Engineering Ag 6 ’20)
“His biography is interesting and it is also stimulating.”
+ =Review= 3:392 O 27 ’20 170w
=Spec= 125:153 Jl 31 ’19 380w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p181 Mr 18 ’20 1700w
=THOMPSON, JOHN REUBEN.= Poems; with a biographical introd. by J: S.
Patton. *$2 Scribner 811
20–6690
“The University of Virginia edition of the ‘Poems of John R. Thompson’
is a tribute to the memory of one of the most memorable of Confederate
poets. Now first collected, Thompson’s verses exhibit the gay and
friendly—nor wholly unpuritanical—spirit which ruled the older
literary Richmond. Here are echoes of Byron, Campbell, Southey,
Béranger, Heine, Praed, Holmes, Saxe, neatly fitted to Virginian
occasions. The rhymed essays, Patriotism, Virginia, and Poesy, sum up
practically all that young Virginians were thinking and feeling from
1855 to 1859. The book was made possible by the Alfred Henry Byrd
gift, and well edited by Mr John S. Patton.”—Nation
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“It is good poetry of its time and kind, perfectly typical of the
spirit of the mid-nineteenth century, although it does not touch the
beauty and vigor of Poe, or the later sweetness and light of Lanier.”
E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 1500w
+ =Nation= 110:560 Ap 24 ’20 260w
“John R. Thompson was not a genius. He was a gentleman of talent and
culture. His verse is witty, fluent, eloquent, exquisitely ironical,
but never great.” M. Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 750w
=THOMPSON, MARGARET J.= Food for the sick and the well: how to select it
and how to cook it. *$1 World bk. 641.5
20–1484
Of the author of this practical little volume of recipes and
suggestions on diet Dr William Gerry Morgan says in the introduction
that she “has had years of experience in the care and feeding of the
sick, and during all that time she has been a close and earnest
student of dietetics from a practical standpoint.” Contents: General
considerations—food and health, a balanced menu, suggestions and
cautions; Recipes; Treatments; Index.
* * * * *
“This little book is written more especially for nurses but should
prove very handy also on the household book shelf of the home maker.”
+ =Survey= 43:622 F 21 ’20 100w
=THOMS, CRAIG S.= Essentials of Christianity. *$1.25 Am. Bapt. 230
20–272
“Religion, like everything else,” says the author, “has caught the
temper of the age,” and this little book can be called an attempt to
apply modern efficiency methods to religion. In these times of wornout
institutions and necessary readjustments in all our relations,
religion too must be reduced to its lowest terms in order that we can
build anew; and constructive thought and vigor of action are called
for. Whatever our difficulties may be, the author thinks it is always
possible “to secure an effective starting point for one’s religious
life by beginning where one is and cooperating with God according to
one’s light and opportunity.” Contents: Faith; God; Christ: Evolution;
The Bible; Prayer; Immortality; The church; Cooperating with God.
=THOMSON, JOHN ARTHUR.= System of animate nature. 2v *$6 Holt 570
20–18325
Two volumes containing the Gifford lectures delivered in the
University of St Andrews in the years 1915 and 1916, by the Regius
professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen. The
subject matter of this lecture series is usually philosophical,
dealing with the nature of man and the universe. In presenting the
biological point of view, Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable,
but as a coninterpretation or our religious conviction, we must admit
the desirability of having more than a passing acquaintance with the
system of things of which our everyday life is in some measure part.”
His aim has been “to state the general results of biological inquiry
which must be taken account of if we are to think of organic nature as
a whole and in relation to the rest of our experience.” (Preface)
Volume 1 contains ten lectures on The realm of organisms as it is;
Volume 2, also composed of ten lectures, is devoted to The evolution
of the realm of organisms. Volume 2 has a bibliography of nineteen
pages and an index.
* * * * *
“As correcting the ‘red in tooth and claw’ conception of the animate
world. Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable, but, as a
contribution to the ethical and religious problem, they are
unimportant.”
+ − =Ath= p478 O 8 ’20 1150w
“Will appeal only to the reflective who can use biological facts as
the material of thought. For large and special libraries.”
+ =Booklist= 17:101 D ’20
“The author’s resources in the way of naturalistic erudition are
astounding, and his command of English at once fresh and fascinating.”
E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 70w
“It is a book that most certainly ought to have been written. It takes
stock, so to speak, of the situation of speculative biology at the
beginning of a new phase in science, and it does so in a manner that
is candid, comprehensive, and most attractive.” J. J.
+ − =Nature= 106:494 D 16 ’20 1950w
“If these Gifford lectures had no other value they would be welcome
for their simple and comprehensive statement of the present phase of
the Darwinian theory. In some cases he lays himself open to a charge
of bad philosophy, in others of bad science. None the less, we are
grateful for what is always a serious and often a true and beautiful
book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p848 D 16 ’20 1900w
=THORLEY, WILFRID CHARLES=, tr. and ed. Fleurs-de-lys. *$2 Houghton
841.08
20–26552
This anthology of French verse reaches from the thirteenth century to
the present. It is a free translation and in his introduction to the
collection, which is in part a treatise on the art of translation, the
author sets forth his reasons for a free rendering. The greater part
of the introduction is a historical survey of French verse. The poems
are chronologically grouped and the English employed is likewise
chronologically adapted to the original verse. There are copious
notes, an index of authors and an index of first lines.
* * * * *
“Mr Thorley’s power of fluent expression gets the better of his sense
of history. What he brings with him obscures what he takes. But to
harp on Mr Thorley’s failures is ungenerous. Let us rather express our
surprise and admiration that in a volume so large and so varied the
failures are not more numerous and more complete.” A. L. H.
+ − =Ath= p209 F 13 ’20 1000w
+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20
“The whole collection is marked by inspiration, technical flexibility
and literary tact.”
+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 60w
“Mr Thorley displays more earnestness than achievement.”
+ − =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 70w
“There is perhaps no version in his book that is not accomplished
poetry, and he has an especial richness, ease, and sonorousness in
handling the frequent sonnet form. He is less happy when he rebuilds
poems. But it is his whole book that places Mr Thorley definitely in
the front rank of those artists among whom he wishes to be counted.”
Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:857 Je 26 ’20 280w
“Mr Thorley is sometimes a spirited translator. But his felicity is
intermittent, and is sometimes dotted or crossed with infelicity.”
+ − =Review= 3:152 Ag 18 ’20 240w
“With a remarkable gift for translation, he has chosen his material
with taste and with a scholarship free from pedantry.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 10:202 O ’20 60w
=THORNDIKE, ASHLEY HORACE.= Literature in a changing age. *$3 Macmillan
820.9
20–16291
“The effect of life upon literature, especially as it concerns the
English people, is the problem that Professor Thorndike examines in
this book. His survey includes a century as he contrasts the
difference of English literature after Waterloo with its character
today after the great war. The study of the changes that are the
groundwork upon which literature bases its expression is primarily
concerned with life. Thus Professor Thorndike in the first four
chapters of his book deals with literature—down to Carlyle with a more
or less historical sense. His next five chapters shift the whole basis
of this historic groundwork with the revolts and evolutions that began
to change the aspects of society. Hence Progress and poverty,
Democracy and empire, Religion, Woman, and Science, invention and
machinery are the subjects discussed. What Professor Thorndike
predicts for the future is a reconcilement, a quicker compromise than
in the past, between the changing forces of life and the imaginative
symbols, which is literature’s interpretation and embodiment of
them.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“One always takes up with respect a work by Professor Thorndike, but
this book is below his reputation. It is solid and sensible, and
presents truly the main facts about the period and its literature. But
the ground covered is so wide that little not already known to the
student of history or of literature can be told within the small
compass of the volume: and the book lacks the unity, lucidity, and
brilliancy which could alone make memorable so brief a treatment of so
large and complex a subject.” W. C. Bronson
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:362 Ja ’21 410w
“A careful piece of work that will interest only widely read people
who do not need an entrancing style to attract them. No index.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 2 ’20 780w
“Perhaps it is this wealth of illustration which hinders the movement
of the thesis: the author is continually led astray into the realms of
literary criticism admirable in itself, but not bearing directly
enough on the subject under discussion. We must confess to having
found the opening chapters dull, academic, a laboring of the obvious.”
W. H. B.
+ − =Grinnell R= 16:333 Ja ’21 400w
“On the political and economic side his conclusions are terrifically
unconvincing.” Pierre Loving
− + =N Y Call= p10 Ja 16 ’21 900w
“To this new study he has brought the integrity of method and the
comprehensive acuteness which he had displayed in his previous works.
He has written a book to be enjoyed by all lovers of literature and to
be appreciated by all who can recognize the clear and cogent writing
which is the result of wide culture and of deep thought.” Brander
Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p2 O 17 ’20 1800w
“With what seems pretty near perversity, he has chosen scrupulously to
avoid the inevitable circumstances of chronology, and to arrange his
matter under such categories as ‘Democracy and empire,’ ‘Woman,’ and
so on, and instead of stating facts he is apt only to allude. The
resulting impression is of confused admiration.”
+ − =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 130w
=Survey= 45:330 N 27 ’20 260w
“It is an extensive and fascinating subject, and it is handled as we
should expect a thoroughly efficient American professor to handle it.
That is to say, he designs his structure in a clear and logical way.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D ’20 230w
=THORNLEY, ISOBEL D.= England under the Yorkists, 1460–1485; with a
preface by A. F. Pollard. (Univ. of London intermediate source-books of
history) il *$3.35 (*9s 6d) Longmans 942.04
20–4567
“Though primarily intended for the use of undergraduates, this volume
of extracts from contemporary sources for the reigns of Edward IV and
Richard III will interest a larger public. Miss Thornley has ranged
widely among printed and unprinted materials in selecting passages to
illustrate the political, constitutional, ecclesiastical, economic,
and social aspects of that turbulent generation.”—Spec
* * * * *
“The work is admirably done.”
+ =Nation= 111:304 S 11 ’20 240w
+ =Spec= 124:248 F 21 ’20 210w
=THURSTON, ERNEST TEMPLE.= Sheepskins and grey russet. il *$2.50 Putnam
20–1212
This is the story of a curious couple, “vagabonds,” the author calls
them, from the restlessness with which they change from one abode to
the other. They have a fad for old houses, and whenever they are
“settled for life” in one place they find another which is even older
and more to their liking. At last they buy quite an ancient farm near
Tewkesbury and it is at this place that “A. H.” describes his visit to
them. They are a most engaging couple, are Bellwattle and Cruikshank,
with their oddities and whimsies and their farming vicissitudes, and
the reader is left with the impression that if a child should come to
bless their union, their restlessness would vanish. The illustrations
are by Emile Verpilleux.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20
“There is a whimsical tenderness in Mr Thurston’s treatment of his
characters. It is his most pleasing mood, and it is present throughout
his pastoral.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 700w
“‘Sheepskins and grey russet’ is really of value. This is a most
gentlemanly book, with good antecedents, a reasonable income, and an
excellent digestion.”
+ =Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 120w
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 80w
+ =Lit D= p89 Je 26 ’20 2150w
“Many chapters give us an insight into country life in England. Not in
the manner of Thomas Hardy or Eden Phillpotts, but in the more
substantial and eternal manner of the ‘Stable boys’ almanac.’” B: de
Casseres
− =N Y Times= 25:221 My 2 ’20 800w
“Charmingly printed and illustrated.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 50w
“The charm of the present book lies not a little in its slightness and
unobtrusiveness as a story. The thread is there, a tale is told; but
with great economy of motion, almost as if by inadvertence.” H. W.
Boynton
+ =Review= 3:131 Ag 11 ’20 400w
“It must be confessed that as far as any practical assistance to an
American family wanting to break into country life is concerned, the
book is literature pure and simple, and by no means to be classed
under useful arts. Perhaps they would say the same in England; but
anyway, literature is quite worth while, and this book belongs in the
worthwhile class.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 260w
=THWING, ANNIE HAVEN.= Crooked and narrow streets of the town of Boston,
1630–1822. il *$5 (7c) Jones. Marshall 974.4
20–19769
The book gives a brief historical survey of how Boston came to be
Boston and then confines itself to the history of its streets and
their original inhabitants and ancestry. But few of the old streets
survive even in pictures and of the survivors most have been widened.
“Many of the old streets were so narrow that it was difficult for two
vehicles to pass each other and so crooked that after a fire the town
invariably ordered them straightened.” (Introductory) The contents
are: The North end; Government and business centre; South end; The
West end; The neck; Notes and index of streets. The book is
illustrated with old prints and has seven insert maps.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21
“It is replete with accurate and minute information, and yet it does
not lack the anecdotal vivacity which makes this kind of book good
reading. The volume is admirably put together, and the engravings and
old maps are especially interesting.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 130w
“There could hardly be a pleasanter guide book for a devout explorer
than ‘The crooked and narrow streets of Boston.’”
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 70w
“Its accuracy is vouched for by the fact that it is the outcome of a
life-work, whose results are treasured by the Massachusetts Historical
society. There are numerous agreeable lighter touches.”
+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 160w
“It is a work giving much valuable information and might well be
imitated in all of our important cities.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 160w
“Miss Thwing’s book will remove any lingering doubt you may have as to
the historical interest of those streets or as to the quaint
picturesqueness that was theirs in a bygone age.”
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 2 ’21 500w
+ =R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 50w
=TITUS, HAROLD.= Last straw. il *$1.75 (2c) Small
20–4711
Jane Hunter falls heir to a western ranch. She is an eastern society
girl who knows little about the West and had it not been that her
fortunes were at a low ebb she would have taken little interest in her
new property. She goes West hoping to realize ready money out of the
place and once there events decide her to stay. Dick Hilton, the
easterner who had long wanted to marry her, follows her to the West
and remains there to add to her troubles. Of the latter she has many,
including a dishonest foreman, cattle thieves, and a “nester” who cuts
off her best watering place and who is only a tool in the hands of her
enemies. Tom Beck, who had refused to take a chance in the draw for
foreman but who stays on the ranch to serve her at every turn, makes a
very satisfactory hero and after an exciting bit of fighting the story
comes to a peaceful close.
* * * * *
“The excellence of the novel lies not in its characters, not in its
plot, which is always stirring, but in the way the plot works out of
the characters. This stamps it as first-class work.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 520w
“Mr Titus knows his subject; he writes with a facile pen, and ‘The
last straw’ will be keenly enjoyed by all lovers of western adventure
tales.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:221 My 2 ’20 550w
=TODD, ARTHUR JAMES.= Scientific spirit and social work. *$2 Macmillan
361
19–18666
“Prof. A. J. Todd, in his new book, points out that for 25 years
social work has been professionalizing itself. He shows how modern
social work enlarges the ‘rights of man,’ how it contributes to social
progress, and what qualifications in character and training it demands
of those who have entered it as a vocation.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“A most readable book for social workers”
+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20
+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 80w
“The book, like some others based on college lectures, achieves an
effect of reasoning by interpellation of ‘then,’ ‘therefore,’ ‘it
follows,’ ‘and to sum up’ and contains frequent adjurations to ‘hard
thinking’ without corresponding performance. Much of the material is a
trifle obvious.”
− =Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 220w
=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 15 ’20 270w
“In matters of detail we find much with which we differ. But all
trained social workers and all teachers of applied sociology will
welcome this vigorous, powerful statement of the principles and
methods and ideals of social work.” J. E. Hagerty
+ − =Survey= 43:621 F 21 ’20 650w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 40w
=TOMLINSON, H. M.= Old junk. *$2 (5c) Knopf 910
(Eng ed 19–15918)
This collection of sketches and essays has been reprinted from various
publications between January, 1907 and April, 1918. They contain
impressions and reminiscences from many lands and seas. S. K.
Ratcliffe in his foreword to the volume, says of the author: “Among
all the men writing in England today there is none known to us whose
work reveals a more indubitable sense of the harmonies of imaginative
prose.” The last seven of the papers reveal the author as
war-correspondent. Among the contents are: The African coast; Old
junk; The pit mouth; The art of writing; The derelict; The Lascar’s
walking stick; On leave; A division on the march; The ruins.
* * * * *
“It is at times like these that we find it extraordinary comfort to
have in our midst a citizen of the sea, a writer like Mr H. M.
Tomlinson. We feel that he is calm, not because he has renounced life,
but because he lives in the memory of that solemn gesture with which
the sea blesses or dismisses or destroys her own. The breath of the
sea sounds in all his writings.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p205 Ap 18 ’19 700w
+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20
“One opens this book at random and finds sentences, paragraphs, whole
pages that are at once a delight and a despair: a delight because they
are—well, delightful; and a despair because, peer as you may, you
cannot discover the secret of their making.” J: Bunker
+ =Bookm= 51:474 Je ’20 1050w
“For a set of essays written on land and sea, ‘Old Junk’ is a
misleading title. Mr Tomlinson is an artist to whom ‘the light that
never was’ is plainly visible. His descriptions of two voyages, one
along the African coast, and the other, the more familiar passage
across the Atlantic, are marvelous prose.” C. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w
“Delicate and helpless in his gestures, he yet is enduringly accurate
in imagination. His images are of that excellent variety which send
your eye to the corner of the ceiling for testing and reflection and
acceptance.”
+ =Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 180w
“No one has the right to look knowing when literature is mentioned
unless he is fully aware of Mr H. M. Tomlinson.” Rebecca West
+ =New Repub= 19:332 Jl 9 ’19 1400w
“A collection of stories of travel and chance which open out to the
reader new visions of the sea and all that thereon is.”
+ =Sat R= 127:428 My 3 ’19 70w
“Several of his papers deal with the war. He does not describe the
fighting, but its effect on those who come back from it—how it
disgusts them with life, how it works in them a change, not outwardly
perceptible, which makes them strangers to their own kith and kin. All
this is admirably thought and said, and so is a tribute to ‘the
nobodies’ who restore the balance of the world when it has been upset
by the highly placed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p181 Ap 3 ’19 500w
=TOMPKINS, DANIEL AUGUSTUS.= Builder of the new South; being the story
of his life work, by George Tayloe Winston. il *$3 Doubleday
20–18666
The new South, says the author, is not the achievement of educational
and religious missionaries but of industrial forces which are
epitomized in the life of Daniel Augustus Tompkins. “He built a new
South—of mills and factories, of skilled labor and machinery, of
diversified and intensified agriculture, of improved railways and
highways, of saving banks and building and loan associations—a new
South also of public schools, technical colleges, and expanding
universities, of independent journalism and independent thought—a new
South of universal education and democracy.” (Author’s summary of the
contents of the book)
* * * * *
“Describes a strong character and an important movement in American
history.”
+ =Booklist= 17:114 D ’20
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 240w
=TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR [TOMPKINS] POTTLE).= Joanna
builds a nest. il *$1.75 Bobbs
20–18300
“Joanna is a competent business woman, attractive, and with a bird’s
own instinct for home building. She buys a wretched little house on a
hill, sets the carpenters to work, advertises for a cheerful working
housekeeper and a slightly disabled soldier to run the place, and
herself comes out to enjoy her nest whenever she can snatch time from
business. The house becomes eventually a charming home, but the
cheerful, all-too-golden-haired housekeeper and the first and second
ventures in soldiers are vexing problems. The first man had been in
the wrong war. The second had come off rather badly from the right
one, but Joanna’s passion for remodelling only rejoices in the
material thus brought to her hand.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“How she succeeded in her efforts is related in a delightful manner,
quite in harmony with the subject and its circumstances.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 300w
“It is a comfortable story, a little sentimental, and the characters
are extremely well sketched. On the other hand, the illustrations are
anything but that.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 280w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p22 F 6 ’21 850w
Reviewed by D. W. Webster
+ =Pub W= 98:1193 O 16 ’20 290w
“There’s a good bit of sound sense in the house-remaking, and plenty
of entertainment in the story as a whole.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 150w
=TOOKER, LEWIS FRANK.= Middle passage. $1.90 (3c) Century
20–16345
David Lunt, a mere boy, of seafaring ancestry, ran away to sea in what
turned out to be a slaver. Being a saucy and adventurous lad he tried
the patience of the captain and the treatment he received aroused in
him a passion for vengeance. For this reason and not from a bad heart
he ships a second time in a slaver but his experiences this time close
that episode. Other risky undertakings follow, just this side of
crime. He is kept from overstepping the boundary line by the memory of
a face back home. In his brief and infrequent visits to the home town,
his love for Lydia becomes a pledge and he finally overcomes her
father’s opposition by a courageous confession of his near lapses in
church. The story is full of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth
escapes.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21
“It retains a certain value as a picture of life in an era which today
is as remote as Babylon. Mr Tooker is an alert and companionable
story-teller—a disciple of Conrad in action, though not in
atmosphere.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:142 O 20 ’20 130w
“Certain merits lacking in many of the sea stories which come from the
presses every year are possessed by this novel. In the first place, Mr
Tooker knows the sea in the intimate way that a sailor knows it.
Secondly, he has style, a simple and effective style.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 380w
“Mr Tooker always writes of the sea with sympathy and knowledge, and
we are inclined to think that this is the most vivid and exciting book
he has written.”
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 70w
=TORMEY, JOHN LAWLESS, and LAWRY, ROLLA CECIL.=[2] Animal husbandry. il
$1.40 Am. bk. 636
20–6658
“This brief manual has been prepared for use in the agricultural
classes which the Smith-Hughes act brought into being, and it is
consequently written for elementary students and for use in connection
with practical, every-day farm work. It comprises, like most ambitious
texts in animal husbandry, a description of the principal breeds of
horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry, a guide to methods of stock
judging, and a section on the care and management of animals.”—N Y
Evening Post
* * * * *
“A comprehensive volume, well illustrated, and most useful to the
intelligent student of modern farming.”
+ =Cath World= 112:554 Ja ’21 60w
“A few faults arise from the necessary brevity of the treatise.
Occasionally important information is left out.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 180w
=TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK.= Chapters in the administrative history of
mediaeval England. (Publications of the University of Manchester) 2v ea
*$7 (*12s) Longmans 354
20–14380
“Mr Tout’s magnum opus had its origin in a mood of almost casual
curiosity, awakened ten years ago by the essay of a young French
scholar upon the use or ‘diplomatic’ of the small seals which the
English kings used in their correspondence—the privy seal, the secret
seal, the signet. A desire to clear up a few obscure points in English
diplomatic of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries led him to
explore the untouched treasures of the public record office. The next
step was a reconstruction of the royal household—in particular, of its
administrative offices, the chamber and wardrobe, and of their
instruments, the small seals. Hence the sub-title of the work——‘The
wardrobe, the chamber, and the small seals.’ To a scholar with Mr
Tout’s wide knowledge of European history in the later middle ages
such an inquiry was full of suggestion; and so his book reached its
present form—a survey of English administration, almost a revision of
English political and constitutional history, from the Norman conquest
to the death of Richard II.”—Ath
* * * * *
“A most valuable feature of Professor Tout’s book will be found in the
luminous exposition of sources and authorities as set forth in a
descriptive chapter on documentary material. With clearness and
originality there is apt to be excessive positiveness. In points of
controversy the author occasionally falls into the temptation of
exaggeration by over-stating an opposing view in order the more
sharply to challenge it.” J. F. Baldwin
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:78 O ’20 1200w
“In these days of specialism Professor Tout has never forgotten the
more spacious period of scholarship. He is still under its influence.
And this is why, to a book packed with new material and highly
technical in character, he has been able to give the quality of fine
and significant history. Limited in range though it is, this book is
not unworthy of a place beside the ‘Constitutional history of
England.’” F. M. P.
+ =Ath= p174 Ag 6 ’20 2150w
“This is the most important contribution to the study of English
history that has been made in many a year. At every point it breaks
new ground; and at every point it shows an amplitude of knowledge and
a depth of research which put Professor Tout among the most eminent
scholars of this generation.” H. J. Laski
+ =Nation= 111:sup666 D 8 ’20 1000w
“In emphasizing a too much neglected phase of institutional
development, Professor Tout has added greatly to our true appreciation
of English mediæval history. No student of English mediæval
institutions can afford to neglect these two invaluable volumes.”
+ =Review= 3:507 N 24 ’20 520w
“The labour must have been exhausting, but the dry bones live again,
in so far that the reader sees precisely how England was governed in
the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.”
+ =Spec= 125:277 Ag 28 ’20 1300w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 Ag 19 ’20 1450w
=TOWARDS= reunion; ed. by Alexander James Carlyle. *$2.75 Macmillan 280
20–6733
“‘Towards reunion,’ a book of fourteen chapters—half by writers in the
church of England and half from the Free churches—is well named. Both
words are strikingly suggestive of the purpose of the book. In
different ways, that sometimes do not altogether agree, they give
expression to a common vision of a ‘great spiritual and visible
unity.’ That the emphasis should be put upon the spiritual, as the
means to the visible, unity, is expressed in the preface and suggested
by putting as the last and climactic chapter ‘The holy spirit in the
churches.’ Besides the names of the writers appear, as witnessing to
the common aim of the book, the names of over fifty other leaders in
the churches, all of whom were also members of the inter-church
conferences out of which the book really came.”—Bib World
* * * * *
“It is open, no doubt, to the criticism that the groups concerned had
never any serious divergences; but, though this lessens its value as a
practical step to reunion, it does not detract from its worth as a
general contribution to the problem.”
+ − =Ath= p686 Ag 1 ’19 1450w
+ − =Bib World= 54:203 Mr ’20 400w
=Sat R= 128:368 O 18 ’19 1400w
“There is much in what they describe as ‘contributions to mutual
understanding’ which commands sympathy. On the main issue, that of
reunion, it is difficult not to think that they multiply words without
increasing sense. It is certain that they contain a large number of
very disputable assertions.”
+ − =Spec= 123:215 Ag 16 ’19 900w
=TOWNS, CHARLES BARNES.= Habits that handicap. *$1.50 (4½c) Funk 613.8
20–3199
An exposition of the present prevalent evil of drug addiction in the
United States; the results it invariably causes, both socially and
individually; the difficulty of overcoming it; and the surest
effective remedy. The poisons Dr Towns condemns include many widely
used narcotics,—bromides, headache powders, cough syrups,
etc.,—alcoholic beverages, all forms of tobacco, as well as more
virulent drugs. As a nation we are fond of poisoning ourselves.
Prohibition has driven many to more harmful habits than the daily
cocktail or glass of beer. Our women have, many of them, acquired the
cigarette habit. Depoisoning ourselves will not be easy. The author
urges as the most effective remedy, legal regulation of the sale of
all drugs and narcotics, authoritative control of their use, and
“pitiless publicity.” The book includes a preface by Dr Richard C.
Cabot, and an appendix on The relation of alcohol to disease, by Dr
Alexander Lambert. The book covers practically the same ground as the
volume of similar title published by the Century company in 1915.
* * * * *
“The new edition is written in a manner even more attractive and
vigorous than the first.”
+ =Booklist= 16:292 My ’20
“Were the moderation of the book’s title reflected in the letterpress,
its influence would be strengthened. His denunciations take no account
of divergent views, save in so far as he disposes of them on the
ground of bias.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:119 O ’20 220w
“On the title page we find the sub-title, ‘The remedy for narcotic,
alcohol, tobacco and other drug addictions.’ It is disappointing
therefore to find no hint or suggestion in the book as to what the
remedy is.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p10 Mr 6 ’20 300w
=TOWNSHEND, SIR CHARLES VERE FERRERS.= My campaign (Eng title, My
campaign in Mesopotamia). 2v *$10 McCann 940.42
20–16919
“If the first campaign in Mesopotamia is not the best-known episode of
the war it is not for lack of information, and Sir Charles Townshend’s
contribution is one that will appeal to the student of military
affairs not only for the light it casts on the motives that moved him,
but also and even more as a careful and frank study of a campaign
which must ever be memorable in our history. Sir Charles Townshend
took the field as commander of the Sixth division in succession to
General Barrett, who retired through ill health, in April, 1915; and
in the last month of the year his offensive operations had ceased and
he was shut up in Kut. He had fought three battles, and his Sixth
division had proved itself a splendid fighting unit.”—Ath
* * * * *
“General Townshend reveals himself throughout as that rarest of
British products, a thoughtful, well-instructed student of scientific
warfare.”
+ =Ath= p474 Ap 9 ’20 1000w
=Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 900w
“The commanding officer of those British forces which fought Kut and
Ctesiphon writes a magnificent story without patches, and with
considerable skill.”
+ =Dial= 69:435 O ’20 130w
“A remarkable personality lives in these pages ... but the maps suffer
from a somewhat puzzling arrangement of arrows, and too much textual
detail.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:279 Mr 20 ’20 780w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 1500w
=TOWNSHEND, GLADYS ETHEL GWENDOLEN EUGENIE (SUTHERST) TOWNSHEND=,
marchioness. Widening circle. *$2 (2½c) Appleton
20–12812
The story begins realistically with an account of the girlhood of two
sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret Sutherland, who are shuttled back and
forth between affluence and penury by their father’s speculations.
Meg, the practical minded one, marries Lord Stranmore, a man twice her
age, and is very happy in her marriage. Elizabeth meets a prince in
disguise and from this point on the book becomes a fairy tale.
* * * * *
“The unreality of it cannot fail to appall any adult of sensibility
who peeps into its pages.”
− =N Y Times= p25 O 24 ’20 520w
“Reality, or even probability, counts for nothing in novels written
for flappers, male and female, for shop girls and errand boys. Of
incredible nonsense is this tale made up.”
− =Sat R= 128:537 D 6 ’19 450w
“A quite negligible tale.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 N 20 ’19 50w
=TRABUE, MARION REX, and STOCKBRIDGE, FRANK PARKER.= Measure your mind;
the mentimeter and how to use it. il *$3 Doubleday 136
20–7589
This popular treatise on the measurement of intelligence by scientific
methods is based on the experiences of psychological investigators in
both school and army. It addresses itself “to employers and those in
charge of the selection, grading, and promotion of workers of every
class, in factories, offices, and stores; to teachers of all grades,
from kindergarten to university; to parents who are interested in
ascertaining, and watching the growth of their children’s mental
development and to young men and young women striving for
self-improvement and advancement and desirous of learning something of
their own mental capacities and limitations as a guide to the
intelligent choice of vocations or professions.” (Preface) Contents:
Science versus guesswork; The applications of psychological tests;
What these tests measure; Standards for mental tests; Different types
of mental tests; Mental tests in the army; Psychological tests in
education; Mental tests in industry; How to use the mentimeter tests;
The mentimeter tests; Trade tests or tests of skill; Appendices,
charts and diagrams.
* * * * *
“A thoughtful examination of the tests will show that they have been
carefully worked out. But this valuable material of the book is likely
not to receive its due attention from industrial or business men
because, although the book purports seriously to crave the audience of
industry, it wavers to catch the teacher and other professional
classes; the early pages are sluggish, indefinitely organized reading.
The defects of ‘Measure your mind’ are entirely those of organization
and composition; the theory, the technique, and the essential content
are meritorious.” C: L. Stone
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:830 D ’20 350w
“If books of this sort can be used by others than experts, this one
has the advantage of simplicity.”
+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20
“The appendices with their diagrams are not the least valuable parts
of the work. The mentimeter tests form its more especially unique
feature.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 120w
+ =Cleveland= p89 S ’20 50w
“An excellent handbook, in popular style and very readable, but in
thorough-going scientific fashion. The book will have great value for
industrial personnel managers.” B. D. Wood
+ =J Philos= 17:640 N 4 ’20 690w
“The chief value of the book lies in its contribution to the general
education of the public.”
+ =Nation= 112:123 Ja 26 ’21 240w
=TRACY, LOUIS.= Sirdar’s sabre. $1.90 (4½c) Clode, E. J.
20–16931
This book consists of a series of ten loosely-connected stories of
life in India. They are told by Reginald Wayne, a young Englishman who
becomes an officer in the 2d Bengal Lancers. For the most part they
concern the exploits of Sirdar Bahadur Mohammed Khan, a “fire-eater”
Mohammedan officer. Three of them have an element of romance, but the
majority tell of the various problems that the English government
meets in India. The titles are: First impressions; La belle
Americaine; How Mohammed Khan became invulnerable; How the Sirdar
prevented a great war; The Tàj—and a fortune-teller; How the Sirdar
dacoited a dacoit; How we fed crocodiles on the Indus; The destiny of
the emerald eye; How we guarded the great pearl necklace; How the
Sirdar fought Ali Bagh, the Afridi.
* * * * *
“Full of adventure but not the author’s best in plot or
characterization.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21
“With ‘The sirdar’s sabre’ something seems to have gone radically
wrong. From the man who built up such atmosphere and vitality as was
in ‘The wings of the morning’ this book is inexcusable. Here we find
no sustained interest, little of characterization, and slight exercise
of the descriptive powers which the author possesses. Mr Tracy is to
be soundly berated for wasting excellent material.” J. W. D. S.
− =Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 580w
+ − =N Y Times= p19 O 24 ’20 300w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
=Pub W= 98:661 S 18 ’20 300w
=TRACY, LOUIS.= Strange case of Mortimer Fenley. $1.90 Clode, E. J.
20–2642
“When John Trenholme, artist, accepted a welcome commission from a
magazine editor to journey down to a certain old Hertfordshire village
and make a series of sketches of its imperiled beauties, he looked
forward to nothing more exciting than an agreeable, wholly peaceful
little expedition. Certainly he did not in the least expect to get
mixed up with a murder. It was a series of accidents which caused him
to be at a spot from which he could see a certain portion of the
beautiful old Elizabethan mansion misnamed ‘The towers’ at the moment
when Mortimer Fenley, banker, fell, ‘shot dead on his own doorstep.’
Mr Fenley’s elder son, Hilton, telephoned to Scotland Yard, and that
was how the two detectives, known to their colleagues as the ‘Big ‘un’
and the ‘Little ‘un’ came to the assistance of the local police, one
of whom had already, and quite without suspecting the fact, had an
extremely important share in the development of events which was to
bring about the solution of a most involved and puzzling mystery.”—N Y
Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:284 My ’20
“The usual mystery story written with charm of style, satisfying humor
and a wealth of allusion pertinent to both literature and life.”
+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 40w
“The story is well written, it moves quickly, and its characters are
real people, not the puppets who so often figure in tales of this
kind, the two detectives being especially well done.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 400w
“The outstanding feature of Louis Tracy’s ‘Strange case of Mortimer
Fenley’ is the absence of blood and ghastliness, of grimy alleys and
sordid back rooms. Mystery there is, in plenty, and excitement.”
Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 97:603 F 21 ’20 350w
=TRAIN, ARTHUR CHENEY.= Tutt and Mr Tutt. *$1.75 Scribner
20–6289
“The nine stories in this volume deal with the affairs of the firm of
Tutt & Tutt (the members are not related), the senior partner of which
is always addressed deferentially by his colleague as Mr Tutt. It is
Mr Tutt who tries the cases, Tutt who does the work of preparing them;
and to the unfriendly eye their activities might seem those of
shysters if they were not devoted, as a rule, to the worthy object of
protecting the poor and friendless against the stupidities and
brutalities of the law and some of those who practice it. The hero of
the book is Mr Tutt, who in the first story has a frame like
Lincoln’s, and by the end of the book has progressed so far that his
face looks like Lincoln’s. The villain, it must be confessed, is the
law itself.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w
+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“The best of the nine are very good, and all of them are ornamented by
entertaining comments on the philosophy of the law and justice.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 280w
“The stories are very human. Outwardly, Mr Tutt is a dry-as-dust
attorney; but association discloses in him a broad vein of humanity
which makes his many-sided character a bottomless well of delight. It
is one of Mr Train’s most entertaining books.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 450w
=TRAVEL= stories; retold from St Nicholas. il *$1.25 (3½c) Century 910.8
20–16861
Sixteen descriptive articles have been selected from St Nicholas for
this volume. Among them are: The Grand canyon of Arizona, by William
Haskell Simpson; In rainbow-land, by Amy Sutherland; Traveling in
India, by Mabel Albert Spicer; Where the sunsets of all the yesterdays
are found, by Olin D. Wheeler; Firecrackers, by Erick Pomeroy; Curious
clocks, by Charles A. Brassler; Motoring through the golden age, by
Albert Bigelow Paine; Lost Rheims, by Louise Eugenie Prickett; Out in
the big-game country, by Clarence H. Rowe. There are five
illustrations.
* * * * *
“Informational but not lacking in story interest.”
+ =Booklist= 17:79 N ’20
“An entertaining, informative volume.”
+ =Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 40w
=TREMAYNE, SYDNEY, pseud. (MRS ROGER COOKSON).= Echo. *$1.75 (1c) Lane
20–7528
All thru her girlhood Echo Stapylton is subjected to morbid and
unwholesome influences. Her mother runs away with an artist and Echo
grows up in the home of straight-laced unsympathetic relatives. When
she is seventeen a quarrel is precipitated over her friendship with
Max Borrow, an artist, and she goes to Paris to live with her father.
Max follows her, and to prevent their meetings her father places her
in a girls’ school. By practicing various deceits she arranges to see
him on various occasions but they have a disagreement and he goes to
America. Thereafter Echo meets her mother and it is arranged that she
is to live with her part of the time. She learns however that her
mother’s pretense of reform is a farce and leaves her to be greeted
with the news of her father’s death. Alone and dependent she accepts
an offer of marriage from a successful solicitor, some years her
senior. The marriage is unhappy and when her husband leaves her for
another woman she is free to marry her old lover Max.
* * * * *
“The tale is clever and readable.”
+ =Ath= p63 Ja 9 ’20 100w
“The novel is a long and fairly interesting one, but it gives the
impression that the author has gathered a great deal of commonplace
material before she begins and pours it into the pages through a
hopper. Readable as the book is, it is singularly lacking in literary
grace.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 550w
“The story is intense and written in the same brilliant style that
characterized Miss Tremayne’s previous story, ‘The auction mart.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 240w
“The interest of the book lies in the slow revelation of the character
of Echo. It is a tribute to the author that the reader finds his
impatience with Echo gradually changing to sympathy; it is as if he
encountered her in real life and found that he liked her better as he
knew her more intimately.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p673 N 20 ’19 500w
=TRENCH, HERBERT.= Napoleon; a play. *$2 Oxford 822
19–12898
“‘You are the eddy—they are the tide’, says Mrs Wickham to Napoleon
over the body of her dead son. The tide of humanity sweeps onward, and
the Napoleonic selfishnesses and individualisms that run counter to it
are no more than eddies swirling back against the current, soon to be
straightened out again by the irresistible onrush. Geoffrey Wickham is
the apostle of humanity, whose aim it is to make Napoleon see the
unreasonableness of his attitude. His plan is to kidnap Napoleon from
Boulogne—it is the year of the threatened invasion of England—to take
him out to sea, and there, in solitude, to persuade him into reason.
The plot of the play, which is full of dramatic situations, is the
story of his failure and death.”—Ath
* * * * *
“Mr Trench uses prose as his medium except in the critical scene
between Wickham and Napoleon, where he rises to a fine and rather
Browning-like blank verse.”
+ =Ath= p477 Je 13 ’19 150w
“Now here is at least a play. It has argument, dignity, eloquence and
dramatic movement; it is based upon a real conflict of ideas, in any
case they scarcely affect the whole. The whole work is disciplined;
there is rhetoric, where rhetoric should be; and where dispassionate
prose should be, there is dispassionate prose. It does honour to
English literature; and when we learn that it has been played for one
hundred nights with success, we shall believe that the English public
has begun to do honour to itself.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p584 Jl 11 ’19 1450w
=Brooklyn= 12:88 F ’20 30w
“Mr Trench’s play is worth all his poems twice over. It is one of the
few real fruits of the war.” Mark Van Doren
+ =Nation= 110:371 Mr 20 ’20 480w
“The play has faults. It is unwieldy in construction, the threads are
not always connected and the writing is at times over-elaborated. But
these defects cannot outweigh its poetic quality, its power of
characterization, and its intense drama. The scenes in Napoleon’s room
at Boulogne and those in Wickham’s boat are particularly noteworthy.
It would be interesting to see how it would stand the test of
production.”
+ − =Spec= 123:344 S 13 ’19 700w
“Surely this play is not merely to be read, but to be seen. But every
character is clear in outline, awaiting embodiment, demanding
presentment. Its characters are never mere puppets ... not even
Napoleon who must by now be more disgustedly weary of his earthly
immortality than any denizen of the underworld. He, at any rate should
return thanks to Mr Trench for this just, urbane and pitiless
rehabilitation.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p334 Je 19 ’19 1700w
=TRENT, WILLIAM PETERFIELD, and WELLS, BENJAMIN WILLIS=, eds. Colonial
prose and poetry. il *$2.50 Crowell 810.8
The present volume is a reprint on thin paper and in one volume of an
earlier three-volume set under the titles: The transplanting of
culture (1607–1650); The beginnings of Americanism (1650–1710); The
growth of the national spirit (1710–1775). The object of the anthology
is to give the critic of literature an opportunity “to study the
effects of environment upon the literary powers and products of a
transplanted race.” (Introd.)
=TREVELYAN, GEORGE MACAULAY.= Lord Grey of the Reform bill; being the
life of Charles, 2d Earl Grey, 1764–1845. il *$7 (*21s) Longmans
20–7584
“It was a happy chance that caused the authorized life of the second
Earl Grey to be left half finished sixty years ago, and that induced
the late Lord Grey to assign the task to Mr George Trevelyan. The Lord
Grey who passed the reform bill of 1832 has always been an enigma to
later generations. His political career was like a drama in which the
hero holds the stage in the first act and has a brief and effective
scene in the second act, but then is seen no more till the fifth act.
Entering Parliament in 1787, when he was twenty-three, he attached
himself to Fox, and made himself notorious by founding the Society of
the friends of the people and by moving annual resolutions in favour
of parliamentary reform. He succeeded to his father’s peerage in
November, 1807, and felt that his career was ended. Three-and-twenty
years had passed when all at once England discovered that the retired
statesman was, like Cincinnatus, the one man who could extricate her
from a dangerous situation. Lord Grey tore himself from his country
pleasures, took command of a mixed and quarrelsome team of Whigs,
radicals, and Canningites, and set himself to achieve parliamentary
reform with such skill and determination as few ministers have ever
displayed.”—Spec
* * * * *
“The proportion of the text of 369 pages bearing directly upon Grey is
too slight to give unity to the whole, and too scattered for focusing
into any but a vague image. This is what Mr Trevelyan’s volume really
is: an indictment of Tory administration during the era in which Grey
lived—an indictment conceived in the unmeasured violence of a
political antagonist.” C. E. Fryer
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:90 O ’20 760w
“It is a fascinating story, excellently told, and even the reader who
knows little of English political history will find it interesting on
account of the light and hope that it sheds on modern conditions.” A.
G. Porritt
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:733 N ’20 560w
“Truly admirable book.” Ll. S.
+ =Ath= p443 Ap 2 ’20 1500w
“As a biographer, though not concealing Grey’s failings, he is in
sympathy with his subject, while as regards politics his zealous
advocacy of the virtues of the Whigs and his condemnation of their
opponents occasionally, and especially in the earlier part of his
work, outrun his discretion.” W: Hunt
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:457 Jl ’20 2150w
+ =Nation= 111:223 Ag 21 ’20 450w
“Mr Trevelyan belongs to a great tradition; and he worthily maintains
the dignity of a literary ancestry of which Macaulay is only the most
eminent figure. Known wherever literature is cherished for his own
superb study of Garibaldi, his ‘Life of John Bright’ showed admirably
that he was not less competent to illustrate the history of England.
This latest work is not a whit less excellent.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 24:49 S 8 ’20 2200w
“Mr Trevelyan’s biography is so excellent in every way, so
thoroughgoing in its preparatory studies, so familiar with the epoch,
so just in its appraisements and so interestingly written that it is
well worth waiting for.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Je 27 ’20 900w
=Outlook= 125:466 Jl 7 ’20 2750w
“Mr Trevelyan has put us heavily in his debt by so agreeably
presenting a character about whom too little has been known in the
past. Mere personal intimacies are subordinated to historical
perspective, and we gain a shrewd insight of a psychology under the
stress of problems not unlike those now confronting the world.”
+ =Review= 3:250 S 22 ’20 2450w
“While we refuse to admire Mr Trevelyan’s hero, we have nothing but
praise for Mr Trevelyan. The note of urbanity is never absent from his
writing; his style is free from the exuberance, the piling up of
effects by antitheses and adjectives, and the lack of humour, which
mar the earlier books of his distinguished father.”
+ =Sat R= 129:304 Mr 27 ’20 1300w
“The author, except in his occasional Whiggish outbursts, writes as a
sober historian and states the facts fairly.”
+ =Spec= 124:423 Mr 27 ’20 1700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 20 ’20 1050w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p193 Mr 25 ’20)
“The biography is an excellent history of the time and one that repays
reading for its analogies with the present.” G: F. Whicher
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 830w
“Within its own limits and for its own public the work could not be
better done, and will confirm and establish its author’s reputation as
a biographer and historian. It is brilliantly written, and the right
reader, especially the lover of English political history, will not
willingly lay it down till he has drunk his cup of pleasure to the
last drop. It is full, too, of interesting judgments on matters which
only incidentally come within its scope.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p193 Mr 25 ’20 3200w
=TREVELYAN, JANET PENROSE (WARD) (MRS GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN).= Short
history of the Italian people, from the barbarian invasions to the
attainment of unity. il *$5 Putnam 945
20–6767
The writer was impressed with the need of a short history of Italy
while giving a series of lantern lectures on Italian history to London
school children in 1902. The present volume, which the author modestly
calls a “summary” is the result “of a deep and growing love for the
subject, of many wanderings in the bypaths of Italy, and of an
inherited affection for her present population.” (Preface) She
disclaims having made any original research, studied the archives, or
made new discoveries. “But I have endeavoured, by using the work
already done on each period by Italian, British, French, and German
scholars, and by illuminating it with the sayings of contemporary
writers, to present a narrative as near the truth as it was possible
for me to make it.” (Preface) Partial contents: Italy in the century
preceding the barbarian invasions (284–395); The barbarian invasions
(395–476); The beginnings of the middle ages (800–1002); The rise of
the cities, and their conflict with Frederick Barbarossa (1100–1183);
Rome and the papacy during the fourteenth century (1305–1389); Italy
in the sixteenth century; Napoleon’s first conquest of Italy
(1792–1799); The years of revolution (1846–1849); The completion of
Italian unity (1860–1870); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. There are
twenty-four illustrations and six maps.
* * * * *
“Mrs Trevelyan has wrestled with the difficulties of her subject with
marked success. She has a thorough grasp of essentials and a due sense
of proportion which have enabled her to produce an admirably balanced,
well-arranged book, while she writes in a way that is sure to make it
widely read.” L. C.-M.
+ =Ath= p237 Ag 20 ’20 1050w
+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20
“The chapters are well arranged and in all but the spirit of the
presentation of the material, satisfactory.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:687 F ’21 130w
“As is the case with all English histories of Italy, the least
satisfactory part of the book is the ‘Epilogue,’ which treats of the
fifty years since 1870.” W. M.
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:628 O ’20 370w
=Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 40w
“The author failed to grasp, or rather utilize, the proper
hypothesis—to write the story of the communities as influenced by
individuals and extract from that story not what was merely
entertaining, but what permanently influenced the future.” Walter
Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 22 ’20 1850w
“As regards political history the volume is valuable, but its author
does not sufficiently emphasize Italy’s glory in her men of art,
literature, science, and religion.”
+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 200w
“Popular histories of Italy in English are not many. This one is
likely to be recognized very soon as among the best.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 70w
“Mrs Trevelyan has accomplished a feat which we should have deemed
hardly possible, in view of the fascinating complexity of the subject.
Her book is intensely interesting, and we commend it heartily.”
+ =Spec= 125:180 Ag 7 ’20 1250w
“It might be suggested that she is apt to overrate the capacity of her
reader to grasp from a few words the summaries and the conclusions
that have been formed by the writer after long and extended study and
reflexion. Mrs Trevelyan has every right to assume that her fresh,
lively, and sympathetic appreciation cannot be superfluous.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 Jl 8 ’20 1600w
=TRIDON, ANDRÉ.= Psychoanalysis: its history, theory and practice. *$2
(3c) Huebsch 130
A popular treatment of psychoanalysis. The author has attempted “to
sum up in a concise form the views of the greatest American and
foreign analysts which at present are scattered in hundreds of books,
pamphlets and magazine articles.” (Preface) The author is not an
unqualified Freudian, holding that Jung, Adler and others have
contributed much of value to the new science. Among the chapter titles
are: The history of psychoanalytic research; The unconscious and the
urges; Night dreams and day dreams; Symbols, the language of the
dream; The dreams of the human race; The psychology of everyday
actions; Feminism and radicalism; The psychology of wit; The artistic
temperament; The psychoanalytic treatment; The new ethics. There is a
glossary of terms used, and a bibliography, but the book lacks an
index.
* * * * *
“This book is more valuable than the usual popular exposition of
psychoanalysis. Clearly written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:230 Ap ’20
“The present book is by no means a good fulfillment of its avowedly
popular purpose. A Freudian critic might say that the disorderly
arrangement of its material reveals a mental disturbance of a most
alarming character. That much of the subject matter is extremely
illuminating goes without saying, but the author constantly betrays,
as do nearly all writers upon this subject, an astonishingly
uncritical habit of mind in the interpretation of specific cases
analyzed.” C. M. S.
− + =Grinnell R= 15:259 O ’20 440w
“In a field that has developed a considerable wealth of literature,
this book of Tridon’s is a distinct and welcome contribution to the
subject.” W: J. Fielding
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 650w
“The volume is wholly a compilation and done without display of
literary skill or apparent intimacy with the subject. Any one who
wishes to get a comprehensive synopsis of the position of
psychoanalysis today may get it with greater readiness and
satisfaction from ‘Psychoanalysis and its place in life’ by Miss M. K.
Bradby, than from the book in question.” Joseph Collins
− + =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 27 ’20 1250w
“Dr Tridon has carried out his purpose of furnishing in brief compass
a survey of the large bearings upon the affairs of mind, normal and
abnormal, which underlie the practice of psycho-analysis. But this is
not the long awaited and still awaited book which will give the
intelligent and critical public some satisfactory account of the
animus and the technique and the background of the Freudian system. Dr
Tridon tells us far too much of the several schisms and divergences of
Freud and his followers.”
+ − =Review= 3:130 Ag 11 ’20 850w
“There is nothing original in it except some of Mr Tridon’s opinions,
which are not impressive.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 160w
“He is an industrious disciple and sets his matter out lucidly and
uncritically. He will give the intelligent reader some appreciation
both of the value of psychoanalytic work and (though unconsciously) of
some of the extravagances of psychoanalytic enthusiasts.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 N 4 ’20 280w
=TRIDON, ANDRÉ.= Psychoanalysis and behavior. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf 130
This, the author’s second book on psychoanalysis, “is an attempt at
interpreting human conduct from the psychoanalytical point of view.”
Contents: The organism; Problems of childhood; Progress and
regressions; Sleep and dreams; Problems of sex; The psychoanalytic
treatment; The four schools of psychoanalysis; Index. Bibliographical
notes follow the chapters.
* * * * *
“A rather useful aspect of the book is the chapter distinguishing the
four schools of psychoanalysis headed respectively by Freud, Jung,
Adler, and Kempf.”
+ − =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 40w
“Mr Tridon’s second volume, ‘Psychoanalysis and behavior,’ is far more
meritorious than the first. It shows that he has examined
psychoanalytic literature and that he is able to percolate it through
his conscious mind with much ease and some grace.” Joseph Collins
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 27 ’20 520w
=TRINE, GRACE STEELE (HYDE) (MRS RALPH WALDO TRINE)=, comp. Dreams and
voices; songs of mother, father and child. $2 Womans press 821.08
It is the aim of this anthology of contemporary poetry “to present
some of the best poems on the mother and child relationship written in
recent years, not forgetting to include several that deal also with
the love of father and child.” (Foreword) It is a de luxe edition with
a frontispiece in color by Clinton Brown.
* * * * *
“The fact that most of the material is of quite recent creation gives
the volume an interest not shared by older anthologies of the same
character.”
+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 120w
“There is necessarily much sentimentality, much vatic utterance, much
capitalization and saccharinity. De la Mare’s ‘Rachel’ is a relief
from some of it, tender without being ‘sweet.’”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 220w
=TROUBETZKOY, AMÉLIE (RIVES) princess.= As the wind blew. *$1.75 Stokes
811
20–17896
Some of the poems in this collection are reprinted from other sources
but many appear in print for the first time. The collection opens with
a memorial poem to Adair Archer and the grouping of the contents is
under the headings: Rhymes and rhythms; Balkan songs; The wonderful
child; Of Babylon; Fantasia; Autumn and winter.
* * * * *
“The technique of poetry is vividly manifest in the present volume of
poems, as well as some ingenuity and warm imagination; but the
dramatic lucidity of emotion is still absent.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 200w
=TUCKER, IRWIN ST JOHN.= History of imperialism. *$2.25 Rand school of
social science 321.03
“There is a straight line of descent from the throne of Menes to the
chair of Wilson; a straight course of empire from that far off day
when Upper and Lower Egypt were united beneath the crown of the first
empire, to the day when the expanding credits of America forced her
imperial merchants to create an imperial figurehead. Our symptoms of
imperialism are identical with those which all budding empires have
displayed.” (Foreword) For a better understanding of imperialism the
book takes up the study of the separate nations from earliest history
both before and after the great spotlight of imperial power picked
them out for the stage of some particular act. In conclusion the
author points out the two forces that are now struggling in our
political structure to head us either towards an empire or an
industrial republic. The book falls into two parts: ancient and modern
imperialism. Part 1 contains: The book of Egypt—of Babylon—of
Persia—of Greece—of Rome—of Nicea; part 2: The book of Islam—of
France—of Germany—of Spain; The strife of the Eagles; The book of
England—of India—of America.
* * * * *
“Throughout the work there are numerous excerpts from ancient
documents which are of absorbing interest and which throw a stream of
light into many dark corners. The style, too, is a departure from the
customary method of dealing with economic subjects. There is only one
defect in the making of the book that we note. There is no index.”
James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ja 2 ’21 1050w
=TUELL, HARRIET EMILY.= Study of nations; an experiment in social
education. (Riverside educational monographs) *80c Houghton 909
20–5596
This is a plea that we substitute for our old “dry as dust” method of
teaching history “an elementary study of nationality.” In a high
school course such as this book proposes, “each nation is carefully
considered by itself, that pupils may gain a definite impression of
its individual characteristics. First it is viewed as it appears
today; then its development is briefly traced. After this historic
background has been sketched in, an attempt is made to evaluate the
peculiar gifts of the country and its people to the sum of modern
civilization.” (Preface) This is a pioneer book, for the use of
teachers, and, as such, the main part of it is devoted to helpfully
suggestive material, outlines, and comments upon the following
nations: France, England, Germany, Russia, Italy, Austro-Hungary,
Turkey and the Balkan states, China, Japan, and the Philippine Islands
(“a nation in the making”). The book includes a complete
bibliographical list, and a connected outline of all the chapters. The
chapters on China and Japan were contributed by Dr K. S. Latourette.
Dr Tuell is the head of the department of history, Somerville high
school, Massachusetts.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:239 Ap ’20
“Books of this sort are undoubtedly useful to teachers who have access
to well-equipped libraries and are themselves trained to get the
materials out of these libraries, but the movement which Miss Tuell
represents will hardly be successful until someone has prepared in
detail and in a form that can be presented to children the materials
that she has gone over in outline. The book is in this sense a first
step in the direction of actual school use of this sort of material.”
+ − =El School J= 20:547 Mr ’20 380w
=School R= 28:312 Ap ’20 380w
=TUOHY, FERDINAND.=[2] Secret corps. *$2 Seltzer 940.485
(Eng ed 20–11008)
“Captain Tuohy deals with all the methods of espionage and
counter-espionage practised during the war, enlivening his exposition
here and there with anecdotes. He explains incidentally the value of
seemingly harmless military details to an alert enemy and thus
justifies the censorship. He declares that our own system proved
highly efficient and that our French allies had, after February, 1916,
to implore the assistance of our secret service in Germany as all
their own agents had been captured. The British system was based on
the principle that each agent should know and be known to his chief
alone.”—Spec
* * * * *
“‘The secret corps’ is thrilling in its every paragraph, and, speaking
personally, it is the first book of the war we have enjoyed for two
years.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 170w
“This volume has value unsurpassed, if not unequaled, by any other
that has dealt with the same material.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 30 ’21 420w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 340w
=Spec= 124:872 Je 26 ’20 160w
=TURNER, EDWARD RAYMOND.= Europe, 1789–1920. *$3.50 Doubleday 940.2
20–17882
The raison d’être of the book is the alteration in historical
perspective wrought by the last few years which makes the epoch since
1789 “the most important and interesting in the history of mankind. It
began with a revolution whose effects are not yet all measured; it
ended with another whose consequences can scarcely yet even be guessed
at.” (Preface) During this period immense changes took place in the
relations of people with each other, with their governments, with
capitalists and employers, in the attitude of people toward the
problems of the world in which they lived, and in their habits of
thought. The book falls into two parts: 1789–1871; and 1871–1920. The
outstanding points of part one are the old Europe before, during and
after the French revolution, the Congress of Vienna, the rise of
Prussia after 1870 and the condition of Russia during the period. Part
two begins with the military triumphs of Germany between 1864–1871,
its subsequent development and that of the other great powers, and
treats of events before and during the great war. There are numerous
maps, a bibliography at the end of each chapter, an appendix and an
index.
* * * * *
“About the completest single volume history of Europe covering the
years between the two most epochal events in her experience. Excellent
historical work.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 300w
“It is naïve, sincere, and, if the English is sometimes colloquial,
one has no difficulty in understanding what the author means. It is a
book intended to be read by the person of average cultivation, and not
very much instruction—and judged from that point of view the author’s
task is very well done.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p5 D 19 ’20 2700w
“In style and method the latter half of the book is somewhat like
those editorial summaries of current events contained in some of the
best modern journals. It is concise, considered, rather neutral, but
useful for exactly the purpose for which it was designed. The book’s
value lies not so much in the backward glimpses of the past from the
present point of view as in the light thrown forward on the war and
upon our present state by the course of events since 1879.”
+ =No Am= 213:138 Ja ’21 750w
=TURNER, FREDERICK JACKSON.= Frontier in American history. *$2.50 Holt
973
20–18058
Professor Turner’s essay on “The significance of the frontier in
American history” was read at a meeting of the American historical
association in Chicago in 1893 and has had a profound influence on
American historical thinking and writing. It is to be found in the
Proceedings of the State historical society of Wisconsin for 1893, and
in the Report of the American historical association for the same year
and is reprinted here together with other papers bearing on the same
theme. A statement of his thesis may be taken from “The West and
American ideals”: “American democracy was born of no theorist’s dream;
it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the
Mayflower to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it
gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.” The other
papers are: The first official frontier of the Massachusetts bay; The
old West; The middle West; The Ohio valley in American history; The
significance of the Mississippi valley in American history; The
problem of the West; Dominant forces in western life; Contributions of
the West to American democracy; Pioneer ideals and the state
university; Social forces in American history; Middle western pioneer
democracy.
* * * * *
“Interesting to students or general readers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 880w
+ =Grinnell R= 16:356 F ’21 720w
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 70w
“The high significance of this work has long been recognized by
writers on American history; but if the influence of Mr Turner were to
be estimated on the basis of his published work alone, it would be
accounted far less than it has in fact been.” Carl Becker
+ =Nation= 111:536 N 10 ’20 1050w
“Though the chapters in this book are essays on aspects of frontier
history and written at different times, they might well have been
written within a few months. The book contains a fund of information,
clearly reasoned, significantly and concisely expressed. It is
readable, and it is suggestive.” C. L. Skinner
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 D 4 ’20 800w
=N Y Times= p10 N 7 ’20 1500w
“Are we hypercritical in thinking that essays of such pith and moment
demand a better format?”
+ − =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 60w
“The present volume sets forth in the clearest possible manner the
view of American expansion which has inspired and illuminated all of
Professor Turner’s work from the beginning. Among all American
historians no one has so fully caught the meaning of the frontier in
our national development.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 200w
“As a treatise, Prof. Turner’s book loses something from being a
compilation of articles and addresses, but it makes an excellent
general presentation of a subject which is insufficiently understood
by the average American, yet is so fascinating that any reader will be
thankful to have it brought to his attention.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 1050w
“The book is highly suggestive to one who wishes to understand the
American attitude toward social problems and the course which social
work has taken in America.” Lilian Brandt
+ =Survey= 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 200w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 200w
=TURNER, GEORGE KIBBE.= Hagar’s hoard. *$2.25 (2c) Knopf
20–17178
The story describes a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878 in all
its weirdness and horror. In a large brick house lived an old man,
Athiel Hagar, with his daughter and adopted nephew. The man is a miser
and many are the stories current among the negroes about the fabulous
sums he has hoarded in his house. His property is his obsession which
keeps him rooted in the house when fleeing from the fever is the only
sane thing to do. At last he succumbs to the enemy and in his last
death agony accidentally pulls the cord which brings his treasure down
upon him, burying the dead man under it.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:119 D ’20
“The plot of ‘Hagar’s hoard’ is unconvincing as regards its chief
motive. Then, too, the characters are sadly stock-in-trade. Even the
negroes are grossly machine-made and lack warmth and conviction, and
the author certainly has overlooked a fine opportunity to add color
and the throb of life to a fairly interesting tale.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 320w
“Mr Turner has unfortunately made a full-length novel out of what
should have been a long short story, or at most, a novelette. The plot
is of the very slightest. The merit of the book lies in its excellent
description of the fever-stricken town, but excellent as this is it
becomes wearisome when repeated again and again.”
+ − =N Y Times= p23 O 24 ’20 700w
=TURNER, JOHN HASTINGS.= Place in the world. *$1.75 Scribner
20–3578
“The heroine of ‘A place in the world,’ Iris Iranova, is an
illegitimate and temperamental young woman of about twenty-five.
Married to an over-amiable Russian, she lost her temper and stuck a
knife into him. This inconsiderate action made it necessary for her to
leave Russia and come to England, where she is living very comfortably
when the book opens. Following a whim, she decides to settle for a
time in an English suburb, and it is with her relations with the
persons she meets there that the novel is principally concerned. Among
these persons two are of especial importance—a really charming old
clergyman, broad-minded, sympathetic and possessed of a keen and
abundant sense of humor, and Henry Cumbers, an apparently fussy and
insignificant little man who, in time of stress and sorrow, proves
that he has splendid stuff in him.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Mr Turner has a clever pen, and the fluttering of the dovecotes
caused by Iris’s unconventionality gives him scope for a number of
incisive character-sketches. Mr Turner is to be congratulated on the
keenness of his observation as well as the liveliness of his style.”
+ =Ath= p127 Ja 23 ’20 100w
“Fairly amusing.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:284 My ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ − =Bookm= 51:342 My ’20 300w
“Mr Turner has written a charming novel, fresh and vivid in dialogue,
with characters that live in every pulse and gesture.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 1000w
“Witty comedy.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 100w
“The plot of the tale is extremely slight and at times the novel drags
badly, but the style is often agreeable and the characters of Henry
Cumbers and of the Rev. John Heslop are very well drawn indeed.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 Mr 7 ’20 300w
“Mr Turner’s ‘Simple souls’ was amusing; this novel goes deeper. It is
fine workmanship as to its writing, and in its essence it makes for
soundheartedness and human tolerance.”
+ =Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 60w
“The especial merit of the book is the Rev. John Heslop, a character
any writer might have been proud to invent.”
+ =Sat R= 129:336 Ap 3 ’20 80w
+ =Spec= 124:354 Mr 13 ’20 40w
“Mr Turner’s fiction challenges comparison with that of Mr Locke, not
because he imitates the latter’s method, but chiefly because his work
falls within the same general field of whimsical personalities, kindly
humor, and pleasing romance so long cultivated by Mr Locke. The
characters charm and delight and provide the zest to an unusually
entertaining story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 580w
=TURNER, JOHN KENNETH.= Hands off Mexico. pa 35c Rand school of social
science 327
20–3857
This pamphlet is devoted to an exposition of the motives that lie back
of intervention propaganda, and concludes with a plea to the American
people to make common cause with the people of Mexico against the
interests that are a menace to both. In proposing his solution the
author says, “In the cause of the Mexican ‘problem’ is found its
solution. As our meddling has been a decisive factor in creating and
prolonging the disorder, and in subjecting Americans to danger, so an
opposite policy would tend to produce the opposite result. We must
stop threatening Mexico, stop invading Mexico, stop embargoing Mexico,
enter into a fair agreement for policing the border, keep a few of our
fine promises, make a fair trial of treating our neighbor as an
equal.”
* * * * *
“The author of this brochure, which as a plea for the rights of the
Mexican people is fundamentally admirable and excellent, employs a
great deal of the hammer-and-tongs method of his previous volume,
‘Barbarous Mexico.’ Nevertheless the booklet is a timely summary of
information concerning the facts of the controversy.” G. B. Winton
+ − =Survey= 44:311 My 29 ’20 320w
=TURNER, W. J.= Dark wind. *$2 Dutton 821
20–3700
“‘The dark wind’ has been most cordially received in London and is
especially interesting to students of poetry because it combines much
of the colorcraft of the imagists with the melodies of the Georgians.
Indeed, none of the young English poets has given us verse in which
sense impressionism plays a more important part than it plays here.”
(N Y Times) “Not the least interesting peculiarity of Mr Turner’s art
is that he has made no startling departures into irregular verse
forms. Nor does Mr Turner seek to startle by the choice of bizarre
subjects. He writes on Haystacks and Sunflowers and Hollyhocks and
Aeroplanes and Recollecting a visit.” (Bookm)
* * * * *
“There is no careless rapture in any of his verse: it has the studious
rigidity of a cultivated and audacious craftsmanship, but with the
magic of genuine inspiration.” R. M. Weaver
+ =Bookm= 51:456 Je ’20 800w
“One might name such poems as In the caves of Auvergne, The search for
the nightingale, The sky-sent death and Magic, which not only show Mr
Turner at his best poetically but at his subtlest allegorically.” W.
S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 600w
“Mr Turner possesses, simultaneously with the knack of astonishing,
the knack of cloying and blurring. He is intoxicated with exotic
masses and meanings. He has visual genius; his images expand in the
mind’s eye. Yet, once he has created a scene, he does nothing with it.
He has not the firmness to finish what he gloriously begins.” M. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w
+ =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 200w
“Turner’s ‘The dark wind’ is first of all a book of color and
beautiful rhythms. He possesses the virtue of flinging lovely pictures
before the reader, not the hard emphasized colors that cry from Miss
Amy Lowell’s efforts, but a soft yet glittering mingling of hues that
is warm with sunlight and harmonious with spring and autumn.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 700w
=TURPIN, EDNA HENRY LEE.= Treasure mountain. il *$1.75 (3c) Century
20–16341
This story for girls has a picturesque setting in the southern
mountains. Page Ruffin, the young heroine, is helped out of a
dangerous situation by a mountain boy who gives his name as Harson
Ruffyan. She is struck with the likeness to her own name and her
teasing companions see a facial resemblance as well. Page’s father
suspects a real relationship but he is angrily turned away by Mac
Ruffyan, who refuses to recognize the kinship. On another occasion
Page is lost on the mountain and is rescued by Mac Ruffyan and taken
to his cabin home. Here she sees her possible cousin in a new light
and becomes his champion. In the meantime her father has been
investigating family history to learn the secret of the relationship.
A second mystery of the story, which leads to a still more thrilling
adventure and rescue, is concerned with a cave, buried treasure and a
ghost. Incidentally the author introduces the lesson of wild flower
preservation.
* * * * *
“Will interest girls from ten to fifteen.”
+ =Booklist= 17:164 Ja ’21
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:262 N ’20 50w
“It would be worth while to put up with the disagreeable little
heroine if young folks could learn from this to enjoy wild-flowers in
their native setting.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ − =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w
“A real story with plenty of action and thrills.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 O 24 ’20 140w
“Here is that rarity, a good story for girls.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:199 N ’20 120w
=TUSSAUD, JOHN THEODORE.= Romance of Madame Tussaud’s. il *$5 Doran 791
20–27479
The story of the famous wax works, established in Paris during the
revolution and later brought to London, written by one of the
great-grandsons of the founder, the present proprietor of the
exhibition. Madame Tussaud, altho a young girl at the time of the
revolution, was already famed as a modeler in wax and had been a
favorite at court. She was conscripted and compelled to model the
guillotined heads of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Marat murdered in
his bath, and other horrors, a number of which are reproduced in the
illustrations. The story is brought down to the present day,
describing many of the recent additions, with illustrations. Hilaire
Belloc has written an introduction and the book is indexed.
* * * * *
=Ath= p109 Ja 23 ’20 1650w
+ =Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21
“The amazing feature of the book is, however, the manner in which its
author has made so intrinsically interesting and romantic a theme dull
and commonplace. It is evident that he possesses absolutely no
qualifications for his task. He is simply adept at the compilation of
a scrap-book. Yet his subject is so fascinating that it is better to
have his account of Madame Tussaud’s life and work than none at all.”
E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 1450w
+ =Cath World= 112:686 F ’21 250w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 130w
“‘Romance’ is possibly a strong word for this book, and is applicable
only where some story connected with a character in the collection is
told. Sometimes this takes Mr Tussaud far afield. But as a collection
of anecdotes it ranks almost with Siboutie’s ‘Souvenirs of a
Parisian.’”
+ − =N Y Times= p2 O 31 ’20 1700w
“Mr Tussaud has appreciated the value of his materials both from the
historic point of view and from the viewpoint of human interest. His
narrative, like his wax figures, simply presents facts of undeniable
interest. But it is the pictures that make the book unique.”
+ =No Am= 213:287 F ’21 520w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 80w
“The book is often pleasantly gruesome.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 8 ’20 780w
=TUTTLE, W. C.= Reddy Brant: his adventures. il *$1.75 (5c) Century
20–18257
A series of short stories reprinted from Boy’s Life. The hero is
fourteen-year-old Reddy Brant, a young vagrant who wanders into the
cattle country of the far West. His adventures are many and exciting
and aided by his native wit and courage, with the occasional help of
coincidence, he acts as both agent of justice and angel of mercy. The
titles are: A rooting tooter; The go-getters; The clean-up kid; A
sage-brush Santa Claus; The jump of a forty-five; Reddy’s
muzzle-loader; A bunkie of the buckaroos; Reddy Brant—thinker; When
Reddy wondered why; Good-night, knight; Three wise men and a star.
* * * * *
“There is a genuine flavor of old-time American humor in the telling,
and an unusual spirit of good fellowship.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ =Nation= 111:sup674 D 8 ’20 80w
“There are more adventures to the square inch in this book than any
other that has come to hand since ‘The three musketeers.’ The manner
of telling is swift, humorous, breezy. Reddy is a find.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 90w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 40w
=TWEEDALE, CHARLES L.= Man’s survival after death: or, The other side of
life in the light of Scripture, human experience, and modern research.
*$6 Dutton 218
“The researches made of late years to determine some proof of
existence, especially bodily existence after death, have been mainly
based upon science applied to psychical intuition and evidence. This
method is one elimination, discarding all the agents and influences
that might spring from irrational and abnormal factors in human
experience, and tracking what remained of evidence as proof of
communication with identities translated to a life beyond the grave.
Mr Tweedale in this work seeks to prove a similar fact but his
evidence has its origin in faith, and faith receives its confirmation
in the doctrines of Scripture. Mankind in general, he believes, holds
the germ of this faith but fails to make it an active conviction by
reason of insufficient knowledge of the realities supporting that
faith. On his part Mr Tweedale rejects psychic phenomena as the theory
whereby to command the knowledge of survival, though he does not
hesitate to refine upon its evidence to prove his own convictions of
faith.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 310w
“No such vast array of evidence, consisting of well-authenticated
occurrences, has ever before been brought together in one volume. Not
only this vast survey of the entire field of psychic phenomena, with
admirable presentation in its relation to man’s religious nature and
spiritual development, but there is added the clear explanations and
lofty thought of Mr Tweedale.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 600w
=TWEEDALE, MRS VIOLET (CHAMBERS).= Beautiful Mrs Davenant. *$1.75 (1½c)
Stokes
20–15067
There are two mysteries in this story, that concerning the past of the
beautiful Mrs Davenant and the mystery of Lake House, which Letty
Thorne senses on first coming there to stay with her uncle. In the
solution of the second the secret of the first is also revealed. It is
revealed to the reader and to one other person in the story, but Mrs
Davenant, feeling that there is that in her life which forbids
remarriage says no to the man who loves her and keeps her own
confidence. A minor love story develops between the vicar and Mrs
Davenant’s friend Agnes Howard, and to this affair as well as to the
love story of Letty there is a happy ending.
* * * * *
“The story is not very probable, but it is entertaining and cleverly
handled. It belongs to a rather old-fashioned type of romance, but it
is treated in a modern way.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 300w
“A very good mystery story.”
+ =Sat R= 129:545 Je 12 ’20 60w
“If this ‘novel of love and mystery’ is somewhat crudely melodramatic
and makes considerable demands on the improbable, Mrs Tweedale at
least gives her readers plenty of incident.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 70w
=TWEEDALE, MRS VIOLET (CHAMBERS).= Ghosts I have seen, and other psychic
experiences. *$2 (2c) Stokes 133
19–19376
Supernatural experiences of a lifetime are recorded here. The author
has the convictions of the theosophist, and in these pages there are
occasionally brief essays on reincarnation, spiritualism, the “other
side.” Unlike most current spiritualistic books, there is here no
argument on alleged “irrefutable evidence.” The author is a psychic,
has seen these things, we may believe or not. At any rate, reading at
midnight, in a dimly lit house alone, we cannot remain indifferent.
Some of the titles are: “Silk dress” and “rumpus”; The ghost of Prince
Charlie; The invisible hands; Peacock’s feathers—the skeleton hand at
Monte Carlo; I commit murder; The angel of Lourdes; “The new Jeanne
d’Arc”; Auras. An interesting picture of Madame Blavatsky (in the
flesh) is presented in this book.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1136 O 31 ’19 120w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
+ =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 120w
“This book introduces the reader not only to many interesting visitors
from the world beyond mortal ken but to a very interesting human being
as well. For the author’s own sake, it is well worth reading.”
Cornelia Van Pelt
+ =Pub W= 97:611 F 21 ’20 360w
=Review= 2:183 F 21 ’20 400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 N 13 ’19 700w
=TYRRELL, GEORGE.= Letters *$7 Dutton
(Eng ed 21–197)
“‘George Tyrrell’s letters,’ selected and edited by Miss M. D. Petre,
author of the ‘Life of George Tyrrell,’ will bring the opportunity of
a more familiar acquaintance to the many Americans who have been
interested in the well-known Irishman’s life and work. Modernism
claimed great sacrifices and the labor of some years; but it was not
all his life. And in this selection of letters it has been the
intention to show him in his dealings with widely moral and
undenominationally spiritual issues, to show him also in his lighter
moments, when he spoke true words in jest, or hid his meaning under a
veil of persiflage.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
“So long as there are Christians of even a simple type, Tyrrell will
be read, because of his instinct for the things of Christ. His cruel
ironies and his flaming resentments, his rash speculations and his
tottering syntheses may all be buried in his grave.”
+ − =Ath= p15 Ja 7 ’21 840w
=Boston Transcript= p7 N 6 ’20 500w
“These highly interesting letters have been published, as we are told,
with the view of showing Tyrrell in ‘his lighter and brighter, as in
his sadder and graver moods.’ We must confess to finding him sometimes
equally depressing in both. His humour has a tinge of that
professional flippancy (as lay-people esteem it) which seems common to
clergymen of every denomination. The ‘letters of advice’ included in
this collection show us Father Tyrrell at the best, wise, comforting,
sympathetic, with no thought but the welfare of his correspondents.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:519 Je 5 ’20 1000w
“Miss Petre has done well to publish this selection from his
correspondence. He was a many-sided man, and his letters reflect his
many-sidedness.”
+ =Spec= 124:695 My 22 ’20 1350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 16 ’20 450w
“Miss Maud Petre has shown good judgment in issuing this collection of
George Tyrrell’s letters as a supplement to his ‘Autobiography and
life.’ It is plain that Tyrrell was a born correspondent. He expresses
himself with more ease in a letter than in a volume. And he would, we
think, have spared both himself and his church much trouble had he
written more letters and published fewer books.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p253 Ap 22 ’20 900w
=TYRRELL, ROSS.= Pathway of adventure. *$1.90 (2c) Knopf
20–8517
Stuart Wayne, writer of detective stories, finds himself involved in a
genuine plot. He picks up a note dropped by a girl in a passing taxi
and it starts him on the road of adventure and mystery. It is an
appeal for help from a girl held imprisoned in an abandoned house in
the Chicago suburbs. Through a lucky chance he gains entrance to the
house and talks to the girl, Zaida Grayson, but his presence is
discovered, with all but fatal consequences to himself, and the gang
of crooks, with their fair prisoner, eludes him. But he has learned
enough of her story to gain a clue and to connect it with the sudden
death of Patrick Cullom, the iron king, whose young granddaughter is
to inherit his wealth. With the aid of the secret service the band of
kidnappers and murderers are brought to justice and by his own
devotion and daring he wins the girl.
* * * * *
“Any lover of this type of tale must have discovered here [in the
Borzoi books] a number of excellent examples, of which ‘The pathway of
adventure’ is by no means the least successful.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 170w
=N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 260w
“Events follow familiar lines, but with just enough variation to
sustain the interest as incident follows incident.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 160w
U
=ULLMAN, ALBERT EDWARD.= “Line’s busy.” il *$1 (4½c) Stokes 817
Goldie is the telephone operator in a large hotel and she tells her
story in slangy letters to her pal Myrtle. Events in which she takes a
share from her switchboard reveal her as a girl “always there with the
helping hand, no matter how much it’s been lacerated in the past.” In
particular the love affairs of her patrons and co-workers interest
her, and she straightens out several tangles, and finally, her own
love story develops happily.
* * * * *
“A love story that is both clever and jolly is so rare nowadays that
one seizes with avidity upon the romance of little Goldie.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 O 6 ’20 200w
“Mr Ullman deserves full credit for a lot of ‘good lines.’ The wit of
Goldie’s letters is catchy and largely original—not current vaudeville
wheezes warmed over. We wish there was more of it and less of the
‘good-old-ham-and-eggs,’ ‘man-from-home’ brand of philosophy.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 500w
=UNCENSORED= letters of a canteen girl. *$2 (3c) Holt 940.48
20–14006
These letters were “scratched down on odds and ends of writing paper,
in a rare spare moment at the canteen; at night, at my billet, by
candle-light, in the mornings, perched in front of Madame’s
fire-place.... Why were they never sent? Simply because all letters
mailed from France in those days, must of course pass under the eyes
of the censor.” (Foreword) They contain everything that happened
generously interspersed with the conversations of the doughboys.
Contents: Company A; The doughboys; The front; The artillery; The
engineers; The ordnance; The French; Pioneers, M. P.’s and others.
* * * * *
“Rather more tempting to the jaded war appetite than most personal
narratives because of the fresh frankness which anonymity permits.
Will be liked better later on.”
+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 220w
“So piquant and fine-humored are the observations and revelations that
one regrets that the book is anonymous. The publishers’ claim, that
this ‘gives the human side of soldiering as no book yet published has
done,’ does not seem extravagant.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 27 ’20 270w
=UNDERHILL, EVELYN (MRS STUART MOORE).= Jacopone da Todi; poet and
mystic—1228–1306; a spiritual biography. *$6 Dutton
20–4482
“Jacopone da Todi, that remarkable Italian mystical poet, was born
soon after the death of St Francis of Assisi, about 1228 or 1230,
while Dante was yet in the prime of his manhood. Living in the world
until he was forty, a shrewd lawyer, a man of vivid temperament, of
wide culture and refined tastes, he received at that age his first
religious call. For the next ten years he wandered about as a
missionary hermit and in 1278, being then about fifty, he became a
Franciscan lay brother. Miss Underhill’s book is divided into two
parts of about equal length. The first is devoted to Jacopone’s life,
set in its proper historical environment. In the remaining part of the
book Miss Underhill gives us a chronological selection from his
mystical poems, so well known as the Laude, accompanied in the fellow
page by an English translation (also into poetry) by Mrs Theodore
Beck.”—Cath World
* * * * *
“Miss Underhill has a fine flow of language, a nice choice of
adjectives, and a thorough, if somewhat undiscriminating, knowledge of
the literature of her subject. Altogether her book is well done in its
way, and it is not the slightest use wishing, as we do, that it had
been done in another.” R. S.
+ − =Ath= p636 My 14 ’20 760w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 1500w
+ =Cath World= 111:819 S ’20 620w
“The biographer’s comprehension of the worldly accomplishments of her
subject and her equal insight into his spiritual attainments, is
strikingly the counterpart of that two-sidedness which she emphasizes
in the man himself. The bibliography apart from its immediate value as
indicating the sources of the present work, will be of service to
those interested in the whole subject of Christian mysticism.”
Marianne Moore
+ =Dial= 70:82 Ja ’21 1650w
“When the romantic personality falls into the hands of the scholar
there is necessarily something of glamour and delight lost. This is
what has happened in this austerely spiritual biography of Evelyn
Underhill.” L. C. Willcox
+ − =N Y Times= 25:169 Ap 11 ’20 1200w
“Friar Jacopone was a poet of extraordinary power, and the fire, ease,
and accomplishment of his rather erotic mystic poems are astonishing.”
+ =Spec= 124:426 Mr 27 ’20 1450w
“The materials are rather flimsy for the construction of a biography.
We cannot agree with Miss Underhill that Jacopone was a great poet.
Intense religious feeling, vividly and forcibly expressed, does not of
itself constitute poetry, and beyond such expression Jacopone does not
often rise.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p229 Ap 15 ’20 4100w
=UNDERHILL, RUTH MURRAY.= White moth. *$2 Moffat
20–20002
“Miss Underhill has converted the old fable of the ant and the
grasshopper into a very modern romance which she calls ‘The white
moth.’ Hilda Plaistead is the earnest plodder, Guy Nearing the gay and
irresponsible hero, and the setting is the town of Cato. The two have
a childhood engagement, become widely separated, and in the final
chapter again discover that they were always meant for each other, but
it is only after Guy has learned the folly of being jack of all trades
and master of none.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
“We can scarcely claim for Miss Underhill’s story either originality
of substance or of treatment. What she does accomplish is an
exceedingly readable and very human story, which possesses certain
scenes of quiet and insistent realism.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 5 ’21 250w
“High school days are described as well as in Booth Tarkington’s
‘Seventeen.’ The characters are all well drawn. However, the true
merit of the book is in taking some new aspects of life, such as the
business rivalry between man and woman or the problems of factory
management and using them to construct a good old-fashioned romance
which holds the attention from start to finish.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 140w
“It is a real romance and has a charming atmosphere.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w
=UNSEEN= doctor. *$1.75 (5c) Holt 134
20–15457
The book is one of the Psychic series and describes the cure of a case
of illness of fifteen years’ standing in the course of a year and
eight months by an invisible spirit doctor. It contains a preface by
J. Arthur Hill, testimonials by several personal friends of the
patient and a report by the physician long in charge of the case in
the flesh. The contents are: A chance paragraph; A chain of
coincidences; The first interview; A further surprise; The invisible
hand; Experiences and experiments; Fellow-lodgers; Royal progress;
Learning to walk; “My little girl”; Six months later; Comments and
criticisms; Appendix and index. The book was published in England as
“One thing I know, or, The power of the unseen.”
* * * * *
“‘The unseen doctor’ is as respectable a book of psychic experiences
as has come to the public. There is no doubt that it is a record of
real experiences. But, respectable as the book is, it still leaves
open the eternal question, ‘Why should spirit doctors cling to the
earth, and why have they no concerns of their own?’”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 14 ’20 320w
“As a ‘psychic’ tale the book is futile and foolish, indeed, rather
fertile in folly.”
− =Review= 3:393 O 27 ’20 230w
“There is nothing fantastic in the story, and it is told with such
convincing truth that the reader seems to have no choice save to
accept it on its face value.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 330w
=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS=, ed. Modern American poetry. *$1.40 Harcourt 811.08
20–1516
“In his anthology, ‘Modern American poetry’ Louis Untermeyer has
selected 132 poems by 80 authors, arranged them effectively, with
brief notices for each writer and handy indices. Old favorites are
here; ‘Little boy blue’ rubs shoulders with ‘The purple cow,’ and
‘When the frost is on the punkin’ with ‘A stein song.’ Franklin P.
Adams, Oliver Herford, and Carolyn Wells are represented.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
“All the best recent things are here.” H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:212 Ap ’20 70w
“This verse is remarkable for vigor and energy, form being sacrificed
for content. An interesting feature is the group of seven poems on
Lincoln by seven different poets.”
+ =Cleveland= p41 Ap ’20 60w
“Though it too often misses the authentic current, is too often led
away into stagnant marshes, it is perhaps as good a map as we yet
possess. The editor is a better conversationalist than guide.”
+ − =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 60w
=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 60w
“It is a comprehensive and unusually satisfying collection.”
+ =Ind= 104:64 O 9 ’20 130w
Reviewed by R. P. Utter
=Nation= 110:237 F 21 ’20 420w
“The present reviewer’s quarrel with Louis Untermeyer’s ‘Modern
American poetry’ is not so much because of its selections and
omissions—both often very wise ones—as because of Untermeyer’s
attitude of mind in his introduction. It is the typical attitude of
the poets of our present little ‘renaissance,’ and perhaps one should
hardly quarrel with it, but smile at it. You would suppose poetry that
was honest, fresh, contemporary, had never been written before.” W. P.
Eaton
− + =N Y Call= p10 Ja 18 ’20 1000w
“If there be any critic in the country who ought not to make a
schoolbook, that critic is Louis Untermeyer. He is much too
brilliantly individual and his likes and dislikes are too pronounced.
It is a book of verse that young people probably will like, if they
like verse at all. Many of the selections included are humorous.... A
good professor would make a better anthology for use in schools.”
Marguerite Wilkinson
− + =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 480w
+ =School R= 28:630 O ’20 160w
“The criticism may be raised that Mr Untermeyer has been too generous
to the ultra-moderns. But the selections of Carl Sandburg, John Gould
Fletcher and Alfred Kreymborg are chosen with discrimination, and
serve to accomplish the editor’s purpose.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 26 ’20 300w
+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w
“This book is a delightful one to read; it has a distinct
individuality, and if Mr Untermeyer, in avoiding the beaten track,
does not always publish the finest work of his poets, he recovers many
a line that has been undeservedly forgotten.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 10:199 O ’20 390w
=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS=, ed. Modern British poetry. *$2 Harcourt 821.08
20–13991
A companion volume to Mr Untermeyer’s ‘Modern American poetry.’ Over
seventy-five poets are represented, ranging from Thomas Hardy, born in
1840, to Robert Graves, born in 1895. Among the others are Alice
Meynell, William Watson, Francis Thompson, A. E. Housman, Ernest
Dowson, Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, W. W.
Gibson, John Masefield, Ralph Hodgson, Harold Monro, John Drinkwater,
Siegfried Sassoon, Francis Ledwidge, Irene Rutherford McLeod, Richard
Aldington, Robert Nichols and Charles H. Sorley. In an introduction
the editor discusses the new influences and tendencies.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:23 O ’20
=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 60w
“A few months ago saw the birth of Mr Untermeyer’s book of ‘Modern
American poetry,’ a work remarkable as showing the wide variety of
theme and treatment which is at least one characteristic trait of
American poetry today. Now Mr Untermeyer, for some obscure reason,
essays the same feat with ‘Modern British poetry.’ And the result is
conspicuously a failure.” J: G. Fletcher
− =Freeman= 2:116 O 13 ’20 1100w
+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 50w
“The disproportionate amount of space allotted to the various poets
gives a false emphasis: Mr Hardy, Mr Bridges and Mr Russell have each
less than three pages, while Mr Chesterton has nine and Mr Kipling and
Mr Noyes (Mr Noyes!) twelve each. The anthologist is tolerant of many
schools; but his eye is more on the present than on the immediate
past.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 24:49 S 8 ’20 800w
“Aside from the small flecks the book presents itself as an admirable
attempt and one that, through its delightful snapshots of the poets
prefixed to each writer’s work, should inveigle readers into a closer
scrutiny of British verse.”
+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 490w
“The editor’s taste is sensitive, and his curious bitterness towards
the Victorians, which is the main drawback to his liberality, does not
greatly affect the catholicity of the work.”
+ =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 280w
+ =School R= 28:630 O ’20 160w
=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS.= New Adam. *$1.75 Harcourt 811
20–16871
As an introduction to this book of poems Mr Untermeyer reprints “A
note on the poetry of love” from the New Republic. He comments on the
artificiality of the love poetry of the preceding age and notes that
in our day there is a tendency to return “to the upright vigor, the
wide and healthy curiosity” of our earlier ancestors, the
Elizabethans. Among the poems of the book are: The new Adam, Hands,
Asleep, Summer storm, A marriage, Wrangle, Equals, Supplication, The
eternal masculine, Windy days, The embarrassed amorist, Words for a
jig, Disillusion, The prodigal.
* * * * *
“There is nothing about love or woman in this collection, except it be
in the verses called ‘The wise woman,’ that is new in love poetry, and
there is many a mood and theme that has been both artistically and
emotionally better expressed by any number of poets in the past ‘two
centuries.’” W: S. Braithwaite
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1000w
Reviewed by Babette Deutsch
=Dial= 70:89 Ja ’21 380w
“There is in this recent work of Mr Untermeyer’s a note that is
singular in American poetry. It shows a writer who has become curious
about the soul.” H. S. Gorman
+ =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 320w
“Mr Untermeyer is casual, as he promised, and flippant, and frank, and
dutifully vulgar; but seldom is his effect other than that of an agile
pen tracing a facile passion.”
− =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 160w
“Neither the rhapsodic nor the mocking quality, however, gives the
substance of Untermeyer’s work. The roots of his power lie deeper.
Upright vigor, wide and healthy curiosity describe his own work
excellently.” Babette Deutsch
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 860w
“One of Mr Untermeyer’s most marked traits is a delightful
whimsicality. It crops up again and again throughout the volume, for,
strangely enough, this book, which purports to be so revealing, is
really extremely reticent. But a dissatisfaction obtrudes itself. Why,
oh why, has Mr Untermeyer, master of so many differing forms, chosen
to follow Heine in his tight little rhythms and mathematically cut
stanzas? In Mr Untermeyer’s case, the effect is not exactly what I
imagine he hopes.” Amy Lowell
+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 10 ’20 3500w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 70w
=USHER, ABBOTT PAYSON.= Introduction to the industrial history of
England. il *$2.50 Houghton 330.942
20–5634
The book is a narrative of all the historical facts in the industrial
development from the earliest beginnings to the present time, which
presumably explains the word introduction in the title. The ground
covered is shown in the contents: Forms of industrial organization;
The rise of the crafts in antiquity; Crafts and craft gilds in
medieval France; The population of England: 1086–1700; Village and
manor; The traders and the towns; The development of gilds in England;
The woolen industries: 1450–1750; The enclosure movement and land
reform; The industrial revolution; The East India company and the
vested interests; The new cotton industry; The reorganization of the
metal trades; The rise of the modern factory system; The rise of
collective bargaining; The protection of health and welfare by the
state; The development of the railway; The government and the
railways; Combinations and monopolies; Incomes, wages, and social
unrest; Selected references; Index, maps, figures, and graphs.
* * * * *
“His exposition is generally clear. The balance of general statement
and of particular fact is in most chapters good. The author is usually
a trustworthy guide. The most serious weakness of the work, when it is
appraised as a manual for college undergraduates, lies in its plan
rather than in its execution. I think, however, that few teachers who
examine the book will dissent from the conclusion that it would be
greatly improved if a large part, almost one third of the whole, were
cut out, and if the space saved were used for the consideration of the
topics now omitted.” Clive Day
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:572 S ’20 1050w
“The facts are presented with scholarly care, but the style is not too
technical.”
+ =Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 490w
“Marked by scholarliness and originality.”