Howden had determined never to fight again, and because of that
resolution he was held to be something of a coward in the frontier
country where he lived a rather solitary life. And then one day he met
Cherry McBain, a girl worth fighting for. She was the daughter of old
Keith McBain, the construction boss of a new railway. And she had an
enemy in the person of Big Bill McCartney, her father’s foreman, who
was determined to win her by fair means or foul and regardless of her
wishes in the matter. The situation certainly offered grounds for the
fight that eventually came, leaving King with his reputation
vindicated, and Cherry free to bestow her heart where she chose.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 250w
=DURSTINE, ROY SARLES.= Making advertisements and making them pay. il
*$3.50 Scribner 659
20–16526
“‘Making advertisements’ treats of everything in any way connected
with advertising, even the weight of type. It is well illustrated with
reproduced advertisements. Starting with the genesis of advertising,
it ends asking, ‘Where is advertising going?’”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“Crisp, entertaining, suggestive chapters.”
+ =Booklist= 17:98 D ’20
“Somewhat sketchy but enlightening book.”
+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 40w
“Common sense and an agreeable style are blended in a manner that
makes this book delightful as well as informative reading.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 270w
“This book seems to the present reviewer more significant and more
helpful than any of the other manuals which the reviewer has chanced
to see.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p9 N 21 ’20 2400w
=DURUY, VICTOR.= History of France. $3.50 Crowell 944
20–14467
A new edition brought down to date to 1920. “The original text was
translated by Mr Cary, and edited and continued down to the year 1890
by Dr J. Franklin Jameson. It has now been continued up to the present
year by Mabell S. C. Smith, author of ‘Twenty centuries of Paris,’ and
other historical studies. The original plan and arrangement have been
maintained in this appendix, which begins in point of time with the
Dreyfus case, includes the famous separation of church and state, the
Fashoda incident, the Agadir incident, and other events leading up to
and including the world war.” (Publisher’s announcement)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:83 N ’20
+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 20w
=DWIGHT, HARRY GRISWOLD.= Emperor of Elam, and other stories. *$2 (2c)
Doubleday
20–19763
The range of the stories comprises most of the earth and their flavor,
too, is outlandish and full of whimsical humor. The title story takes
the reader to Persia where a young Englishman in a motor-boat
encounters a pompous native barge on a river in Luristan, upon which
an alleged Brazilian is disporting himself as the Emperor of Elam. At
Dizful the Englishman inadvertently discovers that the Brazilian is a
German secret agent of his government. The war breaks out and in the
course of events the would-be Emperor of Elam finds himself alone on
board of the motor-boat with its French chauffeur, whom he has pressed
into his services. With their countries at war, they recognize
themselves as enemies and after a tense encounter of words and deeds
the Frenchman sees but one weapon left to him with which to serve his
country: he blows up the boat. The stories have appeared in the
Century, Scribner’s, Smart Set, Short Stories and other magazines.
* * * * *
“Mr Dwight brings to the writing of these tales the triple
qualifications of satirist, keen observer and stylist.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 190w
“The stories are extremely uneven in quality. It is in the eastern
tales that the author’s musical diction and his appreciation of the
suggestive limitations of words are most happily apparent.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 720w
=DYER, WALTER ALDEN.= Sons of liberty. il *$1.50 (2c) Holt
20–21337
Mr Dyer has made Paul Revere the hero of this story for boys. He has
introduced a few fictitious characters and incidents, but in the main
has held to the facts of history. The story begins in 1847 when Paul
was a boy of twelve and it follows the course of events that led up to
the revolution, introducing Sam Adams, John Hancock, Joseph Warren and
others. The author looks on Paul Revere as “one of the most
picturesque and lovable characters of his time,” and regrets that
little is known of him aside from the one incident celebrated in
Longfellow’s poem. He shows him to have been a many-sided man, of
broad interests and sympathies and artistic ability, and a man of the
people.
* * * * *
=Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 50w
“The plot is conventional and Samuel Adams rather too heroic a figure
to be true, but the history behind the record is unusually sound.”
+ =Nation= 112:75 Ja 19 ’21 150w
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 320w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 16 ’20 150w
“The book spiritedly sketches the history of the period and makes one
feel the impulses then animating the people of Boston.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 17 ’20 260w
E
=EAST, EDWARD MURRAY, and JONES, DONALD FORSHA.= Inbreeding and
outbreeding: their genetic and sociological significance. (Monographs on
experimental biology) il *$2.50 Lippincott 575
20–352
“Whether close inbreeding causes deterioration of the race and
cross-breeding re-invigorates it, is a question that has long been
disputed. It was not until the development of the Mendelian theory
that a sufficiently powerful method of analyzing the problem was
discovered. The book by Professor East and Dr Jones gives an account
of the solution of the problem by means of this theory. The data which
East and Jones have here brought together have a wide applicability to
practical animal and plant breeding. The authors also attempt to apply
them to the field of human heredity.”—J Philos
* * * * *
Reviewed by L. L. Bernard
=Am J Soc= 26:251 S ’20 380w
+ − =Ath= p706 My 28 ’20 500w
“One of the most valuable features of the book is the admirable
bibliography of 225 titles.” M. C. Coulter
+ =Bot Gaz= 69:530 Je ’20 1100w
Reviewed by Alexander Weinstein
+ =J Philos= 17:388 Jl 1 ’20 620w
“The book is marked at once by independence and by scholarship. Of
great interest to many will be the application of the biological
results to the particular case of man. There is a carefully selected
bibliography.”
+ =Nature= 106:335 N 11 ’20 900w
“From a popular standpoint, ‘Inbreeding and outbreeding’ is by far the
most interesting and suggestive book on heredity that has appeared in
recent years.” O. E. White
+ =New Repub= 24:278 N 10 ’20 1400w
“Two biologists of note, both experimental plant breeders, have done a
useful work in laying the results of their experiments and their
reflections upon the experiments before a semi-popular audience. They
are wise in doing so, for no question comes more frequently to the
eugenicist than this: Is the marriage of cousins prejudicial to
offspring? Or this: What are the biological consequences of race
admixture?” C: B. Davenport
+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 450w
=EASTON, DOROTHY.= Golden bird, and other sketches. *$2 (3c) Knopf
20–11225
These sketches are introduced by a foreword by John Galsworthy and
“catch the flying values of life” as he says a good sketch does. They
contain pictures from the southern countryside of England with some
French sketches. “The golden bird” is an old inn where a paralyzed
youth with a poet’s soul has for ten years made the walls of his room
transparent and who beguiles the time, when he is not seeing visions
of the shifting seasons outside, with his violin. Some of the other
titles are: Laughing down; The steam mill; Heart-breaker; Twilight;
September in the fields; Causerie; Smoke in the grass; Adversity; It
is forbidden to touch the flowers; A Parisian evening; Life.
* * * * *
“The writer gives us the impression of being extremely young—not in
the sense of a child taking notes, but in the sense that she seems to
be seeing, smelling, drinking, picking hops and blackberries for the
first time. For such sketches as ‘An old Indian’ and ‘From an old
malt-house’ we have nothing but praise. But while we welcome her
warmly, we would beg her, in these uncritical days, to treat herself
with the utmost severity.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p831 Je 25 ’20 190w
“They have color, dramatic vivacity and interesting characterization.
Somewhat depressing.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“Miss Easton writes with a certain graceful precision, an unerring
touch for the right word, for the exact effect, and a deeply
sympathetic attitude toward nature and toward humanity in its varied
aspects.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 1:622 S 8 ’20 200w
“They are simple, vivid and effective in their simplicity. There is
real insight and real skill in putting down what the author has seen.”
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 200w
“With a remarkable economy of means she renders the rather drowsy
sweetness of her south of England scenes. And occasionally, as in the
sketches called Laughing down, her tenderness for her landscape makes
her sentimental and callous—the two are never far apart—about people.
But her best sketches, of which there are many, have their brief
moments of irony and tragedy and so combine beauty and wisdom in
uncommon measure.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:161 Ag 7 ’20 360w
“Miss Easton holds almost constantly to this objectivity, except that
she relieves, or perhaps one should say illuminates, it sometimes with
the suggestion of spiritual significance by means of a delicate,
elusive touch that seems less her own than the inescapable implication
of that which she is describing.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 600w
“An ardent fancy and a delicate yet firm hand have gone to its making;
and, thank heaven, it reminds us of nobody! I am not sure, in thinking
it over, but the main charm of the book, apart from its beauty of
workmanship, lies in its total lack of that ‘humor’ which is the god
of the current literary machine.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 450w
“A book very well worth writing and, what is more, worth reading
afterwards.”
+ =Spec= 125:744 D 4 ’20 50w
“The author has a deep and comprehensive feeling for the transitory
values of life which she succeeds in communicating to the emotions of
her audience. She writes with a delicacy which would beautify the most
sordid subjects.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 14 ’20 430w
“The quality of the volume suggests that stronger work may follow.
More experience should confirm that individual quality already
described, and may help to put a curb on an exuberance of sentiment
which is at present Miss Easton’s chief weakness.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p454 Jl 15 ’20 390w
=EATON, WALTER PRICHARD.= In Berkshire fields. il *$3.50 Harper 917.44
20–18686
Not as a scientist but merely as a lover of nature and the wilds, does
the author record his wanderings through fields and woods. As a
permanent resident in the hills he knows them in every season of the
year and in every elemental mood and loves them “less for their
softness than their wildness.” Their wildness, he tells us, is still
considerable for in their miles of forest the moose and wildcat still
roam and there is even recent evidence of a timberwolf. Seventy-eight
illustrations, chiefly of winter scenes, by Walter King Stone, grace
the pages and the contents are: Landlord to the birds; Jim Crow; The
cheerful chickadee; The menace from above; By inland waters; Poking
around for birds’ nests; The queen of the swamp; Forgotten roads; From
a Berkshire cabin; Little folks that gnaw; The ways of the woodchuck;
Foxes and other neighbors; In praise of trees; Enjoying the influenza;
Adventures with an ax; Weeds above the snow.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 290w
+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 170w
“He has written of the birds and animals of the Berkshires with an
accuracy perfected by long observation and with a sympathy arising
from sincere affection.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 D 26 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 50w
“Sympathetic nature study and observation, not burdened with
scientific detail, is charmingly set forth.”
+ =Review= 3:391 O 27 ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 390w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 70w
=EATON, WALTER PRICHARD.= On the edge of the wilderness, il *$1.75 (3c)
Wilde 591.5
The first of these “tales of our wild animal neighbors” is the story
of a lone timber wolf who strayed into western Massachusetts where his
species is supposed to be extinct. The scene of the other stories is
also the Berkshire hills, where, on the authority of the author and
others, wolves, foxes, deer, moose and other animals still survive,
The titles are: “The return of the native”; Big Reddy, strategist; The
Odyssey of old Bill; The life and death of Lucy; General Jim; The
mating of Brownie; The taming of ol’ Buck; Red slayer and the terror;
Rastus earns his sleep; “The last American.” The illustrations are by
Charles Livingston Bull.
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 80w
“Mr Eaton’s art is finished and flowing, a joy to read. Books like
this are not only an education in natural history, but in beautiful
English, in clarity of description and harmony of phrase.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 180w
“‘On the edge of the wilderness’ is almost ideal in fulfilling the
many demands of the average intelligent boy for an entertaining book
of adventure. In the first place it rings true. It has a literary
value such as boys unconsciously appreciate.” H. L. Reed
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 250w
=ECKEL, EDWIN CLARENCE.= Coal, iron and war; a study in industrialism,
past and future. *$3 (2½c) Holt 330
20–13789
Ours is a “machine civilization” and the story of industrial growth
and competition since 1775, the author holds, “is chiefly though not
entirely the story of coal and iron.” The book attempts to keep the
discussion free from any and every preconceived bias, theory or
assumption and to arrive at conclusions entirely through the
historical study of the industrial developments of different
countries. Industrial growth is a matter of natural evolution based on
physical environment and inheritance and hardly at all on human and
personal control. The form of government is a negligible fact—a strong
nationalism still desirable, and war still the simplest solution of
many of our industrial problems. The contents are in four parts: The
growth of modern industrialism; The material bases of industrial
growth: The causes and effects of industrial growth; The future of
industrialism. There is an index.
* * * * *
“The thesis is carefully developed and well maintained. The striking
feature of the book is the openness of mind with which the future is
examined. Although the historical portions of the book are sound in
the main there are some statements with reference to the eighteenth
century that can scarcely be accepted.” A. P. Usher
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:307 Ja ’21 640w
+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21
“Mr Eckel has long been prominent as a geologist and engineer. In this
volume he certainly qualifies also as an economist. His views on labor
organization, the corporation, and the influence of legislation are
especially significant.” G. P. W.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:356 F ’21 600w
“The present work is written for the general reader, and through
elimination of the less important and by judicious distribution of
emphasis he has produced a book which is likely to be widely read with
both interest and profit. Though written in a language intelligible to
the business man quite as much as the student, it is perhaps most of
all important through its judicious criticism of the traditional and
orthodox viewpoint of the economist.” W: H. Hobbs
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 1450w
=Review= 3:351 O 20 ’20 280w
“It is a worth while book and one has difficulty in telling in a few
words why; probably it is because it is written with sincerity and
because the author is not writing as other engineers have written, to
promote a cause but to examine facts critically.” Hugh Archbald
+ =Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 360w
=EDDY, SHERWOOD.= Everybody’s world. *$1.60 Doran 327
“A discussion, from the standpoint of world Christianity, of post-war
conditions in the Near East, Russia, Japan, China, and India, with a
chapter on the relations between Great Britain and America and
Anglo-Saxon responsibility to the world. The book is the result of a
tour around the world in 1919.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The author has given an interesting and valuable survey of world
conditions.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ’20 400w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 100w
“The charm of style lies in the author’s intense human interest which
results in much picturesque and personal narrative. Mr Eddy is
singularly free of bias.” L. R. Robinson
+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 720w
=EDEN, EMILY.= Miss Eden’s letters; ed. by her great niece, Violet
Dickenson with introd. *$6.50 Macmillan
“To the present generation the name of Miss Eden conveys little or
nothing. As the sister of Lord Auckland, who held office in the reform
ministries of the early years of last century, and who became
governor-general of India in 1835, she was well known in London
society under William IV; and during her later life she published some
novels and books of travel which were not without merit, but had not
sufficient distinction to preserve them from oblivion. But her abiding
claim to the notice of posterity was her talent for friendly
letterwriting. Her most intimate friend, Pamela, daughter of Lord and
Lady Edward FitzGerald, had an equally marked gift for talking with
the pen, and perhaps greater vivacity and humour; and the
correspondence between these two brilliant women is preserved in the
present volume.”—Spec
* * * * *
=Ath= p1139 O 31 ’19 100w
“If she has no ideas about things in general, she has a perpetually
renewed interest in the immediate; it is this, with the firm, easy
texture of her style, and a delicate oddity of perception, which makes
her letters so eminently readable. It is this, but something more; for
of all the qualities named she is perhaps fully conscious; but she
appears admirably unconscious of the qualities of heart and character
she has.” F. W. S.
+ =Ath= p335 Mr 12 ’20 1100w
“We think that Miss Dickenson might have suppressed some of the
letters as deficient in interest. But we are grateful to her for
presenting us with some of the best specimens of the lost art of
correspondence.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:441 N 8 ’19 1100w
“She had the true note of colloquial ease which few people ever
achieve in their letters, and still fewer retain. She gossips
charmingly; her observations on her friends and acquaintances are not
the mere threadbare inanities which can interest only those who know
the persons concerned, but real characteristic illuminative things
which are nearly as pleasant to read now as they were when they were
written eighty or ninety years ago.”
+ =Spec= 124:179 F 7 ’20 600w
“The judgment of Miss Dickenson’s selections and the unusual
excellence of her materials give the book what we so seldom find in
biographies—construction and artistic purpose.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p627 N 6 ’19 950w
=EDGINTON, HELEN MARION (MAY EDGINTON).= Married life; or, The true
romance. *$1.75 Small
20–8626
“May Edginton’s novel begins with the marriage of a pretty, bright,
charming girl who has been earning her own living and a fine, handsome
young man whose salary in an automobile house has been ample to allow
him to spend upon himself with some freedom. The action carries them
rapidly through the rose-colored days of the first year of married
life. By the end of that year they are both beginning to feel the
financial pinch resulting from the necessity of making the salary that
had been enough for one serve the needs of two. Then the babies begin
to arrive and at the end of six years they have three. The salary that
had been little more than enough for one has not been much increased
and it has to be stretched to cover the needs of five. The husband,
under this strain, has grown morose, fault-finding, resentful, and the
wife, with her strength taxed far beyond its powers, is weary,
irritable and hopeless. The author’s solution she has found solely in
the very material one of furnishing them with enough money to enable
the husband to spend as he likes and the wife to hire a maid, get her
hands manicured and buy some new clothes.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Why force an obviously false ending to a tale that rings true up to a
certain point?”
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 250w
“The author tells the first part of her story with much realistic
detail and with color and vivacity.... The story is the expression of
a purely material and selfish ideal of life.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 440w
=EDIE, LIONEL D.=, ed. Current social and industrial forces; introd. by
James Harvey Robinson. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 330
20–3781
“Essays from a number of radical and liberal English and American
writers, which reveal the fundamental causes of unrest and propose
some plans of action. Some of the authors represented are: Veblen,
Sidney Webb, Meyer Bloomfield, J. A. Hobson, J. Laurence Laughlin,
Bertrand Russell, Helen Marot, Emil Vandervelde, Walter Lippmann,
Norman Angell, H. G. Wells and John Dewey. There are also numerous
reports from various commissions of both the British and American
governments and of organizations of employers and workers.” (Booklist)
“The book grew out of the compiler’s need for a textbook in his
courses on current historical forces at Colgate university. The
selections are grouped under the headings: Forces of disturbance,
Potentialities of production, The price system, The direction of
industry, The funds of reorganization, The power and policy of
organized labor, Proposed plans of action, Industrial doctrines in
defense of the status quo, and The possibilities of social service.”
(Survey)
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:571 S ’20 70w
Reviewed by R. F. Clark
+ =Am J Soc= 26:367 N ’20 240w
“Should be very valuable to the student and to the more thoughtful
reader.”
+ =Booklist= 16:261 My ’20
+ − =Cath World= 111:681 Ag ’20 420w
“The excerpts and reprints are skilfully grouped, so that the
reader—for the book can be read as well as consulted—can grasp the
material handily. The selections are made without prejudice.”
+ =Dial= 69:213 Ag ’20 80w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
+ =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 60w
“Prof. Edie has rendered a real service by gathering into well-related
chapters some of the most illuminating discussions of a large number
of modern writers on social topics.” H: P. Fairchild
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 900w
“It is every citizen’s duty to be informed on these subjects, and
Professor Edie puts the information within the reach of any who wish
it.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 22 ’20 340w
“In this symposium one gets many and variously colored and confusing
glimpses of industrial and social movements, but no comprehensive view
of any single subject and no consistent coördination or
interpretation.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ − =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 300w
+ =Survey= 44:312 My 29 ’20 280w
“The book gives a useful conspectus of radical thought—but it scarcely
deals at all with ‘current social and industrial forces.’” W: E.
Walling
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:218 O ’20 380w
=EDMAN, IRWIN.= Human traits and their social significance. *$3 Houghton
301
20–17674
Throughout the long process of civilization two factors have remained
constant, says the author: nature and human nature. The only change
with regard to the one has been in our increasing power of control of
nature through increasing knowledge. And the only difference between
the man of today and the primitive savage is in the control of the
native biological impulses that the civilized man has achieved through
education, religion and morals. It is the aim of the book to indicate
man’s simple inborn impulses and outstanding human traits and the
factors which must be taken into account if they are to be controlled
in the interest of human welfare. Accordingly the book falls into two
parts: Social psychology; and The career of reason. Types of human
behavior and their social significance, basic human activities and
crucial traits in social life, and the racial and cultural continuity
are among the subjects considered in part one. Part two contains:
Religion and the religious experience; Art and æsthetic experience;
Science and scientific method; Morals and moral valuation. There is an
index.
* * * * *
“There are but few books of only 467 pages that contain so much
information as this one. Written as an introduction to contemporary
civilization and intended for freshmen, it clarifies questions at
whose profundity Plato would have been disheartened. If the freshman
of today can digest even a small portion of this book colleges are
progressing, while for a man comparatively advanced in years, and with
interests as universal as those of Leonardo da Vinci, it would be a
handy manual.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 27 ’20 250w
=EDWARDS, A. HERBAGE.= Paris through an attic. *$3 Dutton 914.4
19–19896
“Paris, ever fascinating and ever fresh, was seen in the days before
the war from a new angle, by a delightful young couple, with a thin
family purse. An income of 350 dollars a year sufficed their needs.
Where they lived, and how they lived is told by the feminine half of
this pair of adventurers. The young couple attended the Sorbonne.
Sundays and holidays are treated in an account of how Paris amuses
itself. All these happenings, and many others, fill the space of two
years, and the pages of the book, up to the eventful day when Richard
receives his title, ‘Docteur de l’Universite de Paris.’”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
“The section on the students and the university reveals aspects of
French life not ordinarily found in books of travel.”
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
“Charming narrative.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 700w
“This book contains a hundred delightful and delicate reflections, an
equal number of personal touches, and some quaint views of life which
cannot fail to charm the reader who likes to saunter in the little
lanes of the great world.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:279 My 30 ’20 1400w
=EDWARDS, AUSTIN SOUTHWICK.=[2] Fundamental principles of learning and
study. $1.80 Warwick & York 370.1
20–22148
“The present volume is a rewriting of manuscript which the writer has
used for some time as part of his lectures to students in educational
psychology. The aim is especially to show how the results of general
psychology and experimental psychology and of allied sciences can be
put into use by the teacher and the student in the problems of
learning and of study.” (Preface) The author takes the point of view
that “the forming, modifying and remaking of habits, habitudes,
dispositions, tendencies, etc., under the guidance of ideals set up by
society, seems to be the fundamental work of education.” Among the
chapters are: Fundamental principles of education; Neurology and the
basis of education; The fundamental work of education; Learning and
habit formation; Acquisition which involves study; Attention and
sustained effort; Feeling habits and moral education; Supervised study
and the school curriculum. The book is provided with questions,
chapter references, select bibliography and index.
* * * * *
“The range of topics treated and the definite nature of the
discussions make the book suitable for wide use in courses dealing
with a survey of the psychology of the learning process.”
+ =El School J= 21:392 Ja ’21 600w
“In this comparatively brief and quite readable treatise, one finds
less space taken up with academic discussion of pedagogic bugaboos
than in most books on similar themes.” C. L. Clarke
+ =Survey= 45:611 Ja 22 ’21 400w
=EDWARDS, CLAYTON.= Treasury of heroes and heroines. il *$3 (2½c) Stokes
920
20–19159
“A record of high endeavour and strange adventure; from 500 B.C. to
1920 A.D.” In the book so described in the sub-title the life stories
of many famous men and women are given. The “Heroes of reality”
include: Buddha; Julius Cæsar; Saint Patrick; King Arthur of Britain;
Mohammed; Alfred the Great; Robin Hood; Saint Elizabeth of Hungary;
Dante; Robert Bruce; Jeanne d’Arc; Christopher Columbus; William the
Silent; Queen Elizabeth of England; Sir Francis Drake; Henry Hudson;
Peter the Great; George Washington; John Paul Jones; Molly Pitcher;
Napoleon Bonaparte; Giuseppe Garibaldi; Abraham Lincoln; Grace
Darling; Florence Nightingale; Father Damien; Catherine Breshkovsky;
Theodore Roosevelt; Edith Cavell; King Albert of Belgium; Maria
Botchkareva. Four heroes of fiction are included: William Tell; Don
Quixote; Robinson Crusoe; and Rip Van Winkle. There are illustrations
in color by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.
* * * * *
“The stories are brief, but they are by no means mere sketches; nor
are they ‘written down’ in a way that children dislike. It is a good
book and a useful one.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 N 13 ’20 180w
“The big book is interesting and well done, full of information that
reads like wild romance.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 120w
=EDWARDS, GEORGE WHARTON.=[2] Belgium old and new. il *$10 Penn 914.93
20–21326
“The illustrations, numbering forty-one, are full-page and are mostly
in color. These reproduce ancient or famous buildings, towers,
sections of historic structures and open spaces in Antwerp, Brussels
and other cities and towns of the several provinces in the kingdom.
Much of the text is historical in character. In the first chapter, Mr
Edwards touches upon the natural resources of the little country and
its condition at the close of the war, concluding with an optimistic
forecast of its quick recovery and future well-being. He then
proceeds, in separate chapters, with historical sketches of Antwerp,
Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, Tournai, Couillet, Liège and Mons. This done,
the author returns to the present and discusses Belgium’s colonies,
characteristics of the country and people and the constitution. The
work concludes with chapters devoted to Cardinal Mercier and the king
and queen.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The text of the book is eminently satisfactory, but chiefly so
because it puts us in precisely the right attitude of mind and spirit
for enjoying to the full the charm of the book’s generous wealth of
illustration.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 98:1893 D 18 ’20 300w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 15 ’20 380w
=EELLS, ELSIE SPICER (MRS B. G. EELLS).= Tales of enchantment from
Spain. il *$2 (6c) Harcourt
20–17754
The author has brought out two earlier collections of South American
tales and her studies in this field have led her to an examination of
the folk lore of Spain, from which many of the Spanish-American tales
are derived. Among the titles of the fifteen stories are: The white
parrot; The carnation youth; The wood cutter’s son and the two
turtles; The luck fairies; The bird which laid diamonds; The enchanted
castle in the sea; The princess who was dumb. The pictures are by Maud
and Miska Petersham.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20
=EGAN, MAURICE FRANCIS, and KENNEDY, JOHN JAMES BRIGHT.= Knights of
Columbus in peace and war. 2v il *$5.25 Encyclopedia press 267
20–6359
“The first of these two handsome illustrated volumes is devoted to the
origin, growth, and constitution of this celebrated Anglican Roman
Catholic friendly society, founded by the Rev. M. J. McGivney in
Connecticut in 1882; its work in peace time of protecting homes,
promoting higher education, allaying religious prejudice, opposing
bolshevism, etc.; and its war work during the fighting in France, with
the navy, and after the armistice. The Canadian Knights’ war work has
a special chapter. The second volume is chiefly taken up with the roll
of honour of the Knights.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=N Y Times= 25:258 My 16 ’20 1250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 90w
=EGGLESTON, MRS MARGARET W.= Use of the story in religious education.
*$1.50 Doran 268
20–4125
“In this book the author has brought together some of the
recommendations on story-telling that have been current in secular
education for some time and has applied these to problems directly
connected with the Sunday school.”—El School J
* * * * *
“Will interest all storytellers.”
+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
“The book will be suggestive to Sunday school teachers and will lead
to an improvement in the story-telling which is an important part of
the Sunday school’s work.”
+ =El School J= 20:633 Ap ’20 180w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:110 Je ’20 140w
=EINSTEIN, ALBERT.= Relativity: the special and general theory. il *$3
Holt 530.1
20–17742
“The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact
insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a
general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in
the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus
of theoretical physics.” (Preface) The translation is by Professor
Robert W. Lawson who has added a biographical note of the author. The
contents are in three parts: The special theory of relativity; The
general theory of relativity; Considerations on the universe as a
whole. There are appendices, a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“Although Professor Einstein’s own exposition is as clear and simple
as could be expected, the book is of exceptional interest, not as a
popular exposition, but as an indication of the mental processes of
its author.”
+ =Ath= p311 S 3 ’20 260w
+ =Booklist= 17:98 D ’20
“An excellent translation of Einstein’s book.”
+ =Nature= 106:336 N 11 ’20 1200w
“Written in an unpretentious, straightforward style. The trend of his
exposition can be followed in the main by any attentive reader who is
not scared by algebraic formulae.” E. E. Slosson
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 O 23 ’20 2400w
“The book is ‘intended to give an exact insight into the theory to
those who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of
theoretical physics.’ In the opinion of the reviewer, in this attempt
he has been eminently successful, that is, if an essentially
mathematical notion can be made intelligible without algebraic
symbols.” A. G. Webster
+ =Review= 3:384 O 27 ’20 1000w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 Ag 19 ’20 90w
=ELIAS, MRS EDITH L.= Abraham Lincoln. (Heroes of all time) il *$1.50
Stokes
20–18583
This story of Lincoln for young people is in seven sections: Years of
inexperience; Years of development; Years of self-expression and
experience; Years of public recognition; Years of leadership; Years of
supremacy; Triumph and death. Each section is prefaced by an extract
from Lincoln’s speeches. There are nine illustrations, a list of
presidents of the United States up to Abraham Lincoln and a chart
showing method of government in the United States.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w
=ELIAS, MRS EDITH L.= Periwinkle’s island. il *$1.50 (4c) Lippincott
An English story for children, all about the surprising adventures of
Meg, Peg and Topkins, who go to the country with their mother, the
queen, Fuzzy Wuzz, their nurse, and Tut-Tut, their tutor. Only good
children are allowed to land on Periwinkle’s island and at first
attempt Meg, Peg and Topkins can not pass the test, but they improve
and after the second trial go ashore to take part in the great chase
after the Creepingo, aided by the Top Twins, the Elastic Dog and other
queer folk. The pictures in color are by Molly Benatar.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w
=ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Road to unity among the Christian churches.
*$1 (8½c) Am. Unitar. 280
20–2426
This little volume contains the first lecture delivered under the
Arthur Emmons Pearson foundation, established in 1918 with the object
of promoting “the advancement of mutual understanding and helpfulness
between the people of all denominations and creeds.” Dr Eliot points
out the factors that have promoted division in the past and then
enumerates the present forces that are encouraging unification. He
says, “To the United States the world is indebted for the
demonstration that on the principle of federation a strong, stable,
and just government can be constructed.... The same principle applied
to the divided Christian churches will produce analogous good results;
but as in a group of federated states federation will not be fusion.”
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 50w
=ELIOT, SAMUEL ATKINS=, ed. Little theater classics, v 2 il *$1.50
Little 808.2
18–19312
This is volume two of “Little theater classics” adapted and edited by
Samuel Atkins Eliot, jr. Each one of the four plays has an
introduction giving its origin and history, and staging suggestions.
The plays are: Patelin, from “Maître Pierre Pathelin” by Guillaume
Alécis; Abraham and Isaac, from the Book of Brome and the Chester
cycle of miracles; The loathed lover, from “The changeling” of
Middleton and Rowley; Sganarelle, or, Imaginary horns, from Molière.
Three of the plays have already been produced by little theaters and
are illustrated with photographs from the production.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20
“Sganarelle is a charming little antique. Abraham and Isaac is a
beautiful piece of work.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 520w
“There are some intrepidities in Mr Eliot which rather stagger me,
though whether the protest comes from real disapprobation or simply
from that unusedness which whimpers at the approach of novelty it is
hard for me to say. For instance, I stand agape, if not aghast, at Mr
Eliot’s consolidation of the Chester play and the Brome play on
Abraham and Isaac into one drama.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 2:608 Je 5 ’20 340w
“On the whole, this second volume measures up to the high standard set
by the first. The work has been done with fine taste and intelligence
and forms a valuable contribution to the dramatic literature available
to little theatres.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:256 Jl ’20 300w
=ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS.= Poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811
20–4200
Mr Eliot is a poet of American birth who lives in London. “He
published ‘Prufrock’ in 1917 and ‘Poems’ in 1919—this volume assembles
the contents of the two, together with a number of other poems, and is
the first volume to be published in America, where heretofore it has
been exceedingly difficult to obtain his poems.” (Publisher’s
announcement) Some of the poems have appeared in Poetry, Others, the
Little Review, and other periodicals.
* * * * *
“Mr Eliot is always quite consciously ‘trying for’ something, and
something which has grown out of and developed beyond all the poems of
all the dead poets. Poetry to him seems to be not so much an art as a
science.”
+ − =Ath= p491 Je 20 ’19 600w
=Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“The ‘Poems’—ironically so-called—of T. S. Eliot, if not heavy and
pedantic parodies of the ‘new poetry,’ are documents that would find
sympathetic readers in the waiting-room of a private sanatorium. As a
parodist, Mr Eliot is lacking in good taste, invention, and wit.” R.
M. Weaver
− =Bookm= 52:57 S ’20 1400w
“Reading these poems (?) is like being in a closed room full of foul
air; not a room in an empty house that is sanctified with mould and
dust, but a room in which the stale perfume of exotics is poisoned
with the memory of lusts.” W. S. B.
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E. E. Cummings
+ =Dial= 68:781 Je ’20 1400w
“At least two-thirds of Eliot’s sixty-three pages attain no
higher eminence than extraordinarily clever—and eminently
uncomfortable—verse. The exaltation which is the very breath of
poetry—that combination of tenderness and toughness—is scarcely
ever present in Eliot’s lines. Scarcely ever, I reiterate, for a
certain perverse exultation takes its place; an unearthly light
without warmth which has the sparkle if not the strength of
fire. It flickers mockingly through certain of the unrhymed
pictures and shines with a bright pallor out of the two major
poems.” L: Untermeyer
+ − =Freeman= 1:381 Je 30 ’20 2000w
“He is the most proficient satirist now writing in verse, the
uncanniest clown, the devoutest monkey, the most picturesque ironist;
and aesthetically considered, he is one of the profoundest
symbolists.” M. V. D.
+ =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 300w
“In such poems as ‘Gerontion,’ the ‘Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock,’
‘Portrait of a lady,’ ‘Cooking egg,’ we get a glimpse of the visions
and tragedies that are in the soul—it does not matter that the soul in
these situations has to look out on restaurants instead of on
temples.” Padraic Colum
+ =New Repub= 25:52 D 8 ’20 980w
“His is a book to gaze upon worshipfully and humbly. We shall always
cherish it, for its shrieking modernity—though we are one of the
Philistines who still ask for poetry and sanity in lines presented as
poetry.” Clement Wood
− + =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 270w
“Mr Eliot, like Browning, likes to display out-of-the-way learning, he
likes to surprise you by every trick he can think of. He has forgotten
his emotions, his values, his sense of beauty, even his common-sense,
in that one desire to surprise, to get farther away from the obvious
than any writer on record.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p322 Je 12 ’19 550w
=ELLIOT, HUGH SAMUEL ROGER.= Modern science and materialism. *$3 (*7s
6d) Longmans 146
20–4021
“The philosophy expounded by Hugh Elliot in ‘Modern science and
materialism’ is the complete materialism which not only makes mind
dependent upon matter but identifies mind with matter. The world is
thus conceived as consisting of one substance. Not all of those who
agree with the materialistic hypothesis will accept this extreme
simplification of it. To many Mr Elliot’s view will seem as
metaphysical as the opposite view which regards matter as a form of
mind. Mr Elliot’s book, however, is not merely an argument against the
commonly accepted dualism in the conception of matter and mind. It is
also a survey of the creation of man and the universe, as interpreted
by a method which reduces all processes to the working of blind, but
immutable, laws. In all respects, Mr Elliot’s view of the universe is
rigidly mechanistic.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“It is difficult not to be unjust to ‘Modern science and materialism.’
Its science is above reproach and occupies the center of the author’s
interest and the bulk of the book. But it is impossible to say more of
the author’s ‘materialism’ than that it is what physical science
always is when it attempts to substitute itself for life.” C. E. Ayres
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:249 S ’20 280w
“A good bird’s-eye view, not unduly technical, for the interested
layman or student.”
+ =Booklist= 16:257 My ’20
+ =N Y Times= p18 O 17 ’20 140w
“Mr Elliot is one of the most intolerant of materialists, but those
who read his book are likely to see that he frequently falls into the
sin he castigates, that of accepting ideas as true which are merely
speculative. Mr Elliot also falls into the familiar error of claiming
to be an agnostic and, from this negative doctrine, he immediately and
cheerfully builds up a most positive philosophy.”
+ − =Review= 3:45 Jl 14 ’20 850w
=Sat R= 128:613 D 27 ’19 1150w
“Mr Elliot writes with refreshing clearness and vigour; he is always
entertaining, and he never leaves his readers in doubt about his
meaning. But while admiring Mr Elliot’s gifts of exposition and
assertion, we would urge upon him, with some diffidence, the
advantages of a larger share in his own writing of that agnosticism
whose value he so strenuously upholds.”
+ − =Spec= 124:214 F 14 ’20 480w
“Unquestionably able book. Mr Elliot states his stern ideas with the
utmost simplicity and clarity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 N 6 ’19 40w
=ELLIOTT, LILIAN ELWYN.=[2] Black gold. *$2.25 Macmillan
20–19915
“The ‘black gold’ which gives its title to L. E. Elliott’s novel is
rubber. Though it opens in England, the greater part of the scene is
laid in Brazil. The heroine is an English girl, Margarita Channing,
whose elder sister, Francina, is the wife of a musician, Salvatore.
Both Margarita and her sister sing nicely, and with the help of some
rich Brazilians Salvatore organizes an opera company and takes it up
the Amazon as far as Manaos. The voyage and the people they meet on
board the steamer afford opportunities for the discussion of Brazilian
affairs, of which the author makes full use. Presently they reach
Manaos, are taken to see all its sights and especially the operations
of the rubber industry, and have some experiences with South American
politics. Of course there is a love story for Margarita, with a young
Englishman, an inventor and the owner of a rubber plantation, as its
hero.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“I have felt nowhere else so keenly the spell of South America, the
power of the golden blood of the ‘rio das Amazonas,’ and the power of
the forest.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 1300w
“The novel is neither good nor bad; merely mediocre. Those who enjoy
swift moving tales will find it slow. Those who like style,
characterization, will find it uninteresting. As it is, it exemplifies
the immortal (and overworked) ‘words, words, words.’”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 90w
“It is in this descriptive portion of the volume that the author has
done her best work, for, though her style is usually good, she lacks
dramatic and character sense, and is essentially an article rather
than a fiction writer.”
+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 350w
“Not only the physical beauty of Brazilian scenes, but the industries,
social conditions and political upheavals are set forth
interestingly.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 170w
=ELLIS, JULIAN.= Fame and failure. il *$3.75 Lippincott 920
(Eng ed 20–8729)
“Short biographies of a number of famous people who ended as failures.
Amongst the characters discussed are Edwin James the lawyer,
Wainewright the murderer, Lady Hamilton, King Ludwig of Bavaria and
Beau Brummel. In all there are eighteen biographies.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p1412 D 26 ’19 40w
=Ath= p174 F 6 ’20 390w
“A better selection to illustrate his thesis that fame and success are
not alway marriageable ideas could not have been made.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:12 Jl 4 ’20 2300w
“Notwithstanding his rather absurd classification, Mr Julian Ellis has
written a very amusing book. His style is clear and lively; and he
doesn’t bore us with footnotes or authorities, which so often spoil
the pleasure of reading biographies.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:587 D 20 ’19 640w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p753 D 11 ’19 80w
“If we must decline to take Mr Ellis too seriously as a biographer,
this need not prevent us from wiling away some pleasant time in his
company. If he has the faults of the journalist, he has also no small
measure of his virtues.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p5 Ja 1 ’20 2550w
=ELLIS, STEWART MARSH.= George Meredith. il $6 Dodd
20–26976
“This book follows the lines of articles which Mr Ellis contributed to
the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review. His primary object was
to use his information about the early life of Meredith, who was his
father’s first cousin, and to reconsider in connexion with it the
inner history of some of the novels, particularly ‘Evan Harrington,’
‘Beauchamp’s career,’ ‘Vittoria,’ and ‘Diana of the crossways.’ There
are numerous portraits and other illustrations.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Mr Ellis makes an absorbingly interesting volume out of his
revelations.”
+ =Ath= p62 F ’19 2100w
=Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
“All the details in this volume are of surpassing interest, and it
contains not a little acute criticism of Meredith’s novels. The work
as a whole is an exceptional pen portraiture of a literary personality
who was as great and influential as he was interesting.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 1350w
“Written without any distinction of style, Mr Ellis’s contribution
belongs to that class of biographical work which owes its existence to
the fact that some one or other has known, or been connected with, a
famous man and is able to satisfy, by the composition of a book of
this kind, the promptings of his own personal egotism.” Llewelyn Powys
− =Freeman= 2:189 N 3 ’20 740w
“That Meredith, in Evan Harrington, misinterpreted and, as the
biographer holds, maligned the character of Mr Ellis’s grandparents
may, or may not, have been a contributing cause of the publication of
this rather shallow and rather malicious book. Certain it is that
George Meredith was on no very friendly terms with his Ellis cousins,
and the reader must be warned of the evident animus on the part of the
biographer.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 25:267 Ja 26 ’21 1200w
“Mr Ellis’s book on Meredith is to be welcomed, though it appears to
be in no sense an ‘official’ biography and though it is not written in
a manner which could have pleased Meredith himself. It is neither an
‘inspired’ exposition of his career nor a book which could be counted
excellent on its own independent merits. But it is the only biography
in existence.”
+ − =New Statesman= 12:378 F 1 ’19 2050w
“What should have been a great portrait is only a rather ordinary
photograph. He is painstaking and accurate enough. Any one who is
interested in Meredith can gather from this book much which he will be
glad to know. But he will seek in vain and with growing exasperation
for the things which are really needful.” W. H. Durham
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 D 31 ’20 600w
“Extremely interesting and well-written book.” R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= p6 N 21 ’20 2350w
+ =Sat R= 127:157 F 15 ’19 700w
=Sat R= 130:182 Ag 28 ’20 340w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p46 Ja 23 ’19 70w
=ELWELL, AMBROSE.= At the sign of the Red swan, il *$1.75 Small
19–19053
“A rollicking old-fashioned story of the sea with romance, murder and
suicide generously interwoven is told by Ambrose Elwell in ‘At the
sign of the Red swan.’ From a quiet, simple fisherman’s home on the
rockbound Maine coast, Elwell, who tells the story in the first
person, sails forth over the horizon to seek a living and money with
which to support his widowed mother and younger brother. His quest,
teeming with adventure, leads him into strange paths and foreign
waters—Liverpool, the south seas, and, finally, back to the old home.
At the Red swan inn, sailors’ dive on a South Sea island, he becomes
entangled in the law, charged with deserting his ship and murder of a
wealthy Jewish trader. All looks black for him with a gibbet as the
closing chapter of his adventurous career. But the devotion of a
settlement physician and a chaplain aids him to escape in the nick of
time. Later, the sensational suicide of the guilty one, while at sea
on the same ship, clears the name of our hero.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The fact that this story is ‘different’ from most of the large grist
of fiction turned out so steadily and voluminously since the armistice
will probably cause it to attract more than ordinary attention.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:33 Ja 18 ’20 500w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 160w
=EMERSON, GUY.= New frontier. *$2 (3c) Holt 304
20–12285
A series of papers on Americanism. The new frontier is the present
social and industrial situation and the author’s plea is that it be
faced with the spirit that conquered the old geographical frontier of
the expanding west. This spirit is for him typified by Theodore
Roosevelt. The introduction says, “In this book two main points are
emphasized; first, that the spirit of that portion of our people which
has actually shaped the destinies of America has been liberal, rather
than radical or conservative.... Second, it is claimed that our
national spirit has taken its essential liberal flavor from the
frontier, from the generations of tireless, self-reliant effort which
won this continent for the men and women of our own day and which
stamped them with its indelible character.” Contents: The frontier of
American character; The leadership that made America; What is a
liberal? The politics of the middle of the road; Public opinion and
the industrial problem; The need for fifty million capitalists; An
American federation of brains; Human resources; The weapons of truth;
The American spirit in world affairs; The new frontier. There is a
bibliographical appendix, also an index.
* * * * *
“Written by a layman for laymen, with a limited and somewhat uneven
bibliography appended for the use of readers not especially familiar
with the development of the United States, the book is interesting and
valuable as an illustration of one type of thought which has to be
taken into consideration by the student of forces making American
history today.” L. B. Shippee
+ =Am Hist R= 26:370 Ja ’21 400w
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:738 N ’20 40w
=Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“Excellent book. He sees clearly and writes as clearly, giving no
handy panaceas as such, on a topic where the temptation is great.” R.
D. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 17 ’20 450w
“Mr Emerson knows his American history thoroughly. He is also a
student of American psychology, as is shown by his success in
directing the publicity of the Liberty loan drives. These two
characteristics probably account for much of his ability to strike out
a new path in the already overcrowded field of ‘Americanization.’ For
that there is novelty and freshness in his attack on an old problem,
no one can deny. Nor should it be held against him that he has
achieved this novelty through a distinctly original and forceful use
of another man’s idea. He has developed Professor Turner’s profound
conception of the influence of the frontier in a new field; for the
purpose of his argument he has made it his own.” Lincoln MacVeagh
+ =Dial= 69:303 S ’20 1800w
“The best chapter, we think, is the one on ‘The industrial problem,’
but the whole book is vital and invigorating.” C. F. L.
+ =Grinnell R= 15:258 O ’20 500w
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:478 O 27 ’20 1700w
“A book of timely consequence, whose pages deserve wide and careful
reading.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 Ag 15 ’20 1900w
“An interpretation of America which is thoughtful and scholarly, which
is simply and forcibly written, and which is well worth anybody’s
reading.”
+ =Review= 3:421 N 3 ’20 900w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 90w
=ENGLAND, GEORGE ALLAN.= Flying legion. *$1.90 McClurg
20–12813
“In a lofty tower at the summit of the palisades of the Hudson is the
eyrie of the master where he dwells with his Arabian servants.
Mysteriously he summons a company of thirty veterans of the war, all
longing for excitement, a battalion is formed and a new, giant
aeroplane, just ready for service on the Jersey shore is seized and
the party take to flight for the Arabian desert. Mysteriously they
went away, mysteriously they returned after scores of adventures.”
(Boston Transcript) “One of the thirty with the master had been an
uninvited member—a ‘Captain Alden,’ who is a mysterious personage
altogether and whose identity, ultimately discovered, furnishes the
story’s principal romantic interest.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“A tale of romance and adventure in which improbability is obscured by
thrills. The style is awkward.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“Well-told tale.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 220w
“The story is told in a casual, rather than an inspired, way. But when
the action once really starts, the reader forgets the critical
attitude in a breathless absorption in the vigor of the narrative.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 470w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 150w
=ENOCK, C. REGINALD.= Spanish America: its romance, reality and future.
2v il *$8 Scribner 918
20–26989
“The scheme of Mr Enock’s book is what Stowe would have called a
perambulation. Beginning with Central America and Mexico, he takes us
right along the Pacific coast through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and
Chile, with an excursion into Bolivia: the remaining two chapters of
the first volume are devoted to the Cordillera of the Andes. In the
second volume we are taken down the Atlantic coast, with its rich and
still imperfectly explored hinterlands, from the ‘lands of the Spanish
Main’—Colombia, Venezuela and Guiana—through the Amazon valley and
Brazil to the River Plate and the pampas, the go-ahead countries of
Argentina and Uruguay and the secluded pastures of Paraguay. The
historical associations, natural resources, and present industrial
life of each district are uniformly described in passing.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21
“He has prepared what might quite accurately be called a primer of
Latin America. It contains much valuable information, of course, but
so does an ordinary primer. He expects practically nothing of his
readers.” D. J. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 600w
“Such comprehensive, birdseye-view books as Mr Enock’s are of value as
a starting point for more detailed study.”
+ =N Y Times= p4 N 7 ’20 2350w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 70w
“In spite of an occasional tendency to slipshod writing Mr Enock has
given us a readable and informing work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 O 7 ’20 900w
=EQUIPMENT= of the workers. $4 Sunwise turn (*10s 6d Allen & Unwin)
331.8
“There have already been exhaustive surveys of the physical and
economic condition of the workers; and the findings of Booth and
Rowntree have almost become classical. It was plainly necessary,
however, to have these surveys supplemented by an inquiry far more
inward and intimate into the mind and the outlook of the workers. What
are they thinking? What are they living for? Do they read? If so,
what? ‘The equipment of the workers’ gives us the answer to these and
the like questions. The inquiry was planned and carried out by a group
of workers at a Y. M. C. A. settlement in Sheffield; and it deals
exclusively with Sheffield conditions. The finding of the group is
that 25 per cent of the workers are well equipped, 60 per cent
inadequately equipped, and 15 per cent ill equipped. The body of the
book consists of a detailed record of the results of the inquiry in
408 typical cases.”—Nation
* * * * *
“An extraordinarily interesting inquiry. The results are very
illuminating and important.”
+ =Ath= p894 S 12 ’19 60w
=Ath= p975 O 3 ’19 1500w
“In the main the tests applied and the judgment passed upon the
reaction of the investigated persons to the tests seem sound. We have
in this volume an important datum for our thought upon reconstruction
and the problems of the new world.”
+ =Nation= 109:766 D 13 ’19 550w
“This book combines the exactness of scientific inquiry with the vivid
appeal of art. A picture such as this of American life would be one of
the most revealing documents in our time.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 21:322 F 11 ’20 1600w
“It is an exceedingly interesting and valuable study of certain
elements in the standard of living about which there is too little
trustworthy information.” L. B.
+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 1400w
“A close and systematic investigation, with abundant particulars of
individual cases.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p487 S 11 ’19 200w
=ERSKINE, JOHN.= Democracy and ideals: a definition. *$1.50 (3c) Doran
304
20–11647
The author’s preface states: “These chapters, with the exception of
the first and the last, were written while I was serving as chairman
of the Army education commission with the American forces in France in
1918 and 1919, and as educational director of the American
expeditionary force university at Beaune, 1919.... I have tried to
express here from several angles a central conviction that we in the
United States are detached from the past, and that this detachment is
the striking fact in all our problems; that if in the future we are to
become and to remain a nation, we must collaborate for common ends.”
The six essays are: Democracy and ideals; American character; French
ideals and American; Society as a university; Universal training for
national service; University leadership. The author is professor of
English in Columbia university.
* * * * *
“A pleasing clarification of ideas not particularly new or startling.”
+ =Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“Among the best of the recent books dealing with the problems of
citizenship and Americanization. It is written in a style so simple
that anyone with but an elementary knowledge of English can enjoy it.”
A. Yezierska
+ =Bookm= 52:497 F ’21 720w
“Scattered here and there through the volume are observations showing
a thoughtful understanding of American problems, but the
generalizations suitable to public addresses seem somewhat commonplace
in their published form, when the inspiration of the occasion is
past.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:400 D ’20 200w
“The author has looked about him with sympathy and understanding; and
he has pondered in his heart over the things he has seen. Curious
intolerances stand out the more abruptly by reason of the general
temper of liberality and discrimination which marks the book as a
whole. The book has it in it to do for its readers the most fruitful
service possible in these bewildering times. It might and should start
them thinking.” R: Roberts
+ − =Freeman= 2:91 O 6 ’20 1000w
+ =Ind= 104:69 O 9 ’20 80w
“One may share his vision without subscribing to his specific
educational program.”
+ =Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 390w
“He seems to assume, as is usual nowadays, that democracy, as
distinguished from aristocracy and monarchy, can somehow be made
immortal, and that education can of course succeed where religion has
failed. Granting these assumptions, the only fault to find with his
work is that it appears, here and there, sometimes hasty and again
fatigued. To wake it into literary life would have required an
interval of repose. For that very reason, it is the more valuable as a
document.”
+ − =Review= 3:94 Jl 28 ’20 170w
+ =School R= 28:637 O ’20 170w
“By an accurate understanding of the French character as well as of
our own, Prof. Erskine is able to make this study of Americanism very
illuminating.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 20 ’20 250w
“They are happily written and are frequently stimulating, but their
neglect of social undercurrents—economic and psychological, which
determine the application of intelligence, and are not deflected by
it—mars their value.” N. W. Wilensky
+ − =Survey= 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 200w
=ERSKINE, JOHN.= Kinds of poetry, and other essays. *$1.50 Duffield
808.1
20–12047
Poetry, the author holds, is not subject to evolution in its essence
but is an unchanging function of an unchanging life and its three
genres, the lyrical, the dramatic and the epic, are comparable to the
three eternal ways of meeting experience: “as simply a present moment,
or as a present moment in which the past is reaped, or as a present
moment in which the future is promised.” The other essays of the
volume are: The teaching of poetry; The new poetry; Scholarship and
poetry.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Of great value to all lovers of poetry is Mr Erskine’s book. His
criticism is keen and trenchant and happily expressed in a style
peculiarly his own.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 490w
“When his moral prejudices are not in the way, Mr Erskine is a sound
writer.” Llewellyn Jones
+ − =Freeman= 2:405 Ja 5 ’21 800w
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 20w
Reviewed by W: McFee
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 D 31 ’20 1700w
“One will find great pleasure in his book, but it will hardly take its
place as an important document.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 3 ’20 1050w
“They are characterized by a fine mingling of discrimination and
common sense. His breadth of view, his refusal to rest content with
mere special scholarship, gives value to his advice about the teaching
of poetry.”
+ =No Am= 212:572 O ’20 850w
Reviewed by L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:377 O 27 ’20 720w
“An uneven book in which the critical elements are decidedly superior
to the constructive ones.”
+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 410w
“There is somewhat too much of that intellectual writing around a
subject which is common with persons who are afraid of the obvious,
but, on the whole, the book will awaken thought; it will not do this
the less because some of its reasoning will arouse criticism.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 1100w
=ERVINE, ST JOHN GREER.= Foolish lovers. *$2 (1c) Macmillan
20–8447
Mr Ervine’s new book is dedicated to his mother, who asked him to
write a story without any “bad words” in it, and to Mrs J. O. Hanny,
who asked him to write a story without any “sex” in it. It is the
story of a charmingly conceited young Irishman who goes to London to
write novels and plays and comes home again to be a grocer. John’s
boyhood is spent in the home over the shop where three generations of
MacDermotts had preceded him. He grows up under the care of his
mother, his Uncle Matthew, the dreamer whose dreams come to nothing,
and his Uncle William, who supports the family. He goes to London
where he meets Eleanor. He asks her to marry him almost at first
meeting, dogs her steps and finally persuades her to marry him, only
to find that she has leagued herself with his mother to persuade him
back to Ballyards and the shop.
* * * * *
“‘The foolish lovers’ has nothing to commend it but a good beginning.
Why did he write it? Or, rather, why did he give up writing it?
Perhaps he would reply that what is not worth doing is not worth doing
well. It is a possible explanation.” K. M.
− + =Ath= p78 Jl 16 ’20 600w
+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
“It is regrettable that so good a story as this bears so poor a title.
‘The foolish lovers’ is neither an exact nor an appealing designation
for a novel that is so full of the commonsense of life.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 22 ’20 1950w
“Mr Ervine, in spite of his obvious determination to fix securely the
‘local coloring,’ has failed to evoke the fine, harsh, sincere reality
of the Black Northerners with whom his story deals. Prose drama is,
after all, this author’s true medium.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 100w
=Lit D= p97 O 23 ’20 1850w
“John McDermott himself is not altogether credible. His exploits,
especially his wooing of Eleanor—the central thing in the book—have
none of the homely vigor and quiet truth of the Irish scenes and
incidents. Here and there Mr Ervine gives us glimpses of a more
searching novel he might write about the people of Ulster. But he
deliberately cut himself off from that possibility here by the kindly
promises to be harmless which he records in his dedication.” Ludwig
Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:74 Jl 17 ’20 500w
“To put it all as briefly as possible, ‘The foolish lovers,’ while not
so remarkable a book as ‘Changing winds,’ is worthy of its author—and
to say that a book is worthy of St John Ervine is to give it high
praise.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:264 My 23 ’20 1200w
“Modern taste hardly asks for anything really better than such a suave
and frank, sympathetically critical and wisely humorous treatment of
life as is found in this book. Its tone just suits the mood of the
cultivated man or woman of today who has outgrown youthful tastes but
has retained a certain independence of view-point. In charm and in
acuteness—the two qualities generally most worth commending in the
fiction of the day, in which hysteria is so apt to take the place of
power—‘The foolish lovers’ is preeminent.”
+ =No Am= 212:287 Ag ’20 660w
“‘The foolish lovers’ exemplifies to a very high degree the special
gifts which have made its author’s novels notable among recent
fiction. Mr Ervine has something of Dickens’s love for people. No more
delightfully tender description of a courtship is contained in recent
fiction, nor any which so finely sets forth as that in ‘The foolish
lovers’ the unconscious humor of young love.” L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 125:388 Je 23 ’20 2950w
“Mr Ervine’s tale is in the new-British mode, the post-Wellsian,
somewhat diffuse, somewhat overburdened with scenes and ‘characters,’
if not, in this instance, with ‘ideas.’” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:91 Jl 28 ’20 350w
“The portraits of his family are excellent, and the way he imposes
himself on Eleanor is ably studied.”
+ =Sat R= 130:164 Ag 21 ’20 110w
“Mr St John Ervine has chosen an old theme, but he has invested it
with the freshness and vigour which we have come to expect from his
work.”
+ =Spec= 124:22 Jl 3 ’20 550w
“The story is rich in whimsical observations on personal
characteristics and political trends, and engages the reader’s close
interest in all its phases.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 600w
“By far the most attractive part of his story takes place in
Ballyards. The characters of Uncle William and Uncle Matthew are
delightful. The success with which Mr Ervine brings out their
simplicity and nobility of character is a convincing proof of his
gifts as a novelist.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p399 Je 24 ’20 800w
=ESCOUFLAIRE, RODOLPHE C.= Ireland an enemy of the allies? tr. from the
French. *$2.50 Dutton 941.5
20–5757
“M. Escouflaire’s thesis in this volume is that the Irish question
so-called is ‘an international imposture.’ In years past this French
writer had accepted anti-British propaganda from Ireland at its face
value, but his contact with British statesmen during the war led him
to question his earlier conclusions, and in the present volume after
an independent study of Ireland’s relations with England he declares
categorically that the whole Irish claim of oppression by England, so
far as the present generation is concerned, is a myth.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The egotism of his attitude is bewildering, but it is the key to a
treatment of Irish affairs which would otherwise be merely stupidly
unfair and ungenerous.”
− =Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 80w
“The book is a grotesque perversion of all Irish history, ancient and
modern. The author’s gross ignorance is never corrected by the
translator.” E. A. Boyd
− =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 200w
“Lovers of England must trust that she will not listen to such
counsels as these.” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:769 Je 5 ’20 360w
=N Y Times= pl Ag 1 ’20 750w
“His book is well written, but without the wise judgment that comes
through the sympathetic understanding that such men as Lloyd George
bring to the problem.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 100w
“M. Escouflaire’s book must be laid down with a sigh of
disappointment. It is the sort of work which can help no one, a
perfect specimen of how Irish matters should not be discussed, and
those most anxious for the object he sets before himself should be the
first to repudiate the methods by which he is seeking it. The present
critic hates Sinn Fein and all its works as much as M. Escouflaire can
hate them, but he would wish to see it attacked with artillery not so
far out of range.” H. L. Stewart
− + =Review= 2:676 Je 30 ’20 2000w
=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 80w
“Accurate and spirited little book.”
+ =Spec= 123:732 N 29 ’19 440w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 30w
=ESSEN, LÉON VAN DER.= Short history of Belgium. il *$1.50 (3c) Univ. of
Chicago press 949.3
20–2285
This second and enlarged edition of the original book contains a
special chapter on Belgium during the war. The book is illustrated and
has a bibliography and an index. The first edition was published in
1916.
* * * * *
“Dr Van der Essen has succeeded admirably in confining a record of
monumental size within the compass of a small volume. Yet, in doing
so, he has not sacrificed clearness for brevity nor interest for
compactness.”
+ =Cath World= 112:117 O ’20 210w
+ =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 40w
“Professor van der Essen has treated this difficult and often
intricate subject with admirable skill; though writing with a
scholar’s intimate knowledge of his country’s history, he has
succeeded in steering clear from the shoal of ponderosity and dulness.
Here and there the Roman Catholic has led the historian astray.”
+ − =Review= 2:335 Ap 3 ’20 750w
“It is a fascinating story told by a master of the facts who writes
with a fine sense of proportion.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 140w
=EVANS, CARADOC.= My neighbors. *$1.75 (5c) Harcourt
20–5187
More stories of a Welsh rural neighborhood by the author of “My
people” and “Capel Sion.” In a prologue entitled “The Welsh people”
the author offers some explanation of the ugly and distorted aspects
of human nature that he presents. The stories are: Love and hate;
According to the pattern; The two apostles; Earthbred; For better;
Treasure and trouble; Saint David and the prophets; Joseph’s house;
Like brothers; A widow woman; Unanswered prayers; Lost treasure;
Profit and glory.
* * * * *
“I happen to know something of Welsh religion, and I have written not
a little in criticism of it. But the religion which Mr Evans describes
I have never met with. We Welsh have many grievous faults, and we have
not been as faithful in self-criticism as we should have been. But Mr
Caradoc Evans’s book does not describe us. It describes only Mr
Caradoc Evans’s own soul; and it is not a pretty sight.”
− =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 550w
“Mr Evans’s artistic gift is very genuine but hard and narrow. In its
present trend one can see little chance for its development. The
stories are like rocks—impressive but barren. The preface is written
in a more flexible vein and a more ironic mood. In it the language of
the English Bible, from which Mr Evans draws, is transmuted for the
uses of his artistic intention. In the stories themselves it is
employed merely as a weapon. But his work has fierce honesty,
concentration, power. It is sanative and, within its definite limits,
completely achieved.”
+ − =Nation= 110:522 Ap 17 ’20 450w
“But does he really traverse the whole stage? We cannot think so.
Where there are Goneril and Regan we cry out for a Cordelia, and Mr
Evans would, we think, have made his terrible portraits more effective
even than they are already if he had introduced more contrast and
relief into them.”
+ − =Nation [London]= 27:77 Ap 17 ’20 600w
“Mr Evans knows the Welsh intimately and searchingly, and his
portrayal of their daily lives, their bickerings, prayings and
aspirations is altogether ruthless and incisive.” Pierre Loving
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ap 18 ’20 800w
“The hardy reader who will persist beyond the almost impenetrable
idiom of Caradoc Evans will be richly rewarded. Especially do we
recommend the book to reformers, utopists, spinners of millennial
dreams.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 600w
=N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 320w
“He is sometimes difficult to follow, partly because the dialogue is
in English literally translated from the Welsh, and partly because the
stories are almost excessively condensed; but the subdued irony and
false simplicity are delightful, and he knows the sovereign power of
the restraint which leaves events to explain themselves without heavy
exegesis.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p154 Mr 4 ’20 450w
=EVANS, EDWARD RADCLIFFE GARTH RUSSELL.= Keeping the seas. il *$3 Warne
940.45
20–2282
“Captain Evans saw a great deal of the Dover patrol and of all it
included. He tells his experiences, so to speak, right on end and in a
kind of chronological order. He is a witness who was there and records
what has remained in his mind of what he saw. And he had notable
things to remember; for he commanded the Broke in the action of March,
1917, in the Straits. The war produced few such passages of conflict
as the action in the Straits. Captain Evans’ services, like those of
other officers, consisted in the main of cruising and watching. At the
end he was afforded a change in the direction of Gibraltar and the
Portuguese coast.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
“His ‘simple sailor volume,’ as he calls it, is full of miscellaneous
stories which would have been the better if they had been more
carefully digested; but if the whole is rather confusing, not a little
good matter is to be found in the heap.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p74 F 5 ’20 1050w
=EVANS, MRS ELIDA.= Problem of the nervous child. *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 136.7
20–6871
This volume comes with an introduction by Dr C. G. Jung of Zurich who
says of the author: “Mrs Evans’ knowledge of her subject matter is
based on the solid foundation of practical experience, an experience
gained in the difficult and toilsome treatment and education of
nervous children.... This book, as the reader can see on almost every
page, is the fruit of an extended work in the field of neuroses and
abnormal characters.” Its purpose is to aid parents in the training
and education of their children, not to add another “to the already
long list of textbooks explaining psychoanalytical treatment for
nervous troubles.” It does not presuppose scientific training in the
laws of human development on the part of those for whom the book is
intended and therefore avoids technical terms and abstruse discussions
as far as possible, giving only end results of present day research
and observation on the subject, with examples of cases. Contents:
Statement of the problem; The development of repression; Symbolic
thought; The child and the adult; Mental behaviour of the child;
Defence reactions; The parent complex; Buried emotions; Child
training; Muscle erotism; The tyrant child; Teaching of right and
wrong; Self and character; Index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20
“There are spots in the book where the all-absorbing panacea of
psycho-analytic therapy is too powerful, and she over-stresses the
environment, losing sight of the medico-psychological fact that many
defects are organically directed. The book needs a broader sensing and
interpreting of the ever present interplay between the hereditary and
environmental forces.” H. F. Coffin, M.D.
+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 270w
=EVANS, LAWTON BRYAN.= America first. il *$2.50 Bradley, M. 973
20–16082
“Instead of being what the title might imply, the volume contains one
hundred stories from the history of America in condensed form and
written in a style that will prove interesting to the juvenile reader.
The author goes on the supposition that the nearer a story is to the
life of the child, the more eagerly it is absorbed. True stories, he
says, about our own people, about our neighbors and friends and about
our own country at large, are more interesting than true stories of
remote people and places. The stories grouped in the volume open with
‘Leif, the lucky,’ and continue down through history to the time when
Americans made history over-seas.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“An excellent piece of work. The book will be a valuable supplement to
school study of our national history and it will stimulate a healthy
national pride.”
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 100w
=Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 180w
=EVARTS, HAL GEORGE.= Cross pull. *$1.90 (3½c) Knopf
20–4269
The hero of this story is Flash, a cross between wolf, coyote and dog.
Clark Moran took him as a puppy and tamed him and the dog in him
responded to kindness. To one other Flash gives his allegiance, to
Betty, the girl from the East who comes into the mountains. To most
other humans he is indifferent, but there is one he hates. The story
tells how he served his two loved ones in a crisis, and how in so
doing he took his own revenge on his enemy. In the end he settles down
as a safe and trusted house dog, but there were times when the wild
strain awakened and at those times, on still nights during the mating
moon, certain civilized suburbanites would experience a primitive
shudder at hearing the lone wolf’s call.
* * * * *
“Not over humanized or sentimentalized; one of the best dog stories.”
+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
“A better novel it might have been, but a better animal study it could
scarcely have been.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 23 ’20 200w
“A story of more than ordinary interest either as an ‘animal story’ or
a ‘live’ western romance.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 200w
=EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL.= Arguments and speeches: ed., with an introd.,
by his son Sherman Evarts. 3v *$15 Macmillan 815
19–16299
“Mr Evarts (1818–1901) as leader of the American bar, orator, and
statesman, was one of the most conspicuous of American citizens in the
nineteenth century. This substantial collection of his public
utterances not only provides a record of his career, but an important
document for the social and political events of his day and for the
history of American oratory. He was the leading counsel for the
defendant in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Jackson in
1868; and in 1872 was counsel for the United States in the Alabama
arbitration at Geneva. He was secretary of state during President
Hayes’s administration (1877–1881) and one of the senators for New
York 1885–1891.”—The Times [London]. Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The editor’s introductions and comments are brief and well chosen
throughout. Taken as a whole, the volumes are a worthy memorial to one
of the influential leaders of the American bar, and of the Republican
party during a difficult period of our history.” W: A. Robinson
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:349 My ’20 360w
“The ‘Springbok’ argument is said by our leading authority on
international law to be as good an argument in a prize case as he has
ever read. The defense of Andrew Johnson was equally worth reprinting.
As to the rest of the three volumes there is much room for doubt.”
Zechariah Chafee, jr.
+ − =Nation= 111:692 D 15 ’20 1100w
+ =N Y Times= 25:116 Mr 28 ’20 1650w
“These volumes should find a place in all public libraries, especially
those of the higher institutions of learning, and in many private
libraries. especially those of persons interested in the political
history of the United States.”
+ =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 300w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 100w
“We are glad to find, in sampling these volumes, that Evarts’s high
reputation for eloquence is fully justified.”
+ =Spec= 124:316 Mr 6 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 100w
Reviewed by Moorfield Storey
=Yale R= n s 10:189 O ’20 1200w
=EVISON, MILLICENT.= Rainbow gold. il *$1.75 Lothrop
While their father is serving a term of imprisonment on a charge of
embezzlement three young people, Toni, Basil and Cecily, go to live
with their grandfather in a lonely old house in Maine. The grandfather
is crabbed and cold and the two aunts have become as dull and drab as
the old house. The story tells how the children bring new life into it
and how Toni wins her grandfather’s heart and moves him to take steps
toward a new hearing of their father’s case which proves his
innocence.
F
=FABRE, JEAN HENRI CASIMIR.= Secret of everyday things; informal talks
with the children: tr. from the French by Florence Constable Bicknell.
il *$2.50 Century 504
20–17586
This book for young readers contains another selection of Uncle Paul’s
talks, following “The story-book of science,” “Our humble helpers” and
“Field, forest and farm.” Among the everyday things discussed are
Thread; Pins; Needles; Silk; Wool; Flax and hemp; Weaving; Woolen
cloth; Moths; Calico; Dyeing and printing; Human habitations; Soap;
Fire; Matches; Glass; Iron; Rust; Pottery; Coffee; Sugar; Tea; Bread;
Air; Evaporation; Rain; Snow; The force of steam; Sound and light.
There are occasional illustrations in the text.
* * * * *
“Would be useful in junior high schools.”
+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20
“Didacticism flies before Fabre’s freshness of style like dust before
a broom.”
+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 80w
“The insect world has been recreated for lay readers by the patience
and the genius of Fabre. Here his themes are homelier but his gift for
accurate information, made fascinating in the telling, is the same.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 90w
“The heart and mind of a scientist, the style of an artist, and the
sympathy of a man whose child spirit never died live in the book.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 150w
=FAIRBANKS, HAROLD WELLMAN.= Conservation reader. il *$1.20 World bk.
338
20–8813
This book is one of the Conservation series and is especially designed
for the education of children in right ways of looking at nature. It
is the author’s opinion that much of the enthusiasm for conservation
will expend itself uselessly unless it can be made to reach the
children and the purpose of the book is to present its principles to
pupils in a simple and interesting manner. Among the contents are: How
our first ancestors lived; The earth as it was before the coming of
civilized men; How far will nature restore her wasted gifts? Things of
which soil is made; The use and care of water; How the forests are
wasted; Our forest playgrounds; What is happening to the wild flowers;
What shall we do when the coal, oil, and gas are gone? What is
happening to the animals and birds; How to bring the wild creatures
back again. Among the many illustrations are two color prints and
there is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:352 Jl ’20
“Well adapted for use in the intermediate grades.”
+ =El School J= 21:156 O ’20 120w
=FALKENHAYN, ERICH GEORG ANTON SEBASTIAN VON.= German general staff and
its decisions, 1914–1916. *$5 Dodd 940.343
20–2294
“The book will attempt to set forth in an intelligible form, according
to my knowledge at the time of their occurrence, those operative ideas
by which the best of us were guided in battle and victory during the
two years of the war when I was at the head of the general staff. My
statements do not afford any history of the war in the ordinary sense
of the word. They touch upon the events of the war, and other
occurrences connected with the latter, only in so far as is necessary
to justify the decisions of the general staff.” (Preface) Contents:
The change of chief of the general staff; The general military
situation in the middle of September, 1914: The battles of the Yser
and around Lodz; The period from the beginning of trench warfare in
November-December, 1914, until the recommencement of the war of
movement in 1915; The break-through at Gorlice-Tarnow and its
consequences; Operations against Russia in the summer and autumn of
1915; Beginning of the unrestricted submarine campaign; Attempts to
break through in the west in the autumn of 1915, and the campaign
against Serbia; The situation at the end of 1915; The campaign of
1916; Comparative review of the relative strength of forces
(Appendix); Maps.
* * * * *
“The work itself is a memoir, rather than a history. It makes no
references to authorities, and furnishes little in the form of
documents, but it bears evidence of more careful preparation than is
usual with memoirs and of being based on authentic records or accurate
first-hand knowledge.” J: Bigelow
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:500 Ap ’20 750w
=Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
=Bookm= 51:286 My ’20 2800w
=Lit D= p123 Ap 17 ’20 1400w
“Both as a personal apologia and as a revealing of inside German
military history this volume is a worthy companion to Ludendorff’s
book—indeed, it is better; it is less clumsy and tart, its language is
clearer and terser.”
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 240w
“With one exception, his book is a candid and apparently
straightforward statement of the problems he was called upon to solve,
and as such it will always be valuable to the special student, but not
to the general public: it proves nothing.”
+ − =Review= 3:533 D 1 ’20 2100w
“General von Falkenhayn’s book on the war is, from the military
standpoint, a much more serious production than General Ludendorff’s
memoirs, though it does not appeal in the same way to the natural
man’s desire for revelations of the enemy’s domestic controversies.
The attentive reader of his book will be impressed with General von
Falkenhayn’s personality. He writes like a soldier, not like a
politician.”
+ =Spec= 123:895 D 27 ’19 1750w
“Von Falkenhayn’s book is a worthy companion to Ludendorff’s. It has
the merit of being shorter; it contains a much smaller admixture of
politics; and its handling of personal controversies, though
sufficiently tart, is less clumsy and disagreeable than Ludendorff’s.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 D 11 ’19 2200w
=FARIS, JOHN THOMSON.= On the trail of the pioneers; romance, tragedy,
and triumph of the path of empire. il *$3.50 Doran 978
20–7011
The present volume does not give in full detail the historical
background of the successive great movements of population from the
East to the West but rather actual typical cases of emigrants on the
move. “It ... gives glimpses of many of these great movements, the
routes the emigrants took, and the sections to which they went. The
endeavor is made to answer the questions, Who were the emigrants? How
and where did they travel? What adventures did they have by the way?
What were their impressions of the country through which they passed?
What did they do when they reached their destinations?” (Preface) For
this purpose full use has been made of the records of early travellers
and pioneers. Contents: Through the Cumberland gap to Kentucky and
Tennessee; Through the Pittsburgh and Wheeling gateways; Floating down
the Ohio and the Mississippi; From northern New York and New England
to the West; The Santa Fe trail; The Oregon trail; Across the plains
to California; Toiling up the Missouri; Bibliography; Index; Maps and
illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
“An excellent, condensed history.”
+ =Cath World= 111:697 Ag ’20 120w
+ =Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 50w
=N Y Times= p30 S 12 ’20 150w
“While sketchy and disjointed, Mr Faris’s book presents enough that is
piquant or solidly interesting to lure the reader to search further
for himself.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 700w
“The author has accomplished a scholarly piece of work without
pedantry or tedious generalization. The writing of the book is so
fresh and entertaining that the general reader will find it a real
pleasure to peruse it.”
+ =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w
“There are evidences of haste in the compilation of the book and in
the explanatory matter which introduces the excerpts from diaries,
resulting in too general statements of specific historical events, and
some minor errors. The charm of this book lies in the abundant
passages from old journals which happily escaped the improving pencils
of ‘literary’ friends.” C. L. Skinner
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:185 O ’20 330w
=FARIS, JOHN THOMSON.= Seeing the Far West. il *$6 Lippincott 917.8
20–17297
“John T. Faris’s ‘Seeing the Far West’ has chapters upon the scenery
of Colorado, Arizona, the Yellowstone, the Sierras, Oregon, and
Washington.” (Review) “He regales his readers with bits of gossip and
local history that enliven and endow with a human interest the scenes
to which he leads them.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“The writing of the book is simple and direct, gaining thereby in
clearness and force. Its sincerity cannot be questioned and its
personal touches and humanness stir alive one’s jaded interest in
travel volumes.” J. W. D. S.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 11 ’20 560w
“‘Seeing the far West’ is a desirable addition to any home library.”
+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 140w
“Occasionally the reader finds flashes of description that are
characterized by originality, but, on the whole, the writer is content
with conventional utterance.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 160w
“The book will take its place as one of the best of the ‘boosters’ for
seeing the great West.”
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 50w
“Mr Faris has the enviable trick of making one see. He sets one
dreaming golden, fantastic, rainbow dreams, and leaves one,—as only
the most vivid dreams can leave one,—half convinced that one has
actually been there in the flesh.” Calvin Winter
+ =Pub W= 98:664 S 18 ’20 370w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 40w
“It is well illustrated with photographs which show that Mr Faris is
not too enthusiastic in his descriptions.”
+ =Spec= 125:748 D 4 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 200w
“Mr Faris’s main difficulty is that he has so many things to write
about. In fact, he would have given a clearer idea of the country if
of its natural features he had been content to describe fully one of
each kind instead of—in perhaps a spirit of democratic equality—giving
a shorter account of several.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p755 N 18 ’20 1250w
=FARNELL, IDA.=[2] Spanish prose and poetry old and new. *$5.25 Oxford
860.8
20–22172
“‘Spanish prose and poetry, old and new.’ by Ida Farnell is a
collection made in the belief that one of the consequences of the war
will be an increased interest in the literature of the Latin races.
Miss Farnell has endeavored to show something of the spirit of Spanish
literature by translated extracts from authors ranging from the
fourteenth to the nineteenth century (omitting the eighteenth as an
age of decadence), to which she has prefixed short biographies of the
writers.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Her versification is unusually successful in coping with the peculiar
difficulties of Spanish verse. Her biographical sketches, her comments
and her notes are lively and entertaining. It is a delightful book.”
N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 1250w
“Her prefaces, though enfeebled as criticism by moral and patriotic
bias, are enthusiastic, and arouse keener expectations than her
translations satisfy.”
+ − =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 My 29 ’20 80w
=FARNOL, JEFFERY.= Black Bartlemy’s treasure. *$2.15 Little
20–20647
This is a veritable treasure island and piracy story. Martin Conisby,
Lord Wendover, is sold as a slave to a Spanish galleon by Sir Richard
Brandon, the slayer of his father. After making his escape and
returning to England, swearing vengeance, he unwittingly becomes the
rescuer of Brandon’s daughter. He does not find Sir Richard, who has
since been lost at sea. But he falls in with a man about to set forth
in quest of a treasure and joins him. Lady Joan Brandon embarks on the
same ship and presently the two are set adrift in a boat and reach the
island. Here they live for some time, a la Robinson Crusoe and love
grows to such an extent that the hero is ready to abjure his vow of
vengeance. The treasure is also found. When rescuers come events
develop in such a way that he renounces love and all and remains a
solitary hermit on the island as the ship sails away. Much rough
fighting and slaughter punctuate the various phases of the story.
* * * * *
“Some reminiscences of Stevenson and Charles Reade may have gone
towards shaping ‘Black Bartlemy’s treasure,’ but Mr Farnol gives a
good account of himself as regards both these models.”
+ =Ath= p442 O 1 ’20 110w
“The story would be much more effective were it narrated in forthright
English.” E. F. Edgett
+ − =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 1600w
“The author has written a thrilling and convincing sea story with so
many quaint characters and so much cut-and-thrust action that it is
hard to find anything which may be offered as a parallel in very
recent fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 380w
“The action is as rapid as ever. The ingenuity with which Mr Farnol
creates fresh situations of romance is tireless.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 S 9 ’20 700w
=FARNOL, JEFFERY.= Geste of Duke Jocelyn. il *$2.50 Little
20–16930
In this merry jest is romance and knight errantry of old. The tale
tells of one Duke Jocelyn of Brocelaunde, a puissant knight, but
marred of face so that he despairs of winning the love of the
beautiful lady Yolande. He dons his fool’s motley garb with cap and
bells and sets out with one lonely, poorly garbed knight to act the
part of the Duke’s envoy and press his suit. They meet with many
adventures in the forest, fall in with Robin Hood, make friends and
fight many a brave fight with and for him. Even the Lady Yolande is
intrigued by the fool’s merry songs and after he has rescued her from
a hated suitor, she yields to his love and openly declares it before
the assembled knights of the Duke of Brocelaunde. Songs and rhymes,
blank verse and prose mingle in the telling of the tale.
* * * * *
“He tells it for his young daughter’s edification, and has hit on a
medium—his own swaggering prose and a sound, swinging, rough-and-ready
metre—that suits both the matter and his now familiar manner.”
+ =Ath= p1411 D 26 ’19 70w
“This is a good Christmas book for the incorrigibly romantic, young or
old.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 120w
“A pretty manner Mr Farnol has adopted for the telling of his latest
story. Accepting the artifice for what it is one cannot deny that it
makes good entertainment.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 540w
“One of the most charming and delightfully whimsical fictional
products that have come from the presses this year.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 740w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 360w
“The choice of the genre is a very happy one for Mr Farnol; it admits
of his wearing his heart on his sleeve and carrying his tongue in his
cheek at one and the same time. In fact, this is such a tale as any
father—did he but dispose of Mr Farnol’s vocabulary, humour and
invention—would tell his daughter, providing her liberally with
marvels to her taste and amusing himself with Shakespearian allusions
that would escape her.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p742 D 11 ’19 650w
=FARNSWORTH, CHARLES HUBERT.= How to study music. *$2.10 (3½c) Macmillan
780.7
20–19843
Professor Frank M. McMurry in his introduction to the volume points
out that the teacher’s method of teaching may unduly overshadow in
importance the child’s method of study. This little book places the
emphasis on the child’s method of study and takes the form of home
conversations between the children and the adults of the family. It
shows how a child’s appreciation of music requires a fertile home soil
for its growth and how Jack’s initial “I hate music” can be changed
into his final “I love music.” Contents: Difficulties in the study of
music; How listen to music; How learn notation without awakening a
dislike for music; How a child should learn to sing; How learn to play
the piano; How learn to enjoy classical as well as modern music; How
to select music; How make use of music in the family; Library of piano
compositions.
* * * * *
“The unusual characteristic about the book is the fact that the
problems are presented from the viewpoint of both pupil and teacher.
In this respect it is better than a formal text would probably be.
Indeed, the author evidently sought to exemplify his philosophy of
teaching by the book itself.”
+ =El School J= 21:317 D ’20 510w
=FARRAR, JOHN CHIPMAN.= Forgotten shrines. (Yale ser. of younger poets)
*75c Yale univ. press 811
20–3703
“Mr Farrar has earned a reputation which foreruns this book of his
with a war poem called ‘Brest left behind.’ He divides his poems in
groups called Portraits, Songs for children and others, Miscellaneous
and Sonnets. The first group of Portraits won the eighteenth award of
the prize offered by Professor Albert Stanburrough Cook at Yale for
the best unpublished verse by an undergraduate.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Beautiful in thought and expression.”