detachment strikes one as little short of miraculous.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 190w
“Many realistic tales of New York’s ghetto have been written; but in
point of literary workmanship and in laying bare the very souls of her
characters, the superior of Miss Yezierska has not yet appeared.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 D 5 ’20 280w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 220w
“Quite in addition to fulfilling her purpose of making her
far-from-mute race even more articulate, Mrs Yezierska has succeeded
in making some very readable stories. They are not only Jewish; they
are human.” M. C. C.
+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 190w
=YOAKUM, CLARENCE STONE, and YERKES, ROBERT MEARNS=, eds. Army mental
tests. il *$1.50 Holt 136
20–6757
“The purposes of psychological testing are (a) to aid in segregating
the mentally incompetent, (b) to classify men according to their
mental capacity, (c) to assist in selecting competent men for
responsible positions.” (Introd.) Although the results given in the
present volume are based almost entirely on military needs and
indicate the success of this service in the army, it has been prepared
in the hope that it may suggest possible uses of similar methods in
education and industry. Contents: Making the tests; Methods and
results; The examiner’s guide for psychological examining in the
army—Directions for giving the army mental tests; Army tests in the
Students’ army training corps and colleges; Practical applications;
Army test record blanks and forms.
* * * * *
“Suggestive to an instructor or employment manager, as it gives a
practical illustration of what might be done with these tests in a
commercial way.”
+ =Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
Reviewed by P. S. Florence
=Freeman= 1:477 Jl 28 ’20 250w
Reviewed by F. L. Wells
+ =J Philos= 17:304 My 20 ’20 550w
“If the American army was not actually as wonderful as the peruser of
these tests might suppose, we must realize that, as far as the theory
of mental tests is concerned, an exceedingly valuable piece of work
was nevertheless performed. They appear, as far as the reader can
judge, to have vindicated themselves completely.”
+ =Spec= 125:673 N 20 ’20 180w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 110w
=YORK, THOMAS A.= Foreign exchange; theory and practice. $2.50 Ronald
332.4
20–3331
“The author’s purpose is to explain the operation of the exchanges
between gold standard countries under normal financial conditions. In
the introductory chapters he discusses the meaning of the gold
standard, or what constitutes money in a gold standard country. A
hypothetical method of treatment is proposed in the theoretical part
of the discussion. In the last few chapters the hypothetical
assumptions are abolished and attention is given to practical foreign
exchange operations as conducted in the New York market.”—Am Econ R
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:848 D ’20 80w
=N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 210w
=YOUNG, FLORENCE ETHEL MILLS.= Almonds of life. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–23027
When Fred Wootten marries a beautiful young wife and brings her home
to South Africa he surprises all his friends, not least of them George
and Maud Allerton. Mrs Allerton welcomes the bride and does all in her
power to make her happy in her new home. But neither she nor the
hapless husband is aware of the sudden passion that awakens between
George Allerton and Gerda Wootten and up to the moment of flight both
are unaware of what is impending. George and Gerda go to England.
Wootten is willing to set his wife free but for the sake of her
children Maud refuses to consider divorce. Eventually Gerda comes to
feel the guilt of her action and sends George from her. The title is
taken from a Chinese proverb, “Almonds come to those who have no
teeth.”
* * * * *
“The book is smoothly written, but it has no especial charm of style,
nor any particular quality either of discernment or of drama to
freshen its more than well-worn plot. The proofreading is strikingly
careless.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 150w
=Spec= 124:729 My 29 ’20 30w
“She has given George Allerton’s wife sterling qualities and then
wasted them all. The author, in fact, has taken throughout the book a
low view of love, and love has spread his wings and flown away. We
have seldom found so little love in a book which contained so much
talk of it. Being what it is, however, it is a well-told story.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p271 Ap 29 ’20 470w
=YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT.= Poems, 1916–1918. *$2 Dutton 821
20–9079
“This book contains poems which appeared in Mr Brett Young’s first
volume of verse, ‘Five degrees south.’ But there is a large number of
new poems.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup p718 D 4 ’19) “Mr Brett
Young’s finer poems are of two kinds—reverie and fantasy. Both are in
the nature of dreams; the one a brooding on love or beauty, a scene, a
memory; the other on adventure, heathenish maybe, and magical, of the
imagination.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup p779 D 25 ’19)
* * * * *
“His ardent appreciation of the richer, more obvious kinds of beauty
makes him a remarkably picturesque writer. He possesses, in modernized
form, a great measure of the talent of that much neglected writer,
Thomas Moore.” A. L. H.
+ =Ath= p1335 D 12 ’19 240w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 440w
=Dial= 69:434 O ’20 60w
“The difficulty is that Mr Young has not made his verse the true
instrument of his experiences. He writes about them, rather than
records them. And the way in which he writes about them is by echoing
other poets.” J: G. Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:189 N 3 ’20 320w
“Young has already made an enviable reputation as a prose writer, but
it is quite safe to assert that his poetry immediately gives him a
much higher place in English letters than he has occupied heretofore.
There is not a mediocre poem, not a verse without its modicum of
aesthetic satisfaction and impressionistic suggestion for the reader.
The reviewer can but advise lovers of poetry to secure it as soon as
possible.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 900w
“Mr Francis Brett Young tries experiments in metres that are more
crafty than wise. He is prone also to that kind of verse in which
things well said and things not nearly so well said are set forth in
undiscriminating proximity.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 100w
“Mr Brett Young has a distinguished, ardent, and promising muse.”
+ =Spec= 122:177 F 7 ’20 400w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p718 D 4 ’19 30w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p779 D 25 ’19 900w
=YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT.= Young physician. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8520
“This story proceeds by definite stages. First of all we have the boy
in the English public school. We find him suffering keenly from the
roughness and cruelty of public school life. His own escape from this
torment is in his dreams. He confides these dreams to his mother and
she responds with an understanding which tightened the bond between
them. After his mother has died, Edwin’s father has a period of
poignant self-revelation. He takes Edwin on a bicycle trip to the
country where his boyhood was spent. His father uses rather undue
influence in persuading him to give up his chosen career in order to
study medicine. It is easy to understand that the father longs to see
his own personal ambitions fulfilled in the boy, but after the first
Edwin himself becomes interested in the work. We see him in the
medical school, in the dissecting room. When he discovers late in his
medical school course that his father is planning to marry again,
Edwin is forced to leave home by an interior urge too strong to be
overborne. It is their definite point of cleavage.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“Readable, yes, eminently readable—readable to a fault. If only Mr
Young could forget the impatient public and let himself be carried
away into places where he thinks they do not care to follow!” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p1067 O 24 ’19 1100w
“Mr Young has given us a genuine achievement, one with real revelation
for every reader who likes to experience contact with the deeper
currents of individual life. Edwin Ingleby should, if this book has
the fate it deserves, become one of the characters with whom
acquaintance is considered a prerequisite of good taste in fiction.”
D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 1250w
=Dial= 69:546 N ’20 50w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:131 Ag 11 ’20 460w
“The book is an interesting, if somewhat morbid, study of life, as
seen by a youth in the egotistic years between boyhood and manhood.
The main theme is the hero himself—to the detriment of several
deserving minor characters.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:469 N 15 ’19 450w
“But for the episode of Rosie Beaucaire and one more rather tiresome
and trivial incident Mr Brett Young would have succeeded in producing
a long and interesting work of fiction in which the relations of sex
played no part whatever.”
+ − =Spec= 123:774 D 6 ’19 200w
“Perhaps the most striking thing about the book is the ease with which
Mr Young blends poetry and realism—out of some such blend as this the
great novels of the next few decades must be written. Probably Mr
Young has not attained his finest balance yet. He seems to have the
power of using the modern spirit to classical ends.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 700w
“If more novelists wrote as well as Mr Brett Young, whose style is
attractively clear and simple, the world would be a happier place; but
manner is not everything, and the matter of Edwin Ingleby’s life is
comparatively wanting in dramatic interest. We wish the author could
convey to his imagination the very obvious zest which moves his pen.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 O 2 ’19 550w
=YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT, and YOUNG, E. BRETT.= Undergrowth. *$2 Dutton
20–19050
“The story which it tells is the story of a conflict between modern
men and the ancient pagan forces, the ‘old gods’ who from prehistoric
times have dominated the lonely Welsh valley in which the action is
laid. This conflict manifests itself at once physically and
spiritually. Physically, in the endless series of accidents which
befall those engaged in building the great dam that is to restrain the
waters of the Dulas; spiritually, in their effect upon the characters
and souls of Forsyth, the young engineer with whose coming to take
charge of the work on the dam the book begins, and his predecessor,
Carlyon, the dead man whose diary and whose influence form important
parts of the narrative.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“As a short story, it would be a decided success, as a long one it is
overelaborated.” C. K. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ’20 370w
“‘Undergrowth’ is a novel of atmosphere. Characters and incidents
alike are of value to Mr Young only as they can help to make more
vivid the picture he is painting of the rugged, fear-inspiring
mountains of South Wales.” D. L. M.
+ =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 150w
“We wonder whether lack of conciseness, rather than any lack in
imagination or expression, is not the great rift in this book. And at
the last the imagination slips the noose. The book becomes
hysterical.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p19 O 23 ’20 460w
“The book is interesting, dramatic at times, and full of a strange,
compelling beauty.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 740w
=YOUNG, GEOFFREY WINTHROP=, ed.[2] Mountain craft. il *$7.50 Scribner
796
“This book comprises 609 pages in all; about 394 pages are occupied by
Mr Young in person in a discussion of what he justly calls ‘Mountain
craft.’ Of the remainder, sixty-three are occupied by Mr Arnold Lunn
with a section on Mountaineering on ski, which leaves 162 pages for
eleven other contributors and the index.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 280w
“In the result the book is disproportioned and ill-arranged; it
affords some compensations. Mr Lunn’s article is a very valuable
treatise on a subject which deserves more attention. Captain Farrar
finds it possible in a small space to say all that is necessary about
equipment and outfit, writing, as he always does, with complete
mastery of detail and admirable conciseness. Mr Spenser on photography
is helpful and adequate.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 N 18 ’20 2300w
=YOUNG, GEORGE.= New Germany. *$2.25 (4c) Harcourt 943
(Eng ed 20–4808)
There is a note of optimism for Germany in this book—the Germany that
has learned “to lift up its eyes to the hills” in all its misery—and a
grave note of warning for the Entente. “The mistake we are all making
about Germany ... is that we can’t realize what Germany today is
like.... Germany has given up. It carried on until it collapsed, and
now lies semi-comatose; and we, still absorbed in our quarrel, keep
pestering it with solicitors and foreclosures instead of patching it
up with doctors and food.” The author is, since the armistice, a
special correspondent of the London Daily News in Germany. Contents:
The revolution; The reaction; The council republics; Ruin and
reconstruction; Council government; The treaty of Versailles; The
constitution. The appendix contains a copy of the constitution with
notes, and there is an index.
* * * * *
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:729 N ’20 180w
+ =Ath= p633 My 14 ’20 1050w
“This able analysis of a complicated situation makes good
supplementary reading to Keynes.”
+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
“Admirable little book.” H: W. Nevinson
+ =Freeman= 1:404 Jl 7 ’20 1000w
=Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 50w
“On the whole, although necessarily impressionistic and journalistic
in character, the work is an intelligent account of the political
transformations in Germany since the armistice, lively and readable at
all times, penetrating and brilliant in places.”
+ =Nation= 111:77 Jl 17 ’20 280w
“Mr Young, it must be added, is a companionable guide to this unknown
land. He saw Germany in the fever of revolution, when to see it was an
adventure, and we doubt whether any observer who was there, German or
foreigner, saw half so much. He came to his work, moreover, with a
background of intimate knowledge of the old Germany. On the folly of
the peace treaty he writes with knowledge and with passion. Mr Keynes
from the outside has traced its economic effects. Mr Young from within
has sketched its no less tragic psychical results.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:816 Mr 13 ’20 1700w
“It is an expert view Young presents.” A. J.
+ =New Repub= 23:129 Je 23 ’20 1200w
“Mr Young’s interpretation is liberal and fairminded.” A. C. Freeman
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 800w
+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 18 ’20 280w
“‘The new Germany’ is not a profound book and it is frequently marred
by bad writing, but it is one of the best accounts of political and
economic events in Germany since the armistice.”
+ − =Review= 3:194 S 1 ’20 200w
=R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 40w
− =Spec= 124:394 Mr 20 ’20 280w
“The writer has first hand knowledge of German political and economic
conditions, and sound intelligence and an understanding of political
theory illuminate his judgments.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 14 ’20 400w
“Mr Young has, as all who know his other writings would anticipate,
produced a book which is not only interesting and at times amusing and
clever, but also parts of which deserve serious consideration by
students of contemporary politics. Clever, perhaps too clever; for
some there will be too much of the cheap jest and the facile
alliteration. Mr Young has certainly done more than any other writer
to help us in understanding what happened.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p131 F 26 ’20 1400w
“Despite a journalistic fondness for euphuistic phrases in their
extreme form, Mr Young holds the reader’s attention. Of real value are
the final chapters on the new German constitution, and the appendix,
which contains the text of the constitution with illuminating
annotations.” C: Seymour
+ =Yale R= n s 10:420 Ja ’21 360w
=YOUNG, P. N. F., and FERRERS, AGNES.=[2] India in conflict. *$1.40
Macmillan 266
“This ambitious title covers a manual for missionary workers in India.
But the authors—representatives of the Anglican church—know that India
is more interesting than missions, and it is of India that they write.
In a hundred and fifty pages they give the reader a clear impression
of the ignorance and poverty met in the teeming native villages, and
of the obstacles to true missionary work springing from the fact that
even if the ill-paid missionary lives in the poorest, barest cabin, he
seems a marvel of wealth to most natives. They define the great needs
of rural India as, first, medical aid, and second, schools of a
Montessori type.”—N Y Evening Post
* * * * *
=N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 110w
“An instructive study of Indian conditions.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Jl 8 ’20 100w
=YOUNG, W. A.= Silver and Sheffield plate collector. (Collector’s ser.)
il *$2.50 Dodd 739
(Eng ed 20–26554)
“A guide to English domestic metal work in old silver and old
Sheffield plate.” (Sub-title) In view of the considerable literature
already gathered around the above subject the author avers that no
previous writer has surveyed the field solely from the standpoint of
domestic requirements and that “the present volume seeks to furnish
something about any and every class of article made of silver or
Sheffield plate that was made between the years 1697 and 1840,
provided it was of such sort as might have had a place in the homes,
or about the persons of the well-to-do and middle classes.” (Introd.)
Contents: Some history and a little law; Some sources of information;
Marks on old metal wares; The craft of the silversmith and the plater;
Six chapters on “The quest” for the various kinds of utensils;
Bibliography; A glossary of terms used in connection with the
silversmiths’ craft and the plater’s trade; Appendix; Index and over
one hundred illustrations.
* * * * *
“Mr Young’s introduction is valuable and interesting, as is his first
chapter. The illustrations are well chosen and excellently
reproduced.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:86 Ja 24 ’20 600w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p716 D 4 ’19 100w
=YOUNGHUSBAND, SIR GEORGE JOHN.=[2] Jewel house. il $5 Doran 739
A work by the Keeper of the jewel house in the Tower of London. “Some
of the most interesting chapters in the book are those devoted to the
description of the chief pieces of the regalia and to the history of
the more famous gems. There is a full account of the sovereign’s three
crowns—Edward the Confessor’s crown, the Imperial state crown, and the
Imperial crown of India—of the Queen’s crowns, the Prince of Wales’s
crown as eldest son of the king, and the different sceptres and orbs.
The Koh-i-nur is, of course, one of the historic jewels dealt with by
Sir George in a special chapter. Another gem with a story is the Black
Prince’s ruby, presented to him after the battle of Najera by his ally
Don Pedro of Castille.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
+ =N Y Times= p10 D 19 ’20 2000w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:619 D 22 ’20 680w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p696 O 28 ’20 1300w
Z
=ZAMACOÏS, EDUARDO.= Their son; The necklace. (Penguin ser.) *$1.25
(3½c) Boni & Liveright
19–18640
Two stories translated from the Spanish by George Allan England. In
the first, an honest, faithful, industrious locomotive engineer
marries a young girl of provocative beauty. In his zeal to get on, and
to provide properly for her in case he should suddenly die, he insists
on their taking as boarder a friend of his who is fond of “wine,
women, and song.” Not until three years pass does he learn that his
friend has been too intimate with his wife; and although he knows it
must cost him his home, his delight in his wife and his gay little
son, he kills his deceiving friend in a duel. After twenty years in
prison he returns to a wife hardened and made ugly by work, and a
dissolute son. He is happy again, prosperity comes; but another duel
occurs through no fault of his, in which he is killed by the son who
is not his son. The second is a passionate story of the power of a
courtesan over a young student from the country. The translator
contributes an appreciative estimate of the author.
* * * * *
“‘Their son’ is a novelette of a very high order of merit. The action
is rapid, the pathos bare and virile, the observation of circumstance
exact. ‘The necklace’ is more hectic in atmosphere and the theft of
the jewels is somewhat wildly conceived.” L. L.
+ − =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 150w
“The themes of both of the novelettes are antique, but the style is
direct, simple and vigorous. Here is a book worth reading.” A. W.
Welch
+ − =N Y Call= p11 Mr 21 ’20 280w
“We predict for Señor Zamacois a high appreciation among American
readers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:39 Ja 25 ’20 750w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:111 Ja 31 ’20 150w
“This author has been compared to both Balzac and Maupassant; but it
seems to us that his nearest double in French fiction would be Anatole
France, with whom he has in common a fine irony which directs the
thought of the reader to fundamental ills in present-day social
relationships.”
+ =Survey= 44:352 Je 5 ’20 200w
=ZANELLA, NORA.= By the waters of Fiume. *$1.35 (*3s 6d) Longmans
940.3436
20–4795
“This little book purports to have been written by an English girl who
married a young Italian of Fiume just before the war. The husband had
to serve as a conscript in the Austrian army, and was shot for
refusing to fire on the Italians. The wife survived him only a few
months. Whether or not the story is true it represents faithfully
enough the Italian sentiments of the majority of the people of Fiume
and their sufferings during a war in which all their sympathies were
with the Allies and against their Austrian and Croatian oppressors.”
(Spec) The facts of the author’s life are told by her sister, Madame
de Lucchi, in an introduction.
* * * * *
“You can tell what Fiume is like by reading the early pages of this
book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 260w
=Spec= 123:446 O 4 ’19 100w
“It is a moving record of love, expressed with great exuberance.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p534 O 2 ’19 70w
=ZILBOORG, GREGORY.= Passing of the old order in Europe. *$2.50 (4c)
Seltzer 940.5
The author has lived through the war as an observer and is not writing
an academic treatise or a book based on authorities but claims merely
to be analysing his own experiences. It is his conviction that “in the
course of the struggles of the present-day world, humanity has
developed a very serious disease.... The disease is mob psychosis. The
contagion was carried by the war, by revolution, by political lying,
by diplomatic betrayal, social disturbances and moral suppression.”
(Introd.) The book concerns itself with the diagnosis of the disease
and the possibilities of restoring health. Contents: The impasse of
politics; The debauch of European thought; The morass of war; The
recovery of revolution; Revolutionary contradictions; Additional
contemplations; Light and shadows; Consequences and possibilities.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p1 N 27 ’20 420w
=R of Rs= 62:558 D ’20 120w
“It is an important contribution, full of apposite citation from an
unusually wide range of knowledge and personal experience of
penetrating criticism and suggestive generalization. This message just
now deserves a wide hearing.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 560w
=ZIMMERN, HELEN, and AGRESTI, ANTONIO.= New Italy. *$2 (3c) Harcourt
914.5
(Eng ed 19–264)
The authors say in the foreword that Italy’s glorious past stands in
the way of comprehension of her present, that she is still for the
average Englishman and American the land of the renaissance and the
Risorgimento, or the country of the picturesque brigand and lazzarone,
while in fact the modern Italian is not a romanticist but a
positivist, not an excitable, emotional individual but a reflective
one. The great change that has come over the people, especially during
the last twenty years, has surprised even the nation itself into
knowing itself for the first time. The endeavor of the book is to give
a short, synthetic view of Italy as she was at the outbreak of the
war, as she is today and as she is likely to be after the conclusion
of peace, for Italy’s entrance into the war marks the end of the book.
The three main divisions of the contents are politics, civil
questions, and Italy and the great war. There is an index.
* * * * *
=Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 50w
“They know and love the old Italy, and they have packed much valuable
information into their book, despite haphazard statistics and
recurrent bellicose homilies on the war. There is need of an
authoritative book on new Italy; this is not it.”
+ − =Nation= 111:161 Ag 7 ’20 220w
“The book provides a certain amount of guidebook information about
Italian history, education, industry, etc. But, as an interpretation
of ‘New Italy,’ it is a total failure.” A. C. Freeman
− + =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 580w
“The volume as a whole is thoroughly satisfactory, and our only regret
is that its brief compass does not permit a fuller development of the
subjects with which it deals.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:14 Je 27 ’20 700w
+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 80w
“Miss Helen Zimmern and Signor Agresti have tried to explain modern
Italy to English readers, and their survey is both compact and
intelligent. The writers have not quite got to the root of Italy’s
discontents.”
+ − =Sat R= 125:848 S 14 ’18 1050w
=Spec= 121:231 Ag 31 ’18 1400w
“So far as it goes it gives a clear outline of the progress of Italy.
But her present developments are among the most interesting in all
Europe, and this book, ending the survey where it does, hardly
prepares us to understand them.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 23 ’20 280w
“She has written numerous books on Italy, and she has written better
ones, not a little better.” F. O. Beck
+ − =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 370w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Ag 15 ’18 110w
=ZOOK, GEORGE FREDERICK.= Company of royal adventurers trading into
Africa. $1.10 Journal of negro history, 1216 You st., N.W., Washington,
D.C. 382
20–4623
This monograph is reprinted from the Journal of negro history, (April,
1919) and is a contribution to the history of the slave trade. The
time period covered is 1660–1672. Contents: Early Dutch and English
trade to West Africa; The royal adventurers in England; On the west
coast of Africa; The royal adventurers and the plantations;
Bibliography; Index. The author is professor of modern European
history in Pennsylvania state college.
* * * * *
“On the whole Dr Zook has presented a clear and straightforward
account of the company’s activities and relationships.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:541 Ap ’20 550w
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:523 Je ’20 400w
=ZWEMER, SAMUEL MARINUS.= Influence of animism on Islam; an account of
popular superstitions. il *$2 Macmillan 297
20–8879
The object of the book is to show how animism, the superstitious
belief in spirits, witches and demons, on which all pagan religions
are founded, still controls Islam in its popular manifestations.
Mohammedanism, as an outgrowth of paganism, Judaism and Christianity,
is characterized as a religion of compromise, that has easily yielded
to the pagan survivals in the countries over which it has spread its
influence. That these superstitions are popular expressions that have
nothing to do with the monotheism of Islam, does not make them less
pernicious. The contents are: Islam and animism; Animism in the creed
and the use of the rosary; Animistic elements in Moslem prayer; Hair,
finger-nails and the hand; The ‘Aqiqa’ sacrifice; The familiar spirit
or Qarina; Jinn; Pagan practices in connection with the pilgrimage;
Magic and sorcery; Amulets, charms and knots; Tree, stone and serpent
worship; The Zar: exorcism of demons. There are illustrations and a
bibliography.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:139 Ja ’21
=Lit D= p102 S 4 ’20 1600w
=N Y Times= 25:17 Jl 4 ’20 1000w
“His book is well worth reading.”
+ =Spec= 124:54 Jl 10 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p407 Je 24 ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 N 4 ’20 150w
Footnote 2:
This book is mentioned for the first time in this issue.
List of Documents for Use in the Smaller Libraries
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MARY E. FURBECK,
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Quarterly List of New Technical and Industrial Books
Chosen and annotated for general libraries by the Applied Science
Reference Department Pratt Institute Free Library, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Nos. 14–17 FEBRUARY, 1921
=Fuel oil in industry.= S. O. Andros. Shaw pub. co. 244p. $3.75.
A timely book giving information about the properties of fuel
oil, its value as compared with coal, and details of methods
of using it in industrial plants, locomotives, steamships,
heating of buildings, etc. Contains a chapter on colloidal
fuel, which consists of pulverized coal held in suspension in
oil.
Author is editor of _Oil News_.
=Inventions=; their development, purchase and sale. W. F. Baff.
Van Nostrand. 230p. $2.00.
Written by a patent attorney, the book discusses how an
inventor, having secured his patent, may sell or otherwise
realize on it, the many points being considered in detail.
=Boy bird house architecture.= L. H. Baxter. Bruce. 61p. $1.00.
Designed to encourage a liking for birds, to teach something of
their habits, how to construct and put up houses to attract
the various kinds of birds, and how to conduct bird house
contests. Illustrated with half-tones and twenty plates of
drawings showing details of design and construction of bird
houses, and feeding devices.
Author is director of Manual Training, Public Schools, St.
Johnsbury, Vermont.
=Armature winding and motor repair=; practical information and
data covering winding and reconnecting procedure for direct and
alternating current machines, compiled for electrical men
responsible for the operation and repair of motors and
generators in industrial plants and for repairmen and armature
winders in electrical shops. D. H. Braymer. McGraw. 515p. $3.00.
A practical book for repairmen who have to do with the locating
of troubles and the repair of electric motors in repair shop
work, power station work, and industrial plants. The matter is
for the most part a compilation from various sources.
Author is managing editor of _Electrical World_.
=Forest products: their manufacture and use.= N. C. Brown. Wiley.
471p. $3.75.
Treats of the production, manufacture and use of many important
forest products, but not of lumber. Chapters are devoted to
wood pulp and paper; tanning materials; veneers; cooperage;
turpentine, tar, pitch; wood distillation; charcoal; railroad
ties; piles and piling; posts; mine timbers; fuelwood;
shingles; maple syrups and sugar; rubber; dyewoods and
materials; excelsior; cork. A bibliography accompanies each of
the 22 chapters.
Author is professor of forest utilization, New York College of
Forestry, Syracuse University.
=The wireless experimenter’s manual, incorporating “How to conduct
a radio club.”= Describes parliamentary procedure in the
formation of a radio club; the design of wireless transmitting
and receiving apparatus, long distance receiving sets, vacuum
tube amplifiers, radio telegraph and telephone sets, the tuning
and calibration of transmitters and receivers, general radio
measurements and many other features. Completely revised and
rewritten. E. E. Bucher. Wireless press. 350p. $2.25.
One of the best books for the amateur wireless experimenter.
Author is instructing engineer, Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company of America.
=The essentials of business law.= rev. ed. F. M. Burdick.
Appleton. 361p.
A high school text-book, plainly written, designed to teach
“those legal principles and ideas involved in ordinary
business affairs,” and some of their applications.
The last previous ed. was published in 1908; the present ed. has
been revised and the necessary changes made to bring it into
conformity with present day practice.
Author is Dwight professor of law in Columbia University Law
School.
=How to use cement for concrete construction for town and farm.=
H. C. Campbell. Stanton. $2.00.
Contains plain directions for using concrete for the usual
purposes in town and country, and in addition tells how to
construct tennis courts, flower boxes, lawn seats, etc. Fully
illustrated.
=What bird is that?= A pocket museum of the land birds of the
Eastern United States arranged according to season. F. M.
Chapman. Appleton. $1.25.
Eight colored plates, supposed to represent as many cases in a
natural history museum and showing pictures of three hundred
birds arranged according to season, in their proper colors and
drawn to scale. The text of this book gives an entry for each
one of the birds, describing its appearance, its length in
inches, its range, the dates of its arrival in various places,
its habits, and refers by number to its picture in the colored
plates.
Author is curator of birds in the American Museum of Natural
History.
=Language for men of affairs.= 2 v. Ronald. 1136p. $8.00.
V. 1. Talking business. J. M. Clapp. Considers voice production,
enunciation, vocabulary, construction of sentences, and
business conversation. Has sections on the preparation and
delivery of business addresses.
Author is lecturer on the language of business, New York
University.
V. 2. Business writing. J. M. Lee. ed. Considers business
English in written form for correspondence, advertising,
journalism, report-writing, preparing copy for the printer,
proof-reading, etc.
Editor is director, department of journalism, College of the
City of New York.
The work is an important contribution to the literature of the
subject and valuable to executives, salesmen and others
engaged in business.
=The hen at work=: a brief manual of home poultry culture. Ernest
Cobb. Putnam. 233p. $1.50.
A book on keeping hens for egg production. Considers breeds,
housing, hatching, raising chickens, diseases, etc. Contains a
chapter on ducks.
=American machinists’ handbook and dictionary of shop terms=: a
reference book of machine shop and drawing room data, methods
and definitions. 3d. ed. thoroughly rev. and enl. F. H. Colvin
and F. A. Stanley. McGraw. 758p. $4.00.
Revision of a standard machine shop and drafting room reference
book, enlarged by 160 pages above the last previous ed.,
published in 1914, and the original text revised where
necessary.
Authors are respectively editor and associate editor of
_American Machinist_.
=Automotive ignition systems=; prepared in the extension division
of the University of Wisconsin. E. L. Consoliver, and G. I.
Mitchell. McGraw. 269p. $2.50 (Engineering education series)
Correspondence school text book dealing plainly with the various
gasoline engine ignition systems used on automobiles, trucks,
tractors and airplanes. Addressed to workers who have to
install, adjust, and repair ignition systems in factories and
shops, and to automobile owners.
Authors are connected with the mechanical engineering
department, University of Wisconsin.
=Submarine warfare of today=; how the submarine menace was met and
vanquished, with descriptions of the inventions and devices
used, fast boats, mystery ships, nets, aircraft, etc., also
describing the selection and training of the enormous personnel
used in this new navy. C. W. Domville-Fife. Lippincott. 304p.
$2.25. (Science of today series)
An interesting, popularly written book. Describes conditions as
they were at the beginning of the war, and tells of the
measures adopted and the devices employed to meet the
submarine menace by convoying ships, laying mines, and
destroying enemy submarines. Fully illustrated.
Author was of the staff of the British school of submarine
mining, and has written other books on submarines.
=Traveling salesmanship.= A. W. Douglas. Macmillan. 153p. $1.75.
“This little book is not merely the usual study of the
psychology of Salesmanship, but rather the result of forty
years’ close contact with the traveling salesmen of one of the
largest distributing mercantile organizations of this
country.” _Preface._
Contains chapters on the nature and function of salesmanship,
preparations for the road, work on the road, contact with
customers, competition and prices, some phases of selling,
claims, the human equation.
The author is chairman, committee on statistics of the United
States Chamber of Commerce.
=Experimental wireless stations; their theory, design,
construction and operation; including wireless telephony, vacuum
tube and quenched spark systems=; a complete elementary course
of instruction in and on account of sharply tuned modern
wireless installations. New 1920 ed. P. E. Edelman. Henley.
392p. $3.00.
A revised and enlarged edition of a successful amateur’s book on
wireless communication. Some knowledge of the fundamentals of
electricity and mathematics on the part of the reader is
presupposed.
=Direct-current motor and generator troubles.= T. S. Gandy and E.
C. Schacht. McGraw. 270p. $2.50.
A book for the man concerned with the selection, operation, care
and repair of direct-current electrical machinery. Discusses
types of motors and generators, and their uses; their
installation, starting and operation; switchboards; troubles
and their remedies; tests and repairs, etc.
Senior author is designing electrical engineer of direct-current
machinery, General Electric Company.
=Advanced shop drawing=; prepared in the extension division of the
University of Wisconsin. V. C. George. McGraw. 147p. $1.60.
Correspondence school text book. A book for the student who,
having had training in elementary mechanical drawing requires
practice in its applications to special phases of the subject.
The book has chapters on working drawings; gearing; isometric,
cabinet and shaded drawings; patent office, structural and
electrical drawings; piping layouts, and sheet metal work.
Well illustrated with line drawings.
Author is instructor in mechanical engineering, University of
Wisconsin.
=Every step in canning=: the cold-pack process. G. V. Gray.
Forbes. 253p. $1.25.
Plain directions for canning in glass and tin by the one period,
cold-pack process. Tells how to can fruits and vegetables; to
make and can soups, jellies, jams and preserves; to dry fruits
and vegetables; to cure, smoke and preserve meats; to preserve
eggs, etc.
Addressed to those who are concerned with canning and preserving
at home.
Author was formerly associate professor of home economics, Iowa
State College.
=Food facts for the home-maker.= L. S. Harvey. Houghton. 314p.
$2.50.
“This book is intended to be a help to the young housekeeper who
is starting out in the new home without either a knowledge of
science or the technical training which could help her. The
book is also intended to help those women who have kept house
for years and who are excellent cooks and careful planners. It
should give a scientific foundation to their technical
skill ... perhaps showing them ways in which they may shorten
processes and thus save time and energy.” _Preface._
Considers the various articles of diet and their food values,
kitchen arrangement and equipment, buying food for infants and
young children, school children, invalids. Contains recipes,
and could supplement cook books.
Partly based on lectures to classes. Author is town dietitian,
Brookline, Mass.
=Concrete work=; a book to aid the self-development of workers in
concrete and for students in engineering. W. K. Hatt and W. C.
Voss. v. 1. Wiley. 451p. $4.00. (Wiley technical series:
Industrial texts).
The first book in a series of industrial texts written by
teachers who trained men in military schools during the War,
the methods and materials worked out in that practice being
utilized in the preparation of these texts. The object of the
authors is to present scientific principles with their
practical applications in a manner intelligible to the worker
or novice in concrete work, in order to enable him to fit
himself for a foreman’s position or enter into business as a
local contractor. The present work is in 2 vols., the second
of which is now in press, and the matter is so arranged that
the two should be used together.
Authors are respectively professor of civil engineering, Purdue
University, and head, department of architectural
construction, Wentworth Institute.
=Motor car upholstering=; a plainly written book on the
fundamentals of motor car trimming and upholstering. Phila.,
Hirst-Roger Co. 180p. $2.50.
Designed as an instruction book in vehicle trimming for men
taking up that kind of work. Describes the materials, tools
and methods employed, and contains many illustrations.
The matter is well prepared and reliable.
Trade publication of a firm which manufactures automobile
carpets.
=The new stone age.= H. E. Howe. Century. 289p. $3.00.
By the “new stone age” is meant the age of concrete
construction. The present book, written for the layman, tells
of the materials employed and of many uses to which they are
applied. The treatment is general, no details being given. A
timely book in view of the wide field of applications of
concrete in building and engineering work.
=The new merchant marine.= E. N. Hurley. Century. 296p. $3.00.
The former chairman of the United States Shipping Board tells in
this book of how the problem of supplying ships for war
demands was met, and discusses the future of the American
merchant marine, foreign fields of commerce and related
topics.
=Elements of retail salesmanship.= P. W. Ivey. Macmillan. 247p.
A text-book for store classes in salesmanship, or for individual
reading. Author writes from personal experience and bases his
book on lectures to store classes. Considers knowing the
goods, knowing the customer, personality, the selling process,
and store system and method. Problems are provided for each of
the nine chapters, and a bibliography of business books is
appended.
Author is associate professor of economics and commerce,
University of Nebraska.
=The engines of the human body=, being the substance of Christmas
lectures given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain,
Christmas 1916–1917. Arthur Keith. Lond. Williams. 204p. 12s.
6d.
At the Christmas holiday season the Royal Institution of Great
Britain invites some eminent scientist to deliver popular
lectures to young people. In the lectures which make up this
book the author considers the human body from an engineering
standpoint: the bones as levers, the muscles as internal
combustion engines, the heart as a pump, the nerves as a
telephone system, etc. It is an interesting boys’ book on
physiology, and would interest some more mature readers.
=Splendors of the sky.= I. E. Lewis. Duffield 343p. $1.50.
Interesting chapters on astronomy written for the general
reader. Valuable as a popular account of recent progress in
astronomy. Illustrated. Appeared originally in a daily
newspaper.
=Artificial light, its influence upon civilization.= M. Luckiesch.
Century. 366p. $2.50. (The century books of useful science.)
The author traces the methods of producing and uses of
artificial lighting from its earliest forms of which we have
knowledge to the present day, and considers how human progress
has been advanced by the overcoming of darkness. The book is
interestingly written and well illustrated.
Author is director of applied science, Nela research laboratory,
National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company.
=The motor cycle handbook=: the construction, operation, care and
repair of modern types of motor cycles, their accessories and
equipment. H. P. Manly. Drake. 320p. $1.50.
A practical book describing and illustrating in considerable
detail various types of motor cycles, their engines, fuel
systems, electrical equipment, transmissions, running gear,
etc. Contains chapters on power attachments and side cars, and
on motor cycle repairs.
The author has written several practical books on the
automobile.
=Automobile electric systems=; an analysis of all the systems now
used on motor cars with 200 wiring diagrams and giving special
attention to trouble shooting and repairs. D. P. Moreton and D.
S. Hatch. 591p. $3.50.
Describes and illustrates in detail the various electrical
installations employed in igniting the gas, starting the motor
and supplying light for the lamps of automobiles of all types.
Particular attention is given to systems used on Ford cars.
The book is addressed to car owners and repairmen, and some
knowledge of the fundamental principles of the electric
circuit is presupposed.
The same authors’, “Electrical equipment of the motor car”, (U.
P. C. book co., 1920, $3.50) considers the more elementary
phases of the subject, without describing the special
installations which form the subject of the more recent book.
Senior author is associate professor of electrical engineering,
Armour Institute of Technology.
=Practical trade mathematics for electricians, machinists,
carpenters, plumbers and others.= J. A. Moyer and C. H. Sampson.
Wiley. 172p. $1.50.
A practical elementary mathematics for adult students. All the
problems relate to operations familiar to the men in their
various occupations, and unusual mathematical terms are
avoided. Numerous problems and worked-out examples are
provided, the electrical problems being grouped separately.
Senior author was formerly in charge of division of electrical
calculations in the General Electric Company; the junior
author is head of technical and mathematical departments,
Huntington School, Boston, Mass.
=Interior electric wiring.= A. L. Nelson. American Technical
Society. 265p. $2.50.
A practical book, of the correspondence school type, on the
installation of electric wiring in buildings, with directions
for wiring for special purposes.
=Shop mathematics=; a treatise on applied mathematics dealing with
various machine-shop and tool-room problems, and containing
numerous examples illustrating their solution and the practical
application of useful rules and formulas. Erik Oberg and F. D.
Jones. Industrial press. 280p. $3.00.
A practical mathematics designed to teach the machinist or
apprentice learning machine shop practice how to perform the
calculating necessary in his work.
Authors are respectively editor and associate editor of
_Machinery_.
=The English of commerce.= J. B. Opdycke. Scribner. 435p. $2.00.
A high school text-book teaching the choice of words, spelling,
construction of sentences, paragraphs and letters for business
purposes. Contains also sections on newspapers and magazines,
advertising, business talk, sales and advertising literature,
abbreviations and special terms, proofreading, business forms,
etc. Examples of good and bad usage are given in the various
sections. The book could be studied with profit by young
business people who have gone through school without
instruction in the writing of business English.
=Motor boats and boat motors=; design, construction, operation and
repair; a complete handbook for all interested in motor boats,
considering all details of modern hulls and marine motors. Deals
with boat construction, design and types of power plants,
installation of engines, and all phases of motor boat and engine
care, operation and repair. Written by a corps of experts;
compiled and edited by V. W. Page. Includes complete working
drawings and full instructions for building five boats, ranging
in size from a sixteen-foot general utility model to a
twenty-five foot raised cabin cruiser, by A. C. Leitch. A
special chapter on seaplanes and flying boats is included. Fully
illustrated with 374 illustrations. Henley. 524p. $4.00.