the main plant groups, contains: The algæ; The fungi; Bryophytes
(Liverworts and mosses); Pteridophytes (ferns, equiseta, and club
mosses); Gymnosperms; Angiosperms (dicotyledons). Part 3,
Representative families and species of the spring flora, is intended
to serve as an introduction to field work and contains: Descriptive
terms; Trees, shrubs, and forests; Herbaceous and woody dicotyledons;
Monocotyledons; Plant associations. There is an index.
=DESCHANEL, PAUL EUGENE LOUIS.= Gambetta. *$4.50 (3½c) Dodd
(Eng ed 20–11835)
It was Gambetta, says the author, president of the French republic,
“who launched me on the life of politics” and it is from a certain
sense of gratitude that the book was written. “I disregarded all
panegyrics, all pamphlets, all legends, whether flattering or not: I
sought the truth alone—and no homage could be greater.... In this
book, only one passion is to be found: the passion for France.”
(Foreword) The contents are in four parts: Before the war (1838–1870);
The war (1870–1871); The national assembly and the establishment of
the republic (1871–1875); The early stages of the parliamentary
republic (1876–1882). There is a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“This volume is full-blooded and vital in every chapter and in every
paragraph. It is no fulsome panegyric, no noisy advertisement, but a
balanced and critical, a knowing and a sympathetic portrait. There is
here no hushing-up of mistakes and contradictions but also no
over-emphasis of them.” C: D. Hazen
+ =Am Hist R= 25:491 Ap ’20 740w
=Ath= p381 Mr 19 ’20 1000w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 25 ’20 740w
“Ex-President Deschanel writes with the blend of lucidity and
enthusiasm characteristic of the best French political literature.”
+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 50w
“Apart from a few questionable statements apropos of Germany and
Alsace-Lorraine, the book is substantially what it would have been if
written before 1914—that is to say, an admirably well-informed,
well-constructed, and convincing account of the public life of
Gambetta and of the political history of the times in which he played
his part.” Carl Becker
+ =Nation= 110:sup479 Ap 10 ’20 1050w
“There was plenty of room for such a full, intimate, and appreciative
biography as this by M. Deschanel, who is well qualified,
temperamentally, to interpret his great leader. He does so with a
Gallic exuberance, a gesticulatory eloquence that is not suited to the
theme, but also he preserves a balance of judgment that saves the book
from being mere laudation, and he has painstakingly examined his
documents.” H. L. Pangborn
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 O 23 ’20 880w
“The anonymous translator has evidently a bilingual gift of great
precision and scope, but his rendering should be carefully reviewed
with the original in order to correct several mistakes, all of which,
however, appear to be careless omissions or verbal distractions due to
hasty writing.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p6 O 17 ’20 2100w
“On all this human personal side of his subject M. Deschanel’s book is
as rich as on the political.”
+ =Sat R= 130:12 Jl 3 ’20 1100w
“The work of the anonymous translator is extremely well done.”
+ =Spec= 125:244 Ag 21 ’20 450w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p262 Ap 29 ’20 2050w
=DESMOND, SHAW.= Passion. *$2 Scribner
20–7288
“The title may be a little misleading. Mr Desmond’s story deals with
‘the nervous, combative passion of the end of the nineteenth century,’
and particularly with the conflict between big business, the passion
to get, and art, the passion to create. A good deal of effort is spent
on the depiction of big business in London at the turn of the century,
and particularly of one Mandrill, the embodiment of its spirit.”—N Y
Times
* * * * *
“‘Passion’ fails for the reason that so many of these novels of
confession fail. Our curiosity about human beings, our longing to know
the story of their lives springs from the desire to ‘place’ them, to
see them in their relation to life as we know it. But Mr Shaw Desmond
and his fellows are under the illusion that they must isolate the
subject and play perpetual showman.” K. M.
− =Ath= p671 My 21 ’20 700w
“It is a novel without even novelty to redeem it. Its bravery is
bombastic, its stupidity heroic, its mediocrity passionate, its
passion impotent.”
− =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 40w
“Mr Desmond tries to crowd all the modern forces into his conflict,
and frequently neutralizes his effects by the nicety with which one
violence is banged against another. His picture of London life, in its
meannesses and poverty, has touches of Dickens, and touches, also, of
the Dickens sentimentality. His purposes grow weak through sheer
over-analysis.” L. B.
− + =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 180w
“We know of no exacter study of childhood and adolescence nor of any
less steeped in traditional idealisms. Young Tempest at home and at
school is immensely genuine and instructive. After that the fine
veracity of the book breaks down.”
+ =Nation= 110:659 My 15 ’20 300w
“The hero’s revolt against finance of the most frenzied character is
plausible enough, but somehow the entire latter half of the book fails
to carry very much conviction. One feels that Mr Desmond is not devoid
of the divine fire, but he needs a better boiler under which to build
it.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 600w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:573 My 29 ’20 600w
“The most accurate description that can be applied to the work is that
it is a vivid and startling piece of impressionism, despite its
grotesqueness.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 150w
“A remarkable novel, notwithstanding the author’s habit of parodying
his own literary peculiarities. Primal and melodramatic Mr Shaw
Desmond’s prose certainly is, but it sweeps us along so rapidly as to
make a pause for criticism difficult. The book, in spite of its
grotesqueness, is a vivid and startling piece of impressionism.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p271 Ap 29 ’20 480w
=DEWEY, JOHN.= Reconstruction in philosophy. *$1.60 (3c) Holt 191
20–17102
In these lectures delivered at the Imperial university of Japan in
Tokyo, the author attempts “an interpretation of the reconstruction of
ideas and ways of thought now going on in philosophy.” (Prefatory
note) He shows that the task of future philosophy is to clarify men’s
ideas as to the social and moral strifes of their own day and, instead
of dealing with “ultimate and absolute reality,” will consider the
moral forces which move mankind towards a more ordered and intelligent
happiness. Contents: Changing conceptions of philosophy; Some
historical factors in philosophical reconstruction; The scientific
factor in reconstruction of philosophy; Changed conceptions of
experience and reason; Changed conceptions of the ideal and the real;
The significance of logical reconstruction; Reconstruction in moral
conceptions; Reconstruction as affecting social philosophy. Index.
* * * * *
“Concrete, clearly written and unusually free from abstruse reasoning
and technical diction.”
+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“The simplicity and penetration of the statement gives to this little
book an importance considerably out of proportion to its size.
Although the name pragmatism scarcely occurs on its pages, the book is
the most comprehensive and enlightening pragmatic document that has
yet appeared.” B. H. Bode
+ =Nation= 111:sup658 D 8 ’20 1500w
“One may agree heartily with Professor Dewey’s polemic against fixed
and final aims and yet believe that the most urgent need of ethics now
is to work out a science of values. The lack of some such criticism of
values makes itself felt in Professor Dewey’s book.” A. S. McDowall
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 N 13 ’20 1800w
“The book is written with the accustomed fluency and piquancy of the
pragmatic school, and it forms a piece of the most interesting
reading.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 20 ’21 340w
=DEWEY, JOHN, and DEWEY, HATTIE ALICE (CHIPMAN) (MRS JOHN DEWEY).=
Letters from China and Japan; ed. by Evelyn Dewey. *$2.50 Dutton 915
20–7580
“The Deweys, man and wife, are ‘professorial’ people. Mr Dewey is
professor of philosophy in Columbia university and Mrs Dewey is a
woman of great cultivation and deep interest in the things of the
mind. The letters included in this book are written under the spur of
first impressions. They have not either been revised or touched up in
any way. You are never expected to remember that Mr Dewey is really a
Ph.D. or that his wife reads ‘deep books.’ They make you see the
cherry trees in bloom, the Mikado passing with his symbols, the
chrysanthemums on the panels of his carriage; the Chinese women of the
middle classes at home and the panorama of Chinese villages and
streets. At the same time you feel that there is a serious purpose in
the minds and the hearts of the two persons who write these
letters.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 51:631 Ag ’20 440w
“It is quite evident that Professor Dewey has enjoyed visiting
countries ‘where the scholar is looked up to and not down upon.’ He
writes with all the zest of a boy on his first trip abroad. Most
striking is their revelation of Professor Dewey’s responsiveness to
the æsthetic aspects of China and Japan.”
+ =Freeman= 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 350w
“It is not difficult to guess the authorship of most of the letters,
and Mrs Dewey’s interest in the more pictorial aspects of the
countries, in the women, and in their educational and domestic
problems, admirably supplements Professor Dewey’s more historical and
speculative observations.” Irita Van Doren
+ =Nation= 111:103 Jl 24 ’20 950w
“They are full of delightful descriptions of small events not usually
described so sympathetically by travelers in the East.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 750w
=Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 180w
=DICKSON, HARRIS.= Old Reliable in Africa. *$1.90 (2c) Stokes
20–17655
Zack Foster, otherwise known as “Old Reliable,” is the colored valet
of Colonel Beverly Spottiswoode, and when the colonel makes a trip to
the Sudan, to see if the climate there is suitable for cotton culture,
he takes Zack along with him. Zack’s presence guarantees him against
ennui, for where Zack is, there is excitement. At one spot in Africa,
he is hailed as “The Expected One,” by an Arab tribe, at another he
rescues the most important donkey of the Sultan of Bong from
crocodiles, and is suitably rewarded. But perhaps his most worthy
exploit is the establishment of a “Hot cat eating house.” He reasons
the labor problem out and comes to the conclusion that the natives
refuse to work on the cotton plantation because they don’t need
anything. He proposes to put within their reach some thing that they
will be willing to work for, in the shape of hot fried catfish. This
application of the law of supply and demand proves eminently
satisfactory. But on the whole neither Zack nor the colonel are
reluctant to return to Vicksburg in time for Christmas.
* * * * *
“Like most sequels, a falling off from the original.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
“An amusing book for an idle hour.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 80w
“A series of adventures, many of which are of a startling dramatic
character but always informed with the dry humor which is the very
essence of Old Reliable’s irresistible personality.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 210w
“His adventures are as queer as they are funny.”
+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 30w
=DILLISTONE, GEORGE.= Planning and planting of little gardens: with
notes and criticisms by Lawrence Weaver. il *$2.25 Scribner 712
20–26877
“Competitive schemes for planting for different kinds of lots are
criticized from the architectural point of view. Incidentally, there
are discussions on sundials, rock gardens, water-lily ponds, rose
gardens, garden steps and pathways, climbers for the little garden,
etc. Altho written for England, will be useful in this country where
climate permits like vegetation.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:59 N ’20
“The author [is] as sound on the architectural aspect of garden-making
as upon matters of pure horticulture.”
+ =Spec= 124:559 Ap 24 ’20 170w
=DILLON, EMILE JOSEPH.= Inside story of the peace conference. *$2.25
(1½c) Harper 940.314
20–5137
“This is only a sketch—a sketch of the problems which the war created
or rendered pressing—of the conditions under which they cropped up; of
the simplicist ways in which they were conceived by the distinguished
politicians who volunteered to solve them; of the delegates’ natural
limitations and electioneering commitments and of the secret
influences by which they were swayed, of the peoples’ needs and
expectations; of the unwonted procedure adopted by the conference and
of the fateful consequences of its decisions to the world.” (Foreword)
These fateful consequences, in the author’s final summing up, are that
future war is now universally looked upon as an unavoidable outcome of
the Versailles peace. “Prussianism, instead of being destroyed, has
been openly adopted by its ostensible enemies, and the huge sacrifices
offered up by the heroic armies of the foremost nations are being
misused to give one-half of the world just cause to rise up against
the other half.” Contents: The city of the conference; Signs of the
times; The delegates; Censorship and secrecy; Aims and methods; The
lesser states; Poland’s outlook in the future; Italy; Japan; Attitude
toward Russia; Bolshevism: How Bolshevism was fostered; Sidelights
treaty with Bulgaria; The covenant and on the treaty; The treaty with
Germany; The minorities.
* * * * *
“The title of this book is singularly non-descriptive. It has none of
the qualities of narrative and every page betrays the fact that the
author remained entirely outside the real workings of the conference.
With all respect to Mr Dillon’s experience, he has written a
misleading book.” C: Seymour
− =Am Hist R= 26:101 O ’20 600w
“Dr Dillon’s main intimacies in Paris seem to have been with those
delegates [of small states]. That fact, which is not unconnected with
his own nationality, has enabled him, thanks to his really wide
knowledge of international problems, to get inside the skin of the
Paris tragedy in a way which would be impossible to the ordinary
advanced radical writer. There are faults of proportion. Not enough is
made of the economic aspects of the failure, and many judgments are
questionable.”
+ − =Ath= p1334 D 12 ’19 1000w
“Interesting but not easy to read, perhaps too detailed. No index.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:273 My ’20
Reviewed by Sganarelle
=Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 130w
“From ‘The inside story of the peace conference’ the reader takes away
the impression of a stubborn and somewhat sour honesty, and also of a
vacillating bias that the author intended as little as he suspected. A
ripe scholarship, a keen observation, an adequate sweep, but—it is
impossible to avoid its conclusion—a decidedly jaundiced personality.”
+ − =Lit D= 64:122 Mr 27 ’20 2200w
“Dr Dillon does not write without bias. On the other hand, his
scathing indictment of the ignorance and inefficiency, the cynicism,
the bad faith, and the remorseless pride of power of the big five and
four and three is only equaled, but not excelled, by the now
well-known criticism of Professor Keynes. The two books, indeed,
supplement one another admirably.” W: MacDonald
+ − =Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 580w
“By virtue of his inside knowledge, his ruthless uncovering of
weaknesses, his keenness in criticism, he well deserves to be called
the Junius of the peace conference.”
+ =No Am= 211:717 My ’20 1100w
+ =R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 180w
“It is not a history of the conference: it is an account of the way
things were done at Paris, written by a man of wide outlook, who knows
his way about the diplomatic world. Doubtless there will be many
volumes written on the peace conference, but few are likely to be so
valuable to the historian as this.”
+ =Sat R= 128:562 D 13 ’19 1250w
“This book does not add to Dr Dillon’s reputation. The allied
statesmen, being only human and fallible, made mistakes, notably in
regard to Italy and Rumania. But the wonder is that they did so well
as they have done. Dr Dillon emphasizes and exaggerates all their
blunders. He has taken the scandalous gossip of embassies, clubs, and
newspapers a little too seriously.”
− =Spec= 123:735 N 29 ’19 100w
“The whole volume is a bold and dashing and highly fascinating
presentation.” A. J. Lien
+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 550w
“Our criticisms of this book are severe, but we believe they are just.
Dr Dillon has had a great opportunity and he has failed to use it. He
has failed because there is no evidence in the book of any consecutive
thought, of any firm ideas, of any help for reconstruction in the
future. Dr Dillon’s analysis of what happened at the conference is
always biassed and often incorrect; he has chosen to make himself
merely the mouthpiece of the complaints of the smaller states without
helping his readers in the least to discriminate as to their justice.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p659 N 20 ’19 1900w
=DILLON, MRS MARY C. (JOHNSON).= Farmer of Roaring Run. il *$1.75 (1c)
Century
20–1892
John McClure, a wealthy Philadelphian of Scottish birth, has created a
large farm in West Virginia, more or less as a rich man’s toy, which
is not even self-supporting. After five years his managing farmer
dies, and McClure is astounded when the farmer’s pretty,
girlish-looking widow asks to be allowed to run the farm. Reluctantly
he consents. He soon finds that Mrs Sinclair is not only quite a
capable farmer but also a very lovable woman; quite incidentally too
he discovers that it is necessary to spend more time on his farm
and—its manager. All sorts of improvements are put into immediate
action: forest conservation, careful selection of the best cattle
only, clubs for the isolated young people, a church, and other things
that spring from Mrs Sinclair’s energetic, fertile brain. Being very
young and beautiful, and of gentle birth, she attracts several
potential lovers, but McClure, after many heated misunderstandings,
and several romantic adventures, eventually wins her. Other minor love
stories run through the book, also a mystery.
* * * * *
“Good descriptions of the country. Women will like it.”
+ =Booklist= 16:203 Mr ’20
“A pleasant, thoroughly conventional and rather sugary little story,
the conclusion of which is perfectly obvious by the time one has
finished the first chapter, is Mary Dillon’s new novel.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:126 Mr 14 ’20 350w
=DILNOT, FRANK.= England after the war. *$3 Doubleday 914.2
20–20324
England, says the author, is in a stage of transition and is entering
upon a new epoch. What this new epoch is likely to be does not enter
into the speculations of the writer who confines himself to sketching
the main features of England in their present state of transformation.
Among the contents are: The mood of the people; The governance of
England; The women; Business the keystone; Labour battling for
enthronement; Ireland; Britain overseas; From Lord Northcliffe to
Bernard Shaw; Where England leads; New programmes of life.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
“The American reader will find much to instruct him in the chapters
dealing with the new leaders in politics and economics who have arisen
in England since the war.” J. C. Grey
+ =Bookm= 52:366 Ja ’21 400w
“If he is not profound nor subtle nor concise, he is never dull and
seldom altogether commonplace.” C. R. H.
+ =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 170w
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w
=N Y Times= p14 O 24 ’20 1750w
“Mr Dilnot has produced a book entertaining and, in the main,
thoughtful.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 29 ’20 270w
=DIMMOCK, F. HAYDN=, ed.[2] Scouts’ book of heroes; with foreword by Sir
Robert Baden Powell. il *$2.50 Stokes 940.3
“A record of scouts’ work in the great war.” (Sub-title) Contents:
1914; Famous scouts in the war; Scout heroes of the army; Scout heroes
of the navy; Heroes of the air service; The heroes at home; Just—a
scout; Called to higher service. In addition sixty pages are devoted
to records of those who received medals, etc.
=DINGLE, A. E.= Gold out of Celebes. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little
20–8238
Jack Barry, an American seaman out of a job, is loafing about Batavia,
in the Dutch East Indies, when Tom Little, a traveling salesman tired
of the typewriter business, puts him on the track of adventure. Little
has undertaken to go into the interior in the interests of Cornelius
Houten, a Dutch trader, who has reason to suspect one of his agents.
Houten is looking for a skipper and Barry meets his needs. The two
Americans scent mystery from the outset. In the first place there is
the strange lady, Mrs Goring, who claims acquaintance with them and
asks passage on their ship. In the second place there is something
puzzling about the big soft-voiced Dutch mate. There is also the
relation between Leyden, the man they are after, and Natalie Sheldon,
the charming young missionary. And the last is the point that matters
most to Barry. On some of these points the two are in doubt to the
end, working often in the dark, but fully deserving the rewards that
finally come to them.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w
“The plot of ‘Gold out of Celebes’ reveals nothing particularly new.
The love interest is slight, but pleasing. It is the breezy way in
which this novel is written that carries it. The plot is a secondary
matter entirely, while the ‘red blood’ element, vivid enough at times,
is always kept discreetly within bounds.”
+ − =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 650w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 220w
=DINNING, HECTOR W.= Nile to Aleppo. il *$7.50 Macmillan 940.42
“The author of this book is a captain in the Australian forces which
fought in the great war. Mr McBey was the official artist which
followed the army of the Egyptian expeditionary force and the two
together, the soldier and the painter, collaborated to produce a
volume which is not a book of the war, nor yet a book of travel, but a
combination of the two. The story begins at Taranto, away down in far
southern Italy. Here the force was simply in camp near the town, and
presumably a transport appeared in the harbor, her nose pointing
eastward and business opened up. Thence through Palestine and Syria.
The trail leads around the hills of Judea, through its ravines and
past its straggling orchards, and, at length, to the Holy City. He
takes us through the valley of the Jordan to Ludd; and from Ludd to
Damascus and thence to Homs; and from Homs to Aleppo, where the train
traversed the burning sands to Beyrouth.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Captain Dinning is a born observer. He always contrives to see what
is worth seeing and to record it vividly, sometimes in the slangy
style of his diary, sometimes in the finished manner of his later
chapters. Occasionally his judgments are open to criticism.”
+ =Ath= p759 D 3 ’20 950w
“The whole is an intensely breezy narrative, written by a man who
understands well the use of his eyes and of the English language to
interpret what he sees.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 600w
“Mr McBey’s pen sketches deserve more than passing mention, for he is
no mere illustrator. His economy of line and his ability to convey an
indelible impression of these arid stretches of Palestinian landscape,
their undeniable color and beauty, are more than fortuitous.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p24 D 4 ’20 360w
+ =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 300w
=DIXON, THOMAS.= Man of the people. *$1.75 Appleton 812
20–13190
This drama of Abraham Lincoln has one purpose: to show Lincoln’s fight
to save the Union. We see Lincoln on the one hand as the friend of the
oppressed and dispensing pardons according to a deeper sense of
justice than is apparent on the surface. On the other hand we see him
deal with implacable firmness to carry through his great conviction
that the Union must be saved. The whole is divided into a prologue,
three acts, and an epilogue.
* * * * *
“Melodramatic and inferior to Drinkwater’s play.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
=DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL.= Blood red dawn. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
20–10053
A story of San Francisco following the fortunes of a girl who has her
own living and her own way to make in the world. She is in turn a
stenographer in a business office, accompanist for a singer at
fashionable at-homes and Red cross concerts, and entertainer in a
Greek restaurant. The latter occupation takes her “south of Market”
and into a new social world where she meets the foreign born and has a
glimpse of the alien point of view on American life. Two men have a
part in her story, Ned Stillman, descendant of native stock, and Dr
Danilo, a Serbian doctor. The war is in progress at the time.
* * * * *
“Although it has merit, it is a rather tepid performance. Mr Dobie’s
faults, the faults of the novice, grow less noticeable as he warms to
his theme. But he fails to warm sufficiently. He handles all his
situations and incidents with the indifferent care of a man following
a recipe. In spite of its riotous title, ‘The blood red dawn’ is
distressingly smug.” M. A.
+ − =Freeman= 1:525 Ag 11 ’20 360w
“Well constructed romance. The author knows his San Francisco. This
story—his first full length book—gives a graphic and colorful picture
of intrigue in the foreign quarter of that city of lights.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 420w
“The characters fail to transcend or to sublimate the type; are all,
by a shade, a little second-rate or common; and the result is a
disappointing effect, in a book containing so much veracious detail of
confused mediocrity. The opening chapters give us hope of creative
realism, and we seem to have received, when all is done, a
disconcerting blend of naturalism and romance.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 3:272 S 29 ’20 250w
=DODD, MRS ANNA BOWMAN (BLAKE).= Up the Seine to the battlefields. il
*$3 (3c) Harper 914.4
20–7447
“Why is it that not one traveler in a thousand, no, nor in tens of
thousands has known the Seine shores as the shores of the Hudson are
known—as the Rhine, for so many years, has been known and sung? Few
Frenchmen even are fully aware of the wonders and beauties which a
trip up the Seine will yield.” (Introd.) As one of the effects of the
war has been the discovery of the Seine’s commercial possibilities the
author fears that in a few short years the Seine will no longer be
“the lovely river of beauty.” She therefore proposes to immortalize
its many surprises in scenic and architectural splendors in a book
which is profusely illustrated from engravings and paintings.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
“The book is intensely interesting both for its geography and its
history.”
+ =Cath World= 111:694 Ag ’20 220w
“The book is an amiable introduction to modern French history; and if
Mrs Dodd’s manner is a trifle too intense for her subjects, there is
at least not a tiresome page in the whole volume.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 150w
“Such a volume as the present will be grateful reading to all those
who love France and who feel the force of the old days, no matter how
modern some parts of new France have become.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w
“Unfortunately Mrs Dodd’s style is too hasty—at points it is
positively slipshod—to carry the finer effects that would make for
complete success in such work as this.”
+ − =Review= 2:681 Je 30 ’20 300w
=DODD, LEE WILSON.= Book of Susan. *$2 Dutton
20–11147
“Susan is frankly a phenomenal child. After her stupid, bestial father
murders the woman with whom he is living, Susan is adopted by a
wealthy and cultured bachelor, and grows up to be a brilliant woman
who holds her own in his circle of scholarly and fashionable friends.”
(Outlook) “She is now old enough to be in love with [her] guardian,
who is, of course, in love with her. But Ambo’s two special friends, a
Yale professor and a New York radical, also love Susan. Finally it
takes a bomb from a Gotha in the streets of Paris to bring Susan to
the point of letting Ambo know that she loves him alone.” (Bookman)
* * * * *
“The reason why one reader is unimpressed by this plot, and even finds
it absurd, is because he is unimpressed by Susan. She is over-clever,
over-sprightly. So, for that matter, is the whole book.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 52:68 S ’20 500w
“For all its Stevensonesque touches, for all the moments when one
glimpses a mind like Pater’s, or a glimmer of Ibsen, through the
palings of the back fence, as it were, one has nothing, except a
couple of characters—say five—to take away with one. The first part of
the story is delightful.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 430w
“The book is much above the average novel, and the author’s insight
into feminine psychology quite remarkable. Moreover, it has the great
quality of interest.”
+ =Lit D= p114 N 6 ’20 1650w
“Mr Dodd’s style is in another world from the gritty slovenliness of
the average story; the earlier part of his book is filled with ripe
and intense characterizations; the interpolated passages of criticism
and verse are mellow and delightful. But the fable of the book is the
fable of ‘Daddy Longlegs,’ not only in fact but, beneath all
appearances of intellectual subtlety and integrity, in tendency and
spirit. We can only hope that Mr Dodd will soon give us another novel
in which his grace of style and temper shall serve to express an
austerer strain of thought and imagination—austerer because it is
truer and truer because it does not compromise.”
+ − =Nation= 111:329 S 18 ’20 620w
“The people in this narrative are the genuine variety. The character
of Susan is a well rounded one. There is nothing commonplace about
‘The book of Susan.’ Mr Dodd writes in a fresh, entertaining style and
has shaped his materials with no little skill.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 530w
“In character depiction, in the give and take of dialogue, and in the
incidents, the novel is more arresting than the majority of the
American novels of the season.”
+ =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 100w
=DODD, WILLIAM EDWARD.= Woodrow Wilson and his work. *$3 (4c) Doubleday
20–26482
“This portrait of Woodrow Wilson is designed to be a brief history of
recent times as well as a chronicle of a great career. It aims to set
the man in his historical background and to explain the trend of
American life during a momentous period of world history.” (Introd.)
“It is surely a record unsurpassed; and the fame of the man ... can
never be forgotten, the ideals he has set and the movement he has
pressed so long and so ably can not fail.” Contents: Youth and early
environment; The new road to leadership; New wine in old bottles; The
great stage; From Princeton to the presidency; The problem; The great
reforms; Wars and rumours of wars; The election of 1916; The United
States enters the war: “We are provincials no longer”; Roosevelt or
Wilson; The great adventure; The day of reckoning; The treaty and the
League; Index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20
“It is fair to admit that Mr Dodd does his work with knowledge, skill,
and an independent judgment in details.” J. A. Hobson
+ =Nation= 111:189 Ag 14 ’20 1250w
“Although I am seldom in complete agreement with Professor Dodd, and
often a horizon’s distance away from him, I find myself forced to the
conviction that this book offers the fullest and fairest amount of
Wilson and his work that I have seen, or am likely to see in many a
day.” Alvin Johnson
+ − =New Repub= 24:36 S 8 ’20 2250w
“Quite the most discriminating, comprehensive and just appraisement of
Woodrow Wilson that has yet been made.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 S 12 ’20 550w
=R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 230w
“As fairly as seems humanly possible, Prof. Dodd has maintained the
historical point of view, endeavoring to weigh all evidence
impartially, and taking counsel from friends and foes alike, and from
the president himself on various occasions.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 1100w
Reviewed by W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:168 O 30 ’20 520w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 110w
=DODGE, HENRY IRVING.= Skinner makes it fashionable. il *$1 (5c) Harper
20–6285
“Meadeville was a suburban town of the highest class. It was made up
of plutocrats, prigs, good people, snobs, mean people, new-rich,
new-poor.” Perhaps William Manning Skinner was one of the “mean
people,” for he set the whole town by the ears in a sensational way.
He knew how human they all were, how they dreaded, most of all, not to
be in the height of fashion and not to do what the “best people” did.
So he set the ball a-rolling that was to change the riot of
extravagance in vogue among the newly-rich to a veritable riot of
simple living. And how he and his good wife, Honey, chuckled over it
all!
* * * * *
“Not as amusing as the earlier ‘Skinner’ stories.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 50w
“The little book is a reservoir of bubbling humor, carrying with it a
lesson well worth heeding in these days.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 550w
“A genuinely funny story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 260w
=DODGE, LOUIS.= Whispers. *$1.75 Scribner
20–6862
“Louis Dodge’s new hero is named Robert Estabrook, and it is Beakman,
the very unpleasant city editor of The News, who gives him the
nickname of ‘Whispers’ because of his defective speech. Estabrook—or
Whispers—arrives in Missouri City shortly after the murder of old
Pheneas Drumm, a dealer in masks and costumes, reputed to be very
rich, and goes first to the office of the highly successful News. But
not liking the looks either of Beakman or of The News office—whereby
he shows his good sense—he decides to try to get a position on the
rival paper, The Vidette. This he does. Also, Whispers promises to
solve the mystery of the Drumm murder within two days. Of course he
makes good.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
+ =Cath World= 112:121 O ’20 90w
“Mr Dodge has written a uniquely interesting book. The plot itself is
simple enough, the dénouement not surprising; but from the very
beginning a subtler interest is aroused by the genuine appeal of the
characters revealed and the picturesque quality of the city newspaper
life.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 480w
+ − =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 350w
“Once the main thread begins to unwind, ‘Whispers’ plunges into an
exciting series of dangers. Either through his own, or the author’s
clumsiness, Estabrook does not display much craft in his sleuthing.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 250w
“The long arm of coincidence is applied to its limit, but the story is
entertaining.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 20w
=DODWELL, C. E. W.= Righteousness versus religion. $2 Stratford co. 201
20–14752
In opposing righteousness to religion the author does not direct his
criticism against Christianity in the sense of the “righteousness,
simplicity and beauty” of the teachings of Christ, but against
dogmatic religion which he makes responsible for everything that has
gone wrong with the world. He charges it with promulgating
“mischievous errors, falsities and debasing superstitions, ignorance,
hypocrisy and narrow-minded bigotry and intolerance.” The contents
are: Religion; Many religions; The Christian religion; The works of
religion; The Bible; Righteousness. The postscript has paragraphs on
the future of the “Church” and “Religion”; on the effects of
Catholicism on Spain and Ireland; on the war; and a recommended list
of books for further reading.
* * * * *
“Of his tremendous sincerity there can be no doubt. It might fairly be
urged that the book fails to accord to its object of attack the usual
privilege of being judged by its best rather than by its worst. Yet
his assaults are put forward in such a whole-hearted and
self-convinced manner that what he says is not calculated to wound or
affront.” L. S.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 1100w
=DOLE, CHARLES FLETCHER.=[2] Religion for the new day. *$2 (2½c) Huebsch
204
We are facing a momentous crisis in history of which some of the
profound facts are: insincerity in religion, and the parting of the
roads to which all churches alike have come. The object of the book is
to set forth a mode of religion that will now and henceforth serve,
not only for Christendom but for all mankind, as the spiritual gospel
and working force for a humane and democratic world and that, wherever
it is applied, can transform life. It neither antagonizes nor favors
any existing institution but insists on the need of some form of
social expression of the best that is in man. The contents fall into
sections: Signs of the times: how the facts point; The course of
spiritual evolution; The victorious goodness; The new civilization;
The religion within.
=DOMBROWSKI, ERIC.= German leaders of yesterday and today. *$2 (2½c)
Appleton 920
20–26749
These pictures of “uncensored celebrities of Germany” are painted with
much spirit, a satirical brush and much intimate knowledge of the
personalities and historical facts. Among the subjects are: Friedrich
Ebert; Erich Ludendorff; Theodor Wolff; Mathias Erzberger; Georg
Ledebour; Alfred von Tirpitz; Wilhelm II; Philip Scheidemann; Von
Bethmann-Hollweg; Ernst Graf zu Reventlow; Hugo Haase; Richard von
Kühlmann; Georg Graf von Hertling; Rosa Luxemburg; Maximilian von
Baden; Kurt Eisner; Karl Liebknecht; Gustav Noske.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20
“Dombrowski’s power is nothing short of Carlylean.”
+ =N Y Times= p1 Ag 8 ’20 4100w
“As often happens in the case of sidelights, Dombrowski illuminates
only spots. He shows only this or that feature of his men and women,
leaving in the shadows many other features which in fairness should be
revealed. ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ is highly
entertaining, but its value is certainly not higher than that of many
books of the hour.”
+ − =Review= 3:538 D 1 ’20 170w
“Some of the sketches are satirical and frankly inimical. Almost all
are enlightening and amusing.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w
“Eric Dombrowski’s ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ has the
requisite impartiality and shows also an abundance of keen insight.
But these sketches were evidently written with some subtlety as well
as vivacity, and while the translator has contrived to preserve the
author’s spirit, the English is often confused or incorrect.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 600w
“Dombrowski tries to be clever and rarely succeeds, but he paints
vivid pictures of forty-five political leaders, publicists, and
agitators, which to the average American will prove illuminating.” C:
Seymour
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:420 Ja ’21 160w
=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.=[2] States of South America, the land
of opportunity; a complete geographical, descriptive, economic and
commercial survey. il *$5 Macmillan 918
“This work, which has been greatly enlarged and re-written since its
first appearance, now forms a comprehensive volume of illustrated
reference to the whole of the states of South America, and not only as
before, a few of the most important Latin-American states.” (The Times
[London] Lit Sup) Notice of the first edition appears in the 1911
Digest Annual.
* * * * *
“The proportion of bare facts to textual comment is well studied from
beginning to end.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 250w
“Aside from its mass of statistics and general information, the chief
value of this volume to the American business man lies in the fact
that it introduces him, with admirable candor, to the methods of his
chief competitor.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p15 Ja 16 ’21 840w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 O ’20 40w
=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Submarine warfare of today. il *$2.25
Lippincott 940.45
20–26104
The book contains “records of many romantic events on England’s sea
frontier, 1914–1918. There are descriptions of the organization and
preparation of the new navy to meet the submarine menace, and of the
new weapons devised. Much attention is given to details and
explanation of how things were done; there is an examination of the
effect of the submarine on naval strategy.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:164 F ’20
“His book is full of romance as well as of facts. The only criticism
which is permissible is that the book is somewhat lacking in detailed
description of the instruments used.”
+ − =Nature= 105:36 Mr 11 ’20 240w
“‘Submarine warfare of today’ is a disappointing book. Based on
inadequate information, and characterised by annoying repetition, it
falls a long way short of the claims which are made by the publishers’
note on the wrapper. If the author is ill-informed as to his facts,
not less displeasing is his English.”
− =Sat R= 129:283 Mr 20 ’20 510w
“Mr Domville-Fife’s is a book to be carefully read by all those who
look forward to the promised formal histories of the navy’s share in
the war.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 850w
=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Submarines and sea power. *$2.50
Macmillan 359
(Eng ed 19–18399)
“In this treatise the author examines the effect of the submarine on
naval strategy, not as a mere matter of history, but as a guide to
preparation for the next naval war.” (Ath) “He says that, though we
hope that the League of nations will make war impossible in future, we
have no right whatever to rely on this blessed consummation. Until we
are entitled to dismiss war as an exhausted evil, which can never
return, we must either keep our place on the sea or sink to live at
the mercy of other nations. Will the submarine make it more difficult
for us to retain our position or not? That is the question which he
endeavours to answer.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1048 O 17 ’19 70w
“Most instructive volume.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 O 9 ’19 1450w
=DONNELLY, ANTOINETTE.= How to reduce: new waistlines for old. il *$1
Appleton 613
20–17245
This is a jolly little book which makes the trip from Fatland into
Slimville an interesting adventure rather than a dismal undertaking.
The author writes from a wide experience and her “simple and
commonsensible rules for reduction” are emphasized by wit, humor and
jingles which seem to defy her own rules by never losing weight. The
menus given “require no additional expense to the household budget nor
do they need to upset the meal planning to any unreasonable degree.”
The exercises given are illustrated and the contents are: A little
physical geography; Some Slimville arguments; Hard facts on a soft
subject; The dangerous age; Get the weighing habit; Reduce while you
eat; What is an average helping; Reduced thirty-six pounds in six
weeks; Exercise; Recipes without butter, flour and sugar. The author
is “beauty editor” of the Chicago Tribune.
=DONNELLY, FRANCIS PATRICK.= Art of interesting; its theory and practice
for speakers and writers. *$1.75 Kenedy 808
20–18519
The author regards the imagination as the source of interest in
written and oral speech, and says that “The place of imagination in
prose” might serve as a substitute title for his book. “In the earlier
chapters various specific manifestations of the imagination are
described and exemplified; then follow several chapters on particular
authors, whose methods of interesting are examined in detail. The
final chapters go into the theory of imagination.” (Preface) Among the
titles are: The tiresome speaker; Interest from directness; The art of
eloquence and the science of theology; Newman and the academic style;
Macaulay and “journalese”; Tabb and fancy; Poetry and interest;
Developing the imagination; Exercises for the imagination. Parts of
the book have appeared in the Ecclesiastical Review, Catholic World
and America.
* * * * *
“He has a delicate appreciation of the best in literature and a genius
for penetrating beneath the polished work of art to discover the
artistry.”
+ =Cath World= 112:389 D ’20 350w
=DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY.= Applied science for metal workers. il $2 Ronald
671
19–15024
“The suggestion of the title that the content is of value only to the
metal-worker is misleading, for this book is in fact an elementary
treatise in the field of technology in general. It deals with
fundamental principles of chemistry and physics in their relation to
our daily life. One-eighth of the material handled, perhaps, applies
specifically to metal-working trades; the remainder is of general
informational value to the average layman as well as to the
metal-worker.”—School R
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:117 Ja ’20
“Mr Dooley has been very successful in many of the chapters in showing
that the sciences of physics and chemistry, which in general are too
abstract for students in the elementary school, can be put in such a
way as to arouse a good deal of interest and promise full
understanding on the part of immature students.”
+ =El School J= 20:393 Ja ’20 100w
=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ’20 100w
“The book is well within the range of evening- and continuation-school
attendants, particularly those engaged in the distributive and
productive industries. It should prove of value as a text in
vocational high schools and in those regular high schools that are
able to differentiate their courses for the benefit of that portion of
their school population which graduates into industry.” H. T. F.
+ =School R= 28:155 F ’20 220w
=DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY.= Applied science for wood-workers. il $2 Ronald
684
19–15025
The first chapters on the general principles of science underlying all
industry are identical with those in “Applied science for metal
workers.” These are followed by seven chapters specifically relating
to woodworking trades.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:117 Ja ’20
+ =El School J= 20:393 Ja ’20 100w
=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ’20 40w
=DORRANCE, MRS ETHEL ARNOLD (SMITH), and DORRANCE, JAMES FRENCH.= Glory
rides the range. il *$1.75 Macaulay co.
20–5585
“Gloriana’s father was Blaze Frazer, owner of a horse ranch near the
‘Solemncholy desert.’ Frazer’s delicate and refined wife had
mysteriously disappeared some years before the story opens. Frazer
receives a penciled letter post-marked Nogales, Mexico, telling him
that there is a woman there who ‘sometime cry for Blaze and Glory and
says her name is Frazer.’ The writer further requests Frazer to come
for the woman and bring with him $5,000 gold for ‘expenses.’ Frazer
raises the money and starts for Mexico in the hope of finding his
wife; before leaving he leases the ranch to one Timothy Rudd and
arranges for the girl to live with a friend during his absence.
Gloriana, however, decides otherwise; Rudd was a bad character and,
refusing to recognize the validity of the lease, she assumes charge of
the ranch herself. The exciting incidents which followed her decision
furnish the theme of this story. In the end Gloriana is in her
mother’s arms and a prospective husband is hovering near by.”—N Y
Times
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 240w
=N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 320w
“When you read ‘Glory rides the range’ you feel that Ethel and James
Dorrance must have had a ‘bully good time’ writing it, so
enthusiastically and blithely does it gallop from one thrilling
situation to another.” E. M. Brown
+ =Pub W= 97:999 Mr 20 ’20 340w
=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Honest thief and other stories. *$2
(1c) Macmillan
20–26192
This is the eleventh volume in Mrs Garnett’s translation of the works
of Dostoevsky. It contains ten stories: An honest thief; Uncle’s
dream; A novel in nine letters; An unpleasant predicament; Another
man’s wife; The heavenly Christmas tree; The peasant Marev; The
crocodile; Bobok; The dream of a ridiculous man.
* * * * *
“Perhaps Dostoevsky more than any other writer sets up this mysterious
relationship with the reader, this sense of sharing. While we read, we
are like children to whom one tells a tale: we seem in some strange
way to half-know what is coming and yet we do not know; to have heard
it all before, and yet our amazement is none the less, and when it is
over, it has become ours. This is especially true of the Dostoevsky
who passes so unremarked—the child-like, candid, simple Dostoevsky who
wrote ‘An honest thief’ and ‘The peasant Marey’ and ‘The dream of a
ridiculous man.’” K. M.
+ =Ath= p1256 N 28 ’19 850w
+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
“Fortunately for the reader, Dostoevski’s desperation of human nature
drove him to ridicule rather than to melancholy, and for ridicule he
was admirably equipped with a lively and stinging wit. Of the ten
stories which make up the volume, ‘Uncle’s dream’ is probably the most
entertaining.” G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 550w
“Insouciance, self-possession of the absolute much prized French
variety, the all containing nonchalance, the iron-nerved sense of
form, Dostoevsky apparently cannot claim. His close realism quite
lacks easiness and is impersonal in a rough and elemental, not an
accomplished way; he has no suggestion of the considered faint irony
of Chekhov. His eminence is the eminence of endowment, not of training
or consideration; he is the great artist of few accomplishments.” C:
K. Trueblood
+ − =Dial= 68:774 Je ’20 800w
“The stories and sketches in this volume of Dostoevsky are not among
his best. His humor is not happy; his compassion is less exercised
when he deals with the higher ranks of society. But always there is
the incomparable steadfastness of vision and innocence of the
imagination that follows life, that does not seek to distort it, and
that finds man in his humanity alone.” L. L.
+ − =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 110w
“The restraint and aloofness of the great comic writers are impossible
to him. It is probable, for one reason, that he could not allow
himself the time. ‘Uncle’s dream,’ ‘The crocodile,’ and ‘An unpleasant
predicament’ read as if they were the improvisations of a gigantic
talent reeling off its wild imagination at breathless speed. Yet we
are perpetually conscious that, if Dostoevsky fails to keep within the
proper limits, it is because the fervour of his genius goads him
across the boundary.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 O 23 ’19 950w
=DOUDNA, EDGAR GEORGE.= Our Wisconsin; a school history of the Badger
state. 72c Eau Claire bk. & stationery co., Eau Claire, Wis. 977.5
20–8513
The book is intended for use in the upper grades of the schools of the
state, it being a law of Wisconsin that its history and government be
taught in the common schools. It is as definite and as concrete as
brevity permits. Beginning with Jean Nicolet, the first white man to
set foot on Wisconsin soil in 1634, the book describes the Indians,
the first settlers, the various nationalities that have made Wisconsin
their home, its attitudes in national crises, its laws and industries,
etc.
* * * * *
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:117 Je ’20 30w
=DOUGLAS, CLIFFORD HUGH.= Economic democracy. *$1.60 (6c) Harcourt 330.1
20–5264
“This book is an attempt to disentangle from a mass of superficial
features such as profiteering, and alleged scarcity of commodities, a
sufficient portion of the skeleton of the structure we call society as
will serve to suggest sound reasons for the decay with which it is now
attacked: and afterwards to indicate the probable direction of sound
and vital reconstruction.” (Preface) The author sees in the
centralizing power of capital one of the chief reasons for this decay
and in a decentralized cooperation of individuals a direction that a
sound and vital reconstruction will take. After analysing our present
decaying economic and political structure and considering the
imminence of a general rearrangement, he rejects collectivism “in any
of the forms made familiar to us by the Fabians and others” and
insists on “the maximum expansion in the personal control of
initiative and the minimizing, and final elimination, of economic
domination, either personal or through the agency of the state.”
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:571 S ’20 60w
“It is extremely difficult to find a flaw in this doctrine on the
basis of ethics or equity, as for the practical workings of any system
which attempts to put this poetic Justice into action we must await
the event.” J. L.
+ =Ath= p445 Ap 2 ’20 1250w
“Those who agree with the premises will find the logic irresistible.
Others will be stimulated by the original though unorthodox thinking
and the fertile suggestions of the author’s scheme.”
+ =Booklist= 16:299 Je 20
“Mr Douglas is by no means clear as to the details of his case,
although his general contention has substantial force.” Ordway Tead
+ − =Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w
“The orthodox economists are in such a helpless muddle in regard to
soaring prices that it is a relief to find a thinker who does not
scatter explanations with a shot gun all over the barn door but goes
straight to his mark. Unfortunately the book is too brief. Excessive
concentration has left it obscure in vital portions.”
+ − =Nation= 111:19 Jl 3 ’20 350w
“Major Douglas knows his difficult subject from end to end. If the
fates had blessed him with the gift of clear exposition we might have
had here a volume of note. When he determines to keep clear from terms
which demand explanations, and concentrates on clarifying his message
of social regeneration, those who pay lip service to formal political
democracy will find in him a telling recruit to the growing band of
thinkers who deny the name of democracy to any system not based upon
economic freedom.”
+ − =Nation [London]= 27:184 My 8 ’20 800w
“This small book offers much room for controversy both as to its
technical analysis of the effects of current accounting and credit
practices and as to the feasibility of remedies advocated. The ground
for controversy is widened by the author’s unfortunately vague and
sometimes bombastic style.” E. R. Burton
+ − =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 280w
=DOUGLAS, OLIVE ELEANOR (CONSTANCE) (LADY ALFRED DOUGLAS).= Penny plain.
*$1.90 Doran
A story of a quiet little Scottish town. Priorsford is the home of a
number of quaint and interesting people. Here Jean Jardine lives with
her two brothers and “the Mhor,” Gaelic for “the great one,” the
pretentious name given to a little boy of seven. Into this placid
atmosphere comes the Honourable Miss Pamela Reston, who is tired of
London life. The story tells of how she fits into Priorsford society
and how she and Jean become fast friends, and there is much
description of tea-parties and country social life. Then comes an
unexpected legacy for kind-hearted little Jean and romance, too,
appears in the person of Pam’s younger brother. Pam herself finds the
fulfilment of a hope of twenty years’ standing which has kept her
single all this long time. The title comes from the dialogue of the
shopman and the small boy: the shopman saying “You may have your
choice—penny plain or twopence coloured.” the small boy choosing the
penny plain, as “better value for the money.”
* * * * *
“A pleasant book to read. But we cannot help thinking it would be
pleasanter still without the perfunctory introduction of a
loveinterest, and of other irrelevances considered more or less
indispensable in fiction.”
+ − =Ath= p244 Ag 20 ’20 120w
“The children make the book, especially Gervase and his dog. It is
worth reading for them alone.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 480w
“Miss Douglas’s new book in two ways partakes of a quality little
short of the miraculous. It is a post-war story without a trace of
war-weariness or bitterness; and it is full of people who are nice
with the added charm of being entertaining. As a story ‘Penny plain’
leaves something to be desired. Let us add that if an author is to be
judged by her literary preferences and illusions and quotations, Miss
Douglas deserves a very high mark.”
+ − =Spec= 125:342 S 11 ’20 440w
“A very able and delightful book, but it is not the kind of book that
the Marxian kind of person would like. The author has a good style and
a subtle sense of humour, together with the skill necessary for the
gradual unfolding of the characters.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p534 Ag 19 ’20 570w
=DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.=[2] Bostwick’s budget. il *$1 Bobbs 331.84
20–18296
“An inspiring bit of a book for all those in debt; being the Odyssey
of Sam and Lucy, who owed $4,016.69 and through the advice of a
sagacious old lawyer and the use of grit, in a comparatively short
time found themselves out of debt and with money in the
bank.”—Cleveland
* * * * *
=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 50w
=N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 100w
“The story, as a story, is closely interesting, and as a sermon on
thrift it ought to be read by 100 per cent of the newlyweds in America
and by an equal ratio of people above and below that date line in
their careers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 190w
=DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.=[2] Man from Ashaluna. *$1.75 (2c) Small
20–18763
Judson Dunlap comes home from France with the desire to paint
pictures. As a doughboy in Paris he had seen real pictures and a
latent interest in art had awakened. He buys a painting kit and starts
in by himself alone in the Ashaluna hills, his home. But the results
are queer and he knows it. So he takes the patents on the churn he has
invented to New York, hoping to sell them and get money to learn
painting. He also hopes to meet Mary Beverly, the girl he had rescued
from the snowdrifts the winter before. He is immediately plunged into
a game of high finance, for two rival concerns are after him for his
water rights on the Ashaluna and are willing to juggle with his churn
patents as part of the price. Jud plays them off one against the
other, meets Mary again, learns to wear the right clothes and use the
right forks and, altogether, doesn’t find time to learn painting.
* * * * *
“A cleverly conceived, well told novel. While there is nothing
particularly striking in this book in any one place, it is a well made
piece of fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 320w
=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= Guards came through, and other poems. *$1.25
Doran 821
20–2926
No vers libre for Sir Arthur. It is the old style meter with the old
style rhyme and the old style powerful lilt to the old style ballad
most suitable for recitations. They are all war poems and are:
Victrix; Those others; The guards came through; Haig is moving; The
guns in Sussex; Ypres; Grousing; The volunteer; The night patrol; The
wreck on Loch McGarry; The bigot; The Athabasca trail; Ragtime!
Christmas in wartime; Lindisfaire; A parable; Fate.
* * * * *
“The title-piece and others show Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a master
of evening-paper balladry.”
+ =Ath= p558 Ap 23 ’20 70w
“It is good British song one finds in this slim little volume of Sir
Arthur’s. And it is British all the way through, this little book;
British militarily, British presumptuously satisfied with her
destiny.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 400w
“Nothing so good for Friday afternoon readings in public schools has
been written since ‘The charge of the light brigade.’”
+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 110w
“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being
non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader
on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a real benefactor to the organizers of town
or village entertainments who want pieces of good quality for
recitation. His poems, mainly patriotic, are irreproachable in
sentiment, simple in expression, and always have a brave lilt. One
longish piece, ‘The wreck on Loch McGarry,’ is in a vein of Gilbertian
humour.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 80w
=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= History of the great war. v 5–6 il ea *$3
(3c) Doran 940.3
=v 5–6= The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1918.
Volume 5, covering the first half of the year 1918, “carries the story
of the German attack to its close.” The battle of the Somme is given
seven chapters, with the battle of the Lys and the battles of the
Chemin des Dames and of the Ardres treated in the concluding chapters.
Volume 6 “describes the enormous counter attack of the Allies leading
up to their final victory.” Both volumes are indexed and are
illustrated with maps and plans.
* * * * *
“It is written in the author’s usual clear style, and sticks, for the
most part, to the business in hand, although the occasional
ill-informed references to the Russian revolution are hardly in
keeping with the rest of the narrative.”
+ − =Ath= p932 S 19 ’19 60w (Review of v 5)
=Ath= p195 F 6 ’20 90w (Review of v 6)
=Booklist= 16:273 My ’20 (Review of v 5–6)
+ =Cath World= 111:694 Ag ’20 190w (Review of v 6)
“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being
non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader
on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w
=Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 30w (Review of v 6)
“Within certain limits, Sir Arthur’s account will be found useful; his
maps, so-called, are execrable.”
+ − =Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 1050w (Review of v 5–6)
=Spec= 123:373 S ’20 ’19 1850w (Review of v 5)
+ =Spec= 124:316 Mr 6 ’20 150w (Review of v 6)
“Perhaps the only possible criticism of Sir Arthur’s work is its
official tinge. Considering his difficulties, Sir Arthur is to be
congratulated upon his work.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 850w (Review of v 5–6)
“Sir Arthur Doyle lacks the knowledge, for which he cannot be blamed,
since official material is denied to him; and it is quite impossible
that such a history as his should not be more or less hastily
produced, so that he lacks also time. We fear that we must add, lastly
that he fails in literary skill. One bright spot, indeed, there is in
the shape of a few pages of actual experience which Sir Arthur has
modestly relegated to the appendix of his final volume.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p164 Mr 11 ’20 1250w (Review of v
5–6)
=D’OYLY, SIR WARREN HASTINGS, bart.= Tales retailed of celebrities and
others. il *$2 (4½c) Lane
20–20076
“They are simple tales mostly such as are told in ordinary after
dinner chit-chats round the fire, over a good cigar and a glass of
good wine, when young men tell tales of presentday happenings to be
capped by older men’s tales of the ‘good old times.’” (Preface) With a
few exceptions they all relate to incidents which have come under the
author’s own observation during a lifetime of over fourscore years.
The contents are in two parts. Book I contains: A hundred years ago:
Dorsetshire, Haileybury and Scotland; India; Tirhut, Bhaugulpore, and
Arrah; Indian celebrities and others. Book II, Legends, contains:
Family legends and tales taken from “The house of D’Oyly” by William
D’Oyly Bayley. F. S. A.
* * * * *
=Ath= p528 Ap 16 ’20 40w
“His jottings may entertain readers who know something of the circle
in which he moved, or who may like a few anecdotes about the hunting
of Indian big game. But the book as a whole can hardly claim to have
much general interest.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p141 F 26 ’20 110w
=DOZIER, HOWARD DOUGLAS.= History of the Atlantic coast line railroad.
*$2 Houghton 385
20–7433
The book is one of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx series of prize essays
in economics. It is the history of the consolidation of a number of
short railroads along the South Atlantic seaboard into the Atlantic
coast line system and illustrates the growth of the holding company
period and its decline. It includes much of the economic history and
the economic conditions of the section involved and shows what a
marked influence the consolidation had on the latter. Contents: Early
trade and transportation conditions of the Atlantic seaboard states:
Economic background of the north and south railroads of Virginia; The
Petersburg and the Richmond and Petersburg railroads before 1860:
North Carolina and the Wilmington and Weldon railroad before 1860; The
South Carolina-Georgia territory and its railroads before the Civil
war; Summary of railroad conditions along the Atlantic seaboard to
1860; Growth from the Civil war to 1902; Integrations and
consolidations; Summary and conclusion; Appendix; Bibliographical
note; Index; and insert maps and table.
* * * * *
“The student will find in this volume an important contribution to the
economic literature of the country, not only because it adds to our
knowledge of railway history but because it contains as a background a
good discussion of the industrial development of the country through
which the lines were built.” I: Lippincott
+ =Am Econ R= 10:593 S ’20 720w
“The later chapters, in fact, are notably lacking in the mention of
personnel. Other faults lie in the construction of sentences and
paragraphs, in the omission of dates of publication from the
bibliography, and in occasional errors of statement. The book,
nevertheless, is in general a substantial and well-considered
contribution.” U. B. Phillips
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:148 O ’20 320w
=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 30w
=DRACHSLER, JULIUS.=[2] Democracy and assimilation; the blending of
immigrant heritages in America. *$3 Macmillan 325.7
20–18678
“Prof. Drachsler gives us an interpretation of a careful statistical
study of the facts of intermarriage in New York city among immigrant
groups. In view of our heterogeneous population, he states, the
national ideal must be redefined and our life consciously directed
toward it. Approaching the problem merely from an economic or cultural
point of view is not enough. The fusion of races in America, in short,
must be cultural as well as biological, and it must take place under
an adequate economic environment if an American ideal is to be
achieved. The most specific proposal which Prof. Drachsler makes to
accomplish this is to develop in our schools a conscious attempt to
study the comparative literature, politics and history of the races
represented therein in order that their heritages may continue to be
an inspiration and force.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 720w
=N Y Times= p10 D 12 ’20 1800w
“Prof. Drachsler’s approach is a stimulating and suggestive appeal to
facts.” J: M. Gaus
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 570w
“Each reader will interpret these facts in accordance with his own
point of view. It is a merit of the book that the facts have been
divided from interpretation of the facts. The book will no doubt be
recognized as one of the few valuable discussions on the problem of
assimilation.” J. B. Berkson
+ =Survey= 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 940w
=DREIER, KATHERINE SOPHIE.=[2] Five months in the Argentine from a
woman’s point of view, 1918 to 1919. *$3.50 Sherman, F. F. 918.2
20–12791
“Miss Katherine S. Dreier, author of ‘Five months in the Argentine:
from a woman’s point of view,’ faced the discomforts of her journey
from Valparaiso to Buenos Aires and her sojourn there with an
invincible sense of humor. She visited a great estancia (ranch) at
Gualeguay and the Museum of natural history at La Plata, and writes
about the general strike of January, 1919, but her principal concern
was to study the status and training of women, the care of children,
the organization of charity, and the control of prostitution.”—Nation
* * * * *
“If one would have a faithful picture of Buenos Aires, going into
considerable detail as to living conditions, charities, business and
pleasure, Miss Dreier’s book is to be recommended.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 250w
+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 210w
=DREISER, THEODORE.= Hey-rub-a-dub-dub. *$1.90 Boni & Liveright 814
20–2927
“These essays concern Change, Some aspects of our national character,
The American financier, Personality, The toil of the laborer, The
reformer, Marriage and divorce, Life, art, and America, Neurotic
America and the sex impulse—there are twenty of them, written in the
authentic Dreiserian manner. Phantasmagoria splits the book in twain.
It is a little cosmic drama in three scenes—The house of birth, The
house of life, The house of death. It is the via dolorosa of the ‘Lord
of the universe,’ his agglomeration, effulgence in life, and his
ingression. The court of progress purports to be the record of the
doings of the Federated chairman of the post federated period of world
republics (2,760–3,923). This phantasmagoria is a celebration of the
triumph of humanity over poets, cigarette fiends, saloon keepers,
madams, socialists, Holy rollers, artists, and the like.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“They are interesting in showing the philosophy which has been back of
the vigorous, often shocking fiction of the author.”
+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20
“He states so many things that are not so, and he states them so
arrogantly and cocksuredly, that the intelligent reader asks himself
in amazement: ‘How can such an inane book—poorly written, full of
repetitions, blatant in its irreligion, shameless in its
immorality—find enough readers to warrant publication?’ Mr Dreiser has
no saving sense of humor—hence this awful book.”
− =Cath World= 111:260 My ’20 320w
“Dreiser sets down his findings with all a greengrocer’s assiduity,
and not a little of a greengrocer’s unimaginative painstaking. Here is
a surprising absence of the creative instinct in a creative writer.”
− =Dial= 69:320 S ’20 160w
“In his novels Mr Dreiser seems very much the thinker. One is
astonished, consequently, to find how unsublimated a product he is of
the benighted environment he describes in his last essay when he has
no characters through whom to express himself. Very simple and almost
purely emotional is the reaction upon life cloaked in the scientific
verbiage of this book. One asks oneself whether the soul of Jennie
Gerhardt is not really the soul of Mr Dreiser himself. One thing is
certain; he is far more interesting as the painter of Jennie’s life
than as the recorder of Jennie’s views.” Van Wyck Brooks
+ − =Nation= 110:595 My 1 ’20 700w
“Heavy and turgid and monotonous and sensuously obtuse as he seems to
be, he makes his discussion interesting. He is himself sincerely
interested, and he is writing because he has something to communicate.
The truth seems to be that Theodore Dreiser’s mind is formless,
chaotic, bewildered. In short, our leading novelist is intellectually
in serious confusion, and needs a deeper philosophy than—hey
rub-a-dub-dub.” F. H.
− + =New Repub= 22:423 My 26 ’20 850w
“Mr Dreiser’s style always reminds us of a college professor who has
been ‘fired’ for trying to make his pupils think. He emits endless
common-places with the air of having discovered something new. He is
pedantic before the threadbare. In ‘The court of progress’ Mr Dreiser
has written one of the most drastic satires ever written in this
country. This ought to be printed separately and distributed by the
million.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:167 Ap 11 ’20 850w
− =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 750w
=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.= Open vision; a study of psychic phenomena.
*$2 (2½c) Crowell 130
20–6883
The author asserts that he is not a spiritualist, that he has never
received any communications through a medium, and that he has never
investigated spiritism after the manner of psychical researchers. He
classes all these investigations with those of other sciences that
arrive at conclusions through external sources. What the book
emphasizes is the psychical experience by direct impression, the inner
vision and certainty that is independent of outward signs. That the
spiritual world is, that we are of it and in it now, in life as well
as in death, and that we can develop our awareness of it and our
participation in it through the cultivation of an open vision seems to
be the teaching of the book. A partial list of the contents is: The
new awakening; Psychical experience; The awakening of psychical power;
Principles of interpretation; The human spirit; Direct impressions;
Inner perception; The future life; The book of life; The inward light;
Positive values.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20
=N Y Times= p18 Jl 4 ’20 160w
“Dr Dresser’s reasoning is systematic, but not powerful, his piety
refined but not robust; his style expands discreetly in the calm of a
featureless level.”
+ − =Review= 2:631 Je 16 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 N 18 ’20 40w
=DREW, MRS MARY (GLADSTONE).= Mrs Gladstone. il *$4 (6c) Putnam
20–6736
This loving tribute by her daughter reveals Mrs Gladstone as a
personality of distinction in her own right, her happy family life,
her sympathy for and her influence on her husband’s work. It has been
the author’s privilege to share intimately her parents’ life from her
birth to their death. Contents: Childhood and youth; Girlhood and
marriage; Diaries in early married life; Letters from her; Letters to
her; Characteristics; Good works; Reminiscences; “Via crucis—via
lucis”; Genealogical table; Index and numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
“Her book is more a series of impressions and reminiscences than a
biography. It is none the less interesting and authoritative on that
account, however, and will serve very well in the place of a more
extended and formal biographical record.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 1850w
“It is a little difficult for the outsider to know why three hundred
pages were necessary to paint what must at best be a purely negative
picture.” H. J. L.
− + =New Repub= 23:233 Jl 21 ’20 280w
“This volume should be heralded equally as a new chapter in the social
and political history of the Victorian period and as a rare and
beautifully filial tribute to a devoted mother, a highly accomplished
and perennially charming woman.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 97:1294 Ap 17 ’20 450w
“It is trivial and unutterably dull.”
− =Review= 3:95 Jl 28 ’20 320w
=R Of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 80w
“So far as we can discover from this and other contemporary records,
Mrs Gladstone was a good but stupid woman. There are a number of
letters to Mrs Gladstone which show what exceedingly dull and
commonplace letters are written by very distinguished people.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:587 D 20 ’19 850w
+ =Spec= 124:49 Ja 10 ’20 1300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p716 D 4 ’19 30w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p761 D 18 ’19 1600w
=DRINKWATER, JOHN.= Lincoln: the world emancipator. *$1.50 (10c)
Houghton
20–20308
The object of this book, written by an Englishman, is not to retell
the life-story of Lincoln to Americans, but to use him as a symbol of
the community of spirit and of the differences of national character
between the two peoples and to show how he can serve as a reconciler
in bringing about an intellectual and spiritual alliance between them.
Contents: ‘Liberty’; ‘E pluribus unum’; Anglo-American union; Lincoln
as symbol; Anglo-American differences; Lincoln as reconciler; History
and art; Lincoln and the artists; An epilogue.
* * * * *
=Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 20w
“The whole essay is a work of art. In form it is not in the least
polemical, and if it is polemical in intent, then Drinkwater has
brought polemics into the region of the fine arts.”
+ =N Y Times= p1 D 5 ’20 850w
+ =R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 80w
=DRINKWATER, JOHN.= Pawns; four poetic plays. *$1.50 Houghton 822
20–21989
The book is a collection of four one-act plays and has an introduction
by Jack R. Crawford who says the plays are characteristic of the
author’s point of view, namely, that peace and quiet are the natural
concomitants of a mind loving beauty. “They are dramas expressed in
poetry—the utterance of simple truths which we know beforehand, for of
such are the materials of poetry and drama.” The plays are: The storm;
The god of quiet; X = O; a night of the Trojan war; Cophetua.
* * * * *
“There is justice in the title. But the true figures of the
stage—Falstaff or Iago or Œdipus—are not pawns. They are living
beings.” J: G. Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:405 Ja 5 ’21 750w
“One quality in these ‘Pawns’ is clear: their artistic sincerity. The
best play of the three, the largest in conception, the richest and
simplest in emotion, and the soundest in workmanship, is the last in
the book. [“X = O” in English edition]”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p448 S 20 ’17 960w
=DRUMMOND, HAMILTON.= Maker of saints. *$2.50 Dutton
20–10731
“In this tale of Italy in the days of Dante (who appears in person on
the stage) the maker of saints is the sculptor Fieravanti, a peasant
risen to fame and power by his wonderful statues of saints which to
the simple countrymen are the real persons they represent. It is the
visit of Fieravanti at the Court of Arzano to the proud old Count
Ascanio of the house of Faldora, who has no son, but a beautiful,
proud and unawakened granddaughter, that introduces a romance of the
changing fortunes of noble houses amid the turbulence of medieval
Italy.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“It is by no means easy to infuse much vitality into an imaginative
tale of so long ago, but the author has undoubtedly achieved a measure
of success in his undertaking.”
+ − =Ath= p30 Ja 2 ’20 80w
“The story is well told, with abundance of incident.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 500w
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 20w
“A capital romance but at the end the curtain drops too abruptly on
the tragic climax of the story and leaves us a little doubtful as to
the real issue.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 130w
=DU BOIS, JOHN HAROLD.= Christian task. (New generation ser.) *90c (4c)
Assn. press 261
20–13993
“A discussion of the supreme need of the age: how Christianity can
satisfy it.” (Subtitle) In the author’s opinion the supreme need of
the age “is the need of something to do, the need of some gigantic
undertaking—in a word, the need of a task, or in still simpler
Anglo-Saxon, the need of a job.” Contents: The need stated: the need
of a task; The need analyzed: the need and the age; The need
emphasized: the need and the war; The need satisfied: the need and the
Christian task of establishing the kingdom of God on earth; The need
summarized: Christianity and other related needs.
* * * * *
=Bib World= 54:646 N ’20 130w
=DUBOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT.= Darkwater: voices from within the
veil. *$2 (3c) Harcourt 326
20–4763
“I have been in the world, but not of it. I have seen the human drama
from a veiled corner, where all the outer tragedy and comedy have
reproduced themselves in microcosm within. From this inner torment of
souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual
and even illuminating ways.” (Postscript) And it is an unusual
collection of essays, stories and parables alternating with “little
alightings of what may be poetry.” Beginning with a “credo” and an
autobiographical sketch, The shadow of years, the contents are: The
souls of white folk; The hands of Ethiopia; Of work and wealth; “The
servant in the house”; Of the ruling of men; The damnation of women;
The immortal child; Of beauty and death; The comet. The interposed
poetry is: A litany at Atlanta; The riddle of the sphinx; The princess
of the Hither isles; The second coming; Jesus Christ in Texas; The
call; Children of the moon; Almighty death; The prayers of God; A hymn
to the peoples. Mr DuBois is author of “The souls of black folk,” “The
negro,” etc., and is editor of the Crisis.
* * * * *
“We can admit the whole of Dr DuBois’ plea for the negro, although we
cannot admit his argument, and we can do so because his argument is
irrelevant. His picture of the majority of mankind, the ‘coloured’
races, being kept in subjugation by the, on the whole, inferior white
races is, we feel, rather more poetic than scientific.”
+ − =Ath= p139 Jl 30 ’19 600w
“Written with tense feeling and a clean bitterness.”
+ =Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20
“It is a stern indictment and one to which we cannot close our ears.
It is a lesson, however, that cannot be driven home by storming, no
matter how righteous be the anger. The significance of ‘Darkwater’
thus lies in the spiritual history of the author and in the passages
of lyrical poetic beauty where he has expressed the extremity of
racial pride.” M. E. Bailey
+ − =Bookm= 52:304 Ja ’21 620w
“Dr DuBois is undoubtedly the foremost spokesman of today for the
negro, and as such his utterances command attention. It is doubtful
whether Dr DuBois is as powerful or as convincing in his latest work
as in its predecessor, ‘The souls of black folk.’” W. E. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 670w
“Whether in prose or verse, DuBois is always master of the instrument
of expression. At times, as in the Litany at Atlanta, reprinted from
the Independent, he rises to supreme eloquence. But his thought is not
always on the same high level as his style.”
+ − =Ind= 102:235 My 15 ’20 200w
+ =Lit D= p86 My 1 ’20 1350w
“It is a fact that his own ability to suffer and to feel the wrongs of
his race so deeply is at once his strength, the reason for his
leadership, and also his chief weakness. For it carries with it a note
of bitterness, tinctured with hate, and the teaching of violence which
often defeats his own purpose. Doubtless, few of us with sympathies so
keen, with nerves so rasped, with wounds as raw, would do better. But
still, some suppression of the ego, a lesser self-consciousness, and
the omission of personal bitterness at all times would carry Mr DuBois
and his cause much further.” O. G. V.
+ − =Nation= 110:726 My 29 ’20 1150w
“It is sometimes said that Dr DuBois is bitter. If this new book of
his is bitter, I do not know what bitter means. It is to me one of the
sweetest books I have ever read. Dr DuBois is an artist, and his book
must be reckoned among those that add not only to the wisdom but to
the exaltation and glory of man. Because he is an artist, because he
tells this story of his own people so simply and so charmingly, he
establishes that kinship which is the essence of everything human.” F.
H.
+ − =New Repub= 22:189 Ap 7 ’20 1300w
“There is a certain weakness in Professor DuBois’s reasoning, which is
that his intense concentration on one subject leads him to turn
general, universal wrongs into special negro wrongs. The error runs
all through his book and disfigures it. If we disagree with much in
this beautiful book, it is not possible to withhold the heartiest
praise for the power of its statement, the force and passion that
inspire it, and the entrancing style in which it is written.”
+ − =N Y Times= p19 Ag 8 ’20 2000w
“Dr DuBois is too close to the struggle to see clearly the problems
involved. His work is a creation of passion rather than intelligence.
It is, on the whole, a volume which will convince only those already
convinced of the justice and soundness of his position.”
− + =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 150w
“‘Darkwater’ is not merely the story of the negro. The success of Dr
DuBois’ writing lies in the fact that it describes something
universal. Every other persecuted race quickens with tragic memories
at his words. Here is the story of the circumscribed Jew, of the
Hindu, of the dark peoples whom imperialism holds in subjection. It is
the old story of the undeserved human suffering, doled out by the
world’s victors who enjoy the cruel display of their power.” M. W.
Ovington
+ =Socialist R= 8:381 My ’20 700w
“Very able and pathetic book.”
+ − =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 280w
“I believe that Dr DuBois has overstressed in his book the point of
identity, not only of the colored races as such, but of the white and
black races especially; yet I am equally sure that white men have
overstressed the points of divergence. The signal service of this book
is that it quite magnificently points out the white man’s error and
makes clear as day the fact that the ‘race question’ is, at least to a
great extent, a question of social environment.” R. F. Foerster
+ − =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 600w
“His book affords a remarkable example of that elemental race-hatred
which he himself so fiercely denounces. He ignores altogether the
paramount importance of the economic basis of the problem, the fact
that, given equal opportunity, the negro and the Asiatic would
inevitably eat up the white man.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 N 4 ’20 520w
“If one lays down the book with a sense of disappointment that in
spite of its excellence it somehow misses greatness, at least he
cannot easily silence in his ears ‘the voices from within the veil’
who speak through its pages. And if bitterness seems to be the quality
which mars the power of Dr DuBois’ appeal, the white man has lost his
right to complain.” N. T.
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:286 S ’20 160w
=DUCLAUX, EMILE.= Pasteur: the history of a mind; tr. and ed. by Erwin
F. Smith and Florence Hedges. il *$5 Saunders
20–6556
“This is an American translation of a French book published in 1896.
The pupil, friend and successor of Pasteur describes the successful
quest of knowledge and the growth of the ardent mind which pursued it.
He follows the same method in describing the successive triumphs of
Pasteur from the studies in crystallography to the final attainment of
the conception of immunity. He gives a brief account of the state of
knowledge preceding the work of Pasteur, and is thus able to describe
the problems in the form in which they presented themselves when the
great investigator turned his attention to them.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup) “The translators, who are pathologists in the United States
Department of agriculture, have appended an annotated list of persons
mentioned in the book.” (R of Rs)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
“Invaluable for the light it sheds on the dynamics of scientific
research, this volume is not less suggestive for its portraiture of
what Ostwald has called the classicist mind in science.” R. H. Lowie
+ =Freeman= 2:259 N 24 ’20 900w
“The book must always remain a classic in the history of science. The
translation has been faithfully done.” A. S. M.
+ =Nature= 106:303 N 4 ’20 980w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w
“The book has a permanent value independent of the progress that has
been made since it was written.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p545 Ag 26 ’20 1350w
=DUCLAUX, MARY.= Twentieth century French writers (reviews and
reminiscences). il *$2.50 Scribner 840.9
(Eng ed 20–11400)
“This volume was in the printer’s hands in August, 1914. For its
publication today Madame Duclaux has added a post-war preface and
interpolated a passage here and there.” (Nation) “She writes chiefly
of the last fourteen years, and in studies all too brief characterizes
the personalities and the work of Maurice Barrès, Romain Rolland,
Edmond Rostand, Claudel, Jammes, René Boylesve. André Gide, Péguy,
Barbusse, Duhamel, the Comtesse de Noailles and others.” (Ath)
* * * * *
=Ath= p225 F 13 ’20 60w
“For readers unacquainted with contemporary French literature this
volume should be a useful literary guide-book.”
+ =Ath= p475 Ap 9 ’20 600w
=Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Many thanks should be given her by the English-speaking world for her
brilliant and scholarly volume, arriving as it does when we need the
stimulus and example of these French modernists.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 980w
“The book has its insufficiencies of judgment, of course, apart from
those created by an encroaching patriotism. But her defects are
obvious; they spring readily from her qualities. She is interested in
her chosen writers as complex individuals. As highly differentiated
individuals she presents them; and in reaching for the core of
personality she accomplishes something which is vital to criticism.”
C. M. Rourke
+ − =Freeman= 2:140 O 20 ’20 900w
“Substantially it is now what it was then, [August, 1914,] and therein
lies its extraordinary value. The war turned everything into legend
and made of every face an angel’s or an ogre’s mask. Now that the
world is mildly and tentatively beginning to use its mind again, a
book like this serves to mend the broken continuity of truth and to
restore the normal temper of one’s studies.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 1250w
“Mme Duclaux not only possesses the comprehensive vision that makes
possible a synoptic view of surface phenomena, but she is gifted with
that rarer sight which pierces, embraces and understands.” B. R.
Redman
+ |=N Y Times= p15 Ag 22 ’20 2500w
“Gives a better account of the most modern French literature than has
yet been published in English.”
+ |=Spec= 124:587 My 1 ’20 530w
“One’s first impulse, on reading Mme Duclaux’s book, is to cry, Here
is a book by some one who knows what she is talking about! The impulse
is too strong to be restrained, because the event is so rare in this
field of literary criticism.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 F 26 ’20 1850w
=DUGANNE, PHYLLIS.= Prologue. *$2 (2c) Harcourt
20–14598
This is the story of Rita Moreland’s life during her teens, when she
is developing from little girlhood to womanhood. The only child of a
rather unsatisfactory marriage, she has some difficulty in adjusting
herself to life. The story tells of her family life, her schooling,
her home in New York, where she vibrates between Fifth avenue and
Greenwich Village, her friends, and more especially her relations with
the masculine sex. She alternates between perfect happiness and
periods of bored discontentment with everything and can’t seem to
“find herself.” The war finds her at work in an office, but the end of
the war brings back to her Donald, with whom, at the story’s close,
she stands at “the beginnings of things.”
* * * * *
“Two merits by no means discoverable in all first novels may be
conceded to ‘Prologue’ at the outset. It commands to a marked degree
technical dexterity and ease in expression, and—within the scope of
its peacock-alley comprehension of life—it is decidedly entertaining.
The book might be described as a study of flapper-psychosis—if there
is such a thing. Anything tending to reveal character, or in any way
interfere with inconsequent amours, is summarily dismissed by the
author.” L. B.
− + =Freeman= 2:70 S 29 ’20 340w
“Miss Duganne writes with a clear, staccato, bird-like note; she
visualizes men and things with cool precision.”
+ =Nation= 111:454 O 20 ’20 360w
=DUGUIT, LEÓN.= Law in the modern state; tr. by Frida and Harold Laski.
*$2.50 Huebsch 321
20–7266
“Professor Duguit’s introductory chapter closes with the following
significant words, which summarize his book. ‘The idea of public
service,’ he declares, ‘replaces the idea of sovereignty. The state is
no longer a sovereign power in issuing commands. It is a group of
individuals who must use the force they possess to supply the public
need. The idea of public service lies at the very base of the theory
of the modern state.’ The demonstration as to how this has come about
occupies the body of the book. Through illustrations drawn primarily
from French legal history, Duguit shows the growth away from state
absolutism and from the idea of governments as sacrosanct
bodies.”—Socialist R
* * * * *
“Of the acuteness of Duguit’s analytical powers there can, in general,
be no doubt, and it therefore became a matter almost beyond
understanding that he should fail to continue to appreciate the real
nature of the doctrines which he attacks.” W. W. Willoughby
− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:504 Ag ’20 1000w
=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
“The author makes out a strong case and the facts seem to be on his
side. He answers his opponents with candor and courtesy and treats
fairly and comprehensively all sides of the problem.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 180w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
+ =Socialist R= 9:48 Je ’20 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 F 21 ’20 80w
“The translation by Frida and Harold Laski is very satisfactory, and
the introduction by Professor Laski furnishes an invaluable background
for an understanding of the volume.” A. J. Lien
+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 420w
=DUMBELL, KATE ETHEL MARY.= Seeing the West, il new ed *$1.75 (5c)
Doubleday 917.8
A book designed as a convenient handbook for the westbound traveler.
It is composed of five parts: The southern Rockies; The northern
Rockies; The northwest; California; The southwest. There are two end
maps, one showing national parks and railroads, the other showing
motor highways. A four-page list of references comes at the end,
followed by the index.
* * * * *
“To one who does not know the country ‘Seeing the west’ offers many
valuable suggestions.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 110w
“It is doubtful whether anyone has brought the same amount and quality
of tourist information into so compact space before.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 130w
=DUNLAP, KNIGHT.= Personal beauty and racial betterment. *$1 Mosby 575.6
20–7871
“The first part of the book, ‘The significance of beauty,’ seeks to
explain in detail the characters of personal beauty—an explanation
found exclusively in the reproductive needs of the race. The second
part, ‘The conservation of beauty,’ points to its importance as an
element in race improvement which, the author maintains, can
according to all present evidence be brought about only by selection
of the more fit. It also discusses briefly some of the more
disputable means of eliminating the entirely unfit. Above all,
however, the author directs his argument against economic interest
as the decisive factor in selection and effectively presents the
case for the cultivation of beauty and love marriage as
indispensable to race preservation.”—Survey
* * * * *
Reviewed by E. S. Bogardus
=Am J Soc= 26:367 N ’20 160w
“In the recent literature of sexual selection and of eugenics there
have been few more stimulating contributions than this one by
Professor Dunlap. It is worth a place in the social hygienist’s
library.” P. P.
+ =Social Hygiene= 6:577 O ’20 640w
“Professor Dunlap’s study of personal beauty as an element in race
betterment is original and suggestive; it is, however, little more
than a string of ex cathedra propositions presented without evidence
or citation of authority other than his own observations.”
+ − =Survey= 44:450 Je 26 ’20 200w
=DUNN, ARTHUR WALLACE.= How presidents are made. *75c (2½c) Funk 329
20–8653
The book is a historical survey of the conditions and circumstances
that surrounded the campaigns of the various presidents. The author
takes no stock in the general impression that presidents are elected
on “issues,” but thinks that personality and opportunity play a
greater part and that often the result depends on accident or
incident. Contents: Caste and political parties; Federalism and
states’ rights—Adams and Jefferson; The Virginia succession—Madison
and Monroe; Developing issues—slavery and the tariff; Passing of
congressional caucus—Adams; Personal popularity a factor—Jackson, Van
Buren, Harrison; Slavery and the northern boundary as factors—Polk;
The Mexican war—Taylor; Slavery issue looming; Slavery
compromise—Pierce; Anti-slavery republicans defeated—Buchanan;
Extension vs. restriction of slavery—Lincoln; The soldier vote and war
issues—Lincoln and Grant; Liberal republican movement—Grant vs.
Greeley; The electoral commission—Hayes vs. Tilden; Third term
issue—Garfield; Mugwump independency—Cleveland; Protectionist
tariff—Harrison; The tariff and free silver—Cleveland; Gold standard
vs. free silver—McKinley; “Imperialism,” silver, the tariff—McKinley;
Personal popularity—Roosevelt; Tariff and personal influence—Taft;
Republican disharmony—Wilson; Anti-war sentiment and tactical
mistakes—Wilson; The negro as a political factor; Prohibition,
suffrage, socialism.
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 24 ’20 230w
+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 30w
“One takes up this little volume expecting a dry-as-dust account of
the operations of the primaries, the electoral college, etc. Instead
he finds a narrative alive with human interest.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 50w
“It is a meager and sketchy book, without distinction in research or
judgment, but it does ‘hit the high spots’ in such a way as to bring
the records of past campaigns briefly to mind, and it is written in a
fair spirit, with a practical understanding of events and with
intelligent discrimination.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 1500w
=DUNN, COURTENAY FREDERIC WILLIAM.= Natural history of the child. *$2
(2½c) Lane 392
20–4905
Although the author of this volume is a physician the book is not
written from a medical or scientific point of view. It is rather the
traditions, prejudices and customs which have surrounded childhood
from time immemorial dressed in an entertaining, humorous garb, “a
history of childhood which for the greater part has been grubbed up
from ancient and scarce books, obscure pamphlets and papers.”
(Foreword) Contents: Him before he was; His ancestry; His early
life—legal infancy; His name; His environment; His language; His
schooldays; His schooling; His development; His play; His religion;
His mental condition; His naughtiness; His afflictions.
* * * * *
“Those portions which come from browsing in old books are particularly
interesting and amusing.”
+ =Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20
“He has selected a very diverting lot of quotations, which are strung
together on his own agreeable reflections in a book that will be read
with interest by every child-lover.”
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 100w
“On every sort of aspect of child life, from christening ceremonies or
the custom of infant marriages to the evils of thumb-sucking and the
use of indiarubber ‘soothers,’ there is the same entertaining jumble
of the results of disjointed research. Unfortunately Dr Courtenay Dunn
cannot resist the lure of being ‘bright.’”
+ − =Spec= 123:250 Ag 23 ’19 350w
“Its contents, far from being prosy or dull to any but the mother or
nurse, are, on the other hand, most interesting to any reader who has
in him a trace of the antiquary.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 200w
“Dr Dunn has burrowed with great industry and good results among old
and sometimes scarce books and pamphlets; and the light and airy style
in which he starts writing must not prejudice us against his work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p338 Je 19 ’19 300w
=DUNN, JOHN DUNCAN, and JESSUP, ELON H.= Intimate golf talks. il *$3
Putnam 796
20–21193
The genesis of the book is: an indoor golf school conducted by John
Duncan Dunn, a reportorial visit by the editor of Outing, the latter’s
interest in the instructor’s methods and desire to profit by them for
his own game, repeated interviews and—the book. The talks,
interpolated with copious illustrations, are: Picking the right clubs;
Learning the golf scale; The golf grip; The golf stance; The gold
address; Some golf faults; Getting the knack of the swing; Stick to
the minor shots; From three-quarters to fullswing; The importance of
balance; Take care of your hands; Topping the ball; Overcoming faults;
Keeping the muscles in harmony; Slicing and hooking; Methods of curing
faults; This brings us to putting.
* * * * *
“Mr Dunn’s golf wisdom and Mr Jessup’s editorial skill combine in the
production of an unusually happy result.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 4 ’20 980w
=DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE.= Dead man’s gold. il *$1.50 (2c)
Doubleday
20–13705
When Wat Lyman died, he left behind him the secret of a gold lode. But
he was canny enough to divide his secret among three, Healy, an
ex-gambler, “Lefty” Larkin, an adventurer, and Stone, an American
temporarily down on his luck. Each of these three knew one-third only
of the directions necessary to locate the gold, which, when found, was
to be divided equally with Lyman’s daughter, who also had to be found.
By their common sharing of the secret, the three prospectors were kept
together all through the first part of their hunt. Exciting
experiences in the Arizona desert, and with the Apache Indians almost
lead to failure. But eventually they find their lode, only to have
Healy turn traitor and try to cheat the other two out of their share.
How the girl comes into it and saves their lives and the gold is the
close of the story.
=DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE.= Turquoise Cañon. il *$1.50 (2½c)
Doubleday
20–5121
A story that follows one of the standard formulas for western fiction.
The rich and debonair young easterner comes west, falls foul of a gang
of crooks, loses his heart to the beautiful daughter, rescues her from
her unpleasant environment, breaks up the band and is rewarded with
the love of the girl, who after all, it turns out, is not the daughter
of the chief villain. In this story Jimmie Hollister’s goat ranching
experiences add an original touch.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
=DUNSANY, EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th baron.= Tales of three
hemispheres. *$1.75 Luce. J. W.
20–26193
“In the two hemispheres we know more or less about, Lord Dunsany
pretends now and then to set his story. But his heart is in the third
hemisphere—the hemisphere at the back of the map, which lies beyond
the fields we know. And, indeed, even when we think for a moment that
we are in the high wolds beyond Wiltshire, or looking out on the
Tuileries gardens, or checked short for a peep at the cloud-capped
tower of the Woolworth building, we are pretty sure to be in, before
long, for a meeting with the old gods, the gods whom time has put to
sleep.” (Review) “The book is divided into two sections, the first
made up of miscellaneous, far wandering tales and sketches, while the
second, which is entitled ‘Beyond the fields we know,’ leads us into
the lands of dream, where flows the great central river of Yann.” (N Y
Times)
* * * * *
“A certain abundance of even commonplace detail, combined with a
subtle deviation from the usual in emphasis and sequence, conveys
successfully a sense of other-reality; but this quality, the true
dream-quality, is constantly impaired by a kind of arbitrary
fastidiousness of language. Nothing is less akin to the dreamlike than
the precious, which is the outcome of an extreme self-consciousness,
and we consider that Lord Dunsany’s use of the precious constitutes a
serious defect of style.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p202 Ag 13 ’20 560w
=Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20
“The stories in divers veins are all characteristic of Dunsany, but
present no tricks not already familiar to his readers.”
+ − =Nation= 110:660 My 15 ’20 560w
“They are essentially prose poems, these tales, whether they express
in some half dozen vivid, poignant pages the very heart of a dying
man’s desire, as in ‘The last dream of Bwona Khubla,’ or tell of a
girl’s longing, as in ‘An archive of the older mysteries,’ or of such
fear as that which rent the soul of the wayfarer who bore with him
‘The sack of emeralds.’”
+ =N Y Times= 24:781 D 28 ’19 800w
+ =Review= 2:111 Ja 31 ’20 650w
+ =Spec= 124:871 Je 26 ’20 580w
“Through the exotic atmosphere of many of these stories stand out
sudden pictures of rare perfection. This power of calling up
associations to supplement concrete images is indeed his perilous
virtue, and entices him sometimes into tortuous bypaths. Yet his
perfect etching of New York at night in ‘A city of wonder’ proves that
he can look at the world with the disinterested and objective gaze of
the pure artist.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p437 Jl 8 ’20 1250w
=DURKIN, DOUGLAS.= Heart of Cherry McBain. *$1.75 (2c) Harper