project method; The transfer of the principles to America; Modern
American principles of education; The project method in the modern
public school; Project work in trade education. Part II contains: The
evolution of the project subject; The broader conception of the
content of the project subject; The necessity of more direct teaching
of the project subject; Summary; Outline.
=STODDARD, THEODORE LOTHROP.= Rising tide of color against white
world-supremacy; with an introd. by Madison Grant. *$3 Scribner 327
20–7502
“Mr Stoddard has written an analysis of the present-day relations of
the white and colored races throughout the world. What he describes as
the rising tide of the yellow, brown, black and red races is
graphically described in a series of tersely written chapters. This is
followed by an historical account of The ebbing tide of white, and the
book concludes with brief chapters on The outer dikes, The inner
dikes, and The crisis of the ages. Mr Stoddard’s immediate program,
involving what he regards as ‘the irreducible minimum,’ calls for a
thorough revision of the Versailles treaty and a provisional
understanding by which the white races will give up their tacit
assumption of domination over Asia, while the Asiatics forego their
dreams of migration to the lands of white and other races. Without
some such understanding Mr Stoddard looks forward to a race war on a
world scale.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“On the resurgence of Asia Mr Stoddard writes wisely, yielding neither
to panic nor to ignorant optimism. His views on the future of his own
North American continent display less sanity.”
+ − =Ath= p441 O 1 ’20 200w
“Interesting to read in connection with Du Bois’ ‘Darkwater.’”
+ =Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
=Bookm= 52:301 Ja ’21 780w
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 850w
“Mr Stoddard’s book is one of the long series of publications devoted
to the self-admiration of the white race. The books must be
characterized as vicious propaganda, and deserve an attention not
warranted by any intrinsic merit in their learning or their logic. The
fundamental weakness of all books of this type, and eminently so of Mr
Stoddard’s book, is a complete lack of understanding of the hereditary
characteristics of a race as against the hereditary characteristics of
a particular strain or line of descent.” Franz Boas
− =Nation= 111:sup656 D 8 ’20 980w
“A brilliant and highly suggestive survey.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 160w
“Many people will regard this book as highly dangerous and
provocative. This verdict, though it might at first sight seem just,
would be, we are convinced, short-sighted and unfair. When we say this
we do not mean that we agree with every word of the premises put
forward by Mr Stoddard or with all his conclusions; for we do not.
What we do feel, however, is that it is a book which gives with
vigour, and yet with essential moderation, most important and often
most necessary warnings.”
+ − =Spec= 125:336 S 11 ’20 1550w
+ − =Spec= 125:367 S 18 ’20 2150w
“Because of its profound knowledge and eloquence this is a book that
must be reckoned with. Had he been more moderate in his diagnosis and
prognosis of the impending racial conflict, his book may have found
fewer readers, but it would have been more convincing to the student
of history and of public affairs.”
− + =Survey= 4:450 Je 26 ’20 450w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 S 23 ’20 130w
“Mr Stoddard’s work is more convincing and useful when he deals with
subsidiary questions, such as the real peril of Asiatic industrial
competition or the serious pressure of overpopulation brought about in
‘coloured’ lands by the humanitarian hygiene of the whites. But his
vision of the ‘rising tide of colour’ fails to carry conviction.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p692 O 28 ’20 1450w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:107 Je ’20 130w
“Mr Stoddard’s book is the work of a pseudoscientist with a
considerable skill in writing who, sincerely enough no doubt, jumbles
assumptions and facts in a plausible and dangerous combination.” N. T.
− =World Tomorrow= 3:287 S ’20 680w
Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler
+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=STODDART, JANE T.= Case against spiritualism. *$1.50 Doran 134
(Eng ed 20–4476)
“This book assembles articles from various writers, culling even from
believers every clause usable as antagonistic comment. It is not
backed by personal experience.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Perhaps the best Protestant manual opposing the cult.”
+ =Booklist= 17:7 O ’20
+ =Brooklyn= 12:122 My ’20 30w (Reprinted from The Times [London]
Lit Sup p635 N 6 ’19)
“It will require mightier counter-thrusts than the slight rebuff of
Miss Stoddart to make any headway against the encroachments of the
insidious brand of personalism sponsored by psychical research.”
Joseph Jastrow
− + =Dial= 69:209 Ag ’20 100w
“A short but effective and well-considered statement of the case.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 40w
=STOLL, ELMER EDGAR.= Hamlet; an historical and comparative study.
(Studies in language and literature) pa $1 Univ. of Minn. 822.3
20–2038
“A close analytical study; reaching the conclusion that Hamlet is
meant for an heroic, not a pathetic, figure, and not for one who
falters or who deceives himself.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“His results afford a wholesome check to introspective and romantic
criticism, and may be accepted as the starting-point for a reasoned
consideration of Shakespeare’s intentions.” G: F. Whicher
+ − =Nation= 110:433 Ap 3 ’20 800w
=New Repub= 25:326 F 9 ’21 360w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 30w
=STONE, GENE.= Cousin Nancy and the Lees of Clifford. il *$1.75 Crowell
20–15505
The Lees are a jolly western family living in a mountain valley in
Nevada. Nancy is a cousin from New York who comes to spend a year with
them. Nancy has been used to every luxury and there are many things
about her cousins’ way of life that surprise her. She is not used, for
one thing, to being introduced to delivery boys and she doesn’t see
Ralph Mariner’s outstretched hand. But Nancy is a “real girl” after
all. She easily adapts herself and enjoys the hearty fun and the
impromptu good times her cousins offer her, and comes to appreciate
Ralph’s worth, at the same time that he comes to see that she isn’t a
snob. Nancy changes her mind about finishing schools too and decides
to go to college and a great discovery, made on one of their
expeditions, makes it possible for the others to go too.
=STONE, GENE.= Jane and the owl. (Sage brush stories) il *$1.50 (5c)
Crowell
A series of fairy tale adventures for young readers. The initial
setting is unusual. Jane lives in the sage brush country and her
playground is a rocky canyon. Climbing its steep slopes one day, she
sits down on a broad flat rock to rest and falls asleep and then begin
her adventures in company with Oskar the owl. The stories are: Jane
and the owl; The wobbly wudgets; The tremendous terwollipers; The moon
sprites; The strike of the stylish young ladies of Fairtowers; The
land o’ nod; The joyful mermaids; Break o’ day country.
=STOREY, MOORFIELD.= Problems of today. *$1.50 Houghton 304
20–18501
A volume containing the Godkin lectures for 1920. These annual
lectures, delivered at Harvard, must deal in some manner with “the
essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen.” Mr
Storey chose five unrelated subjects of vital present interest. These
are: The use of parties; Lawlessness; Race prejudice; The labor
question; Our foreign relations. The author is a lawyer and member of
the American bar association. He has been president of the
Massachusetts civil service reform association, the Anti-imperialist
league, and of the National association for the advancement of colored
people.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“Mr Storey is at his best when he is considering conditions that are
not complex, where rightmindedness and neighborly feeling and a
willingness to do one’s share are enough to remedy human ills. When we
turn to discussion of the distribution of wealth and the relations
between employer and employed we find Mr Storey less adequate.”
+ − =Nation= 111:568 N 17 ’20 450w
=STORM, MARION.= Minstrel weather. il *$1.50 (8c) Harper 814
20–20910
A volume of nature essays, one for each month of the year, with such
titles as: Faces of Janus; A woodland valentine; Ways of the March
hare; The April moment; The crest of spring; Hay harvest time. The
author has a keen eye for the delicate shadings of the seasons’
changes, and the book will appeal to those of similar tastes. In
addition to the twelve essays for the months, she writes of Landscapes
seen in dreams; Hiding places; The play of leaves; The brown frontier;
Far altars.
* * * * *
“The style is full of color and highly charged with meaning. It is not
a smooth papershelled almond, but a shagbark hickory nut. If you want
the full sweetness of the kernel, you must pick it out carefully. It
well rewards the trouble. I am glad she has chosen to send out her
first book, not in some strange form of free verse, but in clear,
spicy, juicy prose. It is alluring and refreshing, a cupful of
cordial.” H: Van Dyke
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 4 ’20 700w
=STORY, A. M. SOMMERVILLE (FRANKFORT SOMMERVILLE, pseud.).= Present day
Paris and the battlefields. *$1.50 (3½c) Appleton 914.4
20–15940
“The visitor’s handbook with the chief excursions to the
battlefields.” (Sub-title) All but one of the fifteen chapters are
devoted to Paris. There are chapters on Paris of today; Fashionable
Paris; Intellectual Paris; The origins of Paris; Paris of the middle
ages; The art, gayety and genius of Paris; Aristocratic and pious
Paris; etc. The excursions to the battlefields are outlined in the
final chapter. The style is intimate and many of the conventional
guide book features are omitted. There is no index.
* * * * *
“It is well written, interesting, accurate as far as it goes, but it
is not a handbook. It has no index, no maps. A more important
omission, however, is its failure to live up to its title. The book
has little concern with ‘present-day’ Paris.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 5 ’20 540w
=STRATON, JOHN ROACH.= Menace of immorality in church and state;
messages of wrath and judgment. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doran 176
20–6996
A series of sermons preached in Calvary Baptist church, New York city,
all dealing with “the rank paganism and ever widening indecencies of
the modern age.” The author says, “After every war, there is a wave of
immorality. We have just passed through the greatest war of all time,
and we are now witnessing the widest wave of immorality in the history
of the human race.” Among the subjects of the sixteen chapters are:
Slaves of fashion: the connection between women’s dress and social
vice; The awful corruption of the modern theater: should Christians
attend? The scarlet stain of sexual impurity: will America go the way
of the great empires of the past? The great American gambling craze;
God or Mammon? a message to the millionaires of New York; Sabbath
observance as social sanity.
* * * * *
“The book is all emphasis. Ring the bell for church a few times and it
has an effect; toll the bell and the stridence of its tone wearies.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 400w
=N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 700w
“The value and importance of his appeal, which might have been great,
are largely lost by lack of perspective, grotesque exaggeration,
superficial reasoning, and inaccurate statements of important facts.
To those abreast of the times in the field of social hygiene effort
and accomplishment, the book offers an object lesson in unscientific
method and presentation.” B. J.
− + =Social Hygiene= 6:580 O ’20 240w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 28 ’20 450w
Reviewed by F: H. Whitin
=Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 500w
=STRATTON, CLARENCE.= Public speaking. *$1.48 Holt 808.5
20–12400
“This book on public speaking attempts to provide fundamental rules
and enough exercises to train members of a class to become effective
speakers before audiences. It aims to be practical. The idea
underlying the treatment is that the student will be continually doing
much more speaking than studying.” (Prefatory note) The chapters take
up: Speech; The voice; Words and sentences; Beginning the speech;
Concluding the speech; Getting material; Planning the speech; Making
the outline or brief; Explaining; Proving and persuading; Refuting;
Debating; Speaking upon special occasions; Dramatics. Additional
exercises are given in the two appendixes and there is an index. The
author is a member of the English department of Central high school,
St Louis, and of the Division of university extension, Washington
university.
* * * * *
“The chief value of the book is its excellent organization of the
large variety of activities which make up a worthy course in public
speaking.”
+ =School R= 28:635 O ’20 180w
=STRAUS, RALPH.= Pengard awake. *$2 Appleton
20–17317
Pengard was first discovered by some English tourists, as a bookdealer
in Chicago. According to the testimony of his friends, he had been
queer for some time and was getting queerer, disappearing from time to
time for increasingly long intervals. As he also appeared to be
suffering, Sir Robert Graeme sets himself to fathoming the mystery. A
famous English physician is requisitioned for the probe. That Pengard
is a victim of amnesia, is coming more and more under the influence of
another personality and is living in dread of complete surrender, is
certain from the start. And this is what gradually reveals itself:
John Pengard and Hartley Sylvester are one and the same person, and
the latter, author of a book that has made him famous, is gaining in
sinister influence. By the aid of psychoanalysis, hypnotism and shrewd
guesses, Dr Arne achieves the unexpected result that Pengard fades
away as a dream person and Sylvester comes to stay. After more patient
experimenting, more startling disclosures, Sylvester transforms
himself into John Mathieson, one-time pal and brother-in-arms to Sir
Robert’s dead brother.
* * * * *
“We must admit that even an inveterate novel reader will scarcely be
able to forecast the various developments which arise, and in
particular the utterly unlooked-for conclusion.”
+ =Ath= p555 O 22 ’20 130w
“The story becomes more and more baffling as we proceed. The mystery
is well worked out and the unraveling is exciting up to the very
close.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 190w
“An uncommonly good story of this kind. Based upon actual
psychological fact.”
+ =Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w
+ =Grinnell R= 16:355 F ’21 200w
“While the plot is clever enough to carry the book, the pleasant
literary style it is that will attract the average reader.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ja 2 ’21 470w
“Anybody who wants to be entertained will thoroughly enjoy this story,
but most readers will probably agree that Lucius Arne is the least
convincing part of it.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p651 O 7 ’20 640w
=STRAUS, SIMON WILLIAM.= History of the thrift movement in America. il
*$1.50 (2c) Lippincott 331.84
20–7771
The book is one of Lippincott’s thrift text series edited by Arthur H.
Chamberlain. In his introduction Mr Chamberlain says of the author:
“He clearly saw the wasteful tendencies of our people, and deplored
the results, bound, he well knew, to come from them. He saw the
problem in its totality. He appreciated thoroughly the distinction
between proper spending and useless wasting; between common-sense
saving and narrow parsimony.... He alone could write the history,
indicate the need and significance and point the way of the thrift
movement, of which he is the apostle.” The book falls into two parts.
Some of the chapters in part 1 are: Characterization of thrift;
America’s record of thriftlessness; The organization of the American
society for thrift; The international congress for thrift; Resolutions
recommending the teachings of thrift in the public schools of America.
Among the contents of part 2 are: Little talks on thrift; Money-making
and money-saving; How thrift shapes the character; The need of
personal account keeping; Waste in the kitchen; Personal standards of
thrift; Thriftlessness among the poor. There is an index and five
symbolic cartoons by Rollin Kirby.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:7 O ’20
“Certainly, the gospel of thrift which Mr Straus expounds needs to be
spread far and wide. The little talks on thrift contained in part II
will be helpful to teachers as illustrations of the thrift idea.” G:
F. Zook
+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 330w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 100w
=STRAYER, GEORGE DRAYTON, and ENGELHARDT, NICKOLAUS LOUIS.= Classroom
teacher at work in American school. il *$1.48 Am. bk. 371.2
20–7789
“This volume is one of the American education series, of which Prof.
Strayer is the general editor. It treats exhaustively of the
organization and administration of public education, as well as of the
technique employed by the teacher in his daily work. Chapters are
included dealing with records and reports, the organization of public
education, the classification and progress of children, the
measurement of the achievements of children, the health of school
children, as well as extra-curricula activities that make possible an
intelligent and sympathetic cooperation with the plans of the
administrator.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Cath World= 112:271 N ’20 80w
“Contains little that is new, but is a restatement of material which
is already familiar to all except elementary students of education. It
will doubtless be used in many introductory courses.”
+ − =El School J= 21:152 O ’20 500w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 160w
=STREET, JULIAN LEONARD.= Sunbeams, Inc. il *$1.25 Doubleday
20–16499
Henry Bell Brown is introduced to us first as he is leaving the staff
of the New York Evening Dispatch, and is given a farewell banquet. He
is leaving to join a firm of “advertising engineers,” and subsequently
becomes H. Bell Brown. It is only when he goes into business for
himself that he rises to the glory of “Belwyn Brown.” It is his big
idea of “merchandising” (one of his favorite verbs) sunshine that
brings him success. He becomes a sort of a commercial Pollyanna
spreading Gloomer Chasers broadcast on boiler-plate pages—something on
this order: “No business is busted when there’s a smile left in the
bank.” The war threatens the business of Sunbeams, Inc., but he
enlarges its scope, goes to France and helps “win the war with
sunshine.” Upon his return he is more convinced than ever that his
name and fame shall be a household word and spares no effort to
accomplish this result. At the end of a successful banquet given in
his honor by the Pundits he is able to “indulge himself in a brief
self-gratulatory yet philosophical reflection. ‘One thing is sure,’ he
said to himself; ‘In this world a fellow gets just about what’s coming
to him.’”
* * * * *
“Not only is the story so thin that it will hardly hold together, but
it is impossible to feel any sympathy with the leading character—a
state of things which often is fatal in a work of this kind. That it
is not so in this instance is immeasurably to the credit of the
author. It affords whimsical entertainment of unique quality.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 S 19 ’20 350w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 200w
“Short story with a lot of humor and various amusing exhibitions of
psychology.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 120w
=STREETER, BURNETT HILLMAN, ed.= Spirit; the relation of God and man,
considered from the standpoint of recent philosophy and science. *$2.50
Macmillan 231
19–19611
“The movement toward a scientific and philosophical conception of God
is materially aided by the publication of a book called ‘The spirit,’
edited by Canon B. H. Streeter of the Church of England. ‘This
volume,’ says the editor, ‘puts forward a conception of
spirit—considered as God in action—which is definite but not
scholastic, and which is capable of affording a basis both for a
coherent philosophy and for a religion passionate and ethical,
mystical and practical.’ The chapter on Immanence and transcendance is
by Prof. A. Pringle-Pattison. Miss Lily Dougall writes on God in
action. The psychology of power is treated by Capt. J. A. Hadfield of
the Ashhurst neurological war hospital at Oxford. A. Clutton-Brock’s
customary distinction of mind and style is apparent in two chapters on
Spiritual experience and Spirit and matter. Other chapters are What
happened at Pentecost by Rev. C. A. Anderson Scott, The psychology of
grace, by Rev. C. W. Emmet, The language of the soul, by Miss Dougall
and Christ, the revolutionary by Canon Streeter.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Bib World= 54:428 Jl ’20 320w
“Its temper is frank, its thought, for the most part, keen and clear,
and its language, though frequently employing the terms of traditional
theology, simple and eloquent.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 19 ’20 680w
“Alike in its fearlessness, in its refusal to make terms with narrow
types of orthodoxy, and in its strong Christocentric theology it is a
characteristic product of modern English religious thought. Its main
defect is that it only implicitly recognizes the affirmation of modern
research that Christianity is a synthesis.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 My 6 ’20 2300w
=STREIT, CLARENCE K.= “Where iron is, there is the fatherland!” il *$1;
pa *50c Huebsch 940.318
20–19447
The booklet comes under the “Freeman pamphlets” series and is “a note
on the relation of privilege and monopoly to war.” (Subtitle) It is an
exposé of the stock and bond morality of big business and shows “that
the interests of a nation and the interests of private property are
two separate and distinct things. Whether the money and mineral
international did or did not prepare and start the war ... it is
certain that the fifty-one months during which millions of men were
killed was a most profitable era for these interests.” Some of the
topics discussed are: The basin of Briey; Interlocking directorates;
Nickel not contraband; The French trust favors Krupps; Patrioteers;
When is a fort not a fort? The agreement for a Lorraine offensive; The
flag of big business; Bloody profits.
* * * * *
“Mr Streit tells the story simply, straightforwardly, with ample
citation of authority, but almost too unjournalistically. The booklet
is marred by awkward translations and by careless proof-reading of
place names.”
+ − =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 300w
=STRINGER, ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT.= Prairie mother. il *$2 Bobbs
20–11073
“Those who met ‘Chaddie’ McKail in ‘The prairie wife’ will be glad
that Arthur Stringer has embodied her later experiences in ‘The
prairie mother.’ Many of the characters of the earlier story of the
Canadian prairie appear here. The story is in the form of a diary in
which she sets down the details leading up to, and during, her
greatest trial. The McKails have passed the first material
difficulties of home-making in the new land, and their condition
borders on opulence. But unfortunate speculation sweeps away their
broad acres and solid home, and they are faced with the necessity of
starting all over again. The ‘prairie mother’ gladly surrenders her
charming home to the husband’s titled English cousin, and moves her
household and three small tots to an unbroken half section which is in
her name. The new owner of the old home is a woman who had entrusted
funds to McKail. The former speedily proves the fly in the ointment,
for she seems to fascinate ‘Dinky-Dunk’ and ere long there is a
virtual separation. With deep sympathy, Mr Stringer details Chaddie’s
efforts to mend her broken life.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:36 O ’20
“Mr Stringer’s public is accustomed to expect good work from his pen
and we venture the opinion that in ‘The prairie mother’ he has
surpassed himself.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 600w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 390w
=STRONG, EDWARD KELLOGG, jr.= Introductory psychology for teachers. il
$1.80 Warwick & York 370.1
A series of lessons in psychology arranged to form a classroom course.
The author has planned the course on the well-known principles of
proceeding from the known to the unknown, of learning by doing, etc.
He describes his method in the preface: “Instead of beginning with the
most uninteresting phases of psychology and those most unknown to
students, the course takes up concrete experiences of everyday life,
relates them to the problems of learning and individual differences,
and so develops these two topics. Each general principle is discovered
by the student out of his own experience in solving specially
organized problems. Only after he has done his best is he expected to
refer to the text and by then the text is no longer basic but only
supplementary.” The sections of the book following the introduction
are devoted to: The learning process; Individual differences; Some
physiological aspects of psychology. There is a brief general review
at the close. Charts and diagrams illustrate the book, references
follow most of the chapters, and there is an index. The text is also
printed in the form of seventeen booklets. The author is professor of
vocational education, Carnegie institute of technology.
* * * * *
“There is growing up a pronounced distinction between two schools of
educational psychologists. The one is interested in dealing with the
relatively tangible outcomes of learning activities and is satisfied
to put all explanations in the form of Professor Thorndike’s easy, but
quite meaningless, formula of bonds. The other is interested in
finding out in detail the steps by which a pupil acquires his mental
results. Professor Strong may be described as belonging to the first
type. For that school he has rendered the service of getting together
a large body of interesting examples, and he has put these examples in
a more teachable form than any writers of that group who have preceded
him.”
+ − =El School J= 20:793 Je ’20 300w
=STUART, SIR CAMPBELL.=[2] Secrets of Crewe house. il *$2 (*7s 6d) (4½c)
Doran 940.342
20–22069
Crewe house was the headquarters of the department of propaganda in
enemy countries under the directorship of Viscount Northcliffe. The
story of its activities and successes during 1918 are revealed in this
book. According to a quotation from the Tägliche Rundschau on page
127, “It cannot be doubted that Lord Northcliffe very substantially
contributed to England’s victory in the world war. His conduct of
English propaganda during the war will some day find its place in
history as a performance hardly to be surpassed.” The book is indexed
and contains besides the portraits of the various members of the
committee on propaganda and other illustrations several maps and
facsimiles of the leaflets distributed by means of balloons. The
contents are: Propaganda: its uses and abuses; Crewe house: its
organization and personnel; Operations against Austria-Hungary:
propaganda’s most striking success; Operations against Germany;
Tributes from the enemy; Operations against Bulgaria and other
activities; Inter-allied cooperation; From war propaganda to peace
propaganda; Vale!
* * * * *
=Ath= p333 S 10 ’20 260w
“Although there is much that is eulogistic of his chief, Sir Campbell
does not overdraw the picture. He uses none of the arts of the
professional writer, preferring at all times to tell the story without
attempting the dramatic.” H. D. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 780w
“This complacent book is ludicrous, not because it takes for granted
that all it aimed to achieve was achieved; nor because it omits due
credit to French propaganda (more extensive than British) and Russian
(not even mentioned); but because it tries to get glory out of war.”
Heber Blankenhorn
− =Nation= 111:594 N 24 ’20 1600w
“Sir Campbell’s lively style and his keen enjoyment of what he has to
tell engross the reader.”
+ − =N Y Times= p10 N 21 ’20 1750w
“‘Secrets of Crewe house’ is rather hastily put together, and is too
much a eulogy of Lord Northcliffe by his chief assistant. But it
contains a good deal of interesting description of the sundry
ingenious devices by which Lord Northcliffe spread his propaganda.” H:
W. Bunn
+ − =Review= 3:649 D 29 ’20 900w
=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 60w
“In Lord Northcliffe’s mentality we have always been struck with a
strong vein of simplicity, which the charitable call naïveté, and the
uncharitable call knavery, or stupidity. There are two signs of this
quality in this book. Again and again it is explicitly stated that the
propaganda told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
This is childish. No propaganda could succeed which told the truth.”
− =Sat R= 130:239 S 18 ’20 1100w
+ =Spec= 125:311 S 4 ’20 300w
“A very lively and exciting story, which the many illustrations in the
volume help to diversify. Yet the book is more than a piece of good
reading about the war, and more than a historical record. It will have
a permanent value as a handbook to the principles of propaganda in
enemy countries.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p558 S 2 ’20 450w
=STUCK, HUDSON.= Winter circuit of our Arctic coast. il *$6 (5c)
Scribner 979.8
20–9131
This is the author’s fourth book of Alaskan travel and describes a
journey with dog-sled around the entire Arctic coast of Alaska in the
winter of 1917–18. It is not a record of discoveries of exploration
and does not describe an already “scientifically known” people
anthropologically but rather socially during their “normal life” which
is their winter life. “My purpose was an enquiry into their present
state, physical, mental, moral and religious, industrial and domestic,
into their prospects, into what the government and the religious
organizations have done and are doing for them, and what should yet be
done.” (Preface) Besides many illustrations, two maps and an index the
book contains: From Fort Yukon to Kotzebue Sound; Kotzebue Sound to
Point Hope; Point Hope; Point Hope to Point Barrow; Point Barrow; The
northern extreme; Point Barrow to Flaxman Island; Flaxman Island and
the journey to Herschel Island; Herschel Island and the journey to
Fort Yukon.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20
“There is a quiet and peculiar charm, distinctly of the North, in this
narrative.” F: O’Brien
+ =Nation= 111:537 N 10 ’20 680w
“This book is readable from cover to cover—entertaining, thoughtful,
wise in its recommendations concerning our great territory, and
attractive in its illustration.”
+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 80w
“Mr Stuck is a man of many interests, and his narrative is the more
absorbing for being discursive.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p576 S 9 ’20 900w
=STUDENSKY, PAUL.= Teachers’ pension systems in the United States. *$3
Appleton 371.17
20–2739
The book is published under the auspices of the Institute for
government research, in the series Studies in administration, and is
both a critical and descriptive study of the subject. It “should be
not only a substantial contribution to the science of administration,
but an immediate and practical aid to teachers, school authorities,
legislators and all other persons interested in solving the problem of
reorganizing their own systems or establishing systems ... upon bases
that have been tested by experience and are in accordance with sound
social, economic, and financial principles.” (Editorial introd.) Part
1: The problem of teachers’ pensions, contains: The evolution of
teachers’ pensions in the United States; The teachers’ pension problem
outlined; Superannuation benefits; Disability benefits; Death and
withdrawal benefits; Determining the cost of benefits; The division of
cost between government and teachers; The government’s contribution;
The teacher’s contribution; Compulsory participation and the right to
management. In Part 2 an account is given of the movement in the
United States and an examination made of the history and present
condition of the more important systems now in existence. There is
also an appendix, actuarial tables and a bibliography.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20
“In his efforts to inculcate the sound principles, Mr Studensky errs
rather on the side of overloading his discussion with too much detail,
which for the readers most concerned will probably lead to confusion
rather than clarification. While general agreement will be found with
the principles of a sound pension system discussed in the volume, Mr
Studensky’s acceptance of the salary scale as the basis of the pension
considerably diminishes the value of his work.”
+ − =Nation= 111:622 D 1 ’20 350w
“The book covers the subject critically and thoroughly.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 80w
“The volume will serve the purpose of a work of reference and will be
of value to committees of teachers considering the establishment of a
pension system. The average teacher, however, will perhaps be a little
more confused by the problem after reading the book than before,
mainly because it is over-loaded by too much detail and because the
discussions of theory and practice are too widely separated.” I. L.
Kandel
+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 390w
=STURGEON, MARY C.= Studies of contemporary poets, rev. and enl. *$2.50
Dodd 821.09
“These short studies, warmly presenting the merits of a number of
contemporary poets with much illustrative quotation, first appeared in
1916. The additional chapters are on John Drinkwater, ‘Michael Field,’
(Katharine H. Bradley and Edith E. Cooper), Thomas Hardy, J. C.
Squire, Contemporary women poets (Anna Wickham, Helen Parry Eden, Anna
Bunston, Olive Custance, Eva Gore Booth, Margaret Radford), and W. B.
Yeats.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The best one can say about Miss Sturgeon’s work is that it is the
outcome of a wide knowledge of the poets and versifiers of her time.
But she fails to do justice to whatever understanding of them that
knowledge might have given to her.”
− + =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 240w
“One does not receive in these pages the keen analysis, the subtle
interpretation of contemporaries such as Arthur Symons gave to his
public in ‘Studies in two literatures,’ but they do give an honest,
workable survey of the figures and qualities among the contemporaneous
poets of England that is serviceable and informative.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 840w
“The fact is that Miss Sturgeon’s criticism leans toward
sentimentalism, and not only because she tends always to stress the
good, the true, the perennially sad. Her writing clings too close to
its matter even when she is at her best, which is in interpretation of
the thought and melody in giving passages; and her exquisiteness of
appreciation tends in one way or another to impede the flow of
critical thought. One poet seems in retrospect very much like
another.” C. M. Rourke
+ − =Freeman= 2:331 D 15 ’20 780w
“Miss Sturgeon’s book, taken with the necessary ‘grano salis,’ has
much to recommend it. Its value as criticism would have been higher if
Miss Sturgeon had not been so uniformly enthusiastic.” R: Le Gallienne
+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 17 ’20 1700w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 60w
=STURGIS, ESTHER MARY (OGDEN) (MRS RICHARD CLIPSTON STURGIS).= Personal
prejudices. *$1.65 (4c) Houghton 814
20–16519
In these chatty essays the author gives her opinions on many subjects,
as the table of contents reveals, with much wit and humor. Her husband
in his preface to the book says of it that it is not immoral and
therefore not really modern, but commends it for its patriotic
enthusiasm. Contents: Gardens; Husbands and housekeeping; Autres
temps, autres mœurs; The lost art of letterwriting; My Bolshevist; Old
friends; New acquaintances; House and home; Quality versus equality;
Differences and distinctions; Epilogue by the favourite nephew.
* * * * *
“Sweet, homely essays with the humor which pleased readers of ‘Random
reflections of a grandmother.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20
“The odd thing is that this book of informal essays will probably
please readers of sharply different types, though perhaps not always
in the way in which the writer would choose. She has the real gift of
the familiar essayist, the gift for self-revelation.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 23 ’20 300w
“Her originality is as clearly reflected in her refreshing style as in
her prejudices. Her commentaries sparkle with the same charming wit,
compounded of shrewd common sense and abundant humor that made such
delightful reading of her ‘Random reflections of a grandmother.’”
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 5 ’20 600w
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 30w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 30w
=SULLIVAN, ALAN.= Rapids. *$1.75 (2) Appleton
20–11223
The story is a fairy tale of what the genius of one man can achieve in
developing the powers of nature. Robert Fisher Clark was a man of
vision, of action, of unusual concentration, and of hypnotic
personality. At a glance he takes in the possibilities of the Rapids
of St Mary’s and the surrounding wilderness. Immediately he is at work
developing plans and attracting the necessary money and good-will by
his personal magnetism. But the test of his greatness comes when human
covetousness and stupidity wrests the fruits of his labor from him
after the end of seven years and he is ready to acknowledge that he
has worked in the service of humanity not for his own gain. He
abandons everything, even the woman he loves, to the equally
wholehearted love of his engineer and seeks new fields for his
activity.
* * * * *
“Men will like it.”
+ =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20
“It is an interesting and well-told story, with vivid presentation of
its scenes. In its purpose and manner and spirit the author has made a
successful venture in turning aside a little from the usual lines of
fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 460w
=Review= 3:214 S 8 ’20 620w
“A fine romance of industrial enterprise from the western world.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 40w
=SULLY, JAMES=, My life and friends. *$5 Dutton
(Eng ed 19–4187)
“James Sully’s latest book, ‘My life and friends: a psychologist’s
memories,’ is the record of a man devoted to music and literature as
well as to his technical subject. The book is not burdened with formal
information about himself. It does not tell us the date of his birth,
or the name of his wife, or the number of his children. It begins the
narrative of his life by a description of the sleepy Somersetshire
town of Bridgwater, where he was born, and ends with a chance remark
on Sicilian painted carts. It touches upon the circumstances of his
childhood in a Nonconformist family and of his early education in
Baptist schools; upon his student days in Germany under Ewald and
Lotze; upon his literary and professional work in London, where he
became professor of philosophy in University college. But it dwells
most affectionately upon his vacations and upon the men and women
whose intimacy or acquaintance he enjoyed.”—Nation
* * * * *
“An inspiring reminiscent volume.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Je 7 ’19 1400w
“A very readable contribution to biographical literature and to the
intellectual history of an important period is offered in Professor
James Sully’s volume of reminiscences.” R. H. Lowie
+ =Freeman= 2:524 F 9 ’21 760w
+ =Nation= 109:446 S 27 ’19 250w
“His memoirs are not great in themselves: it is rather the friendships
they chronicle that add lustre to them.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 27 ’20 160w
=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 70w
“By those who wish to enjoy the society of the superior Hampsteadians
of the last quarter of the last century, Dr Sully’s autobiography
should be read, and will certainly be relished.”
+ =Sat R= 126:sup10 N 23 ’18 1050w
“Dr Sully’s new volume belongs to that class of books, unhappily rare,
which are much more pleasant to read than to criticise. Its merits,
like those of a well-baked cake, are diffused imperceptibly throughout
the whole mass; it does not lend itself to quotation; there are many
plums, but to savour their true excellence they have to be taken in
their original environment.”
+ =Spec= 121:460 O 26 ’18 940w
“Dr Sully contributes to literature a book of value as well as
interest in ‘My life and my friends.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 25 ’21 1100w
=SUMMERS, A. LEONARD.= Asbestos and the asbestos industry. (Pitman’s
common commodities and industries ser.) il $1 Pitman 553.6
20–9018
“Until the completion of this work, there existed no comprehensive
book on the absorbing study of asbestos.... The uses and scope of
asbestos having now become universal, it has long been felt that a
book thereon was much needed, so few people really understanding the
subject; and the author (for many years closely associated with the
industry), while avoiding as far as possible too dry and tiresome
technicalities, has dealt with everything of real interest and utility
in a concise and popular style to appeal to every class of reader.”
(Foreword) There are illustrations by the author and from photographs
and the book is indexed.
* * * * *
“The volume on ‘Asbestos’ decidedly suffers by comparison with its
companion volume [on ‘Zinc’ by T. E. Lones] as the author does not
take care to avoid a number of errors, which, though common enough in
the trade, ought not to find their way into a book of this
description.”
+ − =Nature= 105:194 Ap 15 ’20 300w
“As a catalogue of finished products the volume will find use; as a
text-book covering the technical preparation of asbestos it hardly
merits consideration.”
+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p35 Ap ’20 80w
=SUMMERS, WALTER COVENTRY.= Silver age of Latin literature. *$3 Stokes
870
The period covered is from Tiberius to Trajan. The preface says: “The
term ‘Silver Latin’ is often applied loosely to all the post-Augustan
literature of Rome: in this book it has been reserved for that earlier
part of it which, in spite of a definite decline in taste and
freshness, deserves nevertheless to be sharply distinguished from the
baser metals of the imitative or poverty-stricken periods which
followed.” (Preface) A chronological table is followed by discussions
on: The declamations and the pointed style; The epic; Drama; Verse
satire; Light and miscellaneous verse; Oratory; History, biography and
memoirs; Philosophy; Prose-satire and romance; Correspondence;
Grammar, criticism and rhetoric; Scientific and technical prose. There
are notes on translations and an index.
* * * * *
“The book contains some smooth translations, of which, as might be
expected, the renderings from the satirists are probably the most
successful. Without stating any particularly fresh theory, Mr Summers
covers the old ground very thoroughly.”
+ =Ath= p435 O 1 ’20 640w
“In ‘The silver age of Latin literature,’ we are given a text-book,
admirably written and closely digested, that is an open door to a
literature that often amazes us by its evident modernity.”
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 16 ’21 1500w
“Rather dull. But Prof. Summers is full of learning on the period
which is not commonly mastered by classical students; and his record
is so thorough that it should not be neglected.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 400w
=SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM.= What social classes owe to each other. 2d ed
*$1.50 (4c) Harper 171
20–8048
This is a republication of Prof. Sumner’s book on ‘Social classes’
with an introduction by his successor to the chair of social science
at Yale university, Albert Galloway Keller. Prof. Keller thinks that
our age, more than any other, needs an unflinching statement of the
individualistic position, of laissez-faire. “At a time when the world
is menaced with the curtailment of civil liberty and the paralysis of
individual initiative through weird and grotesque developments of
socialism ... the man who takes to heart the truths of this little
book cannot be led by the nose even into that pseudo-open-mindedness
that toys with bolshevism and anarchism.” (Foreword)
* * * * *
“The book is a brilliant piece of writing, an impassioned vindication
of individualism, a resolute arraignment of the social meddling and
social doctors that were popular in 1883, are now, and perhaps always
will be.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 240w
=Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 100w
“Plausible as all this may have sounded in 1883, it seems unfair to
the memory of an eminent scholar to resurrect a study in which such
manifestly outgrown sentiments are predominant.” Ordway Tead
− =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 220w
“Whatever we may think of such old-fashioned individualism, it is
wholesome to have a dash of it now and then, and the reading of such a
book as this, like a cold bath after a warm day, is both refreshing
and stimulating.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 270w
=SWEETSER, ARTHUR.=[2] League of nations at work. *$1.75 Macmillan 341.1
20–17503
“A series of articles contributed to the New York Evening Post by
Arthur Sweetser, a member of the American peace commission, is
published in book form. Mr Sweetser writes to clear away
misconceptions and to make the purposes and the actual machinery of
the league as clear as possible. Mr Sweetser’s study covers in
detail the permanent court, the secretariat, the questions of
disarmament, minorities and mandates, international labor and health
organizations, freedom of transit, economic co-operation and open
diplomacy.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 90w
“He shows a very clear understanding of essentials and he presents his
well-digested knowledge in clear language, with simple figures to
drive home his points. As a popular elucidation of the league, Mr
Sweetser’s book is from every point of view commendable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 1 ’20 310w
=SWEETSER, ARTHUR, and LAMONT, GORDON.= Opportunities in aviation. il
*$1 (3½c) Harper 629.1
20–2110
The authors of this volume, one a captain in the American air service,
the other a lieutenant in the Royal air force of Canada, claim that it
is the training, not the individual, that makes the pilot and that
“any ordinary, active man, provided he has reasonably good eyesight
and nerve, can fly, and fly well. If he has nerve enough to drive an
automobile through the streets of a large city ... he can take himself
off the ground in an airplane, and also land—a thing vastly more
difficult and dangerous.” (Introd.) The authors also claim that
aeronautics in the future must cease to be a highly specialized
business, that the airplane will become a conveyance of everyday
civilian use and that what they have written is based on actual
accomplishments to date. Contents: War’s conquest of the air; The
transition to peace; Training an airplane pilot; Safety in flying;
Qualifications of an airplane mechanic; The first crossing of the
Atlantic; Landing-fields—the immediate need; The airplane’s brother;
The call of the skies; Addendum.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:18 O ’20
=SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES.= Selections; ed. by Edmund Gosse and
Thomas James Wise. *$2 Doran 821
(Eng ed 20–9019)
Mr Gosse and Mr Wise, who edited Swinburne’s letters and a collection
of “Posthumous poems,” have prepared the first selection from his
works since the one compiled by Watts-Dunton in 1887. This early
volume, the present editors say, “was not broadly characteristic of
Swinburne’s many moods and variety of subjects.” The aim has been to
make the new selection more representative.
* * * * *
“Without having at hand the older volume of selections made by
Swinburne himself it may yet be said that the present selection is a
good one. It would have been more ‘representative’ if it had included
one or two of the ‘Songs before sunrise,’ and the omission of ‘Laus
veneris’ and especially ‘The leper’ is regrettable. What one would
like to have would be a volume of selections including these poems and
omitting the two choruses from ‘Atalanta,’ and another volume
containing the whole of ‘Atalanta.’” T. S. E.
+ − =Ath= p72 Ja 16 ’20 1400w
=Booklist= 17:107 D ’20
“The present selection is, in almost every way, admirable, and
represents adequately the poetical genius of the author.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 140w
=Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 40w
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 D 4 ’20 160w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 100w
“Lovers of Swinburne will be grateful to Mr Gosse and Mr Wise.”
+ =Spec= 124:463 Ap 3 ’20 50w
“So long as a selection contains the ‘Triumph of time,’ the ‘Garden of
Proserpine,’ ‘Hertha,’ the Atalanta choruses, and a few others, it
will content us; these we need, and beyond these whatever else is
included the editor may be at peace—we shall take it and be
satisfied.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p732 D 11 ’19 1000w
=SWINDLER, ROBERT EARL.= Causes of war. *$1.75 Badger, R. G. 902
20–1549
“This publication is based on the idea that it is idle to talk of
world peace without an intelligent world understanding. ‘The causes of
war’ is designed to meet the need of a systematic organization of the
great mass of material concerning the war. It gives all the essential
points, and is equally suited to the busy student, teacher, or general
reader. The work includes not only an outline and study of the world
war together with the official peace negotiations, but also a survey
of all the wars that preceded with particular emphasis upon those
since 1870.”—School R
* * * * *
“This volume is pertinent and timely. It is one of the most convenient
reference books on a subject of universal interest that has so far
been published, and is well-nigh indispensable for writers and
speakers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 160w
“The work is so clearly and logically written that it is particularly
valuable for use in current history classes.”
+ =School R= 28:237 Mr ’20 200w
=SWINNERTON, FRANK ARTHUR.= September, *$1.90 (2c) Doran
19–18833
Mr Swinnerton’s new novel is a story of the coming and passing of love
in the late summer of a woman’s life. As in his memorable “Nocturne,”
the characters are four: Marian Forster; her husband, Howard; Cherry
Mant; and Nigel Sinclair. In the beginning, Howard, who is eleven
years older than his wife, and far past his youth, is carrying on a
love affair with Cherry, a girl of twenty and daughter of one of
Marian’s friends. Marian is shocked, not at Howard’s faithlessness,
which is an old story to her, but at Cherry’s bright callousness, for
irresistibly she feels herself drawn to the girl. Then comes Nigel,
young, charming and adoring, to offer her his boyish adulation and
surprise her into love. But youth responds to youth and Nigel is won
over by Cherry. The interplay of emotions is delicately complex,
involving on Marian’s side love for Nigel, sympathy for Howard, and
genuine friendship for Cherry.
* * * * *
“Mr Swinnerton’s analysis of the women’s characters is singularly
penetrating. He makes the conflict and its solution arise inevitably
out of the two opposed natures; the plot and the characterization are
not two distinct things, but the same.”
+ =Ath= p962 S 26 ’19 140w
=Ath= p1002 O 10 ’19 1150w
+ =Booklist= 16:173 F ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:81 Mr ’20 750w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w
“Granted his acceptance of the established romantic values of fiction,
he has concocted a good story, serious and sensitive along its own
lines.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 22:63 Mr 10 ’20 1650w
“‘Nocturne’ established Frank Swinnerton as one of the highly
promising novelists in the young English group that is building an age
of novels in England commensurate with the two great periods of the
past. ‘September,’ to our mind, is an even greater and more
penetrating study of the human mind and heart.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 21 ’20 420w
“The novel lacks something of the intensity, vividness and variety of
‘Nocturne’ which still remains Mr Swinnerton’s best book, but it is a
very great improvement on the rather disappointing ‘Shops and
houses.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w
“The beautiful artistic quality of the author’s wonderful ‘Nocturne’
appears again in this new book, one of the most notable productions of
the season.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 150w
Reviewed by F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub= W 97:174 Ja 17 ’20 500w
“Mr Swinnerton’s sensitivism, if the term may properly be applied to
him, is on the side of the angels. Unlike many of his contemporaries,
he does not throw decency overboard because hypocrites exist, or exalt
impulse over principle.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:85 Ja 24 ’20 450w
“The book is one that almost any English novelist might have been
proud to write.”
+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 80w
+ − =Spec= 123:773 D 6 ’19 440w
“The relationship between the two women is the theme of the book; and
as Mr Swinnerton has been at pains to endow each with character, and
to make out from his own insight how such a relation might shape
itself, the development is original enough to have an unusual air of
truth.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p513 S 25 ’19 850w
=SWINNERTON, HELEN (DIRCKS) (MRS FRANK SWINNERTON).= Passenger. *$1.50
Doran 821
(Eng ed 20–16192)
In introducing this book of poems Frank Swinnerton refers to
originality and candour as their outstanding qualities. Of the author
he says, “Whatever technical faults her verses may have they remain
altogether unspoilt by literary sophistication.” Some of the titles
are: Underground; Withholding; Then and now; Alone; Piccadilly, 1917;
America, 1917; London in war; The betrayal; Adjustment; Garden song;
Trying to sleep; The traveller; In the dark.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 300w
“Many of these pieces are happy little efforts in lyrical poems of
love or regret, and the whiffs of verse in vers libre are felicitous.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= Je 3 ’20 110w
=SWISHER, WALTER SAMUEL.= Religion and the new psychology. *$2 Jones,
Marshall 201
20–12542
“A psycho-analytic study of religion,” with chapters devoted to: The
nature of the religious problem; The nature of the unconscious and its
influence on the religious life; The motivation of human life;
Determinism and free-will; Mysticism and neurotic states; The problem
of evil; Pathological religious types; The occult in modern religious
systems; Conversion and attendant phenomena; The changing basis and
objective of religion; Methods of mental and religious healing; The
religious problem in education. Two appendices are devoted to: Dreams
and dream mechanisms and Birth dreams. There is a brief bibliography
and an index. The author goes rather fully into the principles of
psycho-analysis and the book may serve as an introduction to those who
have not read widely on the subject.
* * * * *
“The most useful part of the book deals with religious education and
illustrates the baneful effects of early religious fears. The author
is dogmatic in his statements regarding the religious and non-ethical
life of primitive people. Most of the readers, familiar with
psychoanalytic literature, will turn from the book with the conviction
that a satisfactory discussion of religion and the new psychology is
hardly to be expected from within the ministerial profession. The book
would serve a useful purpose were it not unlikely to be read by those
who need it most.” E. R. Groves
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:376 N ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 17:8 O ’20
“Rarely, perhaps never, has a writer failed so signally to accomplish
his aim. The book is a heterogeneous mass of poorly digested, badly
assimilated psychology, and worse religion, while from the pedagogical
point of view that which he says has been said many times.” Joseph
Collins
− =Bookm= 52:172 O ’20 620w
=Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 80w
“That much is here done to illustrate the indubitable connection
between the religious motives of mankind and other motives and
faculties, is true; it is also true that the book by swallowing the
Freudian system of sex symbols too uncritically makes itself a
candidate for laughter in that day, sure to come, when the excesses of
Freud will recall the excesses of Max Müller.”
+ − =Nation= 111:695 D 15 ’20 120w
Reviewed by G. E. Partridge
=N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 570w
“Like many other books on psycho-analysis, this one proves that until
expounders of this theory develop greater balance or a keener sense of
humor in considering the phenomena of sex, there is small likelihood
of their labors resulting in a substantial addition to our scientific
understanding of ourselves.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ’20 190w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p863 D 16 ’20 100w
T
=TAFT, HENRY WATERS.= Occasional papers and addresses of an American
lawyer. *$2.50 (2½c) Macmillan 304
20–10712
Of these addresses the author says, in his long introduction, that
“the march of events has been so rapid that little more than a
historic interest now attaches to the subjects they deal with,” but he
hopes they may stimulate the younger members of the legal profession
to greater effort in promoting the effective administration of justice
and in the duties of citizenship. The contents, in part, are: Address
to the Harvard law school students delivered in 1908; Some
responsibilities of the American lawyer; The bar in the war; Report of
the war committee; Aspects of bolshevism and Americanism; The League
of nations; Sovereignty, constitutionality and the Monroe doctrine;
What is to be done with our railroads? Some of the papers appeared in
the New York Times.
* * * * *
“Mr Taft brings to his consideration of these subjects sound
information and a forceful dignity of judgment.”
+ =Ind= 105:171 F 12 ’21 40w
“A fresh, clear viewpoint, together with that true liberalism which is
the fruit of independent thought, makes these essays enjoyable. One of
the most interesting of all is the introduction, in which there are
some critical and friendly estimates of Theodore Roosevelt and of some
of the things proposed by him—these latter more critical and not quite
so friendly, though never ungenerous or unfair.”
+ =N Y Times= p19 S 12 ’20 2100w
“They are uniformly clear, good tempered, and conservatively
progressive.”
+ =Review= 3:194 S 1 ’20 80w
=TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD.= Taft papers on League of nations. *$4.50
Macmillan 341.1
20–19170
The papers are edited by Theodore Marburg and Horace E. Flack and the
former, in a long introduction, sets forth the reasons why they are an
evidence of the ex-president’s grasp of the guiding legal principles
of our government and of the attitude of mind which the best thought
and feeling of the country heartily accept as true Americanism. Among
the papers are: League to enforce peace; The Paris covenant for a
league of nations; Constitutionality of the proposals; The purposes of
the League; Self determination; Workingmen and the League; Why a
league of nations is necessary; Disarmament of nations and freedom of
the seas; President Wilson and the League of nations; Senator Lodge on
the League of nations; Representation in the League; Ireland and the
League; Answer to Senator Knox’s indictment; Guaranties of article X.
The book is indexed.
* * * * *
“Although this important collection of documents appears subsequent to
the conclusion of the ‘solemn referendum,’ and the fall of Wilsonism
in our country, it will doubtless prove of great value when the new
régime shall come in and the whole question of the League of nations
shall be definitely disposed of.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 780w
“This volume embodies much of the soundest thinking on the subject of
the League of nations that has thus far found expression in America.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:224 F ’21 120w
=TAGGART, MARION AMES.= Pilgrim maid. il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday
20–5775
For the heroine of her story for girls the author has chosen Constance
Hopkins, a real maid of Plymouth who came in the Mayflower in 1620
with her father, her stepmother and younger brothers and sister. Other
real people have a place in the story too, among them John Alden and
Priscilla. The preface says, “The aim has been to present Plymouth
colony as it was in its first three years of existence; to keep to
possibilities, even while inventing incidents. Actual events have been
transferred from a later to an earlier year.... But there is fidelity
to the general trend of events, above all to the spirit of Plymouth in
its beginnings.”
* * * * *
“Interesting, though accentuating the severity of Puritan life. For
older girls.”
+ =Booklist= 16:354 Jl ’20
“‘A Pilgrim maid’ is that rare thing, a really good story for girls.
It is a story first and history second.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 60w
=TALBOT, FREDERICK ARTHUR AMBROSE.=[2] Millions from waste. il *$5
Lippincott 604
20–2995
“The present volume deals with the reclamation of waste of all kinds,
from scrap-iron to fish-offal. Although it is written from the British
standpoint, the solutions that are given of the various problems are
as applicable to American conditions. In general, each chapter
considers some particular kind of waste product, discussing both the
extent of such waste and the processes that have been developed for
utilizing these products. Wastes from the kitchen, the
slaughter-house, the fishing industry, the ash-can, the sewer, the
metal industry, and many other branches are discussed.”—Mining and
Scientific Press
* * * * *
“This timely book combines to a marked degree solidity of substance
with an entertaining style.” C: W. Mixter
+ =Am Econ R= 10:824 D ’20 950w
=Ath= p1241 N 21 ’19 180w
=Brooklyn= 12:129 My ’20 30w
“The treatment is popular enough to be interesting, but not so popular
as to fail of being informative.”
+ =Mining and Scientific Press= 120:177 Ja 31 ’20 150w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ja ’20 110w
“A capital book for the general reader.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 120w
=TALBOT, WINTHROP, comp, and ed.= Americanization. 2d ed rev. and enl.
by Julia E. Johnsen. (Handbook ser.) *$1.80 Wilson. H. W. 325.7
20–8819
In this second edition the bibliography is brought down to date and
fifty-three pages of new matter are added. In these additional
reprints “special endeavor has been made to emphasize the more
concrete aspect of Americanisation.” (Explanatory note)
* * * * *
“Eminently suited to its purpose.”
+ =Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 40w
=Booklist= 16:358 Jl ’20
“The purely political aspects of the subject—especially the effect of
deportation proceedings—are not yet included. Perhaps the editors have
been wise in limiting their attention to the purely constructive
efforts. The book in its present form should prove very useful to
Americanization workers.”
+ =Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 100w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 30w
=TANSLEY, ARTHUR GEORGE.= New psychology and its relation to life. *$4
Dodd 150
(Eng ed SG20–137)
While the old psychology has over-emphasized the purely rational
faculties of the mind, the new psychology recognizes the importance of
its unconscious processes. The object of the book is to set forth the
fundamental importance of the instinctive sources of human actions,
and the part played by psychotherapy in throwing light upon normal
mental processes. Part 1 describes the scope of the new psychology and
the problem of the relationship of mind and body. The other divisions
or the contents are: The structure of the mind; The energy of the
mind; By-ways of the libido; Reasons and rationalization; The contents
of the mind. There is an index.
* * * * *
“Mr Tansley has written a really excellent exposition and summary of
the chief speculations in modern psychology.”
+ =Ath= p377 S 17 ’20 220w
“The author reveals throughout his work the poise of the man who has
mastered his subject. The book will be welcomed by those who wish to
know the latest developments in psychology.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 2 ’20 810w
“His survey of the Freudian theories is both readable and clear. His
graphic method of presenting the interaction between consciousness and
the unconscious in convenient spatial diagrams is very helpful as long
as the reader guards himself against taking them too literally.” A. B.
Kuttner
+ − =Freeman= 2:308 D 8 ’20 730w
“Mr Tansley’s book is most satisfactory when he is dealing with such
matters as the interpretation of dreams, the ‘rationalisations’ by
which men try to justify conduct which is really prompted by
non-rational motives, and the great psychic complexes which correspond
to the main instincts of man. The book is less satisfactory in the
general theoretical chapters with which it opens.” H. S.
+ =Nature= 105:770 Ag 19 ’20 780w
“Mr Tansley’s book seems to me the best general survey of psychology
now available. It is the best, partly because it is the latest, but
chiefly because Mr Tansley enjoys a fine gift of exposition. He
himself has an orderly and a lucid mind, and an unfailing respect for
the reader.” W. L.
+ |=New Repub= 25:112 D 22 ’20 1000w
“Particularly interesting is his discussion of the ‘universal
complexes’ of the ego, herd, and sex which result from the play of
experience upon the primary instincts. The book is on the whole free
from those pathological exaggerations which characterize so many of
the productions of so-called psychoanalysts.” Bernard Glueck
+ =Survey= 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 250w
“Mr Tansley is not, however, a blind follower of these authorities; he
has preserved his independence of view, and produced an original and
stimulating discussion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 100w
=TAPPAN, EVA MARCH.= Hero stories of France. il *$1.75 (3c) Houghton 944
20–7446
These stories, written for children, begin with the first encounters
of the Gauls with the Romans under Caesar, and the gallant patriot
hero Vercingetorix’ desperate efforts to save his country from the
powerful conqueror. From the entire history of France, down to our own
time and Marshal Foch, heroic personalities are selected and among
them are: Vercingetorix; Clovis; Charlemagne; The six heroes of
Calais; Jeanne d’Arc; Coligny; Henry of Navarre; Richelieu; Lafayette;
Napoleon the Great, and “Napoleon the Little”; and Marshal Foch. The
book is illustrated.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:354 Jl ’20
=TARBELL, IDA MINERVA.= In Lincoln’s chair. *$1 (11c) Macmillan
20–5208
In fiction form, this is a condensed story of the life of Lincoln as
told, by way of reminiscence, by Billy Brown, in his drugstore on the
public square of Springfield, Illinois, and while his listener was
seated opposite him in “Lincoln’s chair.” It brings out the salient
features of Lincoln’s life before he went to Washington, his views on
God, and their influence on his intellectual development, his early
experiences as a lawyer, and his political progress.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20
=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 50w
“Must a saint or hero be all sugar, without spice or salt? Miss Ida M.
Tarbell seems to think so still more in her imaginary conversation ‘In
Lincoln’s chair’ than she did a dozen years ago in ‘He knew Lincoln.’
The moment she leaves the cold path of history she falls into the most
abandoned myth-making.”
− =Nation= 110:662 My 15 ’20 160w
=TARN, WILLIAM WOODTHORPE.= Treasure of the isle of mist. *$1.90 (5c)
Putnam
20–1903
This is a delightfully fantastic story of a student and his little
daughter Fiona who lived on the Isle of mist on the shores of a gray
sea-loch. The old hawker who came to them with a pack of buttons to
sell and who gave Fiona an old copper bangle bracelet, and the
“search” turned out in the end to have been the king of fairies. The
bracelet gave Fiona the power to talk with animals—to hold long
philosophic conversations with a centipede—and to see and talk with
the spirit of the mountain. But it was not only on account of the
bracelet that she could do this but—because she was a child and could
still see. When the treasure cave was closed up to her by a great fall
of rock she knew that now she was too old for the search. The chapters
are headed: The gift of the search; The beginning of trouble; The
haunted cave; The urchin vanishes; The oread; The king of the
woodcock; Fiona in the fairy-world; Fiona finds her treasure.
* * * * *
“Delicately imaginative and beautifully written.”
+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20
“An exquisite fantasy of youth and autumn.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:259 N ’20 670w
“W. W. Tarn has written a book so beautiful, so whimsical, so
exquisite alike in its humor, its loveliness and its sheer charm that
it will be a dull reader indeed to whom it does not bring an abiding
joy. This is a rare and beautiful book, a real discovery.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 850w
“The fact is that Mr Tarn, apart from his lovely scenery, has adorned
his tale with a remarkably bushy moral, excellent for Fionas and
Urchins as such, but un-fairyish.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p740 D 11 ’19 900w
=TASSIN, ALGERNON DE VIVIER.= Craft of the tortoise. *$1.50 Boni &
Liveright 812
19–18735
A satirical play in four acts tracing the evolution of the present
status of woman, especially her social supremacy over man, from the
ancient faraway beginnings to the present day. The play is built on
the premise that woman, at first a slave, subjugated to man’s will and
power, had to resort to trickery, exploitation of her sex attractions,
and a clever use of clothing and adornment, in order to get ahead of
her lord and owner; and that she finally made a complete reversal of
social conditions. In his long introduction, brilliant and with a
certain Bernard Shaw piquancy, the author is complimentary to neither
sex. Having in his introduction compared woman with the tortoise in
the fable racing with the gamboling hare, the author has titled the
four acts respectively: The tortoise finds herself; Tortoise turns the
first corner; Tortoise strikes her gait; Tortoise on the home stretch.
The first three are remotely laid in that past so alluring to the
imagination, the last is a satiric picture of modern life.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
“In the preface, Mr Tassin’s style reminds one of Chesterton in its
sharp shafts of wit and depths of irony. The first and second acts are
excellent in their humor and sardonic style, the third lapses
momentarily, and the fourth merely ‘carries on.’”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 280w
“The plays hover between satire and burlesque, and contain much that
is arbitrary, didactic, and as inept as the figurative title; but they
contrive to be both entertaining and provocative.”
+ − =Dial= 68:538 Ap ’20 80w
“An ingenious and sometimes witty satire.”
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 70w
“The source of this play in Mr Tassin’s mind was some moment of
extreme irritation over the modern American woman. But to jump to the
conclusion, as many would at once, that he is an anti-feminist, would
be quite erroneous. The play has wit, it has wisdom, it has keen
characterization of the purely intellectual sort, and it has dramatic
energy.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 110:148 Ja 31 ’20 1100w
“Undoubtedly in many respects this dramatic symposium is outrageously
unfair. It is a bit of special pleading, at once vigorous and shallow,
which it would be absurd to take too seriously. And it is marred by a
spice of somewhat cheap and unattractive cynicism. But it is a piece
of literary and dramatic workmanship of highly superior quality.” J.
R. Towse
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 Mr 6 ’20 800w
“It is quite amusing in parts, although it is written to the length of
prolixity. Mr Tassin’s characterizations are entertaining; he scores
his points with consistency if one accepts his premises, and reveals a
genuine humor that is admirable.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 460w
“In spite of a satyrical vein which makes many of the scenes amusing,
the entertainment is too heavy for continuous enjoyment. The known
facts of anthropology and history are in places perverted into
grotesque misstatements.” B. L.
− + =Survey= 43:555 F 7 ’20 110w
=TAUSSIG, FRANK WILLIAM.= Free trade, the tariff and reciprocity. *$2
Macmillan 337
20–1763
“A collection of papers and addresses covering the phases of the
tariff controversy now chiefly under discussion in the United States
by the Henry Lee professor of economics at Harvard (who has been
chairman of the United States tariff commission).”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup) “The papers have been taken from talks to various audiences
and periodical articles from 1904 to date discussing the tariff pro
and con in a form usable by the general reader.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:616 S ’20 140w
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 110w
“Useful to high schools.”
+ =Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20
“Dr Taussig’s authority, which rests alike upon research and watchful,
even-tempered criticism, is preeminent.”
+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 80w
“The volume is characterized by more of unity than usually attaches to
such a collection, and the reader will find in it a coherent,
consistent presentation of the author’s views on the main issues of
the tariff question. In a time marked by the uncertainties and
confusions which characterize domestic conditions and foreign
relations today, it is not surprising to find the author chary of
dogmatism as to the future course of events.” F: C. Mills
+ =J Philos= 17:334 Je 3 ’20 360w
“Each problem is handled with the author’s characteristic
open-mindedness. Each conclusion is reached after painstaking
analysis, with a realization that future developments and changes in
economic factors may take from an argument all its force.”
+ =J Pol Econ= 28:524 Je ’20 300w
Reviewed by Bertram Benedict
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 16 ’20 850w
“There is no safer guide on these topics than Dr Taussig. He was never
an opportunist, but ever a preacher of the true word, with little if
any reference to partisan expediency. Therefore, he is able to
reproduce his arguments for the most part without change. Dr Taussig
is a popular as well as an authoritative writer.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:24 Jl 18 ’20 1000w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 40w
=TAWNEY, RICHARD HENRY.= Acquisitive society. *$1.40 Harcourt 330
20–21421
The author holds that no change of system or machinery can avert those
causes of social malaise which consist in the egotism, greed, or
quarrelsomeness of human nature. But it can create an environment in
which these qualities are not encouraged; it can offer people an end
on which to fix their minds, thus, in the long run directing their
practical activity. To think of the economic organization of society
on the basis of function rather than of rights, is a habit of mind to
be encouraged. It implies three things: that proprietary rights shall
be maintained when they are accompanied by the performance of service
and abolished when they are not; that the producers shall stand in
direct relation to the community for whom production is carried on;
that the obligation for the maintenance of the service shall rest upon
the professional organization of those who perform it. Contents:
Rights and functions; The acquisitive society; The nemesis of
industrialism; Property and creative work; The functional society;
Industry as a profession; The “vicious circle”; The condition of
efficiency; The position of the brain worker; Porro unum necessarium;
Index.
* * * * *
“The author uses sound logic and pertinent historic facts to maintain
his cause and there can be little doubt that this book will exert a
great influence for good, for his theory is perfectly consistent with
Christian principle.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 240w
“This little book is destined, we believe, to be regarded as a classic
masterpiece upon its subject. The treatment is at once profound and
brilliant; brilliant because it gives powerfull and worthy expression
to profound thought.” D. S. Miller
+ =New Repub= 23:130 Je 23 ’20 2300w
“He advocates revolutionary doctrines with temperateness and a
seasoned mind. He writes of the ‘nemesis of industrialism,’ but with
no trace of fanaticism.” R. B. Perry
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 Ja 29 ’21 650w
“Cleverly written pamphlet. It is encouraging to find that one
Socialist at least is on the right track.”
+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p263 Ap 29 ’20 660w
=TAYLOR, EMERSON GIFFORD.= New England in France, 1917–1919. il *$5
Houghton 940.373
20–19427
The book is the record of the Twenty-sixth division of the American
Expeditionary force, whose organization, personnel and record as a
fighting unit are typical of American fighting troops in the field, on
the march, in billets, or in the heat of battle. It is also the story
of volunteer American citizens, non-professional soldiery. The
contents in part are: Organizing the division; Overseas; Settling down
in France; The chemin des dames; On the march; The Le Reine (Boucq)
sector; The fights at Bois Brulé and Seicheprey; The affairs of May
and June; The Aisne-Marne offensive; The Saint-Mihiel offensive; In
the Meuse-Argonne offensive; Before the armistice and after. The book
is illustrated and indexed and has six maps.
* * * * *
=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 50w
=TAYLOR, FRANCES LILIAN.=[2] Two Indian children of long ago. il 70c
Beckley-Cardy 398.2
A book that combines information about the Indians with stories drawn
from Indian myth and legend. “The author has endeavored to describe
child life in the wild-rice region west of the Great Lakes ... and to
retell some of the most interesting stories enjoyed by Indian
children. The aim of the book is to gratify the American child’s
natural interest in primitive life by stories of our own land and to
increase his respect for all that is original and worthy in the lives
of the first Americans.”
=TAYLOR, IDA ASHWORTH.= Joan of Arc, soldier and saint. il *$1.50 (2½c)
Kenedy
A very simple and direct presentation of the life story of Joan of
Arc. A prefatory note states: “The list of the lives of Joan is long;
but some are too lengthy, some too much weighted with historical
complications and details of campaigns, some too full of more or less
controversial matter, to commend themselves to young readers. The
following narrative is purely a personal record of her deeds and
ideals, recounted, whenever possible, in her own words or in those of
contemporary chronicles and in the archives of her tragic condemnation
as heretic, her death as martyr, and her triumphant rehabilitation.”
There are eight black and white illustrations by W. Graham Robertson.
=TAYLOR, KATHARINE HAVILAND.= Yellow soap. il *$1.75 (1½c) Doubleday
20–10312
In an atmosphere of yellow soap, Theodore Hargraves Bradly grew
up—laundry soap, for his mother was a washerwoman. She tried her best
to bring him up as a gentleman, as, she impressed upon him, his father
had been. At her death, he was left at seventeen, to shift for himself
and became a ‘Knight of the road,’ which calling he followed for
several years. He then came into an unexpected fortune and proceeded
to gratify his own desires and those of his pals of the road. Running
along with his story is that of Frances Milton, the little girl in
whose home his mother had done washing, and whose childhood, in its
way, was unhappier than his. She was always his ideal and when their
paths cross again, the barriers which he had erected between them on
account of his origin, proved to be no barriers at all.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 500w
“Despite its many crudities and its frequent unconvincingness, the
book shows a real gift for the creation of character, much inventive
faculty and an instinct for story-telling that promise worth-while
achievement in the future.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 230w
=TEAD, ORDWAY, and METCALF, HENRY CLAYTON.= Personnel administration;
its principles and practice. *$5 McGraw 331.1
20–13089
“The field of their task is defined by the authors as setting forth
the principles and the best prevailing practice in the field of the
administration of human relations in industry; and they take up
seriatim the personnel department, employment methods, health and
safety, education, research (job analysis, specifications, etc.),
rewards, administrative correlation, and joint relations.”—Chemical
and Metallurgical Engineering
* * * * *
“An unusually full index adds much to the usefulness of this valuable
and timely volume.” T. T. Read
+ =Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering= 23:642 S 29 ’20 1150w
“An honest and intelligent effort to induce employers to face the
industrial problem intelligently and with a liberal spirit. Although
not as incisively phrased or as brilliant as Sidney Webb’s ‘Works
manager today,’ or Commons’s ‘Industrial good will,’ this is
nevertheless a good book in a field where good books are unfortunately
rare.” P. H. Douglas
+ =J Pol Econ= 28:790 N ’20 500w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 230w
+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 40w
“Adequate scholarship and a fine instinct for democracy characterize
the writing.” W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:167 O 30 ’20 450w
=TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN.= Little garden the year round. il *$2.50
Dutton 716.2
20–181
“Mr Teall has had much experience as an editor of House and Garden and
American Homes and Gardens to sponsor his name on a book cover. It
isn’t merely a horticultural handbook that he offers, such as any
enterprising seedsman might evolve for the guidance of the
uninitiated; this is the work of a garden litterateur, a man who knows
the flowers, knows what to say about them, and what the poets have
said about them and various other things that are more or less
essential ingredients of a real garden essay or a series of them. He
writes ‘to convey some sense of the joys of gardening, some
realization of the pleasures that find place in the heart and soul of
one who combines the companionship of prose and poetry in the going
about his gardening.’”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“One somehow gets the impression from this book that a garden-maker
must be completely happy—or would be if it were not for slugs, aphids,
and red spiders. Mr Teall writes with contagious enthusiasm and full
knowledge of his subject.”
+ =Outlook= 124:337 F 25 ’20 70w
+ =Review= 2:392 Ap 17 ’20 750w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 24 ’20 220w
=TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN.= Pleasures of collecting; being sundry
delectable excursions in the realm of antiques and curios, American,
European and oriental. il *$4 (6½c) Century 749
20–17080
“The contentment to be found in the acquisition and in the
contemplation of the things that are dear to the heart of the
antiquarian and the art-lover is a contentment that is the gift of the
gods, always awarded the intelligent, though not always disclosed to
them. A friend, then, will be he who discovers to one a treasure like
that which the joy of collecting uncovers.... And so it is that this
little book is not devised for savages, but tenderly has been nurtured
in sympathy with the interesting and beautiful things of yesterday.”
(Foreword) Among the contents are: The pleasures of collecting;
Collectors of yesterday; American tables; Tea and antiquity; Chintz;
Pewter; Samplers; Hand-woven coverlets; Chairs; English
drinking-glasses; Delft; Early desk furniture; Saving the pieces;
Consoles; The romance of a potter; Bernard Palissy; Italian Maiolica;
Engraved gems; Fraudulent art objects. There are many illustrations,
an extended bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“Useful to the collector, it will also beguile leisure moments of
others.”
+ =Booklist= 17:103 D ’20
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 800w
“Any one who harbors even the germ of the collecting habit will find
it developing in the glowing atmosphere of the author’s enthusiasm.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
“Of course there is not enough about any one hobby to more than whet
the appetite for a deeper acquaintance with the subject; and the book
opens up vistas that are impractical for any but millionaires.
Nevertheless. It is also a book for general reading and will prove
entertaining to many a reader who gets much pleasure from looking into
shop windows without being able to purchase the goods behind the
glass.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 13 ’20 280w
=TEASDALE, SARA (MRS ERNST B. FILSINGER).= Flame and shadow. *$1.75
Macmillan 811
20–19070
“Sara Teasdale has found a philosophy of life and death. In this
latest book we may watch the conflict between the light that comes
from the everlasting flame and the darkness that is the ever-present
shadow.... There are many poems in ‘Flame and shadow’ to delight those
who cannot share her philosophy. There are songs of the faithful
beauty of Aldebaran and Altair, and songs of the open sea and the
mountains. It is necessary to mention, also, the songs of places, of
St Louis, of New York, and Santa Barbara, and the songs of people and
of their secret thoughts, ‘rushing without sound’ from the hidden
places of their minds. But the best of Sara Teasdale’s songs of people
are her love songs, always.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“While other melodists are still copying the effects of Sara Teasdale,
Miss Teasdale has stopped imitating herself. The clean,
straightforward idiom of ‘Rivers to the sea’ has a warmer naturalism
in ‘Flame and shadow,’ a more spontaneous intensity.” L: Untermeyer
+ =Bookm= 52:361 Ja ’21 600w
“Into these songs are gathered many an element, many a mood, many an
image that I cannot display here upon the screen of comment. It is
indeed almost like sacrilege to do ought but read and be delighted by
the rare and subtle presentment of them in Miss Teasdale’s songs.” W.
S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 25 ’20 1200w
“Sara Teasdale seems constantly assailed with two temptations, and it
is only at intervals that she entirely surmounts them. One is the
temptation to make effective endings, to save up points and appeals
for a last line. The other temptation is to deal exclusively in stock
love-lyric materials.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 360w
Reviewed by Babette Deutsch
=N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 150w
“This is a book to read with reverence of joy.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 31 ’20 1750w
+ =Spec= 125:745 D 4 ’20 30w
=TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS, ALEXANDER LOUIS.= Tyltyl. il *$5 (21c) Dodd
20–18246
A prose version of Maeterlinck’s play “The betrothal” prepared by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. The story is told in seven chapters: The
woodcutter’s cottage; The miser; The fairy’s palace; The ancestors;
The children; The leave-taking; The awakening. There are eight colored
illustrations by Herbert Paus.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:342 D ’20 20w
“The pictures here are distinctly made for the text, not merely
repetitions of the play.”
+ =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 160w
“It has all the appeal to both young and old that Maeterlinck is able
to conjure with such apparent ease. It is a fascinating story. Paus
has achieved a sort of stained glass quality in the illustrations, and
this effect is enhanced by the mounting.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 190w
+ =Review= 3:481 N 17 ’20 50w
=TELBERG, GEORGE GUSTAV, and WILTON, ROBERT.=[2] Last days of the
Romanovs. il *$3 Doran 947
20–21942
The book consists of two independent parts. Part one contains an
account of the judicial examinations of the witnesses connected with
the life of the family at Czarskoe-Selo, Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg by
N. A. Sokoloff and copies of the depositions taken from the Omsk
archives by George Gustav Telberg, after the fall of the Kolchak
régime. Part two is the narrative of Mr Robert Wilton, for sixteen
years correspondent of the London Times in Russia. While part one is
taken up almost entirely with the examination of witnesses Mr Wilton’s
narrative contains: Prologue; The stage and the actors; No escape;
Alexandra misjudged; Razputin the peasant; Captives in a palace; Exile
in Siberia; The last prison; Planning the crime; Calvary; “Without
trace”; Damning evidence; All the Romanovs; The jackals; By order of
the “Tsik”; The red kaiser; Epilogue. Among the contents of Part three
are a list of the members of the imperial family at the outbreak of
the revolution, a chronology of the documents and an alphabetical
index of names.
* * * * *
“We cannot speak very highly of Mr Wilton’s method of handling this
tragic history. His narrative contains much that is of interest and
importance, but it seems to have been hastily written, and it is
diffuse, occasionally slangy, and hotly argumentative. The second part
of the book is the more interesting.”
+ − =Ath= p518 O 15 ’20 580w
=Booklist= 17:154 Ja ’21
“To the present reviewer at least Mr Wilton’s habit of intemperate
statement largely vitiates whatever of truth there may be to his
charges. This allowance being made, however, the present work is
really invaluable as historical evidence, and simply as a human
document and a dramatic picture of life it possesses a profound and
poignant interest.” J: Bunker
+ − =Bookm= 52:364 Ja ’21 800w
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 8 ’21 480w
=R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 90w
=Spec= 125:572 O 30 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 S 23 ’20 1050w
=TEN-MINUTE= talks with workers. $1 (2½c) Doubleday 330
20–18322
Short articles reprinted from The Times (London) Trade Supplement. “In
preparing them for American publication, only such editorial
interpolations were made as were considered desirable in order to make
the talks more readable for an American audience.” Among the subjects
are: The partners; Paying our way; The origin of wealth; The pillars
of society; What is capital? The sanity of society; The cost of an
article; What is money? Money and prices; What banks do for us; What
is the worker entitled to? What are profits? The ideal factory; The
upward path.
* * * * *
“They are clearly worded, aptly illustrated, and the lessons are
easily understandable. He is talking rather to employers in his book
than with workers, for he makes no point of contact with the latter.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 160w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 9 ’20 130w
“There is a bit too much of a literary quality about it, and it is too
advanced in subject matter for consumption by American factory labor
much below the rank of foreman. But with suitable modifications it
could be adapted to the requirements of any given group. In the hands
of an able and resourceful teacher it would be an admirable text in
conventional economics for secondary schools or even college
freshmen.” E. R. Burton
+ =Survey= 45:515 Ja 1 ’21 180w
“They all contain a great deal of thought, pithily and happily
expressed in compressed form.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 260w
=TENNYSON, HAROLD COURTENAY.= Harold Tennyson, R. N.; the story of a
young sailor; put together by a friend. *$2 Macmillan
(Eng ed 20–5765)
“The facts about young Tennyson are mainly drawn from his mother’s
journal and from his own bright, chatty letters to members of his
family. That he was the grandson of the poet and, in addition, came
from such stock as the clever Boyles and the handsome Courtenays
accounts for his gifts of brain and physique, as well as for his
wonderfully keen appreciation of all things beautiful, whether in
nature or in human relations. The story of his early years is told
from Lady Tennyson’s diary. After entering the British navy, his
letters home take up the narrative. He served for a while on board the
Queen Mary before being transferred to the destroyer Viking, which
struck a mine in the English Channel in January, 1916. The explosion
killed him and several of his shipmates, and brought to an end a
career full of promise of the highest order.”—Nation
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20
“Presents a peculiarly engaging character, and forms, in its modest
way, a valuable document on the British navy’s doings in the war.”
+ =Brooklyn= 12:17 O ’19 30w
“In those letters written during his midshipman’s cruise to the West
Indies the descriptions of the places visited reveal an unusual eye
for scenery, as well as a happy faculty of making real the persons he
met.”
+ =Nation= 109:254 Ag 23 ’19 240w
“This little volume is full of charm, and the best part of it consists
of Harold Tennyson’s letters. Perhaps the most delightful letters are
those about Russia. The description of Reval is a masterpiece of
condensation, and the brilliant account of Petrograd is quite as
good.”
+ =Sat R= 127:205 Mr 1 ’19 660w
“The main characteristic of his letters is his striking power of
description.”
+ =Spec= 122:141 F 1 ’19 520w
=TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON.= Bruce. *$2 Dutton
20–7674
“All dog lovers, especially those who have read ‘Lad—a dog,’ by Albert
Payson Terhune, will be interested in another story about a collie by
the same author. Bruce’s story is different, however. His early
history is unique. We learn of his mother’s unfortunate experiences,
and how she came to ‘The place’ by accident. Her only son, named
Bruce, a ‘hopelessly awkward and senseless pup,’ soon merited the name
of ‘The pest,’ through his countless escapades. Interesting, indeed,
is the story of his development from an ‘Ugly duckling’ into a
beautiful, intelligent collie, who was destined to play his part in
the world war; and no small part it was that Bruce played overseas.
Trained at home to carry messages, he readily learned the duties of a
courier dog, and soon became the idol of the soldiers with whom he was
stationed. Through many thrilling crises of war Bruce proved himself a
soldier and a hero. Finally wounded, he was allowed to return to his
happy home in America.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“Few writers have portrayed collies as cleverly as has Mr Terhune.
Bruce is made to seem quite as much a personality as any of his human
friends, and his actions are always interesting and never boresome.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 260w
+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 310w
“Whether or not the incidents are true matters little, so
entertainingly and sympathetically is the story told. A well-written
war-story with a collie for its hero ought to find many readers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 210w
=THATCHER, EDWARD.= Making tin can toys. il *$1.50 Lippincott 680
20–661
“The instructor in metal working at Teachers college, Columbia, gives
a detailed instruction book on the making of toys in which both grade
pupils and wounded soldiers have found interest and profit.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Ath= p717 My 28 ’20 80w
“This book is very useful in its emphasis on methods of working.”
+ =Booklist= 16:193 Mr ’20
“A book that will appeal both to the experienced mechanic and to the
inexperienced one, particularly to the younger or older boy who
delights to handle tools.”
+ =Cath World= 110:844 Mr ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 60w
=THAYER, LEE (MRS H. W. THAYER).= Unlatched door. *$1.75 Century
20–9139
“The hero of this mystery tale, after a night with Bacchus, misses his
own doorway and steps through the unlatched door of his next neighbor
in the brownstone block in which his house is situated. But in a few
moments he emerges, thoroughly sobered, for just within the door lay
the dead body of a beautiful woman. She has been murdered of course;
and the young man instinctively decides that he will be wise to
maintain ignorance. The next day, however, he is drawn in, when the
servants next door summon him. Unfortunately, he has accidentally left
evidence of his visit, and when the police take charge he becomes one
of the suspects. A considerable group is involved, and,
characteristically in stories of the type, each one suspects the
other. When guilt is fixed, the one least suspected proves to be the
murderer.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“A fairly well written mystery murder story with an ingenious plot
better worked out than the average.”
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“It would be foolish to suggest that ‘The unlatched door’ is as
thrilling a mystery story as ‘The thirteenth chair,’ because it most
certainly is not. It is a good mystery story, but Mrs Thayer is rather
too much interested in the love story which she introduces.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 240w
=Cleveland= p72 Jl ’20 30w
“‘The unlatched door’ is likely to puzzle even the most sophisticated
of fiction readers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 400w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 140w
=THAYER, WILLIAM ROSCOE.= Art of biography. *$1.50 Scribner 920
20–15938
“‘The art of biography’ is a subject on which Mr W. R. Thayer may
justly claim to be heard, since he has proven his mastery of the art
by his biographies of Cavour, John Hay, and Theodore Roosevelt. In
this little volume, which comprises three lectures which he gave at
the University of Virginia, Mr Thayer does not attempt to formulate
rules to guide aspiring biographers to success. But he does trace the
development of the art of biographical writing from that perfect
ancient example—the story of Joseph and his brothers—down to Morley’s
three-volume ‘Gladstone.’ Mr Thayer thinks that ‘the constant
direction in the evolution of biography has been from the outward to
the inward.’ Three indispensable qualifications, he thinks, the
biographer must have. He must have real sympathy with his subject. In
the second place, the biographer must tell the story as nearly as
possible as the actors underwent it. Finally, the biographer must work
as the portrait painter works with his brush, always aiming to
discover and to reveal the salient characteristics which made a real
flesh-and-blood personality.”—Review
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“Mr Thayer’s work evidences a wide range of reading and his critical
faculty gives especial value to his comment.”
+ =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 210w
“At his best he is capable; at his worst, his lack of imagination is
conspicuous.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 350w
“A scholarly, illuminating survey.”
+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 30w
+ =Review= 3:425 N 3 ’20 390w
“There is more than entertainment here: it is a pungent bit of
literary criticism.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 180w
=THOMAS. DANIEL LINDSEY, and THOMAS, LUCY BLAYNEY.=[2] Kentucky
superstitions. *$3 Princeton univ. press 398.3
20–18391
“Ancient and modern love signs, weather signs, good luck signs, bad
luck signs, cures, wishes, dreams, beliefs about ghosts, witches,
hoodoos, haunted houses, and a great variety of other things are
brought together and arranged in a very readable form. There are
altogether 3,954 superstitions listed. An index adds to the value of
the volume.”—Survey
* * * * *
“The volume will be of great value for psychologists.”
+ =Ath= p891 D 31 ’20 170w
=Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 190w
+ =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 280w
“The authors have done an excellent piece of work by collecting and
classifying with great patience and care the current superstitious
beliefs found almost everywhere in this region.” J: F. Smith
+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p857 D 16 ’20 880w
=THOMAS, EDWARD.= Industry, emotion and unrest. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 304
20–13787
In dealing with our modern economic life and the factors which make
for industrial and social unrest, the author chooses to portray
incidents and cases rather than to present economics and sociology as
a science. He emphasizes the need of an ethical interest of the worker
in his work and a satisfying emotional connection with its product. He
sees the solution of our present day troubles in administrative
methods rather than in more drastic revolutionary changes; and makes
it one of his practical suggestions, at the end of the book, that the
middle class youth—as the potential industrial leaders—should learn by
practical experience of the strenuous life of workers. Contents:
Emotion in industry; Business groups and business ideals; Business
methods and business ethics; Decadence of the middle class; Our social
group heredity; Ideas, ethics and institutionalism; Education, emotion
and idealism; Adventure and ethics; The government, law and unrest;
Some gulfs, complexities and loyalties; A summary and some
suggestions; Notes and index.
* * * * *
“The form of his book is unusual because, being a lawyer, the author
has seen the advantage of presenting his material in the case system.
They are in fact actual and not theoretical cases, which will mean
much to the interest of readers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 320w
+ =Ind= 105:170 F 12 ’21 50w
Reviewed by C. S. Parker
=Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 500w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w
=THOMAS, GEORGE HOLT.= Aerial transport. il *$12 (*30s) Doran 629.1
(Eng ed 20–13149)
The author was one of the first to advocate aircraft as a weapon in
war-time and is now interested in proving its value in commerce, for
high-speed travel and mail service. His object in this book is to
supply “between the covers of a single volume, and written in a quite
informal, non-technical way, a clear, uncoloured statement of just
what a commercial aircraft can do, and also—which is just as
important—what it cannot do.” (Foreword) The contents, after an
introduction by Viscount Northcliffe, are: First considerations
(Essence of the problem—length of stages—loads—speed—risk—etc.);
Progress—immediate and future; “The air express”; Speeding up the
business letter; Meteorology in commercial flying; Some general
conclusions, with special reference to airships; Some questions of L.
S. D.; Flying and the law; Aerial transport in remote places, with
some notes as to passenger-carrying; Aerial photography and patrol.
The book is profusely illustrated, has an appendix, an index, and four
infolded maps.
* * * * *
“Mr Holt Thomas is an enthusiast, but a reasonable and restrained
enthusiast. As the book is somewhat discursive and contains many
repetitions, it is a pity he did not see that a proper index was
provided.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p150 Mr 4 ’20 930w
=THOMAS, SHIPLEY.= History of the A. E. F. il *$6 Doran 940.373
20–19161
In the foreword to the volume, Brigadier General U. G. McAlexander
says of the author that he “has taken great pains to present
historical facts in an attractive, readable form and to show to the
mind a realistic picture of the whole scene of operations.” After
giving the history of events, from the arrival of Pershing in France
to the armistice, he devotes four chapters to: Auxiliary arms; The
services of supply; Division histories; A visitor’s guide. The book
has illustrations, maps and an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
“Amid the great multiplicity of books on the war in its various phases
which have appeared since the armistice there is none which, in the
present or the future, is of more intensive value than this.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 620w
“It is written with unflagging energy and interest, is thoroughly
readable, and its author is the very embodiment of the type and spirit
of the thousands of young officers from civil life who made such
admirable leaders of our troops in action.” F. V. Greene
+ =N Y Times= p3 O 24 ’20 3950w
“It is the opinion of those most competent to judge that his story of
America’s participation in the war is as accurate and complete as it
can be made at this time.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 80w
=THOMPSON, CHARLES THADDEUS.= Peace conference day by day; a
presidential pilgrimage leading to the discovery of Europe. *$2.50
Brentano’s 940.314
20–9820
“Mr Thompson is the superintendent of the Associated press foreign
service. He acted as special correspondent in reporting the
proceedings of the Peace conference, and Colonel House has vouched for
his accuracy. This book gives a circumstantial account of the writing
of the peace treaty and the League of nations covenant.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:16 O ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 190w
“This is by far the most interesting and valuable of the contributions
to our post-war literature. Mr Thompson’s work seems to be an honest,
unbiased effort to present the reader with the facts as he saw them.
His training enabled him to get at the inside of many situations that
were decidedly complex. All this wealth he gives most liberally to his
readers in a vivid, chatty way that entertains and enlightens.”
+ =Cath World= 112:248 N ’20 450w
Reviewed by W: MacDonald
=Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 230w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=N Y Times= 25:6 Jl 18 ’20 3300w
“Such a useful volume as this should assuredly have had an index. The
work is not only extraordinarily informative but equally
entertaining.”
+ − =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 200w
=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 50w
=THOMPSON, FRANK VICTOR.= Schooling of the immigrant. *$2 Harper 371.9
20–18396
This volume is the first of eleven Americanization studies instituted
by the Carnegie corporation of New York, under the direction of Allen
T. Burns. The author calls attention to the fact that since the
preparation of the volume was begun such a complete overturn of ideas
respecting Americanization has taken place that the term itself is
being replaced by such terms as “citizenship” and “national
unification.” This implies a larger comprehension of the problem and a
realization that the “drive” method must give way to a process of
education “not to be undertaken impulsively, but systematically,
persistently, and determinedly.” Contents: The school and
nationalization; Problems and policies; Public-school administration;
Private schools and public responsibility; Methods of teaching
English; Measuring progress in English; Educational service stations;
The training of teachers; Trend of legislation; Schooling in
citizenship; Summary; Appendix, maps, diagrams and tables.
* * * * *
“Very useful to the serious organizer of immigrant work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20
“As a text-book it gets to the heart of the matter and will be found
invaluable to teachers interested in the education of the immigrant.”
A. Yezierska
+ =Bookm= 52:498 F ’21 420w
“Leaders in educational, industrial, or welfare work in any community
which is facing the immigrant problem will find this book interesting
in its account of conditions that exist and rich in suggestion of
means by which these may be improved.”
+ =School R= 28:788 D ’20 750w
“This is the most reassuring book on the subject of immigrant
education that has yet appeared.” J. K. Hart
+ =Survey= 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 70w
=THOMPSON, HOLLAND.= New South; a chronicle of social and industrial
evolution. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale
univ. press 975
19–19140
“With no desire to encourage sectionalism, it seems to have been the
purpose of the editors to have every part of the country intelligently
presented in ‘The chronicles of America.’ ‘The new South,’ written by
a southern man, Dr Holland Thompson, gives an account of the
industrial, intellectual, and social progress that has been made by
the South since the Civil war. In this volume, land and labor problems
have an important place.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“This small volume on a large subject has two notable characteristics.
One is its catholicity of spirit. The other characteristic of the book
is its descriptive value. As a brief and suggestive survey of the rise
of a civilization the book is unsurpassed.” W: K. Boyd
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:146 O ’20 360w
“The chapters on The background, The revolt of the common man, and
Industrial development may, perhaps, be found to contain more that is
new than any of the others. The second mentioned, which describes the
wresting of political control from the Confederate soldier, is
probably the best in the book. All are good, however.” M. J. White
+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:159 S ’20 500w
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 80w
=THOMPSON, MRS JANE SMEAL (HENDERSON), and THOMPSON, HELEN GERTRUDE.=
Silvanus Phillips Thompson, his life and letters. il *$7.50 Dutton
(Eng ed 20–11520)
“Many old students of the Finsbury technical college will welcome the
life of its first principal, which has been compiled by his wife and
daughter. Thompson accepted that post in 1885 and occupied it until
his death in 1916. In addition to his life-work at Finsbury, Thompson
wrote one of the best of elementary textbooks on electricity and
magnetism, a standard work on dynamo-electric machinery, lives of
Faraday and Lord Kelvin, and various monographs connected with Gilbert
and the early history of magnetism, besides other books and a number
of scientific papers. He was a convinced member of the Society of
Friends, and frequently spoke at the Westminster meeting and
elsewhere. Some of his religious addresses were printed in a
posthumous work, ‘A not impossible religion.’—Spec
* * * * *
“These ladies enable us to make a closer acquaintance with one, to
whose lucid explanations from the platform we have listened with
pleasure, and whose text-books we have read with profit. The
references to his home life are restrained but interesting. But we
could have wished that letters other than those dealing with
scientific matters were more plentiful.”