Chapter LXXV: Part I: contains: The evolution of the principles underlying the (3)

This volume is the first of eleven Americanization studies instituted
by the Carnegie corporation of New York, under the direction of Allen
T. Burns. The author calls attention to the fact that since the
preparation of the volume was begun such a complete overturn of ideas
respecting Americanization has taken place that the term itself is
being replaced by such terms as “citizenship” and “national
unification.” This implies a larger comprehension of the problem and a
realization that the “drive” method must give way to a process of
education “not to be undertaken impulsively, but systematically,
persistently, and determinedly.” Contents: The school and
nationalization; Problems and policies; Public-school administration;
Private schools and public responsibility; Methods of teaching
English; Measuring progress in English; Educational service stations;
The training of teachers; Trend of legislation; Schooling in
citizenship; Summary; Appendix, maps, diagrams and tables.

* * * * *

“Very useful to the serious organizer of immigrant work.”

+ =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20

“As a text-book it gets to the heart of the matter and will be found
invaluable to teachers interested in the education of the immigrant.”
A. Yezierska

+ =Bookm= 52:498 F ’21 420w

“Leaders in educational, industrial, or welfare work in any community
which is facing the immigrant problem will find this book interesting
in its account of conditions that exist and rich in suggestion of
means by which these may be improved.”

+ =School R= 28:788 D ’20 750w

“This is the most reassuring book on the subject of immigrant
education that has yet appeared.” J. K. Hart

+ =Survey= 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 70w

=THOMPSON, HOLLAND.= New South; a chronicle of social and industrial evolution. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 975

19–19140

“With no desire to encourage sectionalism, it seems to have been the
purpose of the editors to have every part of the country intelligently
presented in ‘The chronicles of America.’ ‘The new South,’ written by
a southern man, Dr Holland Thompson, gives an account of the
industrial, intellectual, and social progress that has been made by
the South since the Civil war. In this volume, land and labor problems
have an important place.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“This small volume on a large subject has two notable characteristics.
One is its catholicity of spirit. The other characteristic of the book
is its descriptive value. As a brief and suggestive survey of the rise
of a civilization the book is unsurpassed.” W: K. Boyd

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:146 O ’20 360w

“The chapters on The background, The revolt of the common man, and
Industrial development may, perhaps, be found to contain more that is
new than any of the others. The second mentioned, which describes the
wresting of political control from the Confederate soldier, is
probably the best in the book. All are good, however.” M. J. White

+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:159 S ’20 500w

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 80w

=THOMPSON, MRS JANE SMEAL (HENDERSON), and THOMPSON, HELEN GERTRUDE.= Silvanus Phillips Thompson, his life and letters. il *$7.50 Dutton

(Eng ed 20–11520)

“Many old students of the Finsbury technical college will welcome the
life of its first principal, which has been compiled by his wife and
daughter. Thompson accepted that post in 1885 and occupied it until
his death in 1916. In addition to his life-work at Finsbury, Thompson
wrote one of the best of elementary textbooks on electricity and
magnetism, a standard work on dynamo-electric machinery, lives of
Faraday and Lord Kelvin, and various monographs connected with Gilbert
and the early history of magnetism, besides other books and a number
of scientific papers. He was a convinced member of the Society of
Friends, and frequently spoke at the Westminster meeting and
elsewhere. Some of his religious addresses were printed in a
posthumous work, ‘A not impossible religion.’—Spec

* * * * *

“These ladies enable us to make a closer acquaintance with one, to
whose lucid explanations from the platform we have listened with
pleasure, and whose text-books we have read with profit. The
references to his home life are restrained but interesting. But we
could have wished that letters other than those dealing with
scientific matters were more plentiful.”

+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p66 Jl ’20 180w (Reprinted from
Engineering Ag 6 ’20)

“His biography is interesting and it is also stimulating.”

+ =Review= 3:392 O 27 ’20 170w

=Spec= 125:153 Jl 31 ’19 380w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p181 Mr 18 ’20 1700w

=THOMPSON, JOHN REUBEN.= Poems; with a biographical introd. by J: S. Patton. *$2 Scribner 811

20–6690

“The University of Virginia edition of the ‘Poems of John R. Thompson’
is a tribute to the memory of one of the most memorable of Confederate
poets. Now first collected, Thompson’s verses exhibit the gay and
friendly—nor wholly unpuritanical—spirit which ruled the older
literary Richmond. Here are echoes of Byron, Campbell, Southey,
Béranger, Heine, Praed, Holmes, Saxe, neatly fitted to Virginian
occasions. The rhymed essays, Patriotism, Virginia, and Poesy, sum up
practically all that young Virginians were thinking and feeling from
1855 to 1859. The book was made possible by the Alfred Henry Byrd
gift, and well edited by Mr John S. Patton.”—Nation

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20

“It is good poetry of its time and kind, perfectly typical of the
spirit of the mid-nineteenth century, although it does not touch the
beauty and vigor of Poe, or the later sweetness and light of Lanier.”
E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 1500w

+ =Nation= 110:560 Ap 24 ’20 260w

“John R. Thompson was not a genius. He was a gentleman of talent and
culture. His verse is witty, fluent, eloquent, exquisitely ironical,
but never great.” M. Wilkinson

+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 750w

=THOMPSON, MARGARET J.= Food for the sick and the well: how to select it and how to cook it. *$1 World bk. 641.5

20–1484

Of the author of this practical little volume of recipes and
suggestions on diet Dr William Gerry Morgan says in the introduction
that she “has had years of experience in the care and feeding of the
sick, and during all that time she has been a close and earnest
student of dietetics from a practical standpoint.” Contents: General
considerations—food and health, a balanced menu, suggestions and
cautions; Recipes; Treatments; Index.

* * * * *

“This little book is written more especially for nurses but should
prove very handy also on the household book shelf of the home maker.”

+ =Survey= 43:622 F 21 ’20 100w

=THOMS, CRAIG S.= Essentials of Christianity. *$1.25 Am. Bapt. 230

20–272

“Religion, like everything else,” says the author, “has caught the
temper of the age,” and this little book can be called an attempt to
apply modern efficiency methods to religion. In these times of wornout
institutions and necessary readjustments in all our relations,
religion too must be reduced to its lowest terms in order that we can
build anew; and constructive thought and vigor of action are called
for. Whatever our difficulties may be, the author thinks it is always
possible “to secure an effective starting point for one’s religious
life by beginning where one is and cooperating with God according to
one’s light and opportunity.” Contents: Faith; God; Christ: Evolution;
The Bible; Prayer; Immortality; The church; Cooperating with God.

=THOMSON, JOHN ARTHUR.= System of animate nature. 2v *$6 Holt 570

20–18325

Two volumes containing the Gifford lectures delivered in the
University of St Andrews in the years 1915 and 1916, by the Regius
professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen. The
subject matter of this lecture series is usually philosophical,
dealing with the nature of man and the universe. In presenting the
biological point of view, Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable,
but as a coninterpretation or our religious conviction, we must admit
the desirability of having more than a passing acquaintance with the
system of things of which our everyday life is in some measure part.”
His aim has been “to state the general results of biological inquiry
which must be taken account of if we are to think of organic nature as
a whole and in relation to the rest of our experience.” (Preface)
Volume 1 contains ten lectures on The realm of organisms as it is;
Volume 2, also composed of ten lectures, is devoted to The evolution
of the realm of organisms. Volume 2 has a bibliography of nineteen
pages and an index.

* * * * *

“As correcting the ‘red in tooth and claw’ conception of the animate
world. Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable, but, as a
contribution to the ethical and religious problem, they are
unimportant.”

+ − =Ath= p478 O 8 ’20 1150w

“Will appeal only to the reflective who can use biological facts as
the material of thought. For large and special libraries.”

+ =Booklist= 17:101 D ’20

“The author’s resources in the way of naturalistic erudition are
astounding, and his command of English at once fresh and fascinating.”
E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 70w

“It is a book that most certainly ought to have been written. It takes
stock, so to speak, of the situation of speculative biology at the
beginning of a new phase in science, and it does so in a manner that
is candid, comprehensive, and most attractive.” J. J.

+ − =Nature= 106:494 D 16 ’20 1950w

“If these Gifford lectures had no other value they would be welcome
for their simple and comprehensive statement of the present phase of
the Darwinian theory. In some cases he lays himself open to a charge
of bad philosophy, in others of bad science. None the less, we are
grateful for what is always a serious and often a true and beautiful
book.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p848 D 16 ’20 1900w

=THORLEY, WILFRID CHARLES=, tr. and ed. Fleurs-de-lys. *$2 Houghton 841.08

20–26552

This anthology of French verse reaches from the thirteenth century to
the present. It is a free translation and in his introduction to the
collection, which is in part a treatise on the art of translation, the
author sets forth his reasons for a free rendering. The greater part
of the introduction is a historical survey of French verse. The poems
are chronologically grouped and the English employed is likewise
chronologically adapted to the original verse. There are copious
notes, an index of authors and an index of first lines.

* * * * *

“Mr Thorley’s power of fluent expression gets the better of his sense
of history. What he brings with him obscures what he takes. But to
harp on Mr Thorley’s failures is ungenerous. Let us rather express our
surprise and admiration that in a volume so large and so varied the
failures are not more numerous and more complete.” A. L. H.

+ − =Ath= p209 F 13 ’20 1000w

+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20

“The whole collection is marked by inspiration, technical flexibility
and literary tact.”

+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 60w

“Mr Thorley displays more earnestness than achievement.”

+ − =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 70w

“There is perhaps no version in his book that is not accomplished
poetry, and he has an especial richness, ease, and sonorousness in
handling the frequent sonnet form. He is less happy when he rebuilds
poems. But it is his whole book that places Mr Thorley definitely in
the front rank of those artists among whom he wishes to be counted.”
Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 110:857 Je 26 ’20 280w

“Mr Thorley is sometimes a spirited translator. But his felicity is
intermittent, and is sometimes dotted or crossed with infelicity.”

+ − =Review= 3:152 Ag 18 ’20 240w

“With a remarkable gift for translation, he has chosen his material
with taste and with a scholarship free from pedantry.” E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R= n s 10:202 O ’20 60w

=THORNDIKE, ASHLEY HORACE.= Literature in a changing age. *$3 Macmillan 820.9

20–16291

“The effect of life upon literature, especially as it concerns the
English people, is the problem that Professor Thorndike examines in
this book. His survey includes a century as he contrasts the
difference of English literature after Waterloo with its character
today after the great war. The study of the changes that are the
groundwork upon which literature bases its expression is primarily
concerned with life. Thus Professor Thorndike in the first four
chapters of his book deals with literature—down to Carlyle with a more
or less historical sense. His next five chapters shift the whole basis
of this historic groundwork with the revolts and evolutions that began
to change the aspects of society. Hence Progress and poverty,
Democracy and empire, Religion, Woman, and Science, invention and
machinery are the subjects discussed. What Professor Thorndike
predicts for the future is a reconcilement, a quicker compromise than
in the past, between the changing forces of life and the imaginative
symbols, which is literature’s interpretation and embodiment of
them.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“One always takes up with respect a work by Professor Thorndike, but
this book is below his reputation. It is solid and sensible, and
presents truly the main facts about the period and its literature. But
the ground covered is so wide that little not already known to the
student of history or of literature can be told within the small
compass of the volume: and the book lacks the unity, lucidity, and
brilliancy which could alone make memorable so brief a treatment of so
large and complex a subject.” W. C. Bronson

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:362 Ja ’21 410w

“A careful piece of work that will interest only widely read people
who do not need an entrancing style to attract them. No index.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 2 ’20 780w

“Perhaps it is this wealth of illustration which hinders the movement
of the thesis: the author is continually led astray into the realms of
literary criticism admirable in itself, but not bearing directly
enough on the subject under discussion. We must confess to having
found the opening chapters dull, academic, a laboring of the obvious.”
W. H. B.

+ − =Grinnell R= 16:333 Ja ’21 400w

“On the political and economic side his conclusions are terrifically
unconvincing.” Pierre Loving

− + =N Y Call= p10 Ja 16 ’21 900w

“To this new study he has brought the integrity of method and the
comprehensive acuteness which he had displayed in his previous works.
He has written a book to be enjoyed by all lovers of literature and to
be appreciated by all who can recognize the clear and cogent writing
which is the result of wide culture and of deep thought.” Brander
Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p2 O 17 ’20 1800w

“With what seems pretty near perversity, he has chosen scrupulously to
avoid the inevitable circumstances of chronology, and to arrange his
matter under such categories as ‘Democracy and empire,’ ‘Woman,’ and
so on, and instead of stating facts he is apt only to allude. The
resulting impression is of confused admiration.”

+ − =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 130w

=Survey= 45:330 N 27 ’20 260w

“It is an extensive and fascinating subject, and it is handled as we
should expect a thoroughly efficient American professor to handle it.
That is to say, he designs his structure in a clear and logical way.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D ’20 230w

=THORNLEY, ISOBEL D.= England under the Yorkists, 1460–1485; with a preface by A. F. Pollard. (Univ. of London intermediate source-books of history) il *$3.35 (*9s 6d) Longmans 942.04

20–4567

“Though primarily intended for the use of undergraduates, this volume
of extracts from contemporary sources for the reigns of Edward IV and
Richard III will interest a larger public. Miss Thornley has ranged
widely among printed and unprinted materials in selecting passages to
illustrate the political, constitutional, ecclesiastical, economic,
and social aspects of that turbulent generation.”—Spec

* * * * *

“The work is admirably done.”

+ =Nation= 111:304 S 11 ’20 240w

+ =Spec= 124:248 F 21 ’20 210w

=THURSTON, ERNEST TEMPLE.= Sheepskins and grey russet. il *$2.50 Putnam

20–1212

This is the story of a curious couple, “vagabonds,” the author calls
them, from the restlessness with which they change from one abode to
the other. They have a fad for old houses, and whenever they are
“settled for life” in one place they find another which is even older
and more to their liking. At last they buy quite an ancient farm near
Tewkesbury and it is at this place that “A. H.” describes his visit to
them. They are a most engaging couple, are Bellwattle and Cruikshank,
with their oddities and whimsies and their farming vicissitudes, and
the reader is left with the impression that if a child should come to
bless their union, their restlessness would vanish. The illustrations
are by Emile Verpilleux.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

“There is a whimsical tenderness in Mr Thurston’s treatment of his
characters. It is his most pleasing mood, and it is present throughout
his pastoral.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 700w

“‘Sheepskins and grey russet’ is really of value. This is a most
gentlemanly book, with good antecedents, a reasonable income, and an
excellent digestion.”

+ =Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 120w

+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 80w

+ =Lit D= p89 Je 26 ’20 2150w

“Many chapters give us an insight into country life in England. Not in
the manner of Thomas Hardy or Eden Phillpotts, but in the more
substantial and eternal manner of the ‘Stable boys’ almanac.’” B: de
Casseres

− =N Y Times= 25:221 My 2 ’20 800w

“Charmingly printed and illustrated.”

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 50w

“The charm of the present book lies not a little in its slightness and
unobtrusiveness as a story. The thread is there, a tale is told; but
with great economy of motion, almost as if by inadvertence.” H. W.
Boynton

+ =Review= 3:131 Ag 11 ’20 400w

“It must be confessed that as far as any practical assistance to an
American family wanting to break into country life is concerned, the
book is literature pure and simple, and by no means to be classed
under useful arts. Perhaps they would say the same in England; but
anyway, literature is quite worth while, and this book belongs in the
worthwhile class.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 260w

=THWING, ANNIE HAVEN.= Crooked and narrow streets of the town of Boston, 1630–1822. il *$5 (7c) Jones. Marshall 974.4

20–19769

The book gives a brief historical survey of how Boston came to be
Boston and then confines itself to the history of its streets and
their original inhabitants and ancestry. But few of the old streets
survive even in pictures and of the survivors most have been widened.
“Many of the old streets were so narrow that it was difficult for two
vehicles to pass each other and so crooked that after a fire the town
invariably ordered them straightened.” (Introductory) The contents
are: The North end; Government and business centre; South end; The
West end; The neck; Notes and index of streets. The book is
illustrated with old prints and has seven insert maps.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21

“It is replete with accurate and minute information, and yet it does
not lack the anecdotal vivacity which makes this kind of book good
reading. The volume is admirably put together, and the engravings and
old maps are especially interesting.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 130w

“There could hardly be a pleasanter guide book for a devout explorer
than ‘The crooked and narrow streets of Boston.’”

+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 70w

“Its accuracy is vouched for by the fact that it is the outcome of a
life-work, whose results are treasured by the Massachusetts Historical
society. There are numerous agreeable lighter touches.”

+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 160w

“It is a work giving much valuable information and might well be
imitated in all of our important cities.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 160w

“Miss Thwing’s book will remove any lingering doubt you may have as to
the historical interest of those streets or as to the quaint
picturesqueness that was theirs in a bygone age.”

+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 2 ’21 500w

+ =R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 50w

=TITUS, HAROLD.= Last straw. il *$1.75 (2c) Small

20–4711

Jane Hunter falls heir to a western ranch. She is an eastern society
girl who knows little about the West and had it not been that her
fortunes were at a low ebb she would have taken little interest in her
new property. She goes West hoping to realize ready money out of the
place and once there events decide her to stay. Dick Hilton, the
easterner who had long wanted to marry her, follows her to the West
and remains there to add to her troubles. Of the latter she has many,
including a dishonest foreman, cattle thieves, and a “nester” who cuts
off her best watering place and who is only a tool in the hands of her
enemies. Tom Beck, who had refused to take a chance in the draw for
foreman but who stays on the ranch to serve her at every turn, makes a
very satisfactory hero and after an exciting bit of fighting the story
comes to a peaceful close.

* * * * *

“The excellence of the novel lies not in its characters, not in its
plot, which is always stirring, but in the way the plot works out of
the characters. This stamps it as first-class work.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 520w

“Mr Titus knows his subject; he writes with a facile pen, and ‘The
last straw’ will be keenly enjoyed by all lovers of western adventure
tales.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:221 My 2 ’20 550w

=TODD, ARTHUR JAMES.= Scientific spirit and social work. *$2 Macmillan 361

19–18666

“Prof. A. J. Todd, in his new book, points out that for 25 years
social work has been professionalizing itself. He shows how modern
social work enlarges the ‘rights of man,’ how it contributes to social
progress, and what qualifications in character and training it demands
of those who have entered it as a vocation.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“A most readable book for social workers”

+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20

+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 80w

“The book, like some others based on college lectures, achieves an
effect of reasoning by interpellation of ‘then,’ ‘therefore,’ ‘it
follows,’ ‘and to sum up’ and contains frequent adjurations to ‘hard
thinking’ without corresponding performance. Much of the material is a
trifle obvious.”

− =Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 220w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’20 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 15 ’20 270w

“In matters of detail we find much with which we differ. But all
trained social workers and all teachers of applied sociology will
welcome this vigorous, powerful statement of the principles and
methods and ideals of social work.” J. E. Hagerty

+ − =Survey= 43:621 F 21 ’20 650w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 40w

=TOMLINSON, H. M.= Old junk. *$2 (5c) Knopf 910

(Eng ed 19–15918)

This collection of sketches and essays has been reprinted from various
publications between January, 1907 and April, 1918. They contain
impressions and reminiscences from many lands and seas. S. K.
Ratcliffe in his foreword to the volume, says of the author: “Among
all the men writing in England today there is none known to us whose
work reveals a more indubitable sense of the harmonies of imaginative
prose.” The last seven of the papers reveal the author as
war-correspondent. Among the contents are: The African coast; Old
junk; The pit mouth; The art of writing; The derelict; The Lascar’s
walking stick; On leave; A division on the march; The ruins.

* * * * *

“It is at times like these that we find it extraordinary comfort to
have in our midst a citizen of the sea, a writer like Mr H. M.
Tomlinson. We feel that he is calm, not because he has renounced life,
but because he lives in the memory of that solemn gesture with which
the sea blesses or dismisses or destroys her own. The breath of the
sea sounds in all his writings.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p205 Ap 18 ’19 700w

+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20

“One opens this book at random and finds sentences, paragraphs, whole
pages that are at once a delight and a despair: a delight because they
are—well, delightful; and a despair because, peer as you may, you
cannot discover the secret of their making.” J: Bunker

+ =Bookm= 51:474 Je ’20 1050w

“For a set of essays written on land and sea, ‘Old Junk’ is a
misleading title. Mr Tomlinson is an artist to whom ‘the light that
never was’ is plainly visible. His descriptions of two voyages, one
along the African coast, and the other, the more familiar passage
across the Atlantic, are marvelous prose.” C. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w

“Delicate and helpless in his gestures, he yet is enduringly accurate
in imagination. His images are of that excellent variety which send
your eye to the corner of the ceiling for testing and reflection and
acceptance.”

+ =Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 180w

“No one has the right to look knowing when literature is mentioned
unless he is fully aware of Mr H. M. Tomlinson.” Rebecca West

+ =New Repub= 19:332 Jl 9 ’19 1400w

“A collection of stories of travel and chance which open out to the
reader new visions of the sea and all that thereon is.”

+ =Sat R= 127:428 My 3 ’19 70w

“Several of his papers deal with the war. He does not describe the
fighting, but its effect on those who come back from it—how it
disgusts them with life, how it works in them a change, not outwardly
perceptible, which makes them strangers to their own kith and kin. All
this is admirably thought and said, and so is a tribute to ‘the
nobodies’ who restore the balance of the world when it has been upset
by the highly placed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p181 Ap 3 ’19 500w

=TOMPKINS, DANIEL AUGUSTUS.= Builder of the new South; being the story of his life work, by George Tayloe Winston. il *$3 Doubleday

20–18666

The new South, says the author, is not the achievement of educational
and religious missionaries but of industrial forces which are
epitomized in the life of Daniel Augustus Tompkins. “He built a new
South—of mills and factories, of skilled labor and machinery, of
diversified and intensified agriculture, of improved railways and
highways, of saving banks and building and loan associations—a new
South also of public schools, technical colleges, and expanding
universities, of independent journalism and independent thought—a new
South of universal education and democracy.” (Author’s summary of the
contents of the book)

* * * * *

“Describes a strong character and an important movement in American
history.”

+ =Booklist= 17:114 D ’20

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 240w

=TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR [TOMPKINS] POTTLE).= Joanna builds a nest. il *$1.75 Bobbs

20–18300

“Joanna is a competent business woman, attractive, and with a bird’s
own instinct for home building. She buys a wretched little house on a
hill, sets the carpenters to work, advertises for a cheerful working
housekeeper and a slightly disabled soldier to run the place, and
herself comes out to enjoy her nest whenever she can snatch time from
business. The house becomes eventually a charming home, but the
cheerful, all-too-golden-haired housekeeper and the first and second
ventures in soldiers are vexing problems. The first man had been in
the wrong war. The second had come off rather badly from the right
one, but Joanna’s passion for remodelling only rejoices in the
material thus brought to her hand.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“How she succeeded in her efforts is related in a delightful manner,
quite in harmony with the subject and its circumstances.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 300w

“It is a comfortable story, a little sentimental, and the characters
are extremely well sketched. On the other hand, the illustrations are
anything but that.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 280w

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p22 F 6 ’21 850w

Reviewed by D. W. Webster

+ =Pub W= 98:1193 O 16 ’20 290w

“There’s a good bit of sound sense in the house-remaking, and plenty
of entertainment in the story as a whole.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 150w

=TOOKER, LEWIS FRANK.= Middle passage. $1.90 (3c) Century

20–16345

David Lunt, a mere boy, of seafaring ancestry, ran away to sea in what
turned out to be a slaver. Being a saucy and adventurous lad he tried
the patience of the captain and the treatment he received aroused in
him a passion for vengeance. For this reason and not from a bad heart
he ships a second time in a slaver but his experiences this time close
that episode. Other risky undertakings follow, just this side of
crime. He is kept from overstepping the boundary line by the memory of
a face back home. In his brief and infrequent visits to the home town,
his love for Lydia becomes a pledge and he finally overcomes her
father’s opposition by a courageous confession of his near lapses in
church. The story is full of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth
escapes.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

“It retains a certain value as a picture of life in an era which today
is as remote as Babylon. Mr Tooker is an alert and companionable
story-teller—a disciple of Conrad in action, though not in
atmosphere.” L. B.

+ =Freeman= 2:142 O 20 ’20 130w

“Certain merits lacking in many of the sea stories which come from the
presses every year are possessed by this novel. In the first place, Mr
Tooker knows the sea in the intimate way that a sailor knows it.
Secondly, he has style, a simple and effective style.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 380w

“Mr Tooker always writes of the sea with sympathy and knowledge, and
we are inclined to think that this is the most vivid and exciting book
he has written.”

+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 70w

=TORMEY, JOHN LAWLESS, and LAWRY, ROLLA CECIL.=[2] Animal husbandry. il $1.40 Am. bk. 636

20–6658

“This brief manual has been prepared for use in the agricultural
classes which the Smith-Hughes act brought into being, and it is
consequently written for elementary students and for use in connection
with practical, every-day farm work. It comprises, like most ambitious
texts in animal husbandry, a description of the principal breeds of
horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry, a guide to methods of stock
judging, and a section on the care and management of animals.”—N Y
Evening Post

* * * * *

“A comprehensive volume, well illustrated, and most useful to the
intelligent student of modern farming.”

+ =Cath World= 112:554 Ja ’21 60w

“A few faults arise from the necessary brevity of the treatise.
Occasionally important information is left out.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 180w

=TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK.= Chapters in the administrative history of mediaeval England. (Publications of the University of Manchester) 2v ea *$7 (*12s) Longmans 354

20–14380

“Mr Tout’s magnum opus had its origin in a mood of almost casual
curiosity, awakened ten years ago by the essay of a young French
scholar upon the use or ‘diplomatic’ of the small seals which the
English kings used in their correspondence—the privy seal, the secret
seal, the signet. A desire to clear up a few obscure points in English
diplomatic of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries led him to
explore the untouched treasures of the public record office. The next
step was a reconstruction of the royal household—in particular, of its
administrative offices, the chamber and wardrobe, and of their
instruments, the small seals. Hence the sub-title of the work——‘The
wardrobe, the chamber, and the small seals.’ To a scholar with Mr
Tout’s wide knowledge of European history in the later middle ages
such an inquiry was full of suggestion; and so his book reached its
present form—a survey of English administration, almost a revision of
English political and constitutional history, from the Norman conquest
to the death of Richard II.”—Ath

* * * * *

“A most valuable feature of Professor Tout’s book will be found in the
luminous exposition of sources and authorities as set forth in a
descriptive chapter on documentary material. With clearness and
originality there is apt to be excessive positiveness. In points of
controversy the author occasionally falls into the temptation of
exaggeration by over-stating an opposing view in order the more
sharply to challenge it.” J. F. Baldwin

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:78 O ’20 1200w

“In these days of specialism Professor Tout has never forgotten the
more spacious period of scholarship. He is still under its influence.
And this is why, to a book packed with new material and highly
technical in character, he has been able to give the quality of fine
and significant history. Limited in range though it is, this book is
not unworthy of a place beside the ‘Constitutional history of
England.’” F. M. P.

+ =Ath= p174 Ag 6 ’20 2150w

“This is the most important contribution to the study of English
history that has been made in many a year. At every point it breaks
new ground; and at every point it shows an amplitude of knowledge and
a depth of research which put Professor Tout among the most eminent
scholars of this generation.” H. J. Laski

+ =Nation= 111:sup666 D 8 ’20 1000w

“In emphasizing a too much neglected phase of institutional
development, Professor Tout has added greatly to our true appreciation
of English mediæval history. No student of English mediæval
institutions can afford to neglect these two invaluable volumes.”

+ =Review= 3:507 N 24 ’20 520w

“The labour must have been exhausting, but the dry bones live again,
in so far that the reader sees precisely how England was governed in
the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.”

+ =Spec= 125:277 Ag 28 ’20 1300w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 Ag 19 ’20 1450w

=TOWARDS= reunion; ed. by Alexander James Carlyle. *$2.75 Macmillan 280

20–6733

“‘Towards reunion,’ a book of fourteen chapters—half by writers in the
church of England and half from the Free churches—is well named. Both
words are strikingly suggestive of the purpose of the book. In
different ways, that sometimes do not altogether agree, they give
expression to a common vision of a ‘great spiritual and visible
unity.’ That the emphasis should be put upon the spiritual, as the
means to the visible, unity, is expressed in the preface and suggested
by putting as the last and climactic chapter ‘The holy spirit in the
churches.’ Besides the names of the writers appear, as witnessing to
the common aim of the book, the names of over fifty other leaders in
the churches, all of whom were also members of the inter-church
conferences out of which the book really came.”—Bib World

* * * * *

“It is open, no doubt, to the criticism that the groups concerned had
never any serious divergences; but, though this lessens its value as a
practical step to reunion, it does not detract from its worth as a
general contribution to the problem.”

+ − =Ath= p686 Ag 1 ’19 1450w

+ − =Bib World= 54:203 Mr ’20 400w

=Sat R= 128:368 O 18 ’19 1400w

“There is much in what they describe as ‘contributions to mutual
understanding’ which commands sympathy. On the main issue, that of
reunion, it is difficult not to think that they multiply words without
increasing sense. It is certain that they contain a large number of
very disputable assertions.”

+ − =Spec= 123:215 Ag 16 ’19 900w

=TOWNS, CHARLES BARNES.= Habits that handicap. *$1.50 (4½c) Funk 613.8

20–3199

An exposition of the present prevalent evil of drug addiction in the
United States; the results it invariably causes, both socially and
individually; the difficulty of overcoming it; and the surest
effective remedy. The poisons Dr Towns condemns include many widely
used narcotics,—bromides, headache powders, cough syrups,
etc.,—alcoholic beverages, all forms of tobacco, as well as more
virulent drugs. As a nation we are fond of poisoning ourselves.
Prohibition has driven many to more harmful habits than the daily
cocktail or glass of beer. Our women have, many of them, acquired the
cigarette habit. Depoisoning ourselves will not be easy. The author
urges as the most effective remedy, legal regulation of the sale of
all drugs and narcotics, authoritative control of their use, and
“pitiless publicity.” The book includes a preface by Dr Richard C.
Cabot, and an appendix on The relation of alcohol to disease, by Dr
Alexander Lambert. The book covers practically the same ground as the
volume of similar title published by the Century company in 1915.

* * * * *

“The new edition is written in a manner even more attractive and
vigorous than the first.”

+ =Booklist= 16:292 My ’20

“Were the moderation of the book’s title reflected in the letterpress,
its influence would be strengthened. His denunciations take no account
of divergent views, save in so far as he disposes of them on the
ground of bias.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:119 O ’20 220w

“On the title page we find the sub-title, ‘The remedy for narcotic,
alcohol, tobacco and other drug addictions.’ It is disappointing
therefore to find no hint or suggestion in the book as to what the
remedy is.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p10 Mr 6 ’20 300w

=TOWNSHEND, SIR CHARLES VERE FERRERS.= My campaign (Eng title, My campaign in Mesopotamia). 2v *$10 McCann 940.42

20–16919

“If the first campaign in Mesopotamia is not the best-known episode of
the war it is not for lack of information, and Sir Charles Townshend’s
contribution is one that will appeal to the student of military
affairs not only for the light it casts on the motives that moved him,
but also and even more as a careful and frank study of a campaign
which must ever be memorable in our history. Sir Charles Townshend
took the field as commander of the Sixth division in succession to
General Barrett, who retired through ill health, in April, 1915; and
in the last month of the year his offensive operations had ceased and
he was shut up in Kut. He had fought three battles, and his Sixth
division had proved itself a splendid fighting unit.”—Ath

* * * * *

“General Townshend reveals himself throughout as that rarest of
British products, a thoughtful, well-instructed student of scientific
warfare.”

+ =Ath= p474 Ap 9 ’20 1000w

=Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 900w

“The commanding officer of those British forces which fought Kut and
Ctesiphon writes a magnificent story without patches, and with
considerable skill.”

+ =Dial= 69:435 O ’20 130w

“A remarkable personality lives in these pages ... but the maps suffer
from a somewhat puzzling arrangement of arrows, and too much textual
detail.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:279 Mr 20 ’20 780w

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 1500w

=TOWNSHEND, GLADYS ETHEL GWENDOLEN EUGENIE (SUTHERST) TOWNSHEND=, marchioness. Widening circle. *$2 (2½c) Appleton

20–12812

The story begins realistically with an account of the girlhood of two
sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret Sutherland, who are shuttled back and
forth between affluence and penury by their father’s speculations.
Meg, the practical minded one, marries Lord Stranmore, a man twice her
age, and is very happy in her marriage. Elizabeth meets a prince in
disguise and from this point on the book becomes a fairy tale.

* * * * *

“The unreality of it cannot fail to appall any adult of sensibility
who peeps into its pages.”

− =N Y Times= p25 O 24 ’20 520w

“Reality, or even probability, counts for nothing in novels written
for flappers, male and female, for shop girls and errand boys. Of
incredible nonsense is this tale made up.”

− =Sat R= 128:537 D 6 ’19 450w

“A quite negligible tale.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 N 20 ’19 50w

=TRABUE, MARION REX, and STOCKBRIDGE, FRANK PARKER.= Measure your mind; the mentimeter and how to use it. il *$3 Doubleday 136

20–7589

This popular treatise on the measurement of intelligence by scientific
methods is based on the experiences of psychological investigators in
both school and army. It addresses itself “to employers and those in
charge of the selection, grading, and promotion of workers of every
class, in factories, offices, and stores; to teachers of all grades,
from kindergarten to university; to parents who are interested in
ascertaining, and watching the growth of their children’s mental
development and to young men and young women striving for
self-improvement and advancement and desirous of learning something of
their own mental capacities and limitations as a guide to the
intelligent choice of vocations or professions.” (Preface) Contents:
Science versus guesswork; The applications of psychological tests;
What these tests measure; Standards for mental tests; Different types
of mental tests; Mental tests in the army; Psychological tests in
education; Mental tests in industry; How to use the mentimeter tests;
The mentimeter tests; Trade tests or tests of skill; Appendices,
charts and diagrams.

* * * * *

“A thoughtful examination of the tests will show that they have been
carefully worked out. But this valuable material of the book is likely
not to receive its due attention from industrial or business men
because, although the book purports seriously to crave the audience of
industry, it wavers to catch the teacher and other professional
classes; the early pages are sluggish, indefinitely organized reading.
The defects of ‘Measure your mind’ are entirely those of organization
and composition; the theory, the technique, and the essential content
are meritorious.” C: L. Stone

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:830 D ’20 350w

“If books of this sort can be used by others than experts, this one
has the advantage of simplicity.”

+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20

“The appendices with their diagrams are not the least valuable parts
of the work. The mentimeter tests form its more especially unique
feature.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 120w

+ =Cleveland= p89 S ’20 50w

“An excellent handbook, in popular style and very readable, but in
thorough-going scientific fashion. The book will have great value for
industrial personnel managers.” B. D. Wood

+ =J Philos= 17:640 N 4 ’20 690w

“The chief value of the book lies in its contribution to the general
education of the public.”

+ =Nation= 112:123 Ja 26 ’21 240w

=TRACY, LOUIS.= Sirdar’s sabre. $1.90 (4½c) Clode, E. J.

20–16931

This book consists of a series of ten loosely-connected stories of
life in India. They are told by Reginald Wayne, a young Englishman who
becomes an officer in the 2d Bengal Lancers. For the most part they
concern the exploits of Sirdar Bahadur Mohammed Khan, a “fire-eater”
Mohammedan officer. Three of them have an element of romance, but the
majority tell of the various problems that the English government
meets in India. The titles are: First impressions; La belle
Americaine; How Mohammed Khan became invulnerable; How the Sirdar
prevented a great war; The Tàj—and a fortune-teller; How the Sirdar
dacoited a dacoit; How we fed crocodiles on the Indus; The destiny of
the emerald eye; How we guarded the great pearl necklace; How the
Sirdar fought Ali Bagh, the Afridi.

* * * * *

“Full of adventure but not the author’s best in plot or
characterization.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“With ‘The sirdar’s sabre’ something seems to have gone radically
wrong. From the man who built up such atmosphere and vitality as was
in ‘The wings of the morning’ this book is inexcusable. Here we find
no sustained interest, little of characterization, and slight exercise
of the descriptive powers which the author possesses. Mr Tracy is to
be soundly berated for wasting excellent material.” J. W. D. S.

− =Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 580w

+ − =N Y Times= p19 O 24 ’20 300w

Reviewed by Caroline Singer

=Pub W= 98:661 S 18 ’20 300w

=TRACY, LOUIS.= Strange case of Mortimer Fenley. $1.90 Clode, E. J.

20–2642

“When John Trenholme, artist, accepted a welcome commission from a
magazine editor to journey down to a certain old Hertfordshire village
and make a series of sketches of its imperiled beauties, he looked
forward to nothing more exciting than an agreeable, wholly peaceful
little expedition. Certainly he did not in the least expect to get
mixed up with a murder. It was a series of accidents which caused him
to be at a spot from which he could see a certain portion of the
beautiful old Elizabethan mansion misnamed ‘The towers’ at the moment
when Mortimer Fenley, banker, fell, ‘shot dead on his own doorstep.’
Mr Fenley’s elder son, Hilton, telephoned to Scotland Yard, and that
was how the two detectives, known to their colleagues as the ‘Big ‘un’
and the ‘Little ‘un’ came to the assistance of the local police, one
of whom had already, and quite without suspecting the fact, had an
extremely important share in the development of events which was to
bring about the solution of a most involved and puzzling mystery.”—N Y
Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:284 My ’20

“The usual mystery story written with charm of style, satisfying humor
and a wealth of allusion pertinent to both literature and life.”

+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 40w

“The story is well written, it moves quickly, and its characters are
real people, not the puppets who so often figure in tales of this
kind, the two detectives being especially well done.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 400w

“The outstanding feature of Louis Tracy’s ‘Strange case of Mortimer
Fenley’ is the absence of blood and ghastliness, of grimy alleys and
sordid back rooms. Mystery there is, in plenty, and excitement.”
Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 97:603 F 21 ’20 350w

=TRAIN, ARTHUR CHENEY.= Tutt and Mr Tutt. *$1.75 Scribner

20–6289

“The nine stories in this volume deal with the affairs of the firm of
Tutt & Tutt (the members are not related), the senior partner of which
is always addressed deferentially by his colleague as Mr Tutt. It is
Mr Tutt who tries the cases, Tutt who does the work of preparing them;
and to the unfriendly eye their activities might seem those of
shysters if they were not devoted, as a rule, to the worthy object of
protecting the poor and friendless against the stupidities and
brutalities of the law and some of those who practice it. The hero of
the book is Mr Tutt, who in the first story has a frame like
Lincoln’s, and by the end of the book has progressed so far that his
face looks like Lincoln’s. The villain, it must be confessed, is the
law itself.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w

+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w

“The best of the nine are very good, and all of them are ornamented by
entertaining comments on the philosophy of the law and justice.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 280w

“The stories are very human. Outwardly, Mr Tutt is a dry-as-dust
attorney; but association discloses in him a broad vein of humanity
which makes his many-sided character a bottomless well of delight. It
is one of Mr Train’s most entertaining books.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 450w

=TRAVEL= stories; retold from St Nicholas. il *$1.25 (3½c) Century 910.8

20–16861

Sixteen descriptive articles have been selected from St Nicholas for
this volume. Among them are: The Grand canyon of Arizona, by William
Haskell Simpson; In rainbow-land, by Amy Sutherland; Traveling in
India, by Mabel Albert Spicer; Where the sunsets of all the yesterdays
are found, by Olin D. Wheeler; Firecrackers, by Erick Pomeroy; Curious
clocks, by Charles A. Brassler; Motoring through the golden age, by
Albert Bigelow Paine; Lost Rheims, by Louise Eugenie Prickett; Out in
the big-game country, by Clarence H. Rowe. There are five
illustrations.

* * * * *

“Informational but not lacking in story interest.”

+ =Booklist= 17:79 N ’20

“An entertaining, informative volume.”

+ =Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 40w

=TREMAYNE, SYDNEY, pseud. (MRS ROGER COOKSON).= Echo. *$1.75 (1c) Lane

20–7528

All thru her girlhood Echo Stapylton is subjected to morbid and
unwholesome influences. Her mother runs away with an artist and Echo
grows up in the home of straight-laced unsympathetic relatives. When
she is seventeen a quarrel is precipitated over her friendship with
Max Borrow, an artist, and she goes to Paris to live with her father.
Max follows her, and to prevent their meetings her father places her
in a girls’ school. By practicing various deceits she arranges to see
him on various occasions but they have a disagreement and he goes to
America. Thereafter Echo meets her mother and it is arranged that she
is to live with her part of the time. She learns however that her
mother’s pretense of reform is a farce and leaves her to be greeted
with the news of her father’s death. Alone and dependent she accepts
an offer of marriage from a successful solicitor, some years her
senior. The marriage is unhappy and when her husband leaves her for
another woman she is free to marry her old lover Max.

* * * * *

“The tale is clever and readable.”

+ =Ath= p63 Ja 9 ’20 100w

“The novel is a long and fairly interesting one, but it gives the
impression that the author has gathered a great deal of commonplace
material before she begins and pours it into the pages through a
hopper. Readable as the book is, it is singularly lacking in literary
grace.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 550w

“The story is intense and written in the same brilliant style that
characterized Miss Tremayne’s previous story, ‘The auction mart.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 240w

“The interest of the book lies in the slow revelation of the character
of Echo. It is a tribute to the author that the reader finds his
impatience with Echo gradually changing to sympathy; it is as if he
encountered her in real life and found that he liked her better as he
knew her more intimately.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p673 N 20 ’19 500w

=TRENCH, HERBERT.= Napoleon; a play. *$2 Oxford 822

19–12898

“‘You are the eddy—they are the tide’, says Mrs Wickham to Napoleon
over the body of her dead son. The tide of humanity sweeps onward, and
the Napoleonic selfishnesses and individualisms that run counter to it
are no more than eddies swirling back against the current, soon to be
straightened out again by the irresistible onrush. Geoffrey Wickham is
the apostle of humanity, whose aim it is to make Napoleon see the
unreasonableness of his attitude. His plan is to kidnap Napoleon from
Boulogne—it is the year of the threatened invasion of England—to take
him out to sea, and there, in solitude, to persuade him into reason.
The plot of the play, which is full of dramatic situations, is the
story of his failure and death.”—Ath

* * * * *

“Mr Trench uses prose as his medium except in the critical scene
between Wickham and Napoleon, where he rises to a fine and rather
Browning-like blank verse.”

+ =Ath= p477 Je 13 ’19 150w

“Now here is at least a play. It has argument, dignity, eloquence and
dramatic movement; it is based upon a real conflict of ideas, in any
case they scarcely affect the whole. The whole work is disciplined;
there is rhetoric, where rhetoric should be; and where dispassionate
prose should be, there is dispassionate prose. It does honour to
English literature; and when we learn that it has been played for one
hundred nights with success, we shall believe that the English public
has begun to do honour to itself.” J. M. M.

+ =Ath= p584 Jl 11 ’19 1450w

=Brooklyn= 12:88 F ’20 30w

“Mr Trench’s play is worth all his poems twice over. It is one of the
few real fruits of the war.” Mark Van Doren

+ =Nation= 110:371 Mr 20 ’20 480w

“The play has faults. It is unwieldy in construction, the threads are
not always connected and the writing is at times over-elaborated. But
these defects cannot outweigh its poetic quality, its power of
characterization, and its intense drama. The scenes in Napoleon’s room
at Boulogne and those in Wickham’s boat are particularly noteworthy.
It would be interesting to see how it would stand the test of
production.”

+ − =Spec= 123:344 S 13 ’19 700w