Chapter I: of this book indicates the need of a study of business (11)

“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

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 500w

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

20–7298

“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.”

+ − =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

+ =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.

+ − =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.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 310w

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

+ − =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w

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

+ =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.”

+ =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.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 200w

+ =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.”

+ =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

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:298 Je ’20

=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

+ − =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

+ =N Y Times= p9 Ag 15 ’20 800w

+ =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.”

+ − =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

+ =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.”

+ =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.”

− + =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.”

+ =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

+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 70w

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

+ =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

+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 70w

+ =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.”

− + =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

+ − =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.

+ − =Ath= p9 Ja 2 ’20 1000w

“Clearly and interestingly written.”

+ =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.”

+ =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.”

+ =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.”

+ =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.”

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

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

20–4643

“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

+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:713 N ’20 1400w

“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.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20

=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

+ − =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w

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.”

+ =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.”

+ =No Am= 211:713 My ’20 2250w

+ − =Review= 2:460 My 1 ’20 1400w

+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 180w

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

20–9841

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.”

+ =Booklist= 17:19 O ’20

=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

20–12609

“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

+ − =Nation= 111:160 Ag 7 ’20 760w

+ =Socialist R= 9:209 N ’20 250w

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

20–9999

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.

* * * * *

+ =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.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 300w

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

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 22 ’20 170w

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

20–8370

“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.’”

+ =Booklist= 17:48 N ’20

+ =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.”

+ =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

20–4464

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.”

− + =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.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:548 Ja ’21 210w

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

20–19604

“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

20–16497

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.”

− + =Ath= p731 N 26 ’20 160w

“Distinguished by technical dexterity.”

+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21

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

+ − =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

+ =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.”

+ − =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.”

+ =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.”

+ =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.”

+ − =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

20–6374

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.”

+ =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

20–8814

“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.

* * * * *

+ =Am Hist R= 26:148 O ’20 200w

Reviewed by A. C. Hanford

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:711 N ’20 500w

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

+ =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.

+ =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

+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 700w

+ =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

+ =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

20–20001

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.”

+ − =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.”

+ =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

20–3277

“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.”

+ − =El School J= 20:713 My ’20 580w

+ =School R= 28:389 My ’20 280w

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

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

20–6951

“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.”

+ − =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.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 200w

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

+ =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.

+ =New Repub= 21:389 F 25 ’20 1800w

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

+ =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.”

+ =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.’”

+ =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.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 1050w

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

(Eng ed A20–528)

“‘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.”

− =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.”

+ =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.”

+ =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

* * * * *

+ =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

20–19071

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.’”

+ − =Booklist= 17:104 D ’20

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 110w

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

+ =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.”

+ =Review= 3:506 N 24 ’20 220w

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

20–2846

“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

+ =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.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:57 F 1 ’20 700w

+ =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

20–4128

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.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20

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

+ =Pub W= 97:993 Mr 20 ’20 200w

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

+ =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.”

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

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

20–19510

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.”

− + =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.’”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ja 16 ’21 450w

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

+ =Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 80w

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

+ =Spec= 125:118 Jl 24 ’20 80w

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

20–5233

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.

* * * * *

“The mystery takes so long to clear up that the reader gets a bit
tired of it all, and begins to grew impatient at a point where he
should, by the rules of the mystery game, be so absorbed as to take no
account of time.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 300w

“The style is sometimes crude, but the plot is ingeniously
constructed, and certainly has an unexpected solution. Yet our
interest is not always maintained at a high level, possibly because
none of the persons concerned makes any strong appeal to our
sympathy.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:251 S 13 ’19 220w

“Mr Cobb writes his new drawing-room comedy with his usual detachment
and accomplishment.”

+ − =Spec= 123:622 N 8 ’19 80w

“While not melodramatic or sensational, ‘The silver bag’ contains
mystery and amusing situations. The book will please those with a
weakness for delving into society scandals and near scandals.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 270w

=COCKERELL, THEODORE DRU ALISON.= Zoology, il *$3 World bk. 590

20–7593

A work by the professor of zoology in the University of Colorado,
published as one of the New-World science series of which John W.
Ritchie is general editor. It is designed as a text book for colleges
and universities but has several elements of popular appeal. One of
its unusual features is the interposition of biographical chapters,
the author believing that it is well for the students to know more of
the men who have contributed to scientific knowledge. Consequently he
has provided sketches of Darwin, Linnæus. Henri Fabre, Pasteur and
others. The book has good illustrations including a series of animal
photographs taken under the author’s direction in the New York
zoological park. References follow the chapters and there is an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:302 Je ’20

=CODY, HIRAM ALFRED.= Glen of the high north. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–18933

Tom Reynolds finds himself at odds with life after his four years at
the front. The vision of a beautiful face in a crowded street remains
his grip on reality. On top of this comes the suggestion of a friend
that he go in search of a Henry Redmond who, with his little girl, had
mysteriously disappeared fifteen years previous. Ostensibly Tom goes
in search of Redmond, but in reality his quest is for the face. More
casual glimpses of it intensify his zeal. It takes him into the mining
camps of the far north, plunges him into adventures in which figure
the girl, an old philosophic prospector, a villainous miner, and a
mysterious landed proprietor lording it in his stronghold behind the
Golden Crest. In the end the girl proves to be the daughter of the
landlord and the latter, the old prospector and the lost Henry Redmond
to be one and the same person. The girl is won, gold is found in the
bargain, the villainous miner is made harmless and life is once more
real to Tom.

* * * * *

“A commonplace, crudely written melodrama of the most obvious
motion-picture type.”

− =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 200w

=CODY, LOUISA (FREDERICI) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK CODY).= Memories of Buffalo Bill; in collaboration with Courtney Ryley Cooper. il *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton

20–2278

From the time he first courted her, to his death, Mrs Cody records the
career of her husband, one of the most picturesque and adventuresome
of human careers. Adventure was thrust upon him when a mere child it
became a part of his environment and was later sought with the keen
relish of the actor in him. “One thing had been borne to him, through
the never failing worship of youthful America, that he was an idol who
never could be replaced, that as long as there were boys, and as long
as those boys had red blood in their veins, they would thrill at the
sight of him they loved, and cheer the sounding reverberation of his
great booming voice as he whirled into the arena on his great, white
horse, came to a swinging stop before the grandstand, and raised his
hand for the famous salute from the saddle.” (Chapter 15)

* * * * *

“The book under review may not be a literary masterpiece, but it has a
merit which many so-called literary masterpieces lack—the merit of
presenting a real man and an admirable character. It is written in a
lively and entertaining style, with restraint, and in good taste.” J:
Bunker

+ =Bookm= 52:79 S ’20 560w

“Her tale is rambling at times, and at times inclined to the
sentimental; however, it is not entirely out of character to know that
the Indian-killing scout was a lively lover, as well as a dead shot
with the rifle. This story becomes more human on that account. It is
evident that the real biography of Colonel William F. Cody, ‘Buffalo
Bill,’ is yet to be written, and Mrs Cody has contributed her part in
good season.” J. S. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 F 14 ’20 450w