Chapter II: Front Matter (2)

This volume is a revision of the book issued in 1913 with the title
“Europe.” It has been revised and partly rewritten to conform to
changes growing out of the war. New chapters have been added on:
Ireland and the linen industry; The brave little country of Belgium;
Finland and Lapland; The country of Poland, and The countries of the
Balkan peninsula.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:79 N ’20

=ALLEN, STEPHEN HALEY.= International relations. *$5 Princeton univ. press 327

20–5637

“The reader will find here in outline the ancient and modern
conceptions of a nation, and especially a clear statement of what has
been done to regulate international intercourse by conventions,
efforts to prevent war by arbitration and mediation and to mitigate
the barbarities of war when it does come. Included in the volume are
the documents representing the important general conventions that were
in force at the outbreak of the great war, and in conclusion the peace
treaty itself and the constitution of the League of nations are
presented.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:8 O ’20

+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 120w

=ALLISON, WILLIAM.= My kingdom for a horse! *$8 Dutton

“The recollections of one who has had so varied a career as Mr William
Allison cannot fail to be interesting. His pages cover a great variety
of ground, life in Yorkshire in the middle of the last century, Rugby
in the ‘sixties, Balliol in the ‘seventies, the bar, horse racing, and
the selling of blood stock, breeding of fox terriers, political and
society journalism, editorship, and special commissionership in the
Sportsman—a multitude of memories, in fine, with fluctuations of
fortune to give a savour to the whole.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Well charged with readable gossip.”

+ =Ath= p962 S 26 ’19 50w

“The ordinary reader will wish that his own interest had been a little
more consulted by omitting many of these equine records. He will wish,
too, that Mr Allison had not been so generous in quoting from his
voluminous correspondence. Barring this overplus, we think the author
too modest in describing his memoirs as a ‘farrago of insignificant
events.’”

+ − =Review= 3:655 D 29 ’20 450w

“His book shows quite exceptional familiarity with the thoroughbred,
set forth in English free—though split infinitives are to be counted
against him—from the distressing phraseology common to most men who
write about racing.”

+ =Sat R= 128:365 O 18 ’19 900w

“His digressions are rather bewildering and his arguments not all
strictly convincing. When Mr Allison gives himself, as he rarely does,
the time to describe something with enthusiasm, William Hickey himself
could do no better.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p512 S 25 ’19 1600w

=ALLISON, WILLIAM.= Secret of the sea. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday

20–6428

The story has evidently been suggested by Poe’s “The murders in the
rue Morgue.” An American millionaire’s pleasure yacht, touring on the
Mediterranean, encounters a derelict yacht, fitted up most luxuriously
with every evidence of recent occupancy but not a soul on board.
Here’s mystery, and Peter Knight, the millionaire’s secretary and
lover of his daughter, Betty, sets himself to unravel it. His rôle as
detective proves full of danger but brings to light much past history
and romance. An Italian duke of fabulous wealth is discovered to have
been the owner of the yacht, and Peter Knight’s father—and thereby
hangs a tale of dark plots and poison cups worthy of the middle ages.
The outcome of this tale would have been a different one had not a
baboon, one of the yacht’s inmates, taken a hand in it to do some of
the murdering on his own account. Peter himself barely escapes with
his own life, but in doing so is enabled to rescue his beloved Betty
who has in the meanwhile fallen into the clutches of the same criminal
family.

* * * * *

“A mystery yarn, fantastic and impossible, but quite readable.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:280 My ’20

“A well-conceived and engaging mystery tale.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w

=ALLISON, WILLIAM.= Turnstile of night. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

This tale of mystery begins in India where three white men combine in
a successful attempt to gain possession of some priceless diamonds
worn as the “breastplate of the seven stars” by an idol in a temple of
Buddha. Then the scene shifts to England; two of the treasure seekers
are dead, by fair means or foul, and the third is trying to keep for
himself the whole treasure, part of which belongs in reality to Honour
Brooke, daughter of the one, and Ronald Charteris, nephew of the other
adventurer. Loris St Leger, the villain, aided by his wicked old
uncle, and using his beautiful cousin as his tool, stops at nothing,
and as Honour and Ronald are entirely ignorant of his game or his
reasons for playing it, he soon has them completely in his power. But
there are some influences at work that he has no knowledge of, which
are acting against him, and in the end his evil purposes are defeated,
after many harrowing experiences for Honour and Ronald.

* * * * *

“Unfortunately the bright promise of the earlier chapters is not
fulfilled. There are thrills and mystery a-plenty, but the author
takes too long in expounding them and by the time they are cleared up
they have ceased to thrill.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 70w

“In spite of the story being such a jumble, the writing evidently is
that of a trained hand, for the sentences are neatly put together and
the author is not devoid of descriptive power. Readers who enjoy
hurrying along from one disconnected incident to another and who like
a long story will probably find this one to their taste.”

+ − =N Y Times= p24 D 26 ’20 500w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 120w

=AMERICAN= labor year book, 1919–1920; ed. by Alexander Trachtenberg. (v 3) *$2 Rand school of social science 331

“Part I of this book deals with labor in the war, with the
organization of many governmental boards of adjustment and
policy-making, and with the actual administration of those laws which
were drawn to curb ‘seditious activities.’ Part II is a record of
organized labor, with historical reviews of different trade union
ventures (including such interesting experiments as the work of the
United labor education committee) and with records of strikes and
lockouts during the last two years. The third section of the book
contains a digest of new labor legislation, of court decisions
affecting labor, and of the progress of plans for health insurance,
pensions and the minimum wage. Part IV is a more general discussion of
social and economic conditions. It deals with the cost of living,
profiteering, unemployment, woman suffrage, plans for public ownership
of the railways, and the history of the Nonpartisan league in North
Dakota. Part V is a short record of the recent activities of
cooperative, labor and socialist movements in some thirty different
countries. And the final section of the book is devoted to the
socialist movement in America.”—New Repub

* * * * *

“While the volume bears the imprint of the Socialist, it manifests
much less of class or partisan bias than do many articles and volumes
prepared and circulated by ultra-conservative organizations.” F. T.
Carlton

+ =Am Econ R= 10:366 Je ’20 220w

=Booklist= 17:82 N ’20

“Unfortunately it is rather an incoherent volume. Though the
arrangement could be better and the statistical tables less partial,
still the year book contains useful material, much of which is nowhere
else easily accessible.” H. J. Laski

+ − =Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 80w

+ =New Repub= 22:39 Mr 3 ’20 470w

“The editor should be especially commended for his broad and tolerant
attitude towards all phases of the social problem and for his good
judgment in collecting within the covers of one volume so many
significant documents and statistical tables. The volume is
indispensable to teachers, writers, lecturers, and every one else who
has an intelligent interest in the facts and problems of the labor
movement.” L: Levine

+ =Socialist R= 9:48 Je ’20 350w

“There is evidence of a purpose to stick to facts. If allowance needs
to be made it is for omissions of facts unfavorable to the cause
rather than for inclusion of direct propaganda.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 140w

“‘The American labor year book’ preserves much that otherwise is hard
to obtain and at the same time offers the best available compendium of
current information in its field.”

+ =Survey= 44:315 My 29 ’20 300w

=AMOS, FLORA ROSS.= Early theories of translation. (Columbia university studies in English and comparative literature) *$2 Columbia univ. press 808

20–4778

The history of the theory of translation, the author holds, is by no
means a record of easily distinguishable, orderly progression. It
shows a lack of continuity and is of a tentative quality. “Translation
fills too large a place, is too closely connected with the whole
course of literary development, to be disposed of easily. As each
succeeding period has revealed new fashions in literature, new avenues
of approach to the reader, there have been new translations and the
theorist has had to reverse or revise the opinions bequeathed to him
from a previous period. The theory of translation cannot be reduced to
a rule of thumb; it must again and again be modified to include new
facts.” (Preface) Contents: The medieval period; The translation of
the Bible; The sixteenth century; From Cowley to Pope; Index.

* * * * *

“The greater one’s knowledge of the literature dealt with, the more
likely one is to approve the care and reading which she displays.” G:
Saintsbury

+ − =Ath= p271 Ag 27 ’20 780w

=ANANDA ACHĀRYA.= Snow-birds. *$3 Macmillan 891.4

20–10160

“This volume contains prose-poems or rhapsodies in free verse on
nature, Indian mythology, sentimental or ideal themes, in a style
analogous to that of Sir Rabindranath Tagore.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p429 Mr 26 ’20 30w

“Mr Achārya is not as inspired by any means and he does not get the
atmosphere and charm into his lines that Tagore did. But he is
interesting, for he presents the thought of the East.”

+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 70w

“The poems contained in this volume can scarcely be said to uphold his
title convincingly as either artist or metaphysician. His vision is
neither profound nor vital enough to awake the pulse of verse, nor has
it the mentality that makes the muscle of decisive prose.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 D 18 ’19 950w

=ANDERSON, BENJAMIN MCALESTER.= Effects of the war on money, credit and banking in France and the United States. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace 332

19–19929

A volume brought out by the Carnegie endowment for international peace
as one of the preliminary economic studies of the war. An introduction
sketches in broad outline the effects of the war on money, credit and
banking in the countries of Europe and the United States. The author
then takes up in detail the various problems involved in the case of
France, with a briefer treatment of the United States. Tables, charts,
etc., are given in an appendix and there is an index.

* * * * *

“That the work is well documented, well proportioned, and highly
wrought, even brilliantly done, is not to be gainsaid.” C. A. Phillips

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:137 Mr ’20 1450w

“Readers with an interest in finance will appreciate this clear,
detailed account.”

+ =Booklist= 16:259 My ’20

Reviewed by C. C. Plehn

+ =Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 220w

=ANDERSON, ISABEL WELD (PERKINS) (MRS LARZ ANDERSON).= Presidents and pies; life in Washington, 1897–1919. il *$3 (5c) Houghton 975.3

20–6432

This is a book of inside gossip about social Washington, where “there
is always something new under the sun.” The author has met and
listened to the “‘senators, honorables, judges, generals, commodores,
governors, and the ex’s of all these, as thick as pickpockets at a
horse-race, ... ambassadors, plenipotentiaries, lords, counts, barons,
chevaliers, and the great and small fry of legations’ who make the
life here so varied and fascinating. Some politics, a touch of
history, a dash of description, with a flavor of social affairs—such
are the ingredients of my ‘pie,’ which, whatever its faults, I hope
may not sit heavily on the reader’s digestion.” (Chapter 1) The book
is well illustrated and the contents are: Looking back; “A red torch
flared above his head”; Rough Rider and buccaneer; Parties and
politics; Enter Mr Taft; Sundry visitings and visitations; Cruising
and campaigning; Divers democrats; Allied missions; Pies; A
topsy-turvy capital; Royalties arrive.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 900w

“It is regrettable that, owing to the lack of a sufficient background,
she has not given us a definitive book on the city of Washington and
its society; but, nevertheless, ‘Presidents and pies’ is a pleasant
and sometimes a brilliant book. At least, it is easy reading, although
its illustrations hardly add to its value.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= p6 Ag 15 ’20 2300w

“A delightful narrative. The style is chatty without being flippant,
and there is always a touch of humor.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 3 ’20 280w

=ANDERSON, ROBERT GORDON.= Leader of men. *$1 (7c) Putnam

20–8245

A tribute of love and devotion to Theodore Roosevelt, opening with a
poem by the author reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine. In conclusion
Mr Anderson writes: “Theodore Roosevelt was a brave warrior of the
body, he was the mightier warrior of the soul. His life was a chord of
many notes, blending in noble harmony.... Its music is not mute. It
still echoes round the world, sounding the forward march for the souls
of men to that nobler warfare—to victory—to peace.”

* * * * *

“The author has avoided equally the danger of sentimentalism and that
of over-analysis; his fine sanity of tone gives to his little book the
qualities of lasting excellence.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 50w

“The author tells nothing very new about Roosevelt, but he relates in
a charming manner what he knew of him.” J. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 300w

=ANDERSON, ROBERT GORDON.= Seven o’clock stories. il *$3.50 (9½c) Putnam

20–20944

A story in short chapters suitable for bedtime reading. It is a book
about three happy children, Jehosophat, Marmaduke, and little
Hepzebiah. They live on a farm, and children who read the book will
learn all about their three dogs, the other farm animals, the
scarecrow and their friend the Toyman. The pictures are by E. Boyd
Smith.

=ANDERSON, SHERWOOD.= Poor white. *$2 (1c) Huebsch

20–27471

In this novel, as in his Winesburg stories, Mr Anderson tells the
story of an Ohio town. It is a story of the transition period of the
eighties and nineties between an agricultural and an industrial
civilization. There was a time in that period, says Mr Anderson, when
art and beauty should have awakened. Instead, the giant, Industry,
awoke. The hero of the book, however, is not an Ohioan. He is a poor
white who wanders up from Missouri, an indolent, dreaming boy, shaken
out of his lethargy by a New England woman who tries to train his mind
to definite channels. The result is the development of an inventive
strain which the awakening giant, Industry, takes and uses to its own
ends. The author’s treatment of Hugh is pathologic. He is attracted to
women but is afraid of them. On his wedding night he is seized with
panic and runs away, to be brought back by his father-in-law the next
day. And never, except for fleeting moments, does he find
satisfaction, either in his marriage or his work.

* * * * *

“Will undoubtedly be criticised by many readers for its sordidness of
detail and its emphasis upon sex, but will be read by those who do not
object to this with admiration for the frank truth of portrayal of a
certain section of life.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:155 Ja ’21

Reviewed by R. C. Benchley

=Bookm= 52:559 F ’21 380w

“Structurally the story is chaotic and badly put together, being
obviously the work of an ambitious young writer who has been
emboldened to do something imaginatively big, but who has no control
of the superabundance of material at his disposal. His ‘Poor white’ is
in its way a remarkable piece of work, but it is not the first novel
that has been written about the life it depicts or the last word in
American fiction.” E. F. Edgett

+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 1700w

“He has made his story a ‘Pilgrim’s’ progress,’ peopled with
characters as actual and as full of meaning as those of the immortal
allegory.” R. M. Lovett

+ =Dial= 70:77 Ja ’21 850w

“While as a novel the design, rhythms, texture and synthesis are about
as bad as can be, as a book of miracles it is beautiful. The
unexpected marvels of understanding, the terrible flashes of accuracy,
the strange pity and enfolding passion are all incidental and
personal: the epic he sought to write is cumbersome and dead, but the
souls born from his soul live and suffer before us.” C. K. Scott

+ − =Freeman= 2:403 Ja 5 ’21 580w

“In veracity and intellectual honesty Mr Anderson’s book is
incomparably superior to most of our novels. But compared to ‘Main
street’ it lacks fire and edge, lucidity and fulness.”

+ − =Nation= 111:536 N 10 ’20 200w

“To deny that ‘Poor white’ is a creation, an organism, with a life of
its own, would be to sin against the light: but it is only fair to say
that Mr Anderson’s limitations make ‘Poor white’ an incomplete, a
maimed, organism.” F. H.

+ − =New Repub= 24:330 N 24 ’20 1250w

“‘Poor white’ remains a poetic novel in half a dozen broad senses. It
has the clarity and concentration as well as some of the music of
poetry. In its hold upon certain large pulsations of American life it
is close to Whitman. It certainly belongs with Whitman rather than
with Howells.” C. M. Rourke

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 4 ’20 1350w

“The book is a careful, conscientious study of certain phases of the
industrial development of America, and especially of the Middle West.”

+ =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 650w

“Important American novel.” Eric Gershom

+ =Pub W= 98:1888 D 18 ’20 240w

“The totality of the book gives the effect of a wood carving done with
a hatchet by a man who could do well if he had a knife. But its faults
are made up for by the dominant fact that Mr Anderson has a story to
tell. The book is not great, but it has the seeds of greatness. It is
worth while, and its author is worth watching.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 500w

=ANDERSON, WILLIAM ASHLEY.= South of Suez. il *$3 (6½c) McBride 916

20–18577

The book contains sketches of the author’s wanderings in East Africa
during the war. They are not a consecutive series, but they are full
of local coloring and echoes of the European war. Three of them give
an account of the apostasy of the Abyssinian ruler, Lidj Yassou, from
Christianity to don the turban, and the following uprising, of which
the author was an eye-witness. The contents, with many illustrations,
are: A coin is spun; Soldiers, sand, and sentiment; Aden of Araby;
Cross and scimitar in Abyssinia; Es-Sawahil; Zanzibar—the spicy isle;
The wilderness patrol; Kwa Heri.

* * * * *

“Delightful reading.”

+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21

“His tales of peoples so like us in their passions and ambitions, so
different from us in habits and environment, assuredly make for
edification as well as pleasure, and we could stand more of them.” C.
F. Lavell

+ =Grinnell R= 15:282 N ’20 150w

“The impressions do not always ‘get across,’ good as the author’s
material is.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 40w

“His experiences do not form a well-connected story. His impressions
are patchy, with much left for inference. But as it is, the interest
is absorbing and some passages one will read over and over again.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 23 ’20 400w

=ANDERTON, DAISY.=[2] Cousin Sadie. *$1.75 (3c) Stratford co.

20–13144

The scene is a college town in Ohio to which the heroine, Sara
Dickinson, descendant of a long line of Calvinistic forebears, returns
after a long absence. She thinks she has shaken off the teachings of
her childhood, but in a crucial situation, involving love between
herself and the husband of a young cousin, the sharp sense of
distinction between right and wrong reasserts itself.

* * * * *

“The atmosphere of an Ohio college town is well done.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 30w

=ANDREA, MRS A. LOUISE.= Dehydrating foods. il *$1.75 Cornhill co. 641.4

20–11679

“‘Dehydrating foods’ tells of a method recently perfected, which will
effect a revolution in the means and methods of food preservation. As
distinguished from drying, it reduces the bulk of foods without
destroying the flavoring, coloring or nutritive properties. The
process used in America is far superior to the European methods. All
this and much more of lively interest may be gleaned from this volume
by Mrs Andrea, lecturer on food, cookery and canning at the
Panama-Pacific exposition, San Francisco, and the New York
International exposition. The book contains detailed instructions for
home dehydration as well as numerous recipes.”—Cath World

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:143 Ja ’21

=Boston Transcript= p5 S 29 ’20 310w

+ =Cath World= 112:269 N ’20 180w

=ANDREIEFF, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH.= Satan’s diary; authorized tr. *$2.25 (4c) Boni & Liveright

Satan has assumed human form in the person of a Chicago billionaire,
Henry Wondergood and gives an account of his mundane exploits in the
form of a diary. He finds that, with the body of Wondergood, he has
also acquired some of his human qualities and is no longer proof
against human emotions. Thus, when in Rome he meets one Magnus and his
daughter Maria, a madonna-like woman, he falls in love with her and
allows Magnus to out-satan him to the extent of robbing him of all his
money and finally to blow him up in his palace after revealing to him
that Maria the madonna, is not his daughter but his mistress. The
story is a bitter satire on human life. In a long preface Herman
Bernstein gives a brief sketch of Andreieff’s life.

* * * * *

“This is not only caustic comment on the conditions and problems of
today on this world, it is a denunciation of all life, a renunciation
of illusions and hopes. Without a doubt this latest and last work of
Andreyev is for the time the last word in iconoclastic criticism.” W.
T. R.

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 700w

“Many of the ideas are brought out in long, rambling conversations
dealing in the characteristic Russian manner with the purely abstract
phases of life, and tending to mystify rather than clarify. At other
times the satire is quick and amusing in its unexpected turns of keen
humour. Sometimes Andreyev shows a gentler side, one might almost say
a romantic strain.” L. R. Sayler

+ − =Freeman= 2:381 D 29 ’20 460w

“A theme, this, to tempt one of the ‘masters of free irony and
laughter,’ a Voltaire, an Anatole France. Its development in
Andreyev’s hands is disappointing. We have too great a respect for the
Satan of Job and of Milton to believe that he could have been so
easily gulled. But the source of disappointment in the handling of the
theme lies deeper. In this book, as in most of his other writings,
Andreyev shrinks back appalled before the torturing riddle of human
destiny. He hurls his vain questions against the blank wall.” Dorothy
Brewster

− =Nation= 112:46 Ja 12 ’21 850w

“Marie Corelli is so far below Andreyev that it may excite derision to
compare them, and yet in one of her bombastic novels, ‘The sorrows of
Satan,’ she actually succeeded in making a more probable Satan than
this one of the great Russian’s. This book is too savage either for
satire or burlesque—and too inconsistent. Besides, even a good fairy
tale should be plausible. Nevertheless, as a story the book is
interesting.”

− + =N Y Times= p6 O 10 ’20 2050w

=ANDREIEFF, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH.= When the king loses his head, and other stories. (Russian authors’ lib.) $2 International bk.

“The half-dozen ‘other stories’ intimated in the title of this volume
are ‘Judas Iscariot,’ ‘Lazarus,’ ‘Life of Father Vassily,’
‘Ben-Tobith,’ ‘The Marseillaise’ and ‘Dies irae.’ The last two are
poems in prose. The title-story is a high-strung imaginative picture
of the French revolution; ‘Judas Iscariot’ might be interpreted as an
attempt to corporealize an arch-fiend compelled to bring about the
final tragedy of Jesus’ life in order that prophecy might be
fulfilled.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“It is to be hoped that out of Russia’s chaos, when once more life
becomes normal, there will be an end to such masterpieces of
outrageous dissection. They may represent an epoch, but they are
unwholesome and smack of the deadly amanita. Mr Wolfe’s translation
has some good passages, but there are many infelicities.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 370w

“This art has passion and humanity and a strange fervor. But to many
its glow will seem the glow of phosphorescence and decay.”

− + =Nation= 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 400w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 10 ’20 600w

=ANNESLEY, CHARLES, pseud. (CHARLES TITTMANN and ANNA TITTMANN).= Standard operaglass. *$3 Brentano’s 782

20–6561

This new edition, revised and brought up to date, includes “detailed
plots of two hundred and thirty-five celebrated operas with critical
and biographical remarks, dates, etc.” (Title page) There is a
“prelude” by James Huneker. and an index to operas and one to
composers. The work was originally published in 1899 and was revised
in 1904 and again in 1910.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:286 My ’20

“Well told, with the chief points brought out with admirable
directness. The arrangement is simple and the indices ample.”

+ =Cath World= 112:549 Ja ’21 130w

“One of the best existent guides to opera librettos.” H: T. Finck

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 180w

=ANNIN, ROBERT EDWARDS.= Ocean shipping; elements of practical steamship operation. il *$3 (2½c) Century 656

20–11077

This is the first volume in the Century foreign trade series, edited
by William E. Aughinbaugh. The author, who is lecturer on economics in
New York university, says in his preface: “Within the limits of a
volume like the present it is possible only to touch upon even the
fundamentals of ship management and operation.... The aim has been to
exclude, as far as possible, the academic and legalistic, and to make
the book what its title implies—a practical, if elementary, guide,
based on experience, rather than a theoretical treatise based on
maxims.” The book is divided into three parts. Part I, The ship, has
chapters on An American merchant marine; Range of the business:
Freight rates; The labor problem; Officering and manning; The cargo
carrier, etc. Part II is devoted to The office, with discussions of
Machinery of foreign trade; Foreign exchange; Traffic manager; General
cargo, etc. Part III devotes thirteen chapters to Charters. There are
six illustrations, appendices and index.

* * * * *

“Although the book cannot be described as having a scholarly style and
although the author’s ideas on economics seem to be a bit unorthodox
at times, the reader will find this volume far more useful than many
written in a more literary vein. The author seems to be thoroughly
familiar with his subject-matter.” M. J. S.

+ =Am Econ R= 10:818 D ’20 160w

=Booklist= 17:56 N ’20

“The language is simple and direct and free from technical terms. It
has evidently been the aim of the writer to produce a book of thorough
practical value to those engaged in ocean shipping.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 460w

“Excellent manual.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 50w

=ANNUNZIO, GABRIELE D’.= Tales of my native town. *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday

20–6708

This collection of short stories is translated from the Italian by
Professor Rafael Mantellini and has an introduction by Joseph
Hergesheimer. This is an appreciative comparison between our
Anglo-Saxon short story and that of the great Italian. Mr Hergesheimer
calls attention to the intense realism of D’Annunzio, which knows no
reservations and no shrinking. The tales are: The hero; The countess
of Amalfi; The return of Turlendana; Turlendana drunk; The gold
pieces; Sorcery; The idolaters; Mungia; The downfall of Candia; The
death of the duke of Ofena; The war of the bridge; The virgin Anna.

* * * * *

“Here writing is done with the big stick. They are tales of the
noisier passions, executed with meticulous consideration for the
formidable detail, since D’Annunzio writes with all the heat and
strength of pulse that is supposed to belong to the southern
temperament. The translation, with the possible exception of parts of
the conversation, is very smoothly done.”

+ =Dial= 68:804 Je ’20 120w

“It takes, as Joseph Hergesheimer points out in his exceedingly
interesting preface, a rather carefully prepared attitude of mind to
thoroly enjoy them. They are written with art and skill but with a
lack of reticence in description which is likely to disturb the
Anglo-Saxon. If you enjoy Russian short stories you will probably
enjoy these.”

+ =Ind= 104:70 O 9 ’20 160w

“The stories are of course arresting and at times brilliant.
D’Annunzio’s powerful gifts are beyond question today.” L. L.

+ − =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 240w

Reviewed by Rebecca West

=New Repub= 23:156 Je 30 ’20 500w

“In their English dress, certainly, they are not overwhelming. One can
with a fairly good conscience own to the impression that, with all
their marvel of detail, several of them are oppressively squalid and
even tedious; squalor and tedium having, of course, their part, a
relative part, in the spectacle of living.” H. W. Boynton

− =Review= 2:435 Ap 24 ’20 520w

“These tales neither convince nor move the reader. There is a
quickness of action in these sketches, foreign to D’Annunzio’s novels;
his writing has lost a great deal of that sensuality and
voluptuousness so cloying to the American mind. But it has also lost
in beauty and harmonious detail.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 26 ’20 420w

=ANSTRUTHER, EILEEN H. A. (MRS JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE).= Husband. *$1.75 Lane

20–8450

“The story of a very modern young lady, Penelope Brooke, befriended in
the early chapters by a cousin. Later on the heroine embarks on the
adventure of earning her bread in London, during which time her
relations with her cousin’s husband become involved. In the end the
inconvenient Mrs Dennithorne dies, and the reader is led to anticipate
a happy sequel.”—Spec

* * * * *

“The author has good powers of description and characterization.”

+ =Ath= p1411 D 26 ’19 60w

“A pleasant tale of English life. Never very exciting, it yet holds
the reader’s interest sufficiently for an evening’s enjoyment.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 200w

=Dial= 69:433 O ’20 80w

“This book is well written—the characters clearly drawn; but that is
the whole measure of commendation that can be bestowed upon it. It is
an exceedingly dull story of contemporary English life. It seems a
pity that such good writing and so much print paper should be wasted
upon a dead level of mediocrity.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 11 ’20 250w

=Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 60w

“Well written with the principal characters clearly portrayed, ‘The
husband’ lacks vitality. A certain stiffness and awkwardness make the
tale in numerous places ‘heavy going.’ Penelope, with a mild,
Quakerish manner, is the most human and attractive principal.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 220w

“Her choice of the moment for a description and her choice of the
scene to be described show psychological understanding as well as good
craftsmanship. The story is anything but ‘didactic,’ but it is none
the worse for having an ethical direction.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 D 25 ’19 580w

=ANSWER= to John Robinson of Leyden; ed. by Champlin Burrage. (Harvard theological studies) pa *$2 Harvard univ. press 274.2

20–12134

“John Robinson is considered by some to be the real father of American
democracy with its emphasis upon the separation of church and state.
The answer to Robinson by a Puritan friend is against his advocacy of
separation from the Church of England. In this answer practically the
entire argument of Robinson, the Pilgrim pastor at Leyden, for the
separation of church and state is given. The manuscript is of the date
1609, eleven years before the Pilgrims left Leyden for their ultimate
destiny, America. It is now published for the first time.”—Boston
Transcript

* * * * *

Reviewed by Williston Walker

=Am Hist R= 26:339 Ja ’21 200w

+ =Ath= p242 Ag 20 ’20 300w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 300w

=ANTHONY, KATHARINE SUSAN.= Margaret Fuller; a psychological biography. il *$2.25 (4c) Harcourt

20–18959

A study of Margaret Fuller from the standpoint of modern psychology,
analyzing the hysteria of her childhood and the neurotic element in
her later life. Her contribution to the feminist movement and her
relation to the revolutionary struggle in Europe are also dealt with
from a modern point of view. Incidentally there are brief and
searching criticisms of Emerson, Hawthorne, Horace Greeley and others.
Contents: Family patterns; A precocious child; Narcissa; Miranda; A
woman’s woman; The transcendentalist: The journalist; Contacts; Her
debt to nature; The revolutionist; 1850. There is a bibliography of
four pages and the book is indexed.

* * * * *

“Written in a straightforward, interesting literary style.”

+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21

=Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 530w

+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 160w

“Taken as a whole the book opens up wide intellectual and imaginative
horizons.”

+ =Nation= 112:46 Ja 12 ’21 400w

“The book is like some fine-grained granite rock of solid
psychological and historical scholarship, all sun-flicked with
glinting humor and warm-hearted common sense.” E. F. Wyatt

+ =New Repub= 25:22 D 1 ’20 1250w

“Margaret Fuller’s genius was akin to madness, and how far such an
analysis of so abnormal a character is of real value is questionable.
It is, however, unquestionably well done.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:575 N 17 ’20 80w

“To explain Margaret’s hysteria by a purely Freudian hypothesis is
folly, and something a good deal worse than folly.”

− =Review= 3:388 O 27 ’20 400w

=R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 120w

“Katharine Anthony’s ‘Margaret Fuller,’ a ‘psychological biography’ is
infested with preconceptions and is unpleasantly provocative in tone.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 11 ’20 520w

=ANTONELLI, ÉTIENNE.= Bolshevik Russia. *$2 (3c) Knopf 947

20–650

This book, translated from the French by Charles A. Carroll, is from
the pen of a former professor of the College de France, an economist
and sociologist, who as military attaché to the French embassy studied
the Russian situation with its historical background and the character
of the Russian ever in view. The conclusion he arrives at is that
Bolshevist Russia, “if not crushed by a new ‘Holy alliance,’ will
prepare for humanity the spectacle of a singular democracy, such as
the world will not have known until then, a democracy which will not
be made up of gradual conquests plucked by shreds from a plutocratic
bourgeoisie, but which will build itself up out of the very stuff of
the people, a democracy which will not descend from the powerful ones
to the people, as in all present forms of society, but which will rise
voluntarily and surely from the unorganized and uncultivated folk to
an organizing intelligence.” (Conclusion) The contents are in two
parts: Bolshevism and politics; and Bolshevism and society.

* * * * *

“The detailed recital of events in chronological order is
straightforward and clear but for the confusion of names of
individuals and of parties and factions which are almost meaningless
to an ordinary reader in this country. The psychological analysis of
the Russian is interesting, but its over-simplification makes one feel
that it is inadequate.” V: E. Helleberg

+ − =Am J Soc= 26:113 Jl ’20 170w

+ =Ath= p355 Mr 12 ’20 80w

=Booklist= 16:236 Ap ’20

“His record, covering almost the same period as that of Robins in
point of experience, has a much broader historic background and a more
carefully scientific sociological basis.” O. M. Sayler

+ =Bookm= 51:312 My ’20 1000w

=Cleveland= p27 Mr ’20 40w

Reviewed by Harold Kellock

=Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 550w

“He has not only produced the most authentic record that has yet
appeared of the opening months of the second revolution, but has
written some of the clearest and wisest words which have thus far been
uttered about it.” Jacob Zeitlin

+ =Nation= 110:399 Mr 27 ’20 600w

“It is distinctly a relief to read one book about Russia that is not
written by a journalist, amateur or professional. M. Antonelli does
not describe a tremendous historical upheaval in the manner of a
reporter describing a street fight. Some of M. Antonelli’s statements
and conclusions are contradictory; but this circumstance merely
confirms his general reliability as a witness. Every revolution
carries within itself the seeds of many contradictions. It is only the
conscious or unconscious propagandist who smooths out all difficulties
and represents the acts of his own party as uniformly righteous,
correct and consistent.” W. H. C.

+ − =New Repub= 22:384 My 19 ’20 950w

“Valuable as well as interesting. The calm, broad view taken and the
absence of anything like passion or partisanship are not the least
appealing elements in this volume.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:325 Je 20 ’20 800w

“A colorless but informative historical narrative.”

+ − =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 40w

“Although not himself a believer in Bolshevism, he is capable of
judging fairly the administrative aims of the Lenin-Trotsky régime. At
any rate his contribution contains more fact and less hysteria than
most current publications dealing with Russia.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w

“This book inspires confidence in the author’s impartiality and
freedom from bias. This is the best book on the subject we know of.”

+ =Sat R= 130:380 N 6 ’20 170w

“A sane and helpful account of his subject.” Reed Lewis

+ =Survey= 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 150w

“Written with the clarity and quick intelligence one expects from a
well known French sociologist and professor.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 60w

“M. Antonelli describes his work as a ‘philosophical survey’; but the
philosophical or rather psychological study of Bolshevism stands out
less prominently than the very full and interesting account of the
methods by which the Bolshevist leaders grasped and held power during
the first few months after their coup d’etat.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p264 Ap 29 ’20 950w

=ARMFIELD, CONSTANCE (SMEDLEY) (MRS MAXWELL ARMFIELD).= Wonder tales of the world. il *$2.50 Harcourt 398.2

20–18948

Seventeen folk tales from as many countries compose this collection.
Among them are: The food that belonged to all (America); The birds who
befriended a king (Arabia); The cattle that came (Bulgaria); Lazy Taro
(Japan); The prince and the eagle (Greece); The seven sheepfolds
(Hungary); The clever companions (India); Tom of the goatskin
(Ireland); Cap o’ rushes (England); The little cabin boy (Norway); The
chess players (Wales).

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:120 D ’20 20w

+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 40w

=ARMSTRONG, DAVID MAITLAND.= Day before yesterday. il *$6 (5c) Scribner

20–18941

These “reminiscences of a varied life” (Subtitle) are edited by the
author’s daughter, Margaret Armstrong. Mr Armstrong was born in 1836
at Danskammer near Newburgh, lived an interesting life as artist,
government official and traveler until his death in 1918. The contents
are: Danskammer; New York when I was a boy; My brothers; The South
before the war; At college; Travels and a shipwreck; New York when I
was a young man; Rome—church and state; Some Roman friends; The
Campagna; Venice; Saint Gaudens and others; Some pleasant summers; The
Century club; My farm at Danskammer.

* * * * *

“It is singular that so sweet and amiable a book should be so
interesting, so amusing. So much of the charm of the man seems to me
to have got into the book that I expect for it a marked success, and,
what is better, a long life in the future.” E. S. Nadal

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 D 4 ’20 2900w

+ =R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 90w

“A delightful narrative of one phase of American life at its best.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 11 ’21 370w

=ARMY= and religion; an inquiry and its bearing upon the religious life of the nation. *$2 (2c) Assn. press 261

This inquiry had its origin in the desire of certain British Y. M. C.
A. workers “to consider and interpret what was being revealed under
war conditions as to the religious life of the nation and to bring the
result before the churches.” The first step in the inquiry was the
preparation of a questionnaire to be submitted to various classes of
persons, including officers, privates and war workers of all classes.
This questionnaire covered three topics: What the men are thinking
about religion, morality, and society; The changes made by the war;
The relation of the men to the churches. The report is in two parts,