“It would be difficult to imagine a more complete vindication of the
work as a whole than it affords. As to the book itself, it is
brilliantly written, with a vivid style, and it is full of humor and
pathos. Taken altogether, it is one of the very best war books that
has appeared.” F. H. Potter
+ =Outlook= 126:66 S 8 ’20 2450w
“We hope that no one who contributed to the Y. M. C. A. war fund will
be deterred by the title from reading this book; for in it will be
found the most complete account of the ‘Y’ work in France that has yet
been published as well as the ablest defense of its management. It is
truly an inspiring story.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 180w
“The book is frankly personal, emphasizes personalities, and in its
generous hero- and heroine-worship sometimes fails to do justice to
the less spectacular phases of the collective effort that made
possible the achievements recorded.” J. D. Spaeth
+ − =Survey= 45:72 O 9 ’20 1000w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p792 D 2 ’20 950w
=MAYRAN, CAMILLE.= Story of Gotton Connixloo, followed by Forgotten; tr.
by Van Wyck Brooks. (Library of French fiction) *$2 Dutton
20–11072
“Although this series of translations from the French is described by
the publishers as ‘illustrating the life and manners of modern
France,’ the first of the two exquisite tales which make up the
present volume has to do, not with France, but with Flanders. It
relates the history of the bellringer’s motherless daughter,
christened Marguerite, but always called Gotton Connixloo, telling of
her pathetic childhood, into which there entered few caresses and
little play, and of her love for the lame, red-haired smith, Luke
Heemskerck, who for her sake deserted his shrewish wife and five
little children. Very delicately, very surely, does the author trace
the slow development of remorse and of that consciousness of sin which
at last, when the German inundation swept over the countryside, caused
Gotton to become a martyr, ransoming by her sacrifice the lives of all
those in the village. ‘Forgotten,’ the second of the two tales, is
also a story of the German invasion, but a story of a very different
kind, and of a very different class of people.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“The first story is told with a penetrating appreciation of lowly
life. The appeal of both stories is to those who appreciate artistic
workmanship.”
+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20
“As delicate as two brooches, they are as appealing to the heart as
they are fragile to the eye. Set in English by Van Wyck Brooks they
constitute an unusual ornament to the library of Franco-American
literature.”
+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 60w
“The sympathetic quality, the deep, strong feeling, the lovely style
and fine artistry shown by these two simple tales make the volume a
welcome and a notable one.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 640w
=MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE.= Mazzini’s letters to an English family, 1844–1854.
il *$5 Lane
21–207
In the introduction E. F. Richards, the editor of these letters, gives
a short sketch of the career and character of Mazzini with their
historical background and describes the various members of the English
family, the Ashursts, to whom the letters were written. The value of
the letters themselves, she says, lies in their exhibition of
Mazzini’s character, his great and tender heart, never yet adequately
shown. Explanatory paragraphs by the editor, throughout the book, help
to unify the contents. The book contains several portraits of Mazzini
and of the Ashurst family, and an index.
* * * * *
“The book has not much fresh information to offer; but it revives the
Mazzini legend in all its magic.” D. L. M.
+ =Ath= p433 O 1 ’20 1750w
+ − =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 700w
“A notable addition to the Mazzini literature.”
+ =Review= 3:652 D 29 ’20 700w
“Mrs E. F. Richards, as editor of the ‘Letters,’ has done her work
with a refreshing enthusiasm tempered with a rare conscientiousness
and a notable grasp of the events as well as the personnel of her
period.”
+ =Sat R= 130:240 S 18 ’20 760w
“The letters do not add much of importance to Mazzini’s biography, but
they help to show why he was beloved by his friends. The editor has
taken great pains with the introduction and the commentary to these
interesting letters.”
+ =Spec= 125:446 O 2 ’20 180w
“The world can never know too much of a man so noble as Mazzini. His
life is at once an inspiration and a warning to the world in its
present condition. Almost every page is a warning to those idealists
who have not learnt that the very alphabet of the art of politics is
to act gradually, step by step.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 Ag 12 ’20 1900w
=MEAD, ELWOOD.= Helping men own farms. il *$2.25 Macmillan 334
20–10715
“A practical discussion of government aid in land settlement.”
(Sub-title) The author is professor of rural institutions in the
University of California, and he devotes himself chiefly to the
methods and results of land settlement in California, that state
having taken the lead in this form of agricultural development. He
also draws extensively on Australian experience. The chapters are:
State aid in California due to economic and social needs; National
carelessness in the disposal of public lands; Australia’s influence on
the land policy of California; State aid in Italy, Denmark, Holland,
and the British Isles; Methods and results of state aided settlement
in Victoria; The practical teachings of Australian state aided
settlement; The defects of private colonization schemes as shown by
practical results in California; California’s first state settlement;
Aid to farm laborers in the Durham settlement; Social progress through
coöperation at Durham; The capital required by settlers; The lessons
of the Durham settlement; Homes for soldiers; The function of
government in social and industrial development. The California land
settlement act is given in an appendix. There is no index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:14 O ’20
+ =New Repub= 23:180 Jl 7 ’20 840w
+ =N Y Times= p13 O 10 ’20 1050w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 60w
=MEAD, GEORGE WHITEFIELD.= Great menace: Americanism or bolshevism?
*$1.25 (4c) Dodd 335
20–6569
A sensational appeal to the people of the United States to arise and
combat the great menace of “ultra-radicalism.” Contents: The great
menace; The relation of the people, labor, and capital in the
impending revolution; Conditions favoring bolshevism that do not right
themselves; and reasons for faith in the people; The new patriotism;
Vital messages of religion for today; Appendix: a citizen’s working
creed.
* * * * *
− =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 240w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 50w
=MEADER, STEPHEN WARREN.= Black buccaneer. il *$1.75 Harcourt
20–16856
The story of a New England boy of colonial days who is kidnapped from
an island off the Maine coast by pirates. Among the cruel and
bloodthirsty crew he finds one friend, Job Howland, a New Englander
who is ready to abandon his reckless career. After a terrible sea
fight the two make their escape but Jeremy is recaptured and there is
every reason to believe Job dead. His life is now more filled with
danger than before but a companion is brought to join him, young Bob
Curtis of Delaware, who is held for ransom. In the meantime Job, who
has escaped, joins Bob’s father in his search for his son and the two
boys are rescued. The pirates are captured, Jeremy returns to his home
and the buried treasure for which the pirates had sought is found on
the very island from which Jeremy had been taken.
=MEARS, DAVID OTIS.= David Otis Mears, D. D., an autobiography,
1842–1893. il *$1.50 (2½c) Pilgrim press
20–9024
The autobiography is an incomplete record of Dr Mears’ life, written
for his children. It is edited and supplemented with a memoir and
notes by H. A. Davidson. The whole commemorates the career of a
successful minister who was “preeminently a man of vision, of
decision, of action.” (Editor’s note) The book falls into two parts:
The autobiography, 1842–1893; and the Chapters by the editor. The
appendix contains appreciations and resolutions and a list of
publications written or edited by Dr Mears. There are five
illustrations.
* * * * *
“As a piece of agreeable autobiography the pages by Dr Mears are
unusually interesting.”
+ =Bib World= 54:651 N ’20 100w
“The biography has many interesting features.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 320w
=MECKLIN, JOHN MOFFATT.= Introduction to social ethics. *$3 (1½c)
Harcourt
20–8267
In defining democracy the author holds that equity is more fundamental
to it than popular sovereignty and that the insistence of equality
must be limited to equality of opportunities. “Deeper than the notion
of popular rule or of equality is that of fraternity, of spiritual and
moral like-mindedness.” On this basis he looks upon the development of
a social conscience as the task of democracy. Part 1 of the book which
is Historical and introductory contains: The problem of democracy; The
religious background; Calvinism; The triumph of individualism; The
great society; Our uncertain morality. Part 2. Psychological,
contains: The organization of the moral sentiments; The social
conscience; Public opinion and the social conscience; Limitations of
the social conscience; The problem of moral progress. Part 3, The
social order, contains: The rôle of the institution in the moral
economy; The individual, and the institution; The home; The
ecclesiastical ethic; The school and the social conscience; The ethics
of private property; Mechanism and morals; The worker and the machine
process; The ethics of business enterprise; The problem of the city;
Political obligation in American democracy. There is a bibliography at
the end of each chapter, with a list of magazine articles and there is
an index.
* * * * *
“Professor Mecklin’s book, like every other that is vital, contains
many provocations to controversy, but from beginning to end it moves
in a healthy atmosphere. It is an educative book, not a package of
predigested dogmas.” A. W. Small
+ =Am J Soc= 26:245 S ’20 550w
“Largely theoretical; will appeal to the reflective reader.”
+ =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20
“For a treatise on ethics, it is exceptionally interesting; it is
unusually well written; it is peculiarly free from the conventional
jargon of the schools; in short, it is a very readable book. The main
criticism to which he exposes himself is that he does not go far
enough, and that he stops short of the natural conclusion of his own
logic.” R: Roberts
+ =Freeman= 1:596 S 1 ’20 1450w
“The book offers much good material for college classes and the
references at the end of each chapter make it still more useful in
this respect. It is a welcome sign of broader ethical interest by the
teacher and a contribution to further development of the field.” J. H.
Tufts
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:111 O ’20 750w
“The book is excellently written and will be enjoyed by moderate
liberals, who will find in it abundant matter with which to buttress
their liberalism. To the more radical-minded the book will make little
appeal.”
+ − =Nation= 111:381 O 6 ’20 610w
“‘An introduction to social ethics’ is one of the most interesting and
valuable [volumes dealing with the subject] that have appeared
recently.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 9 ’20 220w
“The chapters entitled Mechanism and morals and The workers and the
machine process are particularly good. The chapter on Public opinion
sounds somewhat less in touch than the other chapters with the
realities of today through its omission of the hurtful effects of the
various kinds of war propaganda and wartime coercion. The best thing
about the book is its repeated insistence upon a positive and creative
conception of democracy.” H: Neumann
+ − =Survey= 44:501 Jl 3 ’20 350w
“A comprehensive and useful survey of its subject.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p879 D 23 ’20 160w
=MEES, CHARLES EDWARD KENNETH.= Organization of industrial scientific
research. *$2 McGraw 601
20–5221
“‘Conceding the value of a research laboratory, the head of a large
manufacturing firm will ask: “What will it cost?... Where shall I get
the men?... What should it do? What may I expect to get from it, and
when?... What should be its organization?” It is to answer these
questions that this book has been written.’ The discussion is based on
an extensive study of laboratories both in this country and
abroad.”—Booklist
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20
“The scope of the book and the method of presentment employed in its
preparation are excellent, and both industrialists and scientific
workers will find it interesting and informative. It is thought,
however, that most of its readers will regret that the author has
given such brief treatment to certain of the aspects of the subject,
that no attention is accorded to the co-ordination of research, and
that more space is not devoted to the systematic collection and
distribution of scientific information.” W. A. Hamor
+ − =Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering= 23:641 S 29 ’20 270w
“The scope of the book and the sequence of chapters are admirable.
Many readers will doubtless wish that the author had gone further into
detail than is the case in many chapters. In general, however, the
book bears the marks of experience throughout, and will well repay
perusal.” A. P. M. Fleming
+ =Nature= 105:771 Ag 19 ’20 650w
“Clearly, forcefully, tersely written, this book merits a wide reading
in professional and business circles.” O. T.
+ =New Repub= 23:260 Jl 28 ’20 650w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p37 Ap ’20 150w
=MEIGS, CORNELIA.= Pool of stars. il *$1.60 Macmillan
19–18455
“This is a pretty tale of a young girl’s friendship for an older woman
whom she, together with a lad who strays into the story, rescues from
a trying position and restores to affluence and contentment. Its
heroine, a young enthusiast who gives up the opportunity for travel in
order to complete her preparation for college, makes the acquaintance
of a gracious but retiring woman who lives in a simple home on the
property adjoining ruins of a more elaborate mansion. That some shadow
hangs over her happiness Elizabeth Houghton quickly discovers, and
before long, having taken David Warren into her confidence, she
applies herself to solving the mystery. All ends well, however, and
the story closes with David and Betsy rejoicing in the good fortune of
their elders and preparing to enter upon the college career so eagerly
anticipated by both.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“The love of mystery will be satisfied by this book without the
‘blood-and-thunder’ accompaniments of the average mystery story. There
are pleasant character studies. Strongest appeal to girls of teens.”
+ =Booklist= 16:176 F ’20
“Is a very well-written story, sustaining until the end a mystery, and
good comradeship between a boy and girl of high school age.” A. C.
Moore
+ =Bookm= 50:381 N ’19 40w
“A chapter to which boys would listen with delight since it gives
color and life to that period of our history following the war with
the Barbary pirates, ‘The tree of jade’ is so well told as to
completely reconcile the reader to the interruption of the main
narrative.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 51:91 Mr ’20 150w
“The style is vague and indefinite.”
− =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 160w
+ =Cleveland= p80 Ag ’20 50w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 20 ’19 220w
“A story of mystery with melodrama refreshingly absent.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 100w
=MEIGS, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.= Relation of the judiciary to the
constitution. $2 W: J. Campbell, 1731 Chestnut st., Philadelphia 342.7
This study of the relation of the judiciary to the constitution is a
defence of judicial supremacy. The author’s studies have led him to
believe that its origin antedates Marbury vs. Madison and he argues
that “the judiciary was plainly pointed out by our history for the
vast function it has exercised, and that it was expected and intended,
both by the Federal convention and the opinion of the publicists of
the day, to exercise that function.” Two chapters on The British
colonies in North America and The public beliefs of our colonial days
are followed by an examination of cases. There is an index. The author
has written “The growth of the constitution,” also lives of Calhoun
and Thomas H. Benton.
* * * * *
“This careful volume should take its place among the essays of high
authority in our legal literature. The discussion of individual
leading cases which Mr Meigs gives us is of deep interest.” S. L. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 550w
“The result will prove disappointing to the special student of the
subject, though it is not without value for the general reader.
Altogether it seems not unjust to remark that Mr Meigs will probably
be remembered for his pioneer article of a generation ago, rather than
for this more ambitious but one-sided and unoriginal study.” E: S.
Corwin
− + =Review= 3:449 N 10 ’20 300w
=MEIKLEJOHN, ALEXANDER.= Liberal college. *$2.50 (4c) Jones, Marshall
378
20–18040
The volume is the first of a series of centenary publications to be
known as the Amherst books. It consists of a collection of papers and
addresses elucidating the author’s conception of a liberal college.
The introduction, “Making minds,” presents the three chief
misunderstandings with regard to a college education, viz: that it
makes minds; that it should not make minds but men; that men are not
made but grow and that the college’s part in this is not to be taken
too seriously. The papers are grouped under the headings: The
determining purpose; The participants in the process; Discussions in
educational theory; The curriculum.
* * * * *
“Dr Meiklejohn states his own case and Amherst’s case with rare
strength and clarity.” H. T. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 260w
“For years President Meiklejohn of Amherst has stood forth as one of
the staunch defenders of the liberal college in America, and now we
have an able discussion of his faith in a volume filled with terse,
well-packed sentences, each of which opens a new line of thought or a
new angle from which to approach the problem.” J. W. G.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:332 Ja ’21 440w
“Whether or not the suggestions here made are specific improvements or
not, the present volume makes one deeply grateful that there is, in a
position of authority, a man so fully convinced that learning is a
noble thing, worthy of love and devotion for her own sake.” Preserved
Smith
+ =Nation= 111:734 D 22 ’20 780w
“Dr Meiklejohn’s book is noteworthy for its point of view and for the
fine enthusiasm for scholarship which it reveals.” T: S. Baker
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 D 31 ’20 1400w
“It is written in a clear, earnest, straightforward, and convincing
style, never abstruse and never platitudinous, but always fresh and
always interesting. In spite of the author’s professed fondness for
inviting misunderstanding, the book is throughout lucid and single in
its aim.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 11 ’20 1150w
“Dr Meiklejohn’s discussion maintains a high level practically
throughout the book. He meets many of the criticisms that have been
brought against the college and liberal education.” J. K. Hart
+ =Survey= 45:545 Ja 8 ’21 660w
=MEIKLEJOHN, NANNINE (LA VILLA) (MRS ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN).= Cart of
many colors. (Little school-mate ser.) il *$1.65 Dutton
19–19357
“It is the tale of a small Sicilian lad, dowered with artistic gifts
and aflame with desire to make the most of his talents who, at the
instance of his wise and indulgent mother and through the kindness of
an uncle who recognizes his possibilities, accompanies the latter to
Florence, there to study art. The greater part of the story is
concerned with his life in the cultured family with whom he makes his
home in the beautiful Tuscan town, and through whom he is given
opportunity to see Rome, Siena and other cities of note. Its earlier
chapters, however, have to do with his happy days in the midst of his
own people in Palermo.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20
“A well-written story of life in Italy. We have seen nowhere so
informing and so humanized an account of Italian life in America as
Miss Converse gives in her introduction.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 50:33 S ’19 240w
“Though throughout the tale much stress is thrown on description both
of places and customs, yet there is sufficient incident of a simple
sort to focus its interest upon the fortunes of Nello and his
associates.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 20 ’19 300w
“Pictures with insight and sympathy the life of children in Italy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 180w
=MEISSNER, MRS SOPHIE (RADFORD) DE.= Old naval days. il *$3 Holt
20–20090
The author of these sketches from the life of Rear-Admiral William
Radford, U.S.N. was the latter’s daughter and her record abounds in
reminiscences, private and public. The admiral began his naval career
in 1825 as midshipman on the “Brandywine” which conducted Lafayette
back to France after his visit to America. He served through the Civil
war and was retired in 1870. The book is illustrated and has an
appendix.
* * * * *
=R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 80w
=MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS.= Book of burlesques. *$2 Knopf 817
20–26583
“The present edition includes some epigrams from ‘A little book in C
major,’ now out of print. To make room for them several of the smaller
sketches in the first edition have been omitted. Nearly the whole
contents of the book appeared originally in the Smart Set.” (Author’s
note) Contents: Death: a philosophical discussion; From the programme
of a concert; The wedding: a stage direction; The visionary; The
artist: a drama without words; Seeing the world; From the memoirs of
the devil; Litanies for the overlooked; Asepsis: a deduction in
scherzo form; Tales of the moral and pathological; The jazz Webster;
The old subject; Panoramas of people; Homeopathics; Vers libre.
* * * * *
“Mr Mencken is a clever and witty satirist, with an encyclopædic
knowledge of the latest crazes and imbecilities.”
+ =Ath= p322 Mr 5 ’20 160w
=Booklist= 17:85 N ’20
“The great difficulty about this book is that it will not irritate the
intelligent and none but the intelligent can be amused by it.”
+ − =Dial= 68:401 Mr ’20 100w
“Satire at times extravagantly and cheaply cynical, but also at times
keen and entertaining is to be found in ‘A book of burlesques.’”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 200w
=MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS.= Prejudices: second series. *$2.50 (4c) Knopf 814
20–20969
In the present volume the author continues his tirade on American
letters, generalizing on his theme in the first essay, ‘The national
letters.’ In spite of the prophetic optimism of such men as Emerson
and Whitman and, to some extent, even the pessimistic Poe, we have so
far achieved nothing but a respectable mediocrity which he attributes
to the absence of a cultural background, and of a civilized
aristocracy. The other essays of the book are: Roosevelt: an autopsy;
The Sahara of the Bozart; The divine afflatus; Scientific examination
of a popular virtue; Exeunt omnes; The allied arts; The cult of hope;
The dry millennium; Appendix on a tender theme. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Dial= 70:232 F ’21 80w
=Ind= 104:382 D 11 ’20 290w
“As for his second series of prejudices, they are even as his first;
his prejudices have not changed; nor his manner of hurling them at the
fat heads of us Philistines. Some of his missiles are true dynamite,
some—in my humble opinion—are duds; but not one of them is discharged
at random.” L. W. Dodd
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 D 4 ’20 880w
“Nothing is sacred in his hands, and by the same token is he
interesting and unreliable. His style is as vigorous and bold as his
ideas. It is a little hard to keep up with Mencken, but at any rate
you will not be bored if you try.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’21 480w
=MENDELSOHN, SIGMUND.= Labor’s crisis. *$1.50 Macmillan 331
20–17254
“Looking at the question of labor reform from the employer’s point of
view, the author argues that the labor scarcity is not entirely due to
decrease in the number of laborers, and in support of his contention
points to many effects of the unrest itself on production and on
labor. In his keen introduction Mr Mendelsohn writes, ‘A labor problem
still exists, and in more acute form than ever, but it concerns the
welfare of society more than of labor. It is no longer based upon
excess of labor, but upon insufficiency of labor; it no longer relates
to an inadequate wage, but to an inflated wage; it no longer deals
with an oppressed suffering class, but with an all powerful and
militant element which is striving for economic dominance.’”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“An unusually thoughtful analysis of labor’s propositions to remedy
the existing unrest.”
+ =N Y Times= p11 O 31 ’20 230w
“Mr Mendelsohn’s thinking goes beneath the surface and his little book
will be found suggestive by all classes of readers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 200w
=MERCER, JOHN EDWARD.= Why do we die? an essay in thanatology. *$2
Dutton 236
“Bishop Mercer points out that his question differs from the more
usual one, ‘What happens after death?’ He finds it natural that we
should speculate upon a future experience from which no one is exempt;
but he wonders why no one has asked, ‘Why do we die at all?’ Neither
biology nor physiology, he says, has answered this question; nor have
the theologians or the philosophers approached any more nearly to the
solution of it. The problem; What science teaches; Monadnology; and
Higher aspects, are his four heads, under which he discusses Causes of
the fear of death, The spiritual body, and other topics, closing with
that of Death as a revealer.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Int J Ethics= 30:113 O ’19 100w
“Though it is doubtful whether either scientists or philosophers would
heartily endorse all the positions taken by Dr Mercer, it is pleasant
to read a book written with good temper and rationality, without
appeal to the prevalent superstitions of mediums and table-tipping.”
+ − =Nation= 110:269 F 28 ’20 300w
“Bishop Mercer pursues an extremely interesting and richly suggestive
line of inquiry. It is one distinctly removed from that involved in
psychical research. It is the purely religious inquiry of an eminent
scholar and thinker who is familiar with all modern scientific
thought, and whose wide culture and liberal mind endow him with
vision.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 700w
=MERCIER, DESIRÉ FÉLICIEN FRANÇOIS JOSEPH, cardinal.= Cardinal Mercier’s
own story: prefatory letter by James Cardinal Gibbons. *$4 (3½c) Doran
940.3493
20–5912
The book consists chiefly of Cardinal Mercier’s correspondence with
the German governor general in protest to the latter’s régime as
imposed on the Belgians. The work of collecting and editing these
letters has been delegated by the Cardinal to Professor Fernand
Mayence, of Louvain university, who has supplied them with an
explanatory preface. Most of the correspondence is with Baron von
Bissing and Baron von der Lancken and some with Baron von
Falkenhausen. The correspondence on the Belgian deportations is of
special interest.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
“It must remain among the permanent records of the war.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 260w
+ =Cath World= 111:390 Je ’20 1150w
“It is the sheer courage of the letters more than anything else which
makes them impressive, but they have also a dignity, a sobriety and a
definite knowledge of facts which makes them peculiarly valuable at a
moment when reparations and indemnities are under discussion.”
+ =Ind= 104:245 N 13 ’20 140w
Reviewed by Muriel Harris
+ =Nation= 110:770 Je 5 ’20 340w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:184 Ap 18 ’20 3100w
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 220w
“Every one who reads this book will feel that he has come in contact
with a really great personality, and will be the better for the
feeling. The story of Belgium, in which the cardinal is the dominant
figure, is as fascinating, in one aspect, as ‘The pilgrim’s progress.’
The cardinal’s book, too, like Bunyan’s classic, is almost as good a
story for the young as it is for the old.”
+ =No Am= 212:139 Jl ’20 1500w
“A serious omission which ought to be supplied in any new edition is
the lack of any index.” Lyman Abbott
+ − =Outlook= 124:766 Ap 28 ’20 2450w
+ =Spec= 125:146 Jl 31 ’20 1550w
“The correspondence, always written in the lofty tone and closely
reasoned manner of state papers, is interesting throughout; but the
most engrossing pages of the book are those which deal with the
deportations.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p392 Je 24 ’20 950w
=MEREDITH, MRS ELISABETH GRAY (LYMAN).= Terrier’s tale. il *$1 Houghton
20–19080
“Although of a retiring disposition, I have always known that I am a
person of importance, but recently I have become a person of note, and
I have been asked to write my memoirs.” Thus the terrier begins his
tale and it is full of interest and excitement and some wise
reflections. It contains: Early days; Domestic life; Concerning baths;
Sport; Travel; On being left behind; Fatherhood; Guests; Social life;
As to cats; My great adventure; Through the window; Conclusion. The
illustrations are by Mia E. Rosenblad.
* * * * *
=N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 70w
=MERIAM, JUNIUS LATHROP.= Child life and the curriculum. $3.60 World bk.
375
20–8866
A work by the professor of school supervision and superintendent of
university schools, University of Missouri. That the subject matter of
modern life should be used as the means of instructing boys and girls
is his thesis. “In working out the details of this curriculum the
effort has been, not, as some critics have erroneously judged, to get
away from the traditional curriculum, but, on the positive side, to
get as close as possible to the lives of children as found in the home
and in the larger community.” (Preface) The book is divided into five
parts: Point of view; The traditional curriculum; Principles in the
making of curricula; The contents of a curriculum; Methods and
results. Supplementary readings are suggested at the end of each
chapter, and special reading lists, as well as lists of songs, games,
etc., are given in appendices. In addition there is a general
bibliography of fifteen pages, followed by an index.
* * * * *
“Not a course that can be adopted in a moment or by any school, but a
virile, well presented point of view which has something of value for
every elementary teacher.”
+ =Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20
“The reader may be unable to agree with all of the conclusions of the
book, but it furnishes material for critical thought, and will be of
interest to those dealing with courses of study. The manner of
presentation is somewhat tedious at times, and one feels that
occasional condensations would serve to emphasize the content.”
+ − =El School J= 21:150 O ’20 680w
“One may find some of his conclusions from well-known studies in the
field of education surprising; and may be unwilling to see measurement
deferred until after the attainment of seemingly impossible
conditions. Nevertheless he will recognize in the book and the
experiment it reports a contribution to the great effort to provide a
curriculum more closely related to life.”
+ − =School R= 28:552 S ’20 560w
=MERLANT, JOACHIM.= Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war
for independence (1776–1783); tr. by Mary Bushnell Coleman. *$2 Scribner
973.3
20–7496
“‘Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war for independence’
is an account of the part played by our allies during the Revolution,
written by one who participated in the world war. The author is Capt
Joachim Merlant, assistant professor of the faculty of letters in the
university of Montpellier, who, after a few months with the
territorials, joined an active unit as infantry officer. Severely
wounded in 1915 he never fully recovered, and being unable to fight
resolved instead to write and talk for his cause. Thus he came to
America, and from January to May in 1916 he lectured throughout the
country. And through his gratitude toward America he decided to
investigate the Franco-American alliance of 1778–1783 and retell the
story of Rochambeau and LaFayette.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 420w
=MERRICK, HOPE (BUTLER-WILKINS) (MRS LEONARD MERRICK).= Mary-girl; a
posthumous novel. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8792
“Ezra Sheppard is a man with a consuming ideal. A devout Quaker, it is
his dream to build a seemly meeting-house instead of the dilapidated
barn where the Friends have hitherto met. The lavish terms offered for
the services of Mary in nourishing the Earl of Folkington’s heir would
convert his dream into real stone and lime. So he lets Mary go. Mary,
poor girl, with the best will in the world, finds when her year is up
that the life of a working gardener’s wife is not so pleasant as it
used to be. And Ezra behaves badly about it, too. He repents, it is
true, and realizes that his idol has cost him too dear, but not before
Mary has been brought to shame, and his repentance takes the form of
attempted arson.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
“‘Mary-girl’ deserves something better than so foolish and inept a
designation. If it were merely one among a thousand sentimental
romances, its title would be unobjectionable, but it is something more
than that, and it is a pity that it should be so misrepresented. As a
whole, it is a notably truthful record of a soul conflict and an
absorbingly interesting story.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 800w
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w
“A delightful human and unpretentious story, well written and very
interesting, the tale has realism without pessimism, sentiment without
sentimentality. A delightful book, vivid, human, dramatic at times and
always entertaining, is this story of ‘Mary-girl.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 11 ’20 750w
“The late Mrs Leonard Merrick was endowed with the rare gift of being
able to write a thoroughly sentimental story with undoubted charm. The
episode of Mary’s downfall is the least satisfactory thing in the
book. It is false to the character, and for all its disguise is mere
‘novelette’ in essence.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p157 Mr 4 ’20 250w
=MERWIN, SAMUEL.= Hills of Han. il *$2 Bobbs
20–6286
“Betty Doane, the heroine, daughter of a missionary, returns to China
after six years in the United States. On the steamer she meets
Jonathan Branchy, author, explorer and newspaper man and a somewhat
unromantic love affair develops between them. The development of their
emotions is interwoven with the dangers threatening all foreigners in
China from a new society, a recrudescence of the old Boxer
organization, known as ‘the Lookers.’ The chief item in the creed of
this society is the extinction of all ‘foreign devils.’ Betty’s
position becomes increasingly difficult and complicated through the
intolerance of her father’s missionary coworkers, and through a want
of a sense of humor on the part of her lover. The adventures of the
principals attain a climax at the headquarters of a French mining
concern; this form of foreign activity excites the particular
antipathy of ‘the Lookers.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Both the story and the setting hold the reader though one dislikes
the pictures of the mission teachers and the incidents are
melodramatic. Some people will object to this.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20
“As for the Chinese atmosphere and personnel of the story, one may
accept them as sound—if that matters in a story of this kind, and if
atmosphere and personnel can be sound when the action is unsound or
patently artificial. All this, you may say, is the breaking of a
butterfly on the clumsy wheel of criticism. ‘Hills of Han’ is not a
butterfly; it is a sort of gilded bat with the butterfly label.” H. W.
Boynton
− =Bookm= 51:583 Jl ’20 320w
=Dial= 69:320 S ’20 60w
“Samuel Merwin has written better novels than ‘Hills of Han,’ but it
offers agreeable entertainment for an uncritical hour.”
+ − =Ind= 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 70w
“While neither as entertaining nor as vivid as some of Mr Merwin’s
earlier romances, the story is an interesting one and has some
dramatic moments.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:205 Ap 25 ’20 700w
“There is good fiction stuff here, but it is clumsily put together.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 80w
“A thoroly absorbing romance, and a most workmanlike piece of novel
writing.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 97:1291 Ap 17 ’20 320w
“Through the color which Mr Merwin dashes upon his background and his
descriptions of picturesque customs, and countryside, much of the
unevenness of character portraiture is compensated for. Generally, the
story holds the reader’s close attention.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 700w
=MERZ, JOHN THEODORE.= Fragment on the human mind. *$4.50 Scribner 192
(Eng ed 20–10637)
“After having mastered the history of modern philosophy the author
considers its main problem to be the relation of religion and science.
The problem of this relation is best approached, the author holds, by
a study of the human mind. This may be done in a number of ways, but
he prefers two, observation and introspection. Observation is the
method used in studying the development of the race, going back to
primitive times; introspection is used in the study of the individual
life, going back to the infant mind. Special attention is given to the
latter in this treatise. Many of the great metaphysical problems [are
discussed] and such subjects as the moral law, the world of values,
the relation of science to art and the respective provinces of each,
the social order and the world of freedom.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“In this brief treatise we find the idealistic philosophy set forth by
a masterly mind which includes the common sense of the practical
business man, the convincing logic of the acute thinker, and the
wisdom of the broadminded scholar.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 850w
“Admirable both in clarity of style and depth of matter.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:63 Ja 17 ’20 900w
“The treatise, small as it is in bulk, fragmentary as it confessedly
is, is a worthy crown to a lifetime of devotion to the task of
instructing and enlightening the mind of its author and his numerous
readers as to the history and nature of themselves and the world they
live in.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p97 F 12 ’20 2000w
=MIDDLETON, GEORGE.= Masks. *$1.60 Holt 812
20–8218
Here are six one-act plays of modern American life all more or less
satiric and all with the same implication as the title play. In
“Masks” we are introduced to the shabby home of a hitherto
unsuccessful dramatist at the moment of his first success. While he is
musing at his desk over the change in his fortune he is haunted by two
of the characters of a former, rejected play, which now having been
remodeled is making him rich and famous. They are the bitter
reflections of one who knows that he has killed the real artist in
himself in courting public favor. The other plays are: Jim’s beast;
Tides; Among the lions; The reason; The house.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“The present volume not only maintains the high level of those
preceding, but contains some work that challenges comparison with
anything done earlier, while suggesting a new vein. This is
particularly true of the title-piece. In all the six plays the trained
hand of the practical theatre artist is evidenced in the stage
directions and the conductment of the action.” R: Burton
+ =Bookm= 51:472 Je ’20 700w
“A book of plays by George Middleton promises interest for the reader,
and ‘Masks’ is scarcely to be called a disappointment. Yet these
dramas are rather thin in texture. The play which gives the book its
title seems a bit forced in treatment.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 380w
“Only in ‘Among the lions’ is there any deftness either of
characterization or of action.” Gilbert Seldes
− + =Dial= 69:214 Ag ’20 120w
“Some of George Middleton’s published plays have been very bad, but
they have always shown possibilities. That these possibilities have
become actualities is evidenced by his latest volume.”
+ =Drama= 10:355 Jl ’20 350w
“His strength is in his ideas. He has thought justly and forcibly; he
is clear where others are muddled, and collected where others are
confused. What prevents Mr Middleton’s work a little from fulfilling
one’s highest expectations of it is his dialogue. This weakness, one
should add, is not wholly personal to Mr Middleton. We have little
folk-speech.”
+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 900w
“All these plays are savagely polite, showing the ambition to achieve
great satire without the ability to bite very deep.” M. C.
+ − =New Repub= 24:26 S 1 ’20 500w
“Each of the plays is written with the least possible waste of words
or of motion. There is a bitter tang to them, except the last, with
its note of whimsical tenderness. It is a book that Mr Middleton’s
readers will be glad to have, for it carries on fitly the work he has
been doing, that of writing the one-act play with a true sense of its
form and value and as a medium for swift and keen interpretation of
modern life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= 25:228 My 2 ’20 880w
“His art is akin to mathematics. Apart from the soundness of the
fabric, his strength lies largely in the hardness, the firmness, the
insistence of the individual stroke. Unfortunately for Mr Middleton,
this hardness strikes inward, and the virtue of the technician becomes
the limitation and incumbrance of the man.”
+ − =Review= 2:632 Je 16 ’20 300w
“Perhaps the first is the most satisfactory. ‘Reason,’ a rather grim
little study, is the other play in the book which has come off. The
rest are a little nebulous, especially perhaps the playlet à la Sir
James Barrie at the end.”
+ − =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 150w
“Whether Mr Middleton is saving his best for Broadway today, or
whether the six one-act plays published in this volume are what is
left over from the early literary days and published now in the hope
of sharing the sun of success, it is certain that, as a group they are
distinctly dull, undramatic and unconvincing. ‘Among the lions’ and
‘The reason’—both satirical comedies of the irregular relation—are
better than the others.”
− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 80w
=MILES, EUSTACE HAMILTON.= Self-health as a habit. il *$2.50 Dutton 613
20–6058
“Self-health, according to Mr Eustace Miles, is mainly an affair of
balanced (vegetarian) diets, good cooking and mastication, no alcohol,
but habitual sipping of hot water, deep breathing, and ‘sensible
exercises’—more particularly the ‘daily stretch.’”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p62 Ja 9 ’20 40w
“While experts will probably not agree with all that Mr Miles teaches,
his advice is stimulating and helpful.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 180w
“That he has a great deal that is extremely sensible to say about the
individual’s life and habits, both physical and mental, all will
admit.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p770 D 18 ’19 80w
=MILIUKOV, PAVEL NIKOLAEVICH.= Bolshevism: an international danger; its
doctrine and its practice through war and revolution. *$3.75 Scribner
335
(Eng ed 20–10286)
“In view of the fact that most of the criticism of bolshevism that we
are privileged to read comes from non-Russian sources, we should
welcome this attempt of a great Russian scholar and statesman to
appraise both the doctrine and the practical outcome of bolshevist
rule from an international standpoint. Professor Miliukov, who will be
remembered as the leader of the first government formed after the
revolution of 1917, here traces the progress of bolshevism through war
and revolution into a practical experiment in government and exposes
the bolshevist propaganda in other countries, showing that its leaders
are aiming at nothing short of a world-revolution.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“An informative study to be recommended to the well read, discerning
type of reader.”
+ =Booklist= 17:54 N ’20
“When finally he traces the coal-strike and the steel-strike to
Moscow, we regretfully set his volume on the shelf, in its
alphabetical order, next to Baron Munchausen.” Harold Kellock
− =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 550w
“Beyond any doubt, he here renders a great service to the bolshevist
cause by using ‘propaganda stuff’ which is so easy to refute. One
might expect from a man like Miliukov a sounder criticism of
Bolshevism, because it can and must be criticized from an entirely
different angle.”
− + =Nation= 111:sup423 O 13 ’20 1150w
“The book is too detailed and assumes too much knowledge of details to
be available for the general reader, but it is for this very reason
the more valuable for students.”
+ =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 120w
=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 100w
“M. Miliukov’s eminence in Russian politics and his first-hand
knowledge of conditions in Europe and the United States make him a
sure guide to those engaged in public affairs; his masterly handling
and clear exposition of so complicated a subject render the reader’s
task not only easy, but pleasant.”
+ =Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 110w
“An instructive account.”
+ =Spec= 124:725 My 29 ’20 1300w
“His facts are wonderfully correct. No honest man reading this work on
Russian politics ... can come to any other opinion than that M.
Miliukov’s work carries conviction, not only because it is well
compiled, but because it is—at times almost painfully—correct in every
detail.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p375 Je 17 ’20 1200w
=MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE.= Sportsman’s wanderings (Eng title, Wanderings
and memories). il *$5 (5½c) Houghton
20–26324
The author fired his first gun (and almost his last) at the age of
six. At school his ornithological obsession repeatedly brought
disgrace upon him, but he lived to become one of the most versatile of
sportsmen and naturalists, as the book shows. The tropics and arctic
ice are alike familiar to him and with the motto “The great thing in
life is to live,” he has found being a “Jack of all trades” the most
interesting existence. “In turn I have been soldier, sailor, a British
consul, artist, zoologist, author and landscape gardener.” His
desultory accounts include a description of his father the painter,
and their family life, and of many distinguished personages. The
illustrations are from drawings by the author and from photographs.
Contents: When I was young; Some early experiences in shooting;
Travels in Iceland, 1889; All sorts and conditions of men; Arthur
Neumann, pioneer and elephant hunter; Scottish salmon-fishing; One
African day, 1913; The Lofoden Islands, 1915; An arctic residence,
1916; Fealar, 1918—highland deer-stalking.
* * * * *
“A story that is interesting, varied, and well spiced with anecdotes.”
+ =Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 1 ’20 330w
“Here is a readable blend of lively reminiscence and first-hand
observation, without verbal or scientific excess baggage.”
+ =Dial= 68:666 My ’20 50w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 220w
+ =Sat R= 129:107 Ja 31 ’20 1250w
“He ought to be able to write an interesting book, and he has done so.
His reminiscences are disjointed, as—one imagines—his life has been;
but they are alive with his own enthusiasm for describing live
things.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 D 4 ’19 1000w
=MILLEN, WILLIAM ARTHUR.= Songs of the Irish revolution and songs of the
newer Ireland. $1.50 Stratford co. 811
20–8530
The author of these poems is an American of Irish descent who lived
eight years in Ireland as a student and who believes that the National
university of Ireland will be the salvation of the country. With his
love for the land of his fathers and sympathy for the “Newer Ireland
spirit” he combines great faith in Ireland’s men of learning. The book
falls into two parts: At the dawning; and Echoes of Erin.
* * * * *
“Mr Millen is obviously pamphleteer rather than poet. One cannot help
feeling that he would be more pleased at winning converts to his cause
than at winning laurels for himself.” F. E. A. T.
+ − =Grinnell R= 16:357 F ’21 200w
=MILLER, ALICE (DUER) (MRS HENRY WISE MILLER).= Beauty and the
bolshevist. il *$1.50 (7c) Harper 20–18254
Ben Moreton, the radical editor of “Liberty,” runs off hastily to
Newport to prevent his brother’s marriage to Eugenia Cord, daughter of
a multi-millionaire. He is too late to do that but he does something
else, he falls in love with her sister. Crystal finds the common
ground that will unite her irate conservative father and her radical
lover and brings the story to the right ending. It appeared in
Harper’s Magazine, May-July, 1920.
* * * * *
“Not so good as some others by the author, but amusing.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20
“A clever and paradoxical comedy full of repartee.”
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 30w
=N Y Evening Post= p9 N 6 ’20 210w
“One has come to expect clever conversation from Alice Duer Miller,
and ‘The beauty and the bolshevist’ does provide that, but it is far
from being as pleasing as some of Mrs Miller’s earlier novels.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 110w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 80w
=MILLER, ARTHUR HARRISON.= Leadership. *$1.50 Putnam 355
20–8069
“In the schooling of officers no course was included nor lectures
given in leadership as a human science or in its relation to military
success as a morale factor in peace or war.” (Preface) It is the
object of the book to standardize the acknowledged methods of
leadership in the army, and, for the sake of brevity, the methods and
“formulae,” merely, are given without their psychological reasons.
Contents: Foreword by Edward L. Munson; Leadership and morale;
Character and personality; The leader and the soldier; The leader and
the organization; Index.
* * * * *
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 50w
=MILLER, LEO EDWARD.= Hidden people; the story of a search for Incan
treasure. il *$2.50 Scribner
20–16498
“The hair-raising adventures of a couple of shipwrecked college boys
among the wild Indians, ‘monkey men,’ reptiles and gorgeous birds of
South America, especially their adventures among a remnant of the old
Incan civilization with their horde of gold.”—Cleveland
* * * * *
=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 40w
“A scientific novel for boys, a really sound study of a remnant of an
ancient South American tribe in interesting natural surroundings.”
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 30w
=N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 80w
“Neither youth nor age need form a barrier to the enjoyment of ‘The
hidden people.’ Mr Miller is particularly fortunate in the way by
which he applies his local color.” Kermit Roosevelt
+ =N Y Times= p5 N 14 ’20 1150w
“Is the kind of book that will appeal to all lovers of adventure.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
“Those who follow his fascinating story, gain also a knowledge of the
birds and beasts, the volcanic mountains and other interesting things
that a scientific observer may see in South America.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 28 ’21 80w
=MILLER, WARREN HASTINGS.= Ring-necked grizzly. il *$1.50 (2½c) Appleton
20–7922
A hunting story for boys. Sid Colvin is recovering from typhoid and
his father decides to give him a year in the open and sends him,
accompanied by his chum Scotty, out to the Rockies where the boys are
taken in charge by Big John, a trusted guide. They spend a winter in
the mountains and the story tells of their adventures and exploits,
which include, in addition to the killing of the ring-necked grizzly,
other hunting and fishing experiences, snow-blindness and an encounter
with outlaws. Mr Miller is author of “The boys’ book of hunting and
fishing” and other works.
* * * * *
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:198 N ’20 70w
=MILLIGAN, HAROLD VINCENT.= Stephen Collins Foster; a biography of
America’s folksong composer. il *$2.50 Schirmer
20–9485
By a careful sifting of material the author has sought to present an
authentic account of Foster’s career, taking special pains to dispel
some of the legends that have grown up around his later years and
death. The early chapters give an interesting picture of American
pioneer society and suggest the state of development of music in
America at the time. The concluding chapter gives an estimate of
Foster’s musical attainment and an analysis of the influence of his
environment on his career. Contents: The family; Boyhood; Youth; First
songs; Ambition; Drifting; Tragedy; The composer. Among the
illustrations are several facsimile pages from Foster’s manuscript
book.
* * * * *
=N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 520w
=MILLIN, SARAH GERTRUDE.= Dark river. *$2 (2½c) Seltzer
(Eng ed 20–4268)
Human destinies rather than events form the interest of this South
African story. Of the three men and three women that figure in it,
John Oliver and René van Reede bungle their lives through defects in
character. George Buckle possesses the substantial social virtues that
make good in this workaday world and even enable him to take his
rebuff in love philosophically. The three women, sisters, untouched by
feminism, are more passive instruments in the hands of fate and are
reduced to watchful waiting for the right man. Alma’s marriage to
George is frustrated through the untimely interference of the flighty
René, who goes off and forgets. Hester, feeling youth slipping away
from her, marries the regenerate John, to her sorrow. Ruth, the
youngest, eventually becomes the happy wife of George, although Alma’s
shadow occasionally flits by.
* * * * *
“To read ‘The dark river’ is, after so much wind and brass, to listen
to a solo for the viola. Running through the book there is, as it
were, a low, troubled throbbing note which never is stilled. Perhaps a
novel is never the novel it might have been, but there are certain
books which do seem to contain the vision, more or less blurred or
more or less clear, of their second selves, of what the author saw
before he grasped the difficult pen. ‘The dark river’ is one of
these.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p241 F 20 ’20 380w
“So well does the writer of this story know her South Africa, and more
particularly the diggings, that she has not attempted to add the
glamour usually found in tales of these regions. In fact, so clearly
defined has been her purpose to tell ‘the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth’ that the story would be rather depressing in
its sombreness and worse than drab details were it not enlivened by
bits of real humor and by a delightful background of local color.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 270w
“‘The dark river’ is well written, in a clear and vigorous style, it
is interesting, it gives that sense of reality which makes us feel
that we are actually observing the lives and fortunes of a group of
living people. Moreover, it has the rare quality which distinguished
Arnold Bennett’s ‘The old wives’ tale’—it gives an effect of the
passing of time. ‘The dark river’ is a notable novel.”
+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 780w
“Outside of Hardy it would be difficult to find a setting which
affords a more harmonious background for the characters whose sombre
destiny is recorded in Sarah Gertrude Millin’s ‘The dark river.’”
Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 98:1192 O 16 ’20 310w
“It is written not unpleasantly, but with a serious simplicity, and
the characters introduced are well and distinctly drawn.”
+ =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p89 F 5 ’20 90w
=MILLS, ENOS ABIJAH.= Adventures of a nature guide. il *$3.50 (5½c)
Doubleday 508
20–2049
“Storm, sunshine, night, desert, stream, and forest are crowded with
waiting attractions and moving scenes. To have the most adventures and
the greatest enjoyment in a given time, ramble the wilds alone and
without a fishing-rod or a gun.” (Preface) This is the author’s advice
to nature lovers. He calls the wilderness the safety zone of the world
and declares its experiences less dangerous than staying at home;
while the hunter, armed and killing, multiplies dangers and enjoys
less variety and fewer adventures. The book gives a solitary and
unarmed camper’s adventures in the wilds of the continent. Contents:
Snow-blinded on the summit; Waiting in the wilderness; Winter
mountaineering; Trees at timberline; Wind-rapids on the heights; The
arctic zone of high mountains; Naturalist meets prospector; The white
cyclone; Lightning and thunder; Landmarks; Children of my trail
school; A day with a nature guide; Play and pranks of wild folk;
Censored natural history news; Harriet—little mountain climber;
Evolution of nature guiding; Development of a woman guide. The many
beautiful illustrations are from photographs by the author.
* * * * *
“Boy scouts will like it.”
+ =Booklist= 16:201 Mr ’20
Reviewed by LeRoy Jeffers
=Bookm= 51:103 Mr ’20 1450w
“The humor with which he relieves a tense situation, and his keen
observations on the habits of the wild life of the mountains add to
the interest of the book. A number of remarkably good photographs.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ja ’20 80w
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 40w
“It is altogether a fascinating book; and its best title to
recognition is that it approaches nature study from new angles, and
with an unflagging and ever new interest.” Phillip Tillinghast
+ =Pub W= 96:1697 D 27 ’19 380w
=R of Rs= 61:448 Ap ’20 70w
=MILLS, JOSEPH TRAVIS.=[2] Great Britain and the United States. *$2.50
Oxford 327
20–9352
“An English scholar’s critical review of the historical relations
between the two countries. The book is made up mainly of extracts from
lectures that were delivered to various units of the American army of
occupation in Germany in May and June, 1919. The author naturally
takes the ground that in the family dispute of 1776 ‘Britain’s policy
was logically defensible, however unwise her action.’ In other words,
he contends that there really is a British ‘case.’”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“His audiences considered, Mr Travis Mills was outspoken indeed, and
there must have been some shaking of wise young heads over the
Kiplingesque patriotism of this Britisher. No harm is done, however,
by a ‘straight talk,’ and the lecturer advanced a sound argument when
he contended that want of understanding, rather than the intention to
oppress, produced the rupture between the American colonies and Great
Britain.”
+ =Ath= p12 Jl 2 ’20 370w
=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 80w
“Much of it will probably be new to English readers, whose notions of
the American revolution are derived from text-books with a strong
Whiggish bias.”
+ =Spec= 124:659 My 15 ’20 220w
=MILN, LOUISE (JORDAN) (MRS GEORGE CRICHTON MILN).= Invisible foe.
*$1.25 (1½c) Stokes
20–11300
This story, adapted from a play by Walter Hackett, is based on the
possibility of communication with the dead. Helen Bransby is loved by
two brothers, Stephen and Hugh. Thwarted in his love by Hugh’s success
with Helen and smarting under a business failure as well, Stephen
commits a crime which he contrives so that Hugh is blamed for it. The
only person to discover the true state of affairs is Helen’s father,
and the shock of it proves too much for his weak heart and he dies
before he can right the wrong. Helen is positive of Hugh’s innocence,
and as time goes on she is made more confident by the impelling
feeling that her father is trying to get some message thru to her from
the other world. The crisis of the story comes when she actually
receives the message, and the hiding place of the paper that clears
Hugh is psychically revealed to her.
* * * * *
“‘The invisible foe’ could easily stand on its own merits as a crime
story without the aid of the spooks.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 650w
=MILN, LOUISE JORDON (MRS GEORGE CRICHTON MILN).= Mr Wu; based on the
play “Mr Wu” by H. M. Vernon and Harold Owen. *$1.75 (2c) Stokes
20–7524
Wu Li Chang, one of the richest, most powerful of Chinese mandarins
had had an English education and was an Oxford man. His daughter, Nang
Ping, whose mother died when she was born, and who was reared in the
utmost Chinese luxury, was betrayed by a young Englishman. How Wu, the
father punished his daughter’s transgression in the time-honored
Chinese way, by killing her, and how he took revenge on her seducer
through the latter’s mother makes an impressive tale. It abounds in
vivid descriptions of Chinese social customs and traditions and
reflections on the habits of Englishmen in China, that are not much to
the credit of our western civilization.
* * * * *
“It differs from most novelized plays in that the bones are not
visible or even suggested. Mrs Miln must have put into it sufficient
of her own personality to make the story quite her own. It is
probable, moreover, that all three authors contributed something to
the impression we have of being for the first time actually in the
heart of China.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 420w
“Though the vengeance of Wu Li Chang’s forms the climax of the book
the best and most interesting part of it is the introductory portion,
closing with the tragic fate of poor little Wu Nang Ping.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 500w
“Poignant emotions and a portrayal of oriental manners and customs
combine to make ‘Mr Wu’ of more compelling interest than the ordinary
run of adventure fiction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 330w
=MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER.= First plays. *$2 Knopf 822
(Eng ed 20–12856)
A volume of five plays, written during 1916 and 1917. They are not,
the author says, “the work of a professional writer, but the
recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier.” The first,
“Wurzel-Flummery” is a one-act comedy in which two distinguished
members of Parliament are offered an inheritance of fifty thousand
pounds—on condition of accepting the name Wurzel-Flummery. A two-act
version of the play was produced in London in 1917. “The lucky one” is
a three-act play. “The boy comes home,” a comedy in one act, is the
one war play in the volume. “Belinda” is a comedy in three acts that
has been performed in London and in New York, where Ethel Barrymore
played the title rôle. “The red feathers,” the final piece, is an
operetta.
* * * * *
“The lightness and irresponsible gaiety of Mr Milne’s dialogue are
equalled by his wit.”
+ =Ath= p1017 O 10 ’19 150w
+ =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20
“They are intelligently amusing and have all the quality of admitting
a thousand technical imperfections and carrying them off with wit or
the grace of nice human relations.” Gilbert Seldes
+ − =Dial= 69:214 Ag ’20 140w
“Throughout all these ‘First plays’ of Mr Milne’s the word whimsical
haunts us. It is the trademark of the school, the school of Barrie;
and as in so many plays in the Barrie manner the form has taken the
place of the substance. What these plays show is simply that no
glamour of pictorialism, no colouring of language can atone for an
indifference to the fundamental requirements of drama.” J. C. M.
− + =Freeman= 1:406 Jl 7 ’20 200w
“No young continental artist, discovering himself to be a playwright
during the very years of the war, would have written with this
sobriety, good humor, and straightforward realism. Such an artist
would, no doubt, have written more profoundly and imaginatively, but
also more obscurely and, in no low sense, less usefully. Mr Milne, to
be sure, is capable of being both trivial and sentimental. But his
dialogue is deft and natural, and his observation of human nature cool
and sane. His best play, The lucky one, is an admirable piece of
dramatic writing.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 280w
“Mr Milne’s plays belong to what might be termed the Barrie school of
drama. It is the idea of whimsicality raised to terms of life.
Situations that in the hands of another would be either broadly comic
or broadly depressing are made by this school of dramatists into a
fantastic realism. While these plays are extremely diverting to read,
one will sometimes doubt their adaptability to the stage.” H. S.
Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 550w
“The others are excellent entertainments, they abound in high spirits
and good nonsense, but ‘The lucky one’ cuts deeper. They are all
excellent fun, superficial, naturally, but thoroughly sound and
wholesome of its kind.”
+ − =Spec= 123:477 O 11 ’19 750w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 9 ’20 360w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p501 S 18 ’19 70w
“They are delightful parlour-games, all five. They do not affect, like
the newest of Mr Shaw’s parlour-games, to be fantasies in the Russian
manner. They are modestly and tactfully and good-humouredly in the
English manner.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p564 O 16 ’19 700w
“‘Wurzel-Flummery’ is what high comedy should be—satirical yet not
bitter, amusing yet not farcical. The reader of a play is perhaps too
apt to dwell upon its style; but, other qualities being equal, a play
is really none the worse for being well written. And Mr Milne writes
well.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:257 Jl ’20 240w
=MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER.= Not that it matters. *$2.50 Dutton 814
20–13982
“Mr Milne, who was formerly assistant editor of ‘Punch,’ contributed
to that weekly many verses and paragraphs about his experiences in the
war. He has left ‘Punch,’ chiefly because he wearied of having to be
‘whimsical’ once a week. In this book he writes about a score of
subjects,—games, books, thermometers, snobbery, and the
seasons.”—Review
* * * * *
“One of the most gracious things about these essays is that Mr Milne
knows when to begin and when to stop.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ’20 520w
“No better book for vacation reading has been published this summer
than ‘Not that it matters.’”
+ =Review= 3:173 Ag 25 ’20 280w
“To all that he attempts Mr Milne brings a style of perfect
suppleness, ease and grace, albeit possessing that almost excessive
informality that Charles Lamb is charged by some with having
introduced into English prose. But when he rambles on, struggling with
a subject that doesn’t yield much fruit one wishes that Mr Milne would
adopt a somewhat severer principle of selection when collecting his
writings for the pages of a book.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 27 ’20 500w
“There is the satisfaction of knowing that wherever you may dip into
this book you will be amused. So much of modern literature is only
rough hewn that a finely finished work—even on goldfish—is welcome. In
that respect ‘it’ does ‘matter.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p693 N 27 ’19 680w
=MINNIGERODE, MEADE.= Laughing house. *$1.90 (3½c) Putnam
20–18258
Laughing house is another name for Shirley House, the ancestral home
of the Shirley family in Shirley, Connecticut. It is packed with
family lore and tradition, which Francis and Mary Elizabeth love and
respect. There they have a happy childhood, whose joys are shared by
Newell and Isabelle Rushmore and Billy Vane, who are almost as much at
home at Shirley House as the Shirleys themselves. When the children
grow up they are still the best of comrades. In fact, they know each
other so well that all their future relations are taken for granted
and it is tacitly understood that Mary Elizabeth is to marry Billy.
But then a stranger comes into their midst, a nouveau-riche neighbor
who tramples on their traditions and upsets all their calculations.
But altho her methods are a trifle ruthless, she opens the eyes of
several people to their real feelings toward various other people.
Billy suffers most, but deservedly so. Mary Elizabeth does not marry
him, but Newell, and Isabelle who had fancied herself in love with
Billy, too, finds it is Francis after all.
* * * * *
“When Mr Minnigerode is dealing with this family he is altogether
charming. Perhaps he cannot write of ugliness: when he brings in a
member of the nouveau riche, and introduces us to a vulgar and
‘designing woman,’ his skill departs.” W: L. Phelps
+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 380w
“There is a pleasantness about the tale, and the reader will relish
the quiet old Shirley homestead, the quiet of the village and
surrounding hills, and the principal characters. The story is natural
in its telling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 120w
“Slight both in matter and in length, and not free from preciosity.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 50w
=MIRZA, YOUEL BENJAMIN.= When I was a boy in Persia. (Children of other
lands) il *$1 (3c) Lothrop 915.5
20–7997
The author is a young man of Persian birth who served in the United
States navy during the war. He begins his story with an account of his
parents’ marriage, thus giving a glimpse of the Persian caste system
as well as of marriage customs. Subjects covered in other chapters
include: The birth and care of a child; Schooldays; Persian games,
amusements and massalie (stories); Persian fasts and festivals;
Persian rugs and rug-makers. The final chapter, Preparations for a far
journey, tells of the departure for America.
* * * * *
“An unaffected sincerity and a ring of truth and intimate knowledge
are the fascinating things in this story.”
+ =Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20
“This is a delightful book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 360w
=Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 20w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:198 N ’20 70w
=MISCELLANY= of American poetry, 1920. *$2 Harcourt 811.08
20–16870
“This volume is as its name half implies, a miscellany of the most
recent work of eleven American poets. These eleven form no particular
group, illustrate no single influence, constitute no one
‘movement.’... Each poet has been his own editor. As such, he has
selected and arranged his own contributions.... The poems that follow
are all new. They are new not only in the sense that they have not
been previously issued by their authors in book form but, with the
exception of seven poems, none of them has ever appeared in print.”
(Publisher’s foreword) The eleven poets are: Conrad Aiken; Robert
Frost; John Gould Fletcher; Vachel Lindsay; Amy Lowell; James
Oppenheim; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Carl Sandburg; Sara Teasdale;
Jean Starr Untermeyer, and Louis Untermeyer.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
“Some of the poems have come out in magazines; and, what is really
important, most of them are below the author’s level. For a first
number this volume might pass. But the next should be made to count by
the contributors looking ahead and planning for it. Otherwise it is
only a pleasant venture.” Stark Young
+ − =Bookm= 52:266 N ’20 550w
=Boston Transcript= p8 O 2 ’20 1200w
“An eminently sane and revealing experiment, and one which justifies
itself in the results.” Lisle Bell
+ =Freeman= 2:213 N 10 ’20 490w
“Containing whatever it does, it vindicates with unusual accuracy the
critical preferences which seem to prevail just now and so embarrasses
the reviewer who would like to declare something newer than that John
Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin
Arlington Robinson, and Carl Sandburg are better than other poets
today.”
+ =Nation= 111:481 O 27 ’20 840w
“The most interesting thing about this volume is the curiously
stratified cross section which it offers of contemporary poetry in
America.” J: L. Lowes
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 S 25 ’20 2200w
“Here are all fashions, from free verse to the most conservative
lines, and all done with exceptional finish and comprehension of
poetic values. The book suggests in its general scheme those excellent
Georgian anthologies. But a difference must be noted between these
books and this American miscellany. In the American book is a wider
range, the dissimilitude of the poets included is far greater than
that of the Georgian group.”
+ =N Y Times= p11 D 5 ’20 1250w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 2:292 O 6 ’20 350w
=MITCHELL, ROY.= Shakespeare for community players. il *$2.50 Dutton
822.3
20–3019
“Mr Mitchell’s authority as director of the Hart House theater of the
University of Toronto and former technical director of the Greenwich
Village theater, New York, is unquestioned. Taking Shakespeare as his
text, he teaches the fundamentals of stagecraft which are applicable
to community production, starting with the choice of a play, and
discussing organization, rehearsal, stage-setting, furniture, dresses,
lighting, make-up, music and other important elements.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20
+ =St Louis= 18:227 S ’20 40w
“His advice is sufficiently detailed to permit a clear grasp of all
that is required. His principles are sound and scholarly.”
+ =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 220w
“Many a professional man of the theatre could learn something from Mr
Mitchell’s book. The ordinary amateur actor will find it full of
‘tips.’ To the community theatre it will be necessary.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p79 F 5 ’20 700w
“Suggestions on acting and stage-directing, and full illustrations
covering every phase of the text, round out the volume as one of the
most helpful of the many recent contributions to what may be termed
the practical literature of community drama.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 300w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:116 Je ’20 80w
=MIX, JENNIE IRENE.= At fame’s gateway. *$1.75 (1½c) Holt
20–6128
Josephine Prescott was a musical prodigy in her little town of
Parksburg and the admiration of her townspeople made it possible for
her to continue her studies on the piano with a famous teacher in New
York. There her personal charms secured her many friends among musical
and literary people whose Bohemian life she shared. A great violin
virtuoso chose her for his inspiration and she loved the man in him
while the artist left her indifferent. Her teacher, the great Brandt,
dubious about her artistic testing, tried her out; one year, two
years. In the third year he tells her that, with all her talent, she
will never be a great artist, for she lacks understanding. Despondent
and with all her hopes shattered, she again hears the great violinist
and suddenly awakes to the realization that she understands and
thrills to his music, that she no longer loves the man but the artist.
And outside of the hall on the sidewalk romance stands waiting for
her.
* * * * *
“Although conventional, the well-sustained suspense and the pleasant
characterization give it an interest that will appeal to women and
girls.”
+ =Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20
“The illuminating discussions of temperament, technique and the larger
understanding necessary to genius, should prove valuable to many
seeking a career in music, or indeed in any of the arts.”
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 80w
“A moral tale but interesting, it has a lot of musical good sense and
is highly to be recommended to the concert-stage struck girl.”
+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 50w
“The book lacks character development. The novel drags badly at times,
but some of the scenes are well written. Brandt’s speeches are usually
good, and as a whole it is a conscientious piece of work with an
excellent moral.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 450w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 180w
=MOELLER, PHILIP.= Sophie. *$1.75 Knopf 812
20–13983
Sophie Arnould, famous Parisian singer, actor and wit of the
eighteenth century, is the heroine of this comedy in three acts for
which Carl Van Vechten writes a prologue giving the historical
background of the play with a brief sketch of the life of Sophie
Arnould. Although it is based on history, says Mr Van Vechten, the
historical facts of the play are negligible while the author has
“lighted up the atmosphere and the period, and re-created character.
Sophie lives in this comedy, lives as she must have lived at the
height of her career.” We see her as a triumphant lover, get glimpses
of her as the superb artist, as the kind-hearted woman, but chiefly as
the resourceful wit who cleverly outflanks her enemies.
* * * * *
“Philip Moeller, the creator of ‘Madame Sand’ and of ‘Moliere,’ has
developed in ‘Sophie’ more searchingly his gift of satire and
sparkling repartee. The lines of his play are closely interwoven in
thought, and their significance is often multiple. In the repartee and
in the rapid interplay of ideas lies the individuality of Mr Moeller.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 450w
“The play fails not because its plot is unreal, its ‘morality’ frankly
unmoral, its characters exaggerated. All this is true of many of those
great comedies ‘which are in the best traditions of the English
stage.’ It fails because it is not good of its kind.”
− =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 200w
=MONASH, SIR JOHN.= Australian victories in France in 1918. il *$8
Dutton 940.394
20–11507
“The part played by the Australian corps under Lieutenant General
Monash in France during the closing months of the war is recorded in
this volume. The corps commanded by Lieutenant General Monash was the
largest on the western front, and while the body of his troops were
Australians it contained some imperial divisions and the 27th and 30th
American divisions. These troops went into action in the defence of
Amiens when it was menaced by the great drive of the ‘Kaiser’s
battle,’ and fought up to the taking of Montbrehain on Oct. 5.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
“Not only a valuable document but a human chronicle that adds
distinctly to the literature of the war.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 730w
+ =Spec= 124:244 F 21 ’20 1050w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 12 ’20 850w
=MONEY, WALTER BAPTIST.= Humours of a parish, and other quaintnesses. il
*$2 Lane 827
20–16287
Mr Walter Herries Pollock in the introduction to this book of
reminiscences pays tribute to the author as clergyman and cricketer.
The book itself is a collection of anecdotes and stories, part of the
accumulated store from thirty years of work as a parochial clergyman.
* * * * *
“Mr Money’s anecdotes are good, but one has the tantalizing feeling as
one reads them that the printed version is only the palest reflection
of the real thing.”
+ − =Ath= p273 Ag 27 ’20 140w
“Embedded in Mr Money’s book of anecdotes there are an extraordinarily
large number of really delightful stories; but the book on the whole
suffers, as do most books of good stories, in being too long.”
+ − =Spec= 125:153 Jl 31 ’20 500w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p453 Jl 15 ’20 490w
=MONKHOUSE, ALLAN NOBLE.= True love. *$2 (2c) Holt
20–13704
A psychological novel with special emphasis on the psychologic
reactions of the war on its characters. Geoffrey Arden is an
introspective journalist and playwright in love with Sibyl Drew, an
actress. The war finds him on neutral ground and his comprehensive
view leaves small room for narrow enthusiasm. Nevertheless the
patriotic appeal wins out and he enlists. On proposing to Sibyl he
finds that her stage name covers a German ancestry and that she is
German to the core. They make a compact to be “chivalrous enemies” and
lovers at the same time and in this lies the gist of the story: that
to intellectually honest, well meaning people the war has presented
two phases—the one the international human aspect, the other the
national and patriotic.
* * * * *
“Mr Monkhouse is a professional novelist, quietly confident, carefully
ironical, and choosing always, at a crisis, to underrate the
seriousness of the situation rather than to stress it unduly.
Admirable as this temper undoubtedly is, it nevertheless leaves the
reader a great deal cooler than he would wish.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p1259 N 28 ’19 800w
“‘True love’ adheres to a course as conventional as its title,
unrelieved by plot invention and unredeemed by emotional
significance.”
− =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 50w
“But those who like much fine and high feeling and good talk and whose
interest in character study is strong will find it very satisfying.
There is in it a great deal of clever, sometimes brilliant, and always
interesting, conversation that covers a wide variety of subjects.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 5 ’20 600w
“As fiction the book is not appealing, but it is keenly and sometimes
brilliantly written.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 150w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:561 D 8 ’20 270w
+ =Sat R= 128:589 D 20 ’19 400w
“‘True love’ is an interesting and painfully engrossing story, in
which the author practises a most artistic self-effacement.”
+ =Spec= 122:733 N 29 ’19 750w
“His style is careful, neat and polished. His skill at play-writing
has taught him how to make his novels dramatic, and the book advances
in a good, orderly well-drilled fashion. Mr Monkhouse has given us a
most readable novel.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 D 4 ’19 620w
=MONTAGUE, JAMES J.= More truth than poetry. *$1.75 Doran 811
20–19075
A volume of reprinted newspaper verses, many of them for or about
children. Irvin Cobb, who writes the introduction, confesses that his
favorites are “Healthy” and “Thoughts on pie,” of the Doughboy
ditties, and “The Sleepy-town express.” Other poems are: The evening
suit; Around the corner; The pictures on the panes; Why the katydids
sing; Peter Pan; The mine sweepers; The road to success; The farmer’s
idle wife; In behalf of the movies.
=MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT.= England to America. *$1 (14c) Doubleday
20–8625
A reprint of a short story that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in
September 1919. It is the story of an American soldier on leave who
visits his English friend’s family in Devonshire. The strange reserve
of his hosts puzzles him and he interprets it, as coldness towards
himself or his country. On the last day the truth comes out and he
learns that for his sake they have been concealing the tragic news
that had just preceded his own arrival. John Drinkwater writes an
appreciative introduction. The story was awarded the O. Henry memorial
prize for the best American short story of 1919.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 40w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 30w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 80w
=MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT.= Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. *$1 (11c)
Doubleday
20–11895
A short story reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly. The old southern
mountaineer known as Uncle Sam, for his likeness to that national
figure, has carried the fervor of the Civil war patriotism all through
his life. In that spirit he gives up his only son and receives the
tidings of his death in France without flinching. After the war he is
heart and soul for the treaty and at the news of its rejection by the
Senate takes his own life in the mystic belief that he is offering
atonement for his country’s failure. The story has been commended by
President Wilson.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
+ =Freeman= 2:118 O 13 ’20 200w
=Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 30w
“The simple, homely, genuine appeal of the central figure of Miss
Montague’s parable makes a much needed call to the better spirit of
the country, the real spirit of the great masses of the people.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:15 Jl 18 ’20 600w
“It is one of those rare, great little books that all patriotic people
will read eagerly and pass on to their friends, just as sixty or
seventy years ago people read and passed on ‘Uncle Tom’s cabin.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ’20 220w
=MOODY, JOHN.= Masters of capital; a chronicle of Wall street.
(Chronicles of America ser.) per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 332
19–19139
“In the course of the forty-first volume in the Chronicles of America
series, Mr Moody discusses the necessity and value of capital as an
accumulation of wealth, either money or substantial property, for use
in the production of more wealth, and he outlines in a series of nine
chapters the leading factors in its development. His starting point is
the rise of the house of Morgan, and thereafter he chronicles briefly,
in scarcely more than two hundred pages, the development of American
railroads, the rise of the ironmasters and the Standard oil company,
with successive chapters on The steel trust merger, Harriman and Hill.
The apex of ‘high finance,’ The panic of 1907 and after, and Wall
street and the world war.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Both books are written from the Wall Street standpoint. However, Mr
Moody has given us two interesting, authoritative, and impartial
narratives describing dramatic and not unimportant episodes in our
economic history. And his firm biographies and stories of great
financial deals—accompanied as they are by a constant flow of
informing comment—enable an understanding reader to deduce more than
he specifically tells.” V: S. Clark
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:120 O ’20 380w
“The entire story of the development of American capital and
capitalists is picturesque in itself and especially romantic as told
by Mr Moody.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 1250w
“One of the most fascinating volumes in the entire series.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=MOODY, JOHN.= Railroad builders; a chronicle of the welding of the
states. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ.
press 385
19–19138
“The fascinating story of the projection and welding of the leading
American railway systems and the careers of the men of vision who
pushed out across the Mississippi valley and the Rocky mountains in
this bold enterprise.” (R of Rs) “Has photographs and drawings of
first locomotives and trains in America. Maps of routes. Author
founded and edited until 1907 “Moody’s manual of railroad and
corporation securities.’” (St Louis)
* * * * *
Reviewed by V: S. Clark
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:120 O ’20 380w
“A piece of high-class journalistic history that avoids obvious
pitfalls without gaining any special elevation of interpretation. In
the absence of the careful studies based upon original research in
transportation that ought to be available and are not, Mr Moody’s
volume is entitled to rank among the best of our summaries. His
bibliography is sensible and his maps are good.” F. L. P.
+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:158 S ’20 250w
“The final chapter in this volume, ‘The American railroad problem,’ is
an excellent historical summary of this question as it presents itself
at the present time.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
“Popular works in this field are not many, and Mr Moody has
contributed to the ‘Chronicles of America’ series one of its most
distinctive volumes. The narrative as a whole makes one of the most
vital and thrilling chapters in nineteenth-century achievement.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 70w
=St Louis= 18:100 Je ’20 30w
=MOOKERJI, RADHAKUMUD.= Local government in ancient India; with a
foreword by the Marquess of Crewe. (Mysore univ. studies) *$5.65 Oxford
352
20–4025
“As Dr Mookerji points out, the subject of local government in ancient
India has both an historical and a practical interest. Dr Mookerji’s
survey is limited by the inscriptions of southern India, which from
the tenth to the fifteenth century are the most fruitful of all
sources of information. The systems of self-government, which
communities, bound together by birth, profession, or locality, evolved
for their own protection and for the promotion of a common welfare,
were founded on the model of the family; and they have formed a strong
social framework which has resisted for ages the shock of political
changes. Dr Mookerji contrasts the Indian guilds and corporations,
which he regards as ‘practically sui generis’ with the various
institutions which are now comprehensively included under the term
‘local government’ in the United Kingdom and other countries of modern
Europe.”—Eng Hist R
=Dial= 68:668 My ’20 50w
“Many students of Indian history may be unable to accept some of Dr
Mookerji’s conclusions; but all will feel grateful to him for the real
service which he has rendered to scholarship by collecting together
and arranging in a convenient form the widely scattered evidence for
the early history of local government in India.” E. J. Rapson
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:260 Ap ’20 1050w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p433 Ag 14 ’19 1050w
=MOORE, ANNIE CARROLL.= Roads to childhood. *$1.50 Doran 028.5
20–20904
Papers on children’s reading by the supervisor of work with children
in the New York public library, in part reprinted from the Bookman.
Contents: Roads to childhood; Writing for children; A Christmas book
exhibit; Viewing and reviewing books for children; Holiday books;
Children under ten and their books; Two lists of books for children; A
spring review of children’s books; Books for young people; Vacation
reading. An index lists authors, titles and illustrations mentioned in
the text.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“The volume’s special contribution is its discussion, neither
sentimental nor over-theoretical, of the psychology of children’s
reading.”
+ =Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 150w
“Her vast experience in weighing the tastes of young people is drawn
upon on every page, and she approaches her task with freshness and
with an abounding love for childhood necessary for the work.”
+ =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 110w
Reviewed by Annette Wynne
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ja 8 ’21 520w
“Miss Moore knows these roads and talks of them delightfully.”
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 100w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 120w
=MOORE, EDWARD CALDWELL.=[2] West and East. *$4 Scribner 266
(Eng ed 20–12838)
“After a long time of waiting we now have the Dale lectures delivered
at Oxford in 1913 from the hand of a master in the related sciences of
history and missions. The publication of “The spread of Christianity
in the modern era” by the University of Chicago press in 1919
increased the desire to have this treatise. There are eight lectures,
setting forth the impact of the forces of the West upon the East.”
(Bib World) “Many of the stock objections made to missions take no
account of the fact that a large number of modern missionaries have
conceptions of their work and of the Christian message very different
from those of missionaries fifty years ago. Professor Moore sets forth
the modern theory of missions. The great point upon which it insists
is that missions should not seek to destroy the native religious
traditions, but Christianize them from within.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“Dr Moore marshals his facts with consummate skill. He is able to hold
our sustained interest through the complex story, which he renders
clear and fascinating by his style. We enjoy the freedom of the page
from a multitude of footnotes and references.”
+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 210w
=Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21
“It is the breadth of view which gives its special quality to
Professor Moore’s book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p566 S 2 ’20 2000w
=MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT.= Garden of peace. il *$3.50 (4c) Doran 710
20–19679
The book is rightly named in its sub-title “A medley in quietude,” for
it consists of a succession of sallies from the safe retreat of “The
little sheltered garden” of Yardley Parva into the surrounding world,
past and present. Mingled with domestic pleasantries between the
author and his family are reflections on historical, literary,
artistic and philosophic subjects. Contemporary history—the war et
al—comes in for a goodly share of the author’s animadversions. A
number of illustrations of beautiful gardens adorn the pages.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1353 D 12 ’19 90w
“A good book to while away an evening of leisure. Has only slight
value as information.”
+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20
“Personal reminiscence and gossip reaching over a half-century; shrewd
criticism and philosophy on a hundred subjects, make up a running
commentary pleasant to read. Like the famous after-dinner speaker that
he is, Mr Moore has put his medley tactfully together.”
+ =Bookm= 52:274 N ’20 220w
“Mr Moore has given us a charming book that has no end of rambles into
the fascinating realms of nature, literature and life.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 800w
=Brooklyn= 12:131 My ’20 30w
“‘A garden of peace’ is a gracious book, a haunt of healing from the
stress and agony of the great war.” K. L. Bates
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 D 31 ’20 820w
“The book will delight people who like to mix imagination and
reflection with their gardening and their reading.”
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 40w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 90w
“To amateurs of the quieter pleasures this book may be confidently
recommended.”
+ =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 270w
“Mr Moore’s ‘medley in quietude’ is spoiled by a good deal of elderly
jocosity and ferocious jingo politics.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:109 Ja 31 ’20 950w
=MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.= Isle o’ dreams. il *$1.50 (3c) Doubleday
20–5120
A party of three Americans hire a schooner in Manila and go out in
search of an island of gold, on the say-so of a crazy ex-captain. The
captain of the schooner and the crew, with a few exceptions, are a
criminal gang who are bound to come to their reckoning whichever way
the trip turns out. The island is reached but no gold is found, except
the gold of love between Marjorie Locke and Robert Trask. The wicked
captain and crew are outwitted, after a trial of strength, and the
party returns safely to Manila.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
=MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.= Sailor girl. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton
20–5774
A tale of adventure in the China sea. Eleanor Glendon, sole owner
after her father’s death of a fleet of ships, has reason to believe
that all is not well with her affairs in the Far East and she goes out
to investigate on her own account. With a friend, Harriett Wade, she
arrives in Manila to find that the “Coral Queen” is on the point of
sailing for Hong Kong, and without warning to the captain, goes on
board. She finds that the first mate is one John Strang, accused of
complicity in a recent daring piece of piracy, and on hearing rumors
of a plot to sink the ship readily connects him with it. But she is to
learn that he is not the culprit, and following a series of stirring
events, the truth comes to light and there is a reorganization of her
company with a new man at its head and a wedding in prospect.
* * * * *
“A satisfactory adventure-comedy-romance, stirring enough but never
distressing.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:582 Jl ’20 80w
“The reader will probably feel that the love story is perfunctory,
while the adventure story is hair-raising enough for anyone.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 300w
=MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.= Siberia today. il *$2 Appleton 915.7
19–19482
“As one of a number of intelligence officers dispatched by the United
States to Siberia in the summer of 1918, Mr Moore had opportunity to
see something of the diplomatic and political conditions of that
distracted country, as well as much of its peasant life. His volume is
a lively narrative devoted rather to description than to analysis.” (N
Y Evening Post) “He has much of interest to tell about the people, the
prisons, the Cossack chiefs, the work of Bolshevists, and the German
propaganda, and there are a great number of photographs.” (The Times
[London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“A breezy account with serious convictions set down in journalistic
style.”
+ =Booklist= 16:201 Mr ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 F 7 ’20 320w
“Captain Moore has a good journalistic sense, and he has enlivened his
criticisms by many vivid and lively pictures of life in Siberia
today.”
+ =Cath World= 111:682 Ag ’20 480w
=Cleveland= p43 Ap ’20 60w
“An interesting journalistic account.”
+ =Ind= 102:66 Ap 10 ’20 60w
“It is an easy, chatty chronicle that Mr Moore writes, filled with
apparently insignificant details, the cumulative effect of which is to
create an arresting portrayal.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 650w
+ =R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 60w
=MOORE, GEORGE.= Avowals. *$8 priv ptd Boni & Liveright 801
19–15898
“A literary criticism in beautiful prose, much of it in the form of
imaginary conversations between Moore and Gosse in which they discuss
achievements in English fiction. Another conversation between Moore
and an American gives the author an opportunity to state his opinion
of censoring literature according to standards of morality, instead of
according to art. Discussions of Tolstoy, Tourgueneff, Kipling and
Pater, whom he admires greatly. A lecture in French on Shakespeare and
Balzac is reproduced, together with Paris impressions.” Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:196 Mr ’20
“With all its side-issues, its personalities, its portraits, its
wisdom and wit and perversity, ‘Avowals’ is fundamentally an essay on
the English novel of quite extraordinary subtlety and of rare charm
and stimulating power.” S: C. Chew
+ =Nation= 110:239 F 21 ’20 1000w
“Mr George Moore’s ‘Avowals’ is one of the most companionable books of
criticism I know.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 440w (Reprinted from New
Statesman)
“Here is Mr George Moore talking about books, and giving us the most
delightful example of printed talk that we can remember to have met
with in English.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p606 O 30 ’19 2100w
=MOORE, JUSTIN HARTLEY=, comp. World beyond. (World Bible ser.) *$1.50
Crowell 208
20–12826
The compiler has selected passages from oriental and primitive
religions bearing on life, death and immortality. The selections are
arranged under three headings: The world beyond; The higher knowledge;
Life.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ’20 430w
=MOORE, JUSTIN HARTLEY, and HOUSTON, CHARLES A.= Problems in business
law. (College of the city of N.Y. ser in commerce. civics and
technology) *$2.50 Appleton 347.7
20–9488
The present volume confines itself to stating all the various problems
of a legal nature that a business man has to deal with. It is a case
book, pure and simple, designed for use in classroom discussion and
quizzing, giving carefully selected cases, that have actually come up
for decision in court, without the answers. It is intended for
business colleges, corporation training schools, commercial high
schools and universities where business law is a subject of study.
After giving a table of the cases cited, the subjects are grouped
under: Contracts; Quasi contracts; Sales; Personal property; Chattel
mortgage; Lost property; Pledged property; Bailments; Agency;
Carriers; Master and servant; Suretyship and guaranty; Negotiable
instruments; Checks; Insurance; Partnership; Corporations; Bankruptcy.
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:829 D ’20 30w
“This is perhaps the most interesting and excellent case book of
commercial law ever published for use in the classroom.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 150w
=MOORE, THOMAS STURGE.= Little school. *$1.50 Harcourt 821
This is an enlarged edition of the book by the same title, and
contains children’s poems on subjects of everyday life and of special
interest to children as some of the titles show: Beautiful meals; To
cook; Leaf-land; A song of cleanness; Picture folk; Nursery
enactments; The house we built; The wild cherry; A child muses; Snow.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:123 D ’20
“I have been charmed with the poems in this collection.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 580w
“An extremely charming book of poems for children.”
+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 70w
“Sturge Moore forfeits our interest, if not our respect, by a sort of
timid refusal to come out and stare life in the face; his negative
shrinking pleasantness betrays him. He has none of that deadly
facility which is a symptom that besets even some great poets. One
feels that he thinks deeply on language and on form, and that his
music comes from a keen, individual understanding of both.” J. G.
Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 250w
“He deliberately fumbles his rhythms in order to secure quiet, brown,
ingenuous truth. His halting syntax, unauthorized and quaint, often
makes for stupidity, but it makes occasionally for solemnity and
honesty of prattle which beyond doubt is effective.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 120w
“Strange to say, he is successful in several of the poems. For the
most part, though, he does not quite hit off the elphin twist and
whimsicality of de la Mare.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 190w
=MOORE, THOMAS STURGE.= Some soldier poets. *$1.75 Harcourt 821.09
20–17758
A series of essays on a group of young poets who are associated with
the war, concluding with an essay on The best poetry, written for the
Royal society of literature in 1912. Contents: Julian Grenfell; Rupert
Brooke; A half pleiade [Robert Nichols, Robert Graves and Siegfried
Sassoon]; R. E. Vèrnede; Sorley; Francis Ledwidge; Edward Thomas; F.
W. Harvey; Richard Aldington; Alan Seeger; The best poetry.
* * * * *
“Mr Sturge Moore’s volume is interesting because it contains, besides
much acute and serious criticism, an illuminating summary of the
poet’s artistic psychology.”
+ =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 570w
=Booklist= 17:62 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 580w
“Within a fixed circle, Mr Moore’s criticism is honest and
impassioned, but his vision is limited by the horizons of the
nineteenth century and he abhors anything modern or irregular.”
+ − =Dial= 69:434 O ’20 100w
“The book brings nothing particularly new to the comment of the
Georgians, but it does furnish the most compact and pleasurable volume
put together so far about these men. Mr Moore’s chapter on Alan Seeger
is particularly gratifying to an American.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Jl 4 ’20 860w
“Our view is that Mr Moore has failed, first, because he has let
himself be seduced by the prevailing fashion into dealing with writers
who in some cases owe more to their gallantry than to their verse, and
secondly, because in his heart he does not, possibly with the
exception of Brooke and Grenfell, at all believe in those whom he here
praises.”
− =Sat R= 129:61 Ja 17 ’20 560w
“He is a coach rather than a judge, and this is partly what will make
his book so agreeable to the general reader, for, owing to his desire
to help, his approval is never insipid nor his blame cantankerous. He
is also a master of the comparative method.”
+ − =Spec= 124:243 F 21 ’20 720w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 N 20 ’20 80w
=MOREL, EDMUND DEVILLE.= Black man’s burden. *$1.50 Huebsch 960
(Eng ed 20–22707)
The purpose of the book is to convey a clear notion of the atrocious
wrongs which the white people have inflicted upon the black, and to
lay down the fundamental principles of a humane and practical policy
in the government of Africa by white men. As a comprehensive survey of
Europe’s relations with Africa is not within the scope of the book the
author has sectionalized the determining impulses of European
intervention and has given specific examples under each section. He
has also shown the inter-action between European affairs and the
proceedings of European governments in Africa, making the former an
inevitable aftermath of the latter. The first two chapters are
explanatory of the white man’s and the black man’s burden and the rest
of the book is divided into three periods: (1) The slave trade; (2)
Invasion, political control, capitalistic exploitation; (3) Reparation
and reform.
* * * * *
“Mr Morel writes in a clear, hard style, without prejudice or
sentiment, and it will be impossible for any normal human being of
white origin to read these two hundred and forty pages without a
feeling of profound shame.” Llewelyn Powys
+ =Freeman= 2:522 F 9 ’21 1100w
“His attitude toward the black men is that of the liberal Englishman:
that is to say, he is opposed to the past atrocities and wants Africa
helped in every benevolent and philanthropic way. He has, however, no
conception of a self-governing, independent black Africa.” W. E. B. Du
Bois
+ − =Nation= 111:351 S 25 ’20 640w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p174 Mr 11 ’20 280w
“The book can be judged on its merits. The merits consist in recalling
and setting forth undoubted and glaring injuries inflicted upon Africa
and the Africans by European individuals, companies, and governments,
and in warning against the danger of repeating the injustice and
wrong. The warning is needed at the present time. On the other hand,
like other books of the kind, it lends itself to criticism both in
detail and on general grounds. Though the author can discriminate and
does, when he likes, discriminate, there are wholesale and one-sided
statements and generalizations which are far too wide.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p194 Mr 25 ’20 1200w
=MORELAND, WILLIAM HARRISON.=[2] India at the death of Akbar. *$4.50
Macmillan 954
“The opening of the seventeenth century—the period selected by Mr
Moreland—was a critical epoch in the history of India. It was
immediately antecedent to the appearance of new forces destined to
influence India profoundly, and may be described as the close of the
medieval history of India and the beginning of its modern history (it
was in the year 1608 that the English ship Hector reached Surat.) For
the economic story of the next three centuries substantial sources of
information are available, and Mr Moreland’s aim is to supply an
introduction to the study of that period. List of authorities,
5pp.’—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“Certainly no one could accuse Mr Moreland of forcing from the facts a
too confident conclusion. His judgment is so cautious, so balanced, so
hesitating, that if the one object of his book had been a definite
comparison in material wealth and prosperity between 1605 and 1914, a
captious critic might complain that the results arrived at hardly
compensate for the sedulous care lavished on the inquiry. There are
many shrewd reflexions on matters political and financial, the outcome
of independent study and an original survey.” P. E. Roberts
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:455 Jl ’20 950w
“Mr Moreland’s excellent study of the condition of India in 1605, at
the death of Akbar, shows how the subject should be approached. If we
are to determine whether India has advanced or declined in wealth, we
must have some standard by which to measure the changes.”
+ =Spec= 124:794 Je 12 ’20 1650w
“It is pleasant to record a further advance in the study of Indian
economics. All scholars will be delighted that Mr Moreland has
resisted the obvious temptation to defer publication until the sources
of our information had been more fully explored. No pioneer can hope
to write the definitive work upon a subject of this magnitude, and Mr
Moreland may reasonably hope to earn the more enviable distinction of
founding a school and seeing others build upon his foundation.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p360 Je 10 ’20 1550w
=MORGAN, ANGELA.= Hail man! *$1.25 Lane 811
20–86
With a few exceptions—which include the title poem, reprinted from the
New York Times—the poems of this book appear here for the first time.
They are arranged in eight sections: Symbols; Man in light; Man in
darkness; Enchantment; Contrasts; Fancies; Tributes; Man tomorrow.
* * * * *
+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 30w
“Her note is ecstasy con fuoco; her exaltation is unremittingly
fortissimo. Often on the point of a crashing success she fails because
of this very too-determined vigour. Miss Morgan can and has done far
better than this. Gifted with an ease and fluency, she lets her
rippling sentences run on till they become a mere babble of words.” L:
Untermeyer
− + =Dial= 68:529 Ap ’20 250w
=Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 30w
“The best things in this book are the shorter and less pretentious
poems, ‘Common things,’ ‘Steam’ and ‘Gardens.’ Many of the others have
the energy and feeling essential to the making of poetry, even the
imaginative touches, occasionally, and the love of natural beauty, but
lack the masterly touch of proportioned art which might make of these
spiritual conflagrations a serene and permanently shining light.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:173 Ap 11 ’20 360w
=MORGAN, ANNA BLUNT.= Little folks tramping and camping. il *$1.75 (3c)
Lothrop
20–17826
A bird book for children with information presented in story form. The
Marsden children learn about birds from an uncle who is an enthusiast.
Their study begins in the winter with tramps through the snow to the
haunts of cedar waxwings, grossbeaks and other winter habitants, and
for Marshall, the eldest, who is an invalid, a feeding shelf is
arranged outside the window to attract nuthatches and chickadees. The
expeditions are continued into the spring and early summer and in July
the children are taken on a camping trip where they learn more about
wild life and where Marshall grows strong and well. The birds studied
are those native to Wisconsin.
=MORGAN, BYRON.= Roaring road. *$1.75 (3c) Doran
20–9273
Stories of automobile racing, first copyrighted by the Curtis
Publishing Company. The titles are: The junkpile sweepstakes; The
undertaker’s handicap; The roaring road; The hippopotamus parade;
Second-hand ghosts; The bear trap. The same characters appear in all
the stories.
* * * * *
“A chain of stories, that stir the blood and keep the attention in a
manner that is sometimes called ‘breathless.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 15 ’21 290w
“Mr Morgan’s style is perfectly suited to his matter; the sharp
staccato of his sentences is like the clean-cut crash of a flaming
exhaust, and the sustained, compelling flight of his narrative matches
the speed of the plunging, pounding cars of which he writes.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:309 Je 13 ’20 450w
=MORGAN, JOHN DAVID.= Principles of electric spark ignition in internal
combustion engines. il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 621.43
(Eng ed 20–12283)
“During the past few years a large amount of research has been carried
out on ignition problems, and the object in the following chapters is
to bring together the main results which are of direct value to
designers and students interested particularly in the patrol[petrol]
engine. Discussion of design and constructional details of ignition
apparatus has been excluded, for the reason that the need for
information of this kind is already well supplied.” (Preface)
Contents: Gas characteristics; Spark characteristics; Interaction of
spark and gas; Spark plug and test gap characteristics; Spark
generator characteristics; Index. References follow the chapters and
there are thirty-nine figure illustrations in the text.
* * * * *
“A wide circle of readers will feel grateful to the author for
providing in this convenient form an account of the more important
work along these lines, and for the reference which he provides to the
sources from which information in fuller detail may be obtained. Mr
Morgan puts them still further in his debt by the lucidity with which
he writes.”
+ =Nature= 104:372 D 11 ’19 340w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 Ja ’20 30w
=MORGAN, WILLIAM THOMAS.= English political parties and leaders during
the reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1710. (Yale historical publications)
*$2.75 Yale univ. press 942.06
20–7448
“In this book the author embodies the results of many years of
painstaking and fruitful research. He has carefully studied ‘the new
evidence that has become available in the last thirty years’—in the
archives of England and Holland, in the recent reports of the
Historical manuscripts commission, as well as in a mass of pamphlets
and periodicals—and has reread, with a keen eye, all the older
literature on the period, including the materials on which it has been
based. He has been able to show that Queen Anne was a much more
assertive person than is commonly believed, and that, from the
beginning, the Duchess of Marlborough exercised much less influence on
the policy of her sovereign than most writers on the period have
assumed. On this perplexing period when personalities counted for so
much, and when cabinet and party government were still in such an
inchoate state, new lights are thrown; moreover, much fresh vivid
detail is presented on the iniquitous methods of conducting elections
which had come into vogue.”—Am Hist R
* * * * *
“Building on such secure and broad foundations he has succeeded in
constructing a sound and enduring work.” A. L. Cross
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:132 O ’20 600w
“The author has been able to gain access to a large amount of hitherto
inaccessible material which has enabled him to produce a critical
discussion of this era of much value to the historical student.” E. J.
C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 13 ’20 540w
“Mr Morgan has written ably for scholars, and has performed just that
sort of task which it is incumbent upon contemporary scientific
historians to accomplish.” J. W. Krutch
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 30 ’20 780w
“The book is extremely interesting, too, for its sketches of the
leading politicians, as illustrated from their correspondence. Mr
Morgan would have added to the value of his numerous citations from
unpublished papers if he had dated them. It is sometimes difficult to
follow his argument for lack of the dates of the letters to which he
refers.”
+ − =Spec= 125:340 S 11 ’20 1450w
“Professor Morgan has his merits, but he takes himself very seriously.
His predecessors on the same voyage are swept aside with minute
omniscience. He seems to us to mistake the phases of influence for the
permanence of character, and to be indiscriminate in the party labels
he applies. But in the process of his criticism he has rendered a real
service to history.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p628 S 30 ’20 1850w
=MORGENSTERN, JULIAN.= Jewish interpretation of the book of Genesis. il
*$1.50 Union of Am. Hebrew congregations 222
19–11743
“This book is addressed to two publics: teachers in Jewish religious
schools, that their instruction may be more authoritative and
effective; and non-professional students of the Bible, to help them in
getting a first-hand knowledge of Judaism. The author stands squarely
on the assured results of thoroughgoing critical scholarship,
recognizing clearly the presence of myth, legend, and tradition in
Genesis, and relative little authentic history, but he is not content
to stop with analysis. Whereas most scholars wholly ignore the motives
and ideas controlling authors and editors in the process of producing
the book as it now stands, the investigation of these motives and
ideas is the point of departure for Rabbi Morgenstern, for whom
Genesis is ‘a Jewish work, written by Jewish authors, and edited by
Jewish thinkers, the product of Jewish religious genius, and a unit of
Jewish thought and doctrine,’ hence to be interpreted from a positive
Jewish standpoint.”—Bib World
* * * * *
“The author selects his materials wisely, and his comments, critical
and practical, are discriminating. Rabbi Morgenstern has succeeded
admirably in accomplishing his purpose.”
+ =Bib World= 54:315 My ’20 300w
=Booklist= 16:258 My ’20
=Nation= 111:482 O 27 ’20 390w
=MORISON, JOHN LYLE.= British supremacy and Canadian self-government,
1839–1854. *$2.50 Oxford 342.71
“In ‘British supremacy and Canadian self-government, 1839–54,’
Professor J. L. Morison of Queen’s university, Kingston, Canada, makes
an interesting study of the manner in which imperial ascendancy and
colonial autonomy were reconciled in the years of early Victorian
Canada. He emphasizes the thought that the evolution of colonial
Canada into a self-governing dominion was the wisest and best solution
of the great problem that confronted the British and Canadian
statesmen; through it, he holds, there was great gain to all
concerned—gain to the empire as well as to the people across the
Atlantic. That it caused no weakening of the tie between the mother
country and the daughter land was demonstrated, we are reminded, by
the magnificent conduct of Canada in the great war with Germany.”—N Y
Times
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“The volume is indeed thrice blest; it is felicitous in expression,
scholarly in treatment, and broad-minded in its interpretation of
public affairs. Notwithstanding its limitations, this volume easily
stands out as the best contribution to Canadian history in recent
years.” C. D. Allin
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:531 Ap ’20 900w
=Ath= p963 S 26 ’19 140w
“By far the most important contribution of the volume is the series of
vitally human studies of the four Canadian governors-general from 1839
to 1854—Sydenham, Bagot, Metcalfe, and Elgin. Apart from the personal
equipment of the author in scholarly training, fair-mindedness,
absence of racial prejudice, and attractive literary style, his work
has the great advantage of a first-hand study of documents, hitherto
unavailable, or but slightly employed by writers on Canadian history.
The closing chapter, The consequences of Canadian autonomy, is much
the least satisfactory.” Adam Shortt
+ − =Canadian Hist R= n s 1:77 Mr ’20 1450w
“In thanking Dr Morison for a very able and stimulating volume one may
be allowed to enter a caveat against the attitude of somewhat
contemptuous superiority assumed towards past statesmen.” H. E.
Egerton
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:145 Ja ’20 1000w
+ =N Y Times= 25:254 My 16 ’20 160w
“Excellent book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p523 O 2 ’19 1300w
=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Hide and seek. *$1.50 Doran 811
20–19297
A volume of Verses, Sonnets, and Translations from the Chinese,
varying from the broadly humorous to the whimsical and tender. The
“translations,” the author frankly states, are based on a rather
rudimentary knowledge of the language gleaned from laundry slips. The
poems are reprinted from the New York Evening Post, Philadelphia
Public Ledger, Life, and other periodicals.
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“Christopher Morley is not quite so successful this time. He still
tries to blend sugary light verse with even more sugary lyrics. He is
at his best in the lowbrow translations from the ‘Chinese.’” Clement
Wood
+ − =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 120w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 160w
=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Kathleen. il *$1.25 (5c) Doubleday
20–5771
The story is an Oxford undergraduate prank. The Scorpions, literary
club, agree to write a serial story on shares. In lieu of ideas they
make up a tale around certain names mentioned in a letter accidentally
found and signed Kathleen. They work themselves up into some romantic
fervor about their heroine and eventually go on an expedition to find
the real Kathleen at the address mentioned in the letter. She is all
their fancy has painted. Under various disguises they gain entrance to
her home and after an orgy of mystification, Blair, the Rhodes scholar
from Tennessee, makes a clean confession and carries off the palm of
victory.
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“A slight and amusing tale.”