Chapter L: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (6)

“Mr McCarthy is one of our most acceptable historical novelists. His
people are real; and neither they nor he drop into the mannerisms of
style or the pat dialogue too common among his rivals.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 140w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 90w

=MACCLINTOCK, LANDER.= Contemporary drama of Italy. *$1.50 (2c) Little 852

20–1987

The book is one of the Contemporary drama series edited by Richard
Burton. Comparatively little is known to the English-speaking public
of modern Italian dramatists. The object of the book is to fill the
gap. The author holds that the Italian is realistic rather than
romantic and his modern literature is characterized by fidelity to
life and the intellectualization of its themes rather than by
emotionalism. Even romanticism contained the germs of the modern
movement and an increasingly intelligent public demands more and more
discussion and solution of vital questions and urgent problems. The
contents are: The foundations; Giuseppe Giacosa; The early realists;
Gabriele D’Annunzio; The later realists; Roberto Bracco; Actors and
acting, the popular theatre, the dialect theatre; The younger
generation; Futurism and other isms; Bibliographical appendix; Index.

* * * * *

“Without that special charm which transforms such a book into one of
popular appeal, but still interesting and useful in its suggestiveness
to the drama student and general reader.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20

=Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 70w

“Mr MacClintock is very agile, very well-informed, his touch is light
and his taste is catholic.”

+ =Freeman= 1:70 Mr 31 ’20 200w

“His book is excellent in every way, a model for the other
contributors to the Contemporary drama series. It is founded upon
indefatigable investigation, at once broad and deep. It is informed
with a fine critical spirit. It is logically planned and proportioned.
It is written in clear English. And it is as unfailingly interesting
as it is unhesitatingly instructive.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:226 My 2 ’20 2100w

“In spite of occasional infelicities of expression and errors of fact
or of judgment, it is a distinctly valuable contribution to the study
of modern Italian literature. Dr MacClintock’s first chapter, and his
last, ‘Futurism and other isms,’ are the least satisfactory part of
his book, since they involve broad generalizations based on a profound
knowledge of the background. This knowledge he does not yet
sufficiently possess, if one may judge from his tendency to accept and
incorporate the views of previous writers.” K. McKenzie

+ − =Review= 3:452 N 10 ’20 1000w

=MCCONN, MAX.= Mollie’s substitute husband, il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–14216

“Professor” John Merriam, principal of the Riceville high school, on
account of his startling likeness to the “Boy senator,” George Norman,
was induced to represent that gentleman under rather amazing
circumstances. The Reform league of Chicago was trying to secure
better traction conditions in that city and upon Senator Norman rested
the decision, and it was his intention to veto the measure. Then what
was simpler than for the enterprising Reform league to kidnap the
senator and substitute his double—John Merriam, who would put the
thing thru for them in short order. He agreed to play the part, which
involved playing husband to Mollie June, with whom he had been in love
since she was a school girl. The situation naturally led to
complications both public and private, and all the people concerned
were led a merry chase escaping detection. A happy outcome at times
seemed impossible—but at length it is achieved for all except the
unfortunate Senator Norman himself—and perhaps he deserved his fate.

* * * * *

“The story is brisk and brilliant, if complicated in plot.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 290w

“A certain levity of style with which he writes disarms criticism and
adds to the entertainment he has provided.”

+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 15 ’20 550w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 120w

=MCCORD, JAMES NEWTON.= Textbook of filing. il *$2 Appleton 651

20–4539

“Based on our experience in training thousands of girls and women for
filing positions no matter what methods were involved, or what
particular manufacturer’s system was employed, this book has been
compiled.... Its purpose is to instruct in the different methods of
filing, which are limited, while the different systems are numerous
and must be reduced to a possible four methods.... Office routine,
short cuts, cross reference and different refinements and
ramifications all come in for proper consideration and the volume is
equally as valuable as a reference book as a textbook.” (Preface)
Contents: Filing equipment; Routing; Alphabetic methods; Numeric
filing; Geographic methods; Subject and decimal methods; Automatic
system; Card indexing; Transferring; Legal filing; Insurance; Real
estate; Follow-up methods; Banking; Sales; Manufacturing; Stocks and
bonds; Card ledgers; Appendix; Index. The author is director of the
New York school of filing.

* * * * *

“A clear, simple presentation.”

+ =Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 120w

=MCCORMICK, ROBERT RUTHERFORD.= Army of 1918. *$2 Harcourt 940.373

20–19162

A work by a member of General Pershing’s staff, with chapters on: The
background of the army; The inspired ambassador; Early days of the
A.E.F.; The great division; Germany’s last offensive; A few technical
points; The pursuit from the Marne; The American offensives; Some
elements of national defense; New weapons and their use; The general
staff; The crime of silence; The only solution. The solution offered
in the concluding chapter is a strong military establishment with a
trained army based on European, preferably French, models.

* * * * *

“It should be read by everyone who is interested in our future
military policy.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 100w

=MACCRACKEN, JOHN HENRY.= College and commonwealth, and other educational papers and addresses. *$3 Century 378

21–159

The collection consists largely of college addresses delivered at
opening or commencement exercises, including, as the title essay of
the book, the author’s inaugural address as president of Lafayette
college. One of the leading ideas in this collection is the
superiority of individualism to conformity, communism or state
control. Even the desirability of cooperation is set forth with
certain reservations. The war with its problems furnishes some of the
topics. Among the titles are: The college and the individual; Liberty
and cooperation; War and education; The college and the shadow of war;
Federal leadership in education; Why the trust idea is not applicable
to education; The college man and freedom; The education of women;
Broader education of engineers; Scientific method and therapeutic
impulse; Religion and education.

* * * * *

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 240w

=MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR.= Anderson Crow, detective. il *$2 (3½c) Dodd

20–4957

Anderson Crow, besides being the detective of the title, held a number
of important municipal offices in the town of Tinkletown, including
those of deputy marshal, deputy superintendent of the fire department,
commissioner of water-works and others. His zeal on the trail of crime
was therefore keen, and he rarely was outwitted, whether he was
capturing German spies, or solving the mystery of a suicide or
following up the effects of hard cider in the Foreign missionary
society. His understudy was Alf Reesling, the village drunkard, who
had been sober for twenty-five years, but who was living on the
reputation of one hilarious week of his youth. Harry Squires, the
editor of the weekly Banner, was a thorn in the side of the detective,
although but for him some of his successes would have been failures.

* * * * *

+ − =Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20

“The tales are written in a farcical, extravagant style which, when
applied to characters obviously intended to represent everyday human
beings, needs a strong dash of humor to make it palatable. Mr
McCutcheon has not made them funny enough. The illustrations, by the
author’s famous brother, are full of ‘pep’ as one would expect them to
be.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 300w

“Good fun.”

+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 50w

“While sketchy and episodical, the narrative is well knit. It is,
perhaps, not far from the truth to say that Mr McCutcheon’s story is a
satire on the detective creation of the fiction writers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 280w

=MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR.= West wind drift. *$2 (2c) Dodd

20–18655

The Doraine, in the treacherous days of the war, sailed one day from a
South American port carrying a thousand souls. And from that day she
was never seen again, and was eventually reported lost with all on
board. But two German spies might have given a fuller report if they
had told of their work before they dropped off onto the launch that
was awaiting them in the middle of the South Atlantic. The Doraine was
left to helplessly drift, at the mercy of wind and tide. So finally
she was borne to the shores of an uninhabited island. And there the
six hundred or so human beings who had survived the rigors and
exposure of the trip, landed and made a settlement. All the elements
in human nature which men are familiar with in normal circumstances
made themselves felt here, capacity for leadership, love, jealousy,
temptation, treachery, justice, but strongest of all, hope in the
future. Algernon Adonis Percival, in spite of his name and the fact
that he was a stowaway on the doomed ship, is the strongest character
of all, and his career is the most interesting as he rises to the
governorship in quite Admirable Crichton style.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

=Boston Transcript= p8 D 11 ’20 210w

“George Barr McCutcheon, the facile creator of mythical kingdoms, has
invented a new ‘Swiss Family Robinson’ quite stupendous enough for
production by Mr Griffith.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 150w

“There is a straightaway yarn, which, if not particularly original or
strikingly dramatic, at least leads one logically from the first
chapter to the last with the feeling that one has been in company of a
good-humored entertainer. Brightly written throughout, Mr McCutcheon’s
latest novel is worthy of his reputation.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 480w

“The book is worth reading for itself and also because it brings
saliently to mind some of the things which are essential to liberty
and combined effort in civilized countries, as well as in desert
islands.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 90w

“The book was not written to prove anything for which many will be
thankful.” Caroline Singer

+ =Pub W= 98:1190 O 16 ’20 180w

“It is an entertaining tale which holds the reader enthralled through
its various stages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 200w

=MACDONALD, GREVILLE.= North door. *$2 (1½c) Houghton

20–26987

This romance, whose scene is the coast of Cornwall more than a century
ago, has a historic background. It shows us the dawn of modern
industrialism and how a country’s prosperity may be paid for with the
blood of a once prosperous peasantry. The central figure is a saintly
but rather unorthodox priest who puts his faith in the good to the
supreme test by himself crossing the threshold of the accursed “North
door” of the church in search of the reality of sin and evil. He finds
both only to see it vanish before the higher reality of a divine
goodness. A two-fold romance runs through the story, that of a peasant
girl’s heroic love for a giant fisherman and smuggler and the highly
spiritualized romance between the priest and Lady Evangeline.

* * * * *

“In this attempt to reproduce the life of a Cornish parish during the
first decade of the nineteenth century some faults of construction are
redeemed by much charm and sincerity.”

+ − =Ath= p815 Je 18 ’20 130w

“Something of Hawthorne’s moral sense, his superstitious awe, his
sternness, his artistry, and, to a certain extent, his power of
construction are more than noticeable—they are outstanding. George
Brandes once declared that literature’s task is to give a ‘condensed
representation of a people and an age.’ If this is true, then ‘The
north door’ is surely entitled to consideration as literature.”

+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 640w

“The book has a marked character of its own, it is unusual and
arresting.”

+ =Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 90w

“The portrait of Christopher Trevenna is a real, if slightly
sentimental, piece of character drawing. The author’s rather verbose
and involved style places an unnecessary obstacle in the way of the
reader’s enjoyment.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p370 Je 10 ’20 150w

=MACDONALD, JAMES RAMSAY.= Government of India. *$1.50 Huebsch 354

(Eng ed 20–509)

“The appearance of this informative book is stated by the author to
have been delayed by the war. He reviews the origin and evolution of
the links which connect India with ourselves, and reminds readers that
the needs of that empire cannot be met by an adjustment here and an
adjustment there: ‘they have to be viewed in their wide sweep.’ Mr
Macdonald discusses with considerable fullness the Montagu-Chelmsford
report, deals with the religious problems in India, and remarks that a
very common opinion of both Indians and English is that the Christian
missions in India thwart the nationalist movement—partly by implanting
in the minds of the people thoughts which lead them away from Indian
leadership and ideas. In the author’s judgment, the Legislative
councils should have more authority, especially in finance, and the
Viceroy’s council be made more representative.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p1272 N 28 ’19 200w

=Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

“This new volume has been produced in an international milieu which is
characterized by at least two sets of conditions. The first are those
generated by the talk of a league of nations, and the second is the
fait accompli of a socialist state in bolshevik Russia. And it is
because the author seeks to harmonize his theories with these novel
phenomena that his book acquires an importance such as is hardly
indicated by the limitations of its title.” B. K. Sarkar

+ − =Freeman= 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 1200w

“The trouble about Mr Ramsay Macdonald’s book on India is that
portions of it are obsolete. He describes a form of government which
is about to undergo great modifications. Little further need be said
by the way of criticism. Mr Macdonald writes with a practised hand,
sometimes even with charm. He has handled his theme with moderation
and restraint. It is a pleasure to pick up a book about India which
contains no word of bitterness, no trace of violent controversy, no
exaggeration or over-statement.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 D 11 ’19 950w

=MACDONALD, JAMES RAMSAY.= Parliament and revolution. (New library of social science) *$1.50 Seltzer 335

20–26685

“‘Parliament and revolution’ is a careful comparison between the
existing government in England and the aims and projects of the
Bolshevists. While the book is antibolshevist, Mr Macdonald is quick
to recognize any sound reasoning in the bolshevist theories to
denounce the flaws in the rule of Parliament. He includes a
description of the working of the soviet system in Russia, and a
discussion of ‘direct action,’ the name under which bolshevism is
discussed and advocated by the British labor party.”—Springf’d
Republican

* * * * *

“Not in any sense an objective scientific study, but an assertion of
principles that deserves attention.”

+ =Booklist= 17:54 N ’20

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

+ =Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w

+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 60w

“As a piece of argumentation ‘Parliament and revolution’ leaves a good
deal to be desired. Its logical texture is not of the finest; too
often it gives us assertion where we want demonstration; and as for
‘scientific’ and ‘unbiased,’ these adjectives, by which the book is
described in the publishers’ advertisement on the paper cover, have no
more to do with the case than the flowers that bloom in the spring.”
R. L. Schuyler

− =Nation= 110:826 Je 19 ’20 850w

“In a measure, Mr Macdonald’s book is a salutary corrective to a good
deal of loose vituperation. But there is another aspect to the matter
with which he has failed to deal. Granted the ignorance and inertia of
the modern electorate what, at bottom, are its causes?... The trade
unions have an importance which Mr Macdonald altogether fails to give
them in this study.” H. J. L.

+ − =New Repub= 22:383 My 19 ’20 1800w

“The book is one that, we warrant, will not fully satisfy any single
Socialist. One feels himself at times tantalized between enjoyment of
some excellent statement of principle or fact or analysis of some
particular question, only to draw a conclusion here and there that
appears to be a concession to conventional opinion. Yet the book will
appeal to all but the romanticists and those of fixed opinions.” James
Oneal

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 1000w

“The first volume of the New library of social science seems to me the
most straightforward treatise on government which has come out since
the beginning of the war.” M. H. Anderson

+ =Pub W= 97:998 Mr 20 ’20 320w

“It is to be hoped that this contribution may stimulate a further
discussion on these important questions of the technique of
revolution.”

+ =Socialist R= 10:28 Ja ’21 920w

“It is forceful in logic and classic in clearness.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 100w

“The whole book is a careful study of dangerous political tendencies
of the times and well worth reading by adherents and opponents of
socialism alike.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:417 Je 19 ’20 450w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p615 O 30 ’19 240w

=MACDONALD, ZILLAH K.= Eileen’s adventures in Wordland. il *$2.25 (5c) Stokes

20–17532

“This is the story of a little girl who visited the land behind the
dictionary and found out for herself that words are alive.” Eileen was
sitting in the schoolroom writing out the words she had misspelled and
trying to remember that syntax doesn’t end in tacks, when the letter X
suddenly jumped out of her inkwell and confronted her. Under his
guidance she visited Dictionary Town and there met the words who live
in English Wordland, “plain strong Anglo-Saxon words, French
aristocrat words who came over with William the Conqueror, the old
giant Greek and Latin words, foreign words from every land who have
been adopted by Mother English Language, and the happy-go-lucky slang
words who live in a gipsy camp outside of Dictionary Town.” The
whimsical illustrations are by Stuart Hay.

* * * * *

“A very clever little idea, this. With all her fun, the author tries
to be soundly etymological, which will please the educators, without
annoying the children. The illustrator, Stuart Hay, adds much with his
line-drawings to a book which is bound to give its readers a good
time.”

+ =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 270w

“It will be an excellent book for supplementary reading in the
elementary grades. The story moves with much briskness and variety.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 N 13 ’20 220w

=MACDONNELL, JAMES FRANCIS CARLIN (FRANCIS CARLIN, pseud.).= Cairn of stars. *$1.50 Holt 821

20–9075

A second volume of poems by the author of “My Ireland.” As in the
previous volume lyric verse predominates and the themes are drawn from
Irish landscape and custom and fairy lore. A few of the titles are:
The cairn of stars; A girl’s song; The black swans; The market town;
The seventh son; A Munster marriage; An Irish madonna; For a
god-child; The queen of Kerry; The coming of the fairies; The
herdsman’s son; The beggar’s blessing.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20

“There is more pure poetry to the square inch of expression on the
printed page of Francis Carlin than there is on the whole leaves of
printed pages by any Irish-American poet of today. ‘The cairn of
stars’ is far better than the earlier book. In the nearly three years
since ‘My Ireland,’ Mr Carlin has added a deliberately finished
technique to the instinctive technique that was his original gift. He
has learned to manage his metres in a way to bring out all the finer
shades of his moods and without impairing the spontaneity of feeling.
At the same time he has greatly broadened the scope of his interests.”
W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 1450w

“Very tuneful and pleasurable and wholesome even if the more rare and
mysterious promise of certain earlier poems is not entirely
fulfilled.”

+ =Cath World= 112:397 D ’20 190w

Reviewed by Mark Van Doren

+ =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 140w

“A book that is delightful to read from beginning to end. Mr Carlin
will never be a great poet, but he will always be a sincere and honest
poet of indubitable talent.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 490w

=MCDOUGALL, WILLIAM.= Group mind. *$5 Putnam 301

20–13131

“A sketch of the principles of collective psychology with some attempt
to apply them to the interpretation of national life and character.”
(Sub-title) The author holds that “a society, when it enjoys a long
life and becomes highly organized, acquires a structure and qualities
which are largely independent of the qualities of the individuals who
enter into its composition and take part for a brief time in its
life.” Thus a collective mental life is not merely the sum of the
mental lives of its units but is a “collective mind” or, if one
prefers, “a collective soul.” The book is a sequel to the author’s
“Introduction to social psychology” and assumes the reader’s
acquaintance with it. The contents fall into three parts: General
principles of collective psychology; The national mind and character;
The development of national mind and character. There is an index.

* * * * *

“Soundly empirical as his methods are, Mr McDougall may well fail to
convince the ardent humanitarian of the error of his ways....
Nevertheless, the problem of a national eugenics must be faced and
solved, not simply burked on sentimental grounds. Meanwhile, whatever
moral be drawn from them, the facts must first be reviewed
impartially; and Mr McDougall’s book is the model of a treatment
conceived and executed in the dispassionate spirit of science.” R. R.
M.

+ =Ath= p834 Je 25 ’20 1000w

“The rule which prevents a physician from operating upon a member of
his own family because his emotion would interfere with his judgment
is one that no scientist can afford to ignore. Mr McDougall has
ignored it. That is to say he has not searched his heart to free
himself from his own group affiliations sufficiently to approach his
subject with a clean and clear mind.” Walter Lippmann

− =New Repub= 25:82 D 15 ’20 1600w

“There are one or two of Mr McDougall’s statements to which we might
take exception; but they are few in number and of no importance to his
main argument. He is invariably impartial, lucid, and candid, making
use of no theory, however plausible, unless it will bear the strictest
scrutiny, and advancing no conclusions as proved so long as any
reasonable doubt may be entertained of their soundness.”

+ =Spec= 125:214 Ag 14 ’20 1050w

“The book is well worth reading, but the student will look in vain for
any considerable contribution or stimulating suggestion.” J. K. Hart

+ − =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 470w

“The three chapters on ‘The race-making period’ and the following one
on ‘Racial changes during the historic period’ form a singularly
illuminating study of race problems.... The defence made on page 174
of the maxim ‘My country right or wrong’ suggests that his enthusiasm
for the virtue of group loyalty is a little in danger of obscuring to
his eyes the rights of the individual conscience. A Treitschke might
with a little sophistry subscribe it.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p730 N 11 ’20 2000w

=MCDOWALL, ARTHUR SYDNEY.= Realism; a study in art and thought. *$4 Dutton 701

(Eng ed 19–12352)

“Mr McDowall makes his position clear. The material world has, he
believes, a real existence apart from man. At the point of
consciousness its circle and our apprehension intersect, but they
remain separate circles. The problem of realism is to represent this
world that our senses claim for us, not, as Zola supposed, by a
literary photograph, not scientifically, but by ‘truth of impression
in which feeling and imagination play the essential part.’ ‘Truth for
the realist artist can never consist in ... a simple correspondence
with facts. He is an observer, but he is not a reporter. He does not
copy, but he creates a world which refers us back to our own world and
shows it to us more truly.’”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 980w

“Often the book is murky with the philosophical abstractions,
crystallizing into dogma. He has the caution of the scholar, and not
the audacity of the artist. He avoids the impertinences of brilliance,
but also its decision.”

+ − =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 130w

=New Repub= 24:150 O 6 ’20 430w

“Mr McDowall’s book should be read. It has the awareness, the keen
interest in living problems, of the work of William James.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 O 23 ’20 700w

“Mr McDowall approaches his topic from many angles and cites a wealth
of relevant illustration, but finally leaves the impression that he
has failed to get at the heart of it. One reason of his inadequacy is
the ease with which he dismisses as obsolete the older uses of the
term realism.”

+ − =Review= 4:58 Ja 19 ’21 1200w

=MCEVILLY, MARY A.= Meslom’s messages from the life beyond. *$1.50 (6c) Brentano’s 134

20–6732

The book is a record of automatic writing executed by the author and
bearing messages from the beyond by Meslom, an ancient Hindu, and,
with the aid of Meslom, by “L,” a victim of the war, to his mother. In
the introduction the author relates how she developed her gift. The
messages are chiefly confined to spiritual problems, to God’s creative
force and love and the growth in spiritual power and peace of both “L”
and his mother.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20

“The ‘messages’ have no evidential value whatever—there is not a
single test of ‘identity.’ There are vastly more verbal expressions
than thoughts expressed. Is it not safe to assume that the central
element in the treatise, the love of God, is part of the author’s
conception of Christianity, and that the ‘messages’ simply are
subconscious elaborations of her mind? Everything points in that
direction.”

− =Cath World= 111:552 Jl ’20 550w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

− =Dial= 69:208 Ag ’20 290w

“The messages are expressed with simplicity and clarity and reveal
ardent spiritual aspiration.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 200w

=MCFADDEN, GERTRUDE VIOLET.= Preventive man. *$1.75 Lane

20–8449

A story of smuggling on the Dorset coast a century ago. The
“preventive man,” in the vernacular of the time, is a government
agent, who comes into the neighborhood to run down the law breakers.
In truth however, he is less interested in the smuggling than in his
own more weighty private concerns, for he has reason to believe that
his loved brother has met foul play in this very community. By a trick
he gains admittance into the house of Simeon Coffin, the miser, and
begins to gather the evidence that confirms his suspicions. At first
he associates Simeon’s niece, Horatia, with the crime and attributes
her confusion—which is really due to the possession of a piece of
smuggled silk—to her guilt. She is cleared in his eyes however and he
is ready enough to atone for her suffering and his cruelty.

* * * * *

“In spite of improbabilities, the book is well worth reading.”

+ =Ath= p226 F 13 ’20 100w

“Miss McFadden is quite successful in developing her atmosphere of
mystery, and her characters, although all of them are severely shaped
into well-known types, manage to convey a certain sense of reality.
The action of the story is swift enough to sustain the interest and it
rises at times to several thrilling scenes.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 220w

“The story has everything that is necessary to make it fine, except
that touch of ability which turns a credible narrative into a romantic
one. The landscape writing is recognisably good.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w

“The work is not without merit, but would benefit greatly by pruning
the description and adding to the action.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 200w

“A capital adventure tale of the days when smuggling was a respectable
pursuit.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 40w

=MACFARLAN, ALEXANDER.= Inscrutable lovers; a tragic comedy. *$1.75 (4c) Dodd

(Eng ed 20–5589)

Margaret, the daughter of Count Kettle, Irish patriot and champion of
lost causes, has been nourished on romance. As Count Kettle’s daughter
she is pointed out as the most picturesque and romantic figure in
Ireland. But she hates her position and she marries Charlie Macaig to
escape it. “I could have loved a grocer,” says Margaret in
extenuation, “just any grocer.” Charlie Macaig is the youngest member
of a firm of shipowners. He is steady, he is practical, he is
reliable, he is everything that Margaret’s familiar associates are
not. But, as it turns out, his own dreams for all his practical
business years have been of romance and adventure, and Margaret is the
fulfillment of his dreams. There is mutual shock of discovery when the
truth comes out, and then love, abetted by the Catholic church—which
is practical or romantic as you happen to look at it—triumphs.

* * * * *

“To crispness of visualization, the author adds crispness in dialogue.
Novelists cannot eschew some description; here Mr MacFarlan is little
gifted.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 17 ’20 430w

“‘The inscrutable lovers’ is Mr MacFarlan’s second book and he is said
to be very young. It is a very modern sort of youth that is his. His
perceptions are very sharp, but his nature seems wintry. The book is a
study in contrasting temperaments. The contrasts are very clear. They
are indeed too clear and their edges are too glittering. People are
not as simply made as all that.”

+ − =Nation= 110:305 Mr 6 ’20 240w

“It has not only brilliancy but a delicate completeness comparable to
(not like) that of Mr Hewlett’s earlier bits of romantic comedy. A
delightful piece of literary comedy.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:334 Ap 3 ’20 700w

“This charming little tale must be classified rather as an essay in
pure comedy than as a reproduction of actual life.”

+ =Sat R= 128:229 S 6 ’19 450w

=MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLIE (CANFIELD).= Boy heroes in fiction. il *$1.75 (2c) Crowell

20–17319

The stories of seven boy heroes in fiction are here presented in
condensed form. The foreword says, “Some of these boy heroes of
yesterday may not be known to boys of today, partly because their
stories are imbedded in extra large volumes, which do not stop with
boy life, but include many other things. It has been the happy task,
therefore, of the present editor to disentangle and condense these
stories, presenting only the portions which pertain to the boy life of
each hero.” Contents: Little Gavroche (from “Les misérables”); David
Balfour (from “Kidnapped”); Oliver Twist; Jim Davis (from Masefield’s
“Jim Davis”); David Copperfield; Jim Hawkins (from “Treasure island”);
and John Halifax.

* * * * *

=Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 50w

“Her volumes would have gained as much in effect as they would have
lost in length had she limited herself to quotations instead of
supplementing them with paraphrases.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 70w

=MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLIE (CANFIELD).= Girl heroines in fiction. il *$1.75 (2c) Crowell

20–17320

The six girls chosen for this volume are Little Dorrit, Maggie
Tulliver, Ellen (from “The wide wide world”), Little Nell, Eppie (from
“Silas Marner”), and Cosette (from “Les misérables”). “Each girl is
introduced in very nearly her author’s own words, and thus preserves
her own individuality.” As in the book of boy heroes, the editor
expresses the hope that the stories as presented here may serve as an
introduction to the full-length versions.

* * * * *

=Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 50w

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 70w

=MCFEE, WILLIAM.= Captain Macedoine’s daughter. *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–26979

The story of Captain Macedoine’s daughter is told by the “quiet and
occasionally garrulous” Chief of H. M. S. Sycorax, detailed to escort
convoys through the Ægean in war time. The Chief had known the
Mediterranean in the days of peace and this is a peace-time story of
plotting and intrigue, involving Captain Macedoine’s great
international bubble, the Anglo-Hellenic development company, in which
his daughter is used as a tool. From her mother the girl had a mixture
of dark blood. Mr Spenlove, the chief, who had been one of those who
fell under her spell, tells all that he knew of her tragic life and
death, drawing from it his own conclusions on the nature of love.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

“A tale of strange people, strange places, strange motifs, strange
morals told with brilliant effect and satisfying completeness.” S. M.
R.

+ =Bookm= 52:370 D ’20 360w

“This well-written novel, broader in its scope than Mr McFee’s
previous books is strong not only in its character portrayal but in
the philosophy interspersed throughout its pages.”

+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 90w

“While ‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ is not so good a story as either
‘Casuals of the sea’ or ‘Aliens,’ it has in it all the original
qualities of unconventional fiction that long ago established Joseph
Conrad and that is placing Mr McFee in the same rank of novelists.” E.
F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 1200w

“William McFee’s new novel has the same elusive perfume as Conrad’s
‘Arrow of gold.’” A. W. Welch

+ =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 380w

“‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ gladdens the heart of the serious
lover of English prose, for it proves that in Mr McFee we have no mere
casual of the pen, no fortunate adventurer upon ink who triumphed by
chance, but a soberly devoted novelist from whom many years of fine
work may confidently be expected.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 13 ’20 1100w

“‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ is, first of all, a masterful
portrayal of two colorful personalities.... But it is far more than
that; it is, too, a contrast between occidental and eastern
civilizations and philosophies, a commentary on human nature,
particularly an analysis of love, and an achievement in beautiful
prose.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 N 7 ’20 1000w

“There is less sea and more siren in this novel than Mr McFee’s
readers would perhaps expect. Few readers will resist the charm of the
style; some will think the dénouement unsatisfying.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 80w

“Unmistakably a big, compelling, haunting book.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub. W= 98:1190 O 16 ’20 420w

“The outstanding impression is the sense of atmosphere which the
narrative imparts to the reader. The narrative has many curious
ramifications, but each is an important part of the whole, and the
reader will find himself enthralled from the first to the last scene.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 640w

=MCGIBENY, DONALD.=[2] 32 caliber. *$1.75 Bobbs

20–18770

“Although the author is unusually progressive in having his villain
operate with the aid of airplane and machine gun, the general plot and
the situations created are such as might be encountered in every-day
life and modern crime. An attorney and his wife, on the way to keep an
appointment that involves the domestic happiness and honor of both,
are found at a lonely spot, the car wrecked, the man dead from a
bullet wound, the wife unconscious in the tonneau. Was it another
automobile accident, was the man murdered by the wife or did an
outsider have a part in the tragedy? These are questions that
perplexed the authorities and will perplex and mystify the
reader.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The basis and material used in the tale is excellent and would make a
capital short story.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 26 ’21 150w

“A not too lurid mystery interestingly built up and broken down, in a
rapid, easy narrative style.”

+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 20w

“The only marked defect is the author’s attempt to force the reader’s
suspicions on characters whose guilt, if ultimately proved by the
story, would shock any decent sense of plausibility.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 27 ’20 70w

“He has written so well, made his people so living and so pleasant,
handled his subject so surely, that it is difficult to think of this
book as a maiden essay.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 580w

“Among the better of the new detective tales, ’32 calibre,’ early
arouses the interest of the reader and holds it through a series of
adventures, with the solution of the mystery not even indicated until
the close.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 150w

=MACGILL, PATRICK.= Maureen. *$2 (1½c) McBride

20–13698

Mr MacGill’s new story of Donegal is a mingling of pathos and humor,
hard toil and grim poverty, beauty and stark tragedy. Maureen, the
daughter of Kathleen O’Malley, tastes all the sorrow and loneliness of
an illegitimate child and after her mother’s death leaves the parish.
She has won the love of young Cathal Cassidy and he would have her
stay, but long before her mother had warned her that her only
happiness would lie in marrying a man outside the parish who would not
have to suffer for her shame in the eyes of his neighbors, and to
spare Cathal this she leaves him. She meets experiences that are
bitterly cruel, but after them finds a haven with kind people and at
the end of two years returns. Cathal has been faithful and it seems
that their love is to bring them happiness, but tragedy overwhelms
them. The war and Sinn Fein have a place in the background of the
story.

* * * * *

“The characters in general are well drawn, and have that tragic
intensity which Synge and others have made us believe to be in the
Celtic blood.”

+ =Ath= p1242 N 21 ’19 120w

“Unmitigated truth and sincerity produce a strong reality of
characters and atmosphere though not a pleasant story.”

+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20

“Such a thing to be done at all must be done exceptionally well, and
Mr MacGill, with a good style at his command, has achieved a triumph.”
G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 520w

“The minor characters are admirably drawn; the chief ones are less
vivid and convincing. The weaknesses of the story are glaring: it is
poor both in structure and in motivation. Keeran, in the final
chapters, is drawn on the lines of Dickens at his worst, and the
tragic conclusion brings the reader up with the jolt of an express
train coming to a violent halt.”

− + =Cath World= 112:547 Ja ’21 220w

“The chief and tragic emphasis falls upon youth, in spite of which the
best of the story lies in the penetrating, vivid, and thoroughly human
presentation of the old people.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 50w

“Much of the power of the story lies in the intermingling of quite
Russian realism, with an idealism which bursts flamelike through the
recital of brutal details. ‘Decent’ is the salutation of the people of
Dungarrow for the strangers they meet, and decent is the epithet
uppermost in the mind of the reader, in spite of Mr MacGill’s frank
exposure of the vices of his own people.” E. L.

+ =Grinnell R= 15:283 N ’20 240w

“‘Maureen’ is the story of a peasant girl in Donegal, a terrible story
in many ways and a curiously fascinating one. Mr MacGill knows how to
flash a scene so vividly before your mind that it haunts your visual
memory for days afterward.”

+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 120w

“In ‘Maureen’ there is considerable alloy, yet much good metal and
some precious. But the whole thing needs fusing.” J. C. L.

+ − =New Repub= 23:261 Jl 28 ’20 400w

“‘Maureen’ is not up to ‘Children of the dead end’ or ‘Rat pit,’ but
it is well worth reading, especially to Irish folk and the legion that
love the Irish.” S. C. Daljord

+ =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 600w

“There are very few figures in the story that evoke admiration; most
of them, to be quite frank, suggest the opposite. But their vitality
is amazing, and because of this authentic possession of the power to
make his characters live and breathe, Mr MacGill takes a prominent
place with those other admirable Irish fictioneers, St John Ervine,
Shaw Desmond, James Joyce and James Stephens.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:279 My 30 ’20 1150w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:679 Je 30 ’20 500w

“Mr MacGill’s story is a stern presentation not only of characters,
but of racial characteristics and psychology. It is always real and
alive. The book unrolls before the reader’s eyes a segment of life
from rural Ireland with all the reality of a picture film.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 650w

“Nothing farther removed from the individualist English novel could be
imagined. It is not that the characters are in any way lacking in
individuality. They are creatures of flesh and blood right enough,
terrible in their humanity. But it is as social rather than as
personal values that they count. There is little joy in Mr MacGill’s
book—one feels that the sun seldom shines in Donegal—but it has
creative richness and the supreme quality of truth.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 D 4 ’19 400w

=MCGILVARY, MARGARET.= Dawn of a new era in Syria. il *$2.50 Revell 940.356

20–20216

“Miss McGilvary during the progress of the war was the secretary of
the Beirut chapter of the Red cross and hence had unusual
opportunities for following the trend of events. The story which she
tells, and of which she herself was a part, is of deep interest; how
an American printing house was converted into a relief bureau; how
American philanthrophy did its part in ameliorating the condition of
the unhappy people; how difficulties were thrown in the way by the
Turks; culminating presently in the arrest of the entire American
mission. She tells in thrilling language of a year of horror, and
toward the end, of the collapse of the Central powers, the decline of
German prestige, and lastly of the end of Turkey.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Hers is a story very well worth the reading, for it is the story of
one who was upon the spot and was a witness of all of which she
writes.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 330w

“Her book contains vivid notes on the personalities of Enver, Talaat,
and Jemal.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 140w

=MCGOVERN, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.= Modern Japan; its political, military and industrial organization; with a preface by Sir E. Denison Ross. *$5 Scribner 915.2

(Eng ed 20–9379)

“Dr McGovern spent ten years in the Far East, ‘six of which were
devoted to school and college studies in Japan.’ He is, therefore,
eminently qualified as an interpreter of Japanese thought and Japanese
ideas. He begins with an ethnographical, geographical and historical
introduction. Having discussed the early history of the Yamato race,
he proceeds to give a summary of the evolution of the country since it
was opened up by Commodore Perry’s famous visit. He tells of its
constitution and political parties, of its organization and
government, of its finances, of its efficient bureaucracy (as compared
with the cumbrous British form), its imperial socialism (as he calls
the centralization of all economic activity), of its military
efficiency (based on German models), of its naval menace, of its
industrial and commercial development, its banking system, its
agriculture, its foreign trade. The concluding section is a very brief
statement of the language and literature, the arts of sculpture,
painting, the drama, poetry and religion in its three-fold
phase.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“His book is distinctly illuminating, although we may complain that
too much space is devoted to the dry bones of political and military
matters, and not enough to the psychology of the people and its
expression in literature and the other arts.”

+ − =Ath= p528 Ap 16 ’20 100w

“A clear, forceful condensation.”

+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20

“Much of Dr McGovern’s book is the expression of a full knowledge and
an open mind. It is perhaps the fairest exposition of the whole field
of Japanese thought and accomplishment to be found in the vast number
of books which have been written about Japan. Dr McGovern’s style is
not noticeable for grace.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 My 1 ’20 900w

“To those who wish to gain an insight into the potentialities of this
forward pushing nation Dr McGovern’s book offers information that is
well worth having.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 11 ’20 1550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 80w

“We are grateful to Mr McGovern for this book, but we should have been
more so if he had facilitated its use as a work of reference by the
addition of an index. We should be still more grateful to him, if,
instead of going over old ground that is open to anyone, he used his
very peculiar qualifications in a field that is altogether
unexplored.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p247 Ap 22 ’20 850w

=MACGRATH, HAROLD.= Drums of jeopardy. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–17960

The heroine of this story is Kitty Conover; it is hard to say whether
“Cutty,” war-correspondent and secret service agent, or Johnny
Two-Hawks, is the hero. They both aspire to be, but as Cutty is
handicapped by an extra score or so of years, he is at some
disadvantage. The theme of the story is Cutty’s attempt to capture a
band of “Reds” and to get possession of the “Drums of jeopardy,” a
pair of enormously valuable emeralds. Johnny Two-Hawks comes into it
because he is fleeing from this band of “Reds” and at one time
possesses the drums of jeopardy. Kitty tries to help them both, rather
blindly at first, succeeds in getting herself kidnapped and held for
ransom and is finally rescued by both heroes. The leader of the Reds
is killed and the end of the story leaves Cutty in possession of the
drums of jeopardy.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 180w

=MACGRATH, HAROLD.= Man with three names. il *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday

20–26106

The man with three names was many things in one, besides his names. He
was a novelist, a romantic lover of unusual daring, and a crusader for
justice and right. He wrote a book, that went straight to the hearts
of sentimental young girls, over a pseudonym. He loved a millionaire’s
daughter under his mother’s maiden name, while he flayed her father
for the wrongs he had done to the poor. He was the son of a thief who
had died in prison for fraudulent business operations and whose
fortune he was devoting to expiatory purposes. He achieved all he set
out to do: won fame, won the girl, and helped to make over the girl’s
father into a good man, expiated his own father’s sins and restored
his family name to new honor.

* * * * *

“On the whole, however, his performances are mildly entertaining.”

+ − =Ath= p619 N 5 ’20 130w

=Booklist= 16:172 F ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 480w

“It is a pleasant, readable little story, brightly written and
sufficiently rapid in movement.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Ja 18 ’20 500w

+ − =Pub W= 96:1692 D 27 ’19 300w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 230w

“Here is the same flowing, almost racy style, which we recall in the
‘Private wire to Washington.’ There is no lack of humour.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 320w

=MACHARD, ALFRED.= When Tytie came (Popaul et Virginie); tr. by Howard Vincent O’Brien. il *$1.75 Reilly & Lee

20–17171

A story of child life translated from the French. Popaul, a little boy
of ten whose father is at the front, adopts Marie, a Belgian refugee
and takes her home to Madame Medard. The two have many adventures,
humorous and serious, and a deep devotion develops between them. A
blinded soldier tells them the tale of Paul and Virginia and they see
the parallel to their own story. Deeply in love they go through a
marriage ceremony and regard the affair with great seriousness,
accepting Tytie, the American doll, as their child. Popaul, following
his father’s death, is adopted by a rich countess who, finally moved
by his sorrow, sees that the children cannot be separated and takes
Marie to live with her also.

=MACKAIN, F. E.= Buzzy; the story of a little friend of mine. il *$1.50 Jacobs

This story for little children relates the adventures of a teddy bear.
In the first of them Peggy, Buzzy’s little mistress, takes him out
into the snow and sets him up, back to a tree, while she makes a snow
man, and then the tea bell rings and she runs away and forgets all
about him. But Buzzy, left alone, enters into an interesting
conversation with the snow man and makes the acquaintance of a rabbit
who invites him to his home for the night. Buzzy has other adventures,
meets a princess and takes an unexpected journey to London in a suit
case. There are pictures in color and humorous drawings in black and
white by the author.

=MACKALL, LAWTON.= Scrambled eggs. il *$1.25 Stewart & Kidd 817

20–6377

“A diverting tale of barnyard life. Eustace the duck and his wife, who
believes in a communal incubator, Martha the hen who believes that the
female’s place is on the nest, and her frivolous husband Clarence, who
is always finding an attractive new pullet, have various adventures
that parody amusingly the complications of present-day
life.”—Cleveland

+ =Booklist= 16:377 Jl ’20

“The skillfully ludicrous is not half plentiful enough in this sad
world of printed pages. ‘Scrambled eggs,’ however, is just that.”

+ =Bookm= 52:348 D ’20 40w

+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 50w

“The satire is amusingly carried out, and the illustrations by Oliver
Herford help a great deal.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 190w

+ =Review= 3:48 Jl 14 ’20 130w

“Lawton Mackall, editor of ‘Judge’ gives visible proof of his
qualification to be in charge of a journal of humor by a delicious bit
of barnyard satire, ‘Scrambled eggs.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 100w

=MACKAY, HELEN GANSEVOORT (EDWARDS) (MRS ARCHIBALD K. MACKAY).= Chill hours. *$1.50 (5½) Duffield

20–3265

Sketches of France in war-time, of the people who were left behind, at
home and in the hospitals, deep, sad, intimate things that grip the
reader with their poignancy of pain. The longest of these sketches,
Nostalgia, is a review of all the beautiful things that were once upon
a time, long ago before the war.

* * * * *

“The writer’s success is very definite in capturing the pensive and
romantic atmosphere. The stories are written with a tender, though
never sentimental or too slight touch, that gives the suggestion of
music heard in the twilight from an old harpsichord, and something of
the abiding fragrance.”

+ =Ath= p494 Ap 9 ’20 180w

“Will be liked by those who read for beauty of expression and
imagination. Nostalgia is one of the most poignant and revealing
sketches that has come from the war.”

+ =Booklist= 16:271 My ’20

“Helen Mackay has successfully performed the seemingly impossible in
‘Chill hours.’ To be able to write with the pathos and restraint used
in these sketches is to possess the technique of the skilled artist,
and the vision given to a chosen few.” C. K. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 500w

+ =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 50w

“Miss Mackay is a poet first of all, and poetical values are contained
in all her bits of prose.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 230w

=Review= 2:605 Je 5 ’20 130w

“The author carries the art of selection to a fine point, and there is
never a word too much in her terrible little sketches.”

+ − =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 150w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p22 Ja 8 ’20 80w

=MACKAY, WILLIAM MACKINTOSH.=[2] Disease and remedy of sin. *$2.50 Doran 234

20–10742