Chapter XLII: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (12)

As one of its publications the Carnegie endowment for international
peace has issued a reprint of “War and peace,” published in 1842, with
an introduction by James Brown Scott. William Jay, the author, was the
son of John Jay, who helped frame the first peace treaty with Great
Britain. Of his plan for maintaining peace, Mr Scott says, “Starting
from the premise that we are free agents, that war is an evil, William
Jay maintains that the extinction of other evils shows that war itself
may be eliminated by the gradual growth of a public opinion against it
and by the creation of agencies which nations can create and use just
as individuals have created and used them.” The plan he outlines
involves the creation of an international tribunal with power to
arbitrate.

* * * * *

“The book still has its importance, and the plan proposed has in fact
made its way into many treaties.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w

=JEAN-AUBRY, G.= French music of today; tr. by Edwin Evans. (Lib. of music and musicians) *$2 Dutton 780.9

(Eng ed 19–17080)

“The first two sections deal with French music and German music and
The French foundations of present-day keyboard music. Among the
composers touched on in two sections called Studies and physiognomies
and Sketches for portraits are Massenet, Debussy, Roussel, Chabrier,
D’Indy, Chausson, Duparc, Dukas, Ravel, and de Sévérac. A section on
Music and poetry contains essays on Baudelaire and music and Verlaine
and the musicians; the concluding section is on French music in
England; and to this little volume M. Gabriel Fauré adds a preface.”
(The Times [London] Lit Sup) “Only the first chapter of the book is
new, the others ranging over various periods, and in some cases dating
as far back as 1906 and 1907, when the modern French achievement was
virtually an unknown quantity in England.” (Ath)

* * * * *

“Makes up in enthusiasm what it lacks in clarity.”

+ − =Ath= p114 Mr ’19 60w

“M. Jean-Aubry is one of those enthusiastic apologists who almost
disarm criticism by their sheer ingenuousness. Were it a volume of
recent production, and a serious attempt at criticism, one would
indeed be compelled to call his judgments in question on almost every
page. A pamphlet which was opportune in 1909 may be rather tiresome
ten years later.” R. O. M.

− + =Ath= p757 Ag 15 ’19 550w

“The critical judgments of some of the older chapters and the
propagandist tendency make the book somewhat untimely.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:231 Ap ’20

=Brooklyn= 12:13 O ’19 30w

“M. Jean-Aubry has given us the point of view of the modern French
composer toward his art. The value of this contribution alone more
than offsets any charge of propagandism that the book may bring forth,
a charge that is partially refuted by the very fact that much of its
contents was written long before the war.” Henrietta Straus

+ =Nation= 110:527 Ap 17 ’20 650w

Reviewed by C: H: Meltzer

=Review= 2:630 Je 16 ’20 1150w

“This is eminently a book for the layman, for M. Jean-Aubry avoids
technicalities.”

+ =Spec= 122:264 Mr 1 ’19 1250w

“Mr Jean-Aubry is necessarily but not unfairly prejudiced in favor of
his native music. Delightful and refreshing are the studies and
sketches—for preserving whose charm, by the way, the reader is
indebted to the translator, Edwin Evans—of contemporary modern French
composers, which occupy the greater portion of the book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 24 ’20 480w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p35 Ja 16 ’19 80w

“The merit of this book is that it is not afraid of pressing into the
service of music everything that can be a symbol; its weakness is that
positive statements about the music swim rather sparsely in a
whirlpool of words.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p43 Ja 23 ’19 1450w

=JEFFERY, GEORGE H. EVERETT.= Brief description of the Holy sepulchre. il *$3.50 Putnam 726

20–9215

The complete title of this work, a reprint from the Journal of the
Royal Institute of British Architects for 1910, is “a brief
description of the Holy sepulchre, Jerusalem, and other Christian
churches in the Holy city, with some account of the mediæval copies of
the Holy sepulchre surviving in Europe.” Part 1 is devoted to the
history, part 2 to the description of the monument, part 3 to the
lesser shrines, and part 4 to the reproductions in various parts of
Europe. There are numerous illustrations and diagrams and the work
closes with chronological tables and index.

* * * * *

“Mr Jeffery writes two particularly interesting chapters on the
reproductions of the Holy sepulchre as a pilgrim shrine. The
illustrations might have been improved, especially in the way of
enlargement.”

+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 100w

“We must be content to say that the book is of great interest and
value, and that it should be read by intelligent tourists before they
go to Jerusalem and after they return.”

+ =Spec= 123:778 D 6 ’19 160w

“It is careful and learned and very fully and well illustrated.”

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

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 1150w

=JEFFERY, JEFFERY E.= Side issues. *$1.90 (3c) Seltzer

20–14708

A volume of short stories dealing with side issues of the war. With
the exception of two which are reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine,
they appear here for the first time. The titles are: Angèle, goddess
of kindliness; A quiet evening; Services rendered; A lost soul;
Noblesse oblige; The altar of drums; My lady of Hoxton; Equality of
sacrifice; The heirloom; In token of gratitude; Generalities; The
revellers; Dam’ good fellers; A tap at the door; Confessional—by way
of epilogue.

* * * * *

“The best sketch from a literary point of view, is ‘Angèle, goddess of
kindliness.’”

+ =Ath= p527 Ap 16 ’20 130w

“Beneath all the wounds of circumstance a deep sobriety of spirit
curbs the author’s temptation to sacrifice truth to effectiveness and
persuades him to set down only the permanent and permanently human.”

+ =Nation= 111:596 N 24 ’20 420w

“The book is quietly and earnestly written, and has an authentic ring
of sincerity. It is, I fancy, a genuine human document, and like all
such genuine documents, well worth attention.” W. P. Eaton

+ =N Y Call= p11 D 19 ’20 210w

“In these sketchily constructed stories, by an officer of the old
army, the ugliness of war and the injustices that accompany
demobilization are set out with considerable effect and an evident
attempt at fairness, though with a tendency towards rhetoric.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 160w

=JENKIN, A. M. N.= End of a dream. *$1.75 (3c) Lane

20–7429

Shell shock and its terrible possibilities are the theme of this
story. Before he went to war Arnold Cheyne had been deeply in love
with Nadina, a beautiful dancing girl. When the latter, not yet ready
to abandon her career, refused him, he entered into a loveless
marriage with Sheila Maclaren. Under the influence of shell shock he
no longer recognizes Sheila and thinks of Nadina as his wife. The
doctor of the hospital, having been told Arnold’s history and his want
of love for his real wife, advises Nadina to humor him in his
hallucination. With a nervous patient’s cunning Arnold escapes from
the hospital and flees with Nadina into Cornwall. There the end is a
double murder, the first of the man who has followed the couple,
intent on making trouble, and the second, under the influence of a
dream taking him back into the horrors of trench warfare, of Nadina
herself.

* * * * *

“The symptoms of the hero are well described; but Mr Jenkin lacks
literary skill and seems to find it very difficult to cope with his
plot.”

+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 130w

“For a book with a live theme, the effect of shell shock and the
social and legal problems arising from that effect. ‘The end of a
dream’ is amazingly dull.” R. D. W.

− =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 400w

“In this vividly written story of the possible effects of shell shock
the author has unfolded a dramatic story of intense interest and
downright awful power.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 700w

“The last scene is terrible in its realism. The book should certainly
be kept out of the hands of sufferers from the milder forms of this
affection.”

− =Spec= 124:53 Ja 10 ’20 40w

“Disappointing in effect. The author saddles a plot of undoubted
interest and merit with principals of a featureless type.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 320w

=JENKINS, J. T.=[2] Sea fisheries. il *$10 Dutton 639.2

“A copiously-illustrated volume, the author of which is professionally
associated with the Lancashire and Western sea fisheries joint
committee. Dr Jenkins describes from personal knowledge the mystery of
the fishers’ craft. An account is given of the methods of fishing
adopted in the North sea, and the narrative deals with the rise of the
herring fisheries, as well as with the development of steam trawling.
Public fisheries for shellfish are described: and an important chapter
deals with individual fish, such as the sole, plaice, haddock, and
herring. Foreign and colonial fisheries are considered in the last
chapter.”—Ath

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 100w

“This is rather a Gradgrindian book for a compatriot of Charles
Dickens to have written. It is full of useful statistics and little
else. His photographs carry more of the romance of the sea than his
text.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 280w

“We strongly commend Dr Jenkins’s scientific and instructive book to
the consideration of all who wish to understand the urgent problem of
utilizing the harvest of the sea to the best advantage, though its
more controversial parts are no doubt open to discussion.”

+ =Spec= 124:796 Je 12 ’20 870w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p249 Ap 22 ’20 1700w

=JENNINGS, ARTHUR SEYMOUR.= Paints and varnishes. il $1 Pitman 667

20–18167

The book comes under the Pitman’s common commodities and industries
series and deals with the properties and uses of paints and varnishes
from a purely commercial and professional point of view. Their
quality, the quantity required to cover given surfaces and the
determination of probable durability are dealt with at some length.
The process of manufacture is only described when it becomes necessary
to differentiate between grades or qualities of the same material.
Contents: The characteristics of a good paint; The principal pigments
used in paint making; The thinners used in paint; Paint-mixing—the
application of paints, etc.: Whitewashes and distempers; Service tests
of paints and varnishes; Machinery used in paint-making; Varnishes and
enamels; Tables, etc.; Index and illustrations.

=JENSEN, ALBRECHT.= Massage and exercises combined. il $4 The author, box 73 G. P.O., N.Y. 613.7

20–19054

“A new system of the characteristic essentials of gymnastic and Indian
Yogis concentration exercises combined with scientific massage
movements.” (Sub-title) The author lays stress upon the therapeutic
effectiveness of the combination of massage and exercises. The system
is intended chiefly for home use and requires no gymnastic equipment
and no expenditure. The contents in part are: Resultant bad effects
from the use of heavy apparatus, weights and too strenuous exercises;
Special benefit to women from the use of these exercises; The
construction and characteristics of the combined massage exercises;
General and detailed description of the combined massage exercises
with their analyses and effects; Proper breathing: How the number of
exercises for one performance can best be decreased; How the exercises
may be utilized in some diseased and disordered conditions of the
body. There are eighty-six illustrations.

* * * * *

+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 70w

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 16 ’21 270w

=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 60w

=Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 160w

=JEPSON, EDGAR.= Loudwater mystery. *$2 (3c) Knopf

20–22232

When Lord Loudwater is stabbed to death and investigations are begun,
it is discovered that there is a quite disconcerting wealth of
possible suspects. Lord Loudwater was of such a nature that his
actions might supply the motive for murder to any one of his family or
household or even remoter connections. For instance, on the day of his
murder, he had threatened to divorce his wife, he had quarreled
violently with Colonel Grey, who had been seen paying attentions to
Lady Loudwater, he had discharged his butler in a fit of anger, and he
had halved the allowance of a mysterious woman who had sued him for
breach of promise. So the doings of these various people at the time
of the murder are thoroughly combed over. When these clues lead to
nothing but a blank wall, with the story almost at an end, the
suspense is finally ended by the discovery of one forged check which
gives the actual murderer away.

* * * * *

“We close the book with a genuine regret that a gift so real as Mr
Jepson’s cannot be more economically used.”

+ − =Ath= p1210 N 14 ’19 140w

“The action never lags, and the ending is rather out of the ordinary.”

+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

=Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 520w

“Mr Jepson has not been entirely successful in keeping up the tension
of the mystery. There are lapses of several months each in the
narrative, which break the emotional flow. But the large number of
readers who seek to qualify as amateur Holmeses, Craig Kennedies, and
Dupins, by vicarious solutions of murder mysteries, will find plenty
of opportunities here.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 420w

“If some of the devices are familiar, most of the characters have—what
is rare in novels of the kind—an unmistakable touch of life, and much
of the dialogue has—what is still more uncommon—a sprightly turn.”

+ =Sat R= 128:590 D 20 ’19 200w

=Spec= 123:819 D 13 ’19 60w

“A detective story of exceptional merit.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p677 N 20 ’19 170w

=JEPSON, EDGAR.= Pollyooly dances. *$1.25 (2c) Duffield

20–3191

Mr Jepson’s young heroine has grown up and in this novel appears as a
successful dancer. She is on her way to New York when the story opens
and her guardian, the Honourable John Ruffin, is traveling by the same
boat on business of his own. He has successfully evaded military
service and is an object of scorn to all patriotic Britons on board.
But of course, as the reader well knows, he is in government service
and his business has to do with German spies. Indeed, throughout, the
story is more concerned with German spy plots than with Pollyooly’s
dancing.

* * * * *

“It has always been our opinion that Mr Edgar Jepson’s best period was
that of ‘No. 19’ and ‘The mystery of the myrtles,’ and we regret that
he should have bartered his heritage of fantasy touched with horror
for machine-made private detectives and angel children who blossom
into popular ballerinas.”

− + =Ath= p475 O 8 ’20 130w

=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20

“A more than ordinarily entertaining detective story.”

+ =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 70w

=JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON.= Happy bride. *$2 Doran 821

20–20439

The first poem of this collection is based on an old Cornish custom:
“In Cornwall, when an unmarried girl dies, she is borne through the
streets followed by her girl friends dressed in white and singing a
hymn of which the refrain is ‘O happy bride.’” Cornish legend also
furnishes the motive for St Ludgvan’s well, The forbidden vision, The
droll-teller, and Jennifer, Jennifer. Other titles are: Towers of
healing; A little dirge for any soul; Youth renascent; Where beauty
stays her foot; Lover’s cry.

* * * * *

“Of contemporaries, Miss Tennyson Jesse is closely related to Mr
Bridges. She approaches him in the purity of her verse, the felicity
of her phrase, in her rhythm and her descriptive quality. At no point,
perhaps, does she attempt or achieve sublimity, but for evenness of
accomplishment few living poets surpass her work.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 My 13 ’20 680w

=JESSUP, ALEXANDER=, ed. Best American humorous short stories. (Modern lib. of the world’s best books.) *85c Boni & Liveright

20–12376

“To the Modern library has been added ‘Best American humorous short
stories,’ a selection from the writings of Poe, Curtis, Hale, O. W.
Holmes, Mark Twain, Bunner, Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry and others,
including several whose names are still familiar in the magazines. The
editor is Alexander Jessup.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The compiler steers a safe, somewhat academic course, and there are
inevitably some inclusions of historical rather than hilarious
interest.”

+ − =Dial= 69:103 Jl ’20 50w

“The book is both valuable and interesting. The tired business man
will revel in it.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p8 Ag 1 ’20 220w

“The editor shows that mingled understanding of past and present which
alone gives value to critical pronouncements or editorial work
involving critical selection.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 120w

=JOAD, CYRIL EDWIN MITCHINSON.= Essays in common sense philosophy. *$2 Harcourt 192

(Eng ed 20–6885)

“In ‘Essays in common sense philosophy’ C. E. M. Joad of Balliol
college, Oxford, gives us a rethinking of contemporary metaphysics, in
which his titular claim rests on the views that we do actually
perceive things as they are, that apparent differences and
discontinuities in experience are real and that the Hegelian theory of
the state is essentially wrong, inasmuch as the state is only a
subordinate institution within the larger whole of human society. The
first point is made out on the basis of Meinong’s Gegendstandstheorie,
which, even if it be accepted, is not obviously the reasoning of
common sense. Similarly, the defense of pluralism, based on Russell’s
treatment of relations, comes indeed to the plain man’s conclusion,
but by a tortuous path. Two other important essays in this book are
those on truth, and on universals.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“As with all books of this kind, the author’s treatment can be
considered adequate only by those who agree with him. To others it
will appear that the points neglected by the author are more important
than those noticed by him.”

+ − =Ath= p539 Je 27 ’19 80w

“Mr Joad’s book is readable, interesting, and quite remarkably
intelligible. There is an avoidance of technical jargon, and an
admirable lucidity. It is a book which can be read with much profit by
all who are interested in philosophy without being professional
philosophers.” B. R.

+ =Ath= p652 Jl 25 ’19 1800w

=Booklist= 17:7 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 170w

=Brooklyn= 12:28 N ’19 50w

=New Repub= 24:150 O 6 ’20 430w

“His book, though unsatisfactory to any student of philosophy who
possesses a philological conscience and a critical historic sense,
does in some sort canvass a number of the problems that we can escape
only by refusing to speculate at all. It will serve as well as another
to satisfy the commonplace metaphysical instinct. And the student who
takes it up for this purpose will receive from it a fair measure of
initiation into the study of philosophy, and of orientation and
stimulus of his own reflections.”— Paul Shorey

− + =Review= 3:232 S 15 ’20 1100w

“This book should be widely read. It deserves close and careful study
as an indication of the best lines of the metaphysical thought of
today.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 1 ’20 300w

“His book is a real stimulus to thought.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p492 S 18 ’19 1000w

=JOHNSEN, JULIA E.=,[2] comp. Selected articles on national defense. v 3 (Debaters’ handbook ser.) $1.80 Wilson, H. W. 355.7

This volume, consisting of brief, bibliography and reprints, covers
the subjects. The army, The navy, Military training, Military service,
Disarmament and peace. Volume 1, by Corinne Bacon, was published in
1916; volume 2, by Agnes Van Valkenburgh, in 1917.

=JOHNSON, ARTHUR.= Under the rose. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper

20–15533

The titles of these stories are: The princess of Tork; Riders in the
dark; The one hundred eightieth meridian; Mr Eberdeen’s house; The two
lovers; The visit of the master; The little family; His new mortal
coil; How the ship came in. The stories are reprinted from Harper’s
and other magazines. The visit of the master appeared in the 1918
volume of Mr O’Brien’s “Best short stories.”

* * * * *

“‘Under the rose’ contains some charming tales. The happy whimsicality
of expression in a number brings to mind similar happy whimsicalities
of Henry James.” C. K. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 2 ’20 400w

“This is a bewildering collection of stories, effective and yet at the
same time not wholly satisfying. The themes treated are many, the
transition from story to story sometimes marking a leap of mood
difficult to achieve. Almost every story is successful by itself; and
this, after all, is a great deal to demand of fiction.”

+ − =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 420w

=JOHNSON, CLIFTON.= What to see in America. (American highways and byways ser.) il *$3 Macmillan 917.3

19–19488

“The book is concerned with the human interest of our country in
nature, history, industry, literature, legend, and biography. It is
intended for travelers who visit the places of interest in person, and
also for those other travelers whom chance or necessity keeps at home,
but who travel far and wide on the wings of fancy.... Under each state
is included such things as the first settlement, the capital, the
largest city, the highest point, and facts of general interest
concerning its past and present that add to the traveler’s zest in
visiting it.” (Introductory note) Each state in the Union has a
chapter and there are 500 illustrations including several maps.

* * * * *

“Rather too brief for the intensive sightseer. No index, but full
contents by states with mention of attractions.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20

“Mr Johnson has an observant eye, and he knows what he wants to say,
but he is frequently unable to express himself in straightforward
English.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 7 ’20 400w

“Somewhere between a guide book and travel essays. Useful for
reference.”

+ =Cleveland= p43 Ap ’20 40w

“The pictures are better than the history, and the history is better
than the opinions, but there are few opinions and only enough history
to add the right tincture of romance.”

+ =Nation= 111:163 Ag 7 ’20 190w

“His 500 illustrations are well chosen, well engraved and well
printed; and they are frequently alluring. Probably there are few of
those who read Mr Johnson’s book who will not feel a desire to let
their own eyes gaze upon the wonderful spots which are here
photographed.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w

“The numerous pictures are well selected. The traveled reader is sure
to find new things as well as old in the volume, and the
‘stay-at-home’ will find here new zest for fireside travels.”

+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 80w

“Travelers may make good use of this volume, and it may be commended
to public-school geography classes.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 140w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 70w

=JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD.= Collected poems, 1881–1919. *$4 Yale univ. press 811

20–1009

The collection comprises the poet’s former volumes together with some
new material. The contents are: The winter hour, and other poems;
Songs of liberty, and other poems; Italian rhapsody, and other poems;
Moments of Italy, and other poems; Saint-Gaudens: an ode; Later poems
of occasion; Poems of war and peace; Poems of the great war; Poems
chiefly of friendship or admiration; Later poems of the great war;
Miscellaneous poems; Poems of Italy in war-time; Latest war-time
poems.

* * * * *

“Many of his poems are occasional in character, and in these he
displays his happiest inspiration. He has the professional
after-dinner speaker’s talent for saying the right, the tactful thing
about any person or event. Mr Johnson would make an excellent
laureate.”

+ =Ath= p622 My 7 ’20 120w

“There is much sweetness—which never descends to mere prettiness—much
grace and a good deal of fine thought finely expressed in melodious
verse. Mr Johnson has long and deservedly enjoyed a special place of
distinction in modern American poetry of the conservative tradition.”
H: A. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 60w

“To enjoy this volume you do not need to belong to any ‘school,’ nor
to hold any poetic theory. All you need is to love poetry as the
interpreter of the best things in nature and life.” H: Van Dyke

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 1900w

“All the poems are not of equal value. But the omnipresent dignity of
Dr Johnson’s muse, his understanding love for Italy, and his unfailing
respect both for his medium and his reader, bespeak alike the scholar
and the citizen of the world.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:700 Ag ’20 150w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 60w

=JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE.= Medal collector. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 Dodd 737

The book furnishes a guide to naval, military, air-force and civil
medals and ribbons in the following order: The pioneer medals of
England; Early medals of the Hon. East India Co.; Peninsular awards;
Waterloo awards; The naval general service medal; Campaign medals;
British orders and their insignia; The Victoria cross; Service medals
for bravery, etc.; Commemorative medals; Medals for long service, good
conduct, etc.; Regimental medals; Civil medals; Medals of the United
States; Foreign awards. The book contains eight plates in color and
numerous other illustrations and has appendices, a bibliography and
index.

=JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE.= Stamp collector; a guide to the world’s postage stamps. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 383

The author rates the hobby of stamp collecting highly from an
intellectual, an economic and a commercial point of view, but first
and foremost as a pastime full of charm and fascination. Since there
is so much that can be collected and so much that ought not to be
collected he offers this guide which equally satisfies the beginner
and the more advanced collector. The first few chapters deal with
philately on general terms. They are: Planning and arranging the
collection; Specialised collections; Technical matters; Stamps,
desirable and otherwise; Forged and faked stamps; Sir Rowland Hill and
other pioneers. Then a number of chapters are devoted to a description
of stamps of definite areas and the last four are: The stamps of war;
Rare stamps; Philately for the young; A glossary of philatelic terms
with a bibliography and an index.

* * * * *

“If the author’s line of demarcation between stamps desirable and
otherwise is rather arbitrary, his advice as to the best method of
forming and continuing a stamp collection is at least accurate.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p10 Ja 1 ’20 550w

=JOHNSON, THOMAS COSTELLO.= Irish tangle and a way out. *$1.50 Gorham 941.5

20–5597

“Mr Johnson is an American clergyman (Church of the Holy Spirit,
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, N.Y.) who went to Ireland in 1918 to give
lectures about America’s part in the great war. The larger part of the
book is historical—from early times to recent developments. Mr
Johnson’s own solution is—with educational reform and the development
of resources—federal government with parliaments for England, Ireland,
Scotland, and Wales, and a central parliament at Westminster.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

=Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 280w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Mr 18 ’20 100w

=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= History of Cuba. 5v il $45 B. F. Buck & co., inc., 156 5th av., N.Y. 972.91

20–10078

“Taking San Salvador as his point of departure, the writer follows the
narrative of the discoverer, in which he traces his course from one
island to another, and by this means identifies the place of landing
of Columbus on the shores of Cuba. Thus is begun the history of the
island. With the fourth chapter, Dr Johnson abandons travel for
science, and enters upon geological and topographical history of the
great island. Dr Johnson traces the history of the early years of
Spanish settlement in Cuba, with great particularity down to the close
of the sixteenth century.... Subsequent passages relate the military
operations of an expedition under Admiral Vernon and the British plans
for the conquest of Spanish America, the attack upon Havana and its
capture; and finally, the negotiations which resulted in the return of
the island to Spain. The story follows of the American war for
independence and the rise of the Republic of the United States and its
influence upon Cuban affairs.... The fifth and final volume of the
series is concerned with the natural resources of Cuba today. This
volume has been compiled under the auspices of the Cuban department of
agriculture, commerce and labor.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“There seems to be no feature in Cuban history and character left
untouched in this scholarly and comprehensive presentation of a
subject until now neglected.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1750w

“It is on the whole well proportioned. If this history were condensed
into a single volume it might serve a useful purpose. Its faults would
appear less glaring. But for the general reader it is too long and
costly, and as an accurately conceived and scholarly account of Cuba
it is simply a waste of good paper such as the trade at this moment
can ill afford.” C. H. Haring

− + =N Y Evening Post= p5 O 30 ’20 1550w

“Dr Johnson has looked at the facts, it may be said, from a Cuban
point of view, and at the same time with a sense of proportion that is
continental and international. He has produced not merely a manifesto
of Cuban patriotism, nor on the other hand, a coldly detached
compilation of facts, but a true national record. His work is not only
a valuable archive or work of reference, but also a treatise of vital
interest and importance to the people of this country.”

+ =No Am= 212:279 Ag ’20 2800w

“A well-written history.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 20w

=JOHNSTON, SIR HARRY HAMILTON.= Mrs Warren’s daughter; a story of the woman’s movement. *$2 Macmillan

20–7923

“In his first novel, ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ Sir Harry Johnston undertook
to show us the second generation, the descendants of Walter Gay and
Florence Dombey. Now he comes forward with ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter,’
taking up the history of Vivie Warren and of her mother at the point
where George Bernard Shaw left it. When the novel begins, Vivie and
her friend Honoria Fraser compose the firm of ‘Fraser & Warren,
consultant actuaries and accountants.’ They are doing very well, but
find themselves perpetually hampered by the regulations and laws
forbidding women admission to various professions. In a spirit of
revolt against these man-made restrictions, Vivie decides to cut her
hair, don masculine apparel and become David Vavasour Williams.... In
1910 she finally drops Mr David Vavasour Williams and begins to take
an extremely active part in the militant suffragist movement.... Mrs
Warren had taken up her residence in Brussels, and that was how it
came about that when Vivie was released from prison during the first
days of the world war she went straight to Belgium to join her mother.
The description of the experiences of these two women especially
during the months of von Bissing’s ‘terror’ is very interesting and
well done.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Whimsical, entertaining and clever. Readers who liked ‘The Gay
Dombeys’ will like this.”

+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

“The incidents of the masculine masquerade partake more or less of the
nature of a fairy tale, but even though they are not credible, they
are delightful in their humor and their vigorous views of passing
phases of this world of English art, science and society. Nothing
human is alien to Sir Harry Johnston.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 2100w

“The single compelling section of the book is the middle one, in which
the effects of the Pankhurst leadership are given with
circumstantiality; but this is brief, and the rest falls away from it
both in matter and tone. It seems curious that Sir Harry could have
found so rich a pocket of ore and not have tried to mine it to the
rock. ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ is a too-simple sketch of a notable
subject, and it is nothing more.” C. M. R.

− + =Freeman= 1:597 S 1 ’20 280w

+ − =Lit D= p97 O 9 ’20 1700w

“In ‘The Gay-Dombeys’ there was the high gusto and boyish delight of a
gifted man’s successful experiment in a new form of activity. His
second book is notably less fresh and engaging.”

+ − =Nation= 110:950 Je 26 ’20 550w

“Those who knew the zoological, geographical, anthropological, and
other learned London societies some thirty or forty years ago will
read these books with a double interest, for they will find that Sir
Harry’s characters resuscitate past chapters in the history of
scientific life in London. The author, it is needless to say, uses a
light and nimble pen to draw word-pictures seen from a highly
individualistic Harry Johnstonian angle.”

+ =Nature= 106:339 N 11 ’20 360w

“Judged as a work of art the book fails. The structure is stumbling
and plodding: the style second-rate journalism. The characterization,
with the admirable exception of the redoubtable Mrs Warren herself
(she shows Sir Harry’s loving study of Dickens), is singularly
superficial and conventional.” S. C. C.

− + =New Repub= 23:157 Je 30 ’20 800w

“Unfortunately, it puts not its best but its worst foot foremost, the
poorest part of it being the first, in which occurs Vivie’s
preposterous masquerade. It is not until the last third of the book
and its sixteenth chapter are reached that the novel really begins to
be distinctly interesting. This sixteenth chapter is headed ‘Brussels
and the war: 1914.’”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:280 My 30 ’20 1200w

“The interest is of a queer nature, but it certainly exists.”

+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 140w

“‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ by contrast [with ‘The Gay-Dombeys’] is a
laborious invention.” H. W. Boynton

− =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 300w

“We move in an atmosphere of sentimental romance, by no means
disagreeable, but miles apart from everything which we associate with
the initials G. B. S.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:456 My 15 ’20 450w

“On many matters of social interest he is fluent and furious, and
those who like this style of thing will doubtless be thrilled. We,
unfortunately, were unable to find anything like so many nice and
amusing people here as there were in ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ and must
absolutely refuse to swallow Miss Warren.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p200 Mr 25 ’20 580w

=JOHNSTON, MARY.= Sweet Rocket. *$1.65 (4c) Harper

20–18509

The strain of mysticism revealed in Miss Johnston’s previous novel is
very evident in this book. Of story in the conventional sense there is
none. Richard Linden has returned to Sweet Rocket, the home of his
family before the war. Richard is blind, and Marget Land, who had been
born on the place as the overseer’s daughter, acts as his secretary.
There is a curious bond of unity between the two which has no relation
to earthly love and both are bound to Sweet Rocket by deep spiritual
ties. The spirit of the place is such that all who come to it, friends
or strangers, fall under its spell. There are beautiful descriptions
of the country alternating with discussions of a psychic and spiritual
nature.

* * * * *

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 52:342 Ja ’21 470w

“Miss Johnston has revealed with keen perception the idea of
individual growth and expansion toward Godhood, and the setting of her
book is of idyllic beauty.” F. M. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 520w

“Though some of Miss Johnston’s readers may be pleased that ‘Sweet
Rocket’ is written in the same mystical vein and in furtherance of the
same spiritual quest as ‘Foes’ and ‘Michael Forth,’ the majority will,
at this third blow, relinquish with regrets the hope that she may ever
again give us a novel in the manner of ‘To have and to hold.’”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 270w

=N Y Times= p21 N 21 ’20 400w

“It is not enough to be sensitive to the beautiful—one must have a
sense of relativity, of proportion. Miss Johnston here makes a too
conscious effort at poetic expression.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 10 ’20 250w

=JOHNSTON, ROBERT MATTESON.= First reflections on the campaign of 1918. *$1.50 (11c) Holt 940.373

20–5656

The author, who was attached to the general staff at General
Pershing’s headquarters in France for twelve months, where he had
every opportunity of observing the working of our war machine, offers
his reflections as a “constructive criticism of our combat army.” He
points out the flaws, due to our neglect of national preparedness, and
how they can be avoided in the future. As he foresees that the
competition of highly organized industrial communities, for markets
and for raw material, is about to produce a series of wars over the
whole surface of the globe, he pleads for the highest possible
efficiency and combination of naval and military power. Contents: The
U.S. army before the war; Leavenworth; The conduct of war; The rank
and file; The regular officers; The national army officer; The
National guard officer; The general staff; General Pershing; Tactics;
The replacement system; Our army of the future.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20

=N Y Times= p27 O 10 ’20 400w

=R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 50w

=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM ANDREW.= Mystery in the Ritsmore. il *$1.75 (3c) Little

20–10309

The murder of a beautiful girl in the hotel apartment of a newly
married couple takes place on the third day of their honeymoon. A
young guest at the hotel, Anne Blair, is drawn into the case by her
love of excitement. The mystery is apparently quickly solved by the
police, and they let the matter drop. But Anne is not convinced it is
so simple and, aided by John Rush, secretary to the millionaire,
Harrison Hardy, keeps up independent investigations of her own. Her
quest leads her into a maze of clues, which broaden out into a plot of
international significance, in which great sums of money are involved.
Although the plotters are clever, Anne Blair proves cleverer in the
end, when she foils their schemes.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20

“It is an excellent mystery tale. As is often true of detective
stories, the finale is something of a disappointment.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 180w

“‘The mystery in the Ritsmore’ is an entertaining, ingenious and
well-told yarn, which holds its secret up to the very end.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 350w

“The story is episodical, but is well enough knit to interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 130w

=JONES, ELIAS HENRY.= Road to En-Dor. il $2 (2c) Lane 940.47

20–7946

This book, “being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in
Turkey won their way to freedom,” (Sub-title), is incidentally an
exposé of spiritualism. The author, in conjunction with a brother
officer and prisoner, Lieutenant Hill, began his experiments in
spiritualism in good faith, but soon saw a possibility of escape
through skillful manipulations. They came to the conclusion that
spiritualism has a most deplorable effect even on people whose mental
powers one admires, causing them to lose hold of the criteria of sane
conclusions. “The messages we received from ‘the world beyond’ and
‘from other minds in this sphere’ were in every case, and from
beginning to end, of our own invention.” Yet through them it was
possible “to convert intelligent, scientific, and otherwise highly
educated men to spiritualism, by means of the arts and methods
employed by ‘mediums’ in general.” Although the incidents described in
the book may seem preposterous, the author vows for their
truthfulness. The book is illustrated by Lieutenant Hill and has a
postscript and appendices.

* * * * *

“To have made such an exposure at the present time is to have done a
real and lasting service.”

+ =Ath= p195 F 6 ’20 100w

“Interesting as a war narrative, though told somewhat too much in
detail. Also interesting propaganda for anti-spiritualists.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20

“The book abounds in excellent and vigorous writing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 430w

“The reader who begins ‘The road to En-Dor’ after dinner will probably
be found at one o’clock in the morning still reading.”

+ =Spec= 124:111 Ja 24 ’20 1700w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 380w

=JONES, SIR HENRY.= Principles of citizenship. *$1.25 Macmillan 320

20–12226

“This little book is intended for the use of such men as attended the
Y. M. C. A. lectures in the British army abroad. The purpose is to
give a general view of the duties and rights of citizens; and the
language is, therefore, simple and expressive. An initial distinction
is drawn between two conceptions of the state. The non-moral idea is
said to be German. Suggestions are then made as to the problem of
individuality which are held to refute the pacifist.”—Int J Ethics

* * * * *

“The author of this book is amiable and high-minded, but seems out of
place in the stern modern world, a belated Victorian.” B. R.

− + =Ath= p270 My 2 ’19 530w

=Int J Ethics= 30:115 O ’19 160w

“Must irritate any reader who really looks for some kind of serious
thought in Great Britain. Sir Henry Jones might quite decently have
left Hegel in his grave instead of serving him up to the Y. M. C. A.
by way of education for the British army. He ingeniously combines
several fallacies in one. In the first place, what he calls the state
is really the nation. In the second place, the ‘good life’ is no more
the object of one nation than another, and when a league of nations is
in being the ‘good life’ might be supposed to have an international
flavour about it. In the third place, no nation is worth its salt if
the forces of improvement do not originate with individuals but derive
their origin and impulse from politicians and bureaucrats.”

− =Sat R= 127:507 My 24 ’19 300w

“Sir Henry Jones has a firm grasp of moral principles, sadly neglected
or defied by many people nowadays, and his exposition of his argument
is singularly clear.”

+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w

=JONES, HENRY ARTHUR.= Patriotism and popular education. *$4 Dutton 370

20–10632

“‘Patriotism and popular education; with some thoughts upon English
work and English play, our evening amusements, Shakespeare and the
condition of our theatres, slang, children of the stage, the training
of actors, English politics before the war, national training for
national defence, war and design in nature, the league of nations, the
future world policy of America, capital and labour, religion,
reconstruction, the great commandments, social prophets and social
prophecy, competition and co-operation, the biologist and the social
reformer, hand labour and brain labour, school teachers and
rag-pickers, internationalism, and many other interesting matters, in
a letter to the Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, president of the board of
education.’ (Sub-title) The eminent playwright fully describes his
book on the title-page, and it remains only to add that he pleads for
practical education which would turn out good carpenters and good
citizens, and has no patience with modern ideas that, as he considers,
have put the majority of working-men ‘in open rebellion against the
plainest economic laws.’”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p283 My 2 ’19 170w

− =Ath= p589 Jl 11 ’19 1100w

“Seems rather an outburst of annoyance than a constructively thought
out criticism.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20

=Brooklyn= 12:83 F ’20 40w

“As an experienced writer he can express himself vigorously in from
two to a dozen ways, can produce many interesting, many wise, many
suggestive, many amusing, and many provoking paragraphs. But if one is
looking for help in dealing with either educational problems or the
problems of state, he will find many smaller books much more helpful.”

+ =Nation= 111:252 Ag 28 ’20 190w

“Suggestive as are Mr Jones’s opinions and arguments, stimulating as
they are and thought-provoking, they are calculated for the meridian
of Greenwich and not for that of Washington—which may make them a
little less useful to us, although none the less entertaining.”

+ − =N Y Times= 24:389 Ag 3 ’19 2100w

“Throughout the book there are passages that deserve a praise that
cannot be accorded to the whole as a statement of first principles or
as a treatise upon education.”

+ − =No Am= 212:428 S ’20 1850w

“He can not write either lifelessly or tediously. He can not write
foolishly, either; and, although you may now and again disagree with
him, you will hardly find him repellently unsympathetic. On the other
hand, you may be apt to feel, he does not leave you much of anywhere.”

+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 500w

+ =St Louis= 18:56 Ap ’20 40w

“Mr Jones is in the mood of a man who has had a bad piece of work
palmed off on him and writes an indignant letter to the Times about
it. His book is a whole collection of indignant letters. The truth is
that Mr Jones has not thought out his arraignment.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 1100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Ap 17 ’19 540w

=JONES, HERBERT.= Well of being. *$1.50 Lane 821

20–7866

A book of poems composed of two parts, the first a series of love
sonnets, the second, “O mistress mine!” a long narrative poem telling
a story of youth and love in Vienna in the old light-hearted days of
that city.

* * * * *

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 52:63 S ’20 30w

=Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 200w

“Mr Jones writes love sonnets with ease and skill; sometimes with a
truly graceful aptness. Sometimes he drops to what is merely trifling,
or strikes a false note. The same may be said of the long poem which
fills the rest of the book.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 120w

=JONES, JOSHUA HENRY, jr.= Heart of the world. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811

19–16027

The title poem was inspired by the speech of President Wilson in
Boston on his first return from Europe in 1919. Among the other titles
are: The pine tree; The parting; With you away; In summer twilight;
Easter chimes; They’ve lynched a man in Dixie; Gone west; The
universe; A southern love song; The potter and his ware.

* * * * *

“Fortunately we are not compelled to judge Mr Jones poetically by such
a piece [the title poem]. With many another subject he is happier in
both conception and execution. He has a broad range of interest and
sympathies; has a discerning eye for nature and a warm emotion for
simple experiences and personal associations.” W. S. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 550w

=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= Service of love in war time. *$2.50 Macmillan 940.47

20–10376

“Rufus Jones’s ‘A service of love in war time’ is, as he says,
‘something more than the story of an impressive piece of relief work;
it is the interpretation of a way of life.’ It is the story of the
Quakers who found opportunity to express their pacifist convictions in
reconstruction service in France. Incidentally it is a record of our
War department’s methods in dealing with the conscientious objectors.
Indeed it is this record of the religious objectors in the draft camps
which is the most vivid part of Rufus Jones’s book—for he was the
chief representative of the Quakers in long and painful negotiations
with the military authorities. His account is a necessary corollary to
Captain Kellogg’s book on the conscientious objector.”—Nation

* * * * *

“We commend this book to anyone who desires to read a story of
singular and effective devotion and courage.”

+ =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 200w

=Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21

+ =Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 280w

“Can be recommended as an earnest, straightforward, well-detailed
account of a great work.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 13 ’21 170w

“It is easier to sigh for the book which this might have been than to
criticize Mr Jones’s book for what it is. I could wish less emphasis
on the inner experience and more details as to the outward work; less
emphasis on individual conscience and more on the general lessons to
be drawn from great experiences corporately shared. I could wish, too,
for a less sentimental title.” E: E. Hunt

+ − =Survey= 44:731 S 15 ’20 380w

“The account [of the conscientious objectors] is instructive in many
ways; it is free from any disposition to exaggerate such abuses of
authority as occurred, and shows on the author’s part an admirable
perception of the intricacy of the various interests and principles at
stake. Yet we cannot but regret that he did not treat his part of his
story more summarily.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p690 O 28 ’20 1250w

=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= Story of George Fox. *$1.50 Macmillan

19–1571

“A volume in the series of ‘Great leaders’ lives.’ It is the story of
a hero who for more than two hundred years has figured in histories
and religious works, but whose personality has never been clearly
outlined in popular literature. In this instance, at least, his
biographer has succeeded in giving his subject a fair degree of
definition.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“Good concrete example of the ideals of the Friends, well written.”

+ =Booklist= 16:202 Mr ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 3 ’20 180w

“Narrow as is its scope and unpretentious the style of this short
biography written for young people, it portrays the founder of the
Society of Friends with masterly art.”

+ =Nation= 110:269 F 28 ’20 400w

“A compact and well-written volume.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 60w

=JONES, SUSAN CARLETON (S. CARLETON, pseud.).= La Chance mine mystery. il *$1.75 (2c) Little

Nicky Stretton, in the midst of his rough life as a miner, holds the
vision of the wonderful “dream girl” who will some day come into his
life. At the end of a day of discouragement, he comes home to find
her, as beautiful as he had pictured her, seated by his fireplace. But
it must not be supposed that they at once settle down to a life of
sweet domesticity. On the contrary there are grave obstacles in the
way. In the first place it appears that she is engaged to Nicky’s
partner, and secondly, there is some mystery about her identity and
her past which project an enemy into her present. Nicky is a bit slow
about grasping the situation, but when he and the enemy finally come
to grips, there is plenty of excitement and a startling number of
hairbreadth escapes before his “dream girl” becomes his in reality.

* * * * *

“The tale is well told, skilfully setting forth a highly improbable
action without letting us acknowledge to ourselves, while it is going
on, that it is absurd.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:584 Jl ’20 170w

“This is a novel of excitement in which neither characters nor setting
are neglected for the sake of mere plot.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 8 ’20 520w

“Full of tender, whimsical sentiment that will make its appeal to men
and women alike.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w

“For plot and swift action ‘The La Chance mine mystery,’ with its
charming love romance, in the setting of frozen forests, with their
howling wolf packs, is a story of the great out-of-doors that will
satisfy the most blasé reader.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:230 My 2 ’20 300w

Reviewed by Joseph Mosher

=Pub W= 97:997 Mr 20 ’20 250w

=JONESCU, TAKE.= Some personal impressions. il *$3 (6¼c) Stokes 923

20–3876