translation, the book is amorphous in a curiously old-fashioned way.
In spirit and structure it goes back to the first generation of the
romantic writers. What gives its value to the book is the picture
which, largely by means of discussion, Aranha presents of the
Brazilian civilization of today.”
− + =Nation= 110:337 Mr 13 ’20 950w
“As pure literature the book must take a lower rank than it commands
as a work of philosophy. It requires too attentive reading for
Simon-pure fiction. The author’s canvas is overcrowded with ideas. His
book is notable for the purity of its psychological analysis, for its
powers of characterization, for the vivid beauty of its descriptive
passages and for its scenes of tremendous dramatic power as much as it
is for the light it throws into the depths of an unusually reflective
mind.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:174 Ap 11 ’20 1650w
“Aside from the compelling interest of so vast a theme, and the
fascinating portrayal of Brazilian life, either of which place the
book in the first rank of modern novels, the intrinsic fineness of the
book lies in the exquisite poetry of its style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 3 ’20 850w
=GRAHAM, ALAN.= Follow the little pictures! *$1.75 (2½c) Little
20–13547
Two branches of an old English family are involved in this exciting
treasure hunt and the treasure itself could be located by deciphering
the puzzle picture left by the American ancestor to the only remaining
survivor of his family. The English representation of the family is an
irascible Scotch laird, the ingredients of whose character are cunning
and venom and a passion for recovering the treasure. He outwits all
the others that have gradually been let into the secret, but had not
reckoned on his son’s Belgian wife, a descendant of a Belgian servant
of the original Lord Tanish, who also has come into possession of a
document revealing the spot, and has married Roy Tanish on the
strength of it without loving him. She gets away with the loot, the
laird and Roy are killed in the wild pursuit, while the other persons
involved take the loss of the gold lightly, having found more precious
treasures.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“A good mystery story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 240w
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 300w
+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w
“The developments of the plot are ingenious.”
+ =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 20w
“Readers fond of mystery will find the tale to their liking.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 180w
“The author has chosen to set his scene in nowadays, and, to be sure,
a motor chase figures in it. But the story would have been as well
served by galloping horses. The dominant figure—the villain—would have
been so much more at home in a heavy wig and jackboots.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p257 Ap 22 ’20 200w
=GRAHAM, JAMES CHANDLER.= It happened at Andover; well, most of it did,
anyway. il *$1.90 (3½c) Houghton
20–15954
A series of stories and sketches of life at Phillips academy, Andover,
written by one of the teachers. Among the titles are: The
unappreciated; The transformation; The ringer; A new boy; The
infirmary; The foreign-born; A Napoleon of finance; Parents; The spy;
The landlady; An affaire du cœur; Taking a chance; The vamp.
* * * * *
“Boys, and girls too, will like these tales, but so will older
readers. A charming strain of humor enriches the sketches.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 70w
“One quite believes of the sketches and tales that ‘boys between the
ages of twelve and eighteen will find them absorbing and diverting’;
but largely as an illuminating and slightly scandalous glimpse into a
teacher’s mind. It is a book for adult non-combatants, retired
teachers or superannuated parents or ‘old boys’ who recall their
school days as a delightful lark.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 220w
=GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM.= Faith of a Quaker. *$8 Macmillan 289.6
(Eng ed 20–23038)
“The author is principal of Dalton Hall, the hall of residence for
Quaker students attending the University of Manchester, England, the
author of an excellent ‘Life of William Penn,’ and other works, and is
also a Quaker minister. The first four chapters, ‘The foundations,’
set forth the ideas of the author concerning God and man and the
relation they bear to each other. Dissertations on the ‘Son,’ the
‘Living Christ,’ and the ‘Personality of man’ follow, all based on
what precedes. The essay on war, which has been previously published,
is a presentation of the incompatibility of war with the spirit of
Christianity.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“The essentially mystical basis of Quakerism is well pointed out, and
some useful distinctions are drawn between the somewhat vehement
assertions of the early pioneers and the results of modern thinking.
The community of Quakers is not likely to object to the reverent, but
discriminating, analysis which is here given of many current
practices.”
+ =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 370w
“The book is written in a spirit of fair-mindedness and not of
partisanship.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 120w
“The book, as a whole, is badly arranged and loses thereby in force.
But the chief error of the author is that he has set forth as an
exposition of the Quaker faith that which the vast majority of the
Friends of England, as well as in America, would unhesitatingly
disown, and thus he gives a wrong impression of the teachings of the
body. Had the work been published as the faith of an individual seeker
after truth it would merit commendation as an earnest, strong,
thoughtful presentation.” A. C. Thomas
− + =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 23 ’20 720w
“It is when we come to intellectualize their position that the
problems arise. This is the point which Mr Graham does not seem
sufficiently to have apprehended, and yet it is surely the key to the
whole position. His explanations and argumentations are in consequence
too often extraneous, too often weakened by irrelevancies.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p434 Jl 8 ’20 1400w
=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Soul of John Brown (Eng title. Children of the
slaves). *$3 Macmillan 326.1
20–21927
This is an English observer’s report on the condition of the negro in
America today. He came to America to study the problem. He traveled
south by way of Baltimore and Washington to Virginia, passed on to
Georgia where he followed the track of Sherman’s march, went thru
Alabama and Mississippi and to New Orleans and then followed the river
north. He talked with negro workmen, preachers, teachers and doctors,
visited their schools, churches and theaters, and he reports on
lynching, the southern point of view, the effects of the war on the
negro, etc., and writes of the world aspect of the problem. He finds
that slavery left its taint on the white man as well as on the negro
and says it is a mistake to view this American problem as exclusively
a negro problem.
* * * * *
“The fact that in this book, as elsewhere, Mr Graham’s observations
are more valuable than his reflections, does not detract from its
simple, unescapable effect.”
+ =Ath= p615 N 5 ’20 570w
“Mr Graham has, with remarkable clearness of vision, analyzed our
problem of race relations. He has fallen into error in a few
instances, but the great bulk of his book is filled with a correct
interpretation of the innermost thoughts and aspirations of twelve
million Americans who seek to be free.” W. F. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 2 ’21 1100w
“He saw nothing, of course, that informed Americans do not know
already, but as an Englishman he saw from a new point of view, and
‘The soul of John Brown’ has the interest of a genuine freshness which
Mr Graham’s mystical habits of thought and expression do not obscure.”
+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 110w
“Mr Graham is an Englishman and may be forgiven for his mistakes in
American history, except in the case of his opening chapter, which is
lurid and dangerously misleading. It is entirely inconsistent with
subsequent chapters.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 1600w
“We are more impressed by what he saw and heard than by his arguments.
Sometimes, indeed, the latter are based on lack of knowledge.” E. C.
Willcox
+ − =Outlook= 127:109 Ja 19 ’21 1050w
“His report of what he saw and heard is of unusual interest because it
gives the observations of a man who began his study of the race
question in the South without prepossessions and with the simple
desire to learn the truth.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 100w
“The mischief of this sort of book is the fact that it cannot possibly
help forward the cause which the author has earnestly at heart. Like
most people who think with their hearts rather than with their heads,
Mr Graham seems to have taken very little trouble to learn more than
his own side of the question.”
− + =Sat R= 130:438 N 27 ’20 1050w
+ =Spec= 125:703 N 27 ’20 3000w
“Written with that easy yet glowing eloquence of which he is a master.
But the picture that he gives is more notable for generous sympathy
than for exact knowledge. It is, in important respects, one-sided and
misleading. The book is written in the spirit of the DuBois
propaganda, and again and again Mr Graham has taken the propagandist’s
view of certain matters which sociological investigators interpret
differently.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ’20 650w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p727 N 11 ’20 2500w
=GRANDGENT, CHARLES HALL.= Old and new. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 814
20–14542
“‘Old and new, sundry papers,’ is the title of a volume containing
eight essays and addresses by Professor C. H. Grandgent, of Harvard
university. Though covering a rather wide range of subjects, the
papers included ‘have this in common, that they treat, in general, of
changes in fashion, especially in matters of speech and of school.’
(Preface)” (Mod Philol) “‘Nor yet the new,’ is an address to the Smith
college chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa on May 17, 1919. The other
chapters are Fashion and the broad A, The dog’s letter, Numeric reform
in Nescioubia, Is modern language teaching a failure? The dark ages,
New England pronunciation and School.” (Springf’d Republican)
* * * * *
“Against everything contemporary he easily generates animosity so
intense that it strikes one as bizarre. On the pronunciation of
English as she is spoke in America, Professor Grandgent is popular and
amusing.”
− + =Ath= p811 D 10 ’20 240w
“‘Fashion and the broad A,’ ‘The dog’s letter,’ and ‘New England
pronunciation’ are scholarly yet delightful essays on subjects which
should interest every student of language. If there were more
philologists like Professor Grandgent, Mr H. L. Mencken would have
less occasion to complain that American college professors investigate
forgotten dialects to the neglect of living English.” T. P. Cross
+ =Mod Philol= 18:55 Ag ’20 500w
“Miscellaneous essays and addresses which, often thin as to argument,
are at times rich in illustration.”
+ − =Nation= 111:695 D 15 ’20 60w
“Most readers will agree that what these essays and addresses have in
common is their author’s wealth of reading and of reflection and his
brilliant wit, rather than any unity of theme.” J: Erskine
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 1350w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p2 Ja 16 ’21 1050w
+ =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 300w
“Prof. Grandgent’s witty impatience at new poetry extends to so many
departments of life that one need not fear challenge in fastening upon
him the epithet ‘conservative.’ The lighter papers of Prof.
Grandgent’s combining wit and scholarship, are meant to give pleasure
and will do so.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 680w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 70w
=GRANTHAM, MRS A. E.= Wisdom of Akhnaton. *$1.25 Lane 822
20–17687
A poetic drama based on incidents drawn from the life and reign of
Pharaoh Akhnaton, son of Amenhotep III, as read in the sculptures and
inscriptions brought to light by modern excavations. These evidences
reveal in the young ruler a new attitude toward life, a reversal of
all inherited values. “There was no room for greed and hate and war in
his conception of man’s destiny.... The episode chosen for
dramatization is the conflict between the claims of peace and war and
Akhnaton’s successful struggle to make his people acquiesce in his
policy of peace.” (Preface)
* * * * *
“His portrayal of the ruler who acts in defiance of his military
chiefs is managed with a good deal of skill and entire sympathy. The
verse is adequate throughout, and the climax might easily be made by
stage presentation into an impressive spectacle.”
+ =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 160w
“A poetic drama of some merit. If certain passages with too modern a
ring, which make his Pharaoh seem almost a President Wilson in
Egyptian robes, were brought into harmony with the tone of the period,
the play might have a success in representation.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 My 13 ’20 450w
=GRATTAN-SMITH, T. E.= True blue. il *$1.50 (2½c) Holt
20–14285
An Australian story for young people. Mel is a fourteen year old girl,
Ned is her brother, and Jim Stanley is their chum. The three are
expert in all outdoor sports, including surf riding, and Mel holds her
own with the boys. The story opens on Ned’s birthday, with a
hydroplane for a birthday gift. A few days later war is declared and
the new hydroplane plays an important part. Altho the war-time plot is
the now familiar one, involving the capture of German spies, the story
has an added interest in its descriptions of Australian sports.
* * * * *
“Up-to-date boys and girls will revel in this wholesome book, and,
unless we are mistaken, grown-ups will not wholly pass it by.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 S 12 ’20 160w
=GRAVES, CLOTILDE INEZ MARY (RICHARD DEHAN, pseud.).= Eve of Pascua, and
other stories. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–12450
With some exceptions the stories are comic and the title story tragic.
A typical Englishman, whose boast it was that he never had been in a
scrape with a woman, left England to escape the charms of one and
betook himself to Spain. Immediately on his arrival he finds himself
defending a woman against an infuriated mob. She is a famous dancer
who has incurred the hatred of her native town. As he is conducting
her to her home where she is seeking her mother’s reconciliation, they
are run down by a stampede of bulls. The girl is killed, he almost.
Later, when sufficiently recovered from his injuries he finds that it
was the sister who was killed and that the vilified girl has slipped
into the former’s place with the blind mother.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the book well sustains her reputation.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:553 Ja ’21 70w
=Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 40w
“These narratives are unmistakably the work not only of a ‘born
story-teller,’ but of a careful artist. There is a quality in the
title-story which, with whatever apologies and misgivings, we can only
suggest by the word ‘style.’” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 210w
“The medium of the short story is not very favorable to the work of
‘Richard Dehan.’”
+ − =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 40w
=GRAVES, FRANK PIERREPONT.= What did Jesus teach? an examination of the
educational material and method of the Master. *$1.75 Macmillan 232
19–18243
“The Christian association of the University of Pennsylvania started a
campaign a year ago to enroll 2000 students in Lenten Bible study. The
leaders were faculty men, secretaries, older students and outsiders,
and these were all taught in a normal class by Frank Pierrepont
Graves, dean of the school of education. Prof. Graves has yielded to a
strong demand for the publication of the study material, and it
appears as ‘What did Jesus teach?’ The book is based on the gospel of
Mark, and is arranged in such form as to be available for other
classes in college or out. Beginning with a study of the historical
sources for the teachings of Jesus, the book goes on with eight
chapters on Jesus as a teacher, his method of teaching, his ideas of
God and man, the ideals and reconstruction of life, the future, the
kingdom and the church, and modern society. A bibliography adds to the
value of the book.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“This book is an experiment in pedagogy rather than a contribution to
theological science. As an introductory book upon the subject, it
should prove useful for many readers.” S. J. C.
+ =Am J Theol= 24:475 Jl ’20 150w
“The book is noteworthy on two accounts. The first is the arrangement
of the material. The running margin makes it possible to grasp the
content of pages and paragraphs clearly and quickly. Also the
paragraphs bear interesting headings; there are suggestive chapter
summaries; the references to literature are excellent. The second
feature is the substance of the studies. The prevailing accent is upon
the ethical content of the teaching.”
+ =Bib World= 54:647 N ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 16:220 Ap ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 11 ’20 220w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w
=GRAVES, ROBERT.= Country sentiment. *$1.25 Knopf 821
20–6375
To quote from one of the poems, “Love, fear and hate and childish toys
are here descreetly blent.” It is the first and the last that
predominate. The other elements are to be found in the small group of
war poems called “Retrospect” that come at the end. Titles are: A
frosty night; A song for two children; The boy out of church; True
Johnny; Advice to lovers. Among the war poems are: Haunted; Here they
lie; Country at war; Hate not, fear not. This is Mr Graves’s second
book of verse. “Fairies and fusiliers” was published in 1918.
* * * * *
“At the worst Mr Graves is schoolboyish and impertinent. He, we think,
suffers at present from not having realized that the province he has
deliberately chosen for himself, though small, is very hard to subdue.
It is not enough to be simple yourself in order to achieve
simplicity.”
+ − =Ath= p472 Ap 9 ’20 1050w
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:65 S ’20 50w
“The verse of Robert Graves charms you with a whimsical tenderness
that is appealing but you feel all the time a hidden sense of
something for which the whimsey is protection. That something is the
stern reality of life.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 600w
“Lacks the full richness of ‘Fairies and fusiliers,’ but remains a
delicious collection of ballads and lyrics.”
+ =Dial= 69:434 O ’20 80w
“In ‘Country sentiment’ Robert Graves discloses a vein of poetry as
fine as a line of mercury. But there is no singing heart in him to go
with his singing throat. The music of his verse falters and falls into
little echoes of other poets or quarrels line by line with its
meaning.”
+ − =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 90w
Reviewed by Mark Van Doren
+ =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 70w
“No better title could have been selected for the book; it is country
sentiment at its sweetest and most auspicious. Mr Graves is
indubitably a poet, and animating his verse is a fiery sense of right
and wrong. He is always musical, his lines flowing with that
unaffected charm that is so hard to capture.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 450w
“Mr Graves plays upon a short keyboard, but he contrives some
perfectly new melodies within his self-ordained limits. Perhaps it is
in the love poetry that Mr Graves is at his most original, though many
of the poems in the other categories are just as charming.”
+ =Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 500w
“He writes his poems like songs—very good songs, too—and their supreme
merit is that they are always absolutely genuine in feeling. His new
volume shows him to be acquiring the technique which he used not to
possess. Mr Graves should certainly be taken seriously as a poet with
a future before him.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Mr 18 ’20 220w
=GRAY, A. HERBERT.= Christian adventure. *$1.25 (3c) Assn. press 230
20–8352
“There are no arguments about the truth of Christianity in this book.
It is wholly concerned with the preliminary question, ‘What is
Christianity?’... I have confined myself to an effort to present the
message of Jesus as He gave it to the world.” (Preface) The author
considers churches, creeds and theologies to be secondary affairs,
never more than partially successful attempts at stating truths.
Christianity stands or falls by mankind’s judgment of Jesus as the
embodiment of the essential secret of life. Contents: Jesus; What was
Jesus doing? Further features of the kingdom; Methods in the kingdom;
Was that all?—the King; What does he want you to do? What about human
nature? The resources of the disciple.
* * * * *
“This book is one of the freshest, clearest, and most stimulating
statements of the Christian faith and program that we have seen in a
long time.”
+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 320w
+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w
=GRAY, JOSLYN.= Rosemary Greenaway. il *$1.50 Scribner
19–15554
“The heroine is the daughter of a poet, who is also a bank clerk—and
not very successful in either calling, though some of his verse is
delicate and graceful. Rosemary adores her father, and is with him as
much as possible, to the neglect not only of her schoolmates but also
of her mother, and his sudden death is a great grief to her. But worse
is to come, for only a year after her father’s death her mother
marries again, marries Mr Anstruther, the homely, shrewd, and kindly
schoolmaster, who makes her far more happy than the poet ever did.
Rosemary bitterly resents this marriage as a slight to the memory of
her father, and it is this resentment of hers and the way in which it
is gradually and completely overcome which forms the theme of the
story. She has many trials and many tribulations before she learns to
love the stepfather, who at last gives her the thing she most wants
and has almost despaired of obtaining.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“A simple, pleasant little story for girls just entering upon their
teens.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:33 Ja 18 ’20 270w
“It is the sort of story to be read with enjoyment by girls in their
teens.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 97:179 Ja 17 ’20 90w
=GREENBERG, DAVID SOLON.= Cockpit of Santiago Key. (Open road ser.)
*$1.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright
20–775
A Porto Rican story for boys and girls. Young Felipe lives with an
uncle on Santiago Key, a rocky island off the coast. His uncle’s sole
duty is to keep the light burning and the island is seldom visited.
From the point of view of Don Enrique and Don Alejandro it is an ideal
place for a cockpit, since the Americanos, who had forbidden
cockfighting in Porto Rico, would be little likely to find it. Felipe
enters into the sport and it is only after he goes to the American
school and comes under American influence that he begins to see what
his old grandfather had meant by the “curse of the cockpit.” A
hurricane sweeps over the island, and leaves Felipe homeless, but his
American teacher adopts him and takes him away to the United States.
* * * * *
“Much information about customs and country.”
+ =Booklist= 17:122 D ’20
“Morals and local color are not, however, the only requisites for a
good juvenile story. Plot is the first essential, and it is in this
particular that ‘The cockpit of Santiago’ is somewhat weak.” G. H. C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 480w
+ =Cath World= 111:412 Je ’20 90w
=GREENBIE, SIDNEY.= Japan real and imaginary. il *$4 (2½c) Harper 915.2
20–9726
It is the author’s claim for his book that he has given due regard to
both the pleasant and the unpleasant sides of Japan, to the fine
sights and the bad odors. Japan is in a state of transition, with
resultant discords everywhere between the old and the new Japan, and
the impression the reader takes away from the book is that in its
present state it is an unhappy country. “To save Japan from itself we
must stop exalting it; to save ourselves from Japan we must stop
condemning it.” The contents are in four parts: 1, Impressionistic; 2.
The communal phase; 3. The spokes of modern Japan; 4, Critical. There
are many illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20
“His book is of conspicuous value for the shrewdly observed wealth of
detail it gives of the everyday life of contemporary Japan. The faults
of the book are patent enough. With so much matter, it is to be
regretted there is not more perfect art.” R. M. Weaver
+ − =Bookm= 51:633 Ag ’20 400w
“It is the best book on actual Japan, by an American, in some time;
best from the viewpoint of fact, not poesy nor romantic charm. No one
interested in the far East as related to America should miss it.”
+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 90w
“His writing is worth while because he writes as he really sees and
thinks. His descriptions are like untouched photographs and his
judgments square and fair. He is the calm and unafraid commentator,
the patient and constant observer and recorder, and the caustic
critic. The book weighs more than ten ordinary American books on
Japan. It is vital.” F: O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 18 ’20 1050w
“Mr Greenbie’s frank, lively, imaginative account of Japan may
properly be called ‘a real book.’ It is entitled to this popular but
expressive characterization because, by reason of its intimate
realism, its sensitive perception, and, above all, its common sense,
it stands out conspicuously from the great mass of variously
interesting literature upon the subject with which it deals.”
+ =No Am= 212:719 N ’20 480w
“A very readable and beautiful book.” G. D.
+ =St Louis= 18:250 O ’20 40w
“The people whom he met he actually studied and classified and he has
endeavored to interpret what he has seen for the benefit of other
Americans, the result being a book which inspires confidence.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 360w
“He writes from experience gained from close contact with the people;
and it is evident throughout that he is concerned to tell the truth
without partiality or prejudice, and that he is by temperament
qualified to recognize it in matters of every-day intercourse. But
with the best will in the world he would have difficulty in
appreciating the point of view of the Japanese, for it is a point of
view that he—an American of the Americans—cannot conceive a sensible
person adopting. It should be made clear that Mr Greenbie writes
without malice.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p681 O 21 ’20 900w
+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=GREENWOOD, HAROLD CECIL.= Industrial gases. il *$5 Van Nostrand 655.8
(Eng ed Agr20–1194)
This volume belongs to the series on Industrial chemistry of which
Samuel Rideal is general editor. The aims of the book as stated in the
author’s preface are “to give a general account of the manufacture and
technical manipulation of gases, to describe briefly the development
and general principles of industrial gas technology and to present a
collection of data likely to be useful in connection with such
technology.” The first part of the book is devoted to The gases of the
atmosphere; Part 2 to Hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide,
sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide, asphyxiating gases; Part 3 to Gaseous
fuels. There are indexes to subjects and to authors’ names. The
foreword by Dr J. A. Harker is a brief tribute to the author, who died
shortly before the publication of his book.
* * * * *
“Notably thorough and authoritative account.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech= Bks p49 Jl ’20 170w
+ =Pratt= p18 O ’20 30w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 110w
=GREGG, FRANK MOODY.= Founding of a nation. *$2.25 (1c) Doran
This is “the story of the Pilgrim fathers, their voyage on the
Mayflower, their early struggles, hardships and dangers, and the
beginnings of American democracy.” (Sub-title) It is the narrative and
romance of Francis Beaumont, which, the author states, is fact where
it concerns the colony, and fiction where it concerns himself. In the
foreword the author distinguishes sharply between the Pilgrims and the
Puritans and points out in what the difference consists. As to the
romance: Beaumont, a young English nobleman, was forced to leave
England on account of a duel; joined the Pilgrims at Leyden,
accompanies them to America on the Mayflower and describes all their
trials and hardships along with his own personal experiences.
* * * * *
“Mr Gregg has woven a story which faithfully follows authentic
history, enables the reader to visualize the life as only fiction can,
and at the same time holds the interest through sheer excellence as a
tale of love and adventure. It deserves a wide audience.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 110w
=Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 560w
“At fifteen, especially if feminine, one is apt to be partial to
history in this form.”
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 40w
“‘The founding of a nation,’ with its romance of early American days
set in precise historical background, is particularly well adapted for
adolescent study.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 600w
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 70w
“To the readers of this book, the first two winters at Plymouth will
remain as vividly in memory as Crusoe’s stay on the island.”
+ =Review= 3:539 D 1 ’20 170w
=GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady.= Dragon; a wonder play in
three acts. *$1.75 Putnam 822
20–13121
An obese king of Ireland and his second wife are in a quandary about
the Princess Nuala who, according to a prophecy, is to be devoured by
a dragon. The princess is a wild and wilful child who will not submit
to a speedy marriage as her only safety from the dragon, and the king
in a rage finally vows that he will wed her to the first man that
enters the castle. The Prince of the Marshes had already come to woo,
accompanied by two of his seven aunts anxious for his safety, but is
sent away by the scorn of the princess. After the vow, the King of
Sorcha comes, disguised as a cook, and claims her. The approach of the
dragon concentrates attention upon himself. The would-be cook subdues
the dragon and wins the princess. The play is a rollicking comedy from
start to finish.
* * * * *
“It is highly entertaining and actable, readable too.”
+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 40w
“Neither the literary nor the dramatic reputation of Lady Gregory will
be greatly enhanced by the publication of this somewhat childish
little piece. The piece might not be ineffective in the theatre if
given as burlesque or pantomime, for it is not deficient in the robust
humor which has won popularity for some of Lady Gregory’s farces.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p19 O 23 ’20 240w
“Lady Gregory’s ‘The dragon’ can not be classed with her best plays.”
+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 230w
“A pleasant enough entertainment for children; it is amusing,
imaginative, and exciting. The queen is undoubtedly an anachronism.”
+ − =Spec= 125:341 S 11 ’20 340w
“The play abounds with humor, and yet the plot is strong enough to
carry the interest from beginning to end.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 19 ’20 330w
“What real Irish fun there is in it, reminding one a bit of James
Stephens’s ‘Pot of gold,’ with a good deal of human character for all
that; why it might ‘act’ well if well acted—all this you can best find
out for yourself by just reading this bit of excellent fooling. it
opens a pleasant escape into the realm of fantasy in these
super-serious times.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:84 Ja ’21 270w
=GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady=, comp. and ed. Visions and
beliefs in the west of Ireland. 1st and 2d ser. 2v il *$4.50 Putnam
398.2
20–26541
These various superstitions, beliefs, fancies and fairy lore of the
Irish peasants are given in the versions of the people, as they told
them to Lady Gregory. She has classified them into groups under
appropriate titles, introducing each group with an explanatory note or
quotation. In the preface of volume 1 she tells about the “Sidhe,” the
invisible host, some sort of fallen angels, who still swarm about the
country side, in turn helping, teasing and interfering with the
country folk. The contents of volume 1 are: Sea-stories; Seers and
healers; The evil eye—the touch—the penalty; Away; and an essay and
notes by W. B. Yeats. The essay is: Witches and wizards and Irish
folklore. Volume 2 contains: Herbs, charms, and wise women; Astray,
and treasure; Banshees and warnings; In the way; The fighting of the
friends; The unquiet dead; Appearances; Butter; The fool of the forth;
Forths and sheoguey places; Blacksmiths; Monsters and sheoguey beasts;
Friars and priest cures; Essay on Swedenborg, mediums, and the
desolate places, and notes by W. B. Yeats.
* * * * *
“Almost every kind of reader will find these volumes deeply
interesting. Taken down with patience and extraordinary skill from the
lips of living men and women, they make audible the very voice of the
Irish people. They form a valuable contribution to the literature of
folk-lore, while Mr Yeats’ highly characteristic essays and notes add
greatly to their curious charm.” F. R.
+ =Ath= p550 O 22 ’20 1250w
=Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20
“Bacon said that some books are to be tasted, others to be chewed and
digested: Visions and beliefs’ belongs to the former class;
folk-lorists will use it as a work of reference (although scholars
would find it more valuable were it supplied with a good index), while
those seeking only entertainment will enjoy chiefly Lady Gregory’s
interpretative passages.” N. J. O’C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 1100w
“It is well to read the essays for they are learned and enlightening,
but it is well, too, to read them without reference to the visions and
beliefs that make up this collection. One should read these for their
atmosphere, their picture, their phrase.” Padraic Colum
+ =Dial= 69:300 S ’20 1400w
+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 100w
“All those who pursue the great Celtic legend and all those who are
interested in the curious imaginative adventures of the human race
must have this book.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:270 My 23 ’20 1200w
“The first and most striking impression derived from the book is a
renewed conviction of the faithfulness and the essential realism with
which Lady Gregory, in her creative writing, has rendered the spirit
and the atmosphere of life in the western counties. ‘Visions and
beliefs in the west of Ireland’ is a notable contribution to folk
poetry and a valuable revelation of the mood of the Irish mind.”
+ =Outlook= 125:222 Je 2 ’20 1650w
“One must welcome such a book as of immense interest to the general
psychologist.” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 3:320 O 13 ’20 1600w
“A large number of these tales, we imagine, have their origin in
ignorance and an almost incredible superstitiousness; others obviously
are barefaced lies—the sort of lies that ‘come true’ when told three
times; others, again, are merely impudent fabrications told on the
spur of the moment for the particular person, the particular person in
this case being Lady Gregory with her pencil and copybook. As
literature, these pages are worthless. But there will be few to tell
that cruel truth to Lady Gregory.”
− =Sat R= 130:280 O 2 ’20 1000W
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 S 23 ’20 1700w
=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Ladyfingers. il *$1.75 (1½c) Scribner
20–8277
Robert Ashe, alias Ladyfingers, expert “on life, lyric poetry and ...
burglar proof safes,” had been left a pennyless orphan at the age of
six, had grown up without guidance—except the memory of the fairy
tales his mother used to tell him—and without morals; had become a
newsboy, a pickpocket, a thief, and lastly a safe-cracker, and through
it all remained a poet and an innocent boy at heart. His career is
thrilling and romantic, for one day he finds himself the grandson of a
multi-millionairess, a crabbed old witch of a woman, and in love with
a sweet country girl. Then the awakening comes. His past has been
hushed up, smothered in his grandmother’s millions. But the girl will
have none of him for all her love. She fears a criminal inheritance
for her children-to-be. Then Robert realizes that he has not yet paid
for his misdeeds and that to pay is a law of nature. He gives himself
up voluntarily to the police and serves a two-years sentence in the
penitentiary. In the meanwhile Enid repents and prepares a home for
him on his return. In due time the grandmother also repents and all
ends happily.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
“All the world loves a crook if he is also an artist and a gentleman
and Ladyfingers is a very charming specimen, but, alas, he begins to
reform far too near the beginning of the story and becomes so noble
that he is a little hard to bear.”
+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 70w
“Although there is a good deal too much description, the story is
agreeably told. At first it moves quickly, then seems steadily to lose
momentum, very much as though it had been started with a vigorous
shove and then been allowed to slow down as it would.”
+ − =NY Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 450w
“Mr Gregory has a fresh and vigorous way of writing.”
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 80w
“While he tells a very entertaining and often amusing tale, it lacks
much of the probability in his previous stories.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 120w
=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Man to man. il *$2 (2½c) Scribner
20–19919
When Steve Packard comes home after twelve years of roaming, his
father is dead and the ranch that should have been his is heavily
mortgaged to his fiery old grandfather, “Hell-Fire Packard.” The old
man gives him no odds on account of relationship, and Steve soon finds
he’ll have to fight for his rights and his property. His first act is
to discharge the ranch foreman Blenham, who has been running the place
in his grandfather’s interests and his own. Blenham tries to annoy him
in every possible way, and by deceit and treachery sets grandfather
against grandson in more bitter hatred than ever. But Steve is capable
and handles the ranch problems skilfully. In the meantime he has been
falling in love with a little spitfire neighbor, Terry Temple. His
suit does not go well, and finally Terry goes away and Steve does not
care what happens. It even looks as if he might forfeit his ranch to
his grandfather after all, and it doesn’t seem to matter much.
Then—she comes back! He takes up the game with zest again, and in the
last round of their battle, Blenham is defeated. Steve and his
grandfather are reconciled, and he wins his girl.
* * * * *
“If one can hazard criticism of such a breakneck story, it is simply
to say that Mr Gregory writes with both his eyes fixed on the film
royalties. His prose style, left unsupervised, moves ahead with a sort
of blind, blundering vigor.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 120w
“A sufficiently lively if entirely commonplace story.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 380w
=GREGORY, ODIN.= Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; with an introd. by Theodore
Dreiser. *$2 Boni & Liveright 812
20–13984
“A five-act historical tragedy in blank verse.” (Freeman) “Caius
Gracchus, idealist and statesman, had stirred the Roman plebs to a
consciousness of their own existence, not as servile beasts, but as
human beings. His success had disturbed the patricians, who,
forthwith, plotted his downfall in true Roman fashion, couching their
scheme in religion, and thus outwitting a less guileful populace....
In the end, when the plebs find themselves disbursed and outwitted,
when, in the slow process of reasoning, they discover in the dead
Gracchus a martyr to their cause, the few among them rally their
mental energies and press forward toward the ideal.” (Springf’d
Republican)
* * * * *
“Ambitious as this work is, however, and interesting in detail it is
hardly likely to kindle beacons on Olympus. As a play, ‘Caius
Gracchus’ sticks too close to polemics ever to achieve the heights of
tragedy. Occasionally, one encounters felicitous phrases, but these
have to be sought for, like bright pebbles scattered along a dry,
sandy beach.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:261 N 24 ’20 210w
“A drama of the excellence of ‘Caius Gracchus’ is a solid achievement
of which any modern writer might well be proud. The constant
declaration of their lofty sentiments by the chief characters is an
accepted convention of the English and French classical tradition
which Odin Gregory follows, but modern realistic drama has made it
difficult to accept this convention unmodified, even under the shelter
of the old forms.” C. M. S.
+ − =Grinnell R= 16:330 Ja ’21 480w
“Mr Gregory produces blank verse of vigor and suppleness, but hardly
comparable to Shakespeare’s in poetic content.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 6 ’20 720w
“‘Caius Gracchus’ is a tremendously ambitious work in the most
difficult and aspiring genre of literature, and perhaps it is better
to try and fail than not to try at all. One finds fault not so much
with the author, who at least lets his work speak for itself, as with
the critics who profess to find in it qualities that so obviously are
not there.”
− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:84 Ja ’21 480w
=GRENFELL, ANNE ELIZABETH (MACCLANAHAN) (MRS WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL),
and SPALDING, KATIE.= Le petit Nord; or, Annals of a Labrador harbour.
il *$1.50 (4½c) Houghton 917.19
20–5733
In the form of letters this amusing volume by the wife or Dr Grenfell,
and the nurse who accompanied them to their northern abode, makes a
good accompaniment to the autobiography of “A Labrador doctor.” It
relates the experiences and hardships of their mission home in the far
north in a humorous vein and with the feminine touch. The unique
illustrations tell a story of their own.
* * * * *
“These bright brave little letters have the power of transporting one
into the heart of the Labrador country by their charm of description
and humor. Crude little sketches by the doctor make just the right
illustrations.”
+ =Booklist 16:309 Je ’20=
“The book is delightful reading and adds interesting sidelights to her
husband’s accounts.”
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 50w
“They present a very vivid, unpretending picture of things as they
really are in this work, viewed by a capable, energetic, and humorous
temperament.” Archibald MacMechan
+ =Review= 2:679 Je 30 ’20 820w
“The present work is of special interest in that it gives the feminine
viewpoint.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w
“About the letters there is a marked and pleasing individuality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 16 ’20 280w
=GRESHAM, MATILDA (MCGRAIN) (MRS WALTER QUINTIN GRESHAM).= Life of
Walter Quintin Gresham, 1832–1895. 2v *$7.50 Rand
20–3856
“An unusual career, even for America, known as the land of
eccentricities in public life, is summed up in these two sizable
volumes. Soldier, lawyer, judge, statesman, Walter Q. Gresham seems
never to have known an idle moment in the sixty-three years of his
life. He had a distinguished record in the Civil war, enlisting as a
private, and, after successive promotions for gallantry, receiving his
discharge as a Major-General of volunteers in 1865. After fifteen
years of service at the bar and on the bench he was made a member of
President Arthur’s cabinet, and ten years later, because of
disagreement with the Republican party on the tariff question, became
a Democrat and was appointed secretary of state in President
Cleveland’s second administration. He died in 1895. This biography
[is] written by his widow.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20
“A veritable source book of American history.” F. B. N.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 28 ’20 400w
“Mrs Gresham’s life of her husband is of value as far as political and
economic information is concerned.” C. W. Alvord
+ − =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w
=Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 160w
“This biography throws much light on the politics of the entire period
from the middle of the nineteenth century to its closing years.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 160w
=GREY, EDWARD GREY, 1st viscount.= Recreation. *$1.25 (17c) Houghton 824
20–5788
The booklet contains an address delivered by Viscount Grey at the
Harvard union, December 8, 1919. He enumerates a number of things that
make for happiness of which one is a degree of leisure and knowing
what to do with it. He speaks of the forms of recreation most enjoyed
by himself, certain games and sport and gardening but most of all
books read for pleasure. Enjoyment of nature also finds a place and
calls up a memorable walk he took with Colonel Roosevelt for the
purpose of observing birds.
* * * * *
“His address, indeed, contains nothing that is original or profound.
We read it for its personal note and for the light that it throws on
the personality of the late Colonel Roosevelt. The lessons that may be
learned from this charming and gracious little pamphlet are not quite
the lessons that it professes to convey.” E. M. F.
+ − =Ath= p76 Jl 16 ’20 430w
“In depicting the incident [of Roosevelt’s visit] Lord Grey allows the
Baconian clarity of his earlier pronouncements to take on poetic
warmth and color.”
+ =Nation= 110:732 My 29 ’20 400w
“The one who has attained such an appreciation of the real place of
recreation in life deserves to be called by a word which is very
frequently abused—‘cultured.’”
+ =Outlook= 124:601 Ap 7 ’20 1800w
“Of artifice, literary, or any other, in the plan or style, there is
not a trace. The diction is plain and simple, almost to the point of
baldness. There are no flights and no flowers.” Archibald MacMechan
+ =Review= 2:518 My 15 ’20 1050w
“The address is not only a most attractive piece of literature but
also an interesting pendant to Mr Roosevelt’s biography.”
+ =Spec= 124:799 Je 12 ’20 350w
“It strikes a sane and healthful note.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 27 ’20 180w
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 80w
=GREY, ZANE.= Man of the forest. il *$1.90 (1½c) Harper
20–2265
Milt Dale loves the silence and the romance of the mountains. There he
lives in solitude, hunting animals for his food, and finding thorough
happiness and contentment, until accidentally he overhears an
unscrupulous plot against the property and safety of a young girl,
newly arrived from the East. To save her and her sister he hides them
in his woodland camp, entertaining them with hunting trips and riding
expeditions to keep their minds from brooding. When, however, Helen
Rayner and her pretty sister Bo leave the camp, Dale finds it an
empty, unsatisfying place. And Helen, mistress of a great ranch, which
a conscienceless “greaser” is trying to take from her, keeps longing
for the lonely man from the mountains. Her troubles reach their climax
just after the long winter, and Dale, coming out of the forests, helps
her in the most terrible moment. “Bo’s cowboy” is instrumental in
completing the collapse of the “greaser”; and afterward, Dale’s camp
witnesses an unusual honeymoon.
* * * * *
“A story full of the thrills and charms familiar to readers of Zane
Grey.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
“The tale has plenty of incident, and though it contains too numerous
and too long passages of description not a few of them are well done,
while the lover of horses will be sure to envy Helen her possession of
the splendid Ranger.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:70 F 8 ’20 900w
“A western story conventional in plot and incident, but well written
and with a certain nobility in its feeling for the freedom of the wide
spaces.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w
“Action is always rapid and there is an abundance of local color. On
occasions Mr Grey gives play to his liking for descriptive paragraphs,
which sometimes bulk too large. But these are seldom formal. The book
is among the author’s best stories.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 580w
“Few romances make better business out of the wilds of the West than
Mr Zane Grey: and he is well up to his mark in this stirring tale.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 70w
=GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT.= Swiss fairy tales. il *$1.75 (2½c) Crowell
20–13979
The first two chapters of the book are devoted to the author’s Swiss
ancestors, their home in Switzerland in the shadow of the mountains,
where it was finally burled by an avalanche, and later their American
home in Pennsylvania whence they had brought their customs and
traditions and, above all, the fairy tales of their native country.
Some of these tales are: The wonderful alpine horn; The mountain
giants; Two good natured dragons; The frost giants and the sunbeam
fairies; The yodel carillon of the cows; The fairy of the edelweiss;
The alpine hunter and his fairy guardian; The white chamois; The siren
of the Rhine.
* * * * *
+ =El School J= 21:157 O ’20 80w
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 180w
=GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT.= Young people’s history of the Pilgrims, il
*$3 (4½c) Houghton 974.4
20–10074
“In writing for, but not down to, young people, I have dwelt rather
upon what was visible to, or interested, the Pilgrim boys and girls.
Yet I have endeavored, also, to make clear the formative principles
and impelling motives, as well as conditions and events; and this
without any special interest in genealogy.” (Preface) One of the
objects of the book is to show that the Puritans were “bona-fide
everyday Englishmen” and to further a deeper unity and closer
co-operation between all English-speaking people. The religious motive
prompting the Pilgrims is also emphasized. A partial list of the
contents is: How the world looked long ago; A mirror of English
history; Fun and play in the old home; A girl’s life in merrie
England; Puritan, Independent, Separatist, and Pilgrim; Brewster: the
boy traveler; Bradford: boy hero and typical Pilgrim; The decision to
emigrate and why; The new world: America; The first winter and the
great sickness; The Pilgrim republic; The Pilgrim inheritance;
Chronological framework of the story of a free church in a free state;
Index; Illustrations.
* * * * *
“It is a scholarly history; shall we say a bit too scholarly for
youthful tastes? At least it has the merit of being accurate,
thoroughgoing, and informing” W. A. Dyer
+ − =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 90w’
“Dr Griffis writes with enthusiasm, his writing discloses the most
careful study of his subject in its every phase, and especially does
his familiarity with the places trodden by the Pilgrims appeal to the
reader.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 380w
“‘Young people’s history of the Pilgrims’ is packed with interesting
information. The author has, however, an annoyingly priggish manner
and he tends to paint the Pilgrims as rather unpleasantly noble.”
+ − =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 80w
+ =N Y Times= p15 O 3 ’20 80w
“In the closing pages of Dr Griffis’ book is a valuable chronology.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w
=GRIFFITH, IRA SAMUEL.= Teaching manual and industrial arts, il $2
Manual arts press 371.42
20–10299
This work by a professor of industrial education in the University of
Illinois “is intended as a text for use in normal schools and
colleges. Its primary aim is to assist in the making of necessary
connections between the more general courses in educational psychology
and theory of teaching and the special work of practice teaching in
manual and industrial arts.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction;
Classification and differentiation of the manual arts; Industrial
arts; Instincts and capacities; Application of the principle of
apperception to manual and industrial arts teaching; Interest and
attention: Individual differences: the group system; Correlation and
association; The doctrine of discipline: Types of thinking inherent in
the manual arts: Teaching methods in manual and industrial arts; The
lesson; its component parts; Class management: discipline; Standards
and tests; Conditions which make for progress. There are two
appendices devoted to Special method procedure and Type outlines.
* * * * *
“Very useful to any teachers of hand work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
“Although one feels the need for a more extended discussion of many of
the points, there is left in the mind of the reader the conviction,
nevertheless, that Mr Griffith has sought to present the facts in as
simple and untangled a form as possible, with the specific purpose in
mind of establishing a workable pedagogy on the psychological
principles developed. One feels that he has succeeded in his purpose
in an admirable degree.”
+ =El School J= 21:236 N ’20 640w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p67 Jl ’20 80w
“Written in a concise and convincing manner. It is the kind of a book
that teachers of drawing, design and applied arts should read and
absorb. It will connect them with the technique of teaching.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:41 S ’20 120w
=GRIFFITHS, GERTRUDE (MRS PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS).= Lure of the manor.
*$1.75 (1½c) Duffield
A20–1264
The story opens in England but soon shifts to America, there to be
played out in a quaint old-time South Carolina setting. At the close
of the Civil war, General Sutledge of the Confederate army had retired
from the world, and his three daughters had continued to follow his
example, living and dressing in the style of the sixties. To them
comes the Honorable Patricia Denham, daughter of an adored and much
younger sister who had married a British peer. This sister, Millicent,
is a cold, heartless woman, engaged in her own love affairs and
indifferent to her children. It is partly to escape her that Patricia
comes to America. Peter d’Eresby, who has been in love with Millicent,
also comes to America. Patricia marries a rich northerner, who has
been looked down upon by the three impoverished old southern
aristocrats. Peter marries Sophia, a young Sutledge cousin and to the
end the three elderly sisters are kept in ignorance of Millicent’s
real character.
* * * * *
“A romance written with amusing naïveté and some freshness.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“A very uneven story, amateurish at times and very much too long but
by no means devoid of merit. It suffers from the fact that it has two
heroines, the story of one of them being fairly interesting, while
that of the other is dull, and the connection between them seeming
forced and artificial.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 11 ’20 400w
“‘The lure of the manor’ reads unevenly and strikes the reader as
being considerably too long. Strengthening of the story could be
obtained through elimination of that which gives an impression of
being artificial and exaggerated.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 190w
=GRIMSHAW, BEATRICE ETHEL.= Terrible island. *$1.75 (3c) Macmillan
20–19507
This adventure story of the South seas has two mysteries, the mystery
of “Lady Mary” who walks up out of the sea and the mystery of Ku-Ku’s
island. Lady Mary is suffering from amnesia. She doesn’t know who she
is or how she came to her present plight. All that she can remember is
a meaningless string of words, which her listeners rightly interpret
as the directions for finding the half-legendary Ku-Ku’s island,
reputed to be rich in the valuable red shell that passes as currency
in the islands. The three men, with Sapphira Gregg and the girl from
the sea, set out in search of it and then begin their adventures on
the terrible island. In the end they conquer all obstacles, including
the mysterious blindness that inflicts those who land on the island.
Lady Mary’s memory is restored, and two romances come to a
satisfactory conclusion.
* * * * *
=Ath= p194 F 6 ’20 90w
+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
“The scheme of the story is very good, but it is so tangled up in
verbiage and moralizing that one loses interest, and wishes the author
had made another of the group her mouthpiece.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 230w
“It is a capital tale, quite novel in its plot and incident, and with
amusing character depiction as well as the thrill of adventure.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w
“The narrative is set forth interestingly and with some humor.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 170w
“She shows her tact in the touches of individuality that she gives to
characters who have to be drawn broadly. So much is she in sympathy
with them, and so clearly does she see the situations in which they
find themselves, that they come to respond by creating their own
difficulties for her to write about. This seems to be the secret of
her fertility of invention. For a lady not in her first book she is
most prodigal of her good things.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p85 F 5 ’20 630w
=GROGAN, GERALD.= William Pollok, and other tales. *$1.50 (2c) Lane
20–7728
This volume of short stories opens with a memoir of the author, who
was killed in 1918. As the son of a soldier he led a wandering life in
childhood, and later his work as a mining engineer took him to Mexico,
where the scenes of most of these stories are laid. Only one is a
story of the war. The collection opens with a series of eight tales,
The trials and triumphs of William Pollok, mine superintendent. The
other titles are: Encinillas; The faith of Henderson; A warm corner in
Mexico; The casting vote; The subjugation of the Skettering; The
failure; The cat; The weregeld; A moral victory.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 80w
“He wrote well because he lived well and fully, he depicted character
in an entertaining fashion because he knew men. He has produced a
group of stories worth reading more than once.” G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 500w
“When his feet are off the romantic soil of Mexico, Mr Grogan seems
less at home. One story, however—his latest—is distinguished by a
quality only a little short of genius. It is a vision of the wars of
the future. The story is a prophecy that may be fulfilled in a happier
day; it is Gerald Grogan’s chief contribution to literature.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 430w
“They have the excessive cleverness of the young writer, who will not
tell a plain tale. Nevertheless the book is full of vitality; and
readers to whom this quality, even if it goes with some immaturity, is
the all-important one will enjoy the book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 280w
=GROSSMANN, LOUIS.= Aims of teaching in Jewish schools; a handbook for
teachers. (Isaac M. Wise centenary publication) *$1.50 Bloch 377
19–27517
“Dr G. Stanley Hall, who contributes the introduction, pronounces this
‘by far the best treatise on religious pedagogy that has anywhere yet
appeared. It places religious education on its proper scientific and
constructive basis.’ Something over half of the volume is devoted to
the successive stages in the child’s advancement from the kindergarten
to the eighth grade. The latter part is devoted to special phases such
as the use of stories, the textbook, the Hebrew language, music,
etc.”—Am J Soc
* * * * *
“The discussions are rather general to constitute a ‘handbook,’ but
they make good reading for anyone who is interested in recent pedagogy
and modernist religion.” F. R. Clow
+ =Am J Soc= 25:502 Ja ’20 340w
“Designed as a teacher’s handbook, but it has a broader interest.”
+ =Booklist= 16:42 N ’19
“A very complete outline for the teacher in the religious school.”
+ =Cleveland= p55 My ’20 50w
=GROVE, SIR GEORGE.=[2] Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; Waldo
Selden Pratt, editor, Charles N. Boyd, associate editor. il *$6
Macmillan 780.3
This American supplement adds a sixth volume to Grove’s dictionary of
music. It is made up of two parts, the first consisting of an
historical introduction with chronological register of names; the
second of Personal and descriptive articles and alphabetical index.
The register in Part I gives brief reference to about 1700 persons. In
the descriptive articles of the second part there is more extended
treatment of some 700 of these, with cross references from one section
to the other, Canadian musicians are included under the term American
and to a limited extent Latin American names have been included. The
preface states further: “Inasmuch as the latest edition of Grove’s
dictionary was issued ten to fifteen years ago, the publishers desired
that this volume should include continuations of those articles that
relate to the more conspicuous foreign musicians.... Accordingly, in
the dictionary proper will be found statements regarding more than a
hundred musicians who are entirely outside the American field.”
=GROZIER, EDWIN ATKINS=, ed. One hundred best novels condensed. 4v il
*$5; ea *$1.50 Harper 808.3
20–6493
A series of books giving synopses of one hundred works of fiction.
They have been prepared under the direction of the literary editor of
the Boston Post, assisted by Charles E. L. Wingate and Charles H.
Lincoln, various writers contributing to the contents, among them John
Kendrick Bangs, George S. Barton, Sara Ware Bassett, Alfred S. Clark
and James B. Connolly. There is no ordered plan of arrangement and the
word novel is given a broad interpretation to embrace the “Iliad,”
“Pilgrim’s progress” and “Alice in Wonderland.” Famous translations
are included in addition to all the well-known English novels. A
biographical sketch and portrait of each author is provided.
* * * * *
“Perhaps the best condensation of all is that of ‘Far from the madding
crowd.’ Many of the synopses approach this, but some fall far behind
it in quality.” A. A. W.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 500w
“As for giving any real idea of the originals, these condensations are
about as satisfying as the description of a banquet would be to a
starving man.”
− =N Y Times= 25:244 My 9 ’20 800w
=GUILD, ROY BERGEN=, ed. Community programs for cooperating churches; a
manual of principles and methods. *$1.90 Assn. press 261
20–17803
The book contains the reports of the Church and community convention
held in Cleveland, June 1–3, 1920, under the joint auspices of the
Commission on councils of churches of the Federal council of churches
of Christ in America, and the Association of executive secretaries of
church federations, and contains: Principles and methods of
organization; Survey, program, and comity; Evangelism; Social service;
Religious education; Missions; International justice and good-will;
Religious publicity; Securing and training executive secretaries; “The
church and its new cooperative power,” by Dr Robert E. Speer; “The
spiritual basis for the unity of the churches,” by Rev. M. Ashby
Jones, D.D.; Appendix.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“The book is a practical manual for those interested in interchurch
work.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 630w
=N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 100w
=GUILD, THACHER HOWLAND.= Power of a god, and other one-act plays. il
$1.25 Univ. of Ill. 812
20–84
The volume is a memorial to the author, an account of his short career
as a dramatist and his early death in 1914, and contains, besides the
plays, a tribute from Prof. George P. Baker of Harvard university;
Preparation days at Brown, by Prof. Thomas Crosby, jr., Brown
university; The fullness of his life, by Prof. Stuart P. Sherman,
University of Illinois; Dramatic reminiscenses, by F. K. W. Drury,
University of Illinois library; and a bibliography. The title play
shows a scene in the office of a celebrated surgeon who has taken up
mental therapy and in his practice of it, finds himself before the
alternative, for the love of a woman, to use his power as a “god” or
as a “devil.” After much soul anguish he chooses the better way. The
other plays are: The class of ’56; The higher good; and The portrait.
* * * * *
“At least the first two plays are distinctly above the average in
their realistic dialogue. The eloquent and sympathetic introduction by
Professor Baker, of Harvard, adds to the value of the book.”
+ =Cath World= 111:698 Ag ’20 90w
“Each [play] is interesting and each has distinct merits, while as a
whole they display a steady growth in literary power and technical
expertness.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 F 14 ’20 500w
=GUILLAUMIN, EMILE.=[2] Life of a simple man; tr. by Margaret Holden.
*$2 Stokes
“The good brown earth, the sheep and the swine; stretches of
sparkling, bedewed meadows with perfumed masses of golden broom, white
daisies and honeysuckle.... From such a background Emile Guillaumin
has drawn ‘La vie d’un simple.’ Small wonder that a simple man speaks
from its pages. The book is called a novel. In reality it is a
biography and, as it happens, one with only a slight vista into the
realm of Eros. The author tells us that Tiennon is his neighbor, but
it is suggested in a foreword by Mr Garnett that Guillaumin has
attempted a portraiture of his own father. At any rate it is
interesting to observe that the book received an award from l’Académie
Française in 1904, and that the author is a peasant, unschooled, in
our modern sense of the word, whose life has been spent in a town of
some 1,800 inhabitants, and who has ‘remained faithful to the soil’ in
spite of literary laurels.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1050 O 17 ’19 50w
“For those who evaluate standards of living in terms of their
simplicity, reality and intensity, the farmer Tiennon, as he stands
revealed in ‘The life of a simple man,’ will find a place with
friendly philosophers of the highways and byways.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 550w
“Invaluable to us as a standard of comparison, quite apart from its
charm as a human document.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p600 O 30 ’19 1050w
=GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.= Ballads of old New York. il *$1.50 Harper 811
20–3010
In this collection of ballads, the author tells us, he has been
“martialing the varied traditions of New York and its neighborhood,
piecing together colorful stories of the past for those who are to
inherit the future.” And in the prologue he bids us “Hear! for I carol
in lilting rhymes rollicking lays of the good old times!” The contents
are grouped under the headings: Dutch period; English colonial period;
Revolutionary period; and Miscellaneous, and the verses are
interspersed by descriptive prose paragraphs by way of interludes. The
illustrations are pen and ink sketches by J. Scott Williams.
* * * * *
“A delightfully whimsical book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20
“The book is a happy book, done by a genuine lover and historian of
the greatest city in the new world. Washington Irving would have liked
it.” W. A. Barrett
+ =Bookm= 51:476 Je ’20 700w
“Mr Guiterman has a virtue beyond the virtue of the average humorist
in verse whose quips and laughter after a little grow tiresome; that
virtue is his unfailing humanism. The humanist in him has made him
sing on occasions with all the fine fervor of a truly inspired poet.
These ballads help very largely and convincingly to show us this very
little-thought-of side of Mr Guiterman.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 1250w
“Displays pleasing variety in the matter of subject and form.”
+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 40w
+ − =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 80w
“In ‘Ballads of old New York’ a delightful idea is somewhat
disappointingly worked out.”
+ =Ind.= 104:65 O 9 ’20 50w
“Arthur Guiterman is a perfect master of his trade. He has a genius
for mirth, for seeing the funny side of life, for throwing a fantastic
light on everything that happens. ‘Ballads of old New York’ is worth
its price twice over.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:132 Mr 21 ’20 1300w
+ =N Y Times= 25:286 My 30 ’20 1650w
“The versatility of the author’s pen is evident in the variety both
subjective and metrical, of the different ballads and interludes. The
book ought to be among the most popular metrical offerings of the
season.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 26 ’20 240w
=GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.=[2] Chips of Jade. il *$2 Dutton 895
20–19184
“This is a volume of alleged folk-sayings of China and Hindustan,
clothed in homely English verse, and there is a chuckle in every
quatrain. There is sharp social comment in many of the lines—and it is
often anti-Socialist.”—N Y Call
* * * * *
“The amount of exhilaration which may be obtained from a book of
mottoes is rather less than half of one per cent, and even the
knowledge that the present compilation has an oriental origin is not
in itself calculated to intoxicate the reader. After all, a jingle is
only a jingle, and ‘Chips of jade’ is but the small change of
philosophy.” L. B.
− =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 150w
“A thoroughly delectable addition to the already rich
proverb-literature which exists in English.”
+ =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 160w
“Perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that this volume is the most
crystalline, the most brilliant, the most uniform yet issued by this
twanger of the harp of Momus. There are a thousand universal words
here, which read as if they were spoken for your ear only.” Clement
Wood
+ =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 260w
“Attractive in appearance and contents.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:419 N 3 ’20 130w
=GUITRY, SACHA.=[2] Deburau; a comedy; in an English version by Harley
Granville Barker. $2 Putnam 842
This English version of a French play is a free rendering, which
preserves the original meaning detail by detail but uses a paraphrase
where a literal rendering would appear labored. The play is in four
acts. The first shows the auditorium of a theatre after a successful
evening. Gaspard Deburau, the Pierrot, has just made a great hit in
“The old clo’ man.” In the second act Deburau is seen in the room of
Marie Duplessis, the famous “Camellia lady,” to whose charms he has
succumbed and who, immediately after his departure, accepts another
lover. Act three is in Deburau’s own garret, seven years later, with
Deburau ill and retired. His young son is pleading with him for
permission to become his successor on the stage. In the fourth act
Deburau once more after a long intermission essays to act his old
rôle. He is a complete failure and while the management is
deliberating in despair what course to pursue, Deburau brings on his
son, has him dressed in his old Pierrot costume and puts him thru his
paces as his successor. The scene abounds in good stage advice.
=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Evolution of the budget in Massachusetts.
*$2.50 Macmillan 336
20–10284
This volume is the second in a series of Special studies in
administration in course of preparation by the Bureau of municipal
research and the training school for the public service. Its object is
to record in orderly fashion the long series of events that have led
up to the present budget system of Massachusetts and to counteract
some of the superficial views that prevail on budget-making. Among the
contents, following the early financial history of Massachusetts, are:
The governor and the budget, 1910–1918; The joint special committee on
finance and budget procedure; Establishing the budget system;
Experience with the budget in 1919; Constitutional conflict over the
budget in 1920; Classification of the Massachusetts budget system;
Outstanding facts in the evolution of the Massachusetts budget. The
appendices contain The budget amendment of the Massachusetts
constitution, and The Massachusetts budget act.
* * * * *
“The book is one which should appeal to the practical administrator as
well as to the student of political science.” A. C. Hanford
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:712 N ’20 450w
=Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“The study of the budget system is usually supposed to be dull and
uninteresting, but Dr Gulick has succeeded in writing an interesting
book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 320w
“It will prove exceedingly helpful to those political adolescents who
imagine that a piece of legislation imposing on the governor the duty
of preparing a financial plan will produce any important changes in
our way of doing business.” C: A. Beard
+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 60w
“The author has prepared an interesting and well written history. The
illustrative excerpts from political speeches and journals add decided
readability to what might be otherwise tedious history.” L. D. Upson
+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 200w
=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Philosophy of play. *$1.60 (3c) Scribner 790
20–4701
Joseph Lee, in his foreword to this posthumous volume, calls it Dr
Gulick’s legacy to his fellow citizens. In making the study of play
his life work the author has come to the conclusion that it affords
the best and most profitable way of studying humankind itself; that
the individual reveals himself more completely in play than in any
other way; that play has a greater shaping power over the character
and nature of man than any other activity; and that a people also most
truly reveals itself in the character of its pleasures. Contents: The
extent of the play interest: Separation vs. concentration; Hunting and
fighting plays; Playing house; Fire play; Toys—construction and
ownership; Masculine and feminine differences; The play of animals;
The play of adults; The play of subnormal children; Play progression;
Play and physical growth; Play and education; Play and moral growth;
Instinct and tradition in play; Play and our changing civilization;
Play and the modern city; Direction and control in play—playgrounds;
Play and democracy; Play, the pursuit of the ideal; Index.
* * * * *
“Dr Gulick’s last book is suggestive especially to parents.”
+ =Booklist= 17:19 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 200w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 My 8 ’20 650w
“He has built up an attractive guide to the understanding of
children’s ways. There is not a hint of superficiality in his
treatment.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 1 ’20 170w
“With this book Dr Gulick has made a real contribution which will
enrich all who read it. It should be in the hands not only of all who
are interested in recreational activities, but of fathers, mothers and
educators as well.” S. L. Jean
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 80w
=GULL, CYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER (GUY THORNE, pseud.).= Air pirate.
*$1.75 (3c) Harcourt
20–26883
The time setting of this story is about ten years in the future, when
travel and commerce by air have become thoroughly established, and
cross-Atlantic air trips are an everyday occurrence. The story is told
by Sir John Custance, young and popular commissioner of air police for
the British government. On one of its regular trips, one of the aerial
liners is held up by a pirate airship, and even while this affair is
being investigated, a second holdup is made. And it so happens that on
this ship, Connie Shepherd, Sir John’s fiancée, is a passenger, and is
captured and carried away by the pirates. His motive is therefore
doubly strong for discovering the criminals. He has the help of Mr
Danjuro, a unique Japanese personality with apparently infinite
resources and capabilities. Altho they are in the end successful in
capturing the whole pirate band and releasing Connie, it is by no
means an easy task, and Sir John finds himself in close proximity to
death more than once.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:71 N ’20
“By all the rules of the game, ‘The air pirate’ should be a badly
written attempt at a thriller, and its jacket goes far to confirm that
suspicion. But with the jacket the resemblance to a dime novel
abruptly ceases. Mr Gull has a facility for turning melodrama into
plausibility.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 40w
=GUNION, PHILIP CYRUS (GEORGE CONOVER PEARSON, pseud.).= Selling your
services. $2 (1½c) Jordan-Goodwin corporation, Jefferson bank bldg.,
N.Y. 658
20–6660
Getting a job, says the author, is a problem in salesmanship. A man’s
services are a product that can be sold and how to go about to sell it
has been so successfully and methodically worked out by John Caldwell,
that he was asked to teach a class in re-employment for the graduates
of the Metropolitan university. His lectures as given to the class are
here edited and collected into book form by the author. John
Caldwell’s method is to apply modern salesmanship, marketing methods
and advertising to the selling of a man’s individual product, his
services. Among the contents are: Make a job of getting a job; Know
your product—yourself; Determine your appeal; Make good use of your
experience; Develop a group of prospects; Situation wanted
advertisements; The circular letter; The personal call; The employment
agency; The interview; The eternal question—the salary; Keep your case
alive; Index.
=GUTHRIE, ANNA LORRAINE=, comp. Index to St Nicholas, service basis
Wilson, H. W. 051
The forty-five volumes of St Nicholas, from 1873 to 1918, have been
indexed for this volume. “The index is dictionary in form, giving
author, subject and title entries, the latter as a rule made for
fiction and poetry only. Selection of subject headings most easily
usable by children has been the aim striven for.” (Preface) The work
is compiled and edited by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, formerly editor of
the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
* * * * *
“Indispensable aid.”
+ =Booklist= 16:296 Je 20
=GUTTERSEN, GRANVILLE.= Granville. *$1.25 Abingdon press 940.44
19–15645
“The experience of a young chap in the army air service—a fellow who
embodied all that was fine and noble in young manhood, who suffered
continual disappointment in not being able to get his overseas orders
and in being held on this side as an instructor in bombing, and who
yet retained his humor and philosophy of life—are pictured in
‘Granville,’ the subtitle of which is ‘Tales and tail spins from a
flyer’s diary.’ The book, which is published anonymously in deference
to the wishes of the author’s family, contains a series of letters
from ‘Granny’ to his folks at home. These tell of his hopes and
desires, his setbacks, his friends in the service and the girls he
met, and the experiences that he went through from the time he entered
ground school until he received his last orders.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 240w
“The writer is so frank and outspoken in what he says and thinks and
does that anyone reading the book cannot help feeling unbounded
admiration for him. From cover to cover the book is filled with a
buoyancy and a joy of living that leave one refreshed with even a few
short pages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p16 O 19 ’19 220w
=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= Irish books and Irish people. *$1.75 Stokes
891.6
A20–768
“These essays are for the most part revived from the years 1897–1907,
representing the views, during the changing moods of the decade, of
this capable and cultured Irish essayist, who, it will be remembered,
severed his connexion with the Gaelic league when it decided to make
the learning of Irish compulsory and who believes that, as Yeats and
Synge have shown, it is possible to be completely Irish while using
the English language. His subjects are Nineteenth century novels of
Irish life; A century of Irish humour (written 1901); Literature among
the illiterates, from a volume called ‘To-day and to-morrow in
Ireland’ (1902), now out of print (in two parts, The Shanachy, and The
life of a song, a traditional song which Mr Gwynn took down from the
lips of an Irish peasant); Irish education and Irish character. There
are two later essays on Irish gentry (1913), and Yesterday in Ireland
(1918).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1167 N 7 ’19 140
=Booklist= 17:84 N ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:131 My ’20 40w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 170w
=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= John Redmond’s last years. *$5 (*16s) Longmans
20–5238
“A personal and political study of very great interest, written by one
who was a friend of Mr Redmond and had access to his papers for the
period beginning with the war. Mr Gwynn makes no attempt to represent
Mr Redmond as a hero, but lays emphasis upon the patriotism, modesty,
and nobility of purpose of the Irish leader, who died heartbroken
because he had not ‘won through.’ ‘His action upon the war was his
life’s supreme action; he felt this, and knew that it had failed to
achieve its end.’ But, says the author, ‘tangled as are the threads of
all this policy, he leaves the task far nearer to accomplishment than
he found it; and if in the end freedom and prosperity come to a united
Ireland, they will be found to proceed ... from the action which John
Redmond took in August, 1914, and upon which his brother ... set the
seal of his blood.’”—Ath
* * * * *
“Mr Gwynn displays some of the qualities which a biographer ought to
possess. He knew Redmond intimately and admired him greatly, yet he
makes no attempts to represent him as unerring in judgment and supreme
in every quality of leadership. Yet his book has serious defects from
the point of view of both the serious student of Irish affairs and the
general reader.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:134 O ’20 520w
=Ath= p1365 D 12 ’19 160w
“Written with a sympathy and ease that will make interesting reading
for those informed on Irish politics.”
+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20
“Mr Gwynn’s book has not a little of the somber splendor of a Greek
tragedy. Certainly a reading of it is indispensable to an
understanding of Irish history in the last ten years. The record is
set down with a fairness which even Redmond’s most bitter opponents
can hardly fail to praise.” H. J. Laski
+ =Nation= 110:sup484 Ap 10 ’20 850w
“Mr Gwynn has given far the clearest account of the procession of
events, and especially a fascinating narrative of the labors and
personalities of the convention. His book is almost indispensable to
anyone who would wish to understand the relation of opinion to the
controversy which is about to open concerning the new Home rule bill.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:544 Ja 17 ’20 1750w
“Amid the abundant and increasing literature on Irish affairs it is
seldom indeed that there comes into a reviewer’s hand a literary
treasure such as this. Mr Gwynn writes as one having knowledge and
authority. Perhaps what strikes one first in the book is the judicial
balance by which it is everywhere marked.” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 2:390 Ap 17 ’20 1800w
=Sat R= 128:688 D 20 ’19 750w
“Captain Gwynn’s memoir of his late leader, though in no sense a
dispassionate or unbiassed narrative of events, displays a breadth of
view that is wholly lacking in most modern Irish books, and puts the
nationalist case with courtesy and discretion. We cannot agree either
with his estimate of Mr Redmond or with his presentation of certain
notorious episodes in recent Irish controversy. Nevertheless we feel
that he is an honourable political opponent.”
+ − =Spec= 123:728 N 29 ’19 1400w
“Mr Gwynn writes in a sanely liberal vein and can take a detached view
of all sides of the struggle of Ireland for home rule....
Nevertheless, the summing-up is an indictment of a government that had
an excellent chance to show, by firmness and justice, that it was
determined to give Ireland the promised measure of home rule.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 1200w
“Nowhere throughout a book which vividly illumines the recent history
of Irish politics, is Captain Gwynn more intimately informed or more
profoundly interesting than in the story of the Irish convention. His
work is one which every student of modern politics should read and
read at once. There has been no more important publication on the
Irish question during recent years.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p642 N 13 ’19 950w
Reviewed by N. J. O’Conor
=Yale R= n s 10:210 O ’20 270w
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=HAGEDORN, HERMANN.= That human being, Leonard Wood. *$1 (7c) Harcourt,
Brace & Howe
20–8515
A eulogistic sketch of General Wood by one who regards him as the
legitimate successor of the late Colonel Roosevelt. It is also an
arraignment of the Wilson administration and a campaign document.
“Gradually, as month has succeeded month and the presidential election
has drawn near, Wood has become the focus of the hopes of an
increasing number of men and women scattered over the country who have
found in him a symbol of that blunt belief in facts, that respect for
training and experience, that love of open dealing, which the
administration has offended.... It is not strange that countless
Americans, angered at the lack of these qualities in the
administration, should seek to make the man who most patently
possesses them, the instrument of their indignation.”
* * * * *
“The little book will have no political influence at this time, but it
should have a personal influence to inspire better citizenship and
continual preparedness.” J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 300w
“The briefest and most readable of the various current biographies of
General Wood.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 50w
=HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER.= Ancient Allan. *$1.75 Longmans
20–5230
“‘The ancient Allan’, by Sir H. Rider Haggard, reintroduces some of
the characters of ‘The ivory child.’ Lady Ragnall, Allan Quartermain,
and his faithful Hottentot Hans, are shown us in a previous
incarnation by means of the mysterious Taduki, as ancient Egyptians,
warring for the independence of their country against the Lords of the
East.” (Sat R) “The new chronicle is chockful of excitement. There are
fights with lions and a crocodile, duels to the death, the clash of
mighty hosts in battle. There is a signet ring whose bearer commands
unquestioning obedience from those who behold it, an attribute which
the Allan of bygone centuries finds most useful when his faithful
dwarf purloins it from its possessor, the villainous king of kings.
There is a white-bearded soothsayer, who keeps dropping in and making
solemn prophecies of a brilliant future for the great Captain Shabaka.
There are hunters and soldiers, cringing courtiers and solemn priests,
warriors and slaves, and the waters of the ancient Nile murmuring
through the breathless narrative.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
=Ath= p274 F 27 ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
=Lit D= p121 S 18 ’20 1500w
“The tale is told swiftly and simply, as all good Rider Haggard tales
are told. It moves so naturally that one overlooks the unreality. ‘The
ancient Allan’ is by no means to be named in the same breath with
‘King Solomon’s mines’ and other earlier creations of its
indefatigable author. But it will not disappoint the reader who wants
thrills without analyzing too closely the methods employed to provide
them for him.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:152 Ap 4 ’20 900w
“It is a very good example of the author at his second best—we can
never hope to recover the first thrill of ‘She.’”
+ − =Sat R= 129:352 Ap 10 ’20 80w
“The story is told in Sir Rider’s customary colorful style and with
his gift for creating illusion. Ancient Egypt becomes a vivid
reality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 420w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p104 F 12 ’20 600w
=HAIG, DOUGLAS HAIG, 1st earl.= Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches. il *$15
Dutton 940.342
20–762
“From the time Field Marshal (now Earl) Haig assumed the chief command
of the British armies in France on December 19, 1915, until the close
of fighting at the end of 1918, he forwarded to the war office at
London in May and December of each year a summary of the operations
for the six months preceding. These were intended frankly for the
information of the people at home and were quite apart from the
detailed, confidential information sent daily from great headquarters
in France to the general staff at home. These statements have been
collected and edited by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Boraston, private secretary
to Earl Haig and published under the title ‘Sir Douglas Haig’s
despatches.’ The despatches, which number eight and fill 357 pages of
the heavy volume, are preceded by an introduction written by Marshal
Foch, and a preface by the field marshal himself. The volume is
accompanied by a number of carefully prepared, highly detailed maps in
large scale.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“For those desirous of studying the war as a military event, these
despatches furnish information of remarkable clearness and precision.
The splendid series of very large and detailed maps which accompanies
the volume, not only enables one to follow each detail of every
struggle, but appeals to the imagination.”
+ =No Am= 212:135 Jl ’20 2600w
“Altogether the volume is an invaluable aid to the student of the
campaigns that it describes.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“The civilian and the soldier alike may profit by reading and
re-reading the masterly despatches of Lord Haig.”
+ =Spec= 123:769 D 6 ’19 1000w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 23 ’20 950w
=HALDANE, RICHARD BURDON HALDANE, 1st viscount of Cloan.= Before the
war. il *$2.50 (5½c) Funk 327.42
20–3879
The attitude of the author throughout is that of an impartial
investigator rather than an accuser. “Few wars are really inevitable,”
he says. “If we knew better how we should be careful to comport
ourselves it may be that none are so.... How some of those who were
deeply responsible for the conduct of affairs tried to think in the
anxious years before the war, and how they endeavored to apply their
conclusions, is what I have endeavored to state in the course of what
follows.” (Introd.) The book is based on personal, official experience
and contains several interviews of the author with the kaiser. In the
epilog, deprecating the harshness of the treaty, he says: “It is at
all events possible that the wider view of a generation later than
this may be one in which Germany will be judged more gently than the
Allies can judge her today. We do not now look on the French
revolution as our forefathers looked on it.... And here some
enlargement of the spirit seems to be desirable in our own interest.”
Contents: Introduction: Diplomacy before the war; The German attitude
before the war; The military preparations; Epilog; Index.
* * * * *
“As a defence of those in power it is sincere and in the blame for the
war attributed to Germany, temperate and generously sympathetic. The
style is admirable. Interesting for general readers and as a first
hand account.”
+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
Reviewed by Sganarelle
+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 250w
=Lit D= 64:116 Mr 13 ’20 1250w
“It goes without saying that Viscount Haldane makes out a good case
for Great Britain: but he does so in anything but a blindly
chauvinistic temper. Without anger or irritation, imputing sinister
motives to none, he deals honestly with the facts as he sees them and
presents his case with a patient and persuasive reasonableness that
lends an air of finality to his conclusions. Nevertheless, what
strikes one on reflection is that the discussion never goes below the
surface of things.” Carl Becker
+ − =Nation= 110:692 My 22 ’20 1600w
=Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 310w
“Great injustice has been done by the press and the public to Mr
Haldane’s work before the war as secretary of state.... The war being
over, Lord Haldane publishes his defence, which we hope everybody will
read, and having read, will admit to be a refutation of charges
hatched in the fever of fear.”
+ =Sat R= 129:187 F 21 ’20 1250w
“Lord Haldane’s defence of the policy adopted by the liberal
government towards Germany between 1906 and 1914 deserves attentive
reading. His little volume, mainly composed from the articles which he
has published recently in various periodicals, has been hastily put
together and contains a certain amount of repetition, but it is an
obviously sincere attempt to explain and justify a policy that has
brought much unmerited odium on the author.”
+ − =Spec= 124:83 Ja 17 ’20 950w
=HALE, FREDERICK.= From Persian uplands. *$5 Dutton 915.5
(Eng ed 20–11662)
“Mr Hale was stationed from 1913 to 1917 at Birjand, in eastern
Persia, and from 1917 onwards at Kermanshah, near the western
frontier. This book contains his letters to a friend at home,
describing the ordinary course of life in sleepy Persia, and touching
lightly on the German and Turkish intrigues and the measures taken to
counteract them. Mr Hale declares that the Persians are far more
intelligent than their neighbors, and that they only need good schools
and a tolerable administration. Mr Hale was engaged at Kermanshah in
the preparations for General Dunsterville’s romantic little expedition
to Baku.”—Spec
* * * * *
“Here is a vivid picture of Persia during the war made by one who can
describe his own times in delicate phrasing and neat speech.” R. C. T.
+ =Ath= p506 Ap 16 ’20 600w
“His comment on current topics ... is extremely diverting, always in
good taste, and enlivened with a dash of humor reminiscent of Howells.
It is the charming style and manner which make the book worth while.”
+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 100w
“Mr Hale is a charming writer, and he evidently knows and likes the
Persian people. Thus his unpretentious book gives perhaps a truer
picture of modern Persia than some more ambitious works.”
+ =Spec= 124:526 Ap 17 ’20 220w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 Ap 22 ’20 530w
=HALE, LOUISE (CLOSSER) (MRS WALTER HALE).= American’s London. il *$2
(1½c) Harper 914.21
20–26752
An American actress goes to London for a season and talks wittily and
ramblingly about her experiences on and off the stage. She gives many
a glimpse of the aftermath of the war in London streets, in London
houses, and in London heads in the form of opinions and judgments. The
book is illustrated.
* * * * *
“Pleasing, spontaneously humorous, keen often, and clever, though the
author’s self-consciousness will seem to some to be intrusive.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20
“From her first page to her last, Mrs Hale is distinctly entertaining.
Her philosophy of life is a genial one and her style of presenting it
agreeably light and pleasantly tinged with humor.” F. A. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 870w
“Mrs Hale has a very pleasant style, a nice discrimination in the
incidents she relates, and a gently humorous way of recording her
experiences that makes her book delightful reading.”
+ =Lit D= p94 N 20 ’20 1550w
“‘An American’s London’ is no solemn study of social economics, but it
is fully as illuminating as a dozen scholarly tomes and far more
likely to make an impression on the lay reader’s memory. Its pages are
lightened by a sprightly sense of humor, and the enjoyment of reading
is further heightened by the author’s generous sharing of her most
intimate confidences.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 S 26 ’20 2200w
“The book is more Hale than London, but under the circumstances who
would have it otherwise?”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 21 ’20 280w
=HALE, WILLIAM BAYARD.= Story of a style. *$2 Huebsch
An analysis of President Wilson’s literary style by the author of
“Woodrow Wilson; the story of his life.” “Mr Woodrow Wilson,” says the
author, “is a man of words.... What he has accomplished—and his has
been a wonderful record of accomplishment—has been accomplished
through statement, argument, appeal. His scepter is his—pen; his sword
is his—tongue; his realm is that of—words. Therefore it ought to be,
it infallibly will be, in his language that Mr Wilson’s real self will
be revealed.” Beginning with the essay on “Cabinet government in the
United States,” written at the age of twenty-two, Mr Hale examines Mr
Wilson’s writings and speeches, pointing out his excessive use of
adjectives, his habits of repetition and interrogation, etc., and
drawing his inferences therefrom. The book was written before the
President fell sick, and was completed on Sept. 26, 1919. Contents:
Prophetic symptoms; Aristocratic affectations; Learned addictions;
Symbolism; Phonetic phenomena; Doubt and the flight from the fact; A
typical manuscript; Concerning popular repute; The story of the League
of nations speeches.
=HALL, AMANDA BENJAMIN.=[2] Blind wisdom. *$1.90 (1½c) Jacobs
20–17531
Joan Wister was and remained a character of incorruptible sincerity
and spontaneity. Because she was clear as crystal and trusted her own
impulses she was a puzzle. Expelled from boarding school on account of
her inconvenient questionings of the things that were taught her, she
found a friend in Jerry Callendar, her brother-in-law’s law partner.
For years he was her friend, adviser and father confessor and when one
day Joan found herself precipitantly in love with Bret Ballou and her
course beset with obstacles and temptations more than she could bear,
she fled to Jerry for protection and demanded that he should marry
her, the better to secure this end. Although Jerry truly loved her he
took upon himself the rôle of protector only and for a year even gave
her every chance to try out her infatuation for Bret. Before the end
of the year the make believe marriage had gone through various stages,
finally arriving at the real thing.
* * * * *
“The entire book has many delightful descriptions, and some bits of
whimsy humor. The ending of the story with its subduing veil of
pathos, is a flash of pure inspiration, worthy of the poet as well as
the novelist.” W. T. R.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 600w
“In Joan Miss Hall shows to great advantage not only as a teller of
tales but as an acute and dramatic delineator of character.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 520w
Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows
=Pub W= 98:1886 D 18 ’20 260w
=HALL, ARNOLD BENNETT.= Monroe doctrine and the great war. (National
social science ser.) *75c McClurg 327
20–2059
“The author has aimed ‘to present in simple form an accurate but brief
account of the origin and development of the doctrine and some of its
relations to the present problems of peace.’ He concludes that the
League of nations is the logical method of extending the principles of
the Monroe doctrine to the larger diplomatic problems of the
present.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“The narrative is generally clear and in most respects quite
conventional.” J. S. R.
+ =Am Hist R= 26:150 O ’20 370w
“A convenient summary.”
+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20
+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 80w
“Professor Hall furnishes us with a compendious account of the Monroe
doctrine, which not only skillfully skims the cream from more
extensive compilations, but churns it, salts it, and serves it up
ready for the table. When, however, it comes to making bread and
butter of the doctrine and the covenant, Mr Hall’s success is not
conspicuous.” E. S. Corwin
+ − =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 1100w
=HALL, GRACE.= Stories of the saints. *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday 922
20–7587
“For children, young and old” these stories of the saints are retold
in the form of legends. The contents fall into two parts. Some of the
saints whose story is told in part 1 are St Thomas, in The palace of
Gondoforus; St Patrick; St Bridgit of Kildare; St Ursula and the
eleven thousand virgins; St Edward’s smile, and the seven sleepers; St
Louis of France; St Margaret of Scotland; St Anthony of Padua; St
Elizabeth of Hungary. Part 2 under the caption “The saints and their
humble friends” contains in part: St Francis, the birds and the
beasts; St Roch and his dog; St Deicolus and the wild boar; St Felix
and the spider. The chronological order of the saints gives a list of
the saints according to their century and one according to their days.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20
=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Morale, the supreme standard of life and
conduct. *$3 Appleton 170
20–13129
The background of this book, as the war-term “morale” suggests, is the
war. The author holds that the war itself revealed the bankruptcy of
the old criteria and that our human standards and values must now be
subjected to a redefinition. This the book sets out to do, using
morale with a psychophysic connotation in its individual, industrial
and social applications. “It implies the maximum of vitality, life
abounding, getting and keeping in the very center of the current of
creative evolution; and minimizing, destroying, or avoiding all
checks, arrests, and inhibitions to it.” (Chapter I) The long list of
contents is in part: Morale as a supreme standard; Morale, patriotism
and health; The morale of placards, slogans, decorations, and war
museums; Conscientious objectors and diversities of patriotic ideals;
The soldier ideal and its conservation in peace; The labor problem;
Morale and feminism; Morale and education; Morale and “The Reds”;
Morale and religion; Bibliography.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
“Of course, Dr Hall has many valuable things to say in his book. He
colors up his quasi-physical norm of morality with a good dash now and
again of Christian sentiment. Still it is a pity that he, like so many
of our ‘advanced’ collegiate thinkers, can find so little room for
Christ.”
− + =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 490w
“The book is keenly analytic, a little coloured by the Freudian trend
of what philosophy people will read nowadays, but helpful in its
breadth and application, to any one concerned with studying or
directing the rest of the race.” E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 90w
“The style of the book under review is symbolic of its weakness. It
appears to be the product of what he calls ‘exuberant, euphorious, and
eureka moments.’” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 111:595 N 24 ’20 780w
“Some of the psychologic explanations in this volume are undoubtedly
ingenious. But as to the reality of the facts which he explains it is
not so easy to be certain. But considerations of fact are, after all,
not primary in the author’s regard. He believes that facts ‘cannot and
must not’ change certain treasured beliefs.”
− + =New Repub= 24:126 S 29 ’20 1400w
“No writer of modern times has so completely freed himself from every
vestige of scholastic methods, nor dared so freely to apply to
religion, ethics, education and social reconstruction, every last and
newest product of psychogenetic, psychoanalytic, experimental and
differential psychology. The result is that Dr Hall’s style is
peculiarly stimulating, refreshing and invigorating.” G. T. W. Patrick
+ =N Y Times= p18 O 24 ’20 1300w
“To speak seriously, these vivacious lectures are the readable
improvisations of a clever ready writer who possesses a facility of
association that Emerson would have envied, but who persistently
overworks and overloads his faculty or facility with undigested
reminiscences of his German studies and his subsequent dabblings in
all the sciences and all the philosophies.” Paul Shorey
− + =Review= 3:378 O 27 ’20 1600w
“Dr Hall’s views will often be found ‘stimulating’ for their
independence, whether one agrees with them or not. But there is no
groundwork of a new ethics or new sociology here. As with some other
books of Dr Hall’s, better organization of the material and more
careful writing would improve this one.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 1400w
“On the whole the work will hardly enhance the reputation of the
author of ‘Adolescence.’ First presented as a series of lectures
during the war, it reveals in many places the highly colored effects
induced by war-time emotions. Besides it views the psychologic
features in life out of all due proportion.” H: Neumann
− =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 280w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p782 N 25 ’20 190w
=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Recreations of a psychologist. *$2.50
Appleton
20–20441
“Vacation skits” the author calls this collection of short stories,
whose merit he claims to be their illustration of psychological
principles. The first of these stories, “The fall of Atlantis,” is a
new version of the Platonic myth, and records what happened to the
world after the year 2000—the record purporting to have been made by
the writer’s subliminal self while his conscious mind was in a state
of amnesia. The other stories are: How Johnnie’s vision came true; A
conversion; Preëstablished harmony—a midsummer revery of a
psychologist; Getting married in Germany; A man’s adventure in
domestic industries; A leap year romance; Note on early memories.
* * * * *
“Dr Hall is in error when he styles his work in these fields ‘crude
and amateurish if judged from the standpoint of literature’; he is
right when he claims a distinct merit for it as a means to the
enunciation of scientific principles. The literary touch and the
psychological implication characterize the book throughout.” E. N.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 500w
=HALL, HERSCHEL SALMON.= Steel preferred. *$2 Dutton
20–12451
“‘Steel preferred’ is a punning title, the point being that Wellington
Gay, born and brought up in the steel industry, can not be tempted
away from it. There his personal success or failure must be made, and
which it may be is a matter of secondary importance. Steel is his
lode-star and his love. All he asks is to be permitted to take a hand
somehow, somewhere, in the great game of steel-making. Chance takes
him away from Steelburg, as chance has brought him there—in the same
boxcar, to round out the coincidence. He has an uncommon knack for
clerical work, and is presently offered a promising position in a city
office. But chance once more sets him down at Steelburg, and the old
spell takes him. Once more he becomes a cheerful drudge, overworked,
unrecognized, and happy in the service of his mistress Steel. He is
discovered after a while by a new manager, and given his first step
upwards on the climb from roustabout to master of Steelburg. The point
is that, whether as roustabout or ‘old man,’ the main thing with him
is love of work and not love of personal reward or ‘success.’”—Review
* * * * *
“Boys and men will like this.”
+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“A good story well told and a vivid picture of the life of a big steel
plant are combined in this very readable novel.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 420w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:214 S 8 ’20 650w
“An entertaining and inspiring story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 220w
=HALL, JAMES NORMAN, and NORDHOFF, CHARLES BERNARD=, eds. Lafayette
flying corps; associate editor, Edgar G. Hamilton. 2v il *$15 Houghton
940.44
20–17744
“In offering this record of the Lafayette flying corps to the families
and friends of the men who served in it, and to the public at large,
the editors feel that a few words of explanation are necessary. Their
purpose has been twofold: to furnish a record as complete and
authentic as possible, and to reconstruct an atmosphere.” (Preface)
The contents of the first volume comprise: The origin of the
Escadrille Américaine; The Escadrille Lafayette at the front; The
Lafayette flying corps and Biographical sketches. Volume 2 is devoted
wholly to letters and personal reminiscences, arranged under the
headings: Enlistment and early training; Adventures in action; Life on
the front; Combats; Prisoners of war. Lists of dead, wounded,
prisoners of war, etc. are given in an appendix. The volumes are very
fully illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
“One hoped, upon learning that such a history was to appear, that at
least a fair proportion of the possibilities might be compassed, and
it is a great satisfaction to find in the finished book these hopes
more than realized and expectations generally surpassed. The editors
are to be congratulated and heartily thanked for their achievement.”
J. W. D. Seymour
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1100w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 120w
“The brief biographies are touched off, not always quite happily, with
the jocularity of a college class book. Everything is written from the
point of view of the insider. Thus the outsider will have to pick and
choose. The picking, however, is excellent.” F. J. Mather
+ − =Review= 3:476 N 17 ’20 640w
=HALLIBURTON, WILLIAM DOBINSON, ed.= Physiology and national needs. *$4
Dutton 613
(Eng ed SG20–168)
“The physiologists in this country and in England were called upon
during the war to give expert advice in food rationing, food
conservation, health preservation, etc., and a series of public
lectures on these topics given at King’s college by men of eminence in
their profession have now been edited by Mr Halliburton. Some of them
are worthy of special notice owing to the amount of new scientific
knowledge they contain, knowledge that as yet has hardly penetrated
beyond well-informed medical circles. Such, for example is the lecture
by Professor Hopkins on vitamines. In the lecture by Professor Harden
on scurvy a great deal of new and important information is collected
and presented. In the article by Professor Dendy on ‘The conservation
of our cereal reserves’ the difficulties connected with the storage of
grain are described, and evidence is given for the great saving that
might be effected by the adoption of a system of air-tight
storage.”—Review
* * * * *
=Ath= p418 Mr 26 ’20 1300w
“The book as a whole is extraordinarily interesting from many
different aspects, as much perhaps for the questions it asks as for
those it answers.” A. E. B.
+ − =Nature= 105:286 Mr 6 ’20 1000w
“The addresses selected for publication are well written in popular
style, free from scientific terminology, and may be read with profit
by any intelligent person interested in such topics.”
+ =Review= 3:505 N 24 ’20 370w
“In all probability the reader will find the first three lectures
dealing with foods and vitamines the most interesting of the series,
but each one is well worth studying.”
+ =Spec= 124:870 Je 26 ’20 1200w
=HAMBIDGE, JAY.= Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase, il *$6 Yale univ.
press 738
20–15783
“The life-suggesting quality of Greek art by which generation after
generation of art-lovers have been impressed is the true theme of the
book. To get back of appearances to the source of this quality has
been a task occupying more than twenty years of the author’s
concentrated mental labor. Why should the Greek masterpieces suggest
the life and growth of nature in their design while inferior designs
suggest inertia and fail to stimulate the mind? The secret was simple
enough, although it has called for an elaborate and extended process
of proving by mathematical tests. It consists in the fact that the
Greeks did all their measuring for works of art in areas, and that by
finding the proportions of these areas in growing organisms such as
plants, and especially the human figure, they provided themselves with
a guide to the arrangement of areas in design that enabled them to
capture vitality in all their works.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The make-up of the book is beautiful and the illustrations and
general idea are interesting to the lay student, though the study of
the text is for the artist.”
+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“What seems to distinguish this study is the effort, apparently quite
subconsciously made, to cover the whole matter with an air of mystery.
This has been done by the familiar device, prehistoric in origin and
perennial in its growth, of creating a new vocabulary. Stripped of its
mystery and set forth in simple language it would have been an
interesting work.” D: E. Smith
− + =Nation= 111:326 S 18 ’20 1600w
“A contribution to the literature of art more searching and revealing
than anything published within this field during the last century.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:20 Jl 4 ’20 1700w
“On the side of aesthetic appreciation ‘Dynamic symmetry’ affords, at
least to one critic, very little help.... Mr Hambidge’s patient and
modestly presented researches should cause a restudy of the whole
problem, which can only be beneficial.” F. J. Mather, Jr.
+ − =Review= 3:456 N 10 ’20 1400w
“In this book through his re-discovery of the principles used by the
Greek artists of the classic age, Mr Hambidge has opened up a new
field in modern art.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:187 N ’20 70 w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 110w
“At first sight his results appear little short of marvellous, and yet
it may be doubted whether they are so convincing as appears to their
author.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p700 O 28 ’20 1750w
=HAMILTON, CICELY MARY.= William—an Englishman. *$1.25 (2c) Stokes
20–8361
Mild-mannered, pale-faced, undersized, painstaking and obedient—thus
is William Tully characterized in this biographical novel. At his desk
in a London insurance office he is vaguely conscious that his too well
regulated life has been ordered by his masterful mother. Her sudden
death leaves him adrift and chance lands him among the reformers. Like
a new garment he puts on their cult and convictions, finds him a wife
among them—and is surprised by the war while on his honeymoon in
Belgium. Inwardly and outwardly his world collapses about him and his
wife is crushed in the ruins. Stunned he returns to England, his
pacifism changed into patriotism. After several rejections he is
accepted in the army and eventually finds himself caught in the
rat-trap of a military clerkship from whence he is rescued from
growing bitterness by an aerial bomb.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“The book is earnest, realistic and very well written, the emotional
and dramatic portions of it getting a real hold on the reader’s
imagination. It is an unpretentious volume, and a very moving, very
interesting one.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 400w
“Vividness of characters and a keen study of human emotions under
abnormal strain, are the more noticeable traits of ‘William—an
Englishman.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 300w
=HAMILTON, CLAYTON MEEKER.= Seen on the stage. *$1.75 (3c) Holt 792
20–21431
The author wishes this informal collection of essays to be considered
as a suffix to his other books on the theatre. In the first paper,
“Life and the theatre,” he quotes the Athenians who regarded our world
as “the valley of soulmaking” and states that the aim of art should be
to provide a sense of life for men who, in themselves, are not
sufficiently alive to create art by their very living. Some of the
other papers are: Personal greatness on the stage; Hero-worship in the
drama; Acting and impersonation; The laziness of Bernard Shaw; Satire
on the American stage; Le Théâtre du Vieux Colombier; In praise of
puppet-theatres; Understanding the Russians; Ibsen once again; The
Jewish art-theatre; Booth Tarkington as a playwright; The Athenian
drama and the American audience; A reminiscence of the Middle
Ages—Guibour; Edmond Rostand. The book is indexed.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
“One of his most thorough criticisms is that of Eugene O’Neill, whom
he thinks the greatest dramatist of the present day. Other essays in
the volume are of less importance; they are correct but commonplace,
and interesting chiefly for the gossip they contain.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 160w
“He has studied the drama of the past as thoroughly as he has mastered
the drama of the present. In other words, his preparation for dramatic
criticism is far more than adequate; it is exceptionally ample. To
this substantial equipment for his task he adds also the other three
qualifications which a critic ought to possess—insight and sympathy
and disinterestedness.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p4 Ja 30 ’21 1600w
=HAMILTON, COSMO.= Blue room. il *$1.90 (2c) Little
20–18662
Bill Mortimer comes back from the war with an intense desire to settle
down and be happy with a wife and family. His past has been lurid, and
he has memories locked in his “Blue room” which he wishes he could
forget. His pal, Teddy Jedburgh, on the other hand, having walked the
paths of rectitude in his youth, is inclined to kick over the traces
and go the pace now. Both men fall in love with the same girl, a “Miss
Respectable,” a “flower of a girl, with the dew on her and a morning
hymn in her eyes.” Bill is the successful suitor and plans for the
wedding are quickly made. Then just on the eve of the ceremony, Martha
discovers Bill’s blue room, and, disillusioned and bitter, knows not
which way to turn. It is Teddy who decides for her whether she shall,
at the last moment, run away and refuse to marry Bill, or, letting the
dead past bury its dead, carry on and marry him.
* * * * *
“The tale is told in a style of consistent and complacent banality,
the very style of the movie commentator.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 52:342 Ja ’21 360w
=N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 100w
“The plot, which is rather simple, at times dovetails in too smoothly
to convince the reader. But once it gets fairly under way it carries
the reader along without a hitch, to the very end.”
+ − =N Y Times= p18 N 7 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
=Pub W= 98:1194 O 16 ’20 320w
=HAMILTON, COSMO.= His friend and his wife. il *$1.75 (3c) Little
20–6492
A story of the Quaker Hill colony, an exclusive residential community
within commuting distance of New York. Julian Osborn has been
unfaithful to his wife and Margaret Meredith to her husband, but in
the divorce proceedings a false alibi is provided for Margaret and she
returns to her husband, resolved to be a model wife and mother
henceforward. Julian and Daisy Osborn are also reconciled, and altho
Daisy knows the truth, as do several other people, she joins in the
conspiracy to shield Bob Meredith. Their plans are upset however. Mary
Miller, the girl who out of gratitude to Margaret had sworn herself to
be the guilty party, becomes engaged to one of the colony’s popular
young men and the wife of the lawyer who arranged this false
testimony, herself a malicious gossip, tells the truth. Tragedy is
averted and affairs are settled to everyone’s satisfaction.
* * * * *
“Readable as Mr Hamilton’s style is, it must be admitted that he is
not without his difficulties. It must be confessed that there is
tedium in the triteness of some of his ideas and situations.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 500w
“The background, cleverly and entertainingly sketched, is very much
better than the overdrawn story.”
+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“Utterly unconvincing story.”
− =N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 350w
“Mr Hamilton’s story moves swiftly and keeps the reader intent on the
disentangling of the threads. Two characters stand out clearly—the
self-made inventor and the worldly-wise, kindly woman who dominates
her little circle.” H. Dick
+ =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 180w
=HAMILTON, ERNEST WILLIAM, lord.= Elizabethan Ulster. *$6 Dutton 941.5
(Eng ed 20–655)
“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ is an account of the stormy days of that Irish
province during the reign of Elizabeth of England. Ulster then was in
continuous strife with one or another—and occasionally practically
all—of the great Irish chieftains, who resisted the English attempt to
overrun and colonize their lands. The greater part of the book is
given over to the rebellion of the three Hughs—O’Neil, O’Donnell and
Macguire—in which most of the chiefs participated. The movement is
traced in detail from its earliest stages until after the battle of
Kinsale. The closing chapters deal with a few later and weaker revolts
and the flight of the Ulster Earls, Tyrone and Tyrconnell, to the
continent in the reign of King James.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Ath= p415 My 30 ’19 120w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 550w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
=Nation= 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 500w
“It is a dull thing that he has given us, but not without its value.
The chief fault of his work is his obvious inability to think himself
back into an environment and a mode of life quite different from that
of the year 1920.” H. L. Stewart
+ − =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 320w
“Every student of the history of Ulster must obtain this most valuable
handbook. The publishers have, however, been so remiss as to send it
out without either an index or even a table of contents.”
+ − =Sat R= 127:634 Je 28 ’19 420w
“Lord Ernest Hamilton’s handling of the subject is throughout
wonderfully impartial; there are one or two generalizations which
betray the side to which his feelings incline him, but he allows no
personal prepossessions to interfere with an unbiassed presentation of
the facts. The defects of his book are only incidental.”
+ − =Spec= 122:700 My 31 ’19 1700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 260w
“The atmosphere of war-time journalism has penetrated Lord Ernest’s
historical study, and even his phraseology has occasionally suffered.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p332 Je 19 ’19 1500w
“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ fails, and partially for lack of the qualities
of imagination and felicity of phrase.”
− =Yale R= n s 10:209 O ’20 150w
=HAMILTON, FREDERICK SPENCER, lord.= Vanished pomps of yesterday. *$4
(4c) Doran
(Eng ed 20–10129)
This is the second and revised edition of “some random reminiscences
of a British diplomat.” His official duties took the author to Rome,
Austria, Russia, Germany, Portugal, Brazil and Paraguay and he chats
pleasantly of the life he saw. On the pomp and circumstance, the
glitter and glamour of the three great courts of eastern Europe the
curtain has now been rung down definitely, is his final verdict. There
is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:84 N ’20
“Seldom does one find a book more completely enjoyable than this
collection of the random memories of a British diplomat. It is an
ideal companion for an idle hour—an excellent article for suitcase or
bedside table—a mine of precious anecdotes.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 11 ’20 1900w
“His volume really deserves the reviewer’s conventional praise of
being impossible to lay down, if once begun. It is as fascinating as
it is informing.” Archibald MacMechan
+ =Review= 3:348 O 20 ’20 900w
“The Russian chapters are the best in this engaging chronicle.”
+ =Spec= 123:815 D 13 ’19 1800w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 29 ’20 800w
“There is nothing either indiscreet or malicious in his narrative; for
all his lightness of touch, it is concerned with essentials, not with
accidents; with conditions that were the growth of centuries, not with
moods that are ephemeral; and its interest is permanent rather than
startling.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p644 N 13 ’19 800w
=HAMILTON, SIR IAN STANDISH MONTEITH.= Gallipoli diary. 2v il *$10 Doran
940.42
(Eng ed 20–10127)