Chapter XXVIII: Part 3: , the biographical section, is a study of Miss Austen’s (2)

“One lays down the book with a clear grasp of Hamilton’s important
contributions to American nationality, and a fair idea of the manner
of man he was. Uniform fairness, fascinating style and illumination of
American political history are the outstanding characteristics of the
book.” M. L. Bonham, jr.

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:718 N ’20 360w

=Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20

+ =Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 30w

“A straightforward, unbiased recital. The book is unwarmed by any glow
of imagination, however.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:142 O 20 ’20 230w

“The volume is noteworthy for the temperate and just manner in which
it is written. The author did not approach his task in that spirit of
undue enthusiasm which much study of his subject too frequently
inspires in the writer of biography.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 400w

Reviewed by J: C. Rose

+ =Review= 2:678 Je 30 ’20 1100w

=FORD, LILLIAN CUMMINGS, and FORD, THOMAS FRANCIS.= Foreign trade of the United States; its character, organization and methods; with an introd. by W. L. Saunders. *$2.50 Scribner 382

20–11960

“The ground work of the discussion is laid in a chapter on the
‘Nature, purpose and growth of international trade.’ This is followed
by treatment of the subjects of the development of American foreign
commerce; our war trade; our exports and imports; our methods; our
exportation and importation of war materials and foodstuffs; the
transportation problems and methods; insurance; credit; foreign
exchange; balance of trade; our government aid to foreign trade. A
final chapter concerns the foreign trade of other nations.”—Boston
Transcript

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20

+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 60w

=FORKEL, JOHANN NIKOLAUS.= Johann Sebastian Bach; his life, art, and work. il *$4.50 Harcourt

20–23005

Although Forkel was not the first to assemble the known facts of
Bach’s career he was the first in appreciation of the preeminence of
his genius. His monograph is not a “life” in the biographic sense but
a “critical appreciation of Bach as player, teacher, and composer,
based upon the organ and clavier works, with which alone Forkel was
familiar.” (Introd.) The present volume is a revision of the first
English version published in 1820 and is edited with copious
annotations by Charles Sanford Terry. The appendices occupy nearly
half of the volume and contain: Chronological catalogue of Bach’s
compositions; The church cantatas arranged chronologically; The
Bachgesellschaft editions of Bach’s works; Bibliography of Bach
literature; A collation of the Novello and Peters editions of the
organ works; Genealogy of the family of Bach; Index.

* * * * *

“Forkel’s text takes up only about a quarter of Dr Terry’s book; the
rest is an extremely valuable collection of learned information. It is
a pity that Dr Terry’s mental attitude appears to be—shall I say?—that
of a creeper on a ruin. We badly need in English a book on Bach
somewhat after the lines of the French monographs on composers.” E: J.
Dent

+ − =Ath= p384 S 17 ’20 1500w

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 27 ’20 420w

“Dr Sanford Terry, whose services to church music are too well known
to need commendation, has made a valuable addition to the Bach
literature by his new translation of Forkel’s biography, hitherto only
available in the imperfect version published in 1820. He has added an
excellent supplementary chapter on Bach at Leipzig. The portraits and
illustrations are well chosen and reproduced.”

+ =Spec= 125:819 D 18 ’20 320w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p585 S 9 ’20 100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p610 S 23 ’20 1100w

=FORMAN, HENRY JAMES.= Fire of youth. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little

20–3795

This is the story of the country boy who comes to the city, goes
wrong, but eventually finds the right path again. Anthony West is the
son of a Nebraska editor, a man whose humble country paper, the
Beacon, is known from one end of the land to the other. Anthony goes
to Harvard, and following the death, first of father, and then mother,
enters New York Journalism. But quicker means of making money appeal
to him and he goes into a broker’s office, falls into the toils of an
adventuress, is disillusioned and tastes the dregs of life. Then the
girl from home comes to New York and hope picks up again. The war
breaks out and when his service in the army is finished he is ready to
go back to Little Rapids to the position Jim Howard has kept waiting
for him on the Beacon.

* * * * *

“The crudeness of the story lies in the fact that Anthony does not as
the publishers assert, ‘win through to a fine manhood.’ He wins
through to nothing at all. His whole moral life is negative. He
repudiates the fire of youth and through satiety and disgust regains
his will to obedience under the social law. But his mind and character
are what they were.”

− =Nation= 110:402 Mr 27 ’20 200w

“The plot is firm and logical, even if not strikingly original, but
the merit of the book is in the rapidity and variety of its action—the
scenes in London being as well done as those in New York—and in the
sharply drawn characterization.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 360w

“In spite of occasional jarring crudities, the book is worth while.
The author seems to understand his characters.” D. Carr

+ − =Pub W= 97:178 Ja 17 ’20 260w

“The best character drawing is lavished on the minor roles.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 260w

=FORMAN, SAMUEL EAGLE.=[2] American democracy. il $1.75 Century 353

20–13840

“A text in government for high schools, academies and normal schools
has been prepared by S. E. Forman. It is a text-book in general
civics, covering the principles and theory of government, the
machinery of government and its accomplishments. The author, who is
well versed in civics and American history, has based this text on a
former one, ‘Advanced civics,’ published in 1905, but has made this
more comprehensive. New phases of democracy have been included, such
as Americanization, and urban and rural problems. Questions on each
chapter, and a short selective bibliography and an index make it more
useful to the teacher.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes

* * * * *

“We know of no work that presents the subject so clearly and
comprehensively as does this book.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 820w

=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:54 N 17 ’20 160w

=School R= 28:715 N ’20 520w

=FORRESTER, IZOLA LOUISE (MRS REUBEN ROBERT MERRIFIELD).= Dangerous Inheritance; or, The mystery of the Tittani rubies. *$2 (3c) Houghton

20–18931

Carlota has inherited from her Italian grandmother great beauty, a
marvelous voice and a fortune in jewels. But her New York teacher,
after giving her all the technique he can, admits that her voice lacks
the emotional quality that moves and stirs the hearer. Her soul still
slumbers. Ward, her wealthy patron, tries to awaken it, but only
succeeds in arousing her animosity. Then she meets Griffeth Ames, and
her teacher at once catches the new note of power in her voice.
Griffeth persuades her to sing in a society presentation of his opera,
and to grace the occasion she wears her grandmother’s rubies.
Instantly the international spies who have been on the lookout for the
jewels are “on the job.” They try to rob her, but the various agents
doublecross one another, and Carlota’s inheritance is finally returned
to her. But the jewels have lost all charm for her, and she gladly
turns over their value to the starving children of the old world,
feeling herself rich enough in Griffeth’s love.

* * * * *

“The story has a slow, graceful, feminine movement that carries one
eagerly to ‘the end.’ More life might have been bestowed upon the
characters by having kept them in action while off-scene.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 150w

“There is an exuberance, a delight in the contrasts and the
juxtapositions of life, a quick reaction to beauty wherever glimpsed
that make the reading of this book a pleasant thing even though it is
crude and obvious in many spots.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 320w

=FORSEY, MAUDE S.= Jack and me. il *$1.50 (5c) Lippincott

A story for children about a little boy and girl who live in London
and spend their summer holidays in Dorset. It tells in a simple way of
home and school, of Christmas celebrations, of an older sister’s
wedding, etc., and reads like a book of reminiscences of a real
childhood.

=FORSTER, EDWARD MORGAN.= Where angels fear to tread. *$2 (3½c) Knopf

20–3675

An English widow outrages her late husband’s family by falling in love
with and marrying an Italian peasant. They cut her off entirely and
assume the care of her young daughter. The marriage turns out as
unfortunately as might be expected. Lilia dies in giving birth to a
son and the English Herritons make up their minds to get possession of
this child also. Philip, the romantic brother-in-law who had once
idealized everything Italian, and Harriet, the harsh, Puritanical
sister-in-law go to Italy for that purpose. Miss Abbott, the English
girl who had had a hand in the marriage, is there also. Their efforts
end tragically. Philip falls in love with Miss Abbott, but learns that
she, like Lilia, had been captivated by the handsome and indolent
Gino.

* * * * *

“An odd and delightful piece of work.”

+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20

“Gino is irresistible as the embodiment of the Italian character and
tradition, just as Philip the defeated is irrefutable as a Britton.”
H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:342 My ’20 260w

“If but one word were allowed to be said of this book and its people,
it is ‘human.’”

+ =Bookm= 52:175 O ’20 120w

+ =Dial= 68:665 My ’20 60w

“The author knows his provincial Italy and the Italian character as
well. The reader’s attention will be held to the end of this charming
book.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 750w

“Here is the best of material for a comedy. And it is as comedy that
Mr Forster presents his material up to a certain point. Some may think
that he would have done better had he decided to preserve that vein to
the end.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 650w

=FORT, CHARLES.= Book of the damned. *$1.90 (1½c) Boni & Liveright 504

20–1375

The author explains: “By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall
have a procession of data that science has excluded.... I have gone
into the outer darkness of scientific and philosophical transactions
and proceedings, ultra-respectable, but covered with the dust of
disregard. I have descended into journalism. I have come back with the
quasi-souls of lost data.” He has brought together a curious
assemblage of physical phenomena for which science has never found any
explanation. That other planets are trying to communicate with us is
one of the hypotheses suggested.

* * * * *

“To read of them is to be inspired with an interest which has no need
of the book’s sensational title; nor is it increased by the author’s
quasi-scientific speculations which he presents in a staccato style
that soon produces the wearying effect of a series of explosions.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:410 Je ’20 140w

“‘The book of the damned’ reminds one of Harnack’s characterization of
the gnostic work ‘Pistis Sophia’ as ‘dedicated to the propaganda of
systematic idiocy.’” Preserved Smith

− =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 180w

Reviewed by Eugene Wood

=N Y Call= p10 My 2 ’20 1250w

“Whether he reaches any conclusion or what that conclusion is if he
does reach it, is so obscured in the mass of words—a quagmire of
pseudo-science and queer speculation—that the average reader will find
himself either buried alive or insane before he reaches the end.”

− =N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 440w

=Review= 2:184 F 21 ’20

=FORTESCUE, SIR SEYMOUR JOHN.= Looking back. il *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans

20–9644

“It must fall to the lot of few naval men to have a career so varied
in incident and so full of contrast as has been that of Sir Seymour
Fortescue. During his twenty-one years of duty afloat, he not only
served on the Mediterranean and China stations, and took part in the
Egyptian war of 1882 and the Sudan campaign of 1885, but had his first
experience of attendance on royalty in the Surprise and the Victoria
and Albert. During the succeeding seventeen years, he was on the staff
of King Edward VII, as equerry, and took his regular turn in waiting,
but even then he managed to put in some sea time during the manœuvres
of 1895 as commander of the Theseus, to spend six months as A.D.C. to
Lord Roberts on the Headquarters staff in South Africa, and to pay a
visit to the nitrate fields in Chile in 1907. Dovetailed between these
diversified engagements, yacht sailing and horseracing, shooting and
fishing, the opera and the theatre, with other forms of sport and
pastime, made interludes, so that as a spectator of events from many
viewpoints the present Serjeant-at-arms in the House of lords had
exceptional opportunities, and it is not surprising that he should
publish reminiscences so kaleidoscopic in colour and change.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Sir Seymour Fortescue writes so well that one wishes he could have
steered a more venturesome course. A little more latitude, and a good
deal less longitude, would have made a more entertaining volume.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:563 Je 19 ’20 1550w

“A fine crop of picturesque stories told with great spirit, good
humour and frankness.”

+ =Spec= 125:150 Jl 31 ’19 640w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p298 My 13 ’20 1000w

=47 WORKSHOP.= Plays of the 47 workshop; second ser. (Harvard plays) il *$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08

29–11241

“Prof. Baker’s course in playwriting at Harvard has published two
volumes of one-act plays written by students and performed at the
university during the year. Of the four plays of this series,
‘Torches,’ by Kenneth Raisbeck, is a colorful tragedy of the Italian
renaissance with a special musical prelude by R. T. Serp; ‘Cooks and
cardinals,’ by Norman C. Lindau is a distinctly workable comedy for
amateur production; ‘A flitch of bacon’ by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley is a
farce comedy with an Elizabethan setting; and ‘The playroom,’ by Doris
F. Halman is a modern fantasy wistful in its appeal and containing an
echo of the late war.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The book is one not to be overlooked by any organization searching
for one-act plays which are simple enough to present under amateur
conditions, and yet worth spending the time upon.” W. P. Eaton

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Ag 1 ’20 520w

“‘Forty-seven workshop plays,’ though containing nothing of great
power, shows considerable technical skill in handling widely differing
types of dramatic work.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 20 ’20 170w

“All are neatly and expertly constructed, show a sense for legitimate
stage effects, and, while perhaps not masterpieces, are of a literary
quality decidedly above that of most contemporary one-act plays in
English.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:349 O ’20 140w

=FOSDICK, RAYMOND BLAINE.= American police systems. (Publications of the Bureau of social hygiene) *$2 Century 352.2

20–20105

This volume has been written at the instigation of the Bureau of
social hygiene and is a companion to the author’s “European police
systems.” It is based upon personal study of the police in practically
every city of the United States, with a population exceeding 100,000,
and the comparisons between European and American conditions occurring
in the book are made from the latest information available. As a last
word the author says: “We have, indeed, little to be proud of. It
cannot be denied that our achievement in respect to policing is sordid
and unworthy. Contrasted with other countries in this regard we stand
ashamed. With all allowances for the peculiar conditions which make
our task so difficult, we have made a poor job of it.” The book is
indexed and contains insert charts of the organization of the police
departments of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia,
St Louis and Washington. Contents: The American problem; The
development of American police control; The present state of police
control; Special problems of police control; The organization of the
department; The commissioner or director; The chief of police; The
rank and file; The detective force; The prevention of crime;
Conclusion.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21

“Notwithstanding the surprise with which his closing statements will
he received, no doubt their truth will be recognized and those of us
who have so loudly acclaimed our entire system of government as the
best in the world may possibly find it to their advantage to read a
few statements, which although bitter, are doubtless true.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 320w

“Mr Fosdick has done a great public service in the making of this
volume. A book of primary importance to the student of government.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 27 ’20 330w

“The whole book is a constructive criticism which will appeal to all
citizens and city officials interested in the improvement of municipal
government.”

+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib= Notes 7:54 N 17 ’20 570w

=N Y Times= p18 N 28 ’20 1750w

Reviewed by Calvin Coolidge

+ =Outlook= 127:187 F 2 ’21 2100w

“The author has done well to emphasize the almost insuperable
difficulties confronting our police. The book should be read not only
by police administrators but by the general public upon whose
intelligent understanding of the problems set forth depends their
solution.” E. D. Graper

+ =Survey= 45:517 Ja 1 ’21 680w

=FOSTER, JOHN.= Searchers. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

20–26880

Two halves of a secret join Italy and Scotland in a determined search
for a casket of jewels lost three hundred and fifty years ago. The
quest is made by the Searchers, an ancient organization, consisting at
the time of the story of desperados, with one exception, Italian. The
hiding place of the jewels is recorded in a document which for greater
safety has been torn in two and one-half placed in the keeping of a
Scottish family, the other with Roman Jesuits. In the story the two
halves are gravitating towards each other throughout a series of
thrilling and dangerous adventures, plots and counterplots till the
grave of the priest, with whom the casket was buried, is discovered on
a high and wild summit of the Scottish crags and the canny Scotchman
carries off the day and the jewels as against the Italian plotters.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 150w

=N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 530w

“Exciting and cleverly constructed.”

+ =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 50w

“The story stimulates a feverish interest throughout its course.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 50w

=FOSTER, MAXIMILIAN.= Trap. *$2 (3c) Appleton

20–14214

Henry Lester was very wealthy, in fact uncomfortably so, for when he
fell in love, he couldn’t be sure that Sally Raeburn, the object of
his affections, wouldn’t marry him for his money rather than for love
of him. So he didn’t ask her to marry him at all, but instead laid a
neat little trap for her. At his country estate on the Hudson he
assembled a house party, and among those present were Mrs Dewitt, a
former sweetheart of his, and Mr Hastings, a young man of reputed
wealth, and of course Sallie. How the trap, when it was sprung, caught
not only Sallie, but Henry himself, is told in the story.

* * * * *

“A very good story it is.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 6 ’20 230w

“The heavily padded story moves slowly, and its improbabilities are
not made to seem plausible by clever development.”

− + =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 350w

=FOSTER, WILLIAM ZEBULON.= Great steel strike and its lessons. il *$1.75 Huebsch 331.89

20–26587

John A. Fitch in his introduction to the book speaks of the
overwhelming power of the steel trust and says: “The story of the most
extensive and most courageous fight yet made to break this power and
to set free the half million men of the steel mills is told within the
pages of this book by one who was himself a leader in the fight. It is
a story that is worth the telling, for it has been told before only in
fragmentary bits and without the authority that comes from the pen of
one of the chief actors in the struggle.” Contents: The present
situation; A generation of defeat; The giant labor awakes; Flank
attacks; Breaking into Pittsburgh; Storm clouds gather; The storm
breaks; Garyism rampant; Efforts at settlement; The course of the
strike; National and racial elements; The commissariat—the strike
cost; Past mistakes and future problems; In conclusion.

* * * * *

“This book, in spite of its lurid rhetoric, extreme statements, and
partisan viewpoint, throws a good deal of light on labor conditions in
the steel industry.” G: M. Janes

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:840 D ’20 140w

“Too frankly partisan to be history, and with too few facts to give it
the weight of a scientific survey, this authentic picture of the labor
machine in operation has the force of valuable evidence from the
inside.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20

“It is seldom that the public is afforded such a frank statement from
official sources so soon after the event and in this case it is
especially useful since most of the news furnished during the course
of the strike came from the representatives of the employers.” G. P.
W.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 350w

“His book is worth a dozen abstract discussions of the labor movement,
for it is an example, one of the best examples that has ever arisen,
of labor doing its own thinking, making its own detailed and
disinterested analysis. For its clarity, cogency, and significance, it
is better worth reading than nine-tenths of the volumes written about
public affairs.” G: Soule

+ =Nation= 111:273 S 4 ’20 2000w

“Mr Foster’s book is an exceedingly valuable contribution to our scant
body of authentic documents on the labor movement.” R. W. B.

+ =New Repub= 23:284 Ag 4 ’20 1550w

=R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 800w

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p571 S 2 ’20 70w

“Mr Foster draws a vivid picture of events, all of which he saw and a
large part of which he was. His judgment is cool and dispassionate; he
sees the faults in the labor movement, but he imparts to his readers a
tremendous admiration for the men who could conduct so long a campaign
against such terrific obstacles.”

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:349 N ’20 560w

=FOWLER, WILLIAM WARDE.= Roman essays and interpretations. *$5.65 Oxford 937

(Eng ed 20–11698)

“The contents fall into four parts: Roman religion; Roman history;
parallels from the life of other races; and finally a group of
literary studies devoted to Virgil and Horace, appreciations of
Niebuhr and Mommsen, and a discussion of the tragic element in
Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar.’ About half the material is reprinted
from articles which had appeared in periodicals, chiefly the Classical
Review and the Journal of Roman Studies; these, however, bear
everywhere the traces of careful revision and are to be taken as
embodying Dr Warde Fowler’s reconsidered judgments of today.”—Class J

* * * * *

“In these pages we are conscious not only of having laid before us the
fruits of the highest quality of scholarship but of enjoying the
guidance and companionship of a rare personality.” A. W. Van Buren

+ =Class J= 15:444 Ap ’20 1850w

“There are a number of interesting suggestions scattered through the
shorter papers, not all, of course, equally convincing.” H. S. J.

+ =Eng Hist R= 35:614 O ’20 290w

“When Dr Warde Fowler speaks of Roman religion the rest of us have
nothing to do but to listen and learn.”

+ − =Spec= 124:867 Je 26 ’20 2000w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 15 ’20 250w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p233 Ap 15 ’20)

“A volume without a dull page in it, and ranging over a very wide and
varied field. It contains the gleanings of long studies, pursued into
the ripeness of age with the ardency of youth.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 Ap 15 ’20 1300w

=FOX, DAVID.= Man who convicted himself. *$1.90 (2c) McBride

20–18253

“The Shadowers, Inc.” is a unique detective society composed of six
ex-criminals who have decided to use their exceptional talents in an
honest way rather than decidedly otherwise as heretofore. There is a
handwriting expert, a jewel and art connoisseur, a toxicologist, “the
greatest safe-cracker of the age,” and a smooth villain who has dealt
in various forms of fraud, from oil stock to psychical phenomena. At
the head of this band is Rex Powell, whose brain conceived the scheme.
Their aim is restitution, not prosecution, and they work privately and
discreetly. Their first case is one of robbery in an exclusive
Riverside Drive home, but as it progresses it provides scope for the
activities of each one of The Shadowers. That they are successful in
apprehending the robber almost goes without saying but their greatest
success lies in the fact that they actually force the man to convict
himself.

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 25 ’20 160w

“‘The man who convicted himself,’ despite its novelty, strikes the
reader as plausible.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 350w

“The story has the appeal of the popular melodrama and ‘dime novel’
without descending to crude and amateurish methods of telling.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 100w

=FOX, DIXON RYAN.= Decline of aristocracy in the politics of New York. (Columbia university studies in history, economics and public law) il *$4 Longmans 329

19–16519

“Under this title, Dr Fox, assistant professor of history in Columbia
university, has given us an account of the decline of federalism in
the state of New York and its eventual transformation into the
whiggism of the forties. His narrative is a continuous panorama of
party activities and beliefs and of the careers and influence of party
leaders during forty years of New York’s history. It runs from the
days of John Jay, Elisha Williams, Stephen Van Rensselaer, and others
of those who represented the property rights and aristocratic
privileges of the eighteenth century, to Thurlow Weed, the
anti-renters of 1837, and the Tippecanoe clubs, log cabins, and hard
cider of the Harrison and Tyler campaign. Thus, as far as it goes, it
illustrates the influence of industrial development and geographical
expansion upon party standards and standard bearers during a very
important period of American history.”—Nation

* * * * *

“The book is a noteworthy contribution to all the social sciences.” A.
C. Ford

+ =Am Econ R= 10:342 Je ’20 320w

“Dr Fox employs usually a lucid and vivacious style which engages the
attention. There are, however, a few lapses into discomforting
awkwardness and ambiguity of expression. There are discernible in
places, likewise, certain failures in nicety of historical
discrimination. These minor deficiencies, however, detract little from
the general high excellence of the work.” W: Trimble

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:725 Jl ’20 860w

“The work has great merits, principally those resulting from diligence
in collecting materials and skill in arranging them.” H: J. Ford

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:525 Ag ’20 170w

“As an analysis of the conditions under which the centre of political
gravity was shifted from the old party of lawyers, bank presidents,
merchants, and land-holding aristocrats to the ‘people,’ vested by the
revised constitution of 1821 with the right to vote, this essay is
both suggestive and informing.”

+ =Nation= 109:827 D 27 ’19 1050w

“An interesting and illuminating history.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p23 O 23 ’20 180w

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 17 ’20 1500w

=FOX, EARLY LEE.= American colonization society, 1817–1840. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science) $2.25 Johns Hopkins 326

20–506

“In this volume the author represents the colonization movement as
essentially a moderate, conservative, border-state movement which had
an appeal to men in every walk of life, from every political and
religious creed, and from every section of the union. He divides the
history of the American colonization society into two distinct
divisions: the first, to which this volume is devoted, begins with the
organization of the society in 1817 and extends to 1840; the second
covers the period since 1840. This volume ends with the reorganization
of the society in 1839, after which date the society, under the
influence of the North and the East, was more aggressively
anti-slavery in its programme and activities. In the first chapter,
the author discusses at considerable length the status of the free
negro and his relation to the slave and to the white population; in
the second, the organization, purpose, and early history of the
society; in the third, fourth, and last chapters, the relation of
colonization to Garrisonian abolition, to emancipation and to the
African slave-trade respectively.”—Am Hist R

* * * * *

“While the book contains much that is new and interesting the material
is very poorly arranged and there is much repetition in the numerous
quotations.” A. E. Martin

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:726 Jl ’20 650w

“While he does justice to the South, he does rather less than justice
to the abolitionists. But he has made a very useful contribution to
the history of the question of slavery, for one of the best ways of
understanding its difficulties and complexities is to study it from
the middle point of view of the ‘colonizationist.’” E. A. B.

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:627 O ’20 390w

+ =Survey= 43:505 Ja 31 ’20 320w

=FOX, JOHN, Jr.= Erskine Dale, pioneer. il *$2 Scribner

20–16857

“For the scene and period of his last romance, Mr Fox goes far back
through nearly a hundred and fifty years. His hero, at the opening of
the story a boy and at the close a young man, has been captured by the
Indians, is brought up among them, and is as skilled in their ways of
life and knowledge of woodcraft as if he had their blood in his veins.
He is, however, the heir to a great Virginian estate, and the reader
follows his exploits as he goes back and forth between the primitive
scenes of the forests and the sophisticated life of the Virginian
towns. At one moment he is with the pioneers resisting an attack from
the Indians, at another in the very camps of the Indians themselves,
and at a third gazing into the eyes of his beautiful cousin in the
midst of the social entertainment of his prosperous relatives. More
than once he faces death, but he emerges unscathed both from the
attempts of the Indians to take his life and from the enmity of a
jealous rival in love.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20

“In ‘Erskine Dale—pioneer,’ Mr Fox has portrayed with exceptional
skill the spirit of those days when the national spirit of the British
colonists was beginning to make itself felt. It is not merely the
story of one boy’s adventures. It is a tale of the birth of the
American power and influence as expressed in more than one picturesque
region.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 1100w

“It is a good book to give to the American boy, for it abounds in
stirring adventures, and at the same time gives a good insight into
the everyday life of the pioneers.”

+ =Cath World= 112:552 Ja ’21 100w

“The dialog is full of ‘go’ and the book will appeal immensely to
intermediates.”

+ =Cleveland= p106 D ’20 50w

“The book has plenty of color and of movement, and gives an
interesting picture of the period with which it deals.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 760w

“Perhaps the very best of his many romances. The flow of the story is
clear and strong; it has atmosphere, movement, and distinction.”

+ =Outlook= 26:333 O 20 ’20 140w

“It is full of color and charm and thrill.” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 98:1191 O 16 ’20 270w

“Mr Fox vividly recreates the atmosphere and social environment of the
time.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 160w

=FOXWELL, HERBERT SOMERTON.= Papers on current finance. *$3.50 Macmillan 336.42

19–12740

“This volume brings together with little alteration seven articles and
addresses spread over the period 1909–1917, but relating either to
problems raised directly by the war or to questions to which the war
has brought a new and urgent interest. An appendix reproduces a paper
of 1888, ‘The growth of monopoly, and its bearing on the functions of
the state’; also a letter dated February, 1918 advocating ‘fixed
exchange within the empire.’ The first paper, ‘British war finance,’
deals critically with the crisis of 1914 and the financial emergency
measures that it evoked. The next two papers are concerned with the
problem of financing trade and industry, particularly after the war.
‘The financing of industry and trade’ (4) stresses the desirability of
a closer touch between the financial, as distinguished from the
banking institutions and British industries. ‘The banking reserve’ (5)
deals with the inadequacy of the English position and proposes the
establishment of a system of triple reserve. The burden of ‘Inflation:
in what sense it exists: how far it can be controlled’ (7) an address
delivered in 1917, is that the foreign exchanges do not prove currency
depreciation, that gold depreciation was scarcely more marked in
England than in the United States, that high prices resulted from the
enormous expenditure of the government and could be checked only by
cutting away from the gold standard.”—Am Econ R

* * * * *

Reviewed by C. A. Phillips

+ =Am Econ R= 10:140 Mr ’20 550w

“It is the papers on finance and banking which show Professor Foxwell
at his best, and make his volumes a valuable handbook for students.”

+ =Ath= p781 Ag 22 ’19 1000w

“Professor Foxwell’s book suffers from the defect inherent in its
form, which is that of lectures delivered at different times during
the past ten years, of not co-ordinating the treatment of these
problems. The contents are valuable and the author’s grasp of his
subjects complete enough to make us regret that he did not recast the
lectures into book form and develop his logical sequence.”

+ − =Sat R= 127:482 My 17 ’19 1350w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 My 8 ’19 450w

=FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).=[2] Bride of Corinth, and other poems and plays; a translation by Wilfrid Jackson and Emilie Jackson. *$2.50 Lane 842

20–19383

A volume of poems and plays. Contents: The bride of Corinth; Verses;
Crainquebille; The comedy of a man who married a dumb wife; Come what
may.

=FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).=[2] Little Pierre; tr. by J. Lewis May. *$2.50 (3½c) Lane

20–22476

“Little Pierre” is the story of a boy from his birth to his tenth
year. It is told in the first person and the actual memories of
childhood begin with his second year. He is the son of a Paris
physician and is born “in the days when the reign of King Louis
Philippe was drawing to a close.”

* * * * *

‘Mr May and his colleague have done well, uncommonly well with their
work, have indeed lost very little in the transition from French to
English, and kept all the charm of ‘Little Pierre.’” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 27 ’20 560w

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 330w

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 50w

=FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).=[2] Seven wives of Bluebeard, and other marvellous tales; a tr. by D. B. Stewart. *$2.50 (5c) Lane

20–22333

Four fairy tales, not written for children. In the first Bluebeard is
pictured as a shy, modest man, the victim of the extravagance and
unfaithfulness of his seven successive wives. The other stories are:
The miracle of the great St Nicholas, a satiric treatment of an old
legend; The story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de
Boulingrin, a version of The sleeping Beauty; and The shirt, the story
of the king who was told to find the shirt of a happy man.

* * * * *

“This pleasant and apparently accurate rendering gives us one of the
most delightful works of an author who loses relatively little through
the process of translation, partly because of the Doric simplicity of
his style and partly because of the importance which he attaches to
the plot and the intellectual gist.”

+ =Ath= p434 O 1 ’20 260w

+ =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 60w

=FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON.= Roaming through the West Indies. il *$5 (2c) Century 917.29

20–17981

The author says: “The following pages do not pretend to ‘cover’ the
West Indies. They are made up of the random pickings of an
eight-months’ tour of the Antilles, during which every island of
importance was visited, but they are put together rather for the
entertainment of the armchair traveler than for the information of the
traveler in the flesh.” He also states that he wishes it distinctly
understood that this is not the record of a walking trip. As a protest
to those friends who ever since his vagabond journey around the world
have expected him to travel always on foot he planned a trip on which
walking would be difficult if not impossible. The book is in three
parts: The American West Indies; The British West Indies; and The
French West Indies and others. There are many illustrations and a map.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20

“Altogether this latest volume is another witness to its author’s
talent for description, his sense for the dramatic, and his eye for
the picturesque, which combine to make his accumulating works a boon
to the travel-thirsty reader.” L. M. R.

+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 140w

“If the average American wants to know just what he would see and how
he would feel in the West Indies, let him read Mr Franck’s book. On
occasion Mr Franck reminds one of Herodotus, in the marked distinction
between the credibility of what he reports as of his own experiences
and the dubious quality of what he has got through hearsay.” A. J.

+ − =New Repub= 24:248 N 3 ’20 680w

“What all other writers aim at, Mr Franck accomplishes with consummate
ease. The easy flowing style of ‘Zone policeman 88’ and ‘Vagabonding
down the Andes’ is here manifested in its highest perfection.” W:
McFee

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 20 ’20 1100w

“His pages are thickly sprinkled with character sketches of bizarre
personalities, rarely poetic descriptive passages, and narratives as
tense as their back-grounds are colorful. As in Mr Franck’s earlier
books, the distinguishing characteristic of his writing is his ability
to make his readers ‘see the sights’ through his eyes, which are so
alert to catch any happening of human interest.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 O 31 ’20 2300w

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 70w

“‘Roaming through the West Indies’ is easily the best ‘regular’ travel
book on the islands south and east of Florida we have seen.” R. S.
Lynd

+ =Pub W= 98:1198 O 16 ’20 290w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 70w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 870w

=FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON.= Vagabonding through changing Germany. il *$4 (4c) Harper 914.3

20–11658

The author went into Germany with the American army of occupation, and
later, released from duty, he traveled throughout the country. He
followed his usual custom of mixing with the people, talking with them
and living their life as far as possible and his book sets down in
detail his observations. Among the chapters are: On to the Rhine;
Germany under the American heel; Thou shalt not ... fraternize;
Knocking about the occupied area; Getting neutralized; The heart of
the hungry empire; “Give us food!” Family life in Mechlenburg; On the
road in Bavaria; Music still has charms. There are many illustrations
from the author’s photographs.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20

“The ‘vagabond’ tells his experiences in a rapid, brilliant manner, as
if he were never for a moment tired, and had no difficulty at all in
telling his story. The pictures tell the story of the Germany of today
fully as well as does the author in his brilliant chat: and both
together form a book well worth reading.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 440w

“A thoroughly entertaining and at times instructive volume. The reader
is grateful for the care with which Mr Franck has handled his facts.
At no point does he attempt to be picturesque, sentimental or
theatrically effective.” L. M. R.

+ =Freeman= 2:238 N 17 ’20 220w

“Franck’s book is eminently readable, his possession of comparisons
from other visits to Germany, his keen knowledge of German and his
great fund of information upon all the countries of the world going to
make it unique in character and filled with worthwhile incident. It
lacks sympathy even with the wretched populace of the fatherland.” F:
O’Brien

+ =N Y Times= p7 Ag 1 ’20 1150w

+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 130w

+ =St Louis= 18:250 O ’20 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 16 ’20 560w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 50w

“He gives no statistics, but the evident desire to avoid exaggeration
and the studied fairness with which he reproduces opinions compel
confidence in the accuracy of his report on economic and political
conditions.” C: Seymour

+ =Yale R= n s 10:421 Ja ’21 1150w

=FRANCK, TENNEY.=[2] Economic history of Rome to the end of the republic. $2.50 Johns Hopkins 937

20–11380

“In contrast to the practices of certain contemporary historians who
have analyzed Roman economic conditions, Professor Frank has wisely
laid down the principal that ‘a priori methods of interpreting
historical development by means of generally accepted economic and
psychological maxims must be applied to Roman history only with great
reserve.’ He therefore follows closely the evidence furnished by the
inscriptions, by archaeology, and by literature. Under Etruscan
domination industry and commerce developed in Latium to some extent.
The treaties with Carthage and the history of Roman coinage show that
trade declined after the explusion of the Etruscans, and that the
Romans turned again to their farms. The deforestation of the Volscian
mountains and the gradual exhaustion of the soil made it impossible
for the dense population of Latium to win a livelihood from their own
land, and the pressure was relieved by territorial expansion. If
relief had not come in this way manufacturing, commerce and the arts
might have gained a better foot in Rome. The two chapters on industry
constitute one of the most valuable contributions which the author has
made to our knowledge of Roman economic conditions.”—Am Hist R

* * * * *

“Among the best features of Professor Frank’s[sp?] book, which is
characterized throughout by knowledge, precision of statement, and
acuteness of observation, as well as by vigor of style and vitality of
thought, is the skill with which he has utilized the archaeological
sources of information.” W. S. Ferguson

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:801 D ’20 1500w

“As a study of the economic development of the city of Rome, the
governing centre of the civilized world, it stands alone in its
completeness, in the thorough use which the author has made of
available evidence, in the sound judgment which he has shown, and in
the clear, convincing way in which he has set forth his conclusions.”
F. F. Abbott

+ =Am Hist R= 26:309 Ja ’21 560w

=FRANK, WALDO DAVID.= Dark mother. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright

20–19046

“Mr Frank’s is one of those long novels of the type which Theodore
Dreiser has popularized, with a minute description of the adventures
of one or two young men, coming to New York from the West, giving
especial emphasis to their amatory experiences, and reflecting
sarcastically upon the evils of capitalism. In this book it is the
Spanish war which enters incidentally into the story.”—Review

* * * * *

Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld

=Dial= 70:95 Ja ’21 3950w

“He has chosen a highly impressionistic method of conveying his
perceptions and observations. There are few or no connectives.
Sentences and paragraphs stand alone and unfriended. Individually they
are pitched in an extremely high key. The result is both nerve-racking
and, in the end, without true effectiveness.”

− + |=Nation= 111:480 O 27 ’20 320w

“The quality of this novel seems courageous in a small way but chiefly
wilful; sincere but not important. He seems to have intensity without
much perception. But one thing Mr Frank does do: he brings home to us
anew in this book the very valuable reminder that there are vast areas
of life that our literature has not yet known how to include. In that
sense this novel in places may be called a creditable experiment in
material.” Stark Young

+ − =New Repub= 25:148 D 29 ’20 520w

“‘The dark mother’ is a lost cause, so far as the medium goes. For it
is transitional, it is neither the novel, nor something distinct from
the novel. Judged as a novel, it does not satisfy; and there is
nothing else to judge it by. In any case, Waldo Frank is en route for
something or other.” Kenneth Burke

− + =N Y Evening Post= p6 N 27 ’20 1350w

“Of all kinds of sophistry the most insidious is that coming from an
eloquent writer who is the unconscious victim of unsound thinking. Mr
Frank is perhaps unduly preoccupied with the world and the flesh, but
it would take a psycho-analyst to gauge his intention in dwelling upon
them. To give the author his due, it must be said that he impresses
the reader rather as a man groping for ethical convictions. Mr Frank’s
powers of characterization deserve high praise.”

− + =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 800w

“Short sentences, in the manner of the late Horace Traubel, make ‘The
dark mother’ rather jerky and monotonous. How is it that so many young
writers do not understand that just at present books about sex have
become a little tiresome?” E. L. Pearson

− =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 230w

=FRANK, WALDO DAVID.= Our America. *$2 (3c) Boni & Liveright 917.3

19–16552

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

“To say that it is without interest would be to say what is not true;
to say that it is thoughtlessly written would be a hasty comment on an
author whose work everywhere evidences the pale cast of thought. It
is, indeed, an interesting, thoughtful book, written in an easy,
somewhat emotional style. But it is nothing if not pessimistic in its
historical backward glancing and in its view of the present. And it is
often lacking in a sense of perspective and proportion.”

+ − =Cath World= 110:685 F ’20 280w

“Mr Frank does not write with the sustained and rolling cadence of
Hebrew poetry. His sentences are swift and staccato like the flash of
a whip, sudden and shrill like newspaper headlines. And yet Mr Frank
is of the school of the prophets of his race. Other witnesses have
arisen against us, W. T. Stead, M. Paul Bourget, Mr H. G. Wells, Mr
Arnold Bennett. These, however, have spoken in their separation from
us, and, excepting the first, with the tolerant cynicism of
detachment. What gives force to Mr Frank’s prophecy is that he is of
us, as Jeremiah was of Jerusalem.” R. M. Lovett

+ =Dial= 68:506 Ap ’20 2800w

“We should like to be appreciative toward a great deal in this book if
its author were less rasping, less intent upon antagonizing and
irritating at every turn. His tribute to the wistful beauty of the
perished culture of our red men and his analysis of the industrial and
spiritual genius of the Jew in America would evoke a readier response
if the motivation were more disinterested.” Jacob Zeitlin

+ − =Nation= 110:595 My 1 ’20 900w

Reviewed by W. J. Ghent

=Review= 2:434 Ap 24 ’20 850w

“A striking interpretation of the American spirit.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 20w

“Hostile and shallow critics will be tempted to run the gamut of the
alphabet in search of verbal missiles to hurl at the author from
anarchist and bolshevist down to zealot. Mr Frank is none of these,
the more careful reader will decide, but merely an insurgent in
letters, feeling the pulsing of a new age that sooner or later will be
able to declare itself and dominate public opinion as Puritanism has
dictated in the past.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 3 ’20 650w

“While most people will take exception to some of Mr Frank’s
statements, his reversal of the usual points of view cannot fail to
stimulate thought.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:122 Je ’20 160w

“The book has a genuinely interesting chapter on the Jew and much that
is just and sympathetic in regard to the ‘buried culture’ of the
Indian. But the unburied issues that cluster about the negro it
notably fails to mention. And with the exception of an elaborate
eulogy of Miss Amy Lowell, there is no intimation that the American
population is not exclusively masculine.”

+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:158 My ’20 750w

=FRANKAU, GILBERT.= Peter Jameson. *$2 (1½c) Knopf

20–3796

A story of the war—of the “great cleansing.” Peter Jameson at the
outset of the story is a business man, of somewhat the American type.
He is married to an admirable wife, father of two little daughters,
and in every way successful and satisfied. At its beginning he is not
greatly stirred by the war, but the end of three months finds him in
it. The story thereafter follows his fortunes and scenes at the front
alternate with homecomings to Patricia. He is twice wounded and is
finally invalided home with shell shock, from which he is saved by
Patricia’s care. A real love awakens between husband and wife and the
story comes to a triumphant end on Armistice day, 1918.

* * * * *

“We find ourselves wishing that he had kept his talent in a napkin
rather than put it to such uses.”

− =Ath= p241 F 20 ’20 1000w

“The scenes of English country life in the last part are a pleasant
offset to the earlier war pictures.”

+ =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 880w

“‘Peter Jameson’ is in keeping with the newest invention in
novel-writing the thesis that four years of slaughter in France
purifies all Englishmen.”

− =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 120w

“Personally we were more interested in the tobacco business than in
the shell shock, which is the real cause of the book, but that may
have been because we knew less about it beforehand. Anyway Peter is
very well worth knowing, as are a number of the lesser lights.”

+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 150w

“The vivid battle descriptions that are the best part of the book
cannot atone for its essential narrowness and shallowness, for its
manifold defects of thought and style, for its systematic
glorification of hates and follies and prejudices that were scarcely
excusable even in the heat of the conflict. ‘Peter Jameson’ is the
product of a mind still inflamed by the fever of war.” W. H. C.

− + =New Repub= 24:224 O 27 ’20 270w

“‘Peter Jameson’ is a fine story. Though Mr Frankau’s style is
unpleasantly spasmodic and though so many characters confuse the
reader’s mind the book reads easily, and one feels that a certain
phase of English life has been definitely interpreted.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p2 My 1 ’20 820w

“There are splendid descriptions of fighting, descriptions that reveal
the hand of a writer who knows well what he is writing about. Mr
Frankau had a high goal in view when he conceived ‘Peter Jameson.’ It
was no ordinary war book that he set out to write. The result has
justified his courage. ‘Peter Jameson’ is not unworthy of the high
purpose which its author set himself.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 800w

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w

“A fine story, with its wealth of well-drawn persons,—a record of
England in war-time to be classed with ‘Mr Britling’ and ‘The tree of
heaven,’ and more hopeful than these.” Katharine Perry

+ =Pub W= 97:1292 Ap 17 ’20 350w

“The book is clever, veracious in spots; oh, so anxious to get at the
truth about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and quite
without creative vitality as a whole.” H. W. Boynton

− + =Review= 2:573 My 29 ’20 230w