although done by a master hand, it is a rather slight contribution to
the great post-war discussion. But the more he thinks about it the
more the reader begins to perceive that ‘The island of sheep’ is a
microcosm of the present mental and physical state of the world,
certainly of the English-speaking world.”
+ =Outlook= 125:28 My 5 ’20 900w
“The reader will thank us for letting him discover for himself the
rare charm of this book. Passion is excluded, though there is plenty
of idealism, and an abundance of hard, shrewd wit. National
characteristics are exceedingly well portrayed. There is here a
fineness akin to a forgotten art.”
+ =Review= 2:487 My 8 ’20 1250w
“Most of our readers, faced with this list [of characters] in the
abstract, will be inclined to turn from the book with a ‘Lord ‘a
mercy!’ or ‘Heaven save us!’ If they do they will be quite wrong, for,
in spite of the soundness of the argument, the book is a light one,
and full of very pleasant relief, which we must not call comic, but
which has the same effect as the old stage artifice.”
+ =Spec= 123:616 N 8 ’19 2200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 29 ’20 280w
=CAINE, WILLIAM.= Strangeness of Noel Carton. *$2 (3c) Putnam
20–11497
This is not exactly a story within a story but rather two stories so
interwoven and fused that in the end they are not distinguishable
apart. They are both written in the first person by Noel Carton and
one is his journal and the other the novel he writes because his wife
has said he couldn’t do it. This wife he hates for her crudity and
smallness, altho he has sold himself to her for the home and comforts
she gives him. In his novel he unconsciously portrays himself and his
wife Josephine as his main characters, Nigel and Jocelyn. As he
becomes absorbed in his plot, and as he takes more and more powerful
drugs in his fight against insomnia, it is increasingly difficult for
him to distinguish between the real of his life and the unreal of his
fancy. The climax comes when his hallucinations give way to madness,
and the tragedy of his novel is carried out in real life.
* * * * *
“The fastidious reader will be inclined to put this volume aside after
the first few pages, but if he can persevere he may very quickly
realize that the vulgarity of the author’s manner is deliberate, and
very effective and moving. It is paying a great compliment to Mr Caine
to say that no one who does not read this remarkably plausible tale
from cover to cover could believe it.”
+ =Ath= p846 Je 25 ’20 180w
“In a unique combination of diary and straight novelistic
construction, Mr Caine has done something for the novel which one
Reizenstein once did for the stage in ‘On trial’—he has found a new
form.”
+ =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 220w
=Lit D= p92 O 9 ’20 2800w
“The book is original and exceedingly well done.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 200w
“From the moment you meet Noel Carton, his wife, and his situation you
are deeply interested in all three. You don’t like him nor yet his
wife, but he is a vivid, actual creature, and he makes every one,
perhaps we might better say everything, he touches, vivid and
compelling.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 5 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 100w
“Not every reader is likely to enjoy this grim mixture of realism and
fantasy, but it is impossible to deny the power with which it is
written.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p353 Je 3 ’20 180w
=CALDWELL, WALLACE EVERETT.= Hellenic conceptions of peace. pa *$1.25
Longmans 172.4
19–18236
“An historical study of the subject, beginning with the epic age and
coming down to the fourth century B.C. Issued as one of the Columbia
university studies in history, economics and public law.” (Brooklyn)
“What Mr Caldwell has done is to restate what the Greek poets,
historians, orators, and political leaders have said and written about
the desirability of peace. For that was their theme, that peace was
desirable and war was destructive. He has also traced for us, in the
tumultuous course of Greek history, the attempts to preserve the peace
and the causes of their failure.” (Nation)
* * * * *
“This is an interesting study written by a man well grounded in Greek
history. Our main criticism is that Dr Caldwell has not kept his aim
steadily enough in view. In fact, it is hard to avoid the conclusion
that there has been a certain shifting of aim as the work proceeds.
The concluding chapter is the most valuable part of the book.” W. S.
Ferguson
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:313 Ja ’20 450w
=Brooklyn= 12:60 Ja ’20 30w
“There is much in Dr Caldwell’s record that has special pertinency to
these times.”
+ =Nation= 109:804 D 20 ’19 250w
“Certain problems appear very modern especially the conflict of Athens
and Sparta regarding the implications of ‘freedom,’ and the inability
of Greece to form a permanent league of free states, in spite of
religious and commercial incentives to unity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 5 ’19 180w
=CALKINS, RAYMOND, and PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.= Substitutes for the
saloon. *$1.75 Houghton 178
20–1362
“To the study which he made for the famous Committee of fifty twenty
years ago and which has been the standard volume on the subject during
that entire period, Dr Calkins now adds a new introduction and a
series of appendices supplementing carefully chosen points in a way to
bring the whole discussion of the saloon substitute up to date and to
make of the volume a handbook for those who wish to engage in this
form of social service and to learn something of the body of
experience which has been built up for a half century. The book is
particularly illuminating in setting up the workingmen’s club or
whatever one cares to call it, against the perspective of
neighborhood, class, race, religion, politics, age, habits and other
factors which condition its success or involve its failure. In the
long run, it seems clear, the ‘substitute’ must be almost purely
democratic or else commercial in management, and it must be of
spontaneous growth or at any rate seem to be.”—Survey
* * * * *
“Interesting to leaders of men and boys of the working class.”
+ =Booklist= 16:273 My ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ap 10 ’20 300w
=Survey= 43:471 Ja 24 ’20 650w
=CALLWELL, SIR CHARLES EDWARD.= Dardanelles. *$5 (3½c) Houghton 940.42
20–4693
The book belongs to the Campaigns and their lessons series. The author
considers the contest in the Dardanelles as a campaign by itself which
was affected by events elsewhere only in so far as these diverted much
needed military and naval resources. The work is designed to be a
study of certain phases of the campaign rather than a formal record of
its course, many of the problems discussed admitting of considerable
diversity of opinion. Thus the naval attempt to force the Straits
without military aid, the famous landing on the shores of the
Gallipoli peninsula on the 25th of April, and the successful
evacuation of the sea-girt patch of Turkish territory are discussed at
length, but some of the principal combats are dismissed briefly
because their story suggests no special lessons.
* * * * *
“The book needs an index.”
+ − =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 90w
+ =Booklist= 16:287 My ’20
“It cannot fail to be of the utmost value, as a document of the war,
which will increase in value as the years pass.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 18 ’20 750w
“The story is told with the accuracy and straightforward impartiality
that might be expected. After the accounts of each main event, whether
success or failure, General Callwell adds a passage of ‘Comment,’
criticizing that action and pointing out where the causes of success
or failure lay. To all military students and to all who, like myself,
are intimately acquainted with the campaign, these comments will
naturally be the most valuable and interesting parts of the volume.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:648 F 7 ’20 1100w
=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 100w
“General Callwell’s valuable study of the Dardanelles campaign, from a
military standpoint, appears opportunely as the complement of the
Dardanelles commission’s report on the conduct of the operations.”
+ =Spec= 123:729 N 29 ’19 1400w
“This is an excellent addition to the ‘Campaigns and their lessons’
series. The one criticism that we have to make of it is the inadequacy
of the maps. There are certain phases of the campaign, notably the
attacks at Anzac and Suvla in August, 1915, which it is impossible to
follow clearly without large and clear maps.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p724 D 11 ’19 850w
=CALLWELL, SIR CHARLES EDWARD.= Life of Sir Stanley Maude,
lieutenant-general. il *$6 Houghton
(Eng ed 20–14053)
“This official biography of the conqueror of Bagdad, who died during
the fourth year of the war, was written by the British Director of
military operations at the War office. General Maude was one of the
small group of commanders brought to the front by the war who appealed
to the popular imagination. Fortunately, his biographer is one of the
leading military writers of our time. The book is inspiring, not
merely as the life of a great soldier, but as a contribution to our
knowledge of British military operations in Mesopotamia.” R of Rs
* * * * *
“As clear and sympathetic an account as any friend of General Maude’s
could desire.” O. W.
+ =Ath= p239 Ag 20 ’20 680w
=Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 1350w
+ =R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 90w
“There is not too much Maude in the book, nor is there too much
collateral history, just a happy combination of the two, an
achievement which is by no means common in memoirs!”
+ =Sat R= 130:279 O 2 ’20 1000w
“Sir Charles Callwell is particularly to be congratulated on the
justice and candour with which he has written this book. Eulogy at
points where eulogy is undeserved is an offence in biography. It is
misleading; it deprives the reader of the opportunities of learning
the lessons which he might have learned from the truth; and in the
last analysis it is unfair to the subject of the biography himself.
Sir Charles Callwell, while making clear his intense admiration of
Maude, succeeds in giving point to that admiration by admitting that
Maude was not without his intellectual faults as a soldier.”
+ =Spec= 125:209 Ag 14 ’20 1550w
“In spite of the attraction of his subject the biography is to be read
once and no more. One hesitates to think that General Callwell has
missed the secret of Maude’s greatness. One searches the book in vain
for a generalization, a fruitful idea.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p485 Jl 29 ’20 1200w
=CAMERON, CHARLOTTE.=[2] Cheechako in Alaska and Yukon. il $6 Stokes
917.98
Cheechako is Eskimo for tenderfoot, but this particular tenderfoot
turns out to be a hardened traveler. After many other lands the far
North beckoned this adventurous Englishwoman and she set out from
Seattle in June to travel 2,200 miles on the Yukon to Alaska and back
all in a summer season. She sings the praises of the wondrous riches
of the country—for which she bespeaks a prosperous future—and of the
hospitality of its people. Nome, which had lured her from childhood,
was the real objective of the trip and of it the author gives a
detailed account. The book is well illustrated.
* * * * *
=Ath= p581 O 29 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 40w
“Very wisely she is content to write as a sightseer, not as a pioneer;
and the result of this renunciation is that we get from her something
fresh.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p663 O 14 ’20 1000w
=CAMP, CHARLES WADSWORTH.= Gray mask. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–2640
An episodic narrative dealing with the solution of various mysteries
and taking its name from the first adventure. Garth, a member of the
detective force, is asked by his chief to assume the disguise of the
Gray Mask, a criminal chemist who goes with face covered to hide the
effects of an explosion. The disguise takes him into the heart of a
criminal gang, among whom to his horror he finds Nora, his chief’s
daughter. But her presence there is satisfactorily explained and the
law breakers are brought to justice. The second episode concerns a
murder mystery, and there are others, ending with Garth’s engagement
to Nora.
* * * * *
“The stories hardly measure up to the author’s previous work.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 200w
=CAMP, WALTER CHAUNCEY.= Football without a coach. il *$1.25 Appleton
797
20–13870
The object of the book is to supply a perfect pen-and-ink coach for a
football team, telling it how to progress from week to week, warning
it of the dangers that will crop up and telling it how to surmount
each difficulty that arises. It is intended as a text-book for the
grammar school boy, the high school student, and the young man from
the shop or office. Contents: Building the foundation; Sizing up the
candidates; The first scrimmage; Practice without a scrub; The line
and the forward pass; The line; The backfield; Building plays; The
strategy of football; Things that make or break a team.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:102 D ’20
“The book comes as near to taking the place of an expert coach as
printed words can.”
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 50w
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 40w
+ =R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 200w
=CAMP, WALTER CHAUNCEY.= Handbook on health and how to keep it. *$1.25
(3c) Appleton 613
20–5624
In formulating a “simple, reasonable and practical system of
preserving physical fitness” for all ages, the author has had in mind
the “simplest, shortest, least exhausting and most exhilarating form
of calisthenics” that can be devised. He has concentrated his setup
exercises with four groups of three each thus: Hands, Hips, Head;
Grind, Grate, Grasp; Crawl, Curl, Crouch; Wave, Weave, Wing. Portions
of the book are devoted to practical suggestions as to the value of
certain sports at proper periods of life and to cautions as to the
general health and the follies of some habits. Contents: Problems of
youth and age; Daily dozen set-up; Reviewing follies; Children,
schoolboy and collegian; Industrial worker.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
=R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 My 21 ’20 300w
“Mr Camp’s latest book should be useful to the instructor of
gymnastics and the Boy scout leader. The author’s insistence upon
athletics will readily be forgiven on the ground of a specialist’s
natural enthusiasm; but the space given to it and other general
considerations in the book hardly make it a very practical ‘handbook’
for the individual in need of advice and stimulus.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 160w
=CAMPBELL, HENRY COLIN.= How to use cement for concrete construction for
town and farm. il $2 Stanton & Van Vliet 693.5
20–6499
This comprehensive book covers such subjects as Farming with concrete;
What concrete is, how to make and use it; Making forms for concrete
construction; Reinforcement; Concrete foundations and concrete walls;
Tanks, troughs, cisterns, and similar containers for liquids; Concrete
floors, walks and similar concrete pavements; A concrete garage on the
farm; Poultry houses of concrete; Concrete silos, etc. The author
writes from the point of view of both engineer and farmer. There is an
alphabetical table of contents, and the book is very fully
illustrated.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:97 D ’20
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:35 O 13 ’20 90w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p28 Ap ’20 70w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 18 ’20 210w
=CANBY, HENRY SEIDEL.= Everyday Americans. *$1.75 (5½c) Century 917.3
20–16765
The book is a “study of the typical, the everyday American mind, as it
is manifested in the American of the old stock. It is a study of what
that typical American product, the college and high school graduate,
has become in the generation which must carry on after the war.”
(Preface) This typical American the author finds to be “the
conservative-liberal” in whom the inherited liberal instincts have
become petrified and who suffers with a sort of a hardening of the
arteries of the mind. There is also a radicalism of a sort but it is a
very different thing from European revolutionary radicalism. The soul
of America now in which abides the future, is the bourgeoisie and he
advises all who wish to speculate in postbellum America to study the
younger leaders of the labor parties on the one hand and the college
undergraduates on the other. They are the future. Contents: The
American mind; Conservative America; Radical America; American
idealism; Religion in America; Literature in America; The bourgeois
American.
* * * * *
“Written in a clear, rather colorless style.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:110 D ’20
“If Mr Canby’s book had been written long ago it would have remedied
in large degree the appalling ignorance existing abroad concerning
American mind and thought.”
+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 180w
“A timely, undogmatic contribution to an exceedingly lively issue.”
+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 70w
“As far as it goes, Mr Canby’s book is very good and very interesting.
On the whole, his analysis appears to be sound; and his candour is
admirable.” R: Roberts
+ =Freeman= 2:308 D 8 ’20 1150w
=Nation= 111:512 N 3 ’20 280w
“Thoughtful and lucid appraisement of American values. Though the
style is simple, it is closely packed; the substance is weighty, and
no one will get it all in the first reading.”
+ − =Review= 4:17 Ja 5 ’21 580w
“It may be argued that there is no special brillance or insight in
these pages, but if one really wishes to convince the average
thoughtful American, it is well to be neither too philosophical nor
too paradoxical. Mr Canby at least shows us that he has an active
mind, capable of searching the underlying issues of the time in which
he lives.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 650w
“This study of the American mind is altogether delightful because of
its directness, sincerity and penetration.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:369 D 4 ’20 280w
=CANFIELD, CHAUNCEY L.=, ed. Diary of a forty-niner. *$3.50 Houghton
979.4
The book is based on the authentic diary of one Alfred T. Jackson, a
pioneer miner who cabined and worked on Rock Creek, Nevada County,
California, from 1850 to 1852. It is a “truthful, unadorned, veracious
chronicle of the placer mining days of the foothills, a narrative of
events as they occurred; told in simple and, at times, ungrammatical
sentences, yet vivid and truth compelling in the absence of conscious
literary endeavor.... It sets forth graphically the successive steps
in gold mining, from the pan and rocker to the ground sluice and
flume.... No less fascinating is the romance interwoven in the pages
of the diary.” (Preface) The editor states that he has verified many
of the incidents and happenings. An edition of the book was published
in San Francisco shortly before the earthquake and fire, during which
the plates and many of the copies were destroyed.
* * * * *
“This book is well printed in large type but the solid character of
the contents, in spite of the chapter headings, will repel some
readers.” H. S. K.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 11 ’20 600w
“One of the most fascinating features of this remarkable document is
the diarist’s self-revelation of his evolution from a Puritanical New
Englander, bound and shackled with the prejudices of generations, into
a broad-minded man whose mental growth is miraculously stimulated by
the freedom of his environment and associations.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ja 16 ’21 2850w
+ =R of Rs= 63:223 F ’21 100w
=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Release of the soul. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright 149.3
20–8452
“The surface of life has been broken by the war, says Mr Cannan; there
is no longer any structure in social existence: ‘For the artist there
is metaphysic or nothing.’ And in this highly metaphysical, mystical
essay he attempts to convey a programme for the immediate future of
society and especially for the artist. We are told that the book was
written during Mr Cannan’s recent visit in America, in a period of
intense creative inspiration. As a record of mystical experience, as
an endeavor to express the ineffable, it expects from the reader a
coöperation more sympathetic than that of the intelligence. Stripped
of its mysticism, the argument is a tolerably familiar one; it is a
fusion of certain beliefs almost universally held now by the younger
writers and artists, beliefs regarding the industrial régime,
bourgeois democracy, intellectualism, the instinct of workmanship, the
release of the creative impulses.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“Mr Cannan’s new book is, indeed, unusual. The words God, soul, life,
occur with extraordinary frequency but the variety of their
syntactical connections throws no light on their meanings. Since we
are neither provided with, nor enabled to deduce, definitions of Mr
Cannan’s chief terms, we find his book unintelligible.”
− + =Ath= p764 Je 11 ’20 500w
“The tone of the book is rhapsodical; its sentences are so desultory;
and even the illustrations drawn here and there from history, art and
literature are so loose, that it is difficult, if not impossible, to
decide at times what he exactly does mean.”
− =Cath World= 111:832 S ’20 230w
“There is little art in his exposition and less evidence of work. And
it takes more religion of a charitable nature than Mr Cannan preaches
to restrain one from saying that the author of this work has released
his soul so very successfully that it has disappeared.”
− =Dial= 69:433 O ’20 110w
“Flashes of fine thought are not incompatible with loose thinking. A
book may be very stimulating and suggestive in its details and yet as
a whole leave behind an impression of hopeless confusion. This is just
the kind of book Mr Cannan has produced.” Edwin Bjorkman
− + =Freeman= 2:19 S 15 ’20 1600w
“It is not unlikely that many, perhaps most, of the people who read Mr
Cannan’s new book will wonder what he is driving at. A little of this
bewilderment will be due to Mr Cannan himself; for when he passes over
from the dramatic to the discursive a certain elusiveness invades his
speech. The book is one of those which must be read two or three times
over before its whole significance becomes clear; but it is abundantly
worth that trouble.” R: Roberts
+ − =Nation= 111:301 S 11 ’20 1100w
“His book is a curious, largely incomprehensible and thoroughly dull
rhapsody upon God and nature, life, love and the soul.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 24:152 O 6 ’20 220w
“The charm of the book is to be found in some of the brief ecstatic
meditations in which from time to time the pages flower.” Van Wyck
Brooks
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 My 8 ’20 950w
“Mr Cannan has flung a light bridge from mysticism to internationalism
over which it is quite conceivable that an exposition so airy, chary,
and fleeting as his own may pass in safety. But the plain man, the
logician, and the investigator can not be urged to trust his weight to
the inadequacies of the trembling fabric.”
+ − =Review= 3:711 Jl 7 ’20 500w
“It is an embarrassing book to read. One feels like an intruder upon a
privacy, for really Mr Cannan appears to have suffered considerably.
Either so ‘private and confidential’ a book ought not to have been
written, or we should not be reading it.”
− =Sat R= 130:14 Jl 3 ’20 240w
“Obviously what Mr Cannan says is largely platonic doctrine, to many
incomprehensible; but spiritual emphasis at this time is so needed
that the book is justified in spite of its frequent cloudy and chaotic
passages.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 8 ’20 220w
“Mr Cannan, weary of criticism and all negative activities, has turned
to mysticism; and this book is the result. It is sincere, passionate
and interesting, but it lacks structure, and so is a little difficult
to read.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p417 Jl 1 ’20 1850w
=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Time and eternity; a tale of three exiles. *$1.90
(2½c) Doran
20–7059
London is the abode of these three exiles. One of them is an
Englishman, Stephen Lawrie, at odds with the world about him and with
the war, living in voluntary seclusion in the London slums, trying to
solve the riddle of the universe in silence and inactivity. The other,
Perekatov, is a Ukrainian Jew eking out a precarious existence in
London as a correspondent for a Russian paper. He obtrudes himself on
Stephen with whose face, seen at a public meeting, he had been
impressed. There is much spasmodic, intangible talk between them and
their intercourse ripens into friendship of a sort. Valerie du Toit,
the third exile, is a South African of French Huguenot extraction, who
has come to England athirst for the eternal verities. With elemental
force the spirits of Stephen and Valerie meet and melt into each
other. This kindles insane jealousy in Howard Ducie who acts the
Othello to Valerie’s Desdemona, smothers her in her sleep and has
himself run over by a train. Stephen accepts the tragedy as a
happening in time which can not interfere with the eternity of his
love.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1035 O 17 ’19 240w
“Mr Gilbert Cannan’s novels are important novels, but they are not
good novels. They are the illustrative material of his essays and they
do not illustrate them in any creative fashion. The theories shine
through too glaringly, as in ‘Time and eternity.’ Mr Cannan started
out with a naive creative impulse, but the events of the past six
years have aroused in him, as in many of us, so much impassioned
thinking about life that the material of creation itself slips from
his grasp.”
− =Nation= 110:658 My 15 ’20 400w
“Though the book frequently reveals creative strokes, though its
general plan is majestically conceived, yet it conveys the sense of
being a preliminary work. ‘Time and eternity’ suggests the need for a
future work which will see the thing through. The sculptor is still
groping.” J. C. L.
+ − =New Repub= 23:182 Jl 7 ’20 730w
“‘Time and eternity’ is the result of a serious lack in its author,
the lack of a sense of humor. The piece has untold burlesque
possibilities, and they have been wasted. ‘Time and eternity’ may be
ascribed only to a rapidly advancing senility.” Henrietta Malkiel
− =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 420w
“We have all long known the phrase ‘a welter of words,’ but to read
Gilbert Cannan’s new book ‘Time and eternity’ is to realize just
exactly what it implies. The reader’s strongest feeling after he has
at last toiled his weary way through this extremely dull book is a
desire for plenty of soap and water and good fresh air.”
− =N Y Times= 25:204 Ap 25 ’20 900w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:489 My 8 ’20 520w
“Mr Cannan writes too quickly and too often. He writes with a sort of
hungry rage, because he despises something, though he does not know
what, and desires something equally unknown to him. His work is as
restless and as inconclusive as a conversation between adolescents
teased with growing pains.”
− =Sat R= 128:419 N 1 ’19 1200w
“In ‘Time and eternity’ Mr Cannan presents a piece of tedious writing
and speculation about slinking individuals who are out of harmony with
the ages.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 400w
“Mr Cannan has not yet, in this method, passed the experimental stage.
Moreover, he has not enough to say about the souls of his three
exiles, to each of whom by name is allotted one-third of this short
book, to engage unflagging attention. They are queer if not tiresome,
but vaguer than people speaking uninspired lines from behind a
curtain. They do nothing very much; they appear to want nothing very
special; they certainly are nothing very intensely.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 O 2 ’19 650w
=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Windmills; a book of fables. *$1.60 (3c) Huebsch
20–17654
A volume of satires. The first two, Samways island and Ultimus, altho
written before 1914 have to do with a series of wars between Fatland
(England) and Fatterland (Germany) and, except in matters of
mechanical detail, they indicate remarkable foresight. Of the two that
follow, Gynecologia describes the women governed world that succeeded
the great wars, and Out of work is a social satire involving Jah, the
devil, and a certain Nicholas Bly, a labor agitator. The author writes
a preface to the American edition. The book was published in England
in 1915.
* * * * *
“Mr Cannan’s satire is not as keen and cutting when bare and exposed
in these sketches as it is in some of his other books where it half
hides behind a veil of romance. ‘Windmills’ is brilliant in places,
but not as a whole.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 31 ’20 310w
“What he says is inexpugnably true; it is only his prose which is
ineffective.”
+ − =Dial= 69:433 O ’20 70w
“When the time and circumstances of the book’s composition are
remembered one’s admiration for Mr Cannan’s clear and trenchant
perspicacity is of the highest. At that point, however, one’s
admiration ends. Here, as in all his recent books, there is, on the
side of art, a total lack of modulation, of warmth, of felicity.”
Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:160 Ag 7 ’20 650w
“It makes light of high things and low and at the same time heavy
reading for both. It sounds like Greenwich Village at its futilest.”
− =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 60w
“The truth is, Mr Cannan, with all his pose of independence, is
nothing if not a partisan. He belongs to his time and his school; and
neither his paradox nor his satiric whimsy nor his flashes of
sentiment could have been what they are without the example or let us
say the inspiration of a Chesterton, a Shaw, and a Wells. The book
has, above all, the assertiveness, the bumptiousness, the determined
brilliancy, and unease which will, we may fear, be the hallmark of the
passing literary generation to the eye of posterity.” H. W. B.
− =Review= 3:192 S 1 ’20 920w
=CANTACUZÈNE, PRINCESS (COUNTESS SPÉRANSKY, née JULIA DENT GRANT).=
Russian people. il *$3 Scribner 947
20–6483
“Many who have followed the Russian articles in the Saturday Evening
Post of Princess Cantacuzène will no doubt greet with pleasure their
appearance in book form under the title ‘Russian people: revolutionary
recollections.’ Similar to Princess Cantacuzène’s earlier book,
‘Revolutionary days,’ these pictures of Russian life are seen through
the eyes of a member of the upper classes, residents for years in the
country. It is the simple folk outside the city, exemplified by the
peasant of the Cantacuzène estate, Bouromka, about whom the stories
center. In addition to the pictures of Bouromka before and after the
‘red’ outbreaks, there are chapters dealing with the efforts in
various parts of the old empire to re-establish a stable government.
Crimea, where the Cantacuzène villa is situated, was one such center.
‘Daughters of Russia’ is the title of the final chapter, these ranging
from Catherine the Great to Catherine Breshkovsky and Maria
Botshkarova.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The author knows the peasants and tenantry outside of the large
cities and writes of them intimately and interestingly. Her account of
the revolution and of political affairs is, however, second hand and
lacks clarifying detail.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:64 N ’20
“They present readable and accurate impressions of events on which
full information is still hard to get.”
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 130w
“It would be a mistake to regard her story as seriously contributing
to our understanding of the revolution, if for no other reason than
that her materials are obtained at secondhand and to a great extent
from rumor. Painting in simple black-and-white is not her only
limitation.”
− =Nation= 110:860 Je 26 ’20 340w
“Princess Cantacuzène’s book is certainly a striking case of a good
opportunity missed. If only she had stuck more to what she saw herself
during those days when her adopted country was going to pieces before
her eyes!”
− + =N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 1400w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 18 ’20 380w
=CAPABLANCA, JOSÉ RAÚL.= My chess career. il *$2.50 Macmillan 794
20–6061
The author, born in Havana, Cuba, in 1888, began to play chess at the
age of five. At eleven he was matched against the Cuban champion, J.
Corzo. In his introductory chapter he says: “The object of this little
book is to give to the reader some idea of the many stages through
which I have passed before reaching my present strength.... As I go
along narrating my chess career, I will stop at those points which I
consider most important, giving examples of my games with my own notes
written at the time the games were played, or when not, expressing the
ideas I had while the game was in progress.” This plan is followed
thruout the book, beginning with the match with Corzo and continuing
to the Hastings victory congress in 1919. The conclusion gives points
for beginners.
* * * * *
“There is not a trace of boastfulness in the book. Capablanca’s
passion is for exact scientific truth. The general spirit is one of
detached and critical self-observation. Altogether, a book of great
psychological interest.” R. O. M.
+ =Ath= p237 F 20 ’20 650w
=Booklist= 17:103 D ’20
“This refreshing little book probably contains more real information
on the science of chess than a dozen of the more weighty tomes put
together. Capablanca’s comments on his own and his adversary’s play
throughout the book are of a most original and illuminating sort.”
Moreby Adlom
+ =Bookm= 51:573 Jl ’20 950w
“It is in many ways the most egotistical, and incidentally subjective
book we have ever come across; the note of satisfaction sounds like a
loud gong throughout, nor does the voice of self-praise die away. The
book, in fact, has been written in a mood of positively aboriginal
conceit. All this, however, should not obscure the fact that Senor
Capablanca’s chess-games are very brilliant, and his notes full of
interest.”
− + =Sat R= 129:251 Mr 13 ’20 700w
“His notes on his games are lucid and vivacious.”
+ =Spec= 124:248 F 21 ’20 160w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 200w
“The interest is immensely enhanced by being annotated by Capablanca
himself.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p136 F 26 ’20 350w
=CAPEK, THOMAS.= Cechs (Bohemians) in America. il *$3 (5½c) Houghton
325.7
20–1302
The author, after a residence of thirty-nine years in Cech America, is
thoroughly conversant with the history and the status of his
countrymen here. The volume aims “to throw light, not only on the
economic condition of the Cech immigrant, but on his national,
historic, religious, cultural, and social state as well.” (Introd.) It
describes the American Cech as being not an adventurer but a bona-fide
settler, an idealist and an upholder of modern democracy. Biographical
sketches are given of all the prominent and intellectual Cechs who
have exerted an influence on their countrymen in America and the book
is abundantly illustrated. Successive chapters are devoted to the
immigration in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
and to the Cech’s economic status. Other chapters are: New Bohemia in
America; Rationalism: a transition from the old to the new; Socialism
and radicalism; Journalism and literature; Musicians, artists,
visitors from abroad; The churches; The part the American Cechs took
in the war of liberation. There is an appendix and an index.
* * * * *
“‘The Cechs in America’ is a comprehensive, carefully arranged manual
of all information about this section of our immigration. To anyone
wishing, or needing, to be authoritatively and thoroughly informed on
this subject, his book is indispensable.”
+ =Am Hist R= 26:142 O ’20 530w
“Interesting and informing.”
+ =Booklist= 16:222 Ap ’20
“His picture leaves no detail obscure so long as he writes without
religious or political preconceptions. The copious bibliography in
this volume deserves special complimentary mention.”
+ =Cath World= 111:104 Ap ’20 580w
+ =Nation= 111:482 O 27 ’20 420w
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 480w
=Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 120w
=R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 50w
“His own sturdy love of America, mixed with his identification with
the Czech in America makes the book a delightful though unintentioned
combination of the subjective and the objective. None of the other
national groups have produced anything quite like it.” H. A. Miller
+ =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 550w
=CAPES, BERNARD EDWARD JOSEPH.= Skeleton key. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–7424
This detective story is prefaced by an introduction by G. K.
Chesterton. The action takes place at Wildshott, the country home of
the Kennetts, where Vivian Bickerdike, who tells part of the story in
his own words, and Baron Le Sage are guests. Shortly after their
arrival, a pretty housemaid is murdered in a secluded path not far
from the house. The usual steps are taken, an inquest is held and a
detective called in. Several arrests are made but finally guilt seems
to fasten itself pretty conclusively upon Hugo Kennett, the young son
of the family, whose choice seemed to be marry or murder. But Baron Le
Sage is not satisfied that he is guilty, and uncovers a deep laid and
unsuspected plot of which Hugo was to have been the victim, and the
perpetrator was to go scot free. Fortunately the scheme was foiled in
time.
* * * * *
“Will please the more critical reader.”
+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“Above the average detective story.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w
=Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“‘The skeleton key’ is a detective story of singular ingenuity and
power. Yet it is much more than that, in that the air of delicate
romance dispels much of the sordidity that, in the very nature of the
work, is always striving to rear its head and dominate the narrative.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 470w
“The late Bernard Capes was one of the few writers of mystery and
detective stories who make an honorable effort to combine plot with
literary workmanship. This posthumous tale is one of his best. It has
a decidedly original dénouement which will puzzle even practical
mystery solvers.”
+ =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 50w
=CAREY, AGNES.= Empress Eugénie in exile. il *$4 Century
20–20073
These reminiscences from Empress Eugénie’s own lips are culled from
letters and diaries kept by the author while a member of the Empress’s
household at Farnborough. The book contains many illustrations from
photographs and the contents are: Farnborough Hill, an empress’s home;
Daily events: further extracts from diary and letters; The Empress
visits Queen Victoria; Later events at Farnborough Hill; Reminiscences
of Empress Eugénie: her characteristics and idiosyncracies.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 13 ’20 660w
“Mrs Carey incorporates, especially in the last half of the book, a
great deal about the daily life at Farnborough which can be of
interest only to persons who make a hobby of Eugénie, if any such
there be. But this fault must be overlooked, for the book has the
extraordinary merit of telling Eugénie’s own story or stories told by
Eugénie, within an hour or so after they had dropped from her lips.”
+ − =N Y Times= p11 N 21 ’20 2050w
+ =Review= 3:625 D 22 ’20 170w
=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 70w
=CAREY, WILLIAM, and others.= Garo jungle book; or, The mission to the
Garos of Assam. il *$2 (2½c) Am. Bapt. 266
20–2499
After describing the Garos topographically, the author calls their
mountain abode “a den of wild beasts and of still wilder men.”
“Within, the fiercest passions held sway, and gruesome superstitions,
such as made the blood of the Bengalis run cold to think of, wrapped
them in an atmosphere of ghostly fear.” It was when the British
government was faced by the only remaining alternative “extermination
of the Garos” that the missionaries began to demonstrate the
possibility of another way. The book is the history of the struggle
and an account of what has been accomplished. It contains abundant
illustrations, two maps, and appendices consisting of a glossary, a
list of Garo books, of churches and schools and a service chart.
=CARLETON, WILLIAM.= Stories of Irish life; with an introd. by Darnell
Figgis. *$1.75 Stokes
A20–891
“Himself a peasant, William Carleton writes of the Irish people, the
Irish scene and the Irish life out of the book of his own experience.
He was the youngest of the fourteen children of a small farmer in
Tyrone, and was brought up in a household that knew the ancient Irish
tongue as well as the English language. His real literary career began
in 1828, when, at the age of thirtyfour, he settled permanently in
Dublin and became a contributor to the Christian Examiner. For this
paper, Carleton during the following six years wrote his ‘Traits and
stories of the Irish peasantry’ upon which is based his reputation as
a delineator of Irish life and character. As one of the recently
issued volumes in a new Library of Irish literature, eight stories and
sketches are selected to represent Carleton’s contribution, among them
being: Neal Malone; Phelim O’Toole’s courtship; The party fight and
funeral; The midnight mass; and Denis O’Shaughnessy going to
Maynooth.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Carleton belongs by right to the Irish classics. His tales are
vigorous and brimful of humour. His character-drawing was extremely
vivid, and some of his heroes are like creations of flesh and blood.
He had also a gift of impressive description.”
+ =Ath= p445 Je 6 ’19 60w
“His temperament and his experience combined to produce a picture of
the peasantry which is unrivalled as an historical document, and
fascinating as a work of art. Protestant though he became, Carleton
writes always as one oppressed, of those suffering from similar
oppression, and for that very reason appeals with undying power to the
generous ethic of fair play which has always characterized the
Anglo-Saxon elsewhere. What he wrote for his own generation has lost
nothing of its force today.” R. B. J.
+ =Ath= p750 Ag 15 ’19 950w
=Booklist= 16:287 My ’20
“No matter what varying amount of interest they may have found in
Carleton’s tales, readers and critics have vied with each other in
emphasizing their appealing and truthful Irish quality.... In many
ways, however, Carleton followed stereotyped formulas both in his
plots and his character portrayals.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 1600w
+ =Cath World= 112:395 D ’20 160w
=CARLTON, FRANK TRACY.= Elementary economics. *$1.10 (2c) Macmillan 330
20–1765
The author of this “introduction to the study of economics and
sociology” realizes that economics is not a science in which the
problems discussed can be proved mathematically; that it fairly
bristles with controverted points; that the student is apt to approach
it with preconceptions and class or interest bias. The object of the
book is to help the student to look upon both sides of a question and
to come to independent conclusions on such problems of everyday life
as prices and markets, taxation, banking, tariff, wages, rent,
transportation, and ownership of property. The book falls into three
parts: Outline of industrial and social evolution; Fundamental
economic concepts; Economic problems. Some of the more specific
subjects discussed are: Getting a living under various conditions;
Wants and value; Direction of the world’s workers; Wealth and income;
Competition and monopoly; Money and banking; Railway transportation;
Labor organizations; Labor legislation; Agricultural economics;
Taxation; Industrial unrest; Social and industrial betterment. There
is an index.
* * * * *
“The simplicity and clarity of treatment together with
thought-stimulating topics for discussion make this a good textbook
for the beginner in economics in junior or senior high school.”
+ =Booklist= 17:10 O ’20
“The style of the book is simple enough to justify its introduction
into the upper years of the elementary school. The material is of so
vital a type that it deserves recognition in all schools. Where the
special problem is that of preparing children for trades this book
will serve to give a broader view of the individual’s place in
industry.”
+ =El School J= 20:548 Mr ’20 350w
“The author of this book has done more than simply produce another
book on elementary economics for use in high schools. He has in
reality broken away from the traditional discussion of consumption,
production, exchange, and distribution, and organized his discussion
in quite a different manner from that followed by traditional texts in
the field. There are no lists of reference books. This seems
unfortunate since the book itself does not contain enough material for
even a half-year course in the subject.”
+ − =School R= 28:313 Ap ’20 260w
“A text that is sure to find ready reception for courses in economics,
especially in secondary schools. As a basis for fruitful class
discussion it should prove very effective in the hands of a competent
instructor.” E. R. Burton
+ =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 120w
=CARLTON, FRANK TRACY.= Organized labor in American history. *$2.50 (4c)
Appleton 331.87
20–7434
In tracing the influence of the wage earner in American history the
writer points out the intimate relations between industrial evolution
and social progress. So long as there were still open frontiers
towards the west, the economic life of America can be said to have
been abnormal. Now that the frontier is a thing of the past the wage
earner’s influence may be expected to increase in importance as the
years go by. To examine the cause and effect of organized labor as a
social phenomenon and a social institution is the object of the book.
Contents: Introduction; Epochs in the history of organized labor;
Adoption and interpretation of the constitution; The free school and
the wage earner; Land reform and the wage earner; Labor legislation
and the wage earner; Other reform movements and the wage earner; Labor
parties, socialism, direct action, and the progressive movement; The
ideals of the wage earner; Recent pre-war tendencies; The war and
after; Index.
* * * * *
“One of its chief merits is that it is based on an accurate knowledge
of the ideals and policies of organized labor.” G: M. Janes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:837 D ’20 780w
“The author has accomplished his modest purpose of helping to bring
American history into a truer perspective by showing the influence of
the wage-earner on the course of events.” Mary Beard
+ =Am Hist R= 26:369 Ja ’21 280w
=Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
=Cleveland= p75 Ag ’20 40w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 70w
“His interpretation of this history shows keen insight into the play
of economic forces that have made for the development of classes, the
rise of the labor movement and the evolution of industrial society. On
the interpretive side we think that it is more informative than the
more laborious work of Professor Commons and associates.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 Je 13 ’20 820w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 40w
“I do not see why a book designed to give understanding of the present
should deal with Shay’s rebellion and fail to do more than mention
either the interesting development among the garment workers of the
equally significant changes in the organizations of railroad workers.
I have no desire to quarrel with Professor Carlton’s selection, for
his temper is tolerant and his mood understanding, qualities to be
prized highly among men whose minds are directed to the description of
events in the field of labor.”
+ − =Survey= 41:315 My 29 ’20 100w
“Will serve as a useful introduction to a close study of modern
American labour problems.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 30w
“It is only the second half that deals with controversial matters.
Here also Professor Carlton’s work is effective in that he carries the
reader into the heart of the subject by bringing up all the live and
crucial issues. But his frank policy of taking a decided stand upon
most of them himself makes it highly desirable that his standpoint
should be grasped by the reader, in advance if practicable.” W: E.
Walling
+ =Yale R= n s 10:214 O ’20 900w
=CARNEGIE, ANDREW.= Autobiography. il *$5 (4c) Houghton
20–19520
The volume is edited by John C. Van Dyke and has a preface by Mrs
Carnegie. Besides the facts of the author’s life and career the book
contains much matter of general interest and reminiscences of notable
personages. There are chapters on: Civil war period; The age of steel;
Mills and the men; The homestead strike; Problems of labor; The
“gospel of wealth”; Educational and pension funds; Washington
diplomacy. The book is well illustrated and has a bibliography and an
index.
* * * * *
“The historian will regret that it confines itself more to portraiture
than to documentation, that it throws little new light upon partly
known facts, and that it has none of the elaborate accuracy likely to
be found in the biography of a man who seeks to justify himself. The
reader of the book retains a friendly feeling towards a simple yet
astute personality.” F: L. Paxson
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:368 Ja ’21 490w
=Ath= p891 D 31 ’20 600w
“Although scrappy and gossipy in parts the interest is sustained.”
+ =Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
“The result, for those who knew Mr Carnegie intimately, is most
satisfactory and charming. The style is simple and unaffected. The
joyous enthusiasm, which filled him from youth to old age, shines
forth in these pages.” W: J. Holland
+ =Bookm= 52:364 D ’20 700w
Reviewed by R. M. Lovett
=Freeman= 2:451 Ja 19 ’21 2150w
“The volume is as entertaining as it is inspiring. It will undoubtedly
rank high among the world’s lasting autobiographies.”
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 360w
“Carnegie unfolds himself, and nowhere does he attempt to make it
appear that he has virtues which he has not—modesty, for instance.
Sometimes he talked with real eloquence and sometimes with bathos, but
he sets both down with unfailing fidelity.”
+ =N Y Times= p3 O 17 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by R. R. Bowker
+ =Pub W= 98:1883 D 18 ’20 240w
“The general reader will find this the best American autobiography
since 1885, when General Grant’s ‘Memoirs’ were published.”
+ =Review= 3:620 D 22 ’20 1900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p848 D 16 ’20 950w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 70w
=CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE. DIVISION OF INTERCOURSE AND
EDUCATION.= American foreign policy; with an introd. by Nicholas Murray
Butler. Carnegie endowment for international peace 327
20–7870
“This collection of documents is intended by the editor to comprise
‘those official statements by successive presidents and secretaries of
state which, having been formally or tacitly accepted by the American
people, do in effect constitute the foundation of American foreign
policy.... They are the classic declarations of policy which, taken
together, present a record of which the American people may well be
proud.’ Naturally the selection begins with Washington’s farewell
address and includes Jefferson’s statement as to entangling alliances.
Then follow the various messages relating to the Monroe doctrine:
Monroe’s, Polk’s, Buchanan’s, Grant’s, Cleveland’s, and Roosevelt’s.
Blaine, Hay, and Root contribute their ideas as to the Monroe
doctrine, that of the last named being in no sense official, as it is
the well-known address as president of the American Society of
international law for 1914. The instructions to and reports from the
American delegates to the Hague conferences are properly included.”—Am
Hist R
* * * * *
=Am Hist R= 26:141 O ’20 360w
“Readers who do not wish their history predigested for them, but on
the other hand do not resent a prescribed diet, will find this little
volume much to their liking.” E. S. Corwin
+ =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 200w
=CARPENTER, EDWARD.= Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and
meaning. *$3 (3c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 290
20–5669
The author holds that the process of the evolution of religious rites
and ceremonies has in its main outlines been the same all over the
world and that it has proceeded in orderly phases of spontaneous
growth. The object of the book is to trace the instigating cause of
this great phenomenon along psychological lines. In its first
inception, he claims, it was stimulated by fear and has run along
three main lines: the movements of the sun and planets; the changes of
the seasons; and the procreative forces. Contents: Solar myths and
Christian festivals; The symbolism of the Zodiac; Totem-sacraments and
eucharists; Food and vegetation magic; Magicians, kings and gods;
Rites of expiation and redemption; Pagan initiations and the second
birth; Myth of the golden age; The saviour-god and the virgin-mother;
Ritual dancing; The sex-taboo; The genesis of Christianity; The
meaning of it all; The ancient mysteries; The exodus of Christianity;
Conclusion. The appendix on the teachings of the Upanishads contains
two essays: Rest and The nature of the self. There is an index.
* * * * *
“Mr Edward Carpenter has wide reading and as far as one can judge, no
lack of the critical faculty; so that, presumably, he could play the
man of science if he chose. But his interest is less in theory than in
practice. He looks forward to a new age, and, preoccupied with his
vision of the future, searches the present and the past for such
promise as they may hold of the fulfilment of his hope.” R. R. M.
+ =Ath= p240 F 20 ’20 1100w
=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
“To everyone acquainted with ... any of Mr Carpenter’s books, the
present volume on religious origins and developments will come as a
warrant of profound thought and beautiful illumination of expression.”
W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 650w
“His treatment is throughout as sympathetic and as fair as his purpose
to demonstrate his thesis allows him to be; and it is only right to
admit that he makes a very good case for the vast generalization that
he lays down. But he is greater as prophet than as critic; and that is
why this book does not measure up to ‘Towards democracy.’” R: Roberts
+ =Freeman= 1:405 Jl 7 ’20 1300w
=Int J Ethics= 31:119 O ’20 270w
“Some of the researches of Frazer and Lang and Tylor and other
scholars are vulgarized by him, and conclusions drawn from their
premises from which any of them would recoil.” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 220w
“Mr Carpenter’s book is written for those who have not read much of
anthropological research, and such readers will find in it an
exceedingly clear and lucid summary of a vast body of specialist work.
And the book is filled with that humane and glowing hope for humanity
which has made Mr Carpenter’s writings an inspiration to countless
readers. It can be confidently recommended to all who are not
specialists in the subjects with which it deals.” B. R.
+ − =Nation [London]= 27:116 Ap 24 ’20 1100w
“Mr Carpenter is never clear, although he writes clearly. He
disappears in a vacuum at the end of all his books and poems. He lacks
the thunder and the sureness, the passion and the vision of the real
prophet. He possesses clarity without light. He expounds, but does not
see.” B: de Casseres
− =N Y Times= 25:155 Ap 4 ’20 800w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from
Nation [London])
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p180 Mr 18 ’20 1900w
=CARPENTER, RHYS.=[2] Plainsman, and other poems. *$2 Oxford 821
“Rhys Carpenter is a poet enamored of classic themes. Thus in his new
book, ‘The plainsman,’ we find such titles as For Zeus’ grove at
Dodona, The charioteer of Elis, Birds of Stymphalus, Heracles sails
westward and Pegasos at Hippokrene. He also loves nature and swinging
lilting songs. His method of singing is that of former days, but to it
he brings his own active personality.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Ath= p833 D 17 ’20 50w
“There is not one of Rhys Carpenter’s verses that does not possess in
its degree magic and power. The poet’s thought is beautifully
instinctive and confident: his expression is beautifully artistic and
considered.”
+ =No Am= 212:569 O ’20 1150w
“There is many a gracefully turned poem in this book, the kind of
poetry that almost runs into music. Mr Carpenter is a master of the
shades of sound, he is dexterous in his meters and the delicate finish
and completeness of his efforts set them in a distinctive place among
contemporary efforts.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 240w
=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Boy’s book of magic.
il *$2 Dodd 793
20–17072
“The object of this book is twofold: (1) To explain, not only how a
trick is done, but also how to do it ... and (2) to describe and
explain those tricks which the average boy can make or procure, with
relative ease and with but little expense.” (Preface) It falls into
two parts: part 1: Introductory remarks; Card tricks; Coin tricks;
Tricks with handkerchiefs; Tricks with eggs; Pieces of apparatus of
general utility; Feats of divination; Miscellaneous tricks; Concluding
instructions. Part II: Hindu magic; Handcuffs and escapes therefrom;
Sideshow and animal tricks. There are numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
“The directions are clear and practicable, and there are many helpful
illustrations.”
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 70w
+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 190w
=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Higher psychical
development. il *$3 Dodd 133
20–17105
The book contains an outline of the secret Hindu teachings as embodied
in the Yoga philosophy and is the substance of a series of twelve
lectures delivered by the author before the Psychological research
society of New York in 1918. It supplements a previous book by the
same author, “Your psychic powers and how to develop them,” and is
recommended for more advanced reading as it contains information and
“secrets,” never before published and hitherto carefully guarded by
the Hindu Yogis, and shows the connection between the Yoga practices
and our western science, philosophy and psychic investigations.
Contents: An outline of Yoga philosophy; Asana; Pranayama; Mantrayoga
and Pratyahara; Dharana; Dhyana and Samadhi; The Kundalini and how it
is aroused; “The fourth dimension,” etc.; “The guardians of the
threshold”; The relation of Yoga to occultism; The relation of Yoga to
“psychics”; The projection of the astral body; Glossary and Index.
=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Your psychic powers
and how to develop them. *$3 (3c) Dodd 134
20–5132
The author warns the reader that the views presented in the present
volume are not necessarily his own but constitute the body of
traditional and accepted theories on spiritualism and psychic
phenomena. He has tentatively and for the sake of argument adopted the
“spiritistic hypothesis” to set forth the possibilities that it
contains. This course has been warranted, he claims, by the newer
researches and conclusions in the field of psychical research. He also
believes that the bulk of the material contained in the book is sound
and helpful and that in following the practical instructions the
reader cannot go far wrong. A partial list of the contents is: How to
develop; Fear and how to banish it; The subconscious; The spirit
world; The cultivation of spiritual gifts; The human aura; Symbolism;
Telepathy; Clairvoyance; Dreams; Automatic writing; Crystal gazing and
shell-hearing; Spiritual healing; Trance; Obsession and insanity;
Prayer, concentration and silence; Hypnotism and mesmerism;
Reincarnation and eastern philosophy; The ethics of spiritualism;
Physical phenomena; Materialization; Advanced studies.
* * * * *
“Perhaps gives insufficient warning to the amateur, who nevertheless
will usually find results not as readily forthcoming as the recipes
might imply.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:256 My ’20
“It is without question the best and most complete, the clearest and
the most sensibly compiled compendium of ‘dippy’ lore that we have
read.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:189 Ap 18 ’20 450w
“As a statement of the spiritistic position the volume is accurate,
careful, thorough, if never once for a single moment illuminating or
inspiring.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p555 Ag 26 ’20 500w
=CARROLL, ROBERT SPROUL.= Our nervous friends; illustrating the mastery
of nervousness. *$2 Macmillan 616
19–18395
“In a series of short stories Dr Carroll, who is medical director of
the Highland hospital in Asheville, describes typical cases of nervous
pathology—chiefly among the well-to-do—indicating clearly in each case
the causes of the condition and how it might have been avoided or
overcome.”—Survey
* * * * *
“Another of the encouraging but by no means coddling books which the
nervous patient and his friends may read with profit.”
+ =Booklist= 16:191 Mr ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:85 F ’20 30w
=Survey= 43:657 F 28 ’20 50w
=CARSWELL, CATHERINE.= Open the door. *$2 (1c) Harcourt
20–10736
This novel adds one more to the list of recent books about women by
women of which “Mary Olivier” is perhaps the most noted example. It is
the story of Joanna Bannerman, altho it is some little time before
Joanna’s story emerges from that of the Bannerman family. Indeed it is
never entirely distinct from it. The Bannerman children grow up in an
atmosphere of narrow religiosity, bordering on mysticism and ecstasy.
Joanna’s after life is a reaction from her early environment. As a
girl she dreams of love, which to her means adventure, escape,
possession of the world. She seeks realization of her dreams, first in
marriage with Mario Rasponi, who takes her to Italy, then in illicit
union with Louis Pender, an artist, and finally, in her second
marriage with Lawrence Urquhart, finds fulfillment of life.
* * * * *
“It is head and shoulders above the class of books which are commonly
called ‘best-sellers,’ it makes a genuine appeal to the intelligence
as well as the emotions, and we do not doubt for an instant that it
was inspired by the author’s love of writing for writing’s sake.” K.
M.
+ − =Ath= p831 Je 25 ’20 700w
“The novel can stand without difficulty upon its own merits. This does
not mean that it lacks entirely certain earmarks of the beginner. It
has on the other hand much that more than makes up for a stiffness of
movement which betokens the amateur. Miss Carswell will undoubtedly
handle her material more easily in the future but it is questionable
whether she will be able at that time to bring to a book the freshness
of interest and unconventionality of phrase which attracts us strongly
here.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 550w
“She does not succeed, perhaps, in drawing merely a normal woman
normally, but with great competence she portrays a slightly neurotic
heroine of somewhat unusually varied experience, understandingly and
with conviction. It is in the conventional happy ending alone that the
story fails. In its penetration to the secret springs of character and
conduct, in its visualization of persons and interrelated groups, in
its mastery of line and its sureness of phrase, this is no amateur
effort but a first novel of some moment, provocative of thought and
expectation.” H. S. H.
+ =Freeman= 1:598 S 1 ’20 900w
“Joanna and her story remain vivid and delightful and have a touch of
epic breadth and richness.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:134 Jl 31 ’20 170w
“Sex interests without haunting or obsessing or torturing her. Miss
Carswell is in the happy position of one who is naturally frank and
naturally decent. Her decency and her frankness are not at war. ‘Open
the door’ is quite sure to fasten many readers’ eyes upon Miss
Carswell. She can do love and landscape and character. It is more than
a remarkable first novel. It is a remarkable novel.” Silas
+ − =New Repub= 23:258 Jl 28 ’20 1000w
=N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 650w
“Her work has many striking qualities: energy, a rich profusion of
characters clearly seen and relentlessly portrayed, and a thoroughly
modern treatment of that all-absorbing theme of today—the duel of the
generations. One is inclined to think that she has put too much into
her book. She leaves too little to the imagination, with the result
that very few of her characters engage the affection of the reader.”
+ − =Spec= 125:151 Jl 31 ’20 600w
“Few have gone further in the successful analysis of motives than the
authoress of this interesting novel.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p301 My 13 ’20 360w
=CARTER, ARTHUR HAZELTON, and ARNOLD, ARCHIBALD VINCENT.= Field
artillery instruction. il *$6.50 Putnam 358
20–10616
“A complete manual of instruction for prospective field artillery
officers.” (Sub-title) Contents: Physical instruction; Dismounted
drill and military courtesies; Matériel; Drill of the gun squad; Fire
discipline; Field gunnery; Conduct of fire; Communication; Orientation
and topography: Reconnaissance; Horses and their care; Riding and
driving; Cleaning and care of equipment; Entraining and detraining.
There are 272 illustrations, two appendices and an index. The work is
based on the authors’ experience at the Field artillery central
officers training school, Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky.
* * * * *
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D 2 ’20 60w
=CARTHAGE, PHILIP I.= Retail organization and accounting control. *$3
(4c) Appleton 658
20–20957
This book covers the subject of accounting as applied to the
department store, specialty shop and retail store of any description.
The author says: “I have long felt the need of a text book on
department store procedure, and have endeavored to render my book
useful by its treatment of accounting, management and systems. Theory
is entirely eliminated. Practical application and experience are its
governing features.” (Introd.) Contents: Books in use and procedure;
Books in use; Sales checks and return checks; Auditing; Balance sheet
(three chapters); Turnover; Merchandising (two chapters); Profit and
loss; Burden; Profit and loss; Alteration department. The book is
illustrated with fifty-eight forms (tables, charts, etc.) and is
indexed.
=CARVER, THOMAS NIXON.=[2] Elementary economics. il $1.72 Ginn 330
“It is the purpose of this book to examine the economic foundations of
our national welfare and to point out some of the simpler and more
direct methods of strengthening these foundations.” (Introd.) There is
a topical treatment of the chapters, after the manner of textbooks,
under which each topic is briefly explained and a list of exercise
questions at the end of each chapter. The divisions of the book are:
What makes a nation prosperous; Economizing labor; The productive
activities; Exchange; Dividing the product of industry; The
consumption of wealth; Reform. The book is indexed and illustrated.
=CASTIER, JULES.= Rather like.... *$2.25 (3c) Lippincott 847
(Eng ed 20–682)
“Rather like” is a book of parodies on English authors, written by a
Frenchman while interned in a German prison camp. Before bringing out
the work the English publisher submitted a proof of each parody to the
author parodied and the comments received in reply are printed in an
introductory note. The sketches are genuine parodies, not burlesques.
Among them are G. K. Chesterton: What’s maddening about man; A. Conan
Doyle: The footprints on the ceiling; John Galsworthy: Punishment;
Charles Garvice: The power of love; W. W. Jacobs: The yellow pipe;
Rudyard Kipling: The song of the penny whistle; G. Bernard Shaw: The
exploiters.
* * * * *
“These parodies are highly creditable as the work of a foreigner, but
they are not really effective. One can recognize the subjects of the
parodies, but the author adopts the long-nose method in exaggerating
none but the obvious features.”
+ − =Ath= p94 Ja 16 ’20 90w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p764 D 18 ’19 800w
=CASTLE, AGNES (SWEETMAN) (MRS EGERTON CASTLE), and CASTLE, EGERTON.=
John Seneschal’s Margaret. *$2 (2½c) Appleton
20–17318
John Tempest and John Seneschal, comrades and strangely alike, suffer
untold agonies imprisoned together in Turkey. Seneschal finally breaks
under the strain and is buried in the wilderness by Tempest. So much
the prologue tells. The story proper begins with a hospital in London.
Tempest is a patient here and as a result of a head wound is suffering
from loss of memory. He is identified by the Seneschal family as their
son and heir and taken to their home. He is horribly aware that this
is all wrong but cannot recall his own identity and his fixed belief
that John Seneschal is dead is considered one of the delusions of his
mental condition. The one other certainty that he clings to is the
face and name of Margaret—and Margaret was Seneschal’s childhood
sweetheart. In all the confusion of his clouded mind she seems the one
thing that is true and real. After rest and care and love have been
given him, his mind suddenly clears and he knows that he is John
Tempest usurping the place of John Seneschal. Complete recollection
brings problems whose solution taxes all the love and honor of John
Tempest’s manhood, but from which he emerges true blue.
* * * * *
“We may be glad of this—that the book with which Egerton Castle has
bidden us farewell is not only artistically worthy of one who loved
and respected his art, but contains a depth and richness of feeling
far beyond that of any of the blithe tales preceding it, while in all
the long line of his heroines there is not one finer or more lovable
than she who was ‘John Seneschal’s Margaret.’” L. M. Field
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 1000w
“Entertaining and vigorous narrative.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 450w
“The story is indeed one of the best productions of Mr and Mrs Egerton
Castle.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p741 N 11 ’20 150w
=CASTLE, AGNES (SWEETMAN) (MRS EGERTON CASTLE), and CASTLE, EGERTON.=[2]
Little hours in great days. *$2 Dutton
“The latest volume by Agnes and Egerton Castle, ‘Little hours in great
days,’ is one of domestic thrills such as the Castles know how to
evoke so well. It is a continuation in spirit and in form of their
‘Little house in war time,’ with the difference explained. ‘The little
house, after many vicissitudes, stands, even as the world stands
today, upon a return to order and new kindly hopes.’ The Castles have
a gardener, now that such men are luxuriously possible, and ensuing
chapters reveal in a quiet way the joys of gardening and a gardener.
Some chapters are by one writer and some by the other; from long
association their style is uniform, and in these garden chapters
difficult to attribute—if we had not been told. As with other English
writers who cannot quickly forget the war, better chapters follow,
‘Tommy at war’ and ‘The soul of the soldier,’ for example, which take
up and also look back upon the man in khaki after November,
1918.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Ath= p29 Ja 2 ’20 40w
“The best of the volume is in the character sketches it contains,
agreeable rather than sharp-cut, of people they have known intimately.
The authors’ delicacy is real, their feelings just, and their desire
to please obvious.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 190w
“Mr and Mrs Castle will find it difficult entirely to acquit
themselves of the charge of having written a ‘pretty-pretty’ book. In
writing about the maimed soldiers Mr and Mrs Castle show a fine
quality of mind and a sympathy that increases with spending.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 310w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 110w
=CASWELL, JOHN.= Sporting rifles and rifle shooting. il *$4 Appleton 799
20–12388
“The notes and suggestions contained in this book are the result of
experience in many lands and against practically all kinds of game, as
well as on the target range and in actual military service. Its
purpose is to supply data for the hunter against game and to give both
hunter and target shooter more simple solutions of the rather
intricate methods in use for the calculation of elevation, windage,
and atmospheric conditions.” (Preface) Chapters are devoted to: Rifle
types; Game rifles; Target rifles; Actions; Stocks; Sights; Cleaning;
Bullets; Lubrication of bullets; Cartridges; Elevations; Windage and
atmosphere; Judgment of distance; Position; Aiming and trigger
squeeze; Stalking and cover; Aims for vital points on game. In
addition there are eight appendices, devoted to various matters
including Historical sketch of the evolution of the rifle, glossary,
and a select bibliography of the rifle. There are eighty-one
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
“With certain limitations, much to be regretted, he has written a very
good book. It is to be regretted that Col. Caswell has failed to
recognize a wider range of choice in rifles, that he has neglected to
discuss the human facter as the principle element in the killing of
game.” C: Sheldon
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 D 31 ’20 1400w
“Although the book makes no pretenses to literary style, it contains
passages that many novelists might well envy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 230w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p550 Ag 26 ’20 640w
=CATHER, WILLA SIBERT.= Youth and the bright Medusa. *$2.25 (3c) Knopf
20–17316
This collection of stories presents four of Miss Cather’s recent short
stories: Coming, Aphrodite!; The diamond mine; A gold slipper; and
Scandal. To these are added four of the earlier stories with which she
first won critical appreciation: Paul’s case; A Wagner matinée; The
sculptor’s funeral; and “A death in the desert.” In the early as in
the later stories the theme is youth and art.
* * * * *
“The first four are longer and more ambitious, but not so strong. Her
real shortcoming is that she is at present quite without a ‘style’;
placed beside any European model of imaginative prose she is dowdy and
rough, wanting rhythm and distinction.” O. W.
+ − =Ath= p890 D 31 ’20 780w
“Honest, skillfully wrought stories. Their ruthless, almost cynical,
unmasking of sometimes ugly truths will repel some readers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:115 D ’20
“The author perceives life from many angles, all subsidiary to her
comprehensive outlook; she has the faculty of getting under the skin
of each character, or of speaking from his mouth: she is economical,
therefore powerful, in her management of action, interaction and
contrast; she succeeds remarkably in conveying the sense of detachment
which the ‘different’ from their kind experience.” B. C. Williams
+ =Bookm= 52:169 O ’20 580w
“As studies of success, of the successful, of the victims of ‘big
careers,’ as simply of ambition, above all of the quality of ambition
in women, they probably are not surpassed.”
+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 200w
“The thing is told with the utmost skill, and the deftest effects of
descriptive incident. The two contrasted personalities are projected
as firmly in a few strokes as if a whole novel had been filled with
the details of their careers.” E. A. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:286 D 1 ’20 760w
“The stories have the radiance of perfect cleanliness, like the
radiance of burnished glass. Miss Cather’s book is more than a random
collection of excellent tales. It constitutes as a whole one of the
truest as well as, in a sober and earnest sense, one of the most
poetical interpretations of American life that we possess.”
+ =Nation= 111:352 S 25 ’20 500w
“Feeling she has, and romantic glamour, but at no time does she seem
easily irradiant. For this reason her very effectiveness, her shrewd
impersonal security in the arrangement and despatch of her story, has
a formality that takes away from the flowing line of real
self-expression. Better than the familiar vast ineptitude, this
formality. But Miss Cather is perhaps still withholding from her
fiction something that is intimate, essential and ultimate.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 25:233 Ja 19 ’21 1800w
“‘Youth and the bright Medusa’ is decidedly a literary event which no
lover of the best fiction will want to miss.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 550w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 190w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 50w
“Miss Cather is one of a small group of American authors who are
producing literature of a high type and adding to the literary laurels
of America in Europe. She is an artist with a sure touch in moulding a
plot and depicting a motive. The longer stories here—Coming, Aphrodite
and The diamond mine—are consummate in both respects.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:351 N ’20 130w
=CAUSE= of world unrest. *$2.50 Putnam 296
20–19292
The American publishers of this English book decline to accept any
responsibility for the soundness of the conclusions presented. H. A.
Gwynne, editor of the London Morning Post, in a long introduction of
approval of the contents, also points out that its editors do not
assume the authenticity of the documents upon which it is based—the
“Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” The contention of the book is “that
there has been for centuries a hidden conspiracy, chiefly Jewish,
whose objects have been and are to produce revolution, communism, and
anarchy, by means of which they hope to arrive at the hegemony of the
world by establishing some sort of despotic rule.” (Introd.)
* * * * *
“Unfortunately, truth is a matter of proportion. We do not doubt that
the industrious authors of this volume have amassed material that
might become a valuable footnote to history—in the hands of a
historian. Alas that there should lie so great a difference between
induction and deduction; and that in the discharge of even the
sternest ‘public duty’ a sense of humor should be so essential!”
− =Ath= p645 N 12 ’20 1000w
=Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ’20 540w
“The book is one which parlor Bolshevists ought to read, yes, every
one ought to read it who is interested in the development of free
government, and especially those simple-minded optimists who think
that the key to progress has been found and that government is a well
understood thing.” J: J. Chapman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 670w
“The authors are conspicuously honest, but their honesty inclines to
credulity, and they are disposed to confuse ‘post hoc’ with ‘propter
hoc.’ While admitting that ebullient Israel requires to be carefully
watched, we really cannot, in these days of unstinted publicity,
swallow mysterious stories about a ‘formidable sect.’”
− + =Sat R= 130:376 N 6 ’20 1250w
=Spec= 125:503 O 16 ’20 1250w
“The book which appears under the pretentious title, ‘The cause of
world unrest’ contains nothing to make good its pretenses.” Harry
Schneiderman
− =Survey= 45:322 N 27 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 50w
=CENTER, STELLA STEWART=, comp. Worker and his work. (Lippincott’s
school text ser.) il *$2 Lippincott 820.8
20–26453
“‘The worker and his work,’ by Stella S. Center, is a text for high
schools designed ‘to meet the needs of boys and girls who feel the
urgent necessity of selecting the right vocation.’ It is a book of
prose selections from present-day writers, ranging from H. G. Wells to
Harold Bell Wright, interspersed with a few bits of verse.” (Nation)
“It is not concerned with processes nor practical problems. The
illustrations are from artists who use some form of labor for their
subjects; they include Meunier, Pennell and Rodin.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:269 My ’20
“The selections themselves leave a confusing and contradictory
impression.”
− + =Nation= 111:50 Jl 10 ’20 280w
=St Louis= 18:212 S ’20 20w
“It is rather a romantic statement of modern industry than a true one.
The book, however, should find a real place and should give to many
students a preliminary picture of the variety of industry.” Alexander
Fleisher
+ − =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 100w
=CHAFEE, ZECHARIAH, jr.= Freedom of speech. *$3.50 Harcourt 323.4
20–22239
The object of the book is to inquire into the proper limitations upon
freedom of speech by way of ascertaining the nature and scope of the
policy which finds expression in the First amendment to the United
States constitution and then to determine the place of that policy in
the conduct of war. With a wide and learned acquaintance with the law,
the author’s endeavor is to get behind the rules of law to human
facts, and although not in personal sympathy with the views of most of
the men who have been imprisoned since the war began for speaking out,
he declares with certitude “that the First amendment forbids the
punishment of words merely for their injurious tendencies. The history
of the amendment and the political function of free speech corroborate
each other and make this conclusion plain.” Contents: Freedom of
speech in war time; Opposition to the war with Germany; A contemporary
state trial—the United States v. Jacob Abrams et al; Legislation
against sedition and anarchy; The deportations; John Wilkes, Victor
Berger, and the five members; Freedom and initiative in the schools;
Appendices (including Bibliography); Index of cases; General index.
* * * * *
“This is a book very much ‘up to the minute,’ with which every judge
and every lawyer should be familiar as a matter of professional
routine; every newspaper editor should know it by heart. Every
liberty-loving American will find it profoundly disturbing reading. To
those who have despaired of freedom of speech in America this calm,
scholarly, sane exposition of very recent history will sound like a
clear bell in a moral fog.” J: P. Gavit
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 Ja 15 ’21 1300w
“His book is courageous and sound, simple and scholarly.” Albert De
Silver
+ =World Tomorrow= 4:56 F ’21 2100w
=CHAFFEE, ALLEN.= Lost river. il $1.60 (3c) Bradley, M.
A story of two boys lost in the Maine woods. Ralph Merritt, a city boy
on his vacation, and Tim Crawford, the guide’s son, wander away from
their companions in search of raspberries. They lose themselves in the
thicket and are unable to regain the trail. Reaching a river which
they mistakenly think to be the stream their party is following, they
start in the wrong direction and go further and further away. The
story tells of their adventures with animals, of their means of
finding food and shelter from cold and storm. They touch civilization
again on reaching the cabin of a forest ranger, and so enamored are
they of life in the open that they decide to prepare for the forest
service.
* * * * *
“In addition to its first purpose, that of being an entertaining
story, ‘Lost river’ abounds in practical information about wood-life
that will make a summer vacation more enjoyable.” H. L. Reed
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 120w
=CHALMERS, STEPHEN.= Greater punishment. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–11075
Following five years of vagabondage, the hero of this story returns to
his home in Glasgow. He has not made his fortune and is not ready to
pay back the five hundred pounds his father had given him on his
twenty-first birthday, but he returns with a clean record and a good
name. He is about to announce his return to his family when fate
throws him in the way of an old ship mate, Joe Byrnes, alias “Shylock”
Smith. He knows this man to have a criminal record but he is tolerant
of his faults and the two make a night of it. He is later a witness to
the murder of Byrnes and when arrested cannot clear himself, for to do
so would involve the girl he loves. The deep mystery surrounding
Daniel Bunthorne, Jess’s father, finally clears away; by a miscarriage
of justice the hero’s life is saved. His parents are spared knowledge
of his near approach to death and with Jess, he sails away to Canada
and a new life.
=CHALMERS, THOMAS WIGHTMAN.= Paper making and its machinery. il *$8 Van
Nostrand 676
20–17582
A work on paper making “including chapters on the tub sizing of paper,
the coating and finishing of art paper and the coating of photographic
paper.” (Sub-title) The author is on the editorial staff of the
Engineer and the book is based on two series of articles, on Paper
making and its machinery and on The art of coating paper that appeared
in that journal in 1915 and 1916. The volume is very fully
illustrated, having six folding plates and 144 illustrations in the
text. It is also indexed.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:97 D ’20
“A valuable contribution that will be appreciated by all who are
interested in the operations.”
+ =Engineering= 110:157 Jl 30 ’20 2400w
“Mr Chalmers’ effort, admirable as it is, regarded in its proper
aspect as a pioneer to some such technical treatise, falls far short
of our expectations in this direction. It is doubtful whether a really
practical and useful textbook on the engineering problems of the paper
industry will ever be written. The two most interesting chapters in
the book are those dealing with The coating of art paper and The
coating of photographic paper. Taking the book as a whole, we are glad
to recommend it to those associated with the paper industry.” R. W.
Sindall
+ − =Nature= 105:480 Je 17 ’20 1100w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p66 Jl ’20 70w
=CHAMBERLAIN, GEORGE AGNEW.= Taxi. il *$1.60 Bobbs
20–2643
“This is a whimsically humorous account of the adventures of Robert
Hervey Randolph, ‘six feet straight up and down, broad of shoulder and
narrow of hip, sandy haired, blue eyed, nose slightly up-ended and
wearing a saddle of faint freckles, clean shaved, well groomed, very
correctly dressed, and twenty-six years old,’ who swaps places with a
New York taxicab driver, clothes and all, and gathers some big ideas
while studying the under side of the upper world through a hole in the
front glass of his car. His experiment convinced him that a chaperoned
cab company was badly needed in New York.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Viewed seriously, ‘Taxi’ is a piece of sheer absurdity: but it is not
written for the serious view. Still, merely as a piece of deliberate
nonsense, I don’t find it remarkably successful. Its gaiety is not
quite spontaneous.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 90w
“The most sanguine admirer of Mr Chamberlain would be obliged to admit
that ‘Taxi’ is a pot-boiler. It is not, moreover, a very choice
specimen of pot-boiling. The product is of a watery character, in
which a few bits of nourishment float pathetically.”
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 120w
“An agreeable romance runs through this original tale and all ends
well.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 440w
Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows
=Pub W= 97:176 Ja 17 ’20 280w
=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Crimson tide. il *$1.75 Appleton
19–18840
“Mr Chambers shrewdly gives us glimpses of two scenes which take place
before the beginning of the story, but which are vitally important to
our understanding of it. One is a foreword and contains the first
meeting of Palla Dumont, Ilse Westgard and John Estridge. Estridge is
an ambulance driver in Russia, detailed to take Palla Dumont to the
Grand Duchess Marie who has obtained permission to have her American
companion and dear friend with her in the convent where the imperial
family are confined. In the preface we have an equally important scene
taking place in the convent when the Bolsheviki arrive to put to death
the empress and her children. With such exciting events behind her it
is little wonder that Palla Dumont has no real desire to settle down
to the ordinary life of the United States after the signing of the
armistice. The story is largely concerned with Palla’s revolt from the
conventional and her endeavor to fight the rising tide of bolshevism
in New York by preaching her gospel of love and service.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
− + =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 110w
=Boston Transcript= p9 F 7 ’20 600w
“One pictures Mr Chambers awakened by the alarm clock of destiny to
realization that the hour is striking in which he must begin to write
a new novel and saying to himself with infinite boredom: ‘What in
thunder is there left in the world that I haven’t written about?
Bolshevism? Is Bolshevism among my titles?”
− =N Y Times= 24:741 D 14 ’19 700w
“It is all fairly interesting, but rather shallow.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:440 N 27 ’20 130w
“‘The crimson tide’ promises, in its inception, to be a lively story
of adventuring with a strain of characteristic Chambers romance.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w
=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Slayer of souls. *$1.75 (2½c) Doran
20–8632
When the story opens the heroine, Tressa Norne, is on shipboard
leaving behind her China and the memories of her four years as a
captive temple girl. When next met she is in a hotel room in San
Francisco, expelling an intruder by the simple expedient of opening a
bolted door with the power of her eye, and causing a yellow snake to
appear out of the atmosphere. Next she is on the stage in New York
giving an exhibition of black magic, with secret service men watching
her. Victor Cleves obtains an interview and enlists her in a crusade
against the “red spectre,” anarchy, otherwise bolshevism. For the
secret of the bolshevist advance is really magic, “brewed in the hell
pit of Asia.” It has conquered Russia, is spreading over Europe and
threatening the United States, where already the I. W. W., the parlor
socialists and some two million other deluded mortals are in the power
of the dread Yezidees of China. Indeed, we have the author’s own word
for it that all that stood between “a trembling civilization and
threat of hell’s own chaos” was this little band of secret service men
and one lone girl. Civilization totters but is saved.
* * * * *
“‘The slayer of souls’ is as good a story as ‘In secret,’ and that is
no mean praise. We embark upon strange and perilous adventures, and it
is not long that we bother to count whether or not the episodes of his
tale are practicable. They are exciting and they are full of wonder,
which suffices.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 26 ’20 440w
“It is a well told story, but Mr Chambers, our most shining example of
a debased talent, can write better than he does here.”
+ − =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 120w
“The reader sympathizes wholly with one of the characters who at the
end of the book ‘whispers hoarsely, “For God’s sake, let us get out of
this!”’”
− =N Y Times= 25:292 Je 6 ’20 630w
=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w
“The stories provide diverse entertainment but are in nowise above
mediocrity.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w
“The book serves only to show that an author, reputed of great skill
in casting the storyteller’s spell over his readers while leaving
thought and emotion unstirred, can on occasion forget that skill, and
write as clumsily as any novice.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 310w
=CHAMBRUN, JACQUES ALDEBERT DE PINETON, comte de, and MARENCHES,
CHARLES, comte de.= American army in the European conflict. *$3
Macmillan 940.373
19–18747
“An account of the American military activities from a French source.
The two French officers who were the authors of this work were
attached to General Pershing’s staff.” (R of Rs) “The work is
remarkably comprehensive, and in its 400 pages embraces a rapid but
complete survey of American preparation for war, the transport of men
and supplies across the ocean, the training of the troops in France,
the organization and work of the services of supply, construction work
in France, the part taken by different units of the A. E. F. with the
allied armies, the organization of the American forces into their own
armies and the part they thus played in battle.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“The facts which they present are beyond dispute, and the presentation
is singularly free of any discussion of the friction which arose
between us and our allies over the methods in which the necessary
cooperation between us was effected. The narrative is unbalanced in
treating so much in detail minor actions of the first few divisions
arriving in France.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:529 Ap ’20 900w
“Written without sentimentality, in a clear, logical, analytical
manner.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:236 Ap ’20
“The book is of special value in that it gives perhaps the best
account of the organization of the American troops in France.”
+ =Cath World= 111:822 S ’20 370w
“Some of the distinctive qualities of the French genius for expression
are evident in the clarity, the logical arrangement, the precision
with which the narrative is presented. Noteworthy throughout the book
are the understanding of American character and the appreciation of
how it has been formed and colored by the history and conditions of
the country.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:80 F 8 ’20 1400w
=R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 40w
+ =Spec= 124:868 Je 26 ’20 670w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p230 Ap 15 ’20 830w
=CHAMPION, JESSIE.= Sunshine in Underwood. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
A trifling comedy of errors involving a young English parson on his
holiday. Bob Truesdale had meant to spend his month’s leave with
Colonel Massey but at the station he is hailed with joy by Uncle
Joseph and Aunt Emily who mistake him for their nephew, Bob Upton.
What he learns in the next half hour about the feud between the
colonel and the vicar and the part he had been destined to play in it,
also about the colonel’s plans for himself and Nora Massey, decides
him and he keeps up the deception. Later a friend appears who is
willing to play the part of Bob Truesdale and still later the real Bob
Upton, who all the time has been engaged to Nora, comes on the scene
and Truesdale is glad enough by then to be relieved of his disguise
for he is already deeply in love with Hilda, the vicar’s daughter, and
wants to do his courting in his own proper person.
* * * * *
“A light and cheerful story.”
+ =Ath= p157 Ja 30 ’20 40w
“Light, irresponsible, amusing fare. It is the sort of thing that one
may read or fall asleep over, as it may happen, with no harm done
either way.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 400w
“This is one of the funniest books of the season.”
+ =Sat R= 129:178 My 22 ’20 70w
=CHANCELLOR, WILLIAM ESTABROOK.= Educational sociology. *$2.25 Century
301
19–17183
“Although the author, who is the head of the Department of political
and social science at the College of Wooster, states in his preface
that the work is written as an introductory textbook in sociology from
the educational point of view, it is hardly that, but rather a work on
social psychology, in which field it is very successful. Part one, on
Social movement, treats public opinion, citizenship, social
solidarity, custom, tradition, habit, rules of the game, revivals,
panics, crazes, strikes, political campaigns, and similar topics. Part
two, on Social institutions, does not take up the evolution of social
institutions, but is a study of the organization and control of
society through its institutions, taking up the state, property, the
family, the church, the school, occupation and under minor
institutions, charity, amusement, art, science, business, and war.
Part three, on Social measurements, consists of seven chapters. The
one on institutional workers treats the value placed upon different
groups of institutional workers, as lawyers, doctors, teachers,
business men, artists, and entertainers.”—Survey
* * * * *
“In the field of sociology he is in his usual style: always original
and often brilliant.” F. R. Clow
+ =Am J Soc= 26:240 S ’20 200w
“Well indexed.”
+ =Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20
“The breezy style, the vigorous language, the wealth of information,
the multitude of applicable suggestions, compensate for the frequently
dogmatic tone and for what will be for too many teachers and normal
students new topics and new thoughts and new attitudes.”
+ − =Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 200w
“It is a misnomer to call the volume ‘Educational sociology.’ The
treatment is not focused upon education, whether curriculum, methods,
or administration. There is no treatment of sociological phenomena,
relations, or principles in such a way as to show how types of
education have been produced, how schools and society in general are
interrelated, or what kind of education is dictated by present-day
social conditions. No coherent educational program is indicated.”
− + =School R= 28:153 F ’20 300w
“It has no thoughts running through the work. Instead, its arrangement
is haphazard, being a collection of valuable and interesting social
facts. The book is a valuable work, for it is a mine of facts and
illustrations of social psychology and ought to be extremely useful to
the teacher of sociology as such.” G. S. Dow
+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 250w
=CHANDLER, ANNA CURTIS.= More magic pictures of the long ago; stories of
the people of many lands. il *$1.40 Holt 372.6
20–4279
This book follows the plan of “Magic pictures of the long ago,”
published last year. It is made up of stories told to children during
the story hour in the Metropolitan museum of art, New York city. Among
them are: A great Egyptian queen, Hatshepsut; In the land of the
minotaur; A story from colored glass, or, Justinian and Theodora; A
tale of a great crusade; At the court of Philip IV; In the time of
Paul Revere. The illustrations are from pictures and art objects in
the museum, and there is a bibliography at the beginning and an
epilogue, “About story hours,” that will be helpful to teachers.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20
=N Y Times= p25 Ag 29 ’20 60w
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w
=CHANDLER, FRANK WADLEIGH.= Contemporary drama of France. *$1.50 (1½c)
Little 842
20–6298
The volume comes under the Contemporary drama series edited by Richard
Burton. The author claims it to be the most inclusive of all the
English books on the subject published in the present century. It
“offers a survey and an interpretation of the French drama for three
decades, from the opening of the Theâtre-Libre of Antoine to the
conclusion of the world war. It attempts the classification, analysis,
and criticism of a thousand plays by two hundred and thirty authors.”
(Preface) Contents: Precursors of the moderns; Masters of stagecraft;
Naturalism and the free theatre; Laureates of love; Ironic realists;
Makers of mirth; Moralists; Reformers; Minor poets and romancers;
Major poets and romancers; Importers and war exploiters;
Bibliographical appendix; Index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20
“The combination of enthusiasm and judgment is excellent.” Gilbert
Seldes
+ =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 120w
“It would be an odious thing to make light of this book, a book that
represents so patent and prodigious an outlay of intelligent labour.
And yet! Is this, after all, the contemporary drama of France? There
are so many trees and so many leaves on each tree in this kind of
criticism that one doesn’t see the forest at all. There is no
proportion, no light and shade, no judgment, in short, no taste
essentially, in all these laborious, lucid, skilfully prepared pages.”
− + =Freeman= 1:190 My 5 ’20 480w
“Mr Chandler, in a word, exhibits that blank awe which strikes so many
admirable academic minds among us at the mere sight of a hollow
technical dexterity.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:627 My 8 ’20 850w
“So close an analysis is of undoubted value to the playwright who can
see in the most barren plot the ultimate beauty of its development,
but even a public devoted to drama will not wax enthusiastic over an
anatomical study of the subject.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 9 ’20 350w
“Mr Chandler has produced an excellent handbook, but not a critical
interpretation.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:257 Jl ’20 300w
=CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE.= Jane. *$1.75 (2½c) Putnam
20–7764
Jane, small, red-haired, Irish, selfless, loving, innocent, is queer.
She has both temperament and a temper and it is owing to both of these
that she runs away from home, from her lethargic, fat and flabby
mother and her ponderous, soulless stepfather to join a
one-night-stand theatrical troupe. She travels across the continent
with them, adopts and mothers each member in turn as the need arises,
while all the temptations and dangers of such a life glance off from
her guileless innocence as from an armor. Tom Brainerd, the
sub-manager, is a mixture of brutality and tenderness. He loves her,
bullies and frightens her, but at last when she fully realizes the
strength, tenderness and sincerity underneath the roughness he
conquers her.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“Jane is a likeable girl, in spite of sunshine girl tradition, and her
courage and struggles must appeal to readers, in spite of an
inevitable sense of unreality surrounding the story.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 340w
“The author tells her story in a cheerful vein, but does not neglect
to picture the hectic environment in which the heroine lives.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 210w
=CHAPIN, CHARLES.= Charles Chapin’s story. *$2.50 (3½c) Putnam
20–18406
This autobiography of a man now serving a life sentence at Sing Sing
for the murder of his wife, has an introduction by Basil King, who
suggested the writing of the story to the prisoner as a means of
escaping from his own morbid thoughts. The book contains the
experiences of a newspaper man of forty years’ standing. The author
was city editor of the New York Evening World at the time of the
tragedy. Contents: From the bottom; Barnstorming; Chicago “Tribune”
days; My first big “scoop”; A murder mystery; “Star” reporting; A city
editor at twenty-five; Breaking into Park Row; On the “World’s” city
desk; Newspapering today; The Pulitzers; Newspaper ethics; Gathering
clouds; Tragedy; A “lifer” in Sing Sing.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
+ =N Y Times= p22 S 12 ’20 580w
“The recital of the morbid psychological conditions that led to the
author’s crime does not make wholesome reading. Nevertheless the book
is one of the most remarkable that ever came from within prison
walls.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 70w
=Review= 3:477 N 17 ’20 880w
“The author tells his story in direct and simple English, wasting no
words, and stopping when the tale is completed. In comparison with
some literary products, the work may seem ‘choppy’ at times, but the
human story is there and written in a style easily understood and
followed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 800w
=CHAPMAN, ERNEST HALL.= Study of the weather. il *$1.10 Putnam 551.5
20–10622
“The present volume of the Cambridge nature study series has been
written chiefly to provide a series of practical exercises on weather
study.... In addition to serving its primary purpose as a school-book
it is hoped that the book will be acceptable as an introduction to the
study of modern meteorology.” (Introd.) It is an English work and its
problems and illustrations are based on climatic conditions in the
British Isles. Contents: The weather day by day, observations of wind;
What to look for in watching the weather; Clouds, the colours of the
sky; Fog and mist, dew and frost; Rain, snow and hail, thunderstorms;
Temperature and humidity; The pressure of the atmosphere; Weather
charts; Cyclones and anticyclones; Anticipation of weather. Appendixes
contain exercises, a syllabus of weather study for elementary schools
and a bibliography. There are illustrations, maps and charts and an
index.
* * * * *
“It is a type of book which will undoubtedly be of very great interest
to pupils and will stimulate in them an attitude toward scientific
method which will carry on into other fields. The book ought to be
imitated by an American edition which will give an account of the
conditions on this continent similar to that which is given for the
neighborhood of England.”
+ =El School J= 20:552 Mr ’20 180w
“It is elementary but it is lucid. Nothing could be better as an
introduction to an important subject.”
+ =Spec= 123:662 N 15 ’19 70w
=CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER.= What bird is that? il *$1.25 Appleton 598.2
20–7850
“A pocket museum of the land birds of the eastern United States
arranged according to season.” (Sub-title) The author is curator of
birds in the American museum of natural history, and in this book he
has reproduced one of the museum features, the seasonal collection of
birds. The plates, eight in number, are arranged to show Permanent
resident land birds of the northern United States, Winter visitant
land birds of the northern United States, Winter land birds of the
southern United States, etc. The bird figures in these plates are
small but they have been drawn with particular care to accuracy in
color and form. They have also been drawn as nearly as possible to the
same scale so that comparative sizes are indicated. A bird “map” as
frontispiece also makes identification and the reading of descriptions
easier. The plates, which are the work of Edmund J. Sawyer, are
arranged at the beginning, followed by the text. There is an index.
+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
“This compact little guide may well become the vade mecum of the
birdlover.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 280w
+ =Cleveland= p78 Ag ’20 40w
=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w
+ =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 150w
“For the amateur this book is the simplest, as well as the most
authoritative, bird guide.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 230w
=CHASE, JOSEPH CUMMINGS.= Soldiers all. il *$7.50 Doran 940.373
20–5654
The author was sent overseas by the War department to paint the
portraits of the officers and distinguished soldiers at the American
front. As a result he offers this book with 133 portraits and
biographical sketches of the subjects. The other contents are the
foreword by the author; a list of the army corps and division
assignments; the thirteen major operations; and a description of the
American military decorations.
* * * * *
“The portraits are spirited, varied, and alive with the characteristic
traits of the American soldier. They constitute a fine and enduring
achievement.”
+ =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 100w
+ =R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 140w
“A glance through the book shows that, though there are many types
among the picked manhood of America, a distinctively American type is
evolving. It might be possible for an anatomist to define the special
points in a characteristically American face with the help of such a
collection of clever portraits as this.”
+ =Spec= 124:835 Je 19 ’20 120w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 80w
=CHASE, JOSEPH SMEATON.= Penance of Magdalena, and other tales of the
California missions. il *$1 (3½c) Houghton
Magdalena was half-Spanish and half-Indian, in the early days of the
mission of San Juan Capistrano. She and Teófilo, the padre’s favorite
Indian neophyte, loved each other dearly. But Magdalena, being part
Spanish, was not sufficiently humble and obedient to suit the padre
and he would not give his consent to the marriage before Magdalena had
done a penance, i.e. appeared at mass carrying a penitent’s candle.
Love conquered pride at last, but in the midst of the service an
earthquake shook the church and the falling walls killed the lovers.
The other missions represented in the cycle are: San Diego de Alcalá,
in Padre Urbano’s umbrella; San Gabriel Arcángel, in The bells of San
Gabriel; San Fernando, in The buried treasure of Simí; and Santa
Bárbara, in Love in the padres’ garden. There are illustrations.
* * * * *
“All are charming and some of them are humorous.”
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 70w
=CHATHAM, DENNIS, and CHATHAM, MARION, pseuds.= Cape Coddities. il
*$1.35 (7c) Houghton 917.4 20–10073
This collection of essays, the authors say, is not to be taken as a
serious attempt to describe the Cape or to delineate its people, but
merely to express their perennial enthusiasm for this summer holiday
land. They prefer “to think of the Cape as a playground for the
initiate, a wonderland for children, and a haven of rest for the tired
of all ages, a land where lines and wrinkles quickly disappear under
the soothing softness of the tempered climate.” Contents: A message
from the past; The casual dwelling-place; The ubiquitous clam; A
by-product of conservation; Motor tyrannicus; “Change and rest”—summer
bargaining; A blue streak; A fresh-water cape; Al Fresco; Models; “A
wet sheet and a flowing sea”; My cape farm; Scallops; Aftermath. The
book is illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 600w
+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 140w
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 110w
“Pleasant little essays.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 40w
“‘Cape Coddities’ is a gem of a book, for its text, illustrations, and
general appearance.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 30w
=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Chorus girl, and other stories. *$1.75
Macmillan
20–3884
This is volume eight in Mrs Garnett’s translation of Chekhov’s
stories. Contents: The chorus girl; Verotchka; My life; At a country
house; A father; On the road; Rothschild’s fiddle; Ivan Matveyitch;
Zinotchka; Bad weather; A gentleman friend; A trivial incident.
* * * * *
“Fairly representative of the author’s relentless realism and his keen
though not unsympathetic insight into human nature.”
+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20
=Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 50w
“The tales have each its special sharpness, but how little are they a
moralizing and how much a sophistication, an enrichment of
experience!”
+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 130w
“The Chekhov of these stories is the typical naturalist. He is a
naturalist, that is to say, not merely on some artistic theory, but by
instinct and need. He is the man whose vision of life has caused him
suffering, whose contacts have brought him pain. He has little of the
Russian’s compassion; he has the artist’s cruelty toward those who
have pierced and jangled his delicate nerves. The novelette My life
has a note of relenting. The two stories that have a touch of
gentleness and of the sadder poetry of life—Verotchka and
Zinotchka—read like memories of moments that were painful enough to be
recalled but not bitter enough to be resented in after years.”
+ =Nation= 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 750w
“Chekhov applies the knife, which is his eye, to everyone alike. And
in this critical insight is one of his distinguishing characteristics.
To read Chekhov is to come in contact with a man of great
sensitiveness and witty subtleties yet a man of wide sanity and plain
humane feeling.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:254 Ap 21 ’20 1450w
“There is no trickery about Chekhov’s story telling; he is given
neither to happy endings nor to ironical twists of narration. His
tales are simply unadorned cross-sections of life, studied and
described with passionless accuracy. Chekhov’s reaction to life is
revealed in his treatment of his characters—a reaction neither bitter
nor sentimental, but grave and just and charitable.” A. C. Freeman
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 320w
“His stories are replete with interest, with vivid glimpses of the
baffling Russia of yesterday. It is a picture of hopelessness painted
by a master without hope.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 660w
=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Letters of Anton Tchekhov to his family and
friends; tr. from the Russian by Constance Garnett. *$3 Macmillan
20–5392
“The family of Anton Chekhov, the Russian novelist, has published 1890
of his letters. From this great mass of correspondence Mrs Garnett has
selected for translation those passages which seem to her to throw
most light on the novelist’s life, character and opinions. A
biographical sketch, taken from the memoirs written by Chekhov’s
brother, introduces the volume.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The publication of this volume of his letters affords an opportunity
for the examination of some of the chief constituents of his perfect
art. These touch us nearly because the supreme interest of Tchekhov is
that he is the only great modern artist in prose. As we read these
letters of his, we feel gradually from within ourselves the conviction
that he was a hero—more than that, the hero of our time.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p299 Mr 5 ’20 1400w
“A secondary interest is the continuous passage of scenes of Russian
life in all their fascinating variety.”
+ =Booklist= 16:279 My ’20
+ =Cleveland= p84 O ’20 70w
“It may be said that the letters of Chekhov are at first sight
disappointing. They corroborate only faintly and unemphatically the
life so vivid in outline. Either they have been subjected to a drastic
process of selection and expurgation, or they represent the reduction
of experience to an even, neutral tone of objective observation, of
detachment, almost of indifference. Both explanations are doubtless in
a measure true. Among letter-writers he belongs to the school of
Prosper Merimée rather than Stevenson.” R. M. Lovett
+ − =Dial= 68:626 My ’20 1900w
“His letters are the letters of a man without calculativeness or
envy—untrammelled, unpremeditative, unspoiled. To read him, when he is
favorable or the reverse ... is to feel the same pleasure that he
himself had in sea-bathing: ‘Sea-bathing is so nice that when I got
into the water I began to laugh for no reason at all.’ His
personality, so unforced, is like that; and when his letters stop, it
is as if a heart stops, he is so palpable.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:226 Ap 14 ’20 1700w
=N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 80w
+ =N Y Times= p13 Ag 1 ’20 850w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w
+ =Spec= 125:150 Jl 31 ’20 860w
“They are colorful, vigorous, entertaining, but the Chekhov who wrote
them is that faithful, talented reporter who chronicles fact without
opinion, and who rarely allows the reader an intimate association with
himself. Of course, the letters are just as they should be; one could
not expect the writer of the ‘Tales’ to be a correspondent after the
fashion of the author of ‘Treasure Island.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 12 ’20 330w
“In spite of the early and full maturity of Tchehov’s mind and
intellect we seem to retrieve in his letters the consciousness and
sensibility of childhood with all its vividness and absorption.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p103 F 12 ’20 2700w
=CHELEY, FRANK HOBART.=[2] Overland for gold. *$1.50 Abingdon press
20–4892
“Its scene laid in the early ’60s, Frank H. Cheley’s new story for
boys tells of the adventures of a party of gold seekers who made their
way to Colorado in the days when Denver was a town of shacks to which
the law had as yet scarcely penetrated. Clayton Trout, one of the two
boys in the party, is the narrator and tells how his uncle Herman, who
had been in the gold rush to California, equipped a small company with
tools, food, etc., and several wagons drawn by oxen, and set forth to
meet the dangers and difficulties of the trail. The book describes
first the journey, on which they encountered Indians, herds of
buffalo, wolves, etc., and then the arrival at Mountain City and the
adventures which befell them in their search for gold.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“This is a ‘corking’ good story.”
+ =Bib World= 54:648 N ’20 70w
“Though the occurrences are not related in a very spirited manner,
‘Overland for gold’ will probably please the boy readers for whom it
is intended.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 360w
“The valuable part of the book is the description of gold mining in
the Rockies.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 100w
=CHELEY, FRANK HOBART.= Stories for talks to boys. *$2 Assn. press 808.8
20–4120
A collection of brief stories, “brought together here for the
convenience of Sunday school teachers, boys’ club leaders, Young men’s
Christian association secretaries, Boy scoutmasters, and any others
who are called upon to talk to boys informally or even formally to
address them.... They have been selected from the four winds, ...
clipped from books, magazines, and even dally papers, ... gathered
from sermons, personal conversations, and other sources.... They have
been arranged under abstract headings for convenience in finding what
is wanted.” (Preface) Some of these headings are as follows:
Appreciation; Cigarettes; Convictions; Diligence; Health; Ideals;
Influence; Mother; Procrastination; Use of time; Vision, etc. The
author is connected with the boys’ work department, International
committee of Young men’s Christian associations, and is author also of
“Told by the camp fire,” “Camping with Henry,” etc.
* * * * *
“Just the kind of anecdotes which preachers, Sunday school teachers
and other speakers like to use to adorn the tale which points a
moral.”
+ =Booklist= 16:257 My ’20
=CHELLEW, HENRY.= Human and industrial efficiency; preface by Lord
Sydenham. *$2 (9c) Putnam 658.7
20–21085
The book aims to map out the broad outlines of the problem of human
efficiency and lays no claim to academic or scientific treatment.
“Today as never before we are called upon to mobilize all our
thoughts, acts and emotions in the name of efficiency” but “efficiency
is not a mechanical thing; it is the science of life itself” and
scientific management and welfare work have only taken the first steps
towards humanizing the life of the worker. Contents: Introductory;
Human efficiency; What is fatigue? Applied psychology; Selecting
employees; Scientific management and the welfare of the worker;
Appendix: Handling the human factor; Training executives for
efficiency; How to establish an efficiency club.
* * * * *
“There is nothing very new in the matter or treatment; there are the
usual generalities and assumptions, but the book is clearly written.”
+ =Ath= p1272 N 28 ’19 60w
“The volume fortunately is short, for it contains little particularly
worth reading that has not been much better said by others.” E. R.
Burton
− =Survey= 45:515 Ja 1 ’21 150w
=CHENG, SIH-GUNG.= Modern China, a political study. (Histories of the
nations) *$3.25 Oxford 951
(Eng ed 19–19083)
“Mr Cheng’s book is the work of a serious student of the troubles of
his native land, who has taken great pains to equip himself by an
academic training in this country [England]. He gives us a useful
analysis of the differences between north and south, which is the crux
of the situation at the moment; and the conclusion one comes to is
that there is a number of military gentlemen concerned who have a
profound suspicion of each other, and who for that reason maintain
semi-private armies somehow to maintain themselves in their rickety
positions. The struggle is said not to be territorial, and both sides
pay little attention to the rights or sufferings of the patient
people. Naturally the Far eastern policy of Japan fills a large space
in the book.... Mr Cheng would call upon the European powers to
discard the balance of power theory and stop extra-territorialism, and
he would like to see America, Great Britain, and France combine to set
China on her legs.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Mr Cheng’s survey is admirable as an introduction to the study of a
great subject. As a plain statement of political conditions by one who
speaks for China his little volume is the most satisfactory
contribution to our understanding of her problem that has appeared
since the revolution.” F: W. Williams
+ =Nation= 110:858 Je 26 ’20 850w
“In part 1 which deals with constitutional developments in China, he
has presented a new and valuable account of recent political events in
his country.” W. W. Willoughby
+ =Review= 2:281 Mr 20 ’20 2100w
“There is a moderation in his description of existing conditions which
is not too common amongst Chinese politicians, and it is plain
throughout that he has tried to submit the welter to a detached and
impartial examination.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p34 Ja 15 ’20 360W
=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Irish impressions. *$1.50 (3½c) Lane 914.15
20–1624
In this collection of papers the author, in his characteristically
discursive fashion, gives his impressions of the Irish character as an
almost paradoxical combination of visionary dreamer and practical
peasant. He emphasizes the fundamental differences between the English
and the Irish out of which arise many if not all the tragic mistakes
made on both sides. The contents are: Two stones in a square; The root
of reality; The family and the feud; The paradox of labour; The
Englishman in Ireland; The mistake of England; The mistake of Ireland;
An example and a question; Belfast and the religious problem.
* * * * *
“Neither his book nor his visit indicates any real appreciation of the
almost agonizing seriousness of the issue between his country and
Ireland.” E. A. Boyd
− =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 400w
=Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20