History of the world war; Château-Thierry, Soissons, and Rheims;
British battle fronts and Belgium; Verdun, St Mihiel, and the
Argonne-Meuse; Coblence, Switzerland, Provence, the Riviera, and
Italy; The château country of France; England and London. Part III is
devoted to Divisional histories of American divisions in France, and
an Appendix presents statistics. There are numerous maps,
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
“This guidebook has several valuable features.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 S 26 ’20 250w
+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 170w
“The ‘American guidebook’ is not compact. It is badly organized and
repetitious. Of the 20–odd maps in the book, not one is of practical
value to the tourist. The only worth-while section of the book is the
part devoted to brief tabular histories of A. E. F. divisions. The
information given in this department is compact, well-presented and
satisfying.” J: T. Winterich
− + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 770w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p623 S 23 ’20 80w
=GARIS, HOWARD ROGER.= Rick and Ruddy. il $1.50 (2½c) Bradley, M.
20–23176
The story of a boy and his dog. Rick wants a dog but his mother is
obdurate. She does not like dogs and is afraid that even the best of
them might be tempted to bite Mazie, Rick’s little sister. Then Ruddy,
the red setter, is washed up out of the sea and since he seems to have
come in direct answer to Rick’s prayer, she cannot turn him away. Boy
and dog have happy adventures together. Ruddy guides Rick home when
the two are lost and he rescues the little sister from drowning. The
tramp sailor who had been his former owner returns and tries to gain
possession of him but Ruddy is recovered and returned to his true
master Rick.
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 30w
=GASS, SHERLOCK BRONSON.= Lover of the chair. *$2.50 Jones, Marshall 814
20–85
“Mr Gass turns over from many angles the leading problems of education
in a democracy, and the wider problem of democracy itself. The matter
is generally cast in dialogues, with the disillusioned scholar
described in the title as arbitrator. On the side of education the
author has no difficulty in showing that the present lurch towards
vocational training in the public schools is really not democratic at
all. It assumes that a child is to be fitted for a place in which he
shall stay—an aristocratic assumption. The book closes with an
autobiographical fragment which is its best literary feature and has
the advantage of bringing the various problems involved to a moral
focus.”—Review
* * * * *
Reviewed by Mary Terrill
=Bookm= 51:192 Ap ’20 950w
“Despite the friendly humor and gentleness of the essayist there is
the iron of sharp experience and the steel of strong convictions to
give point and edge to his critical depictions of men and manners.” H.
A.
+ =New Repub= 24:51 S 8 ’20 820w
+ =N Y Times= 25:213 Ap 25 ’20 50w
“Despite a certain crabbedness and inflexibility of literary form, the
book is a notable one. It is thought through, and has flights of grave
eloquence. As a survey and estimate of modern society, as offering a
tenacious criticism which is ever tinged with human sympathy, the book
is a true landmark.”
+ =Review= 2:157 F 14 ’20 580w
=GASTON, HERBERT E.= Nonpartisan league. *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt, Brace &
Howe 329
20–6358
The author of the present volume is thoroughly acquainted with the
history of the Nonpartisan league from the inside, and tells the story
of its foundation and growth sympathetically but dispassionately,
leaving the reader to make his own estimate of its importance as a
political and social movement. In his final survey the author says:
“Any cult or propaganda becomes dangerous if it comes close to the
truth. ‘Menaces’ to the existing order of society are born of the
evils of existing society in conflict with human needs and natural
human desires. To brand a group, a cult, a society, a religion, as
disloyal or disreputable is one way of fighting it, but it need not
forever damn it.” Contents: The Nonpartisan league—what it is; North
Dakota; Seeds of rebellion; Breaking ground; Terminal elevators; The
leader for the occasion; Applied psychology; “Six-dollar suckers”;
Publicity; The enemy opens fire; Choosing the candidates; The first
campaign; Leaguers in power; The League becomes “national”; War
issues; Producers and consumers; “Patrioteering”; Growth and power;
The second big battle; League democracy at work; “The new day in North
Dakota”; Another crisis passed; Organization changes; Survey and
forecast.
* * * * *
“Three years’ employment on the publication controlled by the league
has given Mr Gaston an intimate knowledge of the organization, and,
although the reader is assured of a ‘conscientious effort to make a
faithful report of facts of essential interest,’ favorable conclusions
are the rule. This point should be kept in view in judging the matter
presented.” G: M. Janes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:628 S ’20 1700w
“A very readable history of North Dakota’s recent interesting
contribution to politics.”
+ =Booklist= 16:261 My ’20
“This book is an authoritative and to a certain extent an unbiased
statement of the genesis and growth of the movement.” G. M. J.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 1000w
+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 20w
“An extremely lucid, vigorous, well-written account of one of the most
extraordinary movements in our political history. The league is
fortunate in having an apologist as clear-minded and as fair-minded as
Mr Gaston: his book has the character not of propaganda but of
history.”
+ =Freeman= 1:167 Ap 28 ’20 150w
“An indispensable book for the study of middle western politics.”
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w
“A severe critic will find in it much to praise, little to blame. Of
course certain transactions are glossed over. All important events are
given ‘with bright protective coloration.’ While the book has
historical sequence, it lacks philosophical unity.” J. E. Boyle
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:619 Jl ’20 1450w
“The Nonpartisan league has been the victim of an unconscionable
amount of lying. The more notable, therefore, is the service performed
by Mr Gaston in writing a book that gives not only the facts, but the
truth, concerning this remarkable political organization. Mr Gaston
writes with sympathy for the league, yet with scrupulous fairness to
its opponents. The story is told simply, directly, and with an absence
of partisanship and bitterness remarkable in view of the fierce
struggle of the past five years.” H: R. Mussey
+ =Nation= 110:656 My 15 ’20 1450w
“Admirable account.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p11 My 9 ’20 1200w
=N Y Times= p28 Ag 22 ’20 80w
“Although the author warns the readers of his possible bias, he has
nevertheless written dispassionately and in good spirit and, on the
whole, accurately.”
+ =Outlook= 125:430 Je 30 ’20 2400w
“His book is as readable as it is earnest. In his own language, he
‘puts it across.’ It is a great pity that one must lay the book aside
with the thought that though it is interesting it is little more than
an excellent piece of campaign apologetics.”
+ − =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 1500w
“His narrative throws much light on agrarian conditions in the Middle
West and Northwest.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 80w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 26 ’20 300w
“No doubt the impartial and critical historian of the future will
discover that the narrative is colored in favor of the movement the
author traces. Nevertheless, the work is a worthy one and gives a
fairly reliable account of a most interesting experiment.” J: M.
Gillette
+ − =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 690w
“It is so simply and directly written, with such an evident desire to
be frank and honest, with so little rhetoric and apology, that we must
accept it as being about as fair an account as we could hope for from
an insider adequately informed for his task.” W: E. Walling
+ =Yale R= n s 10:222 O ’20 800w
=GATLIN, DANA.= Missy. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–20320
Missy, short for Melissa Merriam, is ten when we first make her
acquaintance in this book. Some of her adventures and experiences in
the years between ten and seventeen are told in chapters entitled: The
flame divine; “Your true friend, Melissa M.”; Like a singing bird;
Missy tackles romance; In the manner of the Duchess; Influencing
Arthur; Business of blushing; A happy downfall; Dobson saves the day,
and Missy cans the cosmos. Missy is the kind of girl who had “been
endowed with eyes that could shine and a voice that could quaver; yes,
and with an instinct for just the right argument to play upon the
heart-strings.” From the day when, in childish religious fervor, she
prays publicly “O Lord, please forgive me for being a spy-eye when
Cousin Pete kissed Polly Currier, and guide me to lead a blameless
life,” her mental processes are original. Some of the chapters have
appeared in short story form in various popular magazines.
+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
“What Booth Tarkington did for the growing boy with ‘Penrod,’ Dana
Gatlin has written for the girl, with the difference that ‘Penrod’ is
done with broad effects for humor, while ‘Missy’ is a more delicate
piece of workmanship.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 500w
“This book is an almost perfect example of the department store
romance. There is not a glimmer of anything that might disturb the
picture. The book is fairly well written and many will like it.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 60w
=GAY, ROBERT MALCOLM.= Writing through reading. 90c Atlantic monthly
press 808
20–10291
This “suggestive method of writing English with directions and
exercises” (Sub-title) has for its object the acquisition of a command
of language and discipline and drill in clearness, vigor and
conciseness. The author believes that the problem of teaching writing
as an art and a tool of expression can be greatly simplified by
retelling the thoughts of others and the methods considered in the
book are: translating; paraphrasing; condensing; imitating prose, and
imitating verse. Contents: Introduction: reading and writing;
Transcribing and writing from dictation; Translating; Paraphrasing;
The abstract; Imitation and emulation.
* * * * *
“Suggestive to anyone interested in effective writing.”
+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Beyond all question ‘Writing through reading’ is the type of textbook
which eleventh and twelfth-grade classes in composition ought to be
able to follow with great profit.”
+ =School R= 28:632 O ’20 320w
=GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS, and FLAHERTY, MARTIN CHARLES=, comps. Poetry of
the people. 88c Ginn 821.08
20–11327
This volume has now been enlarged by the addition of a section devoted
to Poems of the world war: historical and patriotic. There are also
added four pages of notes on Popular songs of the world war.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:84 N ’20
=GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS, and KURTZ, BENJAMIN PUTNAM.= Methods and
materials of literary criticism. $3 Ginn 808.1
20–11325
“This book is the second of a series entitled ‘Methods and materials
of literary criticism’, the volumes of which, though contributory to a
common aim, are severally independent.’ The first volume (Gayley and
Scott, 1899) was an introduction to the bases in aesthetics and
poetics, theoretical and historical. The present volume applies the
methods there developed to the comparative study of the lyric, the
epic, and some allied forms of poetry. A third volume, approaching
completion, will present tragedy, comedy, and cognate forms.”
(Preface) The book is made up of two parts: The lyric and some of its
special forms; The epic and minor forms of narrative poetry. Each of
these subjects is considered under two aspects: Theory and technique,
and Historical development, and a list of general references is
provided for each, in addition to frequent references in the text. An
appendix contains a brief bibliography of the history of poetry (60
pages) and there is an index.
* * * * *
“The work here accomplished is an honor to American literary
scholarship and is of great and enduring value.”
+ =Cath World= 112:541 Ja ’21 230w
“The helpfulness of such a compilation can hardly be overestimated.
Testing the book from the standpoint of a student of the classical
types of literature one is impressed by the completeness of the
bibliographical material and by the discrimination of the editors when
selection is necessary.” H: W. Prescott
+ =Class J= 16:254 Ja ’21 520w
=Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 190w
“Nothing could be more comprehensive; and it is difficult to see how
the scheme could be improved. To say this is not to assert that
absolute perfection has been attained. That is beyond human power;
and, as Professor Gayley frankly confesses, ‘the citation of
references is nowhere as complete as the compilers could wish.’ The
index, it may be well to note, is ample and excellent.” Brander
Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p12 Ag 15 ’20 2100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 200w
=GENUNG, JOHN FRANKLIN.= Guidebook to the Biblical literature. $2.50
Ginn 220
19–15715
“The Bible as a literature, as a library, and as a book—that is how
the point of view is stated at the beginning of this treatise, which
offers systematic guidance to the study of the growth of the Bible,
the historical development of the Hebrew mind, the particular
tendencies and needs of the successive eras represented in Biblical
literature and the particular genius of the writers, and the spiritual
nature of their message.”—Ath
* * * * *
“The point of view of the treatment is rather confusing. The method is
in a broad way historical, but in detailed application it contents
itself with acceptance of traditional views to such an extent as
almost to vitiate the usefulness of the book for historically minded
students.” J. M. P. S.
+ − =Am J Theol= 24:473 Jl ’20 190w
“Those who are not discouraged by the preface and the abstract style
of the whole work will find the matter instructive.”
+ − =Ath= p1352 D 12 ’19 140w
+ =Booklist= 16:151 F ’20
=GEORGE, WALTER LIONEL.= Caliban. *$2 (2c) Harper
20–15960
Richard Bulmer’s career in many respects parallels that of Alfred
Harmsworth but frequent reference to Lord Northcliffe as a
contemporary shows that it is not intended as a portrait. The story
begins with Richard’s boyhood and covers his early amateur attempts at
journalism, his first daring venture into the publishing world with
“Zip,” a sensational monthly that gives the public what it wants, and
his subsequent rise to the peerage and ownership of a chain of
newspapers. He marries early and after seven years separates from his
wife. Women mean little to him for he is too deeply absorbed in his
career, but late in life he meets Janet Willoughby and at her hands
suffers his first defeat. The story begins in the eighties of the
nineteenth century and runs thru the world war.
* * * * *
=Ath= p376 S 17 ’20 840w
=Booklist= 17:71 N ’20
“We know no more or less about Bulmer on page four hundred than on
page forty. He is a type brilliantly projected as a George or a Wells
or a Walpole or a Mackenzie knows how to project him,—and there is no
more to say.” H. W. Boynton
− + =Bookm= 52:250 N ’20 660w
“In ‘Caliban’ Mr George cannot convince us for a moment that his
Richard Bulmer is doing anything more than to obey the commands of his
creator. A puppet in a marionette show has as much initiative of his
own as is possessed by this Richard Bulmer.” E. F. E.
− =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 1600w
“It is superior in many ways to Courlander’s ‘Mightier than the sword’
and has nothing whatever to do with Gibbs’ ‘Street of adventure.’ But
it is a falling off from Mr George’s superb ‘Blind alley.’”
+ − =Dial= 69:663 D ’20 60w
“As a portrayal of Bulmer, ‘Caliban’ is convincingly done; as a novel,
it is disappointing. For the book, despite Bulmer’s portrait, is
perfunctory.” R. S.
+ − =Freeman= 2:166 O 27 ’20 400w
“Mr George has grasped in its concrete terms one of the fundamental
things in our civilization—the press. His report may not be
faultlessly accurate; there may be depths he has not reached,
complications he has not disentangled. But his account has great
fulness of matter, dogged closeness of observation, fine solidity, and
burning candor.”
+ =Nation= 111:380 O 6 ’20 1000w
“Mr George has neglected the difficult and more interesting half of
his subject. He has not tried to answer the most puzzling of the
questions that yellow journalism raises. Not everybody, however, cares
to investigate the differences which separate the successful wooers of
‘Caliban’ from the unsuccessful, and in Mr George’s novel there is
cleverness enough to reward all readers who do not care.” P. L.
+ =New Repub= 24:329 N 24 ’20 1450w
“They who happen to enjoy Mr George’s essays as much as I do will
‘get’ with particular satisfaction certain qualities of ‘Caliban’ that
give it freshness, energy and a peculiarly British tang.” Alexander
Black
+ − =N Y Times= p13 S 5 ’20 2050w
“Bulmer is not developed as a character, he springs full-grown from Mr
George’s top compartment; and after a time his dutiful gyrations
become a sad bore. A thousand irresponsible brilliancies about nothing
make for me a dull book. ‘Caliban’ is not a story or an
interpretation, but a commonplace theme with endless more or less
clever variations.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 3:296 O 6 ’20 450w
“The story of Richard Bulmer’s boyhood is quite as good as, perhaps
better than, anything Mr George himself has yet written. But the whole
business of newspaper founding and managing has been done before too
often and better, and the crude introduction of real names into the
narrative does nothing to heighten illusion.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 80w
+ =Spec= 125:571 O 30 ’20 150w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 820w
“He only succeeds in producing a masquerade—a disconcerting muddle of
truth and fiction. Unfortunately there is no lightness of touch to
redeem it. The story is over-written, and Mr George’s cleverness runs
away with him into a tireless and feverish elaboration of detail which
would be exhausting even if he kept to the facts of history.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 210w
=GEORGIAN= poetry, 1918–1919. *$2.50 Putnam 821.08
20–26460
The writers represented in this fourth volume of Georgian poetry are:
Lascelles Abercrombie, Gordon Bottomley, Francis Brett Young, William
H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, John Freeman, Wilfrid
Wilson Gibson, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Harold Monro, Thomas
Moult, Robert Nichols, J. D. C. Pellow, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward
Shanks, Fredegond Shove, J. C. Squire, and W. J. Turner.
* * * * *
“The corporate flavour of the volume is a false simplicity. Of the
nineteen poets who compose it there are certain individuals whom we
except absolutely from this condemnation, Mr de la Mare, Mr Davies and
Mr Lawrence; there are others who are more or less exempt from it, Mr
Abercrombie, Mr Sassoon, Mrs Shove, Mr Nichols and Mr Moult; and among
the rest there are varying degrees of saturation.” J. M. M.
− + =Ath= p1283 D 5 ’19 670w
=Booklist= 15:270 My ’20
“It is a profound labour to read this book. Not because, let me
hastily say, there is nothing good in it, but because it is all so
dreadfully tired. Here are nineteen poets, in the heyday of their
creating years, and scarcely one of them seems to have energy enough
to see personally or forge a manner out of his own natural speech.”
Amy Lowell
+ − =Dial= 69:424 O ’20 3000w
=Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 180w
“It would, we think, be just to assume that there are three themes
which belong to poetry above all others—God, man, and nature. But
after reading the fourth book of ‘Georgian poetry’ from first page to
last, one would never have guessed it. We feel especially drawn
towards Mr Robert Graves. He is obviously at odds with the Georgian
complacency and conventionalism, particularly in the matter of
language. Mr Brett Young, again, a long way the best of the five
newcomers, reacts against the tenuity of the others and their careful
avoidance of reality.”
− + =Nation [London]= 26:338 D 6 ’19 1850w
“Among the others, it is good to see the name of D. H. Lawrence,
although he contributes but one poem, ‘Seven seals,’ a magnificent
thing, worthy of his wild unhappy genius.” Siegfried Sassoon
+ =N Y Times= 25:2 F 29 ’20 1150w
“These poets have unquestionable merits. Their temper is calm,
measured, resolute—almost an eighteenth century temper. Their ideal is
the vivid, the striking, the extreme—almost an Elizabethan ideal.
Naturally enough, their eighteenth century temper is not quite at home
in the handling of this Elizabethan ideal. Hence the vividness, which
is by no means altogether wanting, comes to reside less in the ideas
than in the language, less possibly in the language than in the
vocabulary.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 260w
“In ‘The sprig of lime’ and ‘Seventeen,’ which are his two long poems
this year, Mr Robert Nichols reaches a far higher platform in his
ascent of Parnassus. ‘The sprig of lime’ is an exceedingly beautiful
reflective poem.... Mr Shank’s ‘Fête galante, or The triumph of love,’
is a longish poem of quite extraordinary and peculiar
attractiveness.... Alas that Mr Squire’s ‘You are my sky’ has not been
included! His beautiful poem ‘Rivers’ is, as ever, most delightful
reading. Mr Harold Monro’s ‘Dog’ is a cunning piece of realism.”
+ =Spec= 124:143 Ja 31 ’20 1000w
“The character of the collection has altered slowly till this last
volume is least like the first: in fact, quite different. Long poems
are fewer and shorter, and the bulk of the contents has acquired a
strong family likeness. The original group of authors was more varied
in aim and achievement.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p738 D 11 ’19 2100w
Reviewed by E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 10:201 O ’20 140w
=GERMAN= days. *$3 Dutton 914.3
(Eng ed 19–11975)
“The author, a Polish Jewess born at Posen, describes her experiences
at various Prussian schools, ending with a finishing school in
Berlin.” (Spec) “The latter half of the book gives the reader a clear
picture of commonplace life in Germany today—the homes, the food, the
amusements. The author is continually contrasting them, greatly to the
disadvantage of Germany, with what she has found in England.”
(Springf’d Republican)
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 18 ’20 200w
“She writes temperately, and her indictment of the relentless Prussian
school system is all the more effective on that account.”
+ =Spec= 122:368 Mr 22 ’19 130w
“Among the books which aim to give enlightenment regarding prewar
Germany one volume stands out for the seemingly naive impression of
unpleasantness that it gives. This is ‘German days.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 16 ’20 700w
=GEROULD, GORDON HALL.= Youth in Harley. *$2 (1½c) Scribner
20–14294
After Stephen Quaid graduated from college he became principal of
Harley academy and for a year was a part of the New England village
life that soon will be but a tradition. In the picture unfolded by the
story many types of New England character are seen and old customs,
time-honored sports and celebrations and a town meeting are described,
and in the romance of Stephen and Cynthia Darrell, with the ups and
downs of their courtship, glimpses are given of the New England
conscience in both its feminine and masculine aspects.
* * * * *
“Interesting and wholesome but not a plot novel.”
+ =Booklist= 17:71 N ’20
=Nation= 111:454 O 20 ’20 420w
“Though too abstract for great art, Mr Gerould’s novel represents an
intellectual honesty which fiction lacks in America, and which for
great art is requisite.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 300w
“The action is slow at times, and readers who desire plot above all
and breathlessness while reading will hardly feel themselves wholly in
sympathy with the book. It is, first of all, an effort in
characterization, and in this field Mr Gerould is always successful.
For readers who desire to taste the quality of excellent writing at
their leisure ‘Youth in Harley’ is to be recommended.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 600w
“Certainly the narrative is not exciting, nor is it rapid in movement,
but it is sincere in its mild realism and finished carefully in its
detail workmanship.”
+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 150w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 70w
=GEROULD, KATHARINE (FULLERTON) (MRS GORDON HALL GEROULD).= Modes and
morals. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner 814
20–3866
Instead of the above title the author has been tempted to call her
collection of essays “Democracy, plumbing, and the war” because
democracy, always having a materialistic connotation, and plumbing,
symbolizing physical comforts, as well as war, “make the problem of
our immediate future a rather special one.” In the first essay, The
new simplicity, the cultural élite are exhorted to practice a severe
simplicity of living in order to hold their own against overpaid labor
whose tastes run to luxuries. In The extirpation of culture four
causes are named for this gradual extirpation among us: The increased
hold of the democratic fallacy on the public mind; The influx of a
racially and socially inferior population; Materialism in all classes;
and The idolatry of science. The other essays are: Dress and the
woman; Caviare on principle; Fashions in men; The newest woman; Tabu
and temperament; The boundaries of truth; Miss Alcott’s New England;
The sensual ear; British novelists, ltd.; The remarkable rightness of
Rudyard Kipling.
* * * * *
“Stimulating and provocative essays.”
+ =Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20
“Sparkling little essays full of originality and common sense.”
+ =Cleveland= p52 My ’20 60w
“Mrs Gerould is infinitely more agreeable as an essayist than as a
short story writer and her discussions of current problems, social,
spiritual and literary, are not only clever but stimulating.”
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 90w
Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster
=Nation= 110:sup486 Ap 10 ’20 800w
=New Repub= 22:97 Mr 17 ’20 1350w
“The book is as charming as it is clever, as wise as it is witty.
‘British novelists, ltd.,’ is the most individual of the essays in
this volume, as it is also the most amusing. It is full of humor and
of good humor. It has the light touch so much desired nowadays; none
the less is it a searching criticism.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:89 F 15 ’20 2300w
“One salutes the Mrs Gerould of the short stories as a fictional
artist of subtle power and distinguished skill. One views her
secondary personality, the social philosopher, the student of manners
and morals, as an example of the perturbing truth that a mind which
creates with brilliancy and force may be feeble and unrewarding in
ratiocination. Mrs Gerould is trite and trivial not only whenever her
subject gives her an opportunity to be, but at moments when she might
easily be something else.” Lawrence Gilman
− =No Am= 211:564 Ap ’20 1550w
“A little superior, supercilious Mrs Gerould doubtless is, and not a
little paradoxical. But in her speculation, she uncovers a good many
meaty ideas. One may not always agree with her or think her correct in
her statement of facts; but one has at least got some return for the
energy expended in reading.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 1350w
“When we say that Mrs Gerould is sometimes rather flippant, we have
indicated all the defects that a truly impartial critic may find in
this attractive and satisfying volume.” M. F. Egan
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:186 O ’20 500w
=GIBBON, JOHN MURRAY.= Conquering hero. *$2 (3½c) Lane
20–16160
A fishing party of city men is interrupted by the startling appearance
of a beautiful woman. She introduces herself as the Princess Stephanie
Sobieska, and is then recognized as a moving picture star. One of the
guides of the fishing party, Donald Macdonald, Scotch Canadian and
veteran of the world war, becomes a prime favorite with her, and after
the fishing season is over, they still remain friends. He goes out to
a farm in British Columbia and there meets a little girl whom he
shortly becomes engaged to. But here the Princess Sobieska unwittingly
makes trouble for him, for she appears on the scene again, and Kate
thinks there is or has been something more than friendship, between
Donald and her, and breaks the engagement. The Princess, in her
wisdom, takes just the right course to straighten matters out, and all
ends happily.
* * * * *
“The book suggests an attractive open-air atmosphere, and the freedom
of great spaces.”
+ =Ath= p838 D 17 ’20 100w
“Frankly, Mr Gibbon has contrived to secure a host of ill-assorted
ingredients that, so far from assimilating each other, make known
their utter unsimilarity in no uncertain fashion.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 210w
“If it is possible, Mr Gibbon has too much real life in his book. Now
and again the realization comes quite consciously that he is using his
carpetbag of a romance as a receptacle for chunks of his own life. On
the whole his story is a crude, vigorous, simple and attractive sketch
of the Canada of today.”
+ − =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 270w
“It is an amusing tale, but carries no serious conviction.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 120w
=GIBBON, M. MORGAN.= Jan. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday
John and Jan are both Owens, John, son of the quiet, staid Henry, and
Jan, daughter of the wild, wilful John. The younger John and Jan alike
crave freedom and liberty from the time they play together as
children. Even then John’s love for Jan is strong and protecting and
it never wavers all thru their school life until she promises to marry
him. But she finds the engagement irksome and after a quarrel, John
sets her free. She experiments with her freedom, trying one excursion
into liberty after another. But nothing satisfies, she and John are
both miserable and both too proud to give in. Eventually she realizes
that she would rather have love than freedom.
* * * * *
“The young lady who gives a name to ‘Jan’ labours obviously under the
disadvantage—very usual with novel heroines—of meaning something to
her creator, which has not been conveyed to the reader. The
descriptions of Welsh middle-class life are vivid and sympathetic, and
impress us as drawn from actual fact.”
+ − =Ath= p163 D 3 ’20 100w
“It is a thoroughly wholesome story, set forth by a writer who has the
gift of frank, effective, convincing narrative. The value of this
novel, which most readers will appreciate, lies in the fact that it is
entertaining in itself, page after page.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 470w
=Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 190w
“This is a first novel which may fairly be described as promising.
Praise must be given to the careful delineation of the characters of
Jan and John.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p721 N 4 ’20 120w
=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= France and ourselves. *$1.50 (2½c) Century
940.344
20–5134
This collection of “Interpretative studies, 1917–1919,” is from the
author’s war contributions to various American magazines, mainly to
the Century. The burden of the book throughout is “We must see
problems as France sees them, and we must help to solve them in the
French way and not in the American.” Even when the author contrasts
America’s “fourteen points” with what he is pleased to call France’s
“fourteen points,” he does not consider the task hopeless. Contents:
How we can help France; The tiger of France; World justice for France;
The industrial effort of France during the war; Human currents of the
war; The attitude of France toward peace; The reconstruction of
northern France; The case against Caillaux; What confronts France.
* * * * *
“Much of the book must be classed less as history than as propaganda,
though propaganda of a very high-minded type. But the inevitable
shortcomings of the book add in another way to its value. It vibrates
with the spirit of the war and with the generous enthusiasm that
inspired those Americans to whom the true character of France had been
revealed.” A. D. Hill
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:730 N ’20 840w
=Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 800w
+ =Cath World= 112:119 O ’20 210w
+ =Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 130w
“Much of this book is now badly out of date. Aside from this, there is
much that is valuable and even timely in the book. Dr Gibbons writes
with vigor and clarity of vision.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:300 Je 6 ’20 950w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 100w
“The chapter on the attitude of France toward peace, written about a
year ago, is full of matter for thought today.” T. M. Parrott
+ =Review= 4:16 Ja 5 ’21 880w
=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 120w
“The average American can be benefited by reading this collection of
essays.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 27 ’20 370w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 70w
=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= Riviera towns. il *$6 McBride 914.4
20–21327
“The Mediterranean is more blue than elsewhere because firs and cedars
and pines are not too green. The cliffs are more red than elsewhere
because there is no prevailing tone of bare, baked earth to modify
them into brown and gray. On the Riviera one does not have to give up
the rich green of northern landscapes to enjoy the alternative of
brilliant sunshine.” With this characterization of the Riviera before
him the reader is taken along the coast and up thoroughfares “built
for legs and nothing else” to browse through the picturesque and
medieval towns, more or less familiar to every one but made more real
to him by the thirty-two full-page illustrations of Lester George
Hornby. The towns described are Grasse; Cagnes; Saint-Paul-duVar;
Villeneuve-Loubet; Vence; Menton; Monte Carlo; Villefranche; Nice;
Antibes; Cannes; Mougins; Fréjus; Saint-Raphaël; Théoule.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21
“As it must be an open question as to which is the most interesting
town, so it is an unanswerable question as to which of the chapters is
the best, and Mr Hornby has added much to the book by his clever
illustrations.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 D 8 ’20 310w
“It represents the best type of its class of literature, written, as
it is, in a delightfully informal and intimate mood, with description
and anecdote blended with a rare felicity.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 1000w
=R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 40w
=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= Venizelos. (Modern statesmen ser.) il *$3.50
Houghton
20–20218
Much of this biography is based on the author’s personal acquaintance
with his subject. As a college teacher in the Near East he has,
moreover, an intimate knowledge of the entire political situation that
precipitated the second Balkan war, that kept Greece neutral in 1915
and 1916, and that dictated the policy of Venizelos at the peace
conference. Venizelos, although a native of Crete, inherited his
Hellenism and became active in its cause from the time he entered the
University of Athens as a law student. Contents: The boyhood and early
manhood of an unredeemed Greek; A revolutionary by profession;
Venizelos solves the Cretan question; Venizelos intervenes in Greece;
The Balkan alliance surprises Europe; Turkey is crushed by her former
Balkan subjects; The second Balkan war and the treaty of Bukarest;
Venizelos reorganizes Greece internally; Venizelos offers to join the
entente against Germany; Constantine tries to keep Greece neutral;
Venizelos goes to Saloniki; Greece in the world war; Venizelos at the
peace conference; Greece against the integrity of the Ottoman empire.
The book has a number of maps and is illustrated and indexed.
* * * * *
“This study is not that of an academic student, nor a detached
investigator. As the author himself states in his introduction, he is
more a reporter than a historian. His narrative gains thereby
measurably in freshness and interest.” O. McK., jr.
+ =Boston Transcript= p 5 N 20 ’20 850w
“The book was written before the downfall of Premier Venizelos, but it
will be none the less useful.”
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 150w
“What he is writing is not dignified biography, but propaganda.”
Elenore Kellogg
− =N Y Call= p10 Ja 16 ’21 440w
“The book is one of great value, notwithstanding its lack of some of
the qualities artistic and interesting biography ought to have.”
+ − =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 2250w
+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 580w
“Mr Gibbons’ book is the most successful attempt to give a complete
and proportioned account of Venizelos’ life.” A. E. Phoutrides
+ − =Review= 3:621 D 22 ’20 900w
“Aside from its strictly biographical features, this volume is a
contribution to the recent history of the Balkans, as well as to that
of the peace conference at Paris.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 160w
“Mr Gibbons has contributed a notable addition to modern biography.”
E. B. Moses
+ =Survey= 45:330 N 27 ’20 250w
=GIBBS, GEORGE FORT.= Splendid outcast. il *$2 (2c) Appleton
20–2258
In the midst of a battle Jim Horton finds his twin brother Harry, an
officer with responsibility, crouching behind the lines in a “blue
funk,” desperately afraid to obey his major’s orders, Jim compels
Harry to change uniforms with him, takes Harry’s place, and so
splendidly performs his brother’s duty that he gains for him the croix
de guerre. Incidentally, Jim is seriously wounded. Recovering in the
hospital he finds himself in a strange dilemma. No one believes his
story. At last he grimly resolves to see the game through. This is
difficult, as Harry is a dissolute crook engaged in some shady
undertakings, and Jim is all that a true gentleman ought to be.
Furthermore there is Harry’s beautiful bride to add more perplexing
complications. Around this situation evolves a tense story, running
through the underworld of Paris. In the end Jim, upon the death of his
worthless brother, marries the beautiful Moira, whose marriage to
Harry had been forced upon her, and who loves Jim beyond question.
* * * * *
“It is undeniably a dramatic story that Mr Gibbs tells. In spite of
the transparent confusion of identities, he manages to keep us
genuinely guessing at least part of the time.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 28 ’20 320w
“If the characters were any of them real people the probabilities of
the plot would not matter so much, but they are merely the stereotyped
figures who have appeared in dozens of tales of this order, and they
rather detract than add to the book’s credibility.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:91 F 15 ’20 420w
“The book would make a tremendous movie. The moves of the
detective-like story are too intricate, the action too violent, the
scenes too realistic to be overlooked in this field. It is a book for
tired brains and jaded moments.” Katharine Oliver
+ =Pub W= 97:175 Ja 17 ’20 300w
“The story moves with the rapid characteristic of Gibbs’s tales, but
many of the incidents are more obviously manufactured for effect than
in some of the author’s preceding books.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 280w
=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= Now it can be told (Eng title, Realities
of war). *$3 (1c) Harper 940.3
20–5994
“In this book I have written in a blunt way some episodes of the war
as I observed them, and gained firsthand knowledge of them in their
daily traffic. I have not painted the picture blacker than it was, nor
selected gruesome morsels and joined them together to make a jig-saw
puzzle for ghoulish delight.... I have tried to set down as many
aspects of the war’s psychology as I could find in my remembrance of
these years, without exaggeration or false emphasis, so that out of
their confusion, even out of their contradiction, the real truth of
the adventure might be seen as it touched the souls of men. Yet when
one strives to sum up the evidence ... are we really poor beasts in
the jungle, striving by tooth and claw, high velocity and poison-gas,
for the survival of the fittest in an endless conflict? If that is so,
then God mocks at us. Or, rather, if that is so, there is no God such
as we men may love with love for men.” (Part 8) Contents: Observers
and commanders; The school of courage; The nature of a battle; A
winter of discontent; The heart of a city; Psychology on the Somme;
The fields of Armageddon; For what men died.
* * * * *
“The war writing of Mr Gibbs presents an interesting problem. He
appears to be a reasonably sensitive observer, he has had exceptional
opportunities for observing, and he writes with considerable fluency.
Why, then, does his writing affect us so little?... Mr Gibbs’ style
has no definite and unique outline; it is, as it were, a composite
style, his voice has the indistinctness of the voice of a crowd. The
style is adequate to his purpose because his sentiments have something
of the same quality. They furnish, as it were, the greatest common
measure of the more intelligent opinion and the more decent feeling
about the war.” J. W. N. S.
+ − =Ath= p272 F 27 ’20 900w
=Booklist= 16:274 My ’20
“His book is a bit querulous about the obvious indignities; but it is
calm and terrible about the great wrongs.”
+ =Dial= 69:103 Jl ’20 90w
“The indictment of war is written in the same spirit as Barbusse’s
famous novel ‘Le feu’ or Sassoon’s war poetry, and with as much
literary skill as either. Mr Gibbs’ emotional reaction to the horrors
of war fuses the miscellaneous details of the book into a powerful
picture of the whole. His intellectual reaction is not so clear.”
+ − =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 290w
“It is a great triumph for him to have written this book, to say the
things he does say and reveal the facts he reveals.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:356 My 12 ’20 2150w
“This volume marks the close of that great work done by Mr Philip
Gibbs as a chronicler of war. It is a wonderful close, and a public
tired of war books must not make the mistake of neglecting this, which
has a frankness, a truth and a stern reality never before shown in all
the literature of the war.” Cecil Robert
+ =N Y Times= 25:115 Mr 14 ’20 1100w
“Different from his other books in that it shows no particular design,
is painfully fragmentary and reveals Mr Gibbs as an unsatisfactory
psychologist.”
− =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 70w
“A book which, however unpleasant it may be, is to all appearances
both truthful and sincere. Its truthfulness is its greatest virtue. In
several ways, however, the book is somewhat unsatisfactory. Its tone,
one may say, is not that of well-balanced thinking or of altogether
unbiassed criticism; it does not wholly convince. Furthermore, one
cannot rid oneself of the feeling that Sir Philip leans somewhat
toward the pacifist fallacy.”
+ − =No Am= 212:142 Jl ’20 1200w
“Mr Gibbs says things well: his fault is that he says them too often.
Some of the repetition is clever emphasis that drives home the point
while the speed saves the effect of boredom. If the book lasts it will
be as a record of matters which properly belong to history, but with
which history does not always deal.”
+ − =Review= 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 1500w
=Review= 2:404 Ap 17 ’20 100w
=R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 100w
“We cannot honestly recommend anyone to read this book just now,
valuable and interesting though it may be to the next and succeeding
generations. Power of graphic description Sir Philip Gibbs undoubtedly
has; but his bitterness of spirit and his emotional worship of youth
are not moods to be prolonged at the present hour.”
− + =Sat R= 129:349 Ap 10 ’20 1200w
“He has a keen eye for the telling detail that impresses a picture
indelibly on the mind, and his quick sympathy with all who suffer
helps him to keep the human side of the great tragedy foremost in our
thoughts. His style is sufficient without being distinguished. He has,
however, the defects of his qualities. He sees what is to be seen so
intensely that he is inclined to forget the existence of what he does
not see.”
+ − =Spec= 124:493 Ap 10 ’20 850w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 29 ’20 80w
“From the beginning to the end he resolutely refused (and it is a
great thing to say of him) to become familiar with war. He took no
intellectual pleasure, as it was so easy to do, in all the human
ingenuity that was concentrated on it. So too Mr Gibbs kept himself
remote from everything that concerned war as a profession, with its
inevitable indifference to suffering. He is single-minded in his
desire to be the spokesman of youth that went to the war.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p151 Mr 4 ’20 900w
“If ‘The judgment of peace’ is a flame, ‘Now it can be told’ is a slow
and smoldering fire. These books, accepted by mankind, would be
sufficient in themselves to end war forever.” G. H.
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:189 Je ’20 700w
=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= People of destiny; Americans as I saw them
at home and abroad. il *$2 (5c) Harper 917.3
20–17298
In describing the life in New York and the people he met in America
the author records impressions that are much the same as those of
other Europeans, vid., that there is too much vastness, bustle and
hubbub, too little “art, beauty, leisure, the quiet pools of thought.”
In summing up the characteristics of the people he finds them “filled
with vital energy, kind in heart, sincere and simple in their ways of
thought and speech, idealistic in emotion, practical in conduct and
democratic by faith and upbringing”; and he expresses the hope that
these characteristics will help them to steer free of the dangers that
threaten our liberties since the war. In telling America what England
thinks of it he is holding up a warning mirror to us. Contents: The
adventure of life in New York; Some people I met in America; Things I
like in the United States; America’s new place in the world; What
England thinks of America; Americans in Europe.
* * * * *
“He expresses a number of opinions about America, but they are not all
consistent with one another, they belong to different emotional
registers, and we feel it would be a purely arbitrary proceeding to
select any consistent set of them as representative.”
+ − =Ath= p648 N 12 ’20 700w
=Booklist= 17:110 D ’20
“His first few chapters are so insistently laudatory that one feels
his praise issues more from his will than from his judgment, that he
is simply determined to see good, and one longs—perversely, no
doubt—for more shading in the picture. In the closing chapters,
however, he comes to grips with his subject and gives a more balanced
verdict.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:537 Ja ’21 770w
“Sir Philip Gibbs met so many of the right people during his stay
among us that it is curious he should have learned anything whatever
about America. Sir Philip’s book is occupied largely with the
conventional admirations of the casual European for the physical
conveniences of our civilization, with the regulation amazements about
wonder cities and their subways and skylines and palaces and
bejewelled parasites.” Harold Kellock
− =Freeman= 2:309 D 8 ’20 1150w
“In the main his studies of the American man, woman, and child at home
are not only correct, but animated by a cordial pleasure in having
seen people he likes, doing the things he likes.”
+ − =N Y Times= p2 O 3 ’20 1900w
+ =Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 250w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 5 ’20 560w
=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= Wounded souls. *$2 (2c) Doran
The story is not so much a novel as it is an account of the war’s
effect on human souls. We see it first in Lille with its inhuman
savage hatred and lust for revenge on the part of the French and a
revulsion of feeling in the English soldiers from patriotism to an
abomination of the war. Then the author shows us the effect of the
armistice on the German people and their reviving hope kindled by the
fourteen points. Again in England the same irreconcilable spirit of
hatred as in France and the ruthless, morbid, neurotic sullenness of
the returned soldier. Between all these forces the crushing out of
love and life in the young couple—the English officer and his German
wife—whose humanity had carried them beyond nationality. The whole is
a drastic picture of post-war Europe.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“In this book Philip Gibbs, with powerful, vital strokes, brings home
to us that the war is not yet over, although fought and won.”
+ =Cath World= 112:685 F ’21 290w
=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 60w
“Only a man who has been there could introduce so much background. Mr
Gibbs was either too close to his material or too much the journalist
to succeed in giving the atmosphere of an invaded country as well as
Sir Harry Johnston has done in ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter.’ But his
chronicle of public sentiment in England equals that of H. G. Wells’s
stories of the war.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 230w
“All of the descriptive part, where the author confines himself
principally to an admirable reporting of what he himself saw and
heard, is extremely interesting and worth while. The fictional portion
of the book is less successful.” L. M. Field
+ − =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 1150w
=Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 90w
“The junkers of all nations, the militarists, the advocates of
universal military training, will not thank Philip Gibbs for ‘Wounded
souls,’ which must at least be credited with eloquence and disquieting
vision.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 29 ’20 220w
“It is excellently done, and often moving, but it is just the feeling
that everything is being made so skilfully to tell which prevents one
accepting it in the spirit of real æsthetic enjoyment. Sir Philip
Gibbs, like many another of us, is disillusioned, which is not
surprising, but he overdraws the picture of disillusionment and
spiritual decay. His shadows are all pitch dark and his lights too
high.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p718 N 4 ’20 540w
=GIBRAN, KAHLIL.= Forerunner; his parables and poems. il *$1.50 Knopf
892.7
20–20557
This book is similar in form and thought to “The madman,” published in
1918. “You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded
are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be
a foundation,” are the opening words. The five illustrations are from
drawings by the author.
* * * * *
=Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 60w
“There is a great deal of beauty and imaginative power in Mr Gibran’s
pages which sink into the consciousness with a kind of Oriental hush
that is captivating.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 410w
=GIBRAN, KAHLIL.= Twenty drawings. *$3.50 Knopf 741
20–212
“The drawings in this book are by a Syrian who the publishers tell us
‘has brought the mysticism of the Near East to America and has chosen
to throw in his lot with the artists of the Occident in an endeavor to
fuse new bonds of interest between the old world and the new.’ This
theme of the publishers is further elaborated in an interpretative
essay by Miss Alice Raphael which prefaces the volume.”—Nation
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:231 Ap ’20
“His drawings call up instantaneously to the memory the tinted pencil
sketches of Rodin; they strive for the massiveness of Rodin but attain
instead a feminine sweetness of touch and conception. They hint
strongly too of the methods and mannerisms of Leonardo da Vinci.” Glen
Mullin
+ − =Nation= 110:sup485 Ap 10 ’20 900w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 350w
=GIBSON, CHARLES R.= Chemistry and its mysteries; the story of what
things are made of told in simple language. il *$1.50 Lippincott 540
20–8917
“The preface of ‘Chemistry and its mysteries,’ is addressed to the
adult and sets forth the advantages of disabusing the mind of any
child below high school age of the idea that chemistry is a dry and
merely technical study. The author bases the book on the belief that
children will become genuinely interested in science, if the subject
is put before them in a manner in which they can easily grasp it. The
volume is the fifth in the Science for children series, the text
showing in a simple manner the inner meaning of everyday happenings
and the composition of materials met in everyday life.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
“Of interest to the adult as well as child.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 4 ’20 200w
“He certainly has achieved considerable success in a difficult task.
It is unfortunate that Mr Gibson makes a few statements to which
exception can be taken in themselves.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p748 D 11 ’19 550w
=GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON.=[2] Neighbours. *$2 Macmillan 821
20–18067
“There is restraint and beauty in these poems which always keep close
touch with men and women. Neighbours speak in the quiet of their homes
a few intimate lines which open whole life stories; pretty love poems,
poems of travel and picture verses are gathered with ‘In khaki’ and
‘Casualties.’”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Mr Gibson for us has something of the power and the achievement of
his fellow-Northumbrian, Bewick. Granted that he possesses not a tithe
of Bewick’s nature-knowledge, he approaches him more nearly in his
reading of human nature; and when he leaves this province for the dash
and splendour of Turner or even the woodland reverie of Birket Foster,
he drops for a shadow the substance which he had before.” E. B.
+ − =Ath= p549 O 22 ’20 540w
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
“The only definitely interesting section of Mr Gibson’s new book is
the first, called ‘Neighbours,’ containing a series of grim rural
monologues and dialogues. The other sections are filled with turgid
sonnets and monotonous quatrains about the war.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 160w
“Admiring Mr Gibson’s careful workmanship and truth to nature, we
cannot escape the feeling that at least half the time he is to the
real poet as the photographer, however fine, is to the artist.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 250w
Reviewed by K. L. Bates
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ja 2 ’21 1200w
“Mr Gibson’s skill is most admirable when we consider that it is
allied to poetic feeling of the utmost simplicity and depth.”
+ =Spec= 125:505 O 16 ’20 380w
“Mr Gibson’s latest book will not lessen his reputation as a poet, but
it can scarcely add to it. For while the virtues of style and
sincerity which his earlier poetry has taught us to expect, are in
equal evidence here, the vices which we trusted were only incidents of
his growth remain in an exaggerated condition.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p714 N 4 ’20 1350w
=GILBRETH, FRANK BUNKER, and GILBRETH, LILLIAN EVELYN (MOLLER) (MRS
FRANK BUNKER GILBRETH).= Motion study for the handicapped. (Efficiency
books) il *$4 Dutton 658.7
(Eng ed 20–6759)
“The authors maintain that there is ‘one best way’ in every industrial
process, and that way can best be determined by a study of the methods
of experts as revealed by motion pictures so taken as to show the path
of the motion and the time required. The best way of performing an
operation having been determined, the authors maintain that the
cripple should be taught that method. Their enthusiastic claim is, ‘We
have worked out in the laboratory the methods by which suitable
occupations for cripples of any type may be determined and also
methods by which training in these occupations may be transferred to
the crippled learner.’ Much is said about the problem of the crippled
soldier, for most of the chapters of the book were papers read before
meetings of engineers in 1917 and 1918 when that subject was receiving
much attention.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Ath= p452 Ap 2 ’20 500w
=Nature= 105:737 Ag 12 ’20 950w
Reviewed by J. C. Faris
+ =Survey= 44:731 S 15 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p157 Mr 4 ’20 50w
=GILL, CHARLES OTIS, and PINCHOT, GIFFORD.= Six thousand country
churches. il *$2 Macmillan 261
19–17903
“The authors whose work ‘The country church’ described rural church
conditions in a county each of New York and Vermont, have thoroughly
surveyed Ohio, its churches, ministers, education, crime, social life,
denominationalism, and other features. They find too great a division
into sects, and in some of the counties most needing religious
instruction, a great number of ill-attended churches, with
non-resident or poorly educated pastors. Community churches are
recommended. Many maps make this book more graphic than the former
volume.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Perhaps the chief value of the work ... lies in its impartial exhibit
of the zeal and stupidity of denominationalism gone to seed.” Allan
Hoben
+ =Am J Soc= 26:377 N ’20 180w
“This book is indispensable to all who would attempt to shape the
program for the living church in America during the next generation.”
+ =Bib World= 54:436 Jl ’20 170w
=Booklist= 16:188 Mr ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 1050w
“Some very practical and informing light on the subject of church
federation is thrown by Charles Otis Gill and Gifford Pinchot, in ‘Six
thousand country churches.’”
+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 80w
“Certainly everybody who is at all concerned for the cause of morals
and religion, every student of sociology, and every believer in the
laboratory method, must feel under deep obligation to the painstaking
authors of ’6,000 country churches’ for the statesmanlike survey which
they have given to us.” C: E. Beals
+ =Nation= 110:521 Ap 17 ’20 1050w
=GILLESPIE, JAMES EDWARD.=[2] Influence of oversea expansion on England
to 1700. (Columbia university studies in history, economics, and public
law) pa *$3 Longmans 942
20–18737
“In this treatise British colonial development is approached from a
new angle. The author has made a serious attempt to analyze and
present the effects of early British expansion on England herself. He
discusses these effects in the concrete, under the heads of social
customs, commerce, industry, finance, morals and religion, thought,
literature, art and politics.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“He handles large quantities of fascinating material with dexterity
and good sense.”
+ =Nation= 111:539 N 10 ’20 80w
“Mr Gillespie’s book, though sometimes inconclusive and sometimes
unconvincing, particularly in what it says of political development,
is illuminating and suggestive, and opens up a new field of
observation and research to the historical student.”
+ − =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 340w
“Such a discussion is useful in that it brings together for the first
time a variety of materials that have heretofore been widely
scattered. It serves to crystallize and clarify our views of a most
important period in English history.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 100w
=GITTINS, HARRY NEVILLE.= Short and sweet. *$1.75 Lane
20–7428
A collection of short light stories and sketches. The author died on
active service in France in 1917, aged twenty-four years. The stories
originally appeared in Punch, the Liverpool Daily Post and London
Opinion, and have been collected in book form by Mr Gittins’ family as
a tribute to his memory. The point of most of the stories, which
average about seven pages, is in the light repartee of love making
rather than in action. Among the titles are: The golfing husband;
Marjorie on the turf; A golfing musical comedy; By the left; A
difficult handicap; A lucky escape; The married man’s advantage; The
difficulty of the dance; Short and sweet, etc. At the close there is a
group of verses in the same strain.
* * * * *
“Of gossamer texture, and seemingly dashed off without much thought,
they yet give an instantly recognizable reflection of the typical
British young man of good family and sufficient means. Some of the
chapters suggest the daintiness of the ‘Dolly dialogues,’ while all
are up to a respectable standard of literary merit.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 400w
“They are very good examples of the light humorous vein in which the
youth of this generation delight and excel. Many of them remind us of
the early work of Barrie.”
+ =Sat R= 130:400 N 13 ’20 60w
“The little stories have a touch of original humor and are agreeable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 100w
=GLAENZER, RICHARD BUTLER.= Literary snapshots, impressions of
contemporary authors. *$1.25 Brentano’s 811
20–13197
“In these snapshots, Mr Glaenzer has brought out the literary features
of his subjects. The first three groups are devoted to English,
American and foreign authors, among the twenty-two of the first being
Hardy, Galsworthy, Wells, Kipling, Barrie, Shaw, to Dunsany, Doyle,
Hudson and Blackwood; among the fourteen American authors are Howells,
Dreiser, Wharton, Tarkington, Hergesheimer, Churchill and Wister;
among the ten foreign authors are France, Loti, Rolland, to
Schnitzler, d’Annunzio and Boyer. Another group of prose-writers are
labelled ‘Lollypops,’ among which are Harold Bell Wright, Florence L.
Barclay, Robert W. Chambers, Elinor Glyn, Owen Johnson, Marie Corelli,
Upton Sinclair and Frances Hodgson Burnett. In the four groups under
the ‘Flicks at Pegasus,’ the poets, English and American are
limned.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The likeness is in the impression rather than in the contours, and
for that reason is much more strikingly interesting.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ’19 400w
“The literary photographer has been clever in catching his victims in
what the public would call ‘a characteristic and distinctive pose.’ In
the case of his vers libre subjects Mr Glaenzer is successful in
reflecting their styles in his own.” L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 200w
“You may not like some of the snapshots, you may violently disagree
with the implied judgments—but they are all stimulating, some of them
are humorous, a few bitter, and more are acutely critical.” W. P.
Eaton
+ =N Y Call= p6 Ja 9 ’21 220w
=GLASIER, JOHN BRUCE.= Meaning of socialism. *$2 (4c) Seltzer 335
21–880
The book is one of the “New library of social science” series, edited
by J. Ramsay Macdonald. It has an introduction by J. A Hobson, who
says of socialism that its most profitable labor is in the field of
“humanism”—meaning that economics, politics, art and morals are but
necessary factors in the realization of higher human relationships—and
that the author of the book has more successfully than any other
writer of our time the humanist interpretation and outlook. The four
parts of the book are: After long ages; The epoch of freedom;
Socialism in existing society; Beyond all frontiers.
* * * * *
“Mr Glasier is badly equipped as an economist and is too impatient for
rhetorical flights.” H. S.
+ − =Nation= 110:728 My 29 ’20 200w
“While the book contains no new departure in socialist thought, the
author’s fine literary gift, his intimate knowledge of the socialist
movement and his inspiring idealism make the volume an excellent first
aid to the student of socialism.”
+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 110w
“Presents the fundamental idea of socialism with a large amount of
ethical and humane idealism and praiseworthy grace and sweetness of
temper. It is, in short, socialism suffused with the spirit of William
Morris and purged of its economic one-sidedness that Mr Glasier
presents.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p684 N 27 ’19 1000w
=GLASPELL, SUSAN (MRS GEORGE CRAM COOK).= Plays. *$2 Small 812
20–12185
All of Susan Glaspell’s plays have been produced by the Provincetown
players and by other little theater groups and some of them have been
published separately. This is the first collected edition. The
collection opens with Trifles, which has been called “the best play
that has been written by an American.” The other one-act plays are The
people, Close the book, The outside and Woman’s honor. These are
followed by the three-act play, Bernice, a play of subtle theme, one
of the few attempts to write serious American drama. The collection
closes with two comedies written in collaboration with George Cram
Cook, Suppressed desires and Tickless time.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Miss Glaspell has command of crisp and forceful dialogue, but this
volume, indeed, indicates clearly that her gifts are literary rather
than dramatic.”
+ =Cath World= 112:408 D ’20 160w
“These eight plays have a literary quality and a somewhat
philosophical viewpoint that make them as readable as stories. Miss
Glaspell writes in a crisp, descriptive style and she shows keen
insight into the underlying human motives. ‘Trifles’ is a really great
play.”
+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 50w
“The publication of Miss Glaspell’s collected plays at last lifts them
out of the tawdriness of their original production and lets them live
by their own inherent life. That life is strong, though it is never
rich. In truth, it is thin. Only it is thin not like a wisp of straw,
but like a tongue of flame.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:509 N 3 ’20 1100w
“Miss Glaspell’s style, while not especially distinguished, is
entertaining and easy to read.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 250w
“The well-rounded laughter of ‘Suppressed desires’ becomes a trifle
more angular in the comedies from a single pen, ‘Woman’s honor,’ and
‘Close the book.’ In all the plays there is a deeper meaning, the
presence of an interesting idea or ideal, yet, as in ‘Woman’s honor’
and ‘The outside,’ the idea often remains veiled. ‘Bernice’ may be
read with an intensity of thought. Yet, as a play, acted upon a stage,
what was intense might easily become monotonous.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 14 ’20 600w
“For readers who can achieve an artistic perspective in relation to
these plays there is satisfaction in finding, after reading and
rereading them all, that the big things are the good ones, and that
the biggest is the best. It is as if Miss Glaspell hit a far target
more easily than one close by.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:349 O ’20 320w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 60w
=GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON.= What the workers want: a study of British
labor. *$4 Harcourt, Brace & Howe 331
20–9059
As a result of five years’ study of the British, the author predicts
that England will make an early and sane adjustment to the new
impulses of the human spirit now striving for expression throughout
the world and that she will be the first country to enter the new age
equipped and unembittered. His summary of the wants of the workers
today is: “The workers wish to be the public servants of community
enterprise, not the hired hands of private enterprise. They refuse to
work longer for a system of private profits divided in part among
non-producers. They demand a share in the control and responsibilities
of the work they do (not only welfare and workshop conditions, but
discipline and management and commercial administration). They demand
a good life, which means a standard of living (in terms of wages and
hours) that provides leisure, recreation, education, health, comfort,
and security.” (Chapter 1) The contents report all the important
events and tendencies in the industrial world since the war under the
sections: Chaos and aspirations; The year; The way they do it; What
the workers want; Problems; The summing up. The appendix gives in full
the important documents of the social revolution and is divided into
the sections: The employers; Masters and men; The workers; The
judgment; The public. There is an index.
* * * * *
“A thoroughgoing and interesting summary of movements, forces and men
in the British labor situation.”
+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“The feature that gives the book its greatest value, is its profound
understanding of the British people, whose industrial and political
problems it describes and illumines with such keen comment.” T. M.
Ave-Lallemant
+ =Freeman= 2:164 O 27 ’20 1000w
“There is little attempt to give the historic background of the
various groups, but the reader who has been awakened at all to the new
authority with which labor is speaking in Britain and, to its
influence upon world politics, as well as upon labor problems in the
narrower sense, will find here the best material yet available for
understanding the situation.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 150w
“The account of the Coal commission, with its shrewd and playful
pictures of the chief actors, is an illustration of what is, to the
general reader, both the book’s greatest charm and its greatest
danger—its emphasis on the personalities of the labor movement. The
danger is that of a heroistic reading of current tendencies. The book
nowhere gets put together, and Mr Gleason’s generalizations are likely
to come as shrewd asides.” C. L. Goodrich
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:855 D ’20 1550w
“Mr Gleason reports contemporary history as a dramatist might compose
a pageant. He sets the stage, describes the dramatis personae, and
juxtaposes their significant utterances. The result gives an effect of
authentic composition. As is usual with Mr Gleason’s books, not the
least valuable part of ‘What the workers want’ is the bulky appendix.”
G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:133 Jl 31 ’20 860w
“This book is the ablest piece of reporting I have seen in several
years. It is vivid, singularly intimate in its knowledge, and with a
frank recognition of the problems involved that gives it an
objectivity rare in books of the kind. Mr Gleason has had a
preparation unparalleled among American students for this work.” H. J.
L.
+ =New Repub= 23:65 Je 9 ’20 1250w
“There is so much that is excellent and of timely consequence in Mr
Gleason’s 500–page volume that it is difficult to feel either patient
or charitable toward the author when, occasionally, he seems to lose
his head.”
+ − =N Y Times= p2 Ag 15 ’20 2000w
+ =Survey= 44:416 Je 19 ’20 240w
=GLINSKI, ANTONI JÓZEF.=[2] Polish fairy tales; tr. by Maude Ashurst
Biggs. il *$5 Lane
21–658
These tales representing the folk lore of the eastern provinces of
Poland and White Russia are of extreme age, some of them dating back
to primitive Aryan times. There is an obvious likeness between them
and the folk lore of other European nations and they are taken from a
larger collection made by A. J. Glinski. They are beautifully
illustrated in color by Cecile Walton, and an explanatory appendix is
added by the translator. The tales are: The frog princess; Princess
Miranda and Prince Hero; The eagles; The whirlwind; The good ferryman
and the water nymphs; The princess of the Brazen Mountain; The bear in
the forest hut.
* * * * *
“The vivacious illustrations by Cecile Walton show a conscientious
striving to interpret these unfamiliar themes.”
+ =Int Studio= 72:206 Ja ’21 60w
“An exceptionally attractive book.”
+ =Spec= 125:710 N 27 ’20 60w
“What especially distinguishes this book is the illustrations.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p830 D 9 ’20 220w
=GODDARD, HENRY HERBERT.= Human efficiency and levels of intelligence.
il *$1.50 Princeton univ. press 150
20–7588
“Series of lectures delivered last year under the Louis Clark Vanuxem
foundation at Princeton university by Henry Herbert Goddard, director
of the bureau of juvenile research of Ohio, have just been published
under the title, ‘Human efficiency and levels of intelligence.’”
(Springf’d Republican) “The lectures explain how the recognition of
different degrees of intelligence among children and adults can effect
greater social efficiency by aiding each person to train for the work
and responsibility which his mental equipment warrants. Tests are used
as a conscious control of delinquency and the feeble-minded are
protected and directed to aid in their own support. The author’s work
with soldiers has shown an astonishing degree of variation in
intelligence among normal people.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
“His theory of an intellectual aristocracy is intensely interesting
and appealing.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 160w
=GOIZET, LOUIS HENRI.= Never grow old. *$2 (6c) Putnam 612.68
20–18316
The author claims to have discovered a method by which man can live in
beauty and health for more than a hundred years. It is based on the
theory that perfect health requires absolute rectitude of form without
which static equilibrium and harmony of the organic functions are
impossible. The method consists of a system of “superficial tractile
rubbings” by which the free circulation of “the rotary molecular
current” is reestablished throughout the cells of the organized being.
The book falls into two parts, of which the first develops the law on
which the theory is based and the second treats of the method. Some of
the chapters in part two are: Causes of alteration in form; The
rectitude of forms; Rectification of form.
* * * * *
“The book contains much suggestive argument and speculation.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 80w
“It can be said, however, that the first half of the book leads the
way to its climax with a relentless logic—providing always that the
author’s premises are correct—that is truly delightful and admirably
lucid.” Van Buren Thorne
+ =N Y Times= p5 N 14 ’20 1850w
=GOLDBERG, ISAAC.= Studies in Spanish-American literature. *$2.50
Brentano’s 860
20–2423
“‘It is high time we arouse ourselves to an appreciation of the ideals
and merits of Spanish-American literature’ writes Prof. J. D. M. Ford
in his introduction to ‘Studies in Spanish-American literature.’ Dr
Goldberg discusses the modernist spirit and five of its prophets,
Dario of Nicaragua, Rodo of Uruguay, Chocano and Eguren of Peru,
Blanco-Fombona of Venezuela. Many poems and philosophical and
political points of view are quoted in both the original and
translation. Several rhymed translations are by Alice Stone
Blackwell.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Ath= p493 Ap 9 ’20 40w
“The puzzling thing about Dr Goldberg is that while in Spanish verse
he is sensitive to delicate shades of rhythm and cadence, for an
English equivalent he seems ready to accept anything which comes to
hand.” J. B. T.
+ − =Ath= p902 D 31 ’20 520w
“Though a scholarly work, its swift, lucid style and novelty of
subject give it an appeal for the general reader.”
+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20
“His study of Dario’s poetry is enthusiastic and appreciative; it is
marked with the fairest critical spirit. This may also be declared of
his entire treatment of the ‘Modernistas.’” T: Walsh
+ =Bookm= 51:235 Ap ’20 1300w
“As a work of scholarship, Dr Goldberg’s book is of tremendous value.
It is written to appeal to the general reader, and appeal it will, if
swift, lucid style and novelty of subject matter count for anything.”
G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 750w
“Novelty, fairness and lucidity mark these studies.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w
“A book of permanent value, really necessary in any collection of
world literature.” T: Walsh
+ =Nation= 110:624 My 8 ’20 750w
“It is a book of pleasant reading, for Dr Goldberg’s style is florid
and, were it not for a trifle too much effort, would be brilliant. The
chief significance of these studies is, however, as the first effort
to provide a sound literary criticism of the work of South American
writers.” H. K.
+ =New Repub= 23:288 Ag 4 ’20 620w
“Dr Goldberg’s scholarship is good in essentials. Unfortunately,
however, he can not be complimented for carefulness in little things.
In spite of the general clarity of his style, there are now and then
pages far from clear.” F: B. Luquiens
+ − =Review= 2:335 Ap 3 ’20 1500w
“Dr Goldberg has written in great detail, with diction lucid and at
times sparkling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 16 ’20 340w
=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Fight for freedom. (Plays for a people’s theatre)
*$1.25 Seltzer 822
20–12048
In this four act play a war-maddened young soldier assaults the girl
who had asked to be relieved from her engagement to him on the ground
that she has learned to love another. The development of the play
brings out the attitudes of the various characters toward the man
himself, his act, and the girl concerned. These vary from the
sentimental attitude of those who would forgive “our boys” anything to
that of the two radicals to whom personal considerations are nothing
in the face of the coming revolution. Henri Barbusse has written a
preface and there is an introduction by the author.
* * * * *
“It is a clever pamphlet play, but there is more speechifying than
dialogue.”
+ − =Ath= p321 Mr 5 ’20 90w
“Mr Goldring’s best is in the sudden reversal from the expected toward
the end of his play, when his theoretical revolutionary becomes
human—and a bit detestable for once.” Gilbert Seldes
− + =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 100w
“If it were not for Mr Goldring’s introduction, it would be very hard
to believe that anyone could seriously contribute this muscle-bound
thesis-play as anything the people or anybody else but a theatrical
antiquarian would be interested in.” Kenneth Macgowan
− =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Dorothy Grafly
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 580w
“‘The fight for freedom’ is a good play quite apart from any
pretensions to be different in character from the social plays of the
pre-war theater. It is, in fact, in direct line with the best work of
Shaw, Galsworthy and Barker.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 50w
=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Margot’s progress. *$1.90 (1½c) Seltzer
20–9785
The story of a social climber. Maggie Carter, a grocer’s daughter from
Montreal, goes to Paris with three thousand dollars capital and there
becomes Margot Cartier. Her small capital is to tide her over the
brief period until her beauty, which is her real asset, has won her an
advantageous marriage. And it all works out as she planned. Thru the
Falkenheims, rich Jews whom she meets on the boat, she is introduced
to London society. Renewal of acquaintance with an old Canadian
connection gives the right suggestion of social background, and she
becomes Lady Stokes. But the marriage does not turn out well. An
elderly admirer dies and leaves her a legacy, which provides both the
means to freedom and the excuse for a quarrel with her husband. She is
divorced and goes to Paris, where the outbreak of the war finds her.
At the close there is promise of a second marriage with a man she
loves.
* * * * *
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:67 S ’20 700w
“Vigorous, varied, and colourful.”
+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 60w
“The story is interesting, vigorously told, with an unusual power of
vivid, direct presentation, fired too with a nervous intentness. But
after all, it is not a book that gives one much comfort. One concedes
its merits, but without enthusiasm. One feels, on finishing it, like
turning to Ali Baba or Cinderella or Lord Dunsany as an antidote.” C.
F. L.
+ − =Grinnell R= 16:355 F ’21 220w
“It is the kind of story which might easily be preposterous but is
convincingly inevitable.”
+ =Ind= 103:321 S 11 ’20 210w
“Beneath the superficial reaction of enjoyment derived from an
entertaining story there ran a strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction
and resentment at the author for toying with a genuine and precious
talent. In ‘Margot’s progress,’ Goldring has written a
‘best-seller’—superior in many points to the American product, but
nevertheless a best-seller, with all its tawdry virtues and
triple-plated vices.” Max Endicoff
− + =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 410w
“It is highly enjoyable reading and without a dull moment from cover
to cover.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 450w
“One may find some of Margot’s sophisticated conversation a little
grating; but, for that matter, one will find a good deal about Margot
and her acquaintances a little grating. Still there is a driving force
to her ambition that wins toleration, if not admiration. The story
gains in emotional force and dramatic intensity as it progresses.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 580w
=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Reputations; essays in criticism. *$2.50 Seltzer
824
20–17759
These criticisms and appreciations of some of the younger English
novelists, poets and contemporary writers with some literary
reflections in general are: James Elroy Flecker—an appreciation and
some personal memories; Three Georgian novelists—Compton
Mackenzie—Hugh Walpole—Gilbert Cannan; The later work of D. H.
Lawrence; Mr Wells and the war; The war and the poets; An outburst on
Gissing; The author of “Tarr”; The Gordon Selfridge of English
letters; Redding “on wines”; Clever novels; 1855; Low tastes; Looking
back. There is an index.
* * * * *
“We have bitter need at the present time for a reconsideration of
critical principles; for a non-partisan criticism to disperse the
miasma of name-worship and of chaotic emotionalism, which are the
part-legacy of war; and, in view of this need, it is refreshing to
read Mr Goldring’s brilliant, and rather contemptuous, onslaught upon
public idols.”
+ − =Ath= p827 Je 25 ’20 700w
Reviewed by R. E. Roberts
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 7 ’20 400w
“Possibly Mr Goldring is a little too fluent; his judgments roll off
somewhat like first thoughts, and he is a little amusing in his
consciousness of maturity. But he has an unmistakable knack of hitting
precisely the strength and weakness of those whom he discusses.” C. M.
R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 390w
+ − =Nation= 111:383 O 6 ’20 230w
“His comments on the intellectual life of England are exceedingly
worth while and his marginal notes, those paragraphs that embroider
his critical articles, are extremely valuable. The reader knows
definitely where he stands. Beside his critical acumen is a deal of
genuine, worth-while information.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 3 ’20 640w
“In this book the author once more gives proof of his remarkable
receptivity, his power of seizing and reproducing the surface
impressions of the circle in which he moves. That there is nothing
either well-thought-out or valuable in these essays is hardly so much
his fault as his misfortune. The lighter sketches are incomparably the
better, and should prove to him his true vocation.”
− + =Sat R= 130:124 Ag 7 ’20 80w
“It is a long while since anything more delightful in the way of a
literary study has appeared than Mr Goldring’s ‘James Elron Flecker.’
The study seems to the present writer to be the best essay in the
book, clever as is most of the rest—that and a piece entitled ‘Low
tastes,’ for these are almost the only two in which Mr Goldring does
not obtrude his political opinions.”
+ − =Spec= 125:473 O 9 ’20 560w
“The best paper in the volume—because the most thoroughly studied—is
that on James Elroy Flecker. On the whole, there is nothing
distinguished in these criticisms, though Mr Goldring is to be
credited with flashes of illumination and a pungent style.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ’20 450w
“As he has a gift for seeing beneath the genius to the man, and can
attend a tea-party for the pleasure of saying afterwards how trivial
he found it, his book is not devoid of spice, though its prose is
undistinguished and sometimes slack.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p370 Je 10 ’20 300w
=GOLDSMITH, MILTON (ASTRA CIELO, pseud.).= I wonder why. il *$1.75 (2½c)
Sully 504
20–1376
A book designed to provide answers to children’s many questions,
giving information on “the how, when, and wherefore of many things.”
The first chapter tells how the Palmer family came to organize the
I-wonder-why club, with half-hour sessions daily. The remaining
chapters, devoted to the club’s discussions, take up such subjects as
Light, Sun, moon and planets, The stars, Comets and meteors, Air,
Water, Fire, Heat, Sound, Rocks, Coal, Metals, Electricity,
Photography, Moving pictures, Clocks, Butterflies and moths, etc.
* * * * *
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 120w
=GOMPERS, SAMUEL.= Labor and the common welfare. *$3 Dutton 331
20–224
“A compilation of the writings and addresses of Samuel Gompers, edited
by Hayes Robbins. To be followed by ‘Labor and the employer,’ the two
volumes together forming a comprehensive work on labor movements and
labor problems in America.” (Brooklyn) “It is a compilation from
official reports to A. F. of L. conventions, articles in American
Federationist, testimony before congressional committees, public
addresses of President Gompers, and other documents. The selections
include data from the earliest reports of the federation. The material
is presented under classified headings according to the subject and is
generally presented in chronological order.” (N Y Call)
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:365 Je ’20 70w
+ − =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:97 Mr ’20 40w
“In it are adequately set forth the solid, conservative policies of
the long-time president of the American federation of labor. But the
thoughts are the thoughts of history rather than of the present; the
reader who would know what labor is thinking now must supplement the
Gompers philosophy with many creations of a new régime of ideas.” E.
D. Strong
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:257 O ’20 850w
“We had occasion a few weeks ago to notice a book of the Civic
federation, one chapter being written by James W. Sullivan of the A.
F. of L. Our judgment was that the national officials of the
organization had become trade union chauvinists. This latest volume
confirms our impression. Nevertheless, we are glad to have this book.
The selections by Robbins are excellent and no matter whether the
reader agrees or does not agree with Mr Gompers, this compilation is
valuable for his partisans and all others interested in the history of
the American federation of labor.” James Oneal
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Mr 14 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
=Review= 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 850w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 30w
“Fortunately Mr Gompers is unusually gifted in expression due in part,
no doubt, to unusual clarity of thought.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 17 ’20 140w
+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 420w
=GOMPERS, SAMUEL.= Labor and the employer; comp. and ed. by Hayes
Robbins. (Labor movements and labor problems in America) *$3.50 Dutton
331.8
20–12195
“With its companion volume, ‘Labor and the common welfare,’ this book
gives a complete review of American social problems as Mr Gompers has
known them during the past thirty-five years.” (R of Rs) “The book is
made up of excerpts from reports, speeches, testimony, writings and
editorials classified under such major headings as Employers and
employers’ organizations, Wages, Hours of work, The ‘open’ shop, Women
in industry, Unemployment, Insurance and compensation, Limitation of
output, Strikes, Arbitration and collective bargaining, Profit sharing
and Industrial democracy. Within each group are arranged
chronologically the various minor topics which naturally come under
the major headings.” (Survey)
* * * * *
“A valuable, authoritative statement of the attitude of official
unionism on important labor issues.”
+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“To those who seek to grasp some of the inwardness of the unfolding
labor movements of the day, and particularly to the employer who would
like to know what the trade unionist’s views are upon the subjects of
employers and employers’ organizations, ... and a host of related
subjects touching the relationship of employer and employee, this book
will prove especially useful.” W. E. Atkins
+ =J Pol Econ= 28:791 N ’20 530w
“It is pathetic to drive through these 311 pages by Mr Gompers and
realize how his enemies waste his time in dispute on ancient matters.
In this time of change he has nothing to offer but the values and
standards of an age that is dead. He ought to be freed for thinking
out the problems of his day in the setting of his vast experience.
When he does let himself go, he has a fine rebel stroke.” Arthur
Gleason
− + =Nation= 111:302 S 11 ’20 1000w
+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w
“Such a book as this is as necessary for the employer who desires
authoritative information as to what official trade unions think, as
it is for the union man who wants to keep himself informed on the
various phases of the movement. It bristles with controversial
possibilities, demonstrates the profound conservatism of Mr Gompers
and is remarkably free from such inconsistencies as one might expect
in the recorded pronouncements covering a period of nearly thirty
years.” J. D. Hackett
+ =Survey= 44:637 Ag 16 ’20 420w
=GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY.=[2] Germany and the French revolution. *$5.50
(*14s) Longmans 830.9
20–8640
“The object of this book is to measure the repercussion of the French
revolution on the mind of Germany. It is a study of the intellectual
ferment in Germany following the fall of the Bastille, of the effect
produced by the revolution on the minds of thinkers and men of letters
such as Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, Herder, Klopstock, Humboldt, Fichte
and Hegel, and of statesmen such as Hardenberg and Stein. Secondarily
it outlines the influence of French revolutionary ideas on German
institutions.”—Sat R
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p605 My 7 ’20 1200w
+ =N Y Times= p16 Ag 1 ’20 2400w
“The book will enormously enhance the already high esteem in which Mr
Gooch is held among historians. Ability in synthetic treatment is
allied to entire impartiality and exact knowledge, so that the
generalisation necessary to the making of a coherent story neither
outweighs nor is sacrificed to completeness and accuracy of detail.”
+ =Sat R= 130:360 O 30 ’20 850w
“He has produced a work of erudition, which because of the wealth of
materials investigated and summarized, as well as the objectivity and
clarity of his presentation, becomes the standard book of reference on
the subject. No one should lightly undertake the task of reading it,
for it is closely packed and assumes much information on political and
cultural conditions of the day. Nor has the author succeeded beyond
cavil in his synthesis.” C: Seymour
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:418 Ja ’21 260w
=GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY.= Life of Lord Courtney. il *$7 Macmillan
(Eng ed 20–13567)
“With Lord Courtney there passed away, in the spring of 1918, almost
the last survivor of a great tradition. It was the tradition of John
Stuart Mill, of Fawcett, of Leslie Stephen, of Henry Sidgwick, the
tradition of reason, conscience and liberty.... From this service to
reason and conscience it followed that Lord Courtney was a liberal, in
that proper sense of the term which is independent of political party.
Of imperialism of every kind, economic or other, Lord Courtney was an
uncompromising opponent. When the war broke out, Lord Courtney was
eighty-one years old. He might well have thought, as others, younger
than he, did, that he was exempt from taking part in the battle of
opinion at home. But he was driven by his sleepless conscience, even
at the height of the storm of violence and hate, to put in his plea
for reason and reconciliation.” (Ath) “Mr Gooch allows Courtney to do
most of the presentation for himself, by extracts from his
correspondence or his speeches or, what comes to very much the same
thing, by numerous quotations from the journal kept by Lady Courtney
throughout their married life. The book opens with one of its most
attractive features, a memoir of his own early days in Cornwall
dictated by Courtney in 1901.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“In Mr Gooch Lord Courtney has found an admirable biographer. His wide
and exact knowledge of contemporary politics is always felt in the
background and never obtruded. He lets his hero speak for himself,
and, what cannot have been easy, suppresses his own judgment and
opinions.” G. L. D.
+ =Ath= p105 Jl 23 ’20 2900w
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 11 ’20 600w
“Mr G. P. Gooch has written an interesting life of a not very
attractive minor personality in politics. The keynote of Courtney’s
character was an unbending independence of thought, speech, and
conduct, and this quality is so rare in modern politics that the
record of his career is thereby invested with a charm that does not
attach to the man.”
+ =Sat R= 130:54 Ag 17 ’20 1200w
“Mr Gooch’s biography, though marred by several bad misprints like
‘the great Llama,’ is a competent and judicious portrait and an
instructive contribution to contemporary history.”
+ − =Spec= 124:17 Jl 3 ’20 1900w
“His was in fact a personality that could not be ignored, one that
needs accounting for even to such as believed all his views to be
wrong. Mr Gooch’s book will help towards this understanding. It is
fortunate that Lady Courtney found a biographer so much in sympathy
with her husband’s views and yet so self-effacing.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p411 Jl 1 ’20 1900w
=GOODE, WILLIAM THOMAS.= Bolshevism at work. *$1.60 (4½c) Harcourt,
Brace & Howe 335
20–6220
The author of the present volume, special correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian in Eastern Europe, went to Moscow to study the
actual working of the government in Soviet Russia on the spot. Since
this reputedly so “destructive” government had lasted two years he
meant to discover its possible constructive side. Among his findings
are: a strong government with strong and sincere men, capable
administrators at its head; laws enforced with equality and justice; a
marked orderliness instead of anarchy, and the peacefulness of the
daily occupations and business of life astonishing. He found that “the
Russian revolution is at bottom a moral, even a puritanical
revolution, making for simplicity and purity of life and government”
and that “no amount of pressure can fit the Russian people with a
government framed and forged in the West.” Contents: Interview with
Lenin; Interview with Tchitcherin; Bolshevism and industry; Bolshevism
and the land; Bolshevism and labor; Trades’ unions in Soviet Russia;
Bolshevik food control; Transport in Soviet Russia; Bolshevism and
education; Bolshevik judicial system; Bolshevism and national hygiene;
Bolshevik state control; School of soviet workers; A Bolshevik home of
rest; Conclusions.
* * * * *
=Ath= p226 F 13 ’20 100w
=Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“His Russian version is at least consistent and coherent, though it
leaves many things unanswered.” Harold Kellock
+ − =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w
“It is clear that the writer approaches the Bolsheviki with
unfavorable preconceptions and, finding their character and their
conduct unlike what he had been led to expect, allowed himself to be
carried too far in appreciation. We miss the guarded reserve which is
discernible in an avowed sympathizer like Mr Ransome.”
+ − =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 360w
“As evidence of the real situation the book has little value. Mr Goode
was clearly disposed before he went to admire all that the Bolsheviks
had done or proposed to do.”
− =Spec= 124:216 F 14 ’20 120w
“He has no conception of the real range of his subject, and that makes
his book of very little value.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F19 ’20 260w
=GOODHART, ARTHUR LEHMANN.= Poland and the minority races. *$2.50
Brentano’s 914.38
20–15472
“Mr Goodhart was attached to the mission sent in the summer of last
year into Poland by the American government to inquire into the Jewish
question. He accompanied the mission on their journey, and has now
published his diary made at the time. So it comes, therefore, that we
have much of the raw material on which Mr Morgenthau’s and General
Jadwin’s reports, which have been published by the American
government, were based. In addition to the light which it throws upon
the Jewish problem, the book is interesting as giving pictures of the
more general conditions of life and society in Poland.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p521 O 15 ’20 200w
“Captain Goodhart’s diary holds the reader’s attention from the first
page to the last. Occasional humorous anecdotes enliven an otherwise
rather sordid recital.”
+ =Cath World= 112:405 D ’20 190w
“The most sensitive Pole cannot object to the book, neither can the
Jews, and the American can by reading it get a splendid idea of the
Poland of today. Reading the book will increase one’s knowledge but
not one’s faith in the human race.” E. A. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:358 F ’21 250w
=N Y Evening Post= p24 O 23 ’20 90w
“Captain Goodhart recorded incidents he saw and heard, without
prejudice, as a keen observer, with a fine sense of humor and of
fairness. His diary is a very readable little book, containing much
information that is quite valuable and entertaining. He holds no brief
for either side.” Herman Bernstein
+ =N Y Times= p6 D 12 ’20 2150w
=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 100w
=Spec= 125:185 Ag 7 ’20 180w
“Full of local touches and descriptions of life in Poland which make
it very vivid. One cannot help wondering a little that in the
publication of a diary of experiences by a representative of a
government commission no reference is made to the final report of the
commission.” M. A. Chickering
+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 250w
“Mr Goodhart has written a very interesting book on Poland which,
though unassuming in form, will be of more help to the ordinary reader
in understanding Polish conditions and Polish problems than many more
elaborate works.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 Ag19 ’20 1200w
=GOODRICH, CARTER LYMAN.= Frontier of control: a study of British
workshop politics. *$2 (4c) Harcourt 331.1
20–20526
Industrial unrest today is less a matter of wages than of control of
industry. It is a “straining of the spirit of man to be free.” The
author went to England to study the present extent of workers’ control
in British industry and the book states the facts of his findings
without generalizations. R. H. Tawney writes a foreword to the book in
which he states the task the author has set himself to do as: “the
analysis of industrial relationships, of the rules enforced by trade
unions and employers’ associations, of the varying conditions which
together constitute ‘the custom of the trade’ in each particular
industry, and of the changes in all these which took place during the
war.” The book falls into two parts: Introduction: The demand for
control; and The extent of control. Some of the chapters under the
latter are: The frontier of control; Employment; Unemployment; “The
right to a trade”; “The right to sack”; The choice of foremen; Special
managerial functions. There is a note on sources and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21
“The study forms an excellent basis for generalizations concerning
complete self-government in industry.”
+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 120w
=GOODWIN, JOHN.=[2] Without mercy. *$2 (2c) Putnam
20–14762
The story of a mother’s fight for her daughter’s happiness. Margaret
Garth is the only child of Mrs Enid Garth, head of Garth’s, London’s
most powerful bank. When Margaret promises to become the wife of John
Orme, she arouses the enmity of Sir Melmoth Craven, an unsuccessful
suitor, and he determines to seek revenge. So the story resolves
itself into the conflict of wits and wills between Mrs Garth and Sir
Melmoth. Both are strong and clever characters and both have powerful
interests behind them. Sir Melmoth is entirely unscrupulous and
hesitates at nothing, whether it be abducting the girl, or convicting
her fiance of wilful murder. On the other hand, Mrs Garth, where
Margaret’s happiness is concerned, is absolutely without mercy, and as
she has right on her side, she finally wins out, after a series of
shrewd moves on both sides.
* * * * *
“Even for a ‘first book’ this novel is quite bad. It is so full of
melodramatic clap-trap, one fails to see the trees for the wood.
In style it is a frothing brook; in sentiment it is strained and
banal; its wooden motivation reflects its still more wooden
characterizations.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 140w
“Notwithstanding its crudity of style and the lack of any really
powerful passages anywhere, the novel holds the interest to the end.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 290w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 100w
=GORDON, ALEXANDER REID.= Faith of Isaiah, statesman and evangelist.
(Humanism of the Bible ser.) *$2.25 Pilgrim press 224
(Eng ed 20–6575)
“This series, in which Mr Gordon’s book makes the eighth volume, has
been marked by its judicious selection of subject; and by its success
in presenting to modern minds a fresh significance in studies of Job,
Proverbs, the Psalms, St Paul, etc. Isaiah lends itself specially to
this ‘humanistic’ treatment in the hands of a well-known exponent of
the Old Testament literature who is a professor at McGill university
and at Presbyterian college, Montreal. It is not his rôle to enter
into critical discussion of text and authorship, but he necessarily
accepts and embodies in his historical setting of the parts of the
Book of Isaiah the conclusions of modern criticism as to the
Deutero-Isaiah. Many of the numerous poetical translations (and parts
of the text) are reproduced from Dr Gordon’s ‘Prophets of the Old
Testament.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“From the point of view of homiletics it may be acclaimed
unhesitatingly as high-grade work. While the book is an example of
stimulating preaching, yet one feels that the reader will come away
from it with a very unsatisfactory and hazy idea of the real Isaiah.”
+ − =Bib World= 54:436 Jl ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 130w
=GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER.= Humanism in New England theology. *$1.25 (18c)
Houghton 285
20–5985
This little book commemorates the tercentennial year of the landing of
the Pilgrims. The author holds that every form of theism is founded
upon a humanistic interpretation of the universe; that the New England
divinity is at heart a variety of humanism which will endure as a type
although as a system of opinion it has passed away. He moreover holds
that there are two great types of theism, the Unitarian and the
Trinitarian; the New England theology belonging to the latter. Coming
in a direct line of descent from this faith the author confesses
himself as an “out-and-out Trinitarian” whose conception of man is
that of an essentially social being. The essay appeared in the Harvard
Theological Review for April, 1907.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 3 ’20 580w
“We wish that he had avoided the treacherous word ‘humanism.’ We have
dwelt on this linguistic point because it really corresponds to a
loose way of thinking, now too general, and, in particular, points to
a vice in Dr Gordon’s treatment of theology which goes far, in our
opinion, to negate the value of an otherwise interesting book. To us
the best of the book, which withal has much to commend, is its more
personal characterization of some of the earlier divines.”
+ − =Review= 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 S 28 ’20 600w
=GORDON, MARY DANIEL.= Crystal ball. il *$2 (5½c) Little
20–17022
A fairy story. The dearest wish of the King of Moondom is to possess
the crystal ball from the garden of the sun. His two children, Prince
Jock and Princess Joan make up their minds to get it for him for a
birthday gift, and equipped with a tin of biscuits, toy pistol,
drinking cups and compass, they set forth. A tinker joins their
expedition and a gypsy fortune teller helps them on their way and they
are successful in the object of their quest.
* * * * *
“A story which the young people will read with eagerness.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 210w
“Her tale is lively, if undistinguished.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 110w
=GORDON-SMITH, GORDON.= From Serbia to Jugoslavia; Serbia’s victories,
reverses and final triumph, 1914–1918. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 949.7
20–6737
To this “story of Serbia’s crucifixion,” S. Y. Grouitch, minister of
the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, contributes a foreword and says of the
author that he has followed the Serbian campaign personally and
closely, as war correspondent attached to the Serbian headquarters.
The introduction contains a brief history of the political and
military constellation of the Balkan states at the beginning of the
war and the book is not only a record of the heroic struggles and
sufferings of “one of the bravest peoples in the world” but of a
series of Allied mistakes committed along the eastern front, which,
the author claims, were responsible for much of the defeat and
suffering and for a prolongation of the war. The book falls into two
parts: 1, From the Danube to Durazzo—the Germano-Austro-Bulgarian
attack on Serbia; and 2, The campaign on the Salonica front. There is
an insert general map of the Balkan war area.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:24 O ’20
“We are impressed first of all with the clarity which distinguishes Mr
Gordon-Smith’s exposition of the Serbian war story.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 630w
=Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 30w
“The book is of absorbing interest.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 80w
“As a history of the heroic and tragic part played by Serbia in the
great war Gordon-Smith’s book ‘From Serbia to Jugoslavia’ fills a
useful place. There is perhaps too much special pleading.”
+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 60w
=GORELL, RONALD GORELL BARNES, 3d baron.= Pilgrimage. *$2.40 Longmans
821
20–18248
“After the poem called Pilgrimage from which the volume is named, and
in which the author gives the key of his spiritual aspiration, there
is a group of Shorter poems, four tales of fairly good narrative
measure, Youth in idleness, On the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, The
coward, and Autumn in Flanders, a suspended commentary on the war, and
group of dramatic episodes called Closing scenes, which chronicle the
last moments of Hannibal, Mary Stuart, a district commissioner dying
of fever in Africa, and the garrulous retrospection of an aged London
clerk on a dull, sultry August day.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Ath= p472 O 8 ’20 150w
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 1400w
“Lord Gorell has two distinct manners. The shorter pieces are
sensitive and wistful, but he can also manipulate the grand style, and
in the finely imagined recitative of ‘The district commissioner’ he
has given us the best thing of the kind that has been written since
Lyall’s ‘Theology in extremis.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p361 Je 10 ’20 580w
=GORICAR, JOSEF, and STOWE, LYMAN BEECHER.= Inside story of
Austro-German intrigue; or, How the world war was brought about. *$3
(3½c) Doubleday 940.311
20–5203
Dr Gori[)c]ar, who supplied the facts for this volume is a Slovene who
was for fourteen years in the Austro-Hungarian foreign service where
he received first-hand knowledge of the rivalries and intrigues which
preceded the war. Albert Bushnell Hart, in his introduction to the
volume, points out its object as being an examination into three
fundamental questions: (1) the criminal policy which it (the empire)
pursued in foreign affairs, including the partnership with Germany in
a far-reaching plan of conquest and spoliation; (2) the enmity alike
of Germans and Magyars to the Slavs, whether within or without their
empire; and (3) the deliberate bringing on of the great war to serve
the arrogance and ambition of the ruling classes. Successive chapters
are devoted to the various attempts of the Austro-German war parties
to precipitate a war against Serbia and Russia, between 1906–1914 till
at last a casus belli was constructed out of the archduke’s murder.
Among the closing chapters are: Russian mobilization as the cause of
the war—a glimpse behind the scenes in Berlin during the first three
months of the war; Mobilizing half a million men in America—how the
Austro-Hungarian consulates secretly raised an army behind America’s
back. There is an appendix.
* * * * *
“His wide contacts with diplomatic affairs make this a contribution of
new views based on materials hitherto inaccessible.”
+ =Booklist= 16:274 My ’20
“Although the greater part of the historical material introduced by Dr
Goricar is not new, he manages to throw a number of fresh sidelights
on the general program of the German-Austrian-Magyar war parties.
Reliance on newspaper opinion is notoriously dangerous but Dr Goricar
quotes so profusely and intelligently that his case is materially
strengthened.” H. F. Armstrong
+ =Nation= 111:sup420 O 13 ’20 1500w
“As Mr Lyman Beecher Stowe is responsible for the English, it is
unnecessary to say the style is lucid and simple. One can never miss
the author’s meaning, and this makes a book which otherwise might be
difficult very easy reading. The revelations made in this volume are
by no means new to any diplomatist stationed in Europe during the
years immediately preceding 1914; but for the public at large they are
admirably stated here.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:115 Mr 14 ’20 3000w
=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 160w
=GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF).= Night’s lodging;
scenes from Russian life in four acts. (Contemporary dramatists ser.)
*$1 Four seas co. 891.7
20–26568
This drama of the underworld is translated from the Russian by Edwin
Hopkins and is here printed with an introduction by Henry T.
Schnittkind. The latter contains a short summary of Gorki’s life with
an equally short characterization of his dramas.
* * * * *
“Mr Hopkins’s translation is frequently uncouth and difficult to read.
Undoubtedly that is true of the original—but in a different way, since
it represents the staccato utterance of Russian speech. One could
hardly imagine it possible that in its present form it would be
intelligible on the stage. But who would desire to see it on the
stage?”
− =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 240w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 330w
=GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF).=[2] Reminiscences
of Leo Tolstoy. *$1.50 Huebsch
The reminiscences are pieced together from notes jotted down after
various meetings between the author and Tolstoy. Gorki knew Tolstoy
intimately and reveals him in many new lights and from many different
angles. Sometimes he is very human, sometimes the impression is that
of a pilgrim “terribly homeless and alien to all men and things”;
always he is infinitely wise. Gorki did not love him but felt: “I am
not an orphan on the earth so long as this man lives on it.” At his
death he did indeed feel orphaned and cried inconsolably and in bitter
despair. He leaves this predominant impression of Tolstoy: “This man
is godlike.” The translators of the book from the Russian are S. S.
Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.
* * * * *
Reviewed by S. Koteliansky
=Ath= p587 Ap 30 ’20 2300w
“In his attempt to ‘understand’ Tolstoy. Gorky enjoyed the
considerable advantage of being himself a Russian. We do not know the
precise value of this qualification, but we may suppose it to be
considerable. On the other hand, we think that Gorky was at a
considerable disadvantage in being a romantic.” J. W. N. S.
+ − =Ath= p77 Jl 16 ’20 1300w
“To convey so much in so short a book is a nice illustration of
Gorky’s own courageous expressiveness. Because he respected his
emotions regarding this old Titan of Russia, we have now one of the
most real of biographical contributions. And yet most editors and
publishers would have felt that these were mere fragments and would
have howled for the circumstantiality of ‘fact.’” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 25:172 Ja 5 ’21 1450w
“Withal, the greatness of Tolstoy’s remarkable personality is enhanced
rather than diminished by this snapshot of the old ‘earth-man,’ to use
Merejkovsky’s term, which here takes on a special significance.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 250w
“Gorky’s book is particularly valuable because it reveals not only
Tolstoy as he saw him, but unconsciously Gorky reveals himself also.”
Herman Bernstein
+ =N Y Times= p3 Ja 9 21 3100w
“It will be seen how penetrating a study Gorky has made and how the
man who emerges from his powerful charcoal lines differs from the smug
‘child of nature’ of the official portraits.”
+ =Spec= 125:212 Ag 14 ’20 1350w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p441 Jl 8 ’20 40w
“Tolstoy was too great for official biography; Gorky saw him only in
fragments, but he has drawn him as Tolstoy drew his own characters, or
rather, perhaps, as Dostoevsky drew his. There is no effort at an
unreal synthesis, none even at judgment; what might seem to be
judgment is only a record of feelings which are strong and excessive
as their subject was strong and excessive.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p453 Jl 15 ’20 1200w
=GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM.= Some diversions of a man of letters. *$2.50
Scribner 824
A20–530
“To his latest collection of literary essays Mr Gosse gives the
cumbersome title ‘Some diversions of a man of letters.’ It combines in
its pages seventeen excursions into the highways and byways of
literature, its figures being of every grade of prominence from
Shakespeare to Caroline Trotter, the precursor of the bluestockings.
Here we shall find discussed not merely such obvious subjects as: The
charm of Sterne; The challenge of the Brontes; The centenary of Edgar
Allan Poe; and The lyric poetry of Thomas Hardy; but also the less
conspicuous but equally interesting material offered by the lives and
the literary work of Joseph and Thomas Warton, of Bulwer, of Disraeli,
and of Lady Dorothy Nevill. In addition Mr Gosse also discourses on:
Fluctuations of taste; The future of English poetry; and The agony of
the Victorian age.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Mr Gosse’s diversions are also our diversions; for to anyone with a
literary tincture of mind these miscellaneous studies in criticism and
biography are the best and most entertaining of reading. Perhaps the
best thing in the book is Mr Gosse’s account of two literary
revolutionaries of an earlier age, Joseph and Thomas Warton.” A. L. H.
+ =Ath= p1031 O 17 ’19 1600w
=Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20
“It is altogether likely that these essays will fail to please the
modern school of literary pencillers who scorn scholarship, and who
fancy that verbal smartness and triviality is the only method of
criticism. Mr Gosse writes with a light and pleasant touch. He is by
no means a dry-as-dust because he is serious, and here he has written
a series of papers that are a distinct contribution to the literature
of criticism.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 1300w
“As a literary man-of-the-world, unbewildered and unprejudiced, Mr
Gosse goes forth to pay his calls here and there down the centuries,
and returns to his club in Victoria street to chat with his intimates.
He is correct in dress and manner, discreet in speech; he says the
right thing to every one, and nearly always of every one. A Major
Pendennis of literature, one might say, he plays an important part in
the world which he has so long cultivated.” R. M. Lovett
+ =Dial= 68:777 Je ’20 1550w
“Mr Gosse is bravely determined not to be a mere praiser of time past.
His poise is beautiful; he is immensely urbane to the younger critic
and grants the latter’s contentions right and left. But he cannot hide
the sadness in his heart at the thought of the cold young men with
something inscrutable in their faces who despise so much that is
venerable and beautiful to him.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:690 My 22 ’20 1250w
“Suggestive and entertaining.” R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= 25:151 Ap 4 ’20 3100w
“He gives us a delightful collection of essays, distinguished in that
it is handsome in tone and written like a fine old English gentleman.”
+ =Review= 2:487 My 8 ’20 800w
“Mr Gosse’s essays on Sterne and the two Wartons are pure belles
lettres, but of the best brand.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:316 O 4 ’19 1200w
“The charm of his infectious admiration pervades nearly all the essays
that make up the volume now before us. The best and most
characteristic pages are those devoted to ‘Three experiments in
portraiture’; and of these the sketch of Lady Dorothy Nevill is easily
the most striking.”
+ =Spec= 123:504 O 18 ’19 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p529 O 2 ’19 1100w
=GOULDING, ERNEST.= Cotton and other vegetable fibres; their production
and utilisation. ii *$3 Van Nostrand 677
This is a British work based on studies made for the Imperial
institute. It is issued as one of the Imperial institute series of
handbooks to the commercial resources of the tropics, with a preface
by Wyndham R. Dunstan, director of the institute. Contents:
Introductory; Cotton; Cotton production in the principal countries and
the chief commercial varieties; Cotton growing in British West Africa
and other parts of the British empire; Flax, hemp, and ramie; Jute and
similar fibres; Cordage fibres; Miscellaneous fibres. A list of
principal publications on fibres occupies nine pages and there is an
index.
=GOWAR, EDWARD.= Adventures in Mother Goose land. il *$2.25 Little
20–16169
Noel was a little boy who wished to be put into a book and because he
made his wish in the time of the blue moon it came true. And the book
was all about Mother Goose, and his adventures in her country, where
he met the little man all dressed in leather, the old woman who lived
in a shoe and all the rest of them, are told in this story. There is
humor both in the telling of the story and in the illustrations, which
are by Alice Bolam Preston.
+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 90w
“His tale is cleverly contrived and attractively illustrated.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 100w
“It is entertainingly told and charmingly printed.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 70w
=GOWIN, ENOCH BURTON.= Developing executive ability. il $3 Ronald 658
19–11576
“A very simply written book for the young or prospective executive. It
deals mainly in developing attention to general matters of routine,
good working habits, office equipment and devices, rules for mental
and physical economy which will establish a spirit and habit of order.
Developed from lectures before commercial associations and business
classes. Bibliography. Index.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Designed primarily for the young executive, the book brings a wealth
of ideas before him, which only await application that they may yield
him a goodly return in economies of time, energy, and money.”
+ =Am Econ R= 9:829 D ’19 130w
=Booklist= 16:192 Mr ’20
+ =Pittsburgh= 24:456 O ’19 30w
=GRAÇA ARANHA, JOSÉ PEREIRA DA.= Canaan. *$2 (3c) Four seas co.
20–4216
Graça Aranha is a cultured Brazilian, prominent in the affairs of his
country, and a writer of many books, of which, says Guglielmo Ferrero
in his appreciative introduction: “‘Canaan’ is the most beautiful.”
The hero of the story is Milkau, a German colonist who, disillusioned
by the hypocrisies, hidden immoralities, and social and legal
injustices of the civilizations of Europe, imagines that here, in a
new country where the soil is virgin, unbroken, and the natives of
childlike simplicity, exists a golden state of human happiness, of joy
and work ideally blended, and little evil. For months his illusion
remains intact. Then, a wronged and persecuted young woman’s
misfortunes unveil for him the malicious injustices, cruelty, and
cupidity lurking here in the ideal country of his dreams. The close of
the story is vague—we do not know just what happens to Milkau and
Mary, but the scenes evoked in the last chapter are especially
powerful, ending in Milkau’s fervent dream and hope of a promised land
of justice and beauty yet to come through toil and faith. The novel is
translated from the Portuguese by Mariano J. Lorente.
* * * * *
“There is a distinctly noble flavor to the work, and certainly a large
humanity that marks it as something more than exclusively Brazilian in
significance. Indeed, for the thinking American of the north, between
Canada and the Rio Grande, the theme is of primary importance.
Millions have sought their ‘Canaan’ here and have been no more
successful than Milkau. And for similar reasons.” I: Goldberg
+ − =Bookm= 51:232 Ap ’20 560w
“‘The great American novel,’ Anatole France is said to have called
this book, which comes to us from Brazil. Whoever reads the first
hundred pages will be inclined to agree with him. Thereafter, it must
be confessed, the spell relaxes. Nevertheless, ‘Canaan’ leaves behind
it a powerful, memorable, beautiful impression. It is a book for both
the Americas.”
+ − =Freeman= 1:261 My 26 ’20 1050w