Chapter XXXIV: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (4)

Robert Ashe, alias Ladyfingers, expert “on life, lyric poetry and ...
burglar proof safes,” had been left a pennyless orphan at the age of
six, had grown up without guidance—except the memory of the fairy
tales his mother used to tell him—and without morals; had become a
newsboy, a pickpocket, a thief, and lastly a safe-cracker, and through
it all remained a poet and an innocent boy at heart. His career is
thrilling and romantic, for one day he finds himself the grandson of a
multi-millionairess, a crabbed old witch of a woman, and in love with
a sweet country girl. Then the awakening comes. His past has been
hushed up, smothered in his grandmother’s millions. But the girl will
have none of him for all her love. She fears a criminal inheritance
for her children-to-be. Then Robert realizes that he has not yet paid
for his misdeeds and that to pay is a law of nature. He gives himself
up voluntarily to the police and serves a two-years sentence in the
penitentiary. In the meanwhile Enid repents and prepares a home for
him on his return. In due time the grandmother also repents and all
ends happily.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20

“All the world loves a crook if he is also an artist and a gentleman
and Ladyfingers is a very charming specimen, but, alas, he begins to
reform far too near the beginning of the story and becomes so noble
that he is a little hard to bear.”

+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 70w

“Although there is a good deal too much description, the story is
agreeably told. At first it moves quickly, then seems steadily to lose
momentum, very much as though it had been started with a vigorous
shove and then been allowed to slow down as it would.”

+ − =NY Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 450w

“Mr Gregory has a fresh and vigorous way of writing.”

+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 80w

“While he tells a very entertaining and often amusing tale, it lacks
much of the probability in his previous stories.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 120w

=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Man to man. il *$2 (2½c) Scribner

20–19919

When Steve Packard comes home after twelve years of roaming, his
father is dead and the ranch that should have been his is heavily
mortgaged to his fiery old grandfather, “Hell-Fire Packard.” The old
man gives him no odds on account of relationship, and Steve soon finds
he’ll have to fight for his rights and his property. His first act is
to discharge the ranch foreman Blenham, who has been running the place
in his grandfather’s interests and his own. Blenham tries to annoy him
in every possible way, and by deceit and treachery sets grandfather
against grandson in more bitter hatred than ever. But Steve is capable
and handles the ranch problems skilfully. In the meantime he has been
falling in love with a little spitfire neighbor, Terry Temple. His
suit does not go well, and finally Terry goes away and Steve does not
care what happens. It even looks as if he might forfeit his ranch to
his grandfather after all, and it doesn’t seem to matter much.
Then—she comes back! He takes up the game with zest again, and in the
last round of their battle, Blenham is defeated. Steve and his
grandfather are reconciled, and he wins his girl.

* * * * *

“If one can hazard criticism of such a breakneck story, it is simply
to say that Mr Gregory writes with both his eyes fixed on the film
royalties. His prose style, left unsupervised, moves ahead with a sort
of blind, blundering vigor.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 120w

“A sufficiently lively if entirely commonplace story.”

+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 380w

=GREGORY, ODIN.= Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; with an introd. by Theodore Dreiser. *$2 Boni & Liveright 812

20–13984

“A five-act historical tragedy in blank verse.” (Freeman) “Caius
Gracchus, idealist and statesman, had stirred the Roman plebs to a
consciousness of their own existence, not as servile beasts, but as
human beings. His success had disturbed the patricians, who,
forthwith, plotted his downfall in true Roman fashion, couching their
scheme in religion, and thus outwitting a less guileful populace....
In the end, when the plebs find themselves disbursed and outwitted,
when, in the slow process of reasoning, they discover in the dead
Gracchus a martyr to their cause, the few among them rally their
mental energies and press forward toward the ideal.” (Springf’d
Republican)

* * * * *

“Ambitious as this work is, however, and interesting in detail it is
hardly likely to kindle beacons on Olympus. As a play, ‘Caius
Gracchus’ sticks too close to polemics ever to achieve the heights of
tragedy. Occasionally, one encounters felicitous phrases, but these
have to be sought for, like bright pebbles scattered along a dry,
sandy beach.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:261 N 24 ’20 210w

“A drama of the excellence of ‘Caius Gracchus’ is a solid achievement
of which any modern writer might well be proud. The constant
declaration of their lofty sentiments by the chief characters is an
accepted convention of the English and French classical tradition
which Odin Gregory follows, but modern realistic drama has made it
difficult to accept this convention unmodified, even under the shelter
of the old forms.” C. M. S.

+ − =Grinnell R= 16:330 Ja ’21 480w

“Mr Gregory produces blank verse of vigor and suppleness, but hardly
comparable to Shakespeare’s in poetic content.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 6 ’20 720w

“‘Caius Gracchus’ is a tremendously ambitious work in the most
difficult and aspiring genre of literature, and perhaps it is better
to try and fail than not to try at all. One finds fault not so much
with the author, who at least lets his work speak for itself, as with
the critics who profess to find in it qualities that so obviously are
not there.”

− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:84 Ja ’21 480w

=GRENFELL, ANNE ELIZABETH (MACCLANAHAN) (MRS WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL), and SPALDING, KATIE.= Le petit Nord; or, Annals of a Labrador harbour. il *$1.50 (4½c) Houghton 917.19

20–5733

In the form of letters this amusing volume by the wife or Dr Grenfell,
and the nurse who accompanied them to their northern abode, makes a
good accompaniment to the autobiography of “A Labrador doctor.” It
relates the experiences and hardships of their mission home in the far
north in a humorous vein and with the feminine touch. The unique
illustrations tell a story of their own.

* * * * *

“These bright brave little letters have the power of transporting one
into the heart of the Labrador country by their charm of description
and humor. Crude little sketches by the doctor make just the right
illustrations.”

+ =Booklist 16:309 Je ’20=

“The book is delightful reading and adds interesting sidelights to her
husband’s accounts.”

+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 50w

“They present a very vivid, unpretending picture of things as they
really are in this work, viewed by a capable, energetic, and humorous
temperament.” Archibald MacMechan

+ =Review= 2:679 Je 30 ’20 820w

“The present work is of special interest in that it gives the feminine
viewpoint.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w

“About the letters there is a marked and pleasing individuality.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 16 ’20 280w

=GRESHAM, MATILDA (MCGRAIN) (MRS WALTER QUINTIN GRESHAM).= Life of Walter Quintin Gresham, 1832–1895. 2v *$7.50 Rand

20–3856

“An unusual career, even for America, known as the land of
eccentricities in public life, is summed up in these two sizable
volumes. Soldier, lawyer, judge, statesman, Walter Q. Gresham seems
never to have known an idle moment in the sixty-three years of his
life. He had a distinguished record in the Civil war, enlisting as a
private, and, after successive promotions for gallantry, receiving his
discharge as a Major-General of volunteers in 1865. After fifteen
years of service at the bar and on the bench he was made a member of
President Arthur’s cabinet, and ten years later, because of
disagreement with the Republican party on the tariff question, became
a Democrat and was appointed secretary of state in President
Cleveland’s second administration. He died in 1895. This biography
[is] written by his widow.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20

“A veritable source book of American history.” F. B. N.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 28 ’20 400w

“Mrs Gresham’s life of her husband is of value as far as political and
economic information is concerned.” C. W. Alvord

+ − =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w

=Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 160w

“This biography throws much light on the politics of the entire period
from the middle of the nineteenth century to its closing years.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 160w

=GREY, EDWARD GREY, 1st viscount.= Recreation. *$1.25 (17c) Houghton 824

20–5788

The booklet contains an address delivered by Viscount Grey at the
Harvard union, December 8, 1919. He enumerates a number of things that
make for happiness of which one is a degree of leisure and knowing
what to do with it. He speaks of the forms of recreation most enjoyed
by himself, certain games and sport and gardening but most of all
books read for pleasure. Enjoyment of nature also finds a place and
calls up a memorable walk he took with Colonel Roosevelt for the
purpose of observing birds.

* * * * *

“His address, indeed, contains nothing that is original or profound.
We read it for its personal note and for the light that it throws on
the personality of the late Colonel Roosevelt. The lessons that may be
learned from this charming and gracious little pamphlet are not quite
the lessons that it professes to convey.” E. M. F.

+ − =Ath= p76 Jl 16 ’20 430w

“In depicting the incident [of Roosevelt’s visit] Lord Grey allows the
Baconian clarity of his earlier pronouncements to take on poetic
warmth and color.”

+ =Nation= 110:732 My 29 ’20 400w

“The one who has attained such an appreciation of the real place of
recreation in life deserves to be called by a word which is very
frequently abused—‘cultured.’”

+ =Outlook= 124:601 Ap 7 ’20 1800w

“Of artifice, literary, or any other, in the plan or style, there is
not a trace. The diction is plain and simple, almost to the point of
baldness. There are no flights and no flowers.” Archibald MacMechan

+ =Review= 2:518 My 15 ’20 1050w

“The address is not only a most attractive piece of literature but
also an interesting pendant to Mr Roosevelt’s biography.”

+ =Spec= 124:799 Je 12 ’20 350w

“It strikes a sane and healthful note.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 27 ’20 180w

+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 80w

=GREY, ZANE.= Man of the forest. il *$1.90 (1½c) Harper

20–2265

Milt Dale loves the silence and the romance of the mountains. There he
lives in solitude, hunting animals for his food, and finding thorough
happiness and contentment, until accidentally he overhears an
unscrupulous plot against the property and safety of a young girl,
newly arrived from the East. To save her and her sister he hides them
in his woodland camp, entertaining them with hunting trips and riding
expeditions to keep their minds from brooding. When, however, Helen
Rayner and her pretty sister Bo leave the camp, Dale finds it an
empty, unsatisfying place. And Helen, mistress of a great ranch, which
a conscienceless “greaser” is trying to take from her, keeps longing
for the lonely man from the mountains. Her troubles reach their climax
just after the long winter, and Dale, coming out of the forests, helps
her in the most terrible moment. “Bo’s cowboy” is instrumental in
completing the collapse of the “greaser”; and afterward, Dale’s camp
witnesses an unusual honeymoon.

* * * * *

“A story full of the thrills and charms familiar to readers of Zane
Grey.”

+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

“The tale has plenty of incident, and though it contains too numerous
and too long passages of description not a few of them are well done,
while the lover of horses will be sure to envy Helen her possession of
the splendid Ranger.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:70 F 8 ’20 900w

“A western story conventional in plot and incident, but well written
and with a certain nobility in its feeling for the freedom of the wide
spaces.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w

“Action is always rapid and there is an abundance of local color. On
occasions Mr Grey gives play to his liking for descriptive paragraphs,
which sometimes bulk too large. But these are seldom formal. The book
is among the author’s best stories.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 580w

“Few romances make better business out of the wilds of the West than
Mr Zane Grey: and he is well up to his mark in this stirring tale.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 70w

=GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT.= Swiss fairy tales. il *$1.75 (2½c) Crowell

20–13979

The first two chapters of the book are devoted to the author’s Swiss
ancestors, their home in Switzerland in the shadow of the mountains,
where it was finally burled by an avalanche, and later their American
home in Pennsylvania whence they had brought their customs and
traditions and, above all, the fairy tales of their native country.
Some of these tales are: The wonderful alpine horn; The mountain
giants; Two good natured dragons; The frost giants and the sunbeam
fairies; The yodel carillon of the cows; The fairy of the edelweiss;
The alpine hunter and his fairy guardian; The white chamois; The siren
of the Rhine.

* * * * *

+ =El School J= 21:157 O ’20 80w

+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 180w

=GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT.= Young people’s history of the Pilgrims, il *$3 (4½c) Houghton 974.4

20–10074

“In writing for, but not down to, young people, I have dwelt rather
upon what was visible to, or interested, the Pilgrim boys and girls.
Yet I have endeavored, also, to make clear the formative principles
and impelling motives, as well as conditions and events; and this
without any special interest in genealogy.” (Preface) One of the
objects of the book is to show that the Puritans were “bona-fide
everyday Englishmen” and to further a deeper unity and closer
co-operation between all English-speaking people. The religious motive
prompting the Pilgrims is also emphasized. A partial list of the
contents is: How the world looked long ago; A mirror of English
history; Fun and play in the old home; A girl’s life in merrie
England; Puritan, Independent, Separatist, and Pilgrim; Brewster: the
boy traveler; Bradford: boy hero and typical Pilgrim; The decision to
emigrate and why; The new world: America; The first winter and the
great sickness; The Pilgrim republic; The Pilgrim inheritance;
Chronological framework of the story of a free church in a free state;
Index; Illustrations.

* * * * *

“It is a scholarly history; shall we say a bit too scholarly for
youthful tastes? At least it has the merit of being accurate,
thoroughgoing, and informing” W. A. Dyer

+ − =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 90w’

“Dr Griffis writes with enthusiasm, his writing discloses the most
careful study of his subject in its every phase, and especially does
his familiarity with the places trodden by the Pilgrims appeal to the
reader.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 380w

“‘Young people’s history of the Pilgrims’ is packed with interesting
information. The author has, however, an annoyingly priggish manner
and he tends to paint the Pilgrims as rather unpleasantly noble.”

+ − =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 80w

+ =N Y Times= p15 O 3 ’20 80w

“In the closing pages of Dr Griffis’ book is a valuable chronology.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w

=GRIFFITH, IRA SAMUEL.= Teaching manual and industrial arts, il $2 Manual arts press 371.42

20–10299

This work by a professor of industrial education in the University of
Illinois “is intended as a text for use in normal schools and
colleges. Its primary aim is to assist in the making of necessary
connections between the more general courses in educational psychology
and theory of teaching and the special work of practice teaching in
manual and industrial arts.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction;
Classification and differentiation of the manual arts; Industrial
arts; Instincts and capacities; Application of the principle of
apperception to manual and industrial arts teaching; Interest and
attention: Individual differences: the group system; Correlation and
association; The doctrine of discipline: Types of thinking inherent in
the manual arts: Teaching methods in manual and industrial arts; The
lesson; its component parts; Class management: discipline; Standards
and tests; Conditions which make for progress. There are two
appendices devoted to Special method procedure and Type outlines.

* * * * *

“Very useful to any teachers of hand work.”

+ =Booklist= 17:52 N ’20

“Although one feels the need for a more extended discussion of many of
the points, there is left in the mind of the reader the conviction,
nevertheless, that Mr Griffith has sought to present the facts in as
simple and untangled a form as possible, with the specific purpose in
mind of establishing a workable pedagogy on the psychological
principles developed. One feels that he has succeeded in his purpose
in an admirable degree.”

+ =El School J= 21:236 N ’20 640w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p67 Jl ’20 80w

“Written in a concise and convincing manner. It is the kind of a book
that teachers of drawing, design and applied arts should read and
absorb. It will connect them with the technique of teaching.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:41 S ’20 120w

=GRIFFITHS, GERTRUDE (MRS PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS).= Lure of the manor. *$1.75 (1½c) Duffield

A20–1264

The story opens in England but soon shifts to America, there to be
played out in a quaint old-time South Carolina setting. At the close
of the Civil war, General Sutledge of the Confederate army had retired
from the world, and his three daughters had continued to follow his
example, living and dressing in the style of the sixties. To them
comes the Honorable Patricia Denham, daughter of an adored and much
younger sister who had married a British peer. This sister, Millicent,
is a cold, heartless woman, engaged in her own love affairs and
indifferent to her children. It is partly to escape her that Patricia
comes to America. Peter d’Eresby, who has been in love with Millicent,
also comes to America. Patricia marries a rich northerner, who has
been looked down upon by the three impoverished old southern
aristocrats. Peter marries Sophia, a young Sutledge cousin and to the
end the three elderly sisters are kept in ignorance of Millicent’s
real character.

* * * * *

“A romance written with amusing naïveté and some freshness.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20

“A very uneven story, amateurish at times and very much too long but
by no means devoid of merit. It suffers from the fact that it has two
heroines, the story of one of them being fairly interesting, while
that of the other is dull, and the connection between them seeming
forced and artificial.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 11 ’20 400w

“‘The lure of the manor’ reads unevenly and strikes the reader as
being considerably too long. Strengthening of the story could be
obtained through elimination of that which gives an impression of
being artificial and exaggerated.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 190w

=GRIMSHAW, BEATRICE ETHEL.= Terrible island. *$1.75 (3c) Macmillan

20–19507

This adventure story of the South seas has two mysteries, the mystery
of “Lady Mary” who walks up out of the sea and the mystery of Ku-Ku’s
island. Lady Mary is suffering from amnesia. She doesn’t know who she
is or how she came to her present plight. All that she can remember is
a meaningless string of words, which her listeners rightly interpret
as the directions for finding the half-legendary Ku-Ku’s island,
reputed to be rich in the valuable red shell that passes as currency
in the islands. The three men, with Sapphira Gregg and the girl from
the sea, set out in search of it and then begin their adventures on
the terrible island. In the end they conquer all obstacles, including
the mysterious blindness that inflicts those who land on the island.
Lady Mary’s memory is restored, and two romances come to a
satisfactory conclusion.

* * * * *

=Ath= p194 F 6 ’20 90w

+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21

“The scheme of the story is very good, but it is so tangled up in
verbiage and moralizing that one loses interest, and wishes the author
had made another of the group her mouthpiece.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 230w

“It is a capital tale, quite novel in its plot and incident, and with
amusing character depiction as well as the thrill of adventure.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w

“The narrative is set forth interestingly and with some humor.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 170w

“She shows her tact in the touches of individuality that she gives to
characters who have to be drawn broadly. So much is she in sympathy
with them, and so clearly does she see the situations in which they
find themselves, that they come to respond by creating their own
difficulties for her to write about. This seems to be the secret of
her fertility of invention. For a lady not in her first book she is
most prodigal of her good things.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p85 F 5 ’20 630w

=GROGAN, GERALD.= William Pollok, and other tales. *$1.50 (2c) Lane

20–7728

This volume of short stories opens with a memoir of the author, who
was killed in 1918. As the son of a soldier he led a wandering life in
childhood, and later his work as a mining engineer took him to Mexico,
where the scenes of most of these stories are laid. Only one is a
story of the war. The collection opens with a series of eight tales,
The trials and triumphs of William Pollok, mine superintendent. The
other titles are: Encinillas; The faith of Henderson; A warm corner in
Mexico; The casting vote; The subjugation of the Skettering; The
failure; The cat; The weregeld; A moral victory.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 80w

“He wrote well because he lived well and fully, he depicted character
in an entertaining fashion because he knew men. He has produced a
group of stories worth reading more than once.” G. H. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 500w

“When his feet are off the romantic soil of Mexico, Mr Grogan seems
less at home. One story, however—his latest—is distinguished by a
quality only a little short of genius. It is a vision of the wars of
the future. The story is a prophecy that may be fulfilled in a happier
day; it is Gerald Grogan’s chief contribution to literature.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 430w

“They have the excessive cleverness of the young writer, who will not
tell a plain tale. Nevertheless the book is full of vitality; and
readers to whom this quality, even if it goes with some immaturity, is
the all-important one will enjoy the book.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 280w

=GROSSMANN, LOUIS.= Aims of teaching in Jewish schools; a handbook for teachers. (Isaac M. Wise centenary publication) *$1.50 Bloch 377

19–27517

“Dr G. Stanley Hall, who contributes the introduction, pronounces this
‘by far the best treatise on religious pedagogy that has anywhere yet
appeared. It places religious education on its proper scientific and
constructive basis.’ Something over half of the volume is devoted to
the successive stages in the child’s advancement from the kindergarten
to the eighth grade. The latter part is devoted to special phases such
as the use of stories, the textbook, the Hebrew language, music,
etc.”—Am J Soc

* * * * *

“The discussions are rather general to constitute a ‘handbook,’ but
they make good reading for anyone who is interested in recent pedagogy
and modernist religion.” F. R. Clow

+ =Am J Soc= 25:502 Ja ’20 340w

“Designed as a teacher’s handbook, but it has a broader interest.”

+ =Booklist= 16:42 N ’19

“A very complete outline for the teacher in the religious school.”

+ =Cleveland= p55 My ’20 50w

=GROVE, SIR GEORGE.=[2] Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; Waldo Selden Pratt, editor, Charles N. Boyd, associate editor. il *$6 Macmillan 780.3

This American supplement adds a sixth volume to Grove’s dictionary of
music. It is made up of two parts, the first consisting of an
historical introduction with chronological register of names; the
second of Personal and descriptive articles and alphabetical index.
The register in Part I gives brief reference to about 1700 persons. In
the descriptive articles of the second part there is more extended
treatment of some 700 of these, with cross references from one section
to the other, Canadian musicians are included under the term American
and to a limited extent Latin American names have been included. The
preface states further: “Inasmuch as the latest edition of Grove’s
dictionary was issued ten to fifteen years ago, the publishers desired
that this volume should include continuations of those articles that
relate to the more conspicuous foreign musicians.... Accordingly, in
the dictionary proper will be found statements regarding more than a
hundred musicians who are entirely outside the American field.”

=GROZIER, EDWIN ATKINS=, ed. One hundred best novels condensed. 4v il *$5; ea *$1.50 Harper 808.3

20–6493

A series of books giving synopses of one hundred works of fiction.
They have been prepared under the direction of the literary editor of
the Boston Post, assisted by Charles E. L. Wingate and Charles H.
Lincoln, various writers contributing to the contents, among them John
Kendrick Bangs, George S. Barton, Sara Ware Bassett, Alfred S. Clark
and James B. Connolly. There is no ordered plan of arrangement and the
word novel is given a broad interpretation to embrace the “Iliad,”
“Pilgrim’s progress” and “Alice in Wonderland.” Famous translations
are included in addition to all the well-known English novels. A
biographical sketch and portrait of each author is provided.

* * * * *

“Perhaps the best condensation of all is that of ‘Far from the madding
crowd.’ Many of the synopses approach this, but some fall far behind
it in quality.” A. A. W.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 500w

“As for giving any real idea of the originals, these condensations are
about as satisfying as the description of a banquet would be to a
starving man.”

− =N Y Times= 25:244 My 9 ’20 800w

=GUILD, ROY BERGEN=, ed. Community programs for cooperating churches; a manual of principles and methods. *$1.90 Assn. press 261

20–17803

The book contains the reports of the Church and community convention
held in Cleveland, June 1–3, 1920, under the joint auspices of the
Commission on councils of churches of the Federal council of churches
of Christ in America, and the Association of executive secretaries of
church federations, and contains: Principles and methods of
organization; Survey, program, and comity; Evangelism; Social service;
Religious education; Missions; International justice and good-will;
Religious publicity; Securing and training executive secretaries; “The
church and its new cooperative power,” by Dr Robert E. Speer; “The
spiritual basis for the unity of the churches,” by Rev. M. Ashby
Jones, D.D.; Appendix.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20

“The book is a practical manual for those interested in interchurch
work.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 630w

=N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 100w

=GUILD, THACHER HOWLAND.= Power of a god, and other one-act plays. il $1.25 Univ. of Ill. 812

20–84

The volume is a memorial to the author, an account of his short career
as a dramatist and his early death in 1914, and contains, besides the
plays, a tribute from Prof. George P. Baker of Harvard university;
Preparation days at Brown, by Prof. Thomas Crosby, jr., Brown
university; The fullness of his life, by Prof. Stuart P. Sherman,
University of Illinois; Dramatic reminiscenses, by F. K. W. Drury,
University of Illinois library; and a bibliography. The title play
shows a scene in the office of a celebrated surgeon who has taken up
mental therapy and in his practice of it, finds himself before the
alternative, for the love of a woman, to use his power as a “god” or
as a “devil.” After much soul anguish he chooses the better way. The
other plays are: The class of ’56; The higher good; and The portrait.

* * * * *

“At least the first two plays are distinctly above the average in
their realistic dialogue. The eloquent and sympathetic introduction by
Professor Baker, of Harvard, adds to the value of the book.”

+ =Cath World= 111:698 Ag ’20 90w

“Each [play] is interesting and each has distinct merits, while as a
whole they display a steady growth in literary power and technical
expertness.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 F 14 ’20 500w

=GUILLAUMIN, EMILE.=[2] Life of a simple man; tr. by Margaret Holden. *$2 Stokes

“The good brown earth, the sheep and the swine; stretches of
sparkling, bedewed meadows with perfumed masses of golden broom, white
daisies and honeysuckle.... From such a background Emile Guillaumin
has drawn ‘La vie d’un simple.’ Small wonder that a simple man speaks
from its pages. The book is called a novel. In reality it is a
biography and, as it happens, one with only a slight vista into the
realm of Eros. The author tells us that Tiennon is his neighbor, but
it is suggested in a foreword by Mr Garnett that Guillaumin has
attempted a portraiture of his own father. At any rate it is
interesting to observe that the book received an award from l’Académie
Française in 1904, and that the author is a peasant, unschooled, in
our modern sense of the word, whose life has been spent in a town of
some 1,800 inhabitants, and who has ‘remained faithful to the soil’ in
spite of literary laurels.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p1050 O 17 ’19 50w

“For those who evaluate standards of living in terms of their
simplicity, reality and intensity, the farmer Tiennon, as he stands
revealed in ‘The life of a simple man,’ will find a place with
friendly philosophers of the highways and byways.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 550w

“Invaluable to us as a standard of comparison, quite apart from its
charm as a human document.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p600 O 30 ’19 1050w

=GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.= Ballads of old New York. il *$1.50 Harper 811

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In this collection of ballads, the author tells us, he has been
“martialing the varied traditions of New York and its neighborhood,
piecing together colorful stories of the past for those who are to
inherit the future.” And in the prologue he bids us “Hear! for I carol
in lilting rhymes rollicking lays of the good old times!” The contents
are grouped under the headings: Dutch period; English colonial period;
Revolutionary period; and Miscellaneous, and the verses are
interspersed by descriptive prose paragraphs by way of interludes. The
illustrations are pen and ink sketches by J. Scott Williams.

* * * * *

“A delightfully whimsical book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20

“The book is a happy book, done by a genuine lover and historian of
the greatest city in the new world. Washington Irving would have liked
it.” W. A. Barrett

+ =Bookm= 51:476 Je ’20 700w

“Mr Guiterman has a virtue beyond the virtue of the average humorist
in verse whose quips and laughter after a little grow tiresome; that
virtue is his unfailing humanism. The humanist in him has made him
sing on occasions with all the fine fervor of a truly inspired poet.
These ballads help very largely and convincingly to show us this very
little-thought-of side of Mr Guiterman.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 1250w

“Displays pleasing variety in the matter of subject and form.”

+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 40w

+ − =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 80w

“In ‘Ballads of old New York’ a delightful idea is somewhat
disappointingly worked out.”

+ =Ind.= 104:65 O 9 ’20 50w

“Arthur Guiterman is a perfect master of his trade. He has a genius
for mirth, for seeing the funny side of life, for throwing a fantastic
light on everything that happens. ‘Ballads of old New York’ is worth
its price twice over.” B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= 25:132 Mr 21 ’20 1300w

+ =N Y Times= 25:286 My 30 ’20 1650w

“The versatility of the author’s pen is evident in the variety both
subjective and metrical, of the different ballads and interludes. The
book ought to be among the most popular metrical offerings of the
season.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 26 ’20 240w

=GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.=[2] Chips of Jade. il *$2 Dutton 895

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“This is a volume of alleged folk-sayings of China and Hindustan,
clothed in homely English verse, and there is a chuckle in every
quatrain. There is sharp social comment in many of the lines—and it is
often anti-Socialist.”—N Y Call

* * * * *

“The amount of exhilaration which may be obtained from a book of
mottoes is rather less than half of one per cent, and even the
knowledge that the present compilation has an oriental origin is not
in itself calculated to intoxicate the reader. After all, a jingle is
only a jingle, and ‘Chips of jade’ is but the small change of
philosophy.” L. B.

− =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 150w

“A thoroughly delectable addition to the already rich
proverb-literature which exists in English.”

+ =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 160w

“Perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that this volume is the most
crystalline, the most brilliant, the most uniform yet issued by this
twanger of the harp of Momus. There are a thousand universal words
here, which read as if they were spoken for your ear only.” Clement
Wood

+ =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 260w

“Attractive in appearance and contents.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:419 N 3 ’20 130w

=GUITRY, SACHA.=[2] Deburau; a comedy; in an English version by Harley Granville Barker. $2 Putnam 842

This English version of a French play is a free rendering, which
preserves the original meaning detail by detail but uses a paraphrase
where a literal rendering would appear labored. The play is in four
acts. The first shows the auditorium of a theatre after a successful
evening. Gaspard Deburau, the Pierrot, has just made a great hit in
“The old clo’ man.” In the second act Deburau is seen in the room of
Marie Duplessis, the famous “Camellia lady,” to whose charms he has
succumbed and who, immediately after his departure, accepts another
lover. Act three is in Deburau’s own garret, seven years later, with
Deburau ill and retired. His young son is pleading with him for
permission to become his successor on the stage. In the fourth act
Deburau once more after a long intermission essays to act his old
rôle. He is a complete failure and while the management is
deliberating in despair what course to pursue, Deburau brings on his
son, has him dressed in his old Pierrot costume and puts him thru his
paces as his successor. The scene abounds in good stage advice.

=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Evolution of the budget in Massachusetts. *$2.50 Macmillan 336

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This volume is the second in a series of Special studies in
administration in course of preparation by the Bureau of municipal
research and the training school for the public service. Its object is
to record in orderly fashion the long series of events that have led
up to the present budget system of Massachusetts and to counteract
some of the superficial views that prevail on budget-making. Among the
contents, following the early financial history of Massachusetts, are:
The governor and the budget, 1910–1918; The joint special committee on
finance and budget procedure; Establishing the budget system;
Experience with the budget in 1919; Constitutional conflict over the
budget in 1920; Classification of the Massachusetts budget system;
Outstanding facts in the evolution of the Massachusetts budget. The
appendices contain The budget amendment of the Massachusetts
constitution, and The Massachusetts budget act.

* * * * *

“The book is one which should appeal to the practical administrator as
well as to the student of political science.” A. C. Hanford

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:712 N ’20 450w

=Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20

“The study of the budget system is usually supposed to be dull and
uninteresting, but Dr Gulick has succeeded in writing an interesting
book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 320w

“It will prove exceedingly helpful to those political adolescents who
imagine that a piece of legislation imposing on the governor the duty
of preparing a financial plan will produce any important changes in
our way of doing business.” C: A. Beard

+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 260w

=R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 60w

“The author has prepared an interesting and well written history. The
illustrative excerpts from political speeches and journals add decided
readability to what might be otherwise tedious history.” L. D. Upson

+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 200w

=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Philosophy of play. *$1.60 (3c) Scribner 790

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Joseph Lee, in his foreword to this posthumous volume, calls it Dr
Gulick’s legacy to his fellow citizens. In making the study of play
his life work the author has come to the conclusion that it affords
the best and most profitable way of studying humankind itself; that
the individual reveals himself more completely in play than in any
other way; that play has a greater shaping power over the character
and nature of man than any other activity; and that a people also most
truly reveals itself in the character of its pleasures. Contents: The
extent of the play interest: Separation vs. concentration; Hunting and
fighting plays; Playing house; Fire play; Toys—construction and
ownership; Masculine and feminine differences; The play of animals;
The play of adults; The play of subnormal children; Play progression;
Play and physical growth; Play and education; Play and moral growth;
Instinct and tradition in play; Play and our changing civilization;
Play and the modern city; Direction and control in play—playgrounds;
Play and democracy; Play, the pursuit of the ideal; Index.

* * * * *

“Dr Gulick’s last book is suggestive especially to parents.”

+ =Booklist= 17:19 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 200w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 My 8 ’20 650w

“He has built up an attractive guide to the understanding of
children’s ways. There is not a hint of superficiality in his
treatment.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 1 ’20 170w

“With this book Dr Gulick has made a real contribution which will
enrich all who read it. It should be in the hands not only of all who
are interested in recreational activities, but of fathers, mothers and
educators as well.” S. L. Jean

+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 80w

=GULL, CYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER (GUY THORNE, pseud.).= Air pirate. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt

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The time setting of this story is about ten years in the future, when
travel and commerce by air have become thoroughly established, and
cross-Atlantic air trips are an everyday occurrence. The story is told
by Sir John Custance, young and popular commissioner of air police for
the British government. On one of its regular trips, one of the aerial
liners is held up by a pirate airship, and even while this affair is
being investigated, a second holdup is made. And it so happens that on
this ship, Connie Shepherd, Sir John’s fiancée, is a passenger, and is
captured and carried away by the pirates. His motive is therefore
doubly strong for discovering the criminals. He has the help of Mr
Danjuro, a unique Japanese personality with apparently infinite
resources and capabilities. Altho they are in the end successful in
capturing the whole pirate band and releasing Connie, it is by no
means an easy task, and Sir John finds himself in close proximity to
death more than once.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:71 N ’20

“By all the rules of the game, ‘The air pirate’ should be a badly
written attempt at a thriller, and its jacket goes far to confirm that
suspicion. But with the jacket the resemblance to a dime novel
abruptly ceases. Mr Gull has a facility for turning melodrama into
plausibility.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 40w

=GUNION, PHILIP CYRUS (GEORGE CONOVER PEARSON, pseud.).= Selling your services. $2 (1½c) Jordan-Goodwin corporation, Jefferson bank bldg., N.Y. 658

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Getting a job, says the author, is a problem in salesmanship. A man’s
services are a product that can be sold and how to go about to sell it
has been so successfully and methodically worked out by John Caldwell,
that he was asked to teach a class in re-employment for the graduates
of the Metropolitan university. His lectures as given to the class are
here edited and collected into book form by the author. John
Caldwell’s method is to apply modern salesmanship, marketing methods
and advertising to the selling of a man’s individual product, his
services. Among the contents are: Make a job of getting a job; Know
your product—yourself; Determine your appeal; Make good use of your
experience; Develop a group of prospects; Situation wanted
advertisements; The circular letter; The personal call; The employment
agency; The interview; The eternal question—the salary; Keep your case
alive; Index.

=GUTHRIE, ANNA LORRAINE=, comp. Index to St Nicholas, service basis Wilson, H. W. 051

The forty-five volumes of St Nicholas, from 1873 to 1918, have been
indexed for this volume. “The index is dictionary in form, giving
author, subject and title entries, the latter as a rule made for
fiction and poetry only. Selection of subject headings most easily
usable by children has been the aim striven for.” (Preface) The work
is compiled and edited by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, formerly editor of
the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.

* * * * *

“Indispensable aid.”

+ =Booklist= 16:296 Je 20

=GUTTERSEN, GRANVILLE.= Granville. *$1.25 Abingdon press 940.44

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“The experience of a young chap in the army air service—a fellow who
embodied all that was fine and noble in young manhood, who suffered
continual disappointment in not being able to get his overseas orders
and in being held on this side as an instructor in bombing, and who
yet retained his humor and philosophy of life—are pictured in
‘Granville,’ the subtitle of which is ‘Tales and tail spins from a
flyer’s diary.’ The book, which is published anonymously in deference
to the wishes of the author’s family, contains a series of letters
from ‘Granny’ to his folks at home. These tell of his hopes and
desires, his setbacks, his friends in the service and the girls he
met, and the experiences that he went through from the time he entered
ground school until he received his last orders.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 240w

“The writer is so frank and outspoken in what he says and thinks and
does that anyone reading the book cannot help feeling unbounded
admiration for him. From cover to cover the book is filled with a
buoyancy and a joy of living that leave one refreshed with even a few
short pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p16 O 19 ’19 220w

=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= Irish books and Irish people. *$1.75 Stokes 891.6

A20–768

“These essays are for the most part revived from the years 1897–1907,
representing the views, during the changing moods of the decade, of
this capable and cultured Irish essayist, who, it will be remembered,
severed his connexion with the Gaelic league when it decided to make
the learning of Irish compulsory and who believes that, as Yeats and
Synge have shown, it is possible to be completely Irish while using
the English language. His subjects are Nineteenth century novels of
Irish life; A century of Irish humour (written 1901); Literature among
the illiterates, from a volume called ‘To-day and to-morrow in
Ireland’ (1902), now out of print (in two parts, The Shanachy, and The
life of a song, a traditional song which Mr Gwynn took down from the
lips of an Irish peasant); Irish education and Irish character. There
are two later essays on Irish gentry (1913), and Yesterday in Ireland
(1918).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p1167 N 7 ’19 140

=Booklist= 17:84 N ’20

=Brooklyn= 12:131 My ’20 40w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 170w

=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= John Redmond’s last years. *$5 (*16s) Longmans

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“A personal and political study of very great interest, written by one
who was a friend of Mr Redmond and had access to his papers for the
period beginning with the war. Mr Gwynn makes no attempt to represent
Mr Redmond as a hero, but lays emphasis upon the patriotism, modesty,
and nobility of purpose of the Irish leader, who died heartbroken
because he had not ‘won through.’ ‘His action upon the war was his
life’s supreme action; he felt this, and knew that it had failed to
achieve its end.’ But, says the author, ‘tangled as are the threads of
all this policy, he leaves the task far nearer to accomplishment than
he found it; and if in the end freedom and prosperity come to a united
Ireland, they will be found to proceed ... from the action which John
Redmond took in August, 1914, and upon which his brother ... set the
seal of his blood.’”—Ath

* * * * *

“Mr Gwynn displays some of the qualities which a biographer ought to
possess. He knew Redmond intimately and admired him greatly, yet he
makes no attempts to represent him as unerring in judgment and supreme
in every quality of leadership. Yet his book has serious defects from
the point of view of both the serious student of Irish affairs and the
general reader.”

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:134 O ’20 520w

=Ath= p1365 D 12 ’19 160w

“Written with a sympathy and ease that will make interesting reading
for those informed on Irish politics.”

+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20

“Mr Gwynn’s book has not a little of the somber splendor of a Greek
tragedy. Certainly a reading of it is indispensable to an
understanding of Irish history in the last ten years. The record is
set down with a fairness which even Redmond’s most bitter opponents
can hardly fail to praise.” H. J. Laski

+ =Nation= 110:sup484 Ap 10 ’20 850w

“Mr Gwynn has given far the clearest account of the procession of
events, and especially a fascinating narrative of the labors and
personalities of the convention. His book is almost indispensable to
anyone who would wish to understand the relation of opinion to the
controversy which is about to open concerning the new Home rule bill.”

+ =Nation [London]= 26:544 Ja 17 ’20 1750w

“Amid the abundant and increasing literature on Irish affairs it is
seldom indeed that there comes into a reviewer’s hand a literary
treasure such as this. Mr Gwynn writes as one having knowledge and
authority. Perhaps what strikes one first in the book is the judicial
balance by which it is everywhere marked.” H. L. Stewart

+ =Review= 2:390 Ap 17 ’20 1800w

=Sat R= 128:688 D 20 ’19 750w

“Captain Gwynn’s memoir of his late leader, though in no sense a
dispassionate or unbiassed narrative of events, displays a breadth of
view that is wholly lacking in most modern Irish books, and puts the
nationalist case with courtesy and discretion. We cannot agree either
with his estimate of Mr Redmond or with his presentation of certain
notorious episodes in recent Irish controversy. Nevertheless we feel
that he is an honourable political opponent.”

+ − =Spec= 123:728 N 29 ’19 1400w

“Mr Gwynn writes in a sanely liberal vein and can take a detached view
of all sides of the struggle of Ireland for home rule....
Nevertheless, the summing-up is an indictment of a government that had
an excellent chance to show, by firmness and justice, that it was
determined to give Ireland the promised measure of home rule.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 1200w

“Nowhere throughout a book which vividly illumines the recent history
of Irish politics, is Captain Gwynn more intimately informed or more
profoundly interesting than in the story of the Irish convention. His
work is one which every student of modern politics should read and
read at once. There has been no more important publication on the
Irish question during recent years.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p642 N 13 ’19 950w

Reviewed by N. J. O’Conor

=Yale R= n s 10:210 O ’20 270w

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=HAGEDORN, HERMANN.= That human being, Leonard Wood. *$1 (7c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe

20–8515

A eulogistic sketch of General Wood by one who regards him as the
legitimate successor of the late Colonel Roosevelt. It is also an
arraignment of the Wilson administration and a campaign document.
“Gradually, as month has succeeded month and the presidential election
has drawn near, Wood has become the focus of the hopes of an
increasing number of men and women scattered over the country who have
found in him a symbol of that blunt belief in facts, that respect for
training and experience, that love of open dealing, which the
administration has offended.... It is not strange that countless
Americans, angered at the lack of these qualities in the
administration, should seek to make the man who most patently
possesses them, the instrument of their indignation.”

* * * * *

“The little book will have no political influence at this time, but it
should have a personal influence to inspire better citizenship and
continual preparedness.” J. S. B.

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

“The briefest and most readable of the various current biographies of
General Wood.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 50w

=HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER.= Ancient Allan. *$1.75 Longmans

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“‘The ancient Allan’, by Sir H. Rider Haggard, reintroduces some of
the characters of ‘The ivory child.’ Lady Ragnall, Allan Quartermain,
and his faithful Hottentot Hans, are shown us in a previous
incarnation by means of the mysterious Taduki, as ancient Egyptians,
warring for the independence of their country against the Lords of the
East.” (Sat R) “The new chronicle is chockful of excitement. There are
fights with lions and a crocodile, duels to the death, the clash of
mighty hosts in battle. There is a signet ring whose bearer commands
unquestioning obedience from those who behold it, an attribute which
the Allan of bygone centuries finds most useful when his faithful
dwarf purloins it from its possessor, the villainous king of kings.
There is a white-bearded soothsayer, who keeps dropping in and making
solemn prophecies of a brilliant future for the great Captain Shabaka.
There are hunters and soldiers, cringing courtiers and solemn priests,
warriors and slaves, and the waters of the ancient Nile murmuring
through the breathless narrative.” (N Y Times)

* * * * *

=Ath= p274 F 27 ’20 240w

+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20

=Lit D= p121 S 18 ’20 1500w

“The tale is told swiftly and simply, as all good Rider Haggard tales
are told. It moves so naturally that one overlooks the unreality. ‘The
ancient Allan’ is by no means to be named in the same breath with
‘King Solomon’s mines’ and other earlier creations of its
indefatigable author. But it will not disappoint the reader who wants
thrills without analyzing too closely the methods employed to provide
them for him.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:152 Ap 4 ’20 900w

“It is a very good example of the author at his second best—we can
never hope to recover the first thrill of ‘She.’”

+ − =Sat R= 129:352 Ap 10 ’20 80w

“The story is told in Sir Rider’s customary colorful style and with
his gift for creating illusion. Ancient Egypt becomes a vivid
reality.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 420w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p104 F 12 ’20 600w

=HAIG, DOUGLAS HAIG, 1st earl.= Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches. il *$15 Dutton 940.342

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