Chapter LVIII: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (14)

“The cities of the United States have not yet made many of those
public improvements that are so essential to modern life, especially
for the new era.... They have not yet applied in a businesslike and
economical manner the methods characteristic of the modern city
planning movement. Therefore the American city still suffers in many
ways from haphazard, piecemeal and shortsighted procedure.” (Part 1)
To show how these shortcomings are to be remedied, how the new civic
spirit is growing, what has already been done and what is the promise
of the future is the object of the book. Among the topics discussed in
the first part are: Two main divisions of city planning; Specific
needs of the smaller city; How to replan a city; How to get a city
plan into action. Part 2 contains in part: The city planning movement;
Local data as basis of city plan; Types of city plans; Elements of
city plans; Professional training and experience; New towns and new
standards; Public opinion and city planning progress.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:20 O ’20

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 220w

“We have never seen within such small compass a clearer description of
the processes of town planning or of the principles that underlie good
planning. A special merit of the book is that it reckons with the
limitations and difficulties of the small town where at the present
time such leadership as this is most needed and where examples taken
from the costly improvement schemes of large cities are not helpful.”
B. L.

+ =Survey= 43:592 F 14 ’20 320w

=NORRIS, KATHLEEN (THOMPSON) (MRS CHARLES GILMAN NORRIS).= Harriet and the piper. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–13977

Harriet Fields had an emotional adventure when she was seventeen, and
her romantic fancy was captured by Royal Blondin’s talk on Yogi
philosophy, oriental religion and poetry. She even went through a
bogus marriage ceremony with him when her youthful timorousness saved
her from further disaster. Ten years later, when she is filling a
position of trust, as companion to the wife of the rich Richard Carter
and governess to his daughter Nina, Blondin crosses her path again
holding their former relationship over her as a sword, to enlist her
aid in the furtherance of his new schemes, i. e., marrying young Nina
Carter and possessing himself of her fortune. It involves Harriet in
many temptations. Twixt the overcoming of and yielding to them her
character is clarified. After Mrs Carter’s elopement and sudden death,
Harriet enters a marriage of convenience with Richard Carter, whom she
secretly loves and admires and the wooing by the husband of his new
wife forms part of the interest of the book.

* * * * *

“A lively and interesting story.”

+ − =Ath= p813 D 10 ’20 60w

=Booklist= 17:35 O ’20

“Well worn, even threadbare as her material is, Kathleen Norris has
contrived to concoct from it a very pleasant little story, and one
which holds the reader’s attention until the last half dozen chapters,
when it begins to drag badly. It is smoothly written, and agreeable to
read.”

+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 1 ’20 950w

“Readers who can put aside the insubstantial theme and the artificial
dilemmas attributed to the principals, will find some entertainment in
the flow of life and color through their vaguely troubled days.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 100w

=NORWOOD, GILBERT.=[2] Greek tragedy. $5 Luce, J: W. 882

(Eng ed 20–16119)

“The summaries and criticisms of the extant plays constitute the main
body of the book, forty-eight pages being given to Æschylus,
fifty-four to Sophocles, a hundred and forty-one to Euripides. The
book, as the author says, ‘aims to cover the whole field of the Greek
drama, both for the student and the general reader.’”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“We think that, for Euripides, his present work is sound as well as
interesting. When we turn to his treatment of Æschylus and Sophocles,
we feel that in attempting to cover the whole ground, Mr Norwood has
undertaken more than he is at present ready to perform.” J. T.
Sheppard

+ − =Ath= p10 Jl 2 ’20 1250w

“It is certainly a convenience to have in one volume the literary
criticism of the extant plays and the general history of Greek tragedy
and the antiquities of the theatre, instead of looking for them in the
two volumes of Haigh. In these subsidiary matters Professor Norwood’s
scholarship though not independent is sufficient for his purpose. He
still retains the British awe of any and all German scholarship and
the British habit of ignoring American work.” Paul Shorly

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p6 D 31 ’20 1800w

“He writes throughout as an enthusiast, and illustrates his points by
modern parallels which are always ingenious, and often happy.
Reference might have been made to the modern performances of various
plays, for the best way to understand any drama is to see it acted.
The chapter on ‘Metre and rhythm’ at the end is an excellent idea well
carried out.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:39 Jl 10 ’20 200w

=NOYES, ALFRED.= Beyond the desert; a tale of Death valley. *$1 (7½c) Stokes

20–18658

The story is symbolic of a soul losing itself in a desert of ideas
before it emerges into the light of clear understanding. James Baxter,
an I.W.W., is a prisoner in transport and escapes from a stalled train
into Death valley in the Arizona desert. His hardships bring on
delirium and in a trance he finds himself among a halted pioneer party
of 1849. In exchanging notes on their respective civilizations with
them he comes to see the error of his ways and when he is finally
rescued he goes among his I.W.W. comrades to convince them also. He is
successful with the crowd but the infuriated leaders kill him.

* * * * *

“Though Mr Noyes’s work is earnest and readable, we wish that so
experienced a hand had not permitted polemics, poetics, and melodrama
to crowd the same pages.”

+ − =N Y Evening= Post p10 O 30 ’20 230w

“The very qualities that one admires in such a poem as ‘The
highwayman,’ depreciate when used in the prose form. It is possible
that in verse the story would not seem so lacking in vitality. The
descriptions of the desert are good; the style is fairly clear; and
yet there is a quality of unreality, of dreaminess, of
sentimentality.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 260w

=NOYES, ALFRED.= Collected poems. v 3 *$2.50 Stokes 821

A volume containing all of Mr Noyes’ poems written between October,
1913, and the present. With the two volumes published in 1913 it forms
a complete edition of the poet’s verse to date. It comprises The Lord
of Misrule and other poems; The wine-press; A Belgian Christmas eve;
The new morning; The elfin artist and other poems.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21

“Mr Noyes possesses a delightful singing gift in his carefree
moments—and can bore us almost to tears when the sense of his
‘message’ to the world descends upon him. When he turns to glamourous
romantic ballads and to brief, sincere, intensely spiritual lyrics,
such as ‘Paraclete,’ he is at his best.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 D 4 ’20 170w

“Whenever he writes sermons and dissertations and criticisms in verse
he fails. Whenever he writes ballads he succeeds. However, there are a
few other poems in this volume for which we should thank Mr Noyes,
notably ‘Old gray squirrel,’ the pathetic ‘Court martial’ and ‘A
victory dance.’”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ja 30 ’21 620w

=NOYES, ALFRED.= Elfin artist, and other poems. *$1.50 Stokes 821

20–17329

The elfin artist is the initial poem of this collection of verse
written by the author since the spring of 1919. Some of the other
poems are: Earth and her birds; Sea-distances; The inn of Apollo; The
Sussex sailor; In southern California; The riddles of Merlin; The isle
of memories; A ballad of the easier way; A Devonshire Christmas;
Beautiful on the bough; The bride-ale; A sky song; A return from the
air; A victory dance; The garden of peace; Four songs, after Verlaine.

* * * * *

“No Elizabethan could conceivably have written one of his poems. The
conscious romanticism, the sentimentality, the imperialism expressed
with a catch in the voice, the blurred, soft, unprecise language, the
barrel-organ tunefulness—all these things, so characteristic of Mr
Noyes, would have been impossible to an Elizabethan.”

− =Ath= p142 Jl 30 ’19 420w

+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20

“So sharply do these poems recall the poet of ‘The barrel-organ’ that
we wonder whether the recent neglect of Noyes was reasonable; surely,
with such books as these, he will yet sing his way back into the
hearts of English readers.” S: Roth

+ =Bookm= 52:361 D ’20 110w

“Not in any of what may be termed the petulant and irritable, spirited
poems of this collection, striking as some may be for their frank and
vehement qualities, is Mr Noyes’s reputation either sustained or
enhanced. One may truly say that the poems that spring out of the
Sussex scene, with their half-bucolic and traditional mood, alone
retain the admiration of Mr Noyes’s readers.” W. S. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 S 18 ’20 1300w

“Their redeeming features are Mr Noyes’ ability to handle metre and
the very evident pleasure he takes in writing. That pleasure is a
quality quite lacking in many modern poets who write far better than
Mr Noyes.”

+ − =Ind= 104:246 N 13 ’20 180w

“Mr Noyes continues to write his pleasant anachronisms and it must be
admitted that he does them with the usual dexterity and
mellifluousness that is so much a part of his charm. He does possess
charm and no one will actually die of ennui while reading his lines.
But readers could far better occupy themselves with other poets, for
Mr Noyes brings nothing new to his readers, not even his thought.” H.
S. Gorman

+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 26 ’20 680w

“‘The elfin artist’ is the product of the author’s mature lyric gift,
rich in variety or form and theme, and offering an equal appeal to the
emotions and to the mind.” Philip Tillinghast

+ =Pub W= 98:664 S 18 ’20 500w

“Mr Noyes continues to annoy the devotees of all the varieties of free
verse by his ability to use rhyme, and to observe the rules of
prosody.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:249 S 22 ’20 140w

“His gift to literature is twofold. He can write well himself and he
can prevent others from writing badly.”

+ − =Spec= 124:729 My 29 ’20 700w

“With one or two exceptions, each of Mr Noyes’s poems is no better and
no worse than any of the others. To study the volume is to get the
impression of sameness, of easy fluidity, of lack both of thought and
of labour. His simplicity is not the simplicity of compression and
refinement. His responsiveness sweeps away his thought.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p381 Je 17 ’20 600w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 50w

=NOYES, FRANCES NEWBOLD.= My A. E. F.; a hail and farewell. *$1 (12c) Stokes 940.373

20–11506

A book in the form of a familiar talk to A. E. F. boys by a girl who
was a Y. M. C. A. worker in France. It is an appeal to them to
remember the ideals they fought for, and to apply them in the new war
“against selfishness and materialism and intolerance and hatred.” It
is reprinted from McClure’s Magazine.

* * * * *

“A very fine and moving bit of writing is Miss Noyes’s little book,
simple, comradely, full of memories, and wise with the wisdom of Eve.
The book ought to be read by every man who served on the other side
and also by every person at home who has ever said a slighting word
about any of the phases of the welfare work for the army.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:11 Jl 11 ’20 1100w

=NUTT, HUBERT WILBUR.= Supervision of instruction. (Riverside textbooks in education) *$1.80 Houghton 371

20–10064

“The shifting, unprofessional character of the teaching body makes the
provision for competent supervision of instruction not only desirable,
but necessary.... The undertaking of training supervisors involves the
setting-forth of the job or activities of supervision, and the
organizing of the means by which supervisors can best be trained to
perform their duties.” (Introd.) The book is, accordingly, an
analytical discussion of the principles underlying class-room
supervision, and the devices and technique which should and which
should not be employed. It falls into two parts. Part 1, The job of
supervision, is a general survey of supervising activities. Part II[or
2?—see above], Principles underlying the supervision of instruction,
is divided into the following sections: Supervisory method; Devices of
supervision; Technique of supervision. There is an index.

* * * * *

“The book is to be welcomed as one of the first serious and successful
attempts to create a specific literature for supervisors.”

+ =El School J= 21:69 S ’20 450w

+ =School R= 28:551 S ’20 180w

=NYBURG, SIDNEY LAUER.= Gate of ivory. *$2.25 (1½c) Knopf

20–19577

This is the story of Allan Conway who loved a beautiful siren of a
woman and loved her so well that he allowed himself to be saddled with
her and her husband’s crime, in order to shield her and to become an
outcast for her sake. The remarkable part of the story is that, as an
outcast, he loved her still, that he did not become a cynic—although
he did take to drink periodically—and that he was even happy in the
dream life that he now lived with his Eleanor. This life he elaborated
in every detail from the house he built for and the conversations he
had with her even to their dream child. A Peter Ibbetson with a
difference is this Allan Conway.

O

=O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD.= Prize stories, 1919. *$1.90 (1½c) Doubleday

20–8630

A volume published as a memorial to O. Henry and composed of the
fifteen short stories which a committee of the Society of arts and
sciences of New York city have decided on as the best short stories of
1919. Blanche Colton Williams writes the introduction. Contents:
England to America, by Margaret Prescott Montague; “For they know not
what they do,” by Wilbur Daniel Steele; They grind exceeding small, by
Ben Ames Williams; On strike, by Albert Payson Terhune; The elephant
remembers, by Edison Marshall; Turkey red, by Frances Gilchrist Wood;
Five thousand dollars reward, by Melville Davisson Post; The blood of
the dragon, by Thomas Grant Springer; “Humoresque,” by Fannie Hurst;
The lubbeny kiss, by Louise Rice; The trial in Tom Belcher’s store, by
Samuel A. Derieux; Porcelain cups, by James Branch Cabell; The high
cost of conscience, by Beatrice Ravenel; The kitchen gods, by G. F.
Alsop; April 25th, as usual, by Edna Ferber.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:119 D ’20

“One can only wish that more of such volumes might be issued, for many
of our American writers are at their best in the short story. The ‘O.
Henry memorial award’ volume of 1919 is a book well worth reading.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:319 Je 20 ’20 850w

+ − =Review= 3:132 Ag 11 ’20 140w

=OAKESMITH, JOHN.= Race and nationality; an inquiry into the origin and growth of patriotism. *$4 Stokes 320.1

19–16466

“As the result of an attempt to arrive at a lucid conception and
precise definition of ‘a nationality,’ the author thinks that he has
discovered the explanation of nationality ‘in what may be formally
called the principle of “organic continuity of common interest”‘; and
the constructive part of the book is devoted to the elucidation of
this principle. The author considers that universal and lasting peace
will be secured, not by ‘the sudden imposition of hastily manufactured
machinery,’ but by the gradual extension of the above principle from
national to international life.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p961 S 26 ’19 120w

Reviewed by F. J. Whiting

=Review= 1:705 D 27 ’19 1200w

=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 40w

Reviewed by I. C. Hannah

+ − =Survey= 43:504 Ja 31 ’20 360w

“This is a treatise of ability, displaying considerable knowledge of
the literature of the subject.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p486 S 11 ’19 120w

“It would not be difficult to show that there are inconsistencies in
the discussion and conclusions arrived at by Mr Oakesmith;
inconsistencies traceable largely to his desire to do justice to the
representatives of all shades of opinion. It may be more profitable
than dwelling on such points to note one or two omissions from the
volume, in particular the demands of what may be called
pseudo-nationality; that form of it which is not the slow result of
continuously operating influences, but is artificially created.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p600 O 30 ’19 1200w

=O’BRIEN, EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON (ARTHUR MIDDLETON, pseud.).= Best short stories of 1919. *$2 (1½c) Small

The authors represented in this year’s volume are: G. F. Alsop;
Sherwood Anderson; Edwina Stanton Babcock; Djuna Barnes; Frederick
Orin Bartlett; Agnes Mary Brownell; Maxwell Struthers Burt; James
Branch Cabell; Horace Fish; Susan Glaspell; Henry Goodman; Richard
Matthew Hallet; Joseph Hergesheimer; Will E. Ingersoll; Calvin
Johnston; Howard Mumford Jones; Ellen N. La Motte; Elias Lieberman;
Mary Heaton Vorse, and Anzia Yezierski. The book contains also an
introduction by Mr O’Brien, discussing points raised by Waldo Frank’s
“Our America,” and the usual features of the Year book of the short
story.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20

“Of the twenty stories an indifferent half-dozen barely pass the
average.... Sherwood Anderson’s ‘An awakening,’ and Joseph
Hergesheimer’s ‘The Meeker ritual,’ have the distinction of subtlety
and style, irrespective of theme. You feel about the other authors
that each might with a little effort have written the other’s story,
but these two of Anderson’s and Hergesheimer’s could only have been
written by themselves.” W. S. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 Mr 27 ’20 650w

Reviewed by Doris Webb

=Pub W= 97:603 F 21 ’20 380w

“Mr O’Brien’s standards define themselves with precision, and a
summary of his tests will serve as test for Mr O’Brien. He has no eye
for style. The second point in literature to which Mr O’Brien is
insensitive is tone. The third and final want is the sense of
workmanship. Mr O’Brien, however, has qualities which are as
incontestable as his limitations. He has a keen, if not infallible,
sense, of the powerful in motive, the original and trenchant in
conception. Mr O’Brien’s collection will be of service to those
readers who are wise enough to grasp its limitations.”

+ − =Review= 2:463 My 1 ’20 520w

=O’BRIEN, GEORGE A. T.= Essay on mediaeval economic teaching. *$4.75 (*12s 6d) Longmans 330.9

20–20196

“Mr O’Brien passes in review the principal economic theories of the
medieval schoolmen, not continuing the study farther than the
beginning of the sixteenth century. In a concluding chapter he gives
reasons for a favourable estimate of the medieval economic doctrine
from the points of view of production, consumption and
distribution.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“It is a truism (which unfortunately is rarely true) to say of a new
book that it supplies a long felt want: but in the case of Dr
O’Brien’s essay to say so would be strictly true. Mediæval economic
theory has never before been discussed with the fullness it merited.”

+ =Cath World= 112:109 O ’20 480w

Reviewed by C: A. Beard

=Nation= 111:480 O 27 ’20 800w

“It is a work of learning and ability, concerned rather with the clear
and concise presentation of doctrine than with the criticism of it.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p369 Je 10 ’20 110w

“The historian who peruses this book will put it down with mixed
feelings of amusement over the wordy contest and of despair at the
unfamiliarity the combatants display with the alphabet of historical
science.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p466 Jl 22 ’20 1000W

=ODELL, GEORGE CLINTON DENSMORE.= Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving. 2v il *$12 Scribner 822.3

20–19676

“Professor Odell has undertaken to do for all Shakespeare’s plays,
tragedies and comedies, histories and dramatic romances, what has
hitherto been attempted for two of the tragedies only, in Miss Wood’s
‘Stage history of Richard III,’ and in Brereton’s rather sketchy
account of the various performances of ‘Hamlet.’ He has organized his
two volumes in eight chronological divisions: the age of Betterton
(1660–1710); the age of Cibber (1710–1742); the age of Garrick
(1742–1776); the age of Kemble (1776–1817); the leaderless age
(1817–1837); The age of Macready (1837–1843); the age of Phelps and
Charles Kean (1843–1879), and the age of Irving (1879–1902). Not only
does he give us what is to a certain extent a history of the theatres
of London, he also supplies us with what is almost (if not quite) a
history of the superb evolution of the art of scene painting.”—N Y
Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:106 D ’20

“Students should be grateful to Professor Odell for the painstaking
manner in which he has traced the fate of Shakespeare on the English
stage. Mr Odell has attacked the subject with freshness and zest. His
enthusiasm never seems to flag.... Admire his work as I do, I am
convinced that had Mr Odell been more thoroughly in sympathy with the
new ‘unrest’ in the theater, he would have seen more clearly certain
points relating the past with the present.” M. J. Moses

+ =Nation= 111:sup660 D 8 ’20 1400w

“No better medium than the work of Professor George C. D. Odell has
thus far been provided to apprehend the gradual evolution of stage
decoration, costume, and attention to historic accuracy.” H. H.
Furness, jr

+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 D 4 ’20 1650w

“It is no dry-as-dust chronicle that he has here given us. It is a
readable book that he proffers, a book abounding in apt anecdote, in
illuminating quotation and in genial comment. Although the author has
had to correct many blunders and many misstatements of many
predecessors, he spares us the acrimony of controversy.” Brander
Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p2 O 24 ’20 300w

=O’DONNELL, ELLIOT.= Menace of spiritualism. *$1.50 (3½c) Stokes 134

20–6366

The author of the book, himself an investigator in the field of
psychic research and a believer in spontaneous manifestations of the
spirits of the dead, condemns the practice of spiritualism, with its
mediumistic invocations of spirits as a vice. Its dangers are many.
From the point of view of orthodox Christianity it menaces faith and
morality alike; from that of the medical profession it is injurious to
health; from that of the greater number of most eminent scientists it
is a sham; and from the point of view of common sense it is a
hotch-potch of imbecility, gullibility, and roguery. Contents:
Foreword by Father Bernard Vaughan; “Spiritualism”—what is it? How
spiritualism tries to distort the Old Testament; Spiritualism and the
New Testament; Spiritualism and the churches; The phenomenal side of
spiritualism and its effect on the health; The danger of fraud of all
kinds at séances.

* * * * *

“He delivers some shrewd blows, and in a popular manner sets forth a
strong case against spiritualists and their operations.”

+ =Ath= p352 Mr 12 ’20 80w

+ =Cath World= 112:252 N ’20 40w

=N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 160w

“Such protests are welcome, however much they fall short of the
sanction of a high consistency; it is hardly to be expected that a
critic of Mr O’Donnell’s electric temper will find favor with those
who see in psychical research a far wider menace and a subtler attack
upon the fundamentals of sound thinking. Yet to part of the composite
clientèle from which latter-day recruits for the occult are gathered,
this earnest word of warning may prove helpful.” Joseph Jastrow

+ − =Review= 3:41 Jl 14 ’20 250w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 1 ’20 400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p143 F 26 ’20 80w

=O’DUFFY, EIMAR.= Wasted island. *$2 (1c) Dodd

20–16927

A story of Ireland and the Irish movement culminating in the Easter
rebellion. Bernard Lascelles, son of a successful Dublin doctor, is
brought up in ignorance of his country’s history. In fact it is part
of his father’s purpose to keep him in ignorance, fearing that the boy
may take after his uncle Christopher Reilly, who died fighting England
on the side of the Boers. Bernard is sent to an English school, but in
spite of his father’s efforts is drawn into the Nationalist and later
into the Sinn Fein movements, a letter left by his uncle Christopher
to be read on his twenty-first birthday proving the turning point in
his life. A very different bringing up is that of Stephen Ward, whose
father, a discouraged Fenian, hopes that his son may never wreck his
life in the hopeless cause but does not deny him knowledge. Both young
men oppose the Easter uprising but both are involved in it. Bernard is
wrecked by it but Stephen escapes. “‘And now,’ said Michael Ward to
his son, ‘now that everything has turned out as I told you it would,
what do you mean to do?’ ‘I suppose,’ replied Stephen, ‘we must begin
all over again.’”

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21

“The story is long and the plot complicated but it is well told and
the interest is sustained to the close.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 11 ’20 350w

“Although, as an artistic piece of work, the book leaves much to be
desired, its vigour and sincerity save it from the category of the
mediocre.” L. M. R.

+ − =Freeman= 2:406 Ja 5 ’21 160w

“It is one-sided and its heroes are not very attractive characters,
but it is interesting and informing.”

+ − =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 90w

“Mr O’Duffy is refreshingly free from didacticism. He allows the facts
to explain for themselves, and does not make any indictment in the
bitter, devastating manner of Brinsley McNamara’s ‘The clanking of
chains.’ Regarded as a human document this book should be of great
interest and assistance to readers in America who want to understand
the Ireland which confronts them in alarming headlines.” E. A. Boyd

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 O 30 ’20 1300w

“The animus of the book as a whole is unmistakable. Hate for England
rather than love for Ireland is the mainspring of this active
‘patriotism.’” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 380w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p104 F 12 ’20 540w

=OEMLER, MRS MARIE (CONWAY).= Purple heights. *$2 (2c) Century

20–17411

The hero is Peter Devereaux Champneys, a boy of eleven when the story
opens. The scene is South Carolina where Peter lives in a four-roomed
cabin with his mother, who runs a sewing machine to keep herself and
Peter alive. Peter, who is considered a dunce in school, spends all
his odd moments making pictures. One day he sketches the Red
admiral—the beautiful butterfly that alighted on the milkweed pod by
the side of the road—and the Red admiral proves to be his good fairy.
His mother dies and Peter brings himself up, with the aid of Emma
Campbell, a faithful negress. An unknown uncle appears out of the West
and offers to send Peter to Paris, and so anxious is Peter to get to
Paris that he accepts the uncle’s strange terms, marriage with an
unknown Nancy Simms. His first sight of Nancy Simms is disconcerting,
for she is a red-haired virago, but he runs away to Paris immediately
after the ceremony and forgets her. In Paris he becomes famous and in
the meantime Nancy grows up to be a beautiful woman and all ends well.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20

“Excellent, forceful writing appears on the earlier pages. Soon the
benevolent persons enter, one after another, and they reflect urban
life. The naturalness and sincerity of the story lessen.” R. D. W.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 500w

“A new author, writing real literature, is Mrs Oemler.” Lilian Bell

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 27 ’20 950w

“The author knows the South, and her understanding of the black man’s
mind is demonstrated on nearly every page. ‘The purple heights’ is a
worthy successor to Mrs Oemler’s first success, ‘Slippy McGee.’”

+ − =N Y Times= p23 O 24 ’20 600w

“When Peter grows up and goes to Paris and becomes famous the charm
vanishes and interest lags. It is in her beginnings that the author is
most successful.”

+ − =Pub W= 98:1192 O 16 ’20 200w

“Decidedly inferior to ‘Slippy McGee,’ but nevertheless an
entertaining story, with some delightful passages describing the
hero’s youth.”

+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 30w

=OGILVIE, PAUL MORGAN.= International waterways. *$3 Macmillan 387

20–2670

“‘International waterways’ is a history of the development of maritime
enterprise. It sets forth the efforts of certain nations to secure the
exclusive enjoyment of the seas. The first part of Mr Ogilvie’s book
concludes with a critical discussion of the question of the freedom of
commercial navigation. Part II is composed of a reference manual,
where is to be found a list of all the international inland waterways
of the world, together with the treaties and laws governing the
same.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

Reviewed by A. F. Hershey

+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:519 Ag ’20 700w

=Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20

“A valuable reference work. If there is any fault to be found with Mr
Ogilvie’s work it is a fault perhaps inseparable from the breadth of
the task and the limited size of the volume. The author has neither
the time nor the space to pause for that wealth of illustration which
the reader would like to demand. But he constantly cites his sources
and the reader who is interested in more detailed study may turn to
them.” G. H. C.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 My 29 ’20 850w

“The international lawyer, the historian, and the general student of
modern problems will each be grateful to Mr Ogilvie for his helpful
work.” M. W. Tyler

+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:161 S ’20 460w

“Mr Ogilvie’s thoughtful treatise is very timely.” L. J. B.

+ =Review= 2:603 Je 5 ’20 1350w

=R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 60w

“A scholarly, well-written history.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 30 ’20 280w

+ =Survey= 44:352 Je 5 ’20 100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 120w

“The bibliography of treaties is likely to be of much practical use in
coming years and represents a great deal of most fruitful labour. The
bibliography of works dealing with the subject, though not exhaustive,
will be helpful. An excellent index concludes a very thorough piece of
work.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p265 Ap 29 ’20 1600w

=O’HIGGINS, HARVEY JERROLD.= Secret springs. *$2 (3c) Harper 130

20–19287

The author outlines the system of a Dr X who has “largely uncovered
the mechanism by which the mind affects health” and who has evolved
this system of mental hygiene according to which he treats his
patients and directs them to safeguard themselves. It is based on the
Freudian theory of psychoanalysis from which Dr X deviates and upon
which he enlarges to some extent by not emphasising the sex element
with the same insistence. The contents consider suppressions: In love
and marriage; In health; In childhood; In happiness and success; In
Theodore Roosevelt; In character and conduct; In dreams; In religion.

* * * * *

“Mr O’Higgins is agreeably free of Freudian and sexual obsessions.”

+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 50w

“It is a very cheerful book, not only because it escapes what the
writer calls the ‘unspeakable’ abstruseness and laboratory
gruesomeness of the expositions of Freud and his followers, but also
because everybody gets cured.” Renee Darmstadter

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 D 31 ’20 400w

=O’KELLY, SEUMAS.= Golden barque; and The weaver’s grave. *$1.75 (4c) Putnam

The longest tale in this collection, “The weaver’s grave,” describes
an ancient graveyard “Cloon na Morav,” the meadow of the dead. So
ancient is it that to have a right of burial there amounts to a
pedigree. It is only the weaver, newly dead, and one survivor, Malachi
Roohan, the cooper, who still have that right. On two other ancient
inhabitants of the town devolves the task of finding the weaver’s
grave. It is a well-nigh hopeless quest, related with insight and
weird humor. The rest of the book, under the heading “The golden
barque” consists of: Michael and Mary; Hike and Calcutta; The haven;
Billy the clown; The derelict; The man with the gift.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p31 Ja 2 ’20 130w

“Slight plots, delightful people and the characteristic Celtic humor.”

+ =Booklist= 17:159 Ja ’21

“‘The golden barque’ is so finely and purely Irish that it is doubtful
whether a child could make the most of it. But these are tales with so
much literary and poetic quality that it would be unfortunate not at
least to give the child a chance.”

+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w

“There is an indescribable charm in these two Irish stories, which is
attributable to the manner in which they are told, rather than to any
extraordinary merit in plot and action.”

+ =N Y Times= p19 N 7 ’20 460w

“I shall recall the book for the long sketch with which it begins, but
which for obvious reasons is not the title-story: ‘The weaver’s
grave,’ a comedy most limited in scene and accessory, but rich in
content and perfect in form.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 190w

“His characters are new, not picked from the crowd but found here and
there in Ireland with individuality stamped all over them. They are
not very important characters, but such as they are they challenge
attention.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 28 ’20 180w

“If all these little stories were as beautifully told as the first,
the set would be a rare delight. They vary in merit, and usually fall
when Mr O’Kelly relies on detail, to rise again when he opens his
inner vision.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p677 N 20 ’19 230w

=OLCOTT, FRANCES JENKINS.= Story-telling ballads. il *$3 Houghton 821.08

20–21433

The anthology contains seventy-seven of the ancient ballads and
narrative poems such as were sung by minstrels and recited by gaffers
and gammers in days of old. They are intended for boys and girls from
twelve to fifteen years of age, and contain “romances, hero-tales,
faërie legends and adventures of knights and lovely damsels. They sing
of proud and wicked folk, of gentle and loyal ones, of laidley worms,
witches, mermaids with golden combs, sad maidens, glad ones and
fearless lovers, mosstroopers, border-rievers, and kings in disguise.”
(Foreword) There are four color-prints, and the appendix contains
suggestions for teachers, a glossary and indexes of subjects, authors,
titles and first lines. The contents are grouped under the headings:
The salt blue seas; A-harrowing o’ the border; Brave hearts and proud;
Lays o’ faërie; Lays o’ wonder; Merry gestes; Sad gestes; Pretty mays
and knights so bold; For Halloween and midsummer eve; All under the
greenwood tree; O’ pilgrimage and souls so strong.

* * * * *

“Miss Olcott has selected her ballads with good taste, and the indexes
and glossary are excellent.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p20 D 4 ’20 100w

=OLCOTT, HARRIET MEAD.= Whirling king, and other French fairy tales. il *$1.50 Holt

20–16112

Ten fairy stories adapted from the French and illustrated in
silhouette. The titles are: Prince Rainbow; Bleuette’s butterfly; The
frozen heart; The elf-dog; The whirling king; The magic mirror; The
queen’s treasure; The stupid princess; The flying wizard; The forest
fairy.

=OLDMEADOW, ERNEST JAMES.= Coggin *$1.75 (1½c) Century

20–818

The meeting of two human spirits for mutual uplift, development and
regeneration is the theme of the story. The Reverend Oswald Redding,
rector of a fashionable Episcopal church in Bulford-on-Deme, discovers
in little Harry Coggin, son of a rags-and-bone man, a prodigy in
intellect and spirit. In awarding him a scholarship at the grammar
school, he has thrown a bombshell into the society of notables and
inflamed the class hatred of the lowly. The story records Harry’s
brief and distressing career at the school and shows how his rare
gifts and spirit pierce the crust of the rector’s conventional
Christianity, turning him from the well-worn ruts of his career to
find God along new paths. Harry in turn receives the courage, the
incentive, the divine impulse for his genius, from the rector’s
enveloping love.

* * * * *

“The clever, respectful little boy, in this bit of his life, is
perhaps a less interesting study than the more substantial figure of
the rector. The case of the misuse of endowments and charities is
intelligently argued; but we cannot believe in the ‘conversion’ of the
socialist house-painter, and the definition of agnosticism would not
satisfy an intelligent schoolboy.”

+ − =Ath= p1274 N 28 ’19 100w

“This strange, extraordinarily attractive little personality is Mr
Oldmeadow’s discovery, and from the moment we meet him talking to
George Placker we are prepared to follow him anywhere he may like to
take us. The novel as a whole lacks proportion. The closing scenes,
with the rector for principal figure, are far too drawn out.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p143 Ja 30 ’20 700w

“A quiet picture, very life-like, appealing to readers who do not
demand much plot.”

+ =Booklist= 16:282 My ’20

“The story is the result of a literary craftsmanship worthy of
notice.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 20 ’20 150w

“No doubt the book is to be classed as propaganda; but propaganda is
seldom so engagingly presented. The book has faults, the more
irritating because they could have been easily avoided had the author
exerted himself a little more. Nevertheless, its vitality is
deep-rooted and its appeal is wide.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:698 Ag ’20 510w

“The first of a trilogy evidently ambitious of being the English ‘Jean
Christophe.’ Though of fine craftsmanship and possessing a certain
unique charm, not on the same artistic plane.”

+ − =Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 100w

“The story has charm and a warm subdued color and a savor of the earth
and of old houses in forgotten sunshine.”

+ =Nation= 110:373 Mr 20 ’20 260w

“Coggin is, to tell the truth, a fearful prig, and the reader must
have a patient way with priggish and humorless virtue to bear with him
till the end of the present narrative. The story is told with a
certain skill and polish; but it is not very clearly worth telling,
for all that.”

− + =Review= 2:310 Mr 27 ’20 220w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 60w

=OLGIN, MOISSAYE JOSEPH.= Guide to Russian literature (1820–1917). $3 (3½c) Harcourt 891.7

20–7675

Because Russian literature reproduces the spiritual struggles of men
and goes down to the very bottom of everyday existence to scrutinize
the economic, the social and the political life of the country, its
study becomes valuable not only as an art but as the surest road to
the understanding of the Russian people and conditions. The author
therefore has selected from the literary productions of the nineteenth
and twentieth century only those which have value for the present
either on account of their artistic qualities, or as representing some
aspect of Russian life. The contents are in three chronological
groups, each preceded by a general survey of the era. Part I—The
growth of a national literature; Part II—The “modernists”; Part
III—The recent tide. The book also contains a list of pronunciations
of authors’ names, an appendix on juvenile literature in Russia, and
an index.

* * * * *

“This might well be called an inspired booklist. It answers the
question ‘What shall I read to understand Russian character and
Russian life?’”

+ =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20

“The grouping of the material in this rather ‘sketchy’ volume is
somewhat inadequate. Authors whose influence was very small are at
times given more attention and space than is seemly in comparison to
those who are very characteristic and important both from the
historical and psychological point of view.”

− + =Dial= 69:322 S ’20 120w

“It is fresh in its treatment, original in its scheme and far more
intelligently comprehensive than any other available handbook.”

+ =Freeman= 1:262 My 26 ’20 700w

“Mr Olgin combines an initiate’s grasp of the political and social
background of his country with an intense and catholic appreciation of
its literature and his command of incisive and pictorial English might
be envied by writers to whom the tongue is native.” Jacob Zeitlin

+ − =Nation= 111:327 S 18 ’20 240w

“The book is expressly not devised as a ‘history,’ yet the American
reader or student of Russian literature will find it of much greater
value as a history than any so-called history he can lay his hands on
in English.” Clarendon Ross

+ =New Repub= 24:334 N 24 ’20 490w

“In view of the number of authors dealt with, it is only natural the
individual sections should prove more or less uneven. Some are
splendid; others are far from satisfactory. The work as a whole is an
excellent production.”

+ − =N Y Times= p16 O 10 ’20 780w

“That quality of compactness which one demands in a handbook is not
invariably adhered to.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 24 ’20 160w

“Mr Olgin has managed to convey an exceptionally colorful and rich
picture of each of these writers, with a good deal of detail crowded
into a small space.”

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:350 N ’20 340w

=OLIVER, MAUDE I. G.= First steps in the enjoyment of pictures. il *$1.50 (4c) Holt 750

20–4272

A book designed for boys and girls which may also be helpful to other
beginners in picture study. The fifty-five illustrations show examples
from American museums and art galleries, and are limited to the work
of American painters. One aim of the book is “to furnish a background
for the reading of descriptive books on art.” Consequently the author
has taken pains to introduce all the accepted art terms and phrases
and to make their meaning clear. Contents: Media (two chapters);
Classification; Color; Draughtsmanship; Values; Perspective;
Composition; Technique; Character; Conclusion—A glimpse into fairyland
(a suggested pageant).

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20

=N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 40w

+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 70w

“Any boy or girl above the age of twelve may use this book to
advantage and will find it interesting and suggestive as well as
instructive.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:612 Je ’20 80w

=OLMSTEAD, FLORENCE.= Stafford’s Island. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner

20–9141

Clarissa Stafford had grown up a lonely child on a lonely island, off
the Georgia coast, with her apathetic, hermit grandfather, Peter
Stafford. Her loneliness had developed occult powers in her and she
sometimes felt certain that she saw the reflection of a man in the
mirror of the drawing room where the picture of her grandmother, whose
namesake and image she was, hung over the fireplace. When Clarissa is
twenty a young man is washed ashore in a storm who resembles the
vision. It all comes out in the story how Henry Thorne is the grandson
of the man who painted Clarissa Stafford, and how that accounts for
the picture and then ran off with the older the mysterious affinity
that draws the living young people irresistibly towards each other.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20

“Miss Olmstead has, with appealing artistry, woven a fascinating love
story.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 300w

=OMORI, ANNIE SHEPLEY, and KOCHI DOI=, trs. Diaries of court ladies of old Japan. il *$5 Houghton 895

21–128

An introduction to the book by Amy Lowell describes the time and
environment in which the ladies of these diaries wrote and gives a
biographical sketch of each of them. The time was the middle of the
Heian period which lasted from 794 to 1186, when Japan was thoroughly
civilized, even “a little overcivilized, a little too fined down and
delicate” and when women occupied an advanced position—they were
educated, allowed a share of inheritance and had their own houses.
Much of the best literature of Japan has been written by women. A
common characteristic of the diaries is delicacy, rare and exquisite
taste and skill in poetic composition. The ladies are Sarashina,
Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu. The illustrations are from
Japanese prints, some in color, and the appendix contains an Old
Japanese calendar and a chronological table of events connected with
the diaries.

* * * * *

“A delightful curiosity and an attractively made book.”

+ =Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21

“The literary quality of the three diaries is extremely high. They
would all be eminently readable if written only yesterday. Added to
the joyment of their intrinsic merits is the fact that they present a
faithful picture of the court life of the times as well as some
singularly striking contrasts between three women of totally different
temperaments.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 D 26 ’20 2050w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 60w

=O’NEILL, EUGENE GLADSTONE.= Beyond the horizon; a play in three acts. *$1.50 Boni & Liveright 812

20–8634

“The tragedy of the misfit. Robert Mayo, a young farm born dreamer who
longs to travel ‘beyond the horizon,’ gives up going to sea when he
finds out that Ruth Atkins loves him but refuses to sail with him. His
brother Andrew, as well fitted to be a farmer as Robert is unfitted to
be a farmer becomes a sailor. Robert marries Ruth, but they soon cease
to love each other and Robert, wasted by tuberculosis, crawls out of
the house to die ‘alone—in a ditch by the open road—watching the sun
rise.’”—Wis Lib Bul

* * * * *

“A powerful, grim ironic tragedy.”

+ =Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20

“Mr O’Neill is most successful with such primitive types as Ruth. When
he approaches a complex nature like Robert’s, his presentation is
weaker. ‘Beyond the horizon’ is a good drama. It might have been a
great one but for two defects that create and sustain each other,
namely the theatre-consciousness of the playwright, and the fact that
he is a too anxious father to his brood.” Lola Ridge

+ − =New Repub= 25:173 Ja 5 ’21 980w

“The appeal of ‘Beyond the horizon’ is instantaneous, but lasting.
Never is it reduced to cleverness; never does it compromise with the
American audience. Its truth is too profound and too soul-stirring to
carry in one eye a smile, in the other a tear.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 750w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:116 Je ’20 120w

=ONIONS, BERTA (RUCK) (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).= Bridge of kisses. il *$2 (2½c) Dodd

20–17083

A story as sentimental as its title. Josephine Dale becomes engaged to
a very worthy young man, Hilary Sykes, but obviously the wrong man for
her. She frankly admits to herself that she is only doing it to give
her mother peace of mind about her future. A young bridge-builder
comes into the neighborhood on an engineering project, and, as his
mother and hers had been girlhood friends, she takes a friendly
interest in him, and that interest finally prompts her to find a wife
for him. Her efforts do not meet with signal success, since it is
obvious to everyone but Joey herself that the bridge-builder was made
for her and her alone. A happy ending is inevitable, and Mr Sykes is
consoled with a more suitable mate, so all is well.

=ONIONS, BERTA (RUCK) (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).= Sweethearts unmet. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

19–18030

In the form of separate stories, confessions, so to speak, a young
girl and a young man each in turn pours out the story of his and her
life, of their longings, their love hunger and their ideals. They were
meant for each other, they had dreamt and speculated about each other,
but seemed actually destined to live lives apart till luck and chance
brought them, when it was almost, but not quite, too late, into each
other’s arms. On this the author philosophizes: many young people in
the large cities who are meant for each other never meet and end by
marrying the wrong one. Her remedy is, not social centres, or
matrimonial bureaus but a more hearty, understanding welcome of young
people in individual homes, the creation of an entirely new atmosphere
for the possibilities and needs of youth.

* * * * *

“A sentimental, very light love story of the kind that will please
young readers.”

+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20

“She proceeds to write the story, in her own pretty, quaint way, and a
capital story it is—wholesome as a breath of spring.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:135 Mr 21 ’20 650w

=OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.= Devil’s paw. il *$1.90 (3c) Little

20–16858

Miss Catherine Abbeway, the heroine of the story, is a wonderful
woman. By birth half Russian and half English and an aristocrat, her
sympathies are entirely with the oppressed and with labor. She belongs
to a secret labor organization whose object it is to bring about an
early peace with the Central powers. Of this organization or council
all but two, and they the leaders, are honest men. The two are
scoundrels in the pay of Germany. Catherine undertakes, at great
personal risk, to intercept messages from alleged German socialists
for the council. Julian Orden, son of a peer, and anonymous author of
peace articles that are creating a stir, discovers her in the act and
takes the documents from her. But, to protect her in a compromising
situation, he proclaims her his fiancée. Later when, after some
breathless days, Catherine has discovered the sinister plot of the
pseudo labor leaders and has saved England and the Allies from
disaster, the pretense becomes fact.

* * * * *

“One of his poorer stories.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20

“The novel is not without ingenuity, and contains one or two fairly
dramatic scenes; but it is not so entertaining a story as ‘The great
impersonation.’”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 O 3 ’20 550w

“‘The devil’s paw’ is far from being his best work.”

− =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w

“The story cannot be classed among the best that Mr Oppenheim has
written, but will, nevertheless, stimulate a considerable degree of
interest.”

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

+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 40w

=OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.= Great impersonation. il *$1.75 (2c) Little

20–629

Baron Leopold von Ragastein had been educated in England, at Eton and
Oxford. While there he had had a double in a school mate, Sir Everard
Dominey. Later they meet again in a German colony in East Africa where
von Ragastein is now military commander. The latter is a perfect type
of German efficiency and fitness, while the other, with a growing
drink habit upon him, is generally at outs with life. They exchange
confidences and when the German receives sudden orders to go to
England on a secret mission he resolves to go as Sir Everard Dominey
after first making away with the real Sir Everard. There he faces many
delicate situations, but all goes well and the tasks imposed by the
German government grow with the impostor’s daring. When the war breaks
out he out-does himself by enlisting in the Norfolk yeomanry and at
the very end comes the startling disclosure that it is after all the
real Sir Everard who had not been so drunk in Africa “but that he was
able to pull himself up when the great incentive came.”

* * * * *

“A good Oppenheim book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:205 Mr ’20

“The story pursues its course, sometimes in a lively fashion and
sometimes sluggishly, but always moving towards a goal of surprise
that will doubtless astonish many a reader. Its characters have in
them something less fairylike and more human than is customary with Mr
Oppenheim.” E. F. E.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 7 ’20 1250w

=Ind= 102:66 Ap 10 ’20 240w

“‘The great impersonation’ is a very decided improvement on the
productions which have recently been flowing from the excessively
prolific pen of Mr E. Phillips Oppenheim. The main idea is a good one
and many of the details are well managed.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:10 Ja 11 ’20 550w

“Mr Oppenheim certainly springs a genuine surprise upon his readers in
the outcome of this story. Unfortunately, it is often the case that
things that are novel and surprising are not very convincing, and that
is true here.”

+ − =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 120w

Reviewed by Doris Webb

=Pub W= 96:1691 D 27 ’19 280w

“The plot is exceedingly ingenious.”

+ =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 40w

“He taxes one’s credulity, however, in asking the acceptance of the
Englishman’s magic rejuvenation and revolutionary alterations in
character and habit.”