dark in drift and meaning and so one suspects that neither matters
greatly. His first and third plays, on the contrary, Waste and For
king and country, are drenched with significance because they strain
after no symbolism and are philosophical because they are true.”
+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 180w
“The three plays contained in Noel Leslie’s book are rather
exasperating. In each one of them the author handles an excellent
theme, makes fair headway with it and then does not quite realize the
possibilities of his plots.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 My 8 ’20 140w
“The plays are set with an actor’s solicitude, and each begins with a
promise which is overcast by partial disappointment.”
+ − =Review= 2:464 My 1 ’20 100w
“They really are workmanlike in structure, are well written, and
display some grasp of character and ability to devise dramatic
situations. In ‘The war fly,’ the author shows that he can devise a
tragic fantasy of some original power.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:259 Jl ’20 180w
=LEVEL, MAURICE.= Tales of mystery and horror. il *$2 (3½c) McBride
20–18255
These stories are translated from the French by Alys Eyre Macklin.
Henry B. Irving provides an introduction in which he says: “Reminding
one of Edgar Allan Poe more than any other, M. Level employs the
method of O. Henry in the service of the horrible.” The stories, which
are all brief—have the titles: The debt collector; The kennel; Who?
Illusion; In the light of the red lamp; A mistake; Extenuating
circumstances; The confession; The test; Poussette; The father; For
nothing; In the wheat; The beggar; Under chloroform; The man who lay
asleep; Fascination; The bastard; That scoundrel Miron; The taint; The
kiss; A maniac; The 10.50 express; Blue eyes; The empty house; The
last kiss.
* * * * *
“He has Poe’s predilection for supernatural and gruesome themes,
something of de Maupassant’s technique of compression, a flair for the
‘irony of fate’ formula, which was so characteristic of O. Henry’s
plot, and a kinship with Burke’s nostalgie de la boue. But there the
likeness ends, he has none of the qualities mentioned in a degree
sufficient to raise him to the level of the men he suggests.”
+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 740w
“In spite of their subject-matter, the stories neither shock me
morally, chill my blood with their horror, nor affect me with their
pathos. A skillful machinist, not an artist, seems to have been at
work.” E. L. Pearson
− + =Review= 3:249 S 22 ’20 480w
=LEVERAGE, HENRY.= Shepherd of the sea. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday
20–26194
This is a story of the icy North, of ice-floes, of shipwreck, of
starvation and mutiny at a whaling station, of an overland trip in a
dog-sled, deprivation and hunger and narrow escape from freezing. A
missionary sea-captain who is out to fight the whiskey traffic with
the Eskimos and to carry the word of God to them, picks up Buck
Traherne when his motor-boat had capsized in the Strait. Traherne is
just out of college at Seattle and a tenderfoot. The life on
ship-board puts strength into him and he becomes, with the shepherd,
the mainstay of the castaway crew on Herschel Island. Moona—half
Eskimo and half Scotch—the shepherd’s ward, loves him and after the
rescue has come, and the arctic flowers have once more lifted their
heads, the charm she has knitted into Traherne’s muffler shows its
potency.
* * * * *
+ − =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 51:80 Mr ’20 260w
“Memories of ‘Captains courageous’ seem to filter through the
beginnings of Mr Leverage’s tale. Nevertheless, the plot would pass
very well by itself if the author had the style and strength to render
it into a forcible and plausible narrative. Unfortunately, he has
not.” G. M. H.
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 550w
“The tale contains an abundance of adventure, and the author seems to
know the country and the life whereof he writes, but the book is
marred by a style so very jerky that it soon gets upon the reader’s
nerves.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:39 Ja 25 ’20 380w
=LEVERAGE, HENRY.= Where dead men walk. *$1.75 Moffat
20–1210
“A story of the underworld, Mr Leverage’s new novel, ‘Where dead men
walk,’ recounts the adventures of one Vilos Holbrook. He had lived a
lazy, comfortable life until his uncle, Colonel Bishop, who had
control of the modest fortune left him by his father, was swindled out
of it while himself endeavoring to swindle a supposedly dying man.
Only a few hours before he learned of the loss of his fortune,
curiosity had induced him to attend the disreputable ‘Three students’
ball,’ where he had seen Gypsy Cragen dance, and later talked with
her. When he presently discovered that she had been one of the gang of
swindlers who had gotten the better of his uncle, he protected her,
and later joined the little organization of thieves to which the Gypsy
and her father, formerly a noted safeblower, belonged. This he
preferred to earning an honest living as an electrical engineer. Also
he took first to whisky, and then, under the Gypsy’s tutelage, to
opium, which he found at the end of that path over the roof described
as the one ‘where dead men walk.’”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Stories of the underworld invariably possess a certain fascination.
Mr Leverage has written a fair sample of this type of novel.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 240w
“The story is entertaining in its way and contains one really clever
situation. But the style is unpleasantly staccato, and the
construction leaves a good deal to be desired.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:76 F 8 ’20 300w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 80w
=LEVERHULME, WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER, 1st baron.= Six-hour shift and
industrial efficiency. *$3.50 (4c) Holt 331
20–11378
The book is the American edition of the author’s “Six-hour day,”
abridged and rearranged by Frank Tannenbaum, with an introduction by
Henry R. Seager. Lord Leverhulme’s remedies for the defects of modern
industry are based on actual experience and are summed up in the word
co-partnership. He looks upon the employer as the senior partner in an
industry and the employees as the junior partners, with the confidence
that under such wisely planned leadership complete cooperation will
gradually result. Contents: The problem of industrial efficiency; The
six-hour shift; Harmonizing capital and labor; Co-partnership;
Co-partnership and business management; Co-partnership and efficiency;
Co-operative aspect of business; Health and housing; Shop committees
and shop efficiency; Industrial administration; The workers’ interest
in productivity; Principles of reconstruction; Socialism, or equality
vs. equity. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:357 Jl ’20
=Lit D= p106 S 4 ’20 1600w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 70w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 15 ’20 150w
=LEVINE, ISAAC DON.= Letters from the Kaiser to the Czar. $3 Stokes 327
20–15556
These letters, “copied from government archives in Moscow, unpublished
before 1920,” are “the private letters from the Kaiser to the Czar
found in a chest after the Czar’s execution and now in possession of
the Soviet government.” In his introduction the author reprints
comments on the letters from various English papers and from Professor
Walter Goetz. As the letters were written in English they are printed
as written. Four of the letters are given in facsimile.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:113 D ’20
Reviewed by A. C. Freeman
=N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 580w
“While not as important as the telegrams which were published in 1917,
these letters from the Kaiser to the Czar are extremely interesting as
historical documents completing the picture. They reveal the author
far better than any biographer could reveal him.” Herman Bernstein
+ =N Y Times= p18 O 10 ’20 2550w
“They are only half satisfactory as correspondence because there are
no letters of reply from the Czar to the Kaiser. Regrettably
incomplete as the present volume is, no book, we think, could present
a greater revelation of the Kaiser’s character. Such a book should
have had an index.”
+ − =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 400w
=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 140w
“Mr Grant’s excellent introduction explains everything that needs
explanation, and ample footnotes clear up the personal and other
allusions which might perplex readers who are not close students of
foreign politics.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p867 D 23 ’20 900w
=LEVINGER, MRS ELMA EHRLICH.=[2] New land. $1.25 Bloch
20–10306
“This little collection of stories written for children, of ‘Jews who
had a part in the making of our country,’ belongs in part to
historical biography with a large fictional element and in part to
pure fiction with a historical setting.”—Survey
* * * * *
“The particular ideal of the author of ‘The new land’ to be sure, is
not Christian but patriotic virtue, but her method of approach is
sadly reminiscent of the Sunday school library of old time.
Nevertheless the tales are all carefully and enthusiastically told and
often rise to intrinsic human interest.” C. K. S.
+ − =Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 140w
“The stories are well written; they have a collective ‘moral,’ of
course, but this does not obtrude itself, nor is it narrowly
nationalistic.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:468 D 25 ’20 120w
=LEVISON, ERIC.=[2] Hidden eyes. *$1.75 Bobbs
20–16929
“Mysterious bank robberies at Jacksonville, Fla., furnish the plot of
‘Hidden eyes.’ The most complicated locks and burglar-proof bank
vaults are opened without delay by a most adroit and elusive thief.
Robbery after robbery occurs and the detective force is well-nigh
demoralized. The detective chief, however, has a latent suspicion of a
young chemist named Thornton, who is an expert in steel and safe
locks. Thornton is taken in the very act of a midnight foray. But this
is far from clearing the mystery. That duty is accomplished by a local
doctor who dabbles in psychoanalysis and auto-suggestion.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 360w
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 370w
“The dénouement is quite unexpected and furnishes the biggest thrill
of all.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 120w
=LEVY, S. I.=[2] Modern explosives. il $1 (3½c) Pitman 662.2
The contents of this volume of Pitman’s common commodities and
industries are: Modern explosives and their raw materials; The
chemistry of explosives manufacture; The acids section of an
explosives factory; The manufacture of propellant explosives;
Preparation of the high explosives; Explosives in war and peace;
Chemistry and national welfare. Index and illustrations.
* * * * *
“Although avoiding technical details, the author has given a
reasonable and well-balanced treatment of his subject in the space at
his disposal. One or two slips may be noted. The final chapter, on
‘Chemistry and national welfare,’ although not directly connected with
the subject, is very apposite at the present time.”
+ − =Nature= 106:340 N 11 ’20 180w
=LEWER, H. WILLIAM.= China collector; a guide to the porcelain of the
English factories. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (4½c) Dodd 738
“This book has been written to enable the enthusiastic collector of
china, even after he has passed through his apprenticeship, and
acquired a certain amount of experience, to form a correct judgment of
that branch of ceramics embraced under the designation of old English
porcelain.” (Foreword) The book has a prefatory note by Frank Stevens
explaining the illustrations of which there are thirty-two and the
marks. The distinctive features of each factory are treated under the
titles of history, paste, glaze, decoration, production,
characteristics, noted artists, chronology, and marks. The factories
discussed are: Bow; Bristol; Caughley; Chelsea; Chelsea-Derby;
Coalport; Derby; Longton Hall; Lowestoft: Nautgarw; New Hall; Pinxton;
Plymouth; Rockingham; Spode; Swansea; Worcester. There is a
chronograph, a bibliography, a tabular index of factories, an index of
names and a general index.
=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= Main street. *$2 (1c) Harcourt
20–18934
In telling the story of Main street, Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the
author has tried to tell the story of all America. His Main street “is
the continuation of Main streets everywhere.” It is a story of dull
mediocrity, complacent and satisfied with itself. Carol Milford, one
year out of college, marries Dr Will Kennicott and goes with him to
his home town, Gopher Prairie, in the wheat belt. Carol hates Main
street at sight and in the six or eight years of her life that are
chronicled does not hate it less, altho in the end she comes to see it
with larger eyes and to endure it. One after the other she attempts
reform measures, including a little theater venture, but her efforts
meet defeat. She has her fling of defiance, and spends one of the war
years in Washington, but comes back again, still rebellious. “I may
not have fought the good fight,” says Carol, “but I have kept the
faith.”
* * * * *
“One of the few really good American novels of today.”
+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20
“The book is too long, rather tedious. But it has a humanity, a
popular note which will appeal to thousands.” S. M. R.
+ − =Bookm= 52:372 D ’20 100w
“The total impression one derives is that neither Jane Austen nor
George Eliot depicted the provincial England of the past with more
vividness than that with which Mr Lewis portrays the present-day
American small town.” S. A. Coblentz
+ =Bookm= 52:357 Ja ’21 800w
“He knows the American small town for what it is, history in that
respect being the supreme achievement in American fiction. But when he
creates a protest against it, an attack upon its vicious existence,
through the symbol of Carol Kennicott he comes nearer to the function
of a treatise than the process of art. Kennicott is masterly drawn.”
W: S. Braithwaite
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 1700w
“The atmosphere of the sordid smug little burg is well done.”
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w
+ =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 80w
“At times, Mr Lewis makes one feel that he has treated his people as
mere incidents in an environment, that he has pictured them, not
without malice, like Dickensian gargoyles. But there are scenes in his
book as sensitively felt as some in Mr Sherwood Anderson’s ‘Winesburg,
Ohio.’ These exceptional passages of his book are an earnest of the
restraint and mastery which one will have the right to expect of his
later work.” H. J. Seligmann
+ − =Freeman= 2:237 N 17 ’20 750w
“His dialogue, which he uses very freely, is brilliant. The exactness
of this dialogue is a literary achievement of a very high order. Mr
Lewis has given literary permanence to the speech of his time and
section. But the dialogue in ‘Main street’ is anything but literature
in the sense of Verlaine; it is living talk. ‘Main street’ would add
to the power and distinction of the contemporary literature of any
country.”
+ =Nation= 111:536 N 10 ’20 820w
“‘Main street’ is pioneer work. Some formulae it does help to
perpetuate. Some garishness and crudity it does unpleasantly employ in
its anxiety to be effective and pat. But while the novelistic hen does
not necessarily lay better if surrounded by strong artificial light,
the light in ‘Main street’ is on the whole natural, honest and oh so
amazingly illuminating.” F. H.
+ − =New Republic= 25:20 D 1 ’20 1500w
“‘Main street’ is a book to possess and treasure. What the critics
have overlooked is just this: that Carol’s idealism was at least as
superficial and worthless as the faults of Main street. Carol is more
than a blind would-be leader of the blind; she is a butterfly aspirant
for the leadership of the apsychosaurus.” Clement Wood
+ − =N Y Call= p5 Ja 9 ’21 300w
“Dealing with material that is rarely subtle, Mr Lewis can be subtle
enough himself. Besides his gift for character and situation, he has
also a knack at satire and caustic epigram, with so enormous an
acquaintance with the foibles and folklore of the Middle West that he
has literally set a new standard for novels dealing with the section.”
Carl Van Doren
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 20 ’20 2000w
“A remarkable book. A novel, yes, but so unusual as not to fall easily
into a class. There is practically no plot, yet the book is absorbing.
It is so much like life itself, so extraordinarily real. These people
are actual folk, and there was never better dialogue written than
their revealing talk.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 N 14 ’20 1600w
“Gopher Prairie is untypical in human sympathy, in generous instincts,
in kindness of heart. Its people are not merely heavy in mind,
ludicrously dead to art and literature and world movements; they are
selfish, grasping, slanderloving, ignoble. Carol herself is a shallow
sort of reformer. This is the strongest criticism to be made on ‘Main
street.’” R. D. Townsend
+ − =Outlook= 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 400w
Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins
+ =Pub W= 98:1889 D 18 ’20 200w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:447 N 10 ’20 690w
“It is full of the realism of fact, colored by rather laborious and
overclever satire. But it has no sustained action, whether as realism
or as satire. It is a bulky collection of scenes, types, caricatures,
humorous episodes, and facetious turns of phrase; a mine of comedy
from which the ore has not been lifted.” H. W. Boynton
− + =Review= 3:623 D 22 ’20 280w
“Mr Lewis has fashioned one of the year’s most notable volumes of
fiction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 850w
“He is particularly adept in reproducing the vernacular. Whether the
picture as a whole and his judgments on it are equally true may be a
matter for disagreement. But as a sincere attempt to deal honestly
with middle-western life the novel is noteworthy.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 90w
=LEWISOHN, LUDWIG=, ed. Modern book of criticisms; ed. with an introd.
(Modern lib. of the world’s best books) *85c Boni & Liveright 801
20–11399
“An anthology of passages (of about six pages or less each in length)
from modern authors dealing with the principles of literature, art,
and criticism, divided into four parts according to the nations
represented by the authors drawn upon—for France, Anatole France,
Lemaître, Remy de Gourmont; for Germany, Hebbel, Dilthey, Volkelt, R.
M. Meyer, Hofmannsthal, Mueller-Freienfels, Alfred Kerr; for England,
George Moore, G. B. Shaw, Arthur Symons, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett,
W. L. George, T. MacDonagh, J. C. Powys; for America, Huneker,
Spingarn, Mencken, Lewisohn, F. Hackett, Van Wyck Brooks, and Randolph
Bourne.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Mr Lewisohn’s group of critics are restless impressionists, almost
destitute of doctrine.” S. P. Sherman
− =Bookm= 52:111 O ’20 880w
“Connoisseurs of critical personality as such will miss Mr More and Mr
Sherman in this volume, inasmuch as they are men of a particularly
vivid and dramatic force. The critics whom Mr Lewisohn does put in his
collection speak for the most part superbly.” C. and M. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 111:219 Ag 21 ’20 1250w
“He has done his task in commendable fashion.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p8 Ag 1 ’20 240w
“A book which begins with selections from Anatole France and Jules
Lemaitre is bound to be useful, for the critical writings of these men
are less accessible than one could wish. Furthermore, Mr Lewisohn has
made a number of translations of his own from German writers. It is
this foreign background which gives the book its chief value.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 240w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 100w
=LEYDS, WILLEM JOHANNES.= Transvaal surrounded. *$8 Dutton 968
(Eng ed 20–23043)
“In continuation of this author’s monumental work on the annexation of
the Transvaal, this volume was completed and prepared for publication
in June, 1914, just previous to the opening of the great world war. At
that critical time its publication did not seem prudent and its
appearance was delayed. In the preceding volume the relations of the
Boers and the British government were reviewed from the first
settlements in South Africa to the London convention of 1884.... With
the events which followed this volume is concerned and especially with
the British policy, which was systematically followed by each
succeeding cabinet, of gradually surrounding this struggling republic
by a barrier of British territory, which effectually deprived it of
all opportunity of outward expansion. An appendix reproduces a large
number of original documents of great value to the student of this
period, who desires to make a close and exhaustive study of this
really little understood feature in English-African history.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 600w
“Dr Leyds is far too sweeping in his charges, due in large measure to
his hatred of everything British and to his inexperience of native
affairs. The book is one to be read and studied by all who desire to
see both sides of a bad patch in our colonial history.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p147 Mr 4 ’20 2200w
=L’HOPITAL, WINEFRIDE DE.= Westminster cathedral and its architect; with
an introd. by W. R. Lethaby. 2v il *$12 (5c) Dodd 726
(Eng ed 20–13853)
These volumes are a memorial to a great architect by his daughter.
Volume 1 is devoted to the building of the cathedral and volume 2 to
the making of the architect. Together the books contain 160
illustrations and numerous architectural plans. Partial contents of
volume 1: The laying of the foundation-stone; Birth of the cathedral
idea; The choosing of the architect and the style, 1892–1894; The
plan; The structure—building progress—materials—constructional
problems; Description and details of exterior; Description and details
of interior; The adaptation and development of Byzantine architecture
as exemplified in the cathedral; The mosaics; Appendices. Volume 2
contains the architect’s life history and the story of his
architectural training and career and an index.
* * * * *
“Though her literary style is frequently clumsy and never particularly
good, she had the necessary facts at her disposal and upon the whole
has used them well. A more skilled biographer would have given us more
of Bentley.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:821 S ’20 500w
“On the technical and intellectual side, the work might have been
composed by an architect having no relation to Bentley, and this it is
which gives a special attraction to these 700 pages. There is but one
trace of feeling that might perhaps be deprecated: a certain
sensitiveness lest, in arranging for the interior completion of the
cathedral, the present or future authorities may be lacking in loyalty
to the ideals of the architect.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:211 F 28 ’20 1100w
“The fact that so large and so admirable a book on a modern architect
has appeared in this country is a matter for congratulation to the
author, the publishers, and the architectural profession. Undoubtedly
it was needed. One can justifiably criticize the arrangement, for it
leads to a certain amount of repetition.”
+ − =Spec= 124:461 Ap 3 ’20 700w
“The account of the cathedral in this book is very full and
interesting, and illustrated with plans both final and preliminary.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p739 D 11 ’19 2300w
=LINCOLN, ELLIOTT CURTIS.= Rhymes of a homesteader. il *$1.50 Houghton
811
20–5608
Many of these poems are in dialect, among them The varmint, Angela, An
evening with Browning, The phonograph, The game of games and The
old-timer remarks. Others, such as The sunflower road, Montana night,
Hills, Wheel tracks, Wild geese, and A song of the wire fence, are
descriptive of the wild beauty of the northwest country. Some of the
poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse, Adventure, Overland and
Sunset.
* * * * *
“Lack the poetic beauty of Piper on the same subject, but will have
many readers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:62 N ’20
“Elliott C. Lincoln deals with two types of verse, descriptive and
dialect-narrative, with rather more discrimination than Robert
Service, but by no means as much vigor. The descriptive verse is
melodious, if often conventional.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 180w
“The sociologist often can learn more about America and the American
people from this homespun verse without literary distinction than from
the smooth rhymes that flow in and around the poetry reviews. Eugene
Field was the outstanding master of the homelier craft. A successor of
his, perhaps superior in wealth and charm of diction, more direct,
more sensitive, is Elliott C. Lincoln.”
+ =Survey= 44:351 Je 5 ’20 170w
=LINCOLN, JOSEPH CROSBY (JOE LINCOLN, pseud.).= Portygee. il *$2 (2c)
Appleton
20–6287
Portygee is the old Cape Cod term for foreigner expressive of both
contempt and suspicion. It is applied with all its hidden meaning to
Albert Miguel Carlos Speranza, when he comes to live with his
grandparents, old sea captain Zelotes Snow and his wife, after the
death of his father, a Spanish opera singer. The latter had eloped
with the captain’s only daughter, who had died unforgiven by the old
man. Albert, aged seventeen, fresh from a fashionable New York school,
has much to live down and to live up to in South Harniss: his
inclination to write poetry and his dislike for business, in the first
place; and his grandfather’s expectations of him in the second. Little
by little and with struggles on both sides, that endear the two
leading characters to the reader, both win out. Albert comes to occupy
first place in the old man’s heart and is no longer a Portygee, while
he gains his own ends, becomes an author, a war hero, and marries the
best girl in town.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20
“The reader of ‘The Portygee’ will find within its pages a somewhat
conventional story, but he will find also, as in everything Mr Lincoln
has written, a sure understanding of the people of Cape Cod, and an
entertaining chronicle of its life and scenes.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 24 ’20 1500w
“Another inimitable Cape Cod story.”
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 40w
“He can tell a very good story, as he does in ‘The Portygee,’ his
psychology, tho somewhat obvious, is true, but his thoroly ‘wholesome’
humor lacks the faintest alleviation of subtlety. Cape Cod deserves a
better interpreter.”
+ − =Ind= 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 100w
“‘The Portygee’ is a pleasant, amusing little story, which Mr
Lincoln’s admirers will no doubt greatly enjoy.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:219 My 2 ’20 480w
“There is hearty fun in the book, and there is also sound philosophy
and fine Americanism.”
+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 140w
“This book brings back the smell of the moors, the salt sea, and the
thick encompassing fogs.” Katharine Oliver
+ =Pub W= 97:1287 Ap 17 ’20 240w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 60w
“A pleasant tale, which will be enjoyed by all lovers of Lincoln.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:126 Je ’20 80w
=LINCOLN, NATALIE SUMNER.= Red seal. il *$1.75 (3c) Appleton
20–4266
A burglar forces his way into a fashionable Washington home, is caught
and taken to court where the McIntyre twins, whose house he had
entered, appear against him. His sudden death in the courtroom demands
an inquest and an autopsy, which reveal the fact that Jimmie Turnbull,
cashier of the Metropolis Trust Company, while masquerading as a
burglar, was killed by poison. His engagement to Helen McIntyre
complicates the situation. Harry Kent, lover of the twin sister
Barbara, takes up the case. Missing securities and a mysterious
envelope sealed with a red B further complicate matters. The
characters all suspect one another and the reader suspects everyone in
turn. Eventually Harry Kent solves the mystery, and the miserable
shoulders of the clever forger take the guilt of all phases of the
perplexing crime.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20
“There is nothing unusually clever in the structure of the story. By
concealing essential facts, by raising a new question with every
incident, and by answering none, the author puzzles rather than
creates suspense. The story is indeed so confusing as to be in danger
of being tiresome.” G. H. C.
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 300w
“‘The red seal’ has the great merit of being really mysterious. The
author has managed very cleverly in the way she contrives to conceal
all clues that might lead one to discover the true culprit, holding
them back until the very end. The tale moves swiftly and holds the
reader’s interest.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 360w
“As in so many cinema plots, everyone seems to be ready to believe
anything about anybody, to act in the most compromising manner for
apparently inadequate motives, and to prevaricate with voluble
insincerity at all times and in all places. With such allies at her
disposal, Miss Lincoln makes so formidable a defence of her mystery
that only the most experienced reader will penetrate it before the
time appointed for unveiling.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 220w
=LIND, WALLACE LUDWIG.=[2] Internal-combustion engines. il $2.20 Ginn
621.43
20–6497
The author has treated of internal combustion engines, their
principles and application to automobile, aircraft, and marine
purposes. “The endeavor has been to arrange and present the subject
matter in such a manner as to bring it well within the comprehension
of the average student. For more advanced students, who have a
knowledge of thermodynamics, the writer has presented in Chapter III
the theoretical considerations of the various cycles which are
applicable to internal-combustion engines.” (Preface) There are 120
illustrations, a trouble chart and an index.
* * * * *
“For its purpose the book is very well suited: the theoretical work is
sufficiently elementary, and the sections describing practice,
although apparently slight, are just such as young cadets can grasp
and appreciate.”
+ =Nature= 106:210 O 14 ’20 180w
=LINDEN, HERMAN VANDER.=[2] Belgium, the making of a nation; tr. by
Sybil Jane. (Histories of the nations ser.) *$3.75 Oxford 949.3
(Eng ed 20–9824)
“This volume is a translation of Professor H. vander Linden’s ‘Vue
générale de l’histoire de Belgique’ with the addition of three
chapters dealing with the history of the modern kingdom since 1831,
written specially for this English edition. The original title tells
us that the reader must not expect to find in this work more than a
historical sketch. The writer makes no higher claim for it.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Monographs are valuable if their scope be limited, but any small
volume covering centuries has the defects of its qualities. In this
instance the reader might have gained had the author limited himself
to a consideration of modern Belgium. The later chapters are richer
in individuality and indicate what the author can do in
character-sketches.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:355 Ja ’21 420w
=Ath= p76 Jl 16 ’20 640w
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:629 O ’20 120w
“The best portions of this book are the numerous sections dealing with
the social and economical conditions and progress of the Belgic
provinces at various epochs of their chequered history. The strictly
historical narrative does not deserve the same unqualified praise.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p344 Je 3 ’20 1650w
=LINDERMAN, FRANK BIRD.= On a passing frontier. *$1.75 Scribner
20–10052
“These glimpses of past or passing phases of life in Montana get a
sure grip on the reader, in spite of their sombre quality. Bad men,
bad language, and bad whisky figure prominently in the sketches, but
most of the experiences ring true.” (Outlook) “His characters run the
usual gamut of western tales, and each possesses a picturesque
individuality, correctly shaded.” (Boston Transcript)
* * * * *
“These sketches of the Little Rockies will rank well in the front
class of fiction.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 160w
“The stuff of good literature, though not in any final form, appears
in ‘On a passing frontier,’ short stories without too much art, but
also without too much decoration, which bring the Little Rockies very
near home.”
+ =Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 70w
=LINDSAY, MAUD MCKNIGHT.= Bobby and the big road. il *$1.50 (9c) Lothrop
20–26565
Bobby has always lived in the city but when he is five years old his
father and mother take him to live in a little brown house by the side
of a country road. The story tells of his little adventures while
making friends with the birds and animals and flowers. He makes other
friends too and goes to the circus and spends a happy Christmas. The
story is suitable for children who have just learned to read.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20
+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 30w
“It is meant for little folks like Bobby, but the book has a charm for
grown-up readers, too.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 29 ’20 140w
=LINDSAY, NICHOLAS VACHEL.= Golden whales of California; and other
rhymes in the American language. *$1.75 Macmillan 811
20–2832
In addition to the title piece this volume contains poems on Bryan,
John L. Sullivan and Roosevelt; also The Daniel jazz, Rameses II,
Kalamazoo, My fathers came from Kentucky, The empire of China is
crumbling down, and others.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20
“Mr Lindsay’s verse makes a blatantly self-conscious attempt to be
primitive. His is a mannered striving to be ‘natural’—and the studio
savagery of his method would doubtless alarm a genuinely primitive
people, as it entertains a jaded coterie of the over-refined.” R. M.
Weaver
− + =Bookm= 51:453 Je ’20 650w
“With this volume Mr Lindsay certainly regains all he seems to have
lost in his previous collection, and he now settles permanently in the
very forefront of the half a dozen contemporary poets whose fame will
last beyond the generation in which they were born.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 1500w
=Cleveland= p52 My ’20 100w
“Two impulses dominate Lindsay’s latest volume; two tendencies that
are almost opposed in mood and mechanics. Sometimes the Jerusalem
theme is uppermost; sometimes the jazz orchestration drowns everything
else. Frequently, in the more successful pieces, there is a racy,
ragtime blend of both. But a half-ethical, half-aesthetic indecision,
an inability to choose between what most delights Lindsay and what his
hearers prefer is the outstanding effect—and defect—of his new
collection.” L: Untermeyer
+ − =Dial= 68:789 Je ’20 1200w
“There is an impression abroad that ‘The golden whales’ falls a little
below ‘General William Booth,’ ‘The Congo,’ and ‘The Santa Fe trail.’
It does do that; yet it stands well up among Mr Lindsay’s better
poems, which is to say, among the better poems of contemporary
America.” M. V. D.
+ =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 350w
“In this volume it is poems like Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan and
Kalamazoo and The golden whales and The comet of prophecy and My lady
is compared to a young tree and The statue of old Andrew Jackson and
the Roosevelt poems and the Alexander Campbell poems which show the
increasing self-possession of a singer who really lives with wonder
and abides with dreams. The fascination of Lindsay is that this wonder
and these dreams are drawn from common American life.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 21:321 F 11 ’20 1300w
“‘The golden whales’ is a book thoroughly alive, thoroughly jolly and
thoroughly fit for chanting in typical Vachelese. His idiom, as well
as his whimsical exaggeration, roars on every page.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 400w
“The book, taken by and large, might be a parody on Mr Lindsay, all
the Mr Lindsays.... And yet one knows very well what has happened. The
superstition has got him, the group-consciousness has sucked him down.
Mr Lindsay has listened too readily to his kind public, his critical
faculty, never strong, has been smoked and blurred by incense.” Amy
Lowell
− + =N Y Times= 25:251 My 16 ’20 2850w
“In this writer there have always been two elements: the poet, and
what I shall unceremoniously, but not disrespectfully, call the
urchin.... The poet and the urchin lived apart: they could not find
each other. They have found each other, in my judgment, in the ‘Golden
whales,’ and their meeting is the signal for Mr Lindsay’s emergence
into the upper air of song.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 2:518 My 15 ’20 700w
“Many persons have become needlessly alarmed and excited over Mr
Lindsay’s importance as a poet. He is original, very original, both in
form and in substance, and he is exhilarating—if it be only the
exhilaration induced by the jingling tambourine.... The new book shows
Mr Lindsay performing at top speed—facile, self-confident, clever,
sometimes brilliant, his viewpoints as healthy and entertaining as
ever.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 1 ’20 480w
“Mr Lindsay’s ‘The golden whales of California’ is a disappointment.
In this volume, the exuberance of spirit seems artificial, a
mannerism; we weary of what the poet calls the ‘jazz bird’s screech’
and ‘monkey-shines and didoes.’” E: B. Reed
− + =Yale R= n s 10:203 O ’20 150w
=LINDSEY, BENJAMIN BARR, and O’HIGGINS, HARVEY JERROLD.= Doughboy’s
religion, and other aspects of our day. *$1.25 (8c) Harper 940.478
20–1683
In his introduction Harvey J. O’Higgins, giving an appreciation and
brief survey of Judge Lindsey’s career, says that it is as an advocate
of a moral alliance that he speaks in the book—“for although the
actual writing of the book has been a work of collaboration, the
message is his message and the spirit of its utterance is, as nearly
as possible, his.” This is the message: “The Christian religion is not
a religion of individual salvation and selfish virtue. It is a
religion of love and self-sacrifice and humility.” It is a religion of
doing rather than of church-going and the American junker will have to
accept it if the lessons of the war are to be fruitful ones. The four
essays of the book are: The doughboy’s religion; The junker faith;
Horses’ rights for women; A league of understanding.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20
“There has been so much nonsense about the religion of the American
soldier written and spoken by members of the Y. M. C. A. that it is
refreshing to hear the subject treated intelligently by a real man. It
is not strange that the famous judge of the juvenile court should be
the man to understand the doughboy as others have failed to understand
him.” G. H. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 600w
“The publication, at this date, seems to be an afterthought. However,
the book will have some interest, since it presents the thoughts of a
man so well-known as Judge Lindsey.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:540 Jl ’20 140w
“These essays are thought-provoking and written with Judge Lindsey’s
usual fiery sincerity.”
+ =Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 120w
“Judge Lindsey spares no one in his discussion and is judicious in his
summary of the case.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 10 ’20 450w
=LIPPMANN, WALTER.= Liberty and the news. *$1 (7c) Harcourt 323
20–4814
Two essays, on What modern liberty means and Liberty and the news, are
here reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, prefaced by a brief
introductory essay on Journalism and the higher law. In the latter the
author says, “Everywhere today men are conscious that somehow they
must deal with questions more intricate than any that church or school
had prepared them to understand. Increasingly they know that they
cannot understand them if the facts are not quickly and steadily
available. Increasingly they are baffled because the facts are not
available; and they are wondering whether government by consent can
survive in a time when the manufacture of consent is an unregulated
private enterprise. For in an exact sense the present crisis of
western democracy is a crisis in journalism.” The aim of the two main
essays is “to describe the character of the problem, and to indicate
headings under which it may be found useful to look for remedies.”
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:263 My ’20
“Mr Lippmann’s contribution is neither a panegyric nor a tirade. He
has approached a perplexing problem in dispassionate, sane and
judicial fashion and with a beneficent purpose.” H: L. West
+ =Bookm= 52:116 O ’20 950w
=Ind= 102:370 Je 12 ’20 160w
=Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 90w
Reviewed by H. J. Laski
=Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 480w
“Mr Walter Lippmann is one of the editors of the New Republic, and
consequently may be presumed to know all about liberty; but he has
never been a newspaper man and, while he knows a good deal about news,
most of what he knows is not true.”
− =N Y Times= 25:129 Mr 21 ’20 3200w
“The programme which the author proffers is a worthy one. Would that
it could be attained! Progress toward its attainment will, however,
require considerable soul-searching and inner reformation on the part
of responsible persons connected with the handling of the news; and
this is likely to require rather large drafts on the bank of time.” W.
J. Ghent
+ =Review= 2:571 My 29 ’20 1250w
“However much one may disagree with some of Mr Lippmann’s statements
and views, there is no doubt that he renders a public service by
directing his critical mind to the press and its influence. It is
courageous thinking of this kind that will help the public to become
more exacting in its demand on the press.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 1300w
“A calm, impersonal and general survey.” J. G. McDonald
+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 320w
=LISLE, CLIFTON.= Diamond rock. il *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt
20–16154
A boys’ story of the revolutionary war. The Quaker settlement in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, had been very remote from the scene of
war and had taken little interest in its progress, but with the battle
of the Brandywine in the summer of 1777, it is brought close to them.
On that very day Joe Lockhart, fishing along the creek, encounters an
attractive stranger who teaches him how to catch trout with a worm.
Later Joe and his chum, Amos Rambo, pick up a paper which shows the
stranger to have been a spy. Joe carries the evidence to Washington’s
headquarters and reports and is sent on a mission thru the British
lines. He meets the stranger again and learns that he is a spy on the
right side. Thereafter the two boys see something of all the stirring
events that follow, including the Paoli massacre.
=LITCHFIELD, PAUL WEEKS.= Industrial republic. *$1 (8c) Houghton 331.1
20–10139
The booklet is a study in industrial economics by the vice-president
and factory manager of the Goodyear Tire and rubber company.
Government and management, says the author, are synonymous terms, the
one being applied to the political, the other to the industrial world
and the war has focussed attention on the faults of both. After a
brief outline of the evolution of capital and the wage system and its
present antagonism the author points out the necessity of giving labor
the control of the management of an industry while safe-guarding the
interests of capital. In illustration he describes the Goodyear
representation plan. Contents: Expansion of political democracy; The
labor-capital opposition—genesis and growth; Present status of the
labor-capital opposition; Clues to the solution; Rights involve
duties; The industrial republic; Industrial citizenship; The Goodyear
representation plan.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:54 N ’20
“The book should prove of real interest to social workers and to
business men. It maintains a consistent point of view throughout and
develops logically to its conclusion.” Alexander Fleisher
+ =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 140w
=LITERARY= digest history of the world war; comp. by Francis W. Halsey.
10v il with subscription to Literary digest *$12 Funk 940.3
20–646
“This work covers the titanic struggle as it was fought on land, by
sea, in the air, on all fronts in all parts of the world, by the
thirty nations involved in the conflict. The first six volumes deal
chiefly with the outbreak of the war and its causes, and the long and
bitter struggle on the western front, including America’s entrance and
participation, and carrying the story down to the signing of the
armistice, the occupation of the Rhine valley, and the meeting of the
peace conference in Paris. The seventh is devoted to Russia’s share in
the war, the revolution, the Brest-Litovsk treaty, and the rule of the
Bolsheviki. In the eighth is to be found the story of the war in the
Balkans, Turkey, and Palestine, while the ninth deals with Italy’s war
effort and the story of the submarine warfare. The tenth contains the
history of sea battles and of commerce raiding, an adequate
description of the work of the Peace conference, sketches of fifty
military and political leaders, a chronology that fills forty pages,
and an index to the whole work. The volumes are all copiously
illustrated.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The internal political events in the various countries are nearly
altogether neglected, except of course the revolutions in Russia,
Germany, and Austria-Hungary. In this method of treatment there can be
only a feeble attempt to evaluate the significance of the various
factors entering into the huge conflict. The account lacks, too, as is
natural, the simple direct style of Usher’s ‘Story of the great war.’
Nevertheless it is a comprehensive piece of work well done and
extremely well suited to the clientele to whom it is directed.” G: F.
Zook
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:720 Jl ’20 670w
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
=Bookm= 51:115 Mr ’20 80w
=N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 100w
“Mr Halsey approached his task with a true perspective and justly saw
and accurately described the part taken by each nation involved in its
due relation to the whole conflict and the final victory.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:172 Ap 11 ’20 1250w
“The present work is certainly full of fine material and will itself
be constantly and permanently valuable for reference and study.”
+ =Outlook= 123:515 D 17 ’19 200w
“In common justice to the author, we must give him praise for his
skill in so reducing, condensing, and digesting the immense mass of
material at his command as to produce a continuous and even
narrative.”
+ =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 320w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 15 ’20 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 D 4 ’20 150w (Review of v 10)
=LIVERMORE, GEORGE GRISWOLD.=[2] Take it from Dad. il *$2 Macmillan 817
20–21986
Letters from a father to his son in preparatory school, letters full
of friendly advice and good counsel with a mixture of homely anecdote
from the father’s experience. There are amusing illustrations by Bert
Salg.
* * * * *
“A new kind of boys’ book—and a good kind, too.”
+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 60w
“It is not difficult to imagine that fathers with boys of eighteen
will find Mr Soule an altogether enjoyable companion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 4 ’21 240w
=LIVERMORE, THOMAS LEONARD.= Days and events, 1860–1866. il *$6 (3c)
Houghton 973.7
20–5734
This posthumous book, published by the author’s family and recording
Colonel Livermore’s experiences in the Civil war, was begun
immediately after the conclusion of the war, while its events were
still fresh in his mind. Henry M. Rogers in his introduction gives a
brief sketch of the author’s life.
* * * * *
“Colonel Livermore has been known for a long time by his work on
‘Numbers and losses in the Civil war,’ which has been one of the most
valuable contributions to our military history. The work now before us
is of an entirely different character and reflects the ability of the
author from a new and no less interesting angle.” Eben Swift
+ =Am Hist R= 25:734 Jl ’20 600w
“The volume ought to take its place as a real ‘source book’ for
commentators on the history of that conflict. There is much of
entertainment in the narrative, which is frank to a degree and often
vigorous, fresh, and significant in its criticisms.”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 100w
=LIVINGSTON, ROBERT.= Land of the great out-of-doors. il *$1.75 (9c)
Houghton
20–17525
When they are about five and six years old, Penrose and Penelope,
known as Pen and Penny, are taken to the country to live on a farm.
This little story tells of their daily life, beginning in the spring
time and continuing to Christmas. In some of the chapters Pen tells of
his doings, in others Penny gives her view of things. The colored
pictures are by Maurice Day.
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w
“The impersonator frequently forgets, in his desire to have the
valuable information imparted, that he is under contract to use the
speech of childhood. However, the stories will undoubtedly find favor
with the little folk, and their atmosphere is fresh and wholesome.” M.
H. B. Mussey
+ − =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w
“It will prove excellent to read aloud, or to give to children who are
just beginning to read for themselves.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 80w
=LOCK, H. O.=[2] Conquerors of Palestine through forty centuries. *$3
Dutton 956.9
20–4566
“The history begins with the ancient Egyptians, relates the campaigns
and conquests of the Jews, the Assyrians and Babylonians, the Greeks,
Romans, Arabs, the picturesque warriors of the Crusades, the French,
and then the British. The intervening history is briefly sketched, to
make a connected narrative. The book has an introduction by Field
Marshal Viscount Allenby, commander-in-chief of the British forces in
Palestine.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Major Lock has produced a readable sketch of a large subject. The map
attached to the book is ingeniously contrived to illustrate the many
periods of history on which Major Lock touches.”
+ =Spec= 122:86 Ja 17 ’20 100w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 6 ’20 60w
=LOCKE, GLADYS EDSON.= Ronald o’ the moors. il *$1.75 (2½c) Four seas
co.
20–94
This historical novel is staged on the Dartmoor bogs in the reign of
George II. Dartmoor was a hot-bed of Jacobite sympathy, and Sir Roger
Hetherington had been sent down from the court of St James to guard
Penraven Castle, the center of Jacobite activity, and to capture wild
Ronald o’ the moors, a highwayman and night rider who made Hanoverians
his particular prey. Sir Roger was far from welcome at Penraven
Castle, indeed he soon realized that he was in the midst of bitter
enemies. What made the success of his undertaking even more doubtful,
however, was the fact that he at once lost his heart to Lady Edris
Penraven, the mistress of the castle he was sent to spy upon, and that
Ronald seemed to be as elusive as the will o’ the wisps that flitted
over the moor. Altogether Sir Roger’s plans did not work out just as
he had shaped them, but the end of the story, altho it leaves him
exiled in France, yet brings him happiness as well, since he shares
Lady Edris’s fate.
* * * * *
“The book is about on a par with the average of its class, fiction of
which the authors seem to be under the impression that vital interest
is imparted by a liberal supply of oaths and expletives, and the use
of archaic language whether appropriate to the period or otherwise.”
− + =Cath World= 111:408 Je ’20 140w
=LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN.= House of Baltazar. *$1.90 (2c) Lane
20–26105
The hero is a man of great intellectual power, dynamic physical energy
and sudden quixotic impulses. After he has spent eighteen years of
voluntary exile in China—self imposed because he fears to compromise
the girl he loves—and two years of hermitlike seclusion on the moor
with a fascinating and erudite young Chinese student, a German bomb
from a zeppelin shocks him into a dazed knowledge of the European war.
Wide awake, action hungry, he scorns his former achievements as a
mathematical genius and brilliant Chinese scholar, plunges into
political activities, gets “hitched on to” the war, and becomes the
man of the hour. The old distasteful personal ties are broken through
his wife’s death and the lapse of the years. New ones are forged and
he learns that he has a fine son of whom he had not even dreamed. Life
in London has become sweet and full and he desires no change. But once
more the quixotic impulse asserts itself—a sacrifice becomes necessary
for the sake of his officer son’s career, and he is off to China
again.
* * * * *
“A typically interesting Locke story. The book ends rather weakly.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20
“Mr Locke has written many stories better than ‘The house of
Baltazar,’ but there are few of them in which his neglected
opportunities were greater. The truth is that he, like many other
novelists, is obsessed by the necessity of making the war and its
far-reaching effects a part of his fiction.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 1260w
+ =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 20w
+ =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“But, after all, it is Baltazar himself who is the book, and he is
always a joy.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:38 Ja 25 ’20 1150w
+ =Outlook= 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 200w
“A captious reader might complain that Mr Locke has tried to do too
many things at once, that a single novel simply has not sufficient
space to include the big issues of feminism, profiteering, labour
unrest and the thousand and one elements of contemporary social
upheaval. But Mr Locke’s readers are not inclined to be captious.” F.
T. Cooper
+ − =Pub W= 97:173 Ja 17 ’20 550w
“The writing is pleasant and workmanlike, and the way in which the
elder woman of the story is led to reknit her broken romance is
exceedingly well imagined.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:477 My 22 ’20 130w
“Mr Locke has given us an ingenious and amusing story, but gratitude
for this gift cannot prevent even an indolent reviewer from protesting
mildly against the strain he has imposed on our credulity.”
+ − =Spec= 124:462 Ap 3 ’20 550w
“Baltazar is very likeable in his forceful domineering strength, and
Marcelle is a charming foil to his powerful personality. The lighter
element is supplied by the Chinaman.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 650w
“Mr W. J. Locke goes on his way regardless of the limits between the
probable and the improbable. John Baltazar stretches the credulity of
the reader to the utmost from the moment that he enters on the scene.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p139 F 26 ’20 550w
=LOCKEY, JOSEPH BYRNE.= Pan-Americanism: its beginnings. *$5 Macmillan
327
20–7662
The author’s preface points out that Pan-Americanism has passed
through three periods, the first, characterized by a tendency toward
solidarity, the second, by an opposite tendency toward separation and
distrust, the third marked by a revival of the earlier trend. This
book is devoted to the first of these periods, extending to about 1830
and embracing the years of revolution and the formation of new states.
The eleven chapters are devoted to: Meaning of Pan-Americanism;
Formation of new states; Failure of monarchical plots; United States
and Hispanic American independence; International complications;
Hispanic America and the Monroe doctrine; Early projects of
continental union; The Panama congress; British influence; Attitude of
the United States; Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. There is a
bibliography of nineteen pages, followed by an index. The work was
completed as an “academic task” at Columbia university under the
direction of Professor John Bassett Moore.
* * * * *
“A thorough and authoritative study.”
+ =Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21
“With the substance of the book little fault can be found. It is
timely and valuable. The arrangement and style are likely, however, to
elicit some adverse criticism. The style abounds in colloquialisms,
redundant words, and inexact expressions. But these slight
imperfections do not seriously detract from or obscure the thought of
an otherwise excellent work.” W: R. Manning
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 30 ’20 870w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 60w
=Spec= 125:471 O 9 ’20 1600w
“Interesting and scholarly study.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 16 ’20 330w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p475 Jl 22 ’20 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 40w
=LOCKINGTON, W. J.= Soul of Ireland; with an introd. by G. K.
Chesterton. *$1.75 Macmillan 941.5
20–824
“The gist of this [book is] that ‘Ireland is a proof, that the whole
world may see, of the joy of life and sanity of outlook that spring
from the Catholic church, the church of the tabernacle’: aliter that
‘the Irishman fearlessly stands before the whole world and
unhesitatingly proclaims that his greatest pride and his greatest
glory is the heritage that was given him by St Patrick—our Holy
Catholic faith.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 40w
=Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20
“Father Lockington employs a bombastic style unfortunately
characteristic of a class of books about Ireland, books against which
nearly all the younger Irish writers have revolted. It is surprising
to find an author of Mr Chesterton’s literary standing writing an
introduction to ‘The soul of Ireland’: readers who care for literature
will be wise to go no further.” N. J. O’C.
− =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 180w
“Long, sickly, sentimental rhapsody, in the rococo style.” Preserved
Smith
− =Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 150w
“It is written in a lofty, almost poetic, style, and a deep religious
fervor pervades it throughout.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 500w
“Even those who stand outside the sacred circle for which he writes
and who can not share the glowing devoutness of his symbolism must be
moved by the enthusiastic tenderness with which this Jesuit priest
idealizes the land of his ministry.” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p679 N 20 ’19 70w
=LODGE, RUPERT CLENDON.= Introduction to modern logic. $2 (1c) Perine
bk. co., 1413 University av., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. 160
20–5668
An introductory text book prepared by an assistant professor of
philosophy in the University of Minnesota. “By ‘modern’ logic is
understood that body of logical theories and methods which is usually
associated with the names of Lotze, Sigwart, Bradley, Bosanquet,
Wundt, Erdmann and Dewey.... The traditional or Aristotelian logic,
which has played so great a part in the past history of thought, is
entirely omitted from consideration, as are also symbolic logic and
the various attempts at inventing a logical calculus. For all such
omissions, as well as for what is included, the sole justification is
the nature of an introductory treatise.” (Preface) The book is in
three parts: Judgment; Inference; and Scientific method. Each chapter
is followed by references and exercises and there is an index to
authorities referred to in the text as well as a general index.
* * * * *
“In this purpose to develop comprehensively the constructive theory of
‘modern logic,’ the author has admirably succeeded. The presentation
marches. Compactness, explicitness, the constant use of illustration,
and clarity in development are its outstanding features.” C. I. Lewis
+ − =J Philos= 17:498 Ag 26 ’20 1200w
=LOEB, MRS SOPHIE IRENE (SIMON).= Everyman’s child. il *$2 Century 362.7
20–17501
The author is the president of the New York city Board of child
welfare and has personally studied the child welfare work done in
various European countries and in the United States. The book
describes the urgency of state laws to protect the children of the
poor and what has already been done in that direction through the
Widow’s pension law. Among the contents are: The cry of the children;
What is being accomplished; Homes instead of institutions for the
children of Uncle Sam; Importance of home life to children; How
children keep out of children’s court; How the other half dies; The
unwanted child; Boarded-out children. There are illustrations and an
appendix.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20
“Miss Loeb’s book is written with care and out of her manifold
experience; but it is written also in enthusiasm. The book represents
the most progressive thoughts on these problems and is worthy of a
careful reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 290w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 40w
=LOFTING, HUGH.= Story of Dr Dolittle; being the history of his peculiar
life at home and astonishing adventures in foreign parts. il *$2.25
Stokes
20–18925
A very jolly nonsense story. Dr Dolittle loves animals and fills his
house with queer pets, to the dismay of many of his patients. His
sister warns him that if he keeps on none of the best people will have
him for a doctor. But he loves animals better than he does the best
people and the result is that his practice all falls off. So he gives
up being a people’s doctor to become an animal doctor. He learns their
language, Polynesia his parrot acting as his teacher. When the
opportunity comes to go to Africa to cure the monkeys of a strange
disease he is ready for it, and there he has most curious and
interesting adventures. The illustrations are by the author.
* * * * *
“The most delightful nonsense story of the year.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 360w
“An invigorating, fascinating tale, its quaintness enhanced by the
droll illustrations.”
+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 60w
“It is a pleasant surprise to open a volume whose illustrations appeal
because of their inherent nonsense, and to find the author, who is as
well the illustrator, maintaining a delightful sense of proportion in
his imagination.”
+ =Lit D= p89 D 4 ’20 200w
“This is the best ‘animal’ story we remember to have come across in a
long time, imbued with a real love and understanding of animals and
with a humor which is fresh and quaint.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p19 D 4 ’20 240w
“Is as fascinating as it is queer.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 250w
=LOMAX, JOHN AVERY, comp.= Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp; with
a foreword by William Lyon Phelps. *$1.75 Macmillan 811.08
19–18742
“Those who enjoyed the rough but hearty lyrics in ‘Cowboy songs, and
other frontier ballads’ will wish to read these later collections by
the same author, now working under a Harvard fellowship. The later
volume has no music scores, and many of the poems can definitely be
assigned to authors, among them, Charles Badger Clark, jr. and Herbert
H. Knibbs.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20
“Some of these pieces are clearly as spurious as are the seventeenth
century lyrics of Strephon and Colin. Others are more true to life.”
+ − =Nation= 110:306 Mr 6 ’20 280w
“Whatever may be the literary poverty of the verse in Mr Lomax’s book,
the poems are true to type. Many of the ‘Songs of the cattle trail’
are worth little, perhaps, in themselves. Collected, they form both a
picture and a plea: a picture of a vitally individual and
highly-colored life that is rapidly fading into the monotone of a
mechanical civilization; a plea for a deeper, finer art-interpretation
of that life.” Natalie Curtis
+ =Nation= 111:591 N 24 ’20 2200w
“It is a pleasure to read verse that is unpretentiously natural, in
which something happens, and in which nature is allowed to seem as
robust and hearty as she really is. Professor Lomax has done well by
his country in presenting these rough songs of adventure in the West.”
Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 550w
“The volume is essentially a book of the soil, truly interpretative of
an element of our national life which has practically faded away.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 26 ’20 500w
“This new collection of songs written by and for cowboys is more
interpretive of the American spirit than the third-rate material from
Greenwich village with which most of our literary periodicals fill
their pages. Somewhat surprising, perhaps, to those whose idea of its
life is taken from films and fiction, is the chastity of thought and
diction in this folk-literature of the Far West. Its realism, and
often its humor, is altogether delightful.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 43:555 F 7 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 60w
=LOMBARDI, CYNTHIA.= Cry of youth. *$2 (1½c) Appleton
20–5773
Margaret Randolph, an American girl alone in Rome, meets Fra Felice
Estori, a young Franciscan monk. He is as beautiful as a youthful god
and quite ignorant of the ways of the world, for almost all his life
has been spent within monastery walls. Margaret is also a devout
Catholic and she knows their meetings are unwise but the two are drawn
irresistibly together until both are faced with the fact of their love
and the necessity for separation. The young monk, altho he has not
taken his final vows, is to be sent to South America on a mission.
With breaking hearts they part. But an artist friend who takes an
interest in the two tricks them into coming to his lonely mountain
castle and leaves them there alone. The outcome is that they resolve
never to part and Fra Felice becomes lost to the world. Then follows
the strange story of their lonely life, the birth and death of their
child, separation, misunderstanding and final reunion, with the
ancient title of Prince Estori restored to its rightful owner.
* * * * *
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 270w
=LONDON, JACK.=[2] Brown Wolf, and other Jack London stories; as chosen
by Franklin K. Mathiews. il *$1.75 (2c) Macmillan
21–380
These stories have been collected into one volume by the chief scout
librarian of the Boy scouts of America, in the hope that they will
serve to exercise both the boy’s mind and conscience by teaching him
to see and feel life and nature as Jack London saw and felt it, and
thereby to develop the emotional muscles of the spirit that open up
new windows to the imagination and add some line or color to life’s
ideals. The stories are: Brown Wolf; That spot; Trust; All gold
canyon; The story of Keesh; Nam-Bok the unveracious; Yellow
handkerchief; Make westing; The heathen; The hobo and the fairy; “Just
meat”; A nose for the king.
=LONDON, JACK.=[2] Hearts of three. *$2.50 Macmillan
20–17822
“A posthumous story by Jack London, in which descendants of the famous
pirate, Sir Henry Morgan, engage in a rival hunt for his treasure
buried somewhere in the South Sea islands.” (Outlook) “‘Hearts of
three’ is not an original work; it is the translation of a scenario by
Mr Charles Goddard, who, as Jack London himself informs us was
responsible for ‘The perils of Pauline,’ ‘The exploits of Elaine,’ and
similar alliterative masterpieces. The result of this collaboration,
as might be supposed, is a novel with a wealth of action, piled up
without discrimination.” (Freeman)
* * * * *
“It has occasional moments of good writing when Jack London, the
novelist, snatches the pen away—impatiently and not without
considerable vexation, one likes to imagine—from the scenario-writer.”
L. B.
− + =Freeman= 2:285 D 1 ’20 170w
=N Y Times= p24 D 26 ’20 300w
“The idea of the tale is bold and its execution is spirited.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 40w
=LONES, THOMAS EAST.= Zinc and its alloys. (Pitman’s common commodities
and industries) il $1 Pitman 669.5
GS20–328
The preface points out important changes in the zinc industry due to
the war. The chapters then take up: Zinc: its history, properties, and
uses; Zinc ores and other sources of zinc; Dressing zinc ores;
Calcining and roasting zinc ores; Zinc smelting; Hydrometallurgical
processes; Alloys of zinc. The book is illustrated with twenty-three
figures and is indexed.
* * * * *
“The book possesses the virtues of being up to date and reasonable in
price.”
+ =Engineer= 129:301 Mr 19 ’20 100w
“An excellent example of what such books ought to be. It is a pity
that the author did not keep clear altogether of chemical equations,
which he might easily have done in a purely popular treatise, as he
has been somewhat unfortunate in their use. In a future edition the
author might with advantage devote a little space to the galvanising
of iron.”
+ − =Nature= 105:193 Ap 15 ’20 350w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p34 Ap ’20 100w
+ =Pratt= p18 O ’20 20w
=LONG, WILLIAM JOSEPH.= Wood-folk comedies; the play of wild-animal life
on a natural stage. il *$3 (4c) Harper 590.4
20–18326
It is the author’s contention that animal life is from beginning to
end a gladsome comedy; that there is absolutely no such thing as a
struggle for existence in nature; that the woods when they are white
with snow are quite as cheery as the woods of spring or summer; and
that the wood-folk are invincibly cheerful. On this basis the tales
are written and great is the fun thereof. Contents: Morning on
Moosehead; The birds’ table; Fox comedy; Players in sable; Wolves and
wolf tales; Ears for hearing; Health and a day; Night life of the
wilderness; Stories from the trail; Two ends of a bear story; When
beaver meets otter; A night bewitched; The trail of the loup-garou;
From a beaver lodge; Comedians all. There are eight illustrations in
color.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20
“Very readable.”
+ =Spec= 125:822 D 18 ’20 30w
“Mr Long is least satisfying when he is forcing the note of
sentimental optimism (‘animal life is from beginning to end a gladsome
comedy’), and best worth reading when he tells a plain tale of
animals’ habits or adventures in the landscapes which he describes so
well.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p833 D 9 ’20 150w
=LONGSTRETH, THOMAS MORRIS.= Mac of Placid. *$1.90 (1½c) Century
20–14293
Mr Longstreth, who has written a book on the Adirondacks, as well as
one on the Catskills, here makes his appearance as a novelist. His
hero, Anson MacIntyre, is born in the “wolf winter” of 1869 and he
tells his own story up thru the eighties. His beginnings are not
promising, but two things unite to make a man of him, his deep love
for his native woods and his love for Hallie Brewster. These two
forces and one other, his friendship with R. L. S. For no less person
than Stevenson appears as a character in the story. The two skate
together on Saranac lake and become intimate companions. Mac’s
romantic devotion to Hallie and his rivalry with Ed Touch appeal to
the fiction writer’s imagination and he takes a hand in the wooing.
Other real people, the Bakers and Dr Trudeau, are mentioned in the
story.
* * * * *
“Lovers of Stevenson, the man, must add ‘Mac of Placid’ to the volumes
of Stevensonia which have been accumulating so rapidly in the past
decade.... The fundamental difficulty with Mr Longstreth’s book is
that his characters, no matter how real to him, even though they may
be actually alive, often fail to live.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 29 ’20 780w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 98:659 S 18 ’20 270w
“The portrayal of Stevenson is vivid. Not the least interesting detail
of the work is the colorful description of the Adirondack country and
the rigorous joys of a winter there.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 240w
=LOONEY, J. THOMAS.= “Shakespeare” identified. *$5 Stokes 822.3
20–7795
A book written to prove that the plays of Shakespeare were written by
Edward de Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford. The author states that his
interest in the problem was awakened after years of study of “The
merchant of Venice,” thru which he gained “a peculiar sense of
intimacy with the mind and disposition of its author.” Convinced that
this author had nothing in common with William Shakespeare of
Stratford he set about finding the contemporary who best met the
requirements. His search led him to Edward de Vere. The one play which
does not fit into his scheme is “The tempest.” The book has a
frontispiece portrait and an index.
* * * * *
“The effort of Mr Looney to solve this conflict is a little
unfortunate in some respects, though most interesting in many others.
A schoolmaster by profession, he is inclined to speak like one. Mr
Looney thinks he has proved his theory. Of course, he has not. But he
has opened most promising vistas, and it is to be hoped that his leads
will be followed up.” Edwin Björkman
+ − =Bookm= 51:677 Ag ’20 3350w
“Mr Looney’s dominant fault is that his work is wholly inferential.
However much we may be convinced that De Vere, had he been a genius,
might have written such plays as Shakespeare’s, there is no tangible
fact to connect them with him.” Joseph Krutch
− =Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 580w
“The argument connecting Oxford with the Shakespearean plays has the
abundance of strained literary and personal analogies, and the amazing
absence of common sense which characterize most Baconian endeavors.”
J: Corbin
− =N Y Times= 25:18 Je 27 ’20 1600w
“The volume appears to have all the paraphernalia of scholarship but
little of its critical spirit.”
− =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 220w
=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 90w
− =Sat R= 129:308 Mr 27 ’20 800w
“That we cannot agree with his conclusions we attribute partly to some
grave defects which seem to us to exist in his reasoning, and partly
to some general considerations which he appears to have overlooked.”
− =Spec= 124:425 Mr 27 ’20 1500w
“Mr Looney’s honesty enables us to see, a little more clearly than was
evident from the essays of previous adventurers of the same kind, how
this zeal for attributing the plays and poems of Shakespeare to some
titled contemporary originates and grows.... Unencumbered by any
inconvenient knowledge at first hand of what he is writing about, Mr
Looney proceeds to build up his case very easily. Almost any man’s
life could be illustrated from Shakespeare’s plays, and Mr Looney
makes them illustrate the life of the Earl of Oxford.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p149 Mr 4 ’20 1550w
=LORD, ARTHUR.= Plymouth and the Pilgrims. *$1.50 Houghton 974.4
20–19250
This book comprises the Colver lectures for 1920 given at Brown
university. The three lectures are entitled: Plymouth before the
Pilgrims; The Pilgrims before Plymouth, and Plymouth and the Pilgrims.
The first discusses “some of the political, geographical, and legal
conditions which determined the settlement at Plymouth”; the second
considers “some of the economic, social, and religious influences
which directed and shaped the Pilgrim migration from England and
Holland to the New World.” The third lecture takes up those incidents
of special interest in Pilgrim history which may be useful in
considering present problems and may “perhaps serve to illustrate in
what particulars the lives and examples of the Pilgrims have
contributed in shaping the American policy.” Mr Lord is president of
the Pilgrim society and chairman of the Pilgrim tercentenary
commission.
* * * * *
“Mr Lord throughout displays the depth of his legal attainments.” E.
J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 27 ’20 460w
“Altogether, the book moves swiftly and is well documented. Perhaps,
however, his sympathy with the movement inclines him to an
overestimate of the Pilgrim attitude toward freedom of worship.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 180w
=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 50w
“An outline of the essential facts the American citizen must know if
he is to celebrate intelligently the landing of the Mayflower.”
+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 200w
=LORD, KATHARINE.= Little playbook. *$1.50 Duffield 812
20–9126
The plays have frequently been produced by the author and others and
are intended for the needs of schools, clubs, settlements and
playgrounds. Pantomime and dancing play a large part in them and music
is desirable, but they do not require elaborate staging or costumes.
In the introduction the author gives advice and suggestions for their
production in order to insure the greatest amount of self-expression
on the part of the children. The plays are: The greatest gift (a
Christmas play); Katjens’ garden; June magic (a little play for the
garden); The minister’s dream (a Thanksgiving fantasy); The day Will
Shakspere went to Kenilworth (a pageant play); The Yuletide rose (a
Christmas miracle play). Directions for the scenery and costumes are
given at the end of each play.
* * * * *
“All of the plays are written in an amusing and simple manner and
should prove a delight for children.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 200w
=LOREBURN, ROBERT THRESHIRE REID. 1st earl.= How the war came. *$3 (3c)
Knopf 940.311
(Eng ed 19–15817)
The book is a plea for open diplomacy under all conditions. Although
the author puts the immediate responsibility for the war on the
shoulders of the military power of Germany, he shows that the indirect
but more fundamental cause is to be found in the clandestine
transactions in the foreign affairs of all countries. He throws much
light on the historical antecedents of the war in continental Europe,
and exposes the unprecedented schemes of conquest all over the world
undertaken by England and her allies even during the war itself.
Contents: Introductory; Storm centre in the Balkans; Storm centre in
Alsace-Lorraine; Great Britain is drawn into a French alliance;
Attitude of Great powers in 1914; How the continent came to war; How
Great Britain came into the war; Sir Edward Grey’s speech on 3rd
August 1914; Belgium; Was it inevitable? Remedies; Appendix (Sir E.
Grey’s speech on 3rd August 1914); Map of the Balkans.
* * * * *
=Ath= p932 S 19 ’19 200w
“Whatever be one’s personal views upon this thesis, it is impossible
not to admit and to admire the ability with which the book is written.
And it has something more than mere ability.” L. W.
+ =Ath= p999 O 10 ’19 500w
+ =Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20
“Lord Loreburn’s pages, an analysis as dispassionate as may be of the
whole miserably intricate business of the telegrams of July, 1914,
destroy whatever remains of the unphilosophic hope that all the evil
was compact and corruptingly on one side.” Sganarelle
+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 150w
“Such an application of commonsense, honesty, and plain speaking
should go far towards allaying the virulence of war hatreds and
deflating national conceits.”
+ − =Nation= 109:826 D 27 ’19 1750w
“If the book is to be regarded merely as a historical essay, still it
is one of the neatest and clearest ever written. Those who do not
believe that the work of peacemaking was completed once for all at
Versailles will place a far higher value on Earl Loreburn’s book.”
Alvin Johnson
+ =New Repub= 21:272 Ja 28 ’20 1850w
“Lord Loreburn has done the present and succeeding generations a real
service by disentangling and rearranging, with all the skill of his
profession, the capital events. Everybody should read the book, though
everybody will not agree with the conclusions of its learned author.”
+ =Sat R= 128:270 S 20 ’19 850w
− =Spec= 123:410 S 27 ’19 240w
“One may dissent from his reading of the facts, but it is impossible
not to respect the admirable forensic temper with which they are
presented.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 S 18 ’19 550w
=LORENTZ, HENDRIK ANTOON.= Einstein theory of relativity. *$1 Brentano’s
530.1
20–5628
“‘The Einstein theory of relativity’ has an introduction of
twenty-four pages reprinted from various sources, followed by a small
forty-page article by Lorentz, translated from a Dutch paper. Lorentz,
it may be added, is one of the greatest of living physicists and came
perilously near anticipating Einstein’s work of fifteen years ago. The
article is devoted almost entirely to the gravitational aspect of
relativity.”—Freeman
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:18 O ’20
=Cleveland= p78 Ag ’20 20w
+ − =Freeman= 1:423 Jl 14 ’20 90w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p37 Ap ’20 30w
=LORIA, ACHILLE.= Karl Marx; authorised tr. from the Italian. *$1.50
(6c) Seltzer 335
21–881
A sketch of Marx’s life and an exposition and criticism of his
doctrines compose Professor Loria’s monograph. The long foreword by
the translators, Eden and Cedar Paul, is an analysis and criticism of
Loria and of Loria’s attitude toward Marx.
* * * * *
“A brilliant appraisal of the life and works of the ‘Father of modern
socialism.’ Contains an excellent foreword by Eden and Cedar Paul.”
+ =Socialist R= 10:29 Ja ’21 70w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 80w
=LORIMER, NORMA OCTAVIA.= With other eyes. *$1.90 Brentano’s
20–8363
“Much of this pleasant story is alluringly set in the ‘Island valley
of Avalon.’ The heroine is of Acadie, and is fittingly named
Evangeline. She and her widowed mother have come from Nova Scotia, and
settle at Glastonbury, where the mother marries an amiable old doctor,
and the daughter falls in love with his son. But while Evangeline is
on a visit to a Welsh manor belonging to her friend, a young clergyman
arrives on the scene. Later after losing a foot at the front, he comes
to an understanding with Evangeline. The story incidentally gives some
sort of answer to the problem whether women ought to be ‘saddled for
life’ with men whom they no longer love or respect, merely because
they have ‘given themselves to their country.’”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p31 Ja 2 ’20 100w
“The story proceeds along lines that remain unhackneyed, even when the
book becomes, virtually, a war novel. It is a grave, thoughtful piece
of work that does the author credit. Its principal defect rises from
an error in judgment, which seeks to divide interest and space almost
equally with a secondary story.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:828 S ’20 280w
“The novel contains some gracefully written descriptions of
Glastonbury and of Wales.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 420w
“We recommend it as much above the average of the ordinary novel.”
+ =Sat R= 129:41 Ja 10 ’20 90w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p782 D 25 ’19 120w
=LOVETT, WILLIAM.= Life and struggles of William Lovett in his pursuit
of bread, knowledge, and freedom; with some short account of the
different associations he belonged to and of the opinions he
entertained. 2v ea *$1.50 (1½c) Knopf
20–26886
The books belong to the series of Economic reprints and come with an
introduction by R. H. Tawney who says of them that they are more than
an autobiography inasmuch as Lovett “was the spokesman of the
political labour movement which started with the formation of the
London Working men’s association and which developed into Chartism.”
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p784 Je 11 ’20 70w
+ =Booklist= 17:84 N ’20
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 24 ’20 480w
“Not a wholly reliable historical document.” R: Roberts
+ − =Freeman= 2:187 N 3 ’20 850w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Mr 25 ’20 1000w
=LOW, BARBARA.= Psycho-analysis; a brief account of the Freudian theory.
*$1.50 (4c) Harcourt 130
20–9413
The author of this brief introduction to psycho-analysis is a member
of the British psycho-analytical society, and Ernest Jones, president
of the society, writes an introduction for the book. In part he says,
“That the deductions made from psycho-analytical investigations are
both novel and not easily acceptable, Miss Low makes plain in her
book, and she has not adopted the easier way of concealing these
attributes of them. She has chosen the loftier aim of attempting to
present all aspects of the psycho-analytical theory fairly and
straightforwardly, and yet to bring them within reach of those who
have made no previous study of the subject.” The chapters take up: The
scope and significance of psycho-analysis; Mental life—unconscious and
conscious; Repressions; The rôle of the dream; Treatment by
psycho-analysis; Probable social and educational results. A list of
reference books is given in an appendix.
* * * * *
“The ‘popular’ style of this book defeats, to some extent, the
author’s purpose. We should have liked the exposition to be more
clear-cut and reserved. As it is, the reader will have some difficulty
in grasping the root ideas of the Freudian theory, although, if he is
patient, he will find a good deal of information in this book.”
+ − =Ath= p589 Ap 30 ’20 80w
“Worth while in defining the science, but too condensed for serious
study.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:59 N ’20
+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 20w
“About the first work on psycho-analysis that can be recommended for
general reading is Barbara Low’s ‘Psycho-analysis.’ Of course, Miss
Low exaggerates the field to which psycho-analysis is applicable, as
she does its therapeutic value.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 280w
=LOW, BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS.=[2] Broken music. *$2 Dutton 811
20–20973
“From the four volumes of poems which he had published at intervals
during the last ten years or so Mr Low has selected his best work to
make this collection of his art. These four volumes, ‘The sailor who
sailed,’ ‘A wand and strings,’ ‘The house that was’ and ‘The pursuit
of happiness,’ have been much admired and praised by the most
discerning critics here and abroad, in spite of which they have had a
very moderate circulation.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“There are many of us who would not willingly suppress or forget a
good deal of the work in the four volumes of Mr Low’s that he has seen
fit not to include in this representative collection, but what he has
gathered here makes a very fine spiritual attraction that will win him
an increasingly wide circle of new admirers. I think when you get at
the core of Mr Low’s art you will find above everything else beautiful
thought; and beautiful thought is scarcely to be found without a very
intense and passionate emotional foundation.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 1400w
“After a careful reading we remain of our old opinion that the leading
poem, ‘The vigil-at-arms,’ is Mr Low’s best effort. Elsewhere Mr Low’s
work lacks freshness and individuality.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 D 4 ’20 130w
=LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL.= Function of the poet; and other essays. *$5
(10c) Houghton 814
20–26550
The essays and reviews in this volume have here for the first time
been collected into book form and are edited with a preface by Albert
Mordell. According to this preface they sustain Lowell’s reputation as
one of our great American critics and are in nowise inferior in
literary merit to the volumes collected by himself. The essays on
poetry and belles-lettres in the volume are: The function of the poet;
Humor, wit, fun, and satire; The five indispensable authors (Homer,
Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Shakespeare); The imagination: Critical
fragments. Among the reviews of contemporary writers are: Henry James:
James’s tales and sketches; Poetry and nationality; W. D. Howells:
Venetian life; Edgar A. Poe; Thackeray; Roundabout papers; and the
three last essays are: Forster’s life of Swift; Plutarch’s morals; A
plea for freedom from speech and figures of speech-makers.
* * * * *
“Especially interesting will be his criticisms of contemporaries—Henry
James, Longfellow, Whittier, Howells, Poe and Thackeray.”
+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“They are pleasant, scholarly, informal; they polish off literary
subjects gracefully, even if not dazzlingly.”
+ − =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 80w
“Mr Mordell has brought together a surprising number of uncollected
essays and reviews by Lowell. What is even more surprising in a
collection of this kind is that it reveals its author at his best. If
Lowell has little to offer a generation which, like ours, expects from
literature the very bread of life, he has virtues our contemporary
criticism singularly lacks. He has the judgment we gladly dispense
with and the verbal felicity we despise, for the lack of which the
future will despise and dispense with most of us.”
+ − =Freeman= 1:357 Je 23 ’20 1050w
“Throughout the book, as generally in Lowell, are paragraphs,
sometimes pages, notable for their beauty, vision, wit, and eminently
quotable.”
+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 470w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:319 Je 20 ’20 2450w
“Lowell’s abstract reasoning on literature is highly abstract and
highly succinct, and its promises for the eye or the palate are not
always redeemed in the intellectual stomach. The reviews of
contemporaries are very urbane, very judicious, rather measured,
rather distant, a little formal.”
+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 300w
“The mingled wisdom and humor of Lowell are apparent everywhere.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 27 ’20 840w
=LOWIE, ROBERT HARRY.= Primitive society. *$3 Boni & Liveright 572
20–7731
“Beginning with the custom of marriage. Dr Lowie studies it through
the practice of polygamy, with its side-shoots of polygyny, polyandry,
sexual communism, to the family, with its various units, to the
kinship usages. The Sib organization, with its history and
ramifications, is analyzed and illustrated, the first half of the
study of primitive society on its individual side ending at the stage
of The position of woman. Then in turn such questions are studied as
Property, Associations, Theory of associations, Rank, Government, and
Justice.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The reviewer, a teacher of sociology, is one of a large group who are
grateful to Dr Lowie for his service in writing this book.”
+ =Ann Am Acad= 93:225 Ja ’21 w
“Useful for its expansion of data commonly found only in briefer
outlines.”
+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 380w
“‘Primitive society’ is a worth-while book. It is interestingly
written and valuable and readable, even for an amateur anthropologist
or sociologist. Its factual solidity makes it of permanent worth in
any library.”
+ =Cath World= 111:684 Ag ’20 330w
“Dr Lowie’s book may be recommended as the most informative, lucid,
and keenly critical introduction to the study of primitive social
organizations that the reviewer is aware of. It deserves the most
careful study. Fortunately for the non-professional reader, ‘Primitive
society’ is an eminently readable book. The style is crisp and rapid.”
E: Sapir
+ =Dial= 69:528 N ’20 2500w
“It would be indeed surprising if ‘Primitive society’ did not win for
itself the position of an indispensable guide in a difficult domain.”
+ =Freeman= 1:377 Je 30 ’20 1550w
“All in all, Mr Lowie’s book will do much to render more life-like and
substantial our current conceptions of a primitive community.” E:
Sapir
+ =Nation= 111:46 Jl 10 ’20 1550w
“Principles or viewpoints are handled with equal skill, the didactic
or dogmatic is avoided, indeed, let me say, with extraordinary skill.
Dr Lowie is critical of old categories, but not, like many a critic,
merely to make way for new, he never handicaps himself with
classification. Obviously ‘Primitive society’ will be a welcome
book—at least to those who want to know how things are before asking
why they are.” E. C. Parsons
+ =New Repub= 24:245 N 3 ’20 1550w
“He has produced a work that will serve as a comprehensive textbook
for the student, and that is written in a manner interesting enough to
engage the attention of the general reader. His material has been
correlated and arranged with skill, and he cites his authorities with
a marked care.”
+ =N Y Times= p12 O 31 ’20 1100w
“Dr Lowie reviews the rich material of social organization with a new
insight: he discards simple solutions, too much dominated by the
active social ties as we know them, and by the desire to read
evolutionary conclusions into historical data.” Joseph Jastrow
+ =Review= 3:652 D 29 ’20 740w
=LOWIS, CECIL CHAMPAIN.= Four blind mice. *$1.75 (1½c) Lane
20–19509
The story is of two married couples in the English colony of Rangoon.
Douglas Selbridge is an overworked official and Delia, consequently, a
neglected and bored wife. Major Brattlethwaite and his wife are living
apart and the latter is nothing but a rumor. The major seeks the
company and solace of Delia until matters become strained between
herself and her husband. When the absent Mrs Brattlethwaite suddenly
appears upon the scene to vanish again immediately, at the same time
that the body of a murdered woman is discovered in the jungle, a
crisis is reached. A fortunate solution of the mystery not only saves
an innocent man from the gallows, but straightens out the domestic
relations of the two couples satisfactorily.
* * * * *
“From the point of the murder the story maintains a high level of
interest, and reaches a satisfactory conclusion. The domestic and
boarding-house scenes have engaging touches of novelty, which suggest
a feminine hand.”
+ =Ath= p212 Ag 13 ’20 270w
“The native scenes are more interesting than the troubles of the white
folks, the descriptions of the rains, the heat, and native life being
well above the average in vividness and picturesque quality.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 70w
=Spec= 124:244 Ag 21 ’20 30w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 130w
=LOWNDES, MRS MARIE ADELAIDE (BELLOC).= Lonely house. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran
20–10307
Lily Fairfield is a young English girl who has been ordered a change
of scene for her health, and therefore has come to visit some distant
connections by marriage at their home, “La Solitude,” near Monte
Carlo. She finds “La Solitude” to be a lonely isolated house, and
leads a rather quiet life, altho shortly it is enlivened by the return
of Beppo, the son of the Count and Countess Polda, whose paying-guest
she is. As she is something of an heiress, she soon realizes that it
is the hope of Beppo’s parents that he will marry her. Indeed the
desire for money seems to bulk very large in their lives. But a young
Scotsman, Angus Stuart, has already filled the place in her heart that
Beppo hopes to occupy, altho she is rather slow to realize the fact.
“La Solitude” becomes even more unbearable to her than before after
two robberies resulting in murder have been committed nearby, but it
is not until an attack is made on Angus Stuart that the real criminals
are discovered, and Lily realizes what danger she has been in and how
she has escaped it.
* * * * *
=Ath= p559 Ap 23 ’20 80w
=Ath= p702 My 28 ’20 420w
“A melodramatic though not unconvincing mystery story.”
+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
“The background and atmosphere of these players is wherein Mrs Lowndes
has excelled herself. It is all too unfortunate that so able a writer
should seek to satisfy shallow desire for excitement rather than to
gratify literary taste: of the latter Mrs Lowndes would be very
capable should she wish to produce, not a best-seller, dependent upon
its author’s noteworthy name, but work of real merit.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:111 O ’20 300w
“It is an eery tale, with plenty of atmosphere, one that will keep its
readers hanging on the turn of the pages.”
+ =Lit D= p89 O 9 ’20 2350w
“The tale is well written and cleverly developed, incident following
incident in a way which keeps the reader’s interest always on the
alert, and makes convincing a plot which, though highly melodramatic,
is by no means improbable.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p255 Ap 22 ’20 770w
=LUCAS, EDWARD VERRALL.= Adventures and enthusiasms. il *$2 Doran 824
20–26998
The book contains a collection of short sketches on a variety of
subjects such as episodes from life, reminiscences of people and
places, reflections and whimsical thoughts. The style is leisurely and
full of quiet humor. Some of the sketches are: The perfect guest; A
morning call; Possessions; Drake and his game; Davy Jones; Thoughts at
the ferry; Telephonics; Thackeray’s school fellow; The newness of the
old; On finding things. Fourteen of the sketches bear the common
heading: In and about London.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
“Mr Lucas would be the first to admit that he challenges comparison
with Lamb, and that the advantage is Lamb’s.” N. F. Gerould
+ − =Bookm= 52:265 N ’20 320w
“His work is invariably diverting, delicate, sparkling, adapted to the
subtlest appreciations.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 80w
=Boston Transcript= p7 S 1 ’20 780w
+ =Cath World= 112:263 N ’20 350w
“The title under which Mr E. V. Lucas harnesses his latest collection
of essays, ‘Adventures and enthusiasms,’ suggests an intensity which
is seldom substantiated in the text. These sketches move at a jogging
pace, guided by a slack rein, and rarely touched by the whip of
fancy.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:22 S 15 ’20 520w
“He writes of all sorts of ordinary, everyday things like aunts and
telephones and punctuality, with pleasant leisureliness, with
whimsicality and with deep enjoyment.”
+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 100w
“Both the adventures and the enthusiasms are mild. Mr Lucas’s taste is
generally impeccable and sane.”
+ − =Nation= 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 170w
“Mr Lucas’s stories verge upon essays and his essays hover upon the
edge of narrative, real or fictitious. They are not easy to
classify—and that is another way of saying they make the pleasantest
kind of book in the world.” E. L. Pearson
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 S 25 ’20 800w
“‘Adventures and enthusiasms’ impresses you with its feeling of
leisure, of the fullness of time, of the charm of idleness. Life runs
full here but not in the impetuous desperate rush of spring, with the
sounds of torrents and winds.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p18 S 26 ’20 800w
“Of all his volumes of essays none is better than his latest.”
+ =Review= 3:389 O 27 ’20 270w
=LUCAS, EDWARD VERRALL.= Verena in the midst; a kind of story. *$1.90
Doran
20–17824
In this novel in letters, Verena, a maiden lady of some wealth, is the
central figure. She has met with an accident to her spine and is
obliged to be bed-ridden for months. All the letters are to, from and
about her and they all are revealing as to the characters of the
writers. The various relatives come to her for counsel and advice and
make her the recipient of their confidences. The most frequent
interchange of letters is between Verena and an old friend, Richard
Haven, the friend that “never disappoints.” His daily message of good
cheer, his ever ready counsel, and his daily contribution of poetry,
for the sleepless invalid to memorize, are the best parts of the book.
* * * * *
“‘Verena in the midst’ is not to be taken seriously. With the
exception of the nephew Roy, who is quite amazingly made known to us,
there has been, on the part of the author, no serious attempt at
revelation.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p332 S 10 ’20 680w
+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20
“It implies no forgetfulness of Mr Lucas’s more solid achievements to
say that he is perhaps the chief of those English writers who are
doing the little things supremely well. And his fecundity in finding
these little things to do is hardly less than his facility in treating
them.” Stanley Went
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 6 ’20 1100w
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 400w
“This book is full of humorous twists and surprises and odd bits and
ideas and pleasant letters and anecdotes and—I am afraid I shall have
to use the poor, over-worked word—whimsicalities.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 100w
“Mr Lucas has surpassed himself. And yet, as is often the case, the
idea is so simple that almost anyone might have thought of it....
Almost anyone could have thought of the idea, but is there anyone but
Mr Lucas who could have carried it out with so near an approach to
perfection?”
+ =Sat R= 130:240 S 18 ’20 750w
“Most of the characterization is very good. To accuse Mr Lucas of
slightness of tenuity would be to invite the retort that that was the
idea. It is after all a book with which from many writers we should be
content.”
+ − =Spec= 125:439 O 2 ’20 350w
“Apart from the kindly humor which is their main ingredient, Mr E. V.
Lucas’s little nibbles at the novel are in themselves amusing to the
critic. The form of fiction appeals to him provided that he can use it
on his own terms. He can think of the most delightful sets of people
and give them appropriate names; he can write all their letters for
them and, at a pinch, carry on their conversation; but always on the
condition that they keep still and remain strictly true to type.
Unfortunately, in real novels as in real life, it is difficult to keep
people still.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p567 S 2 ’20 800w
“In Mr Lucas’ familiar style. It is the sort of thing he does with
great deftness.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 60w
=LUCKIESH, M.= Artificial light: its influence upon civilization.
(Century books of useful science) il *$2.50 (2½c) Century 628.9
20–11163
The aim of this book is “to show that artificial light has become
intricately interwoven with human activities and that it has been a
powerful influence upon the progress of civilization.” (Preface) The
early chapters deal with primitive forms of lighting, covering such
subjects as: The art of making fire; Primitive light-sources; The
ceremonial use of light; Oil-lamps of the nineteenth century, and
Early gas-lighting. Among the chapters devoted to modern lighting are:
The science of light-production; Lighting the streets; Lighthouses;
Artificial light in warfare; Signaling; Light and safety; Light and
health; Spectacular lighting; Lighting the home; Lighting—a fine art?
Reading references come at the close. The author, who is director of
applied science, Neia Research laboratory, has written also “Color and
its applications,” “The lighting art,” etc.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:18 O ’20
“Written in a simple yet finished style it gives the general reader a
comprehensive and engaging account of illumination.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p68 Jl ’20 150w
“The story is told in a surprisingly interesting way. Altogether the
book may be regarded as a model for such monographs.”
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 80w
+ =Review= 3:393 O 27 ’20 250w
“An interesting treatment of a fascinating subject.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 120w
=LUCKIESH, M.= Lighting the home, il *$2 Century 644.3
20–17579
The book considers the problem of artificial lighting both from a
utilitarian and an aesthetic point of view. “Light,” says the author,
“is the most powerful medium we have for creating or accentuating the
mood of a room.... Attention to apparently insignificant details of
lighting equipment does much toward converting a house into a home.”
Among the contents are: Light as an expressive medium; Safeguarding
vision; The functions of fixtures; Various rooms; Novelties in
lighting; Colored light. There are illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
“Could be used in high school libraries.”
+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 20 ’20 230w
=LUCY, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (TOBY, M. P., pseud.).=[2] Diary of a
journalist. $6 Dutton
“Politicians, statesmen, authors, actors, painters, princes,
journalists, social leaders, and men and women in many other
professional walks of life throng the pages of Sir Henry Lucy’s
volume. It covers a long period of years from 1885 almost to the
present day, and it is rich in the personality encountered by a
newspaper writer and editor who has come into daily contact with the
events and the people of his time. In his previous volume entitled
‘Sixty years in the wilderness,’ Sir Henry Lucy has told a consecutive
story of his career, in this latest volume he supplements it with
material which resulting from ‘the habit dominant through many years
of daily noting interesting events coming within personal observation’
yields ‘a collection personally, politically and historically
interesting.’”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Except for a few jokes, we find very little of interest in this
record. In his phrases we sometimes recognize the flavour of the
official biography. In particular he has one trick very characteristic
of those works. It is to make statements about his hero, with the air
of suggesting an exceptional virtue, which hold good of practically
everybody in the world.”
− + =Ath= p551 O 22 ’20 330w
“An entertaining book of personal reminiscence.” E. F. Edgett
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1050w
“‘Recollections of a journalist’ would perhaps be a more suitable
title, and certainly Sir Henry Lucy’s recollections are singularly
rich and varied.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 Ja 29 ’21 420w
+ =N Y Times= p6 Ja 9 ’21 1450w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 25 ’20 180w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p664 O 14 ’20)
“The worst that one can say about Sir Henry Lucy’s diary is that no
one would ever have suspected it of being a diary if the author had
not so labelled it. It has obviously been revised in the light of
subsequent events. Why has the book no index? It is just the sort of
book that especially needs one.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p664 O 14 ’20 750w
=LUDENDORFF, ERICH VON.=[2] General staff and its problems: the secret
history of the relations between the High Command and the German
Imperial government as revealed by official documents; tr. by F. Appleby
Holt. 2v *$15 Dutton 940.343
20–22469
“The statements in Ludendorff’s first volume were so bold that there
arose a demand for the source on which he based many of his
sensational assertions. This demand the former Quartermaster-General
of the German armies now seeks to meet in a second volume.” (N Y
Times) “Among the documents included are the report of the conference
between Bethmann-Hollweg, Hindenburg and Ludendorff at Pless, when the
unrestricted submarine campaign was finally decided upon, and the
violent letters exchanged between the chancellor, Hindenburg,
Ludendorff, and the foreign office revealing the internal difficulties
of Germany in 1916. The matter of American participation, as the
German authorities viewed and discussed it, is gone into thoroughly.”
(Springf’d Republican)
* * * * *
Reviewed by Simeon Strunsky
=N Y Evening Post= p1 Ja 29 ’21 2900w
Reviewed by T. R. Ybarra
=N Y Times= p3 D 5 ’20 1850w
=R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 120w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 18 ’20 150w
=LUDENDORFF, ERICH VON.= Ludendorff’s own story, August 1914–November
1918. il 2v *$7.50 (3c) Harper 940.343
20–4133
“The great war from the siege of Liege to the signing of the armistice
as viewed from the grand headquarters of the German army.” (Subtitle)
What the author calls the first commandment for a German “unselfish
submission and the sinking of the ego in national discipline”
characterizes this grim account of one who, with an eye single, was
bent on the winning of the war. Volume 1 falls into two parts: the
author’s career as chief of the general staff on the eastern front;
and from his appointment as first quartermaster-general. Volume 2
begins with the entente offensive in the first half of 1917, the
Russian revolution and America’s entry into the war and ends with the
armistice and the end of Ludendorff’s military career. The books
contain many maps and each has a loose map in a cover pocket. Volume 2
has an index.
* * * * *
“He gives a wealth of interesting comment and ex parte statement of
motives, intentions, and expectations, which he does not prove. His
treatment of the administrative and political sides of the war is the
best part of the work. His accounts of battles are in many cases
unsatisfactory. As a whole the translation is good.” J: Bigelow
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:503 Ap ’20 1200w
“Of interest, not only for the record of military events by one of the
most prominent military leaders, but also for the light it throws on
the mental attitude and processes of the author.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:359 My ’20 170w
“The one great military book which the war has so far produced is the
strange record of General Ludendorff.”
+ =Ath= p1286 D 5 ’19 1550w
=Booklist= 16:275 My ’20
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
=Bookm= 51:286 My ’20 950w
=Dial= 68:539 Ap ’20 100w
=Lit D= p109 Ap 17 ’20 2550w
+ − =Nation= 110:sup481 Ap 10 ’20 1350w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 3200w
Reviewed by M. H. Anderson
=Pub W= 97:608 F 21 ’20 300w
+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 120w
“Ludendorff may be read with profit by those interested in the
handling of troops in contact with the enemy.... He exhibits the best
and the worst qualities of the old-fashioned amongst regular soldiers.
He knows his work as a handler of fighting men, but outside the realms
of factors he is a simple and bewildered soul. And, let it be
repeated, as a strategist, he is almost infinitely naive.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:417 N 1 ’19 2300w
“General Ludendorff has written a very able and interesting book on
the war. It is not a good military history, though the summary
accounts of the earlier Russian campaigns are instructive. The
numerous plans and diagrams by the author are valuable also in their
way. But the book throws a flood of light on the hopes and fears of
the great general staff, and on the relations between the German army
leaders and the politicians in Berlin. To an English reader, of
course, this typical Prussian author must be unsympathetic.”
+ − =Spec= 123:505 O 18 ’19 2100w
“Ludendorff’s war memoirs are the most solid contribution to the
strategical history of the war that has yet appeared. To the military
student the most valuable portion is that dealing with the Russian
campaign of 1914 and 1915; but in spite of the great military eminence
of the writer, this is a book for the plain citizen rather than the
soldier, for quite half of it is politics.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 O 16 ’19 1850w
=LUEHRMANN, ADELE.= Triple mystery. *$1.75 Dodd
20–7518
“Here Adele Luehrmann has evolved a situation where three men of
prominence of the same nationality and presumably of similar
interests, all die with sudden and unexplained mystery within a few
days of each other. The first effort seems to be to throw suspicion
upon Olive Thrace, who has reason to be anxious to be rid of Zarady,
the great concert master. The second death brings in the element of
the girl with the squirrel cap. The actual solution of the triple
mystery is a surprise.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w
“The author has not succeeded at any point in really intriguing the
reader. The characters are obviously puppets to string the story on:
sheep fattened for slaughter. The dénouement is lacking in ingenuity.”
− =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 220w
=LUMHOLTZ, KARL SOFUS.= Through central Borneo; an account of two years’
travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917.
2v il *$7.50 Scribner 919.11
20–16918
“Reaching the island which has been the object of his journey, Mr
Lumholtz first gives us a comprehensive idea of its climate and the
biological conditions which there exist, its natural resources, its
population, history, government and racial problems. Presently he
plunges into the jungle and shows us first its wonderful vegetation,
and next its strange people. He takes us up the vast rivers, noting
the habits of the people by the way. To his narrative the author adds
a considerable number of folklore stories drawn directly from the
natives, stories doubtless handed down orally for many generations.
The author embellishes his volumes with profuse illustrations, many of
them from photographs taken by himself.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“A happy combination of scientific study with journalistic ease of
style and choice of interesting material.”
+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20
+ =Bookm= 52:367 D ’20 110w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 650w
“Because he went into such an unknown region his book has the
atmosphere of Hakluyt or Purchas. The photographs which illustrate the
book are excellent.” J. F. Gould
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 8 ’21 960w
“The author’s style is one of extreme simplicity, and his material is
presented in a form that should prove attractive to scientist and
layman alike.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 1150w
“Mr Lumholtz knows how to write entertainingly as well as how to
observe with scientific accuracy.”
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w
=LUTHER, MARK LEE.= Presenting Jane McRae. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little
20–10734
When Jane McRae is first presented she is acting as waitress in her
step-father’s hotel in a small “up-state” New York town. Here she
comes in contact with Stuart Pendleton, a young civil engineer, and
with Arthur Gault, a movie singer. With Stuart she falls in love, but
refuses to marry him when she learns of his previous entanglement with
another woman. Leaving unbearable conditions at home, she goes to New
York to support herself. At the end of her resources, she again meets
Arthur Gault, who is now a moving picture director. He gets her a
small part in his picture and finally persuades her to marry him. She
becomes more and more successful as an actress, but is not happy. She
realizes that her marriage to Arthur was a mistake, but does not see
the way out. But when the war comes and frees her from him, the manner
of his death leaves her still with an unanswerable question. “It did
not occur to her that she was free.”
* * * * *
“To tell the truth all this business of Jane and the engineer, from
beginning to end, is unreal and commonplace. Jane herself is least
credible and desirable whenever that young man is brought on the
scene. Except his good looks and his fine phrases, there is nothing or
next to nothing ‘to him.’ What ‘makes’ the book is its study of Jane
in relation to the movie man.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 52:70 S ’20 650w
“On the whole, it is a quick-moving and interesting tale.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 180w
“Very long and not very interesting. Some of the motion-picture parts
of the book are not unentertaining, while of the characters Arthur
Gault is by all odds the best, at times becoming a real human being.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 300w
“An agreeable little comedy of life not without serious import also.”
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 50w
=LUTZ, EDWIN GEORGE.= Animated cartoons. il *$2.50 Scribner 778
20–3350
“E. G. Lutz answers many an unspoken question about the movies by
telling very explicitly how an artist gets motion into his
drawings. After two chapters of history upon their origin and
development he goes into a description of the successive steps in
the production of various kinds of screen pictures in action. It
all seems very simple after being carefully explained in both text
and illustrations.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Ath= p408 S 24 ’20 100w
=Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p39 Ap ’20 70w
=Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 50w
“The book is interesting as catering to the universal desire to see
the wheels go round.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 25 ’20 240w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 S 16 ’20 90w
=LUTZ, GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL (MRS FLAVIUS J. LUTZ).= Cloudy Jewel. il
*$1.90 (2c) Lippincott
20–20648
Julia Cloud, at her mother’s death, is free to choose between living
the life of a drudge in her selfish sister’s household, or struggling
along alone on insufficient finances. She is trying to make her
decision when her niece and nephew from California put in an
unexpected appearance, and they have a delightful suggestion for her
future. They are coming east to college and propose taking her along
to make a home for them and be a real mother to them, for though
well-to-do, they are orphans. This plan they carry out and she plays
her part wholly to their satisfaction. She feels a keen responsibility
for their welfare and at first their lack of any religious ideals
grieves her deeply. But they become interested in the Christian
Endeavor society in a little church and gradually come to be leaders
in it as well as in college life. There they make friendships which
finally grow into deeper relations, and the story ends in two
romances.
* * * * *
“It may be safely prophesied that Mrs Lutz, if she continues to spin
more novels of the type of ‘Cloudy Jewel’ will doubtless lure into her
fold a large proportion of the followers of Harold Bell Wright. Within
the pages of ‘Cloudy Jewel’ one may find the telling and sure-fire
ingredients of an American best seller.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 300w
“Mrs Lutz will beguile many hours for those who do not wish to be
aroused or excited by what they read, and her books will have a
wholesome influence wherever they are read.” K. O.
+ =Pub W= 98:1194 O 16 ’20 270w
=LUTZ, GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL (MRS FLAVIUS J. LUTZ).= Exit Betty. il
*$1.75 (2c) Lippincott
20–13974
When Betty Stanhope met her bridegroom in the crowded church where the
ceremony was to take place, to her horror she found he was not the man
she had promised to marry. A timely fainting spell permitted her to
escape from the church, and it was fortunate for her that she ran
across Jane Carson just outside. Jane took the excited girl to her
room where Betty told enough of the story to convince Jane that she
was the victim of the cupidity of her scheming stepmother. Jane sent
her to her mother in the country where Betty successfully eluded
pursuit, until by Jane’s keenness, aided by her friend Jimmie and
Jimmie’s employer, Warren Reyburn, Betty slipped forever from the
clutches of those who had tried to rob her of her inheritance.
Incidentally a double romance developed for her and Jane.
* * * * *
“Melodrama of the crudest kind and religious sentiment equally crude
are blended in a whole which, curiously enough, pleases rather than
repels.”
+ − =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 40w
“Of course it is a very old plot, this of the cruel step mother, but
Mrs Lutz manages to centre our interest entirely in Betty and to
arouse our sympathies to the point where we do not greatly care that
some of her plot elements are distinctly hackneyed.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 420w
=LYNCH, FREDERICK HENRY.=[2] Personal recollections of Andrew Carnegie.
il $1.50 Revell
“‘Personal recollections of Andrew Carnegie’ furnishes an intimate
picture of the late ironmaster and philanthropist, in which many
phases of his character are depicted. In the course of much close
association, Dr Lynch, as a member of the executive committee of the
New York Peace society, enjoyed opportunities of learning what the
canny Scotsman thought concerning many other things than iron and
libraries.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 250w
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 360w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 6 ’20 70w
=LYND, ROBERT.= Ireland a nation. *$2 (3c) Dodd 941.5
20–1230
In this thorough sifting of the Irish problem, the author, an
Englishman, does not spare England. Of her habit of not taking Ireland
seriously he says that if it is persisted in “it will bring ruin not
only on Ireland but upon England and on our European civilization
generally. If Ireland is not ... given her freedom equally with every
other nation in Europe, another great world-war is as certain as the
rising of tomorrow’s sun.... Every nation on the earth that desires to
do wrong to another takes fresh heart when it thinks of the example of
England in Ireland.” Contents: Why it is important to realize that
Ireland is a nation; The historical thread; Sinn Fein; The
insurrection of 1916; Ulster: the facts of the case; The hesitating
sort of Liberal and Irish self-determination; One man’s views on
Dominion home rule; The Irish soldier; Ireland’s record in the war;
The soldiers’ sacrifice; The English in Ireland: a scene; Another
scene: the drums of Ulster; The witness of the poets; A note on Irish
literature; Voices of the new Ireland (from various writers);
Common-sense about the little nations; Epilogue.
* * * * *
“Interestingly written though somewhat lacking in unity.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20