Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1920 Books (continued 31)
Reading edition
“The international lawyer, the historian, and the general student of modern problems will each be grateful to Mr Ogilvie for his helpful work.” M. W. Tyler
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Mississippi Valley Hist R 7:161 S ’20 460w
“Mr Ogilvie’s thoughtful treatise is very timely.” L. J. B.
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Review 2:603 Je 5 ’20 1350w
R of Rs 62:224 Ag ’20 60w
“A scholarly, well-written history.”
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Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 30 ’20 280w
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Survey 44:352 Je 5 ’20 100w
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p215 Ap 1 ’20 120w
“The bibliography of treaties is likely to be of much practical use in coming years and represents a great deal of most fruitful labour. The bibliography of works dealing with the subject, though not exhaustive, will be helpful. An excellent index concludes a very thorough piece of work.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p265 Ap 29 ’20 1600w
O’HIGGINS, HARVEY JERROLD. Secret springs. *$2 (3c) Harper 130
20–19287
The author outlines the system of a Dr X who has “largely uncovered the mechanism by which the mind affects health” and who has evolved this system of mental hygiene according to which he treats his patients and directs them to safeguard themselves. It is based on the Freudian theory of psychoanalysis from which Dr X deviates and upon which he enlarges to some extent by not emphasising the sex element with the same insistence. The contents consider suppressions: In love and marriage; In health; In childhood; In happiness and success; In Theodore Roosevelt; In character and conduct; In dreams; In religion.
“Mr O’Higgins is agreeably free of Freudian and sexual obsessions.”
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Nation 111:694 D 15 ’20 50w
“It is a very cheerful book, not only because it escapes what the writer calls the ‘unspeakable’ abstruseness and laboratory gruesomeness of the expositions of Freud and his followers, but also because everybody gets cured.” Renee Darmstadter
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N Y Evening Post p8 D 31 ’20 400w
O’KELLY, SEUMAS. Golden barque; and The weaver’s grave. *$1.75 (4c) Putnam
The longest tale in this collection, “The weaver’s grave,” describes an ancient graveyard “Cloon na Morav,” the meadow of the dead. So ancient is it that to have a right of burial there amounts to a pedigree. It is only the weaver, newly dead, and one survivor, Malachi Roohan, the cooper, who still have that right. On two other ancient inhabitants of the town devolves the task of finding the weaver’s grave. It is a well-nigh hopeless quest, related with insight and weird humor. The rest of the book, under the heading “The golden barque” consists of: Michael and Mary; Hike and Calcutta; The haven; Billy the clown; The derelict; The man with the gift.
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Ath p31 Ja 2 ’20 130w
“Slight plots, delightful people and the characteristic Celtic humor.”
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Booklist 17:159 Ja ’21
“‘The golden barque’ is so finely and purely Irish that it is doubtful whether a child could make the most of it. But these are tales with so much literary and poetic quality that it would be unfortunate not at least to give the child a chance.”
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Ind 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w
“There is an indescribable charm in these two Irish stories, which is attributable to the manner in which they are told, rather than to any extraordinary merit in plot and action.”
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N Y Times p19 N 7 ’20 460w
“I shall recall the book for the long sketch with which it begins, but which for obvious reasons is not the title-story: ‘The weaver’s grave,’ a comedy most limited in scene and accessory, but rich in content and perfect in form.” H. W. Boynton
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Review 3:422 N 3 ’20 190w
“His characters are new, not picked from the crowd but found here and there in Ireland with individuality stamped all over them. They are not very important characters, but such as they are they challenge attention.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 D 28 ’20 180w
“If all these little stories were as beautifully told as the first, the set would be a rare delight. They vary in merit, and usually fall when Mr O’Kelly relies on detail, to rise again when he opens his inner vision.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p677 N 20 ’19 230w
OLCOTT, FRANCES JENKINS. Story-telling ballads. il *$3 Houghton 821.08
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The anthology contains seventy-seven of the ancient ballads and narrative poems such as were sung by minstrels and recited by gaffers and gammers in days of old. They are intended for boys and girls from twelve to fifteen years of age, and contain “romances, hero-tales, faërie legends and adventures of knights and lovely damsels. They sing of proud and wicked folk, of gentle and loyal ones, of laidley worms, witches, mermaids with golden combs, sad maidens, glad ones and fearless lovers, mosstroopers, border-rievers, and kings in disguise.” (Foreword) There are four color-prints, and the appendix contains suggestions for teachers, a glossary and indexes of subjects, authors, titles and first lines. The contents are grouped under the headings: The salt blue seas; A-harrowing o’ the border; Brave hearts and proud; Lays o’ faërie; Lays o’ wonder; Merry gestes; Sad gestes; Pretty mays and knights so bold; For Halloween and midsummer eve; All under the greenwood tree; O’ pilgrimage and souls so strong.
“Miss Olcott has selected her ballads with good taste, and the indexes and glossary are excellent.”
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N Y Evening Post p20 D 4 ’20 100w
OLCOTT, HARRIET MEAD. Whirling king, and other French fairy tales. il *$1.50 Holt
20–16112
Ten fairy stories adapted from the French and illustrated in silhouette. The titles are: Prince Rainbow; Bleuette’s butterfly; The frozen heart; The elf-dog; The whirling king; The magic mirror; The queen’s treasure; The stupid princess; The flying wizard; The forest fairy.
OLDMEADOW, ERNEST JAMES. Coggin *$1.75 (1½c) Century
20–818
The meeting of two human spirits for mutual uplift, development and regeneration is the theme of the story. The Reverend Oswald Redding, rector of a fashionable Episcopal church in Bulford-on-Deme, discovers in little Harry Coggin, son of a rags-and-bone man, a prodigy in intellect and spirit. In awarding him a scholarship at the grammar school, he has thrown a bombshell into the society of notables and inflamed the class hatred of the lowly. The story records Harry’s brief and distressing career at the school and shows how his rare gifts and spirit pierce the crust of the rector’s conventional Christianity, turning him from the well-worn ruts of his career to find God along new paths. Harry in turn receives the courage, the incentive, the divine impulse for his genius, from the rector’s enveloping love.
“The clever, respectful little boy, in this bit of his life, is perhaps a less interesting study than the more substantial figure of the rector. The case of the misuse of endowments and charities is intelligently argued; but we cannot believe in the ‘conversion’ of the socialist house-painter, and the definition of agnosticism would not satisfy an intelligent schoolboy.”
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Ath p1274 N 28 ’19 100w
“This strange, extraordinarily attractive little personality is Mr Oldmeadow’s discovery, and from the moment we meet him talking to George Placker we are prepared to follow him anywhere he may like to take us. The novel as a whole lacks proportion. The closing scenes, with the rector for principal figure, are far too drawn out.” K. M.
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Ath p143 Ja 30 ’20 700w
“A quiet picture, very life-like, appealing to readers who do not demand much plot.”
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Booklist 16:282 My ’20
“The story is the result of a literary craftsmanship worthy of notice.”
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Boston Transcript p5 N 20 ’20 150w
“No doubt the book is to be classed as propaganda; but propaganda is seldom so engagingly presented. The book has faults, the more irritating because they could have been easily avoided had the author exerted himself a little more. Nevertheless, its vitality is deep-rooted and its appeal is wide.”
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Cath World 111:698 Ag ’20 510w
“The first of a trilogy evidently ambitious of being the English ‘Jean Christophe.’ Though of fine craftsmanship and possessing a certain unique charm, not on the same artistic plane.”
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Cleveland p42 Ap ’20 100w
“The story has charm and a warm subdued color and a savor of the earth and of old houses in forgotten sunshine.”
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Nation 110:373 Mr 20 ’20 260w
“Coggin is, to tell the truth, a fearful prig, and the reader must have a patient way with priggish and humorless virtue to bear with him till the end of the present narrative. The story is told with a certain skill and polish; but it is not very clearly worth telling, for all that.”
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Review 2:310 Mr 27 ’20 220w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p698 N 27 ’19 60w
OLGIN, MOISSAYE JOSEPH. Guide to Russian literature (1820–1917). $3 (3½c) Harcourt 891.7
20–7675
Because Russian literature reproduces the spiritual struggles of men and goes down to the very bottom of everyday existence to scrutinize the economic, the social and the political life of the country, its study becomes valuable not only as an art but as the surest road to the understanding of the Russian people and conditions. The author therefore has selected from the literary productions of the nineteenth and twentieth century only those which have value for the present either on account of their artistic qualities, or as representing some aspect of Russian life. The contents are in three chronological groups, each preceded by a general survey of the era. Part I—The growth of a national literature; Part II—The “modernists”; Part III—The recent tide. The book also contains a list of pronunciations of authors’ names, an appendix on juvenile literature in Russia, and an index.
“This might well be called an inspired booklist. It answers the question ‘What shall I read to understand Russian character and Russian life?’”
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Booklist 16:306 Je ’20
“The grouping of the material in this rather ‘sketchy’ volume is somewhat inadequate. Authors whose influence was very small are at times given more attention and space than is seemly in comparison to those who are very characteristic and important both from the historical and psychological point of view.”
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Dial 69:322 S ’20 120w
“It is fresh in its treatment, original in its scheme and far more intelligently comprehensive than any other available handbook.”
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Freeman 1:262 My 26 ’20 700w
“Mr Olgin combines an initiate’s grasp of the political and social background of his country with an intense and catholic appreciation of its literature and his command of incisive and pictorial English might be envied by writers to whom the tongue is native.” Jacob Zeitlin
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Nation 111:327 S 18 ’20 240w
“The book is expressly not devised as a ‘history,’ yet the American reader or student of Russian literature will find it of much greater value as a history than any so-called history he can lay his hands on in English.” Clarendon Ross
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New Repub 24:334 N 24 ’20 490w
“In view of the number of authors dealt with, it is only natural the individual sections should prove more or less uneven. Some are splendid; others are far from satisfactory. The work as a whole is an excellent production.”
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N Y Times p16 O 10 ’20 780w
“That quality of compactness which one demands in a handbook is not invariably adhered to.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 Ag 24 ’20 160w
“Mr Olgin has managed to convey an exceptionally colorful and rich picture of each of these writers, with a good deal of detail crowded into a small space.”
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World Tomorrow 3:350 N ’20 340w
OLIVER, MAUDE I. G. First steps in the enjoyment of pictures. il *$1.50 (4c) Holt 750
20–4272
A book designed for boys and girls which may also be helpful to other beginners in picture study. The fifty-five illustrations show examples from American museums and art galleries, and are limited to the work of American painters. One aim of the book is “to furnish a background for the reading of descriptive books on art.” Consequently the author has taken pains to introduce all the accepted art terms and phrases and to make their meaning clear. Contents: Media (two chapters); Classification; Color; Draughtsmanship; Values; Perspective; Composition; Technique; Character; Conclusion—A glimpse into fairyland (a suggested pageant).
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Booklist 16:353 Jl ’20
N Y Times p25 S 5 ’20 40w
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Pub W 97:606 F 21 ’20 70w
“Any boy or girl above the age of twelve may use this book to advantage and will find it interesting and suggestive as well as instructive.”
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R of Rs 61:612 Je ’20 80w
OLMSTEAD, FLORENCE. Stafford’s Island. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner
20–9141
Clarissa Stafford had grown up a lonely child on a lonely island, off the Georgia coast, with her apathetic, hermit grandfather, Peter Stafford. Her loneliness had developed occult powers in her and she sometimes felt certain that she saw the reflection of a man in the mirror of the drawing room where the picture of her grandmother, whose namesake and image she was, hung over the fireplace. When Clarissa is twenty a young man is washed ashore in a storm who resembles the vision. It all comes out in the story how Henry Thorne is the grandson of the man who painted Clarissa Stafford, and how that accounts for the picture and then ran off with the older the mysterious affinity that draws the living young people irresistibly towards each other.
Booklist 16:314 Je ’20
“Miss Olmstead has, with appealing artistry, woven a fascinating love story.”
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N Y Times 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 300w
OMORI, ANNIE SHEPLEY, and KOCHI DOI, trs. Diaries of court ladies of old Japan. il *$5 Houghton 895
21–128
An introduction to the book by Amy Lowell describes the time and environment in which the ladies of these diaries wrote and gives a biographical sketch of each of them. The time was the middle of the Heian period which lasted from 794 to 1186, when Japan was thoroughly civilized, even “a little overcivilized, a little too fined down and delicate” and when women occupied an advanced position—they were educated, allowed a share of inheritance and had their own houses. Much of the best literature of Japan has been written by women. A common characteristic of the diaries is delicacy, rare and exquisite taste and skill in poetic composition. The ladies are Sarashina, Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu. The illustrations are from Japanese prints, some in color, and the appendix contains an Old Japanese calendar and a chronological table of events connected with the diaries.
“A delightful curiosity and an attractively made book.”
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Booklist 17:149 Ja ’21
“The literary quality of the three diaries is extremely high. They would all be eminently readable if written only yesterday. Added to the joyment of their intrinsic merits is the fact that they present a faithful picture of the court life of the times as well as some singularly striking contrasts between three women of totally different temperaments.”
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N Y Times p16 D 26 ’20 2050w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
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Review 3:558 D 8 ’20 60w
O’NEILL, EUGENE GLADSTONE. Beyond the horizon; a play in three acts. *$1.50 Boni & Liveright 812
20–8634
“The tragedy of the misfit. Robert Mayo, a young farm born dreamer who longs to travel ‘beyond the horizon,’ gives up going to sea when he finds out that Ruth Atkins loves him but refuses to sail with him. His brother Andrew, as well fitted to be a farmer as Robert is unfitted to be a farmer becomes a sailor. Robert marries Ruth, but they soon cease to love each other and Robert, wasted by tuberculosis, crawls out of the house to die ‘alone—in a ditch by the open road—watching the sun rise.’”—Wis Lib Bul
“A powerful, grim ironic tragedy.”
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Booklist 16:338 Jl ’20
“Mr O’Neill is most successful with such primitive types as Ruth. When he approaches a complex nature like Robert’s, his presentation is weaker. ‘Beyond the horizon’ is a good drama. It might have been a great one but for two defects that create and sustain each other, namely the theatre-consciousness of the playwright, and the fact that he is a too anxious father to his brood.” Lola Ridge
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New Repub 25:173 Ja 5 ’21 980w
“The appeal of ‘Beyond the horizon’ is instantaneous, but lasting. Never is it reduced to cleverness; never does it compromise with the American audience. Its truth is too profound and too soul-stirring to carry in one eye a smile, in the other a tear.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 8 ’20 750w
Wis Lib Bul 16:116 Je ’20 120w
ONIONS, BERTA (RUCK) (MRS OLIVER ONIONS). Bridge of kisses. il *$2 (2½c) Dodd
20–17083
A story as sentimental as its title. Josephine Dale becomes engaged to a very worthy young man, Hilary Sykes, but obviously the wrong man for her. She frankly admits to herself that she is only doing it to give her mother peace of mind about her future. A young bridge-builder comes into the neighborhood on an engineering project, and, as his mother and hers had been girlhood friends, she takes a friendly interest in him, and that interest finally prompts her to find a wife for him. Her efforts do not meet with signal success, since it is obvious to everyone but Joey herself that the bridge-builder was made for her and her alone. A happy ending is inevitable, and Mr Sykes is consoled with a more suitable mate, so all is well.
ONIONS, BERTA (RUCK) (MRS OLIVER ONIONS). Sweethearts unmet. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
19–18030
In the form of separate stories, confessions, so to speak, a young girl and a young man each in turn pours out the story of his and her life, of their longings, their love hunger and their ideals. They were meant for each other, they had dreamt and speculated about each other, but seemed actually destined to live lives apart till luck and chance brought them, when it was almost, but not quite, too late, into each other’s arms. On this the author philosophizes: many young people in the large cities who are meant for each other never meet and end by marrying the wrong one. Her remedy is, not social centres, or matrimonial bureaus but a more hearty, understanding welcome of young people in individual homes, the creation of an entirely new atmosphere for the possibilities and needs of youth.
“A sentimental, very light love story of the kind that will please young readers.”
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Booklist 16:245 Ap ’20
“She proceeds to write the story, in her own pretty, quaint way, and a capital story it is—wholesome as a breath of spring.”
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N Y Times 25:135 Mr 21 ’20 650w
OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS. Devil’s paw. il *$1.90 (3c) Little
20–16858
Miss Catherine Abbeway, the heroine of the story, is a wonderful woman. By birth half Russian and half English and an aristocrat, her sympathies are entirely with the oppressed and with labor. She belongs to a secret labor organization whose object it is to bring about an early peace with the Central powers. Of this organization or council all but two, and they the leaders, are honest men. The two are scoundrels in the pay of Germany. Catherine undertakes, at great personal risk, to intercept messages from alleged German socialists for the council. Julian Orden, son of a peer, and anonymous author of peace articles that are creating a stir, discovers her in the act and takes the documents from her. But, to protect her in a compromising situation, he proclaims her his fiancée. Later when, after some breathless days, Catherine has discovered the sinister plot of the pseudo labor leaders and has saved England and the Allies from disaster, the pretense becomes fact.
“One of his poorer stories.”
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Booklist 17:118 D ’20
“The novel is not without ingenuity, and contains one or two fairly dramatic scenes; but it is not so entertaining a story as ‘The great impersonation.’”
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N Y Times p25 O 3 ’20 550w
“‘The devil’s paw’ is far from being his best work.”
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Outlook 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w
“The story cannot be classed among the best that Mr Oppenheim has written, but will, nevertheless, stimulate a considerable degree of interest.”
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Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 180w
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Wis Lib Bul 16:238 D ’20 40w
OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS. Great impersonation. il *$1.75 (2c) Little
20–629
Baron Leopold von Ragastein had been educated in England, at Eton and Oxford. While there he had had a double in a school mate, Sir Everard Dominey. Later they meet again in a German colony in East Africa where von Ragastein is now military commander. The latter is a perfect type of German efficiency and fitness, while the other, with a growing drink habit upon him, is generally at outs with life. They exchange confidences and when the German receives sudden orders to go to England on a secret mission he resolves to go as Sir Everard Dominey after first making away with the real Sir Everard. There he faces many delicate situations, but all goes well and the tasks imposed by the German government grow with the impostor’s daring. When the war breaks out he out-does himself by enlisting in the Norfolk yeomanry and at the very end comes the startling disclosure that it is after all the real Sir Everard who had not been so drunk in Africa “but that he was able to pull himself up when the great incentive came.”
“A good Oppenheim book.”
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Booklist 16:205 Mr ’20
“The story pursues its course, sometimes in a lively fashion and sometimes sluggishly, but always moving towards a goal of surprise that will doubtless astonish many a reader. Its characters have in them something less fairylike and more human than is customary with Mr Oppenheim.” E. F. E.
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Boston Transcript p6 Ja 7 ’20 1250w
Ind 102:66 Ap 10 ’20 240w
“‘The great impersonation’ is a very decided improvement on the productions which have recently been flowing from the excessively prolific pen of Mr E. Phillips Oppenheim. The main idea is a good one and many of the details are well managed.”
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N Y Times 25:10 Ja 11 ’20 550w
“Mr Oppenheim certainly springs a genuine surprise upon his readers in the outcome of this story. Unfortunately, it is often the case that things that are novel and surprising are not very convincing, and that is true here.”
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Outlook 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 120w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
Pub W 96:1691 D 27 ’19 280w
“The plot is exceedingly ingenious.”
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Spec 125:675 N 20 ’20 40w
“He taxes one’s credulity, however, in asking the acceptance of the Englishman’s magic rejuvenation and revolutionary alterations in character and habit.”
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Springf’d Republican p15a Ja 18 ’20 420w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p669 O 14 ’20 200w
ORCZY, EMMUSKA (MRS MONTAGUE BARSTOW) baroness. His Majesty’s well-beloved. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
19–19054
A quaintly told story of an English actor in the times of Charles II. John Honeywood, devoted to Thomas Betterton is permitted, in his capacity as friend and secretary, to see much of the intimate life of that famous actor. It is he, who, in the form of a beseeching letter to Mary Saunderson, formerly betrothed to Tom Betterton, tells of the latter’s strange, thwarted love and passion for a lady of nobility: the insults and outrage her family heap upon “the mountebank” who presumes to my lady’s affections; the bitter, relentless revenge Betterton slowly perfects and executes: and finally his utter renunciation to save the innocence of Lady Barbara, and to restore to her the man she loves, cleared from all dishonor. Throughout the narrative Honeywood pleads with Mistress Saunderson that Betterton’s love for Lady Barbara is naught but a wild infatuation, and that his feeling for herself is still pure and unsullied. Evidently he succeeds, for the final chapter chronicles the wedding of Thomas Betterton, actor, and Mary Joyce Saunderson.
“An interesting, wholesome adventure story.”
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Booklist 16:245 Ap ’20
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Cleveland p50 My ’20 100w
“The tale is picturesque and dramatic, with many an unexpected twist.”
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N Y Times 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 500w
“Better written, we think, than this author’s ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ romances and equally stirring in plot.”
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Outlook 125:125 My 19 ’20 20w
“The Baroness Orczy is an old hand at this kind of story, has the machinery under control and the lingo pat.” H. W. Boynton
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Review 2:463 My 1 ’20 150w
“It is a vivid tale, told with all the charm, color and romantic flavor characterizing Baroness Orczy’s novels.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 310w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p573 O 16 ’19 60w
O’RIORDAN, CONAL O’CONNELL (NORREYS CONNELL, pseud.). Adam of Dublin. *$2 Harcourt
20–20003
Adam was born in the gutter and began his career in life, at the age of seven, selling stale papers. When he came to a sudden realization of what that meant he went to pour out his heart in confession to Father Innocent Feeley and found his first and truest friend. He makes other friends too, for after Father Innocent’s intervention has secured for him an education for the priesthood, and after the good Father’s death occurred at a crisis in Adam’s school life that made his position there untenable, the queer old Frenchman in Adam’s lodging house, who was not a Frenchman at all but a German musician, took him under his wing and saw to it that he was freed from the clutches of the Jesuits. The book leaves young Adam—the incarnation of the romantic soul of Ireland—on the brink of a new and freer life, of which the reader is led to expect an account in another volume.
“Among so many dead novels it is a delight to hail one that is so rich in life.” K. M.
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Ath p652 N 12 ’20 960w
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Booklist 17:159 Ja ’21
“The story so far is noteworthy not so much because of its youthful hero, as for the effortless creation of the atmosphere of Irish life.” L. M. R.
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Freeman 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 100w
“Mr Conal O’Riordan has apparently embarked on a trilogy. However, Adam is an amusing child. One feels resigned to meeting him again.”
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Spec 125:641 N 13 ’20 70w
“It is not a story of plot, nor can it be called one of ‘child psychology’; but it is carried through with an underlying humour and a resourcefulness free from all the usual devices of the novelist, which is not without its charm.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p637 S 30 ’20 200w
“The author feels acutely and deeply, both in joy and in pain. He has both quick sensitiveness and profound emotion, two qualities which do not always go together. We cannot at the moment recall any book that drags us so deep into the mire, yet keeps the light of love and hope so steadily shining throughout.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p683 O 21 ’20 560w
ORTH, SAMUEL PETER. Armies of labor; a chronicle of the organized wage-earners. (Chronicles of America ser.). il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 331.87
19–19137
“As the subtitle suggests, this volume is a history of the labor movement as expressed through workers’ organizations, rather than of labor conditions. It touches only incidentally upon wages, hours of work, and other features of the labor contract at different periods, or upon the details of labor legislation. Within these limits it covers the field. The author cites mostly secondary sources. The volume is well indexed and contains bibliographical appendixes.”—Am Hist R
“It is readable, concise, and comprehensive.” V: S. Clark
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Am Hist R 26:122 O ’20 290w
Reviewed by L. B. Shippee
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Mississippi Valley Hist R 7:157 S ’20 310w
“In ‘The armies of labor’ Samuel P. Orth has written a book of great value.”
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N Y Times p16 O 31 ’20 130w
ORTH, SAMUEL PETER. Our foreigners; a chronicle of Americans in the making. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 325.1
20–4766
“This book, by a professor of political science at Cornell university, is chiefly descriptive; and, owing to limitations of space, considerably condensed. The first two chapters cover the period prior to 1820; and the unique fourth chapter upon Utopias in America, describes the various communistic experiments. The negroes, Irish, Teutons, and Orientals each have a chapter to themselves; but all the more recent types of immigrants are mentioned, and are illustrated by cuts from photographs. Thirteen pages are devoted to the history of immigration legislation. A short bibliographical note is appended.”—Am Hist R
“In general the treatment is impartial. There is lacking a certain ethnological accent needed to bring out fundamental considerations.” P. F. Hall
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Am Hist R 25:749 Jl ’20 320w
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Cleveland p91 S ’20 60w
“A better perspective would have brought out more sharply the cultural contributions of our foreigners, their political affiliations and influence, and the setting of our immigration legislation. Mr Orth writes well and with poise and discrimination, but he has added nothing to our knowledge. His book is for the general reader rather than the scholar.” G: M. Stephenson
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Mississippi Valley Hist R 7:174 S ’20 380w
“It may be said in fact that the many statistics with which ‘Our foreigners’ is enriched are admirable, and that the almost equally numerous opinions which scarify the work are for the most part violently prejudiced, wholly out of place, and not only false in deduction but entirely misleading in the theories to which they give rise.” E: H. Bierstadt
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New Repub 24:302 N 17 ’20 1200w
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N Y Times p16 O 31 ’20 130w
St Louis 18:98 Je ’20 20w
OSBORNE, JAMES INSLEY. Arthur Hugh Clough. *$2.25 (4½c) Houghton
20–12116
The author has written the life of Arthur Hugh Clough with special emphasis on his intellectual development and the growth of his powers as a poet. There are interesting references to his friendships with Emerson, Lowell, and others and to his sojourn in America. Contents: Childhood; At Rugby; As undergraduate; As fellow of Oriel; The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich; Amours de voyage; Dipsychus; Last years; Conclusion; Index.
“The investigation has not, perhaps, been as thorough as it is clearheaded.” F. W. S.
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Ath p268 F 27 ’20 1000w
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Booklist 17:29 O ’20
Reviewed by J. W. Krutch
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Bookm 51:687 Ag ’20 1050w
“Its one drawback is a peculiar style which changes back and forth between the past tense and the historical present.” E. F. E.
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“There is much in this study which the student of mid-Victorian poetry and intellectual life will find useful and suggestive. But Mr Osborne’s work has little charm of style, and fails to render Clough attractive to the reader.”
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Cath World 111:831 R ’20 60w
“Mr Lytton Strachey has already devoted a few acid paragraphs to ‘this earnest adolescent.’ But Mr Osborne is free from any such levity. To him Clough is neither the corpus vile nor the hero: he is the occasion none the less for some uncommonly adroit criticism.”
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Freeman 1:427 Jl 14 ’20 1150w
“Mr Osborne’s temper, at least as it exhibits itself here, is almost too well suited to his subject. A heartier, less scrupulous treatment might have left more oxygen in the air at the really depressing end.” M. V. D.
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Nation 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 640w
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
N Y Times p11 O 3 ’20 1350w
“Mr Osborne’s book is a critique rather than a biography; suggestive, but not satisfying. He would have done better had he given us less of his own interpretations and more of Clough’s letters, leaving the reader to interpret their significance for himself.”
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Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 100w
“The unimportant subject is exhaustively and exhaustingly studied. Nothing could exceed the pains with which we are told what a man who is not made interesting thought.”
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Review 3:655 D 29 ’20 120w
“If there is a defect in Mr Osborne’s book, it is that he seems less inclined to dwell on the positive qualities of Clough’s poetry than on its shortcomings. In a psychological and critical study of Clough’s life it is masterly; the analysis is searching, but there is sympathy as well as justice in the author’s intuition.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p153 Mr 4 ’20 1850w
O’SHAUGHNESSY, EDITH LOUISE (COUES) (MRS NELSON O’SHAUGHNESSY). Alsace in rust and gold. il *$2 (3½c) Harper 940.48
20–6294
The author says that from the rut and routine of war-work in Paris she was conveyed “as on a magic carpet, to the blue valleys and the rust and gold and jasper hills of Alsace, where the color is laid on thick, thick,” when she accompanied the French military mission during the thirteen historic days preceding the armistice. In this well-illustrated book she describes with “no polemics and no statistics” the picturesque aspect of the country. Contents: The journey there; All Saints’ day, November, 1918; Fête des morts, November, 1918; Thann and old Thann; The Ballon d’Alsace; La popote; The houses of the chanoinesses; Luncheon at Bitschwiller—the mission in residence at St-Amarin—Saint-Odile; The “field of lies” and Laimbach; The valley of the Thur; The re-Gallicizing of Alsace; The Hartmannswillerkopf; “Les crêtes”—“Déjeuner” at Camp Wagram—the Freundstein and its phantoms; Return to Masevaux; The vigil of the armistice; Dies gloriæ.
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Booklist 17:25 O ’20
“‘Alsace in rust and gold’ has a quality of permanence that will make it readable ten, fifteen, twenty years hence. It should occupy an honored place on the shelf, marked ‘Travel’ in every well-regulated library.”
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Outlook 126:654 D 8 ’20 70w
“So long as she confines herself to impressions and sentiments the record flows smoothly, for Mrs O’Shaughnessy is a writer of quick perception and likely feeling. But from time to time there is a little attempt, unconscious perhaps, to parade the knowledge she has picked up in her long acquaintance with many lands and many men, and then even the most indulgent reader is roused to revolt.”
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Review 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 300w
R of Rs 61:558 My ’20 50w
“It is a book of charm, to be read leisurely. The account of the last few days of the war in this province, which was so vitally affected by the outcome of the conflict, adds something worth while to the volume of war literature.”
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Springf’d Republican p10 Je 11 ’20 450w
O’SHAUGHNESSY, EDITH LOUISE (COUES) (MRS NELSON O’SHAUGHNESSY). Intimate pages of Mexican history. *$3 (3c) Doran 972
20–17983
“This book, concerning the four presidents of Mexico whom I have personally known, contains only what I have seen myself, or what, by word of mouth and eye in eye I have learned from those intimately connected with the men and events of which it speaks.” (Preface) As the wife of a diplomat the author combines intimate knowledge of Mexican conditions with her personal reminiscences. The four presidents are: Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Leon de la Barra, Francisco I. Madero, and Victoriano Huerta.
Booklist 17:108 D ’20
“This is the most delightful of Edith O’Shaughnessy’s books. It deserves the place of honor among books dealing with Mexico.” C. A. Crowell
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Bookm 52:270 N ’20 680w
“It is an absorbing story, told in a masterly manner, by one who thoroughly comprehends it all and who is a master of English composition.” E. J. C.
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Boston Transcript p7 O 9 ’20 1250w
“The book under discussion is decidedly worth while.”
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Cath World 112:250 N ’20 230w
“She is a brilliant writer, with a free hand and an indifferent tread.”
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N Y Times p18 O 24 ’20 2050w
“There is throughout the whole book an intimacy and warmth which, if it does no more, can scarcely fail to make one’s mind receptive of a broader point of view. Probably it will do more. It is not easy to see that Mrs O’Shaughnessy’s philosophy of Mexico, realistic to the point of cynicism, yet generous in feeling, is in any essential way wrong.”
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No Am 212:716 N ’20 1000w
“The author has an advantage for which she owes thanks to no one but herself: a vivid and picturesque style which, reinforced by deep sincerity and an ardent enthusiasm, gives her narrative the glow of adventurous fiction. There is much in the latter chapters more spicy than reverential. But the author has a clear vision and her plain speaking makes for better understanding of Mexico.” Calvin Winter
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O’SHEA, PETER F. Employees’ magazines; for factories, offices, and business organizations. il *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 658
20–26978
A book on house organs as a factor in employment management. The foreword says, “The value of the printed word in organizing, educating and managing large groups of employees in industry is greater today than ever before.... The old paternalistic shop paper which reached down to pat a man on the shoulder is out of date. But the modern house magazine, alive, sincere, human and constructive, has tremendous opportunities, that have been greatly increased by the wide-spread growth in intelligence and interest among workmen the country over.” Contents: The employees’ magazine as an aid to management; Promoting cooperation by the house organ; Educational work of a house organ; How a house organ improves morale; Democracy of an employees’ magazine; Organization and getting material; Editorial methods and costs; A contractor’s employees’ magazine; Magazines for offices, stores, and sales organizations; Learning from other fields; Appendix: a brief list of good exchanges.
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Booklist 17:100 D ’20
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Springf’d Republican p6 O 11 ’20 480w
OSLER, SIR WILLIAM. Old humanities and the new science. *$1.50 Houghton 375
20–7592
The book contains Sir William Osler’s inaugural address as president of the British classical association, which proved to be his last public utterance. It contains a memorial introduction by Dr Harvey Cushing setting forth the unusually high and many-sided achievements of the author as both scholar and man and describing in brief the organization and purpose of the Classical association. One of these purposes—the furthering of a closer cooperation between natural science and the humanities—accounts for the choosing of “one of the most eminent physicians in the world” as its president. Dr Osler is said to have been “a well-nigh perfect example” of this union and his address to have “embodied the whole spirit of this ideal.”
“It is a rare production, witty, learned, fraught with a high degree of inspiration, full of sympathy for the old humanities, filled with surprises in the portrayal of great classical writers.”
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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“The conclusion is that an eminent medico, even with a generous dose of litteræ humaniores, is not qualified to lecture on mediævalism, philosophy and history.”
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Cath World 112:250 N ’20 330w
“It is a pregnant, witty and humane discussion of the interdependence of the two branches of learning. Osler reveals himself here as a physician of the line of Sir Thomas Browne and the scholar-philosophers of the renaissance.”
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Freeman 1:358 Je 23 ’20 180w
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Nation 111:192 Ag 14 ’20 340w
“As a whole this address of a man of science who was also a man of letters is delightful. It is scholarly, as became the place and the occasion, but it is never pedantic and it is never dull. Indeed, it is often playful.” Brander Matthews
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N Y Times 25:263 My 23 ’20 1600w
“Wit and wisdom equally characterize this essay.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 My 13 ’20 250w
OSTRANDER, ISABEL EGENTON (ROBERT ORR CHIPPERFIELD, DOUGLAS GRANT, pseuds.). How many cards? *$2 (2c) McBride
20–19916
A murder in New York society forms the raison d’être for this detective story. Eugene Creveling is found dead in his library early one April morning. McCarthy, the ex-roundsman detective of previous stories, constitutes himself the chief investigator. He interviews the family, social and business friends and servants of the murdered man, and finds, as he says, “every last one of them bluffing and hedging and lying,” except the O’Rourkes, former friends of his in the old country, whose integrity he would swear by. He can’t understand what the others are all working for, but gradually their motives are uncovered, and altho they have a bearing on the character and habits of the dead man, the identity of the murderer remains still a mystery. Then in a flash the solution is revealed to McCarthy by a passing glimpse of a woman’s handwriting, the last woman in the world he would want to suspect. But thru an act of what he calls Providence she is not brought to justice, and after all perhaps Creveling got no more than he deserved for playing with a woman’s honor.
N Y Times p27 Ja 2 ’21 360w
Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 110w
OSTRANDER, ISABEL EGENTON (ROBERT ORR CHIPPERFIELD, DOUGLAS GRANT, pseuds.). Unseen hands. *$1.75 McBride
20–10735
“This story of Mr Chipperfield’s is placed before us as a mystery in which every member of a wealthy family seems to be menaced. The mother and the eldest son have each died under peculiar circumstances shortly before the opening of the story. We are instantly met with strange, murderous intention being disclosed in regard to the father and the second son. Such intimate knowledge of the family life is disclosed that we are forced to the conclusion that it is an ‘inside Job.’ The problem is to find the person with motive and means for such gradual but wholesale murder.”—Boston Transcript
Booklist 17:35 O ’20
“It is an unlikely situation in twentieth-century America, but capable of being quite mystifying if handled dexterously. Mr Chipperfield guards his secret well. His situations are not always screwed up to the highest pitch, but he does succeed in rousing false conjectures and the general air of suspicion which successful detective fiction demands.”
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Boston Transcript p6 Ag 7 ’20 380w
“Readers of detective tales will find this book of absorbing interest; the plot is well developed and the dénouement startling. Decidedly, Mr Chipperfield knows how to write a detective story. ‘Unseen hands’ is one of the best of its kind.”
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N Y Times p29 Ag 15 ’20 350w
“The climax is not unexpected, yet possesses the elements of a surprise. The story is entertaining of its type.”
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Springf’d Republican p7a D 12 ’20 130w
O’SULLIVAN, MRS DENIS. Mr Dimock. *$2 (2½c) Lane
20–21190
Horace Dimock, a prosperous American business man and a notorious philanderer, spends much of his time in England with his English friends, the center of whom are Lady Freke and the widowed Crystal McClinton, sisters and of American birth. To Crystal he is even secretly married. As the story opens he is coming to England, at the appeal of the sisters, to rescue his ward, Daphne O’Brien, daughter of a former love, from the nunnery. He falls violently in love with Daphne at first sight. His ardor diverts her from her purpose, but she turns from him as soon as she learns of his treachery to Crystal, whom he now seeks to divorce. At the end we find him sans Crystal and Daphne, and reduced to the goodnatured tolerance of the friends who had once admired him. Much of international, post war interest and of the havoc of war plays in the story and Daphne, the would-be nun, becomes the happy wife of a wonderful young Serbian hero.
“There is workmanlike writing in the book and there are moments of some emotional power. We object to a certain romantic staginess of the war heroes.”
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N Y Evening Post p8 Ja 15 ’21 330w
N Y Times p24 D 26 ’20 400w
OTTMAN, FORD CYRINDE. J. Wilbur Chapman. *$2.50 Doubleday
20–12138
The biography of a distinguished and widely-known preacher written by a personal friend. “To write his life none among his friends was so well qualified as Dr Ottman,” says John F. Carson in his introduction. “In all his ministry Dr Ottman was his confidant, his companion in the home and on his world journeys, his friend and counsellor, a sharer of his joys and sorrows. Such intimacy supplies a biographer with materials for a sympathetic and revealing interpretation.” There are chapters on: Lineage; Environment; College and seminary; The Whitewater and the Hudson; Philadelphia and New York; A retrospect; Summer conferences; Evangelism; On the way to Australia; At home and abroad, etc., with a closing chapter on Personality. There is a frontispiece portrait.
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Boston Transcript p6 Ag 4 ’20 300w
“With sympathetic approach and with due appreciation of Dr Chapman himself, one lays down the book with a feeling that Dr Ottman has fallen short of the possibilities in the case.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 580w
OUR unseen guest. *$2 (3c) Harper 134
20–3803
Philosophical discussions communicated to Joan and Darby, the anonymous authors of this book—by a young soldier who had recently died, or “graduated,” and was living and working “on the other side.” In the beginning this spirit gave proof of his identity, which the authors quite accidently found corroborated. The communications center about “quality of consciousness.” Our development is both qualitative and quantitative. At birth we are given quality of soul—which is definitely fixed—a rebirth of a certain quality of consciousness, which has been developing on the other side, into our human body. During our earth life, if we are true to our “quality,” we develop quantity of soul, which upon our “graduation” we bring as our contribution to the whole of consciousness on the other side. There are many rebirths, until the supreme consciousness is reached. Joan and Darby at first were very material skeptics, holding fast to the theories of subconsciousness, telepathy, etc., but in the end were quite convinced.
“In view of the unconvincing and emotional quality of many of the popular books upon psychical research, the readers of ‘Our unseen guest’ will be inclined to [say]—‘the best thing of the kind!’” Margaret Deland
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N Y Times 25:4 Je 27 ’20 1250w
“Wordy nonsense as this is, it is more coherent because more modest than most of the revelations from the beyond; the evasion (in the vernacular bluff) is more transparent, less likely to produce the semblance of profundity by which the judgment is soothed to a blissful ignorance mistaken for knowledge.” Joseph Jastrow
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Review 3:43 Jl 14 ’20 350w
OVERTON, GRANT MARTIN. Mermaid. il *1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–1891
A story of the sea and of sea-faring life seen from the coast and a coast-guard station. Captain Smiley and his crew have rescued a little girl of six, the only survivor of a wreck, and have called her Mermaid, from the ship’s name. With the captain as Dad and the crew as uncles she lives a life full of poetry and adventure. In spite of her name she grows into a sane and healthy womanhood, surrounded in her school days by boy friendships that later turn into love. From among these she chooses Guy Vanton the lonely poet boy, shadowed by a dark family history. In the course of the story several family histories of the old coast town are revealed and withal much human nature, some philosophy and the light of a new era is shown to lay old ghosts and to conquer old fears. Mermaid’s husband, Guy, pays for his conquest with his life, and Dick Hand, overstepping conventions with the courage of love, reaps his reward.
OVINGTON, MARY WHITE. Shadow. *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt
20–5123
A story of the race problem told with an effective restraint. The plot is unusual. A white baby, for family reasons, is left in a negro cabin, to be brought up as a negro child and until the age of nineteen, to believe herself of negro blood. Then a dying and repentent grandfather restores her to her name and position and she is free to cross the line into the white world. Realizing what her fate will be wherever her story is known, she chooses to lose herself in New York, earning a living in the garment trades. Here she finds herself on the edge of the labor movement, but she is never quite drawn into it. She remains outside the conflict. The call to action comes to her when the life of her dark brother, the playmate of her childhood, is endangered, and to save him from the fury of a lynching mob, enraged to the point of blood lust at thought of a negro who has laid his hand on a white woman’s arm, she again crosses the color line and falsely declares herself of negro birth. The story ends as it began, in the South, with Hertha entering the beautiful southern home of which she is to be mistress, but even within its protection, with her lover’s arm about her, she looks ahead and knows that “the shadow of man’s making” will always lie beside her path.
Booklist 16:314 Je ’20
“Miss Ovington has written a novel of keen interest. She has handled the story unfalteringly. She has shown the immense possibilities that lie in such a theme when treated truthfully and artistically. She treats her colored characters with the same attributes of nature and temperament as the whites, and in so doing opens up the way to the possibilities in the future of American fiction.”
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Boston Transcript p4 Je 2 ’20 2000w
“In no recent book has the American negro’s problem been more sympathetically treated than in ‘The shadow.’ She succeeds throughout in treating them as individuals rather than as racial types and does so with a simple and unselfconscious realism.” M. G.
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Freeman 2:93 O 6 ’20 160w
“The execution is unexceptionable, but the people and the incidents lack concreteness. No doubt Miss Ovington has seen them in the flesh. But she has seen them as a sociologist rather than as an artist. But this will not trouble the average reader at all. And since in most of the novels he gets the characters are conventionalized into conformity with the demands of intolerance and hatred, one cannot but desire a wide popularity for this book in which the controlling spirit is one of humanity and of the civilized instincts.”
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Nation 110:558 Ap 24 ’20 160w
“There can be no doubt of Miss Ovington’s love and sympathy for the negroes. Each page is full of the burning resentment she feels for their wrongs, but one cannot help wondering what her real belief is with regard to the race.”
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N Y Evening Post p3 My 1 ’20 630w
“Miss Ovington’s book is well constructed and faultlessly written.”
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N Y Times 25:25 Je 27 ’20 560w
“Incidentally, the race question is touched upon with sympathy toward all sides of the problem.”
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Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 40w
“The story is written throughout with a deep sympathy for all the characters.”
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Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 240w
“Her black characters are drawn lovingly: for she seems to possess in rare combination that sympathetic affection which the southern white feels for the black when he ‘keeps his place’ together with comprehension of the aspiring mind and soul of the black race.” M. K. R.
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World Tomorrow 3:287 S ’20 260w
OWEN, ROBERT. Life of Robert Owen. *$1.50 (1c) Knopf
20–26889
The book is the first of a series of economic reprints which form a new social economic section of the famous Bohn libraries. The volumes deal with the great writers and pioneers in the field of economics of whom Robert Owen was the first to grasp the meaning of the industrial revolution. The present volume has an introduction by M. Beer, a bibliography of the works of Owen, and an index.
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Ath p784 Je 11 ’20 50w
Booklist 17:85 N ’20
“A comparison of Owen’s ‘Life’ with contemporary records will reveal a number of substantial discrepancies.” R: Roberts
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Freeman 2:187 N 3 ’20 850w
OYEN, HENRY. Plunderer. *$1.75 (3c) Doran
20–4782
Roger Payne, an energetic young northerner, buys a thousand acre tract of “prairie” land in Florida. When he goes down to look it over he finds that the quality of the land corresponds quite exactly to the agent’s description, but that it is covered with about two feet of water. With the aid of his friend Higgins, an engineer, he works out a plan for drainage, but finds that the physical difficulties are the least of his obstacles. One of the men in the company that sold him the land is Senator Fairclothe, but he soon learns that this statesman is only the catspaw for Garman, the real villain in the situation. The senator’s beautiful daughter is engaged to Garman, but there is love at first sight between her and Roger and the outcome of the tale, which abounds in scenes of brutality, is the winning of the girl as well as title to the reclaimed land.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
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Bookm 51:683 Jl ’20 290w
“The book is an adventure tale of good quality: and if the reader will overlook its lack of plausibility it will hold his attention to the end.”
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N Y Times 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 300w
“The tale is exciting and adventurous.”
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Outlook 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 20w
Springf’d Republican p13a My 2 ’20 200w
OZAKI, YEI THEODORA. Romances of old Japan. *$8.50 Brentano’s 895
“Madame Ozaki’s ‘romances’ are for the most part stories dealt with by the popular drama of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They are of two types, the sanguinary and the supernatural. The first corresponds to the earlier period of the Yedo popular stage and to the careers of the first three Danjūrōs, famous for their impersonations of ferocious warriors. In the present work ‘The quest of the sword,’ ‘The tragedy of Kesa’ and ‘The Sugawara tragedy’ belong to this type. The second type, represented in this book by ‘The spirit of the lantern,’ ‘The reincarnation of Tama,’ ‘The badger-haunted temple,’ etc., corresponds to the popularity of the great ghost-impersonator Matsusuke, who died c.1820.”—Ath
“These characteristic native idylls are charmingly translated.”
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Ath p1170 N 7 ’19 70w
“It is not difficult to discover why Madame Ozaki’s material is drawn from the stage, and not from the classical literature of Japan. Her rendering of one or two poems in this book shows that she is imperfectly acquainted with the older language. Her style is that of cinema-libretti, a medium thoroughly suited to the nature of her material. Numerous illustrations by the contemporary artists Keishū and Hōsai add to the impression of modernity produced by the book. Might not it have been illustrated by old theatrical woodcuts?” A. D. W.
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Ath p1398 D 26 ’19 440w
“Mme Ozaki’s very readable tales gain by being associated with native pictures, though the artist seems to have been influenced by western painting.”
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Spec 123:696 N 22 ’19 140w
“The illustrations are Japanese. None of them, we suppose, would be considered anything but negligible in Japan. But to the western eye there is hardly one which does not possess some of those qualities of grace, decision, and style which are seldom absent from the most trifling Japanese work.”
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PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS. From now on. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–6
Dave Henderson, through environment a crook, steals one hundred thousand dollars, which unfortunately is coveted by other, more hardened crooks. Scarcely has he hidden his prize securely when he is hotly pursued. Caught and convicted, he serves five years in the “pen” patiently, for is not the reward worth while? Released, he is a marked man to both police and crook. Nevertheless, after hair-raising adventures, he at last holds in his hands the hundred thousand dollars, only to find he can no longer enjoy this stolen money. Association with an honest, great hearted gentleman and a girl who loves Dave, creates in him values other than material, and a desire for clean straight living. He accepts “God’s chance,” and together with the woman he loves, looks forward to an honest, decent, constructive life “from now on.”
“As a well-constructed, plausible and exciting story, ‘From now on’ deserves unstinted praise.” A. A. W.
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Boston Transcript p10 Ja 31 ’20 300w
N Y Times 25:71 F 8 ’20 550w
Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 210w
PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS. White Moll. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran
20–8628
The White Moll is the name Rhoda Gray has earned for herself in New York’s East side district by always playing on the square with its denizens. So Gypsy Nan, when dying in a slightly penitent frame of mind, entrusts her with the secret of a crime about to be committed. Rhoda tries to stop it, but is arrested, charged with committing it. She escapes but her career of charity as the White Moll is thus wrecked and she is forced for safety to disguise herself as Gypsy Nan in which rôle she finds herself in the midst of a criminal gang. She resolves to circumvent their schemes, and so plays the double part of Gypsy Nan, who is hand in glove with them, and the White Moll, their bitterest enemy and a fugitive from justice. Her part is hard, but her luck is good, and with the “Adventurer” as her ally she finally, after many exciting experiences, breaks up the gang and brings it to punishment. Then she makes the gratifying discovery that the Adventurer is not the thief she had thought him and that they had been working for the same ends.
“If a thrill on every page is any consideration, here you have it.” H. W. Boynton
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Bookm 51:585 Jl ’20 140w
“As is usual in his stories of the underworld, Mr Packard’s tale is filled with exciting adventures. He has without doubt built a place for himself and his particular type of tale.”
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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 17 ’20 300w
“There is no need for anyone to find life unexciting so long as there are men in the world with imaginations like Frank L. Packard’s.”
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Ind 104:381 D 11 ’20 140w
“It is a clever, absorbing story, with a certain freshness in its theme.”
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N Y Times 25:329 Je 20 ’20 480w
Springf’d Republican p9a Jl 4 ’20 180w
Wis Lib Bul 16:238 D ’20 50w
PACKARD, WINTHROP. Old Plymouth trails. il *$3 (4c) Small 917.4
20–26567
“He who would see Plymouth and the Pilgrim land about it as the Pilgrims saw it may do so. Nature holds grimly onto her own and sedulously heals the scars that man makes.... Plymouth is a manufacturing city, a residence town, a resort and a thriving business centre all in one ... but you have only to step out of town to find their very land all about you, traces of their occupancy, the very marks of their feet, worn in the earth itself.... Along the old Pilgrim trails you may step from modern culture and its acme of civilization through the pasture lands of the Pilgrims into glimpses of the forest primeval.” (Chapter I) A partial list of the contents is: Plymouth mayflowers; Nantucket in April; Footing it across the Cape; Along the salt marshes; Ghosts of the northeaster; White pine groves; The pasture in November; Coasting on Ponkapoag; Yule fires.
“Pleasant informal essay style with special appeal to the lover of the out-of-doors.”
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Booklist 16:342 Jl ’20
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
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Cath World 112:257 N ’20 160w
“As a prose technician, Mr Packard is, of course, inferior to W. H. Hudson, lacking both the English writer’s restraint and his sense of nervous rhythm. Yet he writes with great vividness at times, and his accuracy of observation is hardly less keen.” W. P. Eaton
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N Y Times 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 100w
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Outlook 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 60w
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Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 23 ’20 240w
Wis Lib Bul 16:236 D ’20 70w
Reviewed by C. L. Skinner
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PAGE, GERTRUDE (MRS GEORGE ALEXANDER DOBBIN).[2] Paddy-the-next-best-thing. *$2 (2c) Stokes
20–18935
When Paddy Adair was born, her father had ardently wished for a boy, but as she grew up he had become quite contented with the “next-best-thing,” and Paddy, while longing herself to be a boy, had satisfied herself with being as hoydenish and wild as the “next-best-thing” could be. But for all that, she had a way with her with the opposite sex, a captivating Irish way which won and held the heart of Lawrence Blake, as her sister Eileen’s dreamy moods could never do. But Paddy, because she thought Eileen was breaking her heart over Lawrence’s defection, swore eternal hatred against him. Altho patience was far from natural to him, he cultivated it and in the end won out. The story in play form has had a successful run both in this country and England.
“As fiction of the very lightest sort this tale has its good points. Although over-played, its heroine, Paddy, is real and often behaves like a human sort.”
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N Y Evening Post p22 O 23 ’20 50w
“The author does not rely on plot for the appeal of her book. What she does is to offer a pleasing, polite, mildly amusing sketch of certain phases of life in Ireland, with nothing to remind one of Sinn Fein uprising and hunger strikes, and this work she has done with commendable skill.”
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N Y Times p18 D 5 ’20 410w
Springf’d Republican p8 D 28 ’20 130w
PAGE, KIRBY.[2] Something more. *90c Assn. press 248
20–11091
The book, “a consideration of the vast, undeveloped resources of life” (Sub-title) is the first in the New generation series. It contains four essays enlarging respectively on the latent possibilities in God, in man, in Jesus Christ, in life—that are man’s for the searching. The last essay, Enemies of life, enumerates the negative factors, both material and spiritual, all rooted in ignorance, that keep man from entering into his true heritage.
“An invigorating book.”
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PAGE, THOMAS NELSON. Italy and the world war. *$5 Scribner 940.345
20–21941
Ambassador Page was in Italy during the entire period of the war and followed sympathetically the part played therein by the Italian people. He holds that the key to Italy’s relation to the war is to be found in her traditions, her history and in her geographical and economic situation. Accordingly the book falls into three parts: “The first is introductory and contains in outline the history of the Italian people in the long period when they were included in and bound under the Holy Roman empire. The second contains the story of their evolution, from the conception of their national consciousness on through the long and bitter struggle with the Austrian empire for their liberty down to the time when ... they developed into a new and united Italy.... The third part contains the story of the diplomatic struggle to establish herself in a position to which Italy considers herself entitled as a great power.” (Preface) The book has six maps, appendices, giving the texts of the armistice with Austria and of the pact of London, and an index.
“A much needed contribution to the political history of the war.”
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Booklist 17:149 Ja ’21
“It is not impertinent to say that an experienced newspaper man, equipped with a good encyclopædia, a good atlas, and the newspaper files for the past five years, could produce an excellent replica of ‘Italy and the world war’ without having crossed the Atlantic. Mr Page had an opportunity to write a very remarkable pamphlet, and he wrote instead a hurried, congested, and unnecessary hotch-potch history of the war.” W: McFee
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“It is to be regretted that the American public could not have had the benefit of this unequaled book months ago. Mr Page smashes beyond recovery many illusions which, during and after the war, militated against the character of Italy, her people, her statesmen.” Walter Littlefield
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R of Rs 63:222 F ’21 130w
Springf’d Republican p6 D 4 ’20 80w
PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED. Automobile starting, lighting and ignition. 6th ed rev and enl il $3 Henley 629.2
20–9556
“Mr Pagé first explains the nature of electricity—how a current is produced—and then goes on to explain in general the systems used for ignition, starting and lighting. This is followed by a detailed explanation of the individual systems on various cars. Many illustrations and diagrams make this book easy to understand.” (R of Rs) “The sixth edition repeats the material of the second edition with the addition of eight new chapters on leading electrical ignition systems, design of electrical measuring instruments and use in testing, and wiring diagrams of popular cars.” (Booklist)
Booklist 16:357 Jl ’20
R of Rs 62:336 S ’20 50w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p669 O 14 ’20 20w
PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED. Model T Ford car. rev and enl il $1.50 Henley 629.2
20–4100
“Victor W. Pagé’s ‘Model T Ford car’ has appeared in its new and enlarged 1920 edition. This edition should be even more popular than the earlier editions, as it contains information and instructions for the Fordson farm tractor and the F. A. lighting and starting system, as well as all the principles and parts of the Ford. Numerous illustrations and diagrams make the instructions and explanations easily understood by a novice.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
Booklist 16:291 My ’20
N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes 7:35 O 13 ’20 50w
R of Rs 62:336 S ’20 50w
PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED, ed. Motor boats and boat motors. il $3 Henley 623.8
20–11842
“Mr Pagé has compiled a volume full of interest to the novice as well as to the experienced motor-boat enthusiast. It covers fully the design, construction, operation, and repair of boats and motors in general, including full instructions, with working drawings, for building five boats from tested designs by A. Clark Leitch, naval architect. A chapter on seaplanes and flying-boat construction gives both theory and practical application.”—R of Rs
Booklist 17:100 D ’20
“Clearly written and has nearly 400 exceptionally good illustrations. Anyone contemplating the purchase of a boat should be guided by the excellent advice given in the first chapter.”
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R of Rs 62:336 S ’20 70w
PAGE, WILLIAM, ed. Commerce and industry; with a preface by William Ashley. 2v il v 1 *$15 v 2 *$10 Dutton 330.9
(Eng ed 19–18954)
“In the twelve chapters that make up the main text of the first volume of this work, and the three appendices, an historical review of the economic conditions of the British empire for ninety-nine years, largely based upon parliamentary debates as reported by Hansard, is given. The second volume consists of statistical tables of the economic factors, such as population, taxation, imports and exports, production, finance, etc., in supplementation proof of the conditions as set forth in the text of the first volume. The subjects dealt with in the main portion of the work cover the Effects of war (1815 to 1820); Commercial reform (1820 to 1830); The reform Parliament (1830 to 1841); Repeal of the Corn laws (1841 to 1852); War and finance (1852 to 1859); Free trade (1859 to 1868); Retrenchment and reform (1869 to 1880); Organization (1880–1892); Foreign competition (1892 to 1900); The movement towards tariff reform (1900 to 1910); and Unrest (1910 to 1914). The three appendices discuss The Cabinet and Parliament, Ministries 1812 to 1912, and A chronicle of the British empire beyond the seas.”—Boston Transcript
“The volume is a storehouse of facts for politicians and economists.”
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“Impartiality is a dominant quality of the work, as it ought to be.”
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PAGET, STEPHEN. Sir Victor Horsley; a study of his life and work. il *$6 Harcourt
(Eng ed 19–18661)
“The life was well worth writing by so practised a biographer as Mr Stephen Paget of Sir Victor Horsley (1857–1916)—a surgeon of great distinction and a pioneer on the field of scientific medicine, a keen champion of temperance and woman suffrage, and a Liberal politician—who closed a great career by giving his life for his country in Mesopotamia, where he patriotically volunteered for service as medical consultant with the forces and where he died of heat stroke on July 16, 1916.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Mr Paget has written in a calm, dispassionate manner without literary tricks or mannerisms.”
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Brooklyn 12:132 My ’20 40w
“Admirable biography.”
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N Y Evening Post p9 O 30 ’20 240w
Sat R 128:513 N 29 ’19 700w
“No happier selection could have been made than that Mr Paget should become the biographer of Sir Victor Horsley. The author, a man of letters, also possesses the scientific and medical knowledge essential to the theme, and his enterprises in other fields of literature have preserved him from the besetting sins of the medical biographer who makes his book unduly technical, or even dull.”
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Spec 122:894 D 27 ’19 1250w
“There is no doubt that this biography, in the full sense of an overworked word, is an ‘inspiring’ record of a man’s character and achievement; it is the more so because it is always straightforward and concrete, showing the man exactly as he was.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p676 N 20 ’19 90w
“It is not too much to say that of the many services which this author has rendered to scientific medicine and surgery none is so important as his biography of Sir Victor Horsley.”
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PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW. Short life of Mark Twain. il *$2.50 Harper
20–18960
In answer to the demand for a short life of Mark Twain, Mr Paine, his official biographer, has prepared a condensed version of his longer work. The story is told in brief chapters and in simple language and is adapted for young people’s reading. There are eighteen illustrations.
Booklist 17:113 D ’20
Wis Lib Bul 16:237 D ’20 40w
PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE. Corsair in the war zone. il *$4 Houghton 940.45
20–14468
At a critical time in the submarine campaign a number of American pleasure yachts volunteered for service as French coast patrols. Their amateur crews had little naval training, and these yachts were dubbed the “Suicide fleet,” but they performed heroic service and played an important rôle in the war. The Corsair of whose exploits the book gives an account, was owned by J. Pierpont Morgan. Contents: The call of duty overseas; “Lafayette, we are here!”; At sea with the Breton patrol; Tragedies and rescues; When the Antilles went down; Admiral Wilson comes to Brest; Smashed by a hurricane; The pleasant interlude at Lisbon; Uncle Sam’s bridge of ships; The Corsair stands by; In the radioroom; The long road home; Honorably discharged; The ship’s company. There is a map showing the Corsair’s wanderings in the war zone and numerous illustrations.
“The book is a welcome and valuable minor contribution to the history of the world war. The numerous and excellent illustrations greatly add to its attractiveness.” E: Breck
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Booklist 17:108 D ’20
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Boston Transcript p6 Ag 25 ’20 600w
“The author has collected and selected his official and unofficial documents with praiseworthy skill, and the result is a swift-flowing narrative, written in an easy style, that will prove interesting to sailor and landsman alike.” B. R. Redman
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N Y Times p16 Ag 29 ’20 3200w
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Springf’d Republican p8 S 9 ’20 310w
PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE. Fight for a free sea; a chronicle of the war of 1812. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 973.5
20–4767
“This volume is concerned with our War of 1812, the chief episodes of which are related by Ralph D. Paine under the title, ‘The fight for a free sea.’ The book has special chapters on Perry and Lake Erie, The navy on blue water, Matchless frigates and their duels, and Victory on Lake Champlain.”—R of Rs
Reviewed by D. R. Anderson
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Am Hist R 26:112 O ’20 300w
“It is of Perry on Lake Erie, of Macdonough on Lake Champlain, of Captain Bainbridge and of Captain Isaac Hull that Mr Paine writes charmingly, gloriously. Their brilliant deeds arouse his instinct for the sea, his hero-worship of sea-faring men. With them this writer of delightful sea stories is at home.”
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Cath World 112:390 D ’20 270w
“Mr Paine writes splendidly of the sea and of ships, as readers of his stories know, and this is a subject that lends itself especially to his talents.”
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N Y Times p16 O 31 ’20 130w
R of Rs 62:223 Ag ’20 50w
PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE. Ships across the sea. il *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton 940.45
20–7139
The author of these stories of the American navy in the great war has firsthand knowledge of the navy and the life on board ship, and his fiction breathes real life. The first story is one of jealousy between two petty officers over a wee Scotch lassie, a war orphan, who came on board on occasion of the sailors’ Christmas party. On Jim Cooney’s side it was something of a lark for he loved to bully simple minded Henry Turnbull. With Henry it was a matter of the heart. But when Henry is washed overboard Jim’s remorse inspires a Henry Turnbull fund, to be raised among the crew for the education and up-bringing of little Mary MacDonald. The stories are: The orphan and the battle-wagon; Ten fathoms down; Too scared to run; The quiet life; On a lee shore; The net result; The last shot; The silent service; The red sector.
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Booklist 16:350 Jl ’20
“The sense of the sea and ships is vividly conveyed. ‘Ships across the sea’ gives an excellent idea of what it was like to be a sailor in the United States navy during the great war.”
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PALAMAS, KOSTÈS. Life immovable. *$2 Harvard univ. press 889
19–19666
“A volume of translations is ‘Life immovable,’ from the modern Greek of Kostes Palamas by Professor Aristides Phoutrides, a former instructor at Harvard. Kostes Palamas, secretary to the University of Athens, was one of the first writers of contemporary Greece to gain recognition outside his own country, and Professor Phoutrides has the courage to call him ‘a new world-poet.’” (Bookm) “The translator furnishes a sketch of the poet and his work, and an analysis of the poems in this volume.” (Booklist)
“It is reasonable to suppose that the unsatisfactory effect of the book before us cannot be entirely attributed to the defects either of the poet or the translator. It is tiresome to read these poems, where images rise and clash and fade in confusion, and to feel that in the original there may have existed harmony and emotional coherence where we are now oppressed by meaningless glitter and noise. Our annoyance is accentuated by the translator’s harsh and clumsy rhythms, and by an insensitiveness to word-values in the language into which he is translating, exemplified by the title ‘Life immovable.’” F. W. S.
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Ath p140 Jl 30 ’19 760w
“Too much of the symbolic, philosophical and mythological enter these pages to invite interest from any but the scholarly thinker.”
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Reviewed by H: A. Lappin
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Bookm 51:214 Ap ’20 120w
“He deserves to be read widely beyond the confines of his own land and tongue; and Professor Phoutrides, with the Harvard press, deserves the cordial thanks of all lovers of life and letters for the present translation.” F. B. R. Hellems
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Class Philol 15:205 Ap ’20 1600w
“His book, with its thoughtful, well-written introduction, will give much pleasure to the quiet lovers of the quiet poetry of meditation and sentiment.” Paul Shorey
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PALMER, EDWIN JAMES, bp. of Bombay. Great church awakes. *$2 Longmans 280
21–198
“The conception of ‘the great church’ which inspires this little volume may be described as a liberalized restatement of the traditional Anglo-Catholic position. In the first part of the work, called ‘Ideas,’ Dr Palmer insists strongly on the importance and force of the present desire for Christian unity, especially as it is manifested in India. The second section, entitled ‘Studies,’ is mainly devoted to the question of the Christian ministry. It opens with a careful study of the ‘Ministry in the primitive church.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
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PANCHARD, EDOUARD. Meats, poultry and game; with a preface by A. Louise Andrea. *$3 Dutton 641.5
20–2273
“The author of this volume is managing chef for the Hotel McAlpin, Waldorf-Astoria, Claridge, Café Savarin and Fifth avenue restaurant, New York, and Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, and honorary lecturer, Columbia university. He gives much valuable information about the buying, cooking and serving of meat, poultry and game, and as the book is illustrated even the amateur can learn readily from it. Not the least desirable part of the volume is a collection of choice recipes.”—Boston Transcript
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
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Bookm 52:30 S ’20 110w
“A book so simply and clearly planned and written that it must be a desirable acquisition.”
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Boston Transcript p4 Ap 7 ’20 100w
“Part I is written very definitely and clearly but Part II, ‘A potpourri of recipes,’ would be rather difficult for an inexperienced cook to follow.” M. E. Dakin
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Springf’d Republican p13a My 2 ’20 140w
PANYITY, LOUIS S.[2] Prospecting for oil and gas. il *$3.25 Wiley 622.1
20–2108
“This brief treatment of a large subject is designed to meet the needs of the practical oilman and the general reader. More than half of the text is devoted to surveying methods and geology, including general cross-sections of important districts. The rest of the book covers even more briefly: scouting, methods of locating wells, drilling methods, ‘bringing in,’ gauging, and leasing. Samples of forms and contracts are shown. Good illustrations and a number of mathematical and technical tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“Good book on a subject not heretofore well covered.”
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Booklist 17:100 D ’20
“The first ten chapters of this book, comprising 134 pages in all, deal directly with the subject indicated by the title, and they are by far the most useful part of the volume. The remainder of the principal part of the book is disappointing. It attempts to cover so much that it covers nothing at all.”
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“It is undoubtedly an attractive and useful publication, which, by virtue of its clearness of diction, careful arrangement of subjectmatter, and freedom from ‘padding,’ should make an appeal to a very wide public.” H. B. Milner
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PARK, JOHN EDGAR. Bad results of good habits and other lapses. *$1.50 (4½c) Houghton 814
20–7286
The contents of these essays all hinge on the distinction the author makes between two kinds of goodness; respectable goodness and adventurous goodness. It is the difference between a mummy and a living body. For the ten commandments he would substitute the golden rule, as including them all, and his parting words to the reader are: “Don’t be solemn. Don’t be staid and conventional. Get off your pedestal. Fool a little. Love much.” A partial list of the contents are: The disadvantages of being good; The folly of getting there; The world, the flesh, and the devil; What I would not that I do; Lies; The grammar of life; The secret of the moral training of children.
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Booklist 16:306 Je ’20
“Altogether they are a very readable lot, and if most of them leave a moral truth behind, the reader will forget the preachment for the enjoying of his ideas.”
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Boston Transcript p6 S 25 ’20 240w
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Cleveland p85 S ’20 30w
“Mr Park’s relaxations avoid the too facile generalization which is the usual fault of the type. Yet they breathe a certain serene remoteness from dust and heat. In contrast with the good gigantic smile of Mark Twain, it lacks what closet wit must always lack, an earthly and living contact with men and women.”
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N Y Times p15 O 10 ’20 80w
“It is bright, gay, and logically weak, with the useful knack of arraying a commonplace in the garb of a paradox.”
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St Louis 18:248 O ’20 30w
“There is a vein of humor in Mr Park that makes him a delightful companion in print or in person.”
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Springf’d Republican p6 Je 17 ’20 280w
PARKER, CARLETON HUBBELL. Casual laborer and other essays. *$1.75 (5½c) Harcourt 331
20–5645
This posthumous volume of essays by Professor Parker has an introduction by Mrs Cornelia Stratton Parker in which she points out the fundamental characteristics of her husband’s work, and through numerous quotations the importance in which he was held as one of the frontiersmen not along geographical but along economic lines. He was first in studying the labor problem from a psychological point of view. “What is the psychic balance sheet?” he asks. “It is a relation between a plastic, sensitive, easily degenerated nervous organism called ‘man’ and an environment. The product is human character. The labor problem is one of character-formation.” The essays are: Toward understanding labor unrest; The casual laborer; The I. W. W.; Motives in economic life. The appendix contains Professor Parker’s report on the Wheatland hop fields’ riot with a foreword by Mrs Parker. The second paper is reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the third from the Atlantic Monthly.
Am Econ R 10:610 S ’20 80w
Booklist 16:263 My ’20
“In conclusion it may be said that the book is an interesting rather than a convincing one. The man really needs to be saved from his friends. The present book bears out the statement that when all is said and done, Professor Parker’s life was potential in promise and not in actual measurable performance.” G. M. J.
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Boston Transcript p4 Ap 7 ’20 1200w
“As his discussion stands and so far as it has been carried on it is so fragmentary and one-sided as to appear somewhat crude and far fetched.” Virgil Jordan
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Int J Ethics 31:115 O ’20 130w
“In their present state the essays reveal a lack in the organization of his new ideas as well as a faulty perspective in the arrangement of his biological and psychological material. His purpose, however, is admirable, and has brought about an advance of the line he set upon, namely the study of human behavior, as such, where it assists in the understanding of economic conditions.” Florence Richardson
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J Pol Econ 28:622 Jl ’20 600w
“For the economist, the book is like one of those impressive events that make history. It marks the closing of a chapter.” H. A. Overstreet
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Reviewed by C: Merz
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New Repub 22:424 My 26 ’20 1200w
“The book is a useful record of an industrious and brilliant investigator who seems also to have been an unusually inspiring teacher. It is not too much to say that no man who has anything worth writing about should be allowed to write so badly as Professor Parker seems to have done when left to himself.”
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N Y Times 25:324 Je 20 ’20 700w
R of Rs 61:671 Je ’20 40w
Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 24 ’20 70w
“Those interested to know how this labor problem will be handled when those in authority have been educated will do well to read this delightful and illuminating book. It marks the road.” W: L. Chenery
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PARKER, DEWITT HENRY. Principles of æsthetics. *$2.50 (2½c) Silver 701
20–15459
The book has grown out of lectures to students at the University of Michigan but the author’s appeal is to all people who are interested in the intelligent appreciation of art. For his broader philosophy of art he declares himself indebted to the artists and philosophers of the period from Herder to Hegel, and among contemporaries to Croce and Lipps. Among the contents are: The analysis of the æsthetic experience; The problem of evil in æsthetics, and its solution through the tragic, pathetic, and comic; The standard of taste; The dominion of art over nature: painting, sculpture; Beauty in the industrial arts: architecture; The function of art: art and morality, art and religion; Bibliography.
Booklist 17:145 Ja ’21
Boston Transcript p5 O 23 ’20 480w
“For the beginner it is as satisfactory a work as has yet appeared.”
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PARKER, SIR GILBERT. No defence. il *$2 Lippincott
20–17085
“The scene is laid first in Ireland at the close of the eighteenth century; and we are taken thence to the fleet at the time of the mutiny at the Nore, and later to Jamaica. The hero, Dyck Calhoun, is a young Irish gentleman, who falls innocently into disgrace. He becomes a common seaman and a mutineer; he escapes to Jamaica; and here he gradually achieves success, in spite of the persistent enmity of the governor, with whom he has fought a successful duel in his early days.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The author seems well able to depict the English soldier and sailor of the day, but he knows nothing of the Irish soul or character.”
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“To judge from internal evidence, ‘No defence’ was written simply and solely in order that it might eventually be turned into a motion picture, with little or no regard for literary excellence. From first to last, the book is carelessly written, and the tale is devoid of atmosphere, while the dialogue reveals very little effort to keep the speech of the different persons in character.”
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“The book has dash, fire, and romance.”
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“It lacks something both of the ardour and of the fundamental gravity which make romance completely valid; but it has an undeniable sincerity which makes it very much more readable than most such works.”
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PARKER, SAMUEL CHESTER. Methods of teaching in high schools. il $2 Ginn 373
20–6653
“The printing of a new edition of the ‘Methods of teaching in high schools’ has given the author an opportunity to make a number of slight but important revisions. Some of these are necessitated by new scientific investigations, while others are merely improvements in the examples or the phrasing. References have also been inserted to the supplementary volume, ‘Exercises for “Methods of teaching in high schools.”’... The fundamental organization, however, has nowhere been changed.” (Preface to revised edition)
PARKS, LEIGHTON. English ways and byways. *$1.75 (3c) Scribner 914.2
20–19160
In the form of letters John and Ruth Dobson, an American clergyman and his wife, on a motoring tour in England, talk pleasantly of their experiences, which include unconventional glimpses of England and the English and much about the vicissitudes of motoring. Among the chapters on England are: The great North road; The England of Fielding; An English interior; Rural England; Education; A by-election; Sheep-dogs; The black country; The county families; The boat-race; Vested interests; Church and state.
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Booklist 17:111 D ’20
“All that is written is interesting and often it is amusing; but the wit is never biting, the story never cuts in the telling, and when all is told we really have gained a very agreeable idea of our English cousins.”
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Boston Transcript p6 N 3 ’20 480w
“Add that both husband and wife are extremely clever with the pen, and rather impudent in their freedom of remark, and you have all the materials out of which Dr Leighton Parks has made as entertaining a little volume as one often meets with in these dull days.”
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PARRISH, RANDALL. Mystery of the silver dagger. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–9714
Philip Severn, a secret service agent, is a collector of curios. An odd lacquer box in a New York shop attracts his attention and he buys it, altho all the proprietor can tell him is that it had been left in a hotel room and never claimed. After returning to his home he accidentally drops the box to the floor, unlooses a secret spring and picks up a folded bit of paper. But while the box itself was of undoubted antique origin, the paper is modern. It rouses Severn’s suspicion and he resolves to trace down the mystery at which it hints. His search leads him to Jersey City, a deserted factory building, a Polish saloon and a beautiful girl. The plot he uncovers involves a conspiracy against Chile, and the last bit of mystery cleared away is the relation of the beautiful girl to the band of plotters. After that comes the conventional ending.
Booklist 17:35 O ’20
“The plot is ingenious and the story has the fascination of swift action.”
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Cleveland p51 My ’20 60w
“A lively enough yarn.”
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N Y Times 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 320w
“A murder mystery skillfully handled.”
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Outlook 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 20w
“Mr Parrish can always be depended upon for a breath-bating narrative.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p385 Je 17 ’20 100w
PARRY, REGINALD ST JOHN.[2] Pastoral epistles; with introduction, text and commentary. *$8 Macmillan 227
“The object of the author has been to inquire afresh into the critical and exegetical problems on which the question of the genuineness of I and II Timothy and Titus depends. The outcome is a vigorous defense of the Pauline authorship of all three letters.”—Bib World
“Without disparaging the conscientious work in these notes, we must say that so far as the object of the monograph is concerned, Dr Parry would have done better to omit the commentary altogether—it is not any advance on earlier English work—and to discuss the partition theories of the epistles, a branch of criticism which he passes by.”
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“All that can be said in favor of this opinion is here brought together probably in as convincing a form as is possible. Yet the presentation does not carry full conviction, for it treats far too lightly the objections which have been urged by other scholars against Pauline authorship.”
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PARSONS, JOHN. Tour through Indiana in 1840; ed. by Kate Milner Rabb. il *$3.55 McBride 917.72
20–19355
The book contains the diary of John Parsons of Petersburg, Virginia, giving an account of a trip by railroad, by stage coach and by steamboat, and an intimate picture of the life of the then near west, in its political, geographical and social and family aspects ending with a personal romance. The illustrations are from old prints and drawings and from photographs.
“There is a quaint and charming flavor in this diary.”
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Booklist 17:113 D ’20
“The book is of particular value to those interested in Indiana and surrounding country and in the lives of the great and soon-to-be-great men and women of the time. As such it holds rank as an unusual historic document, and is a quaint picture of the politics and life of the day.”
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Boston Transcript p8 O 23 ’20 420w
“This book breathes the very spirit of the young West. It is a flowing and human story that takes one into the heart of the time it describes.”
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Outlook 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
“The love story that is dragged in does not add to the credibility of the tale. If the volume is not an authentic record of the journey it pretends to chronicle, the deception is inexcusable. This does not mean that the book is a waste of time. On the contrary, it is a triumph of accuracy and readability. It lifts the curtain upon a most interesting scene and shows us a fairly typical American commonwealth at a definite stage of development.”
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R of Rs 62:446 O ’20 100w
“An altogether entertaining book.”
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Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 760w
PARSONS, SAM JONES. Malleable cast iron. il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 672
In this second edition the author has “considered it advisable to revise the contents so as to include information concerning the more modern and scientific methods of production, thus bringing the book up to date and adding considerably to its practical value.” (Preface to the second edition) Two chapters are added on Mining by analysis and Measurement of temperature; there is also an addendum on Malleable cast steel.
“It is somewhat surprising that in a book which is evidently designed to assist the malleable-iron industry to more scientific methods of production there is no mention of the light thrown by the microscope on the structural changes which occur in the malleablising process; nor is there any reference to the mechanical properties of the various types of iron produced.”
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PARSONS, WILLIAM BARCLAY. American engineers in France. il *$4 Appleton 940.373
20–16507
The motif of the book is the work of the nine regiments of American engineers, with one of which the author served. “In the writing, it has been necessary to touch on all the fields of engineer activity, because these regiments came in contact with every field, even if they did not invade each one, from constructing ports to digging and holding trenches, in all parts of France from the Atlantic to the Vosges, from the Mediterranean to Flanders. Consequently there results a brief outline of what all engineers did.” (Preface) The contents are in part: The new military engineer; America’s problem; Engineer organization; Ports; French railways; American railway operations in France; Relations with the French; Forestry; Water supply; Chemical engineers; Camouflage and other fields of engineering; Maps; Flash and sound ranging and search light detection; Artillery; Light railways; Roads; Trenches and trench warfare. There are full page illustrations, figures, maps and an index.
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