Chapter I: of this book indicates the need of a study of business (3)

“It is all symmetrical enough. And yet it is all quite unconvincing.
It is even uninteresting. Cecilia alone emerges—a splendid creature
bursting through the murky moralities of stuffy Medboro.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:264 My 23 ’20 700w

“It is an easy enough book to read; but there is nothing much to carry
away from it, except the impression of an experienced chronicler
rehandling his materials in the light of an ‘idea.’”

+ − =Review= 2:654 Je 23 ’20 650w

“Where it might be thought to fail, is in the too subtle
characterisation of Celia; older hands would have broadened their
touches. It is a fine piece of work.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:14 Jl 3 ’20 100w

“The merit of the book lies in the skill with which the conflict
between Cecilia’s better instincts and her invincible egotism is
drawn. Mr Beresford is an admirably self-effacing narrator....
Allowing for the improbabilities we have noted, this is an excellent
and restrained study of an ‘a-moral’ type of womanhood.”

+ − =Spec= 124:697 My 22 ’20 560w

“Judged as an essay in morbid psychology, ‘An imperfect mother’ is an
interesting document; judged as a novel, it is a failure.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p199 Mr 25 ’20 850w

=BERGER, MAURICE.= Germany after the armistice. *$3.50 (5c) Putnam 914.3

20–9640

“A report, based on the personal testimony of representative
Germans, concerning the conditions existing in 1919.” (Sub-title)
The author of this book, which is translated from the French, with
an introduction, by William L. McPherson, was a lieutenant of the
Belgian army. He went to Berlin after the signing of the armistice
to engage in a series of personal interviews with men of prominence
in diplomacy, the army, industry, finance, politics, journalism, the
arts and sciences. These interviews are here published in full and
contain such names as: Brockdorff-Rantzau; Prince Lichnowsky;
General Kluck; Karl Helfferich; Hugo Haase; Karl Kautsky; Theodor
Wolff; Maximilian Harden; Hermann Sudermann, and many others. In his
conclusions the author treats of: Germany and the war; Germany and
the atrocities; The Kaiser—militarism—bolshevism; Public spirit—the
government; Germany and the society of nations; The new Germany. The
book also contains a preface by Baron Beyens, former Belgian
minister in Berlin, and has an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20

“A full revelation is this volume of the true inwardness of the German
character.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 500w

“The interviewer writes with the violent prejudice of an enemy who
still fears his defeated foe. But many of the conversations are of
peculiar interest none the less. Especially valuable, perhaps, are the
statements of Kautsky and other Socialists; also the account of the
shameless murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.” H: W.
Nevinson

+ − =Freeman= 1:404 Jl 7 ’20 280w

“No better account has appeared of the individuals who are directing
the destinies of the young republic.”

+ =Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 30w

“Lieutenant Berger draws with bold strokes the portraits of the men he
met—they stand out with lifelike distinctiveness. His style is simple
and vivacious and his subject matter is engrossing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 18 ’20 1300w

=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 40w

“There is a tone of sincere frankness in the interviews which carries
weight. Lieutenant Berger is evidently a man of tact and discernment;
he refused to enter upon useless discussion, but he was able to guide
the conversation so skilfully as to secure for his superiors the
desired information.” C: Seymour

+ =Yale R= n s 10:419 Ja ’21 310w

=BERGSON, HENRI LOUIS.= Mind-energy. *$2.50 (3c) Holt 194

20–15087

This collection of lectures and essays, translated from the French by
H. Wildon Carr, is not only an authorized translation, says the
translator, but has been carefully supervised by M. Bergson himself,
as to details of meaning and expression, in order to give it the same
authority as the original French. The lectures are partly in
exposition of philosophical theory, partly detailed psychological
investigation and metaphysical research illustrative of their author’s
concept of reality as a fundamentally spiritual activity. Contents:
Life and consciousness; The soul and the body; “Phantasms of the
living” and psychical research; Dreams; Memory of the present and
false recognition; Intellectual effort; Brain and thought; a
philosophical illusion; Index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:137 Ja ’21

“Bergson is brilliant, and he is in close touch with the life of men.
He is always worth reading for his intellectual strength and his
insight into things spiritual. In this book Bergson is found at his
best.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 22 ’20 1050w

“The present volume is valuable for students of Bergson just because
its confident reaffirmations proclaim that, in the author’s judgment,
his theories have stood the test of time. Hence this is a good
opportunity for attempting a total estimate of Bergson’s work and a
sorting out of what is likely to live from what is likely to die.” R.
F. A. Hoernle

+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 Ja 15 ’21 850w

“The student who lacks either the time or the training to study Mr
Bergson’s larger and more difficult work will find in this volume of
essays clues not difficult to understand and profitable to follow.”

+ =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 300w

“The essays before us, though diversely prompted, all converge towards
one centre, which is revealed by the title of the book. At the end
they leave the feeling that he has been pursuing the same subject all
the time. The tenacity with which he applies his principles is
certainly to be noted in a thinker who suggests such a flexible,
almost elusive, view of reality. There is a fascinating essay about
‘false recognition.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p715 N 4 ’20 800w

=BERNSTORFF, JOHANN HEINRICH ANDREAS HERMANN ALBRECHT, graf von.= My three years in America. *$5 Scribner 940.32

20–11505

“As a pendant to Mr Gerard’s reminiscences of the American embassy in
Berlin during the war, Count Bernstorff’s account of his work as
German ambassador at Washington is of some historic interest. He is
mainly concerned to defend himself and to put all the blame for the
quarrel with America on the Berlin foreign office and on the military
chiefs. He denies, of course, that he had anything to do with the
campaign of bomb outrages which German-Americans, assisted by
Irish-Americans, waged against American and Canadian factories and
allied shipping. He records the profound horror and indignation caused
by the torpedoing of the Lusitania, but disclaims all previous
knowledge of that foul deed.”—Spec

“For the historian and student of the war Count von Bernstorff’s book
has undoubted value. The excellence of the translation may be due in
part to the style of Count von Bernstorff; for, unlike many German
writers, he does not hide his thought behind dense and complicated
entanglements of language, but sets it forth in clear, short, crisp
sentences.” E. E. Sperry

+ =Am Hist R= 26:99 O ’20 1100w

“There are many curious statements in the book, some of which no
sophisticated reader will believe without confirmation. At any rate
students of political science will find many things in this volume to
provoke dissent, and some also that will meet with hearty
concurrence.”

+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:736 N ’20 250w

“The book is interesting and has a certain historical value.”

+ =Ath= p11 Jl 2 ’20 580w

“The tone is reasonable and conciliatory, the logic sometimes too
smooth.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:23 O ’20

“Throughout the narrative Count Bernstorff is wonderfully frank.
Whether this frankness arises from an honest openness of mind or from
an utter absence of ability to realize his own obliquity is a question
for each reader to solve for himself.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 10 ’20 900w

“Count Bernstorff himself is not a thinker like Norman Angell and
Bertrand Russell, but he is intelligent to a high degree, exact,
fearless, without cheap pride, living in a much more real atmosphere
than most of the German war statesmen. He has the prime advantage, for
a time of such complexity, of having a good mind that functions
without interference from his prejudices or his passions.” Norman
Hapgood

+ =Nation= 111:132 Jl 31 ’20 1750w

“The story is told coolly and without any sign of prejudice, except
for an occasional slurring reference to Colonel Roosevelt or
Ambassador Gerard. The narrator analyzes his characters in an
objective sort of way, unmoved by anger or enthusiasm, except for one
exclamation of admiration for Colonel House; he dissects, he does not
eulogize or condemn.” C. W. Thompson

+ =N Y Times= 25:3 Jl 4 ’20 2150w

“This book, as a real contribution to history, will assuredly take its
place alongside volumes of such permanent value as Viscount Haldane’s,
General von Falkenhayn’s, and Count Czernin’s. Indeed, in none of
these is there sharper, more illuminative, and more cynical
observation both of men and events.”

+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 250w

=Review= 3:710 Jl 7 ’20 360w

“It would be a serious mistake to consider his ‘plaidoyer’ as
dispassionate history. It is a further and exceedingly interesting
addition to that large library of self-justification now appearing in
Germany. It differs from other volumes only on a point of good taste.”
Christian Gauss

− + =Review= 3:190 S 1 ’20 1200w

“The reader into whose hands it may come will not fail to find its
chapters exceedingly interesting, as they review familiar episodes
from what to Americans is an unfamiliar standpoint.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 240w

“We think that all the great actors in the German tragedy, military,
political and diplomatic, have now told their story, except the
ex-Kaiser. Count Bernstorff’s is certainly the best of these ‘pieces
justificatives,’ for it shows that the writer’s judgment was better
than that of his masters, and his style is temperate and logical.”

+ =Sat R= 129:542 Je 12 ’20 900w

=Spec= 124:799 Je 12 ’20 430w

“His attempt to gauge American character is on the whole happy. Even
those who differ with him will find it difficult to disprove his
findings. There is no rancor in his judgments. There is no attempt to
add piquancy to the narrative by gossip.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 9 ’20 280w

=BERRIMAN, ALGERNON E., and others.= Industrial administration. (Manchester univ. publications) il *$2.40 Longmans 331

20–9654

“The lectures published in this volume were delivered in the
department of industrial administration in the College of technology,
Manchester, during the session 1918–19, by various well-known
authorities on subjects relating to industrial administration.”
(Nature) “Contents: Social obligations of industry to labour, by B. S.
Rowntree; The applications of psychology to industry, by T. H. Pear;
Education as a function of management, by A. E. Berriman; Occupational
diseases, by T. M. Legge; Atmospheric conditions and efficiency, by L.
Hill; Industrial councils and their possibilities, by T. B. Johnston;
Training for factory administration, by St G. Heath; Industrial
fatigue, by A. F. S. Kent.” (Am Econ R)

* * * * *

=Am Econ R= 10:840 D ’20 50w

=Ath= p814 Je 18 ’20 60w

=Nature= 106:74 S 16 ’20 620w

=BETTER= letters; a little book of suggestions and information about business correspondence. $1 Herbert S. Browne, 608 S. Dearborn st., Chicago 658

20–3557

“This little book has been compiled for the average person in
business, whether executive or stenographer, who wants a statement in
simple and direct form of the elementary things that are essential to
good letters. It is a first-aid manual of style for business
correspondence, suitable for adoption by any commercial concern, large
or small.” (Introd.) Contents of part 1—The letter itself: Appearance;
Substance; Phraseology; Punctuation; Paragraphing; Abbreviations;
Miscellaneous. Contents of part 2—Words, right and wrong; Some misused
words; Verbal vulgarisms; Similar words often confused; Pronouns:
their use and abuse; Miscellaneous.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:17 O ’20

=BIERSTADT, EDWARD HALE, ed.= Three plays of the Argentine; tr. from the Spanish by Jacob S. Fassett, jr. *$1.75 Duffield 862

20–4775

In his introduction to these plays Mr Bierstadt has given us a glimpse
of the culture of one of our American neighbors to the South, of whom
we have hitherto known too little. His historical sketch of the folk
drama of the Argentine, known as the drama criollo, shows it to have
sprung from the very heart of the people, the gaucho, and to have had
its inception in the sawdust ring of the circus. As given in the
translation, the plays are transcriptions from the original popular
and unprinted versions and although modified, have retained their true
atmospheric and colorful qualities. Of the two first Mr Bierstadt
says: “They are perhaps the most famous in all the category of gaucho
plays, and carry as do no others the very spirit of the pampas.” These
are “Juan Moreira” and “Santos Vega.” The third, “The witches’
mountain,” is not in the same sense a gaucho play, as it is set in the
mountain country, but is considered as marking the last milestone in
the epoch of truly native drama.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:336 Jl ’20

“‘The witches’ mountain’ is the only one of the three plays included
that conforms to the canons of real drama.”

+ =Dial= 59:664 D ’20 80w

“The second, while sufficiently crude and violent, has elements of
great beauty. The third, The witches’ mountain, is a really
magnificent piece, both in conception and construction.”

+ =Freeman= 1:214 My 12 ’20 400w

“When we come to the actual texture of the ‘dramas criollos’ the
impression is one of slight disappointment. The figure of the
wandering ‘gaucho’ and minstrel is romantic rather than naive. Speech
and verse, at least in their translated forms, present a curious
mixture of the sentimental and the artificial. In The witches’
mountain there is high and concentrated dramatic passion. But this
play is obviously the least primitive of the three.”

+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 260w

“These plays have a freshness and vigor of spaces our Wild West
scenarios somehow lack. There are the same conventional gestures, the
same corroborated sentiment from which any informing fire has gone
out. But at least these are reminiscent of authentic instead of
manufactured emotion.” Lola Ridge

+ − =New Repub= 25:236 Ja 19 ’21 660w

+ − =Review= 2:605 Je 5 ’20 240w

“However primitive the plays, they possess what our American drama
strives in vain to discover, the soul of their native land.... The
witches’ mountain is doubtless the most actable, and the most easily
understood by an American audience.” D. Grafly

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 600w

“If these plays seem immature rather than naive; crude, rather than in
the spirit of the folk; if Mr Bierstadt seems to have mistaken the
drama inherent in the life and character of the ‘gaucho’ for drama in
the plays that represent him, there is still nothing but gratitude due
him for introducing the ‘gaucho’ to our unromantic world.”

+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:256 Jl ’20 380w

=BIGELOW, MELVILLE MADISON.= Papers on the legal history of government; difficulties fundamental and artificial. *$2 (4½c) Little 320.1

20–4206

The author warns against making a fetish of history and points out the
difficulty in the way of its infallibility as a teacher. The number
and complexity of the facts, in part hidden, in part incomprehensible,
impede correct judgment. Besides, latent energies may at any time
spring into action to change men’s reactions to given facts. On the
other hand there is a certain fundamental principle on which society
rests and which serves as constant in the interpretation of history.
It is the object of the book to study the past, to give assurance of
the principle and then to see how men have acted and are acting in its
presence. Contents: Unity in government; The family in English
history: an inquiry; Medieval English sovereignty; The old jury;
Becket and the law; Index.

* * * * *

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:738 N ’20 50w

=Booklist= 17:10 O ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 220w

=BINDLOSS, HAROLD.=[2] Lister’s great adventure (Eng title, Head of the house). il *$2 (2c) Stokes

George Lister, a young Canadian engineer, has his pluck and natural
ability rather than a defective scientific training to thank for a
moderate success. His self-reliance scorns the help of friends. He
rescues a young girl, Barbara Hyslop, from an amorous crook who has
induced her to run away with him. Later he is instrumental in
returning the girl to the bosom of her family. Having lost his job he
resolves to see something of the world and goes to England, and while
there undertakes to raise a wreck off the African coast for Barbara’s
step-father. After heroic efforts he succeeds but succumbs to the
fever-ridden locality. Barbara, who from conscientious scruples over
her romantic exploit, had refused his love, now calls him back to
health with the gift of it.

* * * * *

“The heroine and the various members of her family have more
individuality than is usual in this class of literature.”

+ =Ath= p523 O 15 ’20 80w

“There are no improbabilities and no excesses of sentimentality, the
style is simple and effective, and the pace is brisk and unwavering.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 S 23 ’20 90w

=BINDLOSS, HAROLD.= Wilderness mine. il *$1.90 (1½c) Stokes

20–14600

This story is divided into three distinct parts, the first and third
of which take place in England, and the second in Canada. Creighton
and Stayward are partners in business until Creighton, driven on by
his wife’s extravagances and his daughter’s need of an education,
misappropriates some of the funds and Stayward dissolves the
partnership. Creighton disappears and his wife spreads stories about
Stayward’s cruelty and dishonesty to her husband. The Canadian part of
the story has to do with Geoffrey Lisle, Stayward’s nephew, who is
managing a mine there, and who comes in contact with Tom Carson, cook
and chemist, who helps him defeat the rival mining company he is
working against. Upon his return to England at his uncle’s death,
Geoffrey again meets the girl who has been in his thoughts ever since
he left England, to discover that she is Ruth Creighton, and
theoretically his enemy. The timely discovery of who Tom Carson really
was helps him to win the girl and to clear his uncle’s name in her
eyes.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:70 N ’20

“His latest effort is a far more polished production than some of
those that have gone before it. As it is not the best kind of romance,
quite naturally it is not the best kind of adventure, but it serves
very well for an hour or so’s amusement, and lovers of Mr Bindloss
will find in this tale all the ingredients of his other efforts.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 350w

“Mr Bindloss is one of those writers (all too few) who handle the
adventure story without stressing the adventures to the disadvantage
of all the other parts of the story. In other words, his
characterization is always clear and distinct and worked up with some
elaboration, and he has a quick eye at the description of natural
scenery.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 Ag 22 ’20 370w

“The Canadian part of the book is much the best.”

+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w

=BINDLOSS, HAROLD.= Wyndham’s pal. *$1.75 (2c) Stokes

19–16148

Harry Wyndham having inherited from his forefathers an old business
enterprise of somewhat doubtful credit, along with a romantic,
restless, daring temperament, sets out on a trading adventure in the
wild lagoons, mandrake swamps, fever atmosphere, and mysterious
dangers of the Caribbean coast. There is a girl back home in England,
for whose sake he wishes to return wealthy and successful. He achieves
his purpose, although in order to do it he has to deal with a
dangerous, sinister, mysterious creature called the Bat, and has to
compromise his honesty and honor. Found out by his bride and business
partner he seriously undertakes reparation and re-establishes his own
self-respect, as well as the respect of others.

* * * * *

“Men, and boys in their teens, will like this story.”

+ =Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20

“Without being particularly exciting or particularly vivid, it holds
the reader’s attention.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 380w

=Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 50w

“To an astonishing degree, he maintains his average. And his average
is good.” H. Dick

+ =Pub W= 97:604 F 21 ’20 280w

“We have read better stories by this author.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:422 N 1 ’19 60w

“The story is rather better than many of the author’s recent books,
and his readers will find considerable entertainment in its pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 S 18 ’19 100w

=BINNS, OTTWELL.= Mating in the wilds. (Borzoi western stories). *$2 (2c) Knopf

20–15961

Hubert Stane, who has served a prison sentence on a false charge, is
in the north woods. Here he meets Gerald Ainley, the man who was
responsible for his sentence. Ainley apparently stands high in the
estimation of Hudson Bay company officials and is a suitor for the
hand of Helen Yardely, a beautiful English girl who is making a tour
of the posts with her uncle. Helen is lost in the woods. Stane finds
her and fate forces the two to spend long months of exile together.
Helen takes naturally to primitive life and when Stane’s name is
cleared the two are married at an English mission and continue their
wilderness life.

* * * * *

“An exciting tale told with literary excellence beyond the average of
adventure stories.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 Ag 29 ’20 550w

“It is all admirably and romantically told. Though we know the tale of
old, it is still alive when the right chronicler takes it up; and Mr
Binns never for a moment lets it flag.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 200w

=BIRDSEYE, CLARENCE FRANK.= American democracy versus Prussian Marxism. *$2.50 Revell 335

20–4906

“Clarence F. Birdseye, in a volume entitled ‘American democracy versus
Prussian Marxism,’ presents what he calls ‘a study in the nature and
results of purposive or beneficial government,’ his object being to
warn his fellow-citizens of the great danger threatening the American
form of government through the attacks that are being made upon it by
Marxian socialists. In order to make clear the danger is real, and not
fanciful, Mr Birdseye analyzes both governmental forms and shows
conclusively that no tolerance of the Marxian idea can be permitted in
this country without damage to American institutions and ideals.”—N Y
Times

* * * * *

“In this compact little volume, rich in well selected facts and
information throughout, the author has performed a useful service.” W.
B. Guthrie

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:510 Ag ’20 420w

=N Y Times= p31 S 5 ’20 90w

=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 50w

=BIRNBAUM, MARTIN.= Introductions; painters, sculptors and graphic artists. il *$5 Sherman, F: Fairchild 704

20–2849

“Papers by an American critic on Beardsley, Conder, C. H. Shannon, C.
Ricketts, Pakst, Dulac, Alfred Stevens, John Flaxman, and some younger
American artists—Maurice Sterne, Paul Manship (sculptor), Alfred
Sterner (painter, lithographer, etc.), Robert Blum (illustrator,
decorator, pastellist), Edie Nadeloman (Polish sculptor), Kay Nielsen,
the Danish water-colourist, Jules Pascrin, the Austrian satiric
artist.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The Aubrey Beardsley and Conder introductions may be taken as the
perfect models for this form of art. Mr Birnbaum, himself, never quite
arose to the same plane of detachment in his later writings. The
citations, though brilliant, become too incessant and the authorities
parading through the pages scarcely give each other elbow room. The
feats of memory displayed are prodigious, comparable to those of Mr
Huneker. In fact, stylistically, there is more than a suspicion that
Mr Birnbaum is Mr Huneker’s child.” H: McBride

+ − =Dial= 68:371 Mr ’20 1850w

“To be graceful, informing, and readily understood was the problem.
The author has solved it with sure literary tact and offers as well a
fine criticism which was not in the bond.”

+ =Review= 2:184 F 21 ’20 350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 10 ’20 580w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p304 My 13 ’20 50w

=BIRRELL, AUGUSTINE.= Frederick Locker-Lampson. il *$8 Scribner

(Eng ed 20–14702)

“A kinship of spirit as well as relationship by marriage bound Mr
Birrell and Locker-Lampson, and in every page of his character sketch,
he reveals a sympathy that is both personal and professional. Few
books are both more and less a biography than this. It is merely a
series of impressions and appreciations. Less than half its opening
pages contain the biographical matter, and then follow some fifty
pages of letters from eminent literary men—including Thackeray,
Dickens, Tennyson, Holmes, Ruskin, Hardy and Stevenson—which reveal
the esteem in which Locker-Lampson was held by his contemporaries. The
other material which completes the volume includes six letters written
by him to his son at Eton, some family bookplates, bibliographical
notes on the books in the famous Rowfant library, and a brief account
of the Rowfant library at Cleveland, with a list of its
publications.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Mr Birrell’s biography reads so queerly because it brings before us a
real human being. It is not that he is more profound than others, or
that he has a story to tell to which we cannot fail to listen. It is
that the values of life are quite different from those of biography.
There is such a thing as living. One of the chief merits of Mr
Birrell’s method, which is a peculiar compound of wit and sanity, is
that it reduces these nineteenth-century phantoms to human scale.” V.
W.

+ =Ath= p201 Ag 13 ’20 1300w

“It has been a long time since ‘London lyrics’ first appeared, but
none the less this intimate and accurate character sketch of their
author has a genuine interest and value.” H: L. West

+ =Bookm= 52:73 S ’20 450w

“A gentle and a genial tribute, it may well be said, is this volume to
the personality, the achievements and the memory of a rare being.” E.
F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 1250w

“As a piece of book-making, the offering is admirable; as a book—! But
Mr Birrell is a devoted chronicler and if, from these impeccable
pages, his placid father-in-law emerges an even less interesting
figure than he seemed before one’s perusal of his memorial, the
meticulous chronicler himself can not escape scot-free.” L: Untermeyer

− + =Freeman= 2:163 O 27 ’20 750w

“Hitherto the best analysis of Locker’s work was to be found in the
sympathetic study prepared by Austin Dobson in 1904. Mr Birrell’s
sketch is ampler than Mr Dobson’s and it is also more discursive. It
abounds in playful digressions and in pleasant irrelevancies.” Brander
Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:14 Jl 11 ’20 2300w

“His sketch is somewhat discursive and casual, containing more
background than definite statements, but it includes some agreeable
Birrelling.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:588 Je 26 ’20 1000w

“Nowhere has he gossiped more charmingly; and if he cannot resist an
occasional divagation from his main topic, his obiter dicta are as
pleasant as ever.”

+ =Spec= 124:82 Jl 17 ’20 1500w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 650w

“In reading this book, and noticing how Mr Birrell is always sliding
away from his subject to talk about himself, or about somebody or
something other than Frederick Locker, you ask why he chose ‘Frederick
Locker-Lampson: a character sketch’ for the title of a book that might
just as properly have been called ‘Scraps,’ or ‘Chips,’ or ‘Jottings.’
In the end nevertheless, you feel that you have been unfair. Mr
Birrell, in his odd, slipshod way, is a man of letters—at least a man
who delights in letters; and he gives you a faint character sketch of
Frederick Locker-Lampson.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p381 Je 17 ’20 1500w

=BISHOP, CARLTON THOMAS.=[2] Structural drafting and the design of details. il *$5 Wiley 744

20–4714

“The author was formerly chief draftsman to one of the largest bridge
companies, and is now a professor at Yale university. Part 1 covers
comprehensively the duties of the draftsman and what he should know in
a general way about organization of plant and office, as well as a
survey of the manufacture and fabrication of structural steel. Part 2
tells in detail about the technique of drawing, with special chapters
devoted to beams, girders, trusses, bracing systems, bills, checking,
etc. Part 3 deals closely with the theory and practice of designing
different types of construction members.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:102 D ’20

“To the student or inexperienced draftsman the book is invaluable. The
experienced draftsman can hardly fail to add to his efficiency by
reading it. The typography of the book is all that needs be desired.
This, with the general excellence of the contents, will make it a
standard in the field of structural drafting for some time to come.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 84:1215 Je 17 ’20 1150w

+ =Iron Age= 105:1293 Ap 29 ’20 160w

=Mining & Scientific Press= 121:33 Jl 3 ’20 110w

“On the whole we are inclined to name this the best book on the
subject.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p27 Ap ’20 170w

=Pratt= p16 O ’20 20w

=BISHOP, ERNEST SIMONS.= Narcotic drug problem. *$1.50 Macmillan 613.8

20–1614

“‘It is becoming apparent that in spite of all the work which has been
done there has been practically no change in the general situation,
and there has been no solution of the drug problem.’ This is the
conclusion of Dr Ernest S. Bishop, clinical professor of medicine in
the New York polyclinic medical school. Two outstanding elements
appear to Dr Bishop to have received insufficient consideration in the
efforts to solve the narcotic drug problem. One of these elements is
the suffering of the addict: the other is the nature of the physical
disease with which he is afflicted. Dr Bishop asserts that the
exploitation of human weakness and suffering would be checked on any
large scale, if the disease created by continued administration of
opiates were recognized and its physical demands comprehended and
provided for in legitimate and relatively unobjectionable ways.... Dr
Bishop also recommends the establishment under proper supervision and
management of stations or clinics at which those who for financial or
other reasons are unable to secure honest medical help, may obtain
their necessary opiate at minimum expense without ‘resorting to
underworld associations and illicit commerce.’”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

+ =Cleveland= p74 Ag ’20 50w

“Occasionally, very occasionally, one finds a book upon a somewhat
technical subject which is not merely readable and informative, but
actually liberating. Such a book is Dr Bishop’s discourse on the
narcotic drug problem.”

+ =No Am= 211:428 Mr ’20 850w

=Review= 3:112 Ag 4 ’20 130w

“A criticism of the book might well be directed against its
redundancy. Nor does it appear just what type of audience he had in
mind when inditing his message. Obviously it is not intended for the
narcotic drug addict. If addressed to the physician, it is incomplete
and fragmentary. If meant for the layman only casually interested in
the problem, the message should have had greater emotional appeal.” H.
E. K.

+ − =Social Hygiene= 6:586 O ’20 480w

“Dr Bishop’s study of the situation is scientific, thorough and
humane. It will authoritatively inform the public regarding a subject
on which enlightenment is needed.

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 29 ’20 800w

“The real problems of the narcotic drug situation are related to the
origin and prevention of heroin and cocaine addictions and the
treatment and after-care of those so addicted. This book avoids these
questions and is sterile of information on these essential points of
the narcotic drug problem.” Medicus

+ − =Survey= 44:253 My 15 ’20 450w

=BISHOP, H. C. W.= Kut prisoner. (On active service ser.) il *$1.50 (3c) Lane 940.47

20–5240

The author, a subaltern of the Indian army reserve of officers, gives
an account of prison life at Kastamuni in Asia Minor, and of his
escape in company with three other officers, their recapture, and
rescue by Turkish brigands and their voyage across the Black sea in a
small boat, to the Russian border and freedom. Contents: Ctesiphon;
Kut; From Kut to Kastamuni; Life in Kastamuni; Escape from Kastamuni;
The first night; On the hills; Slow progress; Bluffing the peasants;
Reaching the coast; Recaptured; Rescued; In hiding with the Turks;
Continued delays; Three days on the Black sea; The Crimea and home;
Friends in captivity. There are maps, illustrations and appendices.

* * * * *

“The book is interesting.”

+ =Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 30w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 250w

“Mr Bishop describes his adventures simply and clearly, and his book
is worth reading.”

+ =Spec= 124:216 F 14 ’20 70w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p90 F 5 ’20 60w

=BISHOP, JOSEPH BUCKLIN.= Theodore Roosevelt and his time shown in his own letters. 2v il *$10 Scribner

20–17013

“Seven years ago, when Theodore Roosevelt published his
‘Autobiography,’ he prefixed to it a foreword, which began with this
sentence. ‘Naturally, there are chapters of my autobiography which
cannot now be written.’ Yet he had written from day to day, on the
spur of the moment, in his frank letters to one or another of his
multitude of friends, the very passages which he could not give to the
public while he was still in the thick of the fight. And it is these
passages which enliven and illuminate the two volumes which Mr Bishop
has now selected and set in order, and explained and annotated. The
work was begun while Roosevelt still lived; it had his complete
approval; parts of it were read to him and amplified from his
recollections.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“The biography which will be most worth while to libraries.”

+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20

“One of the most notable works of the season is Joseph Bucklin
Bishop’s ‘Theodore Roosevelt.’” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 140w

“With perfect taste and judgment Mr Bishop has stood aside and allowed
the story to be told through Roosevelt’s letters. He has made an
excellent book, important, always readable and often extremely
amusing. With the ‘Autobiography’ and Mr Thayer’s book, the present
work, ‘Theodore Roosevelt and his time’ is one of the three
indispensable books on this subject. With Mr Huneker’s ‘Steeplejack,’
it is one of the two best American biographies of this year.” E. L.
Pearson

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 O 23 ’20 2750w

“It is a work of notable artistic merit. Perhaps fifty years hence it
may generally be conceded that this book preserves what is important
in ‘the true Theodore Roosevelt’s’ character. At present one cannot
help feeling that Mr Bishop’s figure of rugged integrity, unerring
rectitude, and loftiest patriotism has been shorn of some of its
beams.” S. P. Sherman

+ − =Nation= 112:18 Ja 5 ’21 2500w

“A difficult task has been accomplished triumphantly, and the result
is a portrait of Roosevelt by himself, set in an editorial frame which
is artistically unobstructive. Mr Bishop has given us a work which
does for one president of the United States what was done for an
earlier president by the publication of Grant’s ‘Personal memoirs.’
And neither of these great men would object to the comparison.”
Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p4 O 3 ’20 2300w

“There are a few little errors, nothing of consequence. But the book
is undoubtedly partisan; which does not prevent it from being a
thoroughly good and complete biography.” C: W. Thompson

+ − =N Y Times= p5 O 3 ’20 3450w

“It is a work after Roosevelt’s own heart, the sort of record that he
himself would have endorsed just as it stands, showing him in the full
strength and weakness of his very human quality.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 98:1196 O 16 ’20 480w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 340w

“These two volumes, as they stand, will serve not only for the present
time but for future generations.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 280w

“Mr Bishop has succeeded in giving us two volumes of great value and
readability.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 110w (Reprinted from Atlantic D ’20)

=BISHOP, LOUIS FAUGÈRES.= Heart troubles; their prevention and relief. il *$3.50 Funk 616.1

20–13070

A book written in popular style and addressed to the layman. The
author believes that a patient is entitled to the full confidence of
his physician and thinks that in heart disease “the educated patient
can help more when wisely advised than in almost any other form of
disease.” The book is in two parts: Physiological and symptomatic, and
Therapeutic. The final chapter is devoted to Nursing in heart
troubles. The book is illustrated and indexed and there is a one-page
list of collateral reading. The author is professor of the heart and
circulatory diseases, Fordham university, New York city.

* * * * *

+ =Cath World= 112:410 D ’20 90w

“The immediate effect of this sane and sensible work should be a wider
dissemination of modern knowledge of the heart, its affections and
their treatment; the ultimate result should be a reduction in the
alarming death rate from heart disease in the United States.” V. B.
Thorne

+ =N Y Times= p17 Ag 29 ’20 3000w

“A ‘doctor book’ of an unusual sort and one which will be found of
great interest and of much practical value.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 2 ’20 130w

=BISPHAM, DAVID SCULL.= Quaker singer’s recollections. il *$4 Macmillan

20–1629

“For thirty years and more David Bispham has been prominent, here and
abroad, as a baritone of note, a singing actor, and an advocate of the
use of English speech in opera. In these recollections he has packed
into one volume the record of a long and busy life—a life of many
strange and varied experiences. Unlike most men who have their hour in
opera, he has had his in society. He has traveled far and wide, and
mixed with people who were worth knowing and far-famed in many ways.
To this it may be added, unreservedly, that he has more than an
instinctive turn for setting down, in plain but vivid words, what he
would tell.”—Review

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20

“The style, unfortunately, is plainly that of a singer, and wavers
continually between the exclamatory and the sentimental.”

+ − =Dial= 68:402 Mr ’20 90w

“While Mr Bispham’s book may appeal primarily to singers and students
of singing, it is none the less a valuable text book for students of
the drama.”

+ =Drama= 10:356 Jl ’20 140w

“It is an interesting volume full of the writer’s personality written
with more literary skill and taste than many such books, giving many
sidelights on the musical life of the period of which it treats.” R:
Aldrich

+ =N Y Times= 25:6 F 29 ’20 2150w

“If we were disappointed in David Bispham’s ‘A Quaker singer’s
recollections,’ it was not because of lack of thoroughness, but
because that delightful singer’s fund of anecdote has not been used to
advantage.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 80w

“A singer who can write with ease and style is rarer than that rare
bird, the black swan. One artist of the kind is David Bispham.” C: H:
Meltzer

+ =Review= 2:289 Mr 20 ’20 950w

=R of Rs= 61:333 Mr ’20 100w

“An excellent volume of reminiscences.”

+ =Spec= 124:694 My 22 ’20 780w

“He has perhaps not grasped the first bitter truth to be learned by an
author that of all the countless incidents which his own mind makes
picturesque in retrospect only those are interesting which he can make
picturesque to others. The bald stretches, however, are only
occasional.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 Ap 15 ’20 850w

=BISS, GERALD.= Door of the unreal. *$2 (3c) Putnam

20–19179

Strange disappearances are common in fact and in fiction, sometimes
involving equally strange explanations, but surely in either realm,
nothing could rival the solution of the mystery of this story. Of the
four people who completely vanish from a well-traveled English road
about midnight of a moonlight night, the only one who is ever seen
again is Tony Ballingdon, and he is found unconscious and bruised in a
nearby wood. Lincoln Osgood, an American who happens to be on the
scene, makes a study of the case and soon forms a theory which proves
to be the correct one, altho so weird and uncanny is it that he
himself can hardly credit it. It is based on lycanthropy and its
strange lore: in fact, it presupposes the existence in the
neighborhood of two werewolves, Prof. Lycurgus Wolff and his old
servant. By his knowledge of the subject Osgood prevents further
tragedy and frees Dorothy, Wolff’s daughter, from the curse that is
threatening her.

* * * * *

“With the understanding that the solution of the mystery of the novel
lies along the lines of lycanthropy, the reader finds before him a
smoothly written, straightforward narrative, lucid and compelling in
its admirable simplicity, and endowed with that sustained interest
which before anything else connotes a good story.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 S 19 ’20 760w

“A readable yarn it is.”

+ =Review= 3:350 O 20 ’20 330w

=BLACHLY, CLARENCE DAN.= Treatment of the problem of capital and labor in social-study courses in the churches. *50c Univ. of Chicago press 330.7

20–2984

“The social-study movement in the churches of America has developed on
lines both sound and broad in recent years, and a review of its
present status would be decidedly helpful. Mr Blachly, however, has
found the material so large that in the present essay he confines
himself to only one aspect of that movement. He presents an analysis
of several hundred pamphlets and reports, replies to questionnaires
and letters of inquiry, the texts of the social study courses used in
the leading Protestant churches, the principal church magazines and
other literature. He distinguishes five methods of approach to the
discussion of capital and labor by the churches: deductive study which
he finds as a rule incomplete and non-conclusive; controversial
discussion, especially the adoption of a definite political or
economic platform, which is dangerous to church harmony; control of
experience through attitude of mind and heart, i.e., emphasis on the
spiritual rather than the legal control of conditions; scientific,
critical examination—which is rare because the religious attitude is
as different from that of the student as it is from that of the
legislator; the incorporation of modern, scientific and sociological
facts into teaching that is primarily religious. Evidently, the
author’s preference is for the last named method.”—Survey

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:10 O ’20 (Adapted from Survey 43:781 Mr 20 ’20)

“This is a valuable summary of information for the student of the
teaching of organized religion on present-day problems of the social
life and a suggestive criticism of the different policies that have
been adopted.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 330w

=BLACK, HUGH.=[2] Lest we forget. *$1.50 Revell 824

“In the eleven chapters which make up this book the author discusses
among other things the meaning of the victory, a democracy safe for
the world, patriotism, true and false, peace and pacifism, the binding
of the nations and the English-speaking peoples. In the chapter on the
binding of the nations he says: ‘All men of goodwill must recognize
that the plan for a league of nations is inspired with their highest
ideal, and they can make it invincible.’”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=N Y Evening Post= p24 O 23 ’20 90w

=N Y Times= p21 N 14 ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ’20 280w

=BLAKE, A. H.= Things seen in London. il *$1.35 Dutton 914.21

20–26316

“This book is a pocket-sized volume, belonging to the Things seen
series, which contains descriptive and historical chapters on points
of special interest with post-card sized illustrations.”—Booklist

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:239 Ap ’20

+ =Spec= 122:546 O 25 ’19 40w

“It hardly exhausts the city. But it is a good introductory
description, written by a person who appreciates historic flavor. The
little book is well illustrated.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 18 ’20 120w

=BLAKEMORE, ARTHUR WALKER.=[2] Make your will. *$1.25 Appleton 347.6

20–22318

The book is “a guide to the drafting of a valid will under the laws of
any state.” (Sub-title) In the introduction the reasons for making a
will, its essentials, and definitions of the terms used are given. The
other chapters are: Form and essentials; Provisions of will; Execution
of will; Codicils; After execution of will. The book is indexed and
has an appendix containing a synopsis of laws affecting wills for
every state.

=BLANCHARD, PHYLLIS MARY.= Adolescent girl. *$2.50 Moffat 136.7

20–8047

“A pioneering into the field of girl life in a direction, says Dr G.
Stanley Hall in his preface, which his studies took with the
adolescent boy. The book is a summary of the main theories of Fichte,
Schelling, Von Hartmann, Bergson, Freud, Trotter, Adler, Jung, Maeder
and others.”—Booklist

* * * * *

“More helpful to the serious student than Evans [‘Problem of the
nervous child’] because of its carefully selected chapter
bibliographies.”

+ =Booklist= 16:302 Je ’20

“Unfortunately, she does not resist the temptation to adopt the
evangelistic tone. Although ostensibly based on the findings of Freud,
Jung and Adler, there is never any suggestion that their researches
may ultimately lead to a questioning of some of our moral standards.
But this is an eminently safe book.” Fola La Follette

− + =Freeman= 1:621 S 8 ’20 1100w

“To the reviewer the book commends itself most particularly on account
of the richness of first-hand clinical material, put in a simple,
readable manner, the frankness with which the author has handled the
subject of the instinctive determinants of conduct, and finally
because it reflects throughout a ‘mental hygienic’ rather than a
therapeutic aim.” Bernard Glueck

+ =Mental Hygiene= 4:974 O ’20 800w

“The chief value of Miss Blanchard’s work is in line with her own real
interest, philosophy. Busy workers with girls, who may feel that their
knowledge of the main developments of psychoanalysis is rather vague,
and who wish to know some of its real possibilities in their own
field, will find this a useful and interesting introduction.” M. E.
Moxcey

+ − =Social Hygiene= 6:584 O ’20 350w

“She endeavors to give a social direction to her material. But it
remains a good deal of a jumble.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 70w

Reviewed by A. E. Morey

+ =Survey= 45:369 D 4 ’20 560w

=BLAND, JOHN OTWAY PERCY.= Men, manners and morals in South America. il *$4.50 Scribner 918

(Eng ed 20–14550)

“This book is the outcome of two or three journeys which Mr Bland, the
author of several books on China, made to South America in the course
of the war. They took him to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.”
(The Times [London] Lit Sup) “He protests against the ‘blue-book
stodginess’ of many works which deal with that portion of the western
hemisphere south of the equator. It is undeniable that the general
reader wants, not dry particulars of South American trades,
industries, and manufacturing possibilities, but silhouettes of the
men and women and their social life; descriptions of the prairies and
forests, of mountain gorges and the ‘everlasting hills.’ Mr Bland, who
portrays numerous types of South American humanity, and spiritedly
describes the places he has visited, successfully avoids the faults to
which his strictures apply.” (Ath)

* * * * *

“His book is heartily to be commended.”

+ =Ath= p687 My 21 ’20 100w

+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20

“All that he tells is well worth the reading.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 550w

“Tho rambling in manner and somewhat cynical in tone, is an
illuminating introduction to a little understood part of the world.”

+ − =Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 60w

“In no place in the present work has he attained or even attempted
that subtlety of characterization, that inimitable charm of
description which enchants us in Hudson. The outsides of people he has
faithfully observed and studiously catalogued; the insides he has
missed. Not that there are lacking passages of rare beauty and
memorable description in the present work. Had Mr Bland chosen any
other theme than this one, which has already been covered by a master,
his volume would stand out as an unusual contribution to the
literature of travel.” H. L. Varney

+ − =N Y Times= p16 Ag 15 ’20 1700w

“He writes because he likes writing, and as he writes very brightly
the reader has no cause to complain. He conjures up people and customs
that were strange to him in phrases of so much colour, point, and
pungency that we are well content to see them with his eyes.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p198 Mr 25 ’20 1100w

=BLAND, OLIVER.= Adventures of a modern occultist. *$2 Dodd 133

20–17101

To acquire psychic power, says the author, presupposes certain unusual
natural gifts and the object of the volume is to render assistance to
those possessing such gifts. It contains disclosures of hidden facts
which have been abiding their time for years in the author’s
notebooks, and which are of interest to the spiritualist, the
theosophist, and the student of psychic research. Contents: The dead
rapper; The automatist; Astral light and psycho-lastrometer; An
experiment on the theory of protective vibration; Sex in the next
world; The reality of sorcery; Incense and occultism; Beasts and
elementals; Possession; Some new facts and theories; Oriental
occultism.

=BLASCO IBÁÑEZ, VICENTE.=[2] Enemies of women (Los enemigos de la mujer); tr. from the Spanish by Irving Brown. *$2.15 Dutton

20–19241

“In a fairy-like villa on the Mediterranean, Prince Lubimoff, a
Russian Apollo, surfeited with luxury and liasons, gathers a group of
friends,—a savant, a soldier, and a musician,—in order to live in calm
contemplation, free from the most disturbing element in life—the
feminine. These ‘enemies of women,’ as they style themselves, start
with a sense of satiated superiority that makes renunciation easy, but
the gradual defection of each from the code and the coterie forms an
intriguing study of human nature and its inevitabilities. In the end,
all the ‘enemies of women’ have succumbed to the eternal feminine and
chiefly because of it have gone to fight on the side of idealism, even
that incorrigible epicurean, the Russian prince, losing an arm in the
Foreign legion and gaining some semblance of a soul.”—Pub W

* * * * *

“Taking it by the large, the book, though not without its weak spots,
is a decided improvement over the two that went before it in point of
time, and thus provides a genuine climax to the trilogy.” I. G.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 N 6 ’20 1350w

“While the book is a colorful, cross-section of the hectic war and
post-war fragments of European civilization, it lacks the directed
drive of the ‘Four horsemen’ and ‘Mare nostrum,’ as well as the
concentration of theme and treatment of the Spanish stories.” Clement
Wood

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Ja 16 ’21 200w

“The book is so full of splendid, glowing color, so rich in
characters, each one clearly set forth and individualized—it has so
many dramatic scenes, so many statements upon which one would like to
comment, that to choose among them is extraordinarily difficult. That
the book is beautifully written, and the descriptions of scenery
remarkable, goes, of course, without saying.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 O 31 ’20 1300w

“Blasco Ibáñez has, with master hand, painted a broad, crowded canvas,
teeming with life and glowing with primary colors. It is undeniably a
strong book and thoroly characteristic of the author, tho with rather
an over-emphasis on the sensual side and coronetted classes, and with
different ethical values from those to which the Anglo-Saxon mind is
trained.” Katharine Perry

+ =Pub W= 98:1888 D 18 ’20 410w

=BLASCO IBÁÑEZ, VICENTE.= Mexico in revolution; tr. by Arthur Livingston and José Padin. *$2 Dutton 972

20–12284

“The author of the ‘Four horsemen of the Apocalypse’ happens to be one
of the few Spaniards of distinction who have recently visited the
United States. That he should prove to be a journalist as well as a
novelist occasioned some surprise among his admirers in this country.
His visit to Mexico was distinctly a journalistic enterprise, the
outcome of which was a series of articles printed in the New York
Times and other important newspapers and now brought out in book
form.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“Statements cited as facts are sometimes based on hearsay, or
incomplete knowledge. The style is that of a vigorous piece of
reporting, particularly in the vividness of the personalities
portrayed.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:24 O ’20

=Cath World= 112:401 D ’20 260w