Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1920 Books (continued 12)
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Boston Transcript p6 N 3 ’20 1100w
DOLE, CHARLES FLETCHER.[2] Religion for the new day. *$2 (2½c) Huebsch 204
We are facing a momentous crisis in history of which some of the profound facts are: insincerity in religion, and the parting of the roads to which all churches alike have come. The object of the book is to set forth a mode of religion that will now and henceforth serve, not only for Christendom but for all mankind, as the spiritual gospel and working force for a humane and democratic world and that, wherever it is applied, can transform life. It neither antagonizes nor favors any existing institution but insists on the need of some form of social expression of the best that is in man. The contents fall into sections: Signs of the times: how the facts point; The course of spiritual evolution; The victorious goodness; The new civilization; The religion within.
DOMBROWSKI, ERIC. German leaders of yesterday and today. *$2 (2½c) Appleton 920
20–26749
These pictures of “uncensored celebrities of Germany” are painted with much spirit, a satirical brush and much intimate knowledge of the personalities and historical facts. Among the subjects are: Friedrich Ebert; Erich Ludendorff; Theodor Wolff; Mathias Erzberger; Georg Ledebour; Alfred von Tirpitz; Wilhelm II; Philip Scheidemann; Von Bethmann-Hollweg; Ernst Graf zu Reventlow; Hugo Haase; Richard von Kühlmann; Georg Graf von Hertling; Rosa Luxemburg; Maximilian von Baden; Kurt Eisner; Karl Liebknecht; Gustav Noske.
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Booklist 17:29 O ’20
“Dombrowski’s power is nothing short of Carlylean.”
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N Y Times p1 Ag 8 ’20 4100w
“As often happens in the case of sidelights, Dombrowski illuminates only spots. He shows only this or that feature of his men and women, leaving in the shadows many other features which in fairness should be revealed. ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ is highly entertaining, but its value is certainly not higher than that of many books of the hour.”
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Review 3:538 D 1 ’20 170w
“Some of the sketches are satirical and frankly inimical. Almost all are enlightening and amusing.”
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R of Rs 62:334 S ’20 80w
“Eric Dombrowski’s ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ has the requisite impartiality and shows also an abundance of keen insight. But these sketches were evidently written with some subtlety as well as vivacity, and while the translator has contrived to preserve the author’s spirit, the English is often confused or incorrect.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 8 ’20 600w
“Dombrowski tries to be clever and rarely succeeds, but he paints vivid pictures of forty-five political leaders, publicists, and agitators, which to the average American will prove illuminating.” C: Seymour
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Yale R n s 10:420 Ja ’21 160w
DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.[2] States of South America, the land of opportunity; a complete geographical, descriptive, economic and commercial survey. il *$5 Macmillan 918
“This work, which has been greatly enlarged and re-written since its first appearance, now forms a comprehensive volume of illustrated reference to the whole of the states of South America, and not only as before, a few of the most important Latin-American states.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Notice of the first edition appears in the 1911 Digest Annual.
“The proportion of bare facts to textual comment is well studied from beginning to end.”
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N Y Evening Post p11 D 31 ’20 250w
“Aside from its mass of statistics and general information, the chief value of this volume to the American business man lies in the fact that it introduces him, with admirable candor, to the methods of his chief competitor.” B. R. Redman
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N Y Times p15 Ja 16 ’21 840w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p707 O ’20 40w
DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM. Submarine warfare of today. il *$2.25 Lippincott 940.45
20–26104
The book contains “records of many romantic events on England’s sea frontier, 1914–1918. There are descriptions of the organization and preparation of the new navy to meet the submarine menace, and of the new weapons devised. Much attention is given to details and explanation of how things were done; there is an examination of the effect of the submarine on naval strategy.”—Booklist
Booklist 16:164 F ’20
“His book is full of romance as well as of facts. The only criticism which is permissible is that the book is somewhat lacking in detailed description of the instruments used.”
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Nature 105:36 Mr 11 ’20 240w
“‘Submarine warfare of today’ is a disappointing book. Based on inadequate information, and characterised by annoying repetition, it falls a long way short of the claims which are made by the publishers’ note on the wrapper. If the author is ill-informed as to his facts, not less displeasing is his English.”
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Sat R 129:283 Mr 20 ’20 510w
“Mr Domville-Fife’s is a book to be carefully read by all those who look forward to the promised formal histories of the navy’s share in the war.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p706 D 4 ’19 850w
DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM. Submarines and sea power. *$2.50 Macmillan 359
(Eng ed 19–18399)
“In this treatise the author examines the effect of the submarine on naval strategy, not as a mere matter of history, but as a guide to preparation for the next naval war.” (Ath) “He says that, though we hope that the League of nations will make war impossible in future, we have no right whatever to rely on this blessed consummation. Until we are entitled to dismiss war as an exhausted evil, which can never return, we must either keep our place on the sea or sink to live at the mercy of other nations. Will the submarine make it more difficult for us to retain our position or not? That is the question which he endeavours to answer.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
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Ath p1048 O 17 ’19 70w
“Most instructive volume.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p539 O 9 ’19 1450w
DONNELLY, ANTOINETTE. How to reduce: new waistlines for old. il *$1 Appleton 613
20–17245
This is a jolly little book which makes the trip from Fatland into Slimville an interesting adventure rather than a dismal undertaking. The author writes from a wide experience and her “simple and commonsensible rules for reduction” are emphasized by wit, humor and jingles which seem to defy her own rules by never losing weight. The menus given “require no additional expense to the household budget nor do they need to upset the meal planning to any unreasonable degree.” The exercises given are illustrated and the contents are: A little physical geography; Some Slimville arguments; Hard facts on a soft subject; The dangerous age; Get the weighing habit; Reduce while you eat; What is an average helping; Reduced thirty-six pounds in six weeks; Exercise; Recipes without butter, flour and sugar. The author is “beauty editor” of the Chicago Tribune.
DONNELLY, FRANCIS PATRICK. Art of interesting; its theory and practice for speakers and writers. *$1.75 Kenedy 808
20–18519
The author regards the imagination as the source of interest in written and oral speech, and says that “The place of imagination in prose” might serve as a substitute title for his book. “In the earlier chapters various specific manifestations of the imagination are described and exemplified; then follow several chapters on particular authors, whose methods of interesting are examined in detail. The final chapters go into the theory of imagination.” (Preface) Among the titles are: The tiresome speaker; Interest from directness; The art of eloquence and the science of theology; Newman and the academic style; Macaulay and “journalese”; Tabb and fancy; Poetry and interest; Developing the imagination; Exercises for the imagination. Parts of the book have appeared in the Ecclesiastical Review, Catholic World and America.
“He has a delicate appreciation of the best in literature and a genius for penetrating beneath the polished work of art to discover the artistry.”
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Cath World 112:389 D ’20 350w
DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY. Applied science for metal workers. il $2 Ronald 671
19–15024
“The suggestion of the title that the content is of value only to the metal-worker is misleading, for this book is in fact an elementary treatise in the field of technology in general. It deals with fundamental principles of chemistry and physics in their relation to our daily life. One-eighth of the material handled, perhaps, applies specifically to metal-working trades; the remainder is of general informational value to the average layman as well as to the metal-worker.”—School R
Booklist 16:117 Ja ’20
“Mr Dooley has been very successful in many of the chapters in showing that the sciences of physics and chemistry, which in general are too abstract for students in the elementary school, can be put in such a way as to arouse a good deal of interest and promise full understanding on the part of immature students.”
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El School J 20:393 Ja ’20 100w
Quar List New Tech Bks Ja ’20 100w
“The book is well within the range of evening- and continuation-school attendants, particularly those engaged in the distributive and productive industries. It should prove of value as a text in vocational high schools and in those regular high schools that are able to differentiate their courses for the benefit of that portion of their school population which graduates into industry.” H. T. F.
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School R 28:155 F ’20 220w
DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY. Applied science for wood-workers. il $2 Ronald 684
19–15025
The first chapters on the general principles of science underlying all industry are identical with those in “Applied science for metal workers.” These are followed by seven chapters specifically relating to woodworking trades.
Booklist 16:117 Ja ’20
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El School J 20:393 Ja ’20 100w
Quar List New Tech Bks Ja ’20 40w
DORRANCE, MRS ETHEL ARNOLD (SMITH), and DORRANCE, JAMES FRENCH. Glory rides the range. il *$1.75 Macaulay co.
20–5585
“Gloriana’s father was Blaze Frazer, owner of a horse ranch near the ‘Solemncholy desert.’ Frazer’s delicate and refined wife had mysteriously disappeared some years before the story opens. Frazer receives a penciled letter post-marked Nogales, Mexico, telling him that there is a woman there who ‘sometime cry for Blaze and Glory and says her name is Frazer.’ The writer further requests Frazer to come for the woman and bring with him $5,000 gold for ‘expenses.’ Frazer raises the money and starts for Mexico in the hope of finding his wife; before leaving he leases the ranch to one Timothy Rudd and arranges for the girl to live with a friend during his absence. Gloriana, however, decides otherwise; Rudd was a bad character and, refusing to recognize the validity of the lease, she assumes charge of the ranch herself. The exciting incidents which followed her decision furnish the theme of this story. In the end Gloriana is in her mother’s arms and a prospective husband is hovering near by.”—N Y Times
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Boston Transcript p4 S 4 ’20 240w
N Y Times 25:287 My 30 ’20 320w
“When you read ‘Glory rides the range’ you feel that Ethel and James Dorrance must have had a ‘bully good time’ writing it, so enthusiastically and blithely does it gallop from one thrilling situation to another.” E. M. Brown
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Pub W 97:999 Mr 20 ’20 340w
DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH. Honest thief and other stories. *$2 (1c) Macmillan
20–26192
This is the eleventh volume in Mrs Garnett’s translation of the works of Dostoevsky. It contains ten stories: An honest thief; Uncle’s dream; A novel in nine letters; An unpleasant predicament; Another man’s wife; The heavenly Christmas tree; The peasant Marev; The crocodile; Bobok; The dream of a ridiculous man.
“Perhaps Dostoevsky more than any other writer sets up this mysterious relationship with the reader, this sense of sharing. While we read, we are like children to whom one tells a tale: we seem in some strange way to half-know what is coming and yet we do not know; to have heard it all before, and yet our amazement is none the less, and when it is over, it has become ours. This is especially true of the Dostoevsky who passes so unremarked—the child-like, candid, simple Dostoevsky who wrote ‘An honest thief’ and ‘The peasant Marey’ and ‘The dream of a ridiculous man.’” K. M.
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Ath p1256 N 28 ’19 850w
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Booklist 16:243 Ap ’20
“Fortunately for the reader, Dostoevski’s desperation of human nature drove him to ridicule rather than to melancholy, and for ridicule he was admirably equipped with a lively and stinging wit. Of the ten stories which make up the volume, ‘Uncle’s dream’ is probably the most entertaining.” G. H. C.
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Boston Transcript p6 F 14 ’20 550w
“Insouciance, self-possession of the absolute much prized French variety, the all containing nonchalance, the iron-nerved sense of form, Dostoevsky apparently cannot claim. His close realism quite lacks easiness and is impersonal in a rough and elemental, not an accomplished way; he has no suggestion of the considered faint irony of Chekhov. His eminence is the eminence of endowment, not of training or consideration; he is the great artist of few accomplishments.” C: K. Trueblood
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Dial 68:774 Je ’20 800w
“The stories and sketches in this volume of Dostoevsky are not among his best. His humor is not happy; his compassion is less exercised when he deals with the higher ranks of society. But always there is the incomparable steadfastness of vision and innocence of the imagination that follows life, that does not seek to distort it, and that finds man in his humanity alone.” L. L.
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Nation 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 110w
“The restraint and aloofness of the great comic writers are impossible to him. It is probable, for one reason, that he could not allow himself the time. ‘Uncle’s dream,’ ‘The crocodile,’ and ‘An unpleasant predicament’ read as if they were the improvisations of a gigantic talent reeling off its wild imagination at breathless speed. Yet we are perpetually conscious that, if Dostoevsky fails to keep within the proper limits, it is because the fervour of his genius goads him across the boundary.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p586 O 23 ’19 950w
DOUDNA, EDGAR GEORGE. Our Wisconsin; a school history of the Badger state. 72c Eau Claire bk. & stationery co., Eau Claire, Wis. 977.5
20–8513
The book is intended for use in the upper grades of the schools of the state, it being a law of Wisconsin that its history and government be taught in the common schools. It is as definite and as concrete as brevity permits. Beginning with Jean Nicolet, the first white man to set foot on Wisconsin soil in 1634, the book describes the Indians, the first settlers, the various nationalities that have made Wisconsin their home, its attitudes in national crises, its laws and industries, etc.
Wis Lib Bul 16:117 Je ’20 30w
DOUGLAS, CLIFFORD HUGH. Economic democracy. *$1.60 (6c) Harcourt 330.1
20–5264
“This book is an attempt to disentangle from a mass of superficial features such as profiteering, and alleged scarcity of commodities, a sufficient portion of the skeleton of the structure we call society as will serve to suggest sound reasons for the decay with which it is now attacked: and afterwards to indicate the probable direction of sound and vital reconstruction.” (Preface) The author sees in the centralizing power of capital one of the chief reasons for this decay and in a decentralized cooperation of individuals a direction that a sound and vital reconstruction will take. After analysing our present decaying economic and political structure and considering the imminence of a general rearrangement, he rejects collectivism “in any of the forms made familiar to us by the Fabians and others” and insists on “the maximum expansion in the personal control of initiative and the minimizing, and final elimination, of economic domination, either personal or through the agency of the state.”
Am Econ R 10:571 S ’20 60w
“It is extremely difficult to find a flaw in this doctrine on the basis of ethics or equity, as for the practical workings of any system which attempts to put this poetic Justice into action we must await the event.” J. L.
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Ath p445 Ap 2 ’20 1250w
“Those who agree with the premises will find the logic irresistible. Others will be stimulated by the original though unorthodox thinking and the fertile suggestions of the author’s scheme.”
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Booklist 16:299 Je 20
“Mr Douglas is by no means clear as to the details of his case, although his general contention has substantial force.” Ordway Tead
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Dial 69:412 O ’20 640w
“The orthodox economists are in such a helpless muddle in regard to soaring prices that it is a relief to find a thinker who does not scatter explanations with a shot gun all over the barn door but goes straight to his mark. Unfortunately the book is too brief. Excessive concentration has left it obscure in vital portions.”
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Nation 111:19 Jl 3 ’20 350w
“Major Douglas knows his difficult subject from end to end. If the fates had blessed him with the gift of clear exposition we might have had here a volume of note. When he determines to keep clear from terms which demand explanations, and concentrates on clarifying his message of social regeneration, those who pay lip service to formal political democracy will find in him a telling recruit to the growing band of thinkers who deny the name of democracy to any system not based upon economic freedom.”
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Nation [London] 27:184 My 8 ’20 800w
“This small book offers much room for controversy both as to its technical analysis of the effects of current accounting and credit practices and as to the feasibility of remedies advocated. The ground for controversy is widened by the author’s unfortunately vague and sometimes bombastic style.” E. R. Burton
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Survey 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 280w
DOUGLAS, OLIVE ELEANOR (CONSTANCE) (LADY ALFRED DOUGLAS). Penny plain. *$1.90 Doran
A story of a quiet little Scottish town. Priorsford is the home of a number of quaint and interesting people. Here Jean Jardine lives with her two brothers and “the Mhor,” Gaelic for “the great one,” the pretentious name given to a little boy of seven. Into this placid atmosphere comes the Honourable Miss Pamela Reston, who is tired of London life. The story tells of how she fits into Priorsford society and how she and Jean become fast friends, and there is much description of tea-parties and country social life. Then comes an unexpected legacy for kind-hearted little Jean and romance, too, appears in the person of Pam’s younger brother. Pam herself finds the fulfilment of a hope of twenty years’ standing which has kept her single all this long time. The title comes from the dialogue of the shopman and the small boy: the shopman saying “You may have your choice—penny plain or twopence coloured.” the small boy choosing the penny plain, as “better value for the money.”
“A pleasant book to read. But we cannot help thinking it would be pleasanter still without the perfunctory introduction of a loveinterest, and of other irrelevances considered more or less indispensable in fiction.”
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Ath p244 Ag 20 ’20 120w
“The children make the book, especially Gervase and his dog. It is worth reading for them alone.” I. W. L.
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Boston Transcript p4 D 11 ’20 480w
“Miss Douglas’s new book in two ways partakes of a quality little short of the miraculous. It is a post-war story without a trace of war-weariness or bitterness; and it is full of people who are nice with the added charm of being entertaining. As a story ‘Penny plain’ leaves something to be desired. Let us add that if an author is to be judged by her literary preferences and illusions and quotations, Miss Douglas deserves a very high mark.”
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Spec 125:342 S 11 ’20 440w
“A very able and delightful book, but it is not the kind of book that the Marxian kind of person would like. The author has a good style and a subtle sense of humour, together with the skill necessary for the gradual unfolding of the characters.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p534 Ag 19 ’20 570w
DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.[2] Bostwick’s budget. il *$1 Bobbs 331.84
20–18296
“An inspiring bit of a book for all those in debt; being the Odyssey of Sam and Lucy, who owed $4,016.69 and through the advice of a sagacious old lawyer and the use of grit, in a comparatively short time found themselves out of debt and with money in the bank.”—Cleveland
Cleveland p106 D ’20 50w
N Y Evening Post p17 D 4 ’20 100w
“The story, as a story, is closely interesting, and as a sermon on thrift it ought to be read by 100 per cent of the newlyweds in America and by an equal ratio of people above and below that date line in their careers.”
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Springf’d Republican p7a D 26 ’20 190w
DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.[2] Man from Ashaluna. *$1.75 (2c) Small
20–18763
Judson Dunlap comes home from France with the desire to paint pictures. As a doughboy in Paris he had seen real pictures and a latent interest in art had awakened. He buys a painting kit and starts in by himself alone in the Ashaluna hills, his home. But the results are queer and he knows it. So he takes the patents on the churn he has invented to New York, hoping to sell them and get money to learn painting. He also hopes to meet Mary Beverly, the girl he had rescued from the snowdrifts the winter before. He is immediately plunged into a game of high finance, for two rival concerns are after him for his water rights on the Ashaluna and are willing to juggle with his churn patents as part of the price. Jud plays them off one against the other, meets Mary again, learns to wear the right clothes and use the right forks and, altogether, doesn’t find time to learn painting.
“A cleverly conceived, well told novel. While there is nothing particularly striking in this book in any one place, it is a well made piece of fiction.”
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N Y Times p20 D 5 ’20 320w
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. Guards came through, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 821
20–2926
No vers libre for Sir Arthur. It is the old style meter with the old style rhyme and the old style powerful lilt to the old style ballad most suitable for recitations. They are all war poems and are: Victrix; Those others; The guards came through; Haig is moving; The guns in Sussex; Ypres; Grousing; The volunteer; The night patrol; The wreck on Loch McGarry; The bigot; The Athabasca trail; Ragtime! Christmas in wartime; Lindisfaire; A parable; Fate.
“The title-piece and others show Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a master of evening-paper balladry.”
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Ath p558 Ap 23 ’20 70w
“It is good British song one finds in this slim little volume of Sir Arthur’s. And it is British all the way through, this little book; British militarily, British presumptuously satisfied with her destiny.” W. S. B.
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Boston Transcript p4 Ap 21 ’20 400w
“Nothing so good for Friday afternoon readings in public schools has been written since ‘The charge of the light brigade.’”
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Dial 69:323 S ’20 110w
“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield
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N Y Times p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a real benefactor to the organizers of town or village entertainments who want pieces of good quality for recitation. His poems, mainly patriotic, are irreproachable in sentiment, simple in expression, and always have a brave lilt. One longish piece, ‘The wreck on Loch McGarry,’ is in a vein of Gilbertian humour.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p783 D 25 ’19 80w
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. History of the great war. v 5–6 il ea *$3 (3c) Doran 940.3
v 5–6 The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1918.
Volume 5, covering the first half of the year 1918, “carries the story of the German attack to its close.” The battle of the Somme is given seven chapters, with the battle of the Lys and the battles of the Chemin des Dames and of the Ardres treated in the concluding chapters. Volume 6 “describes the enormous counter attack of the Allies leading up to their final victory.” Both volumes are indexed and are illustrated with maps and plans.
“It is written in the author’s usual clear style, and sticks, for the most part, to the business in hand, although the occasional ill-informed references to the Russian revolution are hardly in keeping with the rest of the narrative.”
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Ath p932 S 19 ’19 60w (Review of v 5)
Ath p195 F 6 ’20 90w (Review of v 6)
Booklist 16:273 My ’20 (Review of v 5–6)
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Cath World 111:694 Ag ’20 190w (Review of v 6)
“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield
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N Y Times p6 D 19 ’20 380w
Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 30w (Review of v 6)
“Within certain limits, Sir Arthur’s account will be found useful; his maps, so-called, are execrable.”
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Review 3:422 N 3 ’20 1050w (Review of v 5–6)
Spec 123:373 S ’20 ’19 1850w (Review of v 5)
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Spec 124:316 Mr 6 ’20 150w (Review of v 6)
“Perhaps the only possible criticism of Sir Arthur’s work is its official tinge. Considering his difficulties, Sir Arthur is to be congratulated upon his work.”
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Springf’d Republican p13a My 2 ’20 850w (Review of v 5–6)
“Sir Arthur Doyle lacks the knowledge, for which he cannot be blamed, since official material is denied to him; and it is quite impossible that such a history as his should not be more or less hastily produced, so that he lacks also time. We fear that we must add, lastly that he fails in literary skill. One bright spot, indeed, there is in the shape of a few pages of actual experience which Sir Arthur has modestly relegated to the appendix of his final volume.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p164 Mr 11 ’20 1250w (Review of v 5–6)
D’OYLY, SIR WARREN HASTINGS, bart. Tales retailed of celebrities and others. il *$2 (4½c) Lane
20–20076
“They are simple tales mostly such as are told in ordinary after dinner chit-chats round the fire, over a good cigar and a glass of good wine, when young men tell tales of presentday happenings to be capped by older men’s tales of the ‘good old times.’” (Preface) With a few exceptions they all relate to incidents which have come under the author’s own observation during a lifetime of over fourscore years. The contents are in two parts. Book I contains: A hundred years ago: Dorsetshire, Haileybury and Scotland; India; Tirhut, Bhaugulpore, and Arrah; Indian celebrities and others. Book II, Legends, contains: Family legends and tales taken from “The house of D’Oyly” by William D’Oyly Bayley. F. S. A.
Ath p528 Ap 16 ’20 40w
“His jottings may entertain readers who know something of the circle in which he moved, or who may like a few anecdotes about the hunting of Indian big game. But the book as a whole can hardly claim to have much general interest.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p141 F 26 ’20 110w
DOZIER, HOWARD DOUGLAS. History of the Atlantic coast line railroad. *$2 Houghton 385
20–7433
The book is one of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx series of prize essays in economics. It is the history of the consolidation of a number of short railroads along the South Atlantic seaboard into the Atlantic coast line system and illustrates the growth of the holding company period and its decline. It includes much of the economic history and the economic conditions of the section involved and shows what a marked influence the consolidation had on the latter. Contents: Early trade and transportation conditions of the Atlantic seaboard states: Economic background of the north and south railroads of Virginia; The Petersburg and the Richmond and Petersburg railroads before 1860: North Carolina and the Wilmington and Weldon railroad before 1860; The South Carolina-Georgia territory and its railroads before the Civil war; Summary of railroad conditions along the Atlantic seaboard to 1860; Growth from the Civil war to 1902; Integrations and consolidations; Summary and conclusion; Appendix; Bibliographical note; Index; and insert maps and table.
“The student will find in this volume an important contribution to the economic literature of the country, not only because it adds to our knowledge of railway history but because it contains as a background a good discussion of the industrial development of the country through which the lines were built.” I: Lippincott
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Am Econ R 10:593 S ’20 720w
“The later chapters, in fact, are notably lacking in the mention of personnel. Other faults lie in the construction of sentences and paragraphs, in the omission of dates of publication from the bibliography, and in occasional errors of statement. The book, nevertheless, is in general a substantial and well-considered contribution.” U. B. Phillips
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Am Hist R 26:148 O ’20 320w
R of Rs 61:672 Je ’20 30w
DRACHSLER, JULIUS.[2] Democracy and assimilation; the blending of immigrant heritages in America. *$3 Macmillan 325.7
20–18678
“Prof. Drachsler gives us an interpretation of a careful statistical study of the facts of intermarriage in New York city among immigrant groups. In view of our heterogeneous population, he states, the national ideal must be redefined and our life consciously directed toward it. Approaching the problem merely from an economic or cultural point of view is not enough. The fusion of races in America, in short, must be cultural as well as biological, and it must take place under an adequate economic environment if an American ideal is to be achieved. The most specific proposal which Prof. Drachsler makes to accomplish this is to develop in our schools a conscious attempt to study the comparative literature, politics and history of the races represented therein in order that their heritages may continue to be an inspiration and force.”—Springf’d Republican
Boston Transcript p6 D 4 ’20 720w
N Y Times p10 D 12 ’20 1800w
“Prof. Drachsler’s approach is a stimulating and suggestive appeal to facts.” J: M. Gaus
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Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 2 ’21 570w
“Each reader will interpret these facts in accordance with his own point of view. It is a merit of the book that the facts have been divided from interpretation of the facts. The book will no doubt be recognized as one of the few valuable discussions on the problem of assimilation.” J. B. Berkson
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Survey 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 940w
DREIER, KATHERINE SOPHIE.[2] Five months in the Argentine from a woman’s point of view, 1918 to 1919. *$3.50 Sherman, F. F. 918.2
20–12791
“Miss Katherine S. Dreier, author of ‘Five months in the Argentine: from a woman’s point of view,’ faced the discomforts of her journey from Valparaiso to Buenos Aires and her sojourn there with an invincible sense of humor. She visited a great estancia (ranch) at Gualeguay and the Museum of natural history at La Plata, and writes about the general strike of January, 1919, but her principal concern was to study the status and training of women, the care of children, the organization of charity, and the control of prostitution.”—Nation
“If one would have a faithful picture of Buenos Aires, going into considerable detail as to living conditions, charities, business and pleasure, Miss Dreier’s book is to be recommended.”
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Boston Transcript p6 Ag 4 ’20 250w
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Nation 111:694 D 15 ’20 210w
DREISER, THEODORE. Hey-rub-a-dub-dub. *$1.90 Boni & Liveright 814
20–2927
“These essays concern Change, Some aspects of our national character, The American financier, Personality, The toil of the laborer, The reformer, Marriage and divorce, Life, art, and America, Neurotic America and the sex impulse—there are twenty of them, written in the authentic Dreiserian manner. Phantasmagoria splits the book in twain. It is a little cosmic drama in three scenes—The house of birth, The house of life, The house of death. It is the via dolorosa of the ‘Lord of the universe,’ his agglomeration, effulgence in life, and his ingression. The court of progress purports to be the record of the doings of the Federated chairman of the post federated period of world republics (2,760–3,923). This phantasmagoria is a celebration of the triumph of humanity over poets, cigarette fiends, saloon keepers, madams, socialists, Holy rollers, artists, and the like.”—N Y Times
“They are interesting in showing the philosophy which has been back of the vigorous, often shocking fiction of the author.”
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Booklist 16:270 My ’20
“He states so many things that are not so, and he states them so arrogantly and cocksuredly, that the intelligent reader asks himself in amazement: ‘How can such an inane book—poorly written, full of repetitions, blatant in its irreligion, shameless in its immorality—find enough readers to warrant publication?’ Mr Dreiser has no saving sense of humor—hence this awful book.”
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Cath World 111:260 My ’20 320w
“Dreiser sets down his findings with all a greengrocer’s assiduity, and not a little of a greengrocer’s unimaginative painstaking. Here is a surprising absence of the creative instinct in a creative writer.”
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Dial 69:320 S ’20 160w
“In his novels Mr Dreiser seems very much the thinker. One is astonished, consequently, to find how unsublimated a product he is of the benighted environment he describes in his last essay when he has no characters through whom to express himself. Very simple and almost purely emotional is the reaction upon life cloaked in the scientific verbiage of this book. One asks oneself whether the soul of Jennie Gerhardt is not really the soul of Mr Dreiser himself. One thing is certain; he is far more interesting as the painter of Jennie’s life than as the recorder of Jennie’s views.” Van Wyck Brooks
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Nation 110:595 My 1 ’20 700w
“Heavy and turgid and monotonous and sensuously obtuse as he seems to be, he makes his discussion interesting. He is himself sincerely interested, and he is writing because he has something to communicate. The truth seems to be that Theodore Dreiser’s mind is formless, chaotic, bewildered. In short, our leading novelist is intellectually in serious confusion, and needs a deeper philosophy than—hey rub-a-dub-dub.” F. H.
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New Repub 22:423 My 26 ’20 850w
“Mr Dreiser’s style always reminds us of a college professor who has been ‘fired’ for trying to make his pupils think. He emits endless common-places with the air of having discovered something new. He is pedantic before the threadbare. In ‘The court of progress’ Mr Dreiser has written one of the most drastic satires ever written in this country. This ought to be printed separately and distributed by the million.”
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N Y Times 25:167 Ap 11 ’20 850w
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Springf’d Republican p13a My 2 ’20 750w
DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS. Open vision; a study of psychic phenomena. *$2 (2½c) Crowell 130
20–6883
The author asserts that he is not a spiritualist, that he has never received any communications through a medium, and that he has never investigated spiritism after the manner of psychical researchers. He classes all these investigations with those of other sciences that arrive at conclusions through external sources. What the book emphasizes is the psychical experience by direct impression, the inner vision and certainty that is independent of outward signs. That the spiritual world is, that we are of it and in it now, in life as well as in death, and that we can develop our awareness of it and our participation in it through the cultivation of an open vision seems to be the teaching of the book. A partial list of the contents is: The new awakening; Psychical experience; The awakening of psychical power; Principles of interpretation; The human spirit; Direct impressions; Inner perception; The future life; The book of life; The inward light; Positive values.
Booklist 16:296 Je ’20
N Y Times p18 Jl 4 ’20 160w
“Dr Dresser’s reasoning is systematic, but not powerful, his piety refined but not robust; his style expands discreetly in the calm of a featureless level.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p762 N 18 ’20 40w
DREW, MRS MARY (GLADSTONE). Mrs Gladstone. il *$4 (6c) Putnam
20–6736
This loving tribute by her daughter reveals Mrs Gladstone as a personality of distinction in her own right, her happy family life, her sympathy for and her influence on her husband’s work. It has been the author’s privilege to share intimately her parents’ life from her birth to their death. Contents: Childhood and youth; Girlhood and marriage; Diaries in early married life; Letters from her; Letters to her; Characteristics; Good works; Reminiscences; “Via crucis—via lucis”; Genealogical table; Index and numerous illustrations.
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Booklist 16:310 Je ’20
“Her book is more a series of impressions and reminiscences than a biography. It is none the less interesting and authoritative on that account, however, and will serve very well in the place of a more extended and formal biographical record.” E. F. E.
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Boston Transcript p6 Ap 28 ’20 1850w
“It is a little difficult for the outsider to know why three hundred pages were necessary to paint what must at best be a purely negative picture.” H. J. L.
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New Repub 23:233 Jl 21 ’20 280w
“This volume should be heralded equally as a new chapter in the social and political history of the Victorian period and as a rare and beautifully filial tribute to a devoted mother, a highly accomplished and perennially charming woman.” F: T. Cooper
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Pub W 97:1294 Ap 17 ’20 450w
“It is trivial and unutterably dull.”
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R Of Rs 61:670 Je ’20 80w
“So far as we can discover from this and other contemporary records, Mrs Gladstone was a good but stupid woman. There are a number of letters to Mrs Gladstone which show what exceedingly dull and commonplace letters are written by very distinguished people.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p716 D 4 ’19 30w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p761 D 18 ’19 1600w
DRINKWATER, JOHN. Lincoln: the world emancipator. *$1.50 (10c) Houghton
20–20308
The object of this book, written by an Englishman, is not to retell the life-story of Lincoln to Americans, but to use him as a symbol of the community of spirit and of the differences of national character between the two peoples and to show how he can serve as a reconciler in bringing about an intellectual and spiritual alliance between them. Contents: ‘Liberty’; ‘E pluribus unum’; Anglo-American union; Lincoln as symbol; Anglo-American differences; Lincoln as reconciler; History and art; Lincoln and the artists; An epilogue.
Ind 104:383 D 11 ’20 20w
“The whole essay is a work of art. In form it is not in the least polemical, and if it is polemical in intent, then Drinkwater has brought polemics into the region of the fine arts.”
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N Y Times p1 D 5 ’20 850w
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DRINKWATER, JOHN. Pawns; four poetic plays. *$1.50 Houghton 822
20–21989
The book is a collection of four one-act plays and has an introduction by Jack R. Crawford who says the plays are characteristic of the author’s point of view, namely, that peace and quiet are the natural concomitants of a mind loving beauty. “They are dramas expressed in poetry—the utterance of simple truths which we know beforehand, for of such are the materials of poetry and drama.” The plays are: The storm; The god of quiet; X = O; a night of the Trojan war; Cophetua.
“There is justice in the title. But the true figures of the stage—Falstaff or Iago or Œdipus—are not pawns. They are living beings.” J: G. Fletcher
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Freeman 2:405 Ja 5 ’21 750w
“One quality in these ‘Pawns’ is clear: their artistic sincerity. The best play of the three, the largest in conception, the richest and simplest in emotion, and the soundest in workmanship, is the last in the book. [“X = O” in English edition]”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p448 S 20 ’17 960w
DRUMMOND, HAMILTON. Maker of saints. *$2.50 Dutton
20–10731
“In this tale of Italy in the days of Dante (who appears in person on the stage) the maker of saints is the sculptor Fieravanti, a peasant risen to fame and power by his wonderful statues of saints which to the simple countrymen are the real persons they represent. It is the visit of Fieravanti at the Court of Arzano to the proud old Count Ascanio of the house of Faldora, who has no son, but a beautiful, proud and unawakened granddaughter, that introduces a romance of the changing fortunes of noble houses amid the turbulence of medieval Italy.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“It is by no means easy to infuse much vitality into an imaginative tale of so long ago, but the author has undoubtedly achieved a measure of success in his undertaking.”
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Ath p30 Ja 2 ’20 80w
“The story is well told, with abundance of incident.”
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N Y Times 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 500w
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Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 20w
“A capital romance but at the end the curtain drops too abruptly on the tragic climax of the story and leaves us a little doubtful as to the real issue.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p769 D 18 ’19 130w
DU BOIS, JOHN HAROLD. Christian task. (New generation ser.) *90c (4c) Assn. press 261
20–13993
“A discussion of the supreme need of the age: how Christianity can satisfy it.” (Subtitle) In the author’s opinion the supreme need of the age “is the need of something to do, the need of some gigantic undertaking—in a word, the need of a task, or in still simpler Anglo-Saxon, the need of a job.” Contents: The need stated: the need of a task; The need analyzed: the need and the age; The need emphasized: the need and the war; The need satisfied: the need and the Christian task of establishing the kingdom of God on earth; The need summarized: Christianity and other related needs.
Bib World 54:646 N ’20 130w
DUBOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT. Darkwater: voices from within the veil. *$2 (3c) Harcourt 326
20–4763
“I have been in the world, but not of it. I have seen the human drama from a veiled corner, where all the outer tragedy and comedy have reproduced themselves in microcosm within. From this inner torment of souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual and even illuminating ways.” (Postscript) And it is an unusual collection of essays, stories and parables alternating with “little alightings of what may be poetry.” Beginning with a “credo” and an autobiographical sketch, The shadow of years, the contents are: The souls of white folk; The hands of Ethiopia; Of work and wealth; “The servant in the house”; Of the ruling of men; The damnation of women; The immortal child; Of beauty and death; The comet. The interposed poetry is: A litany at Atlanta; The riddle of the sphinx; The princess of the Hither isles; The second coming; Jesus Christ in Texas; The call; Children of the moon; Almighty death; The prayers of God; A hymn to the peoples. Mr DuBois is author of “The souls of black folk,” “The negro,” etc., and is editor of the Crisis.
“We can admit the whole of Dr DuBois’ plea for the negro, although we cannot admit his argument, and we can do so because his argument is irrelevant. His picture of the majority of mankind, the ‘coloured’ races, being kept in subjugation by the, on the whole, inferior white races is, we feel, rather more poetic than scientific.”
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Ath p139 Jl 30 ’19 600w
“Written with tense feeling and a clean bitterness.”
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Booklist 16:233 Ap ’20
“It is a stern indictment and one to which we cannot close our ears. It is a lesson, however, that cannot be driven home by storming, no matter how righteous be the anger. The significance of ‘Darkwater’ thus lies in the spiritual history of the author and in the passages of lyrical poetic beauty where he has expressed the extremity of racial pride.” M. E. Bailey
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Bookm 52:304 Ja ’21 620w
“Dr DuBois is undoubtedly the foremost spokesman of today for the negro, and as such his utterances command attention. It is doubtful whether Dr DuBois is as powerful or as convincing in his latest work as in its predecessor, ‘The souls of black folk.’” W. E. W.
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Boston Transcript p4 O 6 ’20 670w
“Whether in prose or verse, DuBois is always master of the instrument of expression. At times, as in the Litany at Atlanta, reprinted from the Independent, he rises to supreme eloquence. But his thought is not always on the same high level as his style.”
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Lit D p86 My 1 ’20 1350w
“It is a fact that his own ability to suffer and to feel the wrongs of his race so deeply is at once his strength, the reason for his leadership, and also his chief weakness. For it carries with it a note of bitterness, tinctured with hate, and the teaching of violence which often defeats his own purpose. Doubtless, few of us with sympathies so keen, with nerves so rasped, with wounds as raw, would do better. But still, some suppression of the ego, a lesser self-consciousness, and the omission of personal bitterness at all times would carry Mr DuBois and his cause much further.” O. G. V.
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Nation 110:726 My 29 ’20 1150w
“It is sometimes said that Dr DuBois is bitter. If this new book of his is bitter, I do not know what bitter means. It is to me one of the sweetest books I have ever read. Dr DuBois is an artist, and his book must be reckoned among those that add not only to the wisdom but to the exaltation and glory of man. Because he is an artist, because he tells this story of his own people so simply and so charmingly, he establishes that kinship which is the essence of everything human.” F. H.
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New Repub 22:189 Ap 7 ’20 1300w
“There is a certain weakness in Professor DuBois’s reasoning, which is that his intense concentration on one subject leads him to turn general, universal wrongs into special negro wrongs. The error runs all through his book and disfigures it. If we disagree with much in this beautiful book, it is not possible to withhold the heartiest praise for the power of its statement, the force and passion that inspire it, and the entrancing style in which it is written.”
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N Y Times p19 Ag 8 ’20 2000w
“Dr DuBois is too close to the struggle to see clearly the problems involved. His work is a creation of passion rather than intelligence. It is, on the whole, a volume which will convince only those already convinced of the justice and soundness of his position.”
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Outlook 126:690 D 15 ’20 150w
“‘Darkwater’ is not merely the story of the negro. The success of Dr DuBois’ writing lies in the fact that it describes something universal. Every other persecuted race quickens with tragic memories at his words. Here is the story of the circumscribed Jew, of the Hindu, of the dark peoples whom imperialism holds in subjection. It is the old story of the undeserved human suffering, doled out by the world’s victors who enjoy the cruel display of their power.” M. W. Ovington
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Socialist R 8:381 My ’20 700w
“Very able and pathetic book.”
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Spec 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 280w
“I believe that Dr DuBois has overstressed in his book the point of identity, not only of the colored races as such, but of the white and black races especially; yet I am equally sure that white men have overstressed the points of divergence. The signal service of this book is that it quite magnificently points out the white man’s error and makes clear as day the fact that the ‘race question’ is, at least to a great extent, a question of social environment.” R. F. Foerster
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Survey 44:384 Je 12 ’20 600w
“His book affords a remarkable example of that elemental race-hatred which he himself so fiercely denounces. He ignores altogether the paramount importance of the economic basis of the problem, the fact that, given equal opportunity, the negro and the Asiatic would inevitably eat up the white man.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p712 N 4 ’20 520w
“If one lays down the book with a sense of disappointment that in spite of its excellence it somehow misses greatness, at least he cannot easily silence in his ears ‘the voices from within the veil’ who speak through its pages. And if bitterness seems to be the quality which mars the power of Dr DuBois’ appeal, the white man has lost his right to complain.” N. T.
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World Tomorrow 3:286 S ’20 160w
DUCLAUX, EMILE. Pasteur: the history of a mind; tr. and ed. by Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges. il *$5 Saunders
20–6556
“This is an American translation of a French book published in 1896. The pupil, friend and successor of Pasteur describes the successful quest of knowledge and the growth of the ardent mind which pursued it. He follows the same method in describing the successive triumphs of Pasteur from the studies in crystallography to the final attainment of the conception of immunity. He gives a brief account of the state of knowledge preceding the work of Pasteur, and is thus able to describe the problems in the form in which they presented themselves when the great investigator turned his attention to them.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The translators, who are pathologists in the United States Department of agriculture, have appended an annotated list of persons mentioned in the book.” (R of Rs)
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Booklist 17:68 N ’20
“Invaluable for the light it sheds on the dynamics of scientific research, this volume is not less suggestive for its portraiture of what Ostwald has called the classicist mind in science.” R. H. Lowie
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Freeman 2:259 N 24 ’20 900w
“The book must always remain a classic in the history of science. The translation has been faithfully done.” A. S. M.
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Nature 106:303 N 4 ’20 980w
R of Rs 61:671 Je ’20 80w
“The book has a permanent value independent of the progress that has been made since it was written.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p545 Ag 26 ’20 1350w
DUCLAUX, MARY. Twentieth century French writers (reviews and reminiscences). il *$2.50 Scribner 840.9
(Eng ed 20–11400)
“This volume was in the printer’s hands in August, 1914. For its publication today Madame Duclaux has added a post-war preface and interpolated a passage here and there.” (Nation) “She writes chiefly of the last fourteen years, and in studies all too brief characterizes the personalities and the work of Maurice Barrès, Romain Rolland, Edmond Rostand, Claudel, Jammes, René Boylesve. André Gide, Péguy, Barbusse, Duhamel, the Comtesse de Noailles and others.” (Ath)
Ath p225 F 13 ’20 60w
“For readers unacquainted with contemporary French literature this volume should be a useful literary guide-book.”
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Ath p475 Ap 9 ’20 600w
Booklist 17:21 O ’20
“Many thanks should be given her by the English-speaking world for her brilliant and scholarly volume, arriving as it does when we need the stimulus and example of these French modernists.” C. K. H.
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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 21 ’20 980w
“The book has its insufficiencies of judgment, of course, apart from those created by an encroaching patriotism. But her defects are obvious; they spring readily from her qualities. She is interested in her chosen writers as complex individuals. As highly differentiated individuals she presents them; and in reaching for the core of personality she accomplishes something which is vital to criticism.” C. M. Rourke
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Freeman 2:140 O 20 ’20 900w
“Substantially it is now what it was then, [August, 1914,] and therein lies its extraordinary value. The war turned everything into legend and made of every face an angel’s or an ogre’s mask. Now that the world is mildly and tentatively beginning to use its mind again, a book like this serves to mend the broken continuity of truth and to restore the normal temper of one’s studies.” Ludwig Lewisohn
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Nation 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 1250w
“Mme Duclaux not only possesses the comprehensive vision that makes possible a synoptic view of surface phenomena, but she is gifted with that rarer sight which pierces, embraces and understands.” B. R. Redman
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“Gives a better account of the most modern French literature than has yet been published in English.”
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“One’s first impulse, on reading Mme Duclaux’s book, is to cry, Here is a book by some one who knows what she is talking about! The impulse is too strong to be restrained, because the event is so rare in this field of literary criticism.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p137 F 26 ’20 1850w
DUGANNE, PHYLLIS. Prologue. *$2 (2c) Harcourt
20–14598
This is the story of Rita Moreland’s life during her teens, when she is developing from little girlhood to womanhood. The only child of a rather unsatisfactory marriage, she has some difficulty in adjusting herself to life. The story tells of her family life, her schooling, her home in New York, where she vibrates between Fifth avenue and Greenwich Village, her friends, and more especially her relations with the masculine sex. She alternates between perfect happiness and periods of bored discontentment with everything and can’t seem to “find herself.” The war finds her at work in an office, but the end of the war brings back to her Donald, with whom, at the story’s close, she stands at “the beginnings of things.”
“Two merits by no means discoverable in all first novels may be conceded to ‘Prologue’ at the outset. It commands to a marked degree technical dexterity and ease in expression, and—within the scope of its peacock-alley comprehension of life—it is decidedly entertaining. The book might be described as a study of flapper-psychosis—if there is such a thing. Anything tending to reveal character, or in any way interfere with inconsequent amours, is summarily dismissed by the author.” L. B.
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Freeman 2:70 S 29 ’20 340w
“Miss Duganne writes with a clear, staccato, bird-like note; she visualizes men and things with cool precision.”
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Nation 111:454 O 20 ’20 360w
DUGUIT, LEÓN. Law in the modern state; tr. by Frida and Harold Laski. *$2.50 Huebsch 321
20–7266
“Professor Duguit’s introductory chapter closes with the following significant words, which summarize his book. ‘The idea of public service,’ he declares, ‘replaces the idea of sovereignty. The state is no longer a sovereign power in issuing commands. It is a group of individuals who must use the force they possess to supply the public need. The idea of public service lies at the very base of the theory of the modern state.’ The demonstration as to how this has come about occupies the body of the book. Through illustrations drawn primarily from French legal history, Duguit shows the growth away from state absolutism and from the idea of governments as sacrosanct bodies.”—Socialist R
“Of the acuteness of Duguit’s analytical powers there can, in general, be no doubt, and it therefore became a matter almost beyond understanding that he should fail to continue to appreciate the real nature of the doctrines which he attacks.” W. W. Willoughby
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Booklist 17:51 N ’20
“The author makes out a strong case and the facts seem to be on his side. He answers his opponents with candor and courtesy and treats fairly and comprehensively all sides of the problem.”
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Dial 69:412 O ’20 640w
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Socialist R 9:48 Je ’20 420w
Springf’d Republican p10 F 21 ’20 80w
“The translation by Frida and Harold Laski is very satisfactory, and the introduction by Professor Laski furnishes an invaluable background for an understanding of the volume.” A. J. Lien
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DUMBELL, KATE ETHEL MARY. Seeing the West, il new ed *$1.75 (5c) Doubleday 917.8
A book designed as a convenient handbook for the westbound traveler. It is composed of five parts: The southern Rockies; The northern Rockies; The northwest; California; The southwest. There are two end maps, one showing national parks and railroads, the other showing motor highways. A four-page list of references comes at the end, followed by the index.
“To one who does not know the country ‘Seeing the west’ offers many valuable suggestions.”
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N Y Evening Post p13 O 30 ’20 110w
“It is doubtful whether anyone has brought the same amount and quality of tourist information into so compact space before.”
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Springf’d Republican p7a D 12 ’20 130w
DUNLAP, KNIGHT. Personal beauty and racial betterment. *$1 Mosby 575.6
20–7871
“The first part of the book, ‘The significance of beauty,’ seeks to explain in detail the characters of personal beauty—an explanation found exclusively in the reproductive needs of the race. The second part, ‘The conservation of beauty,’ points to its importance as an element in race improvement which, the author maintains, can according to all present evidence be brought about only by selection of the more fit. It also discusses briefly some of the more disputable means of eliminating the entirely unfit. Above all, however, the author directs his argument against economic interest as the decisive factor in selection and effectively presents the case for the cultivation of beauty and love marriage as indispensable to race preservation.”—Survey
Reviewed by E. S. Bogardus
Am J Soc 26:367 N ’20 160w
“In the recent literature of sexual selection and of eugenics there have been few more stimulating contributions than this one by Professor Dunlap. It is worth a place in the social hygienist’s library.” P. P.
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Social Hygiene 6:577 O ’20 640w
“Professor Dunlap’s study of personal beauty as an element in race betterment is original and suggestive; it is, however, little more than a string of ex cathedra propositions presented without evidence or citation of authority other than his own observations.”
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Survey 44:450 Je 26 ’20 200w
DUNN, ARTHUR WALLACE. How presidents are made. *75c (2½c) Funk 329
20–8653
The book is a historical survey of the conditions and circumstances that surrounded the campaigns of the various presidents. The author takes no stock in the general impression that presidents are elected on “issues,” but thinks that personality and opportunity play a greater part and that often the result depends on accident or incident. Contents: Caste and political parties; Federalism and states’ rights—Adams and Jefferson; The Virginia succession—Madison and Monroe; Developing issues—slavery and the tariff; Passing of congressional caucus—Adams; Personal popularity a factor—Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison; Slavery and the northern boundary as factors—Polk; The Mexican war—Taylor; Slavery issue looming; Slavery compromise—Pierce; Anti-slavery republicans defeated—Buchanan; Extension vs. restriction of slavery—Lincoln; The soldier vote and war issues—Lincoln and Grant; Liberal republican movement—Grant vs. Greeley; The electoral commission—Hayes vs. Tilden; Third term issue—Garfield; Mugwump independency—Cleveland; Protectionist tariff—Harrison; The tariff and free silver—Cleveland; Gold standard vs. free silver—McKinley; “Imperialism,” silver, the tariff—McKinley; Personal popularity—Roosevelt; Tariff and personal influence—Taft; Republican disharmony—Wilson; Anti-war sentiment and tactical mistakes—Wilson; The negro as a political factor; Prohibition, suffrage, socialism.
Boston Transcript p7 Jl 24 ’20 230w
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Cleveland p90 O ’20 30w
“One takes up this little volume expecting a dry-as-dust account of the operations of the primaries, the electoral college, etc. Instead he finds a narrative alive with human interest.”
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Outlook 125:223 Je 2 ’20 50w
“It is a meager and sketchy book, without distinction in research or judgment, but it does ‘hit the high spots’ in such a way as to bring the records of past campaigns briefly to mind, and it is written in a fair spirit, with a practical understanding of events and with intelligent discrimination.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 1500w
DUNN, COURTENAY FREDERIC WILLIAM. Natural history of the child. *$2 (2½c) Lane 392
20–4905
Although the author of this volume is a physician the book is not written from a medical or scientific point of view. It is rather the traditions, prejudices and customs which have surrounded childhood from time immemorial dressed in an entertaining, humorous garb, “a history of childhood which for the greater part has been grubbed up from ancient and scarce books, obscure pamphlets and papers.” (Foreword) Contents: Him before he was; His ancestry; His early life—legal infancy; His name; His environment; His language; His schooldays; His schooling; His development; His play; His religion; His mental condition; His naughtiness; His afflictions.
“Those portions which come from browsing in old books are particularly interesting and amusing.”
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Booklist 16:299 Je ’20
“He has selected a very diverting lot of quotations, which are strung together on his own agreeable reflections in a book that will be read with interest by every child-lover.”
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Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 100w
“On every sort of aspect of child life, from christening ceremonies or the custom of infant marriages to the evils of thumb-sucking and the use of indiarubber ‘soothers,’ there is the same entertaining jumble of the results of disjointed research. Unfortunately Dr Courtenay Dunn cannot resist the lure of being ‘bright.’”
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Spec 123:250 Ag 23 ’19 350w
“Its contents, far from being prosy or dull to any but the mother or nurse, are, on the other hand, most interesting to any reader who has in him a trace of the antiquary.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 My 18 ’20 200w
“Dr Dunn has burrowed with great industry and good results among old and sometimes scarce books and pamphlets; and the light and airy style in which he starts writing must not prejudice us against his work.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p338 Je 19 ’19 300w
DUNN, JOHN DUNCAN, and JESSUP, ELON H. Intimate golf talks. il *$3 Putnam 796
20–21193
The genesis of the book is: an indoor golf school conducted by John Duncan Dunn, a reportorial visit by the editor of Outing, the latter’s interest in the instructor’s methods and desire to profit by them for his own game, repeated interviews and—the book. The talks, interpolated with copious illustrations, are: Picking the right clubs; Learning the golf scale; The golf grip; The golf stance; The gold address; Some golf faults; Getting the knack of the swing; Stick to the minor shots; From three-quarters to fullswing; The importance of balance; Take care of your hands; Topping the ball; Overcoming faults; Keeping the muscles in harmony; Slicing and hooking; Methods of curing faults; This brings us to putting.
“Mr Dunn’s golf wisdom and Mr Jessup’s editorial skill combine in the production of an unusually happy result.” B. R. Redman
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DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE. Dead man’s gold. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–13705
When Wat Lyman died, he left behind him the secret of a gold lode. But he was canny enough to divide his secret among three, Healy, an ex-gambler, “Lefty” Larkin, an adventurer, and Stone, an American temporarily down on his luck. Each of these three knew one-third only of the directions necessary to locate the gold, which, when found, was to be divided equally with Lyman’s daughter, who also had to be found. By their common sharing of the secret, the three prospectors were kept together all through the first part of their hunt. Exciting experiences in the Arizona desert, and with the Apache Indians almost lead to failure. But eventually they find their lode, only to have Healy turn traitor and try to cheat the other two out of their share. How the girl comes into it and saves their lives and the gold is the close of the story.
DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE. Turquoise Cañon. il *$1.50 (2½c) Doubleday
20–5121
A story that follows one of the standard formulas for western fiction. The rich and debonair young easterner comes west, falls foul of a gang of crooks, loses his heart to the beautiful daughter, rescues her from her unpleasant environment, breaks up the band and is rewarded with the love of the girl, who after all, it turns out, is not the daughter of the chief villain. In this story Jimmie Hollister’s goat ranching experiences add an original touch.
Booklist 16:280 My ’20
DUNSANY, EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th baron. Tales of three hemispheres. *$1.75 Luce. J. W.
20–26193
“In the two hemispheres we know more or less about, Lord Dunsany pretends now and then to set his story. But his heart is in the third hemisphere—the hemisphere at the back of the map, which lies beyond the fields we know. And, indeed, even when we think for a moment that we are in the high wolds beyond Wiltshire, or looking out on the Tuileries gardens, or checked short for a peep at the cloud-capped tower of the Woolworth building, we are pretty sure to be in, before long, for a meeting with the old gods, the gods whom time has put to sleep.” (Review) “The book is divided into two sections, the first made up of miscellaneous, far wandering tales and sketches, while the second, which is entitled ‘Beyond the fields we know,’ leads us into the lands of dream, where flows the great central river of Yann.” (N Y Times)
“A certain abundance of even commonplace detail, combined with a subtle deviation from the usual in emphasis and sequence, conveys successfully a sense of other-reality; but this quality, the true dream-quality, is constantly impaired by a kind of arbitrary fastidiousness of language. Nothing is less akin to the dreamlike than the precious, which is the outcome of an extreme self-consciousness, and we consider that Lord Dunsany’s use of the precious constitutes a serious defect of style.” F. W. S.
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Booklist 16:204 Mr ’20
“The stories in divers veins are all characteristic of Dunsany, but present no tricks not already familiar to his readers.”
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Nation 110:660 My 15 ’20 560w
“They are essentially prose poems, these tales, whether they express in some half dozen vivid, poignant pages the very heart of a dying man’s desire, as in ‘The last dream of Bwona Khubla,’ or tell of a girl’s longing, as in ‘An archive of the older mysteries,’ or of such fear as that which rent the soul of the wayfarer who bore with him ‘The sack of emeralds.’”
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N Y Times 24:781 D 28 ’19 800w
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Spec 124:871 Je 26 ’20 580w
“Through the exotic atmosphere of many of these stories stand out sudden pictures of rare perfection. This power of calling up associations to supplement concrete images is indeed his perilous virtue, and entices him sometimes into tortuous bypaths. Yet his perfect etching of New York at night in ‘A city of wonder’ proves that he can look at the world with the disinterested and objective gaze of the pure artist.”
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DURKIN, DOUGLAS. Heart of Cherry McBain. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
Because he had once struck his brother with murder in his heart, King Howden had determined never to fight again, and because of that resolution he was held to be something of a coward in the frontier country where he lived a rather solitary life. And then one day he met Cherry McBain, a girl worth fighting for. She was the daughter of old Keith McBain, the construction boss of a new railway. And she had an enemy in the person of Big Bill McCartney, her father’s foreman, who was determined to win her by fair means or foul and regardless of her wishes in the matter. The situation certainly offered grounds for the fight that eventually came, leaving King with his reputation vindicated, and Cherry free to bestow her heart where she chose.
Boston Transcript p6 O 9 ’20 150w
N Y Times p24 O 10 ’20 250w
DURSTINE, ROY SARLES. Making advertisements and making them pay. il *$3.50 Scribner 659
20–16526
“‘Making advertisements’ treats of everything in any way connected with advertising, even the weight of type. It is well illustrated with reproduced advertisements. Starting with the genesis of advertising, it ends asking, ‘Where is advertising going?’”—N Y Evening Post
“Crisp, entertaining, suggestive chapters.”
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“Somewhat sketchy but enlightening book.”
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Ind 104:247 N 13 ’20 40w
“Common sense and an agreeable style are blended in a manner that makes this book delightful as well as informative reading.”
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N Y Evening Post p18 O 23 ’20 270w
“This book seems to the present reviewer more significant and more helpful than any of the other manuals which the reviewer has chanced to see.” Brander Matthews
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N Y Times p9 N 21 ’20 2400w
DURUY, VICTOR. History of France. $3.50 Crowell 944
20–14467
A new edition brought down to date to 1920. “The original text was translated by Mr Cary, and edited and continued down to the year 1890 by Dr J. Franklin Jameson. It has now been continued up to the present year by Mabell S. C. Smith, author of ‘Twenty centuries of Paris,’ and other historical studies. The original plan and arrangement have been maintained in this appendix, which begins in point of time with the Dreyfus case, includes the famous separation of church and state, the Fashoda incident, the Agadir incident, and other events leading up to and including the world war.” (Publisher’s announcement)
Booklist 17:83 N ’20
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DWIGHT, HARRY GRISWOLD. Emperor of Elam, and other stories. *$2 (2c) Doubleday
20–19763
The range of the stories comprises most of the earth and their flavor, too, is outlandish and full of whimsical humor. The title story takes the reader to Persia where a young Englishman in a motor-boat encounters a pompous native barge on a river in Luristan, upon which an alleged Brazilian is disporting himself as the Emperor of Elam. At Dizful the Englishman inadvertently discovers that the Brazilian is a German secret agent of his government. The war breaks out and in the course of events the would-be Emperor of Elam finds himself alone on board of the motor-boat with its French chauffeur, whom he has pressed into his services. With their countries at war, they recognize themselves as enemies and after a tense encounter of words and deeds the Frenchman sees but one weapon left to him with which to serve his country: he blows up the boat. The stories have appeared in the Century, Scribner’s, Smart Set, Short Stories and other magazines.
“Mr Dwight brings to the writing of these tales the triple qualifications of satirist, keen observer and stylist.” L. B.
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Freeman 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 190w
“The stories are extremely uneven in quality. It is in the eastern tales that the author’s musical diction and his appreciation of the suggestive limitations of words are most happily apparent.”
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N Y Times p26 D 26 ’20 720w
DYER, WALTER ALDEN. Sons of liberty. il *$1.50 (2c) Holt
20–21337
Mr Dyer has made Paul Revere the hero of this story for boys. He has introduced a few fictitious characters and incidents, but in the main has held to the facts of history. The story begins in 1847 when Paul was a boy of twelve and it follows the course of events that led up to the revolution, introducing Sam Adams, John Hancock, Joseph Warren and others. The author looks on Paul Revere as “one of the most picturesque and lovable characters of his time,” and regrets that little is known of him aside from the one incident celebrated in Longfellow’s poem. He shows him to have been a many-sided man, of broad interests and sympathies and artistic ability, and a man of the people.
Ind 104:378 D 11 ’20 50w
“The plot is conventional and Samuel Adams rather too heroic a figure to be true, but the history behind the record is unusually sound.”
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Nation 112:75 Ja 19 ’21 150w
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N Y Times p28 Ja 2 ’21 320w
Springf’d Republican p8 O 16 ’20 150w
“The book spiritedly sketches the history of the period and makes one feel the impulses then animating the people of Boston.”
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Springf’d Republican p10 D 17 ’20 260w
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EAST, EDWARD MURRAY, and JONES, DONALD FORSHA. Inbreeding and outbreeding: their genetic and sociological significance. (Monographs on experimental biology) il *$2.50 Lippincott 575
20–352
“Whether close inbreeding causes deterioration of the race and cross-breeding re-invigorates it, is a question that has long been disputed. It was not until the development of the Mendelian theory that a sufficiently powerful method of analyzing the problem was discovered. The book by Professor East and Dr Jones gives an account of the solution of the problem by means of this theory. The data which East and Jones have here brought together have a wide applicability to practical animal and plant breeding. The authors also attempt to apply them to the field of human heredity.”—J Philos
Reviewed by L. L. Bernard
Am J Soc 26:251 S ’20 380w
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“One of the most valuable features of the book is the admirable bibliography of 225 titles.” M. C. Coulter
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Bot Gaz 69:530 Je ’20 1100w
Reviewed by Alexander Weinstein
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J Philos 17:388 Jl 1 ’20 620w
“The book is marked at once by independence and by scholarship. Of great interest to many will be the application of the biological results to the particular case of man. There is a carefully selected bibliography.”
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Nature 106:335 N 11 ’20 900w
“From a popular standpoint, ‘Inbreeding and outbreeding’ is by far the most interesting and suggestive book on heredity that has appeared in recent years.” O. E. White
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New Repub 24:278 N 10 ’20 1400w
“Two biologists of note, both experimental plant breeders, have done a useful work in laying the results of their experiments and their reflections upon the experiments before a semi-popular audience. They are wise in doing so, for no question comes more frequently to the eugenicist than this: Is the marriage of cousins prejudicial to offspring? Or this: What are the biological consequences of race admixture?” C: B. Davenport
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Survey 44:252 My 15 ’20 450w
EASTON, DOROTHY. Golden bird, and other sketches. *$2 (3c) Knopf
20–11225
These sketches are introduced by a foreword by John Galsworthy and “catch the flying values of life” as he says a good sketch does. They contain pictures from the southern countryside of England with some French sketches. “The golden bird” is an old inn where a paralyzed youth with a poet’s soul has for ten years made the walls of his room transparent and who beguiles the time, when he is not seeing visions of the shifting seasons outside, with his violin. Some of the other titles are: Laughing down; The steam mill; Heart-breaker; Twilight; September in the fields; Causerie; Smoke in the grass; Adversity; It is forbidden to touch the flowers; A Parisian evening; Life.
“The writer gives us the impression of being extremely young—not in the sense of a child taking notes, but in the sense that she seems to be seeing, smelling, drinking, picking hops and blackberries for the first time. For such sketches as ‘An old Indian’ and ‘From an old malt-house’ we have nothing but praise. But while we welcome her warmly, we would beg her, in these uncritical days, to treat herself with the utmost severity.” K. M.
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Ath p831 Je 25 ’20 190w
“They have color, dramatic vivacity and interesting characterization. Somewhat depressing.”
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Booklist 17:61 N ’20
“Miss Easton writes with a certain graceful precision, an unerring touch for the right word, for the exact effect, and a deeply sympathetic attitude toward nature and toward humanity in its varied aspects.” L. B.
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Freeman 1:622 S 8 ’20 200w
“They are simple, vivid and effective in their simplicity. There is real insight and real skill in putting down what the author has seen.”
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Ind 103:440 D 25 ’20 200w
“With a remarkable economy of means she renders the rather drowsy sweetness of her south of England scenes. And occasionally, as in the sketches called Laughing down, her tenderness for her landscape makes her sentimental and callous—the two are never far apart—about people. But her best sketches, of which there are many, have their brief moments of irony and tragedy and so combine beauty and wisdom in uncommon measure.” Ludwig Lewisohn
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Nation 111:161 Ag 7 ’20 360w
“Miss Easton holds almost constantly to this objectivity, except that she relieves, or perhaps one should say illuminates, it sometimes with the suggestion of spiritual significance by means of a delicate, elusive touch that seems less her own than the inescapable implication of that which she is describing.”
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N Y Times p22 Ag 8 ’20 600w
“An ardent fancy and a delicate yet firm hand have gone to its making; and, thank heaven, it reminds us of nobody! I am not sure, in thinking it over, but the main charm of the book, apart from its beauty of workmanship, lies in its total lack of that ‘humor’ which is the god of the current literary machine.” H. W. Boynton
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Review 3:502 N 24 ’20 450w
“A book very well worth writing and, what is more, worth reading afterwards.”
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Spec 125:744 D 4 ’20 50w
“The author has a deep and comprehensive feeling for the transitory values of life which she succeeds in communicating to the emotions of her audience. She writes with a delicacy which would beautify the most sordid subjects.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 D 14 ’20 430w
“The quality of the volume suggests that stronger work may follow. More experience should confirm that individual quality already described, and may help to put a curb on an exuberance of sentiment which is at present Miss Easton’s chief weakness.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p454 Jl 15 ’20 390w
EATON, WALTER PRICHARD. In Berkshire fields. il *$3.50 Harper 917.44
20–18686
Not as a scientist but merely as a lover of nature and the wilds, does the author record his wanderings through fields and woods. As a permanent resident in the hills he knows them in every season of the year and in every elemental mood and loves them “less for their softness than their wildness.” Their wildness, he tells us, is still considerable for in their miles of forest the moose and wildcat still roam and there is even recent evidence of a timberwolf. Seventy-eight illustrations, chiefly of winter scenes, by Walter King Stone, grace the pages and the contents are: Landlord to the birds; Jim Crow; The cheerful chickadee; The menace from above; By inland waters; Poking around for birds’ nests; The queen of the swamp; Forgotten roads; From a Berkshire cabin; Little folks that gnaw; The ways of the woodchuck; Foxes and other neighbors; In praise of trees; Enjoying the influenza; Adventures with an ax; Weeds above the snow.
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Boston Transcript p7 N 24 ’20 290w
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Ind 103:441 D 25 ’20 170w
“He has written of the birds and animals of the Berkshires with an accuracy perfected by long observation and with a sympathy arising from sincere affection.”
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N Y Times p18 D 26 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
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Review 3:376 O 27 ’20 50w
“Sympathetic nature study and observation, not burdened with scientific detail, is charmingly set forth.”
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Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 390w
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Wis Lib Bul 16:234 D ’20 70w
EATON, WALTER PRICHARD. On the edge of the wilderness, il *$1.75 (3c) Wilde 591.5
The first of these “tales of our wild animal neighbors” is the story of a lone timber wolf who strayed into western Massachusetts where his species is supposed to be extinct. The scene of the other stories is also the Berkshire hills, where, on the authority of the author and others, wolves, foxes, deer, moose and other animals still survive, The titles are: “The return of the native”; Big Reddy, strategist; The Odyssey of old Bill; The life and death of Lucy; General Jim; The mating of Brownie; The taming of ol’ Buck; Red slayer and the terror; Rastus earns his sleep; “The last American.” The illustrations are by Charles Livingston Bull.
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Ind 104:378 D 11 ’20 80w
“Mr Eaton’s art is finished and flowing, a joy to read. Books like this are not only an education in natural history, but in beautiful English, in clarity of description and harmony of phrase.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
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N Y Times p4 D 5 ’20 180w
“‘On the edge of the wilderness’ is almost ideal in fulfilling the many demands of the average intelligent boy for an entertaining book of adventure. In the first place it rings true. It has a literary value such as boys unconsciously appreciate.” H. L. Reed
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Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 250w
ECKEL, EDWIN CLARENCE. Coal, iron and war; a study in industrialism, past and future. *$3 (2½c) Holt 330
20–13789
Ours is a “machine civilization” and the story of industrial growth and competition since 1775, the author holds, “is chiefly though not entirely the story of coal and iron.” The book attempts to keep the discussion free from any and every preconceived bias, theory or assumption and to arrive at conclusions entirely through the historical study of the industrial developments of different countries. Industrial growth is a matter of natural evolution based on physical environment and inheritance and hardly at all on human and personal control. The form of government is a negligible fact—a strong nationalism still desirable, and war still the simplest solution of many of our industrial problems. The contents are in four parts: The growth of modern industrialism; The material bases of industrial growth: The causes and effects of industrial growth; The future of industrialism. There is an index.
“The thesis is carefully developed and well maintained. The striking feature of the book is the openness of mind with which the future is examined. Although the historical portions of the book are sound in the main there are some statements with reference to the eighteenth century that can scarcely be accepted.” A. P. Usher
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Am Hist R 26:307 Ja ’21 640w
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“Mr Eckel has long been prominent as a geologist and engineer. In this volume he certainly qualifies also as an economist. His views on labor organization, the corporation, and the influence of legislation are especially significant.” G. P. W.
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Grinnell R 16:356 F ’21 600w
“The present work is written for the general reader, and through elimination of the less important and by judicious distribution of emphasis he has produced a book which is likely to be widely read with both interest and profit. Though written in a language intelligible to the business man quite as much as the student, it is perhaps most of all important through its judicious criticism of the traditional and orthodox viewpoint of the economist.” W: H. Hobbs
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Review 3:351 O 20 ’20 280w
“It is a worth while book and one has difficulty in telling in a few words why; probably it is because it is written with sincerity and because the author is not writing as other engineers have written, to promote a cause but to examine facts critically.” Hugh Archbald
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Survey 45:287 N 20 ’20 360w
EDDY, SHERWOOD. Everybody’s world. *$1.60 Doran 327
“A discussion, from the standpoint of world Christianity, of post-war conditions in the Near East, Russia, Japan, China, and India, with a chapter on the relations between Great Britain and America and Anglo-Saxon responsibility to the world. The book is the result of a tour around the world in 1919.”—R of Rs
“The author has given an interesting and valuable survey of world conditions.”
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Boston Transcript p7 Ag 18 ’20 400w
R of Rs 62:333 S ’20 100w
“The charm of style lies in the author’s intense human interest which results in much picturesque and personal narrative. Mr Eddy is singularly free of bias.” L. R. Robinson
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EDEN, EMILY. Miss Eden’s letters; ed. by her great niece, Violet Dickenson with introd. *$6.50 Macmillan
“To the present generation the name of Miss Eden conveys little or nothing. As the sister of Lord Auckland, who held office in the reform ministries of the early years of last century, and who became governor-general of India in 1835, she was well known in London society under William IV; and during her later life she published some novels and books of travel which were not without merit, but had not sufficient distinction to preserve them from oblivion. But her abiding claim to the notice of posterity was her talent for friendly letterwriting. Her most intimate friend, Pamela, daughter of Lord and Lady Edward FitzGerald, had an equally marked gift for talking with the pen, and perhaps greater vivacity and humour; and the correspondence between these two brilliant women is preserved in the present volume.”—Spec
Ath p1139 O 31 ’19 100w
“If she has no ideas about things in general, she has a perpetually renewed interest in the immediate; it is this, with the firm, easy texture of her style, and a delicate oddity of perception, which makes her letters so eminently readable. It is this, but something more; for of all the qualities named she is perhaps fully conscious; but she appears admirably unconscious of the qualities of heart and character she has.” F. W. S.
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Ath p335 Mr 12 ’20 1100w
“We think that Miss Dickenson might have suppressed some of the letters as deficient in interest. But we are grateful to her for presenting us with some of the best specimens of the lost art of correspondence.”
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“She had the true note of colloquial ease which few people ever achieve in their letters, and still fewer retain. She gossips charmingly; her observations on her friends and acquaintances are not the mere threadbare inanities which can interest only those who know the persons concerned, but real characteristic illuminative things which are nearly as pleasant to read now as they were when they were written eighty or ninety years ago.”
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Spec 124:179 F 7 ’20 600w
“The judgment of Miss Dickenson’s selections and the unusual excellence of her materials give the book what we so seldom find in biographies—construction and artistic purpose.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p627 N 6 ’19 950w
EDGINTON, HELEN MARION (MAY EDGINTON). Married life; or, The true romance. *$1.75 Small
20–8626
“May Edginton’s novel begins with the marriage of a pretty, bright, charming girl who has been earning her own living and a fine, handsome young man whose salary in an automobile house has been ample to allow him to spend upon himself with some freedom. The action carries them rapidly through the rose-colored days of the first year of married life. By the end of that year they are both beginning to feel the financial pinch resulting from the necessity of making the salary that had been enough for one serve the needs of two. Then the babies begin to arrive and at the end of six years they have three. The salary that had been little more than enough for one has not been much increased and it has to be stretched to cover the needs of five. The husband, under this strain, has grown morose, fault-finding, resentful, and the wife, with her strength taxed far beyond its powers, is weary, irritable and hopeless. The author’s solution she has found solely in the very material one of furnishing them with enough money to enable the husband to spend as he likes and the wife to hire a maid, get her hands manicured and buy some new clothes.”—N Y Times
“Why force an obviously false ending to a tale that rings true up to a certain point?”
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Boston Transcript p4 Je 9 ’20 250w
“The author tells the first part of her story with much realistic detail and with color and vivacity.... The story is the expression of a purely material and selfish ideal of life.”
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EDIE, LIONEL D., ed. Current social and industrial forces; introd. by James Harvey Robinson. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 330
20–3781
“Essays from a number of radical and liberal English and American writers, which reveal the fundamental causes of unrest and propose some plans of action. Some of the authors represented are: Veblen, Sidney Webb, Meyer Bloomfield, J. A. Hobson, J. Laurence Laughlin, Bertrand Russell, Helen Marot, Emil Vandervelde, Walter Lippmann, Norman Angell, H. G. Wells and John Dewey. There are also numerous reports from various commissions of both the British and American governments and of organizations of employers and workers.” (Booklist) “The book grew out of the compiler’s need for a textbook in his courses on current historical forces at Colgate university. The selections are grouped under the headings: Forces of disturbance, Potentialities of production, The price system, The direction of industry, The funds of reorganization, The power and policy of organized labor, Proposed plans of action, Industrial doctrines in defense of the status quo, and The possibilities of social service.” (Survey)
Am Econ R 10:571 S ’20 70w
Reviewed by R. F. Clark
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Am J Soc 26:367 N ’20 240w
“Should be very valuable to the student and to the more thoughtful reader.”
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Cath World 111:681 Ag ’20 420w
“The excerpts and reprints are skilfully grouped, so that the reader—for the book can be read as well as consulted—can grasp the material handily. The selections are made without prejudice.”
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Dial 69:213 Ag ’20 80w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
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New Repub 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 60w
“Prof. Edie has rendered a real service by gathering into well-related chapters some of the most illuminating discussions of a large number of modern writers on social topics.” H: P. Fairchild
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N Y Evening Post p16 Ap 24 ’20 900w
“It is every citizen’s duty to be informed on these subjects, and Professor Edie puts the information within the reach of any who wish it.”
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N Y Times p29 Ag 22 ’20 340w
“In this symposium one gets many and variously colored and confusing glimpses of industrial and social movements, but no comprehensive view of any single subject and no consistent coördination or interpretation.” J. E. Le Rossignol
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Survey 44:312 My 29 ’20 280w
“The book gives a useful conspectus of radical thought—but it scarcely deals at all with ‘current social and industrial forces.’” W: E. Walling
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EDMAN, IRWIN. Human traits and their social significance. *$3 Houghton 301
20–17674
Throughout the long process of civilization two factors have remained constant, says the author: nature and human nature. The only change with regard to the one has been in our increasing power of control of nature through increasing knowledge. And the only difference between the man of today and the primitive savage is in the control of the native biological impulses that the civilized man has achieved through education, religion and morals. It is the aim of the book to indicate man’s simple inborn impulses and outstanding human traits and the factors which must be taken into account if they are to be controlled in the interest of human welfare. Accordingly the book falls into two parts: Social psychology; and The career of reason. Types of human behavior and their social significance, basic human activities and crucial traits in social life, and the racial and cultural continuity are among the subjects considered in part one. Part two contains: Religion and the religious experience; Art and æsthetic experience; Science and scientific method; Morals and moral valuation. There is an index.
“There are but few books of only 467 pages that contain so much information as this one. Written as an introduction to contemporary civilization and intended for freshmen, it clarifies questions at whose profundity Plato would have been disheartened. If the freshman of today can digest even a small portion of this book colleges are progressing, while for a man comparatively advanced in years, and with interests as universal as those of Leonardo da Vinci, it would be a handy manual.”
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N Y Evening Post p10 N 27 ’20 250w
EDWARDS, A. HERBAGE. Paris through an attic. *$3 Dutton 914.4
19–19896
“Paris, ever fascinating and ever fresh, was seen in the days before the war from a new angle, by a delightful young couple, with a thin family purse. An income of 350 dollars a year sufficed their needs. Where they lived, and how they lived is told by the feminine half of this pair of adventurers. The young couple attended the Sorbonne. Sundays and holidays are treated in an account of how Paris amuses itself. All these happenings, and many others, fill the space of two years, and the pages of the book, up to the eventful day when Richard receives his title, ‘Docteur de l’Universite de Paris.’”—Boston Transcript
“The section on the students and the university reveals aspects of French life not ordinarily found in books of travel.”
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“Charming narrative.” C. K. H.
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Boston Transcript p6 Mr 24 ’20 700w
“This book contains a hundred delightful and delicate reflections, an equal number of personal touches, and some quaint views of life which cannot fail to charm the reader who likes to saunter in the little lanes of the great world.” M. F. Egan
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EDWARDS, AUSTIN SOUTHWICK.[2] Fundamental principles of learning and study. $1.80 Warwick & York 370.1
20–22148
“The present volume is a rewriting of manuscript which the writer has used for some time as part of his lectures to students in educational psychology. The aim is especially to show how the results of general psychology and experimental psychology and of allied sciences can be put into use by the teacher and the student in the problems of learning and of study.” (Preface) The author takes the point of view that “the forming, modifying and remaking of habits, habitudes, dispositions, tendencies, etc., under the guidance of ideals set up by society, seems to be the fundamental work of education.” Among the chapters are: Fundamental principles of education; Neurology and the basis of education; The fundamental work of education; Learning and habit formation; Acquisition which involves study; Attention and sustained effort; Feeling habits and moral education; Supervised study and the school curriculum. The book is provided with questions, chapter references, select bibliography and index.