Chapter XXXII: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (2)

“The preface of ‘Chemistry and its mysteries,’ is addressed to the
adult and sets forth the advantages of disabusing the mind of any
child below high school age of the idea that chemistry is a dry and
merely technical study. The author bases the book on the belief that
children will become genuinely interested in science, if the subject
is put before them in a manner in which they can easily grasp it. The
volume is the fifth in the Science for children series, the text
showing in a simple manner the inner meaning of everyday happenings
and the composition of materials met in everyday life.”—Springf’d
Republican

* * * * *

“Of interest to the adult as well as child.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 4 ’20 200w

“He certainly has achieved considerable success in a difficult task.
It is unfortunate that Mr Gibson makes a few statements to which
exception can be taken in themselves.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p748 D 11 ’19 550w

=GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON.=[2] Neighbours. *$2 Macmillan 821

20–18067

“There is restraint and beauty in these poems which always keep close
touch with men and women. Neighbours speak in the quiet of their homes
a few intimate lines which open whole life stories; pretty love poems,
poems of travel and picture verses are gathered with ‘In khaki’ and
‘Casualties.’”—Booklist

* * * * *

“Mr Gibson for us has something of the power and the achievement of
his fellow-Northumbrian, Bewick. Granted that he possesses not a tithe
of Bewick’s nature-knowledge, he approaches him more nearly in his
reading of human nature; and when he leaves this province for the dash
and splendour of Turner or even the woodland reverie of Birket Foster,
he drops for a shadow the substance which he had before.” E. B.

+ − =Ath= p549 O 22 ’20 540w

+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20

“The only definitely interesting section of Mr Gibson’s new book is
the first, called ‘Neighbours,’ containing a series of grim rural
monologues and dialogues. The other sections are filled with turgid
sonnets and monotonous quatrains about the war.” Mark Van Doren

+ − =Nation= 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 160w

“Admiring Mr Gibson’s careful workmanship and truth to nature, we
cannot escape the feeling that at least half the time he is to the
real poet as the photographer, however fine, is to the artist.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 250w

Reviewed by K. L. Bates

+ =N Y Times= p22 Ja 2 ’21 1200w

“Mr Gibson’s skill is most admirable when we consider that it is
allied to poetic feeling of the utmost simplicity and depth.”

+ =Spec= 125:505 O 16 ’20 380w

“Mr Gibson’s latest book will not lessen his reputation as a poet, but
it can scarcely add to it. For while the virtues of style and
sincerity which his earlier poetry has taught us to expect, are in
equal evidence here, the vices which we trusted were only incidents of
his growth remain in an exaggerated condition.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p714 N 4 ’20 1350w

=GILBRETH, FRANK BUNKER, and GILBRETH, LILLIAN EVELYN (MOLLER) (MRS FRANK BUNKER GILBRETH).= Motion study for the handicapped. (Efficiency books) il *$4 Dutton 658.7

(Eng ed 20–6759)

“The authors maintain that there is ‘one best way’ in every industrial
process, and that way can best be determined by a study of the methods
of experts as revealed by motion pictures so taken as to show the path
of the motion and the time required. The best way of performing an
operation having been determined, the authors maintain that the
cripple should be taught that method. Their enthusiastic claim is, ‘We
have worked out in the laboratory the methods by which suitable
occupations for cripples of any type may be determined and also
methods by which training in these occupations may be transferred to
the crippled learner.’ Much is said about the problem of the crippled
soldier, for most of the chapters of the book were papers read before
meetings of engineers in 1917 and 1918 when that subject was receiving
much attention.”—Survey

* * * * *

=Ath= p452 Ap 2 ’20 500w

=Nature= 105:737 Ag 12 ’20 950w

Reviewed by J. C. Faris

+ =Survey= 44:731 S 15 ’20 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p157 Mr 4 ’20 50w

=GILL, CHARLES OTIS, and PINCHOT, GIFFORD.= Six thousand country churches. il *$2 Macmillan 261

19–17903

“The authors whose work ‘The country church’ described rural church
conditions in a county each of New York and Vermont, have thoroughly
surveyed Ohio, its churches, ministers, education, crime, social life,
denominationalism, and other features. They find too great a division
into sects, and in some of the counties most needing religious
instruction, a great number of ill-attended churches, with
non-resident or poorly educated pastors. Community churches are
recommended. Many maps make this book more graphic than the former
volume.”—Booklist

* * * * *

“Perhaps the chief value of the work ... lies in its impartial exhibit
of the zeal and stupidity of denominationalism gone to seed.” Allan
Hoben

+ =Am J Soc= 26:377 N ’20 180w

“This book is indispensable to all who would attempt to shape the
program for the living church in America during the next generation.”

+ =Bib World= 54:436 Jl ’20 170w

=Booklist= 16:188 Mr ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 1050w

“Some very practical and informing light on the subject of church
federation is thrown by Charles Otis Gill and Gifford Pinchot, in ‘Six
thousand country churches.’”

+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 80w

“Certainly everybody who is at all concerned for the cause of morals
and religion, every student of sociology, and every believer in the
laboratory method, must feel under deep obligation to the painstaking
authors of ’6,000 country churches’ for the statesmanlike survey which
they have given to us.” C: E. Beals

+ =Nation= 110:521 Ap 17 ’20 1050w

=GILLESPIE, JAMES EDWARD.=[2] Influence of oversea expansion on England to 1700. (Columbia university studies in history, economics, and public law) pa *$3 Longmans 942

20–18737

“In this treatise British colonial development is approached from a
new angle. The author has made a serious attempt to analyze and
present the effects of early British expansion on England herself. He
discusses these effects in the concrete, under the heads of social
customs, commerce, industry, finance, morals and religion, thought,
literature, art and politics.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“He handles large quantities of fascinating material with dexterity
and good sense.”

+ =Nation= 111:539 N 10 ’20 80w

“Mr Gillespie’s book, though sometimes inconclusive and sometimes
unconvincing, particularly in what it says of political development,
is illuminating and suggestive, and opens up a new field of
observation and research to the historical student.”

+ − =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 340w

“Such a discussion is useful in that it brings together for the first
time a variety of materials that have heretofore been widely
scattered. It serves to crystallize and clarify our views of a most
important period in English history.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 100w

=GITTINS, HARRY NEVILLE.= Short and sweet. *$1.75 Lane

20–7428

A collection of short light stories and sketches. The author died on
active service in France in 1917, aged twenty-four years. The stories
originally appeared in Punch, the Liverpool Daily Post and London
Opinion, and have been collected in book form by Mr Gittins’ family as
a tribute to his memory. The point of most of the stories, which
average about seven pages, is in the light repartee of love making
rather than in action. Among the titles are: The golfing husband;
Marjorie on the turf; A golfing musical comedy; By the left; A
difficult handicap; A lucky escape; The married man’s advantage; The
difficulty of the dance; Short and sweet, etc. At the close there is a
group of verses in the same strain.

* * * * *

“Of gossamer texture, and seemingly dashed off without much thought,
they yet give an instantly recognizable reflection of the typical
British young man of good family and sufficient means. Some of the
chapters suggest the daintiness of the ‘Dolly dialogues,’ while all
are up to a respectable standard of literary merit.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 400w

“They are very good examples of the light humorous vein in which the
youth of this generation delight and excel. Many of them remind us of
the early work of Barrie.”

+ =Sat R= 130:400 N 13 ’20 60w

“The little stories have a touch of original humor and are agreeable.”

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

=GLAENZER, RICHARD BUTLER.= Literary snapshots, impressions of contemporary authors. *$1.25 Brentano’s 811

20–13197

“In these snapshots, Mr Glaenzer has brought out the literary features
of his subjects. The first three groups are devoted to English,
American and foreign authors, among the twenty-two of the first being
Hardy, Galsworthy, Wells, Kipling, Barrie, Shaw, to Dunsany, Doyle,
Hudson and Blackwood; among the fourteen American authors are Howells,
Dreiser, Wharton, Tarkington, Hergesheimer, Churchill and Wister;
among the ten foreign authors are France, Loti, Rolland, to
Schnitzler, d’Annunzio and Boyer. Another group of prose-writers are
labelled ‘Lollypops,’ among which are Harold Bell Wright, Florence L.
Barclay, Robert W. Chambers, Elinor Glyn, Owen Johnson, Marie Corelli,
Upton Sinclair and Frances Hodgson Burnett. In the four groups under
the ‘Flicks at Pegasus,’ the poets, English and American are
limned.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The likeness is in the impression rather than in the contours, and
for that reason is much more strikingly interesting.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ’19 400w

“The literary photographer has been clever in catching his victims in
what the public would call ‘a characteristic and distinctive pose.’ In
the case of his vers libre subjects Mr Glaenzer is successful in
reflecting their styles in his own.” L. M. R.

+ − =Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 200w

“You may not like some of the snapshots, you may violently disagree
with the implied judgments—but they are all stimulating, some of them
are humorous, a few bitter, and more are acutely critical.” W. P.
Eaton

+ =N Y Call= p6 Ja 9 ’21 220w

=GLASIER, JOHN BRUCE.= Meaning of socialism. *$2 (4c) Seltzer 335

21–880

The book is one of the “New library of social science” series, edited
by J. Ramsay Macdonald. It has an introduction by J. A Hobson, who
says of socialism that its most profitable labor is in the field of
“humanism”—meaning that economics, politics, art and morals are but
necessary factors in the realization of higher human relationships—and
that the author of the book has more successfully than any other
writer of our time the humanist interpretation and outlook. The four
parts of the book are: After long ages; The epoch of freedom;
Socialism in existing society; Beyond all frontiers.

* * * * *

“Mr Glasier is badly equipped as an economist and is too impatient for
rhetorical flights.” H. S.

+ − =Nation= 110:728 My 29 ’20 200w

“While the book contains no new departure in socialist thought, the
author’s fine literary gift, his intimate knowledge of the socialist
movement and his inspiring idealism make the volume an excellent first
aid to the student of socialism.”

+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 110w

“Presents the fundamental idea of socialism with a large amount of
ethical and humane idealism and praiseworthy grace and sweetness of
temper. It is, in short, socialism suffused with the spirit of William
Morris and purged of its economic one-sidedness that Mr Glasier
presents.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p684 N 27 ’19 1000w

=GLASPELL, SUSAN (MRS GEORGE CRAM COOK).= Plays. *$2 Small 812

20–12185

All of Susan Glaspell’s plays have been produced by the Provincetown
players and by other little theater groups and some of them have been
published separately. This is the first collected edition. The
collection opens with Trifles, which has been called “the best play
that has been written by an American.” The other one-act plays are The
people, Close the book, The outside and Woman’s honor. These are
followed by the three-act play, Bernice, a play of subtle theme, one
of the few attempts to write serious American drama. The collection
closes with two comedies written in collaboration with George Cram
Cook, Suppressed desires and Tickless time.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:21 O ’20

“Miss Glaspell has command of crisp and forceful dialogue, but this
volume, indeed, indicates clearly that her gifts are literary rather
than dramatic.”

+ =Cath World= 112:408 D ’20 160w

“These eight plays have a literary quality and a somewhat
philosophical viewpoint that make them as readable as stories. Miss
Glaspell writes in a crisp, descriptive style and she shows keen
insight into the underlying human motives. ‘Trifles’ is a really great
play.”

+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 50w

“The publication of Miss Glaspell’s collected plays at last lifts them
out of the tawdriness of their original production and lets them live
by their own inherent life. That life is strong, though it is never
rich. In truth, it is thin. Only it is thin not like a wisp of straw,
but like a tongue of flame.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 111:509 N 3 ’20 1100w

“Miss Glaspell’s style, while not especially distinguished, is
entertaining and easy to read.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 250w

“The well-rounded laughter of ‘Suppressed desires’ becomes a trifle
more angular in the comedies from a single pen, ‘Woman’s honor,’ and
‘Close the book.’ In all the plays there is a deeper meaning, the
presence of an interesting idea or ideal, yet, as in ‘Woman’s honor’
and ‘The outside,’ the idea often remains veiled. ‘Bernice’ may be
read with an intensity of thought. Yet, as a play, acted upon a stage,
what was intense might easily become monotonous.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 14 ’20 600w

“For readers who can achieve an artistic perspective in relation to
these plays there is satisfaction in finding, after reading and
rereading them all, that the big things are the good ones, and that
the biggest is the best. It is as if Miss Glaspell hit a far target
more easily than one close by.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:349 O ’20 320w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 60w

=GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON.= What the workers want: a study of British labor. *$4 Harcourt, Brace & Howe 331

20–9059

As a result of five years’ study of the British, the author predicts
that England will make an early and sane adjustment to the new
impulses of the human spirit now striving for expression throughout
the world and that she will be the first country to enter the new age
equipped and unembittered. His summary of the wants of the workers
today is: “The workers wish to be the public servants of community
enterprise, not the hired hands of private enterprise. They refuse to
work longer for a system of private profits divided in part among
non-producers. They demand a share in the control and responsibilities
of the work they do (not only welfare and workshop conditions, but
discipline and management and commercial administration). They demand
a good life, which means a standard of living (in terms of wages and
hours) that provides leisure, recreation, education, health, comfort,
and security.” (Chapter 1) The contents report all the important
events and tendencies in the industrial world since the war under the
sections: Chaos and aspirations; The year; The way they do it; What
the workers want; Problems; The summing up. The appendix gives in full
the important documents of the social revolution and is divided into
the sections: The employers; Masters and men; The workers; The
judgment; The public. There is an index.

* * * * *

“A thoroughgoing and interesting summary of movements, forces and men
in the British labor situation.”

+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20

“The feature that gives the book its greatest value, is its profound
understanding of the British people, whose industrial and political
problems it describes and illumines with such keen comment.” T. M.
Ave-Lallemant

+ =Freeman= 2:164 O 27 ’20 1000w

“There is little attempt to give the historic background of the
various groups, but the reader who has been awakened at all to the new
authority with which labor is speaking in Britain and, to its
influence upon world politics, as well as upon labor problems in the
narrower sense, will find here the best material yet available for
understanding the situation.”

+ =Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 150w

“The account of the Coal commission, with its shrewd and playful
pictures of the chief actors, is an illustration of what is, to the
general reader, both the book’s greatest charm and its greatest
danger—its emphasis on the personalities of the labor movement. The
danger is that of a heroistic reading of current tendencies. The book
nowhere gets put together, and Mr Gleason’s generalizations are likely
to come as shrewd asides.” C. L. Goodrich

+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:855 D ’20 1550w

“Mr Gleason reports contemporary history as a dramatist might compose
a pageant. He sets the stage, describes the dramatis personae, and
juxtaposes their significant utterances. The result gives an effect of
authentic composition. As is usual with Mr Gleason’s books, not the
least valuable part of ‘What the workers want’ is the bulky appendix.”
G: Soule

+ =Nation= 111:133 Jl 31 ’20 860w

“This book is the ablest piece of reporting I have seen in several
years. It is vivid, singularly intimate in its knowledge, and with a
frank recognition of the problems involved that gives it an
objectivity rare in books of the kind. Mr Gleason has had a
preparation unparalleled among American students for this work.” H. J.
L.

+ =New Repub= 23:65 Je 9 ’20 1250w

“There is so much that is excellent and of timely consequence in Mr
Gleason’s 500–page volume that it is difficult to feel either patient
or charitable toward the author when, occasionally, he seems to lose
his head.”

+ − =N Y Times= p2 Ag 15 ’20 2000w

+ =Survey= 44:416 Je 19 ’20 240w

=GLINSKI, ANTONI JÓZEF.=[2] Polish fairy tales; tr. by Maude Ashurst Biggs. il *$5 Lane

21–658

These tales representing the folk lore of the eastern provinces of
Poland and White Russia are of extreme age, some of them dating back
to primitive Aryan times. There is an obvious likeness between them
and the folk lore of other European nations and they are taken from a
larger collection made by A. J. Glinski. They are beautifully
illustrated in color by Cecile Walton, and an explanatory appendix is
added by the translator. The tales are: The frog princess; Princess
Miranda and Prince Hero; The eagles; The whirlwind; The good ferryman
and the water nymphs; The princess of the Brazen Mountain; The bear in
the forest hut.

* * * * *

“The vivacious illustrations by Cecile Walton show a conscientious
striving to interpret these unfamiliar themes.”

+ =Int Studio= 72:206 Ja ’21 60w

“An exceptionally attractive book.”

+ =Spec= 125:710 N 27 ’20 60w

“What especially distinguishes this book is the illustrations.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p830 D 9 ’20 220w

=GODDARD, HENRY HERBERT.= Human efficiency and levels of intelligence. il *$1.50 Princeton univ. press 150

20–7588

“Series of lectures delivered last year under the Louis Clark Vanuxem
foundation at Princeton university by Henry Herbert Goddard, director
of the bureau of juvenile research of Ohio, have just been published
under the title, ‘Human efficiency and levels of intelligence.’”
(Springf’d Republican) “The lectures explain how the recognition of
different degrees of intelligence among children and adults can effect
greater social efficiency by aiding each person to train for the work
and responsibility which his mental equipment warrants. Tests are used
as a conscious control of delinquency and the feeble-minded are
protected and directed to aid in their own support. The author’s work
with soldiers has shown an astonishing degree of variation in
intelligence among normal people.” (Booklist)

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20

“His theory of an intellectual aristocracy is intensely interesting
and appealing.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 160w

=GOIZET, LOUIS HENRI.= Never grow old. *$2 (6c) Putnam 612.68

20–18316

The author claims to have discovered a method by which man can live in
beauty and health for more than a hundred years. It is based on the
theory that perfect health requires absolute rectitude of form without
which static equilibrium and harmony of the organic functions are
impossible. The method consists of a system of “superficial tractile
rubbings” by which the free circulation of “the rotary molecular
current” is reestablished throughout the cells of the organized being.
The book falls into two parts, of which the first develops the law on
which the theory is based and the second treats of the method. Some of
the chapters in part two are: Causes of alteration in form; The
rectitude of forms; Rectification of form.

* * * * *

“The book contains much suggestive argument and speculation.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 80w

“It can be said, however, that the first half of the book leads the
way to its climax with a relentless logic—providing always that the
author’s premises are correct—that is truly delightful and admirably
lucid.” Van Buren Thorne

+ =N Y Times= p5 N 14 ’20 1850w

=GOLDBERG, ISAAC.= Studies in Spanish-American literature. *$2.50 Brentano’s 860

20–2423

“‘It is high time we arouse ourselves to an appreciation of the ideals
and merits of Spanish-American literature’ writes Prof. J. D. M. Ford
in his introduction to ‘Studies in Spanish-American literature.’ Dr
Goldberg discusses the modernist spirit and five of its prophets,
Dario of Nicaragua, Rodo of Uruguay, Chocano and Eguren of Peru,
Blanco-Fombona of Venezuela. Many poems and philosophical and
political points of view are quoted in both the original and
translation. Several rhymed translations are by Alice Stone
Blackwell.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Ath= p493 Ap 9 ’20 40w

“The puzzling thing about Dr Goldberg is that while in Spanish verse
he is sensitive to delicate shades of rhythm and cadence, for an
English equivalent he seems ready to accept anything which comes to
hand.” J. B. T.

+ − =Ath= p902 D 31 ’20 520w

“Though a scholarly work, its swift, lucid style and novelty of
subject give it an appeal for the general reader.”

+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20

“His study of Dario’s poetry is enthusiastic and appreciative; it is
marked with the fairest critical spirit. This may also be declared of
his entire treatment of the ‘Modernistas.’” T: Walsh

+ =Bookm= 51:235 Ap ’20 1300w

“As a work of scholarship, Dr Goldberg’s book is of tremendous value.
It is written to appeal to the general reader, and appeal it will, if
swift, lucid style and novelty of subject matter count for anything.”
G. H. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 750w

“Novelty, fairness and lucidity mark these studies.”

+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w

“A book of permanent value, really necessary in any collection of
world literature.” T: Walsh

+ =Nation= 110:624 My 8 ’20 750w

“It is a book of pleasant reading, for Dr Goldberg’s style is florid
and, were it not for a trifle too much effort, would be brilliant. The
chief significance of these studies is, however, as the first effort
to provide a sound literary criticism of the work of South American
writers.” H. K.

+ =New Repub= 23:288 Ag 4 ’20 620w

“Dr Goldberg’s scholarship is good in essentials. Unfortunately,
however, he can not be complimented for carefulness in little things.
In spite of the general clarity of his style, there are now and then
pages far from clear.” F: B. Luquiens

+ − =Review= 2:335 Ap 3 ’20 1500w

“Dr Goldberg has written in great detail, with diction lucid and at
times sparkling.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 16 ’20 340w

=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Fight for freedom. (Plays for a people’s theatre) *$1.25 Seltzer 822

20–12048

In this four act play a war-maddened young soldier assaults the girl
who had asked to be relieved from her engagement to him on the ground
that she has learned to love another. The development of the play
brings out the attitudes of the various characters toward the man
himself, his act, and the girl concerned. These vary from the
sentimental attitude of those who would forgive “our boys” anything to
that of the two radicals to whom personal considerations are nothing
in the face of the coming revolution. Henri Barbusse has written a
preface and there is an introduction by the author.

* * * * *

“It is a clever pamphlet play, but there is more speechifying than
dialogue.”

+ − =Ath= p321 Mr 5 ’20 90w

“Mr Goldring’s best is in the sudden reversal from the expected toward
the end of his play, when his theoretical revolutionary becomes
human—and a bit detestable for once.” Gilbert Seldes

− + =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 100w

“If it were not for Mr Goldring’s introduction, it would be very hard
to believe that anyone could seriously contribute this muscle-bound
thesis-play as anything the people or anybody else but a theatrical
antiquarian would be interested in.” Kenneth Macgowan

− =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 500w

Reviewed by Dorothy Grafly

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 580w

“‘The fight for freedom’ is a good play quite apart from any
pretensions to be different in character from the social plays of the
pre-war theater. It is, in fact, in direct line with the best work of
Shaw, Galsworthy and Barker.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 120w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 50w

=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Margot’s progress. *$1.90 (1½c) Seltzer

20–9785

The story of a social climber. Maggie Carter, a grocer’s daughter from
Montreal, goes to Paris with three thousand dollars capital and there
becomes Margot Cartier. Her small capital is to tide her over the
brief period until her beauty, which is her real asset, has won her an
advantageous marriage. And it all works out as she planned. Thru the
Falkenheims, rich Jews whom she meets on the boat, she is introduced
to London society. Renewal of acquaintance with an old Canadian
connection gives the right suggestion of social background, and she
becomes Lady Stokes. But the marriage does not turn out well. An
elderly admirer dies and leaves her a legacy, which provides both the
means to freedom and the excuse for a quarrel with her husband. She is
divorced and goes to Paris, where the outbreak of the war finds her.
At the close there is promise of a second marriage with a man she
loves.

* * * * *

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 52:67 S ’20 700w

“Vigorous, varied, and colourful.”

+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 60w

“The story is interesting, vigorously told, with an unusual power of
vivid, direct presentation, fired too with a nervous intentness. But
after all, it is not a book that gives one much comfort. One concedes
its merits, but without enthusiasm. One feels, on finishing it, like
turning to Ali Baba or Cinderella or Lord Dunsany as an antidote.” C.
F. L.

+ − =Grinnell R= 16:355 F ’21 220w

“It is the kind of story which might easily be preposterous but is
convincingly inevitable.”

+ =Ind= 103:321 S 11 ’20 210w

“Beneath the superficial reaction of enjoyment derived from an
entertaining story there ran a strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction
and resentment at the author for toying with a genuine and precious
talent. In ‘Margot’s progress,’ Goldring has written a
‘best-seller’—superior in many points to the American product, but
nevertheless a best-seller, with all its tawdry virtues and
triple-plated vices.” Max Endicoff

− + =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 410w

“It is highly enjoyable reading and without a dull moment from cover
to cover.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 450w

“One may find some of Margot’s sophisticated conversation a little
grating; but, for that matter, one will find a good deal about Margot
and her acquaintances a little grating. Still there is a driving force
to her ambition that wins toleration, if not admiration. The story
gains in emotional force and dramatic intensity as it progresses.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 580w

=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Reputations; essays in criticism. *$2.50 Seltzer 824

20–17759

These criticisms and appreciations of some of the younger English
novelists, poets and contemporary writers with some literary
reflections in general are: James Elroy Flecker—an appreciation and
some personal memories; Three Georgian novelists—Compton
Mackenzie—Hugh Walpole—Gilbert Cannan; The later work of D. H.
Lawrence; Mr Wells and the war; The war and the poets; An outburst on
Gissing; The author of “Tarr”; The Gordon Selfridge of English
letters; Redding “on wines”; Clever novels; 1855; Low tastes; Looking
back. There is an index.

* * * * *

“We have bitter need at the present time for a reconsideration of
critical principles; for a non-partisan criticism to disperse the
miasma of name-worship and of chaotic emotionalism, which are the
part-legacy of war; and, in view of this need, it is refreshing to
read Mr Goldring’s brilliant, and rather contemptuous, onslaught upon
public idols.”

+ − =Ath= p827 Je 25 ’20 700w

Reviewed by R. E. Roberts

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 7 ’20 400w

“Possibly Mr Goldring is a little too fluent; his judgments roll off
somewhat like first thoughts, and he is a little amusing in his
consciousness of maturity. But he has an unmistakable knack of hitting
precisely the strength and weakness of those whom he discusses.” C. M.
R.

+ − =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 390w

+ − =Nation= 111:383 O 6 ’20 230w

“His comments on the intellectual life of England are exceedingly
worth while and his marginal notes, those paragraphs that embroider
his critical articles, are extremely valuable. The reader knows
definitely where he stands. Beside his critical acumen is a deal of
genuine, worth-while information.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 3 ’20 640w

“In this book the author once more gives proof of his remarkable
receptivity, his power of seizing and reproducing the surface
impressions of the circle in which he moves. That there is nothing
either well-thought-out or valuable in these essays is hardly so much
his fault as his misfortune. The lighter sketches are incomparably the
better, and should prove to him his true vocation.”

− + =Sat R= 130:124 Ag 7 ’20 80w

“It is a long while since anything more delightful in the way of a
literary study has appeared than Mr Goldring’s ‘James Elron Flecker.’
The study seems to the present writer to be the best essay in the
book, clever as is most of the rest—that and a piece entitled ‘Low
tastes,’ for these are almost the only two in which Mr Goldring does
not obtrude his political opinions.”

+ − =Spec= 125:473 O 9 ’20 560w

“The best paper in the volume—because the most thoroughly studied—is
that on James Elroy Flecker. On the whole, there is nothing
distinguished in these criticisms, though Mr Goldring is to be
credited with flashes of illumination and a pungent style.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ’20 450w

“As he has a gift for seeing beneath the genius to the man, and can
attend a tea-party for the pleasure of saying afterwards how trivial
he found it, his book is not devoid of spice, though its prose is
undistinguished and sometimes slack.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p370 Je 10 ’20 300w

=GOLDSMITH, MILTON (ASTRA CIELO, pseud.).= I wonder why. il *$1.75 (2½c) Sully 504

20–1376

A book designed to provide answers to children’s many questions,
giving information on “the how, when, and wherefore of many things.”
The first chapter tells how the Palmer family came to organize the
I-wonder-why club, with half-hour sessions daily. The remaining
chapters, devoted to the club’s discussions, take up such subjects as
Light, Sun, moon and planets, The stars, Comets and meteors, Air,
Water, Fire, Heat, Sound, Rocks, Coal, Metals, Electricity,
Photography, Moving pictures, Clocks, Butterflies and moths, etc.

* * * * *

=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 120w

=GOMPERS, SAMUEL.= Labor and the common welfare. *$3 Dutton 331

20–224

“A compilation of the writings and addresses of Samuel Gompers, edited
by Hayes Robbins. To be followed by ‘Labor and the employer,’ the two
volumes together forming a comprehensive work on labor movements and
labor problems in America.” (Brooklyn) “It is a compilation from
official reports to A. F. of L. conventions, articles in American
Federationist, testimony before congressional committees, public
addresses of President Gompers, and other documents. The selections
include data from the earliest reports of the federation. The material
is presented under classified headings according to the subject and is
generally presented in chronological order.” (N Y Call)

* * * * *

=Am Econ R= 10:365 Je ’20 70w

+ − =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20

=Brooklyn= 12:97 Mr ’20 40w

“In it are adequately set forth the solid, conservative policies of
the long-time president of the American federation of labor. But the
thoughts are the thoughts of history rather than of the present; the
reader who would know what labor is thinking now must supplement the
Gompers philosophy with many creations of a new régime of ideas.” E.
D. Strong

+ − =Grinnell R= 15:257 O ’20 850w

“We had occasion a few weeks ago to notice a book of the Civic
federation, one chapter being written by James W. Sullivan of the A.
F. of L. Our judgment was that the national officials of the
organization had become trade union chauvinists. This latest volume
confirms our impression. Nevertheless, we are glad to have this book.
The selections by Robbins are excellent and no matter whether the
reader agrees or does not agree with Mr Gompers, this compilation is
valuable for his partisans and all others interested in the history of
the American federation of labor.” James Oneal

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Mr 14 ’20 1150w

Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol

=Review= 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 850w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 30w

“Fortunately Mr Gompers is unusually gifted in expression due in part,
no doubt, to unusual clarity of thought.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 17 ’20 140w

+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 420w

=GOMPERS, SAMUEL.= Labor and the employer; comp. and ed. by Hayes Robbins. (Labor movements and labor problems in America) *$3.50 Dutton 331.8

20–12195

“With its companion volume, ‘Labor and the common welfare,’ this book
gives a complete review of American social problems as Mr Gompers has
known them during the past thirty-five years.” (R of Rs) “The book is
made up of excerpts from reports, speeches, testimony, writings and
editorials classified under such major headings as Employers and
employers’ organizations, Wages, Hours of work, The ‘open’ shop, Women
in industry, Unemployment, Insurance and compensation, Limitation of
output, Strikes, Arbitration and collective bargaining, Profit sharing
and Industrial democracy. Within each group are arranged
chronologically the various minor topics which naturally come under
the major headings.” (Survey)

* * * * *

“A valuable, authoritative statement of the attitude of official
unionism on important labor issues.”

+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20

“To those who seek to grasp some of the inwardness of the unfolding
labor movements of the day, and particularly to the employer who would
like to know what the trade unionist’s views are upon the subjects of
employers and employers’ organizations, ... and a host of related
subjects touching the relationship of employer and employee, this book
will prove especially useful.” W. E. Atkins

+ =J Pol Econ= 28:791 N ’20 530w

“It is pathetic to drive through these 311 pages by Mr Gompers and
realize how his enemies waste his time in dispute on ancient matters.
In this time of change he has nothing to offer but the values and
standards of an age that is dead. He ought to be freed for thinking
out the problems of his day in the setting of his vast experience.
When he does let himself go, he has a fine rebel stroke.” Arthur
Gleason

− + =Nation= 111:302 S 11 ’20 1000w

+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w

“Such a book as this is as necessary for the employer who desires
authoritative information as to what official trade unions think, as
it is for the union man who wants to keep himself informed on the
various phases of the movement. It bristles with controversial
possibilities, demonstrates the profound conservatism of Mr Gompers
and is remarkably free from such inconsistencies as one might expect
in the recorded pronouncements covering a period of nearly thirty
years.” J. D. Hackett

+ =Survey= 44:637 Ag 16 ’20 420w

=GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY.=[2] Germany and the French revolution. *$5.50 (*14s) Longmans 830.9

20–8640

“The object of this book is to measure the repercussion of the French
revolution on the mind of Germany. It is a study of the intellectual
ferment in Germany following the fall of the Bastille, of the effect
produced by the revolution on the minds of thinkers and men of letters
such as Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, Herder, Klopstock, Humboldt, Fichte
and Hegel, and of statesmen such as Hardenberg and Stein. Secondarily
it outlines the influence of French revolutionary ideas on German
institutions.”—Sat R

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p605 My 7 ’20 1200w

+ =N Y Times= p16 Ag 1 ’20 2400w

“The book will enormously enhance the already high esteem in which Mr
Gooch is held among historians. Ability in synthetic treatment is
allied to entire impartiality and exact knowledge, so that the
generalisation necessary to the making of a coherent story neither
outweighs nor is sacrificed to completeness and accuracy of detail.”

+ =Sat R= 130:360 O 30 ’20 850w

“He has produced a work of erudition, which because of the wealth of
materials investigated and summarized, as well as the objectivity and
clarity of his presentation, becomes the standard book of reference on
the subject. No one should lightly undertake the task of reading it,
for it is closely packed and assumes much information on political and
cultural conditions of the day. Nor has the author succeeded beyond
cavil in his synthesis.” C: Seymour

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:418 Ja ’21 260w

=GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY.= Life of Lord Courtney. il *$7 Macmillan

(Eng ed 20–13567)

“With Lord Courtney there passed away, in the spring of 1918, almost
the last survivor of a great tradition. It was the tradition of John
Stuart Mill, of Fawcett, of Leslie Stephen, of Henry Sidgwick, the
tradition of reason, conscience and liberty.... From this service to
reason and conscience it followed that Lord Courtney was a liberal, in
that proper sense of the term which is independent of political party.
Of imperialism of every kind, economic or other, Lord Courtney was an
uncompromising opponent. When the war broke out, Lord Courtney was
eighty-one years old. He might well have thought, as others, younger
than he, did, that he was exempt from taking part in the battle of
opinion at home. But he was driven by his sleepless conscience, even
at the height of the storm of violence and hate, to put in his plea
for reason and reconciliation.” (Ath) “Mr Gooch allows Courtney to do
most of the presentation for himself, by extracts from his
correspondence or his speeches or, what comes to very much the same
thing, by numerous quotations from the journal kept by Lady Courtney
throughout their married life. The book opens with one of its most
attractive features, a memoir of his own early days in Cornwall
dictated by Courtney in 1901.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

* * * * *

“In Mr Gooch Lord Courtney has found an admirable biographer. His wide
and exact knowledge of contemporary politics is always felt in the
background and never obtruded. He lets his hero speak for himself,
and, what cannot have been easy, suppresses his own judgment and
opinions.” G. L. D.

+ =Ath= p105 Jl 23 ’20 2900w

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 11 ’20 600w

“Mr G. P. Gooch has written an interesting life of a not very
attractive minor personality in politics. The keynote of Courtney’s
character was an unbending independence of thought, speech, and
conduct, and this quality is so rare in modern politics that the
record of his career is thereby invested with a charm that does not
attach to the man.”

+ =Sat R= 130:54 Ag 17 ’20 1200w

“Mr Gooch’s biography, though marred by several bad misprints like
‘the great Llama,’ is a competent and judicious portrait and an
instructive contribution to contemporary history.”

+ − =Spec= 124:17 Jl 3 ’20 1900w

“His was in fact a personality that could not be ignored, one that
needs accounting for even to such as believed all his views to be
wrong. Mr Gooch’s book will help towards this understanding. It is
fortunate that Lady Courtney found a biographer so much in sympathy
with her husband’s views and yet so self-effacing.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p411 Jl 1 ’20 1900w

=GOODE, WILLIAM THOMAS.= Bolshevism at work. *$1.60 (4½c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 335

20–6220

The author of the present volume, special correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian in Eastern Europe, went to Moscow to study the
actual working of the government in Soviet Russia on the spot. Since
this reputedly so “destructive” government had lasted two years he
meant to discover its possible constructive side. Among his findings
are: a strong government with strong and sincere men, capable
administrators at its head; laws enforced with equality and justice; a
marked orderliness instead of anarchy, and the peacefulness of the
daily occupations and business of life astonishing. He found that “the
Russian revolution is at bottom a moral, even a puritanical
revolution, making for simplicity and purity of life and government”
and that “no amount of pressure can fit the Russian people with a
government framed and forged in the West.” Contents: Interview with
Lenin; Interview with Tchitcherin; Bolshevism and industry; Bolshevism
and the land; Bolshevism and labor; Trades’ unions in Soviet Russia;
Bolshevik food control; Transport in Soviet Russia; Bolshevism and
education; Bolshevik judicial system; Bolshevism and national hygiene;
Bolshevik state control; School of soviet workers; A Bolshevik home of
rest; Conclusions.

* * * * *

=Ath= p226 F 13 ’20 100w

=Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20

“His Russian version is at least consistent and coherent, though it
leaves many things unanswered.” Harold Kellock

+ − =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w

“It is clear that the writer approaches the Bolsheviki with
unfavorable preconceptions and, finding their character and their
conduct unlike what he had been led to expect, allowed himself to be
carried too far in appreciation. We miss the guarded reserve which is
discernible in an avowed sympathizer like Mr Ransome.”

+ − =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 360w

“As evidence of the real situation the book has little value. Mr Goode
was clearly disposed before he went to admire all that the Bolsheviks
had done or proposed to do.”

− =Spec= 124:216 F 14 ’20 120w

“He has no conception of the real range of his subject, and that makes
his book of very little value.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F19 ’20 260w

=GOODHART, ARTHUR LEHMANN.= Poland and the minority races. *$2.50 Brentano’s 914.38

20–15472

“Mr Goodhart was attached to the mission sent in the summer of last
year into Poland by the American government to inquire into the Jewish
question. He accompanied the mission on their journey, and has now
published his diary made at the time. So it comes, therefore, that we
have much of the raw material on which Mr Morgenthau’s and General
Jadwin’s reports, which have been published by the American
government, were based. In addition to the light which it throws upon
the Jewish problem, the book is interesting as giving pictures of the
more general conditions of life and society in Poland.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=Ath= p521 O 15 ’20 200w

“Captain Goodhart’s diary holds the reader’s attention from the first
page to the last. Occasional humorous anecdotes enliven an otherwise
rather sordid recital.”

+ =Cath World= 112:405 D ’20 190w

“The most sensitive Pole cannot object to the book, neither can the
Jews, and the American can by reading it get a splendid idea of the
Poland of today. Reading the book will increase one’s knowledge but
not one’s faith in the human race.” E. A. S.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:358 F ’21 250w

=N Y Evening Post= p24 O 23 ’20 90w

“Captain Goodhart recorded incidents he saw and heard, without
prejudice, as a keen observer, with a fine sense of humor and of
fairness. His diary is a very readable little book, containing much
information that is quite valuable and entertaining. He holds no brief
for either side.” Herman Bernstein

+ =N Y Times= p6 D 12 ’20 2150w

=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 100w

=Spec= 125:185 Ag 7 ’20 180w

“Full of local touches and descriptions of life in Poland which make
it very vivid. One cannot help wondering a little that in the
publication of a diary of experiences by a representative of a
government commission no reference is made to the final report of the
commission.” M. A. Chickering

+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 250w

“Mr Goodhart has written a very interesting book on Poland which,
though unassuming in form, will be of more help to the ordinary reader
in understanding Polish conditions and Polish problems than many more
elaborate works.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 Ag19 ’20 1200w

=GOODRICH, CARTER LYMAN.= Frontier of control: a study of British workshop politics. *$2 (4c) Harcourt 331.1

20–20526

Industrial unrest today is less a matter of wages than of control of
industry. It is a “straining of the spirit of man to be free.” The
author went to England to study the present extent of workers’ control
in British industry and the book states the facts of his findings
without generalizations. R. H. Tawney writes a foreword to the book in
which he states the task the author has set himself to do as: “the
analysis of industrial relationships, of the rules enforced by trade
unions and employers’ associations, of the varying conditions which
together constitute ‘the custom of the trade’ in each particular
industry, and of the changes in all these which took place during the
war.” The book falls into two parts: Introduction: The demand for
control; and The extent of control. Some of the chapters under the
latter are: The frontier of control; Employment; Unemployment; “The
right to a trade”; “The right to sack”; The choice of foremen; Special
managerial functions. There is a note on sources and an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21

“The study forms an excellent basis for generalizations concerning
complete self-government in industry.”

+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 120w

=GOODWIN, JOHN.=[2] Without mercy. *$2 (2c) Putnam

20–14762

The story of a mother’s fight for her daughter’s happiness. Margaret
Garth is the only child of Mrs Enid Garth, head of Garth’s, London’s
most powerful bank. When Margaret promises to become the wife of John
Orme, she arouses the enmity of Sir Melmoth Craven, an unsuccessful
suitor, and he determines to seek revenge. So the story resolves
itself into the conflict of wits and wills between Mrs Garth and Sir
Melmoth. Both are strong and clever characters and both have powerful
interests behind them. Sir Melmoth is entirely unscrupulous and
hesitates at nothing, whether it be abducting the girl, or convicting
her fiance of wilful murder. On the other hand, Mrs Garth, where
Margaret’s happiness is concerned, is absolutely without mercy, and as
she has right on her side, she finally wins out, after a series of
shrewd moves on both sides.

* * * * *

“Even for a ‘first book’ this novel is quite bad. It is so full of
melodramatic clap-trap, one fails to see the trees for the wood.
In style it is a frothing brook; in sentiment it is strained and
banal; its wooden motivation reflects its still more wooden
characterizations.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 140w

“Notwithstanding its crudity of style and the lack of any really
powerful passages anywhere, the novel holds the interest to the end.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 290w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 130w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 100w

=GORDON, ALEXANDER REID.= Faith of Isaiah, statesman and evangelist. (Humanism of the Bible ser.) *$2.25 Pilgrim press 224

(Eng ed 20–6575)

“This series, in which Mr Gordon’s book makes the eighth volume, has
been marked by its judicious selection of subject; and by its success
in presenting to modern minds a fresh significance in studies of Job,
Proverbs, the Psalms, St Paul, etc. Isaiah lends itself specially to
this ‘humanistic’ treatment in the hands of a well-known exponent of
the Old Testament literature who is a professor at McGill university
and at Presbyterian college, Montreal. It is not his rôle to enter
into critical discussion of text and authorship, but he necessarily
accepts and embodies in his historical setting of the parts of the
Book of Isaiah the conclusions of modern criticism as to the
Deutero-Isaiah. Many of the numerous poetical translations (and parts
of the text) are reproduced from Dr Gordon’s ‘Prophets of the Old
Testament.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“From the point of view of homiletics it may be acclaimed
unhesitatingly as high-grade work. While the book is an example of
stimulating preaching, yet one feels that the reader will come away
from it with a very unsatisfactory and hazy idea of the real Isaiah.”

+ − =Bib World= 54:436 Jl ’20 280w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 130w

=GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER.= Humanism in New England theology. *$1.25 (18c) Houghton 285

20–5985

This little book commemorates the tercentennial year of the landing of
the Pilgrims. The author holds that every form of theism is founded
upon a humanistic interpretation of the universe; that the New England
divinity is at heart a variety of humanism which will endure as a type
although as a system of opinion it has passed away. He moreover holds
that there are two great types of theism, the Unitarian and the
Trinitarian; the New England theology belonging to the latter. Coming
in a direct line of descent from this faith the author confesses
himself as an “out-and-out Trinitarian” whose conception of man is
that of an essentially social being. The essay appeared in the Harvard
Theological Review for April, 1907.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20

=Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 3 ’20 580w

“We wish that he had avoided the treacherous word ‘humanism.’ We have
dwelt on this linguistic point because it really corresponds to a
loose way of thinking, now too general, and, in particular, points to
a vice in Dr Gordon’s treatment of theology which goes far, in our
opinion, to negate the value of an otherwise interesting book. To us
the best of the book, which withal has much to commend, is its more
personal characterization of some of the earlier divines.”

+ − =Review= 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 420w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 S 28 ’20 600w

=GORDON, MARY DANIEL.= Crystal ball. il *$2 (5½c) Little

20–17022

A fairy story. The dearest wish of the King of Moondom is to possess
the crystal ball from the garden of the sun. His two children, Prince
Jock and Princess Joan make up their minds to get it for him for a
birthday gift, and equipped with a tin of biscuits, toy pistol,
drinking cups and compass, they set forth. A tinker joins their
expedition and a gypsy fortune teller helps them on their way and they
are successful in the object of their quest.

* * * * *

“A story which the young people will read with eagerness.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 210w

“Her tale is lively, if undistinguished.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 110w

=GORDON-SMITH, GORDON.= From Serbia to Jugoslavia; Serbia’s victories, reverses and final triumph, 1914–1918. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 949.7

20–6737

To this “story of Serbia’s crucifixion,” S. Y. Grouitch, minister of
the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, contributes a foreword and says of the
author that he has followed the Serbian campaign personally and
closely, as war correspondent attached to the Serbian headquarters.
The introduction contains a brief history of the political and
military constellation of the Balkan states at the beginning of the
war and the book is not only a record of the heroic struggles and
sufferings of “one of the bravest peoples in the world” but of a
series of Allied mistakes committed along the eastern front, which,
the author claims, were responsible for much of the defeat and
suffering and for a prolongation of the war. The book falls into two
parts: 1, From the Danube to Durazzo—the Germano-Austro-Bulgarian
attack on Serbia; and 2, The campaign on the Salonica front. There is
an insert general map of the Balkan war area.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:24 O ’20