Chapter XLV: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (1)

describing the content and conduct of the imagination at different
stages in the child’s development, variations in the vividness,
quality and tendencies of the imaginative processes in different
individuals, its stimulating influence to good or evil habits of
thought and action. Part 3, under the heading ‘School subjects and the
imagination,’ begins with a consideration of the possibilities of
training the imagination from the point of view of disciplining,
stimulating, and directing the imaginative processes, including a
brief description of the mental conditions facilitating such training.
Then follow chapters explaining the imaginative processes involved in
learning to read, spell, and draw, in the study of arithmetic,
geography, history, and literature, nature-study, and science.”—School
R

* * * * *

“The treatment is characterized by a clearness of presentation which
is quite at variance with the confused manner in which the subject of
imagination is frequently discussed. The book should be of interest to
all students of educational psychology.”

+ =El School J= 21:153 O ’20 290w

“The book is readable and straightforward, and is one that a student
ought to grasp without much supplementary explanation. Some of the
exercises at the end of the chapters, however, seem too large to be
handled by the type of student for whom the text is designed.” K.
Gordon

+ − =J Philos= 18:54 Ja ’21 150w

+ =School R= 28:638 O ’20 420w

=KLAPPER, PAUL=, ed. College teaching; studies in methods of teaching in the college. *$4.50 World bk. 371.3

20–5826

A volume to which various specialists contribute. As Dr Klapper points
out in his preface, the field is almost virgin. “The literature on
college education in general and college pedagogy in particular is
surprisingly undeveloped.” Dr Nicholas Murray Butler writes an
introduction. The book is in six parts. Part 1 consists of three
papers: History and present tendencies of the American college, by S.
P. Duggan; Professional training for college teaching, by Sidney E.
Mezes; General principles of college teaching, by Paul Klapper. Part 2
covers the sciences, with contributions by T. W. Galloway, Louis
Kahlenberg, Harvey B. Lemon, and others. Part 3 is devoted to the
social sciences, including economics, sociology, history, political
science, philosophy, ethics, psychology and education. Part 4 is
devoted to languages and literature; part 5 to the arts; and part 6 to
Vocational subjects, the latter embracing engineering, mechanical
drawing, journalism, and business education. Bibliographies accompany
a number of the papers and there is an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20

“Inasmuch as all of the contributors were selected because of their
scholarship, their interest in the teaching phase of the subject, and
their reputation in the academic world, what they have to say on the
teaching of their special subjects should be of great value to actual
and prospective college teachers.”

+ =School R= 28:551 S ’20 290w

=KLEIN, DARYL.= With the Chinks. (On active service ser.) il *$1.50 (3c) Lane 940.48

20–6740

The book contains the diary of a second lieutenant in the Chinese
labor corps, while engaged in training a company of 490 coolies in
China and taking them on a long journey by way of Canada and Panama to
France to be used as laborers behind the lines. In describing the
journey the author gives his observations of the mental shock and
change of life and vision that the coolie is subjected to in changing
from the East to the West. He also describes the coolie as a simple,
jolly fellow, worthy of trust and of an affectionate character. The
book is illustrated.

* * * * *

“The book is competently written, and is agreeably unusual amongst the
crop of war books.”

+ =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 60w

+ =Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20

“He understands things Chinese. He has sympathy in telling of these
‘Shantung farmers.’ It is an attitude such as Mr Klein’s, penetrating,
free from either sentimentalism or maudlin chatter, about the yellow
peril, which ought to enable Americans to adjust their commercial
relations to China with a higher sense of business integrity. The
title of the book is distinctly unworthy of its subject matter.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 150w

“What we like about this little book is its genuine and genial
humanity.”

+ =Sat R= 129:39 Ja 10 ’20 280w

“Mr Klein’s daily life with his coolies and with his colleagues is
given with an intimate vivacity which makes it very real.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p770 D 18 ’19 160w

=KLEIN, HERMAN.= Reign of Patti. il *$5 Century

20–17976

Mme Patti never realized her intention of writing an autobiography for
which she had designated the author of the present volume as her
collaborator. The request however gives authority to this biography
for which the author has collected material from the zenith of Patti’s
career to the close. The book contains numerous portraits of the
singer taken at various ages and in many rôles; appendices and an
index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20

Reviewed by H: T. Finck

=Bookm= 52:166 O ’20 1250w

“Very suggestive, at times somewhat irritating, but always full of
interest. Mr Klein is not a literary man, he is a chronicler; his book
will remain as the one accurate record of the career of a diva who, in
her special line, has as yet no rival.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= p4 O 17 ’20 2450w

=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 190w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p773 N 25 ’20 1300w

=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.= Pocket guides to public speaking. 10v ea *$1 Funk 808.5

Mr Kleiser, formerly instructor in public speaking at Yale divinity
school and author of a number of works bearing on the subject, has
prepared the ten small volumes that compose this series. The titles
are: How to speak without notes (20–7372); Something to say: how to
say it (20–7370); Successful methods of public speaking (20–7371);
Model speeches for practise (20–7369); The training of a public
speaker (20–7373); How to sell through speech (20–7300); Impromptu
speeches: how to make them (20–7375); Word-power: how to develop it
(20–7374); Christ: the master speaker (20–7277); Vital English for
speakers and writers (20–7283).

* * * * *

“In these days when the tendency is so strong towards degeneracy in
the use of the English language it would be difficult to exaggerate
the value of such a contribution as Professor Kleiser has made in
these volumes towards the use of proper forms and pure language in
ordinary speaking as well as writing. They are of almost equal value
to the clergyman, lawyer, publicist, salesman and letter-writer.” H.
H. F.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ap 17 ’20 550w

“In this case the whole is actually less than one of the parts, for in
volume 1 Mr Kleiser gives a chapter of Quintilian that is worth
appreciably more than all of Mr Kleiser. His additions to it subtract
from it by hiding it from the casual gaze.”

− + =Nation= 110:560 Ap 24 ’20 220w

“The suggestions are sensible, sound, comprehensive, and written in
terse and understandable language. Many practiced speakers could
improve their style by following them.”

+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a May 30 ’20 150w

=KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSON-SMITH).= Lure of the pen. *$2.50 (4c) Putnam 808

20–6889

In her preface to the American edition of this “Book for would-be
authors” the author says, “No one can teach authors how or what to
write; but sometimes it is possible to help the beginners to an
understanding of what it is better not to write.” She tells these
beginners why they fail, emphasizes the need of training, tells them
three essentials in training and how to acquire them. She also tells
them how to give themselves a course in observation and how to assess
spiritual values. The contents are in five parts: The mss. that fail;
On keeping your eyes open; The help that books can give; Points a
writer ought to note; Author, publisher, and public.

* * * * *

“The author gives much good advice (a great deal of it very
elementary) to literary aspirants.”

+ − =Ath= p445 Je 6 ’19 120w

“Practical in many respects, the book is of little use in teaching the
‘would-be author’ how to become an artist. Miss Klickmann’s
instruction is from an editorial standpoint, not from the artist’s,
and as such her volume has its value for the novice who knows no
better than to believe that literary greatness and fame come with a
successful appearance in the magazines.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 550w

+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 20w

“Her book is remarkably well done, and may very well help some real
talent on its way; and, apart from that, it is written in so lively a
style, so full of piquant anecdote and illustration, that it is a pity
that the more sophisticated reader, who would really much more enjoy
it than the ‘would-be’ author for whom it is written, is not likely to
encounter it.” R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= 25:8 Je 27 ’20 900w

“Miss Klickmann’s work is adapted not only to people without knowledge
but to people without brains. There is an iteration of the familiar,
an elaboration of the simple, an elucidation of the clear.”

− =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 650w

“It might be said that if a young writer fails to profit by this
inspirational book he had better leave off his attempts to write.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 100w

“The substance of the teaching is helpful, and the manner encouraging
without being effusive.”

+ =Spec= 122:737 Je 7 ’19 300w

“On the professional side, her suggestions are of great practical
value. If any adverse criticism can be made, it is that she does not
classify thoroughly her comment on the various types of material
discussed. Miss Klickmann’s advice is not effusively or obscurely
pedantic. It is all breezy and to the point.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 12 ’20 800w

“She wields herself a very bright and ready pen, and out of the
abundance of her experience she gives in a flow of headed paragraphs
helpful advice on every side of the subject.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p314 Je 5 ’19 100w

=KLUCK, ALEXANDER VON.= March on Paris and the battle of the Marne, 1914. il *$3.50 Longmans 940.4

(Eng ed 20–10378)

“Alexander von Kluck, generaloberst, has written a book about his
Belgian and French adventure. It was completed in February, 1918, on
the eve of the great German offensive in Picardy. It is the personal
observations, impressions and opinions of a commanding general who
reviews his own actions in the quietude of his study and illustrates
them with the orders issued to him and by him, but with very little
information beyond the manoeuvres of his own army in the field and
almost none of the enemy. Evidently the sub-title to the book, ‘The
battle of the Marne,’ is a characterization of the British editors,
for the author calls it ‘The battle on the Ourcq’ and devotes the last
third of the book to it. Still, if the British editors have given the
book a title which shall more pointedly appeal to readers of English,
they have also furnished the book with something far more important:
Footnotes by the experts of the Committee of imperial defense. These
notes check up von Kluck’s data, correct his errors, and often qualify
his conclusions.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“His book lacks the attractive personality and humor of Ludendorff’s,
the intimate observations of von Hindenburg’s. There is nothing
picturesque about it. All the same, as has been said, the military
historian will find therein a mine of academic information which he
cannot afford to leave unexplored.” Walter Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 25 ’20 2650w

=Sat R= 130:12 Jl 3 ’20 1150w

“A valuable contribution to military history.”

+ =Spec= 124:729 My 29 ’20 430w

=KNAPPEN, THEODORE MACFARLANE.= Wings of war; with an introd. by D. W. Taylor. il *$2.50 Putnam 940.44

20–15470

“This book describes in detail the contribution made by the United
States to aircraft invention, engineering and production during the
world war. Five of the most important chapters are devoted to the
origin, development and production of the famous Liberty engine. Mr
Knappen is among those who believe that in spite of all the revelation
of Congressional investigations made during the past two years the
aircraft achievements of our government, considering our
unpreparedness at the outset, were highly creditable.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

=Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w

=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 110w

=KNIBBS, HENRY HERBERT.= Songs of the trail. il *$1.50 Houghton 811

20–19670

Poems of the far West and the cattle trails. Among the titles are: I
have builded me a home; The pack train; The hour beyond the hour; The
sun-worshipers; Gods of the red men; Arizona; Trail song; Waring of
Sonora-Town; The long road West; Old San Antone.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21

“This is the West, seen first hand but seen through the perspective of
Mr Knibbs’ Harvard training. One may suspect that these westerners are
a bit more intellectual than the average cowpuncher, but the poems
perhaps are the more readable for it.” C. F. G.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:332 Ja ’21 290w

“Good, honest work of its kind, with occasional beauty and much
narrative interest. ‘The wind’ is a strong and individual poem,
especially fine in atmosphere and imagery. Mr Knibbs is far more of a
poet than the much advertised Robert W. Service.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 150w

=KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN ARTHUR.= Mayflower maid. il *$1.90 (3c) Century

20–16501

A story of the coming of the Pilgrims. Barbara Gorges is a timid
motherless girl who starts out with her father from Leyden in the
Speedwell. When the Speedwell and the Mayflower are obliged to run in
to Plymouth, Barbara’s father becomes the victim of a fatal accident
and she is left an orphan. Fortunately for her, she is taken under the
protection of Myles Standish and his wife Rose. The story then follows
closely the historical narrative, and describes the trip across the
Atlantic, the landing at Plymouth, the first hard winter, the death of
Rose Standish, the relations with the Indians, the love story of John
Alden and Priscilla Mullens, and finally that of Myles Standish and
Barbara herself.

* * * * *

“More interesting than Taggart’s ‘Pilgrim maid,’ gives a good picture
of life in the colony.”

+ =Booklist= 17:78 N ’20

=KNOWLES, MORRIS.= Industrial housing. *$5 McGraw 331.83

20–16847

“Morris Knowles, an engineer of vast experience and the chief engineer
of the housing division of the United States Shipping board,
understanding the need of the interdependence of engineer, architect,
town planner, landscape gardener, sanitarian, utility designer,
contractor, real estate agent and the public spirited business man and
city official in the development of a successful city plan and in the
solution of the housing problem, has written the book, ‘Industrial
housing.’ Housing is taken in its broadest meaning, with all its
relations to other problems. The town plan, streets and pavements,
water supply, sewerage, waste disposal and public utilities are some
of the specifically municipal problems treated in this work.
Illustrations and charts, a good bibliography and an analytical index
complete its usefulness.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes

* * * * *

“Comprehensive and readable presentation of the subject of industrial
housing.”

=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 150w

“The book is a store of invaluable information.”

+ − =Survey= 45:258 N 13 ’20 1000w

=KOBRIN, LEON.= Lithuanian village; auth. tr. from the Yiddish by I: Goldberg. *$1.75 Brentano’s

20–6127

“In a series of sharp vignettes the book presents to us an environment
almost extinct today—the environment of a drab little village in the
pale. In restrained and simple language a restrained and simple folk
is depicted dragging its weary body and soul through the whole cycle
of the monotonous year. You read how those Jews half strangle each
other in their efforts to earn a kopeck or two; you hear those bitter
wives curse at their stalls, and see those stunted husbands pore over
their holy books; you feel the grimy superstition that clogs the daily
life of those villagers, know the smallness of their horizon and the
narrowness of their vision—and you love them nevertheless. And somehow
you are impressed that the hegira of their offspring to the land where
‘Jews can be policemen,’ was a far from woeful event in the history of
the soul of the new world.”—New Repub

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20

“The whole work is frankly realistic, softening no oaths and tempering
no vices. Yet withal, it is a refreshing bit of reading, for despite
the bitterness and ugliness floating like scum on the waters of that
ghetto life, one never quite loses consciousness of the great deep
cleanness beneath it all. In that Kobrin proves himself a master: his
realism is suggestive and translucent, not blunt and opaque.” L: Brown

+ =New Repub= 24:25 S 1 ’20 920w

“Leon Kobrin has lived the life he writes about. His bitter realism is
no creation of fancy; the atmospherical color is without blemish.”
Alvin Winston

+ =N Y Call= p11 Ap 25 ’20 420w

“Once in a while, a race produces an author capable of presenting its
message in language of so great simplicity and force that his writings
can be appreciated anywhere in an adequate translation. The Jewish
race possesses such a writer in Leon Kobrin.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 7 ’20 240w

=KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY.= Great south land. *$4.50 (5c) Dodd 918

A20–884

The book treats of the republics of Rio de la Plata, and southern
Brazil of today. These countries the author, in his introduction
compares to the ugly duckling which turned out a swan. Already before
the war they had steadily risen in importance and “there is no doubt
that the shifting sands of international politics and the racing
centres of power have left these South American states in an economic
position stronger than any which they have previously enjoyed.” Part 1
contains: Buenos Aires of yesterday and today; The Argentine capital
in war time; Cosmopolitan influences; Some topical episodes; The work
of the British in Argentina; Argentina’s political prospects; Internal
and external affairs; Rio and its surroundings; British and Americans
in South America; The press of the eastern republics. Part 2 is
devoted to the industrial points of the various states and there is an
index.

* * * * *

“A map would have been helpful to the reader.”

+ − =Ath= p1170 N 7 ’19 50w

=Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20

“Mr Koebel is essentially a writer sympathetic to the lands of which
he writes. What his book loses in depth it gains by virtue of this
sympathy, by its author’s earnest desire to see things from the South
American angle, without in the least abandoning the attitude of a man
alive to the defects of those whom he is describing. It is a
stimulating work by a sane and just writer.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:223 My 2 ’20 1300w

“Mr W. H. Koebel’s last addition to the, by now, rather lengthy series
of books which he has written on Spanish-America, is disappointing....
He obviously knows as well as anybody that the problems are there and
call for answer. But he does little more than indicate their presence,
and then wander in generalities and descriptions, not without
occasional repetitions.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p640 N 13 ’19 850w

=KOONS, FRANK THOMAS.= Outdoor sleeper. *$1 (6c) Norman, Remington co. 613.79

20–13861

A little book inspired by the sleeping porch. The author writes of
outdoor sleeping as a source of health and pleasure. There are
chapters on: The first night; Outdoor toggery; The birds; The romping
children of the night; The chastened hours of the morn; The trees;
Summer; Winter; The stars; Health and happiness. A star map serves as
frontispiece. The book was first copyrighted by the Journal of the
Outdoor Life.

=KOOS, LEONARD VINCENT.= Junior high school. *$1.36 Harcourt 373

20–10298

The author calls attention to the great dissimilarity that still
prevails in the junior high school movement in every aspect of
organization and function. He holds that the experimental stages of
the movement should now be reviewed and stock be taken of the current
opinions and practices, with a view towards clarifying thought as to
its peculiar educational purposes. With an introduction by Henry
Suzzallo the contents are: The movement for reorganization; The
peculiar functions of the junior high school; The test of the
organization; The program of studies; Other features of
reorganization; The standard junior high school; Tables and graphs.

* * * * *

“In six chapters Professor Koos has presented an analysis which goes
to the heart of the junior high school movement. The book is a
striking example of what can be done by way of giving information
without becoming drearily encyclopedic.”

+ =El School J= 21:71 S ’20 1000w

=KOSSOVO=; heroic songs of the Serbs. *$1.25 Houghton 891.8

20–10292

These ballads, translated by Miss Helen Rootham and printed with the
original on alternate pages, come with an introduction by Maurice
Baring and an historical preface by Janko Lavrin. Mr Baring says of
them that their colors are primitive like those of the primitive
painters, their similes are taken from a first-hand communion with the
sights and facts of nature and their emotions are the primitive
emotions of man. But their soul is saturated with the Christian faith
of the Crusaders and they sing the sorrow of Serbia, the unspeakable
anguish of a people who are victorious in defeat. In the historical
preface Janko Lavrin divides the Serbian folk-songs into four groups
of which this, the Kossovo-cycle, deals with the heroic battles fought
on the Kossovo plain against the Turks. The songs are: The fall of the
Serbian empire; Tsar Lazar and Tsaritsa Militsa; The banquet on the
eve of the battle: a fragment; Kossanchitch and Milosh: a fragment;
Musitch Stefan; Tsaritsa Militsa and the Voyvoda Vladeta; The maiden
of Kossovo; The death of the mother of the Jugovitch; The miracle of
Tsar Lazar.

* * * * *

“Miss Rootham’s simple and dignified translation makes it possible for
English readers to appreciate the heroic quality of the originals.”

+ =Ath= p257 F 20 ’20 60w

“The primitive naturalness and high Christian idealism of the songs
make them very readable.”

+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20

“English is not very well fitted to cope with it and, just as
Longfellow often failed in Hiawatha, so Miss Rootham often fails to
get the swing of the trochaic measure. The original is so rich in
alliteration, often rhyming with vivid flashes of poetic figure, that
it is impossible to reproduce its magic effect. It requires a poet to
translate poetry; mere knowledge of a foreign tongue does not
communicate the magic of words, and Miss Rootham’s version, while
useful, will hardly satisfy the exacting lover of Serbian poetry.” N.
H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ’20 650w

“The poems are vigorous and give a pleasing view of what really fine
work has been done in Serbia.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 120w

“They are good poems even for us; their sheer probity is a joy. They
have that rudeness touched with elegance—so different from mere
rudeness—which is the spell of ancient song for modern taste.” O. W.
Firkins

+ =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 230w

=KOUYOUMDJIAN, DIKRAN (MICHAEL ARLEN, pseud.).= London venture. *$1.50 Dodd 824

20–4439

The author is an Armenian who has dropped his real name for a more
pronounceable signature. The book consists of a series of
“self-conscious” essays wherein the author under the guise of
reminiscences discourses on men and writers, women and love, on death,
friendship and modes of living. It is a book of moods also and the
writer fits in the subject or person to fit the mood. The chapter
vignettes are from drawings by Michel Sevier.

* * * * *

“The chief merit of the book is that the author has taken great pains
with his style, which is considerably more attractive than the
substance of the book.”

+ − =Ath= p94 Ja 16 ’20 70w

“Set forth with a cynical humor which narrowly escapes brilliance,
much of the narration is downright fascinating.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 18 ’20 350w

“A curious introspective fragment of a story told in a succession of
spasms of introspection. It suffers from its form, but as it was
evidently written for occasional serial publication, that could not be
avoided. The book and its illustrations have a certain charm.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:336 Ap 3 ’20 50w

“It is difficult exactly to understand the ‘challenge’ of this book or
what the writer meant to do with it. There is undoubtedly a
fascination hard to analyse about the book and the personality
revealed in it.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p38 Ja 15 ’20 250w

=KRAFFT, HERMAN FREDERIC, and NORRIS, WALTER BLAKE.=[2] Sea power in American history; with an introd. by William S. Benson. il *$4 Century 973

20–22044

The object of the book is to make clear the importance of sea power in
both its military and commercial aspects. For this purpose it traces
out and connects up into one continuous story the rise, development,
and present condition of both branches, showing their mutual
dependence upon each other. Biographical sketches are given of such
outstanding figures in our naval development as Paul Jones, Stephen
Decatur, David Porter, John Ericsson, David G. Farragut and Alfred T.
Mahan. Among the contents are: The defeat of British sea power gives
America independence; The rise of commercial sea power in America
during the Napoleonic wars; Sea power dominates the War of 1812; Sea
power aids national expansion; The blockade a decisive instrument of
sea power in the Civil war; Sea power splits the confederacy in two;
Sea power in the Pacific; American sea power in the world war. The
book is indexed and illustrated, with maps and diagrams of naval
actions.

=KREYMBORG, ALFRED.=[2] Blood of things. *$2 Brown, N. L. 811

20–13986

Mr Kreymborg’s second book of “free forms” contains verses grouped
under such titles as: A five and ten cent store; Zoology; Arias and
ariettes; Crowns and cronies, etc.

* * * * *

=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 80w

“Nine-tenths of ‘Blood of things’ is unintelligible, or if
intelligible is irrelevant to any human concern. The one-tenth which
is intelligible and relevant is diffuse to the point of evaporation.”

− =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 240w

“Mr Alfred Kreymborg’s new book is decidedly interesting to read, but
it is more often merely interesting than lifting and compact with
genuine poetry. Mr Kreymborg is inconclusive; his gestures are
tentative; he does not strike fire with sufficient frequency to
establish him firmly as an authentic poet.” H. S. Gorman

+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 26 ’20 640w

“A critic who is unprejudiced and willing to be convinced by the free
versifiers will acknowledge that there are one or two poems that are
pretty poor. He would probably set aside the book with the comment
that Mr Kreymborg has done some things well, but that anybody could do
what Mr Kreymborg has done if he would consent to go just a little bit
crazy.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 4 ’20 340w

=KREYMBORG, ALFRED.=[2] Plays for merry Andrews. $2 Sunwise turn 812

The five plays are: Vote the new moon; Uneasy street; The silent
waiter; At the sign of the thumb and the nose; and Monday.

* * * * *

“Their unreality and irony are invigorating and real, and Gordon Craig
was quite right in considering them as a test for actors. The title
should warn the professionals off and attract the amateur.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 40w

“There is no doubt that Mr Alfred Kreymborg has both talent and
intelligence. But he has not reached the stage of any clear
communication. The lilt of these playlets haunts the ear but teases
the mind. There is a vertigo in the oddly rhythmed prose. But the
intentions are dark, and where the darkness lifts they seem perilously
commonplace.” Ludwig Lewisohn

− + =Nation= 111:787 D 29 ’20 130w

“Almost all of his plays possess that direct appeal to children,
although they are often too abstruse or fantastical for older
audiences. To enjoy them completely one must have an open mind,
unprejudiced by stage conventions. The whole volume, with its
delightful caricatures, with its humors, with its tongue-in-the-cheek
bombast, is very reminiscent of Dickens.” Malcolm Cowley

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 D 31 ’20 460w

=KUNOU, CHARLES A.= American school toys and useful novelties in wood. il *$1.25 Bruce pub. co. 680

20–26563

The author is supervisor of manual training in Los Angeles, where toy
making has for some years made up part of the course of study in this
department. During the war interest in the subject was greatly
stimulated by the sale of the children’s products for the benefit of
the Red cross. A general preliminary discussion of toy making, its
educative value, the materials used, etc., is followed by a series of
fifty-two plates with designs for toys.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20

“This book gives excellent toy working drawings.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:41 S ’20 70w

=KYNE, PETER BERNARD.= Kindred of the dust. il *$1.75 (1½c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation

20–8274

For the scene of his story the author creates a feudal fief in the
Pacific northwest. Hector McKaye, head of the Tyee Lumber Company, is
known as “the laird,” his son Donald as “the young laird.” Donald
comes home from college and a trip around the world to find his old
chum Nan Brent the mother of a nameless child. Nan had believed
herself married and to protect the real wife of the man who had
deceived her is keeping his identity secret and bearing her shame.
Donald finds that he loves Nan and is willing to marry her.
Interference on the part of his mother and sisters drives her away.
Donald is stricken with typhoid and to save his life his mother
telephones to Nan to return. Following his recovery steps are again
taken to prevent the marriage but Donald is obdurate. A break with his
father results. The war comes, Donald enlists, goes to France, comes
home again and there is a happy reunion, with a copy of Nan’s marriage
license turning up to prove her innocent intentions.

* * * * *

+ − =Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20

“The story is powerful and holds the attention of the reader in an
unusual manner.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 350w

“For sustained interest and constructive workmanship Mr Kyne seems, in
‘Kindred of the dust,’ to have outdone his previous efforts.
Wholesome, entertaining story.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 450w

“The hero is almost too noble to be true.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 280w

“A strong, straightforward, unaffected story, seasoned, and not
overseasoned, with sentiment.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 70w

L

=LABOULAYE, EDOUARD RENÉ-LEFEBRE DE.= Laboulaye’s fairy book; tr. by Mary L. Booth. il *$2.50 (5c) Harper

20–19778

This book of fairy tales, translated from the French, was copyrighted
in America in 1886. Kate Douglas Wiggin has written an introduction
for the new edition. The titles are: Yvon and Finette; The castle of
life; Destiny; The twelve months; Swanda, the piper; The gold bread;
The story of the noses; The three citrons; The story of Coquerico;
King Bizarre and Prince Charming. The pictures are by Edward G.
McCandlish.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:126 D ’20

+ =Lit D= p89 D 4 ’20 130w

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 220w

“Delightful collection of tales.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 70w

=LADD, GEORGE TRUMBULL.= Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations in the winter of 1899–1900. il *$3 Badger, R. G. 915.4

19–15644

“In his observations of Indian life Professor Ladd was chiefly
concerned with educational, social and religious conditions. For the
study of these he had unusual opportunities. This book gives a summary
of what he learned from personal interviews with the viceroy and
secretary of education in Calcutta, with natives and missionaries, and
with Hindu philosophers. Professor Ladd also describes the social
customs of the people and outlines some of the political reforms that
are demanded by the native leaders.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“Although the book makes no contribution to the literature regarding
India, it is interesting as reflecting the impressions of an American
professor concerning the practices and cults of the Indian peoples.”

+ =Bib World= 54:430 Jl ’20 220w

=Boston Transcript= p4 N 5 ’19 440w

“Whether the generalizations he makes, based upon conditions as he
observed them two decades ago, still hold true in full or not, they
are interesting as reflecting the reaction of a foreigner, well
equipped by his training in educational and philosophical work, to an
alien and intricate civilization.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 Mr 6 ’20 300w

=R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 100w

=LAIDLER, HARRY WELLINGTON.= Socialism in thought and action. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan 335

20–3555

The author is secretary of the Intercollegiate socialist society and
editor of the Socialist Review. The important service of his book is
that it gives an up-to-date treatment of the new developments in
socialism and relates them to the movements of the past. It covers
“the socialist criticism of present day society, the socialist theory
of economic development, the socialist conception of a future social
state and the activities, achievements, and present status of the
organized socialist movement in various countries of the world.”
(Preface) It is divided into two almost equal parts: Socialist
thought, and The socialist movement. The work is intended to serve as
a textbook for college classes and study groups, and “as a ready
reference book for the thinkers and doers who have come to realize
that an intelligent understanding of this greatest mass movement of
the twentieth century is absolutely essential to enlighten
citizenship.” There is a select bibliography on socialism and allied
subjects, and an index.

* * * * *

“Of especial interest is the discussion of the Russian revolution, and
recent developments in European and American socialism, concerning
which the data are the latest available.” G. S. Watkins

+ =Am Econ R= 10:633 S ’20 480w

“Throughout the entire work differences of opinion are given;
arguments are sound and the proof offered scientific. In fact it is a
splendid presentation of this movement. Not only does the book deserve
serious attention but it would make an excellent text.” G. S. Dow

+ =Am J Soc= 26:374 N ’20 630w

Reviewed by L. M. Bristol

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:520 Ag ’20 200w

=Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20

“Dr Laidler has that discreet receptivity for conflicting opinion and
dogma which gives his work, within the limits of socialism, the stamp
of a firm, intelligent neutrality.”

+ =Dial= 68:670 My ’20 120w

“As a text book, Mr Laidler’s volume is invaluable. It reveals a
ceaseless and remorseless study and reading of the socialist movement
in all its manifestations and in all the questions that have aroused
controversy. Impartial as a text book, it is yet vivid as a chronicle
of events caught almost on the wing.” H. S.

+ =Nation= 110:728 My 29 ’20 160w

“On its interpretive side, Comrade Laidler has used his material
judiciously and his presentation is such that no charge of bias will
be made by the reader, whatever may be the latter’s own view. His
attitude is an objective one. A very good index rounds out one of the
best contributions that has come from the pen of any American
socialist author.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p11 Mr 28 ’20 900w

=Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 120w

“Probably as full and clear a statement of modern socialistic concepts
as can be had in the English language.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w

“As a book it suffers from two distinct faults. In the first place it
tries to cover too much ground. No one can write a competent survey of
every aspect of socialism in a moderate-sized volume. The book
attempts, in the second place, a treatment of the most recent events
in the socialistic movement at a time when the evidence for anything
more than a bare and jejune statement of congressional resolutions is
simply not available. Yet the book transcends these deficiencies. It
shows, even to an outsider, what immense justification there is for a
faith in the prospects of socialism.” H. J. Laski

+ − =Socialist R= 8:379 My ’20 600w

“Any one interested in the labor movement will use his book several
times a week. Its mass of facts is not a mess, but an orderly
mobilized compilation.” Arthur Gleason

+ − =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 370w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p490 Jl 29 ’20 110w

=LAING, MARY ELIZABETH.=[2] Hero of the longhouse. (Indian life and Indian lore) il *$1.60 (2½c) World bk.

21–649

The “hero of the longhouse” is the historical Hiawatha, an entirely
different person from the legendary figure in Longfellow’s poem. The
real Hiawatha lived in the fifteenth century, was a member of the
Onondaga tribe and was one of the founders of the League of the
Iroquois and the author has drawn her story from the most authentic
sources, chiefly from Horatio Hale’s Iroquois book of rites and
manuscripts in the New York state archaeological department. Arthur C.
Parker, state archæologist, writes an introduction, and there is a
bibliography and glossary. The story has been told primarily for
school children.

=LAKE, KIRSOPP.= Landmarks in the history of early Christianity. *$3 Macmillan 270.1

“The purpose of the book, briefly stated, is to trace the Greek and
oriental ideas in Christian thought and practice by reference to six
early centers—Galilee, Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth, Rome and Ephesus.
The work aims to illuminate critical points rather than to provide a
complete survey, and it may be said to focus sharply the searchlight
of thought upon salient aspects of the large subject. Prof. Lake first
presented the substance of these chapters in a series of lectures at
Oberlin college.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“There is no mistaking the keenness of Prof. Lake’s thought or the
brilliant cogency of his style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 12 ’20 1000w

“On many matters we must strongly dissent from him; but his work will
be useful to every student of early Christianity, if only because it
compels its readers to re-examine the presuppositions of their
religious thought and to test their theories of the church’s
development. If we say that the author of this work raises far more
questions than he answers, he might be expected to reply that this
precisely was his purpose.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p733 N 11 ’20 960w

=LAMB, HAROLD.= Marching sands. *$1.75 (2½c) Appleton

20–5227

The American exploration society sends Captain Gray to the Desert of
Gobi to find the lost tribe of the Wusun, supposed to be the remnant
of an Aryan race, the original inhabitants of China. At the same time
an English rival expedition starts on the same quest. The expeditions
are facing the dangers not only of the desert but of the hostile
Chinese Buddhist priests and of the leper colony with which Wusun is
surrounded. By the time the desert is reached the American expedition
consists of only one member, Captain Gray, and a Kirghiz guide. He
comes upon the English expedition under Sir Lionel Hastings and his
niece Mary. Being rivals they part company, each bent on reaching
Wusun first. Sir Lionel is killed after he had set foot on its
environs. Mary is taken captive by the Chinese and placed in charge of
the Wusun. By sheer pluck Gray penetrates into the stronghold and puts
up a gallant fight for Mary and the reader takes leave of them free
but alone in the “infinity of Asia.”

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20

=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w

“Mr Lamb has written a gripping tale abounding in thrills and mystery,
adventure and danger, bravery and love; and the narrative of this
search for a hidden city presents a unique and exciting plot.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:326 Je 20 ’20 320w

“While rather slow in getting into action, this tale is thrilling in
the extreme after it once gets its American explorer into the Gobi
desert.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 70w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 160w

=LAMBUTH, WALTER RUSSELL.=[2] Medical missions: the twofold task. il $1 S. V. M. 266

20–9358

“The growth of medical work in Christian missions is a romantic
chapter in the record of the extension of the kingdom of God on earth.
The writer draws from a wide range of material and experience and
presents the great work of medical missions in a most attractive form.
The book furnishes a mighty appeal to the young man or woman who is
looking forward to the practice of medicine and surgery as a
life-work. One is forced to face the need of the world and to decide
whether it is right to remain in one’s own land struggling for a
practice, or whether it is far better to go where the need is
desperate and invest life there.”—Bib World

* * * * *

“The pictures are well chosen; the specific examples of effective
missionary service are stimulating; the field of study is wide and is
surveyed with discrimination. An excellent book for private reading or
class study.”

+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 160w

“Unfortunately the book is propaganda and the references to the
adventures of the medical missionary are drowned in a
misrepresentation of heathendom. Although he, Bishop Lambuth, does
voice the cry for service in an antiquated religious idiom, he is
really bigger than his creed and values humanity more than
proselyting.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 280w

=LAMOTTE, ELLEN N.= Opium monopoly. *$1 Macmillan 178.8

20–2983

“‘The opium monopoly,’ by Ellen N. LaMotte, the author of ‘The
backwash of war,’ ‘Peking dust,’ ‘Civilization,’ etc., is a remarkable
monograph on the ‘opium question,’ based upon government blue book
reports, statistical extracts and official data. In this work, the
author discusses the problems of opium monopoly and consumption in
India, the Malaya peninsula, Siam, Hongkong, Srawak, Turkey, Persia,
Mauretius, British Borneo and British Guiana, and gives a brief
outline of the history of the opium trade in China and of Great
Britain’s opium monopoly.”—N Y Call

* * * * *

“National pharisaism and a strong anti-English feeling are a
conspicuous part of the writer’s equipment, but the facts which she
adduces must give us to think.”

+ − =Ath= p685 My 21 ’20 80w

“Well documented.”

+ =Booklist= 16:258 My ’20

“One of the best arguments yet advanced against the mandatory system
pieced together at Paris.”

+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 50w

Reviewed by C: R. Hargrove

+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 840w

“Miss LaMotte, in spite of her rather obvious desire to have her fling
at Britain, is at the same time evidently actuated by a desire to
reveal a grievous state of affairs. Having exposed the outstanding
features of the cultivation and sale of opium by the British, it is
obviously Miss LaMotte’s duty to continue her interesting
investigations in this country.”

+ =Lit D= p89 My 1 ’20 900w

“Miss LaMotte’s little book might be taken more seriously if she were
not at such pains to paint Great Britain black. It is idle to draw
fine moral distinctions between the British government which sells
opium to the Japanese and the Japanese who smuggle it into China. The
whole trade is bad enough in all conscience, however, and to have
attacked it is to have done something useful.”

+ − =Nation= 110:805 Je 12 ’20 340w

“Miss LaMotte did a great service to the cause of human justice when
she wrote her admirable work. It will prove a valuable asset in
rousing the conscience of the civilized people of the world against
this gigantic international crime of drugging nations. Let us hope
that the book will soon be translated into various languages of the
civilized nations and the truth spread broadcast to remedy the wrongs
of the helpless millions.” Taraknath Das

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ap 25 ’20 2750w

“Miss LaMotte’s book is intended as a severe indictment of Great
Britain’s policy with regard to opium. Her account would, however, be
a fairer one if consideration were given to the British side of the
case as presented, for example, by Sir John Strachey in his ‘India:
its administration and progress.’”

+ − =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 280w

=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 60w

“It is a delight to read one of Miss LaMotte’s books, and even in this
which is little more than a pamphlet, one finds the unflinching
courage and the keen insight which made her ‘Peking dust’ and the
stories which make up ‘Civilization’ so different from the productions
of most tourists in the Far East.” E. W. Hughan

+ =Socialist R= 8:315 Ap ’20 400w

“No one who has in the last ten years studied the hydra-headed
problems of narcotism could be anything but grateful to Ellen LaMotte
for her book.... Does the American public realize to what extent opium
is coming in over the Canadian boundary? It might for that reason
alone pay that American public to open its eyes a little wider to the
facts of British opium sold at public monthly sales in Calcutta as
recorded in Ellen LaMotte’s ‘Opium monopoly.’” Jeannette Marks

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 2200w

“For two reasons the opium monopoly is worthy of our attention: first,
the world interest, the salvation of the eastern peoples, the Chinese
especially; second, the danger that the United States will take
China’s place as the great market for these products. Either is enough
to interest Survey readers in this small book, the author of which has
the gift of making official reports and statistics tell an interesting
and fascinating story.” J. P. Chamberlain

+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 550w

=LAMPREY, LOUISE.= Masters of the guild. il *$2.25 (3½c) Stokes

20–18171

Like the stories in the author’s previous book “In the days of the
guild” these new tales do honor to the ideals of fine craftsmanship of
the middle ages. The titles are: Peirol of the pigeons; A tournament
in the clouds; The puppet players; Padraig of the scriptorium; The
tapestry chamber; The fairies’ well; The wolves of Ossory; The road of
the wild swan; The sword of Damascus; Fool’s gold; Archiater’s
daughter; Cold Harbor; The wisdom of the galleys; Solomon’s seal;
Black magic in the temple; The end of a pilgrimage. Poems alternate
with the stories. There are illustrations by Florence Choate and
Elizabeth Curtis, and notes on the stories come at the end.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:123 D ’20

=LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE.= Day-book of Walter Savage Landor, chosen by John Bailey. *$1.25 Oxford 828

(Eng ed 20–16302)

“Men of taste, men with an ear for the classic note in prose, must
always read Landor. That some have failed in this elementary duty is
the burden of a delightful essay by Mr John Bailey prefixed to a
little collection of Landor’s prose and verse,—a fine quotation for
every day in the year, beginning with the famous epitaph on himself,
and proceeding with symphonic development to the Latin epitaph on a
young scholar. Mr Bailey—himself, as we know from other publications,
an agreeable compound of the man of letters and the man of
affairs—offers his little book, not as the last word in Landor, but as
the first—as the preliminary encouragement to that larger reading it
should do much to stimulate.”—Sat R

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p1037 O 17 ’19 400w

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ja 31 ’20 550w

“We recommend a course of Landor. In days when the rabble has to be
wooed with flattery, it is bracing to the spirit to find one, who,
liberal as he called himself, inhabited the mountain tops of life,
and, never descending among the wrangling crowds, beckons us
continually aloft.”

+ =Sat R= 128:507 N 29 ’19 1850w

“Charming little book.”

+ =Spec= 123:511 O 18 ’19 140w

“To glance through an admirable volume of selections from Landor, such
as that edited by John Bailey is to be filled with delight and regret.
What writer of the second rank has more to yield to the discoverer
than he? What prose more squarely can support the weight of the
exactest scrutiny than his?”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 8 ’19 280w (Reprinted from Ath)

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p564 O 16 ’19)

“As, however, Mr Bailey implies by making a day-book of his
selections, Landor not only constantly said beautiful things
beautifully, but as constantly things that stand the wear and tear of
daily life. No doubt the blank page at the end of this charming little
book is provided to hold a good resolution—namely, whatever else may
happen in nineteen twenty-one, to read Landor through.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p564 O 16 ’19 850w

=LANE, MRS ANNE (WINTERMUTE), and BEALE, MRS HARRIET STANWOOD (BLAINE).=[2] Life in the circles. (Deeper issues ser.) *$1.25 Dodd 134

20–19176

This book is a continuation of the volume entitled “To walk with God,”
and contains “further lessons received through automatic writing.”
(Sub-title) There are lessons on will, knowledge, joy, truth,
understanding, sympathy, and love.

* * * * *

“The level of intelligence of the sending spirits is not very high—a
grade or two above the kindergarten.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 30 ’20 80w

=LANE, MRS ANNE (WINTERMUTE), and BEALE, MRS HARRIET STANWOOD (BLAINE).=[2] To walk with God. (Deeper issues ser.) *$1.25 Dodd 134

20–6367

A series of “lessons” which the authors received in the form of
automatic writings. An introduction gives the circumstances under
which the messages were received and the lessons have to do with the
power of love, helpfulness, kindness and the need for spiritual
guidance. The authors say: “We realise that it will be said that there
is nothing new in the teaching, and we admit that there is repetition
to what seems an unnecessary degree, but we pledge our word that we
have put nothing of our own into the text.” (Introd.)

* * * * *

“The fact that the wife of the Secretary of the interior and the
daughter of James G. Blaine are the recipients of these messages will
make a certain demand for the book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20

=LANE, MRS ROSE (WILDER).= Making of Herbert Hoover. *$3.50 (4½c) Century

20–18582

Herbert Hoover represents America, says the author, and his is the
spirit of five generations of American pioneers. His life began at the
end of one pioneer age and the beginning of the other. His ancestors
had been sturdy pioneers of Quaker stock—his father a blacksmith. They
had conquered the soil, he conquered the world of finance. Much of the
material of the book has been collected by Charles Kellogg Field,
classmate and friend of Hoover.

* * * * *

“Written with the interest in really delightful settings and small
circumstances of life such as a novelist employs to characterize a
hero. Children will like this book.”

+ =Booklist= 17:113 D ’20

“It is a story of a wonderful career, written with a brightness and a
dash that captivates and enthralls.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 580w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 240w

=R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 100w

“The book is readable for its vivid presentation of an active and
adventurous career.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 330w

=LANG, EDITH, and WEST, GEORGE.= Musical accompaniment of moving pictures. il pa *$1.25 Boston music co.; Schirmer 780

20–4471

“A practical manual for pianists and organists and an exposition of
the principles underlying the musical interpretation of moving
pictures.” (Sub-title) There are three parts: Equipment; Musical
interpretation; The theatrical organ. Musical scores are given and
there is an index.

* * * * *

“Not exhaustive but very suggestive to the player and illuminating to
the listener.”

+ =Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20

“It is a book we can warmly commend.”

+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 260w

=LANGDON-DAVIES, JOHN.= Militarism in education; a contribution to educational reconstruction. 80c Headley bros., London; for sale by Survey 371.43

19–12681

“The author contrasts the German and English systems of education,
gives an account of the scholastic methods adopted in Norway, deals at
considerable length with the aims of real physical training, devotes a
chapter to boy scouts, and brings many arguments against compulsory
national service, to which he is strongly opposed.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p475 Je 13 ’19 50w