author gives the temper of Ireland rather than direct information, yet
his conclusions agree closely with those reached by historians, such
as, for example, Professor Ernest Barker and Edward R. Turner. Mr
Chesterton has caught the spirit of the Irish. His entertaining volume
should be read not by itself but in connection with others.” N. J.
O’C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 1150w
“The Chesterton of ‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Heretics’ has indeed suffered a
war-change. His recent ‘Short history of England,’ however, gave us a
glimmer of hope for him which this latest book confirms. There is,
however, little that is new or valuable said here about the eternal
Irish question, little that has not been said as well or almost as
well by others before.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:540 Jl ’20 180w
=Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 340w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 500w
“He proves in this book that even the most patriotic of Englishmen can
treat another patriotism with magnanimity.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 21:298 F 4 ’20 1500w
+ =N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 550w
“The defect in Mr Chesterton’s consideration of the Irish problem is
not that he is superficial, but that he is in a certain sense too
profound. He sees certain simple, but profound, truths so clearly and
so exclusively that he ignores other truths that may possibly be as
deeply rooted, and pays too little attention to superficial facts
lying outside the categories that he thinks in.”
+ − =No Am= 211:426 Mr ’20 1050w
“Mr Chesterton does not write for the man in the street; his style is
full of brilliant paradox, subtle allusion, and pages in which one
must read between the lines for their meaning. But the game is worth
the candle.”
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 100w
“We know what to expect from Mr Chesterton: vividness, color, wit,
epigrams often a little strained but not seldom such as make one catch
one’s breath and wonder; clear-cut antitheses—sometimes cut too clear
to correspond accurately with situations that are complex and
confused, but always a stimulant to thought, and not least arousing
when they are most provoking. And it is the true Chestertonian humor
that greets us in these ‘Irish impressions.’” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 500w
=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 80w
“This volume is a most notable contribution to the whole subject and
one of the most important achievements of Mr Chesterton’s long and
brilliant career.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 220w
“No work of Mr Chesterton’s could be altogether dull, for even the
monotonous uniformity of his style is insufficient to conceal his
genuine humour and alertness of mind; indeed, his latest volume takes
rank amongst his most brilliant works of fiction; but as a
contribution towards the solution of the Irish problem, it is a fond
thing vainly invented.”
− + =Spec= 122:15 Ja 3 ’20 1600w
“Throughout Mr Chesterton writes as an Englishman, but as an extremely
liberal Englishman.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 27 ’20 800w
“His observations have, of course, value, and they are presented in
the form which has made Mr Chesterton a very popular writer; but the
reader of his ‘Irish impressions’ is left to wonder whether a less
facile pen and less nimble brain might not, if impelled by a humbler
spirit, have produced a still more valuable work.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p661 N 20 ’19 650w
“The volume has both the virtues and the defects to be expected from
one whose writing is almost entirely a succession of figures. ‘Irish
impressions’ contains an amazing amount of true comment.” N. J.
O’Conor
+ − =Yale R n s= 10:209 O ’20 220w
=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Superstition of divorce. *$1.50 (6c) Lane
173
20–5411
The book is a collection of five articles first printed in the New
Witness, apropos of a press controversy on divorce, with an added
conclusion. Throughout the characteristically epigrammatic and
brilliantly sketchy discourses the biological implications of marriage
stand out as the incontrovertible facts and the “common sense” that
has “age after age sought refuge in the high sanity of a sacrament.”
The much ado about divorce, the writer concludes, is due to the fact
that men expect the impossible from life and do not realize their
natural limitations. Contents: The superstition of divorce; The story
of the family; The story of the vow; The tragedies of marriage; The
vista of divorce; Conclusion.
* * * * *
“Though Mr Chesterton hardly adds anything new to the controversy, his
book is an interesting study in style.”
+ =Ath= p192 F 6 ’20 120w
“Mr Chesterton’s position is not very easy to grasp because he has, to
an unusual degree, indulged his propensity to break his argument in
order to comment on anything that occurs to him, and we are not yet
clear on some fundamental points. So far as we can see, Mr Chesterton
does not deal with the real case for divorce, and his book leaves the
question exactly where it was before.” J. W. N. S.
− =Ath= p235 F 20 ’20 1600w
=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20
“One can agree perfectly with Mr Chesterton in his plea for greater
care in marriage partnerships and in hoping that the sanctity of the
family may be preserved. But his arguments seem often rather strained,
especially when coupled with his zeal in pumping up the wildest and
most extravagant and often frivolous fireworks of style.” N. H. D.
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 850w
=Dial= 70:233 F ’21 60w
“It is at no point a serious or searching analysis of the present
situation in England as regards divorce.” R. D.
− =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 330w
=Ind= 102:370 Je 12 ’20 240w
=Lit D= p116 S 18 ’20 1550w
“Mr Chesterton seems to imagine that divorce is now being advocated
for its own sake. To forbid divorce and remarriage altogether, as a
desperate remedy for extreme cases, is no more rational or humane than
it would be to forbid surgery to all because most do not stand in
present need of it.” Preserved Smith
− + =Nation= 110:827 Je 19 ’20 670w
“Mr Chesterton’s book is, like most of his work, delightfully amusing,
and incidentally contains much good sense. But it is a far better
treatise on marriage than on divorce. I object to divorce in the same
sense as I object to surgery. But if we are to have surgery let us
have it up to date and not as it was in 1800.” E. S. P. Haynes
− + =Nation [London]= 26:684 F 14 ’20 850w
=Review= 3:132 Ag 11 ’20 320w
=Sat R= 129:140 F 7 ’20 600w
“Save in a sort of dreadful desert which the reader enters about the
middle of the book when he is taken through dreary tracts of guild
socialism and over a waste marked ‘Superior attractions of the middle
ages,’ the book is extraordinarily lively reading.”
+ − =Spec= 124:391 Mr 20 ’20 800w
“Mr Chesterton is cheerfully disinclined to subject his arguments to
empirical tests. He starts with a number of definitions and then,
having proved all the ramifications of his thought to be in accord
with those definitions, regards the case as closed. Satisfied with his
own logic Mr Chesterton conceivably may be; the reader’s satisfaction
comes from the skill and surprise of the dialectic, from the
ever-recurring paradox, from the humanity and good nature and good
sense that often glint through the subtile fabric of wit.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 7 ’20 750w
“As is often the case with his writings, it hits mainly into the air
and does not meet the arguments of his opponents where they are
strongest. Also, one gets tired of the perpetual punning which once
gave this writer the reputation of being a great wit but which really
is quite easy to imitate.”
− + =Survey= 44:450 Je 26 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 180w
=CHEVREUIL, L.= Proofs of the spirit world; tr. by Agnes Kendrick Gray.
il *$3 Dutton 134
20–6884
“M. Chevreuil, whose ‘On ne meurt pas,’ here translated as ‘Proofs of
the spirit world,’ was awarded the prize for 1919 by the French
Academy of sciences, has brought together and discussed with judicial
penetration the evidence presented for the continued existence of
discarnate spirits by telepathy, abnormal psychology, apparitions,
materializations and similar phenomena. The book is written in the
scientific spirit and the author carefully examines the evidence and
the arguments presented by other investigators, sometimes rejecting it
altogether and sometimes coming to different conclusions. One of the
chapters makes an interesting discussion of reincarnation.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
− =Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 350w
“It is no exaggeration to say that out of the multitude of the
psychical books which have appeared within these last few months,
‘thick as leaves in Vallambrosa,’ this one volume stands out in its
luminous clearness, its scholarly selection of scientific data, its
penetration into the realms beyond the senses, its sane exaltation of
feeling, and its remarkable comprehensiveness of the relation between
phenomena and spiritual philosophy.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 500w
=CHILD, RICHARD WASHBURN.= Vanishing men. *$2 Dutton
20–7298
“The psychology of terror is the outstanding theme of ‘The vanishing
men.’ Indeed, the sense of terror communicates itself to the reader,
for the disappearance of two men and the portentous fate hanging over
the heroine are apparently insoluble mysteries. One man plans an
elopement with her but fails to appear and is not heard from again.
Afterwards she marries a wealthy man some years her senior. He is
attacked by a mania of fear, and eventually vanishes, too. Then a
wealthy young man falls in love with her, and she warns him of the
fate visited upon her previous lovers. But he is courageous and
optimistic and refuses to be deterred by such fantasies of the
imagination. He starts an investigation, and eventually presents a
simple solution of what happens previously.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“So ingenious a mystery that devotees will forgive the loose plot
structure and the improbable characterization.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“The whole problem is put and solved in an original way, and some
readers will be grateful for a mystery story without the old
properties and machinery.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:584 Jl ’20 250w
“The story would greatly profit by a general tightening up. Its charm
lies entirely in the formulation of the mystery, and with its solution
the charm vanishes into incredibly thin air.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 900w
=Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w
“In ‘The vanishing men’ it is easy enough to pick flaws, but over and
above them all remains the great fact that the story interests the
reader from the beginning, holds his attention and brings up with a
smashing climax at the end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 310w
“Ingenious but over-melodramatic in its grisly conclusion.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w
“The reader is thoroughly thrilled, Mr Child is able to hold the
atmosphere of mystery and terror.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 170w
=CHILDREN’S= story garden. il *$1.50 (2c) Lippincott
20–7726
A collection of stories illustrating Quaker principles. The book is
compiled by a committee of the Philadelphia yearly meeting of Friends,
Anna Pettit Broomell, chairman. The introduction says, “‘The
children’s story garden’ announces its purpose at once. Its stories
have the direct aim of teaching ethics and religious truth to
children.... It is not the intention of the compilers to make this a
sectarian book. There are of course stories which show the reason
behind some Friendly customs, but as a whole it is hoped that there is
a fair representation of the simple virtues which lie behind human
progress and Christian living.” The stories have been selected and
adapted from many sources. Several, including the opening story, show
the relation between the Friends and the American Indians. A few have
been written especially for this book. There are historical notes and
an outline of the principles illustrated which will be useful to
teachers. Further readings are also suggested.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
“If used with discrimination, the book will furnish some very good
reading material.”
+ =El School J= 21:157 O ’20 60w
=CHISHOLM, LOUEY, and STEEDMAN, AMY=, comps. Staircase of stories. 11
*$4.50 (1½c) Putnam
20–26559
“Any originality of Intention or treatment must be disclaimed for ‘A
staircase of stories.’ Its title, plan, appeal, and aim have been
alike suggested by ‘The golden staircase,’ a volume of ‘Poems and
verses for children between the ages of four and fourteen.’ The title
indicates ... a gradual ascent in difficulty as the pages are
turned.... In the choice of content, the aim, as before, has been to
concentrate solely on what it is believed children will most enjoy.”
(Preface) The series opens with The old woman and her pig, Lazy John,
Henny-Penny and other simple tales and with its graduated ascent works
up to an adaptation of Daudet’s “Last class.” Other stories are The
golden touch; The madonna of the goldfinch; The storks; The queen of
the seven golden mountains; The twelve huntsmen; The porcelain stove;
Gareth and Lynette; and Balder the beautiful. There are illustrations
in color and in black and white.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:77 N ’20
“There is a goodly array of reading matter that should appeal to the
youngster. The many color illustrations and pen and ink sketches add
to the attractiveness of a book that any child may well covet.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 200w
+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 50w
“The illustrations are by a number of artists, whose names deserve to
be known, so charmingly is their work done. In fanciful conception and
delicacy of colors the plates are almost always a delight: moreover,
there is no approach to the unduly fantastic or the bizarre. The black
and white pictures have the breadth and surety of good
draughtsmanship. Altogether ‘A staircase of stories’ is a successful
production.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 180w
=CHRISMAN, OSCAR.=[2] Historical child. *$4 Badger, R: G. 392
20–6060
“Dr Chrisman, professor in the Ohio university, offers this book as
the first of a projected series in paidology, the science of the
child—a term originating, says the author, with himself. In this
volume there is gathered an imposing array of folkways of many ancient
peoples. Mexico, Peru, Egypt, India, China, Japan, Persia, Judea,
Greece, Rome, earlier and medieval Europe are all included, and there
is also a long chapter on earlier United States. Quotations from many
sources are used in abundance. Dr Chrisman explains that one must know
the setting of child life, to understand children. It is really,
therefore, the social background that one finds here—miscellaneous
customs of home, dress, food, marriage, infant ceremonies, industry,
religion, amusements, education (briefly), and the like, which
constitute the environmental stimulus to growth.”—Survey
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:298 Je ’20
=St Louis= 18:212 S ’20 30w
“The reader gains the impression that the value of the book for
students will depend upon the degree to which the teacher can help
them to an intelligent use of the facts here portrayed. Unguided, one
is likely to finish the book with a somewhat confused impression of a
wide variety of interesting practices, but without any clear-cut
addition to his knowledge of children.” Hugh Hartshorne
+ − =Survey= 45:468 D 25 ’20 320w
=CHRISTY, BAYARD H.= Going afoot. *$1.35 Assn. press 796
20–7930
In this enthusiastic little book on walking instruction is given on
the how, when and where of walking—the clothes to wear, the equipment
to carry, the hours of the day, the seasons of the year, and the
localities to choose. Detailed description is given of walking clubs
and their organization and activities. Contents: How to walk; When to
walk; Where to walk; Walking clubs in America; Organization and
conduct of walking clubs; Bibliography.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ’20 180w
Reviewed by F: O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ag 15 ’20 800w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 22 ’20 300w
“It may seem impossible to write an altogether dull and uninspiring
book on walking in the country; but Mr Christy has accomplished it.
This is not to say that this little handbook of practical advice has
not its uses. The chapter on organization is valuable for anyone
contemplating the formation of a club.”
+ − =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 200w
=CITY CLUB OF CHICAGO.= Ideals of America. *$1.75 McClurg 304
19–16553
“This volume consists of thirteen essays by different authors who have
endeavored to analyze the ‘guiding motives of contemporary American
life’ in various fields. The essays were first presented as lectures
before the City club of Chicago during the years from 1916 to 1919.
Government, the law, labor, science, education, business, ‘society,’
music, religion, philosophy, literature, and human progress are
treated. Robert Morss Lovett, Elsie Clews Parsons, John P. Frey, John
Bradley Winslow and George Ellsworth Hooker are among the notable
contributors to the volume.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:222 Ap ’20
+ =Nation= 110:523 Ap 17 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 61:222 F ’20 40w
“The essays vary in value, but for example, to cite only two, those of
Dean Lovett and Justice Winslow, are exceedingly able statements of
realities and tendencies in their respective fields of literature and
the law. As a whole the book is a useful picture of the intellectual
life of the American which existed until 1914.”
+ =Survey= 43:505 Ja 31 ’20 140w
=CLANCY, MRS LOUISE BREITENBACH.= Christine of the young heart. *$1.75
(2c) Small
20–17176
Christine Trevor is a butterfly debutante, pretty and selfish, with
the notion that the world revolves around her. Then she loses her
father and her wealth in one blow. She has a crippled younger brother
and there are Dilly and Daffy, the six-year-old twins, so she has a
wonderful opportunity to retrieve her character if she chooses to do
so, but at first she rebels against mothering the twins and being a
comrade to Laurie. She gradually awakes to the fact that nobody can
love a “crosspatch,” as Daffy frankly calls her, and that to have a
friend, one must be one. She decides to act on this principle, and her
progress in friendship and happiness is speedy. Winning over cranky
old Joshua Barton, her next door neighbor, is perhaps her greatest
achievement, and thru it an ancient wrong is righted which brings
happiness to many people. And Dr Denton, who has loved her always,
surely loves her no less now that she has outgrown her earlier
selfishness.
* * * * *
“It is cloying upon the intellect and opiate to the senses. ‘Christine
of the young heart’ is sweet; it is doubly dangerous because it is
well constructed and well written, even though it be a typical novel
of sentimentality.”
− + =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 380w
=CLAPHAM, RICHARD.= Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells; with an introd. by
J. W. Lowther. il *$4.25 (*12s 6d) Longmans 799
20–17000
“Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells is pure foxhunting. It is the fox
and the work of the hounds alone that matter. On the Lakeland fells
the fox looks after himself, and is there to be killed. He is no
friend of the fell sheep. You will ask—why then is he not shot or
trapped? And the answer is a simple one—because the men of that
country enjoy hunting him. Of the joys and dangers of this sport on
the fells Mr Clapham writes.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“He knows his subject thoroughly: he argues about it, theorizes about
it, gossips about it, and all in a charmingly informal fashion. His
volume is profusely illustrated with photographs that convey the
interest of his subject even better than the text.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p21 D 4 ’20 160w
“A volume that will attract only a limited audience, but it is
pleasingly written and the author’s intimate knowledge of his subject
is indubitable. Written, undoubtedly, for the English public, its
appeal to American readers will not be very great.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 70w
“Of the five chapters, we liked best that on ‘The fell hounds.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p645 O 7 ’20 1000w
=CLAPP, JOHN MANTLE.= Talking business. (Language for men of affairs) $4
Ronald 808
20–9489
The first of the two volumes on Language for men of affairs considers
spoken language on the ground that not one in ten business men has the
ready and sure mastery of the language forms required in business
operations. The book is in five parts. Part I, The real problem:
Putting your mind on the other man, treats of the psychology of
speech. Part II, The machinery, explains the physiological basis under
such headings as: Your appearance; The vocal organs; Pronunciation; A
good voice. Part III, Language, considers the vocabulary and
construction of sentences. Part IV, Conversation, Business interviews,
discusses the various business situations involving speech and Part V,
Public speaking, Business addresses, the more elaborate uses of
language. There are illustrations and an index. The second volume, on
Business writing, is edited by James Melvin Lee.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 70w
+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 130w
=CLARK, ALFRED.= Margaret book. *$1.50 Lane 828
20–7457
A book of verses strung together on a thread of prose. It is by the
author of “My erratic pal” and follows the same manner. The prose
narrative tells of a New Zealand soldier on sick leave in England, of
his happy days in Margaret’s garden, of their love and marriage. Among
the poems there is a series describing the dreams experienced in
illness.
* * * * *
=Ath= p322 Mr 5 ’20 80w
=N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 280w
“It is all very sweet and nice and gentle—rather too ostentatiously
so; every one plays up to the demand for sweetness too zealously and
continuously, and the lusciousness of the love-making begins to pall.
Nor do we think that the combination of prose and verse justifies
itself.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 240w
=CLARK, ALICE.= Working life of women in the seventeenth century.
(Studies in economics and political science) *$3.25 (3c) Harcourt. Brace
& Howe 331.4
20–2765
The writing of the book was prompted by the conviction that “the
conditions under which the obscure mass of women live and fulfill
their duties as human beings, have a vital influence upon the
destinies of the human race, and that a little knowledge of what these
conditions have actually been in the past will be of more value to the
sociologist than many volumes of carefully elaborated theory based on
abstract ideas.” (Preface) The seventeenth century was chosen as a
field of research because, as a sort of watershed between the
Elizabethan era and the restoration period and partaking of the
characteristics of both, it forms an important crisis in the historic
development of Englishwomen. The author indicates in her conclusions
that with the advent of machinery and capitalism, restricting the
economic life of women, a marked decadence is revealed. Contents:
Introductory; Capitalists; Agriculture; Textiles; Crafts and trades;
Professions; Conclusion; List of authorities; List of wages
assessments; Index.
* * * * *
“In spite of the fact that the author’s powers of induction are not at
all points comparable with her industry, the painstaking work is a
monument to her effort, and is of unquestioned value in its
presentation of contemporary evidence.” Amy Hewes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:577 S ’20 1750w
“Whether Miss Clark has proved her thesis or no, she has made
available to the general reader and the student of economics a mass of
material not easily accessible otherwise. She has faced the difficult
task of presenting a fair sample of her evidence, and has come well
out of that searching trial, though reflection would no doubt cause
her to admit that on occasion she has read more into her authorities
than is quite admissible.” E. M. G.
+ − =Ath= p9 Ja 2 ’20 1000w
“Clearly and interestingly written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
“Though Miss Clark’s book is technical in character, being based on a
rigid plan, we may build up from it an enlightening picture of life in
seventeenth century England.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 350w
Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster
=Nation= 111:sup419 O 13 ’20 550w
“The exhaustive bibliography and the rigidly technical character of
the investigation are the book’s outstanding virtues.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 170w
“Her distinction is that she has been able to render an inquiry so
similar in method to that followed by many American students in
graduate work, a genuine contribution in an important field. The
record is in fact a corrective to much loose thinking concerning the
place of women in a productive society. Not least of all, moreover, it
is an extraordinarily interesting book.”
+ =Survey= 44:320 My 29 ’20 360w
“The narrative is somewhat overloaded by detail, much of which could
have been relegated to foot notes; but neither this nor the defects to
which we have drawn attention should prevent due praise being given to
Miss Clark for a laborious and successful attempt to break new ground
in the history of the economic position of women.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 D 4 ’19 1500w
=CLARK, CHAMP.= My quarter century of American politics. 2v il *$6 (2c)
Harper
20–4643
“I started out to accomplish certain things. I kept pounding away at
them and have achieved most of them.... Endowed by nature with a
strong constitution, I have been able to do more work than most
men.... My long public career is due largely to the fact that I have
been blessed with as faithful a constituency as man ever had.... As my
wife, children, and many friends want to know some of the facts,
experiences, and recollections of my busy life, I will give them as
briefly, modestly, and as accurately as possible—writing about the
persons, books, circumstances, and things which most influenced my
life.” (Chapter 1) The books are illustrated and have an index.
* * * * *
“Throughout these gossipy and voluble pages, we find much of
repetition and more of exaggeration. In spite of its faults, which are
easily forgiven to the genial author, the work is one of some value to
our political literature. It is decidedly interesting and engaging
reading.” J. A. Woodburn
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:713 N ’20 1400w
“Mr Clark wanders in and about his subject in a chatty reminiscent
fashion, illuminating many little known corners of party politics,
bringing before the reader a brilliant procession of public
personalities and always indulging in sparkling anecdotes. The serious
reader will be troubled by the lack of sequence of political events.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20
=Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 27 ’20 550w
“The unity of the narrative is badly jumbled; a literary hack, hired
to revise the manuscript, would have cut it down from a third to a
half and with ease have straightened out the illogical arrangements,
the crudities of the paragraphs, the vain repetitions, and tiresome
platitudes.” C. W. Alvord
+ − =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=N Y Times= 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 3150w
“No student of political history will be able to omit this voluminous
account from his list.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 110w
“Genial humanity and wisdom, shrewd and kindly observation of men and
affairs—these are the outstanding qualities of Champ Clark’s
reminiscences. The wisdom varies in comprehensiveness and in degree of
illumination; the humanity is constant. It is remarkable how little of
the bitterness of controversy or the roughness of saw-edged sarcasm
there is in any part of Mr Clark’s book.”
+ =No Am= 211:713 My ’20 2250w
+ − =Review= 2:460 My 1 ’20 1400w
+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 180w
=CLARK, ELLERY HARDING.= Track athletics up to date. il *$1.50 Duffield
796
20–9841
A new manual of track athletics by an author who has had wide
experience as a physical director. His purpose is stated in the
preface: “First, I have endeavored to trace, with brevity, the history
of track athletics; next, I have noted some of the best of the many
books, pamphlets and special articles which have been written on this
subject; and lastly, I have tried to summarize, in the year 1919, our
present knowledge of proper methods of training and of performing the
various events on track and field.” The work is illustrated with
forty-three plates.
* * * * *
“He combines clear statement with the highest ideal of sport.”
+ =Booklist= 17:19 O ’20
=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 70w
=CLARK, EVANS.= Facts and fabrications about soviet Russia. pa 50c Rand
school of social science 914.7
20–12609
“The volume is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the
astounding falsehoods told about soviet Russia by the American press,
publicists and state and federal officials during the past few years.
In this portion the Sisson documents, the presidential fabrications,
the reports of alleged military defeats, and the rumors concerning
‘the nationalization of women,’ etc., are set forth in documentary
form. Part 2 consists of a comprehensive bibliography of periodical,
book and pamphlet literature dealing sympathetically with all phases
of the Russian problem—foreign policy, education, drama, industry,
labor, propaganda, religion, the woman question, etc.”—Socialist R
* * * * *
“The method is simple and admirably adapted to the purpose. Possibly
his classification is a little biased, as when he maintains that all
the conservatives have been unreliable and all the liberal and labor
organs truthful. But in general his criterion will stand and his list
will prove sound.” Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 111:160 Ag 7 ’20 760w
+ =Socialist R= 9:209 N ’20 250w
=CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD.= Gospel of out of doors. *$1.25 Assn. press
570.4
20–9999
One of the author’s purposes in publishing this collection of papers
is “that other men and women, encouraged by my own experience of the
joy, the comfort, and the health that come from an old farm, may feel
its lure, learn its joy, and experience its health-giving comforts.”
(Preface) Contents: The gospel of out of doors; The joy of the seed
catalogue; The lure of the old farm; A sermon to my brother weeds;
Farming as a moral equivalent for war; Under the willow in the spring;
My doorstep visitors; Birds in the bush and birds in the book; Out of
doors in the autumn; A rainy day at the farm; The underground
alchemist; Fun on the old farm; Always something new on the old farm;
Next best to a farm; Can a horse laugh? Ever-bearers and
ever-bloomers.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:20 O ’20
“There is nothing about the old farm, however prosaic it may be, that
fails to suggest to Mr Clark material for a delightful essay; and he
is always ready with a pungent poetical quotation.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 300w
“The charm of the book ... is simply irresistible.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 22 ’20 170w
=CLARK, THOMAS ARKLE.= High school boy and his problems. *$1.20
Macmillan 170
20–8370
“Dean Clark of the University of Illinois for many years has made boys
and their ways the chief concern of his official life. Mr Clark is
what the students would call a ‘regular’ dean. He knows the
temptations that beset the young man and is not astonished that they
are sometimes too much for him. He is inclined to overlook the minor
shortcomings, but conceives it his duty to warn the boy of the risk he
runs in yielding to evil suggestions. For the rest the book has much
in it that is of interest, and the dean is particularly happy in his
chapters on the value of systematic study and on choosing a career or
a college.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Sensible little talks with a happy freedom from ‘preachiness.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:48 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 150w
“It is concrete in every paragraph, reminiscent, replete with glimpses
of real boys facing actual situations. Almost as important as is its
content is the fact that it promises to win a reading from the
high-school boy to whom it is addressed.”
+ =School R= 28:555 S ’20 340w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 30w
=CLARKE, ISABEL CONSTANCE.= Lady Trent’s daughter. *$1.75 (1½c) Benziger
20–4464
Lady Trent had been married at a very early age and, widowed before
twenty, had left her infant daughter to the care of her elder sister,
who had brought the girl up in seclusion from the world. Olave is
sixteen when the story opens. A distinguished novelist meets the girl
in the woods, and charmed with her youth and innocence, persuades her
into a series of clandestine meetings. He finally tells her that he is
engaged to another woman, and later it comes to light that this woman
is Olave’s mother. The engagement is at once broken and Lady Trent
tries to win her daughter’s confidence and love. But the mischief is
already done and the girl continues to meet Quinn. A runaway marriage
is planned, but is abandoned when Quinn’s long neglected Catholic
principles reassert themselves. Olave also accepts Catholicism, toward
which she has had strong leanings, feeling that under its influence
she would have been saved from the course of deception she has
followed.
* * * * *
=Ath= p304 S 3 ’20 390w
“Guy Quinn not only fails to live for us, but is quite devoid of any
heroic qualities. As to his charm, which subjugated in turn the widow
Felicity Trent and her young daughter Olave, that has to be taken
altogether on trust.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p532 Ag 19 ’20 600w
=CLARKE, ISABEL CONSTANCE.=[2] Ursula Finch. *$2.25 (2c) Benziger
The story of two sisters, one a spoiled beauty and one a drudge, The
scene is Cornwall but later when Ursula, the drudge, seems likely to
interfere with her sister’s matrimonial schemes, she is packed off to
Rome as a nursery governess. Here she comes under the influence of
Catholicism and joins the church. The lover who had been the cause of
her exile follows her and as he also has leanings toward the Catholic
faith the story ends happily.
* * * * *
“Miss Clarke has again produced a book which is both interesting and
entertaining; yet appreciation is mingled with constant regret over
the vehemence of her characterizations.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:548 Ja ’21 210w
=CLARKSON, RALPH PRESTON.=[2] Elementary electrical engineering. il *$2
Van Nostrand 621.3
20–19604
“A textbook of theory and practice, particularly adapted for the
instruction of mechanical, civil, and chemical engineers and others
desiring a short course.” (Sub-title) Contents: Introduction; Units
and terms; The solution of circuits; The generation of electricity;
Electrical measuring instruments; Illumination and power, electrical
transmission, theory of lighting devices. There are 141 diagrams and
an index.
=CLEMENCEAU, GEORGES EUGÈNE BENJAMIN.= Surprises of life. *$1.90 (4c)
Doubleday
20–16497
This collection of tales, translated from the French by Grace Hall,
tells the stories of curious characters in all walks of life. The
initial tale, Mokoubamba’s fetish, is of an old negro from Central
Africa, reseater of chairs, weaver of mats and mender of all things
breakable, wise beyond other men and with a philosophy of his own with
regard to fetishes. Some of the other titles are: A descendant of
Timon; Aunt Rosalie’s inheritance; A mad thinker; Better than
stealing; A domestic drama; The treasure of St Bartholomew; Lovers in
Florence.
* * * * *
“To face facts, though not always a pleasure, is a duty. To face the
French novelist’s interpretation of them seems to us in many cases
neither the one nor the other.”
− + =Ath= p731 N 26 ’20 160w
“Distinguished by technical dexterity.”
+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21
“The stories, if not put to the test of inner veracity, are thoroughly
readable.”
+ − =Nation= 111:353 S 25 ’20 300w
“The stories and things are well worth telling and are well told. The
book is the work of a keen and accurate reader of human nature and of
a master of satire.” A. W. Welch
+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 380w
“As literature, the tales in the present volume stand far above ‘The
strongest,’ the novel which he published in America last year. If they
have a single fault it is that the author’s lifelong habit of speaking
and writing to convince people of something shows itself in the
parable-like character of some of his stories. His powers of
characterization are admirable.”
+ − =N Y Times= p7 S 19 ’20 1400w
“In an age like ours when literature is afraid of its name, its
pedigree, and its uniform, M. Clemenceau will be helped rather than
hurt by the association of no small measure of literary force with the
brusque frankness and imperious, half insolent, unconcern of the man
who is not answerable to reviewers.”
+ =Review= 3:565 D 8 ’20 350w
“The book is marked by its clarity, that absence of adjectives which
makes every idea understood at once. M. Clemenceau is shrewd, yet
generous, a quality that Mark Twain attained in some of his short
stories. He paints portraits not merely in two dimensions, but in
three.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 290w
“There is always the impression that the things related are things
seen, not things invented, and that they are symbols of things not
seen. Some of the equipment of a complete master of the genre indeed,
he seems to lack.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p666 O 14 ’20 450w
=CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).= Moments with Mark
Twain; selected by Albert Bigelow Paine. *$1.50 Harper 817
20–6374
One of the compiler’s excuses for offering this selection from the
writings of Mark Twain to the public is to show that the latter was
something more than a fun-maker. “The examples have been arranged
chronologically, so that the reader, following them in order, may note
the author’s evolution—the development of his humor, his observation,
his philosophy and his literary style. They have been selected with
some care, in the hope that those who know the author best may
consider him fairly represented.” (Foreword)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“Well-chosen selections from his works chronologically arranged to
show evolution of style and thought as well as characteristic humor.
Useful for quotation hunters.”
+ =Cleveland= p84 O ’20 20w
=Review= 2:403 Ap 17 ’20 80w
=CLEVELAND, FREDERICK ALBERT, and BUCK, ARTHUR EUGENE.= Budget and
responsible government. (American social progress ser.) *$3 (2½c)
Macmillan 353
20–8814
“A description and interpretation of the struggle for responsible
government in the United States, with special reference to recent
changes in state constitutions and statute laws providing for
administrative reorganization and budget reform.” (Sub-title) The
preface by Mr Cleveland states that the work was begun as a report to
the National budget committee. Later its scope was expanded and Mr
Buck of the New York Bureau of municipal research, who had been
preparing a report dealing with administrative reorganization in the
several states, was asked to collaborate. In addition to the editor’s
note by Samuel McCune Lindsay, there is an introduction by
ex-President Taft, who during his term of office urged the adoption of
the budget system. The book is in five parts: Historic background and
interpretation of the recent movement for administrative
reorganization and budget procedure; Detailed accounts of proposed
plans and recent legal enactments for administrative reorganization in
state governments; Detailed accounts of the characteristics and
operation of recent state enactments providing for a budget procedure;
Proposed national budget legislation; Conclusion. There is no index, a
want partly supplied by the analytical table of contents.
* * * * *
+ =Am Hist R= 26:148 O ’20 200w
Reviewed by A. C. Hanford
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:711 N ’20 500w
“Sound, careful work for students and those interested in problems of
government.”
+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
“Mr Cleveland states very plainly the facts regarding the necessity of
a national segregated budget and no one reading his book can fail to
realize that if the government of this country is to be administered
in an efficient and responsible manner some form of segregated budget
must be adopted.” G. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 350w
“For the student of budget legislation and administration in the
technical sense, the chapters by Mr Buck will be especially welcome.”
C: A. Beard
+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 700w
+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 140w
“The book is an eloquent plea for more effective democracy, a powerful
argument against political bossism, and a valuable contribution to the
cause of the ‘independent’ voter. It should prove of informative value
to women.” C. E. Rightor
+ =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 570w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 50w
=CLOSE, EVELYNE.= Cherry Isle. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–20001
Anthea Argent is just a young struggling singer when the famous tenor,
Charles Garston, meets and falls in love with her in cherry-blossom
time. Altho she realizes she cares more for her art than she does for
him, she consents to marry him. Her voice develops until her fame
matches her husband’s, but with the coming of their baby she loses it
entirely. Her coldness to her husband increases to bitter hatred and
they finally separate, but not before she has realized that her child
was born dumb. The other passion of her life beside her voice is for
revenge on the man who had wrecked her mother’s life—her own
unacknowledged father. She sets herself to ruin him and accomplishes
it in a dramatic way. But, having done so, she realizes that the
fulfilment of this ambition, as of her earlier one, turns to ashes in
her grasp. She sees herself as the selfish, hard woman that she is,
and the close of the story finds her pride breaking as she tries to
pick up the pieces of her life and patch them together again.
* * * * *
“The novel, though readable, has elements of artificiality.”
+ − =Ath= p590 Ap 30 ’20 110w
“For a piece of sensational fiction this novel is decidedly readable.
The opening chapters in the cherry orchard are charming bits of
description.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 50w
=Sat R= 130:80 Jl 24 ’20 80w
=CLOW, FREDERICK REDMAN.= Principles of sociology with educational
applications. (Brief course ser. in education) $1.80 Macmillan 301
20–3277
“Mr Clow, who teaches in the State normal school at Oshkosh,
Wisconsin, believes that sociological theory can be made, to a far
greater extent than has hitherto been done, an instrument for the
solution of practical and technical problems. The present text-book,
which is divided into three parts, ‘The factors of society,’ ‘Social
organization,’ and ‘Social progress,’ is intended to provide students
with a basis upon which they can apply sociological principles to
groups and institutions of which they form part or with which they are
familiar. Each chapter of the exposition is followed by a list of
‘Topics’ to be assigned to individual students for special study, a
series of ‘Problems’ for discussion and an elaborate table of
bibliographical references. This careful work contains in addition a
select list of books generally useful for further reading in the
subject and indices of authors, books, periodicals and subjects.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The book is encyclopedic rather than systematic. It treats in
succession a great variety of topics, but one is left at the end of
the book with a confused idea and without any view of a general
systematic theory of society or of school organization. It would be
very difficult to put this book into the hands of elementary students
unless the author himself were so thoroughly inspired by the
importance of sociology that he could carry the student far beyond the
compass of the text itself.”
+ − =El School J= 20:713 My ’20 580w
+ =School R= 28:389 My ’20 280w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p404 Je 24 ’20 150w
=CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR.= Essays on art. *$1.75 Scribner 704
20–6951
“In the preface of this volume, Mr Clutton-Brock asks, ‘How are we to
improve the art of our own time? After years of criticism I am more
interested in this question than in any other that concerns the arts.’
He believes that art, like other human activities, is subject to the
will of man, and that the quality of art in any age depends chiefly
upon the attitude of the public towards it. His insistence on good
workmanship and sound construction in the things we see and handle
every day is a continuance of the gospel of William Morris, and it was
never more needed than it is now. He pours irony and ridicule on the
idea of art as a luxury; on the craze for cheap machine-made
reproductions of expensive ornaments; on professors of art who live in
hideous drawing-rooms; on the exalting of processes above persons; and
on the professionalism of artists, in whom an arrogant skill and
accomplishment take the place of genuine expression. One of the best
of the essays is a ‘Defence of criticism,’ occasioned by an outburst
of Sir Thomas Jackson lamenting that art criticism could not be made
penal for ten years, so that people might think for themselves.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“Mr Clutton-Brock is safer as a thinker on conscience and duty than on
æsthetics, though he portrays the artist—Leonardo, Mozart, or
Poussin—with admirable insight.”
+ − =Ath= p1353 D 12 ’19 140w
=Ath= p8 Ja 2 ’20 1550w
“It is so pregnant with genial wisdom, and without being unduly
dogmatic, so sincerely genuine in its viewpoints, that it is bound to
give real pleasure.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 200w
“These essays are vigorous, informative, and often very well written.”
+ =Dial= 68:538 Ap ’20 80w
“His is a book worth thinking about, very straight and sober and
sincere, discussing one of the most serious of all subjects in a
manner worthy of the subject.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 21:389 F 25 ’20 1800w
“With the strong ethical perceptions, Mr Brock combines
sensitiveness.”
+ =Review= 2:276 My 29 ’20 400w
“He writes with a refreshing absence of superiority, as one of the
public with a natural and human interest in art.”
+ =Sat R= 128:565 D 13 ’19 800w
“A better little book of ‘aesthetics for beginners’ could hardly be
imagined than Mr Clutton-Brock’s ‘Essays on art.’”
+ =Spec= 124:242 F 21 ’20 380w
“Possessed of a finely perceptive and reflective nature, he sets forth
truths that might be called spiritual were not the word spiritual in
some minds held to denote a lack of common sense. Perhaps it is Mr
Clutton-Brock’s distinction that he makes spiritual truths appear to
be common sense.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 1050w
=CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR.= What is the kingdom of Heaven? *$1.75 Scribner
230
(Eng ed A20–528)
“‘Is the universe a fraud?’ is the question which Mr Clutton-Brock
asks and tries to answer in this book. Is life as we know it a welter
of pain and evil, a vast and stupid joke; or is there some sense, some
moral principle, behind this seeming chaos? We all desire to believe
that our private virtues rhyme with something in the universe. We can
be convinced that they do, and we can make the conviction come true in
fact, says Mr Brock, by believing in the Kingdom of Heaven. The
Kingdom of Heaven is a relation of man to the universe analogous to
the relation of man to art—a relation at once passionately intimate
and disinterested. The Kingdom of Heaven in politics means the
disappearance of struggle and competition, in the individual the
beginning of happiness.”—Ath
* * * * *
“Mr Brock writes in such a way that it is often possible to wonder
whether his words have any very exact meaning, or whether they are
merely symbols fluttering in the void, searching vainly for some solid
reality on which to repose themselves.”
− =Ath= p315 My 19 ’19 180w
Reviewed by Bertrand Russell
=Ath= p487 Je 20 ’19 1700w
“It is a passionate and beautiful treatment of Jesus and his chief
doctrine, bearing the mark of the artist and the prophet. This book
must be read slowly, reflected upon earnestly; it is a significant
discussion of a supreme subject.”
+ =Bib World= 54:643 N ’20 330w
“Mr Clutton-Brock’s book has a fresh, arresting quality; it detains
the reader. It is worthy of attention as representing the highminded
and persuasive modernism that is working in the church.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:117 O ’20 550w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 29 ’19 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p15 O 19 ’19 2600w
=COAKLEY, THOMAS FRANCIS.= Spiritism; the modern satanism. *$1.25
Extension press 134
“Dr Coakley finds what he calls ‘the present craze for spiritism’ to
be in substance much the same as those waves of hysteria and
necromancy that have occasionally swept the earth since the most
ancient times. He opposes it especially in its claim to be, as Sir
Conan Doyle calls it, ‘a new revelation,’ and finds spiritistic
practices to be full of danger of many sorts, while he thinks that a
future life filled with the sort of spirits that are chiefly in
evidence at séances would offer few attractions. He sets forth the
attitude of the Catholic church upon the subject and makes clear the
reasons why it prohibits its members from taking any part in
spiritistic or psychical research inquiries.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Cath World= 112:252 N ’20 110w
=N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 110w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= Abandoned farmers. *$3 (6½c) Doran 817
20–19071
In this “humorous account of a retreat from the city to the farm” the
reader accompanies the author on a long search for an abandoned farm,
and, when it is found at last, assists in every detail of taking
possession, of digging a well, planning, building and furnishing the
house and, at last, takes leaves of him with the impression that,
although the feat was not accomplished without membership in the
Westchester county despair association, it was all worth while.
Contents: Which is really a preface in disguise; The start of a dream;
Three years elapse; Happy days for Major Gloom; In which we bore for
water; Two more years elapse; “And sold to—”; The adventure of Lady
Maude; Us landed proprietors.
* * * * *
“Written with the usual Cobb humor. Described by one reader as ‘a bit
thin with an occasional raisin.’”
+ − =Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 110w
“‘The abandoned farmers’ represent Mr Cobb at his happiest.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 130w
“It is a tale all of which lies in the telling, and with Cobb in the
role of Tusitala no one can go wrong in expecting that every phase of
humor in the subject will be brought forth.”
+ =Review= 3:506 N 24 ’20 220w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= From place to place. *$2 (1½c) Doran
20–2846
“Stories about ourselves” is the sub-title of this collection of
character sketches. The choice of subjects is unusual. In “The
gallowsmith” we have a sympathetically drawn picture of a
self-appointed hangman who plied his trade with the pride of a good
craftsman till suddenly one day his dormant imagination awoke
and—killed him. The other sketches are: The thunders of silence; Boys
will be boys; The luck piece; Quality folks; John J. Coincidence; When
August the second was April the first; Hoodwinked; The bull called
Emily.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w
=Lit D= p127 Mr 27 ’20 1300w
“These stories make interesting reading, though they are remote from
any trace of realism.” Alvin Winston
+ =N Y Call= p11 Mr 21 ’20 300w
“Here we have Mr Cobb in all his varying moods of farce and pathos,
reminiscence, stern logic, and ironical tragedy. The tale which opens
the book, ‘The gallowsmith,’ manifestly belongs to him who wrote ‘The
escape of Mr Trimm’ and the wonderful narrative of ‘The bell
buzzard.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:57 F 1 ’20 700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 350w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY, and RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY
MARSHALL RINEHART).= Oh, well, you know how women are! and Isn’t that
just like a man! *$1 (8c) Doran 817
20–4128
Mr Cobb, at one end of the book, enlarges on the foibles of
women—their narrow skirts, their high heels, their habits of impeding
the traffic and getting off street cars backward, and then ends with a
tribute to their work for the war. Mrs Rinehart, at the other end,
reciprocates with comments on the inherent conservatism of men, and
their sex clannishness, and then pats them gently on the head for
their eternal boyishness and confesses that “we do like them,
dreadfully.”
* * * * *
“While some of the jokes will seem trite, there are enough good laughs
to compensate.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20
“The tone of both little essays is delightfully urbane.” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 97:993 Mr 20 ’20 200w
“It is all good fun, and neither writer could be dull if he (or she)
tried.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 300w
“That clever novelist [Mrs Rinehart] gives us very much better
reading. She is full of shrewd remarks, and shows much more
sympathetic insight into man than Mr Cobb does into woman.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p405 Je 24 ’20 340w
=COBB, THOMAS.= Mr Preston’s daughter. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
20–19510
Monica Dasent, in love with Godfrey Raymond, becomes jealous when Essa
Maynard, a girl of doubtful past, begins to pay him marked attention.
Godfrey’s sole interest in Essa is because his uncle Hugh has
confessed a “certain responsibility” for the girl. After the uncle’s
death, it is discovered that he left Essa a large legacy, and Godfrey
tries to prove exactly what “responsibility” Uncle Hugh had felt. This
involves him in a family quarrel of long standing between his uncle
and his cousin Anthony, the cause of which he finds to be the
paternity of Essa. Anthony, the real father, is anxious to conceal the
fact from his wife, but it all turns out to be a tempest in a teapot
since his wife had known the circumstances even before their marriage.
* * * * *
=Ath= p687 My 21 ’20 50w
“Here are the ingredients of excitement. But somehow or other the
creator of these elements lacks the proper recipe for the most
effective mixing. His atmosphere sags; his stride is feeble: he never
swings into the long and winning pace that comes so easily to the
authors of American best sellers.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 310w
“The author has a fluent pleasing style, and he knows his London
thoroughly. Can be commended to that large class which buys a novel
because the purchaser wants ‘something to read.’”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ja 16 ’21 450w
“Mr Cobb builds up a very good story with his accustomed skill.”
+ =Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 80w
“The book is written with Mr Thomas Cobb’s usual lightness of touch.”
+ =Spec= 125:118 Jl 24 ’20 80w
=COBB, THOMAS.= Silver bag. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–5233
During an absence from London Valentine Brook turns his flat over to
his friend Derrick Chalmers. On the morning after his return a pretty
girl calls to ask for a silver bag left there during his absence. It
is made clear that it is not her bag, that she is calling for it for
another woman. The mystery of the story revolves about the owner of
the bag. Lionel Windermere suspects his wife, Valentine reluctantly
suspects Evelyn Stainer. Mrs Tempest calmly states that it is hers,
but there is reason to believe she is shielding one of the others. But
which one? The tangle is straightened out finally with no reputations
lost and no hearts broken.
* * * * *
“The mystery takes so long to clear up that the reader gets a bit
tired of it all, and begins to grew impatient at a point where he
should, by the rules of the mystery game, be so absorbed as to take no
account of time.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 300w
“The style is sometimes crude, but the plot is ingeniously
constructed, and certainly has an unexpected solution. Yet our
interest is not always maintained at a high level, possibly because
none of the persons concerned makes any strong appeal to our
sympathy.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:251 S 13 ’19 220w
“Mr Cobb writes his new drawing-room comedy with his usual detachment
and accomplishment.”
+ − =Spec= 123:622 N 8 ’19 80w
“While not melodramatic or sensational, ‘The silver bag’ contains
mystery and amusing situations. The book will please those with a
weakness for delving into society scandals and near scandals.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 270w
=COCKERELL, THEODORE DRU ALISON.= Zoology, il *$3 World bk. 590
20–7593
A work by the professor of zoology in the University of Colorado,
published as one of the New-World science series of which John W.
Ritchie is general editor. It is designed as a text book for colleges
and universities but has several elements of popular appeal. One of
its unusual features is the interposition of biographical chapters,
the author believing that it is well for the students to know more of
the men who have contributed to scientific knowledge. Consequently he
has provided sketches of Darwin, Linnæus. Henri Fabre, Pasteur and
others. The book has good illustrations including a series of animal
photographs taken under the author’s direction in the New York
zoological park. References follow the chapters and there is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:302 Je ’20
=CODY, HIRAM ALFRED.= Glen of the high north. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–18933
Tom Reynolds finds himself at odds with life after his four years at
the front. The vision of a beautiful face in a crowded street remains
his grip on reality. On top of this comes the suggestion of a friend
that he go in search of a Henry Redmond who, with his little girl, had
mysteriously disappeared fifteen years previous. Ostensibly Tom goes
in search of Redmond, but in reality his quest is for the face. More
casual glimpses of it intensify his zeal. It takes him into the mining
camps of the far north, plunges him into adventures in which figure
the girl, an old philosophic prospector, a villainous miner, and a
mysterious landed proprietor lording it in his stronghold behind the
Golden Crest. In the end the girl proves to be the daughter of the
landlord and the latter, the old prospector and the lost Henry Redmond
to be one and the same person. The girl is won, gold is found in the
bargain, the villainous miner is made harmless and life is once more
real to Tom.
* * * * *
“A commonplace, crudely written melodrama of the most obvious
motion-picture type.”
− =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 200w
=CODY, LOUISA (FREDERICI) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK CODY).= Memories of
Buffalo Bill; in collaboration with Courtney Ryley Cooper. il *$2.50
(3½c) Appleton
20–2278
From the time he first courted her, to his death, Mrs Cody records the
career of her husband, one of the most picturesque and adventuresome
of human careers. Adventure was thrust upon him when a mere child it
became a part of his environment and was later sought with the keen
relish of the actor in him. “One thing had been borne to him, through
the never failing worship of youthful America, that he was an idol who
never could be replaced, that as long as there were boys, and as long
as those boys had red blood in their veins, they would thrill at the
sight of him they loved, and cheer the sounding reverberation of his
great booming voice as he whirled into the arena on his great, white
horse, came to a swinging stop before the grandstand, and raised his
hand for the famous salute from the saddle.” (Chapter 15)
* * * * *
“The book under review may not be a literary masterpiece, but it has a
merit which many so-called literary masterpieces lack—the merit of
presenting a real man and an admirable character. It is written in a
lively and entertaining style, with restraint, and in good taste.” J:
Bunker
+ =Bookm= 52:79 S ’20 560w
“Her tale is rambling at times, and at times inclined to the
sentimental; however, it is not entirely out of character to know that
the Indian-killing scout was a lively lover, as well as a dead shot
with the rifle. This story becomes more human on that account. It is
evident that the real biography of Colonel William F. Cody, ‘Buffalo
Bill,’ is yet to be written, and Mrs Cody has contributed her part in
good season.” J. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 F 14 ’20 450w
“It may be that the closeness of the author to the scenes of which she
writes has marred the perspective. In any case, the present volume
very largely fails both in color and adequacy.... By way of
compensation, the concluding chapters exhibit a good deal of dramatic
power. Indeed, we have seldom read a story more pitifully fascinating
than that of the massacre at Wounded Knee, as told by the aged Short
Bull in his tepee on the blizzard-swept prairie near Pine Ridge. It is
worth knowing, for it is history.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:544 Jl ’20 200w
=Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
=N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w
“In addition to its personal interest the book gives a stirring
picture of early western life.”
+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 30w
=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 50w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 19 ’20 200w
=CODY, WILLIAM FREDERICK (BUFFALO BILL, pseud.).= Autobiography of
Buffalo Bill. il *$3 (3c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation
20–7661
In this story of his life Colonel Cody touches upon his life as a
showman only as the final rounding out of his career after the great
wild west, of which he had been so integral a part, had become a thing
of the past. But in its pages live again and go down to history the
thrilling last days of Indian warfare, buffalo hunting and
stage-coaching. The book is illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
“The volume is a brisk, vivid and authentic picture of a departed era,
so rich in detail and so bold in outline that it leaves most of our
purely fictional wild West stories in total eclipse.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 200w
=Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
“Buffalo Bill’s own story does not rank with ‘Treasure Island,’ but it
is the boys’ own book, for it holds all that can live of the life its
hero led on the plains and afterwards preserved under canvas; and it
was written by a boy who actually did the thing every boy resolves to
do, stayed a boy in defiance of time and fate for more than seventy
years.”
+ =Review= 3:71 Jl 21 ’20 1250w
“His autobiography well deserves a place on the library shelf devoted
to western history.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 100w
“It is well to have a life of such varied adventures written at
length, the more so since the setting of so much of that life has
passed beyond duplication.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 340w
“Interesting to everyone, for it is an important phase of our history
graphically told by the one who knew it best.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:122 Je ’20 100w
=COFFIN, HENRY SLOANE.= More Christian industrial order. *$1 (4c)
Macmillan 330
20–6208
The author does not hold that the fragmentary sayings of Jesus can be
pieced together to form a basis for a new industrial order. What he
believes is that the spirit of Jesus furnishes a guide for conduct in
any given situation and his purpose here is to ask “what the spirit of
Jesus would create out of the existing social system in order that we
may be led into a more Christian industrial order.” Contents: The
Christian as producer; The Christian as consumer; The Christian as
owner; The Christian as investor; The Christian as employer and
employee; Conclusion—democracy and faith. The author is minister in
the Madison avenue Presbyterian church, New York city, and associate
professor in Union theological seminary.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
=N Y Times= p30 O 10 ’20 60w
“It is a very quiet book, a book whose tread is muffled, as if it fell
upon a thickly carpeted church aisle. Mr Coffin’s book on the social
order seems to take us far away from the industrial struggle.”
− + =Review= 3:75 Jl 21 ’20 200w
=Survey= 44:639 Ag 16 ’20 380w
=COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY.= Come seven. il *$1.75 (1½c) Dodd
20–16928
A volume of negro stories by the author of “Polished ebony.” Contents:
Without benefit of Virgie; The fight that failed; The quicker the
dead; Alley money; Twinkle, twinkle, movie star; The light bombastic
toe; Cock-a-doodle-doo!
* * * * *
“They approach the burlesque in their fun, but they never fail to
amuse.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
=COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY.= Gray dusk. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–2646
A detective story with scenes laid in South Carolina. Stanford Forrest
and his bride had gone there for their honeymoon. Four days later
David Carroll receives a telegram stating that Mary Forrest has been
murdered, and that Stanford is held for the crime. With his assistant,
Jim Sullivan, Carroll hastens to the scene of the tragedy. From the
first he is prejudiced in favor of his friend, but Sullivan maintains
his professional calm and stands ready to suspect everybody. There
seems however to be no one to suspect but Stanford himself, against
whom the circumstantial evidence is strong. But gradually others
become implicated, Bennet Hemingway, who had written a slanderous
letter, Conrad Heston, the man who had so mysteriously occupied
Furness Lodge before the arrival of the Forrests, Esther Devarney who
loves Heston, and Mart Farnam, the “swamp angel” with a weakness for
“licker.” One of these is guilty and Carroll succeeds in finding the
evidence that singles out this one.
* * * * *
“There are some good descriptions of the South Carolina ‘back country’
and a lack of objectionable thrills and horrors. The keen reader will
be able to guess the solution.”
+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
“‘Gray dusk’ has two qualities that lift it out of the ruck into which
books of its class usually fall. The first of these is a denouement
that will catch five out of every six sophisticated readers off guard,
and the second is the literary skill the author displays in the
successful creation of an atmosphere that enhances his plot.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 460w
“The plot is ingenious and the solution of the mystery unexpected.”
+ =Spec= 125:372 S 18 ’20 30w
“The story is conventional, but is not without lively episodes and
suspense.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 80w
“He writes in an easy, natural manner, with an agreeable absence of
that laboured smartness which so often mars American stories.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 80w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Chaos and order in industry. *$2.75 (3½c)
Stokes 335
(Eng ed 20–76275)
The average man, says the author, becomes conscious of our industrial
and economic system only when something has gone wrong. He goes
through three stages: apathy, prejudice, knowledge. The object of the
book is to serve the third stage and to find out what is really wrong.
After reviewing the status of the various industries he arrives at the
conclusion that the cleavage in society today is between the workers
by hand and by brain on the one side and the rentiers and financiers
on the other and that the function of industrial reconstruction
consists in devising a policy by which the former can exercise their
functions not on behalf of the latter but on behalf of the whole
community. Contents: The cause of strikes; Motives in industry; The
reconstruction of profiteering; The guild solution; Coal; Railways;
“Encroaching control” versus “industrial peace”; Engineering and
shipbuilding; Cotton and building; Distribution and the consumer; The
finance of industry; The real class struggle; Appendices and index.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p305 S 3 ’20 210w
“Mr Cole’s system may not inspire confident belief in those whose
approach to economic study has been through the classical formulae.
But no one can afford to dismiss it as a tissue of fallacies, an
impossible Utopia.” Alvin Johnson
+ − =New Republic= 25:80 D 15 ’20 1500w
“The degeneracy of its tone hangs like a miasma over every page. The
whole book is a gospel of greed, a hymn of hate.”
− =Sat R= 130:221 S 11 ’20 650w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p376 Je 17 ’20 1350w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Introduction to trade unionism. (Fabian
soc., London. Research dept. Trade union ser.) $1.65 For sale by the
Survey 331.87
(Eng ed 19–2251)
“In ‘An introduction to trade unionism’ the most prominent of the
younger students of the British labor problem presents to the reader
an admirable survey of English trade unionism of the present day. The
book estimates the strength of organized labor, analyzes trade union
structure and government, discusses the unions’ attitude toward
amalgamation, toward political action, cooperation, the state, the
shop steward’s movement, etc., and gives the reader a forecast of the
future.”—Survey
* * * * *
“What Mr Cole has set out to do he has done remarkably well. No
student of British trade unionism—or of American trade unionism, for
that matter—should pass this little book by.” D. A. McCabe
+ =Am Econ R= 9:589 S ’19 380w
“Mr Cole is to be thanked for explaining to the outside world the
growth and goal of the shop stewards’ movement. Those who will take
the trouble to follow Mr Cole’s treatment of the subject and to
consult the works indicated in his bibliography will realize the
futility of attempting to deflect trade unionism from its course by a
flood of goodwill.”
+ =Ath= p61 F ’19 140w
“Gives a lucid and commendably dispassionate account of the British
trade union movement.”
+ =Spec= 122:202 F 15 ’19 440w
Reviewed by H. W. Laidler
+ =Survey= 43:282 D 20 ’19 240w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Labour in the commonwealth. (New
commonwealth books) *$1.50 Huebsch 331
19–3307
“Mr Cole’s book is a restatement of the humanity of labour; a rescue
of labour from the dismal penumbra of abstractions which have
prevailed in industrial theory since the industrial revolution of the
last century. ‘Labour,’ which the economists have loved to contrast
with ‘capital,’ is an abstraction, he believes which has vitiated
thinking and perverted economic science from its proper function. Mr
Cole, therefore, who is one of the few members of the English
intelligenzia who have gained the full confidence of the labour party,
writes not of abstract labour as a ‘thing’ but of individual men and
women forming the majority of the people in any commonwealth; and
gives us his personal theory of labour’s place in the commonwealth and
what labour and the labour movement are like. This theory is that
labour should have control in the industrial sphere.”—Int J Ethics
* * * * *
“Of particular interest is Professor Cole’s analysis of the state. He
avoids very carefully the mistake which is so often made of confusing
the state and the commonwealth as a single entity.” G. S. Watkins
+ =Am Econ R= 10:608 S ’20 420w
“A notably interesting book.”
+ =Ath= p31 Ja ’19 30w
“Mr Cole’s new volumes may be heartily recommended to all who search
for an understanding of the mainsprings of labour policy and of the
groundwork of labour organization.”
+ =Ath= p61 F ’19 340w
+ =Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20
“A pungent review of the whole range of present industrial and social
life in the spirit of a revolutionary critic.”
+ =Brooklyn= 12:31 N ’19 40w
=Dial= 67:498 N 29 ’19 60w
=Int J Ethics= 29:506 Jl ’19 140w
“We could wish that Mr Cole would confine himself more rigorously to
plain and straightforward explanation. His excursions into satire and
humor are unfortunate. The book includes a chapter upon Labour and
education which is of real importance. Mr Cole’s discussion of the
state in this volume is on the whole better than anything he has
previously written on this subject; and a chapter on The organization
of freedom, in which there is an exposition of the guild idea from the
angle of personal liberty, is an exceedingly fresh and suggestive
piece of work.”
+ − =Nation= 110:112 Ja 24 ’20 1100w
“Against theories he regards as outworn Mr Cole’s attack, through all
his book, is spirited and resourceful. At times Mr Cole’s imaginative
style seems less telling than the steady hammering with facts which
such a writer as Sidney Webb uses. But there are times enough when Mr
Cole drives his sword’s point through a dogma and out its farther
side.” C. M.
+ − =New Repub= 22:102 Mr 17 ’20 480w
“There is no attempt in this book to equivocate or to win a decision
by finesse. In following Mr Cole’s argument many queries cannot fail
to occur to the reader, no matter how unprejudiced he may try to keep
his mind. In the first place, has Mr Cole been absolutely fair in
depicting present industrial conditions?”
+ − =N Y Evening= Post p3 F 14 ’20 1800w
=N Y Times= 25:325 Je 20 ’20 1400w
=Spec= 122:202 F 15 ’19 240w
“Adds nothing further to the philosophy of the national guildsmen, its
object being merely to give a birdseye view of the social
relationships to the outsider who wants to know the A B C’s, not of
guild socialism but of the industrial problem as a whole. This purpose
it fulfills admirably.” H. W. Laidler
+ =Survey= 41:644 F 1 ’19 480w
“By the test of fact Professor Cole is in places inadequate. But his
book is spirited, and the drift of his argument is sound. It is,
furthermore, entertaining—which alone would justify it. It is finally
a key to the state of mind of many of that younger generation to whom
it is principally addressed.” W: L. Chenery
+ − =Survey= 43:408 Ja 10 ’20 500w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Social theory. (Library of social
studies) *$1.50 (2½c) Stokes 301
20–7572
The book is a study of the actions of men in association, in
supplement and complement to their actions as isolated or private
individuals, and its object is to ascertain the essential principles
of social organizations and the moral and psychological problems upon
which their structure and functioning must be based if they are to be
in real harmony with the wills of the men and women of whom they are
composed. It is the author’s conviction that our existing structure of
society is not responsive to human needs, does not allow of the full
self-expression of all its members and is doomed to a radical
reconstruction. One of the social theories placed on the superannuated
list is that of state sovereignty. Contents: The forms of social
theory; Some names and their meaning; The principle of function; The
forms and motives of association; The state; Democracy and
representation; Government and legislation; Coercion and
co-ordination; The economic structure of society; Regionalism and
local government; Churches; Liberty; The atrophy of institutions;
Conclusion; Bibliographical notes and index.
* * * * *
“On the whole candor compels the report that the author has brewed a
few familiar concepts and some scattered observation into a turgidity
against which adequate familiarity with the sociological analyses of
the past two decades and a consistently observed purpose might have
been a protection.” A. W. Small
− =Am J Soc= 26:247 S ’20 870w
“Very able and pregnant little book. His book must be taken very
seriously, not only by teachers, but by politicians and reformers. It
will rouse keen discussion and hot dissent. Mr Cole will welcome both.
For though his manner is dogmatic, his method is tentative and moulds
itself on facts. His French logic has been grafted on an English
mind.” G. L. Dickinson
+ =Ath= p476 Ap 9 ’20 1700w
=Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w
“For my own part I take little exception to Mr Cole’s general
conclusion as based on the ideas of self-government and function. It
is only Mr Cole’s methods of reaching his conclusion which seem to me
inadequate. Human association is based not on will but upon
necessity.... Mr Cole’s book is exceedingly valuable nevertheless.”
Ordway Tead
+ − =Freeman= 1:405 Jl 7 ’20 1000w
“The book is compact and closely reasoned, detached, and even academic
in manner and revealing, as do Mr Cole’s other works, an acute and
masterly handling of his material.” M. J.
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:113 O ’20 520w
“Mr Cole has intellectual power of high order. He knows well what he
is aiming at and where he wants to stand. One of the most commendable
traits of his book is its candor in confessing that it is prompted by
a preference.” T: R. Powell
+ =Nation= 11:sup413 O 13 ’20 2050w
“A brilliant piece of relentless reasoning. Not often is sociology
made so easy, even enticing, as in this book.”
+ =Nation [London]= 27:212 My 15 ’20 1150w
“Guild socialism has hitherto lacked a reasoned theory of social
organization. In this book Mr Cole makes a brave and wonderfully
successful effort to grapple with its difficulties.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 23:154 Je 30 ’20 1600w
“The entire book is abstract to a degree. It cannot be recommended for
easy reading, but it should be read with care, if half the world is to
know what the other half is thinking about. As a flight of fancy and
project of reform Mr Cole’s idea has some attractive features, but we
would rather see it tried in some other country.”
− + =N Y Times= p13 Ag 8 ’20 2400w
“‘Social theory’ is a book worth while. It is reasoned and temperate;
despite a too frequent reliance upon abstract terms where concrete
example is most needed, it is clearly expressed; and it presents a
coherent set of principles. One may disagree with all of it and yet
acknowledge that the author has ably stated his argument.” W. J. Ghent
+ − =Review= 3:316 O 13 ’20 580w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 150w
“This is a most irritating little book. No text-book has a right to be
quite so dull as this; particularly from Mr Cole one had looked for
something more original.”
− =Sat R= 130:56 Ag 17 ’20 650w
“Mr Cole’s book is worthy of and will receive study. While it will not
pass unchallenged upon its constructive side, its criticism of old
conceptions is surely trenchant and significant.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 840w
“It is an illuminating book. For one I confess to have wished that Mr
Cole could have avoided his rather lengthy definition of the terms he
used.” W: L. Chenery
+ − =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 180w
“He is so anxious to convey an attitude of philosophic detachment that
he sometimes writes in what is for him a rather stilted and
commonplace style. Still, Mr Cole has after all an extremely acute and
very well trained mind. His analysis of social theory is nothing if it
is not acute.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p162 Mr 11 ’20 1100w
“As far as he goes, the author is an independent thinker, and neither
his knowledge of the labor movement nor his grasp of current social
theories can be questioned. The critical and destructive part of his
work is therefore fresh and highly suggestive. But both his admirers
and his opponents will expect something more, some revolutionary and
creative thought.” W: E. Walling
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:219 O ’20 720w
=COLE, GRENVILLE ARTHUR JAMES.= Ireland the outpost. il *$2.50 Oxford
941.5
20–2491
“Mr Cole believes that ‘a realization of the physical structure of
Ireland, and of her position as an outpost of Eurasia, may lead to a
wider comprehension, not only of the land, but of its complex
population.... If the presentation is a true one,’ he adds, ‘the nine
sections should lead to one conclusion.’ This conclusion is
anticipated in the first sentence of the book: ‘Nature allows no
“self-determination” to any point on the surface of the globe.’ If the
geology, flora, fauna, and ethnology of Ireland show that it is
closely united to the British island, it should not seek to go off on
its own politically.”—Nation
* * * * *
=Ath= p47 Ja 9 ’20 240w
“Professor Cole’s ‘Ireland the outpost,’ has a beauty of style rare
even among those who make belles-lettres their profession. With the
knowledge of a scientist the author combines the feeling of a poet,
and an acquaintance with the contemporary poetry of his country.” N.
J. O’C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 400w
“As an argument, ably presented, this one is peculiarly liable to be
reduced to the absurd.” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 200w
=COLERIDGE, ERNEST HARTLEY.= Life of Thomas Coutts, banker. 2v il *$10
Lane
20–5660
The subject of this biography, one of the founders of the banking
house of Coutts & Co., was born in 1735 and died in 1822. Business,
financial, political and social events of his time enter into his life
story. He was one of those who opposed the war with America and the
subject is referred to frequently in his correspondence during that
period. The biography is based on a large collection of mss which came
to light in 1907 and it tells for the first time in full the story of
Thomas Coutts’s romantic attachment for Harriet Mellon, whom he
married in his eightieth year. The volumes are very fully illustrated
and volume 2 has an index.
* * * * *
=Ath= p332 Mr 12 ’20 2450w
“Mr Coleridge’s two volumes are skilfully written and able documents.”
E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 1450w
“The biography before us is indebted for its attraction more to the
author than the subject. The personality of Tom Coutts does not strike
us as original or impressive: his letters are pompous, prosy, and
frequently ungrammatical. On the other hand, the prefatory chapters of
Mr Hartley Coleridge, the ‘callidæ juncturæ’ with which he stitches
together his bundles of letters, are quite delightful; and his
historical vignettes are perfect in their lightness of touch and
fairness of judgment.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:36 Ja 10 ’20 1500w
“The author has had the good fortune to use for the first time the
family papers, including the banker’s correspondence, which relates to
affairs of the heart as well as to Mammon and to politics. Thus the
book gives an intimate portrait of a successful man of business and
throws new light on the history of his times.”
+ =Spec= 124:144 Ja 31 ’20 1050w
“Lord Latymer is to be congratulated on having chosen Mr Coleridge to
edit these papers and Mr Coleridge on the scholarly way in which he
has carried out his task.... We must mention, in conclusion, an
extremely characteristic series of letters from Lady Hester Stanhope,
expressed with all her vivacious spirit. In spite of all the other
riches in this book these should on no account be missed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p7 Ja 1 ’20 1850w
=COLERIDGE, STEPHEN.=[2] Idolatry of science. *$1.25 Lane 501
20–16351
“Mr Coleridge’s book is really not so much a protest against the
idolatry of science as a general onslaught on the influence and on the
achievements of science. His theme is that the vital things of life
are feeling, thought, conduct, and that with them science has nothing
to do. It cannot therefore raise the human mind or play the chief part
in education. But he goes much further than that, and avows that
science deprives man of beauty and magnanimity; that few of its
‘trumpeted triumphs’ have really brought benefits to mankind; and that
it was in an evil hour that ‘James Watt and George Stephenson between
them gave railways and factories to mankind.’”—The Times [London] Lit
Sup
* * * * *
“It is an amusing performance, even the scientists will admit that if
they have sense and humour enough not to take the book too seriously.”
+ =Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 110w
“The book is sharp in wit and often delicious in its humor, but its
mistakes are so obvious that they scarcely need to be pointed out.” R.
E. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 300w
“Mr Coleridge’s effusions make us agree with him to the extent of
wishing that science had never invented the art of printing or even
the alphabet.”
− =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 390w
“A little more of the spirit of impartial investigation which is the
method of science would have saved him from much foolish exaggeration
about the exaltation of ugliness in ‘poetry, painting, sculpture, and
all forms of human expression.’ There is much half-truth in the book,
much restatement of the obvious. But it makes good reading, and the
very narrowness of its survey adds to its piquancy.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p143 F 26 ’20 510w
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Farm and garden tractors. il *$2.25 Stokes
631.37
20–19612
The author claims that the tractor is by all odds the most important
factor in solving the farming problem of today, viz: reducing the
number of men and lowering the cost of production. The book proposes
to tell all about how to buy, run, repair and take care of one. Every
kind of tractor and every part and detail is shown in the
illustrations and diagrams, there is an appendix and an index, and the
contents are: About tractors in general; The parts of a tractor; The
mechanism of a tractor; Garden and truck farm tractors; Tractors for
small farms; Tractors for average farms; Tractors for big farms;
Draw-bar and belt power applications; How to take care of your
tractor; Tractor troubles and how to fix them; Tractor repairs and how
to make them; The kind of tractor you want.
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Motor car starting and lighting. il *$1.50
Appleton 629.2
20–11306
In a note on “How to use this book” the author says, “This books tells
you (1) how to keep out of starting, lighting and ignition troubles,
in so far as this is possible, and, what’s more to the point, (2) how
to find and fix troubles when they crop out, which they are bound to
do even in the best of systems.” The book is composed of four parts:
The electric power plant; The electric starting system; The electric
lighting system; The electric ignition system. There are eighty-one
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p57 Jl ’20 80w
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.= Putnam’s
handbook of buying and selling. il *$1.90 Putnam 658
20–7432
This book “telling in a simple and practical way how to succeed in
business” (Sub-title) is the result of long years of experience in the
merchandising field. “It is so simple that however little you know
about business you can understand it, and it is so practical you can
use it at once and with telling effect.” (Preface) It falls into four
parts: Successful selling: Expert buying; Commercial confidence; and
Business wisdom. Some of the chapters are: First principles of
selling; How to pick live wire salesmen; Selling over the counter;
Selling to the retail trade; Selling to the wholesale trade; Making
your sales through the mails; The essentials of shrewd buying; Inside
credit information; Raising and investing money. There are thirty-two
illustrative charts and diagrams and an index.
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.= Wonders of
natural history. il *$2.25 Stokes 590
20–21293
It is the purpose of this “comprehensive account of man in the making
and of prehistoric and present day animals” (Sub-title) “to put into
simple language an authoritative account of the chief branches of
natural history, namely, zoology, geology, palæontology and
mineralogy. Finally it explains the accepted idea of evolution from
the lowest protoplasmic matter, through unthinkably long ages, into
the highest living forms as we know them today.” (Foreword) The book
is indexed, has numerous illustrations and the contents are:
Prehistoric animals; Man in the making; About the aborigines;
Contemporary mammals; Birds of today; Present-day reptiles; Modern
fishes; Living insects, millipedes, crustaceans and spiders; Lower
forms of animal life; Minerals and gems; Some other wonders; How the
exhibits are prepared.
=COLLINS, JOSEPH.= Idling in Italy; studies of literature and of life.
*$3 Scribner 850
20–17228
“Literary Italy of today is presented by Joseph Collins in his recent
book, to which is given the misleading title, ‘Idling in Italy.’ Of
particular importance and interest is the long array here presented of
Italian writers of prose and verse who are almost entirely unknown in
this country, but who in their native land are the apostles of a new
movement in Italian literature. An entire chapter is devoted to the
futurist movement. His criticism of Giovanni Papini, chief exponent of
the futurist movement, is comprehensive. Dr Collins spares neither
praise nor scathing criticism of Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italy’s most
romantic figure. A number of essays in the book have no relation to
Italy. The author dissects W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘The moon and
sixpence’; he gives an interesting chapter on Samuel Butler; there is
a chapter on feminism and a good pen picture of Wilson.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
“The pages are filled with all those qualities which make the perfect
essayist.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 20 ’20 720w
“The study of President Wilson, as it is published in this book,
proves to be an appreciation, perhaps the broadest Wilson has called
forth. I find this study the best piece of writing about Wilson I have
seen, with the one exception of that chapter of Maynard Keynes’s, and
what superiority the Keynes essay has in brilliance Dr Collins makes
up for in conviction and depth.” J. H. Dounce
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 27 ’20 720w
“There are far too many names, followed in each case by brief critical
notes, for the reader to gain a clear impression of any one author to
whom he has been introduced. When, however, Dr Collins pauses in his
swift flight to linger for a while in contemplation of a single author
he reveals an appreciative understanding and an acute critical
faculty.”
+ − =N Y Times= p4 O 24 ’20 1150w
“The reader gets from the volume ideas, not suggestions: stimulus, not
charm. He who picks up the book to be lulled, may lay it down
sleepless or enraged. It is a real book, not a piece of literary
exquisiteness or a series of agreeable conversational discourses.”
+ =No Am= 212:856 D ’20 1700w
“Dr Collins’s chapters are entertaining as well as keen and
illuminative. Some of his themes are in lighter vein, but scarcely any
would suggest ‘idling’ except to a gormand for work.”
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 90w
“Perhaps Dr Collins comments too briefly on the many names which he
considers. The book is not organic. It seems that Dr Collins had a
number of essays on hand and decided to give them to the public under
a pleasing but irrelevant title.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 29 ’20 500w
=COLMAN, SAMUEL, and COAN, CLARENCE ARTHUR.= Proportional form. il *$3
Putnam 740
20–7442
“Further studies in the science of beauty, being supplemental to those
set forth in ‘Nature’s harmonic unity.’” (Sub-title) “Nature’s
harmonic unity,” published in 1912, was based on the thesis that in
nature “a few fundamental and major rules work in concert for the
government of the whole scheme,” and on the relation between this
universal harmony and art. The present work represents a continuation
of studies in the same field presented in a simpler form. Certain
fundamental principles have been repeated in order to obviate constant
reference to the first book. The volume has 156 drawings and designs
and is indexed. A note on the title page states “The drawings and
correlating descriptions are by Mr Colman. The text and mathematics
are by Capt. Coan.”
* * * * *
=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 250w
=COLUM, PADRAIC.= Boy apprenticed to an enchanter. il *$2.50 (8½c)
Macmillan
20–21991
Mr Colum has written a new fairy story for children, the story of Eean
the fisherman’s son who was caught stealing the horses of King Manus.
He was brought bound into the king’s hall doomed to die at sunrise.
But first the king asked him to tell how it came about that he had
risked his life in attempting so dangerous a thing. “And I declare,”
said the king, “if he shows us that he was ever in greater danger than
he is in this night I shall give him his life.” So Eean the
fisherman’s son tells the story of his apprenticeship to Zabulun the
enchanter.
* * * * *
“With the Celt’s instinct for magician’s tricks Colum has taken Greek,
Egyptian, Biblical, and Arthurian tales, and made a simply-constructed
patch-work of enchantment.”
+ =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 130w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 60w
=COLUM, PADRAIC.= Children of Odin. il *$4 Macmillan 293
20–19525
“In ‘The children of Odin’ Padraic Colum has given a free rendering of
the myths of the poetic and the prose Eddas. Mr Colum tells us that he
has done his work directly from the Eddas and in consultation with
Norwegian scholars. Mr Colum had boys and girls above twelve years in
mind when preparing his text.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Told in a connected narrative that flows in a simple, rhythmic prose
sometimes poetic. Expensive for many libraries.”
+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
=Bookm= 50:380 N ’19 90w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ’20 440w
=Dial= 69:548 N ’20 70w
“Not the least part of the beauty of this telling of them is that, for
all his Norse subject, Mr Colum is as usual invincibly Irish.”
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 50w
+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 150w
+ =New Repub= 25:24 D 1 ’20 220w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 60w
=COMERFORD, FRANK.= New world. *$2 Appleton 335
20–17097
The author has made a tour of Europe to study our present day world
problems. He claims to have made a thorough study from every
conceivable point of view. He blames bolshevism and socialism for all
the chaos. He sympathizes with labor but fears its methods of redress
and is absolutely opposed to everything that threatens law and order.
Among the contents are: Problems facing a stricken world; The problem
of Europe’s poverty; A tragedy of politics; Russia out of balance; The
soviet machine; Clash of fact and theory; The failure of the
socialization of industry; The third international; Intermeddling in
Russia; Bolshevism in the United States. There are appendices
consisting of various documents.
* * * * *
“Frank Comerford’s ‘The new world’ combines a sane and temperate
judgment with a firm, intellectual grasp of his subject.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 400w
=COMFORT, WILL LEVINGTON, and DOST, ZAMIN KI (WILLIMINA LEONORA
ARMSTRONG).= Son of power. *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–21182
His name was Sanford Hantee, but the boys of the Chicago streets
called him “Skag.” It was at the Lincoln Park zoo that he first began
to know animals, and their fascination for him was so keen that he ran
away from home and became a circus trainer. His power over animals
seemed to come from his absolute control of himself and from the fact
that he knew no fear. It was old Alec Binz of the circus who gave Skag
his desire to go to India and know for himself the animals of the
jungle. In India he very soon achieved the title Rana Jai—Son of
power. The book is really a series of short stories telling of Skag’s
exploits with various jungle beasts. Among the titles are: The good
grey nerve: The monkey glen; Jungle laughter; The hunting cheetah;
Elephant concerns; Blue beast, and Fever birds. Skag made some human
friends, too, in India, among them Carlin Deal, a girl half-Indian and
half-English who becomes almost as important as Skag himself in the
narrative.
* * * * *
“Men and boys especially will like it.”
+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21
“Interesting and colorful, these stories, though written with a
collaborator, are thoroughly characteristic of Mr Comfort. Though
parts of the volume make rather too great demands upon the reader’s
credulity, it is, on the whole, a fascinating piece of work, vivid,
picturesque, full of color and the glamour and mysticism of India.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 31 ’20 800w
=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Church and industrial
reconstruction. *$2 Assn. press 261
20–15930
This volume is the third in a series of reports that is being issued
by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. In these times
of industrial unrest and uncertainty following the world war, says the
introduction, the spirit of God “moves on the face of the waters”
challenging the church “to reconsider its own gospel, to redefine its
attitude toward the present social order, and to interpret for our
time the way of life involved in Christian discipleship.” After
defining the Christian interest in and approach to the industrial
problems the volume takes up: The Christian ideal of society;
Unchristian aspects of the present industrial order; The Christian
attitude toward the system as a whole; The Christian method of social
betterment; Present practicable steps toward a more Christian
industrial order: The question of the longer future; What individual
Christians can do to Christianize the industrial order; What the
church can do to Christianize the industrial order. The appendices
are: I, The historic attitude of the church to economic questions; II,
Selected bibliography on the church and industrial reconstruction;
III, The Committee on the war and the religious outlook. There is an
index.
* * * * *
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:535 N 10 ’20 680w
“Within the compass of no other single volume can be found such a
summary of the churches’ experiences in the present industrial age,
backed by a valuable historical study of the successive attitudes of
the church to economic questions.” Graham Taylor
+ =Survey= 45:467 D 25 ’20 1250w
=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Missionary outlook in
the light of the war. *$2 Assn. press 266
20–7779
This volume is one in a series of studies that is being brought out by
the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. It is the report
prepared by a special sub-committee with Dr Robert E. Speer as its
chairman and Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert as its secretary and contains
the evidences collected and the conclusions arrived at, on the
religious outlook, by a great number of competent men. The contents
fall into three parts: Part 1—The enhanced significance and urgency of
foreign missions in the light of the war; Part 2—The effect of the war
on the religious outlook in various lands; Part 3—Missionary
principles and policies in the light of the war. The appendices
contain a synopsis of the contents and a selected bibliography.
* * * * *
“The papers are uniformly by men who possess first-hand knowledge of
the subjects on which they write.”
+ =Bib World= 54:646 N ’20 180w
=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
“This volume is not simply for so-called church people but has much
suggestion for all who are facing the problems of our time. Such
readers may have to do some skipping, for there are pages here
reminiscent of the missionary tract of our childhood, and they will
have to do a good deal of translating.”
+ − =Review= 3:271 S 29 ’20 1800w
=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Religion among
American men, as revealed by a study of conditions in the army. *$1.50
Assn. press 261
20–5049
“This volume is one of a series of studies that is being brought out
by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. The committee
was constituted, while the war was still in progress, by the joint
action of the Federal council of the churches of Christ in America and
the General war-time commission of the churches and was an expression
of the conviction that the war had laid upon the churches the duty of
the most thorough self-examination.” (Editorial preface) The book,
which corresponds in aim and method to the British work “The army and
religion,” is based on answers to questionnaires, personal interviews,
letters, articles in the religious press, etc. It is in three parts:
The state of religion as revealed in the army; The effect of the war
on religion in the army; Lessons for the church.
* * * * *
“These pages ought to be before every church or convention that is
planning to serve the nation through the organized church.”
+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 380w
=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
Reviewed by H. A. Jump
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 13 ’20 3050w
Reviewed by Hugh Page
=Pub W= 97:1295 Ap 17 ’20 290w
=CONE, HELEN GRAY.= Coat without a seam, and other poems. *$1.25 Dutton
811
20–519
“‘The coat without a seam, and other poems,’ by Helen Gray Cone,
though not an unusual book of verse, is significant for its strong,
impressive faith and its whole-hearted optimism. More than half of the
poems concern the war, and are brimming with war’s idealism. The
remainder, collected under the title ‘The quiet days,’ are lyrics on
various themes. Miss Cone has been best known in the past few years as
the author of a ‘A chant of love for England,’ the answer to the
German ‘Hymn of hate.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Time was, and not long since, these counters had a brave ring; now,
without the mixture and fusion of noble metals, the poor alloy
predominates. Even the shrill notes sound flat.” L: Untermeyer
− =Dial= 68:527 Ap ’20 620w
“Among the poetesses in the larger mood, Helen Gray Cone, though
palpably not the least ambitious, is destined least to survive the
present hour for the reason that her ardors have been lighted at
unsubstantial altars, those of the late war and the late peace. A
poetess of the flag, she seems stale now as well as strident.” M. V.
D.
− =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 70w
“It is well conceived and the rhetoric is of a high quality, but the
pulse of authentic poetry is too often missing.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 170w
“Miss Helen Gray Cone has a substantially perfect technique. The
highest originalities are not open to her, but her feeling is delicate
and true, and, in all the agitations of the late war, there is no
tremor in the mounting flame.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 2:519 My 15 ’20 160w
“Miss Cone’s diction is simple, unaffected, and tinted rather than
colored. Her style is good.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 100w
=CONKLING, MRS GRACE WALCOTT (HAZARD).= Wilderness songs. *$1.50 Holt
811
20–9071
This collection of poems, reprinted from various magazines, show
nature and life reflected in the poetic soul of a woman. The poems are
grouped under the headings: Songs of New England roads; Songs of war;
Seven interludes; Songs of places—old Mexico; Nocturnes; and a
concluding poem: The wilderness.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“It is conspicuous that ‘Wilderness songs’ should follow ‘Afternoons
of April.’ The fragile, tremulous art of the earlier book has taken on
a firm, ripe quality of mood and expression.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1600w
“Mrs Conkling feels platitudes snugly and sweetly. Her cadences, like
her attachments, are the generally accepted. Her mood and meter seem
all too neat, with seldom a sign that their creation brought thrusts
of pleasurable pain.” M. V. D.
− =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 40w
“Few indeed are the books of lyrics as well made as these. The
melodies are light, but lovely; the diction shows an exquisite
discretion; and there is always a sense of proportion in design.”
Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 280w
+ =Spec= 125:745 D 4 ’20 20w
“Delicate perception expressed with quiet charm is characteristic of
the poems. The volume in general satisfies the craving for nature in
her gentler moods.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 240w
=CONKLING, HILDA.= Poems by a little girl. *$1.50 Stokes 811
20–7794
The author of these poems is now nine years old. Amy Lowell writes a
long preface to the book in which she says: “It is poetry, the stuff
and essence of poetry.... I know of no other instance in which such
really beautiful poetry has been written by a child.... What this book
chiefly shows is high promise; but it also has its pages of real
achievement, and that of so high an order it may well set us
pondering.” With some biographical data on the child Miss Lowell
describes her manner of working, which she considers to be largely
subconscious and perfectly instinctive. The poems are grouped
according to the child’s age into: Four to five years old; Five to six
years old; Six to seven years old; and Seven to nine years old.
* * * * *
“The book as a whole is convincing, and a number of the poems are
beautiful.”
+ =Ath= p644 N 12 ’20 620w
+ =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“Charming and unusual. Here is a book of poems instinct with the
spirit of childhood and so childlike in much of its phrasing as to
make a direct and permanent appeal to children and grown people.” A.
C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 51:314 My ’20 1000w
“Her thought has not the incoherence that might be expected of a
child; she paints in each poem a complete picture, step by step,
usually leading up to the last line with a fine feeling for climax. In
economy of words and in power of connotation these poems resemble the
translations from the Chinese and the Japanese which have lately
attracted the attention of occidental poets, but there is a richness
of detail that we are accustomed to associate with the tradition of
English literature.” N. J. O’Conor
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 1150w
“Many a mature poet might be proud of some of these little gems. All
of them sparkle with that faery light that enables its possessor to
see things quaintly and daintily.”
+ =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 70w
“The quality which shines behind practically all of these facets of
loveliness is a directness of perception, an almost mystic divination.
It is its own stamp of unaffected originality, a genuine
ingenuousness. It is ridiculous to talk of the ‘stages’ in the work of
a ten-year-old child and yet the verses conceived between four and
seven are more vivid, seem more spontaneous and less—absurd as it may
seem—sophisticated than those written between seven and nine.” L:
Untermeyer
+ =Dial= 69:186 Ag ’20 1200w
“Readers will be glad of the book, not only because it was written by
a child, but because it contains beautiful poetry. Not a false image
is to be found in it, not a single artificial symbol, not a line of
dull, stereotyped diction!”
+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 380w
“The gift is given us gravely and unconsciously, with none of the
reticences that fears ridicule, and yet with none of the exaggeration
that tries to ‘show off.’” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 1000w
“The present volume deserves a high place among the expressions of
youthful imagination. It is vivid, fresh, and creative in no small
degree.”
+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 130w
“The handling of the verse-form is skillful, though not masterly.” O.
W. Firkins
+ =Review= 3:653 D 29 ’20 320w
+ =Spec= 125:709 N 27 ’20 50w
“The ‘Poems by a little girl’ do not smack of the exotic and
consciously clever; they are robust as well as delicate, with the
characteristic deliberation and spontaneity of childhood seizing life
with keen eyes and quick imagination.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 27 ’20 500w
=CONNOLLY, JAMES BRENDAN.= Hiker Joy. il *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner
20–8795
Hiker, the young hero of Mr Connolly’s series of adventures, is a
little gamin from the New York water front, who ships to sea with his
friend Bill Green on a lumber schooner bound for somewhere across the
Atlantic in wartime. The ship is wrecked in a storm and Bill gets
possession of the valuable papers the captain had been carrying and
turns them over to the secret service, according to orders. Other
adventures follow, with German spies, U-boats, and Zeppelins, and the
whole tale is related by Hiker in his own vernacular.
* * * * *
“Sea stories which will have their usual appeal because the author
knows how to write them.”
+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“The whole book is sufficient to provide an evening’s entertainment of
no mean quality.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 25 ’20 260w
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w
“Every page vibrates with action and glows with unforced drama.
Happily, both his matter and manner are excellent.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 240w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 300w
=CONNOR, HENRY GROVES.= John Archibald Campbell. *$2.25 (3c) Houghton
20–7012
The subject of this biography was a southern jurist, appointed a
justice of the Supreme court in 1853. In 1861 he resigned to become
assistant secretary of war for the Confederacy. He was one of the
three Confederate peace commissioners who met Lincoln and Seward in
1865. The table of contents indicates the outstanding points in his
career and shows the biographer’s plan of treatment; Ancestry and
early career at the bar; Associate justice of the Supreme court of the
United States; The slavery question before the court; On the circuit:
filibustering and the slave trade; Efforts to avert civil war;
Services to the confederacy and peace negotiations: The problem of
restoration; The slaughter-house cases and the fourteenth amendment;
Last years at the bar; Personal characteristics, intellectual and
social traits; Conclusion. A table of cases follows and an index.
* * * * *
“The biographer’s judicial experience gives him an advantage in the
treatment of legal points, while his sense of restraint eliminates
bias in the discussion of matters that ordinarily arouse the keenest
controversy. The method of inserting quoted portions is at times
confusing, and there are numerous inaccuracies of quotation.” J. G.
Randall
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:119 O ’20 680w
“Will interest students of history.”
+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 550w
Reviewed by J: C. Rose
+ =Review= 2:601 Je 5 ’20 1050w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w
=CONRAD, JOSEPH.= Rescue: a romance of the shallows. *$2 (1c) Doubleday
20–10316
Mr Conrad’s new tale of the South Seas is the story of a man torn
between loyalty to friend and love of woman, forced to choose between
faith to his plighted word and her safety. It is a story of a
generation ago with civil war rife among the native tribes of the
Malay straits. Captain Tom Lingard has pledged his all to the service
of Rajah Hassim and has plotted and contrived to restore him to his
kingdom. The enterprise has reached its climax when an English yacht
blunders into the scene of activity and runs aground. Captain Lingard
goes aboard her with offers of assistance, his one thought to get the
intruders out of the way. His offer is met with insolence on the part
of the owner and he would gladly have left them to their fate, but he
had seen the woman, Mrs Travers, and her spell is on him. Thereafter
these two are but puppets in the hands of fate and the outcome is the
wreck of all Lingard’s hopes and the failure of the cause he had
served.
* * * * *
“This fascinating book revives in use the youthful feeling that we are
not so much reading a story of adventure as living in and through it,
absorbing it, making it our own. This feeling is not wholly the result
of the method, the style which the author has chosen; it arises more
truly from the quality of the emotion in which the book is steeped.”
K. M.
+ =Ath= p15 Jl 2 ’20 1500w
“A characteristic story, one of his best.”
+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“While the charm of its style is undeniable, while it is filled with
glowing word-pictures of tropical scenes, we shall doubtless be held
to be intellectually blind and artistically obtuse by many Conrad
admirers when we say that it has none of the flowing narrative
qualities which should be the chief characteristic of a story of its
sort.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 1250w
“‘The rescue’ is characterized by that extraordinary grasp of reality
and breadth of outlook for which Mr Conrad is famous.”
+ =Cath World= 112:394 D ’20 350w
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 100w
“It is not easy to find another name for genius. The effort to
describe it is ungrateful enough. When it penetrates so deep to the
roots of life one can pay it the tribute of becoming silent at the
earliest possible moment.” Gilbert Seldes
+ =Dial= 69:191 Ag ’20 2250w
“If Mr Joseph Conrad’s ‘The rescue’ is an earlier novel, as has been
said, it is difficult to see why he did not leave its style intact or
re-write it wholly in his later, sparer manner. Yet with all the
disappointments of detail, in completion ‘The rescue’ produces a
massiveness of effect which belongs only to Conrad.” C. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 1:454 Jl 21 ’20 370w
“Mr Conrad remains a writer who approaches greatness. In ‘The rescue’
there are prose harmonies as rich and plangent as in ‘Youth’ itself.
There are glimpses of men—Shaw, Travers, Jörgenson—that are sharp as
etchings. His senses are marvellously active and acute and his ability
to render their perceptions into language is superb. He fails,
contrary to a common opinion, when he seeks to explain the operations
of the mind or the character of the passions or when he reflects.”
+ − =Nation= 110:804 Je 12 ’20 1150w
“The book is absorbingly interesting; dramatic, subtle, fascinating
with that allurement, that sheer power and sweep of romance which is
Joseph Conrad’s to command.” L. M. Field
+ =N Y Times= 25:263 My 23 ’20 1450w
“Begun some twenty years ago, finished last year, it combines the
lucidity of his earlier work with the subtlety of his later manner.”
+ =Outlook= 125:280 Je 9 ’20 560w
=Review= 2:604 Je 5 ’20 240w
“We who have had a sense of groping for the old magic amongst the
later tales of Joseph Conrad may find it in this book.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:629 Je 16 ’20 1150w
“His command of what was originally an alien tongue, probably
unequalled in the whole course of English letters, has gained in
mastery and subtlety, and the gifts that he brings us are still rich
and strange and new.”
+ =Spec= 124:52 Jl 10 ’20 850w
“It matters not how often Mr Conrad tells the story of the man and the
brig. Out of the million stories that life offers the novelist, this
one is founded upon truth. And it is only Mr Conrad who is able to
tell it us. But if the statement of the theme is extremely fine, we
have to admit that the working out of the theme is puzzling: we cannot
deny that we are left with a feeling of disappointment.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p419 Jl 1 ’20 1500w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 150w
=CONSTABLE, FRANK CHALLICE.= Myself and dreams. *$2.50 (2½c) Dodd 150
19–15968
The book is a contribution to the literature on psychical matters in
which the soul is treated as a psychical subject whose physiological
state is but transitory, merely an “occasion” for conduct. Part 1,
Myself, includes such subjects as the relativity of knowledge,
insight, self-consciousness, the intelligible universe and the
sensible universe, ideas, free-will and the categorical imperative.