“The essays are delightful, even in tone, but with only occasional
bits that are Hudson at his best.”
+ =Review= 3:48 Jl 14 ’20 80w
“It is literary, of course: but the writing is based on solid fact,
and though Mr Hudson is sensitive, he is not sentimental.”
+ =Sat R= 129:107 Ja 31 ’20 400w
“The book is well worth reading.”
+ =Spec= 123:774 D 6 ’19 100w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 19 ’20 280w
“Though some of Mr Hudson’s contentions appear disputable, this book
is full of his unsurpassed perception and unique charm.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 O 23 ’19 1000w
=HUDSON, W. H.=[2] Birds of La Plata. il 2v *$15 Dutton 598.2
“The matter contained in this volume (which forms a companion to Mr
Hudson’s famous ‘The naturalist in La Plata’) is taken from his
‘Argentine ornithology’ (1888–9), the matter contributed by the late
P. L. Sclater, in order to make a complete list, being omitted along
with the synonymy of the species described by Mr Hudson. Fresh species
being continually added to the list, the work became out of date, the
only thing of permanent interest being Mr Hudson’s account of the
birds’ habits. There seems to have been no subsequent volume from any
other source about Argentine birds.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 70w
“The two volumes are packed full of the little delightful personal
touches which make Hudson’s descriptions always a delight. In this
book are traces of the carelessness which sometimes appears in
Hudson’s writings. The color-plates by Gronvold add much to the beauty
of the book, and although not so spirited as those of our own Fuertes
they are beautifully done.” S: Scoville, jr.
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 29 ’21 1300w
“Though the book thus forms no inadequate guide to the birds of at
least a large portion of the Argentine territories, it makes a direct
appeal to many bird-lovers who may never hope to see any of the
species here described in their natural haunts.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p715 N 4 ’20 1450w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 100w
=HUDSON, W. H.=[2] Dead Man’s Plack, and An old thorn. *$2.50 Dutton
20–23046
“‘Dead Man’s Plack’ is a story of a thousand years ago. The story is
of Edgar the Peaceful, of Earl Athelwold, and of the beautiful Elfrida
who so dreadfully became queen and again so dreadfully became queen
mother, and is a simple, savage story of a simple, savage time. It is
a happy fortune that has brought ‘An old thorn’ within book covers
with ‘Dead Man’s Plack.’ This shorter story, which was originally
published in The English Review a number of years ago, is probably the
only narrative we have (the only one to Mr Hudson’s knowledge) which
deals with ‘that rare and curious subject, the survival of tree
worship’ in England. But it will live in the readers’ mind as a
piteous and haunting human tragedy—the story of a young countryman who
was hanged (and this was only a century ago) for stealing a sheep.”—N
Y Times
* * * * *
“In ‘An old thorn’ Hudson is at his best. He moves to his conclusion
with that sense of inevitability that is the core of tragedy.”
+ =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 140w
“And just as ‘Green mansions’ glows forever with the brilliance of the
tropical forest, so here in ‘Dead Man’s Plack’ a Saxon England is
recreated for us, and can never die. This new book of Hudson’s must
have a permanent place in our libraries.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 1050w
“There is a simple and plaintive charm in the narrative.”
+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 50w
“Here are two short stories by Mr Hudson, good enough for most
writers, but not his best. We could praise them for many things; if
they were by an unknown writer we should be content to praise; we
should even enjoy them more than we do now, knowing the other works of
their author; but, as it is, we are perhaps a little ungrateful for
their many beauties because we cannot refrain from asking why the
short story, even in ‘El ombu,’ does not quite suit Mr Hudson’s
genius.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p823 D 9 ’20 960w
=HUEBNER, GROVER GERHARDT.= Ocean steamship traffic management. *$3
Appleton 387
20–9794
The book is one of a series of manuals for instruction in the various
phases of steamship business. Its object is to give in systematic
order all the facts and activities that come within the range of the
ocean shipping business, for the guidance of individual students
studying by themselves and for use as a class text-book. The contents
are divided into three parts: Part I: The traffic organization of
ocean shipping; Part II: Ocean shipping documents; Part III: Ocean
rates and regulation. There is an index.
* * * * *
“The material is exceptionally well arranged.”
+ =Am Econ R= 10:595 S ’20 80w
“Well organized; written with clearness and precision.”
+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20
+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 40w
=HUEBNER, SOLOMON S.= Marine insurance. *$3 Appleton 368.2
20–16525
The volume is the first of a series of manuals designed to assist
students training for the marine insurance, shipping and exporting
business. It is adapted to the needs of beginners and does not aim to
discuss highly technical or isolated aspects of the business, such as
the specialist of long training may desire. Contents: Nature and
functions of marine insurance; Types of underwriters; Types of
policies; Analysis of the policy contract; Analysis of the perils
covered; Total loss; General average; Particular average; Cargo
insurance; Hull insurance; Freight insurance; Builders’ risk
insurance; Reinsurance agreements; Marine underwriters’ associations;
Rate making in marine insurance; Appendices (including specimens of
the various types of policies); Index
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 6 ’20 140w
“His book is comprehensive and well written and should prove helpful
to large numbers of the young generation in the country’s marine
insurance offices.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 170w
=HUGHES, ADELAIDE MANOLA.= Diantha goes the primrose way, and other
verses. *$1.35 Harper 811
20–6682
The title poem depicts in free verse the drama of a woman who, turning
away from her husband-friend to passionate love, sees that love die
and leave her desolate. She seeks comfort in work and in an hour of
mortal agony grasps the protecting hand of that husband-friend. The
other poems are grouped under the headings: Ceremonials, and Beloved
objects.
* * * * *
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:61 S ’20 580w
=Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 50w
=HUGHES, EDWARD ARTHUR.= Britain and greater Britain in the nineteenth
century. *$1.60 (1½c) Putnam 942.08
(Eng ed 20–3437)
A book written “for the general public, as well as for the upper forms
of schools.” The author is assistant master at the Royal naval
college, Dartmouth. Part 1, devoted to Great Britain and Ireland,
consists of the following chapters: Introductory; England from
Waterloo to the great reform bill (1815–1832); English politics from
the great reform bill to the outbreak of the Crimean war (1832–1853);
The condition of England 1815–1853; Foreign relations to the end of
the Crimean war; Palmerstonian England; Ireland 1800–1866; England and
Ireland 1868–1885; England and Ireland 1886–1906; Social movements
(two chapters). Part 2 devotes a chapter each to Canada, South Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, India and Egypt, with a concluding chapter on
The British empire. There is an index.
* * * * *
“On the whole it is the best short history of modern Britain that has
appeared. But there is one serious defect that greatly impairs its
usefulness. Not only is there no bibliography but there are no
references whatever. Good as it is, it is not particularly dynamic or
illuminating.” C. F. Lavell
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:133 O ’20 350w
“Despite the absence of personal bias, rigorously to be suppressed in
a book like this, and the compression of a large subject into 300
pages, we read ‘Britain and greater Britain’ through from start to
finish with unabated interest.”
+ =Sat R= 128:491 N 22 ’19 1350w
=HUGHES, GLENN.= Broken lights. *$1.50 Univ. of Washington 811
20–11395
From the preface contributed to this collection of poems by Frederick
Morgan Padelford, it is to be inferred that the poems were accepted by
the English department of the University of Washington in lieu of a
thesis for the degree of Master of Arts, on the ground that “the
creation of art is at least as severe a test of culture and of refined
and disciplined thinking as the ability to reason sagely upon the art
created by others.” The poems are grouped under the headings; A
garland for Euterpe; Remembrances: Eccentricities: Pro patria.
* * * * *
“Our ‘strong’ young poets will doubtless see too much of softly
falling rain or gently moving cloud to please them in the volume, too
much of Mother Nature and too little of human nature.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 190w
=HUGHES, RUPERT.= Momma, and other unimportant people. *$2 (2c) Harper
20–20946
Thirteen short stories with the titles: “Momma”; The
stick-in-the-muds; Read it again; The father of waters; Innocence; The
college Lorelei; Yellow cords; The split; A story I can’t write; The
butcher’s daughter; The quick-silver window; The dauntless bookkeeper;
You hadn’t ought to. The stories have appeared in Collier’s and other
magazines.
* * * * *
“If the people all belong to about the same class, the stories
themselves are of very uneven merit, several of them being very good,
while others are distinctly poor. The book gives, take it all in all,
an accurate picture of certain phases of American life.”
+ − =N Y Times= p19 N 14 ’20 580w
=HUGHES, RUPERT.= What’s the world coming to? il *$1.90 (1c) Harper
20–8631
Bob Taxter, coming home from the war, learns that he has inherited ten
thousand dollars. His first thought is that now he will be free to
marry April, the girl he has loved and quarrelled with since
childhood. But he finds that April too has inherited money, a much
larger sum than his own. He straightway sets about making more and
turns his attention to oil. And quite opportunely Joe Yarmy and his
sister Kate appear on the scene. The old homestead in Texas is all
ready to gush oil. They need only capital. Bob bites, but April is
sceptical. They quarrel and she returns his ring. Bewildered, Bob
finds himself engaged to marry Kate. But there has been another
sceptic, old Uncle Zeb, family retainer of the Taxters, now a
“professor of vacuum cleaning.” It is he who thwarts the wedding
plans, redeems the ten thousand dollars and the Taxter diamonds. This
is the story, but the book abounds in an astounding array of other
matters, doggerel verses current at the time, statistics, price lists,
quotations from the Brewers’ board of trade, and the author’s opinions
on prohibition and social conditions generally.
* * * * *
“The plot is fairly complicated, and interspersed with a very great
deal of comment and of moralizing, some of which is worth reading,
though most of it is exceedingly trite. The novel is inordinately
long, but no doubt it will please Mr Hughes’s admirers.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:280 My 30 ’20 1150w
“The story is a potpourri of post-war conditions and incidents loosely
put together.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 190w
=HUGHES, TALBOT.= Dress design, il $4 Pitman 391
The book is one of the Artistic crafts series of technical handbooks
edited by W. R. Lethaby, and is “an account of costume for artists and
dressmakers.” (Sub-title) The object of the series is to encourage
greater consideration for design and workmanship and the object of
this particular volume is to emphasize the craftsman and artistic side
of costume making and to “separate in some degree the more constant
elements of dress from those which are more variable.” (Preface)
Although cast into the form of history it is also a book of
suggestions to modern dressmakers. The book is profusely illustrated
with figures and full-page plates and a special feature has been made
of supplying the maker or designer of dress with actual proportions
and patterns, gleaned from antique dresses. Beginning with prehistoric
dress, both male and female, successive chapters are given to the
development of costume in the different centuries including the
nineteenth. There is an index and a detailed list of patterns.
=HULBERT, ARCHER BUTLER.= Paths of inland commerce. (Chronicles of
America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 380
20–4902
“Professor Hulbert is well equipped for writing the story of the early
development of the transportation routes of the United States, for he
has already published sixteen volumes on the pioneer roads and canals,
based upon personal observation and firsthand study. In the monograph
under review the author has brought together the best results of his
earlier labors and woven them into a connected narrative of the part
which trails, roads, canals, and natural waterways have played in our
commercial development.”—Am Hist R
* * * * *
“The interest of the author in his subject has at times betrayed him
into extreme forms of statement, but on the whole he has maintained a
fair balance.” E. L. Bogart
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:145 O ’20 340w
“The progress both in historical scholarship and in the author’s
knowledge is shown by a comparison of this mature and carefully
wrought volume with the earlier ‘Historic highways of America’
published some fifteen to eighteen years ago by the same author. The
enthusiasm has remained, and has deepened and broadened with the
author’s enlarging acquaintance with the subject, until it has evoked
a notable epic of transportation.” L. P. Kellogg
+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:153 S ’20 550w
“An extremely readable volume.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 50w
=HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE (MRS WALLACE WEIR FAHNESTOCK).=[2] Sword of the
spirit. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8516
“The novel begins with the marriage of a young couple well endowed
with this world’s goods, who are ardently infatuated with each other.
Every one looks upon it as a most desirable match in every way, and at
first the young husband and wife are superlatively happy. Then the
little rifts begin to appear. The girl is of a very spiritual nature.
The husband lives upon a distinctly lower level, is frankly material
in his enjoyment of life. The climax comes with some riotous living on
his part, which includes too much toying with the wine cup. The
barrier that has grown between them seems impassable, and wreckage
threatens their marriage. The situations and developments by which the
author chastens and humbles both of them and finally brings them
together again are plausible and emotional.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
“Miss Humphrey has shown no lack of temerity and assurance in handling
the things of the spirit; but in so doing she has merely revolved
around her subject without ever really grappling it. The novel, as a
whole, is neither pleasing nor convincing.”
− + =Cath World= 112:544 Ja ’21 330w
“It is, perhaps, in construction and development and emotional tensity
the best work she has yet done. There is, indeed, much fine and keen
perception of spiritual beauty throughout the book.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 380w
=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) (MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA,
pseud.).= Diana of the Ephesians. *$1.75 (1c) Stokes
20–2263
The hero of this story is the incarnation of egotism, self-conceit and
arrogant, heartless megalomania. She is a Greek girl of doubtful
parentage, her father an Englishman. Claiming the guardianship of an
English professor she comes to England at the age of seventeen,
consumed with ambition to become a great writer and under the delusion
of being the daughter of some great personage. Rough-shod she walks
over everybody in the home that has received her; wheedles herself
into the good graces of an old lord; has a brief but dazzling and
artificial career and sinks into oblivion as the bubble of her genius
bursts and the true secret of her humble origin is revealed.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 40w
“The story is well written and entertaining, but endows the girl with
improbable power.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
“The leading character, though exaggerated and decidedly bizarre, is
interesting and keeps the reader wondering what she will find to do
next. The novel is interesting, and its plot is more than a little out
of the ordinary.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 400w
“The story’s rapid action, its multitude of interesting detail, and
the singular character of the heroine engage the reader’s attention
throughout 500 closely printed pages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 330w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 250w
=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.).=
Truth of spiritualism. *$1.25 Lippincott 134
20–7778
“‘Rita’ has closely examined the different phenomena of spiritualism,
with the result that she believes it does reveal more than the church
has told us as to the condition of the departed; and that, though not
‘an orthodox religion,’ it is ‘the root and source of all
religions.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Rita’s denunciations will hardly make much difference, especially as
they are often more eloquent than intelligible.”
− + =Ath= p1301 D 5 ’19 60w
“A maze of vague, incoherent, unproven assertions, a jumble of
rambling nonsense, of stuffy, sickly sentimental Raymondiana,
interspersed with impassioned tirades against Christianity as seen
through the spectacles of ignorance, prejudice, and calumny, and
hovering above all this the arrogant, self-canonized opinion of Mrs
Humphreys, run amuck among truths beyond its grasp and appreciation,
ignorant, irrational, defiant, indecent and sacrilegious.”
− =Cath World= 111:553 Jl ’20 320w
“The converted will no doubt read her disquisition with pleasure; but
it cannot be said to add anything of importance to the controversy.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 60w
=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Bedouins. il *$2 (5½c) Scribner 780.4
20–5751
Some of Mr Huneker’s bedouins, in this collection of essays, are real
and some are fictitious. A number of the essays are devoted to Mary
Garden, whom the author admires as a “wonderful artiste” and an
“extraordinary woman,” others to Debussy, Mirbeau, George Luks,
Chopin, Caruso, Anatole France. All partake of the nature of
extravaganzas, particularly the fiction. The book falls into two
parts: Mary Garden, and Idols and ambergris. Under part 1 some of the
titles are: Superwoman; The baby, the critic, and the guitar; The
artistic temperament; The passing of Octave Mirbeau; Anarchs and
ecstasy; Caruso on wheels; A masque of music. Among the contents of
part 2 are: The supreme sin; Venus or Valkyr? The cardinal’s fiddle;
The vision malefic.
* * * * *
“We find Mr Huneker unreadable. It is not only the rush and freshness
of his style, which has all the marvellous energy of a woman in
hysterics, that we find unendurable, but we can attach no meaning to
what he says.”
− =Ath= p145 Jl 30 ’19 280w
+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20
“He has a marvellous power of suggesting, of stimulating, of suddenly
burbanking widely separated notions and as suddenly dissociating them.
As some one said about him, his brilliancy and versatility hide his
profundity. ‘Bedouins’ is a book without a desert.” B: de Casseres
+ =Bookm= 51:231 Ap ’20 900w
“James Huneker’s writing is full of sound and fury but it signifies a
good deal. His criticism is backed by a real knowledge of most of the
arts in most of the centuries.”
+ =Ind= 102:373 Je 12 ’20 120w
“Maeterlinck wrote: ‘I have marvelled at the vigilance and clarity
with which you follow and judge the new literary and artistic
movements in all countries.’ ‘Bedouins’ is a new illustration of this
vigilance and clarity. His pages on Anatole France, though different
in style, are worthy of being included in Henry James’s little read
but wonderful book on ‘French poets and novelists.’” H: T. Finck
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 580w
“Mr Huneker is, to me, the greatest master of English prose living
today, and ‘Bedouins’ shows no weakening of his hand.” B: de Casseres
+ − =N Y Times= 25:144 Mr 28 ’20 1000w
“Mr Huneker’s enthusiasm and good nature win acceptance for his
literary caprices; he is always to be distinguished from his imitators
of the Mencken-Nathan order.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 650w=
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p515 Ag 12 ’20 1450w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=Yale R= n s 10:187 O ’20 250w
=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Steeplejack. 2v il *$7.50 Scribner
20–16114
“Mr Huneker has been for many years one of the best known of the music
and dramatic critics in New York. These volumes give an entertaining
running account of his relations with musicians, artists, men and
women of the stage, and authors, both here and in Europe.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Whatever the talk, the brilliant style, the startling paradoxes, and
the individuality of the writer’s reactions make it interesting.”
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
“His book is the romance of the year.” B: de Casseres
+ =Bookm= 52:267 N ’20 800w
“Mr Huneker is seen in his confessions as a very human being, rich in
experience and mellow in philosophy. His narrative becomes by turns
merry, stinging, meditative, instructive; but never dull,
hypocritical, or self-laudatory. He has performed a difficult task
with the utmost skill, albeit with no dainty hand.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 140w
“Through all the disjointed mass of youthful recollection Mr Huneker
has never been dull. Only when he gets onto the current era, in volume
two, does his blast of steam become inconsequential. He pounds his
fists, strikes his favorite pose, gesticulates and roars; but when he
discusses his contemporaries—puff; his charm is gone. His
autobiography as well as his career is for the most part distinctive,
versatile, individual.” J. B. A.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 1350w
“It is easily the non-fiction book of the year in this country, where
there are so many persons and so few individuals. It is the challenge
of a cultured superman to his generation. And withal a profoundly
human book.” B. D.
+ =N Y Times= p8 S 12 ’20 2000w
“In a less ebullient individuality the cultivation of the ego would
make for boredom; in the case of Mr Huneker a conscious and
concentrated development of personality has enriched our insight into
contemporary peregrinations of the spirit.” L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:469 N 10 ’20 1650w
“The first impression left by this stimulating and quite
unconventional autobiography is that of a personally conducted tour
thru the literary and artistic ‘Who’s who?’ of the past fifty years.
One’s second thought is an involuntary wish, not that Mr Huneker’s
life had been less rich in varied scenes and privileged friendships,
but that he had given us a narrower and more selective perspective.
Yet it would be the sheerest ingratitude to imply that other methods
and proportions would have made a better book.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 98:662 S 18 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:292 O 6 ’20 450w
“‘Steeplejack’ should appeal to anyone who cares to recall the
artistic, musical, literary, and journalistic history of America in
the past thirty years.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 140w
“Both volumes well repay perusal.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 50w
“It is a gay, happy, animated recital, not of high importance as
intellectual biography, but preserving a good many recollections worth
preserving and giving a full-length picture of a temperament which the
reader will agree with possessor in calling more continental than
American. ‘Steeplejack’ takes us to three cities—Philadelphia, Paris
and New York. Will one’s taste be indictable for dulness if it selects
Philadelphia as the most interesting?”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 1700w
=HUNGERFORD, EDWARD.=[2] With the doughboy in France. il *$2 (2c)
Macmillan 940.477
20–20074
“A few chapters of an American effort” the author calls this book,
meaning the work of the Red cross, which seemed to him such an
outpouring of affection, of patriotism, of a sincere desire to serve,
as he had never before seen. It is not a consecutive narrative but a
series of descriptions, well illustrated, under the headings: America
awakens; Our Red cross goes to war; Organizing for work; The problem
of transport; The American Red cross as a department store; The
doughboy moves toward the front; The Red cross on the field of honor;
Our Red cross performs its supreme mission; The Red cross in the
hospitals of the A. F. F.; “Pack up your troubles in your old kit
bag”; When Johnny came marching home; The girl who went to war.
* * * * *
“If one desires to know what our Red cross men and women did for their
country, he will find the story here.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 580w
+ =N Y Times= p13 Ja 30 ’21 700w
+ =R of Rs= 53:223 F ’21 140w
“The method of the book is to recount in a chatty, journalistic way
the general experiences of the Red cross, and, incidentally, of the
armies. The total effect, unfortunately, is of triviality.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 13 ’21 180w
=HUNT, H. ERNEST.= Self-training. *$1.25 (3c) McKay 131
(Eng ed SG19–89)
In laying down the lines of mental progress it is the object of the
book to teach men how to become master workmen in the art of living by
building up correct dominant ideas into the subconscious. He describes
the important part played by the subconscious mind, how our health and
our activities are constantly under the control of an accumulated
stock of ideas and how this stock of ideas can in turn be controlled
by a conscious effort of the will. Contents: The nature of mind; Mind
at work; Thought and health; Suggestion; Training the senses; Memory;
The feelings; Will and imagination; The machinery of nerves;
Extensions of faculty; Self-building; The spiritual basis.
* * * * *
“Good for the discouraged person who is capable of taking himself in
hand.”
+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20
=HUNTER, GEORGE MCPHERSON.= When I was a boy in Scotland. (Children of
other lands books) il *$1 (4c) Lothrop 914.1
20–7945
The author, who is now a clergyman in the United States, writes of:
The place where I was born; My schools and school-teachers; Our games
and play; Tales of my grandfathers; High days and holidays in
Scotland; Days on the beach and among the heather; Tramps in and
around Glasgow, etc. The last chapter tells how he went to sea,
returned to Glasgow university, and then came to America.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20
“To read this book is not only to know a real Scotch lad but to learn
many things in a pleasing way.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 180w
=HURLEY, EDWARD NASH.= New merchant marine. il *$3 (3½c) Century 387
20–11687
This is the second volume in the Century foreign trade series. The
author was formerly chairman of the United States shipping board and
has written “The awakening of business” and other books. In the
present work he sketches the history of American shipping but devotes
most of his space to future problems of foreign trade. Among the
chapters are: Our past glories on the sea; Organization of the United
States shipping board; Preparing for ship construction under war
conditions; Methods by which tonnage was acquired; The new merchant
marine; American commerce in the western hemisphere; American commerce
in Australia and the Far East; The economical operation of ships;
Reaction of ships upon national industries; Americanization and
re-orientation. The book is illustrated, has two appendices and an
index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20
=R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 110w
“The book contains a wealth of timely suggestions and detailed
instruction in practice and methods.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 190w
=HUSBAND, JOSEPH.= Americans by adoption. il $1.50 (4c) Atlantic monthly
press 920
20–10511
The volume contains biographical sketches of nine prominent,
foreign-born “Americans by choice” with an introduction by William
Allan Neilson, himself a foreigner, and president of Smith college. He
holds that what men want most is “to count among their fellows for
what they are worth.” That America is giving its citizens of foreign
birth this opportunity is the underlying reason for the book. Each
sketch is accompanied by a portrait and the subjects of the sketches
are: Stephen Girard; John Ericsson; Louis Agassiz; Carl Schurz;
Theodore Thomas; Andrew Carnegie; James J. Hill; Augustus
Saint-Gaudens; Jacob A. Riis.
* * * * *
“An interesting addition to any public or high school library.”
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
“Mr Husband’s book, however flowery some of its phraseology may be, is
yet a trumpet call.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 1100w
“Now, I am convinced that these interesting records will ‘inspire,’ in
the matter of Americanism, only those who are inspired already. Mr
Husband does not seem to realize, in the first place, that it is quite
impossible for people nowadays to admire very greatly such heroes as
Stephen Girard, James J. Hill and Andrew Carnegie. It is an old
fallacy of ours to suppose that we alone have produced men of this
kind. But Mr Husband makes a virtue of every accident.”
− =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 1600w
“This little volume, beautifully introduced by W. A. Neilson, should
have its worthy place in any bibliography of Americanization.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 80w
“The book is highly appropriate as a high-school reader or reference
book.”
+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 90w
“The book is based on pure fiction, so far as America is concerned. In
the first place, since the constitution does not provide for
conferring the freedom of the nation on foreigners, there are no
‘Americans by adoption.’ Mr Husband’s portraiture is rather in keeping
with the ideas propounded by Mr Neilson in the preface; his heroes are
made to look like ‘Efficiency Edgar.’” B. L.
− =Survey= 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w
=HUTCHINSON, EMILIE JOSEPHINE.= Women’s wages. (Columbia univ. studies
in history, economics, and public law) pa *$1.50 Longmans 331.4
19–18237
“This book, submitted as a doctor’s thesis to Columbia university, is
a painstaking, clearly written analysis of the wages of women and the
factors affecting them. Nearly half the space is given to a discussion
of minimum-wage legislation and its possibilities. Trade unionism and
vocational training are included with minimum-wage laws as the chief
methods of raising the present low standards. The facts presented are
drawn almost exclusively from reports prepared before the war, and
although occasional references are made to the work of women during
the war, and their position after it, the discussion seems not to have
been influenced by the changes in the aspects of labor problems since
1914.”—Am J Soc
* * * * *
“The postponement of the publication of this useful laboriously
prepared study makes the data seem curiously obsolete.” Edith Abbott
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:609 S ’20 450w
“It is unfortunate that certain old opinions, which have never had
satisfactory statistical proof, such as ‘from five to seven years is
the average length of the girl’s wage-earning life,’ are repeated
without supporting evidence. As a history of data and opinions before
the war the book is useful, and with the persistence of many of the
same tendencies in women’s work, it will have continued value.” Mary
Van Kleeck
+ − =Am J Soc= 25:497 Ja ’20 200w
=Booklist= 16:262 My ’20
“‘Women’s wages’ is encouraging in its wholesome lack of optimism.”
+ =Nation= 110:662 My 15 ’20 220w
“A unique and much needed piece of work.” Signe Toksvig
+ =New Repub= 21:84 D 17 ’19 1200w
“This admirable study digests with fairness and with intelligence the
available data concerning women’s wages in this country. The book she
has produced excellently covers its field.” W. L. C.
+ =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w
=HUTCHINSON, HORATIO GORDON.= Portraits of the eighties, il *$4 Scribner
920
(Eng ed 20–22470)
“Since the Right Hon. George W. E. Russell has himself written about
so many of his contemporaries, it is fitting that he should hold the
place of honor, with a frontispiece portrait, in Mr Hutchinson’s
‘Portraits of the eighties.’ After this introductory chapter dealing
with Mr Russell we are given a graphic series of pen portraits of men
of such diverse interests as Gladstone, John Bright, Parnell, General
Gordon, Archbishop Temple, Professor Huxley, William Morris Swinburne,
George Frederick Watts, Sir W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde and W. G.
Grace, Mr Hutchinson’s survey of English personalities extending
thereby from statesmanship to cricket-playing.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“There are too many (over 30) portraits and groups attempted in these
300 pages; comparatively few lines can be given to each, and Mr
Hutchinson is not master of the economy of telling and characteristic
strokes. The fortuitous medley of the scrap-book may, however, afford
entertainment, and even a degree of instruction.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p830 Je 25 ’20 550w
“The book is full of important facts brought together in an accessible
form. But Mr Hutchinson has little penetration and suffers in any
comparison that is drawn between his work, which may be admitted to be
good, and the work which is entitled to be called excellent of some
recent writers.” Theodore Maynard
+ − =Bookm= 51:682 Ag ’20 650w
“As an abstract and brief chronicle of its decade, Mr Hutchinson’s
book fulfils the promise of its title.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 1350w
“The book does not possess the brilliant style or keen analysis of Mr
Strachey’s ‘Eminent Victorians,’ but is discriminating and, if not
characterized by any remarkable insight is generally fair in its
judgment.”
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 60w
“Mr Hutchinson is an impressionist, working with a broad and sometimes
rather careless brush, yet seldom failing to make his portrait live. A
gentle judge of the private characters of his subjects, he is a
circumspect critic of their public activities.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 My 13 ’20 1350w
=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Happy house.
*$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–1214
Happy house the young bride called her new home, but it soon became
a euphemism. Violet Walbridge slaved with her pen to give without
stint to a worthless husband and a large thoughtlessly exacting
family. As the quality of her novels is falling off into mere
rubbish, and with it the quantity of her income, a young journalist
discovers her rare character as a woman. He also falls in love with
her youngest daughter but the course of his true love does not run
smoothly. During his devious courtship of Grisel, his friendship for
his would-be-mother-in-law becomes a rejuvenating elixir for the
latter and enables her to write a real true-to-life modern story,
that reinstates her in the good graces of her publishers.
* * * * *
“A pleasant character study of an interesting group.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
“The plot itself might well have been composed by its heroine.” M. E.
Bailey
+ − =Bookm= 51:204 Ap ’20 400w
“In ‘Happy house,’ Baroness von Hutten has written a story which
should not by rights be readable, but into which she has managed to
infuse a certain amount of vitality. It is a ghost but there are
moments when its gestures are sufficiently life-like, and despite its
rattling bones we follow its motions.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 450w
“As a whole, the book is decidedly pleasing and out of the ordinary.”
+ =Cath World= 111:407 Je ’20 210w
=Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w
=Lit D= p97 S 18 ’20 2650w
“‘Happy house’ is a quiet little story of the domestic type, but
Oliver Wick and Violet Walbridge make it worth while.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:116 Mr 14 ’20 600w
“The novel is entertaining rather than deep.”
+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“Towards the end of the book a few incredible things happen, but one
forgives these in gratitude for the careful and convincing character
drawing.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:41 Ja 10 ’20 220w
“In the tragedy of a once popular novelist, who has become something
of a fallen star, and in the very casual way in which, even when her
star was at its zenith, she has always been regarded by her own
family, there are great possibilities. But the Baroness von Hutten
scarcely makes the most of it, and dares so little to rely on it that
she introduces two sub-plots which, though mechanically linked with
this main theme, have no artistic bearing upon it.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 280w
=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Helping Hersey.
*$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–26758
A book of collected short stories from the pen of this author of many
popular novels. The title story is a study of two women, mother and
daughter, in their relation to one man, an American, who at first
misjudges both and is later led to reverse his opinions. First place
in the collection is given to Peterl in the Black forest, a sketch
written in 1913 with all the marks of a study from life. The other
titles are: In loving memory; Ker Kel; Mrs Hornbeam’s headdress; The
common man’s story; The iron shutter; Two Apaches; The principino;
Three times; A Berlin adventure.
* * * * *
“Slight but entertaining.”
+ =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
“It is decidedly agreeable to find such a variety of stories bound in
one volume by one author.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 360w
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“The Baroness von Hutten’s latest collection of tales displays, as it
were, her familiar super-mediocre versatility. And yet to me the most
distinguished pieces of writing in the volume are the plotless
sketches, ‘Ker Kel,’ a little picture of Brittany, and ‘Peterl in the
Black Forest.’” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 100w
=HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD.= Leda. *$1.50 Doran 821
20–16190
In this collection of poems the title poem describes the Olympian love
episode with singular beauty of diction as well as mundane realism.
The other poems, some of which are poetic prose, all betray more or
less of sardonic humor, as when the poet suddenly finds himself
sobered from the “intoxicating speed” of the merry-go-round when he
perceives “a slobbering cretin grinding at a wheel and sweating as he
ground, and grinding eternally.” Some of the other titles are: The
birth of God; Male and female created He them; Life and art;
First—Second—Fifth—and Ninth philosopher’s song; The merry-go-round;
Last things; Evening party; Soles occidere et redire possunt.
* * * * *
“We cannot accept it. The elements that Mr Huxley has desired to
combine, the precious esoteric beauty and the ugliness which were to
be blended into a new comprehensive beauty in whose light nothing
should appear common or unclean, are still as unmixed as oil and
vinegar. If Mr Huxley wishes to be judged, he should elect to be
judged, not by ‘Leda,’ nor by any of the shorter poems in this book,
but by ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt.’ As for two-thirds of the
shorter pieces, we think he would have been well advised never to
print them.” J. M. M.
− + =Ath= p699 My 28 ’20 1500w
“Aldous Huxley exposes the fallacy that the imagination needs any
special material in which to exercise the creative spirit of poetry.
His book opens with a successful and beautiful poem on a mythical
legend. The book closes with an elegy for a friend lost in the war,
and here the elements are, one might say, sardonically modern, the
very naked realities of life gathered up and fused with a temper that
makes the spirit of poetry no less golden than the substance in the
more remote Hellenic rumor of the seduction of Leda by Zeus in the
form of a swan.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 1850w
“When he is complaining or mocking Mr Huxley can rise to real heights
of bombast; at such times he writes good mouth-filling stuff with a
little of the Elizabethan spirit, but with more acidity. It is for his
satires, then, that he is to be valued, rather than for any gropings
toward a philosophy; for his prose poems as long as they are satires;
for ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt’ as long as it remains a
criticism and a complaint. Most of his other work must be
disregarded.” Malcolm Cowley
+ − =Dial= 70:73 Ja ’21 1100w
“Mr Huxley has neither the courage to love his themes for their own
sakes nor the imagination to get the better of them; therefore, he is
not a poet, although every line of his book displays a determination
to write something better than the conventional prettifications which
people usually call poetry.” J: G. Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:141 O 20 ’20 680w
“In ‘Leda’ he offers a volume that will, with all probability, be
quite the most unique and interesting addition to the sum total of
English poetry for the year. Indeed, it is a book that is unapproached
in certain of its manifestations.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 19 ’20 1250w
=HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD.= Limbo. *$1.75 Doran
20–12115
A book that introduces a new English satirist. It opens with Farcical
history of Richard Greenow, a curious tale of dual personality. The
shorter pieces that follow are: Happily ever after; Eupompus gave
splendour to art by numbers; Happy families; Cynthia; The bookshop;
The death of Lully.
* * * * *
“‘Limbo’ is startling because it is young and sophisticated, ironic
and malicious, delicately and forcefully written—qualities rare enough
in the work of old masters, but apparently upsetting to critical
standards when found in a first book. ‘Happily ever after’ is the
masterpiece of the collection.” E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 100w
“The one story that must be taken seriously in Aldous Huxley’s
collection ‘Limbo’ is ‘The farcical history of Richard Greenow.’
Always the reader should bear in mind that the tragedy of Richard
Greenow is as poignant as its humor is pungent, and that below the
surface mockery lies a seriousness indicative of that most tragical of
all causes of tragedy—social ignorance.”
+ =Freeman= 1:501 Ag 4 ’20 240w
“Mr Huxley has fulfilled the promise that he intimated in his earlier
books to the few who knew him, and demonstrated that he is one of the
finest writers of prose in England today. He is finished and
fastidious, sophisticated and diverting, an authentic figure of some
actual importance and with many potentialities. That he must take a
decided place among the younger contemporary writers in England is
without doubt.” H. S. G.
+ =New Repub= 24:172 O 13 ’20 1550w
“In lines, sometimes in paragraphs, and in general atmospheric
suggestion, there appears to this reviewer a likeness between Mr
Huxley and Max Beerbohm. The mental attitude of the two men is
dissimilar in many ways. But through them both runs that great streak
of urbanity, of sophistication, of what might almost be termed
jadedness at times. ‘Limbo’ is a book of definite promise and of a
certain achievement.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 650w
“Mr Huxley has a very readable and diverting narrative style, a style
with journalism in the first story and literature in the second, and
with full permission, but no obligation, to the reader to climb the
stairs. Mr Huxley’s low estimate of human nature does not tame the
effervescence of his spirits.”
+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 300w
“The death of Lully is the only story in which it may occur to the
reader that after all Mr Aldous Huxley is sometimes actuated by the
ideals and sympathies which move ordinary human beings.”
− + =Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 140w
“The most remarkable story in the book is ‘The farcical history of
Richard Greenow.’ There is a blunt boyish ring to this which oddly
enough induces the uncanny effect that many writers wallow in
melodrama to obtain. But Mr Huxley’s product is uneven. ‘Happily ever
after’ is as humdrum as the preceding story is distinguished.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 460w
“Instead of saying that there are seven short stories in ‘Limbo’ which
are all clever, amusing, and well written, and recommending the public
to read them, as we can conscientiously do, we are tempted to state,
what it is so seldom necessary to state, that short stories can be a
great deal more than clever, amusing, and well written. There is
another adjective—‘interesting’; that is the adjective we should like
to bestow upon Mr Huxley’s short stories, for it is the best worth
having.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p83 F 5 ’20 800w
I
=IGLEHART, FERDINAND COWLE.= Theodore Roosevelt: the man as I knew him.
il $1.50 Christian herald pub.
19–14241
“This life by Dr Iglehart is written from one predetermined viewpoint.
He recognizes the strong religious convictions of Roosevelt and
working from this fact he has interpreted his entire life as the life
of a man all of whose actions are dominated by his religious
life.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The book is very unevenly written. It is exceedingly entertaining in
parts, while elsewhere the author has allowed his easy rhetorical
English to run away with him. It is equally true there are parts of
the book which will not fit in very easily with the general idea of
Roosevelt’s personality.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 160w
=Nation= 109:688 N 29 ’19 220w
“A badly arranged mixture of eulogy, biography, and anecdote; but, for
him who will dig for it, it contains much that is interesting, notably
in regard to Roosevelt’s religious views.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:292 O 13 ’20 200w
=R of Rs= 62:419 O ’20 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 My 4 ’20 180w
=ILCHESTER, GILES STEPHEN HOLLAND FOX-STRANGWAYS, 6th earl of.= Henry
Fox, first lord Holland, his family and relations. 2v il *$12 Scribner
(20–4450)
“The title of Lord Ilchester’s book is a misnomer. It will suggest to
most people a book of private life and family gossip. But not one
twentieth part of what he has written is occupied with these things.
What he has given us is far nearer being a political history of
England from 1739, when Henry Fox obtained his first office, that of
surveyor of the works, till his death in 1774. Of course, the history
is primarily a biography. But during at least the first
five-and-twenty of these thirty-five years Henry Fox played an
important part, either as one of the principal actors or as a
spectator on whom the principal actors were obliged to keep watchful
eyes, in nearly all the changing scenes of ministerial tragedy and
comedy. Lord Ilchester has had access to a great deal of material
which has never been used before. Letters and papers at Holland House,
at Melbury, at Bowood, and elsewhere have provided a mass of evidence,
much of it in Henry Fox’s own hand, as to his motives and opinions at
various points in his career. Occasionally they enable Lord Ilchester
to correct the statements or judgments of previous historians. But on
the whole they only fill out the old picture, without altering its
main lines.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Lord Ilchester’s volumes are strictly a biography. One might feel at
times that Fox’s associates are little more than shadows in the
background of the hero’s portrait; but the character and activities of
the statesman himself are interestingly unfolded on almost every page.
The subject is also presented with studied impartiality.” T. W. Riker
+ =Am Hist R= 26:87 O ’20 750w
+ =Ath= p206 F 13 ’20 1700w
“Amongst historians, Macaulay, Lord Fitzmaurice, and Lord Roseberry,
have written these thirty years down to the bone. Even his exceptional
sources of information have not enabled Lord Ilchester to tell us
anything new about Henry Fox or his contemporaries of sufficient
importance to justify this biography; and we must be forgiven for
saying that Lord Ilchester’s skill and style as a narrator only suffer
by comparison with the great writers we have mentioned.”
− + =Sat R= 129:163 F 14 ’20 650w
“The memoir is most interesting and valuable. It not only throws new
light on Fox himself and on the early days of his unlucky son, Charles
James Fox, but it also illustrates from another standpoint the
difficulties—admirably described by Lord Roseberry in his
‘Chatham’—which Pitt had to surmount before he could become minister
in the crisis of the Seven years’ war.”
+ =Spec= 124:211 F 14 ’20 1450w
“The book is well written and well arranged. The writer knows his
subject and his period and can use his knowledge effectively.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p73 F 5 ’20 3650w
=In= the mountains. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday
20–19505
The scene of the story is a little house in the Swiss Alps, to which
an English woman, in some more than ordinarily tragic sense, bereaved
by the war, comes to forget her sorrow. It had been her home in
happier days and is to her a house of memories, but the story, which
starts out with every indication of tragedy, turns out after all to be
a very pleasant little comedy. The change comes with the appearance of
the two uninvited guests, Mrs Barnes and Mrs ‘Jewks.’ They bring
diversion. provocation and eventually healing. The story of the
mistress of the house is only suggested but that of Dolly. Mrs
‘Jewks,’ which Mrs Barnes strives so faithfully to hide, is fully
revealed and it is Dolly, whose name should be spelled Juchs, who is
the book’s real heroine. The story is interspersed with comments on
life and books.
* * * * *
“She has a delicate pen that lovingly shapes her phrase, and an
instinct that keeps it true to experience. Perhaps the most
interesting thing about her equipment, her composition, her make-up,
is the slight instability in the mixture of her elements. She is
profoundly a sentimentalist, and her sentimentality keeps jumping out
in spite of all the ironical detachment she can muster against it.” K.
M.
+ =Ath= p272 Ag 27 ’20 550w
+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“There is distinction, delicacy, and deft handling throughout. ‘In the
mountains’ may not command a large number of readers, it will have
value, however, in selective readers’ eyes.” R. D. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 16 ’20 520w
“Remarkable for its sweet and gay philosophy of life, keen sense of
humor, novel turns of thought and great facility of expression.
Thought to be by the author of ‘Elizabeth and her German garden.’”
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 50w
“It is the author’s wayside observations and the unexpected utterances
of the other characters that count so mightily. The story is simple
enough; it is the way it is told that is so engrossing.” W. A. Dyer
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 580w
“Whoever she may be, the author of ‘In the mountains’ writes in a
finished style that almost precludes the possibility that her present
book is her first.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 500w
“Both widows are, in their different ways, triumphs of
characterisation, but the preeminence must certainly be assigned to
Mrs Barnes. The devastating influence which genuine unselfishness, not
qualified by intelligence, can exercise on the happiness of others is
illustrated by her example with unsurpassable delicacy and sureness of
touch.”
+ =Sat R= 130:242 S 18 ’20 680w
=Spec= 125:439 O 2 ’20 40w
“Told with an unaffected simplicity which is apparently artless, its
charm and sweetness steal upon the mind as with the spell of a
delicate September day that suddenly surprises by its summery heat and
power.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p551 Ag 26 ’20 1000w
“Dolly, the younger of the two (she is forty), is something
delightfully new in heroines and the study of Mrs Barnes, as an
example of the tyranny of unselfishness, is a skillful piece of
analysis.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 180w
=INCHBOLD, A. CUNNICK (MRS STANLEY INCHBOLD).= Love and the crescent; a
tale of the Near East. *$1.25 (1c) Stokes
20–11299
The scene of the story is laid in an Armenian village during the war.
It relates the trials of a beautiful girl, daughter of a distinguished
Armenian physician, and her family and tells of horrors, flights,
deportations, miraculous rescues, heroic defences and Veronica’s final
reunion with her French lover and their safe arrival in France. The
deep-dyed villainy of a German consul is dressed up in suitable
romantic garb in contrast to which the Turk appears as a humanitarian.
* * * * *
“In the portrayal of some of the characters, sometimes in the
description of a scene, or again in the narrative which carries the
story on, the author frequently drops into conventional, mechanical
methods, and so lowers the grade of what would otherwise be a very
excellent novel. But even so its construction is good, its movement
rapid, its story interest well maintained, and its varied scenes are
full of life and color that seem true and are certainly very
interesting.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 460w
“There are incidents in abundance. But Mrs Inchbold has not been
entirely successful in blending them into a clear-cut story. The
characters seem to walk mechanically across the pages, and there is
scarcely one of them that at the end the reader feels he knows as a
real live human being.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p58 Ja 30 ’19 110w
=INGALESE, RICHARD.= History and power of mind, new and rev ed *$2.50
(3c) Dodd 131
20–10777
The book is the second printing of a collection of lectures on
occultism and the power of the mind. The author asks the reader to
hold himself agnostically until the course is finished holding in mind
always that if occultism is true it can be demonstrated, for truth is
always demonstrable. The book commends itself to the investigator of
psychic phenomena and of mental therapeutics and the ground covered is
well indicated in its table of contents, viz: Occultism: its past,
present and future; Divine mind: its nature and manifestation; Dual
mind and its origin; The art of self-control; The law of
re-embodiment; Colors of thought vibration; Meditation, creation and
concentration; Lesser occult or psychic forces and their dangers;
Hypnotism, and how to guard against it; Higher occult or spiritual
forces and their uses; The cause and cure of disease; The law of
opulence. There is an index.
=INGE, WILLIAM RALPH.= Outspoken essays. *$2.25 (*6s) Longmans 204
20–18249
“The dean of St Paul’s has reprinted in this volume ten articles from
the reviews, three dealing with patriotism, the birth-rate, and the
future of the English race, and seven with ecclesiastical questions.
To these he has prefixed an essay on ‘Our present discontent.’”—Spec
* * * * *
“He writes as powerfully and learnedly almost as Swift. He is also as
skilful and as unfair a controversialist as Swift. In ‘The future of
the English race’ he handles the results of modern ethnological
research with easy mastery, and it is only the most careful of readers
who will observe what a hiatus lies between the well-marshalled facts
and the conclusions that insidiously follow.”
+ − =Ath= p1167 N 7 ’19 250w
“Among Dr Inge’s many virtues, which include critical acuteness,
epigrammatic power and a remarkable ability to be fair to persons as
distinct from causes that offend him, must be reckoned his
fearlessness.”
+ =Ath= p1253 N 28 ’19 1400w
+ =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20
“What, however, makes his writing so intolerable is his patronizing
way and his spirit of hauteur, as he stands aloof and with the unction
of superiority passes judgment on men and things in the dogmatic
spirit which he censures in others. Whatever may be said about his
interpretations, we must recognize in him a prophet of candor, who
utters the burden of truth with sublime disregard to personal
consequences.” O. L. Joseph
+ − =Bookm= 51:237 Ap ’20 700w
“This book is replete with worth-while observations by a man of the
world, able to see weak points, yet genially willing to accept
conditions as in a large measure inevitable.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 300w
“There is so much excellent modern rationalism in Dean Inge’s commerce
with facts and tendencies that one cannot well forgive him for living
emotionally in the dingy atmosphere of the century-old Malthus.”
+ − =Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 100w
“The chief paradox of all is that a scholar whose culture is as broad
as the world should have sympathies even narrower than his native
island. The masterpiece of the whole volume is the attack on the
‘Anglican Catholic’ party in the Established church. In all the
controversy that has raged since the Tracts for the Times, there has
never been so witty and so merciless a diatribe as that in which the
author exposes the pretensions of the Anglican Catholics.” Preserved
Smith
+ − =Nation= 110:729 My 29 ’20 1050w
“Here, as a free-lance, as a critic of life, men, morals,
institutions, dress, foods, the labor party, political economy and
literature, Dean Inge is his true and powerful self. The scholar, the
citizen and the preacher blend, and the acute observer joins them.” D.
S. M.
+ =New Repub= 24:197 O 20 ’20 2600w
“Whatever may be thought of his scepticism and of his own attempt to
rise through doubt to a position of inexpugnable faith, his
destructive analysis of the various other attempts of the sort is the
work of a master hand. The religious papers in this volume display
what is rare in contemporary English literature, a highly trained
philosopher in the pulpit. Dean Inge has written a remarkable book.”
+ =Review= 2:396 Ap 17 ’20 1400w
+ =Spec= 123:663 N 15 ’19 150w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 13 ’19 580w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p621 N 6 ’19)
“It is a work of rare excellence and importance. We have failed if we
have not made clear that it contains a mature and comprehensive
Christian philosophy. It shirks no difficulties, concedes nothing to
popular sentiment, has the sternness of Jewish prophecy.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 N 6 ’19 2050w
=INGERSOLL, ERNEST.= Wit of the wild. il *$2 Dodd 591.5
“This collection of sketches deals for the most part with familiar
birds, animals, fish, and insects—the weasel, wasp, copperhead,
whip-poor-will, and a score of others. It ranges widely from menhaden
and muskrats to tree toads and the Portuguese man-of-war.” (N Y
Evening Post) “There are chapters on animals that advertise, animals
that wear disguises, animals that form partnerships with other
animals, animals that set traps and animals that bluff.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“It is popular natural history at its best. The book is abundantly and
excellently illustrated.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 160w
=N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 500w
=INGPEN, ROGER=, ed.[2] One thousand poems for children. *$2.50 Jacobs
821.08
20–19453
This is a revised and enlarged edition of a former volume of “a choice
of the best verse old and new” (Sub-title) which aims to provide
poetry that is both pleasant to read and profitable to remember. The
selection is graded according to the ages of children, ranging from
the very little tot to the average child of fifteen and the poems are
grouped under the headings: Rhymes for little ones; Cradle songs;
Nursery rhymes; Fairy land; Fables and riddles; The seasons; Fields
and woods; Home; Insects, birds and beasts; Humorous verse; Poems of
patriotism and history; Ballads; Girlhood; Poems of praise;
Miscellaneous. There are indexes of authors, first lines and titles.
=INTERCHURCH WORLD MOVEMENT. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.= Report on the steel
strike of 1919; with the technical assistance of the Bureau of
industrial research, N.Y. *$2.50 Harcourt 331.89
20–16529
In this report by the Commission of inquiry of the Interchurch world
movement, the basic facts of normal steel employment conditions are
presented with the commission’s findings from a Christian viewpoint.
These findings justify the strike in its central phase and
substantiate the claim that conditions after the strike have remained
the same—a situation characterized as a state of war that threatens
the industrial peace of the nation. The first two chapters dwell on
the inauguration of the inquiry, its scope and method, its conclusions
and recommendations and on the general ignorance of the real
conditions. The rest of the contents are: The twelve-hour day in a
no-conference industry; Wages in a no-conference industry; Grievances
and control in a no-conference industry; Organizing for conference;
Social consequences of arbitrary control; Concluding (Christian
findings); Appendices and index.
* * * * *
“The report is a challenging document and raises fundamental questions
concerning industrial relationships which need to be raised.” G: M.
Janes
+ =Am Econ R= 10:877 D ’20 1900w
=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20
“One of the most important documents in the history of American
industry. The report is crowded with revealing statistics and other
important information, but its supreme value proceeds from the fact
that its conclusions have been reached by investigators appointed by
organizations that are ordinarily anything but friendly to labour.” W:
Z. Foster
+ =Freeman= 2:44 S 22 ’20 850w
“This report is a splendid example of scientific investigation in a
field where prejudice and hysteria make rational judgments difficult.
This work is invaluable.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p11 D 12 ’20 370w
Reviewed by L. K. Frank
+ =Pub W= 98:663 S 18 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 90w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w
“If we had greater faith in the efficacy of education by coercion we
should like to make two books compulsory reading for every clergyman,
newspaper editor, politician, and employer in the United States. These
two books are ‘The great steel strike’ by W. J. Foster and ‘The steel
strike of 1919,’ the report of the Interchurch world movement’s
commission.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:349 N ’20 560w
=INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN PHYSICIANS.= Proceedings of the
international conference of women physicians. 6v $3; ea 75c Womans press
613
20–15934
The proceedings of a conference held under the auspices of the
National board of the Y. M. C. A. in New York city, Sept. 17–Oct. 25,
1919. “The conference met in response to a conscious need on the part
of the women physicians in America for free discussion of those
problems that relate to the maintaining and improving of health by
education and other constructive means.... The word ‘health,’ was to
be taken in its fullest sense as meaning the well-being of the entire
personality.” (Preface) The proceedings, issued in six volumes,
contain the addresses of distinguished physicians and specialists, men
as well as women, bearing on all aspects of the subjects of health of
women and children, sex and marriage, social morality, etc. The six
volumes are devoted to: General problems of health; Industrial health;
The health of the child; Moral codes and personality; Adaptation of
the individual to life; Conservation of the health of women in
marriage.
* * * * *
“Both the physician and the layman can profitably read these
discussions.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 110w
=IRWIN, FLORENCE.= Poor dear Theodora! *$1.75 (2c) Putnam
20–6636
Theodora has race but no money. Her genteel family has all the pride
of their poverty and Theodora shocks them by breaking away to earn her
own living. She goes through a variety of experiences from companion
to an invalid old lady and mother’s helper in a feminist’s household
to war-worker. She has been dismissed from her first position because
the old lady suspects her favorite nephew of being in love with her.
She becomes engaged to a “newly rich” philanderer and breaks it off
before it is too late. At last true love “will out” like murder and
the old lady receives her with open arms. Incidentally the book
abounds in reflections on current opinions, tendencies and fads.
* * * * *
“Theodora appeals to us, because of the sturdy independence of her
mind and her conduct. Her natural individuality is developing. The
novel excels in the delineation of character types.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 20 ’20 950w
“The story is well written and will be enjoyed by those who care for
this sort of fiction. Its chief fault is its length, which exceeds 400
pages.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 600w
=Spec= 125:539 O 23 ’20 60w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 170w
=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.).= Suffering husbands. *$1.75
(1½c) Doran
20–10767
A collection of short stories, first copyrighted by the Curtis
Publishing Company. Contents: All front and no back; Monkey on a
stick; Peaches and cream; Thunder; The goat; The light that paled;
Free; Gasless Sunday; Mother’s milk.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
=Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 30w
=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.).= Trimmed with red. *$1.75 (2c)
Doran
20–6843
A farcical story involving parlor Socialists and society Bolshevists.
Rosamonde Vallant, the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged and
choleric husband, has just gone thru a course in esoteric eastern
philosophy and wearying of it, has turned to revolution. Her cousin,
Emily Ray, who is in love with Oliver Browning, uses Rosamonde’s house
as a convenient meeting place. Oliver is a soldier who has been
wounded in the service of his country, but alas the wound had come
from the kick of an army mule and Aunt Carmen refuses to see him in a
romantic light. Emily becomes deeply involved in bolshevist plots and
a revolutionary professor falls in love with her, but she returns in
the end to Oliver and his mules.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Underhill
=Bookm= 51:443 Je ’20 60w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 370w
“Pure farce, but most of it is really funny.”
+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“He had a ‘grand and glorious’ opportunity to create another droll
classic out of the materials used in this book. He did make an attempt
in this direction—an attempt that is well worth reading. Measured by
what it might have been, however, the book is a failure.” Ralph
Cheyney
− + =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 550w
“Though the book is much too long and its humor of the most obvious
kind, it is amusing, and no more absurd than the idiotic antics it is
intended to caricature.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:310 Je 13 ’20 450w
“Mr Irwin injects a lot of fun into his tale.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w
=ISE, JOHN.= United States forest policy. *$5 Yale univ. press 634.9
20–8898
“After an interesting historical account of forestry in the United
States, the author discusses the development of an interest in forest
conservation, the legislation dealing with the forests and the many
unwise laws under which the forest lands have been stolen or the
forests destroyed.” (Springf’d Republican) “Dr Ise shows how
intricately the utilization of this great branch of natural resources
has been bound up with the nation’s commercial development.” (The
Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“Thoroughly documented. Better for reference than for reading.”
+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20
“Books like this by Mr Ise will contribute to the growth of public
sentiment. Perhaps it is not too much to expect that professional
historians may sometimes hear about it and include instruction in this
phase of our economic history.” C: A. Beard
+ =Nation= 112:187 F 2 ’21 480w
“A well written and nontechnical book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 24 ’20 260w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p480 Jl 29 ’20 460w
=IVES, HERBERT EUGENE.= Airplane photography. il *$4 (3½c) Lippincott
778
20–7599
Although airplane photography is of military origin, it has been the
writer’s endeavor to treat the subject as a problem of scientific
photography applicable to mapping and other peace-time pursuits. “It
is assumed that the reader is already fairly conversant with ordinary
photography. Considerable space has indeed been devoted to a
discussion of the fundamentals of photography, and to scientific
methods of study, test, and specification. This has been done because
aerial photography strains to the utmost the capacity of the
photographic process, and it is necessary that the most advanced
methods be understood.” (Preface) 208 illustrations help to elucidate
the text and there is an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:268 My ’20
“While not pretending to be exhaustive, it offers much interesting and
useful information.”
+ =Cleveland= p88 O ’20 30w
“This thorough technical treatise may be used as a practical manual
for class or self instruction.”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 50w
+ =Spec= 124:625 My 8 ’20 130w
=IVEY, PAUL WESLEY.= Elements of retail salesmanship. *$2.25 Macmillan
658
20–3332
“Professor Ivey explains to the student first that he should know the
goods that he intends to sell, and gives many useful hints as to the
character of this knowledge. Next he expatiates on the necessity of
his knowing and studying his customers. He picks out the elements of
personality which make a successful salesman; these include
enthusiasm, honesty, tact, courtesy, promptness and cheerfulness. He
describes in detail the selling processes as well as store systems and
methods, warning the student against many common errors and slips.”—N
Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“An interesting and practical book for department store classes.
Addressed to more mature minds than Norton [‘Text book on retail
selling’] and more concerned with psychological principles.”
+ =Booklist= 16:265 My ’20
“The information is put clearly and intelligently and the book is a
good one of its kind.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 150w
J
=JACKSON, ABRAHAM VALENTINE WILLIAMS.= Early Persian poetry. il *$2.25
Macmillan 891.5
20–7452
“From the beginnings down to the time of Firdausi” (Sub-title) is the
ground covered by this book, which aims “to give succinctly the main
outlines of the several early periods, ... and to illustrate, by
translations made from the original Persian, the characteristics of
the various authors.... Many of the citations are only small fragments
of verse from Persian poets so long dead that they have been evoked
almost as shades from the far-distant past.... Some of the reliques of
their works, however, are longer and have a fuller metrical tale to
tell. The episode of Suhrab and Rustam, moreover, is a well-known
classic in literature.” (Preface) Contents: Persian poetry of ancient
days; The new awakening of Persian song after the Muhammadan conquest;
the Tahirid and Saffarid periods; Rays from lost minor stars: earlier
Samanid period; Rudagi, a herald of the dawn; Snatches of minstrel
song; from the later Samanid period to the era of Mahmud of Ghaznah;
Dakiki; The round table of Mahmud of Ghaznah: court poetry; Firdausi,
and the great Persian epic; The Shah-namah; some selections
translated; Epilogue. There are illustrations, a list of works of
reference, a list of abbreviations, an alphabetical list of poets, a
note on Persian pronunciation and an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“Much as we must admire Professor Jackson’s zeal and fervor ... yet
one can not but feel a sense of disappointment at the amateurishness
of some of his versions, with their often clumsy use of ‘did’ and
their woodeny structure.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 10 ’20 650w
“Professor Jackson has added immeasurable value to his book by a large
number of original translations that are skillfully done and still
retain poetry in their phraseology. The author’s hope of carrying on
his work is commendable, and it is to be desired that circumstances
make it possible.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 200w
=JACKSON, BENNETT BARRON, and others=, comps. Thrift and success. il
*$1.25 Century 331.84
19–12737
A compilation arranged by the superintendent and two teachers of the
Minneapolis public schools. “Several selections are devoted to the
general aspects of thrift, but the editors have wisely included a
considerable number of selections describing such thrift agencies as
savings banks, farm mortgages, postal savings banks, life insurance,
and government bonds. The opportunities for wise investment, as well
as the necessity for saving, are thus brought clearly to the reader’s
attention. The book includes several little plays which teach a thrift
lesson. There are, too, inspiring talks intended to stimulate children
to make a success of themselves. A number of biographical sketches of
prominent Americans of the past and present are included.” (Survey)
* * * * *
“A valuable occasional reader or teacher’s manual.”
+ =Booklist= 16:151 F ’20
“All the selections teach definite, crisp lessons, and teachers
interested in thrift instruction will find the book extremely
suggestive.” G: F. Zook
+ =Survey= 42:760 Ag 23 ’19 140w
=JACOBS, EDWIN ELMORE.=[2] Study of the physical vigor of American
women; pref. by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. $1.50 Jones, Marshall 612
The author presents the results of some statistical studies made among
college women. The outcome of the study is to show “that there is no
real evidence of the decline in the physical vigor of the women of
America.” And arguing that “the male half of the population of a
country can neither be very far ahead or behind the female part in its
general health,” he holds that his conclusions may apply to the
population as a whole. The investigation was carried out along four
lines: fertility, longevity, anthropological measurements and women’s
athletics. There is a five-page list of references.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:99 D ’20
=JACOBSEN, JENS PETER.= Niels Lyhne; tr. from the Danish by Hanna Astrup
Larsen. (Scandinavian classics) $2 (2½c) Am.-Scandinavian foundation
20–1700
A novel by the author of “Marie Grubbe.” It has been called a
spiritual autobiography and in her introduction the translator
sketches the relation of the novel to Jacobsen’s own life. It is the
story of a dreamer who always falls short in his contacts with
reality. Niels Lyhne’s mother spends her life in one long day dream,
broken by disillusionments from which she hastens to take refuge in
still further dreams. The infusion of this temperament in her son,
though mixed with his father’s sterner stuff, renders all his efforts
futile. The story opens with a beautiful account of Niels’s childhood
with its friendship for two boy companions, and is carried through two
love episodes, and a short period of happy marriage to his death in
the war of 1864.
* * * * *
“The novel has the quality of a late autumn afternoon, a windless,
tranquil hour of waiting, when both strong desire and strong regret
are absent, and when in a mood of reverie and forgiveness we let the
world glide from us. A sense of something honey-sweet, faded, and
delicate pervades it. How deeply Jacobsen was the literary artist the
Larsen translation unfortunately little reveals. Though it is more
faithful to the original than the general run of translations to which
we here in America have become accustomed, its prosiness and
stiffness, its air of being all too patently the translation, prevent
it from representing Jacobsen quite fairly.” Paul Rosenfeld
+ − =Dial= 68:644 My ’20 2150w
“The account of Niels Lyhne’s boyhood has a depth of insight even in
matters of sex that is rare in the romance writers. Later the
narrative seems a little hurried and huddled as though vitality to
exhaust his subject had gradually failed the author. But this
uncommonly sensitive translation of a memorable book is cordially to
be welcomed.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 200w
=JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.= New Mexico; the land of the delight makers.
(See America first ser.) il *$5 Page 917.89
20–6434
This is the third book about the southwest, a land he knows
intimately, that Mr James has contributed to this series. California
and Arizona were the subjects of the first books and he has found in
New Mexico a theme of equal interest. As set forth in the long
subtitle the aspects of New Mexico covered include “the history of its
ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards,
Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games,
social life, and industries of its Indians; a description of its
climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of
its rapid development, land reclamation projects and educational
system; with full and accurate accounts of its progressive counties,
cities and towns.” Two interesting chapters deal with literature and
art and among the illustrations are a number from paintings by artists
of the Taos colony. There is a bibliography and the book is indexed.
* * * * *
“Like others of the series, a beautiful picture book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20
=JAMES, HENRY.= Letters of Henry James. 2v il *$10 Scribner
20–6773
In editing these volumes of letters, Mr Percy Lubbock has had a wide
field for selection. For, as he says of Henry James, “He was at all
times a copious letter-writer, overflowing into swift and easy
improvisation to his family and to the many friends with whom he
corresponded regularly. His letters have been widely preserved, and
several thousands of them have passed through my hands, ranging from
his twenty-fifth year until within a few days of his last illness.”
(Introd.) In addition to the introduction which opens volume 1, the
editor has contributed brief illuminating prefaces to the sections
into which the volumes are divided. These divisions, for volume 1,
are: First European years: 1869–1874; Paris and London: 1875–1881; The
middle years: 1882–1888; Later London years: 1889–1897; and Rye,
1898–1903. Volume 2 comprises: Rye: 1904–1909; Rye and Chelsea:
1910–1914; and The war: 1914–1916. Notes are often provided for
individual letters and an index adds to the value of the admirably
edited work.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Sydney Waterlow
+ − =Ath= p537 Ap 23 ’20 2350w
“The portrait they paint of the novelist and his surroundings is so
clear that the editor has needed merely to add here and there a
prefatory note. These and the introduction are finely appreciative and
adequate.”
+ =Booklist= 16:279 My ’20
“The editor, Mr Lubbock, has compassed a dangerous undertaking in his
selection and, while he offers many letters which illustrate the
social side of his hero, he justly lays stress on the inclusion of
literary themes. These letters bid fair to become a classic in English
literature.” J. G. Huneker
+ =Bookm= 51:364 My ’20 2700w
“Throughout them we find an abundance of literary comment upon his
fellow writers which is pungent and vigorous, even if not always
convincing.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 10 ’20 1500w
Reviewed by Gilbert Seldes
+ =Dial= 69:83 Jl ’20 3700w
“Mr Lubbock tells us that James left behind him scarcely a document
that revealed any trace of the origins of his work. Of the origins of
his spirit, his point of view, he yields us scarcely more in the way
of documentary evidence. One apprehends him here indeed in certain
aspects of intimacy as the son, as the brother, as, if not the friend,
at least the fellow-artist, as, perhaps most warmly, the uncle. It is
only—only—as the man that he foils our question.” V. W. B.
+ − =Freeman= 1:164 Ap 28 ’20 1700w
=Lit D= p89 Jl 10 ’20 3450w
“All the more, however, finding him thus restricted as to race and
sympathies and images, do we find ourselves admiring the magnificent
passion with which he worked at his art. His famous prefaces to his
novels and tales are accepted as an indispensable handbook to the art
of fiction. No less may his letters be considered indispensable to
those serious students and fellow-artists who wish to observe a genius
massively revolving and tirelessly experimenting.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 110:690 My 22 ’20 2000w
* =Nation [London]= 27:178 My 8 ’20 1550w
“I am brash enough to venture the prediction that the best book of
Henry James’s, the one with the widest appeal, the one with the most
permanent interest, the one most easily read, is not to be found among
those which he wrote for publication, but is this collection of his
correspondence. What these letters bring before us vividly is a
warm-hearted James, devoted to his family and dowered with the gift of
friendship.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:151 Ap 4 ’20 2750w
“Whatever has been deleted does not harm that which gives pleasure and
delight, surprising us by the clarity and directness of its style and
by the warm sentiment of its friendship.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 380w
“For half a century Henry James poured himself out to his friends in
letters that are matchless for their prodigal and eager flow of
sympathy, their inexhaustible kindliness, their ample and exquisite
tenderness, their beautiful generosity. These letters are priceless.”
Lawrence Gilman
+ =No Am= 211:682 My ’20 3000w
“We have joked so long about the obscurity of his style as a novelist
that this conception of him has become a habit with us. But now that
his letters are published, we must alter our portrait.” M. J. Moses
+ =Outlook= 125:167 My 26 ’20 2200w
“He has been fortunate in an editor who understands and relishes the
peculiarities of the case. There is one general criticism to be made
of the exhibition. The letters seem to have been edited, perhaps
unconsciously, to emphasize the completeness of James’s English
adoption.” S. P. Sherman
+ − =Review= 3:706 Jl 7 ’20 2350w
“We can only warn the reader who takes up these remarkable volumes
that he will not find in them pretty anecdotes or gossip about
notabilities: but he will find much excellent criticism and
psychology, and he will find copiously and minutely displayed an
intellect massive and yet subtle, and a character as nobly dignified
as it was humanly attractive.”
+ =Spec= 124:691 My 22 ’20 1500w
“One of the many rich interests of these volumes is to discern the
reflection of the person written to, in the letter written.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 1400w
=JAMES, HENRY.= Master Eustace. *$2 (3½c) Seltzer
“The five stories in this volume, together with the four included in
‘A landscape painter,’ appeared originally in American periodicals,
but for some unknown reason were never issued by Henry James in book
form in this country. The present volume, along with ‘A landscape
painter,’ makes accessible to the American public the nine short
stories of Henry James which hitherto have been accessible only in
English editions of his works.” (Preface) The five stories, all
written later than “A landscape painter” are: Master Eustace;
Longstaff’s marriage; Théodolinde; A light man; and Benvolio.
* * * * *
“It is not to be imagined that because the stories in this collection
are primarily concerned with the interplay of character they are
slow-moving narratives, with a tendency to be diffuse. On the
contrary, they are well-knit and direct in conception, and executed
with richness, deftness in phrase and mood, and a quiet but keen wit.”
Lisle Bell
+ =Freeman= 2:381 D 29 ’20 540w
“No one need look for masterpieces among tales that Henry James
declined to put between covers. The poorest inclusion in the book, and
one of James’s very poorest bits of writing, is ‘Theodolinde.’ The
book is valuable but not invaluable.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 320w
“They are written in a style transparently clear and straightforward,
and are decidedly romantic in substance and form. Nothing in this book
is equal to the stories in the preceding volume.” W: L. Phelps
+ =N Y Times= p2 D 12 ’20 160w
=JAMES, HENRY DUVALL.= Controllers for electric motors. il *$3 Van
Nostrand 621.317
20–174
“A treatise on the modern industrial controller, together with typical
applications to the industries.” (Sub-title) The volume consists of
articles originally published in the Electric Journal, with the
addition of some new material. Partial list of contents: Introduction;
Historical; Design details: How to read controller diagrams; Methods
of accelerating motors; Starting characteristics of motors with
different methods of control; Methods of speed control and dynamic
braking; Direct current magnetic contactor controllers; Alternating
current controllers; Resistors; Protective devices. There are 259
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:99 D ’20
=JAMES, WILLIAM.= Letters. 2v il *$10 Atlantic monthly press
20–23198
“It is, naturally enough, less the scientist and thinker than the man
which is revealed in ‘The letters of William James,’ now edited, with
all the necessary explanatory material by his son Henry James. This is
as everybody should wish. For he was one of the greatest Americans in
personal qualities as well as in powers of mind and these letters
reveal him as he was. The energy and range of his mind and the
prodigious richness of his personality are truly revealed in these two
volumes. There are not a few valuable critical comments—such as his
estimate of Santayana’s ‘Life of reason’—which are not otherwise
accessible to the public, and there are no end of vivid impressions
brilliantly or tenderly phrased.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21
“These letters—arranged in two comely volumes by the sure and skilful
hand of William James’s son—are full of wise and occasionally profound
little annotations upon contemporary American life and manners. They
will be treasured for the simple and delightful bits of
self-revelation that they afford.” H: H. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 52:557 F ’21 1150w
“Letters rarely disclose so much of a man in his entirety as do these.
They are eloquent in manner and equally eloquent in their
self-revelation. They are not merely ‘The letters of William James’;
they are the record of an epoch in the history of philosophy and the
chronicle of a notable family.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 2150w
“Although the correspondence with his colleagues all over the world
will be perhaps most eagerly read, the family letters are the most
beautiful. But there are some letters which should never have been
printed. In moments of heat and irritation James said things about
persons he met and even about his colleagues at Harvard, which should
not have been preserved in cold type.” W: L. Phelps
+ − =N Y Times= p2 D 12 ’20 1650w
“Whether we are seeking enjoyment or mental and spiritual uplift, we
may approach these letters with assurance.” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 98:1894 D 18 ’20 470w
“As there has been no other American, and indeed, no other man, like
William James, so there can never be another collection of letters
like his, full of a unique and precious personality. All who care for
genius in its most human and most winning manifestations will find the
book a treasure-house.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 2600w
=JASTROW, MORRIS, jr.= Book of Job; its origin, growth and
interpretation. *$4 Lippincott 223
20–27474
The author regards the Book of Job as the most celebrated of the books
of the Bible and the literary masterpiece of the Old Testament, and
the object of the present volume is to aid in the better understanding
and appreciation of the original, which has hitherto been blocked by
defective translations and insufficient consideration of its composite
authorship. The contents of Part 1, The origin, growth and
interpretation of the Book of Job, are: The folktale of Job and the
Book of Job; The three strata in the Book of Job; Changes and
additions within the original Book of Job; How a skeptical book was
transformed into a bulwark of orthodoxy; The Book of Job as philosophy
and literature. Part 2 is then devoted to a new translation of the
Book of Job, with plentiful annotations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21
“The work shows wide scholarship and in many passages the new version
is impressive and beautiful. Yet, after all is said, in spite of the
incorrectness of the King James version, in which, according to Dr
Jastrow, one line in ten is wrong, one cannot help liking its style
better than that of the new version.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 8 ’20 1150w
“Professor Jastrow’s view will have to overcome not only traditional
prejudice but also strong emotional attachment to the older view. But
his volume is one which students of the Bible cannot ignore.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 380w
“This is a vastly interesting and important book, and it isn’t a book
for preachers only, but for everybody who makes any pretence at all to
an interest in good literature.” R. S. Lynd
+ =Pub W= 98:1892 D 18 ’20 330w
=JASTROW, MORRIS, jr.= Eastern question and its solution. *$1.50 (6c)
Lippincott 327
20–7859
The author holds that the problems of the Near East will continue to
be a menace to the peace of the world until they are properly
settled; that they cannot be properly settled without the
cooperation of America, that America can only help by avoiding two
contingencies—political complications and the dispatching of a large
army across the sea—that mandatories involve both these
contingencies and that the only satisfactory solution lies in the
creation of international commissions. The last chapter is devoted
entirely to a discussion of this solution. Contents: The failure of
European diplomacy in the Near East; The present situation; Mandates
not a solution of the eastern question; Internationalism as a
solution of the eastern question; Insert map of Europe after the
great war.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20
“The fact that Professor Jastrow’s scheme has not been adopted does
not in the least detract from its merits, in these days of flux and
change; and a book like his is well worth while, if it helps to
educate public opinion in this country on a question that involves us
all, whether we like it or not.” C. R. H.
+ =Freeman= 2:282 D 29 ’20 210w
“Optimism breeds optimism. Idealism is contagious. Such noble faith as
Dr Jastrow’s is a real world asset.”
+ =N Y Times= p4 Ag 15 ’20 600w
=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w
Reviewed by M. H. Anderson
=Pub W= 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 170w
=JAY, WILLIAM.= War and peace. *$1 Oxford 341.6
20–3783
As one of its publications the Carnegie endowment for international
peace has issued a reprint of “War and peace,” published in 1842, with
an introduction by James Brown Scott. William Jay, the author, was the
son of John Jay, who helped frame the first peace treaty with Great
Britain. Of his plan for maintaining peace, Mr Scott says, “Starting
from the premise that we are free agents, that war is an evil, William
Jay maintains that the extinction of other evils shows that war itself
may be eliminated by the gradual growth of a public opinion against it
and by the creation of agencies which nations can create and use just
as individuals have created and used them.” The plan he outlines
involves the creation of an international tribunal with power to
arbitrate.
* * * * *
“The book still has its importance, and the plan proposed has in fact
made its way into many treaties.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w
=JEAN-AUBRY, G.= French music of today; tr. by Edwin Evans. (Lib. of
music and musicians) *$2 Dutton 780.9
(Eng ed 19–17080)
“The first two sections deal with French music and German music and
The French foundations of present-day keyboard music. Among the
composers touched on in two sections called Studies and physiognomies
and Sketches for portraits are Massenet, Debussy, Roussel, Chabrier,
D’Indy, Chausson, Duparc, Dukas, Ravel, and de Sévérac. A section on
Music and poetry contains essays on Baudelaire and music and Verlaine
and the musicians; the concluding section is on French music in
England; and to this little volume M. Gabriel Fauré adds a preface.”
(The Times [London] Lit Sup) “Only the first chapter of the book is
new, the others ranging over various periods, and in some cases dating
as far back as 1906 and 1907, when the modern French achievement was
virtually an unknown quantity in England.” (Ath)
* * * * *
“Makes up in enthusiasm what it lacks in clarity.”
+ − =Ath= p114 Mr ’19 60w
“M. Jean-Aubry is one of those enthusiastic apologists who almost
disarm criticism by their sheer ingenuousness. Were it a volume of
recent production, and a serious attempt at criticism, one would
indeed be compelled to call his judgments in question on almost every
page. A pamphlet which was opportune in 1909 may be rather tiresome
ten years later.” R. O. M.
− + =Ath= p757 Ag 15 ’19 550w
“The critical judgments of some of the older chapters and the
propagandist tendency make the book somewhat untimely.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:231 Ap ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:13 O ’19 30w
“M. Jean-Aubry has given us the point of view of the modern French
composer toward his art. The value of this contribution alone more
than offsets any charge of propagandism that the book may bring forth,
a charge that is partially refuted by the very fact that much of its
contents was written long before the war.” Henrietta Straus
+ =Nation= 110:527 Ap 17 ’20 650w
Reviewed by C: H: Meltzer
=Review= 2:630 Je 16 ’20 1150w
“This is eminently a book for the layman, for M. Jean-Aubry avoids
technicalities.”
+ =Spec= 122:264 Mr 1 ’19 1250w
“Mr Jean-Aubry is necessarily but not unfairly prejudiced in favor of
his native music. Delightful and refreshing are the studies and
sketches—for preserving whose charm, by the way, the reader is
indebted to the translator, Edwin Evans—of contemporary modern French
composers, which occupy the greater portion of the book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 24 ’20 480w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p35 Ja 16 ’19 80w
“The merit of this book is that it is not afraid of pressing into the
service of music everything that can be a symbol; its weakness is that
positive statements about the music swim rather sparsely in a
whirlpool of words.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p43 Ja 23 ’19 1450w
=JEFFERY, GEORGE H. EVERETT.= Brief description of the Holy sepulchre.
il *$3.50 Putnam 726
20–9215
The complete title of this work, a reprint from the Journal of the
Royal Institute of British Architects for 1910, is “a brief
description of the Holy sepulchre, Jerusalem, and other Christian
churches in the Holy city, with some account of the mediæval copies of
the Holy sepulchre surviving in Europe.” Part 1 is devoted to the
history, part 2 to the description of the monument, part 3 to the
lesser shrines, and part 4 to the reproductions in various parts of
Europe. There are numerous illustrations and diagrams and the work
closes with chronological tables and index.
* * * * *
“Mr Jeffery writes two particularly interesting chapters on the
reproductions of the Holy sepulchre as a pilgrim shrine. The
illustrations might have been improved, especially in the way of
enlargement.”
+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 100w
“We must be content to say that the book is of great interest and
value, and that it should be read by intelligent tourists before they
go to Jerusalem and after they return.”
+ =Spec= 123:778 D 6 ’19 160w
“It is careful and learned and very fully and well illustrated.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 20w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 1150w
=JEFFERY, JEFFERY E.= Side issues. *$1.90 (3c) Seltzer
20–14708
A volume of short stories dealing with side issues of the war. With
the exception of two which are reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine,
they appear here for the first time. The titles are: Angèle, goddess
of kindliness; A quiet evening; Services rendered; A lost soul;
Noblesse oblige; The altar of drums; My lady of Hoxton; Equality of
sacrifice; The heirloom; In token of gratitude; Generalities; The
revellers; Dam’ good fellers; A tap at the door; Confessional—by way
of epilogue.
* * * * *
“The best sketch from a literary point of view, is ‘Angèle, goddess of
kindliness.’”
+ =Ath= p527 Ap 16 ’20 130w
“Beneath all the wounds of circumstance a deep sobriety of spirit
curbs the author’s temptation to sacrifice truth to effectiveness and
persuades him to set down only the permanent and permanently human.”
+ =Nation= 111:596 N 24 ’20 420w
“The book is quietly and earnestly written, and has an authentic ring
of sincerity. It is, I fancy, a genuine human document, and like all
such genuine documents, well worth attention.” W. P. Eaton
+ =N Y Call= p11 D 19 ’20 210w
“In these sketchily constructed stories, by an officer of the old
army, the ugliness of war and the injustices that accompany
demobilization are set out with considerable effect and an evident
attempt at fairness, though with a tendency towards rhetoric.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 160w
=JENKIN, A. M. N.= End of a dream. *$1.75 (3c) Lane
20–7429
Shell shock and its terrible possibilities are the theme of this
story. Before he went to war Arnold Cheyne had been deeply in love
with Nadina, a beautiful dancing girl. When the latter, not yet ready
to abandon her career, refused him, he entered into a loveless
marriage with Sheila Maclaren. Under the influence of shell shock he
no longer recognizes Sheila and thinks of Nadina as his wife. The
doctor of the hospital, having been told Arnold’s history and his want
of love for his real wife, advises Nadina to humor him in his
hallucination. With a nervous patient’s cunning Arnold escapes from
the hospital and flees with Nadina into Cornwall. There the end is a
double murder, the first of the man who has followed the couple,
intent on making trouble, and the second, under the influence of a
dream taking him back into the horrors of trench warfare, of Nadina
herself.
* * * * *
“The symptoms of the hero are well described; but Mr Jenkin lacks
literary skill and seems to find it very difficult to cope with his
plot.”
+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 130w
“For a book with a live theme, the effect of shell shock and the
social and legal problems arising from that effect. ‘The end of a
dream’ is amazingly dull.” R. D. W.
− =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 400w
“In this vividly written story of the possible effects of shell shock
the author has unfolded a dramatic story of intense interest and
downright awful power.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 700w
“The last scene is terrible in its realism. The book should certainly
be kept out of the hands of sufferers from the milder forms of this
affection.”
− =Spec= 124:53 Ja 10 ’20 40w
“Disappointing in effect. The author saddles a plot of undoubted
interest and merit with principals of a featureless type.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 320w
=JENKINS, J. T.=[2] Sea fisheries. il *$10 Dutton 639.2
“A copiously-illustrated volume, the author of which is professionally
associated with the Lancashire and Western sea fisheries joint
committee. Dr Jenkins describes from personal knowledge the mystery of
the fishers’ craft. An account is given of the methods of fishing
adopted in the North sea, and the narrative deals with the rise of the
herring fisheries, as well as with the development of steam trawling.
Public fisheries for shellfish are described: and an important chapter
deals with individual fish, such as the sole, plaice, haddock, and
herring. Foreign and colonial fisheries are considered in the last
chapter.”—Ath
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 100w
“This is rather a Gradgrindian book for a compatriot of Charles
Dickens to have written. It is full of useful statistics and little
else. His photographs carry more of the romance of the sea than his
text.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 280w
“We strongly commend Dr Jenkins’s scientific and instructive book to
the consideration of all who wish to understand the urgent problem of
utilizing the harvest of the sea to the best advantage, though its
more controversial parts are no doubt open to discussion.”
+ =Spec= 124:796 Je 12 ’20 870w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p249 Ap 22 ’20 1700w
=JENNINGS, ARTHUR SEYMOUR.= Paints and varnishes. il $1 Pitman 667
20–18167
The book comes under the Pitman’s common commodities and industries
series and deals with the properties and uses of paints and varnishes
from a purely commercial and professional point of view. Their
quality, the quantity required to cover given surfaces and the
determination of probable durability are dealt with at some length.
The process of manufacture is only described when it becomes necessary
to differentiate between grades or qualities of the same material.
Contents: The characteristics of a good paint; The principal pigments
used in paint making; The thinners used in paint; Paint-mixing—the
application of paints, etc.: Whitewashes and distempers; Service tests
of paints and varnishes; Machinery used in paint-making; Varnishes and
enamels; Tables, etc.; Index and illustrations.
=JENSEN, ALBRECHT.= Massage and exercises combined. il $4 The author,
box 73 G. P.O., N.Y. 613.7
20–19054
“A new system of the characteristic essentials of gymnastic and Indian
Yogis concentration exercises combined with scientific massage
movements.” (Sub-title) The author lays stress upon the therapeutic
effectiveness of the combination of massage and exercises. The system
is intended chiefly for home use and requires no gymnastic equipment
and no expenditure. The contents in part are: Resultant bad effects
from the use of heavy apparatus, weights and too strenuous exercises;
Special benefit to women from the use of these exercises; The
construction and characteristics of the combined massage exercises;
General and detailed description of the combined massage exercises
with their analyses and effects; Proper breathing: How the number of
exercises for one performance can best be decreased; How the exercises
may be utilized in some diseased and disordered conditions of the
body. There are eighty-six illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 70w
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 16 ’21 270w
=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 60w
=Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 160w
=JEPSON, EDGAR.= Loudwater mystery. *$2 (3c) Knopf
20–22232
When Lord Loudwater is stabbed to death and investigations are begun,
it is discovered that there is a quite disconcerting wealth of
possible suspects. Lord Loudwater was of such a nature that his
actions might supply the motive for murder to any one of his family or
household or even remoter connections. For instance, on the day of his
murder, he had threatened to divorce his wife, he had quarreled
violently with Colonel Grey, who had been seen paying attentions to
Lady Loudwater, he had discharged his butler in a fit of anger, and he
had halved the allowance of a mysterious woman who had sued him for
breach of promise. So the doings of these various people at the time
of the murder are thoroughly combed over. When these clues lead to
nothing but a blank wall, with the story almost at an end, the
suspense is finally ended by the discovery of one forged check which
gives the actual murderer away.
* * * * *
“We close the book with a genuine regret that a gift so real as Mr
Jepson’s cannot be more economically used.”
+ − =Ath= p1210 N 14 ’19 140w
“The action never lags, and the ending is rather out of the ordinary.”
+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 520w
“Mr Jepson has not been entirely successful in keeping up the tension
of the mystery. There are lapses of several months each in the
narrative, which break the emotional flow. But the large number of
readers who seek to qualify as amateur Holmeses, Craig Kennedies, and
Dupins, by vicarious solutions of murder mysteries, will find plenty
of opportunities here.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 420w
“If some of the devices are familiar, most of the characters have—what
is rare in novels of the kind—an unmistakable touch of life, and much
of the dialogue has—what is still more uncommon—a sprightly turn.”
+ =Sat R= 128:590 D 20 ’19 200w
=Spec= 123:819 D 13 ’19 60w
“A detective story of exceptional merit.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p677 N 20 ’19 170w
=JEPSON, EDGAR.= Pollyooly dances. *$1.25 (2c) Duffield
20–3191
Mr Jepson’s young heroine has grown up and in this novel appears as a
successful dancer. She is on her way to New York when the story opens
and her guardian, the Honourable John Ruffin, is traveling by the same
boat on business of his own. He has successfully evaded military
service and is an object of scorn to all patriotic Britons on board.
But of course, as the reader well knows, he is in government service
and his business has to do with German spies. Indeed, throughout, the
story is more concerned with German spy plots than with Pollyooly’s
dancing.
* * * * *
“It has always been our opinion that Mr Edgar Jepson’s best period was
that of ‘No. 19’ and ‘The mystery of the myrtles,’ and we regret that
he should have bartered his heritage of fantasy touched with horror
for machine-made private detectives and angel children who blossom
into popular ballerinas.”
− + =Ath= p475 O 8 ’20 130w
=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
“A more than ordinarily entertaining detective story.”
+ =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 70w
=JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON.= Happy bride. *$2 Doran 821
20–20439
The first poem of this collection is based on an old Cornish custom:
“In Cornwall, when an unmarried girl dies, she is borne through the
streets followed by her girl friends dressed in white and singing a
hymn of which the refrain is ‘O happy bride.’” Cornish legend also
furnishes the motive for St Ludgvan’s well, The forbidden vision, The
droll-teller, and Jennifer, Jennifer. Other titles are: Towers of
healing; A little dirge for any soul; Youth renascent; Where beauty
stays her foot; Lover’s cry.
* * * * *
“Of contemporaries, Miss Tennyson Jesse is closely related to Mr
Bridges. She approaches him in the purity of her verse, the felicity
of her phrase, in her rhythm and her descriptive quality. At no point,
perhaps, does she attempt or achieve sublimity, but for evenness of
accomplishment few living poets surpass her work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 My 13 ’20 680w
=JESSUP, ALEXANDER=, ed. Best American humorous short stories. (Modern
lib. of the world’s best books.) *85c Boni & Liveright
20–12376
“To the Modern library has been added ‘Best American humorous short
stories,’ a selection from the writings of Poe, Curtis, Hale, O. W.
Holmes, Mark Twain, Bunner, Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry and others,
including several whose names are still familiar in the magazines. The
editor is Alexander Jessup.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“The compiler steers a safe, somewhat academic course, and there are
inevitably some inclusions of historical rather than hilarious
interest.”
+ − =Dial= 69:103 Jl ’20 50w
“The book is both valuable and interesting. The tired business man
will revel in it.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p8 Ag 1 ’20 220w
“The editor shows that mingled understanding of past and present which
alone gives value to critical pronouncements or editorial work
involving critical selection.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 120w
=JOAD, CYRIL EDWIN MITCHINSON.= Essays in common sense philosophy. *$2
Harcourt 192
(Eng ed 20–6885)
“In ‘Essays in common sense philosophy’ C. E. M. Joad of Balliol
college, Oxford, gives us a rethinking of contemporary metaphysics, in
which his titular claim rests on the views that we do actually
perceive things as they are, that apparent differences and
discontinuities in experience are real and that the Hegelian theory of
the state is essentially wrong, inasmuch as the state is only a
subordinate institution within the larger whole of human society. The
first point is made out on the basis of Meinong’s Gegendstandstheorie,
which, even if it be accepted, is not obviously the reasoning of
common sense. Similarly, the defense of pluralism, based on Russell’s
treatment of relations, comes indeed to the plain man’s conclusion,
but by a tortuous path. Two other important essays in this book are
those on truth, and on universals.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“As with all books of this kind, the author’s treatment can be
considered adequate only by those who agree with him. To others it
will appear that the points neglected by the author are more important
than those noticed by him.”
+ − =Ath= p539 Je 27 ’19 80w
“Mr Joad’s book is readable, interesting, and quite remarkably
intelligible. There is an avoidance of technical jargon, and an
admirable lucidity. It is a book which can be read with much profit by
all who are interested in philosophy without being professional
philosophers.” B. R.
+ =Ath= p652 Jl 25 ’19 1800w
=Booklist= 17:7 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 170w
=Brooklyn= 12:28 N ’19 50w
=New Repub= 24:150 O 6 ’20 430w
“His book, though unsatisfactory to any student of philosophy who
possesses a philological conscience and a critical historic sense,
does in some sort canvass a number of the problems that we can escape
only by refusing to speculate at all. It will serve as well as another
to satisfy the commonplace metaphysical instinct. And the student who
takes it up for this purpose will receive from it a fair measure of
initiation into the study of philosophy, and of orientation and
stimulus of his own reflections.”— Paul Shorey
− + =Review= 3:232 S 15 ’20 1100w
“This book should be widely read. It deserves close and careful study
as an indication of the best lines of the metaphysical thought of
today.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 1 ’20 300w
“His book is a real stimulus to thought.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p492 S 18 ’19 1000w
=JOHNSEN, JULIA E.=,[2] comp. Selected articles on national defense. v 3
(Debaters’ handbook ser.) $1.80 Wilson, H. W. 355.7
This volume, consisting of brief, bibliography and reprints, covers
the subjects. The army, The navy, Military training, Military service,
Disarmament and peace. Volume 1, by Corinne Bacon, was published in
1916; volume 2, by Agnes Van Valkenburgh, in 1917.
=JOHNSON, ARTHUR.= Under the rose. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–15533
The titles of these stories are: The princess of Tork; Riders in the
dark; The one hundred eightieth meridian; Mr Eberdeen’s house; The two
lovers; The visit of the master; The little family; His new mortal
coil; How the ship came in. The stories are reprinted from Harper’s
and other magazines. The visit of the master appeared in the 1918
volume of Mr O’Brien’s “Best short stories.”
* * * * *
“‘Under the rose’ contains some charming tales. The happy whimsicality
of expression in a number brings to mind similar happy whimsicalities
of Henry James.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 2 ’20 400w
“This is a bewildering collection of stories, effective and yet at the
same time not wholly satisfying. The themes treated are many, the
transition from story to story sometimes marking a leap of mood
difficult to achieve. Almost every story is successful by itself; and
this, after all, is a great deal to demand of fiction.”
+ − =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 420w
=JOHNSON, CLIFTON.= What to see in America. (American highways and
byways ser.) il *$3 Macmillan 917.3
19–19488
“The book is concerned with the human interest of our country in
nature, history, industry, literature, legend, and biography. It is
intended for travelers who visit the places of interest in person, and
also for those other travelers whom chance or necessity keeps at home,
but who travel far and wide on the wings of fancy.... Under each state
is included such things as the first settlement, the capital, the
largest city, the highest point, and facts of general interest
concerning its past and present that add to the traveler’s zest in
visiting it.” (Introductory note) Each state in the Union has a
chapter and there are 500 illustrations including several maps.
* * * * *
“Rather too brief for the intensive sightseer. No index, but full
contents by states with mention of attractions.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20
“Mr Johnson has an observant eye, and he knows what he wants to say,
but he is frequently unable to express himself in straightforward
English.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 7 ’20 400w
“Somewhere between a guide book and travel essays. Useful for
reference.”
+ =Cleveland= p43 Ap ’20 40w
“The pictures are better than the history, and the history is better
than the opinions, but there are few opinions and only enough history
to add the right tincture of romance.”
+ =Nation= 111:163 Ag 7 ’20 190w
“His 500 illustrations are well chosen, well engraved and well
printed; and they are frequently alluring. Probably there are few of
those who read Mr Johnson’s book who will not feel a desire to let
their own eyes gaze upon the wonderful spots which are here
photographed.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w
“The numerous pictures are well selected. The traveled reader is sure
to find new things as well as old in the volume, and the
‘stay-at-home’ will find here new zest for fireside travels.”
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 80w
“Travelers may make good use of this volume, and it may be commended
to public-school geography classes.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 140w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 70w
=JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD.= Collected poems, 1881–1919. *$4 Yale univ.
press 811
20–1009
The collection comprises the poet’s former volumes together with some
new material. The contents are: The winter hour, and other poems;
Songs of liberty, and other poems; Italian rhapsody, and other poems;
Moments of Italy, and other poems; Saint-Gaudens: an ode; Later poems
of occasion; Poems of war and peace; Poems of the great war; Poems
chiefly of friendship or admiration; Later poems of the great war;
Miscellaneous poems; Poems of Italy in war-time; Latest war-time
poems.
* * * * *
“Many of his poems are occasional in character, and in these he
displays his happiest inspiration. He has the professional
after-dinner speaker’s talent for saying the right, the tactful thing
about any person or event. Mr Johnson would make an excellent
laureate.”
+ =Ath= p622 My 7 ’20 120w
“There is much sweetness—which never descends to mere prettiness—much
grace and a good deal of fine thought finely expressed in melodious
verse. Mr Johnson has long and deservedly enjoyed a special place of
distinction in modern American poetry of the conservative tradition.”
H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 60w
“To enjoy this volume you do not need to belong to any ‘school,’ nor
to hold any poetic theory. All you need is to love poetry as the
interpreter of the best things in nature and life.” H: Van Dyke
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“All the poems are not of equal value. But the omnipresent dignity of
Dr Johnson’s muse, his understanding love for Italy, and his unfailing
respect both for his medium and his reader, bespeak alike the scholar
and the citizen of the world.”
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=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 60w
=JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE.= Medal collector. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50
Dodd 737
The book furnishes a guide to naval, military, air-force and civil
medals and ribbons in the following order: The pioneer medals of
England; Early medals of the Hon. East India Co.; Peninsular awards;
Waterloo awards; The naval general service medal; Campaign medals;
British orders and their insignia; The Victoria cross; Service medals
for bravery, etc.; Commemorative medals; Medals for long service, good
conduct, etc.; Regimental medals; Civil medals; Medals of the United
States; Foreign awards. The book contains eight plates in color and
numerous other illustrations and has appendices, a bibliography and
index.
=JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE.= Stamp collector; a guide to the world’s
postage stamps. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 383
The author rates the hobby of stamp collecting highly from an
intellectual, an economic and a commercial point of view, but first
and foremost as a pastime full of charm and fascination. Since there
is so much that can be collected and so much that ought not to be
collected he offers this guide which equally satisfies the beginner
and the more advanced collector. The first few chapters deal with
philately on general terms. They are: Planning and arranging the
collection; Specialised collections; Technical matters; Stamps,
desirable and otherwise; Forged and faked stamps; Sir Rowland Hill and
other pioneers. Then a number of chapters are devoted to a description
of stamps of definite areas and the last four are: The stamps of war;
Rare stamps; Philately for the young; A glossary of philatelic terms
with a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“If the author’s line of demarcation between stamps desirable and
otherwise is rather arbitrary, his advice as to the best method of
forming and continuing a stamp collection is at least accurate.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p10 Ja 1 ’20 550w
=JOHNSON, THOMAS COSTELLO.= Irish tangle and a way out. *$1.50 Gorham
941.5
20–5597
“Mr Johnson is an American clergyman (Church of the Holy Spirit,
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, N.Y.) who went to Ireland in 1918 to give
lectures about America’s part in the great war. The larger part of the
book is historical—from early times to recent developments. Mr
Johnson’s own solution is—with educational reform and the development
of resources—federal government with parliaments for England, Ireland,
Scotland, and Wales, and a central parliament at Westminster.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
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Reviewed by Preserved Smith
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=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Mr 18 ’20 100w
=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= History of Cuba. 5v il $45 B. F. Buck & co.,
inc., 156 5th av., N.Y. 972.91
20–10078
“Taking San Salvador as his point of departure, the writer follows the
narrative of the discoverer, in which he traces his course from one
island to another, and by this means identifies the place of landing
of Columbus on the shores of Cuba. Thus is begun the history of the
island. With the fourth chapter, Dr Johnson abandons travel for
science, and enters upon geological and topographical history of the
great island. Dr Johnson traces the history of the early years of
Spanish settlement in Cuba, with great particularity down to the close
of the sixteenth century.... Subsequent passages relate the military
operations of an expedition under Admiral Vernon and the British plans
for the conquest of Spanish America, the attack upon Havana and its
capture; and finally, the negotiations which resulted in the return of
the island to Spain. The story follows of the American war for
independence and the rise of the Republic of the United States and its
influence upon Cuban affairs.... The fifth and final volume of the
series is concerned with the natural resources of Cuba today. This
volume has been compiled under the auspices of the Cuban department of
agriculture, commerce and labor.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“There seems to be no feature in Cuban history and character left
untouched in this scholarly and comprehensive presentation of a
subject until now neglected.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1750w
“It is on the whole well proportioned. If this history were condensed
into a single volume it might serve a useful purpose. Its faults would
appear less glaring. But for the general reader it is too long and
costly, and as an accurately conceived and scholarly account of Cuba
it is simply a waste of good paper such as the trade at this moment
can ill afford.” C. H. Haring
− + =N Y Evening Post= p5 O 30 ’20 1550w
“Dr Johnson has looked at the facts, it may be said, from a Cuban
point of view, and at the same time with a sense of proportion that is
continental and international. He has produced not merely a manifesto
of Cuban patriotism, nor on the other hand, a coldly detached
compilation of facts, but a true national record. His work is not only
a valuable archive or work of reference, but also a treatise of vital
interest and importance to the people of this country.”