“A well-written history.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 20w
=JOHNSTON, SIR HARRY HAMILTON.= Mrs Warren’s daughter; a story of the
woman’s movement. *$2 Macmillan
20–7923
“In his first novel, ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ Sir Harry Johnston undertook
to show us the second generation, the descendants of Walter Gay and
Florence Dombey. Now he comes forward with ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter,’
taking up the history of Vivie Warren and of her mother at the point
where George Bernard Shaw left it. When the novel begins, Vivie and
her friend Honoria Fraser compose the firm of ‘Fraser & Warren,
consultant actuaries and accountants.’ They are doing very well, but
find themselves perpetually hampered by the regulations and laws
forbidding women admission to various professions. In a spirit of
revolt against these man-made restrictions, Vivie decides to cut her
hair, don masculine apparel and become David Vavasour Williams.... In
1910 she finally drops Mr David Vavasour Williams and begins to take
an extremely active part in the militant suffragist movement.... Mrs
Warren had taken up her residence in Brussels, and that was how it
came about that when Vivie was released from prison during the first
days of the world war she went straight to Belgium to join her mother.
The description of the experiences of these two women especially
during the months of von Bissing’s ‘terror’ is very interesting and
well done.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Whimsical, entertaining and clever. Readers who liked ‘The Gay
Dombeys’ will like this.”
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
“The incidents of the masculine masquerade partake more or less of the
nature of a fairy tale, but even though they are not credible, they
are delightful in their humor and their vigorous views of passing
phases of this world of English art, science and society. Nothing
human is alien to Sir Harry Johnston.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 2100w
“The single compelling section of the book is the middle one, in which
the effects of the Pankhurst leadership are given with
circumstantiality; but this is brief, and the rest falls away from it
both in matter and tone. It seems curious that Sir Harry could have
found so rich a pocket of ore and not have tried to mine it to the
rock. ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ is a too-simple sketch of a notable
subject, and it is nothing more.” C. M. R.
− + =Freeman= 1:597 S 1 ’20 280w
+ − =Lit D= p97 O 9 ’20 1700w
“In ‘The Gay-Dombeys’ there was the high gusto and boyish delight of a
gifted man’s successful experiment in a new form of activity. His
second book is notably less fresh and engaging.”
+ − =Nation= 110:950 Je 26 ’20 550w
“Those who knew the zoological, geographical, anthropological, and
other learned London societies some thirty or forty years ago will
read these books with a double interest, for they will find that Sir
Harry’s characters resuscitate past chapters in the history of
scientific life in London. The author, it is needless to say, uses a
light and nimble pen to draw word-pictures seen from a highly
individualistic Harry Johnstonian angle.”
+ =Nature= 106:339 N 11 ’20 360w
“Judged as a work of art the book fails. The structure is stumbling
and plodding: the style second-rate journalism. The characterization,
with the admirable exception of the redoubtable Mrs Warren herself
(she shows Sir Harry’s loving study of Dickens), is singularly
superficial and conventional.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 23:157 Je 30 ’20 800w
“Unfortunately, it puts not its best but its worst foot foremost, the
poorest part of it being the first, in which occurs Vivie’s
preposterous masquerade. It is not until the last third of the book
and its sixteenth chapter are reached that the novel really begins to
be distinctly interesting. This sixteenth chapter is headed ‘Brussels
and the war: 1914.’”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:280 My 30 ’20 1200w
“The interest is of a queer nature, but it certainly exists.”
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 140w
“‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ by contrast [with ‘The Gay-Dombeys’] is a
laborious invention.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“We move in an atmosphere of sentimental romance, by no means
disagreeable, but miles apart from everything which we associate with
the initials G. B. S.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:456 My 15 ’20 450w
“On many matters of social interest he is fluent and furious, and
those who like this style of thing will doubtless be thrilled. We,
unfortunately, were unable to find anything like so many nice and
amusing people here as there were in ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ and must
absolutely refuse to swallow Miss Warren.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p200 Mr 25 ’20 580w
=JOHNSTON, MARY.= Sweet Rocket. *$1.65 (4c) Harper
20–18509
The strain of mysticism revealed in Miss Johnston’s previous novel is
very evident in this book. Of story in the conventional sense there is
none. Richard Linden has returned to Sweet Rocket, the home of his
family before the war. Richard is blind, and Marget Land, who had been
born on the place as the overseer’s daughter, acts as his secretary.
There is a curious bond of unity between the two which has no relation
to earthly love and both are bound to Sweet Rocket by deep spiritual
ties. The spirit of the place is such that all who come to it, friends
or strangers, fall under its spell. There are beautiful descriptions
of the country alternating with discussions of a psychic and spiritual
nature.
* * * * *
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 52:342 Ja ’21 470w
“Miss Johnston has revealed with keen perception the idea of
individual growth and expansion toward Godhood, and the setting of her
book is of idyllic beauty.” F. M. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 520w
“Though some of Miss Johnston’s readers may be pleased that ‘Sweet
Rocket’ is written in the same mystical vein and in furtherance of the
same spiritual quest as ‘Foes’ and ‘Michael Forth,’ the majority will,
at this third blow, relinquish with regrets the hope that she may ever
again give us a novel in the manner of ‘To have and to hold.’”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 270w
=N Y Times= p21 N 21 ’20 400w
“It is not enough to be sensitive to the beautiful—one must have a
sense of relativity, of proportion. Miss Johnston here makes a too
conscious effort at poetic expression.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 10 ’20 250w
=JOHNSTON, ROBERT MATTESON.= First reflections on the campaign of 1918.
*$1.50 (11c) Holt 940.373
20–5656
The author, who was attached to the general staff at General
Pershing’s headquarters in France for twelve months, where he had
every opportunity of observing the working of our war machine, offers
his reflections as a “constructive criticism of our combat army.” He
points out the flaws, due to our neglect of national preparedness, and
how they can be avoided in the future. As he foresees that the
competition of highly organized industrial communities, for markets
and for raw material, is about to produce a series of wars over the
whole surface of the globe, he pleads for the highest possible
efficiency and combination of naval and military power. Contents: The
U.S. army before the war; Leavenworth; The conduct of war; The rank
and file; The regular officers; The national army officer; The
National guard officer; The general staff; General Pershing; Tactics;
The replacement system; Our army of the future.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20
=N Y Times= p27 O 10 ’20 400w
=R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 50w
=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM ANDREW.= Mystery in the Ritsmore. il *$1.75 (3c)
Little
20–10309
The murder of a beautiful girl in the hotel apartment of a newly
married couple takes place on the third day of their honeymoon. A
young guest at the hotel, Anne Blair, is drawn into the case by her
love of excitement. The mystery is apparently quickly solved by the
police, and they let the matter drop. But Anne is not convinced it is
so simple and, aided by John Rush, secretary to the millionaire,
Harrison Hardy, keeps up independent investigations of her own. Her
quest leads her into a maze of clues, which broaden out into a plot of
international significance, in which great sums of money are involved.
Although the plotters are clever, Anne Blair proves cleverer in the
end, when she foils their schemes.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
“It is an excellent mystery tale. As is often true of detective
stories, the finale is something of a disappointment.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 180w
“‘The mystery in the Ritsmore’ is an entertaining, ingenious and
well-told yarn, which holds its secret up to the very end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 350w
“The story is episodical, but is well enough knit to interest.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 130w
=JONES, ELIAS HENRY.= Road to En-Dor. il $2 (2c) Lane 940.47
20–7946
This book, “being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in
Turkey won their way to freedom,” (Sub-title), is incidentally an
exposé of spiritualism. The author, in conjunction with a brother
officer and prisoner, Lieutenant Hill, began his experiments in
spiritualism in good faith, but soon saw a possibility of escape
through skillful manipulations. They came to the conclusion that
spiritualism has a most deplorable effect even on people whose mental
powers one admires, causing them to lose hold of the criteria of sane
conclusions. “The messages we received from ‘the world beyond’ and
‘from other minds in this sphere’ were in every case, and from
beginning to end, of our own invention.” Yet through them it was
possible “to convert intelligent, scientific, and otherwise highly
educated men to spiritualism, by means of the arts and methods
employed by ‘mediums’ in general.” Although the incidents described in
the book may seem preposterous, the author vows for their
truthfulness. The book is illustrated by Lieutenant Hill and has a
postscript and appendices.
* * * * *
“To have made such an exposure at the present time is to have done a
real and lasting service.”
+ =Ath= p195 F 6 ’20 100w
“Interesting as a war narrative, though told somewhat too much in
detail. Also interesting propaganda for anti-spiritualists.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20
“The book abounds in excellent and vigorous writing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 430w
“The reader who begins ‘The road to En-Dor’ after dinner will probably
be found at one o’clock in the morning still reading.”
+ =Spec= 124:111 Ja 24 ’20 1700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 380w
=JONES, SIR HENRY.= Principles of citizenship. *$1.25 Macmillan 320
20–12226
“This little book is intended for the use of such men as attended the
Y. M. C. A. lectures in the British army abroad. The purpose is to
give a general view of the duties and rights of citizens; and the
language is, therefore, simple and expressive. An initial distinction
is drawn between two conceptions of the state. The non-moral idea is
said to be German. Suggestions are then made as to the problem of
individuality which are held to refute the pacifist.”—Int J Ethics
* * * * *
“The author of this book is amiable and high-minded, but seems out of
place in the stern modern world, a belated Victorian.” B. R.
− + =Ath= p270 My 2 ’19 530w
=Int J Ethics= 30:115 O ’19 160w
“Must irritate any reader who really looks for some kind of serious
thought in Great Britain. Sir Henry Jones might quite decently have
left Hegel in his grave instead of serving him up to the Y. M. C. A.
by way of education for the British army. He ingeniously combines
several fallacies in one. In the first place, what he calls the state
is really the nation. In the second place, the ‘good life’ is no more
the object of one nation than another, and when a league of nations is
in being the ‘good life’ might be supposed to have an international
flavour about it. In the third place, no nation is worth its salt if
the forces of improvement do not originate with individuals but derive
their origin and impulse from politicians and bureaucrats.”
− =Sat R= 127:507 My 24 ’19 300w
“Sir Henry Jones has a firm grasp of moral principles, sadly neglected
or defied by many people nowadays, and his exposition of his argument
is singularly clear.”
+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w
=JONES, HENRY ARTHUR.= Patriotism and popular education. *$4 Dutton 370
20–10632
“‘Patriotism and popular education; with some thoughts upon English
work and English play, our evening amusements, Shakespeare and the
condition of our theatres, slang, children of the stage, the training
of actors, English politics before the war, national training for
national defence, war and design in nature, the league of nations, the
future world policy of America, capital and labour, religion,
reconstruction, the great commandments, social prophets and social
prophecy, competition and co-operation, the biologist and the social
reformer, hand labour and brain labour, school teachers and
rag-pickers, internationalism, and many other interesting matters, in
a letter to the Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, president of the board of
education.’ (Sub-title) The eminent playwright fully describes his
book on the title-page, and it remains only to add that he pleads for
practical education which would turn out good carpenters and good
citizens, and has no patience with modern ideas that, as he considers,
have put the majority of working-men ‘in open rebellion against the
plainest economic laws.’”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p283 My 2 ’19 170w
− =Ath= p589 Jl 11 ’19 1100w
“Seems rather an outburst of annoyance than a constructively thought
out criticism.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:83 F ’20 40w
“As an experienced writer he can express himself vigorously in from
two to a dozen ways, can produce many interesting, many wise, many
suggestive, many amusing, and many provoking paragraphs. But if one is
looking for help in dealing with either educational problems or the
problems of state, he will find many smaller books much more helpful.”
+ =Nation= 111:252 Ag 28 ’20 190w
“Suggestive as are Mr Jones’s opinions and arguments, stimulating as
they are and thought-provoking, they are calculated for the meridian
of Greenwich and not for that of Washington—which may make them a
little less useful to us, although none the less entertaining.”
+ − =N Y Times= 24:389 Ag 3 ’19 2100w
“Throughout the book there are passages that deserve a praise that
cannot be accorded to the whole as a statement of first principles or
as a treatise upon education.”
+ − =No Am= 212:428 S ’20 1850w
“He can not write either lifelessly or tediously. He can not write
foolishly, either; and, although you may now and again disagree with
him, you will hardly find him repellently unsympathetic. On the other
hand, you may be apt to feel, he does not leave you much of anywhere.”
+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 500w
+ =St Louis= 18:56 Ap ’20 40w
“Mr Jones is in the mood of a man who has had a bad piece of work
palmed off on him and writes an indignant letter to the Times about
it. His book is a whole collection of indignant letters. The truth is
that Mr Jones has not thought out his arraignment.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 1100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Ap 17 ’19 540w
=JONES, HERBERT.= Well of being. *$1.50 Lane 821
20–7866
A book of poems composed of two parts, the first a series of love
sonnets, the second, “O mistress mine!” a long narrative poem telling
a story of youth and love in Vienna in the old light-hearted days of
that city.
* * * * *
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:63 S ’20 30w
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 200w
“Mr Jones writes love sonnets with ease and skill; sometimes with a
truly graceful aptness. Sometimes he drops to what is merely trifling,
or strikes a false note. The same may be said of the long poem which
fills the rest of the book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 120w
=JONES, JOSHUA HENRY, jr.= Heart of the world. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811
19–16027
The title poem was inspired by the speech of President Wilson in
Boston on his first return from Europe in 1919. Among the other titles
are: The pine tree; The parting; With you away; In summer twilight;
Easter chimes; They’ve lynched a man in Dixie; Gone west; The
universe; A southern love song; The potter and his ware.
* * * * *
“Fortunately we are not compelled to judge Mr Jones poetically by such
a piece [the title poem]. With many another subject he is happier in
both conception and execution. He has a broad range of interest and
sympathies; has a discerning eye for nature and a warm emotion for
simple experiences and personal associations.” W. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 550w
=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= Service of love in war time. *$2.50 Macmillan
940.47
20–10376
“Rufus Jones’s ‘A service of love in war time’ is, as he says,
‘something more than the story of an impressive piece of relief work;
it is the interpretation of a way of life.’ It is the story of the
Quakers who found opportunity to express their pacifist convictions in
reconstruction service in France. Incidentally it is a record of our
War department’s methods in dealing with the conscientious objectors.
Indeed it is this record of the religious objectors in the draft camps
which is the most vivid part of Rufus Jones’s book—for he was the
chief representative of the Quakers in long and painful negotiations
with the military authorities. His account is a necessary corollary to
Captain Kellogg’s book on the conscientious objector.”—Nation
* * * * *
“We commend this book to anyone who desires to read a story of
singular and effective devotion and courage.”
+ =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 200w
=Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21
+ =Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 280w
“Can be recommended as an earnest, straightforward, well-detailed
account of a great work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 13 ’21 170w
“It is easier to sigh for the book which this might have been than to
criticize Mr Jones’s book for what it is. I could wish less emphasis
on the inner experience and more details as to the outward work; less
emphasis on individual conscience and more on the general lessons to
be drawn from great experiences corporately shared. I could wish, too,
for a less sentimental title.” E: E. Hunt
+ − =Survey= 44:731 S 15 ’20 380w
“The account [of the conscientious objectors] is instructive in many
ways; it is free from any disposition to exaggerate such abuses of
authority as occurred, and shows on the author’s part an admirable
perception of the intricacy of the various interests and principles at
stake. Yet we cannot but regret that he did not treat his part of his
story more summarily.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p690 O 28 ’20 1250w
=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= Story of George Fox. *$1.50 Macmillan
19–1571
“A volume in the series of ‘Great leaders’ lives.’ It is the story of
a hero who for more than two hundred years has figured in histories
and religious works, but whose personality has never been clearly
outlined in popular literature. In this instance, at least, his
biographer has succeeded in giving his subject a fair degree of
definition.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Good concrete example of the ideals of the Friends, well written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:202 Mr ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 3 ’20 180w
“Narrow as is its scope and unpretentious the style of this short
biography written for young people, it portrays the founder of the
Society of Friends with masterly art.”
+ =Nation= 110:269 F 28 ’20 400w
“A compact and well-written volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 60w
=JONES, SUSAN CARLETON (S. CARLETON, pseud.).= La Chance mine mystery.
il *$1.75 (2c) Little
Nicky Stretton, in the midst of his rough life as a miner, holds the
vision of the wonderful “dream girl” who will some day come into his
life. At the end of a day of discouragement, he comes home to find
her, as beautiful as he had pictured her, seated by his fireplace. But
it must not be supposed that they at once settle down to a life of
sweet domesticity. On the contrary there are grave obstacles in the
way. In the first place it appears that she is engaged to Nicky’s
partner, and secondly, there is some mystery about her identity and
her past which project an enemy into her present. Nicky is a bit slow
about grasping the situation, but when he and the enemy finally come
to grips, there is plenty of excitement and a startling number of
hairbreadth escapes before his “dream girl” becomes his in reality.
* * * * *
“The tale is well told, skilfully setting forth a highly improbable
action without letting us acknowledge to ourselves, while it is going
on, that it is absurd.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:584 Jl ’20 170w
“This is a novel of excitement in which neither characters nor setting
are neglected for the sake of mere plot.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 8 ’20 520w
“Full of tender, whimsical sentiment that will make its appeal to men
and women alike.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w
“For plot and swift action ‘The La Chance mine mystery,’ with its
charming love romance, in the setting of frozen forests, with their
howling wolf packs, is a story of the great out-of-doors that will
satisfy the most blasé reader.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:230 My 2 ’20 300w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
=Pub W= 97:997 Mr 20 ’20 250w
=JONESCU, TAKE.= Some personal impressions. il *$3 (6¼c) Stokes 923
20–3876
The author of this volume was former prime minister of Roumania. Of
this English version Viscount Bryce writes in the introduction: “the
descriptions it contains are for the most part vigorous sketches
rather than portraits. Some, however, may be called vignettes, more or
less finished drawings, each consisting of few lines, but those lines
sharply and firmly drawn. Intermingled with this score of personal
sketches there are also a few brief essays or articles which set
before us particular scenes, little fragments of history in which the
author bore a part, all relating to the persons who either figured in
the war, or were concerned with the intrigues from which it sprang.”
Contents: Monsieur Poincaré; Prince Lichnowsky; Count Berchtold; The
marquis Pallavicini; Count Goluchowsky; August 2, 1914;
Kiderlen-Waechter; Count Aehrenthal; Count Czernin; Count Mensdorff;
England’s antipathy to war; The responsibility for the war; King
Charles of Roumania; Herr Riedl; Count Szeczen; Sir Donald Mackenzie
Wallace; Baron Banffy; Roumanian policy; Tragedy; Count Tisza; Talaat
Pasha; Prince von Bülow; Taticheff; France and the Teuton; A cousin of
Tisza; New Italy; Why four last Germans; Eleutherios Venizelos; The
kaiser.
* * * * *
“Some light is thrown on the events immediately preceding the war, and
although the book is almost diplomatically polite, we see once more of
what poor quality these official great men usually are.”
+ =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 50w
+ =Booklist= 16:275 My ’20
=Dial= 68:665 My ’20 50w
+ =Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 80w
“Through all the back-stage chat which a diplomat loves we catch sharp
flashes which throw into new relief many of the great events connected
with the war.” H. F. Armstrong
+ =Nation= 110:658 My 15 ’20 520w
+ =R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 180w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Je 8 ’20 400w
“The book, being what it is, naturally does not contain or profess to
contain the matured contribution to the history of the last decades
which we hope some day to have from his pen; but none the less it will
be useful to many and can be read with pleasure by all.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p704 D 4 ’19 1300w
=JOSEPH, MRS HELEN (HAIMAN).= Book of marionettes. il *$5 Huebsch 792
20–26461
“The puppet show has flourished among many races and in different
ages; it is primarily an outgrowth of the taste of the common people,
though it has also entranced courts and kings. The range of interest
that it has evoked is well set forth in this book, which also goes
into the methods of constructing the puppets and the manner of
operating them.”—Outlook
* * * * *
“The author is evidently so in love with her subject that her style
assumes something of the charm and lightness of the puppets
themselves.”
+ =Booklist= 16:268 My ’20
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 60w
“Helen Haiman Joseph and B. W. Huebsch have made their ‘Book of
marionettes’ a treasure and a keepsake for children of all ages.”
Maurice Browne
+ =Freeman= 2:18 S 15 ’20 1600w
“The history and aspect of the puppets are both charmingly recorded by
Mrs Joseph in her ‘Book of marionettes.’ She writes with a fantastic,
airy touch that suits her subject, and her illustrations are chosen
with admirable erudition and taste.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 110:597 My 1 ’20 1300w
“Her book is a labor of love by an amateur who has the necessary
affection for her subject, but who does not pretend to the
indispensable erudition.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 2500w
“Amusing and whimsical book.”
+ =Outlook= 125:28 My 5 ’20 330w
“As the first book in English on an important and neglected subject,
it is surprisingly good and doubly welcome.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:256 Jl ’20 310w
=JUDSON, CLARA (INGRAM) (MRS JAMES MCINTOSH JUDSON).= Junior cook book.
$1.25 Barse & Hopkins 641.5
20–10578
The book teaches children of twelve, or under, to cook good, plain,
nourishing food without any other help than the directions given.
Special attention is given to vegetables and inexpensive dishes that
have meat value. It is the author’s opinion that the boy as well as
the girl ought to learn how to cook as a part of good citizenship.
Every other page of the book is left blank for additional recipes and
the last pages are devoted to suggested menus for breakfast, luncheon
and dinner. The contents are divided into: Meats and dishes that have
food value of meat; Vegetables; Breads, muffins, wafers and cookies;
Salads and salad dressings; Desserts; Sandwiches; Jams and conserves;
Good things to drink; Breakfast food; Confections.
* * * * *
“The selection of recipes is a sensible one for a general cook book.”
+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 40w
=JUDSON, JEANNE.= Stars incline. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–2647
Upon the death of her mother Ruth Mayfield is sent to New York city to
live with an aunt whom she has never seen, who is a celebrated,
emotional actress, and who has the unique distinction of having
divorced three husbands. Ruth in her early teens, dabbled below the
surface of mysterious, occult things; to her amazement she discovers
an actively evil hypnotic influence among her aunt’s servants. George,
the powerfully built, red-eyed Hindu, not only very nearly kills
Gloria Mayfield’s first husband by his mystic power of thought and
faith, but also comes close to wrecking Gloria’s future. Ruth,
however, quietly intervenes, and after much anxiety, has the happiness
of seeing Percy Pendragon, Gloria’s first husband, miraculously
restored to health; Gloria restored to Percy, and George’s sinister
power utterly broken. Ruth’s own love affair together with her
frustrated ambition to be a great artist, offset the mystic atmosphere
that hangs over Gloria and her household.
=Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20
“An amusing improbable tale, with a quasi-psychic twist that should
create for it a furor among the many followers of the various cults
now in vogue.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ’20 60w
=JUTA, RÉNÉ.= Cape Currey (Eng title, Tavern). *$1.75 (3c) Holt
20–13976
The story transpires in Cape Town, around 1820, and involves much
political history in the telling. It contains the mysterious figure of
Surgeon-Major James Barry, and a mysterious garden to whose secret
gate Barry has a key. A beautiful Dutch girl of the colony, Aletta,
discovers the garden and its captive, an extraordinarily beautiful
young man. To break through the wall is now the one desire of both. At
the moment of success, when they are about to rush into each other’s
arms, a pistol shot from the ever watchful slave, Majuba, kills the
young man, and Barry, arriving opportunely upon the scene, tells
Aletta that his son (rather her son, for Barry turns out to be a
woman) was a leper.
* * * * *
“To offer criticism of such a clever and at the same time, such an
original book, is difficult, yet one wishes that Réné Juta’s narrative
was a trifle more coherent, in its first chapters at least.
Nevertheless, ‘Cape Currey’ is an extraordinarily well written book.”
G. M. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 25 ’20 460w
“It is evident that she knows its history so well that she can write
of life there a hundred years ago with as sure a touch and as vivid a
pen as if she were writing about her own garden. There are still
greater skill and knowledge and noteworthy insight in the portraying
of the characters.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 650w
=Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w
“The style of the performance is a little overelaborate, somewhat
early Hewlettian in manner, but with a flavor of its own.” H. W.
Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 120w
“This story of Cape Town a hundred years ago has sufficient merit to
make us wish that it had still more. The language and spirit of a
bygone day are sometimes effectively suggested. But we are repelled by
the general crudeness of style, and deficiencies in construction.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:122 Ag 7 ’20 100w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 200w
K
=KAHN, OTTO HERMANN.= Our economic and other problems. *$4 (3½c) Doran
304
20–11152
A series of papers embodying a financier’s point of view on business
and economics, war and foreign relations, and art. The book opens with
an address on Edward Henry Harriman, characterized as the last figure
of an epoch, delivered before the Finance Forum in New York, January
25, 1911. Among the papers on business and economics are: Strangling
the railroads; Government ownership of railroads; High finance; The
menace of paternalism; France; When the tide turned; Great Britain,
and America and the League of nations are among the subjects
considered under war and foreign relations, and there are three papers
on art: Some observations on art in America; An experiment in popular
priced opera; Art and the people.
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:810 D ’20 30w
=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20
“The chapter on the railroads will be of less interest, though of
great importance in itself, than that on labour and capital.”
+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 140w
“The book will prove interesting and profitable to all seeking
instruction from a source at once modest and authoritative. Mr Kahn is
an actor in international finance as well as a writer upon it, and his
book has the quality which results from doing things rather than
thinking about doing them.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 29 ’20 250w
“In general spirit and point-of-view, Mr Kahn’s book may be
characterized as soundly optimistic. It is the expression of a mind
neither ‘stand-pat’ nor ‘radical.’ Upon Mr Kahn’s mastery of the
special topics with which he deals there is no need to enlarge.”
+ =No Am= 212:426 S ’20 1350w
“On matters of business and finance Mr Kahn speaks with knowledge that
is both practical and complete. The chapters on taxation are
particularly good.”
+ =Review= 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 300w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 15 ’20 420w
=KALPASCHNIKOFF, ANDREW.= Prisoner of Trotsky’s. *$2.50 (3c) Doubleday
947
20–14311
The book has a foreword by David R. Francis, formerly American
ambassador to Russia, in which he describes the author as a member of
the American Red cross mission to Rumania with the incidents leading
to his arrest and his five-months’ imprisonment in the fortress of St
Peter and St Paul. The author declines going into the causes that led
to the general breakdown of Russia, and claims to confine himself
strictly to what he himself has undergone as a prisoner of the
bolshevist régime. Many of his accounts, however, are not based on
personal experience but on the stories of “eye-witnesses.” He feels
nothing but horror for bolshevism which he describes as a
revolutionary sickness through which Russia is passing and happily
already approaching the convalescent stage. He pins his faith on
Russian patriotism and religion and heralds the orthodox church as the
deliverer.
=Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21
Reviewed by W: Hard
* =New Repub= 24:75 S 15 ’20 1650w
“The value of this volume, however, lies ... in the analysis—as a rule
without self-consciousness or effort—of the Russian character as
affected by the revolution and of the effect of the Russian character
and temperament on the revolution.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 2050w
“One’s general notion that Russia is the home of real-life melodrama
appears to be justified by most that one reads about that country. It
is, in fact, somewhat difficult at times to realize that Mr
Kalpaschnikoff’s narrative is not simply lurid fiction. But the
manifest sincerity and truthfulness of the author rapidly dispel any
such illusion.”
+ =No Am= 212:431 S ’20 750w
“Colonel Kalpaschnikoff’s book strikes an entirely new note. In the
first place, it is a narrative of the sort of personal experience from
which few men have come out alive, and, in the second, it is as
exciting as a sensational novel.” F. H. Potter
+ =Outlook= 125:646 Ag 11 ’20 1250w
=KANE, ROBERT.= Worth. *$2.25 Longmans 170
“In these thoughtful addresses, some of which were delivered in the
Church of Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, Strand, the author at first
deals with general principles, and discusses true and false standards
of worth. He then treats of personality, intellectual excellence, the
evolution of the soul, the worth of patriotism, and other topics.”—Ath
=Ath= p352 Mr 12 ’20 60w
“The book is replete with sound logic, sterling ideals and
old-fashioned common sense; there are so many passages worth
remembering and referring to, that it is to be regretted that an index
has been omitted.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:825 S ’20 370w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 70w
=KARSNER, DAVID.= Debs: his authorized life and letters from Woodstock
prison to Atlanta. il *$1.50 (2c) Boni & Liveright
20–978
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Journalistic and based chiefly on interviews, but interesting as
giving glimpses of the appealing personality of the man.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21
“While the book is entirely socialistic propaganda, it serves a useful
purpose in giving a full delineation, from the Socialist point of
view, of the make-up of this man, his ideas and the things for which
he stands. For this reason, it is a useful contribution to the
literature of the day.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:836 S ’20 160w
“Karsner’s memorabilia may some day prove ironically to be a
contribution to the literature of American patriotism.”
+ =Dial= 68:402 Mr ’20 80w
“With a modesty becoming the true biographer, Mr Karsner has permitted
Debs to speak for himself and to show us, through his letters and
addresses, that a man may grow to maturity without permitting the
cowardices and compromises of life to corrupt him.” Harry Salpeter
+ =Nation= 110:520 Ap 17 ’20 550w
“David Karsner, a true hero worshipper, has made a loving portrait,
which, although idealized in many respects, is far from imaginary and
is almost a work of art.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ − =Review= 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 650w
=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 60w
“Mr Karsner tells a good story, apparently based on conversations he
has had with Debs. His work is not critical, nor does he use the
historical sources to the extent that he might under different
circumstances. Of its own kind,—the quickly written journalistic
biography founded chiefly on the interview—this life of Debs is
excellent.” W. L. C.
+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 460w
“Not needed by all small libraries.”
+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:123 Je ’20 50w
=KARTINI, raden adjeng.= Letters of a Javanese princess. *$4 Knopf
20–20025
The letters are translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise
Symmers and supplied with a foreword by Louis Couperus. The Javanese
women are still condemned by tradition and custom to a secluded
prison-life, against which Kartini fought from early childhood. She
was the first Javanese feminist and her letters voice her ardent
longing for freedom for herself and countrywomen, and testify to her
achievements in that direction.
+ =Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
“The book is astonishingly fresh and fascinating. It should be given
to the woman who rejoices in every sign of the liberation of the
woman-soul from the bondage of tradition and masculine domination.”
Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 1100w
“The first of these letters, written in the Dutch language to friends
in Holland, breathe the modern spirit. They unfold the story of the
writer and show forth the Javanese life and manners in a vivid
manner.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 30 ’20 600w
“Perhaps the greatest thing in her favour is that, as much as the
worship of the shibboleth was in her blood, she did not blindly
supplant the shibboleth of native practices with the shibboleth of
European practices. On account of her excessive handicaps, however,
her grasp of expression is by no means unusual; and as a result, the
book is more valuable historically than as a piece of literature.”
+ − =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 100w
“As a picture of life in a remote corner of the world, the letters
have real value, apart from their undoubted human appeal. It is
sometimes difficult however to escape the feeling that the writer of
them had an eye to their ultimate public appearance, when she grasped
the pen, which may account for occasional lapses into a somewhat
didactic and self-conscious style.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:333 D 15 ’20 230w
+ =Nation= 112:sup246 F 9 ’21 450w
“Kartini is thoroughly Javanese in shielding all that is beautiful in
native culture, but her spirit is no more alien or fantastic than
Susan B. Anthony’s. Sometimes she even seems to have too much of
distinctly familiar sentiment and rhetoric. But one forgets this
shortcoming in admiring her as one of humanity’s vanguard.” S. K. T.
+ =New Repub= 24:304 N 17 ’20 580w
=KAY, BARBARA.= Elizabeth, her folks. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75
Doubleday
20–18511
Elizabeth Swift spends her fourteenth summer with her grandparents on
Cape Cod. She is not used to country life and at first feels herself a
trifle superior to it. But she makes friends with Peggy Farraday, who
is also summering there, and gradually realizes she is having a
splendid time, until at its end she thinks it is the finest summer she
has ever spent. It is saddened a little by her beloved brother’s
illness, but that comes out all right, too, as his romance with Ruth,
Peggy’s sister, promises to do, thanks to Elizabeth’s manipulation.
* * * * *
“Excellent style and vigorous characterization place these books
rather above the level of the average ‘juvenile.’ They are proof of
the fact that a book for children need not seem to have been written
by one.”
+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 40w
“There is plenty to keep a girl interested in these volumes, which are
excellent portrayals of present-day girlhood and its interests.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 50w
=KAY, BARBARA.= Elizabeth, her friends. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75
Doubleday
20–18510
After her summer on Cape Cod, described in “Elizabeth, her folks,”
Elizabeth comes back to New York to live in a brand new apartment. She
and her chum Jean decide to keep a diary, and many of her hopes and
aspirations are poured into it. She has a busy winter, for Buddy, her
big brother, gets married to Ruth Farraday, her friend Peggy’s sister,
and of course the wedding keeps her busy and excited. Then there is
the mystery in Jean’s household in which she plays an important part.
And she has good times with other friends, boys as well as girls, and
learns many valuable lessons about friendliness and comradeship.
* * * * *
+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 40w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 130w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 50w
=KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA.= Tamarisk town. *$2.50 Dutton
20–7297
“Tamarisk town, vulgarly known as Marlingate, was a small Sussex
fishing village in 1857 when the story opens. Monypenny determined to
make of it a rival to Brighton. And as the years go by, passing the
milestones of a new novel by Dickens or another masterpiece from the
pen of Mrs Henry Wood, Marlingate gradually turns into Monypenny’s
dream—a watering-place of marvellous beauty and refinement. Enter now
a woman, Morgan Beckett. They are rivals, Morgan and Marlingate, for
Monypenny’s love; there is a contest; Monypenny cannot bring himself
to desert the town that he has created. Morgan, in a fit of despair,
puts an end to her life, and he, all his love for the town now turned
to bitterness, sets himself deliberately to destroy Marlingate.”—Ath
* * * * *
“Miss Kaye-Smith has written an interesting novel in ‘Tamarisk town,’
creating a world that is not exactly realistic, but consistent with
itself—an invention rather than a copy.”
+ =Ath= p832 Ag 29 ’19 180w
“Were Miss Kaye-Smith a painter, we should be inclined to say that we
do not feel she has yet made up her mind which it is that she wishes
most to paint—whether landscape or portraits. Why should she not be
equally at home with both? What is her new novel ‘Tamarisk town’ but
an attempt to see them in relation to each other? And yet, in
retrospect, there is her town severely and even powerfully painted,
and there are her portraits, on the same canvas, and yet so out of it,
so separate that the onlooker’s attention is persistently divided—it
flies between the two, and is captured by neither.” K. M.
− + =Ath= p881 S 12 ’19 1200w
“Will be appreciated by those who like good character analysis and
atmosphere conveyed by careful detail.”
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 17 ’19 600w (Reprinted from Spec
123:622 N 8 ’19)
“Her novel is characteristic of her, but it is thoroughly original and
a strongly emotional presentation of the human spirit which seems to
be governed wholly by fate. When we have read its last page we feel
that Edward Monypenny’s life could have varied at no moment and in no
detail from the novelist’s presentation of it.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 1500w
“‘Tamarisk town’ deteriorates slowly like the town it describes; the
author seems a little uncertain when she dips into sociology instead
of confining herself to the natural processes of the soil.”
+ − =Dial= 69:320 S ’20 70w
“Sheila Kay-Smith’s place in English letters since ‘Sussex gorse’ and
‘The four roads’ has been peculiar. She has been visualized as a sort
of female Thomas Hardy, an ironist dealing with elementals, making no
compromises with the romanticism of the day. Yet her new book
‘Tamarisk town’ merely deepens the impression that she is a
romanticist at heart.... The book is a compact, well-rounded piece of
work. It intimates a vastness that is never definitely asserted.” H.
S. G.
+ =Freeman= 1:550 Ag 18 ’20 350w
“It is a book surcharged with a great emotion, a worthy successor to
‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads.’ ‘Tamarisk town’ is a genuine work
of strength, a novel with a Hardian touch, a work that will vastly
move the reader.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 750w
“The tale has something of the magic of style and of mood which
belonged to Stevenson’s fragmentary ‘Weir of Hermiston.’ For me it has
the glamour of true story-telling, the creative reality which is so
dismally absent from most studies of fact.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:654 Je 23 ’20 700w
“‘Tamarisk town’ is an original and striking story, in which
observation and local knowledge are happily united to very
considerable imaginative power. Moreover, though the action is spread
over nearly forty years, the sense of continuity is well maintained.”
+ =Spec= 123:622 N 8 ’19 550w
=KEABLE, ROBERT.= Drift of pinions. *$2 Dutton
20–15963
“There are sixteen of the stories, their scenes laid in various parts
of the earth, and in each of them the author invokes a fluttering of
unseen pinions at the threshold of the spirit of some one of his
characters. Some of the scenes are laid in a remote region of East
Africa where the author has spent a number of years as a missionary.
When the British government brought a great number of the natives of
this region to France as laborers during the war Mr Keable accompanied
them as chaplain and in ‘Standing by,’ published last summer, he
described his work among them and their reactions to their new
surroundings. Some of the stories in this book deal with strange
spiritual experience among these simple people, or with those of
missionaries among them, and the scenes of others are laid in England,
in France before the war, or in other parts of the globe.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“It is a book which cannot fail to interest Catholic readers, and
which, if studied carefully, will give a better insight to the
peculiar psychology of the ‘extremely High church’ Anglican than
anything that has hitherto appeared in this country. The chapters, ‘In
no strange land,’ ‘Our lady’s pain,’ and ‘The acts of the Holy
apostles’ are not only the best stories in the book, but they are the
only ones which carry with them a sense of actuality.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:257 My ’20 300w
“The stories vary greatly in quality, the theme being sometimes
handled with subtlety and impressiveness, and in others with a
simplicity that touches upon crudeness and leaves the reader cold.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:86 F 8 ’20 320w
=KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE.= Our northern autumn. (Handbook ser. on wild
flowers) il *$1.75 Scribner 580
20–10564
Both from an aesthetic and a botanical point of view the little book
describes the autumnal flora which, says the author, “is interesting
in that it holds to the poles of life; it bears in its bosom the dying
and the dead, at the same time that it welcomes youth, insistent,
omnipresent youth, roystering up and down the highways and byways in
the persons of the sunflowers, the goldenrods, and above all the
asters.” Among the contents are: Descriptions of autumn flowers;
Autumnal foliage; October days; The kindly fruits of the earth;
Herbaceous plants with conspicuous fruits; Nuts; November; Wild flower
sanctuaries. There is a list of genera and species; six color and
numerous half-tone plates and an index of Latin and one of English
names.
+ =Booklist= 17:17 O ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 160w
=KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE.= Belgian Congo and the Berlin act. *$6.75
Oxford 967
(Eng ed 19–12919)
“This work is concerned chiefly with the political history of the
Congo and with an analysis of the international compact which
regulates the government of the Free state. The work is elaborately
annotated, and the Berlin act and other state papers of importance are
reprinted in the appendix.”—Dial
* * * * *
=Brooklyn= 12:106 Mr ’20 50w
=Dial= 67:386 N 1 ’19 50w
“Professor Keith’s history of the Belgian Congo is judicious,
exhaustive, authoritative. Completed in September 1918, it necessarily
wants sureness of touch in dealing with the present outlook, but a
later edition will be able to supply an air of greater finality. An
appendix comprises all relevant state documents. It would be an
advantage if a map were added. The book is a carefully written and
well-balanced history.” G. B. Hurst
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:290 Ap ’20 950w
Reviewed by W. E. B. DuBois
+ =Nation= 111:351 S 25 ’20 550w
“We need hardly say that Professor Keith’s history of the Congo state
is exact and scholarly.”
+ =Spec= 122:833 Je 28 ’19 1350w
“It must be said, however, for Dr Keith that, although his preface is
dated September, 1918, he has written about the future of Central
Africa from a point of view that is already obsolete.... Dr Keith, in
his strong condemnation of the abuses of King Leopold’s autocratic
rule, has not failed to do full justice to that monarch’s
extraordinary energy and strength of will, versatile capacity for
affairs, and financial skill.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p371 Jl 10 ’19 1550w
=KEITH, ERIC A.= My escape from Germany. *$1.76 (2c) Century 940.47
20–2039
Mr Keith was an English business man living at Neuss, a town on the
left bank of the Rhine, when the war broke out, and was promptly
interned in the prison camp at Ruhleben. The book is an account of his
three attempts to escape, once alone and twice with companions, of
which the third was successful. This American edition of the book
contains much matter which had to be omitted from the earlier English
edition, printed while the war was still on. It contains a map of the
route taken in the last successful attempt and the narrative is a
plain statement of facts without any attempt at sensational trimmings.
* * * * *
“Vigorously written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:275 My ’20
“The book contains much fascinating information about the technique of
escaping from prison camps. That truth is stranger than fiction is
again demonstrated by Mr Keith’s adventures.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w
+ =Review= 2:632 Je 16 ’20 440w
“In what one is now justified in calling the literature of escape this
takes a good place. It is told with a good deal of literary skill, and
is full of close detail which is never allowed to be boring.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 N 28 ’18 70w
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Catty Atkins. il *$1.60 (2½c) Harper
20–1213
Catty Atkins and his father were shiftless folk, tramps, to be exact.
But Catty was levelheaded and did a lot of thinking and when he fell
in with “Wee-wee” Moore and his dad he did some more. All that Mr
Moore did was to treat Catty with respect and all that Mrs Gage did
was to treat him like scum. The effect of the combination was to
arouse Catty from his lethargy and fill him with a fierce
determination to be respectable and make his shiftless dad
respectable. How he did it is the story, and although Catty’s bossing
soon makes Mr Atkins the richest and handsomest man in town, he never
loses his wistful look towards his fishing rod and the road.
* * * * *
“A capital story for boys.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w
“The story is improbable and the characters overdrawn, but the work is
written in an entertaining vein.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 130w
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Efficiency Edgar. il *$1.25 (6½c) Harper
20–7299
They called him Efficiency Edgar in the office in a derisive way, but
then—had he not more than doubled his salary in two years? He was
determined to order his life with efficiency. He decided that it was
an efficiency measure to get married. He conducted his courtship as a
sales campaign employing the “follow-up system” and the “intensive
cultivation of prospects.” Mary thought it was lovely and signed the
contract. Next came housekeeping by strict schedule which worked to
perfection including Mary’s feigned sprained ankle—result a cook and
exit schedule. It was reserved to Edgar Junior to prove to his
efficient parent that “a baby isn’t a machine with gears and cranks
and pulleys. A baby is a kid.”
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
“One is inclined to wonder if, apart from Mr Kelland’s reputation as a
short story writer, this particular tale would have had such wide
appeal. There have been so many similar stories and, even possessed of
willing mind, much of the material seems dull and hackneyed. Only in
the courtship chapter have we a ghost of freshness.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 150w
“Clarence Budington Kelland has very cleverly ridiculed the overdoing
of the efficiency idea.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 120w
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Youth challenges. *$1.75 (1½c) Harper
20–18251
“Bonbright Foote, Incorporated” had gone through six generations
without balking and with family tradition and business tradition
fossilizing side by side. But Bonbright Foote VII balked. The result
of the former was a family fortune of five millions, of the latter a
disowned son cast off penniless. But as a further result Bonbright
Foote, without the VII, applied to his father’s friend, the automobile
king, for a job, donned overalls, began at the bottom of the ladder as
a mechanic, climbed rung after rung and incidentally learned how an
up-to-date business was conducted. After his father’s sudden death he
takes hold of the fossilized concern of six generations, and makes it
over on the five dollars a day minimum wage basis. On the day that the
announcement of the plan averts a disastrous strike, Bonbright’s
unhappy love affair also takes a turn. He not only finds his lost
girl-wife, but finds that it is he and not another whom she loves.
* * * * *
+ − =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“Not deep, not searching, the book because of its restraint and
sincerity deserves respectful reading.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 100w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 230w
=KELLEY, ETHEL MAY.= Outside inn. il *$1.75 Bobbs
20–7519
“Though it has the usual love story—three of them, in fact—and ends
with the heroine clasped in the hero’s arms in the most orthodox
manner, the real theme of the tale, that one upon which the interest
of the novel depends, is not love but—food. We cannot at the moment
recall any recent book in which there was so much and such good eating
as there is in this tale of a tea room. The greatest desire of Nancy
Martin’s life was to feed her fellow-mortals, men and women, on the
proper kinds of nourishing foods containing the proper number of
calories. Wherefore she opened the charming tea room which she called
‘Outside inn,’ engaged a French chef who was at once a genius and a
true artist, secured several highly competent waitresses, and served
excellent meals of the most abundant, varied and tempting food at a
moderate, a very moderate price. Incidentally, Nancy Martin adopted a
little girl and had an unhappy love affair before she found her real
mate.’—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20
+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 420w
“Altogether it is entertaining in its way, but it is to be hoped that
American taste will sometime outgrow the romantic immaturity which can
accept such a work as having any relation to life and character.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 420w
=KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG).= Bobbins of
Belgium. il *$2 (6c) Funk 746
20–5590
“A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and
lace-villages.” (Sub-title) In the preface the author gives an account
of the heroic efforts made during the war to continue the campaign,
begun before the war, of restoring and developing the threatened lace
industry. A brief survey of the history of lace-making is given in the
introduction with a description of its peculiar milieu as a home
industry and the more modern development into a craft through normal
schools of lace-making. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the
notable lace-villages. The differences between the various kinds of
laces, needle laces and bobbin laces, are more fully described and
their stitches illustrated, in the appendix. The contents are:
Introduction; Turnhout; Courtrai; Thourout-Thielt-Wynghene; Grammont;
Bruges; Kerxken; Erembodeghem; Opbrakel; Liedekerke; Herzele; Ghent;
Zele. The book is profusely illustrated and there is an index.
* * * * *
“Author is as much interested in the lace makers us in methods and
designs, and writes a humanly interesting rather than technical book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:269 My ’20
“So far as the study of lace itself goes, the book is not too
technical, and it furnishes a convenient handbook for those who would
possess a passable knowledge of the principles of lace making.”
+ =Boston Transcript= My 19 ’20 230w
+ =Cath World= 112:398 D ’20 170w
Reviewed by Ruth Van Deman
+ =J Home Econ= 12:425 S ’20 340w
“The book contains much valuable technical detail, including many
illustrations of lace patterns, but also gives vivid pictures of
convent life and the sturdy Franciscan sisters as they pass on the
secrets of their exquisite craft to their young charges.”
+ =Nation= 110:661 My 15 ’20 300w
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“The illustrations will delight the lover of lace.” J. G.
+ =St Louis= 18:223 S ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 26 ’20 840w
=KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG).= Mercier; the
fighting cardinal of Belgium. *$2 (4½c) Appleton
20–5667
The author is well known for her work with the Commission for relief
in Belgium. Brand Whitlock has written a brief foreword for her book,
parts of which have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Outlook and
Delineator. There are ten chapters: The fighting cardinal; From boy to
cardinal; Pastoral letters to an imprisoned people; The cardinal and
Rome in war-time; The good shepherd; The cardinal versus the governor
general; The cardinal at home; After the armistice—the visit to
America; Trenchant sayings of the cardinal; Text of the Christmas
pastoral, patriotism and endurance. A short bibliography of Cardinal
Mercier’s works concludes the book.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
“The book is brilliantly written and is of the deepest interest.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 350w
“Much of it is fresh, vivid material; and all of it is presented in a
delightful manner. The author has a literary gift that enables her to
express herself gracefully and concisely; with taste and
discrimination, she has also grasp of spiritual values.”
+ =Cath World= 111:687 Ag ’20 380w
“Mrs Kellogg’s little book, with its personal touches, forms a useful
pendant to the Cardinal’s letters.” Muriel Harris
+ =Nation= 110:771 Je 5 ’20 160w
“An authentic and illuminating biography.”
+ =N Y Times= p11 O 17 ’20 70w
+ − =Outlook= 124:766 Ap 28 ’20 100w
“The book is brief. The material seems to have been hastily thrown
together, with obvious paddings. To Catholic readers the book should
especially appeal, for it is written with a spirit of devout
reverence.” M. K. Reely
+ − =Pub W= 97:609 F 21 ’20 220w
+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 120w
=KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN.= Herbert Hoover; the man and his work. *$2 (2c)
Appleton
20–8244
A biographical sketch written by a man who was closely associated with
the relief of Belgium. A preliminary chapter, headed “Children,”
describes Mr Hoover’s arrival in Warsaw. This is followed by the
sketch of early years, with chapters on: The child and boy; The
university; The young mining engineer; In China; London and the rest
of the world; The war: The man and his first service. The remaining
chapters are devoted to the relief of Belgium, the American food
administration, and the American relief administration. Four
appendices give extracts from Mr Hoover’s reports, writings and
speeches.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20
=Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 80w
“It is a magnificent picture of the most truly American figure of our
time.”
+ =Ind= 102:373 Je 12 ’20 200w
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 280w
=R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 70w
=KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN.= Nuova; or, The new bee; with songs by Charlotte
Kellogg. il *$2.25 (9c) Houghton
20–17603
A note to this “story for children of five to fifty” says: “Most of
this that I have written about bees is true: what is not, does not
pretend to be. Some of the true part sounds almost like a description
of what human life might in some respects be, if certain social
movements of today were followed out to their logical extreme. I
suppose that in this likeness lies the moral of the book.” The part of
the story that isn’t true and doesn’t pretend to be has to do with the
revolt of Nuova against bee traditions. Nuova is a new bee, she grows
tired of working and begins to ask the meaning of things in bee
society. She takes an interest in the drones and even falls in love
with one of them. She meets the fate of all nonconformists and is
about to be driven from the hive to her death when a fortunate turn of
chance spares her and brings a happy ending.
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w
“Children will not get the satire, but they will find much useful
information as well as much fancy in the text.”
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 60w
“There are no danger signs to warn the child reader when he is
following fancy away from the true path. Nor will its failure as a
child’s book insure its success with the grown-ups.” M. H. B. Mussey
− =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 180w
“Those who know Mr Kellogg’s other books and like them, will like
this. It will lure many to thinking about the bees who never cared for
nature lore before.” Robert Hunting
+ =Pub W= 98:1201 O 16 ’20 250w
“Younger readers—indeed the very youngest—who read this book will be
less concerned with the fact that the author’s bee-lore is absolutely
authentic than with the realization that he knows how to make a true
story more entertaining than the average fairy tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 120w
=KELLY, FRED CHARTERS.= Human nature in business; how to capitalize your
everyday habits and characteristics. il *$1.90 Putnam 658
A20–714
“This book contains articles which excited a good deal of interest
when first they appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other
periodicals. In them the author tells ‘how to capitalize your
every-day habits and characteristics.”—Survey
* * * * *
“Interesting but rather obvious.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:265 My ’20
“This book which at least is diverting and suggestive, is replete with
incidents of one kind or another illustrating the unconscious elements
of conduct.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 260w
“Apart from their original purpose, the studies are interesting as
sidelights upon crowd psychology.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:291 My 22 ’20 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 30w
=KELLY, HOWARD ATWOOD, and BURRAGE, WALTER LINCOLN.= American medical
biographies. $15 Norman, Remington co. 926
20–14756
To a certain extent this work is a revision of Dr Kelly’s “Cyclopedia
of American medical biography,” published in 1912. He says in the
preface: “Dr Walter L. Burrage and I have worked for several years to
produce the present volume, deleting from the former book fifty-one
biographies not coming up to our standard, replacing with new
biographies sixty-two others, revising and correcting from original
sources nearly all, and adding 815 new ones, besides those that have
replaced the old ones. Thus our book contains 1948 biographies and is
carried through the year 1918. In addition there are about eighty
references to individuals mentioned biographically in the main
biographies.” The principle of selection has been “to include every
man who has in any way contributed to the advancement of medicine in
the United States or in Canada, or who, being a physician, has become
illustrious in some other field of general science or in literature.”
Living men are entirely excluded. A list of works consulted occupies
nine pages and there is a local index, by states, in addition to the
general index.
* * * * *
“The catholicity of judgment shown in their preparation and the
discrimination in the selection of names chosen for reference place
‘American medical biographies’ on a very high plane indeed.” Van Buren
Thorne
+ =N Y Times= p14 O 31 ’20 2500w
=KELLY, THOMAS HOWARD.= What outfit, Buddy? il *$1.50 (3c) Harper
20–3794
As this narrative stands it is Jimmy McGee’s story—“Jimmy McGee, a
real, regular fighting Yank who has seen his share of la guerre”—and
his story, says the author “is merely the universal version of the
great adventure as held by legions of his comrades.” Inseparable from
Jimmy is his pal the O. D., who never went back after “la guerre
finee” to his mother and Mary but left Jimmy to break them the news of
the grave in France.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
“The whole volume is rather an interesting experimentation in values
which, helped by the delightful illustrations, is, on the whole a
success.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 800w
=KEMP, HARRY HIBBARD.= Chanteys and ballads. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811
20–12187
“The book contains rough out-door poems of land and sea, songs of
sailors at sea driving to strange lands, and impressions of tramps by
campfire and their visions of the Christ, and many others.” (St Louis)
“Most of the sea poems were written long after Mr Kemp had ceased to
sail before the mast, but the impressions that those early years made
upon him have hardly faded.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“For those who know that splendid play Mr Kemp wrote on Judas when he
gave his version of Judas’s purpose in the betrayal will find his
poems of New Testament life full of power and a strange loveliness. If
one had a doubt as to whether Mr Kemp would finally reach a
development of his gifts where he would no longer be accepted with
qualifications, that doubt, it seems to me, vanished with this
volume.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 1300w
=Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 40w
“One can not share Mr Kemp’s expressed conviction that he has found
‘the immortal meaning of it all.’ At least, if he has found it, he has
not succeeded in transferring it to the assorted verses which are
gathered here.” L. B.
− =Freeman= 1:622 S 8 ’20 210w
“Mr Kemp’s new volume is a disappointment. He was fastidious before,
though generous enough in thought and gesture; now he finds room for
commonplace and cant, complacency and swagger.” Mark Van Doren
− + =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 100w
“Full of buoyancy and swinging rhythms.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 160w
=St Louis= 18:247 O ’20 30w
=KENDALL, RALPH SELWOOD.=[2] Luck of the mounted. *$2 Lane
20–17967
“The scene of this story is the great Canadian Northwest, the
principal part of it being laid in the vicinity of Calgary, where the
author was for a time stationed as a member of the Royal Northwest
mounted police. A particularly baffling murder case is the theme of
the tale and the culprit is a man with a strange and adventurous past.
A second killing, with a curious chain of circumstances connecting it
with the first one, is, in the end, solved and the murderer brought to
justice.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The story is devoid of romance, but it is told in such a gripping,
straightforward manner as to give it the earmarks of truth.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 160w
“Sergeant Kendall writes about the Royal Canadian mounted police with
inside knowledge. That makes his story more convincing than most
narratives of this type. The background of snowy Canadian scenery,
admirably painted in, lends a touch of poetry to the tale.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 80w
=KENEALY, ARABELLA.= Feminism and sex-extinction. *$5 Dutton 396
(Eng ed SG20–92)
“Dr Kenealy has elaborated the truth that men and women inherit the
characteristics of both sexes into an extreme doctrine which she uses
as a weapon to attack feminism and the ‘unwomanly woman.’ She heads a
chapter, ‘One side of the body is male, the other side is female’; and
the next, ‘Masculine mothers produce emasculate sons by
misappropriating the life-potential of male offspring.’ Feminist
doctrine and practice are disastrous to human faculty and progress.
She is in dread of ‘the impending subjection of man,’ because it will
be a calamity for woman as well as for man.”—Ath
=Ath= p621 My 7 ’20 120w
“It is a sad spectacle to see a helpless fact writhing under the
disapproval of Dr Kenealy.” C. P. Gilman
− =N Y Evening Post= p7 O 30 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 140w
“The problem of physical and psychic duality is discussed at length,
and it is here that Miss Kenealy’s assumptions are seen to rest on
dubious foundations. Her hypothesis of the necessity of ‘two modes of
vital energy,’ for instance, is not fortified by facts. The common
sense view of female capabilities tallies, however, in many instances
with Miss Kenealy’s quasi-scientific postulates.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:436 My 8 ’20 800w
“Dr Arabella Kenealy states the case against ‘suffragetism’ and
against the masculinization of women with considerable vigour and
unquestionably with considerable truth, but it is so fatally easy to
pick holes both in her logic and in her facts that the reader will
probably find it difficult to do justice to the truth of her ideas.”
+ − =Spec= 125:20 Jl 3 ’20 500w
=KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER.= Goldoni and the Venice of his time. il *$6
Macmillan 852
20–8020
Goldoni, the famous Italian playwright, 1707–1793, is an impersonation
of the Italian modern character, says the author of the present
volume. “In him, Italians are pleased to see ... an idealised image of
themselves ... humanized by touches that endear it both to those who
trace out of it a resemblance to their own soul, and to those who,
across his charming personality, are desirous to comprehend the soul
of modern Italy.” Much of the material of the book is taken from
Goldoni’s Memoirs. Beginning with a chronological summary of his life,
a bibliography and a list of his plays, the first chapter is devoted
to the historical and literary background of Goldoni’s life and work,
the five following chapters to the life itself, six chapters to the
plays and the conclusion to a general appreciation. The book has an
index and three illustrations.
* * * * *
=Ath= p266 Ag 27 ’20 2150w
+ =Booklist= 17:62 N ’20
“He has succeeded in presenting a human and sympathetic person, not
obscuring his faults or exaggerating his virtues.... Mr Kennard’s book
is entertaining, but it abounds in misprints, especially in the French
and Italian citations.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 900w
“It is a painstaking, if somewhat loosely discursive production.”
+ =Nation= 111:511 N 3 ’20 250w
“It will win a place as an excellent biography, constructed in a
workmanlike manner and written in an easy, enjoyable style.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 720w
=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 60w
+ =Spec= 125:476 O 9 ’20 180w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 350w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 Ag 26 ’20 1250w
=KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER.= Memmo. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–19583
The story is one of love and crime in modern Italy, but true to old
traditions. Daniele Sparnieri, an upstart Jew, steeped in all
iniquity, from illicit amours with women to criminal grasping in
finance, murders an already dying relative and steals his will. Thus
enabled to disinherit and make an outcast of the old man’s grandson,
Memmo, he makes himself the head of the Sparnieri banking firm and
Clara, the old man’s granddaughter, and in reality Daniele’s illicit
daughter, the greatest heiress in Venice. He separates Clara from her
cousin, Memmo, whom she loves and forces her to marry a profligate and
impoverished member of the oldest aristocracy of Venice. Later he
causes Memmo’s imprisonment on a criminal charge of bomb throwing, but
when nemesis overtakes him in the vengeance of his numerous victims,
and the dying Count D’Abbie, Clara’s husband, confesses Memmo’s
innocence, true love comes to its own.
* * * * *
“The style is adequate—that is, it maintains a sense of suspense, an
essential in a story of this nature—and with its fair proportion of
properly used adjectives brings to the reader the atmosphere of modern
Italy.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 90w
“Not the least interesting feature of the narration is the intimate
presentation of various picturesque Jewish customs maintained by the
orthodox from the days of Moses. The book will appeal to lovers of
well-written sensational fiction. And certainly the author does know
his Venice.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 470w
=KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN.= Army with banners; a divine comedy of this very
day, in five acts, scene individable, setting forth the story of a
morning in the early millennium. *$1.50 Huebsch 822
20–6980
An allegorical play of continuous action, altho arrangement is made
for division into the usual five acts. The theme is Christianity, and
among the characters are Mary Bliss, a woman of simple faith who grows
steadily younger as the play progresses until she passes from age to
radiant girlhood, and Tommy Trail, a revivalist of the Billy Sunday
type, determined to save her soul. The others, with the exception of
Dafty, also a symbolic figure, represent various types of worldliness.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:271 My ’20
=Nation= 110:435 Ap 3 ’20 260w
“Its spirit is beautiful and profoundly right. But its method is that
of allegory gone mad, jumbling touches of realism with the maddest
fantasy, so it is perplexing and ineffective even to read, and, in the
theater, quite hopeless.” W. P. Eaton
− + =N Y Call= p10 Ap 18 ’20 520w
“There are greater achievements doubtless in the world of drama than
Mr Charles Rann Kennedy’s ‘Army with banners’ but one doubts if there
are greater exploits. It blends incongruities and actualizes fantasies
in a manner that allows no rest and sets no bound to admiration. As a
play it is far from exemplary. It is long and its action is naught,
and the culmination has the effect of being prostrated by the fatigues
of its journey.”
− + =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 380w
“In ‘The army with banners’ one finds an art so completely
intellectual that one’s interest, trained to emotion and sentiment,
falters at times: the high finish, brilliant and sustained as it is,
is brittle almost to the cracking-point. Of plot—well, Mr Kennedy
would never be passed by Professor Baker, and this reviewer has a
suspicion that a bit of concession to story-interest would have helped
over the two or three undeniably dull spots in the book.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:255 Jl ’20 380w
=KENNEDY, HARRY ANGUS ALEXANDER.=[2] Theology of the Epistles. (Studies
in theology) *$1.35 Scribner 230
20–15157
“One of a new series of aids to interpretation and Biblical criticism
for students, the clergy, and laymen. Dr Kennedy’s book is divided
into three parts, the first of which relates to Paulinism. The second
part deals with phases of early Christian thought in the main
independent of Paulinism. In the third part the author discusses the
theology of the developing church.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p1016 O 10 ’19 60w
“There is a useful bibliography and the indexing is thorough. The
treatment of the theology of Paul is excellent.”
+ =Bib World= 54:644 N ’20 240w
=KENT, CHARLES FOSTER, and JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE.= Jesus’ principles
of living. (Bible’s message to modern life) *$1.25 Scribner 232
20–12830
“In the words of the authors, ‘the aim in this volume has been to
interpret the teachings of Jesus frankly, simply, and constructively
in the light of modern conditions, and to make clear the trail that
Jesus blazed by which each man may find the larger life in union and
coöperation with the eternal source of all life.’ The two
distinguished university professors, one in Biblical study and the
other in political science, have worked together to expound the
teachings of Jesus to our modern world. They have seen that ‘a
yearning for social justice, for brotherhood, and for spiritual
satisfaction filled the hearts of men’ in the first century, and that
the present century manifests the same yearning.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Any teacher looking for a textbook for a Bible class should see this
volume.”
+ =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 180w
“The authors are singularly free from those obsessions of so many
theologians and political scientists, the fallacies of the universal
and of the abstract.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 470w
“The book abounds in beautiful platitudes.”
− =Cath World= 112:257 N ’20 100w
“Certain aspects of the subject are treated in many cases without
sufficient recognition of such real conflicts of responsibility as are
involved in modern social relationships. Nevertheless, the book is
thoroughly wholesome in essentials and promotes thought in the
reader.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 210w
=KENT, ROCKWELL.= Wilderness; a journal of quiet adventure in Alaska. il
*$5 Putnam
20–6728
Rockwell Kent is an artist who spent one autumn and winter on an
island in Resurrection bay, Kenai peninsula, Alaska, in company with
his nine year old son. Since his return he has exhibited the paintings
that are the fruit of those months. This book, published with an
introduction by Dorothy Canfield and illustrations from the author’s
drawings, is a record of “quiet adventure,” telling of the daily life
of the two, father and son, with their one companion Olson,—a perfect
companion for great solitudes. Of what the experience meant to both
man and boy, the artist writes, “It seems that we have both together
by chance turned out of the beaten, crowded way and come to stand face
to face with that infinite and unfathomable thing which is the
wilderness; and here we have found ourselves—for the wilderness is
nothing else. It is a kind of living mirror that gives back as its own
all and only all that the imagination of a man brings to it. It is
that which we believe it to be.”
* * * * *
“Mr Kent’s journal makes pleasant and easy reading; but it is obvious
enough that the letterpress in this rich volume is little more than an
excuse for the drawings. It is as a pictorial artist that Mr Kent asks
for criticism and admiration, not as a writer. If Blake had never
lived, the art of Rockwell Kent would not have been what it is. All of
Blake that can be made into a convention he has conventionalized. But
when we look for the force that can turn a convention into living art,
we look almost in vain.” A. L. H.
+ − =Ath= p172 Ag 6 ’20 650w
+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20
Reviewed by H: McBride
=Dial= 69:91 Jl ’20 800w
“The result of their year at Fox Island is the startlingly beautiful
series of drawings reproduced in the text and the ‘Journal of quiet
adventure’ itself, an important event for many reasons but perhaps
chiefly for its unparalleled record of a year of perfect happiness and
freedom in the life of a child.” Martha Gruening
+ =Freeman= 1:165 Ap 28 ’20 550w
“To what can we compare this very beautiful and poignant record of one
of the most unusual adventures ever chronicled? It is not like
‘Walden,’ it is not like any other diary of experiences in the
wilderness.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 120w
“The present reviewer has no intention of suggesting that ‘Wilderness’
is preeminently a book for boys, but that it may be popular with boys
is not a mere surmise.”
+ =Outlook= 125:506 Jl 14 ’20 850w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 80w
“Rather an unusual book in both appearance and contents is
‘Wilderness.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 8 ’20 500w
“The writing is well enough, but Mr Kent is not a born writer; he is a
born, though very unequal draughtsman.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p469 Jl 22 ’20 1000w
=KEON, GRACE.= Just Happy. *$1.65 Devin-Adair
20–5124
“Happy is the name of the canine hero, a huge and hideous black
bulldog and an invincible fighter. Happy’s nature was of the best; in
fact, his temper could not truthfully be called anything less than
saintly, but he was a ferocious looking animal, so amazingly and
abnormally hideous that Mother was shocked at the sight of him and
felt that she really could not take him into her household of six
small boys and Father—Father being in truth the veriest boy of them
all. Of course, Mother yielded at last to the importunities of Father,
Grandmother and the boys. Happy became a member of the family, and
quickly proved himself a most valuable one. Happy routs a thievish
tramp, comforts a dying old soldier’s last hours, has a fight with
another dog, which encounter narrowly escapes being an expensive one
for Father, and saves the house from burglars.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Delightful is the one adjective that best describes the book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 120w
“Told agreeably, with humor as well as sentiment.”
+ =Cath World= 111:696 Ag ’20 120w
“Nice little story which will probably please dog lovers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 500w
=KEPPEL, FREDERICK PAUL.= Some war-time lessons. *$1.50 (7½c) Columbia
univ. press 940.373
20–3590
Three lectures by the third assistant secretary of war, the first
delivered at the General theological seminary, the second at Columbia,
and the third at Michigan university. Contents: The American soldier
and his standards of conduct; The war as a practical test of American
scholarship; What have we learned?
* * * * *
=Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 150w
=KERLIN, ROBERT THOMAS.= Voice of the nero, 1919. il *$2.50 Dutton 326.1
20–13602
“What the negroes are now thinking, saying, and doing, as reflected in
their press, is shown in this volume, ‘The voice of the negro,’ by
Professor Robert T. Kerlin, of the Virginia Military institute. Nearly
the whole of the book consists of clippings, with just enough
explanatory matter to give them a proper setting. It is a digest of
negro opinion on the aftermath of the war, labor unionism and
radicalism, riots, lynchings, exploitation and exclusion from the
franchise, along with a brief summary of the race’s recent progress in
education and industry. Notable, as might be expected, is the volume
of protest against the treatment the negro soldier has received
following a war to make the world safe for democracy—a war in which he
bore so wholly creditable a part.”—Review
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20
“Readers will find this book to be a great clarifier of ideas.”
+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 400w
“It is not pleasant reading, but useful, in that it shows the negro’s
growth in self respect, and that it is a frightful and unanswerable
indictment of the American people who suffer these wrongs to exist,
not only without effective protest but largely with their
acquiescence.” E. A. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 260w
“Few white Americans but will be astonished, perhaps, at the volume
and the eloquence of that voice as here reported with praiseworthy
fairness; still fewer, doubtless, but will wonder at the shrewdness
with which these negro editors survey the problems of their race.”
+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 120w
“The book should be read by every one interested in the welfare of the
country and in the cause of justice.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 170w
“Whoever thinks that the negro is not foully abused will find
Professor Kerlin’s book wholesome, though unpleasant, reading.”
+ =No Am= 212:575 O ’20 300w
“A valuable volume for the study of the negro question in America.
Typographically the book is not attractive.”
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 100w
“A most interesting and worth-while volume.”
+ =Review 3:538 D 1= ’20 300w
“The excerpts presented do not all rank equally in weight of thought
or of rhetoric. But they are symptomatic and in that respect the
compilation is invaluable since it points the finger of warning. If
instead of appointing a committee of a hundred and more to investigate
the wrongs of Ireland we should establish a commission to investigate
honestly and diligently the causes underlying this composite of fire
and bitterness, a great and overshadowing disaster might be peacably
turned aside.” Jessie Fauset
+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 260w
=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= Spiritualism; a personal experience and a warning.
*60c (7½c) Revell 134
20–17391
Spiritualism is an obsession, says the author, by which a person
relinquishes his will-power into other and unknown hands—always a very
dangerous thing to do. He believes that any attempt to unlock the door
which separates this life from the next is “an unseemly intrusion upon
the sanctity, the august majesty, of which we are conscious in the
presence of our dead. Spiritualism vulgarizes that which is holy,
while adding to our knowledge no single word of real help or worth.”
Contents: Spiritual housebreaking; A personal experience; Some
comments on my first séance; Telepathy; The barrenness of
spiritualism; Sin begins in want of faith; A will o’ the wisp.
* * * * *
“The description of his own experience at a séance is certainly
interesting, but as usual in such narratives, too vague in its
details.”
+ − =Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 50w
+ =N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 80w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 1 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 60w
=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= Swinburne as I knew him. *$1.25 (4½c) Lane
20–8544
This second installment of the author’s recollections of Swinburne—the
first appeared in “In good company”—contains some hitherto unpublished
letters from the poet to his cousin, the Hon. Lady Henniker Heaton.
After Mr Gosse’s “Life and letters of Swinburne,” the author of the
present volume considers reserve no longer necessary and has therefore
written more freely than in his first volume. Contents: Letters from
A. C. Swinburne to his cousin; The story of a dear deceit; “Oh, those
poets!”; George Borrow in a frock-coat; “In the days of our youth”;
Philip Marston’s “Hush!” story; A. C. S. and R. L. S.; The
laureateship—a cartoon in the Pall Mall Gazette—and some woman poets
whose work Swinburne admired; A sonnet in the Athenæum and more “dear
deceit”; “Puck of Putney hill”; A paragraph in the Westminster
Gazette; “All my memories of him are glad and gracious memories.”
* * * * *
=Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 40w
+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 51:569 Jl ’20 920w
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 1450w
“This little book is of considerable value as a supplement to Gosse’s
‘Life’ of the poet and the collection of ‘Letters’ edited by his
biographer in collaboration with T. J. Wise.”
+ =Cath World= 111:831 S ’20 90w
“The fact is that his reminiscences are meager in the extreme. There
is much good humor and kindliness in the book and a certain ability to
exhibit the weaknesses of famous men without destroying the impression
of their real greatness.”
+ − =Nation= 110:861 Je 26 ’20 220w
“Mr Kernahan’s book is a witty and spirited trifle, by no means
destitute of revealing touches.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 650w
“The interest of Mr Kernahan’s little book lies in the fact not that
he knew Swinburne but that he knew Swinburne’s friend [Watts-Dunton].”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p730 D 11 ’19 750w
=KERR, R. WATSON.= War daubs. *$1 Lane 821
20–5692
This collection of war poems reveals the agonized soul of a poet amid
the horrors of war for which he has nothing but a curse. He does not
see in it “a glorious, cleansing thing” and scorns to speak with easy
eloquence of “war and its necessity” or “war’s magnificent nobility.”
Some of the titles are: From the line; To a sorrowing mother; The
gravedigger; A dead man; Home; Faith; In bitterness; Escape; Prayer.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:22 O ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 220w
“Imperfect assimilation might be diagnosed as the chief malady of
these sketches from dugout and camp. The author has completely
digested neither his war experiences nor the aesthetic of the new
poetry. Despite his force and sincerity, he is treading a little too
closely in the footsteps of a more famous contemporary.”
− + =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 80w
“Mr Kerr sees the war somewhat as does Siegfried Sassoon, but without
the same power of satirical observation, without the detachment of an
intellectualism that gives Sassoon’s verse its especial vigor. But
there is a power in the very literalness of his depiction, a certain
honesty in visualization that gives them a graphic interest.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 My 8 ’20 220w
=N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 140w
“A genuine vital sincerity beats through them and helps to fashion the
verse into a real and true medium of expression.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 N 6 ’19 60w
=KERR, SOPHIE (MRS SOPHIE [KERR] UNDERWOOD).= Painted meadows. *$1.90
(1½c) Doran
20–7762
Seth Markwood, the shy, sober, inarticulate young lawyer, had loved
Anah Blades since childhood, but when Gilbert White, tall, handsome
and gay, returned to his home town after a ten year’s absence, he took
Anah’s heart by storm and they were married. Seth stood by with a
hungry pain in his heart and watched over Anah. Gil was weak and
ungrown and his passionate love for Anah did not prevent him from
straying on forbidden paths. A fall from his horse killed him and Seth
became Anah’s mainstay. In due time he urged his love, urged it
vehemently almost forcing her to become his wife before
disillusionment had broken through her sentimental, almost morbid
loyalty to Gil. So strong was her dream life that the son she bore to
Seth resembled Gil and the imminence of a tragedy to both is only
averted by the accidental discovery, on the part of Anah, of Gil’s
unfaithfulness.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
=Bookm= 52:253 N ’20 120w
“It is simply told, effectively, poignantly. The three chief
characters are very real.”
+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“It is unfortunate that the authoress should have marred her otherwise
graceful and unsensational story by a digression into the subject of
prenatal influences. However, it gets into the book too late and gets
out too promptly to make any real difference. The fact remains that
‘Painted meadows’ is a story full of genuine feeling and excellent
craftsmanship.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 450w
“The only jarring note in ‘Painted meadows’ is an excursion into the
subject of pre-natal influences. While this adds a degree of suspense
and uncertainty to the situation, it is undeniably an artificiality.
Perhaps the best work comes in the early stages of narrative, which
embodies excellently described local scenes and characters.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 300w
“The notion of a wife clinging to the memory of her first (unworthy)
husband until she finds the true value of the lover who had been
faithful to her throughout is worked out with all the quiet
conscientiousness and studious portrayal of character which is so
attractive a feature in some American novels.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 80w
=KERSHAW, JOHN BAKER CANNINGTON.= Fuel, water and gas analysis for steam
users. 2d ed. rev and enl il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 543
The preface states that with the increasing necessity for economy in
the use of fuel, the subject with which this book deals, efficiency in
the working of steam boilers, becomes of more urgent importance. The
new edition has been prepared to meet this situation. “The author has
made use of the opportunity to add chapters upon ‘Fuel-sampling’ and
upon the ‘Calorific valuation of liquid and gaseous fuels.’... The
chapter dealing with continuous and recording gas-testing apparatus
has been brought up to date by the addition of much new matter.”
(Preface to the second edition)
* * * * *
“The present work meets a well-defined want in that it gives
trustworthy and up-to-date technical methods. It can be recommended to
every industrial chemist.”
+ =Nature= 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 180w
=KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD.= Economic consequences of the peace. *$2.50 (3½c)
Harcourt 330.94
20–2057
As chief representative of the British treasury at the peace
conference and member of the Supreme economic council of the allied
and associated powers, the author can be considered an authority on
his chosen subject. In effect the book is a severe stricture on the
peace conference’s failure in its task to “satisfy justice” and to
“re-establish life and to heal wounds.” It points out both the
injustice and the impracticability of the terms of the peace treaty
and how wide-spread economic ruin in all countries will be the result
of any attempt to carry them out. “The treaty includes no provisions
for the economic rehabilitation of Europe,—nothing to make the
defeated central empires into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the
new states of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it provide
in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the Allies
themselves. On the contrary ... men have devised ways to impoverish
themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to
individual happiness.” The contents are: Europe before the war; The
conference; The treaty; Reparation; Europe after the treaty; Remedies.
* * * * *
“The prime importance of the work consists in its vivid sense of the
growing moral and economic solidarity of the world, and particularly
of Europe and its detailed search for a sound economic basis on which
a peace settlement can really be made, in view of that solidarity.” C.
J. Bushnell
+ =Am J Soc= 26:238 S ’20 640w
“This is a brilliant, penetrating, stimulating, book; but it is also
unbalanced, inconclusive, and unconvincing.” F: A. Ogg
− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:341 My ’20 750w
“The book over-emphasizes the relative power and importance of
individuals.” C. L. King
+ − =Ann Am Acad= 90:173 Jl ’20 300w
“This book comes like a douche of bracing cold water after years of
hysterical talk about making democracy safe, the war to end war, and
the vindication of the principles of freedom and self-determination.
In the emotional pitch of his argument Mr Keynes has wisely chosen a
middle course. He has resisted, if he ever felt it, the temptation to
boom which usually besets the expression of righteous indignation; he
knows that severe judgments are all the severer for being rapped out
with tight lips, not thundered.... In the ardour of his desire to
bring the world back to hard facts, he speaks as if the tragedy had
been prepared by the play of economic factors alone. Yet surely it is
not so. It is at least equally a question of the blind movements of
generations building up passionate illusions of nationality and
domination.”
+ + − =Ath= p105 Ja 23 ’20 1800w
“Written with unsparing and convincing frankness and a beautiful
clearness, it is arousing a great deal of comment and controversy
because of its intrinsic value and also because of its appeal to
widely differing political factions.”
+ =Booklist= 16:199 Mr ’20
“The book compels attention. The reading of it can hardly be avoided
by anyone deeply interested either in the economic chaos of Europe or
in the nature of the treaty of peace. There will be many who will
disagree with the remedies that Keynes proposes, but none of these
critics can deny that the book is an example of most brilliant
economic exposition.” F. A. Vanderlip
+ =Bookm= 51:226 Ap ’20 2250w
“If men and women exist who do not wish to see the entire structure
fall, carrying with it every hope of humanity, they will read this
book with a little more attention to its thesis and a little less
suspicion of its motives. In spite of his felicity of style Mr Keynes
expresses himself badly.” Sganarelle
+ − =Dial= 68:517 Ap ’20 2100w
“Mr Keynes is one of the half-dozen men who know not only what
happened in the meetings of the council of four but also what the
multitudinous provisions of the treaty actually mean. The subtle
sophistries and complex circumlocutions of the Paris draughtsmen have
been reduced by Mr Keynes to plain, lucid statements which any man may
understand.” W: C. Bullitt
+ + =Freeman= 1:18 Mr 17 ’20 4000w
=Lit D= p101 Mr 13 ’20 4800w
“This is a very great book. If any answer can be made to the
overwhelming indictment of the treaty that it contains, that answer
has yet to be published. Mr Keynes writes with a fullness of
knowledge, an incisiveness of judgment, and a penetration into the
ultimate causes of economic events that perhaps only half-a-dozen
living economists might hope to rival. The style is like finely
hammered steel. It is full of unforgettable phrases and of vivid
portraits etched in the biting acid of a passionate moral
indignation.” H. J. Laski
+ + =Nation= 110:174 F 7 ’20 2000w
+ =Nation [London]= 26:426 D 20 ’19 3750w
“I cannot leave the topic of reparation without expressing sharp
dissent from Mr Keynes’s attitude toward the Belgian claims.... As
against Mr Keynes’s brilliancy, insight, and courage, there must be
put certain elements of strain, of exaggeration, of effort for
dramatic consistency. But for all that his book is like nothing so
much as a fresh breeze coming into a plain where poisonous gases are
yet hanging.” A. A. Young
+ − =New Repub= 21:388 F 25 ’20 2300w
“In his last chapter, which is on remedies, Keynes is less convincing
than in his earlier chapters. Here for the first time one feels the
limitations of the academic mind. His remedies may be theoretically
sound, but they do not seem to take into account the infirmities of
human institutions.... The discussion of remedies is the least
important part of Keynes’s book. Its importance lies in its
demonstration of the unsoundness of the economic and financial
provisions of the treaty and of the financial and economic chaos
brought on by the war, which the treaty has failed to relieve.
Keynes’s book will provide arguments both against and for the league
of nations.” P. D. Cravath
+ + − =N Y Sun and Herald= p11 F 2 ’20 3600w
“If only Mr Keynes had occasionally shown an interest in the economic
future of France, Italy, Poland and other countries equal to his
interest in that of Germany, if, when he approached political
questions as he constantly has done, he had shown more appreciation of
their significance and more knowledge of facts, he might have given us
a judicial and trustworthy survey of the existing situation. Instead
he has written what is in large measure an acrimonious party pamphlet,
and the party represented is, in terms of European usage, that of the
‘Extreme left.’” C: W. Hazen
− =N Y Times= 25:1 F 29 ’20 4600w
=N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 80w
“In estimating the value of the present sensational arraignment of the
work of the peace council, it must be borne in mind that Mr Keynes is
a leftwing Liberal, and by nature has a little of that slant of mind
which we are accustomed in America to associate with the theoretical
humanitarianism and internationalism of the New Republic school.... It
is on the subject of the amount of the reparations that there is grave
reason to doubt the soundness of Mr Keynes’s view.”
+ − =Review= 2:155 F 14 ’20 3000w
=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 210w
“We have not read a more acute and witty (in the old sense of the
term) exposition of the economic equilibrium of Europe and the
relation between capital and labour in England than the opening pages
of this book.”
+ =Sat R= 129:85 Ja 24 ’20 1550w
Reviewed by Arthur Gleason
+ =Socialist R= 8:248 Mr ’20 1450w
“Mr Keynes is at liberty to say what he likes, and to denounce his
former chiefs and colleagues to his heart’s content. Still, the effect
of his book is weakened by the circumstances in which it came to be
written. Mr Keynes says that he resigned his post on June 7th last,
‘when it became evident that hope could no longer be entertained of
substantial modification in the draft terms of peace.’ The implication
is that he could have made a better peace than that which the Allies
proposed and the enemy accepted. We are bound to say that this seems
to us improbable. Mr Keynes’s economic criticisms are in a different
category. When he comes down to facts or estimates he deserves
attention.”
− + =Spec= 123:861 D 20 ’19 1200w
“It is emotionally written, in passages where feeling broke bounds and
Europe presented herself to Mr Keynes’s mind as a vision of all but
consummated ruin. But in the main it is a model of careful and
penetrating analysis. It is enough to add that Mr Keynes has said
outright what other authorities like Gen. Smuts, Mr Hoover, and Lord
Robert Cecil have half said, and wholly thought.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 17 ’20 400w (Reprinted from Nation
[London] 26:426 D 20 ’19)
=Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 29 ’20 250w
“It seems to us that the ultimate criticism of Mr Keynes’s book will
be this, that it is the criticism of a man who is occupied with and
interested only in one part of the work. For the political side he
appears to have little interest or understanding.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p27 Ja 15 ’20 1900w
“This is far and away the most significant analysis of present
conditions in Europe that has appeared. There is one omission from Mr
Keynes’ analysis which seems somewhat remarkable. He nowhere speaks of
the effect upon economic conditions now or in the future of the
enormous expansion of the British and French colonial empires.
Moreover, it seems to us that the situation Mr Keynes so vividly
pictures requires more radical social, economic and spiritual
treatment than he himself proposes.”
+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:94 Mr ’20 260w
“He writes in the style of a propagandist, albeit one more amusing
than the average, and he displays the bitter propagandist’s
predilection for the intermingling of true and false. Mr Keynes’s book
is pernicious, for it spreads the impression that the entire work of
the conference was rotten to the core, and it excites complete
mistrust of the treaty.” C: Seymour
− + =Yale R= n s 9:857 Jl ’20 2500w
=KILMER, MRS ANNIE KILBURN.= Memories of my son, Sergeant Joyce Kilmer;
with numerous unpublished poems and letters. il $2 Brentano’s
20–10008
“The ‘Memories’ consist of a faithful transcription of a mother’s
diary to reveal her son’s ‘baby mind,’ a small budget of verse not
given for their ‘worth as poems, but rather to show the throbbing of a
mother’s heart’; and the letters of the son to the mother covering the
years from 1906 up to within two days of his death in action on July
30, 1918. These form fully three fourths of the book.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ’20 560w
+ =Cath World= 112:255 N 20 220w
“We hope not to violate the respect which the public is bound to pay,
and is glad to pay, to maternal grief in suggesting that grief has a
self-respect which is not always kept inviolable by the compiler of
these memories.”
+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 220w
=KIMBALL, EVERETT.= National government of the United States. *$3.60
(1½c) Ginn 342.7
20–5064
The book partakes of the twofold character of a textbook in which
institutions are described and analyzed and of a source book in which
appear the actual words used by the court in expounding or limiting
the powers of government. As a textbook it shows the historical
origins and the development of our national political institutions and
the actual workings of government. As a source book it is mindful of
the fact that the constitution is the supreme law of the land and that
the interpretations of the Supreme court are, until altered,
authoritative. For this latter purpose the opinions of the Supreme
court are freely quoted, showing the process of arriving at
conclusions or the reasons for dissent. A partial list of the contents
is: Constitutional background; The evolution of the constitution;
Political issues and party history; Party organizations; The election
of the president; The powers of the president; The organization and
functions of the executive departments; Congress at work; The judicial
system of the United States; The war powers of Congress; Finance;
Foreign affairs. The appendix contains the constitution of the United
States and there is an index.
* * * * *
“A book which has not been surpassed in the presentation of the
fundamental facts concerning the government of the United States. The
student who masters its contents will have acquired a grip upon the
essential principles of our national political system which will give
him a firm foundation for subsequent political thought and action.”
Ralston Hayden
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:722 N ’20 880w
+ =Ath= p493 Ap 9 ’20 130w
=Booklist= 17:54 N ’20
“Limiting himself strictly to the national government, Dr Kimball has
been able to maintain a better balance, to exercise a keener
discrimination between important and unimportant matters, than would
perhaps have been possible had he tried to cover more ground. There is
no new interpretation of our national system, but there is
compensation for this lack in the scientific tone and the uniformly
high level of the treatment.” W: Anderson
+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:154 S ’20 620w
“He displays a due sense of proportion, states his views soberly,
discusses concrete problems, not theories, and writes with a
reasonable degree of readability.”
+ =Review= 3:655 D 29 ’20 380w
+ =R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 150w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 100w
“This book is not as technical as many texts on political science.
Professor Kimball comes right down to earth with illustrations that
even a layman without any training in political science can
understand.” J: E: Oster
+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 320w
=KING, BASIL.= Thread of flame. il *$2 (2c) Harper
20–14599
A story of lost identity through shell shock. The only memory left was
of former personal habits which pointed to easy circumstances and a
snobbish attitude towards the common people. Hiding his plight from
those about him, and driven by want, he learns to earn his bread by
the sweat of his brow and gradually achieves the workingman’s point of
view. When memory returns in a flash he knows himself as a member of
Boston’s moneyed élite and the husband of a brilliant woman. Returning
to the old life he realizes its shallowness and unreality and sees our
whole social structure as a house tottering into ruin. Even love is
gone. He can no longer live the life and willingly renounces it,
returning to his lowly occupation and associates in New York. Here too
his new status has now changed everything and he is in danger of going
shipwreck between two worlds when some of the friends found in
adversity make it clear to him that not by struggling against the
current, but by wishing and waiting in serenity the right way will
open up to him.
* * * * *
“Though not profound, a well-managed, interesting story.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20
“Mr King’s style is a delight and his narrative related with spirit;
only his dénouement of a reconciliation with a colorless wife seems to
be an error.”
+ − =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 170w
“The first part of the story many an experienced novelist might have
written, but the second part is especially characteristic of Mr King,
and it is in the second part that most of us will find our deeper
pleasure. It is here also that he unfolds that philosophy of life
which we feel is so important a part of his work.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 800w
+ =Cath World= 112:406 D ’20 320w
“This psychological problem of lost memory the author treats with much
skill, bringing out its ever-present pathos and throwing on it now and
then the high light of some spiritually dramatic situation, but
dealing with it always with admirable reserve and with a distinction
of manner that will make the novel doubly welcome to the mentally
fastidious reader.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 900w
“The early stages of the story are deeply absorbing, but the fact
should not be overlooked that Mr King is all the while working up to
the development of his idea that service to the unfortunate should be
the highest mission of the fortunate. If this is accepted by readers,
the high merits of the narrative will be best appreciated.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 120w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 180w
=KINGZETT, CHARLES THOMAS.= Popular chemical dictionary. *$4 Van
Nostrand 540.3
(Eng ed 20–10609)
A work in which the author has attempted “to give in one volume, in
compendious form, and in simple language, descriptions of the subjects
of chemistry—its laws and processes, the chemical elements, the more
important inorganic and organic compounds and their preparation or
manufacture and applications, together with illustrated descriptions
of chemical apparatus.” (Preface) The author has written “Chemistry
for beginners and school use,” “Animal chemistry,” and other works.
* * * * *
“The work, so far as it goes, is very complete. For purposes of strict
reference this volume is far too ‘popular.’” G. M.
+ − =Nature= 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 190w
“In spite of its limitations, a handy reference book.”
+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p25 Ap ’20 20w
=KIP, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.= Poems. *$1.50 Putnam 811
20–10006
Although religion and philosophy and life in its various moods and
aspects inspire many of these poems such as The higher life, Eternity,
Swedenborg, Sadness, A love lyric, Joy, Life’s triumph, most of them
are out-of-door and nature pieces and offer a long list of flowers and
birds in sonnet and short lyric form.
* * * * *
“Mr Kip treads a little heavier in the fields and woodlands after the
fancies of birds and flowers than does Mr John Russel McCarthy, but
his haunts are more extended and his intimacies are more numerous.” W.
S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 340w
=KIPLING, RUDYARD.= Letters of travel. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday 910
20–9990
In this volume are brought together sketches of travel written between
1892 and 1913. They follow the letters written between 1887 and 1889
published in “From sea to sea.” The new volume is composed of three
sections. The first, “From tideway to tideway,” opens with a New
England sketch, In sight of Monadnock, and contains other papers
written in the United States, in Canada and the East. Letters to the
family, dated 1907, is a series of letters from Canada. Egypt of the
magicians, the third section, is a series of seven sketches written in
1913.
* * * * *
“All notebook literature produces the same effect of fatigue and
obstacle, as if there dropped across the path of the mind some block
of alien matter which must be removed or assimilated before one can go
on with the true process of reading. The more vivid the note the
greater the obstruction.” V. W.
− + =Ath= p75 Jl 16 ’20 1200w
+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20
“For a writer who has been in so many far-separated parts of the
world, and who is himself more or less of a cosmopolite, Kipling
develops a curious air of foreign complacency and self-satisfaction in
his description of places and people strange to his eyes and mind.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 1350w
“Those written in 1913 reveal the same brisk and cocky adolescence as
the group clattered off on the typewriter twenty-five years ago in
America. These American records are precisely in the vein of ‘From sea
to sea’; they suggest, in their peculiar preoccupation with the
outsides of things, a somewhat rudimentary intellect and a highly
over-stimulated nervous system.”
− =Freeman= 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 550w
“The pictures of Japan are full of color; the pictures of Egypt are
full of age and mystery; the pictures of Canada are full of strength
and freshness, but the very best of all is the winter scene ‘In sight
of Monadnock.’”
+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 400w
=New Repub= 23:155 Je 30 ’20 1050w
“What is not a little curious is that the letters of 1892 are as brisk
and as brilliant, as firmly planned and as effectively phrased as the
letters of 1913, written more than a score of years later. In all
these letters there is the same keen appreciation of nature and the
same contagious interest in human nature. If he lacks understanding
anywhere in his voyaging, if he is to a certain extent unsympathetic,
not to go so far as to hint that he is intolerant, it is in the United
States and more particularly in New York.” Brander Matthews
+ − =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 1300w
“Mr Kipling is here, as always, the courier of empire.... He never
filches a quarter-hour from his responsibilities. To nurse a pleasant
thought, to dally with it, to make it a companion and a playfellow,
these are levities for the uncommitted or uncommissioned man. He is
humorous with despatch, he is even pathetic with expedition.”
+ − =Review= 3:151 Ag 18 ’20 1200w
“In his description readers will find that beauty of language and
those inimitable touches of humor that are Kipling’s own.” G. C.
+ =St Louis= 18:231 S ’20 60w
“As always in work of this kind by Mr Kipling, what holds us most is
his power of interpretation. He is essentially the man who makes us
see things and understand things.”
+ =Spec= 124:828 Je 19 ’20 1500w
“Where Mr Kipling allows his vigorous mind to absorb the surface
aspects of a scene, he is at his best, for then the artist in him is
congenially employed. In interpretation he is often amiss, as well as
inevitably out of date.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 1800w
“His patriotism, which in other works has enriched the language with
poems and sketches of character, tender and valiant, is apt in this
book to take, not a positive, but a negative form. It is his
patriotism, his love for England—a love intensified and made jealous
by a recognition of all she lost when her American colonies
seceded—that leads him to denounce New York as ‘the shiftless outcome
of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance.’... But how persuasive
he can be when he is not—if we may say it without offence—cross!”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p365 Je 10 ’20 1850w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 120w
=KIRBY, ELIZABETH.= Adorable dreamer. *$1.90 (3c) Doran
20–15953
Penelope Grey’s ardent young soul went out in quest of happiness.
First she tried fame and wrote a naughty book which brought her
ephemeral prominence and surrounded her with other literary aspirants
and poseurs. She soon tired of the show and knew that in reality she
wanted to be loved. Her lover however, fearful of chaining her genius,
held her at arms length whilst he encouraged her to further
production. Then she tried causes and found them all empty. She
dallied with other loves up to the danger mark but finds her fairy
prince at last.
* * * * *
“The little tale has some pathetic and some whimsical bits, and
Penelope herself, though a trifle absurd at times, is a quaint and
appealing heroine, while the author’s style is agreeable.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 240w
“Often lately we have had ‘the new woman’ with her affectations and
extravagances presented caustically and with insight; Miss Kirby
presents her with no less insight, but with a sympathy which she
compels the reader to share.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p440 Jl 8 ’20 460w
=KIRKALDY, ADAM WILLIS.=[2] Wealth: its production and distribution.
*$2.25 Dutton 330
“A large part of the volume is taken up with discussions of land,
labor and capital as factors in production. In his general editor’s
preface, G. Armitage Smith says: ‘This book is designed to explain in
a lucid and popular manner the fundamental facts in the production of
wealth and the causes which regulate its distribution. It gives an
analysis of the functions of nature, of man and of capital in the
production of wealth; and it traces the conditions upon which the
economic progress of mankind depends.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 8 ’21 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 S 23 ’20 70w
=KIRKLAND, WINIFRED MARGARETTA.= View vertical, and other essays. *$2
(3½c) Houghton 814
20–17902
Life and books form the background of these essays. In the initial
essay the author compares our prevailing post-war frame of mind to a
universal neurasthenia and insomnia, and discourses amusingly on the
mental obscurity of the insomniac and the worthlessness of his
conclusions. She pleads for the vertical position with “feet to the
sturdy green earth, head to the jocund sun,” as the best antidote for
the still lingering nightmares of the war. Whimsical humor is the
keynote to all the essays whether treating of facts of everyday life
or literary subjects. Some of the titles are: The friends of our
friends; On being and letting alone; The perils of telepathy; In
defense of worry; Family phrases; The story in the making: Faces in
fiction; Robinson Crusoe re-read; Americanization and Walt Whitman;
Gift-books and book-gifts.
* * * * *
“Piquant essays happily turned and worded.”
+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21
“I have noted with pleasure the rightness of ‘Faces in fiction’: the
particular thing has never, so far as I know, been said so clearly and
directly. But my delight is in ‘Hold Izzy,’ which suits me as catnip
suits a cat.”
+ =Bookm= 52:266 N ’20 130w
“Given ‘a shady nook’ and Miss Kirkland’s book of charmingly written
essays one is sure of being delightfully entertained and at the same
time given a good-humored push into the realm of thought.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 180w
“Miss Kirkland displays grace and facility, together with a keen
perception of just what her own position ought to be.”
+ =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 370w
“She writes with greater ease than authority. She would be more
impressive if she were more eclectic. Miss Kirkland writes with humor
and common sense, and has the knack of every once in a while throwing
off a happy epigram that challenges the attention.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 200w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 70w
=KIRKPATRICK, EDWIN ASBURY.= Imagination and its place in education.
$1.48 Ginn 370.15
20–8868
“In keeping with the most recent aim and interest of educational
psychology, this new book seeks both to describe the part the
imaginative processes play in the common experiences and the normal
development of the child and to show the peculiar relation of this
intellectual process to his interest and achievement in the different
school subjects. The book is divided into three parts. In Part 1,
‘Imagination and related activities,’ the author defines the
imagination and explains its relation to the other mental processes.