Chapter XLIX: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (5)

“It would be indeed surprising if ‘Primitive society’ did not win for
itself the position of an indispensable guide in a difficult domain.”

+ =Freeman= 1:377 Je 30 ’20 1550w

“All in all, Mr Lowie’s book will do much to render more life-like and
substantial our current conceptions of a primitive community.” E:
Sapir

+ =Nation= 111:46 Jl 10 ’20 1550w

“Principles or viewpoints are handled with equal skill, the didactic
or dogmatic is avoided, indeed, let me say, with extraordinary skill.
Dr Lowie is critical of old categories, but not, like many a critic,
merely to make way for new, he never handicaps himself with
classification. Obviously ‘Primitive society’ will be a welcome
book—at least to those who want to know how things are before asking
why they are.” E. C. Parsons

+ =New Repub= 24:245 N 3 ’20 1550w

“He has produced a work that will serve as a comprehensive textbook
for the student, and that is written in a manner interesting enough to
engage the attention of the general reader. His material has been
correlated and arranged with skill, and he cites his authorities with
a marked care.”

+ =N Y Times= p12 O 31 ’20 1100w

“Dr Lowie reviews the rich material of social organization with a new
insight: he discards simple solutions, too much dominated by the
active social ties as we know them, and by the desire to read
evolutionary conclusions into historical data.” Joseph Jastrow

+ =Review= 3:652 D 29 ’20 740w

=LOWIS, CECIL CHAMPAIN.= Four blind mice. *$1.75 (1½c) Lane

20–19509

The story is of two married couples in the English colony of Rangoon.
Douglas Selbridge is an overworked official and Delia, consequently, a
neglected and bored wife. Major Brattlethwaite and his wife are living
apart and the latter is nothing but a rumor. The major seeks the
company and solace of Delia until matters become strained between
herself and her husband. When the absent Mrs Brattlethwaite suddenly
appears upon the scene to vanish again immediately, at the same time
that the body of a murdered woman is discovered in the jungle, a
crisis is reached. A fortunate solution of the mystery not only saves
an innocent man from the gallows, but straightens out the domestic
relations of the two couples satisfactorily.

* * * * *

“From the point of the murder the story maintains a high level of
interest, and reaches a satisfactory conclusion. The domestic and
boarding-house scenes have engaging touches of novelty, which suggest
a feminine hand.”

+ =Ath= p212 Ag 13 ’20 270w

“The native scenes are more interesting than the troubles of the white
folks, the descriptions of the rains, the heat, and native life being
well above the average in vividness and picturesque quality.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 70w

=Spec= 124:244 Ag 21 ’20 30w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 130w

=LOWNDES, MRS MARIE ADELAIDE (BELLOC).= Lonely house. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran

20–10307

Lily Fairfield is a young English girl who has been ordered a change
of scene for her health, and therefore has come to visit some distant
connections by marriage at their home, “La Solitude,” near Monte
Carlo. She finds “La Solitude” to be a lonely isolated house, and
leads a rather quiet life, altho shortly it is enlivened by the return
of Beppo, the son of the Count and Countess Polda, whose paying-guest
she is. As she is something of an heiress, she soon realizes that it
is the hope of Beppo’s parents that he will marry her. Indeed the
desire for money seems to bulk very large in their lives. But a young
Scotsman, Angus Stuart, has already filled the place in her heart that
Beppo hopes to occupy, altho she is rather slow to realize the fact.
“La Solitude” becomes even more unbearable to her than before after
two robberies resulting in murder have been committed nearby, but it
is not until an attack is made on Angus Stuart that the real criminals
are discovered, and Lily realizes what danger she has been in and how
she has escaped it.

* * * * *

=Ath= p559 Ap 23 ’20 80w

=Ath= p702 My 28 ’20 420w

“A melodramatic though not unconvincing mystery story.”

+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

“The background and atmosphere of these players is wherein Mrs Lowndes
has excelled herself. It is all too unfortunate that so able a writer
should seek to satisfy shallow desire for excitement rather than to
gratify literary taste: of the latter Mrs Lowndes would be very
capable should she wish to produce, not a best-seller, dependent upon
its author’s noteworthy name, but work of real merit.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:111 O ’20 300w

“It is an eery tale, with plenty of atmosphere, one that will keep its
readers hanging on the turn of the pages.”

+ =Lit D= p89 O 9 ’20 2350w

“The tale is well written and cleverly developed, incident following
incident in a way which keeps the reader’s interest always on the
alert, and makes convincing a plot which, though highly melodramatic,
is by no means improbable.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p255 Ap 22 ’20 770w

=LUCAS, EDWARD VERRALL.= Adventures and enthusiasms. il *$2 Doran 824

20–26998

The book contains a collection of short sketches on a variety of
subjects such as episodes from life, reminiscences of people and
places, reflections and whimsical thoughts. The style is leisurely and
full of quiet humor. Some of the sketches are: The perfect guest; A
morning call; Possessions; Drake and his game; Davy Jones; Thoughts at
the ferry; Telephonics; Thackeray’s school fellow; The newness of the
old; On finding things. Fourteen of the sketches bear the common
heading: In and about London.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20

“Mr Lucas would be the first to admit that he challenges comparison
with Lamb, and that the advantage is Lamb’s.” N. F. Gerould

+ − =Bookm= 52:265 N ’20 320w

“His work is invariably diverting, delicate, sparkling, adapted to the
subtlest appreciations.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 80w

=Boston Transcript= p7 S 1 ’20 780w

+ =Cath World= 112:263 N ’20 350w

“The title under which Mr E. V. Lucas harnesses his latest collection
of essays, ‘Adventures and enthusiasms,’ suggests an intensity which
is seldom substantiated in the text. These sketches move at a jogging
pace, guided by a slack rein, and rarely touched by the whip of
fancy.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:22 S 15 ’20 520w

“He writes of all sorts of ordinary, everyday things like aunts and
telephones and punctuality, with pleasant leisureliness, with
whimsicality and with deep enjoyment.”

+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 100w

“Both the adventures and the enthusiasms are mild. Mr Lucas’s taste is
generally impeccable and sane.”

+ − =Nation= 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 170w

“Mr Lucas’s stories verge upon essays and his essays hover upon the
edge of narrative, real or fictitious. They are not easy to
classify—and that is another way of saying they make the pleasantest
kind of book in the world.” E. L. Pearson

+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 S 25 ’20 800w

“‘Adventures and enthusiasms’ impresses you with its feeling of
leisure, of the fullness of time, of the charm of idleness. Life runs
full here but not in the impetuous desperate rush of spring, with the
sounds of torrents and winds.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p18 S 26 ’20 800w

“Of all his volumes of essays none is better than his latest.”

+ =Review= 3:389 O 27 ’20 270w

=LUCAS, EDWARD VERRALL.= Verena in the midst; a kind of story. *$1.90 Doran

20–17824

In this novel in letters, Verena, a maiden lady of some wealth, is the
central figure. She has met with an accident to her spine and is
obliged to be bed-ridden for months. All the letters are to, from and
about her and they all are revealing as to the characters of the
writers. The various relatives come to her for counsel and advice and
make her the recipient of their confidences. The most frequent
interchange of letters is between Verena and an old friend, Richard
Haven, the friend that “never disappoints.” His daily message of good
cheer, his ever ready counsel, and his daily contribution of poetry,
for the sleepless invalid to memorize, are the best parts of the book.

* * * * *

“‘Verena in the midst’ is not to be taken seriously. With the
exception of the nephew Roy, who is quite amazingly made known to us,
there has been, on the part of the author, no serious attempt at
revelation.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p332 S 10 ’20 680w

+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

“It implies no forgetfulness of Mr Lucas’s more solid achievements to
say that he is perhaps the chief of those English writers who are
doing the little things supremely well. And his fecundity in finding
these little things to do is hardly less than his facility in treating
them.” Stanley Went

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 6 ’20 1100w

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 400w

“This book is full of humorous twists and surprises and odd bits and
ideas and pleasant letters and anecdotes and—I am afraid I shall have
to use the poor, over-worked word—whimsicalities.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 100w

“Mr Lucas has surpassed himself. And yet, as is often the case, the
idea is so simple that almost anyone might have thought of it....
Almost anyone could have thought of the idea, but is there anyone but
Mr Lucas who could have carried it out with so near an approach to
perfection?”

+ =Sat R= 130:240 S 18 ’20 750w

“Most of the characterization is very good. To accuse Mr Lucas of
slightness of tenuity would be to invite the retort that that was the
idea. It is after all a book with which from many writers we should be
content.”

+ − =Spec= 125:439 O 2 ’20 350w

“Apart from the kindly humor which is their main ingredient, Mr E. V.
Lucas’s little nibbles at the novel are in themselves amusing to the
critic. The form of fiction appeals to him provided that he can use it
on his own terms. He can think of the most delightful sets of people
and give them appropriate names; he can write all their letters for
them and, at a pinch, carry on their conversation; but always on the
condition that they keep still and remain strictly true to type.
Unfortunately, in real novels as in real life, it is difficult to keep
people still.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p567 S 2 ’20 800w

“In Mr Lucas’ familiar style. It is the sort of thing he does with
great deftness.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 60w

=LUCKIESH, M.= Artificial light: its influence upon civilization. (Century books of useful science) il *$2.50 (2½c) Century 628.9

20–11163

The aim of this book is “to show that artificial light has become
intricately interwoven with human activities and that it has been a
powerful influence upon the progress of civilization.” (Preface) The
early chapters deal with primitive forms of lighting, covering such
subjects as: The art of making fire; Primitive light-sources; The
ceremonial use of light; Oil-lamps of the nineteenth century, and
Early gas-lighting. Among the chapters devoted to modern lighting are:
The science of light-production; Lighting the streets; Lighthouses;
Artificial light in warfare; Signaling; Light and safety; Light and
health; Spectacular lighting; Lighting the home; Lighting—a fine art?
Reading references come at the close. The author, who is director of
applied science, Neia Research laboratory, has written also “Color and
its applications,” “The lighting art,” etc.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:18 O ’20

“Written in a simple yet finished style it gives the general reader a
comprehensive and engaging account of illumination.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p68 Jl ’20 150w

“The story is told in a surprisingly interesting way. Altogether the
book may be regarded as a model for such monographs.”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 80w

+ =Review= 3:393 O 27 ’20 250w

“An interesting treatment of a fascinating subject.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 120w

=LUCKIESH, M.= Lighting the home, il *$2 Century 644.3

20–17579

The book considers the problem of artificial lighting both from a
utilitarian and an aesthetic point of view. “Light,” says the author,
“is the most powerful medium we have for creating or accentuating the
mood of a room.... Attention to apparently insignificant details of
lighting equipment does much toward converting a house into a home.”
Among the contents are: Light as an expressive medium; Safeguarding
vision; The functions of fixtures; Various rooms; Novelties in
lighting; Colored light. There are illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

“Could be used in high school libraries.”

+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 20 ’20 230w

=LUCY, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (TOBY, M. P., pseud.).=[2] Diary of a journalist. $6 Dutton

“Politicians, statesmen, authors, actors, painters, princes,
journalists, social leaders, and men and women in many other
professional walks of life throng the pages of Sir Henry Lucy’s
volume. It covers a long period of years from 1885 almost to the
present day, and it is rich in the personality encountered by a
newspaper writer and editor who has come into daily contact with the
events and the people of his time. In his previous volume entitled
‘Sixty years in the wilderness,’ Sir Henry Lucy has told a consecutive
story of his career, in this latest volume he supplements it with
material which resulting from ‘the habit dominant through many years
of daily noting interesting events coming within personal observation’
yields ‘a collection personally, politically and historically
interesting.’”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Except for a few jokes, we find very little of interest in this
record. In his phrases we sometimes recognize the flavour of the
official biography. In particular he has one trick very characteristic
of those works. It is to make statements about his hero, with the air
of suggesting an exceptional virtue, which hold good of practically
everybody in the world.”

− + =Ath= p551 O 22 ’20 330w

“An entertaining book of personal reminiscence.” E. F. Edgett

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1050w

“‘Recollections of a journalist’ would perhaps be a more suitable
title, and certainly Sir Henry Lucy’s recollections are singularly
rich and varied.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 Ja 29 ’21 420w

+ =N Y Times= p6 Ja 9 ’21 1450w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 25 ’20 180w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p664 O 14 ’20)

“The worst that one can say about Sir Henry Lucy’s diary is that no
one would ever have suspected it of being a diary if the author had
not so labelled it. It has obviously been revised in the light of
subsequent events. Why has the book no index? It is just the sort of
book that especially needs one.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p664 O 14 ’20 750w

=LUDENDORFF, ERICH VON.=[2] General staff and its problems: the secret history of the relations between the High Command and the German Imperial government as revealed by official documents; tr. by F. Appleby Holt. 2v *$15 Dutton 940.343

20–22469

“The statements in Ludendorff’s first volume were so bold that there
arose a demand for the source on which he based many of his
sensational assertions. This demand the former Quartermaster-General
of the German armies now seeks to meet in a second volume.” (N Y
Times) “Among the documents included are the report of the conference
between Bethmann-Hollweg, Hindenburg and Ludendorff at Pless, when the
unrestricted submarine campaign was finally decided upon, and the
violent letters exchanged between the chancellor, Hindenburg,
Ludendorff, and the foreign office revealing the internal difficulties
of Germany in 1916. The matter of American participation, as the
German authorities viewed and discussed it, is gone into thoroughly.”
(Springf’d Republican)

* * * * *

Reviewed by Simeon Strunsky

=N Y Evening Post= p1 Ja 29 ’21 2900w

Reviewed by T. R. Ybarra

=N Y Times= p3 D 5 ’20 1850w

=R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 120w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 18 ’20 150w

=LUDENDORFF, ERICH VON.= Ludendorff’s own story, August 1914–November 1918. il 2v *$7.50 (3c) Harper 940.343

20–4133

“The great war from the siege of Liege to the signing of the armistice
as viewed from the grand headquarters of the German army.” (Subtitle)
What the author calls the first commandment for a German “unselfish
submission and the sinking of the ego in national discipline”
characterizes this grim account of one who, with an eye single, was
bent on the winning of the war. Volume 1 falls into two parts: the
author’s career as chief of the general staff on the eastern front;
and from his appointment as first quartermaster-general. Volume 2
begins with the entente offensive in the first half of 1917, the
Russian revolution and America’s entry into the war and ends with the
armistice and the end of Ludendorff’s military career. The books
contain many maps and each has a loose map in a cover pocket. Volume 2
has an index.

* * * * *

“He gives a wealth of interesting comment and ex parte statement of
motives, intentions, and expectations, which he does not prove. His
treatment of the administrative and political sides of the war is the
best part of the work. His accounts of battles are in many cases
unsatisfactory. As a whole the translation is good.” J: Bigelow

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:503 Ap ’20 1200w

“Of interest, not only for the record of military events by one of the
most prominent military leaders, but also for the light it throws on
the mental attitude and processes of the author.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:359 My ’20 170w

“The one great military book which the war has so far produced is the
strange record of General Ludendorff.”

+ =Ath= p1286 D 5 ’19 1550w

=Booklist= 16:275 My ’20

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

=Bookm= 51:286 My ’20 950w

=Dial= 68:539 Ap ’20 100w

=Lit D= p109 Ap 17 ’20 2550w

+ − =Nation= 110:sup481 Ap 10 ’20 1350w

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

=N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 3200w

Reviewed by M. H. Anderson

=Pub W= 97:608 F 21 ’20 300w

+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 120w

“Ludendorff may be read with profit by those interested in the
handling of troops in contact with the enemy.... He exhibits the best
and the worst qualities of the old-fashioned amongst regular soldiers.
He knows his work as a handler of fighting men, but outside the realms
of factors he is a simple and bewildered soul. And, let it be
repeated, as a strategist, he is almost infinitely naive.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:417 N 1 ’19 2300w

“General Ludendorff has written a very able and interesting book on
the war. It is not a good military history, though the summary
accounts of the earlier Russian campaigns are instructive. The
numerous plans and diagrams by the author are valuable also in their
way. But the book throws a flood of light on the hopes and fears of
the great general staff, and on the relations between the German army
leaders and the politicians in Berlin. To an English reader, of
course, this typical Prussian author must be unsympathetic.”

+ − =Spec= 123:505 O 18 ’19 2100w

“Ludendorff’s war memoirs are the most solid contribution to the
strategical history of the war that has yet appeared. To the military
student the most valuable portion is that dealing with the Russian
campaign of 1914 and 1915; but in spite of the great military eminence
of the writer, this is a book for the plain citizen rather than the
soldier, for quite half of it is politics.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 O 16 ’19 1850w

=LUEHRMANN, ADELE.= Triple mystery. *$1.75 Dodd

20–7518

“Here Adele Luehrmann has evolved a situation where three men of
prominence of the same nationality and presumably of similar
interests, all die with sudden and unexplained mystery within a few
days of each other. The first effort seems to be to throw suspicion
upon Olive Thrace, who has reason to be anxious to be rid of Zarady,
the great concert master. The second death brings in the element of
the girl with the squirrel cap. The actual solution of the triple
mystery is a surprise.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:349 Jl ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 220w

+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w

“The author has not succeeded at any point in really intriguing the
reader. The characters are obviously puppets to string the story on:
sheep fattened for slaughter. The dénouement is lacking in ingenuity.”

− =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 220w

=LUMHOLTZ, KARL SOFUS.= Through central Borneo; an account of two years’ travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917. 2v il *$7.50 Scribner 919.11

20–16918

“Reaching the island which has been the object of his journey, Mr
Lumholtz first gives us a comprehensive idea of its climate and the
biological conditions which there exist, its natural resources, its
population, history, government and racial problems. Presently he
plunges into the jungle and shows us first its wonderful vegetation,
and next its strange people. He takes us up the vast rivers, noting
the habits of the people by the way. To his narrative the author adds
a considerable number of folklore stories drawn directly from the
natives, stories doubtless handed down orally for many generations.
The author embellishes his volumes with profuse illustrations, many of
them from photographs taken by himself.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“A happy combination of scientific study with journalistic ease of
style and choice of interesting material.”

+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20

+ =Bookm= 52:367 D ’20 110w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 650w

“Because he went into such an unknown region his book has the
atmosphere of Hakluyt or Purchas. The photographs which illustrate the
book are excellent.” J. F. Gould

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 8 ’21 960w

“The author’s style is one of extreme simplicity, and his material is
presented in a form that should prove attractive to scientist and
layman alike.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 1150w

“Mr Lumholtz knows how to write entertainingly as well as how to
observe with scientific accuracy.”

+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w

=LUTHER, MARK LEE.= Presenting Jane McRae. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little

20–10734

When Jane McRae is first presented she is acting as waitress in her
step-father’s hotel in a small “up-state” New York town. Here she
comes in contact with Stuart Pendleton, a young civil engineer, and
with Arthur Gault, a movie singer. With Stuart she falls in love, but
refuses to marry him when she learns of his previous entanglement with
another woman. Leaving unbearable conditions at home, she goes to New
York to support herself. At the end of her resources, she again meets
Arthur Gault, who is now a moving picture director. He gets her a
small part in his picture and finally persuades her to marry him. She
becomes more and more successful as an actress, but is not happy. She
realizes that her marriage to Arthur was a mistake, but does not see
the way out. But when the war comes and frees her from him, the manner
of his death leaves her still with an unanswerable question. “It did
not occur to her that she was free.”

* * * * *

“To tell the truth all this business of Jane and the engineer, from
beginning to end, is unreal and commonplace. Jane herself is least
credible and desirable whenever that young man is brought on the
scene. Except his good looks and his fine phrases, there is nothing or
next to nothing ‘to him.’ What ‘makes’ the book is its study of Jane
in relation to the movie man.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 52:70 S ’20 650w

“On the whole, it is a quick-moving and interesting tale.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 180w

“Very long and not very interesting. Some of the motion-picture parts
of the book are not unentertaining, while of the characters Arthur
Gault is by all odds the best, at times becoming a real human being.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 300w

“An agreeable little comedy of life not without serious import also.”

+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 50w

=LUTZ, EDWIN GEORGE.= Animated cartoons. il *$2.50 Scribner 778

20–3350

“E. G. Lutz answers many an unspoken question about the movies by
telling very explicitly how an artist gets motion into his
drawings. After two chapters of history upon their origin and
development he goes into a description of the successive steps in
the production of various kinds of screen pictures in action. It
all seems very simple after being carefully explained in both text
and illustrations.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Ath= p408 S 24 ’20 100w

=Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p39 Ap ’20 70w

=Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 50w

“The book is interesting as catering to the universal desire to see
the wheels go round.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 25 ’20 240w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 S 16 ’20 90w

=LUTZ, GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL (MRS FLAVIUS J. LUTZ).= Cloudy Jewel. il *$1.90 (2c) Lippincott

20–20648

Julia Cloud, at her mother’s death, is free to choose between living
the life of a drudge in her selfish sister’s household, or struggling
along alone on insufficient finances. She is trying to make her
decision when her niece and nephew from California put in an
unexpected appearance, and they have a delightful suggestion for her
future. They are coming east to college and propose taking her along
to make a home for them and be a real mother to them, for though
well-to-do, they are orphans. This plan they carry out and she plays
her part wholly to their satisfaction. She feels a keen responsibility
for their welfare and at first their lack of any religious ideals
grieves her deeply. But they become interested in the Christian
Endeavor society in a little church and gradually come to be leaders
in it as well as in college life. There they make friendships which
finally grow into deeper relations, and the story ends in two
romances.

* * * * *

“It may be safely prophesied that Mrs Lutz, if she continues to spin
more novels of the type of ‘Cloudy Jewel’ will doubtless lure into her
fold a large proportion of the followers of Harold Bell Wright. Within
the pages of ‘Cloudy Jewel’ one may find the telling and sure-fire
ingredients of an American best seller.”

+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 300w

“Mrs Lutz will beguile many hours for those who do not wish to be
aroused or excited by what they read, and her books will have a
wholesome influence wherever they are read.” K. O.

+ =Pub W= 98:1194 O 16 ’20 270w

=LUTZ, GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL (MRS FLAVIUS J. LUTZ).= Exit Betty. il *$1.75 (2c) Lippincott

20–13974

When Betty Stanhope met her bridegroom in the crowded church where the
ceremony was to take place, to her horror she found he was not the man
she had promised to marry. A timely fainting spell permitted her to
escape from the church, and it was fortunate for her that she ran
across Jane Carson just outside. Jane took the excited girl to her
room where Betty told enough of the story to convince Jane that she
was the victim of the cupidity of her scheming stepmother. Jane sent
her to her mother in the country where Betty successfully eluded
pursuit, until by Jane’s keenness, aided by her friend Jimmie and
Jimmie’s employer, Warren Reyburn, Betty slipped forever from the
clutches of those who had tried to rob her of her inheritance.
Incidentally a double romance developed for her and Jane.

* * * * *

“Melodrama of the crudest kind and religious sentiment equally crude
are blended in a whole which, curiously enough, pleases rather than
repels.”

+ − =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 40w

“Of course it is a very old plot, this of the cruel step mother, but
Mrs Lutz manages to centre our interest entirely in Betty and to
arouse our sympathies to the point where we do not greatly care that
some of her plot elements are distinctly hackneyed.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 420w

=LYNCH, FREDERICK HENRY.=[2] Personal recollections of Andrew Carnegie. il $1.50 Revell

“‘Personal recollections of Andrew Carnegie’ furnishes an intimate
picture of the late ironmaster and philanthropist, in which many
phases of his character are depicted. In the course of much close
association, Dr Lynch, as a member of the executive committee of the
New York Peace society, enjoyed opportunities of learning what the
canny Scotsman thought concerning many other things than iron and
libraries.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 250w

+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 360w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 6 ’20 70w

=LYND, ROBERT.= Ireland a nation. *$2 (3c) Dodd 941.5

20–1230

In this thorough sifting of the Irish problem, the author, an
Englishman, does not spare England. Of her habit of not taking Ireland
seriously he says that if it is persisted in “it will bring ruin not
only on Ireland but upon England and on our European civilization
generally. If Ireland is not ... given her freedom equally with every
other nation in Europe, another great world-war is as certain as the
rising of tomorrow’s sun.... Every nation on the earth that desires to
do wrong to another takes fresh heart when it thinks of the example of
England in Ireland.” Contents: Why it is important to realize that
Ireland is a nation; The historical thread; Sinn Fein; The
insurrection of 1916; Ulster: the facts of the case; The hesitating
sort of Liberal and Irish self-determination; One man’s views on
Dominion home rule; The Irish soldier; Ireland’s record in the war;
The soldiers’ sacrifice; The English in Ireland: a scene; Another
scene: the drums of Ulster; The witness of the poets; A note on Irish
literature; Voices of the new Ireland (from various writers);
Common-sense about the little nations; Epilogue.

* * * * *

“Interestingly written though somewhat lacking in unity.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20

“It is devoid of all appearances of sentimentality, yet the very
calmness with which the argument is followed gives a force to the book
which passion itself could hardly sustain.”

+ =Cath World= 112:259 N ’20 500w

+ =Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 50w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

+ =Nation= 110:768 Je 5 ’20 550w

“‘Ireland a nation’ stands above and apart from the vast majority of
books on the subject. It owes this distinction not only to its
author’s brilliant handling of a complicated theme, to his sense of
selection, and to his gift of distilling the essence of long-drawn-out
controversies into a witty phrase, but primarily to the fact that he
lifts the issue to a new and higher plane. Where other writers take it
for granted that the dispute is one between two nations. Mr Lynd
confronts the rulers of Great Britain with their pledges not to
Ireland but to the civilized world, and insists that an Irish
settlement is to England’s allies, no less than her enemies, the ‘acid
test’ of whether these pledges are more than mere empty words.”

+ =Nation [London]= 27:50 Ap 10 ’20 1250w

=N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 100w

=N Y Times= p1 Ag 1 ’20 750w

“He is well informed and presents his views with clearness and force,
as befits an editor of the London Daily News. But his book will fail
through over-statement to carry conviction to his opponents.”

+ − =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 100w

“If his pages have at times the intractable vehemence which belong to
his nationality, they are no less lit up with the wit and sparkle that
seldom desert a man of his race.” H. L. Stewart

+ − =Review= 2:461 My 1 ’20 600w

=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 30 ’20 280w

=LYNDE, FRANCIS.= Girl, a horse and a dog. il *$2 (2½c) Scribner

20–14290

When Jaspar Dudley’s will was read, instead of the fortune which his
grandson Stanford Broughton expected, he received only a vague legacy
which at first he chose to disregard entirely. For it read something
as follows: “Your portion ... was worth, at its latest valuation,
something like $440,000.... When you find it, you will be able to
identify it by the presence of a girl with brown hair and blue eyes
and small mole on her left shoulder, a piebald horse ... and a dog
with a split face—half black and half white.” With just this
information and certain indefinite geographical data, “Stannie”
finally starts on the trail of his inheritance. He has less trouble in
locating it than might be expected. But then his troubles begin, for
he finds it to be a flooded mine, which is nevertheless highly
desirable to a certain mining engineer. He determines to pump it out,
and ascertain its value. His attempts to do this, and the efforts of
his rival to thwart him, and gain possession himself, make the story,
with, of course, some rivalry for the blue-eyed girl as well.

* * * * *

“Rather well told and interesting to readers of western stories.”

+ =Booklist= 17:71 N ’20

“Plenty of dash in this story, and genuinely interesting from
beginning to end.”

+ =Cath World= 112:554 Ja ’21 110w

“‘The girl, a horse and a dog’ is a book built frankly for amusement
purposes, but it is more substantial than the usual run of adventure
stories. Mr Lynde possesses the power to develop character in a
consistent manner, to afford the reader glimpses of types which live,
and to do this without halting the steady flow of a narrative that
steadily rises in its interest.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 650w

“A lively tale.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 270w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 60w

=LYNDE, FRANCIS.= Wreckers. il *$1.75 Scribner

20–5584

“Graham Norcross, whose private stenographer and confidential clerk,
Jimmie Dodds, tells the tale of their adventures, was anything but
anxious to become general manager of the much-abused Pioneer short
line. That unfortunate railroad had for some time been nothing but an
instrument for a little group of Wall street speculators to make money
with; they juggled its stock about, stinted it in equipment and
everything else, and abused it generally. Now, squeezed dry, it was on
the verge of bankruptcy. And to make bad matters worse, at its
headquarters in Portal City every wellpaid post was filled by some
cousin or nephew or brother-in-law of the stock speculators who
controlled the road. This was a part of the proposition which faced
Graham Norcross when he started out to make the Pioneer short line an
honest and a paying concern. By the scheme finally carried out, it was
arranged that one section of ‘the country—and the employes—had a
railroad of their own,’ a railroad whose stock was controlled by the
people most interested in its welfare.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“A railroad story which will interest men and boys.”

+ =Booklist= 16:282 My ’20

+ =N Y Times= 25:153 Ap 4 ’20 700w

“The story maintains the author’s reputation as a teller of
entertaining tales.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 140w

=LYNN, MARGARET.= Free soil. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan

20–20945

A story of the fight for free soil in Kansas in the fifties. Among the
New England recruits to the free soil population are John and Ellen
Truman, who give up ease and security and take their two young
children into the new and strange land. With them goes Ellen’s cousin
Harvey Sayre, young and high-spirited and ripe for adventure. Later
another cousin, Phoebe Murray, comes for a visit, and refusing to be
sent back to safety, remains to play her part with the other women.
Even before reaching Kansas the Trumans have a taste of the tense
relations between North and South and they are in the heart of the
struggle from the moment of their arrival. Another struggle no less
interesting is revealed within the ranks of the free-soilers, between
the advocates of violence and those who stand for peaceful methods.
The figure of John Brown as he moves through these pages differs
somewhat from popular legend. The love story of Phoebe and Lewis
Hardie, the high courage of the women, and the author’s very evident
love for the prairies lighten the somberness of the story.

* * * * *

“Miss Lynn has not only made her story interesting and her characters
alive; she has pictured the country itself as few writers have
pictured it. ‘Free soil’ is a noble book, a living book, a book to
read and to remember. In its blending of fiction and history it is a
notable achievement.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 550w

“As fiction pure and simple the novel has no great art, but it has
historical reality and wide human sympathy. As a sketch of western
living conditions in early days the book is also satisfying.” E. C.
Willcox

+ − =Outlook= 127:109 Ja 19 ’21 140w

=LYTLE, JOHN HORACE.=[2] Story of Jack. il $1.50 Pettibone-McLean co., Dayton, O.

20–10081

“The scene of the title story is laid in the Klondike land in the
Klondike days. Jack is a real dog, and a great one, who will win
straight to the heart of every reader.” (Cath World) “The tragic
adventure of Jack is followed by other stories, each directed to a
particular foible of the dog-lover—the pioneer dog who spends his life
by racing with a message of an Indian uprising, the unwelcome mongrel
who rescues a child from drowning and is welcome ever after, the
spaniel who is taught to point golf balls and so saves his master in a
desperate match, and so on.” (Review)

* * * * *

“These are stories of live people and live dogs told in a live way.”

+ =Cath World= 111:838 S ’20 100w

“They are capital tales, all of them; and if the limits of canine
intelligence are overstepped, what harm is done?”

+ =Review= 3:626 D 22 ’20 190w

M

=MCAFEE, CLELAND BOYD.= Christian faith and the new day. *90c (4c) Macmillan 230

20–6365

The author’s subject is theology—theology as adapted to the needs of
the day. He says in his preface, “Visitors to theological seminaries
often tell young men they are not to preach their theology, whereas in
any sound way of speaking it is the only thing they are to preach.”
The book is addressed “not to technical theologians but to working
ministers and thoughtful laymen.” Contents: The call to
reconstruction; The Christian theology of God; The Christian theology
of salvation; The church; A concluding word. The author is a professor
in McCormick theological seminary, Chicago.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20

=MCARTHUR, PETER.=[2] Affable stranger. *$1.50 (4c) Houghton

20–20446

The author is a Canadian farmer and journalist who visited the United
States in the capacity of friendly observer. He was interested
particularly in the state of public opinion as it concerns Canada and
Great Britain and his method was to keep as quiet as possible and let
the other person do the talking. Some of his chapters, which were
contributed first to the Toronto Globe, are: Back to the primitive;
Registering reform; A burden of farmers; Organized for profit; Old
home week; The ward leader; The soul of Canada; A land of upper
berths.

* * * * *

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 80w

=MACAULAY, ROSE.= Potterism. *$2 Boni & Liveright 20–19045

“‘Potterism’ is a newspaper novel. The idea is Potterism. It is a more
inclusive idea than the one which was once covered by the word
‘bromide.’ Potterism also takes in the bromide, but generally speaking
it means ‘muddle and cant—second-rate sentimentalism and cheap
short-cuts and mediocrity.’ It is personified in Mr Potter (afterward
Lord Pinkerton) owner of the Pinkerton Press, and in his wife, ‘Leila
Yorke,’ the novelist. But the Potters are such perfect symbols that
even their own children, Jane and Johnny, help to form the Anti-Potter
league. There are three or four other members of the league, and the
book follows their fortunes, which take a slightly melodramatic turn.
In the end the president of the league is killed in Russia and the
Potter-Pinkerton Press goes on forever.”—New Repub

* * * * *

“In this new novel by Miss Macaulay it is not only her cleverness and
wit which are disarming. It is her coolness, her confidence, her
determination to say just exactly what she intends to say whether the
reader will or no.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p736 Je 4 ’20 380w

“Shrewd, vigorous and interesting to many readers. Most amusing to
those who can appreciate subtle humor.”

+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

“Even to a confirmed Potterite the keen thrust of Miss Macaulay’s wit
must afford a fearful delight. Here is a good antidote for the
oversexed novel.”

+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 220w

“There is no doubt but what Miss Macaulay looks at her day and its
state of mind much as Cervantes looked at his, and her result in
fiction is in kind if not in degree the same. In degree it is far
ahead of its kind beyond anything done by her contemporaries. For all
its clever caricature and exhilarating interest the story is downright
English.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 N 27 ’20 1150w

“As a sophisticated picture of modern life the book is exceedingly
well done; as a solution of the problem it sets before us it fails,
chiefly because in the author’s philosophy there is no solution—at
least no workable solution.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:694 F ’21 300w

“It is cleverly conceived and cleverly written, but it is a little too
hasty to be complete.” E. P.

+ − =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 50w

“In ‘Potterism’ Miss Macaulay has sketched for us a clever, amusing,
and, on the whole, convincing picture of the state of the British mind
during and immediately after the war. Her book pushes as close to the
current hour as it can without lapsing into mere journalism.” Edwin
Björkman

+ =Freeman= 2:429 Ja 12 ’21 490w

“Miss Macaulay’s narrative technique shares the keenness and
distinction of her intellectual outlook. Each section of the book is
told by one of its characters and thus the characterization is of a
rare completeness and inwardness. The section written by Lelia Yorke
is masterly.” L. L.

+ =Nation= 111:sup428 O 13 ’20 620w

“Miss Macaulay is so competent in reaching her aim that one is forced
to wonder why she didn’t make her book a little smoother and more
varied in style, and a little less awkward in form.” S. T.

+ − =New Repub= 24:280 N 10 ’20 460w

“The story is taken up at different stages by the principal figures,
and Miss Macaulay shows real skill in her power of representing the
facts as they appear to each, colored by the style and the
preoccupations of the individual.” E. A. Boyd

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 13 ’20 1050w

“Add to this penetrating observation and trenchancy of expression a
finished style and good powers of characterization and it is not
difficult to understand why Miss Macaulay’s fictional commentary on
present day foibles was praisefully acclaimed in London, where it has
already run into several editions.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 O 31 ’20 850w

Reviewed by Caroline Singer

+ =Pub W= 98:1887 D 18 ’20 340w

“What gives it distinction is the range and flexibility of its idea.”
H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:384 O 27 ’20 550w

“In these days of Potterism, trade-union tyranny, and fiscal
oppression, we are not often, as they used to say in the eighteenth
century, ‘merry.’ Yet Miss Macaulay’s novel amused and refreshed us.
The satire is playful, delicate, and mordant.”

+ =Sat R= 129:543 Je 12 ’20 800w

“The book is rightly named ‘tragi-farcical,’ and therein lies its
weakness, for the abruptness of the alternations are extreme. The
greatest tragedies have not excluded comedy, but the introduction of
farce produces a confusion of tones.”

+ − =Spec= 124:833 Je 19 ’20 640w

“The effect of abstraction is unfortunately heightened by the author’s
device of telling part of the story in her own person, part in the
persons of the different characters, a proceeding for which we can see
no good reason. It would have been better if she had written all in
the person of the unworldly Laurence Juke. In his instalment we have
the Miss Macaulay whom we knew before, afraid neither of pity nor
enthusiasm.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p348 Je 3 ’20 950w

=MCAULEY, MARY ETHEL=, ed. Wanderer; or, Many minds on many subjects; with an introd. by Charles Alexander Rook. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 040

20–11654

“In the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Miss Mary Ethel McAuley, calling herself
the ‘Wanderer,’ showed an extraordinary ingenuity in putting nice
questions in casuistry and in eliciting a wide variety of answers to
them, many of which now appear in this volume.” (Review) “‘Can a
radical be a Christian?’ ‘Is our present marriage system perfect?’ ‘Is
it possible for the dead to materialize?’ ‘Should we have birth
control?’ ‘Is the mystic a human need?’ ‘Are the ministers more
muzzled than the editors?’ ‘Would George Sand be received in genteel
society today?’ ‘Was Tolstoi a prophet?’—these are a very few of the
many vital or bizarre questions asked by Miss McAuley and tackled by
Sir Tom, Doctor Dick, and Plain Harry and Lizzie.” (N Y Call)

* * * * *

=Freeman= 2:46 S 22 ’20 250w

“Nobody could possibly accept half the opinions in this book, but some
of them are enlightening, many are interesting, and the “‘Wanderer’
idea is excellent.” A. W. Welch

+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 360w

=Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 240w

=MCBRIDE, ISAAC.= Barbarous soviet Russia. il *$2.50 Seltzer 914.7

20–12209

“Favorable pictures of present-day life in Russia under the Bolshevist
régime, as sketched by an American traveler. Mr McBride gave special
attention to labor conditions, education, the status of women, and the
character of the soviet leadership. Interesting documents, including a
report on the financial situation of Russia, are included in an
appendix.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 500w

“What we have not yet seen is a book which combines a frank
confrontation of the point of view of the Soviets with a clear-eyed
estimate of its principles and a fair description of the successes or
failures resulting in the operation. Mr Isaac McBride has failed to
write such a book, but he has at least shown that the materials for it
are not lacking.” Jacob Zeitlin

+ =Nation= 111:566 N 17 ’20 1400w

“Not the least attractive feature of the book is a number of excellent
illustrations. A great deal of valuable and interesting information
about the labor laws and the industrial condition of soviet Russia is
contained in a long appendix.” A. C. Freeman

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 15 ’20 680w

=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 50w

=MCCABE, JOSEPH.= Taint in politics. *$2 Dodd 172.2

“This anonymous attack on the political world of the day deserves
attention as a searching and forcible exposure of many undoubted
abuses. Lack of principle, lightly disguised corruption, privileged
incompetence, a pampered and leisurely civil service, slavish
adherence to party, the substitution of oligarchy for any true
democracy—these and such like features of public life are trenchantly
and often convincingly attacked; and some historical chapters at the
beginning trace the evolution of political corruption back to the
middle ages. Though the writer has some suggestions at the end as to
shorter parliaments, saving of parliamentary time, and, more broadly,
the fundamental need of popular education, he is almost solely
destructive; he is ‘not so much concerned with the method of
purification as the establishment of the disease,’ and it is a real
merit that he is absolutely impartial in his onslaught on the two—or
three—parties and on the coalition.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The value of this anonymous criticism of present-day political
affairs would be greatly enhanced were the writer able to confirm the
hope held out at the commencement, that in spite of his summary
dismissal of politics as everywhere and always more or less tainted,
his attitude might eventually be something more than negative.”

− + =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 200w

“The reader is likely to find, in this volume, additional reasons for
congratulation that America has not become a partner in the
international gaminghouse. The chapter on American conditions is
disappointingly superficial.” C. N.

+ − =Freeman= 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 280w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 80w

=Sat R= 129:565 Je 19 ’20 700w

“The thoughtful reader will not, of course, forget that there is
another side to the question.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p286 My 6 ’20 280w

=MCCALEB, WALTER FLAVIUS.= Present and past banking in Mexico. *$2 (3c) Harper 332.15

20–4614

On the ground that the degree of banking development of a country
measures the degree of civilization, comfort, and economic
development, the book attempts “to trace the history of the credit
institutions of the country from their initial stages down to the
present time. Effort has been made to stress the salient facts in the
extraordinary story of the rise and fall of banking in our neighboring
republic.” (Preface) The book is published under the auspices of the
Doheny foundation and a partial list of the contents is: Early stages
of banking and finance; Through the crisis of 1884; Origin of the
Banco nacional; High tide of bank concessions; General law for
institutions of credit; The transition period; Adoption of the gold
standard; Eve of the Madero revolution; Huerta and the banks; Regime
of the Constitucionalistas. There is a bibliography and an index.

* * * * *

“Dr McCaleb has succeeded in furnishing the only comprehensive account
of banking developments in Mexico. It is not easy for American readers
to understand the statements of Mexican banks because of the
differences in the terminology used, which grow largely out of
differences in banking practice. Dr McCaleb has done much to make
understandable the statements which he cites.” A. N. Young

+ =Am Econ R= 10:844 D ’20 940w

+ =Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20

=Cleveland= p75 Ag ’20 30w

=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 50w

=MCCARTHY, JUSTIN HUNTLY.= Henry Elizabeth. *$2 (1½c) Lane

20–13543

Henry Elizabeth’s mother had wanted a girl and her name was to have
been Elizabeth. When he was born a boy the Elizabeth stood with the
addition of Henry, Young Braginton, for he was the master of the
manor-house, grew up a country bumpkin much given to drinking, eating
and women. He was a young giant. One day, after a drunken bout, he
encounters a most beautiful woman, such as he had never seen. It
changes his career. He resolves to give up his old life, go up to
London, become one of Queen Elizabeth’s courtiers, and make himself
worthy of his beauty. He falls in with a former court jester who takes
his education in hand, and little by little makes himself master of
all the gallant practices, including swordsmanship. He has many
adventures, serves Elizabeth and is granted favors, and has the
opportunity, most coveted, to champion the cause of his lady love and
rid her of her enemies. Although he had not won her at the end of the
story the reader hopes that he will yet succeed. The picture of London
in Elizabeth’s time is one of the quaint features of the story.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p307 S 8 ’20 160w

“It is characteristic of Mr McCarthy that it has all the excitement
and rapidity of a good swashbuckling tale with a most polished
workmanship and better style than is the case of most books of the
kind.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 420w

“The story is written in that leisurely way that enables the author to
reproduce in fine detail much of the social background of the time
with which it deals and also to accentuate the feeling of its
unhurrying pace. But this is all done without apparent effort and as
an integral part of the story, which moves swiftly enough when the
time for action comes.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 650w

“A capital tale of the days of Queen Bess. It is just historical
enough and not too much so. A tale which has incident, action, humor,
and character depiction.”

+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 80w