Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
+ − =Bookm= 51:454 Je ’20 200w
“He gives us a fine sense of diversity of interests and a balance of
form that is admirable.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 340w
“Mr Farrar has achieved clear and tender outlines in the section
called Portraits, and should be encouraged to proceed further.”
+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w
=FARRISS, CHARLES SHERWOOD.=[2] American soul. $1 Stratford co. 920
20–22043
“An appreciation of the four greatest Americans and their lesson for
present Americans.” (Sub-title) The four Americans are: George
Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; and Theodore Roosevelt.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the author is quite happy in his attempt to draw the
moral without overpainting the tale.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 220w
+ =R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 30w
=FAY, CHARLES RYLE.= Life and labour in the nineteenth century. *$8
Macmillan 331.8
(Eng ed 20–16219)
“Though the title sounds as if ‘Life and labor in the nineteenth
century’ were solely on economics, and though economics gets plenty of
treatment, Captain Fay’s lectures cover the political history of
England and its international adventures. It is only the fact that
wars are not described that prevents it from being a history of
England in the nineteenth century.” (N Y Times) “The volume contains
the substance of the author’s lectures, delivered at Cambridge in
1919, to students of economics among whom were officers of the Royal
navy and students from the United States army.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup)
* * * * *
=Ath= p47 Jl 9 ’20 800w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 100w
“It is marred by a certain ignorance of American events, or at least
American points of view.... But these evidences of careless historical
reading and insufficient information about a foreign country, although
they impair the value of Mr Fay’s book, do not prevent it from being a
careful study of the economic life and free-handed study of its
politics, written in a vivacious style.”
+ − =N Y Times= p13 S 26 ’20 1950w
“Mr Fay attempts to develop no clear-cut definite theories. He does
not indulge in the harmless but futile pastime of prophecy. One of the
freshest and most original portions of the book is in the chapters in
which Mr Fay traces the prevalence and disastrous consequences of
‘semi-capitalism,’ the stage of transition from domestic industries to
manufacture.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p359 Je 10 ’20 1650w
=FAYLE, CHARLES ERNEST.=[2] Seaborne trade. il *$7.50 (*12s 6d) Longmans
940.45
=v 1= The cruiser period.
“From the outbreak of the war and the mobilization of the British
fleet to the beginning of the submarine warfare, Mr Fayle covers every
incident, every move of the Allied and the German fleets. He takes up
in turn the flight of the Goeben and the Breslau to the shelter of the
Dardanelles, the protection of the Atlantic terminals, the precautions
taken to cover trade in the Far East, the situation in the South
Atlantic, and the depredations of the Karlsruhe.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Altogether, ‘The cruiser period’ is a notable addition to the history
of the war.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 8 ’21 350w
+ =Spec= 125:707 N 27 ’20 1350w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p787 D 2 ’20 1650w
=FELD, ROSE CAROLINE.= Humanizing industry. *$2.50 Dutton 331.1
20–8521
“Miss Feld has written a story concerning one Struthers who,
inheriting an industrial plant run on old-fashioned lines of
benevolent despotism, tries to introduce modern ideas and overcomes
one by one the obstacles created by a bad tradition. It is not
fiction, but the method of telling enhances the impression of the
author’s belief in good personal relationships and common sense as the
most promising approaches to a humanization of industry. Incidentally,
the book discusses in detail and with reference to successful
experiments the merits of welfare, educational, insurance, pension,
profit sharing and industrial representation schemes.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 50w
“There seems to be one thing overlooked. In speaking of human
relations, the author seems to have in mind kindliness, friendliness,
charitableness—of which we have none too much. She does not mean
anything as fundamental as the economic relationship of classes to one
another, to the soil and natural resources, to the powers of
government. She reminds me pathetically of the reformers who hoped to
save the institution of slavery by inducing slave holders to treat
their slaves and mules in a more kindly way.” B. C. G.
− + =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 580w
“It is a book that all employers of labor ought to read, because
whether or not they have sensed that new era, or even entered upon it,
they will find in it eye-opening ideas, helpful suggestions. It is a
book that all laboring men who have begun to think ought to read,
because it will set them on the right track in their thinking.”
+ =N Y Times= p30 Ag 22 ’20 780w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 30w
=Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 130w
=FELLOWES, EDMUND HORACE=, ed. English madrigal verse, 1588–1632.
(Oxford English texts) *$6.25 Oxford 821:04
20–17023
“This is a reprint of the known words of Elizabethan songs, arranged
under their composers and, among these, under the particular type of
song, with the names of the poets in the few cases where they are
known. In all of these songs both words and voice part were paramount.
For if, as in the first half of the book, they were madrigals (for
from three to six voices), each voice was sovran in turn, and each
vied with the other in the amount of meaning it could impress on the
words. If, as in the second half, they were solos or duets, then they
had the sketchy accompaniment of the lute, or the support of veiled
and velvety-toned viols. The first are necessarily short, for the
madrigal form required much repetition of words; pithy, for if a voice
is only to be heard at intervals it should have something terse to
say; and conventional, for you cannot put intimate sentiments into the
mouths of half a dozen different people in succession. The second are
more elaborate. They are all true lyrics in that they take one point
and press it home.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“To all who love the lyric, English madrigal verse will be a genuine
delight. Its careful editing makes the musical construction quite
clear, and the material is indeed a treasury of quaint verse.” C. K.
H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 1 ’20 680w
“A learned and careful work which only a scholar both in literature
and in music could have brought to a conclusion.”
+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 260w
“Interesting and scholarly book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 Ag 5 ’20 6300w
=FELSTEAD, SIDNEY THEODORE.= German spies at bay; comp, from official
sources. il *$2 Brentano’s 940.485
(Eng ed 20–8200)
“This is a record of interest, exactly recording the actual work of
our Secret service and the particulars of the chief German spies whom
it traced and dealt with, and exposing the error of much of the panic
about spies in England which at one time prevailed.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 70w
“Mr Felstead is not dull, nor truthfully can one think, brilliant.
Those who are interested in spies will be reading for information
(possibly thrills), and herein the author is enthusiastically
cyclopedic.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 230w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p174 Mr 11 ’20 50w
“Mr Felstead has written an amusing as well as an instructive book,
and he seems to have steered cleverly between the rocks of reticence
and indiscretion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p178 Mr 18 ’20 1050w
=FENWICK, CHARLES GHEQUIER.= Political systems in transition; war-time
and after. *$3 Century 342
20–20220
The book is one of the Century New world series of which W. F.
Willoughby is general editor. Since the war, the author holds, the
question of the organization of the state and the scope of the
functions it is to perform has become once more an open one, for the
war has made it clear that there are some serious defects in the
machinery of government that call for radical amendments to our
constitutional system. The relative strength and weakness of the
several political systems and the probable line of future
reconstruction, form the subject of the present study. Contents: Part
1, Political ideals and demands of war; War a test of democratic
government; The constitutions of the great nations on the eve of the
great war; Part 2, Changes brought about by the war in the political
institutions of European countries; Countries with autocratic
governments; Countries with democratic governments; Part 3, Changes in
the political institutions of the United States; The war and the
constitution; War powers of the president; Emergency legislation
adopted by Congress; Changes in the organization of the government;
The separate state governments: new legislation and new administrative
activities; Part 4, Problems of reconstruction in the United States
raised by the war; New ideals of democracy; The program of political
reconstruction; The program of international reconstruction; Index.
* * * * *
“An excellent account of the shake-up in governments produced by the
war, full of material which must be included in any adequate history
of it.” E. N.
+ =Boston Transcript= p14 D 8 ’20 950w
=Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 70w
“The volume is a valuable compendium of war measures in the
belligerent nations and of the political problems which the war has
left.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 Ja 29 ’21 300w
“He writes with eminent fairness, and writes only to inform. He
achieves his aim strikingly. Sometimes he falls into the error of
taking a phrase at its face value. Since even small things are
important in a work of this kind. Professor Fenwick should be more
careful about his dates.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 19 ’20 2250w
=R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 100w
=FERBER, EDNA.= Half portions. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–8793
The nine short stories of this collection are: The maternal feminine;
April 25th, as usual; Old lady Mandle; You’ve got to be selfish; Long
distance; Un morso doo pang; One hundred per cent; Farmer in the dell;
The dancing girls. They are stories of life as it is lived in Chippewa
or Winnebago, Wisconsin, or on South Park avenue, Chicago. Some are
stories of war time. One is an Emma McChesney story. They are
reprinted from the Ladies’ Home Journal, Metropolitan, Colliers, and
other magazines.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
“All these stories and all these pages are thronged with real men and
women, and in them Miss Ferber continues to display not merely her
skill at story telling, but also her greater skill at breathing into
them the breath of life. Reality and imagination combine equally in
their making.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 1600w
“Miss Ferber’s talents go to polishing the bright pebbles of life,
rather than to touching the bedrock of reality, but there’s no denying
the world would be duller without an occasional pretty pebble.”
+ =Dial= 69:546 N ’20 50w
“The highest praise you can give an author in these days is to say
that his or her book is ‘thoroly American,’ from which, alas, it does
not necessarily follow that it is an excellent piece of workmanship.
Edna Ferber’s ‘Half portions,’ however, wins on both counts.”
+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 160w
“Miss Edna Ferber is not thoughtful about the affairs of the world.
She simply does not let herself think. If some one would endow Miss
Ferber, and make it no longer too expensive for her to think or bring
a story to an honest conclusion, she might become a sort of American
Arnold Bennett.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 200w
“It is a book that is thoroughly enjoyable and laughable from
beginning to end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 620w
=FERBER, EDNA, and LEVY, NEWMAN.= $1200 a year. il *$1.50 Doubleday 812
20–18069
A three-act play in which a university professor gives up his $1200 a
year position in the university to earn $30 a day in a mill. He
immediately becomes popular as a labor leader and lecturer and is in
demand all over the United States, but it is only when he is offered a
salary of $5000 a week in the movies that the magnate who owns the
university as well as the mill is moved to consider the question of an
adequate salary for a professor.
* * * * *
“Interesting to read. One would like to see it acted.”
+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“The complications hold the kernel of genuine comedy, but instead of
cracking their nut, Miss Ferber and Mr Levy have contented themselves
with merely painting funny faces on the shell.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:94 O 6 ’20 180w
“The authors have challenged serious criticism by calling the play a
‘comedy’ and by permitting the publishers to proclaim it a ‘timely
satire.’ It is an amusing and clever farce, containing many touches of
skilful character depiction.” Jack Crawford
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 S 25 ’20 800w
“As a vehicle for amusement ‘$1200 a year’ is both ingenious and
satisfying. Its characters are human, its situations vivid. It
portrays with little exaggeration the wretched circumstances of our
little world of scholars with sympathetic and understanding treatment.
But what of that other world? Have not the authors exaggerated the
affluence of mill labor to crown their dramatic purpose?”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 560w
Reviewed by A. E. Morey
+ =Survey= 45:137 O 23 ’20 240w
“Rather a good story, though highly illogical and incredible.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:86 Ja ’21 230w
=FIELDING, WILLIAM JOHN.= Sanity in sex. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd 176
20–10067
The past few years have seen a remarkable change in the public
attitude toward sex. The ban of secrecy has been largely removed and
the need for rational sex education is generally recognized. The
author’s purpose in this book has been “to subject the social
processes responsible for these changes to a thorough analysis,
classifying all the important factors and tendencies involved, and to
give as concise and accurate an account as possible of this historic
period of the sex-educational movement.” (Introd.) Subjects covered
include: the government’s campaign of sex-education, sex-education in
the army, venereal disease, sex hygiene in industry, sex education in
the public schools, the relation of sex knowledge to marriage, sex
ignorance and divorce, birth control, and psycho-analysis, and the
final chapter discusses economic sufficiency as a basis of sex
hygiene. There is a classified bibliography of seventeen pages,
followed by an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:57 N ’20
=Int J Ethics= 31:117 O ’20 80w
“Mr Fielding is not an alarmist; he strikes more than a note of hope
in his account of the work which the United States government did with
the army during the war.”
+ =Nation= 111:135 Jl 31 ’20 650w
“The book for the most part quotes authorities worth considering, and
is modern in its attitude, but overestimates the theories of
psycho-analysis, and is weakened by rather easy generalizations.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 90w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p688 O 21 ’20 90w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:113 Je ’20 70w
=FIFE, GEORGE BUCHANAN.= Passing legions. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 940.477
20–20541
“How the American Red cross met the American army in Great Britain,
the gateway to France.” (Sub-title) The work of the Red cross
commission in Great Britain was almost wholly with passing troops, on
the way to the front or returning, and the aim of the author has been
to bring out those features of the service which distinguished it from
that of other commissions. Among the chapters are: A call through the
storm; When the commission was born; Where a million men went by; The
incoming legions at Liverpool; Here and there in Britain; The
bluejackets of Cardiff and Plymouth; With the army to Archangel; The
unbreakable link with “home.”
* * * * *
“Even now, books of the war continue to be written, and Mr Fife’s is
among the distinctly lesser lights of the contest. He writes in a
business-like but boresome monotone.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 260w
“The opening story of the book is a story of heroism almost
unbelievable, yet intense in its realism, pathos and altruism. Great
as is the Otranto story, it but serves to fix the attention on what is
to come and so onward to the ‘valedictory’ is read a succession of
just such tales.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 D 8 ’20 540w
+ =N Y Times= p13 Ja 30 ’21 700w
+ =R of Rs= 53:223 F ’21 120w
=FILENE, CATHERINE=, ed. Careers for women. *$4 Houghton 396.5
20–21359
The object of the book is to give vocational information to high
school and college women, to supplement the work of vocational
advisors in schools, and to help decrease the number of “square pegs
for round holes.” It is composed of articles written expressly for the
book by a number of specially qualified contributors and its compiler,
Miss Filene, is the director of the Intercollegiate vocational
guidance association. The vocations considered are grouped under the
headings: Accounting; Advertising; Agriculture, etc.; Architecture;
Arts and crafts; Business; Dramatics; Education; Finance; Government
service; Health services; Home economics services; Industrial work;
Institutional work; Insurance; Law; Library work; Literary work;
Motion-picture work; Museum work; Music; Newspaper work; Personnel
work; Physical education; Politics; Religious work; Scientific work;
Secretarial work; Social work; Specialists; Statistical work;
Vocational training. Suggested readings accompany most of the chapters
and there is an index.
* * * * *
“By far the most practical and complete book in its field. Will be
useful in any library.”
+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21
“It should be of great value to high-school and college students and
the new graduate. The suggestions are, on the whole, sound.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 220w
“Differently as the various authors write, there is uniformity in one
respect—in the brisk, snappy, pungent way in which they push their
points at you and make you see the picture.”
+ =N Y Times= p15 D 26 ’20 1750w
“Both for its merit as a model of the way in which occupational
information should be presented, and for what it signifies in the
modern outlook of thoughtful college women and, it may be added, of
college men as well, this book is noteworthy. The publishers deserve
mention for the most attractively printed book in the field of
vocational guidance.” Meyer Bloomfield
+ =Survey= 45:674 F 5 ’21 490w
=FILLMORE, PARKER HOYSTED.= Shoemaker’s apron. il *$2.50 (5½c) Harcourt
20–17679
This is the author’s second book of Czechoslovak fairy tales and folk
tales with illustrations and decorations by Jan Matulka. It is a
companion volume to the earlier collection and contains besides the
fairy tales five nursery tales and a group of devil tales. They are
not so much translations as a retelling of other versions to suit the
English-speaking child. The fairy tales are: The twelve months;
Zlatovlaska the golden-haired; The shepherd’s nosegay; Vitazko the
victorious. The shoemaker’s apron is one of the devil tales.
* * * * *
“An interesting collection of twenty stories drawn from original
sources and retold with simple charm.”
+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:261 N ’20 90w
+ =Freeman= 2:190 N 3 ’20 150w
=FINCH, WILLIAM COLES-, and HAWKS, ELLISON.= Water in nature, il *$2.50
Stokes 551
(Eng ed 20–1223)
“W. Coles Finch and Ellison Hawks, two English scientists, have
contributed to the Romance of reality series a volume entitled ‘Water
in nature.’ In it they deal scientifically, and at the same time
entertainingly, with practically all of water’s manifestations in the
natural world, including its relations to cloud, atmosphere, ocean,
rain, hail, snow, ice, glaciers, springs, rivers, lake, waterfalls,
mountains, caves, rocks, reefs, and corals.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Ja ’19 40w
+ =N Y Times= 25:55 F 1 ’20 70w
“Any one who is interested in natural phenomena will find fascinating
reading in this résumé of popular science.”
+ =Outlook= 123:243 O 29 ’19 50w
=FINDLAY, HUGH=, ed. Handbook for practical farmers. il *$5 Appleton 630
20–16999
A comprehensive handbook “dealing with the more important aspects of
farming in the United States.” (Sub-title) Special chapters have been
contributed by practical experts in different parts of the United
States. Subjects covered include the various farm and garden crops,
farm animals, the care of milk and the curing of meat on the farm,
farm buildings, running water, the use of explosives, the care of
tools, fence posts, roads, the farm loan system, farm records, pets,
weeds, etc. There are 258 illustrations and an index. The editor is
lecturer on horticulture in Columbia university.
=FINDLAY, JOSEPH JOHN.= Introduction to sociology, for social workers
and general readers. (Publications of the University of Manchester) il
*$2 Longmans 301
20–14079
“The central theme of sociology, as conceived by Professor Findlay and
lucidly expounded in this excellent introduction to a comparatively
new, extremely comprehensive, but somewhat elusive science, is ‘the
definition of social groups, their classification and their relations
to each other.’ The treatment is systematic, though some problems of
considerable importance, such as the institution of land tenure, have
had to be omitted. The first five chapters are devoted to principles.
The second part relates to types of social grouping, such as family,
state, religion, and occupation. In the third part, which is concerned
with organization, the positions of the leader, the official, and the
representative, are discussed: and there is an analysis of the
instinct of loyalty.”—Ath
* * * * *
“A valuable part of his book is the admirable list of references to
contemporary and other authorities.”
+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 190w
“The author, while primarily an educational administrator and not a
professional sociologist, nevertheless has attained a definite grasp
of certain fundamental principles in the science of society. His book
is a very thoughtful piece of work, but the reviewer confesses to
losing his way frequently in the course of the argument.” A. J. Todd
+ − =Survey= 45:22 O 2 ’20 600w
=FINNEY, ROSS LEE, and SCHAFER, ALFRED L.= Administration of village and
consolidated schools. *$1.60 Macmillan 371
20–4558
“This book has been written especially to meet the needs of principals
of small schools and to serve as a textbook in those institutions
where young men and women are in training for the administration of
village schools. Its five parts discuss, respectively, Governmental
administration, The principal’s personal-official relations, Adapting
the school to the needs of the child, The business side, and
Miscellaneous.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“It gives valuable and practical charts and tables and is fraught with
helpful suggestions. It will be very useful to those who know how to
discriminate and are not too slavishly bound to the letter.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 220w
“The book is written in a style that ought to appeal to teachers and
school officers who have not enjoyed the opportunities of an elaborate
training.”
+ =El School J= 20:711 My ’20 550w
+ =School R= 28:554 S ’20 140w
=FIRKINS, OSCAR W.= Jane Austen. *$1.75 (3c) Holt 823
20–4130
A critical and biographical study of Jane Austen, falling into three
parts: The novelist; The realist; The woman. Part 1 is a searching and
unsparing analysis of the six novels, with particular reference to
plot. Part 2 is a more brief and general treatment of the characters.
Part 3, the biographical section, is a study of Miss Austen’s
personality as revealed in her letters and reflected in the novels.
Notes and an index come at the end and the whole is prefaced by
verses, “To Jane Austen,” from the author’s pen, reprinted from the
Atlantic Monthly.
* * * * *
“He is often clever and always readable.”
+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20
=Cleveland= p84 O ’20 30w
“The advantage of this microscopic, literal measurement is that it
prepares the way for an exact delineation of Jane Austen’s production
and character. If the final picture lacks an inconsequent sureness, it
is full of fine perspectives and fresh values.” C. M. Rourke
+ =Freeman= 1:549 Ag 18 ’20 760w
“He paints a sort of cubist portrait of Jane Austen, which would pass
unrecognized were it not labeled with her name. He has succeeded in
imagining a Miss Austen who is ‘one vile antithesis’. In ‘creative
criticism’ does the critic create the author in his own image?” H. E.
Woodbridge
− =Nation= 110:sup485 Ap 10 ’20 700w
“A book both new and worth reading. He has looked at Miss Austen more
through his own eyes, and less through the eyes of her many
illustrious eulogists, than any other writer I know of. Even when he
is in harmony with the opinions of Miss Austen’s posterity one feels
his first-handedness. Not one of his more heretical opinions exists
for the sake of saying something new.”
+ − =New Repub= 22:318 My 5 ’20 1100w
“Although his book is written in so flowing and altogether charming a
style that it is a pleasure to read it, I could not help wondering why
he thought it worth doing at all. Certainly, no one that reads it will
be tempted to fly to Jane Austen. Quite the contrary!” Gertrude
Atherton
+ − =N Y Times= 25:219 My 2 ’20 2950w
“Minute analysis of individual characters, their consistency and
temperaments, is carried a little too far for any but the devoted
admirers who have every one of Miss Austen’s novels firmly in
remembrance.”
+ − =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 40w
=FISCHER, HERBERT ALBERT LAURENS.= Studies in history and politics.
*$5.65 Oxford 904
20–11671
“When the Right Honorable Herbert Fisher took up the onerous duties of
a Minister of the crown on the British Educational board ... the heavy
labors in the service of the English youth left him little time for
writing and research. The studies collected in his latest volume are,
therefore, not new, but are reprints of various magazine articles
written, for the most part, between five and ten years ago, though
here and there retouched and supplemented. Three of the eleven essays
deal with French politics; three with the history of history; two with
Napoleon; one with British imperial administration; one with the value
of small states; and one with the resurgence of Prussia.”—Nation
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p510 Ap 16 ’20 1350w
“The studies are all amply worth reading.” Preserved Smith
+ =Nation= 111:133 Jl 31 ’20 980w
“Interesting and thoughtful essays.”
+ =Spec= 124:87 Jl 17 ’20 200w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 620w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p231 Ap 15 ’20)
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 60w
“Mr Fisher’s essays will interest everybody who cares either for
history or for politics, and, most of all, those who care for both.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p231 Ap 15 ’20 2650w
=FISHER, IRVING.= Stabilizing the dollar. *$3.50 Macmillan 338.5
20–674
“[In this book] first there is a twenty-five page summary. Then there
is the main body of the text, 125 pages, in which the same arguments
that appear in the summary are amplified. Finally there is an appendix
of 171 pages in which practically the same points are gone over again,
only this time with a strong emphasis upon ‘technical details.’ Thus
we have a boiled down encyclopedia addressed to three separate levels
of attention, or perhaps of intellect, all within the modest confines
of one small volume. Professor Fisher believes that the high cost of
living is caused by a shrunken dollar, just as the low cost of living
from 1873 to 1896 followed an enlarged dollar. The purchasing power of
the dollar is at all times, so he easily proves, uncertain and
variable. His remedy is to make the dollar more or less valuable,
according as prices are rising or falling by adding or substracting
from its weight in gold.”—Unpartizan Review
* * * * *
“The close association between economic and political problems at the
present day warrants for this book the attention of political
scientists.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:322 My ’20 80w
“This book is well arranged for summary or detailed reading.”
+ =Booklist= 16:189 Mr ’20
“Many prominent economists indorse the plan. The question of its
practical application is a distinct and different affair. Be that as
it may, the book is provocative of thought and deserves a wide
reading.” G. M. J.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 5 ’20 550w
“The plan is presented with elaborate simplicity and persuasiveness,
and an exhaustive discussion of technical details, alternative plans,
and precedents.”
+ =Dial= 68:404 Mr ’20 80w
=Lit D= 64:119 Mr 13 ’20 950w
Reviewed by C. C. Plehn
=Nation= 110:769 Je 5 ’20 2150w
“It is a duty to direct attention to Professor Fisher’s plan, and it
is agreeable to add that he makes its study easy.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:245 My 9 ’20 900w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 120w
“For the advanced student of currency and price movements the six
appendices will prove of special interest.” E. R. Burton
+ |=Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 420w |=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p369
Je 10 ’20 120w
“In ‘Stabilizing the dollar’ we have not necessarily the final word,
but the most complete exposition as yet of a great, fundamental reform
whose inevitableness the reviewer cannot doubt.” A. W. Atwood
+ − =Unpartizan R= 13:413 Mr ’20 1850w
=FISHER, JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER, 1st baron.= Memories and records. 2v il
*$8 (6½c) Doran
20–5756
Lord Fisher devotes the first of these volumes to Memories, reserving
such biographical details as he chooses to give for the volume of
Records. Of the work as a whole, he says, it is “not an autobiography
but a collection of memories of a life-long war against limpets,
parasites, sycophants and jellyfish.” Aside from its pungent style,
the book is of interest for its memories of King Edward, whom the
author loved, for his estimates of Lord Nelson, whom he worshipped,
and for his outspoken criticisms of Great Britain’s war policy. There
are a number of illustrations and each of the volumes has its index.
The appendixes to volume 2 give a summary of Lord Fisher’s great naval
reforms, by W. T. Stead, and a synopsis of his career.
* * * * *
“This remarkable book is full of good things. The rush of the author’s
forcible prose recalls the headlong progress of a motorcycle emitting
explosive noises.”
+ =Ath= p1170 N 7 ’19 280w
“We get an impression of more than force; we feel that we are dealing
with a perfectly honest man who has an unfailing eye for humbug.”
+ =Ath= p1225 N 21 ’19 900w
=Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 40w
=Booklist= 16:261 My ’20
“It is a rambling autobiography without form or plan, frank to the
verge of indiscretion or beyond, crammed with the enthusiasm and
energy of youth (he was born in 1851 but was of the tribe of Peter
Pan), exuberant beyond the bounds of the English language, and
altogether delightful and incredible.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 250w
“Many delightful anecdotes testify to the more irresistible side of
Lord Fisher’s personality, and his staunch praise of his friends, his
inimitable descriptions of many sea captains, and his warm
appreciation of the British merchant navy also show fine traits of
discernment and character.” B. U. Burke
+ =Nation= 110:204 F 14 ’20 1350w
“His directness and brevity never fail him, every paragraph is charged
with interest, and the reader’s mind easily gathers up and puts in
place the material. The originalities in printing are devices of this
fertile inventor to make truths go home and lodge.” D. S. M.
+ =New Repub= 23:285 Ag 4 ’20 1600w
“There is no connected narrative or any orderly sequence of events;
and yet it is continuously interesting, often amusing, and sometimes
exciting in a supreme degree. The language is occasionally deplorable,
from the standpoint of most drawing rooms and all grammar schools; and
yet there are passages of rare and original beauty from even a
rhetorical point of view. One feels in the presence of a psychic
force.” B. A. Fiske
+ − =N Y Times= 25:179 Ap 18 ’20 2750w
“A peculiar book, this—gossipy, and good, nervous comment, with
technical explanation shoved in like coal into a furnace. Navy men
will enjoy it, but so will the man on the street.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 170w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 97:1294 Ap 17 ’20 200w
“Admiral Fisher’s gift for comradeship makes him an admirable
portraitist. There is no dull moment in the two volumes.”
+ =Review= 2:654 Je 23 ’20 1200w
“Sturdy fighter as he is, he hits no foul blow. He is not sparing of
his epithets on his opponents en masse ... but of no individual living
man or woman does he speak otherwise than in terms of kindliness and
honour. If his blame is hearty, so is his praise; and while his blame
is anonymous, his praise is defined. He who has applauded others so
lavishly and willingly may perhaps be excused when he exhibits
considerable affection for his own good deeds also.”
+ =Spec= 123:617 N 8 ’19 1300w
=Spec= 123:899 D 27 ’19 100w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 22 ’19 500w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p579 O 23 ’19)
“The books are a vivid photograph of picturesque and historic
personality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 1650w
“Inaccuracy is the inevitable result of hasty talk. Those of us who
are not over and above solemn, and who are quite prepared to give Lord
Fisher all the licence of, say, Admiral Coffin, whose free talk once
amused the House of commons, often at his own expense, may still
regret that he does not endeavour to deserve a share of ‘the heavenly
gift of proportion and perspective’ which he admired in King Edward.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p579 O 23 ’19 1050w
“There are some things in these memories and records which few
critics, now or hereafter, will commend except in so far as they
exhibit some of the less attractive features of Lord Fisher’s
personality with a candour which goes far to redeem them from censure.
But these are really superficial traits.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p759 D 18 ’19 2050w
+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 890w
=FISKE, BRADLEY ALLEN.= Art of fighting; its evolution and progress. il
*$3 (2c) Century 355
20–7785
Paying a passing tribute to the universal desire for peace, the author
says: “Until it is certain that war has actually been banished from
the earth, armies and navies must be maintained. In order to give
their country the protection needed, each army and navy must be
correctly designed, prepared, and operated. To know whether this is
being done, the people need a general knowledge of the principles of
the art of fighting, especially of strategy. To impart this knowledge
in simple language is the object of this book.” (Preface) The book is
in three parts: Fighting and war in general; Historical illustrations;
Strategy. This third section is composed of three chapters: Strategy
in peace; Strategy in war; and Strategy as related to statesmanship.
There is no index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
“It may be objected to this book, particularly by the pacifist mind,
that it lacks a true perspective, a proper sense of proportion, an
adequate conception of relative values. But the ready answer is that
it is the book of an inventor, a specialist, an enthusiast. Admiral
Fiske has made a notable contribution, worthy of the most careful
study.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:251 My 16 ’20 1650w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 130w
+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 330w
=FISKE, CHARLES.= Perils of respectability, and other studies in
Christian life and service for reconstruction days. *$1.50 Revell 252
20–2430
“The subjects [of the fourteen sermons] are striking without being
sensational. Among them are ‘Alone in the wilderness,’ ‘The peril of
an empty soul,’ ‘The manliness of Christ,’ and ‘The gospel for an age
of luxury.’ The author has found his way into the heart of things and
speaks out of a deep experience. He understands the meaning of
Christianity in all its phases, individual, social and
corporate.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Bishop Fiske is a plain and convincing preacher: these are sermons
worth reading as well as hearing. We miss the personality of the
preacher but that is inevitable in the case of printed discourses.”
+ =Bib World= 54:433 Jl ’20 180w
“No man, minister or layman, can read them without becoming
strengthened.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 150w
=FITCH, ALBERT PARKER.=[2] Can the church survive in the changing order?
*80c Macmillan 230
20–3581
“Prof. Fitch likens the present day to other great periods of
transition; the time of Jesus’s advent, of the Mohammedan invasion, of
Luther’s protest. The church today stands for the old order. It has
attempted to keep abreast of the times merely by tacking new social
programs on to an outworn philosophy. This method is doomed to failure
from the beginning. If the church is to survive it must mold
progressively its fundamental conceptions. And its most fundamental
conception, its attitude to the Jesus of history, must be based on an
appreciation of his moral grandeur. A quickened conscience, resulting
from a clearer apprehension of the moral value of Jesus’s teaching, is
far more important for the church than any new Christological
formulation. This moral awakening will itself have religious content
in its devotion to eternal and transcendent values.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
“We looked to the last sections of the book for something to guide and
inspire the church so unsparingly criticized. There is no program
offered. This is a fatal weakness. What is needed now is not a
negative criticism but a constructive program.”
− =Bib World= 54:645 N ’20 210w
“Anything from the pen of Dr Albert Parker Fitch is certain to be
clear, colorful and aggressive. His latest little book is no
exception.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 5 ’20 330w
=FITCH, ALBERT PARKER.=[2] Preaching and paganism. *$2 Yale univ. press
204
20–19512
“The Amherst professor describes the permanent element in religion—the
sense of God—in contrast with two forces that are in control of our
present day thinking and acting, humanism and naturalism. He shows how
these alien factors have entered and subtly taken possession of
worship and even preaching, and he pleads for the religious view
which, while acknowledging God in nature and in man, refuses to set up
either man or nature as its norm and guide.” (N Y Evening Post) “The
book is the forty-sixth of the series of the Lyman Beecher lectureship
on preaching in Yale university and is the fourth work published on
the James Wesley Cooper memorial publication fund.” (Boston
Transcript)
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p8 D 4 ’20 330w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 180w
“Prof. Fitch may not altogether give the philosophical background to
the desired restatement of transcendence, but he at least gives
evidence of earnest and well-pondered affirmation. The book is meant
both to instruct young clergymen and to inspire them, and it should
succeed in its double object.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 14 ’21 330w
=FITZGERALD, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.= Flappers and philosophers. *$1.75
Scribner
20–26757
A book of short stories by the author of “This side of paradise.”
Contents: The offshore pirate; The ice palace; Head and shoulders; The
cut-glass bowl; Bernice bobs her hair; Benediction; Dalyrimple goes
wrong; The four fists.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
“The author proves himself a master of the mechanism of short-story
technique, a neat hand with dialogue, and exactly as bungling with
character work as one would expect from an author as young as the
cynicism of his endings proclaims this author to be. For he cannot let
well enough alone.... In fact that is the chief trouble with all Mr
Fitzgerald’s tales. They are too consciously clever.” I. W. L.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 250w
“Here are to be found originality and variety, with imaginativeness of
the exceptional order that needs not to seek remote, untrodden paths,
but plays upon scenes and people within the radius of ordinary life.”
+ =Cath World= 112:268 N ’20 130w
“The substance of the eight stories in his volume is in harmony with
his new manner. They have a rather ghastly rattle of movement that
apes energy and a hectic straining after emotion that apes intensity.
The surface is unnaturally taut; the substance beneath is slack and
withered as by a premature old age. In ‘This side of paradise’ there
was both gold and dross. Instead of wringing his art, in Mr
Hergesheimer’s fine expression, free of all dross, Mr Fitzgerald
proceeded to cultivate it and to sell it to the Saturday Evening Post.
Why write good books? You have to sell something like five thousand
copies to earn the price of one story.”
− =Nation= 111:330 S 18 ’20 380w
“Not the most superficial reader can fail to recognize Mr Fitzgerald’s
talent and genius.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 530w
“‘Head and shoulders’ has a twist at the end that is truly O.
Henryish. So does ‘Bernice bobs her hair.’ We pick these two as the
best.”
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 60w
Reviewed by Sibyl Vane
+ =Pub W= 98:661 S 18 ’20 280w
=FITZGERALD, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.= This side of paradise. *$1.75 Scribner
20–6430
“It isn’t a story in the regular sense: There’s no beginning, except
the beginning of Amory Blaine, born healthy, wealthy and
extraordinarily good-looking, and by way of being spoiled by a
restless mother whom he quaintly calls by her first name, Beatrice.
There’s no middle to the story, except the eager fumbling at life of
this same handsome boy, proud, cleanminded, born to conquer yet
fumbling, at college and in love with Isabelle, then Clara, then
Rosalind, then Eleanor. No end to the story except the closing picture
of this same boy in his early twenties, a bit less confident about
life, with ‘no God in his heart ... his ideas still in riot ... with
the pain of memory ... he could not tell why the struggle was worth
while,’ and yet ‘determined to use to the utmost himself and his
heritage from the personality he had passed.’”—Pub W
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
“In all its affectations, its cleverness, its occasional beauty, even
its sometimes intentioned vulgarity and ensuing timidity, it so unites
with the matter as to make the book a convincing chronicle of youth by
youth.” M. E. Bailey
+ − =Bookm= 51:471 Je ’20 950w
“It is merely his way of doing things that makes his story different
from multitudes of its kind. To say that in ‘This side of paradise’ Mr
Fitzgerald has written a novel that will cause us to use a modern and
expressive phrase, to sit up and take notice, is a mild expression of
the feeling he arouses in us. He is a story teller with a courage of
his own. Many will not like his novel, some will abhor it, but none
can question the fact that he is a novelist with a message if not with
a mission.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 2000w
“Part of the story is thoroly amusing; part of it goes deep into the
serious thoughts and desires and ambitions of its hero-author; in the
last third he dives so deep that he gets well over his head.”
+ − =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 280w
“Mr Fitzgerald is on the path of those who strive. His gifts have an
unmistakable amplitude and much in his book is brave and beautiful.”
+ − =Nation= 110:558 Ap 24 ’20 500w
“An astonishing and refreshing book. The book is fundamentally honest
and if the intellectual and spiritual analyses are, sometimes tortuous
and the nomenclature bewildering to those not intimate with collegiate
invention, it is nevertheless delightful and encouraging to find a
novel which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a
reflection of American undergraduate life.” R. V. A. S.
+ − =New Repub= 22:362 My 12 ’20 400w
“The whole story is disconnected, more or less, but loses none of its
charm on that account. It could have been written only by an artist
who knows how to balance his values, plus a delightful literary
style.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 500w
“There are, as I see it, two secrets to the all-round satisfactoriness
of Mr Fitzgerald’s book; he can write—that simply sticks out all over
the book; and he has the rather rare good sense of ‘crowding his work
instead of spreading it thin.’” R. S. L.
+ =Pub W= 97:1289 Ap 17 ’20 460w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 320w
“The story’s construction occasionally gives an impression of
jerkiness; but the author’s obvious familiarity with his ground and
his uncanny ability to see life through the eyes of his characters
reduces this defect almost to the vanishing point.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 500w
=FLEMING, WILLIAM HENRY.= Treaty-making power; Slavery and the race
problem in the South. $1.50 Stratford co. 341.2
20–12527
The book contains two speeches by the author as a member of Congress
from the tenth Georgia district. The practical issue underlying the
speech of the Treaty-making power was given by the crisis threatening
legislation in California to discriminate against Japanese children in
the public schools. The second speech, Slavery and the race problem in
the South, is a courageous plea for justice on behalf of the negro.
=FLETCHER, CHARLES BRUNSDON.= Stevenson’s Germany. *$3.50 Scribner 996
(Eng ed 20–9232)
“This book, which groups about Stevenson’s ‘Footnote to history’
evidence of German misbehaviour in the Pacific, and particularly in
Samoa, is, we are informed by the preface, the conclusion of an
‘argument against Germany, begun in “The new Pacific,” and continued
through “The problem of the Pacific”’; it is essentially an attempt to
show that Germany is unfit to govern in the islands of the South sea,
and a plea that in no circumstances whatever should she be allowed to
regain an inch of those profitable lands.”—Ath
* * * * *
“The present volume has little to commend it. The organization is very
faulty, the materials used are slight and even they have not been
presented as well as they deserved, and there are certain obvious
errors.” P. J. T.
− =Am Hist R= 26:373 Ja ’21 320w
“There may be good and just reasons for excluding Germany from the
Pacific, but they do not appear conclusively in this book. What
appears too clearly is the desire to profit to the utmost by her
downfall.” F. W. S.
− =Ath= p735 Je 4 ’20 550w
=Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 90w
“Well written and well-documented book.”
+ =Sat R= 129:476 My 22 ’20 700w
“The difficulty in being satisfied with Mr Fletcher’s case is not,
however, that it is unfairly put or in any way exaggerated. On the
contrary, it has been carefully prepared, and the evidence put forward
is trustworthy. The trouble is that, from circumstances over which the
Germans had no control, it is all pre-war evidence and must be judged
by pre-war standards.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p362 Je 10 ’20 670w
=FLETCHER, CHARLES ROBERT LESLIE.= Historical portraits, 1700–1850; with
an introd. by C. F. Bell. il 2v ea *$5.65 Oxford 757
(9–24668)
“The Clarendon press has published, after a long interval, the third
volume of Messrs Fletcher and Walker’s collection of historical
portraits. It contains a hundred and fourteen portraits, selected by
Mr Walker, of men and women of eighteenth-century Britain, with short
and racy memoirs by Mr Fletcher. The portrait gallery includes the
famous admirals; generals like Wolfe, Cumberland, Wade, and Ligonier;
Wesley, Berkeley, and other great divines; men of letters, lawyers,
men of science like Newton and Halley, Dodsley the publisher,
Arkwright, Wedgwood, and Brindley, the maker of canals, whose talents
would have rusted in obscurity had he not been employed by the Duke of
Bridgewater.” (Spec) The previous volumes appeared in 1909 and 1912.
* * * * *
“It is fair to say that the collaborators of this volume are to be
congratulated in general on their selection. Yet the principle on
which they worked remains a mystery. One needs only to consider the
biographies which have accompanied the portraits of other such
collections to perceive that Mr Fletcher is as much a genius in his
way as Mr Walker is in his; and that between them they have produced
an extraordinarily entertaining and instructive book.” W. C. Abbott
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:489 Ap ’20 600w
+ =Ath= p640 Jl 18 ’19 90w
“Mr Fletcher’s potted ‘lives’ are excellent: they are a pattern of
what such brief biographies should be. Scholarly, of course,
informative and readable, they are completely at ease in their
handling of men in every walk of life. The book has its limitations.”
M. H. Spielmann
+ − =Ath= p746 Ag 15 ’19 1800w
=Brooklyn= 12:40 N ’19 30w
“The value of this publication is so great for educational purposes
that one hesitates before offering any criticism. Mr Fletcher’s
biographical notices are in their turn models of conciseness and
economy of space, and give just the information which should excite
the student to a better acquaintance with each subject in turn. These
notices, however, convey some idea that they have been written
entirely apart from the portraits themselves.” Lionel Cust
+ − =Eng Hist R= 34:607 O ’19 670w
“We have seen better photographic reproductions. But the volume is
none the less of the greatest interest and value.”
+ =Spec= 122:86 Jl 19 ’19 1650w
“His biographies bring under fire virtually the whole of English
history between 1700 and 1850, and few of them are not lit with new
interest. We can imagine that in questions of aesthetic criticism his
personal view will not be unchallenged.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p399 Jl 24 ’19 1950w
=FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH.= Dead men’s money (Eng title, Droonin’ watter).
(Borzoi mystery stories) *$2 (2½c) Knopf
20–19048
This story is told by Hugh Moneylaws, a young law student in
Berwick-upon-Tweed. While going on an errand which kept him out very
late one night, Hugh comes upon a dead man lying in the woods. In the
investigation that follows, Hugh conceals one piece of information, a
bit of caution he has reason to regret later. He does not mention
publicly having seen Sir Gilbert Carstairs, 7th baronet of
Hathercleugh House, at the scene of the murder. When the one person
with whom he shares this knowledge meets a violent death, he begins to
realize the seriousness of it, and when Sir Gilbert makes a dastardly
but unsuccessful attempt to put Hugh himself out of the way, he is
convinced of Sir Gilbert’s guilt, and his disappearance makes
assurance doubly sure. The remainder of the story tells of the efforts
to locate him, and the facts that come to the light about him in the
search. On several occasions Hugh’s life hangs by a hair, but he
eventually comes out of it with only a crippled knee, and nothing more
to fear from “Sir Gilbert,” who has met his punishment at the hands of
another enemy.
* * * * *
“Take one typewriterful of Stevenson, add several murders for luck and
one mystery that isn’t mysterious, mix well with a sensational jacket
and an afterthought of a plot and the answer is ‘Dead men’s money.’”
− =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 160w
“The author’s grasp on the various threads of his story is always
firm, and he brings them all together at the end, leaving them tied up
in a neat bow, with no loose ends, with a skill that compels deep
admiration of his craftsmanship.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 N 7 ’20 320w
+ − =Sat R= 127:427 My 3 ’19 190w
“Mr Fletcher is one of the most skilful writers of this type of
fiction. The narrative abounds in thrills and tense situations and
will be highly diverting to devotees of this school of fiction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 190w
=FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH.= Paradise mystery. (Borzoi mystery stories)
*$1.90 (2c) Knopf
20–8629
A stranger in the town of Wrychester is killed by a fall from the
upper gallery of the cathedral. But this fact naturally is not so
simple as stated, and leads to the question, was the fall suicide,
accident or murder, and if murder, who was the murderer, and what was
the motive. In the answering of these questions many people are
involved: Dr Ransford, whom the dead man had been asking for; Dr
Bryce, his assistant, who had been forcing unwelcome attentions upon
Ransford’s ward, Mary Bewery; Collishaw, the laborer, who later met
his death because he knew too much; Simpson Harker, an ex-detective;
Stephen Folliot, whose step-son is also a suitor for Mary Bewery’s
hand. These, and others, are all bound up in a network of mystery
which is not unraveled until the surprising denouement of the story.
* * * * *
“A good English mystery story.”
+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
“Besides the mystery there is a tender little love story and several
interesting characters.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w
=Lit D= p100 O 23 ’20 1350w
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 11 ’20 390w
“The excellent reputation earned by J. S. Fletcher as a teller of
engaging mystery tales is preserved in his latest story, ‘The Paradise
mystery.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 240w
=FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH.= Talleyrand maxim. il *$1.75 (2c) Knopf
20–627
Linford Pratt, a young lawyer, is inspired by Talleyrand’s maxim:
“With time and patience the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.” He
knew that wit and skill were his, and that time and patience, coupled
with opportunity, would bring him the fortune he craved. He was not
over nice about the opportunity. It came to him in the shape of a will
whose existence no one suspected. It was to have been the first rung
of the ladder by which he was to rise. Complications set in in the
shape of an unknown witness of his theft, and wits as sharp as his. He
must rid himself of the first by murder; he must extricate himself
from the latter by blackmail, by fraud and intrigue and still another
murder. But the net closes in about him till a bullet from his own
weapon is his only means of escape. Side by side with this tale of
horror goes a perfectly good romance between a good young man and a
virtuous young woman.
* * * * *
“A very ingenious and well told mystery story.”
+ =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20
“In the invention and use of the complications, little and big, with
which the author weaves and embroiders his plot, advances and delays
its movement, and intrigues the reader’s attention, Mr Fletcher works
with ingenuity, resource and skill. And he writes with a freshness of
touch and an individual quality of style not always possessed by
writers of detective fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:38 Ja 25 ’20 600w
“The story is written with the easy facility of a practised hand, and,
if we once accept without demur certain conventional improbabilities,
it shows plenty of movement.”
+ − =Sat R= 127:606 Je 21 ’19 200w
=Spec= 123:89 Jl 19 ’19 30w
“Mr Fletcher shows much inventive skill, and is resourceful in
advancing and delaying the movement of the plot, and in handling the
maze of complications which arise. He employs a fresh touch that gives
a new zest to the much over-worked detective-story type of light
fiction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 340w
=FLEURY, MAURICE=, comte. Memoirs of the Empress Eugénie. 2v il *$7.50
Appleton 996
20–14392
“The publishers have had the manuscript for the last ten years, but
because of the personal revelations contained in the book, Eugénie
requested that it be withheld from the public until her death. It is
written by Comte Fleury, who was for more than twenty years an
intimate member of the empress’s entourage.” (Springf’d Republican)
The memoirs end with the peace negotiations of 1870 and do not touch
on the empress’s later years. There is no index.
* * * * *
“The memoirs contain no surprises. There is nothing in them that will
compel any very considerable re-writing of the history of the second
empire. Probably the most distinctive feature is the portrait they
draw of the empress. It is, I think, much too favorable, inaccurate
because incomplete. But it is done with sincerity, modesty, and good
taste. It is a revelation of the empress as she would like to be
seen.” F. M. Anderson
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:360 Ja ’21 320w
“A misleading title, for there is proportionately little from the pen
of the empress herself and her personality is often lost in the flood
of details of diplomacy and court life, but the author has been able
to add some fresh information to the history of the second empire.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21
“He who hopes to find romance in the two volumes of the ‘Memoirs of
the Empress Eugénie’ will be disappointed. What are we to say of a
writer who omits both the drama of her rise and the pathos of her
closing years, who robs the history of all its picturesque character
and concentrates his attention upon her official routine? What are we
to say of him? We are to say, of course, that he is an ‘official’
biographer and that, as such, is so anxious to present nothing which
will detract from an impression of perfect propriety and dull royal
respectability, that he has deprived her of all character.” J. W.
Krutch
− =Bookm= 52:78 S ’20 600w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 2 ’20 1050w
=Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 190w
“The most valuable and important things are the reports of intimate
conversations and sayings of the Emperor and Empress and others, which
picture forth their characters and, without description or character
analysis, place them in a different light than they have been placed
by other memoir writers and historians.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Jl 25 ’20 4650w
“Being a great admirer of Napoleon and Eugénie, Comte Fleury naturally
gives a picture which is highly favorable to them. But he has also
attempted to take into consideration the work which has been done by
historical scholars on this period. The point at which the reader must
be on his guard is in accepting without question Napoleon’s views as
given in the conversations which the author quotes.” S. B. Fay
+ − =Review= 3:421 N 3 ’20 400w
=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 200w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 24 ’20 180w
“Memoirs are often disappointments, either containing nothing worth
saying, or running to the Margot Asquith type. These memoirs have
something to say, and it was not, in the saying, found necessary to
surround them with bits of scandal or incidents better left untold.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 27 ’21 620w
“Comte Fleury had access to large quantities of letters and papers.
They are thrown into the book pell-mell, with only the loosest
arrangement; the source, and therefore the value, of many of them is
left uncertain; it is not always easy to see in a particular place
whose narrative is being read. None the less they make an interesting
assortment, though nothing is brought to light in them to modify the
judgment which reasonable people have for some time been accustomed to
pass on the empire.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 O 7 ’20 1950w
=FLEXNER, HORTENSE.= Clouds and cobblestones. *$1.50 Houghton 811
20–19673
As the title indicates this collection of poems includes in its
subjects everything contained in life between the clouds and the
cobblestones: wide sympathies and interests and knowledge of men and
their ways. The author employs both rhyme and meter and free verse.
Among the titles are: If God had known; Children’s ward; Hunger;
Masks; Longing; A sky-scraper; To a grasshopper; All souls’ night,
1917; Mammon redeemed; The sons of Icarus; Folk-dance class;
Munitions; To Peter Pan; Blown leaves; A child; The masseuse.
* * * * *
“There is not a single poem in this collection that is not purely
creative by reason of its presentation of a fresh, vivid idea,
emotionalized and expressed poetically.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 13 ’20 1200w
“Quite possibly there is nothing in these pages that will long endure,
but the verses touch human values with sincerity and poetic feeling.”
L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:430 Ja 12 ’21 180w
“She writes with a great deal of technical proficiency; her verse is
simple, direct, and readable. This is at the same time its greatest
virtue and its greatest defect, for having been apprehended easily,
the lines fade from the memory, leaving no trace.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 80w
=FLINT, LEON NELSON.= Editorial: a study in effectiveness of writing.
*$2.50 Appleton 070
20–20034
The author holds that, for all the truth that there may be in the
saying: “the good editor is born not made,” the editor who has not
thought out and applied a technique of his craft is “going it blind.”
The book deals with methods of finding, gathering and handling
editorial materials and with notions as to editorial responsibilities
and opportunities. Contents: Development of the editorial column;
Weakness and strength of the editorial; The editor and his readers;
Materials for editorials; Editorial purposes; Building the editorial;
The manner of saying it; Paragraphs and paragraphers; Typographical
appearance; The editorial page; Editorial responsibility; The editor’s
routine and reading; Analyzing editorials. The numerous illustrations
consist of copies of specimen editorial pages and there is an index.
=FLYNN, JOHN STEPHEN.=[2] Influence of Puritanism on the political and
religious thought of the English. *$4 Dutton 285.9
20–22021
“A broad survey of the results of the English Puritan movement in both
hemispheres. The author has sought to distinguish the permanent from
the merely transitory elements of Puritanism, and to relate it to the
present age.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“His reading, wide as it is, is in excess of his powers to use it
profitably. He sets out with vague ideas on the varied content of
Puritanism, with the natural result that he leaves us in a state of
vagueness.”
− =Ath= p107 Jl 26 ’20 440w
=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 40w
“We are given an amiable piece of dilettantism, praiseworthy in
object, careless in execution, and distinguished neither by clearness
of intention nor by profundity of thought. We fail to see anything
fresh in Mr Flynn’s book, and the ignorance which it would dispel is
ignorance of the fundamental kind which a knowledge of English history
would make impossible.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p361 Je 10 ’20 880w
=FOCH, FERDINAND.= Precepts and judgments. *$4 Holt 355
(Eng ed 20–6758)
This book, translated from the French by Hilaire Belloc, contains a
sketch of the military career of Marshal Foch by Major A. Grasset. The
Precepts give the marshal’s military teachings in condensed form and
the Judgments contain short opinions on the European wars of the last
century.
* * * * *
“A volume of great interest to the student of war.”
+ =Ath= p61 Ja 9 ’20 50w
Reviewed by J: P. Wisser
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 23 ’20 800w
“The little book will, we think, make its readers anxious to read the
originals from which it is compiled.”
+ =Spec= 123:777 D 6 ’19 140w
=FOCH, FERDINAND.= Principles of war. *$7.50 Holt 355
These pages were written for young officers, says the author in his
preface. “The reader must not look to find in them a complete, a
methodical, still less an academic account of the art of war, but
rather a mere discussion of certain fundamental points in the conduct
of troops, and above all the direction which the mind must be given so
that it may in every circumstance conceive a manœuvre at least
rational.” (Preface) The translation is by Hilaire Belloc and the
contents are: On the teaching of war; Primal characteristics of modern
war; Economy of forces; Intellectual discipline—freedom of action as a
function of obedience; The service of security; The advance guard; The
advance guard at Nachod; Strategical surprise; Strategical security;
The battle: decisive attack; Battle: an historical instance; Modern
battle. There are twenty-three maps and diagrams.
* * * * *
“The entire work is convincing in its reasoning and its deductions,
the language is clear (the translation is remarkably true to the
original and expressed in excellent English), and the maps are
adequate.” J: P. Wisser
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 23 ’20 800w
=FOERSTER, ROBERT FRANZ.= Italian emigration of our times. (Harvard
economic studies) *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 325
20–103
“A most thorough survey of the greatest migratory movement of our
time. The causes of emigration are analyzed by a consideration of
conditions in Italy, and the emigrants are followed into the countries
of their settlement in Europe, Africa, South America and the United
States, the last of which is treated in detail. Their fortunes,
economic and cultural contributions in their new homes are weighed
carefully.—Booklist
* * * * *
“It may be said that Dr Foerster’s work is the most authoritative as
it is the most comprehensive volume dealing with the subject of
Italian immigration yet published in the United States, and is
indispensable to all who care to know intimately its characteristic
features and main purport.” W. E. Davenport
+ =Am Hist R= 25:547 Ap ’20 500w
“The study is in all ways a very acceptable one, and may well serve as
a model for similar studies of other nationalistic groups.” A. E.
Jenks
+ =Am J Soc= 25:783 My ’20 950w
“Especially valuable are the four chapters (97 pages) dealing with the
Italian immigrants in the Argentine and Brazil. But the especial
importance of Professor Foerster’s work is the careful analysis of the
causes of emigration, of the effect of this movement on the Italian
nation, and of its probable future.” Edith Abbott
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:523 Ag ’20 700w
“Very readable.”
+ =Booklist= 16:153 F ’20
“The main text holds its interest for the general reader from
beginning to end, while the footnotes and bibliographical citations
will rejoice the heart of scholars who may wish to follow the argument
to the very source.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ =Review= 3:150 Ag 18 ’20 1550w
+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w
“It is a scholarly and timely book. It is a prophetic book, for it
tells us our faults, fully, faithfully and fearlessly, and points to a
better way. It is a scientific book, for it promotes a better
understanding and, consequently, a better feeling. It is a lonely
book, for no one has ever before done for the Italian or any other
foreign language group what this book does.” F. O. Beck
+ =Survey= 44:312 My 29 ’20 450w
=FOLKS, HOMER.= Human costs of the war. il *$2.25 (2c) Harper 940.318
20–9641
While in charge of the American Red cross relief work in France, the
author was impressed with the infinitesimal fraction of reality which
found its way into print in the American papers. Towards the end of
the war he was requested to make a survey of the needs of southern and
southeastern Europe and to ascertain the net results of the war on
human welfare. The book records his findings. It is not a constructive
program he says, “simply a contribution toward a diagnosis which might
make it possible to outline a well-considered course of treatment.”
“Chapter I tells the origin of the survey ... and gives an account of
the itinerary of the trips. Chapters II to VII, inclusive, deal
respectively with Serbia, Belgium, France, Italy, and Greece. Chapters
VIII to X endeavor to sum up the war’s results in all these countries,
in the three vital aspects of childhood, home, and health. Chapter XI
tries to fit the whole into a picture of war vs. welfare.” (Preface)
There are an appendix and numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
“Although mostly estimates, the data are perhaps as accurate as any we
shall ever get. The survey is somewhat defective, however, because
confined chiefly to the five lands named, and would have been more
valuable had all the belligerent countries been included.” N. L. Sims
+ =Am J Soc= 26:370 N ’20 150w
+ =Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“It scarcely seems too much to say that this is the most human book
that has been written on the effects of the war upon the populations
of the countries that suffered most from the great conflict.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 420w
“His volume is one of the highest import. No more terrible exhibit of
the nature of war has been written, not even by Philip Gibbs,
Barbusse, Latzko, or Duhamel. The sacrifice of human values is
portrayed in a plain, straightforward style, without any effort at a
dramatic effect or an emotional appeal not inherent in the facts
themselves.” D: S. Jordan
+ =Nation= 111:sup410 O 13 ’20 1200w
“Mr Folks speaks in a calm, temperate, judicial tone, piling up his
facts, statistics, descriptions with cool judgment and restrained
temper.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:12 Jl 25 ’20 2000w
“Mr Folks knows how to humanize statistics and make them yield up
their hidden story of misery or hope.”
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 70w
“Dr Folks is well fitted for the task he has undertaken.”
+ =Review= 3:153 Ag 18 ’20 500w
=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“Like Gibbs’ ‘Now it can be told’ and Keynes’s ‘Economic consequences
of the peace,’ this is a book to be owned and read—and like them it is
readable. Mr Folks’ subject is as important as theirs, and his
competence is unquestionable. This is not to say that it is the last
word on the subject. Quite the contrary. One might wish, for instance,
that there were more frequent indications that the Allies have not had
all of the human costs to bear. Another obvious defect is the omission
of maps.” E. T. D.
+ − =Survey= 44:449 Je 26 ’20 800w
=FOOTNER, HULBERT.= Fur bringers. $1.90 McCann
20–8241
“A tale of the Northwest. The trading posts, Indians, half-breeds,
adventurers and beautiful heroines of the ordinary story are here anew
in a plot in which the young trader afflicted with ‘June fever’ is
obliged to take an open stand against the heroine’s father, known to
all but the daughter as a slave-driver and profiteer.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Very well written.”
+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
“The story has plenty of incident, it moves quickly, and is told with
a good deal of spirit.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 450w
=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 30w
=FORBES, GEORGE.= Adventures in southern seas: a tale of the sixteenth
century. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–16854
A romance of the days of discovery based on the voyages of Dirk
Hartog, Dutch navigator. The story is told by Peter Ecoores Van Bu who
sailed on his first voyage with Hartog in 1616. They were bound for
the South seas in search of treasure for the Amsterdam merchants who
were sending them out. But the islands they reach are poor in
treasure, if rich in adventure, and it is only after the lucky
discovery of pearls that Hartog is willing to return. Several other
voyages follow, on which the hero experiences ship wreck, capture by
savages and numerous other adventures. At the end of his second voyage
he marries his Dutch sweetheart and gives up the sea, but following
her death he again listens to its call.
* * * * *
“The very spirit of high adventure—the manifold dangers and hardships
of ancient seekers after treasure—blows through the pages of the
book.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 D 26 ’20 600w
=FORBES, JAMES.= Famous Mrs Fair, and other plays. *$2 Doran 812
20–21209
The other two plays in this collection are: The chorus lady; and The
show shop. Of these plays, Walter Prichard Eaton, in his introduction
to the book, comparing their literary qualities, says, that “The
chorus lady” can least endure the scrutiny print affords although
enormously successful on the stage, while “The show shop” “stands up
four square under the test of print” and is a most pungent and amusing
satire of American stage life. “The famous Mrs Fair” is a more serious
production with reasoned reflections on life and human motives. Its
heroine, the wife of a wealthy business man, has become famous as a
war worker in France. Coming home she is lionized, can no longer
adjust herself to her domesticity and dreams of a career. Not until
the family is nearly disrupted with tragic results does she, in the
nick of time, wake up to her former responsibilities.
* * * * *
“What first strikes the attentive reader of Mr Forbes’s handsome
volume is the poverty of observation. Two of the three plays deal with
the little theatrical world in which he has been busy for twenty
years. Yet he has not seen that world directly at all. The superficial
bits of verisimilitude are pure veneer. Nature is hard to reach even
for those who see her. To Mr Forbes her face, like that of the idol of
Sais, is veiled.” Ludwig Lewisohn
− =Nation= 111:787 D 29 ’20 620w
=FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.= Character-training of children. 2v il per ser
of 7v *$15 Funk 173
19–13817
These books by Dr Forbush, author of “Child study and child training”
and “The boy problem in the home,” are issued in the Literary Digest
parents’ league series. Volume one is devoted to: Problems of
government, with the subject matter divided as follows: Problems to be
solved by means of the child’s own responsiveness; Problems to be
solved largely through suggestion; Problems to be solved largely by
substitution; Problems to be solved largely through cooperation.
Volume 2 continues the discussion along these lines and takes up
Problems of self-government and Problems of living with others. The
series as a whole comprises three other volumes by Dr Forbush and two
by Dr Louis Fisher on the health-care of children which are reprints
of earlier works.
* * * * *
“These volumes, written in the clearest language of technical terms,
well illustrated and interestingly arranged, should be a helpful and
invaluable guide for those who have children to bring up or children’s
problems to consider.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:17 Jl 18 ’20 280w (Review of series)
=FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.= Home-education of children. (Literary Digest
parents’ league ser.) 2v il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 372
19–14028
The first of these two volumes is devoted to the first six years of a
child’s life and consists of two parts: Teaching a baby, and Teaching
a little child. Volume 2 is devoted to: Teaching a school child (from
six to twelve or fourteen); and The teaching of youth (from fourteen
upward). Volume 1 has a list of story-and-picture books to use with
the littlest children, also a list of books to help the mother in
telling stories, and in volume 2 there is a chapter on Books in the
home, with suggestions for reading.
=FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.= Sex-education of children. (Literary Digest
parents’ league ser.) il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 612.6
19–13816
“This book differs from others in the abundant literature that is
being produced upon this topic, chiefly in the fact that it endeavors
to present, with the least possible waste of space, all the material
that parents of a growing family of children of both sexes need for
their use at every stage of other children’s development. The unique
feature, perhaps, is a section devoted to concrete answers to the
embarrassing questions that children are likely to ask.” (Introd.)
Contents: Why we have to do this; How to educate the little child; How
to educate the schoolboy; How to educate the schoolgirl; How to
educate the coming man; How to educate our coming women; List of books
for further reading; Index.
=FORD, HENRY JONES.= Alexander Hamilton. (Figures from American history)
*$2 Scribner
20–7498
“This book is a biography which aims to present the life of Hamilton
as completely as possible from the evidence obtainable. It gives most
attention to his political ideals and career and it also describes his
character and personal life.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“One lays down the book with a clear grasp of Hamilton’s important
contributions to American nationality, and a fair idea of the manner
of man he was. Uniform fairness, fascinating style and illumination of
American political history are the outstanding characteristics of the
book.” M. L. Bonham, jr.
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:718 N ’20 360w
=Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
+ =Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 30w
“A straightforward, unbiased recital. The book is unwarmed by any glow
of imagination, however.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:142 O 20 ’20 230w
“The volume is noteworthy for the temperate and just manner in which
it is written. The author did not approach his task in that spirit of
undue enthusiasm which much study of his subject too frequently
inspires in the writer of biography.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 400w
Reviewed by J: C. Rose
+ =Review= 2:678 Je 30 ’20 1100w
=FORD, LILLIAN CUMMINGS, and FORD, THOMAS FRANCIS.= Foreign trade of the
United States; its character, organization and methods; with an introd.
by W. L. Saunders. *$2.50 Scribner 382
20–11960
“The ground work of the discussion is laid in a chapter on the
‘Nature, purpose and growth of international trade.’ This is followed
by treatment of the subjects of the development of American foreign
commerce; our war trade; our exports and imports; our methods; our
exportation and importation of war materials and foodstuffs; the
transportation problems and methods; insurance; credit; foreign
exchange; balance of trade; our government aid to foreign trade. A
final chapter concerns the foreign trade of other nations.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 60w
=FORKEL, JOHANN NIKOLAUS.= Johann Sebastian Bach; his life, art, and
work. il *$4.50 Harcourt
20–23005
Although Forkel was not the first to assemble the known facts of
Bach’s career he was the first in appreciation of the preeminence of
his genius. His monograph is not a “life” in the biographic sense but
a “critical appreciation of Bach as player, teacher, and composer,
based upon the organ and clavier works, with which alone Forkel was
familiar.” (Introd.) The present volume is a revision of the first
English version published in 1820 and is edited with copious
annotations by Charles Sanford Terry. The appendices occupy nearly
half of the volume and contain: Chronological catalogue of Bach’s
compositions; The church cantatas arranged chronologically; The
Bachgesellschaft editions of Bach’s works; Bibliography of Bach
literature; A collation of the Novello and Peters editions of the
organ works; Genealogy of the family of Bach; Index.
* * * * *
“Forkel’s text takes up only about a quarter of Dr Terry’s book; the
rest is an extremely valuable collection of learned information. It is
a pity that Dr Terry’s mental attitude appears to be—shall I say?—that
of a creeper on a ruin. We badly need in English a book on Bach
somewhat after the lines of the French monographs on composers.” E: J.
Dent
+ − =Ath= p384 S 17 ’20 1500w
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 27 ’20 420w
“Dr Sanford Terry, whose services to church music are too well known
to need commendation, has made a valuable addition to the Bach
literature by his new translation of Forkel’s biography, hitherto only
available in the imperfect version published in 1820. He has added an
excellent supplementary chapter on Bach at Leipzig. The portraits and
illustrations are well chosen and reproduced.”
+ =Spec= 125:819 D 18 ’20 320w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p585 S 9 ’20 100w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p610 S 23 ’20 1100w
=FORMAN, HENRY JAMES.= Fire of youth. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little
20–3795
This is the story of the country boy who comes to the city, goes
wrong, but eventually finds the right path again. Anthony West is the
son of a Nebraska editor, a man whose humble country paper, the
Beacon, is known from one end of the land to the other. Anthony goes
to Harvard, and following the death, first of father, and then mother,
enters New York Journalism. But quicker means of making money appeal
to him and he goes into a broker’s office, falls into the toils of an
adventuress, is disillusioned and tastes the dregs of life. Then the
girl from home comes to New York and hope picks up again. The war
breaks out and when his service in the army is finished he is ready to
go back to Little Rapids to the position Jim Howard has kept waiting
for him on the Beacon.
* * * * *
“The crudeness of the story lies in the fact that Anthony does not as
the publishers assert, ‘win through to a fine manhood.’ He wins
through to nothing at all. His whole moral life is negative. He
repudiates the fire of youth and through satiety and disgust regains
his will to obedience under the social law. But his mind and character
are what they were.”
− =Nation= 110:402 Mr 27 ’20 200w
“The plot is firm and logical, even if not strikingly original, but
the merit of the book is in the rapidity and variety of its action—the
scenes in London being as well done as those in New York—and in the
sharply drawn characterization.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 360w
“In spite of occasional jarring crudities, the book is worth while.
The author seems to understand his characters.” D. Carr
+ − =Pub W= 97:178 Ja 17 ’20 260w
“The best character drawing is lavished on the minor roles.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 260w
=FORMAN, SAMUEL EAGLE.=[2] American democracy. il $1.75 Century 353
20–13840
“A text in government for high schools, academies and normal schools
has been prepared by S. E. Forman. It is a text-book in general
civics, covering the principles and theory of government, the
machinery of government and its accomplishments. The author, who is
well versed in civics and American history, has based this text on a
former one, ‘Advanced civics,’ published in 1905, but has made this
more comprehensive. New phases of democracy have been included, such
as Americanization, and urban and rural problems. Questions on each
chapter, and a short selective bibliography and an index make it more
useful to the teacher.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
* * * * *
“We know of no work that presents the subject so clearly and
comprehensively as does this book.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 820w
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:54 N 17 ’20 160w
=School R= 28:715 N ’20 520w
=FORRESTER, IZOLA LOUISE (MRS REUBEN ROBERT MERRIFIELD).= Dangerous
Inheritance; or, The mystery of the Tittani rubies. *$2 (3c) Houghton
20–18931
Carlota has inherited from her Italian grandmother great beauty, a
marvelous voice and a fortune in jewels. But her New York teacher,
after giving her all the technique he can, admits that her voice lacks
the emotional quality that moves and stirs the hearer. Her soul still
slumbers. Ward, her wealthy patron, tries to awaken it, but only
succeeds in arousing her animosity. Then she meets Griffeth Ames, and
her teacher at once catches the new note of power in her voice.
Griffeth persuades her to sing in a society presentation of his opera,
and to grace the occasion she wears her grandmother’s rubies.
Instantly the international spies who have been on the lookout for the
jewels are “on the job.” They try to rob her, but the various agents
doublecross one another, and Carlota’s inheritance is finally returned
to her. But the jewels have lost all charm for her, and she gladly
turns over their value to the starving children of the old world,
feeling herself rich enough in Griffeth’s love.
* * * * *
“The story has a slow, graceful, feminine movement that carries one
eagerly to ‘the end.’ More life might have been bestowed upon the
characters by having kept them in action while off-scene.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 150w
“There is an exuberance, a delight in the contrasts and the
juxtapositions of life, a quick reaction to beauty wherever glimpsed
that make the reading of this book a pleasant thing even though it is
crude and obvious in many spots.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 320w
=FORSEY, MAUDE S.= Jack and me. il *$1.50 (5c) Lippincott
A story for children about a little boy and girl who live in London
and spend their summer holidays in Dorset. It tells in a simple way of
home and school, of Christmas celebrations, of an older sister’s
wedding, etc., and reads like a book of reminiscences of a real
childhood.
=FORSTER, EDWARD MORGAN.= Where angels fear to tread. *$2 (3½c) Knopf
20–3675
An English widow outrages her late husband’s family by falling in love
with and marrying an Italian peasant. They cut her off entirely and
assume the care of her young daughter. The marriage turns out as
unfortunately as might be expected. Lilia dies in giving birth to a
son and the English Herritons make up their minds to get possession of
this child also. Philip, the romantic brother-in-law who had once
idealized everything Italian, and Harriet, the harsh, Puritanical
sister-in-law go to Italy for that purpose. Miss Abbott, the English
girl who had had a hand in the marriage, is there also. Their efforts
end tragically. Philip falls in love with Miss Abbott, but learns that
she, like Lilia, had been captivated by the handsome and indolent
Gino.
* * * * *
“An odd and delightful piece of work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“Gino is irresistible as the embodiment of the Italian character and
tradition, just as Philip the defeated is irrefutable as a Britton.”
H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:342 My ’20 260w
“If but one word were allowed to be said of this book and its people,
it is ‘human.’”
+ =Bookm= 52:175 O ’20 120w
+ =Dial= 68:665 My ’20 60w
“The author knows his provincial Italy and the Italian character as
well. The reader’s attention will be held to the end of this charming
book.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 750w
“Here is the best of material for a comedy. And it is as comedy that
Mr Forster presents his material up to a certain point. Some may think
that he would have done better had he decided to preserve that vein to
the end.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 650w
=FORT, CHARLES.= Book of the damned. *$1.90 (1½c) Boni & Liveright 504
20–1375
The author explains: “By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall
have a procession of data that science has excluded.... I have gone
into the outer darkness of scientific and philosophical transactions
and proceedings, ultra-respectable, but covered with the dust of
disregard. I have descended into journalism. I have come back with the
quasi-souls of lost data.” He has brought together a curious
assemblage of physical phenomena for which science has never found any
explanation. That other planets are trying to communicate with us is
one of the hypotheses suggested.
* * * * *
“To read of them is to be inspired with an interest which has no need
of the book’s sensational title; nor is it increased by the author’s
quasi-scientific speculations which he presents in a staccato style
that soon produces the wearying effect of a series of explosions.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:410 Je ’20 140w
“‘The book of the damned’ reminds one of Harnack’s characterization of
the gnostic work ‘Pistis Sophia’ as ‘dedicated to the propaganda of
systematic idiocy.’” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 180w
Reviewed by Eugene Wood
=N Y Call= p10 My 2 ’20 1250w
“Whether he reaches any conclusion or what that conclusion is if he
does reach it, is so obscured in the mass of words—a quagmire of
pseudo-science and queer speculation—that the average reader will find
himself either buried alive or insane before he reaches the end.”
− =N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 440w
=Review= 2:184 F 21 ’20
=FORTESCUE, SIR SEYMOUR JOHN.= Looking back. il *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans
20–9644
“It must fall to the lot of few naval men to have a career so varied
in incident and so full of contrast as has been that of Sir Seymour
Fortescue. During his twenty-one years of duty afloat, he not only
served on the Mediterranean and China stations, and took part in the
Egyptian war of 1882 and the Sudan campaign of 1885, but had his first
experience of attendance on royalty in the Surprise and the Victoria
and Albert. During the succeeding seventeen years, he was on the staff
of King Edward VII, as equerry, and took his regular turn in waiting,
but even then he managed to put in some sea time during the manœuvres
of 1895 as commander of the Theseus, to spend six months as A.D.C. to
Lord Roberts on the Headquarters staff in South Africa, and to pay a
visit to the nitrate fields in Chile in 1907. Dovetailed between these
diversified engagements, yacht sailing and horseracing, shooting and
fishing, the opera and the theatre, with other forms of sport and
pastime, made interludes, so that as a spectator of events from many
viewpoints the present Serjeant-at-arms in the House of lords had
exceptional opportunities, and it is not surprising that he should
publish reminiscences so kaleidoscopic in colour and change.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Sir Seymour Fortescue writes so well that one wishes he could have
steered a more venturesome course. A little more latitude, and a good
deal less longitude, would have made a more entertaining volume.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:563 Je 19 ’20 1550w
“A fine crop of picturesque stories told with great spirit, good
humour and frankness.”
+ =Spec= 125:150 Jl 31 ’19 640w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p298 My 13 ’20 1000w
=47 WORKSHOP.= Plays of the 47 workshop; second ser. (Harvard plays) il
*$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08
29–11241
“Prof. Baker’s course in playwriting at Harvard has published two
volumes of one-act plays written by students and performed at the
university during the year. Of the four plays of this series,
‘Torches,’ by Kenneth Raisbeck, is a colorful tragedy of the Italian
renaissance with a special musical prelude by R. T. Serp; ‘Cooks and
cardinals,’ by Norman C. Lindau is a distinctly workable comedy for
amateur production; ‘A flitch of bacon’ by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley is a
farce comedy with an Elizabethan setting; and ‘The playroom,’ by Doris
F. Halman is a modern fantasy wistful in its appeal and containing an
echo of the late war.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The book is one not to be overlooked by any organization searching
for one-act plays which are simple enough to present under amateur
conditions, and yet worth spending the time upon.” W. P. Eaton
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Ag 1 ’20 520w
“‘Forty-seven workshop plays,’ though containing nothing of great
power, shows considerable technical skill in handling widely differing
types of dramatic work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 20 ’20 170w
“All are neatly and expertly constructed, show a sense for legitimate
stage effects, and, while perhaps not masterpieces, are of a literary
quality decidedly above that of most contemporary one-act plays in
English.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:349 O ’20 140w
=FOSDICK, RAYMOND BLAINE.= American police systems. (Publications of the
Bureau of social hygiene) *$2 Century 352.2
20–20105
This volume has been written at the instigation of the Bureau of
social hygiene and is a companion to the author’s “European police
systems.” It is based upon personal study of the police in practically
every city of the United States, with a population exceeding 100,000,
and the comparisons between European and American conditions occurring
in the book are made from the latest information available. As a last
word the author says: “We have, indeed, little to be proud of. It
cannot be denied that our achievement in respect to policing is sordid
and unworthy. Contrasted with other countries in this regard we stand
ashamed. With all allowances for the peculiar conditions which make
our task so difficult, we have made a poor job of it.” The book is
indexed and contains insert charts of the organization of the police
departments of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia,
St Louis and Washington. Contents: The American problem; The
development of American police control; The present state of police
control; Special problems of police control; The organization of the
department; The commissioner or director; The chief of police; The
rank and file; The detective force; The prevention of crime;
Conclusion.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21
“Notwithstanding the surprise with which his closing statements will
he received, no doubt their truth will be recognized and those of us
who have so loudly acclaimed our entire system of government as the
best in the world may possibly find it to their advantage to read a
few statements, which although bitter, are doubtless true.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 320w
“Mr Fosdick has done a great public service in the making of this
volume. A book of primary importance to the student of government.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 27 ’20 330w
“The whole book is a constructive criticism which will appeal to all
citizens and city officials interested in the improvement of municipal
government.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib= Notes 7:54 N 17 ’20 570w
=N Y Times= p18 N 28 ’20 1750w
Reviewed by Calvin Coolidge
+ =Outlook= 127:187 F 2 ’21 2100w
“The author has done well to emphasize the almost insuperable
difficulties confronting our police. The book should be read not only
by police administrators but by the general public upon whose
intelligent understanding of the problems set forth depends their
solution.” E. D. Graper
+ =Survey= 45:517 Ja 1 ’21 680w
=FOSTER, JOHN.= Searchers. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–26880
Two halves of a secret join Italy and Scotland in a determined search
for a casket of jewels lost three hundred and fifty years ago. The
quest is made by the Searchers, an ancient organization, consisting at
the time of the story of desperados, with one exception, Italian. The
hiding place of the jewels is recorded in a document which for greater
safety has been torn in two and one-half placed in the keeping of a
Scottish family, the other with Roman Jesuits. In the story the two
halves are gravitating towards each other throughout a series of
thrilling and dangerous adventures, plots and counterplots till the
grave of the priest, with whom the casket was buried, is discovered on
a high and wild summit of the Scottish crags and the canny Scotchman
carries off the day and the jewels as against the Italian plotters.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 530w
“Exciting and cleverly constructed.”
+ =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 50w
“The story stimulates a feverish interest throughout its course.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 50w
=FOSTER, MAXIMILIAN.= Trap. *$2 (3c) Appleton
20–14214
Henry Lester was very wealthy, in fact uncomfortably so, for when he
fell in love, he couldn’t be sure that Sally Raeburn, the object of
his affections, wouldn’t marry him for his money rather than for love
of him. So he didn’t ask her to marry him at all, but instead laid a
neat little trap for her. At his country estate on the Hudson he
assembled a house party, and among those present were Mrs Dewitt, a
former sweetheart of his, and Mr Hastings, a young man of reputed
wealth, and of course Sallie. How the trap, when it was sprung, caught
not only Sallie, but Henry himself, is told in the story.
* * * * *
“A very good story it is.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 6 ’20 230w
“The heavily padded story moves slowly, and its improbabilities are
not made to seem plausible by clever development.”
− + =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 350w
=FOSTER, WILLIAM ZEBULON.= Great steel strike and its lessons. il *$1.75
Huebsch 331.89
20–26587
John A. Fitch in his introduction to the book speaks of the
overwhelming power of the steel trust and says: “The story of the most
extensive and most courageous fight yet made to break this power and
to set free the half million men of the steel mills is told within the
pages of this book by one who was himself a leader in the fight. It is
a story that is worth the telling, for it has been told before only in
fragmentary bits and without the authority that comes from the pen of
one of the chief actors in the struggle.” Contents: The present
situation; A generation of defeat; The giant labor awakes; Flank
attacks; Breaking into Pittsburgh; Storm clouds gather; The storm
breaks; Garyism rampant; Efforts at settlement; The course of the
strike; National and racial elements; The commissariat—the strike
cost; Past mistakes and future problems; In conclusion.
* * * * *
“This book, in spite of its lurid rhetoric, extreme statements, and
partisan viewpoint, throws a good deal of light on labor conditions in
the steel industry.” G: M. Janes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:840 D ’20 140w
“Too frankly partisan to be history, and with too few facts to give it
the weight of a scientific survey, this authentic picture of the labor
machine in operation has the force of valuable evidence from the
inside.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“It is seldom that the public is afforded such a frank statement from
official sources so soon after the event and in this case it is
especially useful since most of the news furnished during the course
of the strike came from the representatives of the employers.” G. P.
W.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 350w
“His book is worth a dozen abstract discussions of the labor movement,
for it is an example, one of the best examples that has ever arisen,
of labor doing its own thinking, making its own detailed and
disinterested analysis. For its clarity, cogency, and significance, it
is better worth reading than nine-tenths of the volumes written about
public affairs.” G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:273 S 4 ’20 2000w
“Mr Foster’s book is an exceedingly valuable contribution to our scant
body of authentic documents on the labor movement.” R. W. B.
+ =New Repub= 23:284 Ag 4 ’20 1550w
=R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 800w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p571 S 2 ’20 70w
“Mr Foster draws a vivid picture of events, all of which he saw and a
large part of which he was. His judgment is cool and dispassionate; he
sees the faults in the labor movement, but he imparts to his readers a
tremendous admiration for the men who could conduct so long a campaign
against such terrific obstacles.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:349 N ’20 560w
=FOWLER, WILLIAM WARDE.= Roman essays and interpretations. *$5.65 Oxford
937
(Eng ed 20–11698)
“The contents fall into four parts: Roman religion; Roman history;
parallels from the life of other races; and finally a group of
literary studies devoted to Virgil and Horace, appreciations of
Niebuhr and Mommsen, and a discussion of the tragic element in
Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar.’ About half the material is reprinted
from articles which had appeared in periodicals, chiefly the Classical
Review and the Journal of Roman Studies; these, however, bear
everywhere the traces of careful revision and are to be taken as
embodying Dr Warde Fowler’s reconsidered judgments of today.”—Class J
* * * * *
“In these pages we are conscious not only of having laid before us the
fruits of the highest quality of scholarship but of enjoying the
guidance and companionship of a rare personality.” A. W. Van Buren
+ =Class J= 15:444 Ap ’20 1850w
“There are a number of interesting suggestions scattered through the
shorter papers, not all, of course, equally convincing.” H. S. J.
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:614 O ’20 290w
“When Dr Warde Fowler speaks of Roman religion the rest of us have
nothing to do but to listen and learn.”
+ − =Spec= 124:867 Je 26 ’20 2000w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 15 ’20 250w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p233 Ap 15 ’20)
“A volume without a dull page in it, and ranging over a very wide and
varied field. It contains the gleanings of long studies, pursued into
the ripeness of age with the ardency of youth.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 Ap 15 ’20 1300w
=FOX, DAVID.= Man who convicted himself. *$1.90 (2c) McBride
20–18253
“The Shadowers, Inc.” is a unique detective society composed of six
ex-criminals who have decided to use their exceptional talents in an
honest way rather than decidedly otherwise as heretofore. There is a
handwriting expert, a jewel and art connoisseur, a toxicologist, “the
greatest safe-cracker of the age,” and a smooth villain who has dealt
in various forms of fraud, from oil stock to psychical phenomena. At
the head of this band is Rex Powell, whose brain conceived the scheme.
Their aim is restitution, not prosecution, and they work privately and
discreetly. Their first case is one of robbery in an exclusive
Riverside Drive home, but as it progresses it provides scope for the
activities of each one of The Shadowers. That they are successful in
apprehending the robber almost goes without saying but their greatest
success lies in the fact that they actually force the man to convict
himself.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 25 ’20 160w
“‘The man who convicted himself,’ despite its novelty, strikes the
reader as plausible.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 350w
“The story has the appeal of the popular melodrama and ‘dime novel’
without descending to crude and amateurish methods of telling.”