Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1920 Books (continued 8)

“This is a book very much ‘up to the minute,’ with which every judge and every lawyer should be familiar as a matter of professional routine; every newspaper editor should know it by heart. Every liberty-loving American will find it profoundly disturbing reading. To those who have despaired of freedom of speech in America this calm, scholarly, sane exposition of very recent history will sound like a clear bell in a moral fog.” J: P. Gavit

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N Y Evening Post p6 Ja 15 ’21 1300w

“His book is courageous and sound, simple and scholarly.” Albert De Silver

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World Tomorrow 4:56 F ’21 2100w

CHAFFEE, ALLEN. Lost river. il $1.60 (3c) Bradley, M.

A story of two boys lost in the Maine woods. Ralph Merritt, a city boy on his vacation, and Tim Crawford, the guide’s son, wander away from their companions in search of raspberries. They lose themselves in the thicket and are unable to regain the trail. Reaching a river which they mistakenly think to be the stream their party is following, they start in the wrong direction and go further and further away. The story tells of their adventures with animals, of their means of finding food and shelter from cold and storm. They touch civilization again on reaching the cabin of a forest ranger, and so enamored are they of life in the open that they decide to prepare for the forest service.

“In addition to its first purpose, that of being an entertaining story, ‘Lost river’ abounds in practical information about wood-life that will make a summer vacation more enjoyable.” H. L. Reed

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Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 120w

CHALMERS, STEPHEN. Greater punishment. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday

20–11075

Following five years of vagabondage, the hero of this story returns to his home in Glasgow. He has not made his fortune and is not ready to pay back the five hundred pounds his father had given him on his twenty-first birthday, but he returns with a clean record and a good name. He is about to announce his return to his family when fate throws him in the way of an old ship mate, Joe Byrnes, alias “Shylock” Smith. He knows this man to have a criminal record but he is tolerant of his faults and the two make a night of it. He is later a witness to the murder of Byrnes and when arrested cannot clear himself, for to do so would involve the girl he loves. The deep mystery surrounding Daniel Bunthorne, Jess’s father, finally clears away; by a miscarriage of justice the hero’s life is saved. His parents are spared knowledge of his near approach to death and with Jess, he sails away to Canada and a new life.

CHALMERS, THOMAS WIGHTMAN. Paper making and its machinery. il *$8 Van Nostrand 676

20–17582

A work on paper making “including chapters on the tub sizing of paper, the coating and finishing of art paper and the coating of photographic paper.” (Sub-title) The author is on the editorial staff of the Engineer and the book is based on two series of articles, on Paper making and its machinery and on The art of coating paper that appeared in that journal in 1915 and 1916. The volume is very fully illustrated, having six folding plates and 144 illustrations in the text. It is also indexed.

Booklist 17:97 D ’20

“A valuable contribution that will be appreciated by all who are interested in the operations.”

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Engineering 110:157 Jl 30 ’20 2400w

“Mr Chalmers’ effort, admirable as it is, regarded in its proper aspect as a pioneer to some such technical treatise, falls far short of our expectations in this direction. It is doubtful whether a really practical and useful textbook on the engineering problems of the paper industry will ever be written. The two most interesting chapters in the book are those dealing with The coating of art paper and The coating of photographic paper. Taking the book as a whole, we are glad to recommend it to those associated with the paper industry.” R. W. Sindall

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Nature 105:480 Je 17 ’20 1100w

N Y P L New Tech Bks p66 Jl ’20 70w

CHAMBERLAIN, GEORGE AGNEW. Taxi. il *$1.60 Bobbs

20–2643

“This is a whimsically humorous account of the adventures of Robert Hervey Randolph, ‘six feet straight up and down, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, sandy haired, blue eyed, nose slightly up-ended and wearing a saddle of faint freckles, clean shaved, well groomed, very correctly dressed, and twenty-six years old,’ who swaps places with a New York taxicab driver, clothes and all, and gathers some big ideas while studying the under side of the upper world through a hole in the front glass of his car. His experiment convinced him that a chaperoned cab company was badly needed in New York.”—N Y Times

“Viewed seriously, ‘Taxi’ is a piece of sheer absurdity: but it is not written for the serious view. Still, merely as a piece of deliberate nonsense, I don’t find it remarkably successful. Its gaiety is not quite spontaneous.” H. W. Boynton

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Bookm 51:585 Jl ’20 90w

“The most sanguine admirer of Mr Chamberlain would be obliged to admit that ‘Taxi’ is a pot-boiler. It is not, moreover, a very choice specimen of pot-boiling. The product is of a watery character, in which a few bits of nourishment float pathetically.”

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Boston Transcript p6 Ap 28 ’20 120w

“An agreeable romance runs through this original tale and all ends well.”

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N Y Times 25:329 Je 20 ’20 440w

Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows

Pub W 97:176 Ja 17 ’20 280w

CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM. Crimson tide. il *$1.75 Appleton

19–18840

“Mr Chambers shrewdly gives us glimpses of two scenes which take place before the beginning of the story, but which are vitally important to our understanding of it. One is a foreword and contains the first meeting of Palla Dumont, Ilse Westgard and John Estridge. Estridge is an ambulance driver in Russia, detailed to take Palla Dumont to the Grand Duchess Marie who has obtained permission to have her American companion and dear friend with her in the convent where the imperial family are confined. In the preface we have an equally important scene taking place in the convent when the Bolsheviki arrive to put to death the empress and her children. With such exciting events behind her it is little wonder that Palla Dumont has no real desire to settle down to the ordinary life of the United States after the signing of the armistice. The story is largely concerned with Palla’s revolt from the conventional and her endeavor to fight the rising tide of bolshevism in New York by preaching her gospel of love and service.”—Boston Transcript

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Boston Transcript p9 F 7 ’20 600w

“One pictures Mr Chambers awakened by the alarm clock of destiny to realization that the hour is striking in which he must begin to write a new novel and saying to himself with infinite boredom: ‘What in thunder is there left in the world that I haven’t written about? Bolshevism? Is Bolshevism among my titles?”

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N Y Times 24:741 D 14 ’19 700w

“It is all fairly interesting, but rather shallow.”

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Sat R 130:440 N 27 ’20 130w

“‘The crimson tide’ promises, in its inception, to be a lively story of adventuring with a strain of characteristic Chambers romance.”

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Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w

CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM. Slayer of souls. *$1.75 (2½c) Doran

20–8632

When the story opens the heroine, Tressa Norne, is on shipboard leaving behind her China and the memories of her four years as a captive temple girl. When next met she is in a hotel room in San Francisco, expelling an intruder by the simple expedient of opening a bolted door with the power of her eye, and causing a yellow snake to appear out of the atmosphere. Next she is on the stage in New York giving an exhibition of black magic, with secret service men watching her. Victor Cleves obtains an interview and enlists her in a crusade against the “red spectre,” anarchy, otherwise bolshevism. For the secret of the bolshevist advance is really magic, “brewed in the hell pit of Asia.” It has conquered Russia, is spreading over Europe and threatening the United States, where already the I. W. W., the parlor socialists and some two million other deluded mortals are in the power of the dread Yezidees of China. Indeed, we have the author’s own word for it that all that stood between “a trembling civilization and threat of hell’s own chaos” was this little band of secret service men and one lone girl. Civilization totters but is saved.

“‘The slayer of souls’ is as good a story as ‘In secret,’ and that is no mean praise. We embark upon strange and perilous adventures, and it is not long that we bother to count whether or not the episodes of his tale are practicable. They are exciting and they are full of wonder, which suffices.” D. L. M.

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Boston Transcript p6 Je 26 ’20 440w

“It is a well told story, but Mr Chambers, our most shining example of a debased talent, can write better than he does here.”

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Ind 103:322 S 11 ’20 120w

“The reader sympathizes wholly with one of the characters who at the end of the book ‘whispers hoarsely, “For God’s sake, let us get out of this!”’”

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N Y Times 25:292 Je 6 ’20 630w

Outlook 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w

“The stories provide diverse entertainment but are in nowise above mediocrity.”

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Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w

“The book serves only to show that an author, reputed of great skill in casting the storyteller’s spell over his readers while leaving thought and emotion unstirred, can on occasion forget that skill, and write as clumsily as any novice.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p554 Ag 26 ’20 310w

CHAMBRUN, JACQUES ALDEBERT DE PINETON, comte de, and MARENCHES, CHARLES, comte de. American army in the European conflict. *$3 Macmillan 940.373

19–18747

“An account of the American military activities from a French source. The two French officers who were the authors of this work were attached to General Pershing’s staff.” (R of Rs) “The work is remarkably comprehensive, and in its 400 pages embraces a rapid but complete survey of American preparation for war, the transport of men and supplies across the ocean, the training of the troops in France, the organization and work of the services of supply, construction work in France, the part taken by different units of the A. E. F. with the allied armies, the organization of the American forces into their own armies and the part they thus played in battle.” (N Y Times)

“The facts which they present are beyond dispute, and the presentation is singularly free of any discussion of the friction which arose between us and our allies over the methods in which the necessary cooperation between us was effected. The narrative is unbalanced in treating so much in detail minor actions of the first few divisions arriving in France.”

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Am Hist R 25:529 Ap ’20 900w

“Written without sentimentality, in a clear, logical, analytical manner.”

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Booklist 16:236 Ap ’20

“The book is of special value in that it gives perhaps the best account of the organization of the American troops in France.”

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Cath World 111:822 S ’20 370w

“Some of the distinctive qualities of the French genius for expression are evident in the clarity, the logical arrangement, the precision with which the narrative is presented. Noteworthy throughout the book are the understanding of American character and the appreciation of how it has been formed and colored by the history and conditions of the country.”

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N Y Times 25:80 F 8 ’20 1400w

R of Rs 61:220 F ’20 40w

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Spec 124:868 Je 26 ’20 670w

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p230 Ap 15 ’20 830w

CHAMPION, JESSIE. Sunshine in Underwood. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane

A trifling comedy of errors involving a young English parson on his holiday. Bob Truesdale had meant to spend his month’s leave with Colonel Massey but at the station he is hailed with joy by Uncle Joseph and Aunt Emily who mistake him for their nephew, Bob Upton. What he learns in the next half hour about the feud between the colonel and the vicar and the part he had been destined to play in it, also about the colonel’s plans for himself and Nora Massey, decides him and he keeps up the deception. Later a friend appears who is willing to play the part of Bob Truesdale and still later the real Bob Upton, who all the time has been engaged to Nora, comes on the scene and Truesdale is glad enough by then to be relieved of his disguise for he is already deeply in love with Hilda, the vicar’s daughter, and wants to do his courting in his own proper person.

“A light and cheerful story.”

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Ath p157 Ja 30 ’20 40w

“Light, irresponsible, amusing fare. It is the sort of thing that one may read or fall asleep over, as it may happen, with no harm done either way.”

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N Y Times 25:287 My 30 ’20 400w

“This is one of the funniest books of the season.”

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Sat R 129:178 My 22 ’20 70w

CHANCELLOR, WILLIAM ESTABROOK. Educational sociology. *$2.25 Century 301

19–17183

“Although the author, who is the head of the Department of political and social science at the College of Wooster, states in his preface that the work is written as an introductory textbook in sociology from the educational point of view, it is hardly that, but rather a work on social psychology, in which field it is very successful. Part one, on Social movement, treats public opinion, citizenship, social solidarity, custom, tradition, habit, rules of the game, revivals, panics, crazes, strikes, political campaigns, and similar topics. Part two, on Social institutions, does not take up the evolution of social institutions, but is a study of the organization and control of society through its institutions, taking up the state, property, the family, the church, the school, occupation and under minor institutions, charity, amusement, art, science, business, and war. Part three, on Social measurements, consists of seven chapters. The one on institutional workers treats the value placed upon different groups of institutional workers, as lawyers, doctors, teachers, business men, artists, and entertainers.”—Survey

“In the field of sociology he is in his usual style: always original and often brilliant.” F. R. Clow

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Am J Soc 26:240 S ’20 200w

“Well indexed.”

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Booklist 16:112 Ja ’20

“The breezy style, the vigorous language, the wealth of information, the multitude of applicable suggestions, compensate for the frequently dogmatic tone and for what will be for too many teachers and normal students new topics and new thoughts and new attitudes.”

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Nation 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 200w

“It is a misnomer to call the volume ‘Educational sociology.’ The treatment is not focused upon education, whether curriculum, methods, or administration. There is no treatment of sociological phenomena, relations, or principles in such a way as to show how types of education have been produced, how schools and society in general are interrelated, or what kind of education is dictated by present-day social conditions. No coherent educational program is indicated.”

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School R 28:153 F ’20 300w

“It has no thoughts running through the work. Instead, its arrangement is haphazard, being a collection of valuable and interesting social facts. The book is a valuable work, for it is a mine of facts and illustrations of social psychology and ought to be extremely useful to the teacher of sociology as such.” G. S. Dow

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Survey 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 250w

CHANDLER, ANNA CURTIS. More magic pictures of the long ago; stories of the people of many lands. il *$1.40 Holt 372.6

20–4279

This book follows the plan of “Magic pictures of the long ago,” published last year. It is made up of stories told to children during the story hour in the Metropolitan museum of art, New York city. Among them are: A great Egyptian queen, Hatshepsut; In the land of the minotaur; A story from colored glass, or, Justinian and Theodora; A tale of a great crusade; At the court of Philip IV; In the time of Paul Revere. The illustrations are from pictures and art objects in the museum, and there is a bibliography at the beginning and an epilogue, “About story hours,” that will be helpful to teachers.

Booklist 16:247 Ap ’20

N Y Times p25 Ag 29 ’20 60w

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Pub W 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w

CHANDLER, FRANK WADLEIGH. Contemporary drama of France. *$1.50 (1½c) Little 842

20–6298

The volume comes under the Contemporary drama series edited by Richard Burton. The author claims it to be the most inclusive of all the English books on the subject published in the present century. It “offers a survey and an interpretation of the French drama for three decades, from the opening of the Theâtre-Libre of Antoine to the conclusion of the world war. It attempts the classification, analysis, and criticism of a thousand plays by two hundred and thirty authors.” (Preface) Contents: Precursors of the moderns; Masters of stagecraft; Naturalism and the free theatre; Laureates of love; Ironic realists; Makers of mirth; Moralists; Reformers; Minor poets and romancers; Major poets and romancers; Importers and war exploiters; Bibliographical appendix; Index.

Booklist 16:304 Je ’20

“The combination of enthusiasm and judgment is excellent.” Gilbert Seldes

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Dial 69:215 Ag ’20 120w

“It would be an odious thing to make light of this book, a book that represents so patent and prodigious an outlay of intelligent labour. And yet! Is this, after all, the contemporary drama of France? There are so many trees and so many leaves on each tree in this kind of criticism that one doesn’t see the forest at all. There is no proportion, no light and shade, no judgment, in short, no taste essentially, in all these laborious, lucid, skilfully prepared pages.”

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Freeman 1:190 My 5 ’20 480w

“Mr Chandler, in a word, exhibits that blank awe which strikes so many admirable academic minds among us at the mere sight of a hollow technical dexterity.” Ludwig Lewisohn

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Nation 110:627 My 8 ’20 850w

“So close an analysis is of undoubted value to the playwright who can see in the most barren plot the ultimate beauty of its development, but even a public devoted to drama will not wax enthusiastic over an anatomical study of the subject.”

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Springf’d Republican p10 Jl 9 ’20 350w

“Mr Chandler has produced an excellent handbook, but not a critical interpretation.”

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Theatre Arts Magazine 4:257 Jl ’20 300w

CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE. Jane. *$1.75 (2½c) Putnam

20–7764

Jane, small, red-haired, Irish, selfless, loving, innocent, is queer. She has both temperament and a temper and it is owing to both of these that she runs away from home, from her lethargic, fat and flabby mother and her ponderous, soulless stepfather to join a one-night-stand theatrical troupe. She travels across the continent with them, adopts and mothers each member in turn as the need arises, while all the temptations and dangers of such a life glance off from her guileless innocence as from an armor. Tom Brainerd, the sub-manager, is a mixture of brutality and tenderness. He loves her, bullies and frightens her, but at last when she fully realizes the strength, tenderness and sincerity underneath the roughness he conquers her.

Booklist 17:70 N ’20

“Jane is a likeable girl, in spite of sunshine girl tradition, and her courage and struggles must appeal to readers, in spite of an inevitable sense of unreality surrounding the story.”

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Boston Transcript p4 Ag 28 ’20 340w

“The author tells her story in a cheerful vein, but does not neglect to picture the hectic environment in which the heroine lives.”

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Springf’d Republican p11a S 12 ’20 210w

CHAPIN, CHARLES. Charles Chapin’s story. *$2.50 (3½c) Putnam

20–18406

This autobiography of a man now serving a life sentence at Sing Sing for the murder of his wife, has an introduction by Basil King, who suggested the writing of the story to the prisoner as a means of escaping from his own morbid thoughts. The book contains the experiences of a newspaper man of forty years’ standing. The author was city editor of the New York Evening World at the time of the tragedy. Contents: From the bottom; Barnstorming; Chicago “Tribune” days; My first big “scoop”; A murder mystery; “Star” reporting; A city editor at twenty-five; Breaking into Park Row; On the “World’s” city desk; Newspapering today; The Pulitzers; Newspaper ethics; Gathering clouds; Tragedy; A “lifer” in Sing Sing.

Booklist 17:112 D ’20

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N Y Times p22 S 12 ’20 580w

“The recital of the morbid psychological conditions that led to the author’s crime does not make wholesome reading. Nevertheless the book is one of the most remarkable that ever came from within prison walls.”

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Outlook 126:334 O 20 ’20 70w

Review 3:477 N 17 ’20 880w

“The author tells his story in direct and simple English, wasting no words, and stopping when the tale is completed. In comparison with some literary products, the work may seem ‘choppy’ at times, but the human story is there and written in a style easily understood and followed.”

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Springf’d Republican p9a O 17 ’20 800w

CHAPMAN, ERNEST HALL. Study of the weather. il *$1.10 Putnam 551.5

20–10622

“The present volume of the Cambridge nature study series has been written chiefly to provide a series of practical exercises on weather study.... In addition to serving its primary purpose as a school-book it is hoped that the book will be acceptable as an introduction to the study of modern meteorology.” (Introd.) It is an English work and its problems and illustrations are based on climatic conditions in the British Isles. Contents: The weather day by day, observations of wind; What to look for in watching the weather; Clouds, the colours of the sky; Fog and mist, dew and frost; Rain, snow and hail, thunderstorms; Temperature and humidity; The pressure of the atmosphere; Weather charts; Cyclones and anticyclones; Anticipation of weather. Appendixes contain exercises, a syllabus of weather study for elementary schools and a bibliography. There are illustrations, maps and charts and an index.

“It is a type of book which will undoubtedly be of very great interest to pupils and will stimulate in them an attitude toward scientific method which will carry on into other fields. The book ought to be imitated by an American edition which will give an account of the conditions on this continent similar to that which is given for the neighborhood of England.”

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El School J 20:552 Mr ’20 180w

“It is elementary but it is lucid. Nothing could be better as an introduction to an important subject.”

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Spec 123:662 N 15 ’19 70w

CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER. What bird is that? il *$1.25 Appleton 598.2

20–7850

“A pocket museum of the land birds of the eastern United States arranged according to season.” (Sub-title) The author is curator of birds in the American museum of natural history, and in this book he has reproduced one of the museum features, the seasonal collection of birds. The plates, eight in number, are arranged to show Permanent resident land birds of the northern United States, Winter visitant land birds of the northern United States, Winter land birds of the southern United States, etc. The bird figures in these plates are small but they have been drawn with particular care to accuracy in color and form. They have also been drawn as nearly as possible to the same scale so that comparative sizes are indicated. A bird “map” as frontispiece also makes identification and the reading of descriptions easier. The plates, which are the work of Edmund J. Sawyer, are arranged at the beginning, followed by the text. There is an index.

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Booklist 16:333 Jl ’20

“This compact little guide may well become the vade mecum of the birdlover.”

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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 3 ’20 280w

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Cleveland p78 Ag ’20 40w

Outlook 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w

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Review 3:236 S 15 ’20 150w

“For the amateur this book is the simplest, as well as the most authoritative, bird guide.”

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R of Rs 62:336 S ’20 100w

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Springf’d Republican p8 N 16 ’20 230w

CHASE, JOSEPH CUMMINGS. Soldiers all. il *$7.50 Doran 940.373

20–5654

The author was sent overseas by the War department to paint the portraits of the officers and distinguished soldiers at the American front. As a result he offers this book with 133 portraits and biographical sketches of the subjects. The other contents are the foreword by the author; a list of the army corps and division assignments; the thirteen major operations; and a description of the American military decorations.

“The portraits are spirited, varied, and alive with the characteristic traits of the American soldier. They constitute a fine and enduring achievement.”

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Outlook 125:29 My 5 ’20 100w

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R of Rs 61:557 My ’20 140w

“A glance through the book shows that, though there are many types among the picked manhood of America, a distinctively American type is evolving. It might be possible for an anatomist to define the special points in a characteristically American face with the help of such a collection of clever portraits as this.”

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Spec 124:835 Je 19 ’20 120w

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p406 Je 24 ’20 80w

CHASE, JOSEPH SMEATON. Penance of Magdalena, and other tales of the California missions. il *$1 (3½c) Houghton

Magdalena was half-Spanish and half-Indian, in the early days of the mission of San Juan Capistrano. She and Teófilo, the padre’s favorite Indian neophyte, loved each other dearly. But Magdalena, being part Spanish, was not sufficiently humble and obedient to suit the padre and he would not give his consent to the marriage before Magdalena had done a penance, i.e. appeared at mass carrying a penitent’s candle. Love conquered pride at last, but in the midst of the service an earthquake shook the church and the falling walls killed the lovers. The other missions represented in the cycle are: San Diego de Alcalá, in Padre Urbano’s umbrella; San Gabriel Arcángel, in The bells of San Gabriel; San Fernando, in The buried treasure of Simí; and Santa Bárbara, in Love in the padres’ garden. There are illustrations.

“All are charming and some of them are humorous.”

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Cleveland p70 Ag ’20 70w

CHATHAM, DENNIS, and CHATHAM, MARION, pseuds. Cape Coddities. il *$1.35 (7c) Houghton 917.4 20–10073

This collection of essays, the authors say, is not to be taken as a serious attempt to describe the Cape or to delineate its people, but merely to express their perennial enthusiasm for this summer holiday land. They prefer “to think of the Cape as a playground for the initiate, a wonderland for children, and a haven of rest for the tired of all ages, a land where lines and wrinkles quickly disappear under the soothing softness of the tempered climate.” Contents: A message from the past; The casual dwelling-place; The ubiquitous clam; A by-product of conservation; Motor tyrannicus; “Change and rest”—summer bargaining; A blue streak; A fresh-water cape; Al Fresco; Models; “A wet sheet and a flowing sea”; My cape farm; Scallops; Aftermath. The book is illustrated.

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Booklist 16:341 Jl ’20

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Boston Transcript p7 Je 26 ’20 600w

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Ind 103:441 D 25 ’20 140w

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N Y Times 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 110w

“Pleasant little essays.”

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Outlook 125:223 Je 2 ’20 40w

“‘Cape Coddities’ is a gem of a book, for its text, illustrations, and general appearance.” E. L. Pearson

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Review 3:314 O 13 ’20 30w

CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH. Chorus girl, and other stories. *$1.75 Macmillan

20–3884

This is volume eight in Mrs Garnett’s translation of Chekhov’s stories. Contents: The chorus girl; Verotchka; My life; At a country house; A father; On the road; Rothschild’s fiddle; Ivan Matveyitch; Zinotchka; Bad weather; A gentleman friend; A trivial incident.

“Fairly representative of the author’s relentless realism and his keen though not unsympathetic insight into human nature.”

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Booklist 16:283 My ’20

Cleveland p70 Ag ’20 50w

“The tales have each its special sharpness, but how little are they a moralizing and how much a sophistication, an enrichment of experience!”

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Dial 69:432 O ’20 130w

“The Chekhov of these stories is the typical naturalist. He is a naturalist, that is to say, not merely on some artistic theory, but by instinct and need. He is the man whose vision of life has caused him suffering, whose contacts have brought him pain. He has little of the Russian’s compassion; he has the artist’s cruelty toward those who have pierced and jangled his delicate nerves. The novelette My life has a note of relenting. The two stories that have a touch of gentleness and of the sadder poetry of life—Verotchka and Zinotchka—read like memories of moments that were painful enough to be recalled but not bitter enough to be resented in after years.”

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Nation 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 750w

“Chekhov applies the knife, which is his eye, to everyone alike. And in this critical insight is one of his distinguishing characteristics. To read Chekhov is to come in contact with a man of great sensitiveness and witty subtleties yet a man of wide sanity and plain humane feeling.” F. H.

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New Repub 22:254 Ap 21 ’20 1450w

“There is no trickery about Chekhov’s story telling; he is given neither to happy endings nor to ironical twists of narration. His tales are simply unadorned cross-sections of life, studied and described with passionless accuracy. Chekhov’s reaction to life is revealed in his treatment of his characters—a reaction neither bitter nor sentimental, but grave and just and charitable.” A. C. Freeman

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N Y Call p10 My 9 ’20 320w

“His stories are replete with interest, with vivid glimpses of the baffling Russia of yesterday. It is a picture of hopelessness painted by a master without hope.”

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N Y Times 25:22 Je 27 ’20 660w

CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH. Letters of Anton Tchekhov to his family and friends; tr. from the Russian by Constance Garnett. *$3 Macmillan

20–5392

“The family of Anton Chekhov, the Russian novelist, has published 1890 of his letters. From this great mass of correspondence Mrs Garnett has selected for translation those passages which seem to her to throw most light on the novelist’s life, character and opinions. A biographical sketch, taken from the memoirs written by Chekhov’s brother, introduces the volume.”—R of Rs

“The publication of this volume of his letters affords an opportunity for the examination of some of the chief constituents of his perfect art. These touch us nearly because the supreme interest of Tchekhov is that he is the only great modern artist in prose. As we read these letters of his, we feel gradually from within ourselves the conviction that he was a hero—more than that, the hero of our time.” J. M. M.

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Ath p299 Mr 5 ’20 1400w

“A secondary interest is the continuous passage of scenes of Russian life in all their fascinating variety.”

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Booklist 16:279 My ’20

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Cleveland p84 O ’20 70w

“It may be said that the letters of Chekhov are at first sight disappointing. They corroborate only faintly and unemphatically the life so vivid in outline. Either they have been subjected to a drastic process of selection and expurgation, or they represent the reduction of experience to an even, neutral tone of objective observation, of detachment, almost of indifference. Both explanations are doubtless in a measure true. Among letter-writers he belongs to the school of Prosper Merimée rather than Stevenson.” R. M. Lovett

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Dial 68:626 My ’20 1900w

“His letters are the letters of a man without calculativeness or envy—untrammelled, unpremeditative, unspoiled. To read him, when he is favorable or the reverse ... is to feel the same pleasure that he himself had in sea-bathing: ‘Sea-bathing is so nice that when I got into the water I began to laugh for no reason at all.’ His personality, so unforced, is like that; and when his letters stop, it is as if a heart stops, he is so palpable.” F. H.

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New Repub 22:226 Ap 14 ’20 1700w

N Y Times 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 80w

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N Y Times p13 Ag 1 ’20 850w

R of Rs 61:559 My ’20 60w

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Spec 125:150 Jl 31 ’20 860w

“They are colorful, vigorous, entertaining, but the Chekhov who wrote them is that faithful, talented reporter who chronicles fact without opinion, and who rarely allows the reader an intimate association with himself. Of course, the letters are just as they should be; one could not expect the writer of the ‘Tales’ to be a correspondent after the fashion of the author of ‘Treasure Island.’”

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Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 12 ’20 330w

“In spite of the early and full maturity of Tchehov’s mind and intellect we seem to retrieve in his letters the consciousness and sensibility of childhood with all its vividness and absorption.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p103 F 12 ’20 2700w

CHELEY, FRANK HOBART.^[2] Overland for gold. *$1.50 Abingdon press

20–4892

“Its scene laid in the early ’60s, Frank H. Cheley’s new story for boys tells of the adventures of a party of gold seekers who made their way to Colorado in the days when Denver was a town of shacks to which the law had as yet scarcely penetrated. Clayton Trout, one of the two boys in the party, is the narrator and tells how his uncle Herman, who had been in the gold rush to California, equipped a small company with tools, food, etc., and several wagons drawn by oxen, and set forth to meet the dangers and difficulties of the trail. The book describes first the journey, on which they encountered Indians, herds of buffalo, wolves, etc., and then the arrival at Mountain City and the adventures which befell them in their search for gold.”—N Y Times

“This is a ‘corking’ good story.”

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Bib World 54:648 N ’20 70w

“Though the occurrences are not related in a very spirited manner, ‘Overland for gold’ will probably please the boy readers for whom it is intended.”

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N Y Times 25:27 Je 27 ’20 360w

“The valuable part of the book is the description of gold mining in the Rockies.”

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Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 22 ’20 100w

CHELEY, FRANK HOBART. Stories for talks to boys. *$2 Assn. press 808.8

20–4120

A collection of brief stories, “brought together here for the convenience of Sunday school teachers, boys’ club leaders, Young men’s Christian association secretaries, Boy scoutmasters, and any others who are called upon to talk to boys informally or even formally to address them.... They have been selected from the four winds, ... clipped from books, magazines, and even dally papers, ... gathered from sermons, personal conversations, and other sources.... They have been arranged under abstract headings for convenience in finding what is wanted.” (Preface) Some of these headings are as follows: Appreciation; Cigarettes; Convictions; Diligence; Health; Ideals; Influence; Mother; Procrastination; Use of time; Vision, etc. The author is connected with the boys’ work department, International committee of Young men’s Christian associations, and is author also of “Told by the camp fire,” “Camping with Henry,” etc.

“Just the kind of anecdotes which preachers, Sunday school teachers and other speakers like to use to adorn the tale which points a moral.”

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Booklist 16:257 My ’20

CHELLEW, HENRY. Human and industrial efficiency; preface by Lord Sydenham. *$2 (9c) Putnam 658.7

20–21085

The book aims to map out the broad outlines of the problem of human efficiency and lays no claim to academic or scientific treatment. “Today as never before we are called upon to mobilize all our thoughts, acts and emotions in the name of efficiency” but “efficiency is not a mechanical thing; it is the science of life itself” and scientific management and welfare work have only taken the first steps towards humanizing the life of the worker. Contents: Introductory; Human efficiency; What is fatigue? Applied psychology; Selecting employees; Scientific management and the welfare of the worker; Appendix: Handling the human factor; Training executives for efficiency; How to establish an efficiency club.

“There is nothing very new in the matter or treatment; there are the usual generalities and assumptions, but the book is clearly written.”

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Ath p1272 N 28 ’19 60w

“The volume fortunately is short, for it contains little particularly worth reading that has not been much better said by others.” E. R. Burton

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Survey 45:515 Ja 1 ’21 150w

CHENG, SIH-GUNG. Modern China, a political study. (Histories of the nations) *$3.25 Oxford 951

(Eng ed 19–19083)

“Mr Cheng’s book is the work of a serious student of the troubles of his native land, who has taken great pains to equip himself by an academic training in this country [England]. He gives us a useful analysis of the differences between north and south, which is the crux of the situation at the moment; and the conclusion one comes to is that there is a number of military gentlemen concerned who have a profound suspicion of each other, and who for that reason maintain semi-private armies somehow to maintain themselves in their rickety positions. The struggle is said not to be territorial, and both sides pay little attention to the rights or sufferings of the patient people. Naturally the Far eastern policy of Japan fills a large space in the book.... Mr Cheng would call upon the European powers to discard the balance of power theory and stop extra-territorialism, and he would like to see America, Great Britain, and France combine to set China on her legs.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Mr Cheng’s survey is admirable as an introduction to the study of a great subject. As a plain statement of political conditions by one who speaks for China his little volume is the most satisfactory contribution to our understanding of her problem that has appeared since the revolution.” F: W. Williams

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Nation 110:858 Je 26 ’20 850w

“In part 1 which deals with constitutional developments in China, he has presented a new and valuable account of recent political events in his country.” W. W. Willoughby

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Review 2:281 Mr 20 ’20 2100w

“There is a moderation in his description of existing conditions which is not too common amongst Chinese politicians, and it is plain throughout that he has tried to submit the welter to a detached and impartial examination.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p34 Ja 15 ’20 360W

CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH. Irish impressions. *$1.50 (3½c) Lane 914.15

20–1624

In this collection of papers the author, in his characteristically discursive fashion, gives his impressions of the Irish character as an almost paradoxical combination of visionary dreamer and practical peasant. He emphasizes the fundamental differences between the English and the Irish out of which arise many if not all the tragic mistakes made on both sides. The contents are: Two stones in a square; The root of reality; The family and the feud; The paradox of labour; The Englishman in Ireland; The mistake of England; The mistake of Ireland; An example and a question; Belfast and the religious problem.

“Neither his book nor his visit indicates any real appreciation of the almost agonizing seriousness of the issue between his country and Ireland.” E. A. Boyd

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Ath p1397 D 26 ’19 400w

Booklist 16:198 Mr ’20

“The title of Mr Chesterton’s book, ‘Irish impressions,’ is apt; the author gives the temper of Ireland rather than direct information, yet his conclusions agree closely with those reached by historians, such as, for example, Professor Ernest Barker and Edward R. Turner. Mr Chesterton has caught the spirit of the Irish. His entertaining volume should be read not by itself but in connection with others.” N. J. O’C.

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Boston Transcript p6 F 25 ’20 1150w

“The Chesterton of ‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Heretics’ has indeed suffered a war-change. His recent ‘Short history of England,’ however, gave us a glimmer of hope for him which this latest book confirms. There is, however, little that is new or valuable said here about the eternal Irish question, little that has not been said as well or almost as well by others before.”

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Cath World 111:540 Jl ’20 180w

Ind 104:66 O 9 ’20 340w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

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Nation 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 500w

“He proves in this book that even the most patriotic of Englishmen can treat another patriotism with magnanimity.” F. H.

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New Repub 21:298 F 4 ’20 1500w

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N Y Times 25:225 My 2 ’20 550w

“The defect in Mr Chesterton’s consideration of the Irish problem is not that he is superficial, but that he is in a certain sense too profound. He sees certain simple, but profound, truths so clearly and so exclusively that he ignores other truths that may possibly be as deeply rooted, and pays too little attention to superficial facts lying outside the categories that he thinks in.”

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No Am 211:426 Mr ’20 1050w

“Mr Chesterton does not write for the man in the street; his style is full of brilliant paradox, subtle allusion, and pages in which one must read between the lines for their meaning. But the game is worth the candle.”

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Outlook 124:291 F 18 ’20 100w

“We know what to expect from Mr Chesterton: vividness, color, wit, epigrams often a little strained but not seldom such as make one catch one’s breath and wonder; clear-cut antitheses—sometimes cut too clear to correspond accurately with situations that are complex and confused, but always a stimulant to thought, and not least arousing when they are most provoking. And it is the true Chestertonian humor that greets us in these ‘Irish impressions.’” H. L. Stewart

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Review 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 500w

R of Rs 61:446 Ap ’20 80w

“This volume is a most notable contribution to the whole subject and one of the most important achievements of Mr Chesterton’s long and brilliant career.”

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R of Rs 62:111 Jl ’20 220w

“No work of Mr Chesterton’s could be altogether dull, for even the monotonous uniformity of his style is insufficient to conceal his genuine humour and alertness of mind; indeed, his latest volume takes rank amongst his most brilliant works of fiction; but as a contribution towards the solution of the Irish problem, it is a fond thing vainly invented.”

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Spec 122:15 Ja 3 ’20 1600w

“Throughout Mr Chesterton writes as an Englishman, but as an extremely liberal Englishman.”

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Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 27 ’20 800w

“His observations have, of course, value, and they are presented in the form which has made Mr Chesterton a very popular writer; but the reader of his ‘Irish impressions’ is left to wonder whether a less facile pen and less nimble brain might not, if impelled by a humbler spirit, have produced a still more valuable work.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p661 N 20 ’19 650w

“The volume has both the virtues and the defects to be expected from one whose writing is almost entirely a succession of figures. ‘Irish impressions’ contains an amazing amount of true comment.” N. J. O’Conor

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CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH. Superstition of divorce. *$1.50 (6c) Lane 173

20–5411

The book is a collection of five articles first printed in the New Witness, apropos of a press controversy on divorce, with an added conclusion. Throughout the characteristically epigrammatic and brilliantly sketchy discourses the biological implications of marriage stand out as the incontrovertible facts and the “common sense” that has “age after age sought refuge in the high sanity of a sacrament.” The much ado about divorce, the writer concludes, is due to the fact that men expect the impossible from life and do not realize their natural limitations. Contents: The superstition of divorce; The story of the family; The story of the vow; The tragedies of marriage; The vista of divorce; Conclusion.

“Though Mr Chesterton hardly adds anything new to the controversy, his book is an interesting study in style.”

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Ath p192 F 6 ’20 120w

“Mr Chesterton’s position is not very easy to grasp because he has, to an unusual degree, indulged his propensity to break his argument in order to comment on anything that occurs to him, and we are not yet clear on some fundamental points. So far as we can see, Mr Chesterton does not deal with the real case for divorce, and his book leaves the question exactly where it was before.” J. W. N. S.

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Booklist 16:296 Je ’20

“One can agree perfectly with Mr Chesterton in his plea for greater care in marriage partnerships and in hoping that the sanctity of the family may be preserved. But his arguments seem often rather strained, especially when coupled with his zeal in pumping up the wildest and most extravagant and often frivolous fireworks of style.” N. H. D.

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Boston Transcript p6 Je 16 ’20 850w

Dial 70:233 F ’21 60w

“It is at no point a serious or searching analysis of the present situation in England as regards divorce.” R. D.

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Freeman 1:382 Je 30 ’20 330w

Ind 102:370 Je 12 ’20 240w

Lit D p116 S 18 ’20 1550w

“Mr Chesterton seems to imagine that divorce is now being advocated for its own sake. To forbid divorce and remarriage altogether, as a desperate remedy for extreme cases, is no more rational or humane than it would be to forbid surgery to all because most do not stand in present need of it.” Preserved Smith

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Nation 110:827 Je 19 ’20 670w

“Mr Chesterton’s book is, like most of his work, delightfully amusing, and incidentally contains much good sense. But it is a far better treatise on marriage than on divorce. I object to divorce in the same sense as I object to surgery. But if we are to have surgery let us have it up to date and not as it was in 1800.” E. S. P. Haynes

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Nation [London] 26:684 F 14 ’20 850w

Review 3:132 Ag 11 ’20 320w

Sat R 129:140 F 7 ’20 600w

“Save in a sort of dreadful desert which the reader enters about the middle of the book when he is taken through dreary tracts of guild socialism and over a waste marked ‘Superior attractions of the middle ages,’ the book is extraordinarily lively reading.”

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Spec 124:391 Mr 20 ’20 800w

“Mr Chesterton is cheerfully disinclined to subject his arguments to empirical tests. He starts with a number of definitions and then, having proved all the ramifications of his thought to be in accord with those definitions, regards the case as closed. Satisfied with his own logic Mr Chesterton conceivably may be; the reader’s satisfaction comes from the skill and surprise of the dialectic, from the ever-recurring paradox, from the humanity and good nature and good sense that often glint through the subtile fabric of wit.”

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Springf’d Republican p8 Je 7 ’20 750w

“As is often the case with his writings, it hits mainly into the air and does not meet the arguments of his opponents where they are strongest. Also, one gets tired of the perpetual punning which once gave this writer the reputation of being a great wit but which really is quite easy to imitate.”

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Survey 44:450 Je 26 ’20 260w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p91 F 5 ’20 180w

CHEVREUIL, L. Proofs of the spirit world; tr. by Agnes Kendrick Gray. il *$3 Dutton 134

20–6884

“M. Chevreuil, whose ‘On ne meurt pas,’ here translated as ‘Proofs of the spirit world,’ was awarded the prize for 1919 by the French Academy of sciences, has brought together and discussed with judicial penetration the evidence presented for the continued existence of discarnate spirits by telepathy, abnormal psychology, apparitions, materializations and similar phenomena. The book is written in the scientific spirit and the author carefully examines the evidence and the arguments presented by other investigators, sometimes rejecting it altogether and sometimes coming to different conclusions. One of the chapters makes an interesting discussion of reincarnation.”—N Y Times

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N Y Times 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

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“It is no exaggeration to say that out of the multitude of the psychical books which have appeared within these last few months, ‘thick as leaves in Vallambrosa,’ this one volume stands out in its luminous clearness, its scholarly selection of scientific data, its penetration into the realms beyond the senses, its sane exaltation of feeling, and its remarkable comprehensiveness of the relation between phenomena and spiritual philosophy.” Lilian Whiting

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Springf’d Republican p11a Je 20 ’20 500w

CHILD, RICHARD WASHBURN. Vanishing men. *$2 Dutton

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“The psychology of terror is the outstanding theme of ‘The vanishing men.’ Indeed, the sense of terror communicates itself to the reader, for the disappearance of two men and the portentous fate hanging over the heroine are apparently insoluble mysteries. One man plans an elopement with her but fails to appear and is not heard from again. Afterwards she marries a wealthy man some years her senior. He is attacked by a mania of fear, and eventually vanishes, too. Then a wealthy young man falls in love with her, and she warns him of the fate visited upon her previous lovers. But he is courageous and optimistic and refuses to be deterred by such fantasies of the imagination. He starts an investigation, and eventually presents a simple solution of what happens previously.”—Springf’d Republican

“So ingenious a mystery that devotees will forgive the loose plot structure and the improbable characterization.”

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Booklist 16:346 Jl ’20

“The whole problem is put and solved in an original way, and some readers will be grateful for a mystery story without the old properties and machinery.” H. W. Boynton

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Bookm 51:584 Jl ’20 250w

“The story would greatly profit by a general tightening up. Its charm lies entirely in the formulation of the mystery, and with its solution the charm vanishes into incredibly thin air.” D. L. M.

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Boston Transcript p4 My 26 ’20 900w

Cleveland p107 D ’20 50w

“In ‘The vanishing men’ it is easy enough to pick flaws, but over and above them all remains the great fact that the story interests the reader from the beginning, holds his attention and brings up with a smashing climax at the end.”

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N Y Times 25:27 Je 27 ’20 310w

“Ingenious but over-melodramatic in its grisly conclusion.”

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Outlook 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w

“The reader is thoroughly thrilled, Mr Child is able to hold the atmosphere of mystery and terror.”

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Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 18 ’20 170w

CHILDREN’S story garden. il *$1.50 (2c) Lippincott

20–7726

A collection of stories illustrating Quaker principles. The book is compiled by a committee of the Philadelphia yearly meeting of Friends, Anna Pettit Broomell, chairman. The introduction says, “‘The children’s story garden’ announces its purpose at once. Its stories have the direct aim of teaching ethics and religious truth to children.... It is not the intention of the compilers to make this a sectarian book. There are of course stories which show the reason behind some Friendly customs, but as a whole it is hoped that there is a fair representation of the simple virtues which lie behind human progress and Christian living.” The stories have been selected and adapted from many sources. Several, including the opening story, show the relation between the Friends and the American Indians. A few have been written especially for this book. There are historical notes and an outline of the principles illustrated which will be useful to teachers. Further readings are also suggested.

Booklist 17:78 N ’20

“If used with discrimination, the book will furnish some very good reading material.”

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El School J 21:157 O ’20 60w

CHISHOLM, LOUEY, and STEEDMAN, AMY, comps. Staircase of stories. 11 *$4.50 (1½c) Putnam

20–26559

“Any originality of Intention or treatment must be disclaimed for ‘A staircase of stories.’ Its title, plan, appeal, and aim have been alike suggested by ‘The golden staircase,’ a volume of ‘Poems and verses for children between the ages of four and fourteen.’ The title indicates ... a gradual ascent in difficulty as the pages are turned.... In the choice of content, the aim, as before, has been to concentrate solely on what it is believed children will most enjoy.” (Preface) The series opens with The old woman and her pig, Lazy John, Henny-Penny and other simple tales and with its graduated ascent works up to an adaptation of Daudet’s “Last class.” Other stories are The golden touch; The madonna of the goldfinch; The storks; The queen of the seven golden mountains; The twelve huntsmen; The porcelain stove; Gareth and Lynette; and Balder the beautiful. There are illustrations in color and in black and white.

Booklist 17:77 N ’20

“There is a goodly array of reading matter that should appeal to the youngster. The many color illustrations and pen and ink sketches add to the attractiveness of a book that any child may well covet.”

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N Y Evening Post p8 F 14 ’20 200w

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Outlook 124:249 F 11 ’20 50w

“The illustrations are by a number of artists, whose names deserve to be known, so charmingly is their work done. In fanciful conception and delicacy of colors the plates are almost always a delight: moreover, there is no approach to the unduly fantastic or the bizarre. The black and white pictures have the breadth and surety of good draughtsmanship. Altogether ‘A staircase of stories’ is a successful production.”

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Springf’d Republican p13a F 8 ’20 180w

CHRISMAN, OSCAR.^[2] Historical child. *$4 Badger, R: G. 392

20–6060

“Dr Chrisman, professor in the Ohio university, offers this book as the first of a projected series in paidology, the science of the child—a term originating, says the author, with himself. In this volume there is gathered an imposing array of folkways of many ancient peoples. Mexico, Peru, Egypt, India, China, Japan, Persia, Judea, Greece, Rome, earlier and medieval Europe are all included, and there is also a long chapter on earlier United States. Quotations from many sources are used in abundance. Dr Chrisman explains that one must know the setting of child life, to understand children. It is really, therefore, the social background that one finds here—miscellaneous customs of home, dress, food, marriage, infant ceremonies, industry, religion, amusements, education (briefly), and the like, which constitute the environmental stimulus to growth.”—Survey

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St Louis 18:212 S ’20 30w

“The reader gains the impression that the value of the book for students will depend upon the degree to which the teacher can help them to an intelligent use of the facts here portrayed. Unguided, one is likely to finish the book with a somewhat confused impression of a wide variety of interesting practices, but without any clear-cut addition to his knowledge of children.” Hugh Hartshorne

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Survey 45:468 D 25 ’20 320w

CHRISTY, BAYARD H. Going afoot. *$1.35 Assn. press 796

20–7930

In this enthusiastic little book on walking instruction is given on the how, when and where of walking—the clothes to wear, the equipment to carry, the hours of the day, the seasons of the year, and the localities to choose. Detailed description is given of walking clubs and their organization and activities. Contents: How to walk; When to walk; Where to walk; Walking clubs in America; Organization and conduct of walking clubs; Bibliography.

Boston Transcript p7 Jl 28 ’20 180w

Reviewed by F: O’Brien

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N Y Times p9 Ag 15 ’20 800w

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Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 22 ’20 300w

“It may seem impossible to write an altogether dull and uninspiring book on walking in the country; but Mr Christy has accomplished it. This is not to say that this little handbook of practical advice has not its uses. The chapter on organization is valuable for anyone contemplating the formation of a club.”

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Survey 44:308 My 29 ’20 200w

CITY CLUB OF CHICAGO. Ideals of America. *$1.75 McClurg 304

19–16553

“This volume consists of thirteen essays by different authors who have endeavored to analyze the ‘guiding motives of contemporary American life’ in various fields. The essays were first presented as lectures before the City club of Chicago during the years from 1916 to 1919. Government, the law, labor, science, education, business, ‘society,’ music, religion, philosophy, literature, and human progress are treated. Robert Morss Lovett, Elsie Clews Parsons, John P. Frey, John Bradley Winslow and George Ellsworth Hooker are among the notable contributors to the volume.”—Survey

Booklist 16:222 Ap ’20

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Nation 110:523 Ap 17 ’20 260w

R of Rs 61:222 F ’20 40w

“The essays vary in value, but for example, to cite only two, those of Dean Lovett and Justice Winslow, are exceedingly able statements of realities and tendencies in their respective fields of literature and the law. As a whole the book is a useful picture of the intellectual life of the American which existed until 1914.”

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Survey 43:505 Ja 31 ’20 140w

CLANCY, MRS LOUISE BREITENBACH. Christine of the young heart. *$1.75 (2c) Small

20–17176

Christine Trevor is a butterfly debutante, pretty and selfish, with the notion that the world revolves around her. Then she loses her father and her wealth in one blow. She has a crippled younger brother and there are Dilly and Daffy, the six-year-old twins, so she has a wonderful opportunity to retrieve her character if she chooses to do so, but at first she rebels against mothering the twins and being a comrade to Laurie. She gradually awakes to the fact that nobody can love a “crosspatch,” as Daffy frankly calls her, and that to have a friend, one must be one. She decides to act on this principle, and her progress in friendship and happiness is speedy. Winning over cranky old Joshua Barton, her next door neighbor, is perhaps her greatest achievement, and thru it an ancient wrong is righted which brings happiness to many people. And Dr Denton, who has loved her always, surely loves her no less now that she has outgrown her earlier selfishness.

“It is cloying upon the intellect and opiate to the senses. ‘Christine of the young heart’ is sweet; it is doubly dangerous because it is well constructed and well written, even though it be a typical novel of sentimentality.”

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N Y Times p23 S 26 ’20 380w

CLAPHAM, RICHARD. Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells; with an introd. by J. W. Lowther. il *$4.25 (*12s 6d) Longmans 799

20–17000

“Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells is pure foxhunting. It is the fox and the work of the hounds alone that matter. On the Lakeland fells the fox looks after himself, and is there to be killed. He is no friend of the fell sheep. You will ask—why then is he not shot or trapped? And the answer is a simple one—because the men of that country enjoy hunting him. Of the joys and dangers of this sport on the fells Mr Clapham writes.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“He knows his subject thoroughly: he argues about it, theorizes about it, gossips about it, and all in a charmingly informal fashion. His volume is profusely illustrated with photographs that convey the interest of his subject even better than the text.”

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N Y Evening Post p21 D 4 ’20 160w

“A volume that will attract only a limited audience, but it is pleasingly written and the author’s intimate knowledge of his subject is indubitable. Written, undoubtedly, for the English public, its appeal to American readers will not be very great.” B. R. Redman

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N Y Times p9 Ja 9 ’21 70w

“Of the five chapters, we liked best that on ‘The fell hounds.’”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p645 O 7 ’20 1000w

CLAPP, JOHN MANTLE. Talking business. (Language for men of affairs) $4 Ronald 808

20–9489

The first of the two volumes on Language for men of affairs considers spoken language on the ground that not one in ten business men has the ready and sure mastery of the language forms required in business operations. The book is in five parts. Part I, The real problem: Putting your mind on the other man, treats of the psychology of speech. Part II, The machinery, explains the physiological basis under such headings as: Your appearance; The vocal organs; Pronunciation; A good voice. Part III, Language, considers the vocabulary and construction of sentences. Part IV, Conversation, Business interviews, discusses the various business situations involving speech and Part V, Public speaking, Business addresses, the more elaborate uses of language. There are illustrations and an index. The second volume, on Business writing, is edited by James Melvin Lee.

Booklist 16:333 Jl ’20

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School R 28:636 O ’20 130w

CLARK, ALFRED. Margaret book. *$1.50 Lane 828

20–7457

A book of verses strung together on a thread of prose. It is by the author of “My erratic pal” and follows the same manner. The prose narrative tells of a New Zealand soldier on sick leave in England, of his happy days in Margaret’s garden, of their love and marriage. Among the poems there is a series describing the dreams experienced in illness.

Ath p322 Mr 5 ’20 80w

N Y Times 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 280w

“It is all very sweet and nice and gentle—rather too ostentatiously so; every one plays up to the demand for sweetness too zealously and continuously, and the lusciousness of the love-making begins to pall. Nor do we think that the combination of prose and verse justifies itself.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p754 D 11 ’19 240w

CLARK, ALICE. Working life of women in the seventeenth century. (Studies in economics and political science) *$3.25 (3c) Harcourt. Brace & Howe 331.4

20–2765

The writing of the book was prompted by the conviction that “the conditions under which the obscure mass of women live and fulfill their duties as human beings, have a vital influence upon the destinies of the human race, and that a little knowledge of what these conditions have actually been in the past will be of more value to the sociologist than many volumes of carefully elaborated theory based on abstract ideas.” (Preface) The seventeenth century was chosen as a field of research because, as a sort of watershed between the Elizabethan era and the restoration period and partaking of the characteristics of both, it forms an important crisis in the historic development of Englishwomen. The author indicates in her conclusions that with the advent of machinery and capitalism, restricting the economic life of women, a marked decadence is revealed. Contents: Introductory; Capitalists; Agriculture; Textiles; Crafts and trades; Professions; Conclusion; List of authorities; List of wages assessments; Index.

“In spite of the fact that the author’s powers of induction are not at all points comparable with her industry, the painstaking work is a monument to her effort, and is of unquestioned value in its presentation of contemporary evidence.” Amy Hewes

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Am Econ R 10:577 S ’20 1750w

“Whether Miss Clark has proved her thesis or no, she has made available to the general reader and the student of economics a mass of material not easily accessible otherwise. She has faced the difficult task of presenting a fair sample of her evidence, and has come well out of that searching trial, though reflection would no doubt cause her to admit that on occasion she has read more into her authorities than is quite admissible.” E. M. G.

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Ath p9 Ja 2 ’20 1000w

“Clearly and interestingly written.”

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Booklist 16:328 Jl ’20

“Though Miss Clark’s book is technical in character, being based on a rigid plan, we may build up from it an enlightening picture of life in seventeenth century England.”

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Boston Transcript p4 Je 9 ’20 350w

Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster

Nation 111:sup419 O 13 ’20 550w

“The exhaustive bibliography and the rigidly technical character of the investigation are the book’s outstanding virtues.”

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Springf’d Republican p9a Jl 4 ’20 170w

“Her distinction is that she has been able to render an inquiry so similar in method to that followed by many American students in graduate work, a genuine contribution in an important field. The record is in fact a corrective to much loose thinking concerning the place of women in a productive society. Not least of all, moreover, it is an extraordinarily interesting book.”

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Survey 44:320 My 29 ’20 360w

“The narrative is somewhat overloaded by detail, much of which could have been relegated to foot notes; but neither this nor the defects to which we have drawn attention should prevent due praise being given to Miss Clark for a laborious and successful attempt to break new ground in the history of the economic position of women.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p707 D 4 ’19 1500w

CLARK, CHAMP. My quarter century of American politics. 2v il *$6 (2c) Harper

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“I started out to accomplish certain things. I kept pounding away at them and have achieved most of them.... Endowed by nature with a strong constitution, I have been able to do more work than most men.... My long public career is due largely to the fact that I have been blessed with as faithful a constituency as man ever had.... As my wife, children, and many friends want to know some of the facts, experiences, and recollections of my busy life, I will give them as briefly, modestly, and as accurately as possible—writing about the persons, books, circumstances, and things which most influenced my life.” (Chapter 1) The books are illustrated and have an index.

“Throughout these gossipy and voluble pages, we find much of repetition and more of exaggeration. In spite of its faults, which are easily forgiven to the genial author, the work is one of some value to our political literature. It is decidedly interesting and engaging reading.” J. A. Woodburn

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“Mr Clark wanders in and about his subject in a chatty reminiscent fashion, illuminating many little known corners of party politics, bringing before the reader a brilliant procession of public personalities and always indulging in sparkling anecdotes. The serious reader will be troubled by the lack of sequence of political events.”

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Boston Transcript p9 Mr 27 ’20 550w

“The unity of the narrative is badly jumbled; a literary hack, hired to revise the manuscript, would have cut it down from a third to a half and with ease have straightened out the illogical arrangements, the crudities of the paragraphs, the vain repetitions, and tiresome platitudes.” C. W. Alvord

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Reviewed by M. F. Egan

N Y Times 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 3150w

“No student of political history will be able to omit this voluminous account from his list.”

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N Y Times 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 110w

“Genial humanity and wisdom, shrewd and kindly observation of men and affairs—these are the outstanding qualities of Champ Clark’s reminiscences. The wisdom varies in comprehensiveness and in degree of illumination; the humanity is constant. It is remarkable how little of the bitterness of controversy or the roughness of saw-edged sarcasm there is in any part of Mr Clark’s book.”

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R of Rs 61:558 My ’20 180w

CLARK, ELLERY HARDING. Track athletics up to date. il *$1.50 Duffield 796

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A new manual of track athletics by an author who has had wide experience as a physical director. His purpose is stated in the preface: “First, I have endeavored to trace, with brevity, the history of track athletics; next, I have noted some of the best of the many books, pamphlets and special articles which have been written on this subject; and lastly, I have tried to summarize, in the year 1919, our present knowledge of proper methods of training and of performing the various events on track and field.” The work is illustrated with forty-three plates.

“He combines clear statement with the highest ideal of sport.”

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R of Rs 62:448 O ’20 70w

CLARK, EVANS. Facts and fabrications about soviet Russia. pa 50c Rand school of social science 914.7

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“The volume is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the astounding falsehoods told about soviet Russia by the American press, publicists and state and federal officials during the past few years. In this portion the Sisson documents, the presidential fabrications, the reports of alleged military defeats, and the rumors concerning ‘the nationalization of women,’ etc., are set forth in documentary form. Part 2 consists of a comprehensive bibliography of periodical, book and pamphlet literature dealing sympathetically with all phases of the Russian problem—foreign policy, education, drama, industry, labor, propaganda, religion, the woman question, etc.”—Socialist R

“The method is simple and admirably adapted to the purpose. Possibly his classification is a little biased, as when he maintains that all the conservatives have been unreliable and all the liberal and labor organs truthful. But in general his criterion will stand and his list will prove sound.” Preserved Smith

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Nation 111:160 Ag 7 ’20 760w

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Socialist R 9:209 N ’20 250w

CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD. Gospel of out of doors. *$1.25 Assn. press 570.4

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One of the author’s purposes in publishing this collection of papers is “that other men and women, encouraged by my own experience of the joy, the comfort, and the health that come from an old farm, may feel its lure, learn its joy, and experience its health-giving comforts.” (Preface) Contents: The gospel of out of doors; The joy of the seed catalogue; The lure of the old farm; A sermon to my brother weeds; Farming as a moral equivalent for war; Under the willow in the spring; My doorstep visitors; Birds in the bush and birds in the book; Out of doors in the autumn; A rainy day at the farm; The underground alchemist; Fun on the old farm; Always something new on the old farm; Next best to a farm; Can a horse laugh? Ever-bearers and ever-bloomers.

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Booklist 17:20 O ’20

“There is nothing about the old farm, however prosaic it may be, that fails to suggest to Mr Clark material for a delightful essay; and he is always ready with a pungent poetical quotation.”

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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 21 ’20 300w

“The charm of the book ... is simply irresistible.”

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Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 22 ’20 170w

CLARK, THOMAS ARKLE. High school boy and his problems. *$1.20 Macmillan 170

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“Dean Clark of the University of Illinois for many years has made boys and their ways the chief concern of his official life. Mr Clark is what the students would call a ‘regular’ dean. He knows the temptations that beset the young man and is not astonished that they are sometimes too much for him. He is inclined to overlook the minor shortcomings, but conceives it his duty to warn the boy of the risk he runs in yielding to evil suggestions. For the rest the book has much in it that is of interest, and the dean is particularly happy in his chapters on the value of systematic study and on choosing a career or a college.”—Boston Transcript

“Sensible little talks with a happy freedom from ‘preachiness.’”

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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 21 ’20 150w

“It is concrete in every paragraph, reminiscent, replete with glimpses of real boys facing actual situations. Almost as important as is its content is the fact that it promises to win a reading from the high-school boy to whom it is addressed.”

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School R 28:555 S ’20 340w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p669 O 14 ’20 30w

CLARKE, ISABEL CONSTANCE. Lady Trent’s daughter. *$1.75 (1½c) Benziger

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Lady Trent had been married at a very early age and, widowed before twenty, had left her infant daughter to the care of her elder sister, who had brought the girl up in seclusion from the world. Olave is sixteen when the story opens. A distinguished novelist meets the girl in the woods, and charmed with her youth and innocence, persuades her into a series of clandestine meetings. He finally tells her that he is engaged to another woman, and later it comes to light that this woman is Olave’s mother. The engagement is at once broken and Lady Trent tries to win her daughter’s confidence and love. But the mischief is already done and the girl continues to meet Quinn. A runaway marriage is planned, but is abandoned when Quinn’s long neglected Catholic principles reassert themselves. Olave also accepts Catholicism, toward which she has had strong leanings, feeling that under its influence she would have been saved from the course of deception she has followed.

Ath p304 S 3 ’20 390w

“Guy Quinn not only fails to live for us, but is quite devoid of any heroic qualities. As to his charm, which subjugated in turn the widow Felicity Trent and her young daughter Olave, that has to be taken altogether on trust.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p532 Ag 19 ’20 600w

CLARKE, ISABEL CONSTANCE.^[2] Ursula Finch. *$2.25 (2c) Benziger

The story of two sisters, one a spoiled beauty and one a drudge, The scene is Cornwall but later when Ursula, the drudge, seems likely to interfere with her sister’s matrimonial schemes, she is packed off to Rome as a nursery governess. Here she comes under the influence of Catholicism and joins the church. The lover who had been the cause of her exile follows her and as he also has leanings toward the Catholic faith the story ends happily.

“Miss Clarke has again produced a book which is both interesting and entertaining; yet appreciation is mingled with constant regret over the vehemence of her characterizations.”

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Cath World 112:548 Ja ’21 210w

CLARKSON, RALPH PRESTON.^[2] Elementary electrical engineering. il *$2 Van Nostrand 621.3

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“A textbook of theory and practice, particularly adapted for the instruction of mechanical, civil, and chemical engineers and others desiring a short course.” (Sub-title) Contents: Introduction; Units and terms; The solution of circuits; The generation of electricity; Electrical measuring instruments; Illumination and power, electrical transmission, theory of lighting devices. There are 141 diagrams and an index.

CLEMENCEAU, GEORGES EUGÈNE BENJAMIN. Surprises of life. *$1.90 (4c) Doubleday

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This collection of tales, translated from the French by Grace Hall, tells the stories of curious characters in all walks of life. The initial tale, Mokoubamba’s fetish, is of an old negro from Central Africa, reseater of chairs, weaver of mats and mender of all things breakable, wise beyond other men and with a philosophy of his own with regard to fetishes. Some of the other titles are: A descendant of Timon; Aunt Rosalie’s inheritance; A mad thinker; Better than stealing; A domestic drama; The treasure of St Bartholomew; Lovers in Florence.

“To face facts, though not always a pleasure, is a duty. To face the French novelist’s interpretation of them seems to us in many cases neither the one nor the other.”

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Ath p731 N 26 ’20 160w

“Distinguished by technical dexterity.”

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Booklist 17:156 Ja ’21

“The stories, if not put to the test of inner veracity, are thoroughly readable.”

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Nation 111:353 S 25 ’20 300w

“The stories and things are well worth telling and are well told. The book is the work of a keen and accurate reader of human nature and of a master of satire.” A. W. Welch

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N Y Call p10 N 21 ’20 380w

“As literature, the tales in the present volume stand far above ‘The strongest,’ the novel which he published in America last year. If they have a single fault it is that the author’s lifelong habit of speaking and writing to convince people of something shows itself in the parable-like character of some of his stories. His powers of characterization are admirable.”

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N Y Times p7 S 19 ’20 1400w

“In an age like ours when literature is afraid of its name, its pedigree, and its uniform, M. Clemenceau will be helped rather than hurt by the association of no small measure of literary force with the brusque frankness and imperious, half insolent, unconcern of the man who is not answerable to reviewers.”

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Review 3:565 D 8 ’20 350w

“The book is marked by its clarity, that absence of adjectives which makes every idea understood at once. M. Clemenceau is shrewd, yet generous, a quality that Mark Twain attained in some of his short stories. He paints portraits not merely in two dimensions, but in three.”

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Springf’d Republican p9a N 14 ’20 290w

“There is always the impression that the things related are things seen, not things invented, and that they are symbols of things not seen. Some of the equipment of a complete master of the genre indeed, he seems to lack.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p666 O 14 ’20 450w

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.). Moments with Mark Twain; selected by Albert Bigelow Paine. *$1.50 Harper 817

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One of the compiler’s excuses for offering this selection from the writings of Mark Twain to the public is to show that the latter was something more than a fun-maker. “The examples have been arranged chronologically, so that the reader, following them in order, may note the author’s evolution—the development of his humor, his observation, his philosophy and his literary style. They have been selected with some care, in the hope that those who know the author best may consider him fairly represented.” (Foreword)

Booklist 16:305 Je ’20

“Well-chosen selections from his works chronologically arranged to show evolution of style and thought as well as characteristic humor. Useful for quotation hunters.”

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Cleveland p84 O ’20 20w

Review 2:403 Ap 17 ’20 80w

CLEVELAND, FREDERICK ALBERT, and BUCK, ARTHUR EUGENE. Budget and responsible government. (American social progress ser.) *$3 (2½c) Macmillan 353

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“A description and interpretation of the struggle for responsible government in the United States, with special reference to recent changes in state constitutions and statute laws providing for administrative reorganization and budget reform.” (Sub-title) The preface by Mr Cleveland states that the work was begun as a report to the National budget committee. Later its scope was expanded and Mr Buck of the New York Bureau of municipal research, who had been preparing a report dealing with administrative reorganization in the several states, was asked to collaborate. In addition to the editor’s note by Samuel McCune Lindsay, there is an introduction by ex-President Taft, who during his term of office urged the adoption of the budget system. The book is in five parts: Historic background and interpretation of the recent movement for administrative reorganization and budget procedure; Detailed accounts of proposed plans and recent legal enactments for administrative reorganization in state governments; Detailed accounts of the characteristics and operation of recent state enactments providing for a budget procedure; Proposed national budget legislation; Conclusion. There is no index, a want partly supplied by the analytical table of contents.

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Am Hist R 26:148 O ’20 200w

Reviewed by A. C. Hanford

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Am Pol Sci R 14:711 N ’20 500w

“Sound, careful work for students and those interested in problems of government.”

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Booklist 16:328 Jl ’20

“Mr Cleveland states very plainly the facts regarding the necessity of a national segregated budget and no one reading his book can fail to realize that if the government of this country is to be administered in an efficient and responsible manner some form of segregated budget must be adopted.” G. B.

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Boston Transcript p6 Je 23 ’20 350w

“For the student of budget legislation and administration in the technical sense, the chapters by Mr Buck will be especially welcome.” C: A. Beard

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Nation 111:275 S 4 ’20 700w

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R of Rs 62:109 Jl ’20 140w

“The book is an eloquent plea for more effective democracy, a powerful argument against political bossism, and a valuable contribution to the cause of the ‘independent’ voter. It should prove of informative value to women.” C. E. Rightor

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Survey 45:73 O 9 ’20 570w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p671 O 14 ’20 50w

CLOSE, EVELYNE. Cherry Isle. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

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Anthea Argent is just a young struggling singer when the famous tenor, Charles Garston, meets and falls in love with her in cherry-blossom time. Altho she realizes she cares more for her art than she does for him, she consents to marry him. Her voice develops until her fame matches her husband’s, but with the coming of their baby she loses it entirely. Her coldness to her husband increases to bitter hatred and they finally separate, but not before she has realized that her child was born dumb. The other passion of her life beside her voice is for revenge on the man who had wrecked her mother’s life—her own unacknowledged father. She sets herself to ruin him and accomplishes it in a dramatic way. But, having done so, she realizes that the fulfilment of this ambition, as of her earlier one, turns to ashes in her grasp. She sees herself as the selfish, hard woman that she is, and the close of the story finds her pride breaking as she tries to pick up the pieces of her life and patch them together again.

“The novel, though readable, has elements of artificiality.”

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Ath p590 Ap 30 ’20 110w

“For a piece of sensational fiction this novel is decidedly readable. The opening chapters in the cherry orchard are charming bits of description.”

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N Y Evening Post p10 N 6 ’20 50w

Sat R 130:80 Jl 24 ’20 80w

CLOW, FREDERICK REDMAN. Principles of sociology with educational applications. (Brief course ser. in education) $1.80 Macmillan 301

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“Mr Clow, who teaches in the State normal school at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, believes that sociological theory can be made, to a far greater extent than has hitherto been done, an instrument for the solution of practical and technical problems. The present text-book, which is divided into three parts, ‘The factors of society,’ ‘Social organization,’ and ‘Social progress,’ is intended to provide students with a basis upon which they can apply sociological principles to groups and institutions of which they form part or with which they are familiar. Each chapter of the exposition is followed by a list of ‘Topics’ to be assigned to individual students for special study, a series of ‘Problems’ for discussion and an elaborate table of bibliographical references. This careful work contains in addition a select list of books generally useful for further reading in the subject and indices of authors, books, periodicals and subjects.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“The book is encyclopedic rather than systematic. It treats in succession a great variety of topics, but one is left at the end of the book with a confused idea and without any view of a general systematic theory of society or of school organization. It would be very difficult to put this book into the hands of elementary students unless the author himself were so thoroughly inspired by the importance of sociology that he could carry the student far beyond the compass of the text itself.”

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School R 28:389 My ’20 280w

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p404 Je 24 ’20 150w

CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR. Essays on art. *$1.75 Scribner 704

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“In the preface of this volume, Mr Clutton-Brock asks, ‘How are we to improve the art of our own time? After years of criticism I am more interested in this question than in any other that concerns the arts.’ He believes that art, like other human activities, is subject to the will of man, and that the quality of art in any age depends chiefly upon the attitude of the public towards it. His insistence on good workmanship and sound construction in the things we see and handle every day is a continuance of the gospel of William Morris, and it was never more needed than it is now. He pours irony and ridicule on the idea of art as a luxury; on the craze for cheap machine-made reproductions of expensive ornaments; on professors of art who live in hideous drawing-rooms; on the exalting of processes above persons; and on the professionalism of artists, in whom an arrogant skill and accomplishment take the place of genuine expression. One of the best of the essays is a ‘Defence of criticism,’ occasioned by an outburst of Sir Thomas Jackson lamenting that art criticism could not be made penal for ten years, so that people might think for themselves.”—Sat R

“Mr Clutton-Brock is safer as a thinker on conscience and duty than on æsthetics, though he portrays the artist—Leonardo, Mozart, or Poussin—with admirable insight.”

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Ath p1353 D 12 ’19 140w

Ath p8 Ja 2 ’20 1550w

“It is so pregnant with genial wisdom, and without being unduly dogmatic, so sincerely genuine in its viewpoints, that it is bound to give real pleasure.”

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Boston Transcript p6 Ap 28 ’20 200w

“These essays are vigorous, informative, and often very well written.”

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Dial 68:538 Ap ’20 80w

“His is a book worth thinking about, very straight and sober and sincere, discussing one of the most serious of all subjects in a manner worthy of the subject.” F. H.

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New Repub 21:389 F 25 ’20 1800w

“With the strong ethical perceptions, Mr Brock combines sensitiveness.”

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Review 2:276 My 29 ’20 400w

“He writes with a refreshing absence of superiority, as one of the public with a natural and human interest in art.”

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Sat R 128:565 D 13 ’19 800w

“A better little book of ‘aesthetics for beginners’ could hardly be imagined than Mr Clutton-Brock’s ‘Essays on art.’”

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Spec 124:242 F 21 ’20 380w

“Possessed of a finely perceptive and reflective nature, he sets forth truths that might be called spiritual were not the word spiritual in some minds held to denote a lack of common sense. Perhaps it is Mr Clutton-Brock’s distinction that he makes spiritual truths appear to be common sense.”

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Springf’d Republican p13a F 22 ’20 1050w

CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR. What is the kingdom of Heaven? *$1.75 Scribner 230

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“‘Is the universe a fraud?’ is the question which Mr Clutton-Brock asks and tries to answer in this book. Is life as we know it a welter of pain and evil, a vast and stupid joke; or is there some sense, some moral principle, behind this seeming chaos? We all desire to believe that our private virtues rhyme with something in the universe. We can be convinced that they do, and we can make the conviction come true in fact, says Mr Brock, by believing in the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is a relation of man to the universe analogous to the relation of man to art—a relation at once passionately intimate and disinterested. The Kingdom of Heaven in politics means the disappearance of struggle and competition, in the individual the beginning of happiness.”—Ath

“Mr Brock writes in such a way that it is often possible to wonder whether his words have any very exact meaning, or whether they are merely symbols fluttering in the void, searching vainly for some solid reality on which to repose themselves.”

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Ath p315 My 19 ’19 180w

Reviewed by Bertrand Russell

Ath p487 Je 20 ’19 1700w

“It is a passionate and beautiful treatment of Jesus and his chief doctrine, bearing the mark of the artist and the prophet. This book must be read slowly, reflected upon earnestly; it is a significant discussion of a supreme subject.”

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Bib World 54:643 N ’20 330w

“Mr Clutton-Brock’s book has a fresh, arresting quality; it detains the reader. It is worthy of attention as representing the highminded and persuasive modernism that is working in the church.”

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Int J Ethics 31:117 O ’20 550w

Springf’d Republican p17 Je 29 ’19 950w

Springf’d Republican p15 O 19 ’19 2600w

COAKLEY, THOMAS FRANCIS. Spiritism; the modern satanism. *$1.25 Extension press 134

“Dr Coakley finds what he calls ‘the present craze for spiritism’ to be in substance much the same as those waves of hysteria and necromancy that have occasionally swept the earth since the most ancient times. He opposes it especially in its claim to be, as Sir Conan Doyle calls it, ‘a new revelation,’ and finds spiritistic practices to be full of danger of many sorts, while he thinks that a future life filled with the sort of spirits that are chiefly in evidence at séances would offer few attractions. He sets forth the attitude of the Catholic church upon the subject and makes clear the reasons why it prohibits its members from taking any part in spiritistic or psychical research inquiries.”—N Y Times

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Cath World 112:252 N ’20 110w

N Y Times 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 110w

COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY. Abandoned farmers. *$3 (6½c) Doran 817

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In this “humorous account of a retreat from the city to the farm” the reader accompanies the author on a long search for an abandoned farm, and, when it is found at last, assists in every detail of taking possession, of digging a well, planning, building and furnishing the house and, at last, takes leaves of him with the impression that, although the feat was not accomplished without membership in the Westchester county despair association, it was all worth while. Contents: Which is really a preface in disguise; The start of a dream; Three years elapse; Happy days for Major Gloom; In which we bore for water; Two more years elapse; “And sold to—”; The adventure of Lady Maude; Us landed proprietors.

“Written with the usual Cobb humor. Described by one reader as ‘a bit thin with an occasional raisin.’”

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Booklist 17:104 D ’20

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N Y Evening Post p9 O 30 ’20 110w

“‘The abandoned farmers’ represent Mr Cobb at his happiest.”

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Outlook 126:768 D 29 ’20 130w

“It is a tale all of which lies in the telling, and with Cobb in the role of Tusitala no one can go wrong in expecting that every phase of humor in the subject will be brought forth.”

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Review 3:506 N 24 ’20 220w

COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY. From place to place. *$2 (1½c) Doran

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“Stories about ourselves” is the sub-title of this collection of character sketches. The choice of subjects is unusual. In “The gallowsmith” we have a sympathetically drawn picture of a self-appointed hangman who plied his trade with the pride of a good craftsman till suddenly one day his dormant imagination awoke and—killed him. The other sketches are: The thunders of silence; Boys will be boys; The luck piece; Quality folks; John J. Coincidence; When August the second was April the first; Hoodwinked; The bull called Emily.

Booklist 16:242 Ap ’20

Cleveland p71 Ag ’20 60w

Lit D p127 Mr 27 ’20 1300w

“These stories make interesting reading, though they are remote from any trace of realism.” Alvin Winston

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N Y Call p11 Mr 21 ’20 300w

“Here we have Mr Cobb in all his varying moods of farce and pathos, reminiscence, stern logic, and ironical tragedy. The tale which opens the book, ‘The gallowsmith,’ manifestly belongs to him who wrote ‘The escape of Mr Trimm’ and the wonderful narrative of ‘The bell buzzard.’”

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N Y Times 25:57 F 1 ’20 700w

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Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 350w

COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY, and RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART). Oh, well, you know how women are! and Isn’t that just like a man! *$1 (8c) Doran 817

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Mr Cobb, at one end of the book, enlarges on the foibles of women—their narrow skirts, their high heels, their habits of impeding the traffic and getting off street cars backward, and then ends with a tribute to their work for the war. Mrs Rinehart, at the other end, reciprocates with comments on the inherent conservatism of men, and their sex clannishness, and then pats them gently on the head for their eternal boyishness and confesses that “we do like them, dreadfully.”

“While some of the jokes will seem trite, there are enough good laughs to compensate.”

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Booklist 16:272 My ’20

“The tone of both little essays is delightfully urbane.” Joseph Mosher

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Pub W 97:993 Mr 20 ’20 200w

“It is all good fun, and neither writer could be dull if he (or she) tried.”

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Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 300w

“That clever novelist [Mrs Rinehart] gives us very much better reading. She is full of shrewd remarks, and shows much more sympathetic insight into man than Mr Cobb does into woman.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p405 Je 24 ’20 340w

COBB, THOMAS. Mr Preston’s daughter. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane

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Monica Dasent, in love with Godfrey Raymond, becomes jealous when Essa Maynard, a girl of doubtful past, begins to pay him marked attention. Godfrey’s sole interest in Essa is because his uncle Hugh has confessed a “certain responsibility” for the girl. After the uncle’s death, it is discovered that he left Essa a large legacy, and Godfrey tries to prove exactly what “responsibility” Uncle Hugh had felt. This involves him in a family quarrel of long standing between his uncle and his cousin Anthony, the cause of which he finds to be the paternity of Essa. Anthony, the real father, is anxious to conceal the fact from his wife, but it all turns out to be a tempest in a teapot since his wife had known the circumstances even before their marriage.

Ath p687 My 21 ’20 50w

“Here are the ingredients of excitement. But somehow or other the creator of these elements lacks the proper recipe for the most effective mixing. His atmosphere sags; his stride is feeble: he never swings into the long and winning pace that comes so easily to the authors of American best sellers.”

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N Y Evening Post p17 D 4 ’20 310w

“The author has a fluent pleasing style, and he knows his London thoroughly. Can be commended to that large class which buys a novel because the purchaser wants ‘something to read.’”

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N Y Times p25 Ja 16 ’21 450w

“Mr Cobb builds up a very good story with his accustomed skill.”

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Sat R 130:262 S 25 ’20 80w

“The book is written with Mr Thomas Cobb’s usual lightness of touch.”

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Spec 125:118 Jl 24 ’20 80w

COBB, THOMAS. Silver bag. *$1.75 (2c) Lane

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During an absence from London Valentine Brook turns his flat over to his friend Derrick Chalmers. On the morning after his return a pretty girl calls to ask for a silver bag left there during his absence. It is made clear that it is not her bag, that she is calling for it for another woman. The mystery of the story revolves about the owner of the bag. Lionel Windermere suspects his wife, Valentine reluctantly suspects Evelyn Stainer. Mrs Tempest calmly states that it is hers, but there is reason to believe she is shielding one of the others. But which one? The tangle is straightened out finally with no reputations lost and no hearts broken.