Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1920 Books (continued 39)

TAYLOR, KATHARINE HAVILAND. Yellow soap. il *$1.75 (1½c) Doubleday

20–10312

In an atmosphere of yellow soap, Theodore Hargraves Bradly grew up—laundry soap, for his mother was a washerwoman. She tried her best to bring him up as a gentleman, as, she impressed upon him, his father had been. At her death, he was left at seventeen, to shift for himself and became a ‘Knight of the road,’ which calling he followed for several years. He then came into an unexpected fortune and proceeded to gratify his own desires and those of his pals of the road. Running along with his story is that of Frances Milton, the little girl in whose home his mother had done washing, and whose childhood, in its way, was unhappier than his. She was always his ideal and when their paths cross again, the barriers which he had erected between them on account of his origin, proved to be no barriers at all.

Boston Transcript p6 S 1 ’20 500w

“Despite its many crudities and its frequent unconvincingness, the book shows a real gift for the creation of character, much inventive faculty and an instinct for story-telling that promise worth-while achievement in the future.”

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N Y Times 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 420w

Springf’d Republican p11a S 26 ’20 230w

TEAD, ORDWAY, and METCALF, HENRY CLAYTON. Personnel administration; its principles and practice. *$5 McGraw 331.1

20–13089

“The field of their task is defined by the authors as setting forth the principles and the best prevailing practice in the field of the administration of human relations in industry; and they take up seriatim the personnel department, employment methods, health and safety, education, research (job analysis, specifications, etc.), rewards, administrative correlation, and joint relations.”—Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

“An unusually full index adds much to the usefulness of this valuable and timely volume.” T. T. Read

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Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering 23:642 S 29 ’20 1150w

“An honest and intelligent effort to induce employers to face the industrial problem intelligently and with a liberal spirit. Although not as incisively phrased or as brilliant as Sidney Webb’s ‘Works manager today,’ or Commons’s ‘Industrial good will,’ this is nevertheless a good book in a field where good books are unfortunately rare.” P. H. Douglas

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J Pol Econ 28:790 N ’20 500w

Reviewed by G: Soule

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Nation 111:534 N 10 ’20 230w

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Socialist R 10:30 Ja ’21 40w

“Adequate scholarship and a fine instinct for democracy characterize the writing.” W: L. Chenery

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Survey 45:167 O 30 ’20 450w

TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN. Little garden the year round. il *$2.50 Dutton 716.2

20–181

“Mr Teall has had much experience as an editor of House and Garden and American Homes and Gardens to sponsor his name on a book cover. It isn’t merely a horticultural handbook that he offers, such as any enterprising seedsman might evolve for the guidance of the uninitiated; this is the work of a garden litterateur, a man who knows the flowers, knows what to say about them, and what the poets have said about them and various other things that are more or less essential ingredients of a real garden essay or a series of them. He writes ‘to convey some sense of the joys of gardening, some realization of the pleasures that find place in the heart and soul of one who combines the companionship of prose and poetry in the going about his gardening.’”—Springf’d Republican

“One somehow gets the impression from this book that a garden-maker must be completely happy—or would be if it were not for slugs, aphids, and red spiders. Mr Teall writes with contagious enthusiasm and full knowledge of his subject.”

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Outlook 124:337 F 25 ’20 70w

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Review 2:392 Ap 17 ’20 750w

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Springf’d Republican p6 F 24 ’20 220w

TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN. Pleasures of collecting; being sundry delectable excursions in the realm of antiques and curios, American, European and oriental. il *$4 (6½c) Century 749

20–17080

“The contentment to be found in the acquisition and in the contemplation of the things that are dear to the heart of the antiquarian and the art-lover is a contentment that is the gift of the gods, always awarded the intelligent, though not always disclosed to them. A friend, then, will be he who discovers to one a treasure like that which the joy of collecting uncovers.... And so it is that this little book is not devised for savages, but tenderly has been nurtured in sympathy with the interesting and beautiful things of yesterday.” (Foreword) Among the contents are: The pleasures of collecting; Collectors of yesterday; American tables; Tea and antiquity; Chintz; Pewter; Samplers; Hand-woven coverlets; Chairs; English drinking-glasses; Delft; Early desk furniture; Saving the pieces; Consoles; The romance of a potter; Bernard Palissy; Italian Maiolica; Engraved gems; Fraudulent art objects. There are many illustrations, an extended bibliography and an index.

“Useful to the collector, it will also beguile leisure moments of others.”

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Booklist 17:103 D ’20

Reviewed by B. R. Redman

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N Y Evening Post p14 O 23 ’20 800w

“Any one who harbors even the germ of the collecting habit will find it developing in the glowing atmosphere of the author’s enthusiasm.”

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Outlook 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w

“Of course there is not enough about any one hobby to more than whet the appetite for a deeper acquaintance with the subject; and the book opens up vistas that are impractical for any but millionaires. Nevertheless. It is also a book for general reading and will prove entertaining to many a reader who gets much pleasure from looking into shop windows without being able to purchase the goods behind the glass.”

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Springf’d Republican p6 D 13 ’20 280w

TEASDALE, SARA (MRS ERNST B. FILSINGER). Flame and shadow. *$1.75 Macmillan 811

20–19070

“Sara Teasdale has found a philosophy of life and death. In this latest book we may watch the conflict between the light that comes from the everlasting flame and the darkness that is the ever-present shadow.... There are many poems in ‘Flame and shadow’ to delight those who cannot share her philosophy. There are songs of the faithful beauty of Aldebaran and Altair, and songs of the open sea and the mountains. It is necessary to mention, also, the songs of places, of St Louis, of New York, and Santa Barbara, and the songs of people and of their secret thoughts, ‘rushing without sound’ from the hidden places of their minds. But the best of Sara Teasdale’s songs of people are her love songs, always.”—N Y Times

“While other melodists are still copying the effects of Sara Teasdale, Miss Teasdale has stopped imitating herself. The clean, straightforward idiom of ‘Rivers to the sea’ has a warmer naturalism in ‘Flame and shadow,’ a more spontaneous intensity.” L: Untermeyer

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Bookm 52:361 Ja ’21 600w

“Into these songs are gathered many an element, many a mood, many an image that I cannot display here upon the screen of comment. It is indeed almost like sacrilege to do ought but read and be delighted by the rare and subtle presentment of them in Miss Teasdale’s songs.” W. S. B.

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Boston Transcript p7 S 25 ’20 1200w

“Sara Teasdale seems constantly assailed with two temptations, and it is only at intervals that she entirely surmounts them. One is the temptation to make effective endings, to save up points and appeals for a last line. The other temptation is to deal exclusively in stock love-lyric materials.” Mark Van Doren

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Nation 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 360w

Reviewed by Babette Deutsch

N Y Evening Post p5 N 6 ’20 150w

“This is a book to read with reverence of joy.” Marguerite Wilkinson

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N Y Times p10 O 31 ’20 1750w

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Spec 125:745 D 4 ’20 30w

TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS, ALEXANDER LOUIS. Tyltyl. il *$5 (21c) Dodd

20–18246

A prose version of Maeterlinck’s play “The betrothal” prepared by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. The story is told in seven chapters: The woodcutter’s cottage; The miser; The fairy’s palace; The ancestors; The children; The leave-taking; The awakening. There are eight colored illustrations by Herbert Paus.

Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun

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Bookm 52:342 D ’20 20w

“The pictures here are distinctly made for the text, not merely repetitions of the play.”

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Lit D p90 D 4 ’20 160w

“It has all the appeal to both young and old that Maeterlinck is able to conjure with such apparent ease. It is a fascinating story. Paus has achieved a sort of stained glass quality in the illustrations, and this effect is enhanced by the mounting.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

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N Y Times p4 N 28 ’20 190w

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Review 3:481 N 17 ’20 50w

TELBERG, GEORGE GUSTAV, and WILTON, ROBERT.^[2] Last days of the Romanovs. il *$3 Doran 947

20–21942

The book consists of two independent parts. Part one contains an account of the judicial examinations of the witnesses connected with the life of the family at Czarskoe-Selo, Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg by N. A. Sokoloff and copies of the depositions taken from the Omsk archives by George Gustav Telberg, after the fall of the Kolchak régime. Part two is the narrative of Mr Robert Wilton, for sixteen years correspondent of the London Times in Russia. While part one is taken up almost entirely with the examination of witnesses Mr Wilton’s narrative contains: Prologue; The stage and the actors; No escape; Alexandra misjudged; Razputin the peasant; Captives in a palace; Exile in Siberia; The last prison; Planning the crime; Calvary; “Without trace”; Damning evidence; All the Romanovs; The jackals; By order of the “Tsik”; The red kaiser; Epilogue. Among the contents of Part three are a list of the members of the imperial family at the outbreak of the revolution, a chronology of the documents and an alphabetical index of names.

“We cannot speak very highly of Mr Wilton’s method of handling this tragic history. His narrative contains much that is of interest and importance, but it seems to have been hastily written, and it is diffuse, occasionally slangy, and hotly argumentative. The second part of the book is the more interesting.”

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Ath p518 O 15 ’20 580w

Booklist 17:154 Ja ’21

“To the present reviewer at least Mr Wilton’s habit of intemperate statement largely vitiates whatever of truth there may be to his charges. This allowance being made, however, the present work is really invaluable as historical evidence, and simply as a human document and a dramatic picture of life it possesses a profound and poignant interest.” J: Bunker

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Bookm 52:364 Ja ’21 800w

Boston Transcript p7 Ja 8 ’21 480w

R of Rs 63:109 Ja ’21 90w

Spec 125:572 O 30 ’20 260w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p607 S 23 ’20 1050w

TEN-MINUTE talks with workers. $1 (2½c) Doubleday 330

20–18322

Short articles reprinted from The Times (London) Trade Supplement. “In preparing them for American publication, only such editorial interpolations were made as were considered desirable in order to make the talks more readable for an American audience.” Among the subjects are: The partners; Paying our way; The origin of wealth; The pillars of society; What is capital? The sanity of society; The cost of an article; What is money? Money and prices; What banks do for us; What is the worker entitled to? What are profits? The ideal factory; The upward path.

“They are clearly worded, aptly illustrated, and the lessons are easily understandable. He is talking rather to employers in his book than with workers, for he makes no point of contact with the latter.”

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N Y Evening Post p9 S 25 ’20 160w

Springf’d Republican p8 O 9 ’20 130w

“There is a bit too much of a literary quality about it, and it is too advanced in subject matter for consumption by American factory labor much below the rank of foreman. But with suitable modifications it could be adapted to the requirements of any given group. In the hands of an able and resourceful teacher it would be an admirable text in conventional economics for secondary schools or even college freshmen.” E. R. Burton

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Survey 45:515 Ja 1 ’21 180w

“They all contain a great deal of thought, pithily and happily expressed in compressed form.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p202 Mr 25 ’20 260w

TENNYSON, HAROLD COURTENAY. Harold Tennyson, R. N.; the story of a young sailor; put together by a friend. *$2 Macmillan

(Eng ed 20–5765)

“The facts about young Tennyson are mainly drawn from his mother’s journal and from his own bright, chatty letters to members of his family. That he was the grandson of the poet and, in addition, came from such stock as the clever Boyles and the handsome Courtenays accounts for his gifts of brain and physique, as well as for his wonderfully keen appreciation of all things beautiful, whether in nature or in human relations. The story of his early years is told from Lady Tennyson’s diary. After entering the British navy, his letters home take up the narrative. He served for a while on board the Queen Mary before being transferred to the destroyer Viking, which struck a mine in the English Channel in January, 1916. The explosion killed him and several of his shipmates, and brought to an end a career full of promise of the highest order.”—Nation

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Booklist 16:241 Ap ’20

“Presents a peculiarly engaging character, and forms, in its modest way, a valuable document on the British navy’s doings in the war.”

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Brooklyn 12:17 O ’19 30w

“In those letters written during his midshipman’s cruise to the West Indies the descriptions of the places visited reveal an unusual eye for scenery, as well as a happy faculty of making real the persons he met.”

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Nation 109:254 Ag 23 ’19 240w

“This little volume is full of charm, and the best part of it consists of Harold Tennyson’s letters. Perhaps the most delightful letters are those about Russia. The description of Reval is a masterpiece of condensation, and the brilliant account of Petrograd is quite as good.”

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Sat R 127:205 Mr 1 ’19 660w

“The main characteristic of his letters is his striking power of description.”

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Spec 122:141 F 1 ’19 520w

TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON. Bruce. *$2 Dutton

20–7674

“All dog lovers, especially those who have read ‘Lad—a dog,’ by Albert Payson Terhune, will be interested in another story about a collie by the same author. Bruce’s story is different, however. His early history is unique. We learn of his mother’s unfortunate experiences, and how she came to ‘The place’ by accident. Her only son, named Bruce, a ‘hopelessly awkward and senseless pup,’ soon merited the name of ‘The pest,’ through his countless escapades. Interesting, indeed, is the story of his development from an ‘Ugly duckling’ into a beautiful, intelligent collie, who was destined to play his part in the world war; and no small part it was that Bruce played overseas. Trained at home to carry messages, he readily learned the duties of a courier dog, and soon became the idol of the soldiers with whom he was stationed. Through many thrilling crises of war Bruce proved himself a soldier and a hero. Finally wounded, he was allowed to return to his happy home in America.”—Springf’d Republican

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Booklist 17:74 N ’20

“Few writers have portrayed collies as cleverly as has Mr Terhune. Bruce is made to seem quite as much a personality as any of his human friends, and his actions are always interesting and never boresome.”

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Boston Transcript p6 Je 30 ’20 260w

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N Y Times 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 310w

“Whether or not the incidents are true matters little, so entertainingly and sympathetically is the story told. A well-written war-story with a collie for its hero ought to find many readers.”

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Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 11 ’20 210w

THATCHER, EDWARD. Making tin can toys. il *$1.50 Lippincott 680

20–661

“The instructor in metal working at Teachers college, Columbia, gives a detailed instruction book on the making of toys in which both grade pupils and wounded soldiers have found interest and profit.”—Booklist

Ath p717 My 28 ’20 80w

“This book is very useful in its emphasis on methods of working.”

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Booklist 16:193 Mr ’20

“A book that will appeal both to the experienced mechanic and to the inexperienced one, particularly to the younger or older boy who delights to handle tools.”

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Cath World 110:844 Mr ’20 180w

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p244 Ap 15 ’20 60w

THAYER, LEE (MRS H. W. THAYER). Unlatched door. *$1.75 Century

20–9139

“The hero of this mystery tale, after a night with Bacchus, misses his own doorway and steps through the unlatched door of his next neighbor in the brownstone block in which his house is situated. But in a few moments he emerges, thoroughly sobered, for just within the door lay the dead body of a beautiful woman. She has been murdered of course; and the young man instinctively decides that he will be wise to maintain ignorance. The next day, however, he is drawn in, when the servants next door summon him. Unfortunately, he has accidentally left evidence of his visit, and when the police take charge he becomes one of the suspects. A considerable group is involved, and, characteristically in stories of the type, each one suspects the other. When guilt is fixed, the one least suspected proves to be the murderer.”—Springf’d Republican

“A fairly well written mystery murder story with an ingenious plot better worked out than the average.”

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Booklist 17:74 N ’20

“It would be foolish to suggest that ‘The unlatched door’ is as thrilling a mystery story as ‘The thirteenth chair,’ because it most certainly is not. It is a good mystery story, but Mrs Thayer is rather too much interested in the love story which she introduces.”

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Boston Transcript p6 S 1 ’20 240w

Cleveland p72 Jl ’20 30w

“‘The unlatched door’ is likely to puzzle even the most sophisticated of fiction readers.”

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N Y Times 25:321 Je 20 ’20 400w

Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 140w

THAYER, WILLIAM ROSCOE. Art of biography. *$1.50 Scribner 920

20–15938

“‘The art of biography’ is a subject on which Mr W. R. Thayer may justly claim to be heard, since he has proven his mastery of the art by his biographies of Cavour, John Hay, and Theodore Roosevelt. In this little volume, which comprises three lectures which he gave at the University of Virginia, Mr Thayer does not attempt to formulate rules to guide aspiring biographers to success. But he does trace the development of the art of biographical writing from that perfect ancient example—the story of Joseph and his brothers—down to Morley’s three-volume ‘Gladstone.’ Mr Thayer thinks that ‘the constant direction in the evolution of biography has been from the outward to the inward.’ Three indispensable qualifications, he thinks, the biographer must have. He must have real sympathy with his subject. In the second place, the biographer must tell the story as nearly as possible as the actors underwent it. Finally, the biographer must work as the portrait painter works with his brush, always aiming to discover and to reveal the salient characteristics which made a real flesh-and-blood personality.”—Review

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Booklist 17:63 N ’20

“Mr Thayer’s work evidences a wide range of reading and his critical faculty gives especial value to his comment.”

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Bookm 52:273 N ’20 210w

“At his best he is capable; at his worst, his lack of imagination is conspicuous.”

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Boston Transcript p6 S 25 ’20 350w

“A scholarly, illuminating survey.”

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Dial 70:232 F ’21 30w

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Review 3:425 N 3 ’20 390w

“There is more than entertainment here: it is a pungent bit of literary criticism.”

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Springf’d Republican p9a D 5 ’20 180w

THOMAS. DANIEL LINDSEY, and THOMAS, LUCY BLAYNEY.^[2] Kentucky superstitions. *$3 Princeton univ. press 398.3

20–18391

“Ancient and modern love signs, weather signs, good luck signs, bad luck signs, cures, wishes, dreams, beliefs about ghosts, witches, hoodoos, haunted houses, and a great variety of other things are brought together and arranged in a very readable form. There are altogether 3,954 superstitions listed. An index adds to the value of the volume.”—Survey

“The volume will be of great value for psychologists.”

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Ath p891 D 31 ’20 170w

Boston Transcript p4 Ja 5 ’21 190w

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Nation 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 280w

“The authors have done an excellent piece of work by collecting and classifying with great patience and care the current superstitious beliefs found almost everywhere in this region.” J: F. Smith

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Survey 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 200w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p857 D 16 ’20 880w

THOMAS, EDWARD. Industry, emotion and unrest. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 304

20–13787

In dealing with our modern economic life and the factors which make for industrial and social unrest, the author chooses to portray incidents and cases rather than to present economics and sociology as a science. He emphasizes the need of an ethical interest of the worker in his work and a satisfying emotional connection with its product. He sees the solution of our present day troubles in administrative methods rather than in more drastic revolutionary changes; and makes it one of his practical suggestions, at the end of the book, that the middle class youth—as the potential industrial leaders—should learn by practical experience of the strenuous life of workers. Contents: Emotion in industry; Business groups and business ideals; Business methods and business ethics; Decadence of the middle class; Our social group heredity; Ideas, ethics and institutionalism; Education, emotion and idealism; Adventure and ethics; The government, law and unrest; Some gulfs, complexities and loyalties; A summary and some suggestions; Notes and index.

“The form of his book is unusual because, being a lawyer, the author has seen the advantage of presenting his material in the case system. They are in fact actual and not theoretical cases, which will mean much to the interest of readers.”

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Boston Transcript p6 D 4 ’20 320w

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Ind 105:170 F 12 ’21 50w

Reviewed by C. S. Parker

Survey 45:287 N 20 ’20 500w

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Wis Lib Bul 16:232 D ’20 90w

THOMAS, GEORGE HOLT. Aerial transport. il *$12 (*30s) Doran 629.1

(Eng ed 20–13149)

The author was one of the first to advocate aircraft as a weapon in war-time and is now interested in proving its value in commerce, for high-speed travel and mail service. His object in this book is to supply “between the covers of a single volume, and written in a quite informal, non-technical way, a clear, uncoloured statement of just what a commercial aircraft can do, and also—which is just as important—what it cannot do.” (Foreword) The contents, after an introduction by Viscount Northcliffe, are: First considerations (Essence of the problem—length of stages—loads—speed—risk—etc.); Progress—immediate and future; “The air express”; Speeding up the business letter; Meteorology in commercial flying; Some general conclusions, with special reference to airships; Some questions of L. S. D.; Flying and the law; Aerial transport in remote places, with some notes as to passenger-carrying; Aerial photography and patrol. The book is profusely illustrated, has an appendix, an index, and four infolded maps.

“Mr Holt Thomas is an enthusiast, but a reasonable and restrained enthusiast. As the book is somewhat discursive and contains many repetitions, it is a pity he did not see that a proper index was provided.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p150 Mr 4 ’20 930w

THOMAS, SHIPLEY. History of the A. E. F. il *$6 Doran 940.373

20–19161

In the foreword to the volume, Brigadier General U. G. McAlexander says of the author that he “has taken great pains to present historical facts in an attractive, readable form and to show to the mind a realistic picture of the whole scene of operations.” After giving the history of events, from the arrival of Pershing in France to the armistice, he devotes four chapters to: Auxiliary arms; The services of supply; Division histories; A visitor’s guide. The book has illustrations, maps and an index.

Booklist 17:109 D ’20

“Amid the great multiplicity of books on the war in its various phases which have appeared since the armistice there is none which, in the present or the future, is of more intensive value than this.”

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Boston Transcript p6 N 24 ’20 620w

“It is written with unflagging energy and interest, is thoroughly readable, and its author is the very embodiment of the type and spirit of the thousands of young officers from civil life who made such admirable leaders of our troops in action.” F. V. Greene

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N Y Times p3 O 24 ’20 3950w

“It is the opinion of those most competent to judge that his story of America’s participation in the war is as accurate and complete as it can be made at this time.”

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R of Rs 62:671 D ’20 80w

THOMPSON, CHARLES THADDEUS. Peace conference day by day; a presidential pilgrimage leading to the discovery of Europe. *$2.50 Brentano’s 940.314

20–9820

“Mr Thompson is the superintendent of the Associated press foreign service. He acted as special correspondent in reporting the proceedings of the Peace conference, and Colonel House has vouched for his accuracy. This book gives a circumstantial account of the writing of the peace treaty and the League of nations covenant.”—R of Rs

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Booklist 17:16 O ’20

Boston Transcript p6 Jl 31 ’20 190w

“This is by far the most interesting and valuable of the contributions to our post-war literature. Mr Thompson’s work seems to be an honest, unbiased effort to present the reader with the facts as he saw them. His training enabled him to get at the inside of many situations that were decidedly complex. All this wealth he gives most liberally to his readers in a vivid, chatty way that entertains and enlightens.”

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Cath World 112:248 N ’20 450w

Reviewed by W: MacDonald

Nation 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 230w

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

N Y Times 25:6 Jl 18 ’20 3300w

“Such a useful volume as this should assuredly have had an index. The work is not only extraordinarily informative but equally entertaining.”

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Outlook 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 200w

R of Rs 62:112 Jl ’20 50w

THOMPSON, FRANK VICTOR. Schooling of the immigrant. *$2 Harper 371.9

20–18396

This volume is the first of eleven Americanization studies instituted by the Carnegie corporation of New York, under the direction of Allen T. Burns. The author calls attention to the fact that since the preparation of the volume was begun such a complete overturn of ideas respecting Americanization has taken place that the term itself is being replaced by such terms as “citizenship” and “national unification.” This implies a larger comprehension of the problem and a realization that the “drive” method must give way to a process of education “not to be undertaken impulsively, but systematically, persistently, and determinedly.” Contents: The school and nationalization; Problems and policies; Public-school administration; Private schools and public responsibility; Methods of teaching English; Measuring progress in English; Educational service stations; The training of teachers; Trend of legislation; Schooling in citizenship; Summary; Appendix, maps, diagrams and tables.

“Very useful to the serious organizer of immigrant work.”

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Booklist 17:95 D ’20

“As a text-book it gets to the heart of the matter and will be found invaluable to teachers interested in the education of the immigrant.” A. Yezierska

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Bookm 52:498 F ’21 420w

“Leaders in educational, industrial, or welfare work in any community which is facing the immigrant problem will find this book interesting in its account of conditions that exist and rich in suggestion of means by which these may be improved.”

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School R 28:788 D ’20 750w

“This is the most reassuring book on the subject of immigrant education that has yet appeared.” J. K. Hart

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Survey 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w

Wis Lib Bul 16:233 D ’20 70w

THOMPSON, HOLLAND. New South; a chronicle of social and industrial evolution. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 975

19–19140

“With no desire to encourage sectionalism, it seems to have been the purpose of the editors to have every part of the country intelligently presented in ‘The chronicles of America.’ ‘The new South,’ written by a southern man, Dr Holland Thompson, gives an account of the industrial, intellectual, and social progress that has been made by the South since the Civil war. In this volume, land and labor problems have an important place.”—R of Rs

“This small volume on a large subject has two notable characteristics. One is its catholicity of spirit. The other characteristic of the book is its descriptive value. As a brief and suggestive survey of the rise of a civilization the book is unsurpassed.” W: K. Boyd

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Am Hist R 26:146 O ’20 360w

“The chapters on The background, The revolt of the common man, and Industrial development may, perhaps, be found to contain more that is new than any of the others. The second mentioned, which describes the wresting of political control from the Confederate soldier, is probably the best in the book. All are good, however.” M. J. White

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Mississippi Valley Hist R 7:159 S ’20 500w

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N Y Times p16 O 31 ’20 130w

R of Rs 62:110 Jl ’20 80w

THOMPSON, MRS JANE SMEAL (HENDERSON), and THOMPSON, HELEN GERTRUDE. Silvanus Phillips Thompson, his life and letters. il *$7.50 Dutton

(Eng ed 20–11520)

“Many old students of the Finsbury technical college will welcome the life of its first principal, which has been compiled by his wife and daughter. Thompson accepted that post in 1885 and occupied it until his death in 1916. In addition to his life-work at Finsbury, Thompson wrote one of the best of elementary textbooks on electricity and magnetism, a standard work on dynamo-electric machinery, lives of Faraday and Lord Kelvin, and various monographs connected with Gilbert and the early history of magnetism, besides other books and a number of scientific papers. He was a convinced member of the Society of Friends, and frequently spoke at the Westminster meeting and elsewhere. Some of his religious addresses were printed in a posthumous work, ‘A not impossible religion.’—Spec

“These ladies enable us to make a closer acquaintance with one, to whose lucid explanations from the platform we have listened with pleasure, and whose text-books we have read with profit. The references to his home life are restrained but interesting. But we could have wished that letters other than those dealing with scientific matters were more plentiful.”

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N Y P L New Tech Bks p66 Jl ’20 180w (Reprinted from Engineering Ag 6 ’20)

“His biography is interesting and it is also stimulating.”

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Review 3:392 O 27 ’20 170w

Spec 125:153 Jl 31 ’19 380w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p181 Mr 18 ’20 1700w

THOMPSON, JOHN REUBEN. Poems; with a biographical introd. by J: S. Patton. *$2 Scribner 811

20–6690

“The University of Virginia edition of the ‘Poems of John R. Thompson’ is a tribute to the memory of one of the most memorable of Confederate poets. Now first collected, Thompson’s verses exhibit the gay and friendly—nor wholly unpuritanical—spirit which ruled the older literary Richmond. Here are echoes of Byron, Campbell, Southey, Béranger, Heine, Praed, Holmes, Saxe, neatly fitted to Virginian occasions. The rhymed essays, Patriotism, Virginia, and Poesy, sum up practically all that young Virginians were thinking and feeling from 1855 to 1859. The book was made possible by the Alfred Henry Byrd gift, and well edited by Mr John S. Patton.”—Nation

Booklist 16:338 Jl ’20

“It is good poetry of its time and kind, perfectly typical of the spirit of the mid-nineteenth century, although it does not touch the beauty and vigor of Poe, or the later sweetness and light of Lanier.” E. F. E.

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“John R. Thompson was not a genius. He was a gentleman of talent and culture. His verse is witty, fluent, eloquent, exquisitely ironical, but never great.” M. Wilkinson

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THOMPSON, MARGARET J. Food for the sick and the well: how to select it and how to cook it. *$1 World bk. 641.5

20–1484

Of the author of this practical little volume of recipes and suggestions on diet Dr William Gerry Morgan says in the introduction that she “has had years of experience in the care and feeding of the sick, and during all that time she has been a close and earnest student of dietetics from a practical standpoint.” Contents: General considerations—food and health, a balanced menu, suggestions and cautions; Recipes; Treatments; Index.

“This little book is written more especially for nurses but should prove very handy also on the household book shelf of the home maker.”

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THOMS, CRAIG S. Essentials of Christianity. *$1.25 Am. Bapt. 230

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“Religion, like everything else,” says the author, “has caught the temper of the age,” and this little book can be called an attempt to apply modern efficiency methods to religion. In these times of wornout institutions and necessary readjustments in all our relations, religion too must be reduced to its lowest terms in order that we can build anew; and constructive thought and vigor of action are called for. Whatever our difficulties may be, the author thinks it is always possible “to secure an effective starting point for one’s religious life by beginning where one is and cooperating with God according to one’s light and opportunity.” Contents: Faith; God; Christ: Evolution; The Bible; Prayer; Immortality; The church; Cooperating with God.

THOMSON, JOHN ARTHUR. System of animate nature. 2v *$6 Holt 570

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Two volumes containing the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of St Andrews in the years 1915 and 1916, by the Regius professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen. The subject matter of this lecture series is usually philosophical, dealing with the nature of man and the universe. In presenting the biological point of view, Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable, but as a coninterpretation or our religious conviction, we must admit the desirability of having more than a passing acquaintance with the system of things of which our everyday life is in some measure part.” His aim has been “to state the general results of biological inquiry which must be taken account of if we are to think of organic nature as a whole and in relation to the rest of our experience.” (Preface) Volume 1 contains ten lectures on The realm of organisms as it is; Volume 2, also composed of ten lectures, is devoted to The evolution of the realm of organisms. Volume 2 has a bibliography of nineteen pages and an index.

“As correcting the ‘red in tooth and claw’ conception of the animate world. Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable, but, as a contribution to the ethical and religious problem, they are unimportant.”

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“Will appeal only to the reflective who can use biological facts as the material of thought. For large and special libraries.”

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“The author’s resources in the way of naturalistic erudition are astounding, and his command of English at once fresh and fascinating.” E. P.

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Dial 70:109 Ja ’21 70w

“It is a book that most certainly ought to have been written. It takes stock, so to speak, of the situation of speculative biology at the beginning of a new phase in science, and it does so in a manner that is candid, comprehensive, and most attractive.” J. J.

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“If these Gifford lectures had no other value they would be welcome for their simple and comprehensive statement of the present phase of the Darwinian theory. In some cases he lays himself open to a charge of bad philosophy, in others of bad science. None the less, we are grateful for what is always a serious and often a true and beautiful book.”

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THORLEY, WILFRID CHARLES, tr. and ed. Fleurs-de-lys. *$2 Houghton 841.08

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This anthology of French verse reaches from the thirteenth century to the present. It is a free translation and in his introduction to the collection, which is in part a treatise on the art of translation, the author sets forth his reasons for a free rendering. The greater part of the introduction is a historical survey of French verse. The poems are chronologically grouped and the English employed is likewise chronologically adapted to the original verse. There are copious notes, an index of authors and an index of first lines.

“Mr Thorley’s power of fluent expression gets the better of his sense of history. What he brings with him obscures what he takes. But to harp on Mr Thorley’s failures is ungenerous. Let us rather express our surprise and admiration that in a volume so large and so varied the failures are not more numerous and more complete.” A. L. H.

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“The whole collection is marked by inspiration, technical flexibility and literary tact.”

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“Mr Thorley displays more earnestness than achievement.”

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“There is perhaps no version in his book that is not accomplished poetry, and he has an especial richness, ease, and sonorousness in handling the frequent sonnet form. He is less happy when he rebuilds poems. But it is his whole book that places Mr Thorley definitely in the front rank of those artists among whom he wishes to be counted.” Ludwig Lewisohn

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“Mr Thorley is sometimes a spirited translator. But his felicity is intermittent, and is sometimes dotted or crossed with infelicity.”

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“With a remarkable gift for translation, he has chosen his material with taste and with a scholarship free from pedantry.” E: B. Reed

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THORNDIKE, ASHLEY HORACE. Literature in a changing age. *$3 Macmillan 820.9

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“The effect of life upon literature, especially as it concerns the English people, is the problem that Professor Thorndike examines in this book. His survey includes a century as he contrasts the difference of English literature after Waterloo with its character today after the great war. The study of the changes that are the groundwork upon which literature bases its expression is primarily concerned with life. Thus Professor Thorndike in the first four chapters of his book deals with literature—down to Carlyle with a more or less historical sense. His next five chapters shift the whole basis of this historic groundwork with the revolts and evolutions that began to change the aspects of society. Hence Progress and poverty, Democracy and empire, Religion, Woman, and Science, invention and machinery are the subjects discussed. What Professor Thorndike predicts for the future is a reconcilement, a quicker compromise than in the past, between the changing forces of life and the imaginative symbols, which is literature’s interpretation and embodiment of them.”—Boston Transcript

“One always takes up with respect a work by Professor Thorndike, but this book is below his reputation. It is solid and sensible, and presents truly the main facts about the period and its literature. But the ground covered is so wide that little not already known to the student of history or of literature can be told within the small compass of the volume: and the book lacks the unity, lucidity, and brilliancy which could alone make memorable so brief a treatment of so large and complex a subject.” W. C. Bronson

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“A careful piece of work that will interest only widely read people who do not need an entrancing style to attract them. No index.”

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“Perhaps it is this wealth of illustration which hinders the movement of the thesis: the author is continually led astray into the realms of literary criticism admirable in itself, but not bearing directly enough on the subject under discussion. We must confess to having found the opening chapters dull, academic, a laboring of the obvious.” W. H. B.

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“On the political and economic side his conclusions are terrifically unconvincing.” Pierre Loving

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“To this new study he has brought the integrity of method and the comprehensive acuteness which he had displayed in his previous works. He has written a book to be enjoyed by all lovers of literature and to be appreciated by all who can recognize the clear and cogent writing which is the result of wide culture and of deep thought.” Brander Matthews

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“With what seems pretty near perversity, he has chosen scrupulously to avoid the inevitable circumstances of chronology, and to arrange his matter under such categories as ‘Democracy and empire,’ ‘Woman,’ and so on, and instead of stating facts he is apt only to allude. The resulting impression is of confused admiration.”

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“It is an extensive and fascinating subject, and it is handled as we should expect a thoroughly efficient American professor to handle it. That is to say, he designs his structure in a clear and logical way.”

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THORNLEY, ISOBEL D. England under the Yorkists, 1460–1485; with a preface by A. F. Pollard. (Univ. of London intermediate source-books of history) il *$3.35 (*9s 6d) Longmans 942.04

20–4567

“Though primarily intended for the use of undergraduates, this volume of extracts from contemporary sources for the reigns of Edward IV and Richard III will interest a larger public. Miss Thornley has ranged widely among printed and unprinted materials in selecting passages to illustrate the political, constitutional, ecclesiastical, economic, and social aspects of that turbulent generation.”—Spec

“The work is admirably done.”

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THURSTON, ERNEST TEMPLE. Sheepskins and grey russet. il *$2.50 Putnam

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This is the story of a curious couple, “vagabonds,” the author calls them, from the restlessness with which they change from one abode to the other. They have a fad for old houses, and whenever they are “settled for life” in one place they find another which is even older and more to their liking. At last they buy quite an ancient farm near Tewkesbury and it is at this place that “A. H.” describes his visit to them. They are a most engaging couple, are Bellwattle and Cruikshank, with their oddities and whimsies and their farming vicissitudes, and the reader is left with the impression that if a child should come to bless their union, their restlessness would vanish. The illustrations are by Emile Verpilleux.

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Booklist 16:315 Je ’20

“There is a whimsical tenderness in Mr Thurston’s treatment of his characters. It is his most pleasing mood, and it is present throughout his pastoral.” D. L. M.

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Boston Transcript p4 Je 2 ’20 700w

“‘Sheepskins and grey russet’ is really of value. This is a most gentlemanly book, with good antecedents, a reasonable income, and an excellent digestion.”

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“Many chapters give us an insight into country life in England. Not in the manner of Thomas Hardy or Eden Phillpotts, but in the more substantial and eternal manner of the ‘Stable boys’ almanac.’” B: de Casseres

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“Charmingly printed and illustrated.”

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“The charm of the present book lies not a little in its slightness and unobtrusiveness as a story. The thread is there, a tale is told; but with great economy of motion, almost as if by inadvertence.” H. W. Boynton

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Review 3:131 Ag 11 ’20 400w

“It must be confessed that as far as any practical assistance to an American family wanting to break into country life is concerned, the book is literature pure and simple, and by no means to be classed under useful arts. Perhaps they would say the same in England; but anyway, literature is quite worth while, and this book belongs in the worthwhile class.”

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THWING, ANNIE HAVEN. Crooked and narrow streets of the town of Boston, 1630–1822. il *$5 (7c) Jones. Marshall 974.4

20–19769

The book gives a brief historical survey of how Boston came to be Boston and then confines itself to the history of its streets and their original inhabitants and ancestry. But few of the old streets survive even in pictures and of the survivors most have been widened. “Many of the old streets were so narrow that it was difficult for two vehicles to pass each other and so crooked that after a fire the town invariably ordered them straightened.” (Introductory) The contents are: The North end; Government and business centre; South end; The West end; The neck; Notes and index of streets. The book is illustrated with old prints and has seven insert maps.

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Booklist 17:151 Ja ’21

“It is replete with accurate and minute information, and yet it does not lack the anecdotal vivacity which makes this kind of book good reading. The volume is admirably put together, and the engravings and old maps are especially interesting.” Margaret Ashmun

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Bookm 52:345 D ’20 130w

“There could hardly be a pleasanter guide book for a devout explorer than ‘The crooked and narrow streets of Boston.’”

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Ind 103:442 D 25 ’20 70w

“Its accuracy is vouched for by the fact that it is the outcome of a life-work, whose results are treasured by the Massachusetts Historical society. There are numerous agreeable lighter touches.”

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Nation 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 160w

“It is a work giving much valuable information and might well be imitated in all of our important cities.”

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N Y Evening Post p13 D 31 ’20 160w

“Miss Thwing’s book will remove any lingering doubt you may have as to the historical interest of those streets or as to the quaint picturesqueness that was theirs in a bygone age.”

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TITUS, HAROLD. Last straw. il *$1.75 (2c) Small

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Jane Hunter falls heir to a western ranch. She is an eastern society girl who knows little about the West and had it not been that her fortunes were at a low ebb she would have taken little interest in her new property. She goes West hoping to realize ready money out of the place and once there events decide her to stay. Dick Hilton, the easterner who had long wanted to marry her, follows her to the West and remains there to add to her troubles. Of the latter she has many, including a dishonest foreman, cattle thieves, and a “nester” who cuts off her best watering place and who is only a tool in the hands of her enemies. Tom Beck, who had refused to take a chance in the draw for foreman but who stays on the ranch to serve her at every turn, makes a very satisfactory hero and after an exciting bit of fighting the story comes to a peaceful close.

“The excellence of the novel lies not in its characters, not in its plot, which is always stirring, but in the way the plot works out of the characters. This stamps it as first-class work.”

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Boston Transcript p4 Je 2 ’20 520w

“Mr Titus knows his subject; he writes with a facile pen, and ‘The last straw’ will be keenly enjoyed by all lovers of western adventure tales.”

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N Y Times 25:221 My 2 ’20 550w

TODD, ARTHUR JAMES. Scientific spirit and social work. *$2 Macmillan 361

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“Prof. A. J. Todd, in his new book, points out that for 25 years social work has been professionalizing itself. He shows how modern social work enlarges the ‘rights of man,’ how it contributes to social progress, and what qualifications in character and training it demands of those who have entered it as a vocation.”—Springf’d Republican

“A most readable book for social workers”

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“The book, like some others based on college lectures, achieves an effect of reasoning by interpellation of ‘then,’ ‘therefore,’ ‘it follows,’ ‘and to sum up’ and contains frequent adjurations to ‘hard thinking’ without corresponding performance. Much of the material is a trifle obvious.”

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Springf’d Republican p10 O 15 ’20 270w

“In matters of detail we find much with which we differ. But all trained social workers and all teachers of applied sociology will welcome this vigorous, powerful statement of the principles and methods and ideals of social work.” J. E. Hagerty

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TOMLINSON, H. M. Old junk. *$2 (5c) Knopf 910

(Eng ed 19–15918)

This collection of sketches and essays has been reprinted from various publications between January, 1907 and April, 1918. They contain impressions and reminiscences from many lands and seas. S. K. Ratcliffe in his foreword to the volume, says of the author: “Among all the men writing in England today there is none known to us whose work reveals a more indubitable sense of the harmonies of imaginative prose.” The last seven of the papers reveal the author as war-correspondent. Among the contents are: The African coast; Old junk; The pit mouth; The art of writing; The derelict; The Lascar’s walking stick; On leave; A division on the march; The ruins.

“It is at times like these that we find it extraordinary comfort to have in our midst a citizen of the sea, a writer like Mr H. M. Tomlinson. We feel that he is calm, not because he has renounced life, but because he lives in the memory of that solemn gesture with which the sea blesses or dismisses or destroys her own. The breath of the sea sounds in all his writings.” K. M.

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Booklist 16:235 Ap ’20

“One opens this book at random and finds sentences, paragraphs, whole pages that are at once a delight and a despair: a delight because they are—well, delightful; and a despair because, peer as you may, you cannot discover the secret of their making.” J: Bunker

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Bookm 51:474 Je ’20 1050w

“For a set of essays written on land and sea, ‘Old Junk’ is a misleading title. Mr Tomlinson is an artist to whom ‘the light that never was’ is plainly visible. His descriptions of two voyages, one along the African coast, and the other, the more familiar passage across the Atlantic, are marvelous prose.” C. H.

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Boston Transcript p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w

“Delicate and helpless in his gestures, he yet is enduringly accurate in imagination. His images are of that excellent variety which send your eye to the corner of the ceiling for testing and reflection and acceptance.”

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Nation 111:305 S 11 ’20 180w

“No one has the right to look knowing when literature is mentioned unless he is fully aware of Mr H. M. Tomlinson.” Rebecca West

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New Repub 19:332 Jl 9 ’19 1400w

“A collection of stories of travel and chance which open out to the reader new visions of the sea and all that thereon is.”

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Sat R 127:428 My 3 ’19 70w

“Several of his papers deal with the war. He does not describe the fighting, but its effect on those who come back from it—how it disgusts them with life, how it works in them a change, not outwardly perceptible, which makes them strangers to their own kith and kin. All this is admirably thought and said, and so is a tribute to ‘the nobodies’ who restore the balance of the world when it has been upset by the highly placed.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p181 Ap 3 ’19 500w

TOMPKINS, DANIEL AUGUSTUS. Builder of the new South; being the story of his life work, by George Tayloe Winston. il *$3 Doubleday

20–18666

The new South, says the author, is not the achievement of educational and religious missionaries but of industrial forces which are epitomized in the life of Daniel Augustus Tompkins. “He built a new South—of mills and factories, of skilled labor and machinery, of diversified and intensified agriculture, of improved railways and highways, of saving banks and building and loan associations—a new South also of public schools, technical colleges, and expanding universities, of independent journalism and independent thought—a new South of universal education and democracy.” (Author’s summary of the contents of the book)

“Describes a strong character and an important movement in American history.”

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TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR [TOMPKINS] POTTLE). Joanna builds a nest. il *$1.75 Bobbs

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“Joanna is a competent business woman, attractive, and with a bird’s own instinct for home building. She buys a wretched little house on a hill, sets the carpenters to work, advertises for a cheerful working housekeeper and a slightly disabled soldier to run the place, and herself comes out to enjoy her nest whenever she can snatch time from business. The house becomes eventually a charming home, but the cheerful, all-too-golden-haired housekeeper and the first and second ventures in soldiers are vexing problems. The first man had been in the wrong war. The second had come off rather badly from the right one, but Joanna’s passion for remodelling only rejoices in the material thus brought to her hand.”—N Y Evening Post

“How she succeeded in her efforts is related in a delightful manner, quite in harmony with the subject and its circumstances.”

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“It is a comfortable story, a little sentimental, and the characters are extremely well sketched. On the other hand, the illustrations are anything but that.”

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Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

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Reviewed by D. W. Webster

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Pub W 98:1193 O 16 ’20 290w

“There’s a good bit of sound sense in the house-remaking, and plenty of entertainment in the story as a whole.”

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TOOKER, LEWIS FRANK. Middle passage. $1.90 (3c) Century

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David Lunt, a mere boy, of seafaring ancestry, ran away to sea in what turned out to be a slaver. Being a saucy and adventurous lad he tried the patience of the captain and the treatment he received aroused in him a passion for vengeance. For this reason and not from a bad heart he ships a second time in a slaver but his experiences this time close that episode. Other risky undertakings follow, just this side of crime. He is kept from overstepping the boundary line by the memory of a face back home. In his brief and infrequent visits to the home town, his love for Lydia becomes a pledge and he finally overcomes her father’s opposition by a courageous confession of his near lapses in church. The story is full of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes.

Booklist 17:160 Ja ’21

“It retains a certain value as a picture of life in an era which today is as remote as Babylon. Mr Tooker is an alert and companionable story-teller—a disciple of Conrad in action, though not in atmosphere.” L. B.

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“Certain merits lacking in many of the sea stories which come from the presses every year are possessed by this novel. In the first place, Mr Tooker knows the sea in the intimate way that a sailor knows it. Secondly, he has style, a simple and effective style.”

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N Y Times p27 Ja 2 ’21 380w

“Mr Tooker always writes of the sea with sympathy and knowledge, and we are inclined to think that this is the most vivid and exciting book he has written.”

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TORMEY, JOHN LAWLESS, and LAWRY, ROLLA CECIL.^[2] Animal husbandry. il $1.40 Am. bk. 636

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“This brief manual has been prepared for use in the agricultural classes which the Smith-Hughes act brought into being, and it is consequently written for elementary students and for use in connection with practical, every-day farm work. It comprises, like most ambitious texts in animal husbandry, a description of the principal breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry, a guide to methods of stock judging, and a section on the care and management of animals.”—N Y Evening Post

“A comprehensive volume, well illustrated, and most useful to the intelligent student of modern farming.”

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Cath World 112:554 Ja ’21 60w

“A few faults arise from the necessary brevity of the treatise. Occasionally important information is left out.”

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TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK. Chapters in the administrative history of mediaeval England. (Publications of the University of Manchester) 2v ea *$7 (*12s) Longmans 354

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“Mr Tout’s magnum opus had its origin in a mood of almost casual curiosity, awakened ten years ago by the essay of a young French scholar upon the use or ‘diplomatic’ of the small seals which the English kings used in their correspondence—the privy seal, the secret seal, the signet. A desire to clear up a few obscure points in English diplomatic of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries led him to explore the untouched treasures of the public record office. The next step was a reconstruction of the royal household—in particular, of its administrative offices, the chamber and wardrobe, and of their instruments, the small seals. Hence the sub-title of the work——‘The wardrobe, the chamber, and the small seals.’ To a scholar with Mr Tout’s wide knowledge of European history in the later middle ages such an inquiry was full of suggestion; and so his book reached its present form—a survey of English administration, almost a revision of English political and constitutional history, from the Norman conquest to the death of Richard II.”—Ath

“A most valuable feature of Professor Tout’s book will be found in the luminous exposition of sources and authorities as set forth in a descriptive chapter on documentary material. With clearness and originality there is apt to be excessive positiveness. In points of controversy the author occasionally falls into the temptation of exaggeration by over-stating an opposing view in order the more sharply to challenge it.” J. F. Baldwin

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“In these days of specialism Professor Tout has never forgotten the more spacious period of scholarship. He is still under its influence. And this is why, to a book packed with new material and highly technical in character, he has been able to give the quality of fine and significant history. Limited in range though it is, this book is not unworthy of a place beside the ‘Constitutional history of England.’” F. M. P.

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“This is the most important contribution to the study of English history that has been made in many a year. At every point it breaks new ground; and at every point it shows an amplitude of knowledge and a depth of research which put Professor Tout among the most eminent scholars of this generation.” H. J. Laski

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Nation 111:sup666 D 8 ’20 1000w

“In emphasizing a too much neglected phase of institutional development, Professor Tout has added greatly to our true appreciation of English mediæval history. No student of English mediæval institutions can afford to neglect these two invaluable volumes.”

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“The labour must have been exhausting, but the dry bones live again, in so far that the reader sees precisely how England was governed in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.”

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TOWARDS reunion; ed. by Alexander James Carlyle. *$2.75 Macmillan 280

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“‘Towards reunion,’ a book of fourteen chapters—half by writers in the church of England and half from the Free churches—is well named. Both words are strikingly suggestive of the purpose of the book. In different ways, that sometimes do not altogether agree, they give expression to a common vision of a ‘great spiritual and visible unity.’ That the emphasis should be put upon the spiritual, as the means to the visible, unity, is expressed in the preface and suggested by putting as the last and climactic chapter ‘The holy spirit in the churches.’ Besides the names of the writers appear, as witnessing to the common aim of the book, the names of over fifty other leaders in the churches, all of whom were also members of the inter-church conferences out of which the book really came.”—Bib World

“It is open, no doubt, to the criticism that the groups concerned had never any serious divergences; but, though this lessens its value as a practical step to reunion, it does not detract from its worth as a general contribution to the problem.”

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“There is much in what they describe as ‘contributions to mutual understanding’ which commands sympathy. On the main issue, that of reunion, it is difficult not to think that they multiply words without increasing sense. It is certain that they contain a large number of very disputable assertions.”

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TOWNS, CHARLES BARNES. Habits that handicap. *$1.50 (4½c) Funk 613.8

20–3199

An exposition of the present prevalent evil of drug addiction in the United States; the results it invariably causes, both socially and individually; the difficulty of overcoming it; and the surest effective remedy. The poisons Dr Towns condemns include many widely used narcotics,—bromides, headache powders, cough syrups, etc.,—alcoholic beverages, all forms of tobacco, as well as more virulent drugs. As a nation we are fond of poisoning ourselves. Prohibition has driven many to more harmful habits than the daily cocktail or glass of beer. Our women have, many of them, acquired the cigarette habit. Depoisoning ourselves will not be easy. The author urges as the most effective remedy, legal regulation of the sale of all drugs and narcotics, authoritative control of their use, and “pitiless publicity.” The book includes a preface by Dr Richard C. Cabot, and an appendix on The relation of alcohol to disease, by Dr Alexander Lambert. The book covers practically the same ground as the volume of similar title published by the Century company in 1915.

“The new edition is written in a manner even more attractive and vigorous than the first.”

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Booklist 16:292 My ’20

“Were the moderation of the book’s title reflected in the letterpress, its influence would be strengthened. His denunciations take no account of divergent views, save in so far as he disposes of them on the ground of bias.”

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“On the title page we find the sub-title, ‘The remedy for narcotic, alcohol, tobacco and other drug addictions.’ It is disappointing therefore to find no hint or suggestion in the book as to what the remedy is.”

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TOWNSHEND, SIR CHARLES VERE FERRERS. My campaign (Eng title, My campaign in Mesopotamia). 2v *$10 McCann 940.42

20–16919

“If the first campaign in Mesopotamia is not the best-known episode of the war it is not for lack of information, and Sir Charles Townshend’s contribution is one that will appeal to the student of military affairs not only for the light it casts on the motives that moved him, but also and even more as a careful and frank study of a campaign which must ever be memorable in our history. Sir Charles Townshend took the field as commander of the Sixth division in succession to General Barrett, who retired through ill health, in April, 1915; and in the last month of the year his offensive operations had ceased and he was shut up in Kut. He had fought three battles, and his Sixth division had proved itself a splendid fighting unit.”—Ath

“General Townshend reveals himself throughout as that rarest of British products, a thoughtful, well-instructed student of scientific warfare.”

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Ath p474 Ap 9 ’20 1000w

Booklist 17:109 D ’20

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Boston Transcript p4 Ja 19 ’21 900w

“The commanding officer of those British forces which fought Kut and Ctesiphon writes a magnificent story without patches, and with considerable skill.”

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Dial 69:435 O ’20 130w

“A remarkable personality lives in these pages ... but the maps suffer from a somewhat puzzling arrangement of arrows, and too much textual detail.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p163 Mr 11 ’20 1500w

TOWNSHEND, GLADYS ETHEL GWENDOLEN EUGENIE (SUTHERST) TOWNSHEND, marchioness. Widening circle. *$2 (2½c) Appleton

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The story begins realistically with an account of the girlhood of two sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret Sutherland, who are shuttled back and forth between affluence and penury by their father’s speculations. Meg, the practical minded one, marries Lord Stranmore, a man twice her age, and is very happy in her marriage. Elizabeth meets a prince in disguise and from this point on the book becomes a fairy tale.

“The unreality of it cannot fail to appall any adult of sensibility who peeps into its pages.”

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N Y Times p25 O 24 ’20 520w

“Reality, or even probability, counts for nothing in novels written for flappers, male and female, for shop girls and errand boys. Of incredible nonsense is this tale made up.”

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Sat R 128:537 D 6 ’19 450w

“A quite negligible tale.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p678 N 20 ’19 50w

TRABUE, MARION REX, and STOCKBRIDGE, FRANK PARKER. Measure your mind; the mentimeter and how to use it. il *$3 Doubleday 136

20–7589

This popular treatise on the measurement of intelligence by scientific methods is based on the experiences of psychological investigators in both school and army. It addresses itself “to employers and those in charge of the selection, grading, and promotion of workers of every class, in factories, offices, and stores; to teachers of all grades, from kindergarten to university; to parents who are interested in ascertaining, and watching the growth of their children’s mental development and to young men and young women striving for self-improvement and advancement and desirous of learning something of their own mental capacities and limitations as a guide to the intelligent choice of vocations or professions.” (Preface) Contents: Science versus guesswork; The applications of psychological tests; What these tests measure; Standards for mental tests; Different types of mental tests; Mental tests in the army; Psychological tests in education; Mental tests in industry; How to use the mentimeter tests; The mentimeter tests; Trade tests or tests of skill; Appendices, charts and diagrams.

“A thoughtful examination of the tests will show that they have been carefully worked out. But this valuable material of the book is likely not to receive its due attention from industrial or business men because, although the book purports seriously to crave the audience of industry, it wavers to catch the teacher and other professional classes; the early pages are sluggish, indefinitely organized reading. The defects of ‘Measure your mind’ are entirely those of organization and composition; the theory, the technique, and the essential content are meritorious.” C: L. Stone

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Am Econ R 10:830 D ’20 350w

“If books of this sort can be used by others than experts, this one has the advantage of simplicity.”

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Booklist 16:297 Je ’20

“The appendices with their diagrams are not the least valuable parts of the work. The mentimeter tests form its more especially unique feature.”

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Boston Transcript p4 My 12 ’20 120w

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Cleveland p89 S ’20 50w

“An excellent handbook, in popular style and very readable, but in thorough-going scientific fashion. The book will have great value for industrial personnel managers.” B. D. Wood

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J Philos 17:640 N 4 ’20 690w

“The chief value of the book lies in its contribution to the general education of the public.”

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Nation 112:123 Ja 26 ’21 240w

TRACY, LOUIS. Sirdar’s sabre. $1.90 (4½c) Clode, E. J.

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This book consists of a series of ten loosely-connected stories of life in India. They are told by Reginald Wayne, a young Englishman who becomes an officer in the 2d Bengal Lancers. For the most part they concern the exploits of Sirdar Bahadur Mohammed Khan, a “fire-eater” Mohammedan officer. Three of them have an element of romance, but the majority tell of the various problems that the English government meets in India. The titles are: First impressions; La belle Americaine; How Mohammed Khan became invulnerable; How the Sirdar prevented a great war; The Tàj—and a fortune-teller; How the Sirdar dacoited a dacoit; How we fed crocodiles on the Indus; The destiny of the emerald eye; How we guarded the great pearl necklace; How the Sirdar fought Ali Bagh, the Afridi.

“Full of adventure but not the author’s best in plot or characterization.”

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Booklist 17:161 Ja ’21

“With ‘The sirdar’s sabre’ something seems to have gone radically wrong. From the man who built up such atmosphere and vitality as was in ‘The wings of the morning’ this book is inexcusable. Here we find no sustained interest, little of characterization, and slight exercise of the descriptive powers which the author possesses. Mr Tracy is to be soundly berated for wasting excellent material.” J. W. D. S.

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Pub W 98:661 S 18 ’20 300w

TRACY, LOUIS. Strange case of Mortimer Fenley. $1.90 Clode, E. J.

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“When John Trenholme, artist, accepted a welcome commission from a magazine editor to journey down to a certain old Hertfordshire village and make a series of sketches of its imperiled beauties, he looked forward to nothing more exciting than an agreeable, wholly peaceful little expedition. Certainly he did not in the least expect to get mixed up with a murder. It was a series of accidents which caused him to be at a spot from which he could see a certain portion of the beautiful old Elizabethan mansion misnamed ‘The towers’ at the moment when Mortimer Fenley, banker, fell, ‘shot dead on his own doorstep.’ Mr Fenley’s elder son, Hilton, telephoned to Scotland Yard, and that was how the two detectives, known to their colleagues as the ‘Big ‘un’ and the ‘Little ‘un’ came to the assistance of the local police, one of whom had already, and quite without suspecting the fact, had an extremely important share in the development of events which was to bring about the solution of a most involved and puzzling mystery.”—N Y Times

Booklist 16:284 My ’20

“The usual mystery story written with charm of style, satisfying humor and a wealth of allusion pertinent to both literature and life.”

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Cleveland p51 My ’20 40w

“The story is well written, it moves quickly, and its characters are real people, not the puppets who so often figure in tales of this kind, the two detectives being especially well done.”

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N Y Times 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 400w

“The outstanding feature of Louis Tracy’s ‘Strange case of Mortimer Fenley’ is the absence of blood and ghastliness, of grimy alleys and sordid back rooms. Mystery there is, in plenty, and excitement.” Joseph Mosher

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Pub W 97:603 F 21 ’20 350w

TRAIN, ARTHUR CHENEY. Tutt and Mr Tutt. *$1.75 Scribner

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“The nine stories in this volume deal with the affairs of the firm of Tutt & Tutt (the members are not related), the senior partner of which is always addressed deferentially by his colleague as Mr Tutt. It is Mr Tutt who tries the cases, Tutt who does the work of preparing them; and to the unfriendly eye their activities might seem those of shysters if they were not devoted, as a rule, to the worthy object of protecting the poor and friendless against the stupidities and brutalities of the law and some of those who practice it. The hero of the book is Mr Tutt, who in the first story has a frame like Lincoln’s, and by the end of the book has progressed so far that his face looks like Lincoln’s. The villain, it must be confessed, is the law itself.”—N Y Times

Booklist 16:315 Je ’20

Cleveland p72 Ag ’20 50w

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Ind 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w

“The best of the nine are very good, and all of them are ornamented by entertaining comments on the philosophy of the law and justice.”

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N Y Times 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 280w

“The stories are very human. Outwardly, Mr Tutt is a dry-as-dust attorney; but association discloses in him a broad vein of humanity which makes his many-sided character a bottomless well of delight. It is one of Mr Train’s most entertaining books.”

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Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 450w

TRAVEL stories; retold from St Nicholas. il *$1.25 (3½c) Century 910.8

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Sixteen descriptive articles have been selected from St Nicholas for this volume. Among them are: The Grand canyon of Arizona, by William Haskell Simpson; In rainbow-land, by Amy Sutherland; Traveling in India, by Mabel Albert Spicer; Where the sunsets of all the yesterdays are found, by Olin D. Wheeler; Firecrackers, by Erick Pomeroy; Curious clocks, by Charles A. Brassler; Motoring through the golden age, by Albert Bigelow Paine; Lost Rheims, by Louise Eugenie Prickett; Out in the big-game country, by Clarence H. Rowe. There are five illustrations.

“Informational but not lacking in story interest.”

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Booklist 17:79 N ’20

“An entertaining, informative volume.”

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Lit D p99 D 4 ’20 40w

TREMAYNE, SYDNEY, pseud. (MRS ROGER COOKSON). Echo. *$1.75 (1c) Lane

20–7528

All thru her girlhood Echo Stapylton is subjected to morbid and unwholesome influences. Her mother runs away with an artist and Echo grows up in the home of straight-laced unsympathetic relatives. When she is seventeen a quarrel is precipitated over her friendship with Max Borrow, an artist, and she goes to Paris to live with her father. Max follows her, and to prevent their meetings her father places her in a girls’ school. By practicing various deceits she arranges to see him on various occasions but they have a disagreement and he goes to America. Thereafter Echo meets her mother and it is arranged that she is to live with her part of the time. She learns however that her mother’s pretense of reform is a farce and leaves her to be greeted with the news of her father’s death. Alone and dependent she accepts an offer of marriage from a successful solicitor, some years her senior. The marriage is unhappy and when her husband leaves her for another woman she is free to marry her old lover Max.

“The tale is clever and readable.”

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Ath p63 Ja 9 ’20 100w

“The novel is a long and fairly interesting one, but it gives the impression that the author has gathered a great deal of commonplace material before she begins and pours it into the pages through a hopper. Readable as the book is, it is singularly lacking in literary grace.”

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N Y Times 25:273 My 23 ’20 550w

“The story is intense and written in the same brilliant style that characterized Miss Tremayne’s previous story, ‘The auction mart.’”

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Springf’d Republican p11a My 30 ’20 240w

“The interest of the book lies in the slow revelation of the character of Echo. It is a tribute to the author that the reader finds his impatience with Echo gradually changing to sympathy; it is as if he encountered her in real life and found that he liked her better as he knew her more intimately.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p673 N 20 ’19 500w

TRENCH, HERBERT. Napoleon; a play. *$2 Oxford 822

19–12898

“‘You are the eddy—they are the tide’, says Mrs Wickham to Napoleon over the body of her dead son. The tide of humanity sweeps onward, and the Napoleonic selfishnesses and individualisms that run counter to it are no more than eddies swirling back against the current, soon to be straightened out again by the irresistible onrush. Geoffrey Wickham is the apostle of humanity, whose aim it is to make Napoleon see the unreasonableness of his attitude. His plan is to kidnap Napoleon from Boulogne—it is the year of the threatened invasion of England—to take him out to sea, and there, in solitude, to persuade him into reason. The plot of the play, which is full of dramatic situations, is the story of his failure and death.”—Ath

“Mr Trench uses prose as his medium except in the critical scene between Wickham and Napoleon, where he rises to a fine and rather Browning-like blank verse.”

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Ath p477 Je 13 ’19 150w

“Now here is at least a play. It has argument, dignity, eloquence and dramatic movement; it is based upon a real conflict of ideas, in any case they scarcely affect the whole. The whole work is disciplined; there is rhetoric, where rhetoric should be; and where dispassionate prose should be, there is dispassionate prose. It does honour to English literature; and when we learn that it has been played for one hundred nights with success, we shall believe that the English public has begun to do honour to itself.” J. M. M.

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Brooklyn 12:88 F ’20 30w

“Mr Trench’s play is worth all his poems twice over. It is one of the few real fruits of the war.” Mark Van Doren

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Nation 110:371 Mr 20 ’20 480w

“The play has faults. It is unwieldy in construction, the threads are not always connected and the writing is at times over-elaborated. But these defects cannot outweigh its poetic quality, its power of characterization, and its intense drama. The scenes in Napoleon’s room at Boulogne and those in Wickham’s boat are particularly noteworthy. It would be interesting to see how it would stand the test of production.”

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Spec 123:344 S 13 ’19 700w

“Surely this play is not merely to be read, but to be seen. But every character is clear in outline, awaiting embodiment, demanding presentment. Its characters are never mere puppets ... not even Napoleon who must by now be more disgustedly weary of his earthly immortality than any denizen of the underworld. He, at any rate should return thanks to Mr Trench for this just, urbane and pitiless rehabilitation.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p334 Je 19 ’19 1700w

TRENT, WILLIAM PETERFIELD, and WELLS, BENJAMIN WILLIS, eds. Colonial prose and poetry. il *$2.50 Crowell 810.8

The present volume is a reprint on thin paper and in one volume of an earlier three-volume set under the titles: The transplanting of culture (1607–1650); The beginnings of Americanism (1650–1710); The growth of the national spirit (1710–1775). The object of the anthology is to give the critic of literature an opportunity “to study the effects of environment upon the literary powers and products of a transplanted race.” (Introd.)

TREVELYAN, GEORGE MACAULAY. Lord Grey of the Reform bill; being the life of Charles, 2d Earl Grey, 1764–1845. il *$7 (*21s) Longmans

20–7584

“It was a happy chance that caused the authorized life of the second Earl Grey to be left half finished sixty years ago, and that induced the late Lord Grey to assign the task to Mr George Trevelyan. The Lord Grey who passed the reform bill of 1832 has always been an enigma to later generations. His political career was like a drama in which the hero holds the stage in the first act and has a brief and effective scene in the second act, but then is seen no more till the fifth act. Entering Parliament in 1787, when he was twenty-three, he attached himself to Fox, and made himself notorious by founding the Society of the friends of the people and by moving annual resolutions in favour of parliamentary reform. He succeeded to his father’s peerage in November, 1807, and felt that his career was ended. Three-and-twenty years had passed when all at once England discovered that the retired statesman was, like Cincinnatus, the one man who could extricate her from a dangerous situation. Lord Grey tore himself from his country pleasures, took command of a mixed and quarrelsome team of Whigs, radicals, and Canningites, and set himself to achieve parliamentary reform with such skill and determination as few ministers have ever displayed.”—Spec

“The proportion of the text of 369 pages bearing directly upon Grey is too slight to give unity to the whole, and too scattered for focusing into any but a vague image. This is what Mr Trevelyan’s volume really is: an indictment of Tory administration during the era in which Grey lived—an indictment conceived in the unmeasured violence of a political antagonist.” C. E. Fryer

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Am Hist R 26:90 O ’20 760w

“It is a fascinating story, excellently told, and even the reader who knows little of English political history will find it interesting on account of the light and hope that it sheds on modern conditions.” A. G. Porritt

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Am Pol Sci R 14:733 N ’20 560w

“Truly admirable book.” Ll. S.

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Ath p443 Ap 2 ’20 1500w

“As a biographer, though not concealing Grey’s failings, he is in sympathy with his subject, while as regards politics his zealous advocacy of the virtues of the Whigs and his condemnation of their opponents occasionally, and especially in the earlier part of his work, outrun his discretion.” W: Hunt

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Eng Hist R 35:457 Jl ’20 2150w

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Nation 111:223 Ag 21 ’20 450w

“Mr Trevelyan belongs to a great tradition; and he worthily maintains the dignity of a literary ancestry of which Macaulay is only the most eminent figure. Known wherever literature is cherished for his own superb study of Garibaldi, his ‘Life of John Bright’ showed admirably that he was not less competent to illustrate the history of England. This latest work is not a whit less excellent.” H. J. L.

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New Repub 24:49 S 8 ’20 2200w

“Mr Trevelyan’s biography is so excellent in every way, so thoroughgoing in its preparatory studies, so familiar with the epoch, so just in its appraisements and so interestingly written that it is well worth waiting for.”

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N Y Times 25:28 Je 27 ’20 900w

Outlook 125:466 Jl 7 ’20 2750w

“Mr Trevelyan has put us heavily in his debt by so agreeably presenting a character about whom too little has been known in the past. Mere personal intimacies are subordinated to historical perspective, and we gain a shrewd insight of a psychology under the stress of problems not unlike those now confronting the world.”

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Review 3:250 S 22 ’20 2450w

“While we refuse to admire Mr Trevelyan’s hero, we have nothing but praise for Mr Trevelyan. The note of urbanity is never absent from his writing; his style is free from the exuberance, the piling up of effects by antitheses and adjectives, and the lack of humour, which mar the earlier books of his distinguished father.”

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Sat R 129:304 Mr 27 ’20 1300w

“The author, except in his occasional Whiggish outbursts, writes as a sober historian and states the facts fairly.”

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Spec 124:423 Mr 27 ’20 1700w

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Springf’d Republican p13a My 20 ’20 1050w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p193 Mr 25 ’20)

“The biography is an excellent history of the time and one that repays reading for its analogies with the present.” G: F. Whicher

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Springf’d Republican p9a N 14 ’20 830w

“Within its own limits and for its own public the work could not be better done, and will confirm and establish its author’s reputation as a biographer and historian. It is brilliantly written, and the right reader, especially the lover of English political history, will not willingly lay it down till he has drunk his cup of pleasure to the last drop. It is full, too, of interesting judgments on matters which only incidentally come within its scope.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p193 Mr 25 ’20 3200w

TREVELYAN, JANET PENROSE (WARD) (MRS GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN). Short history of the Italian people, from the barbarian invasions to the attainment of unity. il *$5 Putnam 945

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The writer was impressed with the need of a short history of Italy while giving a series of lantern lectures on Italian history to London school children in 1902. The present volume, which the author modestly calls a “summary” is the result “of a deep and growing love for the subject, of many wanderings in the bypaths of Italy, and of an inherited affection for her present population.” (Preface) She disclaims having made any original research, studied the archives, or made new discoveries. “But I have endeavoured, by using the work already done on each period by Italian, British, French, and German scholars, and by illuminating it with the sayings of contemporary writers, to present a narrative as near the truth as it was possible for me to make it.” (Preface) Partial contents: Italy in the century preceding the barbarian invasions (284–395); The barbarian invasions (395–476); The beginnings of the middle ages (800–1002); The rise of the cities, and their conflict with Frederick Barbarossa (1100–1183); Rome and the papacy during the fourteenth century (1305–1389); Italy in the sixteenth century; Napoleon’s first conquest of Italy (1792–1799); The years of revolution (1846–1849); The completion of Italian unity (1860–1870); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. There are twenty-four illustrations and six maps.

“Mrs Trevelyan has wrestled with the difficulties of her subject with marked success. She has a thorough grasp of essentials and a due sense of proportion which have enabled her to produce an admirably balanced, well-arranged book, while she writes in a way that is sure to make it widely read.” L. C.-M.

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Booklist 17:67 N ’20

“The chapters are well arranged and in all but the spirit of the presentation of the material, satisfactory.”

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Cath World 112:687 F ’21 130w

“As is the case with all English histories of Italy, the least satisfactory part of the book is the ‘Epilogue,’ which treats of the fifty years since 1870.” W. M.

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Eng Hist R 35:628 O ’20 370w

Ind 104:67 O 9 ’20 40w

“The author failed to grasp, or rather utilize, the proper hypothesis—to write the story of the communities as influenced by individuals and extract from that story not what was merely entertaining, but what permanently influenced the future.” Walter Littlefield

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N Y Times p22 Ag 22 ’20 1850w

“As regards political history the volume is valuable, but its author does not sufficiently emphasize Italy’s glory in her men of art, literature, science, and religion.”

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Outlook 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 200w

“Popular histories of Italy in English are not many. This one is likely to be recognized very soon as among the best.”

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R of Rs 62:223 Ag ’20 70w

“Mrs Trevelyan has accomplished a feat which we should have deemed hardly possible, in view of the fascinating complexity of the subject. Her book is intensely interesting, and we commend it heartily.”

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Spec 125:180 Ag 7 ’20 1250w

“It might be suggested that she is apt to overrate the capacity of her reader to grasp from a few words the summaries and the conclusions that have been formed by the writer after long and extended study and reflexion. Mrs Trevelyan has every right to assume that her fresh, lively, and sympathetic appreciation cannot be superfluous.”

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TRIDON, ANDRÉ. Psychoanalysis: its history, theory and practice. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 130

A popular treatment of psychoanalysis. The author has attempted “to sum up in a concise form the views of the greatest American and foreign analysts which at present are scattered in hundreds of books, pamphlets and magazine articles.” (Preface) The author is not an unqualified Freudian, holding that Jung, Adler and others have contributed much of value to the new science. Among the chapter titles are: The history of psychoanalytic research; The unconscious and the urges; Night dreams and day dreams; Symbols, the language of the dream; The dreams of the human race; The psychology of everyday actions; Feminism and radicalism; The psychology of wit; The artistic temperament; The psychoanalytic treatment; The new ethics. There is a glossary of terms used, and a bibliography, but the book lacks an index.

“This book is more valuable than the usual popular exposition of psychoanalysis. Clearly written.”

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Booklist 16:230 Ap ’20

“The present book is by no means a good fulfillment of its avowedly popular purpose. A Freudian critic might say that the disorderly arrangement of its material reveals a mental disturbance of a most alarming character. That much of the subject matter is extremely illuminating goes without saying, but the author constantly betrays, as do nearly all writers upon this subject, an astonishingly uncritical habit of mind in the interpretation of specific cases analyzed.” C. M. S.

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Grinnell R 15:259 O ’20 440w

“In a field that has developed a considerable wealth of literature, this book of Tridon’s is a distinct and welcome contribution to the subject.” W: J. Fielding

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N Y Call p10 My 23 ’20 650w

“The volume is wholly a compilation and done without display of literary skill or apparent intimacy with the subject. Any one who wishes to get a comprehensive synopsis of the position of psychoanalysis today may get it with greater readiness and satisfaction from ‘Psychoanalysis and its place in life’ by Miss M. K. Bradby, than from the book in question.” Joseph Collins

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N Y Evening Post p5 N 27 ’20 1250w

“Dr Tridon has carried out his purpose of furnishing in brief compass a survey of the large bearings upon the affairs of mind, normal and abnormal, which underlie the practice of psycho-analysis. But this is not the long awaited and still awaited book which will give the intelligent and critical public some satisfactory account of the animus and the technique and the background of the Freudian system. Dr Tridon tells us far too much of the several schisms and divergences of Freud and his followers.”

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“There is nothing original in it except some of Mr Tridon’s opinions, which are not impressive.”

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Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 18 ’20 160w

“He is an industrious disciple and sets his matter out lucidly and uncritically. He will give the intelligent reader some appreciation both of the value of psychoanalytic work and (though unconsciously) of some of the extravagances of psychoanalytic enthusiasts.”

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TRIDON, ANDRÉ. Psychoanalysis and behavior. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf 130

This, the author’s second book on psychoanalysis, “is an attempt at interpreting human conduct from the psychoanalytical point of view.” Contents: The organism; Problems of childhood; Progress and regressions; Sleep and dreams; Problems of sex; The psychoanalytic treatment; The four schools of psychoanalysis; Index. Bibliographical notes follow the chapters.

“A rather useful aspect of the book is the chapter distinguishing the four schools of psychoanalysis headed respectively by Freud, Jung, Adler, and Kempf.”

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Nation 111:694 D 15 ’20 40w

“Mr Tridon’s second volume, ‘Psychoanalysis and behavior,’ is far more meritorious than the first. It shows that he has examined psychoanalytic literature and that he is able to percolate it through his conscious mind with much ease and some grace.” Joseph Collins

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TRINE, GRACE STEELE (HYDE) (MRS RALPH WALDO TRINE), comp. Dreams and voices; songs of mother, father and child. $2 Womans press 821.08

It is the aim of this anthology of contemporary poetry “to present some of the best poems on the mother and child relationship written in recent years, not forgetting to include several that deal also with the love of father and child.” (Foreword) It is a de luxe edition with a frontispiece in color by Clinton Brown.

“The fact that most of the material is of quite recent creation gives the volume an interest not shared by older anthologies of the same character.”

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Freeman 2:262 N 24 ’20 120w

“There is necessarily much sentimentality, much vatic utterance, much capitalization and saccharinity. De la Mare’s ‘Rachel’ is a relief from some of it, tender without being ‘sweet.’”

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TROUBETZKOY, AMÉLIE (RIVES) princess. As the wind blew. *$1.75 Stokes 811

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Some of the poems in this collection are reprinted from other sources but many appear in print for the first time. The collection opens with a memorial poem to Adair Archer and the grouping of the contents is under the headings: Rhymes and rhythms; Balkan songs; The wonderful child; Of Babylon; Fantasia; Autumn and winter.

“The technique of poetry is vividly manifest in the present volume of poems, as well as some ingenuity and warm imagination; but the dramatic lucidity of emotion is still absent.”

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TUCKER, IRWIN ST JOHN. History of imperialism. *$2.25 Rand school of social science 321.03

“There is a straight line of descent from the throne of Menes to the chair of Wilson; a straight course of empire from that far off day when Upper and Lower Egypt were united beneath the crown of the first empire, to the day when the expanding credits of America forced her imperial merchants to create an imperial figurehead. Our symptoms of imperialism are identical with those which all budding empires have displayed.” (Foreword) For a better understanding of imperialism the book takes up the study of the separate nations from earliest history both before and after the great spotlight of imperial power picked them out for the stage of some particular act. In conclusion the author points out the two forces that are now struggling in our political structure to head us either towards an empire or an industrial republic. The book falls into two parts: ancient and modern imperialism. Part 1 contains: The book of Egypt—of Babylon—of Persia—of Greece—of Rome—of Nicea; part 2: The book of Islam—of France—of Germany—of Spain; The strife of the Eagles; The book of England—of India—of America.

“Throughout the work there are numerous excerpts from ancient documents which are of absorbing interest and which throw a stream of light into many dark corners. The style, too, is a departure from the customary method of dealing with economic subjects. There is only one defect in the making of the book that we note. There is no index.” James Oneal