Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1920 Books (continued 18)
Reading edition
GUTHRIE, ANNA LORRAINE, comp. Index to St Nicholas, service basis Wilson, H. W. 051
The forty-five volumes of St Nicholas, from 1873 to 1918, have been indexed for this volume. “The index is dictionary in form, giving author, subject and title entries, the latter as a rule made for fiction and poetry only. Selection of subject headings most easily usable by children has been the aim striven for.” (Preface) The work is compiled and edited by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, formerly editor of the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
“Indispensable aid.”
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Booklist 16:296 Je 20
GUTTERSEN, GRANVILLE. Granville. *$1.25 Abingdon press 940.44
19–15645
“The experience of a young chap in the army air service—a fellow who embodied all that was fine and noble in young manhood, who suffered continual disappointment in not being able to get his overseas orders and in being held on this side as an instructor in bombing, and who yet retained his humor and philosophy of life—are pictured in ‘Granville,’ the subtitle of which is ‘Tales and tail spins from a flyer’s diary.’ The book, which is published anonymously in deference to the wishes of the author’s family, contains a series of letters from ‘Granny’ to his folks at home. These tell of his hopes and desires, his setbacks, his friends in the service and the girls he met, and the experiences that he went through from the time he entered ground school until he received his last orders.”—Springf’d Republican
Boston Transcript p6 Ap 14 ’20 240w
“The writer is so frank and outspoken in what he says and thinks and does that anyone reading the book cannot help feeling unbounded admiration for him. From cover to cover the book is filled with a buoyancy and a joy of living that leave one refreshed with even a few short pages.”
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Springf’d Republican p16 O 19 ’19 220w
GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS. Irish books and Irish people. *$1.75 Stokes 891.6
A20–768
“These essays are for the most part revived from the years 1897–1907, representing the views, during the changing moods of the decade, of this capable and cultured Irish essayist, who, it will be remembered, severed his connexion with the Gaelic league when it decided to make the learning of Irish compulsory and who believes that, as Yeats and Synge have shown, it is possible to be completely Irish while using the English language. His subjects are Nineteenth century novels of Irish life; A century of Irish humour (written 1901); Literature among the illiterates, from a volume called ‘To-day and to-morrow in Ireland’ (1902), now out of print (in two parts, The Shanachy, and The life of a song, a traditional song which Mr Gwynn took down from the lips of an Irish peasant); Irish education and Irish character. There are two later essays on Irish gentry (1913), and Yesterday in Ireland (1918).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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Ath p1167 N 7 ’19 140
Booklist 17:84 N ’20
Brooklyn 12:131 My ’20 40w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p613 O 30 ’19 170w
GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS. John Redmond’s last years. *$5 (*16s) Longmans
20–5238
“A personal and political study of very great interest, written by one who was a friend of Mr Redmond and had access to his papers for the period beginning with the war. Mr Gwynn makes no attempt to represent Mr Redmond as a hero, but lays emphasis upon the patriotism, modesty, and nobility of purpose of the Irish leader, who died heartbroken because he had not ‘won through.’ ‘His action upon the war was his life’s supreme action; he felt this, and knew that it had failed to achieve its end.’ But, says the author, ‘tangled as are the threads of all this policy, he leaves the task far nearer to accomplishment than he found it; and if in the end freedom and prosperity come to a united Ireland, they will be found to proceed ... from the action which John Redmond took in August, 1914, and upon which his brother ... set the seal of his blood.’”—Ath
“Mr Gwynn displays some of the qualities which a biographer ought to possess. He knew Redmond intimately and admired him greatly, yet he makes no attempts to represent him as unerring in judgment and supreme in every quality of leadership. Yet his book has serious defects from the point of view of both the serious student of Irish affairs and the general reader.”
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Am Hist R 26:134 O ’20 520w
Ath p1365 D 12 ’19 160w
“Written with a sympathy and ease that will make interesting reading for those informed on Irish politics.”
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Booklist 16:278 My ’20
“Mr Gwynn’s book has not a little of the somber splendor of a Greek tragedy. Certainly a reading of it is indispensable to an understanding of Irish history in the last ten years. The record is set down with a fairness which even Redmond’s most bitter opponents can hardly fail to praise.” H. J. Laski
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Nation 110:sup484 Ap 10 ’20 850w
“Mr Gwynn has given far the clearest account of the procession of events, and especially a fascinating narrative of the labors and personalities of the convention. His book is almost indispensable to anyone who would wish to understand the relation of opinion to the controversy which is about to open concerning the new Home rule bill.”
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Nation [London] 26:544 Ja 17 ’20 1750w
“Amid the abundant and increasing literature on Irish affairs it is seldom indeed that there comes into a reviewer’s hand a literary treasure such as this. Mr Gwynn writes as one having knowledge and authority. Perhaps what strikes one first in the book is the judicial balance by which it is everywhere marked.” H. L. Stewart
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Review 2:390 Ap 17 ’20 1800w
Sat R 128:688 D 20 ’19 750w
“Captain Gwynn’s memoir of his late leader, though in no sense a dispassionate or unbiassed narrative of events, displays a breadth of view that is wholly lacking in most modern Irish books, and puts the nationalist case with courtesy and discretion. We cannot agree either with his estimate of Mr Redmond or with his presentation of certain notorious episodes in recent Irish controversy. Nevertheless we feel that he is an honourable political opponent.”
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Spec 123:728 N 29 ’19 1400w
“Mr Gwynn writes in a sanely liberal vein and can take a detached view of all sides of the struggle of Ireland for home rule.... Nevertheless, the summing-up is an indictment of a government that had an excellent chance to show, by firmness and justice, that it was determined to give Ireland the promised measure of home rule.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 1200w
“Nowhere throughout a book which vividly illumines the recent history of Irish politics, is Captain Gwynn more intimately informed or more profoundly interesting than in the story of the Irish convention. His work is one which every student of modern politics should read and read at once. There has been no more important publication on the Irish question during recent years.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p642 N 13 ’19 950w
Reviewed by N. J. O’Conor
Yale R n s 10:210 O ’20 270w
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HAGEDORN, HERMANN. That human being, Leonard Wood. *$1 (7c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe
20–8515
A eulogistic sketch of General Wood by one who regards him as the legitimate successor of the late Colonel Roosevelt. It is also an arraignment of the Wilson administration and a campaign document. “Gradually, as month has succeeded month and the presidential election has drawn near, Wood has become the focus of the hopes of an increasing number of men and women scattered over the country who have found in him a symbol of that blunt belief in facts, that respect for training and experience, that love of open dealing, which the administration has offended.... It is not strange that countless Americans, angered at the lack of these qualities in the administration, should seek to make the man who most patently possesses them, the instrument of their indignation.”
“The little book will have no political influence at this time, but it should have a personal influence to inspire better citizenship and continual preparedness.” J. S. B.
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Boston Transcript p11 My 15 ’20 300w
“The briefest and most readable of the various current biographies of General Wood.”
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R of Rs 61:670 Je ’20 50w
HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. Ancient Allan. *$1.75 Longmans
20–5230
“‘The ancient Allan’, by Sir H. Rider Haggard, reintroduces some of the characters of ‘The ivory child.’ Lady Ragnall, Allan Quartermain, and his faithful Hottentot Hans, are shown us in a previous incarnation by means of the mysterious Taduki, as ancient Egyptians, warring for the independence of their country against the Lords of the East.” (Sat R) “The new chronicle is chockful of excitement. There are fights with lions and a crocodile, duels to the death, the clash of mighty hosts in battle. There is a signet ring whose bearer commands unquestioning obedience from those who behold it, an attribute which the Allan of bygone centuries finds most useful when his faithful dwarf purloins it from its possessor, the villainous king of kings. There is a white-bearded soothsayer, who keeps dropping in and making solemn prophecies of a brilliant future for the great Captain Shabaka. There are hunters and soldiers, cringing courtiers and solemn priests, warriors and slaves, and the waters of the ancient Nile murmuring through the breathless narrative.” (N Y Times)
Ath p274 F 27 ’20 240w
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Booklist 16:347 Jl ’20
Lit D p121 S 18 ’20 1500w
“The tale is told swiftly and simply, as all good Rider Haggard tales are told. It moves so naturally that one overlooks the unreality. ‘The ancient Allan’ is by no means to be named in the same breath with ‘King Solomon’s mines’ and other earlier creations of its indefatigable author. But it will not disappoint the reader who wants thrills without analyzing too closely the methods employed to provide them for him.”
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N Y Times 25:152 Ap 4 ’20 900w
“It is a very good example of the author at his second best—we can never hope to recover the first thrill of ‘She.’”
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Sat R 129:352 Ap 10 ’20 80w
“The story is told in Sir Rider’s customary colorful style and with his gift for creating illusion. Ancient Egypt becomes a vivid reality.”
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Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 420w
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p104 F 12 ’20 600w
HAIG, DOUGLAS HAIG, 1st earl. Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches. il *$15 Dutton 940.342
20–762
“From the time Field Marshal (now Earl) Haig assumed the chief command of the British armies in France on December 19, 1915, until the close of fighting at the end of 1918, he forwarded to the war office at London in May and December of each year a summary of the operations for the six months preceding. These were intended frankly for the information of the people at home and were quite apart from the detailed, confidential information sent daily from great headquarters in France to the general staff at home. These statements have been collected and edited by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Boraston, private secretary to Earl Haig and published under the title ‘Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches.’ The despatches, which number eight and fill 357 pages of the heavy volume, are preceded by an introduction written by Marshal Foch, and a preface by the field marshal himself. The volume is accompanied by a number of carefully prepared, highly detailed maps in large scale.”—Springf’d Republican
“For those desirous of studying the war as a military event, these despatches furnish information of remarkable clearness and precision. The splendid series of very large and detailed maps which accompanies the volume, not only enables one to follow each detail of every struggle, but appeals to the imagination.”
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No Am 212:135 Jl ’20 2600w
“Altogether the volume is an invaluable aid to the student of the campaigns that it describes.”
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R of Rs 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“The civilian and the soldier alike may profit by reading and re-reading the masterly despatches of Lord Haig.”
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Spec 123:769 D 6 ’19 1000w
Springf’d Republican p8 Mr 23 ’20 950w
HALDANE, RICHARD BURDON HALDANE, 1st viscount of Cloan. Before the war. il *$2.50 (5½c) Funk 327.42
20–3879
The attitude of the author throughout is that of an impartial investigator rather than an accuser. “Few wars are really inevitable,” he says. “If we knew better how we should be careful to comport ourselves it may be that none are so.... How some of those who were deeply responsible for the conduct of affairs tried to think in the anxious years before the war, and how they endeavored to apply their conclusions, is what I have endeavored to state in the course of what follows.” (Introd.) The book is based on personal, official experience and contains several interviews of the author with the kaiser. In the epilog, deprecating the harshness of the treaty, he says: “It is at all events possible that the wider view of a generation later than this may be one in which Germany will be judged more gently than the Allies can judge her today. We do not now look on the French revolution as our forefathers looked on it.... And here some enlargement of the spirit seems to be desirable in our own interest.” Contents: Introduction: Diplomacy before the war; The German attitude before the war; The military preparations; Epilog; Index.
“As a defence of those in power it is sincere and in the blame for the war attributed to Germany, temperate and generously sympathetic. The style is admirable. Interesting for general readers and as a first hand account.”
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Booklist 17:66 N ’20
Reviewed by Sganarelle
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Dial 68:799 Je ’20 250w
Lit D 64:116 Mr 13 ’20 1250w
“It goes without saying that Viscount Haldane makes out a good case for Great Britain: but he does so in anything but a blindly chauvinistic temper. Without anger or irritation, imputing sinister motives to none, he deals honestly with the facts as he sees them and presents his case with a patient and persuasive reasonableness that lends an air of finality to his conclusions. Nevertheless, what strikes one on reflection is that the discussion never goes below the surface of things.” Carl Becker
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Nation 110:692 My 22 ’20 1600w
Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 310w
“Great injustice has been done by the press and the public to Mr Haldane’s work before the war as secretary of state.... The war being over, Lord Haldane publishes his defence, which we hope everybody will read, and having read, will admit to be a refutation of charges hatched in the fever of fear.”
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Sat R 129:187 F 21 ’20 1250w
“Lord Haldane’s defence of the policy adopted by the liberal government towards Germany between 1906 and 1914 deserves attentive reading. His little volume, mainly composed from the articles which he has published recently in various periodicals, has been hastily put together and contains a certain amount of repetition, but it is an obviously sincere attempt to explain and justify a policy that has brought much unmerited odium on the author.”
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Spec 124:83 Ja 17 ’20 950w
HALE, FREDERICK. From Persian uplands. *$5 Dutton 915.5
(Eng ed 20–11662)
“Mr Hale was stationed from 1913 to 1917 at Birjand, in eastern Persia, and from 1917 onwards at Kermanshah, near the western frontier. This book contains his letters to a friend at home, describing the ordinary course of life in sleepy Persia, and touching lightly on the German and Turkish intrigues and the measures taken to counteract them. Mr Hale declares that the Persians are far more intelligent than their neighbors, and that they only need good schools and a tolerable administration. Mr Hale was engaged at Kermanshah in the preparations for General Dunsterville’s romantic little expedition to Baku.”—Spec
“Here is a vivid picture of Persia during the war made by one who can describe his own times in delicate phrasing and neat speech.” R. C. T.
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Ath p506 Ap 16 ’20 600w
“His comment on current topics ... is extremely diverting, always in good taste, and enlivened with a dash of humor reminiscent of Howells. It is the charming style and manner which make the book worth while.”
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Bookm 52:272 N ’20 100w
“Mr Hale is a charming writer, and he evidently knows and likes the Persian people. Thus his unpretentious book gives perhaps a truer picture of modern Persia than some more ambitious works.”
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Spec 124:526 Ap 17 ’20 220w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p248 Ap 22 ’20 530w
HALE, LOUISE (CLOSSER) (MRS WALTER HALE). American’s London. il *$2 (1½c) Harper 914.21
20–26752
An American actress goes to London for a season and talks wittily and ramblingly about her experiences on and off the stage. She gives many a glimpse of the aftermath of the war in London streets, in London houses, and in London heads in the form of opinions and judgments. The book is illustrated.
“Pleasing, spontaneously humorous, keen often, and clever, though the author’s self-consciousness will seem to some to be intrusive.”
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Booklist 17:111 D ’20
“From her first page to her last, Mrs Hale is distinctly entertaining. Her philosophy of life is a genial one and her style of presenting it agreeably light and pleasantly tinged with humor.” F. A. G.
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Boston Transcript p4 D 29 ’20 870w
“Mrs Hale has a very pleasant style, a nice discrimination in the incidents she relates, and a gently humorous way of recording her experiences that makes her book delightful reading.”
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Lit D p94 N 20 ’20 1550w
“‘An American’s London’ is no solemn study of social economics, but it is fully as illuminating as a dozen scholarly tomes and far more likely to make an impression on the lay reader’s memory. Its pages are lightened by a sprightly sense of humor, and the enjoyment of reading is further heightened by the author’s generous sharing of her most intimate confidences.”
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N Y Times p10 S 26 ’20 2200w
“The book is more Hale than London, but under the circumstances who would have it otherwise?”
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Springf’d Republican p10 O 21 ’20 280w
HALE, WILLIAM BAYARD. Story of a style. *$2 Huebsch
An analysis of President Wilson’s literary style by the author of “Woodrow Wilson; the story of his life.” “Mr Woodrow Wilson,” says the author, “is a man of words.... What he has accomplished—and his has been a wonderful record of accomplishment—has been accomplished through statement, argument, appeal. His scepter is his—pen; his sword is his—tongue; his realm is that of—words. Therefore it ought to be, it infallibly will be, in his language that Mr Wilson’s real self will be revealed.” Beginning with the essay on “Cabinet government in the United States,” written at the age of twenty-two, Mr Hale examines Mr Wilson’s writings and speeches, pointing out his excessive use of adjectives, his habits of repetition and interrogation, etc., and drawing his inferences therefrom. The book was written before the President fell sick, and was completed on Sept. 26, 1919. Contents: Prophetic symptoms; Aristocratic affectations; Learned addictions; Symbolism; Phonetic phenomena; Doubt and the flight from the fact; A typical manuscript; Concerning popular repute; The story of the League of nations speeches.
HALL, AMANDA BENJAMIN.[2] Blind wisdom. *$1.90 (1½c) Jacobs
20–17531
Joan Wister was and remained a character of incorruptible sincerity and spontaneity. Because she was clear as crystal and trusted her own impulses she was a puzzle. Expelled from boarding school on account of her inconvenient questionings of the things that were taught her, she found a friend in Jerry Callendar, her brother-in-law’s law partner. For years he was her friend, adviser and father confessor and when one day Joan found herself precipitantly in love with Bret Ballou and her course beset with obstacles and temptations more than she could bear, she fled to Jerry for protection and demanded that he should marry her, the better to secure this end. Although Jerry truly loved her he took upon himself the rôle of protector only and for a year even gave her every chance to try out her infatuation for Bret. Before the end of the year the make believe marriage had gone through various stages, finally arriving at the real thing.
“The entire book has many delightful descriptions, and some bits of whimsy humor. The ending of the story with its subduing veil of pathos, is a flash of pure inspiration, worthy of the poet as well as the novelist.” W. T. R.
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Boston Transcript p8 D 1 ’20 600w
“In Joan Miss Hall shows to great advantage not only as a teller of tales but as an acute and dramatic delineator of character.”
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N Y Evening Post p16 D 4 ’20 520w
Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows
Pub W 98:1886 D 18 ’20 260w
HALL, ARNOLD BENNETT. Monroe doctrine and the great war. (National social science ser.) *75c McClurg 327
20–2059
“The author has aimed ‘to present in simple form an accurate but brief account of the origin and development of the doctrine and some of its relations to the present problems of peace.’ He concludes that the League of nations is the logical method of extending the principles of the Monroe doctrine to the larger diplomatic problems of the present.”—Booklist
“The narrative is generally clear and in most respects quite conventional.” J. S. R.
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Am Hist R 26:150 O ’20 370w
“A convenient summary.”
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Booklist 16:262 My ’20
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Dial 68:669 My ’20 80w
“Professor Hall furnishes us with a compendious account of the Monroe doctrine, which not only skillfully skims the cream from more extensive compilations, but churns it, salts it, and serves it up ready for the table. When, however, it comes to making bread and butter of the doctrine and the covenant, Mr Hall’s success is not conspicuous.” E. S. Corwin
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Review 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 1100w
HALL, GRACE. Stories of the saints. *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday 922
20–7587
“For children, young and old” these stories of the saints are retold in the form of legends. The contents fall into two parts. Some of the saints whose story is told in part 1 are St Thomas, in The palace of Gondoforus; St Patrick; St Bridgit of Kildare; St Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins; St Edward’s smile, and the seven sleepers; St Louis of France; St Margaret of Scotland; St Anthony of Padua; St Elizabeth of Hungary. Part 2 under the caption “The saints and their humble friends” contains in part: St Francis, the birds and the beasts; St Roch and his dog; St Deicolus and the wild boar; St Felix and the spider. The chronological order of the saints gives a list of the saints according to their century and one according to their days.
Booklist 16:316 Je ’20
HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY. Morale, the supreme standard of life and conduct. *$3 Appleton 170
20–13129
The background of this book, as the war-term “morale” suggests, is the war. The author holds that the war itself revealed the bankruptcy of the old criteria and that our human standards and values must now be subjected to a redefinition. This the book sets out to do, using morale with a psychophysic connotation in its individual, industrial and social applications. “It implies the maximum of vitality, life abounding, getting and keeping in the very center of the current of creative evolution; and minimizing, destroying, or avoiding all checks, arrests, and inhibitions to it.” (Chapter I) The long list of contents is in part: Morale as a supreme standard; Morale, patriotism and health; The morale of placards, slogans, decorations, and war museums; Conscientious objectors and diversities of patriotic ideals; The soldier ideal and its conservation in peace; The labor problem; Morale and feminism; Morale and education; Morale and “The Reds”; Morale and religion; Bibliography.
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Booklist 17:6 O ’20
“Of course, Dr Hall has many valuable things to say in his book. He colors up his quasi-physical norm of morality with a good dash now and again of Christian sentiment. Still it is a pity that he, like so many of our ‘advanced’ collegiate thinkers, can find so little room for Christ.”
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Cath World 112:696 F ’21 490w
“The book is keenly analytic, a little coloured by the Freudian trend of what philosophy people will read nowadays, but helpful in its breadth and application, to any one concerned with studying or directing the rest of the race.” E. P.
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Dial 70:109 Ja ’21 90w
“The style of the book under review is symbolic of its weakness. It appears to be the product of what he calls ‘exuberant, euphorious, and eureka moments.’” Preserved Smith
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Nation 111:595 N 24 ’20 780w
“Some of the psychologic explanations in this volume are undoubtedly ingenious. But as to the reality of the facts which he explains it is not so easy to be certain. But considerations of fact are, after all, not primary in the author’s regard. He believes that facts ‘cannot and must not’ change certain treasured beliefs.”
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New Repub 24:126 S 29 ’20 1400w
“No writer of modern times has so completely freed himself from every vestige of scholastic methods, nor dared so freely to apply to religion, ethics, education and social reconstruction, every last and newest product of psychogenetic, psychoanalytic, experimental and differential psychology. The result is that Dr Hall’s style is peculiarly stimulating, refreshing and invigorating.” G. T. W. Patrick
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N Y Times p18 O 24 ’20 1300w
“To speak seriously, these vivacious lectures are the readable improvisations of a clever ready writer who possesses a facility of association that Emerson would have envied, but who persistently overworks and overloads his faculty or facility with undigested reminiscences of his German studies and his subsequent dabblings in all the sciences and all the philosophies.” Paul Shorey
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Review 3:378 O 27 ’20 1600w
“Dr Hall’s views will often be found ‘stimulating’ for their independence, whether one agrees with them or not. But there is no groundwork of a new ethics or new sociology here. As with some other books of Dr Hall’s, better organization of the material and more careful writing would improve this one.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 8 ’20 1400w
“On the whole the work will hardly enhance the reputation of the author of ‘Adolescence.’ First presented as a series of lectures during the war, it reveals in many places the highly colored effects induced by war-time emotions. Besides it views the psychologic features in life out of all due proportion.” H: Neumann
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Survey 45:332 N 27 ’20 280w
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p782 N 25 ’20 190w
HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY. Recreations of a psychologist. *$2.50 Appleton
20–20441
“Vacation skits” the author calls this collection of short stories, whose merit he claims to be their illustration of psychological principles. The first of these stories, “The fall of Atlantis,” is a new version of the Platonic myth, and records what happened to the world after the year 2000—the record purporting to have been made by the writer’s subliminal self while his conscious mind was in a state of amnesia. The other stories are: How Johnnie’s vision came true; A conversion; Preëstablished harmony—a midsummer revery of a psychologist; Getting married in Germany; A man’s adventure in domestic industries; A leap year romance; Note on early memories.
“Dr Hall is in error when he styles his work in these fields ‘crude and amateurish if judged from the standpoint of literature’; he is right when he claims a distinct merit for it as a means to the enunciation of scientific principles. The literary touch and the psychological implication characterize the book throughout.” E. N.
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Boston Transcript p10 D 8 ’20 500w
HALL, HERSCHEL SALMON. Steel preferred. *$2 Dutton
20–12451
“‘Steel preferred’ is a punning title, the point being that Wellington Gay, born and brought up in the steel industry, can not be tempted away from it. There his personal success or failure must be made, and which it may be is a matter of secondary importance. Steel is his lode-star and his love. All he asks is to be permitted to take a hand somehow, somewhere, in the great game of steel-making. Chance takes him away from Steelburg, as chance has brought him there—in the same boxcar, to round out the coincidence. He has an uncommon knack for clerical work, and is presently offered a promising position in a city office. But chance once more sets him down at Steelburg, and the old spell takes him. Once more he becomes a cheerful drudge, overworked, unrecognized, and happy in the service of his mistress Steel. He is discovered after a while by a new manager, and given his first step upwards on the climb from roustabout to master of Steelburg. The point is that, whether as roustabout or ‘old man,’ the main thing with him is love of work and not love of personal reward or ‘success.’”—Review
“Boys and men will like this.”
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Booklist 17:32 O ’20
“A good story well told and a vivid picture of the life of a big steel plant are combined in this very readable novel.”
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N Y Times 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 420w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
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Review 3:214 S 8 ’20 650w
“An entertaining and inspiring story.”
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Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 30 ’21 220w
HALL, JAMES NORMAN, and NORDHOFF, CHARLES BERNARD, eds. Lafayette flying corps; associate editor, Edgar G. Hamilton. 2v il *$15 Houghton 940.44
20–17744
“In offering this record of the Lafayette flying corps to the families and friends of the men who served in it, and to the public at large, the editors feel that a few words of explanation are necessary. Their purpose has been twofold: to furnish a record as complete and authentic as possible, and to reconstruct an atmosphere.” (Preface) The contents of the first volume comprise: The origin of the Escadrille Américaine; The Escadrille Lafayette at the front; The Lafayette flying corps and Biographical sketches. Volume 2 is devoted wholly to letters and personal reminiscences, arranged under the headings: Enlistment and early training; Adventures in action; Life on the front; Combats; Prisoners of war. Lists of dead, wounded, prisoners of war, etc. are given in an appendix. The volumes are very fully illustrated.
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Booklist 17:108 D ’20
“One hoped, upon learning that such a history was to appear, that at least a fair proportion of the possibilities might be compassed, and it is a great satisfaction to find in the finished book these hopes more than realized and expectations generally surpassed. The editors are to be congratulated and heartily thanked for their achievement.” J. W. D. Seymour
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Boston Transcript p4 D 31 ’20 1100w
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Outlook 126:654 D 8 ’20 120w
“The brief biographies are touched off, not always quite happily, with the jocularity of a college class book. Everything is written from the point of view of the insider. Thus the outsider will have to pick and choose. The picking, however, is excellent.” F. J. Mather
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Review 3:476 N 17 ’20 640w
HALLIBURTON, WILLIAM DOBINSON, ed. Physiology and national needs. *$4 Dutton 613
(Eng ed SG20–168)
“The physiologists in this country and in England were called upon during the war to give expert advice in food rationing, food conservation, health preservation, etc., and a series of public lectures on these topics given at King’s college by men of eminence in their profession have now been edited by Mr Halliburton. Some of them are worthy of special notice owing to the amount of new scientific knowledge they contain, knowledge that as yet has hardly penetrated beyond well-informed medical circles. Such, for example is the lecture by Professor Hopkins on vitamines. In the lecture by Professor Harden on scurvy a great deal of new and important information is collected and presented. In the article by Professor Dendy on ‘The conservation of our cereal reserves’ the difficulties connected with the storage of grain are described, and evidence is given for the great saving that might be effected by the adoption of a system of air-tight storage.”—Review
Ath p418 Mr 26 ’20 1300w
“The book as a whole is extraordinarily interesting from many different aspects, as much perhaps for the questions it asks as for those it answers.” A. E. B.
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Nature 105:286 Mr 6 ’20 1000w
“The addresses selected for publication are well written in popular style, free from scientific terminology, and may be read with profit by any intelligent person interested in such topics.”
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Review 3:505 N 24 ’20 370w
“In all probability the reader will find the first three lectures dealing with foods and vitamines the most interesting of the series, but each one is well worth studying.”
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Spec 124:870 Je 26 ’20 1200w
HAMBIDGE, JAY. Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase, il *$6 Yale univ. press 738
20–15783
“The life-suggesting quality of Greek art by which generation after generation of art-lovers have been impressed is the true theme of the book. To get back of appearances to the source of this quality has been a task occupying more than twenty years of the author’s concentrated mental labor. Why should the Greek masterpieces suggest the life and growth of nature in their design while inferior designs suggest inertia and fail to stimulate the mind? The secret was simple enough, although it has called for an elaborate and extended process of proving by mathematical tests. It consists in the fact that the Greeks did all their measuring for works of art in areas, and that by finding the proportions of these areas in growing organisms such as plants, and especially the human figure, they provided themselves with a guide to the arrangement of areas in design that enabled them to capture vitality in all their works.”—N Y Times
“The make-up of the book is beautiful and the illustrations and general idea are interesting to the lay student, though the study of the text is for the artist.”
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Booklist 17:60 N ’20
“What seems to distinguish this study is the effort, apparently quite subconsciously made, to cover the whole matter with an air of mystery. This has been done by the familiar device, prehistoric in origin and perennial in its growth, of creating a new vocabulary. Stripped of its mystery and set forth in simple language it would have been an interesting work.” D: E. Smith
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Nation 111:326 S 18 ’20 1600w
“A contribution to the literature of art more searching and revealing than anything published within this field during the last century.”
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N Y Times 25:20 Jl 4 ’20 1700w
“On the side of aesthetic appreciation ‘Dynamic symmetry’ affords, at least to one critic, very little help.... Mr Hambidge’s patient and modestly presented researches should cause a restudy of the whole problem, which can only be beneficial.” F. J. Mather, Jr.
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Review 3:456 N 10 ’20 1400w
“In this book through his re-discovery of the principles used by the Greek artists of the classic age, Mr Hambidge has opened up a new field in modern art.”
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Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 13 ’20 110w
“At first sight his results appear little short of marvellous, and yet it may be doubted whether they are so convincing as appears to their author.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p700 O 28 ’20 1750w
HAMILTON, CICELY MARY. William—an Englishman. *$1.25 (2c) Stokes
20–8361
Mild-mannered, pale-faced, undersized, painstaking and obedient—thus is William Tully characterized in this biographical novel. At his desk in a London insurance office he is vaguely conscious that his too well regulated life has been ordered by his masterful mother. Her sudden death leaves him adrift and chance lands him among the reformers. Like a new garment he puts on their cult and convictions, finds him a wife among them—and is surprised by the war while on his honeymoon in Belgium. Inwardly and outwardly his world collapses about him and his wife is crushed in the ruins. Stunned he returns to England, his pacifism changed into patriotism. After several rejections he is accepted in the army and eventually finds himself caught in the rat-trap of a military clerkship from whence he is rescued from growing bitterness by an aerial bomb.
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Booklist 17:32 O ’20
“The book is earnest, realistic and very well written, the emotional and dramatic portions of it getting a real hold on the reader’s imagination. It is an unpretentious volume, and a very moving, very interesting one.”
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N Y Times 25:307 Je 13 ’20 400w
“Vividness of characters and a keen study of human emotions under abnormal strain, are the more noticeable traits of ‘William—an Englishman.’”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 300w
HAMILTON, CLAYTON MEEKER. Seen on the stage. *$1.75 (3c) Holt 792
20–21431
The author wishes this informal collection of essays to be considered as a suffix to his other books on the theatre. In the first paper, “Life and the theatre,” he quotes the Athenians who regarded our world as “the valley of soulmaking” and states that the aim of art should be to provide a sense of life for men who, in themselves, are not sufficiently alive to create art by their very living. Some of the other papers are: Personal greatness on the stage; Hero-worship in the drama; Acting and impersonation; The laziness of Bernard Shaw; Satire on the American stage; Le Théâtre du Vieux Colombier; In praise of puppet-theatres; Understanding the Russians; Ibsen once again; The Jewish art-theatre; Booth Tarkington as a playwright; The Athenian drama and the American audience; A reminiscence of the Middle Ages—Guibour; Edmond Rostand. The book is indexed.
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Booklist 17:144 Ja ’21
“One of his most thorough criticisms is that of Eugene O’Neill, whom he thinks the greatest dramatist of the present day. Other essays in the volume are of less importance; they are correct but commonplace, and interesting chiefly for the gossip they contain.”
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N Y Evening Post p10 D 31 ’20 160w
“He has studied the drama of the past as thoroughly as he has mastered the drama of the present. In other words, his preparation for dramatic criticism is far more than adequate; it is exceptionally ample. To this substantial equipment for his task he adds also the other three qualifications which a critic ought to possess—insight and sympathy and disinterestedness.” Brander Matthews
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N Y Times p4 Ja 30 ’21 1600w
HAMILTON, COSMO. Blue room. il *$1.90 (2c) Little
20–18662
Bill Mortimer comes back from the war with an intense desire to settle down and be happy with a wife and family. His past has been lurid, and he has memories locked in his “Blue room” which he wishes he could forget. His pal, Teddy Jedburgh, on the other hand, having walked the paths of rectitude in his youth, is inclined to kick over the traces and go the pace now. Both men fall in love with the same girl, a “Miss Respectable,” a “flower of a girl, with the dew on her and a morning hymn in her eyes.” Bill is the successful suitor and plans for the wedding are quickly made. Then just on the eve of the ceremony, Martha discovers Bill’s blue room, and, disillusioned and bitter, knows not which way to turn. It is Teddy who decides for her whether she shall, at the last moment, run away and refuse to marry Bill, or, letting the dead past bury its dead, carry on and marry him.
“The tale is told in a style of consistent and complacent banality, the very style of the movie commentator.” H. W. Boynton
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N Y Evening Post p10 N 6 ’20 100w
“The plot, which is rather simple, at times dovetails in too smoothly to convince the reader. But once it gets fairly under way it carries the reader along without a hitch, to the very end.”
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N Y Times p18 N 7 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
Pub W 98:1194 O 16 ’20 320w
HAMILTON, COSMO. His friend and his wife. il *$1.75 (3c) Little
20–6492
A story of the Quaker Hill colony, an exclusive residential community within commuting distance of New York. Julian Osborn has been unfaithful to his wife and Margaret Meredith to her husband, but in the divorce proceedings a false alibi is provided for Margaret and she returns to her husband, resolved to be a model wife and mother henceforward. Julian and Daisy Osborn are also reconciled, and altho Daisy knows the truth, as do several other people, she joins in the conspiracy to shield Bob Meredith. Their plans are upset however. Mary Miller, the girl who out of gratitude to Margaret had sworn herself to be the guilty party, becomes engaged to one of the colony’s popular young men and the wife of the lawyer who arranged this false testimony, herself a malicious gossip, tells the truth. Tragedy is averted and affairs are settled to everyone’s satisfaction.
“Readable as Mr Hamilton’s style is, it must be admitted that he is not without his difficulties. It must be confessed that there is tedium in the triteness of some of his ideas and situations.” D. L. M.
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Boston Transcript p4 My 12 ’20 500w
“The background, cleverly and entertainingly sketched, is very much better than the overdrawn story.”
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Ind 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“Utterly unconvincing story.”
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N Y Times 25:237 My 9 ’20 350w
“Mr Hamilton’s story moves swiftly and keeps the reader intent on the disentangling of the threads. Two characters stand out clearly—the self-made inventor and the worldly-wise, kindly woman who dominates her little circle.” H. Dick
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Pub W 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 180w
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p442 Jl 8 ’20 180w
HAMILTON, ERNEST WILLIAM, lord. Elizabethan Ulster. *$6 Dutton 941.5
(Eng ed 20–655)
“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ is an account of the stormy days of that Irish province during the reign of Elizabeth of England. Ulster then was in continuous strife with one or another—and occasionally practically all—of the great Irish chieftains, who resisted the English attempt to overrun and colonize their lands. The greater part of the book is given over to the rebellion of the three Hughs—O’Neil, O’Donnell and Macguire—in which most of the chiefs participated. The movement is traced in detail from its earliest stages until after the battle of Kinsale. The closing chapters deal with a few later and weaker revolts and the flight of the Ulster Earls, Tyrone and Tyrconnell, to the continent in the reign of King James.”—Springf’d Republican
Ath p415 My 30 ’19 120w
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Boston Transcript p8 Je 5 ’20 550w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
Nation 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 500w
“It is a dull thing that he has given us, but not without its value. The chief fault of his work is his obvious inability to think himself back into an environment and a mode of life quite different from that of the year 1920.” H. L. Stewart
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Review 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 320w
“Every student of the history of Ulster must obtain this most valuable handbook. The publishers have, however, been so remiss as to send it out without either an index or even a table of contents.”
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Sat R 127:634 Je 28 ’19 420w
“Lord Ernest Hamilton’s handling of the subject is throughout wonderfully impartial; there are one or two generalizations which betray the side to which his feelings incline him, but he allows no personal prepossessions to interfere with an unbiassed presentation of the facts. The defects of his book are only incidental.”
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Spec 122:700 My 31 ’19 1700w
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Springf’d Republican p10 Je 22 ’20 260w
“The atmosphere of war-time journalism has penetrated Lord Ernest’s historical study, and even his phraseology has occasionally suffered.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p332 Je 19 ’19 1500w
“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ fails, and partially for lack of the qualities of imagination and felicity of phrase.”
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HAMILTON, FREDERICK SPENCER, lord. Vanished pomps of yesterday. *$4 (4c) Doran
(Eng ed 20–10129)
This is the second and revised edition of “some random reminiscences of a British diplomat.” His official duties took the author to Rome, Austria, Russia, Germany, Portugal, Brazil and Paraguay and he chats pleasantly of the life he saw. On the pomp and circumstance, the glitter and glamour of the three great courts of eastern Europe the curtain has now been rung down definitely, is his final verdict. There is an index.
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Booklist 17:84 N ’20
“Seldom does one find a book more completely enjoyable than this collection of the random memories of a British diplomat. It is an ideal companion for an idle hour—an excellent article for suitcase or bedside table—a mine of precious anecdotes.”
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N Y Times 25:28 Jl 11 ’20 1900w
“His volume really deserves the reviewer’s conventional praise of being impossible to lay down, if once begun. It is as fascinating as it is informing.” Archibald MacMechan
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Review 3:348 O 20 ’20 900w
“The Russian chapters are the best in this engaging chronicle.”
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Spec 123:815 D 13 ’19 1800w
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Springf’d Republican p6 Je 29 ’20 800w
“There is nothing either indiscreet or malicious in his narrative; for all his lightness of touch, it is concerned with essentials, not with accidents; with conditions that were the growth of centuries, not with moods that are ephemeral; and its interest is permanent rather than startling.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p644 N 13 ’19 800w
HAMILTON, SIR IAN STANDISH MONTEITH. Gallipoli diary. 2v il *$10 Doran 940.42
(Eng ed 20–10127)
The author gives as his reason for keeping a diary during the Gallipoli campaign, his experiences with the Royal commission after the South African war. Never again would he trust his military memory without the black and white of his diary. It was a help to him in his work at the time, and he expects it to be his justification before the verdict of his comrades. Volume one dates from March 1915 to July 1915 and volume two from July to October 1915. There are illustrations, maps and an index.
“It is not so much for its literary qualities—for these have been a little exaggerated—that the book is one to read, but for the insight which it gives into a mind extremely sensitive to impressions not only of actual experience, but of the imagination. What he calls ‘the detachment of the writer’ enabled him to look at his force, his superiors, his subordinates, and, above all, himself, as elements in a stirring picture.” O. W.
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Ath p795 Je 18 ’20 1500w
“It is a tragical story Sir Ian tells, but tells with all the art of a poet and the precision of a soldier.” W. S. B.
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Boston Transcript p12 D 8 ’20 1700w
“Sir Ian exposes the system he represents in its horrible imbecility. His ‘Diary’ has changed the barrenness of disaster into a world service. As a member of the tribunal he selects, I vote for his acquittal.” W: J. M. A. Maloney
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Nation 111:sup653 D 8 ’20 2000w
“It is the personal narrative of the failure of a great man in a great adventure. It is history more enthralling than any fiction.” F. L. Minnigen
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N Y Times p9 N 7 ’20 1900w
“As the reader turns page after page of these volumes he may be surprised to find that he is getting not only a valuable narration of a particularly interesting campaign; he will find that the military man who writes the account is frequently capable of brilliantly atmospheric and poetic text.”
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Outlook 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 130w
“For the general public the greatest charm of his diary lies in its characterizations of great leaders like Kitchener and Churchill, and its sketches of the principal officers of the expedition. At the same time military experts will find in its pages much new and valuable material by way of criticism of war policy.”
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R of Rs 62:671 D ’20 150w
“We confess that, while the matter of the narrative absorbs our interest, we are repelled by the slangy style in which it is written.”
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Sat R 129:518 Je 5 ’20 1400w
Spec 124:762 Je 5 ’20 1400w
HAMMOND, ARTHUR. Pictorial composition in photography. il *$3.50 (7c) Am. photographic pub. co. 770
20–11849
This work by the associate editor of American Photography takes up such subjects as spacing, mass, linear perspective, line composition applied to figure studies, tones in portraiture, etc. A knowledge of elementary principles is taken for granted and for the technical and scientific aspects of photography the reader is referred to other volumes in the series. The author’s purpose here is “to try to point out to the artist in photography some of the universally recognized rules of composition, and to give as much practical help as is possible in dealing with a phase of artistic work in which the personal equation is so important a factor.” (Chapter 1) The book is beautifully illustrated with forty-nine pictures from photographs.
“The simple, common-sense suggestions about picture-making in this book, backed as they are by thorough technical knowledge and wide experience, will make the volume of real, practical use to ambitious amateur photographers. The ‘soft-focus’ illustrations hardly do justice to the text.”
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Outlook 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w
“Nothing that the most ambitious worker may need is omitted by the author, whose equipment for the self-imposed task is remarkably complete. Modesty and self-repression, rather than egotism and presumption, characterize the mental attitude of the author throughout his engrossing volume.”
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HAMMOND, DARYN. Golf swing, the Ernest Jones method. il *$3 Brentano’s 796
(Eng ed 20–16277)
“Mr Hammond sets forth the views of Ernest Jones, the Chislehurst professional, on the golf swing, and they certainly deserve a sympathetic and attentive hearing, because Jones’s swing has stood the severest possible test. In March, 1916, he lost his right leg just below the knee, in France.... His new gospel, very briefly put, is that the golfer should first get a clear ‘mental picture’ of the shot he wants to play, then concentrate his mind entirely on the right action of hands and fingers, and let everything else take care of itself.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The book is an interesting contribution to the theory of golf, but, in our opinion at least, it is too narrow in its range, and too exhaustive in that range, for a satisfactory volume of instruction.” B. R. Redman
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N Y Evening Post p12 D 4 ’20 110w
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Springf’d Republican p8 Je 19 ’20 130w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p287 My 6 ’20)
“Despite its reiterations the book contains much that is interesting as well as original.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p287 My 6 ’20 250w
HAMMOND, JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON and HAMMOND, BARBARA (BRADBY) (MRS JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND). Skilled labourer, 1760–1832. *$4.50 (*12s 6d) Longmans 330.942
20–4494
“A companion volume to the valuable works by the same writers on ‘The village labourer’ and ‘The town labourer.’ In the latter they described the new life of town and factory introduced by the industrial revolution; they now give the history during the same period of particular bodies of skilled workers:—Miners of the Tyne; The cotton workers; The woollen and worsted workers; The Spitalfields silk weavers; The frame work knitters; The Nottingham, Lancashire, and Yorkshire Luddites.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“This story is not new: but the full and authoritative account of it is, and the historian may here find source-material for which he might otherwise search many weary months. The authors have done their work well. One wishes that they might have been a little less liberal, in the more technical sense of that word, in their attitude toward the ruling classes of the early nineteenth century.” W. P. Hall
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Am Hist R 26:324 Ja ’21 800w
“Despite the singularly felicitous style which is the endowment of the Hammonds, and despite the human interest of the book, it will not, probably, prove as charming to the general reader as ‘The village labourer.’” W. F. Woodring
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Am J Soc 26:364 N ’20 1050w
“Unfortunately there is not much information concerning the relation of labor to the development of English politics during the period prior to the great reform statute, although this aspect of things is not wholly neglected.”
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Am Pol Sci R 14:362 My ’20 110w
“There can be no question as to the very great merits of Mr and Mrs Hammond’s achievement. They have deservedly taken their place in the front rank of social or industrial historians. Their work is conscientious, scholarly, well written, of the greatest interest and the highest importance, and they have the instinct of the born ‘researcher.’ The authors are, however, content to let the facts speak for themselves.” L. W.
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Ath p76 Ja 16 ’20 1800w
“In view of the present industrial disturbances this intensive study of an earlier upheaval, written with interesting fact upon interesting fact, is illuminating.”
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Booklist 17:12 O ’20
“The whole work is a splendid example of enlightened industry and painstaking care, and takes its place immediately among the great classics of English sociological literature.”
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Cath World 111:404 Je ’20 290w
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Dial 68:671 My ’20 100w
“The book is more impartial in its discussion of social questions than the two earlier volumes of the series; though the introduction, which describes the England of the period in terms of ‘civil war,’ is surely an exaggeration.”
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Eng Hist R 35:624 O ’20 390w
“Brilliant volume. It is in no way inferior to its predecessors, than which there is hardly greater praise.” H. J. Laski
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Nation 110:594 My 1 ’20 200w
Sat R 129:188 F 21 ’20 1350w
“Readers who bear in mind the course of politics and of the Napoleonic wars will have in this book a really instructive commentary, from the workman’s standpoint, on the revolution then proceeding in British industry.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 F 7 ’20 90w
“Its timeliness quite apart, this history is one of the most fascinating ever written—perhaps because it renders articulate the masses of toiling people by fitting into a large, animated picture the thoughts, actions and sufferings of obscure individuals; perhaps also because it explains these chronicles with skilful and sympathetic psychological search for motives and current beliefs. It cannot be recommended too warmly.” B. L.
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Survey 44:313 My 29 ’20 140w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p771 D 18 ’19 80w
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p95 F 12 ’20 1950w
HAMMOND, MATTHEW BROWN. British labor conditions and legislation during the war. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace 331
19–19930
One of the Preliminary economic studies of the war issued by the Carnegie endowment for international peace. Contents: The social background: English industry and labor at the outbreak of the war; Industrial panic and readjustment; The government and the trade unions; The munitions of war acts; The supply and distribution of labor; The dilution of labor; Wages, cost of living, hours of labor, welfare work and unemployment; Industrial unrest; Industrial reconstruction; Index. The author is professor of economics, Ohio state university, and was a member of the United States food administration.
Reviewed by Edith Abbott
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Am Econ R 10:841 D ’20 160w
“This is a useful compilation but not altogether a mature treatment of the subject. The garnering has been conscientiously done, and the presentation is full, informing, and lucid.” H. L. Gray
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Am Hist R 25:550 Ap ’20 400w
Reviewed by E. H. Sutherland
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Am J Soc 26:370 N ’20 150w
Ath p353 Mr 12 ’20 100w
“We cannot help feeling that Professor Hammond could have added a great deal to the value of his book without unduly enlarging its bulk if he had relied less complacently on the material which he found ready to his hand. His work gives no indication of far-reaching research or first-hand acquaintance with British conditions. Yet it has considerable merit. It is clear and easy in style and remarkably unbiased.” G. S.
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Ath p442 Ap 2 ’20 500w
“An interesting preliminary survey written in an uncritical historical way.”
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Booklist 16:262 My ’20
Reviewed by C. C. Plehn
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Nation 111:379 O 6 ’20 190w
“The volume gives a documentary history of the reactions of the war on labor in England which future students will find invaluable.” H. W. L.
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Socialist R 8:252 Mr ’20 100w
“Within its limits the present study is of the highest value. The present reviewer has found it accurate on the matters he happens to know about, and sufficiently detailed to make clear the intentions of the legislature even on comparatively small points.” B. L.
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Survey 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w
HAMSUN, KNUT. Hunger. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf
20–21963
The book has been translated from the Norwegian by George Egerton and has an introduction by Edwin Björkman. It is an epic of hunger. A young writer has fallen on evil days and is condemned to long spells of hunger between the acceptances of articles now and then by some paper. The physical privations he undergoes are only casually described but the psychology of hunger is enlarged upon with distressing detail. There is black despair suddenly replaced by fantastic mirth, clear mental vision by hallucinations and delirium, complete lassitude by sudden spurts of energy, morbid sensitiveness about his condition by brazen affrontery and mendacity.
“The work belongs to the naturalist movement of thirty years ago. Its belated appearance in America may be excused on the ground that no public could have been found for it earlier.” E. P.
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Nation 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 200w
“Its artistic quality is indisputable. The book is very real, very frank—distressingly and shockingly frank, some persons will no doubt consider it. But none can deny that it is life, genuine, if appalling.”
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N Y Times p20 D 12 ’20 1000w
“There are occasional gleams of light, hints of humor, which relieve the tense and depressing atmosphere of a book at once repellent and compelling, highly imaginative and profoundly true.” R. F. Eliot
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Pub W 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w
“‘Hunger’ is an extraordinary book, to be read with one’s faculties alert, quickened to a difficult understanding of a supernormal human soul.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 D 7 ’20 490w
HANIFAN, LYDA JUDSON. Community center. (Teacher training ser.) $1.52 Silver 374.28
20–3342
In 1913 the author prepared “A handbook for community meetings at rural schoolhouses” for the use of West Virginia school teachers. The wide and continued demand for this work has led her to treat the subject more comprehensively in the present book. “The aim has been to emphasize strongly two things which the author believes to be fundamental in any plan that may be followed in the improvement of rural life conditions: (1) The redirection of rural forces must be effected by the rural people themselves; (2) for the present, and probably for a good many years to come, the active work of such redirection must be carried on mainly by means of community activities centering around the school.” (Author’s preface) Contents: The community center and the world war; Leadership and the community center; The community center idea; The enjoyment of leisure; Recreation; Social capital—its development and use; The community center as an aid to teaching; First steps in the community center; Special school programs; Miscellaneous activities within the community center; Entertainment programs for community meetings; Country life programs. Each chapter is followed by exercises. There is a general bibliography, in addition to occasional references in the text, and the book is indexed.
Booklist 17:13 O ’20
“Altogether, a most helpful little book, suggestive and with good references for further study.”
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HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.). Letters of Donald Hankey. il *$2.50 Revell
20–4805
These human documents, as letters by the author of “A student in arms” can be called, are published as a tribute of love to one who sleeps in France. The introduction and notes are by Edward Miller, whose glowing picture of a loving personality adds an interest to the letters which, although written for the most part to his family and intimate friends, “run up and down the whole gamut of life.” Here and there are pen and ink sketches reproduced from the letters and charming features of the book are several facsimile letters to nephew and niece. Contents: The subaltern, 1904–1906; The undergraduate, 1907–1910; The traveller, July 1910–July 1912; The emigrant 1912–13; One of the immortal hundred thousand, 1914–1916.
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Booklist 16:278 My ’20
Nation [London] 26:866 Mr 20 ’20 1300w
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Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 160w
R of Rs 61:559 My ’20 80w
“Let us say at once that the first impression on the reader is that Hankey in his letters falls below the high literary inspiration which he displays in a ‘Student in arms.’ Yet the letters if they do not on the surface display the same quality as the essays, reveal when carefully studied a nature free, noble, and humane, combined with a truthfulness deeply impressive from its singular intensity.”
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Spec 123:860 D 20 ’19 1900w
“The author’s religion was very rational and wholesome and very advanced in thought for so young a man. Here and there he drops a comment on religion that would be worthy of the profoundest philosopher.”
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Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 12 ’20 250w
“These letters reveal the zest of life in a man of deep religious experience, especially quick to respond to the challenge of those on whom the burdens of life bore more heavily than on himself.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p706 D 4 ’19 1050w
HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.). Irishman looks at his world. *$2 (3½c) Doran 914.15
20–4485
In this volume an Irishman tells us simply and dispassionately what he knows about his country, its politics, its religion, its social and economic structure and at the end disavows any knowledge of a solution of the Irish problem. He seems strongly to suspect that “we Irishmen, all of us, are spending most energy on what matters least, the form of the state; and far too little energy on what matters most, the making of men.” Contents: Irish politics—the old parties; Irish politics—the new parties; The island of saints—Ireland’s religion;—and scholars—Ireland’s culture; Education—primary, intermediate, university; Education—the Gaelic league and the Irish agricultural organisation society; The Irish aristocracy; The farmers; The middle classes—Dublin—Belfast—the country town; Conclusion.
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Booklist 16:240 Ap ’20
“Mr Birmingham takes apparently a rather Laodicean attitude. He is not aflame with that determined patriotism which burns in the souls of so many other Irish writers of today. He has applied, on the contrary, his own rather detached, yet pleasantly sympathetic spirit, and the wit and knowledge of human nature that have gone to the making of his novels, to a study of his fellow-Irishmen, and with laudable results.”
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Cath World 112:261 N ’20 370w
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Dial 68:669 My ’20 110w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
Nation 110:768 Je 5 ’20 500w
“Mr Birmingham’s book covers a very broad field, and does it with an ease, a lack of hurry and an ever-present sense of humor, which, when the highly controversial nature of the subjects is considered, render it a most unusual volume.”
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N Y Times 25:117 Mr 14 ’20 900w
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Outlook 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 60w
“We can cordially commend Canon Hannay’s book to all who want to know what sort of men inhabit Ireland, what they think about, and in what way they will bear themselves in the hour of trial; we commend it to all who think some working compromise can be devised to inveigle Ulster under a Dublin parliament, and who imagine that because a policy is useful and desirable it must therefore also be practicable.”
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Spec 124:146 Ja 31 ’20 700w
“This book will be much more helpful than ‘Irish impressions.’ Mr Chesterton found in Ireland the stronghold of the religion of which he is such an able propagandist. George Birmingham, although adherent to the church of Ireland, deals more even justice and displays in his treatment of the religious question that Irish fairness which is as real as Irish bigotry, though far less generally recognized.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p661 N 20 ’19 360w
HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.). Up, the rebels! *$1.75 (2½c) Doran
19–15676
Sir Ulick Conolly was a high government official in Ireland whose phlegmatic temperament and easy-going worldly wisdom refused to take the unrest of the Irish Nationals seriously. His policy was not to suppress the rebels but to avert an explosion by letting them blow off steam freely. He did not even suppress his daughter Mona, one of the rebels, who talked in Gaelic and dressed like a Celtic queen; who engaged in conspiracies and led uprisings. But he managed to send her off into the country to her aunt’s, for safe keeping, as he thought. There she organizes the natives and proclaims the Irish republic in the village of Dunally. Her father’s timely interference saves the situation from becoming serious for the rebels and turns the fracas into something of a farce. In the end the girl is put to bed for recuperation under the watchful eye of her aunt.
“The humorous possibilities of the situation are used with delicacy and ingenuity. George A. Birmingham is at his best in this book.”
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Booklist 16:243 Ap ’20
“Never was irony so playful, so kindly an instrument as in Birmingham’s ‘Up, the rebels.’” M. E. Bailey
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Bookm 51:207 Ap ’20 900w
“To read ‘Up, the rebels!’ is to see new light upon the Irish question. Both as a story and as a study of political and social conditions it is a tribute to the knowledge and skill of a leader among present-day clerical humorists.” E. F. E.
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Boston Transcript p10 Ja 31 ’20 1200w
“Of course it is possible that some persons will not find this tale amusing; there are people who do not find the Gilbert and Sullivan operas amusing. But those who can enjoy wit and a shrewd, ironic treatment of certain human vanities and foibles will undoubtedly chuckle long and deeply over Mr G. A. Birmingham’s new tale.”
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N Y Times 25:53 F 1 ’20 1150w
“A thoroughly delightful story of Ireland, over which the reader chuckles long if not loud, appreciating and enjoying the whimsical wit and good-natured satire he has some time ago learned to expect from this most entertaining of writers.”
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N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w
“Canon Hannay has never written a more satisfying story.”
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Outlook 124:249 F 11 ’20 100w
“Another of those disconcerting criticisms of Irish life and English government which illuminate the difficulties of affairs in the distressful country. The fact that the book is as amusing as any of its predecessors, even ‘Spanish gold’ or ‘The search party,’ seems merely incidental, but it must be mentioned.”
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Sat R 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 120w
“We have already had several serious novels inspired by the events of Easter, 1916, but George Birmingham is the only writer who has turned the sequel to humorous purpose, and he is probably the only writer living who could be trusted to do so without offence. The worst that can be said of the book is that, as in ‘The seething pot,’ his first novel, the author sees no way out.”
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Spec 123:510 O 18 ’19 900w
“The relation between his amusing chronicles and actual life may be remote: no matter, for they were always considered to be descriptive of the kind of events that might occur if people and Ireland had happened to be like the people and the Ireland of George Birmingham’s books.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p514 S 25 ’19 450w
HANSHEW, MARY E., and HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY, pseud.). Riddle of the frozen flame. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–9476
“Mr Maverick Narkom, superintendent of Scotland Yard, sat before the litter of papers upon his desk.... ‘Dash it, Cleek!’ he said for the thirty-third time, ‘I don’t know what to make of it, I don’t, indeed!’” So opens the new Cleek story. The mystery referred to is a series of daring bank robberies. But more unusual matters are to follow, involving the riddle of the frozen flames. Sir Nigel Merriton sees them on the first night spent in Merriton Towers and his impulse is to go out onto the fens to investigate, but his horrified servants restrain him with tales of those who have dared this never to return. Sir Nigel, who is very much in love and has just become engaged, has no wish to risk his life and his interest in the supposed supernatural phenomenon lapses. It is only when Dacre Wynne, his unsuccessful rival, disappears, that he is moved to action and carries the strange tale to Scotland Yard, arousing the interest of Cleek, who pursues the mystery to its solution.
“The dénouement is obvious from the first, while the love interest is of the usual stereotyped kind. Even so, ‘The riddle of the frozen flame’ is an infinitely better mystery tale than many others appearing this season.”
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Boston Transcript p6 Ag 18 ’20 220w
“‘The riddle of the frozen flame’ is a cleverly conceived tale that will idle away an hour most pleasantly.”
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N Y Times 25:302 Je 6 ’20 400w
Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 200w
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p305 My 13 ’20 80w
HANSON, DANIEL LOUIS. Business philosophy of Moses Irons. il *$2.50 (1c) Shaw, A. W. 658
20–19862
A series of chapters, in fiction form, on the methods of conducting a big business today. Moses Irons is the typical self-made business man, shrewd, kindly, humorous and masterful. His ideals, his methods, his relations with his subordinates are set forth in the book, some of the chapters of which are: A romance of business; Live wires and dead ones; Getting a job with Moses Irons; The ironmaster talks advertising; Business diplomacy and trade anarchists; Wives and sweethearts; The ironmaster gets pointers on handling salesmen; The ironmaster invests in junk.
HANSON, OLE. Americanism versus bolshevism. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday 331.87
20–2669
The author speaks of bolshevism and everything he conceives of as coming under the head—communism, syndicalism, I. W. W.’ism—in no uncertain terms. They all, he says, thrive on “murder, rape, pillage, arson, free love, poverty, want, starvation, filth, slavery, autocracy, suppression, sorrow and hell on earth.” (Preface) After giving the above ‘isms more than their due he also mentions the red employers as likewise culpable, but “we should be thankful that every day they become less and soon will be an inconsequential minority in the land.” Among the contents are: The labour situation in Seattle; Something of the rise, trial and failure of bolshevism in Europe; Some of history’s verdicts on reformers, utopias, trade unions, and bolshevism; The causes of Bolshevism in Russia; The origin and development of bolshevism in the United States; Bolshevism in America: its causes and some remedies; Bolshevism contrasted with Americanism.
“The book contains pages of shallow generalizations.”
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Booklist 16:223 Ap ’20
“The value of this book, and the interest of it, is the clearness with which it points out the menace.” I. W. L.
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Boston Transcript p6 Mr 31 ’20 950w
Ind 103:320 S 11 ’20 70w
“The best part of the book is that in which Mr Hanson tells the story of his own fight. The reader is forced to decide whether or not Mr Hanson has attempted too much. For one thing he has endeavored to generalize from his own experiences. His arguments are weak when he delves into the past. Ole Hanson on the subject of remedies is worth reading.”
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Lit D p90 My 1 ’20 1050w
R of Rs 61:560 My ’20 60w
Springf’d Republican p6 Mr 15 ’20 400w
HANUS, PAUL HENRY. School administration and school reports. *$1.75 Houghton 379.15
20–13792
The object of the book is to help principals and teachers as well as superintendents and boards of education to acquire a clearly defined educational and administrative policy and to formulate and justify their opinions and procedure. Contents: The meaning of education; Some principles of school administration; Town and city school reports, more particularly superintendents’ reports; Testing the efficiency of public schools; Courtis arithmetic tests applied to employees in business houses; Measuring progress in learning Latin; How far shall the state go? The German example; German schools and American education; Germany’s kultur; The Harvard graduate school of education.
“One might raise a question as to why such an excellent monograph as the first three chapters would make should be made to carry an equal amount of loosely associated material. The last eight chapters are interesting and have individual value, but are not more closely related to the theme of the book than many other articles which might have been included. The busy school administrator would doubtless appreciate the book more if there were fewer ‘riders’ attached.”
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“The clear-cut statement of principles of school administration and of the bases of determining the efficiency of the administration of a system of schools, and the analysis of typical school reports and the suggestions for their improvement contained in the first four of the essays have in themselves much more than enough of value to justify the volume.”
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HAPGOOD, NORMAN. Advancing hour. *$2 Boni & Liveright 940.5
20–12808
Mr Hapgood accepts the fact that we are now in the midst of revolution, and accepting that fact, he says “the only question is in what manner it will be conducted, and by whom.” He states his own position, and defines his liberalism: “If a radical is one who by nature prefers sudden change and violent remedies then I am not a radical.... A liberal differs from a radical in humility. He concentrates on certain changes, good in themselves and also carrying the seeds of further change, but he leaves later steps to later times. His faith is that if the next step taken by us is important and of right direction we shall have done all that belongs to our moment.” Contents: In time of revolution; The storm cellar; The blockade of thought; What the issues are; Without a party; Facing bolshevism: our follies in Russia; Facing bolshevism: the future in Russia; Is socialism needed? The answer of cooperation; The answer of liberalism; From Wilsonism to the future; What is our faith?
“A hopeful book which does not attempt to solve all problems at a stroke.”
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Booklist 17:13 O ’20
“Mr Hapgood always writes interestingly even though his words may not be based upon the soundest philosophy.”
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Cath World 112:403 D ’20 330w
“Outside of an excellent chapter on the cooperative movement, the volume is chiefly pious platitude, amiable advice to business men not to make fools of themselves in a time of rapid social change like the present.” Harold Stearns
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Nation 111:sup427 O 13 ’20 750w
“It is a book worth everyone’s reading, for its notable contribution of facts and ideas, and more especially for its candor of spirit, rare indeed in a day when a great part of our political writers are still more or less disabled morally by their late services to national morale in disseminating lies and misrepresentations for the glory of God and the cause of right.” A. J.
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New Repub 23:339 Ag 18 ’20 2050w
“Mr Hapgood shows the defects of his good qualities and one of these is at present a lack of knowledge in what these good qualities consist. The volume is stimulating, patriotic without being nationalistic, unselfish and idealistic; but it shows some of the defects of an education which seems to have been entirely American.” M. F. Egan
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N Y Times p8 Ag 29 ’20 3550w
“The best chapter in the book is chapter eight on the advantages of co-operation, over both socialism and government regulation of great combinations, as a remedy for industrial injustice. Mr Norman Hapgood is an effective pamphleteer; but excellences in a pamphleteer are fatal defects in a historian.”
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Outlook 126:111 S 15 ’20 300w
“To one reviewer at least—and one who is not insensible to the part Mr Hapgood has taken in past times in the advocacy of certain social measures—there is provocation on almost every page of this book. But in the two chapters on the Russian problem, as well as in other incidental treatment of this problem, the provocation concentrates in every line.” W. J. Ghent
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“To see things steadily and clearly is a gift of few. Mr Hapgood possesses fewer blind spots than most, but it may be that he is mistaken in parts of his analysis. However, he stimulates the reader to formulate his own beliefs. The style is a trifle labored, but there is no mistaking the book’s earnestness.”
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Springf’d Republican p8a S 19 ’20 320w
“Special mention should be made of Mr Hapgood’s intimate study of President Wilson. It is a helpful antidote to Mr Keynes’ sketch.” L. R. Robinson
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HARA, KATSURO.[2] Introduction to the history of Japan. *$2.50 (2½c) Putnam
952
The book is the first of a projected series of publications by the Yamato society, whose aim is to make clear the meaning and extent of Japanese culture to other nations, and to introduce the best literature and art of foreign nations to Japan for a promotion of a common understanding. The present volume is intended for those Europeans and Americans who would like to know Japan “not as a land of quaint curios and picturesque paradoxes only worthy to be preserved intact for a show, but as a land inhabited by a nation striving hard to improve itself, and to take its share, however humble, in the common progress of the civilisation of the world.” (Preface) Contents: The races and climate of Japan; Japan before the introduction of Buddhism and Chinese civilisation; Growth of the imperial power; gradual centralisation; Remodeling of the state; Culmination of the new régime; stagnation; rise of the military régime; The military régime; the Taira and the Minamoto; the shogunate of Kamakura; The welding of the nation; the political disintegration of the country; End of medieval Japan; The transition from medieval to modern Japan; The Tokugawa shogunate—its political régime; culture and society (two chapters); The restoration of the Meidji; Epilogue. The objects of and the rules of the Yamato society are given in full and there is an index.
“A carefully evolved and well written synopsis of the many centuries of Japanese national life. There is one especially creditable circumstance about the publication of this book. It is honest Japanese propaganda, and it makes no pretensions of being anything else.” S. L. C.
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Boston Transcript p4 Ja 22 ’21 420w
HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL. Divine event. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
20–16796
A story of psychical phenomena. Hillery Gramling, unhappy over the death of his brother, in consultation with a medium is sent to New York’s East side to live among the poor. There he comes in contact with Lucia Lingle, a beautiful young girl who seems to be under the shadow of some awful, mysterious tragedy. He falls in love with her and is anxious to help her. He is aided by Professor Trimble, psychologist, alienist, mental scientist, who becomes deeply interested in Lucia’s case. Thru the mediumship of Madame DuFresne, they discover the exact nature of her trouble, that her half-brother is trying to prove her insane that he may take over her inheritance. Together they fight the thing out, encouraged always by the supernatural aid they receive, thru Madame DuFresne, from those on the other side of death. In the end thru their combined efforts, Lucia is freed from the awful curse that has hung over her, and has the promise of happiness.
“The plot is slight and unconvincing but is evidently meant to be taken seriously and will interest readers inclined to believe in spirit control and guardian angels.”
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Booklist 17:158 Ja ’21
HARCOURT, ROBERT HENRY. Elementary forge practice. 2d ed, enl il $1.50 Manual arts press 672
20–19056
A second edition of a work originally published by the author, instructor in forge practice in Leland Stanford Junior university, where it has been used as a text. It is designed for use in technical and vocational schools. Contents: Materials and equipment; Drawing-out, bending and twisting; Common welds; Special welds; Hammer work; Annealing, hardening and tempering steel; Tool forging. There are forty-four plates illustrating as many projects.
“The volume should prove a valuable addition to any shop library as a supplementary text. For the teacher of large classes of beginners it should lift the burden of much class work and explanation if placed in the hands of the pupils as a text.”
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HARD, WILLIAM. Raymond Robins’ own story. il *$2 (4c) Harper 947
20–3007
Colonel Robins was the unofficial representative of the American ambassador to Russia for eighteen months and a close observer of the powers that conducted Russian affairs, and he has had a more intimate acquaintance than any other American or allied representative with the government of Lenin. He is not a socialist and not a bolshevist, but he sees that the danger from the latter, if such there be, lies not in riots and robberies, mobs and massacres, not in its disorder but in its order, in that “the Soviet system is genuinely a system on its own account.... It can be extinguished only in the free air of fair controversy and of fair, practical proof.” There is but one choice left to America, according to Colonel Robins, in dealing with Russia, and that is not intervention but intercourse. The story of the book is told by the author as it was narrated to him by Colonel Robins. The contents are: The arrival of the Soviet; Trotzky’s plans for soviet Russia; The all-Russian congress and the Brest-Litovsk peace; The personality and power of Nikolai Lenin; The bolshevik “bomb”; and many illustrations.
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Booklist 16:237 Ap ’20
“It stands out in this consecutive form as the most vigorous, the most picturesque, as well as the most truthful record in English of the birth of Bolshevism through the Soviet.” O. M. Sayler
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Bookm 51:310 My ’20 950w
Cleveland p76 Ag ’20 60w
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R of Rs 61:446 Ap ’20 180w
Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 1 ’20 1000w
“Mr Hard is so carried away with dramatic fervor that he feels it necessary to interrupt himself every now and then to assure us that Mr Robins is a good anti-Bolshevist. But these interludes need not divert the reader from the important parts of the book. Mr Robins’ admirable suggestions as to future American policy toward Russia deserve to be widely read.” Reed Lewis
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HARDY, THOMAS. Collected poems, lyrical, narratory and reflective. *$3.40 Macmillan 821
20–26754
“This book contains all of Thomas Hardy’s poetry except ‘The dynasts,’ including poems which have appeared in his prose works.”—Booklist
“There have been many poets among us in the last fifty years, poets of sure talent, and it may be even of genius, but no other of them has this compulsive power of Hardy. The secret is not hard to find. Not one of them is adequate to what we know and have suffered.... Therefore we deliberately set Mr Hardy among the greatest.” J. M. M.
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Booklist 17:21 O ’20
“Let it be said straight out that in our opinion, whatever else Mr Hardy’s writing, susceptible to scansion, is, it is not poetry. It is not poetry, because, in the end, poetry is in a sort illusion.... He has been guilty of the last, the unforgivable sin in poetry—* *he has sinned against love, for which there is and should be no forgiveness.”
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Spec 122:512 O 18 ’19 20w
“Mr Hardy, once and for all, set up as poet, then, at an age when Shakespeare left our mortal stage. This book, for that reason alone, is an unprecedented achievement. Apart from that, to read steadily through it—and what severer test of lyrical poetry could be devised?—is to win to the consciousness not of any superficial consistency, but assuredly of a ‘harmony of colouring’; not, however keen the joy manifest ‘in the making,’ of an art become habitual, but of a shadowy unity and design.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p681 N 27 ’19 2450w
HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN. Allegra. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner
20–161
Allegra is a charming but decidedly self-centered young actress who sees every person and every incident in the light of her career. She is playing in a provincial repertory theater at the opening of the story and it is thru a chance meeting with Paul Staniland that her ambition to appear in London is gratified. Paul is delighted with Allegra and works up a part for her in the play he is dramatizing from one of Matthew Maythorne’s novels. Maythorne is one of those popular novelists whose books sell into the thousands and he fatuously accepts the success of the play as a tribute to himself, giving Paul none of the credit. Allegra’s admiration for the novelist is killed by a reading of his book and she comes to appreciate Paul, but a visit at the country home of Paul’s people, delightful tho they are, convinces her that she belongs to the theater and she returns to the stage.
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Ath p1208 N 14 ’19 70w
“The plot is not credible in parts, but this does not mar the interest of the story.”
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Booklist 16:244 Ap ’20
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
Bookm 51:205 Ap ’20 260w
“If Paul seems a special creation made to fit Allegra’s need, why quarrel with him? Are we not left with the conviction that here is a really happy ending to a story?”
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Boston Transcript p6 Mr 24 ’20 260w
“A number of minor characters are very well drawn.”
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Cleveland p50 My ’20 70w
“All the minor characters, in fact, are skillfully portrayed, with any number of quaint and understanding little touches which make ‘Allegra’ very agreeable reading—the more agreeable because the author has had the good taste and good sense to avoid the conventional ‘happy ending.’”
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N Y Times 25:71 F 8 ’20 440w
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“Altogether it is a slight but pleasing little story without any probing into psychology or any tremendous conflict of forces.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 160w
“Allegra, a little hard and egotistical, and passionately devoted to her art, is well studied. And the whole tale (which moves among well-bred people throughout) is on a good level, though we think a little below that attained in other books by the author.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p594 O 23 ’19 100w
HARPER, GEORGE MCLEAN.[2] John Morley, and other essays. *$1.60 Princeton univ. press 814
20–10290
“Professor Harper, of Princeton university, author of various books of literary criticism (including the substantial and able work on Wordsworth), here puts together eight essays—on John Morley; Victor Hugo (these from the Atlantic Monthly); Michael Angelo’s sonnets; Balzac; W. C. Brownell (an American critic); Wordsworth at Blois; Wordsworth’s love poetry; and ‘David Brainerd: a Puritan saint.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“His generalizations are just, and he is not ridden by them; he knows when to generalize and when to forget his generalizations.”
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Booklist 17:68 N ’20
The Times [London] Lit Sup p762 N 18 ’20 70w
HARRIS, CORRA MAY (WHITE) (MRS LUNDY HOWARD HARRIS). Happily married. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–3192
The scene is an exclusive southern town, the time that summer of intense war activity, 1918, and the characters several married pairs. Two of these are Mary and Pelham Madden, and two others Ellen and Barrie Skipwith. Mary is one of those calm, maternal and beautifully placid women, a perfect housekeeper and mother of four children. Ellen is a childless woman with red hair and baby blue eyes. Mary has just found a note in her husband’s pocket addressed to Dear Pep. Ellen has just turned in a Red cross subscription list with an anonymous contribution of $1000. How Mary wakes up and learns to practice the old womanly wiles is the theme of a story that is told amusingly with touches of satire.
“Entertaining in spite of its hackneyed plot.”
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Booklist 16:281 My ’20
“Mrs Harris makes no attempt to inject novelty into the situation. She relies on her knowledge of men and women and her happy faculty in phrasing her reflections thereon for the pleasure of her readers. And these easily suffice.” F. A. G.
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Boston Transcript p11 Mr 27 ’20 500w
“The entertaining and shrewd comment upon married life, adds ginger to a somewhat conventional vamp story.”
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Cleveland p71 Ag ’20 100w
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Lit D p99 My 1 ’20 2300w
“An immense quantity of mildly entertaining and occasionally shrewd comment strung on a very slight, very much worn thread of plot, constitutes Corra Harris’s new novel.”
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N Y Times 25:4 F 29 ’20 300w
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Outlook 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 30w
“Mrs Harris’s thesis does not command unfaltering acquiescence. For those, however, who collect novels as others collect butterflies, the book will have a great deal of interest.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p383 Je 17 ’20 500w
HARRIS, CREDO FITCH. Wings of the wind. *$1.75 (1½c) Small
20–11301
Jack Bronx, returning from the war, is packed off by his fond parents on their private yacht, with one of his army pals. On the way to Havana they pick up a stranger who turns out to be a secret envoy from the Kingdom of Azuria, in search of a lost princess. Chance favoring they trace the princess as one of the passengers on another yacht. Great is the chase, thrilling the adventures which eventually take the party to the Florida swamps into the ancient haunts of the Seminoles. The princess is rescued, Jack falls violently in love with her, and the old emissary hard put to it to save her, under the circumstances, for the throne of Azuria. Jack’s resourceful friend settles the matter by demonstrating to everybody’s satisfaction that the emissary’s orders to deliver the princess did not contain the provision that she must be single when found.
Boston Transcript p6 Jl 28 ’20 650w
“The story teems with thrilling incidents. The plot, however, is trite.”
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Cath World 112:552 Ja ’21 90w
N Y Times 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 530w
HARRIS, H. WILSON. Peace in the making. il *$2 Dutton 940.314
20–6966
“‘What I have endeavored to produce is an account, checked by such official documents as are available, which will convey to the general reader some not wholly inadequate impression both of what the conference did and how it did it.’ (Preface) The author was for three months the special correspondent of the London Daily News to the conference.”—Wis Lib Bul
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Booklist 17:66 N ’20
“Mr Harris is well-informed and his pen-pictures of the personality and policy of the leading diplomats, tho less lively than those of Mr Keynes, are far closer to the facts.”
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Ind 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 50w
“His plan is less ambitious than that of Dr Dillon, for he leaves out most of the historical summaries which are a valuable feature of Dr Dillon’s volume, and also tells fewer incidents. His account of the Prinkipo episode, and of the apparently deliberate intermeddling of France to insure that the proposed conference should come to naught, should be read by anyone who still cherishes confidence in the good faith of the Paris negotiators.” W: MacDonald
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Nation 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 150w
N Y Times p15 S 19 ’20 50w
“Those readers who are interested in finding an account of the peace conference to supplement the somewhat opinionated statements of Keynes and Dillon would do well to provide themselves with a copy of ‘The peace in the making.’ The book as a whole, while not itself history in the fullest sense, may well be regarded as a contribution to history.”
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Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 220w
“His summary of the deliberations of the conference is just a little too summary, and the chapter on Lenin and Bela Kun is vague and unsatisfactory. On the other hand, Mr Harris’s judgments of the personalities of the conference are generally temperate and just.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p23 Ja 8 ’20 220w
Wis Lib Bul 16:119 Je ’20 60w
HARRIS, JAMES RENDEL. Last of the Mayflower. (Manchester univ. publications) *$2 (*5s) Longmans 974.4
20–14551
“In this publication of the John Rylands library Dr Rendel Harris tries to find an answer to the question, ‘What became of the “Mayflower“?’ The name was a common one for ships in late Tudor and early Stuart times; hence the tracing of the authentic ‘Mayflower’ has entailed much research. Some ten years after the landing of the Pilgrims (1620), she was employed on a similar service, that of transporting the remainder of the Leyden colony to New Plymouth. Then she is traced in the whale-fishery, and to her last owner and master, Mr Thomas Webber of Boston. Not long after 1654, the author says, ‘one is tempted to conjecture that she died (in a nautical sense). Most likely she was broken up in Boston, or perhaps in the Thames on her last voyage to London.’ ”—Ath
Ath p591 Ap 30 ’20 140w
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
Bookm 52:125 O ’20 40w
HARRISON, AUSTIN. Before and now. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane 304
20–6972
This collection of papers, reprinted in a revised form from the English Review, are critical and partly satirical and humorous impressions of conditions in England previous to and during the war. They were “journalism then, today they are prophetic,” says the author. It is the disintegration of old conceptions and the birth-pangs of new that form the subject-matter of the papers, which are: Jingoism; The coming of Smith; “Surrey in danger”; Peace, perfect peace; St George’s stirrup; The duke’s buffalo; A “Christian” Europe and afterwards; Our gentlemen’s schools; Authority and privilege; The new “Sesame and lilies”; The Christian drum; What is ours is not ours; The country of the blind; “Leave them ‘orses alone!”; Foreign politics; “Minny”; The awakening; Musings at Fort Vaux; Foundations of reconstruction.