Chapter XLVIII: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (4)

In his introduction Harvey J. O’Higgins, giving an appreciation and
brief survey of Judge Lindsey’s career, says that it is as an advocate
of a moral alliance that he speaks in the book—“for although the
actual writing of the book has been a work of collaboration, the
message is his message and the spirit of its utterance is, as nearly
as possible, his.” This is the message: “The Christian religion is not
a religion of individual salvation and selfish virtue. It is a
religion of love and self-sacrifice and humility.” It is a religion of
doing rather than of church-going and the American junker will have to
accept it if the lessons of the war are to be fruitful ones. The four
essays of the book are: The doughboy’s religion; The junker faith;
Horses’ rights for women; A league of understanding.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20

“There has been so much nonsense about the religion of the American
soldier written and spoken by members of the Y. M. C. A. that it is
refreshing to hear the subject treated intelligently by a real man. It
is not strange that the famous judge of the juvenile court should be
the man to understand the doughboy as others have failed to understand
him.” G. H. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 600w

“The publication, at this date, seems to be an afterthought. However,
the book will have some interest, since it presents the thoughts of a
man so well-known as Judge Lindsey.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:540 Jl ’20 140w

“These essays are thought-provoking and written with Judge Lindsey’s
usual fiery sincerity.”

+ =Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 120w

“Judge Lindsey spares no one in his discussion and is judicious in his
summary of the case.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 10 ’20 450w

=LIPPMANN, WALTER.= Liberty and the news. *$1 (7c) Harcourt 323

20–4814

Two essays, on What modern liberty means and Liberty and the news, are
here reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, prefaced by a brief
introductory essay on Journalism and the higher law. In the latter the
author says, “Everywhere today men are conscious that somehow they
must deal with questions more intricate than any that church or school
had prepared them to understand. Increasingly they know that they
cannot understand them if the facts are not quickly and steadily
available. Increasingly they are baffled because the facts are not
available; and they are wondering whether government by consent can
survive in a time when the manufacture of consent is an unregulated
private enterprise. For in an exact sense the present crisis of
western democracy is a crisis in journalism.” The aim of the two main
essays is “to describe the character of the problem, and to indicate
headings under which it may be found useful to look for remedies.”

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:263 My ’20

“Mr Lippmann’s contribution is neither a panegyric nor a tirade. He
has approached a perplexing problem in dispassionate, sane and
judicial fashion and with a beneficent purpose.” H: L. West

+ =Bookm= 52:116 O ’20 950w

=Ind= 102:370 Je 12 ’20 160w

=Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 90w

Reviewed by H. J. Laski

=Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 480w

“Mr Walter Lippmann is one of the editors of the New Republic, and
consequently may be presumed to know all about liberty; but he has
never been a newspaper man and, while he knows a good deal about news,
most of what he knows is not true.”

− =N Y Times= 25:129 Mr 21 ’20 3200w

“The programme which the author proffers is a worthy one. Would that
it could be attained! Progress toward its attainment will, however,
require considerable soul-searching and inner reformation on the part
of responsible persons connected with the handling of the news; and
this is likely to require rather large drafts on the bank of time.” W.
J. Ghent

+ =Review= 2:571 My 29 ’20 1250w

“However much one may disagree with some of Mr Lippmann’s statements
and views, there is no doubt that he renders a public service by
directing his critical mind to the press and its influence. It is
courageous thinking of this kind that will help the public to become
more exacting in its demand on the press.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 1300w

“A calm, impersonal and general survey.” J. G. McDonald

+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 320w

=LISLE, CLIFTON.= Diamond rock. il *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt

20–16154

A boys’ story of the revolutionary war. The Quaker settlement in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, had been very remote from the scene of
war and had taken little interest in its progress, but with the battle
of the Brandywine in the summer of 1777, it is brought close to them.
On that very day Joe Lockhart, fishing along the creek, encounters an
attractive stranger who teaches him how to catch trout with a worm.
Later Joe and his chum, Amos Rambo, pick up a paper which shows the
stranger to have been a spy. Joe carries the evidence to Washington’s
headquarters and reports and is sent on a mission thru the British
lines. He meets the stranger again and learns that he is a spy on the
right side. Thereafter the two boys see something of all the stirring
events that follow, including the Paoli massacre.

=LITCHFIELD, PAUL WEEKS.= Industrial republic. *$1 (8c) Houghton 331.1

20–10139

The booklet is a study in industrial economics by the vice-president
and factory manager of the Goodyear Tire and rubber company.
Government and management, says the author, are synonymous terms, the
one being applied to the political, the other to the industrial world
and the war has focussed attention on the faults of both. After a
brief outline of the evolution of capital and the wage system and its
present antagonism the author points out the necessity of giving labor
the control of the management of an industry while safe-guarding the
interests of capital. In illustration he describes the Goodyear
representation plan. Contents: Expansion of political democracy; The
labor-capital opposition—genesis and growth; Present status of the
labor-capital opposition; Clues to the solution; Rights involve
duties; The industrial republic; Industrial citizenship; The Goodyear
representation plan.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:54 N ’20

“The book should prove of real interest to social workers and to
business men. It maintains a consistent point of view throughout and
develops logically to its conclusion.” Alexander Fleisher

+ =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 140w

=LITERARY= digest history of the world war; comp. by Francis W. Halsey. 10v il with subscription to Literary digest *$12 Funk 940.3

20–646

“This work covers the titanic struggle as it was fought on land, by
sea, in the air, on all fronts in all parts of the world, by the
thirty nations involved in the conflict. The first six volumes deal
chiefly with the outbreak of the war and its causes, and the long and
bitter struggle on the western front, including America’s entrance and
participation, and carrying the story down to the signing of the
armistice, the occupation of the Rhine valley, and the meeting of the
peace conference in Paris. The seventh is devoted to Russia’s share in
the war, the revolution, the Brest-Litovsk treaty, and the rule of the
Bolsheviki. In the eighth is to be found the story of the war in the
Balkans, Turkey, and Palestine, while the ninth deals with Italy’s war
effort and the story of the submarine warfare. The tenth contains the
history of sea battles and of commerce raiding, an adequate
description of the work of the Peace conference, sketches of fifty
military and political leaders, a chronology that fills forty pages,
and an index to the whole work. The volumes are all copiously
illustrated.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“The internal political events in the various countries are nearly
altogether neglected, except of course the revolutions in Russia,
Germany, and Austria-Hungary. In this method of treatment there can be
only a feeble attempt to evaluate the significance of the various
factors entering into the huge conflict. The account lacks, too, as is
natural, the simple direct style of Usher’s ‘Story of the great war.’
Nevertheless it is a comprehensive piece of work well done and
extremely well suited to the clientele to whom it is directed.” G: F.
Zook

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:720 Jl ’20 670w

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

=Bookm= 51:115 Mr ’20 80w

=N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 100w

“Mr Halsey approached his task with a true perspective and justly saw
and accurately described the part taken by each nation involved in its
due relation to the whole conflict and the final victory.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:172 Ap 11 ’20 1250w

“The present work is certainly full of fine material and will itself
be constantly and permanently valuable for reference and study.”

+ =Outlook= 123:515 D 17 ’19 200w

“In common justice to the author, we must give him praise for his
skill in so reducing, condensing, and digesting the immense mass of
material at his command as to produce a continuous and even
narrative.”

+ =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 320w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 15 ’20 60w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 D 4 ’20 150w (Review of v 10)

=LIVERMORE, GEORGE GRISWOLD.=[2] Take it from Dad. il *$2 Macmillan 817

20–21986

Letters from a father to his son in preparatory school, letters full
of friendly advice and good counsel with a mixture of homely anecdote
from the father’s experience. There are amusing illustrations by Bert
Salg.

* * * * *

“A new kind of boys’ book—and a good kind, too.”

+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 60w

“It is not difficult to imagine that fathers with boys of eighteen
will find Mr Soule an altogether enjoyable companion.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 4 ’21 240w

=LIVERMORE, THOMAS LEONARD.= Days and events, 1860–1866. il *$6 (3c) Houghton 973.7

20–5734

This posthumous book, published by the author’s family and recording
Colonel Livermore’s experiences in the Civil war, was begun
immediately after the conclusion of the war, while its events were
still fresh in his mind. Henry M. Rogers in his introduction gives a
brief sketch of the author’s life.

* * * * *

“Colonel Livermore has been known for a long time by his work on
‘Numbers and losses in the Civil war,’ which has been one of the most
valuable contributions to our military history. The work now before us
is of an entirely different character and reflects the ability of the
author from a new and no less interesting angle.” Eben Swift

+ =Am Hist R= 25:734 Jl ’20 600w

“The volume ought to take its place as a real ‘source book’ for
commentators on the history of that conflict. There is much of
entertainment in the narrative, which is frank to a degree and often
vigorous, fresh, and significant in its criticisms.”

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 100w

=LIVINGSTON, ROBERT.= Land of the great out-of-doors. il *$1.75 (9c) Houghton

20–17525

When they are about five and six years old, Penrose and Penelope,
known as Pen and Penny, are taken to the country to live on a farm.
This little story tells of their daily life, beginning in the spring
time and continuing to Christmas. In some of the chapters Pen tells of
his doings, in others Penny gives her view of things. The colored
pictures are by Maurice Day.

* * * * *

+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w

“The impersonator frequently forgets, in his desire to have the
valuable information imparted, that he is under contract to use the
speech of childhood. However, the stories will undoubtedly find favor
with the little folk, and their atmosphere is fresh and wholesome.” M.
H. B. Mussey

+ − =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w

“It will prove excellent to read aloud, or to give to children who are
just beginning to read for themselves.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 80w

=LOCK, H. O.=[2] Conquerors of Palestine through forty centuries. *$3 Dutton 956.9

20–4566

“The history begins with the ancient Egyptians, relates the campaigns
and conquests of the Jews, the Assyrians and Babylonians, the Greeks,
Romans, Arabs, the picturesque warriors of the Crusades, the French,
and then the British. The intervening history is briefly sketched, to
make a connected narrative. The book has an introduction by Field
Marshal Viscount Allenby, commander-in-chief of the British forces in
Palestine.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“Major Lock has produced a readable sketch of a large subject. The map
attached to the book is ingeniously contrived to illustrate the many
periods of history on which Major Lock touches.”

+ =Spec= 122:86 Ja 17 ’20 100w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 6 ’20 60w

=LOCKE, GLADYS EDSON.= Ronald o’ the moors. il *$1.75 (2½c) Four seas co.

20–94

This historical novel is staged on the Dartmoor bogs in the reign of
George II. Dartmoor was a hot-bed of Jacobite sympathy, and Sir Roger
Hetherington had been sent down from the court of St James to guard
Penraven Castle, the center of Jacobite activity, and to capture wild
Ronald o’ the moors, a highwayman and night rider who made Hanoverians
his particular prey. Sir Roger was far from welcome at Penraven
Castle, indeed he soon realized that he was in the midst of bitter
enemies. What made the success of his undertaking even more doubtful,
however, was the fact that he at once lost his heart to Lady Edris
Penraven, the mistress of the castle he was sent to spy upon, and that
Ronald seemed to be as elusive as the will o’ the wisps that flitted
over the moor. Altogether Sir Roger’s plans did not work out just as
he had shaped them, but the end of the story, altho it leaves him
exiled in France, yet brings him happiness as well, since he shares
Lady Edris’s fate.

* * * * *

“The book is about on a par with the average of its class, fiction of
which the authors seem to be under the impression that vital interest
is imparted by a liberal supply of oaths and expletives, and the use
of archaic language whether appropriate to the period or otherwise.”

− + =Cath World= 111:408 Je ’20 140w

=LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN.= House of Baltazar. *$1.90 (2c) Lane

20–26105

The hero is a man of great intellectual power, dynamic physical energy
and sudden quixotic impulses. After he has spent eighteen years of
voluntary exile in China—self imposed because he fears to compromise
the girl he loves—and two years of hermitlike seclusion on the moor
with a fascinating and erudite young Chinese student, a German bomb
from a zeppelin shocks him into a dazed knowledge of the European war.
Wide awake, action hungry, he scorns his former achievements as a
mathematical genius and brilliant Chinese scholar, plunges into
political activities, gets “hitched on to” the war, and becomes the
man of the hour. The old distasteful personal ties are broken through
his wife’s death and the lapse of the years. New ones are forged and
he learns that he has a fine son of whom he had not even dreamed. Life
in London has become sweet and full and he desires no change. But once
more the quixotic impulse asserts itself—a sacrifice becomes necessary
for the sake of his officer son’s career, and he is off to China
again.

* * * * *

“A typically interesting Locke story. The book ends rather weakly.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20

“Mr Locke has written many stories better than ‘The house of
Baltazar,’ but there are few of them in which his neglected
opportunities were greater. The truth is that he, like many other
novelists, is obsessed by the necessity of making the war and its
far-reaching effects a part of his fiction.” E. F. E.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 1260w

+ =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 20w

+ =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 110w

“But, after all, it is Baltazar himself who is the book, and he is
always a joy.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:38 Ja 25 ’20 1150w

+ =Outlook= 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 200w

“A captious reader might complain that Mr Locke has tried to do too
many things at once, that a single novel simply has not sufficient
space to include the big issues of feminism, profiteering, labour
unrest and the thousand and one elements of contemporary social
upheaval. But Mr Locke’s readers are not inclined to be captious.” F.
T. Cooper

+ − =Pub W= 97:173 Ja 17 ’20 550w

“The writing is pleasant and workmanlike, and the way in which the
elder woman of the story is led to reknit her broken romance is
exceedingly well imagined.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:477 My 22 ’20 130w

“Mr Locke has given us an ingenious and amusing story, but gratitude
for this gift cannot prevent even an indolent reviewer from protesting
mildly against the strain he has imposed on our credulity.”

+ − =Spec= 124:462 Ap 3 ’20 550w

“Baltazar is very likeable in his forceful domineering strength, and
Marcelle is a charming foil to his powerful personality. The lighter
element is supplied by the Chinaman.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 650w

“Mr W. J. Locke goes on his way regardless of the limits between the
probable and the improbable. John Baltazar stretches the credulity of
the reader to the utmost from the moment that he enters on the scene.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p139 F 26 ’20 550w

=LOCKEY, JOSEPH BYRNE.= Pan-Americanism: its beginnings. *$5 Macmillan 327

20–7662

The author’s preface points out that Pan-Americanism has passed
through three periods, the first, characterized by a tendency toward
solidarity, the second, by an opposite tendency toward separation and
distrust, the third marked by a revival of the earlier trend. This
book is devoted to the first of these periods, extending to about 1830
and embracing the years of revolution and the formation of new states.
The eleven chapters are devoted to: Meaning of Pan-Americanism;
Formation of new states; Failure of monarchical plots; United States
and Hispanic American independence; International complications;
Hispanic America and the Monroe doctrine; Early projects of
continental union; The Panama congress; British influence; Attitude of
the United States; Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. There is a
bibliography of nineteen pages, followed by an index. The work was
completed as an “academic task” at Columbia university under the
direction of Professor John Bassett Moore.

* * * * *

“A thorough and authoritative study.”

+ =Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21

“With the substance of the book little fault can be found. It is
timely and valuable. The arrangement and style are likely, however, to
elicit some adverse criticism. The style abounds in colloquialisms,
redundant words, and inexact expressions. But these slight
imperfections do not seriously detract from or obscure the thought of
an otherwise excellent work.” W: R. Manning

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 30 ’20 870w

=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 60w

=Spec= 125:471 O 9 ’20 1600w

“Interesting and scholarly study.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 16 ’20 330w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p475 Jl 22 ’20 70w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 40w

=LOCKINGTON, W. J.= Soul of Ireland; with an introd. by G. K. Chesterton. *$1.75 Macmillan 941.5

20–824

“The gist of this [book is] that ‘Ireland is a proof, that the whole
world may see, of the joy of life and sanity of outlook that spring
from the Catholic church, the church of the tabernacle’: aliter that
‘the Irishman fearlessly stands before the whole world and
unhesitatingly proclaims that his greatest pride and his greatest
glory is the heritage that was given him by St Patrick—our Holy
Catholic faith.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 40w

=Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20

“Father Lockington employs a bombastic style unfortunately
characteristic of a class of books about Ireland, books against which
nearly all the younger Irish writers have revolted. It is surprising
to find an author of Mr Chesterton’s literary standing writing an
introduction to ‘The soul of Ireland’: readers who care for literature
will be wise to go no further.” N. J. O’C.

− =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 180w

“Long, sickly, sentimental rhapsody, in the rococo style.” Preserved
Smith

− =Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 150w

“It is written in a lofty, almost poetic, style, and a deep religious
fervor pervades it throughout.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 500w

“Even those who stand outside the sacred circle for which he writes
and who can not share the glowing devoutness of his symbolism must be
moved by the enthusiastic tenderness with which this Jesuit priest
idealizes the land of his ministry.” H. L. Stewart

+ =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 150w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p679 N 20 ’19 70w

=LODGE, RUPERT CLENDON.= Introduction to modern logic. $2 (1c) Perine bk. co., 1413 University av., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. 160

20–5668

An introductory text book prepared by an assistant professor of
philosophy in the University of Minnesota. “By ‘modern’ logic is
understood that body of logical theories and methods which is usually
associated with the names of Lotze, Sigwart, Bradley, Bosanquet,
Wundt, Erdmann and Dewey.... The traditional or Aristotelian logic,
which has played so great a part in the past history of thought, is
entirely omitted from consideration, as are also symbolic logic and
the various attempts at inventing a logical calculus. For all such
omissions, as well as for what is included, the sole justification is
the nature of an introductory treatise.” (Preface) The book is in
three parts: Judgment; Inference; and Scientific method. Each chapter
is followed by references and exercises and there is an index to
authorities referred to in the text as well as a general index.

* * * * *

“In this purpose to develop comprehensively the constructive theory of
‘modern logic,’ the author has admirably succeeded. The presentation
marches. Compactness, explicitness, the constant use of illustration,
and clarity in development are its outstanding features.” C. I. Lewis

+ − =J Philos= 17:498 Ag 26 ’20 1200w

=LOEB, MRS SOPHIE IRENE (SIMON).= Everyman’s child. il *$2 Century 362.7

20–17501

The author is the president of the New York city Board of child
welfare and has personally studied the child welfare work done in
various European countries and in the United States. The book
describes the urgency of state laws to protect the children of the
poor and what has already been done in that direction through the
Widow’s pension law. Among the contents are: The cry of the children;
What is being accomplished; Homes instead of institutions for the
children of Uncle Sam; Importance of home life to children; How
children keep out of children’s court; How the other half dies; The
unwanted child; Boarded-out children. There are illustrations and an
appendix.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20

“Miss Loeb’s book is written with care and out of her manifold
experience; but it is written also in enthusiasm. The book represents
the most progressive thoughts on these problems and is worthy of a
careful reading.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 290w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 40w

=LOFTING, HUGH.= Story of Dr Dolittle; being the history of his peculiar life at home and astonishing adventures in foreign parts. il *$2.25 Stokes

20–18925

A very jolly nonsense story. Dr Dolittle loves animals and fills his
house with queer pets, to the dismay of many of his patients. His
sister warns him that if he keeps on none of the best people will have
him for a doctor. But he loves animals better than he does the best
people and the result is that his practice all falls off. So he gives
up being a people’s doctor to become an animal doctor. He learns their
language, Polynesia his parrot acting as his teacher. When the
opportunity comes to go to Africa to cure the monkeys of a strange
disease he is ready for it, and there he has most curious and
interesting adventures. The illustrations are by the author.

* * * * *

“The most delightful nonsense story of the year.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 360w

“An invigorating, fascinating tale, its quaintness enhanced by the
droll illustrations.”

+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 60w

“It is a pleasant surprise to open a volume whose illustrations appeal
because of their inherent nonsense, and to find the author, who is as
well the illustrator, maintaining a delightful sense of proportion in
his imagination.”

+ =Lit D= p89 D 4 ’20 200w

“This is the best ‘animal’ story we remember to have come across in a
long time, imbued with a real love and understanding of animals and
with a humor which is fresh and quaint.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p19 D 4 ’20 240w

“Is as fascinating as it is queer.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 250w

=LOMAX, JOHN AVERY, comp.= Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp; with a foreword by William Lyon Phelps. *$1.75 Macmillan 811.08

19–18742

“Those who enjoyed the rough but hearty lyrics in ‘Cowboy songs, and
other frontier ballads’ will wish to read these later collections by
the same author, now working under a Harvard fellowship. The later
volume has no music scores, and many of the poems can definitely be
assigned to authors, among them, Charles Badger Clark, jr. and Herbert
H. Knibbs.”—Booklist

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20

“Some of these pieces are clearly as spurious as are the seventeenth
century lyrics of Strephon and Colin. Others are more true to life.”

+ − =Nation= 110:306 Mr 6 ’20 280w

“Whatever may be the literary poverty of the verse in Mr Lomax’s book,
the poems are true to type. Many of the ‘Songs of the cattle trail’
are worth little, perhaps, in themselves. Collected, they form both a
picture and a plea: a picture of a vitally individual and
highly-colored life that is rapidly fading into the monotone of a
mechanical civilization; a plea for a deeper, finer art-interpretation
of that life.” Natalie Curtis

+ =Nation= 111:591 N 24 ’20 2200w

“It is a pleasure to read verse that is unpretentiously natural, in
which something happens, and in which nature is allowed to seem as
robust and hearty as she really is. Professor Lomax has done well by
his country in presenting these rough songs of adventure in the West.”
Marguerite Wilkinson

+ =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 550w

“The volume is essentially a book of the soil, truly interpretative of
an element of our national life which has practically faded away.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 26 ’20 500w

“This new collection of songs written by and for cowboys is more
interpretive of the American spirit than the third-rate material from
Greenwich village with which most of our literary periodicals fill
their pages. Somewhat surprising, perhaps, to those whose idea of its
life is taken from films and fiction, is the chastity of thought and
diction in this folk-literature of the Far West. Its realism, and
often its humor, is altogether delightful.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 43:555 F 7 ’20 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 60w

=LOMBARDI, CYNTHIA.= Cry of youth. *$2 (1½c) Appleton

20–5773

Margaret Randolph, an American girl alone in Rome, meets Fra Felice
Estori, a young Franciscan monk. He is as beautiful as a youthful god
and quite ignorant of the ways of the world, for almost all his life
has been spent within monastery walls. Margaret is also a devout
Catholic and she knows their meetings are unwise but the two are drawn
irresistibly together until both are faced with the fact of their love
and the necessity for separation. The young monk, altho he has not
taken his final vows, is to be sent to South America on a mission.
With breaking hearts they part. But an artist friend who takes an
interest in the two tricks them into coming to his lonely mountain
castle and leaves them there alone. The outcome is that they resolve
never to part and Fra Felice becomes lost to the world. Then follows
the strange story of their lonely life, the birth and death of their
child, separation, misunderstanding and final reunion, with the
ancient title of Prince Estori restored to its rightful owner.

* * * * *

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 270w

=LONDON, JACK.=[2] Brown Wolf, and other Jack London stories; as chosen by Franklin K. Mathiews. il *$1.75 (2c) Macmillan

21–380

These stories have been collected into one volume by the chief scout
librarian of the Boy scouts of America, in the hope that they will
serve to exercise both the boy’s mind and conscience by teaching him
to see and feel life and nature as Jack London saw and felt it, and
thereby to develop the emotional muscles of the spirit that open up
new windows to the imagination and add some line or color to life’s
ideals. The stories are: Brown Wolf; That spot; Trust; All gold
canyon; The story of Keesh; Nam-Bok the unveracious; Yellow
handkerchief; Make westing; The heathen; The hobo and the fairy; “Just
meat”; A nose for the king.

=LONDON, JACK.=[2] Hearts of three. *$2.50 Macmillan

20–17822

“A posthumous story by Jack London, in which descendants of the famous
pirate, Sir Henry Morgan, engage in a rival hunt for his treasure
buried somewhere in the South Sea islands.” (Outlook) “‘Hearts of
three’ is not an original work; it is the translation of a scenario by
Mr Charles Goddard, who, as Jack London himself informs us was
responsible for ‘The perils of Pauline,’ ‘The exploits of Elaine,’ and
similar alliterative masterpieces. The result of this collaboration,
as might be supposed, is a novel with a wealth of action, piled up
without discrimination.” (Freeman)

* * * * *

“It has occasional moments of good writing when Jack London, the
novelist, snatches the pen away—impatiently and not without
considerable vexation, one likes to imagine—from the scenario-writer.”
L. B.

− + =Freeman= 2:285 D 1 ’20 170w

=N Y Times= p24 D 26 ’20 300w

“The idea of the tale is bold and its execution is spirited.”

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 40w

=LONES, THOMAS EAST.= Zinc and its alloys. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries) il $1 Pitman 669.5

GS20–328

The preface points out important changes in the zinc industry due to
the war. The chapters then take up: Zinc: its history, properties, and
uses; Zinc ores and other sources of zinc; Dressing zinc ores;
Calcining and roasting zinc ores; Zinc smelting; Hydrometallurgical
processes; Alloys of zinc. The book is illustrated with twenty-three
figures and is indexed.

* * * * *

“The book possesses the virtues of being up to date and reasonable in
price.”

+ =Engineer= 129:301 Mr 19 ’20 100w

“An excellent example of what such books ought to be. It is a pity
that the author did not keep clear altogether of chemical equations,
which he might easily have done in a purely popular treatise, as he
has been somewhat unfortunate in their use. In a future edition the
author might with advantage devote a little space to the galvanising
of iron.”

+ − =Nature= 105:193 Ap 15 ’20 350w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p34 Ap ’20 100w

+ =Pratt= p18 O ’20 20w

=LONG, WILLIAM JOSEPH.= Wood-folk comedies; the play of wild-animal life on a natural stage. il *$3 (4c) Harper 590.4

20–18326

It is the author’s contention that animal life is from beginning to
end a gladsome comedy; that there is absolutely no such thing as a
struggle for existence in nature; that the woods when they are white
with snow are quite as cheery as the woods of spring or summer; and
that the wood-folk are invincibly cheerful. On this basis the tales
are written and great is the fun thereof. Contents: Morning on
Moosehead; The birds’ table; Fox comedy; Players in sable; Wolves and
wolf tales; Ears for hearing; Health and a day; Night life of the
wilderness; Stories from the trail; Two ends of a bear story; When
beaver meets otter; A night bewitched; The trail of the loup-garou;
From a beaver lodge; Comedians all. There are eight illustrations in
color.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:100 D ’20

“Very readable.”

+ =Spec= 125:822 D 18 ’20 30w

“Mr Long is least satisfying when he is forcing the note of
sentimental optimism (‘animal life is from beginning to end a gladsome
comedy’), and best worth reading when he tells a plain tale of
animals’ habits or adventures in the landscapes which he describes so
well.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p833 D 9 ’20 150w

=LONGSTRETH, THOMAS MORRIS.= Mac of Placid. *$1.90 (1½c) Century

20–14293

Mr Longstreth, who has written a book on the Adirondacks, as well as
one on the Catskills, here makes his appearance as a novelist. His
hero, Anson MacIntyre, is born in the “wolf winter” of 1869 and he
tells his own story up thru the eighties. His beginnings are not
promising, but two things unite to make a man of him, his deep love
for his native woods and his love for Hallie Brewster. These two
forces and one other, his friendship with R. L. S. For no less person
than Stevenson appears as a character in the story. The two skate
together on Saranac lake and become intimate companions. Mac’s
romantic devotion to Hallie and his rivalry with Ed Touch appeal to
the fiction writer’s imagination and he takes a hand in the wooing.
Other real people, the Bakers and Dr Trudeau, are mentioned in the
story.

* * * * *

“Lovers of Stevenson, the man, must add ‘Mac of Placid’ to the volumes
of Stevensonia which have been accumulating so rapidly in the past
decade.... The fundamental difficulty with Mr Longstreth’s book is
that his characters, no matter how real to him, even though they may
be actually alive, often fail to live.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 29 ’20 780w

Reviewed by Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 98:659 S 18 ’20 270w

“The portrayal of Stevenson is vivid. Not the least interesting detail
of the work is the colorful description of the Adirondack country and
the rigorous joys of a winter there.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 240w

=LOONEY, J. THOMAS.= “Shakespeare” identified. *$5 Stokes 822.3

20–7795

A book written to prove that the plays of Shakespeare were written by
Edward de Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford. The author states that his
interest in the problem was awakened after years of study of “The
merchant of Venice,” thru which he gained “a peculiar sense of
intimacy with the mind and disposition of its author.” Convinced that
this author had nothing in common with William Shakespeare of
Stratford he set about finding the contemporary who best met the
requirements. His search led him to Edward de Vere. The one play which
does not fit into his scheme is “The tempest.” The book has a
frontispiece portrait and an index.

* * * * *

“The effort of Mr Looney to solve this conflict is a little
unfortunate in some respects, though most interesting in many others.
A schoolmaster by profession, he is inclined to speak like one. Mr
Looney thinks he has proved his theory. Of course, he has not. But he
has opened most promising vistas, and it is to be hoped that his leads
will be followed up.” Edwin Björkman

+ − =Bookm= 51:677 Ag ’20 3350w

“Mr Looney’s dominant fault is that his work is wholly inferential.
However much we may be convinced that De Vere, had he been a genius,
might have written such plays as Shakespeare’s, there is no tangible
fact to connect them with him.” Joseph Krutch

− =Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 580w

“The argument connecting Oxford with the Shakespearean plays has the
abundance of strained literary and personal analogies, and the amazing
absence of common sense which characterize most Baconian endeavors.”
J: Corbin

− =N Y Times= 25:18 Je 27 ’20 1600w

“The volume appears to have all the paraphernalia of scholarship but
little of its critical spirit.”

− =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 220w

=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 90w

− =Sat R= 129:308 Mr 27 ’20 800w

“That we cannot agree with his conclusions we attribute partly to some
grave defects which seem to us to exist in his reasoning, and partly
to some general considerations which he appears to have overlooked.”

− =Spec= 124:425 Mr 27 ’20 1500w

“Mr Looney’s honesty enables us to see, a little more clearly than was
evident from the essays of previous adventurers of the same kind, how
this zeal for attributing the plays and poems of Shakespeare to some
titled contemporary originates and grows.... Unencumbered by any
inconvenient knowledge at first hand of what he is writing about, Mr
Looney proceeds to build up his case very easily. Almost any man’s
life could be illustrated from Shakespeare’s plays, and Mr Looney
makes them illustrate the life of the Earl of Oxford.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p149 Mr 4 ’20 1550w

=LORD, ARTHUR.= Plymouth and the Pilgrims. *$1.50 Houghton 974.4

20–19250

This book comprises the Colver lectures for 1920 given at Brown
university. The three lectures are entitled: Plymouth before the
Pilgrims; The Pilgrims before Plymouth, and Plymouth and the Pilgrims.
The first discusses “some of the political, geographical, and legal
conditions which determined the settlement at Plymouth”; the second
considers “some of the economic, social, and religious influences
which directed and shaped the Pilgrim migration from England and
Holland to the New World.” The third lecture takes up those incidents
of special interest in Pilgrim history which may be useful in
considering present problems and may “perhaps serve to illustrate in
what particulars the lives and examples of the Pilgrims have
contributed in shaping the American policy.” Mr Lord is president of
the Pilgrim society and chairman of the Pilgrim tercentenary
commission.

* * * * *

“Mr Lord throughout displays the depth of his legal attainments.” E.
J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 27 ’20 460w

“Altogether, the book moves swiftly and is well documented. Perhaps,
however, his sympathy with the movement inclines him to an
overestimate of the Pilgrim attitude toward freedom of worship.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 180w

=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 50w

“An outline of the essential facts the American citizen must know if
he is to celebrate intelligently the landing of the Mayflower.”

+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 200w

=LORD, KATHARINE.= Little playbook. *$1.50 Duffield 812

20–9126

The plays have frequently been produced by the author and others and
are intended for the needs of schools, clubs, settlements and
playgrounds. Pantomime and dancing play a large part in them and music
is desirable, but they do not require elaborate staging or costumes.
In the introduction the author gives advice and suggestions for their
production in order to insure the greatest amount of self-expression
on the part of the children. The plays are: The greatest gift (a
Christmas play); Katjens’ garden; June magic (a little play for the
garden); The minister’s dream (a Thanksgiving fantasy); The day Will
Shakspere went to Kenilworth (a pageant play); The Yuletide rose (a
Christmas miracle play). Directions for the scenery and costumes are
given at the end of each play.

* * * * *

“All of the plays are written in an amusing and simple manner and
should prove a delight for children.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 200w

=LOREBURN, ROBERT THRESHIRE REID. 1st earl.= How the war came. *$3 (3c) Knopf 940.311

(Eng ed 19–15817)

The book is a plea for open diplomacy under all conditions. Although
the author puts the immediate responsibility for the war on the
shoulders of the military power of Germany, he shows that the indirect
but more fundamental cause is to be found in the clandestine
transactions in the foreign affairs of all countries. He throws much
light on the historical antecedents of the war in continental Europe,
and exposes the unprecedented schemes of conquest all over the world
undertaken by England and her allies even during the war itself.
Contents: Introductory; Storm centre in the Balkans; Storm centre in
Alsace-Lorraine; Great Britain is drawn into a French alliance;
Attitude of Great powers in 1914; How the continent came to war; How
Great Britain came into the war; Sir Edward Grey’s speech on 3rd
August 1914; Belgium; Was it inevitable? Remedies; Appendix (Sir E.
Grey’s speech on 3rd August 1914); Map of the Balkans.

* * * * *

=Ath= p932 S 19 ’19 200w

“Whatever be one’s personal views upon this thesis, it is impossible
not to admit and to admire the ability with which the book is written.
And it has something more than mere ability.” L. W.

+ =Ath= p999 O 10 ’19 500w

+ =Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20

“Lord Loreburn’s pages, an analysis as dispassionate as may be of the
whole miserably intricate business of the telegrams of July, 1914,
destroy whatever remains of the unphilosophic hope that all the evil
was compact and corruptingly on one side.” Sganarelle

+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 150w

“Such an application of commonsense, honesty, and plain speaking
should go far towards allaying the virulence of war hatreds and
deflating national conceits.”

+ − =Nation= 109:826 D 27 ’19 1750w

“If the book is to be regarded merely as a historical essay, still it
is one of the neatest and clearest ever written. Those who do not
believe that the work of peacemaking was completed once for all at
Versailles will place a far higher value on Earl Loreburn’s book.”
Alvin Johnson

+ =New Repub= 21:272 Ja 28 ’20 1850w

“Lord Loreburn has done the present and succeeding generations a real
service by disentangling and rearranging, with all the skill of his
profession, the capital events. Everybody should read the book, though
everybody will not agree with the conclusions of its learned author.”

+ =Sat R= 128:270 S 20 ’19 850w

− =Spec= 123:410 S 27 ’19 240w

“One may dissent from his reading of the facts, but it is impossible
not to respect the admirable forensic temper with which they are
presented.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 S 18 ’19 550w

=LORENTZ, HENDRIK ANTOON.= Einstein theory of relativity. *$1 Brentano’s 530.1

20–5628

“‘The Einstein theory of relativity’ has an introduction of
twenty-four pages reprinted from various sources, followed by a small
forty-page article by Lorentz, translated from a Dutch paper. Lorentz,
it may be added, is one of the greatest of living physicists and came
perilously near anticipating Einstein’s work of fifteen years ago. The
article is devoted almost entirely to the gravitational aspect of
relativity.”—Freeman

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:18 O ’20

=Cleveland= p78 Ag ’20 20w

+ − =Freeman= 1:423 Jl 14 ’20 90w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p37 Ap ’20 30w

=LORIA, ACHILLE.= Karl Marx; authorised tr. from the Italian. *$1.50 (6c) Seltzer 335

21–881

A sketch of Marx’s life and an exposition and criticism of his
doctrines compose Professor Loria’s monograph. The long foreword by
the translators, Eden and Cedar Paul, is an analysis and criticism of
Loria and of Loria’s attitude toward Marx.

* * * * *

“A brilliant appraisal of the life and works of the ‘Father of modern
socialism.’ Contains an excellent foreword by Eden and Cedar Paul.”

+ =Socialist R= 10:29 Ja ’21 70w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 80w

=LORIMER, NORMA OCTAVIA.= With other eyes. *$1.90 Brentano’s

20–8363

“Much of this pleasant story is alluringly set in the ‘Island valley
of Avalon.’ The heroine is of Acadie, and is fittingly named
Evangeline. She and her widowed mother have come from Nova Scotia, and
settle at Glastonbury, where the mother marries an amiable old doctor,
and the daughter falls in love with his son. But while Evangeline is
on a visit to a Welsh manor belonging to her friend, a young clergyman
arrives on the scene. Later after losing a foot at the front, he comes
to an understanding with Evangeline. The story incidentally gives some
sort of answer to the problem whether women ought to be ‘saddled for
life’ with men whom they no longer love or respect, merely because
they have ‘given themselves to their country.’”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p31 Ja 2 ’20 100w

“The story proceeds along lines that remain unhackneyed, even when the
book becomes, virtually, a war novel. It is a grave, thoughtful piece
of work that does the author credit. Its principal defect rises from
an error in judgment, which seeks to divide interest and space almost
equally with a secondary story.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:828 S ’20 280w

“The novel contains some gracefully written descriptions of
Glastonbury and of Wales.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 420w

“We recommend it as much above the average of the ordinary novel.”

+ =Sat R= 129:41 Ja 10 ’20 90w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p782 D 25 ’19 120w

=LOVETT, WILLIAM.= Life and struggles of William Lovett in his pursuit of bread, knowledge, and freedom; with some short account of the different associations he belonged to and of the opinions he entertained. 2v ea *$1.50 (1½c) Knopf

20–26886

The books belong to the series of Economic reprints and come with an
introduction by R. H. Tawney who says of them that they are more than
an autobiography inasmuch as Lovett “was the spokesman of the
political labour movement which started with the formation of the
London Working men’s association and which developed into Chartism.”

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p784 Je 11 ’20 70w

+ =Booklist= 17:84 N ’20

=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 24 ’20 480w

“Not a wholly reliable historical document.” R: Roberts

+ − =Freeman= 2:187 N 3 ’20 850w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Mr 25 ’20 1000w

=LOW, BARBARA.= Psycho-analysis; a brief account of the Freudian theory. *$1.50 (4c) Harcourt 130

20–9413

The author of this brief introduction to psycho-analysis is a member
of the British psycho-analytical society, and Ernest Jones, president
of the society, writes an introduction for the book. In part he says,
“That the deductions made from psycho-analytical investigations are
both novel and not easily acceptable, Miss Low makes plain in her
book, and she has not adopted the easier way of concealing these
attributes of them. She has chosen the loftier aim of attempting to
present all aspects of the psycho-analytical theory fairly and
straightforwardly, and yet to bring them within reach of those who
have made no previous study of the subject.” The chapters take up: The
scope and significance of psycho-analysis; Mental life—unconscious and
conscious; Repressions; The rôle of the dream; Treatment by
psycho-analysis; Probable social and educational results. A list of
reference books is given in an appendix.

* * * * *

“The ‘popular’ style of this book defeats, to some extent, the
author’s purpose. We should have liked the exposition to be more
clear-cut and reserved. As it is, the reader will have some difficulty
in grasping the root ideas of the Freudian theory, although, if he is
patient, he will find a good deal of information in this book.”

+ − =Ath= p589 Ap 30 ’20 80w

“Worth while in defining the science, but too condensed for serious
study.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:59 N ’20

+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 20w

“About the first work on psycho-analysis that can be recommended for
general reading is Barbara Low’s ‘Psycho-analysis.’ Of course, Miss
Low exaggerates the field to which psycho-analysis is applicable, as
she does its therapeutic value.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 280w

=LOW, BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS.=[2] Broken music. *$2 Dutton 811

20–20973

“From the four volumes of poems which he had published at intervals
during the last ten years or so Mr Low has selected his best work to
make this collection of his art. These four volumes, ‘The sailor who
sailed,’ ‘A wand and strings,’ ‘The house that was’ and ‘The pursuit
of happiness,’ have been much admired and praised by the most
discerning critics here and abroad, in spite of which they have had a
very moderate circulation.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“There are many of us who would not willingly suppress or forget a
good deal of the work in the four volumes of Mr Low’s that he has seen
fit not to include in this representative collection, but what he has
gathered here makes a very fine spiritual attraction that will win him
an increasingly wide circle of new admirers. I think when you get at
the core of Mr Low’s art you will find above everything else beautiful
thought; and beautiful thought is scarcely to be found without a very
intense and passionate emotional foundation.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 1400w

“After a careful reading we remain of our old opinion that the leading
poem, ‘The vigil-at-arms,’ is Mr Low’s best effort. Elsewhere Mr Low’s
work lacks freshness and individuality.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 D 4 ’20 130w

=LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL.= Function of the poet; and other essays. *$5 (10c) Houghton 814

20–26550

The essays and reviews in this volume have here for the first time
been collected into book form and are edited with a preface by Albert
Mordell. According to this preface they sustain Lowell’s reputation as
one of our great American critics and are in nowise inferior in
literary merit to the volumes collected by himself. The essays on
poetry and belles-lettres in the volume are: The function of the poet;
Humor, wit, fun, and satire; The five indispensable authors (Homer,
Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Shakespeare); The imagination: Critical
fragments. Among the reviews of contemporary writers are: Henry James:
James’s tales and sketches; Poetry and nationality; W. D. Howells:
Venetian life; Edgar A. Poe; Thackeray; Roundabout papers; and the
three last essays are: Forster’s life of Swift; Plutarch’s morals; A
plea for freedom from speech and figures of speech-makers.

* * * * *

“Especially interesting will be his criticisms of contemporaries—Henry
James, Longfellow, Whittier, Howells, Poe and Thackeray.”

+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20

“They are pleasant, scholarly, informal; they polish off literary
subjects gracefully, even if not dazzlingly.”

+ − =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 80w

“Mr Mordell has brought together a surprising number of uncollected
essays and reviews by Lowell. What is even more surprising in a
collection of this kind is that it reveals its author at his best. If
Lowell has little to offer a generation which, like ours, expects from
literature the very bread of life, he has virtues our contemporary
criticism singularly lacks. He has the judgment we gladly dispense
with and the verbal felicity we despise, for the lack of which the
future will despise and dispense with most of us.”

+ − =Freeman= 1:357 Je 23 ’20 1050w

“Throughout the book, as generally in Lowell, are paragraphs,
sometimes pages, notable for their beauty, vision, wit, and eminently
quotable.”

+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 470w

Reviewed by Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:319 Je 20 ’20 2450w

“Lowell’s abstract reasoning on literature is highly abstract and
highly succinct, and its promises for the eye or the palate are not
always redeemed in the intellectual stomach. The reviews of
contemporaries are very urbane, very judicious, rather measured,
rather distant, a little formal.”

+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 300w

“The mingled wisdom and humor of Lowell are apparent everywhere.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 27 ’20 840w

=LOWIE, ROBERT HARRY.= Primitive society. *$3 Boni & Liveright 572

20–7731

“Beginning with the custom of marriage. Dr Lowie studies it through
the practice of polygamy, with its side-shoots of polygyny, polyandry,
sexual communism, to the family, with its various units, to the
kinship usages. The Sib organization, with its history and
ramifications, is analyzed and illustrated, the first half of the
study of primitive society on its individual side ending at the stage
of The position of woman. Then in turn such questions are studied as
Property, Associations, Theory of associations, Rank, Government, and
Justice.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The reviewer, a teacher of sociology, is one of a large group who are
grateful to Dr Lowie for his service in writing this book.”

+ =Ann Am Acad= 93:225 Ja ’21 w

“Useful for its expansion of data commonly found only in briefer
outlines.”

+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 380w

“‘Primitive society’ is a worth-while book. It is interestingly
written and valuable and readable, even for an amateur anthropologist
or sociologist. Its factual solidity makes it of permanent worth in
any library.”

+ =Cath World= 111:684 Ag ’20 330w

“Dr Lowie’s book may be recommended as the most informative, lucid,
and keenly critical introduction to the study of primitive social
organizations that the reviewer is aware of. It deserves the most
careful study. Fortunately for the non-professional reader, ‘Primitive
society’ is an eminently readable book. The style is crisp and rapid.”
E: Sapir

+ =Dial= 69:528 N ’20 2500w