Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1920 Books (continued 22)
Reading edition
Reviewed by C: H: Meltzer
Review 2:630 Je 16 ’20 1150w
“This is eminently a book for the layman, for M. Jean-Aubry avoids technicalities.”
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Spec 122:264 Mr 1 ’19 1250w
“Mr Jean-Aubry is necessarily but not unfairly prejudiced in favor of his native music. Delightful and refreshing are the studies and sketches—for preserving whose charm, by the way, the reader is indebted to the translator, Edwin Evans—of contemporary modern French composers, which occupy the greater portion of the book.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 Ag 24 ’20 480w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p35 Ja 16 ’19 80w
“The merit of this book is that it is not afraid of pressing into the service of music everything that can be a symbol; its weakness is that positive statements about the music swim rather sparsely in a whirlpool of words.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p43 Ja 23 ’19 1450w
JEFFERY, GEORGE H. EVERETT. Brief description of the Holy sepulchre. il *$3.50 Putnam 726
20–9215
The complete title of this work, a reprint from the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects for 1910, is “a brief description of the Holy sepulchre, Jerusalem, and other Christian churches in the Holy city, with some account of the mediæval copies of the Holy sepulchre surviving in Europe.” Part 1 is devoted to the history, part 2 to the description of the monument, part 3 to the lesser shrines, and part 4 to the reproductions in various parts of Europe. There are numerous illustrations and diagrams and the work closes with chronological tables and index.
“Mr Jeffery writes two particularly interesting chapters on the reproductions of the Holy sepulchre as a pilgrim shrine. The illustrations might have been improved, especially in the way of enlargement.”
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Ath p1386 D 19 ’19 100w
“We must be content to say that the book is of great interest and value, and that it should be read by intelligent tourists before they go to Jerusalem and after they return.”
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Spec 123:778 D 6 ’19 160w
“It is careful and learned and very fully and well illustrated.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p676 N 20 ’19 20w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p706 D 4 ’19 1150w
JEFFERY, JEFFERY E. Side issues. *$1.90 (3c) Seltzer
20–14708
A volume of short stories dealing with side issues of the war. With the exception of two which are reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine, they appear here for the first time. The titles are: Angèle, goddess of kindliness; A quiet evening; Services rendered; A lost soul; Noblesse oblige; The altar of drums; My lady of Hoxton; Equality of sacrifice; The heirloom; In token of gratitude; Generalities; The revellers; Dam’ good fellers; A tap at the door; Confessional—by way of epilogue.
“The best sketch from a literary point of view, is ‘Angèle, goddess of kindliness.’”
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Ath p527 Ap 16 ’20 130w
“Beneath all the wounds of circumstance a deep sobriety of spirit curbs the author’s temptation to sacrifice truth to effectiveness and persuades him to set down only the permanent and permanently human.”
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Nation 111:596 N 24 ’20 420w
“The book is quietly and earnestly written, and has an authentic ring of sincerity. It is, I fancy, a genuine human document, and like all such genuine documents, well worth attention.” W. P. Eaton
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N Y Call p11 D 19 ’20 210w
“In these sketchily constructed stories, by an officer of the old army, the ugliness of war and the injustices that accompany demobilization are set out with considerable effect and an evident attempt at fairness, though with a tendency towards rhetoric.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p242 Ap 15 ’20 160w
JENKIN, A. M. N. End of a dream. *$1.75 (3c) Lane
20–7429
Shell shock and its terrible possibilities are the theme of this story. Before he went to war Arnold Cheyne had been deeply in love with Nadina, a beautiful dancing girl. When the latter, not yet ready to abandon her career, refused him, he entered into a loveless marriage with Sheila Maclaren. Under the influence of shell shock he no longer recognizes Sheila and thinks of Nadina as his wife. The doctor of the hospital, having been told Arnold’s history and his want of love for his real wife, advises Nadina to humor him in his hallucination. With a nervous patient’s cunning Arnold escapes from the hospital and flees with Nadina into Cornwall. There the end is a double murder, the first of the man who has followed the couple, intent on making trouble, and the second, under the influence of a dream taking him back into the horrors of trench warfare, of Nadina herself.
“The symptoms of the hero are well described; but Mr Jenkin lacks literary skill and seems to find it very difficult to cope with his plot.”
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Ath p1386 D 19 ’19 130w
“For a book with a live theme, the effect of shell shock and the social and legal problems arising from that effect. ‘The end of a dream’ is amazingly dull.” R. D. W.
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Boston Transcript p8 Je 19 ’20 400w
“In this vividly written story of the possible effects of shell shock the author has unfolded a dramatic story of intense interest and downright awful power.”
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N Y Times 25:308 Je 13 ’20 700w
“The last scene is terrible in its realism. The book should certainly be kept out of the hands of sufferers from the milder forms of this affection.”
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Spec 124:53 Ja 10 ’20 40w
“Disappointing in effect. The author saddles a plot of undoubted interest and merit with principals of a featureless type.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a S 26 ’20 320w
JENKINS, J. T.[2] Sea fisheries. il *$10 Dutton 639.2
“A copiously-illustrated volume, the author of which is professionally associated with the Lancashire and Western sea fisheries joint committee. Dr Jenkins describes from personal knowledge the mystery of the fishers’ craft. An account is given of the methods of fishing adopted in the North sea, and the narrative deals with the rise of the herring fisheries, as well as with the development of steam trawling. Public fisheries for shellfish are described: and an important chapter deals with individual fish, such as the sole, plaice, haddock, and herring. Foreign and colonial fisheries are considered in the last chapter.”—Ath
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Ath p782 Je 11 ’20 100w
“This is rather a Gradgrindian book for a compatriot of Charles Dickens to have written. It is full of useful statistics and little else. His photographs carry more of the romance of the sea than his text.”
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N Y Evening Post p27 O 23 ’20 280w
“We strongly commend Dr Jenkins’s scientific and instructive book to the consideration of all who wish to understand the urgent problem of utilizing the harvest of the sea to the best advantage, though its more controversial parts are no doubt open to discussion.”
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Spec 124:796 Je 12 ’20 870w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p249 Ap 22 ’20 1700w
JENNINGS, ARTHUR SEYMOUR. Paints and varnishes. il $1 Pitman 667
20–18167
The book comes under the Pitman’s common commodities and industries series and deals with the properties and uses of paints and varnishes from a purely commercial and professional point of view. Their quality, the quantity required to cover given surfaces and the determination of probable durability are dealt with at some length. The process of manufacture is only described when it becomes necessary to differentiate between grades or qualities of the same material. Contents: The characteristics of a good paint; The principal pigments used in paint making; The thinners used in paint; Paint-mixing—the application of paints, etc.: Whitewashes and distempers; Service tests of paints and varnishes; Machinery used in paint-making; Varnishes and enamels; Tables, etc.; Index and illustrations.
JENSEN, ALBRECHT. Massage and exercises combined. il $4 The author, box 73 G. P.O., N.Y. 613.7
20–19054
“A new system of the characteristic essentials of gymnastic and Indian Yogis concentration exercises combined with scientific massage movements.” (Sub-title) The author lays stress upon the therapeutic effectiveness of the combination of massage and exercises. The system is intended chiefly for home use and requires no gymnastic equipment and no expenditure. The contents in part are: Resultant bad effects from the use of heavy apparatus, weights and too strenuous exercises; Special benefit to women from the use of these exercises; The construction and characteristics of the combined massage exercises; General and detailed description of the combined massage exercises with their analyses and effects; Proper breathing: How the number of exercises for one performance can best be decreased; How the exercises may be utilized in some diseased and disordered conditions of the body. There are eighty-six illustrations.
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N Y Evening Post p26 O 23 ’20 70w
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N Y Times p26 Ja 16 ’21 270w
R of Rs 62:448 O ’20 60w
Survey 45:103 O 16 ’20 160w
JEPSON, EDGAR. Loudwater mystery. *$2 (3c) Knopf
20–22232
When Lord Loudwater is stabbed to death and investigations are begun, it is discovered that there is a quite disconcerting wealth of possible suspects. Lord Loudwater was of such a nature that his actions might supply the motive for murder to any one of his family or household or even remoter connections. For instance, on the day of his murder, he had threatened to divorce his wife, he had quarreled violently with Colonel Grey, who had been seen paying attentions to Lady Loudwater, he had discharged his butler in a fit of anger, and he had halved the allowance of a mysterious woman who had sued him for breach of promise. So the doings of these various people at the time of the murder are thoroughly combed over. When these clues lead to nothing but a blank wall, with the story almost at an end, the suspense is finally ended by the discovery of one forged check which gives the actual murderer away.
“We close the book with a genuine regret that a gift so real as Mr Jepson’s cannot be more economically used.”
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Ath p1210 N 14 ’19 140w
“The action never lags, and the ending is rather out of the ordinary.”
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Booklist 17:158 Ja ’21
Boston Transcript p6 O 16 ’20 520w
“Mr Jepson has not been entirely successful in keeping up the tension of the mystery. There are lapses of several months each in the narrative, which break the emotional flow. But the large number of readers who seek to qualify as amateur Holmeses, Craig Kennedies, and Dupins, by vicarious solutions of murder mysteries, will find plenty of opportunities here.”
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N Y Times p25 S 5 ’20 420w
“If some of the devices are familiar, most of the characters have—what is rare in novels of the kind—an unmistakable touch of life, and much of the dialogue has—what is still more uncommon—a sprightly turn.”
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Sat R 128:590 D 20 ’19 200w
Spec 123:819 D 13 ’19 60w
“A detective story of exceptional merit.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p677 N 20 ’19 170w
JEPSON, EDGAR. Pollyooly dances. *$1.25 (2c) Duffield
20–3191
Mr Jepson’s young heroine has grown up and in this novel appears as a successful dancer. She is on her way to New York when the story opens and her guardian, the Honourable John Ruffin, is traveling by the same boat on business of his own. He has successfully evaded military service and is an object of scorn to all patriotic Britons on board. But of course, as the reader well knows, he is in government service and his business has to do with German spies. Indeed, throughout, the story is more concerned with German spy plots than with Pollyooly’s dancing.
“It has always been our opinion that Mr Edgar Jepson’s best period was that of ‘No. 19’ and ‘The mystery of the myrtles,’ and we regret that he should have bartered his heritage of fantasy touched with horror for machine-made private detectives and angel children who blossom into popular ballerinas.”
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Ath p475 O 8 ’20 130w
Booklist 16:282 My ’20
“A more than ordinarily entertaining detective story.”
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Ind 103:322 S 11 ’20 60w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p602 S 16 ’20 70w
JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON. Happy bride. *$2 Doran 821
20–20439
The first poem of this collection is based on an old Cornish custom: “In Cornwall, when an unmarried girl dies, she is borne through the streets followed by her girl friends dressed in white and singing a hymn of which the refrain is ‘O happy bride.’” Cornish legend also furnishes the motive for St Ludgvan’s well, The forbidden vision, The droll-teller, and Jennifer, Jennifer. Other titles are: Towers of healing; A little dirge for any soul; Youth renascent; Where beauty stays her foot; Lover’s cry.
“Of contemporaries, Miss Tennyson Jesse is closely related to Mr Bridges. She approaches him in the purity of her verse, the felicity of her phrase, in her rhythm and her descriptive quality. At no point, perhaps, does she attempt or achieve sublimity, but for evenness of accomplishment few living poets surpass her work.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p299 My 13 ’20 680w
JESSUP, ALEXANDER, ed. Best American humorous short stories. (Modern lib. of the world’s best books.) *85c Boni & Liveright
20–12376
“To the Modern library has been added ‘Best American humorous short stories,’ a selection from the writings of Poe, Curtis, Hale, O. W. Holmes, Mark Twain, Bunner, Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry and others, including several whose names are still familiar in the magazines. The editor is Alexander Jessup.”—Springf’d Republican
“The compiler steers a safe, somewhat academic course, and there are inevitably some inclusions of historical rather than hilarious interest.”
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Dial 69:103 Jl ’20 50w
“The book is both valuable and interesting. The tired business man will revel in it.” H. S. Gorman
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N Y Times p8 Ag 1 ’20 220w
“The editor shows that mingled understanding of past and present which alone gives value to critical pronouncements or editorial work involving critical selection.”
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Springf’d Republican p10 My 20 ’20 120w
JOAD, CYRIL EDWIN MITCHINSON. Essays in common sense philosophy. *$2 Harcourt 192
(Eng ed 20–6885)
“In ‘Essays in common sense philosophy’ C. E. M. Joad of Balliol college, Oxford, gives us a rethinking of contemporary metaphysics, in which his titular claim rests on the views that we do actually perceive things as they are, that apparent differences and discontinuities in experience are real and that the Hegelian theory of the state is essentially wrong, inasmuch as the state is only a subordinate institution within the larger whole of human society. The first point is made out on the basis of Meinong’s Gegendstandstheorie, which, even if it be accepted, is not obviously the reasoning of common sense. Similarly, the defense of pluralism, based on Russell’s treatment of relations, comes indeed to the plain man’s conclusion, but by a tortuous path. Two other important essays in this book are those on truth, and on universals.”—Springf’d Republican
“As with all books of this kind, the author’s treatment can be considered adequate only by those who agree with him. To others it will appear that the points neglected by the author are more important than those noticed by him.”
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Ath p539 Je 27 ’19 80w
“Mr Joad’s book is readable, interesting, and quite remarkably intelligible. There is an avoidance of technical jargon, and an admirable lucidity. It is a book which can be read with much profit by all who are interested in philosophy without being professional philosophers.” B. R.
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Ath p652 Jl 25 ’19 1800w
Booklist 17:7 O ’20
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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 31 ’20 170w
Brooklyn 12:28 N ’19 50w
New Repub 24:150 O 6 ’20 430w
“His book, though unsatisfactory to any student of philosophy who possesses a philological conscience and a critical historic sense, does in some sort canvass a number of the problems that we can escape only by refusing to speculate at all. It will serve as well as another to satisfy the commonplace metaphysical instinct. And the student who takes it up for this purpose will receive from it a fair measure of initiation into the study of philosophy, and of orientation and stimulus of his own reflections.”— Paul Shorey
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Review 3:232 S 15 ’20 1100w
“This book should be widely read. It deserves close and careful study as an indication of the best lines of the metaphysical thought of today.”
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Springf’d Republican p10 Jl 1 ’20 300w
“His book is a real stimulus to thought.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p492 S 18 ’19 1000w
JOHNSEN, JULIA E.,[2] comp. Selected articles on national defense. v 3 (Debaters’ handbook ser.) $1.80 Wilson, H. W. 355.7
This volume, consisting of brief, bibliography and reprints, covers the subjects. The army, The navy, Military training, Military service, Disarmament and peace. Volume 1, by Corinne Bacon, was published in 1916; volume 2, by Agnes Van Valkenburgh, in 1917.
JOHNSON, ARTHUR. Under the rose. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–15533
The titles of these stories are: The princess of Tork; Riders in the dark; The one hundred eightieth meridian; Mr Eberdeen’s house; The two lovers; The visit of the master; The little family; His new mortal coil; How the ship came in. The stories are reprinted from Harper’s and other magazines. The visit of the master appeared in the 1918 volume of Mr O’Brien’s “Best short stories.”
“‘Under the rose’ contains some charming tales. The happy whimsicality of expression in a number brings to mind similar happy whimsicalities of Henry James.” C. K. H.
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Boston Transcript p6 O 2 ’20 400w
“This is a bewildering collection of stories, effective and yet at the same time not wholly satisfying. The themes treated are many, the transition from story to story sometimes marking a leap of mood difficult to achieve. Almost every story is successful by itself; and this, after all, is a great deal to demand of fiction.”
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N Y Times p27 Ja 2 ’21 420w
JOHNSON, CLIFTON. What to see in America. (American highways and byways ser.) il *$3 Macmillan 917.3
19–19488
“The book is concerned with the human interest of our country in nature, history, industry, literature, legend, and biography. It is intended for travelers who visit the places of interest in person, and also for those other travelers whom chance or necessity keeps at home, but who travel far and wide on the wings of fancy.... Under each state is included such things as the first settlement, the capital, the largest city, the highest point, and facts of general interest concerning its past and present that add to the traveler’s zest in visiting it.” (Introductory note) Each state in the Union has a chapter and there are 500 illustrations including several maps.
“Rather too brief for the intensive sightseer. No index, but full contents by states with mention of attractions.”
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Booklist 16:200 Mr ’20
“Mr Johnson has an observant eye, and he knows what he wants to say, but he is frequently unable to express himself in straightforward English.”
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Boston Transcript p7 Ja 7 ’20 400w
“Somewhere between a guide book and travel essays. Useful for reference.”
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Cleveland p43 Ap ’20 40w
“The pictures are better than the history, and the history is better than the opinions, but there are few opinions and only enough history to add the right tincture of romance.”
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Nation 111:163 Ag 7 ’20 190w
“His 500 illustrations are well chosen, well engraved and well printed; and they are frequently alluring. Probably there are few of those who read Mr Johnson’s book who will not feel a desire to let their own eyes gaze upon the wonderful spots which are here photographed.” Brander Matthews
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N Y Times 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w
“The numerous pictures are well selected. The traveled reader is sure to find new things as well as old in the volume, and the ‘stay-at-home’ will find here new zest for fireside travels.”
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Outlook 124:203 F 4 ’20 80w
“Travelers may make good use of this volume, and it may be commended to public-school geography classes.”
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R of Rs 61:221 F ’20 140w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p244 Ap 15 ’20 70w
JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD. Collected poems, 1881–1919. *$4 Yale univ. press 811
20–1009
The collection comprises the poet’s former volumes together with some new material. The contents are: The winter hour, and other poems; Songs of liberty, and other poems; Italian rhapsody, and other poems; Moments of Italy, and other poems; Saint-Gaudens: an ode; Later poems of occasion; Poems of war and peace; Poems of the great war; Poems chiefly of friendship or admiration; Later poems of the great war; Miscellaneous poems; Poems of Italy in war-time; Latest war-time poems.
“Many of his poems are occasional in character, and in these he displays his happiest inspiration. He has the professional after-dinner speaker’s talent for saying the right, the tactful thing about any person or event. Mr Johnson would make an excellent laureate.”
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Ath p622 My 7 ’20 120w
“There is much sweetness—which never descends to mere prettiness—much grace and a good deal of fine thought finely expressed in melodious verse. Mr Johnson has long and deservedly enjoyed a special place of distinction in modern American poetry of the conservative tradition.” H: A. Lappin
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Bookm 51:214 Ap ’20 60w
“To enjoy this volume you do not need to belong to any ‘school,’ nor to hold any poetic theory. All you need is to love poetry as the interpreter of the best things in nature and life.” H: Van Dyke
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Boston Transcript p6 F 14 ’20 1900w
“All the poems are not of equal value. But the omnipresent dignity of Dr Johnson’s muse, his understanding love for Italy, and his unfailing respect both for his medium and his reader, bespeak alike the scholar and the citizen of the world.”
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Cath World 111:700 Ag ’20 150w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p215 Ap 1 ’20 60w
JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE. Medal collector. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 Dodd 737
The book furnishes a guide to naval, military, air-force and civil medals and ribbons in the following order: The pioneer medals of England; Early medals of the Hon. East India Co.; Peninsular awards; Waterloo awards; The naval general service medal; Campaign medals; British orders and their insignia; The Victoria cross; Service medals for bravery, etc.; Commemorative medals; Medals for long service, good conduct, etc.; Regimental medals; Civil medals; Medals of the United States; Foreign awards. The book contains eight plates in color and numerous other illustrations and has appendices, a bibliography and index.
JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE. Stamp collector; a guide to the world’s postage stamps. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 383
The author rates the hobby of stamp collecting highly from an intellectual, an economic and a commercial point of view, but first and foremost as a pastime full of charm and fascination. Since there is so much that can be collected and so much that ought not to be collected he offers this guide which equally satisfies the beginner and the more advanced collector. The first few chapters deal with philately on general terms. They are: Planning and arranging the collection; Specialised collections; Technical matters; Stamps, desirable and otherwise; Forged and faked stamps; Sir Rowland Hill and other pioneers. Then a number of chapters are devoted to a description of stamps of definite areas and the last four are: The stamps of war; Rare stamps; Philately for the young; A glossary of philatelic terms with a bibliography and an index.
“If the author’s line of demarcation between stamps desirable and otherwise is rather arbitrary, his advice as to the best method of forming and continuing a stamp collection is at least accurate.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p10 Ja 1 ’20 550w
JOHNSON, THOMAS COSTELLO. Irish tangle and a way out. *$1.50 Gorham 941.5
20–5597
“Mr Johnson is an American clergyman (Church of the Holy Spirit, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, N.Y.) who went to Ireland in 1918 to give lectures about America’s part in the great war. The larger part of the book is historical—from early times to recent developments. Mr Johnson’s own solution is—with educational reform and the development of resources—federal government with parliaments for England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and a central parliament at Westminster.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
Nation 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 280w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p191 Mr 18 ’20 100w
JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER. History of Cuba. 5v il $45 B. F. Buck & co., inc., 156 5th av., N.Y. 972.91
20–10078
“Taking San Salvador as his point of departure, the writer follows the narrative of the discoverer, in which he traces his course from one island to another, and by this means identifies the place of landing of Columbus on the shores of Cuba. Thus is begun the history of the island. With the fourth chapter, Dr Johnson abandons travel for science, and enters upon geological and topographical history of the great island. Dr Johnson traces the history of the early years of Spanish settlement in Cuba, with great particularity down to the close of the sixteenth century.... Subsequent passages relate the military operations of an expedition under Admiral Vernon and the British plans for the conquest of Spanish America, the attack upon Havana and its capture; and finally, the negotiations which resulted in the return of the island to Spain. The story follows of the American war for independence and the rise of the Republic of the United States and its influence upon Cuban affairs.... The fifth and final volume of the series is concerned with the natural resources of Cuba today. This volume has been compiled under the auspices of the Cuban department of agriculture, commerce and labor.”—Boston Transcript
“There seems to be no feature in Cuban history and character left untouched in this scholarly and comprehensive presentation of a subject until now neglected.” E. J. C.
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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 14 ’20 1750w
“It is on the whole well proportioned. If this history were condensed into a single volume it might serve a useful purpose. Its faults would appear less glaring. But for the general reader it is too long and costly, and as an accurately conceived and scholarly account of Cuba it is simply a waste of good paper such as the trade at this moment can ill afford.” C. H. Haring
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N Y Evening Post p5 O 30 ’20 1550w
“Dr Johnson has looked at the facts, it may be said, from a Cuban point of view, and at the same time with a sense of proportion that is continental and international. He has produced not merely a manifesto of Cuban patriotism, nor on the other hand, a coldly detached compilation of facts, but a true national record. His work is not only a valuable archive or work of reference, but also a treatise of vital interest and importance to the people of this country.”
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No Am 212:279 Ag ’20 2800w
“A well-written history.”
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R of Rs 62:446 O ’20 20w
JOHNSTON, SIR HARRY HAMILTON. Mrs Warren’s daughter; a story of the woman’s movement. *$2 Macmillan
20–7923
“In his first novel, ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ Sir Harry Johnston undertook to show us the second generation, the descendants of Walter Gay and Florence Dombey. Now he comes forward with ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter,’ taking up the history of Vivie Warren and of her mother at the point where George Bernard Shaw left it. When the novel begins, Vivie and her friend Honoria Fraser compose the firm of ‘Fraser & Warren, consultant actuaries and accountants.’ They are doing very well, but find themselves perpetually hampered by the regulations and laws forbidding women admission to various professions. In a spirit of revolt against these man-made restrictions, Vivie decides to cut her hair, don masculine apparel and become David Vavasour Williams.... In 1910 she finally drops Mr David Vavasour Williams and begins to take an extremely active part in the militant suffragist movement.... Mrs Warren had taken up her residence in Brussels, and that was how it came about that when Vivie was released from prison during the first days of the world war she went straight to Belgium to join her mother. The description of the experiences of these two women especially during the months of von Bissing’s ‘terror’ is very interesting and well done.”—N Y Times
“Whimsical, entertaining and clever. Readers who liked ‘The Gay Dombeys’ will like this.”
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Booklist 16:348 Jl ’20
“The incidents of the masculine masquerade partake more or less of the nature of a fairy tale, but even though they are not credible, they are delightful in their humor and their vigorous views of passing phases of this world of English art, science and society. Nothing human is alien to Sir Harry Johnston.” E. F. E.
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Boston Transcript p8 My 29 ’20 2100w
“The single compelling section of the book is the middle one, in which the effects of the Pankhurst leadership are given with circumstantiality; but this is brief, and the rest falls away from it both in matter and tone. It seems curious that Sir Harry could have found so rich a pocket of ore and not have tried to mine it to the rock. ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ is a too-simple sketch of a notable subject, and it is nothing more.” C. M. R.
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Freeman 1:597 S 1 ’20 280w
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Lit D p97 O 9 ’20 1700w
“In ‘The Gay-Dombeys’ there was the high gusto and boyish delight of a gifted man’s successful experiment in a new form of activity. His second book is notably less fresh and engaging.”
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Nation 110:950 Je 26 ’20 550w
“Those who knew the zoological, geographical, anthropological, and other learned London societies some thirty or forty years ago will read these books with a double interest, for they will find that Sir Harry’s characters resuscitate past chapters in the history of scientific life in London. The author, it is needless to say, uses a light and nimble pen to draw word-pictures seen from a highly individualistic Harry Johnstonian angle.”
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Nature 106:339 N 11 ’20 360w
“Judged as a work of art the book fails. The structure is stumbling and plodding: the style second-rate journalism. The characterization, with the admirable exception of the redoubtable Mrs Warren herself (she shows Sir Harry’s loving study of Dickens), is singularly superficial and conventional.” S. C. C.
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New Repub 23:157 Je 30 ’20 800w
“Unfortunately, it puts not its best but its worst foot foremost, the poorest part of it being the first, in which occurs Vivie’s preposterous masquerade. It is not until the last third of the book and its sixteenth chapter are reached that the novel really begins to be distinctly interesting. This sixteenth chapter is headed ‘Brussels and the war: 1914.’”
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N Y Times 25:280 My 30 ’20 1200w
“The interest is of a queer nature, but it certainly exists.”
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Outlook 125:431 Je 30 ’20 140w
“‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ by contrast [with ‘The Gay-Dombeys’] is a laborious invention.” H. W. Boynton
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Review 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“We move in an atmosphere of sentimental romance, by no means disagreeable, but miles apart from everything which we associate with the initials G. B. S.”
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Sat R 129:456 My 15 ’20 450w
“On many matters of social interest he is fluent and furious, and those who like this style of thing will doubtless be thrilled. We, unfortunately, were unable to find anything like so many nice and amusing people here as there were in ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ and must absolutely refuse to swallow Miss Warren.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p200 Mr 25 ’20 580w
JOHNSTON, MARY. Sweet Rocket. *$1.65 (4c) Harper
20–18509
The strain of mysticism revealed in Miss Johnston’s previous novel is very evident in this book. Of story in the conventional sense there is none. Richard Linden has returned to Sweet Rocket, the home of his family before the war. Richard is blind, and Marget Land, who had been born on the place as the overseer’s daughter, acts as his secretary. There is a curious bond of unity between the two which has no relation to earthly love and both are bound to Sweet Rocket by deep spiritual ties. The spirit of the place is such that all who come to it, friends or strangers, fall under its spell. There are beautiful descriptions of the country alternating with discussions of a psychic and spiritual nature.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 52:342 Ja ’21 470w
“Miss Johnston has revealed with keen perception the idea of individual growth and expansion toward Godhood, and the setting of her book is of idyllic beauty.” F. M. W.
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Boston Transcript p5 D 4 ’20 520w
“Though some of Miss Johnston’s readers may be pleased that ‘Sweet Rocket’ is written in the same mystical vein and in furtherance of the same spiritual quest as ‘Foes’ and ‘Michael Forth,’ the majority will, at this third blow, relinquish with regrets the hope that she may ever again give us a novel in the manner of ‘To have and to hold.’”
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N Y Evening Post p10 N 20 ’20 270w
N Y Times p21 N 21 ’20 400w
“It is not enough to be sensitive to the beautiful—one must have a sense of relativity, of proportion. Miss Johnston here makes a too conscious effort at poetic expression.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 D 10 ’20 250w
JOHNSTON, ROBERT MATTESON. First reflections on the campaign of 1918. *$1.50 (11c) Holt 940.373
20–5656
The author, who was attached to the general staff at General Pershing’s headquarters in France for twelve months, where he had every opportunity of observing the working of our war machine, offers his reflections as a “constructive criticism of our combat army.” He points out the flaws, due to our neglect of national preparedness, and how they can be avoided in the future. As he foresees that the competition of highly organized industrial communities, for markets and for raw material, is about to produce a series of wars over the whole surface of the globe, he pleads for the highest possible efficiency and combination of naval and military power. Contents: The U.S. army before the war; Leavenworth; The conduct of war; The rank and file; The regular officers; The national army officer; The National guard officer; The general staff; General Pershing; Tactics; The replacement system; Our army of the future.
Booklist 16:300 Je ’20
N Y Times p27 O 10 ’20 400w
R of Rs 61:558 My ’20 50w
JOHNSTON, WILLIAM ANDREW. Mystery in the Ritsmore. il *$1.75 (3c) Little
20–10309
The murder of a beautiful girl in the hotel apartment of a newly married couple takes place on the third day of their honeymoon. A young guest at the hotel, Anne Blair, is drawn into the case by her love of excitement. The mystery is apparently quickly solved by the police, and they let the matter drop. But Anne is not convinced it is so simple and, aided by John Rush, secretary to the millionaire, Harrison Hardy, keeps up independent investigations of her own. Her quest leads her into a maze of clues, which broaden out into a plot of international significance, in which great sums of money are involved. Although the plotters are clever, Anne Blair proves cleverer in the end, when she foils their schemes.
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Booklist 17:34 O ’20
“It is an excellent mystery tale. As is often true of detective stories, the finale is something of a disappointment.”
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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 14 ’20 180w
“‘The mystery in the Ritsmore’ is an entertaining, ingenious and well-told yarn, which holds its secret up to the very end.”
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N Y Times 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 350w
“The story is episodical, but is well enough knit to interest.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 18 ’20 130w
JONES, ELIAS HENRY. Road to En-Dor. il $2 (2c) Lane 940.47
20–7946
This book, “being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom,” (Sub-title), is incidentally an exposé of spiritualism. The author, in conjunction with a brother officer and prisoner, Lieutenant Hill, began his experiments in spiritualism in good faith, but soon saw a possibility of escape through skillful manipulations. They came to the conclusion that spiritualism has a most deplorable effect even on people whose mental powers one admires, causing them to lose hold of the criteria of sane conclusions. “The messages we received from ‘the world beyond’ and ‘from other minds in this sphere’ were in every case, and from beginning to end, of our own invention.” Yet through them it was possible “to convert intelligent, scientific, and otherwise highly educated men to spiritualism, by means of the arts and methods employed by ‘mediums’ in general.” Although the incidents described in the book may seem preposterous, the author vows for their truthfulness. The book is illustrated by Lieutenant Hill and has a postscript and appendices.
“To have made such an exposure at the present time is to have done a real and lasting service.”
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Ath p195 F 6 ’20 100w
“Interesting as a war narrative, though told somewhat too much in detail. Also interesting propaganda for anti-spiritualists.”
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Booklist 16:308 Je ’20
“The book abounds in excellent and vigorous writing.”
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N Y Times 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 430w
“The reader who begins ‘The road to En-Dor’ after dinner will probably be found at one o’clock in the morning still reading.”
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Spec 124:111 Ja 24 ’20 1700w
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Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 380w
JONES, SIR HENRY. Principles of citizenship. *$1.25 Macmillan 320
20–12226
“This little book is intended for the use of such men as attended the Y. M. C. A. lectures in the British army abroad. The purpose is to give a general view of the duties and rights of citizens; and the language is, therefore, simple and expressive. An initial distinction is drawn between two conceptions of the state. The non-moral idea is said to be German. Suggestions are then made as to the problem of individuality which are held to refute the pacifist.”—Int J Ethics
“The author of this book is amiable and high-minded, but seems out of place in the stern modern world, a belated Victorian.” B. R.
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Ath p270 My 2 ’19 530w
Int J Ethics 30:115 O ’19 160w
“Must irritate any reader who really looks for some kind of serious thought in Great Britain. Sir Henry Jones might quite decently have left Hegel in his grave instead of serving him up to the Y. M. C. A. by way of education for the British army. He ingeniously combines several fallacies in one. In the first place, what he calls the state is really the nation. In the second place, the ‘good life’ is no more the object of one nation than another, and when a league of nations is in being the ‘good life’ might be supposed to have an international flavour about it. In the third place, no nation is worth its salt if the forces of improvement do not originate with individuals but derive their origin and impulse from politicians and bureaucrats.”
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Sat R 127:507 My 24 ’19 300w
“Sir Henry Jones has a firm grasp of moral principles, sadly neglected or defied by many people nowadays, and his exposition of his argument is singularly clear.”
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Spec 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w
JONES, HENRY ARTHUR. Patriotism and popular education. *$4 Dutton 370
20–10632
“‘Patriotism and popular education; with some thoughts upon English work and English play, our evening amusements, Shakespeare and the condition of our theatres, slang, children of the stage, the training of actors, English politics before the war, national training for national defence, war and design in nature, the league of nations, the future world policy of America, capital and labour, religion, reconstruction, the great commandments, social prophets and social prophecy, competition and co-operation, the biologist and the social reformer, hand labour and brain labour, school teachers and rag-pickers, internationalism, and many other interesting matters, in a letter to the Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, president of the board of education.’ (Sub-title) The eminent playwright fully describes his book on the title-page, and it remains only to add that he pleads for practical education which would turn out good carpenters and good citizens, and has no patience with modern ideas that, as he considers, have put the majority of working-men ‘in open rebellion against the plainest economic laws.’”—Ath
Ath p283 My 2 ’19 170w
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Ath p589 Jl 11 ’19 1100w
“Seems rather an outburst of annoyance than a constructively thought out criticism.”
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Booklist 17:94 D ’20
Brooklyn 12:83 F ’20 40w
“As an experienced writer he can express himself vigorously in from two to a dozen ways, can produce many interesting, many wise, many suggestive, many amusing, and many provoking paragraphs. But if one is looking for help in dealing with either educational problems or the problems of state, he will find many smaller books much more helpful.”
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Nation 111:252 Ag 28 ’20 190w
“Suggestive as are Mr Jones’s opinions and arguments, stimulating as they are and thought-provoking, they are calculated for the meridian of Greenwich and not for that of Washington—which may make them a little less useful to us, although none the less entertaining.”
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N Y Times 24:389 Ag 3 ’19 2100w
“Throughout the book there are passages that deserve a praise that cannot be accorded to the whole as a statement of first principles or as a treatise upon education.”
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No Am 212:428 S ’20 1850w
“He can not write either lifelessly or tediously. He can not write foolishly, either; and, although you may now and again disagree with him, you will hardly find him repellently unsympathetic. On the other hand, you may be apt to feel, he does not leave you much of anywhere.”
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Review 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 500w
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St Louis 18:56 Ap ’20 40w
“Mr Jones is in the mood of a man who has had a bad piece of work palmed off on him and writes an indignant letter to the Times about it. His book is a whole collection of indignant letters. The truth is that Mr Jones has not thought out his arraignment.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 18 ’20 1100w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p183 Ap 17 ’19 540w
JONES, HERBERT. Well of being. *$1.50 Lane 821
20–7866
A book of poems composed of two parts, the first a series of love sonnets, the second, “O mistress mine!” a long narrative poem telling a story of youth and love in Vienna in the old light-hearted days of that city.
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
Bookm 52:63 S ’20 30w
Boston Transcript p4 My 26 ’20 200w
“Mr Jones writes love sonnets with ease and skill; sometimes with a truly graceful aptness. Sometimes he drops to what is merely trifling, or strikes a false note. The same may be said of the long poem which fills the rest of the book.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p110 F 12 ’20 120w
JONES, JOSHUA HENRY, jr. Heart of the world. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811
19–16027
The title poem was inspired by the speech of President Wilson in Boston on his first return from Europe in 1919. Among the other titles are: The pine tree; The parting; With you away; In summer twilight; Easter chimes; They’ve lynched a man in Dixie; Gone west; The universe; A southern love song; The potter and his ware.
“Fortunately we are not compelled to judge Mr Jones poetically by such a piece [the title poem]. With many another subject he is happier in both conception and execution. He has a broad range of interest and sympathies; has a discerning eye for nature and a warm emotion for simple experiences and personal associations.” W. S. B.
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Boston Transcript p10 Ja 31 ’20 550w
JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW. Service of love in war time. *$2.50 Macmillan 940.47
20–10376
“Rufus Jones’s ‘A service of love in war time’ is, as he says, ‘something more than the story of an impressive piece of relief work; it is the interpretation of a way of life.’ It is the story of the Quakers who found opportunity to express their pacifist convictions in reconstruction service in France. Incidentally it is a record of our War department’s methods in dealing with the conscientious objectors. Indeed it is this record of the religious objectors in the draft camps which is the most vivid part of Rufus Jones’s book—for he was the chief representative of the Quakers in long and painful negotiations with the military authorities. His account is a necessary corollary to Captain Kellogg’s book on the conscientious objector.”—Nation
“We commend this book to anyone who desires to read a story of singular and effective devotion and courage.”
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Bib World 54:649 N ’20 200w
Booklist 17:138 Ja ’21
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Nation 111:277 S 4 ’20 280w
“Can be recommended as an earnest, straightforward, well-detailed account of a great work.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 13 ’21 170w
“It is easier to sigh for the book which this might have been than to criticize Mr Jones’s book for what it is. I could wish less emphasis on the inner experience and more details as to the outward work; less emphasis on individual conscience and more on the general lessons to be drawn from great experiences corporately shared. I could wish, too, for a less sentimental title.” E: E. Hunt
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Survey 44:731 S 15 ’20 380w
“The account [of the conscientious objectors] is instructive in many ways; it is free from any disposition to exaggerate such abuses of authority as occurred, and shows on the author’s part an admirable perception of the intricacy of the various interests and principles at stake. Yet we cannot but regret that he did not treat his part of his story more summarily.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p690 O 28 ’20 1250w
JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW. Story of George Fox. *$1.50 Macmillan
19–1571
“A volume in the series of ‘Great leaders’ lives.’ It is the story of a hero who for more than two hundred years has figured in histories and religious works, but whose personality has never been clearly outlined in popular literature. In this instance, at least, his biographer has succeeded in giving his subject a fair degree of definition.”—R of Rs
“Good concrete example of the ideals of the Friends, well written.”
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Booklist 16:202 Mr ’20
Boston Transcript p6 Ja 3 ’20 180w
“Narrow as is its scope and unpretentious the style of this short biography written for young people, it portrays the founder of the Society of Friends with masterly art.”
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Nation 110:269 F 28 ’20 400w
“A compact and well-written volume.”
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R of Rs 61:334 Mr ’20 60w
JONES, SUSAN CARLETON (S. CARLETON, pseud.). La Chance mine mystery. il *$1.75 (2c) Little
Nicky Stretton, in the midst of his rough life as a miner, holds the vision of the wonderful “dream girl” who will some day come into his life. At the end of a day of discouragement, he comes home to find her, as beautiful as he had pictured her, seated by his fireplace. But it must not be supposed that they at once settle down to a life of sweet domesticity. On the contrary there are grave obstacles in the way. In the first place it appears that she is engaged to Nicky’s partner, and secondly, there is some mystery about her identity and her past which project an enemy into her present. Nicky is a bit slow about grasping the situation, but when he and the enemy finally come to grips, there is plenty of excitement and a startling number of hairbreadth escapes before his “dream girl” becomes his in reality.
“The tale is well told, skilfully setting forth a highly improbable action without letting us acknowledge to ourselves, while it is going on, that it is absurd.” H. W. Boynton
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Bookm 51:584 Jl ’20 170w
“This is a novel of excitement in which neither characters nor setting are neglected for the sake of mere plot.”
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Boston Transcript p7 My 8 ’20 520w
“Full of tender, whimsical sentiment that will make its appeal to men and women alike.”
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Cleveland p50 My ’20 50w
“For plot and swift action ‘The La Chance mine mystery,’ with its charming love romance, in the setting of frozen forests, with their howling wolf packs, is a story of the great out-of-doors that will satisfy the most blasé reader.”
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N Y Times 25:230 My 2 ’20 300w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
Pub W 97:997 Mr 20 ’20 250w
JONESCU, TAKE. Some personal impressions. il *$3 (6¼c) Stokes 923
20–3876
The author of this volume was former prime minister of Roumania. Of this English version Viscount Bryce writes in the introduction: “the descriptions it contains are for the most part vigorous sketches rather than portraits. Some, however, may be called vignettes, more or less finished drawings, each consisting of few lines, but those lines sharply and firmly drawn. Intermingled with this score of personal sketches there are also a few brief essays or articles which set before us particular scenes, little fragments of history in which the author bore a part, all relating to the persons who either figured in the war, or were concerned with the intrigues from which it sprang.” Contents: Monsieur Poincaré; Prince Lichnowsky; Count Berchtold; The marquis Pallavicini; Count Goluchowsky; August 2, 1914; Kiderlen-Waechter; Count Aehrenthal; Count Czernin; Count Mensdorff; England’s antipathy to war; The responsibility for the war; King Charles of Roumania; Herr Riedl; Count Szeczen; Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace; Baron Banffy; Roumanian policy; Tragedy; Count Tisza; Talaat Pasha; Prince von Bülow; Taticheff; France and the Teuton; A cousin of Tisza; New Italy; Why four last Germans; Eleutherios Venizelos; The kaiser.
“Some light is thrown on the events immediately preceding the war, and although the book is almost diplomatically polite, we see once more of what poor quality these official great men usually are.”
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Ath p1387 D 19 ’19 50w
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Booklist 16:275 My ’20
Dial 68:665 My ’20 50w
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Ind 104:68 O 9 ’20 80w
“Through all the back-stage chat which a diplomat loves we catch sharp flashes which throw into new relief many of the great events connected with the war.” H. F. Armstrong
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Nation 110:658 My 15 ’20 520w
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R of Rs 61:445 Ap ’20 180w
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Springf’d Republican p12 Je 8 ’20 400w
“The book, being what it is, naturally does not contain or profess to contain the matured contribution to the history of the last decades which we hope some day to have from his pen; but none the less it will be useful to many and can be read with pleasure by all.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p704 D 4 ’19 1300w
JOSEPH, MRS HELEN (HAIMAN). Book of marionettes. il *$5 Huebsch 792
20–26461
“The puppet show has flourished among many races and in different ages; it is primarily an outgrowth of the taste of the common people, though it has also entranced courts and kings. The range of interest that it has evoked is well set forth in this book, which also goes into the methods of constructing the puppets and the manner of operating them.”—Outlook
“The author is evidently so in love with her subject that her style assumes something of the charm and lightness of the puppets themselves.”
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Booklist 16:268 My ’20
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
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Bookm 52:347 D ’20 60w
“Helen Haiman Joseph and B. W. Huebsch have made their ‘Book of marionettes’ a treasure and a keepsake for children of all ages.” Maurice Browne
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Freeman 2:18 S 15 ’20 1600w
“The history and aspect of the puppets are both charmingly recorded by Mrs Joseph in her ‘Book of marionettes.’ She writes with a fantastic, airy touch that suits her subject, and her illustrations are chosen with admirable erudition and taste.” Ludwig Lewisohn
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Nation 110:597 My 1 ’20 1300w
“Her book is a labor of love by an amateur who has the necessary affection for her subject, but who does not pretend to the indispensable erudition.”
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N Y Times 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 2500w
“Amusing and whimsical book.”
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Outlook 125:28 My 5 ’20 330w
“As the first book in English on an important and neglected subject, it is surprisingly good and doubly welcome.”
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Theatre Arts Magazine 4:256 Jl ’20 310w
JUDSON, CLARA (INGRAM) (MRS JAMES MCINTOSH JUDSON). Junior cook book. $1.25 Barse & Hopkins 641.5
20–10578
The book teaches children of twelve, or under, to cook good, plain, nourishing food without any other help than the directions given. Special attention is given to vegetables and inexpensive dishes that have meat value. It is the author’s opinion that the boy as well as the girl ought to learn how to cook as a part of good citizenship. Every other page of the book is left blank for additional recipes and the last pages are devoted to suggested menus for breakfast, luncheon and dinner. The contents are divided into: Meats and dishes that have food value of meat; Vegetables; Breads, muffins, wafers and cookies; Salads and salad dressings; Desserts; Sandwiches; Jams and conserves; Good things to drink; Breakfast food; Confections.
“The selection of recipes is a sensible one for a general cook book.”
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Cleveland p108 D ’20 40w
JUDSON, JEANNE. Stars incline. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–2647
Upon the death of her mother Ruth Mayfield is sent to New York city to live with an aunt whom she has never seen, who is a celebrated, emotional actress, and who has the unique distinction of having divorced three husbands. Ruth in her early teens, dabbled below the surface of mysterious, occult things; to her amazement she discovers an actively evil hypnotic influence among her aunt’s servants. George, the powerfully built, red-eyed Hindu, not only very nearly kills Gloria Mayfield’s first husband by his mystic power of thought and faith, but also comes close to wrecking Gloria’s future. Ruth, however, quietly intervenes, and after much anxiety, has the happiness of seeing Percy Pendragon, Gloria’s first husband, miraculously restored to health; Gloria restored to Percy, and George’s sinister power utterly broken. Ruth’s own love affair together with her frustrated ambition to be a great artist, offset the mystic atmosphere that hangs over Gloria and her household.
Booklist 16:244 Ap ’20
“An amusing improbable tale, with a quasi-psychic twist that should create for it a furor among the many followers of the various cults now in vogue.”
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Boston Transcript p8 F 28 ’20 60w
JUTA, RÉNÉ. Cape Currey (Eng title, Tavern). *$1.75 (3c) Holt
20–13976
The story transpires in Cape Town, around 1820, and involves much political history in the telling. It contains the mysterious figure of Surgeon-Major James Barry, and a mysterious garden to whose secret gate Barry has a key. A beautiful Dutch girl of the colony, Aletta, discovers the garden and its captive, an extraordinarily beautiful young man. To break through the wall is now the one desire of both. At the moment of success, when they are about to rush into each other’s arms, a pistol shot from the ever watchful slave, Majuba, kills the young man, and Barry, arriving opportunely upon the scene, tells Aletta that his son (rather her son, for Barry turns out to be a woman) was a leper.
“To offer criticism of such a clever and at the same time, such an original book, is difficult, yet one wishes that Réné Juta’s narrative was a trifle more coherent, in its first chapters at least. Nevertheless, ‘Cape Currey’ is an extraordinarily well written book.” G. M. H.
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Boston Transcript p7 Ag 25 ’20 460w
“It is evident that she knows its history so well that she can write of life there a hundred years ago with as sure a touch and as vivid a pen as if she were writing about her own garden. There are still greater skill and knowledge and noteworthy insight in the portraying of the characters.”
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N Y Times p26 Ag 22 ’20 650w
Outlook 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w
“The style of the performance is a little overelaborate, somewhat early Hewlettian in manner, but with a flavor of its own.” H. W. Boynton
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Review 3:318 O 13 ’20 120w
“This story of Cape Town a hundred years ago has sufficient merit to make us wish that it had still more. The language and spirit of a bygone day are sometimes effectively suggested. But we are repelled by the general crudeness of style, and deficiencies in construction.”
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Sat R 130:122 Ag 7 ’20 100w
Springf’d Republican p11a S 12 ’20 200w
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KAHN, OTTO HERMANN. Our economic and other problems. *$4 (3½c) Doran 304
20–11152
A series of papers embodying a financier’s point of view on business and economics, war and foreign relations, and art. The book opens with an address on Edward Henry Harriman, characterized as the last figure of an epoch, delivered before the Finance Forum in New York, January 25, 1911. Among the papers on business and economics are: Strangling the railroads; Government ownership of railroads; High finance; The menace of paternalism; France; When the tide turned; Great Britain, and America and the League of nations are among the subjects considered under war and foreign relations, and there are three papers on art: Some observations on art in America; An experiment in popular priced opera; Art and the people.
Am Econ R 10:810 D ’20 30w
Booklist 17:13 O ’20
“The chapter on the railroads will be of less interest, though of great importance in itself, than that on labour and capital.”
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Dial 69:323 S ’20 140w
“The book will prove interesting and profitable to all seeking instruction from a source at once modest and authoritative. Mr Kahn is an actor in international finance as well as a writer upon it, and his book has the quality which results from doing things rather than thinking about doing them.”
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N Y Times p29 Ag 29 ’20 250w
“In general spirit and point-of-view, Mr Kahn’s book may be characterized as soundly optimistic. It is the expression of a mind neither ‘stand-pat’ nor ‘radical.’ Upon Mr Kahn’s mastery of the special topics with which he deals there is no need to enlarge.”
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No Am 212:426 S ’20 1350w
“On matters of business and finance Mr Kahn speaks with knowledge that is both practical and complete. The chapters on taxation are particularly good.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 15 ’20 420w
KALPASCHNIKOFF, ANDREW. Prisoner of Trotsky’s. *$2.50 (3c) Doubleday 947
20–14311
The book has a foreword by David R. Francis, formerly American ambassador to Russia, in which he describes the author as a member of the American Red cross mission to Rumania with the incidents leading to his arrest and his five-months’ imprisonment in the fortress of St Peter and St Paul. The author declines going into the causes that led to the general breakdown of Russia, and claims to confine himself strictly to what he himself has undergone as a prisoner of the bolshevist régime. Many of his accounts, however, are not based on personal experience but on the stories of “eye-witnesses.” He feels nothing but horror for bolshevism which he describes as a revolutionary sickness through which Russia is passing and happily already approaching the convalescent stage. He pins his faith on Russian patriotism and religion and heralds the orthodox church as the deliverer.
Booklist 17:142 Ja ’21
Reviewed by W: Hard
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New Repub 24:75 S 15 ’20 1650w
“The value of this volume, however, lies ... in the analysis—as a rule without self-consciousness or effort—of the Russian character as affected by the revolution and of the effect of the Russian character and temperament on the revolution.” M. F. Egan
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N Y Times 25:307 Je 13 ’20 2050w
“One’s general notion that Russia is the home of real-life melodrama appears to be justified by most that one reads about that country. It is, in fact, somewhat difficult at times to realize that Mr Kalpaschnikoff’s narrative is not simply lurid fiction. But the manifest sincerity and truthfulness of the author rapidly dispel any such illusion.”
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No Am 212:431 S ’20 750w
“Colonel Kalpaschnikoff’s book strikes an entirely new note. In the first place, it is a narrative of the sort of personal experience from which few men have come out alive, and, in the second, it is as exciting as a sensational novel.” F. H. Potter
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Outlook 125:646 Ag 11 ’20 1250w
KANE, ROBERT. Worth. *$2.25 Longmans 170
“In these thoughtful addresses, some of which were delivered in the Church of Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, Strand, the author at first deals with general principles, and discusses true and false standards of worth. He then treats of personality, intellectual excellence, the evolution of the soul, the worth of patriotism, and other topics.”—Ath
Ath p352 Mr 12 ’20 60w
“The book is replete with sound logic, sterling ideals and old-fashioned common sense; there are so many passages worth remembering and referring to, that it is to be regretted that an index has been omitted.”
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Cath World 111:825 S ’20 370w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p159 Mr 4 ’20 70w
KARSNER, DAVID. Debs: his authorized life and letters from Woodstock prison to Atlanta. il *$1.50 (2c) Boni & Liveright
20–978
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
“Journalistic and based chiefly on interviews, but interesting as giving glimpses of the appealing personality of the man.”
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Booklist 17:152 Ja ’21
“While the book is entirely socialistic propaganda, it serves a useful purpose in giving a full delineation, from the Socialist point of view, of the make-up of this man, his ideas and the things for which he stands. For this reason, it is a useful contribution to the literature of the day.”
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Cath World 111:836 S ’20 160w
“Karsner’s memorabilia may some day prove ironically to be a contribution to the literature of American patriotism.”
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Dial 68:402 Mr ’20 80w
“With a modesty becoming the true biographer, Mr Karsner has permitted Debs to speak for himself and to show us, through his letters and addresses, that a man may grow to maturity without permitting the cowardices and compromises of life to corrupt him.” Harry Salpeter
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Nation 110:520 Ap 17 ’20 550w
“David Karsner, a true hero worshipper, has made a loving portrait, which, although idealized in many respects, is far from imaginary and is almost a work of art.” J. E. Le Rossignol
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Review 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 650w
R of Rs 61:334 Mr ’20 60w
“Mr Karsner tells a good story, apparently based on conversations he has had with Debs. His work is not critical, nor does he use the historical sources to the extent that he might under different circumstances. Of its own kind,—the quickly written journalistic biography founded chiefly on the interview—this life of Debs is excellent.” W. L. C.
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Survey 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 460w
“Not needed by all small libraries.”
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Wis Lib Bul 16:123 Je ’20 50w
KARTINI, raden adjeng. Letters of a Javanese princess. *$4 Knopf
20–20025
The letters are translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers and supplied with a foreword by Louis Couperus. The Javanese women are still condemned by tradition and custom to a secluded prison-life, against which Kartini fought from early childhood. She was the first Javanese feminist and her letters voice her ardent longing for freedom for herself and countrywomen, and testify to her achievements in that direction.
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Booklist 17:112 D ’20
“The book is astonishingly fresh and fascinating. It should be given to the woman who rejoices in every sign of the liberation of the woman-soul from the bondage of tradition and masculine domination.” Margaret Ashmun
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Bookm 52:346 D ’20 1100w
“The first of these letters, written in the Dutch language to friends in Holland, breathe the modern spirit. They unfold the story of the writer and show forth the Javanese life and manners in a vivid manner.” E. J. C.
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Boston Transcript p6 O 30 ’20 600w
“Perhaps the greatest thing in her favour is that, as much as the worship of the shibboleth was in her blood, she did not blindly supplant the shibboleth of native practices with the shibboleth of European practices. On account of her excessive handicaps, however, her grasp of expression is by no means unusual; and as a result, the book is more valuable historically than as a piece of literature.”
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Dial 70:231 F ’21 100w
“As a picture of life in a remote corner of the world, the letters have real value, apart from their undoubted human appeal. It is sometimes difficult however to escape the feeling that the writer of them had an eye to their ultimate public appearance, when she grasped the pen, which may account for occasional lapses into a somewhat didactic and self-conscious style.” L. B.
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Freeman 2:333 D 15 ’20 230w
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Nation 112:sup246 F 9 ’21 450w
“Kartini is thoroughly Javanese in shielding all that is beautiful in native culture, but her spirit is no more alien or fantastic than Susan B. Anthony’s. Sometimes she even seems to have too much of distinctly familiar sentiment and rhetoric. But one forgets this shortcoming in admiring her as one of humanity’s vanguard.” S. K. T.
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KAY, BARBARA. Elizabeth, her folks. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75 Doubleday
20–18511
Elizabeth Swift spends her fourteenth summer with her grandparents on Cape Cod. She is not used to country life and at first feels herself a trifle superior to it. But she makes friends with Peggy Farraday, who is also summering there, and gradually realizes she is having a splendid time, until at its end she thinks it is the finest summer she has ever spent. It is saddened a little by her beloved brother’s illness, but that comes out all right, too, as his romance with Ruth, Peggy’s sister, promises to do, thanks to Elizabeth’s manipulation.
“Excellent style and vigorous characterization place these books rather above the level of the average ‘juvenile.’ They are proof of the fact that a book for children need not seem to have been written by one.”
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Dial 69:548 N ’20 40w
“There is plenty to keep a girl interested in these volumes, which are excellent portrayals of present-day girlhood and its interests.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
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N Y Times p9 D 12 ’20 50w
KAY, BARBARA. Elizabeth, her friends. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75 Doubleday
20–18510
After her summer on Cape Cod, described in “Elizabeth, her folks,” Elizabeth comes back to New York to live in a brand new apartment. She and her chum Jean decide to keep a diary, and many of her hopes and aspirations are poured into it. She has a busy winter, for Buddy, her big brother, gets married to Ruth Farraday, her friend Peggy’s sister, and of course the wedding keeps her busy and excited. Then there is the mystery in Jean’s household in which she plays an important part. And she has good times with other friends, boys as well as girls, and learns many valuable lessons about friendliness and comradeship.
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Dial 69:548 N ’20 40w
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N Y Evening Post p11 O 30 ’20 130w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
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N Y Times p9 D 12 ’20 50w
KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA. Tamarisk town. *$2.50 Dutton
20–7297
“Tamarisk town, vulgarly known as Marlingate, was a small Sussex fishing village in 1857 when the story opens. Monypenny determined to make of it a rival to Brighton. And as the years go by, passing the milestones of a new novel by Dickens or another masterpiece from the pen of Mrs Henry Wood, Marlingate gradually turns into Monypenny’s dream—a watering-place of marvellous beauty and refinement. Enter now a woman, Morgan Beckett. They are rivals, Morgan and Marlingate, for Monypenny’s love; there is a contest; Monypenny cannot bring himself to desert the town that he has created. Morgan, in a fit of despair, puts an end to her life, and he, all his love for the town now turned to bitterness, sets himself deliberately to destroy Marlingate.”—Ath
“Miss Kaye-Smith has written an interesting novel in ‘Tamarisk town,’ creating a world that is not exactly realistic, but consistent with itself—an invention rather than a copy.”
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Ath p832 Ag 29 ’19 180w
“Were Miss Kaye-Smith a painter, we should be inclined to say that we do not feel she has yet made up her mind which it is that she wishes most to paint—whether landscape or portraits. Why should she not be equally at home with both? What is her new novel ‘Tamarisk town’ but an attempt to see them in relation to each other? And yet, in retrospect, there is her town severely and even powerfully painted, and there are her portraits, on the same canvas, and yet so out of it, so separate that the onlooker’s attention is persistently divided—it flies between the two, and is captured by neither.” K. M.
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Ath p881 S 12 ’19 1200w
“Will be appreciated by those who like good character analysis and atmosphere conveyed by careful detail.”
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Booklist 16:348 Jl ’20
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Boston Transcript p7 D 17 ’19 600w (Reprinted from Spec 123:622 N 8 ’19)
“Her novel is characteristic of her, but it is thoroughly original and a strongly emotional presentation of the human spirit which seems to be governed wholly by fate. When we have read its last page we feel that Edward Monypenny’s life could have varied at no moment and in no detail from the novelist’s presentation of it.”
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Boston Transcript p4 My 19 ’20 1500w
“‘Tamarisk town’ deteriorates slowly like the town it describes; the author seems a little uncertain when she dips into sociology instead of confining herself to the natural processes of the soil.”
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Dial 69:320 S ’20 70w
“Sheila Kay-Smith’s place in English letters since ‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads’ has been peculiar. She has been visualized as a sort of female Thomas Hardy, an ironist dealing with elementals, making no compromises with the romanticism of the day. Yet her new book ‘Tamarisk town’ merely deepens the impression that she is a romanticist at heart.... The book is a compact, well-rounded piece of work. It intimates a vastness that is never definitely asserted.” H. S. G.
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Freeman 1:550 Ag 18 ’20 350w
“It is a book surcharged with a great emotion, a worthy successor to ‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads.’ ‘Tamarisk town’ is a genuine work of strength, a novel with a Hardian touch, a work that will vastly move the reader.”
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N Y Times 25:273 My 23 ’20 750w
“The tale has something of the magic of style and of mood which belonged to Stevenson’s fragmentary ‘Weir of Hermiston.’ For me it has the glamour of true story-telling, the creative reality which is so dismally absent from most studies of fact.” H. W. Boynton
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Review 2:654 Je 23 ’20 700w
“‘Tamarisk town’ is an original and striking story, in which observation and local knowledge are happily united to very considerable imaginative power. Moreover, though the action is spread over nearly forty years, the sense of continuity is well maintained.”
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Spec 123:622 N 8 ’19 550w
KEABLE, ROBERT. Drift of pinions. *$2 Dutton
20–15963
“There are sixteen of the stories, their scenes laid in various parts of the earth, and in each of them the author invokes a fluttering of unseen pinions at the threshold of the spirit of some one of his characters. Some of the scenes are laid in a remote region of East Africa where the author has spent a number of years as a missionary. When the British government brought a great number of the natives of this region to France as laborers during the war Mr Keable accompanied them as chaplain and in ‘Standing by,’ published last summer, he described his work among them and their reactions to their new surroundings. Some of the stories in this book deal with strange spiritual experience among these simple people, or with those of missionaries among them, and the scenes of others are laid in England, in France before the war, or in other parts of the globe.”—N Y Times
“It is a book which cannot fail to interest Catholic readers, and which, if studied carefully, will give a better insight to the peculiar psychology of the ‘extremely High church’ Anglican than anything that has hitherto appeared in this country. The chapters, ‘In no strange land,’ ‘Our lady’s pain,’ and ‘The acts of the Holy apostles’ are not only the best stories in the book, but they are the only ones which carry with them a sense of actuality.”
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Cath World 111:257 My ’20 300w
“The stories vary greatly in quality, the theme being sometimes handled with subtlety and impressiveness, and in others with a simplicity that touches upon crudeness and leaves the reader cold.”
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N Y Times 25:86 F 8 ’20 320w
KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE. Our northern autumn. (Handbook ser. on wild flowers) il *$1.75 Scribner 580
20–10564
Both from an aesthetic and a botanical point of view the little book describes the autumnal flora which, says the author, “is interesting in that it holds to the poles of life; it bears in its bosom the dying and the dead, at the same time that it welcomes youth, insistent, omnipresent youth, roystering up and down the highways and byways in the persons of the sunflowers, the goldenrods, and above all the asters.” Among the contents are: Descriptions of autumn flowers; Autumnal foliage; October days; The kindly fruits of the earth; Herbaceous plants with conspicuous fruits; Nuts; November; Wild flower sanctuaries. There is a list of genera and species; six color and numerous half-tone plates and an index of Latin and one of English names.
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Booklist 17:17 O ’20
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Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 160w
KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE. Belgian Congo and the Berlin act. *$6.75 Oxford 967
(Eng ed 19–12919)
“This work is concerned chiefly with the political history of the Congo and with an analysis of the international compact which regulates the government of the Free state. The work is elaborately annotated, and the Berlin act and other state papers of importance are reprinted in the appendix.”—Dial
Brooklyn 12:106 Mr ’20 50w
Dial 67:386 N 1 ’19 50w
“Professor Keith’s history of the Belgian Congo is judicious, exhaustive, authoritative. Completed in September 1918, it necessarily wants sureness of touch in dealing with the present outlook, but a later edition will be able to supply an air of greater finality. An appendix comprises all relevant state documents. It would be an advantage if a map were added. The book is a carefully written and well-balanced history.” G. B. Hurst
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Eng Hist R 35:290 Ap ’20 950w
Reviewed by W. E. B. DuBois
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Nation 111:351 S 25 ’20 550w
“We need hardly say that Professor Keith’s history of the Congo state is exact and scholarly.”
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Spec 122:833 Je 28 ’19 1350w
“It must be said, however, for Dr Keith that, although his preface is dated September, 1918, he has written about the future of Central Africa from a point of view that is already obsolete.... Dr Keith, in his strong condemnation of the abuses of King Leopold’s autocratic rule, has not failed to do full justice to that monarch’s extraordinary energy and strength of will, versatile capacity for affairs, and financial skill.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p371 Jl 10 ’19 1550w
KEITH, ERIC A. My escape from Germany. *$1.76 (2c) Century 940.47
20–2039
Mr Keith was an English business man living at Neuss, a town on the left bank of the Rhine, when the war broke out, and was promptly interned in the prison camp at Ruhleben. The book is an account of his three attempts to escape, once alone and twice with companions, of which the third was successful. This American edition of the book contains much matter which had to be omitted from the earlier English edition, printed while the war was still on. It contains a map of the route taken in the last successful attempt and the narrative is a plain statement of facts without any attempt at sensational trimmings.
“Vigorously written.”
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Booklist 16:275 My ’20
“The book contains much fascinating information about the technique of escaping from prison camps. That truth is stranger than fiction is again demonstrated by Mr Keith’s adventures.”
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N Y Times 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w
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Review 2:632 Je 16 ’20 440w
“In what one is now justified in calling the literature of escape this takes a good place. It is told with a good deal of literary skill, and is full of close detail which is never allowed to be boring.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p586 N 28 ’18 70w
KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON. Catty Atkins. il *$1.60 (2½c) Harper
20–1213
Catty Atkins and his father were shiftless folk, tramps, to be exact. But Catty was levelheaded and did a lot of thinking and when he fell in with “Wee-wee” Moore and his dad he did some more. All that Mr Moore did was to treat Catty with respect and all that Mrs Gage did was to treat him like scum. The effect of the combination was to arouse Catty from his lethargy and fill him with a fierce determination to be respectable and make his shiftless dad respectable. How he did it is the story, and although Catty’s bossing soon makes Mr Atkins the richest and handsomest man in town, he never loses his wistful look towards his fishing rod and the road.
“A capital story for boys.” R. D. Moore
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Pub W 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w
“The story is improbable and the characters overdrawn, but the work is written in an entertaining vein.”
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Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 130w
KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON. Efficiency Edgar. il *$1.25 (6½c) Harper
20–7299
They called him Efficiency Edgar in the office in a derisive way, but then—had he not more than doubled his salary in two years? He was determined to order his life with efficiency. He decided that it was an efficiency measure to get married. He conducted his courtship as a sales campaign employing the “follow-up system” and the “intensive cultivation of prospects.” Mary thought it was lovely and signed the contract. Next came housekeeping by strict schedule which worked to perfection including Mary’s feigned sprained ankle—result a cook and exit schedule. It was reserved to Edgar Junior to prove to his efficient parent that “a baby isn’t a machine with gears and cranks and pulleys. A baby is a kid.”
Booklist 17:34 O ’20
“One is inclined to wonder if, apart from Mr Kelland’s reputation as a short story writer, this particular tale would have had such wide appeal. There have been so many similar stories and, even possessed of willing mind, much of the material seems dull and hackneyed. Only in the courtship chapter have we a ghost of freshness.”
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Boston Transcript p4 Ag 28 ’20 150w
“Clarence Budington Kelland has very cleverly ridiculed the overdoing of the efficiency idea.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 120w
KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON. Youth challenges. *$1.75 (1½c) Harper
20–18251
“Bonbright Foote, Incorporated” had gone through six generations without balking and with family tradition and business tradition fossilizing side by side. But Bonbright Foote VII balked. The result of the former was a family fortune of five millions, of the latter a disowned son cast off penniless. But as a further result Bonbright Foote, without the VII, applied to his father’s friend, the automobile king, for a job, donned overalls, began at the bottom of the ladder as a mechanic, climbed rung after rung and incidentally learned how an up-to-date business was conducted. After his father’s sudden death he takes hold of the fossilized concern of six generations, and makes it over on the five dollars a day minimum wage basis. On the day that the announcement of the plan averts a disastrous strike, Bonbright’s unhappy love affair also takes a turn. He not only finds his lost girl-wife, but finds that it is he and not another whom she loves.
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Booklist 17:116 D ’20
“Not deep, not searching, the book because of its restraint and sincerity deserves respectful reading.”
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N Y Evening Post p10 O 30 ’20 100w
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Springf’d Republican p9a N 14 ’20 230w
KELLEY, ETHEL MAY. Outside inn. il *$1.75 Bobbs
20–7519
“Though it has the usual love story—three of them, in fact—and ends with the heroine clasped in the hero’s arms in the most orthodox manner, the real theme of the tale, that one upon which the interest of the novel depends, is not love but—food. We cannot at the moment recall any recent book in which there was so much and such good eating as there is in this tale of a tea room. The greatest desire of Nancy Martin’s life was to feed her fellow-mortals, men and women, on the proper kinds of nourishing foods containing the proper number of calories. Wherefore she opened the charming tea room which she called ‘Outside inn,’ engaged a French chef who was at once a genius and a true artist, secured several highly competent waitresses, and served excellent meals of the most abundant, varied and tempting food at a moderate, a very moderate price. Incidentally, Nancy Martin adopted a little girl and had an unhappy love affair before she found her real mate.’—N Y Times
Booklist 16:313 Je ’20
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N Y Times 25:236 My 9 ’20 420w
“Altogether it is entertaining in its way, but it is to be hoped that American taste will sometime outgrow the romantic immaturity which can accept such a work as having any relation to life and character.”
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Springf’d Republican p8a S 19 ’20 420w
KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG). Bobbins of Belgium. il *$2 (6c) Funk 746
20–5590
“A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages.” (Sub-title) In the preface the author gives an account of the heroic efforts made during the war to continue the campaign, begun before the war, of restoring and developing the threatened lace industry. A brief survey of the history of lace-making is given in the introduction with a description of its peculiar milieu as a home industry and the more modern development into a craft through normal schools of lace-making. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the notable lace-villages. The differences between the various kinds of laces, needle laces and bobbin laces, are more fully described and their stitches illustrated, in the appendix. The contents are: Introduction; Turnhout; Courtrai; Thourout-Thielt-Wynghene; Grammont; Bruges; Kerxken; Erembodeghem; Opbrakel; Liedekerke; Herzele; Ghent; Zele. The book is profusely illustrated and there is an index.
“Author is as much interested in the lace makers us in methods and designs, and writes a humanly interesting rather than technical book.”
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Booklist 16:269 My ’20
“So far as the study of lace itself goes, the book is not too technical, and it furnishes a convenient handbook for those who would possess a passable knowledge of the principles of lace making.”
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Boston Transcript My 19 ’20 230w
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Cath World 112:398 D ’20 170w
Reviewed by Ruth Van Deman
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J Home Econ 12:425 S ’20 340w
“The book contains much valuable technical detail, including many illustrations of lace patterns, but also gives vivid pictures of convent life and the sturdy Franciscan sisters as they pass on the secrets of their exquisite craft to their young charges.”
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Nation 110:661 My 15 ’20 300w
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Outlook 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“The illustrations will delight the lover of lace.” J. G.
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St Louis 18:223 S ’20 40w
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Springf’d Republican p6 O 26 ’20 840w
KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG). Mercier; the fighting cardinal of Belgium. *$2 (4½c) Appleton
20–5667
The author is well known for her work with the Commission for relief in Belgium. Brand Whitlock has written a brief foreword for her book, parts of which have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Outlook and Delineator. There are ten chapters: The fighting cardinal; From boy to cardinal; Pastoral letters to an imprisoned people; The cardinal and Rome in war-time; The good shepherd; The cardinal versus the governor general; The cardinal at home; After the armistice—the visit to America; Trenchant sayings of the cardinal; Text of the Christmas pastoral, patriotism and endurance. A short bibliography of Cardinal Mercier’s works concludes the book.
Booklist 16:310 Je ’20
“The book is brilliantly written and is of the deepest interest.”
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Boston Transcript p4 My 5 ’20 350w
“Much of it is fresh, vivid material; and all of it is presented in a delightful manner. The author has a literary gift that enables her to express herself gracefully and concisely; with taste and discrimination, she has also grasp of spiritual values.”
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Cath World 111:687 Ag ’20 380w
“Mrs Kellogg’s little book, with its personal touches, forms a useful pendant to the Cardinal’s letters.” Muriel Harris
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Nation 110:771 Je 5 ’20 160w
“An authentic and illuminating biography.”
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N Y Times p11 O 17 ’20 70w
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Outlook 124:766 Ap 28 ’20 100w
“The book is brief. The material seems to have been hastily thrown together, with obvious paddings. To Catholic readers the book should especially appeal, for it is written with a spirit of devout reverence.” M. K. Reely
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Pub W 97:609 F 21 ’20 220w
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R of Rs 61:558 My ’20 100w
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Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 250w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p425 Jl 1 ’20 120w
KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN. Herbert Hoover; the man and his work. *$2 (2c) Appleton
20–8244
A biographical sketch written by a man who was closely associated with the relief of Belgium. A preliminary chapter, headed “Children,” describes Mr Hoover’s arrival in Warsaw. This is followed by the sketch of early years, with chapters on: The child and boy; The university; The young mining engineer; In China; London and the rest of the world; The war: The man and his first service. The remaining chapters are devoted to the relief of Belgium, the American food administration, and the American relief administration. Four appendices give extracts from Mr Hoover’s reports, writings and speeches.
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Booklist 16:344 Jl ’20
Cleveland p77 Ag ’20 80w
“It is a magnificent picture of the most truly American figure of our time.”
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Ind 102:373 Je 12 ’20 200w
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Outlook 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 280w
R of Rs 62:111 Jl ’20 120w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p685 O 21 ’20 70w
KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN. Nuova; or, The new bee; with songs by Charlotte Kellogg. il *$2.25 (9c) Houghton
20–17603
A note to this “story for children of five to fifty” says: “Most of this that I have written about bees is true: what is not, does not pretend to be. Some of the true part sounds almost like a description of what human life might in some respects be, if certain social movements of today were followed out to their logical extreme. I suppose that in this likeness lies the moral of the book.” The part of the story that isn’t true and doesn’t pretend to be has to do with the revolt of Nuova against bee traditions. Nuova is a new bee, she grows tired of working and begins to ask the meaning of things in bee society. She takes an interest in the drones and even falls in love with one of them. She meets the fate of all nonconformists and is about to be driven from the hive to her death when a fortunate turn of chance spares her and brings a happy ending.
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Ind 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w
“Children will not get the satire, but they will find much useful information as well as much fancy in the text.”
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Lit D p96 D 4 ’20 60w
“There are no danger signs to warn the child reader when he is following fancy away from the true path. Nor will its failure as a child’s book insure its success with the grown-ups.” M. H. B. Mussey
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Nation 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 180w
“Those who know Mr Kellogg’s other books and like them, will like this. It will lure many to thinking about the bees who never cared for nature lore before.” Robert Hunting
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Pub W 98:1201 O 16 ’20 250w
“Younger readers—indeed the very youngest—who read this book will be less concerned with the fact that the author’s bee-lore is absolutely authentic than with the realization that he knows how to make a true story more entertaining than the average fairy tale.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 N 18 ’20 120w
KELLY, FRED CHARTERS. Human nature in business; how to capitalize your everyday habits and characteristics. il *$1.90 Putnam 658
A20–714
“This book contains articles which excited a good deal of interest when first they appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals. In them the author tells ‘how to capitalize your every-day habits and characteristics.”—Survey
“Interesting but rather obvious.”
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Booklist 16:265 My ’20
“This book which at least is diverting and suggestive, is replete with incidents of one kind or another illustrating the unconscious elements of conduct.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a My 16 ’20 260w
“Apart from their original purpose, the studies are interesting as sidelights upon crowd psychology.” B. L.
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Survey 44:291 My 22 ’20 60w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p241 Ap 15 ’20 30w
KELLY, HOWARD ATWOOD, and BURRAGE, WALTER LINCOLN. American medical biographies. $15 Norman, Remington co. 926
20–14756
To a certain extent this work is a revision of Dr Kelly’s “Cyclopedia of American medical biography,” published in 1912. He says in the preface: “Dr Walter L. Burrage and I have worked for several years to produce the present volume, deleting from the former book fifty-one biographies not coming up to our standard, replacing with new biographies sixty-two others, revising and correcting from original sources nearly all, and adding 815 new ones, besides those that have replaced the old ones. Thus our book contains 1948 biographies and is carried through the year 1918. In addition there are about eighty references to individuals mentioned biographically in the main biographies.” The principle of selection has been “to include every man who has in any way contributed to the advancement of medicine in the United States or in Canada, or who, being a physician, has become illustrious in some other field of general science or in literature.” Living men are entirely excluded. A list of works consulted occupies nine pages and there is a local index, by states, in addition to the general index.
“The catholicity of judgment shown in their preparation and the discrimination in the selection of names chosen for reference place ‘American medical biographies’ on a very high plane indeed.” Van Buren Thorne
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N Y Times p14 O 31 ’20 2500w
KELLY, THOMAS HOWARD. What outfit, Buddy? il *$1.50 (3c) Harper
20–3794
As this narrative stands it is Jimmy McGee’s story—“Jimmy McGee, a real, regular fighting Yank who has seen his share of la guerre”—and his story, says the author “is merely the universal version of the great adventure as held by legions of his comrades.” Inseparable from Jimmy is his pal the O. D., who never went back after “la guerre finee” to his mother and Mary but left Jimmy to break them the news of the grave in France.
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Booklist 16:282 My ’20
“The whole volume is rather an interesting experimentation in values which, helped by the delightful illustrations, is, on the whole a success.” I. W. L.
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Boston Transcript p6 Ap 14 ’20 800w
KEMP, HARRY HIBBARD. Chanteys and ballads. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811
20–12187
“The book contains rough out-door poems of land and sea, songs of sailors at sea driving to strange lands, and impressions of tramps by campfire and their visions of the Christ, and many others.” (St Louis) “Most of the sea poems were written long after Mr Kemp had ceased to sail before the mast, but the impressions that those early years made upon him have hardly faded.” (N Y Times)
“For those who know that splendid play Mr Kemp wrote on Judas when he gave his version of Judas’s purpose in the betrayal will find his poems of New Testament life full of power and a strange loveliness. If one had a doubt as to whether Mr Kemp would finally reach a development of his gifts where he would no longer be accepted with qualifications, that doubt, it seems to me, vanished with this volume.” W: S. Braithwaite
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Boston Transcript p6 S 1 ’20 1300w
Dial 70:109 Ja ’21 40w
“One can not share Mr Kemp’s expressed conviction that he has found ‘the immortal meaning of it all.’ At least, if he has found it, he has not succeeded in transferring it to the assorted verses which are gathered here.” L. B.
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Freeman 1:622 S 8 ’20 210w
“Mr Kemp’s new volume is a disappointment. He was fastidious before, though generous enough in thought and gesture; now he finds room for commonplace and cant, complacency and swagger.” Mark Van Doren
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Nation 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 100w
“Full of buoyancy and swinging rhythms.”
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N Y Times p16 N 7 ’20 160w
St Louis 18:247 O ’20 30w
KENDALL, RALPH SELWOOD.[2] Luck of the mounted. *$2 Lane
20–17967
“The scene of this story is the great Canadian Northwest, the principal part of it being laid in the vicinity of Calgary, where the author was for a time stationed as a member of the Royal Northwest mounted police. A particularly baffling murder case is the theme of the tale and the culprit is a man with a strange and adventurous past. A second killing, with a curious chain of circumstances connecting it with the first one, is, in the end, solved and the murderer brought to justice.”—N Y Times
“The story is devoid of romance, but it is told in such a gripping, straightforward manner as to give it the earmarks of truth.”
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N Y Times p20 D 5 ’20 160w
“Sergeant Kendall writes about the Royal Canadian mounted police with inside knowledge. That makes his story more convincing than most narratives of this type. The background of snowy Canadian scenery, admirably painted in, lends a touch of poetry to the tale.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p801 D 2 ’20 80w
KENEALY, ARABELLA. Feminism and sex-extinction. *$5 Dutton 396
(Eng ed SG20–92)
“Dr Kenealy has elaborated the truth that men and women inherit the characteristics of both sexes into an extreme doctrine which she uses as a weapon to attack feminism and the ‘unwomanly woman.’ She heads a chapter, ‘One side of the body is male, the other side is female’; and the next, ‘Masculine mothers produce emasculate sons by misappropriating the life-potential of male offspring.’ Feminist doctrine and practice are disastrous to human faculty and progress. She is in dread of ‘the impending subjection of man,’ because it will be a calamity for woman as well as for man.”—Ath