   133:587   Mr  28   '23   2000w 

SIDGWICK,  ETHEL.  Restoration;  the  fairy- 
tale of  a  farm.  346p  $2  Small  [7s  6d  Sidg- 
wick   &   J.] 

23-7990 
"Henry  Wicken  (the  narrator,  though  he  ap- 
pears only  in  the  third  person)  is  stranded  by 
sudden  illness  at  a  country  station  and 
hospitably  taken  care  of  by  the  leading  county 
family.  The  greater  part  of  the  story  is  wit- 
nessed through  this  person's  eyes,  and  it  is 
like  being  given  a  pair  of  very  powerful  spec- 
tacles. There  are,  in  the  first  rank,  Lord  Dids- 
bury  and  his  wife  Beryl,  fast  linked  by  the 
man's  dependence  on  her  as  his  chief -of-staff; 
and  his  sister-in-law  Geraldine,  a  Coleridge 
lady-witch  of  a  disturbing  beauty.  It  is  she 
who  makes  the  story;  for  it  is  the  Didsburys' 
effort  to  restore  her  to  the  charming  manor 
farm  m  which  she  had  been  bred,  but  lost  bv 
a  feckless  parent  to  some  people  of  no  family 
who  worked  it  for  a  profit  merely."— The  Times 
[London]   Lit  Sup 


Booklist    19:321    Jl    '23 

"Miss  Sidgwick  has  the  faculty  of  interest- 
ing her  readers  promptly  in  each  new  charac- 
ter. She  is  less  able,  on  account  of  her  lei- 
surely method,  minute  detail,  and  deliberate 
under-emphasls  on  action,  to  sustain  the  in- 
terest once  aroused.  It  is  a  great  pity  that 
she  so  often  deliberately  directs  her  readers' 
attention  to  Jane  Austen,  for  her  own  work 
suffers    in    comparison." 

H Boston  Transcript  pi  Jl.  7  '23  500w 

"The  book  has  unity  but  not  consecutiveness; 
it  proceeds  in  a  series  of  sharply  ernphasized 
incidents  that  are  deceptively  trivial  and  must 
be  hoarded  and  put  painstakingly  together, 
like  the  pieces  of  a  puzzle,  if  one  is  to  ar- 
rive at  the  plan  and  meaning  of  the  whole. 
Every  scrap  of  material  is  pertinent.  The 
characters,  like  the  incidents,  are  treated  with 
cool  dispatch  and  from  first  to  last  the  reader 
moves  in  an  atmosphere  of  serene  irony."  E.  G. 
Freeman  8:119  O  10  '23  150w 

"The  study  of  this  book  leaves  the  thoughtful 
reader  with  an  oddly  combined  sense  of  ad- 
miration for  the  skill  and  subtlety  of  its  writer 
and  dissatisfaction  with  the  excesses  of  man- 
nerism into  which  her  peculiarities  of  style 
have  carried  her."  M.  C.  Dodd 
-i Lit   R  p783  Je  23  '23  900w 

"Restoration  is  everywhere  agreeable  and 
lively.  On  every  page  Miss  Sidgwick  lets  fly 
little  arrows  of  observation,  each  of  which  hits 
its  mark  deftly,  each  of  which  penetrates  as 
deep  as  the  archer  meant  it  to.  Perhaps  there 
is  a  little  monotony  in  the  brisk  succession  of 
neat  short  clauses,  but  there  is  none  in  the 
author's  method  of  seeing  and  painting." 
H New    Repub  35:50  Je   6  '23  450w 

Reviewed   by  Raymond   Mortimer 

New   Statesman   21:332  Je  23  '23   80w 

"In  this  latest  novel  the  defects  of  Miss  Sidg- 
wick's  qualities  are  exceedingly  apparent.  The 
book  has  been  overwritten;  its  characters  and 
situations  are  alike  blurred  in  a  mist  of  words, 
from  which  they  occasionally  emerge  for  a  mo- 
ment, only  to  have  it  close  in  about  them  once 
more.  One  feels  that  a  great  deal  of  pains  has 
been  taken,  an  amount  not  justified  by  results." 
—  NY  Times  p22  Ap  22  '23  820w 

"  'Restoration'  is  niainly  a  story  of  reactions 
and  interreactions,  made  with  sympathy,  fine- 
ness and — inexcusable  word,  perhaps,  in  this 
connection — breeding,  if  at  times  unnecessarily 
mysterious  and  laborious.  A  degree  less  of  style 
would  be,  beyond  doubt,  advantageous."  Emily 
Clark 

H NY    Tribune    p23    Jl    22    '23    800w 

"The  style  is  neither  simple  nor  positively  di- 
rect. In  one  place  and  another  we  have  to  go 
back  and  read  something  again.  Yet.  we  have 
to  own  that  when  the  book  is  finished  we  re- 
tain the  impression  of  a  rather  exceptionally 
well-rounded  story  of  EnglLsh  country  life  in 
which  clearly  defined  studies  of  diverse  char- 
acters are  set  out  against  a  background  full 
of  action."     E.    W.    Osborn 

-j NY   World   p8e   My   6   '23   400w 

"It  is  a  wilful  and  intricate  book,  a  truly 
feminine  type,  offering  much  less  to  the  take- 
it-for-granted  kind  of  reader  than  to  the  humble 
hut  neat-leaping  follower.  Even  the  manner 
of  telling  it  is  capricious  and  a  trifle  difficult. 
It  is,  however,  precisely  by  the  twists  and  turns 
of  apparent  caprice  that  she  reveals  her  'cards' 
as  living  people,  catching  the  light  on  different 
facets  of  their  personality  and  not  leaving  them 
unreal   simplifications." 

_| The   Times    [London!    Lit   Sup   p370   My 

31  '23  500w 

SIERRA,  GREGORIO  MARTINEZ.  Plays;  v  1  In 
English  versions  by  John  Garrett  Underbill;  v 
2  in  English  versions  by  Helen  and  Harley 
Granville-Barker.   241;297p  $7  set  Button 

862 
Martinez  Sierra  is  the  youngest  of  the  estab- 
lished writers  for  the  Spanish  stage.  He  early 
came  under  the  influence  of  Jacinto  Benavente 
who  enlisted  Sierra's  cooperation  when  he 
founded    the    Art    theater    at    Madrid.      He    has 


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written  forty  plays,  beside  translating  and 
adapting  as  many  more  and  his  non-dramatic 
works  fill  thirty-flve  volumes.  He  is  a  theater 
manager  as  well  as  playwright,  and  Granville 
Barker,  who  writes  an  introductory  appreciation 
of  the  plays,  pronounces  them  effective  and 
strikingly  novel  in  technique.  Contents:  Volume 
one:  The  cradle  song;  The  lover;  Love 
magic;  Poor  John;  Madame  Pepita.  Volume  two: 
The  kingdom  of  God;  The  two  shepherds;  Wife 
to  a  famous  man;  The  romantic  young  lady. 


Booklist  19:310  Jl  "23 
"The  humor  is  simple,  elemental;  the  senti- 
ment is  honest  and  earthy;  the  satire  humanly 
effective.  If  Senor  Martifiez  Sierra  is  a  play- 
wright dealing  in  surfaces  and  atmospheres, 
he  feels  what  lies  beneath  and  beyond,  and 
in  his  best  work  communicates  that  intuitive 
knowledge."      I.    G. 

+  Freeman  7:574  Ag  22  '23  330w 
"In  English  or  in  French  I  have  never  seen 
anywhere  a  realism  like  this  of  Sierra's,  so 
warm  and  so  unprofessional  but  full.  Through 
these  plays  crowds  character  after  character, 
done  abundantly  and  briefly,  people  forced  Into 
some  typicality  or  clear  line  that,  no  matter 
how  long  or  how  little  they  are  on  the  stage, 
can  sum  up  and  reveal  their  lives  and  dreams. 
Each  part  stands  the  test,  too  often  neglected 
in  modern  drama,  of  actability.  And  finally 
Sierra's  work,  like  Benavente's  often,  is  filled 
with  a  thing  that,  unless  you  know  at  first 
hand  something  of  a  country  like  Spain,  is  not 
easy  to  get  straight,  and  to  understand  as  It 
relates  to  the  entire  conception  of  the  plays.  I 
mean  a  kind  of  natural  piety."  Stark  Young 
+  New  Repub  35:26  My  30  '23  820w 
"Fecundity  is  not  the  same  as  genius,  and 
Senor  Sierra  is  never  nmch  more  than  facile. 
But  facile  he  is,  very.  He  reads,  and  no 
doubt  acts,  as  easily  as  he  writes.  He  is  cul- 
tivated, amusing,  cynical  and  superficial,  qual- 
ities more  often  associated  with  the  French 
than  the  Spanish  stage.  His  shorter  pieces  are 
the  more  amusing,  as  well  as  the  more  frivo- 
lous." 

-f-  —  New  Statesman  21:180  My  19  '23  600w 
"Martinez  Sierra  can  write  comedy  that  is 
merely  sentimentally  conventional,  as  in  'The 
Romantic  Young  Lady' ;  he  can  write  comedy 
that  is  thin  and  artificial,  as  in  'Madame 
Pepita,'  but  he  seems  unable  to  write  a  play 
that  is  completely  ineffective  in  the  theatre. 
This  youthful  poet  in  prose,  this  languidt 
precious  disciple  of  Maeterlinck  and  the  sym- 
bolists has  achieved  a  resolute  command  over 
the  resources  of  the  modern  theatre,  a  con- 
trol of  the  technique  of  dramatic  expression 
which  gives  to  his  slightest  compositions  the 
authority  of  expert  craftsmanship."  Lloyd 
Morris 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl2  Ap  29  '23  2950w 
Sat  R  136:139  Ag  4  '23  450w 
"Jacinto  Benavente  has  not  a  speculative 
mind,  but  within  the  limits  of  pure  comedy  in- 
vests the  ancient  human  emotions  with  a  sig- 
nificance which  is  true  to  the  sane  and  happy 
moments  of  life.  Four  of  the  plays  are  trans- 
lated admirably  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Granville- 
Barker.  Mr.  Underhill's  versions  do  not  read 
with    quite    the    same    felicity." 

+  Spec  131:362  S  15  '23  120w 
"It  is  because  Sierra  is  a  brave  and  pro- 
found comedian  that  he  can  move  us  deeply. 
He  has  not  the  restless  intellect,  ihe  spiritual 
adventurousness  of  Benavente.  He  does  not 
tranquillize  emotion  through  the  intelligence. 
He  follows  the  older  way  of  rousing  pity,  ad- 
miration— and   a    smile." 

-I-  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p352  My 
24    '23   850w 
Theatre    Arts    M    7:348   O   '23   210w 

SILVERS,    EARL    REED.    Ned   Beals   works   his 
way.    243p    $1.75    (6s)    Appleton 

23-7322 

"This    entertaining    story   describes   how    Ned 

Beals,    among    others,    exemplified    the    'college 

spirit,'   which  is  so  important  in  undergraduate 

life,    particularly    among   those    who    take    their 


college  days  seriously.  Ned  Beals  continues  lv, 
work  his  way  along,  and  he  finds  that  the  real 
college  spirit  does  not  allow  another  more 
fortunately  conditioned  fellow  to  look  down  on 
him  because  he  waits  on  a  table  in  the  college 
Commons.  He  finds  that  college  spirit  respects 
a  man  who  can  take  the  strenuous  circum- 
stances of  fraternity  initiation  in  good  faith, 
and  that  he  may  do  his  part  for  his  fraternity, 
in  unexpected  ways.  An  outstanding  figure  in 
this  story  is  the  burly  freshman,  'Shorty' 
MacNair,  that  unique  character  who  fitted  in 
the  school  of  hard  knocks,  but  who  brought  to 
college  a  new  note  as  a  student,  and  proved 
to  be  one  who  could  learn  not  only  the  pre- 
scribed classroom  tasks,  but  how  to  recognize 
and  to  adopt  the  college  spirit,  winning  there- 
by for  himself  a  new  reputation,  and  an  honor 
for   his   friend." — Boston   Transcript 

"It  will  be  a  great  delight  to  those  who  have 
read  Mr.  Silvers's  earlier  stories  of  boys  and 
their  school  and  college  life,  to  know  that  he  has 
pushed  Ned  Beals  along  another  year,  and  that 
now  he  is  a  sophomore  'working  his  way.' 
The  story  is  stimulating  to  youths  who  would 
undertake    college    life." 

-\-   Boston   Transcript   p4  Je  6  '23  250w 
"The   book   is   fairly  good."     M.    G.    Bonner 

H Int    Bk    R    p36   Ag   '23   150w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p325  My 
10    '23    30w 

SIIVI  FRANCES  M.  (IVIRS  W.  A.  SIIVI).  Robert 
Browning,  the  poet  and  the  man,  1833-1846. 
212p      $3      Appleton      [10s    6d    Unwin] 

B  or  92     Browning,  Robert  23-9277 

"The  value  of  this  monograph  is  almost  en- 
tirely associational,  residing  in  its  subject.  Miss 
Sims's  design  was  to  read  the  history  of  thirteen 
fruitful  years  of  Browning's  life  through  his 
poems  of  that  period,  from  1833,  the  date  of 
'Pauline,'  his  first  published  poem,  to  1846,  the 
year  of  his  marriage  to  Elizabeth  Barrett.  .  . 
The  first  two  chapters  in  particular  contain  ma- 
terial for  speculation  in  the  regrettably  brief 
allusions  to  Browning's  first  love:  not  a  love 
affair  by  any  means,  but  a  boy's  respectful 
adoration  of  a  woman  nine  years  his  senior. 
Eliza  Flower  was  the  lady;  her  sister,  Sara 
Flower,  was  the  author  of  'Nearer,  My  God,  to 
Thee.'  Eliza  was  a  musician — young  Robert's 
music  teacher." — N   Y  Tribune 


"The  value  of  her  book  lies  in  its  review 
of  Browning's  early  work,  the  dramatic  account 
of  his  relations  with  Miss  Barrettt,  and  in  the 
analysis,  often  tortuous,  but  in  the  main  il- 
luminating, of  the  longer  poems,  Pauline,  Para- 
celsus, Sordello.  The  shorter  pieces  do  not  bear 
taking   to   pieces    so   well." 

-\ New  Statesman  21:176  My  19  '23  1200w 

Reviewed  bv  Isabel   Paterson 

N   Y  Tribune  pl9  Je  3  '23   2100w 

"We  are  bound  to  say,  with  all  apprecia- 
tion of  the  author's  motive,  that  he  (or  she) 
does  not  encourage  us  to  hope  for  anything 
which  will  supplement  the  biographies  of  Mr. 
Sutherland  Orr  or  Mr.  Minchin.  We  regret 
it,  since  the  time  is  ripe  for  a  reconsideration 
of  Browning's  real  position  in  literature  now 
that  the  somewhat  over-garrulous  discussion 
of  his  writings  thirty  years  ago  has  died 
away."  .„„   „,„ 

—  Sat    R    136:48   Jl    14   '23    250w 

"The  book  reads  as  if  it  had  been  compiled 
in   haste." 

—  Spec    130:1049    Je    23    '23    120w 
Springf'd     Republican     p8     My     19     '23 

1300W 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p233   Ap 
5    '23    50w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:412  Jl   '23 

SIMON,     ROBERT     A.     "Our     little    girl."     328p 
$2     Boni    &    Liveright  23-5951 

It  was  a  foregone  conclusion  with  Dorothy's 
mother  that  "our  little  girl"  was  unusual.  Soon 
it    is    discovered    that    she   has   a   wonderful   ear 


476 


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SIMON,  ROBERT  A. — Continued 
and  musical  talent.  Her  mother  pets  her, 
shields  her  from  all  contact  with  real  life  and 
maps  out  a  musical  career  for  her.  After  her 
first  song  recital,  with  its  much  forced  publicity, 
she  feels  herself  every  inch  a  prima  donna  and 
acts  it  towards  all  her  friends  and  relatives,  in- 
cluding the  nice  boy  whom  she  has  married. 
Then  after  her  second  large  concert  at  Carnegie 
Hail,  arranged  for  and  boosted  inoi'dinately  by 
a  rich  and  doting  uncle,  comes  this  shattering 
truth  from  the  press:  that  the  much  advertised 
Dorothy  Reitz  is  a  good-looking  mediocrity,  an 
ambitious  priestess  of  the  commonplace,  a 
singer  of  pretension  but  no  great  talent,  who 
has  not  improved  materially  in  anything  ex- 
cept   advertising    matter    since    her    debut. 


the  Second  empire.  This  is  a  period  inade- 
quately covered  heretofore,  and  the  present 
study  is  based  on  a  wider  survey  of  source 
material  than  has  yet  been  attempted.  Bib- 
liography.    Index. 


Booklist   20:59   N    '23 

"It  is  a  story  which  Mr.  Simon  might  have 
told  in  fewer  pages.  He  has  padded  his  novel 
unskilfully,  with  too  great  a  profusion  of  de- 
tails, which  though  they  are  supposed  to  de- 
velop characters,  lack  interest  for  the  reader. 
The  character  of  the  heroine  herself  is  almost 
good.  It  fails  because  Mr.  Simon  starts  with 
an  individual  and  allows  her  to  become  a  type." 
D.   F.    G. 

h  Boston  Transcript  p2  Mr  31  '23  400w 

"One  of  the  best  among  recent  American 
novels."     H.   W.   Boynton 

-f   Ind    110:295   Ap   28   '23   820w 

"It  is  a  new  story,  this  tale  of  manufacturing 
and  merchandising  a  prima  donna,  fresh  in 
theme,  varied  in  detail,  rich  in  humor  and 
pathos.  What  is  more  important,  Mr.  Simon 
has  effected,  quite  in  the  old  manner,  a  har- 
monious blending  of  character  development  and 
novel  technique."  J.  J.  Smertenko 
-f   Lit   R  p660  My  5  '23  850w 

"Charm  is  no  doubt  the  last  thing  which  he 
aimed  to  achieve  in  his  first  venture  into  fic- 
tion but  'youth'  is  written,  large  and  agreeable, 
upon  the  pages  of  'Our  Little  Girl.'  "  J.  W. 
Krutch 

+   Nation    116:725   Je    20   '23   480w 

"Mr.  Simon  makes  his  d6but  as  novelist  with 
no  artificiality  of  plot  or  manner.  He  chooses 
to  hold  the  mirror  up  to  a  phase  of  human 
nature  that  he  understands  and  is  able  to  in- 
terpret. He  has  told,  and  has  told  well,  a 
most  diverting,  as  well  as  a  most  thought- 
provoking  tale." 

+   N    Y   Times   p9   Mr  25   '23   580w 

"It  is  a  very  realistic  and  very  modern  story 
and  much  sharper  and  more  interesting  than 
most.  It  presents  half  a  dozen  New  Yorkers, 
not  photographically,  but  slightly  caricatured. 
Mr.  Simon  tells  a  good  story,  one  that  has 
not  been  told  before,  and  he  tells  it  well." 
Charlotte  Dean 

+  N    Y   Tribune   p22   Mr  25   '23   1050w 

"It  has  defects  natural  to  an  initial  venture 
— the  most  conspicuous  of  these  being  a  rather 
evident  effort  to  maintain  a  style  of  flippant 
cleverness — but  it  has  as  well  qualities  that  set 
it  fairly  above  the  average  of  its  class."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

H NY   World   p8e  Mr   18   '23   650w 

"The  story  is  told  with  zest,  and  is  good 
fun." 

-\-  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  N   4    '23  280w 

"The  book  fails  in  significance  because  the 
author  penetrates  beneath  the  superficialities 
only  a  step  farther  than  the  dull  folk  he  writes 
about." 

—  Survey    50:supl98    My    1    '23    90w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:133   My  '23 

SIMPSON,  FREDERICK  ARTHUR.  Louis  Na- 
poleon and  the  recovery  of  France,  1848-1856. 
396p    il   $6    (21s)    Longmans 

944.07  Napoleon  III,  emperor  of  the  French. 
France — History — Second  republic,  1848-1852. 
France — History — Second     empire,     1852-1870 

23-2193 
The  book  is  less  a  biography  of  Louis  Na- 
poleon than  a  history  of  France  during  the 
first  eight  years  of  his  government,  from  the 
time  of  his  election  to  the  presidency  of  the 
Second    republic    thru    the    first    four    years    of 


"In  bringing  out  his  second  book  on  Louis 
Napoleon,  Mr.  Simpson  has  performed  a  valuable 
service  for  the  students  of  nineteenth-century 
Europe.  He  has  given  us  an  intimate  and 
personal  view  of  the  prince-president  and  em- 
peror that  has  been  totally  lacking  in  other 
books  on  the  Second  Empire  and  its  founder." 
J:    M.    S.    Allison 

+  Am    Hist   R   28:742   Jl   '23   1300w 
Cath    World    117:270    My    '23    900w 
Cleveland   p62  Jl  '23 
"The    book    is    brilliantly   written,    and    should 
appeal    to    the    general    reader    no    less    than    to 
the   scholar."     W:    Miller 

+   Eng    Hist    R   38:290   Ap   '23    700w 
"A    penetrating   analyst,    a    logical    thinker,    a 
dispassionate     critic,     Mr.     Simpson     brings     to 
his    subject    the    most    convincing    evidence    yet 
presented."      W:    H.    Sheifley 

-f   Nation   117:196  Ag  22   '23  1250w 
"Mr.     Simpson    is    the    greatest    Englisli    au- 
thority   on    Louis    Napoleon.      He    is    vivid    and 
sound;    his   subject   appeals   to   the   imagination; 
his   treatment    of   it    satisfies   the   critical." 

+   New   Statesman   20:supxx    D   2   '22   40w 
Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui  28:307  Je  '23 
"Mr.   Simpson  is  a  painstaking  historical  stu- 
dent,   and    at    tiie    same    time    a    really    brilliant 
writer." 

-f  R  of  Rs  67:334  Mr  '23  90w 
"Mr.  Simpson  has  devoted  his  career  to  the 
alluring  topic  of  Louis  Napoleon.  He  is  an  in- 
domitable researcher  and  an  accurate  and  often 
a  shrewd  historian.  But  his  grave  narrative 
seems  to  disdain  the  bright  colours,  the  quick, 
undignified  movement  of  reality;  without  that 
touch  one  may  write  sound  history,  but  one 
can  never  get  those  seven  wild  years  to  live 
again.  His  limitations  relate  mainly  to  his  man- 
ner. As  a  trained  historian  who  has  already 
opened  the  subject  in  'The  Rise  of  Louis  Na- 
poleon' he  is  sufTliciently  familiar  with  his  matter 
to  be  almost  beyond  reproach." 

H The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p55    Ja 

25    '23    2200w 

SIMPSON,  JAMES  YOUNG.  Man  and  the  at- 
tainment of  immortality.  342p  il  $2.25 
Doran      [7s   6d   Hodder  &   S.] 

573  Evolution.  Man,  Origin  of.  Immor- 
tality 23-6358 
Three-fourths  of  the  book  is  given  to  a  de- 
scription of  biological  evolution  and  the  origin 
and  development  of  primitive  man.  In  the  re- 
maining pages  the  whole  evolutionary  concep- 
tion of  the  world  process  is  related  to  Jesus 
Christ  and  the  Christian  doctrine  of  immortal- 
ity. The  author  is  professor  of  natural  science 
at  New  college,   Edinburgh. 

"Controversy  makes  no  appearance  in  che 
book,  nor  is  there  more  than  a  passing  allusion 
to  Darwinism,  yet  the  meaning  of  the  argu- 
ment is  obvious  as  it  sums  up  the  nature  process 
from  inorganic  to  organic,  and  from  the  lowly 
to  the  highest  forms  of  life,  with  a  command 
of  the  facts  and  a  skill  in  marshaling  them 
which  should  bring  it  and  the  fine  illustrations 
utilized  into  wide  demand  as  a  popular  pre- 
sentation  of  the  subject."   E.   N. 

-I-   Boston   Transcript   p4  Mr  17  '23  620w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p847  D  14 
•22    30w 

"The  Christian  Faith  cannot  but  gain  by  the 
issue  of  such  books  as  the  one  before  us.  There 
are  still  too  few  in  which  sound  science,  re- 
ligious earnestness  and  clear  statement  are  com- 

'+  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p37  Ja  18 
•23  1250W 

SINCLAIR,  MRS  BERTHA  MUZZY.  See 
Bower,     B.     M.,     pseud. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


477 


SINCLAIR,    BERTRAND    WILLIAM.      Inverted 
"    pyramid.    339p  $2  Little 

24-864 

A  story  of  three  brothers  and  what  life 
brought  to  each  of  them.  Hawk's  Nest,  on 
Big-  Dent,  just  off  Vancouver  Island,  the  home 
of  the  Norquay  family  for  five  generations, 
had  come  down  unspoiled  to  the  present  in- 
cumbents, together  with  an  immense  tract  of 
virgin  timber  and  a  large  fortune,  seventy 
percent  of  which  went  by  family  custom  to 
the  oldest  son,  Grove.  Grove's  adventures  in 
high  finance  involve  him  at  last  in  a  scandal 
which  threatens  the  family  honor,  to  the  sav- 
ing of  which  the  father  dedicates  all  the  family 
resources.  On  his  death  Rod,  the  youngest 
son,  carries  on  the  task.  To  its  completion 
everything  is  sacrificed  but  Hawk's  Nest  itself 
which  is  now  his  for  himself  and  his  de- 
scendants. 


"He  combines  with  adventure  two  important 
assets.  He  possesses  far  more  of  a  sense 
of  character  than  do  most  writers  of  adven- 
ture stories  and  he  has  in  addition — what  is 
even  more  unusual — a  sense  of  the  romance 
in    historj'."     D.    L.    M. 

-f-   Boston    Transcript   p6   Ja   12   '24   850w 

"With  all  its  analysis  of  motives  and  ideas 
'The  Inverted  Pyramid'  remains  essentially  a 
narrative.  Mr.  Sinclair  knows  what  many  writ- 
ers apparently  do  not — that  a  story  is  more 
than  a  study  of  mental  processes." 

-f-   N    Y  Times  pl7  Ja  6  '24  820w 

SINCLAIR,     MAY.        Uncanny    stories.     362p    il 
12.50  Macmillan 

23-13192 

WTiatever  the  form  taken  by  the  supernatural 
in  these  seven  short  stories,  it  usually  mani- 
fests itself  as  a  sort  of  Nemesis  holding  the 
victim  in  its  power  because  of  some  intrusion 
of  the  fleshly  element.  In  the  first  story,  a 
sensitive  woman  who  had  yielded  to  a  furtive 
affair  with  a  married  man  is  haunted  by  his 
spirit  after  death  and  doomed  to  live  over  her 
experiences  with  him.  The  second  is  more 
frankly  a  ghost  story.  The  third  and  longest 
story  is  of  a  woman's  subconscious  power  to 
cure  sick  souls,  but  only  so  long  as  she  re- 
mained absolutely  pure,  a  crystal  vessel  with- 
out flaw.  A  taint  of  mortality  in  her  love  for 
a  man  whom  she  had  helped  destroys  her 
pKDwer.  Contents:  Where  their  flre  is  not 
quenched;  The  token;  The  flaw  in  the  crystal; 
The  nature  of  the  evidence;  If  the  dead  knew; 
The    victim;    The    finding   of   the    absolute. 


Reviewed   by   L,.    C.    Willcox 

Bookm  58:574  Ja  '24  lOOw 
Reviewed  by  D.    L.    Mann 

Boston  Transcript  p5  N  17  '23  880w 
"The  book  itself  is  sometimes  a  startling 
blend  of  psychoanalysis  and  metapsychics.  Al- 
ways it  is  a  reflection  of  a  free-moving  imagina- 
tion. Dream  and  reality — in  the  common  ac- 
ceptance— are  woven  through  a  texture  of  vivid 
terrors.  The  fearful  reality  of  imagined  things — 
that  closest  reality  of  the  consciousness — is 
pictured  with  ruthless  fidelity  to  an  obvious 
conviction."    Alexander   Black 

Int  Bk  R  p21  N  '23  lOOOw 
"May  Sinclair's  seven  stories  of  the  super- 
natural are  far  too  rational  to  produce  either 
wonder  or  terror.  Essentially  these  stories  are 
mere  moral  fables,  and  the  moral  scheme  which 
they  exhibit  is  a  rather  anemic  one  at  that,  so 
that  the  stories  not  only  fail  to  thrill  but  seem 
petty  in  addition.  .  .  It  is  maddening  to  see 
such  skill  wasted  upon  such  trivial  material." 
J.    W.    Krutch 

—  Nation  117:655  D  5  '23  740w 
N  Y  Times  p9  O  14  '23  550w 
"Only  once  in  a  blue  moon  does  it  happen,  but 
May  Sinclair  here  proves  it  is  possible  for  a 
writer  to  become  too  expert.  She  has  learned 
the  tricks  of  her  trade  so  well,  acquired  such 
a  perfect  mastery  of  her  chosen  method  of 
getting  an  effect,  that  one  is  constrained  to 
observe  and  admire  the  means  more  than  the 
end."      Isabel   Paterson 

h   N   Y  Tribune  pl7  O  14  '23  llOOw 


"Uncanniness  must  he  in  the  effect  not  in  the 
intention;  and  nothing  much  milder  than  Miss 
Sinclair's  effects  could  be  conceived.  She  con- 
scientiously deprecates  sin,  and  chops  up 
corpses,  and  makes  ghosts  gesticulate  and  van- 
ish, hke  a  Christmas  supplement.  It  is  all  ex- 
tremely clever.  But  that  which  is  written  in  cold 
blood  will  never  make  the  blood  run  cold."  Ger- 
ald Gould 

—  Sat  R  136:310  S  15  '23  490w 

"In  these  stories  of  Miss  Sinclair's,  we  find 
her  at  her  best  when  she  is  not  being  uncanny 
at  all,  and  good  only  when  the  uncanniness  is 
simple."    Martin    Armstrong 

H Spec  131:428  S  20   '23   lOOOw 

Sprlngf'd    Republican   p6   D   17   '23   270w 

"The  simple  reader  cannot  but  regret  that 
Miss  May  Sinclair  has  become  so  psycho-an- 
alytical; for  in  her  anxiety  to  dissect  the  hu- 
man mind  with  scientific  nicety  she  seems  to 
neglect   the   art  of  stoi-y-telling." 

—  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p586  S  6 
'23   700w 

SINCLAIR,  UPTON  BEALL  (ARTHUR  STIRL- 
ING,  pseud.).  Goose-step;  a  study  of 
American  education.  488p  $2  The  author,  Pas- 
adena, Cal.  For  sale  by  Economy  Book  shop. 
33  South  Clark  St,  Chicago 

378.73      Colleges      and      universities — United 

States 
The  author  states  that  he  has  made  a  thoro 
study  of  the  conditions  prevailing  in  our  higher 
institutions  of  learning  with  the  result  that  he 
attributes  the  many  deficiencies  of  our  educa- 
tional system  less  to  the  shortcomings  of  the 
teaching  fraternity  than  to  the  fact  that  it  is  an 
instrument  of  special  privilege.  It  is,  he  main- 
tains, a  part  of  the  plutocratic  empire  and 
under  the  direct  supervision  of  its  interlocking 
directorate.  After  giving  his  own  educational 
experiences  as  typical,  he  makes  a  survey  of 
the  principal  colleges  and  universities  of  the 
country,  citing  case  upon  case  of  professors 
being  ousted  for  their  opinions  or  effectively 
silenced.     Index. 


Booklist   19:301    Jl  '23 

"Grant  that  sometimes  the  author  is  inac- 
curate and  at  other  times  he  has  misinterpreted 
his  facts — there  is  enough  material  in  the  book 
to  show  where  improvement  in  education  Is 
sadl.v  wanted." 

H Bookm    57:464   Je   '23   160w 

Boston   Transcript   p4   Ap   21   '23   220w 
Dial    74:523   My  '23   80w 

"Burke,  that  master  of  invective,  has  told 
us  that  an  indictment  loses  in  force  by  becom- 
ing too  general.  As  a  result  of  this  mistake 
on  its  author's  part,  'The  Goose-step'  is  largely 
a  blow  spent  in  the  air."  H:  L.  Stuart 
—  Freeman  7:332  Je  13  '23   620w 

"Mr.  Sinclair's  work  can  be  characterized 
only  as  a  raid  upon  publicity.  It  contains  an 
assortment  of  truths  and  half  truths  which 
should  make  those  responsible  for  our  intel- 
lectual welfare  think  and  think  hard.  But  the 
half  truths  are  too  nimierous  and  the  percentage 
of  error,  fume,  and  futility  is  too  high  even 
for  sensationalism."  H:  S.  Canby 
f-   Lit    R   p602   Ap   14    '23    900w 

"To  be  effective,  a  writer  must  have  judg- 
ment, a  sense  of  proportion,  ability  to  discrimi- 
nate material  that  is  contributory  to  the  es- 
sential theme  from  trivial  and  dubious  details 
which  impede  the  development  of  the  theme. 
Mr.  Sinclair  lacks  this  fundamental  logic  of 
construction,  this  indispensable  skill  in  selecting 
and  massing  facts,  evidence,  opinions.  The 
details  are  often  wrong  or  without  value.  But 
Mr.  Sinclair's  main  thesis  can  carry  the  burden 
of  his  errors  and  redundancies.  And  it  can  carry 
his  pathetically  absurd  egotism."  J:  Macy 
H   Nation   116:sup433   Ap  11   '23  llOOw 

"The  steady  omission  of  sources  hurts  this 
book  I  have  marked  flfty-slx  occasions  on 
which  Mr.  Sinclair  fails  to  cite  his  authority 
for  some   stateme-nt."     C:    Merz 

1_  New  Repub  34:sup8  Ap  11  '23  2550w 


478 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


SINCLAIR,    UPTON    BE  ALL— Continued 

"His  workmanship  may  be  rough-and-ready, 
he  may  be  content  with  a  hit-or-miss  presenta- 
tion of  a  case,  he  may  exult  in  his  own  bias 
or  his  own  persecution  at  the  hands  of  the 
hard-faced  enemy.  But  on  he  goes,  undeniably 
piling  higher  and  higher  his  mountains  of  evi- 
dence for  the  prosecution,  with  the  tireless,  if 
rather  undiscriminating,  energy  of  a  steam  ex- 
cavator." 

-j New  Statesman  21:150  My  12  '23  1050w 

"Upton  Sinclair  can  never  draw  up  this  In- 
dictment. He  can  only  go  into  the  court  of 
opinion  and  shriek  until  our  seqse  of  fair  play, 
like  a  bailiff,  puts  the  disturber  out  of  mind. 
The  minor  intolerance  around  us  is  dwarfed  by 
the  venomous  arrogance  of  Upton  Sinclair.  Evi- 
dence to  him  is  something  whispered  by  one 
man  to  another  in  a  darkened  hallway.  Facts 
are  the  grievances  expressed  by  a  discharged 
employee  in  a  letter  to  a  friend."  L.  S. 
—  NY  World  p9e  Mr  25  '23  500w 

"Unfortunately,  Mr  Sinclair  prefers  the 
method  of  hearsay  'evidence,'  loose  inference, 
abuse,  gossip^and  miscellaneous  irrelevance.  At 
times,  to  be  sure,  he  cites  data  that  are  both 
incontrovertible  and  pertinent.  But,  in  the 
main,  he  has  produced  a  sensational  and  vulgar 
book,  amusing  at  times  from  a  reckless  pun- 
gency, but  seldom  winning  the  critical  reader's 
confidence    or    respect." 

f-  Springf'd     Republican     pl2     Mr    23     '23 

620w 

"This  book  will  be  read  by  thousands  of  peo- 
ple interested  in  education;  and  even  though 
it  were  all  lies  it  would  affect  the  minds  of  its 
readers."     J.  K.  H. 

Survey  50:353  Je  15  '23  650w 

SINGER,  EDGAR  ARTHUR.  Modern  thinkers 
2    and  present  problems;  an  approach  to  modern 

philosophy  through  its  history.  322p  $2.50  Holt 
190   Philosophy,    Modern  23-17439 

These  papers  by  the  professor  of  philosophy 
in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  form  an  in- 
troduction to  modern  philosophy,  in  which  he 
brings  the  experience  of  some  of  the  most 
thoughtful  men  of  their  day  to  bear  on  our  daily 
living,  on  problems  that  are  ever  present.  Con- 
tents: Giordano  Bruno;  Benedict  de  Spinoza;  A 
disciple  of  Spinoza;  David  Hume;  Imananuel 
Kant;  Arthur  Schopenhauer;  Friederich  Niet- 
zsche; Pragmatism;  Progress;  Royce  on  love  and 
loyalty;    Retrospect    and    prospect. 


"The  treatment  is  throughout  more  or  less 
discursive,  yet  the  author  connects  his  separate 
deliverances  with  conclusions  which  make  plain 
what    he   means." 

-I Boston  Transcript  p5  D  22  '23  400w 

"This  volume  presents  certain  of  the  typical 
personalities  of  the  history  of  thought  in  a 
style  which  is  always  clear  and  sometimes  bril- 
liant." 

+  Int  J   Ethics  34:202  Ja  '24  130w 
N   Y  Times   p8   D   9   '23   750w 

SINGMASTER,     ELSIE     (MRS     HAROLD     LE- 
WARS).      Hidden   road.      333p     $2     Houghton 

23-8991 
"Phebe  at  seventeen  is  the  ward,  informally, 
of  her  uncle,  Heimbach  the  blacksmith,  in  Mil- 
erstown,  a  village  of  the  Pennsylvania  Dutch. 
A  temperament  inherited  from  her  wandering 
father,  an  irresponsible  English  steel -worker, 
has  led  to  an  unfortunate  development  in  sex 
appreciation.  Her  story,  as  told  by  our  author, 
is  that  of  a  determined  hunter  of  men.  The 
pursuit  of  love  goes  naturally  in  her  case  with 
the  qviest  for  an  education.  She  is  inspired  to 
study  and  to  make  the  most  of  her  school 
opportunities  only  under  the  guidance  of  the 
spurring  interest  of  men  teachers.  At  twenty- 
seven  this  Phebe,  still  young  and  vigorous,  with 
beauty  enough  to  get  along  on,  still  is  unmar- 
ried, still  is  the  victim  of  her  native  inclina- 
tion, but  has  found  an  interesting  place  in  an 
old  book  store  in  New  York  and  has  resolved 
in  hardly-gained  wisdom  to  reftirnish  her  heart 
for  the   daily  job."— N  Y  "World 


Boston    Transcript   p5   Je   30    '23    1200w 
"The  book  ranks  high  as  a  well-written,  genu- 
ine work  of  art,  one  of  the  best  novels  of  the 
year." 

+  Dial  75:300  S  '23  90w 
"The  problem  is  intensely  interesting  and  it 
is  very  well  handled.  The  development  is  grad- 
ual and  natural  and  thoroughly  convincing  ex- 
cept possibly  in  the  critical  episode  where  the 
saving  conditions  are  a  bit  forced,  though  per- 
haps  necessary." 

-\ Greensboro    (N.C.)     Daily    News    p8    Je 

17   '23   320w 
Reviewed   by   H.    W.    Boynton 

Ind    111:68   Ag   18   '23   880w 
"A    brave    story,    bravely    told." 
+  Lit    R   p72    S    22   '23    180w 
"Phebe  is  somebody  new  in  fiction,   and  most 
accurately   seen."     J.   K.    Singleton 

+   New   Repub  35:129  Je  27  '23  300w 
"An    extremely    naturalistic    genre    study." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl8  Je  10  '23  470w 
"We  like  the  book  for  its  genre  pictures  and 
descriptions.  We  are  disconcerted  and,  we  are 
afraid,  a  little  bored  by  it,  because  Miss  Sing- 
master,  it  seems  to  us,  comes  little  closer  to 
life  than  to  pass  it  on  the  other  side  of  the 
street."     F:    F.   "Van   de  Water 

h   N    Y   Tribune   pl9   Je   10   '23    850w 

"  'The  Hidden  Road"  is  a  finely  intimate  study 
of  its  heroine  and  in  its  characters  it  is  richly 
colored.  It  lacks  the  holding  grip  of  its  au- 
thor's 'Basil  Everman'  or  'Bennett  Malin.'  " 
E.    W.   Osborn 

H NY   World   p8e  Je  3  '23  270w 

"There  is  excellent  work  in  the  narrative 
both  in  description  and  in  quietly  acute  study 
of  character  and  temperament."  R.  D.  Town- 
send 

+  Outlook  134:287  Je  27  '23  200w 
"Readers  have  learned  to  expect  sincerity 
and  substantiality  of  narratives  rather  than 
brilliancy  of  execution  from  Miss  Singmaster. 
The  new  novel  maintains  her  sound  standards 
and  makes  good  and  wholesome  reading.  Crea- 
tive fiction,   however,   it  is  not." 

H Springf'd    Republican   p7a  Jl  1  '23  180w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:415    Jl    '23 

SISCO,    FRANK    THAYER.    Technical    analysis 
of  steel  and  steel  works  materials.    543p    il    ?5 
McGraw 
543.7    Steel — Analysis.    Metallurgical   labora- 
tories.   Steel-works  23-5284 
"An    illuminating    account    of    the    problems 
which    confront    the    steel-works    chemist,    and 
his    recommendations   as    to   laboratory   design, 
equipment,  and  personnel  cannot  fail  to  interest 
all    analysts.     The     methods     of    analysis     are 
good,    and    are    the    routine   methods   In    actual 
use.      (Industrial     and     engineering     chemistry, 
1923)"— Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui.    Contents:  The  steel 
works  laboratory,  its  design,  equipment  and  op- 
eration; The  analysis  of  plain  and  alloy  steels; 
The  analysis  of  steel  works  material. 


Pittsburgh    IVIo   Bui  28:353  Jl  '23 

SITWELL,  SACHEVERELL.  Hundred  and  one 
harlequins.  96p  $1.75  Boni  &  Liveright  [63 
G.    Richards] 

821 
"Another  volume  of  humorous  verse.  One 
is  perpetually  lured  into  trying  to  separate  the 
sense  from  the  nonsense,  so  that  the  volume 
is  provocative  of  mental  exercise,  at  the  least. 
But  it  will  yield  more  than  the  mental  gym- 
nastics of  a  guessing  contest.  Sitwell  is  an 
Englishman,  and  the  humor  is  the  humor  of 
Punch,  mixed  with  something  of  'Alice  in 
Wonderland,'  and  having  a  dash  of  Calverley." 
— N    Y   Times 


Cleveland    p34    My   '23 
Reviewed    bv    Malcolm    Cowley 

Dial  75:296  S  '23  1200w 
"His    real    talent    is   obscured   by   his   occupa- 
tion   with    theories,    and   above   all    by   the    ex- 
perimental   temper    of    his    age:    the    sad    thing 


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is  that  there  is  not  a  single  sustained  poem  in 
the  volume.  On  the  other  hand,  there  is  a 
sufficient  body  of  poetry,  though  the  limbs  are 
scattered,  to  show  that  the  author  has  a 
greater  genius  for  poetry  than  any  of  his 
contemporaries.  That  is  all  that  can  be  said 
about  Mr.  Sitwell  at  present,  and  it  is  neither 
too  high  praise  nor  excessive  condemnation." 
Edwin  Muir 

1-   Freeman    7:571    Ag    22    '23    1600w 

"An  excellent  example  of  modernistic  ten- 
dency."     H.    S.    Gorman 

+   Int   Bk   R   p25  Je  '23   140w 

"The  poems  in  'The  Hundred  and  One  Harle- 
quins' are  partly  in  metre  and  partly  in  vers 
librt.  IMr.  Sitwell  uses  both  forms  well.  He 
knows  wliat  effect  he  wishes  to  make  and  how 
to  obtain  it.  His  poetry  is  not  'emotional'  in 
the  common  sense  of  the  word;  he  realizes  the 
artistic  truth,  hidden  from  a  large  part  of 
the  Anglo-Saxon  world,  that  'emotion'  alone 
does  not  make  poetry."  R:  Aldington 
4-   Lit   R  p747  Je  9  '23  llOOw 

"The  volume  is  more  than  interesting.  It 
is  fascinating.  Yet  it  seldom  is  comprehensible 
for  twenty  lines  running.  Beyond  any  doubt 
Mr.  Sitwell  is  a  poet,  but  it  would  be  rash  to 
say  how  much  of  him  will  stand.  Until  time 
says  it,  if  time  is  interested,  readers  will  do 
well  to  keep  this  volume  by,  for  it  is  witty  and 
beautiful,  and  it  may  grow  clearer."  Mark 
Van   Doren 

H Nation    116:342    Mr    21    '23    160w 

"Imagination  is  one  thing,  the  grotesque  is 
another  altogether.  Mr.  Sitwell's  poems  are 
perhaps  of  sufficient  force,  considered  as  a 
collection,  to  be  named  an  adventure  in  the 
grotesque.  It  is  impossible  to  follow  Mr.  Sit- 
well step  by  step;  whatever  effect  lie  has  upon 
us  is  created  by  half-a-dozen  lines  or  phrases 
scattered  among  a  hundred.  His  raree-show 
has  many  booths,  but  seldom  do  we  have  an 
Instant  to  guess  what  precise  marvel  or  oddity 
It  is  ne.xt  to  us  before,  with  some  gibberish 
comment,  he  whirls  us  by  the  hair  to  a  new 
puzzle." 

—  Nation   and   Ath   32:164   O  28  '22  550w 
"Mr.    Sitwell   owns   a   mild   degree   of  humor, 

satire,  and  fancy,  but  almost  never  exhibits 
imagination."    G.    B.    Munson 

-I New   Repub  35;160  Jl  4  '23  600w 

"Sitwell  is  a  cubist  poet.  His  harlequins 
gambol  througli  the  pages  with  unicorns, 
giants,  phoenixes  and  lions.  There  are  glass 
chariots  and  five  league  boots.  One  is  tempted 
to  read  into  the  verse  more  meaning  than  it 
will  hold;  and  one  is  likely  to  see  less  meaning 
in   the  bizarre   lines   than   is  there." 

N    Y   Times   p6  Mr  4   '23   300w 

"Here  and  there  we  alight  upon  a  positive 
felicity,  but  the  desert  whence  it  issues  and 
the  desert  whither  it  flows  compel  us  to  esteem 
it   an  accident." 

—  Sat    R    134:510    O    7    '22    350w 

"The  difficulty  of  his  poetry — and  it  is  often 
difficult  as  well  as  poetry — conies  from  the  fact 
that,  whether  from  instinct  or  design,  he  al- 
lows his  unconscious  to  lead  him  where  it  will. 
Often  he  seems  to  compose  by  a  kind  of  dream- 
process,  trusting  to  association  rather  than  to 
logic,  and  expecting  the  reader  to  follow,  with- 
out explanatory  help,  the  caprices  of  his  fancy. 
.  .  The  result  is  a  curious  mixture  of  pleasure 
and  irritation,  like  that  of  boating  on  beautiful 
but  ruffled  waters.  There  are  incessant  little 
obstacles  to  progress  and  understanding,  yet 
you  are  led  on  by  the  promise  of  those  hap- 
hazard  and   baffling  beauties." 

—  +  Tlie    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p628    O 
5    '22    1050w 

SIWERTZ,  SIGFRID.  Downstream:  tr.  from 
the  Swedish  by  E.  Classen.  405p  $2.50  Knopf 
[7s    6d   Gyldendal] 

23-8080 
The  story  relates  the  fife  history  of  the  Se- 
lamb  children  left  orphans  in  early  youth  to 
grow  up  with  dwarfed  and  degenerate  souls, 
the  result  of  heredity  plus  environment.  The 
first  cur.se  was  the  brutal,  grasping  egotism  of 
the  grandfather  who  in  piling  up  riches  kept  his 
own     son — the     children's     father — a     nonentity 


lapsing,  after  his  wife's  death,  into  imbecile  in- 
vaUdism.  The  second  curse  was  the  fear  under 
the  scourge  of  which  the  children  grew  to  ma- 
turity. It  made  of  the  oldest,  Peter,  a  brutal, 
unscrupulous  lout  with  a  mania  for  enriching 
himself  at  any  price;  of  Hedvig,  the  oldest 
daughter,  a  fear-ridden  pervert;  of  Stellan  a 
reckless  gambler;  of  Laura  a  heartless  seducer 
of  men;  and  of  Tord  an  eccentric  recluse,  half 
naturalist,  half  madman.  From  beginning  to 
end  the  degrading  influence  of  Mammon  worship 
is  shown  at  its  most  repulsive  and  without  a 
redeeming  feature. 


Booklist    19:321    Jl     23 

"Its  dulness  is  surprising  and  perversa,  for 
the    material    staked    out — tne    rise    of   a    family 

to  mammonish  power  by  the   sale  of  its   soul 

would   seem    to    be   a    rich    mine  " 

—  Dial   75:200  Ag  '23   lOOw 

"Aside  from  the  triteness  of  the  theme,  the 
book  suffers  from  a  tendency  to  moralize  and 
a  superfluity  of  detail.  Each  character  is  pain- 
stakmgly  developed,  but  the  story  of  one  child 
IS  practically  the  story  of  the  other  four."  F. 
G. 

—  Freeman    8:119    O    10    '23    150w 
Int   Bk   R  p91  O  '23   450w 

"Siwertz  has  followed  intelligently  the  models 
of  his  two  older  contemporaries,  Verner  von 
Heidenstam  and  Per  Hallstrom.  Without  the 
salient  genius  of  either  of  these,  he  is  more 
accessible  to  the  average  reader.  He  sticks 
mostly  to  present-day  Sweden,  to  scenes  and 
people  directly  under  his  observation,  interpret- 
ing them  neither  too  violently  nor  too  subtly 
to  tax  an  average  lover  of  good  literature.  On 
^^  other  hand,  he  is  never  insipid  or  obvious, 
i-ew  better  balanced  masters  of  fiction  are 
vvn ting  to-day.  'Downstream'  is  not  a  pleasant 
story,  tor  it  is  a  searching  revelation  of  de- 
generacy; but  it  is  not  depressing,  and  it  Is 
one  Of  the  most  real  books  of  the  decade  The 
style  IS  carefully  subordinated  to  the  narrative." 
C:  W.   Stork 

-f   Lit   R  p548  Mr  24   '23   800w 

"With  unerring  insight,  with  a  keenness  of 
vision  that  is  like  some  new  sense,  he  pene- 
trates behind  the  egoism,  the  pretenses,  the 
shell  of  lies  in  each  one  of  his  characters, 
probes,  cuts  and  brings  up  the  real  personality 
— the  ugliness,  the  fears,  the  meanness,  the 
cruelty,  until  the  reader  sees  them  before  him 
as  under  a  microscope.  Nothing  seems  to 
escape  him,  nothing  evades." 

4-  N   Y  Times  pl4  Ap  1   '23   1350w 

"There  is  nothing  of  sweetness  and  light  in 
the  book.  But  it  is  not  a  gloomy  book.  It  Is 
magnificently  honest  and  ruthless.  It  tells  an 
absorbing  story  and  does  it  with  smashing  ef- 
fect."    Charlotte  Dean 

-f   N    Y   Tribune  p23   Ap  15   '23  1050w 

Springf'd     Republican    p7a    My    20    '23 
550w 

"Mr.  Siwertz  is  too  obviously  determined  to 
make  ugliness  prevail.  Its  success  becomes  too 
easy  in  exactly  the  same  way  in  which  senti- 
mental writers  make  the  triumph  of  virtue  too 
easy;  and  this  effect  is  increased  by  the  way 
in  which  Mr.  Siwertz  writes.  It  reminds  one 
of  a  man  putting  together  a  puzzle.  One 
watches  him  picking  up  and  fitting  in  bits 
where  they  are  wanted,  and  because  they  are 
wanted.  It  is  a  laboured  and  not  very  attrac- 
tive process,  and  though  the  result  may  be  a 
picture,  one  still  sees  the  pieces  out  of  which 
it  was  made."  _ 

—  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p862   D 
21   '22   280w 

SLOANE,     THOMAS     O'CONOR.      Rapid   arith- 
metic.    190p  $1.50  Van  Nostrand 

511      Arithmetic  23-564 

"Quick  and  special  methods  in  arithmetical 
calculation,  together  with  a  collection  of  puzzles 
and   curiosities   of  numbers." — Subtitle 


Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:166  Ap  '23 


480 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


SMITH,  ALPHEUS  WILSON.     Elements  of  ap- 
plied  physics.    483p   il   $3    McGraw 

530  Physics  23-7516 

"A  large  number  of  illustrations  of  the  ap- 
plications of  physics  to  agriculture,  engineering 
and  everyday  life  have  been  included  in  an  ef- 
fort to  stimulate  the  student  to  recognize  the 
universality  of  physical  laws  and  to  find  in 
them  an  explanation  of  everyday  experiences 
and   observations." — Preface 


Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui  28:408  O  '23 

SMITH,  ARTHUR  DOUGLAS  HOWDEN 
(ALLAN  GRANT,  pseud.).  Beyond  the  sun- 
set.   291p   $1.75     Brentanos 

23-4009 

"It  is  a  sequel  to  'The  Doom  Trail,'  and 
records  how  Henry  Ormerod  accompanies  Ta- 
wannears,  the  Seneca  'Warden  of  the  Western 
Door  of  the  Long  House'  and  fat  Peter  Corlaer 
on  a  remarkable  journey,  seeking  forgetfulness 
of  the  loss  of  Marjory,  his  wife.  Tawannears 
having  lost  Gehano,  his  sweetheart,  seeks  the 
Land  of  the  Lost  Souls  which  supposedly  lies 
beyond  the  setting  sun,  in  order  that  he  may 
find  and  recover  her.  Their  journey  is  a  long 
one  and  their  adventures  absorbingly  interest- 
ing."— Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily   News 


"A  superb  adventure  story  superbly  told.  It 
would  be  a  hard  task  to  commend  it  too  highly 
for  its  dcsGrts. '* 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  plO  S 
16  '23  350w 
"Mr.  Smith  rises  considerably  above  the  level 
of  his  previous  attainment  in  this  tale  of  high 
adventure.  This  is  a  better  proportioned  and 
more  carefully  finished  story  than  its  swash- 
buckling or  semi-historical  predecessors,  in  fact, 
a  very  good  yarn   indeed." 

+  Lit  R  p507  Mr  3  '23  300w 
"On  the  whole,  it  compares  quite  favorably 
with  J.  Fenimore  Coopers  tales  of  the  same 
period,  for  if  it  lacks  some  of  the  earlier  writer's 
old-fashioned  charm,  it  also  dispenses  with 
some  of  his  wearisome  descriptions.  It  is  a 
well-told  story  of  adventure  and  there  are 
always  quantities  of  people  who  like  that  type 
of  reading.  Moreover,  they  want  to  put  it  aside 
after  they  have  finished  it  until  their  younger 
son.s  and  brothers  are  ready  for  history  and 
thrills  in  a  well-proportioned  mixture."  Edith 
Ijeighton 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p20  Mr  4  '23   500w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p638  S  27 
•23   ISOw 

SMITH,  CHARLES  EDWARD.  From  the  deep 
of  the  sea.  357p  il  $2.50  Macmillan  [10s 
6s    Black] 

910.4     Voyages    and    travels  23-4283 

Adventures  among  the  ice  floes  of  the  Arctic 
In  1866-67  are  narrated  in  this  diary  of  the 
surgeon  of  an  old  whaling-ship,  the  "Diana." 
The  ship  set  sail  from  Hull,  England,  for  the 
whaling  ground  of  Baffin  Bay  and  became  lost 
in  the  ice-pack.  Stricken  by  cold,  starvation, 
disease  and  death,  the  ship  with  her  crew  of 
fifty  men  floated  south  with  the  ice  and  finally 
broke  into  the  open  sea.  Fourteen  months  from 
the  time  of  sailing  she  reached  port  after  her 
perilous  voyage,  broken  but  not  defeated,  hav- 
ing lost  her  captain  and  twelve  of  the  crew. 


"Dr.  Smith's  diary  is  perhaps  one  of  the  most 
complete  records  one  can  find  of  whale  ship 
days." 

+  Bookm  57:339  My  '23  160w 
"This  story  out  of  the  past  is  one  which  adds 
to  human  dignity." 

-f-  Nation   117:23  Jl   4    23   2.i0w 
"As  an  epic  of  hardship  and  suffering  it  has, 
fortunately,    few   equals." 

-f  N  Y  Times  p6  My  20  '23  llOOw 
"This  is  decidedly  an  addition  to  the  literature 
of  sea  adventure." 

+  Outlook    133:588   Mr    28    "23    120w 


"To  those  who  love  to  browse  over  ancient 
manuscripts  and  through  old  records  of  strange 
places  and  adventures,  the  diary  will  be  a  find 
indeed." 

+  Springf'd     Republican     p8     My     22     '23 
300w 

SMITH,  CICELY  FOX.     Sailor  town  days.     182p 
il     $2     Houghton      [6s   Methuen] 
914.21      Docks.      London — Docks.      Seafaring 
life  23-14980 

Sailor  town  is  dockland,  that  strange  region 
of  wharves  and  ships  and  sailors,  with  its  net- 
work of  squalid  streets,  its  distinctive  sights 
and  shops,  its  noises  and  smells  and  the  pass- 
ing crowd  of  men  of  all  races  who  frequent  it. 
More  than  half  the  book  is  given  to  the  port  of 
London,  which  the  author  calls  the  "dock- 
haunter's  paradise."  There  are  chapters,  too, 
on  the  docks  of  Liverpool,  Falmouth  and  South- 
ampton and  one  on  the  Pacific  port  of  Victoria. 


Bookm    58:213   O   '23    120\v 
Reviewed  by  E.   F.  Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Jl  14   '23   1200w 

Lit  R  p219  N  3  '23  400w 
Reviewed    by   Arthur   Warner 

Nation  117:558  N  14  '23  llOw 
"A  fascinating  book." 

+   New   Statesman   21:154   My   12   '23   170w 

R  of  Rs  68:223  Ag  '23  80w 
"The  material  remains  of  the  old  sea  life  in 
and  about  docks  are  certainly  genuine.  Mr. 
Fox  Smith  has  sought  them  diligently,  and  we 
can  only  regret  that  they  are  not  more  numer- 
ous and  more  assured  of  survival." 

+  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p334  My 
17   '23   950w 

SMITH,  CONSTANCE  I.  (ISABEL  BEAUMONT, 
pseud.).  Secret  drama.  316p  $2  Harcourt  [7s  6d 
Melrose] 

[22-19169] 

"There  are  seven  characters  involved  in  the 
story:  an  elderly,  sweet-natured,  kindly  mother 
(Mrs.  Jesson);  her  up-to-date  pretentious,  ego- 
tistic daughter;  a  passive,  sensible  girl,  the 
flo'sver  of  a  simpler  tradition;  a  colourless, 
decent,  attractive  young  man;  a  middle-aged 
'rotter,'  and  two  other  women,  both,  in  different 
degrees,  pathological  cases,  one  of  whom  is  a 
heart-starved  spinster,  employed  as  lady  help 
by  Mrs.  Jesson,  the  other  an  old  friend  of 
Mrs.  Jesson's,  suffering  from  suspicion  mania, 
whose  gratitude  to  her  protector  and  benefactor 
is  profound  and  pathetic.  The  crux  of  the 
drama  lies  in  the  prompt  transfer  of  the  young 
man's  affections  from  the  rowdy,  'modern' 
Marie,  who,  without  justification,  felt  very  sure 
of  him,  to  the  modest,  honest,  sensitive  Dido 
Baird:  Marie,  out  of  pique,  accepts  'the  rotter.' 
The  elements  of  the  story  are  therefore  very 
simple,  and  a  game  of  tennis,  tea  in  the  garden, 
a  country  walk  or  so,  suffice  to  bring  them  to 
a  climax." — New  Statesman 


"Her  portrait  of  the  contemporary  femme 
savante  is  lucid  and  merciless,  her  attitude  cool 
and  detached,  her  emotion  restrained,  but  not 
sterile.  She  is  fully  aware  of  the  inevitable 
tragic  strain  in  the  truly  comic  situation.  May 
Sinclair  will  have  to  look  to  her  laurels." 
4-  Dial    74:632    Je    '23    90w 

"A  vivid,  tense  analysis  of  emotions  that  lie 
hidden  until  the  touch-off,  and  then  create 
shifting  barriers  to  conceal  reality.  Here  is  the 
culmination  of  that  realistic  and  analytical  fever 
which  first  spread  over  the  Continent  from  the 
sparks  of  Balzac  and  Stendhal,  and  the  epitome 
of  the  modern  theory  of  the  fantasias  of  the 
unconscious." 

-f    Int    Bk    R    p58   Ap    "23    400w 

"Thoughts  and  feelings  are  the  stuff  of  this 
book,  but  their  owners  are  no  mere  psychologi- 
cal studies.  They  are  very  human,  interesting 
people,  and  certainly  no  lovelier  girls  have  been 
done  recently  than  Dido  and  her  pal,  the  lumi- 
nously selfless  Hilda."  Marion  Ponsonby 
+  Lit   R  p731   Je   2   '23   750w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


481 


"There  are  crises  in  the  book — though  not  a 
climax— but  they  lose  in  dramatic  effect  be- 
cause they  are  practically  continuous.  The 
reader's  fund  of  emotional  response,  even  of 
careful  attention,  is  exhausted  long  before  the 
end  bv  the  reiterated  cries."    Eva  Goldbeck 

—  Nation   116:636  My  30  '23  140w 

New  Statesman  20:114  O  28  '22  640w 
"As  a  first  novel  the  book  is  rather  unusual, 
but  as  a  prize  novel  it  leaves  much  to  be  de- 
sired. Miss  Beaumont  has  obviously  attempted 
more  than  a  mere  story.  She  has  sacrificed  her 
narrative  interest  for  spiritual  portraiture. 
There  are  times  when  .she  does  approach  suc- 
cess; for  instance,  the  figure  of  old  Mrs.  Jes- 
son." 

-{ NY   Times    pl6   F   11    '23   580w 

"Is  not  an  easy  book  to  tackle,  but  it  is 
well  wortli  the  preliminary  effort  it  costs  to 
get  interested  in  it.  Miss  Beaumont  has  shown 
clearly  in  her  first  novel  that  she  can  draw 
women."       Douglas    Goldring 

-I NY    Tribune    p7    S    17    '22    180w 

"The  book  is  presumably  a  revelation  of  the 
feminine  soul  But  the  women  are  nebulous, 
mere  bundles  of  loosely  connected,  ever  shift- 
ing feelings,  mainly  hostile.  They  are  explained 
to  death.  If  one  of  them  so  mucli  as  picks 
up  a  dish  cloth,  she  must  register  an  emotion. 
The  slightest  remark  of  one  to  another,  such 
as,  'Do  you  play  tennis?'  produces  astonishing 
reactions,  endless  reverberations.  But,  un- 
fortunately, one  cannot  gather  the  exact  im- 
port   of    these    reactions.  '      Isabel    Paterson 

—  NY    Tribune    pl9    F    4    '23    650w 

"It  is  well  conceived.  It  is  also  well  done, 
though  overdone.  One  is  led  by  the  title  to 
expect  that  the  action  will  take  place  in  the 
secret  places  of  the  heart.  And,  indeed,  it 
is  there  that  most  of  the  clashes  and  crises 
are.  The  climax  is  well  prepared.  The  book's 
only  technical  defect  is  that  when  the  'smart' 
characters  try  to  be  funny,  they  often  fail. 
Here.  I  think,  the  futility  is  intentional.  Even 
.so,  however,  it  is  exaggerated"  Gerald  Gould 
H Sat    R    134:290    Ag    19    '22    600w 

"The  Ijook  is  unusually  well  managed  for  a 
first  novel,  and  has  intrinsic  merit — not  an  ex- 
citing but  a  thoughtful  story  of  character  and 
motive." 

+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  29  '23  250w 

"Miss  Beaumont  displays  innumerable  touches 
of   surprising    subtlety   and    skill.      It    is   not    an 
'easy'  book:  it  demands  close  and  careful  read- 
ing, but  it  is  remarkably  well  worth  the  effort." 
-t-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p491    Jl 
27    '22    350w 

SMITH,  DAVID  EUGENE.  Mathematics;  in- 
trod.  by  Sir  Thoma§  Little  Heath.  (Our  debt 
to  Greece  and  Rome)  175p  $1.50  Marshall 
Jones 

510.9   Mathematics— History  23-10198 

An    historical    study   of   mathematics    showing 

that   it   was   the   Greeks  who   first   conceived   of 

mathematics  as  a  science  and  established  it  as 

a   logical   system. 


revealed   by   etymology;   but   tlie   groundwork  Is 
well    laid    for    more    elaborate    study." 

-\ The  Times   [LondonJ    Lit   Sup  p733  N   1 

'23  120w 

SMITH,  GRAFTON  ELLIOT.  Tutankhamen 
and  the  discovery  of  his  tomb  by  the  late 
Earl  of  Carnarvon  and  Howard  Carter.  133p 
il     $2     Dutton      [4s   fid  Routledge] 

913.32      Egypt— Antiquities.      Tut-ank-amen 

23-12932 

The  book  is  a  reprint  of  a  series  of  articles 
written  for  the  Daily  Telegraph  during  the 
progress  of  Lord  Carnarvon's  woik  in  Tut-ankh- 
amen's  tomb.  The  articles  deal,  not  with  the 
tomb  itself  and  its  appointments,  but  with  the 
cultural  significance  of  the  discovery  and  with 
the  deeper  nieaning  of  those  Egyptian  beliefs 
which  found  expression  in  the  luxurious  equip- 
ment of  the  tomb.  An  introductory  chapter 
gives  an  account  of  what  is  known  of  Tut-ankh- 
amen  and   his  times. 

"Contains  such  a  mass  of  stimulating  material 
that  our  imagination  is  exhausted  after  at- 
tempting   to    grapple    wit|i    it."      R.    C. 

New   Statesman   21:338  Je  23   '23   170w 
"It    is    an    interesting    little    book,    and    very 
appreciative  of  the  work  which  has  been  done." 
-|-  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p405    Je 
14   '23   150w 

SMITH,  HERBERT  ARTHUR.  Federalism  in 
North  America;  a  comparative  study  of  in- 
stitutions in  the  United  States  and  Canada. 
328p  buck  $3.75  Chipman  law  pub.  co.,  Brook- 
line,    Boston    (46) 

342.7       Canada — Politics     and     Governnnenl. 
United      States — Politics      and      Government 

23-7901 
"The  author  is  professor  of  jurisprudence 
and  common  law  at  McGill  university.  The 
book  is  a  comparative  study  of  institutions  in 
the  United  States  and  Canada.  Prof.  Smith  con- 
siders first  the  various  functions  and  activities 
of  government,  executive  government,  legisla- 
tive power,  justice  and  law,  the  public  purse, 
external    relations." — Sprlngf'd    Republican 


Booklist  20:11  O  '23 
"Brilliantly  written  and  fascinating.  It  is  a 
fine  contribution  to  the  series  in  which  it  ap- 
pears, and  will  surely  not  only  stimulate  a  keen 
interest  in  mathematics  but  also  help  the  cause 
of  classical   education."      N.   H.    D. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p3  Ag  4  '23  780w 
Cath  World  118:573  Ja  '24  400w 
"The  failure  of  the  book  under  review  con- 
sists in  ascribing  to  Greek  and  Roman  influence 
developments  and  details  only  remotely  connect- 
ed with  classical  ideas  and  fuither  in  depreciat- 
ing the  contributions  of  other  people  In  the 
wealth  of  superfluous  details  the  fundamental 
contributions  of  Greece  are  in  truth  minimized 
rather  than  given  their  just  appreciation."  L: 
C.  Karpinski 

—  Class  Philol   18:358  O  '23  900w 
New    Repub  37:48   D   5   '23   170w 
"A  good  deal  of  space  is  devoted  to  the  rather 
obvious  Greek  influences  on  mathematics  as  are 


Boston  Transcript  p4  O  3  '23  550w 
"The  present  little  volume  manifests  on  al- 
most every  page  the  exact  and  comprehensive 
knowledge,  the  keen  insight  that  pierced  be- 
neath formulas  and  forms  to  the  actual  forces 
of  government,  and  the  rare  impartiality  which 
marked  the  work  of  the  author  of  'The  Ameri- 
can Commonwealth."  Courtesy  could  not  be 
more  winningly  blended  with  candor  or  cogency 
with  both  than  in  this  comparison  by  a  Cana- 
dian of  the  Government  of  Canada  and  that  of 
the  United  States."  R.  J.  Davis 
-f-  Lit  R  p846  Jl  21  '23  780w 
"A  book  of  more  tlian  ordinary  interest  to  the 
man  in  the  street  as  well  as  the  student  of  poli- 
tics. Written  with  a  keen  sense  of  realities 
and  a  penetrating  grasp  of  the  essential  prin- 
ciples underlying  the  two  great  experiments  in 
government  on    (he   continent." 

+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  pl6  Jl  27  '23  lOOOw 

SMITH,  JOHN  MERLIN  POWIS.  Moral  life  of 
tlie  Hebrews.  (Publications  in  religious  edu- 
cation. Handbooks  of  ethics  and  religion)  337p 
$2.25   Univ.    of   Chicago   press 

170.9      Ethics,    Jewish  23-11713 

This  book  pi-esents  a  history  of  the  develop- 
ment of  Hebrew  morals  as  recorded  in  the  Old 
"Testament.  In  Part  one  the  author  studies 
the  standards  reflected  in  the  earliest  historical 
narratives,  and  the  morals  of  the  early  codes; 
in  Part  two  he  examines  the  teachings  of  the 
great  prophets,  and  in  Part  three,  the  morals 
of  Judaism.  He  shows  the  progre.ss  made  by 
the  Hebrews  in  a  thousand  years  of  moral  dis- 
cipline and  the  great  capacity  for  growth  of  the 
Hebrew  ethic. 

"The  book  will  be  of  great  value  to  sociol- 
ogists and  economists  who  wish  to  learn  more 
about  the  religious  struggle  of  today;  and  it  is 
well  worth  careful  study  by  the  class  of  read- 
ers for  -svhom  it  is  primarily  intended  as  a 
handbook.     There  is  no  more  scholarly  or  com- 


482 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


SMITH,  JOHN  MERLIN   POWIS — Continued 
petent  teacher  of  Old   Testament  interpretation 
than    the    author    of    this    vital    treatise."      L: 
Wallis 

+  Am  J  Soc  29:224  S  '23  2500w 
"The  work  is  a  fine  expression  of  modern 
Biblical  scholarship  at  its  best.  The  author 
does  not  apologize  for  anything.  There  is  no 
effort  to  torture  passages  to  conform  to  a 
theory.  There  is  a  wealth  of  learning  stated 
in  clear,  untechnical  language.  Dogmatism 
seems  nowhere  to  appear,  as  the  reader  may 
verify  about  everything  from  the  Scriptures. 
There  Is  great  need  for  such  Bible  study  as  is 
found  In  this  volume."     F.  W.  C. 

+  Boston   Transcript  p4   Je  30   '23   600w 

Cath  World  118:280  N  '23   240w 

Int  J    Ethics  34:200  Ja  '24  240w 

J  Religion  3:557  S  '23  30w 
Reviewed  by  H:  P.   Smith 

J    Religion  3:656  N  '23  700w 

SMITH,    MAURICE    HAMBLIN.     Psychology  of 
the  criminal.   182p  $2  McBride  [6s  Methuen] 
364  Crime  and  criminals.  Psychology,  Path- 
ological [23-6564] 
A   study    of   criminal   psychology   based   upon 
twenty-three  years'   experience   in   prison  work. 
Its    main   object   is   to   show   the   importance   of 
a  mental   diagnosis   of  the   offender  to  discover 
the    causes    of    his    delinquency.      It    discusses 
the   investigation   of  the  conscious  and   the  un- 
conscious mind   of   the   criminal   and   the   appli- 
cation   of    psychoanalysis    to    the    study   of   his 
motives. 


Booklist  19:301  Jl  '23 
Cleveland  p55  Jl  '23 
"The  author  has  succeeded  in  a  difficult 
task,  that  of  approaching  an  old  problem  with 
new  tools.  It  is  to  be  wished  that  he  had 
quoted  his  cases  more  at  length  and  given 
more  of  them."  J:  E.  Lind 

H Lit    R   p750   Je   9   '23   520w 

"If    Dr.    Smith    cannot     vaunt     any     startling 
contribution    to    the    rather    meager    science    of 
criminology,    he    has   at    least    put    behind    him 
the  conventional  views.     AH  whose  god  of  sal- 
vation   is    brute    force,    indeed    every    one,    can 
read  his  book  with  great  profit."   J:   Keren 
+  Nation   117:94  Jl  25  '23  230w 
N   Y  Times  p21  My  20  '23  750w 
Pratt   p7   spring  '23 

SMITH,     NORA    ARCHIBALD.      Action    poems 
and    plays    for    children.      169p    il    $2    Crowell 
793    Children's   plays.      Tableaux         23-11652 
"It    consists    of    instructions    for    giving    tab- 
leaus    and    pantomimes,     accompanied    by     'ac- 
tion poems'   to  be  delivered  by  a  reader.     The 
stories    thus    dramatized    include    'Children    of 
the    "Mayflower,"  '    'Bluebeard   in   Verse,'    'Jack 
and    the    Bean    Stalk,'    'What    Happened    to   the 
Tarts,'  'A  Visit  From  St.  Nicholas"  and  ten  oth- 
ers."— N  Y  Tribune 


Booklist  20:108  D  '23 
Reviewed  by  M.  G.  Bonner 

Int  Bk  R  p62  N  '23  50w 
Lit    R   p322   D  1   "23   80w 
"The   material   is  interesting  and   practicable; 
and  the  book  is  attractively  arranged  and  dec- 
orated." 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  21  '23  130w 
"Teachers  called  upon  to  make  selections  for 
entertainments  wherein  children  take  part  will 
appreciate  the  work  of  Nora  Archibald  Smith. 
The  story  of  each  'action  poem'  or  play  is  clev- 
erly given  by  a  'reader,'  thus  leaving  the  per- 
formers only  the  business  of  acting  or  shadow- 
making.  This  arrangement  recommends  itself 
at  once  for  occasions  where  time  is  at  a  pre- 
mium." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  pl2   S  19  '23  180w 
Wis   Lib   Bui  19:510  D  '23 


SMITH,    PAUL    JORDAN.        Cables    of   cobweb. 

369p  $2  Lieber  &  Lewis 

23-8244 

"A  novel  of  the  biographical  type  is  this 
story  of  the  revolt  of  a  young  Virginian  against 
the  ancient  traditions  of  his  small  town  home, 
of  his  college  days,  his  conversion  to  Social- 
ism, of  the  gradual  wearing  away  of  the  sharp 
edges  of  his  radicalism  and  of  his  return  to  his 
own  Virginia  valleys  with  the  psychological  cycle 
of  revolt,  realization  and  reaction  completed. 
Back  home  again,  he  finds  his  viewpoint  almost 
as  calmly  conventional  as  the  one  he  found  so 
galling  in  his  father  before  he  had  left.  Of 
plot  there  is  little;  the  story  concerns  itself  with 
the  adventures — physical,  moral,  and  spiritual — 
of  Jeffrey  Collingsworth,  and  moves  forward 
without  digression." — Lit  R 


"The  style  is'  one  of  warmth,  often  poetic  in 
quality,  moving  swiftly  along  and  with  frequent 
moments  of  real  beauty,  in  spite  of  such  care- 
lessnesses as  innumerable  split  infinitives.  There 
are  Jurgenesque  passages  in  it  that  may  arouse 
the  censors;  but  they  are  clothed  either  in  a 
sage  pagan  attitude  towards  sex  or  invested 
with  ingenious  humor,  so  that  they  are  suffici- 
ently clad  as  not  to  offend  good  taste.  The  novel 
has  some  evident  points  of  similarity  with  'The 
Way  of  All  Flesh.'  "  Herschel  Brickell 
+    Lit    R   p579  Ap  7   '23   600w 

"Mr.  Jordan-Smith  has  told  the  story  well 
enough  and  with  a  spirit  of  good  nature  which 
prevents  his  taking  himself  too  seriously.  As 
novelist  he  succeeds  in  exploding  every  one  of 
his  hero's  illusions,  until  on  the  last  page  the  air 
is  agreeably  clear  and  sharp  and  bare." 
-h   N   Y  Times  pl4  Ap  15  '23  280w 

"The  book  has  faults — 'defects  of  temper,'  as 
Conrad  says.  An  increment  of  naughtiness  has 
been  added  as  meticulously  as  one  puts  tabasco 
in  consomm6.  It  begins  badly  but  gathers  poise 
and  manner  as  it  progresses.  It  is  a  credit- 
able work  by  a  man  who  has  struck  a  vein  of 
wisdom  in  a  conglomerate  of  cleverness."  Mor- 
ris Gilbert 

-I NY  Tribune  pl8  My  6  '23  1200w 

SMITH,  PRESERVED.  Erasmus;  a  study  of 
his  life,  ideals  and  place  in  history.  479p  11 
?4  Harper 

B   or    92    Erasmus,    Desiderius  23-12919 

The  book  is  not  only  a  biography  of  Erasmus, 
but  a  study  of  the  intellectual  and  religious  his- 
tory of  his  period.  It  sums  up  new  facts  in 
his  life  and  shows  him  as  an  expression  of 
the  spirit  of  his  time.  He  is  studied  as  scholar 
and  stylist,  as  a  popular  writer  on  religion  and 
education  and  as  editor  and  interpreter  of  the 
classics.  The  relation  of  the  renaissance  to  the 
reformation  is  explained  and  of  Erasmus  to 
both. 


Booklist    20:99   D  '23 
Reviewed   by   Oliver   McKee,   jr. 

Boston  Transcript  p3  D   1   '23  1450w 
Reviewed  by  H:   B.    Fuller 

Freeman  8:259  N  21  '23  1650w 
"His  book  is  fascinating  reading.  Though  fully 
equipped  with  the  scholarly  apparatus  that  will 
make  it  useful  to  the  student  of  the  period,  it 
need  not  deter  the  general  reader."  A.  J.  Bar- 
nouw 

4-  Ind  111:315  D  22  '23  1350w 
"If  Erasmus  is  here  more  fortunate  than  he 
has  vet  been  in  the  hands  of  a  biographer,  he 
owes  his  good  fortune,  in  part,  to  a  whole  corps 
of  recent  editors  and  .specialists,  but  in  part, 
also  to  the  fact  that  Preserved  Smith  belongs 
with  the  few  human  beings  who  at  once  ap- 
preciate Erasmus  and  understand  Luther.  The 
book  is  therefore  noticeably  free  from  partisan 
enthusiasms."     Carl   Van  Doren 

+  Nation   117:651  D  5  '23  900w 
"It    is    impossible    to    convey    a    sense    of    the 
urbane    wit    and    latent    irony    of    the    work,    as 
well  as  of  its  topic.   To  .savor  that  delight,  you 
must  read   'Erasmus.'  "   J:   M.   Crawford 
4-   N   Y  Times  p21  D  23  '23  1350w 
Reviewed  by   J:  L.   Heaton 

N    Y   World   pGe   D   16   "23   750w 


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483 


"Dr.  Smith's  book  is  crowded  with  scholar- 
ship. Although  it  contains  much  new  and  un- 
published material,  many  animated  and  inter- 
esting passages,  and  occasional  anecdotes  that 
reveal  the  indubitable  fact  that  Erasmus  was  a 
very  human  sort  of  person,  Dr.  Smith  writes  as 
though  he  had  his  professorial  colleagues  more 
on  his  mind  than  the  average  lay  reader."  L. 
F.  Abbot 

H Outlook   136:53   Ja   9   '24    2150w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:481  N  '23 


SMITH,    WALLACE.      Little    tigress:    tales    out 
of  the  dust  of  Mexico.   209p  11  $2.50  Putnam 

23-14198 
"There  is  a  saying,  writes  Wallace  Smith, 
'that  once  the  dust  of  Mexico  has  settled  on 
your  heart  there  can  be  no  rest  for  you  in  any 
Other  land.'  "The  Little  Tigress,  his  collection 
of  stories  and  sketches,  which  he  calls  tales  out 
of  the  dust  of  Mexico,  serves  incidentally  to 
show  how  that  dust  settled  on  the  heart  of 
the    writer." — Boston    Transcript 


"The  stories  are  brief,  romantic,  tragic,  full 
of  color,  and  song,  and  cruelty  and  death. 
Their  fascination  is  brutal  but  inescapable. 
Having  read  the  first  page,  one  must  read 
through  to  the  last." 

+  Boston    Transcript    p4    S    26    '23    450w 
"They  are  not  pretty  tales.     Cruelty,  violence, 
murder    and    lust    are    the    themes    of    most    of 
them.      But    they   bear    the    apparent    stamp    of 
truth."    I:    Ander.«on 

Int  Bk  R  p30  O  '23  ISOOw 
"Mr.  Smith's  stories  show  with  excellent  art- 
istry those  moods  and  characters  of  Mexico 
that  have  been  made  too  familiar  to  us.  being 
such  temptingly  dramatic  material  for  the 
writer." 

+  Lit  R  pl33  O  13  '23  500w 
"They  succeed  in  making  the  unusual  nat- 
ural. But  his  stories  and  written  sketches  fail 
at  Just  this  point.  They  make  the  unusual  also 
unnatural  by  the  author's  overemphasis  of  the 
elements  of  suspense  and  humor,  by  his  strain- 
ing after  effects.  When,  as  in  Nocturne  and 
Greaser  and  Gringo,  Mr.  Smith  writes  most 
naturally,  we  have  convincing  narrative,  clear, 
honest,    and    interesting." 

1-   Nation   117:468  O  24   '23  160w 

N  Y  Times  p5  S  30  '23  650w 
"The  country  of  his  predilection  is  as  rich 
in  romantic  material  as  in  silver  ore,  and  Mr. 
Smith  has  struck  a  very  rich  vein.  With  more 
skill  in  the  refining  his  book  might  have  been 
significant  as  a  contribution  to  the  literature 
of  a  little  exploited  land.  As  it  is,  it  is  chiefly 
pleasing  as  an  interesting  person's  involuntary 
record    of    him.'ielf." 

H NY  Tribune  p24  O  7  '23  130w 

N    Y   World   p7e   N  11   '23   360w 
Reviewed  by  Gr^i?orv  Mason 

Outlook  135:729  D  26  '23  950w 
The    Times    [London!    Lit    Sup    p898    D 
20   '23   150w 


SNEDEKER.  MRS  CAROLINE  DALE 

(PARKE)         (CAROLINE        DALE        OWEN, 
pseud.).    Perilous    seat.    314p    $1.75    Doubleday 

23-26344 
"A  Pythian  festival  at  Delphi,  during  the 
period  of  the  Greek  struggles  with  Persia, 
plunges  the  reader  of  this  book  into  the  life  and 
spirit  of  ancient  Hellas.  The  author  balances 
interest  nicely  between  the  family  of  the  Nik- 
anders,  priests  of  Apollo  for  generations,  and 
the  political  crisis  of  the  Hellenes.  She  synthe- 
sizes both  in  the  person  of  ardent  voung  Eleu- 
theria.  daughter  of  the  house  of  Nikander. 
Just  as  Theria  is  the  author  of  the  Pythian  ode 
which  wins  the  laurel  crown  for  her  brother 
pryas,  so  does  she  initiate  utterances  from  the 
tripod,  the  'high  perilous  seat,'  which  crystal- 
lize the  Greek  spirit  against  the  hordes  of  the 
Persians,  at  the  time  of  the  invasion  under 
Xerxes    in    480    B.    C.      The    concentration    of   so 


much  greatness  in  one  Greek  girl  has  the  effect, 
not  of  making  her  less  credible,  but  of  making 
the  entire  grandiose  period  personal  and  tangi- 
ble."—N    Y   Times 


For   human   appeal,    keen    interest   and   deep 
unassuming  scholarship,  the  new  book  is  one  on 
I    W    L         author    may    congratulate    herself." 
+   Boston  Transcript  p4  My  9  '23  700w 
Cleveland  p42  Je   '23 

"While   the   book  on   the  whole  is   interesting, 
it   is  hardly  convincing." 

-I Lit   R   p772  Je  16  '23  280w 

c^'i-^  I^l^^^  stiffness  of  dialogue  is  almost  the 
sole  defect  in  a  regular  achievement.  Mrs. 
Snedeker  leaves  the  reader  with  a  nostalgic 
longing  for  a  Greece  which  is  envisaged  all  the 
more  clearly  for  her  slight  quarrlls  with  it  " 
+  N  Y  Times  p9  Ap  15  '23  700w 
"Mrs.  Snedeker's  story  has  suflScient  historical 
accuracy  and  scholarship;  but  dullness  grays^fs 
pages  and  the  rhythm  of  life  is  ilid  away  in 
musty  prose."  A.   D.  Douglas  ^ 

H -NY  Tribune  p20  Ap  15  '23  580w 

^rH^^X  ""^"^^    '=''"    ''?    '■^^^^    w*fli    delight,    also 
with   the  a.ssuiance   that   the   details  of  its   set- 

nPHnH'"f„^%^^^"''''i®    ^^    careful    study    of    the 
period   and   the  customs  can   make  them." 
+   N    Y   World   plOe   Ap   15   '23   280w 

r-JIT^®  ^^f."«'  jeader,  as  well  as  the  lover  of 
Greece,  will  find  much  of  interest  in  the  book  " 
Spnngf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  24  '23  IGOw 
"If  only  Mrs.  Snedeker  had  been  bold  enough 
to  chaTice  a  modern  setting,  she  would  have 
given  herself  and  her  readers  more  breath  to 
®"i°^v,^^''  romance  and  her  .scenic  paintings- 
and  there  are  parts  of  her  story  which  are  too 
good  not  to  make  us  wish  that  she  had  chosen 
that    course. 

^  ~6  -23^80^^^    [London]    Lit    Sup    p590    S 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:415    Jl    '23 

SNELL,     EDMUND.    Yellow    seven.    401p    $190 
Century      [7r    6d    Unwin]  ^    * 

23-12434 
It  took  Peter  Pennington,  known  as  Chinese 
Pennington  on  account  of  his  slanting  eves 
"?5"J  months  of  the  most  daring  exploits 
^'*^®^^J^^  adroit  disgviises  to  run  to  earth 
one  Chai-Hung,  a  powerful  bandit  of  North 
Borneo.  Aided  by  his  reputation  of  being 
the  wealthiest  and  most  respected  Chinese 
gentleman  of  the  island,  this  sly  and  resource- 
ful villain  terrorized  the  entire  white  popula- 
tion, always  warning  his  victims  beforehand 
by  a  card,  black  on  one  side  and  yellow  with 
seven  dots  on  the  other.  In  the  intervals  be- 
tween his  expeditions  against  Chai-Hung  Peter 
relaxes  completely  and  makes  love  to  Monica 
Viney. 


Booklist    20:141    Ja    '24 
Boston    Transcript   p4    O    3    '23   150w 
Int    Bk    R    pl58    Ja    '24    150w 
"Those    tired    of    the    rather    stereotyped    de- 
tective   chap    in    so    much    modern    fiction    will 
give  'Chinese  Pennington'  a  ready  welcome.  He 
has  about  him   an   air  of  novelty." 

+   N  Y  Times  pl7  S  16  '23  700w 
"The    corrupt    practices    of    Dr.     Fu-Manchu 
have   descended    to   Chai-Hung.    who   commands 
the    symbols    of    the    Yellow    Seven.      In    grati- 
tude  it   must   be  confessed  that  Mr.   Snell  tries 
awfully   hard,    but   he   cannot    rouse   in    me   the 
chill   horror   engendered   by   the   Infamous   Doc- 
tor.    I  miss  the  fungi,   the  spiders,   the  hooded 
eyes,    the    fearful    Presence.      Mr.    Snell    should 
not   challenge   comparison   with   the   Doctor  un- 
less he  can  go  him  one  worse."   A.   D.   Douglas 
—  NY   Tribune    p21    S   9    '23    400w 
N   Y   World   p6e  S   16  '23  60w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p521  Ag 
2    '23    180w 


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SNOW,    WILBERT.      Maine    coast.      114p    $1.75 

Harcourt 

811  23-7065 

The  scenes  and  characters  in  these  poems  are 
drawn  from  the  life  of  the  little  Penobscot  Bay 
village  of  the  poet's  boyhood. 


Bookm   57:653  Ag  '23   lOOw 

"They  cannot  be  said  to  be  the  pure  gold  of 
poetry;  too  many  commonplace  words  serve 
as  a  cheapening  alloy,  but  they  are  interesting, 
which  is  to  say  a  good  deal."   N.   H.  D. 

H Boston    Transcript    p7    S    22   '23    680w 

"Verse  forms  are  sometimes  rather  crudely 
handled,  and  occasionally  the  poetry  remains 
a  little  outside  the  net  cast  for  it,  but  there 
is  vision  in  this  verse  and  some  fine  interpreta- 
tion   of   character." 

+   Dial  75:98  Jl  '23  70w 

"He  has  the  fatal  habit  of  trusting  too  much 
to  stark  simplicity  of  utterance  to  carry  him 
through,  with  the  result  that  there  is  scarcely 
a  poem  here  that  could  not  be  shortened  to 
advantage,  and  scarcely  a  single  line  in  the  book 
that  remains  indelibly  and  finally  in  the  mem- 
ory after  his  book  is  closed.  Yet,  in  intention, 
if  not  in  achievement,  his  book  is  a  welcome 
addition  to  American  poetry."  J:  G.  Fletcher 
H Freeman    7:621    S    5    '23    720w 

"Stonecutters,  sailors  and  fishermen,  their 
wives  and  their  children,  folk  differing  from  each 
other  as  widely  as  do  the  folk  of  any  village  (or 
of  any  apartment  house)  but  still  having  in 
common  a  certain  flavor  that  makes  one  feel 
them  as  distinct  from  the  folk  of  any  other  spot 
on  the  earth's  surface — these  we  get,  and  we 
get,  too,  a  beguiling  sense  of  the  background 
of  seashore,  purple  asters,  grey  rocks  and  white 
sailing  vessels."  M.  L.  F. 

+   Ind  110:319  My  12  '23  650w 

"As  far  as  material  goes,  Mr.  Snow  has  writ- 
ten one  of  the  freshest  and  most  interesting 
books  of  the  year.  He  has  observed  his  coast 
with  enthusiasm  and  affection,  and  he  has 
described  it  with  energy.  However,  a  regret- 
table lot  of  the  book  is  second-hand.  Mr. 
Snow's  metrical  resources  are  singularly  few, 
and   seldom   original."   Mark  Van  Doren 

H Nation  116:601  My  23  '23  200w 

"The  book  Is  rather  monotonous.  It  is  the  sort 
of  stuff  Robert  Frost  likes  to  write,  but  has 
none  of  his  lyricism  and  skill.  Some  of  it  is 
rather  admirable,  however,  insomuch  as  it 
tells  a  story  and  sustains  the  mood  a  bleak 
day  on  the  Maine  coast  would  give  any  one." 
Milton  Raison 

h   N  Y  Tribune  p25  My  6  '23  150w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:480   N   '23 

SOMERVELL,  DAVID  CHURCHILL.  Short 
history  of  our  religion,  from  Moses  to  tne 
present   day.    347p   $1.75    Macmillan    [6s   Bell] 

270  Church  history.  Christianity  [22-25418] 
The  book  is  a  continuous  history  of  religious 
development  from  the  foundations  laid  by  Moses 
to  the  present  day.  Part  one  deals  with  the 
preparation  for  Christianity — the  Hebrew  re- 
ligion out  of  which  it  grew — and  covers  the 
thirteen  centuries  before  Christ.  Part  two  deals 
Avith  the  foundation  of  Christianity  and  its  de- 
velopment within  the  Roman  Empire,  carrying 
the  story  down  to  the  end  of  the  fourth  cen- 
tury. Part  three  contains  the  history  of  the 
western  church  from  Augustine  thru  the  Re- 
formation. Part  four  is  limited  to  England  and 
Scotland  and  outlines  the  development  of  re- 
ligious life  and  thought  from  the  Elizabethan 
settlement   to  the   present  day. 


'The  author  of  this  little  manual  is  a  par- 
ticularly successful  history  teacher  of  Public 
bchool  boys,  and  anyone  who  wants  to  under- 
stand what  can  be  made  of  history  as  a  sub- 
ject of  education  has  only  got  to  read  the  book. 
He  writes  like  a  gentleman,  with  a  vivid,  ner- 
vous, hard-hitting  style  as  far  from  pedantic 
oDscurlty  as  it  is  from  'writing  down.'  No  manly 


boy  who  has  taught  himself  to  read  grown-up 
books  before  he  is  grown  up,  can  possibly  fail 
to  follow  anything  that  Mr.  Somervell  says." 
K.   B. 

+   New   Statesman   20:82  O  21   '22  1600w 

"This  is  an  attempt,  somewhat  on  the  lines 
of  Mr.  H.  G.  Wells's  'Outline  of  History,'  to 
present  a  concise  picture  of  the  continuous 
story  of  the  making  and  development  of  the 
Christian  religion.  The  chief  merit  of  the  book 
is  that  its  necessary  brevity  never  makes  it 
seem  scrappy  or  dull.  In  a  really  remarkable 
way  Mr.  Somervell  keeps  us  interested  all  the 
way  through  and  gives  us  something  much 
more  than  a  number  of  dates  and  names  to 
learn." 

+  Sat    R    133:316    Mr    25    '22    550w 

"Mr.  Somervell  accepts  in  a  moderate  spirit 
the  conclusions  of  modern  criticism;  and 
throughout  keeps  clear  of  any  biased  or  par- 
tisan  treatment." 

-I-  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  pl43  Mr 
2    '22   180w 

SOMERVILLE,    EDITH    ANNA    OENONE,    and 
MARTIN,     VIOLET      FLORENCE      (MARTIN 
ROSS,    pseud.).    Wheel-tracks.    284p   il   $4    (12s 
6d)    Longmans 
914.15  Ireland — Social  life  and  customs 

23-1314T 
In  these  memories  of  an  older  Ireland  Miss 
Somerville  travels  over  tracks  which  have 
changed  much  since  her  childhood.  The  earlier 
chapters  are  given  to  a  description  of  her  pa- 
triarchal home  at  Brisbane,  in  County  Cork,  its 
inmates,  habits  and  customs,  her  childhood  dis- 
ciplines and  pleasures,  and  some  interesting  vil- 
lage types.  Then  come  chapters  on  her  fa- 
vorite sport,  hunting,  and  on  hounds,  on  horses 
and  their  riders.  The  remainder  of  the  book  is 
various — gleanings  from  her  diaries,  a  charac- 
ter sketch  of  an  uncle,  a  description  of  a  sum- 
mer in  Kerry. 


"Miss  Somerville,  with  an  infinitude  of  humor 
and  of  graphic  word  sketching,  pictures  life 
in  Ireland.  Indeed  this  book  is  a  rare  combina- 
tion of  humor  and  of  horror,  £-11  of  which  Miss 
Somerville  relates  in  the  same  picturesque 
fashion    throughout." 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p4  N  17  '23  520w 
"Apart  from  its  charm,  her  book  is  valuable 
as  a  transcript  of  phases  of  life  in  Ireland  which 
have  well-nigh  disappeared  in  the  momentous 
changes  of  the  past  decade.  It  is  choicely  il- 
lustrated with  many  crayon  drawings  and 
photographs."      F.    M. 

+  Cath  World  118:568  Ja  '24  440w 

New  Statesman   22:312  D  15  '23  800w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p649  O  4 
'23    920w 

SOMMERFELD,  ARNOLD  JOHANNES  WIL- 
-    HELM.     Atomic  structure  and  spectral  lines; 

tr.    from    the    3d    German   "ed.,    by    Henry    Li. 

Brose.  626p  il  $12  Dutton  [32s  MethuenJ 
541.2  Matter — Constitution.  Atoms.  Spec- 
trum  analysis  23-11643 

A  comprehensive  review  of  recent  discoveries 
and  speculations  in  intra-atomic  physics  and 
the  meaning  of  the  lines  of  the  spectrum.  It 
discusses  the  electron,  the  classification  of  el- 
ements in  accordance  with  Moseley's  discovery, 
the  application  of  X-rays  to  determine  crystal 
structure,  band  spectra,  the  quantum  theory  of 
light,    etc. 


"It  is  a  book  which  all  investigators  in  this 
field  will  find  indispensable,  and  also  a  work 
into  which  the  general  reader  may  dip  here 
and  there  for  glimpses  of  the  electrons  and 
their    doings."      E.    N. 

-f    Boston    Transcript    p3    S    8    '23    800w 

"No  serious  student  of  modern  physics  can 
afford  to  neglect  the  masterful  summary  and 
the  original  interpretation  of  this  volume  of 
Sommerfeld.  It  is  doubtful,  however,  if  the 
book  will  be  readable  to  the  'non -academic 
reader,  for  whom,  according  to  the  preface, 
it  is  intended.     To  the  graduate  student  of  our 


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universities  it  should  be  a  vade  mecum,  but 
the  unfortunately  high  price  may  be  expected 
to   prove   a    deterrent." 

H Lit  R  p64  S  22  '23  900w 

SOUTH  MANCHURIA  RAILWAY  COMPANY. 
Manchuria,  land  of  opportunities.  113p  il  35c 
The  company,   111  Broadway,  N.Y. 

915.18    Manchuria  22-19297 

"The  story  of  the  transformation  that  has 
come  in  Manchuria  with  the  building  of  an 
American -equipped  railroad  system  and  Ameri- 
can-equipped coal  mines,  iron  mines,  steel 
works,  electric  works  and  industrial  plants  is 
told  in  a  profusely  illustrated  book.  This  sec- 
tion of  China,  only  a  few  years  ago  known  as 
'The  Forbidden  Provinces,'  has  attracted  hun- 
dreds of  millions  of  new  capital  since  the  Russo- 
Japanese  war,  when  Russia's  rights  in  the 
country  were  transferred  to  Japan.  Dairen,  the 
principal  shipping  port,  has  been  transformed 
from  a  little  fishing  village  to  a  modern  city  of 
200,000  people,  ranking  next  to  Shanghai  in  vol- 
ume of  trade.  In  addition  to  100  photographic 
illustrations,  the  volume  carries  a  number  of 
graphic  charts,  a  new  map  of  Manchuria,  and 
very  complete  statistical  data  covering  trans- 
portation, agriculture,  manufacturing,  shipping, 
foreign  trade  and  banking." — Springf'd  Repub- 
lican 


"A  most  excellent  and  useful  compilation  of 
the  statistics  and  facts  to  show  the  recent 
wonderful  economic  expansion  of  Manchuria." 
A.    G.    "White 

+  Ann  Am  Acad  107:320  My  '23  550w 
Booklist    19:249    My    '23 
Boston   Transcript   p6   S  5   '23   80w 
"It    is    told    from    the    standpoint    of    the    in- 
terests   of    the    railway    and    of    the    Japanese 
people  and  it  is  told  in  the  simplest  and  sober- 
est   and    most    factual    style.      But    it    is    breath 
taking  in  the  astounding  rapidity  and  extent  of 
the   developments   recounted." 

H-   N   Y  Times  p21  Je  24  '23   460w 
N    Y   World   p6e  My  20   '23   220w 
"Well-written  and  admirably  illustrated  book." 
-I-  Spec  130:559  Mr  31  '23  150w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  28  '23  350w 

SPEARE,   DOROTHY.   Gay  year.    341p   $2  Doran 

23-13319 
This  story  presents  the  life  of  reckless  gaiety 
of  the  young  married  set,  with  their  endless 
craving  for  excitement.  Jerry  Lancaster  solves 
her  own  problem  thru  constructive  work  and 
love  for  her  husband.  A  crisis  arrives  when 
the  more  conservative  members  of  the  com- 
munity ostracize  the  younger  set.  The  latter 
finally  come  to  a  more  sober  realization  of  life 
and  agree  to  limit  their  social  activities  to 
less    objectionable    pastimes. 

"The  story  is  told  in  a  lively  manner.  It  is 
entertaining:  the  dialogues  are  snappy,  slangy 
and  expressive,  but  in  keeping  with  the  situa- 
tions of  the  story.  Miss  Speare  has  succeeded 
in  telling  a  very  entertaining  and  revealing 
story  of  conditions  which  may  be  found  in 
thousands  of  suburban  localities."  J.  S.  B. 
-+-   Boston    Transcript    p7    N   10    '23   420w 

"The  book  is  really  an  interesting,  though 
perhaps  too  colored,  picture  of  the  life  of  a 
community  known  everywhere  as  'the  younger 
married  set,'  against  the  background  of  weal- 
thy, disapproving  and  powerful  elders." 
H Lit    R   pl26   O   13    '23    600w 

"  'The  Gay  Year'  is  better  written  than  Miss 
Speare's  first  book,  although  she  still  handles 
unsurely  some  of  her  characters.  Great  pre- 
parations are  made  for  their  appearance.  Then 
they,  as  it  were,  glance  in  at  the  windows  of 
the  story  and  disappear  in  the  dark."  M.  M. 
Marshall 

H NY  World  pile  O  7  '23  lOOOw 

SPEARMAN.     FRANK     HAMILTON.      Marriage 

verdict.     321p    $2    Scribner 

23-6559 

With  frequent  digressions  into  the  industrial 
situation  of  today  with  its  dem.ands  for  shorter 


hours,  its  strikes,  its  dynamite  plots  and  its 
plutocratic  arrogance,  the  main  problem  of  the 
story  is  the  remarriage  of  a  divorced  woman 
who  has  become  a  Catholic.  A  benign  bishop, 
willing  to  help,  first  Ascertains  that  neither 
husband  nor  wife  had  been  baptized  before 
their  marriage,  and  that  it  was  with  an  eye 
to  her  money  rather  than  for  love  of  her  that 
Robert  Durand  had  married  his  wife  as  a  very 
young  girl.  The  bishop  now  asks  her  to  test 
her  former  husband  by  offering  to  live  with 
him  again  if  he  will  agree  not  to  interfere  in 
her  religious  practices,  will  himself  be  baptized 
a  Catholic  and  will  give  up  his  loose  mode  of 
life.  The  result  leaves  Louise  Durand  free  to 
marry  Henry  Janeway,  her  legal  adviser  and 
lover. 


"Mr.  Spearman  has  written  many  a  good  story. 
But  in  none  has  his  portraiture  been  more 
vivid,  his  analyses  keener,  his  development  of 
plot  more  logical  than  in   this."     F.   B. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p4  My  19   '23   850w 

"A  book  which,  the  story  apart,  contains 
some  excellent  readirxg.  But  what  a  comment  oh 
current  standards  when  we  try  to  commend  a 
novel  for  something  apart  from  its  story!"  H. 
W.   Boynton 

-i Ind    111:19   Jl   21   '23    550w 

"The  characters  are  mere  cogs  to  keep  the 
machinery  of  the  plot  moving,  and  are  much 
too  busy  performing  their  mechanical  duties  to 
seem  real  or  to  be  entertaining.  Their  conver- 
sation usually  informs  the  reader  of  soinething 
necessary  to  the  story's  movement,  and  is  rare- 
ly an  expression  of  their  own  thoughts  or  feel- 
ings. The  main  thing  to  the  credit  of  Mr. 
Spearman's  novel  is  its  apparent  earnestness, 
the  grave  intent  of  the  author  to  discuss  mod- 
ern problems  of  importance  without  flippancy 
or   frivolity." 

\-    Int    Bk    R  p56  Jl  '23   200w 

"This  book  does  not  possess  the  swiftness 
of  action  and  the  facility  of  narrative  that  is 
to  be  found  in  his  Western  tales.  Although  the 
master  of  an  excellent  prose  style,  Mr.  Spear- 
man does  not  have  the  type  of  mind  that  is 
necessary  for  the  success  of  a  problem  novel. 
His  is  an  objective  mind  that  sees  life  as  ac- 
tion." 

h   N    Y   Times   p24   Ap   8   '23    550w 

"This  is  a  peculiar  story,  extremely  difficult 
to  appraise  by  any  official  standard  of  criticism. 
The  difficulty  consists  in  deciding  whether  it 
is  to  be  regarded  merely  as  a  different  sort  of 
mystery  yarn  with  an  ingenious  trick  ending 
or  a  .serious  attempt  at  a  problem  novel.  If 
it  is  the  first,  it  is  very  good  of  its  kind,  with 
a  neatlv  articulated  plot  carefully  worked  out 
to  a  happy  ending.  But  if  it  is  the  second — 
well,  judge  for  yourself."  Isabel  Paterson 
N    Y    Tribune    p25    Ap    8    '23    850w 

"It    is    a    narrative    well    rounded    and    full    of 

the    incidents    of    life    in    an    active    community. 

Willingly    we    recommend    the    whole    book    to 

thoughtful    readers    of    fiction."      E.    W.    Osborn 

-f   N    Y    World    p8e   Ap   1   '23   360w 

Springf'd    Republican   p7a  Jl  8   '23   300w 

SPENCE,  LEWIS.     Gods  of  Mexico.  388p  il  $7.50 

Stokes    [30s   Unwin] 
299.72    Mexico — Religion.      Mythology,    Aztec 

[23-14955] 

"His  work  falls  into  two  parts.  This  first 
consists  of  Chapters  I.  and  II.,  dealing  in  a  gen- 
eral way  with  Mexican  religion  and  cosmogony. 
The  second  comprises  the  remaining  chapter, 
dealing  with  individual  gods,  their  functions, 
feasts,  ritual  and  so  forth.  .  .  Each  deity  is 
treated  bv  Mr.  Spence  with  a  wealth  of  detail. 
— The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup 

"This  fresh  study  of  mythology  with  its  lav- 
ish illustrations,  conveys  the  impression  of  a 
complete  mastery  of  the  needed  material  and 
of  a  skill  in  dealing  with  it  worthy  of  the 
most  authoritative  experts  in  this  field.  Yet 
the  author  is  careful  enough,  as  well  as  mod- 
est enough,  to  disavow  any  assumption  of  final- 
ity or  even  of  completeness.  All  he  hopes  is 
that  his  essay  'may  inspire  more  skilful  investi- 
gators to  address  themselves  to  the  task  of  re- 


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SPENCE,     LEWIS — Continued 

search   in   a   field    that   has  been    unaccountably 

neglected    in    this    country.'  "    E.    N. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  O  17  '23  llOOw 
Reviewed    by    Osg-ood    Hardy 

Lit  R  p281  N  24  '23  450w 
"Mr.  Spence  combines  with  the  necessary 
zeal  the  adequate  equipment,  and  this  book  is 
the  first  attempt  in  English  to  restore  the  Mex- 
ican pantheon  in  intelligible  form,  along  the 
scientific  lines  employed  in  the  reconstruction 
of    more    venerable    religions." 

+  New  Statesman  21:370  Je  30  '23  800w 
"Mr.  Spence's  work  fills  one  of  the  gaps  in 
our  literature  relating  to  the  Aztec  civilization; 
and  not  only  fills  it,  but  fills  it  adequately. 
Minor  defects  apart,  this  is  a  well-written  and 
interesting  book  by  a  practised  hand;  if  the  the- 
ories put  forward  are  not  always  convincing, 
Mr.  Spence  has  given  a  reasonable  basis  for 
the  faith  that  is  in  him,  and  his  readers  should 
be  many." 

-I-  Sat  R  136:84  .Tl  21  '23  820w 
•  "It  is  surely  a  monument  to  Mr.  Spence's 
erudition  and  sanity  that  he  has  been  able  to 
create  so  much  order  out  of  the  chaos  and  pauci- 
ty of  his  material  and  produce  such  an  inter- 
esting presentation  of  such  an  essentially 
'learned'  subject."     R:  Hughes 

+  Spec  131:258  Ag  25  '23  lOOOw 
"A  book  which  must  certainly  be  of  great  use 
both  to  the  Americanist  and  to  the  student  of 
comparative  religion.  .  .  As  a  work  of  reference 
the  book  will  be  of  great  use  to  students.  But 
many  of  the  interpretations  require  careful 
scrutiny,    and    not    all   will    win    acceptance." 

-1 The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p467    Jl 

12  '23  lOOOw 

SPENCER    MRS  ANNA    (GARLIN).  Family  and 
its  members.      322p     $2     (8s  6d)     Lippincott 

173       Family  23-5607 

The  book  comes  under  the  Lippincott's  fam- 
ily life  series.  It  deals  with  those  problems  of 
the  family  that  are  the  inevitable  outcome  of 
woman's  new  freedom,  broader  education  and 
economic  opportunities.  It  considers  the  family 
as  an  institution;  the  mother  and  father,  hus- 
band and  wife  problem:  the  needs  of  the  child: 
the  divorce  question;  the  unmarried  mother; 
eugenics  and  society's  demands  on  the  family. 
It  is  intended  to  meet  tlie  needs  of  college  and 
teacher-training  school  stu^'^ents,  extension 
classes,  study  groups,  etc.  Questions  at  the 
end  of  each  chapter.  Bibliography. 


"This  book  is  splendidly  fitted  for  use  in  a 
college  course  of  study;  while  its  careful  treat- 
ment of  a  vast  number  of  problems,  arising  in 
modern  sexual  and  family  life,  should  earn  the 
gratitude  of  welfare  workers.  The  author  has 
broadened  and  deepened  our  knowledge  of  fami- 
ly Institutions."   G:   E.    Howard 

-I-   Am    J    See   29:365   N    '23   340w 
Booklist    19:302    Jl    '23 
Boston   Transcript   p4   My   12  '23   200w 
Cleveland  p69  S  '23 
"Mrs.  Spencer  brings  to  the  problems  she  dis- 
cusses   the    wisdo")    res\ilting    from    honest    ob- 
servation,  thoughtful  and  extensive  study,   gen- 
erous  sharing  in   simple  experience.':,    ripe  judg- 
ment, and  courageous  frankness."  S.   P.  Breck- 
inridge 

-f  J  Home  Econ  15:397  Jl  *23  800w 
"Mrs.  Spencer  writes  always  in  a  Judicial 
spirit  and  she  states  and  examines  fairly  and 
calmly  the  indictments  that  have  been  made  of 
the  traditional  institution  of  the  family  and  the 
proposals  tliat  have  been  made  to  modify  or  to 
destroy  its  form  and  functions.  .  .  The  book 
is  a  sincere,  scholarly,  thoughtful  and  very  in- 
teresting presentation  at  a  timely  moment  of 
one  of  the  most  important  problems  of  present- 
day   sociology." 

4-  N  Y  Times  p6  My  13  '23  llOOw 
N   Y   World  p9e  Ap  8   '23  50w 
R   of   Rs   67:448  Ap  '23   150w 
"Her  wide  knowledge  of  both  urban  and  rural 
conditions    gives    bod.\      to     the     texture    of    the 


book.  Hei-  frankness  gives  it  strength.  A  clean 
and  vigorous  presentation  is  made  still  more 
engaging  by  bits  of  humor  in  appropriate 
places." 

+  Survey  50:637   S  15   '23   300w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p443  Je 
28  '23  70w 
"A  book  that  would  make  an  excellent  basis 
for  a  study  program  for  women's  clubs.  Not 
so  much  a  history  of  the  family  as  a  discu.'j.iion 
of  the  personal  and  ethical  problems  growing 
out  of  present  day  family  relations.  Has  a  good 
bibliography   but    lacks   an    index." 

+  Wis    Lib    Bui    19:130    My    '23 

SPENCER,  WALTER  T.  Forty  years  in  my 
bookshop;  ed.  with  an  introd.  by  Thomas 
Moult.  284p  il  $6  Houghton  [21s  Constable] 
B  or  92  Booksellers  and  bookselling.  Bib- 
liography— Rare  books 
Forty  years  ago  the  author  opened  his  book- 
shop in  New  Oxford  Street  where  he  has  gath- 
ered his  valuable  collection  of  rare  books  and 
drawings.  He  here  tells  the  story  of  his  life 
among  books  and  of  his  contacts  with  well- 
known  authors  and  bookmen  from  all  parts  of 
the  world.  Mr.  Spencer  is  regarded  as  the  chief 
living  authority  on  Dickens  from  the  collector's 
standpoint  and  in  four  of  the  chapters  he  talks 
about  the  well-loved  novelist  with  whom  he 
confesses  "my  heart  is."  He  chats  on  Cruik- 
shank  and  other  Dickens  illustrators,  and  on 
sonxe  of  the  authors  who  came  to  his  shop,  in- 
cluding Robert  Louis  Stevenson,  "Walter  Pater, 
George  Gissing,  Richard  Jefferies,  Tennyson, 
Swinburne,  Meredith  and  others.  There  is  a 
chapter  on  book  prices  twenty  years  ago  and 
today,  and  on  some  of  tiiose  figures  of  the 
eighteen-ninetie.s — Ernest  Dowson,  Aubrey 
Beardsley  and  Oscar  Wilde. 


Boston   Transcript  p3  D  22  '23   lOOOw 
"It    is    lively,    informal,    entertaining;    full    of 
spirited    illustrations,    many    of    them    copies    in 
color    of   pictures    by    Phiz    or    by    Cruikshank." 
E.    Li.    Pearson 

-I-  Lit   R  p402  D  29  '23  400w 

New    Statesman    22:348    D    22    '23    ISOw 
Reviewed    by    Ryan    Walker 

N  Y  Times  p4  Ja  13  '24  1900w 
"Mr.  Spencer  is  no  great  writer,  but  his 
memory  is  fresh,  and  his  pages  are  very  pleas- 
ant. There  have  been  man.v  books  about  books 
of  late,  for  the  most  part  the  work  of  collectors; 
this  volume  from  the  shop  of  a  famous  dealer  is 
a  good  and  welcome  addition  to  the  literature 
of  the  subject."     Vincent   Starrett 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p20  D  2  '23  lOOOw 
"No  bookman  will  be  able  to  resist  these 
pages.  He  will  find  them  an  ideal  companion 
for  wintry  evenings,  to  read  of  such  books  as 
will  make  his  soul  ache  for  possession.  A 
word  of  praise  must  be  uttered  for  Mr.  Thomas 
Moulfs  preface  to  the  volume.  It  is  in  the 
best  sense  of  the  word  'bookish'  and  Induces  in 
us  precisely  that  sense  of  charmed  curiosity  in 
which  Mr.  Spencer's  reveries  may  most  fitly  be 
appreciated." 

-I-   Sat  R  136:360  S  29  '23  880w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p614  S  20 
•23    lOOOw 

SPLAWN'.     WILLIAM     MARSHALL     WALTER. 
'    and   BIZZELL,  WILLIAM   BENNETT.     Intro- 
duction   to    the    study    of    economics.      386p      il 
$1.72      Ginn 

330  Economics  23-8884 
The  professor  of  economics  in  the  University 
of  Texas  and  the  president  of  the  Agricultural 
and  mechanical  college  of  Texas  have  written 
this  introdiiction  to  economics  as  a  high  school 
text  There  are  questions  .it  the  end  of  each 
section  and  a  bibliography  follows  each  chap- 
ter.                                      

"Fortunately,  the  quality  of  most  of  the  ma- 
terial in  this  little  book  is  such  that,  even  If 
high  school  students   find  it  difficult,  they  will 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


487 


profit  from  anything  they  are  able  to  absorb. 
The  book  will  probably  be  used,  not  only  in 
high  schools,  but  in  colleges  as  well."  J:  Ise 
+  Am  Econ  R  13:659  D  '23  680w 
"It  contains  much  interesting  descriptive  ma- 
terial and  this  is  its  chief  merit.  Such  ex- 
position of  economic  theory  as  is  attempted 
is  carried  out  in  a  slovenly  manner."  D.  A. 
McC. 

h  Cath   World   118:564  Ja  '24   90w 

SPURR,  JOSIAH  EDWARD.  Ore  magmas;  a 
series  of  essays  on  ore  deposition.  2v  il  $8 
McGraw 

553.1   Ore   deposits  23-8952 

"Essentially  a  record  of  personal  observations 

and    conclusions.       Based    on     thirty    years    of 

study,  mainly  in  the  field." — Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 

"Although  the  book  has  some  controversial 
points,  it  is  so  full  of  facts  and  is  so  replete 
with  data  collected  from  many  mining  districts 
that  it  will  be  of  invaluable  assistance  to  all 
mining  engineers  and  geologists  who  are  mak- 
ing a  study  of  this  subject  and  indeed,  to  all 
who   enjoy   scientific   reading."     J:    M.    Nicol 

H Lit    R   p86   S   29   '23   1400w 

Pittsburgh    iVlo    Bui    28:410   O   '23 

SQUIRE,  JOHN  COLLINGS  (SOLOMON 
EAGLE,  pseud.).  American  poems,  and 
others.     55p     $2     Doran     [5s  Hodder  &  S.] 

821  23-10930 

The  American  poems  in  this  volume  were 
occasioned  by  the  writer's  recent  visit  to  the 
United  States.  The  first  poem  expresses  his 
thoughts  as  he  approaches  Kew  York  and 
watches  its  strange  skyline  "behind  the  rusty 
water-front."  The  longest  poem  is  about  the 
Chicago  stock  yards;  Washington  and  Niagara 
Falls  both  inspired  poems. 


authors  reviewed  are  John  Clare,  Katherine 
Mansfield,  William  James,  Baudelaire,  Keats, 
Andrew  Marvell,  Lytton  Strachey,  Walter  de 
la  Mare,  Benedetto  Croce,  Mark  Akenside,  Her- 
man  Melville,   and  Christopher  Smart. 


Booklist    20:16    O    '23 
"We    suspect    that   Mr.    Squire    has   written   a 
great  poem  of  the   stockyards.     Certain  we  are 
that  few  that  have  read  it  will  ever  forget  it." 

D.  L.    M. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  1  '23  1250w 
"The   volume   which   Mr.    Squire  calls   'Amer- 
ican Poems  and  Others'   is  surely  the  worst  he 
has    ever    written.      There    is    remarkably    little 
in  it,  and  almost  all  of  this  is  remarkably  flat." 

E.  M. 

—  Freeman  8:143  O  17  '23  SOOw 
Lit  R  pl35  O  13  '23  220w 
"If  there  is  any  one  quality  which,  above 
others,  distinguishes  Mr.  Squire's  American 
poems  it  is  friendliness.  Moreover,  as  this 
friendliness  is  generally  mixed  with  tolerant 
humor  the  product  is  a  delightful  blend.  And 
the  fact  is  that  these  little  pieces  should  be 
taken  much  in  the  same  spirit  in  which  the 
after-dinner  pipe  or  cigar  is  taken — for  relaxa- 
tion and  enjoyment." 

H NY  Times  pl4  Ag  12  '23  llSOw 

"Mr.  Squire's  American  poems  are  rather  dis- 
appointing. The  most  considerable  poem  in  the 
book  is  his  'Stockyard.'  This  is  a  good  essay, 
and  gives,  I  should  say,  an  accurate  and  exact 
account  of  the  gigantic  Chicago  slaughter- 
houses. But  somehow,  with  all  the  real  feeling 
and  for  all  the  technical  ability  in  it,  it  re- 
mains an  essay  rather  than  a  poem,  and  never 
takes  the  poet's  finger's-breadth  flight  above 
the   real."     A.    Williams-Ellis 

h  Spec  131:162  Ag  4  '23  lOGw 

"The  book,  as  a  whole,  reflects  the  haste  of 
the  overworking  popular  writer." 

H Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ag  19  '23  450w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p436   Je 
28    '23    850w 

SQUIRE,  JOHN  COLLINGS  (SOLOMON 
EAGLE,  pseud.).  Books  reviewed.  293p  $2 
Doran    [7s   6d   Hodder   &    S.] 

824      English    literature — History   and    criti- 
cism 23-26060 
A  collection  of  papers  on  new  and  old  books, 
most   of   them   by   English   write'-s.     Among   the 


Booklist    19:185    Mr    '23 

"Normal  and  engaging  book.  This  is  cer- 
tainly not  criticism  as  statement,  but  very 
polite   salesmanship." 

+   Dial    74:414    Ap    '23    250w 

"With  a  somewhat  insistent  bookishness,  and 
in  spite  of  occasional  ingenuity,  Mr.  Squire's 
essaj's  are  thin,  savourless,  and  jejune,  and  the 
reprinting  of  them  in  book  form  amounts  to 
a  kind  of  literary  grave-snatching."  Newton 
Arvin 

—  Freeman   7:119   Ap  11   '23  1200w 

"Mr.  Squire  fulfils  several  of  the  requirements 
of  Mr.  Macy's  ideal  critic,  but  he  fails  so  badly 
in  others  that  his  claim  to  the  title  of  critic 
is  somewhat  in  doubt.  He  is  witty,  often  elo- 
quent, humorous  and  graceful.  But  he  is  rarely 
wise,  instructive,  original,  provocative  or  per- 
suasive. In  fact  he  is  more  a  commentator 
on  books  than  a  critic."  H.  S.  Gorman 
H Int    Bk    R    p50    F    '23    130w 

"Mr.  Squire  is  an  extremely  bookish  fellow. 
His  reviews  are  stale  with  the  musty  smell  of 
the  editor's  cubby-hole.  His  judgments  are 
of  an  even  temper,  sane,  mildly  interesting. 
But  his  pen  is  not  trenchant;  he  is  rarely  stim- 
ulating, and  never  startlingly  brilliant.  It  is 
all  in  the  day's  work  with  him,  one  feels.  And 
any  way,  who  cares  for  Mr.  Squire's  judg- 
ments? It  is  not  judgments  we  want,  but  the 
man  writing  and  the  man  written  about.  Let 
their  works   speak    for   them."     Edwin   Seaver 

h   Nation    116:344    Mr    21    '23    250w 

New   Statesman   20:362  D  23  '22   800w 

"The  salient  characteristics  of  Squire's  work 
are  readableness  and  compactness  and,  although 
many  essa.yists  before  Squire  have  iDeen  suc- 
cessful in  combining  the  two,  it  would  be  diffi- 
cult to  find  another  writer  who  combines  them 
to    such    a    remarkable    degree." 

-f   N    Y    Times    pll    Ja    28    '23    1200w 

Reviewed   by   Burton    Rascoe 

N    Y  Tribune  pl7  Mr  4   '23  880w 

SQUIRE,  JOHN  COLLINGS  (SOLOMON 
EAGLE,  pseud.).  Essays  at  large.  211p  $2 
Doran   [7s  6d  Hodder  &'  S.] 

824  23-26059 

Most  of  these  papers  are  reprinted  from  the 
Outlook  and  are  on  things  literary:  authors — 
personalities  and  oddities;  books — rare  and 
queer;  styles,  memoirs  and  all  sorts  of  odda 
and  ends  of  a  literary  flotsam  and  jetsam. 


BookJist  19:186  Mr  '23 
Bookm   57:103  Mr  '23  160w 

"In  any  final  analysis  Mr.  Squire  must  be  set 
down  as  a  minor  English  essayist  and  not  as  a 
critic.  He  comments  prettily  on  life  and  letters, 
but  he  is  neither  constructive  nor  destructive 
when  it  coimes  to  a  consideration  of  the  modem 
experimentations  in  letters."  H.  S.  Gorman 
h  Int  Bk  R  p50  F  '23  80w 

"A  very  sorry,  insufficient  excuse  for  a  book." 
Edwin   Seaver 

—  Nation  116:344  Mr  21  '23  320w 

"The  papers,  especially  on  established  au- 
thors, on  Baudelaire,  on  Keats,  and  on  Marvell, 
are  models  of  succinct  appreciation,  excellent 
efforts  to  convey  to  the  ordinary  man  both  the 
judgment  of  the  critical  world  and  also  Mr. 
Squire's  own  predilections.  It  is  in  his  treat- 
ment of  modern  literature  that  I  find  Mr.  Squire 
less  satisfactory."   E.   R. 

q New   Statesman   20:362   D   23  '22  SOOw 

"Squire  never  parades  his  learning;  yet  the 
reader  is  ever  conscious  that  he  is  in  the  pres- 
ence of  a  man  both  widely  and  deeply  read;  a 
scholar  but  not  a  pedant;  a  man  whose  mind 
has  so  thoroughly  digested  all  he  has  read  that 
it  is  part  of  his  very  being.  It  is  by  reason  of 
this  capacity  for  assimilation,  combined  with 
extraordinarily   developed  powers   of   recreating 


488 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


SQUIRE,   JOHN    COLLI NGS—Co*!fnu/e(f 
the  assimilated  material,  that  Squire  stands  out 
so    markedly    in     the   throng     of     present-day 
critics  " 

+  N  Y  Times  pll  Ja  28  '23  1200w 
"Mr.  Squire  is  something  of  a  Pharisee,  nar- 
row-minded and  opinionated.  When  he  writes 
of  the  few  things  with  which  he  is  in  sympathy 
he  writes  very  well  indeed;  when  he  doesn't 
he  is  something  of  a  bore."  Burton  Rascoe 
N    Y   Tribune  pl7   Mr   4    '23   60w 

STACPOOLE,  HENRY  DE  VERE  STACPOOLE. 
Garden  of  God.  328p  $2  Dodd  [7s  6d  Hut- 
chinson] 

23-14803 
Tho  complete  in  itself  this  story  is  really  a 
sequel  to  the  author's  "Blue  lagoon."  The  child 
that  is  found  adrift  on  the  seas  with  his  dead 
parents,  is  brought  to  Palm  Tree  island  where 
his  young  parents  years  before  had  likewise 
been  stranded.  Under  the  inadequate  tutelage 
of  a  sailor,  he  grows  up  strong  in  mind  as  in 
body — a  being  neithei'  savage  nor  civilized. 
From  Karalin,  a  Kanaka  i.sland  beyond  the 
horizon,  drifts  Katafa,  a  white  girl  who  speaks 
only  Kanaka  and  lives  under  the  tabu  of  a 
sorceress.  Wlien  the  sailor  is  killed  by  an 
island  monster,  the  boy  and  girl  form  a  strange 
relationship  due  to  the  taliu  upon  her.  The 
story  tells  how  the  spell  is  broken  and  love 
awakened,  and  how  the  subsequent  events  give 
them  the  world's  freedom.  The  beauty  of  the 
South  Sea  island  is  always  the  foreground  of 
the   picture. 


Boston  Transcript  p8  N  14  '23  300w 
"A   good   s<ory  of  the  atoll   school  of  fiction." 

+  Lit  R  p320  D  1  '23  190w 
"No  doubt  such  an  island,  as  he  describes 
would  be  an  exceedingly  tedious  place  to  live 
in,  but  that  does  not  prevent  it  from  being  an 
enchanting  place  to  read  about.  At  any  rate, 
one  is  quite  safe  in  saying  that  reading  a  Stac- 
poole  novel  is  a  lot  more  fun  than  being  cast 
away  on  a   tropical   island." 

-I-   N   Y  Times  p9  O  21  '23  450w 
Reviewed  by  A.  D.  Douglas 

N   Y  Tribune  p24  N  25  '23  330w 
"  'The    Garden    of    God'    has    color,     life    and 
pretty   nearly   everything   to   compensate    it    for 
being  a   sequel."     E.    W.    Osl)orn 

-I-   N    Y   World   plOe  O   7  '23  380w 

Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  O  28  '23  250w 
"Nowhere,  probably,  does  there  exist  any- 
thing so  lovely,  so  dreamlike,  as  Palm  Tree 
Island,  set  in  the  deep  blue  circle  of  the  Pacific, 
its  reef  spouting  with  snow-white  foam,  and  its 
glossy  lagoon  full  of  the  darting  gleams  of  rain- 
bow-hued  fishes;  but  that  need  not  lessen  our 
gratitude  to  Mr.  Stacpoole  for  renewing  a  dream 
which  so  many  have  dreamed,  for  offering  us  a 
passage  to  a  fairy  land  of  sea  and  palm  and 
coral  at  which  no  trading  schooner  from  Sydney 
or  Hawaii  ever  touches." 

-i-  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p605  S  13 
'23   200w 

STANARD,  MARY  MANN  PAGE  (NEW- 
TON) (MRS  WILLIAM  GLOVER  STAN- 
ARD). Richmond;  its  people  and  its  story. 
239p    il   $3.50    Lippincott 

975.5      Richmond.    Virginia  23-17997 

The  author's  design  is  to  sketch  in  the  whole 
Richmond  scene,  to  catch  the  atmosphere  and 
personality  of  the  city  rather  than  to  record 
its  continuous  history  in  detail.  The  salient 
points  in  the  story  are  made  clear,  from  its 
beginnings  to  today.  For  the  rest,  the  book 
presents  the  characteristics  of  the  city  and  the 
various   aspects   of  its   life. 


"Interesting  and  full  of  color  are  the  more 
general  chapters.  It  is  a,  serious  fault  that  Mrs. 
Stanard  practically  ends  her  story  fifty  years 
ago." 

H NY  Times  p24  Ja  13  '24  650w 

"A  pleasantly  written  sketch  of  the  charac- 
teristics of  the  capital  of  Virginia  by  a  well 
qualified  writer  who  loves  her  topic." 
-f  N  Y  World  p7e  N  25  '23  150w 
"No  one  can  read  the  book  without  realizing 
that  the  traditional  charm  of  the  Southland 
still  remains  a  delightful  factor  in  the  life  of 
our  country.  The  book  will  please  old  friends 
of   Richmond    and    make   new   ones." 

+   Outlook    135:644    D   12    '23   llOw 
R    of    Rs    69:109    Ja    '24    lOOw 
Springf'd    Republican   p7a  S  30  '23  lOOw 

STANFORD,    ALFRED    B.     Ground   swell.      301p 

$2   Appleton 

23-2880 

The  story  relates  the  happenings  on  board 
the  tramp  steamer  Craigentoul  during  a  voyage 
from  Boston  to  Liverpool,  with  a  green  crew 
and  a  drunken  captain.  During  its  sea  isolation 
the  ship  represents  a  world  of  its  own,  reflect- 
ing on  a  small  scale  the  drama  of  human  emo- 
tions. There  is  a  inystery  about  her  cargo.  The 
green  hands,  lacking  discipline,  become  unruly 
under  the  influence  of  a  trouble-maker  and, 
after  a  drunken  bout  on  stolen  liquor,  a  mutiny 
is  in  full  swing  to  be  quelled  by  the  resource- 
fulness of  the  engineers.  After  the  orgy  common 
sense  reasserts  itself  and  all  goes  well.  Ele- 
ments of  pathos  are  not  wanting  and  the  mus- 
ings of  the  third  mate  Bannatyne  give  a  philo- 
sophic cast  to  the  whole. 


"The  volume  is  a  beautiful  thing.  Superbly 
and  fittingly  illustrated,  delightfully  printed, 
and  mechanically  perfect,  it  will  be  a  fine  ad- 
dition to  any  library.  It  is  an  ideal  gift  book 
and,  unlike  many  books  which  go  by  that 
name,  it  will  be  read,  reread,  and  thoroughly 
enjoyed  each   time." 

-i-   Greensboro   (N.C.)    Daily   News  plO   D  9 
•23   550w 


Cleveland  p39  My  '23 
"Some  merits,  but  greater  defects,  stamp  this 
story.  The  book  fails  to  grip  the  reader's  at- 
tention, because  its  author  has  not  learned 
some  of  the  elementary  principles  of  narration. 
He  does  not  know  how  to  create  suspense  or 
arrange  a  climax,  or  to  subordinate  detail  to 
the  main   outline  of  his  story." 

h    Lit    R    p755    Je    9    '23    150w 

"There  are  no  women  in  the  book,  there  is 
no  love  story,  no  romance.  Nevertheless,  those 
who  like  a  'yarn,'  with  death  in  dark  waters, 
mutiny  and  fights,  with  the  manliness  in  a  man 
asserting  itself  at  need,  will  find  pleasure  and 
profit   in   the  tale." 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl4  Ja  28  '23  780w 
"Leaving  aside  underlying  purposes  which  we 
usually  find  stupid,  we  think  Mr.  Stanford  has 
done  a  good  story  with  skill  and  a  fine  realism. 
We  have  only  one  objection.  That  is  based  on 
the  fashion  in  which  the  author  makes  his  hero 
talk.  He  sounds  to  us  when  speaking  rather  like 
a  letter  written  home  by  a  college  sophomore." 
F:   F.  Van  de  Water 

-^ NY  Tribune  p21   F  18  '23   1300w 

Pratt  p38  spring  '23 
Spec  130:853    My   19   '23    50w 
"Mr   Stanford's   writing    betrays    the   youth   of 
its  author  now  and   then   by  too  vigorous   striv- 
ings   for    effect,    but    in    general    it    is    confident 
and   successful." 

-I Sprlngf'd     Republican     p7a     Mr     18     '23 

300w 

STANSFIELD,    ALFRED.    Electric    furnace    for 
iron   and   steel.    453p    11   $5   McGraw 

669.1     Electric    furnaces  23-10491 

"Sets  forth  some  of  the  principles  of  design 
and  discusses  the  smelting  of  ores,  production 
of  iron  and  steel  from  metallic  materials,  and 
production  of  ferro-alloys.  Especially  valuable 
for  its  description  of  numerous  types  of  fur- 
naces aTid  data  on  their  performance." — Pitts- 
burgh Mo  Bui 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:426   O   '23 

STARBUCK,   VICTOR.     Wind  in   the  pines.    82p 
$1.50  Yale  univ.  press  [6s  6d  Milford] 

811  ■  23-12396 

These  poems,  many  of  which  have  made  their 

first  appearance  in  magazines,  are  published  by 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


489 


Yale  university.  The  poet  draws  his  inspiration 
the  Henry  Weldon  Barnes  memorial  fund  of 
chiefly   from   the   past  and  from  classic   themes. 

"The  author  of  this  slender  volume  owns  a 
genuine  poetic  power  and  commands  a  delicate 
artistry  in  the  use  of  language.  Through  these 
media  he  expresses  a  mystic  responsiveness  to 
the  beauty  of  common  nature  as  well  as  a 
worthy  aspiration  of  the  spirit.  His  skill  in  the 
use  of  old  forms,  in  the  creation  of  lyrical 
melod^•,  is  a  rare  gift  in  this  day  and  genera- 
tion.* 

+  Lit  R  p24G  N  10  '23  250w 
"Victor  Starbuck  writes  fluent  and  correct 
verse,  .gallant  and  colored  with  the  optimism 
fitted  for  >outh  on  the  threshold  of  life's  adven- 
tures, but  his  themes  are  well-worn  ones,  and 
the  stimulus  plainly  the  memory  of  things  read 
[rather]    than    things    observed."    H:    L,.    Stuart 

H NY  Times  pl2  Jl  8  '23  350w 

Springf  d   Republican  p7a  Ag  2C  '23  I90w 
The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p507  Jl  26 
•23    50w 

STARCH.  DANIEL.  Principles  of  advertising. 
2    998p    $5    Shaw.    A.    W 

6.59   Advertising  23-11723 

A  comprehensive  treatise  on  the  fundamental 
problems  of  advertising  which  develops  sci- 
entific methods  of  dealing  with  these  problems 
and  which  brings  together,  as  far  as  possible, 
all  available  material — practical  business  ex- 
perience, scientific,  experimental  and  statistical 
data — bearing  upon  the  problems  outlined.  The 
author  is  assistant  professor  of  business  psych- 
olog^'  in  the  Graduate  school  of  business  ad- 
ministration. Harvard  university.  His  book 
w^ill  serve  as  an  analysis  to  which  the  business 
man  may  turn  for  answer  to  his  immediate 
need  or  as  a  text  for  students  of  advertising. 


"This  is  a  comprehensive  and  highly  credit- 
able effort  to  approach  advertising  problems 
from  the  side  of  science.  .  .  It  seems  to  the 
reviewer  that  disproportionate  attention  is  paid 
to  magazine  advertising  as  compared  with  news- 
paper advertising  and  obviously  the  space  de- 
voted to  poster  advertising  (four  pages  in  the 
thousand)  is  grossly  inadequate  for  so  important 
a  division.  For  the  most  part,  however,  the 
treatise  is  admirably  planned  and  executed." 
R:   L..   Strobridge 

-I Lit    R    p236    N    10    "23    780w 

Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui   28:533   D  '23  80w 
Springf'd  Republican  plO  Ja  11  '24  420w 

STARK.  WILLIAM  EVERETT.  Every  teach- 
er's problems  (Am.  education  ser.)  368p  $1.48 
Am.   bk 

371    Teaching  22-24818 

The  plan  of  the  book  is  to  propose  and  dis- 
cuss some  of  the  problems  that  have  actually 
come  up  in  the  day's  work  of  the  teacher. 
These  problems  are  so  grouped  as  to  make  it 
possible  to  arrive  at  certain  generalizations 
or  statements  of  principle  as  a  result  of 
thinking  them  thru  to  a  solution.  They  are 
typical  cases  in  which  teachers,  principals, 
superintendents  and  parents  take  part  and 
they  are  grouped  under  such  general  heads  as 
discipline,  subject  matter,  method,  relation- 
ship with  supervisors  and  administrative  of- 
ficers, with  parents  and  with  teachers,  and 
problems  of  professional  growth.  At  the  end 
of  each  chapter  an  additional  set  of  problems 
is  given  for  the  reader  to  work  out  for  himself. 

"There  is  a  tone  or  'regul.'irity'  and  a  sweet- 
ly-reasonable but  self-confident  optimism  that 
mark  the  style  in  treating  each  problem  and 
make  the  book  dull  reading  in  spots.  However, 
the  book  will  make  a  valuable  contribution 
in  helping  to  train  professional,  problem-solv- 
ing teachers  in  normal  schools  and  in  their 
early  years  of  service."  Orton  Lowe 
-f   Educ    R    66:129   S   '23    500w 

"As  a  result  of  the  applied  new  psychology 
In  our  schools  has  come  another  book  which, 
if  it  does  not  outrank  'Talks  to  Teachers'  in 
Its    spiritual    significance    surpasses    It    in    Its 


practical  suggestions  for  meeting  and  solving 
the  problems  constantly  arising  between  pupil 
and    teacher." 

+   N   Y  Times  pl3  F  4  '23  330w 

STARLING,  ERNEST  HENRY.  Action  of 
alcohol  on  man.  291p  il  $4. .50  (12s  6d)  I^ong- 
mans 

613.81       Alcohol— Physiological    effect 

23-14925 
The  main  part  of  the  book  consists  of  a  sur- 
vey i/y  Dr  Stai-ling  of  the  action  of  alcohol  in 
various  doses  on  the  functions  of  the  body,  as 
well  as  of  its  influence  on  the  individual  in  his 
relation  to  the  community.  To  this  are  added 
three  appendices:  Alcohol  as  a  medicine,  by 
Robert  Hutchison;  Alcohol  and  its  relations  to 
problems  in  mental  disorders,  by  Sir  Frederick 
W.  Mott;  Alcohol  and  mortality,  by  Raymond 
Pearl 


Boston    Transcript    p2    Ja    5    '24    720w 
"It  is  obvious  that  this  book  deals  widely  and 
comprehensively    with    the    problem    of    alcohol 
both    from    a    physiological    and    from    a    social 
point  of  view."  E.  M. 

4-  Nature  113:3  Ja  5  '24  1650w 
"Now  at  last  we  have  a  book  which  may  be 
regarded  as  impartial,  comprehensive,  and.  in 
the  full  sense  of  the  word,  scientific,  and  we 
have  no  doubt  that  it  will  be  widely  read,  .and 
remain,  probably  for  many  years  to  come,  the 
standard  work  on  the  subject.  Some  of  their 
conclusions  may  be,  and  doubtless  will  be,  dis- 
puted, but  imless  or  until  they  are  disproved 
they  will  remain  'authoritative,'  and  it  is  upon 
such  'authority'  that  the  unprejudiced  layman 
is   bound    to   depend."    R.    B. 

-j-  New  Statesman  22:84  O  27  '23  lOOOw 
"A  book  such  as  tlie  present  in  which  the 
effect  of  alcohol  on  the  human  body  is  authori- 
tatively and  dispassionately  reviewed,  is  pecu- 
liaily  timely  even  if,  for  most  of  us.  its  conclu- 
sions are  foregone;  and  it  is  gratif.ving  to  find 
that,  as  is  usually  the  case,  science  is  able  to 
reinforce   common   sense." 

+   Sat  R  136:521  N  10  '23  950 w 
"There    are    many   laymen    who   opine    that   a 
purely    scientific    treatise    must    necessarily    be 
dull;   the  book  under  review  is  about  as  dull  as 
sparkling  champagne." 

+  Spec    131:1037    D    29    '23    250w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p862  D  13 
'23    2050W 

STARRETT,   VINCENT.     Banners   in   the  dawn. 

73p   $2.50    Hill.   W.    M. 

811  22-23741 

"  'Banners  in  the  Dawn'  is  a  sheaf  of  sixty- 
four  sonnets  by  a  Chicago  poet  who  heretofore 
has  been  known  only  through  the  pages  of  the 
magazines.  There  is  no  attempt  at  a  sonnet 
sequence.  ;ind  the  poet  rifles  both  the  Old 
World  and  the  New,  as  well  as  his  own  inner 
life,  in  search  of  subjects.  His  verse  is  un- 
pretentious, and  the  sonnet  form  seems  to  be 
used  more  as  a  convenient  vehicle  than  as 
something  to  be  achieved  for  its  own  sake." 
— N   Y  Times 


"The  spirit  ot  these  poems  is  a  frank  and 
courageous  one,  the  sweep  of  verse  spacious 
in  spite  of  perfect  conformity  to  the  rules  of 
sonnet-making.  Subjects  are  various,  the  most 
distinctive  and  the  best  poems  being  genia 
addresses  to  famous  authors  and  their  still 
more    famous    creations." 

4-   Lit    R   p668  My  5  '23  300w 

"Mr  Starrett  tries  to  see  a  sonnet  in  every- 
thing, even  when  one  is  not  there;  and  some- 
times indeed,  one  is  not.  At  least  he  has  not 
always  got  the  thing  into  the  sonnet.  His  lack 
of  discrimination  among  subjects  is  commend- 
able for  it  argues  a  personal  energy,  a  self 
that'  can  be  flung  into  all  kinds  of  experience, 
high  low,  left,  and  right.  But  there  should 
be  discrimination  as  to  treatment,  and  Mr. 
Starrett    often    lacks    that."    Mark    Van    Doren 

1-  Nation    116:246    F   28    '23    250w 


490 


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STARRETT,    VINCENT — Gontinued\ 

"There  are  no  memorable  lines,  but  the  poems 
as  a  whole  are  likable." 

f-   N   Y  Times  p2  Ja  28  '23  250w 

"Vincent  Starrett  proves  his  ability  to  write 
almost  any  kind  of  a  sonnet  on  any  suggested 
topic,  to  say  nothing  of  rondeaus,  villanelles, 
triolets  and  what  not.  The  poems  show  a 
curious  evenness.  They  practically  never  sink 
below  a  certain  standard,  and  they  practically 
never  rocket  into  the  sky.  Being  a  good  man 
of  letters,  Mr.  Starrett  knows  his  limitations. 
Within  those  limitations  he  can  sing  with 
charm    and    feeling."    Rex    Hunter 

N    Y   Tribune   p28   My   13   '23   150w 

STAUFFER,  RUTH   MATILDA.  Joseph  Conrad: 
his  romantic-realism.    122p  $2.50  Four  seas 

823  Conrad,  Joseph  22-16773 

"Miss  Stauffer  seeks  by  critical  analysis  to 
determine  the  method  and  to  a  less  extent  the 
purpose  of  the  author.  Is  he  to  be  bracketed 
as  a  Realist  or  Romanticist?  Does  he  attempt 
to  interpret  life  with  a  scientific  formula,  or 
does  he  allow  himself  to  succumb  to  the  seduc- 
tion of  the  eternal  mystery?  Miss  Stauffer  has 
made  a  most  meticulous  search  for  material 
that  would  be  of  assistance  in  formulating  her 
opinion,  as  indicated  by  the  remarkably  com- 
plete bibliography  in  the  appendices.  More  than 
a  fourth  of  the  book  is  taken  up  with  definitions 
of  the  terms  Romanticism  and  Realism,  but  one 
does  not  grudge  the  space  since  it  is  essential 
to  establish  her  thesis — that  Joseph  Conrad  is 
a  Romantic-Realist." — Lit  R 


"In  books  of  this  type  which  are  both  critical 
and  appreciative  the  spirit  in  which  they  are 
written  is  the  first  consideration.  Miss  Stauffer, 
one  realizes,  has  a  profound  sympathy  for  her 
subject  that  never  degenerates  into  sentimen- 
talism.  Her  style  is  easy,  flowing,  and  not  with- 
out charm,  suggestive  of  the  practiced  essayist." 
-I-   Lit   R  p438   F  3  '23  220w 

New   Repub  34:301  My  9  '23  1500w 
"The   study  combines   the   merit   of  not  being 
overly  long  with  thoroughness  and  discernment. 
The   book   is  compact  as   to   style   but  does  not 
suffer  from  any  lack  of  clearness." 
-t-   N  Y  Times  p9  F  4  '23  220w 

STAWELL,  FLORENCE  IVIELIAN,  and  IVIAR- 
VIN,  FRANCIS  SYDNEY.  Making  of  the 
western  mind;  a  short  survey  of  Eiuropean 
culture.     353p     il    $3.50     Doran 

940  Europe — History.  Civilization  23-11051 
"A  careful  compilation  that  aims  at  giving' 
the  general  reader  some  idea  of  the  history 
and  development  of  European  civilization.  It 
Is  divided  into  four  sections — ancient,  mediae- 
val. Renaissance,  and  modern — and  in  each  sec- 
tion the  history,  religious,  philosophical  and 
scientific  thought,  the  arts  and  manners  of  the 
period  under  survey,  are  sketched  for  the  bene- 
fit of  those  who  like  knowledge  in  tabloid  form. 
The  volume  concludes  with  a  chronological 
table,  and  also  contains  a  number  of  illustra- 
tions of   art   and   architecture." — Spec 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  11  '23  520w 
"Its  thesis  .seems  to  be  that  if  vou  say  often 
enough  that  this  is  the  best  of  all  possible 
times,  you  will  live  in  the  best  of  all  possible 
worlds;  but  Mr.  Stawell  and  Mr.  Marvin  do 
not  make  much  of  a  case.  .  .  It  would  be  a 
pity  for  any  amateur  of  psychology  to  miss 
'The  Making  of  the  "Western  Mind.'  It  shows 
what  a  kind  of  half-culture  has  made  of  a 
large  quarter  of  .the  Western  mind."  M.  F. 
Egan 

—  Freeman  8:189  O  31  '23  2300w 
"WTiatever  the  sins  of  omission  of  the  book, 
one  returns  again  to  praise  of  its  quality.  It  is 
not  necessary  that  a  book  should  be  adequate 
if  it  does  not  pretend  to  be,  and  the  reading 
of  this  book  leaves  one  with  no  complacent 
sense  of  omniscience,  but  with  an  eager  desire 
to  know  more.  It  gives  the  reader  brief  glimpses 
of   a   country   which   he   plans   to   revisit   at   his 


leisure.  It  leaves  him  haunted  with  alluring 
vistas  and  hints  of  riches  which  he  would  fain 
explore."  R.  B.  Perry 

-f  —  Lit  R  p422  Ja  5  '24  600w 
"To  dispose  of  Hellenism,  Hebraism,  Early 
Christianity  and  similar  inonumental  phases  of 
the  spirit  on  the  basis  of  a  brief  chapter  for 
each  movement  is  either  to  risk  the  plunge 
from  the  sublime  to  the  ridiculous  or  to  move 
steadily  at  an  extraordinarily  high  level  of  pene- 
trating intelligence.  And,  on  the  whole,  the  level 
is  maintained,  and,  what  is  particularly  note- 
worthy, not  only  when  it  is  an  issue  of  religious 
and  philosophic  import  but  also  in  matters 
which  have  a  political,  social,  and  aesthetic 
bearing."    Ferdinand    Schevill 

+  New  Repub  36:312  N  14  '23  1250w 
"Mr.  Marvin's  chapters  are  at  any  rate  in- 
nocuous. The  twelve  illustrations  tracing  the 
artistic  achievement  of  Europe  from  the  Parthe- 
non to  Rembrandt  are  chosen  with  a  solid  good 
sense,   which  is  sadly  to  seek  in  the  text." 

—  New   Statesman   20:700   Mr   17    '23    800w 

"They  have  chosen  the  outstanding  phases  and 
stages  of  the  intellectual  growth  of  Europe  with 
such  care  and  have  presented  them  with  such 
lucidity  that  they  really  give  in  their  brief 
space  a  comprehensive  conception  of  their  sub- 
ject." 

-f  N    Y  Times  pl4  Je  19  '23    900w 
Spec  130:596  Ap  7  '23  lOOw 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup  pl55   Mr 
8   '23   1450w 

STEARNS,     ALFRED     ERNEST.     Challenge    of 

youth.   180p  $1.25  Wilde 
173     Youth 

Dr  Stearns,  from  an  experience  of  twenty 
years  as  principal  of  Phillips-Andover  academy, 
writes  as  a  champion  of  youth  and  points  out 
some  of  the  places  where  the  older  generation 
has  erred  in  its  dealings  with  the  younger.  He 
calls  to  mind  the  dual  nature  of  youth,  the  con- 
flict between  the  higher  and  the  baser  elements 
for  mastery  and  shows  how  the  influences 
which  civilization  had  developed  to  help  in  the 
fight  are  steadily  weakening.  For  the  failure 
of  the  home  and  discipline  and  the  loss  of  re- 
ligious impulse,  he  puts  the  blame  squarely  on 
the  parents,  as  well  as  for  the  materialistic 
ideals  and  bad  social  conditions  which  now 
exist  and  which  youth  did  not  create.  The 
book  is  illustrated  thruout  with  anecdotes  from 
the   author's   experience   with    boys. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  N  17  '23  280w 
"The  little  book  is  the  outcome  of  deep  earn- 
estness and  of  so  much  knowledge  and  experi- 
ence as  to  make  it  a  valuable  contribution  to 
the  controversy  over  'those  terrible  young.' 
Father.s  and  mothers  and  teachers  of  youth  will 
find   it   well   worth   their  attention." 

+  N  Y  Times  p24  N  11  '23  550w 
"Mr  Stearns's  style  is  easy  to  read  and  many 
of  his  pungent  ci-iticisms  should  be  taken  to 
heart  as  applicable  to  a  definite  type  of  boy 
and  parent.  But  he  is  inclined,  all  the  way 
through,  to  state  a  general  problem  in  terms 
of  a  limited  varietv  of  specific  examples  and  to 
draw  universal  conclusions  where  only  rela- 
tive   ones   are   pos.?ible." 

+  —  Springf'd   Republican   pl2  N  14  '23  720w 

STEELE,  HARWOOD   ELMES  ROBERT.  Spirit- 
2  of-iron   (Manitou-pewabic) ;   an  authentic  nov- 
el of  the  North-west  mounted  police.   358p  $2 
Doran 

23-13312 
"The  hero,  Hector  Adair,  is  the  son  of  a  re- 
tired British  officer,  a  veteran  of  AVaterloo  and 
the  Peninsula  campaigns.  The  boy  is  nurtured 
in  an  army  atmosphere,  with  ex-sergeants  and 
marines  as  his  advisers  and  friends,  on  his 
father's  estate  in  Ontario.  His  ambition,  which 
he  was  unable  to  satisfy  because  of  family 
reverses,  was  to  be  an  officer  in  the  British 
Army.  He  therefore  joins  the  'Mounted'  at  its 
inception  in  1873.  The  coming  of  the  railroad 
brings  more  of  the  problems  of  civilization  In 
pioneer  towns,  and  Adair,  now  a  Sergeant  Ma- 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


491 


jor,  with  a  large  territory  to  cover  and  enemies 
that  he  had  accumulated  in  his  first  ten  years  in 
the  service,  procee4s  further  to  complicate  his 
exciting  existence  by  falling  in  love  with  a 
Colonels  daughter.  This  affair  terminates  rather 
hopelessly  for  the  time  being.  With  the  growth 
of  villages  and  settlements  into  cities  come 
other  and  more  complex  problems  for  the  police, 
and  finally  when  the  gold  rushes  of  the  '90's 
find  Adair  a  Major,  in  command  of  the  most 
lawless  regions  of  the  great  north  country  his 
great  moment  arrives."- — N  Y  Times 


Booklist  20:141  Ja  '24 
"The  story,  if  story  you  would  call  it,  is  a 
chronicle  of  the  making  of  the  Canadian  North- 
west. And  yet,  so  simply  is  it  written,  so  much 
is  in  so  little,  that  we  are  not  aware,  until 
we  have  finished,  of  the  potentiality  of  the  meat 
set  before  us.  It  is  a  history  and  story  in  one, 
and  parable  above  these."  I.  W.   1.,. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p5  N  3  '23  780w 
"Captain  Steele  is  very  much  in  love  with  the 
Canadian    Mounted,    and    his    enthusiasm,    well 
sustained  throughout   the    book,    is   contagious." 
+    N   Y  Times  pl7  Ja  6  '24  290w 

STEELE,      WILBUR      DANIEL.      Shame    dance, 
and   other  stories.      392p      $2      Harper 

iJ3-8941 
Twelve  short  stories,  their  scenes  laid  for  the 
most  part  in  out-of-the  way  exotic  places — the 
South  Sea  islands,  the  Caribbean  islands,  Algeria 
and  Arabia.  In  the  title  story  a  beach  comber, 
originally  hailing  from  the  New  York  under- 
world, is  sti-anded  off  the  islet  of  Taai  in  the 
South  seas.  Obsessed  by  the  idea  of  getting 
hold  of  a  vaudeville  hunch  that  will  go  big  en 
Broadway,  he  discoveis  a  native  Kanaka  dancer 
whose  voluptuous  dance  strikes  him  as  the  find 
he  has  been  looking  for.  He  possesses  himsclt 
of  the  beauty,  and  with  difficulty  lands  with 
her  on  the  Pacific  coast.  There,  in  an  out-of- 
the-way  railroad  station,  he  discovers  that  the 
wonderful  "shame  dance"  with  which  he  was 
about  to  dazzle  New  York  is  the  well -known 
"shimmie"  that  had  somehow  found  its  way  to 
the  natives  of  the  South  seas.  The  other  stories 
are:  The  white  man;  "La  Guiablesse";  Both 
judge  and  jury:  Always  summer;  At  two-in-the- 
bush;  The  Anglo-Saxon;  The  marriage  in  Kair- 
win;  "He  that  hideth  his  secret";  From  the 
other  side  of  the  south;  "Arab  stuff";  The  man 
who  sat. 


Booklist  20:59  N  '23 
"The  truly  remarkable  quality  in  these  stories 
is  the  combination  the.v  possess  of  impres- 
sionistic romance  and  biting  realism,  with 
a  keen  sense  of  di'amatic  values.  Each  story 
has  the  stinging  whip-crack  of  the  unexpected 
climax  which  O.  Henr.v  so  loved.  They  are  all 
well  worth  reading,  and  make  up  a  fascinating 
and    vivid    collection."     T.    H.    D. 

-f-   Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  9  '23  750w 

Cleveland  p51  Jl  '23 

"If  the  chief  duty  of  the  short-story  writer 
Is  to  tell  a  tale,  the  short  stories — considered 
as  a  whole — of  Wilbur  Daniel  Steele  are  unex- 
celled by  those  of  any  other  living  American 
■writer."  D.  K.  Laub 

Detroit  News  pl9  O  7  '23  700w 

"The  book  has  a  richly  exotic  flavor.  It  will 
be  eagerly  welcomed  by  those  who  are  already 
admirers  of  this  writer,  and  should  reward  any 
one  who  takes  it  up  seeking  a  good  story."  R. 
C.  Holliday 

+   Int    Bk    R   p60   O  '23   210w 

"In  this  volume  Mr.  Steele  handles  the  mecha- 
nism of  the  short  story  and  the  mysterious  lure 
of  strange  tropical  lands  with  a  deft  touch  and 
the  assuredness  of  a  master  narrator."  C:  M. 
Puckette 

-I-   Lit   R  p783   Je  23  '23  440w 

"He  can  fashion  a  stirring  theme  with  a  mar- 
velous eve  to  the  thrills  and  he  invites  it  with 
a  smoothly  flowing  prose  style  that  is  vigorous 
where  vigor  is  needed,  unashamedly  melo- 
dramatic when  that  motif  is  essential  to  the 
plot,  ar.d   simply  reeking  with  barbarous  colors. 


His  art  is  a  kindred  art  to  that  of  John  Rus- 
sell, and  there  appears  to  be  much  in  common 
between    the   two   men." 

4-   N    Y  Times  pl7  Je  10  '23  580w 
Reviewed    bv    Burton    Rascoe 

N  Y  Tribune  pl7  My  27  '23  330w 
"A  strange  and  unconventional  group  of  tales. 
Mr  Steele  is  a  conscientious,  deft  craftsman  in 
the  art  of  the  short  story.  His  strokes  are  swift 
and  sure,  and  he  has  a  genius  for  creating  at- 
mosphere. But  if  criticism  of  his  work  were  to 
be  made,   it    is  a  want   of  straightforwardness." 

-| Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Je  17  '23  450w 

Wis   Lib  Bui   19:416  Jl  '23 

STEIN,    GERTRUDE.      Geography    and    plays. 
421p    $3.50    Four    seas 

23-5775 

"Many  a  good  laugh  can  be  legitimately  ex- 
cavated from  Miss  Stein's  linguistic  experiment 
called  'Geography  and  Plays.'  The  task  she 
is  attempting  is  the  use  of  words  for  the 
creation  of  sound  patterns  without  regard  to 
their  meanings.  .  .  The  basic  material  she 
seeks  is  not  to  be  found  in  words,  but  in  ar- 
rangements of  vowels  and  consonants  without 
relation  to  their  accepted  place  in  a  spoken 
language.  To  ask  a  person  to  assume  an  air 
of  complete  detachment  towards  famiUar  words 
and  phrases  is  a  demand  which  the  human 
mind  inevitably  finds  it  diflficult  to  grant."— 
Outlook 

"Though  futurists  may  deny,  it  would  seem 
that  Gertrude  Stein  has  used  her  language 
to  conceal  her  thoughts.  We  suggest  a  copy 
of  a  futurist  book  of  indication  with  code  to 
go  with  each  copy,  so  that  those  who  read 
may  not  run  away.  However,  we  will  say 
this:  the  book  is  good  reading  when  one  seeks 
relief  from  present  day  high  pressure  litera- 
ture." 

-\ Bookm    58:84   S   '23   250w 

Reviewed   by   Kenneth   Burke 

Dial    74:408   Ap   '23   2650w 

"If  this  gives  Miss  Stein  pleasure,  it  gives  too 
little  pleasure  and  has  too  little  meaning  for 
Other  people  to  warrant  Miss  Stein  in  doing  It 
to  any  great  extent."  M.  M.  Colum 

—  Freeman   8:140   O  17  '23  300w 

"It  seems  almost  impossible  by  any  unim- 
peded mechanical  process  to  assort  words  in 
such  a  fashion  that  no  glimmer  of  mind  will 
flash  out  from  their  casual  juxtapositions.  The 
thing  can  be  done  only  by  unremitting  intel- 
ligence of  the  first  order— if  it  can  be  done  at 
all  Now,  we  know  on  the  high  testimony  of 
Mr  Anderson  that  Gertrude  Stein  possesses 
intelligence  of  this  order.  The  work  before  us 
leads  us  to  believe  that  she  has  attempted  pre- 
ciselv  the  difficult  feat  which  my  scis.sors  and 
shuffled  parts  of  speech  failed  to  accomplish. 
And  so  far  as  the  perfection  of  the  enterprise 
is  humanly  po.ssible  her  efforts  have  been 
crowned  with  success."  S.  P.  Sherman 
Lit    R   p891   Ag   11   '23   1500w 

"It  may  be  added  that  Miss  Stein  is  rich  in 
one  qualitv  which  her  di.sciples  and  followers 
notoriouslv  lack— that  is,  a  .'sense  ot  humor.  It 
is  pleasant  to  remember  that  when  the  world 
stops  laughing  at  Miss  Stein  it  can  still  laugh 
with    her'     Carl    Van    Vechten 

4-  N  Y  Tribune  p20  My  13  '23  950w 
N  Y  World  p8e  Je  3  '23  280w 
"She  has  in  her  hook  passages  which  are 
rhythmical  and  which,  if  divorced  from  any 
coh.'^ideration  of  sense,  have  a  plea.smg  .syl- 
labification. I  feel  certain,  however,  that  Miss 
Stein  has  not  achieved  any  arrangement  of 
sound  at  all  comparable  to  the  work  of  poets 
who  have  been  hann)ered  by  the  re.=;  rictions 
of    .sense."    H      T.    Pulsifcr 

\-  Outlook    134:139    Je    G    '23    13--0w 

STEINMET2.  CHARLES  PROTEUS.  Four  lec- 
tures on  relativity  and  space.  130p  u  *^ 
McGraw 

530.1       Einstein    theory  23-6805 

"The  author  'has  made  a  very  successful  ex- 
planation  of   the   meaning  of   relativity    for   the 


492 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


STEIN METZ,  C:   P. — Continued 
lay  mind   by  using  analogies  and  the  synthetic 
method  of  attack.   .   .   The  book  contains  some 
mathematics     of     a     simple     type."      (Electrical 
world)" — Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:287    Je    '23 

STEKEL,    WILHELM.      Conditions    of    nervous 
anxiety    and    their    treatment;    auth.    tr.    by 
Rosalie    Gabler.    435p    $7.50    Dodd 
616.8     Nervous     system — Diseases.     Psycho- 
analysis.   Anxiety 
The  book   is  written   by  a  physician  and  for 
physicians.   The  author,   a  former  pupil  of  Pro- 
fessor Freud,   makes  a  psychoanalytic  approach 
to    the    subject,    attributing    every    neurosis    to 
psychic  conflict.    His   work,    intended  as  an  In- 
troduction   to   psychotherapy,    describes   the   or- 
igin   and    treatment    of    nervous    anxiety    con- 
ditions   and    the    enormous    power    of    psycho- 
logical forces.    It  contains  a  large  collection  of 
cases   drawn    from   the   author's   medical    prac- 
tice. 


Boston  Transcript  p3  My  19  '23  360w 
"The  book  is  a  blend  of  useful  Information 
with  rash  dogma.  The  translation  shows  many 
literal  errors  and  should  have  been  revised  by 
some  one  acquainted  with  medical  terminology." 
Millais  Culpin 

h  Nature  112:86  Jl   21   '23  400w 

New  Statesman  21:54  Ap  21  '23  480w 
"Dr.  Stekel  is  the  first  writer  to  provide  a 
really  comprehensive  survey  of  this  most  impor- 
tant branch  of  psychopathology.  Stekel  sup- 
ports his  arguments  and  outlines  his  treat- 
ment by  quoting  an  immense  number  of  clini- 
cal cases,  the  collection  and  arrangement  of 
which  cannot  be  too  highly  praised." 
-f-  Spec   130:331   F  24   '23   520w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p62  Ja  25 
'23    140w 

STEPHEN,  MRS  KARIN.  Misuse  of  mind;  a 
study  of  Bergson's  attack  on  intellectualism; 
with  a  prefatory  letter  by  Henri  Bergson. 
(International  lib.  of  psychology,  philosophy, 
and  scientific  method)  107p  $2  Harcourt  [6s 
6d   K.   Paul] 

121       Bergson,      Henri      Louis.      Knowledge, 
Theory  of  ^2-21020 

"This  important  study  of  Bergson's  philosophy 
is  not  an  attempt  to  epitomise  or  expound  the 
principle,  the  method,  or  the  particular  con- 
tent. It  concentrates  on  an  attempt  to  under- 
stand what  is  generally  rejected  as  unintelligi- 
ble— the  attack  on  intellectualism.  The  author 
gives  us  in  three  chapters  first  a  criticism  of 
'explanation,'  then  a  criticism  of  'fact,'  both 
with  reference  to  Bergson's  theory  of  change, 
and  in  a  final  chapter  shows  how  light  is  thrown 
on  the  problem  by  his  theory  of  the  relation 
of    matter    to    memory." — Nature 


"  'It  is  a  personal  and  original  interpretation 
of  my  views  as  a  whole — an  interpretation 
which  has  value  of  its  own,  independent  of 
what  1  have  written.  The  author  has  as- 
similated the  spirit  of  the  doctrine,  then,  free- 
ing herself  froiu  the  materiality  of  the  text, 
she  has  developed,  in  her  own  manner,  in  her 
own  chosen  direction,  ideas  which  appeared  to 
her  fundamental.' — Translation  of  part  of  Pref- 
atory  Note  by  Bergson." 

4-   Booklist    19:144    F    "23 

"A  short  and  very  illuminating  statement  of 
Bergson's   philosophy."     C.    D.    B. 

+    Int   J    Ethics   33:334    Ap   '23    80w 

"Unlike  most  sympathetic  expositions  of  a 
philosophy  this  book  contains  practically  no 
quotations.  The  greatest  defect  of  the  book 
is  Mrs.  Stephen's  assumption  that  a  knowledge 
of  philosophy  is  a  hindrance  to  an  adequate 
understanding  of  Bergson's  thought.  This 
comes  to  expression  repeatedly."  D.  S.  Robin- 
son 

4 J    Phllos    20:106   F   15   '23   1700w 

"The  argument  is  not  wholly  new,  but  it  is 
well  put.  It  will  appeal,  however,  much  more 
to  the  student  of  philosophy  than  to  the  gen- 
eral   reader,    in    spite     of     the     nimble   wit    and 


cleverness  with  which  the  case  is  presented. 
In  short,  it  is  a  neat  little  monograph,  written 
in  support  of  one  side  of  •  a  rather  intricate 
controversy."     H.   T.   Costello 

-I Lit   R  p606   Ap   14   '23   150w 

"Miss  Stephen's  brief  essay  on  the  Berg- 
sonian  'views  as  a  whole,'  to  quote  tlie  master's 
phrase,  is  the  clearest  summary  of  the  great 
intuition  theory  that  we  have  yet  encountered." 
Clement  Wood 

+   Nation    116:124    Ja    31    '23    400w 
Nature   110:541   O   21   '22   lOOw 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui    28:148   Ap   '23 
"The  book  ought  to  be  of  inestimable  help  to 
anyone  desirous  to  become  acquainted  with  the 
philosophv  of  Bergson."    Bernard    Glueck,   M.D. 
4-  Survey  51:351  D  15  '23   80w 

STEPHENS,  JAMES.  Deirdre.  286p  $2.50  (7s  6d) 
Macmillan 

23-12751 

"This  new  book  by  Mr.  James  Stephens  has 
been  announced  as  'a  drainatic  story  of  youth 
and  love,  of  treachery  and  doom,  and  of  mighty 
fighting.'  It  is  possible  to  read  it  as  such  and 
to  have  little  need  for  remembering  that  the 
romance  is  racial,  a  slowly-fashioned  idea  of 
loveliness  and  of  the  pity  of  love.  The  tale 
is  direct,  simple,  in  the  manner  of  folktale  or 
ballad.  Deirdre,  destined  in  her  own  despite 
to  destroy  the  kingdom  of  Ulster,  is  fostered 
in  seclusion  among  women  that  she  may  be- 
come the  bride  of  Conachar,  the  king,  but 
falling  in  love  with  Naoise  of  the  Children  of 
Usnach,  she  flies  on  the  eve  of  the  royal 
marriage  with  her  lover  and  his  kin  to  Alba. 
After  years  of  exile,  they  are  enticed  back 
to  Ireland,  Naoise  and  his  brothers  are  done 
to  death  and  Deirdre  dies  of  grief." — New 
Statesman 


Booklist  20:103  D  '23 
"Do  not  miss  the  book.  It  is  the  deepest 
thing  Mr.  Stephens  has  done.  And,  like  all 
his  books,  it  is  full  of  magical  beauty,  and  I 
do  not  know  what  more  one  can  ask  'of  an 
author   than   that."    F:    B.    Eddy 

-I-  Lit  R  pl23  O  13  '23  780w 
"Mr.  Stephens  has  nowhere  excelled  the  deli- 
cate lyrical  prose  in  which  the  girl,  restless 
with  dim  intimations  of  a  new  life,  escapes 
into  the  woods  and  comes  to  the  camp  fire 
around  which  the  fair-haired  youths  from 
TJsn3.ch    sit  '*    A.     C 

+  New    Statesman    21:680    S   22    '23    1300w 

Reviewed   by   Burton   Rascoe 

N    Y   Tribune  p20  N   25  '23   230w 
Reviewed  by  E.   W.   Osborn 

N  Y   World  plOe  O  21  '23  220w 
Outlook  136:116   Ja  16   '24  lOOw 
Sat   R    136:447  O  20  '23   250w 
"James  Stephens  has  taken  an  old  Irish  legend 
and   from   it  woven  a   tale   full  of  color  and  his 
own  philosophy.  He  is  whimsical  without  being 
soft,    philosophical    without    being   dry,    exciting 
without    being    medodramatic.     His    characters 
have    something  of    Homeric   quality    in    them." 
+  Sprlngf'd    Republican  p7a  N   4  '23   190w 
"Mr.    Tames   Stephens   has  chosen   to  write   in 
prose    and     in    a     manner    that    has     developed 
through   his   'Irish   Fairy   Tales.'    still  whimsical, 
lyrical.      Viubbling      with      playful      anachronism 
that    is    more    sophisticated    than    that    of    an 
Elizabethan    poet    with    an    increasing    intellect- 
ual  quantity   that   from  lack  of  emotion   escapes 
being    quite    human    wisdom,    and    a    deepening 
note     which    has        come     since     Mr.     Stephens 
learned    Gaelic    for    better    or    worse." 

-f  The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p618    S 
20    '23    700w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:508   D  '23 

STEPHENSON,  NATHANIEL  WRIGHT.  Lin- 
coln; an  account  of  his  personal  life,  especially 
of  its  springs  of  action  as  revealed  and  deep- 
ened by  the  ordeal  of  war.  474p  il  $3  Bobbs 

B   or   92    Lincoln,    Abraham  22-22727 

"This    study    endeavors    to    show    the    Inner 

Lincoln,    the   thinker  with  his   inherent   sadness 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


493 


and  sympathy,  becoming  fused  with  the  out- 
ward, affectionate,  story  telling  Lincoln  visible 
to  most  people,  and  resulting  at  last  in  the  Lin- 
coln of  the  war.  As  Mr.  Stephenson  says, 
'AH  stories  have  been  told,  it  is  the  telling  of 
them  that  matters.'  And  this  of  his  is  out- 
standing in  beauty,  depth  of  feeling,  and  sus- 
taining   interest." — Bookm 

"Here  is  a  volume  quite  without  a  parallel 
in  the  long  list  of  Lincolniana.  The  author  has 
attempted  not  a  mere  biography  but,  what  is 
more  difficult,  a  progressive  character  study  of 
one  of  the  most  complex  figures  of  history.  In 
dealing  with  motives,  with  the  well-springs  of 
thought  and  action,  he  has  undertaken  probably 
the  most  difflcult  kind  of  task  in  historical  criti- 
cism. It  is  a  pleasure  to  be  able  to  state  that 
he  has  discharged  the  task  with  quite  conspicu- 
ous success.  The  result  is  a  picture  more  nearly 
like  the  original  than  any  so  far  offered  by 
biographers  of  Lincoln."   A.   C.   Cole 

+  Am    Hist    R    28:596   Ap   '23   480w 
Booklist   19:221   Ap   '23 
"This    is    more    than    a   record    of    Lincoln    as 
he   stands  in   history.     It   is   a   thoughtful   con- 
sideration   of    the    almost    subconscious    causes 
that  made  him  what  he  was:   the  mysticism  of 
a  forest  people,  a  highly  religious  and  emotional 
strain    inherited    from    his    mother,    a    recurrent 
lack  of  confidence  from  a  vagrant  father." 
+  Bookm  56:768  F  '23  IBOw 
"Here  is  a  finely  wrought  and  clearly  visioned 
biography,  in  which  the  author  seeks  and  grasps 
at   every   turn   the   significance   of   Lincoln   and 
his  work."     S.   L.   Cook 

-h  Boston  Transcript  p3  D  30  '22  lOOOw 
"A  really  notable  volume.  Not  for  a  long 
while  has  a  single  volume  of  biography  or  of 
history  appeared  which  is  so  attractive  as  Pro- 
fessor Stephenson's  remarkable  essay.  .  .  At 
the  very  beginning  the  reader  is  caught  and 
held  by  Professor  Stephenson's  style.  He  tells 
familiar  facts  in  such  an  enchanting  manner 
that  they  seem  to  be  stated  for  the  first  time." 
A.    J.    Beveridge 

-h  Int  Bk  R  pl4  Mr  '23  2500w 
"Mr.  Stephenson's  book  seems  to  me  to  be  a 
remarkably  able  piece  of  work.  To  be  sure,  it 
does  not  add  very  much  to  our  knowledge  of 
the  important  details  of  Lincoln's  life,  for  the 
main  facts  have  long  been  known.  To  many 
readers,  too,  the  book  will  probably  seem  de- 
ficient in  incident,  and  it  will  certainly  be  most 
useful  to  those  who  know  more  of  the  history  of 
Lincoln's  time  than  Mr.  Stephenson  stops  to 
tell."    W:    McDonald 

H Lit  R  pl47  O  20  '23  1800w 

"Nathaniel  Wright  Stephenson's  'Lincoln,'  Is 
a  thoroughly  readable  short  biography,  with  no 
attempt  at  a  contribution  to  sources.  His  book 
is  a  swiftly  moving,  charmingly  consistent,  and 
comprehensive  commentary."  L.  E.  Robinson 
+  Nation  116:220  F  21  '23  700w 
"Lord  Charnwood  stands  outside  of  Lincoln 
and  with  open  mind  and  occasional  deep  elo- 
quence presents  him  to  us.  Mr.  Stephenson  at- 
tempts a  harder  task — he  seeks  to  stand  within 
Lincoln,  to  let  us  look  out  with  him  rather  than 
down  or  up  upon  him.  His  measure  of  success 
is  gratifying.  He  has  mastered  the  material; 
every  statement  made  is  supported  by  an  au- 
thority referred  to  in  the  appendix.  It  is  thus 
possible  for  a  well-informed  reader  to  weigh 
the  credibility  of  each  incident.  And  yet  this 
vast  material  rarely  disturbs  the  personal  drama 
which  the  author  evolves."  A.  W.  Vernon 
+  New  Repub  33:300  F  7  "23  850w 
"It  is  a  fascinating  biography,  for  the  author's 
purpose  of  seeking  out  and  making  clear  the 
real  Lincoln  under  all  his  many  phases  and  of 
showing  how  he  was  influenced  by  his  environ- 
ments and  how  always  the  fundamental  great- 
ness within  him  enabled  him  to  make  use  of 
that  environment  and  rise  to  the  responsibility 
that  devolved  upon  him  illuminates  the  great 
figure  as  though  by  a  searchlight." 
H-  N  Y  Times  plO  D  17  '22  650w 
"His  book  is  shapely,  consistent  with  itself, 
exquisitely  compact.  It  resembles  a  crystal 
sphere,  wherein  by  some  magic  the  great  drama 


of  Lincoln's  life  and  times  unfolds  itself  to  the 
attentive  gazer.  The  interplay  of  men  and  fac- 
tions about  that  towering  central  figure  is  won- 
derfully handled.  Part  of  this  magic  Inheres  in 
Mr.  Stephenson's  style.  It  has  a  flawless  lucid- 
ity. Behind  that  also  is  the  force  of  sincerity." 
Isabel  Paterson 

+   N   Y  Tribune  pl7  Mr  18  '23  3000w 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:121   Mr    '23 

R  of  Rs  67:220  F  '23  250w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:55   F  '23 

STERLING,     GEORGE.     Selected     poems.  232p 

$2  Holt 

811  23-8199 

"In  this  volume  of  232  pages  are  collected, 
from  previous  books,  the  poems  by  which, 
presumably,  George  Sterling  wishes  to  be  rep- 
resented. "The  poems  v/ere  selected  by  the 
author  from  the  output  of  more  than  a  quarter 
of  a  centurj\  during  which  period  Mr.  Sterling 
has  made  himself  a  respected  figure  in  the 
field  of  his  art.  It  is  poetry  in  'the  grand  man- 
ner,' concerned  with  the  eternal  enigmas  of 
life  and  death  and  destiny  and  mystery  of  the 
universe.  Something  of  the  largeness  of  the 
themes  is  in  the  accent  and  the  gesture  of 
the    poems    themselves." — Outlook 


Booklist  20:16  O  '23 

"As    a    conscientious     artist,    with    a    certain 
large    way   of   seeing   the    world    and   of   feeling 
about   life,    he   has   won    a    respected   place   for 
himself  in   American   letters."     D:    Morton 
+    Bookm    58:75    S   '23    200w 

"His  work  is  true  and  tested,  his  style 
severe  and  distinguished.  True,  some  of  his 
words  and  phrases  have  an  archaic  ring,  and 
some  of  his  lines  seem  stilted.  Yet  there  is  a 
body  and  depth  to  his  achievement  wholly  lack- 
ing in   our  younger   poets."   C.    K.    H. 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p3  Ag  25  '23  550w 

Reviewed   by   J:    G.    Fletcher 

Freeman  7:548  Ag  15  '23  520w 

"George  Sterling  came  first  into  prominence 
with  'A  Wine  of  Wizardry,'  a  poem  praised 
most  highly  by  Ambrose  Bierce.  It  is  a  splen- 
did word  mosaic,  but  lacking  in  any  spiritual 
substance.  'The  Testimony  of  the  Suns'  is 
another  remarkable  poem.  These  two  poems 
are  printed  last  in  this  volume  of  Sterling  s 
selected  work.  Considering  the  remainder  of 
the  volume,  to  me  he  sings  best  of  the  sea 
and  of  the  stars.  'Beyond  the  Breakers'  is  a 
swimmer's  poem  as  thriUing  as  one  of  Swin- 
burne's. 'Aldebaran  at  Dusk'  is  wholly  beauti- 
ful. As  for  'The  Black  Vulture,'  I  think  it  one 
of  the  finest  sonnets  in  the  language."  W:  R. 
Benet  „„  „,„ 

+   Lit   R  p907  Ag  18  '23  650w 

"  'Selected  Poems'  is  a  book  that  contains  a 
deal  of  beautiful  albeit  classical  work.  .  .  His 
poems  in  regular  forms  often  touch  a  real 
beauty,  but  the  book  taken  as  a  whole  fails 
really  to  stir  the  reader.  Perhaps  one  reason 
for  this  is  that  Mr.  Sterling  is  rather  out  of 
touch  with  his   time." 

4 NY  Times  pl2  Je  10  '23  500w 

"In  profuse  imagination  and  profound  music 
George  Sterling's  poetry  is  always  richly  en- 
dowed, and  his  followers  will  find  in  this  vol- 
ume poems  that  have  won  a  place  for  them- 
selves with  the.se  qualities.  And  those  who  like 
to  follow  the  adventures  of  a  questioning  spirit 
to  the  borders  of  the  infinite  will  have  an 
eager  and  eloquent  guide  in  Mr.  Sterling.  More- 
over, the  volume  will  scarcely  fail  to  impress 
students  of  the  art  with  its  capable  workman- 
ship and  artistic  integrity." 

+  Outlook    134:240    Je    20    '23    330w 

STERN,  GLADYS  BRONWYN  (MRS  GEOF- 
FREY LISLE  HOLDSWORTH).  Back  seat. 
240p   $2   Knopf    [7s   6d   Chapman   &   H.] 

23-13188 
In  the  Carruthers'  household  the  domestic 
order  was  reversed,  for  Robert,  a  failure  in 
business,  was  the  in-person  and  Leonora,  his 
wife  and  a  celebrated  actress,  was  the  out- 
person      It  was  Robert  who  took  the  back  seat 


494 


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STERN,    Q.    B. — Continued 

in  the  family  and  in  lieu  of  fancy-work  oc- 
cupied himself  with  carpentry.  But  Leonora 
liked  to  keep  up  the  myth,  before  the  public 
and  in  her  press  interviews,  of  being  domestic 
and  home-loving,  a  sort  of  martyr  to  fame. 
"When  a  young  playwright,  much  in  love  with 
her,  wrote  the  part  of  a  very  young  girl  for 
her,  it  was  the  wise  Robert  who  perceived 
that  she  was  no  longer  fitted  for  it  and  who 
persuaded  her  to  give  the  part  to  their 
daughter  and  take  a  six  months'  vacation 
with  him.  The  plav-acting  is  now  shifted  to 
the  domestic  hearth,  Leonora  bravely  living 
up  to  the  myth,  and  Robert  gallantly  keeping 
up  the  deception  and  shielding  her  from  pain- 
ful disillusionment.  It  is  Faith,  the  young 
daug-hter,  who  inadvertently  finds  a  way  out 
of  the  dilemma. 


of  probation  officer  Mary  Ellen  Wright  while 
she  is,  incidentally,  also  living  her  ovm  ro- 
mance. 


Booklist  20:141  Ja  '24 
"It  is  well  to  observe  the  remarkable  gain 
in  power  which  G.  B.  Stern  reveals  in  this 
book.  She  manages  her  people  with  perfect 
ease  and  with  a  touch  so  light  that  we  scarcely 
realize  her  mastery  of  each  situation.  'The 
Back  Seat,'  with  its  twists  and  turns,  is  an 
unusually   entertaining  story."    D.    L.    M. 

+  Boston   Transcript   p4    S   12   '23   llOOw 
"Neat,  satirical  comedy  of  family  life." 

-f  Dial    75:611   D   '23   180w 
Reviewed  by  L..  C.  Hale 

Int  Bk  R  p30  N  '23  1200w 
"Miss  Stern  always  writes  well,  and  often 
brilliantly.  There  are  a  sparkle  and  an  effer- 
vescence in  her  sentences  which  heighten  the 
effect  of  speeding  dramatic  action."  J:  J. 
Smertenko 

-f   Lit    R    p66    S    22    '23    550w 

Nation   117:sup410  O  10  '23   80w 
"A     comedy     of     family     and     the     stage     in 
which,    after    a    process    of    high    complication, 
the  recalcitrant  elements  cancel  out  to  solution 
as   neatly   as   in   an    algebraic   equation." 
+   New   Repub   36:188   O   10  '23   40w 
"  'The  Back   Seat'    is  one  of  those  brilliantly, 
one    had    almost    said    devilishly    clever    novels. 
The    method    has    its    drawbacks,    but    on    the 
whole  it  is  well  worth  while." 

+  N    Y   Times   p22   S    9   '23    6G0w 
"This    story    of    the    theatre    is    not    in    the 
least     theatrical.     It     is     with     some     surprise, 
therefore,     that     we     find     ourselves    reflecting 
upon    what    seems    to    us    the    probability    that 
'The   Back   Seat'    might   very   easily    and  profit- 
ably be  turned  into  a  light  and  rather  delicious 
bit    of    comedy    for    the    real    stage.     If    it    can 
be   acted   as   coaxingly   as   it   reads,    the   results 
will   be   grateful  all   around."     E.   W.    Osborn 
+    N    Y    World    p8e   S    9   '23    420w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:510  D   '23 
"Miss    Stern    has    given    to    the    whole    of    her 
brief,    slight    narrative   a   wilful   air  of  flamboy- 
ance   and     unreality.     The     characterization     is 
clever,    but  too   'slick'  and  superficial;   the  raids 
upon    credulity    go    fairly    beyond    the    decent." 
Gerald  Gould 

h  Sat    R   135:670   My   19   '23   220w 

"A   very   fine   piece   of  work." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  S  30  '23  480w 
"It  is  a  pretty  little  comedy,   with  a  humour 
which    is    never    overdone    and    an    irony    which 
is  too  kind  ever  to  leave  a  scar." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p320   My 
10   '23   600w 

STERN,  LEON,  and  STERN,  MRS  ELIZA- 
BETH  GERTRUDE  (LEVIN).  Friend  at 
court.     335p   $2    Macmlllan 

23-8403 

The  friend  at  court  is  the  probation  officer 
whose  task  it  is  to  hear  both  sides  of  domes- 
tic relations  cases,  understand  the  human 
problem,  reason  with  husband  and  wife  and, 
if  possible,  effect  an  amicable  settlement  and 
reconciliation  out  of  court.  The  present  vol- 
ume is  a  collection  of  twenty  stories,  taken 
from  actual  "case-records"  but  presented  un- 
der   the    guise    of    fiction    as    the    experiences 


"A  novel  of  absorbing  interest  not  only  to 
the  general  reader,  'but  a  casebook  as  well  for 
the  student,  social  worker,  and  probation  ofll- 
cer  *  ' ' 

-f-  Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:517  Ag  "23  60w 

Booklist   20:141   Ja   '24 
"Second-hand     the     material,      unskilled     the 
author's    pencil,    yet    age    old    the    matter    and 
as    interesting    as    life    itself."    W.    E.    H. 

-\ Boston  Transcript  p3  Jl  14  '23  500w 

Cleveland  p51  Jl  '23 
"A  mine  of  pathos,  of  humor,  and  of  sociologi- 
cal  lore."   M.    L.   Franklin 

ind  111:92  S  1  '23  150w 
Nation  117:273  S  12  '23  50w 
"  'A  Friend  at  Court'  should  meet  a  ready 
welcome.  For  its  claims  to  attention  are  not 
limited  to  the  interest  of  its  tales  and  the 
charm  of  their  telling,  but  include  much  in- 
sight into  and  information  concerning  a  valu- 
able sphere  of  social  helpfulness.  The  book 
is    a    valuable    human    document." 

-f-   N    Y    Times    pl9    My    20    '23    700w 
"These    stories    of    experiences    in    the    work 
of   a    New    York    probation    officer    are   remark- 
able   in    their    vivid,    moving,    pictures    of    court 
scenes.      "They    have    fictional    value,     and    still 
more    so    the    reality   of   human    sympathy." 
+  Outlook    134:139    Je    6    '23    lOOw 
"There    is    a    notable    absence    of    theorizing, 
sermonizing    and     drawing    of    individual     con- 
clusions.    "The   facts    speak    for   themselves;    the 
treatment   accorded   the   cases   is  described   and 
results   are   obvious." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  plO  Je  27  '23  380w 
"Such  a  book  has  its  especial  usefulness  to 
enlightening  the  average  man,  busy  with  hia 
own  affairs,  little  interested  in  general  social 
relations;  whose  cooperation,  however,  is  vital- 
ly necessary  in  plans  for  social  betterment  if 
these  are  to  be  made  truly  effective."  K.  H. 
Claghorn 

+  Survey  51:109   O   15   '23   700w 

STETTHEIMER,    ETTIE.    See    Waste.    Henrie, 
pseud. 

STEVENS,    WALLACE.        Harmonium.    140p    $2 

Knopf 

811  23-13564 

"Mr.  Stevens's  most  famous  poem,  Peter 
Quince  at  the  Clavier,  appeared  in  'Others'  as 
long  as  seven  years  ago,  and  he  has  continued 
ever  since  to  dance  like  a  tantalizing  star 
through  magazines  and  anthologies.  But  there 
was  no  volume  until  now.  While  some  of  his 
admirers  called  for  one  rather  loudly,  the  rest 
were  content  that  Mr.  Stevens  should  exist  in 
bright  fragments,  being  afraid,  perhaps,  that  he 
might  not  glitter  in  the  bulk.  'Harmonium'  will 
dissolve  their  doubt,  for  it  places  its  author  high 
among  those  wits  of  today  who  are  also  poets — 
T.  S.  Eliot,  Ezra  Pound.  Maxwell  Bodenheim, 
Alfred  Krevmborg,  William  Carlos  Williams, 
Aldous  Huxley,  Sacheverell  Sitwell.  and  Robert 
Graves." — Nation 


"The  volume  is  polychromatic  In  substance 
and  format.  Mr.  Stevens  has  a  highly  indi- 
vidual argot,  a  unique  pungency  in  conveying 
sense  impressions,  and  a  gay  diablerie  in  ar- 
ranging grotesque  woi*d  patterns  which  seem 
quite  liberated  from  time  and  space  and  pros- 
ody and  all  other  ills  to  which  the  flesh  is  heir.' 
Boiokm    58:483    D   '23   140w 

"At  Its  worst  it  i.s  never  stale  or  bromidic,  at 
its  best,  there  is  a  living  roundness  of  dic- 
tion, a  sharp  and  nervous  selection  proceeding 
from  rich  reservoirs  of  imagination.  Above  all 
Is  his  verse  musical,  with  a  full  bell-like  tone, 
a  resonance  that  hangs  in  the  air."  C.  T.  C. 
-f-   Boston    Transcript   p5   D   29   '23    600w 

"Despite  his  gallant  attempt  to  guard  his 
secret  preoccupation  with  something  more  im- 
Dortant  than  externals  from  the  knowledge  of 
the  crowd,  by  the  deliberate  use  of  misleading 
titles,   I   make  bold   to  say  that  Mr.    Stevens  is 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


495 


the  most  accomplished  and  not  one  of  the  least 
interesting  of  modern  American  poets.  But  for 
the  future  he  must  face  a  clear  choice  of  evils: 
he  must  either  expand  his  range  to  take  in 
more  of  human  experience,  or  give  up  writing 
altogether.  'Harmonium'  is  a  sublimation 
which  does  not  permit  of  a  sequel."  J.  G. 
Fletcher 

+  Freeman  8:355  D  19  "23  850w 
"Mr.  Stevens  will  never  be  much  read.  But 
some  day  there  will  be  a  monograph  on  him  and 
his  twentieth-century  kin  ^vho  ranged  their  rest- 
less faculties  over  all  the  deserts  and  hill-tops 
of  the  world  to  inaugurate  a  new  era  of  what 
Dryden  once  called  'wit-writing' — an  era  which 
may  be  short  and  may  be  long.  That  mono- 
graph will  pay  particular  tribute  to  the  pure 
phrasing  of  Mr.  Stevens,  to  his  delicately  enun- 
ciated melody,  his  economy,  his  clipped  clean- 
liness of  line,  his  gentle  excellence."  Mark  Van 
Doren 

-f-  Nation  117:sup400  O  10  '23  600w 
"For  'Peter  Quince'  I  would  give  all  the  rest 
and  more.  It  is  an  exquisite  poem.  It  is  use- 
less to  ask  why  Mr.  Stevens  doesn't  give  us  a 
whole  crop  of  Peter  Quinces.  Doubtless  he 
would  if  he  could." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  O  28  '23  SOOw 

STEVENSON,  JOHN  ALFORD.  Constructive 
salesmanship,  principles  and  practices.  361p 
$3  Harper 

658  Salesmen  and  salesmanship  23-9514 
"The  author's  aim  has  not  been  to  assemble 
in  convenient  form  a  variety  of  clever  devices 
for  putting  over  sales,  but  to  offer  plans  of 
selling  whereby  prospects'  needs  are  studied 
in  order  to  find  the  specific  uses  they  may  have 
for   the   commodities   offered." — Preface 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:479   N    '23 

STEVENSON,       ROBERT       LOUIS.        Complete 

poems.   528p  $4  Scribner 

821  23-17137 

The    first    complete    collection    of    Stevenson's 
poems. 


"Stevenson  was  a  poet,  a  reckonable  poet. 
He  was  a  better  short-story  writer.  .  .  It 
is  astonishing,  after  all,  that  he  was  so  good 
a  poet  in  the  intervals  of  fecund  prose  crea- 
tion. He  was  a  casual  poet,  with  extraordinari- 
ly lucky  moments."  W:  R.  Benet 
+  Lit  R  p336  D  8  '23  900w 
"One  glaring  defect  stands  out  in  this  de- 
finitive edition  of  Stevenson's  poems  and  that 
is  the  lamentable  lack  of  notes." 

-\ NY  Times  p4  D  30  '23  1650w 

N  Y  Tribune  p24   N  25  '23  50w 
"That  the  verse  should  be  unequal  in  quality 
Is  a  matter  of  course,   but  a  very  large  propor- 
tion of  it  is  distinctly  worthv  of  preservation." 
H Outlook   135:644  D  12  '23   130w 

STEVENSON-HAMILTON,  JAMES.  Animal  life 
in  Africa;  bk.  1,  Carnivora,  with  chapters  on 
apes,  monkeys,  baboons  and  some  miscellan- 
eous types;  bk.  2,  Vegetarians;  bk.  3,  Miscel- 
laneous.  147p   il   $4   Button 

591.96     Zoology— Africa 
An    account    of     the    carnivora,     vegetarians, 

birds,  reptiles  and  fishes  of  Africa,   their  habits. 

range,   food,   etc. 


"Major  Stevenson-Hamilton  here  puts  his 
large  knowledge  of  wild  life  in  Africa  at  the 
disposal  of  both  general  reader  and  specialist. 
Much  information  is  given  regarding  ways  of 
living  and  general   habits." 

+    Boston    Transcript    plO    Mr   24    '23    500w 
Reviewed  by  A.  D.   Douglas 

Int    Bk    R    p442   My   '23   500w 

"A  most  interesting  and  useful  handbook  " 
Llewelyn   Powys 

+   Lit    R    p734    Je    2    '23    450w 


STEWART,    DONALD    OGDEN.      Aunt    Polly's 
story   of   mankind.      281p     il     $2     Doran 

817  23-17860 

A  satire  on  our  present-day  civilization.  Aunt 
Polly,  the  successful  wife  of  a  successful  banker» 
and  mother  of  a  successfully  brought-up  child, 
is  distressed  by  the  lack  of  respect  shown  by 
her  nephew  and  nieces  for  some  of  the  as- 
pects of  the  perfected  civilization  amid  which 
they  are  living,  and  to  correct  these  evil  tend- 
encies, undertakes  to  tell  them,  in  a  series  of 
carefully-planned  talks,  how  the  world  devel- 
oped from  the  "primordial  amoeba"  to  its  pres- 
ent perfect  state.  The  telling  brings  some  un- 
expected   results. 


"The  humor  of  Mr.  Stewart's  book  is  quite 
as  undeniable  as  it  was  in  his  first  book — the 
now  famous  'Parody  Outline  of  History.*  Never- 
theless, in  the  meantime  his  attitude  seems  to 
have  changed.  This  book  is  not  merely  fun. 
Its  ridicule  has  become  pointed  and  some  of 
its  arrows  are  distinctly  barbed.  He  has  ac- 
quired a  purpose  in  life."     D.  L.  M. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p5  N  24  '23  700w 

"With  all  due  deference  to  Mr.  Stewart's 
'message,'  the  portions  of  the  book  that  the 
reviewer  found  most  humorous  were  precisely 
those  where  he  left  the  children  most  to  them- 
selves and  did  not  compel  them  to  act  out 
either  Aunt  Polly's  or  Mr.  Stewart's  views. 
In  the  main,  however,  Mr.  Stewart  is  very  na- 
turally preoccupied  in  saying  what  he  wants  to 
say,  and  on  the  whole  he  says  it  excellently." 
J:   F.   Carter,  jr. 

-^ Lit  R  p334  D  8  '23  700w 

"Mr.  Stewart,  one  imagines,  will  not  make 
with  this  book  as  many  friends  as  the  previous 
two  volumes  brought  him.  But  he  must  know 
that  it  was  decidedly  worth  doing  and  that  the 
cries  of  distress  and  ill-concealed  torture  it 
arouses  are  the  best  of  evidence  that  it  was 
written    true."      H.    J.    Mankiewicz 

+   N    Y    Times    p9    Ja    13    '24    780w 

"It  is  a  very  funny  piece  of  work  and  reveals 
a  new  knack  of  Mr.  Stewart's — that  of  putting 
children  on  paper,  realistically."  Polly  Hyde- 
man 

N  Y  World  p7e  D  2  '23  1450w 

STILLMAN,     ALBERT      LEEDS.      Briquetting. 

466p    il    $6    Chemical    pub. 

662.8  Briquets   (fuel)  23-3599 

"Practical  methods,  concerned  larg:ely  with 
fuel  but  including  metal  wastes." — Pittsburgh 
Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:364    Jl    '23 

STIMSON,  FREDERIC  JESUP  (J.  S.  of 
'^    DALE,    pseud.).     American  Constitution  as  it 

protects  private  rights.  239p  $2.50  Scribner 
342.73     United  States— Constitution     23-15830 

This  book  is  concerned  with  the  Constitution 
as  it  affects  individual  rights— the  relations  of 
the  national  government  to  the  people,  to  the 
individual  citizen,  and  to  the  people's  rights 
and  liberties — the  whole  doctrine  of  freedom  and 
piotection  as  safeguarded  by  the  Constitution. 
Much  space  is  given  to  discussion  of  recent 
tendencies  toward  the  centralization  of  power 
in  the  federal  government,  which  the  author 
deplores,  and  to  the  amendments  both  passed 
and  proposed,  which  have  tended  in  this  direc- 
tion. 


"Present  contentions  are  masterfully  sup- 
ported or  refuted,  and  tomorrow's  trend  is  con- 
vincingly exposed.  As  one  reads  this  work, 
the  massive,  endurable  qualities  of  the  Consti- 
tution are  impressed  on  the  mind  and  one  realizes 
that,  whereas,  the  social  status  of  the  citizen 
should  never  be  the  subject  of  legislation,  the 
object  of  the  government  is  to  protect  and 
maintain    individual    rights."      H.    C.    L.,    jr. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p3    N    24    '23    1300w 

"Although  Mr  Stimson  writes  with  abundant 
knowledge  and  reasoning  power,  the  extent  to 
which  the  book  is  an  argument  detracts  not 
a  little  from  its  value  as  an  exposition.  And 
like    some    less    informed    writers    on    the    same 


496 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


ST  I M  SON,    F.    J. — Continuec; 

theme,  Mr  Stimson  does  not  make  it  clear 
whether  the  tendencies  that  he  deplores  are. 
so  to  speak,  merely  deplorable  or  whether  they 
are  actually  in  violation  of  the  constitution." 
1-  Springf'd    Republican    p6   N   5   '23   800w 

STIRLING,  ARTHUR,  pseud.  See  Sinclair,  U.  B. 

STIVEN,  FREDERIC   BENJAMIN.  In  the  organ 

lofts  of  Paris.   75p  il  $1  Stratford 

786.5       Organists.    Paris— Churches      23-8684 

The  writer,  who  is  director  of  the  School  of 
music  of  the  University  of  Illinois,  was  given 
the  privilege  of  entering  the  organ  lofts  of 
nearly  all  the  larger  churches  of  Paris  which 
are  usually  closed  to  the  general  public.  He 
comments  on  the  churches,  the  organs,  and  the 
great  organists  whom  he  met.  and  describes 
some  of  the  services  and  ceremonies  he  watched 
from    the    organ    loft. 


"A  little   book   of   quite   unusual   interest." 
+   Lit  R  p413  ^  29  '23  150w 

STOBART,  MRS  ST  CLAIR.  Ancient  lights; 
'  or,  The  Bible,  the  church,  and  psychic  sci- 
ence; an  attempt  to  restore  the  ancient  lights 
of  the  Bible  and  the  church;  with  an  introd. 
and  a  preface  by  Sir  Oliver  Lodge.  344p 
$3.50    Button     [7s  6d  K.  Paul] 

220.8  Spiritualism.  Psychical  research. 
Bible 
By  "ancient  lights"  the  author  means  the  evi- 
dence of  communication  between  this  world  and 
the  spirit-world,  the  psychic  experiences  of 
which  the  Bible  is  full.  She  challenges  the 
churches  with  having  lost  that  direct  touch 
with  the  spirit  which  was  so  felt  in  Biblical 
times  and  calls  on  them  to  realize  that  if  they 
are  to  regain  their  position  as  spiritual  leaders 
they  "must  become  receiving  stations  from 
which  they  will  transmit  to  the  multitude  who 
listen-in  messages  received  direct  from  the 
spirit-world."  She  goes  thru  with  the  historical 
parts  of  the  Old  and  New  Testaments  to  show 
how  strong  there  is  the  belief  in  and  reliance  on 
intercourse   with   a   spiritual   world. 


"The  book  is  worth  reading  as  the  earnest 
effort  of  one  who  is  fully  convinced  that  psy- 
chic phenomena  are  true  and  real,  and  it  will 
provoke  thought  over  not  a  few  passages  in 
the  Bible."     F.   W.   C. 

-f-    Boston  Transcript  p5  D  1  '23   650w 

"The  first  of  the  objects  of  the  book  [to 
remind  psychic  researchers  that  the  Bible  con- 
tains astoimding  evidence  of  communication 
with  the  Spirit  world]  is  successfully  accom- 
plished. It  is  doubtful  whether  the  second  half 
of  the  author's  object  [to  show  that  the 
churches  must  admit  divine,  or  at  least  Biblical' 
sanction  for  the  study  of  psychic  phenomena] 
will  meet  with  ,ts  much  success." 
H Lit    R    p260    N   17    '23    550w 

STOCKLEY,  CYNTHIA.     Ponjola.   362p  $2  Put- 
nam   [7s    6d    Constable] 

23-6556 
Sick  of  life,  a  beautiful  young  English  girl 
has  resolved  to  put  an  end  to  it  by  drowning 
herself  in  the  Seine.  On  the  eve  of  carrying 
out  her  resolve  she  accidentally  meets  a  young 
Rhodesian  whose  zest  for  life  and  happiness  in 
the  thought  of  his  approaching  marriage  give 
her  a  new  faith  in  human  natvire.  He  so 
interests  her  in  him.self  and  in  Soutli  Africa 
that  she  follows  him  there  the  next  year  under 
the  disquise  of  a  young  man  and  the  name  of 
Desmond.  She  finds  him  down  on  his  luclt, 
deserted  by  the  girl  he  loved  and  trying  to 
drink  himself  into  oblivion.  As  he  once  saved 
her.  so  she  now  saves  him.  with  the  inevitable 
happy  results.  The  life  of  the  veld  is  realis- 
tically described  and  thru  it  all  the  national 
drink,  ponjola,  flows  freely. 


"Miss   Stockley  has   told  an   exciting  and  an 
unusual  story  of  adventure." 

-t-   Boston   Transcript  p4  Ap   11  '23  320w 
Int    Bk    R    p68    N   '23   350w 
"A  tale  of  rapid  action,  vivid  characters,  and 
a   strong  emotional  interest."- 

4-  Lit  R  p73  S  22  '23  150w 
"In  spite  of  a  murder  trial,  and  one  or  two 
fairly  lively  incidents,  the  book  is  less  exciting 
than  are  the  majority  of  Miss  Stockley's  tales. 
It  is  not  particularly  plausible,  and  though  some 
of  the  descriptions  of  the  country  and  the  gold 
mines  are  interesting,  there  are  b.v  far  too  many 
of  them." 

h   N    Y   Times  pl7    Mr   25   "23   350w 

"It's  plumb  ridiculous,  but   absorbingly  inter- 
esting."  Isabel   Paterson 

-I-   N    Y   Tribune   pl8   Ap    8   '23   1300w 

Reviewed  by  E.  W.   Osborn 

N    Y    World    p8e   Ap   22    '23    300w 

Reviewed  by  R.  D.  Townsend 

Outlook  133:720   Ap  18  '23  70w 
Pittsburgh     Mo     Bui    28:277    Je    '23 
"There   are   touches   of   genuine    comedy,    and 
some  of  the  narrative  is  exciting.    Miss  Stockley 
has   a   gift."    Gerald   Gould 

+  —  Sat  R  135:375  Mr  17  "23  150w 
"Miss    Cynthia    Stockley    is    up    to    her   usual 
form.     Oh!   how  this  book  will  sell!" 
—  Spec   130:520   Mr   24   '23   90w 

"A   good  story   of  its  kind." 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Je  17  '23  360w 

STOKER,    BRAM.   Jewel  of  seven   stars.   311p  $2 

Harper 

"The  republication  of  this  romance  is  an 
interesting  experiment.  Some  years  ago  this 
Egyptian  mystery  novel  was  written  and  pub- 
lished and  somehow  missed  the  attention  it 
deserved.  The  author  was  Henry  Irving's  life- 
long manager  and  friend.  To-day,  with  new 
interest  awakened  in  Egyptian  archaeology,  its 
reissue  seems  timely.  It  deals  with  the  malefic 
mystery  lurking  in  the  tombs  of  the  Valley  of 
the  Kings.  An  Egyptologist  discovers  the 
miimmy  of  an  ancient  Egyptian  Queen  and 
endeavors   to   bring   her  back   to   life." — Lit  R 


"While  to  some  readers  it  may  seem  that 
the  suspense  is  somewhat  unduly  protracted, 
when  the  lid  of  the  mysterious  coffer  at  last 
lifts  slowly,  and  the  unearthly  light  generated 
within  flows  into  the  sarcophagus  where  Queen 
Tera  awaits  resurrection,  events  are  sufficiently 
swift  and  thrilling  to  satisfy  the  moat  Impa- 
tient."    F.    B. 

+  —  Boston  Transcript  p5  .Te  9  '23  550w 
"It  is  an  enthralling  tale,  one  of  the  kind 
that  one  sits  up  until  the  small  hours  to 
finish  and  then  dreams  strange  dreams.  The 
ending  is  perhaps  a  little  unsatisfactory  but 
thoroughly  in  keeping  with  the  character  of 
the  book." 

4-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily   News  p20   Ag 
26   '23   300w 
"It    is    a    good    mystery    tale,    not    so    surpris- 
ingly   good    as   a    story   of   weird   horror  as   was 
the    same    author's    sensational    'Dracula,'     but 
still    better    than    the    ordinary    run." 
-I-    Lit    R    p702   Je    26    "23    150w 
"A    vivid,    scientific    novel." 

-f    N    Y   Times   pifl   My   20   '23   280w 

STONE,  PAUL  MCDOWELL.  Electricity  and 
its  application  to  automotive  vehicles.  ("Van 
Nostrand's  automotive  texts)  844p  il  $4  Van 
Nostrand 

629.2        Automobiles — Electric         equipment 

23-5839 

"Deals  in  a  systematic  manner  with  start- 
ing, lighting,  ignition,  and  miscellaneous  elec- 
trical appliances,  giving  concrete  information  on 
Installation,  testing,  and  repair.  The  last  20 
chapters  contain  descriptions  and  wiring  dia- 
grams of  the  electrical  systems  used  on  various 
automobiles." — Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:358   Jl   '23 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


497 


STONE,  THORA  GUINEVERE.     England  under 

the  restoration  (1660-1688);  with  a  preface  by 

A.    F.    Pollard.    260p   $3.50    (10s   6d)    Longmans 

942.06  Great  Britain — History — Stuarts,  1603- 

1714  23-6051 

The  book,  which  is  volume  four  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  London  intermediate  sourcebooks  oi 
history,  consists  of  extracts  from  contemporary 
sources  of  English  history  for  the  period  from 
1660  to  1688.  The  sources  include  State  parpers, 
contemporary  histories  like  Clarendon's  and 
Burnet's,  Pepys's  and  Evelyn's  diaries,  Reres- 
by's  memoirs,  newspapers,  letters,  etc.  Con- 
tents: Political  history:  Constitutional  history; 
Ecclesiastical  history;  Kaval  history;  Social  and 
economic  history;  Trade  and  colonies;  Scotland 
and  Ireland;    Index. 


"Miss  Stone's  wcrk  leaves  little  to  be  desired 
in  such  a  book.  It  is  full  of  interesting  material 
of  almost  every  conceivable  description  from 
State  Papers  to  James  II.'s  visit  to  the  Chatham 
dockyard  and  the  commercial  value  of  New- 
foundland. It  differs  from  most  collections  of 
this  kind  in  its  references  to  manuscript  ma- 
terials, and  it  is,  in  little,  a  sort  of  introduction 
to  the  literature  of  the  Restoration  historically 
considered.  Indeed  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  it 
could  be  bettered  for  its  purpose." 

+   Am    Hist   R  29:170  O  '23  200w 
Nation    117:67   Jl   18    '23   30w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p202   Mr 
22    '23    150w 

STORK,  CHARLES  WHARTON,  tr.  Modern 
Swedish  masterpieces,  short  stories  selected 
and    translated.    257p    $2.50    Dutton 

23-11704 
Four  living  Swedish  authors  are  represented 
In  this  collection — Hjalmar  Soderberg,  Sigfrid 
Siwertz,  Verner  von  Heidenstam  and  Per 
Hallstrom.  Thirteen  of  Soderherg's  stories 
are  chosen,  four  of  Verner  von  Heidenstam 
and    two    each    of    the    other    two   authois 


"For  'Modern  Swedish  Masterpieces'  Mr. 
Stork  has  selected  stories  from  the  hands  of 
four  authors  now  living  and  prominent  in  Scan- 
dinavian literature.  Hjalmar  Soderberg,  now  in 
his  early  fifties,  has  been  called  the  Anatole 
FYance  of  Sweden,  and  in  truth,  he  has  much 
of  that  writer's  mastery  of  the  ironic.  'The 
F\ir  Coat'  given  here  is,  in  its  tenderness  and 
pathos,  as  good  as  anything  "In  the  book.  .  .  It 
is  not  likely  that  writers  of  such  strong  in- 
dividuality will  appeal  equally  to  the  general 
public.  It  is,  however,  probable  that,  among 
the  selections  here  inclvided,  most  lovers  of  the 
short  story  will  find  something  to  their  taste." 
S.   L.   R. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p4  S  8   '23  650w 

"Unfortunately,  Mr  Stork's  ability  to  recognize 
masterpieces  is,  judged  by  his  conduct  in  Ameri- 
can literary  life,  somewhat  open  to  question. 
Consequently,  one's  curiosity  as  to  significant 
activity  in  contemporary  Swedish  letters  re- 
mains unsatisfied." 

—  Dial   75:399  O  '23  150w 

Reviewed    by    Edwin    Muir 

Freeman    8:213    N   7    '23    1500w 
New    Repub    36:188    O    10    "23    200w 

"In  addition  to  this  book's  proving  beyond 
cavil  that  Sweden  possesses  at  least  four  writ- 
ers who  stand  among  the  leading  creators  of 
short  stories,  it  also  proves  that  Sweden  pos- 
sesses some  romantic  critics.  We  refer  particu- 
larly to  the  critic  who  dubbed  Hjalmar  Soder- 
berg the  Anatole  FVance  of  .Sweden."  Bi-uce 
Gould 

-f   N    Y  Tribune   p20   S   2   '23   600w 

"These  stories,  judged  together,  reveal  a  high 
degree  of  mastery — clear  grasp  of  an  episode 
or  an  idea,  firm  and  delicate  command  of  de- 
tail, a  sense  of  proportion,  clean-cut  artistic 
meddling;  whether  or  not  one  relishes  all  the 
subjects  Is  a  matter  of  taste.  But  it  must  be 
recognized  that  the  subjects  are  suitable  to  the 
form — a  highly-artificial  art-form,  which  easily 
produces  an   impression  of  the  exotic." 

+  Sprlngf'd   Republican  plO  O  24  '23  300w 


STORK,     CHARLES    WHARTON,     ed.     Second 
contemporary  verse  anthology.   208p  $3  Dutton 

811.08  American  poetry — Collections 
A  second  anthology  of  the  best  poems  from 
the  files  of  the  magazine  Contemporary  verse, 
1920-1923.  This  magazine  while  having  a  repu- 
tation for  hospifality  to  new  writers  has,  in  the 
words  of  the  editor,  a  "preference  for  simplic- 
ity and  direct  appeal  as  opposed  to  the  egotism 
of  the  futurists,  poems  with  the  appeal,  not  o! 
novelty,  but  of  imiversality;  poems  that  affirm, 
not  the  superiority  of  the  few,  but  the  kinship 
of  the   many." 


Bookm    58:339    N    '23    120w 
Dial   75:613  D   '23  170w 
"The   book  as  a   ipatter  of  fact  is  a  collection 
of   pleasant    ver.se,    neat    and    nice   and   easy   as 
eating  candy."     U.   H.   Lawrence 
+   Lit   R   p86   S  29  '23  2100w 
Nation    117:74G   D   26   '23   20w 
"A    careful    reading   of    the    'Assembly,'    and   a 
subjection  of  its  .'several  units  to  the  tests  estab- 
lished by  what  is  truly  great  in  English  poetry, 
leaves  this   collection  as  a  whole  very   far  short 
of    the    extravagant,  claim    made    for    it."    P.    A. 
Hutchi.son 

4-   N   Y  Times  pl2   S   16   "23  3000w 

Outlook   135:318   O   24  '23   80w 

STOWELL,   WILLIAM   AVERILL.  Wake  of   the 

setting   sun.    304p   $2    (7s    edt    Appleton 

23-7395 

A  mysterv  and  adventure  story,  its  scene  laid 
on  one  of  the  islands  off  the  coast  of  Lower 
California.  Alan  Lethbridge,  a  young  New  York 
doctor,  bound  for  San  Diego  and  a  month's 
deep-sea  fishing  is  caught  in  a  railway  wreck 
not  far  from  his  journey's  end,  with  a  beauti- 
ful young  woman  on  his  hands.  She  is  Paloma 
de  la  Guerra  whose  family  for  generations  had 
owned  the  island  of  Corona  del  Mar.  Alan's 
rescue  of  her  is  the  beginning  of  a  series  of  ad- 
ventures of  which  Paloma  is  the  center  and  the 
goal. 

"The  descriptions  are  mediocre,  the  char- 
acters none  too  definitely  drawn.  But  it  is 
an    entertaining  yarn." 

1-    Boston    Transcript   p4   Je    6    '23   300w 

"It  is  a  clever  and  original  story,  with  some 
distinctly  new  features,  and  the  outcome  of 
each  situation  is  quite  guess-proof  to  the  ordi- 
nary American  reader."  Edith  Leighton 
4-  N  Y  Tribune  p23  Ag  5  '23  450w 
"While  not  an  exceptional  work,  it  affords 
easy  reading  for  a  vacation  trip  or  leisure 
hours  at   home."  ,„„   .. 

Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  17    23  60w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup   p325  My 
10  '23  140w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:444  O   '23 

STRACHAN,  ROBERT  HARVEY.    Soul  of  mod- 
ern poetry.  259p  $2  Doran  r7s  6d  Hodder  &  S.] 
821.09     English     poetry— History    and     criti- 
cism 23-»59d 
"Although    he    intends    to    limit    his    study    to 
British    poets    who   have    written    since    the   be- 
ginning  of   this   century,    he   goes   back    for   the 
major    formative    influence    to  Wordsworth    and 
Meredith,     and    includes     in    Browning.     Francis 
Thompson    and    the    earlier    verse    of    Thomas 
Hardy    material    that    lies     outside    this    strict 
chronological  field.     Dr.  Strachan's  search  is  for 
'spiritual  values,'   interpretations  of  man  s  place 
in  the  scheme  of  things,  with  particular  atten- 
tion   to    ideas    of    individual    and    racial    immor- 
tality     In  other  words,  he  is  considering  poetry 
in  its  'teaching'  capacity."— Boston  Transcript 

"It  IS  alwavs  Instructive  to  see  literature 
weighed  in  scales  other  than  those  which  we 
are  accustomed  to  use;  and  Dr.  Strac^an  s  re- 
sults, incomplete  as  they  are,  constitute  at  least 
a  step  towards  a  more  comprehensive  appraisal 
of  two  decades  of  English  Poetry.  „  W  ^  N_ 
_| Boston  Transcript  p3  My  26  '23  520w 


498 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


STRACHAN,    R.     H. — Continued 

"By  his  quotations  Dr.  Strachan  demonstrates 
fairly  wide  reading  in  modern  poetry  and  gives 
evidence  of  artistic  taste:  but  many  of  his  gen- 
eralizations are  quite  valueless.  The  author  en- 
deavors to  he  detached  in  his  attitude,  but  he 
cannot  be  called  particularly  cogent  in  his  rea- 
soning. His  main  strength  is  an  aptitude  for 
quotations  well-chosen,  his  weakness  too  great 
a  reliance  on  quotations  for  fresh  texts  rather 
than  the  illustration  of  a  prose  analysis." 
f-   Lit    R   p791   Je   23   '23   480w 

"It  is  clearly  the  work  of  a  broad-minded  and 
enlightened  divine,  admirably  tolerant  and  ad- 
mirably keen,  in  his  own  way,  on  poetry;  but 
his  book,  though  it  will  doubtless  convince  those 
who  share  his  views,  is  a  perfect  gallimaufry  of 
confused  ideas."    F.   L.   L. 

-^ New  Statesman   20:434  Ja   13  '23   740w 

"Written  throughout  with  economy  of  words, 
but  with  utmost  clarity.  The  book  is  highly  to 
be  recommended  to  all  who  desire  to  widen  and 
deepen  their  knowledge  of  present  tendencies 
among  the  poets."  P.  A.  Hutchison 

+   N  Y  Times  p7  My  13  '23  1600w 
"The  flattery  of  these  youthful  poets,  repeated 
on    everv    hand,    and    tempered    by    no    critical 
judgment,    is   becoming   ridiculous,    and    if    it    is 
persisted  in  will  lead  to  a  revulsion  of  taste." 
—  Sat    R    134:992   D   30   "22    400w 
"There  is  thought  and  ability  in  the  treatment 
throughout,    but    the    writer   is    a   little    incHned 
to    drop    into    abstractions    and    vagueness    of 
phrase."  „„,  .^  „ 

-j The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p825  D  7 

•22  90w 

STRACHEY,  JOHN  ST  LOE.     Economics  of  the 
hour.    234p    $2    Putnam 

330.4    Economics.  Labor  and  capital 

23-14938 

Discussions  of  some  of  the  principles  and  prob- 
lems of  economics,  by  the  editor  of  the  Spec- 
tator. He  writes  as  a  defender  of  individual- 
ism, independence  and  freedom  and  pleads  for 
the  preservation  of  character  as  the  worker's 
greatest  asset.  Contents:  Commonsense  in 
economics:  The  cause  of  value;  Economic 
aphorisms;  The  partners  of  industry;  The  dread 
of  a  profit;  Men  and  machines;  "To  strike  or 
not  to  strike.  .  .  ;"  The  third  partner  in  industry; 
The  state  and  labour;  Dividing  the  cake;  Com- 
merce, labour,  and  the  creed  of  Christ:  Four 
questions  of  the  hour;  The  broken  link  of  com- 
merce: A  levy  on  capital — what  would  happen; 
Remedies  for  unemployment;  The  problem  of 
the  debt;  Charity,  true  and  false:  The  C.O.S.; 
The  old  poor  law;  The  new  poor  law. 

Bookm   58:484   D  '23   300w 
Boston   Transcript  p2  Ja  5  '24  250w 
Cleveland    p71    S    '23 
"  'Economics   of  the   Hour'   Mr.    Strachey  has 
called    his    latest    volume.    Economics    of    what 
hour?    one    cannot    refrain    from    asking,    after 
reading:    this    amazing    and    frequently    amusing 
congeries    of    eighteenth-century    comment    and 
judgment   on   twentieth-century  problems.     But 
the    book    is    important,    nevertheless,    and    de- 
mands   a    closer    analysis."      D.    E.    Lilienthal 

h  Nation   117:716  D  19   '23   620w 

"Mr.  Strachey's  'Economics  of  the  Hour'  is 
curiously  not  of  the  hour  and  is  essentially 
reactionary.  Mr.  Strachey's  thinking,  sound 
and  luminous  so  far  as  it  goes,  is  mainly  dom- 
inated by  nineteenth-century  individuali.sm,  ig- 
noring the  recent  tendency  toward  nation-wide 
organization  by  groups  which,  whether  for  good 
or  evil,  is  so  striking  a  product  of  'the  hour. 
His  writing  is  not  always  as  luminous  as  his 
thinking."     .T:    Corbin 

^ NY   Times  p5   O   21   '23   500w 

"Mr.  Strachey  is  a  delightful  writer  of  such 
casual  essays  as  are  included  in  this  book,  but 
he  -should  be  ashamed  of  himself  for  thinking' 
they  merit  the  dignity  of  volume  form."     J.   A. 

h    N   Y  Tribune  p23  D  2  "23  150w 

N    Y   World   pile   O   21   '23   340w 
"Mr.   Strachey,  who  has  all  the  world  for  his 
province  as  the  editor  of  a  great  weekly  paper, 
throws   light    on    the   dark    places   of   economics 


with  attractive  sense  and  clearness  and  a  cer- 
tain human  geniality  that  make  his  book  a  most 
refreshing  study  after  those  of  the  professors." 

+  Sat  R  136:471  O  27  '23  800w 
"Mr.  St.  Loe  Strachey  writes  this  volume 
with  that  lucidity  of  exposition  combined  with 
apt  and  vivid  illustration  which  we  associate 
with  his  work.  As  he  deals  with  them  the  most 
intricate    problems    become    simple." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p628    S 
27    "23    900w 

STRACHEY,  RAY,  pseud.  (MRS  RACHEL 
[COSTELLOE]  STRACHEY).  Marching  on. 
385p       $2       Harcourt 

23-14911 

"The  story  of  the  girlhood  and  married  life 
of  a  pioneer  feminist  against  the  background 
of  the  three  decades  before  the  Civil  War.  The 
heroine  grows  up  in  a  backwoods  Michigan 
family  of  almost  fanatical  religious  zeal,  runs 
away  to  a  pioneer  college  for  women,  and  is 
swept  into  the  abolitionist  movement  with  Gar- 
rison and  into  the  heroic  adventures  of  John 
Brown.  There  is  a  wealth  of  characters  and 
scenes;  The  book  is  pervaded  by  a  sense  of 
great  events  and  new  ideas  beginning  to  stir 
and  form  for  their  triumphant  march." — Pub- 
lisher's note 


"Miss  Strachey  has  attempted  a  difficult  task, 
to  make  a  period  which  for  most  of  us  is  as 
remote  as  the  Roman  Empire  live  again  with 
the  vitality  of  the  present,  and  to  a  surprising 
extent  she  has  succeeded.  In  the  principal 
character  a  real  personality  is  revealed.  Ex- 
cept in  the  case  of  John  Brown,  of  whom  there 
is  a  masterly  sketch,  the  male  characters  are 
not  as  artfully  drawn.  The  style  is  even  and 
free  from  embellishments  quite  admirably  suited 
to  the  narrative.  Without  being  a  great  book 
it  is  one  not  lightly  passed  over  or  soon  for- 
gotten."    Drake    de    Kay 

-\ Lit   R   pl83  O  27  '23  600w 

Reviewed  by  F.   G.   Villard 

Nation  117:493  O  31  '23  650w 

"The  opening  chapters  give  but  slight  indica- 
tion of  the  absorbing  interest  that  develops 
later,  but  those  who  read  the  book  through  will 
be   amply   rewarded." 

+    N   Y  Times  pl4  D  16  '23  380w 

"The  author's  fidelity  to  facts  is  self-evident. 
She  has  accomplished  a  staggering  task  In 
masterly  fashion.  It  is,  on  the  whole,  mag- 
nificent, but  I  doubt  if  it  is,  strictly  speaking, 
a  novel.  She  has  not  transmuted  her  material, 
but  she  has  in  no  wise  distorted  it.  It  is  a 
notable  recreation,  if  not  quite  a  creation.  .  . 
Mrs.  Strachey  has  not  the  graphic  touch.  But 
she  has  a  notable  power  of  narrative  and 
synthesis.  As  a  novelist  she  is  a  first-class 
historian."     Isabel   Paterson 

_|1  _  N    Y   Tribune  p22   O  7  '23   820w 

"In  spite  of  the  flaws,  one  gets  from  this 
book  a  certain  comprehension,  the  growth  and 
development  of  Abolition  set  in  its  proper  back- 
ground, the  turmoil  of  the  two  decades  before 
the    Civil    War." 

+   N    Y    World    p7e    N    25    '23    580w 
Outlook  135:551  N  28  '23  90w 

"Miss  Strachey  is  to  be  highly  praised  for 
"Marching  On.'  She  has  not  scorned  a  his- 
torical period  which  has  none  of  the  surface 
indications  of  a  popular  theme.  Nor  has  she 
yielded  to  the  temptation  to  romanticise  what 
actually  was  a  stern  and  harsh  era,  to  make  it 
a  pleasant  stage  for  the  sentimental  exchanges 
of  lay   figures." 

+  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  N  25  '23  600w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:481    N   '23 

STRATTON,  GEORGE  MALCOLM.  Anger:  its 
religious  and  moral  significance.  277p  $2.25 
Macmillan    [8s    6d    Allen    &   U.] 

201  Religion — Psycholog^^  Anger  23-4742 
A  changing  psychology  has  altered  our  at- 
titude toward  the  emotions.  WTiere  once  they 
were  regarded  as  mere  disturbers  of  intel- 
lectual peace,  it  is  now  recognized  that  ideas 
derive    their    power    from    the    emotion    behind 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


499 


them;  it  is  the  emotion  which  makes  the 
idea  dynamic.  Having  shown  the  effect  which 
emotions  have  upon  life  and  conduct  the  au- 
thor goes  on  to  consider  in  particular  the  in- 
fluence of  one  of  these  emotions — anger,  the 
moral  and  social  purposes  which  it  serves,  and 
how  it  may  be  directed  for  good.  He  shows 
that  anger  is  at  once  an  ally  and  a  foe  of  the 
moral  life  and  examines  the  part  that  anger 
and  its  treatment  has  played  in  the  great 
religions    of    the    world. 


Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  3  '23  420w 
J   Religion   3:332  My  '23  40w 
"Commendable    for    its    catholicity    of    spirit, 
Judicial    temper,    and    fidelity    to    the    concrete 
facts  of  human  life."  E:  L.  Schaub 
-t-  J   Religion  3:429  Jl  '23  880w 
"Professor    Stratton's     style     possesses     con- 
siderable   literary     merit,     and    his    scholarship 
is  beyond  cavil,   yet  his  power  of  analysis  does 
not  reach  an  equal  height.    He  seems  to  be  too 
ready   to   reach   a   conclusion    before   thoroughly 
examining  all   the   factors   that   may   enter   into 
a   situation."    A.    A.    Roback 

H Lit   R   p718    My   26    '23   lOOOw 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup   p532  Ag 
9  '23  2000W 

STREET,   JULIAN    LEONARD.     Cross-sections. 

314p  $2  Doubleday 

23-13189 

Nine  short  stories  reprinted  from  magazines. 
The  first  story.  Living  up  to  Letchwood,  is  a 
satire  on  the  popular  periodical  of  more  than 
a  million  readers  and  its  highly  colored  serials. 
The  last.  The  jazz  baby,  is  a  relentless  carica- 
ture of  the  ways  of  the  jazz  age.  The  other 
stories  are:  A  voice  in  the  hall;  The  bride  of 
Boreas;  The  Englishman;  The  silk  hat;  The 
bird  of  Servia;   The   lost   Columbine;   Hands. 


Booklist  20:59  N  '23 
"A  collection  of  his  best  short  stories  promises 
something  worth  while  even  to  a  public  which 
has  usually  little  interest  in  collections  of  short 
stories.  He  possesses  an  enviable  gift  of  satire, 
and  a  restraint  in  using  it  which  makes  it  often 
a  formidable  weapon.  In  this  collection  of  short 
stories  he  finds  opportunity  to  satirize  a  large 
part  of  our  modern  behavior  and  our  modern 
foibles."     D.    L.    Mann 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  S  22  '23  I350w 
Reviewed   by   H.    I.    Gilchrist 

Int    Bk    R   p66   N   '23   490w 
"Mr.   Street's  practiced  urbane  hand  is  at  its 
best    in    such    short    stories    as    the    nine    which 
make  up   thL-^  volume." 

+  Lit  R  p72  S  22  '23  150w 
"This  collection  of  Julian  Street's  short 
stories,  or  rather  expanded  anecdotes,  gives  evi- 
dence of  an  amazingly  apt  gift  of  running  com- 
ment on  the  superficial  aspects  of  things.  They 
are  deft  and  workmanlike,  almost  too  much  so." 

H NY  Times  pl4  S  9   '23  600w 

"His  method  is  deft,  assured  and  somehow 
continuously  original.  Mr.  Street  seems  willing 
to  go  to  no  end  of  bother  to  get  enough  com- 
plications in  his  story  to  hold  one's  interest 
vmtil  the  end."     Bruce  Gould 

-f-   N   Y  Tribune  p8  S  23   '23   780w 

STRIBLING,      THOMAS      SIGISMUND.        Fom- 

bombo.  Slip  $1.90     Century 

23-12967 

"Mr.  Babbitt's  first  cousin,  Thomas  Straw- 
bridge,  an  American  'drummer,'  packs  his  grip 
with  samples  of  hardware,  including  arms  and 
ammunition,  and  sets  off  to  Venezuela  to  sell 
guns  and  other  articles  of  commerce  to  all  who 
will  buy.  General  Fombombo  is  the  top  dog  in 
the  perpetual  revolution  at  the  moment,  and  it 
is  to  this  worthy's  Spanish-American  Utopia 
that  Strawbridge  finds  his  way.  Swiftly 
enough  adventures  follow.  He  participates  in 
a  battle  or  two,  falls  in  love  with  the  dictator's 
wife,  and  becomes  so  thoroughly  worked  up 
over  the  situation  that  he  even  forgets  to  quote 
his  favorite  poet,  'Edgar  Z.  Best,'  on  home 
towns  and  the  like." — Lit  R 


"It  is  a  rattling  good  adventure  story  that 
Mr.  Stribling  has  written,  skilfully  handled,  aJid 
with  more  than  a  little  acidulous  comment  upon 
the  worship  of  the  great  god  Trade  by  travel- 
ing salesmen  and  other  Americans."  Herschel 
Brickell 

-I-  Lit  R  p66  S  22  '23  400w 
"The   story    is   written    with    a   certain    gusto; 
the   comic   scenes  are  drawn   with   the   joy  of  a 
funmaker;    the    narrative    is    skillfully    planned 
with   melodramatic   surprises."      Burton   Rascoe 
+   N  Y  Tribune  p5  S  23  '23  900w 
"The    story    holds    the    fixed    attention    of   the 
reader.      The    situations    have    grim   humor,    but 
the    publisher's    description    of    the    novel    as    'a 
rollicking    comedy'    is    far    fiom    apt:    it    comes 
nearer    being    a    painful    melodrama.        Human 
charity    forbids    us   to   accept    it   as   a   complete 
presentation  of  Latin-American  life  and  charac- 
ter." 

h  Outlook    135:234    O    10    "23    250w 

"  'Fombombo'     is     delightfully    full    of    thrills 
and   plots,    fights,    thefts,    blood,    jokes;    but   its 
irony   is   more   obvious."     Gerald    Gould 
+  Sat    R    N    24   '23    320w 

Springf'd    Republican   p7a   D  2   '23   300w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p709    O 
25   '23   150w 

STRINGER,    ARTHUR    JOHN    ARBUTHNOTT. 

City  of  peril.     317p   $2  Knopf 

23-2811 

Woodruff,  a  man  of  means  fond  of  nothing 
but  amusement,  is  suddenly  stirred  to  action 
and  hard  work  when  Marvin  Stillwell  receives 
the  fatal  scrap  of  paper  signed,  "The  Hammer 
of  God."  He  determines  to  unearth  the  villains. 
In  the  solving  of  the  mystery  there  are  many 
adventures,  with  New  York  for  their  back- 
ground. The  scenes  change  quickly  from  the 
stock  exchange  to  a  second-hand  book  shop, 
thence  to  an  ugly  old  houseboat  on  the  East 
river  and  end  with  a  fight  on  a  .tenement  roof. 
A  beautiful  girl,  who  seems  the  very  contradic- 
tion of  her  sordid  surroundings,  adds  the  flavor 
of  romance  to  the  tale. 


Booklist   20:60   N   '23 


"One  must  confess  that  for  an  amateur  sleuth 
Rebbie   Woodruff    gets    on    the    right    trail    with 
amazing   celerity.    It   seems    that    there   are   de- 
cided weak  spots  in  Mr.   Stringer's   story." 
—  Boston  Transcript  p5  F  17  '23  330w 

"As  a  detective  story  'The  City  of  Peril'  lacks 
reality.  There  Is  an  unsatisfactory  sense  of  pass- 
ing back  and  forth  over  the  same  ground  with 
only  slight  variation.  It  is  too  bad,  for  there 
are  some  excellently-thought-out  situations." 
\-  Int   Bk   R  p54  Mr  '23  230w 

"It  seems  a  great  pity  that  he  should  waste 
his  efforts  upon  so  strained  a  story  as  this,  in 
which  crooks,  anarchists,  millionaires,  and 
lovely  ladies  pursue  one  another  through  the 
East"  Side  and  other  less  lowly  centres  of  Ufe. 
As  a  mystery  story  'The  City  of  Peril'  does 
not  follow  the  best  traditions;  still,  it  may  be 
recommended  as  a  moderately  entertaining 
means  of  passing  an  hour." 

1-   Lit    R   p632   Ap   21    '23   230w 

"Arthur  Stringer  hurries  his  story  along  with 
an  incredible  swiftness— a  swiftness  that  is  at 
once  his  charm  and  his  salvation.  If  he  were 
to  give  us  time  to  think  between  murders,  we 
might  find  that  he  had  been  guilty  of  grave 
technical  errors;  but  he  is  too  wise  to  allow  us 
a  moment    for   sober   reflection." 

^ NY  Times  pl4   F  4  '23   520w 

ST  ROB  EL,  H  El  N  RICH.    German  revolution  and 
2  after;  its  disasters  and  its  hopes;  tr.  by  H.  J. 

Stenning.     320p    $4    Seltzer   [12s  6d   Jarrolds] 
943      Germany— Politics      and      government. 
Socialism    in    Germany  [23-12059] 

"For  a  summary  of  four  and  a  half  years 
of  German  history,  from  the  military  collapse 
of  the  summer  of  1918  to  the  entrance  of  the 
French  into  the  Ruhr  last  January,  and  for 
a  picture  of  German  conditions  in  the  present 
critical  hour,  there  is  no  other  book  accessible 
to  the  American  public  that  can  quite  ap- 
proach this   study  from  the  hand  of  one  of  the 


500 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


STROBEL,  HEINRICH — Continued 
leaders  of  German  Socialism.  .  .  The  book  is 
in  purpose  a  study  of  the  failures  and  accom- 
plishments of  the  Socialist  movement  since  the 
fall  of  the  Hohenzollern.  But  it  rises  far  above 
the  partisan  level  to  become  an  objective  his- 
tory. The  author  was  for  many  years  one  of 
the  editors  of  the  Berlin  Voncarta,  as  well  as 
a  member  of  the  Prussian  Diet,  over  which 
body  he  presided  for  a  short  time  after  the 
revolution.  He  was  affiliated  with  the  Inde- 
pendent Socialists,  and  the  opening  chapters 
of  his  story  develop  a  sharp  criticism  of  the 
policies  and  tactics  of  the  Majority  Socialists 
during-   the   war  and   after." — Lit   R 


"  'The  German  Revolution  and  After'  merits 
reading-  by  all  who  would  understand  the  spirit 
of  present-day  Germany  and  acquire  a  knowl- 
edge of  the  various  forces  that  are  now  seek- 
ing to  gain  the  upper  hand  in  that  country. 
Even  though  it  is  written  from  a  strongly  So- 
cialistic bias,  the  author  has  succeeded  in  giv- 
ing VIS  information  which  is  nowhere  else  easily 
available    in    English."     O.    McK.,    jr. 

-f  Boston    Transcript    p8    D    5    '23    llOOw 

"Its  comprehensiveness  and  impartiality  dif- 
ferentiate it  from  the  great  mass  of  German 
after-war  literature  which  sets  out  to  be  his- 
tory and  quickly  reveals  itself  as  apologia  and 
polemic."     Simeon   Strunsky 

-f  Lit  R  p749  Je  9  '23  850w 

"An  excellent  account  of  the  German  Revo- 
lution, very  well  translated.  It  is  well  worth 
reading  by  those  who  wish  to  understand  the 
trend  of  German  domestic  politics  during  the 
last  four  years." 

+  Sat   R  135:667  My  19  '23   330w 
Spec    131:361    S    15    '23    220w 

"His  book,  with  considerable  limitations,  will 
be  a  useful  companion  to  students  of  these 
matters,  though  it  should,  of  course,  only  be 
used  side  by  side  with  books  representing  other 
points    of   view." 

-\ The  Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p238   Ap 

12    '23    950w 

STRODE,    MURIEL    (MRS   SAMUEL    D.    LIEB- 
»    ERMAN).     At   the    roots   of   grasses.     142p   $2 
Moffat 

811  23-10046 

Poems  which  have  in  them  something  sug- 
gestive of  Whitman.  "Her  moods  are  many 
and  they  are  full  of  intensity.  She  has  enor- 
mous zest  for  life  and  great  reservoirs  of 
spiritual  strength — an  inexhaustible  sense  of 
creative  power.  Her  self  is  one  vast  longing 
for  completeness,  to  encompass  the  whole,  to 
establish  union  in  herself  with  all  that  lives 
and  moves  and  breathes.  Throughout  the 
poems  there  is  an  unbroken  thread  of  mysti- 
cism, of  striving  for  cosmic  consciousness." — 
N   Y   Times 


"The  little  wisps  of  beauty,  each  one  of  which 
would   give   us   a   moment   of  happiness    if    met 
alone,    fade    into    monotony   when    one    hundred 
and    fifty   are    ranged    side    by   side." 
-j Bookm    58:340   N    '23   120w 

"The  cadences  are  generally  well-modulated 
and  the  symbolism,  though  not  very  varied,  is 
clear  and  often  striking.  A  little  more  sim- 
plicity and  avoidance  of  unusual  words  and 
words  of  unusual  meaning  and  the  volume 
would  deserve  unqualified  praise;  as  they  are 
the  verses  fall  little  below  .^iome  of  Walt  Whit- 
man's best-loved  passages."    N.  H.  D. 

H Boston    Transcript    p4    S   10    '23    900w 

"Here  is  watered  Whitman  with  a  da.<;h  of 
Tagore.  She  Is  always  talking  about  'urges,' 
and  she  is  too  much  identified  with  Forces  of 
Nature,  and  all  that,  not  to  become  tiresome." 
J:    V.    A.    Weaver 

—  Int    Bk    R    p38    O    '23    380w 

"Here  is  urgent  poetry— poetry  that  had  to 
get  Itself  written  and  would  not  wait — poetry 
that  carries  within  it  a  world  of  inescapable 
beauty  and  power."    Mary  Siegrist 

+   N    Y   Times   pl6   D   23   '23   2550w 


STRONG,  EDWARD  KELLOG,  and  UHR- 
BROCK,  RICHARD  S.  Job  analysis  and  the 
curriculum;  with  special  reference  to  the 
training  of  printing  executives.  (Personnel 
research  ser.)  146p  $2  Williams  &  Wilkins 
655     Printing  23-3583 

"The  analysis  seems  to  me  to  be  exhaustive 
and  the  curriculum  based  on  it  admirable  in 
design  and  remarkable  in  its  success  in  deal- 
ing with  the  different  problems  of  getting  what 
needs  to  be  done  into  the  time  requirements 
of  a  four  year  course.  (F.  W.  Hamilton,  sec- 
retary of  the  Committee  on  education.  United 
Typothetae  of  America)" — Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui  28:423  O  '23 

STRONG,   LEONARD  ALFRED  GEORGE.  Dub- 
lin  days.     61p    $1.25     Boni  &   Liveright 

821  23-9075 

Simple  and  homely  poems,  some  in  racy  Irish 

brogue.      They    have    an    engaging   freshness    of 

thought     and     language     and     a     never     failing 

rhythm. 


"The  book  is  a  slim  one,  but  compact  of 
charm  and  gaiety,  those  who  love  poetry  will 
love  it — and  some  who  think  they  don't  might 
'learn  different'  if  they  would  give  it  a  try."  M. 
L.  Franklin 

-4-  Ind  110:348  My  26  '23  300w 

"It  is  to  be  wondered  whether  or  not  L.  A.  G. 
Strong  is  not  a  little  too  diverting.  Certainly 
he  has  developed  that  Irish  raciness  of  utter- 
ance that  manifests  itself  in  the  more  collo- 
quial poems  of  James  Stephens  to  its  fullest 
extent.  .  .  The  more  serious  stanzas  in  the 
volume  recede  into  insignificance  beside  those 
employing  Irish  idioms." 

H Lit    R   p691   My  12  '23   600w 

"  'Dublin  Days,'  particularly  the  portion  of  it 
spoken  in  brogue,  is  a  gem  of  lingo  and  delight. 
The  ideas  are  brand  new;  the  speech  is  real; 
when  a  point  has  been  made,  even  if  it  was 
made  in  the  third  line,  the  poet  stops;  Mr. 
Strong  is  always  merry  and  unafraid."  Mark 
Van  Doren 

-f   Nation    116:602   My   23   '23   lOOw 

"There  is  a  world  of  shrewd  humor  and  of 
satire  packed  into  these  poems.  They  are  full 
of  the  inevitableness  of  fate  and  of  the  ines- 
capable necessity  of  things.  It  is  poetry  full  of 
sharp-edged,  rock  bottom  sincerity.  Strong 
etches  his  characters  boldly  with  broad,  unfor- 
getable  brush  strokes.  They  are  saturated  with 
the  crude,  homely  wisdom  of  the  soil."  Mary 
Siegrist 

4-  N  Y  Times  plO  My  6  '23  850w 

"  'Dublin  Days'  is  one  of  the  most  delightful 
books  of  verse  we  have  seen  for  many  a  day. 
By  reading  L.  A.  G.  Strong  one  realizes  how 
natural  and  easy  it  is  to  write  poetry  as  it 
should  be  written,  uncomplicated  in  figure,  hu- 
man in  speech  and  smooth  in  rhythm."  Milton 
Raison 

-I-  N   Y  Tribune  p25  My  6  '23  250w 

"In  this  thin  volume,  as  unpretentious  In  con- 
tent as  it  is  in  appearance,  are  combined  real 
poetic  insight  and  an  epigrammatic  terseness 
of  expression  that  is  wholly  spontaneous.  Real- 
istic humor  and  the  mystic's  sense  of  latent 
poetry  all  about  him — these  qualities  that  have 
permanently  endeared  Ireland  to  the  world,  are 
seldom  combined  so  unaffectedly  in  these  days 
of  conscious  poetic  striving,  or  with  the  sug- 
gestion of  more  vitality  in  reserve." 

-f  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Jl  8  '23   440w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:412  Jl  '23 

STUART,    GRAHAM    HENRY.      Latin    America 
a    and    the     United    States.      (Century    political 
science    ser.)      404p     $3.75     Century 
327.72    Latin     America— Foreign     relations — 
United    States.     United    States— Foreign    re- 
lations—Latin  America  22-19530 
"The    form    of   the   title,    'Latin    America   and 
the   United   States,'    betrays   quite   properly   the 
emphasis   in    the   book   itself.     It    is   a    study   of 
the  Hispanic   American  countries  and  their   re- 
lations   with    the    United    States,    rather    than 
a   history    of   Northern    American    diplomacy    in 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


50 ; 


the  Western  Hemisphere.  It  is  also  a  text- 
Dook,  aimed  primarily  at  college  classes,  but 
It  is  very  readable,  and  should  prove  interest- 
ing and  valuable  to  the  general  pulilic.  Three- 
fifths  of  the  space  is  given  to  the  countries 
about  the  Caribbean  Sea  and  Gulf  of  Mexico, 
and  about  a  hundred  pages  to  Argentina,  Brazil, 
and   Chile." — Yale   R 


Booklist  19:178  Mr  '23 
Bookm    57:343   My  '23   120w 

"It  is  unfortunate  that  the  opening  chapters, 
which  lay  the  foundations  for  his  subsequent 
review  of  our  diplomatic  relations  with  South 
Anierlca,  fail  to  reach  the  standard  set  by  those 
in  which  he  treats  his  subject  more  specific- 
ally. .  .  Dealing  more  in  detail  with  the  recent 
history  of  the  diplomatic  relations  existing  be- 
tween the  United  States  and  the  principal 
South  American  powers  Dr.  Stuart  is  at  his 
best."     \V.    P.    Cresson 

H Lit    R   p64   S   22   '23   700w 

"For  the  accuracy  of  the  material  and  the 
impartiality  of  its  presentation,  the  book  will 
be  welcomed  by  all  those  who  desire  to  gain 
a  broad  view  of  the  general  field  of  Pan- 
American    relations." 

+   Springf'd    Republican   p6  Je  25   '23   200w 

"The  book  is  based  on  extensive  reading  in  the 
scattered  literature  on  the  subject,  and  careful 
utilization  of  most  of  the  available  printed  docu- 
mentary sources.  The  survey  is  necessarily 
brief,  yet  well-balanced  in  form  and  in  judg- 
ment and  generally  accurate."  C.  H.  Haring 
-f  Yale   R  n  s  13:180  O  '23  400w 

STUART,  WILLIAM.  Potato;  Its  culture,  uses, 
history  and  classification.  (Lipplncott's  col- 
lege texts;  agriculture)  518p  11  $3  (12s 
6d)   Lippincott 

635.121      Potatoes  23-7980 

"A  practical  book  on  syccessful  methods  of 
potato  production  in  America.  The  author  is 
a  horticulturist,  with  the  United  States  depart- 
ment   of    agriculture." — Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui 


Pittsburgh   Mo   Bul   28:420  O  '23 

SUDERMANN,  HERMANN.    Book  of  my  youth; 

tr.  by  Wyndham  Harding.  394p  $2.25  Harper 
B    or   92  23-8968 

The  German  dramatist  and  novelist  tells  here 
the  story  of  his  childhood  and  youth.  Born  in 
1857  in  East  Prussia,  of  poor  parents,  he  served 
a  term  of  apprenticeship  to  a  chemist  before 
he  was  enabled  to  enter  the  gymnasium  and 
later,  Konigsberg  university.  His  student  days 
and  the  years  of  varied  experience  that  fol- 
lowed, all  his  dreamy  youth  indeed,  are  clearly 
revealed  as  a  period  of  initiation  into  his  art. 
On  the  closing  page  of  his  autobiography  he 
has  become  the  editor  of  a  paper;  his  novels 
and  plays  are  still  in  the  distance. 


Booklist  20:19  O  '23 
"The  first  part  of  the  book,  when  early  mem- 
ory is  squeezed  for  every  drop  of  recollection, 
Is  a  beautifully  written  tale.  It  might  be  fiction, 
and  as  such  is  above  0.  great  majority  of  the 
popular  biographical  novels." 

-f  Bookm  58:87  S  '23  220w 
Cleveland  p80  S  '23 
"Here  life  is  looked  at  with  sufficient  detach- 
ment to  n^ake  it  valuable  and  with  sufficient 
wit  to  erive  it  relish.  Sudermann  is  gifted  with 
a  selective  wisdom  which  makes  every  incident 
a  dramatic  contribution." 

-I-  Dial  75:203  Ag  '23  120w 
"Things  sift  through  his  fingers  when  they 
might  be  moulded  solidly  into  better  form. 
Long-sustained  passages  are  few.  yet.  taken 
chapter  by  chapter  and  episode  by  episode,  the 
volume  is  arresting  and  entertaining  through- 
out." H:   B    Fuller 

H Freeman   7:475   Jl  25  '23   1500w 

Reviewed  by  R.   M.   Lovett 

New    Repub  35:210  Jl  18  '23   720w 
"It  is.   throughout,  a  beautiful,  simple,  human 
story,   filled  with   tragic,    sad,   pathetic   and  ro- 
mantic  episodes,    each   quite  as   moving  as   the 


finest  scenes  in  the  great  novelist's  and  dram- 
atist's   works    of    imagination."    Burton    Rascoe 

-f   N   Y  Tribune  pl7  Je  24  '23  1400\v 
"  'The    Book    of    My    Youth'    is    a    fine,     sad 
book."  L:  Weitzenkorn 

-f-  N  Y  World  pl9e  Jl  1  '23  1200w 
"  'The  Book  of  My  Youth'  is  more  valuable 
as  a  portrayal  of  environment  than  of  the  ad- 
ventures ol  youthful  genius;  in  fact,  Suder- 
inann's  boyhood,  while  rendered  distressing  by 
his  sensitiveness  and  imaginativeness  and  the 
difficulties  that  he  encounteied  in  obtaining  an 
education,  presents  few  marked  departures  from 
the  normal  experences  of  a  boy  of  his  age  and 
class.  But  in  the  mingling  of  psychology  with 
objective  pictures  it  is  a  revealing  and  graphic 
work." 

4-   Springf'd   Republican  pl6  Je  13  '23  880w 
Wis    Lib    Bul   19:443   O  '23 

SULLIVAN,    EDMUND    J.    Line:    an   art   study. 
'    190p  11  $3.75  Scribner  [10s  6d  Chapman  &  H.] 
741  Drawing  [23-7354] 

"The  purpose  of  his  book  is  to  explain  'that 
drawing  is  so  simple  that  a  child  can  do  it,' 
and  to  prepare  it  as  a  pleasant  task  for  a  leisure 
hour,  more  fascinating  than  patience,  solitaire, 
or  even  bridge.  As  regards  the  technique  of 
line,  Mr.  Sullivan  seems  chiefly  concerned,  in 
this  book,  to  explain  the  surface  uses  of  line — 
as  tone,  local  colour,  surface  modelling,  fine  and 
broad  lines,  effects  of  light,  and  so  on." — The 
Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 

Booklist  20:128  Ja  '24 
"The  point  of  it  all  is  that  the  return  to  line 
drawing  is  also  a  return  to  old  and  good  prin- 
ciples of  bookmaking.  And  towards  that  also 
Mr.  Sullivan's  book  should  be  a  help."  Frank 
Weitenkampf 

+  Lit  R  p682  My  12  '23  700w 
"Mr.  Sullivan's  exposition  of  the  theory  and 
practice  of  perspective  is  made  lucid  by  excel- 
lent diagrams  and  is  followed  by  chapters, 
perhaps  the  most  important  in  the  book,  on  the 
drawing  of  solid  objects,  first  in  outline  and  la- 
ter under  conditions  of  shade  and  shadow,  on 
figure  drawing  and   aerial  perspective." 

+   New    Statesman    20:730   Mr   24   '23    650w 

Spec    130:152    Ja    27   '23    lOOw 

"A    practical    guide,    philosopher,    and    friend, 

Mr.   Sullivan   must  be  a   pleasant   teacher.   This 

book  suggests  his  value  as  a  craftsman,  sunning 

in  the  mysteries  and  science  of  his  craft;  as   a 

thoughtful   student  of  inner  causes   and  as  one 

whom  sympathy   and  humour   have  kept  young 

in  heart."  ,    .  ,     „  ^^  -r     ■,-, 

+  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  pl9  Ja  11 

•23    1250W 

SUMMERS,  A.  LEONARD.  Anthracite  and  the 
anthracite  industry.  (Pitman's  common  com- 
modities and  industries)   126p   il  $1  Pitman 

553.2  Coal 
The  book  concerns  itself  with  the  coal  fields 
of  South  Wales  and  their  picturesqueness;  with 
life  at  the  collieries;  with  the  nature  of  anthra- 
cite and  its  relation  to  economics  and  efficiency 
and  its  uses  in  the  industries;  with  smoke  abate- 
ment   and    coal    conservation.     Index. 

"The  author  seems  to  be  a  'barker'  for  an- 
thracite stoves  as  opposed  to  all  other  heating 
devices."  „  .^^  „„ 

Lit  R  pl66  O  28  '22  30w 

"If  there  are  inquiring  minds  desirous  of  at- 
taining full  and  peculiar  information  on  an- 
thracite, this  work  will  surely  satisfy  the  most 
exigent."^  Y  Times  p4  F  18  '23  120w 

SUMNER,  GUY  LYNN.  Abraham  Lincoln;  as 
a  man  among  men.    31p  75c  Harper 

B   or   92   Lincoln,    Abraham  22-10634 

Bv  way  of  introduction  the  booklet  contains 
a  poem  bv  Douglas  Malloch.  "If  I  should  carve 
a  Lincoln."  The  subject  matter  itself  was  origi- 
nally an  address  delivered  before  the  Kiwanis 
club  of  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  and  its  purpose 
Is    to    throw    into    relief    Lincoln's    relations    to 


502 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


SUMNER,  GUY  LYNN — Continued 
Stephen  A.  Douglas — resulting  in  the  Lincoln- 
Douglas  debates — and  to  Edwin  M.  Stanton  who, 
as  Lincoln's  secretary  of  war,  gradually  changed 
his  feeling  for  Lincoln  from  contempt  to  affec- 
tion. 


"Mr.  Sumner's  little  monograph  does  not  pre- 
tend to  be  dispassionate,  naturally;  but  it  avoids 
the  fulsomeness  of  mere  eulogy.  The  style  is 
clear  and  easy.  And  the  matter  is  well  chosen 
to  illustrate  a  special  and  vital  point  in  Lin- 
coln's character  and  career."  Isabel  Paterson 
-f  N  Y  Tribune  pl7  F  11  '23  llOOw 
N   Y  World  p7e  F  11  '23  200w 

SUTHERLAND,     JOAN,      Enchanted     country. 
319P   $2   Doran  ,^^_^^^^ 

Love  at  first  sight  with  true  instinct  and 
unwavering  faith  is  the  theme  of  this  story. 
Phyllis,  an  English  girl  travelling  in  the  West, 
on  the  occasion  of  a  train  hold-up  takes  pity 
on  the  wounded  and  fettered  leader  of  the 
gang  and  loses  her  heart  to  him.  This  leader, 
also  an  Englishman  of  aristocratic  connections, 
had  left  his  country  under  a  cloud  and  in 
desperate  mood  turned  outlaw.  On  inheriting 
a  fortune  he  returns  to  England,  meets  Phyl- 
lis again  and  finds  her  love  equal  to  his  worst 
confessions.  After  more  trials  by  cruel  fate 
and  an  expedition  to  Alaska,  in  which  the  hero 
covers  himself  with  glory,  the  way  to  hap- 
piness opens. 

"There  are,  we  cannot  help  noticing,  incon- 
sistencies in  her  story.  This  is  not,  however,  a 
story  we  are  to  read  for  its  indisputable  logic. 
It  is  a  story  of  adventure  with  at  the  same  time 
delightful  glimpses  of  English  life.  In  both  of 
these  roles  it  succeeds  beyond  our  expecta- 
tions." D.   L.  Mann 

-I Boston  Transcript  p5  Ag  4  '23  1050w 

"The  story  is  overcrowded  with  characters 
whose  identity  and  whose  relation  to  one 
another  are  not  always  easy  to  remember, 
and  who  make  it  unnecessarily  long.  There 
are  some  nicely  done  bits  of  description,  and 
the  experience  and  personality  of  Cathleen, 
the  heroine's  sister,  do  much  to  make  one 
feel  that  Mrs.  Sutherland  may  some  day  write 
a  book  of  a  much  better  and  higher  type  than 
this  improbable  tale  of  'The  Enchanted  Coun- 
try.' " 

1-  N  Y  Times  pl9  Je  10  '23  380w 

"Here's  another  book  which  is  plumb  ridicu- 
lous in  all  its  assumptions,  ramifications  and 
inferences,  yet  not  without  merit  after  the 
proper  allowances  have  been  made  for  its 
class  and  weight.  It  gets  away  with  murder 
and  never  apologizes."  Isabel  Paterson 
h   N    Y   Tribune   pl8   Je   17   '23   320w 

"Miss  Sutherland  has  written  here  a  truly 
captivating  romance  of  the  grand  old  family 
story-paper  brand,  and  she  has  found  a  place 
in  it  for  a  few  pages  of  surpassing  descrip- 
tion of  Alaskan  scenery  in  the  region  of  vol- 
canic   remainders."     E.    W.    Osborn 

-t-  N   Y  World  pl9e  Jl   8  '23   230w 

SUTRO,  ESTHER  STELLA  (ISAACS)  (MRS 
ALFRED  SUTRO).  Nicolas  Poussin:  with 
an  introd.  by  William  Rothenstein.  117p  11 
$1.75  Medici  soc.   [6s  J.  Cape] 

B  or  92  Poussin,  Nicolas 
Biographical  study  of  a  French  historical 
and  landscape  painter  who  introduced  classi- 
cism into  French  art  and  whose  finest  achieve- 
ment was  a  remarkable  series  of  mythological 
pictures.  The  author  has  chosen  to  show  the 
character  of  the  man  who  created  these  works 
rather  than  to  comment  on  his  method.  She 
devotes  the  two  concluding  chapters  to  notes 
on  his  technique  and  on  the  infliience  of  his 
work. 


knowledge  of  the  principal  business  of  his  sub- 
ject's life,  a  knowledge  of  psychology  and  the 
ability  to  tell  a  good  story.  Owing  to  a  weak- 
ness in  all  these  faculties,  Mrs.  Sutro  never  con- 
trives to  make  Poussin  come  alive." 

-) New  Statesman   21:88  Ap  28  '23  680w 

"Mrs.  Sutro  admires  warmly  the  work  of  this 
great  French  artist,  and  her  study  of  his  life 
and  achievements  is  frankly  written  from  that 
viewpoint.  But  this  has  not  prevented  her 
from  being  critically  clear-sighted  in  her  dis- 
cussions and  estimates  of  his  legacy  to  the 
centuries,  and  judicially  discerning  in  her  com- 
parisons between  him  and  other  painters." 
-f  N  Y  Times  p20  D  16  '23  500w 
Outlook  135:642  D  12  '23  30w 
"The  writer  of  the  present  little  volume  'has 
chosen  to  inform  those  who,  admiring  the  works, 
wish  to  know  what  manner  of  man  he  was 
who  created  them  rather  than  to  comment  on 
Poussin's  methods  or  style,'  a  purpose  which 
she  has  charmingly  fulfilled." 

+  Sat   R   135:773  Je  9   '23   660w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup   p289   Ap 
26  '23   20w 

SWINNERTON,      FRANK      ARTHUR.        Young 
Felix.   439p  $2  Doran    [7s  6d  Hutchinson] 

23-16461 
"We  have  our  first  glimpse  of  Felix  Hunter 
at  the  age  of  two  years.  .  .  The  life  of  Felix 
was  one  long  series  of  disasters — and  one  long 
happiness.  He  touched  nothing  that  he  did 
not  in  the  end  bring  about  his  ears.  A  most 
perceptive  wit  once  suddenly  asked:  'How  is 
Felix?  Still  triumphing  from  failure  to  fail- 
ure?' "  The  Hunter  family,  of  which  Felix  was 
the  youngest  member,  had  almost  every  kind 
of  misfortune  to  contend  with — poverty,  unem- 
ployment, illness,  sometimes  even  starvation, 
but  Ma  Hunter  was  invincible  and  it  was  in 
the  family  creed  never  to  complain.  So  in- 
sensible was  Felix  to  misfortune  that  this 
story  of  the  first  thirty  years  of  his  life,  tho 
a  chronicle  of  failure,  has  an  air  of  triumph 
about  it,  and  certainly  something  of  romance. 
It  was  inevitable  that  his  marriage  should 
prove  a  mistake  and  the  book  leaves  him  be- 
ginning again,  with  a  hope  of  happiness  as 
strong   as    the    sense    of    past    failure. 


"At  a  first  glance  this  seems  to  be  a  delight- 
ful little  book.  The  make-up  is  pleasing,  the 
printing,  type,  and  binding  in  excellent  taste, 
and  the  twenty-four  half-tone  Illustrations  quite 
delightful.  A  biographer  requires  a  special 
mixture  of  abilities;   an  historical   sense,   some 


"  'Young  Felix'  suffers  by  comparison  with 
none  of  its  author's  earlier  novels.  It  is  instinct 
with  the  qualities  that  make  Swinnerton's  best 
work  truly  notable.  It  would  add  to  the  reputa- 
tion of  any  novelist.  It  is  good."  B.  R.  Redman 
+  Lit  R  p364  D  15  '23  850w 
"The  book  has  the  freshness  and  force  of 
style  which  marked  'Nocturne,'  but  it  suffers 
somewhat  from  the  fact  that  many  of  the  neces- 
sary incidents  in  the  biographical  story  of  a 
young  man  have  been  endlessly  repeated  in  the 
contemporary  novel.  It  is  more  diffuse,  too,  than 
'Nocturne'  and  lacks  the  unified  dramatic  round- 
ness which  was  one  of  the  most  striking  features 
of  that  excellent  story."  J.  W.  Krutch 

H Nation  117:717  D  19  '23  170w 

"In  some  respect  the  conception  lacked  vi- 
tality, and  the  author's  talent  is  wasted — at 
least  as  far  as  other  people  are  concerned. 
He  may  have  learnt  a  lot  in  the  writing  of  his 
book,  but  we  have  learnt  nothing  that  we 
did  not  know  before — that  Mr.  Swinnerton  is 
a  serious  and  conscientious  writer,  with  a  good 
sense  of  comedy  of  which  he  hardly  makes 
sufficient  use.  The  first  few  pages  seem  to 
adumbrate  the  shape  that  Mr.  Swinnerton  in- 
tended his  book  should  take,  but  the  book  hardly 
begins  to  take   it."   Raymond   Mortimer 

)-   New  Statesman   22:supl8  O  13  '23  520w 

"What  matter  though  the  story  at  length  does 
not  hold  to  the  road  detailed  in  Chapter  I, 
and  though  it  occasionally  drowns  exposition 
in  a  muddy  pool  of  introspection.  Felix  lives 
in  these  pages  nevertheless,  from  the  age  of 
two  years  to  the  evening  in  London  many 
eventful  years  later  when  during  a  sharp  air 
raid  he  proposes  to  tell  the  story  of  his  life 
to    Mary    Howard,    and    so   finishes    the    novel." 

^ NY  Times   p4  N  4  '23  2850w 

Reviewed    by   Phyllis    Bottome 

N   Y  Tribune  pl8  O  28  '23  1250w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


503 


Reviewed   bv  E.   W.   Oshorn 

N  Y  World  p6e  N  4  '23  lOOOw 

"Mr.  Swinnerton's  new  novel  is  an  artistic 
success  and,  in  its  way,  a  story  of  unusual  in- 
terest and  power." 

4-  No    Am    219:137   Ja   '24   1450w 

"Of  course,  tlie  book  is  immeasurably  beyond 
the  reach  of  the  ordinary  mechanical  novelist; 
of  course,  it  is  in  places  rich  and  in  places 
brilliant;  but  is  on  the  whole  a  disappointment. 
Of  the  minor  characters,  Grumps.  Felix's  grand- 
father, and  Godfrey,  his  brother,  are  distin- 
guishable and  memorable.  But  Felix  himself  is 
a  lay-figure."  Gerald  Gould 

H Sat  R  136:525  N  10  '23  250w 

"Mr.  Swinnerton's  book  remains  very  readable 
— in  spite  of  what  seems  a  deliberately  low  ten- 
sion, an  unselective  and  inclusive  treatment, 
very  little  construction  and  very  little  emphasis. 
If  Mr.  Swinnerton  had  not  spread  his  net  so 
wide,  if  he  had  restricted  himself  to  the  ex- 
position of  situation  or  an  idea,  his  book  would 
have  gained  in  perspective  and  hit  one's  imagi- 
nation harder;  but  its  flexibility  would  have 
suffered  and  its  admirable  incidental  portraits 
lost  their  fullness  and  significance."  L.  P. 
Hartley 

-f  Spec  131:805  N  24  '23  820w 

"Young  Felix  possesses  many  qualities  which 
raise  it  above  the  merely  successful  tale,  but 
it  does  not  possess  the  unity  of  certain  of  his 
earlier  novels.  Its  proportions  are  inadequate 
to  the  lengthy  preliminaries,  though  it  is  one 
with  sufficient  implications  to  merit  a  book  to 
itself." 

f-  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p650    O 

4    '23   500w 

SYMONDS,  JOHN  ADDINGTON.  Letters  and 
papers;  collected  and  ed.  by  Horatio  F.  Brown. 
280p  $3.50  Scrlbner  [12s  Murray] 

B  or   92  [23-5976] 

••When  John  Addington  Symonds  died  at 
Home  in  1893  he  was  only  fifty-two  years  old. 
His  reputation  as  a  man  of  letters,  essayist, 
poet,  scholar  and  critic  was  then  extensive  and 
he  still  remains  one  of  the  most  influential  and 
vital  figures  of  his  period.  Ill  health  kept  him 
away  from  England  In  the  rarer  atmosphere  of 
Switzerland  for  many  years,  but  he  was  in  con- 
stant contact  with  English  literary  currents  and 
English  writers,  while  at  the  same  time  much 
of  his  work  was  in  the  broader  fields  of  general 
European  culture.  He  wrote  about  Shake- 
speare, about  Shelley,  about  Whitman,  about 
other  separated  and  distinctive  personalities  and 
their  work,  but  his  most  lasting  reputation 
doubtless  rests  upon  his  seven-volume  history  of 
the  Italian  Renaissance.  As  a  letter  writer  he 
was  indefatigable.  The  present  selection  made 
by  his  biographer  is  gathered  from  more  than 
two  thousand  written  to  Henry  Sidgwick  and  to 
Mr.  Brown." — Boston  Transcript 


Booklist   19:250  My  '23 
4-   Bookm   57:348  My  '23   120w 
Reviewed  by  E.  F.  Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  3  '23  1800w 
Cleveland  p80  S  '23 
Dial    74:634   Je   '23   150w 
•'The  new  collection   of  his  letters  is  enough 
to  convince   us   that   the   end   of  his   power  and 
influence    is   not    yet.     His    mind    was    occupied 
with  timeless  things,  and  occupied  in  a  manner 
that  is  still   timely." 

+  Freeman  6:622  Mr  7  '23  1900w 
"Altogether  we  have  to  thank  Mr.  Brown  for 
a  charming  memorial  of  a  rarely  attractive 
spirit  who  builded  better  than  he  knew,  who 
lived  a  difficult  complicated  life  with  inspiring 
courage."    R.    L.    G. 

+  Int  Bk  R  p34  Jl  "23  2550w 
"The  collection   is  in   no   way  as   revealing  as 
his  autobiography  and  repeats  much  of  the  ma- 
terial  used   in   that  coinpilation,   but  it  contains, 
also,  new  and  pertinent  observations  and  recalls 
felicitou.sly  to  oiu-  memory  the  exiled,  versatile, 
and  refined   .'cholar."     Alvse  Gregoi-y 
4-    Lit  R  p623  Ap  21   '23  900w 
"The    reception    that    this    book    is    to    receive 
will    depend    upon    the    sympathies    and    antip- 


athies of  the  reader.  That  is  of  course  the 
case  with  any  book;  but  it  is  particularly  true 
of  this,  for  the  reader  will  be  drawn  to  Sy- 
monds's  personality  only  if  he  sympathizes  with 
tiie  characteristically  late  nineteenth-century 
spiritual  doubts  and  misgivings  which  found 
such  aoimdant  expression  in  the  correspondence 
and  the  verse  of  the  author."  S:  C.  Chew 
Nation  116:670  Je  6  '23  420w 
"The  first  thing  one  notices  is  the  freshness 
and  general  rightness  of  Symonds's  judgments 
on  matters  of  literature.  It  is  well  known  that 
he  was  one  of  the  earliest  and  most  enthusias- 
tic admirers  of  Walt  Whitman;  but  we  learn 
here  that  he  anticipated  the  modern  criticism  of 
Stevenson,  welcomed  the  genius  of  Kipling,  and 
praised  Turgenev  in  a  letter  of  1880.  .  .  He  had 
a  great  gift  for  sharing  his  enthusiasm;  and 
his  singular  freedom  from  too  great  an  allegi- 
ance to  tradition  gives  his  work  a  sympathetic 
range  which  should  insure  it  a  fit  audience,  so 
long  as  there  are  people  who  need  guide-books 
to  the  desirable  and  beautiful  things  in  art  and 
literature."     R.  E.  Roberts 

+  New  Statesman  20:572  F  17  '23  1850w 
Reviewed  by  C:  de  Kay 

N   Y  Times  p5  Ap  15  '23  1650w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:303  Je  '23 
"The   present    selection    from   his   private   let- 
ters    adds     little    to    the     picture    of     Symonds 
which    is    possessed   by    those    who   are    familiar 
with   his  earlier  correspondence." 

1-  Sat    R    135:257    F   24    '23    550w 

SYRETT,  NETTA.  Cupid  and  Mr  Pepys;  a 
romance  of  the  days  of  the  great  diarist 
(Eng   title   Lady   Jem).    343p   $2   Stokes 

23-12119 
A  pen  portrait  of  the  amusing  Mr  Pepys  with 
all  his  amorousness,  vanity,  and  shrewd  cal- 
culation, is  one  of  the  features  of  the  story. 
He  has  been  commissioned  by  his  friend,  Sir 
George  Carteret,  to  instruct  the  latter's  son 
Philip  in  the  art  of  wooing  the  fair  Lady  Jemi- 
mah  Montagu — a  marriage  between  the  two 
having  been  arranged  by  the  parents.  Philip, 
in  spite  of  resenting  this  prearrangement,  falls 
in  love  with  Lady  Jem  at  first  sight.  When  he 
learns  that  she  is  no  longer  heart-free,  he  con- 
sents obligingly  to  further  her  cause  by  acting 
the  part  of  a  most  awkward  and  indifferent 
suitor,  thus  taxing  Mr  Pepys's  skill  to  the 
utmost.  Jem's  lover  proves  unworthy  and 
Philip  reaps  the  reward  of  his  generosity  and 
gallant   service. 


"In  spite  of  its  beginning,  and  in  spite  of 
one's  distrust  of  the  seventeenth  Century  dia- 
lect as  reproduced,  it  is  interesting  enough  to 
carry   the    reader   through.''     N.    H.    D. 

-\ Boston   Transcript  p4   S   29    '23   650w 

"This  is  a  most  entertaining  story  and  we 
have  no  doubt  true  in  both  letter  and  spirit  to 
the  times  of  old  Pepys.  Moreover,  Pepys  and 
his  wife  and  serving  maid  and  other  delectable 
female  persons  on  and  off  stage  furnish  a  good 
deal  of  comic  relief.  The  book  should  offend 
none  and  tickle  many  who  like  good  'light 
literature.'  " 

-f   Lit   R  p316  D  1  '23  300w 
"Netta  Syrett's  new  story  is  an  unpretentious 
and  very  agreeable  tale  of  a  picturesque  period 
told  with  sympathy  and  humor." 

-f-  N   Y  Times  plS  S  9  '23  600w 

Springf'd   Republican  p9a  D  23  '23  120w 


TAFT.    WILLIAM    HOWARD,    and    others,    eds. 

Service  with   the  fighting  men;   an  account  of 

the    work    of    the     American     Young     men's 

Christian    associations    in    the   World   war.    2v 

636;664p   il  $9   Assn.    press 

940.477    European    war,    1914-1919— Religious 

and    social    work.     Young    men's    Christian 

association  23-891 

"The   book   is  not   an   attempt   to  glorify   the 

Y.  M.  C.  A.    It  is  a  square,  honest  effort  to  share 


504 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


TAFT,  W:  H.  and  others — Continued 
with  the  public  the  full  story  of  that  organ- 
ization's war  history,  its  faults,  virtues,  and 
failures,  alike  displayed  with  impartial  hand. 
Yet  another  quality  it  has,  rare  indeed  among 
relief  or  welfare  organizations'  war  histories — 
it  puts  the  war  and  the  army  first,  taking  for 
itself  tributary  place,  instead  of  making  the 
war  the  stage,  the  organization  the  star,  and 
the  army  the  admiring  chorus.  For  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  it  makes  no  claim,  of  service  rendered 
that  is  not  both  true  and  modestly  below  the 
level  of  the  fact  and  so  provable  by  army  re- 
cord. The  growth  of  the  Y.  M.  C  A.  is  told 
in  this  book  frona  its  birth  in  England,  in 
1844,  through  our  Civil  War,  through  the 
Russo-Japanese  War,  through  the  Mexican 
campaign  and  through  the  World  War." — Lit  R 


"The  work  is  comprehensive,  and  as  a  side- 
light on  the  war,  is  valuable." 

+   Bookm    57:340   My   '23   160w 
"The   book  is   a  good   book,   ably   handling  a 
difficult  and  complex  subject." 

+  Lit  R  p662  My  5  '23  llOOw 
"Every  side  of  the  work  is  described  clearly, 
and  it  is  not  pretended  that  the  system,  adopt- 
ed was   faultless." 

-I-  Spec  131:230  S   18  '23   lOOw 


TAGGARD,  GENEVIEVE.  For  eager  lovers.  70p 

$1.25    Seltzer 

811  22-23147 

"[A  first  book  of  poems  in  which]  lightning 
and  waves  and  the  outlines  of  hills  slice  them- 
selves from  Nature  with  clean  .strokes.  The  oldest 
of  themes — fatigue,  fear,  rebirth,  comfort,  and 
ecstasy — speak  with  a  lithe,  individual  accent. 
Water  is  intelligent  under  this  eye  and  the  air 
is  pleasantly  conscious  of  itself.  Serene  reflec- 
tion, nrofound  observalion  approach  us  through 
Just  and  beautiful  images.  The  seasons  pass  as 
large  as  life  but  as  definite  as  one  black  branch. 
It  is  easier  to  describe  than  explain  the  tech- 
nique that  creates  these  illusions." — Nation 


"There  is  perhaps  no  clue  in  the  title  to  the 
secrets  of  music  understood  and  practised  by 
this  writer.  She  is  genuinely  original  in  her 
musical  effects.  Her  imagination  too  is  to  be 
trusted."  G.  H.  Conkling 

-h   Bookm   57:93   Mr  '23   200w 

"This  veise  has  strength,  hut  Miss  Taggard 
does  not  place  her  reliance  on  a  battery  of  ready 
explosives;  these  lines  have  a  personal  deflnite- 
ness,  but  the  author  never  distorts  her  phrases 
in  order  to  give  them  affected  accents  of  in- 
dividuality. It  is  a  woman  speaking:  straight- 
forward, sensitive,  intense.  Instead  of  loose 
philosophizing  there  is  a  condensed  clarity;  in- 
stead of  rhetoric,  we  have  revelation."  L:  Un- 
termeyer 

+    Lit    R    p600    Ap   14   '23    660w 

"Genevieve  Taggard's  first  volume  places  her 
among  the  considerable  poets  of  contemporary 
America,  and  promises,  if  other  volumes  follow 
as  good,  to  place  her  permanently  there.  Every- 
where save  in  the  longer  poems,  which  are  in- 
ferior, she  combines  the  three  gifts  which  need 
only  to  be  combined  to  insure  success:  passion, 
lucidity,  and  thorough  technical  competence." 
Mark  Van   Doren 

+  Nation    116:246   F   28   '23   250w 

"Genevieve  Taggard's  For  Eager  Lovers  lifts 
her  at  once  into  the  first  fiight  of  living  Ameri- 
can poets.  She  appears  to  be  about  the  only 
gifted  experimenter  with  rhythm  aside  from  the 
makers  of  free  verse."  Maxwell  Anderson 
+  New   Repub   34:276   My   2    '23   550w 

"She  is  a  singer  whose  voice,  although  not 
strong.  Is  sweet;  she  sings  hesitant  passion, 
wistful  sadness  born  of  love,  eager  joy  full  of 
love;  she  has  mastered  the  tricks  of  her  trou- 
badour art  and  given  them  the  grace  and  charm 
of  her  femininity."     Eva  Goldbeck 

4-   N    Y    Tribune   p23   Ja    28    '23    260w 


TAINTOR,  SARAH  AUGUSTA.  Training  for 
^  secretarial  practice;   a  textbook  in   secretarial 

theory  and  correspondence.  298p  $2.50  McGraw 
651  Secretaries,   Private  23-10641 

"Discusses  in  detail  the  training,  qualifica- 
tions, and  duties  of  the  secretary  in  business, 
with  brief  notes  on  social  secretaries  and  social 
correspondence.  Most  of  the  book  is  devoted  to 
the  content  and  form  of  business  letters." — • 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:533   D   '23 

TANSLEY,  ARTHUR  GEORGE.  Practical  plant 
*    ecology;  a  guide  for  beginners  in  field  study 

of   plant  communities.   228p  $2.50  Dodd   [7s   6d 

Allen    &    U.] 

581.15  Botany — Ecology 
"The  study  of  plants  with  relation  to  their 
environment  and  ail  the  rather  complicated 
technique  which  has  clustered  around  such  re- 
search has  been  developed  in  America  more  than 
in  almost  any  other  country.  Yet  it  remains  for 
Professor  Tansley  of  Cambridge  to  give  to  the 
general  public  the  first  simple,  clear,  and  really 
interesting  account  of  what  this  study  of  ecol- 
ogy means  and  to  show  how  any  intelligent 
nature  lover  can  make  contributions  to  it  of 
value.  .  .  That  forests,  or  prairies,  or  bogs 
are  living  organisms  greater  than  the  totality 
of  individual  species  in  them,  that  they  respond 
en  masse  to  all  sorts  of  infiuences  of  light,  and 
heat,  and  water — have  small  beginnings  and 
work  often  through  hundreds  of  years  of  in- 
fancy, of  helplessness  and  apparent  futility 
toward  a  final  climax  of  vegetation — all  these 
come  within  the  sphere  of  plant  ecology.  Pro- 
fessor Tansley's  book  goes  into  as  much  of  this 
as  is  practicable  in  a  volume  of  200  pages." — 
Lit  R 

"The  methods  by  which  the  facts  may  be  as- 
certained and  recorded  are  treated  fully  and 
clearly,  and  here  the  more  technical  appendices 
should  prove  of  great  use.  The  section  on  ecolog- 
ical work  in  schools  contains  some  very  wise 
remarks:  the  protest  against  ready-made  ex- 
planations, and  the  insistence  on  the  study  of 
differences  between  species  as  the  foundation 
of  taxonomy  are  particularly  welcome.  There 
is  a  really  good  index." 

+  The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p490  Jl  19 
'23    230w 

Wis   Lib   Bui  19:504  D  '23 

TARKINGTON,    BOOTH.   Fascinating  stranger; 
and    other    stories.    492p    $2    Doubleday 

23-8938 

"  'The  Fascinating  Stranger'  is  a  character 
study  of  a  departed  type — the  old  livery  man. 
This  old  fellow  has  remained  true  to  his  first 
love,  for  with  the  departure  of  the  livery  stable 
in  face  of  the  wide  acceptance  of  the  automo- 
bile he  retires  in  preference  to  living  among 
machinery,  and  becomes  a  genial  tramp."  (N  Y 
Times)  Contents:  The  fascinating  stranger;  The 
party;  The  one-hundred-dollar  bill;  Jeannette; 
The  spring  concert;  Willamilla;  The  only  child; 
Ladies'  ways;  Maytime  in  Marlow;  "You"; 
"Us";    The   tiger;   Mary   Smith. 


Booklist  19:321   Jl   '23 

Bookm  57:451  Je  '23  150w 
"Each  and  every  story  reveals  Mr.  Tarking- 
ton's  ingenuity  at  the  revelation  of  the  hum- 
orous aspects  of  life  in  a  mid-Western  town. 
His  canvases  are  small,  to  be  sure,  but  each 
In  its  way  depicts  with  an  unerring  hand  that 
quivers  with  humor  some  quaint  foible  of  child- 
hood, manhood  and  womanhood."  E.  F.  Edgett 
+   Boston   Transcript  p4  My  5   '23   1350w 

Cleveland  p43  Je  '23 
"One  finds  Booth  Tarkington's  lighter  moods 
refiected  in  his  new  volume,  'The  Fascinating 
Stranger,  and  Other  Stories,'  but  not  always 
the  most  amusing  of  his  lighter  moods.  For 
the  tales  are  uneven:  the  best  of  them  are  very 
good,   the  worst  indifferent." 

H Int   Bk  R  p58  Je  '23  500w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


505 


"Their  spontaneity  is  pleasant;  they  are  writ- 
ten with  Mr.  Tarkington's  customary  ease,  and 
some  passages  show  his  cleverness.  But  they 
do  not  add  to  his  reputation,  and  he  would  have 
been  well  advised  to  have  let  some  of  them 
remain  untouched  in  their  magazines."  Allan 
Nevins 

-i Lit   R   p620  Ap   21   '23  650w 

"Now  and  then  we  come  across  a  phrase  so 
concise  and  so  happy  that  we  wonder  how  its 
maker  can  be  content  to  waste  elsewhere,  which 
is  almost  everywhere,  such  a  lot  of  space."  J. 
K.   Singleton 

^ New    Repub   35:50   Je   6   '23    320w 

"Humor,  a  sunshiny  spirit  of  romance,  coque- 
try, and  the  antics  of  the  eternal  juveniles, 
pervade  throughout  the  book,  lending  a  soft 
charm.  It  is  as  if  Mr.  Tarkington  kept  a  day 
book  of  observations — drawn  from  a  very  nice 
neighborhood." 

+   N    Y    Times  p22   Ap   15   '23   500w 
"  'The   Fascinating  Stranger'    contains  two  or 
three    good    stories    and    a    lot    of    pretty    good 
stories,    together    with    a    couple    of    extremely 
indifferent    tales."    F:    F.    Van   de   Water 

h   N    Y    Tribune   pl9   My   G    '23   1300w 

Reviewed   by   Bruce  Gould 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p26  My  13  '23  500w 
Outlook  134:140  Je  G  '23  30w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:415   Jl     23 

TATCHELL,  FRANK.     Happy  traveller;  a  book 
for    poor    men.       271p      $3.50      Holt       [7s    6d 
Methuen] 
910.4      Voyages    and    travels.      Europe — De- 
scription and  travel  [23-12182] 
"He    is    a    guide,    philosopher    and    friend    to 
the    traveller    in    half    the    countries    of    Europe 
and    some    further    afield,    in    all    that    concerns 
the    niceties    of    eating    and    drinking,    lodging 
and  wandering,    and   generally  getting  the   best 
out  of  the  local  life.  Besides,  his  book  is  full  of 
wrinkles  on  how  to  equip  yourself  for  journey- 
ing and  how  to  keep  fit  and  well  on  the  road." 
— New    Statesman 

Booklist  20:97  D  '23 
Bookm   58:340   N  '23  140w 
"The   Happy   Traveller   is   no   ordinary   guide* 
book.      In   its   tips   on   where   to   stay   and   what 
to  see  it  is  a  vivid  condensation  of  many  guide- 
books,  but  it   is   also  a  mine  of  information  on 
just    those    things    that    the    traveller    wants    to 
know   and   that   no  guide-book   ever   tells  him." 
+  New  Statesman  21:88  Ap  28  '23  1150w 
"Guide  books,  as  a  rule,  are  uninteresting.  Not 
so  this  book.     Vicar  Tatchell  has  a  keen  sense 
of  humor,  and  he  gives  it  scope  in  every  chap- 
ter.    This  humor  is  so  sincere  and  so  obviously 
unattenipted   that    it   is   therefore   the   more   en- 
joyable.     Not    only    has    the    author    written    a 
very  worth  while  guide  to  many  lands,   but  he 
has    written    clearly,    humanly,    understandingly 
an    exceptionally    engaging    account    of    travels 
that  cover  a  large  portion  of  the  globe."     F.  L. 
Minnigerode 

-I-  N  Y  Times  plO  Je  17  '23  1400w 
"So  genial  and  intoxicating  is  this  account 
of  uncharted  travel  that  only  the  sluggish,  un- 
romantic  reader  will  not  have  sprinkled  every 
chapter  with  many  a  vow  to  throw  up  his  job 
and  set  out  for  Burma,  the  South  Seas,  Italy, 
Spain  or  Japan."  G.  H. 

+   N    Y   Tribune   p24    N   4   '23    130w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p204   Mr 
22   '23   25Uw 

TAUSSIG,  CHARLES  WILLIAM.  Book  of  radio; 
foreword  by  James  C.  Edgerton.  447p  11  $3.50 
Appleton 

654.1    Radio    communication  22-20056 

"A  complete,  simple  explanation  of  radio  re- 
ception and  transmission,  including  the  out- 
standing features  of  radio  service  to  the  pubUc 
by  private  and  government   agencies." — Subtitle 


are  more  complete  and  many  have  greater  depth 
of  mechanical  substance.  None  is  so  broad,  so 
readable,   so  many-angled." 

-|-  Boston  Transcript  p3  N  11  '22  220w 
"The   descriptions   of  the   technical   details   of 
radio  outfit  are  admirable  in  their  clearness  and 
the  ISO  photographs  and  diagrams  help  to  clear 
away  many  difRculties." 

N   Y   Times  p7  F  11  '23  780w 

TAYLER,   JOHN    LIONEL.     Social  life  and  the 
crowd.    222p    $2    Small    [7s    6d    Parsons] 

301  Social  psychology 
"Mr.  Tayler,  who  is  an  extension  lecturer 
on  biology  and  sociology  in  London  University 
throws  out  connecting  links  from  the  ^sociology 
of  the  crowd  to  political  theories  and  methods  of 
government,  trying  to  bring  the  results  of  psy- 
chological study  of  the  crowd  to  the  aid  of  the 
government  of  the  crowd.  Mr.  Tayler  is  con- 
vinced that  the  rationalistic  democratic  theory 
of  government  has  broken  down  in  actual  prac- 
tice, and  he  traces  this  failure  chiefly  to  the 
fact  that  democracy  is  based  on  too  simple 
a  theory  of  humanity.  The  successful  theory 
of  government,  he  contends,  must  take  ac- 
count of  the  complexity  of  human  relationships 
and  must  be  based  on  ascertained  laws  of 
social   psychology." — N   Y   Times 


"Mr.  Tayler's  hook  is  interesting  through- 
out and  provocative  of  thought.  It  follows 
lines  similar  to  those  taken  in  the  writing  of 
many    modern    political    observers." 

N    Y    Times   p24   O   21   '23   430w 

"The  book  is  badly  put  together,  and  does 
not  seem  to  be  the  product  of  much  profound 
thought." 

—  Spec   130:854   My   19   '23   160w 

"We  have  failed  to  find  in  this  book  any 
really  well-balanced  judgment  or  any  really 
illuminating  comparison  between  the  present 
and    the    past." 

—  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p251   Ap 
12  '23  200w 

TAYLOR,     BERT     LESTON.     Line    o'     gowf    or 

two.    185p    $2    Knopf 

817     Golf  23-8006 

"  'A  Line  o'  Gowf  or  Two'  will  arouse  many 
memories  among  readers  of  the  late  'B.  L. 
T.'s'  column  in  the  Chicago  Tribune;  for  this 
book  is  an  anthology  of  his  golf  quips.  A  preface 
by  Charles  ('Chick')  Evans,  of  golfing  fame, 
introduces  the  collection  and  establishes  'B.  L. 
T.'  as  a  confirmed  and  devout  golfer.  Hum- 
orous verse,  sentences,  paragraphs,  longer 
pieces  such  as  'The  Compleat  Golfer;  or,  the 
Idle  Man's  Recreation.  A  discourse  betv^ixt  a 
golfer  and  one  that  would  have  knowledge  of 
the  game,'  represent  the  columnist's  stock  In 
trade." — Springf'd    Republican 


"The   text   is   simply  and   graphically   written 
in  the   manner  of  such    books  of  today.     Many 


Boston  Transcript  p5  Je  30  '23  2.^0w 
Cleveland   pG2   Jl   '23 
"Happily  for  the  game,  B.  L.  T.  writes  about 
this   and  "other    matters    ol    tlie   links    in   a   vein 
to   make   the   present   volume   one   many   golfers 
will  welcome." 

+  Lit  R  p774  Je  16  '23  130w 
"One  of  the  most  wliimsical  and  yet  serious- 
minded  books  on  golf  that  has  been  published 
for  a  long  time.  In  spite  of  its  humor,  the 
book  is  serious  minded  also.  It  contains  simple 
and  tiue  .statonienls,  expro.ssed  colloquially, 
which  are  full  of  under-.'^tnnding  sympatliy  for 
our  common  human  frailties,  even  those  to 
which  others  than  golfers  ate  liable." 
-f  N  Y  Times  p20  Ap  8  '23  280w 
"For  the  non-golfer  Bert  Leston  Taylor's  'A 
Line  o'  Gowf  or  Two'  has  a  tantalizing  interest. 
Here  is  the  graceful  and  per.suasive  style,  the 
engaging  humor,  the  liberal  and  mannerly  wit 
that  made  Taylor  eminent  among  newspaper 
specialists." 

+   N    Y   Tribune   p21   My   13   '23   130w 
N   Y   World   p9e  Ap  8  *23  60w 
"To    the    golfer    'B.    L.    T.'s'    book    is    always 
amusing   and   at    times    side    splitting,    which   is 
a    left-handed    way    of    saying    that    one    must 


506 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


TAYLOR,  BERT  LBSTON— Continued, 
play  golf  to  appreciate  the  irony  ot  some  of 
the  lines,  the  sheer  absurdity  of  others,  and 
the  incidents  illustrative  of  the  innumerable 
near-tragedies  that  any  course  could  recite  had 
it    lips   to    speak." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  pl4  Ap  13  "23  250w 

TAYLOR,  GEORGE  ROBERT  STIRLING.  Ox- 
ford; a  guide  to  its  history  and  buildings.  125p 
il    $1.35    (4s)    Longmans 

914.257     Oxford,    England  23-11439 

This  little  book  provides  an  outline  of  the  his- 
tory of  Oxford,  the  university  and  its  colleges; 
an  itinerary  of  Oxford  in  historical  order;  and 
illustrations  of  its  chief  buildings  with  his- 
torical  notes. 


"Guide  books  are  of  three  kinds.  Those  which 
describe  alluringly,  but  do  not  guide;  those 
which  guide  pitilessly  but  do  not  attract;  and 
those  which  entertain  and  instruct  as  well  as 
guide.  Of  the  last,  happily,  is  Mr.  Taylor's 
study  of  Oxford.'      F.    B. 

-|-  Boston  Transcript  p4  O  6  '23  750w 
"The  author  of  this  little  book  has  amply  jus- 
tified himself;  his  account  of  the  town  and 
University  is  exceedingly  well  put  together,  and 
his  presentation  of  the  salient  facts  is  fresh  and 
forcible." 

+  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p523  Ag  2 
•23   210w 

TAYLOR,  HENRY  OSBORN.  Greek  biology 
and  medicine.  (Our  debt  to  Greece  and 
Rome)    151p   $1.50   Marshall   Jones 

610.9       Biology — History.      Medicine — Greece 

23-270 

The  object  of  this  little  monograph  is  to  show 

the  debt  of  the  modern  world  to  Greek  biology 

and   medicine    and    especially    to    the    works    of 

Hippocrates,  Aristotle  and  Galen. 


"The  voice  of  autJiority  sounds  throughout  an 
absorbing   story   of   modernity's    debt    for    many 
of  our  medical  and  biological  axioms." 
-f   Bookm  57:470  Je  '23  200w 
"Deserving    of    careful    examination."    Joseph 
Collins 

-t-   N   Y  Times  plO  Mr  11   '23  1150w 

Springf'd   Republican  p6  Ja  22  '23  300w 

TAYLOR,    NORMAN.      Botany;    the    science    of 

plant  life.  384p  il  $3  Harper 

580      Botany  [23-740] 

The  curator  of  the  Brooklyn  botanic  garden 
has  written  this  readable,  non-technical  guide 
to  a  knowledge  of  plant.s — their  structure,  be- 
havior and  processes  of  reproduction,  their 
family  relationships,  their  uses  to  man,  their 
origin   and   distribution. 


"Deeply  appreciative  of  the  meanings  of  plant 
life,  the  author  sets  forth  its  lore  in  a  seiies 
of  chapters  exact  in  statement  as  befits  the 
expeit,  yet  written  in  a  style  which  is  siue>  to 
win  the  general  reader  to  a  sympathetic  study 
of  the  whole  subject.  Technicalities  are  natur- 
ally avoided  in  a  work  intended  for  the  gen- 
eral  reader."     E.    N. 

+   Boston   Transcript   p6   S   22   '23   600w 
"An  excellent  new   'Botany.'     And  it  is  espe- 
cially well  designed  for  awakening  the   interest 
of  the  naturally  incurious."     M.  L.   Franklin 
+   Ind  111:141   S  29   '23  20w 
Reviewed   by   K.    II.    Torrey 

Lit    R    p260    N    17    '23    720w 

N    Y    Tribune    p23    D    2   '23    130w 

N    Y   World  p7e   S   16   '23  550w 

TAYLOR,  RACHEL  ANNAND.  Aspects  of  the 
Italian  renaissance.  302p  $3  Houghton  [12s  Gd 
G.   Richards] 

945  Renaissance 
"In  a  series  of  elahoiately  learned  essays  Mrs 
Taylor  presents,  almost  visually,  the  practical 
exaltation  of  the  artists,  the  exalted  astute- 
ness and  immoral  bravery  of  the  men  of  action 
and   the   sober  drunkenness   of   the   scholars,    in 


that  age  that  can  only  be  inadequately  summed 
up  in  feeble  paradox.  !She  has  made  no  show 
of  correcting  old  mistakes,  of  flourishing  forth 
newly  discovered  entries  in  parish  registers  or 
brothers  to  a  great  man's  parents.  It  is  not  in 
adding  to  the  material  of  history  that  she  has 
found  her  expression,  but  in  considering  the 
old  matter  with  sympathy,  and  presenting  it 
imaginatively.  If  there  is  original  research  in 
her  work,  she  has  hidden  it  from  our  uncy- 
clopaedic   eyes." — Spec 


Reviewed  by  Ferdinand  Schevill 

Am    Hist    R   29:122   O  '23   720w 

'At  this  late  day  a  book  on  a  period  so  much 
written  about  as  the  Renaissance  must  show 
certain  qualities  if  it  is  to  justify  itself.  It 
should  be  compact  and  rapid,  after  so  much 
that  has  been  monumental  and  diffuse;  it  ought 
to  be  grouped  and  distributed  on  some  new 
plan;  it  may  well  display,  if  it  is  to  arouse  a 
full  measure  of  interest,  individual  tempera- 
ment and  idios.vncrasies;  and  there  can  be  lit- 
tle objection  if  it  throws  occasional  sidelights 
on  our  own  times.  The  new  work  by  Mrs.  Tay- 
lor meets  all  these  requirements."  H:  B.  Fuller 
+   Freeman    7:428   Jl   11    '23   1200w 

Reviewed  by   C:   de  Kay 

N    Y   Times  pl2  Je  3  '23   lOOOw 

"A  poet's  book.  It  gives  us  the  impression 
of  a  Dionysiac  revel  in  which  beauty  and  the 
triumphs  of  personality  are  everywhere  found 
and  commended  in  glowing  words,  strong  and 
strange  epithets,  obiter  dicta  generally  arresting 
and  sometimps  foolish.  It  is  plain  that  Mrs. 
Taylor  has  read  deeply  and  she  often  writes  al- 
lusively, or  crowds  her  shining  figures  into  an 
ecstatic  catalogue.  She  is  too  fond  of  words 
like  'golden'  and  'purple,'  but  she  is  a  real  lover 
of  beauty,  and  her  work  bears  the  stamp  of 
sincerity,  even  when  it  seems  overstrained." 
H Sat    R    135:438    Mr   31    '23    840w 

"On  the  whole,  Mrs.  Taylor's  book  is  stimu- 
lating rather  than  sound,  disturbing  rather  than 
instructive:  its  supreme  merit,  the  expression 
of  a  vigorous  personality  considering  vigorous 
davs.  It  is  a  book  to  enjoy  tolerantly." 
H Spec   130:670   Ap   21   '23   740w 

"Mrs.  Taylor  has  v/ritten  a  stimulating  book, 
and  in  some  w^ays  a  beautiful  one.  It  is  too 
full  of  wayward  judgments  and  startling  gen- 
eralizations to  command  unqualified  assent  or 
praise  without  reserve.  It  cannot  be  termed  a 
satisfying  book,  and  many  indeed  will  regard  it 
as  exasperating  or  wrong-headed;  but  it  is  at 
any  rate  a  live  book,  born  of  a  wide  knowledge 
of  the  subject  in  hand  and  begotten  by  an  in- 
tense enthusiasm.  From  first  to  last  it  vibrates 
with  emotion." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    pl94   Mr 

22   '23   1S50W 

TEICHMAN,  ERIC.  Travels  of  a  consular  of- 
ficer in  eastern  Tibet;  together  with  a  history 
of  the  relations  between  China,  Tibet  and 
India.  248p  il  $10  Macmillan  [25s  Cambridge 
univ.   press] 

915.15  Tibet — Description  and  travel.  Tibet 
—Foreign  relations.  China — Foreign  rela- 
tions 
"Mr.  Teichman  was  a  member  of  the  British 
Consular  service  in  China,  and,  as  he  says, 
'followed  the  history  of  Sino-Tibetan  relations 
from  the  Chinese  side  for  many  years.'  Then 
in  1918,  when  hostilities  broke  out  between  the 
Chinese  and  Tibetans  on  the  border,  he  acted 
as  mediator  between  the  coriibatants,  and  this 
necessitated  his  taking  long  journeys  in  many 
of  the  little -known  regions  of  Eastern  Tibet. 
His  book  is  divided  into  two  parts:  the  first 
contains  a  brief  account  of  the  relations  be- 
tween China  and  Tibet  in  1904,  and  a  fairly 
detailed  account  of  the  relations  between  Tibet 
and  the  outside  world  since  the  British  expe- 
dition of  that  year;  in  the  second  part  he  gives 
a  minute  account  of  his  own  travels."— New 
Statesman 


Boston  Transcript  p2  Mr  17  '23  1350w 

Reviewed  by  I:  Anderson 

Int    Bk   R   p44  Je  '23   lOOw 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


507 


"Mr.  Teichmann  had  exceptional  opportunities 
for  travel  in  unknown  parts  of  Eastern  Tibet. 
He  is  an  enthusiastic  and  capable  geographer, 
and  made  the  best  of  his  chances.  The  volume 
in  which  he  records  his  experiences  and  obser- 
vations will  remain  one  of  the  standard  works 
on  the  geography  of  East  Central  Asia."  J. 
W.   G. 

+   Nature    111:491    Ap   14   '23   650w 

"The  book  is  packed  with  information,  but 
it  is  probably,  too  detailed  to  attract  the  ordi- 
nary reader." 

+   New    Statesman    20:672   Mr   10   '23   lOOw 

Reviewed   l)v  G.    L.    Harding 

N   Y  Times  p4  Ap  8  "23  2100w 

"Mr.  Teichmann  has  undoubtedly  made  a 
valuable  contribution  to  the  literature  dealing 
with  Tibet,  and  we  have  every  admiration  for 
his  perseverance  both  as  a  writer  and  as  a 
traveller." 

+  —  Spec  130:453   Mr  17  '23  380w 

"The  author's  record  of  his  travels,  though 
somewhat  too  full  of  topographical  detail  for 
a  book  of  this  nature,  contains  much  that  is 
of  interest,  and  shows  us  an  observer  gifted 
at  once  with  sympathy  and  the  power  of  shrewd 
observation.  .  .  And  a  good  deal  of  general  in- 
formation is  given  about  the  people,  the  country 
and  the  game  birds  and  animals  to  be  found  in 
it." 

-|-  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p3    Ja   4 
'23   1950W 

TELEKI,  PAL,  count.  Evolution  of  Hungary 
and  its  place  in  European  history.  312p  $3.50 
Macmillan 

943.9    Hungary— History  23-4823 

Count  Teleki,  who  is  an  eminent  Hungarian 
geographer,  gave  these  lectures  before  the  Insti- 
tute of  politics  at  Williams  college  in  August, 
1921.  They  deal  with  Hungary's  geography  and 
history,  with  its  economic  and  political  de- 
velopment, with  racial  questions  and  the 
nationality  problem.  There  are  many  graphic 
charts,  an  elhnographical  map  and  a  sixty- 
seven-page    bibliography. 


Reviewed  bv  R.    J.    Kerner 

Am    Hist   R   29:160  O  '23   SOOw 
Am    Pol   Scl    R   17:514   Ag   '23   750w 
"Count     Teleki,      at     one     time     premier     of 
Hungary,   speaks  authoritatively  of  the  changes 
in    Hungary's    political    status    as    well    as    the 
social   and   economic   trend." 

+   Bookm    57:470    Je    '23    120w 

Boston    Transcript    p3   Ap   21    '23    6G0w 
"Certainly    Hungary    is    fortunate    in    having 
her    case    presented    to    the    American    reading 
public   by   the   pen   of  such   a   man.    In   his   dis- 
passionate,   and   yet   far    from   cold   or   detached 
pages,    her  story  is   told   with   a  voice   of  auth- 
ority and   literally  from   the  grovmd  up." 
+  Cath    World    117:852    S    '23    400w 
"Interesting    book.     It    will    make     a     certain 
number    of    friends    because,    unlike    most    vol- 
umes   giving    the    Magyar    point    of    view,    it    is 
written  in  careful    good     temper."     H.  F.     Arm- 
strong 

4-  Lit  R  p749  Je  9  '23  550w 
"Had  Paul  Teleki  not  inherited  the  title  of  a 
count  from  his  forefathers  he  probably  would 
be  today  a  humble  profes.sor  of  geology.  But 
because  he  did  inherit  this  title  he  necessarily 
inherited  with  it  some  of  the  highest  ofllces  in 
Hungary.  He  was  three  times  foreign  minister 
and  once  premier  of  Hungary.  Unfortunately, 
his  tenure  of  office  was  closely  connected  with 
the  most  bloody  period  of  the  Hungarian  white 
terror,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  most  diligent 
promoters.  .  .  The  picture  that  Teleki  gives  us 
is  of  the  Hungary  that  he  helped  to  'evolve' 
five  hundred  years  backward  despite  her  un- 
equaled  potentialities  to  become  the  leading 
nation  of  the  East  of  Europe."  Emil  Lengyel 
—  Nation  116:sup438  Ap  11  '23  1300w 
R  of  Rs  67:447  Ap  '23  I70w 
"It  would  he  hard  to  find  in  geographical 
writing  a  book  which  is  a  more  adequate  ap- 
plication of  that  science  to  the  tacts  of  racial 
intermixture    and    topographic    complexity.    And 


withal    a    more    readable    bit    of    'human    geog- 
raphy'   is   not   easily   to   be   found." 

+  Springf'd   Republican  plO  Jl  18  '23   850w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p474    Jl 
12    '23    140w 

TENISON,    E.    M.     Louise   Imogen   Guiney;   her 
life  and  works,  1861-1920.  348p  il  $5  Macmillan 

B  or  92  Guiney,  liOuise  Imogen 
The  book  blends  an  account  of  Miss  Guiney's 
life,  much  of  it  in  her  own  words,  with  an 
appreciative  review  of  her  works  and  frequent 
quotation.s.  Her  biographer  says  of  her  genius: 
"Despite  the  brilliant  vogue  which  was  given 
in  her  youth  to  the  singer  of  'The  White  Sail' — 
despite  the  chaplets,  the  tributes,  the  applause 
and  fer\'our  [she]  evoked  in  America  in  the 
eighties  and  nineties  ...  it  may  be  that  some  of 
the  best  fruits  of  her  lifework  are  yet  to  be 
gathered."    Descriptive   bibliography.     Index. 

"We  can  but  be  grateful  to  her  biographer 
for  showing  us  so  abundantly  the  fruits  of  thi.« 
gifted    and    energetic    intelligence." 

-I-  Cath   World   117:557  Jl  '23  SOOw 
Reviewed   by    J.    B.    Rittenhouse 

+   Lit   R  p877   Ag  4   '23   2000w 
"E.    M.    Tenison's    uncritical    memoir    is    both 
a   tribute  and   an   anthology;   merely   as   such   it 
is   very   impressive."   Mark   Van    Doren 

—  Nation    116:753    Je    27    '23    230w 

New  Statesman  20:756  Mr  31  '23  250w 
"The  author  of  this  book,  being  evidently  an 
artist  in  feeling  expression,  can  have  no  better 
satisfaction  than  to  know  that  she  has  fulfilled 
her  object — which  is  to  make  those  who  do 
not  know  the  fineness  of  Miss  Guiney's  talent 
familiar  with  its  perennial  beauty."  M.  F.  Egan 
4-   N    Y    Times   p5    Je   3    '23    2100w 

Sprlnsf'd   Republican  pl4  N  16  '23  850w 

"Miss    Tenison's    rhetorical    encomiums    hide 

from  us  the  friend  they  were  meant  to  reveal." 

—  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl94  Mr 
22  '23  lOOOw 

TERHUNE,    ALBERT    PAYSON.    The    amateur 

inn.    287p   $2    Doran 

23-16042 

Because  of  a  certain  clause  in  his  great - 
uncle's  will,  Thaxton  Vail  finds  that  part  of 
his  newly-inherited  country  home  is  to  be  set 
aside,  if  necessary,  for  wayfarers'  accommoda- 
tions. Osmun  Creede,  one  of  the  few  who  know 
this  fact,  dislikes  him  for  reasons  of  his  own, 
and  advertises  this  provision  of  the  will.  Im- 
mediately guests  appear  and  soon  after 
strange  robberies  and  a  murder  take  place. 
Circumstantial  evidence  undoubtedly  points  to 
young  Vail.  A  man  frozen  to  death  on  a  hot 
summer  day  furnishes  the  clue  that  leads  to 
amazing  discoveries  and  unravelling  of  all  mys- 
teries. 


Boston  Transcript  p6  Ja  2  "24  550w 
"Mr.  Terhune  not  only  has  a  fresh  idea  for- 
his  stage  setting  of  this  puzzle  story,  but  there 
is  also  ingenuity  in  the  plot  itself,  and  he  has 
handled  it  with  a  happy  zest  which  makes  it 
one  of  the  most  pleasantly  entertaining  of  this 
season's  crop  of  such  stories.  He  has  also  finish- 
ed its  detail  carefully:  the  style  of  it  is  very 
good,  and  in  one  of  the  character  sketches — 
that  of  the  old  lady.  Miss  Gregg,  who  exhibits 
some  skilful  lying — he  has  drawn  a  really  fine, 
subtly    conceived    figure." 

-I-    Lit    R   pl66   O   20   '23   230w 

N   Y  Times  1)22   N  11   '23  350w 
"While    Terhime    is    no    genius    he    is    a    good 
story  teller,  light  and  not  unwholesome;  he  car- 
ries   interest    along    with    every    page    that    he 
writes,  incredible  things  are  automatically  swal- 
lowed  ;md   the   credible   seem   outrageous." 
-I-    N    Y    Tribune    pl8    N   25    '23    750w 
"  'The    Amateur    Inn'    adds     itself    gratefully 
to   our   list   of  good   mystery   tales.    Also,    it  ad- 
vances   a     few     steps    ahead    of    contemporary 
science     in     its     presentation     of     the     climactic 
uses   of   liquid   air."    E.    W.    Osborn 

+    N    Y    World   p8   O  14   '23    520w 
Outlook  135:505  N  21  '23  50w 


508 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


TERHUNE,       ALBERT       PAYSON.      Lochinvar 

luck.     309p   $2   Doran 

23-3458 

Seven  stories,  reprinted  from  the  Saturday 
Evening  Post,  of  the  thoroughbred  collie,  Lock- 
invar  Boliby,  and  his  master  and  chum,  Jamie 
Mackellar.  Contents:  The  coming  of  Lochinvar 
Bobby;  Silver  magic;  The  heavier  weight;  False 
colors;  Bootlegerdemain;  The  test;  Fellow- 
sinners. 


Booklist    19:255    My    '23 
Cleveland    pll    F   '23 
N    Y   Times  p20   F   18   '23   200w 
"Jamie   Mackellar,    Bobby's   Scotch   master,    is 
only    slightly    less    interesting   a    character    than 
his    remarkable    collie.      'Lochinvar    Luck'    will 
take   its   place   with   Mr.    Terhune's   other  well- 
known    dog   stories." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  13  '23  150w 

TERHUNE,     ALBERT     PAYSON.       The     pest. 
327p  $2  Dutton 

23-2472 

"  'The  Pest'  is  a  tale  of  mild  mystery. 
Hamilcar  Q.  Glare,  the  obstreperous  plutocrat, 
attempting  to  establish  himself  as  feudal  lord  of 
a  north  Jersey  community,  rather  attains,  by 
his  monumental  lack  of  good  taste,  the  appel- 
lation of  the  title.  So  universally  is  he  hated 
that  his  murder  spreads  a  wide  shroud  of 
suspicion,  involving  two  lovers."  (Lit  R)  "No 
one  would  expect  Mr.  Terhune  to  write  a  novel 
without  a  collie.  Here  the  inevitable  dog  makes 
his  joyous  appearance  at  the  very  first,  and  at 
the  last  captures  the  defaulting  villain  and  re- 
stores justice  and  the  hero's  happiness  to  their 
rightful    throne."    (Int   Bk   R) 


Booklist   19:255   My   '23 
"  'The     Pest'     is    an    amalgamation     of    love, 
melodrama  and  collies." 

Int  Bk  R  p55  Mr  '23  250w 
"To  glorify  the  American  collie  seems  Mr. 
Terhune's  transcendent  mission  in  fiction.  His 
devotion  to  this  most  intelligent  of  dogs  almost 
reduces  to  the  realm  of  the  incidental  the  un- 
winding of  the  story  that  serves  as  a  vehicle 
for  his  propaganda.  Mr.  Terhune's  writing  is 
agreeable,  if  one  is  in  search  of  a  particularly 
light  intellectual  content,  and  his  style  ingenu- 
ously journalistic." 

-I Lit   R  p473  F  17  "23  220w 

"An  extremely  engrossing  mystery  yarn." 
-f   N   Y  Times  pl6  F  11  '23  520w 
Pratt   p38   spring   '23 
Wis   Lib   Bui  19:167  Je  '23 

THAYER,    LEE    (MRS.    H.   W.    THAYER).   Sin- 
ister   mark.    304p    $1.75    Doubleday 

23-9854 
"When  Don  Morris,  calling  at  Mary  Blake's 
house  on  the  strength  of  an  agitated  letter 
from  her,  found  a  blood-stained  scarf  pro- 
truding from  under  the  door  and  the  vacant 
apartment  in  wild  confusion,  he  concluded  that 
something  sinister  had  happened  to  one  of  the 
sisters.  Later  Clancy,  investigating  the  apart- 
ment, discovered  other  clues,  from  which 
he  deduces  some  amazingly  sensible  conclu- 
sions. The  problem  of  the  disappearance  .  of 
Mary  and  her  sister  Anne  is  complicated  by 
the  fact  that  Mary,  unlike  most  actresses, 
kept  her  past  prior  to  her  appearance  on  the 
stage  an  impenetrable  secret.  So  that  it  be- 
came Clancy's  job  not  only  to  find  the  beauti- 
ful Mary  and  her  sister  Anne  but  their  past 
as   well." — N   Y   Times 


"The  book  i.s  almost  clever  enough  to  go  into 
the  front  rank  of  detective  fiction.  If  the  mvs- 
tery  were  not  quite  so  thin,  it  would  be  one 
of  the  first  class,  for  the  characters  are  real 
people,  not  lay-figures,  the  writing  is  simple 
and  easy,  and  the  plot  highly  probable.  If  Mr. 
Thayer  keeps  on,  he  will  ventually  produce 
work  that  will  place  him  among  the  top-notch- 
ers." 

-] Greensboro    (N,C.)    Daily    News   n2n   Ag 

12   '23   250w 


"The  heavy  slabs  of  what  is  designed  to  I  e 
'comic  relief,'  and  which  finds  much  of  its  ex- 
pression through  Irish  dialect,  Italian  dialect, 
and  country  dialect,  is  very  trying  stuff  '  R. 
C.    Holliday 

—  Int   Bk   R  p58  O  '23   I50w 

"The  author  displays  a  nicely  calculated 
knowledge  of  your  powers  of  discernment  in 
letting  you  come  just  close  enough  to  solving 
the  story  to  flatter  yourself  that  you  are  help- 
ing, but  never  near  enough  to  surprise  his 
solution.  This  and  the  excellent  blending  of 
logic,  action  and  a  lover's  solicitude  make  'The 
Sinister  Mark'  one  of  the  most  readable  of 
recent    detective    tales." 

+  N    Y   Times   p25    Je    10    '23   560w 

"An  ingenious  and  irritating  hoax."  A.  D. 
Douglas 

—  NY   Tribune    p20   Je    17    '23    280w 
Reviewed    by    E.    W.    Osborn 

N    Y    World    p8e    Je    3    '23    150w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:444    O   '23 

THEVENIN,    RENE.    Barnab6    and    his    whale; 

tr.    from    the    French    by    Ben    Ray    Redman. 

312p  $2  McBride 

23-13729 

"Original  and  whimsical  of  idea  and  enter- 
taining of  style  is  the  fantastic  tale  of  'Barnab6 
and  His  Whale'  as  devised  by  Monsieur  Ren4 
Th^venin  and  adequately  translated  by  Ben 
Ra.v  Redman.  Barnabe  was  a  kindly  if  ragged 
philosopher  who  had  his  habitat  within  the 
huge  specimen  of  whale  w^hich  decorated  the 
museum  of  comparative  anatomy  at  the  Jardin 
des  Plantes  in  Paris.  Being  on  the  best  of 
terms  with  the  living  animals  of  the  menagerie 
nearby,  this  Barnab6  shared  the  plentiful  tid- 
bits which  came  their  way,  and  so  reduced 
the  high  cost  of  living  to  a  negligible  fraction. 
What  happened  when  the  inmate  of  the  whale 
undertook  to  share  his  meagre  belongings  with 
young  Blanche-Marie,  the  victim  of  the  river 
rats'  enmity,  and  to  straighten  out  the  tangle 
between  her  and  her  lover  make  an  ingeniously 
amusing    story." — Boston   Transcript 


Boston  Transcript  p8  N  14  '23  210w 
Nation  117:746  D  26  '23  150w 
"The  book  is  as  amusing  as  it  is  fantastic. 
It  lacks  the  deadly  seiiousness  of  the  average 
detective  story,  but  it  has  sleuthing  enough 
in  it  for  the  mo.st  fanatical  lover  of  crime 
stories.  There  is  satire  and  humor  and  ridic- 
ulous adventure  and  love,  all  done  with  the 
light,  clear  touch  of  the  good  French  crafts- 
man." 

-f   N    Y    Times   p9    N    11    '23    680w 

THOMA,     KURT    HERMANN.    Teeth,    diet    and 

health.    226p    il    $2    Century 
617.6  Teeth  23-8448 

The  assistant  professor  of  oral  pathology 
in  the  Harvard  dental  school  writes  this  popular 
and  helpful  book  on  oral  hygiene,  the  relation 
between  the  teeth  and  general  health  and  the 
influence  of  diet  upon  the  teeth.  All  that  any- 
one needs  to  know  about  the  development,  care 
and  replacement  of  the  teeth,  from  youth  to  old 
age,   is  told   and  illustrated. 


Booklist   19:307  JI   '23 
Reviewed     hv    M.     L.     Franklin 

Ind    110:426    Jl    7    '23    250w 
"The    counsel    that    he    gives   for    the    care    of 
teeth   from  infancy   to  old  age   is  wise   and   au- 
thoritative  and   it    is    also   set    forth    in   simple, 
untechnical  and  readable  language." 

-f   N   Y  Times  p21  My  13   '23   500w 

Springf'd    Republican    p8    Jl    5    '23    160w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:408   Jl   '23 

THOMAS,     Anqlo-Norman     poet,     12th     century. 

Roinnnce  of  Tristram  and  Ysolt;   tr.   from  the 

Old  French  and  Old  Norse  by  Roger  Sherman 

Loomis.    294p   il   $2.50     Dutton 

841     Tristan  23-5208 

This   translation    of  the    famous   medieval   ro- 
mance  is    from    the   twelfth    century   version    of 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


509 


Thomas  of  Britain,  of  which  fragments  only 
exist,  and  an  ancient  Norse  translation  of  this 
version  which  has  been  drawn  upon  where  the 
original  is  incomplete.  Mr  Loomis  uses  the  Eng- 
lish of  Chaucer's  time,  modernized  as  to  spell- 
ing. The  illustrations  are  from  the  floor-tiles  of 
Chertsey  Abbey  on  which  is  pictured  the  Tris- 
tram story. 


Boston  Transcript  p3  Mr  31  '23  1350w 
Reviewed  by  C:   De  Kay 

Lit   R   p675  My  12  '23  1350w 

N    Y    World    pGe    Mr   11    '23    160w 

THOMAS,   WILLIAM    ISAAC.      Unadjusted   girl; 

with     cases     and      standpoint     for     behavior 

analysis:    foreword    by    Mrs    W.    F.    Dummer. 

(Criminal  science  monograph  no.   4)     261p     $3 

Little 

364     Woman— Crime.     Prostitution     23-10187 

A  sociological  study  of  delinquent  and  in- 
corrigible girls.  It  opens  with  an  account  of 
the  four  wishes  which  are  instinct  in  human 
behavior — the  desire  for  new  experience,  the 
desire  for  security,  the  desire  to  love  and  be 
loved,  the  desire  for  recognition,  and  shows 
how  an  individual  life  cannot  be  normal  unless 
these  special  wishes  are  in  some  measure  satis- 
fied. "The  larger  part  of  the  book  consists  of 
case  histories  of  unadjusted  girls  showing  the 
forces  working  within  them  individually  and 
in  society  which  bring  about  their  failure.  These 
human  documents  clearly  reveal  how,  far  more 
than  any  other  cause,  poverty  contributes  to 
delinquency.  They  also  seem  to  disprove  the 
theory  that  the  prostitute  is  a  type  and  can  live 
no  other  way. 


Booklist  20:123   Ja    '24 
"As  vividly  interesting  as  it  is  enlightening." 
-f   Bookm   58:213   O   '23   20Uw 

J    Home   Econ   15:666   N  "23  30w 
Reviewed   hv   S.    N.    Cleghorn 

Nation   117:119   Ag  1   '23   950w 
"The  book  cannot  fail  to  advance  our  think- 
ing and   to  humanize  our  methods  with  respect 
to   the   problem   of   maladjustment   and   miscon- 
duct  among   girls."      Bernard    Glueck,    M.D. 
+  Survey  51:350   D   15   '23   300w 
Wis  Lib   Bui  19:406  Jl   '23 

THOMPSON,  KARL  OWEN.  Technical  expo- 
sition; a  textbook  on  the  application  of  expo- 
sition to  technical  writing;  designed  for  stu- 
dents in  scientific,  agricultural,  and  engineer- 
ing colleges.   231p   $1.75  Harper 

620.7     Technical   writing  22-10797 

"A  guide  to  such  writing  as  is  concerned 
primarily  with  explanation  of  underlying  laws 
and  principles — a  style  much  used  in  scientific 
and  technical  papers  and  in  business  reports. 
The  author  is  associate  professor  of  English  at 
Case  School  of  Applied  Science." — Pittsburgh 
Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui  28:66  F  '23 

THOMPSON,       VANCE       CHARLES.        Pointed 

tower.    329p  11   $2   Bobbs 

23-3135 

"Mr.  Guelpa,  retired  director  of  the  crime 
laboratory  of  Lyons,  is  not.  like  the  usual  ama- 
teur detective,  at  odds  with  the  official  sleuths, 
but  is  recognized  by  them.  When  he  sees  a 
dubious-looking  but  handsome  woman  pause  on 
the  Bridge  of  St.  Michael,  which  spans  the 
Seine  between  the  Latin  Quarter  and  the  busi- 
ness streets  of  Paris,  and  fumble  at  the  hand 
rail  he  watches  her  sharply.  Is  she  about  to  at- 
tempt suicide?  No,  she  walks  on,  but  then  comes 
a  man  and  stops  at  the  same  spot,  making  the 
same  gesture.  Now,  what  can  that  mean?  Mr. 
Guelpa  must  know.  As  soon  as  they  are  gone, 
he  investigates.  Ha!  a  chalk  mark,  erased.  Un- 
riddle it  if  you  can.  The  answer  tells  in  the  end 
who  killed  the  Count  de  Granlieu.  discovered 
two  hours  earlier  dead  by  a  lonely  pool  in  the 
Bois  de  Boulogne." — N  Y  Tribune 


"Lovers  of  detective  stories  will  get  a  good 
evening's  entertainment  out  of  Vance  Thomp- 
son's mystery  story  and  will  also  enjoy  the 
bits  of  love  and  romance  he  has  cleverly  woven 
into   'The  Pointed   Tower.'  " 

+    Lit  R  p820  .71  7  '23  380w 
"While  it  cannot  think  to  take  its  place  among 
the  detective  story  classics,   it  offers  a  pleasant 
evening's   relaxation   to  the  mystery  lovers." 
:|1  _  N    Y   Times   p24   .Ta    21   '23   750w 
Reviewed  by   Isabel   Paterson 

N   Y  Tribune  p22  F  4  '23  580w 

THOMSON,  SIR  BASIL  HOME.  My  experiences 
at  Scotland  yard  (Eng  title  Queer  people). 
359p  $2.50  Doubleday 

940.485       Scotland     yard.       Secret     service. 
European    war,    1914-1919 — Secret   service 

23-2478 

Sir  Basil  Thomson  was  head  of  the  Criminal 
investigation  department  of  Scotland  yard  from 
1913  to  1921,  so  that  his  experiences  cover 
British  secret  service  activities  during  the 
World  war.  Most  of  his  book  is  occupied  with 
an  account  of  the  persons  suspected  as  spies 
or  traitors  during  that  time — German,  Irish  and 
Indian  agents,  spies  from  South  America, 
women  spies,  journalistic  and  military  spies, 
and  royal  pretenders.  Separate  chapters  are 
devoted  to  Sir  Roger  Casement,  Rasputin,  the 
bogus  armistice,  the  Russian  revolutionaries, 
and  Red  agitators. 


Int   Bk  R  p58  F  '23  400w 


"The  entire  book  is  interesting,  amusinft, 
enlightening.  Its  author  has  an  all-pervading 
sense  of  humor  which  crops  out  on  every  page. 
He  writes  informally  and  with  rare  self-efface- 
ment. There  is  hardly  a  dull  paragraph  in  any 
of  his  chapters."   W:  B.   Munro 

+  Atlantic's    Bookshelf  Mr  '23  700w 
Booklist   19:187   Mr  '23 
Bookm    57:469   .le   '23   loOw 
Cleveland    p72    S   '23 
"Here    is    a    chief    detective    with    a   sense    of 
what  is  amusing.    He  was  London's  head  police- 
man during  the  War:   he  had  been  governor  of 
two   prisons;    he    knows    how    to   write,    how   to 
skim    lightly    over    what    is    disagreeable,    treat 
with  due  seriousness  all  that  is  actually  grave, 
and  yet  discuss  with  a  twinkling  eye  the  many 
laughable  incidents  of  his  work."  E.  L.  Pearson 
-I-  Ind  110:61  Ja  20  '23  600w 
Reviewed  bv  T:  L.  Masson 

Int  Bk  R  pl6  Mr  '23  2500w 
"Sir    Basil    writes    with    an    abundance    of    do- 
tail   and  with   a   pood   narrative   style.     He   tells 
all    that    we   want    to   know   regarding   the   war- 
time    problems     of    the     Briti.sh     secret     service 
and    desciibes    its   achievements    in    full,    but   he 
is   reticent    as   to    its   methods"     Allan   Nevins 
4-   Lit    R    p516    Ml-   10    '23    1150w 
Reviewed  bv  Walter  Littlefield 

N   Y  Times  pl4  Ja  14  '23  2050w 
"Sir    Basil    has    made    a    notably    interesting 
book  about  crime  and  criminals;   it   is  in  turns 
exciting  and  amusing.     The  book  is  authorita- 
tive  and    readable."  „„  .„„ 
+  Outlook  133:412  F  28  '23  190w 

Springf  d   Republican  p8  .Ta  13  '23  130w 

THOMSON,    GLADYS    SCOTT.    Lords    lieuten- 
ants   in     the    sixteenth    century:     a     s',"dy    in 
Tudor     local     administration.      182p     $3      (9s) 
Longmans 
352.042    Lords    lieutenants.    Great    Britain — 
Politics   and  government.    Local  government 

2  <  >  ~  o  u  J  o 
"An  attempt  is  made  in  this  monograph  to 
begin  an  investigalion  into  county  govern- 
nif^nt  in  Ihe  sixleenib  century  by  an  examin- 
ation of  the  figure  of  the  Lord  Lieutenant,  the 
local  magnate  who  was  the  representative  of 
the  Crown.  Some  account  is  given  of  the  origin 
and  growth  of  his  ofl^ce,  which  began  as  a 
temporary  military  post,  but  the  story  of  which 
belongs  also  to  the  history  of  local  admin- 
istration, since  those  matters  with  which  the 
Lieutenant    and    his    Deputies    were    called    up- 


510 


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THOMSON,  GLADYS  SCOTT— Continued 
on  to  deal  in  the  service  of  the  Crown  de- 
manded at  least  as  much  administrative  skill 
as  aptitude  in  the  military  arts.  The  letters 
which  passed  between  the  Council  and  the  rulers 
of  the  counties,  as  well  as  the  private  correspon- 
dence of  the  latter,  are  drawn  upon  to  give  a 
picture  of  the  working  of  the  system." — Pub- 
lisher's note 


_  "The  unsatisfactory  elements  of  the  study  are 
m  the  subject  and  not  in  its  treatment.  The 
outlines  are  clear,  and  sufficient  illustrative 
rnatter  is  given.  If  there  is  a  fault,  it  is  that 
the  author  has  not  persuaded  us  that  the  lord 
lieutenancy  in  the  sixteenth  century  was  more 
important  than  we  have  been  accustomed  to 
think    it."      E.    P.    Chase 

-I Am    Pol    Sci    R   17:672   N   '23   900w 

Boston  Transcript  p3  Jl  7  '23  300w 
New  Statesman  21:426  Jl  14  '23  6S0w 
"A  number  of  points  not  dealt  with  by  Miss 
Thomson  occur  to  us.  But  on  the  whole  Miss 
Thomson  has  given  an  admirable  and  fairly 
complete  account  of  the  foundation  and  de- 
velopment of  an  institution  whose  utility  has 
not   yet   been    exhausted." 

H Sat    R   135:668   My  19   '23    450vv 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p364  My  31 
'23  850w 

THOMSON,   JOHN    ARTHUR.   Biology  of  birds. 

436p  $5  Macmillan 
598.2    Birds 

The  aim  of  the  book  is  to  illustrate  biologi- 
cal ideas  thru  a  study  of  one  particular  animal 
group,  that  of  birds.  It  traces  the  origin  and 
evolution  of  birds  and  shows  how  such  biologi- 
cal concepts  as  adaptation,  struggle,  sex,  he- 
redity, variation,  selection  and  behavior  are 
worked  out  in  them.  The  last  chapter,  on  birds 
and  the  web  of  life,  discusses  the  part  of 
birds  in  the  complex  system  of  interrelations 
by  which  animate  nature  maintains  its  equi- 
librium and  also  the  part  man  has  played  in 
the  domestication  or  extinction  of  certain 
species  of  birds. 


'The  Biology  of  Birds  is  not  merely  one  of 
those  books  which  are  to  be  recommended,  as 
pleasant  and  instructive  reading,  to  those  in- 
terested in  natural  history  and  outdoor  life. 
It    is    indispensable    to    them."    B.    D 

+   New  Statesman  21:746  O  6  '23  lOSOw 

"Perhaps  in  the  next  edition  Professor  Thom- 
son will  rewrite  the  section  on  development, 
which  is  not  only  too  small  in  scale,  but  dealt 
with  in  a  wholly  inadequate  way,  with  mystery 
substituted  for  principle,  in  strong  contrast  with 
the  rest  of  the  book.  Two  other  general  crit- 
icisms are  that  the  book  is  insufficiently  sup- 
plied with  figures  and  diagrams,  and  that  the 
author  is  sometimes  less  convincing  on  mat- 
ters of  detail  than  on  those  of  principle.  How- 
ever, we  warmly  welcome  The  Biology  of  Birds  " 
Julian   Huxley 

\-  Spec  131:901  D  8  "23  1300w 

ii''"fl®o   T'.Tl?^    [London]    Lit    Sup    p665    O 
11      23     1400w 

THORNDIKE,  LYNN.  History  of  magic  and 
experimental  science  during  the  first  thirteen 
centuries    of   our   era.    2v    835;1036p    $10   Mac- 

510.9    Magic.    Science— History  23-2984 

''The  book  aims  to  treat  the  history  of  mae-ic 
and  experimenta  science  and  their  relations  to 
Christian  thought  during  the  fir.st  thirteen 
centuries  of  our  era,  with  especial  emphasis 
upon  the  twelfth  and  thirteenth  centu™ 
Magic  IS  here  understood  in  the  broadest  sense 
cJi3.^  '^°''*^'  as  including  all  occult  arts  and 
sciences,  superstitions  and  folk-lore.  .  .  My  idea 
K^i^*  magic  and  experimental  science  have 
been  connected  in  their  development-  thit 
^^M'?l^^^.^^^^-  perhaps  the  first  to  experiment- 
ancT  that  the  history  of  both  magic  ^de^nl^h 
mental  science  can  be  better  understood  bv 
studying  them  together."  (Introd.)  Bibliogranhv 
Biographical   and   general    index     '"""°STapby. 


Booklist    20:121    Ja   '24 
Boston    Transcript   p5   Je   23   '23    900w 
Cleveland    p55   Jl   '23 
J   Religion  3:332  My  '23  30w 
"Professor      Thorndike      has      unquestionably 
achieved    in    the    generous    volumes    of   his    new 
book   something  of   permanent   and   outstanding 
importance."     G.    H.    Gerould 

+  Lit  R  p748  Je  9  '23  850w 
"As  a  reference  book  this  History  is  admir- 
able. But  the  result  is  an  almost  unbroken 
series  of  analyses;  the  details  are  innumerable 
and  through  them  one  searches  vainly  for  an 
indication  of  the  broad  line  of  development;  the 
historian  offers  practically  no  synthesizing 
summary  until  we  reach  his  final  chapter,  and 
even  there  the  summary  is  meager.  Despite 
these  defects.  Professor  Thorndike's  book  is  a 
weighty  and  noteworthy  achievement.  He  has 
assembled  and  put  in  order  a  vast  body  of  facts 
which  will  serve  as  material  for  some  future 
historian   of   thought."     S:   C.    Chew 

H Nation    116:sup437   Ap   11    '23    1500w 

"Wide-reaching  scholarship  and  extensive 
special  knowledge  have  combined  in  the  produc- 
tion of  this  work,  which  is  almost  monumental 
in  its  extent  and  detail  and  yet  is  oddly  fas- 
cinating because  of  its  subject  and  the  strange- 
ness of  the   facts  collected." 

+  Outlook  133:456  Mr  7  '23  220w 
"The  work  as  a  whole  stands  out  as  a  first- 
rate   piece    of   historical    research,    authoritative 
and  scholarly,  and,  what  is  more,  of  undoubted 
literary   value." 

+  Spec  130:sup480  Mr  24  '23   680w 
"A    masterly   and    engaging   piece   of    scholar- 
ship." 

-f  Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Je  10  '23  950w 

THORN E,   GUY,   pseud.     See  Gull,   C.   A.   E:   R. 

THORPE,    FRANCIS    NEWTON.     Essentials  of 
American  government.  190p  $1.75  Putnam 
353    United  States — Politics  and  government 

22-20270 
The  book  provides  an  outline  of  the  prin- 
ciples on  which  American  government  rests.  It 
is  intended  for  use  as  a  college  text,  to  he  sup- 
plemented by  additional  readings  which  are 
suggested  at  the  end  of  each  chapter.  Index. 


Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:145  F  '23  70w 
"Into  a  volume  of  less  than  two  hundred 
pages,  which  may  be  used  either  for  text-book 
purposes  or  for  general  reading,  Dr.  Thorpe 
has  skilfully  compacted  the  main  and  essential 
principles  of  government  as  we  understand  and 
experience  it  in  the  United  States:  and  while 
admitting  the  difficulty  of  such  an  effort,  having 
regard  alike  to  the  vastness  of  the  material  and 
the  variety  of  opinion  on  it,  he  has  carried  out 
the  undertaking  with  a  degree  of  success 
which  promises  well  for  the  usefulness  of  his 
book." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p9  N  22  '22  550w 
"There  is  little  continuity  in  the  discussion. 
It  is  faulty  in  perspective,  and  it  gives  an  im- 
pression of  glib  superficiality.  Certainly  there 
IS  no  depth  to  it,  even  with  full  consideration 
that  it  was  intended  for  popular  consumption. 
A  dozen  texts  might  be  named  which  would 
give  the  student  or  reader  a  better  conception 
of  fundamentals."   J.   G.   de  R.   H. 

—  Greensboro  (N.C.)   Daily  News  pl3  F  11 
'23  550w 

R  of  Rs  67:222  F  '23  20w 

THOULESS,  ROBERT  H.  Introduction  to  the 
psychology  of  religion.  286p  $2.50  Macmillan 
[7s    6d   Cambridge   univ.    press] 

201     Religion^ — Psychology  23-3846 

A  book  of  wide  scope  written  in  moderate 
comnass  and  intended  for  those  unlearned  in 
psychology  who  yet  wish  to  study  the  psychologi- 
cal problem.s  of  religion.  Its  conclusions  are 
brought  in  line  with  such  modern  psychological 
developments  as  psychoan.-vlysis  and  the  find- 
ings of  the  Nancy  school  of  auto-suggestion. 


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511 


Cleveland   p55   Jl   '23 

J   Religion  3:333  My  '23  30w 

"The  writer  exhibits  ;i  deep  appreciation  of 
religion  and  genuine  insight  into  its  charac- 
teristic forms  and  motives.  His  style  is  clear  and 
direct,  although  not  in  the  least  distinguished, 
and  his  exposition  is  as  simple  as  can  be  ex- 
pected of  any  psychological  analysis  whiah 
aspires  to  truth  and  thoroughness.  No  acquaint- 
ance with  psychological  terminology  or  conclu- 
sions is  presupposed."  E:  L.  Schaub 
H J    Religion  3:431  Jl  '23  780w 

"He  treats  this  subject  with  great  insight 
and  exactness,  and  interprets  it  sympathetical- 
ly in  the  light  of  recent  psychoanalytical  tl'!eo)y. 
"The  book,  while  avowedly  'popular,'  will  be  of 
interest  to  students  both  of  religion  and  of  psy- 
chology." 

-I-   Nature  111:805  Je  16  '23  fiOOw 

"Mr.  Thouless  is  careful  throughout  to  pre- 
serve a  proper  scientific  detachment  and  not  to 
grind  any  theological  axe;  but  in  his  last  chap- 
ter he  uses  his  data  to  construct  an  excellent 
Christian  Apologetic  of  a  pragmatic  order,  which 
will  appeal  to  all  those  who  seek  in  psychology 
and  philosophy  for  evidence  in  favour  of  their 
Christian    beliefs." 

+  Spec  130:559  Mr  31  "23  150w 

"The  author  covers  a  deal  of  old  ground,  as 
is  necessary,  yet  with  a  new  and  readable  turn. 
And  he  is  most  reverent.  The  book  is  one  which 
well  might  find  a  useful  place  in  any  pastor's 
study,  and  can  be  recommended  to  students 
whether  in  college  or  out." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  pl2  Ap  10  '23  400w 

The  threshold,  by   M.  W.   A.    239p  $2  Macmillan 
110       Life  23-8935 

"The  author  of  this  book,  a  woman  who  has 
had  rather  a  strange  life,  writes  of  nature, 
literature,  money,  religion,  life,  death  and  the 
future.  As  a  child,  self-centered,  shy,  hyper- 
sensitive, liking  solitude,  afraid  of  life,  finding  in 
herself  remedy  for  her  sorrows,  she  lived  as 
many  another  like  her  has  lived — out  of  touch 
with  those  about  her,  misunderstood  and  mis- 
judged. Reared  without  the  freedom  that  is 
the  birthright  of  every  child,  she  grew  up  with 
mystery  all  about  her.  She  must  not  ask  ques- 
tions; she  must  not  indulge  in  curiosity.  The 
author  finds  much  in  nature  to  soothe  her  and 
make  life  worth  living.  She  finds  an  answer  to 
her  heart's  longings  in  the  winds,  the  spray,  the 
clouds,  the  wild  flowers  and  the  birds." — N  Y 
Times 


tended  entrance  into  the  convent  happened  to 
be  May  eve,  on  which  the  mysterious  tinker  of 
Ualliiiatray  came  playing  on  his  magic  pipe. 
He  lured  Roona  into  the  enchanted  forest. 
Chri.slopher  Casson,  the  young  folklore  student, 
also  followed  the  piper  into  the  moonlit  wood. 
The  magic  doorway  opened  for  them  and  they 
had  eyes  to  see  it  and  to  enter. 


Cath   World   118:282  N  '23   240w 

"A  book  of  meditations,  charming,  thoughtful, 
sincere. ' ' 

+  Detroit  News  p23  D  9  '23  180w 
N  Y  Times  p26  Jl  29  '23  600w 
"The  outcome  of  a  mind  singularly  gifted  and 
fully  appreciative  of  the  modern  world  of  sci- 
ence, art  and  thought,  and  expressing  itself 
in  a  literary  style  of  lucid  and  satisfying 
quality,  a  reader  of  philosophic  tastes  may 
learn  what  are  the  true  possibilities  for  the 
spirit  of  man  of  a  religion  which  sees  the  beauty 
and  meaning  of  the  cosmos,  and  also  looks 
beyond  it." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p491    Jl 
19    '23    llOw 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:405  Jl  '23 

THURSTON,   ERNEST  TEMPLE.     May  eve;  or 
2    The   tinker   of  Ballinatray.      341p     .$2     Apple- 
ton 

23-16041 
Between  sunset  on  May  eve  and  sunrise  on 
May  morning,  they  say  in  Ireland,  it  is  the 
fairies'  hour.  The  magic  doorways  are  open 
for  those  who  have  eyes  to  see  them.  Before 
the  May  eve  with  which  this  tale  of  strange 
happenings  is  concerned,  Roona  Charteris,  the 
profe.ssor's  daughter,  had  grown  up,  but  her 
father  was  not  aware  of  the  fact  or  of  her 
existence,  even.  He  was  more  interested  in 
lepidoptera.  Like  her  mother  before  her, 
Roona  was  afraid  of  life  and  had  made  up  her 
mind    to    be    a    nun.      But    the    eve    of    her    in- 


"A  rea.'^suring  and  delightful  piece  of  roman- 
tic   writing."    H.    W.    Boynton 

+   Ind    111:315    D    22    '23    llOw 

'"■J'hat    he    has    completely    circumscribed    his 
theme    should    be   apparent   to   the   most   casual 
reader,  and  in  so  doing  he  has  fashioned  a  story 
that   clo:^ely   compels   attention   by   its   unity." 
+   N    Y    Times   p9   D   9   '23    500w 

"The  fairies  indeed  must  have  been  guiding 
the  hand  of  that  prolific  writer,  E.  Temple 
Thurston,  when  he  wrote  May  Eve.  Up  and 
away  from  the  prosaic  old  world  we  are  lifted 
with  Roona  into  a  world  of  magically  unbelieve- 
able  sweetness."     Ruth   Snyder 

+   N    Y    World    p9e    N    18    '23    420w 

THWING,  CHARLES  FRANKLIN.  Human 
Aiistralasia;  studies  of  society  and  of  educa- 
tidh  in  Australia  and  New  Zealand.  270p  $2.50 
Macmillan 

919.4   Australia.    New  Zealand  23-4280 

The  book  is  a  study  of  the  human  element  in 
Australia  and  New  Zealand.  Among  the  sub- 
jects treated  are  the  Australasian  policy  of 
maintaining  a  white  civilization,  their  indus- 
trial experiments,  education,  religion,  literature, 
standards  of  life,  and  the  contributions  which 
may  be  expected  from  these  two  countries  to 
I  he    world's    civilization. 


Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:339  My  '23  270w 
"Never  was  a  study  like  this  of  Dr  Thwing'a 
published  at  a  more  opportune  time.  For  while 
the  news  has  recently  been  flashed  across  the 
woild  that  the  Conunonwealth  of  Australia  is 
about  to  promulgate  a  law  whereby  all  future 
immigration  to  its  shores  shall  be  of  the  white 
race  "exclusively,  the  average  outlander  knows 
little  of  the  conditions,  social  or  economic, 
which  brought  into  being  this  epochal  decree." 
Frances  Bartlett 

+   Boston  Transcript  p3  Mr  3  '23  1350w 

Cath    World    117:708   Ag   '23    330w 
Reviewed   bv  E.    E.    Slosson 

Lit   R  p813   Jl  7   '23   SOOw 
"A    careful,    conscientious    survey." 
+  Nation    116:727   Je   20   '23   50w 
"His  book  [has]   unusual  value." 

-I-   N    Y   Times   p6  Mr  4  '23  280w 
N   Y  World  p7e  Mr  4  '23  350w 
Outlook    133:766   Ap    25    '23    600w 
R   of   Rs   67:446  Ap   '23   400w 
"It   cannot   be   said   that   President   Thwing  is 
adding  greatly   to  information  on  Australia  and 
New    Zealand    otherwise    easily    available.     Nor 
are   his   judgments,    usually    based   on   quotation 
of   native    evidence,    either   conclusive    or    espe- 
cially  original.    .    .    There    is   nevertheless   value 
in     an     impressionistic     account     given     by    an 
American  student  with  a  trained  eye  for  human 

[-Survey   50:supl94   My  1   '23  lOOw 

TICKNER,  FREDERICK  WINDHAM.  Women 
in  English  economic  history.  236p  il  $1.50  Dut- 
ton 

331.4  Woman — Employment.  Women  in 
England 
A  brief  account  of  women's  share  in  English 
life  and  industry  from  the  middle  ages  to  the 
present.  Part  one  is  devoted  to  the  household 
duties  of  the  women  of  the  peasant  class  and 
of  the  gentlefolk  and  the  work  of  women  in 
the  various  crafts  during  the  fourteenth  and 
fifteenth  centuries.  Part  two  deals  with  the 
period  of  domestic  industiies.  Part  three  covers 
the  industrial  revolution  and  the  changes  It 
brought  on.  the  entrance  of  women  into  fac- 
tory life  and  the  development  of  the  factory  sys- 


512 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


TICKNER,    FREDERICK    WINDHAM — Cont. 
teni,     the     spread     ot     education     resulting     in 
women's      invasion      of      the      proressions,      and 
women's    work   during   the   World   war. 


"Simple   and   readable    in   style   and   sound    in 
the    material    it    presents,     this    new    study    of 
woinen's  work  shovild  prove  valuable  to  students 
of  economic   history."     Willystine   Goodsell 
+   Lit   R  pl89  O  27  '23   odOw 

"The  simple,  pleasant  and  readable  style  iii 
which  this  little  book  is  written  does  not  pre- 
vent it  from  being  historically  accurate  and  pre- 
senting a  great  deal  of  interesting  and  impor- 
tant matter." 

+   N  Y  Times  p25  Ag  12  '23  600w 

TILDEN,    FREEMAN.     Mr   Podd.     288p   $2  Mac- 
mil  Ian 

23-9745 

"Mr.  Podd  has  become  rich  by  selling  noz- 
zles. He  has  a  splendid  efficiency  system  and 
wants  to  use  it  to  bring  about  a  brotherhood 
of  nations,  and  incidentally  to  give  away  the 
copies  of  his  great  book  on  the  subject,  which 
has  fallen  flat.  So  he  plans  a  world-wide  voy- 
age, and  selects  eight  people,  men  and  women, 
to  accompany  his  daughter  and  himself.  These 
eight  cranks  and  faddists  advocate  everything 
from  Mental  Science  down,  and  each  holds  forth 
on  his  special  fad,  so  that  one  is  reminded  of 
Ford's  peace  ship,  on  which,  it  was  said,  the 
cranks  had  to  pay  one  another  to  listen.  Of 
course  they  all  land  on  an  island  (or  rather 
are  marooned  there  by  a  crew  unhappily  con- 
verted to  piracy  by  their  radical  passengers), 
and  their  attempts  at  community  goverimient 
are    queer   enough." — Outlook 


Booklist   20:23   O   "23 

"There  are  few  stories  more  difflcult  of  writ- 
ing than  the  humorous  story.  Mr.  Tilden 
makes  an  exceedingly  good  beginning.  .  . 
The  story  rapidly  progresses  into  very  broad 
farce.  Most  of  its  situations  prove  amusing  but 
there  are  some  which  stretch  our  credulity  to 
the  utmost."   D.   L.   M. 

-\ Boston   Transcript   p6  Jl   11   '23   1880w 

"One  cannot  let  the  book  pass  without  callng 
attention  to  the  absence  of  any  effective  proof 
reading.  There  are  enough  errors  of  printing 
alone  to  make  one  wonder  if  it  was  not  set  up 
and  run  off  by  the  printer's  devil  if  such  a 
person   still  exists." 

—  Greensboro   (N.C.)    Daily  News  p8  Je  24 
•23   1200w 

"  'Mr.    Podd'    is   neither   a   great   satire   nor   a 
great  novel,  but  it  is  a  very  entertaining  yarn  " 
-I Int   Bk   R  p60  S  '23  43nw 

"Mr.  Freeman's  tale  is  one  of  the  healthiest 
and  most  downright  humorous  satires  that  can 
be  imagined.  It  keeps  to  a  high  and  fresh  level 
throughout.  It  is  the  pleasantest  vohune  to 
stick  in  a  summei-  vacation  packet  which  the 
reviewer  has  yet  found;  and  it  is  one  book  to 
be  brought  back  and  kept."  C:  McD.  Puckette 
+   Lit   R  p843  Jl  21  '23  GOOw 

"Communists,  free-verse  writers,  vegetai-ians 
and  the  intelligentsia  generally  will  find  it 
ashes  in  their  mouths.  But  most  others,  most 
eveiy-day  folk  who  are  content  with  the  im- 
mediate job  and  think  the  world  a  pretty  good 
sort  of  place,  will  consume  the  story  with  relish 
and  smack  their  lips  over  its  thousand  delicious 
comments  on  the  stupidities  of  the  hour." 
+  N   Y  Times  pl6  Je  17  '23  800w 

"It  is  worse  than  setting  up  men  of  straw 
and  demolishing  them  with  cannon  balls.  It  is 
like  drawing  up  a,  troop  of  cream  puffs  and 
charging  them  with  the  embattled  elephants  of 
the  maharajah."  A.  D.  Douglas 

—  NY  Tribune  p21   .11  S  '23   4.'')0w 

"It  is  our  notion  that  the  joy  of  life  is  going 
to  be  promoted  to  an  extraordinary  degree  for 
those  readers  who  are  so  fortunate  as  to  be- 
come possessed  of  'Mr.  Podd.'  Nothing  that  we 
have  read  in  a  longer  time  than  we  can  define 
has  kept  us  in  so  constant  a  mood  of  laughter 
as   has   this   story   of   an   experiment  in   human 


brotherhood  out  of  which  the  might-have-been- 
expected    emerges    leapingly."    E.    W.    Osborn 
-i-  N   Y  World  pl9  Je  17  '23  900w 
"This  is  a  highly  entertaining,  cheerful,  and 
distinctly    original    story."    R.    D.    Townsend 
-i-  Outlook    134:287   Je   27    '23   160w 
Reviewed   by   Gerald   Gould 

Sat   R   130:659  D  15  '23   480w 
Sprlngf'd  Republican  v^Ya  Jl  Ij  '23  55Cw 
"Mr.   Podd  is  rather  good  fun  in  his  way  and 
he    might    be    very    good    fun    if    there    was    not 
u   little    too    much   of   him." 

-I The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p792    N 

22   '23    150w 

TILDEN,      WILLIAM      TATEM.       Singles     and 
doubles.    228p    il    $2    Doran    [6s    Methuen] 

79G     Tennis  23-6866 

The  tennis  champion  treats  the  sport  chiefly 
from  the  competitive  angle.  Beginning  with  an 
outline  of  tennis  history,  Mr  "Tilden  writes  of 
famous  stars  and  championships,  of  the  quali- 
ties that  make  successful  match -players,  of 
women  versus  men  in  sport,  the  different  ser- 
vices he  has  met  in  his  experience  and  some 
impressions    of   California    tennis. 


"A  volume  of  essays  upon  lawn  tennis,  easy, 
amusing  and   instructive   to   read." 

+   Ind    110:325    My    12    '23    llOw 
Reviewed  by  A.   D.   Douglas 

Int  Bk  R  p61  My  '23  60w 
"Parts  of  this  book  are  jerry-built  stuff  put 
in  to  make  it  a  bookful,  but  as  a  whole  it  is 
good  and  pleasant  reading  for  devotees,  and  the 
champion's  writing  is  better  jackplaned  than  It 
was   in    'The  Art   of  Lawn   Tennis.'  " 

H Lit    R    p612   Ap   14    '23    300w 

"  'Singles  and  Doubles'  is  a  slightly  mislead- 
ing title  for  the  champion's  book,  for  there  is 
little  about  the  doubles  games  in  it.  Instead 
Tilden  has  devoted  himself  to  setting  down 
opinions  and  impressions  at  random,  skipping 
from  one  subject  to  another  without  warning. 
There  is  an  entertaining  quality  about  the  sub- 
jects America's  greatest  player  writes  about, 
but  everywhere  there  is  evidence  that  the  book 
was  written  in  haste."     Fred  Hawthorne 

1-   N  Y  Tribune   p23  Ap  8  '23  llOOw 

"A  collection  of  fifteen  little  essays  on  any 
aspect  of  the  game  that  happens  to  interest 
the  author.  .  .  It  is  the  touch  of  exuberance 
that  makes  Mr.  Tilden's  play  and  writing  at- 
tractive." 

-I The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p375  My 

31   '23   350w 

TILLE,  V.  Little  Tom.  136p  il  $3  Writers 
pub.  CO..  inc.,  9  W.  64th  St..  N.Y. 
"The  chronicle  of  a  tiny  gnome  suddenly  pro- 
jected into  the  world  of  humanity,  and  be- 
friended by  a  kindly  old  woman."  (Lit  R)  "If 
you  are  eight  or  thereabouts  you  may  follow 
with  sympathy  the  thrilling  vicissitudes  of  little 
Tom,  literary  descendant  of  sixteenth-century 
Tom  Thumb,  as  he  is  thrown  first  among 
mortals  and  then  among  the  ants,  rose-bugs, 
and  lady-birds."    (Nation) 

"Distracted  parents  and  guardians  seeking 
new  means  to  supply  the  omnivorous  demands 
of  youthful  readers  could  do  no  better  than  to 
possess  themselves  of  this  delightful  Czecho- 
slovakian  tale.  It  is  a  dainty  and  charming 
story." 

+  Lit    R    p723   My   26   '23   160w 

"If  the  reader  misses  in  this  thin  volume  the 
imaginative  power  and  charm  of  Grimm  and 
Andersen,  it  is  doubtless  because  he  has  grown 
too  old  or  because  in  his  day  fairy  stories  turned 
out  'happily  ever  after.'  The  colored  Illustra- 
tions by  Ml'.  StAfi  are  fascinating.  The  great 
number  of  typogi-aphical  errors  may  be  due  to 
a  dearth  of  English  proof-readers  in  Czecho- 
slovakia." 

-f-   Nation   117:247   S   5   '23   280w 

"The  pictures  are  in  the  best  style  of  Eur- 
opean illustrated  art,  and  in  such  vivid  colors 
that  the  child's  eye  is  sure  to  be  held  fascinated 
by  them." 

4-  Springfd  Republican  p9e  S  2  '23  120w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


513 


TILLEY,  ARTHUR  AUGUSTUS,  ed.     Medieval 
France;   a  companion  to  French  studies.   456p 
il  $8.50  Macmillan  [25s  Cambridge  univ.  press] 
944     France— History  [22-17370] 

"Its  aim  is  to  present  within  a  moderate 
compass  a  survey  of  the  history  (political,  mili- 
tary, naval,  economic),  language,  literature,  and 
art  of  France  during  the  Middle  Ages — the  form- 
ative period  in  the  development  of  her  life  as  in 
that  of  every  other  Western  European  nation. 
For  such  an  undertaking  it  would  be  difficult 
to  find  a  better  editor  than  Mr.  Arthur  Tllley, 
a  University  Lecturer  whose  works  on  French 
literature  are  well  known  to  a  wider  audience. 
His  contributors  number  ten  writers,  of  whom 
most  are   French." — New  Statesman 


Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  26  '22  780w 
"The  present  work  fulfills  its  program  of  pre- 
senting 'within  a  moderate  compass'  all  that  is 
essential    for    an    understanding    of    the    France 
of  the  Middle   Age.<^."   W:   A.   Nitze 

+  New  Repub  32:sup20  O  25  '22  1300w 
"An  unusually  balanced   and  fruitful  example 
of  the  not  too  easy  science  of  collaboration." 
-I-   New  Statesman  19:542  Ag  19  '22  780w 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:126  Mr  '23 
"The    whole    book   carries    authority   and    will 
be   confidently   used   by   students." 

4-  Sat    R    133:635   .Te   17   '22   550w 
"Such  a  book  as  this  has  long  been   needed." 

+  Spec  129:313  S  2  '22  250w 
"From  its  very  conception  there  is  inevitably 
a  certain  dryness  and  austerity  about  this  book. 
But  it  serves  its  purpose.  Of  whatever  the 
student  be  in  search  he  will  find  here,  if  not 
the  thing  itself,  directions  for  finding  it.  In- 
deed, we  do  not  believe  that  there  exists  any 
one  book  of  this  size  which  will  provide  us 
with  the  same  amount  of  information  on  Medie- 
val England  as   this  on  Medieval  France." 

-f  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p353   Je 
1    '22    1950W 

TILLEY,  ARTHUR  AUGUSTUS,  ed.  Modern 
France;  a  companion  to  French  studies.  850p 
il  $12   Macmillan    [35s  Cambridge  univ.    press] 

944  France — History 
"This  successor  to  'Medieval  France,'  the 
merits  of  which  have  already  obtained  wide 
recognition  represents  a  far  more  ambitious 
effort.  Though  this  book  is  nearly  twice  as 
long  as  its  predecessor,  its  contributors  have 
had  more  difficulty  in  putting  all  they  have  had 
to  say  into  the  space  at  their  disposal.  This 
is  particularly  the  case  when  they  came  to 
modern  times.  The  two  largest  sections  of  the 
book  are  those  dealing  with  History  and  Litera- 
ture, M.  Emile  Bourgeois  being  the  chief  con- 
tributor to  the  former  and  the  editor  to  the 
latter.  The  other  sections  treat  of  the  Army, 
the  Navy,  Economic  and  Social  Life,  the  Fi- 
nance of  the  Ancien  Regime,  Law,  Education 
and  Learning,  Architecture,  Painting  and  Sculp- 
ture, Music,  the  Stage,  Philosophy,  Math- 
ematics, and  Science.  There  are  twenty-two 
contributors,  thirteen  French  and  nine  British." 
—The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup 


Boston  Transcript  p6  F  14  '23  1050w 
"In  such  a  compilation  as  this,  different 
chapters  will  Inevitably  be  of  differing  value, 
but  the  book  as  a  whole  is  nobly  planned  and 
is  a  considerable  achievement.  It  is  a  book  to 
buy  and  keep,  as  it  contains  a  world  of  informa- 
tion of  the  kind  the  ordinary  muddle-headed 
man  always  wants  to  know  and  generally  con- 
trives to  forget.  The  bibliographies  are  of 
great  value  and  the  index  beyond  reproach." 
F.   B. 

+  New  Statesman  20:144  N  4  "22  2200w 
"It  is  manifestly  impossible  to  give  an  ade- 
quate notion  of  the  richness  of  the  various  sec- 
tions of  this  one-volume  encyclopedia  covering 
all  the  accomplishments  of  the  gieat  French  na- 
tion for  four  centuries:  the  index  alone  covers 


about  5,600  lines  and  each  chapter  is  fortified 
with  a  worthy  though  not  complete  bibliog- 
raphy."    N.   H.   Dole 

4-   N   Y  Times  p7  Ap  1  '23  3000w 

"The  whole  is  a  Manual,  a  "Companion'  with- 
in fixed  limits,  an  introduction.  And,  so  con- 
sidered, it  will  have  its  uses.  It  does  not  mis- 
lead; the  statements  are  careful;  the  general 
outlines    are   maintained." 

-\ Sat    R    134:841  D   2   '22   600w 

"The  bibliographies  are  well  chosen  and  the 
index  capable.  The  student  of  any  special 
branch  of  French  life  or  letters  will  receive 
from  this  Companion  to  PYench  Studies  a  valu- 
able sense  of  unity;  he  will  understand  how 
very  closely  the  arts  and  sciences  have  been 
knit  with  the  history  of  the  French  people." 
+  Spec  130:106  Ja  20  '23  550w 

"This  book,  like  its  predecessor,  represents 
a  group  of  stores  supplying  to  the  public  diverse 
information,  all  prepared  by  experts,  but,  gen- 
erally speaking,  more  remarkable  for  soundness 
and  solidity  than  for  charm  of  form  or  sug- 
gestion. And  yet,  when  the  book  has  been  shut 
and  one  thinks  of  all  its  so  varied  chapters, 
there  does  seem  to  emerge  a  synthesis,  a  general 
idea  of  the  French  nation  that  is  probably 
truer  and  more  complete  than  one  evoked  by 
any  continuous   historical  work." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p675    O 
26    '22   1600w 

TILLYARD,  FRANK.  Worker  and  the  st&,te, 
wages,  hours,  safety  and  health.  (London 
school  of  economics.  Ratan  Tata  foundation. 
Univ.  of  London)  298p  $5  Dutton  [10s  6d 
Routledge] 

338.9  Industrial  laws  and  legislation  23-2651 
The  book  deals  with  English  industrial  legisla- 
tion for  the  health,  safety,  and  general  well- 
being  of  the  worker,  including  the  fixing  and 
payment  of  wages.  Its  aim  is  to  give  a  full  and 
accurate  account  of  existing  law  in  readable 
form. 


"Here  is  a  plain  matter-of-fact  account, 
historical  as  well  as  expository,  of  the  extent 
to  which  the  British  Government  has  inter- 
vened between  employers  and  employed  for 
the  purpose  of  securing  the  health,  safety 
and  general  well-being  of  the  worker  class." 
4    Boston    Transcript    p6    Jl    3    '23    340w 

"It  is  a  competent  piece  of  work,  which 
will  be  useful  both  to  Trade  Union  organisers 
and  employers,  and  to  students  desiring  to 
get    a    general    grip    of    the    subject." 

4-   New    Statesman    20:550    F    10    '23    240w 

"The  whole  is  presented  in  a  most  readable 
form,  and  without  being  overloaded  with  de- 
tail, the  treatment  as  a  whole  is  comprehen- 
sive and  also  fair-minded.  For  many  Professor 
Tillyard's  book  will  supply  as  well  as  much  posi- 
tive   information,    some    useful   correctives." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl4  Ja  4 
'23    220w 

TILTON,     GEORGE      HENRY.        Fern       lover's 

companion.  240p  il  $3  Little 

587.3     Ferns  23-5467 

This  guide  to  the  ferns  of  the  northeastern 
states  and  Canada  tells  how  to  recognize  and 
identify  each  family  and  species,  explains  meth- 
ods of  reproduction  and  specifies  seasons  and 
localities.  There  are  1&8  illustrations.  Brief 
biographical  sketches  of  noted  fern  writers  are 
given,  and  a  bibliography,  glossary,  check  list, 
and  indexes  to  Latin  and  to  English  names  are 
provided. 

Booklist  19;:;07  Jl  "23 
"It  is  for  unscientific  lovers  of  nature, 
especially,  that  this  alluring  little  book  was 
written.  Its  text  is  lavishly  illustrated  by 
sketches  of  delicate  loveliness  and  revelation. 
For  all  lovers  of   nature-lore  the   book   is  valu- 

+  Boston   Transcript  p4  My  29  '23  400w 
"A  book  which  fern-lovers  will  want  to  own," 
+  Nation  117:23  Jl  4  '23  190w 


514 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


TILTON,   GEORGE    HBNRY—Contmued 
N    Y    World    p7e    S    16    '23    300w 
Sprlngf'd   Republican   pl2   S  21  '23  180w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:407  Jl  '23 

TODD,    DAVID    PECK.      Astronomy;    the    sci- 
'    ence    of    the    heavenly    bodies.      384p      il     $3 

Harper 

520     Astronomy  [23-752] 

The  director  emeritus  of  the  Amherst  College 
observatory,  who  has  done  much  toward  the 
popular  dissemination  of  astronomical  knowl- 
edge, writes  this  book  in  "an  attempt  to  present 
the  wide  range  of  astronomy  in  readable  fashion 
as  If  a  stoiy  with  a  definite  plot,  from  its 
origin  with  the  shepherds  of  ancient  Chaldea 
down  to  present-day  ascertainment  of  the  ac- 
tual scale  of  the  universe,  and  definite  mea- 
sures of  the  huge  volume  of  supersolar  giants 
amongr  the  stars."  He  accomplishes  his  pur- 
pose in  a  book  of  moderate  size  and  in  a 
simple    and    attractive    style. 

Boston  Transcript  p6  O  20  '23  700w 
"Attractive    and    well    illustrated    volume." 
-I-  N   Y  Tribune  p23  D  2  '23  180w 

TOLLER,  ERNST.  Machine-wreckers:  a  drama 
of  the  English  Luddites  in  a  prologue  and  five 
acts;  English  version  by  Ashley  Dukes.  113p 
$2    Knopf    [6s    Benn    bros.] 

»  832  23-12656 

"The  Machine  Wreckers  is  a  drama  centring 
around  the  Luddite  rebellion  in  England  in  the 
early  part  of  the  nineteenth  century.  The  au- 
thor, a  communist  poet  and  dramatist  at  pres- 
ent serving  sentence  in  a  Bavarian  prison  for 
taking  part  in  the  Munich  uprisings,  is  not,  like 
Hauptmann,  interested  so  much  in  the  spectacle 
of  the  workers'  rebellion  against  the  machines, 
as  in  the  blind  groping  of  the  workers  to  estab- 
lish a  brotherhood  of  man,  the  painful  awaken- 
ing of  class  consciousness  in  the  birth  throes 
of  the  modern  industrial  era.  Borrowing  freely 
from  the  dramas  of  Shakespeare,  of  Hauptmann, 
of  Gorki,  Toller  has  re-created  the  bitter  trag- 
edy of  the  abortive  English  revolution  killed  so 
effectively  by  the  Reform  Bill  of   1830."— Dial 


Dial  75:401  O  '23  lOOw 
"  'The    Machine-Wreckers'    is    reminiscent    at 
times  of  the  dramas  of  older  and  more  mature 
craftsmen,    of    Gerhart    Hauptmann    and    Georg 
Kaiser,    in    particular.      But    it    is    distinguished 
throughout      by      a      stormy      independence      of 
thought,    by   vigor   of   language   and   mastery   of 
the  new,   expressionistic   technique  of  the  thea- 
tre.    Like   'Masse-Mensch,'   it  is  a  crushing  ex- 
ploitation  of   mass   psychology.    It   is  a   notable, 
an  extraordinarily  moving,  work."  H:  Brennecke 
-j-   Lit    R   p21   S   8   '23   lOOOw 
Spec   131:362   S   15   '23    90w 
"Apart  from  its  immediate  interest,  its  claim 
to  attention  as  a  work  of  art  is  strong  enough 
to  stand   alone.     The  author  handles   his   char- 
acters   with    a    masterly    hand,    using    them    in 
numbers    to    produce    an    orchestral    effect." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   pl56   Mr 
8    '23    1050W 

TOLSTOI,  ALEXEY.  Road  to  Calvary;  tr.  by 
Mrs  R.  S.  Townsend.  451p  $2.50  Boni  &  Live- 
right 

The  story  deals  with  life  among  the  intellec- 
tuals and  bourgeoisie-  in  Russia  in  the  period 
just  preceding  the  war  and  during  the  war  up 
to  the  revolution.  The  author  pictures  his  coun- 
trymen as  he  sees  them,  weirdly  speculative  and 
literal,  with  sudden  lapses  from  exaltation  into 
pessimism.  He  shows  the  young  intellectuals 
indulging  in  wild  theorisings  and  reckless  living 
and  the  well-to-do  middle  class  as  luxurious, 
shiftless  and  shallow.  He  analyzes  the  causes 
of  the  war  and  describes  with  appalling  realism 
its  horrors  and  the  confusion  following  the  first 
days  of  the  revolution  in  Moscow  and  Petrograd. 
The  romance  between  Dari.i  Dmitrievna  and 
Teliegin,  a  young  engineer,  is  a  restful  and  im- 
portant element. 


"Some  statements  will  give  the  reader  pause, 
and  in  some  cases  arovise  antagonism.  But  the 
author  is  entitled  to  his  point  of  view,  which 
he  couches  fearlessly  and  dramatically  in  a 
notable   hook."      J.   F.   S. 

-i Boston   Transcript  p3   My  12  '23  480w 

f-  Cath    World    117:857    S    '23    250w 

"The  work  of  an  intellect  complex  and 
intriguing,  this  is  nevertheless  a  muddy  book, 
although  the  reader  abandons  reluctantly  his 
hope,  cherished  for  the  first  hundred  pages  or 
so,  that  it  is  going  to  take  up  the  story  of  the 
Russian  people  where  it  was  dropped  by 
Chekhov   and    Gorki."      A.    B.    Parsons 

1-   Dial    75:603    D    '23    900w 

Freeman  7:407  Jl  4    23  250w 

"Powerful,  fascinating  book.  Unfortunately, 
the  English  translation  fails  at  many  points  to 
do  full  justice  to  the  original.  The  fine  flavor 
of  the  author's  style  is  seldom  caught,  and  there 
are  even  a  few  inaccuracies."  A.  I.  Nazaroff 
H Int    Bk    R    p54   My   '23    1550w 

"Tolstoy  is  a  compelling  writer,  and 
when  he  paints  from  life  he  often  gives  bright 
patches  of  life,  vivid  with  details.  His  crowd 
of  the  first  days  of  the  revolution  lives  and 
stirs.  But  his  generalizations  are  unreliable, 
and  there  are  hardly  any  types.  There  are 
manikins  arrayed  in  words  prepared  for  them 
by  the  author."  A.  L.  Fovitzky 
-I Lit  R  p722  My  26  '23  llOOw 

"Count  Tolstoi  lays  bare,  under  a  moving 
finger  of  sharp  ironical  light,  the  utter  sterility 
of  the  debile  civilization,  sick  unto  death,  which 
immediately  preceded  the  war  and  the  revolu- 
tion. .  .  His  grasp  of  his  people  is  firm,  decisive, 
and  convincing."     Pierre  Loving 

+   Nation   116:499  Ap  25  '23  850w 

"It  is  less  for  the  implicit  philosophical  at- 
titude than  for  the  picture  which  it  offers  of  a 
civilization  in  dissolution  that  'The  Road  to 
Calvary'  will  be  read.  And,  judged  exclusively 
on  its  merits  as  a  picture,  or  rather  as  a  pano- 
rama, it  is  unqviestionably  one  of  the  most  in- 
teresting of  recent  novels.  Sincerity  and  power, 
rather  than  artistry,  are  the  attributes  of  Count 
Tolstoy's  realism,  and  these  qualities  reveal 
themselves  even  through  the  medium  of  the 
translator's  none  too  iluent  English  prose." 
Lloyd   Morris 

+   N   Y  Times  p6  Ap  1  '23   2250w 

"Bulky,  erratic  in  sequence,  formless — nor  can 
one  say  that  the  English  of  the  translation,  by 
Mrs  R.  S.  Townsend,  is  always  perfect.  But  as 
a  rendition  of  Russian  character,  especially  of 
middle-class  Russia  and  the  intellectuals  be- 
fore the  World  war  and  a  portrayal  of  social, 
governmental  and  military  conditions,  the  vol- 
ume  commands   respect." 

h  Springf'd    Republican  p7a  Je   3  '23  420w 

TOLSTOI,  LEO  Nl  KOLA!  EVICH,  count.  Dra- 
matic works;  tr.  by  Nathan  Haskell  Dole, 
complete   ed  485p  $2.50   Crowell 

891.72  23-8261 

Contents:  The  power  of  darkness;  The  first 
distiller;  The  fruits  of  enlightenment;  The  live 
corpse;  The  light  shines  in  the  darkness;  The 
root  of  all  evil:  The  wisdom  of  children.  There 
is  an  introduction  by  the  tran.slator  and  a  glos- 
sary of  Russian  proper,  names  and  common 
words  used  in   the  text. 


Booklist   19:321   Jl   '23 


Reviewed  by  W.  P.  Eaton 

Freeman    7:377    Je   27    '23    700w 

Reviewed  by  A.  D.   Douglas 

N   Y   Tribune  pl9  Jl   22  '23   900w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:158  Je  '23 

TOOGOOD,     HECTOR     B.,    pseud.        Outline    of 

2    everything;     with     a    critical     survey    of    the 

world's    knowledge,    by    Sir    J.    Arthur    WelLs- 

water;    introd.    by    Hughe    Jawpole.      146p      il 

$2.50      Little 

g^rj  23-15497 

A    burlesque    on    the    modern    popular    "out- 
lines."       Under        their       terminations— ologies, 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


515 


utions,  ics,  ographies,  isms,  etc.  the  various 
branches  of  knowledge  are  treated  in  humorous 
vein. 


"One    or    two    funny    things    are    said    in    the 
boolt,    but    the   average    for   humor   is   low." 

—  Bookm    58:488    D    '23    lOOw 

Boston    Transcript    p3    O   27    '23    420w 
N    Y   Tribune   pl9  D  2   '23   2G0w 
"While    obviously    intended    to    take    a    place 
among-  the  newer  light  writings  of  the  cleverly 
humorous   variety,    the   book   does  not   quite   hit 
the  bell." 

—  Springf'd   Republican  plO  D  19  '23  120w 

TOOMER,    JEAN.      Cane;    with    a    foreword    by 
Waldo   Frank.    239p   $2     Boni    &    Liveright 

23-12749 
A  Southern  miscellany  of  short  stories  and 
sketches — some  of  them  fragmentary,  with 
verses  interspersed  and  one  long  drama.  They 
all  center  about  the  emotional  life  of  the  Negro, 
with  the  emphasis  placed  on  its  sensual  side. 
Georgia  and  the  black  belt  of  Washington  form 
the  backgrounds. 


Boston    Transcript    p8   D   15    '23    330w 

"Mr.  Toomer's  prose  is  amorphous,  staccato, 
full  of  repetitions  of  phrases,  and  at  times  not 
at  all  clear.  He  has  his  moments  of  sweeping 
power,  however,  and  rarely  loses  a  sense  of 
moving  tragedy  or  pathos  in  his  loosely  strung 
together  words."  Herschel  Brickell 
Lit    R    p333   D   8   '23   700w 

"Cane  is  an  interesting,  occasionally  beautiful 
and  often  queer  book  of  exploration  into  old 
country  and  new  ways  of  writing."  Robert 
Littell 

New   Repub  37:126  D  26  '23  900w 

"It  is  a  most  unusual  and  colorful  volume  not- 
withstanding its  periodic  lapses  into  a  naive  in- 
coherency.  Here  are  the  high  brown  and  black 
and  half-cast  colored  folk  of  the  cane  fields, 
the  gin  hovel  and  the  brothel  realized  with  a 
sure  touch  of  artistry.  .  .  It  is  patent  that  the 
author  has  yet  a  lot  to  learn  about  elucidating 
his  sometimes  rather  strident  reactions  to  the 
negro,  for  at  moments  his  outbursts  of  emotion 
approach  the  inarticulately  maudlin.  However, 
the  author  of  'Cane'  has  created  a  distinct 
achievement  wholly  unlike  anything  of  this  sort 
done  before."     J:  Armstrong 

-1 NY  Tribune  p26  O  14  '23  850w 

Springf'd   Republican  p9a  D  23  '23  180w 

"Toomer  has  not  interviewed  the  Kegro,  has 
not  asked  opinions  about  him,  has  not  drawn 
conclusions  about  him  from  his  reactions  to  out- 
side stimuli,  but  has  made  the  much  more 
searching,  the  much  more  self- forgetting  effort 
of  seeing  life  with  him,  through  him.  What 
there  is  of  interpretation  has  the  quality  of  life 
and,   thereby,   of   truth." 

^ Survey   51:supl90  N   1   '23   450w 

TORMAY,  CECILE.  Outlaw's  diary;  with  a 
foreword  bv  the  Duke  of  Northumberland. 
291p  il  $3  McBride   [12s  P.   Allan] 

943.9  Hungary — -History 
The  Hungarian  novelist's  diary  of  life  in  Buda- 
pest from  the  Armistice  to  the  rise  of  B^la  Kun 
to  power,  in  March  1919,  is  a  vividly  colored  tho 
obviously  biassed  account  by  an  eye-witness  of 
the  break-up  of  the  Hungarian  state  and  the 
first  phase  of  the  revolution  under  the  govern- 
ment of  Kdrolyi.  Miss  Tormay  is  an  ardent 
supporter  of  the  old  aristocratic  regime  and  her 
pages  tell  a  tale  of  tragic  suffering,*  both  na- 
tional and  personal.  Her  bitterness  expresses 
itself  especially  in  her  pen-portraits  of  the 
leaders  of  the  revolution.  A  continuation  of 
her  diary  is  promised  containing  an  account  of 
the  commune  and  of  the  author's  escape.  Il- 
lustrated with  portraits. 


"The  principal  defect  of  the   book  lies  in  the 
fact  that  the  author  repeats  over  and  over  her 
lamentations,    which    makes    the   volume    some- 
what   monotonous    and   gloomy    reading." 
—  Am    Pol    Sci    R    17:683   N   '23    150w 
Booklist    20:99    D   '23 


"I  do  not  think  it  very  well  written.  It  is 
graphic  but  jerky.  Yet,  while  it  is  marked  by 
the  most  complete  partizanship,  it  has  also  the 
immistakal)le  accents  of  veracity.  On  the  whole, 
this  is  annoying  to  the  ordinary  reader."  J.  F. 
\-  Bookm   57:660  Ag  '23   180w 

"She  tells  the  story  as  if  written  from  time 
to  time  as  affairs  developed.  Indeed,  in  her  pre- 
face the  author  leaves  her  readers  with  the  im- 
pression that  this  was  so.  But  hurried  entries 
are  not  made  with  such  wonderful  care,  such 
remarkable  attention  to  picturesque'  details, 
such  painstaking  rhetorical  figures  and  ardent 
narrative,  as  these  with  which  this  story  is 
told."    E.    J.    C. 

-I Boston    Transcript   p4   Jl    14    '23    680w 

"There  is  no  attempt  at  an  unbiased  view- 
point in  the  book,  and  too  little  discrimination 
between    fact    and    hearsay." 

—  Dial    75:507    N    '23    lOOw 

"Such  a  book  as  Miss  Tormay's  is  sufficient 
evidence  that  the  spiritual  havoc  which  has 
rendered  possible  such  a  spectacle  as  Europe 
presents  us  with,  has  worked  upward  as  well 
as  downward.  Class-hatred  is  the  ugliest  and 
most  disruptive  thing  in  the  world,  as  social 
snobbery  is  perhaps  the  meanest.  But  to  as- 
sume that  its  force  is  working  in  one  direction 
alone  is  to  evince  a  complete  ignorance  or  mis- 
understanding of  current  social  phenomena." 
H:   L.    Stuart 

—  Freeman   7:597  Ag  29   '23   1550w 

"Its  very  partisanship  gives  it  a  value  that 
no  aloof,  dispassionate  record  could  hold.  The 
narrative  is  told  with  the  vigor  and  brilliancy 
of  expression  of  a  novelist  of  very  high  rank. 
It  is  eloquence,  not  ranting.  It  is  high  keyed, 
but  always  in  the  middle  of  the  note,  though, 
perhaps,  it  is  sometimes  a  little  too  conscious 
of   its   own    artistry." 

H Lit    R    p24    S    8    '23    550w 

"One  could  go  over  nearly  every  page  of  the 
book  pointing  out  malicious  invention  and  in- 
terpretation of  events  to  which  Miss  Tormay 
must  plead  guilty."  Emil  Lengyel 

—  Nation    117:170    Ag   15    '23    500w 
Reviewed   by   I:    Anderson 

N   Y  Times  p9  Jl  8  '23  2200w 

"The  book  is  the  interpretive  cry,  powerful 
though  prejudiced,  of  a  soul  torn  with  genuine 
anguish  at  the  plight  of  her  country.  It 
should  be  read  for  its  graphic  descriptions, 
the  poetically  symbolized  incidents  of  Miss 
Tormay's  reveries,  realizing,  however,  that  it 
is  a  plea  rather  than  a  portrayal— as  to  charac- 
ters, if  not  events."  W.  R.  Langfeld 
—  -t-  N    Y   Tribune   p27   O   7   '23  580w 

"One  long  shriek  of  rage  and  pain,  unre- 
lieved by  any  lighter  touch  or  ray  of  hopeful- 
ness. 'This  may  mar  the  book  as  a  literary 
production — for  American  audiences,  at  lea.st 
it  could  have  been  much  compressed  with  ad- 
vantage— ^but  it  is  a  valuable  record  of  per- 
sonal  experience   in  a  trying  time." 

h   N   Y   World  p9e  Jl  22  '23  500w 

St    Louis   p29S   O   '23 

"A  singularly  vivid  and  interesting  account. 
As  a  first-hand  and  evidently  truthful  narra- 
tive of  the  political  debacle  which  followed  on 
the  loss  of  the  war  into  which  the  Austro-Hun- 
garian  Empire  had  been  reluctantly  dragged  at 
the  German  chariot-wheels,  Miss  Tormay's  book 
has  great  literary  interest,  and  when  allow- 
ance is  made  for  its  very  obvious  bias  it  will 
be  of  considerable  value  to  the  future  historian 
of  the  breaking  up  and  remodeling  of  the  Hun- 
garian state  " 

+  —  Sat  R  135:538  Ap  21  '23  450w 

"The  book  is  not  pleasant  reading,  and  many 
people  will  close  it  with  the  feeling  that  they 
have  supped  almost  too  full  of  horrors.  But 
it  is  no  doubt  a  good  thing  that  the  actual 
conditions  of  life  under  Bolshevik  rule  should 
be  put  on  record,  and  Miss  Tormay  has  in 
this  respect  provided  valuable  material  for  the 
future    historian." 

H Sat    R    136:524    N   10   '23   330w 

"However  one  may  disagree  with  her  atti- 
tude, one  cannot  but  read  Miss  Tormay's  diary 
with    sympathy    and   respect.    .    .    Miss    Tormay 


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TORMAY,    CECILE — Continued 
was   too  much   of  a   participant  properly  to  see 
the  game.     She  cannot  refer  to  any  of  her  op- 
ponents   without   a   stream   of   invective.    .    .It 
IS  a  pitv  that  her  style  is  always  pitched  at  the 
top    note    of   rhetorical   hysteria:    than   which   it 
would  be  difficult  to  imagine  anything  ultimately 
less   effective,    even   as   propaganda." 
-    4-  Spec  130:851  My  19  '23   1050w 
"I    is  inconceivable  how  the  Hungarians  could 
have  been   guilty  of  such  an  error  of  judgment 
as  not  to' do  their  utmost  to  hinder  the  publica- 
tion  of  this   book,    which   cannot   but   lower   the 
prestige  of  their  country  in  English  eyes.' 
—  Spec  131:850  D  1  '23  450w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  pl53  Mr  8 
'23  llOOw 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p679    O 
18    '23    960w 

TORMAY,    CECILE.       Stonecrop.      248p    $2    Mc- 
Bride  [6s  P.  Allan]  23-26471 

From  its  opening  page  this  story  of  Croatian 
peasant  life  spells  tragedy.  Its  crop  is  of  its 
own  stony  soil  and  the  tale  moves  like  fate  to 
its  inevitable  end.  When  her  mother  was  os- 
tracized from  the  village,  the  beautiful  young 
goatherd,  Yella,  left  at  the  mercy  of  men  s 
desires,  fled  to  the  mountains.  She  found  the 
reverse  of  the  freedom  she  sought  v/hen  she 
married  Peter,  the  railroad  guard,  three  times 
her  own  age.  He  was  kind  and  fatherly  but  no 
protection  against  the  overpowering  young  love 
that  came  to  her  with  the  advent  of  Andras 
Rez  to  a  neighboring  guard-house.  For  a  time 
their  love  was  mutual,  but  wearying  of  her 
ardor  and  repenting  his  betrayal  of  her  hus- 
band, Andras  deserted  her  and  the  village. 
When  later  he  returned,  bringing  a  wife  with 
him  Yella  threw  herself  before  his  approach- 
ing train,  determined  to  destroy  at  one  stroke 
her  suffering,  her  love,   her  life. 

Booklist   19:322   Jl   '23 
"If  it  is  too  exquisite  to  be  entirely  artistic, 
it  is  not  too  artistic  to  .be  frequently  exquisite. 

'-{-'Boston   Transcript  pi  Ap  21   '23   600w 

"As  a  novel  it  possesses  the  immense^  sim- 
plicity that  characterized  'Marie  Claire,  and 
the  tragic  appeal  we  have  come  to  believe  be- 
longs peculiarly  to  Russian  literature.  It  is 
considered  measured.  Written  with  a  paucity 
of  detail,  the  words  convey  pictures  done  with 
swift,    sure    strokes." 

+   Int  Bk  R  p49  Ag  '23  280w 

Reviewed   by   J:    Mosher 

Lit    R    p764   Je   16    '23    650w 

"Her  prose  is  restrained  even  in  crises, 
dramatic  in  descriptions;  it  .reproduces  crude 
majesties  of  nature  and  glorifies  them  by  its 
mellowne.ss;  and  whatever  is  tender  in  that 
harsh  scenery,  whatever  is  especially  womanly 
in  the  beautiful  child  of  the  mountains,  it 
turns  into  quiet  and  memorable  lyrics.  li.va 
Goldbeck^^^.^^   117:199   Ag  22   '23   450w 

"There  is  an  atmosphere  of  the  inevitable  in 
•Stonecrop.'  The  environment  which  has  molded 
the  figures  in  the  action  is  a  resistless  force 
that  does  not  loosen  its  grasp.  Fate  Perhaps 
is  the  real  protagonist  of  the  book,  and  this 
tragic  atmosphere  is  heightened  by  the  stark, 
unassuming   quality   of   the   prose 

-t-   N    Y   Times   pl9   Ap   8     23   500w 

"Miss  Tormay  has  concentrated  her  story  to 
the  simplest  elements,  allowed  no  trivial  sub- 
ordinate distractions  from  the  chief  theme  of 
the  passionate  tragedy.  In  fact,  she  has  so 
conscientiously  observed  the  rigor  of  this  ruling 
that  the  narrative  seems  a  little  stark,  the 
whole  too  much  a  mere  framework  tvithout  the 
substance  of  life."    J:  Mosher 

j^ NY   Tribune   p20   Ap   22     is   4oUW 

"For  many  a  day  one  realizes  that  another 
such  excellent  volume  will  not  come  to  hand. 
It  reminds  one  of  primitive  woodcarving,  stiff, 
strong  bulging  here  and  there  with  an  over- 
flow  of   physical   power   and   the   whole   suffused 


with  an   authentic  note  of  beauty   and  ancient 
sadness."      Bruce    Gould 

-h   N    Y   Tribune  pl9   Ag  19   '23   1050w 
"The    title    of    Miss    Tormay's    new    novel    is 
wonderfully    appropriate.      The    arid    conditions 
which    it    suggests    are    the    spiritual    hall-mark 
of  the   book  itself." 

—  Spec  129:976  D  23  '22  150w 
"It  is  the  work  of  the  connoisseur,  the  epi- 
cure, the  seeker  after  rarity  and  disconformity. 
But  it  is  also  for  the  plain  reader  of  elemental 
culture  and  simple  purity  of  artistic  taste,  a 
plain  tale  of  elemental  life,  and  plainly  told." 
R.   W.   N. 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  10  '23  950w 
"Stonecrop  is  a  perfect  specimen  of  the  almost 
inaiciculate  peasant  novel  in  which  the  inability 
of  the  characters  to  express  their  emotions  is 
compensated  for  by  a  great  deal  of  lyrical  analy- 
sis,  presumably  of  a  subjective  kind." 

4-  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p746  N  16 
'22  350w 

TORREY,   RAYMOND   H.,   PLACE,   FRANK,  Jr., 
2    and     DICKINSON,     ROBERT     LATOU.     New 

York  walk  book.    (Outing  ser.)   217p  il  $2  Am. 

geographical  soc. 

917.47  New  York — Description  and  travel. 
New  Jersey — Description  and  travel.  New 
York   (city)— Description  23-18234 

"The  sub-title  promises  'suggestions  for  out- 
ings afoot  within  fifty  to  one  hundred  miles  of 
the  city.'  But  this  phrase  conveys  no  idea  of 
the  vast  amount  of  detailed  information  which 
is  presented  along  with  these  suggestions.  Every 
direction  given  for  a  walk  is  based  on  the  de- 
tailed and  specific  knowledge  of  the  authors, 
who  have  not  only  been  over  these  trails  re- 
peatedly but  in  many  cases  have  had  much  to 
do  with  the  making  and  marking  of  the  trails. 
Mr.  Torrey  is  editor  of  the  'Outing  Page'  of  the 
New  York  Evening  Post;  Mr.  Place  is  president 
of  the  'Tramp  and  Trail  Club';  and  Dr.  Dickin- 
son's faithful  sketches  of  points  of  scenic  in- 
terest are  labors  of  love,  developed  after  years 
of  familiarity  with  the  subjects.  There  are  eight 
maps  in  color  on  the  scale  of  one  inch  to  two 
miles.  These  have  been  reduced  from  the 
United  States  Geological  Survey  sheets  and 
show  drainage,  topography  and  culture." — R  of 
Rs 


Boston   Transcript  p5   N  24  '23   680w 
"The  American  Geographical  Society  has  done 
well  to  leave  for  a  moment  the  beaten  track  of 
its   scientific   work    to   produce   so   valuable   and 
stimulating  a   book  as  this." 

+  R  ,of  Rs  68:559  N  '23  420w 
"Not  every  town  will  be  able  to  make  its  own 
walk-book  with  such  a  refinement  of  detail  as 
this;  but  to  record  in  attractive  form  the  neigh- 
borhood opportunities  for  hiking  is  a  task  worth 
doing  anywhere."    G.   S. 

+  Survey    51:386   Ja    15   '24   lOOOw 

TOW,    JULIUS   SU.    Real   Chinese    in   America. 
-    168p    il    11.50    Academy    press 

325.73    Chinese    in    United    States  23-8350 

"The  secretary  of  the  Chinese  consulate-gen- 
eral in  New  York  gives  useful  information  about 
the  Chinese  in  the  United  States  and  refutes 
some  of  the  slanders  on  that  race  which  are 
current— especially  the  entirely  wrong  notion  of 
Chinese  thought  and  modes  of  life  circulated 
by  sensational  novels  and  films." — Survey 

"It  is  interesting  to  the  American  reader,  as 
it  undoubtedly  will  be  to  the  Chinese,  for  it  Is 
a  straight  compilation  of  facts  by  one  of  their 
own  race  without  any  attempt  to  color  or  Inject 
opinion  It  should  prove  a  useful  handbook  for 
the  sociologist."  .^  ^r  a  'oq  cka^, 

+  N  Y  Times  pl8  N  4    23  650w 

"The  Yellow  Peril  is  well  disposed  of  in  this 
valuable  volurne.^'^^^   ^^^  ^^  3  .^3  ^^.^ 

St  Louis  p331  D  '23 
."His  book  should  induce  thoughtful  Americans 
tn   helD   undo   an   old   wrong. 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


517 


TOWNt?.  CHARLES  HANSON.  Ambling  through 

Acadia.    250p    il   $2.50      Century 
917.16     Nova   Scotia — Description  and   travel 

2S-8247 

Mr  Towne  chose  apple-blossom  time  in  the 
Annapolis  valley  for  this  leisurely  tour  thru  the 
land  of  Evangeline  which,  beginning  at  Yar- 
mouth, led  him  to  Weymouth,  Digby,  Bridge- 
town, Wolfville,  Halifax  and  Chester.  It  is  a 
friendly  chronicle  of  travel  which  touches  on  the 
incidents  and  people  along  the  way,  describes 
places  with  a  feeling  for  their  spirit  and  atmos- 
phere, and  gathers  up  historical  memories.  Il- 
lustrated with  drawings  by  W.  Emerton  Heit- 
land. 


Booklist   19:315  Jl   '23 
Bookm  57:654  Ag  '23  120w 
Boston    Transcript   p2   My   26   '23    lOOOw 
Cleveland    p48    Je    '23 
"The    book     contains    enough    first-hand    in- 
formation to  make  it  a  good  general  guidebook, 
though   it    does   not   go   into   statistical   details." 
Lit    R    p822   Jl   7    '23    360w 
"Mr.  Towne  is  an  entirely  charming  traveling 
companion.      He    has    the    imagination    and    the 
feeling  and  the  love  of  beauty  of  the  poet  that 
he   is,    the   alert   interest    in   the   things   he   sees 
and    their   practical   implications   that   appeal   to 
the    mmd,    the    good    fellowship    that    makes    a 
humanly  interesting  companion  of  every  one  he 
meets,   the   sense   of   historical   background   that 
fills  in  and  enriches  the  scene  and  gives  it  per- 
spective." 

+  N   Y  Times  p8  My  6  '23  2000w 
"The  reward  of  this  book  will   be  an   hour  or 
more   of  quiet   enjoyment."     Bruce  Gould 
-i-   N   Y  Tribune  p24  Je  24   '23  400w 
"Although  a  poet,  Mr.  Towne  does  not  exag- 
gerate   the   charm   of   the    Nova   Scotian   spring. 
His   volume   is   a    refreshment   to   the   soul,    and 
admirable  etchings  by  William  Heitland  add  to 
its  considerable  merit." 

+   N  Y  World  p8e  My  6  '23  250w 
R  of  Rs  68:112  Jl  '23   60w 
Sprlngf'd   Republican   p6  Jl   16  '23   750w 

TOWNE,  CHARLES  HANSON.  Rise  and  fall  of 
prohibition;  the  human  side  of  what  the 
Eighteenth  amendment  and  the  Volstead  act 
have  done  to  the  United  States.  220p  il  $2 
Macmillan 

178     Prohibition  23-6819 

"  'The  Rise  and  Fall  of  Prohibition'  gives 
satisfaction  to  those  who  resent  the  Eighteenth 
Amendment.  Mr.  Towne  has  a  tait  manner 
toward  the  prohibitionists.  He  says  that  they 
speak  hopefully  of  conditions  which  are  plainly 
menacing.  Then  he  proceeds  to  unmask  some 
of  the  secrets  of  lax  enforcement  of  the  prohi- 
bition laws:  indulgence  in  liquors  by  many  high 
officials  who  outwardly  advocate  enforcement 
of  the  laws;  the  manufacture  of  inferior  and 
harmful  drinks  and  of  home  brew;  the  graft 
and  comparative  security  in  the  bootlegging 
business:,  the  danger  to  young  people  in  clandes- 
tine drinking;  the  loss  of  good  fellowship  in 
the  'soda  fountain'  brand  of  intemperance;  the 
increase  of  crime  during  the  prohibition  regime; 
the  evils  of  dishonesty  and  disrespect  for  Fed- 
eral authority  which  followed  prohibition." — 
N  Y  Times 


Bookm  57:563  Jl  '23  llOw 
Cleveland  p55  Jl  '23 
"Methinks  he  doth  protest  too  much.  To  state 
his  facts  without  quite  so  much  yawping  would 
have  been  more  effective."   S.   S.   A. 

—  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  plO  O  28 
'23  330w 
"Mr.  Towne's  book  is  an  admirable  compen- 
dium of  the  whole  subject,  for  it  is  not  merely 
full  of  entertainment  but  is  full,  too,  of  exact 
information  to  be  found  gathered  together,  so 
far  as  we  are  aware,  nowhere  else,  and  for  any 
publicist  dealing  with  the  question  it  will  prove 
an  invaluable  handbook.  Mr.  Towne's  pictures 
of  the   humors  and  absurdities,    as   well   as   the 


mfamies    ot    prohibition  are   made   by   an   acute 
and  mdustrious  social  observer,   and   deserve  to 
be   seriously   studied."     R:    Le  Gallienne 
+   Int   Bk   R   p27  Je  '23  2000w 
N    Y   Times  p8  Ap  29   '23   3S0w 

TOWNE,  CHARLES  HANSON,  and  HILLMAN 
MRS  CLARA  THACKERAY.'  eds.  RooseveU 
as  the  poets  saw  him;  tributes  from  the  sing- 
ers of  America  and  England  to  Theodore 
Roosevelt.   234p  $1.50     Scribner  ^neoaore 

811.08  Roosevelt.  Theodore— Poetry  23-5679 
There  are  over  150  poems  in  this  anthology, 
mostly  American,  but  including  some  from  Brit- 
ish poets.  The  poems  are  arranged  in  groups 
'^'if°'L'^'l\?  ^°  ^*}^  period  of  Roosevelt's  career  to 
which  they  refer.  Elegiac  verse  composes  the 
longest  group  In  her  introduction  Mrs  Robinson 
emphasizes  the  inclusion  in  the  volume  "of  the 
more  homely,    the   more   humorous,    the   merrier 

la?i^?thk"t  L'Til'spTel.^'^^""  ^^^  ^^"^—  -<^ 


Booklist  19:312  Jl  '23 
"Wallace  Irwin  writes  verses  with  the  heartv 
Havor  Of  Roosevelt  himself;  Edith  Wharton  and 
fef  M./.t^'"'""  "^^'^e  P^'^t'-y  of  homale;  Edlar 
frkene^r  The  ^}r/  "^  ^  ^'"^'^'^  and  beautffu^ 
likeness     The  other  poems  are  mediocre;  worthy 

ci^ent'as'l^defry!^'?  ^^^^  ^'^  ^^^^'•"^'^'  ^"^  ^-^-^- 

H Bookm  57:467  Je  '23  150w 

"A  book  of  many  beauties,  this  has  also  some 
admirable  humor  and  is  for  the  poet-love r^I 
well  as  the  admirer  of  'T.   R.'  " 

+   Boston    Transcript    pi    My    12    '23    300vv 
Cath    World    117:713   Ag   '23   230w 
Cleveland   p38   My   '23 
Reviewed  by  W:  R.  Benet 

Lit   R  p680  My  12  '23   llOw 

Ail'^y^^  }^^  notable  exceptions  of  Mr.  Robinson, 
Mr.    Masters,   and  a   few  others,    the   poets   who 
sang    to    Roosevelt,    like    most    poets    who    have 
sung  to  public  men,  were  heroically  uninspired. 
Many  of  the  tributes  are  to  Roosevelt's  virility 
and   without  exception   these   ring  false" 
,  —  Nation   116:474  Ap  18  '23  80w 
N  Y  Times  p22  Mr  25  '23  250w 
N  Y  World  p9e  My  6  '23  140w 
"There    is    work    here   of   high    literary    value 
and  it  is  all  genuine  in  spirit." 

-I-   Outlook  133:811   My  2   '23  120w 
Pittsburgh   Mo  Bui  28:255  My  '23 
Springf'd   Republican  plO  Je  26  '23  400w 
"The    interesting    thing    about    it    is    not    the 
fineness   of   the   work   of   the    recognized  leaders 
of   poet-craft   but   the   beautiful   things  done   in 
Roosevelt's     memory    by     those     who     are     un- 
known   to    the    world    of    letters.        The    volume 
is    a    worthy    memorial." 

-f    Survey    50:supl98   My   1    '23    80w 

TOWNER,  RUTHERFORD  HAMILTON.  Philo- 
sophy of  civilization.  2v  290;340p  $5  (22s  6d) 
Putnam 

901     Civilization  23-14809 

The  author  examines  the  evidence  of  history 
as  to  the  factors  that  caused  the  rise  and  fall 
of  four  ancient  civilizations — Israel,  Greece, 
Rome  and  Islam,  in  the  attempt  to  show  that 
the  rise  of  modern  civilization  followed  from  the 
same  causes  and  that  its  fall  may  be  ex- 
pected from  the  same  factors  which  caused 
their  decline.  "Mr  Towner  attributes  the  rise 
of  civilization  to  two  factors:  first,  the  enforce- 
ment of  child-bearing  on  sexually  cold  women, 
by  which  means,  he  contends,  geniuses  are 
produced;  and,  secondly,  the  availability  of  in- 
toxicants, by  which  a  nation  may  acquire  the 
faculties  of  temperance  and  self-control.  The 
two  dangers  to  civilization,  therefore,  are  the 
emancipation  of  women  and  Prohibition.  Under 
the  first,  women  may  choose  for  themselves 
whether  they  will  accept  the  burdens  of  matri- 
mony, and  the  most  intelligent  and  spiritual 
women  are  the  most   likely  to  avoid  childbirth; 


518 


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TOWNER,    R.    H.— Continued 

under  the  second,  the  resistance  and  stamina 
gf  a  race  decays;  without  temptation  men  can 
have  no  virtue."    (Spec) 


"Credit  must  be  given  to  him  for  a  mass  of 
historical  information  of  high  value;  it  is  the 
ways  in  which  he  has  applied  it  to  the  support 
of  his  thesis  which  are  open  to  question.  That 
he  rightly  criticizes  many  wrong  outlooks,  poli- 
cies and  procedures  in  individual,  community 
and   national   life    is   undoubted."      E.    N. 

h   Boston  Transcript  p8  N  14  '23  720w 

Nation    117:746   D   26   '23   lOOw 

"How  was  it  possible  to  foist  so  absurd  a 
piece  of  work  upon  .so  respectable  a  publishing 
house  as  Putnam's?  The  only  reasonable 
hypothesis  is  sabotage.  Some  unscrupulous  wag 
of  a  manuscript  reader  wagered  a  hat,  I  sur- 
mise, that  he  could  put  over  any  book,  no  mat- 
ter how  worthless,  if  it  stood  staunchly  for 
private  property  and  the  subjection  of  woinen 
and  put  sexual  coldness  back  in  its  place  as  the 
foundation   of  all   virtues.    He   did   it."   A.   J. 

—  New  Repub  37:74  D  12  '23  540w 

"Mr.    Towner  writes   in   a   clear  and   forceful 

style   and    brings   much   scholarly    riches    to    the 

buttressing  of  his  philosophy.  If  one  grants  his 

premises     his    argument    becomes    convincing." 

-H   N  Y    Times   p25    N   11    '23    500w 

"Mr.  Towner  is  Nietzsche  grown  reasonable. 
And  our  ultra-democrats  would  find  it  well 
worth  while  to  smother  indignation  and  hearken 
attentively." 

Sat   R   136:362  S   29  '23  700w 

"Mr.  Towner  may  well  complain  that  it  is 
unjust  to  summarize  his  theses;  indeed,  the  ad- 
mirable marshalling  of  argument  and  illustra- 
tion makes  these  two  volumes  delightful.  But 
we  are  sure  that,  with  such  a  capacity  for  neat 
English  and  gentle  persuasiveness,  he  could 
readily  refute  for  himself  hi.s  own  theories." 
Spec  131:327  S  8  '23  220w 

"The  discussion  of  such  a  problem  is  an  im- 
mense undertaking  which  necessarily  demands 
an  extensive  and  exact  knowledge  at  first  hand 
of  facts  and  sources  of  information,  great  criti- 
cal acumen,  and  a  penetrating  grasp  of  cause 
and  effect  in  human  affairs.  Mr.  Towner  -dis- 
plays none  of  these  qualifications  for  his  task. 
His  information  is  mainly  secondhand,  his  gen- 
eralizations fanciful  and  crude,  his  evidence 
arbitrarily  selected  and  uncritical,  his  grasp  of 
the    complexity    of   civilization    unscientific." 

—  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p607    S 
13   '23   520w 

TOWNSEND,  REGINALD  TOWNSEND,  ed. 
Book  of  building  and  interior  decorating. 
]04p    il    $2    Doubleday 

728  Architecture,  Domestic.  House  decora- 
tion 23-7601 
"Articles  reprinted  from  Country  Life  in 
America  (evidently  from  the  same  plates)  with 
the  original  illustrations.  Many  of  the  house 
plans  are  too  elaborate  but  among  the  articles 
are  several  of  a  practical  nature  on  the  small 
details  of  planning  and  building  which  will  be 
widely  useful.  Also  chapters  on  cellars,  on 
closets,  on  roofs,  etc.  Profusely  illustrated." — 
Wis  Lib  Bui 


Booklist  19:309  Jl  '23 
"Both  practical  hints  and  hints  for  beauty 
are  to  be  found  in  a  handsomely  printed  and 
illustrated  book.  .  .  A  good  book  for  anyone 
who  cares  for  the  surroundings  in  which  he 
lives." 

+  Bookm  57:466  Je  '23  90w 
"It  is  an  admirable  vade-mecum.   .  .  Certainly 
to  be  conmiended   to  the  attention  of  any  pro- 
spective house-builder  or  house-restorer."  N.  H 
D. 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p2  Jl  7  '23  420w 
"The   diversity   of   the   material    is    its    oppor- 
tunity for  usefulness  and  as  suggestions  abound 


in  its  pages,  many  readers  will  derive  practical 
assistance  from  reading  it." 

+   Springf'd     Republican     p7a     Ap     1     '23 
260w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:131    My    '23 

TOWNSHEND,    R.    B.     Tenderfoot   in   Colorado. 

282p   il   $3.50   Dodd    [10s   6d   Lane] 
917.88      Frontier   and  pioneer   life.     Colorado 

23-9493 

The  author  went  to  Colorado  in  1869,  a  young 
man  just  out  of  Cambridge  university.  His 
reminiscences  make  an  absorbing  tale,  not  un- 
like a  Bret  Harte  story.  He  tells  of  the  con- 
ditions he  encountered  and  the  men  he  met — 
cowboys,  ranchmen,  miners  and  gamblers,  of^ 
adventures  with  Indians,  of  wild  justice  as  ad-' 
ministered  by  the  Vigilantes  and  of  his  exper- 
iences  as   a    ranchman. 


Booklist    20:136    Ja    "24 

"The  book  is  of  value,  not  so  much  for  its 
enticing  qualities,  as  being  beyond  doubt  an 
historic  record  of  a  period,  or  perhaps  better, 
an  episode  or  incident  of  American  colonization 
which   will   be  valuable   in  after  time." 

+   Boston    Transcript    p4    Je    20    '23    400w 
New    Statesman    20:640    Mr    3    '23    450w 
N    Y  Times   pl2   Je   17   '23  350w 

"It  is  fifty  years  since  R.  B.  Townshend  was 
a  tenderfoot.  He  is  now  a  master  of  narrative. 
The  chapter  called  'Wild  Justice,'  which  occurs 
in  the  middle  of  his  delightful  book,  is  most  in- 
teresting. It  depicts  a  formal  and  sober  lynch- 
ing. .  .  Not  one  word  could  be  spared,  yet  the 
reader  feels  nothing  is  left  out.  The  illusion  is 
perfect— -a   tour  (Je   force." 

+  Spec  130:295  F  17  '23  120w 

"Mr.  Townshend  must  have  enjoyed  writing 
this  book  of  reminiscences.  The  fifty  years  that 
have  elapsed  since  he  tried  his  luck  as  a  tender- 
foot in  the  Far  West  are  no  more  a  barrier  to 
his  memory  than  the  clear  air  of  Colorado  was 
to  his  eyesight  when  he  watched  out  for  hostile 
Indians  or  sought  strayed  cattle  and  stolen 
horses.  Every  detail  of  his  adventures  is  as 
distinct   to   him   as   were   the   crags  and  chasms 

-fThe  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p36  Ja  18 
'23   1200W 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:413  Jl  '23 

TOYNBEE,  ARNOLD  JOSEPH.    Western  ques- 
tion   in    Greece   and   Turkey;    a    study    in    the 
contact     of    civilisations.     420p     $5     Houghton 
[18s  Constable] 
949.6     Eastern     question     (Balkan).       Euro- 
pean   war,     1914-1919 — Territorial    questions. 
Greeks   in   Asia   Minor.     Turkey — History 

[22-17606] 

"The  title  is  a  neat  epitome  of  the  contents. 
The  Eastern  Question,  that  insoluble  deposit 
left  by  the  dissolution  of  the  Ottoman  Empire, 
is  analyzed  from  the  standpoint,  not  of  Brit- 
ishers or  Frenchmen,  but  of  Greeks  and  Turks; 
and  is  correctly  renamed  The  Western  Question 
because  shown  to  have  been  mainly  produced 
by  the  interference,  partly  unconscious,  partly 
covetous  or  merely  inept,  of  the  great  Western 
powers." — New  Repub 

"The  best  test  of  the  general  justice  of  Pro- 
fessor Toynbee's  conclusions  is  that,  though 
the  book  was  written  a  year  ago,  there  is 
nothing  in  the  events  since  which  involves  a 
need  of  revision.  Erroi-s  of  historical  fact  ap- 
pear to  be  practically  non-existent  in  this 
book.  Some  errors  of  observation  charged 
upon  Mr.  Toynbee  by  the  Greeks  are  discussed 
by  him  in  various  notes  and  appendixes." 
A.   H.   Lybyer 

^ Am    Hist    R    28:753   J!    '23   1500w 

Reviewed   by  R.    L.    Buell 

Am    Pol    Sci    R    17:496   Ag  '23    950w 
Booklist    19:219    Ap    '23 
Boston    Transcript   p2   F   3    '23    1550w 
"Rarely    has    any    one    been    able    to    preserve 
in  the  very  midst   of  fierce  prejudices  and  pas- 
sions   the    fairness    and    elevation    of    judgment 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


519 


revealed  by  Mr.  Toynbee  in  this  'Study  in  the 
Contact  of  Civilizations'.  .  .  Here  is  a  book  for 
statesmen,  diplomatists.  historians,  philos- 
ophers, and  all  generous  minded  students  of 
'the  proper  study  of  mankind.'  "  P.  M.  Brown 
+  Lit  R  p517  Mr  10  '23  1500w 

"Only  readers  who  love  the  challenge  of  ele- 
vated thought  and  who  are  willing  to  revise 
their  snap  judgments  should  open  this  book, 
Imt  for  such  there  i.s  a  rich  increment  of  un- 
derstanding."     Ferdinand    Schevill 

+   Nation    116:726    Je    20    '23    500\v 

"Professor  Toynbee  writes  with  the  combined 
knowledge  of  study  and  experience.  He  pos- 
sesses an  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  his- 
tory of  the  Near  East  up  to  the  latest  times, 
and  by  his  prolonged  travels  in  Greece,  old 
Turkey,  and  Anatolia  he  has  acquired  that 
power  of  personal  judgment  which  no  mere 
reading  can  ever  give.  The  result  is  a  most 
valuable  book  upon  one  among  the  threatening 
problems  now  before  the   world." 

+   Nation   and   Ath   31:713  Ag  26  '22  1600w 

"Among  Professor  Toynbee's  many  merits 
painstaking  fairness  is  perhaps  the  most  con- 
spicuous. His  work  is  also  notable  for  two 
other  reasons.  First,  the  public  interest  in  its 
subject-matter.'  Secondly,  even  were  it  less 
brilliantly  executed,  the  attainments  of  its 
author  would  compel  attention."  W.  H. 
Buckler 

+   New    Repub   33:4§   D   6   "22    1300w 

"Professor  Toynbee  is  one  of  the  few  who 
have  seen  the  Graeco-Turkish  conflict  in  its 
proper  perspective,  with  a  judgment  that  is 
warped  neither  by  the  fanatical  partisanship 
of  the  sentimentalists  nor  by  the  cynicism  of 
the  'practical  politicians.'  He  writes  as  a 
scholar  learned  in  the  history  of  the  past,  a 
trained  student  of  contemporary  politics  and  an 
eye-witness  of  the  struggle  that  has  devastated 
Asia  Minor.  His  book  is  the  most  important 
contribution  to  the  literature  of  the  Near  East- 
ern question  that  has  appeared  since  the  close 
of  the  great  war."     C.   M.   L. 

-f-   New    Statesman    19:640    S    16    '22    1300w 

"Professor  Toynbee  defends  himself  in  ad- 
vance from  any  imputation  of  partiality  based 
on  the  fact  that  he  has  in  many  instances 
entered  an  unfavorable  verdict  against  Greece 
in  this  record  of  the  Greco-Turkish  conflict  in 
the  Near  East.  To  any  one  who  reads  his 
bulky  volume  from  cover  to  cover  this  dis- 
claimer will  be  superfluous;  a  fairer  book  was 
never  written."     F.  H.   Snow 

-f   N    Y   Times   p6   F  4   '23   2650w 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:126    Mr    '23 
R    of   Rs   67:334   Mr   '23   40w 

"A  most  illuminating,  as  well  as  timely, 
work." 

-f  Sat   R   134:179   Jl   29   '22   950w 
Spec   129:217  Ag   12  '22   220w 

"His  book,  not  a  philosophical  treatise  in 
form,  but  a  narrative  of  events  since  the  World 
War,  is  searching  and  refreshingly  free  from 
prejudice  on  matters  that  are  commonly  sub- 
jected to  interested  exposition."  W.  D.  Lane 
+  Survey   50:549   Ag   15    '23    500w 

"It  is  not  often  that  a  book  at  once  so  jus- 
tifiably inconoclastic  and  so  scholarly  has  been 
produced  of  late  years." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p483  Jl  27 
'22   1800W 

TOZER,   BASIL  JOHN.    Recollections  of  a  roll- 
ing  stone.    288p   $6    Button    [16s   Hurst   &    B.] 

B  or  92 
"The  son  of  a  Devonshire  lawyer,  Basil  Tozer 
was  brought  up  to  be  a  country  gentleman,  and 
though  he  has  since  had  to  earn  his  own  live- 
lihood, he  cannot  complain  that  his  life  has 
lacked  sport  or  variety.  He  has  been  twice 
round  the  globe  and  met  a  host  of  well-known 
people  in  every  walk  of  life.  His  most  remark- 
able experiences  as  a  rolling  stone  were  gained 
while  travelling  as  companion  to  an  old  school- 
fellow, who,  having  inherited  almost  a  million 
sterling,  took  him  round  the  world  to  escape  the 
sharks   and   sycophants   at   home.    Among   other 


things,  they  went  seal-hunting  with  the  New- 
foundlanders; visited  Molokai,  the  leper  settle- 
ment in  the  Pacific;  and  saw  everything  there 
was  to  be  seen  at  most  places  until  they  re- 
turned to  find  that  during  their  absence  the 
millionaire  had  been  hopelessly  ruined.  The 
author's  subsequent  mariiage  with  Mme.  Bea- 
trice Langley,  the  violinist,  brought  him  in  touch 
with  the  leading  artists  of  the  concert  platform, 
and  he  includes  innumerable  anecdotes  of  other 
notabilities  with  whom  he  has  associated  in  the 
course  of  his  versatile  career  as  journalist  and 
publicity  manager." — The  Times  [London]  Lit 
Sup 


"Mr.  Tozer's  trouble  seems  to  be  that  he  is 
too  impersonal.  Another  fault  is  his  tendency 
to  moralize.  With  it  all,  however,  he  has  had 
some  experiences  as  a  French  journalist  that 
are  interesting,  some  memories  of  prominent 
men  which  are  indeed  worth  preserving  and  a 
life  changeful  enough  to  make  manv  of  us  who 
read  of  it  heartily  envious."  S.  L.  R. 

■ f-   Boston   Transcript   p3  N   24   '23   700w 

"Mr.  Basil  Tozer's  easy-going  acceptance  of 
whatever  turns  up  has  given  him  a  varied 
career.  He  has,  however,  missed  his  real  voca- 
tion. He  writes  agreeably  and  has  a  natural 
turn    for   dialogue." 

+  New   Statesman   21:30  Ap  14   '23   250w 
"He    sets    down    nothing    in    malice,    or    as    a 
'superior'    person.      He    is   awake   to   the   ironies 
of    life,    but    retains    confidence    in    average    de- 
cency.    There  is  no  touch  of  the  wastrel  about 
him,    though    the    folk    he    'tumbles    across'    are 
much  occupied  with  luck  and  ill-luck." 
+  Sat    R   136:140  Ag  4   '23   600w 
Spec    130:630   Ap   14    '23    170w 
The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p201   Mr 
22   '23    180w 

TRACY,    LOUIS.    Pelham    affair.    313p    $2    Clode 

23-2807 
j'he  story  is  meant  to  serve  as  an  illustration 
of  the  astute  manner  in  which  Scotland  Yard 
detectives  go  to  work  to  ferret  out  a  mystery 
and  crime.  In  this  case  it  is  a  complicated 
network  of  crime  dating  from  prewar  times, 
uncovering  an  elaborate  spy  .system  and  the 
long  arm  of  the  secret  service  both  English  and 
German.  It  ends  in  the  suicide  of  one  Max  von 
Helding  who  had  usurped  the  title  and  place  of 
an  English  baronet.  Sir  Arthur  Pelham,  killed 
in  the  war,  with  Sir  Arthur's  mother,  a  lady 
of  German  birth,  abetting  the  deception.  The 
arrival  from  India  of  another  Arthur  Pelham, 
cousin  to  the  former  and  closely  resembling 
him.  sets  the  ball  rolling,  which  the  disclosures 
of  the  spurious  Sir  Arthur's  fiancee  and  the 
murder    of   Lady   I'elham    speed    to   its   goal. 


"Admirers  of  Louis  Tracy,  who  has  won  his 
place  as  a  skillful  teller  of  stories  of  romance 
and  inventor  of  uncanny  situations,  will  enjoy 
this    clever    story." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  3  '23  130w 
Cleveland  p27  Ap  '23 
"A  nleasing  love  theme  runs  through  the 
story  without  impeding  its  logical  development. 
And  a  touch  of  something  approaching  grandeur 
is  given  the  book  by  the  excellent  description 
of  the  final  exit  of  the  principal  villain — an  ar- 
rogant   and    rather    admirable    fellow." 

+   Detroit    News   pl2   Ag   12   '23    200w 
"It   is    told   in  a   not  unpleasant   manner.    The 
sole  fault  is  that  it  is  not  worth  the  telling." 
—    Lit    R   p667   My  5   '23   160w 
"In  this  new  novel  Louis  Tracy  keeps  well  up 
to  his  highest   achievement,   and   tells   a  breezy, 
swiftly    running,    ingenious,    fascinating    tale  " 
+   N  Y  Times  pl6  Mr  4  '23  500w 
"Mr.    Tracy    gets    a    great    deal    of    breathless 
action  out  of  the  after-war  period  by  prolonging 
into  it  the  hates,  passions,  strife,  wheels  within 
wheels  of  the  war  Secret  Service  and  the  Crimi- 
nal Investigation   Department." 

+   N  Y  World  p6e  Mr  4  '23  190w 


520 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


TRACY,   LOUIS.  Turning  point.   3r.2p  $2  Clode 
2  23-12220 

"A  thoroughly  enjoyable  romance  in  which  a 
modern  knight-errant,  threatened  with  madness 
as  a  result  of  an  aeroplane  accident,  seeks  quiet 
on  a  walking  trip  and  becomes  involved  in  a 
tournament  in  which  past  and  present  are  in- 
extricably mixed."— Booklist 


Booklist  20:142  Ja  '24 
"While  'The  Turning  Point'  does  not  reach 
that  sheer  flight  of  romantic  fancy  which  claims 
'The  Wings  of  the  Morning'  wholly  di.'^arming, 
or  completely  discouraging  the  cynic,  this  new 
book  will  nevertheless  .prove  interesting  to  Mr. 
Tracy's  readers." 

-f  N  Y  Times  p9  S  30  '23  750w 
"Everything  turned  out  for  best,  but  the  pro- 
cess was  exciting.  Not  unduly  so,  however.  No- 
body need  take  a  story  like  this  seriously.  The 
author  never  intended  it  should  be."  Isabel 
Paterson 

-I-   N    Y   Tribune  p21   D  30   '23   650w 

TRAFTON,  GILBERT  HAVEN.  Biology  of 
home  and  community;  a  textbook  for  high 
schools.    614p   il  $1.68   Macmillan 

570  Biology  23-5669 

"The  basis  of  the  book  [is].  .  .  in  the  rela- 
tion of  plant  and  animal  life  to  man's  welfare." 
— Preface 


Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui   28:470  N  '23 

TRAIN,    ARTHUR    CHENEY.       His    children's 

children.    391p   $2   Scribner 

23-4808 

The  house  of  Kaynes  had  been  founded  by 
Peter  B.  who  began  his  career  after  the  Civil 
war,  carrying  a  pick  and  dinner-pail,  and  what 
with  gold-mining  and  railroad  grabbing  in  good 
old  pirate  fashion,  retiied  from  affaiis  as  one  of 
New  York's  leading  financiers.  In  contrast  to 
him,  his  son  Rufus  was  a  gentleman.  He  is 
Introduced  to  the  reader  as  the  president  of  the 
Utopia  trust  company,  installed  with  his  family 
in  a  house  of  vulgar  grandeur,  on  Fifth  avenue, 
built  by  Peter  B.  The  story  follows  the  for- 
tunes of  this  family,  giving  at  the  same  time 
a  cross-section  of  post-war  high  society  which, 
having  outgrown  its  brownstone  Victorianism, 
is  giddily  and  recklessly  reaching  out  for  new 
standards  and — especially  in  the  case  of  women 
— skirting  perilously  near  to  the  edge  of  a 
precipice.  To  Rufus  Kayne  and  his  family  of 
daughters  financial  ruin  proves  a  blessing  in 
disguise  and  the  voice  of  the  auctioneer  in  the 
hall  of  the  grand  house,  while  it  is  Peter  B's 
death-knell,  rings  in  a  new  era  for  the  younger 
generation. 


"There  is  a  discursiveness  in  the  plot  which 
makes  one  wish  that  some  of  the  loose  ends 
of  the  story  had  been  more  fully  woven  into 
the  web  of  the  picture.  There  seems  to  be  not 
only  an  opportunity  but  even  the  necessity  of 
a  sequel.  As  one  comes,  at  the  end  of  the  book, 
to  know  better  the  fine  character  of  the  aged 
Peter,  Rufus's  father,  one  regrets  that  he  did 
not  come  into  the  action  more  fully  but  was 
reserved  for  the  really  fine  climax  with  which 
the   story   ends."    L.    F.    Piper 

H Atlantic's    Bookshelf    Jl    '23    450w 

Booklist    19:255    My   '23 

"Mr.  Train  does  not  preach  to  us,  he  is  too 
much  the  artist  and  too  much  the  man  of 
the  world,  but  he  never  drew  professionally 
an  indictment  the  counts  of  which  more 
completely  covered  the  offenses  of  the  accused, 
and  he  makes  one  believe  it  is  all  true.  He 
ha.sn't  found  a  little  fast  circle,  he  has  indicted 
a    tremendous   public."     S.    L.    Cook 

Boston  Transcript  p5  Mr  3  '23  llOOw 
Cleveland   p51   Jl   '23 

"It  is  a  very  ambitious  book,  this  of  Mr. 
Train's  but  it  is  one  in  which  the  extent  of 
achievement  justifies  the  ambition,  a  book  de- 
serving far  more  extended  comment  than  is 
possible   within   the   limits  of   a    review.     It   is 


interesting,  vivid  .  .  .  rich  in  contrasts,  thought- 
ful,   well   written."    L.    M.    Field 

4-  Int  Bk  R  p54  Ap  '23  900w 
"The  last  third  of  the  book  is  excellent.  If 
we  could  have  been  properly  introduced  to 
Rufus  Kayne,  been  told  how  he  was  induced 
to  make  the  disastrous  loan  and  then  could 
read  what  follows  that  event,  as  it  is,  in  fact, 
told,  we  should  feel  that  we  had  a  strong  and 
worth  while  book.  The  rest  of  it  is  not  really 
worth    while."     E:    B.    Hill 

h   Lit    R   p563   Mr   31    '23   780w 

"  'His  Children's  Children'  introduces  in  flfty 
vigorous  and  very  readable  pages  a  lovable  old 
pirate  of  finance,  his  materially  successful  son, 
and  his  three  wayward  granddaughters.  Then 
we  are  overwhelmed  by  retributions.  .  .  Mr. 
Train  would  be  a  most  entertaining  raconteur 
if  he  did  not  attempt  to  mount  the  pulpit." 
Eva  Goldbeck 

H Nation    116:522   My    2    '23    220w 

Reviewed    bv    Glenway    Westcott 

New   Repub   35:158  Jl   4   '23   180w 
"An   excellently   sustained   novel   with   a   high 
degree  of  able  characterization,  by  far  the  most 
ambitious  and  successful  piece  of  work  he  has 
ever  turned  out." 

-|-  N  Y  Times  pll  F  18  '23.1050w 
"The  trouble  is  that  Mr.  Train  does  little  ex- 
cept present  briefs  and  sum  up  cases.  The 
novel  is  like  a  law  suit  in  chancery  for  un- 
counted sittings  before  judges  immemorial  in 
bombazine."      A.   D.    Douglas 

—  NY   Tribune   p22  Mr  11  '23  1050w 
Reviewed    by    F:    F.    Van    de   Water 

N  Y  Tribune  pl9  Ap  15  '23  1300w 
"An  admirably  balanced  and  consistent  piece 
of  story  telling  and  one  likely  to  carry  its 
message  effectively,  without  fuss.  We  do  not 
recall  a  moment  in  which  the  narrative  stands 
still  or  even  drags.  Yet  there  is  never  to  be 
gathered  from  it  the  sense  of  somebody  behind 
the  scenes  urging  everybody  to  'step  lively.'  " 
E.  W.  Osborn 

-f  N  Y  World  p9e  F  18  '23  420w 
"He  doesn't  preach,  but  he  does  hold  up  his 
mirror  unsparingly.  .  .  This  is  far  more  sol- 
idly conceived  and  strongly  thrown  on  the  fic- 
tion stage  than  the  frisky  and  ultra-clever 
sketches  of  the  same  kind  of  thing  by  Mr.  Fitz- 
gerald."     R.    D.    Townsend 

-I-  Outlook  133:719  Ap  18  '23   280w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:214  My  '23 
Pratt    p38    spring    '23 
St    Louis   21:94   My   '23 
Spec  131:760  N  17  '23  150w 
"There  are  capital  bits  of  description  of  New 
York,    for   Mr   Train   knows   the   light   and   dark 
sides   of  his  city."  .„„   ,„„ 

-I-  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ap  8    23  480w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p672   O 
11    '23    150w 

Wis   Lib   Bui  19:133  My  '23 

TRAIN,     ARTHUR     CHENEY.       Tut,     tut!     Mr 
Tutt.   315P    $2    Scribner  ^^__^^^^^ 

"Mr.  Train's  new  book  contains  a  number, 
eight  to  be  exact,  of  short  fiction  studies  writ- 
ten around  the  exploits  of  the  firm  of  Tutt  & 
Tutt,  and  more  particularly  about  the  figure  oi 
the  senior  partner.  It  is  the  habit  of  this  old 
gentleman,  as  well  as  a  hobby  and  obsession, 
to  make  his  very  profound  knowledge  of  law 
serve  the  ends  of  justice.  And  in  particular 
he  strives  to  help  the  poor  or  bewildered  souls 
so  often  crushed  by  the  ponderous  weight  of 
legal  machinery."  (N  Y  Times^  Contents:  The 
bloodhound;  Tut,  tut!  Mr  Tutt;  The  liberty  of 
the  jail;  Hocus-pocus;  Saving  his  face;  In 
witness  whereof;  The  twelve  little  husbands; 
The   cloak   of   St   Martin. 

Booklist   20:142  Ja  '24 
"Every  one  of  the  .stories  strikes  the  mark— • 
the    difficulty    is    to    ration    oneself    so    as    119! 
to   use   them   up   too   quickly."     M.    L.    Franklin 
+  Ind    111:197    O    27    '23    350w 


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"All  the  stories  are  so  good  that  it  is  use- 
less to  try  to  select  the  best." 

+   Int    Bk    R    p70    N    '23    200w 
Lit   R    p316  D   1   '23  170w 
Nation    118:40    Ja    9    '24    50w 
"One    need    not    discriminate    in    the    case    of 
stories  from  the  firm   of  Tiitt  &  Tutt,   but  just 
recommend   them   all." 

+  N  Y  Times  p5  S  30  '23  800w 
"Mr.  Train's  work  is  highly  praiseworthy. 
Above  all,  the  majestic  figure  of  the  law,  his 
heroine,  casts  a  magic  shadow  over  the  stories 
which  prevents  them  from  being  cheap  or  taw- 
dry."  Leo  Markun 

-f  N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  7  '23  780w 
"They  are  captivating  tales  all.  Each  of  them 
has  a  point,  and  more  than  one  of  them  has  a 
eting." 

-t-   N    Y   World   p6e   S   16   '23   120w 

Springf'd   Republican  D7a  N  18  '23  450w 

TRAPROCK,    WALTER    E.,    pseud.     See    Chap- 
pell.  Q:  S. 

TRESTON.    HUBERT  JOSEPH.   Poine;   a  study 
=    in   ancient   Greek   blood-vengeance.    427p   $7.50 

(21s)     Longmans 
913.38    Vendetta.    Criminal    law.    Homicide. 
Greek    drama.    Greece — Antiquities    23-14222 

"This  work  is  intended  as  a  supplement  to 
the  study  of  Greek  literature,  history  and  arch- 
aeology. The  first  part  contains  an  analysis  of 
important  elements  of  Homeric  civilisation,  an 
account  of  the  different  strata  in  the  Homeric 
society  and  of  the  religious  beliefs  and  practices 
of  the  Homeric  Greeks.  The  second  part  is  con- 
cerned with  the  Middle  Age  of  Hellenism  (1000 
B.C. — 600  B.C.);  it  is  an  attempt  to  explain 
the  social  and  religious  evolution  of  the  Hellenes 
and  to  interpret  the  homicide  laws  of  the  his- 
torical period  in  the  light  of  that  evolution.  The 
third  part  is  an  enquiry  into  the  origin  and 
development  of  the  legends  which  are  found  in 
Attic  tragedy.  These  legends  are  permeated 
with  references  to  homicide  and  the  attempt 
is  made  to  render  less  obscure  and  difficult  the 
problems  of  blood-vengeance  which  they  con- 
tain."— Preface 


and  the  affairs  connected  with  the  names  of 
Radetzky,  Charles  Albert,  king  of  Piedmont, 
and  Pius  IX.  There  are  six  maps  and  numerous 
illustrations,   also  a  bibliography  and  index. 


"Solid  reading  this,  but  invaluable  to  students 
who  desire  a  fully  rounded  education  In  this 
especial  line  of  thought." 

-f-   Boston    Transcript    p6    D    15   '23    740w 

"Prof.  Treston  is  ingenious  and  reasonable 
in  his  conclusions,  and  while  we  do  not  always 
agree  with  his  reading  of  the  scanty  evidence, 
we  recognise  the  width  and  learning  of  his 
survey,  and  have  read  it  with  great  interest. 
He  has  the  German  industry,  but  not  the  Ger- 
man stolidity,  or  insensitiveness  to  the  claims 
of  poetry  and  literature." 

H Sat   R    136:624    D   8   '23   400w 

"A  book  about  murder  can  hardly  fail  to  be 
interesting;  and  this  book  is  both  interesting 
in  the  special  points  that  it  raises  and  in- 
structive in  its  comprehensive  treatment  of  the 
whole  subject  of  homicide  in  ancient  Greece. 
We  must  say,  however,  that  it  is  written  in 
a   tiresome   manner." 

-1 The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p865    D 

13   '23    1550W 

TREVELYAN,  GEORGE  MACAULAY.  Manin 
and  the  Venetian  revolution  of  1848.  284p  il 
$4.50   Longmans 

945.3     Venice — History.      Manin,    Daniele 

23-14223 
This  is  the  fourth  volume  in  Mr  Trevelvan's 
series  devoted  to  the  central  period  of  the  Itali- 
an riaorgimento.  Since  the  story  of  all  Italy  in 
the  year  of  revolution  is  so  complicated  and 
large  that  It  cannot  be  told  in  sufficient  detail 
in  one  volume,  the  author  has  taken  a  single 
region  from  which  to  view  Italian  affairs  and 
has  followed  the  part  played  bv  Venice  in  1848. 
The  hero  i.s  Daniele  Manin,  who  led  the  revolt 
of  Venice,  organized  her  defence  and  ruled  the 
republic  during  its  short  existence.  The  scheme 
of  the  book  involves  a  brief  survey  of  the  war 
between  Austria  and  Italy,  the  politics  of  Italy 


"A  history  so  full,  so  fair,  so  responsible,  so 
illuminating,  for  the  writing  of  which  it  is  nec- 
essary to  unravel  most  complicated  events  in 
a  foreign  country,  demands  opportunity  as  well 
as  the  genius  and  the  industry  to  use  it."  J.  L. 
H. 

-i-  New   Statesman    22:152   N   10   '23   1350w 

"Trevelyan's  volume  cannot  be  considered  a 
great  authority  upon  the  period.  The  author 
has  allowed  many  important  primary  sources 
to  escape  his  research.  But  the  work  is  earn- 
est, is  imbued  with  the  spirit  of  the  men  of 
'48,  and  is  a  most  valuable  Interpretation  of 
events  for  the  English  reading  public."  H.  N. 
Gay 

f-   N    Y   Times   pi   D   30   '23   2100w 

"Here  is  a  most  fascinating  book."  J.  St  Loe 
Strachey 

+  Spec  131:900  D  8  '23  2950w 
"His  text  emerges  clear  and  lucid  as  the 
style  in  which  it  is  written  and  the  type  in 
which  it  is  printed.  Moreover,  Mr.  Trevelyan 
has  the  skill  to  present  his  history  as  an  artis- 
tic whole.  Its  proportions  are  nicely  conceived. 
Without  attempting  to  be  flamboyantly  drama- 
tic or  aggressively  snappy,  his  sense  of  artis- 
tic proportion  leads  him  to  tell  a  tale  with  an 
eye  to  the  principles  observed  by  the  great 
masters  of   fiction." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p663    O 
11    '23   1900W 

TREVELYAN,   JANET   PENROSE   (WARD) 
(MRS  GEORGE  MACAULEY  TREVELYAN). 

Life  of  Mrs  Humphry  Ward.   317p  il  $5  Dodd 

[12s    6d    Constable] 
B    or    92    Ward,     Mary     Augusta    (Arnold) 
(Mrs    Humphry   Ward)  [23-17719] 

Mrs  Ward's  daughter  has  written  this  full 
biography  of  the  author  of  "Robert  Elsmere" 
and  other  widely  read  Victorian  novels.  Mrs 
Trevelyan  examines  her  mother's  ancestry  and 
finds  that  it  was  not  alone  the  Arnold  blood 
but  other  strains  of  a  complex  heredity  which 
went  far  to  account  for  her  vitality  and  in- 
tellectual force.  She  follows  not  only  the  writing 
of  Mrs  Ward's  novels  and  the  influences  which 
contributed  to  them  but  the  many  other  in- 
terests of  her  intensely  active  life — her  work 
for  vacation  schools  and  children's  play  centers, 
her  efforts  against  woman  suffrage  and  the  re- 
newal of  her  activities  with  the  outbreak  of  the 
war.  Her  many  friendships  with  prominent  Eng- 
lish writers  and  men  of  affairs  are  recorded, 
including  some  of  her  correspondence  with 
them. 


"For  a  biography  by  a  daughter,  Mrs  Trevel- 
van's  work  is  exceedingly  dispassionate  and 
discriminating."    E.   F.  Edgett 

-f-   Boston   Transcript  p4  N   10  '23    1300w 

"Mrs.     Trevelyan    has    told    the    whole    story 
with    admirable    restraint."      Arnold   AVhitridge 
-1-   Lit    R    p303   D   1    '23   1400w 

"Mrs.  Trevelyan's  life  of  her  mother  has  the 
defects  and  merits  characteristic  of  biography 
written  by  a  near  relation.  The  focus  of  such 
biographers  is  never  that  of  the  world  they  ad- 
dress. It  cannot  be:  nevertheless  they  are  in 
a  position  to  tell  us  much,  and  show  us  much 
that  one  writing  with  detachment  from  a 
distance  cannot.  .  .  This  biography  is  one  of 
those  monuments  which  personal  devotion  loves 
to  raise  to  the  dead.  It  must  be  read  therefore 
with  sympathy  or  not  at  all.  It  also  shows  that 
Mrs.  Ward's  daughter  has  inherited  not  a  little 
of  her  thoroughness  and  that  power  of  so  ar- 
ranging facts  that  the  reader,  though  he  may 
think  he  Is  going  presently  to  skip,  finds  him- 
self   invrariably    reading    on." 

4-   New    Statesman    22:sup8   O   13   '23    900w 

"Her  daughter,  who  still  preserves  the  rev- 
erence and  grave  admiration  of  childhood,  has 
made  a  most  filial  biography — full,  exact  and 
very  dull.  She  reflects  her  mother  in  manner 
and'    in    the    material    which    she    chooses;    and 


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TREVELYAN,    J.    P. — Continued 
has    reared   precisely     the    dignified     monument 
which   Mrs.   Ward   herself  would   have  wished." 
Roselee    Cohen 

N    Y    Times   p7   N    25    '23   1500w 
"Mrs.  Trevelyan  has  written  a  very  complete 
and   a  very    pithy   biography."    Ruth    Snyder 
+   N   Y   World   p6e  N   25  '23  1200w 
"Mrs.    Trevelyan    fails    to    make    what    must 
have   been  her  magnetism  felt.      The  fact    that 
with  this   failure   she   has   succeeded   in   making 
the   recital   of  Mrs.   Ward's   working  hours,    her 
social     life     and     her    philanthropy    interesting 
proclaims   the  book  a  very  good   if  not  a  first- 
rate  biography."     Cecilia   Townsend 

H Spec    131:648    N    3    '23    1200w 

The     Times     [London]      Lit     Sup     p617 
S  20  '23  2000w 

TRINKS,  CHARLES   LEOPOLD  WILLISBALD, 

Industrial  furnaces,  v  1  319p  $4.50  Wiley 

621.183  Furnaces  (23-7296) 

"The  first  work  to  deal  at  all  adequately 
with  the  theory  of  industrial-furnace  design. 
Volume  one  is  confined  to  fundamental  princi- 
ples and  will  be  of  special  value  in  connection 
with  reheating  furnaces  for  steel.  The  analysis 
of  specific  applications  is  reserved,  for  volume 
two." — Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:359    Jl    '23 

TUFTS,  JAMES  HAYDEN.  Education  and 
training  for  social  work.  240p  $1.50  Russell 
Sage  foundation 

360    Social   work  23-9087 

The  first  part  of  the  study  defines  the  field 
of  social  work  and  discusses  the  question 
whether  it  is  peculiarly  a  woman's  profession 
or  whether  it  needs  both  sexes.  The  second  part 
deals  with  the  question  of  education  and  train- 
ing, the  purpose  and  organization  of  profes- 
sional schools,  entrance  requirements,  curricu- 
lum and  methods  of  instruction.  An  appendix 
gives  statistics  of  salaries  in  social  work,  show- 
ing how  far  both  college  education  and  later 
professional    study    count   in    terms    of   salaries. 


"The  author's  distinctive  contribution  is  made 
in  Part  I  where  he  essays  the  difficult  task  of 
clarifying  the  situation  as  regards  the  bound- 
aries of  the  social  work  field.  In  the  reviewer's 
opinion,  no  writer  has  succeeded  in  stating 
more  clearly  the  essential  nature  of  social  work 
and  in  defining  its  relation  to  the  numerous 
borderline  activities  that  have  been  the  source 
of  endless  corufusion  in  social  work  discussions." 
I.    F.    Steiner 

+  Am    J    See   29:366  N   '23    800w 
Cleveland  p70  S  '23 

"This  book  Is  of  exceeding  value  to  anyone 
working   in   the  social   agencies." 

+  J    Religion    3:559    S    '23    60w 

"Professor  Tufts'  thoughtful  study  of  schools 
for  the  teacher  of  social  workers  is  more  than 
its  name  implies.  It  is  a  sober  and  restrained 
plea  for  a  throwing  off  of  the  shackles  laid  on 
the  social  worker  by  his  'charitable'  origin,  and 
for  a  bold  conception  of  his  function  in  terms 
of  social  engineering,  not  ambulance  work.  .  . 
The  work  is  an  informing  study  and  criticism 
of  existing  educational  machinery  and  methods 
in  a  special  field,  and  is  full  of  sound  and  valu- 
able suggestions."  H:  R.  Mussev 
-I-   Nation    117:245   S   5   '23    2lbw 

"Professor  Tufts  has  handled  his  theme 
carefully  and  has  thoroughly  covered  its  many 
phases.  His  work  will  appeal  chiefly  to  those 
who  are  especially  interested,  for  professional 
reasons,  in  .social  service,  and  all  these  will 
find  it  a  comprehensive  survey  of  the  present 
situation,  with  much  illuminating  discussion  of 
the  developing  possibilities  of  social  welfare 
work  both  as  a  public  service  and  as  a  pro- 
fession." 

+  N  Y  Times  p21  Je  24  "23  720w 
"All  of  the  burning  questions — and  indeed 
some  that  have  not  yet  ignited — on  the  subject 
of  training  young  people  are  reviewed  in  a  calm 
and  orderly  fashion.  If  the  discussion  seems  to 
remain  in  the  middle  of  the  road  and  to  refuse 


to  extinguish  some  of  the  more  combustible  dis- 
putes,   it    is    doubtless    from    the    author's    well 
considered  judgment  that  a  little  more  burning 
will  yield  beneficial  results."   N.  R.  D. 
-I Survey  51:228  N  15  '23   800w 

TUNIS,     THEOPHILUS.     Forestry     for     profit; 

)iow    the    woodlot    can    be    made    to   pay.    296p 

il    $2.50    Putnam 

634.9    Forests    and    forestry  23-7978 

A  book  on  commercial  tree  growing  which  ex- 
plains the  modern  method  of  handling  and  re- 
producing trees  for  profit.  In  terms  that  the  aver- 
age farmer  may  follow,  the  book  describes  in  de- 
tail the  new  Lotuswood  system  of  forest  tree 
planting,  growing,  culture,  and  cropping  which 
will  enable  him  to  convert  his  idle  woodlot  into  a 
profitable  part  of  his  farm  operations.  There 
are  twenty-four  illustrations. 


Booklist  20:11  O  '23 
"Altogether  the  ideas  presented  are  distinctly 
revolutionary,  and  it  is  perhaps  doubtful  if  one 
farmer  in  a  hundred  would  have  the  courage, 
to  say  nothing  of  the  time  and  the  means,  to 
carry   the  scheme  into  operation." 

—  Boston   Transcript  p4  My  29  '23  440w 
"His    theory   certainly   runs   counter   to   sound 

forest  economics.  Even  in  Europe  under  the 
intensive  conditions  that  exist  in  state  forests 
and  even  with  pre-war  labor  at  50  to  75  cents 
a  day  the  author's  system  would  prove  too  ex- 
pensive." 

—  Lit  R  p755  Je  9  '23   240w 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p637  S  27 
■23    380w 

TURNER.  EDWARD  RAYMOND.  Europe, 
2    1450-1789.      871p     $3.50     Doubleday 

940.2       Europe— History  23-134r'' 

This    volume,    which    is    a    companion    to    the 

author's    "Europe,    1789-1920"     deals     with     the 

period    from    the    Renaissance     to     the     French 

revolution. 


Booklist  20:134  Ja  '2* 
"In    the    details    of    arrangement    and    topog- 
raphy the  book  might  well  be  taken  as  a  model. 
The    maps    are    exceptionally    good." 
-f   R   of   Rs   69:109   Ja  '24   llOw 
"The    style     of     the     volume      is     clear    and 
straightforward     and     the    bibliographical    data 
given    at    the    close    of    each    chapter    are    ade- 
quate." 

+   Springf  d   Republican   p7a  Ja  6  '24  200w 

TUTHILL,  WILLIAM  BURNET.  Cathedral 
church  of  England.  (Essays  on  architec- 
tural  art)    193p   il    $2.50   Macmillan 

726    Cathedrals  23-8764 

A  study  of  the  architectural  details  of  the 
cathedral  churches  of  England.  Each  general 
division  of  the  illustrations — such  as  general 
views,  west  fronts,  etc. — is  set  in  chronological 
order  so  that  the  study  of  them  shows  the  his- 
torical development  of  the  English  cathedral 
system. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  My  26  '23  420w 
"The  lecture.^  have  gained  nothing  in  read- 
ing form.  On  the  contrary,  the  pages  cry  out 
for  the  lecturer  with  his  enlarged  views,  his 
long  pointer,  and  his  many  side  remarks  of 
elucidation.  The  work  is  not  adapted  in  meth- 
od to  be  a  handbook  for  beginners,  and  it  !.■=; 
too  scant  of  information  to  be  interesting  to 
the  advanced  student.  It  succeeds  to  a  fault  in 
the  fewness  of  its  pages;  but  it  fails  of  in- 
spiration." 

h  Cath   World   117:851   S   '23   200w 

"For  those  who  like  to  be  told  what  to  ad- 
mire and  what  to  condemn  without  the  trouble 
of  analysing  and  estimating  for  themselves  the 
book  is  valuable.  Mr.  Tuthill  is  reliable  in  his 
judgments  and  conscientious  in  his  detailed  com- 
ments. The  illustrations  are  numerous,  though 
small  and  not  always  well  chosen.  One  gets 
the  impression  of  an  illustrated  lecture;  Indeed, 
the  volume   may   have   had   its   inception   after 


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this  fashion,  and  as  such  it  would  be  useful 
and  instructive  to  a  general  audience."  R.  A. 
Cram 

1-  Lit    R    p927   Ag   25    '23    lOOOw 

"Remote  as  tliis  topic  is  to  the  general 
reader,  the  author  has  .so  dressed  his  subject 
that   it   will   have  a  wide  appeal." 

+  N    Y  Tribune   plS   S   2   '23   150w 
"A   short  but   illuminating  book." 

+  Sprlngf'd    Republican    p7   O   21   '23   250w 

TUTTLE,  JOHN    BETLEY.     Analysis  of  rubber. 

(Am.    chemical    soc.    Monographs)    155p    $2.50 

Chemical   catalog  co. 

67S     Rubber  22-21921 

"Primarily,  this  monograph  is  addressed  to 
the  cheinists  in  the  consumers'  laboratories,  and 
to  those  who,  without  any  previous  experience 
in  the  technology  or  analysis  of  rubber,  may 
be  called  upon  to  deal  with  a  problem  in  which 
the  composition  of  rubber  may  play  a  more  or 
less   important   part." — Preface 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:169   Ap   '23 

TUTTLE,  MARGARETTA  MUHLENBERG 
(PERKINS)  (MRS  FREDERIC  CROSBY 
TUTTLE).     Feet   of  clay.     36Sp   11   $2   Little 

23-12670 
The  .story  contrasts  the  world  of  the  luxury 
classes  with  that  of  the  workers.  Amy  Loring 
stands  between  the  two,  for  while  her  father 
lived  their  circumstances  were  sufficiently 
humble,  in  spite  of  her  mother's  aspirations. 
The  latter,  suddenly  widowed,  marries  a  dis- 
tant millionaire  cousin,  but  Amy,  preferring 
independence,  takes  what  little  of  her  father's 
insurance  money  comes  to  her  to  finish  her 
schooling.  Chance  had  thrown  a  man  of  mod- 
est income  in  her  way  who  acts  as  her  adviser 
and  when  her  schooling  is  finished  she  marries 
him  and  turns  her  back  on  the  voluptuously 
idle  life  in  her  mother's  home.  When  her  hus- 
band is  stricken  with  a  long  illness,  she  goes 
to  work  to  support  both  him  and  herself  rather 
than  accept  aid,  and  finds  her  life  enriched  by 
the   knowledge   it   brings   her. 


"It  is  Indubitably  a  popular  book,  and  a  clever 
one." 

+  Bookm   58:202  O  '23   ISOw 

"Mrs.  Tuttle  has  a  fine  dramatic  sense  and 
her  choice  of  situation  is  pretty  apt  to  be  a 
good  one.  Her  characters  have  a  greater 
tendency — outside  the  few  principal  ones — to 
follow  the  usual.  She  has  a  very  good  under- 
standing of  human  nature — particularly  of 
feminine  human  nature,  and  it  is  clear  that 
she  has  formulated  questions  which  will  make 
her   readers   think."     D.    L.   M. 

-I-   Boston    Transcript   p3    S   15    '23   llOOvv 

"Tho  quite  innocent  of  any  literary  quality, 
and  unashamedly  sentimental  fiom  start  to 
finish,  it  is  not,  except  occasionally,  dreary 
reading." 

h   Int   Bk  R  p68  N  '23  400w 

"Mrs.  Tuttle  has  not  the  power  to  rise  above 
her  hackneyed  material.  Her  character  draw- 
ing is  of  the  crudest,  her  philo.«ophizing  hardly 
less  so,  and  her  incidents  are  well  worn.  And 
yet  'Feet  of  Clay'  will  doubtless  attract,  as 
have  its  prototypes  before,  a  large  public — for 
it  has  the  fluent,  if  superficial,  dialogue,  the 
ST)iced  incident,  and  the  counterbalancing  in- 
sistence on  morality  that  never  fail  of  their 
appeal  to  the  untrained  taste.  And.  it  must 
be    admitted,    the    narrative    never    lags." 

h   Lit    R   p31    S   8   '23    400v/ 

Nation  117:495  O  31  '23  50w 

"The  book  is  far  from  being  remarkable, 
and  if  it  is  unusual  it  is  simply  because  it  is 
scrupulously    'clean.'  " 

N    Y  Times  p22  S  9   '23  330w 

"Her  story  lacks  cohesion,  but  this  is  due 
In  part  to  the  heaviness  of  her  material.  And 
the  story  ends  too  abruptly.  "We  are  not  pre- 
pared for  the  disposition  made  of  this  charming 
woman  character.  Her  life  thread  has  been 
snapped  off  too  abruptly."  Ruth  Snyder 
—  -f  N  Y  World  p9  O  14  '23  650w 
Wis    Lib    Bui    19:482    N    '2."^ 


TWAIN,    MARK,    pseud.     See   Clemens,    S:    L. 

TWEEDIE,  ETHEL  BRILLIANA  (HARLEY) 
(MRS  ALEC  TWEEDIE).  Mainly  East.  320p 
il  $6  Button    [IGs  Hutchinson] 

915  East— Description  and  travel  [23-5924] 
Mrs  Alec-Tweedie's  sketching  trip,  begun 
shortly  after  the  Armistice,  covered  two  and  a 
half  years  and  some  fifty  thousand  miles.  The 
travels  were  mainly  in  Egypt,  Palestine,  Syria, 
India,  the  Greek  islands,  Turkey  and  the  south- 
ern Sudan.  She  was  busied  as  much  with  her 
pen  as  with  her  brush  and  her  word-sketches, 
accompanied  by  reproductions  of  her  water 
colors,  are  a  lively  record  of  unusual  experiences 
as  well  as  a  commentary  on  the  political  situa- 
tions  in    the   countries   visited. 


"The  whole  volume  is  full  of  delightful  in- 
cidents, very  feminine  comments,  charming  pic- 
tures of  everything  under  the  .sun,  and  an  over- 
whelming and  sincere  terror  lest  the  intelligent 
world  should  rouse  too  late  to  the  menace  of 
the  East.  The  book  will  interest  anyone  who 
cares  for  travel,  all  who  like  to  wander  with 
human  nature,  and  everyone  who  is  honestly  in- 
terested in  the  progress  of  the  nations  upon 
earth."     I.   W.    L. 

+   Boston   Transcript   plO   Mr   24    '23   980w 

"Besides  giving  delightfully  vivid  descriptions 

of  people  and  places,   the  author  makes  shrewd 

comments    on    the    vexed    pohtical   conditions    m 

the   countries    she  visited."     I:    Anderson 

+   int   Bk   R  p44  Je  '23  80w 

"Of  passing  value  as  the  report  of  an  h9nest, 

conscientious,    and    sometimes   acute   eyewitness 

of  the  colossal  muddle  of  things  in  Asia  Minor. 

B^gypt,    and    Turkcv.      She    is    concerned    mainly 

with   superficialities,    but   these   are   not  without 

significance,    and    sometimes    she    delves    below 

the   surface."  „ ^„ 

+   Lit  R  p670  My  5  '23  280vv 
"The  author's  eves  rove  rapidly  over  a  scene 
and  thev  frequently  are  impressed  by  things  of 
trivial    consequence.      But    they   do   absorb,    and 
her  pen   reports,   with   a   liveliness   of   color  ana 
form    and    action    that    make    her    narrative   al- 
ways   entertaining    and    often    informative,    sig- 
nificant facts  of  conditions,  life,   people. 
+  N    Y  Times  p4  Mr  14  '23  1700w 
N    Y   World   p8e  Mr  25  '23   350w 
The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p751  N  16 
•22    450w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:132   My  '23 

TYLER,  JOHN  MASON.    Coming  of  man.  (Am- 
is   herst   books)    147p   $2   Marshall   Jones 

575     Evolution  23-14238 

"A  marvel  of  compactness,  this  little  volume 
contains  a  sketch  of  the  evolution  of  living 
things  from  amoeba  to  man  and  civilization, 
with  room  left  in  the  136  pages  for  a  half-dozen 
little  essays  on  great  biological  questions.  — 
New   Repub 

"The  layman,  enjoying  some  familiarity  with 
a  considerable  number  of  biological  terms,  can- 
not fail  to  profit  by  making  the  acquaintance 
of  the  author  through  his  little  volume,  written, 
as  he  says,  'especially  for  those  who  have  never 
found  time  or  inclination  to  study  our  benighted 
ancestors  and  predecessors,  and  their  magnifi- 
cent and  truly  heroic  achievements."  "  L.  L. 
Woodruff  ^     .„,    „,„ 

+  Bookm   58:572  Ja  '24  850w 

"Professor  Tvler,  in  chatty  style  and  with  a 
decided  literary  touch,  not  excluding  an  oc- 
casional witticism,  here  sums  up  the  main  fact.s 
of   organic   evolution."     E.  N.  „    ,.„ 

-j-   Boston    Transcript   p4    O    27    '23    540w 

"A  very  simple  and  readable  account  of  the 
evolution  of  the  human  race  in  which  the  evo- 
lution of  mind  and  morality  and  religious  be- 
lief receives  rather  more  attention  than  is 
usual  in  books  of  this  kind."  B.  W.  Kunkel 
-t-   Nation   118:60  Ja   16  '24   240w 

"Written  in  a  mellow,  gently  philosophical 
vein,  with  fine  touches  of  the  wisdom  of  age 
and  the  spirit  of  youth,  yet  a  bit  old-fashioned 


524 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


TYLER,  JOHN   MASON— Continued 
in  spots  and  with  here  and  there  a  lapse  from 
scientist    to    mystic,    it    is    a    book    of    decided 
value   for  the   cultivated   layman."     F.   H.    H. 

-j-  New  Repub  37:212  Ja  16  *24  lOOw^ 
"Professor  Tyler's  book  is  easy  reading;  he 
draws  freely  for  illustration  and  confirmation 
from  archives  of  history  and  science,  and  to 
the  many  who  are  really  desirous  of  informing 
themselves  of  the  general  program  in  human 
evolution,  broadly  sketched,  not  too  philosophic- 
ally involved,  but  coming  with  the  voice  of  good 
authority,  this  book  will  be  very  welcome." 
J;   M.   Clarke 

-f  N    Y  Times  pl2  Ja  6  '24  550w 
N    Y    World    p7e   N    4   '23   TOOw 

TYSON,    JOHN    AUBREY.       Barge   of   haunted 

lives.   333p  $2   Macmillan 

23-4980 

"The  barge  of  the  title  is  anchored  in  the 
Great  South  Bay  of  Long  Island.  Into  it  are 
gathered  nine  men  and  one  woman  for  whose 
use  it  has  been  mysteriously  designed.  Into  the 
lives  of  nine  of  these  have  entered  events  which 
have  left  haunting  faces  and  memories.  It  is 
the  purpose  of  the  host,  who  knows  all  the 
facts,  to  have  these  nine  tell  each  his  story  in 
detail.  By  the  joining  of  related  particulars 
then  the  whole  truth  is  to  be  revealed  by  which 
the  'haunts'  shall  be  driven  from  all  the  as- 
sembled hearts  and  minds.  Hewitt  Westfall. 
New  York  multi-millionaire,  is  the  host  on  the 
barge.  Before  the  final  revelation  the  guests 
are  known  to  each  other  and  to  the  reader  only 
as  the  One-Eyed  Duck  Hunter,  the  Nervous 
Physician,  the  Sentimental  Gargoyle,  the  Hy- 
pochondriacal Painter,  etc.  The  stories  told 
range  widely  in  their  scenes  of  events,  reaching 
as  far  as  the  furthest  Indies.  When  all  are 
finished  they  produce  a  composite  which  ex- 
plains everything  to  every  troubled  mind  on  the 
barge  and  places  happiness  where  it  is  de- 
served."—N  Y  World 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  25  '23   400w 
Cleveland  p43  Je  '23 

"The  author  has  succeeded  in  taking  the  worst 
out  of  both  Dumas  and  Stevenson.  Even  so. 
the  tale  might  be  interesting  if  the  author  had 
let  his  imagination  have  full  sway  instead  of 
featuring  stale  situations  and  garnishing  them 
with  trite  descriptions." 

—  Lit   R   p650  Ap  28   '23   llOw 

"About  the  author's  fertile  Ingenuity  there  is 
no  question;  but  there  is  also  no  question  that 
this  very  ingenuity  needs  a  great  deal  of  sim- 
plifying." 

H NY   Times   p27  Mr   25   '23   220w 

"Horror  leaps  upon  horror,  and  then  some 
more  horror,  like  sinister  corridors  of  a  long- 
drawn  hallucination.  .  .  Mr.  Tyson  has  invented 
a  new  chill."     A,   D.  Douglas 

N    Y  Tribune  p2G   Ad   1    '23   450vv 
Reviewed    by   E.    W.    Osborn 

N    Y    World    p6e   Mr   11    "23    370w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Je  3  '23  250w 


u 


UNDSET,  SIGRID.  Bridal  wreath:  tr.  from  the 
Norwegian  by  Charles  Archer  and  J.  S.  Scott. 
337p   $2.50    Knopf 

23-8081 
"The  scene  is  laid  in  Norway  in  the  first  half 
of  the  fourteenth  century.  Tho  the  glory  of  the 
preceding  age  had  faded,  there  was  a  fine  stock 
of  landed  aristocracy,  a  kind  of  peasant  nobility 
peculiar  to  Norway.  Of  this  class  Kristin's 
father,  Lavrans  Bjorgulfsson,  is  a  splendid  type. 
The  conflict  in  the  book  comes  from  the  clash- 
ing of  wills  between  father  and  daughter,  and 
Slgrid  Undset  has  heightened  the  effect  by 
sketching  the  beautiful  relation  between  the 
child  and  her  father.     Kristin  grown  to  a  young 


maiden,  is  a  pathetically  lovely  figure,  dowered 
with  a  capacity  for  intense  feeling  which  can 
not  but  bring  tragedies  on  herself  and  others. 
Her  love  for  Erlend  Nikolausson  possesses  her 
with  the  inevitability  of  fate,  altho  she  knows 
that  Erlend  is  bound  by  a  disgraceful  entangle- 
ment, and  altho  she  herself  is  betrothed  to 
Simon  Andres.son.  SVie  is  fully  conscious  that 
the  kindly  Simon  would  have  smoothed  her  path 
and  bent  down  to  pick  up  every  stone  that  could 
have  hurt  her  feet,  while  the  fickle,  undisci- 
plined Erlend  will  certainly  bring  upon  her  more 
than  the  allotted  share  of  anguish.  Neverthe- 
less she  chooses  the  latter  and  sacrifices  every- 
thing for  him." — Int  Bk  R 


Booklist    19:322    Jl   '23 
Boston   Transcript  p5  Ap  28   '23  650w 
Cleveland    p67    S   '23 
"Sigrid  Undset  has  written  an  epic  of  woman- 
hood, of  woman's  experiences  as  daughter,  mis- 
tress, housewife,  mother,  and  lastly  in  the  lone- 
liness   that    comes    to    every    human    soul    when 
the   world   has   fallen   away   from    it.    .    .    She   Is 
not  only  the  greatest  woman  writer  in   Norway 
to-day;    she    is    a    genius   who   can    well    be   ap- 
praised   without    the    qualifying   note    of    sex   or 
country,   nor  yet  of  time."     H.   A.   Larsen 
+  Int  Bk   R  p32  Mr  '23  1500w 
"Taking  it  all  in  all.  Fru  Undset's  book  must 
be  held  one  of  the  biggest  that  have  come  over 
to   us   from    those   northern   countries   in   a   long 
while."    Edwin   Bjorkman 

-I-    Lit    R   p624    Ap   21   '23   880w 

Nation  117:200  Ag  22  '23  SOW 
"A  well-written,   well-constructed,   strong  and 
dramatic  romance,  founded  upon  those  emotions 
and  impulses  which  belong,   not  to  any  especial 
time   or  countrv,    but   to  all   humanity." 
+   N   Y  Times  p9  Mr  25   '23   lOOOw 
"In    color    and    brilliance    of    style,    in    gover- 
nance  of  material,   in   the  sure   revealment  of  a 
woman's     character,     there     is     but     one     other 
Scandinavian      novel      to     which      'The      Bridal 
Wreath'    may    be    compared.        That    is    J.     P. 
Jacobson's    lovely    masterpiece,    'Marie    Grubbe.' 
The  assurance  that  'The  Bridal  Wreath'  suffers 
little  by  the  comparison  is  sufficient  warrant  of 
its    indisputable    distinction."    A.    D.    Douglas 
+  N   Y  Tribune  p22  Mr  25  '23  600w 
"It  is  in  effect  a  historical  novel  of  character 
and    local    color,    its    romance   and    its   historical 
detail    translated    in    a    naturalness    that   almost 
removes  the  sense  of  the  six  centuries'  remote- 
ness   of    the    tale." 

f  Springf'd     Republican    p7a    My    20    '23 
250w 
"It    shows   the   author  at   her   best   both   as   a 
creator    of   characters    on    the    grand    scale    and 
as  an  analyst  of  considerable  subtlety." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p840  D  14 
'22    520w 

UNTERMEYER.   LOUIS.  American  poetry  since 

1900.   405p  $3.50  Holt 
811.09  American  poetry  23-14228 

"This  volume,  altho  changed  in  substance  as 
well  as  in  name,  is  based  on  a  previous  collec- 
of  essavs.  'The  New  Era  in  American  Poetry.' 
(Book  Review  Digest.  1919)  Several  of  the 
pages  stand,  with  the  addition  of  certain  data, 
practically  as  they  appeared  in  the  earlier  book, 
but  most  of  the  chapters  are  either  new  or 
have  been  entirely  rewritten.  .  .  This  sum- 
mary endeavors  to  be,  at  one  time,  a  reestab- 
lishment  and  revision.  Where  the  author  has, 
in  his  first  survey  of  the  field  of  contemporary 
poetrv,  done  less  than  justice  to  certain  work- 
ers in  it,  he  has  here  attempted  a  more  de- 
tailed   analysis." — Preface 

Booklist  20:93  D  '23 
"It  is  an  entertaining  and  instructive,  bril- 
liant and  sometimes  specious  estimate  of  a  con- 
siderable part  of  the  singing  and  croaking 
choir  of  present-day  bards  and  hardesses,  and 
proves  what  an  element  in  our  literature  verse 
is   now   providing."    N.    H.    Dole 

H Boston   Transcript  p5  D  8   '23   2300w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


525 


Reviewed  by  Newton   Arvin 

Freeman  8:236  N  14  '23  1650w 
"As  an  anthology  the  book  is  valuable 
throughout.  As  criticism  it  ranges  all  the  way 
from  gossip  and  vulgarity  to  the  genuine  thing. 
All  of  it  is  vigorous,  and  some  of  it  is  subtle. 
There    are    quantities    of    information." 

H Nation    117:670    D    5   '23    90w 

"When  I  say  that  it  is  the  best,  the  most 
comprehensive  work  on  modern  American  poets 
I  am  not  saying  very  much  for  it  as  a  book 
of   poetic   criticism."    Burton    Rascoe 

N  Y    Tribune   p20   N    25    '23    390w 
Reviewed    by    Maxwell    Anderson 

N   Y  World  plOm  Ja   6  '24  1450w 

UNTERMEYER,  LOUIS.    Roast  Leviathan.  143p 

$1.75   Harcourt 

811  23-6219 

Most  of  the  poems  of  the  first  section,  in- 
cluding the  title-poem,  are  frankly  Jewish  in 
spirit  if  not  in  theme.  Many  of  the  others  are 
poems  of  protest  and  social  revolt,  against  war, 
machines  and  other  tyrannies. 


Booklist    19:312  Jl   '23 

"It  is  instinct  with  racial  feeling — with  a  lively 
awareness  of  the  majestic  and  colorful  his- 
torical background,  of  the  race's  suffering  and 
hardihood  and  achievement,  of  the  promised 
fulfillments.  Given  this  feeling,  genuine  and 
unobstructed — which  in  itself  is  so  nearly  pure 
poetry — plus  Mr.  Untermeyer's  skill  and  range 
and  vigor,  and  stirring  poetry  is  assured."  D: 
Morton 

-f   Bookm   57:461  Je   '23   350w 
Cleveland   p36   My   '23 

"Such  poems  as  He  Goads  Himself  and  Lenox 
Avenue  Express  are  merely  a  facile  restatement 
of  a  theme  which  Louis  Untermeyer  should 
never  have  attempted.  Putting  these  irritations 
aside,  what  one  finds  in  this  volume  is  a  greater 
strength,  a  finer  sensitivity,  a  richer  content 
than  was  discoverable  in  the  author's  pi-evious 
books." 

H Dial   74:633   Je  '23   190vv 

Reviewed   by  J:    G.   Fletcher 

Freeman   7:213  My   9  '23  300w 

Reviewed   bv  H.    S.    Gorman 

Int   Bk   R  p25  Je  '23   190w 

Reviewed  by  O.  W.  Firkins 
Lit   R  pl9  S  8   '23  .660w 

"The  ideas  often  are  powerful,  but  the  exe- 
cution is  feeble  because  Mr.  Untermeyer,  a 
very  knowing  poet,  has  too  little  respect  for 
his  pro'olems.  Rather  than  labor  to  shape  a 
conception  and  bring  it  gradually  forth,  he  loads 
it  with  loud  epithets  and  sets  it  running.  It 
cannot  run  far,  for  its  feet  are  prose."  Mark 
Van    Doren 

h   Nation    116:601   My   28    '23    80w 

"The  book  is  Mr.  Untermeyer's  best  perform- 
ance thus  far  for  it  retains  all  those  emotional 
vehemences  which  are  markedly  his  own  and  yet 
subjugates  them  to  a  high  degree  of  technical 
craftsmanship.  He  is  still  the  insurgent,  the 
defiant  accepter  of  life,  the  lusty  singer  of 
emphatic  convictions;  but  with  these  traits  is 
discernible  a  finesse  that  is  directly  the  result 
of  maturity  and  critical  growth."  H.  S.  Gorman 
+   New  Repub  35:338  Ag  16  '23  lOOOw 

"Words  are  used  as  cymbals  and  the  nerves 
jarred  at  their  impact.  There  is  little  notion  of 
modulation,  so  that  his  most  successful  poems 
are  those  in  which  he  abandons  the  individual 
Introspective  lyric  for  the  bardic  or  prophetic 
diapason.  In  this  manner  'Lost  Jerusalem'  and 
'Daughters  of  Jephthah'  testifv  to  an  inspira- 
tion of  rare  fervour  and  assure  his  position 
among  the  most  eminent  living  poets  of  Amer- 
ica." 

-1 New  Statesman   22:sup22  O  13  '23  180w 

"There  is  a  great  vigor  in  the  verses  which 
make  up  Untermeyer's  volume.  The  poet  has  all 
the  militancy  which  is  so  marked  a  characteris- 
tic of  much  of  modern  verse.  .  .  If  the  reader  de- 
tect the  slight  sneer  at  the  corner  of  the  poet's 
mouth,  it  is  very  certain  that  Untermever 
wished  that  he  should  perceive  it.  But  ithe 
poet  can  wear  a  sneer  only  at  the  expense  of 


his  poetry.  Untermeyer  clearly  wishes  to  as- 
sume the  rSle  of  the  prophet.  Many  readers 
are  likely,  however,  to  find  that  he  is  among  the 
minor  rather  than  among  the  major  prophets  " 

[-   N   Y  Times  p6  Mr  25  '23  650w 

"The  youth,  the  spirit,  the  fire  Untermeyer 
gets  into  his  poetry  is  remarkable.  There  is 
so  much  tensity  and  pent-up  hatred  in  'Roast 
Leviathan'  that  the  author  can  be  forgiven  for 
his  cursing.  But  too  pas.sionate  an  outburst 
always  smacks  of  a  latent  impotency,  and  when 
Untermeyer  breaks  into  verse  like  a  conflagra- 
tion it  is  a  little  too  forced.  But  there  is  no 
denying  that  Untermeyer  is  a  fine  poet."  Mil- 
ton   Raison 

-I NY  Tribune  p20  Ap  8  '23  500w 

"He  has  many  and  admirable  qualities;  it  is 
only  that  poetry's  specific  magic  does  not  seem 
to  be  among  them.  He  has  knowledge  of  books 
and  life,  gusto,  passion.  He  is  a  rhyming  rhet- 
orician of  a  very  high  order,  but  somehow  he 
always  misses  the  sacred  and  deathless  phrase 
which  alone  is,  in  the  strict  sense,  poetical." 
H Sat    R   135:738   Je    2   '23    lOOw 

"The  title  of  Mr.  Untermeyer's  volume  is 
characteristic  of  his  sense  of  style.  It  is  at  once 
banal  and  precious,  exerting  so  much  pressure 
on  the  obvious  that  a  sensation  of  originality 
is  sometimes  produced.  The  most  imaginative 
poemis  are  those  on  Hebrew  themes." 
h  Spec   131:227   S   18   '23   80w 

"There  is  a  decided  ease  and  even  brilliance 
about  this  verse,  through  which  often  glows 
genuine  passionate  purpose.  As  in  many  poets 
the  prevailing  source  of  strength  is  apt  by  over- 
reliance  to  become  a  weakness,  so  in  Mr.  Unter- 
meyer. His  freedom  and  plentiful  colour,  at 
times,  become  unimportant  volubility;  one  asks 
for  sudden  restraint  and  pauses,  but  they 
scarcely   come." 

-] The  Times  [London!  Lit  Sup  p507  Jl  26 

'23   350w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:412  Jl   '23 

UNTERMEYER,  LOUIS,  ed.  This  singing 
2    world.      445p      il      $3      Harcourt 

821.08      Children's    poetry.       English    poetry 
—Collections  23-17203 

This  anthology  of  poems  for  young  people 
covers  a  wide  range  and  includes  many  kinds 
of  poems  so  that  many  different  tastes  may 
be  satisfied.  It  is  mostly  contemporary  poets 
who  are  represented  in  the  collection,  and  the 
poems  are  grouped  under  such  headings  as 
songs  of  awakening,  breath  of  the  earth,  surge 
of  the  sea,  common  things,  birds  and  beasts, 
fairies  and  phantoms,   croons  and   lullabies,  etc. 


"If  some  of  his  inclusions  and  exclusions  seem 
arbitrary  or  unjustified  by  the  merits  of  the 
former  or  the  demerits  of  the  latter,  we  must 
recognize  the  problem  confronting  him;  and,  on 
the  whole,  we  can  pronounce  the  volume  well 
balanced,  unusual,  and  individual  in  the  fresh 
culling  of  its  material." 

H Lit   R   p230   N   10   '23   420w 

"The  divisions  Mr.   Untermeyer  has  made  are 
excellent   and   the   whole  is   a  valuable   addition 
to    the    child's    library."    Constance    Naar 
+   New   Repub  36:315  N  14  '23  50w 

UP  DE  GRAFF,  FRITZ  W.  Head  hunters  of 
the  Amazon:  seven  years  of  exploration  and 
adventure;  with  a  foreword  by  Kermit  Roose- 
velt.  337p  il  $5  Duffield 

918.1  Amazon  river.  Brazil — Description  and 
travel.  Indians  of  South  America  23-5829 
"By  a  jovial  account  of  his  exoectations  of  a 
four  months'  trip  at  the  most,  Mr.  Up  de  Graff 
launches  the  colorful  tale  of  his  seven  years' 
pioneering,  prospecting  and  trekking  in  the  vir- 
gin tracts  of  the  unexplored  Amazon  jungle.  The 
book  is  divided  into  two  major  exploring  ad- 
ventures— the  first  up  the  Yasuni,  in  quest  of 
rubber,  when  Mr.  Up  de  Graff  was  accompanied 
bv  onlv  one  fellow-prosnector •  the  other,  up  the 
Maranfin,  in  search  of  the  still  concealed  placer 
mines  of  Inca  gold.  During  this  second  expedi- 
tion occurred  the  actual  encounter  with  the 
head-hunting  savages  and  the  gruesome  cere- 
monies of  preparing  and  'curing'  the  trophies  of 


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up    DE   GRAFF,    FRITZ   W.— Continued 
human    heads— a    process   said    never   before    (o 
have     been     witnessed     by     white     man." — N    Y 
Times 


Booklist  20:136  Ja  '24 
Boston   Transcript   p4   Mr  17  '23   650w 
"Mr.     Up    de    Graff's    experience    among    the 
head  hunters  is  only  one  of  the  many  thrilling 
adventures  that  give  his  book  a  place  by  itself 
among  records  of  travel."     I:   Anderson 
+   Int   Bk   R  p38  Je  '23   550w 
'•The    dominant    note    of    Mr.    Up    de    Graffs 
volume,     and,     at     the    same     time,     its     potent 
charm,    is   its   personal,   straightforward   manner 
of   presentation.      It    does    not    claim    distinction 
as  a  work  of  scientific  research;   it  purports  to 
be   a   distinctly   personal   narrative.      His   is   the 
easy,   intimate  style  of  a  fluent  narrator;  his  is 
the  art  of  transforming  his  thoughts  into  writ- 
ten words  with  a  sure  freedom  from  hesitancy 
or  affectation." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl2  Mr  11  '23  820w 
"Mr.  Up  de  Graff's  observations  among  the 
aborigines  add  considerably  to  the  store  of 
knowledge  concerning  them  and,  while  not  pre- 
tending to  be  a  naturalist,  he  reveals  much  that 
IS  worth  knowing  concerning  the  vast  fauna 
and  flora  of  the  Brazils." 

+  N  Y  World  p7e  Mr  4  '23  700w 
"In  comparison  with  a  work  like  the  present 
the  ordinary  book  of  travel  is  as  a  farthing  dip 
to  the  noonday  sun.  If  any  stay-at-home  critic 
IS  disposed  to  think  that  nature  is  now  so  far 
subdued  as  to  make  travel  all  over  the  world 
a  simple  matter,  this  volume  will  undeceive  him 
i.ut  so  direct  and  obviously  genuine  is  the  au- 
thor's story  that  there  is  in  it  nothing  sugges- 
tive even   of  exaggeration." 

+  Sat  R  134:876  D  9  '22  GOOw 
"However  variously  testing  the  experiences 
described,  the  narrator  is  always  the  same, 
simple,  practical— one  might  say,  unimaginative 
— ^^man,  and  his  narrative  is  always  consistent 
with  itself  and  with  human  nature.  He  is  con- 
tent to  recount  what  happened  to  him;  and  it 
is  a  happy  accident  of  chronological  order  and 
not  literary  art  that  preserves  an  unforgettable 
epi.sode  for  the  end." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p739    N 
16   '22   lOOOw 


V 


VACHELL,     HORACE     ANNESLEY.       Change 

partners;    a   vagabondage.    305p    $2    Doran    [7s 

6d    Hutchinson] 

23-7004 

"The  story  of  two  friends  who  have  wandered 
happily  through  Brittany  in  their  early  youth 
and  parted;  pledged  to  meet  and  wander 
together  again  at  some  time  in  the  future. 
They  are  already  feeling  themselves  oldish  fel- 
lows when  they  do  meet,  and  though  both  have 
been  successful — both  have  secret  grievances 
against  their  wives,  who  are,  nevertheless,  very 
charming  ladies.  But  the  men  are  .so  tired 
of  their  charms  that  they  decide  to  desert  them 
for  a  time,  and  to  bolt  together  to  the  scenes 
of  their  early  wanderings.  The  comedy  arises 
out  of  the  plot  arranged  by  the  deserted  wives 
to  bring  their  husbands  to  a  sense  of  their 
privileges."— The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 


"Whimsical,  humorous,  human,  and  highly  en- 
tertaining." 

+    Lit  R  p650  Ap  28  '23  120w 

"All  the  tricks  of  the  trade  are  used  in  this 
novel  of  Mr.  Vachell.  It  is  not  unpleasant  read- 
ing, but  it  misses  the  gusto  to  make  it  a 
story  of  great  delight.  The  book  abounds, 
though,  in  the  good  things  of  life.  It  is  a 
vagabondage   of  epicures." 

H  N  Y  Times  pl4  Mr  18  '23  950w 


"  'Change  Partners'  makes  me  think  of  a 
movie  in  which  the  four  principals  look  too 
much  alike."     Charlotte  Dean 

—  NY   Tribune  p31  Ap   8   '23  130w 
"Those    who    like    this    type    of   story   will    no 
doubt     enjoy     it.       It    seems,     however,     hardly 
worthy  of  the  pen  of  Mr.    H.   A.  Vachell." 

-J Spec   129:976    D    23    '22    80w 

"Tradition,  legend  and  history  are  delight- 
full.v   mingled   in    'Change   Partners.'  " 

+  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  Je  3  '23  27ew 
"The   lightest  of  light  comedies'' 

The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p686    O 
26   '22   520w 


VACHELL,    HORACE   ANNESLEY.     The  Yard. 

287p    $2    Doran    [7s    6d    Hutchinson] 

23-26866 
The  Yard  belonged  to  Tom  Kinsman,  the 
Puddenhurst  hor.se  dealer.  Here  hunters  were 
for  sale  and  on  hire  and  here  came  horsem.en 
who  wanted  a  smart  mount  for  spring  hunting 
in  the  Forest  of  Ys.  Tho  the  Yard  sets  the 
scene  and  gives  the  story  its  background  of 
hunting  and  horse-racing  there  is  human  in- 
terest in  plenty,  especially  in  the  relationship 
of  Tom  and  his  daughter  Margery  to  whom  he 
was  both  father  and  mother  from  the  time 
his  wife  deserted  him,  when  Margery  was  only 
four  years  old.  There  is  also  Margery's  hap- 
pily developing  love  story  and  a  touch  of  melo- 
drama toward  the  end,  when  the  disreputable 
Emily  Kinsman  returns  to  make  trouble  for 
her  husband  and  her  daughter. 


Booklist  20:60  N  '23 
"While  much  of  this  material  is  tinged  with 
melodrama  and  while  the  ending  is  as  conven- 
tional as  one  might  expect,  yet  on  the  whole 
the  author  builds  up  a  plausible  story  and  one 
that  convincingly  describes  certain  sections  of 
the    English    countryside." 

1-   Lit   R  pl32   O  13   '23   220w 

"His  prose  is  light  and  the  humorous  touch 
is  never  omitted.  The  result  is  a  bright  and 
sparkling  book  that  is  essentially  comedy 
throughout,  but  which  moves  with  a  surprising 
sense    of   reality." 

-f  N   Y  Times  p9  O  21  '23  210w 

The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p302   My 
3    '23    550w 


VAERTING,  MATHILDE,  and  VAERTING, 
MATH  IAS.  Dominant  sex;  a  study  in  the 
sociology  of  sex  differentiation;  tr.  from  the 
German  by  Eden  and  Cedar  Paul.  289p  |3 
Doran     [10s  6d  Allen  &  U.] 

392.6    Sex.    Woman  23-11229 

The  main  thesis  of  the  book  is  that  the  so- 
called  "masculine  qualities"  of  to-day  are  the 
qualities  of  the  dominant  sex  and  the  so-called 
"feminine  qualities"  those  of  the  subordinate 
sex.  An  attempt  is  made  to  j^ove  scientifically 
and  historically  that  under  complete  sociologi- 
cal sex  equality  the  psychological  differences 
will  likewise  have  passed  away,  all  but  the  resi- 
due of  masculine  and  feminine  traits  that  are 
indisputably  congenital.  Glossary.  Bibliography. 
Index. 


Booklist  20:124  Ja  '24 
"We  wish  we  might  be  insured  against  evet 
reading  another  novel  less  engrossing.  It  reads 
like  the  best  of  Hudson,  the  best  of  George 
Borrow,  or  the  best  of  Samuel  Butler.  It  is 
primarily  an  explorer's  book,  an  exploration  in- 
to the  future  on  the  basis  of  the  findings  of 
the  past."  Ruth  Hale 

-I-   Bookm  .58:77  S  '23  520w 
Cleveland  p69  S  '23 
"The  book  as  a  whole   is  an   admirable  piece 
of  reasoning  and  of  research."     M.  L.   Franklin 
-I-   Ind   111:170  O  13  '23   1950w 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


527 


"This  interesting  work  easily  stands  as  the 
most  suggestive  and  stimulating  study  of  the 
sociological  factor  of  sex  differentiation  which 
has  been  published  in  our  generation."  Alyse 
Gregory 

+   New   Repub  37:25   N   28   '23  220w 

"Their  book  is  interesting  and  suggestive 
and  is  sure  to  be  read  by  students  of  anthro- 
pology, comparative  psychology  and  sociology, 
and  by  feminist  fans.  That  unclassifiable  in- 
dividual 'the  generfil  reader'  will  find  it  divert- 
ing, and  if  he  can  put  its  dogmatic  statements 
through  a  fine  sieve  constructed  of  knowledge 
and  common  sense  he  will  find  it  instructive  as 
well." 

4 NY  Times  p27  Ag  5  '23  1650w 

Reviewed  by  Isabel  Paterson 

N   Y  Tribune  pl8  Jl  29  '23  1450w 

"One  cannot  but  feel,  however,  that  though 
they  have  begun  to  explore  an  interesting  field 
with  considerable  ingenuity,  much  of  their  data 
is  far  too  slender  and  uncertain  to  bear  the 
strain  that  they  have  tried  to  impose  upon  it, 
and  that  they  have  presented  us  witli  a  bi  ief, 
eminently  readable  and  provocative  rather  tlian 
an  exact  and  well-grounded  work  of  science." 
—  Sat   R  135:774  Je  9  '23  G50w 

"I  wish  the  authors  would  not  in  a  sense 
defeat  their  own  objects  by  going  the  whole 
hog  when,  as  is  so  usual  in  biology,  the  half 
or  three-quarter  animal  is  the  real  limit.  Per- 
haps in  a  second  edition  they  will  mellow  their 
views  and  turn  their  interesting  and  suggestive 
book  into  one  of  permanent  value."  Julian  Hux- 
ley 

H Spec  131:355  S  15  '23  1300w 

"As    a   manifesto    of   the    extremest    form    of 
feminism     with     an     abundance     of     illustrative 
facts  from  all  ages  of  society,  the  book  is  valu- 
able.   There  is  a  full  bibliography  at  the  end." 
-f  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p359  My 
24    '23   140w 


VALE,  ROBERT  B.  Efficiency  in  Hades;  the 
romantic  adventures  of  an  enterprising  ex- 
pert in  the  lower  world.     148p  il    $1.50  Stokes 

23-12224 
James  P.  MacDonald.  efficiency  engineer, 
comes  to  Hades  and  finds  it  a  run  down  place 
sadl.v  in  need  of  modern  improvements.  He 
gets  into  the  good  graces  of  the  Chief  and  the 
Lady  and  is  given  carte  blanche.  Under  the 
smiles  and  with  the  cooperation  of  the  Lady 
improvements  grow  apace.  Organization,  eight 
hour  shift.=:,  card  indexes,  cost  sheets,  social 
settlement  work,  a  public  welfare  and  a  fire 
department  are  established,  and  the  I;iflnite 
Worm  is  converted  into  a  Bessemer  .steel  con- 
veiter.  But  in  the  meanwiiile  morality  suffers. 
While  the  Lady  uses  her  wiles  on  the  engineer 
the  Chief  has  time  to  flirt  with  Madame,  Lu- 
cifer'.s  lady.  Complaints  are  coming  in  that 
Hell  is  being  turned  from  its  original  purpose; 
it  is  no  longer  a  place  of  torment,  the  gnash- 
ing of  teeth  has  ceased.  When  at  last  the 
grandest  scheme  of  all — the  repaving  of  the 
streets  with  asphalt — fails  on  account  of  the 
climate,  and  the  Infinite  Worm  turns,  effi- 
ciency engineering  for   Hades   is  discredited. 


"There  are  too  many  rather  dreary  pages 
which  might  have  been  made  brighter  had  they 
not  been  marked  by  a  radical  inconsistency  of 
plan.  Moreover  the  irony  intended  is  not  al- 
ways quite  clear." 

—  Boston   Transcript  p9  N  21   '23  460w 
"Robert    B.    Vale    should    have    been    able    to 

get  a  lot  of  fun  out  of  'Efticiencv  in  Hades,' 
but  he  is  not  the  man  for  the  job.  The  idea 
is   too  l)ig  for  him." 

—  NY   Times   p2   Ag   26   '23   500w 

"A  trifle  antiquated,  the  author's  wit  is  not 
as  funny  as  it  might  be." 

—  NY   Tribune   p]8   S   2   '23   800w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ja  6  "24  150w 

VALENTINE,      DOUGLAS,     pseud.       See     Wil- 
liams,  v. 


VAN  BLARCOM,  CAROLYN  CONANT.  Get- 
ting ready  to  be  a  mother;  a  little  book  of 
information  and  advice  for  the  young  woman 
who  is  looking  forward  to  motherhood;  with 
an  introd.  by  Clifton- Edgar.  237p  il  $1.50  (6s) 
Macinillan 

618    Pregnancy.      Obstetrics.      Infants — Care 
and    hygiene  22-25397 

"A  woman  doctor  recommends  this  as  the 
best  book  yet  pulilished  on  the  subject.  Covers 
preparation  for  motherhood  and  infant  care 
during  the  first  year.  Simply  written  and 
easily  understood.  Very  fully  illustrated.  Lacks 
an  index.  (Wisconsin  library  bulletin,  1923)" — 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui 


"A  very  ijseful  and  informative  handbook  is 
this  volume  by  an  authority  whose  institu- 
tional work  and  connections  have  been  of  the 
highest." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p3  Jl  7  '23  180w 
"It    is    practical    in    its    directions,    simple    in 
language,    and   yet   comprehensive   in    its    treat- 
ment." 

+  Cath  World  117:430  Je  '23  70w 
"No  other  book,  to  the  reviewer's  knowledge, 
gives  such  a  clear,  accurate  presentation  of 
the  whole  subject  of  maternity  care  in  a  short 
compass  in  language  both  clear  and  non-tech- 
nical."    D.    R.    Mendenhall,    M.D. 

+  J    Home    Econ   15:283    My  '23   SHOw 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:357   Jl    '23 
"Perhaps     the     book     might     prove     slightly 
alarming     to    a    nervous    woman,     but    to    the 
confident  majozity  it  will  prove  interesting  and 
stimulating." 

-\ Spec   130:855   My  19   '23   300w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:80   Mr   '23 

VANCE,    LOUIS    JOSEPH.     Baroque.      204p     $2 

Button    [7s   6d   Hodder] 

23-9168 

"Here  is  a  tale  of  perilous  streets  in  New 
York  and  of  dark  and  devious  ways  also  of 
men.  It  is  a  story  curiously  running  to  the 
destinies  of  twins — in  its  earlier  chapters  of 
the  Brothers  Barocco,  Liborio  the  bad  and 
Aniello  the  good,  and  later  on  of  the  children 
of  Aniello,  Francesca  the  delight  and  Angelo 
the  plague.  Hanging  over  the  house  of  Barocco, 
as  though  it  had  not  other  troubles  to  spare, 
is  the  superstition  that  whenever  and  however 
one  twin  dies  the  other  must  follow  into  the 
unknown.  The  belief  holds  in  the  case  of 
Liborio  and  Aniello.  How  it  fails  to  be  justified 
for  Francesca  and  Angelo  we  discover  at  the 
end  of  the  story." — N  Y  World 


Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  3  '23  300w 
"A  complex  yet  always  intelligible  plot,  a 
brisk  succession  of  situations  bizarre  in  them- 
selves vet  rendered  less  fantastic  and  at  times 
even  p'lausible  thiough  his  deft  management, 
together  with  a  knack  for  rapid  fire  characteri- 
zation, go  to  make  'Baroque'  a  thoroughly  read- 
able chronicle  of  unusual  adventure  and  ro- 
mance." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl8  Je  10  '23  700w 
"  'Baroque'  is  a  melodrama  done  with  rich 
color  of  style  and  a  fast-gathering  suspension 
of  disbelief  in  the  sprightly  doings  of  the 
Camorra.  It  is  lurid  without  absurd  emphasis, 
and  written  with  a  real  distinction."  A.  D. 
Douglas 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p20  Je  17  '23   440w 
Reviewed  bv   10.   W.   Osborn 

N  Y  World  pl8  Je  10  '23  260w 
"Mr.  Vance  can  always  be  depended  on  to 
tell  a  storv  with  plot  and  action  at  the  live- 
liest. His  work  is  not  of  the  most  distinguished 
order  so  far  ;is  literary  quality  goes,  but  he  is 
a  born  storv-teller,  and  in  this  tale  he  provides 
a  rapidly  shifting  romance  of  crime  and  excite- 
ment."    R.    D.    Townsend 

+  Outlook  1,'54:2S7  Je  27  '23  80w 
Spec    130:717   Ap   29   '23   50w 


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VANDENBERG,       ARTHUR       HENDRICK.       If 

Hamilton  were  here  today;  American  funda- 
mentals applied  to  modern  problems.  366p  il 
$2.50   Putnam 

342.73      United     States — Constitutional     law. 
Hamilton,    Alexander  23-5678 

The  author,  believing  that  "Alexander  Ham- 
ilton was  the  master  craftsman  of  American 
government,"  inquires  how,  if  he  were  here  to- 
day, he  would  interpret  the  letter  and  spirit 
of  the  constitution.  As  Hamilton's  beliefs  were 
clearly  set  down  in  the  famous  Federalist 
papers,  the  author  confines  himself  to  the  evi- 
dence of  these  writings  to  show  how  he  thinks 
Hamilton  would  apply  his  Federalist  philosophy 
to  modern  conditions.  In  this  way  he  examines 
the  question  of  ihe  authority  of  the  Supreme 
court,  of  the  Senate,  and  of  the  Executive, 
the  right  of  industrial  petition,  the  treatment 
of  menacing  factions,  etc. 


"What  the  author  has  really  done  in  an  in- 
teresting and  ingenious  manner  is  to  give  us 
his  own  views  on  these  various  issues  supported 
by  frequent  reference  to  Hamilton's  writings 
and  public   utterances." 

+  Am    Pol    Sci    R   17:511   Ag   '23   250w 

"The  book,  interesting  in  its  thesis,  is  de- 
veloped plausibly,  thoughtfully,  and  with  un- 
doubted sincerity." 

+   Bookm   57:468   Je  '23   130w 

"It  is  as  constitutional  essays,  not  as  his- 
torical examples,  that  these  chapters  of  Mr. 
Vandenberg  must  be  read.  So  they  will  best 
be  appreciated.  So  they  will  most  effectively 
serve   their  purpose."     S.   L.    Cook 

Boston  Transcript  p5  Mr  31  '23  1800w 
Lit   R   p852  Jl  21   '23   400w 

"Allowing  for  the  defect  of  its  style,  which 
may  be  called  flamboyant,  from  which  many 
adjectives  could  be  cut  with  advantage,  this 
book  will  be  found  to  be  a  stimulant  for  those 
who  have  lost  sight  of  the  teachings  of  Alex- 
ander Hamilton.  Mr.  Vandenberg's  volume  has 
what  may  be  called  a  news  quality;  it  will  be 
news  to  many  a  hardened  reader  of  modern 
shallow,  political  documents  to  discover  what 
the  real  principles  of  the  demigods  who  formed 
the  Constitution  were  and  are."  M.  F.  Egan 
-i NY  Times  p5  Je  10  '23  2600w 

"Mr.  Vandenberg's  volume  is  obviously  meant 
to  do  two  things — to  re-emphasize  the  nation's 
debt  to  Hamilton  and  to  justify  the  author's 
political  creed.  There  is  too  much  stretching 
and  straining  to  do  the  former  and  too  much 
prejudice  to  do  the  latter."  N:  Roosevelt 
—  NY  Tribune  p27  Ap   8  '23   700w 

VANDERBLUE,  HOMER  BEWS,  and  BUR- 
GESS, KENNETH  FARWELL.  Railroads; 
rates — service — management.  48Sp  il  $4.50 
Macmillan 


385     Railroads— United    States. 
Rates 


Railroads — 

23-3007 

"The  first  part  of  the  volume  outlines  the 
powers  and  functions  of  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission,  telling  how  this  important 
tribunal  does  its  work,  and  showing  its  relation 
to  the  Federal  judiciary.  The  second  part  cov- 
ers the  question  of  rate  regulation.  The  third 
part  takes  up  the  regulation  of  the  railroad 
service,  dealing  with  the  establishment  of  rules 
for  the  promotion  of  safety  and  health,  and  tell- 
ing what  has  been  done  to  give  the  shipping 
public  certain  rights  and  privileges  with  re- 
spect to  train  service,  car  service,  and  various 
special  services  related  to  the  movement  of 
freight.  The  final  section  on  management 
treats  of  such  questions  as  railroad  credit  and 
finance,  labor  policies,  accounting,  and  the  pro- 
posed plan  of  railroad  consolidation.  Three  ap- 
pendices give  an  outline  of  the  development  of 
railroad  regulation  in  the  United  States,  a  list 
of  suggested  readings,  and  a  table  of  cases 
cited." — Ann   Am   Acad 


its  well-balanced  judgment  on  controverted 
questions  commend  it  to  student  and  practical 
man  alike."     F.   H.   Dixon 

-I-  Am    Pol    Sol    R    17:326   My    '23    600w 

"Industrial  traffic  managers  and  railroad  of- 
ficials should  welcome  such  a  comprehensive 
discussion  of  the  fundamental  precepts  of  Fed- 
eral regulation,  with  the  clear  statements  of 
the  rights,  duties  and  obligations  of  shippers 
and  carriers.  The  book  will  also  be  of  great 
value  to  teachers  of  transportation." 

+  Ann    Am    Acad    107:323    My   '23    lOOOw 
Booklist   19:302  Jl  '23 

"Hardly  a  subject  connected  with  the  regu- 
lation and  operation  of  railways  but  receives 
some  attention  in  this  volume.  One  reads  such 
chapters  as  those  on  the  rehabilitation  of  rail- 
road credit  and  railroad  valuation  in  the  con- 
sciousness that  he  is  getting  a  maximum  of  in- 
formation and  sane  discussion  within  a  relatively 
limited  amount  of  space.  The  writers  have  no 
axes  to  grind.  They  are  content  to  state  facts 
as  they  exist,  to  provide  the  raw  material  for 
the   formulation  of  opinions."     F.   L.   B. 

+   Boston    Transcript   p2    Ap    21    '23    1300w 

"An  admirable  treatise — comprehensive,  au- 
thoritative, well  arranged,  readable  and  schol- 
arly. It  combines  the  viewpoint  of  a  successful 
teacher  thoroughly  at  home  in  the  historical, 
economic,  and  legal  aspects  of  rate  theories 
and  Government  regulation  with  the  viewpoint 
of  a  successful  railroad  attorney  well  equipped 
with  rich  background  of  practical  experience." 
W:  J.  Cunningham 

+   Lit    R   p733   Je   2   '23   1150w 

"The  chapters  on  the  working  of  the  Trans- 
portation act.  Government  operation  and  the 
rehabilitation  of  railway  credit  are  informing 
and  stimulating.  The  book  is,  without  mean- 
ing it,  railway  propaganda  of  such  an  excellent 
sort  that  it  might  be  wished  that  there  were 
some  way  of  bringing  it  to  the  attention  of 
farmers.  Commissioners  and  Congressmen."  E: 
A.   Bradford 

+    N    Y  Times  p9   Mr  4   '23   850w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:285    Je    '23 

"This  is  a  very  thorough  and  sound  presenta- 
tion of  the  economic  and  practical  principles 
entering  into  the  making  of  rates,  with  which, 
of  course,  is  joined  a  sketch  of  the  varicms 
stages  of  public  regulation.  Moreover,  there-  is 
a  useful  analysis  of  the  work  of  the  commis- 
sions and  of  the  ways  of  presenting  cases  to 
commissions;  this  is  of  technical  interest  to  the 
railroad   executive   or   lawyer." 

-f  Sprlngf'd     Republican     pl2     Ap     18     '23 
950w 

VAN  'DOREN,   CARL  CLINTON.     Roving  critic. 

262p     $2.50     Knopf 

811      Literature — History  and   criticism 

23-26345 

The  author's  fourth  dimension  in  critici.sm 
by  which  he  measures  both  the  creator  and 
the  critic  is  the  degree  of  vitality  in  either. 
"The  measure  of  the  creator  is  the  amount  of 
life  he  puts  into  his  work.  The  measure  of 
the  critic  is  the  amount  of  life  he  finds  there." 
In  his  search  for  the  creative  writer  Mr  Van 
Doren  constantly  shows  himself  the  creative 
reader. 


"An  unusually  valuable  contribution  to  the 
literature  of  the  r-^ilroad  question.  The  wealth 
and  aptness  of  its  illustrative  material,  its 
abundant  documentation,   its  keen  analysis  and 


Cleveland  p79  S  '23 
Dial  75:301  S  '23  90w 
"The  critical  spirit  represented  by  Mr.  Van 
Doren's  essays  in  'The  Roving  Critic'  is  so 
humane  and  vivacious,  the  temper  that  dictates 
them  so  liberal,  that  it  seems  like  looking  a 
gift-horse  in  the  mouth  to  regard  them  with 
any  serious  reservations.  It  may  be  on  Mr.  Van 
Doren's  own  conscience,  however,  if  his  writ- 
ing is  so  good  that  we  are  disappointed  at  its 
being  no   better."    N.    A. 

.| Freeman   7:455  Jl   18   '23   230w 

"When  he  gives  himself  enough  room  to  make 
his    point     we     are    willing     to     rove    with    him 
wherever  his  fancy  leads.   The  shorter  sketches 
suffer,    perhaps    inevitably,    from    compression. 
Arnold  Whitridge 

-I Lit    R   p732  Je   2   '23   750w 


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"The  value  of  Mr.  Van  Doren's  criticism — 
and  to  my  thinking  it  has  a  very  real  value  in 
contemporary  American  letters — lies  just  here, 
that  he  mediates  intelligently  and  graciously  be- 
tween the  asperities  of  the  extreme  partisans 
of  reaction  and  radicalism  in  thought  and  feel- 
ing. He  is  the  true  middle-aged  liberal,  with 
a  wise  leaning  toward  the  hopes  of  youth  as 
against  the  proved  and  discarded  experiences  of 
age."      Robert   Herriok 

+   Nation   11G:574  My  IG  '23  1200w 
N    Y   Times   p9  Ap   29   '23   280w 
"Short,    succinct    and    witty    are   the    mass    of 
these  notes." 

+   Springf'd   Republican  p7a  My  C  "23  250w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:410  Jl  '23 

VAN    DYKE,   PAUL.    Catherine  de  Medicis.     2v 

381);447p   il   $9    Scribner 
B  or  92    Catherine  de  Medicis,  queen  consort 
of  Henry  II,  king  of  Prance  22-23125 

For   descriptive    note    see    Digest   for   1922. 


"Piofessor  Van  Dyke  presents  no  case;  he 
holds  no  brief,  either  for  or  against  Catherine; 
he  is  neither  apologist  nor  prosecutor.  His  sole 
aim  is,  to  quote  from  his  preface,  to  'show  her 
as  she  was  ...  to  draw  a  portrait,  not  to 
pronounce  a  judgment.'  "  Theodoie  Collier 
Am    Hist    R   28:536  Ap  '23   1450w 

"It  would  be  difficult  to  praise  Professor  Van 
Dyke  sufficiently  for  the  vivid  and  life-like 
portrait  he  has  drawn  in  the  flesh  and  blood 
of  reality,  and  for  the  skill  with  which  he  has 
unravelled  the  tortuous  policy  of  a  ruler  who 
made  up  in  crookedness  what  she  lacked  in 
certainty  of  aim."  J:  Dickinson 

+   Am  Pol  Sci   R  17:674  N  '23  380w 

"A  truly  monumental  piece  of  work." 
-f  Bookm    57:104    Mr   '23    130w 

"An  interesting  and  careful  study.  .  . 
Whatever  her  shortcomings — and  they  were 
numerous  enough — Catherine  is  invested  in  this 
scholarly  study  with  an  understandable  hu- 
manity, and  is  no  longer  allowed  to  remain  as 
a  dehumanized  creature  of  unredeemed  per- 
versity." 

+  Cath    World    117:126    Ap    '23    1500w 
Cleveland    p62   Jl    '23 

"He  tells  his  story  in  a  direct,  decidedly  read- 
able fashion  and  with  a  wealth  of  detail,  with- 
out any  endeavor  to  disculpate  Catherine  from 
the  responsibility  of  the  St  Bartholomew  Mas- 
sacre." 

+  Dial  74:416  Ap  "23  80w 

"Very  impartially  and  thoughtfully  written." 
W.   D.   Green 

-f-   Eng   Hist  R  38:440  Jl  '23  750w 

"Fascinating  and  illuminating  book.  Dr.  Van 
Dyke  has  the  good  sense  to  understand  that 
nobody  is  interested  in  his  philosophical  opin- 
ions or  in  merely  picturesque  deductions — and 
therefore  he  gives  us  none.  His  book  is  not  an 
attempt  at  the  rehabilitation  of  a  worldly-wise 
woman,  who  in  her  heart  wanted  to  be  good 
and  in  her  soul  was  reverent.  It  is  a  vivid  pic- 
ture of  a  womanly  woman  who  was  forced  to 
be  the  man  of  her  family  in  times  which  were 
neither  refined,  tolerant  nor  merciful."  M.  F. 
E)gan 

+  Freeman  7:453  Jl  18  '23  2200w 
int    Bk    R   p33   Mr  '23   2400w 

Reviewed    by   W.    P.    Cresson 

Lit    R   p45.6   F   17   '23   2400w 

"Instead  of  pronouncing  a  Judgment,  he  has 
sought  to  draw  a  portrait — a  purpose  fully 
achieved.  Happily,  too,  this  masterly  central 
portrait  is  enhanced  by  the  excellence  of  those 
grouped  around  it:  such  personages  as  the 
Queen's  children,  the  Guises,  Coligny,  Henry  of 
Navarre,  L'H6pital,  and  the  Constable.  .  . 
Mr.  Van  IDyke's  "Catherine  de  M6dicis'  is  a 
monumental  biography,  equal  in  every  way  to 
M.  Mari^jol's  admirable  French  monograph  on 
the  same  subject."  W:  H.  Scheifley 
+   Nation   117:90  Jl  25  '23  1200w 

"Professor  van  Dyke  has  made  good  use  of 
this  setting.  He  could  not  carry  out  his  main 
purpose   otherwise;    but   that   purpose    is   not   so 


much  to  write  the  history  of  Catherine's  times 
as  to  set  before  us  clearly  and  unmistakably  the 
character  and  motives  of  the  woman  Catherine." 
R.    D.    Town. send 

+  Outlook  133:629  Ap  4  '23  2000w 
"It  is  not  often  that  a  book  based  on  such 
enormous  research  manages  to  retain  so  com- 
pletely its  sense  of  human  personality  and  mo- 
tive underlying  the  infinite  complex  of  circum- 
stance." 

+  Sat  R  135:870  Je  30  '23  lOOOw 
"The  professed  historian  must  not  neglect 
Professor  van  Dyke.  He  has  discovered  some 
new  material  and  throws  light  on  many  dis- 
puted points.  The  book  suffers  from  the  loss 
of  its  projected  supplementary  volume  of  docu- 
ments. It  is  printed  in  America,  and  neither 
the  illustrations  nor  proof-reading  of  the  foot- 
notes are  up  to  the  highest  standards." 

H Spec  131:292   S  1   '23  220w 

"He  has  an  eye  for  the  picturesque,  the  vol- 
umes never  failing  in  interest,  and  the  style  is 
facile  although  hardly  marked  by  distinction." 
J.   J.    R. 

+  Springf'd     Republican     p8a    Mr     11     '23 
1500W 

"A  fine  piece  of  work,   the   fruit  of  much  re- 
search,   to   which   is  added   a   sound  judgment." 
H The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p432  Je 

28    '23    lOOOw 

VAN    LOON,    HENRIK    WILLEM.    Story   of    the 
Bible.    452p    il    $5    Boni    &    Liveright 

220      Bible  23-14496 

Mr  Van  Loon  says  that  he  tells  the  Bible 
story  as  he  would  tell  it  to  his  own  boys.  "It 
will  be  comparatively  easy  to  write  about  the 
Old  Testament.  It  is  the  story  of  a  certain  tribe 
of  desert  people  who  after  many  years  of 
wandering,  finally  conquered  a  little  corner  of 
Western  Asia  where  they  settled  down,  and 
founded  a  nation  of  their  own.  Then  we  come 
to  the  New  Testament.  That  is  going  to  be 
very  difficult.  The  New  Testament  centres 
around  one  single  figure.  It  tells  the  story  of 
a  simple  carpenter  of  the  village  of  Nazareth, 
who  asked  nothing  of  life  and  gave  all.  There 
may  be  other  stories  more  interesting  than  that 
of  Jesus,  but  I  have  never  read  any.  And  so  I 
shall  give  you  a  very  simple  account  of  his 
life  as  I  see  it,  not  a  word  more  and  not  a 
word  less.  For  that,  I  am  sure,  is  the  way  he 
would  like   to   have   me  tell  it."    (Foreword) 


Booklist  20:122  Ja  '24 

"It  is  the  spirit  which  those  who  jiaraphrase 
and  simplify  can  never  catch.  Mr.  Van  Loon 
catches  it  no  more  than  anybody  else.  With 
considerable  skill  he  sums  up  a  large  portion 
of  the  Old  Testament,  but  the  spirit  not  being 
there  he  seems  to  offer  us  nothing  but  a  shell." 
Basil   King 

h   Bookm    58:570   Ja   '24    2250w 

Boston    Transcript    p2    N    14    '23    1400w 

"It  is  a  volume  that  will  no  doubt  please  many 
readers  in  America  to-day.  It  may  possibly 
offend  a  few  old-fashioned,  simple  people  by  Its 
obvious  scepticism;  and  because  of  its  abomin- 
able bad  taste  it  will  undoubtedly  outrage  that 
small  minority  who  still  care  for  what  is  fine 
and  distinguished  in  literature."  Llewelyn  Powys 
-\ Freeman  8:357  D  19  '23  1050w 

"An  exceptionally  good  book  in  about  all  of 
the  ways  in  which  a  book  can  be  good."  F.  H. 
Giddings 

+   ind  111:286  D  8  '23  600w 

"The  author  tells  the  story  as  he  sees  it,  tak- 
ing from  it,  adding  to  it,  rearranging  its  scenery 
and  setting  to  fit  his  faith  or  fancy  and  to 
suit  his  purpose.  At  once  vivid  and  racy,  para- 
graphic and  picturesque,  as  an  achievement  m 
story-telling  it  is  truly  remarkable."  J.  F.  New- 
ton,   D.D. 

+  Int   Bk   R  p30  D  '23  1200w 

"Here  is  the  Bible  in  Mr.  Van  Loon's  handl- 
ing become  a  chronicle  that  lights  up  the  past 
in  such  fashion  as  no  child  can  get  it  unas- 
sisted from  the  Scriptures  and  as  few  of  his 
elders  are  able  to  give  it  to  him.  But  we  are 
in  a  quagmire,   holding  that  acquaintance  with 


530 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


VAN  LOON,  HENRIK  WILLEM — Continued 
the  Bible  in  its  true  form  should  be  the  ground- 
work of  culture  and  wondering  whether  our 
children  won't  be  far  more  anxious  to  read  it 
if  first  they  discover  its  quality  through  some- 
tliing  other  than  itself." 

H Lit   R  p231   N   10   '23   550w 

"There  is  nothing  in  this  book  to  justify  the 
excitement  caused  by  its  preparation  and  ap- 
pearance. It  is  a  facile  and  amusing  story; 
out  it  is  in  no  sense  a  valuable  contribution 
to  the  subject,  or  a  work  of  serious  importance 
or  permanent  value.  The  best  thing  in  it  is 
the  pictures,  made  by  the  author,  exceedingly 
well  adapted  to  impress  and  excite  the  imag- 
ination of  boys;  many  of  the  di'awings  display 
genuine  imaginative  power.  .  .  In  addition  to 
the  marked  limitations  of  this  work  it  contains 
grave  faults,  both  in  its  vernacular  style  and 
in  its   inaccuracies  of  statenient."    W:    L.    Phelps 

—  4-  Lit    R   p254   N    17   '23    1700w 

"We  cannot  ignore  the  fact  that,  despite  his 
intention  of  keeping  his  book  free  from  all 
preaching,  Mr.  Van  Loon  has  preached  a  great 
deal.  He  has  done  much  besides  tell  tiie  story. 
He  has  dramatized  the  Modernist  conception  of 
the  Bible — at  least  certain  important  aspects 
of  that  conception.  I  think  it  a  good  thing  that 
Van  Loon's  'The  Story  of  the  Bible'  should  be 
on  the  market  alongside  Papini's  'Life  of  Christ.' 
Papini's  romanticism  and  Van  Loon's  rational- 
ism will  tend  to  correct  each  other.  Between  the 
two  books,  the  Carpenter  of  Nazareth  will  not 
suffer  greatly,  and  millions  will  read  afresh  the 
vivid  record  of  mankind's  quest  for  the  infinite." 
Glenn   Frank 

Nation  117:714  D  19  '23  1200w 

"The  whole  book  is  an  advertisement  for  the 
Bible.  As  an  advertisement  it  leaves  but  one 
thing  possibly  to  be  desired,  and  that  is,  the  in- 
centive after  reading  it  to  read  the  Bible  it- 
self. .  .  It  is  a  fascinating  performance,  leav- 
ing us  in  doubt  as  to  where  the  reality  leaves 
off  and  the  illusion  begins.  Why  should  not  Mr. 
Van  Loon  write  a  book  to  advertise  God,  even 
if  he  uses  the  indirect  method?  For  this  reason: 
He  has  not  drawn  upon  his  admirable  creative 
faculties  enough  to  make  his  inaccuracies  a 
work  of  art,  but,  according  to  a  well-known  for- 
mula, has  produced  a  saxophone  Bible  which — if 
his  intention  be  carried  out — will  be  swallow^ed 
by  the  boys  who  read  it  as  if  it  were  the  gospel 
truth.  .  .  After  all,  in  spite  of  everything  that 
the  distinguished  author  has  said  in  its  favor, 
one  cannot  but  feel  that  the  Bible  itself,  for 
a  dime,  is  the  kind  that  we  shall  eventually 
own."    T:    R.    Masson 

1-  N   Y  Times  pi  O  28  '23  2500w 

"It  is  at  no  prompting  of  a  ruffled  reverence 
that  we  declare  ourself  against  this  rephrasing 
of  the  Scriptural  legends.  And  we  hold  our  posi- 
tion not  alone  as  regards  the  work  of  Van  Loon, 
but  with  reference  to  all  and  sundry  compilers 
of  'children's'  Bibles  and  piomoters  of  the 
Old  and  New  Testaments  in  'modern  English.' 
We,  personally,  should  prefer  to  leave  the 
telling  where  it  is  done  in  English  generally 
better,  always  more  impressive,  and  only  oc- 
casionally so  archaic  as  to  be  troublesome." 
E.   W.    Osborn 

h   N    Y    World    p6e    O    28    '23    750w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  11  '23  480w 

"It  is  an  orderly,  readable,  sometimes  fasci- 
nating narrative  which  will  not  only  give  the 
supposititious  child  reader  a  coherent  idea  of 
the  Jewish  History  but  may  set  in  order  the 
tangled  memories  of  more  than  one  adult  who 
has  acquired  scraps  of  biblical  history."  J.  P. 
-I Survey   51:supl92   N   1   '23   1700w 

VAN     SANTVOORD,     SEYMOUR.       Octavia;     a 
tale  of  ancient  Rome.     458p  $2.50  Button 

23-10467 
Closely  following  historical  facts,  the  story 
describes  the  darkest  era  of  Rome  under  the 
emperors  Caligula,  Claudius  and  Nero  and 
depicts  the  unhappy  fate  of  Octavia,  whose 
beauty  and  virtue  is  an  atavistic  lapse  from 
her  family's  vicious  depravity  into  the  integri- 
ty of  more  di.stant  ancestors.  Her  father  and 
mother  are  both  slain,  her  beloved  is  driven  to 
his    death   under   infamous    charges,    her   young 


brother  is  poisoned  and  she  is  forced  to  become 
the  wife  of  Nero.  After  suffering  every  in- 
dignity she  accepts  his  divorce  of  her  as  a 
liberation  from  torture,  but  is  cruelly  mur- 
dered after  a  short  period  of  tranquillity  made 
still  more  peaceful  by  the  dawning  of  her  faith 
in   Christ. 


Booklist  20:103  D  '23 

"In  spite  of  changing  action,  in  spite  of 
portrayals  of  gala  days  at  the  circus,  of  fes- 
tivities, and  the  like,  a  slowness  of  movement 
in  the  story  now  and  then  causes  impatience. 
This  may  arise  from  the  elaborate  details  of 
description,  for  the  author's  familiarity  with 
Roman  customs  results  in  etchings,  rather  than 
color  effect;  or  it  may  come  from  the  host  of 
minor  characters  which  appear  and  disappear 
with  such  frequency  that  the  mental  effort 
required  to  place  them  hardly  seems  worth 
while." 

1-   Boston   Transcript  p5  Ag  4  '23  450w 

"This  book  may  be  described  as  the  product 
of  a  scholarly,  accurate  and  meticulous  mind, 
which,  however,  is  lacking  in  vitality  of  imagi- 
nation." 

H Lit   R  pl33  O  13  '23  350w 

"The  novel  quickly  becomes  a  mere  panorama 
of  the  life  of  Rome  and  of  the  progress  of 
imperial  politics  during  the  reigns  of  Caligula, 
Claudius  and  Nero.  But  it  is  a  brilliantly 
colored  panorama  and  as  accurate  historically 
as  it  is  usually  given  to  the  historical  novel 
to  be.  The  author  is  evidently  a  devoted  stu- 
dent of  Roman  life  and  affairs  and  has  steeped 
himself  in  whatever  accounts  it  is  possible  to 
find  of  the  Rome  of  the  Caesars." 
H NY  Times  pl7  Ag  5  '23  650w 

"There  is  so  much  more  of  history  than  fic- 
tion in  this  narrative  that  it  can  hardly  be  ad- 
judged as  a  novel;  and  the  author  has  done 
well  in  thus  following  his  natural  bent.  His 
literary  talent  is  of  the  pedestrian  order.  Fancy 
allures  him  far  less  than  fact.  Deprived  of  the 
treasury  of  his  immense  erudition,  he  would 
have  little  to  offer;  but  with  it  he  has  abun- 
dance." Isabel  Paterson 

N   Y  Tribune  p22  Ag  5  '23   1600w 

"The  romance  and  drama  of  the  period  are 
treated  with  dignity  and  scholarly  complete- 
ness, and  throughout  the  book  there  is  evident 
not  merely  historical  accuracy  but  a  clear  per- 
ception of  the  kind  of  people  men  and  women 
were  in  Rome  two  thousand  years  ago.  It  covers 
perhaps  too  much  ground  to  allow  its  narrative 
to  have  full  dramatic  unity  or  sharp  develop- 
ment of  plot  and  central  situation,  and  its 
characters  sometimes  use  a  somewhat  too  high- 
sounding  diction;  but  it  is  very  far  from  being 
dull  and  its  panorama  of  events  is  brilliantly 
painted."    R.    D.    Townsend 

+  Outlook    134:676    Ag    29    '23    300w 

VAN    TYNE,    CLAUDE    HALSTEAD.      India   in 
ferment.     252p     $2     Appleton 

915.4     India— Politics  and  ^overnment^^^^^^^ 

The  head  of  the  Department  of  history  of  the 
University  of  Michigan  visited  India  in  the 
winter  of  1921-1922  to  study  the  politica  situa- 
tion there  at  first  hand.  His  preface  tells  how 
all  doors  were  opened  to  him  and  his  study  of 
fndian  problems  made  easy.  He  talked  with 
men  of  all  points  of  views  from  Mahatma 
Gandhi  to  Lord  Reading,  the  British  vicer9y. 
m  Delhi  he  listened  to  the  debates  of  the  legis- 
lative assembly  and  talked  with  representatives 
of  its  various  factions.  He  went  to  India  with 
strong  British  sympathies  which  seem  not  to 
have  been  changed  by  anything  he  saw  or  heard. 
Among  other  matters  he  discusses  are  the  Gov- 
ernment of  India  act  and  the  egislative  ma- 
chinery it  provides,  Indian  arraignment  of  the 
British  government,  British  service  to  India  and 
the  probable  result  if  it  were  removed,  and 
Indian    fitness    for   self-government. 

-Those  who  enjoyed  Dr.  Van  Tyne's  Atlantic 
Monthly  articles  on  India,. soon  after  his  return 
from  a  five-month.s'  visit  in  the  winter  of  1921- 
1922,    will    be    glad    now    to    have    at    hand    tne 


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complete  story.  Highly  critical  and  analytic 
as  those  articles  were,  it  is  but  natural  that 
they  should  have  been  severely  criticized  by 
Indian  sympathizers.  It  was  said  that  he  was 
prejudiced  by  British  ofFicials  and  that  he  had 
'opened  the  wrong  doors.'  "     F.  P.  H. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p7  N  28  '23  700w 
"Professor  Van  Tyne's  British  sympathies 
are  so  evident  and  indeed  so  frankly  admitted 
in  the  preface  as  somewhat  to  rob  the  succeed- 
ing chapters  of  the  suspense  proper  to  a  good 
argument.  The  humor  of  the  book  is  provided 
by  Professor  Van  Tyne's  constant  pained  sur- 
prise at  finding  India  so  different  from  Ann 
Arbor." 

—  NY  Tribune  pl9  N  4  '23  200w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:548  D  '23 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p734    N 
1    '23    140\v 


VAN    VECHTEN,    CARL.    Blind    bow-boy.    261p 

$2.50  Knopf 

23-11805 

"The  situation  around  which  the  story  re- 
volves is  that  of  a  youth  whose  father  is  de- 
termined that  his  son  shall  have  none  of  the 
disadvantages  of  education,  and  all  the  advan- 
tages of  sophistication,  which  he  himself  would 
like  to  have  enjoyed.  Consequently  his  son 
is  intrusted  to  a  tutor  who  must  make  of  him 
an  urbane  and  civilized  fellow.  To  this  end 
certain  qualifications  are  required  of  the  tutor: 
he  must  be  'of  good  character  but  no  moral 
sense.  .  .  It  is  absolutely  essential  that  he 
should  have  been  the  central  figure  in  some 
public  scandal.  Age,  not  above  thirty.'  Equip- 
ped with  unlimited  funds,  a  tutor  answering 
to  these  requirements,  and  an  English  valet 
of  unusual  talents,  Harold  Prewett  is  launched 
forth  upon  the  gently  swelling  seas  of  New  Yorlr 
life,  whose  waves  are  so  beautifully  navigated 
by  Campaspe  Lorillard,  Paul  Moody,  the  essen- 
tial tutor,  Zimbule  O'Grady,  Coney  Island 
snake-charmer,  the  Duke  of  Middlebottom,  and 
other  representative  citizens  of  this  New  York 
world.  Harold  serves  as  a  foil  for  the  virtuosity 
of  his  friends,  whose  activities  provide  Mr.  Van 
Vechten  with  his  pictures  of  present-day  New 
York." — Nation 


"A  perverse,  readable,  and  amusing  story, 
which  is  as  unworthy  of  liim  as  it  is  nasty.  It 
is  neither  very  good  as  a  shocker  nor  very 
penetrating  as  a  satire."  J.  F. 

\-   Bookm  58:202  O  '23  140w 

Reviewed  by  Ralph  Bergengren 

Boston   Transcript   p5   S   1   '23    2100w 

"Mr  Van  Vechten,  in  The  Blind  Bow-Boy,  has 
tried  his  hand  at  a  kind  of  burlesque  fiction 
which  we  have  all  too  little  of  in  America:  the 
satiric  iridescent  novel  of  the  type  of  Zuleika 
Dobson  and  La  R6volte  des  Anges;  and,  though 
he  is  at  times  a  little  less  fantastic  and  less 
surprising  than  one  could  wish,  he  gets  away 
with  it,  on  the  whole,  very  well."  Edmund  Wil- 
son 

+  Dial   75:387  O  '23  1450w 

Freeman    8:214    N   7    '23    200w 

"It  is  amusing;  a  gay,  giddy  cartoon,  as  the 
author  pleases  whimsically  to  describe  it,  which, 
when  the  reader  has  filled  in  the  outlines  with 
the  scarlet  and  purple  patches,  will  serve  ad- 
mirably as  a  stained  glass  window  for  the 
chapel  of  Bachuc  in  the  Temple  of  the  Hol.v 
Bottle.  Still,  Mr.  Van  Vechten  tells  the  tale 
with  such  a  light,  flippant  touch  that  he  robs 
the  naughtiness  and  perversity  of  some  portions 
of  his  book  of  their  sting."  F:  B.  Eddy 
-I Lit   R   p023   Ag  25   '23  750w 

"Like  Joyce,  he  has  taken  a  segment  of  life, 
but  he  portrays  it  with  the  fine,  deft,  bizarre 
strokes  of  a  I^eardsley.  He  does  not  accum- 
ulate detail  like  Zola,  yet  one  turns  from  'The 
Blind  Bow-Boy'  with  as  definite  an  impression  of 
New  York  in  1922  as  one  gets  of  Paris  under 
the  Second  Empire  from  the  endless  tomes  of 
the  Rougon  Macquart  series."  Ernest  Boyd 
4-  Nation   117:244   S  5   '23   1200w 


Reviewed    by   Janet    Planner 

New    Repub   3G:259   O   31    '23   lOOOw 

"The  book  is  a  topical  carnival  of  proper 
names,  rather  indiscriminately  arranged,  but 
very  gay  and  pretty  in  general  effect."  Ray- 
mond   Mortimer 

-] New    Statesman    22:146    N    10    '23    160w 

"There  is  so  much  of  cleverness,  so  much 
of  skillful  writing  in  the  book,  it  seems  a  pity 
that  it  should  have  been  permitted  to  descend 
to  banalities.  Mr.  Van  Vechten  ought  to  be 
able  to  give  us  a  very  much  better  novel  than 
this  rather  tedious  one." 

h   N   Y  Times  pl7  Ag  26  '23  700w 

"We  do  not  intend  to  convey  the  impression 
that  the  book  is  without  moral  significance. 
Despite  Mr  Van  Vechten's  protestations,  his  is 
very  clearly  an  uplift  story.  He  propagandizes 
for  all  those  brave  beings  who  seek,  in  spite 
of  tyranny,  to  follow  their  own  inclinations. 
All  the  successful  characters  in  the  book  live 
up  to  this  tradition  most  rigorously."  Heywood 
Broun 

H NY  World   p6e  Ag  19   '23  850w 

Reviewed  by  Gerald  Gould 

Sat  R  136:474  O  27  '23  150w 
Springf'd  Republican  plO  O  17  '23  550w 
"In  spite  of  the  fact  that  he  is  cynical,  shal- 
low, and  almost  monotonously  careful  in  draw- 
ing the  line  on  the  side  of  morality  where  he 
thinks  a  real  Latin  would  nave  drawn  it,  his 
book  has  the  air  of  great  vitality  of  zest  how- 
ever frivolously   misapplied." 

-I The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p726  N  1 

'23    450w 

VAN  ZILE,  EDWARD  SIMS.  That  marvel— 
the  movie;  a  glance  at  its  reckless  past,  its 
promising  present,  and  its  significant  future. 
229p     $2     Putnam 

778      Moving   pictures  23-10808 

An  enthusiastic  study  of  the  moving  picture, 
past,  present  and  future.  Beginning  with  the 
work  of  the  pioneer  inventors  and  promoters  of 
the  industry,  the  author  follows  its  achieve- 
ments from  its  early  days  of  disrepute  to  its 
present  position  of  power  and  influence,  and 
looks  at  the  possibilities  it  holds  for  the  fu- 
ture. Among  some  of  the  aspects  of  the  art 
with  which  his  chapters  deal  are  its  service 
to  literature  through  reviving  interest  in  old 
masterpieces,  the  need  for  creative  scenario- 
writers,  official  censorship  of  the  movies,  and 
the  directions  in  which  their  powers  for  good 
may  be  developed.  An  appendix  gives  some  in- 
teresting statistics  of  the  scope  of  the  moving 
picture  industry. 


Bookm  57:486  D  '23  lOOw 
"Dr.  Van  Zile's  book  contains  more  balder- 
dash than  any  we  have  read  this  season,  but 
no  doubt  it  will  be  swallowed  whole  by  some 
very  good  and  very  thoughtless  people."  S.  L. 
(J 

—  Boston   Transcript   p4   S   1  '23   lOOOw 
Reviewed    bv    Clayton    Hamilton 
Lit    R"  p889  Ag  11   '23   400w 
Reviewed    by    C:    Merz 

New  Repub  36:109  S  19  '23  800w 
"A  most  interesting  study  of  the  motion  pic- 
ture embodying  a  serious  argumon:  on  the 
power  for  good  or  evil  of  the  cinema.  .  .  Possi- 
bly the  most  compelling  portions  of  this  book 
are  those  in  which  Mr.  Van  Zile  tackles  the 
earlv  history  of  the  cinema."  Mordaunt  Hall 
eany   msio  y^   ^.^^^   ^^^   ^^  ^^  -23    1800w 

"Mr  Van  Zile  has  skilfully  mingled  opinions 
and  interpretations  with  the  factfj  and  history 
of  the  industry.  Such  honest  and  intelligent 
essays  as  Mr.  Van  Zile's  should  he  welcomed 
—especially  welcomed  by  fathers,  mothers,  and 
teachers.  Let  it  not  be  thought  from  this  that 
Mr  Van  Zile  is  conventionally  didactic;  on  the 
con'trarv,  he  is  very  inteiesting.  The  very  fact, 
however,     that    he    is    interesting,    will    set    his 

leaders  thinking."  

-f-   Outlook  134:521    Ag  1   '23  250w 


532 


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VARENDOCK,  J.  Evolution  of  the  conscious 
faculties.  259p  $4.25  Macmillan  [12s  6d 
Allen    &    U.] 

150  Consciousness.  Psychology  23-9686 
"Dr.  Varendonck's  aim  is  to  arrange  our 
different  psychic  mechanisms  in  the  order  of 
their  historical  evolution,  and  to  show  in  what 
sense  some  of  the  later  developments  may  be 
considered  to  be  modifications  of  the  primary 
mechanisms."— The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup 


"His  book  is  the  outcome  of  keen  ratiocina- 
tive  ability,  and  pursues  its  difficult  theme  with 
the  aid  of  homely  illustrations  and  incidents 
which  go  far  toward  making  its  argument 
of    interest    to    the    general    reader." 

-1-  Boston    Transcript     p7    Je    2    '23    550w 
Int    J    Ethics    34:97    O    '23    220w 
"It    is    a    sane    and    useful    discussion    of    the 
nature    and    origin    of    intelligence." 

+  Nature  112:235  Ag  18  '23  lOOw 
"The  book  is  very  obscure  and  confused  all 
the  way  through.  There  is,  however,  one 
chapter  which  is  important.  In  the  chapter  on 
'Unconscious  Movement'  the  author  works  out 
at  length  the  relation  between  thought  and 
movement,  which  leads  him  on  to  the  consid- 
eration, in  the  last  chapter,  of  the  biological 
value   of  consciousness."     W.   J.   H.    S. 

H  New    Statesman    21:278    Je    9    '23    750w 

"A  contribution  to  psychology  which  com- 
bines great  originality  with  scientific  caution 
and  a  correct  regard  for  the  WQrk  of  others 
with  the  intellectual  independence  proper  to 
the    pioneer." 

+  Spec    130:934    Je    2    '23    220w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p296  My 
3    '23   550w 

VENABLE,  FRANCIS  PRESTON.  Zirconium 
and  its  compounds.  (Am.  chemical  soc.  Mono- 
graphs)   173p   $2.50   Chemical   catalog  co. 

546.83      Zirconium  22-5921 

"History,  occurrence,  properties,  and  com- 
pounds, with  chapters  on  analytical  methods 
and  technical  applications." — Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:109    Mr    '23 

VERGA,      GIOVANNI.      Mastro-Don     Gesualdo; 

tr.   by  D.    H.   Lawrence.      454p     $2.50     Seltzer 

23-14912 

"When  Giovanni  Verga  died  in  1922,  aged 
eighty- two  years,  he  was  the  most  famous  and 
least-read  novelist  in  Italy.  His  career  was 
unique,  for  in  the  first  ten  years,  from  1866 
to  1876,  he  was  a  successful  and  popular  au- 
thor of  novels  in  the  manner  of  Octave  Feuillet, 
which,  to  this  day,  far  exceed  in  sales  the  later 
and  important  works  on  which  his  permanent 
fame  must  rest.  Then  he  published  the  vol- 
ume of  short  stories  containing  'Cavalleria 
Rusticana'  and  had  the  sardonic  pleasure  of 
seeing  that  work  become  known  all  over  the 
world  as  the  more  or  less  anonymous  libretto 
of  Mascagni's  opera.  The  following  year  his 
masterpiece  appeared,  'I  Malavoglia,'  and  seven 
years  later,  in  1888,  came  'Mastro-Don  Ge- 
sualdo.' These  were  announced  as  the  first 
two  volumes  of  a  pentalogy  with  the  general 
title  of  'The  Defeated,'  but  the  third  was  never 
finished,  and  the  fourth  and  fifth  volumes,  so 
far  as  is  known,  were  never  written.  .  .  The 
second  volume  of  'The  Defeated,'  like  the  first, 
is  a  vast  picture  of  Sicilian  life,  but  now 
it  is  not  the  ruin  of  a  peasant  family,  as 
in  'The  Malavoglia,'  but  the  disintegration  of 
the  middle  class  that  Verga  has  studied,  de- 
stroyed, when  it  emerges  as  wealthy  peasantry, 
by   contact   with    ruined    nobility." — Nation 


the    story    rolls    along    smoothly    and    pleasantly 
for  the  most  part."  C.  P.  H. 

^ Greensboro   (N.C.)   Daily  News  plO  D  9 

'23    480w 

"It  is  sad,  but  it  is  never  intense  or  deep.  The 
book,  however,  is  written  so  true  to  life  and 
its  theme  is  so  universal  that  its  publication  at 
the  present  moment  is  most  apt  in  view  of  the 
taste  of  the  American  public."  J:  F.  Carter,  jr. 
H Lit    R    p439    Ja    12    '24    550w 

"The  final  pages  in  which  the  death  of  Mastro- 
Don  Gesualdo  is  described  are  among  the  most 
powerful  in  modern  literature.  Balzac  never 
surpassed  them  in  'Pfere  Goriot,'  and  it  is  argu- 
able that,  on  the  whole,  Gesualdo  is  a  finer,  a 
more  complete  conception  of  the  type  than 
Balzac's.  Verga  succeeds  in  conveying  the 
tragedy  of  his  central  character  with  marvelous 
poignancy,  but,  at  the  same  time,  he  never 
loses  sight  of  the  vast  social  drama  of  which 
he  is  an  infinitesimal  part."  Ernest  Boyd 
+  Nation    117:sup406   O   10    '23   1200w 

"Like  most  of  the  great  continental  novels, 
'Mastro-Don  Gesualdo'  confuses  the  reader  with 
its  clutter  of  minor  characters.  A  casual  glance 
at  any  of  its  pages  might  lead  one  to  presume 
he  was  reading  an  Italian  phone  directory.  But 
with  all  the  crowding  the  emphasis  on  the  main 
characters  remains  clear.  And  the  evident  num- 
bers give  a  strangely  lifelike  effect  to  the  book's 
frequent  mob  scenes." 

H NY  Times  p8  N  11  '23  6G0w 

"  'Mastro-don  Gesualdo'  clings  close  to  the  soil 
of  Sicily,  and  the  soil,  to  the  limited  view  of 
mortal  man,  is  eternal.  .  .  In  wit  and  humor 
Verga  far  overshadows  the  author  whom  we 
are  likely  to  consider  first  in  connection  with 
recent  Italian  fiction,  D'Annunzio,  who  can 
suck  all  the  juice  out  of  a  passion.  Every- 
thing of  his  is  heavily  accented,  luridly  colored. 
A'erga  is  a  master  of  chiaroscuro,  of  the  con- 
trast been  light  and  dark.  Verga,  I  should 
say,  is  easily  the  greater  novelist  of  the  two, 
but  D'Annunzio  is  likely  to  remain  the  more 
popular."     Leo  Markun 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p22  N  4  '23  900w 

VERRILL,  ALPHEUS  HYATT.  Boy  adventur- 
ers in  the  land  of  El  Dorado.  (Boy  adven- 
tures ser.)     258p     il     $1.75     Putnam 

23-8529 
Dr.  Woodward.  Harry  and  Fred  go  on  another 
exploring  expedition.  This  time  their  goal  is 
British  Guiana,  to  look  for  the  mythical  city 
of  Manoa  and  the  gilt  statue  of  the  god  El 
Dorado.  The  expedition  takes  them  to  a  land 
of  friendly  Indians,  where  after  many  adven- 
tures with  the  beasts  of  the  forests  and 
with  a  giant  savage  of  ominous  aspect,  they 
come  upon  ruins:  a  paved  road,  carved  rocks, 
a  cave  of  skulls  guarding  a  stone  coffer  filled 
with  gold,  the  remains  of  an  ancient  edifice, 
and  the  gilt  statue  they  were  in  search  of. 
As  they  are  on  the  point  of  exploring  another 
cave  they  come  face  to  face  with  some  more 
of  the  horrible  savages. 


"Mr.  Lawrence  has  succeeded  in  reproducing 
marvellously  the  poignant  irony  and  elliptical 
style  so  characteristic  of  Verga's  later  work. 
The  result  is  a  deeply  absorbing  story,  albeit 
a  sad  one."    S.   L.   R. 

+   Boston  Transcript  n6  D  12  '23  650w 

"His  aim,  apparently,  has  been  to  give  us  the 
spirit  rather  than  the  letter  of  the  original.   So 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  30  '23  180w 
"There  are  plenty  of  facts  in  this  hook,  and 
the  author  has  a  thorough  sympathy  with  boys. 
He  tells  those  things  about  which  boys  would 
want  to  be  informed,  and  he  is  not  above  point- 
ing an  accusing  finger  at  the  inaccurate  infor- 
mation to  be  found  in  geography  books  regard- 
ing out-of-the-way  places.  The  book  has  plenty 
of  exciting  moments  and  graphic  description, 
and  the  fact  that  the  boy  adventurers  are  with 
us  every  moment  makes  us  enter  into  the  story 
with  a  fe<>ling  of  being  participants."  M.  G. 
Bonner 

+   Int   Bk   R  p37  Jl  '23  200w 

VERRILL,     ALPHEUS     HYATT.      In     the    wake 

of    the    buccaneers.     374u    il    $4    Century 
917.20      Buccaneers.       West   Indies        23-5451 

Tn  a  real  pirate  ship  more  than  a  century 
old  and  manned  by  a  native  West  Indian  crew 
some  of  whom  were  descendants  of  freebooters, 
the  author  crui.'^od  the  Caribbean,  visiting  the 
old  haunts  of  the  buccaneers  and  telling  the 
tales    of    their    adventures    set    against    a    back- 


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r  ^  T 

5jo 


ground  of  present  day  scenes.  He  describes 
both  Caribbean  islands  and  towns  of  the  Span- 
ish Main  which  are  of  particular  interest  from 
an  historical  point  of  view  and  from  their  ex- 
isting   relics    of    buccaneer    days. 


Booklist  19:249  My  '23 
Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  18  '23  280w 
"The  glamour  of  old  days  is  thrown  over  all; 
interesting  sidelights  on  pirate  customs  and 
pirate-life  are  cast  on  a  screen  colorful  with 
lights  and  shadows  of  white-walled  towns  in 
sun-baked    settlements."    C.    A.    H. 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p8    Je 
24   '23   500w 
Reviewed    by   I:    Anderson 

Int  Bk  R  p39  Je  '23  ISOw 
"The  book  affords  an  entertaining  descrip- 
tion of  little-known  islands  and  towns  of  the 
West  Indies,  and  blended  with  this  is  a  series 
of  thrilling  tales  of  fieebooting  activities  that 
took  place  over  three  centuries  ago  in  the  re- 
gions visited  liy  the  author." 

-f  Lit  R  p836  Jl  14  '23  600w 
"  'In  the  Wake  of  the  Buccaneers,'  a  book  not 
only  of  travel  and  adventure,  but  of  romance 
and  history,  is  the  result  not  only  of  his  cruise 
in  the  pirate  craft,  but  of  years  of  study  of 
the  Caribbean  buccaneers  and  their  island 
strongholds.  As  the  reader  sails  with  him  he 
is  given  all  manner  of  curious  information 
about  the  old  freebooters  of  the  West  Indies 
and  about  some  of  the  out-of-way  islands  as 
they  are   today." 

4-  N  Y  Times  p7  Mr  25  '23  2300w 
"This  is  largely  a  repetition  of  his  earlier 
volume  'In  Morgan's  Wake,'  with  some  sketchy 
references  to  pirates  and  buccaneers,  classing 
often  and  inaccurately  the  former  with  the 
latter.  The  two  were  quite  distinct.  .  .  As 
the  book  is  written  rather  to  entertain  than 
to  inform,  severe  criticism  is  not  required. 
Still,  it  would  have  been  possible  to  have  en- 
tertained without  so  much  surmise  and  impli- 
cation." 

—  NY    World    p6e    F    25    '23    150w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:259    My   '23 
Spec  131:562  O  20  '23  90w 
"A   good    book,    rather   well    written,    dynamic 
but  not  grewsome,   and  ciammed  with  enthusi- 
asm." 

-f  Springf'd    Republican  p6  Jl  9  '23  4nOw 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p660    O 
11    '23    600w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:132   My   '23 

VERRILL,    ALPHEUS    HYATT.      Real    story   of 
the    pirate.    374p    il    $2.50   Appleton 

910.4    Pirates.    Buccaneers  23-6798 

This  history  of  piracy  goes  back  to  its  origin, 
with  the  invention  of  sea-going  craft,  but 
chiefly  the  author  follows  the  exploits  of  the 
buccaneers  of  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth 
centuries  who  infested  the  Caribbean  and  rav- 
aged the  Spanish  Main.  The  lives  of  the  most 
famous  buccaneers  are  related  and  their  customs 
described.  There  is  a  chapter  on  two  women 
pirates,  Mary  Reed  and  Anne  Bonny,  and  one 
on  the  Barbary  corsairs.  The  illustrations  are 
from  old  prints,  contemporary  portraits  of 
famous    pirates,    pirates'    maps,    etc. 


Bookm   57:562  Jl    '23   80w 

"Many  stories  of  the  reckless  daring  of 
these  men  and  of  their  adventures  are  told  in 
this  book,  many  of  which  have  been  doubtless 
collected  with  vast  care  and  research.  Of  these 
chieftains  perhaps  the  most  prominent  was 
Morgan,  whose  exploits  about  the  year  1670 
are  still  matters  of  historical  record  and  which 
are  here  related  in  great  detail."  E.  J.  C. 

+    Boston    Transcript    p4    My   2    '23    600w 

"Mr.  Verrill  has  gone  into  this  subject  thor- 
oughly and  given  his  readers  a  compact  and 
authentic  history  of  as  picturesqxie  a  part  of 
humanity  (or  inhumanity)  as  the  world  has 
ever  seen."   J.    D.   Haag 

■j-   Detroit    News   pl2   Jl   8    '33    520w 


"A  mine  for  the  reader  with  imagination,  a 
source-book  for  the  short  story  writer  familiar 
with  the  sea  and  interested  in  obtaining  plot- 
situations   more  or  less   historical."   C.   A.   H. 

+  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News    p8    Je 
24    '23    250w 
Reviewed  by  R:  Le  Gallienne 

Int    Bk    R   pl5    S   '23   3250w 
"Mr.    Verrill's    book    is    well   worth    adding   to 
any    one's    library    of    pirate    lore." 
+   Lit  R  pS52  Jl  21  '23  400w 

Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:304   Je  "23 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  O  7  '23  300w 
The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p273   Ap 
19    '23    210w 

VIALLATE,  ACHILLE.  Economic  imperialism 
and  international  relations  during  the  last 
fifty  years.  (Inst,  of  politics  publications) 
180p     $2     Macmillan 

327      World    politics.      Economic    conditions. 
International    law    and    relations  23-8019 

Lectures  delivered  in  1921  before  the  first 
Institute  of  politics  at  Williams  college,  Wil- 
liamstown.  Professor  Viallate,  who  is  an  eco- 
nomic adviser  to  several  large  French  colonial 
concerns,  studies  the  economic  and  industrial 
changes  of  the  nineteenth  century  and  the  ef- 
fect of  these  changes  upon  the  commercial 
policy  of  the  great  powers.  The  movement  to- 
ward" economic  internationalism  which  showed 
itself  during  the  first  half  of  the  century  gave 
way  before  the  nationalist  movement,  which 
prevented  the  spread  of  free  trade  and  gave 
birth  to  the  economic  imperialism  of  the  last 
part  of  the  nineteenth,  and  the  first  years  of 
the  twentieth  century.  The  war  demonstrated 
the  interdependence  of  nations,  but  with  the 
close  of  hostilities  there  was  a  relapse  into 
economic  imperialism.  The  author  concludes 
that  the  economic  system  can  be  reconstructed 
only  thru  a  universal  recognition  of  the  sol- 
idarity of  the  world  and  that  the  United  States 
must  take  an  active  part  in  the  work  of  re- 
cuperation. 

Boston  Transcript  p5  Je  9  '23  270w 
R  of  Rs  68:109  Jl  '23  lOOw 
"It  is  a  story  that  has  often  been  told,  and 
Prof  Viallate  does  not  attempt  to  add  anything 
in  the  way  of  fact  or  opinion.  He  gives  a 
short,  but  adequate  summary,  but  inclines  to 
leniency  of  judgment,  and  leaves  the  reader 
only  a  slight  basis  for  forming  a  critical  judg- 
ment of  either  motive  or  results.  Perhaps  this 
is  due  to  an  unwillingness  to  injure  the  feelings 
of  his  audiences;  it  will  not,  however,  satisfy 
those    who    seek    more    than    a    recital    of    the 

Springf'd  Republican  plO  Je  26  '23  500w 

VIAUD,  LOUIS  MARIE  JULIEN.  See  Loti,  P., 
pseud. 

VICKERS,    CHARLES.   Metals   and   their  alloys. 

767p  il   $7.50   Baird    [50s  C.   Lockwood] 

669.9    Alloys.     Metals  23-5943 

"A  modern  practical  work  dealing  with  metals 
from  their  origin  to  their  useful  application — 
both  individually  and  as  parts  of  alloys — used 
where  strength,  ductility,  toughness,  lightness, 
color,  hardness,  cheapness,  conductivity,  or 
bearing  properties  are  demanded;  partly  based 
on  the  third  edition  of  Metallic  alloys,  by  Wil- 
liam  T.    Brannt." — Subtitle 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:364   Jl   '23 

VILDRAC,  CHARLES.  Book  of  love;  tr.  from 
the  French  by  Witter  Bynner;  with  an  Introd. 
by  Emile  Verhaeren.     95p     $2.50     Dutton 

841  23-10547 

"Vildrac,  who  wrote  during  the  earlier  years 
of  the  present  century,  was  a  lover  in  the 
larger  sense  of  the  word.  His  are  not  poems 
of  passion,  as  one  might  conclude  from  the  title. 
Vildrac's  affection  was  all  mankind;  for  all  the 
works  of  mankind.  With  a  glowing  but  peace- 
ful ardor  he   loved  also  birds  and   flowers  and 


534 


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VILDRAC,  CHARLES — Continued 
the  qualities  of  a  good  mind  and  little  children 
and    his    drinks    outside    a    boulevard    caf6." — 
N   y  Times 


Booklist  20:131  Ja  '24 

"There  is  not  a  line  of  allusion  in  it  to  love 
in  the  sense  of  inter-sex  passion.  It  is  the  love 
that  Verhaeren  refers  to  in  his  appreciation  of 
M.  Vildrac:  the  love  of  the  rich  for  the  poor; 
of  the  strong  for  the  w^eak;  of  the  mother  for 
her  son;  of  the  father  for  his  child;  of  the  for- 
tunate for  the  unfortunate."  A.  W.  Porterfleld 
Bookm    58:94    S    '23    680w 

"The  translations  of  Mr.  Bynner  are  deserved- 
ly well-known,  and  this  volume  will  enhance 
his  reputation.  His  task  was  one  demanding, 
first  and  last,  finesse;  and  his  translation  is 
packed  with  that  quality;  here  and  there,  in- 
deed, one  feels  it  is  excessive.  But  faults  of 
that  kind  are  rare  in  the  volume.  The  transla- 
tion as  a  whole  is  a  victory  of  tact."  T<:dwin 
Muir 

H Freeman    8:237    N   14   "23   1250w 

"His  is  a  homely  art,  a  straightforward,  plain 
narrative  style  that  arrests  our  attention  in 
spite  of  ourselves.  The  secret  of  its  success  lies 
in  Vildrac's  unmatched  power  of  depicting  the 
trivial  realities  of  life  in  a  touching,  tender, 
unconventional  way."  E.  H.  Zeydel 
4-   Lit    R    pl50   O   20   '23   1050w 

"A  modest  and  competent  rendering  of  an 
honest  and  beautiful  book.  Mr.  Bynner  now 
and  then  is  more  familiar  than  Vildrac,  and 
more  sentimental.  The  love  here  celebrated  is 
a  man's  delicate  love  for  the  world  and  all 
things  in  it,  without  regard  to  sex  or  station. 
Verhaeren's  introduction  is  a  masterpiece  of 
unaffected  analysis." 

+  Nation  117:200  Ag  22  '23  lOOw 

"Vildrac  is  a  modern  Catullus;  the  most  mod- 
ern I^atin  in  the  modern  world  of  Latin  France. 
Vildrac  is  intensely  human — and  it  is  frequently 
the   humanity   of  Catullus." 

-f   N   Y  Times  pl4  Ag  12   '23  700w 

"Charles  Vildrac  is  as  definitely  and  passion- 
ately the  poet  of  love — in  Its  universal  appli- 
cation— as  Keats  is  the  poet  of  beauty.  The 
book  as  a  whole  is  moving  with  the  beauty  of 
passion  that  glows  behind  the  words.  In  a 
translator's  note  Mr.  Bynner  attests  his  efforts 
to  retain  the  precise  cadences  of  the  original, 
and  even  its  occasional  rhyme  and  frequent  as- 
sonance, rather  than  resort  to  an  easy  render- 
ing in  English  free  verse,  wherein  would  be  lost 
these  characteristic  features  of  Vildrac's 
poetry." 

-f-  Outlook  134:641  Ag  22  '23  250w 

VILLA,    SILVIO.     Unbidden    guest.     282p    11    $2 
Macmillan 

22-20424 

"The  book  is  a  series  of  sketches  which 
build  up  for  us  Carletto,  the  Italian  boy  who 
came  to  America  and  made  a  financial  success, 
but  whose  heart  was  always  dreaming  of  Italy." 
(Boston  Transcript)  "Many  of  the  traditions 
and  influences  of  his  inheritance  are  described 
in  the  earlier  chapters.  Garibaldi  and  the  revo- 
lutions of  '48;  Cavour;  Mazzini;  Carlo  Alberto 
and  how  he  lost  the  war  and  the  crown;  the 
controversy  between  the  Vatican  and  the  State, 
are  all  here.  In  contrast  with  these  historical 
influences  others  of  personal  relationship  are 
also  described;  his  mother;  the  family  doctor; 
gentle  Maria  Bianca,  who  gave  up  her  life  in 
ministering  to  the  childish  needs  of  his  brothers 
and  sister  and  himself — and  Reginella,  the  ro- 
mantic and  beautiful  girl  he  loved.  And  per- 
haps more  beloved  than  all  besides,  the  green 
valley  surrounded  by  the  towering  Alps."  (N  Y 
Times) 


"The  author  writes  like  a  poet,  which  is 
perhaps  another  way  of  saying  that  he  writes 
like  an  Italian.  There  is  a  sincerity  and  child- 
likeness  in  his  style  that  go  straight  to  the 
heart  of  the  reader."  E.  S.  Taber 
Int  Bk  R  p44  Jl  '23  650w 

"His  book  is  charming,  and  its  charm  is  last- 

+   Lit    R  p667   My   5   '23   250w 

N    Y   Times   p21   Ap   15   '23   500w 

VILLARD,  OSWALD  GARRISON.  Some  news- 
papers and  newspaper-men.  345p  $3  Knopf 
071  Newspapers— United  States  23-13424 
A  seasoned  newspaperman,  for  many  years 
naanaging  editor  of  the  New  York  Evening  Post 
and  now  the  editor  of  the  Nation,  has  written 
these  studies  of  our  most  widely  read  metro- 
politan dailies.  Beginning  vHth  the  New  York 
newspaper  field  he  characterizes  the  Times, 
the  World,  Hearst's  press,  Munsey's  group  of 
dailies  and  the  Jewish  Forward.  Boston's  press 
is  treated  under  the  caption,  "A  journalistic 
poor-farm."  Among  the  other  newspapers 
studied  are  the  Christian  Science  Monitor, 
Baltimore  Sun,  Philadelphia  Public  Ledger, 
Chicago  Tribune,  Kansas  City  Star,  and  Minne- 
sota Daily  Star.  A  chapter  is  devoted  to  Henry 
Watterson  and  his  Courier-Journal  and  one  to 
Edward  L.  Godkin.  Appendices  give  statistics 
of  circulation  of  newspapers  in  the  twelve 
largest  cities  of  the  United  States,  also  a  list 
of  foreign  language  dailies. 


Booklist  20:103  D  "23 
"It  is  not  a  connected  story,  but  no  connected 
story  could  make  us  feel  so  poignantly  the  truth 
and  the  miracle  of  it.  There  is  a  simplicity, 
an  artlessness  in  the  telling  which  is  veiy  ap 
pealiiiK."     D.   L.   M. 

-j-   Boston  Transcript  p5  My  19  '23  llOOw 


"A  gloomy,  depressing  book;  but  not  to  be 
tossed  aside.  There  is  ripe  thought  in  it.  It  is 
not  quite  as  independent  in  thought  as  its  author 
means   it  to  be."   E:    E.   Whiting 

h  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  Ja  '24  700w 

"Critics,  like  newspapers,  make  mistakes.  Yet 
the  American  press  needs  critics  like  Mr.  Vil- 
lard.  Any  book  that  makes  newspaper  readers 
more  critical  will  elevate  the  standard  of  Am- 
erican journalism."  J.  M.  Lee 
H Bookm    58:474    D    '23   800w 

Reviewed   by   H:    L.    Stuart 

Freeman   8:308  D  5  '23  900w 

"For  the  major  part,  Mr.  Villard  has  not  only 
written  a  remarkably  interesting  book  but 
added  an  important  contribution  to  our  political 
thinking.  One  by  one  he  sketches  some  of  the 
typical  American  newspapers.  Disagreeing 
often  with  the  point  of  view  we  have  had  to 
admit  his  general  grasp  of  truth.  He  makes 
these  organizations  of  steel,  cement,  machinery, 
flesh-and-blood  live  for  us  as  personalities.  He 
dares  to  balance  their  faults  against  their  vir- 
tues, to  round  out  his  portraits."  Will  Irwin 
H Lit    R    pl81    O   27    '23   2900w 

"It  is  to  be  said  at  the  outset  that  Mr.  Vil- 
lard is  unusually  well  fitted  for  his  task.  He 
inherited  the  ownership  of  a  great  newspaper. 
No  one  ever  questioned  his  journalistic  ability 
or  his  high  view  of  the  responsibilities  of  the 
profession.  It  might  be  feared  that  Mr.  Villard 
would  write  of  his  one-time  rivals  with  bitter- 
ness or  scorn.  His  judgments,  it  is  true,  are 
severe,  but  who  will  say  that  they  are  not  just? 
Yet  the  characters  in  Mr.  Vlllard's  drama  are 
not  all  villains;  and  if  he  has  no  heroes  he 
sees  with  admirable  clearness  the  journalistic 
Ideal  and  sets  it  forth  with  real  eloquence." 
R.    M.    Lovett 

H Nation  117:584  N  21  '23  ISOOw 

"Skilfully  written  and  fascinating  book." 
Bruce   Bliven 

+  New  Repub  37:47  D  5  '23  llOOw 

"Mr.  Villard' s  book  is  provided  with  valuable 
appendices  and  a  workmanlike  index.  It  Is  a 
good  reference  book.  And  it  is  exceedingly  in- 
teresting to  read,  which  most  reference  books 
are  not." 

-I NY    World    p9    O    14    '23    llOOw 

VINCE,  CHARLES.  Barrie  Marvell;  his 
dreams  and  adventures.  146p  $2  Little  [7s 
6d   P.    Allan] 

23-13291 

Mr  Vince  has  evidently  gone  back  to  his  own 

childhood    for    the    picture    of    the    imaginative 

small   boy,   Barrie   Marvell,    who  lives   in   these 


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pages.  The  soul  of  this  four-year-old  boy  is 
revealed  with  tender  understanding,  his  thoughts 
and  yearnings,  his  discoveries  and  adventures, 
the  dreams  which  to  him  were  more  real  than 
the  reahty.  These  dreams  came  from  the  night 
winds  and  the  sea,  from  maps,  and  from  words, 
which  puzzled  him  till  he  one  day  discovered 
that  he  could  make  them  his  own  and  set  them 
to  work  to  do  things  for  him.  He  had  no  need 
for  any  other  games  than  those  his  own  imag- 
ination provided.  These  were  sometimes  ruined 
by  a  highly  practical  uncle  who  missed  the  soul 
of  the  games  and  insisted  on  giving  them  a 
realistic  flavor.  Barrie  was  a  solitary  little  boy 
but  in  the  last  chapter  he  finds  a  playmate  in 
the   "brown  boy." 

Booklist    20:60    N    '23 
"It    is    a   very    nice    book    to   read    aloud    and 
holds  admirable  child  psychology."  A.  C.  Moore 
-I-   Bookm  57:358  My  '23  220w 
"There  is  a  great  deal  of  beauty  and  tender- 
ness and  charm  in  this  story  of  Barrie's  dreams 
and   adventures.     There    is    truth    too,    and   this 
combination  makes  an  unusual  book.    It  is  safe 
to   prophesy   for   it   a   place   among   the    memor- 
able  books   of  childhood."   D.    L.    M. 

+  Boston  Transcript  pi  Je  23  '23  llOOw 
Cleveland  p51  Jl  "23 
"The  writing  in  it  is  so  perfect  that  the  reader 
has  the  feeling  of  being  carried  back  to  child- 
hood in  some  beautifully  mysterious  way,  with- 
out any  of  the  sudden  pulls  and  jerks  that  mark 
so  many  similarly  attempted  journeys."  M.  G. 
Bonner 

+  Int  Bk  R  p34  Ag  '23  700w 
"Its  importance  lies  in  its  literary  charm.     It 
flows    along   delightfully    with    a    gentle    humor, 
moments    of    wistfulness,    and    little    scenes    of 
unforced    whimsicality."      Parker    Fillmore 
+  Lit    R    p83    S    29    '23    600w 
Reviewed  by  J.    J.    Smertenko 

Nation  117:668  D  5  '23  440w 
"Whether  one  loves  children,  or  good  litera- 
ture, or  both,  the  reading  of  the  book  affords 
unalloyed  delight.  With  a  touch  that  is  delicate 
and  tender  and  reverent,  Mr.  Vince  searches 
through  his  knowledge  of  childhood,  perhaps 
through  his  recollections  of  his  own  childhood, 
and  brings  forth  quaint  fancies,  absurd  misin- 
terpretations of  things  half  seen  and  not  at  all 
understood,  longing  for  wider  horizons.  .  .  and 
with  poetic  feeling  and  great  beauty  of  lan- 
guage embodies  them  in  the  small  person  of 
his   Barrie   Marvell." 

+   N    Y   Times  p23  Je   10   '23   400w 
N  Y  World  p8e  Jl  29  '23  450w 
"  'Barrie  Marvell'   is  a  book  of  true   imagina- 
tive quality.    .    .    The   book   is   sound   in   its  pre- 
sentment  of  an   unusual   type  of  child  psychol- 
ogy."   R.   D.    Townsend 

+  Outlook  134:287  Je  27  '23  90w 
"It  is,  of  course,  a  truisin  that  the  greatest 
snare  besetting  grown-up  people  ■  who  would 
write  of  children  is  a  too  heavy  insistence  upon 
realism.  In  the  delightful  study  of  boyhood 
which  forms  the  subject  of  his  new  book,  Mr. 
Vince  has  avoided  his  snare." 

+  Sat  R  134:682  N  4  '23  650w 
"  'Barrie  Marvell'  is  written  with  unusual 
charm,  and  bears  about  it  an  atmosphere  of 
wonder  and  beauty  and  the  deep  romance  of 
childhood.  It  is  a  book  to  read  aloud,  to  cherish 
and  reread,  for  it  is  quiet  and  true  and  whimsi- 
cal, and  full  of  the  tears  and  laughter  that  are 
close  akin." 

+   Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  Ag  19  '23  630w 
The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p664    O 
19   '22   550w 

Wis   Lib    Bui   19:414   Jl  '23 

VIROUBOVA,  MME  ANNA  ALEXANDROVNA 
(TANIEFF).  Memories  of  the  Russian  court. 
400p  $3.50  Macmillan 

947    Russia — Court    and   courtiers.      Russia — 

History— Revolution,    1917-  23-16553 

The    writer    of    these    memories    was    at    first 

maid   of  honor,    then    the  devoted   and   intimate 


friend  of  Alexandra  Feodorovna,  empress  of 
Russia.  She  was  at  the  center  of  the  tragic 
events  which  she  describes.  The  only  happy 
memories  are  of  the  home  life  of  the  Russian 
royal  family,  of  their  holidays  in  the  favorite 
palace  at  Livadia  in  the  Crimea  and  of  the 
relations  of  the  emperor  and  empress  with  each 
other  and  with  their  children.  For  the  rest  it 
is  a  tale  of  rapidly  gathering  tragedy.  Con- 
siderable space  is  given  to  the  story  of  Ras- 
putin and  to  what  Mme  Viroubova  saw  of  the 
revolution.  Many  of  the  illustrations  are  from 
intimate  family  photographs  taken  by  the 
author. 


"If  one  can,  as  one  rightly  should,  divest 
oneself  of  the  prejudices  caused  by  the  almost 
unanimously  hostile  accounts  published  of  Mrs. 
Viroubova's .  relations  with  Rasputin  and  the 
German-born  Empress  of  Russia,  the  narrative 
of  her  experiences  as  lady-in-waiting  at  the 
Russian  court  will  be  found  absorbingly  inter- 
esting."    N.   H.  Dole 

-| Boston   Transcript   p2   O   20   '23   2150w 

Reviewed  by  F.  F.  Kelly 

Int  Bk  R  p40  D  '23  2300w 
"In  general  'Memories  of  the  Russian  Court' 
makes  good  reading.  As  a  defensive  document 
of  the  'occult'  or  the  dark  forces  which  were  so 
largely  the  cause  of  Russia's  downfall  Mme. 
Viroubova's  book  is  valuable.  It  should  be  read, 
however,  with  careful  reserve."  Princess  Can- 
tacuzene 

H Lit    R    p205   N   3   '23   1350w 

"As  far  as  the  every-day  chronicle  of  the 
imperial  family  is  concerned,  no  better  and 
more  authoritative  account  can  be  found  than 
tliat  drawn  by  Mme.  Viroubova's  devoted  hand. 
And  from  her  narrative,  slightly  naive  and 
abundant  with  minute  details,  arises  a  vivid 
painting  not  of  Romanoffs  the  rulers,  but  of 
Romanoffs   the   human   beings."     A.   I.   Nazaroff 

H NY  Times  p3  N  11  '23  1750w 

"Apart   from    any   new   information'  contained 
in  the  book,  it  is  striking  because  of  the  direct- 
ness and  conviction  of  the  author's  impressions. 
It  will   not   please   extreme   radicals  in  Russia." 
Outlook   135:396  D   5   "23   500w 
Sprlngf'd   Republican  plO  N  27  '23  900w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p842  D  6 
'23    900w 

VIVIAN,    HERBERT    (X.,    pseud.).    Myself    not 
-    least;    being    the    personal    reminiscences    of 

"X."    375p   $3.50   Holt 

B  or  92  23-15845 

The  title  of  these  rambling  reminiscences  of 
an  English  journalist  seems  to  indicate  his  own 
importance  relatively  in  his  recollections.  For 
the  most  part  they  are  concerned  with  person- 
alities and  he  is  frank  in  expressing  his  likes 
and  dislikes.  Among  the  men  of  whom  he  gives 
character  sketches  are  Lord  Randolph  Church- 
ill and  Winston  Churchill,  Wilfrid  Scawen  Blunt, 
Henry  Labouchere,  James  McNeil  Whistler, 
Horatio  Bottomley,  Gabriel  d'Annunzio  and  Don 
Carlos  of  Spain. 

"The  trouble  with  these  reminiscences  is  not 
that  they  are  uninteresting,  but  that  they  lack 
consequence;  they  have  lost  all  flavour  by  being 
steeped  in  a  mediocre  mind."  L..  B. 
—  Freeman  8:335  D  12  '23  250w 
"This  is  one  of  those  genial,  rambling  books 
that  may  be  begun  anywhere  and  read  in  either 
direction,  always  with  a  reasonable  assurance 
of  finding  entertainment  and  interesting  inform- 
ation before  the  page  has  been  fairly  turned." 
W:    MacDonald  „,    ^„^„ 

+  N    Y   Times  p3   Ja  6  "24  1900w 
N  Y  World  p8e  N  18  '23  200w 

VIVIANI,  RENE.  As  we  see  it;  English  tr.  by 
Thoma.'^  R.  Ybarra.  314p  $3.50  Harper  [lOs 
6d  Hodder  &  S.] 
940.311  European  war.  1914-1919— Causes. 
European  war,  1911-1919- Germany  Wil- 
liam II,  emperor  of  Germany  (abdicated 
1918)  23-853 i 

The  main  object  of  the  book  is  to  answer  the 
memoirs    of    ex-Emperor    William,    to    show    up 


536 


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VIVIANI,    RENE — Continued 

all  their  weaknesses,  contradictions  and  swag- 
ger, and  with  their  aid  to  prove  the  absolute 
responsibility  of  Germany  for  the  war.  The 
author  reviews  the  ex-Emperor's  antecedents, 
his  psychological  equipment  for  his  task  and  the 
outstanding  historical  facts  in  the  development 
of  German  militarism.  He  then  gives  his 
version  of  the  events  leading  up  to  the  declara- 
tion of  war,  as  opposed  to  the  account  given 
in  the  Memoirs,  and  ends  with  an  appraisal 
of  the  present  German  situation. 

Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:683  N  "23  80w 
Booklist  19:313  Jl  '23 
"Much  of  his  book  is  a  rehash.  His  analysis 
of  the  Kautsky  documents  and  the  Austrian 
Red  book  betrays  the  quaUties  of  a  parti- 
zan.  Emotion  is  frequently  substituted  for 
scientific  criticism,  and  inevitably  confuses  the 
vital   Issues."     C.    Seymour 

—  Bookm    57:642    Ag    '23    330w 
"Although     the     motive     which     brought    out 

M.  Viviani's  book  was  controversial,  he  has  gone 
about  his  task  so  ably  and  so  thoroughly  and 
has  reenforced  his  statements  with  such  un- 
impeachable evidence  that  the  volume  becomes 
of  historical  importance  quite  apart  from  the 
motive  of  its  inception."   S.   L.   Cook 

4-  Boston  Transcript  p3  My  12  '23  2000w 
"The  former  Premier  of  France  may  be  a 
good  pleader  before  an  audience,  when  he  can 
have  them  face  to  face.  We  do  wish  he  had 
not  been  betrayed  into  attempting  to  speak  for 
France  through  the  medium  of  the  printed 
page."    H.  A.  Gibbons 

1-   Lit  R  p924  Ag  25  '23  850w 

—  Nation   116:754  Je  27  '23  480w 

"Aside  from  the  flood  of  light  which  it  may 
throw  upon  French  national  feeling  at  the 
present  time,  M.  Viviani's  book  is  not  signifi- 
cant."    C.   J.   H.  Hayes 

h  New  Repub  35:237  Jl  25  "23  750 

"His  analysis  of  the  occurrences  that  im- 
mediately preceded  the  declaration  of  war  is 
a  masterpiece  of  lucid  and  convincing  state- 
ment. M.  Viviani  writes  with  the  same  fire, 
vigor,  eloquence,  persuasive  quality  and  sheer 
beauty  of  language  for  which  he  is  famous  as 
an  orator.  Mr.  Ybarra's  translation  is  note- 
worthy for  the  success  with  which  it  transfers 
these    qualities    to    another    language." 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl8  My  20  '23  550w 
"M.  Viviani's  book  is  of  interest  on  its  own 
account.  But  as  a  piece  of  polemics  it  is 
about  three  hundred  times  oversufRcient.  It 
answers  in  314  pages  what  could  have  been 
answered  adequately  in  314  words."  W:  C. 
McPherson 

h   N   Y  Tribune  p24  Jl  8  '23  500w 

R  of  Rs  67:671  Je  '23  70w 
Sprlngf'd  Republican  p9a  D  23  '23  180w 
"The  book  xiaturally  divides  itself  into  two 
parts;  first  of  all  we  have  an  introductory  sec- 
tion, dealing  with  the  general  points  of  issue 
oetween  Germany  and  France.  In  this  M. 
Viviani  is  not  unnaturally  speaking  as  a  rhe- 
torician rather  than  an  historian.  There  is 
no  attempt  at  a  calm  and  dispassionate  judg- 
ment on  these  great  matters;  he  gives  free 
play  to  his  unrivalled  power  of  enthusiasm  and 
invective.  But  the  greater  part  of  the  book  is 
occupied  with  a  more  detailed  investigation  of 
the  critical  events  at  the  end  of  July  and  the 
beginning  of  August,  1914.  Here  the  author  has 
an  easy  task;  he  succeeds  in  bringing  out 
with  great  effectiveness  the  cardinal  points 
which  may  be  urged  against  the  action  of  the 
German  Government  and  its  later  apologists." 
+  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p332  My 
17   '23   700w 

VOGEL,  KARL  MAX.  Aloha  around  the  world: 
with  an  introd.  by  Arthur  Curtiss  James.  274p 
11   $3.50   Putnam 

910.4  Voyages  around  the  world  22-24236 

In    an    auxiliary    yacht    the    writer,    one    of   a 

party   of  six,    made   an    eight   months'    pleasure 

trip  around  the  world.     Starting  from  New  York 

the   Aloha's   route  lay  thru   the   Panama  canal. 


across  the  Pacific  to  Japan,  Korea  and  China, 
thence  to  Java,  India  and  Ceylon,  and  home  by 
way  of  Suez  and  the  Mediterranean.  Only  the 
picturesque  features  of  the  countries  visited  are 
dwelt  upon.  There  are  ninety-five  illustrations 
from  photographs. 


Boston    Transcript   p4   D   16   '22   650w 
"Part  diary,  part  ship's  log,  faithfully  record- 
ing not  only  the  adventures  of  the  party  of  six, 
but  each  day's  run  and  the  ship's  position,  Karl 
Vogel    has    written    a    book    which    will    please 
many  a  would-be  'round  the  world  yachtsman." 
+   Lit  R  p480  F  17  '23  llOw 
"Karl    Vogel    has    done    a    very    good    job    of 
conventional   travel  writing.     The  party   visited 
conventional  places  in  the  conventional  way  and 
saw   their   conventional  aspects.     It's  an   inter- 
esting experience  for  those  who  make  it,  but  It 
has    its    limitations   as   a    subject    for   sustained 
discourse." 

H Sprlngf'd  Republican  plO  F  14  '23  120w 

VOLLARD,  AMBROISE.  Paul  Cezanne;  his  life 
and  art;  auth.  tr.  by  Harold  L.  Van  Doren. 
205p     $3     Brown,   N:    L. 

B  or  92     Cezanne,   Paul  23-10477 

"M.  Ambroise  Vollard,  the  well-known  con- 
noisseur and  Cezanne  enthusiast,  and  the  au- 
thor of  this  sketch  of  C6zanne's  life  and  art 
tells  us  of  the  artist's  school  days  and  his 
friendship  with  Zola,  who  was  also  of  Aix,  and 
with  whom  Cezanne  formed  a  close  friendship 
which  endured  until  the  vanity  of  the  man  of 
letters  was  no  longer  bearable  to  the  simple 
and  honest  nature  of  the  painter.  M.  Vollard 
reveals  the  difficulties  which  C6zanne  experi- 
enced in  his  efforts  to  obtain  an  entry  into  the 
Salon,  and  tells  of  his  struggles  against  an  al- 
most concerted  refusal  of  officialdom  to  put  the 
stamp  of  its  approval  on  his  work.  .  .  Vollard 
championed  this  despised  and  rejected  of  men 
in  the  spirit  of  the  religious  fanatic,  and  risked 
his  all  on  his  faith.  Despite  the  jeers  and 
sneers  of  his  contemporaries,  M.  Vollard  has 
lived  to  see  his  faith  justified  and  to  reap  the 
golden  harvest  which  his  shrewdness  or  his 
understanding  or  his  intuition  urged  him  to 
anticipate." — Nation 


Bookm    58:214   O   '23   lOOw 

"The  book,  even  with  some  rather  annoy- 
ing faults,  is  most  entertaining  and  instructive." 
N.  H.   D. 

H Boston    Transcript   p5   S   8   '23   1750w 

"A  captivating  biography  translated  with  skill 
and   sense."      T:    Craven 

+  Freeman   7:618   S   5   '23   1500w 

"M.  Vollard  is  not  a  critic  of  art,  but  a  dealer 
in  works  of  art.  His  method  of  valuation  is 
quantitative  and  not  qualitative,  so  that  his  Life 
and  Art  of  C(5zanne  is  of  the  order  of  'ana' 
rather  than  of  biography  or  criticism.  Yet  his 
brochure  has  an  interest  of  its  own  which 
justifies  its  existence."  Temple  Scott 
h  Nation    117:172    Ag    15    '23    750w 

"Related  by  M.  Vollard  with  a  sincerity  and 
frankness  whicii  bear  the  mark  of  a  veracity 
too  often  open  to  doubt  in  such  narratives." 
Edith  Valerio 

-t-   N    Y   Times   plO   Jl    8    '23    2050w 

"M.  Voilard's  chapters  of  intimate  gossip 
and  shop  talk  precious  as  they  are,  mean  noth- 
ing to  the  average  layman  who  is  not  familiar 
with  the  life  and  art  of  Cezanne  through  other 
reading  and  pictures.  The  small,  crude,  half- 
tone reproductions  from  photographs  which  pass 
for  illustrations  to  this  book  are  rather  worse 
than  useless.  Voilard's  gossip,  curious  and  en- 
tertaining as  it  is,  cannot  be  called  illuminative 
in  any  critical  way."     H:  Tyrrell 

h   N  Y  World  pl9  Jl  15  '23  800w 

"The  intimate  tone  of  M.  Voilard's  book  and 
its  personal  material  add  to  the  general  knowl- 
edge of  the  painter." 

H Sprlngf'd  Republican  plO  Jl  20  '23  7a0w 


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537 


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WADIA,  ARDESHIR  RUTTONJI.  Ethics  of 
feminism;  a  study  of  the  revolt  of  woman. 
256p   $3.50    Doran    [10s    6d   Allen    &    U.] 

39C    Woman — Social     and    moral     questions. 
Marriage  [23-12175] 

An  Indian  philosopher  makes  this  study  of 
the  whole  feminist  inovement  and  its  effects. 
He  believes  that  feminism  in  its  earlier  stages 
was  a  natural  reaction  and  had  right  on  its 
side  but  that  it  is  now  responsible  for  certain 
crying  evils — chief  among  these  being  the  re- 
volt of  woman  against  marriage  and  the  fam- 
ily. He  examines  the  basic  ideas  of  feminism 
and  its  effects  in  the  realm  of  education,  in 
industry  and  the  professions,  in  politics,  in 
home  life  and  in  sexual  relations.  About  half 
the  book  is  devoted  to  a  study  of  marriage 
and    motherhood. 

"A  book  which  is  distinguished  alike  by  the 
modern  spirit  in  which  it  criticises  the  excesses 
of  the  'revolt'  and  by  the  sturdy  defence 
which  it  offers  of  the  rights  of  woman,  the 
duties  of  motherhood  and  the  sanctity  of  the 
home."    E.    N. 

+   Boston    Transcript    p3   Ag    25    '23    780w 

Reviewed  by  Alyse  Gregory 

New    Repub    37:24    N    28    '23    750w 

"In  default  of  any  intimate  experience,  Mr. 
Wadia  seems  to  have  fallen  back  on  a  great 
number  of  documents,  some  more  reliable  than 
others,  but  all  dangerous  as  a  basis  for  gen- 
eralizations unchecked  by  'laboratory'  controls. 
The  result  is  a  statement  of  the  position  which 
will  to  many  seem  highly  exaggerated  and  to 
some  perhaps  a  forecast  of  what  might  occur 
if  ster's  are  not  taken  to  prevent  the  ideal 
of    family   life    from    falling    into   disrepute." 

—  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup   p375   My 
31   '23  200w 

WADSLEY,    OLIVE.    Sometimes.    29Gp    $2   Dodd 

[7s   6d  Cassell] 

23-16661 

A  rather  liad  knock-out  at  the  hands  of  some 
roughs  left  the  rich  and  aristocratic  young  Rob- 
ert Berkeley  faint  and  helpless  on  the  moors 
not  far  from  the  ramshackle  old  country  hou.se 
of  the  I.,orings,  to  be  rescued  and  cared  for  by 
the  lovely  young  daughter  of  the  house.  The 
Lorings,  father  and  mother,  were  iinpossible 
people  of  most  unsavoury  reputation  but  Kit 
herself  was  a  flower  growing  out  of  the  muck 
of  her  surroundings.  Robert  loved  her  at  first 
sight  and  wasted  no  time  in  marrying  her,  be- 
fore she  had  summoned  the  courage  to  make 
confession  of  something  in  her  life  for  which 
in  her  innocent  youth  she  was  hardly  responsi- 
ble. Complications  arose  when  her  secret  was 
told  which  brought  tragedy  for  a  while  to  the 
young  husband  and  wife,  but  their  love  proved 
sufficient    for   the   ordeal. 


"A  rather  well-written  novel,  but  one  that 
is  pitched  continually   in   the   dulcet   key." 

h   N    Y   Times   p9    N    25    '23    450w 

Reviewed    by   Isabel   Pnterson 

N   Y  Tribune  p22  D  2  '23  780w 

WAGNER,    CHARLES    ABRAHAM.      Poems    of 

the  soil  and  sea.    62p  $1.50  Knopf 

811  22-22918 

"Mr.  Wagner  is  still  an  undergraduate  at 
Columbia.  Mr.  Knopf,  the  publisher,  offers  as 
an  annual  prize  the  publication  of  the  most 
worthy  book  by  an  tjndergraduate  of  his  col- 
lege; 'Poems  of  the  Soil  and  Sea'  is  the  second 
to   win    this    perilous   guerdon." — Nation 


dividual  note.  Contrary  to  the  implication  of  the 
title,  the  verse  is  redolent  of  neither  brown 
earth  or  salt  spray." 

h   Dial  74:314  Mr  '23  80w 

"It  is  excellent  in  spots,  and  by  a  man  full 
of  poetic  feeling;  but  a  kindness  would  have 
been  conferred,  in  allowing  the  poems  five  or 
ten   years   to   ripen."     Clement  Wood 

1-   Nation    116:272    Mr   7    '23    800w 

WALDO,  FULLERTON  LEONARD.  Down  the 
Mackenzie  through  the  great  lone  land.  251p 
il   $3    Macmillan 

917.12     Mackenzie  river.  Alberta.    Northwest 
territories  23-7839 

The  journey  began  at  Edmonton,  Alberta, 
which  used  to  be  called  the  "last  house  in  the 
world"  but  which  is  now  a  rapidly  growing  city 
with  a  population  of  nearly  seventy  thousand, 
and  continued  by  the  Arctic  express  to  the 
northernmost  point  reached  by  railway.  The 
route  thenceforward  was  by  water,  to  the 
Mackenzie  and  down  that  river  to  the  frontier 
post  of  Fort  McPherson  at  the  head  of  the 
Mackenzie  delta.  Like  StefAnsson,  the  author 
finds  his  Arctic  "friendly."  He  writes  with 
enthusiasm  of  his  experiences  and  the  people 
he  met  along  the  way,  of  the  devoted  work  of 
the  missionaries  and  the  Gray  nuns  and  the 
exploits  of  the  Royal  Canadian  mounted  police 
whose  name  is  a  terror  to  evil-doers. 


Reviewed  by  G.   H.  Conkling 

Bool<m   57:92   Mr  '23   200w 

"These  poems  ring  the  changes  on  the  eternal 
themes  of  love,  beauty,  nature,  and  death. 
Though  characterized  by  fluency  and  delicacy 
of  expression,  they  fail  to  hit  a  distinctive,   in- 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  28  '23  7S0w 
"He  has  shown  exceedingly  fair-Judgment  in 
what  comment  he  makes,  and  has  displayed 
quite  a  talent  in  gentle  humor  withal.  While 
we  might  quibble  at  a  page  here  and  there  on 
different  grounds,  yet  on  the  whole  the  book  is 
well  written,  holds  the  attention,  and,  we  are 
sure  from  abundant  internal  evidence,  gives 
a   true   picture   of  conditions   in   the    North." 

-I Cath    World    117:715    Ag   '23    350w 

"A  lively  account.  .  .  On  the  whole,  the  au- 
thor is  a  keen  observer  of  immediate  facts,  and 
I  like  the  spirit  in  which  he  writes,  but  doubt- 
less a  good  deal  of  misinformation  has  crept  into 
his  book  through  his  retailing  of  hearsay." 
Harold   Noice 

H Lit    R    p722    My   26    '23    llOOw 

"By  his  descriptions  of  the  scenery  along  the 
Mackenzie,  with  its  magnificent  loneliness,  and 
by  his  ability  to  put  into  words  something  of 
the  spirit  of  the  country,  Mr.  Waldo  manages  to 
make  his  reader  feel  the  lure  of  the  great 
North-west." 

-f   N  Y  Times  p6  My  27  '23  950w 
"A  travel  book  of  unusual  interest.   .   .  Excel- 
lent   illustrations   add    to   the   value   of   the   vol- 
ume." 

-f-  N  Y  World  plOe  Ap  15  "23  180w 
"The  author  has  a  lively  sense  of  humor  and 
a  notable  faculty  for  picking  out  the  things 
that  are  odd  or  unusual  or  characteristic  and 
for  reporting  incidents  and  bits  of  talk.  More 
than  most  travelers  he  takes  his  reader  with 
him.  Thus  his  book  is  made  enjoyable  as  well 
as  informative.  The  illustration  is  abundant 
and   excellent." 

4-  Outlook    134:140    .Te    6    '23    140w 

"The   chronicle    is   lively    incidental    narr.itive. 

rather    descriptive    than    heavily    informational, 

but    giving    a    good    impression    of    the    journey, 

the    region    along   the    river   and    its    people    and 

conditions.     The   reader  will   not   be   bored,   and 

he    will    .get    a    considerable    amount   of    impres- 

sional.  but  apparently  accurate,  information,  but 

the  map  is  inadequate,   and  the  index  sketchy." 

+  Springf  d  Republican  pl2  Ap  10  '23  400\v 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p555   Ag 

23   '23  1050w 

Wis    Lib    Bui   19:413   Jl   '23 

WALDRON,  WEBB.  We  explore  the  Great 
Lakes:  pictured  by  Marion  Patton  Waldron. 
3S4p  $3.50  Century 

917.7  Great  Lakes.      United   States — Descrip- 
tion  and    travel  23-13529 
Bv  ore-freighter,  row-boat,  fishing-boat,  train, 
motor-bus,    and    foot    the    writer    and    the    illus- 
trator   journeved    from    Buffalo    to    Duluth    and 


538 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


WALDRON,  WEBB — Continued 
back  again,  visiting  towns,  camps,  mines  and 
factories,  and  listening  to  the  tales  of  sailors, 
fishermen,  farmers,  piofessional  boosters,  busi- 
ness men  and  artists.  The  book  includes 
many  accounts  of  early  history,  lake  storms, 
and  other  events  and  personalities,  "Ports  dea 
Morts,"  King  Strang,  the  Chicago  Business 
men's  art  club,  and  the  tales  of  Captain  Allers, 
the    atheist    of    Beaver    island. 


Booklist    20:136    Ja    '24 
"One    can    scarcely    imagine    a    more    varied 
and   fascinating   trip   than   that   which   Mr.    and 
Mrs.    Waldron    describe    in    these  pages." 
+  N    Y    Times    p24    O    28    '23    700w 
"  'We   explore   the   Great   Lakes'    performs   its 
task   none   too   thoroughly.     Mr.    Waldron   gives 
promise   of  adventure   that   is   not   fulfilled.     He 
hits  only  the  high  spots,  and  even  here  the  con- 
tact is   not   very  hard." 

—  NY  World  plOe  O  21  '23  50w 
"A  pressman  of  exceptional  insight  wandered 
over  the  whole  Great  Lakes  region  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1923  with  ears,  eyes,  and  mind  wide  open, 
and  tells  his  story  with  so  just  a  proportion  of 
the  constructively  critical  and  subtly  humorous 
that  his  book  is  really  a  valuable  commentary 
on  industrial  and  civic  America.  Yet  it  is 
amply  leavened  by  the  romantic  and  amusing 
and  makes  enjoyable  and  easy  reading." 
+  Outlook    135:418   N   7   '23   160w 

Sprlngf  d   Republican  p7a  O  28  '23  400w 

WALEY,   ARTHUR.   Temple,   and  other  poems; 
2    tr.   by  Arthur  Waley.   150p  $2  Knopf  [6s  Allen 

&   U.] 

895  Chinese  poetry  23-17912 

"The  present  volume  of  versions  from  the 
Chinese,  Mr.  Waley's  third  to  date,  departs  in- 
to a  new  field — that  of  the  longer  poems  of  two 
thousand  years  ago  which  are  comprehended 
vmder  the  term  'fu.'  Readers  will  find  a  great 
deal  of  information  on  a  very  obscure  subject 
in  Mr.  Waley's  fifty-odd  pages  of  introduction." 
— Nation 

"Of  all  the  translators  now  engaged  with  Chi- 
nese and  Japanese  poetry  Mr.  Waley  is  by  far 
the  best,  for  he  combines  skill  with  scholar- 
ship in  a  unique  degree." 

-f   Nation   117:692   D  12   '23   120w 

"As  to  his  scholarship,  most  of  us  will  have 
to  take  it  on  trust;  but  there  is  every  reason 
to  believe  that  it  is  fully  adequate,  and  that  his 
method  like  that  of  all  the  best  translators  of 
poetry,  is  a  skilful  compromise  between  verbal 
faithfulness  and  respect  for  the  idiom  of  his 
native  language."  R.  C.  T. 

-I-   New  Statesman  22:120  N  3  '23  900w 

Reviewed   bv   P.    A.    Hutchison 

N    Y    Times   pll   D   23   '23    800w 

"We  are  Indebted  to  no  one  more  than  to 
Mr.  Waley  for  initiation  into  the  mysteries  or 
Chinese  poetry;  for  his  renderings,  though  they 
cannot  reproduce  all  the  qualities  of  tlie  origin- 
al, retain  the  inevitability  of  wording  which  is 
a  profounder  mark  of  the  poet  than  rhyme  or 
metre.  And  because  he  has  himself  a  poet's 
sensitiveness  to  language  we  find  in  his  versions 
of  the  work  of  different  poets  the  reflection  of 
their  individuality,    their  style." 

-\-  The  Times  [London]    Lit   Sup  p766  N  15 
•23  750w 

WALKER,  WILLIAM  HULTZ;  LEWIS,  WAR- 
REN KENDALL;  and  MCADAMS,  WILLIAM 
HENRY.  Principles  of  chemical  engineering. 
637p      il      $5      McGraw 

660     Chemical   engineering  23-8953 

"Admirable  both  in  purpose  and  result.  The 
presentation  is  characterized  by  succinctness 
and  soimd  common  sense.  It  does  not  go  into 
details  of  specific  processes  but  presents  con- 
cisely the  scientific  principles  underlying  chem- 
ical engineering  in  geneial,  and  indicates  the 
proper  applic.ition  of  these  principles  in  correct 
practice.  It  thus  furnishes  the  actual  working 
data  for  intelligent  design  of  chemical  equip- 
ment for  various  purposes." — Pittsburgh  Mo 
Bui 


"The  method  of  treatment,  quantitative 
measurement  combined  with  sound  mathemati- 
cal analysis,  is  a  most  valuable  one,  and  it  will 
be  some  time  before  the  whole  field  of  chemi- 
cal engineering  can  be  covered  in  the  same  thor- 
ough   manner."    E.    C.    W. 

+   Nature   113:5   Ja   5   '24    1500w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bul    28:426   O   '23 

WALKLEY,    ARTHUR     BINGHAM.     More    pre- 
judice.    255p     $3     Knopf     [7s     6d    Heinemann] 

824 
"Mr.  Walkley  has  made  a  second  volume  of 
selections  from  the  articles  which  he  contributes 
to  the  Times  on  Wednesdays.  Mr.  Walkley's 
subject  seems  to  happen  to  him  as  one  of  ten 
thousand  things  that  jot  out  of  his  memory, 
his  readings,  his  delight  in  the  aesthetic  con- 
templation of  life.  .  .  And,  with  all  this  variety 
of  possession  and  of  interest  he  chooses  to  de- 
vote a  good  few  of  his  Wednesdays  to  the  mod- 
ern   drama."— The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup 


"I  suggest  that  this  little  book  of  varied  es- 
says be  carried  about  as  a  chatelaine,  along 
with  the  keys  to  the  wine-cellar.  So  divers 
are  his  subjects  that  if  at  a  loss  for  a  topic 
of  conversation  one  could  surreptitiously  con- 
sult it  and  become  the  brilliant  guest  of  the 
evening."    L.    C.    Hale 

-t-   Int    Bk    R    p32   N   '23    650w 

"  'I  can  only  give  you  prejudice,'  he  says,  'but 
who  can  give  you  more?'  Like  his  masters 
too  he  has  a  very  lively  intelligence;  he 
prides  himself  on  his  urbanity  and  is  often 
very  charming.  Actually  there  seems  to  be  a 
falling  off  from  this  last  quality  in  the  pres- 
ent book.  There  is  a  certain  peevishness  with 
the  younger  generation  which  is  neither  philo- 
sophic  nor  charming."     R.    E.   W. 

H New  Statesman   21:714   S  29  '23  1200w 

Reviewed    by   H.    J.    Mankiewicz 

N    Y   Times  plO   N   25   '23   440w 

"  'More  Prejudice'  is  not  a  book  to  be  read 
through  at  one  sitting.  It  should  be  enjoyed 
piecemeal.  Indeed,  perhaps  the  best  way  of  all 
would  be  to  take  it  to  a  desert  island,  and  read 
one  article  every  week.  It  would  thus  last  for 
a   whole   year." 

H Sat    R    136:361    S   29    '23    550w 

"Mr.  Walkley's  new  collection  of  articles  from 
the  Times  is  excellent,   but   it  would   have   been 
a  great  deal  better  had  he  edited  it  more  care- 
fully and  given  it  more  variety."     J.  B.  Priestly 
+   —  Spec   131:559   O   20   '23  300w 

"Mr  Walkley  is  not  solemn  about  the  the- 
ater, but  in  his  urbane  banter  he  supplies  not 
a  little  illumination  about  life  and  about  books. 
His  writing  reflects  the  ideal  reader;  he  keeps 
his  pages  so  larded  with  quotations  of  amusing 
or-  aphoi'istical  lines  that  it  sometimes  seems  as 
if  his  careful  paragraphs  were  built  around  the 
quoted  bits." 

+    Springf'd    Republican   p8  N  24  '23   600w 

"He  is  never  happier — in  both  senses  of  the 
woid,  we  suspect — than  when  he  is  writing 
trifles  with  the  grace  of  which  dignity  is  only 
a  part.  He  'shapes'  especially  well  when  he 
is  wi-iting  about  things  implicitly  shapeless, 
like  familiar  letters.  His  secret  is  his  delight 
in  life,  which  includes  the  arts  as  the  whole 
includes  the  part.  The  apprehensible  quality 
in  him  is  the  trained  and  disciplined  taste, 
which  allows  him  to  be  as  wilful  as  he  pleases 
without   losing  his  grace  and  charm." 

+  The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p585    S 
6     '23     1650w 

WALLACE,   EDGAR.  Clue  of  the  new  pin.   285p 

$1.90  Small 

23-6952 

"Murder  is  in  question.  Jesse  Trasmere,  a  sin- 
gular old  man,  wiio  would  have  delighted  the 
heprt  of  TMckens,  i.^  found  dead,  shot  in  the 
back,  in  the  cellar  strongroom  of  his  suburban 
home.  The  onlv  door,  a  massive  affair  of  steel, 
is  locked  from  the  inside,  and  the  blood-stanied 
kev  the  onlv  key  in  existence,  lies  on  a  table 
in  the  center  of  the  room.  There  is  no  means 
of  entrance  other  than  the  door,  unless  you 
count  a  steel  ventilator  grating  above  it,  through 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


539 


which  a  mouse  could  scarcely  creep.  And  there 
is  no  clew  except  a  single,  ordinary  pin  on  the 
floor.  Who  killed  him,  and  how  did  the  murder- 
er get  in  and  out?" — N  Y  Tribune 


Booklist  20:23  O  '23 
Cleveland    p51    Jl    '23 

"The  story  is  well  worked  out,  with  plenty 
of  exciting-  moments  and  no  relaxing-  of  its  hold 
on  the  reader,  who  is  hurried  swiftly  from  one 
surprise  to  another,  until  an  ironical  twist  pro- 
vides an  effective  and  picturesque  conclusion." 
H-   Int    Bk    R    p53   Jl    '23    2S0w 

"  'The  Clue  of  the  New  Pin'  has  the  advan- 
tag-e  of  being  told  by  an  author  who  possesses 
a  flair  for  satire  and  a  certain  amount  of  dry 
humor." 

+  N  Y  Times  p22  Ap  15  '23  600w 

"Edgar  Wallace  knows  how  to  dress  the  skele- 
ton of  his  extremely  ingenious  .story  with  fancy 
and  humor.  His  characters  might  appear  in  any 
kind  of  fiction  and  still  he  plausible;  his  meth- 
od of  writing  is  so  easy  and  natural  that  Jie 
must  have  striven  hard  for  it.  He  has  a  strict 
eye  for  the  minor  probabilities,  thus  diverting 
attention  from  the  major  impossibilities."  Isabel 
Paterson 

4-   N   Y  Tribune  p21  Ap  15  '23  550w 

"A  story  full  of  sensational  points."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

+  N  Y  World  plOe  Ap  15  '23  120w 

Sprlngf'd   Republican  p7a  O  14  '23  180w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p424  Je  21 
'23    250w 


WALLACE,   WILLIAM    KAY.   Trend  of  history; 

origins    of    twentietli    century    problems.    372p 

$3.50     Macmillan 
901    History,    Modern.    Political   science 

22-20926 

The  purpose  of  the  book  is  to  explain  the 
interpretative  function  of  history,  to  select  those 
relevant  factors  out  of  the  mass  of  past  events 
which  stand  in  significant  relation  to  the  pres- 
ent moment  and  so  in  turn  to  discover  the 
trend  of  history,  the  process  of  social  life.  Thus 
the  author  shows  how  thru  the  Reformation 
and  the  overthrow  of  Papal  supremacy  the  di- 
vine right  idea  became  an  attribute  of  the  king 
and  tlie  politico-theistic  state  was  evolved  and 
how,  liy  extending  tlie  analogy,  the  slate  in  its 
later  developments  was  patterned  after  the 
image  of  man  and  became  politico-juridic.  He 
then  traces  the  growth,  spread,  perversion  and 
decay  of  this  concept  thru  to  the  all-powerful 
Bismarckian  state  and  the  new  "barbarian" 
invasions  of  economic  imperialism  practiced 
under  its  cover,  with  the  implication  that  new 
theories  of  state  and  of  social  organization 
are  in  the  process  of  evolution  to  supplant  the 
political   state.     Index. 


"This  work  constitutes  a  respectable  achiev- 
ment  in  the  field  of  historical  interpretation. 
...  It  is  the  opinion  of  the  reviewer  that  in 
few  other  -places  can  there  be  discovered  as 
successful  an  attempt  to  interpret  the  'trend 
of   modern   historv.'  "      H.    E.    B.Tines 

+  Am    Hist   R   28:520  Ap  '23  1350w 

"To  the  student  of  political  evolution  the  book 
contains  much  that  is  interesting  and  sugges- 
tive." 

4-  Am   Pol   Sol    R  17:139  P  '23  160w 
Reviewed  by  W:   P.   Cresson 

Lit   R  p89  S  29  '23  lOOOw 
Reviewed   by  Kimball  Young 

Nation   117:142  Ag  8  '23   650w 
"Clearly,     with    ample    historical    illustration, 
but  without  a   maze  of  details,  he  sketches  the 
development  of  secular  absolutism  and  the  mod- 
ern  ideas   of   the   state."     H.    E.    Barnes 
-f  New   Repub  35:212  Jl  18  '23   800w 

"He  is  more  concerned  with  seeking  the 
causes  of  events  than  with  chronicling  the 
events  themselves.  .'^nd  though  it  cannot  be 
said  that  he  contributes  anything  strikingly 
new  or  that  his  style  possesses  brightness  suf- 


ficient to  light  up  the  forbidding  historical  depths 
into  which  he  probes,  he  has  gone  at  his  work 
conscientiously."      T.    R.    Yban-a 

-i NY    Times    p7    .la    14    '23    1150w 

Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:125  Mr  '23 
Spec   130:1013   Je   16   '23   lOOw 
".Mr  Wallace's   liook   stands  as  a  real  preface 
to    i)olitics.      Minor    disagreements    as    to    inter- 
pretation will  not  dislodge  the  essential  validity 
ol   his  treatment." 

-f   Sprlngf'd    Republican    p6    F   19    '23    720w 

^^'-'^Pl-^^..'^^^^^     SEYMOUR.      Jeremy    and 
Hamlet.    305p   $2   Doran 

23-13484 
Jeremy,  after  his  first  year  and  a  half  at 
school,  returns  home  for  the  Christmas  holi- 
days and  renews  and  strengthens  his  affection 
for  his  dog,  Hamlet.  We  find  him  the  same 
engaging  little  fellow  as  in  an  earlier  story 
portrayed  with  the  same  insight  into  child 
psychology;  a  normal,  healthy  little  boy,  whose 
inner  life  is  so  often  at  variance  with  his  out- 
ward behavior  that  he  is  often  misunderstood 
'^V-,^}^  elders  who  have  forgotten  their  own 
childhood.  There  is  in  the  book  the  near 
tragedy  of  the  Christmas  parcels,  precipitated 
by  an  obtuse  father  and  saved  from  being  com- 
plete by  the  more  understanding  Uncle  Samuel 
There  is  a  first  party  and  the  boy's  first  ex- 
perience with  adorable  femininity.  There  are 
adventures  in  the  dark  and  on  forbidden 
ground,  with  much  misery  but  a  happy  ending 
There  are  various  happenings  in  the  family 
and  school  life  revealing  the  intrinsic  kind- 
liness and  love  of  fair  play  in  Jeremy's  char- 
acter. 


Booklist   20:142.  Ja  '24 
Boston  Transcript  p9  D  5  '23  1050w 
Int    Bk    R   p75  D   '23   400w 
"Mr.     Walpole's    presentation    of    the    excep- 
tional  boy   swaddled    in    the   .serviceable   shoddy 
of     the     middle-class     standards     is-   appealing 
but     only    amiably    and    mildly    so.     He    seems 
never    to    have    got    wholly    within    his    subject, 
nor  does  he  remain  steadfastly  without."  E:   T 
Booth 

—  Lit  R  pl45  O  20  '23  680w 
"The  chief  defect  of  this  book  is  that  it  prom- 
ises far  more  than  it  achieves.  It  is  a  coin 
that  rings  true,  but  it  is  a  very  small  coin. 
Yet  Mr.  Walpole  is  undoubtedly  to  be  con- 
gratulated on  the  accuracy  of  his  meniory  and 
the  delicacy  of  his  touch.  His  small  boy's  psy- 
chology, so  far  as  it  goes,  is  true  in  every  de- 
tail." 

H Spec  131:562  O  20  '23  350w 

"It  is  safe  to  say  that  everyone  who  read  the 
earlier  'Jeremy'  will  want  to  read  'Jeremy  and 
Hamlet.'  Moreover,  those  who  are  now  intro- 
duced for  the  first  time  to  Hugh  Walpole's  boy 
will  be  eager  to  go  back  to  the  original  volume, 
in  order  to  claim  a  longer  acquaintance.  Neither 
volume,  whether  precedent  or  sequel,  could 
gain  a  better  recommendation  than  is  secured 
by   a    reading  of   the   other." 

-f-  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  O  28  '23  450w 
"His  adventures  are  still  matter  for  delicately 
humorous  writing  but  the  emergence  of  char- 
acter under  the  buffetings  of  childish  fortune 
renders  the  story  one  that  may  be  read  as  a 
psychological    study." 

4-  The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p634    S 
27    '23    650w 

WALSH,  HAROLD  VANDERVOORT.  Con- 
struction of  the  small  house;  a  simple  and 
useful  source  of  information  on  the  methods 
of  building  small  American  homes  for  anyone 
planning  to  build.  269p  il  $5  Scribner 
690    Building.    Architecture,    Domestic 

23-5913 
"Pertinent  suggestions  on  the  choice  of  struc- 
tur.al  materials  and  methods,  fire  protection, 
roofing,  heating,  plumbing  and  lighting  stand- 
ards, painting  and  varnishing,  labor-saving  de- 
vices,   etc." — Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:356    Jl   '23 


540 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


WALSH,    JAMES    JOSEPH.     Cnres;    the    story 
of   the   cures   that   fail.    291p   $2   Appleton 
610.9   Medicine — History.   Therapeutics — His- 
tory.   Quacks   and  quackery.    Mental   healing 

23-11010 
"The  history  of  medicine  is  full  of  abandoned 
theories.  Dr.  Walsh  reviews  the  most  impor- 
tant of  these  cures.  There  were  personal  heal- 
ers, who  cured  by  their  touch.  .  .  Then  there 
were  the  cures  of  recondite  drugs.  .  .  Various 
spectacular  remedies  Walsh  describes  as  'cures 
with  a  punch'.  .  .  An  interesting  chapter  is 
that  on  Mesmer  and  mesmerism,  out  of  which 
grew  hypnotism,  which  still  has  its  medical 
uses,  and  the  not  unrelated  suggestive  therapy. 
Other  picturesque  figures  with  spectacular 
healing  methods  fia.sh  in  and  out  of  the  pages 
of  Walsh's  book.  Elisha  Perkins  and  his  trac- 
tors; Andrew  Jackson  Davis,  the  seer  of  Pough- 
keepsie;  Dr.  Sill,  the  father  of  osteopathy;  Mrs. 
Eddy,  and  B.  F.  Palmer,  the  father  of  chiro- 
practic. He  discusses  the  remedies  that  have 
had  their  day.  Kidney  plasters,  liver  pads, 
electric  belts,  blue  glass — cults  which  still  have 
their  followers — and  their  modern  variations, 
are  described;  bone-setting  and  its  descendants, 
osteopathy  and  chiropractic,  F.  Matthias  Alex- 
ander and  his  deep  breathing.  Dr.  Walsh  de- 
votes consider.ible  space  to  psychoanalysis, 
which  he  considers  of  no  possible  benefit,  and 
usually    pernicious." — Lit    R 


Booklist  20:46  N  "23 
"Dr.  Wal.sh  is  merry  and  melancholy  by  turns 
in  this  book  as  he  digs  up  from  past  and  pres- 
ent   the    story    of    the    'healer'    and    his    'cure,' 
and  of  the  ailing  public  and  its  credulity."  E.  N. 
+   Boston   Transcript   p6  Ag   29   '23   800w 
"A  most  valuable  and  much-needed  history." 
B.  C.  A.   W. 

-I-  Cath   World   118:136   O  '23   200w 

"As  a  whole,  the  book  is  written  in  a  tol- 
erant, humorous  manner.  Dr.  Walsh  simply 
points  out  that  faith  in  the  treatment  and  the 
physician  is  of  great  benefit  to  nearly  all  suf- 
ferers, and  for  some  it  is  all  important."  J:  B. 
Lind 

-f   Lit    R   p42    S   15    "23    1200w 

"Dr.     Walsh    is    peculiarly    well    equipped    to 
deal    with    his    subject.      He    has    attained    emi- 
nence as  a   medical   historian,   in   the  pursuit  of 
science  and  as  a   forceful  and  pleasing  writer." 
-)-   N   Y  Times  pit  Je  19  '23  2300w 
"His    treatment    is    altogether    popular,    in    a 
style    which    is    clear    and    neither    particularly 
literary    nor    particularly    scientific.      The    tone 
is    dry    rather    than    brilliant,    personal    rather 
than    investigating.       'Cures'    is    a    sound    treat- 
ment which   is  not  often   dull."     C.   E.   N. 
-f   N  Y  World  p7e  S  2  '23  950w 
St    Louis   p334   D   '23 

The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p881  D  13 
•23    lOOw 

WALSH,   JAMES   JOSEPH.     What     civilization 

owes  to  Italy.  432p  il  $5  Stratford 

914.5   Civilization,   Italian.    Italy — Intellectual 
life  23-G300 

The  book  provides  a  summary  of  Italian 
achievement  during  the  past  seven  centuries.  Dr 
Walsh  takes  up  in  succession  the  arts,  educa- 
tion, scholarship,  literature,  and  the  life  stories 
of  some  of  the  men  and  women  who  have  m.ide 
Italy  a  center  both  of  culture  and  social  develop- 
ment in  the  world's  history. 


"Mr.  Walsh  has  covered,  in  many  respects  a 
hitherto  slightly  explored  ground  and  has  writ- 
ten in  graceful  and  fluent  English  a  volume  of 
real  and   lasting  value." 

-f-  Boston  Transcript  p4  .11  28  '23  600w 

"A  very  interesting  and  valuable  book  on 
Italy." 

-f  Cath   World   117:561   Jl   '23   380w 

"It  would  be  possible  to  quairel  with  his  ap- 
praisals at  a  good  many  points,  and  the  book 
breaks  no  new  ground,  critically  or  interpreta- 
tively,  but  it  is  interestingly  written  and  sound 
enough,  if  one  makes  allowance  for  the  natural 
bias  of  its  author  as  a  Catholic  theologian.  His 


summaries  are  naturally  brief,  but  he  covers  the 
ground  with  striking  completeness." 

H Lit   R  p591  Ap  7  '23  220w 

"A  comprehensive  r6sum6." 

-f  Outlook  133:412  F  28  '23  60w 
R  of  Rs  67:447  Ap  '23  40w 
"This  book  is  packed  with  the  facts,  opinions 
and  historical  data  on  which  he  rests  his  claim, 
and    excellently    illustrated   by    reproductions    of 
Italian  art." 

+  Survey  49:818  Mr  15  '23  70w 

WANAMAKER,    JOHN.      Maxims    of    life    and 
business;   with  an  introd.   by  Russell  H.   Con- 
well.      129p     $1     Harper 
170     Business  ethics.     Success.     Conduct  of 
life  23-8407 

Mr  Wanamaker's  philosophy  of  business  ana 
life  is  revealed  in  this  collection  of  sayings 
which  were  gathered  from  his  conveisations  and 
written  words.  They  are  arranged  under  six 
headings:  Business  and  success;  Character- 
building;  Human  relations;  Citizenship;  Edu- 
cation; Life.  The  first  group  fills  about  hali 
the  book. 


Booklist   20:5   O   '23 

"The  little  book  is  designed  to  continue  the 
inspiring  influence  of  Mr.  Wanamaker  as  long 
as  possible  and  is  admirably  adapted  for  that 
purpose." 

4-   Boston  Transcript  p6  Je  23  '23  lOOw 

"In  this  neat  and  well-made  little  volume 
have  been  collected  by  one  of  his  personal 
friends  many  of  the  aphorisms  with  which 
John  Wanamaker  was  wont  to  sprinkle  his 
conversation.  The  friend  remains  nameless, 
but  he  has  done  his  work  very  well  indeed  and 
the  collection  of  bits  of  sententious  speech,  well 
chosen  and  arranged  in  orderly  classification, 
is  a  pleasure  to  the  eye  and  rich  in  that  knowl- 
edge of  human  nature  and  its  affairs,  in  ripe, 
common-place  philosophy  and  in  warm  feeling 
for  fellowman,  that  come  with  length  of  busy 
years    and    depth    of    heart." 

-f  N    Y   Times  p21   My  13   '23   370w 
N  Y  World  p9e  My  6  '23  200w 

WANNAMAKER,  OLIN  DANTZLER.  With 
Italy  in  her  final  war  of  liberation;  with  an 
introd.  by  Allan  Chester  Johnson.  294p  il  $1.75 
Revell 

940.477       European       war,       1914-1919 — Italy. 
European      war,      1914-1919 — Religious      and 
social   work.    Young  men's  Christian   associ- 
ation 23-14578 
The  book  is  not  only  an  account  of  the  work 
of  the  Y.   M.   C.    A.   on   the  Italian   front   but  of 
the   part  which   Italy  took  in   the  war.       It  de- 
scribes   the    achievement    of    a    small    band    of 
workers,  at  no  time  numbering  more  than  three 
hundred   secretaries,   their  work   in  the   polyglot 
prison    camps,     in     the    hospitals    and    soldiers' 
houses,  and  in  the  program  of  sports  and  cura- 
tive  gymnastics.      Part   of  the   book  is  given   to 
an    account    of    the    movements    of    the    Italian 
army. 


"This  story  I'rofessor  Wannamaker  tells  in 
a  graphic  and  interesting  way,  and  it  is  no 
small  part  of  his  qualifications  that  he  is  keenly 
sympathetic  with  the  cultural  traditions  of 
Italy,  and  that  he  knows  the  art  and  the  litera- 
ture  of   the    country."      O.    McK.,    jr. 

4-   Boston   Transcript  p3  S  29  '23  700w 
Reviewed   by   J:    F.    Carter,    jr. 

h   Lit    R    p]22    O    13    '23    650w 

"There   is  so  much  that   is  new  and   so  much 
that  is  freshly  told  in  these  pages  that  the  book 
is  vivid  and  readable  even  so  many  years  after 
the    conflict    was    closed."    Gino    Speranza 
+   Outlook   135:33   S   5   '23   900w 

WARBASSE,  JAMES  PETER.  Co-operative 
democracy,  attained  through  voluntary  as- 
sociation "  of  the  people  as  consumers.  493p 
$3.50     Macmillan 

334   Cooperation  23-10637 

Cooperation    is   here   presented    as   a   practical 

working  plan   for   a   complete    reorganization   of 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


541 


society  upon  a  voluntary,  non-political  bnsis, 
as  a  means  of  replacing-  the  profit-motive  upon 
which  the  present  economic  system  is  based 
by  the  motive  of  service.  Tlie  author  discusses 
the  philosophy,  methods  and  trend  of  the  co- 
operative movement  and  the  larger  possibili- 
ties of  a  cooperative  democracy  which  shall 
take  the  place  of  profit-making-  business  and 
the  political  state.  The  last  three  chapters 
trace  the  history  of  the  movement,  the  forms 
which  it  has  taken  and  its  accomplishments  in 
many   lands. 


Am    Pol    Sci    R    17:695   N'  '23    130w 

"Mr.  Warbasse  presents  ably,  challeng-ingly, 
his  "practical,  working  plan  for  a  complete  re- 
organization of  society  upon  a  voluntary,  non- 
political  basis.'  " 

+   Bookm  58:335  N  '23  120w 

"Dr.  Warbasse  is  very  much  in  earnest,  able 
and  fair,  and  he  states  the  case  in  a  wa.v  which 
makes  careful  men  think.  Perhaps  he  has 
taken  a  step  toward  a  great  and  ultimate 
goal." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p6  Ag  22  '23  220w 

"Whether  individually  you  believe  in  it  or  not, 
it  is  expedient  for  all  those  interested  in  any 
form  of  our  present  com.petitive  business  to 
understand  how  it  is  threatened  by  socialism  on 
the  one  hand  and  cooperation  on  the  other. 
This  book,  while  unnecessarily  diffuse,  presents 
the  situation  along  these  lines  as  it  exists  to- 
day." T:  Conyngton 

+   Management   &  Adm   6:781  D  '23   1350w 

"Mr.  Warbasse  has  given  us  not  only  a 
stimulating  essay  on  the  political  philosophy 
of  cooperation,  but  almost  an  enc.vclopedic 
account  of  the  growth  and  achievements  of 
the  movement.  His  book  is  one  that  ought  to 
be  circulated,  not  by  the  thousand,  but  by  the 
million."   Alvin    Johnson 

+    New    Repub   36:sup8    S    26    "23   1050w 

"The  reader  who  possesses  a  clear-eyed  and 
unbiased  mind  need  not  be  disturbed  by  the 
author's  enthusiasms  and  svireties.  For  he  has 
a  really  important  and  interesting  story  to  tell, 
and  his  ideas  and  arguments  are  worth  listen- 
ing to  and  thinking  seriously  about." 
H NY  Times  p21  Je  19  '23  820w 

"Cooperative  Democrac.v  is  not  a  case  book  on 
cooperation  in  any  sense  of  the  word;  rather 
it  is  a  highly  romanticized  panegyric  of  the 
Rochedale  idea  as  the  savior  of  men's  souls,  the 
purifier  of  all  sins  to  which  the  sons  of  Adam 
are  heir,  the  universal  panacea  for  all  forms 
of  industrial,  economic,  legal,  social  and  govern- 
mental diseases.  Dr.  Warbasse  is  so  transported 
by  the  glories  of  the  idea  that  he  permits  his 
critical  faculty  to  abdicate  in  the  presence  of 
whatever  Rochedale  experiment  he  finds  it  con- 
venient to  cite  to  illustrate  its  transcendant 
virtues."  R.  W.  Bru^re 

1-  Survey  51:224  N  15  '23  950w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:504  D  '23 

WARD,      SiR       ADOLPHUS      WIULiAIVl,      and 
GOOCH,  GEORGE  PEABODY,  eds.  Cambridge 
historv    of    British     foreign    policy.     3v    v    1-2 
628;688p   v   1    $6;   v    2    $7.50   Macmillan 
327.42   Great   Britain — Foreign   relations 

(22-11874) 
The  first  of  the  three  volumes  treats  of  Brit- 
ish foreign  relations  from  1783-1815,  with  an 
introduction  covering  the  period  from  the  Nor- 
man conquest  to  1783.  The  second  volume  deals 
with  the  period  from  1815  to  1866.  The  third 
volume  will  bring  the  history  down  to  the  close 
of  the  World  war.  Each  chapter  is  by  a  differ- 
ent authority.  Selective  bibliography.  Con- 
tents: V  1:  Introduction,  by  Sir  A.  W.  Ward; 
Pitt's  first  decade,  by  J.  H.  Clapham;  The 
struggle  with  revolutionary  France,  by  J.  Hol- 
land Rose;  The  contest  with  Napoleon,  by  J. 
Holland  Rose;  The  pacification  of  Europe,  by 
C.  K.  Webster;  The  American  war  and  the 
Treaty  of  Ghent,  by  C.  K.  Webster,  v  2:  Great 
Britain  and  the  Continental  alliance,  by  "W.  Ali- 
son Phillips;  The  foreign  policy  of  Canning 
by  H.  W.  V.  Temperley;  Belgium,  by  G.  W.  T 
Omond;  The  Near  East  and  France,  by  R.  B. 
Mowat:  India  and  the  Far  East,  by  G.  P.  Mori- 
arlty;  United  States  and  colonial  developments. 


by  A.  P.  Newton;  The  European  revolution 
and  after,  by  F.  J.  C,  Hearnshaw;  The  Crimean 
war  and  the  French  alliance,  by  W.  F.  Redda- 
way;  India  and  the  Far  East,  by  F.  W.  Buck- 
ler; -The  Franco-Italian  war,  Syria  and  Poland, 
by  Rachel  R.  Reid;  Commercial  relations,  I. 
Zollverein  negotiations,  by  J.  H.  Clapham;  II, 
The  French  commercial  treaty  of  1860,  by  E. 
A.  Benians;  Anglo-American  relations  during 
the  Civil  war,  by  A.  P.  Newton:  The  Schles- 
wig-Holstein  question,  by  Sir  A.  W.  Ward; 
Greece  and  the  Ionian  islands,  by  Sir  A.  W. 
Ward. 


"For  nearly  all  topics  the  text  and  the  bib- 
liographies show  that  tlie  writers  have  had  ac- 
cess to  Foreign  Office  despatches  to  about  1864 
— a  fact  in  itself  indicating  the  value  in  new  ma- 
terial  of   this    work."    E.    D.   Adams 

4-  Am    Hist   R   29:131   O  '23  1050w   (Review 
of  V  2) 
Reviewed    by    W.    K.    Grant 

Am   Poi  Sci   R  17:122  F  '23  350w  (Review 
of  V  1) 
Reviewed   by  W.  L.  Grant 

Am    Poi    Sci    R    17:664   N   '23   400w    (Re- 
view of  v  2) 

Booklist    19:148    F   '23    (Review   of   v   1) 
Booklist  20:8  O  '23   (Review  of  v  2) 
Boston    Transcript    p5    Je    30    '23    1150w 
(Review   of   V   2; 
"Why  do  good  historians  miss  their  best  op- 
portunities?    The     contributoi's    to     the     second 
volume    of    'The    Cambridge    History    of    British 
Foreign  Policy'  have  faithfully  traced  the  diplo- 
matic   doings   of    English    statesmen    during   the 
interesting  fifty   years   that   followed    the   Napo- 
leonic   wars.     But    these    writers    have    seldom 
realized   that    the   diplomatic   changes    were   ac- 
companied  by    an    extremely    significant    revolu- 
tion in  the  attitude  of  the  British  people  towards 
foreign   affairs  as  a  whole.    Yet   this   is  the  key 
to  British  policy."   B.   K.   Martin 

Lit    R   p406  D   29   '23   1250w    (Review  of 

V  2) 

"This  is  one  of  the  sol)erest  volumes  of  his- 
tory which  has  appealed  for  many  years.  Deal- 
ing as  it  does  with  a  period  not  so  overwritten 
as  that  covered  in  the  previous  volume,  there 
is  evidence  on  every  page  of  sound  scholarship 
and  first-class  research,  which  will  appeal  to 
scholars  and  to  the  technical  students  of  the 
field.  With  these,  however,  we  are  not  so 
much  concerned.  But  it  is  well  at  once  to  put 
on  record  our  appreciation  of  a  work  fully 
worthy  of  the  historical  traditions  of  Acton  and 
Maitland."    W.    P.    M.    Kennedy 

+   New   Repub  35:292  Ag  8  '23  1900w  (Re- 
view of  V  2) 

New  Statesman  22:307  D  15  '23  1200w 
Reviewed  by  C:  W.   Thompson 

N    Y  Times  pl2   S   2   '23   3000w    (Review 

of  V  2) 

"In    the    preparation    of    this    great    work    the 

editors  have  had  the  cooperation  of  some  of  the 

most    eminent    British    scholars    in    the    fields   of 

historv   and  politics." 

•_^   R   of    Rs   68:110   Jl   '23   120w    (Review   of 

V  2) 

Springf'd    Republican    p6   Ag  6   '23   900w 

(Review  of  v  2) 

"In   a   work   of   this   kind,    which   involves   the 

cooperation   of   many  different  writers,    the   task 

of  the  editors   is  as  difficult  as   it  is  important. 

It  is  for  them  to  see   that   the  whole  ground   is 

covered  without  unnecessary  repetition.     On  the 

whole    they  have  been  successful;  naturally  the 

succe.ss  has  been  greatest  in  those  periods  when 

the  field  is  dominated  by  one  great  personality." 

4-  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p295  My  3 

'23   1500W   (Review  of  v  2) 

WARD,    ARTEMAS,    ed.     Encyclopedia   of   food; 

the    stories    of    the    foods    by    which    we    live, 

how  and  where  they  grow  and  are  marketed, 

their    comparative    values    and    how    best    to 

use   them  and  enjoy  them.     596p     il     $10     The 

editor,    50   Union   sq.,    N.Y. 

C64     Food — Dictionaries     and     encyc'opodias 

23-10388 
"Under    a    thousand    headlines    alphabetically 


542 


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WARD,  ARTEMAS,  ed.— Continued 
arranged  are  presented  descriptions  and  stories 
of  fruits,  meats  and  other  foods,  most  of  them 
tamiliar,  but  some  of  them  new  to  American 
tables.  Mr.  Ward  has  observed  in  getting  up 
his  book  the  rules  of  terseness  and  accuracy. 
He  has  gathered  for  his  pages  only  the  essen- 
tial facts  concerning  foods  and  has  made  no 
effort  to  tell  all  that  can  he  known.  Where 
the  foods  come  from,  how  they  are  marketed, 
their  comparative  values  and  how  best  to  use 
and  enjoy  them — these  are  the  things  he  seeks 
to  maKe  plain  to  any  reader.  Nevertheless, 
he  makes  appeal  as  well  to  the  imagination 
as  U>  the  palate  and  the  judgment.  Illustra- 
tions have  been  freely  supplied  to  this  'Ency- 
clopedia,' eighty  of  them  being  in  the  form  of 
full-page  color  plates.  In  a  series  of  appen- 
dices, food  titles  and  terms  from  the  bills  of 
fare  are  given  in  English,  French,  German, 
Italian,    Spanish    and    Swedish."— N    Y    World 

Reviewed  by   Ralph   Bergengren 

Boston    Transcript    p3    Ag    11    '23    2600w 
J   Home  Econ  15:667  N  '23  lOw 
"Mr.    Ward    has    left    for    the    man    who    can 
read     no     excuse     for     not     knowing     what     he 
wants  or  what  he   gets  to  eat." 

-f-   N    Y   World   pSe  ,11   22  '23   420w 

Sprlngf'd    Republican   p7a  D  2  '23   120w 

WARD,    CHRISTOPHER    LONGSTRETH.    Tri- 
*    umph    of    the    nut.    and    other    parodies     178d 
$1.50  Holt 

817  23-14380 

Parodies    of    "Black    oxen,"    "Babbitt,"    "This 
freedom"   and  other  popular  novels. 


Booklist   20:131   Ja   '24 

"These  parodies  are  uniformly  entertaining, 
and  extremely  well  conceived.  They  are  in  es- 
sence critical  and  brilliant." 

-f   Boston    Transcript    p4    Ja    16    '24    260w 

"It  is  a  delicious   book;   one   to   put  alongside 
the    first    volume    of    Bret    Harte's    'Condensed 
Novels,'  and  not  so  very  far  behind  Thackeray's 
'Rebecca  and  Rowena.'  "  Margaret  Widdemer 
-i-   Lit  R  p278  N  24  '23  600w 

"Mr.  Ward,  it  seems,  has  done  little  more 
than  catch  the  outward  nature  and  appearance 
of  the  things  he  parodies.  Thus,  the  funniest 
thmg  about  'The  Triumph  of  the  Nut'  and  the 
one  thing  that  apphes  only  to  the  author  whom 
he  is  parodying  is  the  title.  For  the  rest  the 
piece  that  goes  with  the  title  might  be  in  imi- 
tation of  any  one  of  a  dozen  authors,  of  whom 
the  last  would  perhaps  be  Sherwood  Anderson." 
H.   J.   Mankiewicz 

h  N    Y   Times   p9  Ja  13  '24  370w 

"AH  done  with  a  keen  appreciation  of  the 
origmals." 

+  Sprlngf'd   Republican  plO  D  19  '23  170w 

WARD,    EDWIN   A.   Recollections  of  a   Savage 
»    305p  il   $5   Stokes   [16s  H.   Jenkins] 

920   Savage  club  [23-10309] 

"The  Savage  Club,  as  Mr.  Ward  tells  us.  ap- 
pears to  have  been  founded  in  1857.  At  first  it 
was  but  a  gathering  of  a  small  group  of  liter- 
ary men,  a  little  society  pledged  to  the  produc- 
tion of  a  magazine  with  the  object  of  providing 
for  the  relief  of  the  widow  of  a  fellow  member. 
The  origin  of  the  nahie  was  due  to  a  suggestion 
made  at  a  meeting  of  some  dozen  of  the  orig- 
inal members.  And  so,  in  frolicsome  mood  the 
name  Savage  was  adopted."— Boston  Transcript 

Reviewed    by    Clifford    Orr 

Boston   Transcript  p2  N  24  '23  2100w 

"There  are  interesting  reminiscences  of 
Whistler,  Oscar  Wilde,  and  Mark  Twain,  of  the 
Grosvenor  Gallery,  Chelsea  and  odd  characters 
here  and  there.  The  whole  is  presented  without 
affectation  but  with  a  zest  which  shows  that 
the  author  enjoyed  the  telling."  C.  J.  Rosebault 
-f  N    Y  Times  p7   O   21    '23   2050w 

"There  is  not  much  real  freshness  about 
these  recollections  and  anecdotes  of  the  Savage 
Club,  for  many  of  them  have  been  in  circula- 
tion for  years  and  a  number  have  been  printed 


on  one  occasion  or  another.  The  short  sketch 
of  the  varied  and  meteoric  career  of  Edwin 
Cleary  is   the  best  thing  in  this  section." 

—  -I-  The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p405    Je 
14    '23   lOOw 

WARREN,  MRS  MAUDE  LAVINIA  (RAD- 
=    FORD).   House  of  youth.    376p  $2  Bobbs 

23-14123 
"Corinna  Bndicott  was  of  good  stock  and  the 
independence  of  her  character  proved  it.  .  . 
She  was  the  leader  of  the  'brisk  bunch,'  a  lit- 
tle group  of  young  society  people  whom  out- 
siders called  'fast.'  Hip  flasks  flourished,  con- 
versation knew  no  limits,  freedom  reigned.  When 
the  novelty  had  worn  off  Corinna  felt  a  disgust 
of  it  all.  "The  standards  that  she  had  inherited 
still  held  good  and  she  determined  to  give  up 
frivolity  of  that  sort  for  good,  especially  after 
Winston  Riiodes  showed  his  dislike  of  it.  But 
she  was  caught,  just  the  same,  and  involved 
in  a  nasty  affair  that  included  a  raid  in  a  road- 
house,  a  police  court  and  a  good  deal  of  dis- 
tasteful notoriety.  That  cost  her  dearly.  But 
from  then  on  Coi'inna  slowly  began  to  feel  the 
growing  pains  of  character.  Gradually  she  de- 
velopes,  for  emotions  deepen,  her  interests 
change.  When  we  leave  her  she  is  a  woman  of 
worth." — N  Y  Tribune 


"It  is  not  a  pleasant  tale,   yet  withal  a  most 
interesting  one.  The  mechanism   of  the  novel  is 
perfect.   The  characters  are  well-portrayed  and 
natural  and  their  interplay  is  finely  developed." 
-t-  Greensboro  (N.C.)   Daily  News  plO  N  26 
'23   580w 
"This  is  one  of  the  most  vivid  and  well-bal- 
anced  of   after-war    novels   about    'the    younger 
generation.'    Unlike   most   of   its   contemporaries 
it    is    written    neither    out    of    youth's    doubt   or 
defiance  nor  age's  contempt  or  condescension." 
H.  W.  Boynton 

-I-   Lit    R    p439    Ja    12    '24    660w 
N  Y  Times  pl9  D  16  '23  220w 
"Admirably  as  her  story  is  handled,  there  are 
bits    of    minor    characterization    that    are    quite 
as  noteworthy."   Edith  Leighton 

N    Y   Tribune   p7   N   4   '23   950w 

WASTE,  HENRIE,  pseud.  (ETTIE  STETT- 
HEIMER).  Love  days  [Su.sanna  Moore's]. 
426p    $3    Knopf 

23-14268 

Eleven  days  are  chosen  from  Susanna 
Moore's  life  in  the  decade  between  the  ages 
of  seventeen  and  twenty-seven  in  which  to 
work  out  The  pattern  of  her  emotional  life. 
Su.sanna  is  beautiful  and  desirable,  fastidious 
and  keenly  intelligent,  fighting  for  her  ideal  of 
love  and  questioning  always  where  it  will  lead 
her.  Many  men  love  her,  men  various  in  char- 
acter, nationality,  and  culture.  FJach  of  her 
"love  days"  marks  the  climax  of  an  episode, 
one  experience  following  another  in  an  ascend- 
ing .scale  of  intensity,  from  the  girlish  loves 
which  left  little  impress,  thru  an  unsatisfying 
marriage,  to  an  all-absorbing  love  which  com- 
pletely lo.st  itself  in  its  object,  and  in  losing, 
found    itself. 


"Love  Davs  has  all  the  great  qualities  of 
fiction.  It  is  real  with  a  wide  and  intimate 
knowledge  of  conditions  of  the  world.  It  has 
the  significance  of  an  intense  experience  which 
makes  it  symbolic,  a  Pilgrim's  Progress  of  mind 
and  "heart.  Above  all  it  has  beauty,  beauty  not 
onlv  of  the  external  surface  of  life,  but  of  in- 
ward, pulsating  response  to  it.  .  .  The  style 
with  its  immense  gain  in  resources  over  that 
of  'Philosophy,'  its  cosmopolitan  reflection  of 
the  highlv  wrought  culture  out  of  which  the 
book  grows,  is  to  be  mentioned  as  the  final 
attribute  of  Love  Davs— that  which  makes  it  a 
beautiful  garment  for  a  spirit  devoted  to  the 
pursuit  of  intellectual  beauty."  R.  M.  L. 
-f  New  Repub  37:22  N  28  '23  1500w 
"The  prose  frequently  is  cumbered  with  Lat- 
inisms,  at  other  times  slightly  mannered,  but 
the  author  seems  more  frequently  than  not  to 
use  these  devices  with  humorous  intent.  They 
do    not    interfere    with    the    tempo    that    sweeps 


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one  on  with  unfaltering  interest.  In  every  way 
'Love  Days'  is  a  splendid  realization  of  a 
profound  conception.  It  is  not  a  book 
for  the  season  only,  but  a  book  for  many  years." 
+   N  Y   Times   p8    N   11   '23   lOOOw 


WATERHOUSE,  FRANCIS  ASBURY.  Random 
studies  in  the  romantic  chaos.  288p  $2.50  Mc- 
Bride 

814     Romanticism  23-13825 

Tho  the  subjects  of  these  essays  are  various 
they  are  held  together  by  the  author's  underly- 
ing interest  in  romanticism  and  its  manifesta- 
tions in  literature  and  in  music.  Two  of  the 
essays  deal  with  Rudyard  Kipling  and  O. 
Henry,  analyzing  the  type  of  the  romantic 
mind  which  theii'  work  shows.  Contents: 
A  short  history  of  the  Philistine;  Paradox  on 
Bonaparte;  An  interview  with  Rousseau;  Vic- 
tor Hugo's  operas;  Realistic  'Objectivity'  versus 
classical  'objectivity' ;  Rudyard  Kipling— piiml- 
tivist;  O.  Henry — jongleur;  Mozart,  Chopin 
and   Debussy. 


"His  essays  in  this  volume  on  Mr.  Kipling 
and  O.  Henry  are  brilliant  analyses  of  the  ro- 
mantic mind,  even  if  at  certain  points  they 
strain  their  persuasiveness  through  an  excess 
of  ingenuity.  There  are  matters  which  the 
critic  of  the  romantic  movement  can  not,  at  his 
peril,  leave  out  of  account;  that  they  have 
been  left  out  constitutes  the  inadequacy  of  Mr. 
Waterhouse's    admirable    book." 

-^ Freeman    8:285    N    28    '23    1450w 

"This  is  a  book  difficult  for  me  to  review 
briefly,  for  I  have  encountered  few  critics  who, 
In  my  opinion,  manage  to  be  wrong  in  such  a 
variety  of  ways  as  Mr.  Waterhouse  manages 
to  be.  Some  are  wrong  in  their  generalizations, 
others  are  wrong  in  their  particulars,  still 
others  have  no  claim  to  existence  because 
they  are  no  more  than  elaborated  platitudes." 
B.    R.    Redman 

—  Nation    117:612    N    28    '23    800w 
Reviewed   by  H.   S.   Gorman 

N    Y   Times   p7   N   4   '23    950w 


WATKINS,    GORDON    S.     Introduction    to    the 
study    of    lalioi-    pioblems.       (Crowell's    social 
science  ser.)    661p  $3  Crowell   [10s   6d  Harrap] 
331.8     Labor    and    laboring    classes     22-18874 
"In    the    first   part,    the    author    describes    the 
problems,    and    recounts    briefly    their    origin    in 
both  England  and  the  United  States.     The  sec- 
ond part  treats  of  the  standard  of  living,  wealth, 
income,     wages,     hours     of    labor,     child    labor, 
women    in    industry,    human    waste    in    Industry, 
unemployment,      labor      turnover,      immigration, 
and    industrial    uniest.      In    part   three,    we    find 
a    description    and    discussion    of    the    principal 
agencies,    organizations,    methods,    and    theories 
which  have  been  used  or  recommended   by  im- 
portant  groups    for   the   solution   of   labor   prob- 
lems."— Cath  World 


"The  author  does  not  give  any  original  or 
exhaustive  ti'entment  of  questions  of  principle. 
His  book  is  distinguished  rather  for  its  sym- 
pathy with  labor  aspirations  and  its  skillful 
summaries  of  experience  and  present  conditions 
in  the  field  of  industrial  relations." 

+  Am    Pol   Scl    R  17:150  F  '23  150w 
Booklist  19:207  Ap  '23 

"What  the  author  may  fairly  claim  for  his 
book  is  that  it  provides  the  average  reader  with 
a  moderate  amount  of  information  and  inter- 
pretation on  every  important  labor  problem,  and 
that  it  discusses  the  various  problems  in  a 
satisfactory  order.  His  sympathies  are  clearly 
with  the  workers,  but  he  indulges  in  no  Uto- 
pian  dreams." 

-I-  Cath  World  117:279  My  '23  800w 

"The  book  shows  conscientious  work,  but  in 
its  effort  to  be  impartial  it  becomes  colorless, 
while  it  is  at  times  marred  by  slips  resulting 
from  the  evident  pressure  under  which  it  was 
written."     P.    H.   Douglas 

-\ Lit    R   p450   F   10    '23   180w 


"The  volume  is  inclusive  in  scope,  and  ita 
organization  is  fairly  satisfactory,  "rhe  chapters 
are  oi  very  unequal  value.  Taken  as  a  whole, 
the  book  gives  evidence  of  great  industry  but 
also  of  immaturity  and  too  hasty  preparation 
for  publication.  The  immaturity  is  evidenced 
by  frequent  failure  to  note  important  factors  in 
analyzing  problems  and  positions  and  by  un- 
critical acceptance  of  many  partial  or  exag- 
gerated statements.  Haste  probably  accounts 
for  the  numerous  errors  and  unguarded  state- 
ments."     H.    A.    Millis 

H Pol    Sci    Q   38:154   Mr  '23    1200w 

The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p62    Ja 
25    '23 


WATSON,    E.    L.    GRANT.    Desert  horizon.   302p 

$2.50    Knopf    [7s   Cd   J.    Cape] 

23-8360 

"A  tale  of  the  real  bush  up  north,  on  the 
fringe  of  the  Great  Australian  desert,  where 
there  is  no  break  on  the  horizon,  and  pioneer- 
ing life  is  not  so  much  a  romantic  adventure 
as  an  eternal  round  of  solitude  and  silence.  'A 
terribly  hard  life  for  women-folk,'  as  one  of  the 
settlers  admits;  and  the  shadow  of  disaster  is 
already  hinted  at  in  the  'author's  postscript,'  In 
which  he  promises'  a  sequel  which  will  follow 
the  fortunes  of  his  hero  after  he  takes  his  Eng- 
lish biide  to  his  lonely  station  in  the  wilds. 
In  this  book  his  life  is  traced  from  childhood 
upwards.  The  story  piesents  not  only  a  vivid 
picture  of  the  mingled  fascination  and  horror 
of  the  desert,  but  also  a  subtle  psychological 
study  of  adolescence  in  the  bush." — The  Times 
[London]    Lit  Sup 


"The  novelist  who  brings  a  new  world  to  the 
reader  of  fiction,  as  Mr.  Watson  has  brought  it, 
is  a  novelist  with  a  mission.  He  is  creative  as 
well  as  imaginative,  adding  to  man's  knowledge 
of  the  limitless  realms  of  earth.  He  is  not 
merely  a  maker  of  books.  He  is  a  recorder  of 
life  and  an  apostle  of  mankind."  E.  F.  Edgett 
+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  9  '23  1200w 
Dial  75:299  S  '23  120w 
"This  novel  has  the  vastness  and  monotony 
of  the  desert.  It  seems  longer  than  it  is.  .  . 
Not  that  there  is  a  dull  page  in  it,  or  a  sentence 
that  could  have  been  shortened.  But  whatever 
is  happening,  whatever  is  being  said  or  thought 
or  felt,  we  are  conscious  all  the  time  of  that 
imchanging  background  of  the  Australian  bush. 
.  .  .  And  in  the  'Desert  Horizon'  Mr.  Grant 
^\'"atson  is  again  his  own  formidable  rival.  He 
has  set  his  standard  higher  than  before."  May 
Sinclair 

-f-   Int   Bk   R  pl5  Je  '23  1550w 
"His  book  is  like  a  beautiful  vase  blown  from 
the    sands    of    the    desert    and    tinted    with    its 
colors."    Eva   Goldbeck 

+  Nation  117:169  Ag  15  '23  600w 
N  Y  Times  pl4  My  13  '23  700w 
"An  Australian  novelist  has  written  a  thor- 
oughly Australian  novel.  You  can  see  and 
smell  and  taste  tho  country  when  he  has  done 
presenting  it,  and  if  it  isn't  Australia  it  is  a 
miracle,  for  it  is  a  reat  and  completely  realized 
coimtryside.  .  .  This  is  a  fine  and  honest  piece 
of  work,  without  a  grain  of  cheapness  or  arti- 
fice in  it.  What  the  writer  set  out  to  do,  that 
he   has   done."     Isabel    Paterson 

-(-NY  Tribune  p20  Je  10  '23  500w 
Reviewed   hv   Ruth   Snyder 

N  Y  World  pl9e  Jl  1  '23  750w 
"The  author  has  succeeded  in  drawing,  not 
merely  the  drenching  influence  of  sun  and  soli- 
tude, not  merely  the  waking  impulses  of  ad- 
venture and  sex,  but  the  very  emotion  of  be- 
ginning— of  coming,  with  the  dear  obtuseness 
of  youth,  to  a  threshold,  to  an  outward-open- 
ing door.  One  can  but  look  forward  with  in- 
terest and  pleasure  to  the  next  instalment." 
-I-  Sat    R    135:540    Ap   21   '23   300w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p218   Mr 
29   '23   lOOw 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:416  Jl  '23 


544 


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WATSON,  FRANK  DEKKER.  Charity  organi- 
zation movement  in  the  United  States:  a  study 
in  American  philanthropy.  560p  $4  (18s)  Mac- 
millan 

360  Charity  organization  22-23080 

Beginning  with  a  sketch  of  tlie  antecedents  of 
the  movement  in  Europe,  the  author  traces  tlie 
history  of  charity  organization  in  the  United 
States.  He  records  tioth  its  failures  and 
achievements,  indicates  the  economic  and  social 
forces  that  have  shaped  its  growth,  and  inter- 
prets its  spirit. 


"The  reviewer  believes  that  the  book  is  a 
real  contribution  to  the  literature  of  philan- 
throphy.  Tt  provides  n  much  better  understand- 
ing of  the  central  movement  in  the  develop- 
ment of  modern  -social  work.  It  recognizes  that 
charity  organization  has  not  attained  a  de- 
sirable degree  of  perfection,  but  that  it  is  dyn- 
amic, that  it  inspires  many  other  forms  of  so- 
cial work  and  represents  part  of  the  big  move- 
ment for  the  promotion  of  social  welfare." 
G:    B.    Mangold 

+  Am  Econ  R  13:,532  S  '23  850w 
"In  Professor  Watson's  new  book  we  have 
unquestionably  the  best  histdry  of  the  phase  of 
nineteenth-century  hiunanitarianism  known  as 
the  Charity  Organization  Movement.  The  author 
has  evidently  engaged  in  a  painstaking  search 
for  facts;  he  presents  them  with  good  documen- 
tation."  S.   A.   Queen 

+  Am  J   Soc  28:624  Mr  '23  350w 

Am    Pol   Sci   R  17:521  Ag  '23  120w 
Booklist    20:9   O    '23 
Cleveland    p46    Je    '23 
"Professor  Watson  has  given  his  able  exposi- 
tion of  the  movement  from  his  personal  experi- 
ence combined  with  an  exhaustive  study  of  the 
literature  of  each  period  and  the  cooperation  of 
leaders   in   the   Charity  Organization   of  today." 
E.  L.  Ware 

+  J    Home   Econ  15:219  Ap  '23  280w 

Spec  230:674  Ap  21  '23  80w 
"The  volume   is,   undoubtedly,    a  valuable   ad- 
dition   to    literature    dealing    with    activities    of 
those  engaged  in   the  uplift   of  humanity." 

-f-  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p8  S  25  '23  750w 

WATSON,   IDELLE   BEAUFORT.  True  story  of 

a  real  garden.  183p  il  $1.50  Moffat 

716  Gardens  22-24566 

"A  simple  little  tale  of  an  amateur's  garden, 
located  rather  vaguely  by  its  author,  'in  the  lati- 
tude of  James's  Bay,  the  southern  arm  of  Hud- 
son's Bay,'  Canada.  The  most  interesting  oc- 
cupants of  this  30  by  30  garden  are  the  'sou- 
venirs' gathered  in  or  memorializing  European 
travel — a  deep-blue,  stemless  gentian  acaulis, 
'for  Switzerland's  dear  sake';  the  blood-red 
anemone  of  the  Sacred  way  from  Athens  to 
Eleusis;  and  an  orange  daisy  from  Luxor,  Tut- 
ankh-Amen's  land." — Springf'd  Republican 


Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  7  '23  250w 
"This  book  is  a  satisfactory,  even  a  superior, 
addition  to  pleasantly  written  and  instructive 
books  on  small  gardens  and  piomises  much  that 
may  reward  the  city  dweller  who  will  faithfully 
work  in  his  own  backyard." 

-f   N  Y  Times  p20  F  18  '23  270w 

Springf'd   Republican  p7a  Ap  8  '23  130w 

WATSON,  SIR  WILLIAM.  Hundred  poems, 
selected  from  his  various  volumes.  182p  $2.50 
Dodd    [10s    Gd    Hodder    &    S.] 

821  [23-6752] 

This  volume  is  the  first  and  only  selection 
from  the  poet's  forty  years'  output.  His 
longest  narrative  poems  have  been  omitted 
from  this  volume,  also  everything  that  could 
be  called  political.  The  author  has  added  to 
the  main  body  of  the  volume  a  few  of  his 
epigrams,    quatrains,    and    kindred    pieces. 


"Taken  as  a  whole,  these  hundred  poems  re- 
veal an  unusual  variety  of  moods  and  show 
themselves  worthy  fruit  of  the  life  work  of  an 
earnest    and    gifted   singer."    T.    H.    D. 

-I-   Boston  Transcript  p3  Je  16  '23  580w 

"We  read  Watson  to-day  as  we  read  poets 
a  century  older.  At  his  best  he  has  a  noble 
traditional  command  of  phrase  and  a  pithy 
epigrammatic  quality.  At  his  worst  he  is  ted- 
ious, inflated  and  sententious.  .  .  Watson  often 
strained  for  effect.  He  passes  on  as  one  of 
England's  lesser  bards  who  yet  gave  us  two 
long  lyrical  poems  of  unusual  strength  and 
meaning  and  two  shorter  poems  destined  to 
live."    W:    R.    Benet 

h    Lit    R   p907   Ag  18   "23   250w 

"The  poet  of  occasion  is  still  here.  Sir  Will- 
iam is  the  kind  of  poet  of  whom  this  is  apt  to 
be  more  or  less  consistently  true.  His  poetry 
is  that  of  a  man  talking  with  care  and  deliber- 
ation— and  a  certain  amount  of  rhetoric — to 
his  fellows  generally  on  subjects  of  social  or 
political  significance.  It  is  seldom  brooding 
thought  or  feeling  trembling  inevitably  and 
half   unconsciously   into   speech." 

h  Outlook    134:676   Ag   29   '23   300w 

WATTERSON,    HENRY.     Editorials    of    Henry 
Watterson;   comp.  with  an   introd.    and  notes, 
by   Arthur    Krock.       430p      $3.50      Doran 
973.8    United    States — Politics    and    govern- 
ment 23-10399 
A     collection     of     Henry     Watterson's     news- 
paper    editorials     selected     from     the     complete 
files    of    the    Courier-Journal.        The    selections 
have    been    made   on    the    basis   of   the   effect   of 
the   editorial   on    its   objective,    the   individuality 
of    its    style,    the    historical    importance    of    the 
subject,  and  its  literary  quality.    The  editorials, 
extending    over    a    period    of    fifty    years    from 
1868    to    1918,     cover    political    campaigns,    per- 
sonalities,   the    World   war,    and     soine     miscel- 
laneous  topics. 


Bookm   5S:85   S   '23   230w 


Am   Pol   Sci   R  17:688  N  '23  160w 
Booklist    20:9   O    '23 
"It   is  a  rich   period  and  it   is  a   rich  store  of 
editorials.    Arthur   Krock   furnishes   illuminating 
notes    that    force    attention    to    the    background 
of    the    editorials."    J.    F. 

+    Bookm   57:660   Ag  '23   350w 

Boston  Transcript  p3  Jl  7  '23  700w 
"This  volume  will  please  many  admirers  of 
the  Wattersonian  grand  manner  and  peculiar 
style  and  was,  therefore,  probably  worth  doing. 
A  serious  defect  of  the  book  is  that  the  explan- 
atory comments  of  the  editor  are  not  set  in 
sufficiently  different  type  and  manner  to  dis- 
tinguish  them   clearly." 

+  Nation  117:444  O  17  '23  200w 
"On  the  whole,  the  selection  made  by  Mr. 
Krock  is  a  judicious  one  that  presents  faith- 
fully the  whole  man,  and  holds  a  fair  balance 
between  what  Watterson  most  fancied  him- 
self and  what  the  world  most  admired  in  his 
work."    G.   L.    Harding 

+   N   Y  Times   p24  Je  19  '23  2250w 

"Mr.  Krock  has  wrought  a  book  which  not 
only  preserves  some  of  the  most  felicitous  and 
whimsical  of  Col.  Watterson's  writings  but  it 
is  in  itself  a  fine  commentary  on  the  tremen- 
dous American  scene  through  which  the  great 
editor    moved."    Laurence    Stallings 

-4-   N    Y    World    p9    Jl    20    '23    ISOOw 

Springf'd    Republican  p6  Jl    21   '23   450w 

WATTS,  MARY  (STANBERY)  (MRS  MILES 
TAYLOR  WATTS).  Luther  Nichols.  362p  $2 
Macmillan 

23-13574 
A  study  of  the  moral  disintegration  of  a  coun- 
try boy  with  little  mentality  and  few  standards 
of  conduct  brought  into  contact  with  some  of 
the  shoddiest  phases  of  town  civilization.  Luther 
begins  his  career  as  a  mechanic  in  a  public  gar- 
age, marries  his  friend's  sweetheart  while  that 
friend,  Ray  MacArdle,  is  fighting  in  France, 
becomes  a  chauffeur  in  a  wealthy  family  where 
his  impudent  good  looks  attract  the  fancy  of 
the  daughter  of  the   house.      Luther   finds   that 


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the  girl,  Janet,  has  been  only  amusing  herself 
at  his  expense,  loses  his  job  because  ot  her  and 
degenerates  into  a  bootlegger.  The  story  ends 
with  the  death  of  Ray,  the  still  faithful  friend, 
a  casualty  of  the  bootlegging  business. 


scribed  will  fit  the  needs  both  of  the  small  or- 
ganization and  the  large.'  (Preface)" — Pitts- 
burgh Mo  I3ul 


Booklist   20:142   Ja   '24 

Boston   Transcript  p4  N  3  '23  20nw 

"The  story  is  not  sentimental,  nor  in  any  ob- 
vious fashion  a  moral  tract;  the  author  is  not 
guilty  of  sermonizing  from  material  so  well 
adapted  to  homiletics;  she  creates  from  this 
material,  skilfully  and  honestly,  a  highly  com- 
petent novel  of  the  standard  variety."  E.  T.  B 
+   Freeman   8:263   N   21   '23   200w 

"The  book  is  slow  in  getting  started;  Mrs. 
"Watts  always  prepares  her  groundwork  thor- 
oughly, and  in  this  instance  she  has  prepared 
it  a  little  too  thoroughly,  before  actually  going 
to  work  on  the  theme  of  her  novel.  But  the 
book  is  interesting,  ■well  written,  and  presents 
questions  which  are  too  often  ignored  by  our 
modern  American  novelists."  L.  M.  Field 
•I Int    Bk    R   p66   N   '23   900w 

"It  is  an  interesting  book  throughout,  though 
the  second  half  is  looser  and  less  vivid  than 
the  first  two  hundred  pages.  It  never  rises  to 
a  strikingly  high  level — there  are  no  great 
scenes  remarkable  for  psychological  insight 
combined  with  dramatic  action— but  it  never 
sinks  to  a  low  level.  Its  chief  deficiency  is 
simply  its  lack  of  form  and  close  unity."  Allan 
Nevins 

-i Lit   R  pl4G  O  20  '23  650w 

"Even  though  the  latter  half  of  the  book  is 
less  vivid  and  more  discursive  than  the  first 
part,  the  story  is  intensely  interesting  from 
beginning  to  end.  The  author's  style  is  a  fairly 
animated  one,  flavored  with  a  pleasing  tinge  of 
whimsicality  and  wit;  her  situations  are  natural 
and  unforced  and  her  background  of  the  Ohio 
Valley   is  well   depicted." 

H NY  Times  p9  O  14   '23  550w 

"The  style  is  the  style  of  'Nathan  Burke'  and 
its  immediate  successors,  warm  and  personal; 
not  afraid  to  be  prosy  or  colloquial  or  repetitious 
or  to  dwell  on  detail.  Humor  and  complete  un- 
sentimentality,  an  evident  intention  toward  ab- 
solute veraciousness,  something  like  the  femi- 
nine malice  of  Jane  Austen — all  of  these  quali- 
ties are  traceably  at  hand.  Still,  and  although 
it's  a  yard  wide,  I  don't  believe  it's  all  wool.  .  . 
I  can't  make  anything  of  any  of  these  people. 
Mrs.  Watts  has  them  all,  except  the  Ordways, 
talk  a  kind  of  dialect  that  would  probably  be 
convincing  in  the  hands  of  Edna  Ferber."  Grant 
Overton 

-^ NY   Tribune   p24   O   14    '23   850w 

Reviewed   by  E.   W.   Osborn 

N   Y  World  pfie  N  4  '23  520w 

"There  is  careful  study  of  life  in  this  novel. 
Mrs.  Watts  has  written  more  entertaining 
books,  but  none  that  goes  further  below  the 
surface."    R.    D.    Townsend 

4-  Outlook   13.5:641   D  12  '23  250w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:509  D  '23 

WATTS,  RALPH  LEVI.  Vegetable  growing 
projects.  (Macmillan  agricultural  project  ser.) 
318p      il       $1.80      Macmillan 

635      Vegetable   gardening  22-7742 

"Arranged  primarily  for  students  in  voca- 
tional agricultural  classes  of  high  schools,  but 
helpful  also  to  the  home  and  market  gardener. 
Contains  sviggestions  on  marketing  crops,  and 
on  combating  insects  and  plant  diseases." — 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:181    Ap   *23 

WEAKLY,    FRANK    ERVAN.   Applied  personnel 
'    procedure.    192p    il    $2   McCJraw 

658      Employment    management  23-10314 

"Not  an  exhaustive  treatise  on  personnel  ad- 
ministration. 'Intended  rather  to  describe  in 
concrete  fashion  a  number  of  specific  phases  of 
personnel  management,  growing  largely  out  of 
the  author's  own  work.     The  methods  here  de- 


Pittsburgh  Mo   Bu!  28:534  D  '23 

WEATHERWAX,  PAUL.  Story  of  the  maize 
plant.  247p  il  $1.75  Univ.  of  Chicago  press 
[8s   9d  Cambridge   univ.    press] 

G33.15    Corn  23-7976 

The  book  f;omes  under  the  University  of 
Chicago  science  series.  It  deals  with  the  maize 
plant  not  from  an  economic  aspect  and  in  its 
relations  to  the  needs  of  man,  but  as  a  bio- 
logical individuality.  The  author  is  interested 
in  the  plant  as  a  plant,  in  its  botanical  origin, 
its  history  and  geographic  distribution,  its 
morphology,  its  ecological  relations  and  in  the 
contribution  it  has  made  to  our  knowledge  of 
heredity.     BiVdiography.     Index. 

Booklist  10:307  Jl  '23 
"Professor  Weatheiwax  lias  stuck  closely  to 
his  theme  and  has  written  an  insti-uctive 
treatise.  It  might  well  serve  as  a  text  book 
for  schools  and  colleges.  The  analysis  of  the 
corn  plant  is  very  complete,  and  the  consid- 
eration of  the  fruit  as  a  gVain  ir,  thorough,  so 
that  the  corn-raiser  will  find  abundant  infor- 
mation in  the  volume  to  meet  problems  of 
cultivation    and    fruitage." 

+   Boston   Transcript  p4  Je  13   '23  250w 

Wis    Lib   Bui   19:505   D  '23 

WEAVER,  JOHN  VAN  ALSTYNE,  Jr.  Finders: 
more    poems    in    American.    83p    $1.50    Knopf 

811  23-810 

American,  the  aiithor's  medium  of  expression, 
is  the  speech  of  the  street,  of  the  plain  people. 
And  it  is  the  plain  people  that  figure  in  the 
poems — their  way  of  taking  life,  their  joys  and 
woes,  their  eternal  humanness.  Some  of  the 
titles  are:  The  pigeon  scarer;  Transplanted; 
"Concerning  the  economic  independence  of 
women";  "Love  'em  and  leave  'em";  Revisited; 
Sic  transit;  Dementia  vernalis;  Puppy-love's 
end;   Scratches. 


"Mr.  Weaver  has  an  unusual  faculty  for 
choosing  a  common  incident  in  life,  giving  it 
an  original  twist,  then  clothing  it  with  the  sure 
sentiment  of  common  people,  which,  when  han- 
dled with  intelligence  and  insight,  practically 
always  just  escapes  the  sentimental.  This  is 
what  makes  these  verses  in  the  common  speech 
authentic  as  well  as  popular  poetry."  J.  F. 
+   Bookm    57:81    Mr   '23    250w 

"In  this  collection  of  'more  poems  in  Amer- 
ican' Mr  ^Veaver  still  relies  on  his  one  divine 
invention:  that  of  trying  to  compensate  for  his 
sentimentality  by  couching  said  sentimentality 
in  bad  English.  One  stickles  at  the  bad  Eng- 
lish until  one  turns  to  a  'serious'  poem,  and 
then  for  the  first  time  one  realizes  what  a  god- 
send the  bad  English  really  is." 
i-   Dial   74:314  Mr  '23   80w 

"This  volume  conclusively  shows  how  nar- 
row Mr.  Weaver's  vein  is.  and  how  old-fash- 
ioned and  sentimental  he  is,  once  the  trappings 
of  slang  are  removed  from  the  verses.  Distorted 
language  does  not  make  poetry  any  more  than 
distorted  meters  do."  H.  S.  Gorman 
—  Int   Bk   R  p26   Je  '23  80w 

"Weaver  makes  it  a  better  world  to  live  in  by 
reason  of  his  htmianity  to  man.  He  is  a  true 
poet  because  of  his  clear  vision  of  what  consti- 
tutes poetic  truth." 

4-   N  Y  Times  p2  ,Ta  28  '23  650w 

"People  who  buy  'Finders'  will  buy  it  because 
there  is  some  fine  poetry  in  the  book.  I  never 
knew  that  simple,  ungrammatical  words  could 
have  such  feeling.  The  stories  that  Mr.  "Weaver 
tells  are  nothing  in  themselves.  If  written  in 
plain  English  they  would  appioach  the  maudlin 
sentimentality  of  Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox  or  Eddie 
Guest.  But  just  because  a  few  'g's'  have  been 
left  off  and  wrong  tenses  used  the  story  be- 
comes magically  vivid  and  beautiful."  Milton 
Raison 

+   N   Y  Tribune  p22  F  25  "23  420w 

Wis   Lib    Bui   19:412  Jl   '23 


546 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


WEAVER,  SIR  LAWRENCE.  Sir  Christopher 
Wren.  173p  il  $2.75  Scribner  [7s  6d  Country 
life] 

B  or  92  Wren,  Sir  Christopher  23-11677 

"In  this  book  Sir  Lawrence  Weaver  disclaims 
any  intention  of  writing  either  a  life  of  Wren 
or  a  detailed  record  of  his  achievement,  for,  as 
he  says,  When  'the  definitive  "Life  and  Works" 
comes  to  be  written,  it  will  itself  be  someone's 
life-work,  if  it  is  to  be  adeqinate.'  He  has 
chosen  instead  to  attempt  some  impressions  of 
the  many  sides  of  a  great  Englishman  as 
astronomer,  mathematician,  natural  scientist, 
and  architect.  This  little  book,  well-written 
and  illustrated,  fills  a  useful  place  among  the 
number  of  books  on  Wren  published  at  this 
time." — The  Times   [London]    Lit   SuJ) 

"He  gathers  together  a  deal  of  absorbing 
material  which  gives  a  brief  but  vivid  picture 
of  the  intense  individuality  of  Wren.  His  book 
is   important    in   many   ways." 

-f   N   Y  Times  pl3  Ja  6  '24   2200w 

"A  beguiling  little  book  for  the  writing  of 
which  Sir  Lawrence  Weaver  was  singularly 
well  equipped.  As  Fellow  of  the  Society  of 
Antiquaries  and  member  of  the  Samuel  Pepys 
Club,  Sir  Lawrence  has  had  opportunities  for 
collecting  those  little  scraps  of  history  and 
tradition  that  so  enliven  his  affectionate  sketch 
of  the  great  Englishman  who  was  much  more 
than  our  greatest  architect."  Clough  Williams- 
Ellis 

-I-  Spec  131:161   Ag  4   '23   520w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup  p357   My 
24  '23  120w 


WEBB,    MRS    MARY    GLADYS     (MEREDITH). 

Seven    for    a    secret.    296p    $2      Doran    [7s    6d 
Hutchinson] 

23-9231 
Juliana  Lovekin,  called  Gillian,  grew  up  on 
Dysgwlfas  Farm,  near  the  border  of  Wales, 
with  Robert  Rideout,  her  father's  cowman- 
shepherd.  The  two,  playmates  from  childhood, 
love  each  other.  But  the  matter  is  not  simple, 
for  Robert,  tho  manly  and  an  efficient  farmer 
as  well  as  dreamer  and  poet,  is  but  a  cow- 
man-shepherd and  must  not  raise  his  eyes  to 
the  farmer's  daughter;  and  Gillian,  tho  loving 
Robert,  loves  herself  more  and  craves  life  and 
admiration.  In  her  efforts  to  win  these  prizes 
she  evades  Robert,  in  his  self-imposed  role  as 
her  guardian  angel,  and  gets  herself  married  to. 
a  man  who  turns  out  to  be  a  criminal.  To 
cover  up  the  traces  of  former  acts  he  even 
becomes  a  murderer.  Robert,  privy  to  the  deed 
and  under  the  illusion  that  Gillian  loves  her 
husband,  resolves  to  make  a  last  sacrifice  for 
his  beloved  by  shouldering  the  guilt  and  then 
killing  himself.  A  greatly  chastened  Gillian 
discovers    his    intentions    before    it    is    too    late. 


"Her  story  has  the  touch  of  mystery  and 
strangeness  upon  it  which  comes  from  its  out- 
of-the-world  quality.  There  is  both  poetry  and 
beauty  in  the  tale  of  Gillian  Lovekin  of 
Dysgwlfas   Farm."    D.    L.    M. 

-I-   Boston   Transcript  p6  .11   3  '23  lOSOw 
Cleveland  p50  Jl  '23 

"On  the  whole  the  effect  of  the  narrative  is 
oddly  composite  and  uncertain  in  outline  and 
coloring."    H.  W.   Bovnton 

—  Ind   110:406  Je  23  '23   350w 

"Up  to  the  very  last  chapter  the  book  main- 
tains its  level.  But  that  last  chapter  is  in 
the  nature  of  a  makeshift,  and  you  read  it 
almost  with  a  gasp  of  astonishment.  .  .  My 
advice  Is  to  leave  that  last  chapter  unread 
— all,  at  any  rate,  save  the  final  paragraph. 
And  to  give  good  and  hearty  thanks  for  a  book 
that  plunges  you  into  the  deep,  clear  waters 
of  life,  and  that  reveals,  if  not  the  secret  that 
can  never  be  told,  at  least  the  beauty  that 
shrouds  that  secret  and  the  mystery  in  which 
it  moves."     H.    H. 

H Int   Bk   R  p59  S  '23  900w 

"There  is  a  nice,  rich  countryside  flavor 
about    this    book    with    a    sort    of   homely    tang 


that    is    relished    by    the    palate    after   so    many 
modern  exotic  flavors." 

-f   Lit    R    pl65    O    20    "23    220w 
"This     novel     has     substantial    merits,    even 
though    they    are    of   modest    proportions.     Mrs. 
Webb    demonstrates   an    ability    to   get    beneath 
the    surface    of    emotions.       Thomas    Hardy    is 
her  model  and  to  him  she  dedicates  her  book." 
+  Nation    117:sup410    O   10   '23    80w 
"An     innocent     pretentiousness,     a     continual 
slight  flutter  of  incommunicable  wonder,  a  good 
faith    that    is    amiable,    silly,    almost    disarming. 
Contains    something    sure    to    be    mistaken    for 
imagination     by      readers      who      haven't     any. 
Likely   to   have   a   good   sale." 

—  New  Repub  35:129  Je  27  '23  170w 
"Seven  for  a  Secret  can  be  recommended  to 
everyone  who  likes  the  novel  of  rusticity.  My 
only  suggestion  is  the  perhaps  impertinent  one 
that  Mrs.  Webb  should  bring  to  her  next  work 
a  rather  sharper  irony."     Raymond  Mortimer 

-j New   Statesman   20:485   Ja  27  '23   550w 

"The  story  has  grown  out  of  a  mature  spir- 
itual leisure,  and  the  result  is  a  tale  that  is 
seasoned,  delicate,  tranquil  and  touched  with 
a   lambent   humor." 

-1-   N   Y  Times  pl9  My   20  '23  450w 
Reviewed    by    Lilian    Gilkes 

N    Y   Tribune   p23   Jl   22   '23   lOOOw 

Reviewed    by    E.    W.    Osborn 

N  Y  World  pGe  My  27  '23  450w 
"Mrs.  Webb  has  that  rare  and  exquisite  gift — 
a  naturally  beautiful  style:  words  seem  to  run 
to  do  her  bidding.  I  remember  passages  from 
her  previous  work  which  have  the  thrill  of 
poetry.  She  can  write  about  nature  without 
being  unnatural.  But  in  'Seven  for  a  Secret' 
she  has  been  content  to  take  a  hackneyed  plot 
and  then  attempt  to  batter  it  into  the  poetic 
mould.  That  kingdom  is  taken  by  storm,  doubt- 
less; but  not  by  taking  thought."     Gerald  Gould 

h  Sat  R  134:843  D  2  '22  250w 

"The  most  striking  characteristic  of  Mrs. 
Webb's  work,  both  verse  and  prose,  is  its  in- 
tense feeling  for  Nature.  Seven  for  a  Secret  is 
from  beginning  to  end  saturated  in  the  spirit 
of  the  country,  and  especially  of  the  moors.  On 
its  psychological  side  the  novel  is  not  always 
sufficient  to  its  theme.  The  characters  are  not 
always  profoundly  enough  realized  nor  the 
march  of  events  sufficiently  inevitable  to  make 
the  climax  to  the  last  degree  convincing.  In 
other  words.  Mrs.  Webb  is  not  Thomas  Hardy." 

-\ Spec  129:sup666  N  11  '22  750w 

Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Jl  22  '23  150w 
The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup  p726  N  9 
'22  500w 

WEBB,  SIDNEY,  and  WEBB,  BEATRICE 
(POTTER)  (MRS  SIDNEY  WEBB).  Decay 
of  capitalist  civilization.  242p  $2  Harcourt  [2s 
6d  Fabian  soc;  Allen  &  TJ.] 

331      Capitalism.      Great    Britain— Economic 
conditions  23-6126 

The  capitalist  civilization  is  defined  as  that 
particular  stage  in  the  development  of  mdustry 
and  legal  institutions  in  which  the  bulk  of  the 
workers  find  themselves  divorced  from  the 
ownership  of  the  instruments  of  production 
and  reduced  to  the  position  of  wage-earners. 
The  authors  make  it  clear  that  capitalism  has 
had  its  initial  uses  in  advancing  material  prog- 
ress after  the  decay  of  feudalism,  but  that  it 
has  now  outlived  its  usefulness  and  given  rise 
to  four  distinct  evil.-*— the  above  mentioned 
ownership  of  the  instruments  of  production;  the 
poverty  of  the  poor;  the  inequality  of  Incomes; 
the  disparity  in  personal  freedom.  The  inev- 
itable change  can  come  about  thru  gradual  and 
peaceful  adaptation  or  thru  violence  and  social 
chaos.  To  promote  the  former  and  avert  tbo 
latter  Is  the  object  of  the  book. 


"It  is  possible  that  students  of  society,  who 
have  grown  u.sed  to  look  to  the  Webbs  for 
careful  and  valuable  achievement,  may  be  dis- 
appointed, even  affronted,  by  this  volume:  and 
temptPd    to    remonstrate,    not   without    indigna- 


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547 


tion,    that   both    science   and   democracy   deserve 
to  be  better  served."  W:   Orton 

—  Am   Econ   R  13:734  D  '23  750w 
Reviewed   by  N.   S.   B.   Gras 

Am    Hist    R    20:170    O    '23    520w 
Am    Pol    Sci    R   17:519  Ag  '23   150vv 
Booklist    19:302     Jl    '23 
"A   remarkably    thoughtful   and    able   analysis 
of   capitalism." 

+   Bookm   57:561  Jl  '23   90w 

Cath    World    117:706    Ag    '23    250w 
Reviewed   by  M.   JoLu-dain 

Int  J  Ethics  34:84  O  '23  520w 
"That  Ml-,  and  Mrs.  Webb  feel  to  be  intol- 
erable a  set  of  institutions  which  most  people 
in  their  circumstances  accept  with  complacency 
shows  that  they  have  keener  intelligence  and 
finer  moral  sense  than  their  fellows.  But  even 
a  'divine  discontent'  with  conditions  which  men 
can  alter  does  not  excuse  any  one  for  twisting 
facts    to   serve    political    ends."    W.    C.    Mitchell 

H Lit    R   p577   Ap   7   '23   3450w 

Reviewed  by  J.  A.   Hob.^on 

Nation    116:472    Ap    18    '23    1350w 
Reviewed    by   Graham    Wallace 

New  Repub  34:supl8  Ap  11  '23  1950w 
"Mr.  and  Mrs.  Webb's  statement  of  the  eco- 
nomic case  against  capitalism  could  not  easily 
be  bettered.  The  book  does  not  offer  a  cut-and- 
dried  solution  of  the  problem — indeed,  no  cut- 
and-dried  solution,  we  believe,  is  yet  possible — 
but  it  states  the  problem  more  effectively  than 
it  has  ever  been  stated  before.  The  waste  and 
immorality  and  failure  of  modern  capitalism 
are  set  forth  in  what  seems  to  us  a  quite  un- 
answerable  indictment." 

-f-  New  Statesman  20:518  F  3  '23  2300w 
Reviewed    bv    P.    W.    Wil.'^on 

N  Y  Times  pl2  Ap  22  '23  lOOOw 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:283  Je  '23 
"There  are  many  sides  from  which  this  able, 
if  fierce  and  bitter,  book  can  be  criticized.  To 
begin  with,  it  almost  achieves  a  record  in  beg- 
ging the  (juestion.  Another  groimd  on  which 
the  book  might  readily  be  criticized  is  the 
perversity  of  pas.sion  in  which  it  is  written. 
Yet  another  criticism — one  of  special  import 
— i.?  that  the  book  leads  up  to  a  false  issue." 
J:   St     Loe  Strachev 

—  Spec   130:668    Ap   21   '23    2700w 

"Its  appeal  is  primarily  ethical,  for,  if  it  does 
not  awaken  a  moral  response  in  the  breast  of 
the  general  reader,  it  will  have  little  meaning 
for  him.  Of  the  sincerity,  cogency  and  high 
purpose  of  Mr  and  Mrs  Webb's  writing  there  is 
no  possible  question." 

-1 Springf  d     Republican     p7a    Mr    18     '23 

1550W 
"Astonishingly  simple  and  straightforward. 
Without  oratorical  flourislies,  witli  just  enough 
detailed  illustration  to  drive  home  every  point 
made,  with  the  lucidity  of  ai-gument  which  one 
expects  from  the  Webbs,  and  a  style  devoid 
of  technicalities,  this  book  is  a  powerful  in- 
dictment of  our  .social  organization."  B.  L. 
-f  Survey  50:supl88  My  1  '23  280w 

The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p66    F    1 
'23    2300w 


WEBB,  SIDNEY,  and  WEBB.  BEATRICE 
(POTTER)  (MRS  SIDNEY  WEBB).  Eng- 
lish local  government;  statutory  authorities 
for  special  purpores.  (English  local  govern- 
ment)   521p  $8.25    (25s)    Longmans 

352.042  Local  government — Great  Britain. 
Municipal  government— Great  Britain.  Poor 
laws — Great  Britain.     Roads — Great  Britain 

22-22047 
The  volume  is  a  companion  piece  to  the  au- 
thors' preceding  works,  "The  Parish  and  the 
county."  and  "The  manor  and  the  borough," 
and  completes  their  account  of  English  focal 
government.  It  describes,  "first,  the  ancient 
Courts  of  Sewers,  with  their  archaic  and  partlv 
traditional  organizations  of  juries  and  present- 
ments: next  the  Incorporated  Guardians  of  the 
Poor;   then  the  growing  multitude  of  Turnpike 


Trusts;  and  finally  the  bodies  of  Paving,  Cleans- 
ing, Lighting,  Watching,  Street  or  Improvement 
Commissioners,  and  their  work  in  t^e  crowded 
urban  districts."  (Introd.)  In  the  two  con- 
cluding chapters  it  summarizes  the  outstanding 
characteristics  of  the  period  and  shows  how  the 
new  principles  of  government  gradually  emerged 
in  different  decades  in  different  places,  with 
varying  degrees  of  awareness  on  the  part  of 
their  promoters  and  opponents.  Index  of 
persons,  places  and  subjects. 


"A  work  of  scholarship  perhaps  unrivaled 
in  the  field  of  local  government.  .  .  If  any 
feature  of  the  work  may  be  selected  as  being 
particularly  meritorious,  it  is  the  fact  that 
the  authors  look  behind  the  written  laws,  the 
charters,  and  the  court  decisions,  into  the  very 
life  of  the  institutions  in  daily  operation."  W: 
Anderson 

-I-  Am  Pol  Sci  R  17:487  Ag  '23  1700w 
"Mr.  and  Mrs.  Webb  have  dealt  with  their 
material — a  mass  of  sources,  as  they  say,  'of 
portentous  magnitude  and  repulsive  aridity' — 
with  astonishing  skill,  and  the  result  is  not  only 
an  indispensable  classic  for  the  expert  in  local 
government  or  social  history,  but  a  book  full 
of  good  reading  for  the  merest  layman."  C. 
M.  L. 

-f  New  Statesman  20:208  N  18  '22  lOOOw 
"All  students  of  social  conditions  owe  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Webb  gratitude  for  tracing  so  faithfully 
the  emergence  of  the  new  principles  which  in 
the  last  century  have  transformed  the  appear- 
ance of  our  cities  and  the  healthiness  of  our 
country." 

+  Spec  129:772  N  25  '22  220w 

The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p690  O  26 
'22  lOOw 
"The  fascination  and  importance  of  these 
themes  to  the  social  historian  are  undeniable, 
but  the  interest  to  be  found  in  the  material 
tor  the  fiist  time  co-ordinated  in  the  present 
volume    is   even   greater." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p867  D  28 
'22  1950w 

WEBBER,      JAMES      PLAISTED,     and     WEB- 
STER,   HANSON    HART,    eds.    One-act    plays 
for    secondary    schools.     308p    $1.40    Houghton 
808.2  Drama— Collections  23-8042 

A  collection  of  eighteen  one-act  plays  suit- 
able for  young  people  to  read  and  act,  with 
suggestions  of  ways  to  use  such  plays  in  con- 
nection with  English  composition  and  as  a 
rcieans  of  developing  dramatic  talent.  The 
plays  are  followed  by  a  brief  explanation  of 
the  fundamentals  of  dramatic  presentation, 
and  the  bibliography  includes  a  list  of  avail- 
able sources  of  plots  for  students'  use  in  writ- 
ing plays.  Contents:  The  boy  comes  home, 
by  A.  A.  Milne;  Followers,  by  Harold  Brig- 
house;  A  sunny  morning,  by  Serafln  and  Jo- 
aquin Alvarez  Quintero;  The  falcon,  by  Alfred, 
Lord  Tennyson;  The  coming  of  fair  Annie,  by 
Graham  Price;  The  romancers,  by  Edmond 
Rostand;  My  lady's  lace,  by  Edward  Knoblock; 
The  Lord's  prayer,  by  Frangois  Copp6e;  The 
cottage  on  the  moor,  by  E.  E.  Smith  and  D.  L. 
Ireland;  Solemn  pride,  by  George  Ross  Leigh- 
ton;  X=0:  a  night  of  the  Trojan  war,  by 
John  Drinkwater;  The  rising  of  the  moon,  by 
Ladv  Gregory;  Nevertheless,  by  Stuart  Walk- 
er; "Manikin  and  Minikin,  by  Alfred  Kreym- 
borg:  The  beau  of  Bath,  by  Constance  D'Arcy 
Mackay;  The  unseen  host,  by  Percival  W^ilde; 
The  shoes  that  danced,  by  Anna  Hempstead 
Branch;  Colombine,  by  Reginald  Arkell;  The 
fundamentals  of  dramatic  presentation;  Work- 
ing lists. 

"Interesting  and   wholesome." 
+   Booklist  19:312  Jl   '23 

Boston  Transcript  p3  Ag  25  '23  200w 
Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui   28:542  D  '23 
St    Louis  p340  D  '23 
"The    English    teacher   who    finds    among   the 
demands    on    his    versatility    the    obligation    of 
directing   school   plays,    or   a   drama  club,    or   an 
elective    course    in    dramatic    literature    will    be 
grateful  for  the  most  recent,  and  in  many  ways 


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WEBBER,    J.    P.,    and    WEBSTER,    H.    H.,    eds. 

— Continued 
the    best,    collection    of    one-act    plays    that    has 
yet  become  available."   Ernest  Hanes 
+  School   R  31:790  D  '23  250vv 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:158  Je  "23 

WEBSTER,    DORIS,   and    WEBSTER,   SAMUEL 
C.      Uncle   James'    shoes.      284p   $1.75   Century 

23-12431 
Uncle  James,  rich  and  a  bachelor,  was  wor- 
shipped as  the  family  god  and  the  great  man 
of  Stormville.  His  sisters  and  their  children 
watched  him  jealously  as  the  source  of  possible 
wealth  and  deferred  to  him  in  all  things.  Only 
young  Billy  Clintock  refused  to  bow  down  to 
his  aincle.  He  had  from  boyhood  such  a  gen- 
ius for  making  money  that  he  wasted  no 
thoughts  on  inheriting  it.  He  dared  to  defy 
Uncle  James,  and  when  the  latter  became 
bankrupt  it  was  Billy  who  held  the  mortgage 
on  his  cannery  and  who  found  a  way  to  build 
up  the  shattered  business.  Billy  had  indeed 
stepped  into  Uncle  James's  shoes  and  when 
James  Peters  died  the  local  newspaper  headed 
its  obituary  notice:  "Uncle  of  William  Clin- 
tick,    Jr.,    Passes  Away." 

Booklist   20:103   D   '23 

"The  analysis  of  various  types  of  human  na- 
ture all,  however,  possessing  in  common  the 
unpleasant  quality  of  subservience  to  supposed 
wealth,  is  uncommonly  keen.  But  it  is  saved 
from  the  sordidness  which  else  might  threaten 
it  by  Che  healthy  humor  and  optimism  trans- 
fusing every  chapter."  .  „  ,„  ,„o  ^.aa 
+   Boston   Transcript   p4   S   12   '23    600w 

"A  mild,  innocuous  and  highly  moral  little 
story  of  the  domestic  type.  All  the  good 
people  are  left  happy  and  prosperous,  and  all 
the  mean  ones  fall  materially  as  well  as  spirit- 
ually Early  in  the  book  there  are  moments 
when  it  seems  possible  that  it  may  become 
amusing.'^    Y  Times  pl9   S  16   '23  380w 

Reviewed  by  Leo  Markun 

N   Y  Tribune   p27   O  14   "23   550w 
Springf'd    Republican   p9a   S   9   '23   250w 

WEBSTER,    F.    A.    M.    Black    shadow.     342p    $2 

Moffat    [7s   6d    Nisbet] 

"  'The  Black  Shadow'  centres  around  a  hypo- 
thetical movement,  half  racial,  half  religious, 
which  aims  to  unite  all  the  dark-skinned  popu- 
lations of  the  world  in  a  universal  coup  d  etat 
to  overthrow  the  rule  of  the  white  man  and 
secure  the  domination  and  supremacy  of  the 
black  peoples.  The  story  opens  in  New  York.  .  . 
The  Intelligence  department  sets  Salem  Har- 
deker.  a  former  Princeton  man,  who  had 
served  it  with  distinction  during  the  war,  on 
the  trail  of  the  black  disturber,  and  the  scenes 
shift  to  Alexandria  and  even  to  the  distant 
Ghost  Mountains  of  the  Dark  Continent  s  in- 
terior. Fortunately  for  Hardeker,  he  falls  in 
with  a  trio  of  British  Secret  Service  men.  Dis- 
guised as  natives,  they  descend  into  the  cata- 
combs of  Komal-Chougfa  and  trace  something 
of  the  plot's  fanatical  origins  at  a  gathering 
in  this  great  subterranean  meeting  place.  — 
N   Y   Times 

"Captain  Webster  knows  his  Africa,  and  the 
bizarre  happenings  have  at  least  certain  authen- 
ticity of  physical  background.  If,  as  we  as- 
sume, 'The  Black  Shadow'  has  but  one^  aim— 
the  providing  of  excitement — it  succeeds.  ' 

+  —  N   Y  Times  p27  Je  10  '23  440w 

"So  reasonable  and  so  well  handled  that  you 
are  not  only  sure  that  it  might  have  happened 
but  you  have  a  sneaking  suspicion  that  it  did. 
The  characters  are  well  drawn  and  sympathetic 
and  never  for  a  moment  would  you  doubt  their 
adventures."  Edith   Leighton 

4-  N    Y    Tribune   p21    Jl    8   '23   360w 

"He   has   a  delightful   combination   of  extrav- 
agant fancy  with  impressive  precision;   he  suc- 
ceeds in   creating  an  atmosphere  of  horror  and 
suspense:    'The    Black    Shadow'    is    a    thriller. 
Gerald  Gould  „     „„„ 

+  Sat    R    135:670   My   19   '23   260w 


WEBSTER,    HENRY    KITCHELL.    Other   story, 
-    and  other  stories.   366p  $2  Bobbs 

23-15029 
"The  themes  are  journalistic;  how  a  man 
bought  a  motor  and  tried  to  deceive  his  wife 
about  it  and  failed;  how  a  little  country  grirl 
won  a  $10,000  beauty  prize  and  had  a  good  time 
and  got  married;  how  a  lady  in  the  tropics 
borrowed  someone  else's  clothes  and  did  de- 
ceive her  husband  about  it;  and  how  a  sophis- 
ticated girl  who  was  going  to  marry  for  money 
went  to  the  movies  and  was  converted  and 
married  for  love,  etc.,  etc."  (Bookm)  Con- 
tents: The  other  story;  Inside  and  out;  The 
Honorable  Sylvia;  Bill  came  back;  The  grafter; 
The  shower;  Giving  Cynthia  a  rest;  The  in- 
gredients; The  good  angel;  Strictly  vicarious; 
The  new  technique;  Transmutation. 


"A  dozen  deftly  concocted  little  tales  such  as 
delight  the  tired  eyes  of  overworked  editors  of 
popular  magazines  and  absorb  the  attention  of 
charming  stenographers  going  up  and  down  the 
earth  in  the  subway.  The  recipe  for  these  tales 
is  in  the  hands  of  a  score  or  more  ready  writers 
for  the  magazines."  L.  C.  Willcox 
-I-   Bookm  58:575  Ja  '24  250w 

"Lovers  of  agreeable  short  stories  will  wel- 
come this  new  volume  from  Mr.  Webster's  pen. 
He  has  a  keen  insight  into  the  modern  woman's 
psychology  and  a  happy  faculty  of  depicting 
it  and  if  his  work  is  for  the  greater  part  of  an 
almost  cloylngly  benign  and  gracious  aspect  it 
does  not  lack  pungent  strokes  in  characteriza- 
tions." 

H Boston  Transcript  p8  N  21  '23  300w 

"Realistic,  no  doubt,  but  perhaps  these  tales 
contain  a  trifle  too  much  sentiment  to  please 
certain  literary  tastes  habituated  to  the  tart 
flavor  of  the  modernists.  Nevertheless,  the  book 
affords  agreeable  reading  for  idle  hours." 
1-   Lit  R  p347  D  8  '23  160w 

"The  lustre  of  his  well-deserved  popularity 
cannot  sprinkle  glamour  over  the  many  dull 
pieces  abounding  here.  In  'Bill  Came  Back' 
there  is  excellence  in  delineation;  but.  alas, 
few  of  these  stories  have  vitality." 
1-   N   Y  Times  p9  N   11  '23  450w 

"Why    are    they    so    thin?    Because    they    are 
what   the   magazines  want.    Unfortunately,    here 
they  have  got  into  a  book."   Isabel  Paterson 
—  NY  Tribune  pl8  D  2  '23  550w 

"His  stories  are  told  in  a  lazy,  conversational 
style.  One  might  say  they  were  rather  compli- 
cated in  structure.  But  one  is  also  astonished 
at  the  .skill  with  which  this  author  unravels 
his  complications." 

-f  N   Y  World   p7e  D  30  '23   120w 

WEBSTER,  JAMES   B.  Christian  education  and 
»    the  national  consciousness  in  China.  323p  $2.50 
Dutton 

266   Missions — China.   Education — China 

23-8862 

With  the  purpose  of  helping  toward  the  work- 
ing out  of  an  educational  policy  which  shall 
bring  about  happier  relations  between  eastern 
and  western  races  in  the  Pacific,  the  author 
studies  the  various  needs  of  Chinese  life  and 
tries  to  discover  how  far  Christian  education 
Is   meeting   those  needs. 

"He  is  discussing  principles  rather  than  In- 
dividual institutions,  and  his  book  should  for 
this  reason  prove  of  interest  to  the  general 
reader,  as  well  as  to  those  who  are  engaged  in 
dealing  with  the  specific  problems  of  China.  He 
is  perhaps  a  little  too  deprecatory  of  what  has 
already  been  done  by  mission  schools  and  errs, 
if  at  all  in  being  somewhat  too  appreciative  of 
things  Chinese."  K.  S.  Latourette 
_L  _  Lit   R   p22  S   8  '23   720w 

N  Y  Tribune  p27  N  25  '23  200w 

WEBSTER,   NESTA   H.   (MRS  ARTHUR   WEB- 
>    STER).  French  revolution;  a  study  m  democ- 
racy.   5i9p   $5  Dutton 

944  04  France— History— Revolution 
The  author's  thesis  is  that  the  people  played 
a  passive  part  in  the  French  revolutionary  move- 


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ment,  that  it  was  a  conspiracy  cleverly  planned 
by  the  minority  and  largely  inspired  from  out- 
side France,  that  each  of  the  successive  out- 
breaks had  behind  it  the  same  actors,  the  same 
tangled  threads  of  intrigue.  Her  object  is  to 
dispel  the  legend  which  has  grown  up  about 
the  Revolution,  to  throw  a  truer  light,  as  she 
believes,  on  the  role  of  the  people,  to  explain 
the  motives  that  inspired  the  crowds  and  the 
means  employed  to  rouse  their  passions.  She 
shows  the  leaders  of  the  Revolution  as  scoun- 
drels and  enemies  of  the  people  politically.  The 
larger  part  of  her  book  consists  of  quotations 
from  contemporary  accounts  from  both  the  rev- 
olutionary and  royalist  sides,  in  support  of  her 
thesis 

"A  lucid  style,  a  picturesque  feeling  for  the 
presentation  of  facts  and  a  living  quality  which 
never  lets  the  interest  flag,  are  all  features  of 
this  book."    H.    C.    Lodge,   jr. 

-I-   Boston   Transcript   p3   D   22   '23   1400w 

"Mrs.  Webster  is  to  be  recommended  as  a 
lecturer  to  all  One-Hundred-Per-Cent  Societies. 
In  the  meantime,  we  are  still  waiting  for  a  wise 
and  sympathetic  history  of  the  French  Revolu- 
tion." L.  S.   Morris 

—  Freeman  8:380  D  26  "23  2350w 

WEDEKIND,     FRANK.     Tragedies    of    sex;    tr. 

with   an    introd.    by    Samuel   A.    Eliot,   jr.   347p 

$2.50    Boni    &    Liveright 

832  23-9570 

In  a  biographical  and  critical  introduction  to 
the  plays  the  translator  characterizes  the  dra- 
matist as  the  forerunner  of  expressionism  and 
— for  all  his  destructive  extravagance — as  a 
writer  of  original  thought,  vital,  life-promoting, 
full  of  power  and  worth.  The  best  known  of 
the  plays,  "Spring's  awakening,"  realistically 
depicts  the  sex-urge  in  adolescence  and  the 
tragic  consequences  of  ignorance  of  natural 
facts.  The  other  plays  are:  Earth-spirit;  Pan- 
dora's  box;    Damnation. 


"Such  plays,  lacking  in  dramatic  power,  have 
but   one   appeal.      In    fact    Mr.    Eliot    in   his   in- 
troduction   admits    that    as    they    are    acted    in 
Germany    they    could    not    be    described    here." 
—  Boston    Transcript    p4    S    12    '23    250w 

"The  translation  from  the  German  original  by 
Prof.  Samuel  A.  Eliot  of  Smith  College,  is  meri- 
toraous.  The  translator's  introduction  is  a  credit- 
able essay  of  literary  criticism  and  helps  con- 
siderably to  the  understanding  and  appreciation 
of  this  eccentric  author."  P.  A.  Adler 
+   Detroit   News  pl2  Jl   8  '23  500w 

"Plays  more  violent  and  more  removed  from 
any  truth  of  fact  or  of  imagination  than  any 
others  that  he  ever  wrote.  They  are,  it  must 
be  admitted,  very  poor  stuff.  Wedekind's 
genius  was  destroyed  irremediably  in  his  un- 
measured quarrel  with  his  contemporaries.  Mr. 
Eliot's  rendering  has  one  bad  fault.  It  is 
filled  with  Americanisms  which,  deliberately 
committed,  are  yet  unpleasantly  incongruous." 
Edwin    Muir 

\-  Freeman    8:114   O    10   '23   ISOOw 

"It  is  useful  to  have  a  translation  of  Wede- 
kind,  but  it  is  a  pity  Mr.  Eliot,  junior's,  diction 
Jars  on  English  ears.  What  can  'To  make  us 
flunk.'  for  instance,  mean?  We  want  another 
translation." 

4-   —  New  Statesman   21:365  Je   30   '23   1700w 

"W^ithout  a  shadow  of  doubt.  Wedekind  is  a 
master  of  irony.  As  a  dramatist,  particularly  in 
the  strict  definition  of  that  term,  his  claims 
are    perhaps    negligible."     Bruce    Gould 

N    Y    Tribune   pl8   Jl    22   '23    lOOOw 

"One  is  reminded  of  those  mechanistic  sav- 
agely and  brutally  blocked  out  sculptures  which 
Germany  was  producing  before  the  war.  There 
is  mass  and  bulk  and  outline,  but  no  life.  They 
impress  by  imposing  and  their  imposing  proves 
imposture." 

-I-  Springf'd    Republican   p7a  Jl   8  '23   530w 

"The  four  nlays  which  Mr.  Eliot  has  grouped 
together  under  one  title  are  perhaps  "Wede- 
kind's most  celebrated  works  and  ai-e  certainly 
representative." 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup    p452   Jl 
5   '23   llOOw 


WEEKES,  AGNES  RUSSELL.  See  Pryde,  A., 
pseud. 

WEIGALL,  ARTHUR  EDWARD  PEARSE 
BROME.  Bedouin  love.  320p  $2  Doran  [7s  Gd 
Unwin] 

23-llG 
"A  romantic  tale  set  chiefly  in  Egypt  and 
Cyprus,  but  having  an  interlude  in  England.  It 
opens  in  a  miserable  native  town  of  huts,  on 
the  Nile,  where  a  young  Englishman  discovers 
that  he  is  stricken  with  cholera.  But  eventually 
he  recovers  and  goes  on  his  way  to  Alexandria, 
where  he  spends  some  time  of  convalescence  in 
a  hotel  on  the  beach.  At  the  hotel  he  meets  a 
woman  who  is  also  a  refugee  from  the  patterned 
life,  an  artist  who  supports  herself  by  her 
paintings.  Romance  develops,  romance  sudden 
and  violent  as  that  of  the  Bedouin  instincts  of 
the  two  people  concerned.  Then  the  young 
man  learns  that  he  is  wanted  in  England, 
where  he  has  inherited  a  country  estate  and  an 
income,  and.  Bedouinlike,  he  rushes  away.  For 
a  few  years  that  heredity  holds  him,  he  enjoys 
his  position  of  country  squire,  he  marries  a 
pretty  girl  who  is  a  mere  silly,  pestiferous  doll. 
Then  the  Bedouin  memories  of  his  years  of 
wandering  possess  him  and  he  can  endure  it  no 
longer.  The  free  trail  calls  him,  and  he  goes 
to  Italy,  and  then  to  Cyprus.  So  many  things 
happen  and  so  appalling  are  most  of  them  and 
so  full  of  menace  that  finally  they  drag  the 
Bedouin  out  of  his  heart  and  prove  to  him  the 
need  of  organized  society  and  the  meaning  of 
individual   responsibility." — N  Y  Times 


"The  volume  is  brim  full  of  noble  teachings. 
But  especially,  despite  occasional  rather  spec- 
tacular flaws,  it  is  also  full  of  interest.  And 
there  is  some  stunning  scenery  thrown  in." 
I.   W.   Lawrence 

+    Boston    Transcript    p5    F    24    '23    980w 

"Mr.  Weigall's  'Bedouin  Love'  is  well  named, 
well    written,    and    well   plotted." 

+   Int    Bk    R    p56   Ap    "23    370w 

"This  book  is  nothing  that  it  pretends  to  be 
except  a  cabably  written  thriller,  which  dis- 
tinction  no  one  will   denv   it." 

1-   Lit   R   p668  My  5  '23  190w 

"There  are  many  charming  bits  of  descrip- 
tion, written  with  poetic  feeling  and  romantic 
appreciation  of  the  beauty  and  sentiment  of  the 
scenes." 

-f-   N   Y  Times  p24  Ja  28  '23  580w 

"Both  the  name  and  the  jacket  of  'Bedouin 
Love'  give  it  the  appearance  of  one  of  the  ill- 
omened  flock  of  desert  fiction.  Although  some 
of  the  scenes  are  laid  in  Egypt,  the  scene  of 
the  story  is  not  primarily  an  JSgyptian  one.  The 
term  'Bedouin.'  in  the  present  instance,  in- 
dicates not  a  locality  but  a  state  of  mind.  The 
hero  is  n  nomad  by  nature.  .  .  Mr.  Weigall  has 
an  excellent  idea,  his  characters  have  poten- 
tiality: a  powerful  story  might  have  been  con- 
structed of  the  drama  which  they  play:  but 
it  has  not  been  made  here."  A.  L  Hill 
h  N    Y    Tribune    p2t    Mr    25    '23    500w 

Reviewed    bv   E.    W.    Osborn 

N    Y   World   p7e   Mr   11    '23    260w 
Outlook    133:454    Mr    7    '23    llOw 

"Mr.  Weigall's  story  is  so  good  and  he  tells 
it  so  well  that  we  regret  his  lapses  from  the 
artist  to  the  preacher  all  the  more.  But  the 
faults  to  which  we  have  drawn  attention  are 
fortunately  of  commission.  On  the  other  hand, 
Mr.  Weigall's  virtues  are  man>'.  and  they  are 
the   virtues   which    a    novelist    must    have." 

H The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p494    Jl 

27    '22    300w 

WEIGALL,  ARTHUR  EDWARD  PEARSE 
BROME.  Glory  of  the  pharaohs.  338p  il  $5 
Putnam     [15s    T.     Butterworth] 

913.32    Egypt— Antiquities  23-7251 

The  book  contains  a  collection  of  essays  on 
archeology  and  Egyptology  reprinted  from  vari- 
ous magazines.  Most  of  the  essays  are  of  a 
general  nature.  "The  misfortunes  of  Wenanon" 
is  a  transcript  of  a  roll  of  papyrus  unearthed 
by    some    natives,    which    recounts    the    adven- 


550 


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WEIGALL,  A.   E:  P.   B. — Continued 

tures    of   one    Wenanon    sent    out    by    the    High 

Priest  in  the  year-  1113  B.C.  Lo  felch  cedar 
from  Lebanon  for  the  construction  of  a  cere- 
monial barge.  It  is  regarded  by  the  author  as 
a  jewel  of  the  ancient  Egyptian  language. 
Partial  contents:  The  temperament  of  the 
ancient  Egyptians;  The  tomb  of  Tiy  and 
Akhnaton;  The  tomb  of  Horemheb;  Lower 
Nubia  and  the  great  re.servoir;  The  alabaster 
quarries  of  the  Wady  Assiont;  Theban  thieves. 
Index. 


Bookm    57:G53   Ag  '23   120w 
Boston   Transcript   p4   Ap   18   '23   920w 
Int   Bk  R  p35  O  '23  ICOw 
"It    is    a    very    pretty    dish    of    Egyptian    in- 
gredients   which    the    late    Inspector    General    of 
Antiquities    of    the    Egyptian    Goverrmient    sets 
before  us,   and  well   worth  the  tasting." 

-f   N    Y    Times    p8    My    13    '23    1200w 
"Mr.    Weigall    has   caught    the   atmosphere    of 
Egypt    of    four    thousand    years     ago     and     has 
created  its  people;   that  is  quite  enough."   Ken- 
neth Fuessle 

-I-  N  Y  Tribune  pl8  Ap  22  '23  850w 
"This  is  an  excellent  work  from  which  to  get 
in  readable  form  a  background,  historical  and 
archaeological,  as  an  aid  to  luidei  standing  the 
value  and  meaning  of  Lord  Carnarvon's  recent 
Egyptian    discoveries." 

+  Outlook  134:48  My  23  '23  90w 
"Mr.  Wetgall's  prose  clothes  the  most  distant 
figures  and  scenes  in  the  hues  of  a  many- 
coloured  imagination.  What  precisely  the  old- 
time  specialist  would  say  to  this  fearless  pic- 
torialization  of  his  carefully  checked  and 
hoarded  scraps  of  fact  can  only  be  guessed. 
At  least  it  is  certain  that  this  freedom  of 
treatment  will  entice  to  a  nodding  acquaintance 
with  Pharaohs  many  who  would  otherwise  have 
ignored   their  majesty   and   pomp." 

+  Spec    131:199    Ag    11    '23    120w 
"Every   chapter,    through    the    charm   and    in- 
terest of  the   narration,   whether  the  subject  be 
the  unearthing  of  the  tomb  of  Tut-ank-Amen's 
mother-in-law,  or  a  swim  in  the  half-submerged 
temples   at   Philae,    makes   the   glory   of   the   old 
kings  shine  forth  with  a  clearer  and  more  bril- 
liant   light.       The    book    is    written    in    an    easy, 
popular  style  and  is  full  of  fun  and  adventure, 
historical  fact  and  delightful,   whimsical  fancy." 
-f  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p6  Ag  13  '23  900w 
"Mr.  Weigall's  book  is  one  which  will  hit  the 
popular   taste  of  the   moment." 

-h  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    pl77   Mr 
15   '23  900w 

WEIGALL,       CAROLINE      RACHEL      SELINA. 

Lady    Rose   Weigall;    a   memoir   based   on   her 

correspondence      and      the      recollections      of 

friends.    317p   il   $3   Appleton 
B  or  92  Weigall,   Rose   Sophia  Mary   (Fane) 
lady  23-12020 

"Lady  Rose  Weigall  was  a  great-niece  of 
Wellington  and  the  daughter  of  Lady  West- 
morland, who  was  the  daughter  of  the  Duke's 
elder  brother,  Lord  Mornington.  Here  we  are 
in  the  comparative  quiet  of  the  grand  monde 
of  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  century.  The 
chief  charm  of  this  book  lies  in  the  lively 
letters  of  her  mother  and  her  brother  Julian 
Fane,  a  remarkable  man,  who  died  young,  but 
not  too  young,  to  make  a  great  impression  on 
his  contemporaries,  Sir  William  Harcourt  in 
particular.  It  will  appeal  to  readers  to  whom 
the  people  mentioned  are  already  known.  At 
the  close  of  her  long  life  Lady  Rose  was  'a  link 
with  the  past.'  In  herself  she  was  an  embodi- 
ment of  the  social  spirit  of  the  old  regime, 
it.s  courtliness  and  reticence,  combining  it 
with  great  kindliness  and  generosity." — New 
Statesman 


"She  knew  every  one  who  was  any  one  and 
thought  them  all  'charming.'  Or  if  not  she 
forbore  to  say  so.  She  must  have  had  a  thou- 
sand real  friends,  who  would  have  enjoyed  this 
modest  memorial  greatly  if  they  had  lived  to 
read  it.  To  us  it  can  have  only  the  associa- 
tional  interest  of  a  quaint  old  sampler  or 
daguerreotype."     Isabel   Paterson 

h   N    Y   Tribune   p6    S   23   '23   450w 

"A     thoroughly     charming,     delightful     book." 
+  Sprlngf'd    Republican    p6   S  24   '23   400w 

"Not  very  well  digested  memoir.  It  was  a 
curious  destiny  that  was  allotted  to  this  worthy 
exemplar  of  the  more  serious  virtues  of  the 
Victorian  lady — to  live  to  see  her  house  by 
Ramsgate  wrecked  from  a  Zeppelin,  and  at  the 
other  end  of  her  memories,  to  recall  the  friend- 
ship of  the  victor  of  Waterloo.  .  .  A  great 
space  is  filled  in  this  memoir  by  the  excellent 
letters  of  Lady  Rose's  mother  and  her  brother 
Julian  Fane,  diplomatist,  musician,  and  poet. 
There  are  several  good  anecdotes  of  political 
and  literary  life  in  England." 

h  The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p384   Je 

7  '23  900w 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:481  N   '23 

WEIMAN,     RITA.      Footlights.       341p    $2    Dodd 

23-7015 
A  collection  of  stories  from  the  world  of 
shitting  scenery,  of  hustling  property  men, 
frantic  stage  managers,  husky  last  minute 
orders,  dressing  room  sideshows.  The  title 
story,  Footlights,  relates  the  career  and  ro- 
mance of  Lizzie  Parsons,  a  Vermont  country 
girl  who  dures  to  follow  her  ambition  and  be- 
come an  actress.  We  meet  her  first  as  a 
discouraged  vaudeville  actress  feeling  herscli' 
a  failure.  But  a  famous  theatrical  producer  is 
of  a  different  opinion  and  undertakes  to  train 
her.  She  becomes  a  great  artist  and  as  Lisa 
Paisinova,  "the  rare  Russian  genius,"  dazzles 
the  theatre  public.  Forthwith  she  leads  a 
double  life  and  .suffers  accordingly.  When  love 
comes  to  her  she  is  on  the  verge  of  tragedy 
but  it  is  only  the  "Russian  devil"  who  commits 
suicide  while  a  happy  Lizzie  Parsons  survives. 
The  other  stories  are:  Madame  Peacock; 
Grease-paint:  The  back  drop;  Two  masters;  Up 
stage;  Curtain! 


Booklist    20:54    N    '23 
Bookm    58:585   Ja   '24   120w 
Reviewed   by   T.    J.    C.    Martvn 
Lit    R    p6G    S    22    '23    800w 
New    Statesman    21:334    Je    23    '23    150w 


"Miss  Weiman,  by  her  style,  suggests  too 
long  an  apprenticeship  upon  too  blatantly  seli- 
sational  a  newspaper.  There  are  many  reasons, 
on  the  other  hand,  why  this  book  should  be 
popular.  It  has  dramatic  force  and  melo- 
dramatic vigor.  It  is  written  in  pure  American 
vernacular.  On  several  counts  it  is  most  in- 
teresting. Nevertheless  its  author  might  have 
done  much  better  with  her  material.  Her 
climaxes,  for  instance,  are  frankly  motion 
picture  material."  D.   F.  G. 

1-    Boston    Transcript    p2    Ap    14    '23    450w 

Cleveland  p69  S  '23 

"There  is  an  undoubted  appeal  to  be  found 
in  these  stories;  and  if  in  style  the  author 
does  not  rise  above  the  hectic  intensity  of 
the  movie  libretto,  the  sentiments  that  lightly 
float  along  on  her  voluminous  prose  have  suf- 
ficient interest  to  hold  attention." 
-I Lit    R   p8G7    Jl   28   '23   220w 

"The  material  is  often  obvious;  violent  appeals 
are  made  through  an  obvious  sentimentality; 
the  characters  are  overdrawn;  the  long  arm 
of  coincidence  is  overworked.  But  in  spite  of 
these  defects  the  stories  have  a  certain  'go' 
to  them.  It  is  evident  that  they  are  composed 
by  an  author  who  is  passionately  devoted  to 
the  stage  and  stngo  people.  A  pulse  beats  be- 
hind the  material.  There  is  vitality  here, 
a  vitality  and  enthusiasm  that  conveys  itself 
to  the  reader." 

H NY    Times  pl9  Ap  8   '23   750w 

"These  are  stories  of  brilliant  success  and 
heartbreaking  failure;  human  documents  which 
read  like  authentic  transcriptions  of  life,  told 
with  a  directness  and  enthusiasm  that  are  in- 
deed refreshing  in  these  days  of  a  too-man- 
nered and  cluttered  style.  It  is  a  book  into 
wliich  much  lioait  and  sympathy  and  compre- 
hension have  gone."  C:  H.  Towne 

-f    N    Y   Tribune   p24  Ap  1   '23   1050w 


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"Rita  Weiman  has  given  us  a  glimpse  of 
theatrical  life,  dramatic  and  sordid,  humorous 
and  bewitching,  satirical  and  mocking,  which, 
while  both  revealing  and  enlightening,  never- 
theless has  not  taken  away  the  glamour  and 
mystery  of  the  stage."  Ruth  Snyder 
+   N   Y   World   p9e  Ap  8   '23  850w 

"The  writer  does  not  by  any  means  approach 
conscious  artistry;  she  knows  the  things  she 
writes  about  and  puts  them  down  in  black  and 

'  ^'+  Springf  d  Republican  p7a  Ap  29  "23  120w 
Wis    Lib    Bwl    19:416    Jl    '23 

WELLS,   CAROLYN    (MRS    HADWIN    HOUGH- 
TON).     Affair    at    Flower    Acres.      284p      $1.75 

^^'"^'^  23-8182 

The  affair— the  murder  of  Douglas  Raynor  in 
the  sun-parlor  of  his  Long  Island  estate.  Flower 
Acres— was  a  complicated  one.  The  persons 
and  motives  involved  were  many:  there  was  a 
martyred  wife  whom  Raynor  had  tricked  into 
marrying  him  and  whom  he  had  goaded  to  de- 
spair" by  his  treatment  of  her;  a  former  lover 
of  the  wife,  likewise  in  despair  over  the  condi- 
tion in  which  he  finds  his  beloved;  a  devoted 
brother  of  Mrs.  Raynor's,  capable  of  any  sacri- 
fice to  save  his  sister;  a  revengeful  nurse,  the 
victim  of  Raynor's  former  wrong-doings;  a  dis- 
inherited son  by  a  former  marriage,  in  posses- 
sion of  a  first  will  and  stealer  of  the  second 
one;  a  black-mailing  accomplice  of  Raynor's 
with  secret  information.  The  unique  feature 
of  the  case  is  that  with  the  many  clues  and 
the  many  serious  suspects  there  are  almost  as 
many  volunteer  confessors,  willing  to  take  the 
guilt  upon  themselves  to  shield  another. 


"The  story- has  been  rather  carelessly  written 
and  contains  scarcely  a  touch  of  characteriza- 
tion, while  the  solution  is  brought  about  more 
by  good  luck  than  by  cleverness  or  close  rea- 
soning power,  and  the  motivation  is  not  always 
plausible.  In  short,  'The  Affair  at  Flower  Acres' 
is  far  from  belonging  to  the  best  of  its  kind, 
but  it  is  ingenious  enough  to  be  entertaining." 
H NY  Times  p24  Ap  29  '23  220w 

"From  the  first  any  crafty  reader  of  detective 
stories  can  pick  out  the  real  murderer  from  the 
crowd.  It  is  even  curiouser  that  the  compiler 
of  the  Nonsense  Anthology  can  write  piose  as 
stale  and  sentimental  as  a  belated  marshmal- 
low."   A.    D.    Douglas 

—  NY  Tribune  p20  My  13  '23  340w 

"Miss  Wells  has  come  close  to  beating  her 
own  record  in  the  framing  of  mystery.  She  has 
supplied,  too,  a  very  complete  company  of  peo- 
ple upon  whom  the  shadow  of  suspicion  may 
rest  with  logical  reason."  E.  W.  Osborn 
+   N    Y  World   pile  Ap  29   '23   180w 

"The  tired  business  man,  as  well  as  those 
not  tired  will  enjoy  'The  Affair  at  Flower 
Acres.'  " 

-I-  Springf'd   Republican  p7a  My  6  '23  140w 

WELLS,  CAROLYN  (MRS  HADWIN  HOUGH- 
TON). Feathers  left  around.  348p  $2  Lippin- 
cott 

23-536.=5 
The  death  of  Hugh  Curran  seems  to  be  a 
complete  mystery.  Valentine  Loft  and  his 
guests  are  dismayed  by  the  discovery  of  his 
body,  the  morning,  following  a  dinner  party  at 
which  he  appeared  to  be  in  perfect  health.  The 
doctor  pronounces  poison  to  be  the  cause  and 
the  police  proceed  to  hunt  for  the  culprit.  Cur- 
ran's  watch,  which  had  disappeared,  is  found 
in  Pauline  Fuller's  room  and  her  picture,  taken 
some  years  before  is  in  the  case.  Pauline  is 
engaged  to  Loft  and  he  refuses  to  believe  the 
evidence  against  her  tho  it  is  made  stronger 
by  her  sudden  disappearance  from  his  house. 
Not  satisfied  with  the  results  gained  by  the 
local  police.  Loft  engages  an  expert  detective, 
who  fathoms  the  whereabouts  of  Pauline,  and 
in  a  masterly  way  brings  the  evidence  together 
which   explains   the   manner  of  Curran's   death 


"  'Feathers  Left  Around'  is  ingenious  enough 
to  keep  the  reader  guessing  at  tine  final  out- 
come. There  are  no  cheap  tricks  employed 
to  confuse  the  peiaon  with  a  taste  for  vicarious 
man  hunting.  Experts  in  this  form  of  enter- 
tainment will  find  this  book  filled  with  suf- 
ficient materia!  to  sharpen  their  wits  and  chal- 
lenge their  cleverness.  For  them  the  exploits 
of  Fleming  vStone  hold  several  liours  of  wide 
awakeness." 

-f    Boston    Transcript    pG    Mr   7    '23    230w 
Cleveland    p27   Ap   '23 
"The    thing   is    done   cleverly    enough    to    keep 
the    reader   guessing   all    the    way    through." 

+  Greensboro  (N.C.)  Daily  News  p7  Ap  1 
'23  90w 
"This  new  [story]  is  written  with  as  much 
freshness  of  interest  as  if  it  were  her  first, 
while  the  care  with  which  it  is  constructed, 
and  the  ingenuity  and  skill  with  which  its  de- 
velopments are  evolved  and  fitted  together  make 
the  siory  one  of  the  best  of  her  Fleming  StoiiT 
series.       But    the    stvie    is    deplorably    careless.'' 

H NY   Times   pl2   F   25   '23    520w 

N    Y  World   p6e  Mr  4   '23   150vv 
"One  cannot  help  thinking  that  it  would  have 
been  more  creditable  to  the  author — and  palat- 
able to  the   reader  if   the   whole   book  had   been 
deflated  and   served   up   as  a   short   story." 

—  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p489  Jl  19 
'23    50 w 

WELLS,  CAROLYN  (MRS  HADWIN  HOUGH- 
TON). More  lives  than  one.  241p  $2  Boni  & 
Liveright 

23-14408 
The  beautiful  society  leader,  Madeline 
Barham,  was  found  murdered  in  an  artist's 
apartment  in  Washington  Square,  at  the  height 
of  the  gayety  of  a  masquerade  party.  When 
the  police  arrived  the  artist,  Locke,  had  dis- 
appeared and  so  had  his  Chinese  servant.  No 
one  present  knew  Mrs  Barham  nor  who  had  in- 
vited her  to  the  party  and  excitement  reigned. 
The  next  morning  the  Chinese  servant  reap- 
peared, but  he  knew  very  little  about  the 
murder,  except  that  he  had  seen  one  of  the 
guests.  Pearl  Jane  Cutler,  leaning  over  the 
body.  Suspicion  had  pointed  to  Pearl  Jane, 
who  was  known  to  be  in  love  with  Locke,  and 
this  statement  helped.  But  Pearl  was  not 
guilty,  and  Locke  could  not  be  found,  and  the 
case  languished  until  Lorimer  Lane,  a  clever 
detective  was  finally  summoned.  In  a  few  short 
weeks    Lane    had    solved    the    problem. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  O  27  '23  140w 
Lit   R  p450  Ja  12  '24   170w 

"Miss  Wells  is  ,a  shrewd  master  of  plot,  and 
understands  the  value  of  a  liberal  injection  of 
humor  in  the  most  feverish  of  mj'stery  tales. 
She  assumes  that  the  average  reader  knows 
only  wh.n.t  he  is  told,  and  she  is  careful  not  to 
get  in  advance  of  his  mental  processes.  Thus 
it  happens  that  'More  Lives  Than  One'  is  a 
satisfying — but  never  a  stimulating — story." 
H Nation  117:495  O  31  '23  60w 

"The  essential  conditions  are  nicely  fulfilled; 
giiilt  for  mui'der  is  clearly  placed  in  the  begin- 
ning, and  then  cleverly  shifted  from  hero  to 
heroine  until  it  returns  to  the  proper  miscreant 
in  the  end.  There  are  few  thrills  and  there  is 
practically  no  horror,  but  there  are  suspense 
and  complication.  An  almost  novel  use  of  mis- 
taken identity  comes  in  effectively,  the  stock 
tricks  which  are  sometimes  used  do  not  jar. 
The  actual  plot,  which  after  all  is  the  main 
thing  about  a  detective  stor.v.  is  a  finely  con- 
structed pattern  which  unravels  very  smoothly." 
-f    N   Y  Times  pl6  O  28  '23  450w 

Springf'd   Republican   p7a  O  28  '23   300w 

WELLS,    CAROLYN    (MRS    HADWIN    HOUGH- 
TON), ed.   Outline  of  humor.     782p   $5  Putnam 
808.7  Humor  23-14710 

An  anthology  of  humor  including  all  sorts 
and  conditions  of  fun,  all  types  and  distinc- 
tions of  wit  and  humor  from  the  earliest 
available  records  down  to  the  twentieth 
century.     The    editor    devotes    her    in<^'-oduction 


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WELLS,  CAROLY N^Contimied 

to  a  defliiition  of  humor  and  supplies  a  con- 
necting- chronicle  tor  the  examples  quoted. 
Separate  sections  are  given  to  the  hunior  of 
each    nation    in    each    age.     Index. 


Booklist  20:131  Ja   '24 
Bookm  58:485  D  '23  150w 
Boston    Transcript   p6   O  20   '23   450w 
"Miss   Wells   ranges  widely    in   her  search  for 
wit,  satire  and  the  odd  tale,  but  of  the  g-enuine 
thing  in  humor,   the  unctuous  and  spontaneous, 
she  has  either  found  or  uses  little." 

—  NY  World  p7e  O  28  '23  260w 

WELLS,  CAROLYN  (MRS  HADWIN  HOUGH- 
TON).  Spooky  Hollow;  a  Fleming  Stone 
story.    368p    $2    I^ippincott 

23-15162 
In  a  little  Vermont  village  the  show  place 
was  "Greatlarch,"  a  beautiful  house  modeled 
after  a  French  chateau.  Here  in  retirement 
lived  the  Vincents;  Homer  Vincent,  middle- 
aged  and  living  otily  for  his  music  and  invent- 
ing; his  sister,  gentle  Miss  Anne;  and  their 
niece,  the  pretty  Rosemary.  One  evening- 
there  appeared  at  "Greatlarch"  a  certain 
Henry  Johnson,  a  dark,  mysterious  person  on 
some  very  important  business.  The  next 
morning  Miss  Anne  was  found  murdered  in 
her  bed  and  her  famous  ruby  had  been  stolen. 
The  sirange  visitor  had  disappeared  leaving 
behind  aim  all  his  possessions,  even  to  hat 
and  overcoat,  but  no  clue  as  to  his  where- 
abouts. There  followed  a  time  of  anxiety, 
spirit  messages,  weird  music,  but  no  solution 
of  the  murder  mystery.  At  last  the  great 
Fleming  Stone  was  summoned  and  he  in  time 
proved    the   crime  a   particularly   diabolical   one. 


"It  is  annoying  to  have  Fleming  Stone 
thrust  upon  us,  also,  when  we  know  exactly, 
from  chapter  three,  what  had  happened,  and 
could  have  told  you  without  so  much  travelling 
and  expense.  Fleming  should  have  a  vaca- 
tion."  I.   W.  L. 

—  Boston    Transcript   p4    O    10    '23    550w 
"Very  clever  detective   story,   one  of  the  best 
she    has    done." 

4-   N    Y      Times   pl8   S   9   '23   550w 
N   Y   World  pGe  S  16  '23  30w 

WELLS,    HERBERT    GEORGE.    Men    like    gods. 

327p   $2   Macmillan    [7s   6d  Cassell] 

23-2806 

A  Utopian  romance  which  imagines  the  race 
three  thousand  years  hence,  a  world  peopled 
by  men  like  gods,  in  which  loveliness,  order, 
health  and  energy  prevail  and  all  the  good 
things  for  which  we  groan  in  this  age  of  con- 
fusion. War  is  abolished,  health  is  universal, 
noxious  weeds,  insects  and  beasts  are  elimin- 
ated. Language  is  dispensed  with  and  con- 
versation is  carried  on  by  a  kind  of  telepathy. 
The  family  too  has  disappeared  and  politics, 
trade  and  competition,  have  been  laid  aside.  A 
group  of  earthlings  is  miraculously  injected  into 
this  new  world  and  thru  their  conversations 
with  the  Utopians  their  different  viewpoints  are 
revealed   and   what   they   think   of   each   other. 


Booklist  19:322  Jl  '23 
"Mr.  Wells  is  handicapped  by  the  number  of 
books  he  has  already  written  and  the  (appar- 
ently) rapid  functioning  of  an  exuberant  imag- 
ination; he  'turns  off'  a  novel,  or  what  not, 
with  too  much  assurance  of  a  public  and  too 
easy  a  command  of  hi.s  craft,  and  so,  in  the 
present  instance,  fails  to  work  his  materinl  in- 
to a  homogeneous  product."  Ralph  Bergengren 
h  Boston    Transcript   p2   My   26   '23    1200w 

Cleveland    p50    Jl    '23 

Dial  75:285  S  '23  1450w 

"This  is  hardly  likely  to  take  rank  as  one  of 

Wells'   greatest  books.   It   lacks  the   hammering, 

driving  power  of  much  of  his  earlier  work;  but 

it  is  difflcult,  if  not  impossible  to  find  an  effec- 


tive   argument   against   ranking:   it   as   the    most 
beautiful  thing  that  he   has  ever  done." 

H Greensboro    (N.C.)     Dally    News    pl9    Jl 

29  '23  520w 

"I  don't  quite  see  how  so  many  people  accept 
this  kind  of  thing  from  Wells  as  fiction,  but — 
we  do.  The  truth  is,  the  play  of  this  man's 
mind  is  in  itself  so  amusing  and  even  so  breath- 
less an  adventure  that  we  are  ready  to  go  more 
than  half-way  in  make-believe  in  furbishing  up 
the  make-believe  required  in  a  'novel.'  And  at 
any  time,  along  our  road  of  peering  and  ani- 
mated reconnaissance,  the  guide's  monologue  of 
witty  and*  timely  comment  is  likely  to  be  broken 
by  some  flash  of  revealing  eloquence."  H.  W. 
Boynton 

+   Ind  110:379  Je  9  '23  640w 

"There  are  some  clever  bits  of  characteriza- 
tion, amusing  touches  of  satire  in  the  account 
of  the  conspiracy  of  the  earthlings  and  many 
well-done  descriptions  of  the  cultivated  beau- 
ties of  a  land  where  trees  were  never  allowed 
to  suffer  from  blight,  or  from  the  ravages  of 
parasites.  'Men  Like  Gods'  is  an  entertaining 
story  and  adds  a  new  and  often  alluring  Utopia 
to  the  many  visions  of  that  delectable  country 
transcribed  for  us  by  men  of  many  minds."  L. 
M.  Field 

-f-   !nt    Bk    R   p54  Je  '23   780w 

"  'Men  Like  Gods.'  which  is  not  only  inferior 
and  commonplace,  but  a  plagiarism  from  Wells's 
own  early  books,  is  a  natural  consequence  of  his 
theories  and  also  of  his  equipment  as  a  writer. 
He  has  been  obsessed  by  opinions  rather  than 
possessed  by  ideas  and  emotions;  he  has  been  a 
pamphleteer  and  a  propagandist  rather  than  an 
artist,  and,  like  pamphlets,  his  books  are  likely 
to  be  discarded  when  the  interest  for  which  he 
is  propaganding  ceases  to  be  a  living  interest." 
M.    M.    Colum 

—  Lit    R    p809   Jl    7   '23   2700w 

"In  all  of  Wells's  new  book  there  is  nothing 
which  he  himself  has  not  said  several  times  be- 
fore, but  withal  there  is  his  unquenchable 
enthusiasm  which  keeps  his  work  from  being 
ever  really  stale."  J.  W.  Krutch 
-f-   Nation  117:90  Jl  25  '23  950w 

"Mr.  Wells  may  often  be  disagreed  with  in 
detail:  he  is  at  least  right  in  his  premises.  A 
perusal  of  his  novel  in  conjunction  with  a  com- 
mentary would  be  useful.  'Men  Like  Gods'  taken 
en  sandviche  with,  say,  Punnett's  'Mendelism,' 
Trotter's  'Instincts  of  the  Herd,'  Thouless's  Psy- 
chology of  Religion,'  Carr-Saunders's  'Popula- 
tion Problem,'  Whetham  on  eugenics,  and  a 
good  compendium  of  recent  psychology,  would 
be  a  very  wholesome  employment  of  the  sci- 
entific  imagination."   J.    S.   H. 

-I-   Nature  111:591  My  5  '23  2150w 

"After  a  succession  of  thin  and  meretricious 
novels,  like  The  Soul  of  a  Bishop  and  The  Secret 
Places  of  the  Heart.  Mr.  Wells  is  back  once 
more  in  his  old  milieu,  with  something  of  his 
old  deftness  and  sense  of  the  comic.  Men  Like 
Gods  may  taste  like  ashes  and  sawdust  to  a 
younger  generation  that  knows  not  Wells,  but 
there  is  a  large  body  of  readers  who  will  find 
in  Mr.  Wells'ls  latest  novel  a  little  of  the  lost 
flavor  of   their  vouth."     L:   Mumford 

-I New    Repub   35:102   Je   20   '23    1900w 

Reviewed   bv  Raymond  Mortimer 

New  Statesman   20:695  Mr  17  '23   ISOOw 

Reviewed   bv  H:   J.   Forman 

N  Y  Times  pl  My  27  '23  3050w 

"Nothing  desirable  will  ever  be  created  or  at- 
tained by  such  laziness  as  Mr.  Wells  displays 
in  this  latest  of  his  books.  How  terribly  he  has 
slumped  since  'Tono-Bungay'  into  the  air  cush- 
ioned ease  of  popularity!  To  create  a  character 
is  now  too  much  work;  he  lifts  his  out  of  the 
headlines  of  the  daily  papers."  Isabel  Pater- 
son 

—  NY   Tribune  pl7  My  20  '23  1450w 

"  'Men    Like    Gods'    is    written   after    the   best 
Wellsian    fashion,    with    richness    of    humor,    of 
satire,   of  description   and   of  imagery." 
-f  N  Y  World  p6e  My  27  '23  290w 

"Men  Like  Gods  is  not  a  rhapsody.  It  is  a 
book  with  a  tang  about  it.  with  plenty  of  hu- 
mour, and  plenty  of  satire.  .  .  One  of  the 
most  delightful  novels   that  Mr.  Wells  has  ever 


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written.  It  is  a  brilliant  and  inspired  coup 
d'oeil  and  the  best  possible  tonic  for  a  Ruhr- 
depressed    public." 

H Spec    130:556    Mr    31    '23    900w 

Wis    Lib   Bui   19:161  Je  "23 
Reviewed    by    Archibald    MacLei.sh 
Yale  R  n  s  13:167  O  '23  960w 

WELSH,  ROBERT  ETHOL.  Classics  of  the 
*    soul's  quest.    342p    $1.75   Doran    [7s   6d  Hodder 

&   S.] 

804   Religion  in  literature  23-6376 

"This  book  bears  renewed  testimony  to  man's 
incorrigible  instinct  for  religion.  .  .  Beginning 
with  St.  Augustine  and  the  'Confessions'  Pro- 
fessor Welsh  gives  four  chapters  to  Dante  and 
then  passes  in  rapid  review  Tauler,  the  'Theo- 
logia  Germanica,'  The  'Imitatio  Christi,'  Bun- 
yan's  'Grace  Abounding'  and  'The  Pilgrim's  Pro- 
gress,' Law's  'Serious  Call,'  Tolstoy's  'Confes- 
sion,' Pater's  'Marius  the  Epicurean,'  and  Ta- 
gore's  'Meditations.'  There  are  side  glances  at 
other  classics  of  the  soul's  pilgrimage  and  an 
appendix  outlines  our  debt  to  Saint  Teresa, 
Pascal,  Jeremy  Taylor,  Newman,  Amiel,  and 
others;  while  incidentally  Omar  is  gratefully 
remembered." — Lit  R 


"To  many  the  unique  contribution  of  the 
book  will  be  the  sketch  of  the  Indian  classic, 
Tagore's  'Meditations.'  Few  have  delineated 
so  well  the  impact  of  the  modern  mind  and 
Christian  atmosphere  on  regions  outside  the 
organized   church  as  Tagore." 

+    Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  28  '23  360w 
"With  its  apt  citations,  his  book  will  be  trea- 
sured   by    those    that    are    interested    in    things 
spiritual." 

-\ Boston   Transcript  p7  Je  2  '23  560w 

"His  style  is  so  good  at  its  best  that  the  • 
book  as  a  whole  ought  to  be  better.  But  he 
too  frequently  lapses  into  carelessness  with 
the  result  that  some  sentences  are  disjointed 
and  some  paragraphs  wooden.  These  things, 
however,  do  not  obscure,  though  they  mar,  his 
admirable  outline  and  summary  of  the  Divine 
Comedy  and  his  appreciation  of  Bunyan's 
mighty  allegory."  E.  M.  Chapman 
-] Lit   R   p208   N  3   '23   SOOw 

WERNER,    MORRIS    ROBERT.     Barnum.    381p 

il  $3.50  Harcourt 
B   or  92   Barnum,    Phineas  Taylor        23-7287 

The  principal  source  of  this  life  of  Barn  vim  is 
the  autobiography,  now  out  of  print.  It  con- 
tains a  full  account  of  the  youth  of  this  typical 
American  and  greatest  of  showmien,  the  "Prince 
of  Humbugs"  as  he  was  pleased  to  call  himself, 
and  of  the  principal  events  of  his  career.  It 
traces  his  ups  and  downs  of  fortune  and  his 
greatest  successes,  among  these  his  manage- 
ment of  the  midget.  General  Tom  Thumb,  and 
of  Jenny  Lind's  American  tour  and  his  senior 
partnership  in  Barnum  and  Bailey's  circus. 
Bibliography  and   index. 


"Mr.  Werner  has  told  the  story  of  this  large, 
complex,  winning,  vulgar  personality  with  ad- 
mirable success  and  effectiveness.  .  .  We  have 
a  thoroughly  American  subject,  handled  in  a 
thoroughly  American  fashion."  Gamaliel  Brad- 
ford 

4-  Atlantic's    Bookshelf   My    '23    500w 
Bookm   57:327  My   '23   350w 
Reviewed   by   F.    C,    Bowker 

Boston   Transcript  p3  Ap  28  '23  1300w 
Cleveland   p40   My   '23 
"This    voluminous    and    incredibly    fascinating 
account   of  a   life   which    was    itself  voluminous 
and   incredible    is  one   of  the   most   entertaining 
books   of   the   year;    a   detailed   and   colorful    re- 
flection   of    an    amusing    life    amid    an    environ- 
ment  which   can   never  be  duplicated." 
-f   Dial  75:99  Jl  '23  160w 
Reviewed  by  W.   P.   Eaton 

Freeman    7:228    My   16    '23   2550w 
"The    great    value    of    Mr.    Werner's    book    is 
that    it    enables   us   to    look   at   Barnum   from   a 
new  view-point,  and  from  an  angle  which,  to  the 


best    of   my    knowledge,    has    never   before   been 
presented."     Houdini 

-f  Int  Bk  R  p8  My  '23  2600w 
"It  must  have  been  a  temptation  to  Mr. 
Werner  to  indulge  in  a  cheap  Stracheyism  in 
his  biography  of  Barnum — to  bring  the  show- 
man and  his  manifold  humbuggeries  and  vul- 
garities under  a  constant  play  of  irony.  He 
has  done  well  to  resist  it."  Allan  Nevins 
+  Lit  R  p581  Ap  7  '23  1450w 
"Barnum  is  so  typical  of  his  age  that  he 
abundantly  deserves  to  be  dug  up  from  the 
limbo  into  which  he  has  fallen  since  his  various 
autobiographical  works  went  out  of  print.  He 
deserves,  indeed,  a  gayer  and  racier  volume 
than  has  just  been  written  about  him.  But 
his  biographer  has  at  least  cut  away  the  ex- 
crescences which  disfigure  the  numerous  ed- 
itions of  the  'Life  of  P.  T.  Barnum  Written  by 
Himself,'  has  harmonized  the  gospels  as  there 
originally  delivered,  and  has  tested  and  en- 
larged the  narrative  with  research  in  many 
quarters.  The  result  is  almost  a  history  of 
American  popular  taste  for  a  century."  Carl 
Van  Doren 

-f  Nation  116:sup429  Ap  11  '23  1200w 
"Mr.  Werner  has  kept  his  biography  to  the 
surface  of  things;  he  has  attempted  no  psycho- 
analytic research,  leaving  the  reader  to  do  his 
own  probing,  for  which,  however,  ample  material 
is  supplied.  For  one  who  wishes  to  understand 
our  fascinating  and  complex  American  scene, 
here  is  easily  one  of  the  most  important  biog- 
raphies  of   a  decade."     Bruce   Bliven 

+   New    Repub   34:274   My   2   '23    1350w 

New  Statesman  22:supl0  O  13  '23  1300w 
"Certainly     no     more    amusing    or    genuinely 
American     work     of    biography     has     appeared' 
among  us   in   many  a  long  day."   T:   L.  Masson 
-h   N  Y  Times  p3  Ap  8  '23  3050w 
"Mr.   Werner   is  dispassionate  and  just  in  his 
account    of    Barnum,    and    the    man    interested 
him  enough  for  him  to  be  able  to  communicate 
that    interest   to   the    reader   in   a  crisp  journal- 
istic   manner."      Burton    Rascoe 

+   N   Y  Tribune  pl7  My  6  '23  900w 
"All  of  'Barnum'   is  entertaining  and  at  least 
a  third  of  it  tremendous  fun."     Laurence  Stal- 
lings 

-I-   N   Y  World  p9e  Ap  1  '23  1230w 
Outlook    133:766    Ap    25    '23    30w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:302  Je  '23 
R   of    Rs   67:670  Je  '23   250w 
Spec  131:758  N  17  '23  500w 
"This  biogiaphy   recreates   breezily  and    read- 
ably,   yet    with    a    reasonable    degree    of    reli- 
ability,   the    vivid    personality    and    picturesque 
career    of    the   greatest   of    all    American    show- 
men." 

+  Springf'd     Republican     p6     Ap     16     '23 
lOOOw 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:133    My    '23 

WERTENBAKER,        THOMAS        JEFFERSON. 

Planters      of     colonial     Virginia.      260p      $2.50 

Princeton  univ.  press 

975.5       Virginia — History.      Slavery     in     the 
United    States  23-3542 

"Dr.  Wertenbaker  gives  us  the  fruit  of  his 
researches  in  regard  to  what  may  be  termed 
the  class  history  of  the  Virginia  planters,  show- 
ing how  they  developed  into  clearly  marked 
groups  soon  after  the  period  of  starvation  and 
pestilence  had  ended  at  Jamestown.  Near  the 
outset  he  treats  of  the  indentured  servants  who 
were  brought  to  the  colony  in  such  large 
numbers  in  the  seventeenth  century." — N  Y 
Times 


"A  serious  defect  of  this  valuable  and  sug- 
gestive book  lies  in  its  deductive  treatment  of 
its   subject."     P.    A.    Bruce 

H Am    Hist    R   28:552   Ap   '23   lOOOw 

"Painstaking  and  scholarly  in  presentation." 
R.  D.  W. 

-f-   Boston  Transcript  p5  D  30  '22  650w 

"The  style  of  the  work  deserves  especial  at- 
tention. It  is  strong,  smoothly  flowing  and 
lucid  without  the  faintest  sign  of  rhetorical  af- 


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WERTEN  BAKER.   T:   J. — Contiiincc!! 
fectation.     The  contrast  to  much  of  the  output 
of  what  may  be  called  the  university  group  of 
historians — professors    and    graduate    students — 
is   refreshing." 

+  N    Y  Times  p4  Ja  21   '23   1450w 
R  of  Rs  67:110  Ja  '23  120vv 
"Mr.   Wertenbaker  has  produced   in  this   brief 
study    an    authoritative    and    deeply    interesting 
history   of   Colonial   Virginia.      It   is   a   model   of 
careful    documentation." 

+  Spec  130:515  Mr  24  '23  1200w 

WESTON,  GEORGE.     Queen  of  the  world.  259p 

$1.75  Dodd 

23-5622 

"He  had  promised  his  fiancee,  had  Dr.  Bret- 
tin  Allison,  that  all  the  time  he  was  in  Paris 
studying  germs  he  would  not  speak,  or  dine,  or 
have  anything  to  do  with,  any  French  damosel. 
Fortunately,  one  day,  along  came  a  friend — 
male — bringing  another  friend,  a  French  secret 
service  agent,  who  offered  him  a  'ticket  for  ad- 
venture." He  was  to  go  to  a  certain  Swiss 
hotel,  and  there  watch  what  he  should  see. 
There  a  mysterious  individual  remained  shut  up 
in  his  room,  until  Brett,  called  to  prescribe  for 
him  ordered  him  out.  He  came  down  to  dinner, 
and  results  followed.  Of  course,  there  could 
not  be  results  without  a  girl." — Boston  Trans- 
cript 


"The  yarn  is  very  readable,   in  spite,   or  per- 
haps  of,    its   incongruities.      It   shows   the   hand 
mark  of  the  pen  of  the  easy  writer."     I.   W.   L. 
+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  4  '23  550w 

Reviewed  by  H.  W.   Boynton 

Ind   110:262   Ap   14   '23   2'JOw 

"Mr.   Weston   has   made  a   good  job  out  of   it 
in  handling  rather  ticklish  material  which  would 
have    been    cheap    in    less    competent    hands." 
+   Lit   R  p634  Ap  21  '23  200w 

"The  kindly,  gentle,  sympathetic  humor  with 
which  several  of  the  characters  are  developed, 
the  play  of  fantasy  throughout  the  story  and 
the  light  and  graceful  touch  with  which  it  is  all 
written  are  responsible  for  no  small  part  of  its 
charm   and   interest." 

-f   N  Y  Times  pl9  Mr  4  '23  450w 

"It  is  lightly,  pleasantly  written  without  an 
undue  regard  for  the  dull  probabilities  of  life. 
The  mystery  in  it  is  not  very  convincing,  but 
somehow  one  goes  straight  on  reading  to  the 
end.  There  is  a  certain  snap,  ti  jaunty  air,  to 
it  that  makes  it  fascinating  even  though  one 
sees  thru  it  all  the  time."  Edith  Leighton 
4-  N   Y  Tribune  p22  Mr  18  '23  250w 

WHARTON,  MRS  EDITH  NEWBOLD  (JONES). 

Son  at  the   front.   426p  $2  Scribner 

23-12336 

"Mrs.  Wharton's  story  is  the  simple  one  of 
John  Campton,  the  great  American  painter, 
whose  only  son,  born  in  France,  is  subject  to 
military  service.  The  father,  his  divorced  wife, 
and  her  banking  husband  all  interest  them- 
selves to  keep  the  boy  out  of  danger,  but  he 
eludes  their  care  and  while  ostensibly  on  staff 
work  he  is  really  with  his  regiment  at  the 
front.  He  is  wounded,  recovers,  goes  back,  is 
wounded  again  and  returns  to  die.  The  theme 
of  the  novel  is  American  participation  in  the 
war,  dramatized  by  the  conversion  of  John 
Oampton  from  a  position  of  indifferent  neutral- 
ity at  the  outset  to  a  conviction  that  no  'civil- 
ized man  could  afford  to  stand  aside  from 
such  a  conflict.  '  Its  substance  is  the  goings 
and  comings  of  Campton  among  all  sorts  of 
people,  his  humble  French  servants,  his  dis- 
tinguished Parisian  friends,  his  nondescript 
fellow  countrymen,  each  of  whom  represents 
some  attitude  towards  the  War." — New  Repub 


Reviewed    by    E.    S.    Sergeant 

Atlantic's  Bookshelf  N  '23  600w 
Booklist  20:60  N  '23 

"Mrs.    Wharton    has    added    another    fine    and 
true  war  book  to  the  list  which  includes  'Three 


•vAv 


Soldiers,'  'Through  the  Wheat,'  'The  Odyssey 
of  a  Torpedoed  Transport,'  and  one  or  two 
others." 

+   Bookm   58:202   O  '23   ISOw 

"The  epic  of  the  World  War  has  been  and  in 
the  future  will  be  written  from  many  different 
viewpoints.  It  seems  very  doubtful  to  us  if 
anyone  in  any  language  could  write  it  so 
truthfully  and  so  sympathetically  as  Mrs. 
Wharton  has  done  for  the  parents  of  the  war. 
Prom  beginning  to  end  she  has  not  once  been 
diverted  from  her  true  course."  D.  L.  Mann 
+   Boston    Transcript   p4   S   15   '23  2150w 

"An  imitation  tapestry,  of  faded  design,  and, 
when  one  compares  it  with  most  of  Mrs.  Whar- 
ton's  novels,    of   inferior   workmanship."   L.    B. 

—  Freeman  8:431  Ja  9  '24  200w 
Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily   News  p8  O   7 

'23  550w 
liat  Mrs.  Wharton  has  really  done  is  to 
try  to  use  the  war  for  art's  sake,  and  in  so 
doing  she  becomes  a  pioneer.  Her  book  will 
live  or  die  not  because  of  any  light  it  throws 
on  the  great  conflict,  but  because  of  a  small 
group  of  personages  placed  in  a  war  setting. 
The  book  is  a  study  in  sensibilities,  with  a  son 
at  the  front  as  the  irritant."  H.  de  W.  F. 
+   Ind    111:157    O    13    '23    2100w 

"Here  there  is  nothing  trivial;  the  subject 
has  all  the  dignity  of  tragedy,  and  the  style 
rises  to  the  level  of  the  theme.  It  must  cer- 
tainly rank  high  among  our  novelists'  achieve- 
ments."    W:    L.    Phelps 

-h    Int   Bk  R  pl5  O  '23  3150w 

"The  book  gives  me  an  odd  sense  of  belated- 
ness,  both  as  to  matter  and  manner.  .  .  Mrs. 
Wharton  has  as  usual,  a  tale  to  tell  of  char- 
acter and  manners.  For  the  rest,  I  believe  the 
book  is  chiefly  of  cathartic  value  for  its  author. 
Every  creative  writer  who  felt  deeply  those 
war  years  has  sooner  or  later  to  get  them  out 
of  his  system."  H.  W.  Boynton 
h   Lit    R    p61   S   22   '23   1050w 

"Much  as  I  admire  Mrs.  Wharton's  skill  in 
character-drawing  and  her  impeccable  style,  I 
find  in  her  book,  as  probably  Mr.  Lawrence 
would:  'Post-mortem  effects  Ghosts.'  "  J: 
Macy 

h   Nation   117:sup399  O  10  '23   320w 

"Mrs.  Wharton  has  isolated  a  human  situa- 
tion, and  presented  it  with  an  oily  sauce  of 
fiction,  but  she  has  not  penetrated  it.  And 
unfortunately  the  spurious  quality  of  Mrs. 
Wharton's  art  does  violence  to  her  theme. 
Mrs.  WTiarton's  own  sincerity  is  beyond  ques- 
tion. Her  book  is  a  tribute  from  America  to 
France.  It  is  a  memorial  of  American  boys 
who  died  at  the  front  for  France.  But  with 
all  its  richness  of  intention  it  somehow  sug- 
gests the  automobile  excursions  of  American 
Red  Cross  girls  in  Paris  to  visit  the  graves." 
R.   M.    Lovett 

1-   New    Repub    36:105    S    19    '23    1200w 

"The  most  disagreeable  war-novel  that  I  have 
had  the  misfortune  to  read.  The  characters 
are  unpleasant,  but  not  interestins;  the  satire 
is  heavy;  and  the  sentiments  undistinguished. 
There  is  hardly  a  trace  of  the  old  skill  and 
delicacy,  but  it  seems  unlikely  that  so  solid- 
seeming  a  talent  is  permanently  dissipated." 
Raymond   Mortimer 

—  New  Statesman   22:supl8  O  13  '23  220w 

"So  far  she  has  done  nothing  that  equals  it. 
She  sounds  the  finest  depths  of  sentiment  with- 
out becoming  sentimental  for  a  moment.  In 
choosing  her  time  and  her  atmosphere,  she  was 
rather  audacious."    M.  F.   Egan 

4  N   Y   Times  pi   S   9   '23   2500w 

"If  this  were  the  year  1915  or  even  1917  in- 
stead of  the  year  1923,  Mrs.  Wharton's  novel 
might  not  seem  so  profitless  an  endeavor:  and  to 
any  one  who  ha.3  not  yet  read  a  war  novel  it 
may  lie  recommended  wholeheartedly,  for  Mrs. 
Wharton  has  not  lost  her  gift  for  anatomizing 
people  she  dislikes,  which  is  to  say  the  major- 
ity of  those  who  compose  the  human  race. 
But  this  very  gift  makes  one  suspect  that, 
with  her  chill  temperament,  she  ought  to  be 
the  last  person  in  the  world  to  write  a  war 
novel' — and  possiblv  she  is."  Burton  Rascoe 
h   N   Y  Tribune  pl7   S   9   '23   2500w 


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"Never  has  Mrs.  Wharton  revealed  more 
clearly  than  in  this  completed  work  the  depth 
of  sympathy  that  goes  with  her  power  as  a 
writer  of  stories."    E.  W.   Osborn 

+  N  Y  World  p8e  S  U  '23  480w 
"The  book  is  a  human  document,  in  atmos- 
phere like  the  war  books,  truthful  in  its  'de- 
lineation of  character,  veracious  in  its  account 
of  war  psycliology;  admirable  because  of  the 
sincerity  with  which  it  treats  of  a  situation 
deeply   interesting,    but — not   a  great   novel." 

H No    Am    219:139    Ja    '24    900w 

"It  would  have  been  a  pity  if  Mrs.  Wharton 
had  allowed  the  brainless  'bromide'  that  no 
one  wants  war  novels  to  deter  her  from^  apply- 
ing her  subtle  art  in  depicting  the  psychology 
of  Paris  in  war  time.  .  .  Whether  as  an  inter- 
pretation of  mass  psychology  or  as  a  dissection 
of  individual  emotion,  the  novel  will  take  its 
place  as  a  worthy  addition  to  American  fic- 
tion."    R.    D.    Townsend 

4-   Outlook    135:149    S    26    '23    700w 
Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:510  D  '23 
"The    book    jars.    Its    points    are    not    merely 
easy,   but  cheap."  Gerald  Gould 

—  Sat  R  136:390  O  6  '23  550w 
"The  novel  is  a  fine  one,  in  some  ways  the  fin- 
est of  a  very  fine  writer.  The  emotion  is  genu- 
ine and  profound,  without  the  smallest  taint  of 
sentimentality  or  mock  heroics;  the  characters 
and  the  scene  are  fully  and  vividly  presented 
with  an  ease  and  certainty  of  touch  that  few 
living  novelists  can  command.  The  book  is,  in 
fact,  a  deeply  affecting  one,  almost,  indeed,  too 
painful  for  those  who  have  not  yet  forgotten 
the  War;  and  for  those  who  have,  we  can  im- 
agine   no   more    salutaiy    reminder." 

+  Spec  131:514  O  13  '23  750w 
"The  most  obvious  characteristic  of  this 
story  is  its  reality.  .  .  The  actual  plot  does  not 
seem  to  matter  much;  it  is  the  interplay  of 
character  upon  character  under  strong  emotion- 
al  stress   that   makes   the   book  what   it   is." 

+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p6  O  15  '23  660w 
"All  the  characteristic  qualities  of  Mrs. 
Wharton's  style,  her  pliancy  and  penetration, 
her  leisured,  serious  beauty  are  here.  Accom- 
plishment and  certainty  have  gone  to  the  mak- 
ing of  her  story.  A  war  novel  may  be  thought 
dull,  unnecessary,  at  this  time;  but  the  pendu- 
hmi  swings  back;  and  when  the  world  is  bet- 
ter adjusted  this  book  will  be  seen  to  have  its 
permanent  value  among  the  minor  documents  of 
the  war." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p618  S  20 
•23    780w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:444   O   '23 

WHEELER,  HAROLD  FELIX  BAKER.  Story 
of  the  British  navy.  3S4p  il  .$2.50  McBride 
[10s   6d  Harrap] 

359  Great  Britain — History,  Naval 
A  popular,  readable  account  of  the  exploits  of 
the  British  navy  during  its  thousand  years' 
history  from  the  time  of  King  Alfred,  who  is 
usually  regarded  as  its  founder.  One-third  of 
the  space  is  devoted  to  its  share  in  the  world 
war.   The  illustrations  are  in  color.    Index. 


Bookm    57:219   Ap    '23    120w 

"Mr.  Wheeler  has  done  excellent  work  in  his 
telling  of  this  unexampled  story."   TZ.  .T.    C. 

4-   Boston  Transcript  p5  Ja  13   '23  650w 

"It  is  a  syncopated  version  of  sea  power  in 
English  history,  and  the  color  is  not  confined  to 
the  Tjlates — a  Gibbonian  subject  in  a  style  that 
in  places  labors  to  achieve  a  George  Ade  flavor. 
With  more  dignity  it  could  pas.**  foi-  history; 
with  more  simplicity  for  juvenile.  As  it  is.  it  is 
all  we  have  of  its  kind,  and  fortunately  it  is  a 
very  dramatic  subject  and  done  in  an  enteitain- 
ing"  style."  Capt.  J.  M.  Scammell 
—  +   Lit    R   p484   F   24   '23    680w 

"Body  and  color  are  given  the  book  by  vivid 
tales  of  heroism  and  gnllantry — empowered  to 
thrill  and  intrigue  even  in  this  .'sophisticated  age 
of  egos  and  complexes.  To  ofL.=et  this  human- 
interest  stuff  (and  much  less  .successfully)  Mr. 
WTieeler  spends  voluminous  pages  in  describing 
types  of  ships  and  armaments  and  minute  stra- 


tegical details  of  naval  engagements,  which  can 
only  confuse  and  antagonize  the  lay  readers  for 
whom   the  book  is  evidently  intended." 
+  —  N  Y  Times  p6  F  11  '23  550vv 

N    Y   Tribune  p24   Mr  18   '23   220w 
R  of  Rs  67:334  Mr  '23  60w 
"A.    book     which     sums     up     in     a     readable, 
straightforward  narrative  the  thousand  eventful 
years    that    have    gone    to    the    making    of    the 
British  navy." 

+  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p814  D  7 
'23    140w 

WHEELER,    WILLIAM    MORTON.        Social   life 
among  the  insects.  375p  il  $4     Harcourt 

595.7     Insects  23-12888 

•'First  delivered  as  a  series  of  lectures  at  the 
Lowell  Institute  in  Boston  in  March  1922.  .  . 
Anyone  with  a  natural  curiosity  concerning 
those  weirdest  of  our  fellow  creatures,  the  in- 
sects, will  find  so  much  to  astonish  him  that  he 
will  follow,  with  amazed  interest,  the  account 
of  twenty-four  of  their  societies  representing 
different  stages  in  the  evolution  of  the  social 
habit.  Good  figures  (116  drawings  and  photo- 
graphs) supplement  the  text.  The  documentary 
appendix  refers  to  the  sources  of  such  informa- 
tion in  the  book  as  is  not  based  on  Professor 
'V\''heeler's  own  extensive  investigations.  Social 
Life  among  the  Insects  is  not,  despite  its  title, 
an  entomological  treatise  solely.  The  deeper 
message  of  the  writer  rings  through  the  pages 
in  a  sermon  to  such  members  of  human  society 
as  look  upon  themselves  as  something  apart 
from  biological  laws  that  govern  all  life  im- 
partially."— Atlantic's    Bookshelf 


"as  an  illustration  of  what  can  be  done  to 
render  scientific  facts  democratically  available, 
one  can  point  with  pleasure  to  Social  Life 
among  the  Insects."     E.  M.  Patch 

+  Atlantic's    Bookshelf   N    '23   500w 
"Fascinating   book   with   striking    illustrations 
scattered   through   the    text."      E.    N. 

-t-  Boston  Transcript  p7  O  27  '23  680w 
"Throughout  the  work  the  author  maintains  a 
strictly  scientific  attitude,  in  striking  contrast 
to  the  great  I<>ench  entomologist  Fabre,  who 
so  frequently  interpreted  his  truly  marvellous 
observations  in  a  reactionary  way."  B.  W. 
Kunkel 

-I-  Lit  R  pl86  O  27  '23  580w 
"The  inexperienced  English  reader  may  find 
some  difliculty  with  the  rugosities  of  modern 
American  scientific  terminology;  but  this  Is  a 
small  drawback  to  a  fascinating  book.  Inci- 
dentally, it  is  accompanied  by  a  scholarly  bib- 
liogiaphy." 

_l The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p866   D 

13  '23  400w 

WHITE,    CHARLES    ELMER.      Bungalow   book. 

221p   il  $2.25   Macmillan 
728   Bungalows.     Architecture,   Domestic 

23-5601 

"This  is  not  merely  a  book  of  plans  nor  is  it 
a  learned  dissertation  on  construction  or  super- 
vision. The  aim  has  been  to  offer  to  average 
readers  a  little  book  which  covers  in  a  manner 
all  that  amateurs  need  to  know  about  the  plan- 
ning and  building  of  bungalows."  (Preface)  Not 
only  does  it  tell  about  the  style,  material  and 
method  of  contruction  of  the  house,  but  about 
its  plumbing,  heating  and  illuminating,  decorat- 
ing andfurni.shing,  wilh  directions  how  to  sup- 
ervise the  construction  of  your  own  home.  Il- 
lustrations and  plans. 


"Altogether  it  is  a  practical  and  fascinating 
book,  not  only  for  futuie  builders,  but  for  those 
whose   bungalow  can   be  built   only  of  imagina- 

lon— .^  Boston    Transcript   p4   Je   30   '23   520w 

"The  architect-author  appreciates  the  prob- 
lems that  confront  the  would-be  planner  or 
builder  and  anticipates  points  that  w'ould  not 
occur  to  the  amateur  in  time  to  guard  agamst 
faulty  construction  or  to  provide  for  comforts 
usuailv  omitted  bv  the  ordinary  contractor. 
+  J   Home  Econ  15:506  S  '23  280w 


556 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


WHITE,    WILLIAM    ALANSON.    Insanity    and 
the   criminal   law.    281p  $2.50    (12s)    Macmillan 
340.6      Psychology,      Pathological.      Criminal 
law  23-3151 

"The  author  points  out  the  absurdities  of 
the  present  situation  showing'  by  case  after 
case  how  irreparable  blunders  are  made  by  the 
failure  of  the  lawyers  and  the  alienists  to  speak 
the  same  language.  But  White's  criticism  is 
only  in  part  destructive.  He  offers  a  valuable 
constructive  suggestion.  This  is,  briefly,  that 
where  the  defense  of  insanity  is  raised  the 
court  shall  call  one  or  more  experts,  who 
shall  prepare  a  written  report,  which  they 
shall  read  in  full  after  which  they  may 
be  cross-examined  by  either  side.  .  .  Besides 
this  particular  point  the  book  is  filled  with  ex- 
pert observations  on  crime  and  criminals.  [It 
is  also]  replete  with  accounts  of  actual  cases, 
mostly  echoing  the  creaking  of  the  legal  ma- 
chinery where  it  has  had  to  bear  the  burden 
of  a  combination  of  psychiatric  and  legal  ques- 
tions. An  interesting  feature  is  a  chapter  given 
over  to  a  criticism  of  the  author's  suggestions 
by  a  prominent  attorney.  Professor  Edwin  R. 
Keedy  of  the  law  department  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  together  with  White's  rejoin- 
ders."— Lit  R 


Dr.    White    in    his   book   throws    the    search- 
light of  a  vigorous  personality  on  that  obscure 
region    where    medicine    and    law    encroach    on 
each  other's  domains."  J:  E.   Lind 
+  Lit   R  p750  Je   9   '23  420w 

"His  book  is  not  too  technical  for  the  general 
reader  and  the  instances  of  miscarried  justice 
which  he  cites  will  convince  readers  that  some 
changes  are  needed." 

+  Springfd   Republican  pl2  S  14  '23  350w 

"The  wide  range  of  the  book  leads  the  author 
tar  afield  mto  a  discussion  of  the  functions  of 
criminal  law,  the  nature  of  law  itself,  the 
nature  of  crime,  the  concept  criminal,  and 
certain  fundamental  p.sychological  motives. 
I  hough  his  conclusions  may  be  arguable  in  some 
respects,  his  experiences  entitle  him  to  speak 
With    some    authority." 

"^ ::^'^*1^   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p219   Mr 

29  '23  lOOw 


WHITE,      WILLIAM      PATTERSON.        Wagon 
wheel.  320p  $1.75  Little  wagon 

23-5947 
"  'The  Wagon  Wheel'  represents  a  cross-sec- 
tion of  the  old  West  peculiar  to  modern-day 
movies  and  fiction.  That  is  to  say,  it  pictures 
desperately  bad  men  who  concoct  the  most 
despicable  plots  to  trap  the  innocent,  commit 
most  of  the  crimes  in  the  calendar,  and  in  mo- 
ments of  leisure,  indulge  freely  in  what  is 
known  in  these  furtive,  arid  days  as  'hootch.' 
Opposed  to  this  group  of  graceless  rascals  are 
one  man  and  a  girl.  But  courageous  and  re- 
sourceful as  are  Bill  Derr  and  Dolly  Warren 
they  are  obliged  to  put  forth  their  best  to  coun- 
ter the  plots  and  maneuvers  of  Pap  Hawkins 
his  three  desperado  sons,  the  sheriff,  and  the 
Indian  agent." — .Springfd  Republican 


"A  quick  moving,  honest,  melodramatic  west- 
ern 'thriller,'  making  no  pretence  to  be  any- 
thing else,  and  as  such  proving  satisfying  even 
to  many  who  would   hate  to   admit   it!" 

+  Boston   Transcript  p5  Mr  17   '23   230w 
"There    is    no    doubt    that    the    story    gallops, 
rears,   snorts  and  cavorts   in   a   thoroughly  con- 
ventional Western  style." 

N  Y  Times  p20  Ap  1  '23  280w 
"We  recommend   Mr.  White's  book  as  a  capi- 
tal   tonic    for    the    spring    reader.      It    stirs    the 
blood."     E.    W.    Osborn 

+  N   Y  World   p8e  Mr  18  '23  300w 
"The  sterner  events   are   lightened   by  a   vein 
of    humor,     which,     with     the     stirring     action, 
makes  the  story  diverting  in  its  kind." 

+  Springfd   Republican  p7a  Ap  1  '23  150w 


WHITEHEAD.     HAROLD.     Common     sense     in 

business.    315p    $2.50    Crowell 

658     Business  23-80'JO 

"The  author,  who  is  head  of  the  Department 
of  Sales  Relations.  Boston  University,  writes 
for.  business  men  on  the  fundamentals  of 
business  in  its  larger  aspects.  He  holds  that 
business  should  be  'joyous  and  sympathetic, 
practical  and  generous,  just  and  purpose- 
ful.' " — The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup 


"The  author  has  an  enthusiasm  and  breadth 
of  outlook  which  make  this  book  good  read- 
ing." 

-f  Booklist  19:307  Jl  '23 
"The  author  has  selected  a  title  that  appeals, 
though  not  perhaps  to  the  most  thoughtful. 
The  whole  realm  of  common  sense  in  business 
is  covered  in  a  series  of  short  stories.  In 
reading  the  book  one  is  led  to  the  conclusion 
that  the  author  is  catering  to  a  group  of  men 
who  conduct  businesses,  but  who  are  not  in 
sympathy  with  a  serious  study  of  business 
problems." 

■i Lit   R   p93  S  29  '23  270w 

Springfd    Republican   pG   Jl   16  '23   120w 
"He    writes    optimistically   and    humorously." 
-t-  The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p201  Mr 
22   '23  30w 

WHITEHILL,      DOROTHY.       Mary      Cinderella 

Brown.   227p  $1.75    (6s)   Appleton 

23-7320 

On  the  day  when  the  girl  Peter  Ashton  loved 
married  another  man  and  he  was  trying  to 
live  down  his  disappointment,  he  fell  in  with  a 
little  orphan  waif  and  adopted  her.  The  child, 
who  lived  in  an  imaginary  world  of  fairies  and 
princesses  thought  her  dreams  had  come  true, 
and  her  elfin  ways  won  all  hearts.  She  soon 
ruled  the  little  world  in  which  she  lived  with 
her  new  friends  and  brought  it  about  that 
Peter,  the  prince,  was  cured  of  his  illusion  about 
the    wrong    princess    and    found    the    real    one. 


"This  is  merely  a  little  story  about  a  little 
child,    and    is   delightful." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Je  6  '23  300w 
"The   author  does   not  once  penetrate  beyond 
the  A  B  C  of  her  trade.    Her  story  is   conven- 
tional in  outline  and  clumsy  in  style.  Her  char- 
acters never  pass  from  the  type  to  the  individ- 
ual.  There  is  little  to  stir  a  child's  imagination 
and  nothing  to  give  thought  to  a  mature  mind." 
—  Lit  R  p884  Ag  4  '23  150w 
Wis    Lib    Bul    19:161   Je    '23 

WHITING,  EDWARD  ELWELL.  President 
Coolidge;  a  contemporary  estimate.  208p  $1.50 
Atlantic   monthly 

B   or   92     Coolidge,    Calvin  23-18100 

A  highlv  favorable  estimate  of  the  character 
and  record  of  President  Coolidge  up  to  this 
time.  The  author  bases  his  confidence  in  Mr 
Coolidge's  ability  and  his  high  expectations  of 
its  fulfillment  upon  certain  qualities  of  mind 
and  character  which  have  distinguished  the 
President  from  boyhood  and  thruout  the  years 
of  his  public  service. 


"The  study  of  the  President  of  the  United 
States  which  Mr.  Whiting  has  given  us  is 
especially  commendable  for  its  restrained  en- 
thusiasm. The  author  knows  his  subject  and 
is  franklv  an  admirer,  but  he  understands  the 
difference  between  a  biography  and  an  appre- 
ciation and  he  prudently  keeps  on  the  right 
side  of  the  line  of  demarcation.  He  has  en- 
deavored, with  a  large  measure  of  success,  to 
present  a  true  biography— a  biography  in  little, 
to  be  sure,  but  still  a  biography.  Although  it 
is  also  an  estimate,  it  is  careful  and  restrained. 
S    L    C 

'  +' Boston  Transcript  p3  D  1  '23  650w 

Reviewed   bv  Robert   Littell 

New  Repub  37:69  D  12  "23  1500w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


557 


"Though  we  may  not  always  agree  with 
the  conclusions  reached,  the  book  gives  us  an 
expert  digest  of  Mr.  Coolidge's  progress  from 
the  Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives  to 
the  White  House;  but  it  does  not  give  us  a 
'live'  portrait  of  the  man.  As  a  fellow  human 
being  Mr.  Coolidge  is  as  remote  from  us  when 
we  finish  the  book  as  he  is  when  we  begin  it." 
G.    MacAdam 

1-   N  Y  Times  p3  D  16  '23  2400w 

WHITING,   MARY   BRADFORD.  Dante  the  man 

and   the   poet.    190p   il   $3   Appleton 
13  or  92  Dante  Alighieri 

The  book  is  intended  for  those  interested  in 
Dante  who  have  neither  time  nor  in- 
clination to  go  into  the  technical  and 
controversial  matter  of  the  usual  Dante 
literature.  It  is  drawn  from  the  pages  of  his 
contemporary,  Boccaccio,  and  from  other 
ancient  chroniclers  and  gives  the  story  of 
Dante's  life  and  the  conception  of  his  personal- 
ity current  in  the  years  immediately  succeeding 
his  death,  with  a  description  of  his  writings. 
The  three  parts  are:  Student,  lover  and  states- 
man; Exile  and  wanderer;  Poet  and  seer.  The 
illustrations    are    by    Ascanio    Tealdi. 


"The  plan  of  this  biography  as  an  exposition 
of  a  man's  life-work  could  hardly  be  improved. 
It  is  meant  for  the  general  reader  and  not  for 
scholars.  The  author  is  evidently  acrjainted  not 
only  with  the  Italian  language  and  reads  her 
Dante  in  the  original,  but  also  with  the  Italian 
cities  where  Dante  lived,  loved,  suffered  and 
wrote."  N.  H.  D. 

-{ Boston   Transcript  p5  Jl  7   '23   900w 

Lit   R  p448  Ja  12  '24  300w 
New  Statesman  20:522  F  3  '23  600w 
"Well    informed    in    all    its    historical    phases 
and  in  its  sympathetic  interpretation  of  its  sub- 
ject, the  book  is  capably  and  interestingly  writ- 
ten and  will  be  sure  to  find  favor  with  any  one 
who  wants  a  good,  short,  colorful  life  of  Dante." 
4-   N  Y  Times  p6  Ap  29  '23  480w 
"A  pleasant  book,  easy  in  style,  and  supported 
by  charming  illustrations." 

+  Sat  R  135:153  F  3  '23  360w 
"A  word  of  praise  is  due  to  the  excellent   il- 
lustrations." 

+  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p874  D  28 
•22  70w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:412  Jl  '23 

WHITLOCK,    BRAND.     J.    Hardin    &    son.    451p 
$2     Appleton 

23-14564 

The  "son"  of  the  firm  name  in  the  title,  Paul 
Hardin,  is  the  protagonist  in  this  slow-moving 
novel.  The  scene  is  laid  in  an  Ohio  town  and 
Paul  in  the  course  of  the  story  grows  from 
childhood  to  middle  age.  His  father,  J.  Hardin, 
is  a  man  of  rugged  honesty  and  sternly  puri- 
tanical morality  who,  as  time  goes  on  neglects 
his  business  to  crusade  for  the  prohibition 
cause.  Paul,  his  father's  match  in  determina- 
tion, does  not  share  his  religious  or  moral  en- 
thusiasms. He  makes  money  in  the  oil  fields 
and  marries  a  girl  of  superficial  refinement  and 
exaggerated  family  pride  for  whom  he  feels  only 
the  most  tepid  affection.  His  life  is  colorless 
until  in  middle  age  a  chance  for  happiness  in 
love  comes  to  him,  to  he  rejected  because  he  is 
too  much  his  father's  son  to  put  personal  satis- 
faction before  duty. 


Reviewed  by  E.   F.  Edgett 

Boston   Transcript   p4   N   3  '23   1350w 

"It  is  well  written;  the  characters  are  well 
drawn;  the  incidents  flow  freely;  the  develop- 
ment is  according  to  the  best  canons  of  novel 
writing,  but — .  When  one  has  finished  with 
the  narrative  he  is  inclined  to  toss  it  aside  and 
forget  it  because  it  lacks  the  pulsating  warmth 
of  humanity."  J.   D.   Haag 

H Detroit   News  p8  D  30  '23  550w 

Reviewed  by  H.  W.  Boynton 

Ind   111:256  N  24  '23  600w 

'*  'Another  "Main  Street"  ' — ^such.  after  a 
hundred  pages  or  so,  is  likely  to  be  the  reader's 
verdict     on     Mr.     Brand    Whitlock's    novel:     an 


Ohio  'Main  Street'  instead  of  a  Minnesota  one. 
For  Main  Street,  Macochee,  Gordon  Co.,  O.,  is 
mescapably  present.  .  .  Then  it  comes  to  be 
felt  how  much  more  is  Mr.  Whitlock  than  Mr. 
Lewis;  the  one  a  soinewhat  carping  reporter, 
the  other  an  approximate  artist,  with  wide  ex- 
perience of  the  world  and  its  ways.  Gopher 
Prairie  had  apparently  but  a  social  organiza- 
tion; Macochee  has  that,  and  a  political  and 
economic  organization  as  well.  .  .  J.  Hardin 
himself  is  immensely  well  done.  Dour,  inex- 
pressive, maladroit,  high-principled,  he  stands 
forth  memorably  as  a  small-town  Brutus.  .  . 
The  son  is  done  more  elaborately,  yet  less  suc- 
cessfully. Mr.  Whitlock's  long  roll  of  minor 
characters,  social,  political,  financial,  or  simply 
domestic,  makes  populous  a  real  town.  This 
town  he  knows  and  his  presentation  of  It  is 
full,  authentic,  and  confident."  H:  M.  Fuller 
-I Lit  R  pl45  O  20  '23  950w 

"A  real  book — genuine,  vital,  and  sincere." 
W.   E.   Woodward 

-I-   Nation  117:654  D  5  '23  1050w 

"Penetrating,  able  study  of  small  town  life 
and  what  it  can  do  to  one."  B.   B. 

+   New    Repub   37:102   D    19    '23    650w 

"The  book  is  of  genuine  value.  In  a  way  it 
harks  back  to  the  more  leisured  days  of  Wil- 
liam Dean  Howells  and  the  realism  of  that 
epoch.  It  is  fine  and  workmanlike  and  posses- 
ses the  most  precious  of  all  qualities— a  certain 
nobihty  of  conception.  The  writer's  mind,  as 
IS  clear  on  every  page,  has  the  quality  of  be- 
ing  noble."      H:    J.    Forman 

-\ NY   Times  p4   O   21    '23    1450w 

"There  is  clear  vision  in  it,  but  not  much  in- 
sight, nor  any  power  of  imagination.  There  is 
not  even  a  nice  feeling  for  words,  but  always 
a  careful  preoccupation  with  provable  facts. 
And  it  is  impossible  to  make  a  great  or  distin- 
guished novel  out  bf  facts  alone."  Isabel  Pater- 
son 

1-   N  Y  Tribune  p21  D  30  '23  1450w 

"This  is  a  good  book.  It  is  workmanlike;  well 
written,  of  course,  keenly  observed.  It  will  be 
widely  read  and  deserves  to  be.  If  it  is  in  any 
degree  a  disappointment  it  is  for  a  reason  that 
is  complimentary  to  Brand  Whitlock.  The  man, 
the  Ambassador,  the  champion  and  historian  or 
an  invaded  country,  is  bigger  than  his  book." 
J.  L.  H. 

4-   N  Y  World  p7e  O  28  '23  550w 

Reviewed  by  R,  D.  TowTisend 

Outlook   135:641  D  12  '23   600w 
Springf'd   Republican  p7a  N  18  '23  700w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p895  D  20 
'23   650w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:509  D  '23 

WHITTIER,  JOHN  GREENLEAF.  Whittier's 
unknown  romance:  letters  to  Elizabeth  Lloyd, 
with  an  introd.  by  Marie  V.  Denervaud.  72p 
$5   Houghton 

B  or  92  Howell,  Mrs  Elizabeth   (Lloyd) 

22-19740 
"It  has  always  been  suspected  that  Whittier, 
though  never  mariied,  had  had  experience  of 
love.  Now  in  his  letters  to  Elizabeth  Lloyd,  we 
have  the  best  evidence  of  the  main,  if  not  the 
only,  affection  of  his  life.  Apparently  Whittier 
first  met  Miss  Lloyd  in  Philadelphia  in  1837, 
when  he  was  thirty  and  she  twenty-six  years 
old.  And  there  is  reason  to  suspect  that  he 
proposed  marriage  before  giving  up  his  resi- 
dence in  the  city.  In  1853,  after  a  lapse  of  a 
decade  and  a  half,  Elizabeth  married  Robert 
Howell,  who  died  three  years  later.  Several 
years  now  intervene,  and  then  Whittier  jour- 
neys to  Philadelphia,  and  sees  much  of  her.  It 
seems  that  his  affection  for  her  culminated  In 
1859  and  that  his  proposal  of  marriage,  or  his 
second  proposal  if  there  had  been  a  previous 
one,  took  place  at  this  time.  A  majority  of 
his  letters  are  dated  during  this  year,  and  ac- 
qu.iint  us  with  the  shy  warmth  of  his  emotion." 
— Freeman 


Reviewed  by  Norman  Foerster 

Freeman    6:549   F   14   '23   1750w 


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WHITTIER,     JOHN     GREEN  LEAF — Continued 
"Whittier  is  obviously  not  much  in  love,   nor 
in    any    way    touched    with    the    sacred    terror. 
His  letters  show  a  pious  and  sincere  interest  in 
the  girl,  and  not  much  more.     The  book  is  in- 
teresting, however,  in  revealing  Whittier's  ideas 
of  friendship  and  his  pleasant  style." 
Lit   R   pl27    N   18  '22  llOw 
"So  shy  and   delicate   and   austerely   reserved 
is   this  romance   of  two   poets,   revealed   for  the 
first   time   in   these  letters,   that  it   reminds   one 
of  the   mayflower  of  Whittier's  own   New  Eng- 
land   forest    hillsides,    half    fearfully   sending    up 
its   pale   buds   through   dead  leaves  and  patches 
of  snow,   but  vital,   fragrant  and  beautiful." 
+   N    Y  Times   p8   N   5  '22  2150w 

WHITTON,  FREDERICK  ERNEST.  Decisive 
battles  of  modern  times.  2y9p  $3.50  Houghton 
[12s    Constable] 

904  Battles  [23-10151] 

"Creasy's  'Fifteen  Decisive  Battles  of  the 
World'  ended  with  Waterloo.  Lieutenant-Col- 
onel Whitton  in  continuation  has  selected  Vicks- 
burg — a  siege,  not  a  battle,  Koniggratz,  Mars 
la  Tour,  Tsushima,  and  the  Marne." — The  Times 
[London]   Lit  Sup 


deals  with  the  relation  of  Dante's  minor  works 
to  the  conception  and  purpose  of  the  Comedy 
itself. 


"This  book  challenges  comparison  with 
Creasy's  The  Fifteen  Decisive  Battles  of  the 
World;  it  deserves  an  equal  popularity.  Its 
lucid,  well-planned  narratives,  its  avoidance  of 
technicalities,  its  excellent  maps,  its  careful 
accounts  of  the  political  events  leading  up  to 
the  battles  described  and  its  due  regard  to  the 
wider  issues  involved,  will  make  it  attractive 
to  the  general  reader.  As  with  Creasy's  book, 
there  will  be  controversy  as  to  the  author's  use 
of  the  term  decisive;  no  one,  however,  can 
doubt  the  importance  of  the  five  battles  which 
he  has   selected." 

-J-  New  Statesman  21:62  Ap  21  '23  190w 

"Colonel  Whitton  is  not  only  a  brilliant  writer 
and  a  clear  thinker  on  military  subjects,  but 
has  the  advantage  of  having  himself  taken 
part  in  two  great  campaigns.  He  combines  a 
lively  and  incisive  style  with  an  almost  un- 
rivalled knowledge  of  recent  military  history, 
and  his  book  is  at  once  extremely  interesting 
for  the  general  reader  and  a  serious  contribu- 
tion to  the  educational  literature  of  war." 
-h  Sat   R   135:702  My  26  '23  600w 

"His  book  will  appeal  to  the  many  who  are 
Interested  in  military  history  but  are  bored  by 
a  mass  of  technical  detail  which  often  obscures 
what  it  is  intended  to  elucidate.  All  the  ac- 
counts in  this  book  are  clear  and  readable." 
+  Spec   131:160  Ag  4   '23   650w 

"The  book  is  pleasantly  written,  but  the  au- 
thor's historical  method  does  not  inspire  con- 
fidence, and  he  gives  no  references  to  authori- 
ties, except  to  General  P.  V.  Greene's,  'The 
Mississippi.'  " 

(-  The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p326   My 

10  '23  450w 

WHYTE,  CHARLES.  Our  solar  system  and  the 
stellar  universe.  245p  il  $4.50  Lippincott  [10s 
6d  Griflln] 

523.2      Solar   s.vstem  [23-10425] 

"The  main  purpose  of  the  present  volume  is 
to  indicate  some  of  the  more  recent  discoveries 
of  science  in  relation  to  stellar  phenomena,  and 
to  express  them  in  language  [in  order]  that 
the  lay  mind  may  be  able  to  understand  their 
significance."    (Preface) 

"Good  material,  but  full  of  errors  in  English  " 
-i Pittsburgh   IVIo   Bui   28:470   N   '23 

WICKSTEED,  PHILIP  HENRY.  From  Vita 
nuova  to  Paradise.  (Manchester  univ.  pub- 
lications)   152p  $1.75    (5s)    Longmans 

851   Dante   Alighieri  23-7713 

"Two  essays  on  the  vital  relations  between 
Dante  s  successive  works."  The  fiist  deals  with 
the  Comedy  and  shows  how  its  movement  thru- 
out  was  determined  and  controlled  by  the  cen- 
tral thought  of  the  Paradise.     The  second  essay 


"Despite  the  rash  statements  the  book  has  a 
charm  of  style  and  simplicity  that  reflects  the 
author's  own  personality.  It  makes  no  pretense 
to  add  anything  new  to  Dantean  lore,  yet  elic- 
its genuine  interest  and  should  lead  the  reader 
to  acQuire  for  himself  at  first  hand  a  knowledge 
of  the  unperishable  work  of  'the  central  man 
of  all  the  world.'  "  J.  T.  S. 

H Cath  World  118:134  O  '23  llOOw 

"Admirable  little  volume."     S:  C.  Chew 
+  Nation   115:095  D  20   '22   380w 

"No  one  has  done  more  lo  popularize  Dante 
in  this  country  than  Dr.  Wicksteed,  and  this 
little  book  possesses  all  the  lucidity  and  admir- 
able method  based  on  solid,  scholarly  founda- 
tions, which  we  are  wont  to  associate  with  his 
name." 

+   Nation    and    Ath    32:24    O   7    '22   300w 

"Dr.  Wicksteed's  little  book  is  one  of  the 
few  on  the  subject  that  we  can  welcome  un- 
reservedly." 

-H  Spec  129:505  O  14  '22  150w 

WIDDEMER,       MARGARET.       Graven      image. 

31  Op   $2  liarcourt 

23-14562 

"The  pride  of  the  Gaylords  is  grounded  upon 
the  assumption  that  to  them,  as  Gaylords,  be- 
long certain  traits  distinguishing  them  from 
other  tribes  and  therefore  for  that  very  rea- 
son hardly  to  be  told  from  virtues.  More  spe- 
cifically they  pride  themselves  on  the  godly 
heroism  of  Judson  Gay  lord,  who  is  supposed  to 
have  risked  his  life  for  the  right  while  his 
brother-in-law  forswore  his  faith  to  save  his 
skin.  It  is  Judson  Gaylord  who  comes  out  of 
the  adventure  alive  but  it  is  he  who  has  really 
been  the  traitor.  He  reaps  the  reward  of  the 
Christian  hei'o,  while  the  brother-in-law's  wid- 
ow and  her  two  children,  Anne  and  Kathleen, 
live  shadowed  lives,  believing  that  the  dead 
husband  and  father  has  died  the  miserable 
death  of  an  apostate  and  a  weakling.  And 
when,  at  last,  the  truth  comes  out,  the  Gay- 
lords simply  band  together  to  deny  or  ignore 
it.  Meanwhile  Anne  has  been  emotionally  cap- 
tured and  married  by  her  cousin  Anthony  Gay- 
lord;  Kathleen  escapes  in  time  from  the  toils 
of  another  cousin,  through  discovering  in  him 
a  specific  manifestation  of  the  Gaylord  pol- 
troonery  and   selfishness." — Lit   R 


Booklist  20:142  Ja  '24 
"Not  only  by  far  the  best  thing  she  has  ever 
done,    but   is   also   a    most   unusually   interesting 
study."    I.   W.   I.. 

+   Boston   Transcript  p2  N  17  '23   650w 

"The  emotions  of  the  characters  are  reiter- 
ated until  they  are  meaningless  and  escape  the 
reader's  realization.  And  as  a  conclusive,  if 
comparatively  superficial,  evidence  of  the  un- 
certainty of  the  author's  mind,  the  syntax  is 
loose  and  the  writing  of  indifferent  quality." 
—  Dial   75:612   D  '23   90w 

Reviewed  by  Stella  Heilbrun 

Int   Bk   R  p70  D  '23  600w 

"It  is  a  good  enough  layout  for  a  story  with 
a  moral.  It  fails  of  impressiveness  because  so 
much  of  it  is  cast  in  the  sprightly  school- 
girlishness  vein  of  the  kind  of  fiction  that  is 
advertised  'for  girls  of  twelve  to  sixteen'  or 
the  like  and  because  the  male  persons  in  it  are 
quite  unreal.  Too  lifelike  to  be  true,  perhaps; 
that  is,  we  recognize  the  kind  of  people  they 
are,  too  clearly  to  accept  them  as  persons." 
h   Lit    R    pl52   O    20    '23    500w 

"Miss  Widdemer  is  a  better  poet  than  novel- 
ist, but  she  should  not  on  that  account  aban- 
don novel -writing.  The  merits  of  her  new 
book.  Graven  Image,  amnly  justify  its  exis- 
tence."  C.    R.   B. 

-I .  New   Repub  37:20   N   2S  '23   150w 

"It  has  such  delicate  subtlety  and  kindly 
humor  that  readers  will  never  lay  it  down  un- 
til thev  have  absorbed  its  message.  They  will 
not   even   know   that   they  are   reading  psychol- 


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ogy,  for  there  is  none  of  the  cant  of  the  science 
in  it — not  a  word  about  complexes  or  inhibi- 
tions or  defense  reactions  to  frighten  them  off. 
There  is  just  the  plain  and  simple  truth  dram- 
atized in  vivid  action."  I^.  H.  Robbins 
+   N  Y  Times  p4  O  21  '23  800w 

"If  the  mechanics  of  Miss  Widdemer's  novel 
were  workable,  so  that  the  action  could  ap- 
pear more  reasonably  motivated,  this  would  be 
an  extremely  absorbing  analysis  of  the  blight- 
ing efTects  of  artificially  imposed  ideals  upon 
inadequate  human  nature.  But  she  has  tried 
to  put  an  allegory  in  harness  and  make  it  drag 
the  weight  of  a  dozen  character  studies.  .  . 
The  style  is  clear,  vivid,  at  times  charming. 
There  are  in  especial  some  pages  which  beauti- 
fully convey  the  atmosphere  of  youth,  innocent, 
silly  and  gay.  But  one  can  never  quite  get  rid 
of  the  incredulity  engendered  by  the  impossible 
prime   cause  of   the   whole   trouble." 

h   N    Y  Tri.bune  p22  O  21   '23  SOOw 

Outlook  135:506  N  21   '23  60w 

"Though  original  in  its  setting",  the  fitory 
hardly  lives  up  to  its  promi.se.  The  plot  is, 
however,  sufficiently  interesting  to  make  the 
novel   readable." 

-I Springf d  Republican  p8a  D  23  '23  SOOw 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:482    N    '23 

WIEL,     ALETHEA     JANE      (LAWLEY)      (SIG- 

NORA    TADDEO    WIEL).      Story    of    Bologna. 

(Old    mediajval    town    ser.)     267p    il    $2    Dut- 

ton  [5s  6d  Dent] 

945.4    Bologna,    Italy  [23-10599] 

The  book  provides  a  history  of  the  town  and 
its  famous  university  as  well  as  a  guide  to  its 
buildings  and  treasures  of  art.  A  plan  for  see- 
ing the  town  is  included  and  a  map. 

"No  small  part  of  the  charm  of  this  little 
book  is  due  to  its  illustrations  from  drawings 
by  Margarite  Janes." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p6  Jl  7  '23  440w 
"Her  treatment  of  modern  art  treasures  will 
be  found  useful  and  sound  by  those  who  wish 
to  study  the  Bolognese  school.  But  on  the 
historical  and  archaeological  .side  this  book  is 
less  satisfying." 

H The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p314   My 

10  '23  850w 

WIGGAM,    ALBERT    EDWARD.    New  decalogue 
'    of  science.   314p  $2.50  Botabs 

575.1  Eugenics.  Heredity.  Evolution  24-83 
"Mr.  Wiggam  pins  his  hope  of  a  better  and 
more  intelligent  race  on  the  adoption  by  man- 
kind of  preferential  selection- as  the  sole  means, 
through  evolution,  for  the  improvement  of  the 
world.  The  new  Ten  Commandments  of  Sci- 
ence are,  in  their  order:  The  duty  of  eugenics. 
the  duty  of  scientific  research,  the  duty  of  the 
socialization  of  science,  the  duty  of  measuring 
men,  the  duty  of  humanizing  industry,  the  duty 
of  preferential  reproductions  of  the  human  herd. 
the  duty  of  trusting  intelligence,  the  duty  of 
art,  the  duty  of  internationalism  and,  last,  the 
duty  of  philosophical  reconstruction.  But  the 
duty  of  eugenics  is  the  first  and  great  com- 
mandment, and  those  that  follow  it  are  in  the 
nature  of  either  applications  or  coiollaries." — 
N   Y   Times 


"Mr.  Wiggam's  case,  when  stripped  of  its  ex- 
aggerations, is  basically  sound.  But  exaggera- 
tions are  there  to  an  irritating  degree.  .  .  He 
could  have  won  a  sufficient  acceptance  for  his 
case  without  throwing  overboard  the  ethics  and 
habits  and  sentimentalities  of.  let  us  say,  the 
last  twenty  thousand  years,  in  favor  of  the  very 
latest  bit  of  fairly  tentative  statistics  from  the 
laboratories  at  Johns  Hopkins."  Simeon  Strun- 
sky 

1-   Lit    R    p443    Ja    12    '24    900w 

"Perhaps,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  science  will 
be  largely  revised,  there  is  more  of  dogmatism 
In  'The  New  Decalogue'  than  is  warranted.  Mr. 
Wiggam  relies  rather  too  much  on  statistics, 
forgetting  that  the  science  of  statistics  is  still 
in  its  infancy." 

N    Y   Times   p8   D   9   '23   1500w 


The  Times  [Londonj  Lit  Sup  p912  D  27 
'23  120w 

WIGGIN,      KATE     DOUGLAS     (SMITH)      (MRS 
GEORGE       CHRISTOPHER       RIGGS).  My 

garden  of  memory.   465p  il  $5.    Houghton 

B    or    92  23-15164 

Those  who  have  read  Mrs  Wiggin's  books  on 
"Rebecca,"  "Polly  Oliver,"  "Penelope"  will  find 
many  familiar  touches  in  this  account  of  the 
author's  life.  Mrs  Wiggin  tells  of  her  child- 
hood in  Maine,  her  experiences  as  a  kinder- 
gartner  in  California,  home  life  in  New  York 
and  travels  abroad,  and  the  many  intimate 
friendships  w^th  celebrated  men  and  women  of 
America  and  England.  "Her  life  and  her  work, 
both  ending  together,  are  summed  up  in  this 
crowning  book  of  her  long  literary  career." 


Booklist    20:99    D   '23 

"I  read  it  as  one  always  has  read  and  always 
will  read  Kate  Douglas  Wiggin;  with  laughter 
and  with  tears  and  with  a  conviction  no  less 
firm  because  it  was  intangible  that  life  after 
all  might  be  a  thing  of  beauty  and  rightness. 
For  so  this  brilliant  and  lovable  woman  found 
life  and  so  she  made  her  readers  see  it."  H.  W. 
Morrow 

-I-   Bookm  58:467  D  '23  1350w 

"Names    and    personalities    throng   Mrs.    Wig- 
gin's    pages   but    the    dominating   personality    of 
all    is    hers.      It    is    autobiography    well    worth 
the   writing   and   the   reading."      E.    F.    Edgett 
4-   Boston    Transcript    p4    O    13    '23    1700 

Freeman  8:335  D  12  *23  220w 
"It  is  hard  to  imagine  a  more  satisfactory  life 
than  that  of  Kate  Douglas  Wiggin.  Her  early 
difficulties  were  surmounted  by  her  own  ener^ 
and  talent.  She  was  eminently  successful  in  her 
chosen  career,  her  family  life  was  exceptionally 
happy,  and  she  made  many  warm  and  admiring 
friends  wherever  she  went.  Surely  life  has  little 
better  to  offer."  M.  K.  Ford 

-f  Int  Bk  R  p28  D  '23  2500w 
"Hers  is  a  bravo  biogiaphy  in  the  good  old 
sense  of  the  word,  bright  with  enthusiasm  and 
affection,  shot  through  with  the  buoyancy  of  a 
nature  that  took  work  and  play,  ease  and  tem- 
porary adver.sity  alilie  with  a  frolic  welcome." 
Amy    I.oveman 

-f  Lit  R  pl47  O  20  '23  llOOw 
"It  is  "good'  autobiography,  though  not  of  the 
best.  And  as  the  author  was  endowed  with  a 
fine  sense  of  humor  the  pages  are  sufficiently 
strewn  with  anecdote  to  prevent  boredom  when 
the   interest   in   events   lags." 

-I NY  Times  p3  N   4  '23   2300w 

Reviewed    by    Isabel    Paterson 

N   Y  Tribune  pl7  N  4  '23  700w 
"This    book    is    different.    It    is    colorful    with 
romance.    It    is    splendid    with    spontaneity    and 
humor.    It    is    the    record    of    a    life    well    worth 
recording."    Ruth   Snyder 

4-  N  Y  World  pGe  N  4  '23  900w 
4-  Outlook  13.^^:367  O  31  '23  1400w 

Sprlngfd  Republican  p7a  S  30  '23  llOw 
Springf'd  Republican  p7  O  21  '23  2350vv 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:508  D  '23 

WILCE     JOHN    WOODWORTH.    Football:    how 
*    to  play   it   and   how   to   understand   it.   242p   il 

$2  Scribner 

797    Football  23-16061 

"This  book  is  intended  to  help  boys  and 
voung  men  who  are  trying  for  the  football 
team  as  well  as  tho.se  who  are  interested  in 
watching  the  game.  Its  aim  is  to  e.xplain  the 
rather  complicated  game  so  .simply  that  it  can 
easily  be  understood  even  by  those  quite  unfam- 
iliar with  it;  to  proceed  by  easy  stages  from 
fundamentals  to  'inside  football'  and  the  rnore 
advanced  aspects  of  technic  and  finesse.  Care- 
ful attention  has  been  given  to  all  explanations^ 
so  that  the  average  per.son  who  wants  to  know 
more  about  the  game  is  never  beyond  his  depth. 
— Preface  

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WILCE,     JOHN     WOODiWORTH— (7o)iHM«ec! 

"The  book  is  remarkable  for  its  clarity  and 
for  the  masterful  knowledge  of  the  game  dis- 
played." 

4-   Lit    R  pl95   O   27   '23   150w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ja  13  '24  llOw 

WILD,  FRANK.  Shackleton's  last  voyage;  the 
story  of  the  Quest;  from  the  official  journal 
and  private  diary  by  A.  H.  Macklin.  il  $10 
Stokes    [30s    Cassell] 

919.9     Antarctic     regions.      Shackleton,      Sir 

Ernest  Henry 
"When  Shackleton  died  in  South  Georgia, 
the  leadership  of  the  expedition  fell  to  Com- 
mander Wild,  who  was  at  that  time  Shackle- 
ton's  second-in-command.  The  task  of  recount- 
ing the  story  of  the  voyage  has  therefore  fallen 
to  him,  and  though  he  has  no  pretensions  to 
literary  skill,  he  shows  the  same  gallant  spirit 
in  his  conduct  of  this  book  as  he  did  in  his 
work  as  an  explorer.  It  is  based  on  the  Official 
Journal  and  private  diary  of  Dr.  Macklin,  the 
surgeon  of  the  'Quest.'  The  most  noteworthy 
feature  of  the  volume,  which  is  rather  un- 
wieldy for  its  actual  amount  of  text,  is  its 
photography." — Spec 


Booklist  20;136  Ja  '24 
Reviewed  by  Clifford  Orr 

Boston   Transcript  pi  N  3   '23  1500w 
"The  book  is  handsomely   made,   the  illustra- 
tions     being     remarkably     fine."      Capt.      Felix 
Riesenberg 

-1-  Lit  R  p362  D  15  '23  180w 
"The  tale  is  told  in  a  plain,  straightforward 
manner  which  reflects  the  character  of  the 
writers,  who  ask  neither  for  eulogy  nor  for 
sympathy,  although  both  will  be  readily  forth- 
coming. Of  the  success  they  hoped  for  there 
was  but  little,  of  the  bitterness  of  thwarted 
plans  there  was  much,  but  there  is  small  men- 
tion of  either.  The  events  of  the  voyage  are 
duly  chronicled,  and  comment  is  usually  re- 
duced to  the  minimuiTi."  F.  Debenham 
+   Nature   112:754   N   24    '23    llOOw 

New  Statesman  21:398  Jl  7  '23  450w 
Reviewed  by  C.   L.   Skinner 

N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  28  '23  2000w 
"A  book  somewhat  prolix,  events  being  seen 
as  with  the  eye  of  the  daily  diarist  rather  than 
in  the  perspective  of  the  eventual  chronicler, 
but  readable  throughout  and  likely  to  give  those 
who  read  it  a  sense  of  being  sharers  in  the 
normal  as  well  as  the  exceptional  experiences 
of  the  party." 

-t-  Sat  R  136:250  S  1  '23  660w 
"Though  there  is  no  question  of  this  volume 
being  included  among  the  great  stories  of  Polar 
exploration,  it  is  only  fair  to  say  that  through- 
out it  never  fails  in  interest,  and,  indeed,  has 
some  passages  of  description  that  have  hardly 
been  bettered.  Certainly,  the  photographs  are 
unapproachable,  and  there  are  enough  of  them 
to  satisfy  even  the  most  voracious  armchair 
traveller." 

-] Spec  131:89   Jl   21    '23   860w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p379    Je 
7  '23  llOOw 

WILDE,     PERCIVAL.       Craftsmanship    of     the 

one-act  play.  396p  $3  Little 

80S. 2  Drama  23-5207 

The  author,  who  has  himself  written  many 
successful  one-act  plays,  here  considers  how  to 
write  them  and  the  elements  in  their  construc- 
tion— theme,  characters,  situation,  atmosphere, 
technique,  and  the  qualifications  of  the  play- 
wright. Then  he  analyzes  the  actual  writing 
of  the  pl;iy:  seizing,  holding  and  increasing 
interest;  exposition  and  its  devices;  preparation; 
suspense  and  climax;  choice  of  characters  and 
of  their  names;  dialog;  mechanics  and  scenery. 
There  is  a  nineteen-page  bibliography,  includ- 
ing one  of  technical  works  and  a  list  of  plays. 
Author  and   title   index. 


point.  Mr.  Wilde  would  have  produced  a  valu- 
al)le  book  had  he  is.sued  nothing  more  than 
this  part  of  his  treatise.  The  remainder  of 
the  volume  is  given  largely  to  restatement  of 
things  found  in  many  other  hooks  on  crafts- 
manship of  the  play.  Mr.  Wilde  restates  them 
interestingly  and  convincingly  enough  not  to 
have  felt  the  need  of  citing  in  support  so  fre- 
quently the  well-known  volumes  of  George 
Pierce  Baker  and  William  Archer."  B.  li. 
Lewis 

+  —  Lit  R  p620  Ap  21  '23  850w 

"Percival  Wilde's  book  is  unique  in  that  it  is 
a  workman's  own  statement  of  the  life  and  soul 
and  body  of  the  one-act  play,  made  manifest  to 
him  in  his  practical  dealing  with  the  subject.  To 
his  task  as  expositor  he  brings  an  acute  knowl- 
edge of  the  play  form  as  practiced  by  others. 
Over  two  hundred  one-act  dramas  are  cited  by 
him,  not  merely  by  name  but  in  the  form  of 
diagnoses.  He  uso.g  these  plays,  not  sparing  his 
own,  in  a  clinical  method,  proving  his  points  by 
showing  the  weaknesses  and  accentuating  the 
excellencies."   M.   J.   Moses 

4-   N  Y  Times  plO  Ap  8  '23  750w 

"By  his  book  I  should  judge  Mr.  Wilde  an  ex- 
cellent writer  of  one-acts  and  teacher  of  their 
technique."    R.    W.    Brink 

-j-   N    Y    Tribune   p21    Ag   5    '23    800w 

"The  book  is  written  fluently,  with  a  view  of 
the  subject  all  around,  even  to  the  fourth  di- 
mension. There  is  a  direct  drive  from  the  begin- 
ning of  an  idea  to  its  culmination  in  the  finished 
product,  and  its  fulfillment  in  the  acceptance  by 
an  audience.  .  .  Wilde's  treatise  adds  immeasur- 
ably to  the  understanding  of  the  organic  and 
spiritual  life  of  the  one-act  play."  M.  J.  Hose."* 
-I-  Outlook  l.S3:853  My  9  '23  950w 
Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui   28:302  Je  '23 

WILDER,   HARRIS   HAWTHORNE.     Man's  pre- 
historic past.   463p  il  $5     Macmillan 

571  Man,  Prehistoric.  Archeology  23-9585 
After  treating  of  the  general  subject  of  pre- 
history, the  methods  of  reading  its  unwritten 
annals  and  of  ascertaining  the  age  of  remains, 
the  author,  who  is  professor  of  zoology  in  Smith 
college,  outlines  the  chronological  record  of 
events,  beginning  with  the  creatures  that  first 
show  the  slightest  human  attributes  and  lead- 
ing up  to  the  time  when  man  began  to  record 
his  own  history.  The  prehistory  of  the  two 
Americas  is  included  in  the  survey,  and  the 
last  chapter  is  given  to  the  consideration  of 
the  known  types  of  prehi.'itoric  man. 


"His    wide    acquaintance    with    one-act    plays 
has  provided  a  wealth  of  apt  illustration  of  each 


Boston   Transcript  p4   Jl   21   '23   1150w 
"The  book  as  a  whole  is  well  written  and  un- 
usually  well   documented."    W.    K.    C. 

-4-  Greensboro    (N,C.)     Daily    News    plO    S 
30  '23   780w 

New    Repub  36:162   O   3   '23   150w 
"No  book  issued  since  Osborne's  famous  'Men 
of    the    Old    Stone    Age'    in    1915    so    completely 
covers  all  of  the  salient  aspects  of  this  increas- 
ingly   popular    subject    without    becoming    more 
involved    in    technical    detail    of    an    anthropo- 
logical sort  than  the  average  reader  enjoys." 
+  Outlock  134:562  Ag  8  '23  160w 
R   of   Rs   68:223  Ag   '23   80w 

WILDER,  MRS   LOUISE    (BEEBE).  Adventures 
=    In    my    garden    and    rock    garden.    355p    il    $5 

Doubleday 

716     Rock     gardens.     Gardening  23-17936 

The  writer  has  lived  all  her  life  in  gardens 
and  she  comes  to  the  making  of  a  new  one  as  to 
a  jovous  adventure.  Her  book  is  not  only  the 
product  of  a  passion  for  flowers  and  long  practi- 
cal experience  with  them  but  of  a  charming  gift 
for  describing  them,  her  words  being  chosen 
with  as  sure  a  sense  as  her  garden  effects. 
Some  of  her  chapter  headings  suggest  this 
charm:  Going  to  meet  the  spring,  A  lay  of  little 
bulbs,  and  The  meek  that  inherit  the  earth, 
this  last  referring  to  plants  of  pretty  trailing 
habit  that  are  veritable  mischief-makers  in  the 
gardens  She  has  much  to  say  of  the  use  or 
wild  flowers  in  the  garden.  Appendices  give 
notes  on   growing  rock  plants,   a  list   of  plants 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


561 


for  special  purposes,  and  one  of  good  combina- 
tions, also  a  list  of  nurseries  and  collectors  with 
their  specialties. 

"A  book  that  in  itself  is  fascinating,  if  one 
has  the  least  interest  in  its  subject,  and  is  also 
full  to  overflowing  of  experienced  advice,  wise 
counsel,  pregnant  suggestion,  fresh  and  inter- 
esting ideas,  out  of  which  anybody  with  a  gar- 
den of  any  sort  can  get  aid  and  inspiration." 
-f   N    Y   Times   pl5   Ja   6    *24    950w 

Sprlngfd   Republican  plO  Ja  30  '24  650w 

WILDMAN,    EDWIN.    Writing    to    sell.    293p    $2 

(7s   6d)    Appleton 
029.6    Authorship  23-8202 

A  book  on  how  to  write,  what  to  write  about 
and  where  to  sell.  The  author  whose  vocation 
it  is  to  advise  writers  about  the  preparation  of 
salable  magazine  articles,  news  stories,  fea- 
tures and  fiction,  suggests  the  study  of  his  hook 
during  the  actual  process  of  writing.  His  chap- 
ters deal  with  structure  and  method  in  arti- 
cles, making  the  populai*  appeal,  use  of  words, 
imagination,  interviews,  news  reporting,  how 
popular  authors  write  their  novels,  successes 
in  special  fields,  etc.  Appendices  give  a  list  of 
timely  and  recurrent  themes  for  general  arti- 
cles and  for  fiction:  a  classification  of  period- 
icals to  guide  writers  in  offering  their  products; 
suggestions  on  preparation  and  submission  of 
manuscripts;  prices  paid  by  different  publica- 
tions. 

"Mr.  Wildman,  for  many  years  an  editor, 
succeeds  to  an  appreciable  degree  in  the  some- 
what difficult  task  of  applying  formula  to 
practice,  outlining  various  definite  forms, 
methods,  and  themes  helpful  to  the  novice.  It 
is  a  good  book  for  the  newspaper  journalist 
who  occassionally  seeks  the  more  elusive  liter- 
ary markets." 

-f-   Bookm   58:90   S   '23   120w 
"It   is   a   good   book   for   the    would-be   author 
who   desires  primarily   to   make    money,    and   is 
written  in  clear  and  easily  understood  phrases." 
-I-   Boston    Transcript   p3   Jl   21    '23   llOw 
"A   very   useful   volume." 

+  Cleveland    p53    Jl    '23 
"It  gives   much   sound  advice." 

+  Lit  R  p916  Ag  18  '23  550w 
"Is  an  excellent  addition  to  the  rapidly  in- 
creasing library  of  textbooks  on  commercial- 
izing one's  literary  talent.  Written  in  a  fresh 
and  unpedantic  vein,  it  carries  much  valuable 
information  draw^n  from  years  in  the  'game,' 
and  will  be  found  instructive  and  enlightening 
both  to  those  who  have  arrived  and  to  those  who 
hope  to.    There  is  a  large  amount  of  detail." 

+  Sprlngfd    Republican   p7a  Je  3   '23  150w 
The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p406    Je 
4   '23   210w 

WILKINS,  ZORA  PUTNAM.  Letters  of  a 
business  woman  to  iier  daughter,  and  Letters 
of  a  business  girl  to  her  mother.  151p  $1.50 
Marshall    Jones 

174    Success.      Business    women  23-7G08 

In  the  first  group  of  letters  a  mother  writes 
to  her  daughter  in  college  about  how  to  man- 
age her  life  and  make  a  success  in  business. 
The  daughter's  letters  to  her  mother  describe 
her  first  experiences  in  business,  her  disap- 
pointments and  failures  and  her  first  taste  of 
success.  The  experience  is  not  long,  however, 
for  in  the  last  letter  she  has  decided  to  change 
her  career  and  turn  frona  business  to  matri- 
mony. 


"The  Woman's  letters  have  the  condescend- 
ing air  of  a  textbook  on  business  success,  while 
her  daughter's  contribution  is  a  ho\v-I-won- 
my-way  story  with  the  usual  substitution  of  a 
sentimental  denouement  instead  of  the  com- 
mercial success  which  alone  might  have  justi- 
fied the  boolt  as  a  stenographer's  guide." 
—   Bookm    57:654    Ag    '23    120w 

"Mrs.  Wilkins's  book  has  many  wholesome 
lessons  that  a  young  girl  going  into  business  for 
the  first  time,  or  even  an  old  stager  at  the 
game,  will  do  well  to  consider.  A  touch  of  rom- 


ance is  added  to  it  through  the  masculine 
counsellor  and  friend  who  figures  in  its  pages." 
-f  Lit  R  pl72  O  20  '23  250w 
"Feminine  business  ethics  and  philosophy 
humanly  and  understandingly  written  by  one 
who  seems  to  know  what  she  is  talking 
about." 

+   N    Y  Times  p21  Ap   15   '23   220w 
Wis  Lib   Bui  19:408  Jl  '23 

WILKINSON,  MRS  MARGUERITE  OGDEN 
(BIGELOW).  Great  dream.  42p  $1.50  Mac- 
mil  Ian 

811  23-4307 

"Twenty-six  poems  of  varying  length  and 
form  which  exhibit  the  same  joyousness  of  life 
and  steadfastness  and  simplicity  of  thought  that 
made  her  very  different  'Dingbat  of  Arcady'  so 
enjoyable." — Booklist 


Booklist  19:312  Jl  '23 
"Whether  or  not  we  agree  with  Mrs.  Wilkin- 
son's sturdy,  not  to  say  stubborn,  optimism, 
those  of  us  who  are  still  unafraid  to  admit  the 
pleasure  to  be  found  in  unconcealed  music  and 
noble  thinking  may  look  for  delight  of  a  high 
quality   in   this,   her  third   book." 

+  Outlook  134:521  Ag  1  '23  700w 

WILLIAM,  prince  of  Sweden.  Among  pygmies 
and  gorillas:  with  the  Swedish  zoological  ex- 
pedition to  Central  Africa  1921.  296p  il  $8  But- 
ton   r25s   Gyldendal] 

916.7  Africa,  Central.  Pygmies.  Zoology — 
Africa 
The  Swedish  zoological  expedition  to  Central 
Africa  had  for  its  object  the  collection  of  museum 
specimens  of  which  it  brought  back  a  rich  yield, 
but  the  piince's  account  is  that  of  a  layman, 
not  a  scientist.  The  expedition  started  from 
Uganda,  did  its  chief  work  in  the  eastern  part 
of  the  Congo  and  left  Africa  by  way  of  the 
Nile.  The  book  is  a  lively  narrative  of  adven- 
ture and  scientific  achievement,  the  writer's 
two  chief  interests  being  the  gorillas  he  shot 
and   the    race    of   pygmies   he   encountered. 


Boston  Transcript  p6  N  14  "23  900w 
"Among  Pygmies  and  Gorillas  is  a  book  that 
ought  to  be  dull.  It  might,  with  impunity,  be 
grave  and  henvy,  and  of  interest  only  to  the 
good  people  who  devour  everything  about  Roy- 
alty. On  the  contrary  it  is  vivid  and  vivacious, 
well  translated  (we  presume  it  is  a  translation), 
and   full   of   first-rate   descriptive   passages." 

+   New    Statesman    21:334    Je    23    '23    800w 
N   Y   World   p9e   N   18   '23   150w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p383  Je  7 
'23    950w 

WILLIAMS,    BEN    AMES.      Thrifty    stock,    and 

other  stories.      351p     $2     Button 

23-10356 

The  first  seven  stories  have  the  same  locale. 
Fraternity  Village,  and  sometimes  the  same 
characters.  All  are  of  humble  everyday  life 
and  everyday  virtues  and  vices.  In  the  title 
story  a  thrifty  young  apple  farmer,  by  his  gen- 
tle example  and  advice,  helps  an  inexperienced 
city  man,  who  had  staked  his  all  on  a  farm,  to 
make  a  success  of  his  undertaking.  By  the 
same  token  he  teaches  the  man's  flighty  and 
flirtatious  daughter  to  be  content  with  work  and 
the  simple  life  and  to  love.  Contents:  Thrifty 
stock;  They  grind  exceeding  small;  Old  Tan- 
trybogus;  One  crowded  hour:  Mine  enemy's 
dosr:  "Jeshurun  waxed  fat";  Epitome;  A  dream: 
His  honor;  The  coward;  Not  a  drum  was  heard; 
The  man  who  looked  like  Edison;  Success; 
Sheener;  The  field  of  honor;  The  unconquered; 
The   right   whale's   flukes. 


Booklist   20:103    D    '23 
Reviewed  by  E.   F.  Edgett 

Boston  Transcript  p4  Jl  28   '23   650w 
Lit  R  p318  D  1  '23  120w 
"His  stories  are  one  and  all  intensely  human, 
and    to    use    his    own    phrase,    'founded    on    the 
eternal    moving    springs    of    all     life.'      In    his 


562 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


WILLIAMS,    BEN    AMES— Co}itinuer\ 
homily    on    the    short    story   at    the    end    of   his 
collection,  Mr.  Williams  gives  the  writer's  ideal 
as    'brevity,    interest,    form    and    clarity.'      His 
stories  exemplify  it." 

+  N  Y  Times  p21  Jl  15  '23  750w 
"Of  all  the  fictioneers  now  living  upon  the 
top  shelf  of  magazine  popularity,  Mr.  Williams 
is  the  most  workman-like  in  his  stories.  He 
selects  a  good  theme,  writes  well  and  turns 
out    everyday    stuff."    I^aurence    Stallings 

+   N    Y   World   p9e  Jl  29  '23   50w 
Outlook  135:34  S  5  '23  70w 


WILLIAMS,  FRANK  BACKUS.  Law  of  city 
plaiming  and  zoning.  (Citizen's  lib.  of  eco- 
nomics, politics  and  sociology — new  ser.)  738p 
$5   Macmillan 

352  City  planning 
The  author  is  a  lawyer  who  has  had  a  wide 
experience  in  the  law  of  city  planning,  having 
served  as  consultant  on  the  subject,  as  in- 
vestigator of  building  regulations  and  zoning 
in  Europe,  and  as  drafter  of  the  New  York 
city  Dlanning  law  of  1913.  His  book  makes 
available  the  experience  thus  far  collected. 
Some  of  the  subjects  treated  aie  excess  and 
zoning  condemnations,  replotting,  water  fronts, 
building  setbacks,  zoning,  and  city  planning 
finance  and  administration.  There  is  a  twenty- 
two  page  bibliography,  and  tables  of  statutes, 
an  index  of  cases  and  of  statutes  and  a  gen- 
eral  index  are  provided. 


Mr.  Williams  is  a  lawyer,  and  the  scrupu- 
lousness of  his  book  shows  that  he  is  a  careful 
and  precise  lawyer.  Attorneys  for  cities  will 
find  his  book  a  mine  of  legal  material  and 
court  decisions  which  they  cannot  find  else- 
where. But  it  is  more  than  a  law  book.  It 
is  a  thoroughgoing  book  on  municipal  eco- 
nomics. More  than  all  else,  it  is  a  forward 
ooking  work  that  should  stimulate  all  legis- 
lators, city  officials,  and  citizens  in  the  making 
of    better    cities."       E:    M.    Bassett 

4-   Lit    R    p534    Mr   17    '23    IfiSOw 
"The    volume    is    a    very    capable,    workman- 
like, exhaustive  treatment  of  a  matter  of  great 
public    consequence." 

+  N  Y  Times  p4  Ja  28  '23  950w 
"A    pioneer   work   in   its   field." 

-f  N  Y  World  p9e  P  18  '23  20w 
R  of  Rs  67:222  F  '23  80w 
"The  material  is  brought  down  to  date  in 
extraordinary  detail  and  thoroughness  Cases 
from  the  1921  sessions  of  state  and  federal 
courts  are  cited,  and  the  most  recent  statutes 
both  here  and  abroad  are  indexed,  statutes 
from  countries  as  far  separated  as  Sweden  and 
Japan.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  the  book  will 
become  an  indispensable  part  of  the  equipment 
of  the  city  planner,  lawyer,  tax  expert  or  stu- 
dent   of    zoning   and    planning    problems." 

-f  Springf'd  Republican  p6  F  19  '23  320w 
"Mr.  Williams,  more  than  anv  one  else,  has 
built  up  the  structure  of  law  that  now  con- 
trols much  of  the  urban  development  of  Amer- 
ica. The  main  value  of  this  volume  is  that 
it  makes  available  the  experience  so  far  ac- 
cumulated."     B.     L. 

-t-   Survey    49:807    Mr   15    '23    fiOOw 

WILLIAMS,    HENRY    SMITH.      Practical   radio. 

413p    i!    .$1.75    (8s    6d)    Funk 
654.61      Radio    telephone  22-24243 

"Informing,  readable,  well  illustrated  treat- 
ment of  the  whole  field,  from  building  a  simple 
crystal  set  to  the  equipment  of  the  most  in- 
tricate commercial  stations.  'Wired  wireless,' 
radio  control  of  distant  apparatus,  methods  of 
sending  pictures  by  radio,  and  problems  to  be 
solved  are  all  touched  upon." — Pittsburgh  Mo 
Bui 


WILLIAMS,   ROTH.  Leagrue  of  nations  to-day; 
*    Its    growth,    record    and    relation    to    British 

foreign    policy.    223p    $2.25    Holt    [63    Allen    & 

U.] 

341.1  League  of  nations  [23-12124] 

An  Englishman  and  strong  believer  In  the 
League  explains  clearly  its  structure  and  ma- 
chinery and  its  performance  during  the  first 
three  years  of  its  activity,  to  the  end  of  1922. 
He  also  discusses  the  relation  to  the  League  of 
the  three  principal  countries  now  outside  it — 
Russia.  Germany  and  the  United  States.  He 
argues  that  Great  Britain  is  the  one  country 
at  present  in  the  position  to  take  the  leader- 
ship In  strengthening  and  vitalizing  the  League, 
and  that  the  two  most  important  ways  in  which 
this  effort  should  be  directed  are  by  improving 
the  machinery  of  the  League  and  by  a  bolder 
and  more  definite  foreign  policy.  The  appendix 
contains   useful  statistics.   Index. 


Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui  28:362  Jl  '23 


Booklist  20:124  Ja  '24 
"The  book,  in  the  reviewer's  opinion,  has 
been  spoilt  by  the  addition  of  its  later  sections. 
For  the  expeit  on  international  affairs  the 
work  is  valueless.  For  the  uninformed  but  in- 
terested man  the  book  as  a  whole  is  instructive 
and  the  first  three  sections  are  reliable  and 
lucidly   written."   T.   J.   C.   Martyn 

1-    Lit   R  p308  D  1   '23  720w 

"He  does  not  make  a  fetish  of  the  League.  He 
does  not  preach  our  heads  off  or  carry  us  on 
excursions  into  Utopia.  He  is  not  thrown  off 
his  balance  by  popular  catchwords  or  enthusi- 
asms for  great  men.  He  depicts  the  League 
as  it  is,  with  all  its  virtues  and  its  faults,  and 
suggests  'what  we  ought  to  do  about  it.'  " 

+    New  Statesman   21:272  Je  9  '23  1700w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p394   Je 
14    '23   1250W 

WILLIAMS,    STANLEY    THOMAS.      Studies    in 
Victorian  literature.   299p  $3     Dutton 

820.4  English  literature — History  and  criti- 
cism 23-12141 
The  assistant  professor  of  English  literature 
in  Yale  univeisity  contributes  these  critical  es- 
says on  a  group  of  Victorian  writers  of  varying 
rank,  some  of  them  now  almost  forgotten.  Con- 
tents: Carlyle's  "Life  of  John  Steiling" ;  Car- 
lyle's  "Past  and  present":  a  prophecy;  Kings- 
ley's  "Yeast";  Two  Victorian  boyhoods;  The 
poetical  reputation  of  Matthew  Arnold;  Matthew 
Arnold  and  his  contemporaries;  Three  asjjects 
of  Matthew  Arnold's  poetry;  Theory  and  prac- 
tice in  the  poetry  of  Matthew  Arnold;  Victorian 
poetry  of  social  unrest;  Two  poems  by  Rossetti; 
George  Brimley:  a  mid-Victorian  critic;  New- 
man's Literary  preferences;  Clough'e  prose; 
Landor  and  his  contemporaries;  The  parent  of 
school-boy  novels. 

Reviewed  by  R.   M.   Weaver 

Bookm  58:327  N  '23  450w 
"Were  it  not  for  the  richness  of  the  material 
in  these  pages,  no  reader  would  follow  a  single 
essay  to  the  end;  for  the  style  is  not  only  un- 
even and  dull,  it  is,  in  some  places,  strangely 
lacking  in  such  rhetorical  necessaries  as  unity 
and    transition."  R.    S.    H. 

1-   Freeman    8:119    O    10    '23    320w 

"We  would  not  lay  down  these  delightful 
essays  in  a  mood  of  controvoisy.  Mr.  Williams 
has  penetrated  into  some  of  the  pleasantest 
recesses  of  Victorian  literature.  It  is  only  be- 
cause we  delight  in  examining  his  discoveries 
that  we  sometimes  protest  against  his  ardor 
for   classification."     Arnold  Whitridge 

-^ Lit    R    pl24   O    13    '23   SOOw 

Reviewed  by  G.  H.  Carson 

Nation  117:666  D  5  '23  480w 
"He  writes  as  a  critic  of  the  Victorian  Age 
with  detachment  from  it,  an  abandonment  in 
large  part  of  the  personal,  aesthetic  or  impres- 
sionistic, in  favor  of  the  historical  method, 
with,  however,  no  diminution  of  the  inti^rest 
and  significance  which  are  inherent  in  the  sub- 
ject."  R.   M.   Lovett 

+    New  Repub  36:258  O  -51  '23  1200w 
N   Y  Times  p6  N  11  '23   500w 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


563 


Outlook  135:318  O  24  '23  50w 
"The  essayist  has  a  pleasant  style  as  well  as 
a  discrnninating'  sense  of  literary  values.  These 
bypath  saunterings,  unsuited  for  the  crowd 
that  jazzes  along-  Main  street,  will  well  repay 
the  soul   that  has   leisure   to  saunter." 

+  Springf'd    Republican   p6  D   26   '23   300w 

WILLIAMS,  TOM  ALFRED.  Dreads  and  be- 
setting- fears;  including-  states  of  anxiety, 
their  causes  and  cure.  (Mind  and  health 
.ser.)   217p  $1.75  Little 

616.8    Fear.     Mental    diseases  23-9048 

A  practising-  neurologrist  of  long  experience 
describes  the  origin  of  fear,  the  mental  pro- 
cesses of  those  beset  by  fears  and  the  way 
by  which  to  dispose  of  these  haunting  dreads 
Many  cases  which  have  come  under  his  per- 
.sonal    observation   are   described   in    illustration 


Booklist  20:122  Ja  '24 
"Dr  Williams  has  provided  an  excellent 
handbook  to  tlie  world  of  fear — a  work  that 
will  be  the  more  serviceal>le  as  it  may  be 
safely  prescribed  to  the  sufferers  from  this  all 
too  prevalent  malady."  Joseph  Jastrow 
4-    Lit   R  p925  Ag  25  '23  1300w 

N    Y   Tribune   plS   S   2   '23   130w 
"It    is    refreshingly    individualistic."     Bernard 
Glueck,  M.D. 

-j-   Survey  51:350  D  15  '23  150w 
Wis    Lib   Bui   19:478   N  '23 

WILLIAMS,  VALENTINE  (DOUGLAS  VALEN- 
TINE,   pseud.).  Island  gold.   304p  $2  Houghton 

23-6837 
A  former  officer  of  the  English  secret  service, 
Major  Okewood,  while  in  Central  America  after 
the  war,  comes  into  possession  of  a  cipher 
locating  a  treasure  on  Cock  island  in  the  Pacific. 
A  dangerous  gang  of  cut-throats  and  adven- 
turers, headed  by  the  ex-Kaiser's  most  clever 
spy,  a  club-footed  giant  nick-named  El  Cojo.  is 
on  the  track  of  the  cipher  and  Okewood  escapes 
from  them  on  the  private  yacht  of  an  English 
millionaire,  cruising  in  the  Pacific.  When  they 
reach  the  island  the  gang  is  there  before  them 
and  the  stage  is  set  for  a  round  of  tlirilling  and 
dangerous  adventures,  involving  Marjorie.  the 
millionaire's  charming  daughter.  WTien  at  last 
Okewood  falls  into  El  Cojo's  power  he  is  able  to 
capitulate  with  the  announcem.cnt  that  the  trea- 
sure has  been  scattered  all  over  the  island  by 
a  volcanic  eruption.  The  gradual  deciphering  of 
the  code  is  tlie  most  interesting  feature  of  the 
story. 


"We  find  in  'Island  Gold'  a  cipher  which  is  ad- 
mirably ingenious  and  which  is  evolved  in  a 
manner  reminiscent  of  that  in  'The  Gold  Bug.'  It 
is  a  cipher  of  which  Poe  in  liis  day  would  not 
have  been  ashamed." 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  25  '23  330w 
"The    author's    style   is    good,    and    those    who 
like    mystery    and    adventure    will    be    well    ad- 
vised   if    they    turn    their    attention    to    'Island 
Gold.'  " 

-I-  int   Bk   R  p60  Je  '23  240w 
"This    story    indexes    itself    by    its    title.      It 
could    not    be    anything    but    an    adventure    tale 
of    a    search    for    buried    treasure.      It    happens, 
however,    to  be  a   singularly  good  one,   the  sort 
that    one    can    read    in    a    room    full    of    people 
and  not  hear  a  word  of  what  is  being  said." 
+   Lit  R  p667  My  5  '23  340w 
"The  action     in  'Island     Gold'  moves     swiftly, 
and  there  is  plenty  of  it." 

+  N  Y  Times  pl9  Ap  15  '23  600w 
"Here  is  a  story  that  gets  one  into  the  stir- 
ring midst  of  things  at  the  first  jump  and  keeps 
him  there  till  the  last  ruffian  has  vanished  from 
Cock  Island.  The  story  is  of  the  kind  that 
makes  its  own  way  once  its  stamp  is  seen."  E. 
W.   Osborn 

+   N  Y  World  p8e  Ap  8  '23  250w 
Wis    Lib    Bui   19:415  Jl   '23 


WILLIAMS.  VALENTINE  (DOUGLAS  VALEN- 
TINE,  pseud.).  Orange  divan.  314p  $2  Hough- 
ton 

23-11803 
Carmen  Cranmore,  an  American  by  birth  and 
wife  of  a  wealthy  London  stockbroker,  is 
murdered  in  a  slum  district  in  broad  daylight, 
by  a  daggei--thrust.  In  her  dying  words  she 
mentions  the  orange  divan  in  her  drawing 
room — an  odd  piece  of  furnituie  that  she  had 
brought  with  her  from  America,  and  the  dag- 
ger is  identified  as  the  property  of  an  artist 
friend  of  the  dead  woman  whose  studio  was 
the  scene  of  the  tragedy.  The  interest  of  the 
story  largely  turns  on  the  different  manner  of 
two  detectives  handling  the  case.  The  matter- 
of-fact  Manderton  of  Scotland  Yard  is  all  for 
following  up  the  clues  on  their  face  value,  while 
Boulot.  the  ex-ohief  of  the  French  Criminal 
investigation  department,  wlio  volunteered  his 
sei'\-ices,  sees  beyond  the  bare  facts  into  the 
psychology  of  the  persons  involved  and  their 
possible  motives.  This  method  lends  to  some 
startling  revelations  of  the  past  life  of  Mrs 
Cranmore  in  America. 


"The  t.nle   is  a  rattling  good  one." 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p4  S  12  '23  700w 
"There  are  minor  defects,  mentioned  only 
to  show  how  even  an  excellent  story  teller  as 
Mr.  "Valentine  Williams  occasionally  slips  up  on 
minor  details.  The  characters  ar'-e  not,  as  is 
too  often  the  case  in  novels  of  this  sort,  mere 
puppets  to  be  moved  hither  and  thither  at  the 
convenience  of  their  cr-eator." 

-I NY  Times  p26   Ag  26  '23   SOOw 

"Written  with  the  skill  to  be  expected  of  the 
author  of  'Island  Gold.'  "  E.  W.  O. 
+  N  Y  World  p6e  S  16  '23  180w 
"The  incidents  and  characters  hang  well  to- 
gether, and  the  exnlanation  works  out  natu- 
rally enough,  though  its  gradual  disclosure  is 
full    of   excitement." 

+  The   Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p573   Ag 
30    '23    280w 

Wis   Lib   Bul  19:510  D  '23 

WILLIAMS.   WAYLAND  WELLS.     Family.   307p 

$2      Stokes 

23-6838 

"This  is  the  story  of  n  young  man  brought 
up  to  believe,  by  a  proud  motiier.  th.nt  there 
is  but  one  real  family  in  this  New  England 
town  in  which  they  live,  and  that  being  a 
Deere  he  must  as  a  matter  of  course  become 
a.  lawyer.  Nathan  does  his  best  to  uphold  the 
family  tradition,  although  he  prefers  and  is 
better  fitted  to  become  an  engineer.  'The  strug- 
gle becomes  too  great  for  him,  and  is  taken 
up  and  fought  by  his  mother  and  wife.  In  the 
end  for-ces  which  have  been  set  in  motion  two 
generations  before  his  birth  give  him  perfect 
freedom  in  making  his  final  decision."— Cleve- 
land 


Booklist  19:322  Jl  '23 

"An  excellent  novel,  though  a  trifle  too  long 
for  its  theme.  The  picture  of  the  grande  dame 
of  a  Connecticut  town  ruling  her  rebellious 
brood  is  finely  drawn.  The  young  people  are 
real,  the  events  interesting.  "There  is  excellent 
dialogue,  there  is  good  suspense.  This  is  cer- 
tainly one  of  the  best  -written  books  by  a  young 
American  that  we  have  had  recently."  J.  F. 
-f   Bookm    57:659   Ag   '23   360w 

"  'Fnmily'  is  a  novel  of  ideals.  It  has  a  great 
donl  of  beauty  in  its  conceptions.  The  author's 
philosophy  of  living,  lofty,  though  a  little  cold, 
permeates  the  story,  elevating  it  far  above  the 
usual    American    novel."     D.    F.    G. 

4-   Boston    Transcript   pi    Ap   11    '23   750w 
Int    Bk    R   p70   N   '23   300w 

"To  skip  over  every  minor  ground  of  complaint 
and  come  to  the  central  disqualification:  Mr. 
AVilliams  has  presented  in  'Family'  a  subject  of 
altogether  uncoiiimon  abstract  significance 
without  ever  taking  the  trouble  to  invent  a 
character  in  whom  the  iiriplications  of  that  sub- 
iect  can  be  reduced  to  concrete  reality."  Wilson 
Follett 

—  Lit    R   pSlO   Jl   7   "23    1250W 


564 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


WILLIAMS.    WAYLAND    WELLS— ConHjiueol 

"Mr.  Williams  has  written  a  story  on  a  tlieme 
he  understands,  and  has  not  been  content  with 
a  mere  fulmination  at  society — with  a  letting 
of  spleen  in  the  literary  market-place.  He  is 
not  yet  thoroughly  easy  in  the  part  of  novelist. 
But  he  has  the  qualities  of  distinction  in  his 
field;  and  with  a  bit  more  indifference  to  the 
manners  of  his  fellows,  and  a  bit  more  reverence 
for  the  beauties  of  style,  he  may  well  become 
one  of  the  best  American  novelists." 

4-  N  Y  Times  pl4  Ap  1  '23  600w 
"A  novel  of  contemporary  New  England  life 
which  is  singularly  well  written,  in  the  main 
neatly  conceived  and  fully  ripened,  and  broadly 
illuminating  to  those  who  have  seen  into  the 
lives  of  those  people  who  strive  to  nourish 
themselves  on  the  dried  fruit  of  the  labor  of 
their  ancestors.  'Family'  is  written  with  a 
quiet  vigor  of  idea  and  phrases  which  comports 
admirably  with  the  rugged  landscape  against 
which  the  action  occurs.  In  general  Mr.  AVil- 
liams  seems  to  have  surrounded  and  absorbed 
his  problem,  to  have  understood  both  the  ex- 
ternal and  internal  motivations  of  his  char- 
acter."    Bruce    Gould 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p22  Ap  8  '23  1150w 
"Mr.  Williams  manages  to  interest  us  pretty 
deeply  not  only  in  the  fortunes  of  the  oppressed 
youngest  son  of  the  Deeres  but  in  the  curiously 
twisted  pride  which  makes  a  good  American 
ancestry  a  curse  instead  of  a  blessing  to  his 
early  years.  An  exceptionally  well  turned  story 
of  Wortley  Village,  in  New  England,  goes  with 
the  tale  of  the  persecution  of  Nathan."  E.  W. 
Osborn 

-f-  N  Y  World  p8e  Ap  1  '23  480w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:277  Je  '23 
"  'Family'    is  a  good,  honest  substantial  book, 
worth   reading  for  itself  and  that  makes  prom- 
ise  for  the   future." 

+  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  22  '23  300w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p693  O  18 

'23    150w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:161  Je  '23 

WILLIAMS-ELLIS,     A.     Anatomy     of     poetry. 

300p      $2.50      Macmillan      [7s   6d   Oxford] 
808.1     Poetry  [22-16900] 

"Having  a  wide  knowledge  of  poetry  and  a 
great  power  of  enjoying  it  Mrs.  Williams-Ellis 
asks  herself  what  is  the  specific  pleasure  it 
gives  her;  and,  finding  the  conventional  an- 
swers unsatisfying,  she  makes  for  herself  a 
fresh  analysis.  The  book  is  not  a  technical 
treatise  with  a  recapitulation  of  doctrines  from 
Aristotle  to  Croce.  Its  author  begins  at  the 
other  end;  she  interprets  what  philosophers 
call  the  'ordinary  consciousness' — which  is  right, 
for  joy  in  good  poetry  is  spread  in  the  widest 
commonalty.  The  author's  healthy  modernism 
makes  her  take  most  of  her  instances  from 
her    younger    contemporaries." — Spec 


"There  is  much  wisdom  in  'An  anatomy  of 
poetry,'  and  some  opinions,  to  be  sure,  that 
do  not  seem  so  wise.  However,  I  cannot  help 
but  wish  that  every  person  who  heckles  all 
comers  on  the  subject  of  modern  verse  would 
read  and  digest  this  handbook.  The  progress 
of  poetry  might  then  be  a  smoother  one."  J.  F 

H Bookm     .57:201    Ap    '23    400w 

Cleveland  p39  My  '23 

"A  valuable  handbook  for  all  interested  in 
poetry.  It  presents  a  learned  psychological  dis- 
cussion of  the  modern  tendencies  in  poetry  in 
an  interesting  and  palatable  manner."  C:  A 
Madison 

-I-   Lit    R   p607   Ap   14   '23   820w 

Sat    R    134:257    Ag    12    '22    1250w 

"I  have  rarely  read  anything  on  the  sublect 
more  sane  and  illuminating  th.in  the  first 
hundred  pages.  Mrs.  Williams-Ellis  derives 
her  canon  of  judgment  from  a  wide  reading 
and  a  catholic  sense  of  beauty,  and  she  iusti- 
fies  it  by  a  reasoning  which  shows  at  once  a 
rare  acumen  a-d  the  strongest  good  sense.  I 
would  especially  commend  her  excellent  illus- 
trations, which  are  generally  homelv  and  some- 
tirnos  surprising,  but  always  exactly  to  the 
point.     It   is   all  good  persuasive  talk,   causerje 


in  the  true  sense,  and  I  do  not  know  a  better 
introduction  to  the  subject.  .  .  The  second  half 
of  the  book  is  moi-e  carelessly  written,  less 
judicious,  more  in  the  nature  of  reprinted  jour- 
nalism."    J:    Buchan 

H Spec    129:47    Jl    8    '22    1500w 

The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p494    Jl 
27    '22    ISOw 

WILLIAMSON,  CHARLES  NORRIS,  and  WIL- 
LIAMSON,  ALICE  MURIEL  (LIVINGSTON) 
(MRS     CHARLES     NORRIS     WILLIAMSON). 

Night    of   the   wedding.    275p    $2   Doran    [2s   6d 

Hodder   &  S.] 

23-10905 

"The  tale  is  one  of  loves  badly  tangled  and 
of  a  mystery  which  barely  escapes  the  swift 
turn  of  tragedy.  It  is  the  story  or  a  rich  young 
Englishman  who  has  married  an  American  girl, 
and  whose  bride,  sitting  at  a  piano  on  the 
very  night  of  her  wedding  day,  disappears  as 
though  by  magic.  The  incident  takes  place  in 
the  house  loaned  for  the  honeymoon  by  a  friend 
of  the  bridegroom  who  has  been  also  a  lover  of 
the  bride,  and  the  fact  that  it  is  an  old  house 
with  a  ghost  story  of  its  own  adds  to  the  in- 
terest  of  the  new  occasion." — N  Y  World 


Booklist  20:60  N  '23 
"The  sequence  of  events  in  this  story  is  not 
so  smooth  as  might  be;  the  villain  and  secondary 
characters  are  out  of  focus  in  the  reader's  in- 
terest; and  the  element  of  dangerous  adven- 
ture is  smaller  than  one  would  expect.  The 
mystery,    however,    is    one    of   some    novelty." 

h    Lit    R  .pl69   O  20  '23   180w 

"Without  doubt  the  book's  best  point  is  the 
skill  of  its  construction;  for,  quite  aside  from 
its  careful  motivation  and  its  attention  to  de- 
tail, there  is  a  continual  creating  and  enhanc- 
ing of  suspense  that  Foe  himself  might  have 
admired." 

-I-   N  Y  Times  pl4  Jl  22  '23  380w 
"Mrs.     Williamson    has     kept     suspicion     well 
pointed    and    suspense    well    in    the    air    to    the 
very  end  of  her  story." 

-f   N  Y  World  p8e  Jl  29  '23  180w 

WILLIAMSON,  THAMES  ROSS.  Problems  in 
American  democracy.  567p  $1.60  Heath 
342.73  United  States — Politics  and  govern- 
ment. United  Statos — -Economic  conditions. 
United  States — Social  conditions.  Social 
problems  22-8829 

"Part  I  deals  with  historic  background.  Part 
II  takes  up  first  our  capitalistic  economic  sys- 
tem, and  then  the  problems  growing  out  of  its 
failures,  together  with  the  nroposals  to  remedy 
these  defects.  Part  III  discusses  the  social 
problems  which  have  arisen  from  lack  of  ad- 
justments in  our  institutions  to  meet  the  wel- 
fare needs  of  the  people.  Pa^'t  IV  is  devoted 
to  the  problems  of  politics.  Part  V  deals 
largely  with  the  mechanism  Jf  government, 
federal,  state  and  local.  Each  chapter  is  fol- 
lowed by  questions  on  the  text,  lists  of  required 
readings,  further  questions  on  required  readings, 
suggested  topics  for  investigation  and  report, 
and  a  list  of  collateral  subjects  of  related  in- 
terest and  specific  inquiry  treated  by  authori- 
ties, with  specific  references  to  the  standard 
works  in  which  these  topics  are  discussed. 
The  appended  bibliography  follows  the  general 
outline   of    the   book." — Survey 


"The  various  chapters  were  subjected  to  the 
criticism  of  America's  leading  scholars.  It  is 
seldom  that  any  author  makes  acknowledg- 
ment, for  assistance  and  suggestions,  to  a  more 
distinguished  group  of  specialists.  The  result 
has  been  the  securing  of  .'in  accuracy  that  is 
unfortvinately  all  too  rare  in  our  flood  of  text- 
books."     L:    K.    Manley 

-f   Educ    R    04:359    N    '22    350w 

"One  reads  the  book  with  the  feeling  that 
the  author  is  dealing  with  the  large  current 
issues  in  American  life  in  an  unbiased  and 
scholarly  way."     W.   S.   Guiler 

+  School   R  30:636  O  '22  480w 


J500K    REVIEW    DIGEST 


565 


"Because  of  the  author's  breadth  of  vision 
and  the  wealth  of  materials  into  which  he  leads, 
this  book  will  be  a  useful  tool  to  open  the  way 
for  studies  of  social  science,  both  in  high 
schools  and  colleges;  it  is  also  adapted  to  ex- 
tramural study  courses.  Some  critics  may  find 
his  handling  of  problems  ultra-conservative. 
Certainly  it  shows  no  tendency  toward  radical- 
ism."     F.  A.   Cleveland 

-f  Survey  49:808  Mr  15  '23  300w 

WILLIS,  PRIOR  F.  Oxy-acetylene  welding  and 
cutting;  including  information  on  acetylene, 
oxygen,  electric  welding.  6th  ed  rev  and  enl 
254p  il  $1.50  Henley 

671     Oxyacetylene   welding  23-149 

"Desci-ibes  use  and  maintenance  of  appara- 
tus and  preparation  of  metal  to  be  welded,  and 
gives  instruction  in  methods  advisable  for  vari- 
ous castings  and  parts.  Contains  an  explana- 
tion of  a  few  welding  symbols  in  general  use." — 
Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo   Bui   28:295   Je   '23 

WILLOUGHBY,  WILLIAM  FRANKLIN.  Re- 
organization of  the  administrative  branch  of 
the  national  government.  (Inst,  for  govern- 
ment research.  Studies  in  administration) 
314p    $3    Johns    Hopkins 

353    United    States — Executive    departments 

23-5750 
"The  author  is  the  director  of  the  Institute 
for  Government  Research,  and  the  results  of 
the  institute's  as  well  as  his  own  investiga- 
tions are  given  in  this  volume.  Starting  with 
a  discussion  of  the  present  status  of  the  Fed- 
eral departments  and  the  grouping  of  services  in 
each,  Mr.  Willoughby  shows  the  errors  of  the 
existing  methods.  He  then  takes  up  in  detail 
various  changes.  The  principles  upon  which 
his  proposals  are  based  are  'the  bringing  to- 
gether under  separate  departments  all  those 
services,  and  those  services  only,  which  have 
the  same  general  function  in  respect  to  the 
work  to  be  undertaken  by  them.'  " — Boston 
Transcript 


"Many  of  the  specific  changes  proposed, 
which  are  discussed  in  detail  have  mvich  to 
commend  them  and,  no  doubt,  will  receive 
serious  consideration  from  those  having  respon- 
sibility for  action.  From  the  standpoint  of 
students  of  administration,  however,  the  chief 
merit  of  the  book,  and  one  which  gives  it 
permanent  value,  is  the  clear  and  concise  pre- 
sentation of  the  fundamental  principles  which 
should  govern  the  administrative  organization 
of  the  national  government,  or,  for  that  matter, 
any  government."  L..  M.  Short 

+  Am   Pol  Sci   R  17:477  Ag  '23  1400w 

"Both  preliminary  studies  and  later  recom- 
mendations are  most  careful  and  thorough.  The 
book  is  the  result  of  sound  and  impartial  in- 
vestigation. It  is,  however,  naturally  technical 
in  treatment,  and  while  the  sub.lect  itself  is 
most  important,  this  concrete  application  will 
hardly  appeal  to  the  general  reading  public." 
S.  L.  R. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p6  Ap  7  '23  650w 

"It  makes  an  indispensable  basis  for  study  and 
discussion    of   the    great    subject    with    which    it 

'  +  Springf'd  Republican  plO  Ag  31  '23  150w 

WILLSIE,     HONORE      (MCCUE)      (MRS     WIL- 
LIAM   MORROW).     Exile  of  the  Lariat.     357p 

$2     Stokes 

23-11703 

The  paleontologist,  Hugh  Stewart,  was  so  ab- 
sorbed in  his  work  that  he  became  thoroughly 
a  man  of  one  Idea,  neglecting  everything  else 
in  life,  even  his  wife.  The  latter  aggravated 
matters  by  resenting  her  husband's  interest  in 
fossils  and  nagging  him  for  it.  His  wise  old 
uncle,  owner  of  the  Lariat  book-shop  in  Fort 
Sioux,  Wyoming,  stipulated  in  his  will  that  his 
vast  estate  should  fall  to  Hugh  only  on  condi- 
tion that  the  latter  suspend  his  scientific  work 
for   two   years  and   put  his   entire   time   in   the 


book-shop.  The  story  shows  how  Hugh,  after 
grudgmgly  accepting  the  conditions,  reeducated 
himself  and  learned  to  live  his  life  on  entirely 
new  and  less  selfish  lines.  No  trials  are  spared 
him  but  in  the  end  he  has  accepted  the  governor- 
ship of  Wyoming,  has  so  completely  mastered 
his  uncle's  dying  injunction  to  "give  all-all-all" 
to  the  demands  of  life,  that  he  is  willing  to  see 
the  finest  fossil  area  in  the  country  flooded 
rather  than  risk  the  putting  through  of  the 
children's  code   for   the   state. 


Booklist   20:61    N   '23 

"In  her  descriptions  and  in  the  sweep  of  her 
imagination  it  is  certainly  Mrs.  Willsie  at  her 
best."   D.  L.   Mann 

+   Boston    Transcript    p5   Ag   25    '23    1900w 

"Those  of  us  who  know  the  West  as  it  really 
is  cannot  help  but  feel  that  Mrs.  Morrow  in  this 
novel  has  at  least  portrayed  successfully  the 
psychological  attitudes  of  its  people.  Through- 
out the  .perusal  of  this  pleasant  narrative  one 
receives  the  impression  that  the  author  is  prob- 
ing the  various  antagonistic  exponents  of  hu- 
man nature  who  are  to-day  founding  the  West 
of  to-morrow  with  accurate  and  sympathetic 
insight."    Carl   Magg 

+    Lit    R   pl9   S   8   '23    550w 

"What  Mrs.  Willsie  would  show  is  that  a 
man's  duty  tO'  his  Work  is  less  important  than 
his  duty  to  Society.  With  her  hero  such  a  stick, 
she  has  a  hard  job  to  prove  her  thesis.  The 
by-products  of  her  effort  are  better;  her  back- 
drops of  mountain  and  desert  are  splendidly 
done,  and  her  character  bits  carry  the  convic- 
tion of  real  life." 

h   N  Y  Times  pl8  Je  19  '23  500w 

"If  you  like  Western  stories  you  will  like 
the  'Lariat.'  Probably  you  will  like  it  anyway. 
It  establishes  a  new  high  water  mark  for  the 
flood  tide  of  stories  of  the  West."  Isabel  Pater- 
son 

-f-  N  Y  Tribune  p22  Ag  19  '23  850w 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui  28:510  n  '23 
Wis   Lib   Bui   19:482  N  '23 

WILSON,    DAVID    ALEC.    Carlyle   till   marriage 
1795-1826).  442p  il  $6  Dutton   [15s  K.  Paul] 

B  or   92   Carlyle,   Thomas  [24-1016] 

The  first  instalment  of  a  five-volume  life  of 
Carlyle,  the  remaining  volumes  of  which  will 
be  published  at  short  intervals.  For  thirty 
years  the  author  has  been  collecting  his  ma- 
terial and  reducing  it  to  readable  size.  His 
subject  is  a  hero  to  him  and  he  devotes  himself 
to  undoing  the  injuries  done  by  Froude,  prom- 
ising that  "in  later  volumes  Mr.  Froude  shall 
be  seen  the  dupe  of  a  knave."  This  volume 
which  is  a  combination  of  narrative,  corres- 
pondence, and  both  \vritten  and  oral  tradition, 
follows  the  development  of  Carlyle' s  philosophy, 
his  courtship  of  Jane  Welsh,  and  the  beginnings 
of  his   lifelong   ill-health. 


"Mr.  Wilson  gives  us,  in  his  first  of  five  vol- 
umes, a  reasonable  hope  that  he  will  paint  a 
portrait  of  Carlyle  which  will  make  Froude's 
forgotten,  and  that  he  will  complete  a  biog- 
raphy which,  if  it  fulfills  the  promise  of  this 
book  may  rank  with  the  three  or  four  biog- 
raphies that  can  be  mentioned  becomingly  in 
the  same  sentence  as  Boswell's  Johnson."  R. 
E.   Roberts 

+   New   Statesman    22:50   O   20   '23   ISOOw 

"Mr.  Wilson's  sources  of  information  are  too 
numerous  to  have  left  room  for  any  original 
thinking.  Whatever  the  quality  of  his  inten- 
tion which  we  may  believe  to  have  been  noble, 
his  own  effort  at  analysis  is  completely  de- 
stroyed by  foot-notes  of  reference  upon  almost 
every  page  of  the  book,  and  hardly  a  paragraph 
whose  backbone  is  not  some  other  man's  opin- 
ion. .  .  It  seems  to  me  that  such  a  biographer 
ought  to  suffer  some  disgrace  for  making  a 
dull  man  out  of  the  author  of  'The  French  Rev- 
olution.' Mr.  Wilson  has  made  of  Carlyle  only 
a  shadow  behind  the  book,  a  shadow  composed 
of  too  many  fragments  to  assume  definite 
shape."      L:    Weitzenkorn 

^  N   Y  World  p6e  N  11  '23  1250w 


566 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


WILSON,     DAVID     ALEC — Continued 

'•What  impresses  us  chiefly  is  Mr.  "Wilson's 
integrity,  his  thoroughness,  and  his  directness. 
Behind  the  crowded  matter  we  catch  glimpses 
from  time  to  time  of  a  shrewd,  genial,  and  very 
human  manipulator.  But  it  is  the  material 
itself  which  is  in  the  forefront;  and  this  is  as 
it  should  be  with  what  promises  to  be  the 
definitive   biography  of  a  great  man." 

Jj The    Times    [London]     Lit    Sup    p601    S 

13    '23    2300W 

WILSON,     HARRY     LEON.      Oh,    doctor!       384p 
$2  Cosmopolitan  bk. 

23-13196 

Rufus  Billop,  a  hypochondriac,  makes  up  his 
mind  that  he  is  going  to  die  and  takes  to  his 
bed  to  do  so  comfortably.  But  the  indifference 
to  his  symptoms  of  his  pretty  nurse,  to  whom 
he  has  been  greatly  attracted,  drives  him  to 
brave  some  of  the  dangers  of  life  he  had  hither- 
to shunned,  in  order  to  compel  her  attention. 
With  the  eating  of  a  pork  chop  he  begins  to 
enjoy  living,  and  progresses  to  a  motorcar,  a 
motorcycle,  aviation  etc.,  all  of  which  he  pur- 
sues with  such  joy  in  motion  and  such  disre- 
gard of  safety  that  finally  the  nurse  who  has 
by  this  time  discovered  that  she  is  in  love  with 
him  reveals  her  love  and  persuades  him  to  be 
more  careful  for  her  sake. 


Booklist  20:142  Ja  '24 
"Amusingly  set  forth.   There   is  an  abundance 
of   good    fun    in    'Oh,    Doctor!'    and   some   situa- 
tions    and     their     treatment     are       irresistibly 
comic." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p8  N  21  '23  300w 
'-To  a  reader  who  has  never  read  anything 
else  by  Harry  Leon  Wilson  'Oh,  Doctor!'  might 
be  amusing  and  fairly  clever;  but  to  those 
whose  palates  have  been  spoiled  by  Ruggles 
and  Ma  Pettingill  it  is  fiat,  stale  and  unprofit- 
able." ,„    .^ 

\-  Greensboro    (N.C.)    Daily    News   plO    D 

9   '23   300w 
"Mr.   Wilson   tells   his  story  with   a  delightful 
sense     of     humor;     dry,     mellow,      and     purely 
American."    Malcolm   Cowley 

-I-  Lit  R  pl84  O  27  '23  600w 
"Like  most  real  humorists,  Wilson  handles 
his  emotional  scenes  with  a  great  deal  more 
finesse  and  delicacy  of  touch  than  most  mas- 
ters of  tragedy  are  able  to  muster.  He  has 
a  wholesome  sense  of  values,  he  has  sympathy. 
and,  as  a  vehicle  for  their  expression,  he  has 
style.  Rufus  Billop  will  take  his  place  beside 
Merton    as   a    real    person." 

-[-NY  Times  p9  O  21  '23  240w 
"The    best    humorous    book    I    have    read    in 
three  years."   Homer   Croy 

+   N  Y  Tribune  pl8  O  28  '23  780w 
"EK'en   the   man   who   did  not   laugh   at    'Mer- 
ton  of  the  Movies' — if  such  a  man  there  be — is 
bound    to    surrender    to    Mr.     Wilson's    newest 
spread   of  humor."  E.  W.   Osborn 

-I-   N  Y  World  p8  O  14  '23  180w 
Outlook  135:460  N  14   '23  120w 
Springf'd   Republican   p7a  Ja  6  '24   220w 
The  Times  [London]    Lit  Sup  p853  D  6 
'23  150w 

WILSON,  JOHN  ARTHUR.  Chemistry  of  leath- 
er manufacture.  (Am.  chemical  soc.  Mono- 
graph ser.)   343p  il  $5  Chemical  catalog  co. 

675    Leather  23-9588 

"Most  of  the  books  on  leather  manufacture 
have  been  confined  to  practical  methods  of  tan- 
ning. The  present  work  renders  an  important 
service  in  setting  forth  much  of  the  complex 
chemical  theory  underlying  these  practical  pro- 
cesses. A  valuable  feature  is  the  large  number 
of  photomicrographs,  with  data  regarding  the 
exact  conditions  under  which  each  was  made." 
Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


WILSON,   iVIARGARET.  Able  McLaughlins.   263p 

$2    Harper 

23-13896 

"The  Harper  prize  novel  proves  to  be  a  story 
of  a  Scotch  community  in  the  Middle  West  dur- 
ing the  '60s.  .  .  Wully  McLaughlin,  doughty  but 
inarticulate  young  hero,  returns  from  Grant's 
army  to  find  that  his  sweetheart,  Chirstie 
McNair,  has  fallen  a  victim,  against  her  will, 
to  the  scapegrace  of  the  community,  Peter 
Keith.  She  has  concealed  her  plight  from  every 
one,  but  cannot  conceal  it  from  him.  Wully 
grasps  the  situation  with  masterful  promptness. 
He  makes  Peter  leave  imder  threat  of  death, 
marries  Chirstie,  and  accepts  the  paternity  of 
her  child  and  the  blame  for  its  disgracefully 
early  birth.  Peter  steals  back  to  see  the  woman 
he  violated,  at  a  time  when  the  anger  of 
Chirstie  and  Wully  against  him  has  not  lost  a 
degree  of  its  incandescence.  Wully  hvmts  him 
with  a  shotgvm,  but  he  has  disappeared.  Then, 
a  few  weeks  later,  Wully  suddenly  finds  him — 
and  revenge  and  forgiveness  aie  reconciled  in 
Miss  Wilson's  last  pages  with  surprising  con- 
vincingness."—Lit    R 


Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui  28:413  O  '23 


"The  plot  is  an  old  one,  but  it  is  fresh-minted 
by  Miss  Wilson's  skill.  Every  situation  serves 
to  show  forth  the  conflict  between  hate  and 
love."   H.    E.   Hersey 

+  Atlantic's  Bookshelf  D  '23  550w 
Booklist  20:103  D  '23 
"The  book  is  so  good  as  a  first  novel  that  it 
is  impossible  not  to  regret  that  it  must  always 
be  judged  also  as  a  prize  novel.  It  reveals  very 
clearly  that  Margaret  Wilson  has  something  of 
interest  to  say."  D.  L.   M. 

-f   Boston   Transcript  p4   N  7  '23  lOOOw 
Int  Bk  R  p76  D  '23  780w 
"Remarkable  for  the  unity  of  impression  pro- 
duced.     The    book    would    win   rapid    distinction 
if   introduced    without    its    blue   ribbon."     Allan 
Nevins 

+  Lit  R  p83  S  29  '23  llOOw 
"It  must  be  said  that  her  fiction  is  not  of 
the  same  magnificent  dimensions  as  her  fact. 
The  proportion  so  perfectly  established  in  an- 
other story  of  pioneering,  Maria  Chapdelaine, 
is  lacking.  But  if  the  plot  is  at  times  a  little 
strained  and  the  triangle  characters  a  little  dim. 
we  can  always  detach  ourselves  from  them  and 
find  the  earth  solid  beneath  our  feet."  R.  M. 
Lovett 

H New   Repub  36:339  N  21  '23  850w 

"Miss  Wilson  does  quite  well  with  her  char- 
acters, develops  them  by  phrase  and  incident. 
In  the  mechanics  of  story-telling  she  appears 
less  practiced:  or,  perhaps,  more  labored.  The 
novel  does  not  always  run  smoothly  from  one 
incident   to   the   next." 

-1 NY    Times   p3    S    30    '23    700w 

Reviewed  by  Isabel   Paterson 

N   Y  Tribune  pl4  S  30  '23  1450w 
Reviewed  by  E.   W.   Osborn 

N  Y  World  plOe  O  7  '23  330w 
"It  is  a  capital  story;  its  characters  are 
wholesome,  lovable,  well-rounded  human  be- 
ings, and  the  atmosphere  of  the  whole  book 
breathes  of  the  fresh  prairie  winds  and  rugged 
hardships  of  the  life  it  portrays." 

+   Springf'd   Republican  p9a  D  16  '23  500w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p898  D  20 
'23   120w 

Wis   Lib   Bui   19:510  D  '23 

WILSON,    ROMER.      Grand    tour    of    Alphonse 
Marichaud.   291p  $2.50   Knopf   [7s  6d  Methuen] 

23-13318 
"The  novel  has  no  plot.  It  consists  simply  of 
stories,  letters  and  diary-entries  written  by 
Marichaud;  but  the  effect  of  this  hotch-potch 
is  to  present  with  astonishing  depth  and  vigour 
the  personality  of  Marichaud  in  all  its  abun- 
dant humorousness,  hypersensitivity,  introspect- 
iveness,  detachment  and  fundamental  joy- 
ousnes.s.  And  this  process  involves  the  crea- 
tion of  other  characters,  large,  full-blooded, 
sharply  defined— types  such  as  Prudhom,  who 
has  thrown  over  civilization  and  lives  in  Africa 


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with  a  score  of  black  wives;  or  Hyacinthe 
Simon,  the  gorg-eous  corpulent,  self-made  man. 
In  The  Grand  Tour,  as  in  Martin  Schuler,  Miss 
Wilson  sets  out  to  present  tlie  character  of  a 
genius.  Scliuler  was  convincingly  real,  and  to 
say  that  AJphonse  Marichaud — the  French 
sculptor  whose  excursion  into  literature  The 
Grand  Tour  is  supposed  to  be— is  real  in  an 
even  profounder  way  than  Schuler  is  to  say 
a  great  deal.  The  Grand  Tour  is  not  a  boolt  for 
the  indiscriminate  devourer  of  fiction.  It  is 
strong-Iy  intellectual  and  cultured  stuff  al- 
though (since  it  is  truly  imaginative)  the  in- 
tellectual content  appears  in  the  form  of 
imagery   and    emotion." — Spec 


"It  is  as  enjoyable  as  it  is  distinguished."  J. 
F.    S. 

-I-   Boston  Transcript  p9  N  21  '23  650w 

"A  charming  book.  It  is  written  with  enough 
verisimilitude  to  please  one  who  has  merely 
visited  Paris,  and  with  sufficient  wit  and  ma- 
turity of  sentiment  to  satisfy,  maybe,  even  a 
Parisian."    L.    C    M. 

-f  Freeman  8:287  N  2S  '23  200w 

"There  is  a  masculine  strength  of  grasp  in 
all  the  character  delineation,  but  it  is  a  woman's 
talent  w^hich  enables  Miss  Wilson  to  make  un- 
important characters  live  and  breathe  in  so  few 
strokes." 

-f  Int  Bk  R  pl57  Ja  '24  500w 

"A  word  of  Romer  Wilson's  style;  a  daring, 
flaring  style  that  brings  to  her  rich,  mellow, 
elegant  English  that  faintest  tinge  of  foreign 
accent  that  is  more  difficult  to  acquire  than  the 
pure    Parisian    dialect    itself." 

N    Y   Times   p8   O    14   '23    450w 
Sat    R   135:742   Je   2   '23   290w 

"Possesses  a  superb  style — exuberant,  well- 
fed,  humorous,  full  of  imagery  and  colour.  It 
gives  the  impression  that  she  writes  rapidly, 
torrentially,  out  of  a  full  imagination — ^an  im- 
pression reinforced  by  an  amazing  inaccuracy 
in  spelling  which  extends  over  three  lang\iages 
— English,    French    and    German." 

H Spec    130:890   My   26    '23    1200w 

"  'The  Grand  Tour'  is  a  very  finished  piece 
of  artistic  workmanship;  a  book  to  be  read  in  a 
happy,  quiet  mood  when  we  may  dream  over  it 
and  taste  to  the  full  the  delicate  flavor  of  its 
atmosphere." 

-f  Springf'd   Republican  p8a  D  16  '23  500w 

"There  is  nothing  delirious,  as  a  rule,  in  her 
language  nor  sensuous  in  her  style.  Miss 
Wilson  herself  does  not  remain  calm — in  fact, 
her  spelling,  particularly  of  proper  names  and 
foreign  words,  goes  ecstatically  and  continu- 
ally astray^ — it  is  because  she  realizes  that  life, 
no  matter  whose,  truly  is  exciting,  if  only  you 
look    at    it    with    wideawake    eves." 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup  p302   My 
3    '23    700w 

WILSON,  VIOLET   ALICE   (MRS  ALEXANDER 
»     ROBERT  GRAHAM   WILSON).  Coaching  era. 

259p  il  $5  Button  [12s  Gd  Lane] 

914.2     Coaching.     England — Social     life     and 
customs  [23-7309] 

This  chronicle  of  the  coaching  era  in  England 
when  stage-  and  mail-coach  were  the  only 
means  of  transport  over  long  distances  shows 
the  England  of  that  period,  the  seventeenth  and 
eighteenth  centuries,  from  the  traveller's  point 
of  view.  The  book  describes  the  evolution  of  the 
stage-coach,  the  condition  of  tlie  roads,  the  posi- 
tion and  importance  of  the  coachman,  the  rival- 
ries between  different  coach  linos,  the  inns  along 
the  way,  travellers'  experiences,  highwaymen, 
accidents,  and  the  difHculties  and  humors  of  the 
road.  Numerous  quotations  from  tr-^vellers'  ac- 
counts are  included  and  there  are  fifteen  illus- 
trations from  old  pictures  and  prints,  some  of 
them  being  in  color. 


"The  descriptions  and  the  pictures  of  the  old 
coaching  days  have  a  lure  that  is  most  com- 
pelling. The  author  has  made  a  careful  study  of 
the  literature  of  the  subject,  and  presents  it 
lucidly  and  entertainingly  in  all  its  phases." 
-1-  Outlook  13.5:507  N   21   '23   70w 

WINSLOW,  THYRA  SAMJER.    Picture  frames. 

324p   $2.50  Knopf 

23-26246 

This  collection  of  short  stories  presents  a 
series  of  pictures  of  types  from  various  walks 
and  times  of  life.  There  is  the  thoroughly  so- 
phisticated country  girl  from  Black  Plains,  Iowa, 
coming  to  Chicago  with  intent  to  capture  a 
millionaire.  But  not  until  she  has  been  taught 
by  a  city  girl  how  to  be  really  simple  does  she 
succeed  in  making  an  impression.  There  is  the 
grandmother  who  divides  the  year  equally 
among  her  three  married  children — to  be  over- 
worked in  one  place,  politely  tolerated  in  the 
other  and  the  target  of  all  the  family  ill-humors 
in  the  third — and  who  feels  herself  a  person- 
ality in  her  own  right  only  while  she  is  travel- 
ing. There  is  the  immigrant  Jewish  family  who 
pass  thru  the  entire  cycle  from  abject  poverty 
to  great  wealth  with  the  change  in  their  name: 
Rosenheimer,  Rosenheim,  Rosen,  Rose  and 
finally  Ross.  Contents:.  Little  Emma;  Grandma; 
Mamie  Carpenter;  A  cycle  of  Manhattan;  Amy's 
story;  City  folks;  Indian  summer;  A  love  affair; 
Birthday;  Corinna  and  her  man;  The  end  of 
Anna. 


"Miss  Wilson's  story  is  of  England  alone.  .  . 
Her  diligence  has  provided  an  extremely  engag- 
ing history  of  a  picturesque  and  important  era 
in  England,  an  example  which  might  well  be 
followed  by  some  enterprising  American  writer." 
F     J     C 

Boston  Transcript  p3  N  17  '23  lOOOw 


Booklist   19:255   My  '23 
Cleveland    p44    Je    '23 
Reviewed  by  Katharine  Anthony 

Freeman  7:283  My  30  '23  480vv 
"The  fault  to  be  found  with  these  stories  of 
Thyra  Winslow's  is,  perhaps,  that  she  takes 
these  people  and  makes  them  interesting,  not 
in  spite  of  themselves,  but  in  spite  of  herself. 
They  interest  her,  but  only  clinically.  She  cuts, 
dissects,  lays  open  and  says,  'There  you  are. 
Observe  that  dark  reddish  mass.  You  will  no- 
tice that  it  pulses,  or  beats.  The  heart.  Inter- 
esting organ.'  So  she  presents  them,  starkly, 
weaving  no  words .  of  shining  fabric  to  cover 
their  nakedness.  There  are  whole  pages  of  writ- 
ing that  make  the  reader  wish  for  just  one 
graceful  phrase,  one  lovely  word,  one  fluid  para- 
graph. Hard,  tough,  common,  little  Anglo-Saxon 
words  about  hard,  tough,  common,  little  Amer- 
ican people."  Edna  Ferber 

-I Int   Bk  R  pl9  F  '23  1400w 

J  Religion  3:447  Jl  '23  40w 
"For  once  the  blpoming  of  the  jacket  and  the 
kindly  patronage  ot  a  better-known  colleague — 
l']dna  Ferber — do  not  oveireach  themselves:  Mrs. 
Winslow  is  a  master  of  the  short  story."  Eva 
Goldbeck 

+   Lit   R  p499  Mr  3  '23  650w 

Nation  116:525  My  2  '23  20w 

"Despite  u  certain   monotony  of  style,    due   to 

the  piling  up  of  short,  imadorned  sentences,  her 

attack    is   vivacious.      Though   she   knows   us   so 

well,    she    is    not    downhearted."      Bruce    Bliven 

^ New    Repub  34:193   Ap  11   '23  820w 

"  'Picture-Frames'  is  a  book  that  introduces 
an    excellent     short-story    writer    to    American 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl4  F  4  '23  660w 
"Let  us  have  done,  first  of  all,  with  the  faults 
of  this  verv  remarkable  collection  of  short 
stories,  for  the  faults  are  few  and  remediable, 
while  the  merits  are  special,  considerable  and 
suggestive  of  the  most  carefully  chosen  adjec- 
tives in  the  lexicon  of  approval.  These  stories 
are  hard,  metallic.  .  .  [They]  are  distinctly 
original,  the  method  of  presentation  is  new,  the 
point  of  view  is  fresh,  challenging  and  distinc- 
tive."  Burton   Rascoe 

_| NY  Tribune  pl7  F  11  '23  1550w 

"Mrs.  Winslow  is  admirably  accurate,  but 
realism  is  nothing  if  it  never  gets  beyond  the 
statistical  interpretation  of  life."  Hey  wood 
Broun 

—  -(-NY  World  p8e  F  18  '23  900w 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  My  20  '23  5Q0w 


568 


BOOK   REVIEW   DIGEST 


WINTER,    NEVIN    OTTO.   New   Poland.   369p    il 
»    $5   Page 

943.8   Poland— History  23-16677 

"As  the  title  of  this  study  implies,  the  book 
is  chiefly  a  report  of  conditions  in  Poland  as 
they  are  to-day,  but  in  the  five  introductory 
chapters  Dr.  Winter  has  given  an  admirable 
birdseye  view  of  the  'Polish  inheritance,'  with 
the  development  of  a  'political  philosophy'  which 
culminates  in  an  intense  individualism,  and  a 
glimpse  at  the  most  important  facts  of  this 
millennium  of  national  existence.  He  then  de- 
votes a  chapter  to  the  war,  and  its  frightful 
wreckage.  Chapters  are  given  to  the  geographi- 
cal importance  of  the  new  Poland,  to  the  'Prus- 
sianizing* of  German  Poland,  the  free  City  of 
Dantzig,  Cracow,  Galicia,  and  'the  Kingdom' 
(i.e.,  Russian  Poland),  and  he  then  takes  up, 
in  some  detail,  the  relations  between  the  nobles 
and  the  peasant,  Polish  art  and  literature,  and, 
finally,  the  frightful  Jewish  problem,  with  a 
chapter  on  its  extension  into  America.  In  con- 
clusion he  reviews  the  economic  and  political 
problems  that  confront  the  architects  of  the 
newly  rebuilt  nation." — Lit  R 


"Mr.  Winter  has  been  three  years  in  prepar- 
ing this  volume  and  one  cannot  help  feeling 
that  the  story  reflects  most  painstaking  care." 
F.  P.  H. 

-f  Boston   Transcript  pi  D  15   '23  550w 

"The  book  has  the  chief  qualities  which  such 
a  popular  treatise  should  show,  in  that  il  is 
judicial,  well  poised,  lucid,  and  fairly  clear  of 
controversial  matter,  and  above  all,  is  inter- 
estingly written.  It  would  be  possible  for  the 
partisan  critic  to  take  issue  with  him  at  some 
points,  but  the  main  theme  of  the  book — the 
tremendous  political  and  economic  importance 
of  the  reconstituted  Poland  of  to-day — is  pre- 
sented with  an  impregnable  convincingness." 
H.  L..  Pangborn 

-f-   Lit  R  p338  D  8  '23  650w 

"If  one  starts  reading  'The  New  Poland'  at 
the  beginning,  one  may  not  be  tempted  to  go 
on,  for  the  start  is  by  no  means  a  fair  sample 
of  what  is  to  come.  One  ought  to  begin  reading, 
however,  on  page  199,  with  Mr.  Winter's  en- 
grossing description  of  Poland's  effulgent  city 
of  salt,  or  on  page  177,  where  he  begins  discours- 
ing on  the  charm  of  the  spired  City  of  Danzig. 
But  the  formal  introduction,  the  historical  open- 
ing chapters,  do  not  offer  the  tang  or  refresh- 
ment of  the  author's  description  of  Poland's 
cities  and  people  of  today."  Newton  Fuessle 
H NY  Times  p20  Ja  13  '24  1250w 

Reviewed  by  D.  C.  Seitz 

N   Y  World  p6e  D  16  '23  250w 
R  of   Rs  69:109   Ja  '24   llOw 

WINTERNITZ,    ROBERT,    and    CHERINGTON, 
PAUL   TERRY.   English  manual  for  business. 
96p   $1  Shaw,   A.   WT 
808      English     language — Business     English. 
Printing,  Practical  23-8431 

This  manual  of  business  English  is  a  re- 
vised and  enlarged  edition  of  a  booklet  prepared 
by  Mr  Winternitz  while  he  was  on  the  staff 
of  the  School  of  business  administration  at 
Harvard  university  to  meet  the  needs  of  stu- 
dents in  that  school.  The  book  outlines  the 
principles  of  effective  writing,  of  sentence  struc- 
ture, punctuation  and  grammar.  It  also  de- 
fines the  most  common  forms  of  business  writ- 
ing. There  is  an  appendix  of  twenty-one  pages 
on  printing,  type  selection,  proofreading  marks, 
type  measurement,  etc. 


Am  Econ  R  13:501  S  '23  50w 
"On  the  whole,  there  is  nothing  particularly 
new  in  the  book,  but  there  is  a  serviceable 
gathering  of  familiar  material,  rather  courage- 
ously diverse  in  character,  and  likely  to  be  help- 
ful to  the  executive  in  proportion  to  the  deter- 
mination with  which  he  builds  his  own  struc- 
ture of  further  study  on  the  foundation  provid- 
ed."   T:    B.    Stanley 

-I Management  &.  Adm   6:245  Ag  '23  950w 

"The  manual  leaves  one  a  bit  dazed — not  be- 
cause it  lacks  merit  in  itself,  but  because  of 
the    implications    involved    by    the    adoption    of 


so  slight  a  work,  for  such  a  purpose.  If  we 
consider  the  'English  Manual'  by  itself,  its  pub- 
lication seems  to  throw  a  glaring  ray  of  illumin- 
ation on  educational  discipline  in  the  business 
world — or  on  the  place  where  it  is  not." 

—  Springf'd   Republican  p8  Ag  29  '23  330w 

WINTERS,  EDGAR  S.  Ma  cheuk.  161p  il  $2 
Dutton 

572   Anthropology.    Culture.    Man  23-8257 

A  guide-book  to  the  great  Chinese  game  va- 
riously called  Ma  cheuk,  Mah  jong,  Pung  chow 
and  Ma  jung.  The  writer,  who  learned  the  game 
from  the  Chinese  while  resident  among  them, 
gives  the  elementary  rules  of  the  game  as  well 
as  instruction  on  complications  of  play  and 
counting  arising  among  advanced  players,  so 
that  the  book  will  serve  both  for  the  novice 
and    the    expert. 

WISSLER,  CLARK,  Man  and  culture.  (Cro- 
well's  social  science  ser.)  371p  $2.75  Crowell 
[10s    6d    Hariap] 

572  Anthropology.  Culture.  Man  23-8257 
"This  is  an  attempt  to  treat  the  problem  of 
the  origin  and  distribution  of  racial  culture  in 
a  systematic  manner.  The  author,  who  is  Cur- 
ator-in-Chief,  Division  of  Anthropology  in  the 
New  York  Natural  History  Museum,  divides 
his  work  into  three  parts,  treating  respectively 
of  the  meaning  of  culture,  its  form  and  con- 
tent, and  the  relation  of  culture  to  man.  The 
work  is  illustrated  ■with  figures  and  diagrams 
in   the  text."— The  Times   [London]   Lit  Sup 


Am    Econ    R    13:527    S    '23    50w 

Bookm  57:655  Ag  '23  160w 

Boston   Transcript  p5  Ap  14   '23  540w 

"This  is  a  book  which  may  unreservedly  be 
commended  to  the  attention  of  all  thoughtful 
persons,  for  it  is  the  first  real  attempt  to  give 
the  reading  public  a  true  idea  of  what  is  the 
value  to  the  world  of  the  subject  of  anthro- 
pology." 

4-  Cath    World    117:706   Ag   '23   300w 
Cleveland    p69   S   '23 

"Of  very  great  value  to  students  and  readers 
in  general.  Nowhere  else  will  they  find  so  con- 
venient and  attractive  an  introduction  to  the 
dynamics  of  cultural  history;  and  the  teacher 
of  the  social  sciences,  whether  or  not  in  total 
agreement  with  the  author's  interpretations, 
will  find  this  an  ideal  textbook,  both  for  its 
solid  contributions  to  the  student's  knowledge 
and  because  it  serves  as  a  whetstone  for  their 
critical    acumen."    R.    H.    Lowie 

-f   Freeman  8:93  O  3  '23  1450w 

"It  is  to  be  regretted  that  certain  of  the 
theories  advanced  by  Dr.  Wissler  are  not  sup- 
ported by  more  concrete  illustrative  material, 
for  the  neglect  to  substantiate  them  leaves  large 
room  for  doubt  as  to  their  validity.  Despite 
this,  his  work  is  a  pioneer  one,  and  it  is  to  be 
welcomed  by  all  those  who  are  interested  in 
the  mechanisms  of  societies  as  a  distinct  contri- 
bution making  for  a  greater  understanding  of 
the  most  important  and  most  neglected  factor 
in  our  lives — culture."  M.  J.  Herskovits 
H Lit   R   p764   Je   16   '23   660w 

"That  Dr.  Wissler  has  kept  his  balance  as 
well  as  he  has  in  Man  and  Culture,  is  due  to 
self-confidence  in  applying  method  learned  from 
much  study  of  the  simpler  cultures,  witness  his 
scholarly  and  authentic  hook,  The  .\merican 
Indian— and  to  concentrating  attention  upon 
economic  aspects.  Dr.  Wissler  achieves  .=im- 
pliflcation  by  excluding,  not  whole  cultures,  but, 
more  or  less,  the  non-material  traits  of  society. 
Man  and  Culture  may  well  be  called  an  eco- 
nomic interpretation  of  culture."  E.  C.  Par.sons 
+   New   Repub  35:103   Je  20  '23  1250w 

"Dr  Wissler  has  written  a  highly  readable 
and  most  suggestive  book.  He  has  struck  out 
boldly  into  new  fields  of  comparative  social 
study  and  has  succeeded  admirably  both  in 
the  selection  of  his  material  and  the  objective 
and    effective    handling    of    it."    P.    B. 

4-  Springf'd     Republican    p7a     Ag    19    '23 
1050W 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


569 


Survey    50:siipl96    My    1    '23    llOw 
The     Times     [London]     Lit     Sup     pl23 

Je    21    '23    70w 

WIT,  AUGUSTA  DE.  Island-India.  (Kingsley 
trust  assn.  publication  fund)  105p  il  $3  Tale 
unfv.    press 

919.1  Dutch  East  Indies  23-16-^88 

The  crescent-shaped  group  of  islands  consti- 
t\Uing  the  Dutch  East  Indies  is  in  poetical 
style  called  "Insulind,"  which  Miss  de  Wit  has 
translated  as  Island-India.  The  Malay  popula- 
tion represents  several  degrees  of  civilization 
from  the  ancient  Hindoo  culture  of  Java  and 
parts  of  Sumatra  down  to  the  semi-savagery  of 
the  eastern  islets  and  the  coast  of  New  Guinea. 
The  book  consists  of  the  impressions  of  a  na- 
tive of  the  islands  who  has  received  her  educa- 
tion in  Europe.  The  sketches,  written  first  in 
Dutch  and  later  rewritten  in  English,  show  a 
keen  sense  of  beauty  and  style,  a  deep  love  for 
the  people  of  the  islands  and  a  dread  of  white 
influences. 


"There  may  be  nothing  new  under  the  sun. 
But  occasionally  comes  something  written  or 
something  said  so  out  of  the  common  that  it 
seems  'new.'  This  is  true  of  these  stories,  both 
in  matter  and  style."     F.  B. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p3  D  8  '23  850w 
"With    sympathy   and    imderstanding   Miss   de 
Wit  has   set   down   in   a   style   unusual   and   dis- 
tinctive a  few  fascinating  glimpses  into  the  life 
of  the  natives  of  these  islands." 

+   Lit    R    p324   D   1    '23   250w 
Reviewed  by  Padraic  Colum 

Lit   R  p366   D  15  '23  150w 
The  Times  [London]   Lit   Sup  p887  D  20 
■23  480w 

WITWER,    HARRY   CHARLES.     Fighting  blood. 

377d     $1.90     Putnam 

23-6557 

"Another  prize-fighting  story  like  the  'Leather 
jjushers,"  told  in  the  style  of  Ring  Lardner. 
One  thrilling  battle  after  another  lead.s  the 
hero  to  the  heavyweight  championship  of  the 
world  and  there  is  a  romance." — Cleveland 


Booklist  20:61  N  '23 

Boston  Transcript  pO  Ap  14  '23  250w 
Cleveland  p51  Jl  '23 
"The  secret  of  Mr.  Witwer's  colossal  popu- 
larity— or,  at  least,  part  of  it — lies  in  his  pos- 
session of  something  of  the  'spell  of  the  teller 
of  tales,'  a  crude  narrative  faculty  which 
makes  him  a  story-teller  in  spite  of  the  un- 
speakable awfulness  of  his  manner  and  the 
banality  of  his  subject  matter.  His  people  are 
not  real,  but  they  are  the  very  embodiment  of 
the  office  boy's  idea  of  reality,  and  they  do 
move." 

f-   Lit    R   pS04  Je   30  '23   220w 

"  'Fighting  blood"  really  amuses  the  reader 
any  way  one  looks  at  it.  It  has  a  certain 
verve,  a  healthy  vigor,  a  robust  belief  in  the 
existence  of  fairies  which  is  disarming  and  a 
lack  of  that  quality  of  irritation  which  is  so 
marked  in  most  of  the  sordid  affairs  of  life." 
Biuce   Gould 

-4-  N  Y  Tribune  p22  Ap  1  '23  1050w 
"A  story  in  which  due  observance  has  been 
paid  to  all  the  conventionalities.  All  of  the 
characters  necessary  to  the  Rollo  books  and  the 
'Bygosh'  melodrama  are  present  and  accotmted 
for."      C.    S. 

—  NY   World   p8e  Ap    8   '23   400w 

Springf  d  Republican  p7a  My  6  '23  200w 

WODEHOUSE,   PELHAM  GRENVILLE.  Jeeves. 

288p  $2  Doran 

23-13575 

The  story  relates  the  joyous  adventures  of 
Bertie  Wooster  and  his  invaluable  valet, 
Jeeves.  No  matter  how  serious  the  difficulty 
in  which  Bertie  or  his  friends  found  themselves, 
they  could  always  rely  on  Jeeves  to  pull  them 
out.    On    two   occasions   when   Bertie's  aunt   in- 


sisted that  Bertie  marry  the  girl  of  her  choice, 
it  was  Jeeves  who  came  to  the  rescue.  When 
Bmgo,  Bertie's  best  friend,  fell  in  love,  which 
he  did  about  twice  a  week,  Jeeves  always  had 
some  plan  to  straighten  matters  out.  The  only 
thing  Jeeves  could  not  conquer  was  Bertie's  love 
for  highly  colored  personal  adornment.  But  the 
priceless  Jeeves  usually  got  his  way  in  this 
small    matter  also. 


Booklist    20:104    D    '23 
"It  is  all  absolute  bosh  and  utterly  delightful." 

+  Boston   Transcript   p6  Ja  2  '24   260w 
Reviewed  by  H.  W.  Boynton 

Ind    112:24  Ja  5   '24   120w 
"It  was   written   evidentiv   with   but  one   pur- 
pose   in    view— to    make    the    reader   laugh,    and 
there    can    be    no    questioning    the    fact    that    it 
accomplishes    that    purpose." 

+   Int    Bk   R   p70   N   '23   300w 
"It    is   hilariously    funny." 

-f-  N  Y  Times  p22  O  14  '23  170w 
"Wliat  Mr.  Wodehouse  does  is  to  take  the 
most  antique  situations,  the  most  shopworn 
characters,  and  dust  them  off  lovingly,  display 
them  in  the  light  of  his  own  unjaded  fancy,  so 
that  they  begin  to  breathe  and  speak  for 
themselves.  .  .  Bertie's  adventures  do  not  con- 
stitute a  novel;  one  would  not  expect  it  His 
nature  would  not  have  stood  the  strain;  he 
lacked  the  necessary  stamina  and  consecutive- 
ness.  But  in  brief  episodes  he  shines,  especially 
with  Jeeves  in  the  offing  to  rescue  him  from 
utter  destruction  at  the  eleventh  hour  " 
Isabel    Paterson 

+   N    Y   Tribune  p22   N   4   '23   650w 

The   Times   [London]    Lit   Sup  p358   My 

WODEHOUSE,   PELHAM    GRENVILLE.   Mostly 
Sally.      317p     $2     Doran     [7s    6d    Jenkins] 

23-6753 
In  Sally  Nicholas  the  author  has  created  an- 
other girl  of  indestructible  spirit.  Sally,  who 
earned  her  living  as  a  hired  dancer  in  a  dance 
hall,  comes  into  some  money  when  she  is 
twenty -one  and  goes  off  for  a  vacation  to 
France,  leaving  the  young  playwright  to  whom 
she  is  engaged  to  stage  his  first  play.  In 
France  she  meets  a  family-ridden  young  Eng- 
lishman with  the  nickname  Ginger  "and  a  fac- 
ulty of  making  hash  of  every  job  that  is  found 
for  him.  She  advises  him  to  throw  the  family 
over  and  become  self-reliant.  Back  in  America, 
her  flanc6  leaves  her  for  his  leading  lady,  her 
l)rother  loses  most  of  her  money,  and  the  ami- 
able, childlike  Ginger,  who  has  followed  her. 
flounders  about  for  a  foot-hold  until  Sally  lends 
her  last  five  thou.'sand  to  start  some  kennels 
on  Long  Island.  She  returns  to  her  old  job  in 
the  dance  hall  and  in  her  darkest  hour,  when 
even  her  indomitable  spirit  threatens  to  weary. 
Ginger's  love  and  prosperity  come  to  the  rescue. 
All  the  situations  in  the  story  are  funny,  but 
always  with  an  undercurrent  of  possible  tragedy. 


Booklist    19:255   My    '23 
"Mr  Wodehouse   is  past  master  of  the  art  of 
humorous    and    entertaining    conversation.      In 
the   creation   of  Sally  he  has  added   a  touch  of 
humanity.     There  is  here  less  of  the  lay  figure 
about  his  characters.      'Mostly  Sally'   too,   is  as 
mirthful  as  any  of  the  author's  former  tales." 
-f   Boston   Transcript  p4  Ap  11  '23  330w 
Cleveland   p51   Jl   '23 
"It   is  one  of  the   gayest  and   most  enjoyable 
of  tales,    with  plenty  of  variety,   plenty  of  inci- 
dent,    and     plenty     of     whimsicalities     for     the 
reader   to  chuckle  over." 

-f   Int  Bk  R  p55  Ap  '23  320w 
"The    story    is    mostly    Sally;    there    could    be 
vastly    more    of    Sally    and    all    welcome    to   her. 
Mr.    Wodehouse,    as    usual,    is    in    hlghy    enter- 
taining  vein." 

+   Lit  R  p667  My  5  '23  150w 
"An  especially   enjoyable  kind  of  light  fiction 
is    well    represented    by    Mr.    Wodehouse's    gay 
little  story." 

+  N  Y  Times  pll  Mr  18  '23  600w 


570 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


WODE HOUSE,   P.  G. — Continued! 

"May  be  recommended  as  a  genuine  Wode- 
house  of  the  best  period.  If  you  do  not  enjoy 
it  you  are  to  be  pitied  rather  than  censured." 
Isabel   Paterson 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p21  Ap  1  '23  1500w 

"No  one  among  the  younger  English  writers 
gets  more  fun  into  his  characters  than 
Mr.  Wodehouse." 

+  Outlook   133:588  Mr  28  '23  70w 

"If  you  like  a  cheerful,  superficial  chronicler 
of  events  neither  strikingly  probable  nor 
strikingly  Improbable,  you  will  agree  with  me 
in  liking  Mr.  Wodehouse.  He  is  a  rest.  It 
would  be  waste  of  time  to  discuss  whether  it  is 
artistically  worth  while  to  do  so  trivial  a  thing 
so  successfully."  Gerald  Gould 

+  Sat   R  134:684  N  4  '22  550w 

"Mr  Wodehouse's  constant  flashes  of  humor 
keep  the  reader  convulsed  and  occasional 
touches  of  pathos  impart  a  charm  not  so 
apparent  since  his  'Little  Warrior.'  " 

+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  Ap  1  '23  220w 

WOLFE,  HUMBERT.  Labour  supply  and  regula- 
*    tion.    (Carnegie    endowment    for   international 

peace.    Economic    and    social    history    of    the 

World  war.  British  ser.)    422p   $3  Oxford   [lOs 

6d  Milford] 
331  Labor  and  laboring  classes — Great  Brit- 
ain. European  war.  1914-1919 — Economic  as- 
pects.   Munition    workers  23-11996 

This  study  of  the  British  labor  supply  during 
the  war  is  a  scientific  analysis  of  the  whole 
problem  of  handling  man-power  in  a  state  which 
is  called  upon  to  throw  all  its  resources  Into 
the  conduct  of  a  war.  The  book  shows  the  suc- 
cessive steps  by  which  the  state  machine  was 
organized  and  set  in  motion  for  the  purpose  and 
how  the  man-power  was  recruited,  mobilized, 
allocated   and   regulated. 


necessary  contain  the  fullest  account  of  his 
character  and  his  career,  besides  constituting 
the  record  of  a  marriage  so  ideally  happy  that, 
to  the  cynical,  it  would  seem  to  belong  to  the 
realm  of  romance  rather  than  reality." — N  Y 
Tribune 


"The  author  has  been  far  too  successful  In 
achieving  the  purpose  described  in  his  preface, 
'to  make  this  book  Impersonal  and  uncontrover- 
sial.'  In  accomplishing  it  he  has  furnished  a 
somewhat  monotonous  record,  helpful  in  set- 
tling mooted  questions  of  dates  or  government 
departments,  but  unilluminated  by  any  revela- 
tion of  the  factors  behind  state  action  or  by  the 
attitude  or  response  of  labor."  Amy  Hewes 
h  Am    Hist    R    29:339    Ja    '24    520w 

"Mr.  Wolfe  writes  as  an  experienced  and  al- 
most Inhumanly  dispassionate  official.  He  has 
performed  the  incredibly  difficult  feat  of  pre- 
senting an  orderly  narrative  of  the  confused 
efforts  of  various  Ministers  and  various  Depart- 
ments to  find  and  retain  workers  for  the  muni- 
tion Industry  without  depriving  the  Army  of 
able-bodied   men." 

-f  Spec    131:262    Ag  25   '23    260w 

"Mr.  Wolfe  has  done  effective  work  in  this 
volume.  It  is  interesting;  to  the  student  of  the 
industrial  side  of  the  war  as  to  the  future 
historian  it  will  be  essential." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p534   Ag 
9  '23  370w 

WOLSELEY,  GARNET  JOSEPH  WOLSELEY, 
1st  viscount.  Letters  of  Lord  and  Lady 
Wolseley,  1870-1911;  ed.  by  Sir  George  Arthur. 
440p  $5  Doubleday   [25s  Heinemann] 

B    or    92      Wolsek'V,    Loui.sa    (Erskine)    vi.i- 
eountess  [23-2353] 

"Garnet  Joseph  Wolseley,  Field  Marshal  Vis- 
count Wolseley,  was  born  In  1833  and  died  in 
1913.  A  great  part  of  that  long  life  was  spent 
In  active  service  in  the  field  .  .  .  and  he  rose 
to  be  one  of  the  foremost  soldiers  of  his  time. 
He  fought  in  Burmah  in  the  Indian  Mutiny,  In 
China,  in  Africa,  in  Zuhiland,  in  Egypt, 
and  finally  rommandod  the  expedition  to 
the  Soud  m  in  an  nttempf  lo  i-cscue  Gen- 
eral Gordon.  He  eventually  became  com- 
mander In  chief  of  the  British  forces 
and  while  nt  the  W^ar  Office  lie  introduced 
very  valuable  and  highly  necessary  reforms. 
He  was  married  In  1867  to  Louisa  Ersklne,  and 
the  letters  which  he  wrote  to  her  during  the 
frequent  separations  which  his  campaigns  made 


Booklist  19:251  My  '23 
"The  correspondence  includes  references  to 
practically  everyone  listed  in  Burke's  Peerage. 
These  references,  however,  in  addition  to  being 
decidedly  unimportant,  are  signally  uninterest- 
ing." 

—  Bookm   57:347   My   '23   220\v 

Reviewed  by  E.  L.   Pearson 

Ind   110:162   Mr  3  '23    400w 

"It  is  not  probable  that  there  has  been  pub- 
lished anywhere  in  a  number  of  years  a  col- 
lection of  letters  so  impoitant  and  so  interest- 
ing, not  to  say  appealing,  as  this  correspond- 
ence between  Lord  and  Lady  Wolseley.  It  is, 
indeed,  an  extraordinary  contribution  to  politi- 
cal, militarv  and  imperial  history."  W.  C. 
Abbott 

+   Lit   R  pG79  My  12  '23  450w 

"The  reader  gives  up  in  despair  any  attempt 
to  discover  the  principles  that  have  guided  the 
editor's  choice.  There  are  pages  of  the  utmost 
trivialities.  Discretion  is  thrown  to  the  winds 
in  the  public^ation  of  painfully  frank  comments 
on  persons  and  places."     H.  W.   Horwill 

—  Nation   116:600  My  23   '23   1450w 
Reviewed  by  Esther  Murphy 

N   Y   Tribune  pl8  F  25  '23   2400w 

"There  Is  little  literary  merit  in  its  hand- 
somely printed  pages  but  there  are  many  in- 
teresting sideUghts  on  Victoria's  policy  In 
Egypt.  Pc  itical  gossips  should  enjoy  the  let- 
ters, for  they  give  a  new  angle  to  military 
blunders  that  once  set  Victorians  at  daggers 
points.  It  leaves  the  reader  with  a  hearty  dis- 
like of  all  militaristic  aggression,  and  a  pitying 
respect  for  an  heroic  old  fellow."  Laurence 
Stallings 

N  Y  World  p7e  F  11  '23  2200w 
Outlook  133:766  Ap  25  '23  120w 

"Both  were  letter-writers  of  much  more  than 
average  merit:  they  had  the  rare  talent  of  pre- 
senting a  brief  but  lively  picture  of  the  things 
that  were  interesting  them  at  the  moment  of 
writing.  The  consequence  is  that  the  selection 
so  carefully  made  by  Sir  George  Arthur  has  not 
a  dull  page,  and  the  book  is  a  real  contribution 
alike  to  epistolary  literature  and  to  social  his- 
tory." 

-f  Sat  R  135:15  Ja  6  '23  780w 

"The  collection  of  letters  certainly  shows  the 
world  the  best  points  of  an  almost  perfect 
marriage." 

-t-  Spec  129:970  D  23  '22  780w 

"It  is  for  what  it  reveals  of  Lord  and  Lady 
Wolseley  as  man  and  woman  that  this  volume 
is  to  be  valued.  Since  Wolseley  confided  every- 
thing to  his  wife,  the  correspondence  naturally 
contains  abundant  comment  on  the  events  of 
his  career,  especially  on  his  relations  with  the 
Queen,  the  Duke  of  Cambridge,  and  Gladstone's 
Government.  In  many  ways,  one  might  say, 
there  are  reflected  here  the  typical  soldier  and 
soldier's   wife." 

+  The  Times    [London]    Lit    Sup   p778    N 
30  '22  1900W 

WOOD,    CLEMENT.      Tide    comes    in.    127p    $2 

Dutton 

811  23-5205 

A  collection  of  poems  which  have  already 
been  widely  distributed  in  the  magazines. 
They  are  chiefly  lyrical,  with  nature  and  love 
for  their  themes,  unequal  in  quality  but  almost 
invariably  musical.  The  last  group  is  a  son- 
net sequence  in  which  the  poet  expresses  his 
philosophy  of  life  and   time  and   eternity. 


"Mr.  Wood  has  had  fun  composing  poetry. 
He  is  not  surpassed  among  his  contemporaries 
for   gusto;    no   poet   is   surer    to   be    Interesting. 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


571 


His  facility  betrays  him  now  and  then.  Un- 
doubtedly the  magazines  have  been  too  kind." 
Mark  Van   Doren 

^ Nation   116:342  Mr  21  '23  320w 

"These  poems  are  in  a  variety  of  moods,  deli- 
cate in  expression,  and  with  a  musical  quality 
to  the  line  which  entitles  many  of  them  to  very 
high  rank." 

-t-   N   Y  Times  p6  Mr  4  '23  500w 

Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  Mr  25 '23  600w 

WOOD,    ERIC.     Flaming  cross  of  Santa  Marta. 
257p    $1.75    Appleton 

23-8186 

"A  tale  of  adventure  on  the  Spanish  Main, 
supposedly  related  by  an  English  youth,  Roger 
Hampsley,  who,  in  company  with  Dan  Rodney, 
a  seasoned  sailor,  sailed  under  Sir  Francis 
Drake  on  a  quest  for  Spanish  gold." — Cleveland 

"Youths  who  revel  in  remarkable  escapades 
and  escapes,  with  plenty  of  crossed-swords 
fighting,  will  find  in  this  story  of  the  Spanish 
Main    a    pleasure    worth    their    while." 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Jl  28  '23  320w 
Cleveland  p43  Je  '23 
"Apart  from  its  errors  of  language,  the  story 
is  quite  acceptable  as  an  extravaganza.  Indeed 
we  can  see  many  children  thrilled  by  the 
scene  in  the  torture  chamber  or  the  last  fight 
before  Cadiz.  The  absence  of  a  love  interest 
may   appeal   to  the    younger   boys." 

The  Times    [London]    Lit  Sup  p574  Ag 
30    '23    150w 
Wis   Lib   Bu<   19:417  Jl  '23 

WOOD,     WILLIAM      HAMILTON.     Religion     of 

science.   176p  $1.50  Macmillan 

215     Religion  and  science  22-19726 

The  book  is  a  critical  examination  of  the  new 
ism  known  as  the  "religion  of  science"  and  an 
evaluation  of  the  principles  of  science  and  the 
theory  of  evolution  upon  which  it  is  based. 
Dr  Wood  examines  its  claims  and  criticises  its 
unproved  assumptions.  Against  its  claims  that 
science  can  furnish  all  the  elements  of  a  true 
religion  he  contends  that  to  identify  religion 
with  science  is  to  miss  the  real  essence  of 
religion. 


between  settlement  house  and  city  politics, 
neighborhood  gilds  in  country  villages,  the 
parish  as  a  neighborhood  unit,  the  state  as  a 
great  community,  the  war  camp  community  ser- 
vice, and  the  foreign  mission  compound  as  a 
neighborhood  center.  The  three  chapters  deal- 
ing with  the  international  aspects  of  the  move» 
ment  are  the  result  of  Mr  Woods's  trip  around 
the  world  immediately  after  the  war. 


Boston   Transcript  p3   Ja  6  '23  320w 
"The    book    suffers    from    a    spasmodic,    ejac- 
ulatory  style,  and  from  the  fact  that  the  alleged 
"religion    of    science'    appears    almost    solely    in 
terms  of  the  author's  own  assertions." 
—  J   Religion  3:219  Mr  '23  60w 
Reviewed   by  Beverly  Kunkel 

Lit  R  p702  My  19  '23  640w 
"Dr  Wood  has  made  out  a  very  clear  presen- 
tation of  what  scientific  teaching  leads  to  in 
the  way  of  a  formulated  religion.  With  the 
author's  appeal  that  science  should  confine 
itself  to  its  own  field  there  will  be  wide  consent; 
of  his  ability  to  state  his  appeal  in  a  clear, 
forceful  and  reliable  way  there  is  good  evi- 
dence." 

+  —  Sprlngf'd   Republican  p8  Ja  23  '23   300w 

WOODRUFF,  LORANDE  LOSS.  Foundations  of 
biology.      476p     il      $3.50     Macmillan 

570     Biology  22-13620 

"Fundamentals  for  the  student  or  the  general 

reader.      Draws    upon    both    botany   and   zoology 

but  emphasizes  the  latter." — Pittsburgh  Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh    Mo    Bui    28:287   Je  '23 

WOODS,  ROBERT  ARCHEY.  Neighborhood  in 
nation-building;  the  running  comment  of 
thirty  years  at  the  South  End  house.  348p  $3 
Houghton 

331.85  Social  settlements.  Social  work.  Com- 
munity life  23-6976 
These  papers,  by  the  head  of  the  South  End 
house,  Boston,  show  the  development  of  the 
neighborhood  movement  in  social  reconstruction, 
the  inception  of  the  university  settlement  idea 
and  its  expansion  to  include  city,  state  and  na- 
tion.  Successive  chapters  deal  with  the  relation 


"No  student  in  America  is  more  competent 
to  interpret  the  meaninp  of  the  neighborhood 
to  our  civilization  than  Mr.  Woods.  His  three 
decades  of  experience  in  neighborhood  work  in 
a  great  metropolis  would  in  itself  entitle  his 
remarks  to  serious  consideration,  but  when 
added  to  this  we  have  an  unusually  keen  and 
scholarly  student  of  human  society  presenting 
his  findings  there  are  additional  grounds  for 
reflection  concerning  his  conclusions."  R.  D. 
McKenzie 

-t-   Am    J    Soc  29:367   N   '23   480w 

"These  papers  are  especially  suggestive  to 
the  student  and  teacher  of  politics.  .  .  No 
other  collection  of  studies  contains  the  analysis 
of  the  local  community  and  the  effort  to  re- 
construct it  in  the  United  States  so  completely 
as  this  book,  and  in  addition  it  is  full  of  the 
wise  and  patient  teaching  which  characterizes 
Mr.    Woods."     J:    M.    Gaus 

+  Am    Pol   Sci    R.  17:502   Ag  '23   560w 

"To  the  social  worker,  this  volume  should  be 
a  guide-book  in  theory  and  practice.  To  the 
general  reader  who  is  all  socially  minded  it 
should  be  stimulating  and  informing.  To  a 
lover  of  good  English,  its  clearness  and  beauty 
of  diction   should  be  a  joy." 

-1-  Ann   Am.  Acad   110:225   N   '23   600w 
Booklist    20:9    O    *23 

"Interesting  and  instructive  as  this  book  is, 
we  wish  Mr.  Woods  might  give  us  another,  an 
autobiography  giving  a  human  glimpse  of  hu- 
man difficulties  and  achievement.  It  would  con- 
tain humor  and  pathos  and  be  as  important  a 
sketch  of  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men  as 
ever  emanated  from  Jacob  A.  Riis."    S.  L.  Cook 

H Boston    Transcript    p3    Ap    7    '23    1600w 

Cleveland  p70  S  '23 

Int  J    Ethics  34:202  Ja  '24   lOOw 

Reviewed   by   H:    R.    Mussey 

Nation    117:245    S    5    '23    320w 

"What  interests  Mr.  Woods  is  something 
more  substantial  than  any  conventional  idea 
of  the  young  Daniel  in  a  lion's  den,  the  pro- 
foundly moral  settlement  worker  employed  as 
a  reformer.  He  is  studying  the  practical  means 
of  putting  back  into  the  city  community  that 
current  of  confidence  and  cooperation  which  it 
lost  under  the  impact  of  industrialism.  And 
more  than    studying:    testing."     C.    M. 

+   New    Repub    35:160    Jl    4    '23    220w 

"The  volume  is  of  consequence  to  social 
workers  and  to  students  of  the  democracy  of 
today  and  to  those  who  are  consciously  trying 
to  shape  the  democracy  of  to-morrow;  partly 
because  of  the  accounts  it  gives  of  methods 
and  results  in  those  experimental  stations  of 
social  improvement,  the  city  settlements,  and 
partly  because  of  the  clarity,  the  far  vision 
and  the  wide  horizon  with  which  Mr.  Woods 
views  the  possibilities  for  the  nation  and  the 
race  of  extended  efforts  in  rejuvenating  neigh- 
borhood  localities." 

-I-  N   Y   Times  p6   My   13   '23   lOOOw 

"This  is  a  book  of  wisdom,  of  statesmanship, 
of  patient  and  determined  observation  and 
analysis  and  creation.  Since  it  is  a  collection 
of  papers  on  various  occasions,  it  is  at  times 
frankly  occasional;  yet  the  deeper  note  always 
remains."  .1:   M.   Gaus 

+  Sprlngf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  3  '23  1300w 

Reviewed   by  J:   L.   Elliott 

Survey  50:635  S  15   '23   900w 
Wis  Lib  Bui  19:504  D  '23 

WOODWARD,    WILLIAM     E.       Bunk.       370p    $2 
Harper 

23-13097 

"  'Bunk'  is  a  mixture  of  fantastic  satire,  mat- 
ter-of-fact     satire,      and      a      modern      novel. 


572 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


WOODWARD,  WILLIAM  E. — Continucci 
The  hero  is  conceived  as  having  been  first 
created  by  a  noveUst  and  then  lost.  Growing 
up  in  an  actual  instead  of  a  fictional  world. 
he  finds  actual  society  too  heavily  charged 
with  fiction  and  becomes  a  professional  'de- 
bunker.'  The  proper  theme  of  the  book  is  his 
adventures  as  a  'debunker.'  "  (Lit  R)  "When 
he  decided  to  write  a  novel,  Mr.  Woodward 
says,  he  first  invented  his  principal  character. 
Michael  Webb,  and  then  turned  him  loose  to 
gather  experience.  Michael,  after  drifting 
round  the  globe,  becomes  a  de-bunking  ex- 
pert, a  pricker  of  bubbles,  a  devastating  intellect 
among  contented  morons.  He  writes  'The  Im- 
portance of  Being  Second-Rate,'  a  philosophi- 
cal treatise  which  leads  to  the  organization  of 
Second-Rate  clubs  all  over  the  country,  sees 
Timothy  Bray,  who  has  suppressed  'Jurgen,' 
elected  Chief  Second-Rater  of  the  United 
States,  and  is  himself  expelled  from  the  or- 
ganization for  being  no  better  than  first-rate 
himself.  Thereafter  Michael  has  such  adven- 
tures as  a  man  of  his  mental  girth  could  have 
In  and  about  New  York,  only  in  the  end  to 
get  married  and  thus  get  out  of  the  story." 
(Nation) 


Jacob  is  but  a  reflection,   mirrored  ■with  exqui- 
site artistry. 


Booklist  20:142  Ja  '24 
"A  laudable  try  at  keeping  three  bright-hued 
balls  in  the  air  at  the  same  time.  One  is  satire, 
another  is  fiction,  and  the  third  is  philosophy. 
It's  a  good  trick,  if  you  can  do  it;  Mr  W'oodward 
isn't  quite  agile  enough." 

—  Dial   75:611   D  '23  60w 
"Despite    Mr.    Woodward's    lack   of   originality 
In  ideas,  he  has  written  a  first  rate  book.  Indeed 
It  is  a  work  of  art."  B.  B.  K. 

-I Greensboro  (N.C.)   Daily  News  plO  N  18 

•23   1350W 
Reviewed   by  H.   W.    Boynton 

Ind  111:172  O  13  "23  llOOw 
"  'Bunk'  seems  like  the  first  book  of  a  man 
of  vigorous  mind  and  latent  power  whose  ex- 
perience in  literature  is  nowise  commensurate 
with  his  experience  in  those  aspects  of  Ameri- 
can life  which  he  satirizes  from  first-hand 
knowledege.  One  is  drawn  to  speak  harshly 
of  it  not  because  it  is  wholly  third-rate  but  be- 
cause of  the  first-rate  inspiration  in  it  which 
a  third-rate  performance  has  largely,  or  at 
least    partly,    nullified."    Arthur   Colton 

h   Lit    R    p83    S    29    '23    650w 

"  'Bunk'  is  satire  seasoned  with  wisdom.  It 
Is,  in  its  robust  way,  mellow  and  learned.  And 
It  comes  at  a  happy  moment,  when  bunk,  long 
eminent,  is  being  suspected  as  it  has  hardly 
been  for  a  century.  It  mocks  too  many  idols 
for  that,  and  it  wanders  through  too  many  by- 
paths. Perhaps  not  many  people  will  find 
themselves  at  home  in  this  novel.  But  for  all 
those  who  look  twice  and  think  three  times  be- 
fore believing,  'Bunk'  will  be  a  delight."  Carl 
Van    Doren 

+  Nation    117:sup398    O    10    '23    lOOOw 
Reviewed  by  Roy  Chanslor 

N  Y  Tribune  p24  O  7  '23  500w 
"He  has  failed  completely  in  his  first  work, 
but  the  failure  only  appears  when  his  own  stan- 
dard of  worth  is  set  for  him.  By  comparison 
with  the  mass  of  stuff  which  litters  the  book 
market,  'Bunk'  stands  out  like  a  woman  in  a 
red  dress."   L:  Weitzenkorn 

f-   N  Y  World  p7e  N  25  '23  1350w 

Springf'd    Republican   p7a   N   4   '23  200w 

WOOLF,  VIRGINIA  (STEPHEN)  (MRS  LEON- 
ARD  WOOLF).  Jacob's  room.  303p  $2  Har- 
court    [7s   6d    Hogarth   press] 

23-3892 
The  brief  career  of  Jacob  Flanders,  a  silent, 
lovable  English  youth,  from  boyhood,  thru 
Cambridge  university,  to  London,  and  finally  to 
his  death  in  Flanders,  is  seen  thru  a  series  of 
Impressions.  There  is  no  direct  statement 
about  him.  He  is  shown  as  revealed  by  his 
room,  by  glimpses  of  him  thru  the  eyes  of  his 
friends,  by  many  character-revealing  incidents, 
by    a    succession    of    thoughts    and    sensations. 


Booklist   19:322    Jl   '23 

Boston   Transcript  p2    Jl   21   '23   1050w 

Cleveland    p42    Je   '23 

"Virginia  Woolf  seems  to  me  the  most  in- 
teresting of  the  younger  writers  now  living  as 
well  as  the  best  of  them,  but  her  work  is  so 
individual  that  another  writer  can  learn  little 
from  it,  and  I  very  much  doubt  if  .she  will 
have  a  direct  influence  on  her  contemporaries. 
In  that  respect  she  may  be  compared  with 
Matis.se  among  the  painters.  In  each  case  the 
art  is  perfect,  but  the  gifts  are  personal  and 
defy  imitation."  D:  Garnett 
-f   Dial   75:83  Jl  '23  1950w 

"With  all  its  excellencies,  one  is  conscious 
of  certain  disappointments  in  the  work  of  Vir- 
ginia Woolf.  She  has  a  little  too  much  of  the 
sleekness  of  the  minor  artist,  whose  learning 
and  culture  are  a  little  more  than  his  natural 
genius  can  assimilate.  She  makes  her  hero, 
Jacol),  notice  that  the  backs  of  the  Greek  stat- 
ues were  rough,  and  that  the  steps  of  the  Greek 
temples  were  irregular,  but  she  does  not  think 
of  applying  Jacob's  discovery  to  her  own  art." 
M.   M.   Colum 

H Freeman    8:140   O   17   '23   580w 

"Full  of  tenderness,  though  empty  of  the 
facile   sentiment  often   confoinided  with  tender- 

+   Ind   110:202  Ap  14  '23  450w 
"A  strangely  beautiful  book  is  'Jacob's  Room,' 
and   the   author  has   given   us   many  a   flash   of 
genius  here."     M.  G.  Bonner 

-h   Int   Bk    R   p56   My  '23   420w 
"Mrs.    Woolf    has    again    provided    us    with    a 
demonstration    that   she   is  at   once   a   negligible 
novelist    and    a    supremely    important    writer." 

H New  statesman  20:142  N  4  '22  1300w 

"At  first  one  is  uneasily  aware  of  Miss 
Woolf's  bizarre  qualities  as  a  writer  of  prose, 
but  after  one  has  progressed  a  way  in  the  book 
this  consciousness  rather  vanishes.  If  any 
pithy  description  of  'Jacob's  Room'  is  desired 
it  may  be  dubbed  a  lyrical  novel." 

+   N    Y   Times  pll   Mr  4   '23   950w 

"It  is  a  novel  inarvelously  conceived  and  con- 
summately  worked   out."    Burton   Rascoe 
-f   N   Y  Tribune  pl7  F  25  '23   ISOOw 

"If  style  were  the  ultimate  goal  of  the  lit- 
erary artist  there  would  be  nothing  to  do  ex- 
cept to  fall  down  and  worship  before  'Jacob's 
Room.'  Virginia  Woolf  plays  with  words  in  a 
manner  which  amazes  and  entrances  us.  But 
we  do  not  like  this  game  well  enough  to  re- 
main engrossed  until  the  final  whistle.  Sooner 
or  later  we  must  ask,  'What's  it  about'  And 
often  'Jacob's  Room'  provides  no  answer  for 
our  question."     Heywood  Broun 

-I NY  World  p6e  Mr  4  '23  480w 

"Mrs.  Woolf  has  made  something  wholly  inter- 
esting and  partly  beautiful.  It  is  at  once  irritat- 
ing and  encouraging  to  reflect  how  much  better 
she  would  do  if  her  art  were  less  self-conscious." 
Gerald  Gould 

H Sat   R  134:726  N  11   '22  250w 

"Few  enough  are  the  novelists  of  whom  one 
can  say  that  they  respond  to  life  as  it  is  lived 
in  this  actual  year,  a  life  which  repels  senti- 
mentality as  well  as  cynicism,  yet  moves  on 
those  twin  rollers:  which  demands  a  constant 
change  of  mood,  though  mere  flippancy  is  in- 
adequate: a  constant  seriousness,  or  at  least  in- 
tensity, for  nothing  could  be  removed  farther 
from  solemnity.  Whether  it  Is  Mrs.  Woolf  who 
has  created  this  life  for  us  or  whether  it  is  sim- 
ply that  her  prose  is  supple  enough  to  follow 
the  Intricacies  of  modern  existence  as  we  our- 
selves have  felt  it,  there  is  no  writer  who  can 
give  the  illusion  of  reality  with  more  certainty 
and  with  so  complete  a  concealment  of  illusion- 
ist devices  behind  a  perfection  of  style  which  is 
at  once  solid  and  ethereal." 

+  Spec   129:sup661  N  11   '22  950w 

"Sentences  are  incomplete;  transitions  are  un- 
marked; atmospheres  are  suggested  rather  than 


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573 


described.  The  book  marks  an  advance,  say, 
upon  the  writing  of  Dorothy  Richardson,  for 
Miss  Woolf  is  highly  sparing  of  details,  while 
Miss  Richardson  is  at  once  more  exhaustive  and 
more  obscure.  The  glimpses  are  revealing;  but, 
after  all,  the  pattern  and  the  workmanship  are 
more  significant  than  the   material." 

Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Je  10  '23  170w 
"It   is  an  amusingly  clear  and   yet   enchanted 
glass    which    she    holds    up    to    things;    that    is 
her  quality.     This  stream  of  incidents,   persons, 
and    their    momentary    thoughts    and    feelings, 
which   would   be    intolerable   if   it   were   just   al- 
lowed  to   flow,    is    arrested   and   decanted,   as   it 
were,    into    little    phials    of    crystal    vividness." 
+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p683   O 
26    '23    1100 w 

WOOLMAN,  JOHN.  Journal  and  essays;  ed. 
from  the  original  manuscripts,  with  a  bio- 
graphical introd.  by  Amelia  Mott  Gummere. 
643p  il  $5   (25s)   Macmillan 

B  or   92  22-24117 

"John  Woolman's  journal  and  essays  have 
been  reprinted  times  without  number,  but  this 
new  edition  is  easily  the  best  and  fullest  that 
has  appeared.  It  begins  with  a  biography  of 
some  hundred  odd  pages,  into  which  many  new 
facts  have  been  introduced;  and  the  text  is 
made  still  more  valuable  by  the  inclusion  of 
numerous  extracts  from  letters,  account  books 
and  other  documents,  some  of  which  are  re- 
produced in  facsimile.  Perhaps  the  most  inter- 
esting Journal  of  all,  that  which  describes 
Woolman's  voyage  to  England  in  1772  and  his 
various  travels  here  until  the  beginning  of  his 
fatal  illness,  is  reproduced  in  this  edition  In  its 
original  form.  After  the  Journals  come  the 
Essays,  and  then  follows  a  most  copious  Appen- 
dix, which  gives  biographical  notes  of  all  the 
more  prominent  persons  mentioned  In  the  text 
and  copies  of  deeds  and  wills.  A  large  bibli- 
ography  completes    the   volume." — Spec 


the  rhythm  of  musical  speech;  that  their  paint- 
mg  depended  not  on  beauty  of  color  but  on  the 
qualities  of  pure  line  and  careful  drawing. 


"This  is  a  large  and  welcome  addition  to  our 
previous  knowledge  of  John  Woolman,  which 
was  very  meagre."  W.  W.  Fenn 

+  Am    Hist    R    28:586    Ap    '23    560w 

Reviewed   by    Llewelyn   Powys 

Freeman   7:41  Mr  21  '23  2050w 

"Personal  character  and  local  color  is  skil- 
fully recovered  by  Mrs.  Gummere  from  a 
thorough  study  of  his  writings  and  from  a 
wide  research  in  contemporary  records."  H:  J. 
Cadbury 

4-   Nation    116:sup442    Ap    11    '23    650w 

"We  can  hardly  believe  that  investigation 
Into  the  life  and  opinions  of  the  Quaker  tailor 
can  ever  proceed  much  farther  than  Miss  Gum- 
mere takes  them  here.  Her  book  is  eminently 
conscientious;  if  the  reproach  were  not  so  facile, 
you  might  charge  her  with  being  too  thorough. 
She  spares  us  nothing,  she  sows  with  the  whole 
sack,  and  we  are  bound  to  say  that  the  book 
is  likely  to  be  more  useful  for  reference  than 
attractive  for  pleasant  reading." 

H Sat    R    135:436   Ap   21    '23    720w 

"Within  the  covers  of  this  single  volume,  can 
be  found  everything  that  John  Woolman  was 
and  everything  that  he  did,  and  readers  who 
desire  to  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  Lamb,  Crabb 
Robinson,  and  other  admirers  of  the  great 
Quaker  will  do  well  to  acquire  this  latest  edi- 
tion of  his  life  and  works,  an  edition  that  is  a 
triumph  of  patience  and  loving  labour." 
+  Spec   130:sup486  Mr   24  '23  250w 

Springf'd  Republican  p6  My  14  '23  520w 

WRIGHT,   FREDERICK  ADAM.  Arts  in  Greece. 

lllp     $2      (6s)      Longmans 

709.38     Art,   Greek  23-8055 

In  these  three  essays  on  the  arts  of  the 
Greeks,  the  dance,  music,  and  painting,  .the  dif- 
ference between  the  Greek  and  modern  concep- 
tions of  these  arts  is  discussed.  It  is  shown 
that  to  the  Greeks  dancing  was  not  a  mere 
exercise  but  a  form  of  mental  expression  using 
the  body  as  its  medium;  that  their  music  was 
vocal    rather    than    instrumental,    consisting    in 


There  is  a  great  deal  that  is  informing  and 
suggestive  in  his  Essays;  many  apt  citations 
from  ancient  authors  are  introduced,  and  the 
book  in  spite  of  its  obvious  faults  is  most  sug- 
gestive and  interesting,  even  when  one  cannot 
agree  with  the  author."    N.  H.  D. 

-1 Boston    Transcript   pi   Ag   11    '23    1250w 

26^-23   To'"^"    [London]    Lit    Sup   p290   Ap 

WRIGHT      FREDERICK    ADAM.    Feminism    in 

eo^r^n  ^'i^^'^'^"'"®  ^'O'"  Homer  to  Aristotle    222p 
!fz.5U  Dutton  ■ 

880.9  Greek  literature.  Women  in  literature. 

Women  in  Greece  [23-13839] 

The  author's  thesis  is  "that  the  Greek  world 
perished  from  one  main  cause,  a  low  ideal  of 
womanhood  and  a  degradation  of  women  which 
^9""°./^Pression  both  in  literature  and  in  so- 
cial life.  •  He  studies  the  Greek  writers  from 
Homer  to  Aristotle  to  discover  how  far  they 
were  responsible  for  the  disparagement  of  wo- 
men, and  how  far  on  the  other  hand,  some  of 
them  deliberately  set  about  in  their  writings 
to  improve  woman's  position. 


"Except  for  the  'Dominant  Sex,'  by  the 
Vaertings.  this  is  surely  the  most  important 
study  ot  the  position  of  woman  that  has  appear- 
ed for  many  a  year.  It  is  also  most  entertaining 
and  gives  by  way  of  cross-section  a  very  fair 
view  of  Greek  hterature." 

-i-   Ind  111:286  D  8  '23  50w 
"This  vigorously  written  book  on  the  position 
of  women   in   Greece    is   rather  like   a  feminist 
pamphlet." 

New  Statesman  21:578  Ag  25  '23  200w 
"Whatever    Mr.    Wright's    merits    as    feminist 
and  Hterary  critic,  as  a  historian  he  is  about  as 
bad  as  possible."  Elmer  Davis 

—  NY  Times  pl4  D  9  '23  300w 
"This  is  a  scholarly  and   interesting  volume, 
stimulating  and,   in  the  best  sense,  provocative 
of  criticism." 

-I-  The  Times  [London]   Lit  Sup  p474  Jl  12 
'23  250w 

WRIGHT,  HAROLD.  Population;  with  a  preface 
by  J.  M.  Keynes.  180p  $1.25  Harcourt 

312   Population  23-16978 

This  volume  in  the  Cambridge  Economic 
handbooks  series  summarizes  the  various  pop- 
ulation theories  and  outlines  the  main  features 
of  the  present  problem  of  population  in  rela- 
tion to  food  and  raw  materials  and  the  compli- 
cations arising  from  racial,  national  and  class 
distinctions. 


Boston   Transcript   d2  D  15   '23   350w 
Reviewed   by   Arthur  Fisher 

Lit  R  p422  Ja  5  '24  lOOOw 
"There    is    not    much    in    his    book     that     is 
strikingly  new;  but  it  is  a  clear  and  useful  short 
statement  of  a  problem  which  we  cannot  afford 
to    ignore." 

-i New   Statesman    21:577   Ag   25   '23    300w 

Reviewed   by   Elmei-   Davis 

N  Y  Times  p3  Ja  13  '24  3600w 
Spec  131:326  S  8  '23  200w 
"The  lucidity  of  exposition,  the  aptness  and 
cogency  of  argument  and  illustration  which  we 
have  associated  with  this  series  are  not  lacking 
in  this  volume.  Its  subject,  while  touching  al- 
most every  aspect  of  the  industrial  field,  is 
rendered — as  Mr.  J.  M.  Keynes  points  out  in 
his  preface — a  particularly  difficult  one.  But 
it  has  been  handled  by  Mr.  Harold  Wright 
with  an  admirable  restraint  and  discretion  which 
do  not,  however,  prevent  the  clear  enunciation 
of   his    own    views." 

+  The    Times    [London]    Lit    Sup    p446    Jl 
5  '23  750w 


574 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


WRIGHT,  HAROLD  BELL.     Mine  with  the  iron 
door;  a  romance.     339p     $2     Appleton 

23-10975 
The  curse  of  gold  is  the  theme  of  this  story 
which  is  spun  around  a  mythical  gold  mine  in 
the  Santa  Catalinas  of  Arizona.  The  actual 
existence  and  location  of  the  mine  is  known  to 
Natachee,  an  educated  Indian  who  in  a  spirit 
of  revenge  against  the  white  man's  treatment 
of  his  race,  has  reverted  to  his  Indian  life  and 
delights  in  a  cold-blooded  cruelty  even  to  those 
who  befriend  him.  Only  after  Hugh  Edwards 
— a  falsely  accused  ex-convict  whom  Natachee 
is  shielding  from  his  pursuers  and  torturing 
with  the  tutile  hope  of  ultimate  safety — res- 
cues hiin  at  the  risk  of  his  own  life  from  a 
band  of  outlaws,  does  the  Indian  realize  that 
there  may  be  something  in  a  white  man's  na- 
ture beyond  relentless  hatred.  From  that  mo- 
ment Natachee  becomes  a  true  ally  and  helps 
Hugh  to  rescue  the  girl  he  loves  from  those 
same  outlaws  and   to  vindicate  his   name. 


Booklist  20:104  D  '23 
"This  time  the  author  of  so  much  merely 
pleasant  fiction  has  given  us  an  extremely  good 
story.  To  be  sure,  there  is  a  great  deal  of  it, 
so  that  one  can  skip  comfortably  without  los- 
ing the  thread  of  the  narrative,  but  you  will 
lose  much  very  charming  description  of  scen- 
ery." I.  W.  L. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p4  Ag  4  '23  600w 
Int  Bk  R  p66  O  *23  3S0w 
"If  'The  Mine  With  the  Iron  Door'  is  a  fair 
sample  of  Mr.  Wright's  work,  the  reason  for 
his  popularity  is  not  far  to  seek.  He  satisfies 
that  all  but  universal  craving  for  a  story  in 
which  persecuted  virtue  is  triumphant  and  vil- 
lainy gets  its  just  deserts." 

+   N   Y  Times  p24  Ag  5  '23  550w 
Reviewed  by  Will  Cuppy 

N  Y  Tribune  p21  Ag  19  '23  1500w 
"Mr.  Wright  is  a  consistent  performer.  Al- 
ways he  has  had  a  story  to  tell.  He  has  one 
now.  Always  he  has  told  his  story  vividly.  He 
has  done  so  again.  There  are  spots  in  'The 
Mine  With  the  Iron  Door'  in  which  the  vivid 
trespasses  upon   the  lurid."  E.  W.  Osborn 

H NY  World  p9e  Jl  22  '23  450w 

"The  whole  thing  is  artificial  and  sentimental; 
it  might  make  a  poor  'movie';  it  certainly  isn't 
good    fiction." 

—  Outlook    135:460    N    14    '23    lOOw 

The    Times    LLondon]    Lit    Sup    p590    S 
6    '23    lOOw 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:482  N  '23 

WRIGHT,  RICHARDSON   LITTLE.    Flowers  for 
cutting  and  decoration.     218p     il     $4     Dutton 
716.2     Flowers  23-9659 

This  garden  book  is  devoted  to  the  raising 
and  arranging  of  flowers  for  house  decoration. 
Its  practical  suggestions  concerning  flowers  best 
suited  to  cutting  are  presented  in  a  thoroughly 
readable  way.  Lists  of  dependable  varieties  of 
annuals  and  biennials  are  given,  of  flowers  from 
bulbs,  of  perennials,  and  of  the  most  satisfac- 
tory flowering  shrubs.  In  each  case  the  color, 
height  and  blossoming  period  of  the  plant  are 
specified.  One  chapter  is  devoted  entirely  to 
roses,  another  to  the  cutting  and  arranging  of 
flowers,  and  another  to  attractive  combinations 
of  flowers  for  bouquets.  There  is  a  chapter, 
too,  on  the  garden  still-room,  which  tells  how  to 
distil  flower  waters,  make  potpourri,  cure  lav- 
ender and  dry  herbs. 


Booklist  20:129  Ja  '24 
"Richardson  Wright  speaks  with  authority, 
on  any  question  connected  with  gardens  and 
flowers.  His  view-point  and  purpose  in  this 
volume  are  rather  new  and  individual,  and  even 
those  who  cannot  grow  their  own  flowers  for 
decoration,  but  must  depend  on  city  florists, 
will  find  in  it  helpful  suggestions  about  flower 
arrangements  and  combination  and  the  decor- 
ative  use.s   to   which    can    be   put   many   humble 


but   beautiful   wild    things     to     be     gathered    in 
country  drives   and  walks." 

-f  N  Y  Times  pl4  :ie  17  '23  800w 

WRIGHT,    WILLARD    HUNTINGTON.     Future 

of  painting.     54p     $1     Huebsch 

750  Painting  23-11743 

This  little  book  provides  an  explanation  of 
the  long  controversy  between  the  academic 
painters  and  the  modernists.  Mr  Wright's  an- 
swer to  the  whole  question  is  that  so-called 
modern  painting  is  not  painting  at  all,  but  in 
reality  an  art  of  color  with  aims  quite  distinct 
from  those  of  painting,  and  consequently  the  two 
should  not  be  in  conflict.  He  predicts  that  this 
art  of  color  is  only  temporarily  expressing  it- 
self in  the  medium  of  painting,  that  it  will  in 
time  find  a  new  medium  and  "develop  into  a 
source  of  one  of  the  most  intense  and  pleasur- 
able aesthetic  reactions  which  the  world  of  art 
has  yet  known." 


"An  interesting  document."    C.   K.   H. 

+  Boston  Transcript  p3  Jl  14  '23  650w 
"Mr  Wright,  in  his  periodic  excursions  into 
the  science  of  aesthetics,  has  committed  him- 
self to  many  ill-considered  prophecies.  .  .  His 
latest  book  is  less  dogmatic  and  challenging, 
but  not  less  pretentious  in  its  assertions."  T: 
Craven 

h   Dial  75:87  Jl   '23  1300w 

"As  a  contribution  to  aesthetics,  Mr.  Wright's 
thesis  is  negligible:  for  it  reckons  with  only 
so  much  of  the  field  of  art  as  seems  to  give 
support  to  its  frequently  hazardous  assump- 
tions. The  great  merit  of  his  work  lies  in  the 
social  implications  of  his  thesis;  for  here  his 
observations  are  just  and  pertinent."  L:  Mum- 
ford 

H New  Repub  36:79  S  12  '23  1450w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:408    Jl    '23 

WYATT,    EDITH    FRANKLIN.     Invisible   gods. 

433p  $2  Harper 

23-4294 

The  book  spans  three  generations  of  the  same 
family,  the  Marshflelds,  and  gives  with  much 
detail  and  much  fine  character  drawing, 
a  section  of  American  life  of  good  quality, 
showing  how  achievement  is  inevitably  mixed 
up  with  struggle  and  failure  and  how  sur- 
prisingly the  human  spirit  can  burst  into 
flower  from  a  stunted  plant.  The  chief  in- 
terest of  the  stor.v  centers  upon  Hancock 
Marshfield  and  his  two  cousins,  Jo  and  Maisie, 
who  as  One-Eye,  Two-Eyes,  and  Three-Eyes 
pass  a  boisterous  childhood  together  under  the 
leadership  of  the  imaginative  and  eccentric 
Hancock  and,  in  spite  of  their  widely  different 
natures,  carry  a  strong  friendship  for  each 
other  into  mature  life.  Family  worries  and 
problems,  modern  tendencies  in  life  and  litera- 
ture, the  blight  of  politics  on  humane  and 
scientific  undertakings  all  enter  into  the  fabric 
of  the  story. 


"Miss  Wyatt's  chief  excellence  is  undoubtedly 
her  freedom  from  conventions,  even  conventions 
of  her  own  making.  Again  and  again  she  sur- 
prises us  with  the  fidelity  of  her  vision,  and 
her  refusal  to  compromise.  It  is  a  very  real 
asset."    D.    L.    M. 

-f  Boston  Transcript  p4  Mr  28  "23  llOOw 

"While  her  characterization  is  superior  to 
that  of  Mr.  Train,  her  florid  style  frequently 
gets  the  better  of  her.  We  yet  carry  away 
some  rather  fine  character  drawings  which  make 
the  book  worth  while." 

h  Oath  World  117:569  Jl  '23  200w 

"A  sterling  theme,  but  the  treatment  i.s  not 
equally  sound.  The  development  is  burdened 
by  lachrymose  pronouncements  and  redundant 
descriptions.  The  book  is  a  loosely  constructed, 
vague-minded  body  moving  heavy  of  foot  in 
the  narrow  circle  of  the  author's  sentimental- 
ity." 

—  Dial  74:520  My  '23  80w 

"The  author's  large  plan  and  purpo.se  are 
seen  and  felt  throughout  this  novel,  and  even 
the  most  grudging  critic   must  honor  her  cour- 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


575 


age   in   attempting   so   vast   a   canvas;    but   one 
closes  the  book  with  a  feeling  that  Miss  "Wyatt 
has  not  quite  succeeded — that  her  great  picture 
is  somewhat  lacking  in  focus." 
H Int   Bk  R  p69  S  '23  500w 

"The  book  is  long  and  diffuse  at  times  but  it 
presents  a  fine,  well-rounded  picture  of  real 
life  as  it  is  lived  by  real  people.  This  is  the 
tradition  of  the  American  family  that  is  worth 
preserving." 

+  Lit    R  p539   Mr   17  '23   300w 

"EJxtending  her  canvas  so  far  through  time 
and  space,  populating  it  so  thickly,  she  has 
of  necessity  to  employ  a  more  or  less  episodic 
construction,  to  produce  a  carefully  planned 
planlessness.  This  is  of  course  in  the  best 
modern  tradition,  but  it  does  weaken  the  book's 
unity.  Her  novel  is,  nevertheless,  a  truly  fine 
achievement."     Robert    Flack 

H Lit    R   p827   Jl   14   '23   480w 

"  'The  Invisible  Gods'  was  a  large  undertak- 
ing and,  perhaps,  a  little  too  much  for  the 
author's  command  of  style.  But  in  spite  of 
prose  lapses  the  book  holds  up  and  one  follows 
the  many  careers  outlined  in  it  with  interest, 
for  one  feels  that  it  is  real  life  that  is  being 
displayed  in  the  various  chapters." 
-I NY   Times  p7   Mr  11   '23   520w 

"It  just  misses  being  a  great  novel.  Potenti- 
ally it  is  that;  actually  it  is  only  a  good 
novel.  .  .  It  is  stripped  too  bare.  It  is  a 
noble  skeleton.  With  five  or  six  principal 
characters  to  manage  and  twice  as  many 
subsidiary  ones,  Miss  Wyatt  had  to  con- 
fine herself  to  pure  character  and  action; 
she  had  not  room  for  atmosphere  and  perspec- 
tive for  the  mass  composition  of  her  picture. 
"The  parts  are  related,  but  they  are  not  tied  up 
together.  It  Is  a  book  you  can  read  twice,  and 
probably  will  If  you  read  It  once."  Isabel 
I'fl.tGrsori 

^ NY  Tribune  pl8   Mr  11  '23   1450w 

"There  are  in  'The  Invisible  Gods'  a  never- 
absent  humor  and  a  sympathy  with  defeat  and 
exactitude   and    scope."     Ruth   Raphael 

-I-   N   Y   Tribune  p28  Mr  25  '23  800w 

"Soundly  American  novel.  .  .  There  Is  more 
than  the  mere  story  in  'The  Invisible  Gods.' 
Miss  Wyatt  evidently  is  a  keen  observer  and 
student  of  the  world  in  which  she  lives,  of  its 
fads  and  follies  as  well  as  of  its  forward  march. 
In  the  background  of  her  book,  but  quite  perti- 
nent to  her  account  of  myriad  Individual  in- 
terests, there  is  the  moving  panorama  of  the 
period  of  forty  years  with  which  she  deals." 
E.   W.   Osborn 

+   N  Y  World  p6e  Mr  4  '23  650w 

WYLIE,  ELINOR  (HOYT)  (MRS  WILLIAM 
ROSE  BENET).  Black  armour.  77p  $1.75 
Doran 

811  23-9326 

Poems  rich  in  fancy  and  imagery  and  most 
skilfully  rhymed.  The  meaning  of  the  title  and 
the  group  division — Breastplate,  Gauntlet,  Hel- 
met, Beaver  up,  Plumes — is  not  immediately 
apparent. 


Booklist  20:50  N  '23 
"  'Black  Armour'   is  a  highly  distinctive  con- 
tribution   to    the    poetry     of     the     period."      D: 
Morton 

+  Bookm   58:75   S  '23   350w 
"Vivid    imagery    and    force    are    characteristic 
of    Miss    Wylie's    poetry.      She    lacks    a    certain 
emotional  quality.     Admire  her  pictures  though 
we  may,  we  feel  nothing." 

H Boston   Transcript  p2  Je  23  '23  390w 

"Black  Armour  within  limitations  is  unex- 
celled. The  verse  is  hard  and  bright  as  a  piece 
of  machinery;  there  are  no  loose  screws  about 
it:  metres  are  varied  with  astonishing  skill. 
Miss  Wylie  is  a  craftsman  who  cannot  be 
praised  too  highly."     Malcolm  Cowley 

H •  Dial  74:625  Je  '23  1150w 

Reviewed  by  J:   G.   Fletcher 

Freeman    7:452    Jl   18   '23   700w 


"  'Black  Armour"  is  a  remarkable  book.  The 
poems  are  sharply  wrought,  terse,  vigorous." 
Lieonard   Bacon 

+   Lit    R    p876   Ag   4    '23    llOOw 

"Elinor  Wylie  belongs  quite  obviously,  and 
indeed  quite  genuinely,  among  the  most  bril- 
liant poets  of  today.  One  thinks  of  Edna  St. 
Vincent  Millay,  'H.  D.,'  T.  S.  Eliot,  and  E.  A. 
Robinson.  Her  second  volume  shows  her  still 
not  wholly  distinct  from  the  rest;  yet  there  is 
every  reason  to  suppose  that  she  will  achieve 
•sophistication  and  fineness  in  her  own  right. 
Her  readers  at  present  are  aware  chiefly  of  her 
amazing  ability  at  rhyme,  her  scrupulousness 
as  to  detail,  her  perfect  'inish,  her  cold  fire,  her 
hard  wit."     Mark  Van  Doren 

+   Nation   116:753  Je  27  '23  300w 

"It  is  quite  idle  to  wonler  what  Elinor  Wylie's 
poetry  may  become,  for  it  is  not  in  the  process 
of  becoming.  It  is  as  definitely  shaped  in  its  own 
image  as  any  poetry  that  has  ever  been  written. 
And  it  must  be  appreciated  as  it  is  or  not  at 
all.  We  may  compl&,in  of  her  use  of  poetry  for 
the  etching  of  unutterable  forms  when  she  might 
use  it  for  so  large  an  utterance.  We  may  object 
that  the  obtrusion  between  herself  and  her  read- 
ers of  such  verse  as  she  is  capable  of  writing 
substitutes  for  a  rarer  beauty,  a  beauty  less 
persuasive  and  less  rare,  and  we  may  justify 
our  objection  with  John  Keats's  phrase  that 
'poetry  should  be  great  and  unobtrusive.'  But 
when  all  such  exceptions  have  been  taken  and 
all  possible  reservations  saved  the  essential 
quality  of  Elinor  Wylie's  poetry  remains.  She 
has  achieved  in  a  great  and  difficult  art  a  great 
distinction.  And  she  has  coined  a  tangible  and 
enduring  beauty  out  of  air."  Archibald  Mac- 
Leish 

+  New  Repub  37:supl6  D  5  '23  2100w 

"The  unquiet,  yet  restrained  brain,  with  its 
cold,  terrible  emphasis,  may  be  noted  behind 
all  her  best  work.  This  spirit  sprang,  like  Min- 
erva from  the  forehead  of  Jupiter,  full-grown, 
in  'Nets  to  Catch  the  Wind.'  It  is  reaffirmed 
with  a  certain  deliberate  deepening  of  quality 
in  'Black  Armour.'  The  second  book  is  not  so 
much  a  better  book  than  'Nets  to  Catch  the 
Wind'  as  it  is  a  logical  progression.  Mrs. 
Wylie's  art  has   matured." 

4-  N    Y   Times  pl2   Je   10  '23   llOOw 

"  'Black  Armour*  is  primarily  a  matter  of  wit 
and  competent  workmanship.  Both  are  of  a 
quality  that  makes  the  book  a  distinct  and  in- 
teresting— and  valuable — contribution  to  the 
poetry  of  to-day." 

+  Outlook    135:318    O   24   '23   400w 

St  Louis  p339  D  '23 
"She  has  proved  beyond  cavil  that  she  is  a 
master  of  vocabulary,  with  which  she  occasion- 
ally captures  a  gloriously  bright  flash  of  queer, 
distorted  character,  but  she  has  also  clearly 
shown  her  inability  to  deal  in  a  sustained  way 
with  ideas  or  feelings  of  large  scope,  so  that  at 
best  even,  her  verses  seem  to  be  meteoric  il- 
luminations of  chance-disclosed  attitudes,  or 
facets   of  character."   Stanley  Alden 

-1-  Springf'd  Republican  p7a  Jl  1  '23  520w 

WYLIE,  ELINOR  (HOYT)  (MRS  WILLIAM 
ROSE  BENET).  Jennifer  Lorn;  a  sedate  ex- 
travaganza. 302p  il  $2.50  Doran  23-17845 

This  "sedate  extravaganza"  is  a  satire  on  the 
eighteenth  century  novel.  It  sets  forth  witn 
much  elaborate  detail  the  fantastic  adventures 
of  a  young  English  aristocrat.  Sir  Gerald  Poyn- 
yard,  and  his  surpassingly  lovely  bride.  Jennifer 
Lorn,   in  the  India  of  Warren  Hastings  s  time. 


"There  is  an  extravagant  beauty,  an  odd,  ex- 
otic atmosphere  about  this  book,  which  sets  it 
apart.  It  intrigues  us  and  amuses  us  and 
stings  us  to  a  realization  of  many  things,  all 
at  once.  It  is,  we  are  obhged  to  admit,  a  lit- 
erary event.  It  belongs  with  the  work  of  the 
other  exotics  of  our  time— Max  Beerbohm  and 
Aldous  Huxley,  but  it  is  hard  to  find  a  counter- 
part for  'Jennifer  Lorn'  among  American 
books.-^  £,sfen^Van8cr!pt  p8  D  5  '23  1200w 


76 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


WYLIE,  E. — Continued 

"Elinor  Wylie  has  contrived  a  narrative  as 
distinguished  in  its  essential  style,  as  witty  in 
its  clever  content,  and  as  suave  and  sophisti- 
cated in  its  whole  conception  and  consummation 
as  any  writing  of  the  stately  century  whose  life 
it  chronicles,  while  the  publishers  have  sent  it 
forth  with  quaint  title  page  and  quainter  wood- 
cut decorations,  and  in  a  binding  which  the 
eighteenth  century  in  its  quaintest  way  would 
undoubtedly   have    called    'elegant.'  " 

+  N    Y   Times  p8   N   25   '23   850w 

"Architecturally  the  scheme  is  unsound.  But 
it  remains  a  masterpiece,  or  at  least,  a  monu- 
ment of  curious  erudition,  which  might  suit- 
ably be  engrossed  upon  vellum  with  illumined 
initials.  It  is  neither  a  novel  nor  a  romance, 
but  a  pageant  or  a  ballet,  ending  in  a  grace- 
fully simulated  tragic  tableau."  Isabel  Pater- 
son 

H NY  Tribune  p22  N  25  '23  650w 

"Jennifer  Lorn  is  several  kinds  of  novel.  It 
is  realistic,  romantic,  burlesque,  expert,  am- 
ateurish, fantastic,  historical,  impressionistic, 
ironic,  satiric,  epic,  lyric  and  at  times  consum- 
mately beautiful.  At  times  also  it  is  delirious- 
ly impossible,  at  other  times  no  more  than 
barely  impossible,  and  quite  often  only  improb- 
able."    Maxwell   Anderson 

N   Y   World  p8e  N  18  '23  850w 

WYNDHAM,     HORACE     COWLEY.       Nineteen 

hundreds.  274p  $2.50  Seltzer 

914.21     London — Intellectual  life.     London- 
Social    life   and   customs  23-6295 

An  English  journalist  and  novelist  writes 
these  recollections  of  London  in  the  opening 
years  of  the  century.  Tho  he  professes  to  be 
more  concerned  with  the  nobodies  of  the  period 
than  with  its  celebrities,  his  reminiscences  are 
plentifully  sprinkled  with  the  names  of  the 
well-known.  He  ranges  from  Whitechapel  to 
Mayfair,  thru  London  clubs  and  literary  circles, 
behind  the  footlights,  along  Grub  Street,  and 
from  the  Law  courts  to  the  Temple.  His  man- 
ner is  lively,  if  flippant,  and  he  illustrates  with 
a    wealth    of   anecdote. 


Booklist   20:17  O   '23 

"Horace  Wyndham  has  proved  that  such 
reminiscences  can  be  written  without  hurting 
the  feelings  of  former  hostesses  and  friends. 
In  addition  to  which  things  he  has  proved  that 
such  discreet  and  restrained  information  as  he 
chooses  to  use  can  be  made  exceptionally  invit- 
ing. "The  quality  which  he  brings  into  this 
volume  that  makes  it  stand  out  from  so  many 
of  the  memoirs  more  or  less  always  in  vogue. 
Is  a  rippling  sense  of  humor." 

+   Bookm  57:468  Je  '23  250w 

"The  rambling  trail  of  Mr.  Wyndham's  mem- 
ories is  flooded  with  the  light  of  the  apparently 
Inexhaustible  fund  of  anecdote  from  which  he 
draws  so  generously.  The  pages  flash  with  it — 
by  turns  humorous,  witty,  satirical,  faintly  cyn- 
ical even  when  friendliest,  yet  not  Implacably 
unfriendly  when   most  cynical."     F.   B. 

+   Boston  Transcript  p4  Ap  4  '23  1250w 

"A  new  and  extremely  amusing  volume  of 
London   memoirs."      A.    B.    MrGuire 

4-  Cath  World  117:373  Je  '23  1350w 

"There  is  a  sprightly,  not  to  say  flippant, 
style  in  Horace  Wyndham's  'The  Nineteen 
Hundreds'  which  Is  a  little  tiresome.  But  the 
book  is  also  refreshingly  honest  in  two  or  three 
instances."      E.    L.   Pearson 

h  ind  110:231  Mr  31  '23  250w 

"Historians  probably  will  find  slim  pickings 
in  Mr.  Wyndham's  book,  hut  by  the  same  token 
the  entertainment-seeker  will  find  no  dull 
pages."     E.  L.  Shuman 

+   Int    Bk    R.p31   My   '23   850w 

Reviewed   bv   Stephen   Graham 

Lit   R   p600  Ap  14  '23   780w 

"Its  place  is  the  club  lounge;  its  time,  fifteen 
minutes  before  dinner  and  a  half  hour  after- 
wards. Mr.  Wyndham  writes  with  as  much 
vivacity  and  as  jaunty  a  wit  as  any  of  the 
recent  collectors  of  memorabilia,  and  somewhat 


more  of  discretion  in  reciting  droll  tales  con- 
cerning the  living  and  recently  dead."  G.  H. 
Carson 

+  Nation    117:91   Jl   25   '23   300w 
N    Y   Times  p2  Ap  22  '23   1500w 
"It    contains    many    fine    ideas    and    attitudes 
which     are     singularly     snappishly     expressed." 
Bruce  Gould 

—  +   N    Y    Tribune   p25   Mr  25    '23    820w 
"For  caustic  wit  and  engaging  flippancy  they 

are  unbeatable.  While  one  does  not  doubt  his 
sincerity,  it  doesn't  matter  in  the  least  whether 
or  not  his  judgments  are  sound,  his  stories  au- 
thentic or  his  intentions  sincere.  The  author 
is  at  pains  to  deny  intimacy  with  the  great,  and 
yet  he  becomes  n  well  of  anecdotes  about 
them."    Laurence   Stallings 

+  N  Y  World  p7e  Mr  11  '23  1400w 
"There  is  perhaps  a  hint  too  much  of  the 
depreciative  in  the  tone  of  a  good  many  of 
Wyndham's  recollections.  As  a  survey  of  lit- 
erary, theatrical,  journalistic  and  club  Lon- 
don of  some  years  ago,  however,  the  volume 
is   piquant  and   intimate." 

—  +  Springf  d  Republican  plO  Ap  24  '23  150w 

Wis    Lib    Bui    19:159   Je   '23 

WYNNE,     FRED     E.     Mediterranean     mystery. 

312p    $2    DufReld    [7s    6d   H.    Jenkins] 

23-11262 

"It  is  a  lively  and  varied  yarn  of  adventure 
centring  in  a  guileless  Church  of  England 
parson.  This  parson  is  a  gentleman  of  quiet 
tastes  and  some  means.  He  has  a  scalawag 
brother,  who  has  always  been  in  one  sort  of 
trouble  or  another  with  the  powers  that  be. 
The  parson  is  fond  of  him,  and  is  wont  to 
forgive  and  to  rescue  him  at  intervals.  Now 
at  last  he  returns  to  all  appearances  prosper- 
ous, and  with  a  project  which  is  to  make  all 
hands  rich  forever.  The  handsome  scalawag 
has  a  partner:  their  scheme,  on  the  surface  is 
a  business  in  Oriental  wares,  to  be  imported 
direct  froin  the  Near  East.  But,  happily  for 
us,  there  is  more  in  this  than  meets  the  eye, 
and  our  virtuous  parson  presently  finds  himself 
cast  into  the  iniddle  of  a  series  of  extraordinary 
adventures.  In  these  he  comports  himself 
(with  the  approval  of  his  bishop,  a  remarkably 
liberal  gentleman  in  gaiters)  rather  in  accord- 
ance with  his  benevolent  instincts  than  in 
observance  of  the  strict  tenets  of  Church  or 
state.  But  there  would  be  nothing  in  the  tale 
if  he   remained   a   conventional   parson." — Lit  R 


"Mr.  Wynne  undoubtedly  has  the  technique 
of  story-telling;  where  he  works  material  of 
greater  Interest  than  his  present  stuff,  it  will 
indeed  be  seen  that  he  embroiders  out  of 
silk."   W.    E.    H. 

-\ Boston   Transcript   p4   S   22   '23   420w 

"It    is    all    amusingly    told,    and    with    a    suffl- 
cientlv   plausible   air  for   our  purpose." 
■+    Lit    R   p31    S   8   '23   300w 

Spec    130:452    Mr    17    '23    30w 
"A    good,    straight,    unpretentious    yarn." 

-f  Springf'd    Republican    p9a  S   9   '23   lOOw 

WYNNE,      FREDERICK      EDWARD.      Ductless 
and  other  glands.   153p  $1.50  Knopf 

612.4  Glands  [23-11024] 

In  simple  language  for  the  general  reader  the 
book  outlines  our  present  knowledge  on  the 
subject  of  the  development,  structure  and  func- 
tion of  the  so-called  ductless  glands  and  of  the 
activities  of  some  other  glands  whose  Internal 
secretions  are  believed  to  have  an  important 
function  in  the  body.  Written  to  correct  some 
popular  misconceptions  in  regard  to  their  use 
in  the  treatment  of  disease  and  to  the  question 
of  rejuvenation  by  means  of  transplanted 
glands. 

Nation   118:16   Ja  2  '24   20w 
"A  short,    sane    and  simple   guide  to  the  new 
science    of    endocrinology."     E.    E.    S. 
+  New   Repub   36:162  O  3  '23   80w 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


577 


"The  book  is  well  written  in  most  part,  though 
the  illustrations  might  have  been  omitted  with- 
out detracting  from   the  clearness  of  the  text." 

H Springf'd    Republican    p6    S   10   '23   250w 

The    Times    LLondon]    Lit    Sup    p490    Jl 
19    '23    80w 


Y 


YARROW,      ELEANOR      C.      (BARNES)      lady, 

conii).   Alfred  Yarrow;  his  life  and  work.   328p 
il  $3.50   Longmans    [10s   6d  E.   Arnold] 

B  or  92  Yarrow,  Alfred  Fernandez.  Ship- 
building 
The  subject  of  this  biography  is  an  English 
marine  engineer  with  whose  name  a  long  list  of 
inventions  and  improvements  in  shipbuilding 
has  been  connected,  and  who  has  borne  a  con- 
sideral)le  part  in  the  naval  progress  of  his  coun- 
try. The  various  craft  produced  in  his  shipyards 
is  described  in  detail — torpedoes,  launches,  shal- 
low-draft boats,  and  the  Yarrow  destroyers  and 
gunboats,  which  held  a  high  record  of  per- 
formance in  the  war.  When  the  war  broke  out 
he  had  retired  as  head  of  Yarrow  and  Co.  but 
he  plunged  anew  into  active  work  and  the  share 
that  fell  to  his  firm  was  large,  both  shipbuild- 
ing and  numerous  helpful  protective  devices. 


Boston  Transcript  p5  Ag  18  '23  850w 
"Lady    Yarrow    writes    the    story   of   his    very 
interesting    life    with    dignity    and    reserve,    but 
with     full    appreciation    of    its    solid    and    fine 
achievement  and  of  the  evidently  rich  and  lov- 
able  character   of   the   man   himself." 
-f   N    Y   Times   p7   Je   19   '23   620w 
"Lady    Yarrow's    pages    give    a    vivid    picture 
of   how   her   husband  succeeded   in   building   up 
a    great    engineering    works    which    has    become 
famous    throughout    the    world,    and    indicate    in 
a   non-technical   manner   the   aims    he   set   him- 
self   as    a    marine    engineer    and    the    problems 
he   succeeded   in   solving." 

The    Times    LLondon]    Lit    Sup    p405    Je 
14   '23   lOOw 


YEN,    EN    TSUNG.    Open    door    policy.    191p    $2 
2    Stratford 

327.51  Eastern  question   (Far  East).  China — 
Foreign    relations  23-10455 

A  study  of  Far  Eastern  politics  from  the  be- 
ginning of  foreign  intervention  in  the  affairs  of 
China.  The  book  outlines  briefly  the  imperial- 
istic politics  of  the  different  powers  in  China, 
the  origin  and  application  of  the  open  door 
policy  and,  in  particular,  the  plan  of  Japan  to 
extend  her  interests  in  China.  It  is  shown  that 
the  open  door  polic.v  was  due  to  the  pressure 
of  circumstances;  that  it  proved  for  a  time  an 
effective  basis  for  a  balance  of  power,  but  that 
the  solution  of  the  Far  Eastern  problem  now 
lies  in  the  removal  of  this  basis. 


"The  most  interesting  chapters  are  those 
dealing  with  Japan's  aggressions.  These  are 
set  forth  clearly  and  truthfully  and  without 
exaggeration."    E.    T.    Williams 

+  Am  Hist  R  29:376  Ja  '24  320w 
"Although  he  has,  perhaps,  overweighted  his 
book  -with  statistics  which  have  little  real 
value,  and  devoted  rather  too  much  space  to 
the  Shantung  question,  his  reasoning  and  con- 
clusions are  sound."   G.   N.   Steiger 

-f    —  Am    Pol   Scl    R   17:662   N   '23   220w 

Boston   Transcript   p3   Ag  4   '23   650w 
R  of  Rs  68:224    Ag  '23  80w 


YEZIERSKA,    ANZIA.      Children    of    loneliness. 

270p   $2   Funk    [7s   6d   Cassell] 

23-16037 

"The  book  contains  an  interview  with  the 
author,  seven  short  stories  and  three  avowedly 
autobiographical  articles,  these  last  being  the 
most  interesting  portion  of  the  volume.  The 
tale  which  gives  the  book  its  title  pictures  vivid- 
ly that  tragedy  which  is  the  gulf  between  the 
immigrant  parents,  still  clinging  to  the  old 
ways,  and  their  'Americanized'  children." — N  Y 
Times 


Reviewed  by  W:    L.   Phelps 

Int  Bk  R  p21  D  '23  2250w 
"Anzia  Yezierska  is  a  vital  personality  and 
her  struggles  for  self-expression  compel  the 
sympathy  of  the  American  reader.  She  would 
win  his  respect  more  if  she  would  show  in  her 
work  more  of  the  self-control,  the  restraint, 
that  art  demands.  She  has  strong  feeling, 
which  is  a  gift  from  the  gods.  If  she  could 
divide  her  intensity  of  emotion  with  sonie  pas- 
sionless technician  and  receive  in  return  the 
ability  to  discipline  herself  by  criticism  the  re- 
sult would  be  helpful  to  both.  As  it  is,  her 
emotion  tends  to  become  emotionalism,  to  run 
away  with  her  instead  of  being  under  firm  con- 
trol. Her  style  is  exaggerated  and  her  pro- 
tests at  times  are  shrieks."  Dorothy  Scarbor- 
ough 

h   Lit  R  p279  N  24  "23  660w 

"The  book  has  a  value  because  of  the  vivid 
picture  it  gives  of  life  on  the  east  side,  among 
the  immigrants,  their  hopes  and  fears  and  way 
of  looking  at  things — especially  at  the  hated 
'charities.'  It  has  color  and  a  dramatic  quality 
which,  if  it  frequently  slips  into  melodrama, 
nevertheless  gives  effectiveness  to  many  of  its 
scenes. " 

-f  -^  N  Y  Times  p9  O  28  '23  550w 
N  Y  World  p7e  O  28  '23  400w 
"Incoherent    and    reckless    in    its    lack    of    re- 
straint,    'Children    of    Loneliness'     nevertheless 
rings   true." 

_|-  _  Springf'd    Republican   p7a   D   9   '23   480w 
The  Times   [London]    Lit  Sup  p748  N  8 
•23   450w 

Wis  Lib  Bui  19:510  D  "23 

YEZIERSKA,     ANZIA.        Salome    of    the    tene- 
ments.     290p    $2    lioui    &    Liveright 

23-2031 
The  moment  John  Manning,  the  millionaire 
philanthropist,  crossed  the  path  of  Sonya  Vrun- 
sky,  tlie  ghetto  girl,  the  emotional  Jewess  was 
all  aflame  with  ambition  and  passion  to  "marry 
herself  to  him."  Did  he  not  hold  within  him- 
self the  promise  of  everything  she  craved  in 
the  way  of  beauty  and  luxury  and  distinction'.' 
With  ruthless  ingenuity  she  sets  about  to  gain 
her  point  and  she  becomes  Mrs  Manning.  Then 
in  the  ancestral  Manning  mansion,  with  a 
houseful  of  servants,  among  straitlaced  rela- 
tives, comes  the  awakening.  Sonya's  wildness 
will  not  be  cramped  into  such  an  environment 
and  with  the  same  passion  with  which  she  flung 
herself  into  Manning's  arms  slie  now  flings 
away  from  him.  She  discovers  that  she  has 
a  talent  and  a  zest  for  designing  dresses  and 
as  a  designer  she  is  rediscovered  by  an  old 
admirer,    the    costume    artist    of    Fifth    Avenue. 

Boston  Transcript  p5  F  24  '23  580w 
"Miss  Yezierska  possesses  a  vivid  and  color- 
ful style  and  a  varied  honesty  rarely  equaled 
in  our  American  fiction.  Hitherto  few  of  our 
writers  have  dared  to  be  quite  as  explicit  as 
she  is.  There  is,  however,  a  consistent  deli- 
cacy and  appreciation  of  tangled  situations 
which  frees  her  from  the  suspicion  of  any 
mere  de.sire  to  startle  and  shock  the  reader." 
J.    H.    Robinson 

4-  Int  Bk  R  pl4  F  '23  lOOOw 
"Gross  unrealities  and  palpable  stock  figures 
follow  each  other  through  the  pages.  Even  the 
Jewish  charactei-s  whom  the  author  knows  and 
understands  move  woodenly;  yes,  even  Sonia, 
the  h3roine.  despite  the  fact  that  .=ihe  is  the 
begetter  of  all  action,  is  a  puppet.      The  author 


578 


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YEZIERSKA,    A. — Continued 

gives    her    activity    and    mistakes    it    for    life. 

There  are  other  minor  failings  which  a  greater 

command    of    the    language    and    a    less    hectic 

mood    will   automatically   remedy."    J.    J.    Smer- 

tenko 

—  Lit  R  p395  Ja  20  "23  780w 
"  'Salome'  is  an  unwholesome  book.  With 
the  possible  exception  of  HoUins  it  contains  but 
one  character  that  stands  out  clearly  against 
the  heaving  background,  and  that  character, 
Sonya,  exhibits  a  depravity  of  spirit  and  an 
Incapacity  to  live  and  let  live  that  rivals  the 
degradation  of  Balzac's  most  admirable  villains. 
The  book  is  vivid.  In  places,  it  is  well  done." 
Scott   Nearing 

f-  -Nation   116:674  Je   6   '23   300w 

"Sonya  is  drawn  with  strong,  sure,  vivid 
strokes.  But  when  the  author  turns  from 
her  heroine  to  Manning  her  hand  falters — the 
Unes  are  fumbling.  She  seems  to  have  taken 
her  ideas  of  the  type  and  its  surroundings 
from  the  cheaper  'movies.'  There  are  times 
when  the  descriptions  more  than  border  upon 
the   ludicrous."      L.    M.    Field 

H NY    Times    p22    D   24    '22    1300w 

"Handled  by  any  other  novelist  addicted  to 
Hebrew  themes,  the  [story]  would  hardly  have 
risen  above  the  level  of  light  comedy.  Anzia 
Yezierska  has  passed  it  through  the  sieve  of 
her  astonishing  temperament,  and  produced'a 
work  of  art — sentimental,  illogical,  hysterical 
and  naive,  but  still  a  work  of  art."  W  A 
Roberts 

+  N  Y  Tribune  p26  D  17  '22  1250w 
"Action  and  speech  are  as  intolerable  as  in 
most  English  novels,  the  plot  transpontine,  the 
passion  as  tense  and  taut  as  a  bath  bun.  Hap- 
pily this  is  not  a  fair  example  of  current 
American   literature." 

—  Spec  131:522  O  13  '23  280w 

"The  story  presents  an  exaggerated  and 
theoretical  picture  alike  of  Hebrew  'vitality* 
and  of  puritanical  'repression.'  The  author's 
treatment  is  sensational  and  of  small  artistic 
or    human    consequence." 

—  Springf d    Republican    p7a  F   4   "23   300w 
Survey   49:819   Mr  15   '23   40w 

->J.*}>%   7r'/"®^    [London]    Lit    Sup    p621    S 
20     23    150w 

Wis   Lib   Bui    19:85  Mr  '23 

YORK,  THOMAS.     International  exchange,  nor- 
mal and  abnormal.   600p  $5  Ronald 

332     Foreign   exchange  23-3324 

"The  subject  has  taken  on  new  aspects  of 
interest  during  the  past  several  years  because 
of  the  extraordinary  changes  in  international 
commerce  and  finance,  and  the  author  has 
sought  to  give  full  treatment  to  this  broader 
range  of  the  subject.  He  has,  therefore,  in- 
cluded in  the  discussion  abnormal  as  well  as 
normal  exchange,  international  dealings  in  se- 
curities as  well  as  foreign  trade  financing; 
dollar  financing  as  well  as  foreign  currency 
financing  of  international  trade;  and  exchange 
on  silver  standard  countries  as  well  as  exchange 
on  gold  standard  countries.  The  aim  has  also 
been  to  combine  principles  and  practical  detail 
so  as  to  make  the  volume  of  the  greate.=it  pos- 
sible utility  to  those  who  have  a  practical  in- 
terest  in   foreign   exchange." — Preface 


This  work  is  superior  to  its  predecessors   in 
several   respects.     It  is   not   only  a  handbook  or 
manual  on   foreign  exchange  but  also  a  careful 
treatise  on  the  principles  Influencing  the  fluctu- 
ation of  exchange  rates."     G:  W.  Edwards 
-1-  Administration  5:488  Ap  '23  600w 
Am   Pol  Sol   R  17:695  N  '23  70w 
"Mr.   York  has  written  a  sound  treatise  on  a 
very    technical    subject.      He    not    only    explains 
the   details   of  foreign    exchange   operations   but 
at  the  same  time  aims  to  impart  a  mastery  of 
those   details   by   its   thorough   and   sound    prin- 
ciples."    L.    L.    M. 

+   Boston  Transcript   p4   Ap  14  '23   llOOw 
Lit   R  p96   S  29  '23  500w 


"A  notable  book  by  a  master  of  his  subject." 
-h  N   Y  Times  p4  Ap  8  '23  400w 

Springrd    Republican   p8  Jl   5   '23   60w 

YOUNG,    FRANCIS    BRETT.        Pilgrim's    Rest. 

482  $2  Button   [7s  6d  Collins] 

23-6840 

John  Hayman  came  to  South  Africa  with  his 
father  at  the  age  of  fourteen  and  for  thirty 
years  trekked  about  the  country,  as  miner  and 
prospector,  roughing  it  in  solitude,  always  los- 
ing the  fortunes  that  come  within  his  reach. 
Travel-wearied  and  disillusioned  he  returns  to 
Johannesburg,  ready  at  last  to  settle  down,  and 
finds  a  strangely  new  civilization.  Chance  places 
in  his  hands  a  dead  man's  note-book  with 
figures  indicating  the  location  of  a  rich  gold- 
mine in  the  distant  north  and  the  name  of  a 
street  and  house-number  in  a  Johannesburg 
suburb.  He  becomes  obsessed  with  the  desire 
to  find  the  mine.  To  earn  the  necessary  funds 
for  the  expedition  he  again  becomes  a  miner  in 
a  modern  mine  and  gets  involved  in  the  strug- 
gles between  capital  and  labor.  An  almost 
mysterious  force  leads  him  to  the  address  in 
the  note-book,  where  he  finds  both  a  room  and 
romance.  After  a  stormy  period  with  strikes  at 
the  mine  he  escapes  with  his  Beatrice  to  a  quiet 
modest  job  at  "Pilgrim's  Rest,"  abandoning  all 
thought  of  gold  and  riches. 

Booklist    19:322    Jl    '23 
Boston  Transcript  p2  Ap  21  '23  1350w 
"The   novel    is    interesting,    well    written    and 
very   real,    a   thoroughly   worth-while   picture   of 
a   man   and  his   environment." 

4-  Int  Bk  R  p56  Je  '23  480w 
"Brett  Young's  story  is  handled  with  a  skill 
that  makes  every  incident  and  scene  appear 
natural  if  not  inevitable.  What  impresses  one 
at  every  point  in  the  book  is  the  author's  thor- 
ough mastery  of  his  subject  matter;  he  seems 
to  be  entirely  at  home  with  the  characters  and 
the  situations  he  describes." 

-I-  Lit  R  p630  Ap  21  '23  400w 
"Mr.  Brett  Young  has  an  extraordinary  gift 
for  description — but  he  seems  to  lack  invention 
and  a  sense  of  form.  We  are  never  bored  but 
continually  disappointed.  We  long  for  a  little 
neatness  and  logic.  What  a  good  novel  an  equal- 
ly talented  Frenchman  would  have  made  of  it!" 
Raymond    Mortimer 

\-   New   Statesman   20:383   D  30   '22  450w 

"It  is  his  chief  claim  to  attention  that  what- 
ever he  writes  is  always  touched  with  the 
glamour  of  imagination.  It  infuses  and  illum- 
inates his  realism  and  gives  vitality  and  sig- 
nificance to  characters   and   scenes." 

4-   N   Y  Times  pl7  Ap  15  '23  820w 
Reviewed  by  E.  W.   Osborn 

N  Y  World  pSe  Ap  8  '23  500w 
Outlook  133:900  My  16  '23  llOw 
"Pilgrim's  Rest  is  such  an  admirable  book 
that  we  are  driven  to  ask  ourselves  why  it  is 
not  a  better  one.  It  has  great  breadth  of  treat- 
ment and  marvellous  sureness  of  touch;  it  is 
free  from  any  taint  of  morbidity.  It  is  exciting 
and  even  sensational;  but  the  excitement  is  the 
excitement  of  life  not  of  fiction.  Its  effect  as 
a  whole  is  marred  by  faults  which  inferior  writ- 
ers, through  the  very  paucity  of  their  material, 
often  avoid;  overcrowding  of  detail,  weakness  in 
design  and  uncertainty  of  emotional  emphasis. 
But  these  after  all  are  minor  defects,  and  In 
the  full  proud  sail  of  Mr.  Young's  narrative 
thev  seem   trifling." 

+  —  Spec  129:1012  D  30  '22  850w 
"A.s  in  all  Brett  Young's  hooks  the  most  out- 
standing characteristics  are  colorful  and  nrias- 
terlv  descriptions  and  the  abundance  of  detail 
in  the  delineation  of  character  and  sceners'.  He 
crowds  his  canvas  with  people,  yet  each  has 
a  touch  of  individuality,  and  he  paints  picture 
after  picture  of  the  country  and  conditions  in 
which   those   people   live." 

+  Sprlngf'd     Republican     p7a    My    20      23 
400w 
"The   lyrici.sm  which   is  .'io  marked   a   charac- 
teristic of  the  author,  subdued  by  the  tenseness 
of   the    action,    springs   up    most    brightly   when 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


579 


the  description  touches  trees  and  flowers,  or  the 
delicate  beauty  of  womanhood.  The  various 
strands  of  life  are  woven  into  a  bold  pattern 
which  carries  with  it  the  conviction  that  in  the 
struggle  to  maintain  his  integrity  of  mind  a 
man  finds  happiness  and  the  reason  of  his  ex- 
istence " 

+  The  Times  [London]  Lit  Sup  p780  N  30 
•22   900w 


YOUNG,      ROBERT     THOMPSON.      Biology     in 
2    America.     (Studies     in     science)     509p     11    $7.50 

Badger,   R.   G. 

570   Biologj'  22-19903 

"Traces  the  work  of  the  pioneer  biologists 
and  the  growth  of  museums,  biological  stations, 
zoological  and  botanical  gardens,  and  of  insti- 
tutions for  biological  and  medical  research.  .  . 
Especial  attention  is  given  to  the  study  of 
heredity.  (.\ni  J  Pub  Health.  1923)"— Pitts- 
burgh Mo  Bui 


Pittsburgh   Mo   Bui   28:405  O  "23 

YOUNG,    STARK.     Flower    in    drama;    a    book 
of  papers  on   the  theatre.     162p  $1.50  Scribner 
792     Theater.     Acting  23-5776 

In  these  thoughtful  and  discerning  papers  on 
the  theater.  Stark  Young,  who  is  one  of  the 
editors  of  the  New  Republic  and  of  the  Theatre 
Arts  Magazine,  is  concerned  chiefly  with  the 
actor.  The  first  and  longest  paper  is  on  the  art 
of  acting;  one  paper  takes  the  form  of  a  letter 
to  Charlie  Chaplin  urging  him  to  carry  his  art 
into  a  larger  field;  another  is  a  letter  to  Duse 
begging  her  to  come  to  America  once  more  to 
.show  our  actors,  especially  our  young  actors, 
what  realism  is.  Contents:  Acting;  Ben-Ami; 
Dear  Mr.  Chaplin;  Laying  the  ghost;  Circus; 
Community  swoons;  Talent:  The  voice  In  the 
theatre;  The  prompt-book;  The  tragic  goose- 
step;  Beauty  and  the  beast;  Two  theatres;  The 
flower;  Translations;  Letter  to  Duse. 


Boston   Transcript  p2  Ap  14  "23  1150w 
Reviewed  by  J:  H.  Anderson 

Lit  R  p699  My  19  '23  llOOw 
"He  is  the  sort  of  critic  who  manages  to  get 
to  the  authentic  meat  of  his  subject  and  Is  not 
upset  by  the  excitement  of  the  moment.  .  .  He 
seizes  upon  fundamentals,  and  one  reason  why 
he  manages  to  do  this  is  undoubtedly  because 
he  possesses  well-grounded  standards."  H.  S. 
Gorman 

-f  N    Y  Times  p8   Mr  18   '23   1450w 
"Stark    Young's    'The    Flower    in    Drama'    is 
marked   by  calmness  of  Judgment.    .   .   He  gives 
us  creative  criticism."     M.  J.  Moses 

4-  Outlook  133:853  My  9  '23  400w 
"These  papers  impress  one  first  of  all  with 
their  sincerity.  Mr  Young  is  devoted  to  the 
theater  in  no  dilettante  fashion.  It  is  a  great 
love  with  him.  He  brings  an  uncommon  sen- 
sitivity, acute  powers  of  analysis,  and  some- 
thing of  the  reformer's  zeal  to  the  criticism  of 
the  plays  he  sees.  He  is  never  trivial,  flippant, 
or  cynical,  and  he  nearly  always  succeeds  in 
writing  criticism  which  is  not  only  reasoned 
and  just  but  which  is  in  addition  wise  coun- 
sel."    W.    T. 

-f-  Sprlngf'd     Republican     p7a     Ap     15     '23 
800w 

"Young  has  fresh,  sensitive  perceptions  and 
a  fine   intellectual   grasp." 

-I-  Survey  50:sup200   My  1   '23   30w 

"The  essays  are  written  with  the  deftness, 
the  security,  the  fine  perception  which  readers 
of  Theatre  Arts  are  accustomed  to  associate 
with  his  style.  If  the  essay  on  Acting,  with 
which  the  book  opens,  and  which  is  one  of  the 
most  vitalizing  essays  ever  written  on  the  sub- 
ject, is  the  key  to  Mr.  Young's  theory,  the 
Letter  to  Duse,  with  which  the  book  closes,  is 
its  lock." 

-I-  Theatre    Arts    M    7:169  Ap    "23   350w 


YOUNGHUSBAND,     SIR     FRANCIS     EDWARD. 

The   gleam.    298p   $5   Dutton    [12s   Murray] 
248  Religion.  Spiritual  life   '  [23-11547] 

A  story  of  high  spiritual  adventure  is  here 
told — of  a  man  who  gave  the  best  of  himself 
and  most  of  his  life  to  the  search  for  a  true 
religion  and  who,  having  found  it,  followed 
wherevei'  it  led.  The  man  whose  religious  ex- 
perience the  author  relates  and  whom  he  calls 
Nija  Svabhava  was  the  son  of  a,  well-to-do 
landowner  in  the  Hinialyan  district  of  the  Pun- 
jab. His  mother  was  deeply  religious  and  had 
taught  her  son  to  be  so.  He  liad  accepted  his 
religion  on  trust  from  her  but  one  day  he  be- 
gan to  think  seriously  foi-  himself  and  to  catch 
a  vision  of  something  grander  than  he  had 
ever  known  before.  The  vision  grew  and  he 
has  followed  its  gleam  for  more  than  thirty 
years.  Beside  Svabhava's  own  search,  the  book 
describes  the  experiences  of  some  other  seekers 
after  God,  of  different  races  and  faiths. 


"It  would  be  easy  to  ridicule  this  book.  It 
presents  an  ill-assorted  mixture  of  religion, 
modern  science,  philosophy,  patriotism  and  love; 
it  is  illogical;  it  is  inconsistent;  it  is  inaccurate 
in  the  u.se  of  scientific  terms;  it  shirks  difficul- 
ties; it  is  over-credulous  of  anything  vaguely  al- 
truistic; it  breathes  a  too  easy  optimism;  and 
much  of  it  is  sheer  nonsense.  Nevertheless, 
its    naive    sincerity    disarms    criticism." 

h   New  Statesman   21:02  Ap  21  '23  150w 

"Sir  Francis  tells  the  story  with  lucidity — 
even  though  portions  of  it  are  strongly  steeped 
in  mysticism — with  sincerity,  grace,  simplicity 
and  with  profound  belief  that  its  message  is 
worth  while.  A  form  of  pantheism,  exalted  and 
spiritualized  seems  to  be  at  the  basis  of  his 
belief  and  all  his  thinking  is  shot  through 
and  through  v.'ith  the  idea  of  love  and  good- 
will." 

+   N    Y   Times   p2   Jl   8   '23   660w 
Spec    130:1012    Je    16    '23    170w 

"No  one  interested  in  Oriental  religious  con- 
ceptions and  in  the  saintlike  characters  in  whom 
they  are  so  frequently  embodied  should  fail  to 
read   the   book." 

The   Times    [London]    Lit   Sup   p275   Ap 
19   '23   500w 


YOUNGHUSBAND,   SIR   GEORGE   JOHN. 

Forty   years   a   soldier.      324p     il     $5     Putnam 

[16s  H.   Jenkins] 

B  or  92  [23-16559] 

In  his  forty  years'  experience  in  the  British 
army,  Major-General  Younghusband  has  seen 
service  in  the  Afghan  war  of  1878,  in  the  Sudan 
during  the  Gordon  relief  campaign  of  1885,  in 
the  Burmah  war,  the  Chitral  relief,  the  Boer 
war,  and  in  the  Egyptian  and  Mesopotamian 
campaigns  of  the  World  war.  Between  wars 
his  life  was  spent  mostly  in  India.  The  remin- 
iscences are  personal,  written  with  a  keen  relish 
and  marked  by  warmest  admiration  of  Great 
Britain  and  the  British  officer  whona  he  pro- 
nounces a  "priceless  and  peerless  person,  the 
finest   knight   the   world   has   ever  seen." 


Boston   Transcript  p2  Jl  14  '23   800w 
Reviewed   by  Silas   Bent 

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Chinese 

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tistics   Bur.    Bul.    340)    237p    pa   '23 

Civil   service 

Merit  system  in  American  states,  with  special 
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114p  pa  '23  University  of  Texas,  Austin. 
Texas 

Clothes  moths 
Clothes   moths  and   their  control.    E.   A.   Back. 
(U.S.   Agriculture   dept.    Farmers'    bul.    1353) 
29p  pa  '23 

Colorado 

Agricultural  statistics  of  the  state  of  Colo- 
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Colorado 

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Commercial  and  industrial  organizations  of  the 
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1923.    (U.S.   Foreign  and  domestic  commerce 
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Cooperation 

Bibliography 

Agricultural  cooperation,  selected  and  an- 
notated reading  list,  with  special  reference 
to  purchasing,  marketing  and  credit.  Chas- 
tina  Gardner.  (U.S.  Agriculture  dept.  Mis- 
cellaneous  circ.   11)   55p  pa  '23 

Cooperative  societies 
List  of  cooperative  associations   in  New  York 
Stnte.    (New  York   [State]     Farms  and  mar- 
kets dept.    Agricultural   bul.   150)    56p  pa  "23 
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Corn 

Corn  and  its  uses  as  food.  (U.S.  Agriculture 
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Cost  of  living  survey:  report  to  the  California 
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Credit  unions 
Cooperative  credit  societies  (Credit  unions)   in 
America    and    in    foreign    countries.       E.    L. 
Wliitney.    (U.S.    Labor    statistics    bur.    Bui. 
314)    60p  pa   '23 
Deaf 
Deaf-mutes    in    United    States,    1920.      (U.S. 
Census  bur.)   75p  pa  '23 

East  Indies 

Netherlands   East   Indies  and   British   Malaya, 
a  commercial  and  industrial  handbook.  J.  A. 
Fowler.    (U.S.    Bur.   of  foreigm  and  domestic 
commerce.  Special  agents  ser.  218)  411p  '23 
Education 

Bibliography 

List  of  bulletins  of  the  Bureau  of  Education, 
1906-1922,  with  index  by  author,  title  and 
subject.  E.  A.  Wright.  (U.S.  Education  bur. 
Bui.    1923.    no.35.)    52p    pa    '23 

Directories 
Educational    directory.    1922-23.    (U.S.    Educa- 
tion bur.   Bui..   1922.   no. 50)    179p  pa   '23 

Laws 

Some    important    school    legislation,    1921    and 

1922.  W.    R.     Hood.     (U.S.     Education    bur. 
Bui.   1922,  no.43)   27p  pa  '23 

Statistics 

Biennial  survey  of  education.  1918-20:  statis- 
tics. (U.S.  Education  bur.  Bui.  1923,  no. 
29)  597p  '23 

Statistical  survey  of  education,  1919-20. 
Florence  Du  Bois.  (U.S.  Education  bur.  Bui. 

1923.  no.   16)   41p  pa   '23 

Latin  America 
Outline  of  education  systems  and  school  con- 
ditions in  Latin  America.  G.  W.  A.  Luckey. 
(U.S.  Education  bur.   Bui.  1923.  no.   44)   lllp 
pa   '23 
Educational  foundations 
Educational   boards   and   foundations,    1920-22. 
H.  R.  Evans.     (U.S.  Education  bur.  Bui.  38, 
1922.)   lip  pa  '22 

English   language 

Study  and   teaching 
Games  and  other  devices  for  improving  pupils 
English.    W.   W.    Charters   and   H.    G.    Paul. 
(U.S.    Education   bur.    Bui.   1923.    no.   43)   88p 
pa   '23 

Farm  life 
Family  living  in  farm  homes:  an  economic 
study  of  402  farm  families  in  Livingston 
County.  N.Y.  E.  L.  Kirkpatrick  and  others. 
(U.S.  Agriculture  dept.  Dept.  bul.  1214)  35p 
pa   '24 

Farmhouses 

Farm  homes.  (Wisconsin.  Agricultural  experi- 
ment stations.  Bul.  353)  24p  pa  '23  Agricul- 
tural experiment  station.  University  of  Wis- 
consin. Madison.  Wis. 

Farms 

Buying  a  farm  in  an  undeveloped  region.  B. 
Henderson.  (U.S.  Agriculture  dept.  Farmers' 
Bul.   1385)    29p  pa   '24 

Fire  prevention 

Course  of  study  in  fire  prevention,  for  use  in 
the  public  schools  of  Rhode  Island.  (Rhode 
Island.  Education  commission.  Education 
circ.)  30p  pa  '23  State  Commission  of  Edu- 
cation, Providence,  R.I. 

Food 

Care  of  food  in  the  home.  (U.S.  Agriculture 
dept.   Farmers'  bul.  1374)  12p  pa  '23 

Fruit 
The   fruit  industry  in   New  York  State.    (N.Y. 
(State)    Farms  and  Markets  dept.     Agricul- 
tural   bul.    147)    344p    pa    '23    State    Library. 
Albany.  N.Y. 

Fup  farming 

Silver-fox  farming.  F.  G.  Ashbrook.  (U.S. 
Agriculture  dept.  Dept.  bul.  1151)  60p  pa  '23 


Game  laws 
Game  laws  for  the  season.  1923-24;  a  sum- 
mary of  the  provisions  of  federal,  state  and 
provincial  statutes.  G.  A.  Lawyer  and  F.  L. 
Earnshaw.  (U.S.  Agriculture  dept.  Farmers' 
bul.  1375)  70p  pa  '23 
Games 

Brief    manual    of    games    for    organized    play 
adopted     from     standard     sources.       M.     T. 
Speakman.     (U.S.  Children's  bur.  Bur.  pub- 
113)  39p  pa  '23 
Germany 

Economic  conditions 
German  iron  and  steel  industry.  C.  E.  Herring 
(U.S.    Foreign   and   domestic   commerce   bur. 
Trade  information  bul.  96)   13p  pa  '23 
Labor,  wages  and  unemployment  in  Germany. 
M.  L.  Goldsmith.  (U.S.  Foreign  and  domestic 
commerce   bur.   Trade  information  bul.   106) 
17p  pa  '23 
Gipsy   moth 
Controlling    the    gipsy    moth    and    the    brown- 
tail  moth.   A.    F.    Burgess.    (U.S.  Agriculture 
dept.   Farmers'   bul.  1335)   28p  pa  '23 
Great    Britain 

Finance 
Financial    review    of    Great    Britain.     L.      R. 
Robinson   and  others.    (U.S.    Bur.   of  foreign 
and  domestic  commerce.    Trade   information 
bul.   98)   29p  pa  "23 
Hampton   Institute 
Hampton    Normal    and    Agricultural    Institute; 
its   evolution    and   contribution   to   education 
as  a  federal  land-grant  college.  W.  C.  John. 
(U.S.  Education  bur.  Bul.  1923,  no. 7)  118p  pa 
'23 
High  school  libraries 
Books    for    the    junior   high    school    library;    a 
suggestive  list,  compiled  by  the  junior  high 
school  librarians  of  Los  Angeles  city  schools. 
(California.    Educ.    dept.    Bul.    8a)    133p    pa 
'22    State    department    of   education.    Sacra- 
mento. Calif. 
Home  economics 

Bibliography 
Foods    and    cooking,     canning,     cold    storage, 
home  economics,  list  of  publications  for  sale 
by  superintendent  of  documents.  (U.S.  Docu- 
ments office.    Price  list  11,  12th  ed.)  [19]p  pa 
•23 
Government   publications   of  interest    to   home 
economics     teachers     and     students.      (U.S. 
Education  bur.   Home  economics  circ.  no.   5) 
16p   pa  '23 
Hygiene 
Health  of  the  family;  a  program  for  the  study 
of    personal,    home,    and   community    health 
problems.  (U.S.  Federal  board  for  vocational 
education.  Bul.  86)  303p  pa  '23 

Illiteracy  ^,  , 
A  report  on   illiteracy  in  Texas.    (Texas.  Uni- 
versity.  Bul.   2328)    51p  pa  '23  University  of 
Texas.    Austin,    Tex. 

Industrial  courts 
Kansas    court    of    industrial    relations.     (U.S. 
Labor   statistics   bur.    Bul.   322)   51p  pa  '23 

Irrigation 
Irrigation  district  operation  and  finance.  W.  A. 
Hutchins.  (U.S.  Agriculture  dept.  Dept.  bul. 
1177)    56p  pa  '23 

Kitchens  „      ,         ,,,,. 

Convenient  kitchens.  N.  L.  Cowles.  (Wiscon- 
sin University.  College  of  agriculture.  Exten- 
sion circ.  156)  20p  pa  '23  University  of  Wis- 
consin, Madison,  Wis. 
Wife  saving  kitchens.  M.  M.  Miller.  (Ken- 
tucky. University.  College  of  Agriculture. 
Extension  circ.  158)  39p  pa  '23  University 
of    Kentucky,    Lexington,    Ky. 

Labor 

Bibliography 

Monthly  labor  review  subject  index,  volumes 
1  to  11  Julv  1915  to  December,  1920.  Karo- 
line  Klager  and  E.  M.  Pursglove.  (U.S 
Labor  statistics  bur.)   176p  pa  '23 


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Lumber 
Lumber   cut    of    the   United    States,    1870-1920; 
declining  production  and  high  prices  as  re- 
lated to  forest  exhaustion.   (U.S.  Agriculture 
dept.  bul.  1119)  63p  pa  '23 

Maple  sirup 
Production   of  maple    sirup   and   sugar.    A.    H 
Bryan   and  others.    (U.S.   Agriculture    dept. 
Farmers'    bul.    1366)    34p  pa  '24 

Maryland 
Maryland  farm  statistics.  J.  S.  Dennee.  (Mary- 
land.  Univ.   Extension  service.   Bul.   28)    53p 
pa  '23  College  of  agriculture,  College  Park, 
Md. 

Milk 
Milk  and  its  uses  in  the  home.    (U.S.  Agricul- 
ture  dept.    Farmers'    bul.    1359)    20p   pa  '23 

Millinery 
Making  your  own  hats  in  the  home.  A.  S. 
Alexander  and  I.  H.  Jones.  (New  Mexico, 
College  of  agriculture  and  mechanic  arts. 
Extension  circ.  76)  35p  pa  '23  College  of 
agriculture  and  mechanic  arts.  State  Col- 
lege,   New  Mexico 

Missouri 
Missouri  by  counties;  the  1922  farming  record, 
also  important  acreages  and  livestock  facts 
1923.  E.  A.  Logan  and  J.  Mayes.  (Missouri. 
State  board  of  agriculture.  Monthly  bul., 
V  20,  no  5)  33p  pa  '23  Missouri  State  Board 
of    Agriculture,    Jefferson    City,    Mo. 

Money 
Changes   in   the   monetary   use   of  silver    since 
1914.    L.    R.    Robinson.     (U.S.     Foreign    and 
domestic   commerce   bur.    Trade   information 
bul.   140)    66p  pa  '23 

Nutrition 
Campaign  against  malnutrition,  prepared  by 
Advisory  committee  on  foods  and  nutrition 
of  the  National  Child  health  council  in  co- 
operation with  the  United  States  public 
health  service.  (U.S.  Public  health  service. 
Public   health    bul.    134)    37p   pa   '23 

Oil   industry 
Report  on  foreign  ownership  in  petroleum  in- 
dustry.      (U.S.    Federal    trade    commission) 
152p  pa  '23 

Oysters 

Oysters — a  little  of  their  history  and  how  to 
cook  them.  H.  F.  Moore.  (U.S.  Fisheries 
bur.  Economic  circ.  18,  3d  ed.)  13p  pa  '23 

Palestine 
Palestine;  its  commercial  resources  with  par- 
ticular reference  to  American  trade.  A.  E. 
Southard.  (U.S.  Foreign  and  domestic  com- 
merce bur.  Special  consular  reports.  83)  64p 
pa  '22 

Panama  canal 
The     Panama    Canal.       General     information. 
(Canal    Zone)    16p    pa    '22    Panama    Canal, 
Balboa  Heights,  Canal  Zone 

Parks 
The  wayside  park.  F.  A.  Aust.  ("Wisconsin 
University.  College  of  agriculture.  Exten- 
sion circ.  162)  20p  pa  *23  Agricultural  Ex- 
tension Service,  University  of  Wisconsin, 
Madison,   Wis. 

Philippine  Islands 

Filipino  appeal  for  freedom;  the  Philippine 
parliamentary  mission's  statement  of  actual 
conditions  in  the  Philippine  Islands  and  a 
summary  of  Philippine  problems.  (U.S. 
House  of  representatives.  67:4.  Document 
511)    90p   pa  '22 

Physical   education 

Suggestions  for  a  physical  education  program 
for  small  secondary  schools.  (U.S.  Educa- 
tion  bur.   Physical   education   ser.    3)    79p  pa 

Playgrounds 

Preparation  of  school  grounds  for  plav  fields 
and  athletic  events.  Dorothy  Hutchinson. 
(U.S.  Education  bur.  Physical  education 
ser.  1)  17p  pa  '23 
Poultry 
Diseases  of  poultry.  B.  A.  Gallagher.  (U.S. 
Agriculture  dept  Farmers'  bul.  1337)  41p  pa 
*23    Supersedes    Farmers'    bulletin    957. 


Feeding  for  egg  production.  L.  E.  Card. 
(Illinois.  Agricultural  College  and  experiment 
station,  circ.  275)  lip  pa  '23  Illinois  Agri- 
cultural College  and  Experiment  Station, 
Urbana.  Urbana,  Illinois 

Natural  and  artificial  brooding  of  chickens. 
A.  R.  Lee.  (U.S.  Agriculture  dept.  Farmers' 
bul.  1376)  16p  pa  '24 

National  and  artificial  incubation  of  hens' 
eggs.  A.  R.  Lee.  (U.S.  Agriculture  dept. 
Farmers'  bul.  1363)  18p  pa  '23 

Standard  varieties  of  chickens.  1.  The  Ameri- 
can  class.    R.    R.    Slocum.    (U.S.    Agriculture 
dept.  Farmers'  bul.    1347)   18p  pa  '23  Super- 
sedes   Farmers'    bulletin    806. 
Poultry  houses 

Plans  and  specifications  for  New  Jersey  poul- 
try buildings.  W.  C.  Thompson  and  others. 
(New  Jersey.  Agricultural  experiment  sta- 
tions. Circ.  152)  16p  pa  '23  .fVgricultural  eX' 
periment  station.  New  Brunswick,  N.J. 
Prices 

Purchasing  power  of  Nebraska  grains.  H.  C. 
Filley  and  E.  A.  Frerichs.  (Nebraska.  Ex- 
periment station.  Bui.  187)  35p  pa  '23  Col- 
lege of  Agriculture,  University  of  Nebraska, 
Lincoln,  Neb. 

Retail  prices,  1913  to  De(fember  1921.  (U.S. 
Labor  statistics  bur.  Bul.  315)   226p  pa  '23 

Statistics 
Retail    prices    1913    to    December,    1922.    (U.S. 
Labor   Statistics   Bur.    Bul.    334) 
Prohibition 
Laws  relating  to  national  prohibition  enforce- 
ment.    (U.S.  Internal  revenue  bur.)  142p  pa 
'23 
Quackgrass 

Quackgrass.     L.  W.   Kephart.      (U.S.   Agricul- 
ture dept.  Farmers'  bul.  1307)  31p  pa  '23 
Railways 
The     reorganization     of     railways     in     Great 
Britain;   its  progress  and   prospects.     H.  B 
A.  Smith.     (U.S.  Foreign  and  domestic  com- 
merce  bur.    Trade   information   bul.    79)    28p 
pa  '23 
Rats 
How   to  get  rid  of  rats.   James   Silver.    (U.S. 
Agriculture  dept.     Farmers'     bul.  1302)     14p 
pa  '23 
Roads 
Main    Streets   of   the   nation;   a   series    of   pro- 
jects   on    highway    transport   for    elementary 
schools.    F.    C.    Fox.     (U.S.    Education    bur. 
Bul.    1923,   no.   38)   42p   pa  '23 
Rural  schools 
Annotated   list  of  official  publications  on   con- 
solidation  of   schools    and    transportation    of 
pupils.     J.     F.   Abel.     (U.S.     Education     bur. 
Rural  school  leafiet  no.8)   7p  pa   '22 

Russia 

Foreign  capital  investments  in  Russian  indus- 
tries and  commerce  I.  F.  Lewery.  (U.S. 
Foreign  and  Domestic  Commerce  Bur.  Mis- 
cellaneous  ser.    124)    28p    pa   '23 

School  lunches 
The   rural   hot  lunch  and  the  nutrition   of  the 
rural    child.    M.    C.    McCormick.    (New   York 
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State  Library,  Albany,  N.Y. 

Secret  societies 
State  laws,  school-board  regulations,  and  Judi- 
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nities. W.  R.  Hood  and  B.  Y.  Hebb.  (U.S. 
Education  bur.  City  school  leafiet  7)  7p  pa 
•23 

Sewing 

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Wisconsin,  Madison,  Wis. 

Shipping 
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commerce  bur.    Miscellaneous  ser.   116)    107p 
pa  '22 


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statistics 
Methods  of  procuring  and  computing  statisti- 
cal information  of  the  Bureau  of  labor  sta- 
tistics.   (U.S.   Labor  statistics  bur.   Bui.  326) 
54p  pa  '23 

Table   service 

Table  service  and  table  etiquette.  M.  M.  Miller. 
(Kentucky.  College  of  agriculture.  Exten- 
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of  Agriculture,   Lexington,  Ky. 

Tanning 

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R.  W.  Frey  and  others.  (U.S.  Agriculture 
dept.  Farmers'  bul.  1334)  27p  pa  '23 

Tariff 

Comparison  of  tariff  acts:  a  comparison  by 
paragraphs  of  the  dutiable  schedules  and 
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corresponding  provisions  respectively,  of  the 
tariff  acts  of  1909  and  1913.  (U.S.  Tariff 
commission)    379p  pa  '22 

Taxation 
Comparison   of  the   revenue  acts  of  1918  and 
1921,  with  index.     (U.S.  Committee  on  ways 
and  means,  House)  238p  pa  '23 

Trees 

Thirty  important  forest  trees  of  Maryland; 
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United  States 

Census 
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Statistics 
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Subject,   Title  and  Pseudonym  Index 

To  Author  Entries,   March,    1923— February,    1924 


A  B  C  of  atoms.     Russell,  B.  A.  W:     (F  '24) 
A.   E.,   pseud.     See  Russell.  G:  W.     (Mr  '23) 
Abelard   and   Heloise.      Cole.   W.   V.      (D   '23) 
Able  McLaughlins.     Wilson,   M.      (N   '23) 
Abnormal  behavior.     Sands,  I.   J.,   and  Blanch- 

ard.    P.    M.      (N    '23) 
Abraham  Lincoln.     Sumner,  G.  L.     (Mr  '23) 
According  to  Gibson.     Mackail,  D.  G:     (Ag  '23) 
Accounting 
Bennett.    G:    E;     Advanced    accounting.      (My 

■23) 
Reed,   W:   B.     Bituminous  coal  mine  account- 
ing.     (My  '23) 
Achievement  of  (Jreece.     Greene,  W:  C.     (F  '24) 
Acquiring  skill  in   teaching.     Grant,   J.   R:     (Mr 

'23) 
Acting 

Young.   S.      Flower  of   the  drama.      (Ap   '23) 
Action    of    alcohol    on     man.     Starling,     E.     H: 

(Ja   '24) 
Action  poems  and  plays  for  children.   Smith,  N. 

A.       (D     '23) 
Adam    and    Eva.    See    Middleton,    G:,    and    Bol- 
ton,   G.   R.     Polly  with   a   past.      (N   '23) 
Adams,   Bill,  pseud.     See  Adams,  B.   M.    (Ja  '24) 
Adams,   Samuel 

Harlow,    R.   V.   Samuel   Adams.   (Ja   '24) 
Adding  machine.     Rice,  E.   L.     (F  '24) 
Advance  of  the  American  short  story.   O'Brien, 

E:   J.   H.     (S   '23) 
Advanced  accounting.     Bennett.  G:  E:     (My  '23) 
Adventures  in  journalism.  Gibbs,  P.  H.     (D  '23) 
Adventures    in    my    garden    and    rock    garden. 

Wilder,    L.      (F  '24) 
Adventures    of   a    lion    family.      Pienaar,    A.    A. 

(N   '23) 
Adventures    of    Im.shi.     Prioleau,    J:     (Ja    '24) 
Adventures:     social    and    literarv.       Ainslie,     D. 

(N  -23) 
Advertising 
Brown.    D:    L.     Export   advertising.      (My  '23) 
Burdick,    R.    L.    Advertising    to    retailers.    (Ja 

'24) 
Herrold.    L.    D.     Advertising   for    the    retailer. 

(Ja    '24) 
Hotchkiss,   G:    B..    and   Franken.    R:    B:   Lead- 
ership of  advertised  brands.     (Je  '23) 
Hoyt,    C:    W.      Training    for    the    business    of 

advertising.       (My    '23) 
Llppincott.    W.    Outdoor    advertising.    (O    '23) 
Moriarty,  W:  D.     Economics  of  marketing  and 

advertising.     (F  '24) 
Starch,  D.     Principles  of  advertising.      (F  '24) 
Advertising     for     the     retailer.  Herrold,     L.     D. 

(Ja    '24) 
Advertising     to     retailers.  Burdick,     R.     L.   (Ja 

■24) 
Affair  at  Flower  Acres.    Wells,  C.     (S  '23) 
Africa 

Colonization 
Beer,    G:    L:     African   questions   at    the   Paris 

peace  conference.      (F  '24) 
Lucas.    C:    P.       Partition    and    colonization    of 
Africa.      (Ap   '23) 

Description  and  travel 
Shorthose,     W.    T.     Sport   and     adventure     in 
Africa.   (Je  '23) 

History 

Lucas.    C:    P.       Partition    and    colonization   of 
Africa.       (Ap  '23) 
Africa,  Central 

Description   and  travel 
Crawford,   D.     Back  to  the  long  grass.     (Ag 


William,    prince   of   Sweden.      Among   pygmies 
and    gorillas.      (N    '23) 
Africa,   East 

Description    and    travel 
Akeley,   C.   E.     In  brightest  Africa.     (F  "24) 
Bradley,    M.      On    the   gorilla   trail.    (Mr   '23) 
Africa,    North 

Description  and  travel 
Carpenter,    F.    G:      From    Tangier   to    Tripoli. 

(Mr   '23) 
Prioleau,    J:     Adventures    of    Imshi.     (Ja    '24) 
African  hunting  among  the  Thongas.  Chamber- 
lain,   G:    A.      (Ag    '23) 
African  questions  at  the  Paris  peace  conference. 

Beer.  G:  L:     (F  '24) 
After   all.      Hummel,    G:    P.      (Ag  '23) 
After   the   peace.     Brailsford,   H:   N.      (My  '23) 
Against   the  grain.      Huysnians,   J.   K.      (Ap  '23) 
Agricultural    chemistry 

Mahin,   E:   G.,    and   Carr.    R.    H.     Quantitative 
agricultural    analysis.     (Ja    '24) 

Agricultural    education 

Burritt.    M.    C.      County   agent    and    the    farm 
bureau.      (Mr   '23) 
Agriculture 

Agee,    A.     First    steps    in    farming.       (S    '23) 

England 
Hobson.    J:    A.,    and   others.    Some   aspects   of 
recent   British   economics.      (O  '23) 
Aikman,    Henry    G.,    pseud.  See    Armstrong,    H. 
H.      (N  -23) 

Ainslie,    Douglas 
Ainslie,    D.      Adventures:    social    and   literary. 
(N  '23) 
Alabaster  box.     Allen,  J.  L.     (F  '24). 

Alaska 

Description    and    travel 
Carpenter.      F.      G:        Alaska,      our     northern 
wonderland.      (My  '23) 
Alaska,    our    northern    wonderland.      Carpenter, 

F.   G:     (My  '23) 
Alaskan.      Curwood,    J.    O.      (S   '23) 

Albania 

Description    and   travel 
Lane,   R.     Peaks  of  Shala.      (Ag  '23) 

Social    life    and   customs 

Lane,    R.     Peaks   of   Shala.      (Ag  '23) 

Alberta 

Waldo,  F.  L.  Down  the  Mackenzie.  (Je    23) 

Albigenses 

Nickerson.   H.     Inquisition.     (F  '24) 
Alcatraz.     Brand,  M.     (Mr  '23) 

Alcohol 

Physiological   effect 
Starling.    E.    H:  Action    of    alcohol    on    man. 
(Ja  '24) 
Alexandria,    Egypt 

Forster,  E:  M.    Pharos  and  Pharillon.    (S  '23) 
Alfred   Yarrow.    Yarrow.    E.    C.      (O    '23) 
Algeria 

Description  and  travel 
Casserly,   G.     Algeria  to-day.      (N  '23) 
Algeria  to-day.     Casserly,  G.     (N  '23) 
Alias   Red   Ryan.     Buck,    C:    N.     (S   '23) 

Alloys  ^    „ 

Vickers.  C:  Metals  and  their  alloys.     (O    23) 
Aloha   around   the   world.       V'ogel,   K.      (Ap   '23) 


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Alps 

Pius  XI.   Climbs  on  Alpine  peaks.    (Je  '23) 
The  amateur  inn.     Terhune,  A.  P.     (D  '23) 
Amazon  river 

Up    de    Graff.    F.    W.       Head    hunters    of    the 
Amazon.       (Ap    '23; 
Ambition.     Aminoff,  L.      (S  '23) 
Ambling  through  Acadia.  Towne,  C:  H.    (Je  '23) 

America 

History 

Ballard,    G:    A.     America    and    the    Atlantic. 
(S    '23) 
America    and    the     Atlantic.       Ballard,    G:    A. 

(S    '23) 
America  of  yesterday.   Long,  J:  D.    (Je  '23) 
American  artists.     Cortissoz,   R.     (F  '24) 
American    Constitution    as    it    protects    private 

rights:     Stimson,   F:   J.      (P  '24) 
American   drama 

Collections 
Koch,    F:    H:,    ed.     Carolina   folk-plays.      (Mr 

•23) 
Quinn,    A.    H.,    ed.      Contemporary    American 
plays.      (N   '23) 

History   and   criticism 

Quinn,  A.  H.    History  of  the  American  drama. 
(F   '24) 
American   elementary   school.     Horn,   J:    L:    (O 

•23) 
American  federation  of  labor 

Carroll,   M.   R.     Labor  and  politics.     (Mr  '23) 
American    fiction 
O'Brien,  E:  J.   H.    Advance  of  the  American 
short  story.     (S   '23) 

History  and  criticism 
Pattee,   F.  L:     Development  of  the  American 
short  story.     (My  '23) 
American  literature 

Foerster,    N.      Nature   in   American    literature. 

(Ad    '23) 
Lawrence,  D:   H.  Studies  in  classic  American 
literature.     (O  '23) 

History  and  criticism 
Boynton,    P.    H.      American    literature.      (Ag 

•23) 
Haney,    J:    L:     Story    of    our    literature.     (S 

•23) 
Overton,   G.   M.     American   nights   entertain- 
ment.    (N  ^23) 
Phelps,    W:    L.     Some    makers     of     American 

literature.      (S    ^23) 
Schelling,    F.    E.      Appraisements   and  asperi- 
ties.    (Mr  '23) 
Sherman,  S.  P.     Americans.     (Ag  ^23  and  1922 
Annual) 
American  literature.     Boynton,    P.   H.     (Ag  '23) 
American     livestock     and     the    meat     industry. 

Clemen,  R.  A.     (F  '24) 
An    American    looks    at    his    world.      Frank,    G. 

(F  '24) 
American   nerves   and    the   secret  of  suggestion. 

Duryea,    A.    S.    (Je   '23) 
American    nights    entertainment.      Overton,    G. 

M.     (N  "23) 
American  petroleum  refining.  Bell,  H.  S.     (O  '23) 
American    poems.       Squire,    J:    C.       (S   '23) 
American    poetry 

Au.'stin,    M.    American    rhythm.     (Je    '23) 
Untermeyer,    L:  American    poetry    since    1900. 
(Ja    -24) 

Collections 
Damon,  S:   F.,   and  Hillyer.   R.   S.,  eds.     Eight 

more   Harvard   poets.      (My  '23) 
Fish,   H.  D.,  comp.   Boy's  book  of  verse.     (D 

'23) 
Greer,  H.  R..  comp.     Voices  of  the  Southwest. 

(Ag  '23) 
Herford,    O.,    ed.     Poems   from   Life.     (S    '23) 
Schnittkind,   H:    T:,   ed.    Poets   of  the   future. 

(O  '23) 
Stork,   C:  W.,   ed.   Second  contemporary  verse 
anthology.     (O  "23) 
American    poetry     since     1900.  Untermeyer,     L: 

(Ja   -24) 
American    problems.    Morehouse,    F.    M.    L,    and 
Graham.    S.    F.      (N   '23) 


American  railroads.  Cunningham,  W:  J.     (S  '23) 
American  rhythm.   Austin,  M.   (Je  ^23) 
American  standard  of  living  and  world  coopera- 
tion.  Jones,    R.   (Ja  '24) 
Americanism   of  Theodore   Roosevelt.  Roosevelt, 

T.    (Ja  '24) 
Americanization 

Claghorn,    K.    H.    immigrant's    day    in    court. 

(Je  '23) 
Americans.     Sherman,   S.    P.      (Ag  '23  and  1922 

Annual) 
Americans  in   eastern   Asia.     Dennett,   T.      (Ag 

'23   and   1922   Annual) 
America's   lace    heritage.     Burr,    C.    S.      (D  '23) 
Among   French  folk.      Johnson,   W.   B.      (Ap  '23) 
Among   pygmies   and   gorillas.     William,    prince 

of  Sweden.      (N  '23) 
Among    unknown    Eskimo.      Bilby,    J.    W.      (My 

•23) 
Analysis  of  rubber.     Tuttle,  J:  B.     (My  '23) 
Analysis    of    the    Interchurch    world    movement 

lieport  on    the   steel   strike.      Olds,    M.      (Ap 

'23) 
Anathema.  Andreieff,  L.    N.    (Je  '23) 
Anatomy    of    poetry.      Williams-Ellis,    A.       (My 

'23) 
Ancient  beautiful  things.    Bifford,  F.  S.     (D  '23) 
Ancient  lights.     Stobart,   St  C.     (F  '24) 
Ancient  man  in  Britain.     Mackenzie,  D.  A.     (N 

'23) 
"And  in  the  tomb  were  found."  Gray,  T.  (Je  '23) 
Anger 

Stratton,   G:   M.     Anger.     (S  '23) 
Angora,  Turkey 
Ellison,    G.      Englishwoman    in    Angora.      (Ja 

•24) 
Animal    curiosities.     Berrldge,   W.    S.    (S   '23) 

Animal   intelligence 

Kinderniann,  H.  Loin.      (Je  '23) 
Animal  life  in  Africa.     Stevenson-Hamilton,  J. 

(Ag  ^23) 
Animal  personalities.     Derieux,   S:   A.      (N  •23) 

Animals 

Habits  and   behavior 
Berrldge,    W.    S.    Animal   curiosities.    (S   '23) 
Brander,    A.    A.    D.     Wild   animals   in   Central 

India.      (F   ^24) 
Hawkes.    C.     Way    of   the   wild.     (S   •23) 
Long.    W:    J.     Mother    Nature.     (S   ^23) 
Mill.s,  E.  A.  Wild  animal  homesteads.     (Je  '23) 
Animals,  Stories  and  legends  of 
Derieux,   S:    A.   Animal  personalities.      (N  ^23) 
Roberts,  C:  G:  D.    Wisdom  of  the  wilderness. 
(Ag  '23) 
Animals,  Training  of 

Cooper,   C.  R.     Under  the  big  top.     (F  '24) 
Annals  of  music  in  America.    Lahee,  H:  C:    (Mr 

'23) 
Annette   and   Bennett.   Cannan,   G.      (Je  '23) 
Another  scandal.     Hamilton,  C.    (N  '23) 
Antarctic  regions 

Cheiry-Garrard.  A.  G:  B.  Worst  journey  in  the 

world.    (Je   '23) 
Mill,    H.    R.      Life    of   Sir    Ernest    Shackleton. 

(Ag  '23) 
Wild,    F.      Shackleton's   last   voyage.    (Ja   '24) 
Anthology  of  prose  and  verse.  Dobson,   A.     (Ap 

'23> 
Anthony  Dare.     Marshall,  A.     (D  '23) 
Anthony   John.    Jerome.    J.    K.      (Je   '23) 
Anthracite  and   the   anthracite   industry.      Sum- 
mers.  A.   L.      (Mr  '23) 

Anthropology  ,„„^ 

Wissler,    C.      Man   and    culture.      (Ag    23) 
Antic    hay.  Huxley,    A.    L.    (Ja    '24) 
Anton  Chehov.     Gerhardi,  W:     (F  '24) 

Anxiety  , 

.^tekel.  W.  Conditions  of  nervous  anxiety  and 
their  treatment.    Me   '23) 
The    apostle    Paul.      Sabatier,    A.      (S    '23) 
The  apostle  Paul  and  the   modern  world.    Pea- 
body,    F.    G.     (S   '23) 
Appearance  of  mind.    McKerrow,   J.   C.     (S    23) 
Applied    business   finance.     Lincoln,   E.   E.      (Mr 

'23) 
Applied  mechanics.   Poorman,   A.   P:   (Ja    24) 
Applied     personnel    procedure.    Weakly.    F.     E. 

(F  '24) 
Applied  psychology.     Ewer,  B.  C.     (F  '24) 


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587 


Appraisements  and  asperities.     SchelUng,  F.  E. 

(Mr   -23) 
April  twilights.  Gather,  W.  S.     (Je  '23) 

Arabia 

Description    and    travel 
Doughty,    C:    M:      Travels   in   Arabia   deserta. 

(F  '24) 
Philbv.    H.    St   J:    B.      Heart   of   Arabia.       (Ap 
■23) 
Arbitration,    Industrial 

Higgins,    H:    B.      New    province    for    law    and 
order.      (F    '24) 
Archeology 

Baikie,    J.  Life   of   the   ancient   East.   (Ja    '24) 
Hammerton,  J:   A.,  ed.     Wonders  of  the  past. 

(F   '24) 
Masters,  D:     Romance  of  excavation.     (D  '23) 
Wilder,    H.    H.      Ma'^'s    prehistoric    past.      (N 
■23) 
Architecture 
American  institute  of  architects.     Significance 
of  the  fine  arts.      (My  '23) 

Details 

Hamlin,    A.    D.    F.    History    of    ornament.     (F 
•24) 
Architecture,    Colonial 

Kimball,    S.    F.     Domestic  architecture  of   the 
American  colonies  and  of  the  early  republic. 
(Ap   '23) 
Architecture,    Domestic 

Gray,    G.     House    and    home.      (S    '23) 

Hill,   A.   L.      Redeeming  old  homes.      (S  '23) 

Northend,    M.    H.    Small    house,    its    possibil- 
ities.     (N    '23) 

Townsend,    R.   T.,    ed.     Book  of   building  and 
interior    decorating.      (S    '23) 

Walsh,  H.  V.  Construction  of  the  small  house. 
(O    '23) 

White,   C:    E.      Bungalow   book.      (My   '23) 

Italy 

Eberlein,     H.     D.       Villas     of     Florence     and 
Tuscany.      (Ag   '23) 

United    States 
Kimball,   S.    F.     Domestic   architecture  of  the 
American  colonies  and  of  the  early  republic. 
(Ap   '23) 
Architecture,    Renaissance 
Jackson,  T:   G.     Renaissance  of  Roman  archi- 
tecture.      (Ap    '23) 
Arctic  regions 
Bilbv,   J.   W.     Among  unknown  Eskimo.      (My 
■23) 
Aretino,    Pletro 

Hutton.    E:       Pietro    Aretino.       (Ap    '23) 
Argentina 

Koebel,  W:  H:     New  Argentina.     (Ag  '23) 

Description   and  travel 
Carpenter,  F.  G:  Tail  of  the  hemisphere.      (Je 
■23j 
Arithmetic 

Sloane,   T:   O^C.     Rapid   arithmetic.      (My  "23) 
Arlen,  IVIichael,  pseud.     See  Kuyumjian,  D.    (Ag 

'23) 
Arlie  Gelston.     Sergei,  R.   L.     (F  '24) 
Arnold,  Matthew 
Arnold,    M.      Unpublished    letters   of  Matthew 
Arnold.      (D    '23) 
Art 
American  institute  of  architects.     Significance 

of  the  fine  arts.     (My  '23) 
Ellis,    H.      Dance    of    life.    (Ag    '23) 
Henri,    R.   Art  spirit.    (O   '23) 
Nathan,   G:  J.     World  In  falseface.     (Mr  '23) 

History 
Cotterlll,    H:    B.     History  of  art.     (Mr  '23) 
Art,  American 

Cortissoz,   R.     American  artists.      (F  '24) 
Art,  Egyptian 

Quibeli.    A.   A.   Egryptlan   history  and   art.     (O 
•23) 
Art,    Greek 
Wright,    F:    A.     Arts   In    Greece.     (S    '2.'\ 


Art,    Renaissance 

Faure,    E.  History   of  art.   (Ja   '24) 
Art,    Russian 

Newmarch,    R.    H.   Russian    arts.   (Ja    '24) 
Art,    Scandinavian 

Scandinavian    art.       (Ap   '2.'J) 
Art  in  industry.     Richards,  C:  R.     (My  '23) 
Art  of  poetry.  Ker.   W:   P.   (Ja  '24) 
Art  of  the  prima  donna.    Martens,  F:  H.    (S  '23) 
Art   of  Thomas  Hardy.   Johnson,   L.    P.     (O  '23) 
Art    spirit.    Henri,    R.      (O    '23) 
Arthur.   Binyon,  L.      (Je   '23) 
Arts   in   Greece.     Wright,    F:    A.     (S   '23) 
As  I  Uke  it.     Phelps,   W:  L.     (N  '23) 
As  1  was  saying.     Bridges,  H.  J.     (Ag  ^23) 
As   I    was   saying.      John.son,    B.       (Ap   •23) 
As  is.     Hanemann,  H:   W:     (F  ^24) 
As  they  are.     (F  '24) 

As   Ave   are.    Pitkin,    W.    B.,    comp.      (Je   '23) 
As  we  see  it.   Viviani,  R.     (Je  '23) 
Asia    Minor 

Description  and  travel 

Bibesco,    M.    L.  Eight    paradises.    (Ja   '24) 
Aspects    of    the    Italian    renaissance.      Taylor, 

R.    A.      (Ag  '23) 
Aspects     oj     the     study     of     Roman     history. 

Jerome,   T:   S.     (N   '23) 
Assault    on    Mount    Everest.   Bruce,    C:    G.,    and 

others.   (Ja    '24) 
Assyria 

History 

Olmstead,    A.    T.    E.  History    of    Assvria.    (Ja 
•24) 
Astronomy 
Collins,  A.  F:  Boy  astronomer.     (S  '23) 
Flammarion,    C.    Dreams    of    an    astronomer. 

(O    '23) 
Fort,   C:  New   lands.    (Ja   '24) 
Nordmann,    C:  Kingdom    of    the    heavens.    (Ja 

'24) 
Todd,  D:  P.    Astronomy.     (F  '24) 
Astrophysics 

Mitchell,   S:   A.     Eclipses  of  the  sun.     (D  '23) 
At  the  roots  of  grasses.     Strode,   M.     (F  '24) 
Atlantic  ocean 
Ballard,    G:    A.     America    and    the    Atlantic. 
(S    '23) 
Atomic    structure      and     spectral      lines.      Som- 

merfeld,    A.   J.    W.    (F    ^24) 
Atoms 

Russell,  B.  A.  W:     ABC  of  atoms.     (F  '24) 
Sommerfeld,    A.    J.    W.    Atomic   structure   and 
spectral  lines.      (F  '24) 

Auction    bridge 

Irwin,    F.    Holding  hands,      (D   '23) 
Audacious     angles     on     China.     McCormick,     E. 

(Ja   -24) 
•■Audacious    Ann.      Marshall,    A.     (D    "23) 
Auer,  Leopold 

Auer,    L.     My  long  life   In  music.      (N   '23) 
Augustine,   Saint 

Butler.   D.  E:  C.    Western  mysticism.     (S  '23) 
Aunt    Polly's    history    of    mankind.  Stewart,    D. 

O.    (Ja    '24) 
Australia 

Thwing.  C:   F.     Human  Australasia.      (Ap  '23> 

History 

Dunhabin,    T:      Making    of    Australasia.      (My 
■23) 

Australia.  Court  of  conciliation  and  arbitration 

Higgins,    H:    B.    New    province    for    law    and 
order.     (F  '24) 

Authors 

Brandes,  G.  M.  C.  Creative  spirits  of  the  nine- 
teenth   century.    (Je    ^23) 
Kernahan,    C.  Celebrities.   (Ja    '24) 
Lynd,    R.      Books    and   authors.       (Mr   '23) 
Mais,  S.  P.  B.   Some  modern  authors.     (O  '23) 
Overton,    G.    M.      American    nights   entertain- 
ment.     (N   '23) 

Authors,    American 
Hansen,   H.     Midwest  portraits.     (D  '23) 

Authors,    English 
Adcock,     A.     St    J:      Gods    of    modern    Grub 
street.      (N  '23) 


588 


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Authors,    English — Continued 

Bald,    M.    A.     Women-writers    of    the    nine- 
teenth   century.      (S    *23) 

Powys,   L.     Thirteen  worthies.      (Ag   '23) 
Authorship 

Wildman,  E.  Writing  to  sell.  (O  '23) 
Autocamping.  Brimmer,  F.  E.  (S  '23) 
Autocracy    and    revolution    in    Russia.       Korff, 

S.   a:     (Ag  '23) 
Autolycus,  pseud.    See  Bacon,  L.     (F  '24) 
Automobile   chassis.  Elliott,    B:    G:   (Ja   '24) 

Automobile  engines 

Fuel 

Leslie,  B.  H.     Motor  fuels.     (F  '24) 
Automobile  service  stations 
Jones,    C:    L.      Service    station    management. 
(My  '23) 
Automobile   touring 

Brimmer,    F.    E.     Autocamping.     (S    "23) 
Brimmer,    F.    E.    Motor   campcraft.      (S    '23) 
Long,    J:    C.    and   Long,    J:   D.     Motor  camp- 
ing.    (S    '23) 
Prioleau,  J:     Adventures  of  Imshl.     (Ja  '24) 
Automobiles 
Favary,    E.      Motor    vehicle    engineering — the 
chassis.      (My   '23) 

Chassis 
Elliott,    B:    G:  Automobile    chassis.    (Ja    '24) 

Electric  equipment 
Stone,    P.    Electricity    and    its  'application    to 
automotive    vehicles.      (O    '23) 


Babylonia 

Lane,   W.   H.     Babylonian  problems.     (N  '23) 
Babylonian    problems.      Lane,    W.    H.      (N    '23) 
Bachelor  girl.   Margueritte,  V:    (O  '23) 
Back  seat.     Stern,  G.  B.     (N  '23) 
Back  to  the  long  grass.     Crawford,  D.     (Ag  '23) 
Bacteriology 
Kendall,   A.   I:     Civilization  and   the  microbe. 
(F  '24) 
Bagdad    railway 

Earle,    E:    M.      Turkey.      (D    '23) 
Bahamas 

Description  and  travel 
McKenna,    S.     By   intervention  of  Providence. 
(F  '24) 
Baldwin,  Faith.    See  Cuthrell,  F.     (F  '24) 
Ballad   of  St   Barbara.      Chesterton,   G.   K.      (Ap 

■23) 
Baltic  sea 
Ransome,    A.   "Racundra's"     first     cruise.    (Ja 
'24) 
Balzac,  Honore  de 

Balzac,   H.   de.     Wisdom   of  Balzac.      (Ag  '23) 
Banks  and  banking 

United   States 
Kane,   T:   P.     Romance  and  tragedy  of  bank- 
ing.    (My  '23) 
Banks   and   banking,    Cooperative 
Bergengren,    R.    F.    Cooperative    banking.      (O 
•23) 
Banks  and  banking,  Trade  union 

Boeckel,    R:    Labor's   money.      (N   '23) 
Banners   in   the  dawn.   Starrett,   V.      (O    '23) 
The  barb.     McNally,   W:   J.      (My  '23) 
Barhry.      Rideout,    H:       M.       (D    '23) 
Barge  of  haunted  lives.     Tyson,  J:  A.     (My  '23) 
Bargone,  Charles.     See  Farrfere,  C,  pseud.     (My 

•23) 
Barnab6   and    his   whale.    Th6venin,    R.    (D    '23) 
Barnes,   Eleanor  C.    See  Yarrow,    E.   C.      (O  '23) 
Barney.     Hurst,   S:  B.   H.     (Ag  '23) 
Barrie   Marvell.    Vlnce,   C:      (S   ^23) 
Barnum,   Phlneas  Taylor 

Werner,  M.  R.     Barnum.     (My  ^23) 
Barnum.      Werner,    M.    R.      (My   '23) 
Baroque.     Vance,   L:   J.    (Ag  '23) 
Baseball 
McGraw,   J:   J.     My   thirty   years  in   baseball. 
(Ag   '23) 


Bashan  and  I.     Mann,  T:      (D  '23) 
Battles 
Whitton,   F.    E.      Decisive  battles    of  modern 
times.     (S   '23) 
Beachcomber  in  the  Orient.     Foster,  H.  L.     (My 

•23) 
Beaumarchais,  Pierre  Augustin  Caron  de 
Rivers,   J:     Figaro:  the  life  of  Beaumarchais. 
(My  ^23) 
Beaumont,     Isabel,     pseud.     See     Smith,     C.    L 

(Mr  '23) 
Beautiful    America.  Quinn,    V.    (Ja    '24) 
Beauty  in  religion.     Royden,  A.  M.     (F  '24) 
Beccaria-Bonesana,   Cesare,    marchese   de 
Phillipson,    C.  Three    criminal    law    reformers. 
(Ja  '24) 
Bedouin   love.      Weigall,    A.    E:   P.    B.      (Ap  '23) 
Beginners'    guide  to   the   microscope.    Heath,    C: 

E.     (O  '23) 
Being   respectable.      Flandrau.   G.   H.      (Mr  '23) 
Belgium 

Description  and  travel 
Carpenter,   F.  G:     France  to  Scandinavia.     (F 
•24) 
Bells  of  St   Stephen^s.     Keith,  M.      (My  '23) 
Below    the    snow    line.      Freshfield,    D.    W:      (D 

'231 
Bentham,   Jeremy 
Phillipson,    C  Three    criminal    law    reformers. 
(Ja  '24) 
Bergson,    Henri    Louis 

Stephen,   K.     Misuse  of  mind.     (My  '23)- 
Bernard  of  Clairvaux,  Saint 
Butler,    D.    E:    C.      Western    mysticism.       (S 
•23) 
Bernard   Vaughan.  Martindale,    C.    C.     (Ja   '24) 
Bernhardt,    Sarah 

Arthur,   G:    C.    A.     Sarah  Bernhardt.      (D  '23) 
Best   British   short   stories.      O'Brien,    E:   J.    H., 

and    Cournos,    J:       (Ap   •23) 
Be.st    1    remember.      Porritt,    A.      (Je   '23)         , 
Best   plays    of   1921-1922.      Mantle,    B..   ed.      (Ap 

'23) 
Best    short    stories  of   1922.      O'Brien.   E:   J.   H., 

ed.    (Je    '23) 
Beyond  the  sunset.     Smith,  A.  D.  H.     (N  '23) 
Bhutan 
Ronaldshay,    L.    J:    L.    D.       Lands     of     the 
thunderbolt.     (S    '23) 

Bible.    Whole 
King,    B.  Di.scovery    of    God.    (Ja    '24) 
Stobart,   St  C.     Ancient  lights.     (F  '24) 
Van    Loon,    H.    W.    Story    of    the    Bible.      (D 
'23) 

History 
Baikie,  J.     Bible  story.     (F  '24) 

Selections 
Muilenburg,     J.,     ed.       Specimens    of    Biblical 
literatuie.       (D    '23) 
Bible.    New    Testament 

Selections 
Jack.son.   H:   E.,   ed.     Thomas  Jefferson   Bible. 
(D    ^23) 

Single    Books 

St  John 
Holland,    H:    S.      Fourth    gospel.      (F    '24) 

Versions 
Bible.  New  Testament.     Riverside  New  Testa- 
ment.     (F  '24) 
Goodsi)ecd,     E.     J.,     tr.     New    Testament;    an 
American  translation.     (D  '23) 
Bible  story.     Baikie,   J.     (F  '24) 

Bibliography 

Best  books 

Jones.    E.    K..    ed.      Hospital   library.      (N   '23) 

Rare  books 
Spencer,  W.   T.  Forty   years  in  my  bookshop. 
(Ja   '24) 
Bickerstaffe-Drew,      Francis      Browning      Drew. 

See  Ayscouph,   J:,  pseud.     (Ag  '23) 
Big  brother.     Beach,  R.  E.     (F  '24) 


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589 


Biography 

MacLaurin,   C.     Post  mortem.      (N  '23) 
Biology 

Huxley,   J.    S.    Essays   of  a   biologist.    (Ja   '24) 

Kellogg,   V.    L.     Human   life   as   the   biologist 
sees  it.     (Mr  '23) 

Lankester,    R.      Great   and  small    things.      (Je 
'23) 

Trafton,    G.     H.   Biology    of    home    and    com- 
munity.   (Ja   '24) 

Woodruff,  L.  L.  Foundations  of  biology.     (Ag 
■23) 

Toung,  R.  T.   Biology  in  America.    (Ja  '24) 

History 
Taylor,    H:    O.     Greek  biology  and   medicine. 
(My  '23) 
Biology  in  America.  Young,   R.   T.     (Ja  '24) 
Biology  of  birds.     Thomson,   J:   A.    (D  '23) 
Biology    of    home    and    community.  Trafton,    G. 

H.    (Ja  '24) 
Biology  of  the  sea-shore.     Flattely,  F:  W:,  and 

Walton,    C:    L.       (Ap    '23) 
Bird    biographies.      Ball,   A.    E.      (Ap  '23) 
Bird   of   passage.     Schoolcraft,   J:     (S   '23) 
Bird   school,    Peterborough,    N.H. 

School   in   action.      (Ap  '23) 
Birds 

Ball.    A.    E.       Bird   biographies.       (Ap   '23) 
Bralliar.    F.     Knowing   birds   through   stories. 

(Mr  '23) 
Horsfield,   H.   K.    Sidelights  on  birds.     (S  '23) 
Laimbeer,    R:    H.      Birds   I   have   known.      (N 

'23) 
Massingham,  H.  J:   Untrodden  ways.      (D  '23) 
Thomson,    J:    A.      Biology    of    birds.      (D    '23) 

Legends  and  stories 
Ingersoll,   E.   Birds   in   legend,    fable  and   folk- 
lore.  (Ja   '24) 

Poetry 

Massingham,   H.   J:,   ed.     Poems  about  birds. 
(Mr  '23) 

South    Africa 
Fitzsimons,  F:   W:     ISTatural  history  of  South 

Africa:   birds.      (F  '24) 
Birds,     beasts    and     flowers.  Lawrence,     D:     H. 

(Ja  '24) 
Birds  I  have  known.     Laimbeer,  R:  H.     (N  '23) 
Birds    in    legend,    fable    and    folklore.  Ingersoll, 

E.    (Ja   '24) 
Birmingham,    George   A.,    pseud.     See   Hannay, 

J.    O.    (Ag,    N   '23) 
Birth    and    growth    of    religion.      Moore,    G:    F. 

(F  '24) 

Birth   control 

Cox,   H.     Problem   of  population.      (Mr   •23) 
Bituminous  coal  mine  accounting.     Reed.  W:  B 

(My    -23) 
Black    armour.      Wylie,    E.      (Ag    '23) 
Black   bass 

Henshall,    J.    A.   Book   of   the   black   bass.      (O 
•23) 
Black  Dog.  Coppard,  A.  E.     (D  '23) 
Black  gang.  McNeille,  C.   (D  '23) 
Black    Parrot.    Hervey,    H.      (D    '23) 
Black    shadow.     Webster,    F.    A.    M.     (S    '23) 
Black,    white  and  brindled.     Phillpotts,  E.     (Ag 

Black'erchief    Dick.  Allingham,    M.   (Ja    '24) 
Blackfoot    Indians 

McClintock,    W.     Old    Indian    trails.      (S    '23) 
Blackguard.      Bodenheim,   M.      (My   '23) 
Blanqui,    Louis   Auguste 

Postgate,   R.   W:     Out  of  the  past.     (N  '23) 
Blathwayt,   Raymond 

Blathwayt,  R.     Tapestry  of  life.      (F  '24) 
Blind 

Holt,  W.     Light  which  cannot  fail.     (Mr  '23) 
Bhnd   bow-hoy.   Van   Vechten,   C.      (O  '23) 
Blind   Cupid.     Bacon,   J.   D.      (Ap  '23) 
Blindfold.  Johns.  O.     (O  '23) 
Bloom  of  life.     France,  A.,  pseud.     (My  '23) 
Blowing    weather.    Mclntyre,    J:    T-       (Je    '23) 
Blue   water.     Hildebrand,    A.    S.      (D  '23) 
Body    of   this    death.  Bogan,    L.    (Ja    '24) 
Bokhara    Turkoman    and   Afghan    rugs.     Clark, 
Jtl.      (Ag    23) 


Bologna,    Italy 

Wiel.    A.    J.      Story    of    Bologna.      (S    '23) 
Bolshevism 

Russia 

Goldman,    E.  IMy    disillusionment     In     Russia. 

(Ja   '24) 
Harrison,    M.    E.      Unfinished     tales     from    a 

Russian    prison.     (S    '23) 
Keun,   O.   My  adventures  in  Bolshevik  Russia. 

(O    '23) 

United   States 
Ghent.  W:  J.     Reds  bring  action.     (N  •23) 
Bonadventure.   Blunden,   E.      (Je  '23) 
Bonus  system 
Bloomfleld,     D.,    comp.       Financial    incentives 
for  employees  and  executives.     (My  '23) 
A  book.     Barnes,  I).     (D  '23) 
Book    collecting 
Arnold.    W:    H.    Ventures    in    book    collecting. 
(D    '23) 
Book  of  building  and  interior  decorating.  Town- 
send,    R.    T.,    ed.     (S   '23) 
Book  of  Danish  verse.    Friis,  O.,  comp.     (S  '23) 
Book  of  drawings.  Knight,  L.   (O  "23) 
Book  of  escapes  and  hurried  journeys.   Buchan, 

J:   (Je  '23) 
Book   of  letters.     Crowther.    M.  O.    (Ap,   Je   '23) 
Book   of   love.     Vildrac,    C:     (S   '23) 
Book  of  my  youth.     Sudermann,  H.     (Ag  '23) 
Book  of  plays.      Bynner,   W.      (Ap  '23) 
Book    of    prayers    for    boys.       Clements,    C.    C, 

comp.      (Mr  '23) 
Book   of  radio.    Taussig,   C:   W:      (Ap   '23) 
Book  of  the  American  Indian      Garland,  H.     (P 

'24) 
Book  of  the   ancient  world.     Mills,   D.     (S   '23) 
Book  of  the  black  bass.  Henshall.  J.  A.     (O  '23) 
Book  of  the  stars  for  young  people.  Olcott,  W: 

T.     (O  '23) 
Book  of  unusual  soups.     Chambers,   M.   D.      (F 

•24) 
Book   of   wild   flowers   for  voung   people.      Mat- 
thews.   F.    S.       (Ad    '23) 
Books  and  authors.     Lynd,  R.     (Mr  '23) 
Books  and   reading 
Pparson.  E.  L.  Books  in  black  or  red.     (Je  '23) 
Phelps,   W:   L.     As  I  like  It.     (N  '23) 
Books  for  boys  and  girls.  See  Children's  litera- 
ture 
Books  in  black  or  red.     Pearson,  E.  L.     (Je  '23) 
Books   reviewed.     Squire,   J:   C.      (My  '23) 
Booksellers   and   bookselling 
Jenison,  M.     Sunwise  Turn.     (Ag  '23) 
Spencer,   W.   T.   Forty  years  in   my  bookshop. 
(Ja  '24) 

Bootlegging 
Real  story  of  a  bootlegger.     (O  '23) 

Borneo 
Burnett,    F.     Summer   isles  of  Eden.     (S   '23) 

Description   and   travel 

Alder,   W:    F.     Men   of   the   inner  jungle.      (Je 
•23) 

Botany 
Burgess,  T.  W.     Burgess  flower  book  for  chil- 
dren.     (Ag  '23) 
Taylor,   N.     Botany.     (N  '23) 

Ecology 
Tansley,    A.    G:    Practical    plant    ecology.      (P 
•24) 
Box  of  spikenard.     Boileau,   E.    (Ag  '23) 
Boxing 

Lynch,   B.   Knuckles  and  gloves.    (O  '23) 
Boy    adventurers    in    the    land    of    El    Dorado. 

Verrill,   A.   H.     (S   '23) 
Boy   astronomer.     Collins,    A.    F:     (S    '23) 

Boys 

Cheley,  F.  H.     Job  of  being  a  dad.     (F  '24) 
Boy's  book  of  verse.  Fish,  H.  D.,  comp.     (D  '23) 
Boys'  own  book  of  science.     Darrow,  F.  L.     (P 
'24) 

Brandes,    Georg    Morris    Cohen 
Moritzen,    J.      Georg   Brandes   in   life  and  let- 
ters.     (Ap  '23) 
Brass  commandments.     Seltzer,  C:  A.     (N  •23) 


590 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


Brazil 

Description    and    travel 
Up   de    Graff,    F.    W.       Head    hunters   of   the 
Amazon.       (Ap   '23) 
Bread.  Norris,  C:  G.     (O  "23) 
Bridal   wreath.      Undset.   S.      (Ap  '23) 
Briet  drawing.   Ringwalt,  R.  C.     (O  '23) 
Briefs 

Ringwalt,    R.   C.   Brief  drawing.      (O  "23) 
Briquets  (fuel) 

Stillman.  A.  L.  Briquetting.     (O  '23) 
Briquetting.  Stillman,  A.  L.     (O  '23) 
British    and    continental    labour    policy.    Mont- 
gomery,   B.    G.    de.      (D      '23) 
British  merchant  shipping.     Jones,  C.  W.      (My 

•23) 
Bronze   age 
Quennell,  M..  and  C:   H:   B.     Everyday  life  in 
the  new  stone,    bronze  and  early  Iron   ages. 
(Ap    '23) 
Browning,   Oscar 
Browning,   O.    Memories   of   later  years.      (Ag 
'23) 
Browning,    Robert 
Carlyle,    T:  Letters.   (.la    '24) 
Sim,    F.    M.      Robert   Browning,    the   poet   and 
the    man.      <Ag   '23) 
Buccaneers 
Verrill,  A.  H.     In  the  wake  of  the  buccaneers. 

(My  '23) 
Verrill.    A.    H.     Real  story  of  the  pirate.      (Je 
'23) 
Buddhism 

Ronaldshay,     L.     J:     L.     D.       Lands     of      the 
thunderbolt.      (S    '23) 
Budget 

United  States 
Dawes,    C:    G.      First    year    of    the    budget    of 
the   United   States.      (Je   '23) 
Building 
Walsh,  H.  V.  Construction  of  the  small  house. 
(O    '23) 
Building  and   loan  associations 
Bergengren,    R.    F.   Cooperative   banlcing.      (O 
•23) 
Building   the   Amercan    nation.      Butler,    N:    M. 

(N   '23) 
Building    your    own    business.    Burnham,    A.    C. 

(O    '23) 
Bungalow  book.     White,  C:  E.     (My  '23) 
Bungalows 

White.    C:    E.     Bungalow   book.      (My  '23) 
Bunk.     Woodward,  W:  E.     (N  '23) 
Burden    of    unemployment.     Klein,    P.     (S    '23) 
Burdette,    Robert    Jones 

Burdette,   R.   J      Robert  J.   Burdette.     (D  '23) 
Burgess   flower  book  for  children.     Burgess,   T. 
W.    (Ag   ^23) 

Burgin,   George    Brown 

Burgln,  G:  B.     Many  memories.     (Mr  '23) 
Burgundy 

Casey.    R.    J.  Lost   kingdom   of   Burgundy.   (Ja 
•24) 
Burma 

Enriquez,   C.   M.     Burmese  Arcady.      (My  '23) 
Burmese   Arcady.     Enriquez,   C.   M.      (My  '23) 
Burning  spear.     Galsworthy,  J:     (Ag  '23) 
Bu.sh-rancher.      Blndloss,    H.      (Je    '23) 
Business 
Burnham,   A.   C.   Building  your  own  business. 

(O   '23) 
Haskell,   A.   C,    and  Breaznell,   J.    G.   Graphic 

charts  In  business.     (O  '23) 
Lincoln,  E.  E.     Applied  business  finance.     (Mr 

•23) 
Whitehead,    H.      Common    sense    in    business. 
(N  '23) 

Dictionaries  and  cyclopedias 
Crowell,    T:    Y.  Crowell's    dictionary    of    busi- 
ness   and    finance.       (D    '23) 
Business  conditions 
Edie,  L.  D.,  ed.  Stabilization  of  business.     (S 
'23) 

Business   ethics 
Wanamaker,    J:     Maxims    of    life    and    busi- 
ness.   (S  '23) 


Business  letter.    Naether,   C.   A.    (O  '23) 
Business   libraries 
Elliott,    J.    E.     Business   library   classification. 
(S    '23) 
Business    library    classification.       Elliott,    J.    E. 

(S    ^23) 
Business   management 
Church.    A.    H.  Making    of    an    executive.    (Ja 
•24) 
Business  women 
Wilkins,  Z.  P.  Letters  of  a  business  woman  to 
her   daughter.     (O  '23) 
Butler,    Elizabeth,   lady 

Butler.    E.       Autobiography.      (Ap    '23) 
Butterfly.     Norris,    K.      (N   '23) 
By    camel    and    car    to     the     peacock     throne. 

Powell.    E:    A.      (Ag   '23) 
By    intervention    of    Providence.      McKenna,    S. 
(F  '24) 


Cables  of  cobweb.   Smith,   P.   J.-     (Je  '23) 
Cairo    to   Kisumu.    Carpenter,    F.    G:      (Je   '23) 
California 

Description    and   travel 
Saunders,    C:    F.      Southern    Sierras    of    Cali- 
fornia.     (Ag  '23) 
Caliphs 

O'Leary,     De    L.     E.      Short    history    of    the 
Fatimid    khalifate.     (Ag    '23) 
Calm    review    of    a    calm    man.    Blythe,    S:    G: 

(D    '23) 
Cambridge    ancient   history.      (F   '24) 
Cambridge    historv    of    British     foreign     policy. 
Ward,    A.,    and    Gooch,    G:    P.,    eds.    (D    '23) 
Cambridge    university 

Delbos.    J.    M.  Historic   Cambridge.    (Ja    '24) 
Mansbridge,    A.      Older    universities    of    Eng- 
land.     (D    ^23) 
Camping 

Brimmer,    F.    E.     Autocamping.     (S    ^23) 
Brimmer,    F.    E.     Motor    campcraft.     (S    '23) 
Davenport,    E.     Vacation   on    the   trail.      (Ag 

'23) 
Jessup,  E.  Roughing  it  smoothly.     (Je  '23) 
Long,   J:    C,   and   Long,    J:    D.     Motor   camp- 
ing.    (S    '23) 
Rinehart,    M.     Out   trail.      (F  '24) 
Canada 

Constitutional    history 
Kennedy,  W:  P.  M.     Constitution  of  Canada. 
(Je  '23) 

Description    and    travel 
Garvin,    A.    B.     Canadian    cities    of   romance. 

(S   '23) 
Hayward,    V.     Romantic   Canada.      (My  '23) 
Shaw  of  Dunfermline,  T:  S.  Law  of  the  kins- 
men.     (O  '23) 

Politics  and  government 
Dafoe,  J:  W.  Laurier.     (N  '23) 
Kennedv,  W:   P.   M.     Constitution  of  Canada. 

(Je  '23) 
Smith,   H.    A.    Federalism    In   North   America. 
(N  '23) 
Canadian    cities    of    romance.      Garvin,    A.    B. 

(S    '23) 
Cane.     Toomer,   J.      (D  '23) 
Canning   and    preserving 

Cruess,   W:  V.,   and  Christie,  A.   W:     Labora- 
tory   manual    of    fruit    and    vegetable    prod- 
ucts.     (My    '23) 
Capital   levy  explained.   Dalton,   H.      (O    23) 
Capitalism  ,_    ,„„^ 

Baldus.    S.    A.    New    capitalism.      (O     23) 
Robertson,  D.  H.  Control  of  industry.   (Ja  '24) 
Webb,    S.,    and   B.      Decay  of  capitalist  clvih- 
zation.       (Ap    '23) 
Capitals   (cities)  ^„    .„„^ 

Cornish,  V.     Great    capitals.     (S    '23) 
Capitars    duty   to   the   wage-earner.    Calder.    J: 

(O   '23) 
Capitol   hill.      Ferguason,    H.      (My   '23\ 
Captain   Pluck.    MuUIns,    I.   M.      (O   '23) 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


591 


Captain's   doll.      Lawrence,    D:    H.      (Je   "23) 
Captures.      Galsworthy.    J:      (N    '23) 
Career.     Kennard,  D.  K.     (My  '23) 
Caricatures  and   cartoons 

Beerbohm,   M.     Things  new  and  old.      (F  '24) 
Carlyle,   Thomas 
Wilson,    D:    A.      Carlyle    till    marriage    (1795- 
1826).      (D    '23) 
Carlyle  till  marriage   (1795-1826).  Wilson.  D:  A. 

(D    '23) 
Carolina  folk-plays.     Koch,  F:  H:.  ed.     (Mr  '23) 
Caroline    Islands 

Description    and    travel 
Hobbs,   W:   H.     Cruises  along  by-ways  of  the 
Pacific.     (My  '23) 
Carpentry 

Rich,    F.    M.      Jolly   tinker.      (D   '23) 
Casanova  de  Selngalt,  Giovanni  Jacopo 

Le  Gras,  J.     Casanova,  adventurer  and  lover. 
(Ag  -23) 
Casanova,    adventurer   and   lover.      Le   Gras,    J. 

(Ag  '23) 
Caste.     Fraser.  W:  A.     (Mr  '23) 
Caste  and  outcast.     Mukerji.  D.   G.     (Ag  '23) 
Castle   Conquer.     Colum,    P.      (Ag  '23) 
Casual    wanderings    in    Ecuador.      Niles,    B.    (Je 

'23) 
Cat  o'  mountain.     Friel.  A.  O.     (F  '24) 
Cataloging 

Sears,    M.    E..    ed.     List    of    subject    headings 
for   small   libraries.     (My  '23) 
Cathedral    church    of    England.    Tuthill,    W:    B. 

(O   '23) 
Cathedrals 

Tuthill,    W:    B.    Cathedral   church   of  England. 
(O   "23) 
Catherine   de    M^dicis,   queen   consort  of   Henry 
II,   king  of  France 
Van    Dyke,    P.      Catherine    de    M^dicis.      (Ag 
'23  and   1922  Annual) 
Causes  and  character  of  the  American   revolu- 
tion.   Egerton,   H.   E:      (O  '23) 
Causes  and  consequences.     Fuller,   B.     (F  '24) 
Celebrities.  Kernahan,    C.   (Ja    '24) 
Celestial    omnibus.    Forster,    E:    M.      (O   '23) 
Century  of  children's  books.     Barry,   F.  V.     (O 

•23) 
C6zanne,    Paul 

Vollard,    A.     Paul    C6zanne.     (S    '23) 
Challenge.    Sackville-West,    V.    M.     (Mr    '23) 
Challenge*  of  youth.  Stearns,   A.    E.   (Ja   '24) 
Chance 

Hopkins.    M.  Chance   and   error.   (Ja    '24) 
Chance    and    error.  Hopkins,    M.   (Ja    '24) 
Change    partners.      Vachell.    H.    A.      (Ap   '23) 
Changeling       Byrne,   D.      (D  '23) 

Character 

Elliot,   H.    S:   II.      Humnn   character.      (Ap  '23) 
Fosbioke,   G.    E.     Character  qualities  outlined 
and    related.       (Ap   '23) 
Character   qualities   outlined   and   related.      Fos- 
broke,    G.    E.       (Ap    '23) 

Characters    and    characteristics 

Jung,   C.    G.     Psychological  types.      (Ag  "23) 
Charing    Cross    mystery.      Fletcher,    J.    S.      (Ap 
•23) 

Charities.    Medical 

Morgnii,    G.       Public    lelief   of    sickness.       (An 
•23) 

Charity  organization 

Watson,     P.     D.     Charity    organization    move- 
ment  in   the  United  States.      (Je  '23) 

Charity   organization    movement    in    the    United 
State.s.     Watson.     F.     D.       (Je    '23) 

Chase.    Beatrice,    pseud.      .See   Parr,    O.    K       (  \d 

•23) 
Cha.'^te    Di.Tua.    Harrington,    E..    pseud.      (Je   '23) 
Chats  on   old   English   drawings.     Davies,   R.    R. 

H-     (F  '24) 
Pheating-  the  .iunk-pile.     Peyser.   E.  R.      (Ap  '23) 
Cheerful    giver.   Crothers,    S:    M.    (Ja    '24) 
Chekhov,   Anton    Pavlovich 

Gerhardi,   W:     Anton  Chehov.      (F  '24) 
Chemical    engineering 
"Walker.     W:     H.,     and     others.  Principles    of 
chemical    engineering.   (Ja    '24) 


Chemistry 

Bull,   P.   G:     Chemistry  of  to-day.     (Mr  "23) 
Chemistry,   Analytic 

Qualitative 
Kamm,    O.    Qualitative    organic    analysis.      (O 
'23) 

Quantitative 
Mahin,    E:    G.,    and    Carr,    R.    H.  Quantitative 
agricultural    analysis.   (Ja    '24) 
Chemistry,  Inorganic 
Newth,  G:  S.  Text -book  of  inorganic  chemis- 
try.    (O  '23) 
Chemistry,  Organic 

Kamm.    O.    Qualitative    organic    analysis.      (O 
'23) 
Chemistry    of    leather    manufacture.  Wilson,    J: 

A.   (Ja   '24) 
Chemistry  of  to-day.     Bull.  P.   G:     (Mr  '23) 
Cheyenne   Indians 

Grinnell,  G:  B.  Cheyenne  Indians.     (F  '24) 
Chicago 

Intellectual    life 
Hansen,    H.  Midwest    portraits.       (D    '23) 

Social    conditions 
Anderson,    N.     The    hobo.      (S    '23) 
Chief  ministers  of  England.   Bigham,  C.    (S  '23) 
Child   at  home.     Asquith.   C.   M.   E.      (N   '23) 
Child  labor 

Fuller,  R.  G.    Meaning  of  child  labor.    (S  '23) 
Children 

Care    and    hygiene 
Gesell,  A.  L.  Pre-school  child.     (O  '23) 
Groszmann,    M.    P.    E.      Parents'    manual.      (D 

'23) 
Lucas,  W:   P.    Health  of  the  runabout  child. 

(S    '23) 
Marchant.  J.,  ed.     Claims  of  the  coming  gen- 
eration.    (F  '24) 
Morse.   J:  L.,   Wyman,   E.   T.,  and  Hill,  L.  W. 
Infant  and  young  child.      (O  '23) 

Charities,    protection,    etc. 
Gesell,    A.    L.   Pre-school  child.      (O  '23) 
Management   and  training 

Asquith,   C.  M.  E.     Child  at  home.     (N  '23) 
Groszmann,    M.    P.    E.      Parents'    manual.      (D 

•23) 
Miller,  H.  C.  New  psychology  and  the  parent. 

(Ag  '23) 
Pierson,   C.  D.  Living  with  our  children.     (O 
'23) 
Children  astray.  Drucker,  S..  and  Hexter,  M.  B. 

(O  -23) 
Children    of   chance.      Carlyle,    A.      (My   '23) 
Children    of    loneliness.   Yezierska.    A.    (Ja    '24) 
Children    of    men.      Phillpotts,    E.      (My    "23) 
Children  of  the  sun.  Perry,  W.  J.     (D  '23) 
Children  of  the  way.  Allinson,  A.  C.     (D  '23) 
Children  of  the  wind.     Shiel.   M.   P.     (N  '23) 
Children's    book    of    celebrated    sculpture.    Bry- 
ant, L.  M.     (D  '23) 
Children's   literature 

Addington.  S.     Great  adventure  of  Mrs  Santa 

Claus.     (N  '23) 
Addington,    S.      Pied    piper   in    Pudding   Lane. 

(D   '23) 
Barnes.  J.  Drake  and  his  yeoman.     (O  '23) 
B.'issett,  S.  W.     Walter  and  the  wireless.     (.Te 

•23) 
Beston,    H:    B.      Starlight    wonder    book.      (N 

•23) 
Burlingame,     E.     W. ,     tr.   Grateful     elephant. 

(Ja  '24) 
Cornyn,  J:  H.  When  the  camp  fire  burns.     (O 

'23) 
Gray,   .T.     Old  Mary  Metcalf  place.     (S  '23) 
Hawkes,    C.     Dapples   of   the    circus.     (S    '23) 
Hawksworth,   H.   Workshop   of   the  mind.      (O 

'23) 
Henderson,  D.  M.     Pirate  princes  and  Yankee 

Jacks.  (D  '23) 
Housman.  L.  Doorway  in  fairyland.  (Ap  '23) 
>Ioiisnian.  L.  .Moon.shine  <^-  clover.  (An  '2.i) 
Lofting,  H.  Dr  Dolittle's  post  office.  (N  '23) 
McFee,  I.  N.  Nature's  craftsmen.  (D  '23) 
Marshall,    A.    Audacious    Ann.       (D    '23) 


592 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


Children's  literature — Continued 

Marshall.    B.    G.     Torch   bearers.      (D   "23) 
MuUins,  I.   M.  Captain  Pluck.      (O  '23) 
Norwood,    E.      In    the   land    of   Diggeldy   Dan. 

(N  '23) 
Pollock,   F.     Timber  treasure.      (N   '23) 
Price,    E.   B.     Garth,   able  seaman.      (D   '23) 
Robinson,   M.   L.     Juvenile  story  writing.    (My 

■23) 
Rolt- Wheeler,    F.    W:      Sahara    hunters.       (D 

'23 
St  Nicholas.     Stories  about  horses.      (N  '23) 
Sandburg,  C.  Rootabaga  pigeons.      (D  '23) 
Sawyer,    R     Tale    of    the    enchanted    bunnies. 

(D  '23) 
Schultz,    J.   W.      Danger   trail.      (D   '23) 
Scott,   E.     Third  base  Thatcher.     (N  '23) 
Seaman,    A.      Tranquillity    house.      (D    '23) 
Silvers,   E.    R.  Ned  Beals  works  his  way.     (O 

'23) 
TlUe.   V.     Little  Tom.      (N   '23) 
Verrill,    A.    H.     Boy  adventurers   in    the   land 

of   El   Dorado.     (S   '23) 
Wood,     E.      Flaming    cross    of    Santa    Marta. 

(N   '23) 
Children's    literature    (books     about) 
Barry,  F.  V.   Century  of  children's  books.     (O 

'23) 
Children's    plays 

Smith,    N.    A.      Action    poems    and    plays    for 

children.       (D    '23) 
Children's   poetry 
Davies,   M.   C.   Outdoors  and  us.      (Ap  '23) 
De   la  Mare,   W.   J:      A  child's  day.      (Ag  '23) 
De  la  Mare,   W.   J:,   comp.     Come  hither.     (F 

'24) 
Herbert.    A.    P.      "Tinker,    tailor."      (D   '23) 
Untermeyer,    L:,    ed.     This   singing   world.    (F 

'24) 
A  child's  day.     De  la  Mare,   W.   J:      (Ag  '23) 
Child's  house.     MacMurchy,  M.     (F  '24) 
Chile 

Description    and    travel 
Carpenter,  F.  G:  Tail  of  the  hemisphere.     (Je 

'23) 
China 

Description    and    travel 
Enders,  E.  C.     Swinging  lanterns.     (Ag  '23) 
Franck,   H.   A.  Wandering  in   northern  China. 

(.Ja  '24) 
Holm,     F.     v.     My    Nestorian     adventure    in 

China.       (O    '23) 

Foreign    relations 
Bau,    M.    J.     Open    door    doctrine    in    relation 

to   China.     (S   '23) 
Dennett,  T.     Americans  in  eastern  Asia.   (Ag 

'23   and   1922   Annual) 
Hodgkln,    H:    T.   China   In   the   family   of  na- 

tlon.<».     (O  '23) 
Teichman,    E.       Travels    of    a   consular   officer 

in   eastern   Tibet.      (Ap   '23) 
Yen,  E.  T.     Open  door  policy.     (F  '24) 

History 
Hodgkln,    H:    T.    China   in    the    family   of    na- 
tions.     (O   '23) 

Intellectual  life 
China  to-day  through  Chinese   eyes.      (F  '24) 

Religion 
China  to-day  through  Chinese  eyes.      (F  '24) 

Social   life   and  customs 
McCormick,    E.  Audacious    angles     on     China 
(Ja  '24) 

China  in  the  family  of  nations.  Hodgkln,  H:   T 

(O    '23) 
China  to-day  through  Chinese  eyes.      (F  '24) 
Chinese  In  the  United  States 

Tow,  J.   S.     Real  Chinese  in  America.     (F  '24) 
Chinese    poetry 

Waley.   A.      Temple.      (F  '24) 
Chintz 

Percival,    M.  Chintz   book.   (Ja   '24) 
Chintz   book.   Percival.    M.    (Ja    "24) 
rhri.«t    or    Mars?      Irwin.    W:    H:      (D    '23) 
Christian  education  and  the  national  conscious- 
ness in   China.     Webster,   J.   B.      (F  '24) 


Christian  ethics 

Robinson,  N.  L.  Christian  justice.  (S  '23) 
Christian  justice.  Robinson,  N.  L.  (S  '23) 
Christian   life 

Horton,   R.    F.     Mystical  quest  of  Christ.      (N 

'23) 
Mott,  J:  R.     Confronting  young  men  with  the 
living  Christ.     (F  '24) 
Christianity 

Harper,  J.  W.  Essentials  of  religion.  (O  '23) 
Jacks,  L.  P.  Religious  perplexities.  (My  '23) 
McConnell,  S:  D.    Confessions  of  an  old  priest. 

(Mr  -23) 
Machen,  J:  G.  Christianity  and  liberalism.   (Je 

■23) 
Somervell,    D:    C.      Short    history    of    our    re- 
ligion.    (My  '23) 
Christianity  and  autosuggestion.  Brooks.  C.   H., 

and    Charles,    E.    (Ja    '24) 
Christianity  and  liberalism.   Machen.   J:   G.      (Je 

'23) 
Christianity  and  psychology.     Barry,   F.    R.      (F 

'24) 
Chiistianitv   and   social   science.  Elhvood,    C:    A. 

(Ja  '24) 
ChumbI 

Ronaldshay,    L.     J:    L.    D.        Lands     of     the 
thunderbolt.      (S    '23) 
Church 

Grant,    P.    S.      Religion   of   Main   street.      (Ag 
•23) 
Church   and  social   problems 

Return  of  Christendom.     (Je  '23) 
Church    furniture 

Cox,    J:    C:     English    church    fittings.     (S   '23) 
Church    history 

Reinach,     S.       Short    history    of    Christianity. 

(Mr  '23) 
Somervell,  D:  C.     Short  history  of  our  religion. 
(My  '23) 
Church    of    England 
Mathieson,  W:   L.     English  church  reform.   (F 
•24) 
Church  on  the  avenue.     Martin,  H.     (Mr  '23) 
Church   unity 

Middleton,   E.   S.     Unity  and  Rome.     (My  '23) 
Church    work 

Holt.    A.      Social  work   in   the  churches.      (Ap 
•23) 
Cicero,    Marcus    Tullius 

Rolfe,  J:  C.     Cicero  and  his  influence.     (S  '23) 
Cicero  and  his  influence.      Rolfe,  J:   C.      (S  '23) 
The    Cimbrians.  Jensen,    J.    V.    (Ja    '24) 
Cinder   buggy.     Garrett,   G.      (D   '23) 
Cinenui    city.     Gull,    C.    A.    E:    R.      (.le    '23) 
Circus 
Cooper,   C.   R.     Under  the  big  top.     (F  "24) 

Cities  and  towns 

Poetry 

Greever,  G.,  and  Bachelor.  J.  M.,  comps.     Soul 
of  the  city.      (F   '24) 
Citizen  or  subject.  Hennessy,  F.  X.      (O  '23> 

Citizenship 

De  Koven,   A.    Primer  of  citizenship.      (O  '23) 
Citv   of   lilies.    Prvde,    A.,    pseud.,    and   Weekes, 

■  R.   K.      (Ag  '23) 
City  of  peril.     Stringer,  A.  J:  A.     (Mr  '23) 
City  pavements.     Besson,   F.   S.     (F  '24) 

City   planning 

Willi;^^ls,    V.    B.       Law    of   city    planning   and 
zoning.        (Ap    •23'* 
City's  voice.     Gray,   M.     (F  '24) 
Civilization 

Ellis,    H.      Dance  of  life.      (Ag  '23) 

Klaatsch,  H.     Evolution  and  progress  of  man- 
kind.    (S  '23) 

Marchant,    J.,    ed.      Coming    renaissance.      (S 
'23) 

Oghurn.    W:    F.      Social    change    with    respect 
to  culture  and  original  nature.     (Ag  '23) 

Seven  ages.     (S  '23) 

Stawell,    F.    M.,    and    Marvin,    F.    S.     Making 
of  the  western  mind.     (S  '23) 

Towner.      R.      H.  Philosophy     of     civilization. 
(Ja   '24) 

Civilization,  Ancient 

r<M-iy,   W.   J.     Children  of  the  sun.      (D  '23) 


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593 


Civilization,  Greek 

Greene,    W:    C.      Achievement   of   Greece.      (F 
'24) 
Civilization,   Italian 
Walsh,   J.   J.   What  civilization   owes   to  Italy. 
(Je   '23) 
Civilization    and    the    microbe.      Kendall,    A.    I: 

(F  '24) 
Claims  of  the  coming  generation.   Marchant,  J., 

ed.     (F  '24) 
Clans  and  clan   system 
Eyre-Todd,    G:      Highland    clans    of    Scotland. 
(F    '24) 
Classics  of  the  soul's  quest.     Welsh,   R.   E.      (F 

'24) 
Classification 

Elliott,    J.    E.     Business    library    classification. 
(S    '23) 
Cleveland,    Grover 
Alexander,     De     A.     S.       Four     famous     New 

Yorkers.     (S  '23) 
McElroy,   R.   M.  Grover  Cleveland.    (Ja  '24) 

Climate 

Huntington,    E..    and   Visher,    S.    S.      Climatic 
changes.       (Ap    '23) 
Climatic   changes      Huntington,   E.,   and  Visher, 

S.    S.      (Ap  '23) 
Climbs  on  Alpine  peaks.  Pius  XI.   (Je  '23) 
Clinton   twins.    Marshall,    A.      (Je   '23) 
Clockwork   man.      Odle,    E.   V.      (D   '23) 
Clothing    and    dress 

Bradley,    H.    D.       Eternal    masquerade.        (Ap 
'23) 
Cloud    that    lifted.      Maeterlinck,    M.      (D    '23) 
Clue   of  the  new  pin.   Wallace,   E.      (Je   '23) 
Coaching 

Wilson,  V.  A.     Coaching  era.     (F  '24) 
Coaching  era.     Wilson,  V.  A.     (F  '24) 
Coal 
Summers,  A.   L.     Antliracite  and  the  anthra- 
cite industry.      (Mr  '23) 
Coal    mines    and    mining, 

Accounting 
Reed,  W:   B.     Bituminous  coal  mine  account- 
ing.    (My  '23) 

Government   ownership 
Johnsen,     J.    E.,    comp.    Selected    articles    on 

government    ownership    of    coal    mines.   (Ja 

•24) 
Coa.st    of    Eden.       Duffus.    R.    L.       (Ap   '23) 
Code  of  the  Karstens.     Kinney,  H:  W.     (Mr  '23) 
Cole    of    Spyglass    mountain.      Hankins,    A.    P. 

(Ap  '23) 
Colet,  Mme  Louise  (Revoil) 

Bnfleld,  D.  E.  Lady  of  the  salons.     (Je  '23) 
Colette's   best   recipes.     Jacques,    M.     (S   '23) 
Colin.   Benson,   E:  F:     (O  '23) 
Collected  essays  and  addresses.     Birrell,  A.     (Je 

•23 
Collected    essays   and   papers,    1785-1920.  Saints- 
bury.    G:    (Ja   '24) 
Collected    poems.      Davies,    W:    H:      (D   '23) 
Collected   poems.      Lindsay,    N:   V.      (S   '23) 
Collectors    and    collecting 
Dexter,    G:    B.      Lure    of   amateur   collecting. 

(N    '23) 
College  days.  Leacock,  S.  B.     (Ja  '23) 
College  verse 
Schnittkind,   H:   T:,   ed.    Poets   of   the   future. 

(O  '23) 

Colleges    and    universities 
Flexner,  A.     A  modern  college,  and  A  modern 
school.      (F   '24) 

History 
Haskins,   C:    H.   Rise   of  universities.      (F  '24) 

United   States 
Sinclair,    U.    B.     Goose-step.      (My   '23) 
Colonial  companies 

Jeudwine,  J:  W.     Studies  in  empire  and  trade. 
(Ag  '23) 
Colonial  lighting.     Hayward,  A.  H.     (F  '24) 
Colonization 

Jeudwine,  J:  W.    Studies  in  empire  and  trade. 
(Ag  '23) 


Color  of  a  great  city.     Dreiser,  T.     (P  '24) 
Colorado 
Townshend,    R.    B.      Tenderfoot    in    Colorado. 
(Ag  '23) 
Come  hither.     De  la  Mare,  W.  J:,  comp.     (F  '24) 
Come  home.     Perry,   S.   G:     (F  '24) 
Come    on    home.      .AJalloch,    D.      (D    '23) 
Comedy 

Greip,   J.    Y.    T.     P.sychology   of  laughter   and 
comedy.      (Ag  '23) 
Coming  of  man.     Tyler,  J:   M.     (F  '24) 
Coming  renaissance.     Marchant.  J.,  ed.      (S  '23) 
Comings  of  Cousin  Ann.     Sampson,  E.  S.  (F  '24) 
Commerce 
Boggs,   T.   H.     International  trade  balance  In 

theory    and    practice.      (Mr    '23) 
Marshall,    A.    Monev.     credit    and    commerce. 
(F  '24) 

History 

Jeudwine,     J:     W.       Studies     in     empire     and 
trade.     (Ag  '23) 
Commercial    correspondence 

Hall,    S:    R.   Handbook   of  business   correspon- 
dence.    (O  '23) 
Xaether,    C.    A.    Business   letter.    (O   '23) 
Schulze,  E:  H.     Making  letters  pay.     (Ag  ^23) 

Commercial   products 

Miller,  E.  M..  and  others.  Some  great  com- 
modities.   (Ja   ^24) 

Common  sense  in  business.  Whitehead,  H. 
(N-  -23) 

Communicating  door.      Camp,   C:  W.      (S  '23) 

Communism 

Postgate,   R.  W:     Out  of  the  past.      (N  '23) 
Community  life 

Woods,  R.  A.  Neighborhood  In  nation-building. 
(Je  '23) 
Community    newspaper.       Harris,     E.     P.,     and 

Hooke,    F.      (Ag  '23) 
Complete   poems.   Stevenson,    R.    L:   (Ja   '24) 
Compromise.   Gelzer,   J.      (F  '24) 
Comrades   of   the    rolling   ocean.      Paine,    R.    D. 

(S    '23) 
Conditions  of  nervous  anxiety  and  their  treat- 
ment. Stekel,  W.   (Je  '23) 
Conduct    of    life 

Bailey,    L.    H.      Seven   stars.       (S   "23) 
Bennett,  A.  How  to  make  the  best  of  life.     (Je 

•23) 
Bisch,    L:    E:      Conquest    of    self.   (D    ^23) 
Masson,  T:  L.     That  silver  lining.       (D  ^23) 
Wanamaker,    J:       Maxims    of    life    and    busi- 
ne.ss.     (S    '23) 
Confessions  of  an  old  priest.     McConnell,   S:   D. 

(Mr   '23) 
Conflict  and   dream.    Rivers,  W:  H.   R.      (O   ^23) 
Confronting  young  men  with   the   living  Christ. 

Mott,   J:    R.      (F  '24) 
Connecticut 

Description   and   travel 
Nutting,  W.     Connecticut  beautiful.     (N  '23) 
Connecticut   beautiful.      Nutting,   W.      (N    '23) 
Connell,  Norreys,  pseud.  See  O'Riordan,  C.  O'C. 

(Mr  '23) 
The  conquered.     Mitchison,   N.      (N   '23) 
Conquest   of  self.      Bisch.    L:   E:      (D   '23) 
Conquistador.      Gerould,    K.      (My  '23) 
Conrad,   Joseph 

Stauffer,  R.  M.  Joseph  Conrad.     (Je  '23) 
Consciousness 
Eriksen,  R:  Consciousness,  life  and  the  fourth 

dimension.     (O  '23) 
McKerrow,    J.    C.     Appearance    of   mind.     (S 

'23) 
Varendonck.    J.      Evolution    of    the    conscious 
faculties.      (D  '23) 
Consciousness,    life    and    the    fourth    dimension. 
Eriksen,  R:     (O  '23) 

Constantinople 

Description 

Bibesco,   M.   L.  Eight   paradises.    (Ja  '24) 
Brown,  D.     Unveiled  ladles  of  Stamboul.     (My 
•23) 

Social  conditions 
Johnson,    C.    R:,    ed.      Constantinople    to-day. 
(Mr   ^23) 
Constantinople  to-day.     Johnson,  C.  R:,  ed.  (Mr 
•23) 


594 


BOOK   REVIEW    DIGEST 


Constellations 

Collins,    A.    F:      Boy   astronomer.       (S   '23) 
Constitution  of  Canada.  Kennedy,  W:  P.  M.     (Je 

'23) 
Constitution   of  matter.      Born,    M.      (F   '24) 
Constitution  of  the  United  States.     Beck,  J.  M. 

(Mr    '23) 
Constitution   of   the  United   States.     Burton,    T. 

E.      (F  '24) 
Construction  of  the  small  house.  Walsh,  H.  V. 

(O  '23) 
Constructive  salesmanship,  principles  and  prac- 
tices.  Stevenson,   J:  A.   (Ja  '24) 
Consumption    (economics) 

Cornish,  N.  H.     Standard  of  living.     (S  '23) 
Contact.     Hart,   F.    N.      (Ag  '23) 
Contact  between  minds.     Burns,  C.   D.     (D  '23) 
Contemporary   American   plays.      Quinn,    A.    H., 

ed.      (N   '23) 
Contemporary  (German  poetry.    Deutsch,  B.,  and 

Yarmohnsky,   A.,  eds.     (Mr  '23) 
Contiahand.     Kelland.  C.   B.      (Ap  '23) 
Control    of   industry.  Robertson.    D.    H.   (Ja   '24) 
Control  of  wages.  Hamilton,  W.  H.,  and  May,  S. 

(O  '23) 
Convalescents.     Nirdlinger,   C:   F:     (My  '23) 
Conversion 

Begbie.  H      More  twice-born  men.     (D  '23) 
Cookery 

Browne,   S.   S.     Plain  sailing  cook  book.     (Mr 

'23) 
Conrad,   J.   Handbook  of  cookery  for  a  small 

house.     (Je  '23) 
Pennell,    B:  Guide    for   the   greedy.   (Ja   '24) 
Scotson-Clark,    G:    F:    Eating    without    fears. 
(O   '23) 
Cookery,    French 
Jacques,   M.      Colette's  best   recipes.     (S  '23) 

Coolidge,  Calvin 

Whiting,    E:    E.  President    Coolidge.   (Ja    '24) 
Cooperation 
Plumb,   G.  E:,   and  Roylance,  W:   G.     Indus- 
trial democracy.      (S  '23) 
Warbasse,    J.  P:   Cooperative  democracy.      (O 
'23) 
Cooperative  banking.  Bergengren,  R.  F.     (O  '23) 
Cooperative   democracy.     Warbasse,    J.    P:      (O 

'23) 
Copper  box.     Fletcher,  J.   S.      (Ag  '23) 
Cordelia  the  Magnificent.     Scott,  L.     (Ag  '23) 
Corduroy.  Mitchell,  R.  C.     (Je  '23) 
Corn 
Weatherwax,  P.  Story  of  the  maize  plant.     (O 
•23) 


Corpulence 
Finck,    H:   T.      Girth  control. 


(S   '23) 


Corrigeen,  pseud.  See  Adams,  J.   (D  '23) 

Cost  and   standard   of   living 

Cornish,    N.    H.      Standard   of   living.      (S   '23) 
Jones,    R.     American   standard   of  living  and 
world  cooperation.     (Ja  '24) 

Cotton 
Hubbard,     W:     H.      Cotton    and    the    cotton 

market.     (F  '24) 
Cotton  and  the  cotton  market.    Hubbard,  W:  H. 

(F  '24) 

Cou6,  Emile 

Kirk,    E.      My   pilgrimage   to   Cou6.      (My  '23) 
Countries  of  the  mind.     Murry,  ,1:  M.      (Ap  '23) 
Country  club  people.  Banning,  M.  C.     (Je  '23) 
Country  faith.  Shannon,  F:  F.     (O  '23) 

Country   life 

Humphrey,    Z.      Mountain   verities.      CD   '23) 
Oppenhelm,    B.  Winged    seeds.    (Ja    '24) 
Country   newspaper.      Atwood,    M.    van   M.     (S 

'23) 
Country  rural  libraries.     MacLeod,  R.  D.   (P  '24) 
County   agent   and    the   farm   bureau.     Burrltt, 
M.  C.     (Mr  '23) 

Courts 

United  States 

Claghorn,  K.  H.  Immigrant's  day  In  court.    (Je 
'23) 

Courts,   Industrial 
Higgins,    H:    B.      New   province    for   law    and 
order.      (F  '24) 


Courts    and    courtiers 
Paget,    W.    E.    H.     Embassies  of  other  days. 
(D  '23) 
Craftsmanship   of   the    one-aqt    play.    Wilde,    P. 

(Je  '23) 
Crane,  Stephen 

Beer,    T:   Stephen    Crane.   (Ja   '24) 
Creative  salesmanship.     Hess,  H.  W:     (Ag  '23) 
Creative  selling.  Mackintosh,  C:   H:    (O  '23) 
Creative    spirits     of     the     nineteenth      century. 

Brandes,  G.  M.  C.   (Je  '23) 
Credit 

Marshall,    A.      Money,    credit    and    commerce. 
(F   '24) 
Credit  unions 
Bergengren,   R.   F.    Cooperative    banking.      (O 
'23) 
Crime   and   criminals 
Felstead,    S.   T.      Underworld    of  London.     (S 

'23) 
Smith,  M.  H.  Psychology  of  the  criminal.     (O 
•23) 
Criminal    law 

Phillipson,    C.  Three    criminal    law    reformers. 

(Ja   '24) 
Treston,  H.  J.     Poine.     (F  '24) 
White,  W:  A.   Insanity  and  the  criminal  law. 
(O  '23) 
Critical  analysis  of  Industrial  pension  systems. 

Conant,  L.     (Mr,  Je  '23) 
Critique  of  economics.     Boucke,  O.  F.     (F  '24) 
Croatan.     Johnston.   M.      (D   '23) 
Cromer,  Evelyn   Baring,  1st  earl  of 
Rodd,    J.    R.  Social   and   diplomatic   memories 
(second  series).  (Ja  '24) 
Cross-sections.     Street,   J.   L.      (N  '23) 
Crowell's    dictionary    of    business    and   finance. 

Crowell,  T:  Y.     (D  '23) 
Crucibles    of  crime.      Fishman,    J.    F.      (Ag  '23) 
Cruises   along  by-ways  of  the  Pacific.     Hobbs. 

W:   H.      (My  '23) 
Culture 

Wissler,   C.      Man  and  culture.      (Ag  '23) 
Cupid  and  Mr  Pepys.     Syrett,  N.     (N  '23) 
Cups  of  illusion.     Bellamann,   H:      (N  '23) 
Cures.    Walsh,  J.  J.     (O  '23) 
Curie,  Pierre 

Curie,    M.    Pierre    Curie.      (D    '23) 
Curtis,   Cyrus    Hermann    Kotzschmar 
Bok.  E:  W:     Man  from  Maine.     (My  '23) 

Cushing,  Caleb                                       .  ,^  .„,^ 

Fuess,  C.  M.     Life  of  Caleb  Cushmg.  (F  '24) 

Cycles   of  unemployment   In  the   United  States, 

1903-1922.  Berridge,  W:  A.      (O  '23) 

Cyclopedia    of    hardy    fruits.      Hedrick,  U.    P. 

(My  '23) 

Cyrano  de  Bergerac.     Rostand,  E.  E.  A.  (F  '24) 


Da  Ponte,   Lorenzo 

Russo,   J.  L:     Lorenzo  Da  Ponte.     (Ap    23) 
Damaged  souls.  Bradford,  G.    (Je  '23) 

Damrosch,   Walter 

Damrosch.    W.  My   musical   life.   (Ja  '24) 
Dance   of    life.      Ellis,    H.      (Ag  '23) 
Dancer  in  the  shrine.      Hall,   A.   B.      (S  '23) 
Dancer  of  Shamahka.     Ohanlan,  A.     (My  '23) 

Dancing  ._„, 

Ellis,    H.      Dance   of   life.      (Ag   '23) 
Dancing  star.     Ruck,   B.     (F  '24) 
Danger.  Poole,  E.     (Je  '23) 
Danger  trail.     Schultz,  J.  W.     (D  '23) 

Danish   poetry 

Collections 

Friis,   O.,    comp.      Book  of  Danish  verse.     (S 
'23) 

Dante    Allghlerl  ^  ^.  . 

Whiting,  M.  B.  Dante  the  man  and  the  poet. 

(Je  '23)  „ 

Wicksteed.   P.   H:    From  Vita  nuova  to  Para- 
dise.     (My    '23)  „^,.,         ,,r    T, 
Dante  the  man   and  the  poet.   Whiting,   M.   B. 

(Je  '23) 
Dapples  of  the  circus.      Hawkes,  C.      (S  '23) 


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595 


Dark  days  and  black  knights.    Cohen,  O.  R.  (D 

'23) 
Dark  frigate.  Hawes,  C:  B.   (Ja  '24) 
Dash  through  Europe.  Gress,  E.  G.     (O    23) 
Daughter  of   Adam.      Harris.    C.    M.      (My   '23) 
Daughter  of   the   dawn.      Parsons,    M.    R.      (Ag 

'23) 
David  Lubin.     Agresti,  O.  R.     (Mr  '23) 
Davis,   Jefferson 

Eckenrode,    H.    M.    Jefferson    Davis,    president 
of   the   South.      (N    '23) 

Schaff,   M.     Jefferson  Davis.     (Mr  '23) 
Day's  journey.     Maxwell,  W:  B.     (Je  '23) 
Days  of  a  man.     Jordan,   D:   S.     (Je  '23) 
De  senectute.    Harrison,  F:     (Je  '23) 

Death  ,  . 

Flammarion,  C.     Death  and  its  mystery:  after 
death.     (Je  '23) 
Death    and    its    mystery:    after    death.      Flam- 
marion, C.     (Je  '23) 
Debating 
Ringwalt,   R.  C.  Brief  drawing.      (O  '23) 

Debts,   Public 

Dalton,    H.    Capital    levy    explained.      (O    '23) 
Debutante.      Malcoskey,    E.    W.      (Ag  '23) 
Decadence  of  Europe.     Nitti,  F.  S.     (Je  '23) 
Decav   of  capitalist  civilization.      Weiib,    S.,   and 

B.       (Ap    '23) 
Decisive    battles    of    modern    times.       Whitton, 

F.  E.     (S  '23) 
D6class4e;  Daddy's  gone  a-hunting;  and  Great- 
ness.    Akins,   Z.     (F  '24) 
Decoration   and   ornament 
Hamlin,     A.     D.     F.     History     of     ornament. 
(F  '24) 
Deep  channel.  Montague,  M.   P.     (O  '23) 
Deirdre.      Stephens,    J.      (N    '23) 
Delafield,  E.  M.,  pseud.     See  De  La  Pasture,  E. 

E.   M.      (N'  '23) 
Demian.      Hesse,    H.      (My   '23> 
Democracy 
Hadley,  A.  T.     Economic  problems  of  democ- 
racy.     (Ag  '23) 
Penman,    J:    S.    Irresistible    movement    of   de- 
mocracy.     (F  '24) 
Denizens  of  the  desert.     Jaeger,  E.  C.     (Mr  '23) 
Denver  and   Rio  Grande  railroad   company 
Howard,  B.  Wall  Stieet  fifty  years  after  Erie. 
(O  '23) 
Department   stores 

David,   D.   K.     Ketail  store  management   proV)- 
lenis.       (Ap    '23) 
Desert  fauna 
Jaeger,    E.    C.      Denizens   of   the   desert.      (Mr 
'23) 
Desert  horizon.     Watson,  E.  L.   G.      (Ag  '23) 
Desolate  splendour.     Sadleir,  M.     (Je  '23) 
Destructive    distillation   of   wood.      Bunbury,    H. 

M.      (F  '24) 
Dethronements.      Housman,    Ij.      (N    '23) 
Development  of  federal  reserve  policy.  Reed,  H. 

L.     (O  '23) 
Development     of     international     law     after     the 

World  war.     Nippold,   O.      (N  '23) 
Development   of   social    theory.      Lichtenberger, 

J.    P.       (S   '23) 
Development     of     the     American     short     story. 

Pattee,    F.    L:      (My   '23) 
Development  of  the  British  Empire.     Robinson, 

H.       (S    '23) 
Diaries 
Ponsonby,     A.    A:    W:    H.        English    diaries. 
(S    '23) 
Diary    of   a   journalist.  Lucy,    H:    W:   (Ja   '24) 
Diet 
Finck,   H:   T.   Girth  control.    (S  '23) 
Froude,  C:  C.     Right  food.     (F  '24) 
Harrow,    B:   What    to   eat   in    health   and   dis- 
ease.     (Je   '23) 
Mac  Mickle,   V.   Eat   and  be  healthy.      (O  '23) 
Scotson-Clark,    G:    F:    Eating    without    fears. 
(O   '23) 
Different    gods.      Quirk,    V.      (N    '23) 
Dim  lantern.     F.ailey,  T.     (My  '23) 
Diplomacy 
Cresson,  W:  P.     Diplomatic  portraits.     (F  '24) 
Kennedy,  A.  L.     Old  diplomacy  and  new,  1876- 

1922.     (Je  '23) 
Noilson.    F.    Duty   Id   civilization.      (O   '23) 
Diplomatic  portraits.     Cresson,  W:   P.      (F  '24) 


Directing  study.     Miller,   H.   L.      (Ag  "23) 
Discoveries  and  inventions  of  the  twentieth  cen- 
tury.    Cressy,  E:      (Je  '23> 
Discovery  of  God.  King,    B.   (Ja  '24) 
Diving 

Barnes,    G.     Swimming  and   diving.      (Mr  '23) 
Do   the   dead    live?    Heuz6,    P.      (O   '23) 
Dobachi.      Ayscough,    J:,    pseud.      (Ag   '23) 
Docks 

Smith,  C.   F.     Sailor  town  days.      (S  '23) 
Dr  Dolittle's  post  oflSce.     Lofting,  H.     (N  '23) 
Doctor  Johnson.     Houston,   P.   H.     (F  '24) 
Doctor  Johnson.      Newton,    A.   E:      (Ag  '23) 
The  doctor  looks  at  literature.     Collins,  J.     (Ag 

•23) 
Doctor    Nye    of    North    Ostable.    Lincoln,    J.    C. 

(O   '23) 
Dogs 

Kindermann,  H.     Lola.     (Je  '23) 

Legends  and  stories 
Alexander,   C:      Fang   in    the   forest.      (D  '23) 
Kirk,  R.   G.  Six  breeds.     (S  '23) 
Mann,   T:      Bashan   and  I.      (D  '23) 
Terhune,   A.   I'.     Lochinvar  luck.     (Ag  '23) 
Domain     of     natural     science.   Hobson,     E.     W: 

(Ja   '24) 
Domestic  architecture  of  the  American  colonies 
and    of    the    early    republic.    Kimball,    S.    F. 
(Ap   '23) 
Dominant    sex.    Vaerting,    M.,    and    M.      (S    '23) 
Don  Juan.     Lewisohn,   L.      (N  '23) 
Donnegan.     Baxter,   G:   O.      (D   '23) 
Doom   dealer.      Fox,    D:      (S   '23) 
Doorway   in   fairyland.      Housman,   L.      (.'\p  '23) 
Dostoevskii,    Fedor    iVIIkhailovich 
Dostoevskii,    F.    M.       Dostoevsky;    letters   and 
reminiscences.      (S   '23) 
Doves'    nest.      Mansfield,    K.,    pseud.       (S   '23) 
Down  the  Mackenzie.     Waldo,  F.  L.     (Je  '23) 
Downstream.      Siwertz,    S.      (My   '23) 
Drake  and  his  yeoman.  Barnes,  J.     (O  '23) 

Drama 
Leacock,   S.  B.     Over  the  footlights.      (S  '23) 
Matthews,      B.   Playwrights     on     playmaking. 

(Ja    '24) 
Wilde,  P.     Craftsmanship  of  the  one-act  play. 
(Je  '23) 
Drama   in    religious   service.      Candler,    M.      (My 

'23) 
Drama  of  Sinn  Fein.     Desmond,  S.     (Je  '23) 
Drama   of   transition.      Goldberg,    I:      (Mr   '23) 

Dramas 

Akins,  Z.     D6class6e;  Daddy's  gone  a-hunting; 

and  Greatness.     (F  '24) 
Andreieff,  L.  N.  Anathema.     (.le  '23) 
Baring,  M.  His  Majesty's  embassy.  (O  '23) 

Barker,    H.    G.   Secret   life.    (Ja   '24) 
Bax,  C.      Up-stream.      (N   '23) 
Benavente  y  Martinez,  J.   Play.s;   third  series. 

(Ap    '23) 
Binyon,  L.     Arthur.     (Je  '23) 
Bvnner,    W.       Book    of    plays.       (Ap    '23) 
Capek,   K.   R.  U.   R.   (Mr,  Je  '23) 
Carb,   D:,   and  Eaton,  W.   P.     Queen  Victoria. 

(F  '24) 
Clements,    C.   C.     Plays  for  a  folding  theatre. 

(F  '24) 
riew.s.    H:.    jr.     Mumbo  jumho.     (My    '23) 
Cole,   W.    V.      Abelard  and  Helolse.      (D  '23) 
Colton,  J:,  and  Randolph,  C.     Rain.     (F  '24) 
Davis,   O.   Icebound.      (O   '23) 
Drinkwater,  J:  Robert  E.  Lee.     (O  '23) 
Dunsany,    E:    J:   M.    D.   P.   Plays  of  near   and 

far.     (S   '23) 
Ervine,   St  J:   G.     Mary,  Mary  quite  contrary. 

(Je  '23) 
Fitzgerald,   F.   S.   K.     The  vegetable.     (Je  '23) 
Galsworthv,  J:   Plays;  fifth  series.     (Ap  '23) 
Galsworthy,   J:      Windows.      (D  '23) 
Gregory,  I.  A.     Three  wonder  plays.     (Mr  '23) 
Halman,  D.  F.     Set  the  stage  for  eight.     (My 

'23) 
Housman,    L.     Dethronements.      (N   '23) 
Housman,   L.   False  premises.     (O  '23) 
Kellv,   G:      Torch-bearers.      (N   '23) 
Langner,  L.     Five  one-act  comedies.     (Je  *23) 
Lenormand,     H:     R.   Failures.    (Jn     '24) 
Leonard,  W:  E.   C.   Red  Bird.     (O  '23) 
MacKave,  P.     This  fine-pretty  world.     (F  '24) 
Maeterlinck.    M.      Cloud   that   lifted.      (D   '23) 


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Dramas — Continued 
Masefield,   J:     A  king's  daughter.      (F  '24) 
Masefield,  J:     Melloney  Holtspur.     (Je  '23) 
Maugham,   W:    S.      East  of   Suez.      (My   '23) 
Middleton,    G:.   and  Bolton,   G.   R.     Polly  with 

a    past.      (N    '23) 
Molnar,  F.     Fashions  for  men,  and  The  swan. 

(Mr  '23) 
Newton,  A.   E:   Doctor  Johnson.      (Ag  '23) 
Rice,  E.  L.     Adding  machine.     (F  '24) 
Rostand,    E.    B.   A.     Cyrano  de  Bergerac.      (F 

'24) 
Saunders,    L.      Magic   lanterns.      (S   '23) 
Sierra,   G.   M.     Plays.      (Je  '23) 
Toller,    E.      Machine-wreckers.       (D   '23) 
Tolstoi,    U    N.      Dramatic   works.       (D   '23) 
Wedekind,    F.       Tragedies   of   sex.       (S   '23) 
Zangwill,  I.    Forcing  house.     (Mr  '23) 

Collections 
Koch,    F:    H:,    ed.     Carolina   folk-plays.      (Mr 

'23) 
Mantle,  B.,  ed.     Best  plays  of  1921-1922.      (Ap 

'23) 
Quinn,    A.    H.,    ed.      Contemporary    American 

plays.      (N   '23) 
Shay,  F.,  ed.     Treasury  of  plays  for  men.     (F 

•24) 
Webber,    J.    P.,    and    Webster,    H.    H.,    eds. 
One-act    plays    for    secondary    schools.      (S 
•23) 
Dramatic  criticism 

Goldberg,   I:     Drama  of  transition.     (Mr  '23) 
Dramatic  works.     Tolstoi,  L.   N.     (D  '23) 
Drawings 
Knight,    L.    Book    of   drawings.      (O    '23) 
SulUvan,   B.    J.   Line.      (F  '24) 
Drawings,   English 
Davies,  R.  R.  H:     Chats  on  old  English  draw- 
ings.    (F  '24) 
Dreads  and  besetting  fears.  Williams,  T.  A.     (O 

•23) 
Dream.  Masefield,  J:     (S  '23) 
Dreams 
Ratcllff,  A.  J.  J:     History  of  dreams.     (D  ^23) 
Rivers,  W:  H.  R.  Conflict  and  dream.     (O  '23) 
Dreams  of  an  astronomer.     Flammarion,  C.     (O 

•23) 
Dreams  of  Chang.  Bunin,  I.  A.     (Ja  '23) 
Dredging  machinery 
Massey,  G:  B.  Engineering  of  excavation.     (O 
•23) 
Drink    in    1914-1922.    Shadwell,    A.    (F    '24) 
Druida.      Frederick,    J:    T.      (Mr   '23) 
Drums  of  doom.     Ritchie,  R.  W.     (Je  '23) 
Dualism 

Pratt,  J.  B.     Matter  and  spirit.     (Je  ^23) 
Dublin  days.     Strong,   L.   A.  G:     (Ag  •23) 
Dubuc  de  Rivery,  Marie  Marthe  Aim^e 

Morton,    B:    A.      Veiled   empress.      (D  '23) 
Ductless  and  other  glands.     Wynne,  F:  E:     (O 

•23) 
Dusk  of  moonrise.     Patrick,  D.,  pseud.     (Mr  •23) 
Dutch    East    Indies 
Wit,   A.   de.  Island-India.    (Ja  ^24) 

Description    and   travel 
Carpenter,   F.   G:      Java  and  the   East  Indies. 
(D   '23) 
Dutton,    Samuel    Train 
Levermore,  C:   H.     Samuel  Train  Dutton.     (S 
'23) 
Duty  to  civilization.   Neilson.  F.     (O  '23) 

Dyaks 

Alder,   W:    F.     Men   of   the   inner  jungle.      (Je 
•23) 


Eagle,    Solomon,    pseud.     See   S(iuire,    .1:   C.    (Mr. 

My   '23) 
Early  history   of   Smith   college.      Seelye,    L..    C. 

(D   '23) 
Early  northern  painters.     Peers,  G.   K.      (N  '23) 
Earth   and    sun.   Huntington,    E.    (Ja    '24) 

East 

Description    and    travel 
Tweedie,   E.   B.     Mainly  East.      (My  '23) 


East    (Far   East) 

Description   and    travel 
Foster,    H.    L.      Beachcomber    in    the    Orient. 
(My  '23) 
East    India   company 
Jeudwine,  J:  W.    Studies  in  empire  and  trade. 
(Ag  '23) 
East   of   Suez.     Maugham,   W:    S.      (My  '23) 
East  wind.     Kahler,  H.  M.     (Mr  '23) 
Eastern    question    (Balkan) 
Toynbee,    A.    J.      Western   question    in   Greece 
and  Turkey.      (Ap  '23) 
Eastern   question    (Far   East) 
Bau,    M.    J.       Open    door   doctrine    in    relation 

to  China.      (S  '23) 
Dennett,  T.     Ainericans  in  eastern  Asia.     (Ag 

'23   and  1922  Annual) 
Yen,    E.    T.     Open   door  policy.      (F   '24) 
Eastwick,    Beatrice    hinkle    (Mrs    Philip    Garrett 

Eastwick).      See   Hinkle,    B.      (F   '24) 
Easy  housekeeping  book.      Fales,   W.      (D  '23) 
Eat  and  be  healthy.  Mac  Mickle,  V.      (O  '23) 
Eating  without  fears.    Scotson-Clark,  G:  F:     (O 

'23) 
Ebony  and  Ivory.     Powys,  L.     (Mr  '23) 
Eicho.     Larminie,   M.    R.      (Je   '23) 
Eclipses,  Solar 

Mitchell,   S:   A.     Eclipses  of  the  sun.     (D  '23) 
Eclipses  of  the  sun.      Mitchell,   S:   A.      (D  '23) 
Economic   conditions 
Russell,    B.    A.    W:    and   D.    W.    Prospects   of 

industrial  civilization.     (F  '24) 
Viallate,    A.       Economic    imperialism    and    in- 
ternational   relations    during    the    last    fifty 
years.      (S  '23) 
Economic    Imperialism    and    international    rela- 
tions during  the  last  fifty  years.     Viallate, 
A.     (S  '23) 
Economic  policy 
Angell,   N.,  pseud.     If  Britain  is  to  live.     (My 

'23) 
Lloyd,  E.  M.  H.  Stabilization.     (O  '23) 
Economic     problems     of     democracy.       Hadley, 

A.   T.      (Ag  '23) 
Economics 
Boucke,  O.  F.     Critique  of  economics.     (P  '24) 
Laistner,    M.    L.    W.,    comp.    and   tr.        Greek 

economics.     (F  '24) 
McPherson,  L.  G.     Human  effort  and  human 

wants.      (Ag   '23) 
Moriarty,  W:  D.     Economics  of  marketing  and 

advertising.      (F   '24) 
Splawn,  W:  M.  W.,  and  Bizzell,  W:  B.  Intro- 
duction to  the  study  of  economics.     (F  '24) 
Strachey,   J:    St  L.      Economics  of  the  hour. 
(D   '23) 
Economics  of  marketing  and  advertising.     Mori- 
arty, W:  D.      (F  '24) 
Economics  of  the  hour.     Strachey,  J:  St  L.     (D 

'23) 
Economics  of  unemployment.  Hobson,  J:  A.     (N 

'23) 
Ecuador 

Description  and  travel 
Niles.   B.    Casual  wanderings  in  Ecuador,   (Je 
•23) 
Eddas.     Poetic  Edda.     (F  ^24) 
Editorials  of  Henry  Watterson.     Watterson,  H: 
(S    '23) 

Education 
Cooper.  L      Two  views  of  education.     (Ap  '23) 
Flexner,  A.     A  modern  college,  and  A  modern 

school.     (F  '24) 
Holmes,    B.   G.   A.      Freedom  and  growth.     (S 

•  23) 
Miller,  H.  L.     Directing  study.      (Ag  "23) 

Curricula 

Phillips,    C.    A.   Modern   methods  and  the   ele- 
mentary curriculum.     (O  ^23) 

China 
Webster,    J.    B.      Christian    education   and   the 
national   consciousness   in   China.      (F   '24) 

France 
Roman,    F:    W:      New    education    in    Europe. 
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Germany 
Koman.    F:    W:       New    education    in    Europe. 
(S   '23) 

Great    Britain 
lloman,    F:    W:       New    education    in    Europe. 
(S   '23) 
Education,   Elementary 
Horn,  J:   L:   American  elementary  school.      (O 

'23) 
Parker,    S:    C.    Types   of   elementary    teacliing 

and   learning.      (O    '23) 
Phillips,    C.    A.    Modein    methods   and   the   ele- 
mentary  curriculum.      (O   '23) 
Education,    Higher 
Meililejolin,    A.    Freedom   and    the    college.    (F 
■24) 
Education,   Secondary 

Sanderson    of    Oundle.      (Ag-   '23) 
Education  and  industry.     Link,  H:  C:     (O  '23) 
Education    and   training   for  social   worlt.    Tufts, 

J.    H.      (O    '23) 
Education      for     moral     growth.  Neumann,     H: 

(Ja  '24) 
Education   of  children 
Mother's  letters   to  a  schoolmaster.     (Ag  '23) 
School    in    ;iction.       (Ap    '23^ 
Education    of   women 

Goodsell,   W.      Education   of   women.      (S  '23) 
Educational  measurements 
Brooks,  S:  S.     Improving  schools  by  standard- 
ized   tests.      (Mr    '23) 
Monroe,    W.    S.    Introduction   to   the   theory  of 
educational    measurements.    (Je   '23) 
Edwards,    Agnes,    pseud.      See    Rothery,    A.    E. 

(Ag  '23) 
Efflciency  in  Hades.  Vale,  R.  B.     (O  '23) 
Egypt 

Antiquities 
Baikie,    J.  Life   of  the   ancient   East.    (Ja   '24) 
Budge,   E.   A.   T.   W.      Tutankhamen.      (S  '23) 
Carter,    H.,    and   Mace.    A.    C.      Tomb   of  Tut- 

ankh-amen.      (F  '24) 
Nahas,  B.     Life  and  times  of  Tut-ankh-amen. 

(Ag  '23) 
Smith,  G.  E.  Tutankhamen  and  the  discovery 

of  his  tomb.     (N  '23) 
Weigall.  A.   E:   P.   B.     Glory  of  the   pharaohs. 
(My  '23) 

Description    and    travel 
Carpenter,    P.    G.    Cairo   to    Klsumu.    (Je   '23) 
Martin,    P.    P.    Egypt — old   and    new.    (Je    '23) 
Seton,   G.     Woman  tenderfoot  in  Egypt.    (My 
■23) 

History 
O'Leary.     De    L.     B.       Short    history    of    the 

Fatimid   khalifate.      (Ag  '23) 
Quibell,    A.   A.   Egyptian   history  and   art.      (O 

•23) 
Rodd,    J.    R.  Social    and    diplomatic    memories 

(second   series).   (Ja  '24) 

History,    Ancient 

Dramn 

Gray,   T.    "And  in  the  tomb  were  found."    (Je 
'23) 

Religion 
Budge,  E.  A.   T.  W.     Tutankhamen.     (S  '23) 

Social    life   and   customs 
Petrie,  W:  M.  F.  Social  life  in  ancient  Egypt. 
(Ja  -24) 
Egypt— old   and  new.   Martin,   P.    P.    (Je   '23) 
Egyptian    history    and    art.    Quibell,    A.    A.      (O 

'23) 
Eight  more  Harvard  poets.     Damon,  S:  P.,   and 

Hillyer.    R.    S.,    eds.     (My   "23) 
Eight   paradises.   Bihesco,   M.   L.    (Ja  '24) 
Eighth  wonder.  Hutchinson,    A.   S.-M.      (N   '23) 
Einstein  theory 
Einstein,  A.     Sidelights  on  relativity.     (P  '24) 
Steinmetz,   C:   P.     Four  lectures  on  relativity 
and   space.      (Ag  '23) 
Electric   furnace   for   Iron   and   steel.  Stansfleld, 
A.   (Ja   '24) 


Electric  furnaces 
Stansfleld.    A.   Electric    furnace    for    iron    and 
steel.    (Ja  '24) 
Electric  locomotives 
Manson,  A.  J.     Railroad  electrification  and  the 
electric   locomotive.      (F  '24) 
Electricity    and    its    application    to    automotive 

vehicles.    Stone,    P.    M.      (O   '23) 
Electrotyplng 
Pilsworth,    E:   S.  Electrotyplng  in  its   relation 
to    the    graphic    arts.    (Ja    '24) 
Electrotyplng  in  its  relation  to  the  graphic  arts. 

Pilsworth.    E:    S.    (Ja   '24) 
Elementary    equitation.      Baretto    de    Souza,    J. 

M.    T:      (Mr  '23) 
Elements  of  applied  physics.  Smith,   A.   W.    (Ja 

■24) 
Elizabeth,  queen   of   England 
Chamberlin,    F:    C.      Sayings   of   Queen   Eliza- 
beth.     (F  '24) 
Ellen   Prior.     Brown,   A.      (N   '23) 
Embassies  of  other  days.     Paget,  W.  E.  H.     (D 

'23) 
Emergent  evolution.     Morgan,  C.  L.     (N  '23) 
Emily   of   New   Moon.     Montgomery,   L.    M.      (N 

'23) 
Emory,  William   Hemsley 
Gleaves,  A.,  ed.     Life  of  an  American  sailor. 
(N  '23) 
Emperor's  old  clothes.     Heller,  P.,   pseud.      (Ag 

'23) 
Employment    management 
Bloomflcld,     D.,     comp.       Financial    incentives 

for  employees  and  executives.     (My  '23) 
Bloomfleld,    D.,    comp.    and   ed.      Problems   in 

personnel    management.       (S    '23) 
Calder,  J:  Capital's  duty  to  the  wage-earner. 

(O  '23) 
Foster,    O.    D.      Stimulating   the   organization. 

(F  '24) 
Weakly,    F.    E.     Applied  personnel  procedure. 
(F  '24) 
Emulsions 
Clayton,  W:     Theory  of  emulsions  and  emul- 
siflcation.   (Ja    '24) 
Enchanted  country.     Sutherland,  J.     (S  '23) 
Enchanted   garden.      Forman,    H:    J.      (N   '23) 
Encyclopedia  of  food.     Ward,  A.,  ed.      (N  '23) 
End  of  the  house  of  Alard.  Kaye-Smlth,  S.     (O 

•23) 
Engineering 
Fish,  J:   C:  L.     Engineering  economics.     (Ag 
'23) 

Estimates  and  costs 
Gillette,     H.     P.      Handbook    of    construction 
cost.      (My  '23) 
Engineering   economics.     Fish,    J:    C:    L.      (Ag 

•23) 
Engineering   Inspection 
Allcut,    E.    A.,    and   King,   C:    J.      Engineerine 
Inspection.      (Ag   '23) 
Engineering  of  excavation.   Massey,   G:  B.      (O 

'23) 
England 

Biography 

Furnlss,  H.     Some  Victorian  women.     (D  '23) 

Description  and  travel 
Andrews,  W:,   and  Lang,  E.   M.     Old  English 
towns.     (Ja  '24) 

Economic    conditions 
Mastt-rnian,  C:  F:  G.    England  after  war.   (Ap 
•23) 

Social   conditions 
Masternxan,    C:    F:    G.       England    after    war. 
(Ap    '23) 

Social    life  and  customs 
Hamilton,   E.  W:     Old  days  and  new.     (P  '24) 
Wilson,  V.  A.  Coaching  era.   (F  '24) 
England  after  war.   Masterman,  C:  P:   G.     (Ap 

•23) 
England     under     the      restoration      (1660-1688). 

Stone,   T.  G.      (D  '23) 
English    church    fittings,    furniture    and    acces- 
sories. Cox.  J:  C:     (S  '23) 
English  church  reform.     Mathleson,  W:  L.     (F 
'24) 


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English  diaries.      Ponsonby,   A.   A:   W:   H.      (S 

'23) 
English   drama 

History    and    criticism 

Archer,  W:  Old  drama  and  the  new.    (Je  '23) 
Schelling,  F.  E.     Foreign  influences  in  Eliza- 
bethan plays.       (S  '23) 
Englisli  language 

Business  English 
Winternitz.  R.,   and  Cherlngton,  P.  T.  English 
manual  for  business.     (O  '23) 

Etymology 
McKnight,    G:    H.      English    words   and    their 
background.     (My  '23) 

Phonetics 
Ripman,    W.     Good   speech.      (My  '23) 
English   literature 
Mais,  S.  P.  B.  Some  modern  authors.     (O  '23) 

History    and    criticism 
Overton,    G.    M.     American    nights   entertain- 
ment.    (N    '23) 
Saintsbury,    G:    Collected   essays   and    papers. 

1785-1920  (Ja   '24) 
Schelling,    F.    E.     Appraisements  and   asperi- 
ties.    (Mr  '23) 
Scudder,  V.   D.     Social  Ideals  in  English  let- 
ters.     (S  "23) 
Squire,  J:  C.     Books  reviewed.     (My  '23) 
Williams.    S.   T:     Studies  in  Victorian  litera- 
ture.    (N  '23) 
English    local    government.      Webb,    S.,    and    B. 

(Mr  '23) 
English    manual    for    business.    Winternitz,    R., 

and  Cherlngton,   P.  T.     (O  '23) 
English  poetry 
Atkins.  E.  Poet's  poet.    (Mr,  Je  '23) 

Collections 
De  la  Mare,  W.  J:,   comp.     Come  hither.     (F 

•24) 
Fish,  H.  D.,  comp.     Boy's  book  of  verse.     (D 

'23) 
Georgian  poetry,   1920-1922.     (My  "23) 
Greever,  G.,  and  Bachelor,  J.  M.,  comps.     Soul 

of  the  city.     (F  '24) 
Massingham.   H.   J:,   ed.     Poems  about  birds. 

(Mr  '23) 
Oxford    poetry,    1922.       (S    '23) 
Untermeyer,  L:,  ed.     This  singing  world.     (F 

•24) 

History    and    criticism 
Roxburgh,   J:   F.     Poetic  procession.      (N   '23) 
Strachan,  R.  H.     Soul  of  modern  poetry.     (Ag 
'23) 
English  words  and  their  background.  McKnight, 

G:  H.     (My  '23) 
Englishwoman  in  Angora.    Ellison,   G.     (Ja  '24) 
Erasmus.      Smith.    P.      (Ja   '24) 
Erasmus,    Desiderius 

Smith,    P.      Erasmus.      (Ja    '24) 
Eris.      Chambers.      R:   W:      (S  '23) 
Erinytage  and  the  curate.    Cogswell,  A.  M.    (Ap 

'23) 
Escapade.      Scott,   E.      (S  '23) 
Escapes 
Buchan,  J:  Book  of  escapes  and  hurried  Jour- 
neys.   (Je   '23) 
French.  J.  L..  ed.     Thrilling  escapes.     (D  '23) 
Esher,  William   Ballot  Brett,  1st  viscount 
Esher,  W:   B.   B.   Romance  of  the  nineteenth 
century.      (F  '24) 

Eskimos 
Bilby.  J.  W.     Among  unknown  Eskimo.     (My 

•23) 
Essays 
Anderton,  B.  Sketches  from  a  library  window. 

(Je  '23) 
Auerbach.    J.    S.      Essays    and    miscellanies. 

(Mr  -23) 
Beerbohm,  M.     Tet  again.     (F  '24) 
Belloc.    H.      On.       (Ap   '23) 
Bennett.  A.     Things  that  have  interested  me; 

second  series.     (Ap  '23) 
Biron,    C.      Pious   opinions.       (D   '23) 


Birrell,  A.  Collected  essays  and  addresses.  (Je 

■23) 
Bridges,  H.  J.     As  I  was  saying.     (Ag  '23) 
Chesterton.    G.   K.     Fancies  versus  fads.      (N 

•23) 
Clemens,   S:   L.      Europe  and   elsewhere.      (D 

'23) 
Crothers.  S:  M.    Cheerful  giver.     (Ja  '24) 
Foerster,    N.      Nature   in   American   literature. 

(Ap   '23> 
Frank,   G.     An  American  looks  at  his  world. 

(F   '24) 
Frye.  P.  H.     Romance  and  tragedy.   (Mr  '23) 
Fuller,  B.     Causes  and  consequences.     (F  '24) 
Gorman,  H.  S.     Procession  of  masks.     (F  '24) 
Grant.  P.  S.     Essays.     (Mr  '23) 
Grey.   P.   G.    A.   Shepherd's  crowns.    (O  '23) 
Guedalla,  P.     Masters  and  men.     (D  '23) 
Harrison.    F:    De   senectute.    (Je   '23) 
Hewlett,  M.  H:    Extemporary  essays.    (Ja  '24) 
Hudson,  W.  H.     Hind  in  Richmond  Park.  (Mr 

•23) 
Huxley,    A.   L.     On  the  margin.     (Ag  '23) 
Jackson.  H.     Occasions.     (Mr  '23) 
Johnson,   B.     As  I  was  saying.      (Ap  '23) 
Kilmer,   A.      Hunting  a  hair  shirt.      (S  '23) 
King,    R:       Some    confessions    of   an    average 

man.    (F  '24) 
Knickerbocker,    E.    Van   B.,    ed.      Present-day 

essays.      (Ap  '23) 
Lucas,  E:  V.     Luck  of  the  year.     (F  '24) 
Lynd.   R.      Solomon  in  all  his  glory.      (D  '23) 
Minchin,  H.  C.     Talks  and  traits,     (F  '24) 
Morley.  C.  D.     Powder  of  sympathy.      (S  '23) 
Murry,    J.    M.      Countries   of   the    mind.       (Ap 

'23) 
Perry,  B.     Praise  of  folly.     (Ja  '24) 
Raleigh,   W.   A.     Some  authors.     (F  '24) 
Saintsbury,   G:     Collected  essays  and  papers, 

1785-1920.    (Ja   '24) 
Schelling,    F.    E.     Appraisements   and   asperi- 
ties.     (Mr  '23) 
Sharp,  D.   L.     Magical  chance.     (N*  '23) 
Sherman,  S.  P.     Genius  of  America.     (My  '23) 
Squire,  J:  C.     Essays  at  large.     (Mr  '23) 
Walkley,   A.    B.    More  prejudice.     (Ja  '24) 
Waterhouse,    F.    A.      Random    studies    in    the 

romantic   chaos.      (Ja   '24) 
Essays  and  miscellanies.     Auerbach,  J.  S.     (Mr 

'23) 
Essays  at  large.     Squire,  J:  C.     (Mr  '23) 
Essays  of  a  biologist.     Huxley,  J.  S.     (Ja  '24) 
Essentials    of    American    government.      Thorpe, 

F.   N.      (Mr  '23) 
Essentials  of  religion.  Harper.  J.  W.     (O  '23) 
Etchings 

Hind,    A.    M.      Wenceslaus   Hollar.      (Ag   '23) 
Eternal  masquerade.      Bradley,  H.   D.      (Ap  ^23) 
Ethics 
Gibson.   R.   W.  Morality  of  nature.      (O  '23) 
Haas,  J:   A:  W:   Freedom  and  Christian  con- 
duct.   (Je   •23> 

History 
Seven  ages.     (S  '23) 

Ethics,  Jewish 
Smith,   J:   M.   P.     Moral  life  of  the  Hebrews. 
(N  '23) 
Ethics  of  capitalism.     Rosebush,  J.  G.     (D  '23) 
Ethics  of  feminism.  Wadia.  A.  R.     (O  ^23) 

Ethnology 
Dixon,  R.  B.     Racial  history  of  man.     (Ap  '23) 

Ethnopsychology 
L6vy-Bruhl,    L.       Primitive     mentality.        (S 

'23) 
Rivers.   W:    H.    R.      Psychology   and   politics. 

(S  '23) 

Etiquet 

Learned,  E.  Everybody's  complete  etiquette. 
(F  '24) 

Post,   E.     Etiquette.      (My  '23) 
Etiquette.     Post,   E.      (My  '23) 

Eugenics 

Holmes,  S:  J.  Studies  in  evolution  and  eugen- 
ics.     (Ja   '24) 

Marchant,  J.,  ed.  Claims  of  the  coming  gen- 
eration.    (F  '24) 

Wiggam,  A.  E.  New  decalogue  of  science. 
(F  '24) 

Eugenie,   empress  consort  of   Napoleon    III 
Mountjoy,  D.     Melody  of  God.     (D  '23) 


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599 


Europe 

Description    and   travel 
Freshfleld,   D.   W:     Below  the  snow  line.      (D 

'23) 
Gress,    E.    G.    Dash    through    Europe.      (O    '23) 
Piiole;iu,    J:      Adventures   of   Imshi.      (Ja   '24) 
Sheridan.   C.    C.      West   and   East.      (My  '23) 
Tatchell,   F.     Happy   traveller.      (Ja  '24) 

Economic  conditions 
Caillaux,    .T.     VVhithei'    France?    Whither    Eu- 
rope?    (My    '23) 
Dickinson,    T:    H.    New    old-world.    (Je    '23) 

Foreign    relations 
Mowat,  R.  B.  History  of  European  diplomacy, 
1815-1914.    (O    '23) 

History 
Cobb,     B.     B.,     and     E.     Pathways     of     Eu- 
ropean  peoples.       (S   '23) 
Cresson,   W:    P.   Diplomatic   portraits.    (F   '24) 
Gibbons,    H.    A.    Europe    since    1918.    (Ja    '24) 
Gooch,  G:   P.  History  of  modern  Europe,  1878- 

1010.      (O  '23) 
Hazen,    C:    D.     Europe   since   1815.      (F    '24) 
Lloyd  George,  D:     Where  are  we  going?   (Ja 

'24) 
Plum,    H.    G.,    and    Benjamin,    G.    G.     Modern 
and     contemporary     European     civilization. 
(Ag    '23) 
Stawell,    F.    M.,    and   Marvin,    F.    S.       Making 

of    the    western    mind.     (S    '23) 
Turner,  E:  R.     Europe,  1450-1789.     (F  '24) 

Politics 
Brailsford,  H:  N.     After  the  peace.     (My  '23) 
Kennedy,  A.  L.  Old  diplomacy  and  new,  1876- 

1922.      (Je    '23) 
Lyon,  L.     When  there  Is  no  peace.     (Je  '23) 
Mowat,   R.  B.  History  of  European  diplomacy, 
1S15-1914.     (O  '23) 
Europe  and  elsewhere.    Clemens,  S:  L.     (D  '23) 
E}urope,   1450-1789.     Turner,   E:   R.      (F  '24) 
Europe  since  1815.     Hazen,  C:  D.     (F  '24) 
Europe  since  1918.     Gibbons.  H.  A.     (Ja  '24) 
European  war,  1914-1919 

Plum,  H.  G.,  and  Benjamin,  G.  G.  Modern 
and  contemporary  European  civilization. 
(Ag  '23) 

Campaigns   and    battles 
Dewar,    G:    A.    B.,    and    Boraston,    J:    H.    Sir 

Douglas    Haip's    command.     (Mr    '23) 
Frederick    V:    W:    A.    My    war    experiences. 

(S  '23) 
Shorthose,    W.    T.    Sport    and    adventure    in 

Africa.    (Je    '23) 

Causes 

Asquith,  H.   H:     Genesis  of  the  war.     (N  '23) 
Bausman,    F:      Let   France   explain.      (S   '23) 
Neilson.  F.  Duty  to  civilization.      (O  '23) 
Viviani.   R.   As  we  see  it.    (Je  '23) 

Diplomatic    history 
Neilson,    F.    Duty   to  civilization.      (O   '23) 
Romberg,    K.-G.      Falsifications    of    the    Rus- 
sian   Orange    book.      (Ag   '23) 

Economic  aspects 
Wolfe,   H.     Labour  supply  and  regulation.     (F 
•24) 

Hospitals,  charities,  etc. 
Red  cross.     United  States.     American  national 
Red  cross.     History  of  American   Red  cross 
nursing.      (Ap  '23) 

Naval   operations 

Churchill.  W.  L.  S.  World  crisis.  (My  '23,  Ja 
•24) 

Personal    narratives 
Gwatkin-Williams,     R.    S.      Pri.soners    of    the 

red   desert.      (Ag  '23) 
Irvine.   A.   F.   Yankee   with  the  soldiers  of  the 

king.      (O   '23) 
Lni'^v.   ,1.    i«     K.      Out)   wlio  gave  his  life.      (Ap 
2>i) 

Press   correspondents 

Gibbs,  P.  H.  Adventures  In  Journalism.  (D 
•23) 


Religious  and  social  work 
Taft,    W:    H.,    and   others,    eds.    Service   with 

fighting    men.      (O    ^23) 
Wannamaker,   O.    D.     With   Italy   in   her  final 

war  of  liberation.      (N   '23) 

Reparations 
Moulton,    H.    G.,    and    McGuire,    C.    E:      Ger- 
many's capacity  to   pay.     (Ja  '24) 

Secret  service 
Russell,   C:  E.     True  adventures  of  the  secret 

service.    (S    '23) 
Thomson,    B.    H.    My   experiences   at   Scotland 

yard.     (Mr  '23) 

Territorial   questions 
Beer.    G:    L:     African   questions  at   the  Paris 

peace  conference.     (F  '24) 
Toynbee.    A.    J.    Western    question    in    Greece 

and    Turkey.       (Ap    '23) 

France 
Bausman,  F:     Let  France  explain.     (S  '23) 

Germany 
Frederick     V:    W:    A.      My   war    experiences. 

(S   '23) 
Viviani,   R.   As  we  see  it.    (Je  '23) 

Great   Britain 

Churchill,   W.   L.   S.   World  crisis.    (My  '23.   Ja 

'24) 
Dewar,    G:    A.    B.,    and   Boraston,    J:    H.     Sir 

Douglas    Haig's    command.     (Mr    '23) 
Kipling,  R.,  comp.  and  ed.  Irish  guards  in  the 

great  war.      (O  '23) 

Italy 
Wannamaker,   O.   D.      With   Italy   in   her  final 
war  of  liberation.      (N   '23) 

United   States 
Clarkson,    G.    B.      Industrial    America    in    the 

World    war.      (Ag    '23) 
Ravage,  M.  E.     Malady  of  Europe.     (N  '23) 

Everest,   Mount 
Bruce,   C:  G.,  and  others.     Assault  on  Mount 

Everest.      (Ja    '24) 
Every  teacher's  problems.  Stark,  W:  E.     (O  '23) 
Everybody's   complete    etiquette.        Learned,    E. 

(F  '24) 
Everyday    life    in    the    new    stone,    bronze    and 

early  iron  ages.     Quennell,   M.,  and  C:  H:  B. 

(Ap"  '23) 
Evidence   (law) 
Osborn,  A.  S.     Problem  of  proof.     (Ap  '23) 

Evolution 
Baitsell,  G:    A.,   ed.      Evolution  of  man.       (S 

'23) 
Gibson.    R.   W.   Morality   of  nature.      (O  '23) 
Holmes.  S:  J.     Studies  in  evolution  and  eugen- 
ics.     (Ja   '24) 
Keen.  W:  W.     I  believe  in  God  and  In  evolu- 
tion.     (My  '23) 
Klaatsch.  H.    Evolution  and  progress  of  man- 
kind.     (S  '23) 
Lane,    H:    H.    Evolution    and    Christian    faith. 

(O  '23) 
Morgan,  C.  L.     Emergent  evolution.     (N  '23) 
Osborn.  H:  F.     Evolution  and  religion.     (F  '24) 
Simpson,    J.    Y.      Man   and   the   attainment   of 

immortality.      (Ag   '23) 
Tyler,  J:  M.     Coming  of  man.     (F  '24) 
Wiggam,    A.    E:      New    decalogue    of    science. 
(F   '24) 
Evolution  and  Christian  faith.   Lane,  H:  H.     (O 

'23) 
Evolution   and   progress  of  mankind.     Klaatsch, 

H.      (S   '23) 
Evolution  and  religion.     Osborn.   H:   F.      (F  '24) 
Evolution  of  Hungary  and  its  place  in  European 

history.      Teleki,    P.      (My    '23) 
Evolution  of   man.      Baitsell,   G:   A.,   ed.    (S  '23) 
Evolution    of    the    conscious    faculties.       Varen- 

donck,   J.      (D  '23) 
Excavating    machinery 
Massev.     G:     B.     Engineering    of    excavation. 
(O   '23) 
Excavation 
Ma.'ssev,    G:    B.       Engineering    of    excavation. 
(O  '23) 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


Excavations    (archaeology) 

Masters,  D:     Romajice  of  excavation.     (D  '23) 
Exile  of   the  Lariat.      Willsie.   H.      (S  '23) 
Export  advertising.     Brown,   D:  L.     (My  '23) 

Export  trade 
Brown,  D:  L.     Export  advertising.     (My  '23) 

Expressionism   (art) 

Pflster,  O.  R.     Expressionism  in  art.   (Ja  '24) 
Expressionism  in  art.     Pfister,   O.   R.    (Ja  '24) 
Extemporary  essays.     Hewlett,   M.  H:     (Ja  '24) 
Exterior  to  the   evidence.     Fletcher,   J.   S.    (Ag 
•23) 


Fabre,  Jean  Henri  Casimir 
Bicknell,    P.    F.      Human    side    of   Fabre.    (D 
•23) 

Fabrics  and  how  to  know  them.     Denny,  G.  G. 
(Ja  '24) 

Factory  management 
Porosky,    M.      Practical    factory    administra- 
tion.    (Ja  '24) 

Failures.     Lenormand,   H:   R.      (Ja  '24) 

Faint  perfume.     Gale,  Z.     (Ap  '23) 

Fairy  tales 
Beston,  H:  B.     Starlight  wonder  book.     (N  '23) 
Housman,  L.     Doorway  in  fairyland.     (Ap  '23> 
Housman,  L.     Moonshine  &  clover.     (Ap  '23) 
Ransome,  A.  Soldier  and  death.     (O  '23) 

Faith 
Lawrence,   W:     Fifty  years.      (Ja   '24) 

Faith  cure 
Brooks,   C.  H.,   and  Charles,  E.      Christianity 
and   autosuggestion.      (Ja   '24) 
False  premises.   Housman,   L.     (0   '23) 
Falsifications     of    the     Russian     Orange     book. 
Romberg,   K.-G.     (Ag  '23) 

Family 
Spencer,   A.     Family  and  its  members.      (Ag 

•23) 
Family.     Williams,  W.  W.     (My  '23) 
Family  and  its  members.     Spencer,  A.     (Ag  '23) 
Family  at  Gilje.     Lie,  J.   L.   I.     (F  '24) 
Fancies  versus  fads.     Chesterton,  G.  K.     (N  '23) 
Fang  in  the  forest.     Alexander,  C:     (D  '23) 
Fantastica.      Nichols,    R.    M.   B.       (D   '23) 
Far   Eastern   Republic 
Norton,  H:  K.  Far  Eastern  republic  of  Siberia. 

(O  '23) 
Far  Eastern  republic  of  Siberia.  Norton,  H:  K. 

(O  '23) 
Farington,   Joseph 

Farington,  J.  Farington  diary.   (Ap,  D  '23) 
Farington    diary.    Farington,    J.     (Ap,    D    '23) 
Farm  bureaus 
Burritt,    M.    C.     County  agent  and   the   farm 

bureau.     (Mr  '23) 

Farm  life 

Greene,  A.  Lone  winter.     (Je  '23) 
Fascinating   stranger.    Tarkington,    B.    (Je    '23) 
Fascism.     Por,  O.     (P  '24) 
Fascist  movement  in  Italian  life.     Gorgolinl,  P. 

(D  '23) 
Fashions  for  men,   and  The  swan.     Molnar,   F. 

(Mr  '23) 
Fasting 
Morgulis,  S.     Fasting  and  undernutrition.    (Ja 
•24) 
Fasting  and  undernutrition.     Morgulis,   S.      (Ja 

•24) 
Father  Tabb.     Litz,  F.   A.     (D  '23) 
Father  Thames.  Higgins,  W.     (O  '23) 
Fathers 

Cheley,  F.  H.     Job  of  being  a  dad.     (F  '24) 
Fauns  at  prayer.     Everett,  L.  L.     (My  '23) 
Fear 
Williams,   T.   A.   Dreads  and  besetting   fears. 
(O  '23) 
Feathers   left   around.     Wells,    C.      (Ap   '23) 
Federal  reserve  banks 
Reed.   H.  L.     Development  of  federal  reserve 
policy.      (O  '23) 
Federalism    in    North    America.      Smith,    H.    A. 

(N  ^23) 
Feet  of  clay.     Tuttle.  N.   M.     (O  '23) 
Feminism   in   Greek   literature.     Wright,    F:   A. 
(F  '24) 


Fenceless  meadows.     Adams,  B.  M.     (Ja  '24) 
Fern  lover^s  companion.     Tilton,  G:  H:     (S  '23) 
Ferns 
Tilton,  G:   H:      Fern  lover's  companion.      (S 
'23) 
Feudalism 
Davis.    W:    S.    Life    on    a    mediaeval    barony. 
(O  '23) 
Fiction    (books  about) 
Robinson,  M.  L.    Juvenile  story  writing.     (My 
'23) 
Fiction 

Adolescence 
Bjorkman,   E.   A.     Gates  of  life.      (Ap  '23) 
Dutton,    L.    E.       Going    together.       (O    ^23) 
Hudson,    S.      Prince   Hempseed.      (S  '23) 

Adventure 

Allingham,    M.      Black'erchief   Dick.      (Ja   '24) 
Baxter,   G:    O.      Donnegan.      (D  •23) 
Buchan,  J:     Huntingtower.     (Mr  ^23) 
Coolidge,  D.     Lost  wagons.     (Mr  '23) 
Cullum,    R.      Luck  of   the   Kid.      (O    '23) 
Curtin.  D.  T:  Tyranny  of  power.   (Je  '23) 
Day,  H.   F.     Leadbetter's  Luck.     (Ja  '24) 
Day,  H.   F.     The  loving  are  the  daring.     (Ja 

'24) 
Dickie,    F.      Master  breed.      (S  '23) 
Friel,  A.  O.     Cat  o'  mountain.     (P  '24) 
Friel,   A.   O.     Tiger  river.     (Ap  '23) 
Ganpat,    pseud.     Harllek.      (F    '24) 
Goodwin,  J:     Sign  of  the  serpent.     (My  '23) 
Gross,  M.  S.     To  the  dark  tower.     (My  '23) 
Hankins,  A.  P.     Valley  of  Arcana.     (F  '24) 
Hendryx,  J.  B.     North.     (Mr  '23) 
Leroux,  G.     Wolves  of  the  sea.     (Ag  '23) 
Mason.    A.    E:   W.      Winding  stair.      (O   '23) 
Roe,  V.   E.      Nameless   River.      (D  '23) 
Sabin,  E.  L.     Rose  of  Santa  F6.     (D  '23) 
Shiel,  M.  P.     Children  of  the  wind.     (N  '23) 
Sinclair,  B.  W:     Inverted  pyramid.     (P  '24) 
Smith.  A.  D.  H.     Beyond  the  sunset.     (N  '23) 
Stowell,    W:    A.      Wake    of    the    setting    sun. 

(Ag  '23) 
Verrill.   A.   H.      Boy  adventurers  in   the  land 

of    El    Dorado.     (S    '23) 
Williams,  V.  Island  gold.     (Je  '23) 

Animal    stories 
Alexander,  C:      Fang  In  the  forest.      (D  '23) 
Brand.  M.     Alcatraz.     (Mr  '23) 
Kirk,    R.    G.      Six   breeds.       (S   '23) 
Lytle,   J:  H.     Sandy  Oorang.     (My  '23) 
Mann,    T:     Bashan  and  I.      (D  '23) 
Roberts,  C:  G:  D.     Wisdom  of  the  wilderness. 

(Ag    '23) 
Terhune,    A.   P.     Lochlnvar  luck.      (Ag  '23) 
Terhune,  A.  P.     The  pest.     (Ap  '23) 

Artist  life 
Covle.    K.      Piccadilly.      (N    '23) 
Craven,  T:     Paint.     (Ap  '23) 
Hopkins,  G.     Unknown  quantity.     (Ap  '23) 

Baseball   stories 
Scott,  E.     Third  base  Thatcher.     (N  '23) 

Biblical  stories 
Kuprin,    A.    I.      Sulamith.       (D   '23) 

Business 
ATacfarlanp.    P:    C.      Man's   country       (Mr  '23) 
Samuel.   M.      Whatever  gods.      (O  '23) 

Character  studies 
Allen,  J.  L.     Alabaster  box.     (F  '24) 
Armstrong,    H.    H.      Red-blood.      (N    '23) 
Bartlf^v.    N.   I.      Up   and   coming.      (Mr    23) 
Bennett.   A.     Riceyman   Steps.      (.Ta  '24) 
Benson,   S.   Poor  man.    (Mr,  Je  '23) 
Black.    A.      Jo   Ellen.      (D   '23) 
Booth,  E:  C:     Tree  of  the  garden.     (Ap    23) 
Boyd,   W.      Lazy  laughter.      (D   '23) 
Brown,  B.     Shining  road.     (Ap  '23'> 
Gather.   W.   S.      Lost  lady.      (O  '23) 
Chapman.    M.      Poor   Pinney.      (Ap   *23) 
Colean.   M.    L.      Que.st.      (N   '23) 
Cutler.    R.       Speckled    bird.       (Mr    '23) 
Duffus.   R.   L.     Coast  of  Eden.      (Ap  '23) 
Ertz.    S.      Madame   Claire.      (Je   '23) 
Frankau.   G.   Woman  of  the  horizon.      (S    23) 
Frederick,    J:    T.       Druida.       (Mr   ^23) 


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601 


Friedlaender,  V.   H.     Mainspring.      (Ap  '23) 

Fuessle,  N.  A:  Jessup.     (Je  '23) 

Gelzer,   J.     Compromise.      (F  '24) 

Gibbs,  G:  F.  Fires  of  ambition.     (D  '23) 

Guernon,    C:      Titans.      (Je    '23> 

Hankins,    A.    P.     Cole   of    Spyglass   mountain. 

(Ap  '23) 
Harraden,    B.      Patuffa.      (N   "23) 
Herrick,    R.       Homely    Lilla.       (Mr    '23) 
Hopkins,   G.     Unknown   quantity.      (Ap  '23) 
Hudson,   J.   W:     Nowhere   else   in   the  world. 

(Ja  -24) 
Hurst,  F.   Lummox.     (N  '23) 
Hurst,   S:  B.   H.  Barney.     (Ag  '23) 
Husband,   J.     High  hurdles.      (Ag  '23) 
Jerome,    J.    K.      Anthony    John.      (Je    '23) 
Johns,   O.      Blindfold.      (O  '23) 
Jones,   E.   B.   C.     Wedgwood  medallion.     (Ap 

•23) 
Keable,    R.       Peradventure.        (Mr    '23) 
King,  B.     Happy  isles.     (Ja  '24) 
King,   G.   C.      Horatio's  story.      (D  '23) 
Looms,   G:     John-no-Brawn.      (F  '24) 
Lutz,    G.    L.    H.      Tomorrow   about   this    time. 

(S   '23) 
McKenna,  S.  Soliloquy.     (Mr,  Je  '23) 
Mackenzie.  C.  Seven  ages  of  woman.    (Mr  '23) 
Marshall,  A.     Anthony  Dare.      (D  '23) 
Masters,    E.    L.      Skeeters   Kirby.      (Ap   '23) 
Mlllin,    S.    G.      The   Jordans.      (Ja    '24) 
Montague,   M.    P.      Deep   channel.      (O  '23) 
Moss,    G.      Sweet    pepper.      (Je   '23) 
Nichols,    B.      Self.      (N    '23) 
O'Brien,  H.  V.     Terms  of  conquest.     (Ja  '24) 
Parker,   A.     Here's  to  the  gods.      (D  '23) 
Prouty,    O.      Stella    Dallas.      (Je    '23) 
Robins,  E.     Time  is  whispering.     (Ag  '23) 
Rothery,   A.  E.     House  by  the  windmill.     (Ag 

'23) 
Rud,  A.  M.  Second  generation.  (D  '23' 
St  John-Loe,  G.  Spilled  wine.  (Ap  '23) 
Sawyer,  R.  Gladiola  Murphy.  (Ap  '23) 
Swinnerton,  F.  A.  Young  Felix.  (D  '23) 
Watts,  M.  Luther  Nichols.  (D  '23) 
Widdemer,  M.  Graven  image.  (D  '23) 
Wilson,     R.    Grand    tour    of    Alphonse    Marl- 

chaud.      (N    '23) 
Yezierska,    A.    Salome   of  the    tenements.    (Mr 

'23) 
Young,    F.   B.     Pilgrim's  Rest.      (My  '23) 

Cheerful    stories 

Carter.  W.  I.,as.s  o'  laughter.  (Mv  '23) 
Chri.stie,  R.  S.  Little  David.  (Ja  '24) 
Clouston,   J.   S.     Lunatic  at  large   again.      (S 

'23) 
Davis,  E.     Times  have  changed.      (My  '23) 
Hannay,  J.   O.     Great  grandmother.     (Ag  '23) 
Hueston,    E.      Merry  O.       (D   '23) 
Lucas,  E:  V.     Genevra's  money.     (Je  '23} 
McCutcheon,   G:    B.      Oliver  October.      (6   '23) 
O'Connor,   E.      Hat  of  destiny.      (S  '23) 
Porter,    E.    Money,    love    and    Kate,    together 

viith  The  story  of  a  nickel.     (P  '24) 
Richards,   L.    E.     The  squire.      (Ja  '24) 
Richmond,    G.    L.      Rufus.      (F  '24) 
Ruck,  B.    Sir  or  madam.     (Ap  '23) 
Tilden,    F.      Mr   Podd.      (Ag   '23) 
Webster,   D.,  and  S:  C.     Uncle  James'  shoej. 

(O  '23) 
Wilson.    H.    L.      Oh,   doctor!      (D  '23) 
Wodehouse,    P.    G.      Jeeves.       (D   "23) 
Wodehouse,   P.   G.     Mostly  Sally.      (My  '23) 

Children,   Stories   about 
Butler.  E.  P.     Jibby  Jones.     (D  '23) 
Harker.    L.    A.      Vagaries   of   Tod   and   Peter. 

(D   '23) 
MacMurchy,    M.      Child's    house.       (F    '24) 
Montgomery,    L.    M.      Emily    of    New    Moon. 

(N   -23) 
Vince,   C:     Barrie  Marvell.      (S  '23) 
"W^ilpole.  H.   S.     .Teremy  and  Hamlet.      (N  '23) 
Whitehill,    D.      Mary   Cinderella   Brown.      (Ag 

•23) 

Crime  and  criminals 
Boyle,  C.  A.     Out  of  the  frying  pan.     (My  '23) 
George.    W.    L.      One   of   the   gtjilty.      (.Ta    '24) 
Rowland,    H:    C.      Return    of   Frank   Clamart. 
(Ag   '23) 

Desert   life 
Conquest,   J.      Zarah,   the  cruel.      (N   ^23) 


Divorce 

Lewisohn,   L.     Don  Juan.      (N   '23) 
Spearman,  F.  H.     Marriage  verdict.     (My  '23) 

European   war 
Boyd,    T:     Through   the  wheat.      (Je  "23) 
Cogswell,    A.    M.      Ermytage    and    the    curate. 

(Ap  '23) 
Galsworthy,    J:      Burning    spear.      (Ag    '23) 
Humphreys,  E.  M.  J.  Ungrown-ups.   (F  '24) 
Wharton,   E.    N.      Son   at   the  front.      (O  '23) 

Family   life 
Bacheller,    I.    A.      The    Scudders.      (Je    '23) 
Cannan,    G.      Annette   and   Bennett.      (Je    '23) 
Flandrau,    G.    H.        Being    respectable.        (Mr 

'23) 
Simon,  R.  A.     "Our  little  girl."      (My  '23) 
Sinclair,    B.   W:     Inverted  pyramid.      (F  '24) 
Train,   A.      His  children's   children.      (Mr   '23) 

Fantasies 
Farjeon,   E.      Soul   of  Kol   Nikon.      (D  "23) 
Forster,   E:   M.     Celestial  omnibus.      (O  '23) 
Garnett,   D:     Lady  into   fox.      (Ap  '23) 
Nathan,  R.     Puppet  master.      (D  '23) 
Nichols,   R.   M.   B.      Fantastica.      (D  '23) 
Odle,   E.      Clockwork  man.      (D  '23) 
Th6venin,  R.    Barnab6  and  his  whale.     (D  '23) 

Farm    life 
Harris,  C.  M.     Daughter  of  Adam.     (My  '23) 
Kahler,    H.    M.      East   wind.       (Mr   '23) 

Feminism 
Rowen.   M.,   pseud.     Stinging  nettles.     (N  '23) 
Hull,  H.   R.     Labyrinth.     (N  '23) 

Ghost  stories 
Reld,    F.     Pender  among  the  residents.      (Ap 
•23) 

Gipsy  stories 
Bercovicl,    K.     Murdo.      (My    '23) 

Golf 
Brown,    K.     Putter   Perkins.      (Je   '23) 
Historical    novels 
England 
Buchan,   J:     Midwinter.      (N   '23) 
Heyer,    G.      Great    Roxhythe.      (N"   '23) 
Hope.    E.     My  lady's  bargain.      (My  '23) 
Marshall,    B.    G.      Torch   bearers.       (D   '23) 

France 
Aminoff,   L.      Ambition.      (S  '23) 
Gilson,  C:  J.  L:     White  cockade.     (Ja  '24) 
Orczy,    E.    Triumph   of  the   Scarlet   Pimpernel. 
(Mr    '23) 

Gaul 
Mitchison,    N.      The   conquered.      (N    '23) 

Greece 
Harris.  C.  W.     Per.sephone  of  Eleusls.     (O  '23) 
Snedeker.   C.   D.     Perilous  seat.      (Je  '23) 

Rome   (empire) 
Van  Santvoord,   S.     Octavia.      (O  '23) 

United   States 
Babcock,   B.     Soul   of  Abe   Lincoln.      (Ag  '23) 
Johnston,   M.     Croatan.      (D  '23) 
Strachey,   R.      Marching  on.      (D  '23) 

Horse    racing 
Vachell,    H.    A.      The    Yard.      (N    '23) 

Hospitals 
Nirdlinger,  C:  F:     Convalescents.     (My  '23) 

Humor    and    satire 
Barry,   I.      Splashing  into   society.      (D   '23) 
Brown,     K.       Putter     Perkins.       (Je     '23) 
Chappell.   G:    S.      Sarah  of  the   Sahara. 
Galsworthy,   J:     Burning  spear.      (Ag  '23) 
Howard,  F.  M.     "Strictly  business."     (Ag  '23) 
Huxley,    A.    L.      Antic    hay.      (Ja    '24) 
Lucatelli,   L.     Teodoro  the  sage.      (Ap  '23) 
M.TC.aulay,    R.      Mystery  at  Geneva.       (Mr  '23) 
Miles,    H.,    and    Mortimer,    R.      Oxford    circus. 

(F  '24) 
Vale,   R.   B.      Efficiency  in   Hades.       (O  '23) 


602 


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Fiction — Humor  and  satire — Continued 
Woodward,   W:   E.     Bunk.      (N  '23) 
Wylie,    E.      Jennifer    Lorn.      (Ja    '24) 

Immigrants  in  America 
Yezierska,  A.     Children  of  loneliness.    (Ja  '24) 

Jewish    life 
Yezierska,   A.      Salome  of  the  tenements.    (Mr 
'23) 

Journalism 
Kelland,    C.    B.      Contraband.      (Ap   "23) 

Law    and    lawyers 
Train.  A.  C.  Tut.  tut!  Mr  Tutt.     (K  '23) 
Locality,    Novels    of 
Africa 
Chamberlain,    G:    A.      Lip   Malvy's  wife.      (Ja 

'24) 
Powys,  L.     Ebony  and   Ivory.      (Mr  '23) 
Webster.   F.   A.   M.      Black  shadow.      (S  '23) 

Alaska 
Cullum,    R.      Luck   of   the   Kid.       (O   '23) 
Curwood,  J.  O.     Alaskan.     (S   '23) 
Hendryx.    J.     B.       North.        (Mr    '23) 
Marshall,   E.      Isle  of  retribution.      (Ap   '23) 
Marshall.  E.     Land  of  forgotten  men.     (O  '23) 

Argentina 
Galvez,    M.     Nacha    Regules.      (Je    '23) 

Asia   ii:entral) 
Ganpat,  pseud.     Harilek.     (F  '24) 

Australia 
Watson,   E.    L.   G.     Desert   horizon.      (Ag  '23) 

British  Columbia 
Connor,    R.,    pseud.  Gaspards    of    Pine    Croft. 

(Ja  '24) 
Sinclair,   B.  W:     Inverted  pyramid.      (F  '24) 

Brittany 
Vachell,  H.   A.     Change  partners.      (Ap  '23) 

Budapest 
Moss,    G.     Sweet   pepper.      (Je   '23) 

California 
Bourn,    M.     The   geese   fly   south.      (Ag  '23) 
Haines,   D.   H.      Sky-hne  inn.    (Ag  '23) 
Ritchie,  R.  W.     Drums  of  doom.     (Je  '23) 

Canada 
Bindloss,  H.     Bush-rancher.      (Je  '23) 
Bindloss.    H.      Wilderness   patrol.       (D   '23) 
De   la   Roche,    M.    Possession.      (My   '23) 
Erskine,   L.   Y.      River  trail.      (D  '23) 
Salverson,   L.   G.  Viking  heart.    (F  '24) 
Scott,  D.   C.     Witching  of  Elspie.      (F  '24) 
Steele,  H.  E.  R.     Spirit-of-iron.     (F  '24) 

Cape    Cod 
Kelley,  E.  M.     Heart's  blood.      (N  '23) 
Lincoln,   J.  C.     Doctor  Nye  of  North   Ostable. 
(O  '23) 

Chicago 
Hudson,    J.    W:  Nowhere    else    in    the    world. 
(Ja   '24) 

Ch  Ina 
Bramah,    E.     Kai   Lung's  golden   hours.      (Ap 

'23) 
Bramah,  E.     Wallet  of  Kai  Lung.     (F  '24) 
Merwin,    S:      Silk.       (D   '23) 
Miln,  L.     Mr  &  Mrs  Sen.     (My  '23) 

Constantinople 
Kennard,   D.   K.     Career.      (My  '23) 

Croatia 
Tormay,    C.      Stonecrop.      (Ap   '23) 
Egypt 

Ad&s,    A.,    and  Josipovici,    A.      Goha   the   fool. 

(F  '24) 
Stoker,    B.      Jewel    of   seven    stars.      (N    '23) 

England 
House  on  Smith  square.     (Je  '23) 


England    (London) 
Adcook,  A.   St  J:     With  the  gilt  off.      (D  '23) 
Bennett,    A.  Riceyman    Steps.   (Ja   '24) 
Gowing,  S.   D.     Helen  of  London.     (Ag  '23) 
G'Riordan,    C.    O'C.     In   London.    (Mr  '23) 

England    (prorincial   and   rural) 
Austen,  J.     The  Watsons.     (Ap  '23) 
Easton.   D.     Tantalus.      (N   '23) 
Gilbert,    B.      Tyler   of   Barnet.      (Ap   '23) 
Kaye-Smith,    S.      End   of  the   house  of  Alard. 

(O  '23) 
Parr,  O.  K.     Lady  Avis  Trewithen.     (Ap  '23) 
Patrick,    D.,    pseud.      Dusk   of   moonrise.     (Mr 

'23) 
Phillpotts,   E.     Children  of  men.     (My  '23) 
Powys.    T.    F.      The  left  leg.      (S   '23) 
Sackville-West,    V.    M.       Grey    Wethers.       (O 

■23) 
Sadleir,   M.     Desolate  splendour.      (Je  '23) 
Sidgwick,    E.      Restoration.      (Ag   '23) 
Vachell.   H.   A.     The  Yard.      (N   '23) 

Far  East 
Beck,  L.  A.  Perfume  of  the  rainbow.      (F  '24) 

France 
Loti,   P.,   pseud.      Tale  of  the  Pyrenees.      (D 
•23) 

Glasgoti} 
Niven,  F:  J:     Justice  of  the  peace.      (F  '24) 

Hawaiian  Islands 
Parsons,  M.  R.     Daughter  of  the  dawn.      (Ag 
'23) 

India 
Ashby,   P.     Mad   rani.      (N   '23) 
Diver,    M.     Lonely    furrow.       (S    '23) 
Fielding-Hall,    H.    Love's    legend.      (Mr    '23) 
Eraser,    W:    A.    Caste.       (Mr    '23) 
Mukerji,    D.    G.   Jungle    beasts    and    men.   (Ja 

'24) 
Ollivant,    A.      "Old    For-ever."      (Ag  '23) 
Savi,   E.   W.     Rulers  of  men.      (Ap   '23) 

Iowa 
Sergei,    R.   L.    Arlie   Gelston.    (F   '24) 

Ireland 
Colum,   P.     Castle  Conquer.      (Ag  '23) 
Hannay,    J.    O.      Found   money.      (N   '23) 
MacGill.    P.      Lanty   Hanlon.      (Ag   '23) 
O'Donovan,  G.     Holy  tree.     (Ap  '23) 
O'Kelly.    S.      Wet   clay.       (O    '23) 
Reid.    F.     Pender  among  the   residents.      (Ap 

'23) 
Stephens,   J.     Deirdre.      (N   '23) 
Thurston,    E.    T.      May   eve.      (F  '24) 

Isle    of    Man 
Caine,  H.     Woman  of  Knockaloe.     (D  '23) 

Italy 
Villa,    S.      Unbidden    guest.      (Ag   '23) 
Kentucky 

Furman,    L.      Quare   women.      (Je    '23) 
Kelley,   E.    S.  Weeds.    (Ja  '24) 

Labrador 
Greever,  G..  and  Bachelor,  J.  M.,  comps.   Soul 
of   the   city.      (F   '24) 

Louisiana 
MacLeod,  D.  C.     Swan  and  the  mule.     (Je  '23) 
Perry,   S.    G:      Come  home.      (F  '24) 

Louisville 
Looms,   G:     John-no-Brawn.      (F  '24) 

Maine 
Day,   H.    F.   Leadbetter's  Luck.   (Ja  '24) 

Mexico 
Baerlein,  H:  House  of  fighting  cocks.   (Ap  '23) 
Gerould.   K.     Conquistador.      (My   '23) 
Smith.    W.      Little    tigress.      (N    '23) 

Missouri 
Croy,  H.     West  of  the  water  tower.      (Je  '23) 

Near   East 
Forbes,   J.   R.      Quest.      (D  '23) 


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603 


Nevada 

Bower,   B.  M.,  pseud.     Parowan  bonanza.      (N 
•23) 

New   England 
Comstock,   H.    T.     Tenth  woman.      (Ag  '23) 
Minnigerode,  M.  Seven  Hills.   (D    '23) 
Williams,  W.   W.     Family.     (My  '23) 

NetD  York  (city) 
Curran,    H:    H.    Van  Tassel   and   Big   Bill.    (N 

'23) 
Field,  L.  M.     Love  and  life.     (D  '23) 
Gibbs,  G:    F.     Fires  of  ambition.      (D  '23) 
Hughes,   R.     Within  these  walls.     (Ag  '23) 
Poole,  E.     Danger.     (Je  '23) 
Scott,   C.   K.     Sinbad.    (Ag  '23) 
Scott,  L,.     Cordelia  the  Magnificent.     (Ag  '23) 
Van   Vechten,    C.      Blind   bow-boy.      (O   '23) 

New  Yoik  (city)  (East  side) 
Moore,  B.  P.  Love  child.  (D  '23) 
Moroso,   J:    A.     Stumbling  herd.      (My  '23) 

Paris 
Atkin,    G.    M.  That   which    is   passed.   (Ja    '24) 

Pennsylvania 
Loose,  K.   R.     House  of  Yost.     (Ap  '23) 

Rome 
Allinson,  A.  C.     Children  of  the  way.     (D  '23) 

Russia 
Gerhardi.    W:      Futility.       (Mr   '23) 
Libedinsky,  I.  A  week.    (Ja  '24) 

Salem 
Chase,    D.      Middle    passage.      (D   '23) 

Scotland 
Buchan,    J:       Huntingtower.        (Mr    '23) 

Singapore 
Gilman,   D.   F.     Lorraine.      (D  '23) 

South   Africa 
Shiel,  M.  P.     Children  of  the  wind.     (N  '23) 
Stockley,  C.     Ponjola.     (My  '23) 
Young,  F.  B.     Pilgrim's  Rest.     (My  '23) 

South  Dakota 
Pendexter,   H.     Pay  gravel.      (O  '23) 

Soutti  Sea  islands 
Forman,   H:   J.    Enchanted  garden.      (N   '23) 
Giraudoux,  J.     Suzanne  and  the  Pacific.     (Ap 

'23) 
Grimshaw,   B.     Nobody's   island.      (Ag  '23) 
Russell,    J:     In   dark   places.      (Ag   '23) 
Stacpoole,   H:   de  V.   S.     Garden  of  God.      (D 

'23) 

Spain 
Baroja  y  Nessi,   P/  Weeds.    (Ja  '24) 
Fish,    H.    F.    X.      Terassa   of   Spain.       (S   '23) 
Mallarm6,  C.     House  of  the  enemy.     (Ag  '23) 

Texas 

Scarborough,   D.     In   the  land  of  cotton.      (Je 
'23> 

United    States    (middlewestern) 
Boyce,   N.      Proud  lady.      (Mr  '23) 
Flandrau,  G.  H.     Being  respectable.      (Mr  '23) 
Nicholson,   M.      Hope  of  happiness.      (D  '23) 
Whitlock,   B.     J.  Hardin  &  son.      (D  '23) 
Wilson,   M.     Able  McLaughlins.      (N   '23) 
Wyatt,    E.    F.     Invisible   gods.      (Ap    '23) 

United  States    (southern) 

Sampson,  E.   S.     Comings  of  Cousin  Ann.     (F 
•24) 

United!    States    (southwestern) 
Ooolidge,    D.       Lost    wagons        (Mr    '23) 
Gregory.    J.      Timber-Wolf.       (D    '23) 
Lewis,   A.   H:     Wolfville.      (Je  '23) 
Sabin.   B.   L.      Rose   of  Santa  F6.      (D  '23) 

United    States    (western) 
Ames,   J.   B.  Man   from   Painted  Post.    (Ja  '24) 
Baxter,  G:  O.     Donnegan.      (D  '23) 


Bower,   B.  M.,  pseud.     Voice  at  Johnnywater. 

(Ap  '23) 
Brand,    M.       Alcatraz.        (Mr    '23) 
Gather,    W.   S.      Lost   lady.      (O  '23) 
Evarts,    H.    G:       Tumbleweods.       (.Mr   '23) 
Hough,   E.      North  of  36.      (S   '23) 
Lawson,   W:   P.   Lem  Allen.      (N   '23) 
Mitchell,    R.   C.     Corduroy.      (Je  '23) 
Niven,    F:    J:     The   Wolfer.      (Je   '23) 
Niven,    F:    J:      Treasure   trail.      (F   '24) 
Quick,    H.       Hawkeye.       (S    '23) 
Raine,    W:    M.       Ironheart.       (S    '23) 
Seltzer,  C:  A.  Brass  commandments.     (N  '23 
W^hite,   W^    P.     Wagon   wheel.      (My  '23) 
Willsie,   H.  Exile  of  the  Lariat.      (S  '23) 

Venezuela 
Stribling,   T:    S.    Fombombo.      (N   '23) 

Vermont 
Livhigston,    F.    B.      Under    a    thousand    eyes. 
(Ag  '23) 

M^ales 
Webb,   M.     Seven   for  a  secret.      (Je   '23) 

Washington    (D.C.) 
Fergusson,    H.      Capital    Hill.      (My   '23) 
Graves,  J:   T.,  jr.     Shaft  in  the  sky.     (Je  '23) 

West  Indies 
Phillpotts,     E.       Black,     white     and    brindled. 
(Ag  '23) 

Love    stories 
Abbott,    E.    H.  Silver    Moon.    (Ja   '24) 
Abbott,    J.    L.      Minglestreams.      (Ag    '23) 
Arden,  C     Sinners  in  heaven.     (D  '23) 
Ayres,   R.    M.  Romance  of  a  rogue.   (Ja   '24) 
Bailey,  T.     Dim  lantern.     (My  '23) 
Bell,  J:  K.     King  of  the  castle.     (Ap  '23) 
Boileau,    E.     Box   of  spikenard.      (Ag  '23) 
Coxon.    M.   Spell    of   Siris.    (Ja   '24) 
Cuthrell,   F.   Laurel  of  Stonystream.    (F  '24) 
Dell,    E.    M.       Tetherstones.       (D    '23) 
Field,   L.   M.     Love  and  life.      (D  '23) 
Gale,   Z.     Faint  perfume.      (Ap  '23) 
Gibbon,  J:  M.  Pagan  love.     (Mr  '23) 
Harker,  L.  A.   Really  romantic  age.     (My  '23) 
Larminie,    M.    R.      Echo.      (Je   '23) 
Lewis,    E.    H.      White   lightning.       (S   '23) 
Loti,    P.,   pseud.      Tale   of  the   Pyrenees.      (D 

'23) 
Mackenzie,    A.    M.      Without   conditions.       (S 

'23) 
Macnamara,   R.    S.      Stolen   honey.      (D  '23) 
Norris,    K.      Butterfly.      (N    '23) 
Oldmeadow,   E.    J.   Miss  Watts.    (Ja  '24) 
Overton,   G.   M.     Island  of  the  innocent.      (Mr 

'23) 
Patrick,    D.,    pseud.       Manuscript    of    youth. 

(S   '23) 
Pedler,  M.     Vision  of  desire.     (My  '23) 
Pertwee,   R.     Singing  wells.      (Ag  '23) 
Quirk,  V.     Different  gods.     (N   '23) 
Rideout,    H:    M.      Barbry.       (D   '23) 
Rowland,   H:   C.     Of  clear  Intent.     (P  '24) 
Ruck,   B.     Dancing  star.      (F  '24) 
Sackville-West,    V.    M.    Challenge.    (Mr    '23) 
Sutherland,    J.      Enchanted   country.      (S   "23) 
Syrett.   N.     Cupid  and  Mr  Pepys.      (N  '23) 
Wadslev,    O.   Sometimes.   (Ja    '24) 
W^eigall.  A.  E:   P.  B.     Bedouin  love.     (Ap  '23) 
Whitehill,    D.      Mary   Cinderella   Brown.      (Ag 

'23) 

Lumber    industry 
Cheyney,    E:    G.       Scott    Burton,    logger.      (S 

'23) 

Marriage 
Aiken,   E.     Hinges   of  custom.      (Ap  '23) 
Borden-Turner,    M.      Jane — our    stranger.      (N 

'23) 
Broun,    H.   C.      Sun  field.      (D  '23) 
Coxon.   M.     The  flight.      (Ap  '23) 
Hamilton.    C.      Another    scandal.      (N    '23) 
Harris,    C.   M.   House   of  Helen.      (N   '23) 
Hummel.    G:    F.      After   all.      (Ag   '23) 
Irwin.   W.   A.   I-ew  Tyler's  wives.      (N  '23) 
T>ewisohn,    I.,.    Don    Juan.       (N    '23) 
Marriage.      (.Te  '23) 

Masters,    E.    L.      Nuptial   flight.       (O   "23) 
Morgan-de-Groot.    J.       Gladys.       (D   '23) 
Norris,   C:   G.      Bread.      (O  '23) 
Phillpotts,  E.     Children  of  men.     (My  '23) 


604 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


Fiction — Ma.rria.ge~— Continued 
Samms,   A.    L.      Race.      (O   '23) 
Seymour,   B.   K.     Hopeful   journey.      (N   '23) 

Ministers    of   the    gospel 
Martin,   H.     Church  on  the  avenue.      (Mr  '23) 

Moving    pictures 
Burroughs,  E.  R.     Girl  from  Hollywood.      (D 
'23) 

Musicians 

Harraden,    B.     Patuffa.      (N   '23) 

Mystery    stories 

Balmef,    E.      Keeban.      (Je   '23) 

Bower,   B.  M.,  pseud.     Voice  at  Johnny  water. 

(Ap  '23) 
Brenn,    G:   J.     Voices.      (N   '23) 
Brlghouse,  H.     Wrong  shadow.     (Je  '23) 
Buck,   C:    N.      Alias    Red  Ryan.      (S   '23) 
Burr,   A.   R.     Wrong  move.      (My  '23) 
Camp,  C:  W.     Communicating  door.     (S  '23) 
Carlyle.  A.     Children  of  chance.     (My  '23) 
Christie.  A.     Murder  on  the  links.     (My  '23) 
Cohen,  O.  R.     Jim  Hanvey,  detective.     (F  '24) 
Dutton,    C:    J.       Shadow    on    the    glass.       (Mr 

'23) 
Farrfere,  C,  pseud.    House  of  the  secret.     (My 

'23) 
Fletcher,  J.  S.     Charing  Cross  mystery.     (Ap 

'23) 
Fletcher,    J.    S.      Copper   box.      (Ag  '23) 
Fletcher,  J.  S.    Exterior  to  the  evidence.     (Ag 

'23) 
Fletcher,    J.    S.       Lost   Mr    Linthwaite.       (Mr 

'23) 
Fletcher,  J.  S.    Markenmore  mystery.     (N  '23) 
Fletcher,  J.  S.     Mystery  of  Lynne  Court.     (F 

•24) 
Fletcher,    J.    S.  Rippling   Ruby.   (Ja   '24) 
Footner,    H.      Ramshackle    house.       (S   '23) 
Fox,   D:      Doom  dealer.      (S   '23) 
Freeman,  R:  A.*    Singing  bone.      (N  '23) 
Garrett,  W:     Friday  to  Monday.     (N  '23) 
Gartland,    H.      Globe    Hollow    mystery.      (Ag 

'23) 
Gollombe,    J.      Girl   In   the   fog.      (N   "23) 
Green,  A.   K.     Step  on  the  stair.      (Mr  '23) 
Gull,    C.   A.   E:    R.     Cinema  city.      (Je  '23) 
Hecht,    B.       Florentine    dagger.       (O    '23) 
Heller,     F.,     pseud.      Emperor's    old    clothes. 

(Ag  '23) 
Helm,    J.      Without   clues.       (D  '23) 
Hervey,    H.    Black   Parrot.      (D    '23) 
Hext.    H.,    pseud.  Thing    at    their    heels.   (Ja 

'24) 
Le  Queux,  W:  T.    Voice  from  the  void.     (Ag 

'23) 
Lincoln,  N.  S.     Meredith  mystery.     (Ap  '23) 
Locke,   G.   E.  Scarlet  macaw.   (Ja  '24) 
Macaulav.    R.      Mystery   at  Geneva.      (Mr  '23) 
MacGrath,  H.     World  outside.     (Je  '23) 
Machen,  A.     Three  impostors.     (D  '23) 
McNeile.   C.   Black   gang.    (D  '23) 
Maurice,   M.      Not  in  our  stars.      (D  '23) 
Oppenheim,    E:    P.     Michael's    evil    deeds.      (F 

•24) 
Oppenheim,    E:    P.    Seven   conundrums.      (Ap 

'23) 
Packard,    F.    L.      Four   stragglers.       (S    '23) 
Packard,     F.     li.       Jlmmle     Dale     and     the 

phantom  clew.     (Ap  '23) 
Poate,  E.  M.     Trouble  at  Pinelands.     (Mr  ^23) 
Post,    M.    D.      Monsieur    Jonquelle.      (F    '24) 
Rees,    A.    J:     Island  of   destiny.      (N    '23) 
Reynolds,   G.   M.      Lost  discovery.      (Ap  "23) 
Rogers,  J.  T.     Once  in  a  red  moon.     (F  '24) 
Rowland,    H:    C.      Return    of   Frank    Clamart. 

(Ag  '23) 
Sayers,   D.   L.     Whose   body?      (Ag  '23) 
Scott,   R.  T:   M.      Secret  service   Smith.      (D 

'23) 
Snell.    E.     Yellow  seven.      (O  '23) 
Stoker.    B.      Jewel   of  seven   stars.      (N    '23) 
Stringer,   A.    J:    A.      City   of   peril.       (Mr    '23) 
Terhune,    A.    P.       The   amateur   inn.      (D   '23) 
Terhune,  A.  P.     The  pest.     (Ap  '23) 
Thayer,    L.      Sinister   mark.       (S    '23) 
Thompson,     V.   C:      Pointed   tower.      (Mr  '23) 
Tracy,  L:     Pelham  affair.     (My  '23) 
Ty.-'on,    J:    A.     Barge    of  haunted  lives.      (My 

•23) 
Vance,   L:   J.     Baroque.      (Ag  '23) 
Wallace,   E.     Clue   of  the   new   pin.      (Je   '23) 


Wells,    C.      Affair  at   Flower  Acres.      (S  '23) 
Wells,   C.     Feathers  left  around.     (Ap  '23) 
Wells,   C.      More  lives  than  one.      (D  '23) 
Wells.   C.     Spooky  Hollow.      (N*  '23) 
Weston,  G:     Queen  of  the  world.     (My  '23) 
Williams,  V.     Orange  divan.     (N   '23) 
Williamson,    C:    N.,    and    A.    M.    Night    of   the 

wedding.     (S  '23) 
Wynne,    F.    E.      Mediterranean    mystery.      (N 

•23) 

Negro  problem 
Frank,  W.  D:     Holiday.      (O  '23) 
Toomer,   J.     Cane.      (D  '23) 

Negro  stories 
Cohen,   O.   R.     Dark  days  and  black  knights. 
(D   '23) 

Philosophical  novels 
Jacks,  L.  P.    Legends  of  Smokeover.     (Ap  '23) 

Picaresque  novels 
Baerlein,    H:    House    of    fighting    cocks.     (Ap 
'23) 

Pirates 
Allingham,    M.  Black'erchief    Dick.   (Ja    '24) 
French,  J.  L:,  ed.     Great  pirate  stories.     (Ap 
'23) 

Politics 
Curran,    H:    H.      Van    Tassel    and    Big    Bill. 

(N   '23) 
Fergusson,    H.     Capitol    hill.     (My   '23) 
Ford,  J.  L.     Hot  Corn  Ike.     (Ap  '23) 

Prehistoric   times 
Jensen,    J.    V.      The   Cimbrians.      (Ja   '24) 
Jensen,  J.  V.  Fire  and  Ice.  (Mr  '23) 

Prize  fighting 
Witwer,    H.    C:    Fighting   blood.      (My   '23) 

Prohibition 
Aiken,    E.  If   today   be   sweet.    (Ja   '24) 

Psychic    phenomena 
Pocock,   R.   S.     Wolf  trail.      (S  '23) 

Psychological    novels 
Anderson,    S.      Many   marriages.      (Mr   '23) 
Bacon,  C.     The  Grays.     (Ap  '23) 
Ben6t,    S.    V.      Jean    Huguenot.      (N    '23) 
Benson,    B:    F:      Colin.      (O   '23) 
Beresford,  J:   D.     Love's  pilgrim.     (N  '23) 
Bjorkman,   E.   A.     Gates  of   life.      (Ap  '23) 
Bodenheim,    M.      Blackguard.      (My   '23) 
Borgese,  G.   A.     RubS.     (Mr  '23) 
Comfort,   W.   C.     Public  square.     (Ag  '23) 
De  La  Pasture,  E.  E.  M.     Reversion  to  type. 

(N    '23j 
Easton,    D.    Tantalus.       (N    '23) 
Eyles,    M.    L.      Hidden   lives.       (S   '23) 
Harrison,   M.    St   L.     Survivors.      (Je   '23) 
Hesse,  H.     Demian.     (My  '23) 
Hudson,    S.      Prince  Hempseed.       (S  '23) 
Kelley,  E.  M.     Heart's  blood.     (N  '23) 
Kinney,   H:   W.      Code  of   the  Karstens.      (Mr 

'23) 
Kuyumjian,    D.      "Piracy."    (Ag    '23) 
Liawrence,    D:    H.    Kangaroo.      (N   '23) 
Mannin,    E.    E.      Martha.      (F  ^24) 
Marks,   H:   K.      Undertow.      (D  '23) 
Myers,    L.    H.      The   Orissers.      (Je   '23) 
O'Donovan,    G.     Holy   tree.      (Ap   '23) 
Owen,    J:      Robert   Gregory.       (O   '23) 
Paul,   E.   H.     Impromptu.      (My  '23) 
Poole,    E.      Danger.      (Je   '23) 
Richardson.  D.  M.     Revolving  lights.     (S  '23) 
Scott.   C.   K.      Sinbad.      (Ag  '23) 
Sergei,    R.    L.     Arlie   Gelston.      (F   '24) 
Singmaster,  E.     Hidden  road.      (Apr  '23) 
Siwertz,  S.     Downstream.     (My  '23) 
Smith,   C.  I.     Secret  drama.    (Mr  '23) 
Smith,   P.   J.-     Cables  of  cobweb.     (Je  '23) 
Waste,    H.,    pseud.   Love    days.   (Ja    '24) 
Woolf,    V.       Jacob's    room.       (Mr    '23) 

Quaker    life 
Robinson,   E.   H.      Mark  Gray's   heritage.      (D 
'23) 

Religion 
Keable,    R.       Peradventure.        (Mr    '23) 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


605 


Roman  Catholic  faith 
Ayscough,   J:,   pseud.     Dobachi.      (Ag  '23) 
Clarke.    I.    C.      Viola   Hudson.      (F   '24) 
Spearman,  F.  H.     Marriage  verdict.     (My  '23) 

Romance 
Barrington,    E.,    pseud.      Chaste    Diana.       (Je 

'23> 
Broster.  D.  K.     Wounded  name.     (Je  '23) 
Casserly,   G.     Red   marshal.      (Ag  '23) 
Christie,   R.   S.     House  of  the  beautiful  hope. 

(My  '23) 
Conrad,    J.  The    rover.   (Ja    '24) 
Dallett,    M.       Star    of    earth.       (Mr    '23) 
Farnol,    J.      Sir   John   Dering.       (D   '23) 
Glyn,    E.      Great    moment.       (S   '23) 
Haggard,    H:    R.      Wisdom's    daughter.      (My 

'23) 
Hawes,    C:    B.  Dark    frigate.    (Ja    '24) 
Hope,  E.     My  lady's  bargain.     (My  '23) 
Keith,  M.     Bells  of  St  Stephen's.     (My  '23) 
Kyne,    P:    B.       Never    the    twain    shall    meet. 

(F   '24) 
Lawrence,   C.   E.     Lass  of  the  sword.      (F  '24) 
Marie,  queen  of  Rumania.  Voice  on  the  moun- 
tain.   (Ja    '24) 
Marshall,   B.  G.     Walter  of  Tiverton.      (O  '23) 
Merwin,    S:      Silk.      (D   '23) 
Middleton,   E.      Road  of  destiny.      (O  '23) 
Oppenheim,    E:    P.      Mystery    road.       (S   '23) 
Orczy,  E.     Triumph  of  the  Scarlet  Pimpernel. 

(Mr    '23) 
Pryde,    A.,    pseud.,    and  Weekes,   R.    K.     City 

of  lilies.      (Ag  '23) 
Sabatini,    R.      Fortune's   fool.      (O  '23) 
Stephens,   J.   Deirdre.      (N  '23) 
Thurston,    E.    T.      May    eve.      (F  '24) 
Tracy,    L:     Turning  point.      (P  '24) 
Undset,    S.     Bridal    wreath.    (Ap  '23) 
Wright,    H.   B.      Mine   with    the   iron   door.    (S 

'23) 

School  and  college  life 
Grey  Towers.     (O  '23) 
McNally.  W:  J.     The  barb.      (My  '23) 
Montross,    L.,    and    L.    S.      Town    and    gown. 

(Ap  '23) 
Roberts,  C.     Scissors.     (My  '23) 
Silvers,  E.  R.     Ned  Beals  works  his  way.     (O 

'23) 

Sea   stories 
Adams,    B.     M.  Fenceless    meadows.    (Ja    '24) 
Green,    F.     Mystery  of   the   Erik.      (Ag   '23) 
Henderson,  D.  M.     Pirate  princes  and  Yankee 

jacks.      (Ag  '23) 
Mclntyre,    J:    T:      Blowing  weather.      (Je    '23) 
Paine,   R.   D.     Comrades  of  the  rolling   ocean. 

(S   '23) 
Stanford,    A.    B.      Ground   swell.       (Mr  "23) 

Short   stories 
Adams,   B.   M.  Fenceless  meadows.    (Ja   '24) 
Adcock,   A.   St  J:     With  the  gilt  off.      (D  '23) 
Allinson,  A.  C.     Children  of  the  way.     (D  '23) 
Anderson,    S.   Horses  and   men.    (Ja  '24) 
Armstrong,    M.      Puppet   show.       (S    '23) 
Ashby,    P.      Mad    rani.      (N    '23) 
Aumonier,    S.      Miss   Bracegirdle.      (D  '23) 
Austin,   F:   B.     On  the  borderland.      (D  '23) 
Bacon,   J.    D.     Blind  Cupid.     (Ap  '23) 
Barnes,   D.      A  book.      (D  '23) 
Beach,    R.    E.      Big    brother.       (F    '24) 
Beck,  L.  A.     Perfume  of  the  rainbow.     (F  '24) 
Beith.  J:   H.     Lucky  number.     (My  '23) 
Bellah,    J.    W.     Sketch   book   of   a   cadet   from 

Gascony.      (F   '24) 
Bercovici.   K.     Murdo.      (My  '23) 
Bramah,  E.     Wallet  of  Kai  Lung.     (F  '24) 
Bunin,   I.   A.    Dreams  of  Chang.      (Ja   '24) 
Bunin,  I.  A.     Gentleman  from  San  Francisco. 

(Ap  '23) 
Byrne.    D.     Changeling.      (D  "23) 
Chekhov,    A.    P.     Love.      (My  '23) 
Cobb,    I.    S.       Snake    doctor.       (S   '23) 
Cohen.    O.   R.      Dark  days  and   black  knights. 

(D    '23) 
Cohen,  O.  R.     Jim  Hanvey,  detective.     (F  '24) 
Coppard.  A.   E.     Black  Dog.      (D  '23) 
Cram,    M.   Stranger    things.    (Ja    '24) 
Curran,    H:    H.      Van    Tassel    and    Big    Bill. 

(N    '23) 
De  la  Mare,   W.  J:     Riddle.     (Ag  '23) 


Fish,   H.    F.   X.   Terassa  of    Spain.      (S   '23) 
Fisher,    D.    F.       Raw    material.        (O    '23) 
Foote,   J:   T.     Song  of   the  dragon.      (My  '23) 
Freeman,    R:   A.     Singing   bone.      (N   '23) 
Galsworthy,    J:      Captures.       (N    '23) 
Glasgow,    E.    A.    G.   Shadowy    third.    (Ja    '24) 
Gogol,   N.   V.      The  overcoat.      (D  "23) 
Grenfell,   W.   T.      Northern  neighbors.      (F  '24) 
Grey,    Z.   Tappan's    burro.    (Ja    '24) 
Hallstrom,  P.  A.  L.  Selected  short  stories.     (S 

'23) 
Harker,    L.    A.    Vagaries    of    Tod   and    Peter. 

(D    '23) 
Hart,    F.    N.     Contact.      (Ag  '23) 
Hutchinson,     A.     S.-M.     Eighth    wonder.       (N 

'23; 
Johnston,   H.   H.      Little  life  stories.      (Ap  '23) 
Kahler.    H.    M.       East    wind.        (Mr    '23) 
Lawrence,    D:    H.      Captain's    doll.      (Je    '23) 
Lewis,   A.   H:     Wolfville.      (Je  '23) 
Lucatelli,    I^.       Teodoro   the    sage.       (Ap   '23) 
Lyons,    A.    M.    N.      Fifty-flfty.       (S    '23) 
Lytle,  J:   H.     Sandy  Oorang.     (My  '23) 
Mackail,    D.    G:      According    to   Gibson.      (Ag 

'23) 
Mansfield,   K.,   pseud.      Doves'   nest.      (S  '23) 
Marquand.   J:   P.     Four  of  a  kind.      (Je  '23) 
Marriage.      (Je  '23) 

Marshall,    A.      Clinton   twins.      (Je   '23) 
Mayne,    E.    C.    Nine    of   hearts.      (D   '23) 
Montague,    C:    E:      Fiery   particles.      (Je  '23) 
Morand,    P.    Open    all    night.    (D   '23) 
Nichols,    R.    M.    B.      Fantastica.      (D    '23) 
Paine,    A.    B.      Single   reels.      (Ag   '23) 
Phillpotts,     E.       Black,     white    and    brindled. 

(Ag  '23) 
Post.   M.    D.      Randolph   Mason.       (O  '23) 
Powys,    L.      Ebony   and    Ivory.    (Mr   '23) 
Russell,   J:     In  dark  places.      (Ag  '23) 
Schreiner,   O.      Stories,   dreams  and  allegories. 

(Ap    '23) 
Scott,   D.   C.     Witching  of  Elspie.      (F   '24) 
Sinclair,    M.      Uncanny    stories.      (N    '23) 
Smith,    W.      Little    tigress.      (N    '23) 
Steele,  W.  D.     Shame  dance.     (Ag  '23) 
Street.   J.   L.     Ctoss-sections.      (N  '23) 
Tarkington,  B.     Fascinating  stranger.     (Je  '23) 
Terhune,   A.   P.     Lochinvar  luck.      (Ag   '23) 
Train.   A.   C.     Tut,  tut!   Mr  Tutt.      (N  '23) 
Webster,    H:    K.      Other  storv.      (F   '24) 
Williams.    B.    A.      Thrifty  stock.      (S   '23) 
Winslow.    T.    S.       Picture   frames.       (Mr   '23) 
Yezierska,    A.  Children   of   loneliness.   (Ja   '24) 

Collectiotin 
French.  J.  L:.  ed.     Great  pirate  stories.     (Ap 

'23) 
Georgian    storie.';.       (Ap    '23) 
Jessup,      A.,     ed.       Representative     American 

short    stories.       (O   '23) 
O.    Henry   Memorial    Award.      Prize   stories  of 

1922.       (Je    '23) 
O'Brien,    E:    J.    H.,   ed.      Best   short  stories   of 

1922.      (Je   '23) 
0'I>rien.    E:    J.    H.,    and    Cournos,    J:        Best 

BritisVi    .short    stories.        (Ap    '23) 
Pitkin,  W.  B.,  comp.     As  we  are.     (Je  '23) 
Rhys,    E.,    and    Scott,    C.    A.,    eds.    31    stories. 

(Ja  '24) 
Stork,    C:    W.,    tr.      Modern    Swedish    master- 
pieces.      (N     '23) 

Social    conditions    and    problems 
Banning,    M.    C.      Country    club    people.       (Je 

'23 ) 
Oilihs.    P.    H.      Mirlrlle   of   the   road.       (Mr   '23) 
Stern,  L..  and  E.  G.  Friend  at  court.     (S  '23) 
Tuttle,    M.    M.      Feet   of   clay.      (O   '23) 


Garrett.    G. 


Steel    industry 

Cinder  buggy.      (D   '23) 


Supernatural    phenomena 
Glasgow.    E.    A.    G.   Shadowy   third.    (Ja    '24) 
Sinclair.    M.      TTncanny    stories.      (N    '23) 

Theatre    and    stage    life 
Lascellos.    E.      Sacrificial    goat.      (N    '23) 
Stem.    G.    P..      Back    seat.      (N    '23) 
Weiman,  R.     Footlights.     (My  '23) 

Tramps 
Schoolcraft.    J:      Bird   of   passage.      (S   '23) 


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Fiction — Continued: 

Translated    stories 
French 
Ad6s,    A.,    and   Josipovici,    A.      Goha   the    fool. 

(F  '24) 
France,  A.,  pseud.     Bloom  of  life.     (My  '23) 
Giraudoux,    J.        My    friend    from    Limousin. 

(S   '23) 
Gourmont,    R.    de.      Horses   of   Diomedes.      (D 

•23) 
Huysn;ans,    J.    K.       Against    the    grain.       (Ap 

'23) 
Loti.  P.,  pseud.    Tale  of  the  Pyrenees.     (D  '23) 
Marguerltte,   V:      Bachelor  girl.      (O  '23) 
Morand,  P.     Open  all  night.      (D  '23) 
P6rochon,  E.     La  parcelle  32.      (My  '23) 

German 

Hauptmann,   G.  J.    R.  Heretic  of  Soana.     (Ja 

•24) 

Hesse,    H.     Demian.  (My  '23) 

Schnitzler,    A.      Road  to    the   open.      (Ap   '23) 

Italian 
Deledda,    G.   The    mother.   (Ja   '24) 
Lucatelli,    L.      Teodoro    the   sage.       (Ap   '23) 
Pirandello,   L.      Late  Mattia  Pascal.      (S  '23) 
Verga,   G.     Mastro-don   Gesualdo.      (D   '23) 

Norice(jian 
Bojer,   J.     Last  of  the  vikings.      (Je  '23) 
Fonhus,    M.      Trail    of   the    elk.       (O   '23) 
Hamsun,   K.     Victoria.      (Ag  '23) 
Lie,  J.  L.  L     Family  at  Gilje.     (F  '24) 
Ring,  B.     Into  the  dark.      (My  '23) 
Undset.    S.      Bridal    wreath.       (Ap    '23) 

Russian 
Bunin,    I.    A.  Dreams  of  Chang.    (Ja   '24) 
Bunin,   \.   A.     Gentleman   from  San  Francisco. 

(Ap    -23) 
Bunin.   I.    A.    The  village.      (S   '23) 
Chekhov,  A.  P.     Love.     (My  '23) 
Gogol,   N.   V.     The  overcoat.     (D  '23) 
Kuprin,    A.    L      Sulamith.      (D    '23) 
Lyeskov.    N.    L.       Sentry.       (S    '23) 
Tolstoi,    A.      Road  to   Calvary.      (Je   '23) 

Spanish 
Baroja  y   Nessi,   P.  Weeds.   (.Ja  '24) 
Blasco   Ib&fiez.    V.      Temptress.       (S   '23) 
Galvez,  M.     Nacha  Regules.     (Je  '23) 

Swedish 
HallstrOm,  P.  A.  L.  Selected  short  stories.     (S 

'23) 
Siwertz,  S.     Downstream.      (My  '23) 
Stork,    C:    W.,    tr.      Modern    Swedish   master- 
pieces.     (N    '23) 

Utopian   romances 
Wells,   H.  G:     Men  like  gods.      (Ag   '23) 

Young    people 

Babcock,   F.    S.      Under  the  law.      (Mr  '23) 
Fabian,  W.,   pseud.     Flaming  youth.      (Mr  "l'-'>) 
Hume,    C.  Wife   of   the   centaur.    (Ja  '24) 
Jones,   E.    B.   C.      Wedgwood   medallion       (Ap 

•23) 
McNaJIy,  W:  J.     The  barb.     (My  '23) 
Malcoskey,    K.    W.      Debut.inte.      (Ag  '23) 
Mlnnigerode,  M.  Seven  Hills.     (D  '23) 
Montross,     L.,    and    L.    S.    Town    and    gown. 

(Ap  '2:o 
Parrish,    A.      Pocketful   of   poses.      (Ap   '23) 
Rice,   C.   Y.     Youth's  way.      (Je   '23) 
Roberts,   C      Scissors.     (My  '23) 
Speare,    D       Gay    year.      (N    '23) 
Warren,   M.   L.     House   of  youth.      (F   '24) 
Field     book    of    common     rock.s    and     minerals. 

lx)omis,   F:   B.    (F  '24) 
Field  hockey 
Frost,   H.,  and   Cubberley,   H.  J.    Field  hockey 
and   soccer  for  women.    (D  '23) 
F'ield  hockey  and  soccer  for  women.     Frost,  H  , 

and   Otihherley,    H.    J.      (D   '23) 
Field  of  philosophy.     I.,eighton,  J.  A.     (Je  '23) 
Fiery  particles.     Montague,   C:   E:      (Je  '23) 
Fifth    .Tvcnue    parade.       Grant.    P.    S.       (Mr    '23) 
Fifty-fifty.      Lyons,    A.    M.    N.      (S   '23) 
Fifty   years.  Lawrence.    W:   (.la    '24) 


Fifty   years   on    the   old    frontier.     Cook,    J.    H. 

(D   '23) 
Figaro:    the    life   of   Beaumarchais.     Rivers,    J: 

(My  '23) 
Fighting   blood.     Witwer,   H.   C:      (My  '23) 
Fighting    instinct.    Bovet,    P.    (Ja    '24) 
Files  and  filing    (documents) 
Scholfield,  E.   E.     Filing  department  operation 
rind   control.      (F   '24) 
Filing  department  operation  and  control.     Schol- 
field,   E.    E.      (F   '24) 
Finance 
Dalton,   H.      Principles  of  public   finance.     (S 

'23) 
Lincoln,  E.  E.     Applied  business  finance.     (Mr 

'23) 
Robinson,  M.  E.     Public  finance.     (My  '23) 

Czechoslovakia 
Ra§In.  A.  Financial  policy  of  Czecho-Slovakla. 
(D    '23) 
Financial   incentives  for  employees  and  execu- 
tives.     Bloomfleld.    D.,    comp.      (My    '23) 
Financial  policy  of  Czecho-Slovakia.     RaSIn,   A. 

(D   '23) 
Financing   exports   and    Imports.      Cook,    A.    B. 

(S   -23) 
Finders.      Weaver.    J:    V.    A.      (Mr  '23) 
Fire  and   Ice.      Jensen.   J.      (Mr  '23) 
Fire   protection 

Brearley.    H.    C.      Symbol   of   safety.      (S   '23) 
Fires  of  ambition.     Gibbs.   G:   F.      (D  '23) 
First  book  of  grasses.     Chase,  A.     (My  '23) 
First  steps  in   farming.     Agee.  A.      (S  '23) 
First  year  of  the  budget  of  the  United  States. 

Dawes,    C:    G.      (Je   '23) 
Fishing 

Adams,    J.      Salmon    and    trout    angling.      (D 

'23) 
Connett.    E.    V.      Wing  shooting  and   angling. 
(Mr.  Je  '23) 
Cox.  H.  E:  de  F.    Sportsman  at  large.    (O  '23) 
Henshall,  J.  A.     Book  of  the  black  bass.     (O 
'23) 
Five  one-act  comedies.     Langner.   L.      (Je  '23) 
Flaccus,    pseud.    See   Levy.    N.    (N   '23) 
Flaming     cross     of     Santa     Marta.       Wood,     E. 

(N    '23) 
Flaming   youth.      l-'abian.    W..    pseud.       (Mr   '23) 
The  fiight.  Coxon,  M.     (Ap  '23) 
Florence 

History 
Powers.  H.  H.     Florentine  revery.     (Ag  '23) 
Florentine   dagger.       Hecht,    B.       (O    '23) 
Florentine  revery.     Powers.  H.   H.      (Ag  '23) 
Flow    of    gases    in    furnaces.  Grum-Grzhimallo, 

V.   B.   (Ja  '24) 
Flower  of   the   drama.      Young.    S.      (Ap   '23) 
Flowers 
Burgess.     T.     W.       Burgess    flower    book     for 

children.      (Ag  '23) 
Durand.    H.  Taming   the   wildings.   (Ja  '24) 
Lomas,  C.  R.     Garden  whimsies.     (My  '23) 
Mathews,    F.    S.       Book    of    wild    flowers    for 

young   people.       (Ap    '23) 
Wright,   R.   L.     Flowers    for  cutting  and  dec- 
oration.    (S  '23) 
Flowers    for    cutting   and    decoration.       Wright, 

R.    L.       (S   '23) 
Fluidity  and   plasticity.      Bingham,    E.   C.      (My 

'23) 
Folklore 
Fleming,  R.  M.  Stories  from  the  early  world. 

(Ja  '24) 
Frazer.    J.    G:      Golden    bough.       (Ap   '23) 
Fombombo.      Stribling,    T:    S.      (N   '23) 

Food 

Dictionaries  and  encyclopedias 
Ward,   A.,    ed.     Encyclopedia  of  food.    (N   '23) 
Food   production   in  war.     Middleton,  T:   H.     (D 

'23) 
Food    supply 
East,     E:     M.       Mankind     at     the    crossroads. 
(N     '2:!) 
Middkiton,   T:   H.     Food  production  in  war.     (D 

'23) 
Football 

Wiice,    J:    W.    Football.      (F    '24) 
Footlights.      Wciman,    IX.      (My   '2'') 


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607 


Foi-    eager    lovers.       Ttiggard,    G.       (Ap    '23) 
Forciug    house.       Zaiigwill,    1.       (Mr    '23) 
Ford,   Henry 
Benson,  A.  L:     New  Henry  Ford.      (O  '23) 
Marquis,   S:   S.     Henry  Ford.      (Je   "23) 
Foreign    exchange 
Buggs,    T.    H.        International    trade    balance 

in    tlieory    and    practice.       (Mr   '23) 
York,   T:   International  exchange,   normal  and 
abnormal.     (My  '23) 
Foreign   influences  in  Elizabethan   plays.   Schel- 

ling,    F.   E.    (S   '23) 
Foreign    trade 
Bishop,    A.    L.      Outlines   of   American   foreign 

commerce.       (O   '23) 
Cook,  A.  B.     Financing  exports  and  imports. 
(S   '23) 
Forestry    for    profit.      Tunis,    T.       (S   '23) 
Forests  and   forestry 

Pack,    A.    N.      Our    vanishing    forests.       (My 

■23) 
Pack,    C:    L..     School   book   of   forestry.      (Ag 

'23) 
Recknagel,  A.  B.     Forests  of  New  York  state. 

(O  '23) 
Tunis,    T.      Forestry   for   profit.      (S   '23) 
Forests   of   New  York  state.      Recknagel,    A.   B. 

(O   '23) 
Forgery 

Osborn,   A.   S.  Problem  of  proof.    (Ap  '23) 
Fortune-telling 
Rosiere,    G.        Fortune    telling    and    character 
reading.       (Ap   '23) 
Fortune  telling  and  character  reading.     Rosiere, 

G.     (An   '23) 
Fortune's  fool.      Sabatini,   R.      (O  '23) 
Forty    years    a    soldier.       Younghusband,    G:    J: 

(S   '23) 
Forty    years    in    my    bookshop.  Spencer,    W.    T. 

(Ja  '24) 
Forty   years   of   diplomacy.      Rosen,    R.    R.      (Mr 

■23) 
Found   money.      Hannay,    J.    O.      (N    '23) 
Foundations 
Hool,    G:    A.,     and     others,    eds.  Foundations, 
abutments  and  footings.    (Ja  '24) 
Foundations,    abutments   and  footings.   Hool,    G: 

A.,    and   others,    eds.    (Ja    '24) 
Foundations  of  biology.     Woodruff,   L.   L.      (Ag 

'23) 
Founder  of  Quakerism.      Knight,   R.      (S   '23) 
Founders    of    oceanography.      Herdman,    W:    A. 

(D    '23) 
Founding  of  the  Roman   empire.     Marsh,    F.    B. 

(F  '24) 
Four  famous  Americans.      Alexander,   De  A.   S. 

(S   '23) 
Four  lectures  on   relativity  and  space.       Stein- 

metz,  C:  P.     (Ag  '23) 
Four  of  a  kind.     Marquand,  J:  P.      (Je  '23) 
Four  stragglers.      Packard,   F.    L.      (S  '23) 
Fourth    dimension 
Eriksen,  R:    Consciousness,  life  and  the  fourth 
dimension.      (O   '23) 
Fourth  gospel.     Holland,  H:  S.     (F  '24) 
Fouiteen   years  a   sailor.     Kenlon,   J:      (Je   '23) 
Fox,   George 

Knight,    R.      Founder  of  Quakerism.      (S   '23) 
Fox  footprints.     Coatsworth,  E.   J.      (Ag  '23) 
France 

Biography 
As  they  are.     (F  '24) 

Description    and    travel 
Carpenter,   F.   G:     France  to  Scandinavia.     (F 

•24) 
Johnson,    W.    B.       Among    French    folk.       (Ap 

'23) 
Oakley,  A.  Hilltowns  of  the  Pyrenees.     (D  '23) 

Foreign    relations 
Lyon,  L.      vVhen  there  is  no  peace.     (Je  '23) 
Romberg,  K.-G.     Falsifications  of  the  Russian 
Orange  book.      (Ag  '23) 

History 

Elton,   G.   Revolutionary  idea  in  France,   1789- 

1871.    (Ja    "24) 
Funck-ISrentano,    F.       Middle   ages.       (Ap    '23) 
Tilley,  A.  A:,  ed.     Medieval  France.     (Ap  '23) 


Tilley,   A.   A:,    ed.     Modern  France.     (Ap  '23) 

Revolution 
Elton,  G.   Revolutionary  idea  in  France,   1789- 

1871.    (Ja  '24) 
Webster,  N.  H.     French  revolution.     (F  '24) 

Second    republic,    lSi8-lS52 
Simpson,   F:   A.   Louis  Napoleon  and  the  re- 
covery of  France.     (My  '23) 

Second  empire,  1852-1870 
Simpson,  F:  A.     Louis  Napoleon  and  the  re- 
covery  of  France.      (My   '23) 

Politics  and   government 
As   they   are.      (F   '24) 

Penman,    J:    S.      Irresistible   movement  of  de- 
mocracy.     (F  '24) 
France    to    Scandinavia.      Carpenter,    F.    G:      (F 

'24) 
Francis    of    AssisI,    Saint 
Nicholson,  D.   H.   S.     Mysticism  of  St  Francis 
of    Assisi.       (N    '23) 
Frank,    Waldo 

Munson,   G.   B.     Waldo  Frank.      (D  '23) 
Frederick   Law  Olmsted.     Olmsted,   F:    L.      (Je 
•23) 

Free   will   and   determinism 

Haas,  J:  A:  W:     Freedom  and  Christian  con- 
duct.     (Je  '23) 
Freedom    and   Christian    conduct.      Haas,    J:    A: 

W:      (Je   '23; 
Freedom  and  growth.  Holmes,  E.  G.  A.     (S  '23) 
Freedom   and    the   college.      Meiklejohn,    A.      (F 

•24) 
French    literature 

History   and    criticism 
Bacourt,     P.     D.     de.,     and    Cunliffe.     J:     W: 
French     literature     during     the     last     half- 
century.      (N    '23) 
Nitze,   W:   A.,   and  Dargan,    E.    P.      History  of 
French   literature.       (Ap   '23) 
French   literature   during  the  last  half-century. 
Bacourt,    P.    D.    de.,    and    Cunliffe,    J:    W: 
(N    '23) 
French    revolution.      Webster,    N.    H.      (P   '24) 
Friday  to  Monday.  Garrett.  W:     (N  '23) 
Friend  at  court.  Stern,  L.,  and  E.  G.     (S  '23) 
Friendly  club.     Parsons,  F.     (Je  '23) 
Friends,    Society    of 

Knight,    R.      Founder  of   Quakerism.      (S   '23) 
Friends  of  my  life  as  an  Indian.  Schultz,  J.  W. 

(F  '24) 
Friendship  indispensable.     Jefferson,   C:   E:     (D 

'23) 
From    golden   gate   to   golden   sun.      Norden,    H. 

(Ag  '23) 
From     immigrant     to     inventor.     Pupin,     M.     I. 

(D   -23) 
From    .McKinley   to   Harding.      Kohlsaat,    H.    H: 

(Ap   '23) 
From    pinafores     to     politics.  Harriman,     F.     J. 

(Ja  '24) 
From    Tangier    to    Tripoli.        Carpenter,     F.    G: 

(Mr    '23) 
From  the  deep  of   the  sea.     Smith,  C:  E:     (Ag 

■23) 
From    Vita    nuova    to    Paradiso.      Wicksteed,    P. 

H:      (My  '23) 
Frontier    and    pioneer    life 
Cook    J.   H.     Fifty  years  on   the  old  frontier. 

(D  '23) 
French,    J.    L:,    comp.    and   ed.  Pioneer  West. 

(Ja   '24) 
Townshend,    R.    B.      Tenderfoot    in    Colorado. 
(Ag  '23) 

Fruit 
Hedrick,    U.    P.      Cyclopedia   of  hardy   fruits. 
(My   '23) 

Fuel 
Leslie.    E.    H.      Motor   fuels.      (F  '24) 

Fulton,    Robert 
Parsons,  W:   B.      Robert  Fulton  and   the  sub- 
marine.     (Ap  '23) 
Fun  of   knowing  folks.      Kelly.   F.   C.      (O  '23) 
Fundamental  principles  of  purchasing.  Murphy, 
H.   D.   (Ja  '24) 


608 


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Fur 

Austin,  W:  E.     Principles  and  practice  of  fur 
dressing-  and  fur  dyeing-.     (My  "23) 
Furnaces 

Grum-Grzhimailo,     V.     E.   Flow    of    gases    in 

furnaces.   (Ja    '24) 
Trinks,  C:  L.  W.     Industrial  furnaces.     (O  '23) 
Futility.        Gerhardi,    W:        (Mr    '23> 
Future  of  painting.      Wright,  W.   H.      (S  '23) 


Gabirol,      Solomon      ben      Judah      Ibn.      See     Ibn 

Gabirol,  S.   ben  J.   (Ja  '24) 
Galicia.  Spain 

Bell,    A.    F.    G.      Spanish   Galicia.      (D    '23) 
Galsworthy,    John 
Chevrillon,   A.      Three   studies   in   English   lit- 
erature.     (S    '23) 
Gambling 
Roxolo,    Y.,      pseud.        Letters      from     Monte 
Carlo.      (S  "23) 
Game    birds 
Connett,    E.    V.      Wing   shooting   and   angling. 
(Mr,  Je  '23) 
Games 

Bo-wen,   W.    P.,   and   Mitchell,    E.   D.     Practice 

of    organized    play.       {.D    '23) 
Geister,    E.      Let's    play.      (D    '23) 
Hall,    A.    N.       Home-made    games    and    game 
equipment.      (O   '23) 
Gandhi,    Mohandas    Karamchand 

Muzumdar,    H.    T.      Gandhi    the    apostle.       (O 
'23) 
Gandhi  the  apostle.     Muzumdar.  H.  T.      (O  "23) 
Garden    of    God.      Stacpoole.    H:    de    V.    S.      (D 

'23) 
Garden  whimsies.     Lomas,   C.   R.      (My  '23) 
Gardening 
Eley,  C:  Gardening  for  the  twentieth  century. 

(Ja  '24) 
Lomas,   C.   R.     Garden  whimsies.    (My  '23) 
Rockwell,  F:   F.     Gardening  under  glass.     (Je 

'23) 
Wilder,  L.     Adventures  in  my  garden  and  rock 
garden.     (F  '24) 
Gardening   for   the   twentieth   century.  Eley,    C: 

(Ja   '24) 
Gai-djening    under    glass.      Rockwell,    F:    F.      (Je 

'23) 
Gardens 

Duryea,   M.    P.     Gardens   in   and   about   town. 

(Ag  '23) 
King,    L.      Variety   in   the   little   garden.      (S 

'23) 
Watson,    I.    B.      True   story  of  a   real   garden. 
(Je    '23) 
Gardens    in    and    about    town.      Duryea,    M.    P. 

(Ag    '23) 
Garrulities   of  an  octogenarian   editor.  Holt,   H: 

(Ja  '24) 
Garth,    able    seaman.      Price,    E.    B.      (D   '23 
Gases,   Flow  of 

Grum-Grzhimallo,     V.     E.  Flow    of     gases     in 
furnaces.   (Ja   '24) 
Gases    In    warfare 

Lefebure,  V:  Riddle  of  the  Rhine.  (Ap,  Je  '23) 
Gasoline 

Leslie,  E.  H.     Motor  fuels.     (F  '24) 
Gaspards  of  Pine  Croft.  Connor,   R.,   pseud.    (Ja 

'24) 
Gates   of   life.      Bjorkman,    E.    A.      (Ap   '23) 
Gay   year.     Speare.   D.      (N   '23) 
The   geese   fly  south.     Bourn,    M.      (Ag  '23) 
Gelatin 

Alexander,  J.     Glue  and  gelatin.     (Ag  '23) 
General   Frederick  Young.      Jenkins,   L.   H.      (O 

'23) 
Genesis   of   the   war.      Asquith,    H.    H:      (N   '23) 
Genevra's   money.      Lucas,   E:   V.      (Je   '23) 
Genius  of  America.     Sherman,   S.   P.   (My  '23) 
Gentleman    from    San    Francisco.      Bunin,    1.    A. 
(Ap   -23) 

Geography,    Historical 

Cornish,    V.      Great    capitals.       (S   '23) 
Geography   and   plays.      Stein,    G.      (Ag   '23) 


Georg  Brandes  in  life  and  letters.     Moritzen,  J. 

(Ap   '23) 
George  Frlderic  Handel.     Flower,  W.  N.     (D  '23) 
Georgian  poetry,  1920-1922.     (My  *23) 
Georgian    stories.        (Ap    '23) 
German    poetry 

Collections 
Deutsch,    B.,    and   Yarmolinsky,   A.,    eds.   Con- 
temporary   German    poetry.       (Mr    '23) 
German   revolution   and   after.      Strobel,    H.      (F 

'24) 
Germany 

Colonies 
Beer,    G:    L:     African   questions   at   the   Paris 
peace  conference.     (F  '24) 

Economic  conditions 
Moulton,    H.    G.,    and    McGuire,     C.     E:  Ger- 
many's  capacity    to   pay.   (Ja   '24) 

Foreign  relations 

Schoen,    W.    E.    von.     Memoirs    of   an   ambas- 
sador.    (F  '24) 

Occupation   by  allies,  1918- 
Allen,   H:   T.  My  Rhineland  Journal.   (Ja   '24) 

Politics  and   government 

Strobel,   H.     German  revolution  and  after.    (F 

'24) 
Germany's    capacity    to    pay.  Moulton,     H.    G., 

and    McGuire,    C.    E:   (Ja  '24) 
Getting   ready   to   be   a   mother.      Van   Blarcom, 

C.    C.       (O   '23) 
Gilbert,   William    Schwenk 

Dark,  S.,  and  Grey,  R.  W:  S.  Gilbert.    (Ja  '24) 
Ginger,    pseud.    See  Irwin,   W.   A.    (N  23,  Ja  '24) 
Girdle  oi  Aphrodite.     (S  '23) 
Girl    from    Hollywood.      Burroughs,    E.    R.      (D 

'23) 
Girl  in  the  fog.   Gollombe,  J.     (N  '23) 
Girl    next    door.       Dodd,    L.    W.       (Ap   '23) 

Girls 

Hale,   B.     What's  wrong  with  our  girls?     (Je 
'23) 
Girth   control.      Flnck,   H:   T.      (S  '23) 
Giving 

Burgess,    G.      Have    you    an    educated    heart? 
(Ag   '23) 
Gladiola   Murphy.    Sawyer,    R.      (Ap   '23) 
Gladys.     Morgan-de-Groot,   J.      (D  '23> 
Glands 

Wynne,  F:  E:   Ductless  and  other  glands.     (O 
'23) 
The  gleam.     Younghusband,   F.   E:     (Ag  '23) 
Globe  Hollow  mystery.     Gartland,  H.      (Ag  '23) 
Globe    trotter.       Phillips,    H.    I.       (Mr    '23) 
Glory  of   the   pharaohs.     Weigall,   A.   E:   P.    ii. 

(My  '23) 
Glue 

Alexander,  J.     Glue  and  gelatin.     (Ag  '23) 
Glue  and  gelatin.     Alexander,  J.     (Ag  '23) 

God 

Dix,  W:   F:,   and  Salisbury,  R.     Man  and  the 

two  worlds.      (My  '23) 
King,   B.  Discovery  of  God.   (Ja  '24) 
Gods  of  Mexico.     Spence,  L:     (D  '23) 
Gods    of  modern   Grub   street.   Adcock,   A.    St  J: 

(N    '23) 
Goha    the    fool.      Adds,    A.,    and    Josipovici,    A. 

(F  '24) 
Goiiig-ti)-Lhe-sun.      Lindsay,   N:   V.      (Ap  '23) 
Going   together.    Dutton,    L.   E.      (O   '23) 

Gold    (as    money) 
Hawtrey,  R.  G:    Monetary  reconstruction.     (D 
'23) 
Golden    bird.      Oppenheim,    J.       (Ap    '23) 
Golden  bough.      Frazer,   J.   G:      (Ap  '23) 
Golf 

Tavlor,  B.   L.     Line  o'  gowf  or  two.     (Je  '23) 
Good"  comrade  and   Fairies.     Mowrer,  P.  S.      (O 

'23) 
Good   speech.      Ripman,    W.      (My  '23) 
Goose-step.     Sinclair,  U.  B.     (My  '23) 
Gordon,      Charles     William.      See     Conner,      R., 
pseud.   (Ja  '24) 

Gorillas 

Akeley,   C.  E.     In  brightest  Africa.     (F  '24) 
Gothic    rose.      Childe,    W.    R.      (Je    '23) 


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609 


Gould,   George  Jay 

Howard,    E.       Wall    Street    fifty    years    after 

Erie.       (O   '23) 
Government    in   Illinois.      Dodd,     W.    F.,    and  S. 

(N     '23) 
Government   regulation   of  Industry 

Fay,  C:   N.     Too  much  government  too  much 

taxation.      (Ag   '23) 
Grand   tour  of  Alphonse  Marlchaud.   Wilson,   R. 

(N   '23) 
Grant,     Allan,     pseud.       See    Smith,    A.     D.    H. 

(N     '23) 
Graphic    charts    in    business.       Haskell,    A.    C, 

and  Breaznell,   J.   G.      (O   '23) 
Graphic   methods 
Haskell,    A.   C.,   and  Breaznell,   J.  G.     Graphic 

charts   in    business.       (O   '23) 

Grasses 

Chase,   A.     First  hook  of  grasses.      (My   '23) 
Grateful    elephant.  Burlingame,    E.    W.,    tr.    (Ja 

'24) 
Graven   image.  Widdemer,  M.      (D  '23) 
The   Grays.    Bacon,    C.      (Ap    '23) 
Great   adventure   of  Mrs  Santa  Glaus.     Adding- 

ton,    S.      (N   '23) 
Great  and  small  things.     Lankester,  R.     (Je  '23) 
Great    Britain 

Antiquities 
Mackenzie,    D.    A.      Ancient    man    in    Britain. 
(N   '23) 

Army 
Kipling,    R.,    comp.    and    ed.       Irish    guards    in 
the    great    vk^ar.       (O    '23) 

Colonies 
Robinson,    H.        Development    of    the    British 
Empire.      (S   '23) 

Economic   conditions 
Hobson,   J:   A.,   and  others.      Some   aspects  of 

recent   British    economics.       (O    '23) 
Milner,  A.  M.  Questions  of  the  hour.   (Ja  '24) 
Webb,  S.,  and  B.     Decay  of  capitalist  civiliza- 
tion.     (Ap  '23) 

Foreign    relations 
Angell,   N.,  pseud.   If  Britain  is   to  live.      (My 

'23) 
Asquith,  H.   H:     Genesis  of  the  war.     (N  '23) 
Das,  T.     India  in  world  politics.     (Je  '23) 
Kennedy,  A.  L.     Old  diplomacy  and  new,  1876- 

1922.      (Je    '23) 
Ward,   A.,   and  Gooch,   G:   P.,   eds.    Cambridge 

history    of   British    foreign    policy.      (D    '23) 

Russia 
Buchanan,  G:  W:     My  mission  to  Russia.     (O 
'23) 

United   States 
Bemis.  S:  F.     Jay's  treaty.     (Je  '23) 
Jefferson,    C:       E:      Friendship    indispensable. 
(D   '23) 

History 

Cave,  E.  Memories  of  old  Richmond.  (Ap 
'23) 

Muir,  R.  Short  history  of  the  British  com- 
monwealth.      (O    '23) 

Robinson,  H.  Development  of  the  British 
Empire.      (S   '23) 

Stuarts,   1603. nii 
Stone,    T.    G.      England   under   the    restoration 
(1660-1688).      (D   '23) 

19th  century 
Airlie,    M.    F.    E.      Lady    Palmerston    fnd    her 
times.      (Je    '23) 

History,    Naval 

Wheeler,  H.  F.  B.  Story  of  the  British  navy. 
(Mr    '23) 

Politics    and    government 
Muir,    R.      Politics   and   progress.      (O   '23) 
Penman,   J:    S.      Irresistible   movement   of  de- 
mocracy.    (F  '24) 
Thomson,    G.    S.       Lords    lieutenants    in    the 
sixteenth  century.      (S  '23) 
Great    capitals.       Cornish,    V.       (S    '23) 
Great    dream.       Wilkinson,    M.       (S    '23) 
Great  grandmother.     Hannay,   J.  O.     (Ag  '23) 


Great  Lakes 

Waldron,    W.      We   explore    the   Great    Lakes. 
(D   '23) 
Great    moment.      Glyn,  E.      (S  '23) 
Great   pirate    stories.      French,    J.    L:,    ed.      (Ap 

'23) 
Great    Roxhythe.      Heyer,    G.      (N    '23) 
Greater  mysteries.     Ingalese,   R:      (Ag  '23) 
Greece 

Antiquities 
Baikie,   J.   Life   of   the   ancient   East.    (Ja    '24) 
Treston,   H.   J.     Poine.      (F  '24) 
Greene,   W:    C.     Achievement    of  Greece.      (F 
•24) 
Greece,    Modern 

History 
Miller,     W:       History     of     the     Greek     people 
(1821-1921).      (N   -23) 
Greek    biology    and    medicine.      Taylor,    H:    O. 

(My   '23) 
Greek  drama 

Treston,    H.   J.      Poine.      (F   '24) 
Greek    economics.      Laistner,    M.    L.    W.,    comp. 

and  tr.      (F  '24) 
Greek  literature 
Laistner,    M.    L.    W.,    comp.    and    tr.      Greek 

economics.      (F   '24) 
Wright,   F:  A.     Feminism  in  Greek  literature. 
(F   '24) 

Collections 
Livingstone,    R.    W.,    ed.    Pageant    of   Greece. 
(Ja  '24) 
Greek    poetry 

Collections 
Girdle  of  Aphrodite.      (S  '23) 
Greeks   In   Asia   Minor 

Toynbee,    A.    J.      Western   question    in    Greece 
and    Turkey.       (Ap    '23) 
Greenhouses 
Rockwell,  F:   F.     Gardening  under  glass.     (Je 
'23) 
Gregory    I    (Gregory  the   Great)    pope   of    Rome 
Butler,  D.  E:  C.     Western  mysticism.     (S  '23) 
Grey  Towers.      (O  '23) 

Grey  Wethers.      Sackville-West,  V.   M.      (O  •23> 
Grinding   and   polishing 

Jacobs,  F:   B.     Production  grinding.     (Ag  '23) 
Ground    swell.       Stanford,    A.    B.       (Mr   '23) 
Grover  Cleveland.  McElroy,   R.   M.   (Ja  '24) 
Guide  for  the  greedy.  Pennell,   E:   (Ja  '24) 
Guide     to     the    history    of    physical     education. 

Leonard,    F.    E.    (Ja   '24) 
Guiney,    Louise   Imogen 
Tenison,   E.  M.     Louise  Imogen  Guiney.     (My 
'23) 
Gums  and  resins 

Ellis,    C.     Synthetic   resins  and   their  plastics. 
(F  '24) 


Hadrian,   emperor   of    Rome 
Henderson,   B.   W:   Life  and  principate  of  the 
Emperor  Hadrian.   (Ja  '24) 

Haeckel,    Ernst    Heinrich    Philipp    August 
Haeckel,  E.   H.  P.  A.     Story  of  the  develop- 
ment of  a  youth.      (S  '23) 

Halg,    Douglas    Haig,    1st    earl 
Dewar,    G:    A.    B.,    and    Boraston,    J:    H.      Sir 
Douglas    Haig's    command.      (Mr    '23) 

Hale,    Katherlne,    pseud.   See  Garvin,   A.   B.    (S 
'23) 

Hall,    Granville    Stanley 
Hall,   G.   S.      Life  and   confessions  of  a  psy- 
chologist.     (S   '23) 

Hamilton,   Alexander 
Vandenberg,    A.    H.      If   Hamilton    were    here 
today.     (My  '23) 

Handbook    of    business    correspondence.       Hall, 
S:    R.       (O    '23) 

Handbook  of  construction  cost.     Gillette,  H.   P. 
(My  '23) 

Handbook   of  cookery   for   a  small  hou.se.      Con- 
rad,   J.      ( Je    '23) 

Handbook  of  steel  erection.     Bland,  M.  C.     (Ag 
'23) 


610 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


Handel,  Georg   Friedrlch 

Flower,    W.   N.     George   Frideric  Handel.      (D 
•23) 
Handling  of  words.     Lee,  V.,  pseud.     (Je  '23) 
Happy    isles.  King,    B.   (Ja   '24) 
Happy    traveller.  Tatchell,    F.    (Ja    '24) 
Harcourt,  Sir  William  Vernon 

Gardiner,    A.    G.      Life    of    Sir    William    Har- 
court.    (Ag  '23) 
Harding,    Warren    Gamaliel 

Blythe,    S:   G:     Calm  review   of  a  calm  man. 
(D  '23) 
Hardman,    Sir  William 

Hardman,  W:     Mid-Victorian  Pepys.      (O  '23) 
Hardy,   Arthur   Sherburne 

Hardy,   A.   S.     Things  remembered.     (Ag  '23) 
Hardy,   Thomas 

Johnson,  L.  P.    Art  of  Thomas  Hardy.    (O  '23) 
Harilek.     Ganpat,    pseud.      (F   '24) 
Harmonium.     Stevens,  W.     (D  '23) 
Harp-weaver.     Millay,   E.    St  V.      (F   '24) 
Harry.      Boyce,    N.      (Ja   '24) 
Harvard  memories.     Eliot,  C:  W:     (Ja  '24) 
Harvard  university 

Eliot,   C:   W:     Harvard  memories.      (Ja  '24) 
Hat  of  destiny.  O'Connor,  E.   (S  '23) 
Haunch   paunch  and  jowl.      (N  '23) 
Have  you  an  educated  heart?    Burgess,  G.     (Ag 

'23) 
Hawkeye.      Quick,    H.       (S    '23) 
Hay,  Ian,  pseud.     See  Beith,  J:  H.     (My  '23) 
Head    hunters    of    the    Amazon.       Up    de    Graff, 

F.    W.       (Ap   '23) 
Health  building  and  life  extension.     Fisk,  E.   L. 
(O  '23) 

Health   centers 

Morgan,    G.       Public    relief    of   sickness.      (Ap 
•23) 
Health   of   the   runabout   child.      Lucas.   W:    P. 

(S   '23) 
Heart  of  Arabia.    Philby,   H.   St  J:   B.     (Ap  '23) 
Heart's    blood.      Kelley,    E.    M.      (N   '23) 
Heat 
Croft,  T.  W:,  and  others,  eds.    Practical  heat. 
(Ja  '24) 
Heir  at   large.      McCutcheon,   J:   T.      (O  '23) 
Helen  of  London.     Gowing,   S.   D.      (Ag  '23) 
Henry   Ford.      Marquis,    S:    S.      (Je    '23) 
Heredity 
Punnett,   R.  C.     Heredity  In    poultry.      (S  '23) 
Wiggam,    A.    E:      New    decalogue    of   science. 
(F  '24) 
Heredity   in    poultry.     Punnett,    R.    C.     (S    '23) 
Here's   to   the   gods.     Parker,   A.      (D  '23) 
Heresy 
Gebhart,    E.      Mystics    and    heretics    In    Italy 
at   the   end    of   the    Middle   ages.      (N    '23) 
Heretic   of   Soana.      Hauptmann,    G.    J.    R.      (Ja 

'24) 
Hero  of  the  Filipinos.     Russell,  C:  E:,  and  Rod- 
riguez,  F.   B.      (Ja   '24) 
Hibernation 
Morgulis,     S.      Fasting     and     undernutrition. 
(Ja    '24) 
Hidden  lives.     Eyles,  M.  L.     (S  '23) 
Hidden    road.      Singmaster,    E.      (Ag   '23) 
Hieroglyphics.       Machen,    A.       (S    '23) 
High  hurdles.     Husband,   J.      (Ag  '23) 
Highland  clans  of  Scotland.     Eyre-Todd,  G:     (F 

'24) 
Highways   and    highway   transportation.     Chat- 
burn,    G:    R:      (Ag  '23) 
Hill.   David   Bennett 
Alexander,    De    A.    S.       Four    famous    Ameri- 
cans.     (S  '23) 
Hill-towns   of  the  Pyrenees.   Oakley,   A.    (D  '23) 
Hills   give   promise.      Hillyer,    R.    S.      (D   '23) 
Hind  in  Richmond   Park.     Hud.son.  W.   H.      (Mr 

Hindu   gods  and  heroes.     Barnett,   L.   D:     (My 

Hinduism 

Barnett,  L.  D:     Hindu  gods  and  heroes.     (My 
23) 

Mukerji,   D.  G.     Caste  and  outca.st.     (Ag  '23) 
HIne,    Muriel.    See    Coxon,    M.    (Ap   '23,    Ja   '24) 
Hmges    of    custom.       .\iktn.    E.       (.\p    ■2.S) 
His    children's    children.       Train,    A.        (Mr    '23) 
His   Majesty's   embassy.      Baring,    M.      (O   '23) 


His  religion  and  hers.     Oilman,   C.      ([Ja  '24) 
Hispanic-American    relations    with    tne    United 

States.      Robertson,    W:    S.    (O   '23) 
Historic  Cambridge.     Delbos,  J.  M.     (Ja  '24) 
History 
Oman,    C:    W:    C.      Unfortunate    Colonel   Des- 

pard.     (Je  '23) 
History,    Ancient 
Cambridge    ancient   history.      (F   '24) 
Mills,  D.     Book  of  the  ancient  world.     (S  '23) 
History,    Modern 
Hayes,   C.    J.    H.,    and   Moon,    P.    T:      Modern 

history.      (O  '23) 
Wallace,  W:  K.     Trend  of  history.     (My  '23) 
Histoi'y    of    Ameiicaii    JCed    Cross    nursing.     Red 

cross.      United    Slates.      American    national 

Red   cross.      (Ap   '2:j) 
History    of   art.      Cotterill,    H:    B.       (Mr   '23) 
History  of  art.     Faure,  E.     (Ja  '24) 
History    of   Assyria.      Olmstead,    A.    T.    E.      (Ja 

•24) 
History   of   dreams.      Ratcliff,   A.   J.   J:      (D   '23) 
History      of     European      diplomacy,       1815-1914. 

Mowat,    R.    B.       (O    '23) 
Histoiv    of    French    lileiature.       Nitze,    W:    A., 

and    Dargan.    E.    P.       (Ap    '23) 
History  of   Greek  philosophy.      Fuller,   B:   A.  G. 

(O  '23) 
History    of   Italian    painting.    Mather.    F.    J.,    Jr. 

(D   '23) 
History    of    magic    and    experimental    science. 

Thorndike,  L.     (My  '23) 
History    of    medicine    in    its    salient    features. 

Libby,    W.      (My  '23) 
History    of    modern    Europe,    1878-1919.       Gooch, 

G:    P.       (O    '23) 
History  of  music.     Landormy,  P.  C:  R.      (F  '24) 
History  of  ornament.     Hamlin,  A.  D.  F.     (F  '24) 
History  of  our  country.     Halleck,  R.  P.     (O  '23) 
Histoiy   of   Rome.      Frank,   T.      (Ap  '23) 
History  of  the  American  drama.     Quinn,    A.   H. 

(F  '24) 
History    of    the    Greek    people    (1821-1921).    Mil- 
ler,  W:  .   (N   '23) 
History  of  the  later  Roman  empire.    Bury,  J:  B. 

(S   '23) 
History  of  the   New  York  public   library.      New 

York    (city).    Public    library.       (O    '23) 
Hi.storv   of  the  Pilgrims  and  Puritans.      Sawyer, 

J.    D.       (Ap    '23) 
History    of    Utopian    thought.      Hertzler,    J.    O. 

(Ag   '23) 
The   hobo.       Anderson,    N.       (S   '23) 
Holding  hands.     Irwin,   F.      (D  '23) 
Holiday.      Frank,    W.   D:      (O   "23) 
Holland    under    Queen    Wilhelmina.      Barnouw, 

A.    J.      (N   '23) 
Hollar,   Wenceslaus 

Hind.   A.   M.     Wenceslaus  Hollar.      (Ag  '23) 
Holy    treo.       O'Donovan,    G.       (Ap    '23) 
Home    economics 

Fales,   W.     Easy   housekeeping  book.      (D  '23) 
Home-made  games  and  game  equipment.    Hall, 

A.    N.       (O    '23) 
Home  vegetable-garden.     Freeman,  E.  M.     (My 

'23) 
Homely    I>illa.       Herrick,    R.       (Mr    '23) 
Homicide 

Treston,   H.   J.     Poine.      (F  '24) 
Hope   of   happiness.     Nicholson,   M.      (D  '23) 
Hope  of  the  variant.     Gehring.  J:  G:      (S   '23) 
Hopeful   journey.      Seymour,    B.    K.      (N    '23) 
Horace   (Quintus  Horatius  Flaccus) 
Showerman,    G.      Horace    and    his     influence. 

(Ag  '23  and   1922   Annual) 
Hornre  and  his  influence.     Showerman,  G.     (Ag 

'23  and  1922  Annual) 
Horatio's  story.      King.   G.   C.      (D  *23) 

Horsemanship 
Bnretto  de  Souza.  J.   M.  T:     Elementary  equi- 
tation.     (Mr  '23) 
Maddison,  I.     Riding  astride  for  girls.     (O  '23) 

Horses 

Ricketts,    P.    E:      Modern    racehorse.      (O   '23) 
Horses   ;ind    men.      Anderson,    S.      (Ja   '24) 
Horses  of   Diomedcs.     Courmont,  R.   de.    (D  '23) 

Hospital    libraries 

Jones.    K.    K.,    cd.      Hospital   library.      (N   '23) 
Hospital   library.     Jones,   E.   K..  ed.      (N  '23) 
Hot    Corn    Ike.      Ford.    .1.    L.       (Ap   '23) 


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611 


Hours    of   labor 
Federated     American     engineering     societies. 
Twelve-liour    shift     in    industry.       (Ap    '23) 
House   and   home.      Gray,    G.       (S   "23) 
House   by   the   windmill.      Rothery,    A.    E.      (Ag 

•23) 
House    decoration 
Northend,    H.    M.      Small    house,    its    possibil- 
ities.     (N    '23) 
Townsend,    R.    T.,   ed.      Book  of  building  and 
interior   decorating.      (S   '23) 
House  of   fighting  cocks.    Baerlein,   H:    (Ap   '23) 
House  of  Helen.     Harris.   C.   M.      (N  '23) 
House    of   the    beautiful    hope.      Christie,    R.    S. 

(My  "23) 
House  of  the  enemy.     Mallarm6,  C.     (Ag  '23) 
House  of  the  secret.     Farr6re,   C.,   pseud.      (My 

'23) 
House   of  Yost.      Loose.    K.    R.      (Ap   '23) 
House  of  youth.     Warren,   M.   L.      (F  '24) 
House  on   Smith   square.      (Je  '23) 
Household    appliances 

l^evser,    E.    fl.      Cheating   the   junk-pile.       (Ap 
'23) 
How  to  make  the  best  of  life.     Bennett,  A.   (Je 

■23) 
How  to  play  mah  jong.     Bray,  J.     (Je  '23) 
How  to  practice  suggestion  and  autosuggestion. 

Cou6,    E.       (Ag    '23) 
Howard    family 
Richardson,    E.    M.    E.       The    L.ion    and    the 
Rose.       (Ja    '24) 
Howard,    Keble,    pseud.      See    Bell,    J:    K.       (Ap 

•23) 
Howell,   Mrs   Elizabeth    (Lloyd) 
Whittier,  J:  G.     Whittier's  unknown  romance. 
(My   '23) 
Hudson,  W.  H. 
Hudson,  W.  H.     Letters  from  W.   H.   Hudson, 
1901-1922.      (F   '24) 
Hudson's   Bay  company 

MacDonald,  R.     Ranald  MacDonald.      (F  '24) 
Hugo,   Victor   Marie,   comte 

Haggard,   A.   C:    P.     Victor  Hugo.      (N  '23) 
Human    Australasia.      Thwing,    C:    F.       (Ap   '23) 
Human   character.       Elliot,    H.    S:    R.       (Ap   '23) 
Human   effort   and    human   wants.      McPherson, 

L.   G.      (Ag  '23) 
Human  life.   MacCabe,   F.  F.      (S   '23) 
Human   life   as   the   biologist   sees   it.     Kellogg, 

V.  L.     (Mr  '23) 
Human  side  of  Fabre.     Bicknell,  P.  F.      (D  '23) 
Humanizing  of  knowledge.     Robinson,  J.  H.    (Ja 

'24) 
Humor 
Adams,   F.    P.      So   there!      (Je   '23) 
Belloc,    H.      Modern   traveller.      (O  '23) 
Clemens,   S:  L.     Mark  Twain's  speeches.   (Ag 

'23) 
Cobb,    I.    S.     A  laugh  a  day  keeps  the  doctor 

away.     (F  '24) 
Hanemann,  H:  \V:     As  is.      (F  '24) 
Hartman,    H.    W.      Imperial    fiddlesticks.       (O 

'23) 
Herbert,   A.   P.     Man  about  town.      (F  '24) 
Herford,    O.,    ed.      Poems    from    Life.    (S    '23) 
Hodgins,  N.     Why  don't  you  get  married.     (Ja 

'24) 
Irwin,    W.  ■  A.      More    letters    of    a    Japanese 

schoolboy.      (Ja  '24) 
Leacock,   S.  B.     College  days.     (Ja  '24) 
Leacock,   S.   B.      Over  the  footlights.      (S  '23) 
Levy,    N.      Opera    guyed.       (N    '23) 
Masson,   T:   L.,  comp.     Listen  to  these.     (Mr 

•23) 
Masson,   T:  L..   ed.     Tom  Masson's  annual  for 

1923.      (F   '24) 
Phillips,    H.    I.      Globe  trotter.      (Mr  '23) 
Stewart,   D.   O.     Aunt  Polly's  history  of  man- 
kind.     (Ja    '24) 
Toogood,  H.  B.,  pseud.     Outline  of  everything. 

(F  '24) 
Ward,   C.   L.     Triumph  of  the  nut.      (F  '24) 
Wells,   C,   ed.     Outline  of  humor.      (N  '23) 
Hundred  and  one  harlequins.      Sitwell,    S.      (Ap 

'23) 
Hundred  poems.     Watson.  W:     (N  '23) 
Hungary 

History 
Teleki.  P.    Evolution  of  Htmgary  and  its  place 
in  European  history.     (My  '23) 


Tormay,    c.      Outlaw's   diary.      (Ag   '23) 
Hunting 
Cox,  H.  E:  de  F.     Sportsman  at  large.   (O  '23) 

Africa 

Akeley,   C.    E.      In   brightest  Africa.      (F  '24) 
Chamberlain,   G:    A.     African   hunting  among 

the   Thongas.      (Ag  '23) 
Shorthose,    W.    T.      Sport    and    adventure    in 
Africa.    (Je   '23) 
Hunting   a   hair   shirt.      Kilmer,    A.       (S    '23) 
Huntingtower.     Buchan,  J:     (Mr  ^23) 
Hydraulics 
King,    H.    W.,    and   Wisler,    C.    O.    Hydraulics. 
(My  '23) 

Hygiene 

MacCabe,  F.  F.  Human  life.     (S  '23) 
Hygiene,    Public 

Fiske,    E.     L.     Health    building    and    life    ex- 
tension.     (O   '23) 


I  believe  in  God  and  in  evolution.    Keen,  W:  W. 
(My   '23) 

I  can  remember  Robert  Louis  Stevenson.     Mas- 
son,   R.    O.,   ed.      (Mr  '23) 

Icebound.       Davis,    O.       (O    '23) 

Idealism 
Gentile,  G.     Theory  of  mind  as  pure  act.     (Ap 
'23) 

Ideals   of   Theodore    Roosevelt.      Cotton,    E:    H. 
(Ag   '23) 

If  Britain    is   to  live.      Angell,    N.,   pseud.      (My 

If    Hamilton     were     here     todav.       Vandenberg, 

A.    H.      (My   '23) 
If   today   be   sweet.     Aiken,    E.      (Ja   '24) 
Ignatius  Loyola.     Sedgwick,   H:   D.      (F  '24) 
Illinois 

Politics  and   government 
Dodd,   W.   F.,   and  S.     Government  in   Illinois. 

(N  '23) 
Illumination  and  its  development  in  the  present 

day.     Farnsworth,    S.      (My  '23) 
Illumination    of    books    and    manuscripts 

Farnsworth,  S.     Illumination  and  it.s  develop- 
ment in  the  present  day.      (My  '23) 
Immigrant's  day  in  court.     Claghorn,  K.  H.     (Je 

'23) 
Immigrants  in  the  United  States 
Claghorn,    K.    H.      Immigrant's    day    in    court. 

(Je  '23) 
Immigration 

Burr,  C.  S.   America's  race  heritage.     (D  '23) 
Immortality 
Simpson,    J.    Y.    Man    and    the    attainment    of 

immortality.      (Ag   '23) 
Imperial   fiddlesticks.    Hartman,   H.    W.      (O  '23) 
Imperialism 
Milner,    A.    M.    Questions    of    the    hour.       (Ja 

'24) 
Impressionism    (art) 

Gordon,  J.    Modern  French  painters.    (Ag  '23) 
Impromptu.      Paul,    E.    H.      (My    '23) 
Improving      schools       by      standardized      tests. 

Brooks,   S:   S.      (Mr  '23) 
In  brightest  Africa.     Akeley,  C.   E.      (F  '24) 
In  dark  places.     Russell,   J:      (Ag  '23) 
In  London.     O'Riordan,  C.  O'C.     (Mr  '23) 
In  memoria.m.  Feinstein,   M.      (Ap  '23) 
In  quest  of  El  Dorado.  (Jraham,  S.     (Ja  '24) 
In    the    heart    of    the    Canadian    Rockies.      Out- 
ram.   J.      (N   '23) 
In  the  land  of  cotton.    Scarborough,  D.     (Je  '23) 
In    the    land    of    Diggeldy    Dan.      Norwood,    B. 

(N    '23) 
In   the  neighborhood  of  Murray  Hill.     Holliday, 

R.    C.    (Je   '23) 
In    the    organ    lofts    of    Paris.      Stiven,    F:    B: 

(N   '23) 
In  the  wake  of  the  buccaneers.     Verrill,   A.   H. 

(My  '23) 
In  witch-bound  Africa.  Melland,    F.   H.    (Ja  '24) 

Index   numbers    (economics) 
Fisher,    I.      Making    of   index   numbers.      (Mr 
•23) 


612 


BOOK   REVIEW   DIGEST 


India 

Muzumdar,  H.  T.    Gandhi  the  apostle.     (O  '23) 

Foreign   relations 
Das,   T.   India  in  world  politics.    (Je  '23) 

Politics  and  government 
Van  Tyne,  C.  H.     India  in  ferment.     (Ja  '24) 

Social    life   and   customs 
Mukerji,   D.   G.     Caste  and  outcast.     (Ag  '23) 
India  in  ferment.     Van  Tyne,  C.   H.     (Ja  '24) 
India    in    world    politics.      Das,    T.    (Je    '23) 
Indians  of  North  America 

Garland,    H.      Book    of    the    American    Indian. 

(F  '24) 
Lindquist,   G.   E.   E.     Red   man  in   the  United 
States.      (Ag  '23) 

Legends 

Curtin,  J.,  comp.     Seneca  Indian  myths.     (Ap 

'23> 
Schultz,    J.    W.        Friends    of    my    life    as    an 

Indian.     (F  '24) 

Poetry 

Austin,   M.     American   rhythm.      (Je   '23) 
Indians    of   South    America 

Up    de    Graff,    F.    W.       Head    hunters    of    the 
Amazon.       (Ap    '23; 
Industrial   America   in    the   World   war.      Clark- 
son,  G.   B.     (Ag  '23) 
Industrial  arts 
Richards,  C:  R.     Art  in  industry.     (My  '23) 

Industrial    democracy 
Plumb,    G.   E:,   and   Roylance.   W:   G.      Indus- 
trial democracy.      (S  *23) 
Industrial  education 

Link,  H:  C:  Education  and  industry.  (O  '23) 
Industrial  furnaces.  Trinks,  C:  L.  W.  (O  '23) 
Industrial    laws   and   legislation 

Tillyard.   F.     Worker  and  the  state.      (S  '23) 
Industrial   relations 
Calder,  J:  Capital's  duty  to  the  wage-earner. 
(O    '23) 
Industrial    revolution 

Russell,    B.    A.    W:.    and   D.    W.      Prospects   of 
industrial     civilization.       (D    '23) 
Industry 
Jackson,   H:   E.     Robinson   Crusoe,   social  en- 
gineer.     (Mr  '23) 
Robertson,    D.    H.     Control   of   industry.      (Ja 
'24) 
Infants 

Care  and   hygiene 
Morse,  J:   L,.,   Wyman,   E.  T.,  and  Hill,  L.   W. 

Infant   and   young   child.      (O   '23) 
Van   Blarcom,    C.   C.      Getting  ready  to   be  a 
mother.      (O  '23) 
Infant  and  young  child.     Morse,  J:  L..  Wyman, 

E.   T.,   and  Hill,   L.  W.      (O  '23) 
Inquisition 

Nickerson,    H.      Inquisition.      (F    '24) 
Insanity  and  the  criminal  law.      White,   W:   A. 

(O    '23) 
Insect    transformation.       Carpenter,    G:    H.      (S 

•23) 
Insects 
McFee,    I.    N.      Nature's    craftsmen.      (D    '23) 
Wheeler,    W:    M.      Social    life   among    the    in- 
sects.    (D  '23) 

Development 
Carpenter,  G:   H.      Insect  transformation.     (S 
•23) 
Instinct 

Bovet,   P.     Fighting  instinct.      (Ja  '24) 
Josey.    C:    C.       Social    philosophy    of    instinct. 
(Ap   '23) 
Insurance,    Health 
Morgan,    G.       Public    relief   of   sickness.       (Ap 
'23) 
Intelligence  measurement.     Kohs,   S:  C.     (F  '24) 
Intelligence  testing.     Pintner,  R.     (F  '23) 
Interchurch    world    movement.       Report    on    the 
steel   strike  of  1919 
Olds,    :M.      Analysis   of   the   Interchurch   world 
movement  Report  on  the  steel  strike.      (Ap 
'23> 


International  aspects  of  unemployment.     Kirk- 

connell,  W.     (Ja  '24) 
International  cooperation 
Jones,    R.      American    standard    of   living   and 
world  cooperation.     (Ja  '24) 
International    exchange,    normal    and    abnormal. 

York,   T:      (My  '23) 
International   Institute  of  agriculture 

Agresti,   O.   R.     David  Lubin.     (Mr  •23) 
International    law   and    relations 
Angell,  N.,  pseud.     If  Britain  is  to  live.     (My 

'23) 
Brown,  P.  M.     International  society.     (My  '23) 
Dickinson,  G.  L.    War:  Its  nature,  causes  a 

cure.     (Ag  '23) 
Kerr,    P.,    and  Curtis,    L.     Prevention   of  war. 

(F  '24) 
Nippold,     O.       Development    of    international 

law  after  the  World  war.     (N  '23) 
Viallate,    A.       Economic   imperialism   and   in- 
ternational   relations    during    the    last    fifty 
years.     (S  "23) 
International  society.     Brown,    P.   M.      (My  '23) 
International  trade  balance  in  theory  and  prac- 
tice.    Boggs,  T.  H.     (Mr  *23) 
Internationalism 
Josey,    C:    C.      Race   and   national    solidarity. 
(Ja  '24) 
Interpretations  of  legal  history.     Pound,  R.     (Je 

'23) 
The  interpreters.     Russell,  G:  W:     (Mr  "23) 
Into  the  dark.     Ring,  B.     (My  '23) 
Into  the  east.      Curie,  R:      (S   '23) 
Introduction  to  psychology.     Brierley.  S.  S.     (D 

'23) 
Introduction     to     the     psychology     of     religion. 

Thouless,    R.    H.      (Je    '23) 
Introduction  to  the  study  of  economics.     Splawn, 

W:   M.   W.,   and  Bizzell,   W:   B.      (F  '24) 
Introduction    to    the    study    of    labor    problems. 

Watkins,    G.    S.      (Ag   '23) 
Introduction   to  the  theory  of  educational   mea- 
surements.     Monroe,    W.    S.      (Je    '23) 

Inventions 
Cressy,  E:     Discoveries  and  inventions  of  the 
twentieth  century.     (Je  '23) 
Inverted    pyramid.      Sinclair,    B.    W:      (F    '24) 
Invisible  gods.  Wyatt,   E.   F.      (Ap  '23) 
Inward  ho!     Morley,  C.  D.     (F  '24) 

Ireland 
Long,   A.   W.      Irish    sport   of  yesterday.      (S 
•23) 

History 
Johnston.    C:.     and     Spencer.     C.       Ireland's 
story.      (S    '23) 

Sinn    Fein    rebellion 
Desmond,   S.     Drama  of  Sinn  Fein.    (Je  '23) 
Phillips,    W.    A.    Revolution    in    Ireland,    1906- 
1923.      (Ja   '24) 

Politics  and  government 
Phillips,   W.   A.     Revolution  in  Ireland,   1906- 

1923.      (Ja   '24) 
Robinson,  H:     Memories.     (D  '23) 

Social   life  and   customs 
Somerville,      E.    A.    O..    and    Martin,    V.    F. 
Wheel-tracks.      (D    "23) 
Ireland's  story.     Johnston,  C:,  and  Spencer,  C. 

(S   '23) 
Irish    guards    in    the    great    war.       Kipling,    R., 

comp.    and   ed.       (O   '23) 
Irish  sport  of  yesterday.     Long,  A.  W.     (S    23) 
Iron,  Ralph,  pseud.  See  Schreiner,  O.   (Ap,  D  '23) 

Iron   age  „       „  ,        .., 

Quennell.  M.,  and  C:  H:  B.  Everyday  life 
in  the  new  stone,  bronze  and  early  iron 
ages.      (Ap   '231 

Ironheart.  Ralne,  W:  M.     (S  '23) 

Irresistible   movement   of  democracy.     Penman, 
J:  S.     (F  '24) 

Island    gold.     Williams,    V.     (Je    '23) 

Island-India.  Wit   A.    de  (Ja   '24) 

Island  of  destiny.     Rees.   A.   J:      (N  '23) 

Island  of  the  innocent.    Overton,  G.  M.     (Mr   23) 

Lsle   of  retribution.      Marshall,    E.       (Ap  '23) 

Lsles  of  illusion.      (D  '23) 

Isotopes 
Aston,  F.  W:     Isotopes.     (My  '23) 


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613 


Italy 

Church    history 
Gebhart,   E.     Mystics  and  heretics  in  Italy  at 
the   end   of   the   Middle   ages.      (N   '23) 

Fascist!    movement 
Beals,    C      Rome   or   death.      (D   '23) 
Gorgolini,  P.    Fascist  movement  in  Italian  life. 

(D  '23) 
Por.   O.      Fascism.      (F   '24) 

Industries 
Cooper,  C.  S.     Understanding  Italy.     (Ag  '23) 

Intellectual    life 
Walsh,  J.  J.     What  civilization  owes  to  Italy. 
(Je    '23) 

Politics  and  government 
Cooper,  C.   S.     Understanding  Italy.     (Ag  '23) 


J.    Hardin   &  son.     Whitlock,   B.      CD  '23) 
Jacob's  room.     Woolf,   V.      (Mr  '23) 
Jamaica 

Gaunt,  M.  E.  B.     Where  the  twain  meet.     (Mr 
■23) 
Jameson,    Leander   Starr 

Colvin.    I.    D.       Life    of    Jameson.       (S    '23) 
Jane — our        stranger.  Borden-Turner,        M. 

(N    '23> 
Japan 

Colonies 
Bigelow,   P.     Japan  and  her  colonies.      (F  '24) 

Description    and    travel 
Bigelow,  P.     Japan  and  her  colonies.     (F  '24) 
MacDonald,    R.      Ranald   MacDonald.      (F  '24) 

Foreign    relations 

Dennett,  T.  Americans  in  eastern  Asia.  (Ag 
'23  and   1922  Annual) 

Fujisawa,  R.  Recent  aims  and  political  de- 
velopment  of   Japan.      (N   '23) 

Politics  and  government 

Fujisawa,    R.      Recent    aims  and   political   de- 
velopment of  Japan.      (N   '23) 
Japan  and  her  colonies.     Bigelow,   P.      (F  '24) 
Jar  of  dreams.     Perry,  L.     (Je  '23) 
Java 

Description    and    travel 

Carpenter.  F.  G:     Java  and  the  East  Indies. 
(D   '23) 
Java    and    the    East    Indies.      Carpenter,    F.    G: 

(D  '23) 
Jay's   treaty,    1794 

Bemis,   S:   F.     Jay's  treaty.    (Je  '23) 
Jay's  tn.'.ity.     Bemis.   S:  F.      (Je  '23) 
Jean  Huguenot.     Ben6t,   S.  V.     (N  '23) 
Jtaii  Juetiues  Rousseau.     Amiel,  H:  F:     (Ap  '23) 
Jeeves.     Wodehouse.  P  G.      (D  '23) 
Jefferson      Davis,      president      of      the      South 

Ecl<enrode.   H.    M.      (N   '23) 
Jefferson  Davis.  Schaff,  M.     (Mr  '23) 
Jefferson,    Thomas 

Bible.     New    Testament.       Thomas     Jefferson 
Bible.      (D  '23) 
Jennifer   Lorn.   Wylie,    E.    (Ja   '24) 
Jeremy   and   Hamlet.   Walpole.   H.    S.      (N  '23) 
Jersey,  island 

Elliott,   B.    B.     Jersey.    (Je  '23) 
Jersey.      Elliott.    B.    B.    (Je    '23) 
Jerusalem 

McCracken,   W:  D.     New  Palestine.     (My  '23) 
Jessup.     Fuessle,   N.  A:     (Je  '23) 
Jesuits 

Sedgwick,   H:   D.     Ignatius  Loyola.      (F   '24) 
Jesus    Christ 

Hartt.    R.    L.  The   Man   himself.   (Ja    '24) 

Biography 

Berguer,    G.        Some    aspects    of    the    life    of 

Jesus.      (F   "24) 
Papini,   G.     Life   of  Christ.      (Ap   "23) 

Teaching 

Bible.  New  Testament.  Thomas  Jefferson 
Bible.      (D  '23) 


Jewel  of  seven  stars.     Stoker,  B.     (N  '23) 
Jews  in  America.     Hendrick,  B.  J.     (S  '23) 
Jews   In   the   United   States 

Hendrick,    B.    J.      Jews   in   America.       (S   '23) 
Jibby    Jones.      Butler,    E.    P.      (D    '23) 
Jigs,  tools  and  fl.Ktures.     Gates,  P.     (My  '23) 
Jim   Hanvey,    detective.      Cohen,    O.    R.      (F   '24) 
Jimmie  Dale  and  the  phantom  clew.     Packard, 

F.    L.      (Ap   '23) 
Jo  Ellen.     Black,  A.      (D  '23) 
Job    analysis    and    the    curriculum.  Strong,    E: 

K..    and   Uhrbrock,    R:    S.     (Ja   '24) 
Job   of   being  a  dad.     Cheley,    F.    H.      (F  '24) 
John-no-Brawn.     Looms,   G:      (F  '24) 
John    Randolph    of    Roanoke,    1773-1833.      Bruce, 

W:  C.     (Mr  '23) 
John    Ruskin's   letters   to   William   Ward.      Rus- 

kin.  J:     (Mr  '23) 
Johnson,   Samuel 
Houston,   P.   H.     Doctor  Johnson.      (F  '24) 

Drama 

Newton.  A.  E:     Doctor  Johnson.     (Ag  '23) 
Jokes 

^^f-^^°^-   ^'   ^-   comp.     Listen  to  these.     (Mr 
Jolly    tinker.    Rich,    F.    M.      (D    '23) 
Jordan,   David  Starr 

Jordan     D:    S.     Days   of  a   man.      (Je   '23) 
The   Jordans.  Millin,    S.    G.    (Ja   '24) 
Joseph   Conrad.      Stauffer.    R.    M.      (Je   '23) 
Journal  and  essays.     Woolman,  J:     (My  '23) 
Journal  of  Marie  Len^ru.   Len^ru,   M.   (Ja  '24) 
Journalism 

Gibbs,   P.    H.     Adventures   in   journalism.      (D 

Joys  of  the  road.  Browne,  W.  R.,  ed  (D  '23) 
Jungle  beasts  and  men.  Mukerji,  D.  G.  (Ja  '24) 
Justice 

Robinson,   N.   L.     Christian  justice.      (S  '23) 
Justice  of  the  peace.     Niven,   F:  J:      (F  '24) 
Juvenile   delinquency 

Drucker,    S.,    and    Hexter,    M.     B.       Children 
astray.       (O    '23)  v^mmren 

"^""^^lyj®   story  writing.     Robinson,    M.   L.      (My 


Kachins 

Enriquez,   C.   M.     Burmese  Arcady.      (My  '23) 
Kai  Lung's  golden  hours.     Bramah,  E.     (Ap  '23) 
Kangaroo.      Lawrence,    D:    H.      (N   '23) 
Keeban.     Balmer,    E.      (Je  '23) 
Kindness 

Burgess,    G.      Have    you    an    educated    heart? 
(Ag   '23) 
King  of  the  castle.     Bell,  J:  K.     (Ap  '23) 
Kingdom     of     the     heavens.   Nordmann,    C:   (Ja 
24) 

Kings   and   rulers 

Collins,    F:    L.      Thi.s  king  business.      (Ag  '23) 
A  kmg's  daughter.     Masefield,  J:     (F  '24) 
Kipling,    Rudyard 

Chevrillon,    A.      Three  studies  in   English   lit- 
erature.      (S    '23) 
Knowing  birds  through  stories.     Bralliar,  F.  (Mr 

Knowledge 
Burns,    q     d.      Contact    between    minds.      (D 

Stephen,  K.     Misuse  of  mind.     (My  '23) 
Knuckles  and  gloves.      Lynch,   B.      (O  '23) 
Korea 

Foreign    relations 
Dennetr,  T.     Americans  in  eastern  Asia.     (Ag 
'23   and   1922  Annual) 


Labor  and   capital 

Calder,  J:     Capital's  duty  to  the  wage-earner. 

Rosebush.    J.    G.      Ethics    of    capitalism.      (D 
Strachey.    J:    St    L.    Economics   of    the    hour. 


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Labor  and  laboring  classes 

Jackson,  H:  E.  Robinson  Crusoe,  social  en- 
gineer.     (Mr  '23) 

Montgomery,  B.  G.  de.  British  and  conti- 
nental   labour    policy.      (D    '23) 

Robertson,  D.  H.  Control  of  industry.   (Ja  '24) 

Watkins,  G.  S.  Introduction  to  the  study  of 
labor  problems.     (Ag  '23) 

Great    Britain 
Wolfe,  H.     Labour  supply  and  regulation.     (F 
'24) 

United   States 
Carroll,   M.   R.     Labor  and  politics.     (Mr  '23) 
Labor  and  politics.     Carroll,  M.  R.     (Mr  '23) 
Labor's   money.      Boeckel,    R:      (N   '23) 
Laboratory  manual  of  fruit  and  vegetable  prod- 
ucts.    Cruess,   W:  V.,  and  Christie,  A.   W: 
(My  '23) 
Labour  supply  and  regulation.     Wolfe,   H.      (F 

'24) 
Labyrinth.   Hull,   H.    R.       (N   '23) 
Labyrinths 
Matthews,  W:  H:     Mazes  and  labyrinths.  (Mr 
'23) 
Lady  Avis  Trewithen.     Parr,  O.  K.     (Ap  '23) 
Lady  Henry  Somerset.     Fitzpatrick,  K.     (D  '23) 
Lady  into  fox.     Garnett,  D:      (Ap  '23) 
Lady  Jem.     Eng  title  of  Cupid  and  Mr  Pepys. 

Syrett,    N.      (N   '23) 
Lady   of  the   salons.     Enfield.   D.   E.      (Je   '23) 
Lady  Palmerston  and  her  times.     Airlie,   M.   F. 

E.      (Je   '23) 
Lady  Rose  Weigall.     Weigall,  C.  R.  S.     (O  '23) 
Lamaism 
Ronaldshay,     L.    J:     L.    D.       Lands     of     the 
thunderbolt.       (S   '23) 
Land 

Taxation 
Codman,   J:   S.      Unemployment   and  our   rev- 
enue  problem.      (O  '23) 
Land   of  forgotten  men.     Marshall,  E.     (O  '23) 
Lands   of  the   thunderbolt.      Ronaldshay,    L.    J: 

L.    D.      (S   '23) 
Landscape    gardening 
Olmsted,   F:    L.      Frederick   Law  Olmsted.    (Je 

•23) 
Peabody,    H.    C.      Outside    the    house    beauti- 
ful.     (N  '23) 
Lane,    Ralph    Norman    Angell.    See    Angell,    N., 

pseud.      (My  '23) 
Language  and   languages 
Ogden,    C:    K.,    and   Richards,   I.    A.      Meaning 
of  meaning.      (O   '23) 
Language,  Universal 
Gu6rard,    A.    L.      Short   history   of    the   inter- 
national language  movement.     (Ap  '23) 
Lanty  Hanlon.     MacGill,  P.      (Ag  '23) 
Lass  o'  laughter.     Carter,  W.     (My  '23) 
Lass  of  the  sword.     Lawrence,  C.   E.     (F  '24) 
Last  of  the   vikings.     Bojer,   J.      (Je  '23) 
Late   Mattia  Pascal.     Pirandello,  L.      (S  '23) 
Latin   America 

Foreign    relations 
United   States 
Robertson,    W:    S.       Hispanic-American    rela- 
tions   with    the    United    States.       (O   '23) 
Stuart,  G.  H:     Latin  America  and  the  United 
States.      (F  '24) 

History 

James,    H.    G.,    and   Martin,    P.    A.      Republics 
of  Latin  America.     (F  '24) 

Politics 
James,  H.  G.,  and  Martin,  P.  A.     Republics  of 
Latin   America.      (F   '24) 

Latin   America  and  the   United   States.     Stuart, 

G.   H:      (F  '24) 
Lauderdale,   John    Maitland,   duke   of 
Mackenzie.  W:  C.  Life     and     times     of     John 

Maitland.   (Ja    '24) 
A   laugh   a   day   keeps   the   doctor  away.     Cobb, 

I.   S.      (F  '24) 
Laughter 
Greig,   J.  Y.   T.     Psychology  of  laughter  and 

comedy.     (Ag  '23) 
Laurel   of   Stoneystream.     Cuthrell,    F.      (F   '24) 


Laurier.  Dafoe,  J:  W.     (N  '23) 
Laurler,    Sir    Wilfrid 

Dafoe,  J:  W.     Laurier.     (N  '23) 
Law 

Parry,   E:   A.      What  the  judge  thought.      (S 

Pound,    R.      Interpretations    of    legal    history. 

(Je  '23) 
Shaw    of    Dunfermline,    T:    S.       Law    of    the 

kinsmen.       (O   '23) 
Law  and  Its  sorrows.    Clancey,  J.  H.     (S  '23) 
Law   of   city    planning   and   zoning.     Williams, 

F.  B.     (Ap  '23) 
Law  of  the  American  constitution.     Burdick.  C: 

K.      (Mr  '23) 
Law   of   the   kinsmen.       Shaw    of   Dunfermline, 

T:   S.      (O  '23) 
Law   reform 

Clancey,  J.  H.    Law  and  its  sorrows.     (S  '23) 
Lazy   laughter.      Boyd,   W.      (D   '23) 
Leadbetter's    Luck.  Day,    H.    F.    (Ja    '24) 
Leadership  of  advertised  brands.     Hotchkiss,  G: 

B.,  and  Franken,  R:  B:     (Je  '23) 
Leadership  of  Congress.     Brown,    G:    R.      (My 

'23) 

League  of  nations 
Dickinson,     T:     H.       United     States    and     the 

League.      (Je   '23) 
Fisher.    I.      League   or  war?       (S   '23) 
WilUams,    R.     League   of  nations   to-day.      (F 
'24) 
League  of  nations  to-day.     Williams,  R.     (F  '24) 
League    or    war?      Fisher,    I.       (S    '23) 
Learning   and  scholarship 
Robinson,    J.    H.  Humanizing     of     knowledge. 
(Ja  '24) 
Learning  and   teaching.     Mead,    A.    R.      (D   '23) 
Leather 
Wilson,   J:   A.  Chemistry  of  leather  manufac- 
ture.  (Ja    '24) 
Lee,    Robert    Edward 

Drama 
Drlnkwater,   J:      Robert  E.   Lee.      (O  '23) 
The  left  leg.     Powys,  T.   F.      (S  '23) 
Legends  of  Smokeover.     Jacks,  L.  P.     (Ap  '23) 
Lem  Allen.     Lawson,   W:   P.     (N  '23) 

Len§ru,   Marie 

Len6ru,   M.  Journal  of  Marie  Len6ru.   (Ja  '24) 
Lengthened  shadow.     Locke,  W:  J:     (N  '23) 
Less    lonely.  Kreymborg,    A.   (Ja   '24) 
Lester   F.    Ward.      Cape,   E.    P.      (Ap  '23) 
Let  France  explain.     Bausman,   F:      (S  '23) 
Let's  play.     Geister,  E.     (D  '23) 
Letter-writing 

Crowther,  M.  O.  Book  of  letters.     (Ap,  Je  '23) 
Letters.  Carlyle,    T:   (Ja   '24) 

Letters  and  papers.     Symonds,  J:   A.      (Ap  '23) 
Letters  and  reminiscences.     Dostoievsky,  F.  M. 

(S    '22) 
Letters  from  Monte  Carlo.      Roxolo,  Y.,   pseud. 

(S    '22) 
Letters  from  W.  H.  Hudson,  1901-1922.     Hudson, 

W.  H.     (F  '24) 
Letters  of  a   business  woman   to  her  daughter. 

Wilkins,    Z.    P.       (O    '23) 
Letters  of  Lord  and  Lady  Wolseley.     Wolseley, 

G.  J.  W.     (Ap  '23) 
Lew  Tyler's  wives.     Irwin,  W.  A.     (N  '23) 

Liberalism 
Machen,    J:    G.       Christianity    and    liberalism. 

(O    '23) 
Muir,    R.      Politics   and   progress.     (O   '23) 

Liberty 
Bell,   C.  On   British   freedom.    (Ja  '24) 

Libraries,  County 
MacLeod,  R.  D.     County  rural  libraries.  (F    24) 

Libyan  desert  „       „  .  ^    ^,. 

Gwatkin-Williams,    R.    S.      Prisoners    of    the 
red  desert.     (Ag  '23) 

Life  .  ,  ,  ._ 

Coffin,   J.  H.     Personality  in  the  making.      (F 

'24) 
Ellis,    H.      Dance   of  life.      (Ag  '23) 
McKerrow,    J.    C.      Appearance    of    mind.      (S 

'23) 
The   threshold.      (O  '23) 

Life   (periodical) 
Herford,    O.,    ed.      Poems   from   Life.      (S     23) 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


615 


Life  and  confessions  of  a  psychologist.     Hall,  G. 

S.     (S  '23) 
Life    and    death    of    Mrs    Tidmuss.      Blair,    W. 

(N    '23) 
Life    and    principate    of   the    Emperor    Hadrian. 

Henderson,    B.    W:   (Ja  '24) 
Life    and    times    of    John    Maitland.  Mackenzie, 

W:   C.   (Ja   '24) 
Life  and  times  of  Tut-ankh-amen.     Nahas,   B. 

(Ag  '23) 
Life    changers.    Eng    title    of    More    twice-born 

men.   Begbie,    H.      (D  '23) 
Life    of    an    American    sailor.      Gleaves,    A.,    ed. 

(N    '23) 
Life  of  Caleb  Gushing.     Fuess,  C.   M.     (F  '24) 
Life  of  Christ.     Papini,  G.     (Ap  '23) 
Life  of  Francis  Amasa  Walker.     Munroe,   J.   P. 

(S   '23) 
Life  of  Jameson.     Colvin,  L  D.     (S  '23) 
Life     of     Lord     Rosebery.       Raymond,     E:     T 

(N    '23; 
Life  of  Mrs   Humphry  Ward.     Trevelyan,   J.   P. 

(D  '23) 
Life  of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson.     Masson,  R.  O. 

(F  -24) 
Life    of    Sir    Ernest    Shackleton.      Mill,    H.    R. 

(Ag  '23) 
Life  of  Sir  William  Harcourt.     Gardiner,  A.  G. 

(Ag  '23) 
Life   of   the   ancient   East.   Baikie,    J.    (Ja   '24) 
Life   of  the   scorpion.     Fabre,   J.    H.    C.     (O   '23) 
Life    of    William    Shakespeare.      Adams,    J.    Q. 

(Ag   '23) 
Life  on  a  mediaeval  barony.     Davis,   W:   S.     (O 

'23) 
Life  unveiled.     (Ag  '23) 

Light  vi'hlch  cannot  fail.     Holt,  W.     (Mr  '23) 
Lighting 

Hayward,    A.    H.    Colonial   lighting.      (F   '24) 
Lillian    Nordica's  hints  to  singers.      Nordica,   L. 

(S  '23) 
Lincoln,   Abraham 

Stephenson,  N.  W.     Lincoln.     (Ap  "23) 
Sumner.    G.    L.      Abraham    Lincoln.      (Mr   '23) 

Fiction 
Babcock,    B.     Soul   of  Abe   Lincoln.      (Ag   '23) 
Lincoln.     Stephenson,  N.  W.     (Ap  '23) 

Lindsay,    Vachel.    See    Lindsay,    N:    V.      (Ap,    S 
'23)  ^    f< 

Line.     Sullivan,    E.   J.      (F  '24) 

Line  o'   gowf  or  two.     Taylor,  B.   L.      (Je  '23) 

The   Lion   and   the   Rose.  Richardson,    E,    M    E. 
(Ja  '24) 

Lions 

Pienaar,   A.    A.      Adventures   of  a   lion   family. 
(N    '23) 

Lip   Malvy's   wife.  Chamberlain,    G:   A.   (Ja    '24) 
Liquor  traffic 

Shadwell,   A.     Drink  in  1914-1922.      (F  '24) 
List    of    subject    headings    for    small    libraries. 

Sears.    M.    E..    ed.      (Mv    '23) 
Listen  to  these.     Masson,  T:  L.,  comp.     (Mr  '23) 
Literary   criticism 

Lee,   v.,   pseud.     Handling  of  words.     (Je  '23) 
Literary  discipline.     Erskine,   J:      (Je   '23) 
Literary   forgeries    and    mystifications 

Pearson,    E.    L.     Books   in   black   or   red.      (Je 

Literature 

Anderton,  B.     Sketches  from  a  library  window 

(Je   '23) 
Machen,  A.     Hieroglyphics.     (S  '23) 
Morley,   C.   D.     Inward  ho!      (F  '24) 
Raleigh,  W.   A.     Some  authors.     (F  '24) 

History  and  criticism 

Collins,    J.      The    doctor    looks    at    literature. 

(Ag  '23) 
Drinkwater,  J:,  ed.     Outline  of  literature.     (S 

Krskine.    J:      Literary  discipline.      (Je   '23) 
Frye.  P.  H.     Romance  and  tragedy.     (Mr  '23) 
Gosse,  E.  W:  More  books  on  the  table.     (S  '23) 
Lynd,  R.     Books  and  authors.     (Mr  '23) 
Murry.  J:  M.    Countries  of  the  mind.    (Ap  '23) 
Van  Doren,   C.     Roving  critic.      (My  '23) 
Lithuania 

^^^il^'^Sl^A.^-   J-     Lithuania  past  and  present. 
(My  '23) 


Lithuania   past   and   present.     Harrison,    E.    .F. 

(My    '23) 
Little   David.  Christie,   R.    S.   (Ja   '24) 
Little    houses.   Burr,    A.    J.    (Ja    '24) 
Little  life  stories.     Johnston,  H.   H.     (Ap  '23) 
Little   tigress.     Smith,   W.      (N   '23) 
Little  Tom.  Tille,  V.     (N  '23) 
Living  with   our    children.      Pierson,    C.    D.      (O 

'23) 
Livingstone,    David 
Crawford,    D.     Back   to   the  long  grass.      (Ag 
'23) 
Lloyd,     Elizabeth.    See    Howell,    Mrs    Elizabeth 

Lloyd.    (My  '23) 
Local  government 
Thomson,    G.    S.      Lords    lieutenants    In    the 

sixteenth   century.      (S   '23) 
Webb,    S.,  and  B.     English  local  government. 
(Mr   '23) 
Lochinvar  luck.     Terhune,    A.   P.      (Ag  '23) 
Locomotives 
Greenly,   H:     Model  steam  locomotives.     (My 
■23) 
Log-cabin  lady.     (Mr  '23) 
Lola.   Kindermann,  H.    (Je  '23) 
Lombroso,  Gina.  See  Ferrero,  G.     (S  '23) 
London 

Crime  and  criminals 
Felstead,    S.    T.      Underworld    of   London.      (S 
•23) 

Description 
Chancellor,   E.   B.     London   of  Thackeray.      (O 

'23) 
Edwards,   G:   W.     London.      (My  '23) 
Higgins,   W.     Father  Thames.      (O   '23) 
Milton,   A.     London   in   seven  days.      (O  '23) 
Nevill,  R.  H:    Yesterday  and  to-day.     (Mr  '23) 


Smith,    C.    F. 


Page.    W: 


Docks 

Sailor  town   days. 
History 
London.       (D    '23) 


(S   '23) 


Intellectual  life 
Wyndham,    H.    C.      Nineteen    hundreds.      (My 
'23) 

Social  life  and  customs 
Nevill.  R.  H:     Yesterday  and  to-day.     (Mr  '23) 
Wyndham,    H.    C.      Nineteen    hundreds.      (My 
•23) 

Views 
Hind,   A.   M.     Wenceslaus  Hollar.      (Ag  '23) 
London.     Edwards,   G:   W.    (My   '23) 
London   in  seven   days.      Milton,   A.      (O   '23) 
London    of   Thackeray.      Chancellor,    E.    B.       (O 

'23) 
Lone   winter.      Greene,    A.      (Je   '23) 
Lonely  furrow.     Diver,   M.     (S  '23) 
Long,  John   Davis 

Long,   J:    D.     America  of  yesterday.      (Je  '23) 
Lookoutman.      Bone.    D:    W:      (N    '23) 
Lord    Northcliffe.     Pemberton,    M.      (Ag  '23) 
Lords  lieutenants 
Thomson,    G.    S.      Lords    lieutenants    in    the 
sixteenth   century.      (S   '23) 
Lords     lieutenants     in     the     sixteenth     century. 

Thomson,   G.  S.     (S  '23) 
Lorenzo  Da  Ponte.     Russo,  J.  L:     (Ap  '23) 
Lorraine.      Gilman.    D.    F.      (D    '23) 
Lost   discovery.      Reynolds,    G.    M.      (Ap   '23) 
Lost    kingdom    of    Burgundy.  Casey,    R.    J.   (Ja 

•24) 
Lost   lady.      Gather,   W.   S.      (O  '23) 
Lost   Mr   Linthwaite.      Fletcher,   J.    S.      (Mr  '23) 
Lost   wagons.     Coolidge.    D.      (Mr  '23) 
Louis    Napoleon    and    the    recovery    of    France. 

Simpson,   F:   A.      (My  '23) 
Louise    Imogen   Guiney.      Tenison,    E.    M.      (My 

'23) 
Love.     Chekhov,   A.   P.      (My  '23) 
Love  and  life.  Field,  L.  M.     (D  '23) 
Love  child.     Moore,   B.   P.      (D  '23) 
Love    days.  Waste,    H.,    pseud.   (Ja    '24) 
Love's    legend.      Fielding-Hall,    H.      (Mr   '23) 
Love's  pilgrim.     Beresford,   J:   D.      (N   '23) 
The  loving  are   the   daring.  Day,   H.    F.    (Ja  '24) 
Loyola,    Ignatius,    Saint 
Sedgwick,  H:  D.  Ignatius  Loyola.     (F  '24) 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


Lubin,   David 

Agresti,   O.   R.     David  Lubin.     (Mr  '23) 
Lucas,    Emily    Beatrix    Coursolles.      See    Jones, 

E.  B.  C.     (Ap  '23) 
Luck  of   the  Kid.     Cullum,   R.      (O  '23) 
Luck  of  the  year.     Lucas,  E:  V.     (F  '24) 
Lucky  number.     Beith,  J:  H.     (My  '23) 
Lumber 

Bryant,  R.  C.     Lumber.     (My  '23) 
Lummox.     Hurst,   F.      (N   •23> 
Lunatic  at  large  again.    Clouston,  J.  S.     (S  '23) 
Lure  of  amateur  collecting.     Dexter,  G:  B.     (N 

'23) 
Lure  of  old  Paris.     Crichton,  C:  H.     (D  '23) 
Luther   Nichols.      Watts,    M.      (D   '23) 
Lydwine,  Saint 

Huysmans,  J.  K.    Saint  Lydwine  of  Schiedam. 
(Ag   '23) 


Ma   cheuk.  Winters,    E.    S.   (Ja    '24) 
MacDonald,   Ranald 

MacDonald,    R.    Ranald    MacDonald.      (F    '24) 
Machen,  Arthur 

Machen,   A.     Things   near  and   far.      (My   '23) 
Machine    tools 
Colvin,    F.    H.,   and  Stanley,   F.   A.     Machine 

tools  and   their  operation.      (Ag  '23) 
Gates,  P.     Jigs,  tools  and  fixtures.     (My  '23) 
Machine  tools  and  their  operation.     Colvin,   F. 

H.,  and  Stanley,   F.   A.     (Ag  '23) 
Machine-wreckers.      Toller,    E.       (D    '23) 
Machinery 

Design 
Leutwiler,  O.  A.  Problems  in  machine  design. 
(Ja   '24) 

Erecting 

Croft,   T.   W.,    ed.   Machinery   foundations   and 
erection.      (My   '23) 
Machinery    foundations    and     erection.      Croft, 

T.  W.,  ed.     (My  '23) 
Mackenzie   river 

Waldo,  F.  L.     Down  the  Mackenzie.     (Je  '23) 
Maclagen,    Bridget,    pseud.    See   Borden-Turner, 

M.    (N    '23) 
McKlnley,  William 
Kohlsaat,  H.  H:  From  McKinley  to  Harding. 
(Ap  '23) 
Mad  rani.     Ashby,    P.      (N  '23) 
Madame  Claire.      Ertz,    S.      (Je   '23) 
Madrid 
Erskine,  B.     Madrid,  past  and  present.     (Ag 
'23) 
Madrid,  past  and  present.    Erskine,  B.    (Ag  '23) 
Magic 
Frazer,   J.    G:     Golden  bough.     (Ap  '23) 
Thorndike,    L.    History  of   magic  and  experi- 
mental science.     (My  '23) 
Magic  flame.     Schauffler.  R.  H.     (Je  '23) 
Magic  lanterns.     Saunders,  L.     (S  '23) 
Magical    chance.      Sharp,    D.    L.      (N    '23) 
Mah  Jong 
Bray,   J.     How   to  play  mah  Jong.     (Je  '23) 
Winters,    E.    S.  Ma   cheuk.   (Ja   '24) 
Maid  of   Gloucester.     Eno,   H:   L.      (Je  '23) 
Maine   coast.      Snow,    W.      (Je   '23) 
Mainly  East.     Tweedie,  E.  B.     (My  '23) 
Mainspring.     Friedlaender,  V.  H.     (Ap  '23) 
Making  letters  pay.     Schulze,  E:   H.     (Ag  '23) 
Making    of    an    executive.   Church,     A.     H.   (Ja 

•24) 
Making  of  Australasia.    Dunbabin,   T:     (My  '23) 
Making  of  Index  numbers.     Fisher,  I.     (Mr  '23) 
Making  of  the  American  republic.     Hulbert,  A. 

B.      (F  -24) 
Making   of  the   western   mind.      Stawe'i,   F.   M., 

and    Marvin.    F.    S.      (S   '23) 
Malady  of  Europe.     Ravage,  M.   E.     (N  '23) 
Malaria 

Ross,   R.     Memoirs.    (S  '23) 
Malay  peninsula 
Curie.  R:     Into  the  east.     (S  '23) 
Norden,  H.     From  golden  gate  to  golden  sun. 
(.Ag  '23) 


Description   and   travel 
Carpenter,   F.   G:     Java  and   the  East   Indies. 
(D  -23) 
Malet,    Lucas,    pseud.     See   Harrison,   M.    St   L. 

(Je   '23) 
Man 
Wissler,  C.     Man  and  culture.     (Ag  '23) 

Origin 

Klaatsch,  H.  Evolution  and  progress  of  man- 
kind.    (S  '23) 
Simpson,   J.   Y.     Man  and  the  attainment  of 
immortality.     (Ag  '23) 
Man,  Prehistoric 
Klaatsch,  H.  Evolution  and  progress  of  man- 
kind.  (S  '23) 
Mackenzie,    D.    A.      Ancient    man    in   Britain. 

(N    '23) 
Perry,    W.    J.      Children   of   the   sun.      (D   '23) 
Quennell,    M.,    and    C:    H:    B.      Everyday   life 
in    the    new    stone,    bronze    and    early    iron 
ages.      (Ap  '23) 
Wilder,    H.    H.      Man's    prehistoric   past.      (N 
'23j 
Man   about   town.      Herbert,    A.    P.      (F  '24) 
Man  and  culture.     Wissler,  C.     (Ag  '23) 
Man  and  the  attainment  of  immortality.     Simp- 
son,   J.    Y.      (Ag    '23) 
Man    and    the    two    worlds.      Dlx,    W:    F:,    and 

Salisbury,  R.     (My  '23) 
Man  from  Maine.     Bok,  E:  W:     (My  '23) 
Man   from   Painted  Post.  Ames,   J.    B.     (Ja  '24) 
The   Man   himself.   Hartt,   R.    L.    (Ja   '24) 
Man    of   promise:    Lord   Rosebery.    Eng   title   of 
Life    of   Lord    Rosebery.      Raymond,    E:    "T. 
(N   '23) 
Management  of  the  sales  organization.     Russell, 

F:   A.      (My  '23) 
Mianchuria 
South     Manchuria     railway    company.       Man- 
churia.    (Je  '23) 
Manin,   Daniele 
Trevelyan,    G:    M.  Manin    and     the    Venetian 
revolution   of   1848.   (Ja    '24) 
Manin    and    the    Venetian    revolution    of    1848. 

Trevelyan,    G:    M.   (Ja  '24) 
Mankind   at   the   crossroads.     East,   E:    M.      (N 

•23) 
Man's  country.     Macfarlane,  P:  C.     (Mr  '23) 
Man's    prehistoric    past.      Wilder,    H.    H.       (N 

'23) 
Manuscript    of    youth.    Patrick,    D.,    pseud.      (S 

■23) 
Many    marriages.       Anderson,    S.       (Mr   '23) 
Many  memories.     Burgin,   G:   B.     (Mr  '23) 
Marbury,  Elisabeth 

Marbury,    B.     My  crystal  ball.      (F   '24) 
Marching  on.     Strachey,  R.     (D  '23) 
Marine  biology 
Flattely,   F:  W:,  and  Walton,  C:  L.     Biology 
of  the  sea-shore.     (Ap  '23) 
Mark  Gray's  heritage.     Robinson,  E.  H.     (D  '23) 
Mark  Sykes.     Leslie,  S.     (S  '23) 
Mark  Twain's  speeches.     Clemens,   S:   L.     (Ag 

'23) 
Markenmore  mystery.     Fletcher,  J.   S.     (N  '23) 
Market    milk.    Kelly,    E.,    and    Clement,    C.    E. 
(Ja   -24) 

Marketing  ,  ,    .. 

Morlarty,  W:  D.     Economics  of  marketmg  and 
advertising.      (F   '24) 

Marriage  ^    ,„„^ 

Wadia,    A.    R.      Ethics    of   feminism.      (O     23) 
Marriage.      (Je  '23)  ,      ^,,     ,„„^ 

Marriage  verdict.    Spearman,  F.  H.     (My   23) 
Martha.     Mannin,   E.   E.      (F  '24) 

Martinique  ^   ,„„^ 

Morton.    B:    A.      Veiled    empress^      (D     23) 
Marv    Cinderella    Brown.      Whitehill,    D.      (Ag 

'23) 
Mary,   Mary  quite  contrary.     Ervine,    St  J:   G. 

(Je  '23) 
Masailand  ^,      _.       , 

Mallett,    M.  White   woman   among   the   Masai. 
(Ja   '24) 
Massachusetts 

Description    and   travel 
Nutting,  W.    Massachusetts  beautiful.     (O  '23) 


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6i; 


Massachusetts  beautiful.      Nutting,  W.      (O  '23) 
Master  breed.     Dicliie,  F.     (S  '23) 
Masters  and   men.     Guedalla,    P.      (D  '23) 
Mastro-don  Gesualdo.   Verga.  G.     (D  '23) 
Matahari.       Morgenthaler,    H.    O.       (O   -23) 
Mathematics 

History 
Smith,   D:  E.     Mathematics.     (D  '23) 
Matter 

Constitution 
Born,    M.      Constitution   of   matter.      (F   '24) 
Sommerfeld,    A.    J.    W.    Atomic   structure    and 
spectral  lines.     (F  '24) 

Properties 
Blnerham,  E.  C.    Fluidity  and  plasticity.     (My 
•23) 
Matter  and   spirit.     Pratt,   J.    B.      (.Je  '23) 
Matter,  life,  mind,  and  God.     Hoernl6,  R.  F:  A. 

(S   '23) 
Maturity    of    James    Whitcomb    Riley.      Dickey, 

M.      (Ap  '23) 
Maxims   of  life   and  business.     Wanamaker,   J: 

(S   '23) 
May   eve,      Thurston.    E.    T.      (F   "24) 
Mayer,    Edwin   Justus 

Mayer.    E.    J.      A   preface   to   ;ife.      (D   '23) 
Mazes 
Matlhews,  W:  H:     Mazes  and  labyrinths.   (Mr 
'23) 
Mazes  and  labyrinths.     Matthews,   W:  H:     (Mr 

•23) 
Meaning    (psychology) 
Ogden,    C:    K.,    and    Richards,    I.    A     Meaning 
of   meaning-.       (O   '23) 
Meaning   of  child   labor.     Fuller.    R.    Q.      (S   '23) 
Meaning  of  meaning.     Ogden,  C:   K.,  and  Rich- 
ards,  I.    A.      (O   '23) 
Meat   industry  and  trade 
Clemen,    R.    A.      American    livestock    and    the 
moat   industry.      (F   '24) 
Meath,    Reginald    Brabazon,    12th    earl    of 
Meath,    R.    B.      Memories    of    the    nineteenth 
century.      (N    '23> 
Mechanics 

Poorman.    A.    P:  Applied    mechanics.   (Ja    '24) 
Medical     psychology     and     psychical     research. 

Mitchell,  T:  W.     (My  '23) 
Medicine 

Finney,    J:    M     T       The    physician.      (S   '23) 

History 
Libby,   W.     History  of  medicine  in  its  salient 

features.      (My  '23) 
Walsh,    J.    J.      Cures.      (O   '23) 

Greece 
Taylor,    H:    O.      Greek   biology   and    medicine. 
(My  '23) 
Medieval    France.      Tilley,    A.    A:,    ed.      (Ap   '23> 
Mediteiranean   cruise.  Jenkins,    R.   (Ja   '24) 
Mediterranean  mystery.     Wynne,  F.  E.     (N  "23) 
Mediterranean    sea 
Hildebrand,   A.   S.     Blue  water.     (D  '23) 
Jenkins,    R.  Mediterranean    cruise.    (Ja    '24) 
Melloney  Holtspur.     Masefield,   J:     (Je  '23) 
Melody    of    God.      Mountjoy,    D.      (D    '23) 
Melville,  Herman 
Minnigerode,     M.      Some    personal    letters    of 
Herman  Melville.     (Ag  '23) 
Memoirs.     Ross,   R.      (S   '23) 
Memoirs  of  an  ambassador.     Schoen,  W.  E.  von. 

(F  '24) 
Memories.       Robinson,     H:       (D    '23) 
Memories  of  a  shipwrecked  world.    Klelnmlchel. 

C.     (S  '23) 
Memories  of  an  active  life.  Flint,  C:  R.   (Ja  '24) 
Memories    of   later    years.      Browning,    O.      (Ag 

Memories  of  old  Richmond.  Cave,  E.   (Ap  '23) 
Memories  of  the  months.     Maxwell,   H    E       (Je 

'23) 
Memories    of    the    nineteenth    century.      Meath. 

R.    B.      (N    '23) 
Memories     of     the     Russian     court.  Viroubova. 

A.   A.     (D  '231 
Memories  of  travel.     Bryce,  J.  B.     (Mr  '23) 


Memory 
Pear,    T.    H.      Remembering    and    forgetting. 
(My  '23) 
Men    like   gods.      Wells,    H.    G:      (Ag   '23) 
Men  of  the  inner  jungle.     Alder,  W:  F.     (Je  '23) 
Men,    women    and    God.      Gray,    A.    H.      (N    '23) 
Mental    diseases 
Williams,   T.   A.     Dreads  and  besetting  fears. 
(O    '23) 
Mental    healing 

Kirk,    E.     My  pilgrimage   to  Cou6.      (My   '23) 
Walsh,   J.   J.     Cures.      (O   '23) 
Mental   suggestion 
Bousfleld,  E:  G:  P.     Omnipotent  self.     (S  '23) 
Brooks,    C.    H.,    and    Charles,    E.  Christianity 

and    autosuggestion.   (Ja   '24) 
Cou6,    B.      How    to    practice    suggestion    and 

autosuggestion.      (Ag  '23) 
Cou6,   B.     My  method.      (Ag  '23) 
Duryea,     A.     S.       American     nerves    and     the 

secret  of  suggestion.      (Je  '23) 
Gehring,  J:  G:     Hope  of  the  variant.     (S  '23) 
Mental  tests 
Brigham,    C.    C.      Study    of    American    intelli- 
gence.    (Je   '23) 
Brooks,  S:  S.    Improving  schools  by  standard- 
ized  tests.      (Mr  '23) 
Kohs,    S:    C.      Intelligence   measurement.      (F 

'24) 
Monroe,   W.   S.     Introduction  to  the  theory  of 

educational    measurements.      (Je    '23) 
Pintner,  R.     Intelligence  testing.     (F  '24) 
Mercantile  marine.     Chatterton,   E:  K.      (N  '23) 
Merchant  marine 
Chatterton,    E:    K.      Mercantile    marine.      fN 
•23) 

United   States 
Benson,   W:   S.     Merchant  marine.     (S  '23) 
Meredith  mystery.     Lincoln,  N.  S.     (Ap  '23) 
Merry   O.     Hueston,    E.      (D   '23) 
Mesopotamia 
Powell,  E:  A.     By  camel  and  car  to  the  pea- 
cock  throne.      (Ag   '23) 

Antiquities 
Baikie,    J.  Life   of   Ihe    ancient   East.   (Ja   '24) 
Messages  of  music.     Brenner,  H:     (D  '23) 
Metallurgical   laboratories 
Sisco,   F.   T.      Technical  analysi.s  of  steel  and 
steel   works    materials.       (O    '23) 

Metallurgy 

Gium-Grzhimallo.  V.   E.  Flow  of  gases  in  fur- 
naces.  (Ja  '24) 
Metals 

Vickers.  C:  Metals  and  their  alloys.  (O  '23) 
Metals  and  their  alloys.  Vickers,  C:  (O  '23) 
fVI  6t3Dhvsics 

Pratt,   J.    B.     Matter  and  spirit.      (Je  '23) 
Meteorology 

Huntington,    B.   Earth   and   sun.   (Ja   '24) 
Mexican    nation.      Priestley,    H.    I.      (^    '23) 
Mexico 

Description  and  travel 

Graham,    S.  In   quest   of  El   Dorado.    (Ja   '24) 

History 
Priestley,   H.    I.      Mexican   nation.      (D  '23) 

Politics  and  government 
Ross,    E:    A.      Social    revolution    in    Mexico. 
(Ag  '23) 

Religion 
Spence,   L:     Gods  of  Mexico.    (D  '23) 

Social   conditions 
Ross,    E:    A.      Social    revolution    in    Mexico. 
(Ag  '23) 
Michael's  evil   deeds.   Oppenheim,   E:   P.    (F  '24) 
Micro-organisms 
Kendall,   A.   I:     Civilization  and  the  microbe. 
(F  '24) 
Microscope   and   microscopy 
Heath,  C:  E.     Beginners'  guide  to  the  micro- 
scope.     (O  '23) 
Middle  ages 
Davis,   W:   S.      Life  on   a   mediaeval  barony. 
(O   '23) 


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Middle  ages — Continued 

History 

Funck-Brentano,  F.     Middle  ages.     (Ap  '23) 
Middle  ages.     Funck-Brentano,   F.      (Ap  '23) 
Middle  of  the  road.     Gibbs,  P.   H.     (Mr  *23) 
Middle    passage.      Chase,    D.      (D    '23) 
Middleton,   Arthur,    pseud.     See  O'Brien,   E:   J. 

H.    (Ap,    Je,   S   '23) 
IVIiddleton,   Richard   Barham 

Savage,   H:     Richard  Middleton.      (Ap   '23) 
Mid-Victorian   Pepys.      Hardman,   W:      (O   '23) 
Midwest   portraits.      Hansen,   H.      (D   '23) 
Midwinter.      Buchan,    J:      (N    '23) 
Mihrima.     Rice,   C.   Y.      (My  '23) 
Military  art  and  science 

Fuller,  J:  F:  C:  Reformation  of  war.      (S  '23) 

McCartney,    E.    S.    Warfare   by    land   and   sea. 
(D    '23) 

Milk 
Kelly,    E.,   and   Clement,   C.    E.     Market   milk. 
(.Ta   '24) 
Mill,   John    Stuart 

Carlyle,   T:     Letters.     (Ja  '24) 
Mills,  Quincy  Sharpe 
Luby,   J.   P.   K.     One  who  gave  his  life.      (Ap 
'23) 

Mind   and   body 

Pratt,  J.   B.     Matter  and  spirit.     (Je  '23) 
Mine    with    the   iron    door.      Wright,    H.    B.      (S 

■23) 
Mineralogy 
Loomis,    F:    B.      Field   book   of   common   rocks 
and  minerals.     (F  '24) 
Minglestreams.      Abbott,    J.    L.      (Ag    '23) 

Ministers    of    the    gospel 
McConnell,  S:  D.    Confessions  of  an  old  priest. 

(Mr  '23) 
Newton.    J.    P.      Some   living   masters   of   the 

pulpit.      (S   '23) 
Porritt,  A.     Best  I  remember.     (Je  '23) 
Mirrors    of    Moscow.     Bryant,    L.      (Ap,    Je    '23) 
Miss   Bracegirdle.      Aumonier.   S.      (D  '23) 
Miss    Watts.      Oldmeadow,    E.    J.      (Ja    '24) 

Missions 

China 
Webster,    J.    B.      Christian   education   and   the 
national   consciousness    in   China.      (F   '24) 
Mr  &  Mrs  Sen.     Miln,   L.     (My  '23) 
Mr  Podd.     Tilden,    F.      (Ag  '23) 
Misuse  of  mind.     Stephen,  K.     (My  '23) 
Model    steam    locomotives.      Greenly,    H:      (My 

'23) 
Modern    and    contemporary    European    civiliza- 
tion.     Plum,    H.    G.,    and    Benjamin,    G.    G. 

(Ag  '23) 
A     modern     college,      and     A     modern     school. 

Flexner,  A.     (F  '^4) 
Modern  France.     Tilley,    A.   A:,   ed.      (Ap  '23) 
Modern  French  painters.     Gordon,  J.      (Ag  '23) 
Modern  French  philosophy.     Gunn.  A.     (Ap  '23) 
Modern    history.      Hayes,    C.    J.    H.,    and    Moon, 

P.    T:       (O    '23) 
Modern  methods  and  the  elementary  curriculgm. 

Phillips,    C.    A.       (O   '23) 
Modern   racehorse.      Ricketts,    P.    E:      (O   '23) 
A  modern  school.      See   Flexner,    A.      A  modern 

college.      (F  '24) 
Modern    Swedish    masterpieces.      Stork,    C:    W., 

tr.      (N   '23) 
Modern  thinkers  and  present  problems.     Singer, 

E.   A.      (F  '24) 
Modern    traveller.      Belloc,    H.      (O   '23) 

Monasticism 
Sedewick,    H:    D.      Pro    vita    monastica.      (Je 

'23) 
Monetary    reconstruction.      Hawtrey,    R.    G:    (D 

'23) 

Money 
Foster,    W:    T.,    and    Catchings,    W.    Money. 

(N    '23) 
Hawtrey.     R.     G:       Monetary     reconstruction. 

(D   '23) 
I.loyd.    E.    M.    H.      Stabilisation.      (O   '23) 
Marshall,    A.      Money,    credit    and    commerce. 
(F   '24) 
Money,  credit  and  commerce.     Marshall,  A.     (F 
•24) 


Money,  love  and  Kate,  together  with  The  story 
of  a  nickel.     Porter,   E.      (F  '24) 

Monologs 
Fisk,   M.   I.     Silent  sex.      (Ag  '23) 

Monroe  doctrine 
Cresson,  W:  P.     Diplomatic  portraits.     (F  '24) 
MacCorkle,    W:    A.      Personal    genesis    of    the 
Monroe  doctrine.      (S   23) 

Monsieur  Jonquelle.     Post,   M.   D.      (F  '24) 

Monte  Carlo 
Roxolo,  Y.,  pseud.     Letters  from  Monte  Carlo. 
(S   '23) 
Monte   Felis.    Brearley,   M.      (N  '23) 
Moonshine  &  clover.     Housman,   L.     (Ap  '23) 

Moral   education 

Neumann,  ,H:      Education    for    moral   growth. 

(.Ja    -24) 
Moral    life    of    the    Hebrews.      Smith,    J:    M.    P. 

(N    '23) 
Morality  of   nature.      Gibson,    R.    W.      (O  '23) 
More  books  on  the  table.     Gosse,  E.  W:     (S  '23) 
More    letters    of   a   Japanese    schoolboy.      Irwin, 

W.  A.     (Ja  '24) 
More    lives    than    one.      Wells,    C.       (D    '23) 
More  prejudice.     Walkley,  A.   B.     (Ja  '24) 
More   twice-born    men.    Begbie,    H.      (D   '23) 
Morgan,  Emanuel,  pseud.     See  Bynner.  W.     (Ap 

■23) 

Moros 
Cloman,  S.   A.     Myself  and  a  few  Moros.     (Ja 
•24) 
Mostly  Sally.     Wodehouse,  P.  G.     (My  '23) 
The  mother.     Deledda,  G.     (Ja  '24) 
Mother   Nature.   Long,   W:   J.      (S   '23) 
Mother's  letters  to  a  schoolmaster.      (Ag  '23) 
Motion  pictures  in  education.     Ellis,  D.   C,  and 

Thoniborough,   L.      (S  '23) 
Motor  campcraft.     Brimmer,   F.   E.      (S  '23) 
Motor  camping.   Long,  J:  C,  and  J:  D.     (S  '23) 
Motor   fuels.      Leslie,    E.    H.      (F   '24) 
Motor        vehicle         engineering — the        chassis. 

Favary,  E.      (My  '23) 
Mountain    climbing.      Collins,    F.    A.      (Ja   '24) 
Mountain  verities.     Humphrey,  Z.     (D  '23) 
Mountaineering 
Bruce,   C:   G.,   and  others.     Assault  on  Mount 

Everest.     (Ja  '24) 
Collins,  F.  A.     Mountain  climbing.     (Ja  '24) 
Davenport,    E.      Vacation    on    the    trail.      (Ag 

'23) 
Freshfield.     D.     W:       Below     the     snow     line. 

(D   '23) 
Outrani,    J.      In    the    heart    of    the    Canadian 

Rockies.       (N    '23) 
Pius  XL     Climbs  on  Alpine  peaks.     (Je  -23) 
Moving    pictures 
Van  Zile,  E:  S.     That  marvel— the  movie.     (S 
■23) 
Moving  pictures  in  education 

Ellis,    D.    C,    and    Thornborough,    L.      Motion 
pictures   in   education.      (S   '23'> 
Mumbo  jumbo.     Clews,  H:,  jr.     (My  *23) 

Municipal   government 
Beman,    L.    T.,    comp.      Selected    articles    on 
current   problems  in   municipal   government. 
(S  '23) 

Great   Britain 
Webb,    S.,   and   B.      English   local   government. 
(Mr  '23) 
Munition  workers 
Wolfe,    H.     Labour  supply  and   regulation.   (F 
'24) 
Murder  on    the   links.      Christie,   A.      (My   '23) 
Murdo.     Bercovici,  K.     (My  '23) 

ivi  usic 

Brenner.    H:      Mes.sages    of    music.      (D   '23) 
Finck,   H:   T.     Mu.sical  progress.      (F  '24) 
Saint-Saens,    C.     Outspoken   essays   on   music. 
(F  '24) 

History 

Landormy,  P.  C:  R.     History  of  music.  (F  '24) 

United    States 
Damrosch,   W.     My  musical   life.      (Ja   '24) 
Lahee.    H:    C:     Annals   of  music   In    America. 
(Mr   '23) 
Musical   progress.      Finck,    H:    T.      (F  '24) 

Musicians  ,  ,     .  .         /xt  .oo. 

Auer,   L.     My  long  life  in  music.     (N    23) 


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My  adventures   in  Bolshevik  Russia.     Keun,  O. 

(O   '23) 
My  crystal  ball.     Marbury,  E.     (F  '24) 
My    diplomatic    education.      Richardson,    N.      (F 

'24) 
My     disillusionment      in     Russia.  Goldman,     E. 

(Ja  '24) 
My  experiences  at  Scotland  yard.     Thomson,  B. 

H.     (Mr  '23) 
My  forty  years  in  New  York.     Parkhurst,  C:  H: 

(Ja  '24) 
My    friend    from    Limousin.      Giraudoux,    J.      (S 

•23) 
My    garden    of    memory.      Wiggin,    K.    D.       (N 

•23) 
My    journey    round    the    world.      Northcliffe,    A. 

C:  W:  H.     (S  '23) 
My  lady's  bargain.     Hope,  E.     (My  '23) 
My  long  life  in  music.     Auer,   L.      (N  '23) 
My  method.     Cou6,   E.      (Ag  '23) 
My  mission   to   Russia.      Buchanan,   G:   W:      (O 

•23) 
My  musical  life.     Damrosch,W.     (Ja  '24) 
My  Nestorian  adventure  in  China.     Holm,  F.  V. 

(O   '23) 
My  note-book  at  home  and  abroad.     De  Windt, 

H.      (D   '23) 
My  pilgrimage  to  Cou6.     Kirk,  E.     (My  '23) 
My  Rhineland  Journal.     Allen,  H:  T.     (Ja  '24) 
My    thirty    years    in    baseball.      McGraw,    J:    J. 

(Ag  '23) 
My  two  countries.     Astor,   N.      (My  '23) 
My  war  experiences.     Frederick  V:   W:   A.      (S 

'23) 
My  windows  on  the  street  of  the  world.    Mavor, 

J.      (.Ta  '24) 
Myself  and   a  few   Moros.     Cloman,    S.    A.      (Ja 

'24) 
Myself  not  least.     Vivian,  H.     (F  '24) 
Mystery  at  Geneva.     Macaulay,  R.     (Mr  '23) 
Mystery   of   Lynne    Court.      Fletcher,    J.    S.      (F 

•24) 
Mys.tery  of  the  Erik.     Green,   F.     (Ag  '23) 
Mystery  road.     Oppenheim,  E:  P.     (S  '23) 
Mystical    quest    of    Christ.      Horton,    R.    F.      (N 

'23) 
Mysticism 
Butler,  D.  E:  C.     Western  mysticism.     (S  '23) 
Gebhart,    E.      Mystics    and    heretics    in    Italy 

at   the  end  of  the  Middle  ages.      (N  '23) 
Hare.  W:  L.  Mysticism  of  east  and  west.     (N 

•23) 
Horton,    R.   F.     Mystical   quest  of  Christ.      (N 

•23) 
Nicholson,   D.   H.   S.     Mysticism  of  St  Francis 

of  Assisi.      (N  ^23) 
Mysticism  of  east  and  west.     Hare,   W:   L.      (N 

'23) 
Mysticism    of   St   Francis   of   Assisi.      Nicholson, 

D.    H.    S.      (N   '23) 
Mystics  and  heretics  in  Italy  at  the  end  of  the 

Middle  ages.  Gebhart,   E.      (N   '23) 
Mythology,    Aztec 

Spence,    L:      Gods    of   Mexico.      (D    '23) 
Mythology,  Hindu 
Barnett,  L.  D:     Hindu  gods  find  heroes.     (My 

'23) 


N.    N.,    pseud.    See   Pennell,    E.    (Ja    '24) 
Nacha    Regules.     Galvez,   M.      (Je   '23) 
Nameless  River.   Roe,  V.  E.     (D  '23) 
Napoleon    III,   emperor  of  the   French 
Simpson,   F:   A.     Louis  Napoleon   and   the   re- 
covery of  France.      (My  '23) 
Narratives   in  verse.     Mitchell,   R.    C.      (Ag   '23) 
National  characteristics,  American 

Sherman,  S.  P.     Genius  of  America.     (My  '23) 
Nationalism   and   nationality 
Josey,    C:    C.    Race    and    national     solidaritv. 
(.Ta  '24) 
Natural   history 

India 

Brander,    A.    A.    D.      Wild   animals   in    Central 
India.      (F  '24) 

Natural   history   of   South   Africa:    Birds       Fitz- 
simons,  F:  W:     (F  '24) 


Nature 
Hudson,  W.  H.     Hind  in  Richmond  Park.  (Mr 

'23) 
Long,  W:  J.     Mother  Nature.     (S  '23) 
Massingham,  H.  J:     Untrodden  ways.     (D  '23) 
Maxwell,  H.  E.     Memories  of  the  months.   (Je 
'23) 
Nature    and   human   nature.      Alexander,    H.    B. 

(D    '23) 
Nature    in    American    literature.      Foerster,    N. 

(Ap  '23) 
Nature  in  literature 
Foerster,   N.      Nature  in   American   literature. 
(Ap   '23) 
Nature's   craftsmen.     McFee,    I.    N.      (D   '23) 
Ned  Beals  works  his  way.    Silvers,  E.  R.    (O  '23) 
Neighborhood   in   nation-building.   Woods,   R.    A. 

(Je  '23) 
Nervous  system 

Diseases 
Duryea,    A.     S.      American    nerves    and    the 

secret    of    suggestion.      (Je    '23) 
Gehring,   J:  G:     Hope  of  the  variant.     (S  '23) 
Stekel,     W.       Conditions    of    nervous    anxiety 
and  their  treatment.      (Je  '23) 
Nestorian  tablet  of  Sian-fu 

Holm,    F.    V.        My    Nestorian    adventure    in 
China.       (O    '23) 

Netherlands 

Description    and    travel 
Carpenter,   F.  G:     France  to  Scandinavia.     (F 
•24) 

History 
Barnouw,    A.    J.      Holland    under    Queen    Wil- 

helmina.      (N    '23) 
Never  the  twain  shall  meet.     Kyne,   P:   B.     (F 

•24) 
New  Argentina.     Koebel.  W:  H:     (Ag  '23) 
The    new   Bo.swell.      Freeman.    R.    M.      (S   '23) 
New   capitalism.      Baldus,   S.   A.      (O  '23) 
New  decalogue  of  science.     Wiggam,  A.   E:     (F 

•24) 
New  education   in  Europe.     Roman,   F:  W:     (S 

•23) 

New    England 

History 

Adams.    J.    T.     Revolutionary    New    England, 
1691-1776.      (N    '23) 

New  Guinea 

Overell,   L.      Woman's  impressions  of  German 
New   Guinea.      (O   '23) 
New  Hampshire.    Frost,   R.      (D   '23) 
New    Hebrides 

Description    and    travel 
Isles    of    illusion.       (D    '23) 
New   Henry   Ford.      Benson,    A.    L:      (O   '23) 

New  Jersey 

Description  and  travel 
Torrey,    B.    H.,    and    others.    New    York    walk 
book.    (F   ^24) 
New  lands.     Fort.  C:     (Ja  ^24) 
New   light   upon   Indian   philosophy.     Chetty,   D. 

G.      (D    '23) 
New   Mexico 

Description  and  travel 
Graham,   S.     In  quest  of  El  Dorado.     (Ja  '24) 
'24) 
New  old-world.     Dickinson,   T:   H.      (Je  '23) 
New  Palestine.     McCrackan,  W:  D.     (My  '23) 
New  Poland.     Winter,   N.  O.     (F  '24) 
New  province   for  law   and   order.      Higgins,   H: 

B.      (F  '24) 
New  psychology  and  the  parent.     Miller,  H.  C. 

(Ag  '23) 
New  Testament;  an  American  translation.  Good- 
speed,    E.    J.,    tr.      (D   '23) 
New  York   (city) 

Description 
Dreiser,   T.     Color  of  a  great  city.      (F  '24) 
Hollidav.   R.   C.     In   the  neighborhood  of  Mur- 

rnv    Hill.       (Je    '23) 
Rider.  F..  ed.     Rider's  New  York  city.     (O  '231 
Torrey,    R.    L.,    and    others.    New    York    walk 
book.    (F    '24) 


620 


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New  York  (city) — Continued 

Description    and    travel 
Torrey,    R.    L..,    and    others.    New    York    walk 
book.    (F    '24) 

Monuments 
Saltus.    J:    S.,    and   Tisn6,    W.    E.    Statues   of 
New  York.     (Ag  '23) 

Stock  exchange 
Leffevre,  E.     Reminiscences  of  a  stock  opera- 
tor.    (S  '23) 

New   York    (state) 

Politics  and  government 
Alexander,  De  A.  S.     Four  famous  New  York- 
ers.    (S  -23) 
New    York    public    library 
New   York   (city).    Public   library.      History  of 
the   New  York   public  library.      (O  '23) 
New    York    walk    book.     Torrey.     R.     H.,     and 

others.    (F   '24) 
New  Zealand 
Thwing,  C:  F.     Human  Australasia.     (Ap  '23) 

History 
Dunbabin,    T:     Making    of    Australasia.      (My 

•23) 
Newspapers 
Atwood,   M.   van  M.     Country  newspaper.      (S 

'23) 
Harris,    E.    P.,    and    Hooke,    F.      Community 

newspaper.     (Ag  '23) 
Salmon,    L.    M.   Newspaper  and   the  historian. 

(D  '23) 

United    States 
Villard,    O.    G.      Some   newspapers   and    news- 
papermen.     (D   '23) 
Nicolas   Poussin.    Sutro,    E.    S.    (Ja    '24) 
Nicolson,    V.    M.       See    Sackville-West,    V.    M. 

(O   '23) 
Night  of  the  wedding.     Williamson,  C:   N.,  and 

A.  M.     (S  '23) 
Nine  of  hearts.     Mayne,   E.   C.      (D  '23) 
Nineteen  hundreds.     Wyndham,  H.  C.     (My  '23) 
Nobody's   island.     Grimshaw,   B.     (Ag  '23) 

Nonresistance 

Case.  C.  M.     Non-violent  coercion.     (Mr  '23) 
Non-violent  coercion.     Case,   C.   M.      (Mr  '23) 
North.     Hendryx,   J.   B.      (Mr  '23) 
North  of  36.     Hough.  E.      (S  '23) 
Northcllffe,     Alfred     Charles     William     Harms- 
worth,  1st  viscount 

Pemberton.  M.     Lord  Northcliffe.     (Ag  '23) 
Northern  neighbors.     Grenfell,  W.   T.      (F  "24) 

Northwest  territories 

Waldo,   F.  Li.     Down  the  Mackenzie.     (Je  '23) 

Norway 

Description    and    travel 
Carpenter,   F.   G:     France  to  Scandinavia.      (F 

'24) 
McBride,  R.  M.     Norwegian  towns  and  people. 
(S  '23) 
Norwegian   towns   and   people.     McBride,   R.   M. 

(S  '23) 
Not   in   our   stgirs.     Maurice,    M.      (D   '23) 

Nova  Scotia 

Description    and    travel 
Towne,  C:  H.     Ambling  through  Acadia.     (Je 
•23) 
Nowhere  else  in  the  world.     Hudson,  J.  W:     (Ja 

•24) 
Noyes,  John   Humphrey 

Noyes,  G:  W.,  comp.     Religious  experience  of 
John   Humphrey    Noye.s.      (F    '24) 
Nuptial   flight.      Masters,   E.   L.      (O   '23) 
Nurses  and  nursing 

Red  cross.  United  States.  American  national 
Red  cross.  History  of  American  Red  cross 
nursing.      (Ap  '23) 

Nutrition 
Ellis,    C.    and    MacLeod,    A.    L.     Vital   factors 

of  foods.     (My  '23) 
Morgulis,  S.     Fasting  and  undernutrition.     (Ja 

'24) 


Obregon,   Alvaro 

Dillon,  E.  J.     President  Obregfin.     (Ag  '23) 
Obstetrics 
Van    Blarcom,    C.    C.      Getting   ready   to   be   a 
mother.        (O    '23) 
Occasions.     Jackson,   H.      (Mr  '23) 
Occult  sciences 

Ingalese,    R:     Greater  mysteries.     (Ag  '23) 
Oesterreich,     T.     K.      Occultism    and    modern 
science.     (Ag  '23) 
Occultism  and  modern  science.     Oesterreich,  T. 

K.      (Ag  '23) 
Ocean 

Herdnian,    W:    A.    Founders    of   oceanography. 
(D  '23) 
Ocean   travel 

Bluiiden,    E.      Bonadventure.      (Je   '23) 
Octavia.      Van   Santvoord,    S.      (O   '23) 
Of  clear  intent.     Rowland,   H:   C.      (F  '24) 
Oh,    doctor!      Wilson,    H.    L.      (D    '23) 
Ohanlan,   Armen 

Ohanian,   A.      Dancer  of  Shamahka.      (My  '23) 
Old  days  and  new.     Hamilton,   E.   W:      (P  '24) 
Old    diplomacy    and    new,    1876-1922.      Kennedy, 

A.    L.      (Je    -23) 
Old   drama  and   the  new.     Archer,   W:     (Je  '23) 
Old    Englisli    towns.      Andrews,    W.,    and    Lang, 

E.    M.      (Ja   '24) 
"Old    For-ever."    Ollivant,    A.      (Ag    '23) 
Old   Indian   trails.     McClintock.   W.      (S   '23) 
Old    Mary    Metcalf   place.    Gray,    J.      (S    '23) 
Old    recollections    of    an    old    boy.      Sherwell,    S: 

(D   '23) 
Older   universities   of  England.     Mansbridge,   A. 

(D   '23) 
Oliver   October.       McCutcheon,    G:    B.       (O    '23) 

Olmsted,   Frederick  Law 

Olmsted,  F:  L.     Frederick  Law  Olmsted.     (Je 
■23) 

Oiney,   Richard 

James,   H:     Richard  Olney.      (Ja  '24) 
Omnipotent  self.     Bousfield,  E:  G:  P.     (S  '23) 
On.     Belloc,   H.      (Ap  '23) 
On    British    freedom.      Bell,    C.      (Ja   '24) 
On    the   borderland.      Austin,    F:    B.      (D   '23) 
On  the  gorilla  trail.     Bradley,  M.     (Mr  '23) 
On  the  margin.     Huxley,   A.   L.      (Ag  '23) 
Once  in  a  red  moon.     Rogers,  J.   T.     (F  '24) 
One-act   plays   for   secondary   schools.     Webber. 

J.    P.,    and   Webster,    H.    H.,   eds.      (S   '23) 
One  of  the  guilty.     George,  W.  L.     (Ja  '24) 
One  who  gave  his  life.     Luby.  J.  P.  K.     (Ap  '23) 
Onions,    Mrs  Oliver.   See  Ruck,   B.    (Ap   '23) 
Open  all  night.     Morand,  P.      (D  '23) 
Open   door  doctrine  in   relation  to  China.     Bau, 

M.   J.     (S  '23) 
Open  door  policy.     Yen,   E.   T      (F  '24) 

Opera,    Russian 

Newrnarch,   R.      Russian   opera.      (Ag  '23) 

Opera   guyed.     Levy,    N.      (N    '23) 

Optical    illusions 

Luckie.sh,    M.      Visual    illusions.      (My   *23) 
Orange    divan.      Williams,    V.      (N    '23) 

Ore    deposits 

Spurr,   J.   E:     Ore  magmas.    (Ja  '24) 
Ore  magmas.     Spurr,  J.  E:     (Ja  '24) 

Organists 

Stiven,    F:    B:      In    the    organ    lofts    of    Pans. 
(N   '23) 
Origin  and  evolution  of  religion.    Hopkins,  E:  W. 

(O    '23) 
The  Orissers.     Myers,  L.  H.     (Je  '23) 
Other  people's  property.   Leslie,   H.     (Ja  '24) 
Other  story.      Webster,    H:    K.      (F  '24) 

Oundle  school 

Sanderson  of  Oundle.     (Ag  '23) 
Our    American    adventure.      Doyle,    A.    C.       (Je 

'23j 
Our  American  theater.     Sayler,  A.  N*.     (F  '24) 
"Our  little  girl."     Simon,   R.   A.     (My  '23) 
Our     solar     system     and     the     stellar     universe. 

Whyte,  C:     (Ja  '24)  ^     ,„„^ 

Our  vanishing  forests.     Pack,  A.   N.      (My    23) 
Out  of  the  frying  pan.     Boyle,  C.  A.     (My    23) 
Out  of  the  past.     Postgate,   K.  W:     (N    23) 
Out  of  work.      Cole,   G:    D.   H.      (O    '23) 
Out   trail.      Rinehart,    M.      (F   '24) 
Outdoor  advertismg.      Lippmcott,  W.      (O    23) 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


621 


Outdoor  life 

Jessup,    E.      Roughing    it    smoothly.      (Je     23) 
Outdoors   and    us.      Davies,    M.    C.      (Ap    "23) 
Outlaw's    diary.      Tormay,    C.      (Ag   '23) 
Outline  of  humor.     Wells,   C,   ed.      (N   '23) 
Outline   of   everything.     Toogood,    H.    B.,    pseud. 

(F  '24) 
Outline   of   literature.      Drinkwater,    J:,    ed.      (S 

•23) 
Outline  of  psychology.    McDougall,  W:     (My  "23) 
Outlines  of  American  foreign  commerce.    Bishop, 

A.    L.       (O   -23) 
Outlines  of  sociology.     Ross,   E:   A.      (S  '23) 
Outside    the    house    beautiful.      Peabody,    H.    C. 

(N    '23) 
Outspoken    essays    on    music.      Saint-Saens,    C. 

(F  '24) 
Over  the   footlights.      Leacock,    S.    B.      (S  '23) 
The   overcoat.      Gogol.    N.    V.      (D  '23) 
Owen,   Caroline    Dale,   pseud.   See  Snedeker,    C. 

D.   (Je  '23) 
Oxford.     Taylor.    G:    R.    S.      (N   '23) 
Oxford  circus.     Miles,  H.,  and  Mortimer,   R.     (F 

•24) 
Oxford,    England 

Taylor,    G:    R.    S.      Oxford.      (N    '23) 
Oxford   poetry,    1922.      (S   '23) 
Oxford    university 

Mansbridge.  A.     Older  universities  of  England. 

(D  '23) 
Oxyacetylene  welding 
Willis,  P.  F.     Oxy-acetylene  welding  and  cut- 
ting.     (Ag  '23) 
Oxy-acetylene   welding   and   cutting.     Willis,    P. 

F.      (Ag  '23) 


Pagan  love.     Gibbon,  J:  M.     (Mr  '23) 
Page,  Thomas  Nelson 

Page.   R.     Thomas  Nelson   Page.      (Ag  '23) 
Pageant  of  Greece.  Livingstone,  R.    W.,  ed.     (.Ta 

'24) 
Paget,   Violet.     See  Lee,  V.,   pseud.      (Je   '23) 
Pamt.     Craven,  T:     (Ap  '23) 
Painter  and   space.     Butler,   H.   R.      (N   '23) 
Painting 

Henri,    R.      Art   spirit.      (O   '23) 

Peers,    G.    K.      Early    northern    painters.      (N 
'23) 

Wright.  W.   H.     Future  of  painting.     (S  '23) 

Technique 

Butler,    H.    R.      Painter  and  space.      (N   '23) 
Painting,  French 

Gordon,  J.    Modern  French  painters.     (Ag  '23) 
Painting,    Industrial 
International     association     of     master     house 
painters  and  decorators  of  the  United  States 
and  Canada.    Painting  and  decorating  work- 
ing  methods.       (O   '23) 
Painting,   Italian 

Mather,  F.  J.,  jr.     History  of  Italian  painting. 
(D  '23) 
Painting  and  decorating  working  methods.     In- 
ternational    association     of     master     house 
painters  and  decorators  of  the  United  States 
and   Canada.      (O   '23) 
Palestine 
Ashbee,   C:   R.     Palestine  notebook.      (F  '24) 
McCrackan.    W:    D.      New  Palestine.      (O   '23) 

Description    and    travel 
McCrackan.  W:  D.     New  Palestine.     (My  '23) 
Palestine  notebook.     Ashbee.   C:   R.     (F  '24) 
Palmerston,    Emily    Mary    (Lamb)    viscountess 
Airlie.    M.    F.    E.      Lady    Palmerston    and   her 
times.      (Je   '23) 
Panama 

Description  and  travel 
Graham.   S.     In  quest  of  El  Dorado.     (Ja  *24) 
Paper  money 
Hirst,  F.  W.     Paper  moneys  of  Europe.     (My 

Paper    moneys    of    Europe.      Hirst,    v"     w.    (My 
•23) 


Papua 

Humphries.    W.   R.     Patrolling  in   Papua.      (N 
'23) 
La    Parcelle    32.      P6rochon.    E.      (My    '23) 

Parent  and  child 
Miller,  H.  C.  New  psychology  and  the  parent. 
(Ag  '23) 
Parents^    manual.      Groszmann,    M.    P.    E.       (D 

•23) 
Paris 

Churches 
Stiven.    F:    B:     In   the   organ    lofts   of   Paris. 
(N   '23) 

Description 

Crichton,  C:  H.     Lure  of  old  Paris.     (D  '23) 
Milton,    A.      Paris    in   seven   days.       (O   '23) 
Paris  in  seven  days.      Milton,   A.      (O  *23) 
Parkhurst,  Charles  Henry 
Parkhurst.    C:    H:      My   forty    years   In    New 
York.      (Ja  '24) 
Parodies 
Saunders.    H:    S..    comp.      Parodies    on    Walt 

Whitman.      (Je   '23) 
Ward.   C.    L.     Triumph  of  the  nut.      (F  '24) 
Parodies   on    Walt  Whitman.      Saunders,    H:    S., 

comp.      (Je    '23) 
Parovvan    Bonanza.      Bower.    B.    M.,    pseud.      (N 

•23) 
Parties   and    party   leaders.     Morse,    A.    D.      (S 

•23) 
Partition    and    colonization    of    Africa.      Lucas, 

C:  P.     (Ap  '23) 
Path   to  peace.   Eng  title  of  When  there  is  no 

peace.     Lyon,  G.     (Je  ^23) 
Pathways   of   European    peoples.     Cobb,    B.    B., 

and  E.     (S  '23) 
Patrolling    in    Papua.      Humphries,    W.    R.      (N 

'23) 
Patuffa.     Harraden,  B.     (N  '23) 
Paul,  Saint 
Peabody,    F.    G.      The    apostle    Paul   and    the 

modern  world.     (S  '23) 
Sabatier.  A.     The  apostle  Paul.     (S  '2^) 
Paul  Cezanne.     Vollard,  A.     (S  •23) 
Pavements 

Besson.   F.   S.     City  pavements.      (F  '24) 
Pay  gravel.      Pendexter,   H.      (O  '23) 
Peace  conference,   1919 
Beer,   G:   L:     African    questions  at  the  Paris 
peace  conference.     (F  '24) 
Peaks  of  Shala.     Lane,  R.     (Ag  '23) 
Pelham   alfair.      Tracy,    L:      (My   '23) 
Pender  among  the  residents.     Reid,  F.     (Ap  '23) 

Pensions,    Industrial 

Conant.  L.    Critical  analysis  of  industrial  pen- 
sion   systems.     (Mr.    Je    '23) 
Peonies 

Harding,  A.     Peonies  in  the  little  garden.     (F 
•24) 
Peonies  in  the  little  garden.    Harding,  A.  (P  '24) 
People    and    politics.      Griffin,    S.    B.      (Je   ^23) 
Peradventure.     Keable,  R.     (Mr  ^23) 
Perfectionism 

Noyes.    G:    W.,    comp.      Religious    experience 
of  John   Humphrey   Noyes.      (F  '24) 
Perfume  of  the  rainbow.     Beck.   L.   A.      (F  '24) 
Perilous  seat.     Snedeker.   C.   D.      (Je  '23) 
Perry,   Arthur  Latham 

Perry.  C.      Professor  of  life.      (S    '23) 
Persephone  of  Eleusis.      Harris,  C.  W.      (O  '23) 

Persia 

Description  and  travel 
Bibesco,    M.    L.      Eight   paradises.      (Ja   ^24) 
Powell,  E:  A.     By  camel  and  car  to  the  pea- 
cock throne.     (Ag  '23) 
Personal  genesis  of  the  Monroe  doctrine.    Mac- 

Corkle,    W:    A.     (S   '23) 
Personality 
Coffin,   J.   H.      Personality  in  the  making.      (F 
•24) 
Personality,    Disorders  of 
Mitchell.     T:     W.       Medical     psychology     and 
psychical    research.      (My   '23) 
Personality  in  the  making.     Coffin.  J.  H.     (F  '24) 

Perspective 

Butler.   H.   R.     Painter  and  space.     (N  '23) 
The  pest.     Terhune,   A.   P.      (Ap  ^23) 


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Petroleum 
Bell,  H.  S.     American  petroleum  refining.     (O 
'23) 
Pharos  and  Pharillon.     Forster,  E:  M.     (S  '23) 
Philosophy 
Alexander,   H.  B.     Nature  and  human  nature. 

(D  '23) 
Hoernl6,    R.    F:    A.       Matter,    life,    mind,    and 

God.      (S  '23) 
Santayana,  G:      Scepticism  and  animal  faith. 
CS    '22) 

History 
Leighton,  J.  A.  Field  of  philosophy.     (Je  '23) 
Philosophy,   Ancient 
Fuller,  B:  A.  G.     History  of  Greek  philosophy. 
(O   '23) 
Philosophy,  French 
Gunn,    A.      Modern    French    philosophy.      (Ap 
'23) 
Philosophy,  Italian 
Gentile,  G.     Theory  of  mind  as  pure  act.     (Ap 
'23) 
Philosophy,   Modern 
Singer,    B.    A.      Modern   thinkers    and    present 
problems.     (F  '24) 
Philosophy,  Tamil 
Chetty,    D.    G.    New    light    upon    Indian    phi- 
losophy.    (D  '23) 
Philosophy  of  civilization.     Towner,  R.   H.      (Ja 

•24) 
Physical  education   and  training 
Leonard,  F.  B.  Guide  to  the  history  of  physi- 
cal  education.   (Ja   '24) 
Physical    geography 

Fabre.   J.   H.  C.     This  earth  of  ours.      (N  '23) 
The   physician.      Finney,    J:    M.    T.       (S    '23) 
Physicians 
Finney,    J:    M.    T.       The    physician.       (S    '23) 

Physics 
Broad,   C.  D.      Scientific  thought.      (S  '23) 
Smith,    A.    W.  Elements    of    applied    physics. 

(Ja  '24) 
Physiognomy 
Fosbroke,  G.   E.     Character  qualities  outlined 

and   related.      (Ap  '23) 
Piccadilly.     Coyle,   K.     (N   '23) 
Picture   frames.      Winslow,    T.    S.      (Mr   '23) 
Pied    piper    in    Pudding    Lane.      Addington,    S. 

(D    '23) 
Piegan   Indians 

Schultz,   J.   W.     Friends  of  my  life  as  an   In- 
dian.    (F  '24) 
Pierre   Curie.      Curie,    M.      (D  '23) 
Pietro    Aretino.      Hutton.    B:      (Ap   '23) 
Pilgrim  fathers 
Sawyer,    J.    D.      History   of   the   Pilgrims   and 

Puritans.      (Ap  '23) 
Pilgrimage    of   Festus.      Aiken,    C.    P.      (O  '23) 
Pilgrim's    Rest.      Young,    F.    B.      (My   '23) 
Pioneer  "West.  French,  J.  L:,  comp  and  ed.    (Ja 

•24) 
Pious    oninions.      Biron,    C.      (D   '23) 
"Piracy."     Kuyumjian,  D.     (Ag  '23) 
Pirate  princes  and   Yankee  Jacks.     Henderson, 

D.  M.     (Ag  '23) 
Pirate  tales   from   the   law.     Harris,   A.    M.      (N 

'23) 
Pirates 

Harris,    A.    M.       Pirate    tales    from    the    law. 

(N   '23) 
Verrill,   A.    H.    Real    story   of   the   pirate.      (Je 

'23) 
Plain  sailing  cook  book.     Browne,  S.  S.  (Mr  '23) 
Planning   a   trip    abroad.       Hungerford,    E:,    ed. 

(S   '23) 
Planters  of  colonial  Virginia.     Wertenbaker,   T: 

J.      (My   '23) 
Piatt,   Thomas   Collier 
Alexander.    De    A.    S.      Four   famous   Ameri- 
cans.      (S    '23) 

Play 

Bowen,   W.   P.,   and  Mitchell,    E.   D.     Practice 

of  organized  play.     (D  '2S) 
Plays.     Sierra,   G.   M.     (Je  '23) 
Plays;   fifth  series.     Galsworthy,   J:     (Ap  '23) 
Plays    for   a    folding   theatre.      Clements,    C.    C. 

(P  '24) 


Plays  of  near  and  far.    Dunsany,  E:  J;  M.  D.  P. 
(S    '23) 

Plays;   third   series.     Benavente   y  Martinez,   J. 
(Ap  '23) 

Playwrights    on    playmaking.  Matthews,    B.   (Ja 
'24) 

Plumb    plan 
Plumb,   G.    E:,   and   Roylance,   W:   G.      Indus- 
trial   democracy.       (S    '23) 

Pocketful  of  poses.     Parrish,  A.     (Ap  '23) 

Poems.    Blunt,    W.    S.    (Ap   '23) 

Poems.     Cotton,  C:     (F  '24) 

Poems.   Meynell,   A.   C.      (Ap  '23) 

Poems.     Santayana,    G:     (My    '23) 

Poems    about    birds.      Massingham,    H.    Jr.    ed. 
(Mr  '23) 

Poems    from    Life.       Herford,    O.,    ed.       (S    '23) 

Poems  of  the  soil  and  sea.     Wagner,  C:  A.     (Je 
'23) 

Poetic  Edda.     Eddas.      (F  '24) 

Poetic   procession.     Roxburgh,   J:    F.      (N    '2Z) 

Poetical  works.     Lang,   A.      (N  '23) 

Poetical    works.      Miller,    J.      (Je    '23) 

Poetry 
Ker,   W:   P.  Art   of  poetry.    (Ja   '24) 
Morley,  C.  D.     Inward  ho!     (F  '24) 
Williams-Ellis.    A.      Anatomy   of  poetry.      (My 
'23) 

Poetry    (individual    authors) 
Acosta,    M.    de.      Streets  and   shadows.      (My 

•23) 
Adams,  F.  P.     So  there!     (Je  '23) 
Aiken,   C.   P.      Pilgrimage  of  Festus.      (O  '23) 
Bacon,    J.    D.  Truth   o'    women.   (Ja   '24) 
Bacon,    L.      Ulug  Beg.      (F   '24) 
Beck,   J:   O.     Windows  in  Dragon  Town.     (N 

•23) 
Bellamann,   H:      Cups  of  illusion.      (N  '23) 
Blair,    W.      Life    and   death    of   Mrs    Tidmuss. 

(N    '23) 
Blunt,    W.    S.      Poems.      (Ap   '23) 
Bodenheim,    M.      Sardonic   arm.      (O  '23) 
Bogan,   L.   Body  of  this  death.   (Ja  '24) 
Brown,   A.     Ellen   Prior.      (N   '23) 
Bryan,    G:    S.      Yankee   notions.      (My  '23) 
Burr,    A.   J.  Little  houses.   (Ja   '24) 
Gather,     W.     S.       April     twilights.       (Je    '23) 
Chesterton,  G.  K.     Ballad  of  St  Barbara.     (Ap 

•23) 
Childe,  W.   R.     Gothic  rose.      (Je  '23) 
Coatsworth,  E.  J.     Fox  footprints.     (Ag  '23) 
Coblentz,    S.    A.      The    thinker.      (My   '23) 
Cotton,   C:     Poems.      (F  '24) 
Cummings,    E:    E.  Tulips    and    chimneys.   (Ja 

•24) 
Davies,    W:    H:      Collected   poems.      (D  '23) 
Drinkwater,  J:     Preludes,  1921-1922.     (My  '23) 
Eliot,    T:    S.       Waste    land.       (Mr    ^23) 
Eno.   H:   L.     Maid  of  Gloucester.      (Je  '23) 
Everett,   L.   L.     Fauns  at  prayer.      (My  "23) 
Feinstein,  M.     In  memoriam.     (Ap  '23) 
Foster,  J.  R.    Rock-flower.     (Ag  '23) 
Frost,    R.      New  Hampshire.      (D  '23) 
Frost,  R.   Selected  poems.   (Ja  '24) 
G6raldy,  P.  You  and  me.     (Je  '23) 
Gifford,    F.    S.     Ancient   beautiful   things.      (D 

'23) 
Grolding,  L:,     Prophet  and  fool.     (Ag  '23) 
Grant.  P.  S.     Fifth  avenue  parade.     (Mr  '23) 
Graves,    R.    Whipperginny.       (S    '23) 
Gray,  M.     City's  voice.     (F  '24) 
Hall,    A.    B.      Dancer   in   the   shrine.      (S   '23) 
Hall,    H.       Walkers.       (S    '23) 
Hillyer,    R.    S.      Hills    give    promise.      (D    '23) 
Holmes,    F.  L.     Songs  of  the  silence.     (O  '23) 
Ibn     Gabirol,     S.     ben     J.     Selected     religious 

poems.     (Ja    '24) 
Kenyon,  B.   L.     Songs  of  unrest.     (Ap  '23) 
Knibbs,    H:   H.     Saddle  songs.      (Ap  '23) 
Kreymborg,    A.   Less    lonely.   (Ja    '24) 
Lang.  A.     Poetical  works.      (N  '23) 
Lawrence,    D:    H.  Birds,    beasts    and    flowers. 

(Ja   '24) 
Lee,    M.      Sea-change.       (S    '23) 
Leitch,  M.  S.     Waggon  and  the  star.     (Ap  '23) 
Lindsay,   N:   V.      Collected  poems.      (S  '23) 
Lindsay,    N:    V.      Going-to-the-sun.      (Ap   '23) 
Malloch,    D.      Come   on   home.      (D  '23) 
Masefleld,  J:  Dream.     (S  '23) 
Meynell.   A.   C.     Poems.      (Ap  '23) 
Millay,  E.  St  V.     Harp-weaver.     (F  '24) 
Miller,  J.     Poetical  works.     (Je  '23) 
Mitchell,  R.  C.     Narratives  in  verse.     (Ag  '23) 


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623 


Mowror,    P.    S.       Good   comrade    and    Fairies. 

(O  '23) 
Oppenheini,   J.     Golden  bird.      (Ap  '23) 
O'Siiaughnessy,    A.   W:   E.      Poems.      (O   '23) 
Perry,   L..     Jar  of  dreams.      (Je   '23) 
Powys,  J:   C.     Samphire.     (Ap  '23) 
Quental,   A.    T.    de.     Sonnets   and   poems.     (S 

'23) 
Rice,    C.    Y.      Mihrima.      (My    '23) 
Roberts,    E.    M.      Under   the   tree.      (My   '23) 
Robinson,  E.  A.     Roman  Bartholovv.     (My  '23) 
Santayatia,   G:     I'oems.      (My  '23) 
Schauffler,    R.    H.      Magic   flame.      (Je   '23) 
Sitwell,  S.     Hundred  and  one  harlequins.     (Ap 

'23) 
Snow,    W.      Maine    coast.      (Je    '23) 
Squire,    J:    C       American    poems.      (S    '23) 
Starbuck,   V:     Wind  in  the  pines.     (D  '23) 
Starrett,   V.      Banners   in   the   dawn.      (O  '23) 
Sterling,    G:      Selected   poems.      (O   '23) 
Stevens,    W.      Harmonium.       (D    '23) 
Stevenson,    R.    T>:  Complete   poems.    (Ja   '24) 
Strode,   M.     At   the  roots  of  grasses.      (F  '24) 
Strong,  L.  A.  G:     Dublin  days.     (Ag  '23) 
Taggard,  G.     For  eager  lovers.      (Ap  '23) 
IJntermeyer,   Ij:     Roast  I.eviathan.     (My  '23) 
Vildrac,    C:       Book    of    love.        (S    '23) 
Wagner,    C:    A.      Poems    of    the    soil   and    sea. 

(Je   '23) 
Watson,    W:      Hundred    poems.      (N    '23) 
Weaver,  J:  V.  A.     Finders.     (Mr  '23) 
Wilkinson,    M.       Great    dream.         (S    '23) 
Wood,  C.     Tide  comes  in.     (My  '23) 
Wylie,  E.     Black  armour.     (Ag  '23) 

Collections 
Hill,     C.     M.,     ed.        World's    great    religious 
poetry.       (S    '23) 

Poetry    of   Edwin   Arlington    Robinson.      Morris, 

L.    R.      (Je   -23) 
Poets 

Atkins,  E.     Poet's  poet.     (Mr,  Je  '23) 
Poets    of    the    future.       Schnittkind,    H:    T:,    ed. 

(O   '23) 
Poet's  poet.     Atkins,  E.     (Mr,  Je  '23) 
Poine.     Treston,   H.   J.      (F  '24) 
Pointed  tower.     Thompson,  V.  C:     (Mr  '23) 
Poland 

History 

Winter,  N.   O.     New  Poland.      (F  '24) 
Police 

Cahalane,    C.    F.      Policeman.       (O   '23) 
Policeman.      Cahane,    C.    F.       (O    '23) 
Political  Christianity.     Royden,  A.   M.     (Mr  '23) 
Political    parties 

Lowell,    A.    L.       Public    opinion    in    war    and 
peace.     (Mr  '23) 

Morse,   A.   D.     Parties  and  party  leaders.      (S 

Political  science 
Russell.   G:   W:     The  Interpreters.     (Mr  '23) 
Wallace,  W:  K.     Trend  of  history.     (My  '23) 

History 

Hoornshaw,    F.    J:    C,    ed.  Social    and    politi- 
cal  ideas  of  some  great  mediaeval  thinkers. 
(Ja  '24) 
Politics   and   progress.      Muir,    R.       (O   '23) 
Polly  with   a   past.      Middleton,   G:,    and   Bolton, 

G.   R.      (N   '23) 
Ponjola.     Stockley,   C.     (My  '23) 
Poor  laws 

Great    Britain 

^.^]'.^',£-^   ^"<^  ^-     English   local  government. 
(Mr    23) 

Poor   man.      Benson,    S.       (Mr,    Je   '23) 
Poor  I'inney.     Chapman,   M.      (Ap  '23) 
Popular  poultry  pointers.     Hannas.    R  .R.      (Ag 
•23)  ^ 

Population 

Cox,  H.     Problem  of  population.     (Mr  '23) 

East    E:   M.     Mankind  at  the  crossroads.      (N 
23) 

Wright,    H.      Population.       (D    '23) 
Posses.«ion.      Dc  Iji    IJoche.   M.      (My  '23) 
Post    mortem.      MacLaurin,    C.      (N    '23) 
Potato.  Stuart,  W:   (Ja   '24) 
Potatoes 

Stuart,  W:  Potato.  (.Ta  '24) 


Poultry 

Hannas,  R.  R.    Popular  poultry  pointers.     (Ag 

'23) 
Punnett,   R.   C.      Heredity  in   poultry.     (S  '23) 
Poussin,    Nicolas 

Sutro,    E.    S.  Nicolas    Poussin.    (Ja    '24) 
Powder  of  sympathy.     Morley,  C.   D.       (S   '23) 
Power  of  the  dead.     See  The  cloud  that  lifted. 

Maeterlinck,  M.     (D  '23) 
Practical   factory   administration.     Porosky,     M. 

(Ja  '24) 
Practical    heat.  Croft,    T.    W:,    and   others,    eds. 

(Ja  '24) 
Practical    radio.       Williams,    H:    S.        (O    '23) 
Practical  plant  ecology.     Tansley,  A.  G:     (F  '24) 
Practice  of  organized  play.     Bowen,  W.  P.,  and 

Mitchell,    E.    D.      (D    '23) 
Praise   of   folly.  Perry,   B.    (Ja   '24) 
Prayer 
Brooks,    C.    H.,    and    Charles,    E.  Christianity 

and   autosuggestion.    (Ja   '24) 
Royden,   A.   M.     Prayer  as  a  force.      (Mr  '23) 
Prayer  as  a  force.     Royden,  A.  M.     (Mr  '23) 

Prayers 
Clements,    C.    C,   comp.     Book   of  prayers   for 
boys.     (Mr  '23) 
A   preface   to  life.     Mayer,    E.   J.      (D  '23) 
Pregnancy 
Van   Blarcom,    C.   C.      Getting  ready  to  be  a 
mother.       (S   '23) 
Preludes.  1921-1922.     Drinkwater,  J:     (My  '23) 
Pre-school    child.       Gesell.    A.    L.       (O    '23) 
Present-day    es.savs.       Knickerbocker,    E.    Van 

B.,   ed.     (Ap  '23) 
President   Coolidge.  Whiting,    E:    E.    (Ja   '24) 
President  Obreg6n.     Dillon,   E.  J.      (Ag  '23) 
Presidents 

United   States 
Kohlsaat,  H.  H:     From  McKinley  to  Harding. 
(Ap  '23) 
Prevention    of    war.      Kerr,    P.,    and    Curtis,    L. 

(F  '24) 
Prices 

Lloyd,   E.   M.   H.      Stabilisation.      (O   '23) 
Prime    ministers 
Bigham,  C.     Chief   ministers  of  England.     (S 
•23) 
Primer  of  citizenship.      De   Koven,   A.      (O   '23) 
Primitive    mentality.       L^vy-Bruhl,    L.     (S    '23) 
Prince    Hempseed.      Hudson,    S.       (S   '23) 
Piincipal    and     his    school.       Cubberley,    E.     P. 

(D    '23) 
Principles  and   practice  of  fur  dressing  and   fur 

dyeing.      Austin,    W:    E.      (My   '23) 
Principles  of  advertising.     Starch,  D.     (F  '24) 
Principles  of  chemical  engineering.  Walker,   W: 

H.,    and    others.    (Ja    '24) 
Principles    of    public    finance.      Dalton,    H.       (S 

'23) 
Principles  of  radiography.     Crowther,  J.  A.     (My 

'23) 
Printing 

Gress,    E.   G.      Dash   through   Europe      (O    '23) 
Strong,  E:  K.,  and  TJhrbrock.  R:  S.  Job  anal- 
ysis  and   the  curriculum.   (Ja   '24) 
Printing,    Practical 
Winternitz,  R..  and  Cherington,  P.  T.     English 
manual   for    busines.s.      (O   '23) 
Prisoners  of  the  red  desert.     Gwatkin -Williams, 

R.   S.     (Ag  '23) 
Prisons 

Russia 
Harrison,    M.    E.        Unfinished    tales    from    a 
Russian  pri.^on.      (S  '23) 

United   States 
Fishman,   J.  F.     Crucibles  of  crime.     (Ag  '23) 
Prize     stories     of     1922.       O.     Henry     Memorial 

Award.      (Je    '23) 
Pro  vita  monastica.     Sedgwick,   H:   D.      (Je  '23) 
Problem    of   population.      Cox,    H.      (Mr   '23) 
Problem    of   proof.      Osborn,   A.    S.      (Ap  '23) 
Problems  in  American  democracy.     Williamson, 

T.   R.      (Ap  '23) 
Problems    in    dynamic    psychology.      MacCurdy, 

J:    T.      (N   '23) 
Problems    in    machine    design.  T.,eutwiler,    O.    A. 

(Ja   -24) 


624 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


Problems    in    personnel    management.       Bloom- 
field,    D.,    comp.    and   ed.       (S   '23) 
Problems    of    modern    science.      Dendy,    A.,    ed. 

(Ag   '23) 
Procession  of  masks.     Gorman,   H.   S.     (F  '24) 
Production   grinding.     Jacobs,    F:    B.      (Ag   '23) 
Professor  of  life.     Perry.   C.      (S  '23) 
Progressive  typewriting.     Admire,  H.  F.     (F  '24) 
Prohibition 

Haynes,  R.  A.  Prohibition  inside  out.   (Ja  '24) 
Hennessy,   F.  X.     Citizen  or  subject.      (O  '23) 
Nickerson,    H.      Inquisition.      (F    '24) 
Towne,    C:    H.      Rise   and   fall    of   prohibition. 
(D  '23) 
Prohibition    inside  out.  Haynes,   R.    A.    (Ja  '24) 
Prophet  and  fool.     Golding,  L:     (Ag  '23) 
Prospects  of  industrial  civilization.     Russell,   B. 
A.    W:,    and    D.    W.      (D    '23) 

Prostitution 

Thomas,    W:    I:      Unadjusted    girl.      (N    '23) 
Protestant   Episcopal   church 

Lawrence,  W:  Fifty  years.   (Ja  '24) 
Proud  lady.     Boyce,  N.     (Mr  '23) 

Psychicai  research 
Flammarion.   C.   Death  and  its  mystery:   after 

death.     (Je  '23> 
Heuz6,   P.      Do   the  dead  live?      (O  '23) 
Mitchell,     T:     W.       Medical     psychology     and 

psychical  research.      (My  '23) 
Oesterreich,    T.    K.      Occultism    and    modern 

science.     (Ag  '23) 
Rlchet,   C:   R.     Thirty  years  of  psychical  re- 
search.    (Ag  '23) 
Stobart,   St  C.     Ancient  lights.      (F   '24) 
Psychoanalysis 
Bousfleld,  E:  G:  P.     Omnipotent  self.     (S  '23) 
Duryea,     A.     S.       American     nerves    and    the 

secret  of  suggestion.      (Je  '23) 
Hinkle,  B.     Re-creating  of  the  individual.     (F 

'24) 
Jung,  C.  G.     Psychological  types.     (Ag  '23) 
Levine,   I.  The   unconscious.   (Ja   '24) 
MacCurdy,   J:   T.     Problems  in   dynamic  psy- 
chology.     (N    '23; 
Miller,  H.  C.     New  psychology  and  the  parent. 

(Ag  '23) 
Oppenheim.  J.     Your  hidden  powers.     (Je  '23) 
Pflster,   O.   R.   Expressionism   in^  art.      (Ja  '24) 
Pflster,    O.    R.    Some    applications    of    psycho- 
analysis.   (Je   '23) 
Rivers,    W:    H.    R.      Conflict   and   dream.       (O 

■23) 
Stekel,  W.     Conditions  of  nervous  anxiety  and 
their  treatment.      (Je  '23) 

Psychological   novels 

Collins,    J.      The    doctor    looks    at    literature. 

(Ag  '23) 
Psychological  types.     Jung,  C.  G.     (Ag  '23) 
Psychology 
Barry,    F.    R.      Christianity    and    psychology. 

(F    '24) 
Boyle,    J:    D.       Reactionism.       (O   '23) 
Brierley.    S.    S.      Introduction    to    psychology. 

(D    '23) 
Elliot.  H.  S:  R.     Human  character.     (Ap  '23) 
Hawksworth,  H.    Workshop  of  the  mind.     (O 

'23) 
Hayward,    C:    W.      What   Is   psychology?       (O 

'23) 
Humphrey.  G:     Story  of  man's  mind.     (O  '23) 
McDougall,    W:      Outline   of  psychology.      (My 

■23) 
Miller,  H.  C.     New  psychology  and  the  parent. 

(Ag  -23) 
Varendonck,    J.      Evolution    of    the    conscious 

faculties.      (D  '23) 
Psychology,   Applied 

Ewer,  B.  C.     Applied  psychology.     (F  '24) 
Rivers,   W:    H.    R.      Psychology   and   politics. 

(S    '23) 

Psychology,   Educational 

Mead,    A.    R.  Learning   and   teaching.   (D    '23) 

Psychology,    Pathological 
Gehring,  J:  G:     Hope  of  the  variant.     (S  '23) 
Mitchell,     T:     W.       Medical     psychology     and 

psychical   research.      (My  '23) 
Sands,  I.  J.,  and  Blanchard,  P.  M.     Abnormal 

behavior.      (N   '23) 
Smith,    M.    H.       Psychology    of    the    criminal. 

(O  '23) 


White,  W:  A.     Insanity  and  the  criminal  law. 

(O  '23) 
Psychology  and  politics.     Rivers,  W:  H.  R.     (S 

'23) 
Psychology   and   primitive  culture.     Bartlett,   F. 

C.     (F  '24) 
Psychology  of  laughter  and  comedy.     Greig,  J. 

Y.  T.     (Ag  '23) 
Psychology  of  the  criminal.     Smith,  M.  H.     (O 

'23) 
Public  finance.     Robinson,  M.  E,     (My  '23) 

Public  opinion 
Lowell,    A.    L.      Public    opinion    in    war    and 
peace.     (Mr  '23) 
Public  opinion  in  war  and  peace.     Lowell,  A.  L. 

(Mr  '23) 
Public  relief  of  sickness.     Morgan,  G.     (Ap  '23) 
Public  speaker.      Roberts.   H:   H.      (O  '23) 
Public   speaking 
Kirkpatrick,  F.  H.    Public  speaking,  a  natural 

method.       (O   '23) 
Roberts,  H:  H.     Public  speaker.     (O  '23) 
Public  speaking,  a  natural  method.    Kirkpatrick. 

F.    H.       (O    '23) 
Public  square.     Comfort,  W.  C.     (Ag  '23) 
Pugnacity 

Bovet,   P.   Fighting  instinct.   (Ja   '24) 
PuDln,   Michael   Idvorsky 
Pupin,    M.    I.      From    immigrant    to    inventor. 
(D  '23) 
Puppet  master.     Nathan,  R.     (D  '23) 

Puppet-plays 

Kreymborg,  A.     Puppet  plays.      (S  '23) 
Puppet  show.      Armstrong,   M.      (S   '23) 

Purchasing 
Murphy,     H.     D.  Fundamental     principles     of 
purchasing.   (Ja    '24) 

Puritans 

Sawyer,    J.    D.     History   of   the   Pilgrims  and 
Puritans.      (Ap  '23) 
Putney  community 

Noyes,    G:    W.,    comp.        Religious    experience 
of  John  Humphrey  Noyes.      (F  '24) 
Putter  Perkins.     Brown,  K.     (Je  '23) 

Pyqmies  , 

William,   prince  of  Sweden.     Among  pygmies 
and  gorillas.      (N  '23) 
Pyrenees    mountains 
Oakley,    A.      Hill -towns   of    the    Pyrenees.    (D 
'23) 


Quacks   and   quackery 

Walsh.    J.    J.      Cures.      (O  '23) 
Qualitative  organic  analysis.    Kamm,  O.     (O    23) 
Quantitative     agricultural    analvsis.  Mahin,     E: 

G.,    and   Carr,    R.    H.   (Ja   '24) 
Quantum  theory 

Reiche,    F.     Quantum  theory.      (Je   '23) 
Quare  women.     Furman,   L.      (Je  '23) 
Queen  of  the  world.     Weston,   G:      (My  '23) 
Queen    Victoria.      Carb,    D:,    and    Eaton,    W.    P. 

(F  -24) 
Queensland  .       ^ 

Puxley,   W.   L.      Wanderings  in  the   Queens- 
land  bush.      (S   '23) 
Queer    people.    Eng    title    of    My    exneriences    at 

Scotland   yard.      Thomson.   B.   H.      (Mr  '23) 
Quest.      Colean,    M.    L       (N    '23 > 
Quest.      Forbe.s.    J.    R.      CD   '23) 
Questions  of  the  hour.  Milner,   A.  M.   (Ja    24) 


R.  U.   R.   Capek,  K.     (Mr.  Je  '23) 

Race.      Samm.'?.    A    L.       (O   '23) 

Race    and    national    solidarity.  Josey,    C:    C.   (Ja 

'24) 
Race   problems 
Jo.sey,  C:  C.  Race  and  national  solidarity.    (Ja 

Racial  history  of  man.     Dixon,   R.  B.      (Ap  '23) 
"Racundra's"  first  cruise.  Ransome.  A.   (Ja  '24) 


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Radio  communication 
Gernsback,    H.     Radio  for  all.      (Ag   '23) 
Taussig,   C:  W:     Book  of  radio.     (Ap  '23) 
Radio  for  all.     Gernsback,   H.      (Ag  '23) 
Radio  telephone 
Ballantine,   S.     Radio  telephony  for  amateurs. 

(O   '23) 
Williams.   H:   S.      Practical   radio.      (O  '23) 
Radio    telephony    for   amateurs.       Ballantine,    S. 

(O   '23) 
Radiography 
Crowther,    J.    A.      Principles    of    radiography. 
(My    '23) 
Railroad  electrification  and  the  electric  locomo- 

motive.     Manson,  A.   J.      (F  '24) 
Railroad  melons,    rates  and  ownership.     Russell, 

C:   E:      (Ag  '23) 
Railroads 

Electrification 
Manson,  A.  J.     Railroad  electrification  and  the 
electric  locomotive.     (F  '24) 

Finance 
Howard,    E.       Wall    Street    fifty    years    after 

Erie.        (O    "23) 
Russell,    C:    E:      Railroad    melons,    rates    and 

wages.     (Ag  '23) 

Rates 

Vanderblue,  H.  B.,   and  Burgess,   K.  F.     Rail- 
roads.    (Ag  '23) 

United  States 
Howard.    E.       Wall    Street    fifty    years    after 

Erie.         (O    '23) 
Vandrfrblue,  H.   B.,  and  Burgess,  K.  F.     Rail- 
roads.     (Ag   '23) 
Railroads   and   state 

United  States 
Cunningham,   W:   J.      American   railroads.     (S 

'23) 
Rain.     Colton,  J:,  and  Randolph.  C.     (F  '24) 
Ramshackle   house.      Footner,    H.      (S   '23) 
Ranald   MacDonald.      MacDonald,    R.      (F    '24) 
Randolph,  John 
Bruce,    W:    C.      John    Randolph    of    Roanoke. 

1773-1833.     (Mr  '23) 
Randolph   Mason.      Post,   M.   D.      (O  '23) 
Random   studies  in   the   romantic  chaos.  Water- 
house,   F.   A.   (Ja  '24) 
Rapid   arithmetic.      Sloane,   T:   O'C.      (My  '23) 
Raw   material.      Fisher.   D.    F.       (O   '23) 
Reactionism.      Boyle.   J:    D.      (O   '23) 
Real  Chinese   in  America.     Tow,   J.    S.      (F   '24) 
Real    South    America.       Domville-Fife,    C:     W: 

(Ap   '23) 
Real  story  of  a  bootlegger.      (O  '23) 
Real    story   of   the   pirates.     Verrill,   A.    H.      (Je 

'23) 
Really   romantic  age.     Harker,   L.   A.      (My   '23) 
Rebirth  of  Turkey.     Price,   C.      (F  '24) 
Recent     aims     and     political      development     of 

Japan.      Fujisawa,   R.      (N   '23) 
Recent     changes     in      American     constitutional 

theory.     Burgess,   J:   W:     (F  '24) 

Recollections 
Ainslie.    D.      Adventures:    social    and    literary. 

(N     '23) 
Battersea,    C.      Reminiscences.      (Je    '23) 
Blathwayt,    R.      Tapestry   of   life.      (F   '24) 
Browning,  O.     Memories  of  later  years.      (Ag 

'23) 
Burgin,  G:  B.     Many  memories.     (Mr  '23) 
Butler,    E.     An  autobiography.      (Ap  '23) 
De    Windt,    H.      My    note-book    at    home    and 

abnad       (D  '23) 
Elliott.    M.      Three   generations.      (D   '23) 
Farington   diary.    Farington,   J.    (Ap,    D   '23) 
Flint,    C:    R.    Memories   of   an   active    life.   (Ja 

'24) 
Hardman.  W:     Mid-Victorian   Pepys.      (O  '23) 
Harriman.    F.    J.  From    pinafores    to    politics. 

(Ja  '24) 
Holt.  H:  Garrulities  of  an  octogenarian  editor. 

(Ja  '24) 
Johnson,    R.    U.  Remembered    yesterdays.   (Ja 

Johnston,    H.    H.   Story    of    my    life.    (Ja    '24) 
Keyser,    A.   L:      Trifles  and   travels.       (S   '23) 


Kleinmichel,   C.      Memories  of  a  shipwrecked 

world.      (S  '23) 
Kolilsaal.,     ri.    H:       From    McKinley    to    Hard- 
ing.      (Ap    '23) 
Lucy,    H:    W:  Diary  of  a  journalist.    (Ja   '24) 
Marbury.  E.     My  crystal  ball.     (F  '24) 
Mavor,    J.   My    windows   on    the    street   of   the 

world.    (Ja  '24) 
Meath,    R.    B.      Memories    of    the    nineteenth 

century.      (N  '23) 
Paget.    W.    E.    H.      Embassies   of   other   days. 

(D    '23) 
Parkhiust.     C:     H:   My    forty    years    in    New 

York.    (Ja    '24) 
Porritt,    A.      Best    I   remember.      (Je   '23) 
Sherwell.   S:     Old  recollections  of  an  old  boy. 

(D    '23) 
Vivian,  H.     Myself  not  least.      (F  '24) 
Ward,    E.   A.     Recollections  of  a  Savage.      (F 

'24) 
Wyndham,    H.    C.      Nineteen    hundreds.      (My 
23) 
Recollections    of   a    rolling   stone.    Tozer.    B.    (N 

'23) 
Recollections  of  a  Savage.     Ward,  E.  A.     (F  '24) 
Reconstruction    (European   war) 

Allen,    H:    T.   My    Rhineiand    journal.    (Ja    '24) 
Brailsford,  H:   N.     After  the  peace.     (My  '23) 
Dickinson,    T:    H.      New   old-world.      (Je   '23; 
Gibbons,   H.    A.  Europe   since   1918.   (Ja   '24) 
Liloyd   George,    D:     Where   are   we   going?  (Ja 

■24) 
Lyon,   L.     When   there   is  no   peace.      (Je  '23) 
Nitti,   F.    S.      Decadence   of   Europe.      (Je   '23) 
Ravage.  M.   E.     Malady  of  Europe.     (N  '23) 
Re-creating   of   the    individual.      Hinkle,    B.      (F 

'24) 
Red   Bird.      Leonard.    W:    E.    C.       (O   '23) 
Red-blood.     Armstrong,    H.    H.      (N   '23) 
Red   man    in   the   United   States.     Lindqulst,    G. 

E.   E.      (Ag  -23) 
Red  marshal.     Casserly,   G.      (Ag  '23) 
Redeeming  old   homes.      Hill,    A.   L.      (S  '23) 
Reds  bring  action.     Ghent,   W:   J.      (N  '23) 
Reformation  of  war.     Fuller,  J:  F:  C:     (S  '23) 
Relativity 
Eriksen,      R:        Conciousness,      life     and     the 
fourth    dimension.       (O    '23) 
Religion 
Brewster,    E.    T.      Understanding    of    religion. 

(Je  '23) 
Eucken,    R.    C.       Spiritual    outlook    of   Europe 

to-day.       (Ap   '23) 
F'razer,    J.    G:      Golden    bough.       (Ap   '23) 
Gilman,   C.  His   religion   and   hers.   (Ja   '24) 
Grant,    P.    S.      Religion   of   Main    street.      (Ag 

'23) 
Hare,    W:    L.      Mysticism    of    east    and    west. 

(N   '23) 
Harper,  J.  W.     Essentials  of  religion.     (O  '23) 
Hopkins,    E:   W.     Origin   and  evolution  of  re- 
ligion.     (O   '23) 
•Tacks,  L.  P.     Religious  perplexities.     (My  '23) 
Royden,   A.    M.     Beauty  in   religion.      (F  '24) 
Younghusband,    F.    E:.     The   gleam.      (Ag   '23) 

Psychology 

Barry,     F.    R.      Christianity    and    psychology. 

(F  '24) 
Moore,    G:    F.      Birth  and   growth   of   religion. 

(F  '24) 
Stratton.    G:    M.       Anger.       (S    '23) 
Thouless,    R.     H.      Introduction    to    the    psy- 
chology of  religion.     (Je  '23) 
Religion   and   science 
Huxley,    J.    S.   Essays   of  a   biologist.    (Ja  '24) 
Keen,  W:  W.     I  believe  in  God  and  In  evolu- 
tion.     (My   '23) 
Osborn,  H:  F.     Evolution  and  religion.     (F  '24) 
Wood,   W:   H.     Religion  of  science.      (My  '23) 

Religion  in  literature 

Welsh,    R.    E.      Classics    of    the    soul's    quest. 
(F  '24) 
Religion  of  Main  street.     Grant.  P.  S.     (Ag  '23) 
Religion  of  science.     Wood,  W:  H.   (My  '23) 

Religious   drama 
Candler,  M.     Drama  in  religious  service.     (My 

'23) 
Religious  experience  of  John  Humphrey   Noyea. 

Noyes,   G:   W.,   comp.     (F  '24) 
Religious  perplexities.     Jacks,  L.  P.     (My  '23) 


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Religious  poetry 
Hill,    C.     M.,    ed.        World's     great     religious 

poetry.      (S    '23) 
Rembrandt,  Hermanzoon  van  Rijn 
Meldrum,    D:    S.      Rembrandt's   paintings.      (F 

'24) 
Rembrandt's  paintings.    Meldrum,  D:  S.     (F  '24) 
Remembered     yesterdays.  Johnson,     R.     U.   (Ja 

•24) 
Remembering  and   forgetting.    Pear,   T.   H.    (My 

'23) 
Reminiscences.     Battersea,  C.     (Je  '23) 
Reminiscences  of  a  stock  operator.    Leffevre,  E. 

(S    '22) 
Renaissance 
Taylor,    R.    A.      Aspects    of    the    Italian    re- 
naissance.    (Ag  '23) 
Renaissance   of    Roman    architecture.      Jackson, 

T:    G.       (Ap   '23) 
Reorganization  of  the  administrative   branch  of 

the    national   government.      Willoughby,    W: 

F.  (O    '23) 
Reporters  and   reporting 

Cobb,    I.    S.      Stickfuls.      (My   '23) 
Representative  American  short  stories.     Jessup, 

A.,    ed.      (O    "23) 
Republics  of  Latin  America.     James,  H.  G.,  and 

Martin,  P.  A.     (F  '24) 
Restoration.     Sidgwick,  E.     (Ag  '23) 
Retail  selling  methods.   Baer,  L.    (Ja  '24) 
Retail  stoie  management  problems.  David,  D.  K. 

(Ap   '23) 
Retail  trade 
Baer,    L».  Retail    selling   methods.    (Ja    '24) 
David,  D.   K.     Retail  store  management  prob- 
lems.     fAp  '23) 
Return  of  Christendom.     (Je  '23) 
Return  of  Frank  Clamart.     Rowland,  H:  C.     (Ag 

'23) 
Reversion   to   type.     De   La  Pasture,    E.    E.    M. 

(N    '23) 
Revolution    in    Ireland,     1906-1923.  Phillips,     W. 

A.    (Ja  '24) 
Revolutionary   idea   in   France,    1789-1871.  Elton, 

G.  (Ja   '24) 

Revolutionary         New         England,         1691-1776. 

Adams,  J.  T.     (N  '23) 
Revolutions 

Postgate,    R.   W:   Out  of  the  past.    (N  '23) 
Revolving  lights.       Richardson,    D.   M.       (S   '23) 
Rhetoric 

Lee,  v.,  pseud.     Handling  of  words.     (Je  '23) 
Rhodesia 

Melland,    F.    H.  In     witch-bound     Africa.   (Ja 
•24) 
Riceyman    Steps.  Btennett,    A.    (Ja    '24) 
Richard    Middeton.      Savage.    H:      (Ap   '23) 
Richard  Olnev.' James,  H:   (Ja  '24) 
Richmond.   Stanard,    M.    M.    P.   (Ja    '24) 
Richmond    palace 

Cave.    E.      Memories    of   old   Richmond.       (Ap 
•23) 
Richmond,   Virginia 

Stanard,    M.    M.    P.  Richmond.    (Ja   '24) 
Riddle.     De  la  Mare,  W.   J:     (Ag  '23) 
Riddle   of   the   Rhine.      Lefebure,    V:       (Ap,    Je 

'23) 
Rider's  New  York  city.  Rider,  F.,  ed.     (O  '23) 
Riding   astride    for   girls.    Maddison.    I.      (O   '23) 
Right  food.     Froude,  C:  C.     (F  '24) 
Riley,   James  Whitcomb 

Dickey.    M.        Maturity    of    James    Whitcomb 
Riley       (Ap  '23) 
Rippling   Ruby.  Fletcher,    J.    S.    (Ja    '24) 
Rise    and    fall    of    prohibition.      Towne,    C:    H. 

(D   '23) 
Rise  of  universities.     Haskins,  C:  H.     (F  '24) 
Rita,    pseud.   See   Humphreys,   E.   M.    J.    (F  '24) 
River  trail.   Erskine,   L.    Y.      (D   '23) 
Riverside  New  Testament.     Bible.     New  Testa- 
ment.     (F   '24) 
Rizal  y  Alonso,  Jos6 

Russell,  C:   E:,   and  Rodriguez,  F.   B.  Hero  of 
the    Filipinos.    (Ja   '24) 
Road  of  destiny.   Middleton,   E.     (O  '23) 
Road  to  Calvary.     ToLstoi,  A.     (Je  '23) 
Road    to   the   open.      Schnitzler,    A.       (Ap   '23) 
Roads 

Chatburn,     G:     R:      Highways    and    highway 
transportation.      (Ag   '23) 


Great    Britain 
Webb.    S.,   and   B.     English   local  government. 

(Mr  '23) 
Roast  Leviathan.     Untermeyer,  L:     (My  '23) 
Robert  Browning,  the  poet  and  the  man.     Sim, 

F.   M.      (Ag   '23) 
Robert  E.  Lee.  Drinkwater,  J:     (O  '23) 
Robert    ]''uUon    and    the    submarine.       Parsons, 

W:    B.      (Ap   '23) 
Robert  Gregory.  Owen,  J:     (O  '23) 
Robert    J.    Burdette.    Burdette.    R.    J.      (D   "23) 

Robinson,   Edwin  Arlington 
Morris,  L.  R.     Poetry  of  Edwin  Arlington  Rob- 
inson.     (Je  '23) 

Robinson  Crusoe,  social  engineer.     Jackson,  H: 
E.     (Mr  '23) 

Rock-flower.     Foster,   J.   R.      (Ag  '23) 

Rock   gardens 
Wilder,    L.       Adventures    in    my    garden    and 
rock   garden.      (F   '24) 

Rocks 
Loomis,    F:    B.     Field   book   of   common   rocks 
and  minerals.     (F  '24) 

Rocky    mountains 

Canadian     Rockies 
Outram,    J.      In    the    heart    of    the    Canadian 
Rockies.      (N   '23) 
Roman  Barlholow.     Robinson,  E.  A.     (My  '23) 

Roman  Catholic  church 

Middleton,   B.   S.     Unity  and  Rome.     (My  '23) 
Roman    pictures.      I.,ubbock,    P.      (S   '23) 
Roman   politics.      Abbott,   F.   F.      (S    '23) 
Romance  and  tragedy.     Frye.  P.  H.     (Mr  '23) 
Romance  and  tragedy  of  banking.     Kane,  T:  P. 

(My    '23) 
Romance    of    a    rogue.  Ayres,    R.    M.   (Ja    '24) 
Romance   of   excavation.     Masters,    D:      (D  '23) 
Romance  of  the  nineteenth  century.     Esher,  W: 

B.   B.      (F  '24) 
Romance  of  Tristram  and  Ysolt.     Thomas.     (Je 

'23) 
Romantic   Canada.     Hayward,   V.      (My  '23) 

Romanticism 
Waterhouse,     F.     A.  Random    studies    in    the 
romantic  chaos.    (Ja  '24) 

Rome 

History 

Bury,  J:  B.  History  of  the  later  Roman  em- 
pire.      (S    '23) 

Frank.    T.      History   of   Rome.       (Ap   '23) 

Jerome,  T:  S.  Aspects  of  the  study  of  Ro- 
man  history.      (N   '23)     . 

Marsh,  F.  B.  Pounding  of  the  Roman  empire. 
(F  '24) 

Politics  and  government 
Abbott,   F.    F.      Roman  politics.      (S   '23) 

Rome   (city) 


Lubbock,    P. 
Rome  or  death. 


Description 
Roman   pictures.       (S   '23) 
Beals,  C.     (D  '23) 


Romilly,   Sir   Samuel 
Phillipson,    C.  Three    criminal    law    reformers. 
(Ja  '24) 

Roosevelt,   Theodore 
Alexander,    De    A.    S.       Four    famous    Ameri- 
cans.     (S  '23)  ^      ..  X, 
Charnwood,    G.    R.    B.      Theodore    Roosevelt. 

(D   "23) 
Cotton,   E:  H,     Ideals  of  Theodore  Roosevelt. 

(Ag  '23) 
Kohlsaat,    H.    H:      From   McKinley    to   Hard- 
ing.      (Ap    '23)  ,        r,,^      ^ 
Roosevelt,      T.     Americanism       of       Theodore 
Roosevelt.    (Ja   '24) 

Poetry 
Towne,     C:     H.,     and     Hillman,     C.     C,     eds. 
Roosevelt  as  the  poets  saw  him.    (Je    ^a) 
Roosevelt  as  the  poets  saw  him      "Towne,  C:  H., 

and  Hillman,   C.    C.   eds.      (Je    23) 
Rootabaga    pigeons.      Sandburg     C       (D     l.i) 
Rose  in  America.     McFarland,  J:  H.     Ue    ^i) 
Rose  of  Santa  F6.     Sabin,  E.  L.      (D    23) 


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Rosebery,    Archibald    Philip    Primrose,    5th    earl 
of 

Raymond,   E:   T.     Life  of  Lord  Rosebery.     (N 
•23) 
Rosen,  Roman   Romanovlch,  baron 

Rosen,   R.   R.     Forty  years  of  diplomacy.    (Mr 
•23) 
Roses 

McFarland,  J:   H.     Rose  in  America.     (Je  •23) 
Roughing  it  smoothly.     Jessup,  E.     (Je  '23) 
Rousseau,    Jean    Jacques 

Amicl,    H:    F:      Jean   Jacques   Rousseau.      (Ap 
'23) 
The  rover.  Conrad,   J.   (Ja  '24) 
Roving  critic.     Van  Doren,    C.      (My  '23) 
Rowing 

Glendon,    R:    A.,   and   R:    J.     Rowing.      (S   '23) 

Royal  houses 
Collins,  F:  L.     This  king  business.     (Ag  '23) 

Rubber 

Tuttle,  J:  B.     Analysis  of  rubber.     (My  '23) 
Rube.     Borgese,  G.  A.     (Mr  '23) 
Rufus.     Richmond,  G.  L.     (F  '24) 

Rugs,  Oriental 
Clark,    H.      Bokhara,    Turkoman    and   Afghan 
rugs.      (Ag  '23) 
Rulers  of  men.     Savi,  E.  W.      (Ap  '23) 
Russia 

Biography 

Bryant,    L.    Mirrors    of   Moscow.    (Ap,    Je    '23) 

Court   and    courtiers 

Viroubova,    A.    A.      Memories    of    the    Russian 
court.     (D  '23) 

Description    and    travel 

Keun,  O.  My  adventures  in  Bolshevik  Russia. 
(O  '23) 

Foreign   relations 
Romberg,    K.-G.      Falsifications    of    the    Rus- 
sian  Orange  book.     (Ag  '23) 
Rosen,  R.  R.     Forty  years  of  diplomacy.     (Mr 
'23) 

History 
Kleinmichel,   C.      Memories  of   a   shipwrecked 
world.      (S  '23) 

Revolution,  1917- 
Bryant,   L.    Mirrors  of  Moscow.     (Ap,   J©  '23) 
Buchanan,   G:   W:   My  mission  to  Russia.      (O 

■23) 
Korff,     S.    A.      Autocracy    and    revolution    In 

Russia     (Ag  '23) 
Viroubova,    A.    A.      Memories    of    the    Russian 

court.      (D    '23) 

Politics  and   government 
Goldman,    E.  My    disillusionment     in     Russia. 

(.Ta   '24) 
Rosen,  R.  R.     Forty  years  of  diplomacy.     (Mr 

'23) 

Social     conditions 

Selivanova,    N.   N.     Russia's  women.      (D  '23) 
Russian    arts.   Newmarch,    R.    H.    (Ja    '24) 
Russian  opera.  Ne^vTnarch,   R.   H.    (Ag  '23) 
Russians    women.      Selivanova,    N.    N.      (D    '23) 


Sacrificial  goat.   Lascelles,  E.      (N  '23) 
Saddle    soiig.s.      Knibhs,    H:    H.       (Ap    '23) 
Sahara  desert 

Carpenter,    F.    G:      From    Tangier    to    Tripoli 
(Mr  '23) 
Sahara  hunters.     Rolt-Wheeler,   F.  W:     (D  '23) 
Sailor    town    days.       Smith.    C.    F.       (S    '23) 
Saint  Lydwine  of  Schiedam.     Huysmans.  K.   K. 

(Ag  '23) 
Saiva    Siddhanta 
Chetty,    D.    G.    New    light    upon    Indian    phi- 
losophy.    (D  '23) 
Salesmen    and    salesmanship 
Hess,    H.    W:      Creative    salesmanship.       (Ag 

Mackintosh,  C:  H:   Creative  selling.     (O  '23) 


Russell,     F:    A.      Management    of    the    sales 

organization.       (My    '23) 
Stevenson,  J:   A.     Constructive  salesmanship, 
principles  and  practices.      (Ja  '24) 
Salmon  and   trout  angling.     Adams,   J.      (D  '23) 
Salome   of  the   tenements.     Yezierska,   A.      (Mr 

'23) 
Samphite.       Powys,    J:    C.       CAp    '23) 
Samuel  Adams.     Harlow,  R.  V.     (Ja  '24) 
Samuel    Train   Button.      Levermore,   C:    H.     (S 

'23) 
Sanderson,   Frederick  William 

Sanderson  of  Oundle.      (Ag  '23) 
Sanderson  of  Oundle.      (Ag  '23) 
Sandy   Oorang.      Lytle,   J:   H.      (My   '23) 
Sarah  Bernhardt.   Arthur,   G:  C.  A.     (D   '23) 
Sarah   of   the   Sahara.   Chappell,    G:    S.      (N   '23) 
Sardonic   arm.   Bodenheim,   M.      (O  '23) 
Savage  club 
Ward,    E.    A.     Recollections  of  a  Savage.      (F 
'24) 
Savages 

L^vy-Bruhl,   L.     Primitive  mentality.      (S  '23) 
Sayings  of  Queen  Elizabeth.     Chamberlin,  F:  C. 

(F  '24) 
.Scandinavian    art.       CAp    '23) 
Scarlet   macaw.      Locke,    G.   E.      (Ja   '24) 
Scepticism  and  animal  faith.  Santayana,  G:      (S 

'23) 
Schock,    George,    pseud.    See   Loose,    K.    R.    (Ap 

'23) 
School  book  of  forestry.     Pack,  C:  L.     (Ag  '23) 
School   in   action.      (Ap   '23j 
School  management  and  organization 

Cubberly,    E.     P.      Principal    and    his    school. 
(D  '23) 
Science 
Caldwell,    O.    W:.    and    Slosson,    E.    E.,    eds. 

Science    remaking    the    world.      (Ja    '24) 
Dendy,   A.,  ed.     Problems  of  modern  science. 

(Ag  '23) 
Hobson,    E.    W:     Domain   of  natural   science. 
(Ja  '24) 

History 
Hobson.    E.    W:      Domain    of   natural    science. 

(N    '23) 
Marvin,    F.    S.,    ed.      Science    and   civilization. 

(Ja  '24) 
Thorndike,   L.     History  of  magic  and  experi- 
mental science.     (My  '23) 

Laboratory  manuals 
Darrow,    F.    L.      Boys'    own    book    of   science. 
(F   '24) 

Philosophy 
Broad,     C.    D.       Scientific    thought.       (S    '23) 

Study  and  teaching 
Robinson,    J.    H.      Humanizing   of   knowledge. 
(Ja  '24) 
Science    and    civilization.     Marvin,     F.     S.,     ed. 

(Ja  '24) 
Science  remaking  the  world.     Caldwell,  O.  W:, 

and  Slosson,  E.  E.,  eds.     (Ja  '24) 
Scientific    thought.      Broad,    C.    D.       (S    '23) 
Scissors.     Roberts,  C.     (My  '23) 

Scorpions 
Fabre,  J.   H.  C.  Life  of  the  scorpion.      (S  '23) 

Scotland 

History 

Eyre-Todd,  G:      Highland    clans    of    Scotland. 

(F  '24) 

Mackenzie,  W:    C.      Life    and    times    of    John 

Maitland.  (Ja    '24) 

Scotland  yard 

Thomson,   B.   H.     My  experiences  at  Scotland 
yard.      (Mr  '23) 
Scott,    Evelyn 

Scott,    E.      Escapade.       (S   '23) 
Scott   Burton,   logger.      Cheyney,   E:   G.     (S  '23) 
The   Scudders.     Bacheller,   I.   A.      (Je  '23) 
Sculpture 

Brvunt.    Jj.    M.      Cliildrcn's   book   of  celebrated 
sculpture.     (D  '23) 
Sculpture,   American 
Saltus,   J:    S.,   and   Tisn6,   W.    E.     Statues  of 
New  York.     (Ag  '23) 


628 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


Sea-change.     Lee,   M.      (S  '23) 

Sea  power 

Ballard,  G:  A.     America  and  the  Atlantic.     (S 
'23) 

Sea-tracks  of  the  Speejacks  round  the  world. 
Collins,    D.      (N   '23> 

Seafaring  life 
Kenlon,  J:     Fourteen  years  a  sailor.     (Je  '23> 
Smith.    C.    F.      Sailor   town   days.      (S   '23) 

Second  contemporary  verse  anthology.  Sto>-k. 
C:    W.,    ed.      (O   '23; 

Second  generation.     Rud,    A.   M.      (D  '23) 

Secret  drama.     Smith.  C.  I.     (Mr  '23) 

Secret    life.      Barker,    H.    G.      (Ja    '24) 

Secret  of  woman.     Jerome,  H.     (Je  '23) 

Secret  service 
Thomson,  B.  H.     My  experiences  at  Scotland 
yard.     (Mr  '23) 

Secret  service  Smith.     Scott,   R.   T:   M.     (D  '23) 

Secretaries,   Private 
Taintor,   S.   A.     Training  for  secretarial  prac- 
tice.     (F   '24) 

Seeing  the  Middle  West.  Faris.  J:  T.     (O  '23) 

Selected  articles  on  current  problems  in  munici- 
pal government.  Beman,  L.  T.,  comp.  (S 
'23) 

Selected  articles  on  government  ownership  of 
coal    mines.      Johnsen,    J.    E.,    comp.       (Ja 

Selected    poems.      Frost,    R.      (Ja    '24) 

Selected  poems.  Sterling,  G:     (O  '23) 

Selected  religious  poems.  Ibn  Gabirol,  S.  ben  J. 

(Ja   '24) 
Selected  short  stories.  HallstrSm.   P.   A.   L.      (S 

•23) 
Self.      Nichols,    B.      (N   '23) 
Self-interest 

Bousfleld,  E:  G:  P.     Omnipotent  self.     (S  '23) 
Seneca  Indians 
Curtln,   I.,   comp.     Seneca  Indian  myths.      (Ap 
'23) 
Seneca   Indian   myths.      Curtin,   J.,    comp.      (Ap 

'23) 
SenoussI 
Gwatkin-Williams,  R.  S.    Prisoners  of  the  red 
desert.     (Ag  '23) 
Sentry.     Lyeskov,    N.   L.      (S  '23) 
Sermons 

Shannon,   F:  F.  Country  faith.     (O  '23) 
Serner,    Gunnar.      See   Heller,    F.,    pseud.      (Ag 

Service     station     management.       Jones.     C-     L 

(My  '23) 
Service    with    fighting    men.    Taft,    W:    H.,    and 

others,    eds.      (O   '23) 
Set   the   stage   for  eight.      Halman,   D.    F.      (My 

'23) 
Seven  ages.      (S  '23) 

Seven  ages  of  woman.     Mackenzie,  C.     (Mr  '23) 
Seven  conundrums.     Oppenheim.  E:  P.     (Ap  '23) 
Seven  for  a  secret.     Webb,  M.     (Je  '23) 
Seven  Hills.   Minnigerode,   M.      (D  '23) 
Seven  stars.     Bailey,  L.  H.     (S  '23) 
Sex 
Gray,  A.  H.     Men,   women  and   God.      (N  '23) 
Vaerting,  M.,  and  M.  Dominant  sex.     (S  '23) 
Sexual   ethics 

Gray,   A.   H.     Men,  women  and  God.     (N  '23) 
Shackleton,  Sir  Ernest  Henry 
Mill,    H.    R.      Life    of    Sir   Ernest    Shackleton. 

(Ag  '23) 
Wild.  F.     Shackleton's  last  voyage.     (Ja  '24) 
Shackleton's    last   voyage.   Wild.    F.   (Ja   '24) 
Shadow  on  the  glass.     Button,  C:  J.     (Mr  '23) 
Shadowy    third.  Glasgow,    E.    A.    G.   (Ja    '24) 
Shaft  in  the  sky.     Graves,  J:  T.,  jr.   (Je  '23) 
Shakespeare,    William 
Chevrillon,     A.       Three     studies     in     English 
literature.      (S  '23) 

Biography 

Adams,    J.   Q.     Life   of  William   Shakespeare. 
(Ag  -23) 

Music 

Noble,    R.      Shakespeare's    use    of    song.       (N 
'23) 

Shakespeare's  use  of  song.     Noble.    R.      (N   '23) 
Shame  dance.     Steele,  W.  D.     (Ag  '23) 
Shepherd  prince.     Mapu,  A.      (Ag  '23) 


Shepherd's  crowns.   Grey,   P.    G.   A.      (O  '23) 
Sherwell,    Samuel 
Sherwell,    S:     Old  recollections  of  an  old  boy. 
(D   '23) 
Shield  and   compressed  air  tunneling.     Hewett, 

B.   H:   M.,   and  Johannesson,   S.      (My  '23) 
Shining   pyramid.   Machen,   A.      (O  '23) 
Shining    road.      Brown,    B.      (Ap   '23j 
Shipbuilding 

Yarrow,    E.    C.      Alfred   Yarrow.      (O  '23) 
Shipping 

Great    Britain 
Jones,  C.  W.     British  merchant  shipping.  (My 

Ships 

Bone,    D:    W:      Lookoutman.      (N   '23) 
Shooting 
Connett,    E.   V.     Wing   shooting  and   angling. 
(Mr,    Je    '23) 
Short  history  of  Christianity.   Reinach,    S.      (Mr 

'23) 
Short  history  of  our  religion.     Somervell,  D:  C. 

(My   '23) 
Short    history    of    the    British    commonwealth. 

Muir,  R.     (O  '23) 
Short  history  of  the  Fatimid  khallfate.    O'Leary, 

De  L.  E.     (Ag  '23) 
Short     history     oi     the     international    language 

movement.      Gu^rard,   A.    L.      (Ap  '23) 
Short  stories.   See  Fiction — Short  stories 
Short  story 

Fagin,   N.    B.     Short  story  writing.      (F  '24) 
O'Brien,   E:  J.  H.     Advance  of  the  American 

short  story.     (S  '23) 
Pattee,   F.   L:     Development  of  the  American 
short    story.      (My    '23) 
Short  story  writing.     Fagin,  N.  B.     (F  '24) 
Slam 
Norden,  H.     From  golden  gate  to  golden  sun. 
(Ag  '23) 

Description    and    travel 
Morgenthaler,   H.  O.  Matahari.     (O  '23) 
Sidelights  on  birds.     Horsfleld,  H.  K.     (S  '23) 
Sidelights  on  relativity.     Einstein,  A.     (F  '24) 

Sierra    Madre    mountains 
Saunders,  C:  F.     Southern  Sierras  of  Califor- 
nia.    (Ag  '23) 
Sign    of   the   serpent.     Goodwin,    J:      (My   '23) 
Significance  of  the  fine  arts.    American  institute 
of  architects.     (My  '23) 

Sikhim 

Roiialdshay,  L.  J:  L.  D.     Lands  of  the  thun- 
derbolt.     (S    '23) 
Silent  sex.     Fi.sk,  M.  I.     (Ag  '23) 
Silk.     Merwin,    S:      (D   '23) 
Silken   scarf.      Hobart,   L.   C.      (O  '23) 
Silver    Moon.      Abbott,    E.    H.      (Ja    '24) 
Sinbad.     Scott,  C.   K.     (Ag  '23) 
Sinclair,   Mrs   Bertha   Muzzy.   See  Bower.   B.   M., 

pseud.     (Ap.    N    '23) 
Singers 

Marchesi,   B.   Singer's  pilgrimage.     (D  '23) 
Singer's  pilgrimage.     Marchesi.  B.     (D  '23) 

Singing  ^ 

Martens,  F:  H.     Art  of  the  prima  donna,     (a 

'23) 
Nordica.  L.     Lillian  Nordlca's  hints  to  singers. 
(S  '23) 
Singing  bone.  Freeman,  R:  A.     (N  '2.'?) 
Singing  wells.     Pertwee,   R.     (Ag  '23) 
Single   reels.     Paine,   A.    B.      (Ag  '23) 

Single  tax 
Codman,  J:  S.  Unemployment  and  our  revenue 
problem.     (O  '23) 
Singles  and  doubles.     Tllden,  W:  T.     (Ag  '23) 
Sinister  mark.     Thayer.  L.     (S  '23) 
Sinners   in   heaven.      Arden.   C.      (D   '23) 
Sir  Christopher  Wren.     Weaver,   L.      (F  '24) 
Sir  Douglas  Haig's  command.    Dewar,  G:  A.  B., 

and  Boraston,  J:  H.     (Mr  '23) 
Sir    .Tohn    Dering.      Farnol.    J.      <T)   '23) 
Sir  or  madam.     Ruck,  B.     (Ap  '23) 
.Six    breeds.   Kirk,   R.    G.      (S    '23) 
Rki'Pters    Kirby.      Mnster.s,    E.    L.       (Ap     23) 

Skepticism  ^        .       ,    -   ... 

Santavana,    G:     Scepticism   and   animal   faith. 

(S  '23) 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


629 


Sketch  book  of  a  cadet  from  Gascony.     Bellah, 

J.  W.     (F  '24) 
Sketches  from  a  library  window.     Anderton,  B. 

(Je  -23) 
Sky-line   inn.     Haines,   D.   H.      (Ag  '23) 
Slavery  in   the    United   States 

Wertenbaker,   T:   J.     Planters  of  colonial  Vir- 
ginia.     (My   '23) 
Small  house,   its  possibilities.     Northend,   H.   M. 

(N   '23) 
Smith  college 

Seelye,   L.  C.     Early  history  of  Smith  college. 
(D    23) 
Snake  doctor.     Cobb.  I.   S.      (S  '23) 
Snow  and  ice  sports.     Jessup,   E.     (N  '23) 
So  there!     Adams,  F.  P.     (Je  '23) 
Soccer 

Frost,  H.,  and  Cubberley,  H.  J.     Field  hockey 
and    soccer    for    women.       (D    '23) 
Social  and  diplomatic  memories  (second  series). 

Rodd,   J.    R.      (Ja   '24) 
Social   and    political    ideas   of   some   great   med- 
iaeval   thinkers.      Hearnshaw,    F.    J:    C,    ed. 
(Ja   '24) 
Social  change  with  respect  to  culture  and  origi- 
nal nature.     Osburn,  W:  F  .   (Ag  '23) 
Social  civics.     Munro,  W;   B.,  and  Ozanne,  C:  E. 

(Ap   '23) 
Social   hygiene 
Marchant,  J.,   ed.     Claims  of  the  coming  gen- 
eration.     (F  '24) 
Social  ideals  in  English  letters.     Scudder,  V.  D. 

(S  '23) 
Social  life  among  the  insects.     Wheeler,  W:  M. 

(D   -23) 
Social  life  and  the  crowd     Tayler,  J:  L.     (D  '23) 
Social  life  in  ancient  Egypt.     Petrie,   W:   M.  F. 

(Ja   '24) 
Social  philosophy  of  instinct.   Josey,   C:   C.      (Ap 

'23) 
Social   problems 
Case,  C.  M.     Non-violent  coercion.     (Mr  '23) 
Marchant,    J.,    ed.      Coming    renaissance.      (S 

'23) 
Morehouse,    F.    M.    I.,    and     Graham,     S.    F. 

American   problems.      (O   '23) 
Royden,  A.  M.     Political  Christianity.  (Mr  "23) 
"Williamson,    T.    R.        Problems    in    American 
democracy.        (Ap    '23) 
Social  psychology 
Bartlett,    F.   C.   Psychology  and   primitive  cul- 
ture.    (F  '24) 
Burns,  C.  D.    Contact  between  minds.     (D  '23) 
Case,   C.   M.     Non-violent  coercion.      (Mr  '23) 
Coffin,   J.   H.     Personality  in   the  making.      (F 

'24) 
Gault,    R.    H.     Social   psychology.      (Je   '23) 
Josey,    f:    C.       Social    philosophy    of    instinct. 

(Ap    "23) 
Rivers,    W:    H.    R.      Psychology   and    politics. 

(S  '23) 
Taylor,   J:   L.     Social  life  and  the  crowd.      (D 
'23) 
Social  revolution  in  Mexico.     Ross,   E:  A.     (Ag 
■23) 

Social  sciences 
Munro,    W:    B.,    and    Ozanne,    C:    E.       Social 
civics.      (Ap   '23) 

Social  settlements 

Woods,   R.   A.     Neighborhood  in   nation-build- 
ing.    (Je  '23) 

Social  surveys 
Johnson,    C.    R:,    ed.      Constantinople    to-day. 
(Mr  '23)  "^ 

Social  work 

Halbert,    L.    A.      What    is    professional    social 
work?     (F  '24) 

Tufts,  J.  H.  Education  and  training  for  social 
work.     (O  '23) 

Woods,    R.    A.     Neighborhood   in   nation-build- 
ing.   (Je  '23) 
Social  work  in  the  churches.     Holt,  A.     (Ap  "23) 
Socialism 

Ghent,  W:  J.     Reds  bring  action.     (N  '23) 

Russell,    B.    A.    W:.    and   D.    W       Prospects   of 
industrial   civilization.    (D   '23) 

Socialism  In  Germany 

Strobel,    H.    German    revolution   and   after.    (F 
'24) 


Sociology 
Liichtenberger,    J.    P.      Development   of   social 

theory.     (S  '23) 
Ogburn,  W:  F.     Social  change  with  respect  to 

culture  and  original  nature.     (Ag  '23) 
Ross,   E:   A.     Outlines  of  sociology.     (S  '23) 
Sociology,    Christian 

Ellwood,  C:  A.  Christianity  and  social  science. 

(Ja    '24) 
Holt,    A.    Social    work    in    the    churches.      (Ap 

■23) 
Return  of  Christendom.     (Je  '23) 
Rosebush,    J.    G.      Ethics    of    capitalism.      (D 

'23) 
Royden,  A.  M.  Political  Christianity.     (Mr  '23) 
Solar  system 
Whyte,  C:     Our  solar  system  and  the  stellar 
universe.     (Ja  '24) 
Soldier    and    death.    Ransome,    A.      (O    '23) 
Soliloquy.    McKenna.  S.     (Mr,  Je  '23) 
Solomon  in  all  his  glory.     Lynd,   R.     (D  '23) 
Some  applications  of  psychoanalysis.    Pfister,  O. 

(Je  '23) 
Some     aspects     of     recent     British     economics. 

Hobson,  J:  A.,  and  others.     (O  '23) 
Some  aspects  of  the  life  of  Jesus.     Berguer,   G. 

(F  '24) 
Some  authors.     Raleigh,  W.  A.     (F  '24) 
Some  confessions  of  an  average  man.     King,   R: 

(F  '24) 
Some    great    commodities.     Miller,    E.    M.,    and 

others.      (Ja   '24) 
Some  living  masters  of  the  pulpit.     Newton    J. 

F.     (S  '23) 
Some   makers   of  American   literature.     Phelps, 

W:   L.      (S  '23) 
Some  modern  authors.  Mais,  S.  P.  B.     (O  '23) 
Some  newspapers  and  newspapermen.     Villard, 

O.     G.       (D    '23) 
Some  personal  letters  of  Herman  Melville.    Min- 

nigerode,  M.     (Ag  '23) 
Some    Victorian   women.      Furniss,    H.      (D    '23) 
Somerset,      Isabella      Caroline      (Somers-Cocks) 
(Lady    Henry    Somerset) 
Fitzpatrick,    K.      Lady   Henry    Somerset.      (D 
•23) 
Sometimes.     Wadsley,  O.     (Ja  '24) 
Son  at  the  front.   Wharton,   E.   N.      (O  '23) 
Song  of  the  dragon.     Foote,  J:   F.      (My  '23) 
Songs  of  the  silence.   Holmes,   F.   L.     (O  '23) 
Songs   of   unrest.      Kenyon.    B.    L..       (Ap    '23) 
Sonnets  and  poems.     Quental,   A.  T.  de     (S  '23) 
Soul  of  Abe  Lincoln.    Babcock,  B.     (Ag  '23) 
Soul    of   Kol    Nikon.     Farjeon,    E.      (D   '23) 
Soul   of  modern  poetry.     Strachan,   R.   H.     (Ag 

'23) 
Soul  of  the  city.     Greever,  G.,  and  Bachelor,  J. 

M.,  comps.      (F  '24) 
Soul  of  woman.     Ferrero,  G.     (S  '23) 
Soup 
Chambers,  M.  D.     Book  of  unusual  soups.     (F 
'24) 
South   Africa 
Schreiner,  O.     Thoughts  on  South  Africa.     (D 
'23) 
South   America 

Description    and    travel 
DomviHe-Fife,    C:    W:       Real    South    America. 
(Ap   '23) 

South    Sea    Islands 

Burnett,    F.    Summer   isles   of   Eden.      (S    '23) 
Southern  Sierras  of  California.     Saunders,  C:  F. 
(Ag  '23) 

Souza,     Joseph     IVIichael     Thomas     Baretto     de. 
See  Baretto  de  Souza,  J.  M.  T:   (Mr  '23) 

Space  and  time 
Eriksen,  R:  Consciousness,  life  and  the  fourth 
dimension.     (O  '23) 

Spain 

Description    and    travel 

Gordon,  J.  and  C.     Two  vagabonds  In  Spain. 

(Ja    '24) 
Hall,  T.  Spain  in  silhouette.     (O  '23) 
Spain  in  silhouette.  Hall.  T.     (O  '23) 
Spanish    Galicia.      Bell.    A.    F.    G.      (D   '23) 
Specimens  of  Biblical  literature.    Muilenberg,  J., 

ed.      (D   '23) 
Speckled  bird.     Cutler.  R.     (Mr  '23) 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


Spectrum    analysis 

Sommerfeld,   A.    J.    W.    Atomic   structure    and 
spectral   lines.      (F   '24) 
Spectrum,    Ultra-violet 

Luckiesh,  M.     Ultraviolet  radiation.     (My  '23) 

Speculation 
Lefgvre,  E.     Reminiscences  of  a  stock  opera- 
tor.    (S  '23) 
Spell   of   Siris.     Coxon,    M.      (Ja   '24) 
Soilled   wine.      St   John-Loe.    G.      (Ap    '23) 
Spirit-of-iron.     Steele,  H.  E.   R.     (F  '24) 

Spiritual   life 

Sedgwick,  H:  D.     Pro  vita  monastica.   (Je    23) 
Younghusband,  F.  E:     The  gleam.     (A&  '23) 
Spiritual    outlook    of    Europe    to-day.      Eucken, 

R.    C.       (Ap   '23) 
Spiritualism 

Doyle,    A.    C.      Our   American   adventure.      (Je 

•23) 
Richet,   C:   R.     Thirty  years  of  psychical  re- 
search.    (Ag  '23) 
Stobart,   St  C.     Ancient  lights.      (F  '24) 
Splashing    into    society.      Barry,    I.      (D    '23) 
Spooky  Hollow.     Wells,   C.      (N   '23) 
Sport  and   adventure   in   Africa.     Shorthose,   W. 

T.     (Je  '23) 
Sportsman  at  large.  Cox,  H.  E:  de  F.     (O  '23) 

Springfield   Republican 

Grlffln,  S.  B.     People  and  politics.     (Je  '23) 
The    squire.      Richards,    L.    E.      (Ja    '24) 
Stabilisation.    Lloyd,   E.   M.    H.      (O   '23) 
Stabilization   of  business.     Edie,  L.   D.,  ed.     (S 

'23) 
Standard  of  living.     Cornish,   N.  11.     (S  '23) 
Star  of  earth.     Dallett,  M.     (Mr  '23) 
Starlight  wonder  book.     Beston.  H:  B.     (N  '23) 

Olcott,   W:    T.    Book   of   the    stars   for   young 
people.     (O  '23) 
State   governments 
Dodd,  W.  F.,  and  S.     Government  in  Illinois. 
(N    '23) 
Statesmen,  French 

As   they  are.      (F  '24) 
Statues  of  New  York.     Saltus.  J:  S.,  and  Tisn6, 

W.  E.     (Ag  '23) 
Steam-turbine  principles  and  practice.  Croft,  T. 

W.,  ed.     (O  '23) 
Steam  turbines 
Croft,    T.    W.,    ed.    Steam-turbine    principles 
and  practice.     (O  '23) 

Steel 

Analysis 

Sisco,    F.   T.    Technical   analysis  of   steel  and 
steel  works  materials.     (O  '23) 
Steel   construction 
Bland,    M.    C.      Handbook    of    steel    erection. 
(Ag  '23) 
Steel   strike,   1919-1020 

Olds,    M.      Analysis   of   the   Interchurch   world 
movement  Report  on  the  steel  strike.      (Ap 
■23) 
Steel -works 
Sisco,    F.    T.   Technical   analysis   of   steei    and 
steel  works  mateiials.     (O  '23) 
Stella  Dallas.     Prouty,  O.     (Je  '23) 
Step  on  the  stair.     (Sreen,  A.  K.     (Mr  '23) 
Stephen    Crane.      Beer,    T:      (Ja    '24) 
Sterling,   John 

Carlyle,    T:      Letters.      (Ja   '24) 
Stevenson,   Robert  Louis 
Masson,    R.    O.,   ed.     I   can   remember  Robert 

Louis  Stevenson.     (Mr  '23) 
Masson,  R.   O.     Life  of  Robert  Louis  Steven- 
son.    (F  '24) 
Stickfuls.     Cobb.  I.   S.     (My  '23) 
Stimulating  the  organization.     Foster,  O.  D.     (F 

'24) 
Stinging   nettles.      Bowen,    M.,    pseud.      (N    '23) 
Stirling,  Arthur,  pseud.    See  Sinclair,  U.  B.     (My 

•23) 
Stolen   honey.     Macnamara,    R.    S.    (D   '23) 

Stone   age 
Quennoll,    M.,    and    C:    H:    B.       Everyday    life 
in    the    new    stone,    bronze    and    early    iron 
ages.       (Ap   '23) 
Stonecrop.     Tormay,  C.     (Ap  '23) 
Stories  about  horses.     St  Nicholas.     (N  '§3) 


Stories,    dreams   and   allegories.      Schreiner,    O. 

(Ap   '23) 
Stories  from  the  early  world.     Fleming,  R.  M. 

(Ja  -24) 
Story  of  a  nickel.     See  Porter,  E.     Money,  love 

and  Kate.     (F  '24) 
Story   of   Bologna.     Wiel,  A.   J.      (S  '23) 
Story   of    man's    mind.    Humphrey,    G:      (O    '23) 
Story  of  my  life.     Johnston,  H.  H.     (Ja  '24) 
Story  of  our  literature.     Haney,   J:   L:     (S  '23) 
Story  of  the  Bible.     Van  Loon,  H.   W.      (D  '23) 
Story  of  the  British  navy.     Wheeler,  H.   F.   B. 

(Mr  '23) 
Story  of  the  development  of  a  youth.     Haeckel, 

E.  H.  P.  A.     (S  '23) 
Story  of  the  maize  plant.  Weatherwax,   P.     (O 

'23) 
Story  of  the  Walloons.  Griffls.  W:  E.  (D  '23) 
Stranger  things.  Cram,  M.  (Ja  '24) 
Streets  and  shadows.  Acosta,  M.  de.  (My  -23) 
Strenuous  Americans.  Dibble,  R.  F.  (Ja  '24) 
"Strictly  business."  Howard,  F.  M.  (Ag  '23) 
Studies     in     Biblical     and     Semitic     symbolism. 

Parbridge,    M.   H.      (F  '24) 
Studies  in  classic  American  literature.  Lawrence, 

D:  H.     (O  '23) 
Studies  in  empire  and  trade.     Jeudwine,  J:  W. 
^      (Ag  -23) 
Studies    in    evolution    and    eugenics.      Holmes, 

S:   J.      (Ja   '24) 
Studies      in      Victorian      literature.        Williams, 

S.    T:      (N   '23) 
Study 

Miller,   H.   L.     Directing  study     (Ag  '23) 
Study  of  American  intelligence.     Brigham,  C.  C. 

(Je  '23) 
Stumbling  herd.     Moroso,   J:   A.      (My   '23) 
Style,   Literary 

Lee,    v.,    pseud.    Handling   of   words.    (Je   '23) 
Subconscious 

Levine,   1.     The  unconscious.     (Ja  '24) 
Subject  headings 
Sears,    M.    E.,    ed.     List   of   subject    headings 

for   small    libraries.     (My    '23) 
Submarine  boats 

Parsons,   W:   B.      Robert  Fulton  and  the  sub- 
marine.      (Ap   '23) 
Success 
Wanamaker,  J:     Maxims  of  life  and  business. 

(S   '23) 
Wilkins,  Z.  P.  Letters  of  a  business  woman  to 

her  daughter.     (O  '23) 
Sudan,  Egyptian 

Carpenter,  F.   G:     Cairo  to  Kisumu.     (Je  '23) 
Sudermann,    Hermann 

Sudermann,  H.     Book  of  my  youth,     (Ag  '23) 
Sulamith.      Kuprin,    A.    I.      (D    '23) 
Summer  isles  of  Eden.   Burnett,  F.     (S  '23) 
Sun  field.  Broun,  H.  C.     (D  '23) 
Sun-spots 

Huntington,  E.     Earth  and  sun.     (Ja  '24) 
Sunwise  Turn,  inc.,  New  York  city 

Jenison,   M.     Sunwise  Turn.     (Ag  '23) 
Sunwise  Turn.     Jenison,  M.     (Ag  '23) 
Sun-worship 

Perry,    W.    J.     Children   of   the   sun.      (D   '23) 
Survivors.     Harriman,   M.   St  L.      (Je   '23) 
Suzanne   and   the    Pacific.      Giraudoux,    J.      (Ap 

•23) 
The  swan.      See  Fashions   for  men.      Molnar,   F. 

(Mr  '23) 
Swan  and  the  mule.     MacLeod,   D.   C.      (Je  '23) 
Sweden 

Description    and    travel 
Carpenter,   F.   G:     France  to  Scandinavia.     (F 

'24) 
Swedenborg,   Emanuel 
Chetty,    D.    G.    New    light    upon    Indian    phi- 
losophy.    (D  '23) 
Sweet  pepper.     Moss,  G.     (Je  '23) 
Swimming 

Barnes,   G.     Swimming  and  diving.     (Mr  '23) 
Swimming  and  diving.     Barnes,  G.     (Mr  '23) 
Swinging  lanterns.     Enders,  E.  C.     (Ag  '23) 

Switzerland 

Description  and  travel 
Cadhy,    W.,    and    C.    Switzerland    in   summer. 

(O   '23) 
Douglas.    N.     Together.     (Je   '24) 


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631 


Switzerland  in  summer.   Cadby,  W.,  and  C.     (O 

■23) 
Sykes,  Sir  Mark,  bart. 

Leslie.   S.     Mark  Sykes.      (S  '23) 
Symbol  of  safety.  Brearley,  H.  C.     (S  '23) 

Symbolism 

Parbridge,    M.    H.       Studies    in    Biblical    and 
Semitic    symbolism.      (F    '24) 
Symonds,  John  Addlngton 

Symonds,    J:    A.       Letters    and    papers.       (Ap 
•23) 
Synthetic    resins    and    their    plastics.      Ellis,    C. 
(F  '24) 

Syria 

Description    and    travel 
Powell,  E:,  A.     By  camel  and  car  to  the  pea- 
cock throne.     (Ag  '23) 


Tabb,   John    Bannister 

Litz,    F.    A.      Father    Tabb.      (D    '23) 
Tableaux 

Smith,    N    A.      Action    poems    and    plays    for 
children.      (D   '23) 
Tackling   tech.      Conant,    L.    W.      (Ag    '23) 
Tall  of  the  hemisphere.     Carpenter,   F.   G:      (Je 

•23) 
Tale    of    the    enchanted    bunnies.      Sawyer,    R. 

(D    '23) 
Tale  of  the  Pyrenees.     Loti.  P.,  pseud.     (D  '23) 
Tales   of   travel.     Curzon,    G:    N.    C.      (Ja   '24) 
The   talkers.     Chambers,   R.   W:     (Mr  '23) 
Talks  and  traits.     Minchin,   H.   C.      (P  '24) 
Taming  the  wildings.     Durand,  H.     (Ja  "24) 
Tantalus.      Easton,    D.      (N    '23j 
Tapestry  of  life.     Blathwayt,   R.     (F  '24) 
Tappan's  burro.     Grey,  Z.     (Ja  '24) 

Tawi-Tawl  islands 

Cloman,  S.  A.     Myself  and  a  few  Moros.     (Ja 
'24) 
Taxation 

Great    Britain 
Dalton,   H.   Capital  levy  explained.     (O  '23) 

United   States 
Fay,  C:  N.     Too  much  government  too  much 
taxation.      (Ag  '23) 
Teaching 

Grant,    J.    R:      Acquiring    skill    in    teaching. 

(Mr  '23) 
Parker,    S:    C.    Types  of  elementary   teaching 

and  learning.      (O   '23) 
School    in    action.       (Ap    '23) 
Stark,  W:  E.     Every  teacher's  problems.     (O 
'23) 
Technical  analysis  of  steel  and  steel  works  ma- 
terials.  Sisco,   F.   T.     (O  '23) 
Technical   education 

Conant,   L.   W.     Tackling  tech.      (Ag  '23) 
Technical   exposition.      Thompson,    K.    W.      (My 

■23) 
Technical  writing 

Thompson,  K.  W.     Technical  exposition.     (My 
'23) 

Teeth 

Thoma,    K.    H.      Teeth,    diet   and   health.      (S 
•23) 
Teeth,  diet  and  health.     Thoma,  K.  H.     (S  '23) 
Temperance 

Fitzpatrick,    K.      Lady    Henry    Somerset.      (D 
'23) 
Temple.     Waley,   A.      (P  '24) 
Temptress.   Blasco  Ibaftez,  V.      (S  *23) 
Tenderfoot  in  Colorado.     Townshend,  R.  B.     (Ag 

'23) 
Tennis 

Tilden,  W:.  T.     Singles  and  doubles.     (Ag  '23) 
Tennyson,    Alfred    Tennyson,    1st    baron 

Fausset,   H.   I'A.     Tennyson.      (Je  '23) 

Nicolson,   H.  G:  Tennyson.     (O  '23) 
Tennyson.     Fausset,  H.  I'A.     (Je  '23) 
Tennyson.   Nicolson,   H.  G:     (O  '23) 
Tenth  woman.     Comstock,  H.   T.     (Ag  '23) 
Teodoro   the   saKe.      Lucalelli.    L       lAp  '23; 
Terassa  of  Spain.     Fish,   H.  F.  X.    (S  '23) 
Terms  of  conquest.     O'Brien,  H.  V.     (Ja  '24) 
Tetherstones.    Dell,    E.   M.      (D   '23) 


Texas 

Poetry 

Greer,  H.  R.,  comp.    Voices  of  the  Southwest. 
(Ag  '23) 
Text-book    of    inorganic   chemistry.    Newth,    G: 

S.     (O  '23) 
Textile  fabrics.     Dyer,   E.     (F  '24) 
Textile   Industry  and  fabrics 
Denny,  G.  G.     Fabrics  and  how  to  know  them. 

(Ja  '24) 
Dyer,    E.     Textile   fabrics.      (F  '24) 
Thackeray,  William  Makepeace 
Chancellor,   E.   B.   London   of  Thackeray.      (O 
•23) 
Thames  river 

Higgins,  W.  Father  Thames.     (O  '23) 
That    marvel— the   movie.     Van   Zile.    E:    S.      (S 

'23) 
That   silver   lining.      Masson,    T:   L.      (D  '23) 
That  which  is  passed.     Atkin,  G.  M.     (Ja  '24) 
Theater 
Matthews,     B.     Playwrights     on     playmaking. 

(Ja    '24) 
Nathan,  G:  J.     World  In  falseface.     (Mr  '23) 
Young,    S.      Flower   of    the    drama.       (Ap   '23) 

Little  theater  movement 
Koch,    F:    H:,    ed.     Carolina   folk-plays.      (Mr 
•23) 

United   States 
Sayler,  O.  M.     Our  American  theatre.     (P  '24) 
Theodore     Roosevelt.     Charnwood,     G.     R.     B. 

(D    -23) 
Theology 

McConnell,  S:  D.    Confessions  of  an  old  priest. 
(Mr    •23> 
Theory  of  emulsions  and  emulsification.     Clay- 
ton, W:     (Ja  '24) 
Theory  of  mind   as  pure  act.     Gentile,  G.      (Ap 

•23) 
Therapeutics 

History 
Walsh,   J.  J.  Cures.     (O  '23) 
Thermodynamics 

Lewis,   G.   N.,   and  Randall,   M.     Thermodyna- 
mics  and  the   free  energy  of  chemical  sub- 
stances.    (P  '24) 
Thermodynamics  and   the  free  energy  of  chem- 
ical substances.     Lewis,  G.  N.,  and  Randall, 
M.     (F  '24) 
These  United  States.     Gruening,  E.,  ed.     (Je  '23) 
Thing    at    their    heels.      Hext,    H.,    pseud.      (Ja 

■24) 
Things   near  and   far.     Machen,    A.      (My  '23) 
Things  new  and  old.     Beerbohm,   M.      (F  '24) 
Things  remembered.     Hardy,  A.  S.     (Ag  '23) 
Things   that  have   interested  nie;   second  series. 

Bennett,    A.      (Ap  '23) 
The   thinker.     Coblentz,    S.    A.      (My   '23) 
Third  base  Thatcher.     Scott.  E.     (N  '23) 
Thirteen   worthies.     Powys,    L:      (Ag   '23) 
Thirty  years  of  psychical  research.     Richet,  C: 

R.      (Ag  ^23) 
31  stories.    Rhys,  E.,  and  Scott,  C.  A.,  eds.     (Ja 

•24) 
This   earth   of   ours.      Fabre,    J.    H.    C.      (N    '23) 
This  fine-pretty  world.     MacKaye,   P.     (F  '24) 
This  king  business.     Collins,  F:  L.     (Ag  '23) 
This  singing  world.     Untermeyer.  L:,  ed.   (F  '24) 
Thomas    Jefferson    Bible.      Jackson,    H:    E.,    ed. 

(D   '23) 
Thomas  Nelson  Page.     Page,  R.     (Ag  '23) 

Thorne,  Guy,  pseud.    See  Gull,  C.  A.  E:  R.    (Je 

■23) 
Thought  and  thinking 
McKerrow,    J.   C.      Appearance   of   mind.      (S 

'23) 
Ogden,  C:  K.,  and  Richards,  I.  A.  Meaning  of 

meaning.      (O   '23) 
Thoughts   on    South    Africa.    Schreiner.    O.      (D 

'23) 
Three      centuries      of      American      democracy. 

MacDonald,    W:      (S    '23) 
Three    criminal    law    reformers.      Phlllipson,    C. 

(Ja    '24) 
Three    generations.      Elliott,    M.      (D   '23) 
Three  impostors.      Machen.   A.      (D  '23) 
Three  studies  in  English  literature.     Chevrillon, 

A.      (S  '23) 
Three  wonder  p.lays.     Gregory,  I.   A.     (Mr  '23) 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


The  threshold.     (O  '23) 

Thrifty  stock.     Williams.   B.    A.      (S  "23) 

Thrilling  escapes.     French,   J.    L..,   ed.      (D  '23) 

Through  the  wheat.     Boyd,  T:     (Je  '23) 

Tibet 

Description    and    travel 
Teichman,    E.       Travels    of   a   consular    ofHcer 
in  eastern  Tibet.     (Ap  '23) 

Foreign     relations 
Teichman,    E.    Travels    of  a    consular    officer 

In  eastern  Tibet.     (Ap  "23) 
Tide  comes   in.     Wood,   C.      (My   '23) 
Tiger   river.      Friel,   A.   O.      (Ap  '23) 
Timber  treasure.     Pollock.  F.     (N  '23) 
Timber-Wolf.     Gregory,   J.      (D  '23) 
Time  is  whispering.     Robins,  E.     (Ag  '23) 
Times   have  changed.      Davis,    E.      (My   '23) 
"Tinker,    tailor."      Herbert,    A.    P.      (D   '23) 
Titans.     Guernon,  C:     (Je  '23) 
To  the  dark  tower.     Gross,  M.   S.     (My  '23) 
Tobacco 

Physiological  effect 
O'Shea,  M.  V.     Tobacco  and  mental  efficiency. 

(Ag  '23) 
Tobacco  and  mental  efficiency.     O'Shea,   M.   V. 

(Ag  '23) 
Together.   Douglas,   N.      (Ja  '24) 
Tom   Masson's  annual  for  1923.     Masson,  T:   L... 

ed.      (F   '24) 
Tomb  of  Tut-ankh-amen.    Carter,  H.,  and  Mace, 

A.    C.      (F  '24) 
Tomorrow  about  this  time.     Lutz,  G.  L.  H.     (S 

•23) 
Too  much  government  too  much  taxation.    Fay. 

C:  N.     (Ag  '23) 
Torch-bearers.     Kelly,  G:     (N  *23> 
Torch  bearers.     Marshall,   B.   G.      (D  '23) 
Town  and  gown.     Montross,  L.,  and  L.   S.     (Ap 

•23) 
Townsend,    R.    T.,    ed.      Book   of    building    and 

interior  decorating.     (S  '23) 
Toys 

Rich,   F.   M.     Jolly  tinker.      (D  '23) 
Tozer,  Basil 

Tozer,    B.      Recollections    of    a    rolling    stone, 

(N  '23) 

Trade   unions 
Henry,  A.     Woman  and  the  labor  movemeni. 

(Ja  -24) 
Tragedies  of  sex.     Wedeklnd,  F.     (S  '23) 
Trail  of  the  elk.  F5nhus,  M.     (O  '23) 
Training  for  secretarial  practice.     Taintor,  S.  A. 

(F  '24) 
Training  for  the  business  of  advertising.     Hoyt. 

C:    W.      (My   '23) 
Tramps 

Anderson,  N.     The  hobo.     (S  '23) 
Tranquillity    house.      Seaman,    A.      (D   '23) 
Transportation 

Chatburn,     G:     R:      Highways    and    highway 

tiansportation.     (Ag  '23) 
Traprock,  Walter  E.,  pseud.  See  Chappell,  G:  S. 

(N  '23) 
Travel 
Hungerford,  E:,  ed.     Planning  a  trip  abroad. 

(S  '23) 
Travel  and   comment.      Phelan,   J.   D.      (Ap  '23> 
Travels  and  sketches.     Poulsen,  F:     (S  '23) 
Travels  in  Arabia  deserta.     Doughty,  C:  M.     (F 

'24) 
Travels  of  a   consular  officer  in  eastern   Tibet. 

Teichman.    E.      (Ap  '23) 
Treasure  trail.     Niven,  F:  J:     (F  '24) 
Treasury  of  plays  for  men.     Shay,  F.,  ed.  (F  '24) 
Tree  of  the  garden.      Booth,   E:   C:      (Ap  '23) 
Trees 

Pack,  C:  L.     Trees  as  good  citizens.     (Ag  *23) 
Trees  as  good  citizens.     Pack,   C:,  L.     (Ag  '23) 
Trend  of  history.     Wallace,   W:   K.      (My   '23) 
Trial   practice 

Osborn,   A.  S.   Problem  of  proof.    (Ap  '23) 
Trifles  and   travels.     Keyser,  A.  L:      (S  '23) 
Tristan 

Thomas.      Romance    of    Tristram    and    Ysolt. 
(Je  '23) 
Triumph  of  the  nut.     Ward,   C.   L.      (F  '24) 
Triumph   of  the   Scarlet   Pimpernel.     Orczy,    E. 

(Mr  '23) 


Trodden  gold.     O'Brien,  H.  V.     (Mr  '23) 
Trouble  at  Pinelands.     Poate.  E.  M.     (Mr  '23) 
True  adventures  of  the  secret  service.     Russell, 

C:    E.      (S   '23) 
True    story    of    a    real    garden.      Watson,    I.    B. 

(Je  '23) 
Truth  o'  women.     Bacon,  J.  D.     (Ja  '24) 
Tulips    and    chimneys.    Cummings,    B:    E.      (Ja 

•24) 
Tumbleweeds.     Evarts,   H.    G:     (Mr   '23) 
Tunneling 
Hewett,  B.  H:  M.,  and  Johannesson,  S.     Shield 

and  compressed  air  tunneling.     (My  '23) 
Turkey 

Earle,   E:    M.    Turkey.    (D   '23) 

History 

Eversley,  G:  J:  S.-U,  and  Chirol,  V.    Turkish 

empire.      (Ap  '23) 
Toynbee,    A.    J.      Western    question   in   Greece 

and   Turkey.       (Ap   '23) 

Nationalist     movement 

Tulips    and    chimneys.    Cummings,    E:    E.       (Ja 
'24) 
Price,   C.     Rebirth  of  Turkey.     (F  '24) 

Turkish    empire.        Eversley,    G:    J:    S.-L.,    and 
Chirol,    V.       (Ap   '2'i) 

Turning  point.     Tracy,   L:      (F  '24) 

Tut-ankh-amen 
Budge,   E.  A.   T.  W.     Tutankhamen.     (S  '23) 
Carter,   H.,    and   Mace,    A.    C.     Tomb   of   Tut- 
ankh-amen.      (F   '24) 
Nahas,  B.     Life  and  times  of  Tut-ankh-amen. 

(Ag  '23) 
Smith,    G.    E.      Tutankhamen    and    the    dis- 
covery of  his  tomb.     (N  '23) 

Tutankhamen.     Budge,   E.    A.   T.  W.      (S   '23) 

Tutankhamen   and    the   discovery   of   his    tomb. 
Smith,    G.    E.       (N    '23) 

Tut,    tut!   Mr  Tutt.    Train,   A.    C.      (N   '23) 

Tw^ain,  Mark,  pseud.  See  Clemens,  S:  L.   (Ag,  D 
'23) 

Twelve-hour  shift  in  industry.  Federated  Amer- 
ican   engineering    societies.       (Ap    '23) 

Two    vagabonds    in    Spain.      Gordon   J.    and   C. 
(Ja   '24) 

Two  views  of  education.      Cooper,   L.      (Ap  '23) 

Tyler    of    Barnet.       Gilbert,    B.       (Ap    '23) 

Types    of    elementary    teaching    and    learning. 
Parker,  S:  C.     (O  '23) 

Typewriting 
Admire,    H.    F.      Progressive    typewriting.      (F 
•24) 

Tyranny  of  power.     Curtin,  D.  T:     (Je  ^23) 


Ultraviolet    radiation.      Luckiesh,    M.      (My    ^23) 

Ultra-violet    rays 

Luckiesh,  M.     Ultraviolet  radiation.  (My  '23) 
Ulug   Beg.     Bacon,    L.      (F   '24) 
Unadjusted  girl.     Thomas,  W:  I:     (N  '23) 
Unbidden  guest.     Villa,   S.     (Ag  '23) 
Uncanny  stories.     Sinclair,  M.     (N  '23) 
Uncle    James's    shoes.    Webster,    D.,    and   S:    C 

(O  '23) 
The  unconscious.     Levine,  I.     (Ja  '24) 
Under  a  thousand  eyes.     Livingston,  F.  B.     (Ag 

'23) 
Under  the  big  top.     Cooper,  C.  R.     (F  "24) 
Under    the    law.      Babcock,    E.    S.      (Mr   '23) 
Under  the   tree.      Roberts.    E.    M.      (My   '23) 
Understanding   Italy.      Cooper,    C.    S.      (Ag   '23) 
Understanding  of  religion.     Brewster,  E.  T.     (Je 

•23> 
Undertow.      Marks,    H:    K.      (D    '23) 
Underworld  of  London.     Felstead.  S.  T.     (S  '23) 

Underwriters'    laboratories.    Inc. 

Brearley,   H.   C.     Symbol  of  safety.     (S  '23) 

Unemployment 
Berridge,    W:    A.    Cycles    of   unemployment   in 

the  United  States,  1903-1922.     (O  '23) 
Codman,  J:  S.  Unemployment  and  our  revenue 

problem.     (O  '23) 
Cole.   G:   D.   H.    Out   of  work.      (O  '23) 
Hobson,    J:    A.    Economics    of    unemployment 

(N    '23) 


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633 


Kirkconnell,  W.     International  aspects  of  un- 
employment.    (Ja  '24) 
Klein,  P.     Burden  of  unemployment.     (S  '23) 

Unemployment  and  our  revenue  problem.   Cod- 
man,  J:  S.     (O  '23) 

Unfinished  tales  from  a  Russian  prison.     Har- 
rison,   M.    E.      (S   '23) 

Unfortunate  Colonel  Despard.     Oman,  C:  W:  C. 
(Je  '23) 

Ungrown-ups.     Humphreys,   E.   M.  J.     (F  '24) 

United  States 

Army 

Allen,  H:  T.  My  Rhineland  journal.  (Ja 
'24) 

Biography 
Bradford,  G.     Damaged  souls.     (Je  '23) 
Butler,    N:    M.      Building    the    American    na- 
tion.     (N   '23) 
Dibble,    R.    P.      Strenuous    Americans.       (Ja 

'24) 
Parsons,  F.     Friendly  club.     (Je  '23) 
Sherman,  S.  P.    Americans.     (Ag  '23  and  1922 
Annual) 

Budget,   Bureau  of 
Dawes,  C:  G.    First  year  of  the  budget  of  the 
United  States.     (Je  '23) 

Commerce 
Bishop,    A.    Li.    Outlines   of  American    foreign 
commerce.     (O  '23) 

Congress 
Brown,  G:  R.     Leadership  of  Congress.     (My 

'23) 

Constitution 
Beck,  J.  M.    Constitution  of  the  United  States. 

(Mr  '23) 
Burgess,  J:  W:     Recent  changes  in  American 

constitutional  theory.     (F  '24) 
Burton,    T.    E.        Constitution    of   the    United 

States.     (F  '24) 
Hennessy,  F.  X.  Citizen  or  subject.     (O  '23) 
Stimson,    F:   J.     American  Constitution   as  it 

protects  private  rights.      (F  '24) 

Constitutional    law 

Burdick,  C:  K.  Law  of  the  American  con- 
stitution. (Mr  '23) 

Vandenberg,  A.  H.  If  Hamilton  were  here  to- 
day.     (My  '23) 

Description    and    travel 

Doyle,  A.  C.  Our  American  adventure.  (Je 
'23) 

Gruening,  E.,  ed.  These  United  States.  (Je 
•23) 

Quinn,  V.    Beautiful  America.    (Ja  '24) 

Shaw  of  Dunfermline,  T:  S.  Law  of  the  kins- 
men.    (O  '23) 

Waldron,  W.  We  explore  the  Great  Lakes. 
(D     23) 

Diplomatic  and  consular  service 
Richardson,  N.     My  diplomatic  education.     (F 
'24) 

Economic    conditions 

Edie,  L.  D.,  ed.  Stabilization  of  business.  (S 
•23) 

Hadley,  A.  T.  Economic  problems  of  democ- 
racy.     (Ag  '23) 

Morehouse,  F.  M.  I.,  and  Graham,  S.  F. 
American  problems.     (O  '23) 

Williamson,  T.  K.  Problems  in  American 
democracy.        (Ap    '23) 

Executive   departments 
Willoughby,  W:  F.  Reorganization  of  the  ad- 
ministrative branch  of  the  national  govern- 
ment.     (O    '23) 

Foreign    relations 
Dennett,  T.    Americans  in  eastern  Asia.     (Ag 

'23  and  1922  Annual) 
Ravage,    M.    E.    Malady    of    Europe.      (N    '23) 

Or  eat  Britain 
Bemis,   S:   F.     Jay's   treaty.      (Je   '23) 
Jefferson,    C:     E:       Friendship    indispensable. 
(D    '23) 


Latin  America 
Robertson,  W:  S.  Hispanic-American  relations 

with    the    United   States.      (O    '23) 
Stuart,  G.  H:     Latin  America  and  the  United 

States.      (F   '24) 

History 

Butler,  N:  M.  Building  the  American  nation. 
(N    '23)  ,^ 

Halleck,  R.  P.  History  of  our  country.  (O 
'23) 

Hudson,  W:  H:,  and  Guernsey,  I.  S.  United 
States.      (My    '23) 

Hulbert.  A.  B.  Making  of  the  American  re- 
public.    (F  '24) 

MacDonald,  W:  Three  centuries  of  Ameri- 
can democracy.     (S  '23) 

Revolution 
Egerton,  H.  E:  Causes  and  character  of  the 

American  revolution.     (O  '23) 
Harlow,  R.  V.     Samuel  Adams.     (Ja  '24) 

Constitutional  period,  1789-1809 
Bemis,  S:  F.     Jay's  treaty.     (Je  '23) 

Civil   war 
Eckenrode,  H.  M.     Jefferson  Davis,  president 
of  the  South.     (N  '23) 

Politics  and  government 
Butler,   N:  M.  Building  the  American  nation. 

De  Koven,  A.  Primer  of  citizenship.  (O 
'23) 

Fay,  C:  N.  Too  much  government  too  much 
taxation.      (Ag  '23) 

Griffin,    S.    B.     People   and  politics.      (Je    23) 

Harriman,  F.  J.  From  pinafores  to  politics. 
(Ja   -24) 

MacDonald,  W:  Three  centuries  of  American 
democracy.      (S  '23) 

McElroy,    K.    M.    Grover    Cleveland.      (Ja     24) 

Morse,  A.  D.  Parties  and  party  leaders.  (S 
'23) 

Munro,  \V:  B.,  and  Ozanne,  C:  E.  Social 
civics.       (Ap    '23) 

Penman,  J:  S.  Irresistible  movement  of  de- 
mocracy.    (F  '24) 

Smith,  H.  A.  Federalism  in  North  America. 
(N   '23) 

Thorpe,  F.  N.  Essentials  of  American  gov- 
ernment.    (Mr  '23) 

Watterson,  H:  Editorials  of  Henry  Watter- 
son.     (S  '23) 

Williamson,  T.  U.  Problems  in  American 
democracy.       (Ap    '23) 

Social    conditions 
Williamson,    T.    R.        Pioblems    in    American 
democracy.     (Ap  '23) 

Social  life  and  customs 
Gruening,  E.,  ed.     These  United  States.     (Je 
'23) 

War  industries  board 

Clarkson,    G.    B.      Industrial   America   in    the 

World  war.     (Ag  '23) 

United  States.     Hudson,  W:  H:,  and  Guernsey. 

I.    S.      (My  '23)  ^.  ,  .  ,^.  „ 

United  States  and  the  League.  Dickinson,  T.  K. 

Unity  lind  Rome.  Middleton,  E.  S.  (My  '23) 
Unknown  quantity.  Hopkins,  G.  (Ap  23) 
Unpub'ished  letters  of  Matthew  Arnold.    Arnold, 

M.     (D  '23)  ,  x,^     T       /T-w  .o9» 

Untrodden  ways.     Massingham,   H.   J:      (D    2S) 
Unveiled  ladies  of  Stamboul.     Brown,  D.     (My 

'23) 
Up  and  coming.     Bartley,  N.  I.     (Mr  '23) 
Up-stream.     Bax,    C.      (N   '23) 

Utopias  •  i 

Hertzler,  J.  O.  History  of  Utopian  thought. 
(Ag  '23) 


Vacation  on  the  trail.     Davenport,  E.     (Ag    23) 
Vagaries    of    Tod    and    Peter.      Harker,    L.    A. 
(D  '23) 


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BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


Valentine     Douglas,    pseud.      See    Williams.    V. 

IT-     II  •     /*■         ^^' 

Valley  of  Arcana.  Hankins,  A.  P.  (F  *24) 
Vallon,   Annette 

^n!.*??i^v^i      William   Wordsworth    and    An- 
nette Vallon.     (Je  '23) 

Van  Gogh,   Vincent 

*f?j|j''-Graefe,  J.  A.     Vincent  van  Gogh.     (Ag 

'^^^".gjassel  and  Big  Bill.     Curran.   H:   H.      (N 

Variety  in  the  little  garden.     King,  L.     (S  '23) 
Vaughan,  Bernard 
Martmdale,    C.    C.      Bernard    Vaughan.      (Ja 

The  vegetable.  Fitzgerald.  F.  S  K  CTe  •9^\ 
Vegetable  garden.  Bennett,  I.  D.  (Ja  '24)^ 
Vegetable  gardening 

Bennett,  I.  D.  Vegetable  garden.     (.Ja  '24) 
(My^'23)      •     ^-       ^°™^     vegetable-garden. 

^(My'S)    ^'      ^^^^ta^Ie    growing    projects, 
^^^ft^ble  growing  projects.     Wa.ts,  R.  L.  (My 

Veiled  empress.     Morton,   B:  A.     (D  '23) 
Vendetta 

Treston,  H.   J.     Poine.      (F  '24) 
Venice 

History 
Trevelyan.    G:    M.     Manin   and   the   Venetian 
revolution  of  1848.     (Ja  '24)  veneuan 

Ventures^^in    book    collecting.      Arnold.    W:    H. 

Vermont 
Green,  A.  Lone  winter.     (Je  '23) 

Description    and   travel 
Nutting.   W.     Vermont   beautiful.      (My  '25) 

Vermont  beautiful.     Nutting,  W.     (My  '23) 

Versailles  Treaty  of,  1919 
Nitti,  F.  S.     Decadence  of  Europe.     (Je  '23) 

^'^"(D  ^2°3'j'^  ^^"^^  *'""^"-     ^^^  ^"'  P-  pseud. 

¥,Vf!."^-T/"**  '^h^  worm.     Bottome,  P.     (My  '23) 
Victor  Hugo.     Haggard.  A.   C:  P.     (N  '23) 
Victoria.     Hamsun,  K.     (Ag  '23) 

Victoria,  queen  of  England 
Drama 
^^(F''2?)'  ^""^  ^**°"'  ^-  ^-     *^"^e"  Victoria. 
Viking  heart.     Salverson,   L.    G.      (F  '24) 
xT^f  ^'"a^e.     Bunin,   I.   A.     (S  '23) 

(Ag  -Sr^"*^^  and  Tuscany.    Eberlein.  H.  D. 

vl^.^^'ii  '^^^  ^^'^^     Meier-Graefe.  J.     (Ag  '23) 
Viola  Hudson.     Clarke.  I.  C.     (F  '24) 

Virgil    (Publius  VIrgillus   Maro) 

wi'^i'-  ^J  7^1    '^''•^"  and  his  meaning  to  the 

world   of  today.     (Mr.  Je  '23)  ® 

Virgil  and  his  meaning  to  the  world  of  today 

Mackail,  J.  W:     (Mr.  Je  '23)  loaay. 

Virginia 

History 

"^^nil^'tMy  .1^)^-     ^'^"^^^  «f  ««'on'al  Vlr- 
Viscosity 
BJ.^|ham,  E.  C.     Fluidity  and  plasticity.     (My 

Vision  of  desire.     Pedler,   M.     (My  '23) 
Visual   illusions.     Luckie.^h.  M.     (My  '23) 
Vital  factors  of  foods.     Ellis,  C.  and  MacLeod, 
A.   L.      (My  '23) 

Vitamins 
Ellis.  C.  and  MacLeod.  A.  L.    Vital  factors  of 
•foods.     (My  '23) 
Voice    at    Johnnywater.      Bower,    B.    M..    pseud 

(Ap    '23) 
Voice   from  the  void.     Le   Queux,   W:   T.     (Ag 

Voice  on  the  mountain.  Marie,  queen  of  Ru- 
mania.     (Ja    '24) 

Voices.     Brenn.   G:  J.     (N  '23) 

Voices  of  the  Southwest.  Greer.  H.  R.  comn 
(Ag  '23) 


Voyages  and  travels 
Blunden.  E.     Bonadventure.    (Je  '23) 
Bryce,  J.   B.     Memories  of  travel.     (Mr  '23) 
Collins.     D.       Sea-tracks     of     the     Speejacks 

round   the  world.      (N   '23) 
Curzon.  G:  N.  C.     Tales  of  travel.     (Ja  '24) 
Hildebrand,   A.   S.     Blue   water.      (D   '23) 
Keyser.  A.  L:     Trifles  and  travels.     (S  '23) 
Northcliffe.  A.   C:   W:   H.     My  Journey  round 

the  world.     (S  '23) 
Phelan,  J.   D.     Travel  and  comment.     (Ap  '23) 
Poulsen.  F:     Travels  and  sketches.     (S  '23) 
Smith,  C:  E:    From  the  deep  of  the  sea.     (Ag 

'23) 
Tatchell.    F.   Happy  traveller.     (Ja  '24) 
Voyages    around    the   world 
Vogel,   K.     Aloha  around  the  world.     (Ap  '23) 


Wages 
Bloomfleld.  D..  comp.    Financial  incentives  for 

employees   and   executives.      (My  '23) 
Hamilton,    W.    H.,    and    May,    S.    Control    of 
wages.      (O  '23) 
Waggon   and  the  star.     Leitch.  M.   S.      (Ap  '23) 
Wagon   wheel.     White.   W:    P.      (My  '23) 
Wake  of  the  setting  sun.     Stowell,  W:  A.     (Ag 

'23) 
Waldo    Frank.      Munson,    G.    B.      (D   '23) 
Walker,   Francis  Amasa 
Munioe.  J.  P.    Life  of  Francis  Amasa  Walker. 
(S  '23) 
Walkers.      Hall.    H.      (S    '23) 
Walking 

Browne.  W.  R..  ed.  Joys  of  the  road.   (D  '23) 
Wall    paper 

Aokerman,    P.      Wallpaper.       (Ap   '23) 
Wall    Street   fifty  years  after  Erie.   Howard,   E. 

(O  '23) 
Wallet  of  Kai  Lung.     Bramah.   E.     (  F  '24) 
Walloons 

Griffls.  W:  E.     Story  of  the  Walloons.     (D  '23) 
W^alter    and    the    wireless.    Bassett.    S.    W.    (Je 

'23) 
Walter  of  Tiverton.  Marshall.  B.  G.     (O  '23) 
Wandering   in   northern   China.     Franck.   H.    A. 

(.la    '24) 
Wanderings   in   the   Queen.sland   bush.     Puxley, 

W.   L.      (S  '23) 
War 
Bovet,    P.  Fighting   instinct.   (Ja   '24) 
Dickinson.  G.  L.    War:  its  nature,  causes  and 

cure.     (Ag  '23) 
Fisher.    T.      League   or   war?     (S   '23) 
Fuller.  J:  F:  C:     Reformation  of  war.     (S  '23) 
Trwin.    W:   H:     Christ   or  Mars?      (T>  '23) 
Kerr,   P..   and  Curtis.    L.      Prevention   of  war. 

(F  '24) 
Lowell,    A.    L.      Public    opinion    in    war    and 
peace.     (Mr  '23) 

Ward,  Lester  Frank 

Cape,   E.    P.      Le.ster  F.   Ward.      (Ap  '23) 

Ward,    l^ary   Augusta    (Arnold)    (Mrs    Humphry 
Ward) 

Trevelyan,  .T.  P.     Ijife  of  Mrs  Humphry  Ward. 
(D   '23) 

Ward.  William 
Ruskin.  J:     John  Ruskin's  letters  to  William 

Ward.     (Mr  '23) 
Warfare    by    land    an    sea.      McCartney.    E.    S. 

(D    -23) 
Waste  land.     Eliot,   T:   S.      (Mr  '23) 
The  Wat.sons.      Austen.   J.    (Ap   '23) 
Way  of  the  wild.     Hawkes.  C.     (S  '23) 
We    explore    the    Great    Lakes.      Waldron,    W. 

(D    23) 

Weather 

MacAdie,  A.  G:    Wind  and  weather.     (Mr  '23) 
Wedgwood  medallion.     Jones,  B.   B.  C.     (Ap  '23) 
Weeds.  Baroja   y   Nessi,    P.   (Ja    '24) 
Weeds.  Kelley,  E.   S.  (Ja  '24) 
A  week.  Libedinsky,    I.   (Ja   '24) 

Weigall,    Rose   Sophia    Mary  (Fane)    lady 
Weigall.    C.    R.    S.    Lady    Rose    Weigall.      (O 
'23) 
Wenceslaus  Hollar.     Hind.  A.  M.     (Ag  '23) 


BOOK    REVIEW    DIGEST 


635 


West 

Description  and  travel 
Fails.    J:    T.    Seeing    the    Middle    West.       (O 

'23) 
Rlneharl,   M.     Out  trail.      (F  '24) 

History 

Cook.   .7.    H.     Fiftv  years  on   the  old   frontier. 

(D    '23) 
French,   J.   L:,   comp.    and  ed.   Pioneer  West. 

(Ja  '24) 

West  and  East.     Sheridan,  C.  C.     (My  "23) 
West    Indies 
^'e^rill,  A.  H.     In  the  wake  of  the  buccaneers. 
(My  '23) 

Description  and  travel 
Graham,    S.  In   quest   of  El   Dorado.   (Ja   '24) 
McKenna,    S.     By  intervention  of  Providence. 

(F  '24) 
West  of  the  water  tower.     Croy,  H.     (Je  '23) 
Western   mysticism.     Butler.   D.   E:   C.     (S  '23) 
Western  question  in  Greece  and  Turkey.     "Toyn- 

bee.  A.  ,T.      (Ap  '23) 
Wet  clay.    O'Kelly,    S.      (O   "23) 
What   civilization   owes   to   Italy.     Walsh,    J.    J. 

(Je  '23) 
What  is  professional  social  work?     Halbert,    L. 

A.     (F  '24) 
What    is    psychology?    Hayward,     C:     W.       (O 

'23) 
What  the  judge  thought.     Parry,  E:  A.     (S  '23) 
What  to  eat  in  health  and  disease.     Harrow,  B: 

(Je  '23) 
Whatever  gods.   Samuel,   M.      (O   '23) 
What's  wrong  with  our  girls?    Hale,  B.     (Je  '23) 
Wheel-tracks.  Somerville,  E.  A.  O.,  and  Martin, 

V.  F.     (D  '23) 
When   the  camp  fire   burns.    Cornyn,   J:   H.      (O 

'23) 
When   there    is    no   peace.     Lyon,    L.    (Je   '23) 
Where  are  we  going?  Lloyd  George,  D:   (Ja  '24) 
Where  the   twain  meet.     Gaunt,  M.  E.   B.      (Mr 

'23) 
Whipperginny.     Graves,   R.      (S  '23) 
White   cockade.  Gilson,   C:   J.    L:   (Ja   '24) 
White  flag.     Porter,   G.      (N  '23) 
White   lightning.     Lewis,    E.    H.      (S   '23) 
White    woman    among     the     Masai.   Mallett,    M. 

(Ja  '23) 
Whither  France?  Whither  Europe?  Caillaux,   J. 

(My  '23) 
Whitman,  Walt 
Saunders,    H:    S.,    comp.      Parodies    on    Walt 

Whitman.      (Je  '23) 
Whittier,    John    Greenleaf 

Whittier,  J:  G.     Whittier's  unknown  romance. 

(My  '23) 
Whittier's    unknown    romance.      Whittier,    J:    G. 

(My  -23) 
Whose  body?     Sayers,  D.  L.     (Ag  '23) 
Why    don't    you    get    married.  Hodgins,    N.   (Ja 

'24) 
Wife   of   the    centaur.  Hume,    C.   (Ja   '24) 

Wiggin,     Kate     Douglas     (Smith)     (Mrs    George 

Christopher    Riggs) 

Wiggin,    K.    D.      My   garden    of   memory.      (N 

23) 

Wild  animal  homesteads.     Mills,  E.  A.     (Je  '23) 

Wild  animals  in  Central  India.     Brander,   A.  A. 

D.      (F  '24) 
Wilderness  patrol.  Bindloss,  H.     (D  '23) 
Wilhelmina,    queen    of    the    Netherlands 

Barnouw,    A.    J.      Holland    under   Queen    Wil- 
helmina.      (N    '23) 
William  II,  emperor  of  Germany  (abdicated  1918) 

Viviani,  R.     As  we  see  it.     (Je  '23) 
William  Wordsworth  and  Annette  Vallon.       Le- 

gouis,   E.    (Je  '23) 
Wind  and  weather.     MacAdie,  A.   G:     (Mr  '23) 
Wind    in    the   pines.      Starbuck,    V:      (D   '23) 
Winding  stair.   Mason,  A.   E:   W.      (O  '23) 
W^indows.      Galsworthy,    J:      (D    '23) 
Windows    in    Dragon    Town.      Beck,    J:    O.      (N 
•23) 

Winds 

MacAdie,  A.  G:    Wind  and  weather.     (Mr  '23^) 
Wing    shooting    and    angling.      Connett,    E     V 

(Mr,   Je   '23) 
Winged   seeds.  Oppenheim,    B.   (Ja   '24) 


Winter   sports 

Jessup,  E.  Snow  and  ice  sports.  (N  '23) 
Wisdom  of  Balzac.  Balzac,  H.  de.  (Ag  '23) 
Wisdom  of  the  wilderness.     Roberts,   C:   G:   D. 

(Ag  '23) 
Wisdom's  dfuiehter.     Haggard,  H:   R.      (My  '23) 
Witching  of  Elspie.     Scott,  D.  C.     (F  '24) 
With     Italy     in     her     final     war     of    liberation. 

Wannamaker,  O.  D.     (N  '23) 
With    the    gilt   off.      Adcock.    A.    St   J:      (D   '23) 
Within  these  walls.     Hughes,  R.     (Ag  '23) 
Without    clues.      Holm.    J.      (D   '23) 
Without  conditions.     Mackenzie,   A.  M.     (S  '23; 
Wolf   trail.     Pocock,   R.    S.      (S  '23) 
The  wolfer.     Niven,  F:  J:     (Je  '23) 
Wolfville.     Lewis,  A.  H:     (Je  '23) 
Wolseley,   Garnet  Joseph   Wolseley,   1st  viscount 

Wolselev,  G.  J.  W.     Letters  of  Lord  and  Lady 
Wolseley.       (Ap    '23) 
Wolseley,    Louisa    (Erskine)    viscountess 

Wolselev,  G.  J.  W.     Letters  of  Lord  and  Lady 
Wolselev.        (Ap    '23) 
Wolves  of  the  sea.    Leroux,  G.     (Ag  '23) 
Woman 

Ferrero,    G.      Soul    of   woman.      (S   '23) 

Ludovicl,    A.   M.     Woman;   a   vindication.      (S 
'23) 

Vaerting,  M.  and  M.  Dominant  sex.    (S  '23) 

Wadia,   A.   R.  Ethics   of  feminism.     (O   '23) 

Biography 
Furniss,   H.    Some  Victorian  women.      (D   '23) 

Crime 

Thomas,    W:    I:      Unadjusted   girl.      (N    '23) 

Employment 
Anderson,   A.  M.     Women  in  the  factory.     (Ap 

•23) 
Henry,    A.  Woman   and    the    labor   movement. 

(Ja  '24) 
Tlckner,   F:  W:  Women  In  English  economic 

history.      (D  '23) 

Social   and   moral   questions 
Gilman,    C.  His    religion    and    hers.   (Ja    '24) 
Jerome.  H.     Secret  of  woman.     (Jq  '23) 
Royden,  A.   M.     Women  at  the  world's  cross- 
roads.    (Je  '23) 
Woman;  a  vindication.    Ludovicl,  A.  M.     (S  '23) 
Woman    and    the    labor    movement.  Henry,    A. 

(Ja  '24) 
Woman  and  the  priest.  Eng  title  of  The  moth- 
er.   Deledda,    G.      (Ja   '24) 
Woman    of   Knockaloe.  Caine,    H.      (D   '23) 
Woman   of  the  horizon.   Frankau,  G.      (S   '23) 

Woman  suffrage 

Catt,    C.    C    and    Shuler,    N.    R.    Woman   suf- 
frage and  politics.     (Je  '23) 
Woman   suffrage  and  politics.     Catt,  C.  C,   and 

Shuler,   N.  R.      (Je  '23) 
Woman  tenderfoot  in  Egypt.     Seton,  G.  (My  '23) 
Woman's    impressions   of  German   New  Guinea. 

Overell.   L.      (O  '23) 
Women  as  authors 

Bald,    M.     A.     Women-writers     of     the     nine- 
teenth  century.    (S   '23) 
Women  at  the  world's  crossroads.     Royden,   A. 

M.     (Je  '23) 
Women   in    Egypt 

Seton,   G.     Woman  tenderfoot  in  Egypt.     (My 
•23) 
Women    In    England 

Tickner,   F.   W.     Women  in   English  economic 
history.  (D  '23) 
Women   in   English   economic  history.      Tickner, 

F:    W.      (D   '23) 
Women  in  Greece 
Wright,  F:  A.     Feminism  in  Greek  literature. 
(F  '24) 
Women   in   literature 
Wright,   F:  A.     Feminism  in  Greek  literature. 
(P  '24) 

Women  In  politics 

Astor,    N.     My    two   countries.     (My   '23) 

Women    In    Russia 

Selivanova,   N.    N.     Russia's  women.      (D  '23) 
Women   in   the  factory.     Anderson,   A.   M.      (Ap 
'23) 


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Women   in   Turkey 

Brown,   D.     Unveiled  ladies  of  Stamboul.    (My 

•23) 
Women-writers     of     the     nineteenth      century. 

Bald,   M.   A.      (S  '23) 
Wonders    of    the    past.      Hammerton,    J:    A.    ed. 

(F  '24) 
Wood    distillation 

Bunbury,    H.    M.      Destructive    distillation    of 

wood.      (F  '24) 

Woolnnan,   John 

Woolman,  J:     Journal  and  es.says.     (My    23) 
Word   of   the   earth.  Richardson,   A.    (J  a   '24) 

Wordsworth,   William  ,     . 

Legouis,    E.      William    Wordsworth    and    An- 
nette Vallon.     (Je   '23) 
Worker  and   the   state.     Tillyard,   F.      (S   '23) 
Workshop  of  the  mind.  Hawksworth,  H.     (O   23) 
World  crisis.  Churchill,  W.  L.  S.   (My  23,  Ja  '24) 
World  outside.     McGrath,  H.     (Je  '23) 

World   politics  ^  ,    . 

Viallate,  A.  Economic  imperialism  and  Inter- 
national relations  during  the  last  fifty  years. 
(S  '23) 

World's  great  religious  poetry.     Hill,  C,  M.,  ed. 
(S  '23) 

Worst  journey  in  the  world.     Cherry-Garrard, 
A.    G:    B.     (Je   '23) 

Wounded  name.     Broster,  D.  K,     (Je  '23) 

Wren,  Sir  Christopher 
Weaver,   L,.     Sir  Christopher  Wren.     (F    24) 

Writing 

Osborn,   A.    S.    Problem  of  proof.    (Ap   '23) 
Writing   to   sell.      Wildman,   E.      (O   "23) 
Wrong   move.     Burr,    A.   R.      (My  '23) 
Wrong  shadow.     Brighouse,  H.     (Je  '23) 


X,   pseud.     See  Vivian,   H.      (F  '24) 


Yankee   notions.     Bryan.    G:    S.      (My   '23) 
Yankee  with  the  soldiers  of  the  king.  Irvine,  A. 
F.     (O  '23) 


The    Yard.     Vachell,    H.    A.      (N   '23) 
Yarrow,  Alfred  Fernandez 

Yarrow,  E.  C.  Alfred  Yarrow.     (O  '23) 
Yellow   seven.    Snell,    E.      (O   '23) 
Yesterday  and  to-day.     Nevill,  R.   H:     (Mr  '23) 
Yet  again.     Beerbohm,  M.      (F  '24) 
You   and   me.      Geraldy,    P.     (Je   '23) 
Young,   Frederick 

Jenkins,     L.     H.     General     Frederick     Young. 
(O   '23) 
YouiiK    Felix.      .Swinnerton,   F.  A.      (D  '23) 
Young    men's   Christian   association 

Mott,  J:   R.     Conlioiiting   >oung   inun  with  tlie 

living  Christ.      (F  '24) 
Taft,    W:    H.,    and    others,    eds.    Service    with 

lighting   men.     (O   '23) 
Wannainaker,    O.    U.     With   Italy  in   her  final 
war   of  liberation.      (N   '23) 
Younghusband,    Sir    George    John 

Yoimghusband,    G:    J:     Forty  years   a  soldier. 
(S  -23) 
Your  hidden  powers.     Oppenheim,  J.     (Je  '23) 
Youth 

Stearns,    A.    E.  Challenge   of   youth.   (Ja    '24) 
Y'outh's  way.     Rice,  C.  Y.     (Je  '23) 


Zarah,  the  cruel.     Conquest,  J.     (N  '23) 

Zionism 
Ashbee,   C:   R.     Palestine  notebook.     (F  '24) 

Zirconium 
Venable,   F.   P.  Zirconium  and  its  compounds. 

(My  '23)  ^ 

Zirconium   and   its   compounds.     Venable,    F.    P. 

(My   '23) 

Zoology 

Africa 
Pienaar,   A.   A.     Adventures  of  a  lion  family. 

(N    '23) 
Stevenson-Hamilton,  J.    Animal  life  in  Africa. 

(Ag  '23) 
William,    prince   of   Sweden.     Among  pygmiea 
and  gorillas.      (N  '23) 


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Allyn.  Allyn  &  Bacon,  50  Beacon  St,  Boston 
(9);  lOOC  S  Michigan  Av,  Chicago;  11  K  36th 
Ht,    N.Y. 

Am.  Bk.  American  Book  Company,  100  Wash- 
ington Sq  E.  N.Y.,  330  E  22d  St.  Chicago 

A.  L..  A.  American  Library  Association,  78  E 
Washington    St,    Chicago 

Am.  Library  Service.  American  Library  Service, 
500  5th  Av,  N.Y. 

Am. -Scandinavian  Foundation.  American-Scan- 
dinavian Foundation,    25  W  45th  St,   N.Y. 

Appleton.  Daniel  Appleton  &  Company,  29-35  W 
32d  St,  N.Y. 

A.ssn.  Press.  Association  Press,  347  Madison  Av, 
N.Y. 

Atlantic  Monthly.  Atlantic  Monthly  Press,  Inc., 
8  Arlington  St,  Boston   (17) 


Baird.   Henry  Carey  Baird  &  Company,  Inc.,   2 

W  45th  St,   N.Y. 
Bankers  Pub.   Bankers  Publishing  Company,    71 

Murray   St,   N.Y. 
Barnes,   A.   S.  &  Co.  A.  S.   Barnes   &  Company, 

7  W  45th  St,  N.Y. 
Bender.   M:    Bender  &   Company,    109   State   St, 

Albany,    N.Y.;    26    John    St,    N.Y. 
Blakiston.  P.  Blakiston's  Son  &  Company,  1012 

Walnut  St,  Philadelphia 
Bobbs.    Bobbs-Merrill    Company,    18    University 

Sq,   Indianapolis,    Ind.;    185   Madison  Av,    N.Y. 
Boni  &  Liveright.  Boni  &  Liveright,   61  W  48th 

St,   N.Y. 
Brentano's,  5th  Av  &  27th  St,  N.Y. 
Brimmer.  B.  J.  Brimmer  Company,  384  Boylston, 

St,    Boston 
Brown,    N.    L.    Nicholas   L.    Brown,    15    W    37th 

St,   N.Y. 


Century.  Century  Company,  353  4th  Av,  N.Y. 

Century  Hist.  Co.  Century  History  Company,  8 
W  47th  St,   N.Y. 

Chelsea  House,  79  7th  Av,  N.Y. 

Chemical  Catalog  Co.  Chemical  Catalog  Com- 
pany, Inc,  19  E  24th  St,  N.Y. 

Christopher  Pub.  House.  Christopher  Publishing 
House,  1140  Columbus  Av,  Boston 

Clode.     E:  J.  Clode,  156  5th  Av,   N.Y. 

Codex  Bk.  Codex  Book  Company,  Inc.,  119  Broad 
St,    N.Y. 

Columbia  Univ.  Press.  Columbia  University 
Press 

Columbia   university   studies    are    published 
by  Longmans 

Cornhill.  Cornhill  Publishing  Company,  687 
Boylston   St,  Boston 

Cosmopolis   Press,  257  W  71st  St.   N.Y. 

Cosmopolitan  Bk.  Cosmopolitan  Book  Corpora- 
tion, 119  W  40th  St,  N.Y.  (formerly  Hearst's 
International  Lib.) 

Covici-McGee.  158  W  Washington  St,  Chicago 

Crowell.  T.  Y.  Crowell  Company,  426-428  W 
Broadway,  N.Y. 


Doubleday.   Doubleday,   Page  &  Company,  Gar- 
den  City,   N.Y. 

Acquired     the     book     department     of     the 
McClure  Co.  and  the  Baker  &  Taylor  Co. 
Duffleld.    Duffield    &    Company,    211    E    19th    St. 
N.Y. 

Formerly  Fox,  DufReld  &  Co. 
Button.   E.   P.   Button  &  Company,   681  5th   Av, 
N.Y. 


Fenno.     R.  F.  Fenno  &  Company,  16  E  17th  St, 
N.Y. 

Have  acquired  the  publications  of  the  Indo- 
American    Book    Company 
Four  Seas.  Four  Seas  Company,  168  Dartmouth 

St,   Boston 
Funk.   Funk   &  Wagnalls  Company,   354-360  4th 
Av,   N.Y. 

Acquired  the  publications  of  Cassell  &  Co. 


Ginn.   Ginn  &  Company  (Educational  text-bks), 
15   Ashburton   Place,    Boston 


Harcourt.     Harcourt,     Brace     &    Company,     383 

Madison  Av,  N.Y. 
Harper.  Harper  &  Brothers  49  E  33d  St,  N.Y. 
Harvard  Univ.  Press.  Harvard  University  Press, 

Cambridge,    (38),  Mass. 
Heath.  D.  C.  Heath  &  Company,  50  Beacon  St, 

Boston;  239  W  39th  St,  N.Y. 
Henley.    Norman    W.    Henley    Publishing    Com- 
pany.   2  W   45th   St,    N.Y. 
Hill,    W.    M.    Walter  M.    Hill,   22   E   Washington 

St,  Chicago  ,„  ,„    ^,^,     „. 

Holt.    Henry   Holt    &    Company,    19  W   44th    St, 

N  Y. 
Houghton.    Houghton,  Mifflin  Company.  4  Park 

St,   Boston;   16   E  40th  St.   N.Y. 
Huebsch.   B.  W.  Huebsch,   116   W  13th   St.    N.Y. 


Jacobs.  G:  W.  Jacobs  &  Company,  1628  Chest- 
nut  St,    Philadelphia  .  „     ,  ^  , 

Jewish     Pub.     Jewish     Publication     Society     of 

•     America.  Broad  St  &  Girard  Av,  Philadelphia; 

148  E  57th  St,  N.Y.  ^     ,^ 

Johns  Hopkins.  Johns  Hopkms  Press,  Druid 
Hill  Cor.   Linden   Av,   Baltimore 


Kenedy.   P.   J.  Kenedy  &  Sons.   44  Barclay   St. 

N  Y. 
Kennerley.    Mitchell    Kennerley.    489    Park    Av. 

N  Y 
Kerr.    Charles   H.   Kerr   &  Company,   341-349   B 

Knopf.  Alfred  A.^Knopf.  220  W  42d  St,  N.Y. 


Dodd.  Dodd.  Mead  &  Company,  4th  Av  &  30th 

St,  N.Y. 
Doran.  George  H.  Doran  Company,  244  Madison 

Av,   N.Y. 

Purchased  the  business  of  A.  C.  Armstrong 

&  Son 


Lea      Lea     &     Febiger,     706-710     Sansom     St, 

Philadelphia;    17    E    42d    St,    N.Y 
Lieber  &  Lewis,  19  Barrow  St,  N.Y. 
Lippincott.     J.     B.  Lippincott     Company.     East 

Washington  Sq.  Philadelphia 
Little.  Little,  Brown  &  Company,  34  Beacon  St. 

Boston 


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Long:mans.  Longmans,  Green  &  Company,  55  5th 
Av,  Cor  12th  St,  N.Y. 

Publish   the  Columbia  university  studies  in 
history,    economics   and   public    law,    formerly 
published  by  Macmillan 
Sole  Am.  agents  for  Edward  Arnold,  London 
Lothrop.  Lothrop,  Lee  &  Shepard  Company,  275 
Congress  St,  Boston 
A  consolidation  of  Lee  &  Shepard  and  The 
Lothrop    Company 
Luce,  J:     W.  John    W.  Luce    &  Company,     212 
Summer  St,  Boston 


Macaulay.    Macaulay   Company,    15   W   38th    St, 

N.Y. 
McBride.  Robert  M.  McBride  &  Company,  7  W 

16th  St.  N.Y. 
Formerly  McBride,  Nast  &  Company 
McClurg.    A.    C.    McClurg   &    Company,    330-352 

B  Ohio  St,   Chicago 
McGhan,   A.  H.       A.  H.  McGhan,   1513  11th  St, 

NW,   Washington,  DC- 
McGraw.    McGraw-Hill   Book  Company,    370   7th 

Av,   N.Y. 
Consolidation  of  the   McGraw  Pub.  Co.   and 

the  Hill  Pub.  Co. 

Purchased  the   business  of  the  Clark  book 

Co.,  and  the  book  department  of  Engineering 

News  I*ub.  Co. 
McKay.    David    McKay,    604-608    S    Washington 

Sq,    Philadelphia 
Macmillan.  The  Macmillan  Company,  66  5th  Av, 

N.Y. 
Acquired  the  business  of  the  Outing  Co.,  and 

Sturgis  &  Walton 
Marshall    Jones.    Marshall    Jones   Company,    212 

Summer   St,    Boston 
Medici    Soc.    Medici    Society    of    America,    755 

Boylston  St,  Boston 
Moffat.      Moffat,    Yard    &    Company,    31    Union 

Sq,  N.Y. 
Morehouse.     Morehouse     Publishing      Company, 

1801  Fond  du  Lac  Av,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 


Reilly  &  Lee.  Reilly  &  Lee  Company,  1006-1012 

S   Michigan  Av,   Chicago 
Revell.    Fleming  H.  Revell  &   Company,    158  5th 

Av,    N.Y.;    17    N   Wabash  Av,    Chicago 
Ronald.    Ronald   Press    Company,    20    Vesey    St, 

N.Y. 
Russell    Sage    Foundation,    130    E    22d    St,    Cor. 

Lexington  Av,   N.Y. 


Saunders.     W.     B.     Saunders     Company,     West 

Washington  Sq,  Philadelphia 
Scribner.    Charles   Scribner's   Sons,   597   5th   Av, 

N.Y. 
Seltzer.  Thomas  Seltzer,  Inc.,  5  W  50th  St  N.Y. 

Formerly  Scott  &  Seltzer 
Shaw,  A.   W.  A.   W.   Shaw  Company,    660   Cass 

St,  Chicago;  299  Madison  Av,   N.Y. 
Silver.  Silver,  Burdett  &  Company,  126  5th  Av, 

N.Y. 
Small.     Small,  Maynard  &  Company,  41  Mt  Ver- 
non St,  Boston 
Spon.  Spon  &  Chamberlain,  122  Liberty  St,  N.Y. 
Stewart    Kidd.    Stewart   Kidd    Company,    121    B 

5th    St,   Cincinnati,   O. 
Stokes.  F.  A.   Stokes  Company,   443-449  4th  Av. 

N.Y. 
Stratford.    Stratford  Company,   234-240  Boylston 

St,  Boston  (9) 


TTniversal  Press,  McClurg  Bldg,  Chicago 

Universal   Pub.    Co.    Universal   Publishing  Com- 
pany, 21  E  Van  Buren  St,  Chicago 

Univ.  of  Cal.  University  of  California,  Berkeley, 
Cal. 

Address    University    Press,    California    Hall 
Berkeley 

Univ.    of  Chicago   Press.    University   of   Chicago 
Press,  58th  St  &  Ellis  Av,  Chicago 


National  Hist.  Soc.  National  Historical  Society, 

37  W  39th   St,   N.Y. 
N.Y.  Public  Lib.  New  York  Public  Library,  5th 

Av  &  42d  St,  N.Y. 


Van    Nostrand.    D.    Van   Nostrand    Company,    8 
Warren  St,  N.Y. 


Open  Ct.   Open  Court  Publishing  Company,   122 

S  Michigan  Av,   Chicago 
Oswald   Pub.    Co.    Oswald   Publishing   Company, 

243   W   39th    St,    N.Y. 
Oxford.     Oxford     University     Press     (American 

Branch),  35  W  32d  St,  N.Y. 

Agents     for     the     publications     of     Henry 

Frowde 


Page.    L.   C.    Page   &   Company,   53   Beacon    St, 

Boston 
Penn.  Penn  Publishing  Company,  925  Filbert  St, 

Philadelphia 
Penton  Pub.    Penton  Publishing  Company,    12th 

St,    cor.    Chestnut,   Cleveland,    O. 
Pilgrim  Press,  14  Beacon  St,  Boston 
Pitman.   Sir  Isaac  Pitman  &  Sons,   2-6  W  45th 

St.  N.Y. 
Plymouth  Press,   6749  Wentwood  Av,  Chicago 
Princeton    Univ.    Press.    Princeton    University 

Press,  Princeton,  N.J. 
Putnam.    G.    P.    Putnam's   Sons,    Putnam   Bldg, 

2-6  W  45th  St,  N.Y. 


White,  J.  T.  James  T.  White  &  Co.  70  5th  Av. 

N.Y. 
Wilde.   W.  A.   Wilde  Company,  120  Boylston  St, 

Boston:   9  S   Clinton  St,   Chicago 
Wiley.     John  Wiley  &  Sons,  432  4th  Av,  N.Y. 
Williams  &  Wilkins.  Williams  &  Wilkins  Com- 
pany,  Mt  Royal  Av,    Baltimore 
Wilson,  H.  W.     H.  W.  Wilson  &  Company,  958- 

972   University    (Lind)    Av,    N.Y. 
Winston.    John    C.   Winston  Company,    1006-1016 

Arch   St,    Philadelphia 
Woman's  Press,   600  Lexington  Av,   N.Y. 

Formerly   National   Bd.    of   Young  Women's 

Christian  As.soclations 
Woolson.     G.    B.    Woolson   &   Company,    120   W 

32d  St.   N.Y. 
World    Bk.    World   Book    Company,    Park    Hill, 

Yonkers-on-Hudson,   N.Y.;     2126    Prairie    Av, 

Chicago 


Yale    Univ.    Press.    Yale    University    Press,    143 
Elm  St,   New  Haven,  Conn.;  522  5th  Av,  N.Y. 


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