Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1920 Books (continued 10)

The Times [London] Lit Sup p638 S 30 ’20 60w

“If, like Rabelais, and Balzac after Rabelais, he uses his mastery in that old French the richness and breadth of which were not yet shorn by the correct and academical, he is wholly Belgian, and comparable at most and best with Jordaens, or rather with Rubens, who to robust sensuousness could add the heroic, lavish the while of colour and exuberance.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p663 O 14 ’20 1450w

COTTER, WINIFRED. Sheila and others. *$2 Dutton

20–18386

“Subtitled ‘The simple annals of an unromantic household,’ this unpretentious little volume relates some of the experiences of a Canadian family, experiences principally concerned with dogs and servants. There are some fourteen sketches in the volume, several of them being concerned with the parrot and the dog who were the pets of the household. The succession of ‘wash ladies,’ the peculiar behavior of the seamstress, the ‘Suppression of a cuckoo clock,’ the point of view maintained by the vacuum cleaner agent ... these and others of the kind provide the author with themes.”—N Y Times

“Most of the papers are very mildly humorous, and all of them are pleasantly written.”

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N Y Times p16 N 28 ’20 320w

“Sketches of merit, but menaced as a collection by a certain excess of ‘brightness.’ On the whole the whimsies of housekeeping are relatively wearisome to the male; I suspect this volume will fare best as read aloud in purely feminine circles.” H. W. Boynton

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Review 3:502 N 24 ’20 110w

COTTERILL, HENRY BERNARD. Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300–1600). il *$5 Stokes 945

20–2716

This volume follows “Medieval Italy during a thousand years,” published in 1915. It is a review of the political history of Italy from 1300–1600 “as viewed from the standpoint of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries.” (Subtitle)

“We should be inclined to trust Mr Cotterill further in art than in literature. His style improves noticeably as he proceeds, and he lays aside to some extent his irritating habit of breaking into the historic present on the slightest provocation. As a whole the book is thoroughly sound and useful. The photographs are suitably chosen, and there are good chronological tables, lists of artists and genealogies of the chief reigning houses.” L. C.-M.

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Ath p1254 N 28 ’19 1600w

“The great mass of materials relating to a disorganized country and to the achievements in art are so interwoven as to form a scholarly, clear whole.”

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Booklist 16:198 Mr ’20

Brooklyn 12:106 Mr ’20 30w

“The author has adopted an excellent and satisfactory plan for compassing his enormous field and clarifying the immense detail that goes to make up the history of these perhaps most significant centuries in the world’s history. The book was evidently written during the war and the author is frequently rather amusingly, pleased to find German authorities in error.” B. B. Amram

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Review 2:544 My 22 ’20 1300w

“The author’s bias in favour of republicanism is unfortunate in its results upon his work.... It is useless, however, to discuss differences of opinion in a book the subject of which is so immense; we can only repeat our conviction that a reader who expects to find a general book on the art, literature and history of all the Italian states during their most important period will find Mr Cotterill’s book useful, though he will be well advised to supplement its judgments with other and more detailed works, and to make free use of the historical lists and tables provided at the end of the book, and of the useful index.”

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Sat R 128:561 D 13 ’19 1050w

COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE. Inevitable; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$2 (2c) Dodd

20–18761

The title of the story indicates its fatalism. At the age of twenty-three Cornélie de Retz van Loo was a divorced woman. She had passionately loved the handsome Baron Brox when she married him, but their temperaments had clashed from the beginning. He had gone so far in his masterful, brutal way, as to beat her and she had run away. She went to Italy to be alone and to reconstruct her life. She became a feminist and achieved some fame in the woman movement by her pamphlet on “The social position of divorced women.” Also she met Duco van der Staal, the painter and dreamer and formed a free union. They were a most harmonious couple, complementing and stimulating each other; helping each other to find their “line of life.” But Cornélie will not hear of marriage. She is through with marriage. Impecuniosity enjoins a temporary separation. Cornélie takes a position as companion. There she meets her former husband who at once exerts hypnotic power over her and commands her to return to him. Cornélie flees and returns to Duco, but even in his arms and knowing that she loves only him, her inexorable fate is upon her. She follows the call of him whom she does not love, but whose property and chattel she is because she was once his wife.

“Of the four other Couperus novels which have now been published in this country, ‘The inevitable’ is decidedly the best from the mere standpoint of novel writing.” D. L. M.

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Boston Transcript p4 N 6 ’20 1250w

“Taken as a whole, it is rich in beauty, rich in passion, has much of gentle dreaming and superb awakening; yet it contains a certain sadness which oftimes borders close to melancholy—a splendid woof woven together with a warp of morbidity.” M. D. Walker

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N Y Call p5 Ja 9 ’21 1050w

“There are many chapters in ‘The inevitable,’ aside from the concluding one, which mark the book as an exquisite example of the fictionist’s art. The author’s touch is always delicate and sure in handling the lights and shades of thought and emotion. The author’s powers of characterization are excellent.”

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N Y Times p20 N 21 ’20 1300w

“‘Inevitable’ is decidedly well written and translated; it is extremely attractive in its pictures of Rome, of Italian society, and of the foreign colonists.” R. D. Townsend

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Outlook 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 130w

“As in ‘The tour,’ the author’s interest in antiquity and in art finds very full expression in these pages, as well as his sense of racial contrasts and interplay among those who chance to meet on alien soil.” H. W. Boynton

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Review 3:650 D 29 ’20 400w

COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE. Tour; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$2 (2c) Dodd

20–10054

In this book Louis Couperus, the Dutch novelist, tells a story of ancient Egypt. Publius Lucius Sabinus, a young Roman lord, is touring the Nile seeking diversion and forgetfulness of his lost love, whom he believes drowned. This is the outward reason. Actually he has come to visit all the various oracles to learn what he can of her whereabouts. One after the other they reveal to him the thoughts that are in his own mind and bring him to admit what others have all the time known, that the girl has shamelessly deserted him and run off with a common sailor. At the end of the tour news meets him that the Emperor Tiberius has confiscated all his property, but Lucius, who has now found solace with the Greek slave Cora, is impervious to the stings of fortune and faces a life of poverty with gaiety. The story is told lightly and with humor.

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Booklist 17:31 O ’20

“‘The tour’ adds much to the Dutch novelist’s laurels, for it achieves the unusual success of being totally unstrained by ‘melodrama,’ ‘conflict,’ ‘passion,’ ‘revenge,’ or any other of the common characteristics of a modern novel, and yet it is enthrallingly interesting.” G. M. H.

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Boston Transcript p9 Je 12 ’20 300w

Cleveland p70 Ag ’20 120w

“Although passages of fictional interest reward the more frivolous-minded reader occasionally, and although there is a love scene toward the end, there is much Baedeker between. The work is unmistakably Couperus, delicate and suggestive, yet precise.” F. E. H.

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Freeman 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 230w

“His style is exquisite, delicate, unusual, and beautifully translated.”

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Ind 104:382 D 11 ’20 140w

“This book, even more perhaps than the stories that deal with his Dutch contemporaries, exhibits his frugal ease and grace, the strength and delicacy of his execution, the conscious but always finely restrained melodic structure of his prose.” Ludwig Lewisohn

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Nation 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 420w

“A certain degree of relief is given to the otherwise sombre picture by the two figures of Uncle Catullus and of the Sabaean guide Caleb, the latter being a convincing presentment of a type which has changed but little with the passing of time. Those who are interested in the lives of the rich as they were some couple of thousands of years ago, and in the decay of the oldest and at one time the most powerful civilization upon earth, will find ‘The tour’ a fascinating book.”

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N Y Times 25:307 Je 13 ’20 800w

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Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

“It is, at all events, a gay little affair. It is a romantic comedy in the vein of ‘Twelfth night’—which, with its disconsolate young lord and the manner of his comforting, it vaguely resembles.”

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Review 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 320w

“Told with light, ironic humor and exquisite artistry.”

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Wis Lib Bul 16:237 D ’20 40w

COURNOS, JOHN. Mask. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–262

“This is the story of the making of a human mask.” (Overture) It is the story of John Gombarov’s childhood and youth, as he told it years afterward to a friend in London. Born in Russia, into a family of “emancipated Jews,” he spends his early childhood there and tells of the quaint customs and the kind of people he remembers. Then, the family fortune being hopelessly ruined by his stepfather, a man with the soul of a child and the mind of an inventor, they come to America, the land of promise. The process of Americanization that Vanya, now John, goes through in ‘The city of brotherly love’ is not a pretty picture to contemplate. There the “wretched little foreigner” is run “through a mangle” to “wring Europe out of his flesh and bones like dirt out of a garment.” Only a heroic soul of the type of John Gombarov’s could survive uncrushed. But it put the mask on his face.

Booklist 16:243 Ap ’20

“The charm and power of the book lie in its welding of substance and form,—its ‘style,’ in the only sense that matters. Its pictures are conveyed as if by indirection. Yet they are as clear-cut as the work of a lapidary.” H. W. Boynton

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Bookm 51:76 Mr ’20 1100w

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Boston Transcript p6 Je 23 ’20 900w

“The embarrassing predicament of ‘The mask’ is that it is a reasonably good book. Now a reasonably good book is peculiarly elusive. One cannot tumble all over himself with praise of it, nor can he object to it without a futile qualification of every statement. Mr Cournos, like so many of our present-day writers, goes about his work with intelligence, an impeccable keenness of vision, and some thoroughly arrived attitudes. Consequently, one cannot get at him. He is impregnably aware. Such people are skilled in the art of giving just as much as can be endured, and no more.” Kenneth Burke

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Dial 68:496 Ap ’20 1700w

“If ‘The mask’ does no more than picture the struggle of an immigrant family in ‘The city of brotherly love’ it is a rich contribution to American literature. But it certainly does much more than that.” Alvin Winston

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N Y Call p10 Mr 14 ’20 650w

“It is the poetry in this novel that makes its starkness endurable. Behind the welter of life that it presents is an irresistible impulse to live with mastery, with beauty, with meaning.”

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N Y Times 25:85 F 8 ’20 550w

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N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 50w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

Review 2:231 Mr 6 ’20 480w

“‘The mask’ is a great book, curiously Elizabethan in spirit, a cry of joy and life that existence cannot quench.”

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Sat R 129:192 F 21 ’20 750w

“There is a vein of poetry in the telling.”

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Springf’d Republican p9a F 29 ’20 220w

“A book like this cannot be read lightly as an amusement. It is closely written, with an intensity of feeling (usually hatred, particularly of America) which will be a little startling to Englishmen. John Gombarov is a fine character; the book is created for him; he is the central interest which holds this discursive narrative together. If he is not precisely a lovable character, he is a real and living one.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p610 O 30 ’19 550w

COURSAULT, JESSE HARLIAMAN. Principles of education. (Beverley educational ser.) *$2.50 Silver 370

20–20531

“The purpose of this book is to make simple, definite, and clear, a body of principles which should guide in educational thought and practice. Every student of education has certain fundamental beliefs, or principles, which he uses as standards in judging the truth or falsity of educational ideas and practices, upon which, as an explanatory basis, he organizes his knowledge of educational matters, and in the light of which he sees new difficulties to be overcome and new problems to be solved.... To deal intelligently with these educational problems, to deal intelligently with any educational problems, even where scientific measurement is made use of, one must have some fundamental ideas as to the nature of education and the part which education plays in the drama of life.” (Chapter I) The contents fall into three parts: The individual process; The social process; The educational process. There is a bibliography and an index.

“A preliminary statement of suggestions for using the book as a text, together with a graphic outline of the book itself, found in one chapter, add to the usefulness of the volume.”

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El School J 21:312 D ’20 680w

“The book is excellently organized for teaching purposes. The reinterpretation of the contributions of the great educational philosophers is clear and concise, and is interwoven most appropriately with the unfolding of the theme.”

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School R 29:70 Ja ’21 350w

COURTNEY, MRS JANET ELIZABETH (HOGARTH). Freethinkers of the nineteenth century. il *$6 Dutton 274.2

(Eng ed 20–12144)

“A cross section of English intellectual life as it reflected the new tendencies is presented in a biographical study of seven outstanding personages of the period by Janet E. Courtney in ‘Freethinkers of the nineteenth century.’ The seven are Frederick Denison Maurice, Matthew Arnold, Charles Bradlaw, Thomas Henry Huxley, Leslie Stephen, Harriet Martineau and Charles Kingsley, the last included rather as an associate of free thinkers and a sympathizer with them than as one actually of their number. The author in a preface explains the selection as promoted by recollection of youthful impressions of the controversies in many fields of intellectual activity.”—Springf’d Republican

Ath p634 My 14 ’20 780w

“Her book reads a little as if Matthew Arnold, Leslie Stephen and the others were files of old newspapers, from which she has been diligently and judiciously clipping. But the clippings, it is only fair to add, are connected by a well-informed and easy narrative, and each whole is a story told with tolerance and humor and a pleasant contagious gratitude.”

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New Repub 23:313 Ag 11 ’20 1350w

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No Am 213:139 Ja ’21 580w

“Miss Courtney has done her work well; her brief biographies are intelligent, sympathetic, and discriminating, and are interesting reading.”

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Outlook 126:111 S 15 ’20 130w

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Review 3:322 O 13 ’20 500w

“Mrs Courtney’s book is well worth reading. We regret its omissions, and it does not go very deep; but as a record of facts and of sympathetic interpretation it is interesting.”

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Sat R 129:435 My 8 ’20 900w

“Their stories are intelligently and interestingly told.”

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Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 520w

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p184 Mr 18 ’20 880w

COUSINS, FRANK, and RILEY, PHIL MADISON. Colonial architecture of Salem. *$8 Little 728

19–19769

“The chapter headings [of this book are:] The gable and peaked-roof house; The lean-to house; The gambrel-roof house; The square three-story wood house; The square three-story brick house; Doorways and porches; Windows and window frames; Interior wood finish; Halls and stairways; Mantels and chimney places; Public buildings; Salem architecture of today. The first five chapters trace a definite development in Salem architecture by periods in a more thorough manner than has before been attempted. The last chapter deals with modern houses designed and built with rare good taste along historic lines since the disastrous Salem fire of 1914.”—Bookm

“It is not a chatty book like Miss Henderson’s; it is rather a serious, analytical, descriptive, and semi-technical study.” W. A. Dyer

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Bookm 51:243 Ap ’20 280w

“The most valuable as well as the most complete study of the subject.”

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Boston Transcript p6 F 25 ’20 650w

COUTTS, FRANCIS BURDETT THOMAS MONEY-. Spacious times and others. *$1.25 Lane 821

20–7868

A book of poems by an English writer, author of a number of volumes of essays and verse. Part 1 consists of war poems with such titles as: The new Pisgah; To the Belgians; To America aloof; To America at war; To an anticompulsion demagogue; To the strikers; The conscientious shirker; To Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. The second part contains poems of other days. Notes on some of the war poems come at the close.

“For all their fourteen lines and their Petrarchan rhyme-system, they have the quality of newspaper articles.”

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Ath p384 Mr 19 ’20 150w

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

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Bookm 52:64 S ’20 40w

Boston Transcript p4 My 26 ’20 450w

“Much better than most of the lyrics of the war is a quiet poem about a woman, called ‘Her character.’” Marguerite Williams

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N Y Times p24 Ag 22 ’20 90w

“They have eloquence; but it is rather the stilted eloquence of a sententious publicist than poetry; and it is lost when the writer drops to political abuse. On the whole the inspiration runs thinly throughout.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p110 F 12 ’20 120w

COX, HAROLD. Economic liberty. *$2.75 Longmans 330

20–12900

“Mr Harold Cox has collected and reprinted from the quarterlies a number of his recent articles on economic and political questions. Mr Cox rightly lays stress on the importance of economic liberty which is obtainable only under our existing system. There is much truth in Mr Cox’s chapter on socialist ethics. He devotes a chapter to the special fallacy of ‘Nationalisation,’ involving the state control under which enterprise withers and individual initiative ceases. There are some essays, too, on the question of free trade or protection, and an eloquent paper on ‘The two paths of empire’—the old protectionist methods which we abandoned deliberately last century, and the modern creed of freedom under which the dominions and the crown colonies and protectorates have developed very rapidly and successfully.”—Spec

Am Econ R 10:852 D ’20 70w

“Will be appreciated by those who distrust state control and by radical thinkers who wish seriously to consider opposing points of view.”

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Booklist 17:140 Ja ’21

“One would, in fact, like to see these essays expanded into a general political philosophy, and we believe there would be a welcome for such a book, and that it would have considerable influence.”

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Sat R 130:180 Ag 28 ’20 1000w

“Mr Cox’s general line of reasoning is sound.”

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Spec 124:830 Je 19 ’20 1200w

“In dealing with present day problems, Cox is academic and aloof from realities. Nevertheless, this is a good book for reformers of all schools who sincerely desire to consider their cause in the light of every genuine opposing argument.” B. L.

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Survey 45:288 N 20 ’20 270w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p376 Je 17 ’20 670w

COXON, MURIEL (HINE) (MRS SYDNEY COXON). Breathless moment. *$2 (2½c) Lane

20–13346

Sabine Fane, brought up in luxury, was left destitute after her father’s death. Nothing daunted, she accepts a position as housekeeper and eventually falls in love with her mistress’ nephew. But Mark is already married to a worthless woman and just before he leaves for the front, Sabine decides on a desperate step. She will have her breathless moment before it is too late. During the war Mark’s wife dies and he is not only crippled but becomes a victim of shell shock. He has completely forgotten the episode with Sabine, but such is her charm that he falls in love anew on seeing her. The illegitimate child arouses his moral indignation and once more he turns from her. An operation on an old scalp wound restores his mental balance and all difficulties are cleared up except a lurking regret on both sides for what has happened before the war.

“In ‘The breathless moment’ Miss Muriel Hine is perhaps at her best.”

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Ath p619 N 5 ’20 100w

“A sound piece of work, interesting, well balanced, with characters whose deeds and personalities are alike plausible, and a story which develops clearly and logically, it is a better book than any one of hers which we have previously read.”

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N Y Times p26 Ag 1 ’20 700w

“The story is readable but unconventional.”

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Outlook 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 70w

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Spec 125:675 N 20 ’20 30w

“Muriel Hine shows herself, as always, a capable story-teller. If only she were something more than capable, and did not show her capability quite so unblushingly! If only her chapter openings and endings were not quite so pat; her little nature paragraphs not so obviously put in for atmosphere.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p685 O ’20 260w

CRABB, ARTHUR, pseud. Samuel Lyle, criminologist. il *$1.90 (2c) Century

20–17409

Samuel Lyle was the ablest criminal lawyer that Alden boasted. He seemed to have an almost uncanny insight into human psychology that enabled him to put his finger on the weak spot of any criminal intent. In this book of eleven short stories his methods are revealed and illustrated. The titles are: A pleasant evening; Among gentlemen; The greatest day; A story apropos; Perception; The alibi; Number 14 Mole street; The raconteur; Juror no. 5; “Compromise, Henry?”; Beyond a reasonable doubt.

Booklist 17:115 D ’20

“Entertaining detective stories, neither bloody nor complicated.”

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Cleveland p107 D ’20 50w

“Unlike so many mystery stories, the author does not emphasize the sordid and brutal, but relies, rather, for his thrills upon clean-cut and ingenious plot-weavings.”

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N Y Times p24 Ja 16 ’21 290w

“They are scarcely less ingenious than Sherlock Holmes, but they are much more probable. There is, indeed, not one of the mysterious incidents which might not quite naturally have occurred, and the explanation is as natural as it is surprising when it is furnished.”

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Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 80w

CRADDOCK, ERNEST A. Class-room republic. *$1 Macmillan 371.3

“Modern civics teaching is demanding much participation on the part of the pupil. One way to get this desirable activity is through the introduction of student self-government into a class or a school. Some English experiments with this sort of thing have been published quite recently. Besides narrating his experience in introducing classroom republics into his school the author of this little book discusses in some detail the advantages of the system and some objections to it. Some attention is also given in the last two chapters to the subject, ‘The school republic.’”—School R

Ath p589 Ap 30 ’20 120w

“The book is well written and presents with fairness both the merits and defects of the scheme proposed.”

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El School J 21:75 S ’20 200w

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School R 28:550 S ’20 120w

“The book is, besides being a genuine contribution to the science of pedagogics, extremely amusing even to the non-professional reader. It is indeed delightful to read such a book as Mr Craddock’s, well written, conceived with gusto and treating of a subject so interesting.”

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Spec 124:761 Je 5 ’20 900w

CRAM, MILDRED. Lotus salad. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–10732

A story of love and adventure in a South American state. Pug Fairchild, son of his father, after exhausting the pleasures of New York, goes down to South America to look after the Fairchild interests in Magella. Before leaving, he asks a girl to put on her hat, marry him and go too, but as a practical minded young miss, she refuses the tempting proposal. A few hours after arrival he meets the real girl, daughter of Diego, Magella’s president for the moment, and the real romance begins. He also runs into a full-sized revolution and his adventures begin almost immediately. The author adopts a movie technique in telling her story.

“Anyone who wants to be really beguiled from tedium, without the faintest intellectual struggle, who wants to feel just a little warmer and younger and chirpier than he has felt lately, may risk a reading.”

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Boston Transcript p9 S 18 ’20 350w

“It is a Richard-Harding-Davis sort of story, set in a Richard-Harding-Davis kind of scene. ‘Lotus salad’ is meant only to serve as an hour’s merry entertainment and it is cleverly worked out for that purpose, even if its colors are high and glaring.”

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N Y Times 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 330w

“Here is romance and adventure with a swing and a sparkle that will entertain the reader admirably.”

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Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 22 ’20 340w

CRAM, RALPH ADAMS. Gold, frankincense and myrrh. *$1.25 Jones, Marshall 252

20–445

“The title of the three addresses, explained in the preface, sums up their substance: ‘Gold is the pure, imperishable quality of the monastic ideal, Frankincense the supreme act of worship through the Blessed Sacrament, Myrrh the saving quality of a right philosophy of life ... the three gifts that must again be offered by a world once more led ... to worship and fall down before the Incarnate God so long and so lightly denied.’ They have been published in The American Church Monthly.”—Booklist

Booklist 16:163 F ’20

“The lectures are original and suggestive. Their scope is far wider than the small groups for which they were written.”

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Cath World 110:833 Mr ’20 850w

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Survey 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 350w

CRANE, AARON MARTIN.^[2] Ask and receive. *$2 Lothrop 248

20–22091

A collection of the unpublished papers of the author, who died in 1914. The subject is prayer, with particular reference to the teachings of Jesus. Among the chapter titles are: How to pray, The prayers of Jesus, The rule for all praying, The need of forgiving, Prayer and healing.

Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 2 ’21 130w

CRAWFORD, MARY CAROLINE. In the days of the Pilgrim fathers. il *$3 (4c) Little 974.4

20–9735

The author points out in the foreword that the name Pilgrim was not applied to the Plymouth pioneers until late in the eighteenth century and that it was first used by Thomas Paine. The name of Puritan was repudiated by the settlers themselves, who were not really Puritans but Separatists. In view of the many books already written on the Pilgrim fathers, the author says: “Yet I hold it to be true that however well the history of any epoch may have been written, it is desirable that it should be rewritten from time to time by those who look at the subject under discussion from the point of view of their own era.” Contents: The college that cradled the Puritan idea; In which certain Puritans become “Pilgrims”; The first migration: The formative years in Leyden; The England from which they fled; How they sailed into the unknown; How they set up a home in the new world: How they met and overcame the Indians: How they made their laws and tried to live up to them; How they established “freedom to worship God”; Some early books about Plymouth; Social life in the Pilgrim colony; Appendix, index and illustrations.

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Booklist 16:340 Jl ’20

“Gives as vivid and complete a picture of the life of the Pilgrim fathers as any I have seen.” W. A. Dyer

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Bookm 52:122 O ’20 2350w

Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun

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Bookm 52:345 D ’20 120w

“If the reader is looking for historical accuracy he can but feel a sentiment of disappointment. But nevertheless there is very much of deep interest. But for some evidences of haste in its preparation, causing many minor but annoying errors, this book about the Pilgrims must be regarded as one of the most readable which have yet appeared.”

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Boston Transcript p8 Je 5 ’20 340w

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Ind 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w

N Y Times 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 340w

“Will have a lasting value as an admirable account of the personalities and the times that were pregnant with the New England of today.”

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Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w

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R of Rs 62:335 S ’20 50w

“A book that is not merely authoritative but interesting.”

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Springf’d Republican p10 Je 2 ’20 750w

CREEL, GEORGE. How we advertised America. il *$5 (3½c) Harper 940.373

20–10648

“The first telling of the amazing story of the Committee on public information that carried the gospel of Americanism to every corner of the globe.” (Sub-title) Mr Creel charges Congress with intent to keep any final statement of achievements from the public, and says “It was to defeat this purpose that this book has been written. It is not a compilation of incident and opinion, but a record and a chronicle.” The book is in three parts: The domestic section; The foreign section; Demobilization. Newton D. Baker’s address delivered at a dinner in honor of Mr Creel is printed as a foreword and various letters and other documents, including a list of the publications of the committee, are given in an appendix. The book is fully illustrated with portraits and is indexed.

Booklist 17:24 O ’20

Freeman 2:89 O 6 ’20 1550w

“Of course he writes in journalese; he would not be Creel if he did not; but his story of the committee’s work has the rush of a bullet, the direct and convincing quality of journalese when it is written by a man who knows the art.”

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N Y Times 25:24 Jl 4 ’20 3150w

Reviewed by F: Moore

Review 3:211 S 8 ’20 1000w

CREEL, GEORGE. War, the world, and Wilson. *$2 (2c) Harper 940.373

20–11585

A book written as a defense of President Wilson and as a plea for the ratification of the peace treaty and the acceptance of the league of nations. It was our pledges that won the war, the author states, and our repudiation of those pledges that is losing the peace. Among the chapters are: The man and the president; Neutrality; “Strong men”; “The Roosevelt divisions”; The case of Leonard Wood; America’s moral offensives; Why the president went to Paris; “The big four”; What Germany must pay; Shantung and hypocrisy; The Adriatic tangle; Were the fourteen points ignored? How the treaty was killed; The great American tradition.

“Often makes a good case, but weakens its effect by trying to prove all the reason on one side.”

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Booklist 17:28 O ’20

“It is a much less effective campaign document than Ray Stannard Baker’s account of the peace conference or Professor Dodd’s biography of Wilson because it is too obviously prejudiced and recklessly overstated.”

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Ind 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 70w

Review 3:74 Jl 21 ’20 270w

“The book as a whole is a brilliant political tour de force.”

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R of Rs 62:220 Ag ’20 460w

“Mr Creel is too much inclined to produce a campaign document and to hold that the democratic departments could not make mistakes. The most effective part of the book is that which shows how a republican clique in the Senate aided the imperialists of Europe by undermining the president’s influence while he was at the conference. Mr Creel is less satisfactory in his reply to Mr Keynes. Here his temper is violent and rhetorical.”

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Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 6 ’20 1050w

“Here at last is a straightforward statement of the fundamental facts over which some controversies of the past four years have raged.”

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Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 15 ’20 1700w

CREEVEY, CAROLINE ALATHEA (STICKNEY) (MRS JOHN KENNEDY CREEVEY). At random. *$1.50 (2½c) Putnam 814

20–18957

The present volume is the result of the author’s long illness, and is a collection of opinions in the form of short essays, nature essays, impressions of writers, stories and moods. Some of the titles are: Literary commercialism; Prejudices; Useful lies; Heredity; Discipline; Christian science; My vision; Traveling seeds; The beautiful orchids; The search for truth; The hermit of Walden; Trees and their blossoms; The sixth sense of humor; Caddis flies; An October afternoon.

“The various literary activities to which Mrs Creevey set her hand, in the field of nature, won her a host of admirers, who will be entertained with these random papers.”

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Boston Transcript p8 N 6 ’20 280w

N Y Evening Post p26 O 23 ’20 10w

CRESSON, WILLIAM PENN. Cossacks; their history and country. il *$2.50 Brentano’s 947

20–1063

“An American writer’s account of that Russian people who have declared their intention to establish ‘a federal republic like that of the United States.’ This is the first history in English of the Cossacks or ‘Free people’ of Russia (to most Americans the term Cossack refers only to a branch of the old Russian cavalry service). Captain Cresson was formerly secretary of the American embassy at Petrograd, and much travel in the Cossack country and intimate knowledge of the sources of Cossack history have equipped him for the task of interpreting this interesting people to his own countrymen.”—R of Rs

Ath p560 Ap 23 ’20 100w

Booklist 16:273 My ’20

“Students of Russia will appreciate Captain Cresson’s volume, because it is, so far, our most reliable account of the Cossacks in English. He has brought within its pages information that hitherto was scattered and difficult to collate, and he has shown, in its presentation, a scholarly viewpoint and a ready pen.”

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Cath World 111:542 Jl ’20 700w

“The book is not to be taken too seriously as a contribution to historical literature, but vivacity of style and the wild-western colour of the subject-matter make the pages interesting enough.”

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Dial 68:671 My ’20 50w

“Captain Cresson’s work rests on the standard researches of French historians and the general reader can peruse it with confidence as well as with interest.”

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Ind 103:321 S 11 ’20 360w

Lit D p86 Je 26 ’20 1250w

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Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 40w

“The most valuable part of his book is that in which, from personal observation, he describes the organization and government of the Cossacks. This otherwise excellent book has one shortcoming, and that is faulty transliteration of Russian names.”

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Review 3:712 Jl 7 ’20 260w

R of Rs 61:335 Mr ’20 100w

Reviewed by Reed Lewis

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Survey 44:52 Ap 3 ’20 160w

CROCKETT, ALBERT STEVENS. Revelations of Louise. il *$2.75 (6½c) Stokes 134

20–19174

The book records the circumstances of the loss of a beloved daughter and of the parents’ communications with her from the spirit world. Previous to the occurrences described, the author avows, he had been a decided skeptic on the subject of spirits. The communications came by way of the ouija board, table tippings, levitations and materializations, all through non-professional means. Long conversations with Louise are recorded. Among the contents are: Through the board; Spirit dogs, and another: The festival of spirits—writing; The table that talked; On guides and “power”; Manifestations; Good spirits and bad—the chart; How levitation is done; Spirit audiences and performers; Spirits and human nature; The seven spirit planes—and some ancient American history; Levitation extraordinary.

“The chief interest of the book lies in the detail and accuracy of Mr Crockett’s observations, and what new evidence he can bring to the case.”

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Boston Transcript p5 N 13 ’20 660w

“The book has an interest wholly apart from the question of possible dealings with the world beyond, in that it presents a vivid picture of a charming and lovable girl, who is sweet and natural and unchanged on either side of the veil.”

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N Y Evening Post p11 N 6 ’20 150w

N Y Times p16 N 14 ’20 540w

Reviewed by Booth Tarkington

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N Y Times p18 N 28 ’20 420w

“Quite aside from the personal matters there are descriptions of the life in the ethereal realm that, to say the least, must commend themselves to those who have already acquired some conceptions of the next phase of life.”

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Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 360w

CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD. Light out of the east. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

20–22156

This is not a story of the return of Christ to earth, but it is the story of a Christ-like figure who remakes the world on the basis of Jesus’ teachings. He is known as the White Pope, for altho only a poor monk, Brother Christopher had been elevated to the Vatican. To the horror of all, however, he had forsaken the papal throne to wander about the earth teaching that God is to be found only in men’s hearts. So Lucas Cargill of Cargillfield, Scotland, meets him and becomes his first disciple and recorder of the events that follow. In several respects the narrative parallels the life of Jesus.

“Nothing in ‘The light out of the east’ is probable or even possible, and in addition to its manifest exaggeration, the religious element is lugged in. This hardly makes an artistic book; in fact, it does not even make a moderately good story.”

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Boston Transcript p6 Ag 7 ’20 200w

“Beyond the statement that this book has an effective style, there is little to be said about it. The book is a thinly-veiled attack upon the Catholic church.”

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Cath World 112:270 N ’20 150w

N Y Times 25:320 Je 20 ’20 520w

“It is a message of idealism beautifully conceived and filled with optimism for the world’s future.”

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Outlook 126:507 Jl 14 ’20 20w

“This book will stir wonder and regret in those who remember and still admire Mr Crockett’s earlier novels.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p142 F 26 ’20 280w

CROMWELL, GLADYS. Poems. *$1.50 Macmillan 811

19–19249

“Another book that is in the nature of a memorial volume, since it is posthumous, is ‘Poems,’ by Gladys Cromwell. In a preface Padraic Colum gives a just and accurate account of Miss Cromwell’s achievement as a poet and defines her talent admirably. In a biographical note at the end of the book Anne Dunn accounts for the tragic death that shocked the world a year ago.... Miss Cromwell, as Mr Colum wisely suggests, was not a poet of facile and sensational emotions. Her gift is pensive. Her songs have a quiet music. Here is light that glows clearly, not fire to heat us.”—N Y Times

“Miss Cromwell was not one of those young poets who accept without question the traditionally ‘poetic’ themes and prattle, without a sign of conviction, of love and springtime and the picturesque beauties of nature. She wrote of real spiritual experiences, of what she had herself thought and felt.”

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Ath p289 F 27 ’20 140w

“In the group here entitled ‘Later poems’—the closing record of two very noble and fervid lives brought to a tragic end—there is nearly always a stark and shining strength in which a certain calm sweetness is not utterly without its part.” H: A. Lappin

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Cleveland p73 Ag ’20 150w

“The poems of the unfortunate Gladys Cromwell betray the hidden thing that wrecked her career. One sees, in practically all of her poems, a fear of this life that is a kaleidoscope of beauty, belligerence, and bestiality. The inability to adjust herself to an insecure and chaotic world is manifested even in her earlier poems which contain some of her finest lyrics. In poems like The mould, Definition, Dominion, and Choice she seems a tentative and somewhat frailer Emily Dickinson, with a less incisive and more indirect idiom.” L: Untermeyer

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Ind 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 300w

“The work of a finely thoughtful woman whom the spectacle of sheer, naked cleverness and successfulness hurt, it represents feminine introspection almost at its best.” M. V. D.

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Nation 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 150w

“It is the cumulative effect of the collection that is most remarkable. As one reads on, the book develops a unity that is more than a unity of texture or of inspiration. It achieves an eloquence,—superseding the poet’s earlier constraint—that seems almost to deepen the lyric sequence to the additional significance of a monodrama.” O. R.

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New Repub 22:65 Mr 10 ’20 1000w

“The poems are sincere, but sometimes stumbling. The winds of time will blow from the tree of poetry some of the leaves as heavy as these and as slightly affixed.”

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N Y Call p11 Ag 1 ’20 200w

“If Miss Cromwell had lived she would never have been a popular poet, but it is quite likely that she would have written rare lyrics for the pleasure of poets and others to whom poetry is no amusement, but, in a deep and real sense, the sharing of life.”

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N Y Times 25:173 Ap 11 ’20 480w

“Her poetical work throughout is the self-revelation, made with a blunt direct sincerity, of a fine spirit and a thoughtful mind.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p243 Ap 15 ’20 210w

CROSLEY, MRS PAULINE S.^[2] Intimate letters from Petrograd. *$3 Dutton 947

20–10514

“Pauline S. Crosley’s book is a collection of letters written to members of her family, principally from Petrograd, where her husband was American naval attaché from the spring of 1917 until the flight of the foreign legations and embassies through Finland in the following February.”—N Y Times

“The book is remarkable for its unbiased opinions and its clear estimate of the political situations, as well as for its realistic account of the chaotic conditions of Russia in the first days of its downfall.”

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Cath World 112:553 Ja ’21 80w

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N Y Times p22 S 12 ’20 1400w

CROTHERS, SAMUEL MCCHORD. Dame school of experience, and other papers. *$2 (3½c) Houghton 814

20–22103

In the opening paper the author reports an interview he had with the “withered dame” who teaches the school of experience. He found the schoolhouse an ancient building and the equipment primitive. The dame treated his inquiry into her methods as a prehistoric joke and made it plain that she did not go in for the fancy branches of ethics. Her parting advice was to treat experience not as a noun but as a verb and to mind the adverbs. The other papers are: The teacher’s dilemma; Every man’s natural desire to be somebody else; The perils of the literate; Natural enemies and how to make the best of them; The spiritual adviser of efficiency experts; The Pilgrims and their contemporaries; Education in pursuit of Henry Adams; The hibernation of genius; The unpreparedness of liberalism; On the evening of the new day.

“This volume of a dozen essays is bound to be one of the most popular books of the season throughout the country, and while it appeals primarily to the man and woman of literary culture, its wisdom as well as its wit will draw many others to whom common sense clothed in humor appeals particularly.”

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Springf’d Republican p8 N 24 ’20 400w

CROWDER, ENOCH HERBERT. Spirit of selective service. *$2 (2c) Century 353

20–5259

In part one of this book the author tells how the draft act was put into operation. Its success was made possible, he says, thru the cooperation of the men and women, nearly two hundred thousand strong, who made up the backbone of the selective service system. This body, composing the draft boards, “espoused the administration of an unpopular law, and not only achieved success in its execution, but popularized it as well.” In part two the author considers plans for bringing the same spirit of cooperation to bear on the present confusion. The chapters of part one are: America elects; Feeding the god of war; The volunteer system in America; Pride of tradition versus common-sense patriotism; Universal service in America; Selective service in America; How England achieved selective service; The spirit of the draft; Part two: The tasks that lie ahead; The permanency of the selective service idea; The preservation of Americanism; A plan of action; The old guard. An appendix gives General Crowder’s report as provost marshal general to the secretary of war on the demobilization of his department.

“Clearly written and very interesting historically.”

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Booklist 16:261 My ’20

“While ‘The spirit of selective service’ contains more detail, description, and theory of the draft and its aftermath than it does ‘spirit,’ it is none the less a well written and valuable contribution to the already large collection of semi-technical post-war literature.” C. K. M.

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Boston Transcript p4 My 26 ’20 360w

“It may be that some of its propositions are more ingenious than practicable, though it would not be easy to point them out. It may be that the writer is over-hopeful of the success of some of his plans, though he maintains generally an admirable tone of moderation. It is certain that he has, in a broad and patriotic spirit, presented most lucidly what he esteems to be the lesson of one of the greatest administrative achievements in the history of our government.”

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No Am 211:857 Je ’20 1400w

R of Rs 61:557 My ’20 120w

CROWELL, JOSHUA FREEMAN. Outdoors and in. *$1.50 Four seas co. 811

20–5146

Nature themes predominate in this volume of poems and not the least attractive of them are those inspired by the cultivated garden flowers. There are a few poems of social interest, including those which touch on the war. An occasional vein of satire is also disclosed. The verses are grouped under the following heads: Through the year; Along the way; Above the clouds; From sea and shore; By wood and stream; Of field and town; To tone and tune; Garden wise; An interlude; Dream wise.

“Skilled though he be in verse forms, Mr Crowell is nevertheless far from being a poet, and no discriminating reader will ever suspect him of it.”

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Cath World 111:838 S ’20 100w

“The verses are pleasant and often graceful. The book is enjoyable reading, though hardly belonging to the heights of poetry.”

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N Y Call p11 Ag 1 ’20 120w

CROWTHER, SAMUEL. Common sense and labour. *$2 (3½c) Doubleday 331

20–7435

In attempting to put his finger on the something wrong in the industrial world of today, in the relations between employer and employee, the writer does not find any intrinsic antagonism between capital and labor. On the contrary he believes that “there is a growing conception that capital and labor are complementary, that it is perfectly possible to effect a bargain and sale with a reasonable profit to both sides and without more than a natural amount of bickering.” He has little use for any of the revolutionary changes involved in “profit-sharing,” the “democratization of industry” and the like, but thinks that constructive results can be achieved when “capital and labor meet not as partners but as persons anxious to make all that they can out of the same general opportunity.” Contents: The fundamental causes of labour unrest; The relation between the employer and the employed; The worker and his wage; Wages and profit-sharing delusions; The fetish of industrial democracy; When they get together; The economic truths of work; The man and the machine; The methods and policies of British labour.

“The many cases cited give it a lively interest for the average, concerned business man or worker.”

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Booklist 16:299 Je ’20

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Cleveland p75 Ag ’20 40w

Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol

Review 3:651 D 29 ’20 500w

“His book makes for sanity on both sides.”

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R of Rs 61:672 Je ’20 40w

“Distinguished by rare good sense and lack of partisanship.”

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St Louis 18:215 S ’20 20w

“He is not always judicious in his strictures and his indulgence in cutting epigram is sometimes rather annoying, but there is much of stimulating information and suggestion in his essay.”

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Springf’d Republican p10 My 6 ’20 240w

“His initial chapter Mr Crowther entitles The fundamental causes of labor unrest and in it he indicates clearly his own lack of understanding of those causes.”

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Survey 44:316 My 29 ’20 200w

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p554 Ag 26 ’20 80w

CROWTHER, SAMUEL. Why men strike. *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday 331.1

20–8812

The author’s contention is that men are now no longer striking for higher wages or shorter hours, as formerly, but are striking against work, i.e. against what they think is an unjust system of society. He has no fault to find with capital, as such, but thinks its present mode of distribution could be improved upon. To that end he advocates a new kind of thrift, that is not based primarily on self-denial but rather on wise spending. By affording opportunities for investment of savings, thus returning them to production, he would give the workers a stake in society, create a nation of capitalists and appease social unrest.

Booklist 17:51 N ’20

Ind 103:319 S 11 ’20 20w

“It is a genial and smoothly written but ill-informed piece of work.” G: Soule

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Nation 111:533 N 10 ’20 170w

“He is involved in assumptions which are hardly tenable, and in conclusions which are of negligible social value.” Ordway Tead

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New Repub 24:100 S 22 ’20 2100w

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p783 N 25 ’20 70w

CROY, HOMER. Turkey Bowman. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper

20–16795

Like the author’s novel “Boone Stop” this is a story of boy life in the West. But it pictures a somewhat earlier period when the Indians were not yet subdued and when Indian uprisings were to be feared. The young hero, Turkey Bowman, jilted by the girl he has fallen in love with, runs away from home in company with a somewhat older vagabond who shares his opinion of the sex. Slim too has a broken heart and the two are drawn together in misery. They have various wandering adventures and settle down for a time on a cattle ranch. Slim eventually changes his attitude toward women and Turkey carries news of a proposed Indian raid to the army post and returns home a hero.

“Turkey is always amusing, and he is a very human boy.”

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Boston Transcript p5 D 4 ’20 340w

“There is real humor crammed into the pages, the juvenile principals are real boys and described true to nature, while there is no taint of artificial coloring in description or action.”

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Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 110w

CROZIER, WILLIAM. Ordnance and the world war. *$2.50 (3c) Scribner 940.373

20–8902

A book subtitled “a contribution to the history of American preparedness.” The author’s purpose is to describe the ordnance department and to trace the various steps in equipping the army for France, leaving the reader to judge to what extent the department met its responsibilities. Contents: Ordnance department; Embarrassments; Overhead organization; Criticisms; Rifles; Machine guns; Field artillery; Smokeless powder; Responsibility; Conclusion. The author states that since he is no longer a member of the war department he speaks “without official authority, and with something of the freedom of any other citizen.”

“So far as the book is an apology for the Ordnance department, it is well done and is successful. So far as it is an apology for the writer himself, it had better have been left undone. It doth protest too much; it leaves the reader not quite convinced; worse, far worse, it leaves him bored.” H: W. Bunn

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Review 3:319 O 13 ’20 1500w

“Altogether the book has a larger field than its mere name implies. It may be said to be an authoritative and comprehensive history of an achievement characteristically American in dealing with new and extraordinary problems.” F. B. C. Bradlee

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Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 16 ’20 310w

CRUICKSHANK, ALFRED HAMILTON. Philip Massinger. il *$4.50 Stokes 822

(Eng ed 21–120)

Of the many dramatists of the century of Shakespeare, says the author of this volume, none seem more worthy of affectionate consideration than Philip Massinger. Comparing his writings with the masterpieces of his contemporaries, which, though displaying rich gifts of pathos, poetry and humor, are often marred by waywardness, unnaturalness, want of proportion and grossness, Massinger’s work is sober, well-balanced, dignified and lucid. While he shares with them the atmosphere of romance and adventure, he is the most Greek of his generation. The book contains, besides the text, appendices and index, a frontispiece portrait, a facsimile of the Henslow document at Dulwich, and of the “Believe as you list” Ms. in the British museum.

“It is a conscientious work, which contains, we suppose, all the information and nearly all the serious speculations possible, about its subject. In expression of judgment and comparison, it is useful; for if any opinion is to be expressed of Mr Cruickshank’s criticism, it is deficient rather than aberrant.” T. S. E.

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Ath p760 Je 11 ’20 1600w

“In every detail, Dr Cruickshank’s book is carefully documented.” E. F. E.

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Boston Transcript p6 N 10 ’20 1550w

“He has thoroughly mastered the large amount of material collected in dissertations and technical journals during the last half-century, and within certain definite limits has made an adequate study of which the chief merit is the warm and well-reasoned admiration of Massinger which glows through every page. The scope of the book is unfortunately strangely limited.” S: C. Chew

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Nation 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 600w

“Professor Cruickshank’s scholarly and illuminating and, to us, provocative book will, we hope, do something to revive interest in Massinger’s work.”

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Sat R 130:36 Jl 10 ’20 720w

CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON. History of education. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$3.75 Houghton 370.9

20–20533

As the sub-title, “Educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization,” indicates, the book does not go back to the early civilizations of primitive and oriental people but, beginning with ancient Greece, traces the development of education throughout the western world for the purpose of showing that human civilization represents a more or less orderly evolution and that the education of man stands as one of the highest expressions of a belief in the improvability of the race. The contents are in four parts: The ancient world; The mediæval world; The transition from mediæval to modern attitudes; Modern times. The book is indexed and illustrated with full page pictures, figures and maps. Questions and references follow the chapters.

CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON.^[2] Readings in the history of education. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$3.75 Houghton 370.9

20–22845

“A collection of sources and readings to illustrate the development of educational practice, theory, and organization.” (Sub-title) The original purpose of the collection was to furnish supplemental reading to a lecture course by the author and is now offered as a supplement to his textbook, “The history of education” and as a reference volume. It is liberally illustrated with reprints from old cuts and the subject-matter ranges from the old Greek and Roman education, the rise of Christianity with its contributions through to the middle ages, the revival of learning and the rise of the universities. With the new scientific method and after the transition phases of the eighteenth century come the beginnings of national education which gradually bring the selections down to contemporary educational history.

CULLUM, RIDGWELL. Heart of Unaga. *$2 (1½c) Putnam

20–18301

Steve Allenwood, as a police officer of the north land, is sent on a mission which will take two years to fulfil, leaving behind him his pleasure loving wife and baby daughter. When he returns, bringing with him a boy whom he has salvaged from the bitter rigors of the north, he finds his wife has gone away with another man, taking their daughter with her. His one desire is for revenge, but when he has almost accomplished it, he realizes its futility, and determines to devote all his remaining life to the little lad of the north. He knows there is a fortune in the drug—adresol—with which the hibernating Indians lull themselves to their long winter sleep, and thereafter the passion of his life is to discover where these Indians obtain it. After years of search, the heart of Unaga gives up its secret to him. In the meantime, his adopted son and his real daughter have grown up, and in their love for one another and for him, he realizes at last some of the contentment that has been denied him in all the intervening years, and finally he has his revenge too, on the man who has wronged him years before.

“The story has an unusual plot, which is masterfully developed, and the descriptions of the northwest primitive life and the hibernating Indians are extremely vivid. All the characters are intensely real and well portrayed. The book is at all times interesting, and in spots even inspired.”

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N Y Times p24 O 3 ’20 620w

“It would be the better for compression and it is rather too somber in its treatment.”

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Outlook 126:378 O 27 ’20 30w

“As in all his stories, Ridgwell Cullum has an excellent plot for his latest book. But with equal ease he mars the telling with a cumbersome, prolix style.”

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Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 23 ’21 160w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p602 S 16 ’20 40w

CUMMING, CAROLINE KING, and PETTIT, WALTER WILLIAM, comps. and eds. Russian-American relations, March 1917–March 1920. *$3.50 Harcourt 327

20–11098

The documents and papers have been compiled under the direction of John A. Ryan, J. Henry Scattergood, and William Allen White at the request of the League of free nations association. They cover three years beginning with the first declaration issued by the Provisional government of Russia after the revolution, March 16, 1917, and ending with the statement made by the supreme council at Paris, February 24, 1920. Their object is to facilitate an inquiry into the relations between the United States and Russia since the revolution of March 1917, the general purport of which is indicated by an extract from a letter by the chairman of the association: “It is not intended that this study should go into the question of the relative merits of Bolshevism or of the forces fighting Bolshevism in Russia, but that it should be merely an attempt to make clear to the American people what the actual facts have been in our governmental dealings with the various groups in what was the Russian empire.” The documents fall into three main categories: (1) Documents already published in English in Senate reports, State department publications, the New York Times, Current History Magazine, the Nation, etc.; (2) Original translations from various Russian official and unofficial newspapers; (3) Materials hitherto unpublished, contributed by Colonel Raymond Robins and others. There is an index.

“Gratitude for the publication should not impose silence as to its faults, which are of such a character as to impair greatly its usefulness. First of all, the selection of documents, besides being very slight for the period of the provisional and Kerensky governments, has also somewhat of an ex parte character. The reader will not fail to be struck with the entire absence of papers derived directly from the State department, except for five that are taken from one of its publications.”

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Am Hist R 26:371 Ja ’21 420w

Booklist 17:14 O ’20

“It is made up entirely of authentic documents. This moderation in aim is an excellence, for not the most vindictive interventionist could deny the impartial, objective nature of the information now made conveniently accessible, and much of it made for the first time available.” Norman Hapgood

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Nation 110:766 Je 5 ’20 2650w

CUMMINGS, BRUCE FREDERICK (W. N. P. BARBELLION, pseud.). Enjoying life, and other literary remains. il *$2 Doran 824

20–16882

The present volume shows the versatility of the author’s genius in that it is equally divided between his love of nature and his love for literature. The first four essays are a hitherto unpublished part of the “Journal of a disappointed man” and breathe the joy of life and passion for life in rare exuberance. The rest of the contents are five essays on literary and speculative subjects, two short stories: A fool and a maid on Lundy Island; and How Tom snored on his bridal night;—and essays in natural history.

“The essays are interesting enough, although they show less power and originality than the journal. An occasional remark, for its quaintness or its insight, will remind the reader that they are the literary exercises of an unusually able man.”

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Ath p1366 D 19 ’19 620w

“It has not the interest of the earlier book, though the individual sketches are very readable.”

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Booklist 17:60 N ’20

“One essay here, ‘On journal writers,’ is as authoritative as any upon the subject; for Barbellion’s soul was first and last the soul of a keeper of journals.”

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Nation 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 250w

“Turn the pages where you will and beauty escapes them, and always this sense of the infinite volume of life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

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N Y Times p18 S 26 ’20 650w

“To many readers it is ingratiating. For ourselves, a kind of cheapness and gush in Barbellion’s titanism makes us wonder that his friends, after exploiting the vein most liberally in ‘The journal of a disappointed man,’ should feel constrained to make a second demonstration. Only the present indiscriminating appetite for human documents, however insignificant, can explain the matter.”

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Review 3:478 N 17 ’20 400w

“Everywhere the thought has at its command a smoothly-flowing, cadenced, withal sinewy style, with the rhythms of Stevenson.”

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Springf’d Republican p6 S 13 ’20 650w

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p82 F 5 ’20 1100w

CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, ROBERT BONTINE. Brazilian mystic: being the life and miracles of Antonio Conselheiro. *$4 (6½c) Dodd

20–26882

The events related in this book took place in the eighteen nineties but about them there is the flavor of past centuries. Mr Cunninghame Graham has told the story of Antonio Maciel, known as Antonio Conselheiro (the councillor) who was known as a prophet and saint and who with his followers became involved in civil war. A long introduction describes the scene of action, that region of Pernambuco and Bahia, known as the Sertão, a term translatable only as “wooded, back-lying highlands.” It is an arid country, devoted to cattle raising and it has developed a people described as “a race apart—a race of centaurs, deeply imbued with fanaticism, strong, honest, revengeful, primitive, and refractory to modern ideas and life to an extraordinary degree.” Their religious faith is likened to that of some of the Gnostic sects of Asia Minor in the second century.

“Mr Cunninghame Graham gives us the story with a certain graphic effect and some picturesque detail. Unfortunately, the picturesque detail is not chosen so as to throw light on the points that are most obscure and of deepest interest. It is a pity that the value of a book containing so notable a record should be impaired by grave defects of style and taste.” F. W. S.

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Booklist 17:65 N ’20

“The volume belongs in the hands of all who enjoy stirring fiction as well as illuminating history and the charm of a personal style.” I. G.

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Boston Transcript p6 Ag 4 ’20 1450w

“His story Mr Cunninghame Graham tells vividly, with rather too many nagging philosophical comments, but with a richly colored background of strange, wild customs.”

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Nation 111:162 Ag 7 ’20 300w

“One can read in every page the ‘peculiar pleasure’ of the author, in his writing of such an extraordinary nineteenth century tale. It gives him everything in narration which delights him.”

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Nation [London] 27:18 Ap 3 ’20 1100w

“‘A Brazilian mystic’ possesses an exotic charm that sets it apart from volumes of the commonplace.”

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N Y Times p13 O 3 ’20 580w

R of Rs 62:223 Ag ’20 50w

“All is told with an artistry of penmanship that is a revelation to those who were, perhaps, too near events at that time to see them in their romantic aspect.”

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Sat R 130:78 Jl 24 ’20 500w

“His narrative of the successive sieges of Canudos is an admirable piece of writing.”

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Spec 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w

“Fascinating and exciting story.”

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Springf’d Republican p6 D 2 ’20 320w

“If the result looks to be unworthy of the trouble the author has taken, the responsibility for the failure to make a really interesting book rests with Antonio Maciel and his followers.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p248 Ap 22 ’20 900w

CURLE, JAMES HERBERT. Shadow-show. new ed il *$2.50 (6c) Doran 910

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The world, to the author, is the shadow-show. Men are the puppets doomed to play their part by inexorable law with but an illusory show of free-will. The author’s part was that of traveler. Before he was forty he had seen the world from end to end and in writing this, his life’s history, he looked back on a “great and splendid phantasmagoria,” of which the book unrolls picture after picture. The pictures are: A showman in the making; In South Africa; The tortoise’s head; “Life’s liquor”; Women; Glimpses of the East; The dream city of Samarkand; Wanderings in South America; “By the waters of Babylon”; A grave in Samoa; Mine own people; “Through the seventh gate.”

“It is all very fascinating, with none of the dreariness of the traveler who talks and says little.”

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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 28 ’20 170w

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N Y Times p24 Ag 22 ’20 650w

“One feels that it all might have been much better done than it is, and that it probably would be much better indeed, if one might forget the book and sit down for a chat with the author.”

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Review 3:350 O 20 ’20 320w

“The showman is always interesting, though not always to be believed implicity, especially when he forgets the pictures and goes to moralizing.”

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Springf’d Republican p10 O 22 ’20 340w

CURLE, RICHARD. Wanderings; a book of travel and reminiscences. *$5 Dutton

910

“The ground-plan of Mr Curle’s travel-book is autobiographical, like that of a picaresque romance; the twenty-five chapters, each complete in itself, are placed intentionally in a seemingly haphazard order, thus evoking different atmospheres, and allowing the author opportune moments for uttering occasional opinions. Asia, Africa, America, and Europe are the fields of travel.”—Ath

Ath p622 My 7 ’20 100w

“His descriptions, if rather impressionistic, are capitally done, and there is no taint of monotonous sameness in the record of his adventures on land and sea. As a whole, ‘Wanderings’ is a very good book; better than that, it is a very interesting book, and one which loses no interest by many readings.” G. M. H.

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Boston Transcript p7 Je 26 ’20 800w

“Is it Mr Curle’s weakness that his Europe is rather threadbare, that he has so little to tell us that is interesting about France and Spain, that he achieves his effects best when the strong colours are, as it were, given to him by those ‘more outlandish places’ that yield, among more sensual trophies, the rich anodyne of sadness and disillusion which is so assuaging to the neurotic of our day?”

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Freeman 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 450w

“Mr Curle has a fine sense of the beautiful and the rare, but, except in a few pages, leaves humor out of the graces with which he adorns the book he dedicates to Joseph Conrad.” F: O’Brien

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Review 3:349 O 20 ’20 400w

“Of local color and atmosphere there is a satisfying amount, and the autobiography which is the basis of the book but not its motive is no more obtrusive than the hooks on which one hangs his garments.”

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Springf’d Republican p10 O 22 ’20 250w

CURTISS, PHILIP EVERETT. Wanted: a fool. *$1.75 (3½c) Harper

20–18762

Robert O’Mara, a young actor, who is out of a job and down on his luck, answers an advertisement which begins: “Wanted: a fool, a man who is mad enough to desire a quiet, clean, comfortable home with chance to save money rather than high wages with dirt, noise, and uncertain employment.” He accepts the position thus offered by a Mr Pickering and becomes caretaker to a lonely but luxurious cabin in the hills of Massachusetts. From his first night there, when, unseen by her, he watches a young girl in evening dress go thru his master’s books, an air of mystery surrounds the place. His confusion is deepened by the fact that the few people he comes in contact with seem to know him, while to his knowledge they are all strangers. The key to the mystery is held by “Mr Pickering,” who has been leading a double life, and things are further cleared up when O’Mara learns that since his retirement to the country he has been picked by a leading theatrical manager for a star part, with his picture prominently displayed in the newspapers. The girl of the midnight visit has played quite a part in Mr Pickering’s life, but comes to be even more important in O’Mara’s.

“One has to admit that Mr Curtiss has spun his tale from very fragile threads and that his denouement proves sometimes a trifle strained. Nevertheless he tangles the threads with a high handed delight.”

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Boston Transcript p4 D 29 ’20 110w

“There are so many bypaths in the story that a careless and cursory reader might easily lose himself in a tangle of entrances and exits and ‘aside’ speeches. But the author keeps a firm hand on his work, as is proved by his coming out triumphantly ‘fit’ and lucid in the last chapter, even if his readers may be somewhat dazed and breathless.”

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NY Times p26 Ja 9 ’21 370w

“A slight, but in its own way, engaging tale.”

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Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 230w

CURWOOD, JAMES OLIVER. Valley of silent men; a story of the Three River country. il $2 (2½c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation

20–15535

James Kent was a member of the Royal mounted police in the far northwest of Canada. When he believes himself dying he confesses to a murder for which another man is condemned to die setting the latter free. But Kent does not die and now it is his turn to hang. A mystery girl appears in the nick of time and helps him to escape. Their scow is wrecked in the rapids of the Athabasca river and Marette is apparently drowned. To reach her home in the “Valley of silent men” is now the only worthwhile goal left to Kent. With his last strength he finds it and also Marette. It is a story of self-sacrifices prompted by gratitude, of friendships and heroic love and of dark deeds—all of which come to light in the Valley of silent men.

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Booklist 17:156 Ja ’21

“This is by no means a remarkable western adventure tale, but for undiluted romance, tinged with the flavor of adventure that always accompanies mention of the R. N. W. P., ‘The valley of silent men’ cannot be surpassed.”

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N Y Times p22 N 7 ’20 770w

“Well written, but is almost too tense, too somber, and sometimes too trying in its horror to be a pleasant book.”

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CUSHING, CHARLES PHELPS. If you don’t write fiction. *$1 (5c) McBride 029

20–11318

This little book is intended for those who write other things, chiefly newspaper “stories” and magazine articles. It is partly autobiographical, for the author draws on his own experience. The first chapter. About noses and jaws, points out that what is known as a “nose for news” plus grit are the factors in success. Other chapters are: How to prepare a manuscript; How to take photographs; Finding a market; A beginner’s first adventures; In New York’s “Fleet street”; Something to sell; What the editor wants.

“A rollicking but practical account of how one free-lancer succeeded.”

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Booklist 17:20 O ’20

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Ind 104:247 N 13 ’20 40w

“It is extremely enjoyable and rather helpful ‘how-to’ book.”

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N Y Evening Post p27 O 23 ’20 240w

“It will pay any beginner—and perhaps some writers of experience—to run through this book for suggestions.”

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R of Rs 62:224 Ag ’20 110w

“It’s quite a readable little book even if one feels no need of the professional advice which is its raison d’etre.”

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Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 8 ’20 200w

Wis Lib Bul 16:235 D ’20 70w

CUSHMAN, HERBERT ERNEST. Beginners history of philosophy. v 2. Modern philosophy. il *$2 (2c) Houghton 109

(19–243)

In this second and revised edition “much new material has been incorporated into the text, and this has necessitated, of course, the re-writing of the major portion of the book. The final chapter on the ‘Philosophy of the nineteenth century’ has been developed at some length.” (Preface) Contents: The causes of the decay of the civilization of the middle ages; The renaissance (1453–1690); The humanistic period of the renaissance (1453–1600); The natural science period of the renaissance (1600–1630); The rationalism of the natural science period of the renaissance; The enlightenment (1690–1781); John Locke; Berkeley and Hume; The enlightenment in France and Germany; Kant; The German idealists; The philosophy of the thing-in-itself; The philosophy of the nineteenth century; illustrations, diagrams and index.

CUTTING, MRS MARY STEWART (DOUBLE-DAY). Some of us are married. *$1.75 Doubleday

20–6842

“In this new volume Mary Stewart Cutting relates a number of those pleasant, semi-humorous little stories of married life with which her name is associated, as well as two others which she calls ‘Autobiographical stories.’ The first, The man who went under, is the tale of an embezzler, told by himself. The second, The song of courage, is a story of a woman who might have been a great singer, had not life thwarted her-life, and her own affections.”—N Y Times

Booklist 16:312 Je ’20

“While as a whole not equal to Mrs Cutting’s best work, will no doubt give pleasure to many people.”

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N Y Times 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 400w

“None are dramatic or tragic in the accepted sense. Indeed, some of the little plots seem almost trivial in their beginnings and consequences. But married folk will quickly appreciate their truth and the deft skill of the author in presenting them severely on their merits.”

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Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 320w

CYNN, HUGH HEUNG-WO. Rebirth of Korea; the reawakening of the people, its causes and the outlook. il *$1.50 Abingdon press 951.9

20–8302

“This story is of the Korean rebellion of March, 1919, and the establishment of the republic. The author who was educated in an American university, and is principal of the Pai Chai school in Seoul, is temperate but shows clearly the wrongs of his country under Japanese rule. Appendixes contain material on the relation of missionaries to the revolution and also Japanese-Korean treaties since 1876. No index.”—Booklist

Booklist 17:65 N ’20

Boston Transcript p6 Jl 7 ’20 160w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p743 N 11 ’20 60w

CZERNIN VON UND ZU CHUDENITZ, OTTOKAR THEOBALD OTTO MARIA, graf. In the world war. *$4 (4c) Harper 940.48

20–6768

The author disclaims any intention of writing a history of the war but says of the book: “Rather than to deal with generalities, its purpose is to describe separate events of which I had intimate knowledge, and individuals with whom I came into close contact and could, therefore, observe closely; in fact, to furnish a series of snapshots of the great drama.” (Preface) The result, with his introductory reflections, is a conception of the war as a whole. One of the features of the book is an intimate characterization of the Archduke Ferdinand. Contents: Introductory reflections; Konopischt; William II; Rumania; The U-boat warfare; Attempts at peace; Wilson; Impressions and reflections; Poland; Brest-Litovsk; The peace of Bukharest; Final reflections: Appendix; Index.

“Among the swarm of revelations that are appearing in connection with the diplomatic history of the war. Count Czernin’s book is one of the really notable ones. It is true he is disappointing, for he continually makes us feel that he might have told us much more if he had chosen to, but, as far as he goes, he is well worth attention.”

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Am Hist R 25:502 Ap ’20 650w

“It is greatly to be regretted that this translation of an interesting and important book should have been entrusted to someone with a half knowledge of German, and a complete ignorance of the elementary facts about Austria.”

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Cleveland p76 Ag ’20 50w (Reprinted from Am Hist R)

“The title of the book should really be ‘Czernin in the world war,’ but this does not say that the story is lacking in universal significance. The hasty-pudding character of the text, the very lack of scholarly caution, brings us so much nearer to the personality of Czernin himself; and it is this opportunity to see an important elder statesman in mental action that gives the work more interest than the technical narratives of the military leaders. The sidelights that Czernin’s analysis throws upon colleagues and adversaries in the same official station as himself, are an important contribution to the psychology of statesmen.” L: Mumford

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Freeman 1:452 Jl 21 ’20 1750w

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Ind 104:67 O 9 ’20 130w

“Count Czernin has two advantages over the other statesmen and commanders who have published their personal records of the war. He writes remarkably well, and he has no motive to distort the truth. His fault is diffuseness and repetition, but it cannot spoil an eminently readable book.”

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Nation [London] 26:308 N 29 ’19 2100w

“Czernin treats the war in a very fair and objective spirit. He reveals his limitations most clearly in the chapter on the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations.” A. C. Freeman

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Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 200w

R of Rs 61:557 My ’20 180w

Spec 123:692 N 22 ’19 1400w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p660 N 20 ’19 1150w

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DANA, ETHÉL NATHALIE, comp. and ed. Story of Jesus. il $16.50 Jones, Marshall 755

20–26575

The text has been taken entirely from the New Testament and it is arranged to alternate with the pictures, which are full-page reproductions in color from the paintings of Giotto, Fra Angelico, Duccio, Ghirlandaio and Barnja da Siena. The introduction touches on the place of the church in medieval times and gives a brief sketch of each painter. There are forty pictures, so arranged as to give the complete story of the life of Jesus.

“An important book for any art collection.”

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Booklist 16:352 Jl ’20

“The most beautiful American book of 1920 and the most noteworthy of books for children since the ‘Joan of Arc’ of Boutet de Monvel, is ‘The story of Jesus.’ Regarded as a substitute for any one of a number of sets of books, costing from ten to twenty dollars more, I am confident that Mrs Dana’s book will fill a larger and more permanent place in any home or library.” A. C. Moore

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Bookm 52:257 N ’20 490w

“The book would be of much educational value to children, from both the artistic and the religious standpoint; and it is also a treasure to art lovers, since its color reproductions are excellent, and copies of many of these paintings cannot be obtained elsewhere.”

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Ind 104:379 D 11 ’20 90w

“Such a book as ‘The story of Jesus’ is one of the few that seem capable of fertilizing minds indifferent to or skeptical of the greatness of much Christian art. There are forty reproductions all in full color, and their quality is exquisite—even to the gold, which appears as gold, not as spotted yellow. A finer gallery of color reproductions of the primitive masters would be very hard to find.” Glen Mullin

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Nation 111:sup654 D 8 ’20 2150w

“The book is a pleasure to the connoisseur even when he criticizes. Any one who loves Italian painting will enjoy it, and the child who opens it, to learn for the first time the story of the Passion, will find himself in a dramatic wonderland.” G. H. Edgell

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N Y Evening Post p4 N 13 ’20 720w

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N Y Times p8 D 26 ’20 120w

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Springf’d Republican p8 N 18 ’20 200w

DANE, CLEMENCE. Legend. *$1.60 (4c) Macmillan

20–817

A short novel, occupied wholly with a two hour’s conversation. A woman of genius has died, and her friends, members of the literary circle of which she had made one, are discussing her and her life story, piecing it together and puzzling out the motives that had led her to abandon her art at its height, to marry a humdrum country doctor, and retire into domesticity. Bit by bit they piece together the legend—the legend that is to live for the public in Anita Serle’s “Life.” And bit by bit the reader of the book tears it apart and comes to see the real Madala Grey, as she is known to the two present who had loved her, and to the young country girl who had never seen her, and who tells the story.

“To our thinking the real problem of ‘Legend’ is why Miss Clemence Dane, turning aside from life, should have concentrated her remarkable powers upon reviving, redressing, touching up, bringing up-to-date these puppets of a bygone fashion.” K. M.

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Ath p1289 D 5 ’19 1350w

“Very well done, but will never find many readers.”

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Booklist 16:243 Ap ’20

“The book has its faults. Clemence Dane, as in her earlier novel, writes with an almost personal vindictiveness against one of her sex. In her dissection she is as merciless as Anita herself. Her pen drops venom and as the result Anita becomes too cruel in her mental indecencies and just fails to convince.” M. E. Bailey

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Bookm 51:202 Ap ’20 1300w

“Less well done we know that we should find such a story tedious, but Clemence Dane has accomplished it with an art far surpassing that which she brought to her earlier novels.” D. L. M.

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Boston Transcript p10 My 1 ’20 500w

“It is easy for so passionately earnest a writer to overemphasize, and just here a flaw is apparent in ‘Legend.’ The malice that rises like a poisonous vapour from that group around the fire is overdone. The people never lose reality but they do forfeit the right to great consideration. The effect is clear but a little too harshly handled.” H. I. Gilchrist

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Lit D p113 S 18 ’20 2550w

“It is a very short book, but one of very extraordinary richness and intricacy. Roads lead from it into all the regions of literature and life. One might follow any one of them and reach the uplands of high speculation. Technically it stands alone in English fiction. In other literatures its structural method is not unknown.”

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Nation 110:240 F 21 ’20 1000w

“The new story is much shorter, hardly more than a long novelette, and it gains much in strength, dramatic quality and impressiveness by the compression. It is told more simply, with the effect of concealing the very remarkable art with which it is written, of making it seem artless in its basic simplicity.”

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N Y Times 25:50 Ja 25 ’20 550w

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N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w

“Some novels we enjoy; others we admire. If we consider Miss Clemence Dane’s ‘Legend’ under this rough division, it would certainly come in the second category. It is as subtle in its method as Miss Sinclair’s ‘Mary Olivier,’ but simpler in its plan and marked by greater clarity.”

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Outlook 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 350w

“Whether the whole performance is more than a brilliant tour de force may only be determined or estimated, after later readings; it is certainly well worth a first.” H. W. Boynton

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Review 2:334 Ap 3 ’20 500w

“Miss Dane has already won for herself, by two able stories, a place among the serious writers of the day; in ‘Legend,’ she has written one of the most remarkable novels we have seen for a long time. A strain of morbid excitement runs through the narrative, emphasized, perhaps by the endless pursuit of the conversation without a break of any kind. This trick seems hardly necessary, and Miss Dane would have made her book easier to read, and equally effective, if she had broken it up into chapters at the clear pauses or breaks in the emotional current.”

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Sat R 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 440w

“The book is subtly and skilfully written; it is an engaging literary achievement, particularly on the technical side.”

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Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 22 ’20 330w

“In imagination and power of concentration ‘Legend’ surpasses Miss Dane’s other novels, and there is in it in a greater degree shrewdness of insight and literary judgment. But this shrewdness has its evident limits in the understanding of men.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p649 N 13 ’19 750w

DANE, EDMUND. British campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914–1918. il *$3 Doran 940.42

(Eng ed 20–4448)

“This volume deals with the operations in five theatres of war—Southwest Africa, East Africa, Togoland, Cameroon, and Kiao-chau. Mr Dane has endeavored, with the help of nine sketch maps, to compress the account of them into 205 pages.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

Ath p688 My 21 ’20 110w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p678 N 20 ’19 40w

“On the whole, he has given us, as he claims, a truthful and lucid narrative, sufficient for the general reader, and a useful primer for the student. Mr Dane quotes no authorities and gives no bibliography. He goes out of his way to avoid and paraphrase ordinary military expressions.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p728 D 11 ’19 550w

DANIELS, GEORGE WILLIAM. Early English cotton industry; introductory chapter by George Unwin. (Manchester university publications) il *$3.25 (*8s 6d) Longmans 338.4

20–14211

“Mr Daniels, who is senior lecturer in economics in the University of Manchester, was greatly helped in writing this historical sketch of the cotton industry from the sixteenth century to the death of Samuel Crompton by the discovery in the upper storey of one of the mills owned by Messrs O’Connel and Co., Limited, at Ancoats, of a number of ledgers, correspondence files, etc., dealing with their business for the period 1795–1835. Mr Daniels further discovered among the business correspondence of the firm a series of original letters by Crompton, written in 1812 and describing his invention of the ‘mule’ thirty years earlier, which are here reproduced.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Mr Daniels’ researches make a valuable addition to social and industrial history.”

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Ath p408 S 24 ’20 210w

“Apart from these technical details, however, the book is of special value because it shows that the present relations between capital and labour were not the outcome of the factory system, but must be traced much further back.”

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Spec 125:211 Ag 14 ’20 1350w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p522 Ag 12 ’20 110w

DANIELS, JOHN. America via the neighborhood. il *$2 (2c) Harper 325.7

21–170

The volume is one of a series of eleven books on Americanization studies of which Allen T. Burns is general director. Its point of departure is that the essential objective in any program of Americanization is constructive participation in the life of America and that this cannot be attained either by enforced conformity or the equally enforced injection of the English language and a smattering of civics. The general conclusion of the study is that Americanization does not restrict itself to the immigrant alone but to all activities that have to do with neighborhood and community problems and that it is the labor unions, cooperatives and political organizations that bring the immigrant into democratic partnership with the native American. The book is illustrated and the contents are: Americanization and the neighborhood; Inherent forces; Union through racial coherence; Colony pioneering (two chapters); The social settlement approach; The settlement’s larger opportunities; Church, school, and library; Other agencies and the neighborhood principle; Labor unions; Co-operatives; Political organization and government; The outcome.

DARGON, JEAN. Future of aviation, with a preface by M. Etienne Lamy. il *$3 Appleton 629.1

20–3275

“A volume entitled ‘The future of aviation’ contains a translation by Philip Nutt of a work written in French by Jean Dargon. There are nine full-page illustrations in the book, two maps, and numerous diagrams.” (N Y Times) “It is a discussion of the civil as opposed to the military use of the airplane, showing how it depends first of all on structure which aims at endurance and carrying power rather than agility and lightness. The author then considers practical problems; postal service, tourism, international air lines and traffic regulations.”—Booklist

Booklist 16:264 My ’20

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N Y P L New Tech Bks p3 Ja ’20 30w

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N Y Times 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 40w

DARK, RICHARD. Quest of the Indies. il *$2.25 Stokes 910 9

The title of the book is used as the symbol for the medieval spirit of adventure and desire for expansion and knowledge of the earth’s surface. Beginning with the Mohammedan invasion of eastern and southern Europe in the sixth and seventh centuries, the book contains brief sketches of the various voyages of exploration and conquest with their leading personalities—which ended in the complete European invasion of the Americas. With illustrations and several early maps of the world the contents are: The mediæval world; The farther East; The heel of Africa; Round the Cape to India; The Portuguese eastern empire; The first voyage of Columbus; Later voyages of Columbus; Central America: discovery of the Pacific; Magellan’s voyage; The conquest of Mexico; The conquest of Peru; Chronological summary, Index.

N Y Times p13 O 31 ’20 100w

DARLING, ELTON R. Inorganic chemical synonyms and other useful chemical data. *$1 Van Nostrand 546

19–17188

A work based on a series of articles written for the Chemical Engineer in 1918. It is designed for the student, but the author expresses the belief that it will prove useful to the experienced chemist. Contents: Introduction; The elements; Specific gravity and temperature comparison; Standards of weights and measures; Chemical synonyms (comprising the main body of the book); Cross index of chemical terms. The author is in charge of the industrial chemistry department in the Newark technical school, Newark, N.J.

“An excellent alphabetically-arranged cross-index enables one to identify quickly names which do not indicate the true chemical nature of the compound. As a time-saver, the book deserves the attention of every chemist in contact with the field of industrial chemistry.” A. G. Wikoff

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Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering 22:667 An 7 ’20 340w

“A good library reference.”

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N Y P L New Tech Bks p5 Ja ’20 40w

DARLINGTON, W. A. Alf’s button. *$1.75 Stokes

20–12958

By the fortunes of war, it happened that Aladdin’s famous lamp was among a group of curios which were melted up during the late war, and appeared subsequently as buttons for soldiers’ tunics. So it was that Private Alf ‘Iggins, hard at work with his toothbrush on his second button, in preparation for inspection, was amazed and terrified at the sight of a djinn appearing before him, bowing low and asking for orders. He eventually recovered from his terror enough to take advantage of the genie’s powers, aided and abetted by Bill Grant, whose imagination was more riotous than Alf’s. Their adventures with “Eustace,” as they christened the djinn, make up the book. The fact that Eustace often brought an oriental flavor into the carrying out of their wishes proves rather disconcerting to Alf and Bill, and brings them some undesired notoriety.

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Cleveland p106 D ’20 70w

N Y Times 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 200w

“The most amusing book I have read this summer is ‘Alf’s button.’” E. L. Pearson

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Review 3:209 S 8 ’20 260w

DASENT, ARTHUR IRWIN.^[2] Piccadilly in three centuries, with some account of Berkeley Square, and the Haymarket. il *$7 Macmillan 942.1

21–340

“Mr Dasent has examined minutely the ratebooks of St Martin’s-in-the-Fields, St James’s, Westminster, and St George’s, Hanover-square, in which he has followed every house in Piccadilly-place through all its vicissitudes of ownership. Mr Dasent begins his history, so full of noble and historic names, from a humble tailor, one Robert Baker, who in 1612 erected the first buildings upon land covered by the present site of Piccadilly.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “Clarendon was the real maker of Piccadilly. The great Clarendon House, which he had barely finished before he went into exile in 1667, was the first of the Piccadilly mansions. Moreover, Clarendon sold to Lord Berkeley the site of the present Devonshire House, to Sir William Pulteney the site of Bath House, and to Sir John Denham, poet and architect, the site of Burlington House and the Albany. But Clarendon had made Piccadilly a fashionable place of residence. Mr Dasent has illustrated his book with some highly interesting old prints.” (Spec)

“His style is slipshod, he has no sense of literary values, and the result is merely a collection of odds and ends about the people and places associated with Piccadilly and its surroundings. His book is, therefore, without form, but it is by no means void, since its intrinsic interest and its scenes of ancient days reproduced in its illustrations have a permanent value as records, the entire volume bringing together a large amount of information not easily accessible elsewhere.” E. F. Edgett

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Review 3:648 D 29 ’20 100w

“A pleasant and discursive book.”

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Spec 125:541 O 23 ’20 320w

“If this book, considered from a literary point of view, is not so attractive as Mr Street’s well-known ‘Ghosts of Piccadilly,’ it is an excellent piece of that anecdotic antiquarianism which keeps one sitting in an armchair turning over just one more page long after one ought to be in bed.”

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DAVID, CHARLES WENDELL.^[2] Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy. *$3 Harvard univ. press

20–23204

“The eldest son of William the Conqueror, cheated of a kingdom by his more aggressive brothers, defeated in battle, deprived of his duchy, and condemned to perpetual imprisonment, would hardly be selected as one of the heroic figures of French history. The reason for this monograph is not so much the personality of its subject as the fact that he was associated in his lifetime with great names and great events. Dr David has attempted in this study of Duke Robert’s career to set him in his true relation to the history of Normandy and England and of the First crusade.”—R of Rs