Chapter I: of this book indicates the need of a study of business (1)

English. Succeeding chapters take up such subjects as the business
vocabulary, ‘Common errors,’ clearness and emphasis in written
expression. Chapters VIII, IX, and X deal with oral English. Five
chapters are devoted to the study of various forms of letters. The
subject of advertising is given thorough consideration.”—School R

* * * * *

=N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 90w

Reviewed by Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p10 D 5 ’20 980w

“The book is well organized for use as a textbook. Persons giving
English courses in secondary schools will find it helpful.”

+ =School R= 28:797 D ’20 320w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 40w

=BARTLETT, WILLIAM HENRY.= Handbook of American government; rev and enl ed. by H: Campbell Black. *$1.25 Crowell 353

20–11824

The last previous edition of this book appeared in 1912. The present
revision is designed to cover changes since that time, including three
amendments to the constitution, changes in the judicial system, and
changes brought about by the war. The editor has also “taken advantage
of the opportunity to explain or discuss at greater length various
important topics mentioned in the original text, and to introduce
comments or explanations of some clauses of the constitution, or of
the practical working of government under it, which had not previously
been included.” (Editor’s note)

* * * * *

+ =Survey= 45:26 O 2 ’20 60w

=BARTLEY, MRS NALBRO ISADORAH.= Gorgeous girl. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday

20–6713

Stephen O’Valley became rich quick. He strained every nerve to become
so because he wanted to marry the “gorgeous girl,” Beatrice
Constantine, the spoiled daughter of wealth. When the engagement
gaieties, the wedding and honeymoon were over, and Steve proposed to
Beatrice that they quiet down and “find themselves” the
disillusionment began. A perpetual round of social excitement, a
reckless spending of money was Beatrice’s entire world and Steve’s
comparisons between her and Mary Faithful, his right hand in business,
became more searching. In time Mary assumes the rôle of critic holding
the mirror up to Steve, to show not only his own life but Mary’s
heart. When the failure of Steve’s business sends the heartless
Beatrice to Reno another kind of “gorgeous girl” takes her place.

* * * * *

“Nalbro Bartley has mastered the style of American magazine fiction.
She has the light touch, the gift for quick, clever characterization
and a modicum of American slang. It is quite noticeable that the women
of the story are much more real creations than the men.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 3 ’20 500w

+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 20w

“While Nalbro Bartley’s new story of ‘The gorgeous girl’ cannot be
called particularly convincing, it is less glaringly improbable than
some of her other tales. The book has some neat phrasing, Mary’s home
life is nicely sketched, and there are a few clever touches of
characterization.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 480w

Reviewed by E. C. Webb

=Pub W= 97:995 Mr 20 ’20 300w

=BARTLEY, MRS NALBRO ISADORAH.= Gray angels. *$1.90 (1½c) Small

20–17174

The first notice the world took of Thurley Precore was when she “sang
for her supper” and then continued to sing herself into people’s
hearts generally. The rich ghost lady heard the voice in her living
tomb and came out to take Thurley to New York and give her a musical
education. She became a prima donna, lived in an intimate circle of
first class artists, experienced their disappointments, their boredom
and the restlessness of fame. She tried to become reckless and flirted
with the forbidden, when her singing teacher, also a man of genius,
whom she secretly loved, set her right by confiding to her his vision
of America’s supreme mission in art. Winning the violet crown he
called it. Later the war with its war madness showed to Thurley that
her own particular mission lay in helping to restore a hysterical
people to sanity and to become one of the gray angels to the broken
ones of the war.

* * * * *

“The book is entertaining, the characters are well drawn. Fewer
characters would have been better. Thurley’s interesting career, with
its pleasing denouement, might have been told in considerably less
than 420 pages.”

+ − =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 350w

=BARTON, BRUCE.= It’s a good old world. *$1.50 Century 814

20–14616

The book is a collection of contributions to various magazines. They
all look upon the cheery side of life, pick out the amenities from the
commonplaces, and abound in good advice and cheery encouragement for
the passengers on this “Good old world” whose “quiet, patient fashion
in which he goes around about the same old task, day after day and
year after year” the author admires. Some of the titles are: I expect
to be entirely consistent—after ninety; A great little word is “why”;
The second mile; It’s a moving picture world, and the film changes
every few minutes; The fine rare habit of learning to do without; That
fine old fake about the good old days; Everybody has something.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:137 Ja ’21

+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w

“Brief and pithy and filled with common sense philosophy.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 30w

=BARTON, GEORGE.= Celebrated spies and famous mysteries of the great war. il *$2 Page 940.3

19–17029

“George Barton has gathered together some of the strange happenings of
the war. It is no connected tale of espionage, but rather a series of
pen pictures relating to only a few of those involved in the conflict,
and those few among the best known. The opening chapter deals with the
disappearance of the Hampshire, with Kitchener and his staff; the
final one, with the murder of Ferdinand at Sarajevo. In between are
such dissimilar persons as Edith Cavell, Capt. Fryatt, Bolo Pasha,
Roger Casement, Ram Chanda and Werner Horn.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:126 Ja ’20

“Every chapter reads like an Oppenheim novel in little, and there is
matter enough in the book to furnish material for all writers who are
seeking plots for stories of mystery.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 13 ’19 200w

“This book contains more promise than performance. Whatever interest
the stories themselves might hold is entirely spoiled by the stagey
dressing.”

− =Cath World= 111:406 Je ’20 170w

“An especially interesting chapter is ‘Eugene Van Doren and the secret
press of Belgium.’ If Mr Barton has told nothing new he has at least
gathered together the fragments of interesting and varied careers
reflecting differing aspects of the war.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 16 ’19 160w

=BARTON, WILLIAM ELEAZAR.= Paternity of Abraham Lincoln; was he the son of Thomas Lincoln? an essay on the chastity of Nancy Hanks. *$4 Doran

20–19246

The author says that this book may be considered a footnote to his
earlier book, “The soul of Abraham Lincoln” and as a suppressed
preface to a “Life of Abraham Lincoln” which he plans to write. He
states that in collecting data for the first book he came upon a
considerable body of material bearing on Lincoln’s paternity and
discovered that a number of intelligent collectors of Lincoln books
and students of history were convinced that Abraham Lincoln was not
the son of Thomas Lincoln. “Moreover, the author found himself at
length compelled to ask of himself the question, What if these reports
are true? And he pursued his investigations with an open mind.... The
author has endeavored to trace every rumor and report relating to the
birth of Abraham Lincoln, to assemble all the available evidence in
favor of it and against it, to judge each one of these reports upon
its own merits, and to render what, he believes, is a judgment from
which there can be no successful appeal.” The judgment is a refutation
of the supposed evidence and the author believes that he has covered
the ground so thoroughly that the matter need not be referred to
again.

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 20 ’20 840w

“A convincing study which leaves not a square inch of ground for the
scandal to stand on. Mr Barton’s researches have been exhaustive
and—barring a few minor slips—accurate.” C. V. D.

+ =Nation= 111:734 D 22 ’20 820w

“It is undisputedly and indisputably a good work to which Dr Barton
has set his hand.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 1750w

=R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 70w

“A scholarly monograph.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 15 ’20 480w

=BARTON, WILLIAM ELEAZAR.= Soul of Abraham Lincoln. *$4 (3½c) Doran

20–3862

“The fact that there are so many books on the religion of Abraham
Lincoln is a chief reason why there should be one more.” (Preface) The
author explains his volume by stating the considerations which
differentiate it from earlier works. He has provided an adequate
historical background for the study of Lincoln’s religious life in
successive periods and has been aided in this effort by the fact that
he spent seven years in the same environment in which Lincoln lived
during two important epochs of his career. He has assembled a larger
body of essential evidence than any previous writer has compiled, and
subjected it to a critical analysis. He has opened several entirely
new avenues of investigation and he has set forth his conviction
concerning the faith of Abraham Lincoln aside from his theological
opinions. Accordingly the book falls into three parts: 1, A study of
religious environment; 2, An analysis of the evidence; 3, The religion
of Lincoln. The appendices contain extracts from addresses and books
of other writers and there is a bibliography and an index.

* * * * *

“For libraries attempting a complete Lincoln collection, though it is
rather lacking in charm for general reading.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:28 O ’20

“This book is so important in its field that it must be regarded as
necessary to any library, public or private, fittingly equipped for
the critical consideration of Lincoln’s religious history. His book is
so well done that it is likely long to remain the standard work on the
subject.” L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 51:547 Jl ’20 3200w

“The conclusion of the whole matter is that despite its entertaining
and its authoritative biographical qualities, such a book as ‘The soul
of Abraham Lincoln’ is utterly futile. It leaves us exactly at the
point of its beginning. In its last page we have no clearer idea of
Lincoln’s religious belief than in its first. Despite the mass of
material he assembles, Dr Barton proves nothing.” E. F. E.

− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 1500w

“His viewpoint, the skilful analysis of conflicting evidence, and the
ability which the author shows in reaching a logical conclusion, seems
to us to make this book one with which all students of the lives of
Lincoln must hereafter reckon.”

+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 28 ’20 340w

“His volume will probably be the final authority on the much-debated
topic of Mr Lincoln’s religious faith.”

+ =Outlook= 124:656 Ap 14 ’20 2000w

=Spec= 124:835 Je 19 ’20 70w

“Like many others who would like to have Mr Lincoln pictured not
exactly as he really was, but as they are eager to think him, Mr
Barton labors hard to show what he believes to have been the
president’s religious ideas. The result is a new literary portrait of
Mr Lincoln, interesting and agreeable in details of the president’s
family life, but leaving one unconvinced regarding his religious
convictions.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 15 ’20 600w

“Mr Barton has done his work with good feeling and well. In one thing
we dissent from him seriously. He quite naturally ascribes Lincoln’s
refusal to follow his wife all the way into the Presbyterian fold, or
some other, to the weak side of his intellect and character. In all
this there is something astray.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p480 Jl 29 ’20 1250w

=BARUCH, BERNARD MANNES.= Making of the reparation and economic sections of the treaty. *$3 Harper 940.314

20–18667

Having been intimately concerned with the creation of the reparation
and economic sections of the treaty, the writer, in his introduction
to the book, gives an apologetic review of the then existing
conditions. The treaty was made, he says, in the still smouldering
furnace of human passion. In the reparation clauses the conference was
not writing a mere contract of dollars and cents; it was dealing with
blood-raw passions still pulsing through peoples’ veins. He concedes
that the treaty is severe but also insists that it is a flexible
instrument, qualified to help effectuate a just and proper peace, if
that desire and purpose be really present. Contents: How the
reparation clauses were formed; Drawing the economic clauses;
Reparation clauses; Economic clauses; Appendix; Index.

* * * * *

“He writes with more caution and less indignation than Keynes but his
conclusion is essentially the same.”

+ =Booklist= 17:139 Ja ’21

“It is straight history, instead of being, like Keynes’s book, a blend
of history, literary satire and propaganda.”

+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 120w

“Though Mr Baruch is still somewhat under the influence of the pall of
Paris, he lifts something of the veil of secrecy, and when he does he
speaks with authority, and not as the journalists. It is an invaluable
contribution.” L. S. G.

+ − =Nation= 111:506 N 3 ’20 1200w

Reviewed by Alvin Johnson

=New Repub= 25:21 D 1 ’20 1550w

“Mr Baruch seeks to explain, rather than to defend—which is the more
enlightening method. His simplicity, candor, and restraint let the
reader in to an apprehension of the true facts as he sees them. Where
is it, then, that Mr Baruch’s conception of the relations of men and
nations fails us and dismays us? Because he counts too low the
significance of words. Mr Baruch comforts himself that the parts of
the treaty which he hates not less than I do are empty because they
are impossible, and harmless because they can never happen. But they
have wounded, nevertheless, the public faith of Europe.” J. M. Keynes

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 4 ’20 3050w

“The author has given a valuable account of the matter; clear,
dispassionate, uninvolved. His contentions gain in force through the
strictness with which he keeps within the field that he has marked out
for himself.”

+ =No Am= 212:859 D ’20 600w

“Should prove a valuable book of reference.”

+ =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 340w

“Mr Baruch’s chapters are brief and direct, while also persuasive to
the point of carrying conviction. The atmosphere in which the work was
done is well reproduced. This volume will be a necessary part of every
public and private library that includes the essential books relating
to the making of peace.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 320w

“His new book is short and concise, but it is in some respects the
most illuminating comment upon the treaty that we have seen.”

+ =Spec= 125:778 D 11 ’20 1300w

=BASCOM, LELIA.= Elementary lessons in English idiom. *$2 Appleton 425

20–15172

A work prepared in the Extension division of the University of
Wisconsin as a textbook for students in correspondence-study. It is
“designed to aid two types of students,—those who are not native
Americans but who have had a season of study in night school or
elsewhere so that they read and write English a little; and those
native Americans who are handicapped by a lack of knowledge of good
English usage.” The teaching thruout the book is by examples and
exercises for practice. Rules are reserved for a summing up at the
end.

=BASDEN, GEORGE THOMAS.= Among the Ibos of Nigeria. il *$5 Lippincott 916.6

20–20653

“The country of the Ibos is a district in British West Africa on the
lower Niger immediately above the delta, and mainly on the eastern
bank of the river. The people—some of them—are cannibals and addicted
to the offering of human sacrifices with every circumstance of
cruelty; they eat snakes, except the python which is sacred; their
occupations are primitive, farming, fishing, and hunting—all three it
will be noticed connected with the necessity for procuring the prime
necessity, food. Their customs will be found detailed in this
book.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“There are annoying misprints both in English and Ibo; the map,
especially in the southern portion, must be termed misleading, it does
not even contain all the names mentioned in the text; but Mr Basden
has brought together much interesting material, some of it novel,
though in many instances insufficiently localized to be of use to the
scientific student. The errors pointed out above need not alarm the
general reader, who will find the life of the people set forth in an
interesting manner.” N. W. T.

+ − =Ath= p580 O 29 ’20 580w

“It is by a missionary of wide experience, rare open-mindedness, and a
real gift of observation. He makes no pretension to literary
excellence, but has made a book that is entertaining as well as
valuable ethnologically.”

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 60w

“If we did not begin by crediting Mr Basden with sincerity, we should
be convinced of it in a few pages.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p631 S 30 ’20 720w

=BASS, JOHN FOSTER.= Peace tangle. *$4.50 Macmillan 940.314

20–19521

“Mr Bass traces recent diplomatic history from the secret treaties
entered into by various nations through the Paris peace conference and
the subsequent period. He devotes special chapters to conditions in
Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland,
Russia, the Balkans, and Turkey. Particular interest attaches to the
comment on the League of nations.”—Outlook

* * * * *

“Not so much a study of the treaty itself as Scott or of particular
sections of it as Baruch but more an evaluation in terms of actual
conditions and hoped for results. Less well organized than Keynes but
more detached in spirit (opinions are presented coldly, without any
attempt to persuade).”

+ =Booklist= 17:139 Ja ’21

“His book falls short of some of the other accounts, notably that of
Keynes, in organization of material, in charm of style and subtlety of
argument. In compensation it offers superior evidence of candor,
freedom from preconception and party bias and respect for the
independence of the reader’s judgment.” Alvin Johnson

+ − =New Repub= 24:330 N 24 ’20 1700w

“We know of no better volume to commend either to the man in the
street or to the serious student. The matter reveals a keen
observation, a rich experience, and a ripe maturity of judgment.”

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 330w

“It is the best single book that has been written showing how the
peace treaty has actually worked in its application to political and
economic conditions.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 110w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p843 D 9 ’20 100w

=BASSETT, JOHN SPENCER.= Our war with Germany; a history. il *$4 (3c) Knopf 940.373

19–19694

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

“Taken all together the account of Professor Bassett is the clearest
and best that has yet attempted in one volume the story of our part in
the world war. New sources will modify parts of the work, but the main
outlines will stand much as this historian has dispassionately
presented them. The chief complaint that some readers will make with
justice is that the book is placid rather than penetrating or
analytical.”

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:737 Jl ’20 650w

“Professor Bassett has written modestly and intelligently in a field
in which it would be easy to go far astray, and has attained more than
the ‘reasonable accuracy’ that his preface hopes for. No better book
is as yet available for the student interested in our participation in
the world war, and no other is so detached and historical-minded as
this. The least successful portion of the book is that which covers
the obscure yet significant leadership of the United States in the
development of the ‘single front,’ military and economic.” F: L.
Paxson

+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:351 My ’20 420w

+ =Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20

“Carefully studied and judicially written, this book is sure to be one
of the useful authorities. In a broad survey of the field, the only
notable lack is a consideration of the economic effects of the war and
of its financing.” Preserved Smith

+ − =Nation= 110:302 Mr 6 ’20 360w

=BASSETT, SARA WARE.= Paul and the printing press. il *$1.50 (2½c) Little

20–8885

Paul Cameron, president of his class in Burmingham high school,
conceives the idea of a school paper. With boyish daring he approaches
the leading editor of the town with a business proposition and to the
great man’s surprise persuades him into printing the paper. The
venture is a success and Paul learns much of modern printing methods
as well as something of the history of early manuscript books and of
printing. The book is the first volume in the Invention series.

* * * * *

“Miss Bassett has made the story readable and enjoyable. One is not
too conscious of the didactic intention while on the other hand her
information stands out clearly, and she never allows it to be
smothered by the story interest.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 150w

=BASSETT, SARA WARE.= Wall between. il *$1.90 Little

20–15702

“A feud of four generations between two New England families is the
motif of Sara Ware Bassett’s new romance, ‘The wall between.’ Since
the days of Great-Grandfather Webster and Great-Grandfather Howe, the
two families have quarreled over who shall keep in repair the stone
wall dividing their farms. Ellen Webster, a narrow-minded, vitriolic
spinster of seventy-five, and Martin Howe, forty, are the respective
heads of the families of this generation. Matters change when Ellen
brings her young niece Lucy from the West into the old home. Lucy, who
has heard nothing of the feud, makes the acquaintance of Howe’s three
timid sisters, and eventually meets him. It follows that the two fall
in love. On her death bed, Ellen discovers how matters stand with her
niece and neighbor and determines on final revenge. When her will is
read it is found that she leaves all her property to Howe provided he
repairs the long-disputed wall. Otherwise it is to become the town
poor farm. The situation develops into a battle between Howe’s pride
and the inclinations of his heart. But love, as usual, finds a way
out.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“A wholesome and pleasant, though not remarkable story that will
please girls and women.”

+ =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20

“Her previous novels, if one reads right, were somewhat saccharine,
but with growing firmness of touch due to experience in writing ‘The
wall between’ is more natural, more real, than its predecessors.” R.
D. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 16 ’20 160w

“While different from her ‘Cape’ tales, this story is fully as
interesting, for, in spite of its artificialities, it is told with
understanding of human nature and the perversion of human instincts.”

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

=BATES, KATHARINE LEE.= Sigurd our golden collie and other comrades of the road. il *$2 (3c) Dutton 636.7

19–19679

Under the first title we have the biography of a beloved dog,
household pet of two professional women, teachers in Wellesley
college, who tended him from puppyhood until old age ended his career.
The other comrades of the road were birds, a cat, and Hamlet and
Polonius, another dog and a parrot. Poems occur between the chapters.

* * * * *

“The grownup lover of pets will enjoy this book of dog, cat and bird
biography much as children enjoy their numerous animal books. The
writer’s fondness for collies is tempered with a sly delightful humor
which relieves the book of sentimentality.”

+ =Booklist= 16:169 F ’20

“She has, in short, made literature out of a dog and enshrined one
lovable member of that remarkable race in a work as thoughtful as it
is delightful. Sigurd, I believe, will take his place among the canine
immortals, along with Greyfriars Bobby, John Muir’s Stikeen, and the
great dogs of fiction.” W. A. Dyer

+ =Bookm= 51:575 Jl ’20 750w

“It was almost inevitable that in writing the life-story of Sigurd
Miss Bates should have woven into the book so much of the atmosphere
of Wellesley that it will take on for the alumnæ of those years the
character of an unfading memory.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 1100w

+ =Cleveland= p33 Mr ’20 40w

“It may be that Miss Bates really understands dog nature, but she has
not expressed it here.”

− =Nation= 110:861 Je 26 ’20 310w

+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 60w

“We like her writing best when it is most bookish. That is its note.
We have other books on our shelves aplenty in which the canine hero
plays a more tragic or pathetic or even humorous rôle, but none in
which he is more humanly literate than Miss Bates’s Sigurd of the
golden fleece.”

+ =Review= 2:135 F 7 ’20 260w

“Cannot fail to please all animal lovers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 1000w

=BATTERSBY, HENRY FRANCIS PREVOST (FRANCIS PREVOST, pseud.).= Edge of doom. *$1.75 (2c) Lane

20–7652

A novel with scenes laid in England, East Africa and on the western
front. Rumors of Julian Abingdon’s disgraceful conduct in Central
Africa, where he has held official position, reach London, together
with an unconfirmed rumor of his death. Believing him still alive and
desiring to clear his name, his fiancée, Cyllene Moriston, insists on
going out to look for him. His cousin, Jim Chaytor, who has always
disliked Abingdon, takes charge of her expedition. Cyllene is stricken
with fever and is left in the care of German missionaries while
Chaytor goes on to find Julian. He finds him alive and well and living
voluptuously with native women and hence desiring to remain officially
dead. He does not tell Cyllene the truth; marries her himself and is
then separated from her by the outbreak of the war. During his absence
she meets Julian, finds that her old love is dead, and turns with full
hearted devotion to her husband.

* * * * *

“‘The edge of doom’ is a very capable piece of work, serious without
being in any way disagreeable, absorbing both on account of the
intensity of the emotion, the consciousness of beauty both in emotion
and in the physical aspect of things, and the importance of the
historic background.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 5 ’20 400w

“The book reads very much as though the author had started out to
write one kind of a story, then suddenly changed his mind and
proceeded to produce another. This is the more deplorable because the
second part of the book, the war section, is well done and
interesting.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 480w

“The story is skilfully told, with a deft, yet sparing use of local
colour which helps to carry conviction. It is well worth its place on
any bookshelf.”

+ =Sat R= 129:111 Ja 31 ’20 200w

“The novel part cannot be commended as a story. At the same time there
is no doubt that the whole book is well written; the dialogue and the
narrative skilfully and vividly handled.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p652 N 13 ’19 280w

=BAXTER, ARTHUR BEVERLEY.= Blower of bubbles. *$1.75 (2½c) Appleton

20–1698

Five unusual stories based on the war, with a sparkling iridescent
quality remote from, yet not antagonistic to, reality. The title story
depicts a delightful, apparently carefree personality, a gentleman,
university bred, who has no set vocation in life, is a dilettante in
almost everything it is possible to be, and who spends most of his
time and energy making unfortunate or gloomy people happy: in other
words, blowing bubbles. In spite of his weak heart he contrives to get
into the war, is permanently crippled, yet sitting in his invalid’s
chair in a picturesque garden on the Isle of Wight, blows brighter,
gayer, more luminous bubbles than ever before, and gives one person,
at least, a lasting happiness. The other titles are: Petite Simunde;
The man who scoffed; The airy prince; Mr Craighouse of New York,
satirist.

* * * * *

“All are readable.”

+ =Ath= p1411 D 26 ’19 40w

=Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20

“The very fact that the actors are of various nationalities affords a
wide scope in character drawing and the author has done this work with
an incisive delicacy of feeling which one cannot fail to appreciate.
Humor is not lacking and forceful, thought-compelling passages add to
the graceful style of every story.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 160w

“They are whimsically written. But the regularity with which the
various characters undergo a metamorphosis under the stimulus of the
patriotic impulse becomes wearisome.”

+ − =Dial= 68:399 Mr ’20 60w

“In this brightly written collection of five short stories we have
proof—rather sorely needed—that fiction with the recent great war as a
setting can avoid bathos on the one hand and obviously false joviality
on the other. One of the best books of unassuming and yet purposeful
fiction that has seen the light this season.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:123 Mr 14 ’20 1650w

“Perhaps the last is the best—‘Mr Craighouse of New York, satirist.’
His visit as a typical American to Lord Summersdale makes a very
taking story.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 100w

=BAXTER, ARTHUR BEVERLEY.= Parts men play. *$2 (2c) Appleton

20–20646

Austin Selwyn, an American writer in England, has first hand
opportunity, in his intercourse with the family of Lord Durwent, to
observe the parasitism of the English aristocracy. The colorful
personality of Elise Durwent and her latent protest against the
uselessness of her class arouse his interest and love. When the war
breaks out he sees in it a hideous wrong into which the people of all
countries have been trapped by their ignorance. He embarks on a
crusade against this ignorance and writes pacifist literature, which
leads to a break with Elise. She declares indignantly that, far from
crying out against the infamy and cruelty of the war, women feel the
glory of it in their blood. The usual thing happens: Selwyn is
gradually convinced of the error of his ways and his subsequent
bravery in France wins him Elise.

* * * * *

“When he writes of London society as it was before the world war he
exhibits a deft, light touch in drawing character sketches. Later he
loses his attitude of detachment and ends in a loud outburst of
jingoism which sounds strangely hollow in these disillusioned times.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 80w

“The author wrote another novel, ‘The blower of bubbles,’ which proved
that he had a facile style, a whimsical spirit, and the power to
divine and portray human nature. This book possesses all those
qualities and an original undercurrent of philosophy as well.”
Katharine Oliver

+ =Pub W= 98:1890 D 18 ’20 270w

=Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 150w

“A work of considerable promise. It is crude in parts, but crudeness
is only a synonym of unripeness, and Mr Baxter’s literary defects are
of a kind that experience can cure. Meanwhile, he has a vitality, a
gift for swiftly moving narrative, and a creative power in flinging
his characters upon the canvas which augur well for his future
development.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p761 N 18 ’20 440w

=BAXTER, LEON H.= Boy bird house architecture. il *$1 Bruce pub. 680

20–7092

Mr Baxter, director of manual training in the public schools of St
Johnsbury, Vt., has prepared this book out of his own experience with
boy architects. “Each drawing offered is of a proven house, one that
has served as a home for some of our songsters and if the directions,
here set down, are faithfully followed, equal success will crown the
builders’ efforts.” (Author’s preface) Some of the topics covered by
the text are: Our friends the birds; Birds that adapt themselves to
nesting boxes; Bird house material; Methods of conducting a bird house
contest; Bird house day; Winter care of the birds. There are twenty
plates with full working drawings for bird houses of various designs.

+ =Booklist= 16:302 Je ’20

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

=BAYFIELD, MATTHEW ALBERT.= Measures of the poets. *$2 Macmillan (Cambridge univ. press) 808.1

20–12409

“Mr Bayfield’s aim in ‘The measures of the poets’ is to ‘provide
students of English verse with a system of prosody that is on the one
hand sound in principle, and on the other not liable to break down
when brought to the test of application.’” (Spec) “The broad outlines
of Mr Bayfield’s system are fairly adequately apprehended if we blend
together our existing notions about a foot in verse and a bar in
music. Metre in music is built up out of a succession of equal time
divisions marked off by the recurrence of an accent, the accented beat
falling at the beginning of each of them. Mr Bayfield considers that
the basis of metrical structure in poetry is essentially the same: and
he therefore lays it down that the first syllable of every foot must
bear an accent. The bulk of English poetry being written in
dissyllabic feet or their equivalents, it follows that the typical
English foot must be the trochee. The main portion of Mr Bayfield’s
primer is devoted to an exposition of the system of scansion which he
deduces from this governing perception.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

* * * * *

“Mr Bayfield expounds his theory with bold lucidity, and illustrates
it with telling examples from every variety of English verse.”

+ =Ath= p1017 O 10 ’19 210w

“Like almost all prosodic theories which look at theory first, Mr
Bayfield’s necessitates, even on its own showing, endless easements
and epicycles to get it to work at all. There is no plain sailing; in
fact, Mr Bayfield would seem to agree with Dr Johnson that ‘pure’
metre is dull and inartistic.” G: Saintsbury

− =Ath= p1150 N 7 ’19 2050w

“Mr Bayfield’s general treatment and scansions are by no means so
convincing as those of his predecessors, [Lanier in ‘The science of
English verse’ and Thomson in ‘The basis of English rhythm.’]” J. R.
Hulbert

− =Mod Philol= 17:727 Ap ’20 200w

“The principle of his scheme is sound, and in the application of it to
English verse he has shown, besides the wisdom of his instinct, a
careful patience that is beyond praise.”

+ − =Spec= 122:864 D 20 ’19 1050w

“His theory has not cut him off from vital contact with poetry. The
things of which he is chiefly aware are the essential things, and to
read him is to have the ear quickened to a new enjoyment.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p668 N 20 ’19 1100w

=BAYLEY, HAROLD.= Archaic England. *$7.50 Lippincott 942.01

(Eng ed 20–11405)

“This is in the nature of a sequel to a book which Mr Bayley published
some years ago called ‘The lost language of symbolism.’ He has long
been an enthusiastic and industrious student of symbolisms and emblems
and their hidden meanings, and of esoteric doctrines generally. The
present work is copiously illustrated and offers controversial
theories as to the peopling of Britain. Mr Bayley, among other things,
sees in the Cretan discoveries a wholly new standpoint for the survey
of prehistoric civilization. He believes that the Cretans
systematically visited Britain, and that men of Trojan race peopled
the island.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“No doubt, Mr Bayley has worked hard and honestly. Use him as a quarry
and one will find gold, and, may be, other things. But how accept his
doctrine as a whole?” R. R. M.

− + =Ath= p240 F 20 ’20 260w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p22 Ja 8 ’20 120w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p166 Mr 11 ’20 2100w

=BAZALGETTE, LÉON.= Walt Whitman, the man and his work. *$3.50 (2c) Doubleday

20–2834

This work, the author says, was for him not a mere literary
enterprise, but the fruit of close and fervent communion with
Whitman’s work and character. Speaking of Whitman’s universality he
says: “The America which dreams and sings, back of the one which works
and invents, has given the world four universal geniuses: Poe,
Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman.... And among these four figures, one of
them more and more dominates the group: it is Walt Whitman.” (Introd.)
The translator of the volume from the French, Ellen FitzGerald,
attempts an explanation of the American masses’ neglect of Whitman,
from the geniuses’ inevitable disregard of “untrained” minds, in
deference to whom she has taken it upon herself to abridge M.
Bazalgette’s treatment of the New Orleans episode and to lighten his
emphasis on the “Leaves of grass” conflict. The book is in eight
parts: Origin and youth; The multitudinary life; “Leaves of grass”;
The wound dresser; The good gray poet; The invalid; The sage of
Camden; The setting sun.

* * * * *

“Some remarkable pen portraits, a little Gallic exuberance at times.”

+ =Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20

“The Frenchman’s biography, sympathetic and glowingly eloquent as it
is, can scarcely rank as an authoritative chronicle of the poet’s
life. It possesses, however, multiple values of its own. The
translator has taken the liberty of abridging M. Bazalgette’s book.
This is regrettable and not easily justified.” J. Black

+ − =Bookm= 51:172 Ap ’20 1100w

Reviewed by James Oppenheim

+ − =Dial= 68:633 My ’20 1350w

“M. Bazalgette communicates an absolute sense of Whitman’s greatness.
His book, like his theme, is ample and magnificent.” V. W. B.

+ =Freeman= 1:68 Mr 31 ’20 500w

Reviewed by B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= 25:239 My 9 ’20 1350w

“Well informed, and adjusted to all the aspects of his subject, M.
Bazalgette has written what is in all points as good a short life of
Whitman as a reasonable person could wish. But M. Bazalgette is often
illuminating, seldom penetrating.”

+ − =No Am= 211:719 My ’20 680w

“Admirers of Whitman will find it a stimulating and suggestive
treatment of the poet from a new angle.”

+ =Outlook= 124:336 F 25 ’20 50w

“The book has been prepared with some care. But M. Bazalgette is
inseparable from his subject; his jubilee from page 1 to page 355 is
uninterrupted. When the author is too lavish of exclamation points the
reader parries with the question mark.”

+ − =Review= 2:310 Mr 27 ’20 450w

“The biography, though rhapsodical rather than critical, will rank
high among the scarce half-dozen of impressive books about the poet
which have appeared in the quarter century since his death.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 8 ’20 480w

=BAZETT, L. M.= After-death communications. (Psychic ser.) *$1.60 Holt 134

The communications were received through automatic writing and the
author says of them: “Whether these communications can come under the
heading of telepathy from the living, or whether as the title
suggests, they are partly due to telepathy from discarnate minds, is
for the reader to decide.” (Preface) J. Arthur Hill, in his
introduction to the book is inclined to attribute them to discarnate
agency. Contents: First communications received; Cases where some link
with communicators existed; Cases where relations were present; Cases
where relations were not present; Character sketches; Special
relationships; Erroneous, confused and irrelevant matter; Guides;
Supernormal sense-impressions, etc.; The potential value of
communication; Index.

* * * * *

=N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 120w

=BAZIN, RENÉ FRANÇOIS NICOLAS MARIE.= Pierre and Joseph. *$1.75 Harper

20–7722

The story takes us to an Alsatian village at the outbreak of the war
where the German subjects have all remained French at heart. Of the
two brothers, Pierre and Joseph Ehrsam, the elder at once decides to
flee the country and go to France to enlist, while the younger deems
it wise to sacrifice himself in another way, to save the factory and
the Ehrsam estate from confiscation by the Germans, by joining his
German regiment. Pierre, in the French army makes unfavorable
comparisons between French ways and German efficiency and is but
slowly won over to complete enthusiasm for the spirit of France.
Joseph at the eastern front develops an increasing hatred for the
German spirit and when he is sent to the west and faces the necessity
of fighting the French, he kills his superior officer and deserts to
the French side. The translation is by Frank Hunter Potter.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:30 O ’20

“This latest novel of the gifted Frenchman adds not a single leaf to
his laurel crown. For the most part, the interpretation is labored,
and much space is devoted to moralizing upon the obvious. The general
effect of the novel is accentuated by a translation which is awkward
and infelicitous.”

− =Cath World= 111:688 Ag ’20 300w

“Interesting in itself, the story has an added interest through what
it tells us of some of the events of the war, events which though
important have not been much written about.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:264 My 23 ’20 1050w

“In its English dress, ‘Pierre and Joseph’ is not markedly
distinguished from several earlier romances of Alsace-Lorraine in
wartime, unless by its simplicity and precision.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:45 Jl 14 ’20 450w

=BEAMAN, ARDERN ARTHUR HULME.= Squadroon. il *$2.50 (3c) Lane 940.48

20–14681

The cavalry in the great war was most of the time in little demand,
and had to take its turn in the trenches and at digging parties to
relieve the infantry. “Towards the end of 1917 ... a horse soldier
could hardly pass an infantry detachment on the road without being
greeted by ironical cheers and bitter abuse.” (Foreword) But the time
came when their prestige was reestablished. The war episodes sketched
in the book are the reminiscences of a clergyman attached to a cavalry
brigade. Among the contents are: Joining the squadroon; Day marching;
The gap; The trench party; The devastated area; The great advance; The
last lap.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p751 Je 4 ’20 100w

“We commend the book most heartily: it is well and simply written, and
deserves a wide popularity.”

+ =Sat R= 129:545 Je 12 ’20 50w

“Those who happen not to have read many ‘war books’ of the kind, or
not to be tired of them, will find these genial, graphic,
fluently-written pages pleasant enough.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 130w

=BEARD, DANIEL CARTER.= American boys’ handybook of camp-lore and woodcraft. il *$3 Lippincott 796

20–21339

This volume of the Woodcraft series is profusely illustrated by the
author. The first chapters have to do with outdoor fires under the
captions: Fire making by friction; Fire making by percussion; How to
build a fire; How to lay a good cooking fire. Other chapters take up:
Camp kitchens; Camp food; Packing horses; The use of dogs; Preparing
for camping trip; Saddles; Choosing a camp site; Axe and saw; Council
grounds and fires; Ritual of the council fire.

* * * * *

“His book is interesting, cheery, practical and constructive.”

+ =Cath World= 112:697 F ’21 110w

“A really valuable and comprehensive volume.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 80w

=BEARD, MARY (RITTER) (MRS CHARLES AUSTIN BEARD).= Short history of the American labor movement. *$1.50 (4c) Harcourt 331.87

20–7573

As the title indicates, the book is intended as a brief and simple
story of the labor movement in the United States from the day of
independence to the present time. After pointing out that every modern
industrial country has a labor movement and that, although there are
national peculiarities, it has overleapt national boundaries; that the
origin of the movement lies in self-defense; and that it has a deep
spiritual and social significance, the author limits herself to a
plain statement of the facts in each phase of the movement as it
appeared. Contents: Nature and significance of the labor movement;
Origin of American trade unions; The century old tactics of labor;
Labor’s first political experiments; Return to direct industrial
action; Industrial panic, political action and utopias; Trade unionism
and the Civil war; A decade of panics, politics and labor chaos; Rise
of the American federation of labor; The American federation of labor
and politics; Revolutionary philosophies and tactics; Labor and the
world war; Index.

* * * * *

“It is well organized, carefully definitive of simplest terms, and
adapted to a less advanced student or reader of labor policies than
Carlton.”

+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20

“Mrs Mary Beard has not only supplied the student of the works of
Professor Commons and his associates with a text-book admirably lucid
and condensed, but she has achieved what is far more difficult in
writing a text-book—especially where no text-book exists—a connected
and in many ways a dramatic story.” A. L. Dakyns

+ =Freeman= 1:523 Ag 11 ’20 1500w

“Mrs Beard’s book could hardly be better, as a readable and brief
summary.” G: Soule

+ =Nation= 111:17 Jl 3 ’20 800w

“Naturally, a large field has been covered in so small a work, but the
reader in search of a small volume that will give him the essentials
of this history will find this one valuable for the purpose.” James
Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p10 Je 13 ’20 370w

+ =R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 40w

“An excellent summary of American labor history. The book is based on
recent more voluminous works, but the clarity of explanation and the
skill in selecting the salient facts of somewhat complicated
situations and incidents are largely the author’s own.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 6 ’20 120w

“In her ‘Short history of the American labor movement’ Mrs Beard
performs with interest, competence and wide sympathy a much needed
service.”

+ =Survey= 44:313 My 29 ’20 150w

“It gives a clear impression of the ups and downs of a movement which
in one form or another goes back to colonial times. But its value is
impaired by the author’s laudable desire for brevity. Her book is so
general that it gives no sense of the real life and color of the labor
movement and but little understanding of the contending philosophies
within it. So important a phase of the modern labor movement as the
development of the Amalgamated clothing workers is not even
mentioned.” N. T.

+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:189 Je ’20 180w

“The book preserves an admirably sane and restrained tone to the end.”
W: B. Walling

+ =Yale R= n s 10:214 O ’20 380w

=BEAUMONT, ROBERTS.= Union textile fabrication. (Pitman’s textile industries ser.) il *$7.50 Pitman 677

A work dealing with the British textile industry. The preface states:
“‘Union textile fabrication’ touches, in its technological aspects and
interests, the many grades and branches of spun and woven
manufacture.... The subject, when thus viewed, assumes proportions and
bearings of paramount significance to the practitioner, the
manufacturer, and the investigator, whether distinctly associated with
the cotton, the wool, the flax, or the silk trade.” The book is made
up of three sections: Bi-fibred manufactures; Compound-yarn fabrics;
Woven unions; and the illustrations consist of “numerous original
diagrams, sectional drawings, and photographic reproductions of spun
and woven specimens in the text.” The author was formerly professor of
textile industries, Leeds university.

* * * * *

“The book is well printed, neatly illustrated, and will be found
valuable by all who are engaged in these branches of the textile
industry.”

+ =Engineer= 130:281 S 17 ’20 360w

=BEAVER, WILFRED N.= Unexplored New Guinea. il *$5 Lippincott 919.5

(Eng ed 20–8650)

“This interesting book is concerned with the primitive races of
western Papua, where the author, a young Australian, acted as a
resident magistrate for ten years before the war. Professor Haddon, in
a preface, declares that Mr Beaver’s death in Flanders, where he was
serving with the Australian corps, was a great loss to anthropology.”
(Spec) “His narrative is an account of personal experiences along the
Bamu and Fly rivers; and he makes good his claim to be an explorer.
Little is known of the country behind the coastline; means of
transport have to be improvized and the inhabitants are savages. In
fact, savage is a mild term, for many of them are cannibals and all
apparently head-hunters. Mr Beaver enumerates such of their customs as
came under his notice, and throws out suggestions as to their origin,
but without committing himself to any theory.” (The Times [London] Lit
Sup)

* * * * *

“Mr Beaver’s descriptions of the customs of the Goaribari, Bamu, and
other tribes are remarkably interesting; and Dr Gunnar Landtmann has
added a noteworthy chapter upon the religious beliefs and practices of
the Kiwai-speaking natives.”

+ =Ath= p1019 O 10 ’19 250w

“In short, considered from the standpoint of what Sir Richard Temple
would term an applied anthropology, Mr Beaver’s book is eminently
useful and instructive. Lack of space allows but a passing reference
to his important chapter on property and inheritance.” R. R. M.

+ =Ath= p1117 O 31 ’19 950w

“An interesting and sound ethnological study, which is also an object
lesson on the administration of aboriginal tribes by those who would
introduce Caucasian culture.”

+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20

“This is one of those books, by no means rare from British pens, that
make the American ethnologist green with envy. It suggests what stores
of information on tribes now extinct or acculturated to the white
man’s ways might have been garnered by our Indian agents if they had
been selected from the class represented by Mr Beaver.” R. H. L.

+ =New Repub= 23:26 Je 2 ’20 900w

+ =Outlook= 124:79 Ja 14 ’20 40w

=R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 80w

“The author had the gift, not common among anthropologists, of writing
well and of describing savage tribes with sympathy and humour. The
book abounds in curious anecdotes.”

+ =Spec= 122:584 N 1 ’19 180w

“Mr Beaver is no globe-trotter concerned to make a good story out of a
few days spent in a strange land. He is absorbed in a subject that is
organically interesting, and he is content to let it produce its own
effect. Unintentionally he has framed an indictment of mechanical
progress.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p544 O 9 ’19 1900w

=BECK, ERNEST GEORGE.= Structural steelwork. il *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans 691.7

20–10621

“The book contains technical information for the designing and
constructing of ordinary steel-framed buildings. ‘The principal
endeavor throughout has been to make the work broadly suggestive
rather than particular or exhaustive.’ (Preface) The appendix contains
tables useful for reference. Partly reprinted from the Mechanical
World and The Engineer.”—Booklist

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:16 O ’20

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ja ’20 70w

=BECK, HERBERT MAINS.= Aliens’ text book on citizenship; laws of naturalization of the United States. $1; pa 50c McKay 353

19–6644

“In preparing this book the aim has been to provide means of
thoroughly and quickly acquiring the knowledge necessary to pass the
examinations for naturalization and to assist those who have been
deprived of the advantages of our modern public schools.” (Preface)
The steps required for naturalization are first set forth. Then
follows the texts of the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States and a final section is given up to
questions and answers on laws and government. There is an index. The
author is chief of naturalization, Camden county courts, Camden, N.J.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:9 O ’20

“This business-like explanation of the law’s provisions is infinitely
more satisfactory and useful than the mushy, sentimental and verbose
expository books for the foreign-born of which there are so many.” B.
L.

+ − =Survey= 43:408 Ja 10 ’20 250w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 60w

=BECK, JAMES MONTGOMERY.= Passing of the new freedom. *$1.50 Doran 940.314

20–18420

In part in the form of imaginary conversations, the book discusses the
essential nature of President Wilson’s policies. The dialogues, in
which the chief personages of the Peace conference take part, abounds
in biting sarcasm. In the first dialogue Mr Wilson is made to appear
upon the scene literally exuding “omniscience,” and to expound his new
freedom with sounding grandiloquence. In his final estimate of Wilson
the author says: “Already the world is conscious of a distinct
revaluation of that interesting and complex personality, and it must
be sorrowfully added that this revaluation adds nothing to his
prestige.” The chapters are: Mr Wilson explains the new freedom; The
old freedom; “It might have been”; The apostle of the new freedom.

* * * * *

“The use of imaginary conversation as a means of plucking the mystery
out of the heart of the Peace conference may be questioned as to its
integrity, but Mr Beck has employed the medium with such rare degree
of skill that no one will question its effectiveness for literary
purposes.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p24 O 23 ’20 190w