Chapter I: of this book indicates the need of a study of business (8)

“Mr Burt’s ear and his learning are much indebted to Rupert Brooke—but
it is a sorrowful thing to see anyone assume so easily all the
palpable qualities of another. There are the same studied
irrelevancies, the same feminine endings, the same delight in names.
Mr Burt has imitated most of the many things we would like to forget
in Rupert Brooke, including his glorification of war and death.” G. T.

− + =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 250w

“When at last he shall speak thoughts all his own, it is hoped that he
will not have lost his really very lovely gift of expression, his
round, elegant, springtime pregnancy and shapeliness of phrase.” Mark
Van Doren

+ − =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 100w

“Although many of the poems seem unfinished, as if their maker had had
the right poetic impulse but scant leisure, nevertheless there is a
warmth and naturalness of utterance In all of them that will rejoice
the hearts of those who are weary of strident or vapid
artificialities.” Margaret Wilkinson

+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 370w

“Mr Burt’s ‘Songs and portraits’ has real delicacies of a kind neither
very usual nor very extraordinary. There are phrases of drooping
grace; there are straying, sinuous rhythms; there is a desultory and
hovering tenderness. Mr Burt’s very picturesqueness is rather mellow
than picturesque.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 160w

=BURTON, ALEXANDER.= Public speaking made easy. (Made easy ser.) $1.25 (3c) Clode, E. J. 808.5

20–16872

In the introduction the author calls attention to the present-day
tendency in the art of oratory which distinguishes it from the oratory
of the past. “This is the cultivation of simplicity in form as opposed
to that ornateness of phraseology which has been so characteristic of
the most esteemed public utterances in former times.” The chapters
following the Introduction are: Breathing; Pronunciation; The voice;
Accessories of the voice; Direct training; Preparing a speech; The
deeper training; Beecher’s Liverpool address; Lincoln’s oratory; A
southern orator; The American system; Conclusion.

=BURTON, THEODORE ELIJAH.= Modern political tendencies and the effect of the war thereon. (Stafford Little lectures for 1919) *$1.25 Princeton univ. press 320.1

19–25948

“The president of the Merchants national bank of New York, former
United States senator from Ohio, sees four dominant phases in the
changing ideas of peoples and governments: the relation of governments
to the governed; the relation of the governed each to the other; the
relation of the central government to its constituent parts; and
international relations.”—Booklist

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 650w

“‘Modern political tendencies’ by Theodore E. Burton possibly sets the
Stafford Little lectures at a higher level of open-mindedness than was
reached by such earlier contributors as Grover Cleveland and Elihu
Root; in fact it is marked by that tone of restrained liberalism which
is coming to be a mark of our more important bank presidents, to the
great amazement and confusion, no doubt, of their editorial
satellites.”

+ =Dial= 67:498 N 29 ’19 60w

=BURY, GEORGE WYMAN.= Pan-Islam. *$2.25 Macmillan 297

20–5812

“‘“Pan-Islam” is an elementary handbook,’ explains the author, ‘not a
text-book, still less an exhaustive treatise.’ It is a study of the
Pan-Islamic problem on the political, social, religious, and many
other sides, by one who served in the Hedjaz and Arabia during the
war, but has also had a quarter of a century’s experience of
Mohammedan countries and peoples. As a rule he abstains from political
criticism.”—Ath

* * * * *

“His remarks on aggressive missionary enterprise are sensible and
illustrated by plenty of facts.”

+ =Ath= p61 Ja 9 ’20 80w

“The book is well written and full of interesting and valuable
information. The long experience of the author and his manifest
fairness make his opinions of more than ordinary importance.”

+ =Bib World= 54:429 Jl ’20 230w

+ =Booklist= 17:48 N ’20

“The Carnegie peace commission should send the last chapter, A plea
for tolerance, to every missionary organization.”

+ =Dial= 68:668 My ’20 60w

+ =Spec= 124:18 Ja 3 ’20 1250w

“He writes in a progressive spirit and very sympathetically toward the
Moslem world. It is far better that his sentiments were expressed by
an Englishman than by an American. The last chapter, a plea for
toleration, is really a most admirable piece of writing.” I. C. Hannah

+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 280w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p770 D 18 ’19 60w

“Mr Bury presents a fairly impartial view of Christian missions in the
Near East, with their effect on Islam. It is a problem which he has
studied at first hand, and he is studiously careful to express his
views courteously. He is best when he is away from religious
discussion, describing the Arab and the Turk as he knows them.
Altogether Mr Bury’s book contains much that is entertaining; and
although he has chosen too resonant a title for what might more
reasonably be called essays, his expressed opinions are sensible and
his matter readable.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p776 D 25 ’19 1000w

=BURY, JOHN BAGNELL.= Idea of progress. *$5.50 Macmillan 901

20–9233

“Prof. J. B. Bury’s new work is ‘The idea of progress: an inquiry into
its origin and growth.’ The theme is developed under such chapter
headings as: Some interpretations of universal history: Bodin and
Leroy; Utility the end of knowledge: Bacon; The progress of knowledge:
Fontenelle; The general progress of man: Abbe de Saint-Pierre; New
conceptions of history: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot; The French
revolution: Condorcet; The theory of progress in England; German
speculation on progress; The search for a law of progress: Saint-Simon
and Comte; and Progress in the light of evolution.”—Springf’d
Republican

* * * * *

“This is just the chief merit of Professor Bury’s book, that it
discriminates with fine precision between what is essential to the
modern conception of progress and what only superficially resembles
it. His exposition of the significance of the idea of progress in the
history of European civilization is so lucid that it leaves nothing to
be desired.” Carl Becker

+ =Am Hist R= 26:77 O ’20 800w

=Ath= p791 Je 18 ’20 630w

“It is hardly necessary to say that the author carries out the
historical inquiry with great width of learning and with a scrupulous
desire to make a reasonable case even for those writers whose
presentation has its weak or even its ridiculous points. His remarks
are eminently judicious wherever they can be tested.” P. V. M. Benecke

+ − |=Eng Hist R= 35:581 O ’20 1650w

“An exceedingly clear and interesting account of the origin and growth
of the idea of progress.” S. B. Fay

+ |=Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 520w

“Professor Bury’s work in clarity, accuracy, and fairness attains the
high standard set by his previous historical volumes.”

+ =Spec= 124:795 Je 12 ’20 950w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 17 ’20 90w

“It is a work of profound scholarship, sedate in tone and rational in
spirit. It is unfortunate that Professor Bury did not carry his study
beyond his self-imposed limitation which ended it with the time when
progress became a current creed.” A. J. Todd

+ =Survey= 45:322 N 27 ’20 730w

“A sound piece of pioneer work, with its merits and limitations. Only
his knowledge of the subject and its intrinsic interest have saved his
book from falling into the class of those which are less often read
than consulted. Professor Bury has condensed the results of his work
with remarkable ease and brevity and always with fairness.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p357 Je 10 ’20 1700w

=BUSH, COLEMAN HALL.= Applied business law. *$1.28 Holt 347.7

20–5200

As the ordinary empirical methods of acquiring the essentials of
business law and practice are “entirely too slow ... the purpose of
this book is to eliminate the long term of apprenticeship, to give a
wide range of experience to all who seek it, by presenting material,
both law and facts, for application in constructive work.” (Statement
of purpose) The book is in two parts: 1, Fundamental principles:
Essentials of contracts; Agency; Service; Deposits, loans, and hiring
of things; Carriage; Sales of goods; Partnership; Insurance;
Negotiable paper; Real property; Business corporations. 2, How to
write business papers: Simple contracts; Articles of agreement;
Negotiable contracts; Contracts concerning land; Miscellaneous forms;
Index.

* * * * *

=School R= 28:476 Je ’20 250w

=BUTCHER, ALICE MARY (BRANDRETH) lady.= Memories of George Meredith. il *$1.60 (6c) Scribner

(Eng ed 20–6151)

This book of reminiscences begins delightfully, when the author was a
girl of thirteen, with pebbles tossed against a bedroom window and an
invitation to walk to the top of Box Hill to see the sun rise. It
continues in the same vein of intimate, personal reminiscence to the
day of Meredith’s death. There are pleasant glimpses of Shakespeare
readings, of picnics, of Meredith’s family life, and of his
friendships with young people, with quotations from letters and
conversations.

* * * * *

“Her reminiscences have a girlish naïveté which is far from
unattractive. Her anecdotes and some of the letters he wrote to her
and his whimsical and witty talk help to fill out pleasantly our
mental portrait of Meredith.”

+ =Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 100w

“She is to be congratulated on her heroic self-restraint. We enjoy
here, we are made to feel, the cream of several volumes.” J. J. Daly

+ − =Bookm= 51:351 My ’20 820w

“Many details of Meredith’s family life are given by Lady Butcher in a
wholly informal and fragmentary manner. Her style is frequently cloudy
and repetitious, and she often spoils a good story by her clumsy way
of telling it.” E. F. E.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 1250w

=Cleveland= p51 My ’20 80w

“After reading Lady Butcher one needs to draw back a little with
half-closed eyes to fit the various fragments together; but in a
moment or two it will be seen that they merge quite rightly into the
figure of the great man.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p765 D 18 ’19 900w

=BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.= How it feels to be fifty. *75c (18c) Houghton 814

20–8224

A genial essay reprinted from the American Magazine of December, 1919.
Its substance is summed up in the concluding paragraph: “At twenty my
life was a feverish adventure, at thirty it was a problem, at forty it
was a labor, at fifty it is a joyful journey well begun.”

* * * * *

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 480w

=BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.= Swatty; a story of real boys. il *$1.90 (2c) Houghton

20–5587

Mr Butler goes back to his own boyhood for these stories. They are
stories of boy life on the banks of the Mississippi and the book opens
with a tale of the mighty river on one of its spring rampages. Swatty,
Bony and George are “real boys” of the Huck Finn and Plupy Shute type.
Altho the episodes are loosely woven together to make a continuous
narrative, many of them are in effect short stories and some have been
published as such in the American Magazine. Among the titles are: The
big river; Mamie’s father; Scratch-cat; The haunted house; The red
avengers; The ice goes out.

* * * * *

“Better if read in parts, a few adventures at a time.”

+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20

“Were it not for a lamentable lapse into sentimentality out of keeping
with the rest of the book, ‘Swatty’ would be a worthy successor [to
Huck Finn]. A boy like George would never in this wide world possess a
grandmother addressed as ‘Ladylove,’ and if he did, he would be cut
into small pieces before he would use so soft an appellation.” G. M.
Purcell

+ − =Bookm= 51:473 Je ’20 470w

“Although the situations are somewhat hackneyed, the author has the
knack of seeing things from a boy’s point of view and expressing them
in a boy’s language.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 60w

“The humor of the book is broad and obvious rather than whimsical, but
Mr Butler’s admirers will probably enjoy it.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:253 My 16 ’20 380w

“There will doubtless be a stampede for ‘Swatty’ in the children’s
room of many a public library, altho Ellis Parker Butler in his
subtitle does not commit himself as to whether this is a story for
real boys, or merely about them. There is a choice morsel, for the
girls, too, in the incident of the tailor’s fashion sheet.” R. D.
Moore

+ =Pub W= 97:1001 Mr 20 ’20 140w

=BUTLER, SIR GEOFFREY GILBERT.= Handbook to the league of nations; with an introd. by Robert Cecil. *$1.75 Longmans 341.1

20–5652

“Sir Geoffrey has presented in skeleton outline the development of the
league idea from the day of Grotius to the framing of the Paris
covenant, passing over rapidly its earlier history and laying stress
on the attempts at international organization represented by the Holy
alliance and the Hague conferences. He has throughout emphasized the
fact that on a concert and not on a balance of the Powers rested the
best hope of realization of the ideals of the statesmen and thinkers
who strove for the elimination of war, and he bases his faith in the
efficacy of the newly formed league on its conformity to that
principle. In addition to general discussion of the provisions of the
covenant, Sir Geoffrey has added the text of the document with
commentary upon its specific features.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

Reviewed by J. R. Towse

+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 Mr 6 ’20 200w

=Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 50w

“Sir Geoffrey Butler’s book is of modest scope and plan, but it
provides what has until now been lacking—a sober and succinct
statement of historic process which we date from Grotius, and of which
the covenant is but the latest phase.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 D 25 ’19 240w

=BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY.= Is America worth saving? *$2 (3c) Scribner 304

20–5743

These addresses on national problems and party policies have for their
common theme the exposition and interpretation of the fundamental
principles upon which the American government and American civil
society is built. The real difficulty in solving all our present day
problems by the light of these fundamental principles, the author
claims, lies in their extreme simplicity. He looks upon socialism and
similar movements as subversive of these principles, as the real
enemies of the people, and as entirely destructive, and places his
faith upon a “stalwart and patriotic Americanism.” Among the contents
are: Is America worth saving? A programme of constructive progress;
The real labor problem; A league of nations; Elihu Root, statesman;
Problems of peace and after-peace; The making of a written
constitution; Theodore Roosevelt, American; Faith and the war; Is
American higher education improving? The colleges and the nation;
Index.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Everett Kimball

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:512 Ag ’20 490w

=Booklist= 16:298 Je ’20

“Failing entirely to understand the play of actual economic forces in
the production and distribution of income, it is natural that Dr
Butler should conclude that strikes and industrial wars are simply the
result of an ignorance of the true and complete harmony of interests
between capital and labor. Dr Butler pleads for ‘cooperative
individualism into a moral purpose.’ But we cannot help feeling that
he has not got any intelligible grip upon this moral purpose, and
therefore shows a feeble hold upon the very principle of individual
liberty whose championship he assumes.” O. O.

− =Nation= 110:728 My 29 ’20 1350w

“There are no compromises of principles in this book, and the author
makes no concessions to those demands made through the cries of the
herd. To all Americans who need a mental tonic today, and to all who
feel that their confidence in law and the application of law to life
needs strengthening, and to all who believe that this republic is not
to drift at the mercy of every wind of doctrine, this very seminal
volume belongs of right.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:203 Ap 25 ’20 3450w

+ =R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 60w

“Read aright, the book is a masterly and no doubt timely defence of
American institutions and the principles underlying them.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p363 Je 10 ’20 1150w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 40w

=BUXTON, NOEL EDWARD, and LEESE, C. LEONARD.= Balkan problems and European peace. *$1.75 Scribner 949.6

19–19084

“This book on Balkan political problems falls into three parts: (1) a
history of pre-war European politics in the Balkans; (2) the policies
pursued during the war by the Entente and Allied powers, with
particular reference to Bulgaria; and (3) the probable future of the
Balkans.”—Ath

* * * * *

Reviewed by Ferdinand Schevill

+ =Am Hist R= 25:747 Jl ’20 360w

“Clear and interesting little book. It displays considerable knowledge
and the matter is well arranged.”

+ =Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 60w

Reviewed by B. U. Burke

=Nation= 111:218 Ag 21 ’20 750w

=N Y Times= p19 O 10 ’20 70w

“Its value depends on the light it sheds on Bulgarian aspirations
rather than on any impartial discussion of new material.” H. F.
Armstrong

+ − =Review= 2:395 Ap 17 ’20 1200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 160w

=BYNNER, WITTER (EMANUEL MORGAN, pseud.).= Canticle of Pan and other poems. *$2 Knopf 811

20–9070

Among the poems of this book are the Canticle of praise, written in
celebration of the ending of the war and presented at the Greek
theater in Berkeley, California, in December, 1918, and the Canticle
of Pan, delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa poem at the University of
California in June, 1917, and the Canticle of Bacchus, also presented
in California. Among the shorter poems are a number of translations
from the Chinese. Titles of others are: Youth sings to the sea; The
wild star; Vintage; Gipsying; Pittsburgh; A song in the grass; The
swimmer; The desert; On leaving California; Away from California;
Rain; Night; News of a soldier.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:60 N ’20

“Witter Bynner, in his ‘A canticle of Pan,’ is more of a ventriloquist
than a poet. He speaks in too many voices, and on too wide a range of
topics to have achieved mastery in any manner or distinction in any
style. Mr Bynner’s volume is singularly unauthentic: it is an
anthology of imitations (none of them particularly effective) of most
of the known manners of prosody.” R. M. Weaver

− =Bookm= 52:62 S ’20 700w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 12 ’19 500w

“In these canticles Mr Bynner has evolved a medium admirably suited
for community expression, dealing with the large events of the world.
In a sense these are experimental, and Mr Bynner, while giving them a
certain poetic merit, has not made them distill his finest poetic
spirit. His lyric note is, at its best, one of the purest among
present-day poets.” W. S. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 1150w

“What one has here in the end is Bynner, the man, rather than Bynner,
the poet. He is a delightful man, clever and keen and kind. But he is
too full of his message to be truly moving.” E. P.

+ − =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 120w

“Witter Bynner forfeits our respect at the outset by writing a
canticle wherein he imagines Pan and the Christ child as friends; he
continues to forfeit it by a vein of breezy, Vachel Lindsay-Stephen
Graham optimism that runs through his book.” J: G. Fletcher

− =Freeman= 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 230w

“These canticles as well as some of the less ambitious poems are
marred by an ethical idealism that is too self-conscious. Pan and
Bacchus especially must not moralize. Their magic is their
waywardness. The best poems in the book are the slighter ones,
including the bits of translation from the Chinese, Japanese and
Russian and the original poems in their spirit.” C. M. S.

+ − =Grinnell R= 15:283 N ’20 300w

+ =Ind= 104:246 N 13 ’20 110w

“Mr Bynner’s latest volume proves, among other things, that there are
limits beyond which Mr Bynner cannot be said to gain by
experimentation. Not that he has a still, small voice; not that he is
a little poet; but he is most himself and most happy when he is
working in established, or at least in well knit, rhythms and moods.
His publisher has produced him in a form that does both American
poetry and American publishing handsome credit.” M. V. D.

+ − =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 230w

“Witter Bynner’s new volume, ‘A canticle of Pan’ leaves one disturbed
and aggrieved. He is undeniably such a really talented poet that one
wonders why so much of his book leaps out of the mind much faster than
it leaps in. It is apparent that the community masque idea is not a
happy choice for Mr Bynner. It is in the shorter pieces in this book
that Mr Bynner is at his best.” H. S. Gorman

+ − =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 450w

“A rather poorly balanced miscellany of poems. The volume is by no
means representative of Mr Bynner’s excellence as a lyric poet. In
comparatively few pieces in the present collection does he approach
his highest standard of workmanship. A number of them are trivial in
conception and detract substantially from the merit of the others.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 430w

=BYRNE, DONN.= Foolish matrons. *$1.90 (2c) Harper

20–18252

The heroines of the story are four: one wise and three foolish. The
wise one was a great actress who married the big uncouth surgeon whom
she loved, gave up her career and became his guardian angel and mother
of his children. Georgia, pretty and frivolous, craved the excitement
of gay New York. Married she was a vampire and finally drifted to the
underworld. Sheila, the college graduate and newspaper woman, clever
and heartless, dreamt of a career, married a poet for the glamor of it
and drove him to drink with her coldness. Sappho, the model, frankly
married for money, and posed as patroness of amateur artists. She
became ashamed of her plain millionaire husband and thought to do
better for herself but lost in the game.

* * * * *

“There is enough material in ‘The foolish matrons’ for four novels;
any one of the biographies which are told simultaneously would have
made a book by itself—a book representing with true artistry a segment
of life.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 600w

“The tale has vivid elements: it is overdrawn, but possesses dramatic
intensity.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 150w

C

=CABELL, JAMES BRANCH.=[2] Domnei; a comedy of woman-worship. *$2 McBride

20–20192

A revised edition of “The soul of Melicent,” published in 1913, with a
new introduction by Joseph Hergesheimer. For note on the story see
Annual for 1914.

* * * * *

“Cabell has won indisputably the position of being one of our few
distinguished men of letters. He is not for every reader, but one can
scarcely picture his desiring this doubtful honor. He writes for his
own discriminating audience, and for them he cannot write enough. He
creates a taste which it is difficult to satisfy with lesser delights.
‘Domnei’ carries a significance and an atmosphere of its own.” D. L.
Mann

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 1100w

“It is a subtle story, but not a convincing story.... And ‘Domnei’ is
an entertaining story—a story to be read at one sitting—with colour
and marvel and high-sounding words. It has the outline of a narrative
poem, and I, for one, feel that it is a pity that Mr Cabell did not
turn his prose into verse.” Padraic Colum

+ − =Freeman= 2:404 Ja 5 ’21 650w

“The thing that makes ‘Domnei’ stand out above most fables of
chivalrous romance is not the clear and sympathetic character
portrayal, nor the flowing, beautiful English, nor is it the great
wealth of mediaeval lore, which Mr Cabell undoubtedly possesses to an
exceptional degree. The greatness of ‘Domnei’ lies in the fact that
every detail, historical, narrative, or constructive, falls into place
with consummate art, bringing to us of these later and hurried days a
spiritual interpretation of the knight’s quest for divine beauty.” H.
W. M.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:330 Ja ’21 400w

=CABOT, WILLIAM BROOKS.=[2] Labrador. il *$3 Small 971.9

“‘Labrador’ is an account of half a dozen expeditions into the
interior of that country which the author has made since 1904. From it
the reader obtains an impression of what life is like in that
elemental land, barren and sentineled off its coast by age-old
icebergs. The country is one of the oldest primal faces of the globe,
and Mr Cabot believes it may have been the cradle of the human race.
Its only products are fur and fish, and, as the fur is failing,
Labrador will doubtless remain a little-known land. ‘Over this great
territory,’ writes the author, ‘the people still wander at will,
knowing no alien restraint, no law but their own. The unwritten code
of the lodge and open, the ancient beliefs still prevail.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“The lovers of nature study and of travel and adventure will find much
of interest in this carefully written book. Mr Cabot writes with
enthusiasm as well as with rare intelligence.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 540w

+ =N Y Times= p4 Ja 2 ’21 280w

=CADMUS and HARMONIA, pseuds.= Island of sheep. *$1.50 (5c) Houghton

20–7649

In an English country house, on the eve of a house party, the host and
hostess are much distressed about the future. The party is about
equally composed of optimists and pessimists and they are all more or
less liberal. It consists of the minister of the parish, a highland
landowner, a labor ex-member of Parliament, the wife of a former
Liberal minister, a progressive journalist and his wife, an American
woman resident in England, a lady given to good works, a conservative,
a liberal lawyer, a grenadier of the guards; a lieutenant of the
United States army, a labor leader, an imperialist, a French general,
a coalition member of parliament, an American politician and a captain
of industry. They discuss the future and reconstruction from all
points of view, of which the most satisfactory in the end seems to be
that of the ex-labor member of Parliament. It at least moves the
minister to relate the old saga of Balder, the life-giver, and his
expected return to earth after the twilight of Walhalla has made an
end to the old gods.

* * * * *

“The quickness of the argument, the mental agility of some of the
talkers and the interesting character touches give a delightful
lightness to this presentation of serious problems.”

+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20

“Rolls the present world unrest up into a cheerful and conservative
package, with the strings tied a bit too neatly.”

− =Dial= 68:804 Je ’20 70w

“As a matter of fact, characterization is the authors’ weakest point.
Their style is too fluent, too uniform. Opinions are well contrasted,
but the individualities of the speakers are lost in the monotony, in
the rhythm and vocabulary of their utterance.” R. F. A. H.

+ − =New Repub= 24:222 O 27 ’20 700w

“It is rather hard for an American to account for the admiration which
the book is said to have won in England. There is not, as a rule,
anything particularly novel in the content or exceptionally striking
in the form.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 430w

“When the reader finishes it, he may be inclined to think first, that
although done by a master hand, it is a rather slight contribution to
the great post-war discussion. But the more he thinks about it the
more the reader begins to perceive that ‘The island of sheep’ is a
microcosm of the present mental and physical state of the world,
certainly of the English-speaking world.”

+ =Outlook= 125:28 My 5 ’20 900w

“The reader will thank us for letting him discover for himself the
rare charm of this book. Passion is excluded, though there is plenty
of idealism, and an abundance of hard, shrewd wit. National
characteristics are exceedingly well portrayed. There is here a
fineness akin to a forgotten art.”

+ =Review= 2:487 My 8 ’20 1250w

“Most of our readers, faced with this list [of characters] in the
abstract, will be inclined to turn from the book with a ‘Lord ‘a
mercy!’ or ‘Heaven save us!’ If they do they will be quite wrong, for,
in spite of the soundness of the argument, the book is a light one,
and full of very pleasant relief, which we must not call comic, but
which has the same effect as the old stage artifice.”

+ =Spec= 123:616 N 8 ’19 2200w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 29 ’20 280w

=CAINE, WILLIAM.= Strangeness of Noel Carton. *$2 (3c) Putnam

20–11497

This is not exactly a story within a story but rather two stories so
interwoven and fused that in the end they are not distinguishable
apart. They are both written in the first person by Noel Carton and
one is his journal and the other the novel he writes because his wife
has said he couldn’t do it. This wife he hates for her crudity and
smallness, altho he has sold himself to her for the home and comforts
she gives him. In his novel he unconsciously portrays himself and his
wife Josephine as his main characters, Nigel and Jocelyn. As he
becomes absorbed in his plot, and as he takes more and more powerful
drugs in his fight against insomnia, it is increasingly difficult for
him to distinguish between the real of his life and the unreal of his
fancy. The climax comes when his hallucinations give way to madness,
and the tragedy of his novel is carried out in real life.

* * * * *

“The fastidious reader will be inclined to put this volume aside after
the first few pages, but if he can persevere he may very quickly
realize that the vulgarity of the author’s manner is deliberate, and
very effective and moving. It is paying a great compliment to Mr Caine
to say that no one who does not read this remarkably plausible tale
from cover to cover could believe it.”

+ =Ath= p846 Je 25 ’20 180w

“In a unique combination of diary and straight novelistic
construction, Mr Caine has done something for the novel which one
Reizenstein once did for the stage in ‘On trial’—he has found a new
form.”

+ =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 220w

=Lit D= p92 O 9 ’20 2800w

“The book is original and exceedingly well done.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 200w

“From the moment you meet Noel Carton, his wife, and his situation you
are deeply interested in all three. You don’t like him nor yet his
wife, but he is a vivid, actual creature, and he makes every one,
perhaps we might better say everything, he touches, vivid and
compelling.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 S 5 ’20 1300w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 100w

“Not every reader is likely to enjoy this grim mixture of realism and
fantasy, but it is impossible to deny the power with which it is
written.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p353 Je 3 ’20 180w

=CALDWELL, WALLACE EVERETT.= Hellenic conceptions of peace. pa *$1.25 Longmans 172.4

19–18236

“An historical study of the subject, beginning with the epic age and
coming down to the fourth century B.C. Issued as one of the Columbia
university studies in history, economics and public law.” (Brooklyn)
“What Mr Caldwell has done is to restate what the Greek poets,
historians, orators, and political leaders have said and written about
the desirability of peace. For that was their theme, that peace was
desirable and war was destructive. He has also traced for us, in the
tumultuous course of Greek history, the attempts to preserve the peace
and the causes of their failure.” (Nation)

* * * * *

“This is an interesting study written by a man well grounded in Greek
history. Our main criticism is that Dr Caldwell has not kept his aim
steadily enough in view. In fact, it is hard to avoid the conclusion
that there has been a certain shifting of aim as the work proceeds.
The concluding chapter is the most valuable part of the book.” W. S.
Ferguson

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:313 Ja ’20 450w

=Brooklyn= 12:60 Ja ’20 30w

“There is much in Dr Caldwell’s record that has special pertinency to
these times.”

+ =Nation= 109:804 D 20 ’19 250w

“Certain problems appear very modern especially the conflict of Athens
and Sparta regarding the implications of ‘freedom,’ and the inability
of Greece to form a permanent league of free states, in spite of
religious and commercial incentives to unity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 5 ’19 180w

=CALKINS, RAYMOND, and PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.= Substitutes for the saloon. *$1.75 Houghton 178

20–1362

“To the study which he made for the famous Committee of fifty twenty
years ago and which has been the standard volume on the subject during
that entire period, Dr Calkins now adds a new introduction and a
series of appendices supplementing carefully chosen points in a way to
bring the whole discussion of the saloon substitute up to date and to
make of the volume a handbook for those who wish to engage in this
form of social service and to learn something of the body of
experience which has been built up for a half century. The book is
particularly illuminating in setting up the workingmen’s club or
whatever one cares to call it, against the perspective of
neighborhood, class, race, religion, politics, age, habits and other
factors which condition its success or involve its failure. In the
long run, it seems clear, the ‘substitute’ must be almost purely
democratic or else commercial in management, and it must be of
spontaneous growth or at any rate seem to be.”—Survey

* * * * *

“Interesting to leaders of men and boys of the working class.”

+ =Booklist= 16:273 My ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ap 10 ’20 300w

=Survey= 43:471 Ja 24 ’20 650w

=CALLWELL, SIR CHARLES EDWARD.= Dardanelles. *$5 (3½c) Houghton 940.42

20–4693

The book belongs to the Campaigns and their lessons series. The author
considers the contest in the Dardanelles as a campaign by itself which
was affected by events elsewhere only in so far as these diverted much
needed military and naval resources. The work is designed to be a
study of certain phases of the campaign rather than a formal record of
its course, many of the problems discussed admitting of considerable
diversity of opinion. Thus the naval attempt to force the Straits
without military aid, the famous landing on the shores of the
Gallipoli peninsula on the 25th of April, and the successful
evacuation of the sea-girt patch of Turkish territory are discussed at
length, but some of the principal combats are dismissed briefly
because their story suggests no special lessons.

* * * * *

“The book needs an index.”

+ − =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 90w

+ =Booklist= 16:287 My ’20

“It cannot fail to be of the utmost value, as a document of the war,
which will increase in value as the years pass.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 18 ’20 750w

“The story is told with the accuracy and straightforward impartiality
that might be expected. After the accounts of each main event, whether
success or failure, General Callwell adds a passage of ‘Comment,’
criticizing that action and pointing out where the causes of success
or failure lay. To all military students and to all who, like myself,
are intimately acquainted with the campaign, these comments will
naturally be the most valuable and interesting parts of the volume.”

+ =Nation [London]= 26:648 F 7 ’20 1100w

=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 100w

“General Callwell’s valuable study of the Dardanelles campaign, from a
military standpoint, appears opportunely as the complement of the
Dardanelles commission’s report on the conduct of the operations.”

+ =Spec= 123:729 N 29 ’19 1400w

“This is an excellent addition to the ‘Campaigns and their lessons’
series. The one criticism that we have to make of it is the inadequacy
of the maps. There are certain phases of the campaign, notably the
attacks at Anzac and Suvla in August, 1915, which it is impossible to
follow clearly without large and clear maps.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p724 D 11 ’19 850w

=CALLWELL, SIR CHARLES EDWARD.= Life of Sir Stanley Maude, lieutenant-general. il *$6 Houghton

(Eng ed 20–14053)

“This official biography of the conqueror of Bagdad, who died during
the fourth year of the war, was written by the British Director of
military operations at the War office. General Maude was one of the
small group of commanders brought to the front by the war who appealed
to the popular imagination. Fortunately, his biographer is one of the
leading military writers of our time. The book is inspiring, not
merely as the life of a great soldier, but as a contribution to our
knowledge of British military operations in Mesopotamia.” R of Rs

* * * * *

“As clear and sympathetic an account as any friend of General Maude’s
could desire.” O. W.

+ =Ath= p239 Ag 20 ’20 680w

=Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 1350w

+ =R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 90w

“There is not too much Maude in the book, nor is there too much
collateral history, just a happy combination of the two, an
achievement which is by no means common in memoirs!”

+ =Sat R= 130:279 O 2 ’20 1000w

“Sir Charles Callwell is particularly to be congratulated on the
justice and candour with which he has written this book. Eulogy at
points where eulogy is undeserved is an offence in biography. It is
misleading; it deprives the reader of the opportunities of learning
the lessons which he might have learned from the truth; and in the
last analysis it is unfair to the subject of the biography himself.
Sir Charles Callwell, while making clear his intense admiration of
Maude, succeeds in giving point to that admiration by admitting that
Maude was not without his intellectual faults as a soldier.”

+ =Spec= 125:209 Ag 14 ’20 1550w

“In spite of the attraction of his subject the biography is to be read
once and no more. One hesitates to think that General Callwell has
missed the secret of Maude’s greatness. One searches the book in vain
for a generalization, a fruitful idea.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p485 Jl 29 ’20 1200w

=CAMERON, CHARLOTTE.=[2] Cheechako in Alaska and Yukon. il $6 Stokes 917.98

Cheechako is Eskimo for tenderfoot, but this particular tenderfoot
turns out to be a hardened traveler. After many other lands the far
North beckoned this adventurous Englishwoman and she set out from
Seattle in June to travel 2,200 miles on the Yukon to Alaska and back
all in a summer season. She sings the praises of the wondrous riches
of the country—for which she bespeaks a prosperous future—and of the
hospitality of its people. Nome, which had lured her from childhood,
was the real objective of the trip and of it the author gives a
detailed account. The book is well illustrated.

* * * * *

=Ath= p581 O 29 ’20 280w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 40w

“Very wisely she is content to write as a sightseer, not as a pioneer;
and the result of this renunciation is that we get from her something
fresh.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p663 O 14 ’20 1000w

=CAMP, CHARLES WADSWORTH.= Gray mask. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday

20–2640

An episodic narrative dealing with the solution of various mysteries
and taking its name from the first adventure. Garth, a member of the
detective force, is asked by his chief to assume the disguise of the
Gray Mask, a criminal chemist who goes with face covered to hide the
effects of an explosion. The disguise takes him into the heart of a
criminal gang, among whom to his horror he finds Nora, his chief’s
daughter. But her presence there is satisfactorily explained and the
law breakers are brought to justice. The second episode concerns a
murder mystery, and there are others, ending with Garth’s engagement
to Nora.

* * * * *

“The stories hardly measure up to the author’s previous work.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 200w

=CAMP, WALTER CHAUNCEY.= Football without a coach. il *$1.25 Appleton 797

20–13870

The object of the book is to supply a perfect pen-and-ink coach for a
football team, telling it how to progress from week to week, warning
it of the dangers that will crop up and telling it how to surmount
each difficulty that arises. It is intended as a text-book for the
grammar school boy, the high school student, and the young man from
the shop or office. Contents: Building the foundation; Sizing up the
candidates; The first scrimmage; Practice without a scrub; The line
and the forward pass; The line; The backfield; Building plays; The
strategy of football; Things that make or break a team.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:102 D ’20

“The book comes as near to taking the place of an expert coach as
printed words can.”

+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 50w

+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 40w

+ =R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 200w

=CAMP, WALTER CHAUNCEY.= Handbook on health and how to keep it. *$1.25 (3c) Appleton 613

20–5624

In formulating a “simple, reasonable and practical system of
preserving physical fitness” for all ages, the author has had in mind
the “simplest, shortest, least exhausting and most exhilarating form
of calisthenics” that can be devised. He has concentrated his setup
exercises with four groups of three each thus: Hands, Hips, Head;
Grind, Grate, Grasp; Crawl, Curl, Crouch; Wave, Weave, Wing. Portions
of the book are devoted to practical suggestions as to the value of
certain sports at proper periods of life and to cautions as to the
general health and the follies of some habits. Contents: Problems of
youth and age; Daily dozen set-up; Reviewing follies; Children,
schoolboy and collegian; Industrial worker.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20

=R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 My 21 ’20 300w

“Mr Camp’s latest book should be useful to the instructor of
gymnastics and the Boy scout leader. The author’s insistence upon
athletics will readily be forgiven on the ground of a specialist’s
natural enthusiasm; but the space given to it and other general
considerations in the book hardly make it a very practical ‘handbook’
for the individual in need of advice and stimulus.” B. L.

+ − =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 160w

=CAMPBELL, HENRY COLIN.= How to use cement for concrete construction for town and farm. il $2 Stanton & Van Vliet 693.5

20–6499

This comprehensive book covers such subjects as Farming with concrete;
What concrete is, how to make and use it; Making forms for concrete
construction; Reinforcement; Concrete foundations and concrete walls;
Tanks, troughs, cisterns, and similar containers for liquids; Concrete
floors, walks and similar concrete pavements; A concrete garage on the
farm; Poultry houses of concrete; Concrete silos, etc. The author
writes from the point of view of both engineer and farmer. There is an
alphabetical table of contents, and the book is very fully
illustrated.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:97 D ’20

=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:35 O 13 ’20 90w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p28 Ap ’20 70w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 18 ’20 210w

=CANBY, HENRY SEIDEL.= Everyday Americans. *$1.75 (5½c) Century 917.3

20–16765

The book is a “study of the typical, the everyday American mind, as it
is manifested in the American of the old stock. It is a study of what
that typical American product, the college and high school graduate,
has become in the generation which must carry on after the war.”
(Preface) This typical American the author finds to be “the
conservative-liberal” in whom the inherited liberal instincts have
become petrified and who suffers with a sort of a hardening of the
arteries of the mind. There is also a radicalism of a sort but it is a
very different thing from European revolutionary radicalism. The soul
of America now in which abides the future, is the bourgeoisie and he
advises all who wish to speculate in postbellum America to study the
younger leaders of the labor parties on the one hand and the college
undergraduates on the other. They are the future. Contents: The
American mind; Conservative America; Radical America; American
idealism; Religion in America; Literature in America; The bourgeois
American.

* * * * *

“Written in a clear, rather colorless style.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:110 D ’20

“If Mr Canby’s book had been written long ago it would have remedied
in large degree the appalling ignorance existing abroad concerning
American mind and thought.”

+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 180w

“A timely, undogmatic contribution to an exceedingly lively issue.”

+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 70w

“As far as it goes, Mr Canby’s book is very good and very interesting.
On the whole, his analysis appears to be sound; and his candour is
admirable.” R: Roberts

+ =Freeman= 2:308 D 8 ’20 1150w

=Nation= 111:512 N 3 ’20 280w

“Thoughtful and lucid appraisement of American values. Though the
style is simple, it is closely packed; the substance is weighty, and
no one will get it all in the first reading.”

+ − =Review= 4:17 Ja 5 ’21 580w

“It may be argued that there is no special brillance or insight in
these pages, but if one really wishes to convince the average
thoughtful American, it is well to be neither too philosophical nor
too paradoxical. Mr Canby at least shows us that he has an active
mind, capable of searching the underlying issues of the time in which
he lives.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 650w

“This study of the American mind is altogether delightful because of
its directness, sincerity and penetration.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 45:369 D 4 ’20 280w

=CANFIELD, CHAUNCEY L.=, ed. Diary of a forty-niner. *$3.50 Houghton 979.4

The book is based on the authentic diary of one Alfred T. Jackson, a
pioneer miner who cabined and worked on Rock Creek, Nevada County,
California, from 1850 to 1852. It is a “truthful, unadorned, veracious
chronicle of the placer mining days of the foothills, a narrative of
events as they occurred; told in simple and, at times, ungrammatical
sentences, yet vivid and truth compelling in the absence of conscious
literary endeavor.... It sets forth graphically the successive steps
in gold mining, from the pan and rocker to the ground sluice and
flume.... No less fascinating is the romance interwoven in the pages
of the diary.” (Preface) The editor states that he has verified many
of the incidents and happenings. An edition of the book was published
in San Francisco shortly before the earthquake and fire, during which
the plates and many of the copies were destroyed.

* * * * *

“This book is well printed in large type but the solid character of
the contents, in spite of the chapter headings, will repel some
readers.” H. S. K.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 11 ’20 600w

“One of the most fascinating features of this remarkable document is
the diarist’s self-revelation of his evolution from a Puritanical New
Englander, bound and shackled with the prejudices of generations, into
a broad-minded man whose mental growth is miraculously stimulated by
the freedom of his environment and associations.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 Ja 16 ’21 2850w

+ =R of Rs= 63:223 F ’21 100w

=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Release of the soul. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright 149.3

20–8452

“The surface of life has been broken by the war, says Mr Cannan; there
is no longer any structure in social existence: ‘For the artist there
is metaphysic or nothing.’ And in this highly metaphysical, mystical
essay he attempts to convey a programme for the immediate future of
society and especially for the artist. We are told that the book was
written during Mr Cannan’s recent visit in America, in a period of
intense creative inspiration. As a record of mystical experience, as
an endeavor to express the ineffable, it expects from the reader a
coöperation more sympathetic than that of the intelligence. Stripped
of its mysticism, the argument is a tolerably familiar one; it is a
fusion of certain beliefs almost universally held now by the younger
writers and artists, beliefs regarding the industrial régime,
bourgeois democracy, intellectualism, the instinct of workmanship, the
release of the creative impulses.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“Mr Cannan’s new book is, indeed, unusual. The words God, soul, life,
occur with extraordinary frequency but the variety of their
syntactical connections throws no light on their meanings. Since we
are neither provided with, nor enabled to deduce, definitions of Mr
Cannan’s chief terms, we find his book unintelligible.”

− + =Ath= p764 Je 11 ’20 500w

“The tone of the book is rhapsodical; its sentences are so desultory;
and even the illustrations drawn here and there from history, art and
literature are so loose, that it is difficult, if not impossible, to
decide at times what he exactly does mean.”

− =Cath World= 111:832 S ’20 230w

“There is little art in his exposition and less evidence of work. And
it takes more religion of a charitable nature than Mr Cannan preaches
to restrain one from saying that the author of this work has released
his soul so very successfully that it has disappeared.”

− =Dial= 69:433 O ’20 110w

“Flashes of fine thought are not incompatible with loose thinking. A
book may be very stimulating and suggestive in its details and yet as
a whole leave behind an impression of hopeless confusion. This is just
the kind of book Mr Cannan has produced.” Edwin Bjorkman

− + =Freeman= 2:19 S 15 ’20 1600w

“It is not unlikely that many, perhaps most, of the people who read Mr
Cannan’s new book will wonder what he is driving at. A little of this
bewilderment will be due to Mr Cannan himself; for when he passes over
from the dramatic to the discursive a certain elusiveness invades his
speech. The book is one of those which must be read two or three times
over before its whole significance becomes clear; but it is abundantly
worth that trouble.” R: Roberts

+ − =Nation= 111:301 S 11 ’20 1100w

“His book is a curious, largely incomprehensible and thoroughly dull
rhapsody upon God and nature, life, love and the soul.” S. C. C.

− + =New Repub= 24:152 O 6 ’20 220w

“The charm of the book is to be found in some of the brief ecstatic
meditations in which from time to time the pages flower.” Van Wyck
Brooks

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 My 8 ’20 950w

“Mr Cannan has flung a light bridge from mysticism to internationalism
over which it is quite conceivable that an exposition so airy, chary,
and fleeting as his own may pass in safety. But the plain man, the
logician, and the investigator can not be urged to trust his weight to
the inadequacies of the trembling fabric.”

+ − =Review= 3:711 Jl 7 ’20 500w

“It is an embarrassing book to read. One feels like an intruder upon a
privacy, for really Mr Cannan appears to have suffered considerably.
Either so ‘private and confidential’ a book ought not to have been
written, or we should not be reading it.”

− =Sat R= 130:14 Jl 3 ’20 240w

“Obviously what Mr Cannan says is largely platonic doctrine, to many
incomprehensible; but spiritual emphasis at this time is so needed
that the book is justified in spite of its frequent cloudy and chaotic
passages.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 8 ’20 220w

“Mr Cannan, weary of criticism and all negative activities, has turned
to mysticism; and this book is the result. It is sincere, passionate
and interesting, but it lacks structure, and so is a little difficult
to read.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p417 Jl 1 ’20 1850w

=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Time and eternity; a tale of three exiles. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

20–7059