Chapter LXIV: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (20)

+ =Review= 4:18 Ja 5 ’21 400w

=RHEAD, GEORGE WOOLLISCROFT.= Earth- (5c) Dodd 738

(Eng ed 20–8046)

The author of this volume, we are told by H. W. Lewer in the foreword
is a practical potter and, moreover, an artist and art examiner in
pottery to the board of education. With his help, therefore, it is
hoped that the collector will be enabled to discriminate between well
authenticated examples and worthless specimens and probably forgeries.
“The book covers the whole story of British earthenwares from those of
the Slip and Salt glazed period, now more and more sought after, to
the less coveted but still interesting specimens of the early
nineteenth century.... The illustrations include many rare examples
from well-known collections.” (Author’s preface) Among the contents
are: Early British, mediæval and sixteenth century wares; Slip wares;
English Delft wares; Wedgwood; Contemporaries and followers of
Wedgwood; Lustred wares; The makers of image toys and chimney
ornaments; Glossary of terms; Bibliography; Index.

* * * * *

“The subject of Mr Woolliscroft Rhead’s work is so enormous that we
can hardly complain of inadequate treatment, but it is less well
written than Mr Young’s [‘The silver and Sheffield plate collector’]
and less likely to be useful. His spelling and phraseology are also
sometimes at fault. It is further extremely inconvenient that the
plates are not numbered, which makes reference to them a complicated
matter.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:86 Ja 24 ’20 600w

“Mr Rhead, as an artist and a potter, writes of a subject which he
knows, and young collectors will find some useful hints in his pages.”

+ =Spec= 123:698 N 22 ’19 120w

=RHEAD, LOUIS JOHN.= Fisherman’s lures and game-fish food. il *$4 (7c) Scribner 799

20–9836

A book intended as a companion volume to the author’s “Trout stream
insects,” and like that work illustrated with pictures in color
painted from living specimens. The author states: “This book has a
two-fold object. First: to multiply largely all species of game-fish
for the people’s use by a new method and a logical system of ‘feeding’
that will more rapidly attain a better result in the conservation of
American fresh-water game-fishes.... Second: to vastly improve present
angling conditions by introducing a new and entirely superior style of
fishing with artificial nature lures in place of the live bait that is
now being employed in ever-increasing quantities.” (Preface) The
illustrations include pictures of live creatures that fish eat and of
artificial nature lures; also chart plans to show feeding places. The
book is indexed.

* * * * *

“Mr Rhead’s new volume is commended to Outlook anglers as a book which
deserves a place in every library beside the writings of George La
Branche and Dr Henshall.” H. T. Pulsifer

+ =Outlook= 125:614 Ag 4 ’20 2300w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 2 ’20 250w

=RHOADES, CORNELIA HARSEN (NINA RHOADES).= Four girls of forty years ago. (Brickhouse books) il *$1.50 (2½c) Lothrop

20–20005

A story for girls picturing the social life of New York in 1880. The
four girls, Dulcie, Daisy, Maud and Mollie, live in an old house near
Washington Square and spend their summers on the Hudson river at
Tarrytown. They live with a stepgrandmother who enforces the rule that
children should be seen and not heard, but there is an Uncle Stephen
who comes from California and takes them to see “The pirates of
Penzance,” and they have other good times. The news that their father
is coming home from China bringing a stepmother fills them with
consternation, but the dreaded stepmother proves to be their loved
friend Miss Leslie and every one is left happy at the close.

=RHODES, HARRISON GARFIELD.= American towns and people. il *$3.50 (6c) McBride 917.3

20–20209

Papers that have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, touching lightly and
with humor on the external aspects of certain American cities. There
are six essays of this character: Why is a Bostonian? Who is a
Philadelphian? What is a New Yorker? The portrait of Chicago;
Washington, the cosmopolitan; Baltimore; and one other, Is there a
West? devoted to California. To these are added: The hotel guest; The
high kingdom of the movies; The American child; The society woman.

* * * * *

“Although there are serious moments and some penetrating analyses, the
sketches are on the whole light and entertaining, not thorough
studies.”

+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21

“Never is Mr Rhodes dull, never does brilliancy become an obsession
with him, but his writings on American days and ways are of decided
value.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 11 ’20 360w

“‘American towns and people’ has its classic prototype in Henry
James’s ‘The American scene,’ but it is a version highly journalized
and simplified, intended not so much to interpret as to amuse. In this
doubtless quite as important capacity, it for the most part succeeds
admirably, only at times seeming a little fatuous, a little too
effusive, a bit bland perhaps.”

+ − =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 50w

“Generally speaking, Mr Rhodes only sees about one-third of his
subject. He sees the Four hundred, but not what O. Henry called the
Four million. The book is a credit to its publishers, and is
beautifully illustrated. If it is one-sided or no-sided, it is at any
rate written in a swift, bright style, illuminated by a keen sense of
the comic.”

+ − =N Y Times= p8 D 5 ’20 1600w

“The unusually discriminating comment of this book is matched by
exceptionally good pictures.”

+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 30w

+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 50w

“To have discovered the individuality of some of our American cities
and to have in so many little things shown exactly in what it
consists, is no small achievement. So much for the social student’s
appreciation of this book. As a piece of descriptive writing, its
excellence is likely to appeal to a much wider circle.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 260w

=RHODES, HARRISON GARFIELD.=[2] High life: and other stories. *$2 (3c) McBride

20–17527

High life, the first and longest story, is an amusing skit picturing
life in a colony of exiled royalty in Switzerland. The other stories
are: The little miracle at Tlemcar; Fair daughter of a fairer mother;
The importance of being Mrs Cooper; The sad case of Quag; Springtime;
Vive l’Amerique! They have been copyrighted by the Curtis publishing
company, Collier’s, the Ridgway company, the Metropolitan and
Harper’s.

* * * * *

“It is all told with much grace, cleverness and conversation, realism,
and with a Daudetesque humor. Mr Rhodes is a cosmopolitan, and he
understands the art of the short story; only in two or three passages
is his manner of writing open to any censure.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 11 ’20 450w

=RHODES, JAMES FORD.= History of the United States from Hayes to McKinley, 1877–1896. *$2.75 Macmillan 973.8

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

“Mr Rhodes’s new eighth volume is not a fair continuation of his
memorable five volumes on the Civil war, or even of the sixth and
seventh in which he gave a partial picture of the next dozen years.
Its abbreviated scale of treatment affects both contents and manner of
presentation. Rarely do the related facts in this volume appear to
have meaning or to be parts of a coherent structure.... Stopping short
of McKinley’s inauguration, he fails to show the foundations of the
silver movement and the Populist party, with the result that his
picture of the second Cleveland term lacks its background. Yet he
fails also to explain the emergence of the tariff issue and the
identification of the Republican party with it, although these facts
are vital to the period of his choice. Mr Rhodes has probably not
broadened his historical repute by this volume, but he has not ceased
to be sagacious along the lines of his experience and attainment.” F:
L. Paxson

+ − − =Am Hist R= 25:525 Ap ’20 1050w

“The author’s impartiality is little short of miraculous. South and
North can read him on the Civil war without great irritation.”

+ =Ath= p273 Ag 27 ’20 150w

+ =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20

“If the most recent volume of the ‘History of the United States from
Hayes to McKinley, 1877–96’ is of less importance than those which
preceded it, this is not due to any shortcomings on the part of the
author. Dr Rhodes shows the same robust good sense, severe
impartiality, and scrupulous accuracy which have secured him his
position among American historians.” H. E. E.

+ =Eng Hist R= 35:476 Jl ’20 130w

“This volume is of the same general character as the preceding volumes
and with one possible exception, deserves to rank with them. While the
style is not brilliant, it affords easy, sometimes even attractive
reading. Yet, for all that, the student of our recent history will
close the book with disappointment, a disappointment due to the
feeling that the author has failed to show a discriminating sense of
proportion. On the topics discussed the author, in most cases, can
hardly be said to have touched the bottom. The treatment of industrial
unrest falls far below chapter IV of his earlier work, dealing with
slavery.” D: Y. Thomas

+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:84 Je ’20 600w

“It seems invidious to speak in any tone of disparagement of a work of
Mr James Ford Rhodes, who has given us the classic interpretation of
our history from the compromise of 1850 to the close of the
reconstruction period. And yet competent judges must feel grieved that
the ‘History of the United States from Hayes to McKinley’ is added, as
an eighth volume, to the classic seven. It is as thin as the lean kine
that followed the seven fat ones in Pharoah’s dream.”

− + =Nation= 110:805 Je 12 ’20 350w

+ =Spec= 124:624 My 8 ’20 250w

“He has industry and a judicial temperament which, though not always
quite unbiassed in regard to individuals enables him to survey
contemporary politics without evidence of partisanship. He has,
moreover, a lucid narrative style and a happy gift of choosing apt and
trenchant phrases. Not all his authorities are first-rate; but he uses
them nimbly. It is very much to be regretted that a book which
represents so much sound labour and has so much permanent value, in
the assistance which it will be to all future writers on this period,
should be so marred by petty faults.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p448 Jl 15 ’20 1500w

=RICE, ALICE CALDWELL (HEGAN) (MRS CALE YOUNG RICE), and RICE, CALE YOUNG.= Turn about tales. il *$1.90 (8c) Century

20–16343

There are ten short stories in this book, five by Cale Young Rice, and
five by his wife, Alice Hegan Rice, arranged alternately. Mrs Rice’s
contribution includes Beulah; The nut; A partnership memory; Reprisal;
and The hand on the sill; while Mr Rice’s are entitled Lowry;
Francella; Archie’s relapse; Under new moons, and Aaron Harwood. Some
of the stories have appeared in magazine form.

* * * * *

“This volume of stories should hold its own with any collection likely
to be published this year. They cover a wide range of emotion,
background, and subject, and are of high literary merit.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 170w

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

=RICHARDS, MRS CLARICE (ESTABROOK).=[2] Tenderfoot bride. il *$1.50 Revell

20–21005

“A cultured eastern woman with a delight in new things and a sense of
humor describes events on a Wyoming ranch.” (Booklist) “When the
‘tenderfoot bride’ arrived it was still a lawless, pioneer land, with
cattle, cowboys, and desperadoes. Then came a pastoral age: sheep and
Mexican herders, followed by the farmer. Her record covers but sixteen
years, yet the earlier phases are as extinct as the Pharaohs. She has
caught them all in passing, and portrayed them to the life.” (Bookm)

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20

“She has given us more than a bit of current history, for one senses
the writer’s personality,—a growth through the delights and trials of
existence among elemental conditions to a broad vision of life and its
responsibilities. Therein lies the rare charm of the book.”

+ =Bookm= 52:368 D ’20 140w

=RICHARDS, CLAUDE.= Man of tomorrow. new ed *$2 Crowell 174

“A discussion of vocational success with the boy of today.”
(Sub-title) The author believes that there is special need of
attention to vocational guidance today. “Following this great world
war, civilization will take on an aspect of general reconstruction,
and hence the man of the future will need an equipment that will fit
him to take his place in a society with difficult problems to solve
and big tasks to perform.” (Preface) The book is divided into seven
parts: The need of vocational guidance; The importance of
specializing; The need of a broad foundation; Choosing a vocation;
Representative vocations; Avocations; General conditions of vocational
success. An appendix contains a word to the counselor and there is an
index. The author states that while the work is intended primarily for
men there is little in it that does not apply equally to young women.

* * * * *

“An excellent vocational guide-book. Its tone is high and the little
ethical teaching that it contains is safe and sound.”

+ =Cath World= 112:120 O ’20 220w

=RICHARDS, GRANT.=[2] Double life. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–18767

Olivia Pemberton was the wife of a semi-commercial, therefore fairly
successful novelist. She was all that a wife and mother should be
until her two children were away at school, when she became bored and
restless. Half apathetically she accompanied her husband to Newmarket
one day where he went in quest of racing atmosphere for a new novel.
It ended with a tentative, very small and haphazard bet on one of the
horses. From now on Olivia secretly takes to reading sporting papers
and making greater and greater ventures, even ordering a trainer to
buy and train a horse for her. She goes thru all the stages of the
gambling fever, sometimes on the verge of a breakdown. Twice her horse
wins and when she is dreaming of the triple crown at the Derby with
honored publicity to herself, her trainer informs her that the horse
is broken down and will race no more. But with her winnings and the
sale of the horse, she is enabled to accompany her confession to her
husband with a goodly sum of money and her complete renunciation of
gambling.

* * * * *

“The technical details will be found interesting even by neophytes,
and the whole produces that effect of coherence and facility proper to
a practised pen.”

+ =Ath= p80 Jl 16 ’20 120w

=N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 120w

“The book will prove entertaining, but hardly more than that.”

+ − =N Y Times= p18 D 5 20 460w

“To put it bluntly, Mr Grant Richards is not an artist. ‘Double life’
has some power to please, partly because it conveys double the number
of sensations enjoyed in the ordinary routine of life by that never
realized type—the average, everyday person.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p401 Je 24 ’20 400w

=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).= Honor Bright. il *$1.65 (3c) Page

20–17823

The story of an American girl’s school days in Switzerland. Honor is
an orphan and the Pension Madeleine is the only home she knows. She
speaks in the quaint French-English of her teachers and is very happy
with her school-girl companions. While on an expedition into the
mountain, she slips and sprains her ankle and is kept a prisoner in an
Alpine cottage for a time. It is a delightful experience and Honor
thereafter dreams of spending her life in the Alps, making cheese and
tending goats. But an unknown cousin from America comes to take her
away to a new and strange world.

=RICHARDSON, C. A.= Spiritual pluralism and recent philosophy. *$4.50 Putnam 192

(Eng ed 20–7073)

“Mr Richardson, a disciple of Professor James Ward, sets himself the
task of elaborating, on purely metaphysical lines, the case for the
‘spiritual’ and theistic pluralism which formed the basis of his
master’s ‘Realm of ends: pluralism and theism.’ Incidentally he
undertakes to answer the neo-realists in general and Mr Bertrand
Russell in particular. He accepts Mr Russell’s conclusions as valid
with limits, i.e., the limits of reality considered as objective. But,
Mr Richardson urges, Mr Russell and his school, with all their
ingenuity, do not account for the subjective reference, whereas
spiritual pluralists can account for it without detriment to the
positive results of the neo-realists.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The book is written with great care and much subtlety. There is,
however, a tendency to rely too much on arguments from concepts,
without due inquiry into their meaning and source. In general, I think
the book would gain cogency through a larger use of empirical
material.” D. H. Parker

+ − =J Philos= 17:611 O 21 ’20 1100w

=Nature= 105:773 Ag 19 ’20 70w

“To speak bluntly, Mr Richardson is excessively difficult reading, and
some part of the fault lies with himself, and not with the subject. As
a provisional guess, one would suggest that he has thought mainly
about the general philosophic attributes of his universe, and has not
sufficiently pondered, not only the position but the capacity and
attributes of the individual who exists therein. This part of his
work, it seems to us, he will not get right until he dips down more
thoroughly into the grand question of consciousness.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:253 Mr 13 ’20 840w

“It is not easy to justify a pluralist metaphysic on intellectualist
grounds, and one cannot help feeling that, as against Mr Russell on
the one hand and Mr Bradley on the other, Mr Richardson is ‘playing
the odd’ all the time. But he plays with spirit and no mean dialectic
skill.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p15 Ja 8 ’20 580w

=RICHARDSON, DOROTHY M.= Interim. *$2 Knopf

20–9715

“Fifth in the long series of volumes published under the general title
of ‘Pilgrimage,’ Miss Dorothy M. Richardson’s new novel, ‘Interim,’
continues the history of that young woman, Miriam Henderson. So
closely connected with its predecessors as to be a part of them rather
than a separate book, ‘Interim’ would probably be almost
unintelligible to any one not possessed of a close acquaintance with
the earlier books. When ‘The tunnel’ came to an end Miriam Henderson
was apparently on the verge of leaving Mrs Bailey’s house, but we find
her still living there when we meet her in ‘Interim,’ despite the
coming of the boarders. Among these boarders there are several young
physicians from Canada, and one of them, bearing the unattractive name
of von Heber, supplies the suggestion of a plot, which is the only
thing of the kind the book contains.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“She leaves us feeling, as before, that everything being of equal
importance to her, it is impossible that everything should not be of
equal unimportance.” K. M.

− =Ath= p48 Ja 9 ’20 150w

“We prefer our novels as novels, and not following the technique of
Chinese chess explained by a politician in yachting terminology. There
are pages and pages of drivel, too.” C. W.

− =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 250w

“From no point of view could ‘Interim’ be called easy reading, and a
method of sometimes almost ignoring punctuation and printing dialogue
in solid pages does not tend to make it any the easier.”

− =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 550w

“There lies the secret of Miriam’s appeal. Nothing seems to escape
her. She is never dull or unaware; she never ceases to live and to
respond to stimulus. And thus life, seen through her eyes and felt
through her emotions, comes to be an exciting business, and the world
an infinite stretch of inexhaustible delights.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p766 D 18 ’19 750w

=RICHARDSON, NORVAL.= Pagan fire. *$1.75 (1½c) Scribner

20–21002

Anne Rennell was quite contented and happy as the wife of an American
politician in Washington. Franklin Rennell, too, was contented as
United States senator. He took his work seriously and was of the
eternal-boy sort of type, honest and plodding without intellectual
brilliance. The first disturbance came when political intrigue put the
flea into Anne’s ear that she was cut out for an ambassador’s wife in
Rome. Rome it must be, henceforth. Anne feels that she has a right to
her own life and happiness and that Franklin’s career must give way to
it. In Rome she blossoms out, the romance of it enters her blood and
with it an infatuation for Prince Cimino. The latter ends with a night
with the Prince at his castle in the Campagna. After that Anne has
something to live down, which, the reader trusts, she will be able to
do with the aid and the sacrifice of two devoted friends.

* * * * *

“The most human and most logical character in the book is that of
Senator Lelong. The story is pleasantly told in the slow analytical
style of the English novel.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 27 ’20 290w

“While Norval Richardson’s well-written novel ‘Pagan fire’ is far from
uninteresting as a story, the greater part of its claim on the
reader’s attention is derived from its quite fascinating setting.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 460w

“The interest of the novel is derived less from the actual story than
from the glorious settings of the drama.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 170w

=RICKARD, L. (MRS VICTOR RICKARD).= Cathy Rossiter. *$1.75 (1c) Doran

20–772

Cathy Rossiter, by birth of the English aristocracy, was a modern
woman who, without breaking her old ties, became interested in all
sorts of progressive movements. Her personal charms make her a
favorite in every circle from the aristocratic drawing room down to
the half-starved strikers in Sabury road. Her most intimate friend is
Dr Monica Henstock, a successful practitioner and her opposite in
character and temperament. At her house she meets John Lorrimer who is
about to propose to Monica when Cathy’s beauty and personality
intrigue and side-track him. In time Cathy marries Lorrimer and
through a complication of circumstances Monica’s and Lorrimer’s
emotions and ethics both become befuddled and Cathy after an illness
is locked up in an insane asylum on a flimsy pretext. Her experiences
at the asylum and her rescue by some of her old friends make a
thrilling tale.

* * * * *

“Mrs Victor Rickard has here achieved, without directing her energy
towards any lofty or even wayward ambition, a marked success. The
story is sheer melodrama from beginning to triumphant and happy end;
but melodrama tempered with sound observation of character.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p697 N 27 ’19 340w

=RICKARD, THOMAS ARTHUR.= Technical writing. *$1.50 Wiley 808

20–7844

“Mr Rickard has served as editor of three leading mining periodicals
and has written several well known professional works. He laments the
carelessness shown by engineers in the preparation of reports and
papers and has brought into this work the expansion of five lectures
which he delivered in 1916 to engineering classes in the University of
California. The many faults of composition and errors of vocabulary
are discussed and illustrated by many examples of bad writing (with
corrections) gleaned mainly from mining books and periodicals.”—N Y P
L New Tech Bks

* * * * *

“Mr Rickard’s exposition is vigorous and broad-minded.”

+ =Ath= p352 S 10 ’20 150w

“It is well worth discriminating perusal, the chapter on style being
particularly good. Violations of present-day typographical orthodoxy
mar nearly every page of his book. They suggest the amateur. They are
not classic. Also, in a work of this sort, it is only reasonable to
expect that the author will observe his own precepts.” W. N. P. R.

+ − =Engineering & Mining Journal= 109:1326 Je 12 ’20 780w

“The lay reader should also get much from the volume.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p40 Ap ’20 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p587 S 9 ’20 80w

=RIDEAL, ERIC KEIGHTLEY.= Ozone. *$4 Van Nostrand 546.2

The author begins with the Early history of ozone and its general
properties, and continues his treatment of the subject with chapters
on: The natural occurrence of ozone: Chemical production; Thermal
production; The electrolytic preparation of ozone; Production by
ultraviolet radiation and by ionic collision; Production by means of
the silent electric discharge; The catalytic decomposition of ozone;
Industrial applications; Methods of detection and analysis. There are
two indexes, to names and subjects. The author is professor of
physical chemistry in the University of Illinois and the book is
published as one of the series, A treatise on electro-chemistry,
edited by Bertram Blount.

* * * * *

“The author deals with the whole fascinating subject in a manner which
should appeal to most readers.”

+ =Engineer= 129:653 Je 25 ’20 300w

“The author has been distinctly successful in his effort to collect
and correlate the various references to ozone which occur in chemical
literature, and his monograph will be welcomed if only for that
reason. In addition, it contains a valuable summary of what is known
about ozone, and by indicating problems which remain to be solved
should also serve to promote investigation.”

+ =Nature= 106:77 S 16 ’20 300w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p52 Jl ’20 120w

=RIDEOUT, HENRY MILNER.= Foot-path way. *$1.90 (2c) Duffield

20–6491

A story of the Far East. Dan Towers, the hero, is an American
adventurer who has decided that it is time to go home. Fate brings him
across the path of an old friend, Parimban, an Arabian merchant.
Parimban is murdered and Towers is left with Leda, his friend’s
beautiful young daughter, on his hands. He finds a refuge for her with
a religious order and goes on his way, accepting the dangerous mission
he had earlier made up his mind to refuse. He has many adventures,
some in company with a religious fanatic, called Hury Seke, from his
habit of writing gospel messages on walls and rocks, all beginning
“Hury Seke Jehovah.” To others he is introduced by a gay young
troubadour, Runa la Flèche. In the end the beautiful ward, who had
once shown uncomfortable signs of falling in love with Towers, is more
suitably mated with Runa.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20

“I turn the last page and lay down the book with the sense of having
enjoyed a modest work of art instead of having been merely diverted by
a pretentious bag of tricks. I like his story, but I like still more
his way of telling it, his freedom from the slipshod smartness now
fairly encouraged as normal by editors still getting pay-ore from the
vein (or the tailings) of the Kipling-O. Henry tradition.” H. W.
Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:581 Jl ’20 380w

=Ind= 104:382 D 11 ’20 50w

“The tale is entertaining, swift-moving and romantic, and gives a
colorful picture of adventurous lives.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 700w

“This is not of a genre that all novel readers care for, but those who
do will find this book an excellent example of it, exciting and
amusing.”

+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 240w

=RIDGE, LOLA.=[2] Sun-up; and other poems. *$1.50 Huebsch 811

These are free verse, imagiste poems. In the group “Sun-up,” the poet
sees the world through a child’s eyes and gives us glimpses of a
child’s soul. All the poems express modernity, a free spirit and a
turbulent world. They are grouped under the headings: Sun-up;
Monologues; Windows; Secrets; Portraits; Sons of Belial; Reveille—the
last group containing lines to Alexander Berkman, to Emma Goldman and
to Larkin.

* * * * *

“No adult knows what little girls think about, but one is willing to
believe that it is approximately what he finds here, where Freud
rather than Plato is read back into the infant mind.” D. M.

+ =Nation= 112:sup244 F 9 ’21 340w

“The series of poems from which the book takes its name are vividly
poignant renderings of the child-mind, intimate in their apperception
and flaring forth in arresting magic and color at times. Her method is
free verse, but it is a distinct free verse. It is the sudden throwing
of vivid phrases before one that conjure up limitless thoughts.” H. S.
Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 520w

=RIDSDALE, KNOWLES.= Gate of fulfillment. *$1.50 (4c) Putnam

20–6634

A story told in letters. Margaret Bevington, a very charming and
brilliant widow, answers an unusual advertisement calling for a
secretary for an invalid. The invalid, who is also a misogynist, sends
her a caustic reply declining her services, but a correspondence
develops out of the incident. Later, learning that the secretary he
had preferred to her had proved incompetent, she applies in person
under an assumed name and is engaged. She then leads a double life, as
staid, prim Martha Pratt and as witty Margaret Bevington, and the
misogynist finds himself falling in love with two women. The tonic
good sense of one and the mental stimulus of the other do their work.
He is restored to health to learn that the two characters who have
meant so much to him combine into one person.

* * * * *

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 51:586 Jl ’20 200w

“This is a very commodious, even lazy, way of writing a book; and,
unless the letters are uncommonly brilliant, the result is generally
disappointing. In this case, however, Mr Ridsdale has turned out a
worthwhile correspondence in developing an ingenious though rather
slender plot. ‘The gate of fulfillment’ will be read with interest.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 300w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 160w

“It is a piquant situation, and some of its possibilities are well
realized. But it wants a light, tactful, restrained treatment of which
the author knows nothing. The letters of every one concerned are as
fulsome, as precious, and as humourless as they can possibly be; and
their prolix affectations become painfully tiresome long before the
end is reached.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p458 Jl 15 ’20 150w

=RIHANI, AMEEN F.= Descent of bolshevism. $1 (9c) Stratford co. 335

20–6355

A small book written to prove that bolshevism is of oriental origin.
The author goes back to fifth century Persia and has chapters on:
Mazdak and Mazdakism; The Khawarij; The Karmathians; The Assassins;
The Illuminati.

* * * * *

“Mr Rihani’s little book ends suddenly and without a satisfactory
conclusion. His statements must be read with great caution.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 560w

“He tells his stories roundly and underlines his morals blackly; but
his essential facts are sound.”

+ =Review= 2:682 Je 30 ’20 200w

=RIHBANY, ABRAHAM MITRIE.=[2] Hidden treasure of Rasmola. il *$1.75 (5½c) Houghton

20–19674

This story of the digging for a treasure is a true story and a
personal experience of the author’s. The scenes portrayed are real
phases of the life of the common people of Syria and the people
participating in the enterprise were real. The psychology, beliefs and
mode of life of the people concerned are also depicted and the
thrilling part of the story is that the treasure too, to all
probabilities was real although it eluded the grasp of the diggers
thru the machinations of a clever rogue.

=RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).= Affinities. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–9275

A volume of short stories. The first is the story of a group of
married people who decide on an affinity picnic, with husbands and
wives left at home. The affair comes to grief and when the parties
concerned learn that the other set of wives and husbands have been
carrying out a similar idea there are mutual recriminations and
forgivenesses. The other stories are in like vein. Contents:
Affinities; The family friend; Clara’s little escapade; The borrowed
house; Sauce for the gander. The stories were copyrighted by the
Curtis Publishing Company and date from 1909 to 1915.

* * * * *

“Entertaining, but several readers say not up to her usual standard.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 300w

“Delightful tales each with a snap at the end.”

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w

“Mrs Rinehart always writes entertainingly and she tempers humor with
rare human sympathy and common sense. These stories are just the thing
for hammock reading on a lazy afternoon.”

+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 80w

“Each one as unexpected and as amusing as the others, stories that
keep you laughing and interested, stories full of the little
absurdities of human nature and the queer tricks of fate.”

+ =Lit D= p97 S 4 ’20 3050w

“If laughter really does promote health, Mrs Rinehart should take her
place among the great physicians of the age.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:295 Je 6 ’20 480w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 420w

“The studies of English life and manners would strike most English
readers as imaginative, and it is hard to believe that life in America
exactly tallies with the authoress’s description, though it may really
be like this. Anyhow it makes cheerful reading.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 120w

=RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).= Poor wise man. *$2 (1½c) Doran

20–17961

The time of the story is immediately after the war and the
circumstances social unrest, strikes, plots, political campaigns,
mobs, riots, bombs, wise vigilance on the part of the Department of
justice and timely interferences of the American Legion. The romance
is supplied by Lily Cardew, granddaughter of the richest man in town,
just back from her war-work and much changed, and Willy Cameron, a
poor drug clerk who had been Lily’s pal in camp and is one of nature’s
noblemen. Soon after her return Lily is ensnared by the wiles of an
arch anarchist and all-round fiend. She even marries him but at that
very crisis is rescued by Willy. Many are the adventures and
hairbreadth escapes of both before their final reward.

* * * * *

+ =Bookm= 52:252 N ’20 360w

“The story is well told, but our hearts are not touched by the romance
of the impossible hero and heroine.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:554 Ja ’21 150w

“Mrs Rinehart gives us a very thrilling story, and a sense of
disappointment with her method need not obscure the good points and
readable character of this ‘novel with a purpose.’”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 200w

“The novel is alive and vigorous.”

+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 80w

“The book is exceedingly timely. It states the problem between labor
and capital fairly and proves the futility of mob violence. And it
states it in the lives of very actual people.” Katharine Oliver

+ =Pub W= 98:1193 O 16 ’20 300w

“A story well worth reading.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 120w

=RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).=[2] Truce of God. il *$1.50 Doran

20–21966

In the days of chivalry and when the church had decreed a “truce of
God,” from Thursday of every week until Monday morning, during which
time all fighting must cease, a young French overlord had put away his
wife because she had borne him no son and because, heirless, upon his
death his estates would fall to his cousin and arch enemy, Philip of
the Black Beard. That the lady took refuge with this same Philip,
enraged Charles still more. But it came to pass on a Christmas day
that the truce of God entered the heart of Charles when he came to the
castle of Philip in search of his runaway little daughter, Clotilde.
As he goes to the bedside of his wife to ask her forgiveness he finds
that a son has indeed this day been born to him.

* * * * *

“The story is told interestingly and with effective simplicity, and
successfully reproduces the mediæval atmosphere; but the author leaves
the impression of having put an undue strain upon plausibility in
order to reach a desired conclusion.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 220w

+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 370w

=RIPLEY, GEORGE SHERMAN.= Games for boys. il *$1.60 Holt 790

20–21483

A collection of games for players of the adolescent and post
adolescent age. The compiler says: “Properly played games develop
courage, initiative, generosity, cooperation, cheerfulness, loyalty,
obedience, alertness and sense of honor,” and in selecting the games
he has based his choice on these qualities. Contents: Circle games;
Opposed line games; Tag games; Quiet games; Miscellaneous games; Relay
and other races; Stalking and scouting games; Camp stunts and water
sports; Mimetic setting-up exercises; Contest and exhibition events;
Camping notes.

* * * * *

+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 80w

=RISING, LAWRENCE.= She who was Helena Cass. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–17649

Jay Sefton, a rising young novelist, acted a novel when he constituted
himself a secret detective to find Helena Cass, dead or alive. Three
years previous, her mysterious disappearance had set two continents
agog with rumors and surmises. Jay Sefton had once met her socially,
been greatly impressed by her personality and now the fever of the
search had entered his blood. In disconnected accounts the story
pieces itself together, and clue follows upon clue, revealing the rich
possibilities of an undisciplined impulsive young girl; her tragic
side-step from the conventional path; her all but murder in a Spanish
inn; her refuge in a convent; temporary return to a world that had
known her; her second escape to the convent; her motherhood and her
final discovery in a secluded rural retreat in Spain by Jay Sefton and
his wooing of her.

* * * * *

“It’s well told, too, with a slightly French touch and an intriguing
style.” S. M. R.

+ =Bookm= 52:370 D ’20 200w

“From the standpoint of style the book is decidedly jerky. It
possesses many faults, many inconsistencies, but we are obliged to
remember that the author has subordinated everything to the weaving
and unraveling of his mystery. The first is ably done, and the second
is accomplished with commendable ingenuity.” D. L. M.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 270w

“The novel is full of Latin color, some of the descriptive bits being
powerfully photographic. All the characters are real and intensely
individualized. The development of Helena Cass from a self-centred,
selfish girl to a fine, broad, lovable character is a fine bit of
psychological analysis.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 180w

“The book is full of Spanish color, and some of the descriptive
passages are striking.”

+ =N Y Times= p19 N 28 ’20 140w

“The story is original, but its literary quality is not particularly
good.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 110w

Reviewed by L. M. Robinson

=Pub W= 98:1196 O 16 ’20 320w

=RITCHIE, ANNE ISABELLA (THACKERAY) lady (MRS RICHMOND RITCHIE).= From friend to friend. *$2.50 Dutton

(Eng ed 20–8889)

“‘From friend to friend,’ a little volume of recollections by
Thackeray’s daughter, Lady Ritchie, edited by her sister-in-law, Emily
Ritchie, has just been published. Lady Ritchie met many of the most
interesting people in England in the course of her long life, which
covered the period from 1838 to 1919, and in this little book she has
ranged far back into the past and given glimpses of her father, of
Tennyson and his wife, of Mr and Mrs Browning, of Adelaide Kemble and
many others. There are anecdotes of Thackeray in his younger days,
when he was beginning to write and wishing rather to paint, and later
on when he was in the full tide of literary production.”—Springf’d
Republican

* * * * *

=Ath= p126 Ja 23 ’20 40w

“If at times, in spite of its delicate artistry, the narrative grows a
little prim, there is usually a twinkle of humour to light it up again
before many lines are past. Our old-world hostess is too skilful to
let us get dull.”

+ =Ath= p303 Mr 5 ’20 420w

=N Y Times= p15 S 12 ’20 60w

“This little volume is slight but pleasing.”

+ =Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 80w

“It is more enjoyable than many books of reminiscence. Lady Ritchie
abounds in good-humor.”

+ =Review= 2:522 My 15 ’20 200w

“Lady Ritchie interests and amuses us without falling either into the
distortions of malice, or the sentimentally which dwells on the ‘dear
old days,’ and leaves us as cold as if we were listening to a canting
preacher.”

+ =Sat R= 129:189 F 21 ’20 750w

“Charming little book.”

+ =Spec= 124:54 Ja 10 ’20 140w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 1 ’20 120w

“Lady Ritchie knew what was interesting and what was not; she lived
intensely in her memories, and she can take her readers to live in
them with her.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p19 Ja 8 ’20 1100w

=RITCHIE, ROBERT WELLES.= Trails to Two Moons. il *$1.75 (3½c) Little

20–17007

The story is of the Wyoming cattle country at the time when the
struggle for existence was on between the cattle rangers and the
sheep-raising homesteaders. Little by little the latter were
encroaching upon the former’s grazing lands. Three figures stand out
in the tale, Zang Whistler, the cattle-thieving outlaw, Original Bill
Blunt, inspector for the Stockman’s alliance, and Hilma Ring, a
sheepherder’s daughter, a dazzling but heartless beauty. A lonely life
of hardship and struggle had cut her off from all femininity and
hardened her heart. It is the taming of this shrew that tempts both
Zang and Original. Amid killings and rough horse-play, during which
Hilma has her fill of terror, loneliness and despair, nursing her
hatred for Original, the latter’s character and power finally subdue
and awaken the woman in her. Even Zang, whose wild career is but an
offshoot of his inherent integrity, receives Hilma’s recognition of
his loyalty and devotion.

* * * * *

“The story possesses a sort of crude strength besides exciting
incidents; its characters are fairly well individualized; its
descriptions are vivid, and its fights colorful. However, we cannot
say that the conversion of the heroine’s hate for the hero to love for
him is convincing. The strings that pull the character hither and
thither at this point of the story are altogether too evident.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 110w

“The story is ultra-romantic and the characters not essentially of
flesh and blood—mere types and caricatures. But the setting in which
the story occurs is painted so very vividly that it lends the air of
reality to ‘Trails to Two Moons’ which the characters themselves and
their vigorous actions lack.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 320w

=ROBBINS, CLARENCE AARON (TOD ROBBINS).= Silent, white and beautiful; and other stories. *$1.90 (3c) Boni & Liveright

Short stories by an author who makes a specialty of the gruesome.
Contents: Silent, white and beautiful; Who wants a green bottle? Wild
Wullie, the waster; For art’s sake. There is a preface by Robert H.
Davis.

* * * * *

“If these grotesque and morbid tales were just a bit better, they
might even be great! But failing of greatness, they are so horrible as
to be occasionally funny.”

− + =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 100w

“The horror of the truth in daily life is greater than the horror Mr
Robbins seeks in his imaginative and improbable wanderings among
murderers and spirits.” R. D. W.

− =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 29 ’21 350w

“Genuine horror requires a certain inner logic, a subtle plausibility
not discoverable in these stories.” L. B.

− =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 170w

“There is no doubt that he has an eerie fancy, great fertility of
invention, and not a little psychological insight. But he is unequal
to the point of eccentricity. Two of his four narratives, ‘Wild
Wullie, the waster,’ and ‘Who wants a green bottle,’ are simply inept.
‘Silent, white and beautiful,’ on the other hand, has an original and
strangely vivid central idea.”

+ − =Nation= 111:596 N 24 ’20 230w

“Frankly tales of terror, built upon most improbable foundations, they
would be revolting in the hands of a lesser artist.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 100w

“The author has dipped his pen in blood while steeping his literary
ego in diablerie, and the outcome is a feast of melodrama and
morbidity that leads logically to nightmare.”

− + =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 420w

=ROBERTS, CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON.= Poems. *$1.50 Stokes 821

20–1006

This collection of poems falls into three parts: Poems; The dark
years; and Other poems. John Masefield writes a preface to the
collection and says of the author: “When I think of the poems, I feel
that he must be young; not young enough perhaps to have been carried
away, or destroyed, by the recent great events, but young enough to
see them clearly, to respond to them, and to realize that the tragedy
of them has been the tragedy of the young, the blasting of the young,
for the benefit and at the bidding of the old.... That, in the main,
is the tragedy of Mr Roberts’ latest and best poems, in the volume
here printed.” In another place he says of the poet: “He has a quick
eye for characters, a lively sense of rhythm, and a fondness for
people, which should make his future work as remarkable as his present
promise.”

* * * * *

“Will be liked by those who enjoy conventional poetry touching on a
note of sadness.”

+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20

“These labored verses move us not at all. The book is full of echoes
and infelicitous imitations. The book, in short, is full of clichés of
thought and phrase.” H: A. Lappin

− =Bookm= 51:213 Ap ’20 100w

“The experience which has made Mr Roberts ‘old’ to his friends, has by a curious paradox kept him gloriously young in his dreams and visions. These poems, even embedding such grim interludes as is represented by the ‘Charing cross’ poems, are the poems of youth; but of a youth who has been trebly stored with the ancient wisdom and ways of the world.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 24 ’20 2150w

“Delightful poems chiefly on Arcadian themes.”

+ |=Cleveland= p52 My ’20 60w

Reviewed by Mark Van Doren

=Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 60w

“It is not enough to be high-spirited, and warm-hearted, and
quick-witted, and brave and sensitive—and this poet is all these. To
feel splendidly is one thing, to shape the feeling another. Mr Roberts
at present is apt to throw off his feeling into rhyme without due
concentration, as though assuring us of his exuberance and bidding us
be content with that.” J: Drinkwater

+ − =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 380w

“The many lyric poems are a flower-garden in which the reader can
spend a long time, and to which he will want to return. Mr Roberts
writes gracefully and melodiously, and is never elaborate or
artificial.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 700w

=ROBERTS, RICHARD.= Unfinished program of democracy. *$2 Huebsch 321.8

(Eng ed 20–6572)

“‘The unfinished programme of democracy.’ by Dr Richard Roberts,
readily divides itself into two parts: the first three chapters in
which the author sets forth what he considers to be the causes of the
present crisis in democracy, and the rest of the book in which he
specifies in detail and supports with argument the measures and
changes that would, in his view, fulfil the democratic ideal.”
(Freeman). “The main lines of practical doctrine on which the
discussion is conducted are—a national minimum and a secure standard
of life universally enforced and provided for; the limitation of
profits; the elimination of the ‘social parasite’; the economic
independence of women; the abandonment of the dogma of ‘State
sovereignty’ and the recognition in the organization of government of
the geographical and the vocational unit; the growth of the spirit and
practice of social fellowship; a democratic world knit by a federation
of democratic nations.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

* * * * *

“Mr Roberts’s work is one to be read and inwardly digested.”

+ =Ath= p1048 O 17 ’19 130w

=Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21

=Brooklyn= 12:125 My ’20 30w

“It is only the first part of the book, in which Dr Roberts states his
social theory, that in the view of the writer of this note exposes
itself to criticism.” T. M. Ave-Lallemant

+ − =Freeman= 1:428 Jl 14 ’20 1100w

=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w

“The book is both refreshing and heartening and deserves a wide
reading, not only for the soundness of its ideas but for the
distinction and charm of its temper, and the vividness of its style.”

+ =Nation= 111:330 S 18 ’20 620w

“He writes with force and charm; and he gives evidence of wide reading
and of serious reflection. But when he comes to chapter VII, ‘The
organization of government,’ his hand fails him.” W. J. Ghent

+ − =Review= 3:316 O 13 ’20 300w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 7 ’20 60w

“It is a scholarly book by a man of vision.” A. J. Lien

+ =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 180w

“One of the ablest of the ministers of the English Presbyterian church
here discusses the social problem in a comprehensive and practical
way, with a full appreciation of new conditions and new trends of
thought.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p550 O 9 ’19 180w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:107 Je ’20 60w

=ROBEY, GEORGE.= My rest cure. il *$1.40 (4c) Stokes 827

19–13978

The author informs his readers that he is tired of being funny, that
he has had a collapse and needs a complete rest, and he is going to
tell about his holiday in the country in his natural serious and
solemn manner. By the skin of his teeth he succeeds in escaping from
home without his wife and the entire family. His haven of rest is the
Sunrise Arms of Little Slocum. The dream and the reality of Little
Slocum are not quite the same. He almost succumbs to the ministrations
of the sewing-bee of Little Slocum mothers, but after a ten mile
flight in pajamas and mackintosh and rubber boots he catches a train
that takes him back to the city. The illustrations by John Hassall add
to the solemnity of the book.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20

“It may be that Mr Robey converses too much about nothing in
particular, it may be that his humor is not that of America; but
various episodes in his book are excruciatingly funny.”

+ =Boston Transcript= Mr 13 ’20 350w

“We cannot say that we have been vastly exhilarated by ‘My rest
cure.’”

− =Sat R= 128:160 Ag 16 ’19 340w

=ROBINSON, ALBERT GARDNER.= Old New England houses. il *$5 Scribner 728

20–16280

“‘Old New England houses’ has about one hundred sumptuously printed
views, mostly of the type of plain, unpretentious small country houses
of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which we roughly classify
as ‘colonial,’ though quite a few of the more pretentious mansion type
of house, such as were built by the wealthier merchants and
shipmasters in the larger coast towns, are included. The subjects are
selected from an artistic rather than an architectural or antiquarian
viewpoint. The first few pages are given to an untechnical talk on the
varied types and styles of houses and where one may hunt for them with
reasonable chance of success, but the greater part of the book is
devoted to the pictures of the houses themselves, an entire page being
usually given to each print.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 280w

“The text of this book is slight, not wholly unsuggestive perhaps, but
disappointing. The illustrations, however, are of positive interest.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 520w

Reviewed by W. B. Chase

+ =N Y Times= p2 S 12 ’20 2450w

+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 70w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 30w

“Like most books of the sort, ‘Old New England houses’ is more to be
valued for its pictures than for its text. Here the text, however, is
entirely adequate as a brief introduction to upward of a hundred
photographs.”

+ =Review= 3:479 N 17 ’20 180w

“‘Old New England houses’ will be interesting and useful.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 260w

=ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON.= Lancelot. *$1.75 Seltzer 811

20–12049