=BLOCKSIDGE, ERNEST WALTER.= Ships’ boats. il *$9 (*25s) Longmans 623.8
20–13582
“The first detailed text-book on this important subject. It follows
mainly the requirements and classification of the British Board of
trade and aims to deal essentially with practical applications and to
avoid all abstruse theory. Form, stability, strength and capacity are
carefully considered. Constructional details of the various classes
are given and there are chapters on timbers, pontoon boats,
motorboats, nested boats, and sail-boats; lifting and lowering
appliances, buoyancy air-cases; miscellaneous equipment; galvanizing
methods, painting, repairs and maintenance, fire and boat drifts, and
stowage and transporting arrangements. The book is illustrated with
photographs and line details. The author is ship surveyor to Lloyd’s
register.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
“Mr Blocksidge presents for the first time a complete and
authoritative work on a very important branch of naval construction.”
C. M. Peabody
+ =Int Marine Engineering= 25:774 S ’20 1700w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p31 Ap ’20 100w
=Spec= 124:54 Jl 10 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p109 F 12 ’20 60w
=BLOOD, BENJAMIN PAUL.= Pluriverse; an essay in the philosophy of
pluralism; with an introd. by Horace Meyer Kallen. *$2.50 Jones,
Marshall 191
20–9219
“In 1874 Blood wrote and circulated a pamphlet entitled ‘The
anaesthetic revelation and the gist of philosophy,’ which brought him
into correspondence with Tennyson and Gurney, Emerson and Sir William
Ramsay, Stirling and James. In the last years of his life he returned
to the topic, and the result is ‘Pluriverse,’ posthumously published.
The central point of the book is simple enough. It is that philosophy
is ‘of all our vanities the motliest,’ and that the ‘satisfaction’
which it seeks, the sense of security through insight into the mystery
of being, is not to be obtained through argument and reasoning but
through the illumination or revelation which comes under the influence
of anaesthetics.”—New Repub
* * * * *
“Another obscure volume is added to the literature of philosophy. And
this will have to be acknowledged despite the fact that the diction of
the author is in many places very beautiful, and his thoughts very
often exceedingly suggestive.” F. W. C.
− + =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 570w
“Blood, in thorough keeping with the best in American philosophy,
thinks waveringly and writes excellently.” E. P.
− + =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 200w
“Even Dr Kallen’s interesting and sympathetic introduction does not
convince me that the aftermath was worth gathering in.... At any rate,
most sane and reasonable men do not gather their religion in the
obscure by-ways of abnormal experience, and one cannot help feeling
that Blood’s memory would have been better served had it been allowed
to live only through the pages of William James.” R. F. A. H.
− + =New Repub= 24:332 N 24 ’20 1250w
=BLOOMFIELD, DANIEL=, comp. Selected articles on modern industrial
movements. (Handbook ser.) *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 330.4
20–1961
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:363 Je ’20 40w
+ =Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
“The selection on the whole is a fair and representative one. There is
an exceptionally complete bibliography.”
+ =Nation= 110:774 Je 5 ’20 220w
“The editor seems to have been able to detach himself from any bias in
making his selections. An excellent bibliography is presented, and an
index completes what is, on the whole, a very useful documentary work.
If the other volumes in the series maintain the standard set by this
one they will prove valuable as a source of reference and study.”
James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 2 ’20 420w
=N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 30w
“As in all compilations of broad scope and limited size, the judicious
but fallible editor has included things that he might have left out,
and excluded things that he should have put in, and none of his
readers will be altogether satisfied; but for all that, he has set
before them some good material, for which those who have appetite for
industrial problems should be truly thankful.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ − =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 230w
“The compiler has made a discriminating selection of material. Papers
on Bolshevism give a much needed insight into that creed, and tend to
check the trouble-breeding application of the term to all radicals.
Both the student and the man of business will find here ample material
on which to base intelligent conclusions.”
+ =Scientific American= 122:476 Ap 24 ’20 130w
“Throughout an attempt is made to treat controversial subjects from
various points of vision. Least successful in this respect is the
chapter on Bolshevism, particularly as it relates to the achievements
of the Soviet government. On the whole, however, the cream of the
literature on both sides is impartially presented.” H. W. L.
+ − =Socialist R= 8:252 Mr ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 6 ’20 70w
=Survey= 44:312 My 29 ’20 100w
“The reader is left free to make his own deductions from the fund of
valuable information contained therein. The selected bibliography
which starts the volume is a real contribution to literature on the
subject of industrial relations.”
+ =Textile World= 57:30 My 15 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p741 N 11 ’20 50w
=BLOOMFIELD, DANIEL=, comp. and ed. Selected articles on problems of
labor. (Handbook ser.) *$1.80 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 331.8
20–9366
This is volume 3 of Mr Bloomfield’s series of books on industrial
relations following “Employment management” and “Modern industrial
movements.” The compiler has selected for reprint the best of the
recent material on the subject, grouping this material under the
headings: Causes of friction and unrest; Cost of living; Methods of
compensation; Hours of work; Tenure of employment; Trade unionism;
Labor disputes and adjustment; Limitation of output; Industrial
insurance; Housing; Methods of promoting industrial peace;
Occupational hygiene; Women in industry. Bibliographies have been
provided for each subject and there is an index. Meyer Bloomfield
writes an introduction.
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:607 S ’20 50w
Reviewed by R. W. Stone
+ =Am J Soc= 26:242 S ’20 200w
“All phases of the labor problem are ably and concisely treated.”
+ =Am Machinist= Jl 8 ’20 120w
=Booklist= 17:10 O ’20
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 200w
“This series has become indispensable for those who, unable to
maintain a large filing system of their own, wish to keep important
articles on industrial topics that appear in the periodicals.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 140w
=BLOUNT, BERTRAM; WOODCOCK, WILLIAM H.; and GILLETT, HENRY J.= Cement.
il *$6 (*18s) Longmans 691.5
20–13877
“The present volume forms one of the series of Monographs on
industrial chemistry which is being edited by Sir Edward Thorpe,
F.R.S., and published by Messrs Longmans. The book contains an
introduction, thirteen chapters, and five appendices. In the
introduction it is explained that, although cements may vary in
chemical nature from casein to iron oxide, yet, by common consent and
because of the enormous practical importance of calcareous cements,
the term cement, used without qualification, is restricted to them;
and it is of calcareous cements alone that the book treats. There are,
as Mr Blount points out, numerous varieties of such cements, but they
all fall into two groups, (1) the calcium silicate group, and (2) the
calcium sulphate group, the first being typified by Portland cement
and the second by plaster of Paris. Strictly speaking, it is with the
first group alone that the author is concerned.”—Engineer
* * * * *
“This is a welcome addition to what may be described as the ‘popular’
literature on cement. There is indeed much in the book that should
cause the cement manufacturer of today to think.” S. G. S. Panisset
+ =Concrete= 17:130 O ’20 640w (Reprinted from British Chemical
Industry)
“One has become accustomed to connect Mr Blount’s name with novel and
interesting points of view on a variety of matters and we are not
surprised, therefore, to find that he has in large measure treated his
subject in a manner quite different from that adopted by any previous
author.”
+ =Engineer= 130:280 S 17 ’20 2250w
“Rather fuller references to continental and American methods would
have been welcome. A very useful book.” C. H. Desch
+ − =Nature= 106:3 S 2 ’20 820w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p48 Jl ’20 100w
=BLÜCHER VON WAHLSTATT, EVELYN MARY (STAPLETON BRETHERTON) VON.= English
wife in Berlin. *$6 Dutton 940.343
21–600
“Evelyn, Princess Blücher, English wife of the great-grandson of the
famous marshal of Waterloo, lived throughout the war among her
husband’s people, mainly in Berlin, and set down a record of what she
heard, saw, thought and felt. As one of that strange colony of
distinguished internationals who were war-bound in the German capital,
she met everybody of note and enjoyed exceptional advantages for
seeing what was going on behind the scenes during those eventful and
tragic years. She saw the war also as the country-folk saw it, for she
was frequently at the Blücher family seat in Silesia; and at the same
time she played a useful rôle in the care of the British prisoners and
wounded.”—Freeman
* * * * *
=Ath= p107 Jl 23 ’20 520w
“There is nothing stale or war-worn in this account.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 70w
“Remarkably shrewd and impartial record.” C. R. Hargrove
+ =Freeman= 2:283 D 1 ’20 1000w
“Almost alone of the chronicles that have come out of the enemy
country, her diary presents a portrayal of events that is neither
envenomed by partisanship nor warped by propagandist intention.” Amy
Loveman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 D 4 ’20 1050w
“Takes high rank among the really worthwhile books of the war.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 920w
“Princess Blücher’s book adds hardly any fact of importance or of
permanent historical value. The author saw German life during the war
from only a few angles. The attraction of the book for the general
public lies almost wholly in the appeal which it makes to persons who
are interested in people of title for the title’s sake.”
− + =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 90w
“This book, simply written by an English lady, with a decided sense of
humour and deep religious faith, is far more amusing and informative
than the many documented narratives of the famous war correspondents,
because it is written from the centre of things in Germany, and has no
political or partisan object.”
+ =Sat R= 130:73 Jl 24 ’20 1050w
+ =Spec= 124:84 Jl 17 ’20 2400w
“Its tone is moderate, neither violently pro-English or anti-German.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 25 ’20 980w
“This is not exactly an important book, but it is one of the most
interesting of those that have been written about life in Germany
during the war. Princess Blücher writes with ease, sympathy, and
charm, but no special distinction.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p411 Jl 1 ’20 2250w
=BLUNDELL, MARY E. (SWEETMAN) (MRS FRANCIS BLUNDELL) (M. E. FRANCIS,
pseud.).=[2] Beck of Beckford. *$2 Kenedy
(Eng ed 20–23029)
“The Becks of Beckford were baronets—alternatively Sir John and Sir
Roger—and through an honest endeavour to repay money that had been
embezzled by a member of the family they have come down in the world
and live as hardworking farming folk. Young Sir Roger, the Beck of
Beckford of the story, after school and Oxford, comes back to the
farm; and instead of marrying an American heiress with whom he fell in
love, wins through his hardships and difficulties by hard work.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The book is wholesome and pleasant enough, but seems best suited to
readers who are still at the naïve and unexacting age.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:550 Ja ’21 100w
“This is a simple, pretty tale, but saved from insignificance by the
skill which never fails this novelist.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 120w
=BODENHEIM, MAXWELL.= Advice; a book of poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811
20–16518
Among the titles are: Advice to a street-pavement; Advice to a
buttercup; Foundry workers; Rattlesnake mountain fable; Advice to a
butterfly; Fifth avenue; Boarding house episode; Steel mills; South
Chicago. Some of the poems have appeared in the Yale Review, Smart
Set, New Republic, Touchstone and other magazines.
* * * * *
“Mr Bodenheim uses words in a cryptic, esoteric fashion, attaching to
them meanings of his own, as though they were his private property and
not the common possession of the race.”
− =Ath= p614 N 5 ’20 140w
“Mr Bodenheim has proved himself a very capable artist. Once the
reader is willing to lend a bit of sympathy to his theory there is
much to enjoy in his poems. The clew to their virtues may be a little
difficult to get, the harmony may seem discordant, the images a trifle
confusing and fantastic, but careful discernment will bring unity out
of the picture, and with a vivid phase of imaginative suggestion.” W:
S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 1050w
“His unfailing sentiment for things leads him at moments whimsically
to indulge both word and thought with frantic gestures, even
occasionally with unworthy figures of speech. Such tricks, although
they often steal distinction from surprise, wear out the power of the
brain to respond and eventually develop a resentment toward the kind
of verse that leaves us jaded. But it must be observed that Mr
Bodenheim has not made a habit of these literary capers; as occasional
lapses, his can be condoned.” Stewart Mitchell
+ − =Dial= 69:645 D ’20 1100w
“There is not a single piece in the volume that fails to possess a
fresh outlook, a precious intellectual attitude; but these are labored
over and strained at so painstakingly that whatever poetry existed in
the original concept has long left, and only dry intellectual husks
remain.” Clement Wood
− + =N Y Call= N 21 ’20 440w
“‘Advice’ is indubitably one of the important books of the year, as it
is one of the books most compact with beauty, actually worthy of
frequent rereading. It is a book small only in size, for behind its
lines tremble the multitudinous vibrations of a world of beauty and
thought.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p22 D 26 ’20 920w
=BOGARDUS, EMORY STEPHEN.= Essentials of Americanization. $1.50 (3c)
Univ. of Southern California press, 3474 University av., Los Angeles,
Cal. 325.7
19–12739
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“The book is written in splendid spirit and should be of good service
to foreigners and to untrained Americanization workers. The chapter
dealing with Democracy and the square deal, one of his four
Americanisms, is the best in the book. It is much better than the
other three. The chapter on the negro is very good but inconclusive.”
A. E. Jenks
+ − =Am J Soc= 25:651 Mr ’20 280w
=Booklist= 16:153 F ’20
“On the whole, the book is a valuable contribution to a subject in
which there is much interest at the present time.”
+ =School R= 28:313 Ap ’20 180w
=BOGARDUS, EMORY STEPHEN.= Essentials of social psychology. new and enl
ed $1.75 Univ. of Southern California press, 3474 University av., Los
Angeles, Cal. 301
20–11686
This is a revised and much enlarged edition of a work published in
1918. “In this edition the problems have been re-stated and increased
in number.... The subject matter has been re-written and elaborated.
The original eight chapters have grown into fifteen chapters.”
(Preface to 2d ed) Contents: The field, development, and literature of
social psychology; Psychological bases of social psychology; The
social personality (three chapters); Suggestion-imitation phenomena
(three chapters); Invention and leadership (two chapters): The nature
of groups; Group conflicts; Group loyalties; Group control; Social
change and progress. Problems and references follow the chapters.
There is a general bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“The volume makes no particularly new contribution to its subject; its
value lies in its outlining of the field in its differentiations, and
its opening up to the student of volumes of pioneer inquiry.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 Ja 29 ’21 160w
=BOGART, ERNEST LUDLOW.= Direct and Indirect costs of the great world
war. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace
336
19–18454
In this volume of Preliminary economic studies of the war Professor
Bogart of the University of Illinois presents a discussion, with
tables and estimates, of the war costs in each of the countries
concerned. The foreword says: “In the following pages the direct
outlays of the governments, which are matters of usual financial
procedure, may be said to be fairly accurate; the attempt to estimate
the indirect costs of the war, however, is attended with a
considerable amount of conjecture and must be regarded merely as the
best guess which is possible at the present time.” The work closes
with a bibliography of thirty pages and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Am Econ R= 10:377 Je ’20 140w
“It is not as an accurate summary of the costs of the war, but as an
outline of the financial history of the great powers, that the book
will prove permanently useful.” Alzada Comstock
+ =Am Hist R= 26:362 Ja ’21 420w
“This book by Professor Bogart is the most complete and authentic
account now in print of the losses of the war, stated in terms of
dollars. The work bears the mark of painstaking cautions and scholarly
method. An extensive bibliography and good index adds to its value.”
C. J. Bushnell
+ =Am J Soc= 25:650 Mr ’20 280w
=Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 100w
Reviewed by C. C. Plehn
=Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 380w
=Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 350w
“Professor Bogart has produced a careful, sober, and thoughtful
analysis of the cost of the war to the world at large, so far as the
items can be stated without over-indulgence in ‘estimates,’ and with
all proper caveats.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p74 F 5 ’20 1100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p369 Je 10 ’20 80w
=BÖHME, JACOB.=[2] Confessions of Jacob Boehme; with an introd. by
Evelyn Underhill. *$2 Knopf 189
“Mr Scott Palmer has done a valuable piece of work in getting together
in a small volume the more personal utterances of Jacob Boehme. It is
a book that will appeal to many people who have felt an interest in
the great mystic, but, at the same time, have found his writings, when
presented to them in mass, heavy and difficult reading.”—Freeman
* * * * *
“Mr Scott Palmer has been wise in keeping as far as possible to
William Law’s eighteenth-century translation, the simple language of
which is so admirably adapted to the profound meditations of this
homely tradesman. Quite apart from their speculative and philosophic
value, certain sentences in this volume have about them the intense
and innocent beauty of really great literature.” Llewelyn Powys
+ =Freeman= 2:357 D 22 ’20 840w
“We are grateful to Mr Scott Palmer and Miss Evelyn Underhill for
their help in faithfully elucidating Böhme’s doctrine and revealing
the man himself.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 Ag 5 ’20 1350w
=BÖHME, JACOB.= Six theosophic points, and other writings. *$3 (1½c)
Knopf 189
20–4124
This book, written in 1620, has here been newly translated into
English by John Rolleston Earle. In addition to the Six theosophic
points, the contents are: Six mystical points; On the earthly and
heavenly mystery; On the divine intuition.
* * * * *
“Valuable for helping to clarify a book written four hundred years ago
in a very difficult vocabulary. Too obscure and special for any but
the student of the question.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20
“These new translations have something more than the face value of new
translations of an old and more or less inaccessible author. Students
of German mysticism are indebted to the scholarship of John Rolleston
Earle as a commentator as well as a translator.” G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
=Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 220w
=N Y Times= p15 S 12 ’20 130w
“In the ‘Six theosophic points’ one will wander long unless one is
provided with some chart. Page after page record the wanderings of a
puzzled, ever-searching, ill-equipped, penetrating spirit, with no
compass or chart; often over-stepping, it would seem, the bounds of
sanity, but from time to time letting fall a pregnant saying. Even in
his incoherences are gleams of light.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 Ag 5 ’20 2650w
=BOJER, JOHAN.= Power of a lie. *$2 Moffat
“The novel tells the story of two men living in a small Swedish town
or village, tells what the power of a lie did to them, to their
families, and to those persons who came in contact with them—and it.
Knut Norby, a wealthy farmer, has indorsed a note for a friend, Henry
Wangen, a note for 2,000 kronen. Three or four years later Wangen
becomes a bankrupt and Norby denies his signature, denies that he ever
saw the paper, or ever signed one for Wangen. The witness is dead;
Wangen is convicted of forgery and sent to prison, while Norby is
given a banquet by his fellow-townsmen. The innocent man is punished;
the guilty man is fêted.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Here is a novel of compelling power and dignity, illuminated by a
bleak beauty like that of the aurora borealis.”
+ =Dial= 69:546 N ’20 60w
“Bojer does not allow himself the luxury of beauty except where it
aids his story. He strips his narrative bare, trims it exquisitely to
the least detail, and lets it glide straight before the wind. Johan
Bojer is undoubtedly a great artist, although by no means a luxuriant
and happy one. He has been aided in his American venture by the
admirable translation of Jessie Muir, which deserves the highest
praise.” R. L. Duffus
+ =Freeman= 1:524 Ag 11 ’20 360w
“The novel is indeed admirably written, the author indulging neither
in verbal fireworks nor in splashes of black, white or scarlet. One
reads it with the feeling that it is the truthful account of a real
occurrence, but of an occurrence seen from all sides. ‘The power of a
lie,’ in short, stands head and shoulders above the average
contemporary novel.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 1050w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:708 Jl 7 ’20 750w
“The idea is presented with fine suggestiveness and artistic
vitality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 50w
=BOJER, JOHAN.= Treacherous ground; tr. from the Norwegian by Jessie
Muir. *$2 Moffat
20–4783
“Young Erik Evje has two characteristics; he is a man whose former
immoral aberrations weigh heavy on his conscience, and a man imbued
with high ideals in connection with social reform. By putting into
practice his ideals he hopes to atone for his sin. He can find no
solace in religion, and he makes of his philanthropic work his
crucifix. The little colony that he plants on a hillside is the only
tangible evidence of his ideals, and at the same time his atonement.
But he is told that his house is built on sand, that a landslide will
carry it away. It is too necessary as his last grip on the best part
of himself for him to give it up. The landslide occurs and wipes out
several families.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“A story with interesting characters, a pleasant background and well
sustained suspense, that is thoughtful without a touch of heaviness.”
+ =Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
“Its trenchant clearness is almost frightening, like transparent glass
where one expected wooden walls; its teaching is both true and
tragic.” R. M. Underhill
+ =Bookm= 51:444 Je ’20 100w
Reviewed by R. L. Duffus
=Freeman= 1:524 Ag 11 ’20 360w
=Lit D= p93 Je 26 ’20 1800w
“The tale has the bite and ‘follow through’ of an Ibsen play, a ‘Wild
duck’ or an ‘Enemy of the people.’ It lacks, accordingly, the rich
sympathy of ‘The great hunger.’” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 420w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 120w
“The theme is peculiarly and very strongly developed. Johan Bojer
employs a very realistic style and presents a vivid picture of the
Evje farm.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 31 ’20 250w
=BOK, EDWARD WILLIAM.= Americanization of Edward Bok; the autobiography
of a Dutch boy fifty years after. il *$5 Scribner
20–17333
In writing his autobiography the author has treated himself
objectively, which accounts for the title. It is with the editor and
publicist that the book deals, not with the author’s private self. Not
until he retired from the editorship of the Ladies’ Home Journal, did
he cease to be two personalities and become simply himself. The book
abounds in reminiscences of editorial experiences and of famous men,
contains facsimiles of autographs and manuscripts, a list of
biographical data, illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20
“Mr Bok has done more than merely carry the reader with him along the
pleasant paths which he has trod. He has thought deeply upon the
problem of the immigrant and the result is a valuable contribution.”
H: L. West
+ =Bookm= 52:362 D ’20 540w
“This autobiography of the ex-editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal is
likely to produce upon the sophisticated reader that impression of
exasperated amusement which I have noted in more or less civilized
Britons when they have undergone a course of the Saturday Evening
Post, at my suggestion, in order that they might become familiar with
that microcosm of the United States.” E. A. Boyd
− =Freeman= 2:355 D 22 ’20 2550w
“This is an extraordinary array. In all the account of it there is not
one gleam of intellectual speculation, not one sign that Mr Bok ever
heard of the world of ideas, or that he understood any passions
stronger than sentimentalism. His criticism of the America in which he
lived and which he seems to have understood so well, is always merely
trivial.” I. B.
− =Nation= 111:783 D 29 ’20 1050w
Reviewed by A. M. Jungmann
=N Y Evening= Post p2 O 23 ’20 1400w
“Considered in every aspect, ‘The Americanization of Edward Bok’ is an
affording and a significant book. In style it is as simple and
perspicuous as Xenophon’s ‘Anabasis,’ which was also written in the
third person and by a man of shrewd common sense who trusted his
instincts.”
+ =No Am= 213:134 Ja ’21 2000w
“There is a great deal that is stimulating to energy, originality, and
resourcefulness in this autobiography, as well as much that is amusing
and agreeable reading.” R. D. Townsend
+ =Outlook= 126:514 N 17 ’20 1600w
“It is pleasant reading and happily stimulating to wholesome
ambition.” R. R. Bowker
+ =Pub W= 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w
“All in all, this is a remarkable book. Edward Bok is as compelling a
writer when telling his own story as when writing on other themes, and
this ought to be one of the ‘best sellers’ of the year.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 850w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 100w
=BOLTON, GUY, and MIDDLETON, GEORGE.= Light of the world. il *$1.75 Holt
812
20–19671
The scene of this three-act play is Oberammergau, the village of the
Passion play, just previous to a new performance; the time, between
the choosing of the actors and the opening of the play; and the theme,
the disparity between the teachings of Christ and the daily life of
Christians. Anton Rendel, the chosen Christus, discovers, on the eve
of his friend Simon’s wedding, that Simon has betrayed the girl Anton
had loved. Anton forgives but advises confession to Ruth, the bride,
and is left under the impression that it was made. The girl and her
baby seek refuge and find shelter in Anton’s house. His rivals among
the actors throw suspicion on Anton and insist that he drive out the
girl or give up his rôle as Christus. He does the latter and before
the play is to open a mob comes to set fire to his house. At that
moment the truth of the situation has just been revealed to Ruth. She
exacts open confession from Simon as the price of her love, whereupon
the rôle of Christus is once more offered to Anton.
* * * * *
“In no sense is this a play that will live, but it is a workmanlike
performance with a creditable motive—defence of the unfortunate and
misunderstood.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 220w
“Guy Bolton and George Middleton have made a real addition to the
literature of our contemporary stage. Yet curiously, perhaps, the
illustrations interspersed through the published play serve as a check
rather than a spur to the reader’s enjoyment.” Dorothy Grafly
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 450w
=BOLTON, HERBERT EUGENE, and MARSHALL, THOMAS MAITLAND.=[2] Colonization
of North America, 1492–1783. il *$4.25 Macmillan 970
20–16766
“A solid treatise (arranged in headed paragraphs) by two American
history professors, giving a comprehensive survey of the colonization
of North America from 1492 to 1783, and providing a more complete
account than previous works have done of the colonies of nations other
than the English and of English colonies other than those which
established their independence. A special attempt has been made to do
better justice to Spanish achievements in North American colonization.
Of the three sections into which the work is divided the first deals
with the founding of the colonies, the second with their expansion and
the international conflict (Anglo-Spanish and Franco-Spanish as well
as Franco-English), and the third with the revolt of the English
colonies. Numerous convenient maps elucidate the text. Index 53
pp.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 240w
“A convenient and readable sketch of the whole subject.”
+ =Spec= 125:823 D 18 ’20 110w
“The style of the work is far from distinguished, and it is a
text-book rather than a work of history; but it shows just that
breadth and firmness of treatment which will aid the student to
acquire a true perspective of past events. The excellence of the idea
should have considerable effect on the elementary teaching of
history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 4 ’20 120w
“Because of this comprehensive character, from the point of view of
our present interests instead of from that of the original thirteen
states of the union, it will be particularly appreciated by those of
us who feel the importance of intelligent acquaintance with our
historical backgrounds but have not the time to specialize in colonial
history.” Lilian Brandt
+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D 2 ’20 120w
=BONI, ALBERT=, ed. Modern book of French verse in English translations.
(Modern books of verse) *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 841.08
20–8026
“‘The modern book of French verse’ covers the whole field of French
poetry from Guillaume de Poitier’s writing in 1071 to Jules Romain’s,
who was born as late as 1885. All the famous figures of French poetry
are generously included, the book being starred with the names of
Villon, Marot, de Ronsard, Du Bellay, Chenier, De Beranger, Victor
Hugo, De Musset, Gautier, De Lisle, Baudelaire, Prudhomme, Mallarmé,
Verlaine, Samain, Laforgue, De Régnier, Jammes, Paul Fort and Vildrac.
Among the translators may be casually noted Jethro Bithell, Robert
Bridges, Chaucer, Austin Dobson, Ernest Dowson, James Elroy Flecker,
Andrew Lang, Arthur O’Shaughnessy, John Payne, W. J. Robertson,
Rossetti, Swinburne, J. A. Symonds, Arthur Symons and Francis
Thompson.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“Mr Boni’s admirable compilation of English translations of the best
French poetry makes a delectable volume. There are very few false
notes in this varied chorus.”
+ =Cath World= 111:834 S ’20 170w
“An excellent anthology of translations. Should be valuable in courses
in comparative literature.”
+ =Dial= 69:434 O ’20 100w
“The wealth of material at Mr Boni’s command must have made his
editorial task a pleasure as it has undoubtedly made the resultant
book invaluable. In future editions, however, Mr Boni should fill a
few very obvious gaps.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:857 Je 26 ’20 950w
“His anthology has many gaps, judged as a selection of French verse.
However, it is useful and interesting to have this collection of
translations, not only for a better idea of French verse among those
to whom the originals are sealed, but for a study of poets of the
whole subject of translation.” W. P. Eaton
+ − =N Y Call= p11 Je 13 ’20 620w
“It must have been a labor of love on Mr Boni’s part, and, like all
labors of love, it vindicates itself by its completeness and high
average of value. The book will be found invaluable by those who do
not read French easily.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 600w
“The quality of the verse is comparatively high; none of it is high
enough to dissuade a sensitive reader from learning French.”
+ − =Review= 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 250w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 15 ’20 230w
Reviewed by E: B. Reed
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:202 O ’20 360w
=BONJOUR, FELIX.= Real democracy in operation: the example of
Switzerland. *$1.50 (3c) Stokes 342.4
20–9847
The author of the book, a former president of the Swiss national
council, outlines and explains the constitution and the workings of
the Swiss federal republic, which he considers to be in the vanguard
of democratic evolution. The twenty-five more or less autonomous
states comprising this confederation are political laboratories which
borrow one from another those forms of government which appear to
succeed best—a practice which insures continuous democratic growth.
Contents: Federalism in Switzerland; The evolution of democracy in
Switzerland; The Landsgemeinde; The referendum; The results of the
referendum; The popular initiative; The results of the initiative; The
election of the government and officials by the people; Democracy in
the communes and the churches; Compulsory voting and woman suffrage;
Proportional representation; Democracy in the army and maintenance of
neutrality; The future of democracy in Switzerland; Appendix; Index.
* * * * *
“Written in a pleasing style and admirably translated.” R. C. Brooks
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:514 Ag ’20 330w
=Booklist= 17:50 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 40w
=N Y Times= p19 Ag 22 ’20 3000w
=Outlook= 126:558 N ’21 ’20 180w
+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 80w
“We recommend those who are interested in the theory and art of modern
politics to read this volume of Mr Felix Bonjour with attention, even
though they may be bored occasionally with its inevitable
parochiality.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:119 Ag 7 ’20 750w
“A book such as M. Bonjour’s was much needed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p416 Jl 1 ’20 950w
=BOOK= of Marjorie. *$1.50 (6½c) Knopf
20–4704
The book is an idyl of married life told by the husband. It begins
with that night in spring when he first told Marjorie that he loved
her and makes the reader a confidant of all the intimate details that
lay between then and the time when they both bent over Peter’s
bassinette and knew that they “should live forever in Peter and
Peter’s children.”
* * * * *
“The book offers no unusual problems and its reactions are simple and
happy.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 17 ’20 800w
=Nation= 110:402 Mr 27 ’20 250w
“The telling is graceful and natural; the little autobiographical
fragment is a thing to cherish.” C. W.
+ =N Y Call= p11 My 16 ’20 180w
“‘The book of Marjorie’ is a simple description of a happy marriage by
a writer whose main charm is simplicity.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 650w
=BORDEN-TURNER, MARY.= Romantic woman. *$2 (1½c) Knopf
20–15390
The story of a Chicago heiress who marries into the British
aristocracy. It opens in Chicago, here lightly disguised as
“Iroquois,” with the heroine’s own account of her democratic and
rather hoydenish girlhood and an introduction to the childhood
friends, Louise, Phyllis, Jim Van Orden and Pat O’Brien, who play a
part in her later life. Perhaps she should have married Jim and
settled down to a conventional and comfortable American life, but
traveling with her father in India she falls romantically in love with
a handsome cavalry officer, not knowing that he is heir to a dukedom.
He, on his part, tho genuinely attracted to the girl, is not
unconscious of her wealth. Marriage brings disillusionments and
introduces the naïve American into a society whose standards are quite
incomprehensible. There is considerable analysis of the two
contrasting points of view and the story ends with a glimpse of the
war.
* * * * *
“If you can find either constructive idea or positive personality in
this book, I cannot; and therefore it remains for me, despite its
clever elaboration of detail, that thing which Mr Hewlett rightly
dismisses as not worth the name—a string of anecdotes, and no more.”
H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 52:71 S ’20 560w
“Her picture of that city [Chicago] and its people is one of the very
brilliant things in recent literature. Its temper is not harsh, but it
has an edge and the edge cuts clean every time. Always she conveys the
richness, the distinction, and the vigor of an arresting character and
mind.”
+ =Nation= 110:625 My 8 ’20 900w
“Miss Borden is not a little pretentious. She does not avoid trying to
take more soul out than she has really put in. At the same time, she
has a rich theme and she knows her theme. She has a real Englishman in
hand and she knows him; and she has a vitality almost as good as the
vitality of art. Hers is not the detachment of art or the sincerity of
artistic self-expression. It is the drive of emotion, the sincerity of
a personal confession told in provisional terms.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 22:290 Ap 28 ’20 1650w
“Except where it becomes too involved the book is well written. Where
its author has been most successful is in the atmosphere of dull
discontent, of poignant disillusion, which she evokes throughout.
There are neat characterizations, epigrammatic bits of phrasing and
some passages written with unblushing frankness.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:208 Ap 25 ’20 600w
“It is a book worth reading slowly and must be so read, for it is told
in that peculiar manner practiced by Conrad. It is a taxing style, but
it has its fascination.” M. K. Reely
+ − =Pub W= 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 300w
“The work is characterized by contrasts, there are times when the
climaxes and the description are vivid but between these there are
pages where the writing is labored.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 220w
=BOSSCHÈRE, JEAN DE.= City curious. il *$3 Dodd
20–18755
A fantastic fairy tale, retold in English by F. Tennyson Jesse. Smaly
and Redy, husband and wife, who live in a charming little white house,
regret that they haven’t three daughters to occupy their little
bedrooms. They wished for them and said a magic verse, but nothing
happened. Then they set out to look for them. The story follows their
strange adventures and describes the very curious people they meet.
The grotesque pictures by the author are in keeping with the text.
* * * * *
=Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 30w
“The Belgian turns of thought and imagery have been kept, but not at
the expense of good English, as is sometimes the case in a
translation.”
+ =Spec= 125:745 D 4 ’20 260w
“It is really ingenuous of M. de Bosschère and his admirers to imagine
him as qualified to draw for children. We should hide all his pictures
from them.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p830 D 9 ’20 330w
=BOSTWICK, ARTHUR ELMORE.= Librarian’s open shelf; essays on various
subjects. *$3 (3c) Wilson, H. W. 814
20–26990
“The papers here gathered together represent the activities of a
librarian in directions outside the boundaries of his professional
career, although the influences of it may be detected in them here and
there.” (Preface) The book forms a companion volume to “Library
essays” and like that volume is composed of collected papers and
addresses prepared for various occasions. Partial list of contents: Do
readers read? What makes people read? The passing of the possessive: a
study of book titles; Selective education; The uses of fiction; The
value of association; Modern educational methods; Some economic
features of libraries; Simon Newcomb, America’s foremost astronomer;
The companionship of books; Atomic theories of energy; The
advertisement of ideas.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:91 D ’20
=BOSTWICK, ARTHUR ELMORE.= Library essays. *$3 (2c) Wilson, H. W. 020
20–26991
The author celebrates his twenty-fifth year of librarianship with the
publication of this volume of collected essays and addresses. They are
arranged chronologically and “reflect to a certain extent the progress
of library work during the past quarter century.” (Preface) Among the
subjects covered are: Pains and penalties in library work; How
librarians choose books; The work of the small public library; Lay
control in libraries and elsewhere; The whole duty of a library
trustee, from a librarian’s standpoint; Library statistics; The love
of books as a basis for librarianship; The library as the educational
center of a town; The librarian as a censor; How to raise the standard
of book selection; The library and the business man; The future of
library work; The library as a museum; The library and the locality.
There is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:91 D ’20
=BOSWELL, A. BRUCE.= Poland and the Poles. il *$4 (4½c) Dodd 943.8
20–26318
The book is based on a study of Poland extending over many years and
on personal contact with Poles during a five year’s residence of the
author in their country. It is rather a series of essays than a
continuous narrative and aims to treat Poland ethnically rather than
politically and to describe all the region where Polish civilization
is an important element. The contents are: The land; The people:
National characteristics; The past of Poland; Divided Poland;
Political parties; The country-side; Commerce and industry; The
Ukraine question; Work at the foundations; The capital city; The great
romantic poets; Modern currents in Polish literature; Education and
science; Art and music; The war; Three maps, numerous illustrations
and an index.
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to the literature dealing with a country of
which too little is known by the English reader. The Polish national
characteristics are very clearly described.”
+ =Ath= p1243 N 21 ’19 70w
“We would draw attention to Mr Boswell’s able summary of the Ukrainian
problem.... On the other hand, although he devotes a whole chapter to
Polish affairs during the war, his treatment of the Teschen question
is, in our opinion, neither adequate nor correct. The purely
informative sections of Mr Boswell’s book are accurate and thorough.
His treatment of ethnographical matters is particularly good, while
the two chapters he devotes to Polish literature cover a large amount
of fresh ground.” P. S.
+ − =Ath= p1396 D 26 ’19 700w
+ =Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20
“One of the foremost impressions made by the book is that of the
earnest effort of the author to give a truthful delineation of the
country and the people of whom he writes. This after the long years of
propaganda on the part of both Germany and Russia is too important to
be overlooked.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 600w
=Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 50w
+ =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 100w
“A readable and instructive book by a competent authority. The
concluding chapter gives a useful sketch of Polish policy during the
war which was very perplexing for western readers.”
+ =Spec= 124:21 Ja 3 ’20 140w
“Unlike some supporters of the Polish cause he has no need to make up
in sentiment what he lacks in knowledge; on the contrary his knowledge
saves him from an unqualified and undiscriminating enthusiasm. The
historical and political side is naturally the most important at the
present time, and it is in regard to this that Mr Boswell’s work is
most illuminating.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p659 N 20 ’19 850w
=BOSWORTH, THOMAS OWEN.= Geology of the mid continent oilfields. il *$3
Macmillan 553
20–26532
A work covering the oil fields of Kansas, Oklahoma and north Texas. A
bibliography of four pages following the introduction shows the
sources on which the author has drawn. The sections of the book are
then devoted to: Geographical and geological situation of the mid
continent oil region; History of the development of the mid continent
oil region; Geological structure of the mid continent oilfield region;
Geological history of the oil bearing deposits; Stratigraphy and the
oilfields; The oil accumulations and their relation to geological
structure; Character of the oil; The natural gas; Production of
gasoline from natural gas; Salinity of oilfield waters; Some general
conclusions. There is a folding map showing the region under
consideration, with additional maps and drawings and eight
illustrations from photographs. The book is indexed.
* * * * *
“Although the vocabulary of the book is more or less technical,
nevertheless the lay reader may pursue it with comfort and
understanding.” I: Lippincott
+ =Am Econ R= 10:588 S ’20 410w
“There is certainly nothing strikingly new in Dr Bosworth’s book, and
one further perceives in the work a strong undercurrent of bias to
prevalent American opinion. For the rest, the book certainly contains
some useful features.” H. B. Milner
+ − =Nature= 105:608 Jl 15 ’20 750w
=Spec= 125:541 O 23 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 S 30 ’20 60w
=BOUCICAULT, RUTH BALDWIN (HOLT) (MRS AUBREY BOUCICAULT).= Rose of
Jericho. *$1.90 (1½c) Putnam
20–6707
Sheelah Brent was literally picked up by a traveling theatrical
company and pressed into their services as substitute for a sick stage
child, when she was only seven. For six weeks she thus tided over,
with her earnings, a crisis in her family while her widowed father was
ill from overwork. Later, when she came to choose her own course, it
was the theater. She made good in her profession and in due time
became an artist. Towards this latter development her love experiences
as a woman helped. But it meant struggle and heartache for Sheelah and
defiance of all conventions. Heart solitude once more overtakes her
when her son Michael, the fruit of her first girlish and illicit love,
is sent to school in England under the guidance of his English father.
It is then that she finds so much solace in a book that she writes to
the author for more spiritual help. With the coming of the war both
Michael and his father volunteer and the latter rescues his son at the
cost of his eyesight. The usual thing follows but not before Sheelah
has turned to religion, Michael has been killed and she has discovered
in her former lover the author of the helpful book.
* * * * *
“A good deal of the novel is well written, particularly the first two
‘books,’ but it drags badly toward the close.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 350w
“The beginning is cleverly human, but the close is strongly-presented
pathos of the type commonly classed as ‘sob stuff.’”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 190w
=BOUCKE, OSWALD FRED.= Limits of socialism. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 335
20–7869
After having made it clear that he considers socialism as neither a
chimera nor a crime the author makes an attempt at a sympathetic
examination of its various tenets with a view to laying bare its weak
points and demonstrating the necessity for amendments of the original
creed. “Revision is a step in the onward march of civilization.
Science itself is nothing if not continual growth and redefinition of
terms, whose finest fruit is the advancement of humanism.” The book
falls into two parts. Part 1, The limits in theory, contains: The
problem; Karl Marx and the economists; The economic interpretation of
history; Justice. Part 2, The limits in practice, contains: The limits
in production; The limits in distribution; The limits in consumption;
The limits in government; A petition. There are seven statistical
tables and an index. The author is professor of economics at
Pennsylvania state college.
* * * * *
“In regard to the program of socialism, the author makes a worthy
contribution to a much neglected subject in that he points out the
difficulties which socialists will encounter in trying to realize
their ideals, and the limited success which they are likely to
attain.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ =Am Econ R= 10:860 D ’20 780w
=Booklist= 17:50 N ’20
“When he leaves the field of economics he is less convincing. The book
will prove rather stiff exposition to the general reader, who will be
annoyed at the needlessly scientific vocabulary.”
+ − =Nation= 111:304 S 11 ’20 340w
“The book is stimulating to thought because it is itself thoughtful, a
model in manner and temper, a better antidote to socialism’s errors
than denunciation or denial of the evils it seeks to cure.” E: A.
Bradford
+ =N Y Times= p12 S 12 ’20 2000w
“There is much good stuff in the book, some shrewd ideas, and some
sound generalizing, which if turned into language understanded of the
people would be valuable.”
+ − =Review= 3:112 Ag 4 ’20 320w
=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 20w
=BOULENGER, JACQUES.= Seventeenth century. *$3.50 (2c) Putnam 944.03
20–26872
This work forms one of the volumes of the National history of France.
It is preceded by “The century of the renaissance” by L. Batiffol,
published in 1916, and is followed by “The eighteenth century,” by
Casimir Stryienski, also issued in 1916. Contents: The youth of Louis
XIII; Richelieu; The preponderance of France (1630–1643); The kingdom
under Louis XIII; The beginnings of society and of classic literature;
The Fronde and Mazarin; The “Roi-soleil”; The glorious years,
1661–1678; Decline; Religious matters; Sunset; The kingdom under Louis
XIV; The great age. References come at the end of the chapters and
there is an index.
* * * * *
“Distinctly a readable book.”
+ =Booklist= 17:64 N ’20
“This new presentation of the greatest period in the history of France
is brilliantly written.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 700w
+ =Ind= 104:217 N 13 ’20 50w
“Boulenger has undertaken a difficult task, and he has done it well.
Though treating the general history of a whole century in some detail,
he is neither superficial nor tiringly technical. One feature of his
book is especially commendable; the author’s desire to be
non-partisan. It may be well to bring out the fact that, for the real
or quasi-specialist, Boulenger treats his subject too much from the
outside, and thus fails to emphasize sufficiently at least one feature
of much importance for the proper understanding of the epoch he
treats.”
+ − =Review= 3:503 N 24 ’20 1900w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 30w
“His portraits of Richelieu, Mazarin, Colbert and the great King
himself are vivid and unforgettable. M. Boulenger is a learned
historian but, like so many French scholars, he wears his learning
lightly.”
+ =Spec= 125:344 S 11 ’20 150w
“M. Boulenger’s subject is relatively simple, but it is a big one, and
it has the disadvantage of being hackneyed. The best praise that can
be given to his book is to say that it is on a level with M. Madelin’s
‘French revolution,’ and superior to any other volumes in this
attractive series.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p436 Jl 8 ’20 700w
=BOULNOIS, HENRY PERCY.= Modern roads. il *$5.75 (*16s) Longmans 625.7
(Eng ed 20–9208)
“The author was a member of the British Advisory engineering committee
appointed in 1910 as a result of the increasing dust nuisance due to
poorly constructed roads. Much information regarding British
conditions was obtained and standard specifications produced. This
book covers in a comprehensive way the subjects of motor traffic, the
various kinds of roads and details of construction, waves and
corrugations, slippery streets, with appendices relating to traffic
regulations.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p28 Ap ’20 70w
=Spec= 122:145 Ja 31 ’20 420w
=BOURNE, RANDOLPH SILLIMAN.=[2] History of a literary radical; and other
essays. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 814
This collection of essays, reprinted from various magazines, is edited
with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. The latter is a sketch of the
author’s intellectual development which is corroborated in the first
essay, “History of a literary radical.” What Bourne stood for, says
Van Wyck Brooks, was a new fellowship of the youth of America, a
league of youth, for the purpose of creating, out of the blind chaos
of American society, a fine, free, articulate cultural order. “He, if
any one, in the days to come, would have conjured out of our dry soil
the green shoots of a beautiful and a characteristic literature: he
knew that soil so well, and why it was dry, and how it ought to be
irrigated!” (Introd.) The essays are: History of a literary radical;
Our cultural humility; Six portraits; This older generation; A mirror
of the Middle West; Ernest: or Parent for a day; On discussion; The
puritan’s will to power; The immanence of Dostoevsky; The art of
Theodore Dreiser; The uses of infallibility; Impressions of Europe;
Trans-national America; Fragment of a novel.
* * * * *
“The essay which gives its title to the book is a piece of
intellectual biography which is worth the careful study of everyone
who is puzzled by the open revolt of the choicest intellects in our
undergraduate bodies against the ideals and discipline of our
universities. In ‘The Puritan’s will to power’ and in ‘Transnational
America’ Randolph Bourne’s feelings were perhaps too deeply involved
to permit him to attain the complete clarity and cogency usual with
him. But the gently whimsical ‘Ernest, or Parent for a day’ would be a
sufficient compensation for any imperfections there might be elsewhere
in the book.” Alvin Johnson
+ =Freeman= 25:293 F 2 ’21 880w
“It is impossible, in spite of all that makes it valuable, to read
this book without a final sense of disappointment. Randolph Bourne’s
interests were as wide as the world; his views were true and tempered;
his style is simple, and it is effective chiefly because the words he
uses are wise and exact rather than original; but his appeal, after
all, is very narrow. He is the pure intellectual addressing the
‘younger intelligentsia,’ and his exclusiveness gradually becomes
slightly tiresome even as the phrase quoted becomes irritating.” Freda
Kirchwey
+ − =Nation= 111:619 D 1 ’20 1050w
=BOURNE, RANDOLPH SILLIMAN.= Untimely papers. *$1.50 (3½c) Huebsch 320.4
20–26319
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Written during America’s war preparations, these papers are well
named untimely, for they question with the rigor of a clear minded,
uncompromising pacifist and idealist, America’s attitude in combating
the spirit of the war lord with war. They are an interesting portrayal
of the courage in his belief of the author.”
+ =Booklist= 16:219 Ap ’20
“Dying just when he should have come into his own, Randolph Bourne
left behind him a set of brilliant essays on the political life of
yesterday. These have been gathered and edited by James Oppenheim with
a foreword perhaps a thought too laudatory. Yet much can be said for
Mr Bourne’s keen insight and flashing style. His sentences are diamond
cut, his reasoning clear even to the most undiscerning.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 240w
Reviewed by E. C. Parsons
+ =Dial= 68:367 Mr ’20 1500w
“They are courageous papers in that they represent an unwincing
defence of an attitude which can never have been at all popular. They
are turned from protest into positive statement by a long and
unfinished essay on the state, in which Mr Bourne was clearly
searching to vindicate the ultimate rights of personality against the
demands of authority outside. The whole essay is a superb cry of anger
against a tyranny which he felt to be grinding. Yet I venture to think
that the essay is in fact largely devoid of realistic basis. It has a
specialized motivation which makes it valuable as the record of a
personal experience, but impracticable as a contribution to political
science.” H. J. Laski
+ − =Freeman= 1:237 My 19 ’20 1150w
“It is the book of a too sensitive spirit, dying brokenhearted in a
world that seemed hopelessly insane and misdirected. Whatever we may
think of the substance of these essays there can be no question of the
delicate beauty of their expression or the evidence they give of the
patrician dignity and courage which marked the author’s personality.”
+ =Ind= 102:234 My 8 ’20 100w
“No educated, honest, able-bodied man can read the war essays of
Randolph Bourne without some degree of admiration for their dead
author and some sort of shame for himself. What we say now without
being either brave or original he said then, not, perhaps, with the
maturity of a Bertrand Russell or a Romain Rolland, but at least with
fine courage and imagination. It may turn out that the cleanest
picture of ourselves when we were not ourselves is here in these two
hundred and thirty pages.”
+ =Nation= 110:522 Ap 17 ’20 380w
“The unfinished fragment on the state, which was to have been so great
a book, is still a keen and impressive analysis of social
psychology.... And after the self-styled peace what would Randolph
Bourne have added, what doubly bitter denunciation, to the temperate
ironies of these searching papers? Perhaps nothing but the tolerant
smile of one who foresaw.” Marion Tyler
+ =Socialist R= 8:251 Mr ’20 550w
“Academically, his arguments may have been right, but it is obvious
that they were uttered at a time when they must have proved the
reverse of helpful. They may now be read with the dispassionate calm
to which they are entitled, and they well repay careful
consideration.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 220w
“He proved right in many of the pronouncements which can now be
weighed against actual happenings; and for this reason there is hope
that a kindly hearing may yet be given to the essays here reprinted.”
+ =Survey= 44:291 My 22 ’20 150w
“These papers are overshadowed by the war; and as the war figured in
Bourne’s outlook as a tragic impertinence which had rudely choked the
young shoots of a new life in America with which his dearest hopes
were bound up, there is a steady undertow of resentment which disturbs
the balance of his thought. But all the same, these papers were worth
printing as a historical document to show the generations to come how
the war struck a profound and honest mind that had enthroned the
spirit of life and was already seeing afar off the triumph of life
over the forces of death.” R. R.
+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:157 My ’20 160w
“He could write—there is no question about that—and he could think,
but these two fine qualities do not excuse the fact that his first
principles are nearly always wrong.” M. F. Egan
− + =Yale R= n s 10:188 O ’20 380w
=BOWEN, WILLIAM.=[2] Enchanted forest. il *$2.50 Macmillan
20–20549
In this series of fairy tales a forest is turned into paper, its
brooks petrified and the voice of the birds stilled by the bad temper
of a king. How the forest was redeemed by Bilbo the woodcutter’s son,
who thereby won the princess; how the pair cured the old king’s temper
through an “Interrupter” and his “Encourager”; and how little Prince
Bojohn and his playmate Bodkin had many adventures with elves and
fairies, is all told in these tales with delightful humor. The book is
illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham.
=BOWER, B. M., pseud. (BERTHA MUZZY SINCLAIR) (MRS BERTRAND WILLIAM
SINCLAIR).= Quirt. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little
20–8857
Lorraine Hunter lives in Los Angeles and has absorbed her ideas of the
“West” from the movies. She has never known her father, a rancher in
Idaho, but she pictures him as a cattle king and sees herself in the
rôle of cattle king’s daughter. She finds the Quirt, Brit Hunter’s
ranch, a very different place from her imaginings. It is one of the
few small ranches allowed to survive in the shadow of the great
Sawtooth cattle company’s holdings. Other small owners have been
absorbed or have met “accidental” deaths, but Brit and his partner, as
two highly respected old-timers, have remained unmolested. On the
night of her arrival Lorraine loses her way and finds herself mixed up
with one of the “accidents” referred to. She talks, and talk is
dangerous to the Sawtooth. In the fight that follows Lone Morgan lines
up with the Quirt but it is Swan Vjolmar, the seemingly innocent
Swede, who plays the final card.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“The tale begins interestingly enough, but what with deeds of
violence, and thunderstorms of a like violence, soon passes into the
realms of mediocrity.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 23 ’20 300w
=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w
“The story moves briskly, with plenty of sensational incident, while
all its detail, as always in B. M. Bower’s novels, is colorful and
convincing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 370w
=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 200w
“A story of western life that is both fresh and plausible.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 160w
=BOWMAN, ARCHIBALD ALLAN.= Sonnets from a prison camp. *$1.50 Lane 811
20–8620
The author, professor of philosophy at Princeton university, says of
these sonnets written in captivity that they “stood between my soul
and madness,” and hopes that what has meant so much to him under one
of the heaviest blows that can befall a soldier will have some general
human interest. They are grouped as follows: In the field; The nadir;
On the march; Rastatt; Hesepe; Thoughts of home; Influences;
Watchwords and maxims; England and Oxford; Home thoughts once more;
Interlude; England.
* * * * *
“When he begins to write of those reflective themes to which the
sonnet form is fitted, Mr Bowman reveals himself as an interesting and
talented writer. Mr Bowman’s chief defect is a certain stiltedness and
overnobility of language, which sometimes leads him to talk of prosaic
or trivial things with a pomp which does not become them.”
+ − =Ath= p429 Mr 26 ’20 180w
“Benvenuto Cellini also wrote sonnets in captivity: and they are as
perfunctory and uninspired as are Professor Bowman’s.” R. M. Weaver
− =Bookm= 52:63 S ’20 70w
Reviewed by Marguerite Williams
=N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 100w
=Sat R= 129:110 Ja 31 ’20 200w
“Grave and eloquent sonnets, a little sententious and here and there a
little prosaic.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p755 D 11 ’19 80w
=BOYER, WILBUR SARLES.= Johnnie Kelly. il *$2 (3c) Houghton
20–16092
Johnnie Kelly is a red-headed Irish boy of thirteen when he makes his
debut at Public school 199, Amsterdam ave., the Bronx. The teachers
regard him as a terror, but one instructor, Daniel Parks, takes enough
interest in him to try to show him how he can be a leader. His various
escapades fill the book, culminating in his being elected
vice-president of the Amsterdam Republic, and receiving the wrist
watch which is offered to the pupil who sells the most liberty bonds.
Incidentally, he plays no small part in the romance that develops
between Mr Parks and the pretty new teacher, Helen Bouck.
* * * * *
“Many schoolmasters are of a cut-and-dried sort, who cut circles in
deep ruts and see nothing in life beyond the daily routine of the
schoolroom. But Mr Boyer sees beyond this and has made a natural study
of the boy and his characteristics. Not this alone, but he himself has
a rare gift of humor, and the two are combined in ‘Johnnie Kelly.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 190w
“The efforts of a ‘Bronix’ policeman’s son to attain popularity in a
Manhattan public school are amusing enough, and he and his young
associates are human and healthy.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 150w
=BOYNTON, PERCY HOLMES.= History of American literature. *$2.25 Ginn
810.9
20–3784
Omitting authors of minor importance the book has been written “with a
view to showing the drift of American thought as illustrated by major
writers or groups and as revealed by a careful study of one or two
cardinal works of each.... The growth of American self-consciousness
and the changing ideals of American patriotism have been kept in mind
throughout.... As an aid to the student, there are appended to each
chapter (except the last three) topics and problems for study, and
book lists which summarize the output of each man, indicate available
editions, and point to the critical material which may be used as a
supplement, but not as a substitute, for first-hand study.” (Preface)
Beginning with the 17th century, the contents contain chapters on the
earliest verse, the poetry of the revolution and the early drama, all
our American classics as: Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Emerson,
Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Mrs Stowe and
Holmes, the later poetry and Walt Whitman, the rise of fiction and
contemporary drama. There are also two maps, three chronological
charts, an appendix characterizing the most significant American
periodicals and an index.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 28 ’20 750w
“The style throughout is marked with a crispness and vivacity that are
missing in too many textbooks in the same field. The author’s
scientific knowledge and scholarship are winningly displayed on every
page of his book.”
+ =School R= 28:315 Ap ’20 220w
=BRACKETT, CHARLES.= Counsel of the ungodly. *$2 (3c) Appleton
20–13703
When Peter van Hoeven, scion of an old and wealthy New York family,
lost his fortune at the age of sixty-two, he determined to earn his
living as a butler. Luck brought him into a newly rich family, mother
and daughter, of whom the mother is exuberantly vulgar and the
daughter sensitively aware of their short-comings. Jacob Smith, alias
Peter van Hoeven, becomes Mary’s guardian angel and she relies on him
and confides in him more and more. When it is subsequently discovered
that Mary is not Mrs Davison’s daughter, as the long lost husband with
the real daughter turns up, Peter resolves to adopt Mary as his niece,
trumping up a story of a lost brother Richard whose daughter she is.
That she really is his niece becomes probable later. He now makes
himself known to his family to whom he introduces his niece. He also
undertakes to cure her of an undesirable love affair by first
engineering her into and then out of an engagement by ungodly counsel.
As the right fellow is waiting just around the corner it all ends
well.
* * * * *
“Light and fairly amusing.”
+ =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“It is a delightful atmosphere into which you are led in this swiftly
moving story, where almost every one is pleasant to know.”
+ =Lit D= p92 O 23 ’20 1550w
“The author’s flexible style and skill in drollery, distinctly above
the average, makes one regret that he has not employed his literary
ability in a less inconsequential plot.”
+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 330w
=BRADFORD, GAMALIEL.= Prophet of joy. *$1.50 Houghton 811
20–14773
This tale in verse relates the career of a millionaire’s son, a
golden-haired vision of a boy, imbued with a faith that it was his
mission to redeem the world with the gospel of joy. His first convert
was a spinster cousin, Theodora, who undertook to stand between him
and his stern father, to be ever his haven of refuge and to smooth the
way for him generally. His exploits are many and fantastic. He meets
all manner of people, the lowly and the artists, the pious and the
rich, and he meets them all alike with laughter, gaiety, and love.
With this love and joy in life he at last undertakes to assuage a
striking mob and meets his death. The woman agitator whose method,
unlike his, had been to stir up hatred and revenge as a means of
salvation, but who had long loved the boy, vows before his body that
violence must die and dedicates herself to “joy’s pure torch” and to
love as the “Star of immortal hope to mortal men.”
* * * * *
“Characters, incidents and beauty of telling combine to make an
interesting story and a poem of wide appeal.”
+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“What fun the author must have had composing all this! He has not only
worked with his subject, he has played with it. He keeps up his own
and the reader’s courage, sometimes by whistling. It is one of the
most original contributions to literature that I have seen, and I know
nothing in American literature which it resembles. And it is written
in the American, not the English language.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Bookm= 52:170 O ’20 1400w
“When the ‘prophet of joy’ is killed in an attempt to mediate between
a band of strikers and their employer, there is little sense of pathos
because the character has been largely a creature of fancy and as such
has engaged the reader’s attention rather than his affection. But Mr
Bradford is fluent and dexterous and the rhymes carry one along
through one hundred and ninety-three pages of easy and agreeable
reading.” L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2: S 29 ’20 300w
“He takes pains to show what it is that he is not talking
about—Christian Science, Sunday school morality, silly altruism—but we
are never sure what it is that he is talking about, and never sure
that his is not the nambiest-pambiest of palliatives.”
− + =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 230w
“Mr Bradford is a poet, and a good one. Much of the present poem shows
a deftness and a skill that place him high among writers of light
verse. But in all fairness he must leave his ivory tower and acquaint
himself with causes he dislikes before writing unfairly of them. The
book, barring this one capital fault, is a capital one, and as such
may be recommended.” C. W.
+ − =N Y Call= p10 S 12 ’20 700w
“It seems to the present reviewer, indeed, the most stimulating and
absorbing volume that has appeared in American poetry since ‘The
Congo’ and ‘Spoon River.’ It is not an imitation but a vital
incarnation of the Byronic satire, proving that modern life may be
dressed in an ancient mode at least as effectively as in the fashions
of the hour. The ‘Prophet’ should find an audience for many years to
come; should even, one is tempted to say, win a permanent place among
the classics of lighter American verse.” C: W. Stork
+ =N Y Evening= Post p5 O 23 ’20 1150w
“Nothing can be gayer, idler, saucier, easier, more winningly devious
and desultory than his treatment of the eight-line Italian epic
stanza. The story is agreeable, and the only point of failure is the
point in which in a poem of this kind failure is most forgivable and
least important—the nature and handling of the thesis.”
+ − =Review= 3:390 O 27 ’20 310w
=BRADLEY, ARTHUR GRANVILLE.= Book of the Severn. il *$5 Dodd 914.2
(Eng ed 21–834)
“The ancients had river gods; we too have them in our minds and feel
their qualities. For rivers are things of life and personality, of
soul and character.... Some of our river gods are men and some are
women.... Father Thames has proclaimed his sex for all time; but the
Severn has been a lady since literature began.” (Chapter 1) The author
shows his readers not only the scenic but also the historic Severn and
conducts him from its cradle in Plinlimmon to Gloucester with sixteen
color plates to mark the way. There is no index.
* * * * *
“The author tells the story in ample detail and with full knowledge.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
“In brief, this is a most entertaining volume. The coloured plates do
not add much to its attractions.”
+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 150w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 8 ’20 210w
“Mr Bradley has a mingled zest for scenery, for history, and for the
humours and graces of life, which makes him one of the best of
all-around companions on such a series of excursions, either afoot or
in an armchair.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p209 Ap 1 ’20 950w
=BRADLEY, GLENN DANFORD.= Story of the Santa Fe. (Frontiers of America)
il *$3 Badger, R: G. 656
20–6283
“The [story of the] railroad known as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe describes the beginnings and development of one of the most
extensive of American railroad systems. Projected by the vision of
Cyrus K. Holliday, and developed by the energy and financial support
of other farseeing Americans, this railroad was built to develop the
business which was originally conducted in primitive fashion from the
Missouri river across the Kansas prairies and through the mountains to
the old mining centre, Santa Fe. It is an account of what real men by
the exercise of push and profanity have been able to accomplish, even
in the face of tremendous obstacles and hindrances, both natural and
those presented by the devilish ingenuity of man.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The story as written by Mr Bradley is very complete. The author has
done his work very well.” J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 800w
=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 30w
=BRADLEY, MRS MARY (HASTINGS).= Fortieth door. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton
20–2264
A romantic adventure story staged in Cairo, Jack Ryder, altho young
and good to look at, has managed to evade the society of girls and
devote himself wholly to the fascinations of Egyptian tombs. He is
bored unspeakably at thought of the masked ball to which his
compatriot, Jinny Jeffries, is dragging him. But at the ball he meets
Aimée, the alluring veiled figure who is to lead him so far on the
road to romance. It is only when the dance is over, his heart already
well lost, that he learns that her attire is no picturesque disguise
donned for an evening, that she is a high born Moslem escaped for a
few mad moments from the haremlik. Fate and ancient custom are against
him, but he learns by accident that Aimée is of French birth, and
youth, daring and good luck conspire on his side to bring all to a
happy end.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:203 Mr ’20
“Here is a ‘romantic incident’ carried through from start to finish
without a false note, though some of the harmony toward the end is, as
is were, a trifle close.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:583 Jl ’20 220w
“Mrs Bradley transports us to the realms of romance. We realize that
we are not moving among scenes of reality, but we do not greatly
care.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 160w
“The story is well thought out and interesting. And it has the merit
of being smoothly written and vividly as well.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 60w
“Cleverly told with plot of interest and original details well
sustained throughout.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 280w
“A good adventure story.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p353 Je 3 ’20 90w
=BRADLEY-BIRT, FRANCIS BRADLEY.= Bengal fairy tales. il *$5 (7½c) Lane
398.2
20–22478
These fairy tales have been collected by the author from the natives
of Bengal by word of mouth. They breathe the spirit of the East and
are unlike any of western tales, as are also the six full-page
illustrations in color by Abanindranath Tagore. The contents are in
three parts, the first of which consists of the stories told by
Bhabaghuray, the traveller.
* * * * *
“The really ideal illustrator of this kind of literature is, of
course, the artist who is himself a product of the land which has
given birth to it, and from this point of view the book illustrated by
Mr Tagore is of special interest.”
+ =Int Studio= 72:206 Ja ’21 60w
=BRADY, LORETTA ELLEN.= Green forest fairy book. il *$2 (4c) Little
20–18407
A book of new fairy tales into which the author has put much of the
true fairy-land atmosphere. Some of the titles are: Dame Grumble and
her curious apple tree: A tale of the Northland kingdom; The little
tree that never grew up; The tale of Punchinello; The strange tale of
the brown bear. The illustrations are by Alice B. Preston.
* * * * *
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 70w
=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT=, ed. Anthology of magazine verse
for 1919; and Year book of American poetry. *$2.25 Small 811.08
Mr Braithwaite who omits from this annual volume his usual critical
introductory essay takes occasion to call attention to Edwin Arlington
Robinson’s “The valley of the shadow,” as a poem demanding careful
attention and study. Other notable poems are Leonora Speyer’s “The
queen bee flies,” Sara Teasdale’s “August moonrise,” Vachel Lindsay’s
“The empire of China is crumbling down,” Lola Ridge’s “The everlasting
return”; also poems by Witter Bynner, Scudder Middleton, Edna St
Vincent Millay, Louis Untermeyer, Maxwell Bodenheim, Amy Lowell, and
others.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:194 Mr ’20
Reviewed by H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:212 Ap ’20 50w
“Taken as a whole, the ‘Anthology of magazine verse for 1919’
possesses distinct merit as a collection of contemporary verse. As a
stepping-stone in the steady advance of American poetry it is even
more interesting.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 14 ’20 1700w
“All in all the anthology is valuable not only as literature, but as a
barometer of the spirit of the times.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“There is poetry here of a grade we like to boast of being able to
find every day in the magazines, that of Conrad Aiken, Sara Teasdale,
Clement Wood, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and sundry others. There is
singing here that is something more than verse, and there is verse
that is something less than poetry.” R. P. Utter
+ − =Nation= 110:238 F 21 ’20 100w
“The year book is, if anything, more representative and satisfactory
than its predecessors. The critical material at the back is more
restrained than hitherto, and gains thereby. For those who wish to
keep up with the best of the new poetry, the book is indispensable.”
C. W.
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 400w
“Critics have often told Mr Braithwaite that his collections of
magazine verse can never have the highest value because the best
American poetry is not published in magazines. This year, at any rate,
that would seem to be untrue. It is doubtful whether anything better
than Edwin Arlington Robinson’s ‘Valley of the shadow’ has been
published in any of the books of the year.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 360w
“Mr Braithwaite’s annual ‘Anthology of magazine verse’ improves from
year to year. The present volume is no exception to this rule.
Particularly to be commended is the elimination of Mr Braithwaite’s
usual attempt at rating the verse of the year according to merit.”
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 100w
“Mr Braithwaite has done his work with knowledge, with discernment,
and with a liberality which sometimes compromises his discernment.”
+ − =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 300w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 9 ’20 750w
+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w
“He is too generous in his appreciation, including much that is
excellent but not significant. As with every anthology, we quarrel
with the selections. Though the book would gain by omissions, the
general level is a high one.” E: B. Reed
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:199 O ’20 390w
=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT=, ed. Book of modern British
verse. *$2 Small 821.08
20–1984
“A collection intended to acquaint American readers with contemporary
British verse in the period which ‘began with an assault upon reality
and a shock of symbols’ to be disturbed and perhaps re-directed by the
forces of war.” (Booklist) “John Masefield’s ‘August, 1914,’ is
included, and G. K. Chesterton’s booming ‘Lepanto,’ also favorite
poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Walter de la Mare, J. C. Squires,
Ralph Hodgson, Joseph Campbell, James Stephens, Thomas MacDonald and
many others. William Butler Yeats, probably the greatest of all living
makers of lyrics, is not represented. But it is generally understood
that his work seldom appears in anthologies.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20
“It has Masefield’s ‘Biography,’ ‘August, 1914,’ and ‘Cargoes’;
Belloc’s ‘South country’; Brooke’s five splendid sonnets; Julian
Grenfell’s ‘Into battle’—finest of all the ‘war poems’; de la Mare’s
‘The listeners.’ And these are only a few of the memorable things
included.” H: A. Lappin
+ − =Bookm= 51:211 Ap ’20 700w
“Due to something more incomprehensible than his taste he has failed
signally. ‘The book of modern British verse’ begins as a misnomer; it
ends as a misrepresentation.” L: Untermeyer
− =Freeman= 1:69 Mr 31 ’20 1100w
“It exhibits the period fairly enough without characterizing it, and
with this book as with other anthologies, even the best, the critical
reader will miss old friends and make new ones.” R. P. Utter
+ − =Nation= 110:238 F 21 ’20 80w
“A pleasant and interesting little book. Mr Braithwaite has
over-emphasized the importance of Cicely Fox Smith’s verse.... Nor do
the ‘Songs from the evil wood’ represent Lord Dunsany’s poetic talent
as well as would a passage from his imaginative and often beautiful
prose.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ − =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 160w
“The sheer beauty and spontaneity of these poems must surprise
pleasantly those who have believed this period of social unrest and of
war incapable of producing art of the highest order.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w
=BRAND, MAX.= Trailin’! *$1.75 (3c) Putnam
20–6637
A wild-west story that opens in Madison Square garden, where Anthony
Woodbury accepts a challenge and rides a man-killing horse. Shortly
after, the man Anthony has always regarded as his father is killed and
Anthony goes West to follow the trail of the slayer and learn the
secret of his birth. With the foolhardiness of a tenderfoot he takes
unrealized risks, but his skill and daring always carry him through,
and he is successful too in winning a western bride.
* * * * *
“The story undeniably grips.”
+ =Ath= p118 My 28 ’20 100w
+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
=BRANOM, MENDEL EVERETT.= Project method in education. (Library of
educational methods) *$1.75 Badger, R. G. 371.3
19–15249
In his first chapter on “The nature of the project method,” the author
discusses the term “project” and the different meanings assigned to
it, saying, “There is no fundamental difference of opinion concerning
the meaning of the word, but the difference lies in the degree of
elasticity that should be permitted. In every case a unit of
purposeful, intellectualized activity is involved.” The chapters that
follow take up: The evolution of the project as an educational
concept; The relation of the project method to instincts; The social
basis for the project method; The significance of motivation; Teaching
by projects; Learning by projects; The project-question; The
project-exercise; The project-problem; Manual or physical projects;
Mental projects not involving manual activity; The project method in
history; The project method in geography; The reorganization of the
course of study; The preparation of the teacher. There are twelve
pages of references and an index.
* * * * *
“A valuable discussion of the project method.”
+ =Cleveland= p19 F ’20 20w
“The author sets forth in clear terms one of the existing needs in
education, namely, to get away from the ‘bookish, theoretical
education of former days.’ There are times, however, when his
distinctions are not exactly clear to the reader.”
+ − =School R= 28:234 Mr ’20 900w
=BRASOL, BORIS L.= Socialism vs. civilization. *$2 Scribner 335
20–4141
As indicated by the title, the object of the book is to prove that
socialism is the most dangerous enemy to civilization and that
socialist agitation “threatens to ruin not only the existing order but
also every attempt to improve it and to insure social progress and
general prosperity.” The author claims to be a close student of Marx
whose economic and social theories he attempts to explain and to
refute. Professor Thomas Nixon Carver of Harvard university writes an
introduction, and the contents are: Modern socialism—its theories and
aims; Criticism of the Marx theory; The great socialistic experiment
in Russia; Socialist explanations of the failure in Russia;
Socialistic agitation in Europe and America; Social revolution or
social reconstruction.
* * * * *
“Mr Brasol’s book gives a just though not a neutral estimate of the
character and aims of modern socialism.” J. E. LeRossignol
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:624 S ’20 800w
“Brasol’s treatise is a valuable criticism of radical socialism, it
fails to meet in a convincing way, the issue as raised by Laidler,
Spargo, Vandervelde, Rauschenbusch and others, although the
constructive proposals given in the last chapter might to some extent
at least mitigate the admitted evils of the present system.” L. M.
Bristol
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:520 Ag ’20 200w
=Booklist= 16:260 My ’20
“He makes out his case by infinite omissions, by a near-sightedness
that throws the whole subject out of proportion, and by a plentiful
use of epithets like ‘soap-box agitator’ and ‘parlour Bolshevist’; and
his constructive suggestions are of an incredible banality.”
− =Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 240w
− =Nation= 110:860 Je 26 ’20 340w
“The chief moral to be drawn from the volume is that he wastes his
time who tries to interpret present-day social movements without being
at least sympathetic with the spirit of social unrest and demand for
change.” H: P. Fairchild
− =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 850w
“His book is full of ammunition for those who feel a call to oppose
propaganda to propaganda, and of reassurance to those who consider the
facts disquieting.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 N 21 ’20 920w
=Outlook= 125:124 My 19 ’20 650w
“In offering opinion on his book a sharp distinction should be drawn
between the first four chapters and the last two; the book would be
twice as good with the last two eliminated.”
+ − =Review= 2:491 My 8 ’20 380w
“While it cannot be recommended to the opponent of socialism as an
altogether reliable armory of arguments, the book, nevertheless, often
hits the nail and should prove stimulating and useful to the convinced
Socialist and the impartial student.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 200w
=BREARLEY, HARRY CHASE.= Time telling through the ages. il *$3 Doubleday
529
20–1749
“When the Ingersolls of watchmaking fame desired to celebrate the
quarter-century of their experience in that industry, a book relating
the evolution of time-keeping devices was adopted as a fitting
memorial and as an anniversary contribution to horological art and
science. The anniversary occurred in war time and the book had to wait
until the establishment of peace. It is a handsomely illustrated
volume, ‘Time telling through the ages,’ and bears the name of Henry
C. Brearley as author, although credit is given Miss Katherine
Morrissey Dodge for the research work necessary. The book relates the
development then of watchmaking in England, France, Switzerland and
America, past the days of the guilds and of handmade watches to the
era of machine made standard parts at a price within the reach of
everybody. Among the illustrations are many photographs of rare and
curious old watches in the museums of the world. There is also
included as an appendix forty-two pages of encyclopedic dictionary,
defining and often illustrating all the terms pertaining to
watchmaking and all the names of people identified through the ages
with the progress and perfecting of the art.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= p23 Je 27 ’20 720w
“Most ingenious compilation. The illustrations are numerous and
interesting.”
+ =Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 200w
=St Louis= 18:243 O ’20 50w
“The story is interesting and valuable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 550w
=BREASTED, JAMES HENRY, and ROBINSON, JAMES HARVEY.= History of Europe,
ancient and medieval. il $1.92 Ginn 940
20–5789
A work based on the authors’ “Outlines of European history.” “Chapters
1–20 have been completely rewritten, simplified, and condensed; and
more space has been given to Roman history and less to that of the
ancient Orient.... As for the rest of the work, much condensation has
been effected and the details of presentation have been reconsidered
from beginning to end.” (Preface) The bibliographies have also been
revised. Part 1 of the book, Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and
Rome, is by Professor Breasted. Part 2, Europe from the break-up of
the Roman empire to the French revolution, is by Professor Robinson.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:165 Ja ’21
“The writer sees no reason why the book should not meet with immediate
success, for it is without question one of the best in a somewhat
barren field.”
+ =School R= 28:475 Je ’20 250w
=BREBNER, PERCY JAMES (CHRISTIAN LYS, pseud.).= Ivory disc (Eng title,
Gate of temptation). *$1.75 (1½c) Duffield
20–10366
Dr Bruce Oliver had, until nearly his fortieth year, found women only
an interesting study, and had not regarded them sentimentally. But
when Estelle Bocara came into his life, his heart awakened. She felt
and responded to his love, but she was already married to an eastern
professor and mystic. As their acquaintance grew and their intimacy
developed, Dr Oliver found Estelle at times to be under the strange
mesmeric power of her husband, when she committed crimes of which she
had no knowledge. Thinking her mental condition due to physical injury
received in her childhood, Dr Oliver performed a successful operation
on her brain. In an effort to complete the cure, Oliver put himself in
Bocara’s power, with almost disastrous results. Fortunately for him,
another victim of Bocara’s cruelty freed them both, and the obstacle
to marriage with Estelle was removed. The ivory disk of the title is
the amulet, the gift of Estelle which Oliver believes saved him from
death.
* * * * *
“To become an adept in the craft of storytelling sometimes means
advancement in literary style; had it been so in Mr Brebner’s case he
would not have opened one of his chapter-sections with such a passage
as ‘The crisp air of the morning had not yet let go of the world.’”
+ − =Ath= p750 Je 4 ’20 160w
“‘The ivory disc’ will furnish the reader with a harmless kind of
diversion and will make no extortionate demands either upon his
attention or upon his intellect.”
+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 360w
“The book can be recommended to lovers of sensation and cheap
sentimental versions of occultism.”
− =Sat R= 130:164 Ag 21 ’20 90w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 170w
“A distressing story. Apparently the author wants to make our flesh
creep. But, somehow, he does not.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 110w
=BRERETON, FREDERICK SADLIER.= Great war and the R. A. M. C. *$6 Dutton
940.475
(Eng ed 20–285)
“‘The great war and the R. A. M. C. takes up the work of the Royal
army medical corps on the western front during the first months of the
war and relates with full detail the whole story of its efforts,
failures and achievements, with especial reference to the service of
its field ambulances.” Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 120w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 50w
“His succinct accounts of the various actions and manœuvres are just
sufficient to support the main thread of the story without diverting
the interest from it.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p4 Ja 1 ’20 1400w
=BRIDGE, SIR FREDERICK.= Westminster pilgrim. il *$8 Gray, H. W.
19–14604
“This bulky but entertaining book recounts a great deal more than
the story of a pilgrimage to Westminster. It might excusably claim
to be the history of the Abbey itself during the last
half-century—coronations, funerals, choral functions, musical
services, etc., having all the prominence that the organist would
naturally consider their due. First and foremost, it is an
autobiography of the chatty gossipy order; the life-story of a
singularly busy musician who rose from the ranks, who came into
contact with many of the leading men of his time, and who by his own
showing never lost an opportunity for profiting by his talents or
his peculiar fund of ready wit and jocularity. But in addition to
this it deals now and again with serious musical topics, more
particularly, of course, those which have come within the orbit of
the author’s own wide professional experience.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“On the whole, however, the book suffers from those very excellences
which make Sir Frederick so eminently suited to his office.”
+ − =Ath= p396 My 30 ’19 600w
=Brooklyn= 12:67 Ja ’20 40w
“The Illustrations are of exceptional interest, and the whole book is
excellently got up.”
+ =Sat R= 127:508 My 24 ’19 1200w
“The emeritus-organist of Westminster has led a full and successful
life, and the record of his professional activities makes excellent
reading, for Sir Frederick Bridge is an admirable raconteur.”
+ =Spec= 122:665 My 24 ’19 1350w
“He records meetings with a few great men outside his
profession—Dickens, Tennyson, Browning; but it seems that the organist
of the Abbey is most likely to meet great men at their funerals. His
friends who were not great in the worldly sense are much more
entertaining.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 My 1 ’19 1100w
=BRIDGE, NORMAN.= Marching years. il *$2.50 (3c) Duffield
20–18955
The above title is given to the autobiography of a noted physician of
New England origin, the eighth generation in direct descent of Deacon
John Bridge, to whom a bronze statue has been erected near Harvard
university. Dr Bridge was graduated from the Chicago Medical college,
served on the teaching staff of Rush Medical college for two decades
and is the author of many publications on medical subjects, a list of
which is appended to the text.
=BRIDGES, ROBERT.= October. *$1.50 Knopf 821
“‘October, and other poems’ does not bring anything particularly new
to bear on Mr Bridges’s poetry. Its principal value is to show the
poet laureate’s reactions to the war.” (N Y Times) “The best that we
get is a quiet sound to arms in ‘Wake up, England,’ a tribute to
victory in ‘Der tag: Nelson and Beatty,’ a ghostly dialogue between
the victorious admirals of the past and present, some stanzas on
‘Britannia victrix,’ in the orthodox tradition of rehearsing the
spirit of England’s greatness, some tributes to personal friends who
were lost in the war, laurel-verse for the great soldier Lord
Kitchener, sonnets to America in joining the fight for liberty, praise
for the dominions for throwing in their lot with the mother of the
brood, and other such occasional verses.” (Boston Transcript)
* * * * *
“The disappointment, if we may call it disappointment, of this small
book is that so much of its room is taken up by poems of a more or
less official inspiration. Nothing he writes, be the occasion never so
official or the inspiration tenuous, is marred by a touch of shoddy;
the dignity of poetry is safe in his hands. This dignity has no
pomposity. It is only a name for the austerity and candour that mark
the true artist.”
+ − =Ath= p472 Ap 9 ’20 640w
Reviewed by S: Roth
+ =Bookm= 52:361 D ’20 160w
Reviewed by W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 1150w
“The collection is hardly representative of Mr Bridges’ best work, but
at its least, it is good verse.”
+ =Dial= 69:664 D ’20 80w
“Mr Bridges was created to do small things in poetry, and to do them
very well.”
+ =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“The one drawback to Mr Bridges’s poetry is a lack of fire. It all
seems conscious, coldly worked out to a well-defined formula. He
carves carefully and with meticulous skill the clever cameos which he
offers the public.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= p13 Ag 29 ’20 950w
“The name ‘October’ which the poet laureate has given to his new book
of poems is exceedingly appropriate. There is the perfection and
completion of autumn about them, the sense of something rounded and
finished, a matured and considered beauty.”
+ =Spec= 124:557 Ap 24 ’20 320w
=BRIDGES, VICTOR.= Cruise of the “Scandal,” and other stories. *$1.75
(2c) Putnam
A volume of short stories by an English writer who introduces them
with graceful apologies to “the countrymen of Edgar Allan Poe and O.
Henry.” Mr Bridges is author also of “The lady from Long Acre” and the
stories are written in the light-hearted manner of that novel. Among
the fifteen titles are: The cruise of the “Scandal”; The man with the
chin; Tony and his conscience; With the conquering turkey; A bit of
Old Chelsea; Full-back for England; The bronze-haired girl; His
reverence.
* * * * *
“A cluster of very delightful short stories.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 400w
“Here is an English author who is satirical, keenly observant and
above all humorous.”
+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 60w
“Most of the tales are amusing, the author’s style is light and
readable, and several of the stories reflect pleasantly the easy-going
existence of the well-to-do young English bachelor as it was before
the war.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 450w
“The short story which gives this book its title is charming and gay.
Some of the others are flippant or rummy.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 20w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 200w
=BRIGGS, THOMAS HENRY.= Junior high school. (Riverside textbooks in
education) *$2 Houghton 373
20–13790
A work by a professor of education, Teachers college, Columbia
university. “The purpose of the book is to present the facts, so far
as they can be ascertained, concerning the newly established junior
high schools, or intermediate schools, and at the same time to set
forth a constructive program for the reorganization if it is to be
educationally effective.” (Preface) The author states that he has
visited personally more than sixty junior high schools, that he has
supplemented the information thus obtained by a study of the
literature of the subject, by questionnaire returns, conferences and
correspondence. He has also acted as educational advisor of the Speyer
experimental junior high school in New York. Contents: The need of
reorganization of schools; The development of the junior high school;
Claims and objections; Organization; Special functions of the junior
high school; Curricula and courses of study; Methods of teaching;
Teachers and salaries; The administration of the schedule and of class
units; Social organization and control; Buildings and grounds; Costs;
Results; In conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p5 S 4 ’20 260w
“The book will serve a moderately useful purpose as a textbook for
classes of beginners who need to be taught some definition of the
movement, but will probably do little to influence practice in the
present or the future.”
+ − =El School J= 21:70 S ’20 600w
=BRIGHAM, ALBERT PERRY.= Cape Cod and the Old Colony. il *$3.50 (6c)
Putnam 974.4
20–14826
The book considers the Cape in its entirety: geologically,
geographically, and historically. We are told of its relation to the
glacial invasion, of its changing shoreline, due to the corroding and
depositing force of the waves, and “how the first colonists and those
who followed them have adjusted themselves to the mobile conditions of
nature and of man.” (Preface) Contents: The Pilgrims around the bay;
The origin of the Cape; The changing shoreline; Old Colony names and
towns; On the land; The harvest of the waters; Roads and waterways;
Three centuries of population; The environment of the sea;
illustrations, index and maps.
* * * * *
“Clear, informative, and without distinction of style. Good
photographs and charts.”
+ =Booklist= 17:26 O ’20
“It is sort of glorified geography, with a good deal that is both
interesting and instructive.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 50w
“One thing at least is certain—he has presented science in a garb that
does not repel the layman, and that in itself is always in the nature
of an achievement.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 260w
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
+ =Review= 3:539 D 1 ’20 120w
=BRIGHOUSE, HAROLD.= Marbeck inn. *$1.75 (2c) Little
20–3713
Sam Branstone’s cradle had stood in a laborer’s cottage. Through a
deed of heroism in his boyhood he secured a grammar school education
and his face was set towards success. A loveless marriage to an
extravagant woman emphasizes the necessity for money. The means he
employs for getting it are not of the highest. To business he adds
politics and the ambition for power. Then in the capacity of his
secretary, comes Effie, the woman of beauty and charm and a talent for
self-sacrifice. She loves Sam and resolves to sacrifice herself for
him by putting the beauty, that has never found a place there, into
his life. During a week at Marbeck inn together, she changes his
outlook and as he sinks in the social scale he rises spiritually.
* * * * *
=Ath= p573 Ap 30 ’20 850w
“A book full of clever detail but somehow without any final
whereabouts. For myself, I am unable to like or believe much in either
Sam or his Effie, and can’t feel that I ought to have been bothered
with them, despite the craftsmanship of their sponsor.” H. W. Boynton
− + =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 150w
“‘The Marbeck inn’ is, as far as we know, Mr Brighouse’s first novel.
In it may be found certain of the characteristics discoverable in all
his plays, a shrewd knowledge of and a censorious attitude towards the
life and the people of his own section of England, and a contempt for
the ruling powers of both city and nation. The basis of Mr Brighouse’s
art, both as dramatist and novelist, is character.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ’20 1550w
“The unregenerate Sam and his world have a magnificent solidity and
lifelikeness. His formidable and admirable mother, his moral slattern
of a wife, the Rev. Peter Struggles, George Chapple, and even Mr
Alderman Verity—these people are authentic, vivid, and memorable.”
+ − =Nation= 110:393 Mr 20 ’20 380w
“As a study of certain phases of life in and about Manchester, this
English author’s new book is to be commended for its faithfulness.
That the story is decidedly sordid in tone may be the consequence of
its environment. Certainly there are few pleasant people among its
characters.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 340w
“The action of the story is rapid and free. It has a dash that savors
somehow of the movies, and the characters are perhaps equally
moviesque—bold in outline without much delicacy of shading. One feels
that one has to take the author’s word for their third dimension—all
except Anne, the watchful mother, and Peter Struggles, loved pastor of
St Mary’s.” Marguerite Fellows
+ =Pub W= 97:602 F 21 ’20 260w
“One agrees with the author that Sam is worth staying with until the
moment arrives when he is to discover that he has a soul. On the other
hand, exception will be taken to Mr Brighouse’s method of showing Sam
his soul.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 100w
=BRIGHOUSE, HAROLD.= Three Lancashire plays. $2.50 French, S. 822
20–13324
“The first of the three plays, ‘The game,’ proposes to be about
football. The true subject of the play is parents and children. The
daughter of the ‘gentleman’ rebels against her father and wants to
marry the footballer; the footballer clings to his stern old mother
and will not marry the girl unless he may keep his mother. And
naturally the girl realizes that that would never ‘work’ and gives up
her lover. ‘The northerners’ is a play about the introduction of
machine-looms and the new tyranny of the masters of labour in the
Lancashire of 1820. ‘Zack’ is a character comedy.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The first two plays in the volume are hardly adaptable to use in
America, but ‘Zack’ will be a valuable addition to the repertory of
amateur groups.”
+ =Drama= 10:355 Jl ’20 170w
“His plots are neither simple and exact, nor, on the other hand,
marvels of good carpentry. They are either too weak or too strong,
invertebrate or too dependent on situation. But ... we have here three
plays in which Brighouse’s keen sense of good stage-humour, and his
knack for observing character are applied to a people and a life that
he could know honestly at first hand.” K. M.
+ − =Freeman= 1:525 Ag 11 ’20 650w
“Mr Brighouse’s touch and temper are equally uncertain. In ‘The
northerners’ his action is ingenious in the bad and artificial sense,
and flares into the noisiest melodrama in the last act. ‘The game’ is
a far sounder and less pretentious play than ‘The northerners’; ‘Zack’
is negligible.” Ludwig Lewisohn
− + =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 200w
“‘The game’ is, perhaps, a trifle too local, with an appeal to a more
specialized audience whose chief interest lies in the fair play of
organized sport. It is a relief to discover in the last play, ‘Zack,’
amusement for its own sake.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 580w
“As for ‘Zack,’ it cries out for acting. But the dialogue and the
situations go for little in print.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p121 F 19 ’20 900w
“All show a sense of the theatre, good situations, lively talk (and,
one might exclaim, ‘What more could you ask, in Heaven’s name?’), but
for all this they are at best but commonplace.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:350 O ’20 140w
=BRINKLEY, FRANK, and KIKUCHI, DAIROKU.= History of the Japanese people.
il *$4.50 Doran 952
This history dates from the earliest times to the end of the Meiji era
and has been compiled with the collaboration of Baron Kikuchi who also
contributes the foreword. He claims that among the many books on Japan
there has not yet been a history of Japan so essential to the proper
understanding of Japanese problems. Besides that part of the contents
devoted especially to dynastic and political history there are
chapters on: The historiographer’s art in old Japan; Japanese
mythology; Rationalization; Origin of the Japanese nation; Language
and physical characteristics; Manners and customs in remote antiquity;
The capital and the provinces; Recovery of administrative authority by
the throne; Manners and customs of the Heian epoch; Art, religion,
literature, customs, and commerce in the Kamakura period; Foreign
intercourse, literature, art, religion, manners, and customs in the
Muromachi epoch; Christianity in Japan; Revival of the Shintō cult;
Wars with China and Russia. The appendix contains: The constitution of
Japan; The Anglo-Japanese agreement, 1905; and the Treaty of
Portsmouth, 1905. There is a list of Japanese works consulted; an
index; 150 illustrations engraved on wood by Japanese artists;
half-tone plates and maps.
* * * * *
+ =Bookm= 51:633 Ag ’20 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ’20 460w
=BRINTON, REGINALD SEYMOUR.= Carpets. $1 Pitman 677
20–14784
This volume of Pitman’s Common commodities and industries series
comprises the following chapters: History; Materials; Dyeing;
Hand-made carpets; Brussels; Wilton; Axminster; Chenille; Tapestry;
Ingrain; Design and colour; Statistics; Employers and employed;
Conclusion. There are thirty illustrations and an index.
=BROOKE, STOPFORD AUGUSTUS.= Naturalism in English poetry. *$3 Dutton
821.09
20–20661
“These studies deal with that reaction from artificial and
conventional poetry of the eighteenth century which began with
Thomson, grew through a transition period of some fifty years
(1730–1780) into the ‘naturalistic’ poetry of Burns and Cowper,
reached its height with Wordsworth, and died with Shelly, Keats, and
Byron. They are based on the Ms. of a course of lectures delivered by
the late Stopford Brooke at University college, London, in 1902. The
later chapters of the book are also printed from Mss., except two,
which appeared after the author’s death in the Hibbert Journal.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“There was, perhaps, no great originality in Stopford Brooke’s
criticism; and in reading his particular book one sighs occasionally
for a page or two of precise discussion of the keyword in the title.
On the other hand it has the redeeming salt of a genuine humanity, an
enthusiasm which, if it attaches sometimes to what seems to us only
diluted poetry, is in the main convincing—a book, in short, which can
be read with pleasure rather than exhilaration, and which, considered
as lectures delivered to a university audience, is admirable.”
+ − =Ath= p792 Je 18 ’20 600w
“Mr Brooke’s book is one that should be widely read, for it gives new
life to these men [Wordsworth, Shelley and Byron].” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 16 ’21 400w
“While Stopford Brooke has written good criticism, he has not written
great criticism; for a criticism which, while dealing with human
values, does not really seek for the larger reconciling ideas, and
which always in a pinch leans toward a theological standard cannot be
called great.”
+ − =No Am= 213:284 F ’21 1300w
“Though the present work penetrates deeply into the spirit that
animated the naturalistic poets, it is marred by the use of many
outworn phrases, examples of tautology, and an irritating loquacity
that might be forgiven in a lecturer, but cannot be condoned in the
printed page.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:141 Ag 14 ’20 550w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 27 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 70w
=BROOKS, ALFRED MANSFIELD.= From Holbein to Whistler; notes on drawing
and engraving. il *$7.50 Yale univ. press 767
20–15784
“Starting with the ‘Beginnings of line engraving in Italy,’ Mr Brooks
comments on the line engraving and wood in the North, talks upon the
work of such men as Mantegna, Marcantonio, Raimondi, Lucas of Leyden,
Durer and Holbein; gives an account of the theory and progress of
etching through Rembrandt, Van Dyck to Claude Lorraine; mezzotint
engraving as exemplified by Claude Lorraine and Richard Earlom, and
concludes on the famous collection of engravings and designs by Turner
known as ‘The liber studiorum.’ The volume is illustrated in both line
and shadow, with reproductions of the famous drawings of the artists
dealt with.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Ease and dignity mark the style.”
+ =Booklist= 17:59 N ’20
=Boston Transcript= p5 S 4 ’20 470w
“If the reader may occasionally prefer a different path from the one
taken by Mr Brooks, that is in measure a matter of personal
predilection. The same may be said of the choice of prints for
discussion. However, in the end the book stimulates, and exhibits good
common sense.”
+ =Review= 3:625 D 22 ’20 450w
“On the whole, it is an interesting and instructive book, a little
verbose, but full of shrewd observations and sound though unoriginal
generalities. It is neither sufficiently concise nor sufficiently
ample for very general use; however, the patient reader will be amply
repaid for the reading.” R: Bassett
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 580w
=BROOKS, CHARLES STEPHEN.= Luca Sarto. il *$1.75 (2c) Century
20–3883
Fourteen hundred and seventy-one is the time of this story of
adventure and romance, as told by the hero, Luca Sarto, in the first
person. Here is his own outline of the events: “We shall see, when all
is done, how a man fled wisely from his enemies, the Orsini; how he
came to France; how later, in good time, he wooed and kissed a lady;
how, after a night that was candled by stars and danger, the morning
sun was witness to their betrothal. I end with priest and blessing. No
need of candle then.”
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
“Remarkable for the fidelity with which the author preserves the
atmosphere of the middle ages.”
+ =Bookm= 52:369 D ’20 60w
“From the confinement and necessary limitations of the essay-form, Mr
Brooks has emerged with much credit, to give us a glorious adventure
bubbling with spirits, and plausible withal.” R. D. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= Mr 13 ’20 800w
“Full of intrigue and action, and related in a quaint phraseology full
of color and metaphor.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 110w
“It has the sparkle of brightly burnished armour and a
pulse-quickening pace. The manner of the telling is not without a
touch of swagger, spiced with the salt flavour of the modern
point-of-view, humorous and whimsical.”
+ =Dial= 68:664 My ’20 80w
“The book, a first novel, is an entertaining historical romance
cleverly written and contains plenty of intrigue and adventure
combined with a pretty love story.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 320w
“His adventures in France are told with dash, and the style smacks
truly of the manner of the fifteenth century.”
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“A spirited and amusing if not inspired narrative of
adventure-cum-politics.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =Review= 2:463 My 1 ’20 640w
“The story is well written, in a fresh and stimulating romantic
spirit, and should appeal to those with a weakness for historical
novels that do not contain too much history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 450w
=BROOKS, JOHN GRAHAM.= Labor’s challenge to the social order; democracy
its own critic and educator. *$2.75 (2c) Macmillan 331
20–8263
“The problem here submitted is a study of power rapidly and in part
accidentally acquired by labor. More especially it is a study of what
labor is to do with its new mastership, what fitness it possesses for
the work it would take in hand and how, meantime, other classes are to
play their part.” (Chapter 1) The author holds that the war has
precipitated this new power of labor, which in normal times would have
developed more slowly and carried with it its own discipline, and that
now its education will be more costly both for itself and the public.
He also holds that for capital the day of “the lone hand” has closed
and that the lesson for both capital and labor to learn is to unite
their forces in cooperative effort. A partial list of the contents is:
“A new society”; World lessons; The struggle at its worst; The Inner
revolution; Lessons from the communists; Socialism; Government
ownership; Industrial democracy at its best; The employers’ case
against the union; The new “profit-sharing”; Syndicalism; The new
guild; Index.
* * * * *
“It is a stimulating and penetrating appreciation of the latest
developments in the labor field on the background of Mr Brooks’s forty
years’ study of the upward movement of wage-earners throughout the
world. Like his other books, it is a human document rather than a
dogmatic treatise.” H: R. Seager
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“The volume is fully up to the author’s standard of writing, which
means that it is accurate, good-tempered and interesting.”