Chapter XXIII: Part 2: , dealing with the morphology, life histories, and evolution of (2)

“Those who agree with the premises will find the logic irresistible.
Others will be stimulated by the original though unorthodox thinking
and the fertile suggestions of the author’s scheme.”

+ =Booklist= 16:299 Je 20

“Mr Douglas is by no means clear as to the details of his case,
although his general contention has substantial force.” Ordway Tead

+ − =Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w

“The orthodox economists are in such a helpless muddle in regard to
soaring prices that it is a relief to find a thinker who does not
scatter explanations with a shot gun all over the barn door but goes
straight to his mark. Unfortunately the book is too brief. Excessive
concentration has left it obscure in vital portions.”

+ − =Nation= 111:19 Jl 3 ’20 350w

“Major Douglas knows his difficult subject from end to end. If the
fates had blessed him with the gift of clear exposition we might have
had here a volume of note. When he determines to keep clear from terms
which demand explanations, and concentrates on clarifying his message
of social regeneration, those who pay lip service to formal political
democracy will find in him a telling recruit to the growing band of
thinkers who deny the name of democracy to any system not based upon
economic freedom.”

+ − =Nation [London]= 27:184 My 8 ’20 800w

“This small book offers much room for controversy both as to its
technical analysis of the effects of current accounting and credit
practices and as to the feasibility of remedies advocated. The ground
for controversy is widened by the author’s unfortunately vague and
sometimes bombastic style.” E. R. Burton

+ − =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 280w

=DOUGLAS, OLIVE ELEANOR (CONSTANCE) (LADY ALFRED DOUGLAS).= Penny plain. *$1.90 Doran

A story of a quiet little Scottish town. Priorsford is the home of a
number of quaint and interesting people. Here Jean Jardine lives with
her two brothers and “the Mhor,” Gaelic for “the great one,” the
pretentious name given to a little boy of seven. Into this placid
atmosphere comes the Honourable Miss Pamela Reston, who is tired of
London life. The story tells of how she fits into Priorsford society
and how she and Jean become fast friends, and there is much
description of tea-parties and country social life. Then comes an
unexpected legacy for kind-hearted little Jean and romance, too,
appears in the person of Pam’s younger brother. Pam herself finds the
fulfilment of a hope of twenty years’ standing which has kept her
single all this long time. The title comes from the dialogue of the
shopman and the small boy: the shopman saying “You may have your
choice—penny plain or twopence coloured.” the small boy choosing the
penny plain, as “better value for the money.”

* * * * *

“A pleasant book to read. But we cannot help thinking it would be
pleasanter still without the perfunctory introduction of a
loveinterest, and of other irrelevances considered more or less
indispensable in fiction.”

+ − =Ath= p244 Ag 20 ’20 120w

“The children make the book, especially Gervase and his dog. It is
worth reading for them alone.” I. W. L.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 480w

“Miss Douglas’s new book in two ways partakes of a quality little
short of the miraculous. It is a post-war story without a trace of
war-weariness or bitterness; and it is full of people who are nice
with the added charm of being entertaining. As a story ‘Penny plain’
leaves something to be desired. Let us add that if an author is to be
judged by her literary preferences and illusions and quotations, Miss
Douglas deserves a very high mark.”

+ − =Spec= 125:342 S 11 ’20 440w

“A very able and delightful book, but it is not the kind of book that
the Marxian kind of person would like. The author has a good style and
a subtle sense of humour, together with the skill necessary for the
gradual unfolding of the characters.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p534 Ag 19 ’20 570w

=DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.=[2] Bostwick’s budget. il *$1 Bobbs 331.84

20–18296

“An inspiring bit of a book for all those in debt; being the Odyssey
of Sam and Lucy, who owed $4,016.69 and through the advice of a
sagacious old lawyer and the use of grit, in a comparatively short
time found themselves out of debt and with money in the
bank.”—Cleveland

* * * * *

=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 50w

=N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 100w

“The story, as a story, is closely interesting, and as a sermon on
thrift it ought to be read by 100 per cent of the newlyweds in America
and by an equal ratio of people above and below that date line in
their careers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 190w

=DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.=[2] Man from Ashaluna. *$1.75 (2c) Small

20–18763

Judson Dunlap comes home from France with the desire to paint
pictures. As a doughboy in Paris he had seen real pictures and a
latent interest in art had awakened. He buys a painting kit and starts
in by himself alone in the Ashaluna hills, his home. But the results
are queer and he knows it. So he takes the patents on the churn he has
invented to New York, hoping to sell them and get money to learn
painting. He also hopes to meet Mary Beverly, the girl he had rescued
from the snowdrifts the winter before. He is immediately plunged into
a game of high finance, for two rival concerns are after him for his
water rights on the Ashaluna and are willing to juggle with his churn
patents as part of the price. Jud plays them off one against the
other, meets Mary again, learns to wear the right clothes and use the
right forks and, altogether, doesn’t find time to learn painting.

* * * * *

“A cleverly conceived, well told novel. While there is nothing
particularly striking in this book in any one place, it is a well made
piece of fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 320w

=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= Guards came through, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 821

20–2926

No vers libre for Sir Arthur. It is the old style meter with the old
style rhyme and the old style powerful lilt to the old style ballad
most suitable for recitations. They are all war poems and are:
Victrix; Those others; The guards came through; Haig is moving; The
guns in Sussex; Ypres; Grousing; The volunteer; The night patrol; The
wreck on Loch McGarry; The bigot; The Athabasca trail; Ragtime!
Christmas in wartime; Lindisfaire; A parable; Fate.

* * * * *

“The title-piece and others show Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a master
of evening-paper balladry.”

+ =Ath= p558 Ap 23 ’20 70w

“It is good British song one finds in this slim little volume of Sir
Arthur’s. And it is British all the way through, this little book;
British militarily, British presumptuously satisfied with her
destiny.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 400w

“Nothing so good for Friday afternoon readings in public schools has
been written since ‘The charge of the light brigade.’”

+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 110w

“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being
non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader
on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w

“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a real benefactor to the organizers of town
or village entertainments who want pieces of good quality for
recitation. His poems, mainly patriotic, are irreproachable in
sentiment, simple in expression, and always have a brave lilt. One
longish piece, ‘The wreck on Loch McGarry,’ is in a vein of Gilbertian
humour.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 80w

=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= History of the great war. v 5–6 il ea *$3 (3c) Doran 940.3

=v 5–6= The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1918.

Volume 5, covering the first half of the year 1918, “carries the story
of the German attack to its close.” The battle of the Somme is given
seven chapters, with the battle of the Lys and the battles of the
Chemin des Dames and of the Ardres treated in the concluding chapters.
Volume 6 “describes the enormous counter attack of the Allies leading
up to their final victory.” Both volumes are indexed and are
illustrated with maps and plans.

* * * * *

“It is written in the author’s usual clear style, and sticks, for the
most part, to the business in hand, although the occasional
ill-informed references to the Russian revolution are hardly in
keeping with the rest of the narrative.”

+ − =Ath= p932 S 19 ’19 60w (Review of v 5)

=Ath= p195 F 6 ’20 90w (Review of v 6)

=Booklist= 16:273 My ’20 (Review of v 5–6)

+ =Cath World= 111:694 Ag ’20 190w (Review of v 6)

“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being
non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader
on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w

=Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 30w (Review of v 6)

“Within certain limits, Sir Arthur’s account will be found useful; his
maps, so-called, are execrable.”

+ − =Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 1050w (Review of v 5–6)

=Spec= 123:373 S ’20 ’19 1850w (Review of v 5)

+ =Spec= 124:316 Mr 6 ’20 150w (Review of v 6)

“Perhaps the only possible criticism of Sir Arthur’s work is its
official tinge. Considering his difficulties, Sir Arthur is to be
congratulated upon his work.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 850w (Review of v 5–6)

“Sir Arthur Doyle lacks the knowledge, for which he cannot be blamed,
since official material is denied to him; and it is quite impossible
that such a history as his should not be more or less hastily
produced, so that he lacks also time. We fear that we must add, lastly
that he fails in literary skill. One bright spot, indeed, there is in
the shape of a few pages of actual experience which Sir Arthur has
modestly relegated to the appendix of his final volume.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p164 Mr 11 ’20 1250w (Review of v
5–6)

=D’OYLY, SIR WARREN HASTINGS, bart.= Tales retailed of celebrities and others. il *$2 (4½c) Lane

20–20076

“They are simple tales mostly such as are told in ordinary after
dinner chit-chats round the fire, over a good cigar and a glass of
good wine, when young men tell tales of presentday happenings to be
capped by older men’s tales of the ‘good old times.’” (Preface) With a
few exceptions they all relate to incidents which have come under the
author’s own observation during a lifetime of over fourscore years.
The contents are in two parts. Book I contains: A hundred years ago:
Dorsetshire, Haileybury and Scotland; India; Tirhut, Bhaugulpore, and
Arrah; Indian celebrities and others. Book II, Legends, contains:
Family legends and tales taken from “The house of D’Oyly” by William
D’Oyly Bayley. F. S. A.

* * * * *

=Ath= p528 Ap 16 ’20 40w

“His jottings may entertain readers who know something of the circle
in which he moved, or who may like a few anecdotes about the hunting
of Indian big game. But the book as a whole can hardly claim to have
much general interest.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p141 F 26 ’20 110w

=DOZIER, HOWARD DOUGLAS.= History of the Atlantic coast line railroad. *$2 Houghton 385

20–7433

The book is one of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx series of prize essays
in economics. It is the history of the consolidation of a number of
short railroads along the South Atlantic seaboard into the Atlantic
coast line system and illustrates the growth of the holding company
period and its decline. It includes much of the economic history and
the economic conditions of the section involved and shows what a
marked influence the consolidation had on the latter. Contents: Early
trade and transportation conditions of the Atlantic seaboard states:
Economic background of the north and south railroads of Virginia; The
Petersburg and the Richmond and Petersburg railroads before 1860:
North Carolina and the Wilmington and Weldon railroad before 1860; The
South Carolina-Georgia territory and its railroads before the Civil
war; Summary of railroad conditions along the Atlantic seaboard to
1860; Growth from the Civil war to 1902; Integrations and
consolidations; Summary and conclusion; Appendix; Bibliographical
note; Index; and insert maps and table.

* * * * *

“The student will find in this volume an important contribution to the
economic literature of the country, not only because it adds to our
knowledge of railway history but because it contains as a background a
good discussion of the industrial development of the country through
which the lines were built.” I: Lippincott

+ =Am Econ R= 10:593 S ’20 720w

“The later chapters, in fact, are notably lacking in the mention of
personnel. Other faults lie in the construction of sentences and
paragraphs, in the omission of dates of publication from the
bibliography, and in occasional errors of statement. The book,
nevertheless, is in general a substantial and well-considered
contribution.” U. B. Phillips

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:148 O ’20 320w

=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 30w

=DRACHSLER, JULIUS.=[2] Democracy and assimilation; the blending of immigrant heritages in America. *$3 Macmillan 325.7

20–18678

“Prof. Drachsler gives us an interpretation of a careful statistical
study of the facts of intermarriage in New York city among immigrant
groups. In view of our heterogeneous population, he states, the
national ideal must be redefined and our life consciously directed
toward it. Approaching the problem merely from an economic or cultural
point of view is not enough. The fusion of races in America, in short,
must be cultural as well as biological, and it must take place under
an adequate economic environment if an American ideal is to be
achieved. The most specific proposal which Prof. Drachsler makes to
accomplish this is to develop in our schools a conscious attempt to
study the comparative literature, politics and history of the races
represented therein in order that their heritages may continue to be
an inspiration and force.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 720w

=N Y Times= p10 D 12 ’20 1800w

“Prof. Drachsler’s approach is a stimulating and suggestive appeal to
facts.” J: M. Gaus

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 570w

“Each reader will interpret these facts in accordance with his own
point of view. It is a merit of the book that the facts have been
divided from interpretation of the facts. The book will no doubt be
recognized as one of the few valuable discussions on the problem of
assimilation.” J. B. Berkson

+ =Survey= 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 940w

=DREIER, KATHERINE SOPHIE.=[2] Five months in the Argentine from a woman’s point of view, 1918 to 1919. *$3.50 Sherman, F. F. 918.2

20–12791

“Miss Katherine S. Dreier, author of ‘Five months in the Argentine:
from a woman’s point of view,’ faced the discomforts of her journey
from Valparaiso to Buenos Aires and her sojourn there with an
invincible sense of humor. She visited a great estancia (ranch) at
Gualeguay and the Museum of natural history at La Plata, and writes
about the general strike of January, 1919, but her principal concern
was to study the status and training of women, the care of children,
the organization of charity, and the control of prostitution.”—Nation

* * * * *

“If one would have a faithful picture of Buenos Aires, going into
considerable detail as to living conditions, charities, business and
pleasure, Miss Dreier’s book is to be recommended.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 250w

+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 210w

=DREISER, THEODORE.= Hey-rub-a-dub-dub. *$1.90 Boni & Liveright 814

20–2927

“These essays concern Change, Some aspects of our national character,
The American financier, Personality, The toil of the laborer, The
reformer, Marriage and divorce, Life, art, and America, Neurotic
America and the sex impulse—there are twenty of them, written in the
authentic Dreiserian manner. Phantasmagoria splits the book in twain.
It is a little cosmic drama in three scenes—The house of birth, The
house of life, The house of death. It is the via dolorosa of the ‘Lord
of the universe,’ his agglomeration, effulgence in life, and his
ingression. The court of progress purports to be the record of the
doings of the Federated chairman of the post federated period of world
republics (2,760–3,923). This phantasmagoria is a celebration of the
triumph of humanity over poets, cigarette fiends, saloon keepers,
madams, socialists, Holy rollers, artists, and the like.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“They are interesting in showing the philosophy which has been back of
the vigorous, often shocking fiction of the author.”

+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20

“He states so many things that are not so, and he states them so
arrogantly and cocksuredly, that the intelligent reader asks himself
in amazement: ‘How can such an inane book—poorly written, full of
repetitions, blatant in its irreligion, shameless in its
immorality—find enough readers to warrant publication?’ Mr Dreiser has
no saving sense of humor—hence this awful book.”

− =Cath World= 111:260 My ’20 320w

“Dreiser sets down his findings with all a greengrocer’s assiduity,
and not a little of a greengrocer’s unimaginative painstaking. Here is
a surprising absence of the creative instinct in a creative writer.”

− =Dial= 69:320 S ’20 160w

“In his novels Mr Dreiser seems very much the thinker. One is
astonished, consequently, to find how unsublimated a product he is of
the benighted environment he describes in his last essay when he has
no characters through whom to express himself. Very simple and almost
purely emotional is the reaction upon life cloaked in the scientific
verbiage of this book. One asks oneself whether the soul of Jennie
Gerhardt is not really the soul of Mr Dreiser himself. One thing is
certain; he is far more interesting as the painter of Jennie’s life
than as the recorder of Jennie’s views.” Van Wyck Brooks

+ − =Nation= 110:595 My 1 ’20 700w

“Heavy and turgid and monotonous and sensuously obtuse as he seems to
be, he makes his discussion interesting. He is himself sincerely
interested, and he is writing because he has something to communicate.
The truth seems to be that Theodore Dreiser’s mind is formless,
chaotic, bewildered. In short, our leading novelist is intellectually
in serious confusion, and needs a deeper philosophy than—hey
rub-a-dub-dub.” F. H.

− + =New Repub= 22:423 My 26 ’20 850w

“Mr Dreiser’s style always reminds us of a college professor who has
been ‘fired’ for trying to make his pupils think. He emits endless
common-places with the air of having discovered something new. He is
pedantic before the threadbare. In ‘The court of progress’ Mr Dreiser
has written one of the most drastic satires ever written in this
country. This ought to be printed separately and distributed by the
million.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:167 Ap 11 ’20 850w

− =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 750w

=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.= Open vision; a study of psychic phenomena. *$2 (2½c) Crowell 130

20–6883

The author asserts that he is not a spiritualist, that he has never
received any communications through a medium, and that he has never
investigated spiritism after the manner of psychical researchers. He
classes all these investigations with those of other sciences that
arrive at conclusions through external sources. What the book
emphasizes is the psychical experience by direct impression, the inner
vision and certainty that is independent of outward signs. That the
spiritual world is, that we are of it and in it now, in life as well
as in death, and that we can develop our awareness of it and our
participation in it through the cultivation of an open vision seems to
be the teaching of the book. A partial list of the contents is: The
new awakening; Psychical experience; The awakening of psychical power;
Principles of interpretation; The human spirit; Direct impressions;
Inner perception; The future life; The book of life; The inward light;
Positive values.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20

=N Y Times= p18 Jl 4 ’20 160w

“Dr Dresser’s reasoning is systematic, but not powerful, his piety
refined but not robust; his style expands discreetly in the calm of a
featureless level.”

+ − =Review= 2:631 Je 16 ’20 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 N 18 ’20 40w

=DREW, MRS MARY (GLADSTONE).= Mrs Gladstone. il *$4 (6c) Putnam

20–6736

This loving tribute by her daughter reveals Mrs Gladstone as a
personality of distinction in her own right, her happy family life,
her sympathy for and her influence on her husband’s work. It has been
the author’s privilege to share intimately her parents’ life from her
birth to their death. Contents: Childhood and youth; Girlhood and
marriage; Diaries in early married life; Letters from her; Letters to
her; Characteristics; Good works; Reminiscences; “Via crucis—via
lucis”; Genealogical table; Index and numerous illustrations.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20

“Her book is more a series of impressions and reminiscences than a
biography. It is none the less interesting and authoritative on that
account, however, and will serve very well in the place of a more
extended and formal biographical record.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 1850w

“It is a little difficult for the outsider to know why three hundred
pages were necessary to paint what must at best be a purely negative
picture.” H. J. L.

− + =New Repub= 23:233 Jl 21 ’20 280w

“This volume should be heralded equally as a new chapter in the social
and political history of the Victorian period and as a rare and
beautifully filial tribute to a devoted mother, a highly accomplished
and perennially charming woman.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 97:1294 Ap 17 ’20 450w

“It is trivial and unutterably dull.”

− =Review= 3:95 Jl 28 ’20 320w

=R Of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 80w

“So far as we can discover from this and other contemporary records,
Mrs Gladstone was a good but stupid woman. There are a number of
letters to Mrs Gladstone which show what exceedingly dull and
commonplace letters are written by very distinguished people.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:587 D 20 ’19 850w

+ =Spec= 124:49 Ja 10 ’20 1300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p716 D 4 ’19 30w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p761 D 18 ’19 1600w

=DRINKWATER, JOHN.= Lincoln: the world emancipator. *$1.50 (10c) Houghton

20–20308

The object of this book, written by an Englishman, is not to retell
the life-story of Lincoln to Americans, but to use him as a symbol of
the community of spirit and of the differences of national character
between the two peoples and to show how he can serve as a reconciler
in bringing about an intellectual and spiritual alliance between them.
Contents: ‘Liberty’; ‘E pluribus unum’; Anglo-American union; Lincoln
as symbol; Anglo-American differences; Lincoln as reconciler; History
and art; Lincoln and the artists; An epilogue.

* * * * *

=Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 20w

“The whole essay is a work of art. In form it is not in the least
polemical, and if it is polemical in intent, then Drinkwater has
brought polemics into the region of the fine arts.”

+ =N Y Times= p1 D 5 ’20 850w

+ =R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 80w

=DRINKWATER, JOHN.= Pawns; four poetic plays. *$1.50 Houghton 822

20–21989

The book is a collection of four one-act plays and has an introduction
by Jack R. Crawford who says the plays are characteristic of the
author’s point of view, namely, that peace and quiet are the natural
concomitants of a mind loving beauty. “They are dramas expressed in
poetry—the utterance of simple truths which we know beforehand, for of
such are the materials of poetry and drama.” The plays are: The storm;
The god of quiet; X = O; a night of the Trojan war; Cophetua.

* * * * *

“There is justice in the title. But the true figures of the
stage—Falstaff or Iago or Œdipus—are not pawns. They are living
beings.” J: G. Fletcher

− + =Freeman= 2:405 Ja 5 ’21 750w

“One quality in these ‘Pawns’ is clear: their artistic sincerity. The
best play of the three, the largest in conception, the richest and
simplest in emotion, and the soundest in workmanship, is the last in
the book. [“X = O” in English edition]”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p448 S 20 ’17 960w

=DRUMMOND, HAMILTON.= Maker of saints. *$2.50 Dutton

20–10731

“In this tale of Italy in the days of Dante (who appears in person on
the stage) the maker of saints is the sculptor Fieravanti, a peasant
risen to fame and power by his wonderful statues of saints which to
the simple countrymen are the real persons they represent. It is the
visit of Fieravanti at the Court of Arzano to the proud old Count
Ascanio of the house of Faldora, who has no son, but a beautiful,
proud and unawakened granddaughter, that introduces a romance of the
changing fortunes of noble houses amid the turbulence of medieval
Italy.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“It is by no means easy to infuse much vitality into an imaginative
tale of so long ago, but the author has undoubtedly achieved a measure
of success in his undertaking.”

+ − =Ath= p30 Ja 2 ’20 80w

“The story is well told, with abundance of incident.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 500w

+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 20w

“A capital romance but at the end the curtain drops too abruptly on
the tragic climax of the story and leaves us a little doubtful as to
the real issue.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 130w

=DU BOIS, JOHN HAROLD.= Christian task. (New generation ser.) *90c (4c) Assn. press 261

20–13993

“A discussion of the supreme need of the age: how Christianity can
satisfy it.” (Subtitle) In the author’s opinion the supreme need of
the age “is the need of something to do, the need of some gigantic
undertaking—in a word, the need of a task, or in still simpler
Anglo-Saxon, the need of a job.” Contents: The need stated: the need
of a task; The need analyzed: the need and the age; The need
emphasized: the need and the war; The need satisfied: the need and the
Christian task of establishing the kingdom of God on earth; The need
summarized: Christianity and other related needs.

* * * * *

=Bib World= 54:646 N ’20 130w

=DUBOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT.= Darkwater: voices from within the veil. *$2 (3c) Harcourt 326

20–4763

“I have been in the world, but not of it. I have seen the human drama
from a veiled corner, where all the outer tragedy and comedy have
reproduced themselves in microcosm within. From this inner torment of
souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual
and even illuminating ways.” (Postscript) And it is an unusual
collection of essays, stories and parables alternating with “little
alightings of what may be poetry.” Beginning with a “credo” and an
autobiographical sketch, The shadow of years, the contents are: The
souls of white folk; The hands of Ethiopia; Of work and wealth; “The
servant in the house”; Of the ruling of men; The damnation of women;
The immortal child; Of beauty and death; The comet. The interposed
poetry is: A litany at Atlanta; The riddle of the sphinx; The princess
of the Hither isles; The second coming; Jesus Christ in Texas; The
call; Children of the moon; Almighty death; The prayers of God; A hymn
to the peoples. Mr DuBois is author of “The souls of black folk,” “The
negro,” etc., and is editor of the Crisis.

* * * * *

“We can admit the whole of Dr DuBois’ plea for the negro, although we
cannot admit his argument, and we can do so because his argument is
irrelevant. His picture of the majority of mankind, the ‘coloured’
races, being kept in subjugation by the, on the whole, inferior white
races is, we feel, rather more poetic than scientific.”

+ − =Ath= p139 Jl 30 ’19 600w

“Written with tense feeling and a clean bitterness.”

+ =Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20

“It is a stern indictment and one to which we cannot close our ears.
It is a lesson, however, that cannot be driven home by storming, no
matter how righteous be the anger. The significance of ‘Darkwater’
thus lies in the spiritual history of the author and in the passages
of lyrical poetic beauty where he has expressed the extremity of
racial pride.” M. E. Bailey

+ − =Bookm= 52:304 Ja ’21 620w

“Dr DuBois is undoubtedly the foremost spokesman of today for the
negro, and as such his utterances command attention. It is doubtful
whether Dr DuBois is as powerful or as convincing in his latest work
as in its predecessor, ‘The souls of black folk.’” W. E. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 670w

“Whether in prose or verse, DuBois is always master of the instrument
of expression. At times, as in the Litany at Atlanta, reprinted from
the Independent, he rises to supreme eloquence. But his thought is not
always on the same high level as his style.”

+ − =Ind= 102:235 My 15 ’20 200w

+ =Lit D= p86 My 1 ’20 1350w

“It is a fact that his own ability to suffer and to feel the wrongs of
his race so deeply is at once his strength, the reason for his
leadership, and also his chief weakness. For it carries with it a note
of bitterness, tinctured with hate, and the teaching of violence which
often defeats his own purpose. Doubtless, few of us with sympathies so
keen, with nerves so rasped, with wounds as raw, would do better. But
still, some suppression of the ego, a lesser self-consciousness, and
the omission of personal bitterness at all times would carry Mr DuBois
and his cause much further.” O. G. V.

+ − =Nation= 110:726 My 29 ’20 1150w

“It is sometimes said that Dr DuBois is bitter. If this new book of
his is bitter, I do not know what bitter means. It is to me one of the
sweetest books I have ever read. Dr DuBois is an artist, and his book
must be reckoned among those that add not only to the wisdom but to
the exaltation and glory of man. Because he is an artist, because he
tells this story of his own people so simply and so charmingly, he
establishes that kinship which is the essence of everything human.” F.
H.

+ − =New Repub= 22:189 Ap 7 ’20 1300w

“There is a certain weakness in Professor DuBois’s reasoning, which is
that his intense concentration on one subject leads him to turn
general, universal wrongs into special negro wrongs. The error runs
all through his book and disfigures it. If we disagree with much in
this beautiful book, it is not possible to withhold the heartiest
praise for the power of its statement, the force and passion that
inspire it, and the entrancing style in which it is written.”

+ − =N Y Times= p19 Ag 8 ’20 2000w

“Dr DuBois is too close to the struggle to see clearly the problems
involved. His work is a creation of passion rather than intelligence.
It is, on the whole, a volume which will convince only those already
convinced of the justice and soundness of his position.”

− + =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 150w

“‘Darkwater’ is not merely the story of the negro. The success of Dr
DuBois’ writing lies in the fact that it describes something
universal. Every other persecuted race quickens with tragic memories
at his words. Here is the story of the circumscribed Jew, of the
Hindu, of the dark peoples whom imperialism holds in subjection. It is
the old story of the undeserved human suffering, doled out by the
world’s victors who enjoy the cruel display of their power.” M. W.
Ovington

+ =Socialist R= 8:381 My ’20 700w

“Very able and pathetic book.”

+ − =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 280w

“I believe that Dr DuBois has overstressed in his book the point of
identity, not only of the colored races as such, but of the white and
black races especially; yet I am equally sure that white men have
overstressed the points of divergence. The signal service of this book
is that it quite magnificently points out the white man’s error and
makes clear as day the fact that the ‘race question’ is, at least to a
great extent, a question of social environment.” R. F. Foerster

+ − =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 600w

“His book affords a remarkable example of that elemental race-hatred
which he himself so fiercely denounces. He ignores altogether the
paramount importance of the economic basis of the problem, the fact
that, given equal opportunity, the negro and the Asiatic would
inevitably eat up the white man.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 N 4 ’20 520w

“If one lays down the book with a sense of disappointment that in
spite of its excellence it somehow misses greatness, at least he
cannot easily silence in his ears ‘the voices from within the veil’
who speak through its pages. And if bitterness seems to be the quality
which mars the power of Dr DuBois’ appeal, the white man has lost his
right to complain.” N. T.

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:286 S ’20 160w

=DUCLAUX, EMILE.= Pasteur: the history of a mind; tr. and ed. by Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges. il *$5 Saunders

20–6556

“This is an American translation of a French book published in 1896.
The pupil, friend and successor of Pasteur describes the successful
quest of knowledge and the growth of the ardent mind which pursued it.
He follows the same method in describing the successive triumphs of
Pasteur from the studies in crystallography to the final attainment of
the conception of immunity. He gives a brief account of the state of
knowledge preceding the work of Pasteur, and is thus able to describe
the problems in the form in which they presented themselves when the
great investigator turned his attention to them.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup) “The translators, who are pathologists in the United States
Department of agriculture, have appended an annotated list of persons
mentioned in the book.” (R of Rs)

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20

“Invaluable for the light it sheds on the dynamics of scientific
research, this volume is not less suggestive for its portraiture of
what Ostwald has called the classicist mind in science.” R. H. Lowie

+ =Freeman= 2:259 N 24 ’20 900w

“The book must always remain a classic in the history of science. The
translation has been faithfully done.” A. S. M.

+ =Nature= 106:303 N 4 ’20 980w

=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w

“The book has a permanent value independent of the progress that has
been made since it was written.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p545 Ag 26 ’20 1350w

=DUCLAUX, MARY.= Twentieth century French writers (reviews and reminiscences). il *$2.50 Scribner 840.9

(Eng ed 20–11400)

“This volume was in the printer’s hands in August, 1914. For its
publication today Madame Duclaux has added a post-war preface and
interpolated a passage here and there.” (Nation) “She writes chiefly
of the last fourteen years, and in studies all too brief characterizes
the personalities and the work of Maurice Barrès, Romain Rolland,
Edmond Rostand, Claudel, Jammes, René Boylesve. André Gide, Péguy,
Barbusse, Duhamel, the Comtesse de Noailles and others.” (Ath)

* * * * *

=Ath= p225 F 13 ’20 60w

“For readers unacquainted with contemporary French literature this
volume should be a useful literary guide-book.”

+ =Ath= p475 Ap 9 ’20 600w

=Booklist= 17:21 O ’20

“Many thanks should be given her by the English-speaking world for her
brilliant and scholarly volume, arriving as it does when we need the
stimulus and example of these French modernists.” C. K. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 980w

“The book has its insufficiencies of judgment, of course, apart from
those created by an encroaching patriotism. But her defects are
obvious; they spring readily from her qualities. She is interested in
her chosen writers as complex individuals. As highly differentiated
individuals she presents them; and in reaching for the core of
personality she accomplishes something which is vital to criticism.”
C. M. Rourke

+ − =Freeman= 2:140 O 20 ’20 900w

“Substantially it is now what it was then, [August, 1914,] and therein
lies its extraordinary value. The war turned everything into legend
and made of every face an angel’s or an ogre’s mask. Now that the
world is mildly and tentatively beginning to use its mind again, a
book like this serves to mend the broken continuity of truth and to
restore the normal temper of one’s studies.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ =Nation= 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 1250w

“Mme Duclaux not only possesses the comprehensive vision that makes
possible a synoptic view of surface phenomena, but she is gifted with
that rarer sight which pierces, embraces and understands.” B. R.
Redman

+ |=N Y Times= p15 Ag 22 ’20 2500w

“Gives a better account of the most modern French literature than has
yet been published in English.”

+ |=Spec= 124:587 My 1 ’20 530w

“One’s first impulse, on reading Mme Duclaux’s book, is to cry, Here
is a book by some one who knows what she is talking about! The impulse
is too strong to be restrained, because the event is so rare in this
field of literary criticism.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 F 26 ’20 1850w

=DUGANNE, PHYLLIS.= Prologue. *$2 (2c) Harcourt

20–14598

This is the story of Rita Moreland’s life during her teens, when she
is developing from little girlhood to womanhood. The only child of a
rather unsatisfactory marriage, she has some difficulty in adjusting
herself to life. The story tells of her family life, her schooling,
her home in New York, where she vibrates between Fifth avenue and
Greenwich Village, her friends, and more especially her relations with
the masculine sex. She alternates between perfect happiness and
periods of bored discontentment with everything and can’t seem to
“find herself.” The war finds her at work in an office, but the end of
the war brings back to her Donald, with whom, at the story’s close,
she stands at “the beginnings of things.”

* * * * *

“Two merits by no means discoverable in all first novels may be
conceded to ‘Prologue’ at the outset. It commands to a marked degree
technical dexterity and ease in expression, and—within the scope of
its peacock-alley comprehension of life—it is decidedly entertaining.
The book might be described as a study of flapper-psychosis—if there
is such a thing. Anything tending to reveal character, or in any way
interfere with inconsequent amours, is summarily dismissed by the
author.” L. B.

− + =Freeman= 2:70 S 29 ’20 340w

“Miss Duganne writes with a clear, staccato, bird-like note; she
visualizes men and things with cool precision.”

+ =Nation= 111:454 O 20 ’20 360w

=DUGUIT, LEÓN.= Law in the modern state; tr. by Frida and Harold Laski. *$2.50 Huebsch 321

20–7266

“Professor Duguit’s introductory chapter closes with the following
significant words, which summarize his book. ‘The idea of public
service,’ he declares, ‘replaces the idea of sovereignty. The state is
no longer a sovereign power in issuing commands. It is a group of
individuals who must use the force they possess to supply the public
need. The idea of public service lies at the very base of the theory
of the modern state.’ The demonstration as to how this has come about
occupies the body of the book. Through illustrations drawn primarily
from French legal history, Duguit shows the growth away from state
absolutism and from the idea of governments as sacrosanct
bodies.”—Socialist R

* * * * *

“Of the acuteness of Duguit’s analytical powers there can, in general,
be no doubt, and it therefore became a matter almost beyond
understanding that he should fail to continue to appreciate the real
nature of the doctrines which he attacks.” W. W. Willoughby

− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:504 Ag ’20 1000w

=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20

“The author makes out a strong case and the facts seem to be on his
side. He answers his opponents with candor and courtesy and treats
fairly and comprehensively all sides of the problem.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 180w

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

+ =Socialist R= 9:48 Je ’20 420w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 F 21 ’20 80w

“The translation by Frida and Harold Laski is very satisfactory, and
the introduction by Professor Laski furnishes an invaluable background
for an understanding of the volume.” A. J. Lien

+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 420w

=DUMBELL, KATE ETHEL MARY.= Seeing the West, il new ed *$1.75 (5c) Doubleday 917.8

A book designed as a convenient handbook for the westbound traveler.
It is composed of five parts: The southern Rockies; The northern
Rockies; The northwest; California; The southwest. There are two end
maps, one showing national parks and railroads, the other showing
motor highways. A four-page list of references comes at the end,
followed by the index.

* * * * *

“To one who does not know the country ‘Seeing the west’ offers many
valuable suggestions.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 110w

“It is doubtful whether anyone has brought the same amount and quality
of tourist information into so compact space before.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 130w

=DUNLAP, KNIGHT.= Personal beauty and racial betterment. *$1 Mosby 575.6

20–7871

“The first part of the book, ‘The significance of beauty,’ seeks to
explain in detail the characters of personal beauty—an explanation
found exclusively in the reproductive needs of the race. The second
part, ‘The conservation of beauty,’ points to its importance as an
element in race improvement which, the author maintains, can
according to all present evidence be brought about only by selection
of the more fit. It also discusses briefly some of the more
disputable means of eliminating the entirely unfit. Above all,
however, the author directs his argument against economic interest
as the decisive factor in selection and effectively presents the
case for the cultivation of beauty and love marriage as
indispensable to race preservation.”—Survey

* * * * *

Reviewed by E. S. Bogardus

=Am J Soc= 26:367 N ’20 160w

“In the recent literature of sexual selection and of eugenics there
have been few more stimulating contributions than this one by
Professor Dunlap. It is worth a place in the social hygienist’s
library.” P. P.

+ =Social Hygiene= 6:577 O ’20 640w

“Professor Dunlap’s study of personal beauty as an element in race
betterment is original and suggestive; it is, however, little more
than a string of ex cathedra propositions presented without evidence
or citation of authority other than his own observations.”

+ − =Survey= 44:450 Je 26 ’20 200w

=DUNN, ARTHUR WALLACE.= How presidents are made. *75c (2½c) Funk 329

20–8653

The book is a historical survey of the conditions and circumstances
that surrounded the campaigns of the various presidents. The author
takes no stock in the general impression that presidents are elected
on “issues,” but thinks that personality and opportunity play a
greater part and that often the result depends on accident or
incident. Contents: Caste and political parties; Federalism and
states’ rights—Adams and Jefferson; The Virginia succession—Madison
and Monroe; Developing issues—slavery and the tariff; Passing of
congressional caucus—Adams; Personal popularity a factor—Jackson, Van
Buren, Harrison; Slavery and the northern boundary as factors—Polk;
The Mexican war—Taylor; Slavery issue looming; Slavery
compromise—Pierce; Anti-slavery republicans defeated—Buchanan;
Extension vs. restriction of slavery—Lincoln; The soldier vote and war
issues—Lincoln and Grant; Liberal republican movement—Grant vs.
Greeley; The electoral commission—Hayes vs. Tilden; Third term
issue—Garfield; Mugwump independency—Cleveland; Protectionist
tariff—Harrison; The tariff and free silver—Cleveland; Gold standard
vs. free silver—McKinley; “Imperialism,” silver, the tariff—McKinley;
Personal popularity—Roosevelt; Tariff and personal influence—Taft;
Republican disharmony—Wilson; Anti-war sentiment and tactical
mistakes—Wilson; The negro as a political factor; Prohibition,
suffrage, socialism.

=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 24 ’20 230w

+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 30w

“One takes up this little volume expecting a dry-as-dust account of
the operations of the primaries, the electoral college, etc. Instead
he finds a narrative alive with human interest.”

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 50w

“It is a meager and sketchy book, without distinction in research or
judgment, but it does ‘hit the high spots’ in such a way as to bring
the records of past campaigns briefly to mind, and it is written in a
fair spirit, with a practical understanding of events and with
intelligent discrimination.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 1500w

=DUNN, COURTENAY FREDERIC WILLIAM.= Natural history of the child. *$2 (2½c) Lane 392

20–4905

Although the author of this volume is a physician the book is not
written from a medical or scientific point of view. It is rather the
traditions, prejudices and customs which have surrounded childhood
from time immemorial dressed in an entertaining, humorous garb, “a
history of childhood which for the greater part has been grubbed up
from ancient and scarce books, obscure pamphlets and papers.”
(Foreword) Contents: Him before he was; His ancestry; His early
life—legal infancy; His name; His environment; His language; His
schooldays; His schooling; His development; His play; His religion;
His mental condition; His naughtiness; His afflictions.

* * * * *

“Those portions which come from browsing in old books are particularly
interesting and amusing.”

+ =Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20

“He has selected a very diverting lot of quotations, which are strung
together on his own agreeable reflections in a book that will be read
with interest by every child-lover.”

+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 100w

“On every sort of aspect of child life, from christening ceremonies or
the custom of infant marriages to the evils of thumb-sucking and the
use of indiarubber ‘soothers,’ there is the same entertaining jumble
of the results of disjointed research. Unfortunately Dr Courtenay Dunn
cannot resist the lure of being ‘bright.’”

+ − =Spec= 123:250 Ag 23 ’19 350w

“Its contents, far from being prosy or dull to any but the mother or
nurse, are, on the other hand, most interesting to any reader who has
in him a trace of the antiquary.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 200w

“Dr Dunn has burrowed with great industry and good results among old
and sometimes scarce books and pamphlets; and the light and airy style
in which he starts writing must not prejudice us against his work.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p338 Je 19 ’19 300w

=DUNN, JOHN DUNCAN, and JESSUP, ELON H.= Intimate golf talks. il *$3 Putnam 796

20–21193

The genesis of the book is: an indoor golf school conducted by John
Duncan Dunn, a reportorial visit by the editor of Outing, the latter’s
interest in the instructor’s methods and desire to profit by them for
his own game, repeated interviews and—the book. The talks,
interpolated with copious illustrations, are: Picking the right clubs;
Learning the golf scale; The golf grip; The golf stance; The gold
address; Some golf faults; Getting the knack of the swing; Stick to
the minor shots; From three-quarters to fullswing; The importance of
balance; Take care of your hands; Topping the ball; Overcoming faults;
Keeping the muscles in harmony; Slicing and hooking; Methods of curing
faults; This brings us to putting.

* * * * *

“Mr Dunn’s golf wisdom and Mr Jessup’s editorial skill combine in the
production of an unusually happy result.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 4 ’20 980w

=DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE.= Dead man’s gold. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday

20–13705

When Wat Lyman died, he left behind him the secret of a gold lode. But
he was canny enough to divide his secret among three, Healy, an
ex-gambler, “Lefty” Larkin, an adventurer, and Stone, an American
temporarily down on his luck. Each of these three knew one-third only
of the directions necessary to locate the gold, which, when found, was
to be divided equally with Lyman’s daughter, who also had to be found.
By their common sharing of the secret, the three prospectors were kept
together all through the first part of their hunt. Exciting
experiences in the Arizona desert, and with the Apache Indians almost
lead to failure. But eventually they find their lode, only to have
Healy turn traitor and try to cheat the other two out of their share.
How the girl comes into it and saves their lives and the gold is the
close of the story.

=DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE.= Turquoise Cañon. il *$1.50 (2½c) Doubleday

20–5121

A story that follows one of the standard formulas for western fiction.
The rich and debonair young easterner comes west, falls foul of a gang
of crooks, loses his heart to the beautiful daughter, rescues her from
her unpleasant environment, breaks up the band and is rewarded with
the love of the girl, who after all, it turns out, is not the daughter
of the chief villain. In this story Jimmie Hollister’s goat ranching
experiences add an original touch.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20

=DUNSANY, EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th baron.= Tales of three hemispheres. *$1.75 Luce. J. W.

20–26193

“In the two hemispheres we know more or less about, Lord Dunsany
pretends now and then to set his story. But his heart is in the third
hemisphere—the hemisphere at the back of the map, which lies beyond
the fields we know. And, indeed, even when we think for a moment that
we are in the high wolds beyond Wiltshire, or looking out on the
Tuileries gardens, or checked short for a peep at the cloud-capped
tower of the Woolworth building, we are pretty sure to be in, before
long, for a meeting with the old gods, the gods whom time has put to
sleep.” (Review) “The book is divided into two sections, the first
made up of miscellaneous, far wandering tales and sketches, while the
second, which is entitled ‘Beyond the fields we know,’ leads us into
the lands of dream, where flows the great central river of Yann.” (N Y
Times)

* * * * *

“A certain abundance of even commonplace detail, combined with a
subtle deviation from the usual in emphasis and sequence, conveys
successfully a sense of other-reality; but this quality, the true
dream-quality, is constantly impaired by a kind of arbitrary
fastidiousness of language. Nothing is less akin to the dreamlike than
the precious, which is the outcome of an extreme self-consciousness,
and we consider that Lord Dunsany’s use of the precious constitutes a
serious defect of style.” F. W. S.

+ − =Ath= p202 Ag 13 ’20 560w

=Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20

“The stories in divers veins are all characteristic of Dunsany, but
present no tricks not already familiar to his readers.”

+ − =Nation= 110:660 My 15 ’20 560w

“They are essentially prose poems, these tales, whether they express
in some half dozen vivid, poignant pages the very heart of a dying
man’s desire, as in ‘The last dream of Bwona Khubla,’ or tell of a
girl’s longing, as in ‘An archive of the older mysteries,’ or of such
fear as that which rent the soul of the wayfarer who bore with him
‘The sack of emeralds.’”

+ =N Y Times= 24:781 D 28 ’19 800w

+ =Review= 2:111 Ja 31 ’20 650w

+ =Spec= 124:871 Je 26 ’20 580w

“Through the exotic atmosphere of many of these stories stand out
sudden pictures of rare perfection. This power of calling up
associations to supplement concrete images is indeed his perilous
virtue, and entices him sometimes into tortuous bypaths. Yet his
perfect etching of New York at night in ‘A city of wonder’ proves that
he can look at the world with the disinterested and objective gaze of
the pure artist.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p437 Jl 8 ’20 1250w

=DURKIN, DOUGLAS.= Heart of Cherry McBain. *$1.75 (2c) Harper

Because he had once struck his brother with murder in his heart, King
Howden had determined never to fight again, and because of that
resolution he was held to be something of a coward in the frontier
country where he lived a rather solitary life. And then one day he met
Cherry McBain, a girl worth fighting for. She was the daughter of old
Keith McBain, the construction boss of a new railway. And she had an
enemy in the person of Big Bill McCartney, her father’s foreman, who
was determined to win her by fair means or foul and regardless of her
wishes in the matter. The situation certainly offered grounds for the
fight that eventually came, leaving King with his reputation
vindicated, and Cherry free to bestow her heart where she chose.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 150w

=N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 250w

=DURSTINE, ROY SARLES.= Making advertisements and making them pay. il *$3.50 Scribner 659

20–16526