describing the content and conduct of the imagination at different
stages in the child’s development, variations in the vividness,
quality and tendencies of the imaginative processes in different
individuals, its stimulating influence to good or evil habits of
thought and action. Part 3, under the heading ‘School subjects and the
imagination,’ begins with a consideration of the possibilities of
training the imagination from the point of view of disciplining,
stimulating, and directing the imaginative processes, including a
brief description of the mental conditions facilitating such training.
Then follow chapters explaining the imaginative processes involved in
learning to read, spell, and draw, in the study of arithmetic,
geography, history, and literature, nature-study, and science.”—School
R
* * * * *
“The treatment is characterized by a clearness of presentation which
is quite at variance with the confused manner in which the subject of
imagination is frequently discussed. The book should be of interest to
all students of educational psychology.”
+ =El School J= 21:153 O ’20 290w
“The book is readable and straightforward, and is one that a student
ought to grasp without much supplementary explanation. Some of the
exercises at the end of the chapters, however, seem too large to be
handled by the type of student for whom the text is designed.” K.
Gordon
+ − =J Philos= 18:54 Ja ’21 150w
+ =School R= 28:638 O ’20 420w
=KLAPPER, PAUL=, ed. College teaching; studies in methods of teaching in
the college. *$4.50 World bk. 371.3
20–5826
A volume to which various specialists contribute. As Dr Klapper points
out in his preface, the field is almost virgin. “The literature on
college education in general and college pedagogy in particular is
surprisingly undeveloped.” Dr Nicholas Murray Butler writes an
introduction. The book is in six parts. Part 1 consists of three
papers: History and present tendencies of the American college, by S.
P. Duggan; Professional training for college teaching, by Sidney E.
Mezes; General principles of college teaching, by Paul Klapper. Part 2
covers the sciences, with contributions by T. W. Galloway, Louis
Kahlenberg, Harvey B. Lemon, and others. Part 3 is devoted to the
social sciences, including economics, sociology, history, political
science, philosophy, ethics, psychology and education. Part 4 is
devoted to languages and literature; part 5 to the arts; and part 6 to
Vocational subjects, the latter embracing engineering, mechanical
drawing, journalism, and business education. Bibliographies accompany
a number of the papers and there is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20
“Inasmuch as all of the contributors were selected because of their
scholarship, their interest in the teaching phase of the subject, and
their reputation in the academic world, what they have to say on the
teaching of their special subjects should be of great value to actual
and prospective college teachers.”
+ =School R= 28:551 S ’20 290w
=KLEIN, DARYL.= With the Chinks. (On active service ser.) il *$1.50 (3c)
Lane 940.48
20–6740
The book contains the diary of a second lieutenant in the Chinese
labor corps, while engaged in training a company of 490 coolies in
China and taking them on a long journey by way of Canada and Panama to
France to be used as laborers behind the lines. In describing the
journey the author gives his observations of the mental shock and
change of life and vision that the coolie is subjected to in changing
from the East to the West. He also describes the coolie as a simple,
jolly fellow, worthy of trust and of an affectionate character. The
book is illustrated.
* * * * *
“The book is competently written, and is agreeably unusual amongst the
crop of war books.”
+ =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 60w
+ =Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20
“He understands things Chinese. He has sympathy in telling of these
‘Shantung farmers.’ It is an attitude such as Mr Klein’s, penetrating,
free from either sentimentalism or maudlin chatter, about the yellow
peril, which ought to enable Americans to adjust their commercial
relations to China with a higher sense of business integrity. The
title of the book is distinctly unworthy of its subject matter.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 150w
“What we like about this little book is its genuine and genial
humanity.”
+ =Sat R= 129:39 Ja 10 ’20 280w
“Mr Klein’s daily life with his coolies and with his colleagues is
given with an intimate vivacity which makes it very real.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p770 D 18 ’19 160w
=KLEIN, HERMAN.= Reign of Patti. il *$5 Century
20–17976
Mme Patti never realized her intention of writing an autobiography for
which she had designated the author of the present volume as her
collaborator. The request however gives authority to this biography
for which the author has collected material from the zenith of Patti’s
career to the close. The book contains numerous portraits of the
singer taken at various ages and in many rôles; appendices and an
index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
Reviewed by H: T. Finck
=Bookm= 52:166 O ’20 1250w
“Very suggestive, at times somewhat irritating, but always full of
interest. Mr Klein is not a literary man, he is a chronicler; his book
will remain as the one accurate record of the career of a diva who, in
her special line, has as yet no rival.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p4 O 17 ’20 2450w
=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 190w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p773 N 25 ’20 1300w
=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.= Pocket guides to public speaking. 10v ea *$1 Funk
808.5
Mr Kleiser, formerly instructor in public speaking at Yale divinity
school and author of a number of works bearing on the subject, has
prepared the ten small volumes that compose this series. The titles
are: How to speak without notes (20–7372); Something to say: how to
say it (20–7370); Successful methods of public speaking (20–7371);
Model speeches for practise (20–7369); The training of a public
speaker (20–7373); How to sell through speech (20–7300); Impromptu
speeches: how to make them (20–7375); Word-power: how to develop it
(20–7374); Christ: the master speaker (20–7277); Vital English for
speakers and writers (20–7283).
* * * * *
“In these days when the tendency is so strong towards degeneracy in
the use of the English language it would be difficult to exaggerate
the value of such a contribution as Professor Kleiser has made in
these volumes towards the use of proper forms and pure language in
ordinary speaking as well as writing. They are of almost equal value
to the clergyman, lawyer, publicist, salesman and letter-writer.” H.
H. F.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ap 17 ’20 550w
“In this case the whole is actually less than one of the parts, for in
volume 1 Mr Kleiser gives a chapter of Quintilian that is worth
appreciably more than all of Mr Kleiser. His additions to it subtract
from it by hiding it from the casual gaze.”
− + =Nation= 110:560 Ap 24 ’20 220w
“The suggestions are sensible, sound, comprehensive, and written in
terse and understandable language. Many practiced speakers could
improve their style by following them.”
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 80w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a May 30 ’20 150w
=KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSON-SMITH).= Lure of the pen. *$2.50
(4c) Putnam 808
20–6889
In her preface to the American edition of this “Book for would-be
authors” the author says, “No one can teach authors how or what to
write; but sometimes it is possible to help the beginners to an
understanding of what it is better not to write.” She tells these
beginners why they fail, emphasizes the need of training, tells them
three essentials in training and how to acquire them. She also tells
them how to give themselves a course in observation and how to assess
spiritual values. The contents are in five parts: The mss. that fail;
On keeping your eyes open; The help that books can give; Points a
writer ought to note; Author, publisher, and public.
* * * * *
“The author gives much good advice (a great deal of it very
elementary) to literary aspirants.”
+ − =Ath= p445 Je 6 ’19 120w
“Practical in many respects, the book is of little use in teaching the
‘would-be author’ how to become an artist. Miss Klickmann’s
instruction is from an editorial standpoint, not from the artist’s,
and as such her volume has its value for the novice who knows no
better than to believe that literary greatness and fame come with a
successful appearance in the magazines.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 550w
+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 20w
“Her book is remarkably well done, and may very well help some real
talent on its way; and, apart from that, it is written in so lively a
style, so full of piquant anecdote and illustration, that it is a pity
that the more sophisticated reader, who would really much more enjoy
it than the ‘would-be’ author for whom it is written, is not likely to
encounter it.” R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= 25:8 Je 27 ’20 900w
“Miss Klickmann’s work is adapted not only to people without knowledge
but to people without brains. There is an iteration of the familiar,
an elaboration of the simple, an elucidation of the clear.”
− =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 650w
“It might be said that if a young writer fails to profit by this
inspirational book he had better leave off his attempts to write.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 100w
“The substance of the teaching is helpful, and the manner encouraging
without being effusive.”
+ =Spec= 122:737 Je 7 ’19 300w
“On the professional side, her suggestions are of great practical
value. If any adverse criticism can be made, it is that she does not
classify thoroughly her comment on the various types of material
discussed. Miss Klickmann’s advice is not effusively or obscurely
pedantic. It is all breezy and to the point.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 12 ’20 800w
“She wields herself a very bright and ready pen, and out of the
abundance of her experience she gives in a flow of headed paragraphs
helpful advice on every side of the subject.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p314 Je 5 ’19 100w
=KLUCK, ALEXANDER VON.= March on Paris and the battle of the Marne,
1914. il *$3.50 Longmans 940.4
(Eng ed 20–10378)
“Alexander von Kluck, generaloberst, has written a book about his
Belgian and French adventure. It was completed in February, 1918, on
the eve of the great German offensive in Picardy. It is the personal
observations, impressions and opinions of a commanding general who
reviews his own actions in the quietude of his study and illustrates
them with the orders issued to him and by him, but with very little
information beyond the manoeuvres of his own army in the field and
almost none of the enemy. Evidently the sub-title to the book, ‘The
battle of the Marne,’ is a characterization of the British editors,
for the author calls it ‘The battle on the Ourcq’ and devotes the last
third of the book to it. Still, if the British editors have given the
book a title which shall more pointedly appeal to readers of English,
they have also furnished the book with something far more important:
Footnotes by the experts of the Committee of imperial defense. These
notes check up von Kluck’s data, correct his errors, and often qualify
his conclusions.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“His book lacks the attractive personality and humor of Ludendorff’s,
the intimate observations of von Hindenburg’s. There is nothing
picturesque about it. All the same, as has been said, the military
historian will find therein a mine of academic information which he
cannot afford to leave unexplored.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 25 ’20 2650w
=Sat R= 130:12 Jl 3 ’20 1150w
“A valuable contribution to military history.”
+ =Spec= 124:729 My 29 ’20 430w
=KNAPPEN, THEODORE MACFARLANE.= Wings of war; with an introd. by D. W.
Taylor. il *$2.50 Putnam 940.44
20–15470
“This book describes in detail the contribution made by the United
States to aircraft invention, engineering and production during the
world war. Five of the most important chapters are devoted to the
origin, development and production of the famous Liberty engine. Mr
Knappen is among those who believe that in spite of all the revelation
of Congressional investigations made during the past two years the
aircraft achievements of our government, considering our
unpreparedness at the outset, were highly creditable.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 110w
=KNIBBS, HENRY HERBERT.= Songs of the trail. il *$1.50 Houghton 811
20–19670
Poems of the far West and the cattle trails. Among the titles are: I
have builded me a home; The pack train; The hour beyond the hour; The
sun-worshipers; Gods of the red men; Arizona; Trail song; Waring of
Sonora-Town; The long road West; Old San Antone.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21
“This is the West, seen first hand but seen through the perspective of
Mr Knibbs’ Harvard training. One may suspect that these westerners are
a bit more intellectual than the average cowpuncher, but the poems
perhaps are the more readable for it.” C. F. G.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:332 Ja ’21 290w
“Good, honest work of its kind, with occasional beauty and much
narrative interest. ‘The wind’ is a strong and individual poem,
especially fine in atmosphere and imagery. Mr Knibbs is far more of a
poet than the much advertised Robert W. Service.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 150w
=KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN
ARTHUR.= Mayflower maid. il *$1.90 (3c) Century
20–16501
A story of the coming of the Pilgrims. Barbara Gorges is a timid
motherless girl who starts out with her father from Leyden in the
Speedwell. When the Speedwell and the Mayflower are obliged to run in
to Plymouth, Barbara’s father becomes the victim of a fatal accident
and she is left an orphan. Fortunately for her, she is taken under the
protection of Myles Standish and his wife Rose. The story then follows
closely the historical narrative, and describes the trip across the
Atlantic, the landing at Plymouth, the first hard winter, the death of
Rose Standish, the relations with the Indians, the love story of John
Alden and Priscilla Mullens, and finally that of Myles Standish and
Barbara herself.
* * * * *
“More interesting than Taggart’s ‘Pilgrim maid,’ gives a good picture
of life in the colony.”
+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
=KNOWLES, MORRIS.= Industrial housing. *$5 McGraw 331.83
20–16847
“Morris Knowles, an engineer of vast experience and the chief engineer
of the housing division of the United States Shipping board,
understanding the need of the interdependence of engineer, architect,
town planner, landscape gardener, sanitarian, utility designer,
contractor, real estate agent and the public spirited business man and
city official in the development of a successful city plan and in the
solution of the housing problem, has written the book, ‘Industrial
housing.’ Housing is taken in its broadest meaning, with all its
relations to other problems. The town plan, streets and pavements,
water supply, sewerage, waste disposal and public utilities are some
of the specifically municipal problems treated in this work.
Illustrations and charts, a good bibliography and an analytical index
complete its usefulness.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
* * * * *
“Comprehensive and readable presentation of the subject of industrial
housing.”
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 150w
“The book is a store of invaluable information.”
+ − =Survey= 45:258 N 13 ’20 1000w
=KOBRIN, LEON.= Lithuanian village; auth. tr. from the Yiddish by I:
Goldberg. *$1.75 Brentano’s
20–6127
“In a series of sharp vignettes the book presents to us an environment
almost extinct today—the environment of a drab little village in the
pale. In restrained and simple language a restrained and simple folk
is depicted dragging its weary body and soul through the whole cycle
of the monotonous year. You read how those Jews half strangle each
other in their efforts to earn a kopeck or two; you hear those bitter
wives curse at their stalls, and see those stunted husbands pore over
their holy books; you feel the grimy superstition that clogs the daily
life of those villagers, know the smallness of their horizon and the
narrowness of their vision—and you love them nevertheless. And somehow
you are impressed that the hegira of their offspring to the land where
‘Jews can be policemen,’ was a far from woeful event in the history of
the soul of the new world.”—New Repub
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
“The whole work is frankly realistic, softening no oaths and tempering
no vices. Yet withal, it is a refreshing bit of reading, for despite
the bitterness and ugliness floating like scum on the waters of that
ghetto life, one never quite loses consciousness of the great deep
cleanness beneath it all. In that Kobrin proves himself a master: his
realism is suggestive and translucent, not blunt and opaque.” L: Brown
+ =New Repub= 24:25 S 1 ’20 920w
“Leon Kobrin has lived the life he writes about. His bitter realism is
no creation of fancy; the atmospherical color is without blemish.”
Alvin Winston
+ =N Y Call= p11 Ap 25 ’20 420w
“Once in a while, a race produces an author capable of presenting its
message in language of so great simplicity and force that his writings
can be appreciated anywhere in an adequate translation. The Jewish
race possesses such a writer in Leon Kobrin.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 7 ’20 240w
=KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY.= Great south land. *$4.50 (5c) Dodd 918
A20–884
The book treats of the republics of Rio de la Plata, and southern
Brazil of today. These countries the author, in his introduction
compares to the ugly duckling which turned out a swan. Already before
the war they had steadily risen in importance and “there is no doubt
that the shifting sands of international politics and the racing
centres of power have left these South American states in an economic
position stronger than any which they have previously enjoyed.” Part 1
contains: Buenos Aires of yesterday and today; The Argentine capital
in war time; Cosmopolitan influences; Some topical episodes; The work
of the British in Argentina; Argentina’s political prospects; Internal
and external affairs; Rio and its surroundings; British and Americans
in South America; The press of the eastern republics. Part 2 is
devoted to the industrial points of the various states and there is an
index.
* * * * *
“A map would have been helpful to the reader.”
+ − =Ath= p1170 N 7 ’19 50w
=Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20
“Mr Koebel is essentially a writer sympathetic to the lands of which
he writes. What his book loses in depth it gains by virtue of this
sympathy, by its author’s earnest desire to see things from the South
American angle, without in the least abandoning the attitude of a man
alive to the defects of those whom he is describing. It is a
stimulating work by a sane and just writer.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:223 My 2 ’20 1300w
“Mr W. H. Koebel’s last addition to the, by now, rather lengthy series
of books which he has written on Spanish-America, is disappointing....
He obviously knows as well as anybody that the problems are there and
call for answer. But he does little more than indicate their presence,
and then wander in generalities and descriptions, not without
occasional repetitions.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p640 N 13 ’19 850w
=KOONS, FRANK THOMAS.= Outdoor sleeper. *$1 (6c) Norman, Remington co.
613.79
20–13861
A little book inspired by the sleeping porch. The author writes of
outdoor sleeping as a source of health and pleasure. There are
chapters on: The first night; Outdoor toggery; The birds; The romping
children of the night; The chastened hours of the morn; The trees;
Summer; Winter; The stars; Health and happiness. A star map serves as
frontispiece. The book was first copyrighted by the Journal of the
Outdoor Life.
=KOOS, LEONARD VINCENT.= Junior high school. *$1.36 Harcourt 373
20–10298
The author calls attention to the great dissimilarity that still
prevails in the junior high school movement in every aspect of
organization and function. He holds that the experimental stages of
the movement should now be reviewed and stock be taken of the current
opinions and practices, with a view towards clarifying thought as to
its peculiar educational purposes. With an introduction by Henry
Suzzallo the contents are: The movement for reorganization; The
peculiar functions of the junior high school; The test of the
organization; The program of studies; Other features of
reorganization; The standard junior high school; Tables and graphs.
* * * * *
“In six chapters Professor Koos has presented an analysis which goes
to the heart of the junior high school movement. The book is a
striking example of what can be done by way of giving information
without becoming drearily encyclopedic.”
+ =El School J= 21:71 S ’20 1000w
=KOSSOVO=; heroic songs of the Serbs. *$1.25 Houghton 891.8
20–10292
These ballads, translated by Miss Helen Rootham and printed with the
original on alternate pages, come with an introduction by Maurice
Baring and an historical preface by Janko Lavrin. Mr Baring says of
them that their colors are primitive like those of the primitive
painters, their similes are taken from a first-hand communion with the
sights and facts of nature and their emotions are the primitive
emotions of man. But their soul is saturated with the Christian faith
of the Crusaders and they sing the sorrow of Serbia, the unspeakable
anguish of a people who are victorious in defeat. In the historical
preface Janko Lavrin divides the Serbian folk-songs into four groups
of which this, the Kossovo-cycle, deals with the heroic battles fought
on the Kossovo plain against the Turks. The songs are: The fall of the
Serbian empire; Tsar Lazar and Tsaritsa Militsa; The banquet on the
eve of the battle: a fragment; Kossanchitch and Milosh: a fragment;
Musitch Stefan; Tsaritsa Militsa and the Voyvoda Vladeta; The maiden
of Kossovo; The death of the mother of the Jugovitch; The miracle of
Tsar Lazar.
* * * * *
“Miss Rootham’s simple and dignified translation makes it possible for
English readers to appreciate the heroic quality of the originals.”
+ =Ath= p257 F 20 ’20 60w
“The primitive naturalness and high Christian idealism of the songs
make them very readable.”
+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“English is not very well fitted to cope with it and, just as
Longfellow often failed in Hiawatha, so Miss Rootham often fails to
get the swing of the trochaic measure. The original is so rich in
alliteration, often rhyming with vivid flashes of poetic figure, that
it is impossible to reproduce its magic effect. It requires a poet to
translate poetry; mere knowledge of a foreign tongue does not
communicate the magic of words, and Miss Rootham’s version, while
useful, will hardly satisfy the exacting lover of Serbian poetry.” N.
H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ’20 650w
“The poems are vigorous and give a pleasing view of what really fine
work has been done in Serbia.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 120w
“They are good poems even for us; their sheer probity is a joy. They
have that rudeness touched with elegance—so different from mere
rudeness—which is the spell of ancient song for modern taste.” O. W.
Firkins
+ =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 230w
=KOUYOUMDJIAN, DIKRAN (MICHAEL ARLEN, pseud.).= London venture. *$1.50
Dodd 824
20–4439
The author is an Armenian who has dropped his real name for a more
pronounceable signature. The book consists of a series of
“self-conscious” essays wherein the author under the guise of
reminiscences discourses on men and writers, women and love, on death,
friendship and modes of living. It is a book of moods also and the
writer fits in the subject or person to fit the mood. The chapter
vignettes are from drawings by Michel Sevier.
* * * * *
“The chief merit of the book is that the author has taken great pains
with his style, which is considerably more attractive than the
substance of the book.”
+ − =Ath= p94 Ja 16 ’20 70w
“Set forth with a cynical humor which narrowly escapes brilliance,
much of the narration is downright fascinating.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 18 ’20 350w
“A curious introspective fragment of a story told in a succession of
spasms of introspection. It suffers from its form, but as it was
evidently written for occasional serial publication, that could not be
avoided. The book and its illustrations have a certain charm.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:336 Ap 3 ’20 50w
“It is difficult exactly to understand the ‘challenge’ of this book or
what the writer meant to do with it. There is undoubtedly a
fascination hard to analyse about the book and the personality
revealed in it.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p38 Ja 15 ’20 250w
=KRAFFT, HERMAN FREDERIC, and NORRIS, WALTER BLAKE.=[2] Sea power in
American history; with an introd. by William S. Benson. il *$4 Century
973
20–22044
The object of the book is to make clear the importance of sea power in
both its military and commercial aspects. For this purpose it traces
out and connects up into one continuous story the rise, development,
and present condition of both branches, showing their mutual
dependence upon each other. Biographical sketches are given of such
outstanding figures in our naval development as Paul Jones, Stephen
Decatur, David Porter, John Ericsson, David G. Farragut and Alfred T.
Mahan. Among the contents are: The defeat of British sea power gives
America independence; The rise of commercial sea power in America
during the Napoleonic wars; Sea power dominates the War of 1812; Sea
power aids national expansion; The blockade a decisive instrument of
sea power in the Civil war; Sea power splits the confederacy in two;
Sea power in the Pacific; American sea power in the world war. The
book is indexed and illustrated, with maps and diagrams of naval
actions.
=KREYMBORG, ALFRED.=[2] Blood of things. *$2 Brown, N. L. 811
20–13986
Mr Kreymborg’s second book of “free forms” contains verses grouped
under such titles as: A five and ten cent store; Zoology; Arias and
ariettes; Crowns and cronies, etc.
* * * * *
=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 80w
“Nine-tenths of ‘Blood of things’ is unintelligible, or if
intelligible is irrelevant to any human concern. The one-tenth which
is intelligible and relevant is diffuse to the point of evaporation.”
− =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 240w
“Mr Alfred Kreymborg’s new book is decidedly interesting to read, but
it is more often merely interesting than lifting and compact with
genuine poetry. Mr Kreymborg is inconclusive; his gestures are
tentative; he does not strike fire with sufficient frequency to
establish him firmly as an authentic poet.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 26 ’20 640w
“A critic who is unprejudiced and willing to be convinced by the free
versifiers will acknowledge that there are one or two poems that are
pretty poor. He would probably set aside the book with the comment
that Mr Kreymborg has done some things well, but that anybody could do
what Mr Kreymborg has done if he would consent to go just a little bit
crazy.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 4 ’20 340w
=KREYMBORG, ALFRED.=[2] Plays for merry Andrews. $2 Sunwise turn 812
The five plays are: Vote the new moon; Uneasy street; The silent
waiter; At the sign of the thumb and the nose; and Monday.
* * * * *
“Their unreality and irony are invigorating and real, and Gordon Craig
was quite right in considering them as a test for actors. The title
should warn the professionals off and attract the amateur.” E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 40w
“There is no doubt that Mr Alfred Kreymborg has both talent and
intelligence. But he has not reached the stage of any clear
communication. The lilt of these playlets haunts the ear but teases
the mind. There is a vertigo in the oddly rhythmed prose. But the
intentions are dark, and where the darkness lifts they seem perilously
commonplace.” Ludwig Lewisohn
− + =Nation= 111:787 D 29 ’20 130w
“Almost all of his plays possess that direct appeal to children,
although they are often too abstruse or fantastical for older
audiences. To enjoy them completely one must have an open mind,
unprejudiced by stage conventions. The whole volume, with its
delightful caricatures, with its humors, with its tongue-in-the-cheek
bombast, is very reminiscent of Dickens.” Malcolm Cowley
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 D 31 ’20 460w
=KUNOU, CHARLES A.= American school toys and useful novelties in wood.
il *$1.25 Bruce pub. co. 680
20–26563
The author is supervisor of manual training in Los Angeles, where toy
making has for some years made up part of the course of study in this
department. During the war interest in the subject was greatly
stimulated by the sale of the children’s products for the benefit of
the Red cross. A general preliminary discussion of toy making, its
educative value, the materials used, etc., is followed by a series of
fifty-two plates with designs for toys.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20
“This book gives excellent toy working drawings.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:41 S ’20 70w
=KYNE, PETER BERNARD.= Kindred of the dust. il *$1.75 (1½c) Cosmopolitan
bk. corporation
20–8274
For the scene of his story the author creates a feudal fief in the
Pacific northwest. Hector McKaye, head of the Tyee Lumber Company, is
known as “the laird,” his son Donald as “the young laird.” Donald
comes home from college and a trip around the world to find his old
chum Nan Brent the mother of a nameless child. Nan had believed
herself married and to protect the real wife of the man who had
deceived her is keeping his identity secret and bearing her shame.
Donald finds that he loves Nan and is willing to marry her.
Interference on the part of his mother and sisters drives her away.
Donald is stricken with typhoid and to save his life his mother
telephones to Nan to return. Following his recovery steps are again
taken to prevent the marriage but Donald is obdurate. A break with his
father results. The war comes, Donald enlists, goes to France, comes
home again and there is a happy reunion, with a copy of Nan’s marriage
license turning up to prove her innocent intentions.
* * * * *
+ − =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20
“The story is powerful and holds the attention of the reader in an
unusual manner.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 350w
“For sustained interest and constructive workmanship Mr Kyne seems, in
‘Kindred of the dust,’ to have outdone his previous efforts.
Wholesome, entertaining story.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 450w
“The hero is almost too noble to be true.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 280w
“A strong, straightforward, unaffected story, seasoned, and not
overseasoned, with sentiment.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 70w
L
=LABOULAYE, EDOUARD RENÉ-LEFEBRE DE.= Laboulaye’s fairy book; tr. by
Mary L. Booth. il *$2.50 (5c) Harper
20–19778
This book of fairy tales, translated from the French, was copyrighted
in America in 1886. Kate Douglas Wiggin has written an introduction
for the new edition. The titles are: Yvon and Finette; The castle of
life; Destiny; The twelve months; Swanda, the piper; The gold bread;
The story of the noses; The three citrons; The story of Coquerico;
King Bizarre and Prince Charming. The pictures are by Edward G.
McCandlish.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:126 D ’20
+ =Lit D= p89 D 4 ’20 130w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 220w
“Delightful collection of tales.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 70w
=LADD, GEORGE TRUMBULL.= Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative
of observations in the winter of 1899–1900. il *$3 Badger, R. G. 915.4
19–15644
“In his observations of Indian life Professor Ladd was chiefly
concerned with educational, social and religious conditions. For the
study of these he had unusual opportunities. This book gives a summary
of what he learned from personal interviews with the viceroy and
secretary of education in Calcutta, with natives and missionaries, and
with Hindu philosophers. Professor Ladd also describes the social
customs of the people and outlines some of the political reforms that
are demanded by the native leaders.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“Although the book makes no contribution to the literature regarding
India, it is interesting as reflecting the impressions of an American
professor concerning the practices and cults of the Indian peoples.”
+ =Bib World= 54:430 Jl ’20 220w
=Boston Transcript= p4 N 5 ’19 440w
“Whether the generalizations he makes, based upon conditions as he
observed them two decades ago, still hold true in full or not, they
are interesting as reflecting the reaction of a foreigner, well
equipped by his training in educational and philosophical work, to an
alien and intricate civilization.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 Mr 6 ’20 300w
=R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 100w
=LAIDLER, HARRY WELLINGTON.= Socialism in thought and action. *$2.50
(2c) Macmillan 335
20–3555
The author is secretary of the Intercollegiate socialist society and
editor of the Socialist Review. The important service of his book is
that it gives an up-to-date treatment of the new developments in
socialism and relates them to the movements of the past. It covers
“the socialist criticism of present day society, the socialist theory
of economic development, the socialist conception of a future social
state and the activities, achievements, and present status of the
organized socialist movement in various countries of the world.”
(Preface) It is divided into two almost equal parts: Socialist
thought, and The socialist movement. The work is intended to serve as
a textbook for college classes and study groups, and “as a ready
reference book for the thinkers and doers who have come to realize
that an intelligent understanding of this greatest mass movement of
the twentieth century is absolutely essential to enlighten
citizenship.” There is a select bibliography on socialism and allied
subjects, and an index.
* * * * *
“Of especial interest is the discussion of the Russian revolution, and
recent developments in European and American socialism, concerning
which the data are the latest available.” G. S. Watkins
+ =Am Econ R= 10:633 S ’20 480w
“Throughout the entire work differences of opinion are given;
arguments are sound and the proof offered scientific. In fact it is a
splendid presentation of this movement. Not only does the book deserve
serious attention but it would make an excellent text.” G. S. Dow
+ =Am J Soc= 26:374 N ’20 630w
Reviewed by L. M. Bristol
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:520 Ag ’20 200w
=Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20
“Dr Laidler has that discreet receptivity for conflicting opinion and
dogma which gives his work, within the limits of socialism, the stamp
of a firm, intelligent neutrality.”
+ =Dial= 68:670 My ’20 120w
“As a text book, Mr Laidler’s volume is invaluable. It reveals a
ceaseless and remorseless study and reading of the socialist movement
in all its manifestations and in all the questions that have aroused
controversy. Impartial as a text book, it is yet vivid as a chronicle
of events caught almost on the wing.” H. S.
+ =Nation= 110:728 My 29 ’20 160w
“On its interpretive side, Comrade Laidler has used his material
judiciously and his presentation is such that no charge of bias will
be made by the reader, whatever may be the latter’s own view. His
attitude is an objective one. A very good index rounds out one of the
best contributions that has come from the pen of any American
socialist author.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p11 Mr 28 ’20 900w
=Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 120w
“Probably as full and clear a statement of modern socialistic concepts
as can be had in the English language.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w
“As a book it suffers from two distinct faults. In the first place it
tries to cover too much ground. No one can write a competent survey of
every aspect of socialism in a moderate-sized volume. The book
attempts, in the second place, a treatment of the most recent events
in the socialistic movement at a time when the evidence for anything
more than a bare and jejune statement of congressional resolutions is
simply not available. Yet the book transcends these deficiencies. It
shows, even to an outsider, what immense justification there is for a
faith in the prospects of socialism.” H. J. Laski
+ − =Socialist R= 8:379 My ’20 600w
“Any one interested in the labor movement will use his book several
times a week. Its mass of facts is not a mess, but an orderly
mobilized compilation.” Arthur Gleason
+ − =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 370w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p490 Jl 29 ’20 110w
=LAING, MARY ELIZABETH.=[2] Hero of the longhouse. (Indian life and
Indian lore) il *$1.60 (2½c) World bk.
21–649
The “hero of the longhouse” is the historical Hiawatha, an entirely
different person from the legendary figure in Longfellow’s poem. The
real Hiawatha lived in the fifteenth century, was a member of the
Onondaga tribe and was one of the founders of the League of the
Iroquois and the author has drawn her story from the most authentic
sources, chiefly from Horatio Hale’s Iroquois book of rites and
manuscripts in the New York state archaeological department. Arthur C.
Parker, state archæologist, writes an introduction, and there is a
bibliography and glossary. The story has been told primarily for
school children.
=LAKE, KIRSOPP.= Landmarks in the history of early Christianity. *$3
Macmillan 270.1
“The purpose of the book, briefly stated, is to trace the Greek and
oriental ideas in Christian thought and practice by reference to six
early centers—Galilee, Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth, Rome and Ephesus.
The work aims to illuminate critical points rather than to provide a
complete survey, and it may be said to focus sharply the searchlight
of thought upon salient aspects of the large subject. Prof. Lake first
presented the substance of these chapters in a series of lectures at
Oberlin college.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“There is no mistaking the keenness of Prof. Lake’s thought or the
brilliant cogency of his style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 12 ’20 1000w
“On many matters we must strongly dissent from him; but his work will
be useful to every student of early Christianity, if only because it
compels its readers to re-examine the presuppositions of their
religious thought and to test their theories of the church’s
development. If we say that the author of this work raises far more
questions than he answers, he might be expected to reply that this
precisely was his purpose.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p733 N 11 ’20 960w
=LAMB, HAROLD.= Marching sands. *$1.75 (2½c) Appleton
20–5227
The American exploration society sends Captain Gray to the Desert of
Gobi to find the lost tribe of the Wusun, supposed to be the remnant
of an Aryan race, the original inhabitants of China. At the same time
an English rival expedition starts on the same quest. The expeditions
are facing the dangers not only of the desert but of the hostile
Chinese Buddhist priests and of the leper colony with which Wusun is
surrounded. By the time the desert is reached the American expedition
consists of only one member, Captain Gray, and a Kirghiz guide. He
comes upon the English expedition under Sir Lionel Hastings and his
niece Mary. Being rivals they part company, each bent on reaching
Wusun first. Sir Lionel is killed after he had set foot on its
environs. Mary is taken captive by the Chinese and placed in charge of
the Wusun. By sheer pluck Gray penetrates into the stronghold and puts
up a gallant fight for Mary and the reader takes leave of them free
but alone in the “infinity of Asia.”
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w
“Mr Lamb has written a gripping tale abounding in thrills and mystery,
adventure and danger, bravery and love; and the narrative of this
search for a hidden city presents a unique and exciting plot.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:326 Je 20 ’20 320w
“While rather slow in getting into action, this tale is thrilling in
the extreme after it once gets its American explorer into the Gobi
desert.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 70w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 160w
=LAMBUTH, WALTER RUSSELL.=[2] Medical missions: the twofold task. il $1
S. V. M. 266
20–9358
“The growth of medical work in Christian missions is a romantic
chapter in the record of the extension of the kingdom of God on earth.
The writer draws from a wide range of material and experience and
presents the great work of medical missions in a most attractive form.
The book furnishes a mighty appeal to the young man or woman who is
looking forward to the practice of medicine and surgery as a
life-work. One is forced to face the need of the world and to decide
whether it is right to remain in one’s own land struggling for a
practice, or whether it is far better to go where the need is
desperate and invest life there.”—Bib World
* * * * *
“The pictures are well chosen; the specific examples of effective
missionary service are stimulating; the field of study is wide and is
surveyed with discrimination. An excellent book for private reading or
class study.”
+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 160w
“Unfortunately the book is propaganda and the references to the
adventures of the medical missionary are drowned in a
misrepresentation of heathendom. Although he, Bishop Lambuth, does
voice the cry for service in an antiquated religious idiom, he is
really bigger than his creed and values humanity more than
proselyting.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 280w
=LAMOTTE, ELLEN N.= Opium monopoly. *$1 Macmillan 178.8
20–2983
“‘The opium monopoly,’ by Ellen N. LaMotte, the author of ‘The
backwash of war,’ ‘Peking dust,’ ‘Civilization,’ etc., is a remarkable
monograph on the ‘opium question,’ based upon government blue book
reports, statistical extracts and official data. In this work, the
author discusses the problems of opium monopoly and consumption in
India, the Malaya peninsula, Siam, Hongkong, Srawak, Turkey, Persia,
Mauretius, British Borneo and British Guiana, and gives a brief
outline of the history of the opium trade in China and of Great
Britain’s opium monopoly.”—N Y Call
* * * * *
“National pharisaism and a strong anti-English feeling are a
conspicuous part of the writer’s equipment, but the facts which she
adduces must give us to think.”
+ − =Ath= p685 My 21 ’20 80w
“Well documented.”
+ =Booklist= 16:258 My ’20
“One of the best arguments yet advanced against the mandatory system
pieced together at Paris.”
+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 50w
Reviewed by C: R. Hargrove
+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 840w
“Miss LaMotte, in spite of her rather obvious desire to have her fling
at Britain, is at the same time evidently actuated by a desire to
reveal a grievous state of affairs. Having exposed the outstanding
features of the cultivation and sale of opium by the British, it is
obviously Miss LaMotte’s duty to continue her interesting
investigations in this country.”
+ =Lit D= p89 My 1 ’20 900w
“Miss LaMotte’s little book might be taken more seriously if she were
not at such pains to paint Great Britain black. It is idle to draw
fine moral distinctions between the British government which sells
opium to the Japanese and the Japanese who smuggle it into China. The
whole trade is bad enough in all conscience, however, and to have
attacked it is to have done something useful.”
+ − =Nation= 110:805 Je 12 ’20 340w
“Miss LaMotte did a great service to the cause of human justice when
she wrote her admirable work. It will prove a valuable asset in
rousing the conscience of the civilized people of the world against
this gigantic international crime of drugging nations. Let us hope
that the book will soon be translated into various languages of the
civilized nations and the truth spread broadcast to remedy the wrongs
of the helpless millions.” Taraknath Das
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ap 25 ’20 2750w
“Miss LaMotte’s book is intended as a severe indictment of Great
Britain’s policy with regard to opium. Her account would, however, be
a fairer one if consideration were given to the British side of the
case as presented, for example, by Sir John Strachey in his ‘India:
its administration and progress.’”
+ − =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 280w
=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 60w
“It is a delight to read one of Miss LaMotte’s books, and even in this
which is little more than a pamphlet, one finds the unflinching
courage and the keen insight which made her ‘Peking dust’ and the
stories which make up ‘Civilization’ so different from the productions
of most tourists in the Far East.” E. W. Hughan
+ =Socialist R= 8:315 Ap ’20 400w
“No one who has in the last ten years studied the hydra-headed
problems of narcotism could be anything but grateful to Ellen LaMotte
for her book.... Does the American public realize to what extent opium
is coming in over the Canadian boundary? It might for that reason
alone pay that American public to open its eyes a little wider to the
facts of British opium sold at public monthly sales in Calcutta as
recorded in Ellen LaMotte’s ‘Opium monopoly.’” Jeannette Marks
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 2200w
“For two reasons the opium monopoly is worthy of our attention: first,
the world interest, the salvation of the eastern peoples, the Chinese
especially; second, the danger that the United States will take
China’s place as the great market for these products. Either is enough
to interest Survey readers in this small book, the author of which has
the gift of making official reports and statistics tell an interesting
and fascinating story.” J. P. Chamberlain
+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 550w
=LAMPREY, LOUISE.= Masters of the guild. il *$2.25 (3½c) Stokes
20–18171
Like the stories in the author’s previous book “In the days of the
guild” these new tales do honor to the ideals of fine craftsmanship of
the middle ages. The titles are: Peirol of the pigeons; A tournament
in the clouds; The puppet players; Padraig of the scriptorium; The
tapestry chamber; The fairies’ well; The wolves of Ossory; The road of
the wild swan; The sword of Damascus; Fool’s gold; Archiater’s
daughter; Cold Harbor; The wisdom of the galleys; Solomon’s seal;
Black magic in the temple; The end of a pilgrimage. Poems alternate
with the stories. There are illustrations by Florence Choate and
Elizabeth Curtis, and notes on the stories come at the end.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:123 D ’20
=LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE.= Day-book of Walter Savage Landor, chosen by
John Bailey. *$1.25 Oxford 828
(Eng ed 20–16302)
“Men of taste, men with an ear for the classic note in prose, must
always read Landor. That some have failed in this elementary duty is
the burden of a delightful essay by Mr John Bailey prefixed to a
little collection of Landor’s prose and verse,—a fine quotation for
every day in the year, beginning with the famous epitaph on himself,
and proceeding with symphonic development to the Latin epitaph on a
young scholar. Mr Bailey—himself, as we know from other publications,
an agreeable compound of the man of letters and the man of
affairs—offers his little book, not as the last word in Landor, but as
the first—as the preliminary encouragement to that larger reading it
should do much to stimulate.”—Sat R
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1037 O 17 ’19 400w
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ja 31 ’20 550w
“We recommend a course of Landor. In days when the rabble has to be
wooed with flattery, it is bracing to the spirit to find one, who,
liberal as he called himself, inhabited the mountain tops of life,
and, never descending among the wrangling crowds, beckons us
continually aloft.”
+ =Sat R= 128:507 N 29 ’19 1850w
“Charming little book.”
+ =Spec= 123:511 O 18 ’19 140w
“To glance through an admirable volume of selections from Landor, such
as that edited by John Bailey is to be filled with delight and regret.
What writer of the second rank has more to yield to the discoverer
than he? What prose more squarely can support the weight of the
exactest scrutiny than his?”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 8 ’19 280w (Reprinted from Ath)
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p564 O 16 ’19)
“As, however, Mr Bailey implies by making a day-book of his
selections, Landor not only constantly said beautiful things
beautifully, but as constantly things that stand the wear and tear of
daily life. No doubt the blank page at the end of this charming little
book is provided to hold a good resolution—namely, whatever else may
happen in nineteen twenty-one, to read Landor through.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p564 O 16 ’19 850w
=LANE, MRS ANNE (WINTERMUTE), and BEALE, MRS HARRIET STANWOOD
(BLAINE).=[2] Life in the circles. (Deeper issues ser.) *$1.25 Dodd 134
20–19176
This book is a continuation of the volume entitled “To walk with God,”
and contains “further lessons received through automatic writing.”
(Sub-title) There are lessons on will, knowledge, joy, truth,
understanding, sympathy, and love.
* * * * *
“The level of intelligence of the sending spirits is not very high—a
grade or two above the kindergarten.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 30 ’20 80w
=LANE, MRS ANNE (WINTERMUTE), and BEALE, MRS HARRIET STANWOOD
(BLAINE).=[2] To walk with God. (Deeper issues ser.) *$1.25 Dodd 134
20–6367
A series of “lessons” which the authors received in the form of
automatic writings. An introduction gives the circumstances under
which the messages were received and the lessons have to do with the
power of love, helpfulness, kindness and the need for spiritual
guidance. The authors say: “We realise that it will be said that there
is nothing new in the teaching, and we admit that there is repetition
to what seems an unnecessary degree, but we pledge our word that we
have put nothing of our own into the text.” (Introd.)
* * * * *
“The fact that the wife of the Secretary of the interior and the
daughter of James G. Blaine are the recipients of these messages will
make a certain demand for the book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20
=LANE, MRS ROSE (WILDER).= Making of Herbert Hoover. *$3.50 (4½c)
Century
20–18582
Herbert Hoover represents America, says the author, and his is the
spirit of five generations of American pioneers. His life began at the
end of one pioneer age and the beginning of the other. His ancestors
had been sturdy pioneers of Quaker stock—his father a blacksmith. They
had conquered the soil, he conquered the world of finance. Much of the
material of the book has been collected by Charles Kellogg Field,
classmate and friend of Hoover.
* * * * *
“Written with the interest in really delightful settings and small
circumstances of life such as a novelist employs to characterize a
hero. Children will like this book.”
+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
“It is a story of a wonderful career, written with a brightness and a
dash that captivates and enthralls.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 580w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 240w
=R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 100w
“The book is readable for its vivid presentation of an active and
adventurous career.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 330w
=LANG, EDITH, and WEST, GEORGE.= Musical accompaniment of moving
pictures. il pa *$1.25 Boston music co.; Schirmer 780
20–4471
“A practical manual for pianists and organists and an exposition of
the principles underlying the musical interpretation of moving
pictures.” (Sub-title) There are three parts: Equipment; Musical
interpretation; The theatrical organ. Musical scores are given and
there is an index.
* * * * *
“Not exhaustive but very suggestive to the player and illuminating to
the listener.”
+ =Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20
“It is a book we can warmly commend.”
+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 260w
=LANGDON-DAVIES, JOHN.= Militarism in education; a contribution to
educational reconstruction. 80c Headley bros., London; for sale by
Survey 371.43
19–12681
“The author contrasts the German and English systems of education,
gives an account of the scholastic methods adopted in Norway, deals at
considerable length with the aims of real physical training, devotes a
chapter to boy scouts, and brings many arguments against compulsory
national service, to which he is strongly opposed.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p475 Je 13 ’19 50w
“The faults of anti-militarist literature are usually rancour,
sentimentality, and exaggeration. Mr Langdon-Davies has escaped all
three. The merit of this book consists in its clearness and its
shortness, in the fact that the author knows what he wants to prove,
and proceeds to prove it without fuss or sentiment and with
considerable moderation.”
+ =Ath= p621 Jl 18 ’19 550w
=Brooklyn= 12:62 Ja ’20 30w
“From the point of view of physical health, Mr Langdon-Davies gives
many proofs from experienced educationists of the deleterious effects
on children of military training. In a valuable chapter on the
psychological aims of physical education, he points out that character
must be built on the basis of instinct and that ‘the cornerstone of
the superstructure is the acquirement of habit and self-control.’” B.
U. Burke
+ =Nation= 110:335 Mr 13 ’20 1150w
=LANGFELD, HERBERT SIDNEY.=[2] Aesthetic attitude. *$3.50 Harcourt 701
21–113
The author holds that a sense of beauty is as vital to the complete
existence of the individual and of the race as is the sense of justice
and that a nascent appreciation of what is beautiful can be developed
into a strong, useful and satisfying reaction to the world of colors,
sounds and shapes. The emphasis of the book, therefore, is put upon a
description of the nature of appreciation and of the mental processes
involved therein, ... its wider applications to the problems of human
happiness. He concludes that “whenever we are able to adjust ourselves
successfully to a situation, so that our responses are unified into a
well-integrated or organized form of action, we call that situation
beautiful, and the accompanying feeling one of æsthetic pleasure.” The
contents are: Introduction; The science of beauty and ugliness; The
æsthetic attitude (two chapters); Empathy; Illustrations of empathy
from the fine arts; Unity and imagination; Illustrations of unity from
the fine arts; Balance and proportion; Illustrations of balance from
the fine arts; The art impulse; Conclusion; Index.
=LANGFORD, GEORGE.= Pic, the weapon-maker. il *$1.75 Boni & Liveright
20–13544
“Like Kipling’s ‘Jungle stories,’ but laid in western Europe perhaps
40,000 years ago, the story of ‘Pic, the weapon-maker,’ is George
Langford’s popularization as fiction of such facts as science has
revealed about the cave men of the Mousterian era. Pic, the ape-boy,
with the hairy mammoth and the wobbly rhinoceros, formed a triple
alliance of friendship and adventure. Pic was in search of the secret
of cutting flints in such a way as to put a fine edge on them without
spoiling them in the attempt, and before the story closes he has found
it and made it the key to renewed fellowship with the tribe that had
cast him out. As to the scientific quality of the story no less an
authority than Henry Fairfield Osborn, director of the American museum
of natural history, writes a brief approving introductory
note.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:37 O ’20
“Anthropology and adventure are jumbled—naively, at times—in this
story which, for all its prehistoric licence, still clings to the
technique of Stratemeyer and other weavers of juvenile romance.” L. B.
− + =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 280w
“A troublesome fault is the author’s imaginative cocksureness. A
higher degree of vagueness would actually have yielded an impression
of greater exactness here. But where all is dark and chaotic, much
must be forgiven to the first imaginative explorers. It is certain
that Mr Langford’s book will fruitfully awaken the interest of the
young in the remote past of the race, nor will maturer minds read it
without some fresh light on dim places.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:190 Ag 14 ’20 260w
“The characterization of the Mammoth and the Rhinoceros is not the
least clever part of this whimsical, fanciful and yet true story of
this little, prehistoric man, and it is with real regret that the book
is laid aside as the story closes.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 S 19 ’20 650w
“An unusual and a powerful juvenile. The spirit and narrative of the
book will be enjoyed even by children too young to attempt the reading
for themselves.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 97:1296 Ap 17 ’20 180w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 300w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:198 N ’20 60w
=LANIER, HENRY WYSHAM.= Book of bravery; third series. il *$2.50
Scribner 920
20–15939
“This is a book of courage, wherein people in their daily pursuits
meet with obstacles which they surmount through excellences of
character. The man who is paid for his brave work, like the
life-saver, the policeman, the fireman, is none the less brave and his
deed is none the less fraught with the tingling quality of bravery. In
the missionary field and on the battlefield Mr Lanier finds material
for this volume.”—Lit D
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:123 D ’20
“It is a collection worth making.”
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 60w
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 90w
“For the inspiration of these volumes, children and parents alike may
well be grateful to Mr Lanier.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ =Nation= 111:sup674 D 8 ’20 60w
“The stories are vividly presented, and the book is one to stir the
heart of youth.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w
=LANKESTER, SIR EDWIN RAY.= Secrets of earth and sea. il *$3.50
Macmillan 504
“These popularly written chapters on a wide variety of scientific and
anthropological topics, such as What is meant by a species? Species in
the making; The biggest beast; The earliest picture in the world; The
art of pre-historic men; The swastika; etc., form a sequel to the same
author’s ‘Science from an easy chair’ and ‘Diversions of a
naturalist,’ and like them is mainly a reprint, with considerable
additions, of articles published in daily or weekly papers.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup S 23 ’20
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
“The essays are entertaining but have no high literary qualities. Men
like Shaler, Burroughs, Muir, Mills, and Slosson have done this sort
of book far better in America.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’29 140w
+ =N Y Times= p6 Ja 2 ’21 3100w
“Let it be said at once that ‘Secrets of earth and sea,’ though
extremely interesting, is not in the best sense as diverting as was
‘Science from an easy-chair.’ The subjects treated are delightfully
interesting to the layman but the style is unfortunately rather
redundant and heavy.”
+ − =Spec= 125:861 D 25 ’20 190w
“The book is indicative of what will be common in that happy day when
science will be written about as fully and as charmingly as purely
literary subjects are today.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 3 ’20 350w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p623 S 23 ’20 90w
“Parents and guardians who are desirous of introducing their boys to
the study of natural science and who, in pursuance of that
praiseworthy aim, are looking for a book which, while sound and exact
in statement, is yet light and easy to read and, above all, has no
tincture of the school classroom, would do well to think of Sir Ray
Lankester’s ‘Secrets of earth and sea.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p831 D 9 ’20 370w
=LANSBURY, GEORGE.= These things shall be. $1 (5½c) Huebsch 261
In these six essays the author proclaims himself a revolutionist and
downright hater of the existing order but he does not see salvation in
a terrific cataclysm with hopes of a new order arising from the ruins
of the old. He pins his faith upon a change of heart in individual men
and women and in the message “Ye must be born again.” The spirit of
the essays is faith in a God of love and in the teachings of Christ of
human brotherhood and love and cooperation. Mr Lansbury is editor of
the London Daily Herald.
=Ath= p166 Ja 30 ’20 80w
“He has nothing startlingly new to say, but the serenity and
steadfastness of his faith in humanity and in a society of individuals
living the gospel of Christian love, will afford comfort and
reassurance to minds tired for the moment of their searching.”
+ =Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21
+ =Survey= 44:355 Je 5 ’20 310w
=LANSBURY, GEORGE.= What I saw in Russia. *$1.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright
914.7
21–434
In his introduction to the American edition of this book, Matthew F.
Boyd, after reviewing the attitude towards Russia of the European
powers, of which France is now the only one still openly hostile,
finds that the United States has once more become the arbiter of world
destiny and that her policy towards Russia will decide the future of
the world. George Lansbury went to Russia to discover what was the
spirit moving the men and women responsible for the revolution. He
found it to be that of a band of people striving to build the New
Jerusalem, that they are actuated by purely moral and religious
motives and are doing what Christians would call the Lord’s work.
Contents: Finland to Moscow; Lenin and other leaders; Lenin,
bolshevism and religion; Co-operation, trade and business; Trade
unions and labour organization; Children and education; Law and order;
Prisoners and captives; About people; Public health; Moscow to London;
Appendix.
* * * * *
“The chapter on religion will interest churchmen.”
+ =Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21
“Any one who wishes to gain a vivid picture of life in Soviet Russia,
drawn with entire honesty and animated by sympathy and good will
should, by all means, read Mr Lansbury’s book.” A. C. Freeman
+ =N Y Call= p10 D 19 ’20 420w
=LANSING, MARION FLORENCE, and GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Food and life. il
68c Ginn 613.2
20–5746
The book has been suggested by the new importance that the war has
placed on food as a universal human need and on the desirability of a
full knowledge of its potentialities even for children. “From its
pages the child will learn the facts he should know concerning the
great food business into which he is born and in which he is a
partner.... There is hardly a virtue or an ideal of family, community,
and world life which does not take a natural place in a study of the
fundamental human problem of food.” (Preface) Every aspect of the food
problem, the personal, the social, the economic and the scientific is
entertainingly put before the child in detached stories. The contents
are: A life business; The food tether; In business for yourself; Food
as fuel; Our dally bread; The magic touch; Likes and dislikes; A world
appetite; The first step; The moment of eating; In the world’s food
market; The pitcher and the loaf; The gift of a garden; Kitchen
service; Food and money; For future use; Food and health; Food and the
government; At a world table. In Facts and figures are given tables,
charts and lists of a scientific nature. The book has an index and
illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:123 D ’20
=LASKI, HAROLD JOSEPH.= Political thought in England from Locke to
Bentham. (Home univ. lib.) *75c (1c) Holt 320.9
20–14002
The author holds that the eighteenth century began with the revolution
of 1688, that it was a period of quiet after a storm and can make
little pretence to discovery, but that its stagnation was mainly on
the surface and that the period was fruitful of much thought resulting
in future activity. The significance of Locke—who alone in this period
confronted the general problems of the modern state—of Burke, Hume,
Adam Smith and their contemporaries, forms the subject matter of the
book. Contents: Introduction; The principles of the revolution; Church
and state; The era of stagnation; Signs of change; Burke; The
foundation of economic liberalism; Bibliography and index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“The method of treatment is not coldly analytical but genial and
speculative. Care is taken to relate political theory to ethics; there
are flashes of penetration into matters psychological; but economics
receives scant consideration. To the present reviewer neglect of
economics seems fatal. The truth seems to be that Mr Laski has written
a conventional story, bolstered up English political mythology, and
left the great muddle of so-called ‘political thought’ just about
where he found it.” C: A. Beard
− + =New Republic= 24:303 N 17 ’20 1200w
“A really admirable little book.” F: Pollock
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 6 ’20 1250w
“There are a few obscurities of phrase throughout the book, and a few
far-fetched judgments. But, on the whole, Mr Laski writes brilliantly
and suggestively, evincing a clear comprehension of essentials,
against a background of necessary learning. It is his most broadly
considered and best-balanced work.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 1250w
=LATANÉ, JOHN HOLLADAY.= United States and Latin America. *$2.50
Doubleday 327
20–14147
“This book is based on a smaller volume ... ‘The diplomatic relations
of the United States and Spanish America,’ which contained the first
series of Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history. That volume has
been out of print for several years, but calls for it are still coming
in.... I have revised and enlarged the original volume, omitting much
that was of special interest at the time it was written, and adding a
large amount of new matter relating to the events of the past twenty
years.” (Preface) Contents: The revolt of the Spanish colonies; The
recognition of the Spanish-American republics; The diplomacy of the
United States in regard to Cuba; The diplomatic history of the Panama
canal; French intervention in Mexico; The two Venezuelan episodes; The
advance of the United States in the Caribbean; Pan Americanism; The
Monroe doctrine; Index and maps of South America and the Caribbean.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:166 Ja ’21
“The American people are thoughtless, careless, heedless concerning
the questions that affect them as regards Latin America, because they
are ignorant of those questions. But should they be fed with
misstatements like this?” S. de la Selva
− =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 30 ’20 580w
=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 60w
=LATHAM, HAROLD STRONG.= Jimmy Quigg, office boy. il *$2 (5c) Macmillan
20–18923
A new story for boys by the author of “Under orders” and “Marty lends
a hand.” At fourteen Jimmy goes to work as office boy in a big
publishing house and the story shows the opportunities for advancement
open to the boy who is industrious and willing to learn. One of
Jimmy’s fellow workers, Fred Garson, has different ideals. He
introduces Jimmy to the Office boys’ league and attempts to organize a
strike. Fred disappears and with him some of the company’s funds.
Jimmy, who refuses to believe his friend guilty, does some amateur
detective work, clears Fred’s name and circumvents a group of bomb
plotters in the bargain.
* * * * *
“There is a pronounced moral flavor, but it is quite wholesome.”
+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 60w
“Mr Latham improves in his narrative style and cumulative interest of
plot.”
+ =Lit D= p89 D 4 ’20 140w
“The author understands the types he has drawn, and he understands
also the universal boy.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 13 ’20 140w
“The theme of Americanization inspires the book, but first of all it
is a good story, a delightful bit of character study, and it is
written by a man who knows his job.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 90w
=LATHAM, HAROLD STRONG.= Marty lends a hand. il *$1.60 (3½c) Macmillan
19–16144
Marty, the young hero of this story for boys and girls, is in his
sophomore year in high school. He has won first honors in the
sophomore oratorical contest and is to play “Tony Lumpkin” in the
class production of “She stoops to conquer.” And then just at that
happy moment an accident to his father takes him out of school to
shoulder the responsibilities of a bread winner. He finds an original
way of earning a living—growing mushrooms in an abandoned mine. The
mine proves to be the secret hiding place of German plotters and Marty
sees that they are brought to justice. But the chief interest of the
story is in the mushroom experiment, and thru cooperation of his loyal
friends, it succeeds beyond Marty’s fondest hopes. His father recovers
and takes charge of the new business and Marty looks forward to a
return to school.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:175 F ’20
“A distinct advance over his book of last year.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 50:382 N ’19 60w
“Mr Latham knows his boys and girls, and he makes them not mere
automatons but living figures on the stage he has set so skilfully.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 8 ’19 400w
“‘Marty lends a hand’ is a good story for young readers for the same
reason that ‘Under orders’ was a good story for them, because it is
what they are themselves when they are what they should be—simple,
wholesome, natural and unconsciously democratic.”
+ =N Y Times= 24:636 N 9 ’19 500w
=LATZKO, ANDREAS.= Judgment of peace. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright
20–1372
“The author of that bitter polemic against warfare, ‘Men in war,’
repeats his denunciation in ‘The judgment of peace.’ Lt. Latzko has
written an argument rather than a novel. The thesis is that war is a
diplomats’ game and wholly evil for the ‘impotent pieces.’ The hero of
the book is George Gadsky, a pianist, who volunteered, submitted to
arbitrary discipline, and ‘felt crushed, torn out of his real self,
degraded to the level of a shabby, beaten sneak.’ The overbearing,
stupid sergeant, the stay-at-home enthusiast and the families rivaling
each other in iron crosses and deaths are scored. One ringing
declaration in this novel is contained in the words of the Frenchman,
Merlier: ‘Have not these four years taught every nation that you
cannot seek to enslave others without robbing yourself of all
freedom?’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20
“Were it not for the devout prayer for human brotherhood which is made
throughout the book, it would, not merely by its grimness and gloom,
but by its lightning flashes of revelation, leave the night more
black.” M. E. Bailey
+ =Bookm= 51:206 Ap ’20 650w
“The ‘Judgment of peace’ appears to be the work of one who has gone
through intense suffering by reason of the war, and whose life has
become permanently embittered. Few writers equal his descriptions of
the bloody agonies of the battlefield and his pictures of soldiers,
but his outlook on life is morbid and gloomy.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:108 Ap ’20 360w
“His story fails as art because it is forever running into bald
propaganda, as propaganda because its grounds are emotions instead of
thoughts.”
− =Dial= 68:536 Ap ’20 80w
“Like ‘Men in war,’ ‘The judgment of peace’ is swift and strong, lucid
and incandescent, appalling and irresistible. Latzko’s fierce
arraignment and mighty tract should be welcomed by lovers of peace and
should be kept alive in order that an epic memory all plumes and
purple may not go down from our generation.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 110:597 My 1 ’20 600w
“‘The judgment of peace’ is a book of hate—hate not for ‘enemy’
countries, but for selfish rulers and militarists everywhere. So far,
so good—but the author goes too far; his condemnation of ruthless
militarism, of selfish uncontrolled power, is good and true; his
apparent assumption that all rulers, all governments, all holders of
power everywhere, are thus actuated by utter selfishness, is neither.
And one is left, at the end of this absorbing, brilliant, thoughtful
and passionate book, with the sense that after all the author has not
got us very far on the road toward the brotherhood of man.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:89 F 15 ’20 700w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:257 Mr 13 ’20 420w
“Patience is somewhat strained by the manner of this book; the protest
is not new, and the tale is rather hastily and crudely constructed.
The most effective part comes near the end, where Gadsky as a prisoner
of war gets to know a French soldier.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 240w
“A significant book, comparable with Barbusse’s ‘Under fire.’ Not for
the smaller libraries.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:126 Je ’20 50w
=LAUDER, SIR HARRY (MACLENNAN).= Between you and me. $2.50 McCann
19–18483
“‘I’m no writin’ a book so much as I’m sittin’ doon wi’ ye all for a
chat,’ Harry Lauder says in his first chapter; and he carries the plan
through to the last. The book is a biography, a Scot’s philosophy of
life, and a shrewd discourse on current social problems,
combined.”—Outlook
* * * * *
“A book which will be liked only by the enthusiastic Lauder-ites. It
is written in Scotch dialect which often runs unevenly into pure
English. Not as good as ‘A minstrel in France.’”
+ − =Booklist= 16:167 F ’20
“Sir Harry mentions the possibility of two more books. We shall
welcome them eagerly, as we always welcome him, but we cannot help
hoping that, despite the charm of his gossipy style, the next ones
will have to some degree the skeleton of an outline.” I. W. L.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 850w
+ =Dial= 68:403 Mr ’20 60w
“Readers who are not frightened at a glimpse of Scotch dialect will
love the book for its genuine human note, its humor, and its
underlying pathos.”
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 70w
“This book gives Lauder and his message in a unique and inimitable
way. It is well worth reading as Lauder himself is worth hearing.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 100w
=LAWRENCE, C. E.= God in the thicket. *$2 Dutton
“It is a delicately worked narrative of a glittering world peopled by
pantomime folk, whose names have been familiar to us all from
childhood—Harlequin and Columbine, Pierrot, Punchinello, Aimée and
Daphne, and many others. They live in the Forest of Argovie; and their
life is the pantomime life, with its queer, sudden approaches to the
greyer conditions of human existence and irresponsible withdrawals to
the spangled regions of fantasy.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The
god of the title is none other than he of the pipes and the
goat-thighs, Pan himself.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
=Cath World= 112:688 F ’21 130w
“In many passages here there is a surplus of adjectives, a lack of
precision and reality. There are times when the author writes with a
pleasing irony that would be even more enjoyable if the vein were not
overdone.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 140w
“Very delicately, very gracefully written, a little too long perhaps,
but full of quaint conceits, poetically fanciful and therefore a good
deal out of the ordinary.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 N 21 ’20 550w
“A little masterpiece.”
+ =Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 60w
“It is perhaps refreshing in these prosaic days to exist for an hour
in the world of fantasy.”
+ =Spec= 125:372 S 18 ’20 30w
“It is a pretty story, which fails rather disappointingly to be
something more.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p367 Je 10 ’20 550w
=LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT.= New poems. *$1.60 Huebsch 821
20–17904
Mr Lawrence prefaces his collection of new poems with a discussion of
the nature of poetry, saying in part, “Poetry is, as a rule, either
the voice of the far future, exquisite and ethereal, or it is the
voice of the past, rich, magnificent.... The poetry of the beginning
and the poetry of the end must have that exquisite quality, perfection
which belongs to all that is far off.... But there is another kind of
poetry: ... the unrestful, ungraspable poetry of the sheer present.”
And it is for this third type of poetry, he continues, that new poetic
forms must be forged. Among the poems of the book are: Apprehension;
Coming awake; Suburbs on a hazy day; Piccadilly Circus at night;
Parliament Hill in the evening; Bitterness of death; Seven seals; Two
wives; Autumn sunshine.
* * * * *
“The more stringent their form the better these poems are; and when,
as in Phantasmagoria, Mr Lawrence finds a subject suited to his
strained and ‘pent-up’ manner, he ‘gets his effect’ very wonderfully.”
+ − =Ath= p66 F ’19 220w
“Mr Lawrence’s ‘New poems’—like the overwhelming bulk of ‘the rare new
poetry’—seems inspired less by any remote touch of divine madness,
than by a labored and sophisticated anxiety to exemplify a theory. Mr
Lawrence has none of the brilliancy of Miss Lowell, none of the power
of Mr Lindsay. His slim new book offers the pathetic spectacle of a
shabby manikin pirouetting in caricature of the muse.” R. M. Weaver
− =Bookm= 52:59 S ’20 880w
Reviewed by Babette Deutsch
=Dial= 70:89 Ja ’21 380w
“Apart from a brilliant preface, there is scarcely anything in this
book which is pitched at the same level of intensity as the best poems
in ‘Look, we have come through.’ The touch is somewhat slacker and
vaguer, the feeling less fused with the words. ‘New poems’ contains as
least one poem which I am almost inclined to set higher than anything
Lawrence has ever done. This is the poem called ‘Seven seals.’” J: G.
Fletcher
+ − =Freeman= 1:451 Jl 21 ’20 900w
“Mr Lawrence’s preface poses spontaneity as an ideal, promising poetry
that ‘just takes place.’ That is interesting, but it does not explain
Mr Lawrence’s poetry, which here as always betrays elaborate trouble
in its preparation.”
+ − =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 50w
“His ‘New poems’ reasserts his place among the most gifted, the most
arresting of the English poets.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Jl 4 ’20 630w
“As you read the whole volume through it seems to you more and more
that he feels too intensely about a great many things. There is this
difference between him and older sentimentalists, that they were at
the mercy of pleasant feelings, while he is often at the mercy of
unpleasant; but it is still the same poet’s disease, and in both cases
the feelings seem too intense for their cause.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p67 F 6 ’19 1100w
=LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT.= Touch and go. (Plays for a people’s theatre)
$1.25 Seltzer 822
20–12050
Altho the background of this drama is a strike in a British colliery
it is not intended as a propaganda play. The author is concerned with
the tragic element in the struggle between capital and labor. He has
defined tragedy as “the working out of some immediate passional
problem within the soul of man.” The play also represents his idea
that a “people’s” theater should deal with people, with men and women,
not with stage types.
* * * * *
“Mr Lawrence, of course, cannot escape his genius. The secondary
qualities of ‘Touch and go’ are superior to the big things in the work
of many other dramatists.” Gilbert Seldes
+ − =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 100w
“Mr Lawrence’s new play, ‘Touch and go,’ seems to indicate that, while
the author may have gained compensations in other ways, he has lost,
temporarily, it is to be hoped, under the blighting strains and trials
of the last few years, some of the vital energy that is essential to a
dramatist.” Elva de Pue
− + =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 390w
“This is a play serious in purpose, of vital contemporaneous interest,
unexceptionable motive and written with knowledge and ability, which
is nevertheless ineffective, because while it exhibits a comprehensive
sense of existing conditions and states its problem very clearly, it
has nothing to offer or suggest in the way of a possible solution
except a series of benevolent platitudes.” J. R. Towse
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 27 ’20 680w
“The preface is so excellent, so much in the manner of the great
English tradition that it holds, and urges, and ends by being, I
think, even better than the play, a fine little masterpiece of eight
pages.” Amy Lowell
+ =N Y Times= p7 Ag 22 ’20 2000w
“The only thing amusing in the little volume is the preface, which is
entertaining enough. Mr Lawrence does not make this mistake of open
didacticism when he writes poetry. Why, oh! why, does he write drama
like this?”
− + =Spec= 125:279 Ag 28 ’20 360w
“The preface has been most stimulating and formative. Preface and
play, however, are widely separated. Never once are we led to feel the
promised reality of the characters. The story moves in a confusion of
the fundamental details.” Dorothy Grafly
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 440w
“His characters are overdrawn, and his action has to do with struggles
of temperament rather than of contrasting philosophies.”
− =Survey= 44:592 Ag 20 ’20 100w
“The strength of the play lies in its picture of colliery life.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p304 My 13 ’20 80w
=LAWRENCE, DOROTHY.= Sapper Dorothy Lawrence; the only English woman
soldier. (On active service ser.) *$1.25 (4c) Lane 940.48
20–5239
Miss Lawrence gives this account of her exploits in France as a
soldier of the Royal engineers, 51st division. 179th tunnelling
company. It was as a last desperate effort to get to the war that she
plotted and struggled her way into the ranks. Twelve times she had
applied for various forms of war work and had been turned down. Her
efforts to go as newspaper correspondent met the same fate. The
Tommies were more accommodating and helped her to accomplish her
purpose. Contents: At Creil; Sleeping in Senlis forests; In soldier’s
clothes; On the march for the trenches; Arrest; Tried at Third army
headquarters; In a convent; On board.
* * * * *
=Spec= 123:411 S 27 ’19 200w
“A brightly written tale of pluck, energy, and determination.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 S 11 ’19 100w
=LAY, WILFRID.=[2] Man’s unconscious passion. *$2 Dodd 157
20–18051
Dr Lay, author of “Man’s unconscious conflict” and “The child’s
unconscious mind,” writes here of the part which the unconscious plays
in love and marriage. Contents: The total situation; Conscious and
unconscious passion; Affection is not passion; Insight; The transfer
of passion; The emotion age.
* * * * *
+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 20w
“Dr Lay’s book is written in a most readable and interesting style and
should make a great appeal to all those interested, professionally or
otherwise, in this dominant and important phase of individual human
life and its relation to the tissue of the whole social organism.” S.
W. Swift
+ =Survey= 45:545 Ja 8 ’21 880w
=LEACH, ALBERT ERNEST.= Food inspection and analysis. 4th ed il *$8.50
Wiley 543.1
20–5902
“This manual, designed for the use of analysts, health officers,
chemists and food economists, has been revised and enlarged to the
extent of ninety pages; new material having been added or substituted
for material in earlier editions. The former arrangement of chapters
has been retained but the list of references at the end of chapters
has been left out and, instead, more attention has been given to
footnote references. A special feature is the final chapter by G. L.
Wendt, ‘Determination of acidity by means of the hydrogen electrode.’
The book includes such subjects as food, its functions, proximate
components, and nutritive value; general methods of food analysis
including microscope and refractometer; milk and milk products; flesh
foods; eggs; cereal grains; tea, coffee, and cocoa; edible oils and
fats; sugar; as well as artificial food colors, food preservatives,
artificial sweeteners, flavoring extracts, and substitutes.”—J Home
Econ
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:356 Jl ’20
+ =J Home Econ= 12:426 S ’20 240w
“As a whole, however, the new edition well maintains the reputation of
the work. It contains so much trustworthy information that chemists
concerned with foodstuffs will find it invaluable.” C. S.
+ − =Nature= 106:141 S 30 ’20 560w
=LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER.= Unsolved riddle of social justice. *$1.25
(4½c) Lane 330
20–1689
The author sees in the present state of human society an extraordinary
discrepancy between human power and resulting human happiness and
analyzes the reasons for the present-day social unrest. He points to
the complete breakdown of the Adam Smith school of political
economists with their doctrine of “natural liberty” and laissez-faire.
In asking “What of the future?” the author finds himself confronted
with the phenomenon of modern socialism. This he relegates to the
realm of beautiful but impracticable dreams and suggests as a mid-way
course that the government should supply work for the unemployed,
maintenance for the infirm and aged, and education and opportunity for
children, and should enforce a minimum wage and shorter working hours.
Contents: The troubled outlook of the present hour; Life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness; The failures and fallacies of natural
liberty; Work and wages; The land of dreams: the utopia of the
socialist; How Mr Bellamy looked backward; What is possible and what
is not.
* * * * *
“Dr Leacock writes with great clarity and force. While the limits of
the volume do not permit detailed treatment of any of the topics taken
up, the reader will find every page suggestive and will be thankful
for a chance to see the woods instead of the trees.” O. D. Skelton
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:522 Ag ’20 360w
“Written in a vigorous, easy, though not humorous, style, that will
make it popular with those who seek a middle track.”
+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20
“The author of ‘Literary lapses,’ and all the rest of them, could not
be dull if he tried. His new volume on the problems of modern life is
fully as live as any of his humorous sketches, and nearly as
readable.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 Mr 13 ’20 1250w
+ =Cleveland= p44 Ap ’20 50w
“A readable and frequently keen analysis of industrial society.
Professor Leacock’s delicately manipulated scalpel cuts perilously
close to the heart of the price system, in his perception of the
paradox of value.... While the honest sunlight of criticism declares
the insufficiency of individualist economics, the light that Professor
Leacock throws upon socialism—taking Bellamy’s bleak vision of
bureaucracy as sample—is almost a moonbeam from the larger lunacy.”
+ − =Dial= 68:404 Mr ’20 80w
“The riddle is not only unsolved when Professor Leacock tackles it,
but it remains so when he has finished with it. The author has merely
re-stated the problem in a lucid and concise manner and fused it with
a sort of primer of economics, and comes out in the end with a
middle-of-the-road vagueness as his major contribution to the
subject.” L. B.
− + =Freeman= 2:430 Ja 12 ’21 100w
=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 20w
Reviewed by C. E. Ayres
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:439 My ’20 550w
“Stephen Leacock is far from happy in his study of ‘The unsolved
riddle of social justice.’ He reveals himself as a clever man, of
course, but not as a serious economic thinker. He, surely, cannot be
so ignorant as this book would lead one to infer.”
− + =Nation= 110:772 Je 5 ’20 550w
“As a book for the general reader this little treatise can scarcely be
too much commended. It is eminently humane in spirit, sensible,
serious without being ‘dead serious,’ and thorough on the essential
points. The author seems to know how average, educated people think
and feel about the present state of society, and to have an unusually
good idea of how to write for persons who do not know much about
political economy.”
+ =No Am= 211:430 Mr ’20 750w
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
=Outlook= 125:124 My 19 ’20 750w
“It is sound common sense doctrine that he preaches, and for that
reason it will be popular with but few people in these days of
emotional ‘thinking.’”
+ =Review= 2:234 Mr 6 ’20 750w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 40w
“Professor Leacock’s book is an appeal to pure reason; it is
argumentative, but not quarrelsome; it is progressive in its aims, but
it is not revolutionary. His picture may be overdrawn and too highly
coloured, but it substantially represents what many thoughtful and
clear-sighted men see today when gazing upon the eastern and western
worlds.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:501 My 29 ’20 950w
“There is much good sense in this attractive book.”
+ =Spec= 124:526 Ap 17 ’20 250w
“His solution may seem to be inadequate; but without doubt Mr Leacock
has written a valuable popular analysis and has stated sane and
forward-looking remedies.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 F 19 ’20 180w
“Mr Leacock’s treatment of the problem is not intentionally humorous
or flippant, but it is surprisingly superficial. As soon as he comes
to a discussion of the social thought that governs the demands of
large masses at the present time, he becomes positively absurd. Mr
Leacock is most successful where he pricks current misconceptions.” B.
L.
− + =Survey= 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 220w
“He does not overload his subject with the useless ballast of
philosophic jargon, or obscure a poverty of thought by abundance of
words. His book is short, lucid, always to the point, and sometimes
witty.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 350w
=LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER.= Winsome Winnie, and other new nonsense
novels. *$1.50 Lane 817
20–21990
This is a sequel to “Nonsense novels,” published in 1911. Again the
author parodies the style of various popular types of fiction. Among
the numbers in this second series are Winsome Winnie: or, Trial and
temptation, narrated after the best models of 1875; The split in the
cabinet: or, The fate of England, a political novel of the days that
were; Who do you think did it? or, The mixed-up murder mystery; Broken
barriers, or Red love on a blue island; and Buggam Grange, a good old
ghost story. The stories have appeared in Harper’s Magazine.
* * * * *
“While this later volume lacks to a slight degree the fresh
spontaneity of Mr Leacock’s older books, there are plenty of sincere
laughs left.” S. M. R.
+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 140w
“The great majority of readers will find ‘Winsome Winnie’ almost as
good as the author’s best books. In other words: the work of a man
who, in the silence of Mr Dooley, is the most amusing writer in North
America.” E. L. P.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 490w
“Despite his delicious drolleries, Mr Leacock’s book of verbal
cartoons contains an amazing amount of truthful criticism—doubly
effective because its form and oblique method of delivery rob it of
all malice.”
+ =N Y Times= p11 D 19 ’20 670w
“A book of parodies which is as amusing as the first series. ‘Winsome
Winnie’ and ‘Who do you think did it?’ are as good as any of the
sketches which Professor Leacock has ever written.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 540w
“It will be a very superior person who does not laugh the first time
he reads Mr Leacock’s version of these jocular subjects. But as the
laugh comes from the verbal surprise or from the technical improvement
in an established joke, it is not likely to be repeated.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p795 D 2 ’20 600w
=LEADBITTER, ERIC.= Rain before seven. *$2 (2c) Jacobs
20–9473
Michael Lawson was an awkward, shy and colorless youth, the fourth and
youngest in a family of waning fortunes. As a gawky boy of fifteen he
falls in love with the daughter of his tutor, Vicar Hargrieves. Some
years later, Isobel’s heartless flirtations give him his first deep
emotional experience. At school he discovers his love and talent for
music and finds a patron who finances his musical education. But funds
fail before he has launched upon a career, and he is reduced to
playing in a picture-drome. He meets with a succession of failures and
becomes a tramp. As such he is discovered by his sister Rosie—his
family having been ignorant of his whereabouts for years. His brother,
a successful scientist and inventor, takes him on in business. Michael
makes good, drops music altogether, achieves tranquillity of heart and
wins the love of a dear quiet girl, who had adored him even as a
child.
* * * * *
“The first novel of a very grave and very garrulous young Englishman
who has not yet discovered how many things have been said before. The
trail of his story is lost under an underbrush of truisms, though
through the brambles one catches glimpses of landscape not unlike some
of Mr Mackenzie’s milder panoramas.”
− + =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 100w
“It is rather more than a good example of the usual thing.” H. W.
Boynton
+ =Review= 3:561 D 8 ’20 270w
=LEARY, JOHN J., Jr.= Talks with T. R. il *$3.50 (4c) Houghton
20–11574
Extracts from the diaries of a veteran newspaper man who had been for
many years in the habit of recording carefully his conversations with
Theodore Roosevelt. These are now arranged under appropriate headings,
some few of which are: Roosevelt and 1920; Dewey and Fighting Bob; The
break with Taft; The attempt on his life; Clashes with the Kaiser; On
election eve, 1916; Senator Lodge’s fist fight; Roosevelt’s one talk
with Mr Wilson; Roosevelt on labor; Loyalty; Germans in America;
Colonel Roosevelt on boys; Pershing and Wood. There are a number of
illustrations.
* * * * *
“The picture is less attractive than that of the writer of the letters
to his children, or of the state papers that have been included in Mr
Bishop’s selection, but it seems to present with fidelity one of the
poses of the most versatile statesmen of our day. The absence of an
index makes the book more difficult to use than it need have been.” F:
L. Paxson
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:149 O ’20 400w
“A wonderful readable book about a wonderful personality.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 450w
“The volume is a racy, authentic, well-considered work, but instead of
revealing the inner springs of motive, instead of a transvaluation of
strenuous values, it merely adds to the sum total of current
impressions.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:118 O 13 ’20 280w
“Better than any photograph or any biography I know, they give you the
feeling of having talked with the man in the flesh.”
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 110w
“It is in all respects one of the best Roosevelt books we have ever
seen, and in some respects the best.”
+ =N Y Times= p19 Ag 15 ’20 1700w
“It is all vastly entertaining, though one wonders whether the
obligation of discretion which private conversation implies has not in
certain cases been prematurely sacrificed in the interest of impartial
history.”
+ =Outlook= 126:292 O 13 ’20 580w
“‘Talks with T. R.’ is an unusually interesting book. It is a really
valuable book. It is certain to be read; it deserves to be read. The
author of the book had done well to omit certain virulent assaults on
living Americans, notably President Wilson.”
+ − =Review= 2:656 Je 23 ’20 350w
+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 100w
“It is a readable and informing book. The principal criticism that may
be made concerns the typography and make-up of the volume. It could be
condensed nearly fifty per cent without detracting from its
readableness.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 24 ’20 550w
=LEBLANC, MAURICE.= Secret of Sarek. il *$1.75 Macaulay co.
20–5586
“To put into his narrative the right degree of thrill, the correct
dose of horror, M. Leblanc takes us to the gloomy island of Sarek, off
the coast of Brittany, which has the cheerful nickname of ‘Island of
the coffins,’ and there plunges his characters into a welter of
murder, mystery and terror that has few parallels in this kind of
fiction. Strange figures robed in white, flitting in and out of the
woods on the island, make one suspect that the ghosts of the druids of
ancient times, or else descendants of theirs dwelling in caves beneath
the island, have got on the rampage in the modern world. Arsène Lupin,
the peerless solver of mysteries, arrives on the island in his little
private submarine. He takes the situation in hand with his usual
combination of ability, bravery and luck. Things move fast from the
moment that he sets foot on the old stamping ground of the druids. It
would be unfair to tell the series of strokes of genius, combined with
strokes of the incredible luck, whereby Arsène Lupin circumvents the
atrocious Vorski and makes it possible for ‘The secret of Sarek’ to
have a happy ending.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Ath= p495 Ap 9 ’20 100w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookman= 51:584 Jl ’20 230w
“Suffice it to say that it is an enthralling story, carried forward
breathlessly amid a whirl of shooting, stabbing, crucifying and
general bloodshed, cleverly raised above most of its kind by a really
baffling atmosphere of mystery, a genuine thriller among thrillers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 700w
Reviewed by E. C. Webb
=Pub W= 97:996 Mr 20 ’20 250w
“The book is full of eerie mysteries and disasters violent enough to
merit honourable mention in a competition with Greek tragedies and
tinged with a suggestion of archaic survivals and black magic which
will pleasantly thrill even a jaded reader.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 180w
=LEDWIDGE, FRANCIS.= Complete poems of Francis Ledwidge. *$2.50
Brentano’s 821
20–2931
Francis Ledwidge, the young Irish poet, lost his life in the war. His
poems are brought together in this volume, with an introduction by
Lord Dunsany. “Readers familiar with his work will find all of the
favorites in this volume—June, To my best friend, Desire in spring,
and others. They will find also his poems written during the great
war. It is interesting to note that he did not write much of battle
and all that went with it, but made his songs out of memories or out
of new glimpses of beauty.” (N Y Times)
* * * * *
“His scope was limited. Trees, flowers and the recurring seasons were
his theme. But he evidently believed in these things, and did not
write of nature because since Wordsworth’s day, it is the correct
thing to do. Ledwidge was a countryman and loved the country; the
desire to express himself came, and he moulded into what are often
exquisite forms, the simple country thoughts which were natural in
him.”
+ =Ath= p1255 N 28 ’19 340w
+ =Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20
“A book which many lovers of modern Irish poetry will rejoice to
possess. In many of the poems there is evidence of a delicate and
fragrant talent, but one refuses to speak, as the editor so
confidently does, of Ledwidge’s genius.” H: A. Lappin
+ − =Bookm= 51:215 Ap ’20 160w
“It is difficult to predict what his future development might have
been, but at least there is nothing in this collection to justify the
editor in speaking so confidently of his protégé as a genius. Although
there is here a great deal of fragrant and delicate imagination, and
much keen and intimate observation of sky and tree and field and bird,
there is nothing quite so full of Irish reality as any one of a dozen
lyrics one might mention by Joseph Campbell or Padraic Colum, for
example.”
+ − =Cath World= 110:827 Mr ’20 260w
“There is little in the slight evidence before us to indicate that he
would have made his place by sheer power; his success, had he lived,
and had he obtained it, would have been of the idiosyncratic sort. And
success of this sort he would, I think, no doubt have obtained. For
through all his work runs a strain of lyric magic.” Conrad Aiken
+ − =Dial= 68:376 Mr ’20 1900w
“Francis Ledwidge was an honest songster, a poet of the blackbird in a
time of hawks and vultures. He was in no sense an important poet, it
must be said.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 60w
“When it is said that he is somewhat unvarying and that he is
sometimes immature it remains to be said that in everything Francis
Ledwidge wrote there is the shapely and the imaginative phrase.”
Padraic Colum
+ − =New Repub= 22:190 Ap 7 ’20 680w
“He knew the simplicities and austerities of wild life in fields and
woods so well that he could borrow from them a little sternness to go
with the sweetness of his song.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Ja 18 ’20 500w
“It is simple, sincere, beautiful. Yet it is always quiet and restful.
It is not emotional, it soothes. The pictures are gems.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 27 ’20 900w
“It is true that he is ‘the poet of the blackbird,’ that his ‘small
circle of readers’ will turn to his work for its mildness, sweetness,
and serenity, ‘as to a very still lake ... on a very cloudless
evening.’ But that small circle must not be disappointed to discover
that his limpidity and naturalness are often blurred with the
derivative, that his taste is uncertain, ... that his imagination is
less active than his fancy. Complete poems, unflawed by inequalities
of tone and workmanship are therefore rare.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 O 30 ’19 1700w
“It is impossible to read these again without realizing that Ledwidge
is Ireland’s foremost poet of landscape, a poet who will undoubtedly
win lasting recognition.” N. J. O’Conor
+ =Yale R n s= 10:207 O ’20 130w
=LEE, GERALD STANLEY.= Ghost in the White House. *$2 Dutton 342.7
20–8716
“‘The White House is haunted by a vague helpless abstraction,—by a
kind of ghost of the nation, called the People.’ Gerald Stanley Lee
gives expression to what he regards as the common aspiration of the
people—a yearning to emerge from the ghost stage and to take on
tangible shape and substance through which to give expression and to
render service. This transformation must be wrought through the
organization of the people—the consumers—into a large club or league
with branches and chapters. Thus organized, the individual would have
a channel for the expression and application of their constructive
thought. On the individual is the responsibility of arming himself
with knowledge adequate for good judgment, with perspective for sound
progress, with vision for comprehensive planning. Then shall the
President be simply the chief of a practical religion.”—Survey.
* * * * *
“Mr Lee writes for the most part in words of one syllable, a style
admirably suited to reflect his own mental processes.” H. K.
− =Freeman= 2:333 D 15. ’20 190w
=Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 80w
“The author has thought, or mused, a lot, but he has hardly studied
the problems at all. He fancies that economics is a very simple
science—and so it is, his economics. He has not the faintest
conception of the real forces that are now reshaping the industrial
world.”
− =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 430w
“Mr Lee’s book is thought provoking, stimulating, and much of it is
true. It will provoke thought in persons who do not habitually think.
One is not quite sure whether a good book like this helps or hinders
one.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 4 ’20 3000w
“It is a remarkably successful attempt to formulate the definite,
practical desires of the plain people.”
+ =R of Rs= 42:109 Jl ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 4 ’20 670w
“It deserves to be widely read. It deals in a fascinating way with a
common experience and a serious problem. While it does not solve this
old problem, it serves a good purpose by stimulating new interest and
new thought.” A. J. Lien
+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 200w
=LEE, HARRY SHERIDAN.= High company. *$1.50 Stokes 811
20–16183
A collection of war poems under the subtitle “sketches of courage and
comradeship,” mostly hospital scenes full of pathos and touches of
humor. Contents: The upper room; The pipe and the fire; Angeline;
April hearts; The hidden wound; Trees; Baldur the bright god; Winged
heels; Ninette and Rintintin; Deferred payment; “Soldiers three”;
Biddle’s kid; The good brown earth; The roll of honour; Pudgyfist
visits the hospital; Lights out; The pie lady; “Every dog has his
day”; “All in the blue unclouded weather”; Buddies; The shadow of the
cloud; “Men of good will.”
* * * * *
+ =Cath World= 112:402 D ’20 170w
“The wounded doughboys are depicted with humor, sympathy, and
originality, but the free verse form often degenerates into literal
and banal prose.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 N 6 ’ 20 90w
“The tribute is beautiful in spirit, beautiful in expression.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 380w
=LEE, JAMES MELVIN=, ed. Business writing. (Language for men of affairs)
il $4 Ronald 808
20–9490
This volume has been prepared by a number of writers connected with
the business department of colleges, and with business periodicals and
is intended to help business men to write reports, articles for trade
papers, make effective speeches at dinners, conventions or clubs, and
to instruct advertising writers. The seven divisions of the book are
headed: Essentials of writing; The reinforcement of reading; Letter
for men of affairs; Report-writing; Advertising copy; The journalism
of business; Mechanical and incidental. The appendices consist of
bibliographies for both volumes and there is an index. The companion
volume on “Talking business” is by John Mantle Clapp.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20
+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 70w
+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 130w
=LEE, JENNETTE BARBOUR (PERRY) (MRS GERALD STANLEY LEE).= Chinese coat.
*$1.75 (6c) Scribner
20–14288
To Eleanor More and her husband, Richard, a blue Chinese coat that she
could not afford to buy became a kind of a symbol. The desire to give
it to her stayed with her husband all thru their early married
life—while their family was growing up and even after the children
were men and women. Their pilgrimage to a far country to at last gain
possession of the coat is the climax of a story which is part allegory
and part romance.
* * * * *
“A quiet tale of married life told with a charming simplicity and a
touch of symbolism.”
+ =Booklist= 17:71 N ’20
“Companionable, sweet and comfortable, filling the mind with dreams of
times when, unwillingly and under pressure, we were forced to let the
great desire go.”
+ =Bookm= 52:175 O ’20 60w
“A sweet little story, charmingly told, and illustrating the lovable
qualities of husband and wife.”
+ =Cath World= 112:271 N ’20 60w
“A story that is remarkably compact and sustained in interest
throughout. Throughout it is woven the glimmering web of poetry, and
this is due partly to the theme itself and partly to the simplicity of
the prose. One feels upon reading the story that Mrs Lee possesses
unsuspected talents. The idealism and symbolic qualities of ‘The
Chinese coat’ are never in doubt. It is a book to be read.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 480w
“A charmingly simple story that has just enough of a plot to hold it
together.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 230w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 80w
=LEE, VERNON, pseud. (VIOLET PAGET).= Satan the waster. *$2.50 Lane 822
20–16301
Vernon Lee’s satirical allegory, “The ballet of the nations,” was
published in 1915 and was reviewed in the Book Review Digest at that
time. It is now reprinted here, with prologue and epilogue which take
account of the deeper causes leading to the war and of the chaos that
has followed it. In the trilogy thus completed Satan appears as “the
waster of human virtues.” And since the greater and more useless the
waste, the greater his delight, he finds his chief joy in
self-sacrifice which is vain, and the author, who in the furnace of
the war has come to doubt and question all accepted values, suggests
that what the world needs in place of self-sacrifice is that altruism
“which is respect for the other rather than renunciation of the self.”
This and other philosophical aspects of the war are discussed in the
Introduction and in the notes which follow the play.
* * * * *
=Ath= p846 Je 25 ’20 190w
“We are casting about for a reason why a book so honest, intelligent,
well-written, clever, should not stimulate but depress, should be a
tiresome book. We may mention that the masque, ‘Satan the waster,’
occupies 110 pages out of about 340; the remainder consists of
introduction and notes. That is a damning—or at least a
damnable—fact.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p299 S 3 ’20 640w
=Booklist= 17:106 D ’20
“It is an interesting discussion of our international imbecilities and
sets forth with pomp those precise opinions whose less elegant
expression recently sent several hundred Americans to jail.”
+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 70w
“Enormously stimulating and quickening book. It ought to be one of the
real factors in that spiritual re-adjustment which is now a major
democratic necessity.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 24:244 N 3 ’20 3650w
“Her satire fails because never from beginning to end can the reader
believe in it. It is merely an expression of her opinions in a very
artificial form; and, whether or no we agree with them, we would
rather have them expressed in the natural form of argument.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p389 Je 24 ’20 3200w
“It embodies the reaction to the world war of one of the sanest minds
and most finished stylists of her day. One who compares Romain
Rolland’s dramatic satire ‘Liluli’ with this work, is struck with the
similarity in purpose, in point of view, in fundamental concept, and
even in their common form of cosmic burlesque. Neither the great
Frenchman nor the great Englishwoman has written a ‘play’ in the
ordinary sense, but each has made an uncommon contribution to
literature.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:85 Ja ’21 320w
=LEES, GEORGE ROBINSON.= Life of Christ. il *$5 Dodd 232
20–18310
Considering it of supreme importance to be able to visualize the
scenery amid which the life of Christ was laid, the writer of this
volume spent six years in Palestine during which he learned “how real
was the life of Christ in the scenes depicted in the records of the
Evangelist.” Thus with much local and historic coloring the life of
Jesus is reinterpreted from the accounts of the apostles which are
closely followed. The book is indexed and has one hundred and
twenty-five full page illustrations.
* * * * *
“Inevitably it provokes comparison with Renan in point of literary
style, if not in actual treatment, for Mr Lees is a convinced
believer. His style fails badly by the test. Though a book of this
kind is not greatly to our taste, we cannot but acknowledge the
author’s devotion.”
− + =Ath= p868 D 24 ’20 90w
“His narrative is plain, simple, understandable, but not marked by
either remarkable scholarship or remarkable insight.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 100w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p687 O 21 ’20 90w
=LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD.= Junk-man, and other poems. *$1.75 Doubleday 811
20–17992
With a wealth of imagery and a poet’s wisdom all life is mirrored in
these poems in the time-honored garb of rhyme and metre. The first
line of the poem “On re-reading Le morte d’Arthur,” “Here learn who
will the art of noble words” can be applied to this collection, the
author’s first since the war.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
“If his extreme youth was a little hectic with the heady wine of
passion his maturity has grown beautifully sane with the philosophic
mind. He was never more youthful than now, when he has recaptured the
song of the lark, regained the lightness of foot that measures the
pace of any gypsy up hill and down dale, and with an eye for illusions
that any lover might envy.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 1300w
=Dial= 70:233 F ’21 130w
“It is a sad day for poetry when an authentic craftsman attains such
facility that he writes from sheer momentum. This, we suspect, is what
has happened in the case of Mr Richard Le Gallienne, whose new book,
‘The junkman’ is the mere shell of poetry—the forms without the
feeling.” L. B.
− =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 200w
+ =Ind= 194:246 N 13 ’20 150w
“It is compact with beauty, filled with all those things that we
instinctively know to be the real marks of authentic poetry. The
flare, the passion, the abiding sense of things that may not readily
be put into words, are all here. It is the sort of poetry that
endures, that becomes memorable and takes place in the memories and
hearts of its readers.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p11 O 10 ’20 1500w
“A collection of verse that equals anything this prolific author has
done.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 400w
=LEIGHTON, JOHN LANGDON.= Simsadus: London; the American navy in Europe.
il *$4 (11c) Holt 940.45
20–9639
“Sims—Admiral—U.S.” explains the title of the book. It was the cable
address of Admiral Sims’ headquarters in London. The author was
connected with the Intelligence section of Admiral Sims’ staff and as
such is conversant with the inside facts and history of our naval
operations. The book gives his personal impressions and disclaims
official sanction. A partial list of the contents: The situation in
April, 1917; Admiral Sims in London; The establishment of bases;
Submarines off the American coast; A discussion of submarines and
their methods; The distraction of submarines; Why American troopships
were not sunk; The end of the submarine campaign; The man on the
bridge (in homage); Appendix, charts and illustrations.
* * * * *
“After the host of war books which have kept our heads buzzing with
anecdotes and statistics incoherently packed into a jumbled whole it
is not only refreshing but instructive to read a clear, sane, and
comprehensive exposition of our naval activities in Europe as set
forth by Mr Leighton.” P. E. Stevenson
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Je 27 ’20 1000w
“It is something of a relief to find a war-book that does not strain
one’s nerves, or overwhelm one with facts, and that has hardly any
note in it of propaganda, or eulogy, or criticism. Mr Leighton has
given a clear-cut, well-ordered account of what our navy did in
connection with the British navy.”
+ =No Am= 212:862 D ’20 1050w
+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 90w
“Pervading his book is a whole-hearted devotion to his chief, which
goes beyond mere professional loyalty and suggests kinship with the
spirit that surrounded Nelson. Readers of Admiral Sims’s own book can
hardly fail to discern the secret of this spirit and it is pleasant to
find it reflected from the pages of his subordinate.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 6 ’21 860w
=LE QUEUX, WILLIAM TUFNELL.= Doctor of Pimlico; being the disclosure of
a great crime. *$1.75 Macaulay co.
20–1211
“Weirmarsh is a criminal who operates all over the continent of
Europe, as well as in England, and, possessing certain hypnotic
powers, he finds it easy to bend other wills to his for his own
profit. So not only is Sir Hugh Elcombe—with his splendid record as a
British officer in several hard campaigns, including the great war
just ended—made a pitiful object by his fear of an ‘exposure’ by
Weirmarsh, but Sir Hugh’s beautiful stepdaughter, Enid Orlebar, who
seems to be a perfect example of the high-class modern English girl is
also under his baleful shadow. She is loved by the middle-aged
cosmopolite who is intended to be the hero of the book. He is a
talented author of mystery romances which bring him an income of
several thousand pounds sterling a year. His real name, under which he
writes, is Walter Fetherston. But he has a penchant for amateur
detective work—he avers that he always ‘lives’ his romances—and when
he is engaged in trying to get to the bottom of some criminal mystery
he calls himself John Maltwood.”—N Y Times
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=Ath= p1242 N 21 ’19 50w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 180w
“The story rambles on—always fluent and in well-chosen terms, with
colorful pictures of various localities in Europe obviously made by
one who knows them personally, but singularly deficient in suspense,
dramatic action, humor, or any other of the qualities which make for
real interest in an up-to-date work of fiction.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:309 Je 13 ’20 700w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 140w
=LESCOHIER, DON DIVANCE.= Labor market. (Social science text-books)
*$2.25 Macmillan 331
19–19765
“The purpose of this volume is to show the necessity for a national
organization to control the problem of employment. In the course of
his discussion the author presents much information concerning
conditions of the labor market in this country and offers many
suggestions to officials of employment offices, university students
and teachers, legislators and the general public.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The book is an authoritative and constructive study of an important
question; and its essential merit lies in the fact that it is based on
experience. The general aspects of the question, however, are not
neglected and the bibliography and references show that the subject
has been studied as a whole.” G: M. Janes
+ =Am Econ R= 10:605 S ’20 940w
“The subject is covered very fully and is presented in a popular
style. Will be valuable to labor managers, students of economics, and
progressive business executives.”
+ =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20
“Of interest to all students of practical economic questions.”
+ =Cleveland= p54 My ’20 40w
“A workmanlike book ... that fills a gap in economic literature.”
+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 40w
“It is neither novel nor exciting. It is a sober and well-balanced
study of the way in which the sale of labor in the employment market
is organized. If Mr Lescohier’s book has a fault, it is his
inclination to regard the general background of the present industrial
system as permanent. But as a survey of machinery Mr Lescohier’s book
is of real value.” H. J. Laski
+ − =Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 320w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 60w
“In this volume Professor Lescohier has rendered a singularly
opportune public service. It is enormously important to have available
at this time such a clear discussion of the nature of the labor market
and of the significance for the country of the sundry labor and
immigration policies proposed.”
+ =Survey= 44:318 My 29 ’20 400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 60w
=LESLIE, NOEL.= Three plays: Waste; The war fly; For king and country.
*$1.50 Four seas co. 822
20–7067
There is tragedy in all of these realistic one-act plays. In Waste we
have a dying consumptive girl whose last hours see a grief and
poverty-stricken mother, a drunken father, and her lover turning from
her to her younger sister. In the War-fly two strangers meet in a
hotel restaurant and the one entertains the other with a gruesome
fancy about flies as the devil’s emmisaries. In For King and country
an aged village couple have one son returned from the war blind and
while they are discussing the future of the other son and his war
bride this other is brought home mad.
* * * * *
“Each and all of his three plays reveal him as a playwright with
ideas, and as one whose own acting has enabled him to see dramatic
values and to cause them to live in plays of his own. There is the
reality of life in them as well as a feeling for the theatre that
makes them actable. They hit the centre of the target.” A. A. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 450w