of a system of sociology which is the result of seventeen years of
work. The work begins with a brief treatment of social population.
In a limited but strong treatment of Social forces, Ross contends
that social laws are not physical but psychical, following Ward in
the theory that the social forces are human desires. Part III, on
Social processes, contains the bulk of the book—480 pages. This is
subdivided into thirty-eight chapters, including such subjects as
association, domination, exploitation, opposition, stimulation,
personal competition, adaptation, cooperation, stratification,
gradation, commercialization, expansion, ossification, estrangement,
individualization, liberation, and transformation. Under Social
products are treated uniformities, standards, groups and
institutions. The book closes with four chapters on sociological
principles—anticipation, simulation, individualization and
balance.”—Survey
* * * * *
“No one preparing to be a professional social scientist, whatever his
particular division of labor, can afford to be ignorant of this book,
or even only superficially acquainted with it. Henceforth the student
of social science who has not assimilated it is undertrained. It is a
luminous revelation of realities of the common life.” A. W. Small
+ =Am J Soc= 26:110 Jl ’20 1250w
+ =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20
“Mr Ross’s cardinal fault is lack of historical-mindedness. He accepts
as absolute the standards found or conceived in his own social
environment and seems generally incapable of a Kantian critique of
their validity. Yet with all its defects ‘The principles of sociology’
remains a work of real utility. Though the author’s resolute
determination not to think anything through may deter the
philosophical student, the vast scope of the book with its wealth of
illustrative material may commend it to the teacher of sociology.” R.
H. Lowie
+ − =Nation= 111:sup418 O 13 ’20 1450w
“The tone of this book is generous and whole-souled and the reader is
thereby predisposed from the outset. The style goes with the tone. It
is generously expansive to the verge of breeziness. By reason of its
qualities of tone, style, and the rest this book ought to be of use in
colleges and to the general reader.” A. G. Keller
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 23 ’20 1100w
“Few writers have the ability to present a subject in as interesting a
manner as Ross. His style is pungent, clear and clean-cut.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 680w
“It is not only the most important sociological work of the past few
months but without question the most important since the appearance of
Todd’s ‘Theories of social progress,’ and possibly since Ward’s ‘Pure
sociology.’ The book is not only a masterpiece as a scientific work
but it is intensely interesting.” G. S. Dow
+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 740w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:107 Je ’20 90w
=ROSS, SIR RONALD.=[2] Revels of Orsera. *$2.50 (2c) Dutton
21–665
This medieval romance purports to be based on some historical facts
and on a manuscript by one Johannes Murinus, found in the library of
the University at Bâle. The story is illustrative of the mystical
conception that good and evil flow from the same source and are
interchangeable and the result is a novel interpretation of dual
personality. A proud mother of twins—one of whom is a deformed dwarf,
albeit with a beautiful poetic spirit—thinks that by murdering him his
spirit will enter into a corporeally beautiful demon, who obtrudes
himself upon her in a dream, and thus make spirit and body one in
beauty. She is correct in her first surmise but to her dismay, the
body of the son also lives on with the spirit of the demon she has
ousted. A second time she attempts to kill him in his new guise but
only effects another exchange.
* * * * *
“It is written with a swash-buckling air, which reproduces with
curious effectiveness the mediæval period in which it is laid.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 13 ’20 140w
“Always the reader feels that the volume is the result of a fullness
of rare knowledge which enables its author to pick and choose as he
lists, with the calm certainty that whatever he writes will bear the
stamp not only of literary artistry, but of absolute originality.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 600w
“The author’s invention remains at a high level throughout the story,
and it is not till near the end that the practised novel reader begins
to suspect his secret, but his vocabulary every now and then becomes
too modern for the atmosphere such a story imperatively demands.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:486 D 11 ’20 130w
“‘The revels of Orsera’ would claim admiration on its merits quite
apart from the antecedents of the author. When they are taken into
account it moves the critic to something like amazement. Regarded
merely as a story, ‘The revels of Orsera’ is continuously exciting,
prodigal of surprises and often genuinely if grotesquely humorous.”
+ =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 480w
“It is an extraordinary story, in which most of the principal
characters come to a bad end, for which the reader cannot honestly be
very sorry. But there is one thing that he will have noticed by that
time, which is that the descriptions of Alpine scenery and atmosphere,
which can only be due to personal observation, stand out with a far
brighter vividness then all the medieval fineries.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Je 17 ’20 850w
=ROSS, VICTOR.= Evolution of the oil industry. il *$1.50 (5c) Doubleday
665
20–19271
Beginning with the first mention of “oil out of the flinty rock” in
Deuteronomy and the ancients’ acquaintance with it in the earliest
historical records, the book shows that petroleum is a comparatively
new agent for the service of mankind and the latest of earth’s riches
man has learned to adapt to his needs. The development of the industry
is described from the boring of the first well in 1859 to the present
time. The book is illustrated and the contents are: Petroleum in
history and legend; What is petroleum? Dawn of America’s petroleum
industry; Founder of the petroleum industry; Petroleum as a world
industry; Locating the oil well; Drilling the oil well; Collecting and
transporting crude: the pipe line; Refining and manufacturing
petroleum products; Petroleum and other industries; Petroleum on the
seven seas; Petroleum in the great war; America’s investment in
petroleum; Petroleum in the future.
=ROTHERY, AGNES EDWARDS (MRS HARRY ROGERS PRATT) (AGNES EDWARDS,
pseud.).= Old coast road from Boston to Plymouth. il *$2.50 (6½c)
Houghton 974.4
20–26574
Beginning with a description of old Boston, by the way of a foreword,
the author invites the reader to accompany her on a trip along the
earliest of the great roads in New England, the old coast road,
connecting Boston with Plymouth. We are asked to travel comfortably
“picking up what bits of quaint lore and half-forgotten history we
most easily may.” The trip is charmingly reminiscent—a pleasure trip
into history and old traditions, as the table of contents reveals:
Dorchester Heights and the old coast road; Milton and the Blue hills;
Shipbuilding at Quincy; The romance of Weymouth; Ecclesiastical
Hingham; Cohasset ledges and marshes; The Scituate shore; Marshfield,
the home of Daniel Webster; Duxbury homes; Kingston and its
manuscripts; Plymouth. The illustrations and chapter vignettes are by
Louis H. Ruyl.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 60w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 300w
“A pleasant, friendly guide book. It is charmingly illustrated.”
+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 50w
“If one would journey down the old coast road from Boston to Plymouth,
he will do well to choose Agnes Edwards for his guide. He will find
each stage of his journey possessed of an individual charm.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 1000w
“The pen-and-ink illustrations are unusually attractive.”
+ =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 200w
=ROUTZAHN, MRS MARY BRAYTON (SWAIN).=[2] Traveling publicity campaigns.
il *$1.50 Russell Sage foundation 374
20–12390
The book comes under the “Survey and exhibit series” edited by Shelby
M. Harrison and gives a review of the educational activities carried
on in recent years by means of modern transportation facilities, i.e.
“the putting of exhibits, demonstrations, motion pictures and other
campaigning equipment on railroad trains, trolley cars, and motor
trucks so that they may tour a whole city, a country, or cross a
continent.” (Editor’s preface) Contents: Purposes and advantages of
traveling campaigns; How trains have been used in campaigning;
Campaigning with motor vehicles; Advance publicity and organization;
The message of the tour; Exhibit cars; The tour of the truck or train;
Follow-up work; Appendix, bibliography, index and illustrations.
* * * * *
=Ann Am Acad= 93:226 Ja ’21 40w
“Home economics workers who are touching the extension work field will
find this volume indispensable.” B. R. Andrews
+ =J Home Econ= 13:89 F ’21 220w
=ROWLAND, HENRY COTTRELL.= Duds. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–1699
The story turns about the smuggling of war loot in the form of jewelry
and antiques. The chief smuggler—a sufficiently bona fide dealer in
the above articles, is ostensibly out to discover and expose the gang.
He engages the wrong person to do his chief spying in Captain Phineas
Plunkett, who finds out more than he is expected to. But Karakoff
although the chief of the gang is not one of them and repudiates their
methods. He has nothing to do with the gun play and clubbings and
killings that go on in the story, throws the whole thing over when he
realizes the dirty mess he has let himself in for and makes ample
restitution for his loot. Of the two women of the story, Karakoff’s
daughter Olga is a beautiful artless child, whose rescuer Phineas
becomes on two occasions, and finally her lover. The other, a devil
woman par excellence, looks like a fairy, wrestles like a pugilist,
dares unspeakable things, poses as a secret service agent but is
really a thief and a crook in league with the Apaches of Paris.
* * * * *
“Mr Rowland is no novice at story-writing and knows how to keep up an
unflagging interest to the end. In Miss Melton he has introduced a
singular character, and the situations are unusual and make exciting
reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 300w
“The tale is cheerfully improbable, swift-moving, and very
entertaining.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 400w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w
=ROWLAND, HENRY COTTRELL.= Peddler. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–15959
The somewhat erratic peddler of the title carried his miscellaneous
stock of wares in and on an immense ex-army truck, so that his
approach was invariably heralded by a clanging and banging of
hardware. In this way he made his entry into the exclusive New England
colony where the Kirkland family of four sons and a daughter was
justly famous. To the same resort in less spectacular style came a
small band of European crooks, who proceeded at once to work silently
and effectively along their own original lines of robbery. Not until
William Kirkland was accused of the thefts, did the peddler reveal the
fact that he was there as a member of the secret police incognito. But
when an attempt upon William’s life was made, the peddler was on hand
to rescue him and to try to capture the criminals. Altho the result
was not satisfactory to him, the others concerned seemed to be quite
content, and the bonus which he claimed in the person of Diana
Kirkland reconciled him to what he considered his failure. Some of the
characters and some of the stolen jewelry figured previously in Mr
Rowland’s novel “Duds.”
* * * * *
“Not much characterization, but brisk and interesting.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20
“It is a rattling tale, full of new complications and exciting
incidents. The interest does not flag, the characters are sharply
differentiated human beings, and not automata. It is an admirable
mystery story.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ja 2 ’21 200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 120w
=ROYCE, JOSIAH.= Lectures on modern idealism. *$3 Yale univ. press 141
20–7505
“The ground covered by the book is largely the same as the substance
of Royce’s ‘Spirit of modern philosophy,’ but the treatment is wholly
different, being as professedly technical as the earlier book was not.
And, whether wisely or unwisely, the author has avoided repeating what
is contained in the ordinary histories of philosophy by emphasizing
the neglected aspects of the thinkers whose systems he
expounds.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“Interesting as a pre-war study of German philosophy.”
+ =Booklist= 16:259 My ’20
Reviewed by Hartley Alexander
=Nation= 111:sup409 O 13 ’20 2600w
“Throughout, Royce’s accurate scholarship and gift of sympathetic
interpretation are at their best, but nowhere more so than in the
three lectures on Hegel’s ‘Phaenomenology of spirit.’” R. F. A. H.
+ =New Repub= 25:325 F 9 ’21 900w
“The initial presumption that we have a book here worthy of careful
study is amply justified by the reading.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 1150w
=RUSH, THOMAS EDWARD.= Port of New York. il *$3.50 Doubleday 387
20–10357
The purpose of this book, by the surveyor of customs of the port of
New York, is to make it easier for business men, officials, teachers
and students, to understand New York harbor, and to estimate its
importance for the city, the country, and the world. It tells its
history from the very beginning and points out five agencies as
responsible for its improvements: the cities within the port areas;
New York and New Jersey state governments; the federal government; the
projected bi-state unified port control; and extra governmental
agencies voicing the public’s demands and needs. Many drawbacks and
inefficiencies are pointed out and the fact emphasized that New York
is “first and foremost a port.” Among the contents are: Birth,
christening, and youth; Piracy and privateering abolished; Eternal
vigilance against smugglers; Giant growth in commerce; Government
far-sightedness and short-sightedness; The port awakening of New
Jersey; Forts and fortifications; New York, the nation’s first air
harbor; Advertising New York port’s nautical school; Immigration’s
gateway to America; Bibliography and illustrations.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:15 O ’20
“The port of New York is deserving of a more comprehensive and more
technical study of its processes than is provided by Thomas E. Rush.
An adequate study of the port from the transportation or engineering
point of view it emphatically is not.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 450w
=RUSSELL, BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM.= Bolshevism: practice and theory. *$2
Harcourt 335
20–20991
A book containing the articles which appeared in the Nation together
with new material. Bertrand Russell writes as a communist who finds
much to criticize in the bolshevist method of putting communism into
practice. He says: “A fundamental economic reconstruction, bringing
with it very far-reaching changes in ways of thinking and feeling, in
philosophy and art and private relations, seems absolutely necessary
if industrialism is to become the servant of man instead of his
master. In all this, I am at one with the Bolsheviks; politically, I
criticize them only when their methods seem to involve a departure
from their own ideals.” (Preface) The book is the outcome of a brief
visit to Russia. Part 1, The present condition of Russia, has chapters
on: What is hoped for Bolshevism; General characteristics; Lenin,
Trotsky, and Gorky; Art and education (written by Mr Russell’s
secretary, Miss D. W. Black); Daily life in Moscow; etc. Part 2,
Bolshevik theory, is a criticism of the materialistic conception of
history and other accepted doctrines, with chapters on: Why Russian
communist has failed; and Conditions for the success of communism.
* * * * *
“We have found the most interesting part of Mr Russell’s book to be,
on the whole, his analysis of the theory of Bolshevism.” J. W. N. S.
+ − =Ath= p695 N 19 ’20 780w
+ =Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21
“A clear and convincing critique of Bolshevism as a social theory.” E:
E. Paramore, jr.
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 31 ’20 700w
“No such remarkable book as his ‘Bolshevism: practice and theory,’ has
been published on this subject. Small as the volume is, only 192
pages, it is amazing how much he says.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 D 26 ’20 1400w
“Bertrand Russell is not a clear thinker. The chief value of this book
lies in the fact that it is a condemnation of the spirit of Bolshevism
by one whose prejudices for its avowed principles would naturally make
him its apologist if not its defender.”
− + =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 180w
=Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 120w
“Mr Bertrand Russell’s book is likely to remain the most damning
criticism of Bolshevism, whether that strange delusion be considered
as a faith or as a political institution. Although Mr Russell seems to
us to be no more practical than a Russian Bolshevik, he is beyond
doubt a brilliant philosopher, and often one cannot help finding
fineness in his thought, even when he seems to us least to understand
the ways of the ordinary man. Among the most interesting things in the
book are the accounts of Mr Russell’s meetings with Lenin and
Trotsky.”
+ − =Spec= 125:705 N 27 ’20 1900w
“Not the least interesting chapters are those on ‘Revolution and
dictatorship’ and ‘Mechanism and the individual,’ in which Mr Russell
reveals his own views as to the future industrial system which is to
replace the present. Mr Russell himself is sanguine as to a new
economic order emerging from the present chaos. But his grounds of
faith are unconvincing.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p747 N 18 ’20 1200w
=RUSSELL, CHARLES EDWARD.= Story of the Nonpartisan league; a chapter in
American evolution. il *$2 Harper 329
20–11024
Altho covering practically the same ground as Herbert E. Gaston’s
“Nonpartisan league” this book goes more fully into the conditions out
of which the league movement developed, bringing together much
illustrative material and documentary evidence to show the workings of
the system under which the farmer was exploited. The author says in
beginning, “I have no idea that in the succeeding pages I can remove
the fixed belief of the dwellers in cities that the farmer of America
is becoming clog-footed with wealth, but it has occurred to me that a
plain record of the tragic struggles of a large body of American
farmers for bare justice and a chance to live ... might have some
interest as a human as well as a social and political document of
facts.” The part devoted to the rise and present organization of the
league is correspondingly less complete than Mr Gaston’s, but the main
facts are sketched. The book has been carefully indexed.
* * * * *
“Rather more interestingly and dramatically written than Gaston.”
+ =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20
“Admirable book.” W. H. C.
+ =Freeman= 2:282 D 29 ’20 480w
“The book should be viewed as a clever piece of journalism, effective
but inaccurate. It has the earmarks of being scientific; it cites
references: it affects a certain restraint in statement. Yet the
critical reader will find its ‘citations’ ex parte, fragmentary,
undated for the most part. The book is a good example of skilled
juggling with half-truths. In short this book is not what it pretends
to be—the facts about the Nonpartisan league.” J. E. Boyle
− =J Pol Econ= 28:705 O ’20 1400w
“While this book is not to be compared with the more intimate and
comprehensive work by Mr Gaston, it is none the less a valuable
account of a movement that has been much misrepresented in the public
press.”
+ =Nation= 111:162 Ag 7 ’20 240w
“Mr Russell’s defense of the league’s attitude during the war is the
best that can be put forward, and it is put forward by a sincere
patriot who risked and suffered much for his loyalty. But the country
has made up its mind on that point, and his defense, honest as it is,
is unconvincing.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:16 Jl 18 ’20 3950w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 26 ’20 300w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 60w
=RUSSELL, MRS FRANCES THERESA (PEET).= Satire in the Victorian novel.
*$2.50 Macmillan 823
20–2031
“The author of this book is a professor at Leland Stanford junior
university, and her interpretation of the satiric contributions to
literature, offered by novelists of the Victorian epoch, has literary
as well as scholastic value. Written primarily as a thesis, offered at
Columbia university for the degree of doctor of philosophy, the
author’s style bears necessarily unmistakable and potent signs of
academic standards. The volume is divided into Premises, Methods,
Objects and Conclusions. After giving to her readers the groundwork of
her scheme, making certain that they understand the satiric motive,
Professor Russell passes to the categorical stage in her exposition.
She analyzes methods of satire, romantic, realistic, ironic. For this
purpose she quotes from the writers of the period she is considering,
writers such as Samuel Butler, Thomas Love Peacock, Meredith,
Disraeli, Thackeray, Trollope and Dickens. She takes pains to show us
how much ingenuity these men display in their methods of satiric
attack and how their weapons vary, likewise their skill.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
“A thoroughly competent and scholarly study.”
+ =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20
“What will interest the un-academic mind particularly in this treatise
is the author’s personal contribution. She offers, sometimes with a
charming unconsciousness, her philosophy of living; and more than one
of her reflections has a satiric thrust which makes us realize that
the talent for touching on the weaknesses of humanity with a deftly
humorous hand did not die with the Victorians!” D. F. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 600w
=Lit D= p126 Ap 17 ’20 950w
“She has a better talent for the abstract than for the concrete; her
analyses are better than her discussions of actual examples. The
reader learns much from her pages by gleaning over wide territory, but
he drives behind an inexorable chauffeur who whirls him past alluring
byways and leafy vistas. Names and ideas spin by like telephone poles.
The author has a nice ear for the turn of a sentence, but she cannot
train sentences to speak together.”
+ − =Nation= 111:50 Jl 10 ’20 250w
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 15 ’20 50w
“It is full of sustaining, gently amusing reading, and—most
important—the reader will want to read it all. There is no waste.”
+ =Spec= 124:83 Jl 17 ’20 900w
“A certain rehabilitation of the Victorians is the chief service that
Prof. Russell seems to have performed, often, seemingly, in spite of
herself.” G: B. Dutton
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 1900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 200w
=RUSSELL, RUTH.= What’s the matter with Ireland? *$1.75 Devin-Adair
914.5
20–13138
“Miss Russell has undertaken her theme objectively, in the best
reportorial sense, and by sounding a number of disparate apostles—as
widely dissimilar as De Valera, George Russell, Countess Markiewiecz
and the Bishop of Killaloe—she manages to throw light upon all phases
of the problem. The book opens with a chapter on statistics, which
bring the present plight of the country into the foreground of the
reader’s imagination, and with this accomplished, the author turns to
the narration of incidents, and to the gleaning of opinions, which are
set down with impartial emphasis.”—Freeman
* * * * *
“She succeeds in rousing our sympathy for the poor working girls of
Dublin, and the other unfortunate people of the city and the
bog-field. But when she takes up the political, she seems unable to do
justice to her subject. There is no doubt Miss Russell’s intentions
are good, but it is doubtful if such books as this will help Ireland’s
cause.”
− + =Cath World= 112:396 D ’20 210w
“She wisely refrains from any ex cathedra dogmatism on her own
account.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:214 N 10 ’20 140w
=RUSSELL, THOMAS.= Commercial advertising. (Studies in economics and
political science) *$2.50 Putnam 659
20–297
“Mr Russell is the president of the Incorporated society of
advertisement consultants, and was sometime advertisement manager of
the Times. He writes, therefore, with authority, and he deals fully
with such themes as the economic justification of advertising, the
functions and policy of advertising, the chief methods of advertising,
and with advertising as a career.” (Ath) “The six lectures were
delivered in the spring of this year at the London school of
economics.” (Springf’d Republican)
* * * * *
“The book should be useful and suggestive to commercial men and
others.”
+ =Ath= p929 S 19 ’19 70w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 7 ’20 400w
“The six lectures are not only worthy of their academic auspices but
might well serve as models of modern academic exposition. They have
the breadth and insight that is properly called philosophic, whatever
the subject-matter may be, and the concreteness that makes a
philosophic treatment glow with interest.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p510 S 25 ’19 900w
=RUTZEBECK, HJALMAR.= Alaska man’s luck. *$2 Boni & Liveright
20–26890
“The book is a unique autobiographical chronicle, told in the form of
a diary, of the struggles of its author-hero to make a home for
himself in the land of the snows. Hjalmar Rutzebeck, or Svend Norman,
as he calls himself in his book, was born and raised in Denmark. He
left school at the age of twelve and has had no further formal
schooling since then. We first meet our twentieth century viking in
Los Angeles, just after he had been honorably discharged from the
United States army. With winning naïveté he tells us how he has fallen
in love with Marian. When Svend learns that the northland is as dear
to Marian as it is to him, he immediately sets out to make a stake
there.... As Svend goes on from adventure to adventure he records them
in his diary, and it is this diary, mailed to Marian piecemeal as he
went along, that is reprinted in ‘Alaska man’s luck.’”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Interesting specially to men or older boys.”
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“It must be confessed that the tale is fascinating, in spite of, or
perhaps because of its naïveté.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 120w
“An extraordinary story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 330w
“There is no self-consciousness in ‘Alaska man’s luck,’ nor is there
any suggestion of a sophisticated striving to return to the simple and
primitive.” L. M. R.
+ =Freeman= 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 110w
“For his first novel, Hjalmar Rutzebeck has wisely chosen a hero of
his own race and temperament. He attains a consistent realism by
letting Svend Norman’s diaries and letters tell their own story.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 220w
“The simplicity and directness with which the author tells his
blood-stirring story, even the occasional crudities in his English,
serve to enhance rather than mar the epic quality of his narrative.”
+ =N Y Times= p14 N 14 ’20 2250w
=RYAN, AGNES.= Whisper of fire. *$1.25 Four seas co. 811
19–18255
A series of poems arranged as: Wood, Kindling, Smoldering, Smoke,
Blaze, Smoke again, Flame, Coals, Ashes. Altho they are loosely strung
together the succession of verses tells the story of a woman’s love
life.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20
“Several of the verses, notably ‘I wonder,’ are compact and vivid in
imagery and spiritual message.”
+ =Cath World= 110:844 Mr ’20 40w
=Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 40w
“Each poem is a mere fragment in free verse, a chip off the old block
of femininity. This will please readers of poetry of the hour. For the
present vogue is fragmentary. Many of these poems are trivial and
unimportant, but a few have the eloquence of reality.” Marguerite
Wilkinson
+ − =N Y Times= 25:82 F 8 ’20 120w
=RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE.= Church and socialism; and other essays. (Social
justice bks.) *$1.50 University press, Brookland, Washington, D.C. 304
20–221
“A collection of papers that have appeared in various publications
during the past ten years. Only the first paper relates intimately to
the title of the book. Other topics discussed are: A living wage; The
legal minimum wage; Moral aspects of the labor union; The moral
aspects of speculation; Birth control; and Woman suffrage.”—Am Econ R
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:385 Je ’20 50w
“The essay, ‘False and true conceptions of welfare,’ is to our mind
the most practical of the entire series.”
+ =Cath World= 111:392 Je ’20 280w
“They reveal a large acquaintance with economic and industrial
problems. It would be beside the point to criticize these papers
without remembering that they were written for Catholics. While we
agree with many of Dr Ryan’s conclusions, we should find it difficult
to subscribe to some of his premises and to submit to the intellectual
limitations which follow.” R: Roberts
+ − =Nation= 110:266 F 28 ’20 280w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 13 ’19 90w
=RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE.= Living wage; with an introd. by R: T. Ely. *$2
Macmillan 331.2
20–1611
“A revised and abridged edition of a work that has had much influence
in bringing about the enactment of minimum-wage laws and the
acceptance of the principle that the laborer has a moral claim to at
least a decent living wage. The author is a priest of the Roman
Catholic church and a professor in the Catholic university of
America.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“It is agreeable to say that Dr Ryan argues the living wage question
better than almost anybody else.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:267 My 23 ’20 550w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 60w
“Ethically it is far in advance of the thought of a generation ago,
and many even now will find themselves unable to keep pace with it.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 100w
=RYAN, WILLIAM PATRICK.= Irish labor movement. (Modern Ireland in the
making) *$2 Huebsch 331.09
(Eng ed 20–113)
In reviewing the history of Irish labor in the seventeenth, eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries the author points out how the genius of the
Irish people was submerged and its spirit broken by the enforced
assimilation of a foreign social system, a foreign speech and a
foreign character. However cruel and inhuman English dominion has
proved itself to be, the struggle for freedom has been mental and
spiritual as well as economic. “The breaking of the chains, the
unloading of the degrading burdens that we know, will inevitably lead
to the resurrection and the flowering of the workers’ deeper natures,
now blunted and buried. Then they may be artists and creators.”
Contents: Labor and the Gael; Land workers’ ordeals and deeds; William
Thompson, Robert Owen and Ralahine; Our early trade unionism; The
guilds and the unions; Illusive emancipation; O’Connell and
tragi-comedy; Weavers and “lock-ups”; Lalor and lean years; In
Davitt’s days; Connolly in the schools of labor; Connolly’s
teaching—industrial unionism; Larkin’s youth in the depths; The rise
of “Larkinism”; Up from slavery in Ulster; The struggle of 1913; The
ultimate sacrifice; Towards the commonwealth; Authorities and sources.
* * * * *
=Ath= p412 My 30 ’19 70w
S
=SACKVILLE, MARGARET, lady.= Selected poems. *$2.50 Dutton 821
“Lady Margaret Sackville is a feminine version of the late Richard
Middleton. Her themes are the themes of Middleton—the gay seasons,
love and desire with their antithesis of crepuscular quiet, a selected
Greek mythology, and the vaguely idealistic ‘dreams’ of the
romantics.” (Ath) “She writes lyrics and short plays: her subjects are
largely Greek, and, so far as effects of brightness and directness, of
clear air and frank sunshine, are concerned, the atmosphere is Greek.”
(Review)
* * * * *
“Out of her materials she makes a bright, easy poetry, which it would
be unfair to subject to the test of frequent reading. It is only at
rare intervals that something of more permanent quality, as, for
example, ‘Invitation au repos,’ rises above the level of pleasant
facility.”
+ − =Ath= p225 F 13 ’20 110w
“Lady Margaret Sackville is the possessor of charm. Original or
powerful she may not be, but charm in itself is fortune.” O. W.
Firkins
+ =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 330w
“Lady Margaret Sackville has suffered by reason of being Lady
Margaret. The paths were made too easy for her. She set out with the
true throat of the bird at dawn, but somehow somewhere the music went
wrong. It is wrong now.”
− + =Sat R= 129:392 Ap 24 ’20 170w
“Pieces that give the effect of having been written as technical
exercises, but which are not without charm.”
+ − =Spec= 124:429 Mr 27 ’20 30w
=SADLER, MICHAEL.= Anchor. *$1.75 (2½c) McBride
The interest of the story centers about Laddie Macallister, an
over-sensitive, introspective young man whose self-questionings and
doubtings make him feel hopelessly adrift and unstable for all his
solid foundation of a clean and honest manhood. We meet him first as
newspaper correspondent for an English paper in Paris; later as
literary secretary for a radical London weekly. The anchor, the
“something-firm-to-cling-to” which he craves he finds in Janet Tring,
daughter of a country squire and a singularly well-poised,
straightforward bit of young womanhood. It is the character-drawing
rather than the plot that is significant in the story. Some of the
other characters that stand out are Laddie’s father, the country
parson, whose mellow wisdom and dependable love for his son are the
latter’s safe armor; Dermot Gill, the very odd, very lovable and very
radical Irishman, whose friendship Laddie picked up en route; Janet’s
cousin, the militant suffragette, proud of her prison record; and the
wily newspaper woman whose vindictive designs on Laddie rebound from
Janet’s good sense.
* * * * *
“The sentimentality of such fiction lies in its slavish worship of
youngness—the mere state and act of being young, of muddling through
youth.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:489 My 8 ’20 900w
“The story is lacking in form and consistency; the latter half, which
tells the love story, has the greater driving force. The character of
Laddie is, within limits, fairly clear and truthful. Mr Sadler’s
method is psychological, but not unduly so, and the story of the
partial love affairs which accompany his great love is done with some
originality and insight.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 480w
=SAFRONI-MIDDLETON, A.= South Sea foam. *$2 (2c) Doran 919.6
20–18944
In “the romantic adventures of a modern Don Quixote in the southern
seas” (Sub-title) the author has attempted to capture and hold for all
times, some of the earliest “poetic babblings” of the children of
nature of the South Sea islands before, with the advent of the
missionary, “island mythology and heathen legends were sponged off the
map of existence.” He has attempted to see the mysteries of nature
with the eyes of the primitive man and, in retelling the legends of
some old Polynesian chiefs, to remain as faithful to primitive
conceptions as is possible to a sophisticated mind. The contents give
glimpses of the author’s own adventurous youth in following the call
of the “true poetry of life” and some of his island reminiscences in:
Fae Fae; The heathen’s garden of Eden; In old Fiji; Kasawayo and the
serpent; O Le Langi the pagan poet; An old Marquesan queen; Charity
organization of the South Seas.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1395 D 26 ’19 500w
“Not the least stimulating portions are those devoted to the sailing
vessels in which the author has pursued his study of man and nature.”
Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:343 D ’20 200w
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 O 6 ’20 350w
=Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 70w
“The jerky transitions, the Bowdlerized legends, the tantalizing
sequels that the author ‘can’t tell,’ the dialect never heard on land
or sea, the author’s occasional verse ... contrive to trip the reader
up time after time just as the magic joy of life is beckoning him
farther into fairyland.”
− + =Nation= 111:786 D 29 ’20 260w
“Here is a chronicle of vagabonding among the isles of the South seas
that sets him who has lived amid the cities of civilization to
wondering whether or not he has squandered his life.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 540w
“Much of the same delicate charm of fantasy which belongs to so many
of the Hindu stories told us by F. W. Bain distinguishes, also, these
tales of the isles in the far seas.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 380w
“It makes one long for Stevenson, who could be frank and downright
enough, but never wrote with a leer.” E. L. Pearson
− =Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 300w
“Mr Safroni-Middleton gives us a glimpse of true natural poetry that
should appeal to the lover of life and beauty.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p709 D 4 ’19 320w
=ST JOHN, LARRY.= Practical fly fishing. (Outing handbooks) il *$1.25
Macmillan 799
20–3413
“As the title indicates, it is a treatise about luring the finny
inhabitants of pond, lake or other watery area into human hands,
through the medium of the ‘fly.’ There are numerous illustrations that
will please and enlighten both the amateur and the ‘old-timer.’ There
is a brief historical review of this form of fishing, while
considerable space is given over to tackle, other chapters are given
over to flies, reels, apparel, biological, preparatory and casting.
The final chapter is entitled ‘strategy,’ and deals with methods of
best making use of the tackle, reels, etc., previously
described.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:269 My ’20
=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 80w
“The descriptions are written in simple direct form, and are easily
understood and applied.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 12 ’20 160w
=ST MARS, F.= Way of the wild (Eng title, Pinion and paw). il *$2 (2c)
Stokes 590.4
20–100
Epics of the wild would truly characterize these tales of thrilling
adventures of wild things in their own haunts. They are not natural
history but stories of animals befitting their characters as men
conceive them. Thus in “Gulo the indomitable” we see the
wolverine—most hated of all the animals among themselves, with a
character “that came straight from the devil,” and with brains “that
only man, and no beast, ought to be trusted with”—and his ghoulish
escapades. The weak and the powerful, the four-footed and the winged
tribes, even the legless viper, engage our human sympathies for their
fears, their passions, their struggles and their wiles. Contents: Gulo
the indomitable; Blackie and co.; Under the yellow flag; Nine points
of the law; Pharaoh; The cripple; “Set a thief”; The where is it?
Lawless little love; The king’s son; The highwayman of the marsh; The
furtive feud; The storm pirate; When nights were cold; Fate and the
fearful; The eagles of Loch Royal; Ratel, V. C.; The day;
Illustrations.
* * * * *
“Real art here, with the scientist’s passion for strict accuracy. It
is a book for the whole family, a book to be kept and cherished and
handed on to the children as they grow old enough to appreciate it.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 150w
=SAINT-SAËNS, CAMILLE.= Musical memories; tr. by Edwin Gile Rich. il *$3
Small 780.4
19–15405
“This book is virtually an autobiography, but the story of the
author’s life is told briefly, so as to leave room for chapters on
Rossini, Meyerbeer, Offenbach, Viardot, Louis Gallet, Delsarte, Victor
Hugo, which, however, are also more or less autobiographic, for these
were among his friends. The English volume omits some of the chapters
in the original French edition and changes the order of others.”
(Bookm) “Contents: Memories of my childhood; The old conservatoire;
Victor Hugo; The history of an opéra-comique; Louis Gallet; History
and mythology in opera; Art for art’s sake; Popular science and art;
Anarchy in music; The organ; Joseph Haydn and the ‘Seven words’; The
Liszt centenary at Heidelberg (1912); Berlioz’s requiem; Pauline
Viardot; Orphée; Delsarte; Seghers; Rossini; Jules Massenet;
Meyerbeer; Jacques Offenbach; Their majesties; Musical painters.”
(Pittsburgh)
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:80 D ’19
“It should be in every library.” H: T. Finck
+ =Bookm= 51:171 Ap ’20 250w
“Camille Saint-Saens is not only one of France’s greatest living
composers but a musician who can write excellent and witty prose, and
an erudite scholar who knows how to impart information without being
pedantic.” Henrietta Strauss
+ =Nation= 111:75 Jl 17 ’20 320w
=Pittsburgh= 25:35 Ja ’20 70w
Reviewed by Lawrence Gilman
=Yale R= n s 9:872 Jl ’20 1100w
=SAINTSBURY, GEORGE.= Notes on a cellar-book. *$3 Macmillan 663
“Mr Saintsbury, it will be remembered, had proposed to write a history
of wine; for sundry reasons he renounced his intention; and what he
gives us in this small volume are ‘notes and reminiscences on the
subject which may ... add a little to the literature of one of the
three great joys of life.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The body of
the work is occupied by a history of Mr Saintsbury’s experiences in
keeping a wine cellar; literally, as the title has it, the record of a
cellar-book.” (Review)
* * * * *
“Here, then, is a book which few men, and no woman, could have
written, full of knowledge that comes of experience, and is therefore,
as a rule, useless to others—full of the ripe humour that
characterizes all the best things of the world.” R. S.
+ =Ath= p301 S 3 ’20 800w
“A quaint and delightful chronicle it is, and as we have a right to
expect from such a pen, interspersed with many an apt literary hint
and suggestion.” Michael Monahan
+ =Review= 3:559 D 8 ’20 2150w
“Mr Saintsbury was prevented from carrying out his original intention
of writing a history of wine, but he has done the next best thing in
giving us this book.”
+ =Spec= 125:114 Jl 24 ’20 1900w
“No man could be less of a pedant. His erudition does not obtrude
itself; it merely supplies suitably evocative expressions; the bubbles
wink, and so does he. There is the very spirit of wine in the genial
ferocity with which he denounces those who would deprive him of that
good gift.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p436 Jl 8 ’20 1000w
=SAMPSON, EMMA SPEED.= Mammy’s white folks. il *$1.50 (2c) Reilly & Lee
20–4267
Dr Andy Wallace is a shy young doctor with no use for women folks when
a baby girl is left on his doorstep. His negro Mammy persuades him to
keep the child and he brings her up as his own daughter. The story
tells of the happiness she brings to him, and of the happiness that
comes to her when she grows to womanhood. Mammy has a large part in
the story and the widow Richards and her daughter Lucile, who try to
steal Esther’s privileges, are also factors, as is Dr Jim Dudley, the
doctor’s assistant.
* * * * *
“A good wholesome story dominated by the motherly old negro’s
philosophy.”
+ =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20
=SAMPTER, JESSIE ETHEL=, ed. Guide to Zionism. il $1.50 Zionist
organization of Am. 296
20–8649
The book has grown out of an earlier publication, ‘A course in
Zionism,’ now out of print. The present volume is more than twice the
size of the first and presents as many more problems and facts
concerning the Zionist movement. Its purpose is to serve not only for
individual perusal but as a text-book for groups of students. Of its
thirty-three chapters the first ten deal with Zionist theory, history
and organization, the next ten with more specialized phases of the
movement, and the last thirteen with Palestine. Each chapter is
followed by a short bibliography and there are important appendices, a
general bibliography, an index and illustrations.
=SANBORN, MARY FARLEY (MRS FRED C. SANBORN).= First valley. *$1.75 (2½c)
Four seas co.
20–8860
A story of life after death. Tina, a pleasure-loving girl, killed in
an automobile accident, is speeded to the other world in the swift car
of Death, not knowing what is happening to her. She finds herself in
the first valley of the life to come and valiantly sets herself to
learn its ways. She makes friends with the Spade Man, who teaches her
to cultivate her garden, and with Odo, the childlike poet, and she
lends a helping hand to those who follow her to this new world, to St
Leon, the university professor who bemoans his lost career, and to
Helene, the beautiful woman whose worldly ideals have not been
abandoned. The story ends with her passage to the second valley.
* * * * *
“A curiously interesting book.”
+ =Cleveland= p106 D ’20 20w
“It is a little book conceived in a spirit of singular purity and
reverence, and almost faultlessly executed; without cant or
sentimentalism or any forcing of the risky note.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:234 S 15 ’20 250w
=SANCHEZ, MRS NELLIE (VAN DE GRIFT).= Life of Mrs Robert Louis
Stevenson. il *$2.25 (2½c) Scribner
20–3787
“Whoever reads this book from cover to cover will surely agree that no
woman ever had a life of more varied experiences nor went through them
all with a stauncher courage.” So writes Mrs Sanchez in the preface to
this biography of her sister Fanny, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson.
There are thirteen chapters: Ancestors; Early days in Indiana; On the
Pacific slope; France, and the meeting at Grez; In California with
Robert Louis Stevenson; Europe and the British Isles; Away to sunnier
lands; The happy years in Samoa; The lonely days of widowhood; Back to
California; Travels in Mexico and Europe; The last days at Santa
Barbara. There are a number of portraits and other illustrations.
Letters from Henry James and others are quoted and the book closes
with an account of the services at Vailima in 1915 when the ashes of
Mrs Stevenson were carried to her husband’s resting place on the
summit of Mount Vaea.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p650 N 12 ’20 580w
“Well worth while, not only as an addition to Stevensoniana, but also
as a picture of a very interesting woman.”
+ =Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20
“To the Stevensonian, this book is a mine of delight. It sets down
what has never before been sufficiently made clear, that Mrs Stevenson
was, in her own way, as remarkable and as gifted as her husband.”
Christopher Morley
+ =Bookm= 51:356 My ’20 850w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 2650w
+ =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 150w
“So interesting that one could wish it more extended. We are inclined
to think the book better worth while than anything that has been
printed about Stevenson since the Letters.’”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 150w
“This concise and vivid narrative reveals Mrs Stevenson clearly as the
splendid woman she was, but it also reveals her, first and last, as
the reason why the literary world today possesses some of the most
highly valued of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 3 ’20 600w
“One might venture to say she has written a manly book. She has
drawn the character of a frank and courageous woman with a
straightforwardness that would surely have pleased its possessor.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 O 28 ’20 2000w
=SANDBURG, CARL.= Chicago race riots, July, 1919. pa 60c Harcourt 326
19–19136
“Reprinted from articles contributed at the time to a Chicago
newspaper, Mr Sandburg’s description tallies with other authentic
accounts of the origin and progress of the race riots. Though he acted
merely as a reporter, the author evidently formed strong opinions of
his own as to the most promising line of action to prevent the
recurrence of this outrageous happening. Better housing, more and
better industrial opportunities, and—immediately—a thorough federal
investigation of the unsatisfactory race relationships that lead to
race conflicts seem part of such a program.”—Survey
* * * * *
“A serious and intelligent investigation into conditions which made
the race riots possible. A contribution to the solving of the negro
problem in any section of the country.”
+ =Booklist= 16:154 F ’20
“The pamphlet is naturally less constructed, less pondered than Mr
Seligmann’s careful thesis. But it has the advantage of its
journalistic method, for by personal narrative and comment it makes
vivid its statistics and analysis, and brings the general problem down
to more specific terms.” M. E. Bailey
+ =Bookm= 52:303 Ja ’21 170w
“Everyone in this country who is interested in our sharpest national
disgrace—our treatment of negro citizens ought to read this collection
of articles. Especially every Chicagoan ought to read it.” E. F. Wyatt
+ =New Repub= 22:98 Mr 17 ’20 1750w
+ =Spec= 124:51 Jl 10 ’20 700w
+ =Survey= 43:408 Ja 10 ’20 100w
=SANDBURG, CARL.= Smoke and steel. *$2 Harcourt 811
20–17899
The sections of this new book of poems are called Smoke nights, People
who must, Broken-face gargoyles, Playthings of the wind, Mist forms,
Accomplished facts, Passports, Circles of doors, Haze, Panels. Some of
the poems are reprinted from Poetry, the New Republic, Liberator, and
other periodicals.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“‘Smoke and steel’ is both an epic of modern industrialism and a
mighty pæan to modern beauty.” L: Untermeyer
+ =Bookm= 52:362 Ja ’21 360w
“Mr Sandburg has no sense of the past, no vision of the future, and so
his reality is a little huddled bunch of dried-up aspects out of which
have escaped the aspects of life about which he is so passionately
concerned. This is a great pity, because I believe there is no poet in
the country who has by nature the qualities of spirit which, if fused
and blended in the proper alembic, would not make some of the
loveliest and most convincing poems of our day.” W: S. Braithwaite
* + -|=Boston Transcript= p7 O 16 ’20 2050w
“Sandburg has lost (at least temporarily) the one and only thing which
makes him great—the ability to determine when he has written something
good. He now apparently believes that everything he writes is a poem.
He imitates Gary, and turns his product out on a quantity basis.”
Arthur Wilson
− =Dial= 70:80 Ja ’21 680w
“‘Smoke and steel’ is longer than either of the earlier volumes, and
not so uniformly good. Over many pages, it must be admitted, Mr
Sandburg has rather obviously repeated himself, has put himself
through motions that were more profitable once than they are now. But
the book as a whole has great fascination and pull. Technically, Mr
Sandburg is as interesting as any poet alive.”
+ =Nation= 111:621 D 1 ’21 750w
“This new collection establishes what ‘Chicago poems’ only promised
and ‘Cornhuskers’ plainly intimated. It proves that these states can
now claim two living major poets: Sandburg and Frost.” L: Untermeyer
+ =New Repub= 25:86 D 15 ’20 1450w
“He is misty, rather than descriptive or truly evocative; he is the
whole antithesis of the imagist demand for a sharply evoked image, if
this is their demand; and, sometimes at least, it should be. We see
the smoke, and miss the steel.” Clement Wood
− + =N Y Call= p6 Ja 9 ’21 600w
Reviewed by Babette Deutsch
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 N 27 ’20 1150w
“Reading these poems gives me more of a patriotic emotion than ever
‘The star-spangled banner’ has been able to do. This is America, and
Mr Sandburg loves her so much that suddenly we realize how much we
love her, too. Either this is a very remarkable poet or he is nothing,
for with the minors he clearly has no place. He has greatly dared, and
I personally believe that posterity with its pruning hand will mount
him high on the ladder of poetic achievement.” Amy Lowell
+ − =N Y Times= p7 O 24 ’20 2500w
“Mr Sandburg has introduced themes which have seldom, perhaps never,
been treated before. There is an impressive display of energy in
‘Smoke and steel.’ His poems are true to a certain kind of life, they
are undoubtedly American. They do succeed, then, in doing what they
set out to do, but whether this in itself constitutes a high and right
art is another question.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p816 D 9 ’20 1700w
=SANDERS, LLOYD CHARLES.= Patron and place-hunter; a study of George
Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe. il *$5 Lane
20–5659
George Bubb Dodington was a prominent political and social figure in
the reigns of George I and George II on whom Lord Chesterfield
bestowed the sobriquet of “blest coxcomb,” on account of his supreme
conceit and ostentation, but who nevertheless had some compensating
qualities of sincerity, capacity for friendship, and courage. His
notorious diary has made him a historical figure and the present
account of his life is a picture of the England of his day. Contents:
Dodington’s ancestry; The youth of George Bubb; George Bubb,
plenipotentiary; The seizure of Sardinia; Dodington and Walpole;
Eastbury; A prince and a duke; From Walpole to Pelham; Frederick,
Prince of Wales; La Trappe; Henry Pelham; The duke of Newcastle;
Chaos; The end of the reign; Dodington’s last years. There are
illustrations.
* * * * *
“Mr Lloyd Sanders puts with ease what the usual maker of research
states heavily, and the confusions of politics for forty years up to
1762 become almost agreeable in his animated narrative.”
+ =Ath= p1285 D 5 ’19 1400w
“Casual references to Dodington abound in the political histories and
studies of social life of the eighteenth century. It must have been a
source of regret to those who study this period that no intimate
material regarding Dodington has been procurable. Mr Sanders’s volume
fulfills this want. Besides, a man that Robert Browning parlayed with
for more than 300 lines is well worth attention.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:241 My 9 ’20 1350w
“If it be easier, as Mr Lytton Strachy assures us, to live a good life
than to write one, Mr Lloyd Sanders deserves not only praise but
gratitude for presenting us with his admirable monograph on Bubb
Dodington. If we have a complaint to make of Mr Sanders it is that he
repeats the common saying that Bubb was a wit, but gives us no
specimens.”
+ =Sat R= 128:487 N 22 ’19 1150w
“A good biography of a second-rate man often throws more light on the
period in which he lived than a biography of a great man, who is
necessarily exceptional and abnormal. We should recommend any one
interested in the early Georgian era to read Mr Lloyd Sanders’s witty
and scholarly memoir of George Bubb Dodington, who was a typical
eighteenth-century politician.”
+ =Spec= 123:660 N 15 ’19 1500w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 24 ’20 150w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p779 D 25 ’19)
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p632 N 6 ’19 80w
“Bubb’s biographer is not biassed in his favour. He makes a cold,
exhaustive investigation of the career of a place-hunter when Walpole
ruled the roost and every man had his price, and he is successful in
every respect save one. He cannot make a picturesque ill-doer of his
hero. His story constitutes not so much a page of eccentric biography
as a quaint footlight to the rather squalid politics of George the
Second.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p779 D 25 ’19 2150w
=SANDES, EDWARD WARREN CAULFEILD.=[2] In Kut and captivity with the
Sixth Indian division. il *$10 Dutton (*24s Murray) 940.472
(Eng ed 20–656)
“Major Sandes has written an interesting book on the earlier phase of
the war in Mesopotamia. Major Sandes was attached to the Sixth Indian
division, under General Townshend, which formed the main portion of
Sir John Nixon’s expeditionary force. He was in charge of the bridging
train which followed the army up the Tigris. He describes the capture
of Kurna, the rapid advance up to Amarah, the battle of Es Sin, where
the Turks offered a strenuous resistance, the occupation of Kut, and
the fatal advance upon Baghdad which ended at Ctesiphon. He gives a
full narrative of the retreat, which was most skilfully conducted, and
relates the history of the five months’ siege of Kut. After the
surrender in April, 1916, he was taken to Asia Minor, and remained at
Yozgad till Turkey capitulated a year ago.”—Spec
* * * * *
“It is likely to remain for some time a classic on the heroic stand of
the Kut garrison and the awful sufferings they subsequently endured.”
R. C. T.
+ =Ath= p912 S 19 ’19 1050w
“Depressing as it must needs be, the undauntable spirit which it
shows, the endurance, simplicity, modesty, lift this book into the
class of great siege narratives and give it high place among the
first-hand records of great military disasters. And so, for all its
unconscious concreteness and scattered masses of detail, it gives in
the end that purging of the spirit which Aristotle assigned to high
tragedy.”
+ =Review= 3:380 O 27 ’20 800w
“Major Sandes is rigidly objective; he sets down plain facts and
leaves his readers to rely on their own imaginations. We are not sure,
all the same, that his story of Kut is not rendered more remarkable by
his resolute avoidance of fine writing.”
+ =Sat R= 128:343 O 11 ’19 950w
“The story of the siege of Kut is well told by Major Sandes.”
+ =Spec= 122:544 O 25 ’19 1400w
=SANDWICH, EDWARD GEORGE HENRY MONTAGUE=, 8th earl of. Memoirs of
Edward, Earl of Sandwich, 1839–1916. il *$7 Dutton
(Eng ed 20–442)
“The ‘Memoirs of Edward, eighth earl of Sandwich, 1839–1916,’ have
been edited by Mrs Steuart Erskine from the material which Lord
Sandwich himself collected from old diaries with the object of
publishing his autobiography. Besides the intimate pictures provided
of society at home and abroad, of state visits to Berlin and St
Petersburg, of missions to Fez, and travels in many lands, the story
is told of his experiences in spiritual healing and other psychical
phenomena which became his dominant interest towards the end of his
life.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Ath= p1139 O 31 ’19 170w
=Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 12 ’19 80w
“Such material as is found in these selections from the diary not only
furnish valuable matter for the historian, but it reveals the
personality of the diarist, and thus makes very interesting and
enjoyable reading for those who delight in following the movements,
personal and social, of human beings.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 850w
=Brooklyn= 12:133 My ’20 40w
“So varied a life clearly presented opportunities for an interesting
book. We cannot say, however, that Mrs Steuart Erskine has been
altogether fortunate in her materials. Lord Sandwich’s wit in
conversation vanishes when he tries to commit it to paper. He intended
to write his biography, but here we only get it in the raw, so to
speak.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:367 O 18 ’19 750w
“The value of these memoirs lies in the picture they afford of a
typical representative of a long-established order now apparently in
the throes of dissolution.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 O 2 ’19 1050w
=SANGER, MARGARET H.=[2] Woman and the new race. *$2 (4½c) Brentano’s
176
20–15159
In his preface to this book Havelock Ellis says that its contents are
already as familiar as A B C to the few who think, but to the millions
and to the handful of superior persons whom the millions elect to rule
them, they are not familiar, yet it is a matter of vital importance to
the race that they should be. The reason why is clearly set forth in
the book which is a plea for a free and voluntary motherhood. The
chapters are: Woman’s error and her debt; Woman’s struggle for
freedom; The material of the new race; Two classes of women; The
wickedness of creating large families; Cries of despair; When should a
woman avoid having children? Birth control—a parents’ problem or
woman’s? Continence—is it practicable or desirable? Contraceptives or
abortion? Are preventive means certain? Will birth control help the
cause of labor? Battalions of unwanted babies the cause of war; Woman
and the new morality; Legislating woman’s morals; Why not birth
control clinics in America? Progress we have made; The goal.
* * * * *
=Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 440w
“Calm, temperate, informed, sound, and winning book.”
+ =Nation= 111:597 N 24 ’20 400w
“While Mrs Sanger’s book contains nothing new to students of the
subject, it is an excellent summary of the arguments for voluntary
motherhood. In several instances, however, she overstates her case.”
B. L.
+ − =Survey= 45:706 F 12 ’21 260w
=SANGER, WILLIAM CARY, jr.= Verse. *$1.50 Putnam 811
20–10004
The poems of this volume are arranged under the headings Tides of
commerce (Verse of the railroad); The city of toil and dreams;
Miscellaneous poems; With the armies of France; Additional war poems,
1918: In the land of the harvest. Most of the poems are reprinted from
earlier volumes by the author and the original prefaces to these
volumes appear in an appendix.
* * * * *
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 730w
=SANTAYANA, GEORGE.=[2] Character and opinion in the United States; with
reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and academic life in
America. *$3.50 Scribner 304
20–26993
“Mr Santayana, who was professor of philosophy at Harvard, has now
come to live in Europe. In this book he looks back with intimate
knowledge and complete detachment at the intellectual life which he
has left. He is, he says, an American only by long association.” (The
Times [London] Lit Sup) “The book is a keen, kindly analysis of
American life, particularly of the more subtle mental attitudes. It
seems to centralize around a conception of the American character as
vigorous, hopeful, good, somewhat childish; hampered intellectually by
conventional prohibitions and compulsions; and devoted to a liberty
based on cooperation and the spirit of live and let live.” (Booklist)
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p724 N 26 ’20 1350w
+ =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20
“In ‘Character and opinion in the United States,’ Professor Santayana
has written what one is inclined to believe will become the classic
essays on William James and Josiah Royce.... What must he think of
America? On the whole, his answer to this question is an
extraordinarily kindly one. When he is most perceptive, he gives his
generalizations amiably rather than scornfully.” Harold Stearns
+ =Freeman= 2:378 D 29 ’20 3450w
Reviewed by Alvin Johnson
=New Repub= 24:221 O 27 ’20 1600w
“A compelling, stimulating, and essentially a significant book. The
book itself is a unique essay in interpretation, an attempt to
evaluate American character under the play of the ideas which it has
projected and by which, in turn, it has been influenced.” L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:729 D 22 ’20 2450w
“On the whole he is eminently fair, if not more than fair, in his
judgments. It is another question whether there is much profit in such
an attempt as he has made to analyze the temper of a people.”
+ − =Review= 3:625 D 22 ’20 400w
“Professor Santayana has written one of the most fascinating books
imaginable.”
+ =Spec= 126:19 Ja 1 ’21 1500w
“The book is a very original one; indeed, the two chapters on William
James and Josiah Royce belong to a new genre of literature. They are
character-studies of philosophers, studies of the reaction between
character and philosophy, which ought to be dull but are as amusing as
if he were talking scandal about the manners and habits of fashionable
ladies. His book is one of the best he has written.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p775 N 25 ’20 1850w
=SANTAYANA, GEORGE.= Little essays, drawn from the writings of the
author by Logan Pearsall Smith, with the collaboration of the author.
*$3 Scribner 814
20–26891
“Mr Pearsall Smith explains in his preface that this book owes its
genesis to his habit of copying out such passages as particularly
interested him in the writings of Santayana. He came to see, however,
that these extracts ‘were bound up with, and dependent upon, a
definite philosophy, a rational conception of the world and man’s
allotted place in it, which gave them a unity of interest and an
importance far beyond that of any mere utterances of miscellaneous
appreciation—any mere “adventures of the soul.”’ He therefore
persuaded Mr Santayana to arrange these extracts in such a way as to
preserve their original connection as far as possible.”—Ath
* * * * *
“We confess that we are agreeably surprised at the result. The
masterful and inclusive vision of the author of the ‘Life of reason’
appears here broken and disconnected, but not betrayed.” J. W. N. S.
+ =Ath= p143 Jl 30 ’19 1500w
“Contains a vast amount of interesting material distilled from
profound scholarship and meditation.”
+ =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20
=Bookm= 52:368 Ja ’21 130w
“Any one who has a taste for short essays will find a good feast
provided for him. While the essays can well hold their own as detached
disquisitions on special subjects, they form a catena of thought which
hangs logically together, exposing a rational philosophy. Indeed it
has been said that George Santayana has imperiled the recognition of
his philosophy by the fine robes in which he has consistently
presented it.” Robert Bridges
+ =Dial= 69:534 N ’20 5000w
=Nation= 111:221 Ag 21 ’20 1300w
“A new immortal book.” P. L.
+ =New Repub= 25:321 F 9 ’21 2650w
“I believe that this publication will accomplish two things: it will
establish Mr Santayana’s reputation as one of the foremost masters of
English prose now living, and it will persuade many readers to buy the
complete works from which these essays are drawn.” W: L. Phelps
+ =N Y Times= p8 Ag 22 ’20 3050w
“It is a notable book. Professor Santayana possesses charm of style;
that merit must be accorded to him by his worst enemy, if enemy he
has. His culture is broad, and his mind is discursive, touching in its
range many points of metaphysics and art and literature and morals.”
+ =Review= 3:346 O 20 ’20 1350w
“Short though the pieces may be, they are, as a rule, brief only
through extreme compression, and the great beauty of the style in
which they are written links them together rather than divides them.
Hidden in the book there lurks the exposition of a theory of life.”
+ =Spec= 124:239 Ag 21 ’20 800w
“Even if his philosophy does not satisfy us, we must enjoy his art. If
we cannot believe that he tells us the truth about the nature of the
universe, he tells us many incidental truths about the nature of man.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p573 S 9 ’20 2500w
=SARETT, LEW R.= Many many moons; a book of wilderness poems. *$1.50
Holt 811
20–6453
Of these poems on Indian themes the author says that they “are in
no sense literal translations of original utterances of aboriginal
song and council-talk; they are, rather, very free, broad
interpretations ... in the light of Indian symbolism and
mysticism, of the mythology and superstition involved, and of the
attendant ceremonies.” (Preface) This is especially true of Parts
I and III of the poems, and an appendix of expository comments has
been added to make them clearer to the reader. Part II consists of
nature poems giving the atmosphere of the Indian’s environment.
The book has an introduction by Carl Sandburg and the three parts
are: Flying moccasins; Lone fires; Chippewa monologues.
* * * * *
“A book of beautiful, rugged verse.”
+ =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20
“Mr Sarett makes one understand the Indian. We understand the Indian
in relation to his thoughts, moods, his customs, his legends, his
symbolism, his natural mysticism. With the poet’s full equipment, he
has psychologically become an Indian and thus his interpreter to the
outside world. ‘Many many moons’ is a remarkable book!” W: S.
Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 8 ’20 2300w
+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 50w
“Noise clearly is his forte; heap big Indian talk is his best line.
The pale-face stanzas which attempt quieter and tenderer sorts of
interpretation are vacant and over-facile in their faith.” M. V. D.
− + =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 120w
“He does not prettify the wilderness. Especially good are ‘The granite
mountain’ and ‘God is at the anvil’ and ‘Of these four things I cannot
write.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 120w
“When Mr Sarett writes of nature he is writing with genuine feeling of
something he really knows. He has been in the wilderness.” M.
Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 290w
=SAROLEA, CHARLES.= Europe and the league of nations. *$2.50 Macmillan
341.1
“This book by Professor Sarolea of the University of Edinburgh is, as
its title implies, devoted principally to the league of nations,
although there are chapters of interest on other subjects. The author
warmly supports the league as a panacea for the ailing world.” (N Y
Times Mr 14) “He takes up a number of problems growing out of the
treaty of peace and out of the league covenant such as The status of
small nations within the covenant, America within the league, The
trial of the kaiser, The future of Poland, Germany’s political
reconstruction. The author expresses great dissatisfaction with the
economic terms of the treaty.” (N Y Times Ap 18)
* * * * *
=N Y Times= 25:117 Mr 14 ’20 600w
=N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 120w
“Dr Sarolea’s book is excellent in temper and spirit, but its
sentimental idealism is unrestrained by the realities of present-day
politics.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:252 Mr 13 ’20 1300w
“‘Europe and the league of nations’ cannot be described as a weighty
book, but it is fluently and brightly written.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 300w
=SASSOON, SIEGFRIED.= Picture-show. *$1.50 Dutton 821
20–3705
“The contents of the volume, in spite of its suggestive title, are not
wholly given over to the sidelights, fevers and fantasms of modern
warfare. Almost one third of the book is a record of those passages of
love which verge from the physical to the metaphysical; reflections of
an emotion that is half-celebrated, half-stifled.”—New Repub
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20
“Every last utterance of Siegfried Sassoon’s makes a farce out of the
deeds of the romantic soldier-poet the world has worshipped during the
last five years.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 24 ’20 1550w
Reviewed by Malcolm Cowley
=Dial= 68:621 My ’20 1600w
“He knows the secret of the clean pentameter, he is distinct and
clever and casual; yet there exists no feelable personality behind his
lines. It is not required that he have intellectual drive or spiritual
mounting-power: it merely is required that he show some sort of
intellectual edge and awareness. He does that nowhere in ‘Picture
show.’” M. V. D.
− + =Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w
“Now we have ‘Picture show,’ a vigorous answer to those who feared
that Sassoon had ‘written himself out’ or had begun to burn away in
his own fire. The same outrage and loathing of war is in the new poems
but a darker restraint is here; an emotion remembered not so much in
tranquility as in irony. One of the most rousing of his recent poems.
Aftermath, might well be the title of this volume, so firmly does it
balance and round off his trilogy.” L: Untermeyer
+ =New Repub= 22:37 Mr 3 ’20 950w
“There is a mass of the verse that is heavy and halting—far too large
a mass for so small a book. More careful pruning hereafter will lift
the worth of his collections amazingly.” Clement Wood
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 250w
“In this book Mr Sassoon describes warfare just as he did in his two
earlier books. But the last lyric in ‘Picture-show,’ [Every one sang,]
is, perhaps, the very loveliest of all the songs written to welcome
peace.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 140w
“Mr Sassoon sometimes is as shaken in his expressions as in his
emotion, and then he is apt to write as though art could not contain
him. But every poet must learn that no man feels too deeply or too
quickly to write well.... At its best here is a proud, tender poetry,
indignant often but magnanimous always, the creation of a loving and
aristocratic art.” J: Drinkwater
+ − =N Y Times= 25:235 My 9 ’20 1550w
“When it comes to sheer poetry, I find in Mr Sassoon but two
outstanding merits, a feeling for phrase and a sense of the occult,
both present in the degree which redeems verse from insignificance
without lifting it to distinction.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 220w
=SAUNDERS, CHARLES FRANCIS.= Useful wild plants of the United States and
Canada. il *$3 McBride 581.6
20–26546
The purpose of the book is to call attention to certain useful wild
plants, growing in the woods, waters and open country of the United
States, that have in the past formed an important element in the diet
of the aborigines and that could be both interesting and useful to
dwellers in rural districts, to campers, vacationists and nature
students. It is copiously illustrated by photographs and line drawings
and the contents are: Wild plants with edible tubers, bulbs or roots;
Wild seeds of food value and how they have been utilized; The acorn as
human food and some other wild nuts; Some little regarded wild fruits
and berries; Wild plants with edible stems and leaves; Beverage plants
of field and wood; Vegetable substitutes for soap; Some medicinal
wildings worth knowing; Miscellaneous uses of wild plants; A
cautionary chapter on certain poisonous plants; Regional index and
general index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20
=SAUNDERS, MARSHALL.= Bonnie Prince Fetlar. *$2 (2½c) Doran
20–18408
The hero of this new story by the author of “Beautiful Joe” is a
Shetland pony, and there are many other characters, both animal and
human. The scene is a Canadian farm to which the pony and his master,
a delicate boy with over-strung nerves, are sent. Neither likes the
strange, wild country at first but in time both come to love it, the
young master’s health is restored, he makes new friends with a family
of six lively Canadian children and in the end the mother he had
believed dead returns to him. All this story is told in the words of
the pony.
* * * * *
“The author of ‘Beautiful Joe’ has written a horse story which friends
of Beautiful Joe will be disappointed in. But after all, comparisons
are unnecessary—and ‘Bonnie Prince Fetlar,’ left to itself, is an
attractive book, full of incident and interest.”
+ − =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 70w
=N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 60w
“It is hardly necessary to say that here is an offering which any
healthy boy or girl must enjoy, but to this it may be added that also
it makes a strong appeal to grown-ups.”
+ =N Y Times= p23 D 12 ’20 270w
=SAVI, ETHEL WINIFRED.= When the blood burns. *$2 (1½c) Putnam
20–22037
Marcelle was a typist in a London office. Her beauty attracted her
employer and his charming personality easily persuaded the
inexperienced girl that she loved him; also—since he was married to a
much older woman who would not hear of divorce—that it was right for
her to go away with him to India. The monotony of the life there soon
palled on David and he is glad, eventually, of the summons back to
England. Marcelle, left behind, suffers untold miseries and
excruciating experiences, and is finally rescued by the one friend who
has stood by her from the first and who takes her home as his wife.
The interesting feature of the story is its description of life in
India.
* * * * *
=Ath= p698 N 19 ’20 150w
“It is a very old situation upon which E. W. Savi bases her story. She
gives it no new twist, but she infuses into it so vital a sense of
reality that it draws us and holds us keenly interested in its
developments. She possesses the story-telling art in a very marked
degree, and her story is full of both the beauty and strangeness of
genuine romance.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 2000w
“The author hero has been content to tell a plain, somewhat sordid,
tale of illicit love, with its inevitable penalties, which has little
more color than can be found in the records of the average divorce
suit. None of the characters commands much sympathy. As a whole, the
offering may be called just a passable novel.”
− + =N Y Times= p22 S 19 ’20 500w
“The scenes which pass in India are much the most interesting.”
+ =Spec= 125:782 D 11 ’20 50w
“The story has a certain sympathetic charm with a moral that cannot be
missed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 220w
“Despite a great deal of burning talk about love and passion, the
story leaves one quite cold.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p686 O 21 ’20 120w
=SAWYER, RUTH (MRS ALBERT C. DURAND).= Leerie. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–13146
“Leerie” was what the patients at the “San” lovingly called their
nurse Sheila O’Leary, and like Stevenson’s “Leerie,” she brought light
into the lives of her charges as no other nurse could. Especially to
Peter Brooks, she brought light which they both felt could never die
out. Then just on the very eve of her marriage to him, she felt the
call to go to France, and went. But she did not leave him behind for
he too found his place over there. There, after her period of service
which offered experiences both bitter and sweet, they were reunited,
“glad they had both paid their utmost for the love and happiness that
she knew was theirs now for all time.”
* * * * *
“Somewhat sentimentalized and improbable, but women and girls will
like it.”
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“The book contains the correct philosophy of life throughout, showing
that happiness comes from making others happy, from giving freely.”
+ =Cath World= 112:408 D ’20 210w
“A vivacious story, with plenty of sentimental appeal and written with
a good deal of cleverness and ingenuity, Ruth Sawyer’s new novel
springs lightly out of the conventional lines of fiction and goes its
own gait.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 400w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 70w
=SAYLER, OLIVER M.= Russia white or red. il *$2.50 Little 947
19–18648
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20
“The author took with him his best gifts as critic—a quick eye, ready
critical discernment, and an easy pen. He added to these gifts
something of the historian’s grasp of the unity of events. The result
is a quite unusual freshness and lucidity in the view we get of the
Russian theatre.” T: H. Dickinson
+ =Bookm= 51:492 Je ’20 850w
“The value of his account is in its freedom from political interest.
Without prejudice toward either white or red but with sympathy for the
struggles and sufferings of both sides, he simply relates what he
observed of the surface and common movement of things.”
+ =Nation= 110:597 My 1 ’20 200w
“‘Russia white or red’ is free of any taint of propaganda, and among a
torrent of writings full of distorted pictures of revolutionary
Russia, it stands out as a truthful and honest if by no means profound
contribution.” M. J. Olgin
+ =New Repub= 22:426 My 26 ’20 2000w
“Altogether, the book reveals a sympathetic understanding of the
Russian masses, and an appreciation of their yearnings for freedom and
peace. It does not pretend, however, to be a serious treatise on the
fundamental changes which have come about since the revolution.”
Alexander Trachtenberg
+ =Socialist R= 8:250 Mr ’20 320w
“It is neither a complete record nor an interpretation of events, and
will appeal primarily to those who may still be interested in getting
the background of revolutionary events and vivid glimpses of daily
living during the first months of the Bolshevist régime.” Reed Lewis
+ − =Survey= 44:53 Ap 3 ’20 100w
=SAYLER, OLIVER M.= Russian theatre under the revolution. il *$2.50
(3½c) Little 792
20–692
The author chose the winter of 1917–1918, while the Bolshevik
revolution was in progress, for a study of the Russian theatre. It was
a time when the theatre had not significantly survived either in
England or France or even in neutral New York and war had revealed it
as being only too clearly a luxury, a pastime and an industry. But the
Russian theatre is one of profound introspection and inspiration. “Out
of their sorrows the Russians have builded all their art. And in the
days of their profoundest gloom, they return to it for the consolation
which nothing else affords.” In Moscow and Petrograd, the author
testifies, the modern theatre has been carried to its finest
achievement. Among the contents are: Plays within a play; The world’s
first theatre; The plays of Tchehoff at the Art theatre; From
Turgenieff to Gorky at the Art theatre; The Russian ballet in its own
home; The deeper roots of the Russian theatre; The Kamerny, a theatre
of revolt; Meyerhold and the theatre theatrical; Yevreynoff and
monodrama; Russian theories of the theatre. There are numerous
illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:194 Mr ’20
“Interesting and remarkable book. It is a valuable contribution to the
literature of the theatre.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 800w
=Cleveland= p32 Mr ’20 170w
“A book so eager, so cordial, so intelligent, so frankly the
expression of a personal appetite that one would like to think of it
as typical of a new dispensation.”
+ =Freeman= 1:70 Mr 31 ’20 280w
+ − =Nation= 110:596 My 1 ’20 1250w
“He seems overstimulated by the shock of strangeness and the pervading
atmosphere of idealism and experiment so different from the atmosphere
of Broadway. Nevertheless, his book is tonic for the knowledge it
brings us of theatrical theories, experiments and striking
achievements in a land which is far ahead of ours so far as the
theater is concerned.” W. P. Eaton
+ − =N Y Call= p10 My 2 ’20 420w
“The author presents his material in such a way that not only will
those interested in the theatre be attracted to it, but also those who
are drawn to the puzzling topic of the Russian revolution.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:303 Je 6 ’20 500w
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“His sincerity is unquestionable but his temper runs to hyperbole. In
spite of all doubts and deductions, Mr Sayler’s book should be read by
all students of contemporary drama. If it is not a striking history,
it is a spirited and curious novel.”
+ − =Review= 2:259 Mr 13 ’20 420w
“A comprehensive and graphic account.” Reed Lewis
+ =Survey= 44:53 Ap 3 ’20 80w
“It cannot be recommended too highly when considered merely as a
source of knowledge and inspiration to those who are organizing our
theatre guilds, Greenwich Village theatres, arts and crafts
playhouses, and other steps toward a native art theatre. The casual
reader will find the chapters absorbing with a human appeal quite
lacking in most books about the theatre; but the same reader will meet
something of a jolt when he reaches the last chapter—for here are
gathered in concentrated form (and often in darkly philosophical
terms) the most recent of revolutionary theories of the stage. A
handful of Americans will find these few chapters worth more than all
the rest of the book together—worth more, too, than scores of the
usual superficial books of criticism.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:173 Ap ’20 700w
=SCHAEFER, CLEMENS T.= Motor truck design and construction. il *$2.50
Van Nostrand 629.2
20–991
“This volume has been written to fill a pressing want; to give a
practical discussion of the gasoline propelled commercial car of the
present type, and to present this subject in the plainest possible
manner by the use of numerous illustrations.” (Preface) A chapter on
the general layout of the chassis is followed by chapters devoted to
the various details, engine, cooling system, carburetion, ignition
systems, etc. The illustrations number 292, consisting largely of
figures in the text. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:229 Ap ’20 (Reprinted from Pratt p21 Ja ’20)
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p33 Ap ’20 100w
=Pratt= p21 Ja ’20 50w (Same as Quar List New Tech Bks O ’19)
=Quar List New Tech Bks= O ’19 50w
=SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN.= Fiddler’s luck. *$1.90 (3½c) Houghton
20–9475
Being “the gay adventures of a musical amateur.” (Sub-title) The young
son of a family in which the flute was hereditary finds a cello in the
garret and sets about to teach himself. He is sent to a musical cousin
for his education and returning, as a fairly well equipped fiddler,
has a falling out with his puppy love, Priscilla, because her progress
on the piano has not kept pace with his, and she plays an
ear-splitting fortissimo for his accompaniment. After many musical
vicissitudes in the army he comes unexpectedly on Priscilla in Paris.
She no longer strums but is a finished pianist and the harmony is now
complete.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 1200w
“One of the most thoroly enjoyable books—whether you are a musician or
not—that you have read in a long, long while.”
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 170w
=Lit D= p94 S 18 ’20 2750w
“‘Fiddler’s luck’ is full of love, laughter, music and good drink. It
is worth a ton of best sellers and ‘serious studies’ in these
melancholy days that are upon us.” B. De C.
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 800w
“‘Fiddler’s luck’ is a charming series of war sketches that Mr
Schauffler tries to make impersonal, but his own engaging personality
sparkles through the sketches.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 170w
“A cheerful vein of optimism is in evidence continually, and its
influence on the reader will be anything but depressing.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 220w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 120w
=SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN.=[2] White comrade; and other poems. *$1.50
Houghton 811
20–19672
Poetry in many forms and in many moods is represented in this volume:
the ballad, the ode, the lyric, the sonnet, thoughts of this life and
of the beyond, of the country, of love and of war. They fall into four
groups: Between two shores; Magic casements; Conflict; and Other
poems.
* * * * *
“Out of all the book—and it contains much which repays reading and
re-reading—there is nothing which more fully satisfies the high poetic
mood than does the little poem called ‘Worship,’ as lovely and
distinguished a bit of verse as Mr Schauffler has ever given us.” D.
L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 18 ’20 520w
=SCHEM, LIDA CLARA (MARGARET BLAKE, pseud.).= Hyphen. 2v *$6 Dutton
20–17964
“The book is really a pamphlet masquerading as a novel, and it offers
an analysis of the state of mind and fundamental character of the
large German element in the United States, and also a vision of the
ideal of American democracy as it appears to a thoroughly un-English
observer. Her hero is presented as a personification of acquired
Americanism. The son of a Prussian-American father and a Nihilist
Russian princess, he is conceived as a synthesis. Brought up in a
wholly German environment (Hoboken is thinly disguised as Anasquoit),
the boy aspires to become a ‘real American.’ Curiously enough, and yet
convincingly, he gets the strongest stimulus toward Americanism from a
young Englishman. The war disillusions him as to German kultur, and he
concludes that the only way out for those of German blood who truly
aspire to Americanism is to ‘go and fight Germany.’”—Review
* * * * *
“The story is very rich in material, a novel to be read slowly and
thoughtfully for it contains a wealth of contemporary opinion and
criticism. It is a colossal work and yet it is human.” D. L. Mann
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 1200w
“Excellent in parts, it is dismally unsatisfactory as a whole; rich in
promise, it is a triumph of frustration. The author, apparently, drew
the plans for an imposing work of fiction, but as the business of
construction proceeded she became so engrossed in ornamental details
and features of dubious importance that she mislaid her drawings.” B.
R. Redman
− + =Nation= 112:88 Ja 19 ’21 520w
“Complicated, and presenting many divergent points of view, the book
is nevertheless full of repetitions. It impresses one as a kind of
storehouse in which the author has stowed away a number of opinions on
a number of subjects; the story merely provides a sort of makeshift
for these opinions. There is no artistry shown in its construction.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 O 31 ’20 1150w
“It is especially interesting to those who are concerned about the
Americanization of immigrants, because it shows so clearly what the
reactions of the newcomers are to the influences which begin to
surround them almost as soon as they set foot in their new country.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 Ja 16 ’21 900w
“Regarded merely as fiction, ‘The hyphen’ would be of small moment.
The book’s chief interest lies in its minute portrayal of many and
variant types of German-Americans both before and during the war.”
+ − =Review= 3:506 N 24 ’20 540w
=SCHINZ, ALBERT.= French literature of the great war. *$3 (2c) Appleton
840.9
20–8608
The author distinguishes three periods in the war literature of France
between 1914 and 1918. “The first was one of spontaneous, sudden and
strongly emotional reaction, following immediately the first
bewildering shock; the second, one of documentation on the causes of
the war and on the war itself; and the third, a period of calm
philosophical consideration of all that was involved in the gigantic
struggle.” (Introd.) Although the lyric and satirical note
predominated in the first period, memoir literature in the second, and
philosophical essays and treatises in the third, no period can be said
to have produced one type of literature to the exclusion of all
others. The contents of the book fall into two parts, part 1
discussing in successive chapters the three periods and part 2
containing: Poetry of the war; The stage and the war; War-time
fiction; Epilogue. The appendices contain a bibliography; documents
relative to the war; and a catalogue, in alphabetical order, of some
of the best war diaries and recollections. There is an index.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:23 O ’20
“The French literature of the late war is very adequately discussed by
Professor Schinz. The chief defect of his treatise is a tinge of
partisan feeling, somewhat out of place in work of this kind, and his
attack of Romain Rolland is hardly just.” C. K. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 300w
“A very interesting and scholarly account.”
+ =Cath World= 112:267 N ’20 280w
“The scholarly orderliness and completeness of Mr Albert Schinz’s
‘French literature in the great war’ contrast glaringly with its
temper. He prefers polemics to poetry. Instead of writing the history
of a literary movement which is memorable even if not great, he still
is battering the Teutonic hordes with the familiar accumulation of
civilian energy unspent on any other field.”
+ − =Nation= 110:861 Je 26 ’20 280w
“We consider the work, as a whole, timely and important. It must have
been the labor of love, for no other motive could have produced a
result so eminently satisfactory.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:13 Jl 18 ’20 950w
+ =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 400w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 12 ’20 650w
“He is quite prodigiously well read in French war literature. But
unhappily there is hardly any criticism in the book, nothing profound,
nothing illuminating, nothing very thoughtful even—except for a few
passages—and none of those fortunate phrases by which the real critic
‘gets at’ the significance, the vitals, so to speak, of the work he is
discussing.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p686 O 21 ’20 580w
=SCHLEITER, FREDERICK.= Religion and culture. *$2 Columbia univ. press
201
19–9320
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
* * * * *
“Dr Schleiter has given us a critique of method which not only
challenges modern methods and theories but deliberately drives them
all from the field, some more gently than others.... As a preparation
for a methodology—a destruction of methods to make way for method—Dr
Schleiter’s work deserves the serious attention of all workers in the
field of origins, social and religious, and may well be the most
significant work of recent years.” A. E. Haydon
+ =Am J Theol= 24:293 Ap ’20 850w
“On page after page the false assumptions, the blundering reasoning,
and the erroneous conclusions that have hitherto characterized
comparative religion are laid bare with a detachment of judgment and a
wealth of erudition that make the book a model of criticism. Dr
Schleiter has put out of action a good many of the heavy guns that
were to batter the walls of the citadel of religion.”
+ =Cath World= 111:393 Je ’20 400w
“Dr Schleiter, though an acute critic, is not a lucid writer, and his
work is critical rather than constructive.”
+ − =Nature= 105:451 Je 10 ’20 260w
“He deserves special credit for rescuing from obscurity the principle
of convergence, i.e., the doctrine that like cultural results may
evolve from unlike antecedents. However, it is the more original
treatment of casuality that not only arrests attention but makes one
hunger for more.” R. H. L.
+ − =New Repub= 21:364 F 18 ’20 600w
“The book is a signal illustration of two characteristic features of
American thought—the tendency to concentrate on what authorities have
written about a subject rather than on the subject itself, and the
neglect to cultivate any grace or clarity of literary style.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 100w
=SCHMAUK, THEODORE EMANUEL.= How to teach in Sunday-school.
(Teacher-training handbook) $1.50 (2c) United Lutheran publication house
268
20–3582
A book devoted to the art, the method, the material and the act of
Sunday-school teaching. The author suggests that for a short and
effective teacher-training course chapters 20–22 (comprising the
discussion of the act of teaching) be used. For a more comprehensive
course the sections devoted to method and material are suggested. The
author is professor of pedagogy in the Theological seminary at
Philadelphia and has had “twenty-five years’ experience in
Sunday-school reconstruction.”
=SCHOFF, WILFRED HARVEY.=[2] Ship Tyre. il *$2 Longmans 224
20–18184
The dooms of the ship “Tyre” and of the “King of Tyre” as pronounced
in the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth chapters of the book of the
prophet Ezekiel are here shown to be entirely symbolic and the
material things mentioned to refer not to any real commerce but to
matters of a political and religious significance. According to the
sub-title, the ship “Tyre” is “a symbol of the fate of conquerors, as
prophesied by Isaiah, Ezekiel and John and fulfilled at Nineveh,
Babylon and Rome.” Contents: Introduction; The tabernacle; Division of
spoil; The temple and palace; Ophir voyages: Profanation and pillage;
Captivity; The ship “Tyre”; The prince of Tyre; The king of Tyre;
Notes to the allegory; The second temple; The great city “Babylon”;
The Holy City; The pomp and the trappings; Precious stones; The
specifications compared; Date of the tradition; Appendix; Index.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 420w
+ =N Y Times= p23 Ja 16 ’21 240w
=SCHOFIELD, ALFRED TAYLOR.= Modern spiritism. pa *$1.25 Blakiston 134
“Dr Schofield, a student for over thirty years of psychological
problems, and a rather copious writer upon them, especially from the
medical point of view, gives an instructive review of the history of
spiritism, and of its modern developments, and discusses, with many
examples from his own experience and with an open mind, the strange
phenomena of ‘possession,’ ‘second sight,’ etc. His own position is
that, while the facts of spiritism cannot all be explained by purely
human agencies, communications with ‘spirits’ are certainly not with
the disembodied spirits of the dead. He regards spiritism as practised
today to be full of the gravest dangers, mental and spiritual, and to
be definitely anti-Christian.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 60w
Reviewed by B: de Casseres
=N Y Times= 25:189 Ap 18 ’20 180w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 80w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p783 D 25 ’19)
“The author’s argument is trenchantly expressed and is supported by
evidence. But the fact that he has a religious belief of his own to
uphold against the beliefs of the spiritists somewhat weakens his
argument.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 750w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 120w
=SCHOFIELD, WILLIAM HENRY.= Mythical bards, and The life of William
Wallace. (Harvard studies in comparative literature) *$3 Harvard univ.
press 821.09
20–9501
“This is primarily a discussion of the authorship of the metrical
fifteenth century life of the Scottish patriot (d. 1305), which is
ascribed to ‘Blind Harry.’ Mr Schofield contends that ‘Blind Harry’ is
a pseudonym, and that the biographer was no quiet scholar or amiable
ecclesiastic like Barbour, but ‘a vigorous propagandist, a ferocious
realpolitiker without principle when it was a question of Scotland’s
place in the sun.’ The writer diverges from this problem to chapters
on ‘Blind Harry and blind Homer,’ and on Conceptions of poesy which
occupy the last two chapters.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“It is all readable enough and often not uninteresting: whether it
proves anything must be left to the reader to decide.”
+ − =Ath= p761 D 3 ’20 450w
“Every page of it betrays the author’s enjoyment of an opportunity to
build a huge structure of learning around—a soap bubble.”
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 950w
“In general, ‘Mythical bards’ is marked by the broad scholarship and
the keen vision of literary problems which have always been the chief
characteristics of the author’s work.” T. P. Cross
+ =Mod Philol= 18:53 Ag ’20 1200w
“Like most of Prof. Schofield’s books this shows originality as well
as the result of deep research, with an undoubted power of holding the
attention of the reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 100w
=SCHOLEFIELD, GUY HARDY.= Pacific, its past and future, and the policy
of the great powers from the eighteenth century. il *$5.50 Scribner 990
(Eng ed 19–8578)
“Mr Scholefield, a New Zealander, adds materially to our knowledge.
There is a growing tendency, on wholly right and sound lines, to treat
of the vast Pacific ocean as a single unit. ‘The Pacific: its past and
future’ is a short political history of the Pacific from the first
days of European exploration and intrusion, excluding in the main the
history of Australia and New Zealand, but by no means excluding their
Pacific aspirations and policy. The appendices contain selections of
the principal treaties and conventions relating to the Pacific, and a
chronological table. The maps are adequate, the last being a map of
the whole ocean.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“His book is illuminative and opportune.”
+ =Ath= p351 My 16 ’19 300w
+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20
“There are numerous books on the subject of the Pacific and its
problems, but in none will be found so careful and discriminating an
account of the past history as is here given. It is based mainly on
the British parliamentary papers, and, though the author has strong
views, he shows himself commendably free from exaggeration or
prejudice.” H. E. E.
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:157 Ja ’20 240w
=Review= 3:254 S 22 ’20 400w
“Mr Scholefield’s narrative is well arranged and most interesting.”
+ =Spec= 123:219 Ag 16 ’19 180w
“Mr Scholefield has spared no pains in consulting the best sources of
information, and gives chapter and verse for his authorities. In a
book of 311 pages, excluding appendices, he has produced a clear,
well-arranged, temperate and accurate account, which was wanted and
will be used and valued.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p331 Je 19 ’19 1400w
=SCHOLL, FRANK B.= Automobile owner’s guide. il *$2.50 Appleton 629.2
20–14778
“The purpose of this book is to serve as a practical guide for those
who own, operate, or contemplate purchasing an automobile. The
contents cover the entire field that would be of value to the owner or
chauffeur in making his own repairs.... Technical terms, tables and
scales have been entirely eliminated.... Since there are many
different makes of cars, motors, and equipment, the functional action
of all is practically the same, therefore we use for illustration only
those which are used by the majority of manufacturers.” (Preface) An
introductory chapter gives the history of the gasoline engine and of
early automobile construction. The parts of the automobile are then
taken up chapter by chapter and a Ford supplement of sixty pages
occupies an appendix. There are 154 illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p61 Jl ’20 50w
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 60w
=SCOTT, ARTHUR PEARSON.= Introduction to the peace treaties. *$2 (2½c)
Univ. of Chicago press 940.314
20–7755
The book is an attempt at an altogether impartial statement of the
causes leading to the war, and the treaties and peace conference
resulting from it. The author states that he has no inside knowledge
of what went on in Paris or of any unpublished documentary material,
that he has relied largely on newspaper and magazine material,
unsatisfactory as that may be, and that his object is to give his
readers a clearer idea of what is going on in the world. “A
considerable part of the book is taken up with a detailed summary of
the treaty with Germany, including more or less extensive explanatory
comments on many of its clauses,” (Preface) and an attempt has been
made to summarize as fairly as possible the arguments on both sides.
Contents: War causes and war aims; Peace plans and negotiations during
the war; The peace conference; The framing of the treaty of
Versailles; The supplementary treaties; The Austrian settlement; The
Bulgarian settlement; Hungary; Elements of the Near-eastern
settlement; Italy, the South Slavs, and the Adriatic; Public opinion
and the settlement; References for additional reading; Index.
* * * * *
“Mr Scott’s book is an excellent illustration of the value of
perspective combined with careful study of documents, as opposed to
the impressions of first-hand observation. It seems to the reviewer
that he has succeeded admirably in a difficult task.” C: Seymour
+ =Am Hist R= 26:137 O ’20 320w
“The author’s comments are discriminating, unbiassed, and always
helpful.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:737 N ’20 100w
“A useful aid to the reader or voter who wishes to form intelligent
opinions.”
+ =Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20
+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 100w
“Though the author escapes the criticism of partisanship to which
Keynes, Dillon, Baker, and other commentators on the peace have been
subjected, his book lacks the interest and color of theirs. A good
many of the author’s comments upon treaty clauses might be
questioned.” Quincy Wright
+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:165 S ’20 480w
“A volume which may be especially commended to students and teachers.”
W: MacDonald
+ =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 100w
“Professor Scott’s ‘Introduction to the peace treaties’ should prove
an invaluable volume to students of the great settlement. Not all of
Mr Scott’s conclusions can be passed without challenge. For the most
part, however, Mr Scott has done his work extremely well and it was
work worth doing.” E. S. Corwin
+ − =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 280w
“If the question of treaty ratification is to be one of the leading
issues of the coming presidential campaign, this book will prove an
invaluable source of information.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 120w
=SCOTT, CATHARINE AMY DAWSON.= Rolling stone (Eng title, Against the
grain). *$2 (2c) Knopf
20–13696
Harry King is an unusual boy. He is uncommonly well built and strong
and active. He does his own thinking in his own way, has little use
for books and the conventions, is direct and honest to a fault in his
dealings with men and a little hard. But he saves a school-fellow’s
life at the risk of his own. At an early age he runs away from school
and sees a bit of the world and on his return learns a trade and
becomes a practical engineer. But youth and strength lure him on: he
becomes a foot-ball champion and a pugilist. When his family frowns
upon such fame he goes to India. Returning, he enlists as a volunteer
in the Boer war where his love of fair dealing leads to
insubordination and he barely escapes the firing squad. Later on in
New Zealand his experiences include women. He is not averse to making
a fortune and plans for the future, but his innate restlessness plays
with opportunities and at the age of thirty-five he is back in
England, without a career and looked upon askance by his family. The
reader leaves him possessed with a new craving for a settled life, a
family and children of his own and haunted by the hazel eyes of a
young widow.
* * * * *
“Mrs Dawson-Scott has created in Harry a notable character, though not
a likeable one. Mrs Dawson-Scott has not the resource of style to fall
back on, and her descriptive powers are not of the best. As it is
written ‘The rolling stone’ is an excellent example of masculine
psychology as seen by a woman. It is not an excellent portrait of a
man.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 420w
“If the book has no weaknesses neither has it passion or exaltation.
If it is not absurd neither is it poignant, exotic, or brilliant. It
moves steadily onward, never wandering; it is competent, well-fed,
without beauty of conception or expression. It is realism without
passion or accuracy.”
+ − =New Repub= 23:261 Jl 28 ’20 440w
“A minute and interesting study of character.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:70 F 8 ’20 950w
“In her latest work she has elected to adopt a masculine standpoint,
and we feel that she is, as a result, less convincing.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:322 O 4 ’19 300w
“As Harry is interested merely in himself, he is not very interesting
to other people. In fact, he proves himself real not by his
doings—about which one is sceptical—but by boring the reader just as
in real life he would have bored the people he met.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 S 25 ’19 600w
=SCOTT, EMMETT JAY.= Negro migration during the war; ed. by D: Kinley.
*$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace 326.1
20–9134
In this volume of Preliminary economic studies issued by the Carnegie
endowment for international peace, the movement of population among
negroes during the war is handled by Emmett J. Scott, a member of that
race and secretary-treasurer of Howard university. The introduction
compares the recent migration with earlier movements of similar
character. The chapters then take up: Causes of the migration;
Stimulation of the movement; The spread of the movement; The call of
the self-sufficient North; The draining of the black belt; Efforts to
check the movement; Effects of the movement on the South; The
situation in St Louis; Chicago and its environs; The situation at
points in the middle West; The situation at points in the East;
Remedies for relief by national organizations; Public opinion
regarding the migration. There is a nine-page bibliography of books
and periodicals, followed by an index.
* * * * *
+ =Cleveland= p91 S ’20 30w
“This monograph is a valuable addition to the limited number of
carefully made studies of negro life. The oversight of data about the
investigations and activities of several state governments, of the
United States Shipping board and the Department of labor, needs
correction in subsequent editions. Constructive suggestions would add
to the utility of the study.” G: E. Haynes
+ − =Survey= 44:639 Ag 16 ’20 290w
=SCOTT, JAMES BROWN=, ed. Judicial settlement of controversies between
states of the American union; an analysis of cases decided in the
Supreme court of the United States. *$2.50 Oxford 353.9
20–6766
This volume of the Publications of the Carnegie endowment for
international peace is a companion to the two volumes of cases which
precede it. It has been prepared in the belief that the experience of
the United States holds “a lesson for the world at large.” As the
editor’s preface states: “The experience of the union of American
states shows that a court of justice can be created for the society of
nations, occupying a like position and rendering equal, if not
greater, services, applying to the solution of controversies between
its members ‘federal law, state law, and international law, as the
exigencies of the particular case may demand.’” The volume is indexed.
* * * * *
Reviewed by J. P. Hall
+ =Am Hist R= 26:345 Ja ’21 1100w
“Dr Scott has rendered a most useful service in bringing this material
into such form that men can readily lay their hands on it.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:167 F ’20 450w
“The absence of any classification enhances the uselessness of the
volume. By abstracting from its setting the material he presents, Dr
Scott offers a delusive palliative to a sick and suffering world. He
would have done better had he done nothing.” T: R. Powell
− =Nation= 111:329 S 18 ’20 1000w
“A lucid and detailed analysis which may be read with interest by
laymen.”
+ =Spec= 124:86 Ja 17 ’20 200w
=SCOTT, MARTIN J.= Credentials of Christianity. $1.50 (2½c) Kenedy 239
Father Scott, author of “God and myself,” “The hand of God,” etc.,
writes this book in the belief that “Christianity has not failed, but
mankind has failed Christianity.” The one thing that can save the
world from disaster is “the adoption in private and public life of the
principles and spirit of Christianity.” Contents: Christianity the
most startling innovation in the history of the world; Christianity’s
need of the soundest credentials; A judicial examination of the
credentials; The gospels as a historic document; The truth of the
gospel facts; The resurrection; The establishment of Christianity;
Christ Himself; Christ and the world; The world after Christ;
Christianity and men of genius; The world restorer; Your verdict.
* * * * *
“The best pages are those that contrast pagan and Christian life—the
world before Christ and after.”
+ =Cath World= 111:820 S ’20 390w
=SCOTT, SIR PERCY MORETON.= Fifty years in the royal navy. il *$6 (7c)
Doran
20–205
These reminiscences were begun, the author states, after his
retirement, by way of recreation and amusement, yet he hopes that they
will show “how opposed the navy can be to necessary reforms, involving
radical departures from traditional routine; the extent to which
national interests may be injured owing to conservative forces within,
and without, the public services; and what injury the country may
suffer from politicians interfering in technical matters, which they
necessarily do not understand.” (Preface) Contents: Entry into the
navy; A cruise around the world; With the naval brigade in Egypt;
H.M.S. Edinburgh and Whale island; H.M.S. Scylla and gunnery; How the
4.7–inch gun reached Ladysmith; Martial law in Durban; In the Far
East; The Boxer rising; Gunnery on the China station; Wei-hai-wei and
the cruise home; Gunnery muddle; Inspector of target practice; H.M.S.
Good Hope with the channel fleet; An imperial mission; Vicissitudes of
director firing; My retirement from the navy; War—back to work, 1914
and 1915; The defence of London against zeppelins; War
reflections—1915–1917.
* * * * *
“This, book is a grave pronouncement by a distinguished expert in
gunnery, and should receive the attention which it assuredly
deserves.”
+ =Ath= p1274 N 28 ’19 440w
Reviewed by C. C. Gill
+ =Bookm= 51:274 My ’20 1450w
“Altho more sober and restrained in style, Sir Percy Scott’s book is
quite as critical in substance as Lord Fisher’s.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 80w
“A work of value to anyone interested in the technique of naval
gunnery.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p17 Ja ’20 80w
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 200w
“Apart from opinion on professional matters, the narrative of these
recollections is rather unequal. We get too much of ‘the mayor in
proposing the toast of “our guests” referred,’ etc., and ‘in reply I
said,’ etc.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:536 D 6 ’19 1000w
“We associate the name of Sir Percy Scott with naval gunnery. It is no
surprise, then, to find that his memoirs are mainly devoted to this
question. The book deserves careful reading, for the subject is of
prime importance.”
+ =Spec= 123:694 N 22 ’19 1750w
“His book is to be carefully read, not without skipping over shrewish
passages here and there, but with thought.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 N 13 ’19 2000w
+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 880w
=SCOVILLE, SAMUEL, jr.= Blue pearl. il *$1.75 (3c) Century
20–17413
This story introduces all the characters of “Boy scouts in the
wilderness.” Jim Donegan, the lumber king, offers to give the boys
$50,000 if they will bring a blue pearl like the one Joe Couteau, the
Indian boy, remembers to have seen in his childhood. Joe and Will
Bright, the heroes of the earlier book, with two chosen companions,
start on the quest. It takes them out to the Pacific coast and into
the far north to the old home of Joe’s people, and after many
adventures they return with the prize.
* * * * *
+ =Bookm= 52:262 N ’20 20w
=Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 70w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 120w
“This is a story of some literary value.” H. L. Reed
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 110w
=SCOVILLE, SAMUEL, jr.= Everyday adventures. il $3 (4c) Atlantic monthly
press 590.4
20–19518
A book of nature essays, most of them describing personal adventures
with birds or other forms of wild life. The photographs which
illustrate the book are especially noteworthy. Contents: Everyday
adventures; Zero birds; Snow stories; A runaway day; The raven’s nest;
Hidden treasure; Bird’s-nesting; The treasure hunt; Orchid hunting;
The marsh dwellers; The seven sleepers; Dragon’s blood. The papers are
reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, Yale Review, the Youth’s
Companion, and other periodicals.
* * * * *
“In these papers he proves himself among the fortunate few who can be
called interpreters of outdoor things.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 150w
+ =Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 120w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 40w
=SCHRIMSHAW, STEWART.=[2] Bricklaying in modern practice. il *$1.50
Macmillan 693.2
20–4712
“The author, who is Supervisor of apprenticeship for the state of
Wisconsin, has written more inspiringly than his title suggests. He
would have the artisan appreciate his possible opportunities in the
erection of buildings that ‘shall reflect in their appearance the
character of a substantial and refined people.’ The first chapter,
largely historical, shows that lumber scarcity is leading to a wider
use of brick and that opportunity is not lacking. Materials, tools and
the outlines of practice are described. Estimating, safety and
hygiene, economics, the bricklayers’ relation to the public, trade
organizations, and apprenticeship are discussed in a way to interest
the boy or young man who leans toward the trade. The ten pages
descriptive of fire-place construction should appeal to many a lay
reader. A good glossary.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
* * * * *
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p41 Ap ’20 120w
=Pratt= p19 O ’20 40w
=SEAMAN, AUGUSTA HUIELL (MRS ROBERT R. SEAMAN).= Crimson patch. il
*$1.75 (4c) Century
20–14215
Mrs Seaman’s latest mystery story for girls involves a German spy
plot. Patricia Meade is staying in a large hotel with her father, who
is on a secret government mission. He can not disclose his business to
her and she unwittingly allows an important paper to be stolen.
Suspicion falls on Virginie de Vos, the little Belgian girl with whom
Patricia has made friends. Patricia refuses to believe the girl
guilty, and with the aid of Chet Jackson, the bell boy, sets out to
find the missing paper. The two suspect one of the waiters, but he
proves to be a friend in disguise. The paper is restored, the mystery
of Virginie and her relation to her supposed aunt, Mme Vanderpoel is
disclosed and happier days dawn for the little Belgian. The story has
been running as a serial in St Nicholas.
=SECHRIST, FRANK KLEINFELTER.= Education and the general welfare; a text
book of school law, hygiene and management. il *$1.60 Macmillan 370
20–4978
“Professor Sechrist has prepared a general introduction to the study
of education. One of his early chapters deals with broad social facts
such as illiteracy and Americanization of immigrant children. He also
deals with the efforts of the federal government to subsidize
education in the states and to promote the development of higher
institutions. The third chapter treats the costs in the different
states of conducting schools of various grades. The fourth chapter has
to do with child labor, reviewing the legislation which has been
attempted and the effects of this legislation. Following these
introductory chapters there is a discussion of the material equipment
of the school and the psychological characteristics of children. One
chapter deals with the question why children are dull and reviews the
medical facts which come out in inspections of school children. There
are chapters of a psychological type and suggestions throughout of the
possibilities of standardizing the work of the school in a scientific
way.”—El School J
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“Of the many educational books recently published this is one of the
best and deserves the attention of all teachers and school
supervisors.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 10 ’20 110w
+ =El School= J 20:712 My ’20 400w
“By his title and subtitle Professor Sechrist describes a rather
unusual combination of material, presented in a valuable way.”
+ =School R= 28:555 S ’20 170w
=SECRIST, HORACE.= Statistics in business: their analysis, charting and
use. il *$1.75 McGraw 310
20–4489
“A concise, practical, and systematic treatment, more particularly for
the use of business executives and students in schools of commerce.
Chapter 4 deals with classification and tabulation; chapter 5 (pp.
42), with graphics; chapter 6, with averages and kindred terms.”—Am
Econ R
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“The book will be serviceable as an introductory text.”
+ =Am Econ R= 10:388 Je ’20 40w
“No city official or head of a department or a business man who has an
annual report to make can afford to miss the suggestions contained in
Mr Secrist’s book.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:35 O 13 ’20 100w
“The particular methods explained by Mr Secrist are not new; but they
are presented with commendable clearness and brevity.”
+ =Survey= 44:291 My 22 ’20 110w
=SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS (MRS BASIL DE SÉLINCOURT).= Christmas roses, and
other stories. *$2.25 (2½c) Houghton
20–21186
The titles of these stories are: Christmas roses; Hepaticas;
Daffodils; Pansies; Pink foxgloves; Carnations; Staking a larkspur;
Evening primroses; Autumn crocuses; and in each there is something in
the delicately complicated situation or in revelation of character of
which the flower is a symbol. The stories are all English in
background and reflect the war.
* * * * *
“Quiet delicacy of style and subtle character analysis mark these nine
flower-named stories.”
+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21
“Her understanding of character, her appreciation of beauty in all its
forms, her ability to work quietly and effectively, yet with dramatic
intensity, all make up the sum total of the satisfaction which we find
here.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 29 ’21 580w
“With her happy choice of words and smooth rhythm of her style, the
artistry is invisible, yet produces a telling effect. The characters
and temperaments of her people are implied and evolved, not labelled.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 480w
=SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS (MRS BASIL DE SÉLINCOURT).= Third window. *$1.50
(10c) Houghton
20–10315
The setting of this story is the parental estate of a soldier killed
in the war, and in it his young widow, Antonia, his maiden cousin,
Miss Latimer, of contracted but acutely intensified vision, and
Captain Saltonhall, the husband’s friend and now Antonia’s lover. Miss
Latimer, whose entire limited emotional life had been concentrated on
her cousin Malcolm, has succeeded in putting Antonia in an agonized
frame of mind. The latter is torn by misgivings that, by marrying
Saltonhall, she will be unfaithful to her first husband. By certain
telepathic powers Miss Latimer obtains a knowledge of the unspoken
thoughts in the two lovers’ minds and with it conjures up a vision of
Malcolm’s sorrowing ghost standing by the fountain (seen from the
third window of the drawing-room). The result is a tragedy, for the
distressed Antonia takes an overdose of her sleeping powders.
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=Ath= p736 Je 4 ’20 850W
=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20
“Few writers of fiction today can equal in perfection of style the
work of Anne Douglas Segwick. But ‘The third window’ has an intrinsic
interest as a story.” F. A. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 1200W
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 120w