Chapter XXVI: Part 2: , dealing with the morphology, life histories, and evolution of (5)

+ =N Y Times= p30 Ag 22 ’20 780w

=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 30w

=Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 130w

=FELLOWES, EDMUND HORACE=, ed. English madrigal verse, 1588–1632. (Oxford English texts) *$6.25 Oxford 821:04

20–17023

“This is a reprint of the known words of Elizabethan songs, arranged
under their composers and, among these, under the particular type of
song, with the names of the poets in the few cases where they are
known. In all of these songs both words and voice part were paramount.
For if, as in the first half of the book, they were madrigals (for
from three to six voices), each voice was sovran in turn, and each
vied with the other in the amount of meaning it could impress on the
words. If, as in the second half, they were solos or duets, then they
had the sketchy accompaniment of the lute, or the support of veiled
and velvety-toned viols. The first are necessarily short, for the
madrigal form required much repetition of words; pithy, for if a voice
is only to be heard at intervals it should have something terse to
say; and conventional, for you cannot put intimate sentiments into the
mouths of half a dozen different people in succession. The second are
more elaborate. They are all true lyrics in that they take one point
and press it home.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“To all who love the lyric, English madrigal verse will be a genuine
delight. Its careful editing makes the musical construction quite
clear, and the material is indeed a treasury of quaint verse.” C. K.
H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 1 ’20 680w

“A learned and careful work which only a scholar both in literature
and in music could have brought to a conclusion.”

+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 260w

“Interesting and scholarly book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 Ag 5 ’20 6300w

=FELSTEAD, SIDNEY THEODORE.= German spies at bay; comp, from official sources. il *$2 Brentano’s 940.485

(Eng ed 20–8200)

“This is a record of interest, exactly recording the actual work of
our Secret service and the particulars of the chief German spies whom
it traced and dealt with, and exposing the error of much of the panic
about spies in England which at one time prevailed.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 70w

“Mr Felstead is not dull, nor truthfully can one think, brilliant.
Those who are interested in spies will be reading for information
(possibly thrills), and herein the author is enthusiastically
cyclopedic.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 230w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p174 Mr 11 ’20 50w

“Mr Felstead has written an amusing as well as an instructive book,
and he seems to have steered cleverly between the rocks of reticence
and indiscretion.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p178 Mr 18 ’20 1050w

=FENWICK, CHARLES GHEQUIER.= Political systems in transition; war-time and after. *$3 Century 342

20–20220

The book is one of the Century New world series of which W. F.
Willoughby is general editor. Since the war, the author holds, the
question of the organization of the state and the scope of the
functions it is to perform has become once more an open one, for the
war has made it clear that there are some serious defects in the
machinery of government that call for radical amendments to our
constitutional system. The relative strength and weakness of the
several political systems and the probable line of future
reconstruction, form the subject of the present study. Contents: Part
1, Political ideals and demands of war; War a test of democratic
government; The constitutions of the great nations on the eve of the
great war; Part 2, Changes brought about by the war in the political
institutions of European countries; Countries with autocratic
governments; Countries with democratic governments; Part 3, Changes in
the political institutions of the United States; The war and the
constitution; War powers of the president; Emergency legislation
adopted by Congress; Changes in the organization of the government;
The separate state governments: new legislation and new administrative
activities; Part 4, Problems of reconstruction in the United States
raised by the war; New ideals of democracy; The program of political
reconstruction; The program of international reconstruction; Index.

* * * * *

“An excellent account of the shake-up in governments produced by the
war, full of material which must be included in any adequate history
of it.” E. N.

+ =Boston Transcript= p14 D 8 ’20 950w

=Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 70w

“The volume is a valuable compendium of war measures in the
belligerent nations and of the political problems which the war has
left.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 Ja 29 ’21 300w

“He writes with eminent fairness, and writes only to inform. He
achieves his aim strikingly. Sometimes he falls into the error of
taking a phrase at its face value. Since even small things are
important in a work of this kind. Professor Fenwick should be more
careful about his dates.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 19 ’20 2250w

=R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 100w

=FERBER, EDNA.= Half portions. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday

20–8793

The nine short stories of this collection are: The maternal feminine;
April 25th, as usual; Old lady Mandle; You’ve got to be selfish; Long
distance; Un morso doo pang; One hundred per cent; Farmer in the dell;
The dancing girls. They are stories of life as it is lived in Chippewa
or Winnebago, Wisconsin, or on South Park avenue, Chicago. Some are
stories of war time. One is an Emma McChesney story. They are
reprinted from the Ladies’ Home Journal, Metropolitan, Colliers, and
other magazines.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20

“All these stories and all these pages are thronged with real men and
women, and in them Miss Ferber continues to display not merely her
skill at story telling, but also her greater skill at breathing into
them the breath of life. Reality and imagination combine equally in
their making.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 1600w

“Miss Ferber’s talents go to polishing the bright pebbles of life,
rather than to touching the bedrock of reality, but there’s no denying
the world would be duller without an occasional pretty pebble.”

+ =Dial= 69:546 N ’20 50w

“The highest praise you can give an author in these days is to say
that his or her book is ‘thoroly American,’ from which, alas, it does
not necessarily follow that it is an excellent piece of workmanship.
Edna Ferber’s ‘Half portions,’ however, wins on both counts.”

+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 160w

“Miss Edna Ferber is not thoughtful about the affairs of the world.
She simply does not let herself think. If some one would endow Miss
Ferber, and make it no longer too expensive for her to think or bring
a story to an honest conclusion, she might become a sort of American
Arnold Bennett.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 200w

“It is a book that is thoroughly enjoyable and laughable from
beginning to end.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 620w

=FERBER, EDNA, and LEVY, NEWMAN.= $1200 a year. il *$1.50 Doubleday 812

20–18069

A three-act play in which a university professor gives up his $1200 a
year position in the university to earn $30 a day in a mill. He
immediately becomes popular as a labor leader and lecturer and is in
demand all over the United States, but it is only when he is offered a
salary of $5000 a week in the movies that the magnate who owns the
university as well as the mill is moved to consider the question of an
adequate salary for a professor.

* * * * *

“Interesting to read. One would like to see it acted.”

+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

“The complications hold the kernel of genuine comedy, but instead of
cracking their nut, Miss Ferber and Mr Levy have contented themselves
with merely painting funny faces on the shell.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:94 O 6 ’20 180w

“The authors have challenged serious criticism by calling the play a
‘comedy’ and by permitting the publishers to proclaim it a ‘timely
satire.’ It is an amusing and clever farce, containing many touches of
skilful character depiction.” Jack Crawford

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 S 25 ’20 800w

“As a vehicle for amusement ‘$1200 a year’ is both ingenious and
satisfying. Its characters are human, its situations vivid. It
portrays with little exaggeration the wretched circumstances of our
little world of scholars with sympathetic and understanding treatment.
But what of that other world? Have not the authors exaggerated the
affluence of mill labor to crown their dramatic purpose?”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 560w

Reviewed by A. E. Morey

+ =Survey= 45:137 O 23 ’20 240w

“Rather a good story, though highly illogical and incredible.”

+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:86 Ja ’21 230w

=FIELDING, WILLIAM JOHN.= Sanity in sex. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd 176

20–10067

The past few years have seen a remarkable change in the public
attitude toward sex. The ban of secrecy has been largely removed and
the need for rational sex education is generally recognized. The
author’s purpose in this book has been “to subject the social
processes responsible for these changes to a thorough analysis,
classifying all the important factors and tendencies involved, and to
give as concise and accurate an account as possible of this historic
period of the sex-educational movement.” (Introd.) Subjects covered
include: the government’s campaign of sex-education, sex-education in
the army, venereal disease, sex hygiene in industry, sex education in
the public schools, the relation of sex knowledge to marriage, sex
ignorance and divorce, birth control, and psycho-analysis, and the
final chapter discusses economic sufficiency as a basis of sex
hygiene. There is a classified bibliography of seventeen pages,
followed by an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:57 N ’20

=Int J Ethics= 31:117 O ’20 80w

“Mr Fielding is not an alarmist; he strikes more than a note of hope
in his account of the work which the United States government did with
the army during the war.”

+ =Nation= 111:135 Jl 31 ’20 650w

“The book for the most part quotes authorities worth considering, and
is modern in its attitude, but overestimates the theories of
psycho-analysis, and is weakened by rather easy generalizations.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 90w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p688 O 21 ’20 90w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:113 Je ’20 70w

=FIFE, GEORGE BUCHANAN.= Passing legions. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 940.477

20–20541

“How the American Red cross met the American army in Great Britain,
the gateway to France.” (Sub-title) The work of the Red cross
commission in Great Britain was almost wholly with passing troops, on
the way to the front or returning, and the aim of the author has been
to bring out those features of the service which distinguished it from
that of other commissions. Among the chapters are: A call through the
storm; When the commission was born; Where a million men went by; The
incoming legions at Liverpool; Here and there in Britain; The
bluejackets of Cardiff and Plymouth; With the army to Archangel; The
unbreakable link with “home.”

* * * * *

“Even now, books of the war continue to be written, and Mr Fife’s is
among the distinctly lesser lights of the contest. He writes in a
business-like but boresome monotone.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 260w

“The opening story of the book is a story of heroism almost
unbelievable, yet intense in its realism, pathos and altruism. Great
as is the Otranto story, it but serves to fix the attention on what is
to come and so onward to the ‘valedictory’ is read a succession of
just such tales.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p13 D 8 ’20 540w

+ =N Y Times= p13 Ja 30 ’21 700w

+ =R of Rs= 53:223 F ’21 120w

=FILENE, CATHERINE=, ed. Careers for women. *$4 Houghton 396.5

20–21359

The object of the book is to give vocational information to high
school and college women, to supplement the work of vocational
advisors in schools, and to help decrease the number of “square pegs
for round holes.” It is composed of articles written expressly for the
book by a number of specially qualified contributors and its compiler,
Miss Filene, is the director of the Intercollegiate vocational
guidance association. The vocations considered are grouped under the
headings: Accounting; Advertising; Agriculture, etc.; Architecture;
Arts and crafts; Business; Dramatics; Education; Finance; Government
service; Health services; Home economics services; Industrial work;
Institutional work; Insurance; Law; Library work; Literary work;
Motion-picture work; Museum work; Music; Newspaper work; Personnel
work; Physical education; Politics; Religious work; Scientific work;
Secretarial work; Social work; Specialists; Statistical work;
Vocational training. Suggested readings accompany most of the chapters
and there is an index.

* * * * *

“By far the most practical and complete book in its field. Will be
useful in any library.”

+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21

“It should be of great value to high-school and college students and
the new graduate. The suggestions are, on the whole, sound.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 220w

“Differently as the various authors write, there is uniformity in one
respect—in the brisk, snappy, pungent way in which they push their
points at you and make you see the picture.”

+ =N Y Times= p15 D 26 ’20 1750w

“Both for its merit as a model of the way in which occupational
information should be presented, and for what it signifies in the
modern outlook of thoughtful college women and, it may be added, of
college men as well, this book is noteworthy. The publishers deserve
mention for the most attractively printed book in the field of
vocational guidance.” Meyer Bloomfield

+ =Survey= 45:674 F 5 ’21 490w

=FILLMORE, PARKER HOYSTED.= Shoemaker’s apron. il *$2.50 (5½c) Harcourt

20–17679

This is the author’s second book of Czechoslovak fairy tales and folk
tales with illustrations and decorations by Jan Matulka. It is a
companion volume to the earlier collection and contains besides the
fairy tales five nursery tales and a group of devil tales. They are
not so much translations as a retelling of other versions to suit the
English-speaking child. The fairy tales are: The twelve months;
Zlatovlaska the golden-haired; The shepherd’s nosegay; Vitazko the
victorious. The shoemaker’s apron is one of the devil tales.

* * * * *

“An interesting collection of twenty stories drawn from original
sources and retold with simple charm.”

+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21

Reviewed by A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:261 N ’20 90w

+ =Freeman= 2:190 N 3 ’20 150w

=FINCH, WILLIAM COLES-, and HAWKS, ELLISON.= Water in nature, il *$2.50 Stokes 551

(Eng ed 20–1223)

“W. Coles Finch and Ellison Hawks, two English scientists, have
contributed to the Romance of reality series a volume entitled ‘Water
in nature.’ In it they deal scientifically, and at the same time
entertainingly, with practically all of water’s manifestations in the
natural world, including its relations to cloud, atmosphere, ocean,
rain, hail, snow, ice, glaciers, springs, rivers, lake, waterfalls,
mountains, caves, rocks, reefs, and corals.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Ja ’19 40w

+ =N Y Times= 25:55 F 1 ’20 70w

“Any one who is interested in natural phenomena will find fascinating
reading in this résumé of popular science.”

+ =Outlook= 123:243 O 29 ’19 50w

=FINDLAY, HUGH=, ed. Handbook for practical farmers. il *$5 Appleton 630

20–16999

A comprehensive handbook “dealing with the more important aspects of
farming in the United States.” (Sub-title) Special chapters have been
contributed by practical experts in different parts of the United
States. Subjects covered include the various farm and garden crops,
farm animals, the care of milk and the curing of meat on the farm,
farm buildings, running water, the use of explosives, the care of
tools, fence posts, roads, the farm loan system, farm records, pets,
weeds, etc. There are 258 illustrations and an index. The editor is
lecturer on horticulture in Columbia university.

=FINDLAY, JOSEPH JOHN.= Introduction to sociology, for social workers and general readers. (Publications of the University of Manchester) il *$2 Longmans 301

20–14079

“The central theme of sociology, as conceived by Professor Findlay and
lucidly expounded in this excellent introduction to a comparatively
new, extremely comprehensive, but somewhat elusive science, is ‘the
definition of social groups, their classification and their relations
to each other.’ The treatment is systematic, though some problems of
considerable importance, such as the institution of land tenure, have
had to be omitted. The first five chapters are devoted to principles.
The second part relates to types of social grouping, such as family,
state, religion, and occupation. In the third part, which is concerned
with organization, the positions of the leader, the official, and the
representative, are discussed: and there is an analysis of the
instinct of loyalty.”—Ath

* * * * *

“A valuable part of his book is the admirable list of references to
contemporary and other authorities.”

+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 190w

“The author, while primarily an educational administrator and not a
professional sociologist, nevertheless has attained a definite grasp
of certain fundamental principles in the science of society. His book
is a very thoughtful piece of work, but the reviewer confesses to
losing his way frequently in the course of the argument.” A. J. Todd

+ − =Survey= 45:22 O 2 ’20 600w

=FINNEY, ROSS LEE, and SCHAFER, ALFRED L.= Administration of village and consolidated schools. *$1.60 Macmillan 371

20–4558

“This book has been written especially to meet the needs of principals
of small schools and to serve as a textbook in those institutions
where young men and women are in training for the administration of
village schools. Its five parts discuss, respectively, Governmental
administration, The principal’s personal-official relations, Adapting
the school to the needs of the child, The business side, and
Miscellaneous.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:11 O ’20

“It gives valuable and practical charts and tables and is fraught with
helpful suggestions. It will be very useful to those who know how to
discriminate and are not too slavishly bound to the letter.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 220w

“The book is written in a style that ought to appeal to teachers and
school officers who have not enjoyed the opportunities of an elaborate
training.”

+ =El School J= 20:711 My ’20 550w

+ =School R= 28:554 S ’20 140w

=FIRKINS, OSCAR W.= Jane Austen. *$1.75 (3c) Holt 823

20–4130

A critical and biographical study of Jane Austen, falling into three
parts: The novelist; The realist; The woman. Part 1 is a searching and
unsparing analysis of the six novels, with particular reference to
plot. Part 2 is a more brief and general treatment of the characters.